US10192090B2
An information processing device includes: a scanner that performs scanning of a read image of a document and detects a code image included in a scanned region, which is a region where the scanning is completed; and a setting unit that sets, based on the code image detected by the scanner, a scanning region when the scanner scans an unscanned region, in which the scanning by the scanner has not been performed yet.
US10192080B2
A method for configuring a communication module of at least one RFID reader that is connected via the communication module to a communication network, wherein the at least one RFID reader is connected to the communication module via a serial interface, wherein configuration information comprising at least communication network address information and device type information is stored in a configuration storage unit of the communication module, where the configuration information stored in the configuration storage unit of the communication module is conveyed via the serial interface to the at least one RFID reader and stored there in a predetermined configuration storage area, and where the configuration information stored in the predetermined configuration storage area of the RFID reader is loaded during a device start of a replacement communication module used instead of the communication module after a successful validity check for configuration of the replacement communication device.
US10192076B1
A circuit board is protected by being enclosed in a security housing that includes conductive tamper traces running along its interior surface, the conductive tamper traces being a housing portion of a tamper detection circuit. The tamper detection circuit also includes a board portion that detect tampering with the tamper detection circuit by monitoring voltages at monitor nodes along the board portion. The board portion of the tamper detection circuit is connected to the tamper traces via multiple connector pieces. The connector pieces can be held in place by board connector piece holders affixed to the board or housing connector piece holders of the housing. When tampering is detected, it can be localized based on voltages measured at multiple recesses along the housing. The tamper detection circuit can be arranged in a wheatstone bridge layout for environmental tolerance. The circuit board's functions/components can be disabled if tampering is detected.
US10192075B2
The solution provides a method of secret information entering into an electronic digital device by a user via the input/output device, when the electronic digital device assigns a multimedia information designed for interaction containing the elements (1) is such a way that their relation to control elements of the electronic digital device is variable between individual displays. Then, the user selects elements (1) of multimedia information designed for interaction assigned to elements (2) of secret information in an order corresponding with the order of elements (2) of secret information, so by selecting the elements (1) of multimedia information designed for interaction the user selects the elements (2) of secret information in given order.
US10192074B2
Techniques describe preventing sensitive data from being misappropriated during a clipboard operation. A copy operation for data being copied to a clipboard is intercepted. Information describing a first application from which the data was copied is retrieved. The data and the information are stored into the clipboard. A paste operation is evaluated based on the data, and the information is evaluated against a policy to determine whether the paste operation should be blocked.
US10192070B1
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing controlled environment resident statuses. In an embodiment, a resident status communication system communicates with non-resident communication devices via audio calls and/or textual messages to provide inmate statuses as well as information related to the operation and administration of a correctional facility. The resident status communication system receives requests for information from the non-resident communication devices, determines whether the non-resident is authorized to access the requested information, and provides the requested information in a natural language format to facilitate the user experience. The resident status communication system also allows law enforcement officials and/or correctional facility staff to maintain statuses related to inmates and selectively distribute this information to authorized non-residents.
US10192064B2
A method of security access control for a hard disk and a hard disk, where the hard disk includes an Internet Protocol (IP) interface and a control board, and the method includes that the IP interface receives an access data packet and sends the access data packet to the control board, where the control board parses the access data packet to obtain an authentication data packet, where the authentication data packet includes access permission information, inspects the access permission information according to a stored security policy to determine whether an access is authorized, performs a security check on the access data packet using a security algorithm when the access of the user is authorized, and allows accessing data in a corresponding sector on the hard disk according to the sector identifier when the security check is passed.
US10192061B2
Method and a computing device for providing privacy control in a surveillance video is disclosed. The computing device receives a surveillance video from a video capturing. The computing device also receives an authentication input key from a user of the computing device. Based on the authentication input key, the computing device identifies one or more region of interests (ROIs) in the video surveillance. The identified ROIs are masked by the computing device for providing the privacy control. In the present disclosure, the number of privacy levels achievable are unlimited and not fixed by ROIs at the video capturing device end. The increase in number of privacy levels do not require any changes or complexity/power increase in the video capturing device end and doesn't demand for increase in bandwidth from the video capturing device. Further, it doesn't deteriorate the video quality.
US10192060B2
A display control method and apparatus, and a display device comprising the apparatus, are provided. A method comprises receiving a display request sent by at least one source device, and performing directed display according to a posture of the source device. Directed display of content to be displayed can be performed according to a posture of a source device, so as to implement flexible large-screen sharing with ensured privacy and security.
US10192054B2
Methods and systems may provide for receiving at a secure element of a system, during a boot process of the system, a first pairing authentication value from a pairing agent. In addition, a pairing key may be received from the pairing agent, wherein the first pairing authentication value and the pairing key may be used to establish a trusted channel between the secure element and an input output (IO) device coupled to the system. In one example, the first pairing authentication value is accepted only if the first pairing authentication value is received prior to a predetermined stage of the boot process.
US10192047B2
In one embodiment, a file comprising a disk image and a key blob is prepared. The file is attached to a virtual machine configuration. A virtual machine based on the virtual machine configuration is launched. A kernel is paired to the key blob by a kernel driver paired to the key blob reading secret comprising identity information into the kernel of the virtual machine. The identity information is registered with a kernel service. The attached file is ejected from the virtual machine configuration. The identity information is accessed by an application running on the virtual machine, wherein the identity information is used by the application when the kernel service requires identity information. Related hardware and systems are also described.
US10192046B2
This application discloses an unlocking control method and apparatus for an intelligent terminal, including: detecting, when an intelligent terminal enters an unlocking interface, a touch gesture on a touch display of an intelligent terminal; and determining whether a trajectory node of the detected touch gesture and a stay time on the trajectory node are the same as a predetermined trajectory node and a predetermined stay time on the trajectory node, and if same, unlocking an intelligent terminal. By using the present disclosure, lock screen cracking difficulty may be increased, and security of a lock screen state may be improved.
US10192035B2
A system and method for control of prescription drug packaging and dispensing machines located in an in-patient health care facility including centralized control and enhanced communication between system components. Delay and errors in processing item data in the prescription dispensing system are reduced by using concise ID data incorporated into each canister memory chip and storing canister contents data elsewhere. Canisters are configured in a pharmacy using interchangeable parts. Data being processed is synchronized by a combination of user tokens (who), data identifiers (what), and unique Ids for the entities in the system (where). The foregoing combination enables substantial efficiency improvements and error reduction.
US10192033B2
A method for capturing images of an individual to determine wellness for such individual, including establishing baseline physiological data for the individual, and baseline capture condition data for the individual; detecting and identifying the presence of the individual in the image capture environment; providing semantic data associated with the individual; capturing one or more images of the individual during a capture event and determining the capture conditions present during the capture event; using the event capture conditions, the baseline physiological data for the individual and the baseline capture condition data to determine the acceptability of event captured images; and using the acceptable images and the semantic data in determining the wellness of the individual.
US10192030B2
Provided are biological methods for measuring enzyme activity. The methods include generating reactions, and contacting each reaction generated with a set of internal standards, where each of the internal standards includes a different amount of product. The methods also include generating a standard curve for each of the reactions from the internal standards in each of the reactions.
US10192028B2
The computational cost for a mapping process performed in analyzing genome/exome/transcriptome is reduced by sorting all cyclic permutations or suffixes of all read sequences to allow a search to be performed on the basis of any base sequence as a key. Also performed is computing and storing, for each base position in a genome sequence, the minimum length for uniqueness (MLU) at which a partial sequence starting from the base position becomes unique in the genome. In analysis of variations, a target region is scanned to inspect the number of matching read sequences that contain a partial sequence with a length of MLU and thus estimate the position of a variation, and then, the read sequences are collected at a position where the possibility of a variation having occurred is high to perform comparison analysis of the sequences.
US10192027B2
Contemplated systems and methods integrate genomic/exomic data with transcriptomic data by correlating a cancer associated mutation in the genome/exome with the transcription level of the affected gene carrying the mutation, particularly where the mutation is a 3-terminal nonsense mutation.
US10192021B1
Embodiments relate to physically implementing an integrated circuit design while conforming to complex design rule constraints. According to some aspects, embodiments relate to an automated method for generating shapes for correcting design rule errors such as line end-to-end spacing violations. In these and other embodiments, the automated method determines the errors post-placement and automatically generates the required shapes, taking into account additional process design rules and neighboring shapes. Some embodiments consider clusters of objects, potential legal areas between line-ends, merging of potential legal areas and generation of various shapes to produce a design rule correct layout.
US10192014B2
A scheduling result file (103) indicates that one or more processes are assigned to each of a plurality of process steps to be executed sequentially. A target specification section (120) specifies a target process that is a process performing computation and an identical-type process that is a process assigned to a process step executed after a process step to which the target process has been assigned and performing computation which is identical in type to the target process among processes in the scheduling result file. A destination specification section (130) specifies, as a destination step, a process step that enables a computing unit to be shared between the target process and the identical-type process when the target process is assigned. A scheduling change section (150) changes description of the scheduling result file to description in a state in which the target process has been assigned to the destination step.
US10192007B2
A method implemented using one or more computer processors for estimating the density of a material in an annular space includes receiving detector data representative of scattered photons resulting from interaction of a material in an annular space with radiation from a radiation source and detected by a plurality of radiation detectors. The technique further includes performing a set of Monte Carlo simulations. The method further includes performing a principal component analysis on the set of Monte Carlo simulations to generate a principal component analysis model of the detector data. The method also includes estimating the density of the material at one or more locations within the annular space based upon the principal component analysis model and the detector data.
US10192006B2
Provided is a method of the simulation construction for measurement of the control rod insertion time including a three-dimensional modeling operation of an inside wall of the nuclear reactor, a control rod, etc; a flow field configuration operation wherein the flow field is differentially configured by a variable grid system comprising variable cells which change the configuration and by an aligned grid system comprising fixed cells which maintains the configuration; a calculation operation of simulation estimated value for the insertion time by analyzing the thermal-hydraulic phenomenon using the three-dimensional CFD; and a cell change operation, wherein an error between the estimated value and the actual value is verified whether the error lies within the reference range, and, when the error exceeds the reference range, the size of the variable cell and/or of the size of the fixed cell is changed.
US10191998B1
A method includes receiving, at a master controller, a matrix representing a graph and a first vector, and initializing a counter variable and an array to track dimensionality reduction for the matrix. The method also includes multiplying a subset of the matrix based on the counter variable, by a subset of the first binary vector based on the counter variable. Multiplying includes providing, the vector and a matrix portion to a first processor, and the vector and another portion of the matrix to a second processor. The method also includes, at the processors, multiplying the vectors by the portions of the matrix and returning the results. The method also includes combining the results at the master controller. The method also includes incrementing the counter variable and updating the tracking array for larger dimensionality reduction of the matrix. The method also includes constructing the logical pathway based on the tracking array.
US10191993B2
According to some embodiments, a computer based and web enabled sweepstakes system that utilizes automation methods and tools to define a sweepstakes specification and to download the specification to one or more internet based web servers is disclosed. The web servers will permit a sweepstakes contestant to enter personal information into a sweepstakes central database using a web page entry form. The web server will provide the contestant with a printable document. The contestant will send the printed document to a centralized processing center by way of a publically available delivery service. Once received at the processing center, the contestant's unique OMR code found on the printed document is optically scanned and compared to information in the web server contestant data base. If the OMR code is found in the data base a match status flag is set within the contestants' record. Once the match status flag is set the contestant may check the sweepstakes web site to see if he or she is an instant or scheduled winner.
US10191989B1
In an example, a granularity of company similarity is determined, wherein the granularity of company similarity is a level at which social networking data should be filtered. A weighted graph of companies is constructed at the granularity of company similarity, wherein each node in the weighted graph is a company and a directed edge exists in the weighted graph between a first node and a second node if the social networking data, at the granularity of company similarity, indicates that a transition occurred wherein a member who held a position at a company corresponding to the first node transitioned to a position at a company corresponding to the second node, wherein each directed edge contains a weight indicating a strength of relationship between nodes. The weighted graph of locations is traversed from a node corresponding to the target company in order to identify companies similar to the target company.
US10191986B2
Techniques for web resource compatibility with web applications are described. According to one or more implementations, an indication of a request to navigate a web application to a web resource is received. Based on the request, a compatibility service is queried regarding compatibility status of the web resource with the web application. According to one or more embodiments, if a compatibility issue between the web resource and the web application is identified, a compatibility element is provided to mitigate the compatibility issue. At least some embodiments enable a user to provide feedback regarding presentation of the web resource by the web application with the compatibility element applied. At least some embodiments notify a developer of the web resource about a compatibility issue of the web resource with the web application.
US10191978B2
By formulizing a specific company's internal knowledge and terminology, the ontology programming accounts for linguistic meaning to surface relevant and important content for analysis. The ontology is built on the premise that meaningful terms are detected in the corpus and then classified according to specific semantic concepts, or entities. Once the main terms are defined, direct relations or linkages can be formed between these terms and their associated entities. Then, the relations are grouped into themes, which are groups or abstracts that contain synonymous relations. The disclosed ontology programming adapts to the language used in a specific domain, including linguistic patterns and properties, such as word order, relationships between terms, and syntactical variations. The ontology programming automatically trains itself to understand the domain or environment of the communication data by processing and analyzing a defined corpus of communication data.
US10191977B2
The invention provided is a system configured to use a topic-related generative model to build a document map from a plurality of documents in a storage medium and generate a control set from the plurality of documents including at least two stratified document sets. The system then receives a set of control set metrics regarding the control set from a user. The system selects a machine call responsive document from a document map based on a determined predictive responsiveness for that document. The system receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Finally, the system compares the responsiveness of the machine call document to the control set metrics and rebuilds the document map based on the results of the comparison between the machine call document responsiveness and the control set metrics.
US10191976B2
A method and system for detection of common patterns within unstructured data elements. The method includes searching a plurality of unstructured data elements extracted from big data sources to identify a plurality of patches; extracting the identified plurality of patches; generating, by a signature generator system, at least one signature for each patch; identifying common patterns among the at least one generated signature; clustering the signatures having the identified common patterns; and correlating the generated clusters to identify associations between the respective identified common patterns.
US10191969B2
An online system generates a taxonomy to classify objects that resemble each other. To compare different objects against each other, the online system generates canonical form data structures to represent the objects. The online system uses the canonical form data structures to standardize unstructured information about objects, for example, objects received from different sources of information to generate the taxonomy. The online system can determine a level of resemblance between objects based on parameter values of the canonical form data structures. The online system uses the taxonomy to exclude content items that are unlikely to be of interest to a user of the online system. The taxonomy may be represented by a graph data structure including nodes connected by edges.
US10191968B2
A compatibility of a computational analysis and a data set is automatically determined by comparing data set attribute data with attribute data of the computational analysis. Other computational analyses may also be evaluated for compatibility with the data set. Compatible analyses may be performed on the data set, and selected views of the results may be presented. Selection of the analyses to be performed, the views, and/or the contents and format of the views may be determined based result data attributes and computational analysis attribute data as well as other considerations, such as resources required and multiplicity. As computational analysis attributes are based on a set of rules or statements determined from heuristics of respective computational analyses, evaluation of the compatibility between various analyses and the data set is accordingly determined based on the heuristic-based rules or statements. Computational analyses may include visualizations and heavyweight computational analyses.
US10191957B2
Systems and methods are provided for limiting cardinality of large datasets. A query is received from a client device. In response to the query, a query dataset comprised of a plurality of data records is retrieved from a remote data store. A fragmentation relation, representation relation, visualization relation, and result relation of the query dataset are determined. The result relation is returned to a client device. Based a selection from the result relation via graphical user interface of the client device, an inverse function is determined for mapping the selection back to the original data relation. A subset of data records corresponding to the selection are retrieved and returned to the client device for rendering in a graphical user interface.
US10191955B2
Embodiments provide a viewer/editor for schema-less data, such as a NoSQL database. The data structures are displayed so that each entity type in the data uses a different color and variable column widths. This allows the user to identify relationships between entities. For a selected entity, only the properties applicable to that entity are displayed by the viewer/editor. The column width for each property is optimized to reduce confusion and to allow the user to focus on the selected data.
US10191952B1
A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for processing a large file. The system may receive record data comprising a plurality of records having an identification value in a common field having a data format. The system may determine a plurality of focus values based on the data format and create a plurality of virtual processing units based on the plurality of focus values. Each of the plurality of virtual processing units may process a sub-group of the plurality of records that corresponds to the focus value associated with the respective virtual processing unit.
US10191940B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates in situ searching of data. An interface can receive a flick gesture from an input device. An in situ search component can employ an in situ search triggered by the flick gesture, wherein the in situ search is executed on at least one of a portion of data selected on the input device.
US10191939B2
Some embodiments of the present invention include a method for providing social information of members of one or more social networks includes receiving a request for a social handle of a person via a social handle application programming interface (API), the request including contact information about the person, performing a search for the social handle of the person using the contact information, normalizing the social handle if it is not already normalized to generate a normalized social handle, storing the normalized social handle as being associated with the contact information, and providing the normalized social handle in a response to the request.
US10191938B2
At least one hit in a large volume of data is found using a graphical search pattern. The graphical search pattern is created afresh or modified by a user using a graphical interface. The user may implement complex searches and use a graphical representation of properties and/or correlations for the search in a directed manner. The method may be used, for example, in data mining, in the monitoring of states, or in automated alerting.
US10191937B2
A method of sharing profile image cards of a user of a device is provided. The method may be performed by a server and includes obtaining profile image cards indicating profiles of a first user of a first device related to a field of interest of the first user, categorizing the profile image cards based on pre-set categories, obtaining evaluation information of a second user of a second device regarding the profile image cards, determining rankings of the profile image cards for each of the categories based on the evaluation information, and recommending the profile image cards to at least one other device based on the rankings of the profile image cards.
US10191935B2
One or more processors initiate generation of an identifier based on the definitions of both a primary range and a secondary range. One or more processors obtain a unique sequence value from a unique sequence range of known maximum number of values. One or more processors calculate an offset value based on, at least in part, the primary range and the secondary range. One or more processors add the offset value to the unique sequence value to generate an identifier value.
US10191931B2
A method includes receiving, at a processor, event stream data, the event stream data including a plurality of events associated with changes to an instance of a subject. The method further includes receiving, at the processor of the computing device, input indicating correction data. The method further includes outputting, from the processor of the computing device, modified event stream data to a storage device. The modified event stream data is generated based on the correction data by modifying an event of the event stream data, adding a first event to the event stream data, deleting a second event from the event stream data, or a combination thereof.
US10191919B2
An approach is provided for processing status information for one or more points of interest to determine the changes for generation of various representations for presenting in a user interface. The approach involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of status information associated with one or more points of interest to determine one or more point-of-interest changes. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, a generation of one or more representations of the one or more point-of-interest changes, one or more transitions between the one or more point-of-interest changes, or a combination thereof. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, a presentation of the one or more representations in at least one point-of-interest user interface.
US10191896B2
A computer system for receiving user data comprising a user access component having a display and a processor arranged to execute a data receiving application, wherein the data receiving application provides on the display at least one address field; and a geographical location device in communication with a location network and arranged to identify a geographical location of the device using information from the location network, the geographical location device located at a user address, the geographical location device operable to provide location data from which address data of the user address is derived and supplied to the data receiving application to automatically populate the address field on the display.
US10191895B2
Systems and methods are provided for intelligently adapting content presented in electronic forms. In some embodiments, a processor provides access to multiple instances of a first version of an electronic form by multiple clients based on determining that insufficient data exists in a data source for a category of information. The first version of the form can include content for soliciting data associated with the category of information. The processor can receive responsive electronic communications in response to providing access to the first version of the form. The processor can provide access to multiple instances of a second version of the electronic form by multiple clients based on determining from the received responses whether sufficient data exists for the category of information. The second version of the electronic form can omit or replace the content for soliciting data associated with the category of information.
US10191884B2
A method for managing a multi-lane serial link is described. The method includes establishing a serial link between a number of integrated circuits across a first number of lanes. The first number of lanes are a subset of a number of available lanes on the serial link. The method also includes selecting to change a transmission state of a second number of lanes. The second number of lanes are a subset of the available lanes. The method also includes changing the transmission state of the second number of lanes while transmitting data on a number of remaining lanes. The method further includes synchronizing the first number of lanes and the second number of lanes.
US10191883B2
An inter-integrated circuit bus arbitration system includes a first master circuit, a second master circuit, an analog switch circuit, an initial state identification circuit, and a selection control circuit. When the first master circuit is initiated to transmit data, the initial state identification circuit generates a first initial pulse signal. When the second master circuit is initiated to transmit data, the initial state identification circuit generates a second initial pulse signal. If the first initial pulse signal leads the second initial pulse signal, the selection control circuit generates a first control signal to make the analog switch circuit establish electrical connections between the first master circuit and an external data line and an external clock line when receiving the first control signal.
US10191882B2
A peripheral component interconnect express PCI-e network system having a processor for (a) assigning addresses to the PCI-e topology tree, comprising: traversing, at a given level and in a breadth direction, down-link couplings to an interconnection; ascertaining, at the level, which of the down-link couplings are connected to nodes; assigning, at the level, addresses to nodes of ascertained down-link coupling having nodes; and (b) propagating, a level, comprising: traversing, at the level and in a depth direction, down-link couplings to the interconnection of the PCI-e network, ascertaining, at the level, which of the downlink couplings are coupled to other interconnections in the depth direction, consecutively proceeding in the depth direction, to a next level of the down-link coupling of a next interconnection; and alternatively repeating (a) and (b) until the nodes are assigned addresses within the PCI-e tree topology network.
US10191881B2
A method, a computing system, and a non-transitory machine readable storage medium containing instructions for managing a stream processing topology are provided. In an example, the method includes receiving a first topology that communicatively couples a plurality of processing elements via a first arrangement of interconnections to perform an operation on a stream of data. A second topology is defined that communicatively couples the plurality of processing elements via a second arrangement of interconnections that is different from the first arrangement. The second topology assigns the plurality of processing elements a first set of operations. The second topology is provided to a stream processing manager and is modified during processing of the stream of data by assigning a second set of operations to the plurality of processing elements that is different from the first set of operations.
US10191878B2
A method is implemented by a network device to configure the operation of a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) switch to enable an efficient transition from a first active processor in a first root complex to a backup processor in a second root complex. The method involves determining the first active processor in the first root complex and a set of backup processors and a set of root complexes, and configuring each root complex for independent PCIe switch communication. The method further includes detecting a failure of the active processor in the first root complex, selecting and notifying the backup processor and the second root complex to transition to be a second active processor and second root complex, and starting communication with PCIe devices using previously configured independent PCIe switch communication for the second processor of the second root complex.
US10191872B2
In a semiconductor device, a load of CPU required for arbitration when using a shared resource is reduced.The semiconductor device includes a CPU section and a hardware IP. In the CPU section, software modules are executed. The hardware IP includes a storage unit, an arbitration unit, and a calculation unit. The storage unit includes control receiving units that receive operation requests transmitted by the software modules, respectively. The calculation unit performs processing based on an operation request transmitted from the control receiving units. The arbitration unit controls information transmission between the control receiving units and the calculation unit so that the calculation unit receives only an operation request from any one of the control receiving units.
US10191869B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system of switching a wireless connection between a plurality of input devices and a first host device to at least a second host device. Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for switching multiple, independently connected data input devices from a first host computing device to a second host computing device together based on a single command or operation.
US10191868B2
Proving for a framework for propagating priorities to a memory subsystem in a computing system environment is disclosed herein. By way of example, a memory access handler is provided for managing memory access requests and determining associated priorities. The memory access handler includes logic configured for propagating memory requests and the associated priorities to lower levels of a computer hierarchy. A memory subsystem receives the memory access requests and the priorities.
US10191865B1
A network device stores information associated with a packet in a queue. The network device sends an interrupt to a host to notify the host of completion of processing the packet. A Memory-Mapped Input/Output (MMIO) write transaction is received that includes a pointer update associated with the queue and an interrupt unmasking value. The pointer is updated and the interrupt is unmasked based on receiving the single MMIO write transaction.
US10191846B2
According to an embodiment, a cache unit includes: a first memory configured to temporarily hold data and an address of the data, a second memory configured to temporarily hold an address of particular data set in advance, and a controller configured to, when an instruction to load the data is made for a first specified address, search for a storage destination of the first specified address, output the data of the first specified address if the storage destination is the first memory, and output the particular data if the storage destination is the second memory.
US10191843B2
The present disclosure includes methods and systems for coalescing unaligned data. One method includes receiving a first write command associated with a first unaligned portion of data, receiving a second write command associated with a second unaligned portion of data, and coalescing the first unaligned portion of data and the second unaligned portion of data, wherein coalescing includes writing the first unaligned portion of data and the second unaligned portion of data to a page in a memory device.
US10191842B2
An apparatus includes a printed circuit board with a plurality of printed circuit board traces, a memory controller mounted on the printed circuit board coupled to one or more of the plurality of printed circuit board traces, a plurality of non-volatile type of memory integrated circuits coupled to the printed circuit board, and a plurality of support integrated circuits coupled between the memory controller and the plurality of non-volatile type of memory integrated circuits.
US10191841B2
A host device is provided. The host device includes a processor and an interface. The processor generates a physical block address and a solid state disk (SSD) identification code according to a logical block address of an access operation. The interface is coupled to the processor. The processor indicates one of a plurality of SSDs through the interface according to the SSD identification code to access data at the physical block address.
US10191838B2
A method and device for checking influence of deleting a cache file. The method includes: acquiring a program to be checked, and acquiring a click path set and a cache path set corresponding to the program to be checked, in which the click path set includes a plurality of click paths, and the cache path set includes a plurality of cache paths, each click path set corresponds to a cache path; acquiring a cache path to be checked in the cache path set, and deleting a cache file to be checked from the cache path to be checked; according to a click path corresponding to the cache path to be checked, conducting a click simulation on the program to be checked; and according to an operating result of the program to be checked, acquiring the influence of deleting the cache file to be checked.
US10191828B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to control a monitoring agent are disclosed herein. An example method includes instructing, via a processor, a monitoring agent of a compute node to perform a first monitoring operation associated with a first monitoring level. A second monitoring level is transitioned to in response to the first monitoring operation returning a first result that is within an acceptable threshold. In response to transitioning to the second monitoring level, an access right of a pre-requisite of the first monitoring operation at the compute node is modified without uninstalling the pre-requisite.
US10191825B2
This disclosure relates generally to device testing, and more particularly to a system and method for testing a device using a light weight device validation (LWDV) protocol. This includes accessing a test script corresponding to a test case testing the device. The test script includes a set of mutually independent primitive executables. The method includes packetizing one or more of the set of primitive executables based on a LWDV protocol. The method further includes transmitting the one or more encoded primitive executables to the device for execution.
US10191822B2
The embodiments described herein describe technologies for non-volatile memory persistence in a multi-tiered memory system including two or more memory technologies for volatile memory and non-volatile memory.
US10191811B2
A system of booting a computer in which a pair of boots (or dual boots) is provided in the flash memory of the computer. The first flash boot, also called the primary boot, is activated when the computer is turned on, after the POST (Power on Self-Test). The primary boot determines if a secondary boot is stored in the flash memory of the computer. If the secondary boot is not stored in the flash memory of the computer, the primary boot resumes and the computer is booted using the primary boot. If a secondary boot is stored in the flash memory of the computer, the primary boot resumes and is completed, after which the computer is reset and rebooted using the secondary boot.
US10191810B2
A mobile terminal and related repair method is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining current storage integrity information of the mobile terminal; matching the current storage integrity information and original storage integrity information, when the matching fails, connecting to the server, obtaining original system partition document from the server, and repairing the system partition according to the original system partition document.
US10191803B2
Disclosed are constructions of WOM codes that combine rewriting and error correction for mitigating the reliability and the endurance problems typically experienced with flash memory. A rewriting model is considered that is of practical interest to flash memory applications where only the second write uses WOM codes. The disclosed WOM code construction is based on binary erasure quantization with LDGM codes, where the rewriting uses message passing and has potential to share the efficient hardware implementations with LDPC codes in practice. The coding scheme achieves the capacity of the rewriting model.
US10191799B2
A memory system is configured to perform a test operation to determine a deviation of a target storage location's bit error rate response relative to a model. The memory system determines the deviation level by measuring data sets stored in the target storage location to determine an actual bit error rate value and another actual parameter value used to estimate bit error rate. The memory system obtains an estimated value from the model based on the actual values and identifies the deviation by comparing the estimated value with the actual values.
US10191788B2
Programmable devices, hierarchical parallel machines and methods for providing state information are described. In one such programmable device, programmable elements are provided. The programmable elements are configured to implement one or more finite state machines. The programmable elements are configured to receive an N-digit input and provide a M-digit output as a function of the N-digit input. The M-digit output includes state information from less than all of the programmable elements. Other programmable devices, hierarchical parallel machines and methods are also disclosed.
US10191787B1
Systems and methods are provided herein for interfacing between a solver and one or more models. Data comprising at least one solver function is received from a solver interface. Data comprising at least one modeling function corresponding to the solver function is provided to a model interface. The presence of an event occurrence is detected based on interface functions. The interface functions are mapped to the at least one solver function and the at least one modeling function. The interface functions are provided to the solver interface to determine a solution. The solution is initiated for rendering on a graphical user interface.
US10191775B2
The present invention discloses a method for optimizing the throughput of hardware accelerators (HWAs) in a computerized abstraction system, by utilizing the maximal data input bandwidth to the said HWAs.The method is comprised of the following steps: dynamically obtaining the quantities and properties of HWAs and storage units within the computerized abstraction system dynamically allocating cache memory space per each of the HWAs, according to the said obtained quantities and properties, to minimize the time required for reading data from storage instances to the said HWA dynamically allocating spoolers per each of the HWAs, according to the said obtained quantities and properties, to buffer the input data and ensure a continuous flow of input data, in the target HWA's maximal input bandwidth.
US10191772B2
Aspects of the disclosure allocate shares of processing resources or other physical resources among virtual machines (VMs) operating as, for example, virtual desktops on a plurality of host computing devices. Allocations of resources are adjusted based on the user activity, VM activity, and/or application activity detected by an agent executing on each VM. Allocated shares may be boosted, unboosted, or normalized, depending on the type and duration of detected activity, by a resource allocation manager executing on a management server.
US10191766B2
A task-based sub-application surfaces only controls that are needed to perform a task, from a plurality of different forms in a parent application. A sub-application system runs the sub-application by executing navigation logic and maintaining a separate navigation stack, so that the user can perform a task without the computer system needing to surface entire forms where only a small subset of the controls on those forms are needed to perform the task.
US10191764B2
A method for agent-based transaction analysis which includes: building an instrumented binary code of a software application for a transaction; configuring an analysis agent for the software application; starting the software application in an application process environment with the instrumented binary code; attaching the analysis agent to the instrumented binary code of the software application; extracting by the analysis agent the metadata from the software application; sending the metadata to a central analysis server in an environment separate from the application process environment; and building by the central analysis server an end-to-end description of the transaction from the metadata.
US10191759B2
In an embodiment, a system includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) that includes one or more GPU engines, and a microcontroller. The microcontroller is to assign a respective schedule slot for each of a plurality of virtual machines (VMs). When a particular VM is scheduled to access a first GPU engine, the particular VM has exclusive access to the first GPU engine. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10191756B2
In one embodiment, there is a method for configuring a virtual machine where there are two storage mechanisms available to the virtual machine: a first storage containing virtual machine operating information, and a second storage including virtual machine configuration information. The configuration information in the second storage is used to configure the virtual machine, including changing the information in the operating storage. The configuration information can pertain to the hypervisor, any logical container within the hypervisor, and any operating environment within one of the logical containers. In a further embodiment, the configuration information from the second storage can be saved and provided to another virtual machine, and used to configure the second virtual machine in a similar fashion. Each virtual machine can have an independent copy of the second storage, or the storage can be mounted in the first machine, unmounted, and then mounted in the second machine.
US10191751B2
An information processing device including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: execute an application software, execute a specified process for coordinating a software module described in a first language with a software module described in a second language that is different from the first language, and load a device driver for the application software using a peripheral device, the device driver including a first software module described in the first language and a second software module described in the second language, the first software module being a software module in which a plurality of first interfaces are defined, the second software module being a software module in which a plurality of second interfaces are defined, the plurality of first interfaces being associated with the plurality of second interfaces respectively.
US10191744B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to element sorting of vectors are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a decoder to decode an instruction into a decoded instruction; and an execution unit to execute the decoded instruction to: provide storage for a comparison matrix to store a comparison value for each element of an input vector compared against the other elements of the input vector, perform a comparison operation on elements of the input vector corresponding to storage of comparison values above a main diagonal of the comparison matrix, perform a different operation on elements of the input vector corresponding to storage of comparison values below the main diagonal of the comparison matrix, and store results of the comparison operation and the different operation in the comparison matrix.
US10191735B2
An action sequence including a plurality of actions and a corresponding input dictionary are obtained. A first container, running an image for a first one of the actions implemented in a first programming language, is instantiated, and the image is executed on the input dictionary to obtain a first action result; the input dictionary is then updated with the first action result to obtain an updated input dictionary. A second container, running an image for a second one of the actions implemented in a second programming language, different than the first programming language, is instantiated, and the image is executed on the updated input dictionary to obtain a second action result; the updated input dictionary is further updated with the second action result to obtain a further updated input dictionary. The input dictionaries are independent of the programming languages.
US10191734B1
A method for software application optimization using natural language-based queries. The method includes obtaining a user-provided query. The user-provided query includes a constraint to be used for an identification of an application element that matches the constraint, from a set of application elements of a software application. The user-provided query is a string that includes a human language sentence. The method further includes deriving a formalized query from the user-provided query by translating the user-provided query into a syntactic construct of segmented sentence elements and obtaining the application element that matches the constraint. Obtaining the application element that matches the constraint includes deriving a pattern representation of the user-provided query from the formalized query and identifying the application element that matches the pattern representation of the user-provided query from the plurality of application elements.
US10191726B2
In a dynamic computing environment, it is a nontrivial task to verify code running in the environment because most approaches to software similarity require extensive and time-consuming analysis of a binary, or the approaches fail to recognize executables that are similar but nonidentical. A biosequence-based method for quantifying similarity of executable binaries is used to identify allowed codes in a real-world multi-user environment.
US10191724B2
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for compiler-based instruction scoreboarding. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to remove unnecessary dependence edges from a data dependency graph, partition the data dependency graph into a plurality of sub-graphs, determine a live range for each of the plurality of sub-graphs, and assign a scoreboard entry to each of the plurality of sub-graphs, wherein sub-graphs which have interfering live ranges are assigned different scoreboard entries. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10191719B2
A programmable magnetic device for generating random numbers during a programming operation, including an array of a plurality of magnetic tunnel junctions. Each magnetic tunnel junction includes a reference layer having a reference magnetization; a tunnel barrier layer; and a storage layer having a storage magnetization. The programmable magnetic device is arranged such that, during the programming operation, the storage magnetization is orientable in an unstable magnetization configuration and relaxable randomly in one of a plurality of stable or metastable configurations from the unstable magnetization configuration.
US10191713B2
An information transmitting method and an electronic device using the method are described. The method includes establishing a communication connection with an electronic device; projecting a to-be-transmitted object information into a display screen of the electronic device; transmitting the to-be-transmitted object information to the electronic device to make the electronic device display the to-be-transmitted object information in the display screen. The first electronic device includes a connecting unit, a projecting unit and a transmitting unit. The second electronic device includes a connecting unit, a receiving unit and a display unit. As a result, transmission of the to-be-transmitted object information between devices based on projection achieves a seamless operational experience combining an actual condition and a virtual condition, and the projecting mode is simple and convenient and intuitive and highly effective, which improves features of real-time and ease of use of the transmitted object.
US10191712B2
A display apparatus includes: a signal receiver configured to receive a video signal from an external first display apparatus; a signal processor configured to process the video signal received in the signal receiver; a display configured to display an image based on the video signal processed by the signal processor; and a controller configured to control the signal processor so that the display does not display an image based on a first frame of the video signal including a first on-screen-display (OSD) menu generated by the first display apparatus and to display an image based on a second frame of the video signal excluding the first OSD menu.
US10191710B2
In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for displaying and managing dynamic, multi-media, video content presentation on an architectural scale. Methods and systems described include associating a video display with an advertising marketplace and leasing rights to a video display. A plurality of physical panel, rod, curtain, blade, and fin video display arrays are described, as are methods and systems for managing and editing video for display and powering a video display that is associated with an architectural feature.
US10191709B2
A display apparatus includes an image inputter configured to perform communication with an external device; and a processor configured to: determine a resolution of image contents received through the image inputter, determine a bandwidth to transmit the received image contents to another display apparatus based on the determined resolution, determine a processing mode to transfer the received image contents to the different display apparatus, and control the image inputter to transmit the image contents processed according to the determined processing mode based on the determined bandwidth to the other display apparatus.
US10191702B2
A job execution device, including: an operation panel; a communicator for communicating with another job execution device; and a hardware processor that: displays its own operation window and the operation window of the another job execution device on the operation panel; receives a setting of a distribution process for distributing a process for executing the job relating to a first function between the job execution device and the another job execution device by a predetermined operation, when a selection button of the first function exists in both of its own operation window and the operation window of the another job execution device; and instructs the job executor of the job execution device and the another job execution device to carry out the distribution process, when an entry of the job relating to the first function is received in a situation in which the distribution process is set.
US10191692B2
Disclosed herein is a memory system including: a plurality of memory chips coupled to a plurality of input/output lines included in a channel and output ready/busy signals to the input/output lines in response to a status check command; and a memory controller configured to transmit the status check command to the memory chips through the channel and simultaneously determine an operation status of the memory chips depending on the ready/busy signals received through the input/output lines.
US10191691B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage platform includes one or more data storage modules each comprising storage drives coupled over a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) fabric with at least one processing module that receives storage operations directed to the one or more data storage modules over one or more network interfaces. The processing module is configured to assign service levels in a queue to the storage operations that are received over the one or more network interfaces. Based at least on the service levels, the processing module is configured to service the storage operations from the queue with the one or more data storage modules over the PCIe fabric.
US10191689B2
Systems for page management using local page information are disclosed. The system may include a processor, including a memory controller, and a memory, including a row buffer. The memory controller may include circuitry to determine that a page stored in the row buffer has been idle for a time exceeding a predetermined threshold determine whether the page is exempt from idle page closures, and, based on a determination that the page is exempt, refrain from closing the page. Associated methods are also disclosed.
US10191683B2
A method for data storage includes preparing first data having a first size for storage in a memory device that stores data having a nominal size larger than the first size, by programming a group of memory cells to multiple predefined levels using a one-pass program-and-verify scheme. The first data is combined with dummy data to produce first combined data having the nominal size, and is sent to the memory device for storage in the group. The dummy data is chosen to limit the levels to which the memory cells in the group are programmed to a partial subset of the predefined levels. In response to identifying second data to be stored in the group, the second data is combined with the first data to obtain second combined data having the nominal size, and is sent to the memory device for storage, in place, in the group.
US10191678B1
The disclosure relates data protection management (e.g. data re-protection) for distributed storage systems. Specifically, the systems (and methods) of the disclosure implement erasure coding to protect replicated data efficiently while reducing the storage capacity overhead. Traditional approaches for data re-protection that implement erasure coding often require performing a complete re-encoding to reflect changes in data (e.g. a removal of data). The disclosure provides an improved mechanism for data re-protection by implementing an efficient re-encoding (or un-encoding) process that reduces the requirements for data reads and operations, and thus, reduces the resource requirements for data re-protection.
US10191675B2
A system and method are provided for pooling storage devices in a virtual library for performing a storage operation. A storage management device determines a storage characteristic of a plurality of storage devices with respect to performing a storage operation. Based on a storage characteristic relating to performing the storage operation, the storage management device associates at least two storage devices in a virtual library. The storage management device may continuously monitor the virtual library and detect a change in storage characteristics of the storage devices. When changes in storage characteristics are detected, the storage management device may change associations of the storage device in the virtual library.
US10191674B2
A consistency checker is configured to perform repairs to one or more multi-level dense tree metadata structures shared between volumes managed by a volume layer of a storage input/output (I/O) stack executing on one or more nodes of a cluster. The volumes include a parent volume and a snapshot and/or clone, wherein the snapshot/clone may be represented as an independent volume, and embodied as a respective read-only copy (snapshot) or read-write copy (clone) of the parent volume. Illustratively, the consistency checker verifies and/or fixes (i.e., repairs) on-disk structures of the volume layer, e.g., the shared dense tree, according to a distributed repair procedure that maintains consistency properties across all volumes in a volume family and avoid cyclic repairs made in the context of different volumes sharing the dense tree.
US10191672B2
An example method includes during execution of a software application by a processor, receiving, by a copy processor separate from the processor, a request for an asynchronous data copy operation to copy data within a memory accessible by the copy processor, wherein the request is received from a copy manager accessible by the software application in a user space of an operating system managing execution of the software application; in response to the request, initiating, by the copy processor, the asynchronous data copy operation; continuing execution of the software application by the processor; determining, by the copy processor, that the asynchronous data copy operation has completed; and in response to determining that the asynchronous copy operation has completed, selectively notifying, by the copy processor, the software application that the asynchronous copy operation has completed.
US10191671B2
Techniques for common users and roles, and commonly-granted privileges and roles are described. In one approach, the DBMS of a container database allows for the creation of common roles and common users that are shared across the container database. Thus, when a common role or a common user is established, the common role or common user is propagated to each database of the container database. In another approach, the DBMS of a container database allows privileges and roles to be granted commonly or locally. When a privilege or role is granted commonly, the privilege applies in each of the databases of a container database. When a privilege or role is granted locally, the privilege applies only in the database to which the grantor of the privilege or role established a connection.
US10191670B2
A method and device of data protection and a storage equipment. The method includes: when receiving from a host a writing command, carrying an address and data to be stored, writing the data to be stored into a first storage space, which corresponds to the address, in a storage unit, and writing protection data corresponding to the data to be stored into a second storage space, which corresponds to the address, in a protection unit; when receiving from the host a reading command, carrying the address, determining recovery data according to the data stored in the first storage space and the data stored in the second storage space; and taking the recovery data as response data for the reading command. The method achieves efficient data protection of a storage equipment.
US10191665B2
A memory device may include a data output controller for generating a first clock signal and a second clock signal in response to a read enable clock signal, a page buffer for storing data, and outputting the data to the data output controller in synchronization with the first clock signal, and a data output buffer for receiving the data from the page buffer and outputting the received data to the external device in synchronization with the second clock signal. The first clock signal is generated in response to a data output delay control signal, the second clock signal is generated irrespective of the data output delay control signal.
US10191652B2
An information view may be displayed on a multi-touch display based on a touch input and based on detected pressure and a depth from a three dimensional touch input on a displayed image on the multi-touch display.
US10191645B2
A mobile phone includes a display, a touch detector configured to detect an operation at least including a flick operation and a tap operation, and a processor configured to execute the control program to execute processing in accordance with the operation. The processor can cause a screen displayed on the display to be scrolled based on the flick operation on a display region R included in the display. If the screen includes an object to be subjected to the tap operation and while the screen is being scrolled, the processor can disable the tap operation on the object.
US10191641B2
A device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface: displays a geographic map in a first mode of an application, the geographic map including a plurality of landmarks, the geographic map being displayed at a first magnification level; detects a first input, the first input including a first finger contact at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a first landmark on the display; in response to detecting the first input: when the first input does not satisfy one or more predefined mode-change conditions, changes the magnification level in accordance with the first input and remains in the first mode; and when the first input satisfies the mode-change conditions, selects the first landmark and enters a second mode of the application; while in the second mode, detects a second input; and, in response to detecting the second input, displays information about the first landmark.
US10191637B2
Examples of workspace metadata management are disclosed. One example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure may include a computing system to display a workspace on a display. The computing system is further to project an image having metadata onto a multi-touch surface to receive a touch input, the image being an asset associated with a project of the workspace. The computing system is also to manage the workspace.
US10191634B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for displaying a document on a touch screen display, which belongs to the field of human computer interaction. The method for displaying a document on a touch screen display includes: displaying an edge region of an electronic document on the touch screen display where the edge region contains an edge of the electronic document and one or more display elements, detecting a movement of an object acting on the touch screen display, and in response to the movement of the object, stretching, for display, the one or more display elements in a direction away from the edge. Thereby, it reminds the user that the display has reached the edge of the electronic document, prevents the user from repeating move operation which is practically inapplicable, and thus improves efficiency of user operation.
US10191633B2
Application closing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a computing device recognizes an input as involving selection of an application displayed in a display environment by the computing device and subsequent movement of a point of the selection toward an edge of the display environment. Responsive to the recognizing of the input, the selected application is closed by the computing device.
US10191631B2
Various embodiments are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products to create multiple, independent crop areas on a single document. For instance, one embodiment allows a user to create multiple, even overlapping, crop areas. Each of the crop areas is independently actionable for cropping. Thus, in one example, a user can select and manipulate each of the crop areas independently and also perform crop operations on a given area without affecting the other crop areas of the document. In various embodiments, the different crop areas are independent in nearly aspect, with differing positions, sizes, aspect ratios, and the like.
US10191627B2
An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface displays a graphical object inside of a frame on the display, and detects a gesture. Detecting the gesture includes: detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector is over the graphical object, and detecting movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the gesture: in accordance with a determination that the contact meets predefined intensity criteria, the device removes the graphical object from the frame; and in accordance with a determination that the contact does not meet the predefined intensity criteria, the device adjusts an appearance of the graphical object inside of the frame.
US10191617B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed for transferring digital content from a computing cloud to a computing device and generating recommendations for the user of the computing device.
US10191607B2
A user-configurable modular audio control surface comprises master modules for controlling global surface properties and channel modules for controlling one or more individual audio channels. The modules are disposed in a two-dimensional spatial arrangement such that any module can occupy a location within the control surface not occupied by another module. The modules are connected to each other and to external platforms hosting media applications and plug-ins via a network. Control surface users can interact with external applications via remote graphical user interfaces displayed on modules within the surface, and can automate multiple external applications using an automation system built into the surface. Automation line graphs and metadata for both internal and external applications are displayed over the corresponding waveform displays that can include audio ahead of a current playback location.
US10191604B2
A sensing device is provided with functions of force measurement, touch control and fingerprint identification. A first electrode layer has plural first electrodes. A switch and wire layer includes plural switch circuits, plural switch control lines and plural sensing signal lines. Each switch circuit is corresponding to an adjacent first electrode and electrically connected to the corresponding first electrode through a contact. Each switch control line includes two control wires and is electrically connected to two switch circuits. Each sensing signal line includes one sensing wire and is electrically connected to the two switch circuits. A force electrode layer has a force electrode. A compressible dielectric layer is arranged between the first electrode layer and the force electrode layer. The compressible dielectric layer is deformed when a force is applied, and restored to the original shape after the force is removed.
US10191588B2
A capacitance detection device of a capacitance system includes: a capacitance sensor electrode for detecting a capacitance; a power source for supplying charges to be charged in the capacitance sensor electrode; an electric charge storage capacitor in which an amount of charges to be charged therein changes according to the electric charges charged in the capacitance sensor electrode; and a switch for changing a reference potential of the electric charge storage capacitor. The reference potential of the electric charge storage capacitor is changed in a period of measuring the capacitance.
US10191587B2
A touch panel includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of wirings. Each of the plurality of first electrodes has a first portion formed on a layer different from that on which the second electrodes are formed and intersecting the second electrodes, and a second portion formed on the same layer as that on which the second electrodes are formed, but separated from the second electrode. The second electrode and the second portion of the first electrode are formed on a layer different than the layer where the wiring is formed. The first portion of the first electrode is connected to the second portion through a contact portion formed in an insulating film made of a negative resist between the first portion and the second electrode.
US10191586B2
In a display apparatus, a touch panel where driving and sensing electrodes face each other across a dielectric substance outputs a detection signal from the sensing electrode in synchronization with a driving signal applied to the driving electrode. A pointing device points to a position on a touch surface of the touch panel. A detection assisting device includes an inverting circuit for obtaining a detection driving signal corresponding to the driving signal and inverting the phase thereof to generate an inversion signal, and outputs the inversion signal to the sensing electrode via the pointing device. A control device applies the driving signal to the driving electrode, obtains the detection signal generated at the sensing electrode according to the mutual capacitance between the driving and sensing electrodes and the inversion signal, and detects the pointing device in contact with or proximity to the touch panel based on the detection signal.
US10191585B2
The present invention relates to an overlay for a touchscreen piano keyboard implemented on an iPad or similar touchscreen device. It includes a screen covering sheet, that has a top surface pitted with hollows, such that it blocks activation of the touchscreen piano keys when lightly pressed, but not when more firmly pressed, thereby emulating the pressing of physical piano keys.
US10191581B2
Disclosed is a folding display device comprising: a display panel. and a folding shaft. The display play can be configured to be folded along the display device. The folding shaft can be configured to partition the display panel into a first display portion and a second display portion, and a folding state detecting electrode is a capacitive detecting electrode and is provided on the first display portion and/or the second display portion. According to the disclosure, the problem of the prior art that a detecting unit in a folding display device is difficult to determine the specific degree of folding of the folding display device may be solved. Thereby, the degree of folding of a folding display device can be accurately detected.
US10191577B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a 1st surface that faces in a 1st direction, and a 2nd surface that faces in a 2nd direction opposite to the 1st direction, a display disposed between the transparent plate and the 2nd surface of the housing, and including a 1st surface that faces in the 1st direction and a 2nd surface that faces in the 2nd direction, at least one sensor disposed between the 2nd surface of the display and the 2nd surface of the housing, a processor electrically coupled with the display and the at least one sensor, and a memory electrically coupled with the processor. The memory stores instructions and the processor is configured to execute the instructions to enable the display during 1st time periods, and disable at least a part of the display during at least a part of 2nd time periods, and enable the at least one sensor.
US10191572B2
A display module and a display device are provided. The display module may comprise a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a backlight module disposed at a side of the first substrate facing away from the second substrate; a first electrode; a second electrode disposed opposite to the first electrode for force touch; an air-gap layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and disposed parallel to the first substrate; and a frame assembly having a receiving space for at least receiving the backlight module, wherein the frame assembly includes at least one through-hole interconnected to the air-gap layer.
US10191571B2
A substrate and a display device are provided. The substrate includes a base and a signal line arranged on the base. The signal line includes at least two main film layers and a first additional film layer arranged between every two adjacent main film layers, wherein an electrical conductivity of the main film layer is larger than that of the first additional film layer; and a crystallinity of the main film layer is lower than that of the first additional film layer.
US10191563B2
A manipulation input device has a first detector and a second detector, disposed at different positions on a manipulative member, that detect the displacement of the manipulative member, the displacement being caused when the manipulative member receives a manipulation force, and also has a processor that performs processing to identify a position at which the manipulative member has received the manipulation force according to detection results obtained from the first detector and second detector and to the positions of the first detector and second detector on the manipulative member.
US10191557B2
A hand-held unit for a wireless interaction system is provided, the hand-held unit having a spherical, elastic and at least partially transparent outer housing, the housing comprising: a light source; a pressure sensor for determining an external pressure exerted on the hand-held unit; an orientation sensor for determining an orientation of the hand-held unit; a wireless communication unit; and a processing unit, wherein the processing unit is configured to operate in at least one of two modes: a two-dimensional mode in which the processing unit operates when the pressure sensor detects that the hand-held unit is rolled along a surface, wherein signals from the orientation sensor are transmitted via the wireless communication unit to an external wireless receiver device; and a three-dimensional mode wherein the light source is emitting light for indicating the position of the hand-held unit to an external light detecting device.
US10191553B2
Methods and systems for user interaction with information handling systems include using a physical object as a virtual input device. The virtual input device may be manipulated by a user to provide user input to an information handling system. The physical object may be identified and tracked using an image acquisition device. Different types of physical objects may be manipulated by the user to define gestures that are interpreted as user input.
US10191549B2
A multidirectional control system with shear feedback, comprising at least one stationary body, a plurality of tactors disposed within the at least one movable body or the at least one stationary body. In some embodiments, a moveable body is included, such that the tactors have at least one degree of freedom of motion with respect to the stationary body or the moveable body within which they are disposed and are operable to engage target areas of a user's skin; and a plurality of actuators capable of moving the tactors.
US10191546B2
A haptic theme system is provided that can create a haptic theme, where a haptic theme is an installable package that includes one or more haptic effects, and a mapping of the one or more haptic effects to one or more user interface (“UI”) events of a device. The haptic theme can be installed on the device, and the device can then dynamically load and play a haptic theme in real-time. The haptic theme system can display one or more haptic themes within a user interface. Upon receiving a selection, the haptic theme system can generate haptic feedback based on the haptic effect that is mapped to a received user interface event within the mapping.
US10191543B2
The description relates to smart rings. One example can include a finger band configured to accommodate a user's finger. This example can also include a set of pressure sensors positioned on an inner surface of the finger band and configured to sense changes to tendons of the user's finger as pressure differentials and to output associated signals. The example can further include a gesture component configured to interpret the signals from the set of pressure sensors to identify individual actions performed by the user's finger.
US10191536B2
A method of operating a control system for controlling a device, the control system comprising a motion capture equipment, and a controller for providing control signals for controlling one or more device functions of the device, the method comprising the steps of: capturing, by the motion capture equipment, motion picture images of a space and providing the motion picture images to the controller; analyzing, by the controller, the motion picture images for detecting user input from a user in the space, and detecting by the controller a gesture performed by the user; and providing, by the controller in response to said detecting of the gesture, a control signal to the device for controlling a selected device functions of said one or more device functions; wherein said analyzing is performed by the controller by monitoring one or more gesture zones in said motion picture images, each gesture zone being associated with one respective device function of said plurality of device functions, and wherein for providing said control signal the controller determines the gesture zone wherein the gesture is detected for establishing the selected device function to control.
US10191531B2
A voltage converter may include a first set of silicon (Si)-based power devices coupled to a first direct current (DC) voltage source and a second set of Si-based power devices coupled to a second DC voltage source. The voltage converter may also include a first set of silicon-carbide (SiC)-based power devices coupled to the first set of Si-based power devices and to the second set of Si-based power devices. Each SiC-based power device of the first set of SiC-based power devices may switch at a higher frequency as compared to each Si-based power device of the first and second sets of the Si-based power electronic devices.
US10191522B2
Systems and methods are provided for cooling an IHS (Information Handling System) that may be docked in docking station. The IHS includes a docking plate exposed on the outer surface. When docked, the docking plate interfaces with a corresponding conductive element provided by the docking station in order to transfer heat from the IHS to the docking station. Within the IHS, an adaptive heatsink provides passive cooling to a processor of the IHS. When the IHS is docked, a portion of the adaptive heatsink contacts the docking plate and, via the conductive element of the docking station, completes a thermal pathway to auxiliary cooling systems provided by the docking station, thus allowing the IHS to supporting higher operating temperatures. When the IHS is undocked, the adaptive heatsink is separated from the docking plate by an air gap, thus limiting the transfer of heat to the docking plate and maintaining safe surface temperatures.
US10191507B1
An electronic device may include first through fourth current generators. The first current generator may be configured to output first and second mirroring currents. The second current generator may be configured to output third and fourth mirroring currents. The third current generator may be configured to generate a fifth mirroring current having a current slope proportional to a current slope of the first mirroring current and output a first current having a level of a value obtained by subtracting a level of the fifth mirroring current from a level of the second mirroring current. The fourth current generator may be configured to generate a sixth mirroring current having a current slope proportional to a current slope of the fourth mirroring current and output a second current having a level of a value obtained by subtracting a level of the sixth mirroring current from a level of the third mirroring current.
US10191501B2
A thermostat includes a power stealing circuit selectively configured to provide power to the thermostat and to circuit(s) ancillary to the thermostat from power source(s) external to the thermostat, without requiring a common or neutral connection between the thermostat and the power source(s). Exemplary embodiments also are disclosed of a climate control system that includes such a thermostat. This thermostat can power-steal off of existing load wires (e.g., a W and/or Y terminal, etc.) and can provide power for a continuous backlight and/or other device (e.g., a remote sensor and/or low-power transceiver, etc.).
US10191500B2
An object of the invention is to provide a hot and cold water mixing device for reducing degradation in the measurement accuracy of a flowmeter. In the device according to the invention, the flowmeter is disposed in one of a hot water supply path and a cold water supply path, having a higher flow rate. At least first and second temperature sensors are individually disposed in at least two of the hot and cold water supply paths and a mixed water path. A hot and cold water adjustment unit adjusts a mixing volume of hot water and cold water based on measurement values of the flowmeter disposed in one of the flow paths having a higher flow rate, a mixed water path flowmeter and at least the first and second temperature sensors.
US10191498B2
A chemical controller for an aquatic application comprising at least one output relay. The chemical controller further includes a current detection circuit configured to detect current on an output of the at least one output relay and a current fault detection device configured to output a current fault signal indicative of the occurrence of a current fault condition. The chemical controller further comprises at least one relay latch configured to receive the relay enable signal and the current fault signal and to decouple the relay enable signal from a corresponding relay latch output when the current fault signal indicates the occurrence of a current fault condition. A relay drive circuit is configured to receive a signal from the corresponding relay latch output to and to responsively activate and deactivate the at least one output relay.
US10191495B2
Distributed ceiling-mounted smart cameras for multi-unmanned ground vehicle routing and coordination
An autonomous guided vehicle system that provides decentralized coordination and real-time environmental changes in a workspace to a vehicle. The system includes distributed cameras positioned in predetermined locations. The cameras are adapted to communicate with other cameras to coordinate the movement of the vehicles from a source to a destination.
US10191491B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing information about a vehicle dispatched to pick up the user. In one example, a request for the vehicle to stop at a particular location is sent. In response, information identifying a current location of the vehicle is received. A map is generated. The map includes a first marker identifying the received location of the vehicle, a second marker identifying the particular location, and a shape defining an area around the second marker at which the vehicle may stop. The shape has an edge at least a minimum distance greater than zero from the second area. A route is displayed on the map between the first marker and the shape such that the route ends at the shape and does not reach the second marker. Progress of the vehicle towards the area along the route is displayed based on received updated location information for the vehicle.
US10191490B2
A marine vessel includes a distance detector that measures a distance to an object, a speed detector that detects a vessel speed, and a controller that executes on-shore/off-shore assistance control to control a propulsion unit to generate a thrust that moves a vessel body in a direction opposite to a direction toward the object based on the distance to the object measured by the distance detector and the vessel speed detected by the speed detector.
US10191478B2
An integrated and networked system of remote operations is provided that extends remote expert NDT methodology to a variety of manufacturing and in-service processes. The functional elements of the system comprise remote NDT applications, advanced remote NDT, remote administration, remote NDT commercial operations, and remote data analytics, which are all tied together by a remote communications hub. The communications hub has communication links with computer systems of those functional elements.
US10191475B2
This invention concerns improvements in the inspection, assessment and re-working of manufactured components such as nozzle guide vanes (NGVs) and blades, in particular by improving the comparison of the component with nominal data. Dimensional data of a physical component is obtained and used to create a virtual digitized model of the component which is aligned with a nominal CAD model of the component in a virtual space. The correspondence is assessed and used to adjust weightings of different regions of the digitized model to improve the alignment. This process is repeated within the digital space until either conformance is reached or it is determined that this is not possible.
US10191473B2
Provided is a job plan display system capable of displaying a job plan on a product, and displaying a thumbnail as image information on the product on a display area of the job plan based on design data of the product, allowing an appropriate thumbnail to be displayed while suppressing an increase in system load. The job plan display system is configured to determine whether or not to display or update the thumbnail on a display area of the job plan based on at least one of intention of a designer who created the design data, such intention being assigned to the design data of the product, a predetermined update time, progress information on the design data created and a relationship between a changing part of the design data when the design data is changed and viewpoint coordinates when creating the thumbnail.
US10191468B2
A tool track display device includes a position information acquisition unit which acquires position information of at least one drive axle from a numerical control device and a position sensor provided on the at least one drive axle, a tool coordinate calculation unit which calculates coordinate values of the tool based on the position information of the at least one drive axle and information regarding the mechanical structure of a machine tool, a display attribute modification unit which modifies the display attribute of the tool track in accordance with the motion direction of the tool, and a display unit which displays the tool track based on the coordinate values of the tool calculated by the tool coordinate calculation unit and the display attribute modified by the display attribute modification unit.
US10191462B2
A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for a receptionist function in vehicles for communications management, such as phone call and texting management, includes determining driving context of a moving vehicle, estimating a risk factor related to the operation of the vehicle based on the driving context, receiving an incoming communication directed to a mobile communication device within the vehicle, analyzing the incoming communication to determine a communication factor, and determining an electronic action in response to the incoming communication based on the driving context, the risk factor and the communication factor.
US10191460B2
A control device for a machine tool that moves a tool relative to a workpiece and/or vice versa and machines said workpiece. Said control device is provided with a display unit that displays information related to the machine tool, a first-layer generation unit that generates a first layer that contains machining information related to the machining being performed on the workpiece, and a second-layer generation unit that generates a second layer that contains an image or handwritten note related to the machining information in the first layer. The display unit displays an image consisting of the second layer superimposed onto the first layer.
US10191459B2
A control device of an electrical apparatus configured to receive power from a facility that receives a supply of power from a system power supply, the facility including an energy management system that manages a power feeding schedule according to a first management function provided for managing the power feeding schedule for feeding power to the electrical apparatus, the control device includes an electronic control unit configured to: communicate with the energy management system; manage the power feeding schedule according to a second management function provided for managing the power feeding schedule in the control device; and determine whether the electronic control unit or the energy management system of the facility, will manage the power feeding schedule by comparing the first management function of the energy management system and the second management function of the control device.
US10191455B2
A watch type terminal is presented, which includes a main body; a band connected to the main body and formed to be worn on a user's wrist; an electrode unit formed in one area of the main body or the band and performing a predetermined function; an electromagnetic wave sensor module connected with the electrode unit and sensing a capacitance change; and a controller sensing whether the user wears the watch type terminal based on the capacitance change and generating a control command based on whether the user wears the watch type terminal.
US10191442B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a cartridge removably attached thereto. The image forming unit includes: a toner image forming unit; and a toner storing portion including a first toner storing portion that stores a first toner, a waste toner storing portion that stores a waste toner, and a movable partition that separates the storing portions. The cartridge includes a second toner storing portion that stores a second toner. The image forming unit includes: a first portion for supplying the first toner in the first toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; a second portion for supplying the second toner in the second toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; and a conveying member that conveys the first toner supplied through the first portion and the second toner supplied through the second portion, to the toner image forming unit.
US10191439B2
A cleaning blade includes a support and an elastic member with a flat shape. The elastic member has a secured end secured to the support and a free end. A ridgeline of the free end contacts a cleaning target to remove substances adhering to a surface of the cleaning target. The elastic member includes a base and a surface layer made of a cured product of a curable composition. The surface layer is disposed on at least a part of an opposite face disposed to oppose a downstream side of the cleaning target downstream from a contact portion of the elastic member with the cleaning target in a direction of movement of the cleaning target. A thickness of the surface layer progressively decreases toward the secured end along a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the surface layer.
US10191437B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus including: an intermediate transfer belt; a photosensitive drum; a primary transfer member; a secondary transfer member; a first backup member; a first power supply electrically connected to the primary transfer member and to the secondary transfer member; and a first resistor electrically connected to the first power supply and to the primary transfer member. A first current route, in which the first resistor, the primary transfer member, and the photosensitive drum are connected in series in that order, is connected to the first power supply and to a basis potential. A second current route, in which the secondary transfer member and the first backup member are connected in series, is connected to the first power supply and to the basis potential. The first current route is connected in parallel to the second current route.
US10191435B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image formation part that forms an image on a paper sheet; a conveyor that includes a plurality of conveying members and conveys the paper sheet; a hardware processor that acquires information on a smudge on a paper sheet on which an image has been formed by the image formation part, and identifies, from the plurality of conveying members, one or more dirty conveying member(s) that may have caused the smudge based on at least one of the information on the smudge, information on the conveying members, and information on a job for image formation executed by the image formation part.
US10191430B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, mounting unit to which a container is mounted, cover, detector, controller, and display unit. The image forming unit forms an image by using a developer, the cover is opened/closed to replace/cover the mounted container, the detector detects the mounted container in a cover closed/opened state, the controller determines whether a remaining amount of the developer in the container is more than a predetermined amount, and the display unit displays, in a case where the container in which the remaining amount is more than the predetermined amount is removed, a first screen promoting re-mounting of the container, a second screen on closing the cover without detecting the container after displaying the first screen, and a third screen after displaying the second screen in a case where the container is not mounted.
US10191424B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of reducing a downtime for switching between a monochrome image forming mode and a color image forming mode. In the image forming apparatus, images formed by a plurality of image forming stations are transferred in superimposition onto a transfer member. Further, the image forming apparatus controls image formation in each of a first mode of performing image formation using only an image forming station located at the most downstream position in a moving direction of the transfer member among the plurality of image forming stations, and a second mode of performing image formation using the plurality of image forming stations.
US10191423B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing belt stretched across a first roller and a second roller including an elastic layer. A pressure rotator presses against the second roller via the fixing belt to form a fixing nip between the pressure rotator and the fixing belt. A recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed through the fixing nip. A clearance detector detects a clearance between the first roller and the second roller. A mover moves the pressure rotator with respect to the second roller in a pressing direction in which the pressure rotator presses against the second roller via the fixing belt and a separation direction in which the pressure rotator separates from the second roller. A controller controls an amount of movement of the pressure rotator moved by the mover toward the second roller based on the clearance detected by the clearance detector.
US10191417B2
A fixing apparatus includes a first rotatable member configured to heat, in a fixing nip, an unfixed toner image formed on a sheet with a toner having a parting material. A second rotatable member cooperates with the first rotatable member to form the fixing nip. A cleaner is configured to clean the first rotatable member, and a covering member is configured to cover the first rotatable member over a range from the cleaner to an entrance of the fixing nip along a rotational direction of the first rotatable member with a gap D of not less than 0.5 mm and not more than 3.5 mm. In addition, the gap D (mm) between the covering member and the first rotatable member and the peripheral speed V of the first rotatable member (mm/s) satisfy 0.5≤D≤0.0059×V+0.72.
US10191408B2
A cartridge configured to accommodate a developing agent may include a detection gear, a first protrusion, and a memory. The detection gear may be rotatable about a first axis extending in a predetermined direction. The first protrusion may be movable with rotation of the detection gear. The memory may include a first storage region storing a first yield information representing at least one of amount of the developing agent in the cartridge and the number of printable sheets by the developing agent in the cartridge, wherein at least one of the amount of the developing agent and the number of sheets by the developing agent in the cartridge may be confirmable based on the first yield information and the first protrusion.
US10191405B2
The present teachings describe a bias charging member. The charging member includes a conductive core and an outer surface layer disposed on the conductive core. The outer surface layer includes a crosslinked hydroxyl terminated poly(oxetane) based fluorinated polyether and an aminoplast resin.
US10191402B2
An image forming apparatus for developing an image with developer includes a development part, a transfer part, and a fuser the medium. The developer is configured with a plurality of particles, an average circularity degree of the developer is ranged within 0.955 to 0.970, and a peeling rate (%) of the external additive by a following equation is 30.6% or less, peeling rate (%)=[1−(X/Y)]×100 (1) wherein X is an amount (weight %) of the external additive included in the developer after ultrasonic waves are applied, and Y is an amount (weight %) of the external additive included in the developer before the ultrasonic waves are applied.
US10191393B2
A measurement system for a lithographic apparatus includes a sub-frame compliantly mounted on a reference frame. A measurement device, e.g. an alignment sensor, is mounted on the sub-frame. Soft mounting of the sub-frame isolates the alignment sensor from high-frequency disturbances, e.g. acoustic noise, by acting as a low-pass filter with a cut-off frequency, e.g. in the range of from 100 to 200 Hz.
US10191382B2
An illumination system of a micro-lithographic projection exposure apparatus is provided, which is configured to illuminate a mask positioned in a mask plane. The system includes a pupil shaping optical subsystem and illuminator optics that illuminate a beam deflecting component. For determining a property of the beam deflecting component, an intensity distribution in a system pupil surface of the illumination system is determined. Then the property of the beam deflecting component is determined such that the intensity distribution produced by the pupil shaping subsystem in the system pupil surface approximates the intensity distribution determined before. At least one of the following aberrations are taken into account in this determination: (i) an aberration produced by the illuminator optics; (ii) an aberration produced by the pupil shaping optical subsystem; (iii) an aberration produced by an optical element arranged between the system pupil surface and the mask plane.
US10191379B2
In systems and methods for removing a photoresist film off of a wafer, the wafer is moved into a bath of a process liquid in a process tank. The process liquid removes the photoresist film from the wafer. The process liquid is pumped from the process tank to a filter assembly and moved through filter media to filter out solids from the process liquid, and the filtered process liquid is returned to the process tank. A scraper scrapes the filter media to prevent clogging of the filter media by accumulated solids.
US10191376B2
Lithographic apparatuses suitable for, and methodologies involving, complementary e-beam lithography (CEBL) are described. In an example, a column for an e-beam direct write lithography tool includes a first blanker aperture array (BAA) including a staggered array of openings having a pitch along an array direction. The array direction is orthogonal to a scan direction. Each opening has a first dimension in the array direction. The column also includes a second BAA including a staggered array of openings having the pitch along the array direction. Each opening has a second dimension in the array direction, the second dimension greater than the first dimension.
US10191373B2
A polymer comprising recurring units having an acid generator bound to the backbone, and recurring units having an optionally acid labile group-substituted carboxyl group and/or recurring units having an optionally acid labile group-substituted hydroxyl group is obtained by polymerizing corresponding monomers in a solution of a non-polymerizable compound containing a nitrogen atom to which an acid labile group is bound. This prevents deprotection reaction of the acid labile group in the case of positive resist-forming polymer or crosslinking reaction in the case of negative resist-forming polymer.
US10191369B2
A colored composition of the present invention includes a dye compound having an anionic moiety including at least one of a structure represented by the following General Formula (A1), a structure represented by the following General Formula (A2), and a structure containing a boron atom, and a dye structure having a cationic moiety, in which the anionic moiety and the cationic moiety are bonded to each other via a covalent bond and present in the same molecule; a curable compound; and a solvent. (in General Formula (A1), R1 and R2 each independently represent —SO2— or —CO—) (in General Formula (A2), R4 represents —SO2— or —CO—; and R4 and R5 each independently represent —SO2—, —CO—, or —CN).
US10191365B2
A reflective mask blank capable of facilitating the discovery of contaminants, scratches and other critical defects by inhibiting the detection of pseudo defects attributable to surface roughness of a substrate or film in a defect inspection using a highly sensitive defect inspection apparatus. The reflective mask blank has a mask blank multilayer film comprising a multilayer reflective film, obtained by alternately laminating a high refractive index layer and a low refractive index layer, and an absorber film on a main surface of a mask blank substrate, wherein the root mean square roughness (Rms), obtained by measuring a 3 μm×3 μm region on the surface of the reflective mask blank on which the mask blank multilayer film is formed with an atomic force microscope, is not more than 0.5 nm and the power spectrum density at a spatial frequency of 1 μm−1 to 10 μm−1 is not more than 50 nm4.
US10191359B2
An illumination apparatus includes a solid state light source unit including a plurality of light emitting points that emits light and is arranged on a light emitting face, a plurality of optical elements configured to guide light emitted from the plurality of light emitting points to an illumination target face, a heat conduction member arranged in a space different from a space between the light emitting face of the solid state light source unit and the plurality of optical elements, configured to conduct heat from the solid state light source unit, and a cooling unit configured to supply a first fluid to the heat conduction member along a first flow path and supply a second fluid to the space between the light emitting face and the optical elements along a second flow path, wherein the second fluid is a fluid from which dust or dust and moisture is reduced.
US10191357B2
A two-piece mounting system for a trail camera has a support with a fitting that is placed high in a tree on a tree branch. The support with an auger anchor is driven into the tree branch with an extension pole equipped with a companion fitting. The auger has a releasable spring-loaded turn-to-lock capture means to capture and hold a utility bar. The utility bar, like the auger support, is placed and attached to the support with the extension pole. The utility bar receives a universal camera mount attached to the bar through a swivel. The camera mount and swivel have an adjustment bar that has a fitting that can be received by the extension pole fitting, so once placed in the tree, the camera angle can be adjusted.
US10191354B1
A high-average-power OPCPA amplifier comprising a pump laser, a signal laser, and a nonlinear crystal amplifier. The pump laser includes an Nd:YVO4 laser oscillator-regenerative amplifier, an Nd:YAG boost amplifier, a frequency-doubling convertor, and a frequency-tripling convertor. The signal laser includes a supercontinuum generator, a pulse stretcher, and a pulse compressor. The chirped signal and the pump laser is intersected with a noncollinear angle of 3.0° to 4.0° in the nonlinear crystal amplifier and the temperature of the crystal amplifier is set at higher than 320K for simultaneous temperature- and wavelength-insensitive phase-matching.
US10191352B2
Optical component (10) for modulating light field (1) incident thereon, particularly amplitude and/or phase in dependency on intensity (I) thereof, includes stack (11) of refractive layers (12, 13) on substrate (14), made of materials having third-order nonlinearity, and having alternatingly varying refractive indices (n), including linear contribution (n0) and non-linear contribution (n2), and determining reflectance and transmittance spectra of the optical component, wherein refractive layers (12, 13) are configured such that reflectance and transmittance of the optical component have a Kerr effect based dependency on intensity (I) of the incident light field with n=n0+I·n2, and refractive layers (12, 13) are made of at least one of dielectric and semiconductor layers, wherein non-linear contribution (n2) is below 10−12 cm2/W. A resonator device including the optical component, a method of modulating a light field using the optical component and a method of manufacturing the optical component are described.
US10191350B2
A Mach-Zehnder waveguide modulator comprising a left arm including a left SiGe optical waveguide, and a right arm including a right SiGe optical waveguide; wherein each of the left and right optical waveguides comprises a junction region and a plurality of electrodes for providing a bias across the junction to enable control of the phase of light travelling through the junction regions via dispersion.
US10191347B2
The invention relates to a reflecting cell including at least two substrates covered by an electrode and facing each other, the substrates delimiting between them a volume which separates them and which is filled with a cholesteric liquid crystal-type material, both electrodes being intended to be connected to a voltage source. This cell includes at least one half-wave plate arranged between both substrates and dividing the volume into two compartments, each enclosing a part of a same cholesteric liquid crystal.
US10191346B2
A blue phase liquid crystal module, a blue phase LCD and the manufacturing are disclosed. The blue phase liquid crystal module includes an up substrate; a down substrate opposite to the up substrate; and blue phase liquid crystals between the up substrate and the down substrate. The down substrate includes at least one wave-shaped insulation layer being arranged with respect to the up substrate and the down substrate. The reflective layer is arranged in a portion of the down substrate. Pixel electrodes and common electrodes are arranged alternately at valleys and at peaks of the wave-shaped insulation layer, and the blue phase liquid crystals are driven by at least one slant electrical field generated between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.
US10191344B2
Provided is an active matrix substrate that includes gate lines (13G), source lines, pixel switching elements, a plurality of gate line driving circuits (11) that control potentials of the gate lines, in the display region, and control signal lines (15L1) that supply a control signal to the gate line driving circuits (11). Each of the gate line driving circuits (11) includes driving switching elements and a capacitor. At least part of the driving switching elements and the capacitor are arranged at positions closer to, not the gate line (13G) corresponding to the gate line driving circuit (11), but another gate line (13G).
US10191329B2
A reflective light control film includes a transparent film having a plurality of protruded line patterns formed on one surface of the base film, each of the protruded line patterns including a first side having an inclination angle with respect to the one surface of the base film and a second side, and a light reflection layer provided on the first side. The reflective light control film has excellent visibility for the screen even if it is not provided with a separate shade, and the screen is prevented from being reflected on the windshield.
US10191326B2
A film for a backlight unit including a semiconductor nanocrystal-polymer composite film including a semiconductor nanocrystal and a matrix polymer in which the semiconductor nanocrystal is dispersed, wherein the matrix polymer is a polymer produced by a polymerization of a multifunctional photo-curable oligomer, a mono-functional photo-curable monomer, and a multifunctional photo-curable cross-linking agent, the multifunctional photo-curable oligomer has an acid value of less than or equal to about 0.1 mg of KOH/g, and a content (A1) of a first structural unit derived from the multifunctional photo-curable oligomer, a content (A2) of a second structural unit derived from the mono-functional photo-curable monomer, and a content (A3) of a third structural unit derived from the multifunctional photo-curable cross-linking agent satisfy Equation 1: A1<(A2+A3). Equation 1
US10191319B2
The present application discloses a display panel having a subpixel region and an inter-subpixel region. The display panel includes a base substrate; and a photochromic layer on the base substrate at least partially in the subpixel region for preventing light leakage in the subpixel region.
US10191318B2
Disclosed is a transparent display device in which a light shield rate is not lowered by partition walls in a light shield mode, and moreover, a light transmittance is not lowered in a transmissive mode. The transparent display device includes a transparent display panel including a plurality of transmissive areas transmitting incident light and a plurality of emissive areas emitting light, and a light control device disposed on a rear surface of the transparent display panel. The light control device is configured to be driven in a transmissive mode where the incident light is transmitted and a light shield mode where the incident light is blocked.
US10191316B2
A coupling mechanism includes a back plate and a frame unit. The back plate is formed with at least one engaging hole. The frame unit has at least one frame body, and at least one engaging member extending from the at least one frame body, and engaging the at least one engaging hole for coupling fixedly the at least one frame body to the back plate. The at least one frame body is deformable for disengaging the at least one engaging member from the at least one engaging hole, thereby permitting removal of the at least one frame body from the back plate.
US10191315B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus which facilitates minimized thickness by innovatively removing a case and some portions of a set cover, which have been regarded as indispensable structures for the display apparatus, and simultaneously facilitates good aesthetic exterior appearance of the display apparatus by a novel design. The display apparatus comprises a set cover exposed externally and formed to have a storage space; a guide frame received in the storage space; a screw coupled to the guide frame by penetrating through the set cover so as to fix the guide frame to the set cover; a display unit placed onto the guide frame; and an adhesive member for fixedly adhering the display unit to the guide frame.
US10191307B2
To provide a modulation control method and an optical transmission device that realize high reliability by more stably performing bias control of an optical modulator using an optical QAM scheme, an optical transmitter according to the present invention comprises a first waveguide and a second waveguide, wherein each of the first waveguide and the second waveguide are provided with an optical modulator that modulates a carrier light with a modulation driving signal that has multiple strength level values, a phase shift unit that provides a predetermined phase difference between a first optical signal outputted from the first waveguide and a second optical signal outputted from the second waveguide, a light detector that detects and photoelectrically converts a portion of a multiple value optical signal obtained by multiplexing the first optical signal and the second optical signal which have been provided with the phase difference and a control circuit that, on the basis of signal amplitude information obtained by a signal amplitude detector from wideband signal components from the light detector, corrects a first voltage provided to the first waveguide and corrects a second voltage provided to the second waveguide.
US10191304B2
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for the design and manufacturing of electronic eyeglasses and associated components thereof. Electronic eyeglasses consist of electro-active lenses, receiving electrical signals that turn them on and off from an electronic control module. The electronic control module is embedded within a temple of the eyeglass frame, and is powered by a removable power source pack residing at a temple tip through a flexible cable. Various methods describe the interconnection schemes between the components of the electronic eyeglasses.
US10191301B2
Contact lenses are described with a corneal remodelling effect. This corneal remodelling effect is one or both of broad-area corneal remodelling and localized remodelling. The contact lenses may also have a refractive power. The refractive power may vary across the lens and for myopia may have increased power centrally. The increased power may be provided over a lens area that has increased thickness due to localized remodelling.
US10191299B2
Wavefront measurements of eyes are often taken when the pupil is in a first configuration in an evaluation context. The results can be represented by a set of basis function coefficients. Prescriptive treatments are often applied in a treatment context, which is different from the evaluation context. Hence, the patient pupil can be in a different, second configuration, during treatment. Systems and methods are provided for determining a transformed set of basis function coefficients, based on a difference between the first and second configurations, which can be used to establish the vision treatment.
US10191296B1
Devices, apparatus, systems and methods for making and using laser pointers and laser illuminators with reduced risk of optical sensor damage such as eye injuries due to laser radiation from the pointer or illuminator, while scattered beams from the laser pointer or laser illuminator are visible to the optical sensor.
US10191290B2
A vehicle, a head-up displaying system and a method for adjusting a height of a projection image thereof are provided. The system includes a projector, a camera, a seat detecting module and a head-up controller. The camera is configured to detect an image having locations of the eyes of the driver and a predetermined reference point. The seat detecting module is configured to detect a position of a seat of the driver in the vehicle so as to obtain an actual horizontal distance between the eyes of the driver and the predetermined reference point. The head-up controller is configured to adjust a height of the projection image projected by the projector automatically according to the actual vertical distance. The system automatically controls the height of the projection image, and the projection image may be comfortable for the driver to view without any manual intervenes.
US10191279B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for imaging, recognizing, and tracking of a user's eye that is wearing a HWC. Aspects further relate to the processing of images reflected from the user's eye and controlling displayed content in accordance therewith.
US10191278B2
An optical instrument includes an optical system for producing an optical image; and a diffractive element which includes a surface having an array of diffractive units. The diffractive units include replications of a pattern of separated areas which produce diffractive interference of light and generate an array of exit pupils to be viewable as a single, continuous enlarged exit pupil The areas include irregular features of different sizes in horizontal and vertical section, which have curved surfaces at lateral faces The diffractive units are disposed progressively radially outwardly from the optical axis of the diffractive element and configured progressively with an increasing angular offset. Independent of location on the aperture of the diffractive element and without any relay lens arrangement, light from the received image is relayed to a common region on a viewing plane across the aperture.
US10191276B2
An imaging adjustment apparatus includes: an imaging analysis module, used to determine whether a current image of an object is deformed relative to an original image of the object, and when the current image is deformed, generate imaging correction information corresponding to the deformation; an imaging lens group, used to image the object, and including a plurality of subregions having adjustable imaging parameters; and a lens adjustment module, used to adjust an imaging parameter of a corresponding subregion of the imaging lens group according to the imaging correction information. An object can be imaged by using an imaging lens in which each subregion has adjustable imaging parameters, so as to adjust the imaging parameters for each subregion separately, thereby adjusting and correcting a perspective deformation that occurs on the object, preventing a perspective deformation from occurring on an image of the object acquired by a user, and improving user experience.
US10191275B1
An off-axis optical system having a rectangular aperture stop to control rays of incident electromagnetic radiation passing through the optical system along an optical path is provided. The optical system includes one or more optical surfaces along the optical path, each surface being configured to change a direction of each ray on the surface based on a location of the ray relative to the surface. At least one of the surfaces is conjugate to and has the same shape as the rectangular aperture stop. In one embodiment, each optical surface is shaped to avoid vignetting the rays. In one embodiment, the optical system is a three-mirror anastigmat (TMA) and includes a concave primary mirror to collect and focus the electromagnetic radiation; a curved secondary mirror to reflect the electromagnetic radiation focused by the primary mirror; and a concave tertiary mirror to focus the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the secondary mirror.
US10191274B2
An image display apparatus includes a light source device including a light source unit; a scanning optical system including an image forming unit on which an intermediate image is formed by light from the light source unit; and a virtual image optical system configured to guide light of the intermediate image by using a reflecting mirror and a curved transmissive reflection member. The scanning optical system includes an optical scanning unit configured to scan the light from the light source unit in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction of the image forming unit. The image forming unit is a transmissive member curved with a convex surface toward the reflecting mirror.
US10191269B2
The invention relates to a microscope slide holder for an optical microscope. The slide holder comprises a base portion, a slide holder portion arranged on the base portion and having a mounting zone capable of receiving microscope slides of one or more slide types, the slide holder portion being movably arranged on the base portion, and a manipulator for moving the slide holder portion with respect to the base portion in three orthogonal dimensions. According to the invention, the base portion is dimensioned to fit into a mounting zone designed for at least one of the one or more microscope slide types. The invention allows for convenient sample movement in microscopes whose sample stage is not inherently designed for scanning microscopy.
US10191258B2
A single-focus optical system includes in order from an enlargement side, a first lens unit, and a second lens unit having a positive refractive power. A lens component is one of a single lens and a cemented lens. The first lens unit includes a reduction-side negative lens component closest to the reduction side, and in addition, the first lens unit includes not less than three negative lens components including the reduction-side negative lens component. The second lens unit includes in order from the enlargement side, a first positive lens, a second positive lens, a first negative lens, and a third positive lens, and all airspaces in the second lens unit are constant at a time of focusing.
US10191248B2
A compact low-profile low-cost imaging lens with a small F-value which offers a wide field of view and corrects aberrations properly. Its elements are spaced from each other and arranged from an object side to an image side as follows: a first positive lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens; a third positive or negative lens; a fourth positive or negative lens; a fifth positive or negative lens; a sixth positive or negative lens; and a seventh lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface. The third to sixth lenses each have at least one aspheric surface. The aspheric image-side surface of the seventh lens has a pole-change point off an optical axis. The imaging lens satisfies a conditional expression −1.0
US10191243B2
Various expandable mirrors and a vehicle having the same are described. An expandable mirror may include a first pane having a first reflective surface and a second pane having a second reflective surface. The expandable mirror may also include a mechanism connected with each of the first and second panes. The mechanism may be actuated to expand a viewing area of the mirror such that the expanded viewing area includes both the first and second reflective surfaces. The expandable mirror may also include a third pane having a third reflective surface that contributes to the viewing area when the mirror is expanded. The expandable mirror may also include a manual button configured to actuate or de-actuate the mechanism when pressed. The expandable mirror may also include a positioning motor configured to adjust the orientation of the viewing area of the mirror.
US10191241B2
The present invention provides an imaging device in which focus movement due to a temperature variation is suppressed and the infiltration of foreign matter such as liquid or dust is prevented. An imaging device 10 is provided with an imaging lens 11, an imaging element 12, and an intermediate member 15. The imaging lens 11 is held by a lens-barrel 13 and forms an image of a photographic subject. The imaging element 12 captures the image of the photographic subject which is formed by the imaging lens 11. The intermediate member 15 has, on the inner-peripheral-surface of one end thereof, a flange portion 15a which comes into contact with the lens-barrel 13, and holds the lens-barrel 13 by joining the front surface 26 of a flange portion 13b of the lens-barrel 13 and the surface 27 on the imaging element 12 side of the flange portion 15a to each other.
US10191240B2
In a lens barrel of the present invention, a frame body holding an optical element is held in a frame body holding member, includes an adjuster for adjusting the position of the frame body with respect to a predetermined axis of the frame body holding member so as to be able to adjust at least one of the orientation of an optical axis in the optical element and the position of the optical element in a direction of the optical axis, and the adjuster is arranged at a position adjustable from an opening portion of a mounting member to be mounted on the frame body holding member.
US10191236B2
A high-speed multi-channel optical transmitter module includes a plurality of laser-diode (LD) components, a plurality of photo-diode (PD) components, an MT ferrule, and a waveguide component. These components are firstly packaged as sub-modules individually, and then these sub-modules are packaged to form the high-speed multi-channel optical transmitter module. Therefore, the amount of individual components contained in the module is decreased, the complexity of structure is simplified, the precision of positioning is increased, such that the time and labors required in the assembling and packaging processes can be decreased, and the defect-free rate of products can be increased.
US10191230B2
Reversible polarity fiber optic connectors are provided having housings at least partially surrounding first and second optical ferrules with walls above and beneath the ferrules. Positioning removable elements such as latches, removable arms, or push-pull tabs on the first wall above the ferrules yields fiber optic connectors with a first polarity type, and positioning the removable elements on the second wall beneath the ferrules yields fiber optic connectors with a second, opposite polarity type. Various engagement mechanisms are provided on either the connector housing walls or on the removable elements, or both, to assist in affixing the removable element to the connector housing.
US10191229B2
An optical transceiver that optionally exchanges between the bail and the pull-tab for disengaging the optical transceiver with the cage is disclosed. The optical transceiver provides a slider to be assembled with both of the bail and the pull-tab. The slider provides an opening common to the bail and the pull-tab, and a composite opening that includes a portion for the bail and another portion for the pull-tab. The bail, by rotating around the common opening, may induce forward and rearward motions for the slider, while, the pull-tab, by pulling and pushing, may directly cause the forward and rearward motions for the slider through the composite opening.
US10191228B2
Disclosed are optical connectors and methods for making the same. In one embodiment, the optical connector comprises an optical body, one or more first magnetic materials attached to the optical body, a housing, and one or more second magnetic materials attached to the housing. The first magnetic material(s) provide alignment with an optical element of a complimentary receptacle and the optical body may include one or more openings for receiving the first magnetic materials. The second magnetic material(s) attached to the housing provide retention of the optical connector with the complimentary receptacle when mated together. Consequently, the optical connector allows for quick and easy assembly along with a robust structure for a large number of mating/unmating cycles. In other embodiments, the optical devices disclosed may further include one or more electrical contacts for making a hybrid connection or have a TIR surface integrated into a portion of a housing.
US10191225B2
A cover part of an optical fiber is sandwiched and pressed between a pressure welding blade and a bottom surface part. As a result of this, in a case where an external force which pulls out the optical fiber from a housing, movement of the optical fiber is suppressed by a pressing force, which makes it difficult for a ferrule to go away from a mating optical fiber. Thus, efficiency in communication with the mating optical connector can be improved.
US10191219B2
An optical selector arrangement (22), comprising: a first set of optical ports (30), having a first number of optical ports, the first number being greater than or equal to 2; a second set of optical ports (42), having a second number of optical ports, the second number being greater than the first number; the second set of optical ports being for communicating with the first set of optical ports, a selector interface (40) for the optical selector arrangement, the selector interface comprising the second set of optical ports (42), a part of the optical selector arrangement functioning as a selector (44), the selector being arranged to selectively optically couple the first set of optical ports (30) to a set of ports of the second set of optical ports (42) of the selector interface, the selector (44) being rotatable relative to the selector interface (40) to facilitate the selection by optically aligning the first set of optical ports (30) to the second set of optical ports (42) of the selector interface (40); the selector (44) being configured to be continuously relatively rotatable over multiple rotations, to selectively optically couple the first set of optical ports (30) to a different set of ports of the second set of optical ports of the selector interface.
US10191213B2
Methods and structures for shielding optical waveguides are provided. A method includes forming a first optical waveguide core and forming a second optical waveguide core adjacent to the first optical waveguide core. The method also includes forming an insulator layer over the first optical waveguide core and the second optical waveguide core. The method further includes forming a shielding structure in the insulator layer between the first optical waveguide core and the second optical waveguide core.
US10191210B2
Discussed herein is an optical sheet and a display device having the same. In the display device, a fixing portion for fixing optical sheets is provided in the active area of a liquid-crystal panel, and the fixing portion is fixed to a buffer region for evacuation of the panel corner provided in the guide panel, thereby reducing the number of processing steps, and addressing the limitation that components are visible at some viewing angles.
US10191205B2
In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a backlight source, a related backlight unit, a related display apparatus, and fabricating methods thereof are provided. In some embodiments, the disclosed backlight source for a display panel can comprises: a light-bar; and a plurality of first light sources and a plurality of second light sources alternatively located on the light-bar in a staggered arrangement; wherein the plurality of first light sources use a first type phosphor that is able to realize a first color gamut range, while the plurality of second light sources use a second type phosphor that is able to realize a second color gamut range.
US10191204B2
Materials and lightguides formed thereof that are suitable for use in lighting units to impart a color filtering effect to visible light. At least a portion of such a lightguide (16) is formed of a composite material comprising a polymeric matrix material and an inorganic particulate material that contributes a color filtering effect to visible light passing through the composite material, and the particulate material comprises a neodymium compound containing Nd3+ ions.
US10191196B2
A backlight unit (BLU), for a binocular holographic display apparatus, and the binocular holographic display apparatus including the BLU are provided. The BLU includes: a light source unit that emits coherent illumination light; and a light guide plate that is transparent and includes a light incidence surface onto which the coherent illumination light emitted by the light source unit is incident and a light emission surface through which the illumination light is output. The light source unit includes a beam deflector that adjusts an incidence angle of the illumination light incident onto the light guide plate.
US10191195B2
There is provided a thin polarizing plate with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer hardly warping. A polarizing plate with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the present invention includes: first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a protective film, and a polarizing film in the stated order, wherein: the polarizing film has a thickness of 13 μm or less; a thickness ratio between the protective film and the polarizing film (thickness of the protective film/thickness of the polarizing film) is from 1.5 to 9.0; and a creep amount when a load of 500 g is applied to the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for 1 hour is from 20 μm/h to 300 μm/h.
US10191192B2
A light amount adjusting device includes ND filters rotating around shafts serving as rotation shafts and moving between in-use positions and retracted positions, arranged on a base plate. The respective ND filters include uniform density portions, gradation portions, and transparent portions. If the ND filters are in the retracted positions, the transparent portions of the respective ND filters overlap in an area facing an aperture to cover the entire aperture with the transparent portions. If the ND filters are in the in-use positions, the gradation portions of the respective ND filters overlap in an area facing the aperture to cover the entire aperture with the gradation portions and the uniform density portions. Moreover, a combined density acquired when the gradation portions overlap in just proportion is substantially the same as an optical density of each of the uniform density portions.
US10191190B2
A mirror for use in high power optical applications, the mirror comprising: a support plate comprising a synthetic diamond material; and a reflective coating disposed over the support plate, wherein the reflective coating comprises a bonding layer of carbide forming material which bonds the reflective coating to the synthetic diamond material in the support plate, a reflective metal layer disposed over the bonding layer, and one or more layers of dielectric material disposed over the reflective metal layer, wherein the bonding layer and the reflective metal layer together have a total thickness in a range 50 nm to 10 μm with the reflective metal layer having a thickness of no more than 5 μm, and wherein the support plate and the reflective coating are configured such that the mirror has a reflectivity of at least 99% at an operational wavelength of the mirror.
US10191189B2
A wide angle optical lens, an optical lens unit, and an imaging device are small-sized and can secure an attachment space even when space is limited, and can avoid adhesion peeling or the extrusion of an adhesive. Optical lens (10) has a lens frame receiving surface (2a) on the side of first optical surface (S1) having a smaller optical surface diameter than second optical surface (S2), and is further provided with an adhesion space forming surface (3a) on the surrounding side of the lens frame receiving surface (2a). Therefore, it is possible to suppress adhesion peeling even when a smaller size is requested. Furthermore, by securing a larger size for lens frame receiving surface (2a), it is possible to suppress leakage or extrusion of adhesive from lens frame receiving surface (2a) and thus adherence to first optical surface (S1).
US10191186B2
The invention relates to infrared devices, which contain at least two optical elements that are bonded together by a low-temperature melting glass which possesses transparency in the infrared spectrum, and methods of preparation and use of said infrared devices.
US10191184B2
An improved bridge circuitry is presented for improved soil sensor measurements. The improved bridge circuitry may include blocking capacitors, the ability to apply bias voltage, and the substitution of AC meters with DC meters and other improvements.
US10191174B2
A system and method for deep detection of petroleum and hydrocarbon deposits is disclosed. The system includes a sensing array that includes a plurality of electrodes positioned in the ground at a testing site, a sensing device, and a system for generating a seismic event that generates below-ground signals that are received by the sensing array. The system enables detection and depth determination of underground features such as petroleum and hydrocarbon deposits at greater depths compared to conventional systems.
US10191172B2
A system (1) for operating a subsea sensor field (2), comprises an automated underwater vehicle—AUV (10) and a subsea service station (13). A sensor (11, 12) in the sensor field (2) comprises a permanently installed base unit (11) and a removable control unit (12). The AUV (10) moves control units (12) to the service station (13) for charging and updating, and then back to the base units.
US10191171B2
A seismic apparatus includes one or more seismic cable systems configured to acquire seismic data, each seismic cable system having one or more of a cable jacket, a reservoir for a ballast fluid or other ballast medium, and an actuator or other transfer mechanism configured to transfer the ballast fluid between the reservoir and the seismic cable system during acquisition of the seismic data, e.g., where the ballast fluid is transferred to the seismic cable system within the cable jacket. A controller can be configured to adjust a buoyancy of the seismic cable system responsive to the transfer of the ballast fluid, e.g., where the internal volume expands or contract based on the fluid transfer.
US10191165B2
A method for using an offset vector tile gather to image a subsurface defines an offset vector tile gather by selecting a plurality of seismic traces from recorded seismic data. Each seismic trace in the offset vector tile includes reflections from subsurface reflectors and reflection points at depths below the surface of the subsurface. Each reflection point is in a given seismic trace, and each given seismic trace extends from a seismic source to a seismic receiver. The reflection points define an offset vector tile having a source line span and a receiver line span. The source line span is equal to or greater than a distance between adjacent seismic receiver lines, and the receiver line span is less than a distance between adjacent seismic source lines. The offset vector tile gather is used to produce a three dimensional image of the subsurface.
US10191163B2
A method of mapping pixel locations of a detector array includes measuring a location on the detector array, initiating a frame readout of the detector array, measuring a location of one or more metrology targets on the detector array, analyzing the frame readout to identify a pixel at the location on the detector array, and defining a location of the identified pixel with respect to the location of the one or more metrology targets. Subsequent measurement of the metrology targets alone by another metrology system allows one to infer the six degree of freedom alignment of the detector array in space.
US10191154B2
In some implementations, scene depth is extracted from dual frequency of a cross-correlation signal. A camera may illuminate a scene with amplitude-modulated light, sweeping the modulation frequency. For each modulation frequency in the sweep, each camera pixel may measure a cross-correlation of incident light and of a reference electrical signal. Each pixel may output a vector of cross-correlation measurements acquired by the pixel during a sweep. A computer may perform an FFT on this vector, identify a dual frequency at the second largest peak in the resulting power spectrum, and calculate scene depth as equal to a fraction, where the numerator is the speed of light times this dual frequency and the denominator is four times pi. In some cases, the two signals being cross-correlated have the same phase as each other during each cross-correlation measurement.
US10191147B2
In one example, an electronic apparatus comprises a first portion having an ultrasound emitter. The electronic apparatus further comprises a second portion having an ultrasound sensor. The first portion and the second portion are arranged to be movable with respect to each other thereby allowing distance between the ultrasound emitter and the ultrasound sensor to vary. The electronic apparatus further comprises a measurement unit configured to measure current propagation delay of an ultrasound wave from the ultrasound emitter to the ultrasound sensor. The electronic apparatus further comprises a calculation unit configured to calculate current distance between the ultrasound emitter and the ultrasound sensor based on the measured current propagation delay of the ultrasound wave from the ultrasound emitter to the ultrasound sensor.
US10191145B2
Disclosed herein are optical integration technologies, designs, systems and methods directed toward Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and other interferometric optical sensor, ranging, and imaging systems wherein such systems, methods and structures employ tunable optical sources, coherent detection and other structures on a single or multichip monolithic integration. In contrast to contemporary, prior-art OCT systems and structures that employ simple, miniature optical bench technology using small optical components positioned on a substrate, systems and methods according to the present disclosure employ one or more photonic integrated circuits (PICs), use swept-source techniques, and employ a widely tunable optical source(s).In another embodiment the system uses an optical photonic phased array. The phase array can be a static phased array to eliminate or augment the lens that couples light to and from a sample of interest or can be static and use a spectrally dispersive antenna and a tunable source to perform angular sweeping. The phased array can be active in 1 or 2 dimensions so as to scan the light beam in angle. The phased array can also adjust focus. The phased array can implement an optical waveform that will extend depth of field focus for imaging. The phase array can also be a separate standalone element that is fed by one or more optical fibers. The phased array can be for scanning a biomedical specimen used in conjunction with a swept-source OCT system, can be used in a free-space coherent optical communication system for beam pointing or tracking, used in LIDAR applications, or many other beam control or beam steering applications.
US10191134B2
In a method and apparatus for the correction of image data dynamically acquired with a magnetic resonance imaging method, a reliable B0 field map is recorded as a basic reference field map. Image data (VB) with distorted coordinates are also acquired over a predefined recording time. In addition, a set of distorted, dynamically obtained B0 field maps is acquired during the recording time. Incorrect B0 field maps are identified by comparison of the dynamically obtained B0 field maps with the basic reference field map, and the set of distorted, dynamically obtained B0 field maps is corrected accordingly. The acquired image data with distorted coordinates are corrected with the use of the corrected set of distorted, dynamically obtained B0 field maps.
US10191129B2
A method for operating a magnetic resonance tomograph having at least one receiving antenna, at least one converter device for analog/digital conversion and a programmable computing device is provided. The method includes generating, with the converter device, digital measured values by digitizing the analog reception signal from the receiving antenna and/or at least one analog signal derived from the reception signal. A time-coding device adds an item of time information that describes the recording time of the measured values to each of the digital measured values or to groups of measured values including a plurality of the digital measured values in order to generate a time-coded data stream. The programmable computing device processes the time-coded data stream further.
US10191128B2
A method and apparatus for receiving (RX) radio-frequency (RF) signals suitable for MRI and/or MRS from MRI “coil loops” (antennae) that are overlapped and/or concentric, and each of which has a preamplifier and frequency-tuning circuitry and an impedance-matching circuitry, but wherein the loops optionally sized differently and/or located at different elevations (distances from the patient's tissue) in order to extract signal from otherwise cross-coupled coil loops and to improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in images made from the received signal.
US10191127B2
A protective cover for an open bore MRI is disclosed. The cover comprises a semi-permeable barrier, MRI shielding, and physical shielding; is at least partially transparent; and it comprises fluid connection means for providing a fluid connection between an inner open bore of said open bore MRI and an environment external to said open bore MRI.A camera operable in a MRI system is disclosed. The camera can be positioned adjacent to an RF shield (e.g., the protective cover) and external to a bore of the MRI system. The camera can generate an image of at least a portion of a patient during operation of the MRI system.
US10191121B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method enabling a self-burn-in test for a power supply device (PSD) of a server system using a multi-phase scheme. The PSD comprises a power-width modulation (PWM) controller, and a plurality of power stages. Each of the plurality of power stages comprises a driver, a high-side MOSFET, and a low-side MOSFET. In one aspect of the present disclosure, upon receiving a test mode command from a controller of the server system, the PWM controller can send a PWM signal to switch a specific power stage to the On state, and send at least another PWM signal that switches other power stage(s) of the plurality of power stages to the Tri-state. During a subsequent self-burn-in test of the specific power stage, low-side MOSFET(s) of the other power stage(s) can function as a load for the specific power stage.
US10191115B2
The present invention relates to a method and to a battery management system which are suitable for determining an open-circuit voltage profile (3) of a vehicle battery, dependent on a state of charge, in a vehicle. In this context, the following occur: complete discharging (S1) of the vehicle battery by vehicle-internal loads of the vehicle, sensing (S2) of a first sensed, state-of-charge-dependent voltage profile (1) during the discharging (S1) of the vehicle battery, complete charging (S3) of the vehicle battery by a charging device, sensing (S4) of a second sensed state-of-charge-dependent voltage profile (2) during the charging (S3) of the vehicle battery, and determination (S5) of the state-of-charge-dependent open-circuit voltage profile (3) by means of a weighted interpolation of the first sensed voltage profile (1) and of the second sensed voltage profile (2).
US10191112B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a method that provides for pre-production run development of a fail signature database, which stores fail signatures for systematic defects and corresponding root causes. The fail signatures in the database is subsequently accessed and used for a variety of purposes. For example, the fail signatures are evaluated and, based on the results of the evaluation, actions are taken to prevent specific systematic defects from occurring during production runs and/or to allow for early detection of specific systematic defects during production runs. In some embodiments, following production runs, new fail signatures from failing production chips are developed and compared against the fail signatures in the fail signature database. In some embodiments, when a signature match indicates that a particular production chip has a same systematic defect with a same root cause as a particular prototype chip in-line advanced process control (APC) is performed.
US10191103B2
The invention relates to a method of locating in a dispersive medium (5) a source (7) of pulses (s1, s2) by at least one pair of sensors (1, 2), the method comprising the following steps: at the level of each sensor (1, 2), detecting a pulse (s1, s2) originating from the source (7); for each of said pulses, constructing a phase diagram on the basis of N vectors of which the co-ordinates correspond to the amplitude of the pulse (s1, s2) at successive sampling instants ti; and for each pair of sensors, calculating the ratio between the distances L1 and L2 of each sensor from the source through the formula (I) where (II) and (III) are the norms of the vectors (IV) and (V) of the phase diagrams corresponding to the pulses detected by the sensors (1, 2). L 1 L 2 = ∑ i = 1 N r 1 ( t i ) → / ∑ i = 1 N r 2 ( t i ) → ( I ) r 1 ( t i ) → ( II ) r 2 ( t i ) → ( III ) r 1 ( t i ) → ( IV ) r 2 ( t i ) → ( V )
US10191100B2
A high-powered, high-voltage test device for generating a test voltage, wherein the test voltage is an alternating voltage having an amplitude of at least 100 kV at a power of greater than 1 kW, wherein the device has at least two voltage amplifier branches, of which a first voltage amplifier branch contributes to generating the positive voltage half-cycles of the test voltage and a second voltage amplifier branch contributes to generating the negative voltage half-cycles of the test voltage. The high-voltage test device furthermore has a measurement circuit for measuring the test voltage to be applied to a measurement object and the test current consequently caused in the measurement object and is characterized in that each voltage amplifier branch is installed in a separate assembly having integrated active air cooling.
US10191097B2
A microcontroller-based system for measuring the impedance of a device under test (DUT), responsive to a square wave stimulus, includes parallel stimulus signal paths, selectable by a switch, that can correspond to different stimulus frequency ranges. At least one of the paths includes an off-chip PLL and integer divider circuit to modify the frequency of the stimulus. A discrete Fourier transform executed by a processor is used to determine the impedance of the DUT at the stimulus frequency. Multiple frequencies can be analyzed at the same time by using a summation circuit and/or by analyzing odd harmonics of the stimulus frequency.
US10191096B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods of disaggregating and detecting energy usage associated with electric vehicle charging from a whole-house consumption signal. In general, methods of the present invention may include: identifying by an electronic processor potential interval candidates of electric vehicle charging, based at least in part upon long and decreasing patterns; determining by the electronic processor intervals associated with the charging of an electric vehicle, based at least in part on evaluating each potential interval candidate; determining by the electronic processor an initial point of charging for each interval associated with the charging of an electric vehicle; and accounting by the electronic processor for feedback of any incorrectly detected signals.
US10191089B2
A current sensing assembly includes a conductor having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a third side, and a fourth side opposite the third side. The first side has a first notch formed therein and the second side has a second notch formed therein opposite the first notch. The current sensing assembly also includes a sensor assembly including a first magnetic sensor disposed in the first notch or proximate to the third side of the conductor between the first and second notches, and a second magnetic sensor disposed in the second notch or proximate to the fourth side of the conductor between the first and second notches.
US10191085B2
A wired rubber contact including a lower film, an upper film, a plurality of conductive wires, a rubber layer, and a film guide. The lower film includes a plurality of lower electrode parts formed in openings. A periphery of the upper film is disposed within an interface between the central area and the peripheral area. The conductive wires are disposed between the lower film and the upper film, and connect between the lower electrode parts and the upper electrode parts. The rubber layer includes elastic material. A periphery of the rubber layer is protruded toward an outer side from the periphery of the upper film. The rubber layer maintains a constant distance between the lower film and the upper film. The film guide is disposed in the peripheral area of the lower film along a side surface of the rubber layer and integrally formed with the lower film.
US10191082B1
A carbon nanotube or similar structure is used as the final end tip structure in a Scanning Probe Microscope to measure, modify or identify material and reentrant structures in typical recesses or very small recesses. Further the nanotube or similar structure is acoustically driven such that its locus of motion forms a dynamic reentrant probe. The nanotube is calibrated by known vertical or reentrant structures.
US10191078B2
An acceleration sensor includes a detection device, an opposed electrode, and a top lid. The detection device includes an active layer, a base layer, an oxide layer disposed between the active layer and the base layer, a first insulating layer, a contact portion, and a self-check electrode. The first insulating layer is disposed on the active layer at a side opposite to the oxide layer and provided with a first opening. The contact portion is disposed on a part of the first insulating layer at a side opposite to the active layer and includes a first metal layer connected to the active layer through the first opening. The opposed electrode is disposed at a location opposing the self-check electrode, and the top lid supports the opposed electrode.
US10191071B2
Provided herein are instruments and cartridges for processing samples. The cartridges include fluidic circuits in which fluid movement can be regulated by diaphragm valves. In certain cartridges, deformable material providing a diaphragm contacts an interface in the instrument that actuates the diaphragm directly, without intervening actuation layer. Certain cartridges have a plurality of fluidic circuits and fluid distribution channels or pneumatic distribution channels configured to deliver fluids or pneumatic pressure to any of the fluidic circuits, selectively. Certain cartridges have compartments containing on-board reagents. Compartments can be closed by a film attached to a body the cartridge through a heat seal.
US10191059B2
The present invention relates to the prognosis of the outcome of a cancer in a patient, which prognosis is based on the quantification of one or several biological markers that are indicative of the presence of, or alternatively the level of, the adaptive immune response of said patient against said cancer.
US10191054B2
A device for full blood count includes first channel and second channels separated from each other. The device further includes a first inlet configured to provide a whole blood sample to the first and second channels, a second inlet configured to provide a lysis agent for white blood cell count in to the first channel, a third inlet configured to provide a quench solution to the first channel, and a fourth inlet configured to provide a lysis agent for hemoglobin measurement to the second channel.
US10191046B2
An immunobiosensor is disclosed. The immunobiosensor is based on a membrane lateral flow immuno-chromatographic assay (LF-ICA). The immunobiosensor includes: a metal binding protein 10 whose conformation changes upon reaction with a metal ion 1 in a sample; a sensing antibody 20 reacting with the conformationally changed metal binding protein 10 as an antigen; a signal substance 30 conjugated with the metal binding protein 10 or the sensing antibody 20 to form a signal conjugate 30a or 30b; a signal generator 40 reacting with the signal conjugate 30a or 30b to generate a reaction signal; and a reaction strip 50 in the form of a porous membrane adapted to move the sample and where the antigen-antibody reaction occurs and the reaction signal is generated. Also disclosed is a sensor system including the immunobiosensor.
US10191045B2
The present invention relates to a method for screening a sol composition for sol-gel biochips, which is used to immobilize a probe on a surface-untreated substrate, also relates to a sol composition screened by said method and a sol-gel biochip comprising said sol composition immobilized thereon. The sol composition screened by the disclosed method can be mixed with a probe, and the sol mixture can be integrated on 96-well plates, which are widely used in existing bioassays, without surface treatment. Also, the biochip can provide a sensitive and specific good analysis results because this immobilization methods of probe maintain the nature of probes without modification.
US10191044B2
We disclose a novel diagnostic test strip which may be used to conduct biochemical assays for analytes in liquid samples. The disclosed test strip may be loaded with much smaller volumes of sample than traditional test strips. The disclosed test strip may be loaded with a precision dispenser instead of submersing the test strip into a larger volume of liquid sample. In addition, the disclosed test strip dissolves in aqueous fluid so it may be flushed into the sewer system. Consequently, it is not necessary to dispose of the disclosed test strip in biological waste containers.
US10191039B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods that are useful for normalizing the amount of signal detected in an assay, such as an immunoassay. The compositions and methods are useful for improving the accuracy of immunoassays, such as immunoassays that detect whether a subject is infected with a retrovirus such as HIV.
US10191027B2
This invention concerns methods of determining properties of oil, especially crude oil with a spectrometer. This invention also concerns a crude oil analytical and single or multi-stream sampling device which is particularly suitable for the online measurement of crude oil properties with a spectrometer (8). This invention further concerns a crude oil sampling procedure which is particularly suitable for the online measurement of crude oil properties with a spectrometer.
US10191022B2
A spectral radiation gas detector has at least one lenslet with a circular blazed grating for diffraction of radiation to a focal plane. A detector is located at the focal plane receiving radiation passing through the at least one lenslet for detection at a predetermined diffraction order. A plurality of order filters are associated with the at least one lenslet to pass radiation at wavelengths corresponding to the predetermined diffraction order, each filter blocking a selected set of higher orders. A controller is adapted to compare intensity at pixels in the detector associated with each of the plurality of order filters and further adapted to determine a change in intensity exceeding a threshold.
US10191020B2
Burner assemblies are configured to deliver decompressed mobile phase of supercritical fluid chromatography systems to the flame of a flame-based detector while providing for improved optimization of analyte response as well as enhanced flame stability during operation.
US10191017B2
A dynamic characteristic calculation apparatus for a machine tool calculates dynamic characteristic of the machine tool executing an interrupted machining by moving a rotational tool relative to a workpiece. The apparatus includes a detector detecting acoustic wave generated by vibration of the rotational tool or detecting magnetic property being variable by the vibration of the rotational tool where said rotational tool is excited to vibrate, and a calculation division calculating a natural frequency f of the one or plural tool tips in a vibration system, in which the one or plural tool tips of said rotational tool is a vibration body, on a basis of a value detected by the detector.
US10191016B2
A method and system for passively detecting, localizing, and/or characterizing a mechanical wave source at one or more spatial points of interest on a structure using ultrasonic guided waves are provided. The method includes estimating the spatial channel impulse response at one or more spatial points of interest using a movable transducer. Collected data recorded in response to transient mechanical waves is then combined with the spatial channel impulse response estimates to detect, localize, and/or characterize the source. A direct path from the mechanical wave source to each transducer is not required. Anisotropies and variations between transducer transfer functions may be accounted for and all propagation paths may be used to perform source localization. The method and system may leverage structural complexity rather than ignore it.
US10191012B2
A method for monitoring local defects in a rotating engine component such as a gear uses one or more eddy current sensor(s) arranged to interact with the engine component as it is rotating during service. The eddy current sensor(s) may be carried by one or more teeth of a monitoring gear. A device is arranged to measure an output signal from the eddy current sensor(s) resulting from interaction with the rotating engine component. The output signal is processed so as to detect a change in shape of the output signal indicative of a local defect.
US10190993B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to systems and techniques for inspecting seals for high altitude balloons. In one example, a system may include a reflective surface, a translucent material on the reflective surface, and a movable light source configured to move along the reflective surface and provide light to the reflective surface. The light is provided such that it is reflected from the reflective surface and through the translucent material in order to backlight a balloon envelope seal for inspection. A method for inspecting a balloon envelope seal may include placing balloon envelope material on a table, forming a seal between portions of the material, moving a light over the seal, shining light onto a reflective portion of the table below the seal to backlight the seal, and inspecting the seal using the backlighting of the seal.
US10190989B2
A method and apparatus for inspecting an object is provided. By way of example, first and second images of the object obtained by using a camera and a lighting unit. The lighting unit and the camera is controlled so as to provide the first image picked up by the camera with a first quantity of light radiated from the lighting unit and the second image picked up by the camera with the second quantity of light radiated from the lighting unit. The first quantity of light is different from the second quantity of light. Differences between pixel values of the first image and pixel values of the second image are calculated. Then, it is determined whether the object has a non-defective appearance or a detective appearance, based on comparison between the differences and reference pixel values corresponding to the differences.
US10190988B2
Methods are provided for manufacturing disposable diagnostic test elements via laser welding, where the methods include providing, in a stacked or layered arrangement, a base layer, a cover layer, and optionally an intermediate layer, where one of the layers is an absorbing layer and at least one other of the layers is a transparent layer, and where one of the layers includes a coating adapted to interact with a body fluid sample when conducting a test on the resulting test element; directing a laser beam in a weld area through the at least one transparent layer and against the absorbing layer; and fusing the transparent and the absorbing layers together to form the test element, where the coating covers the weld area at least in part and absorbs and/or scatters radiation from the laser beam at least in part. Disposable diagnostic test elements also are provided.
US10190981B2
Apparatuses and methods for spectroscopy using multiple resonance modes are provided. Multiple resonance modes may be used for bulk sensing and/or surface sensing applications. A plasmon waveguide resonance sensor is provided for multimode spectroscopy. The sensor includes a dielectric layer; and a metallic layer coupled to the dielectric layer. The sensor is configured to provide: a first resonance mode for bulk sensing, in response to light of a given wavelength; and a second resonance mode for surface sensing, in response to light of the given wavelength. The first and second resonance modes have different polarizations. Surface plasmon resonance assemblies are provided having a grating coupled to a surface plasmon resonance sensor, the grating being a dielectric grating or a metallic grating. The grating, in response to light, provides various resonance modes having at least two different polarizations for bulk and surface sensing.
US10190974B2
An optical gas sensor (1), for quantitatively measuring a concentration of one or more gases, includes a radiation source (2) for emitting light waves (L), a cuvette (3) for holding a gas (G) to be measured, and a detector (4) for measuring light intensities. The light source (2) includes at least one emitter (5) of light waves (L) and is configured to emit light waves (L) of at least one first wavelength and of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength simultaneously or separately from each other. The emitter (5) is further configured to emit a spectrum the full half-life width of which is a maximum 50% of the effective wavelength, and to emit light waves (L) having a controlled beam path. The detector (4) is configured to quantitatively detect an intensity of emitted light waves (L) of the first wavelength and of the second wavelength.
US10190972B2
A device for managing light pulses for measuring the reaction of a sample exposed to a first light pulse, the measurement being performed by analysis of a signal emitted by the sample subjected to a second light pulse, shifted with respect to the first pulse by a determined interval of time, the device including two optical detectors for detecting the pulses of two light beams emitted by two pulsed laser sources, respectively, each beam emitting pulses with respective repetition frequencies that are different, arbitrary and stable over a determined period in the direction of the sample; the detectors being connected to a computer for determining the interval of time between two pulses coming from the first and the second beam, respectively, and constituting the first and second pulses; the computer being connected to an analyzer for measuring the reaction of the sample having as input parameter the interval of time between the two pulses, where the computer uses an algorithm making use of the stability of the repetition frequencies for determining the interval of time.
US10190966B2
A metal-pipe use support system (10a) includes: a metal pipe information reception unit (11a) for receiving identification data for each of a plurality of metal pipes; a use condition reception unit (12a) for receiving use condition data about a condition under which a metal pipe is to be used; a pipe-specific data acquisition unit (13a) for accessing a data recording unit (2) storing pipe-specific data indicative of a property of each metal pipe and corresponding identification data in an associated manner and acquiring the pipe-specific data associated with the received identification data; a pipe determination unit (14a) for determining a metal pipe to be used from among the plurality of metal pipes based on the pipe-specific data and the use condition data; and an output unit (15a) for outputting information relating to the determined metal pipe.
US10190964B2
A fluid handling and delivery system useful in generating a fluid stream in the flow path of microfluidic device.
US10190957B2
A method for determining a vehicle heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) passenger cabin air filter filtration performance includes determining a vehicle-exterior atmospheric particulate contaminant concentration, a passenger cabin air filter efficiency, and an HVAC airflow rate. The passenger cabin particulate contaminant concentration is calculated from the determined atmospheric particulate contaminant concentration, passenger cabin air filter efficiency, and HVAC airflow rate.
US10190949B2
A method and apparatus for geotechnical soil sampling in conjunction with the Cone Penetration Test (CPT) is provided. The apparatus involves a tubular whipstock cell affixed between push rods and the lower elements of a cone penetrometer. The whipstock cell includes a whipstock having a beveled face. The whipstock face is oriented towards a sampling window pre-formed in the whipstock cell. The apparatus also includes at least one push rod connected to the proximal end of the whipstock cell, and an elongated sampling rod dimensioned to be slidably moved through the at least one push rod en route to the whipstock cell. The apparatus additionally comprises a soil sampler residing at a distal end of the push rod. A method of taking soil samples is also provided herein.
US10190948B2
A multi-nozzle combined atomizing dust suppression experimental equipment under the effect of airflow disturbance includes a simulated roadway device, water spray based dust suppression device and nozzle position adjustor. The simulated roadway device includes an inlet portion, front divergent portion, simulated roadway body, rear convergent portion and outlet portion. The water spray based dust suppression device includes a dust generation and extraction system and spraying system. The dust generation and extraction system includes a dust generation device, exhaust air duct, exhaust fan and outlet air duct while the spraying system includes a water tank, high pressure water pump, confined water pipe, pressure water flow converter and multiple nozzles. The nozzle position adjustor includes a nozzle slide, slide fixing rod, nozzle sliding rack and electrically-controlled drive system which controls the change of horizontal position and vertical position of the nozzles.
US10190946B2
A measuring comb for temperature and/or pressure and/or chemical composition of the gases flowing at the outlet of a turbine engine flow path, in which the flow path extends around an axis of revolution of the flow path, is provided. The measuring comb includes: a comb body with an elongated shape, intended to face the outlet of the flow path, the comb body including at least one measuring opening arranged along an axis, the measuring opening being configured to tap gases flowing at the outlet of the flow path; and an adjusting system configured to adjust an angle between the axis of the at least one measuring opening and the axis of revolution, so as to allow orientation of the at least one measuring opening in the flow direction of the gases at the outlet of the flow path.
US10190944B2
Provided is a dynamometer-system dynamo control device that can appropriately suppress the occurrence of resonance phenomena and can realize a no-load state, even in a case where an engine the inertia of which is unknown is connected. The dynamometer system comprises a dynamometer and a shaft torque meter. A dynamo control device 6 in the dynamometer system generates a torque current command signal on the basis of a torque detection signal and a torque command signal. The dynamo control device 6 comprises: a gain calculation unit 62 that multiplies the difference between the torque command signal and the torque detection signal by gain wATR and then by Ki; an integration operation unit 63 that integrates the output signal of the gain calculation unit 62; a high-pass filter 64 characterized by a response frequency wHPF; and a torque current command signal generation unit 65 that generates a torque current command signal by superimposing, onto the output signal of the integration operation unit 63, an output signal obtained by inputting the torque detection signal to the high-pass filter 64.
US10190942B2
Embodiments are directed to obtaining data based on samples of a vibration signal, processing, by at least one processor, the data to obtain a qualitative and quantitative assessment of a health of the one or more components based on an application of the data to at least one model, and outputting the assessment. Embodiments of the disclosure may be applied to one or more components of a drive shaft of an aircraft.
US10190938B2
A microelectromechanical device includes a semi-flexible proof-mass comprising a primary part, a secondary part and a stiff spring suspending the primary part and the secondary part. The spring causes the parts to move as a single entity when the device is in its normal range. A first stopper structure stops the primary part. The proof-mass is configured to deform through deflection of the spring, when the device is subjected to a shock having a force that is beyond the normal operation range. While the shock causes motion of the proof-mass in one direction along an axis of movement, the spring is configured to cause a restoring force causing the secondary part of the proof-mass to be driven into a restoring motion in a direction opposite to motion along an axis caused by the shock. Momentum of the secondary part causes the primary part to dislodge from the first stopper structure.
US10190929B2
Provided are a pressure sensor device and method for making the same. A base member and a pressure sensor chip are joined so that a pressure receiving portion is aligned with a through hole. A pressure introduction unit and the base member are positioned and joined so that through holes thereof are continuous. The pressure introduction unit has a stepped portion in an end portion on an opened end side, and has a protruding portion protruding from the stepped portion to the base member side in an end portion.
US10190922B2
Described is a current-mode thermal sensor with calibration apparatus which comprises: a first transistor with a gate terminal coupled to a first node; a second transistor with a gate terminal coupled to a second node; a first resistor coupled to the first and second nodes; a second resistor coupled to the first node and a supply node; a diode coupled to the second node and the supply node; a third resistor coupled to the second node; and a switch coupled to the third resistor and a reference supply.
US10190898B2
The purpose of this invention is to obtain a physical-quantity detection device, the external shape of the housing of which can be reduced in size. Said physical-quantity detection device, which detects a plurality of physical quantities of a gas being measured that flows through a main channel, is characterized by having a housing positioned inside said main channel, a circuit board insert-molded into said housing, and a plurality of detection sensors mounted on both sides of the circuit board.
US10190897B2
The present invention has been made to improve measurement accuracy of a thermal flow meter. In the thermal flow meter according to the invention, a circuit package (400) that measures a flow rate is molded in a first resin molding process. In a second resin molding process, a housing (302) having an inlet trench (351), a bypass passage trench on frontside (332), an outlet trench (353), and the like are formed through resin molding, and an outer circumferential surface of the circuit package (400) produced in the first resin molding process is enveloped by a resin in the second resin molding process to fix the circuit package (400) to the housing (302).
US10190895B2
A method for assembling a gas sensor includes fitting through holes of annular mounting parts with an element dummy disposed vertically and whose cross-sectional shape perpendicular is similar to that of a sensor element. The annular mounting parts are a plurality of parts including a ceramic powder compact. A tubular body is fitted with outer peripheries of the annular mounting parts, and then, the element is abuttingly disposed on an upper end of the dummy. Subsequently, the dummy is moved vertically downward to fit the through holes of the annular mounting parts with the element, thereby obtaining a workpiece. The workpiece is vertically inverted, and with the element tip being in contact with a sealing assist jig that has a buffer performance, the upper end of the uppermost annular mounting part is pressed vertically downward to compress the powder compact, thereby sealing an inside of the tubular body.
US10190889B2
The invention relates to a counting sensor for counting the number of revolutions or of linear displacements of an object, wherein the counting sensor comprises: one single Wiegand module; at least one sensor element; a processing electronics connected to the sensor element; and a permanent magnet arrangement, which is movable relative to the Wiegand module; wherein the processing electronics is configured to obtain (i) direction informations indicating whether the permanent magnet arrangement moves in one direction or an opposite direction, and (ii) magnetic pole informations; and a data storage for storing a value, which indicates the number of the revolutions or of the linear displacements; wherein the processing electronics is configured: (i) to determine, on the basis of the direction information and the magnetic pole information, the number of the revolutions or of the linear displacements of the object and to store the corresponding value in the data storage, (ii) to perform, on the basis of a sequence of the direction informations and the magnetic pole informations, an error detection indicating whether one of the revolutions or one of the linear displacements of the object has not been recognized partially or completely, and (iii) upon detection of the error, to determine a corresponding correction of said number and to correct said value.
US10190887B2
In an aspect, a mobile electronic device includes a storage configured to store a plurality of items of information, and a controller configured to display an item based on information in accordance with a determined movement state among the plurality of items of information. The controller may put a priority on an item based on the information in accordance with the determined movement state among the plurality of items of information to display. The controller displays information corresponding to the movement state determined in this manner on a display to present to a user.
US10190885B2
A method and an apparatus to provide a service using a sensor and image recognition in a portable terminal that supports Augmented Reality (AR). The method includes determining whether the portable terminal is parallel to ground using an acceleration sensor. When the portable terminal is parallel to the ground, either a map including nearby Point Of Interest (POI) information or constellation information is displayed.
US10190882B2
An illustrative example system includes a user interface configured to provide information to an individual in a vehicle. A controller is configured to estimate a remaining power capacity of a source of electric power that will remain after travelling along an identified route to an identified destination. The controller determines whether the estimated remaining power capacity will be sufficient for travelling from the identified destination to at least one known location where increasing the power capacity of the source is possible. The user interface provides an indication of at least one recommendation regarding increasing the power capacity of the source prior to reaching the identified destination when the estimated remaining power capacity will not be sufficient for travelling from the identified destination to the at least one known location.
US10190877B2
A multipurpose, non-fluid, electronic level mechanism featuring an inhibitor, and emitter and a receiver. The inhibitor is mounted from the inhibitor bracket and in operation blocks a laser from the emitter to the receiver, unless the device is at a level position on a selected surface. If the device is at a level position on the selected surface, the laser from the emitter passes through an aperture in the inhibitor and is receiver by the receiver, which indicates that the device is level on the exterior of the device's body.
US10190876B2
A level indicator for a skid steer attachment. The level indicator comprises a reference component configured to display a plurality of references, with each of the references being associated with a particular orientation of the skid steer attachment. The level indicator additionally comprises a securement component for supporting the reference component with respect to the skid steer attachment. The level indicator further comprises an indicator mechanism rotatably connected to the reference component or to the securement component. The indicator mechanism is configured to highlight one of the references of the reference component based on an orientation of the skid steer attachment.
US10190872B2
A photodetection device including an image sensor that includes first pixels and second pixels; an interference element that includes incident regions; and illumination that emits light in a first wavelength band and a second wavelength band. The interference element causes first interference of light in the first wavelength band incident on two incident regions, and guides resultant light of the first interference to any of the first pixels and guides another part of the light in the first wavelength band to any of the second pixels, and causes second interference of part of the light in the second wavelength band incident on the two incident regions, and guides resultant light of the second interference to any of the first pixels and guides another part of the light in the second wavelength band incident on the two incident regions to any of the second pixels.
US10190869B2
Provided is an information processing device including a processor configured to achieve a function of collecting information indicating visual target positions from a plurality of viewpoints existing in a space, and a function of evaluating positions in the space in accordance with density of the visual target positions.
US10190868B2
A metrology system, method, and computer program product that employ automatic transitioning between utilizing a library and utilizing regression for measurement processing are provided. In use, it is determined, by the metrology system, that a predetermined condition has been met. In response to determining that the predetermined condition has been met, the metrology system automatically transitions between utilizing a library and utilizing regression for measurement processing.
US10190852B2
The invention relates to a mortar (1) comprising a stand (2) disposed on a mortar barrel (3), and a base plate (4) for setting up the mortar (1), characterized in that a device (10) for simulating the function of the mortar (1) is provided, wherein in a neutral position said device (10) is arranged almost completely inside the mortar barrel (3) and in an operating position from the mortar barrel (3) said device is arranged such that it protrudes from the mortar barrel (3) relative to the neutral position.
US10190849B1
The present disclosure describes an adjustment mechanism for a scope comprising: a first surface and a second surface, the first surface configured to engage the second surface axially when an amount of force is applied to the first surface, the first surface also configured to transfer torque applied to it to the second surface when the first surface and the second surface are engaged, and a member adjustable to apply force to the first surface to engage the first surface and the second surface, the member being adjustable using only one or more human fingers, wherein an adjustment of the member can always be initiated using only one or more human fingers.
US10190848B2
An adjustable zero-stop turret assembly for an optical firearm scope, the turret assembly defining an axis and including: a turret housing with a cavity to receive a head portion of a main turret screw and including a wall portion defining an opening; a rotatable zero-stop element carrier including a base portion, an upper portion and a first zero-stop element coupled to the base portion; an adjustable set screw adjacent the opening; a second zero-stop element receiving the screw, a first portion of the second zero-stop element positioned within the opening, and a second portion of the second zero-stop element projecting outside the opening and into the turret-housing cavity. The second zero-stop element travels axially along the screw from a first position to a second position. In the second position, portions of the first zero-stop element and the second zero-stop element reside in a common plane perpendicular to the axis.
US10190846B2
A detector for detecting the removal and/or insertion of a firearm out of and/or into a holster. The detector may transmit a message each time the firearm is removed from the holster. A recording system may receive the message and determine whether or not it will begin recording the data it captures. A detector may detect the change in a magnitude of an inductance and/or an impedance of a circuit to detect insertion and removal of the firearm into and out of the holster. The holster is configured to couple to the detector to position the detector to detect insertion and removal of the firearm.
US10190844B2
A sight adjustment device, which adjusts a course of a bullet to be shot when shooting the bullet loaded in a cartridge portion of each of barrels, in a simulation gun having a plurality of the barrels includes a plurality of pressurization members that add pressure to the bullet loaded in each cartridge portion such that rotation is applied to each bullet; link members that are provided on a side of a gun main body such that one end portion is disposed on a side of the pressurization members and the other end portion is disposed on a side of operation units, and transmit operations of the operation units to the pressurization members; and the operation units that are provided on the side of the gun main body in order to adjust a backspin amount.
US10190841B2
A crossbow includes two rotatable cam assemblies mounted on a rigid cam support structure, the rotation axes of which are fixed relative to and arranged at a forward end of a stock. Limbs are coupled to the stock at positions rearward from the front of the stock. The limbs couple to the cam assemblies via power cables arranged generally parallel to the stock. The cam assemblies provide travel distance multiplication to a bowstring relative to the travel distance of the limb tips.
US10190838B2
A device for controlling access to a firearm having a barrel with various physical features proximal thereto, including a muzzle device. The device includes a lock housing with a cavity to receive the barrel. The device also includes a lock mechanism shaft coupled to a lock mechanism that is configured for rotational movement upon actuation of the lock mechanism. The lock mechanism shaft is coupled to a cam that moves axially upon rotation of the lock mechanism shaft. A bidirectional rotatable shaft is coupled to the cam and is insertable into the barrel of the firearm. Embodiments described include variants on the use of a plurality of tabs such as arm, tab, and/or housing configurations to receive and grasp the muzzle device, firearm fixed front sights, bead front sights and/or accessories such as, for example, Picatinny rails, vertical or near vertical serrations, cuts and/or grooves located on the distal lateral and ventral regions of the frame and/or slide.
US10190836B2
A loading device and method of using same with a rifle having a fixed magazine are disclosed. The loading device may comprise a housing having a channel, a plunger slideably disposed within the channel, and a spout extending away from the housing. The spout is configured to fit within an ejection port of the rifle. The plunger may include an articulating arm extending away from one end of the plunger, wherein the arm includes a plug disposed about one end for pushing ammunition cartridges into the fixed magazine. The loading device advantageously permits efficient and rapid reloading of ammunition into the fixed magazine.
US10190832B2
An integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger and method of use are provided. The integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger includes an inlet configured to input an internal fluid; a first conductive bellows connected to the inlet, configured to accept the internal fluid from the inlet, configured to transfer heat between the internal fluid and an external fluid, and configured to compensate for a pressure by compressing in length; and an outlet configured to accept the internal fluid from the first conductive bellows and to output the internal fluid.
US10190827B2
A condenser includes a container into which steam is to flow, cooling pipes which are positioned inside the container and configured to cool the steam so as to form condensed water, at least one extraction pipe for extracting air included inside the container, at least one extraction hole which is defined in the extraction pipe and through which an interior of the at least one extraction pipe and an interior of the container communicate with each other, and a cylindrical cover which is configured with a gap spaced from the at least one extraction pipe and covers the at least one extraction hole so as to regulate an inflow of the condensed water into the at least one extraction hole. A plurality of the extraction holes are formed around the extraction pipe, and the cylindrical cover is radially outside the at least one extraction pipe with the gap spaced therebetween.
US10190825B2
A system and a method for determining/predicting a tapping time for a metal melt in an electric arc furnace (EAF), at least one electrode is provided for melting the metal melt until it reach a target tapping temperature, the EAF further includes a slag and smoke layer on the surface of the metal melt, wherein an electromagnetic stirrer is provided for stirring the metal melt.
US10190823B2
A fluidized bed system having a containment vessel, a precast and predried monolithic refractory floor module positioned in the vessel, and a plurality of precast and predried monolithic refractory wall modules stacked within the vessel. The plurality of wall modules includes a first wall module is positioned on the floor module, wherein the floor module and the first wall module have interlocking surfaces, and wall modules adjacent to one another have interlocking surfaces. A method for assembling a fluidized bed reactor is also provided.
US10190813B2
Provided are a refrigerator and a method for controlling the same. The refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a storage compartment, a door selectively opening or closing the storage compartment, a heater disposed in the cabinet or door to prevent dew from being formed on a surface of the cabinet or door, a refrigerator temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the storage compartment of the refrigerator, and a control unit adjusting an operation factor or output of the heater on the basis of a temperature value detected by the refrigerator temperature sensor.
US10190808B2
Refrigeration systems with a purge for removing non-condensables from the refrigerant and an acid filter for remove acid from the refrigerant are provided. The acid filter can be operatively connected to the purge. Optionally, the purge can include a separating device for separating non-condensable gases from condensable refrigerant gases and an acid filter is provided to remove acid from the condensable refrigerant gases.
US10190801B1
The solar heating apparatus includes driven and controllable reflectors for concentrating solar radiation on a solar tower or the like. Each of the reflectors provided in an array of reflectors is selectively driven to rotate about multiple axes of rotation. A plurality of groupings of optical reflectors, such as mirrors or the like, are mounted about a single, common longitudinally extending shaft, providing simultaneous rotation of the optical reflectors about a longitudinal axis. Through a two-axis bearing associated with each grouping of optical reflectors, the optical reflectors are also mounted on a laterally extending shaft associated with each individual reflector grouping. The laterally extending shafts are linked, each to the other, by a continuous belt or the like, providing selective simultaneous rotation of the optical reflectors about the lateral axis in addition to the simultaneous rotation about the longitudinal axis.
US10190796B2
A circular sheet metal duct having a sealant applied across the longitudinal seam. The sealant will improve the efficiency and will reduce or eliminate air leakage from the longitudinal seam. The sealant is applied during the manufacturing processes so that an installer does not have to seal the duct work. The method of manufacturing the sealant is provided.
US10190792B2
Systems, methods, and modes for rendering a three-dimensional building management system visualization of a building. The method and system components may be configured for storing geometry elements defining three-dimensional geometrical representation of a building's structure, storing spatial elements defining three-dimensional representation of spaces in the building, wherein the geometry elements are mapped to spatial elements, wherein the spatial elements are associated with respective space nodes that identify the spaces located within the building, and wherein the space nodes are associated with respective electronic devices installed within the spaces in the building. The method and system components may be further configured for receiving a selection of a status-attribute view from a list of status-attribute views, storing coloring logic defining color codes for status levels for each status-attribute view, receiving status information of at least one electronic device, applying colors to spatial elements associated with respective space nodes based on the received status information and coloring logic, and rendering a three dimensional building visualization of the building for the selected status-attribute view via a user interface.
US10190791B2
Systems, methods, and modes for on-demand rendering of a three-dimensional building management system visualization of a building. The system comprises a database configured for storing geometry elements and spatial elements. The geometry elements are mapped to spatial elements, wherein the geometry elements define three-dimensional geometrical representation of a building's structure, and the spatial elements define three-dimensional representation of spaces in the building. The spatial elements are associated with respective space nodes that identify the spaces located within the building, and the space nodes are associated with respective electronic devices installed within the spaces in the building. The system further comprises at least one processor configured for selectively recalling the geometry elements and spatial elements from the database, and rendering a three dimensional building visualization of the building via a user interface, wherein the three-dimensional building visualization comprises a status information visualization of at least one electronic device.
US10190789B2
A central plant includes at least a first subplant and a second subplant configured to serve a thermal energy load of a building. A controller for the central plant includes an equipment staging detector configured to detect a staging event for equipment of the second subplant and to determine when the staging event occurs. The controller includes a subplant staging evaluator configured to use input from the equipment staging detector to determine whether a predetermined time period has elapsed since the staging event for the equipment of the second subplant has occurred. The controller includes a subplant staging preventer configured to prevent the first subplant from staging equipment of the first subplant in response to a determination that the predetermined time period has not elapsed since the staging event for the equipment of the second subplant has occurred.
US10190785B2
A dust removing device includes: a dust position estimating unit which estimates a position of a dust area which is an area in which there is dust; an air blow determining unit which determines, based on the estimated position, an air blow mode which causes a predetermined airflow in the dust area; an air blower which performs an air blow in the determined air blow mode; and an air intake unit which takes in air from a space in which the air blow is performed. Note that the dust removing device may include an information storage which stores a control table in which air blow control information defining the air blow mode is written for a position of each dust area, and the air blow determining unit may determine, based on the control table, the air blow mode in accordance with the air blow control information corresponding to the estimated position of the dust area.
US10190782B2
Disclosed herein is a gas oven including a body, a cooking space formed in the body, an air supply flow channel configured to connect the cooking space with an outside of the body to supply air to the cooking space, and a distribution unit configured to distribute or bend the air supplied through the air supply flow channel to supply the air to the cooking space. Through the distribution unit, it is possible to smoothly supply a primary air for mixing with gas and to smoothly supply a secondary air to an inside of the cooking space.
US10190779B2
A gas burner for a cooktop includes a contact surface configured to come into surface contact with a cooktop plate of the cooktop. A holding device has a thermal element receiving slot which is adapted to allow a thermal element to be pushed into the thermal element receiving slot laterally parallel to the contact surface.
US10190768B2
A gasification melting facility comprises: a fluidized bed gasification furnace that generates pyrolysis gas by thermally decomposing waste and discharges incombustibles; a melting furnace into which the pyrolysis gas is fed; a pyrolysis gas passage that connects the fluidized bed gasification furnace and the melting furnace; a grinder that grinds the incombustibles discharged from the fluidized bed gasification furnace by passing the incombustibles through a plurality of rods; a vibratory sifter that screens the incombustibles ground in the grinder; a fixed amount feeder that feeds at a fixed amount the incombustibles that pass through the vibratory sifter, the fixed amount feeder including a plurality of transfer chambers rotatable between a position to receive the incombustibles from the vibratory sifter and a position to discharge the incombustibles; and an airflow conveyor that conveys the fixed amount of the incombustibles from the fixed amount feeder together with airflow.
US10190763B2
An LED purifying and energy-saving lamp comprises a lamp body, a heat radiator, a light source assembly and an air purifying device, wherein the lamp body comprises a main body portion, an overflow table and a plurality of connecting blocks; the heat radiator, the light source assembly and the air purifying device are provided in the main body portion; the air purifying device is provided above the heat radiator; the light source assembly is provided inside the heat radiator; the upper part of the main body portion is connected to the bottom edge of the overflow table via the plurality of connecting blocks; the main body portion, the overflow table and the connecting blocks define a plurality of air outlets; and a shunting spur is convexly provided at the bottom of the overflow table toward the interior of the main body portion.
US10190762B2
Devices used for workspace illumination include, for example, a panel and a solid-state based optical system arranged inside an enclosure of the panel. The panel can be a cubicle divider. In one aspect, an illumination device includes a mount; a panel including a first face and a second opposing face. The panel is vertically supported by the mount along a horizontal dimension of the first and second faces. Further, the panel forms an enclosure between the first and the second face. Additionally, the illumination device includes a first luminaire module arranged in the enclosure and configured to output light in a first output angular range. The light output in the first output angular range has a prevalent propagation direction with a vertical component towards a first target area.
US10190761B1
A retrofitted light fixture can include a power source that delivers primary power. The retrofitted light fixture can also include at least one light fixture component of an existing light fixture, where the at least one light fixture component, as part of the existing light fixture, was directly coupled to the power source. The retrofitted light fixture can further include an adapter coupled to the power supply and the at least one light source, where the adapter comprises a controller, where the adapter receives the primary power from the power source, where the controller delivers power to the at least one light fixture component based on instructions.
US10190757B2
LED related lighting methods and apparatus are described. Various features relate to water tight light fixtures. Some of the fixtures are spotlights while other fixture are intended for in ground use. The light fixtures in at least some embodiments include power control features. In spotlight embodiments beam angle and power or light output can be controlled without opening the light assembly or compromising the water tight seals which also protect against dirt. In ground embodiments support tilt angle setting which allow a user to set the light fixture to one or more tilt angles. Beam angle can also be changed in some embodiments as well as power control. Beam angle, power control and tilt angle adjustments are supported in some embodiments but need not be supported in all embodiments with some embodiments using one or more of the described features but not all features.
US10190748B2
A backlight module includes a reflecting base, a light source, at least one 3D optical control structure, and at least one illumination adjusting structure. The light source and the 3D optical control structure are disposed on the reflecting base, and the 3D optical control structure covers the light source. Each 3D optical control structure includes two sidewalls, and at least one of the sidewalls has at least one through-hole. The illumination adjusting structure is adjacent to the sidewall having the through-hole. A position of an orthogonal projection of the through-hole to the reflecting base is A, and a position where a normal line of the sidewall passing through the through-hole intersects the reflecting base is B. An illumination adjusting section is an area between A and B. The illumination adjusting structure is disposed in the illumination adjusting section.
US10190744B2
Provided is a vehicular marker lamp including a planar light emitter; and a lens including an incident portion formed on a surface facing the planar light emitter. A plurality of cross-sectionally triangular prisms are arranged in the incident portion in a state where the vertexes of triangular prisms face the planar light emitter side. Each of the prisms includes an incident surface formed on one surface in the arrangement direction to make a light from the planar light emitter is incident and a light-shielding portion formed on a surface opposite to the incident surface to shield incidence of the light from the planar light emitter.
US10190743B2
A display device (30) comprises a reflective display (38) arranged to render a first image viewable through a viewing surface and a projection means (31-37) arranged to render a second image viewable in reflection on the viewing surface, the reflective display (38) and the projection means (31-37) being mounted on a common frame.
US10190724B2
A supporting frame is disclosed, which comprises a base, a shaft, a cantilever arm, an elastic body, a mounting unit and at least one cam. The shaft is disposed on the base. The cantilever arm has a first end and a second end. The cam is formed on the first end. The first end of the cantilever arm is pivoted on the shaft, and the elastic body is sleeved on the shaft for providing an elastic force to the cam. The mounting unit holds the display device. The cantilever arm rotates toward the base around a pivot point where the shaft is pivoted on the cantilever arm to cause the cam deforming the elastic body so that elastic force of the elastic body is increased.
US10190721B2
A spacer is inserted in a gap between an existing pipe and a rehabilitation pipe to adjust the position of the rehabilitation pipe inside the existing pipe. The spacer comprises first and second wedge-shaped members each having an inclined surface of the same inclination angle and being overlapped with the inclined surfaces thereof overlapped. Latching teeth are formed in the inclined surfaces of the first and second wedge-shaped members so that the second wedge-shaped member is movable relative to the first wedge-shaped member in the insertion direction of the spacer to stepwise increase an overall height thereof, but immovable in the reverse direction. Either one of the first and second wedge-shaped members is provided at the engaging teeth portions with an elastic deformable member that can be elastically deformed to disengage the latching teeth of the first and second wedge-shaped members to enable movement of the second wedge-shaped member in the reverse direction for re-adjustment of the position of the rehabilitation pipe inside the existing pipe.
US10190717B1
A method of damping pulsations produced by an engine or other driver, so that gas flow can more accurately be measured by a gas flow meter. A damping device is placed between the driver and the flow meter, and has an enclosed volume, an input tube, and an output tube. Particular dimensions of the damping device, namely the volume of the chamber and the diameter and length of the input tube, are calculated to result in a desired damping efficiency.
US10190711B2
A fluid coupler includes: an outer body; an end connector being at least partially received inside the outer body and configured to receive pressurized fluid; an inner body received inside the outer body, the inner body being moveable with respect to the outer body; a seat holder and a valve seat both located inside of the inner body, the valve seat being configured to press against an inner surface of the inner body to close the fluid coupler; a connector partially housed within the inner body, the connector comprising a first end secured to the seat holder and a second end. The fluid coupler defines a pressurized fluid flow path enabling pressurized fluid to contact and pressurize the end connector, the inner body, the seat holder, and the connector without contacting and pressurizing the outer body.
US10190709B2
Disclosed are systems and methods of coupling plain end pipes. One system includes a coupling sleeve having opposing upper and lower ends and a plurality of axially extending slots defined in each end, wherein the upper end is configured to receive an end of a first pipe and the lower end is configured to receive an end of a second pipe, an upper sliding ring disposed about the coupling sleeve and axially movable in a first direction to force the upper end into gripping engagement with an outer surface of the first pipe, and a lower sliding ring disposed about the coupling sleeve and axially movable in a second direction to force the lower end into gripping engagement with an outer surface of the second pipe.
US10190692B2
A flexible metal seal assembly for isolating one or more fluids in an operative region of a machine comprises a first flexible metal seal and a second flexible metal seal arranged in series, allowing the additional exertion of a spring bias. The inner surface of the first flexible metal seal is restrainably and hermetically attached to the outer surface of a metallic coupler, while the outer surface of the second flexible metal seal is restrainably and hermetically attached to the inner surface of the metallic coupler. Amongst other applications, the assembly may be used in a valve seal, or in an engine fuel pump, where it serves to isolate lubricating oil from fuel, or one fluid from a region, where one fluid may be present on an actuator that reciprocates within the second flexible metal seal or outside of the first flexible metal seal.
US10190687B2
A superelastic metal seal for use in a downhole tool, wherein the superelastic metal seal may be formed from a superelastic Ni—Ti alloy. The superelastic Ni—Ti alloy may be prestrained with a permanent strain. Superelasticity may be imparted to the superelastic Ni—Ti alloy through a thermal treatment process or through prestraining the superelastic Ni—Ti alloy. The superelastic Ni—Ti alloy may exhibit superelastic behavior. The superelastic Ni—Ti alloy may not exhibit shape memory behavior.
US10190681B2
A protection control selection unit is provided. The protection control selection unit selects control that uses one of a completely engaging heat generation amount and a releasing heat generation amount, by which the amount of heat that is generated in a lockup clutch is reduced. The completely engaging heat generation amount is generated in the lockup clutch in a period before the lockup clutch is completely engaged from a state of lockup engagement control. The releasing heat generation amount is generated in the lockup clutch in a period before the lockup clutch is released from the state of the lockup engagement control. Thus, an increase in the temperature of the lockup clutch at the time when the lockup clutch is completely engaged or released from the state of the lockup engagement control is suitably suppressed.
US10190665B2
A drive system for a vehicle has a drive motor and an axle. A driving torque generated by the drive motor is transmitted via a gear chain and a planetary transmission to the axle. The drive system can be assembled modularly, and wherein the planetary transmission is coordinated with the drive motor to determine an overall transmission ratio.
US10190661B2
A transmission for vehicles may include first and second input shafts to selectively receive power of a drive source via first and second clutches, first and second output shafts parallel to the first and second input shafts, a shift device including gear pairs tooth-engaged with the first and second input shafts and the first and second output shafts and having different gear ratios, one gear pair conforming to a running speed being selected by a synchronizer to shift and output power of the drive source, and a reverse idler gear provided at a reverse idler shaft to be tooth-engaged with an input gear of the first or second input shaft and tooth-engaged with an output gear of the first or second output shaft, the reverse idler gear being selected by a reverse synchronizer to transmit power from the input gear to the output gear.
US10190656B2
Balancing weights for a rim of a vehicle wheel are made from a balancing weight material, which comprises a hot melt adhesive based on Polyolefins or Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymers filled with a volume ratio between 35% and 75% of a high-density mass material like steel particles. This balancing weight material is heated such that it becomes a ductile and adhesive material, which can adhere to the rim and applied to the rim. After cooling off a solid and fixedly attached balancing weight has been made.
US10190653B2
A mass damper system is provided with a damper mass carrier with at least one damper mass movable relative to the damper mass carrier and at least one stop. The damper mass moves within a predetermined movement region when a rotational movement of the damper mass carrier exceeds a predetermined limit speed. The predetermined movement region has a first movement region portion bounded at one end by an initial position in which the damper mass is free from a deflection in circumferential direction and by a limit position in which the damper mass has undergone a deflection, and a second movement region portion is defined at one end by the limit position and at the other end by a stop position in which the damper mass has come in contact with the stop.
US10190652B2
A damped automotive driveline component can be propshaft, a bar shaft, a torque tube housing, a power transfer unit (PTU) housing, or a final drive unit (FDU) housing, among other possibilities. The component is equipped with a dampener in order to dissipate vibration experienced during use of the component. The damper includes metal wire strands. Relative movement among the metal wire strand is believed to damp the vibrations.
US10190645B2
A hydraulic circuit includes a clutch actuator operatively associated with a clutch that may be disposed in a transmission. A hydraulic fluid source supplies pressurized hydraulic fluid for the clutch actuator. To measure the filling rate of the hydraulic actuator, a reference actuator having a predetermined filling rate is disposed in parallel with the hydraulic actuator and in fluid communication with the hydraulic fluid source. If hydraulic pressure associated with the reference actuator does not correspond to the hydraulic pressure associated with the clutch actuator, a compensation valve can appropriately respond by selectively directing hydraulic fluid to or from the clutch actuator. In a further embodiment, the reference actuator and compensation valve may be replaced with an electrohydraulic valve utilizing feedback from the hydraulic pressure present at the inlet of the clutch actuator.
US10190643B2
A radially applied dog clutch for a vehicle transmission. The clutch includes a driving member configured to rotate about an axis and including a cavity extending radially from the axis, a driving tooth slidably movable within the radially extending cavity, a driven member coaxially surrounding the driving member and including a radially inward extending driven tooth, and a synchronizer coaxially positioned between the driving member and the driven member.
US10190640B2
A bearing assembly having an inner ring, outer ring, and a plurality of rolling elements and an integrated electrically conductive element, such as an electrical shunt system manufactured of bundled or braided conductive filaments.The bearing integrated electrical shunt system consists of a fixed ring and an integrated electrically conductive element, such as bundled carbon fiber filaments, that contact a rotating ring. The integrated electrical conductive element can be integrated with the bearing seal.
US10190637B2
A sealed bearing assembly includes seal members each including a seal lip with multiple protrusions, and being arranged such that oil passages are defined between the seal lip and a seal sliding surface which is configured to slide circumferentially relative to the protrusions such that the oil passages communicate with a bearing internal space and an exterior of the bearing, and prevent passage of foreign objects having particle diameters larger than a predetermined value therethrough. The seal lip and the seal sliding surface are arranged such that, when the bearing rotates, lubricating oil in the oil passages is pulled into spaces between the seal lip and the seal sliding surface such that a fluid lubricating condition is created between the seal lip and the seal sliding surface, due to a wedge effect.
US10190608B2
An actuator comprising: an inner cylinder received in an outer cylinder and a piston received in the inner cylinder that extends from the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder, the piston being slideable relative to the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder in response to the application of fluid pressure to cause the piston to extend further from the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder; and an auxiliary drive mechanism operable to cause the inner cylinder to extend from the outer cylinder, wherein the piston moves together with the inner cylinder relative to the outer cylinder.
US10190599B2
A gas turbine engine includes an actuator, a harmonic drive driven by the actuator, an engine case containing a multiple of variable vanes, a firewall transverse to the engine case, a first temperature on one side of the firewall and a second temperature on the other side of the firewall, the first temperature different than the second temperature and a drive shaft driven by the harmonic drive, the drive shaft extends through the firewall to operate the multiple of variable vanes.
US10190583B2
A positive displacement pump includes a drive unit and a pump unit. The pump unit comprises at least one inline valve unit, a connecting and/or spacing device, and a pair of flanges which are connected to each other via the connecting and/or spacing device. In an operating position, the at least one inline valve unit is clamped between the pair of flanges. The at least one inline valve unit is configured to be displaced without removing the connecting and/or spacing device.
US10190575B2
A method for compensating the output power of wind turbine generator set includes acquiring the average values of the first ambient temperature of environments where the wind turbine generator set is located in various periods; collecting the output power of the wind turbine generator set at the end time of various periods; compensating the set output power collected at the end time of current period according to difference value between the average value of the first ambient temperature in the current period and that in the previous period so as to guarantee the stability of the set output power if the average value of the first ambient temperature in the current period and the average value of the first ambient temperature in the previous period both are higher than a preset temperature threshold value.
US10190566B2
This invention provides a modularized ocean energy generating device and a built-in module thereof. The built-in module includes an inner frame, at least one hydraulic generator module, at least one mounting shaft, at least one driving unit, and at least two barriers. The modularized ocean energy generating device includes an outer frame, and the inner frame is detachably disposed in the outer frame. The hydraulic generator module is disposed in the inner frame and is mounted at the at least one mounting shaft, and the at least one mounting shaft is rotatably mounted at the inner frame. The driving unit is connected to the mounting shaft to drive the mounting shaft to rotate. The barriers are disposed at the inner frame or the outer frame and located at upstream and downstream sides of the hydraulic generator module along a water flow direction, respectively.
US10190560B2
A stop-start control system for a vehicle includes a camera disposed at the vehicle and having a field of view exterior and forward of the vehicle. A control includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by the camera. Responsive to image processing of captured image data, the control determines the presence of a stopping area ahead of the vehicle and being approached by the vehicle. Responsive to determination of the presence of the stopping area ahead of the vehicle and being approached by the vehicle, and responsive to determination that the driver of the vehicle releases the accelerator pedal of the vehicle so the vehicle is coasting toward the determined stopping area, the control causes the engine to at least partially shut off.
US10190549B2
Check valves, Venturi devices and engines having such check valves, define an internal cavity having a first port and a second port, a first seat and a second seat, and a translatable seal disk. The check valves have an outlet conduit extending from the second port and/or the first seat has a first annular seal bead and a second annular seal bead disposed radially inward of the first annular seal bead with a plurality of ribs extending between the first annular seal bead and the second annular seal bead within the fluid flow path of the first port. The outlet conduit defines an outlet passageway having a restrictor profile that is circular in a transverse profile, and the ribs decrease the flow area of the fluid flow path of the first port by about 10% to about 60%.
US10190548B2
A cylinder of an engine of a motorcycle is tilted frontward. A throttle unit is provided above the cylinder, and a heat shielding sheet is provided between the cylinder and the throttle unit. The throttle unit includes a fuel injection device, and the heat shielding sheet extends between the fuel injection device and the cylinder.
US10190542B2
A canister close valve device for opening or closing a passage provided between a canister, which collects evaporation gas evaporated from a fuel tank and the atmosphere may include a plunger configured to selectively move up or down through magnetization with a core inside a valve housing when a solenoid is activated, a rod configured to perform a rectilinear reciprocating movement toward or away from the passage due to the upward/downward movement of the plunger, and a diaphragm valve body, which is inserted into the plunger, is connected to the valve housing, and is configured to be deformed by the upward/downward movement of the plunger and to generate force for impeding the upward/downward movement of the plunger using a pressure difference generated between the plunger and the valve housing.
US10190540B2
In order to stably use a catalyst for pyrolysis and supply a reformed fuel, the fuel supply system includes a fuel reforming section which pyrolyzes a hydrocarbon system fuel by the heat of the combustion chamber to generate the reformed fuel. The fuel reforming section includes a preheat vaporization section provided on the combustion chamber, and a decomposition reaction section that is provided on the preheat vaporization section and includes the catalyst for pyrolysis. The preheat vaporization section heats the fuel, the decomposition reaction section pyrolyzes the heated fuel to generate the reformed fuel, and the fuel reforming section supplies the reformed fuel to the combustion chamber. The reforming catalyst includes a zeolitic catalyst.
US10190538B2
A thrust reverser device for an aircraft turbojet engine includes: a movable cowl, translating cascades connected to the movable cowl, a mast; and a front suspension to suspend the turbojet engine. The cascades translates between a direct jet position where the cascades are retracted in a fan casing, and an indirect jet position where the cascades are brought out of the fan casing. In particular, the cascades have a sliding connection with the mast by means of at least one spacer connected to the mast downstream of the front suspension.
US10190536B2
A mixer of a bypass turbine aeroengine according to one embodiment, includes circumferential inner and outer flow surfaces in a wavy configuration to form a plurality of lobes of the mixer. The mixer has an upstream end portion of sheet metal with a first thickness and a downstream end portion of sheet metal with a second thickness less than the first thickness.
US10190535B2
Disclosed is an aluminum alloy having superior elasticity and wear resistance. The aluminum alloy has superior elasticity and wear resistance and improved wear properties by including additional reinforcing phase formation such as Al3Ni phase formation. In particular, the reinforcing phase may be generated by adding nickel (Ni) that may reinforce and enhance properties which may be decreased due to generation of a ternary phase such as TiAlSi. The aluminum alloy comprises an amount of about 13 to 21% by weight of the silicon (Si), an amount of about 1 to 5% by weight of the nickel (Ni), an amount of about 4 to 5% by weight of the titanium (Ti), an amount of about 0.7 to 1% by weight of boron (B), and a remainder of Al based on a total weight of the aluminum alloy.
US10190532B2
An air intake structure for a vehicle engine includes: a variable flap rotatably provided in an intake air passage so as to control a cross-sectional area of intake air flow; a port plate provided to a downstream of the variable flap, and generating displacement in cooperation with the variable flap; a driving unit supplying a driving force for generating displacement of both the variable flap and the port plate; and a controller determining a rotation angle of the variable flap in accordance with an operating range of an engine, and controlling the rotation angle of the variable flap by driving the driving unit.
US10190530B2
An engine power unit includes a crankcase, a cylinder body, and a cylinder head sequentially stacked and fastened with each other. A cam shaft holder is fastened to the cylinder head to rotatably support a cam shaft of an engine valve operating mechanism. A cylinder head cover covers the cylinder head and the cam shaft holder. Fastening bolts penetrate the cylinder head cover and the cam shaft holder to be screwed into the cylinder head. Pressing surfaces are formed on the inner surface of the cylinder head cover. The pressing surfaces are abutted against and press the cam shaft holder to the cylinder head. Thus, rigidity around the cylinder head is enhanced, and a weight reduction of the power unit is achieved.
US10190526B2
A method for providing consistent actuator events for each of a plurality of consecutive actuator events of an electromagnetic actuator, includes applying a first bi-directional current waveform for a first actuator event and applying a second bi-directional current waveform for a second actuator event immediately subsequent to the first actuator event. The first bi-directional current waveform includes applying current in a first direction when the actuator is commanded to an actuated position and applying current in a reversed second direction when the actuator is commanded to a rest position. The second bi-directional current waveform includes applying current in the reversed second direction when the actuator is commanded to an actuated position and applying current in the first direction when the actuator is commanded to a rest position.
US10190525B2
A method of calculating an angular position of a crankshaft at the occurrence of a fuel injection event includes integrating a first polynomial function, and integrating a second polynomial function. The integrated second polynomial function is then divided by the integrated first polynomial function to calculate the angular position of the crankshaft at the occurrence of the fuel injection event. The calculated angular position of the crankshaft at the occurrence of the fuel injection event may then be correlated to an absolute angular position of the crankshaft, relative to a Top Dead Center position of the crankshaft. The calculated angular position of the crankshaft at the occurrence of the fuel injection event may be used to adjust the injection timing of future fuel injection events.
US10190521B2
A method of operating an internal combustion engine having a turbocharger for pressurizing an intake airflow and an after-treatment (AT) system including an AT device for reducing nitrogen oxides (NOX) concentration in the engine exhaust gas. The method includes operating the engine with a variable high-pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and low-pressure EGR split in the intake airflow. The method also includes determining the NOX concentration in the exhaust gas and determining a current high-pressure EGR to low-pressure EGR split in the intake airflow. The method additionally includes determining an EGR corrective factor using the determined current high-pressure EGR to low-pressure EGR split and applying the determined EGR corrective factor to the determined NOX concentration to generate a corrected NOX concentration. Furthermore, the method includes regulating operation of the AT system to treat the exhaust gas via the AT device in response to the generated corrected NOX concentration.
US10190520B1
A signal conditioning module for a wide-band oxygen sensor and methods of installing the same. One signal conditioning module includes an electronic processor, a first electrical coupling, and a second electrical coupling. The first coupling is configured to be coupled to a port of an electrical harness. The power is configured to receive an electrical coupling of a narrow-band oxygen sensor signal for providing power to the narrow-band oxygen sensor. The second coupling is configured to be coupled to the wide-band oxygen sensor. The electronic processor receives power over the first coupling, powers the wide-band oxygen sensor over the second coupling using the received power, receives first data over the second coupling from the wide-band oxygen sensor, converts the first data to second data, and outputs the second data over the first coupling to the electrical harness for transmission to an electronic control unit coupled to the electrical harness.
US10190519B2
The invention relates to a control device for an internal combustion engine that includes a turbocharger, and an actuator that changes a turbocharging pressure by regulating exhaust energy for use in drive of the turbocharger. When a target torque is increased during execution of a lean burn operation, the control device switches an operation mode of the internal combustion engine from the lean burn operation to a stoichiometric operation. When the operation mode switching is performed in a turbocharging state, the control device determines whether a target torque is within a range of a torque realizable under the lean air-fuel ratio. When the target torque is within the range, the control device operates the actuator so as to keep the turbocharging pressure at a magnitude equal to or larger than a magnitude at a time point at which the operation mode is switched.
US10190518B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes a current sensor that detects a current value of a battery; and a processing device that suppresses initiation of idling stop control in a vehicle non-stop state with a vehicle speed higher than 0, in the case where an abnormal state of the battery is detected based on an output signal of the current sensor in the vehicle non-stop state.
US10190510B2
A fuel storage apparatus includes a fuel tank, a heat exchanger, a fuel pipe, and a medium pipe. The heat exchanger performs heat exchange between fuel inside the fuel tank and a heat exchange medium. The fuel pipe is provided inside the fuel tank and delivers the fuel to the heat exchanger. The medium pipe is provided outside the fuel tank and delivers the heat exchange medium to the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a first joint and a second joint. The first joint is provided inside the fuel tank and is connectable to the fuel pipe. The second joint is provided outside the fuel tank and is connectable to the medium pipe.
US10190507B2
Methods and systems are provided for operating a split exhaust engine system that provides blowthrough air and exhaust gas recirculation to an intake passage via a first exhaust manifold and exhaust gas to an exhaust passage via a second exhaust manifold. In one example, one or more valves of a set of first exhaust valves coupled to the second exhaust manifold may be deactivated in response to select engine operating conditions, while maintaining active all valves of a set of second exhaust valves coupled to the first exhaust manifold. The select engine operating conditions may include one or more of a deceleration fuel shut-off condition, a part throttle condition, and a cold start condition.
US10190506B2
An exemplary turbomachine exhaust flow diverting assembly includes an outer flow diverter distributed about a rotational axis of a turbomachine. The outer flow diverter moveable between a first position and a second position. The outer flow diverter in the first position permits more flow through a main bypass flow passage and less flow through a third stream bypass flow passage. The outer flow diverter in the second position permits more flow through the third stream bypass flow passage and less flow through the main bypass flow passage.
US10190501B2
A ducted fan gas turbine engine has a propulsive fan, a fan case surrounding the fan, a core engine, and a plurality of support structures which transmit loads from the core engine to the fan case. Each support structure has two support struts which extend from the core engine to a joint radially outwardly of the fan case. The support struts are spaced apart at the core engine but converge to meet at the joint. Each support structure further has two structural elements which extend from the joint to respective fixing positions on the fan case at opposite sides of the joint.
US10190497B2
A gas turbine engine comprises a compressor section, a combustor section downstream of the compressor section, and a turbine section downstream of the combustor section. A mid-turbine frame includes an outer case portion and is configured to support the turbine section. At least one shaft defines an axis of rotation, and the turbine section comprises an inner rotor directly driving the shaft. The inner rotor includes an inner set of blades. An outer rotor is positioned immediately adjacent to the outer case portion and has an outer set of blades interspersed with the inner set of blades. The outer rotor is configured to rotate in an opposite direction about the axis of rotation from the inner rotor. A gear system is positioned downstream of the combustor section, is mounted to the mid-turbine frame, and is coupled to the outer rotor to drive the at least one shaft.
US10190490B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards free-piston combustion engines. As described herein, a driver section may be provided in a free-piston combustion engine for storing energy during an expansion stroke. The driver section may be configured to store sufficient energy to perform the subsequent stroke. In some embodiments, the driver section may be configured to store sufficient energy so as to enable the engine to operate continuously across engine cycles without electrical energy input. A linear electromagnetic machine may be provided in a free-piston combustion engine for converting the kinetic energy of a piston assembly into electrical energy.
US10190488B2
A method for producing a variable turbine geometry of a charging device may include inserting at least two guide blades into a blade mounting ring. The method may then include jointly machining at least two of the guide blades, in the mounted state, on respective end side of the at least two guide blades facing away from the blade mounting ring in order to produce a final shape of the end sides.
US10190486B2
A turbocharger includes a compressor wheel configured to pressurize an airflow for delivery to an internal combustion engine. The turbocharger also includes a turbine wheel configured to be driven by the engine's post-combustion gases and drive the compressor wheel. The turbocharger additionally includes a waste-gate assembly. The waste-gate assembly includes a first waste-gate valve and a second waste-gate valve, wherein each of the first and second waste-gate valves is configured to selectively redirect at least a portion of the post-combustion gases away from the turbine wheel into the exhaust passage. A vehicle having an internal combustion engine operatively connected to such a turbocharger and also employing a controller configured to regulate the first and second waste-gate valves is also disclosed.
US10190482B2
An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder block that defines a cylinder and a cylinder head mounted to the cylinder block. The engine additionally includes a gas compressor configured to selectively pressurize air being received from the ambient for delivery to the cylinder. The engine also includes an intake valve that is operatively connected to the cylinder head and controls delivery of the selectively pressurized air to the cylinder for combustion therein. Furthermore, the engine includes an air inlet assembly arranged between the intake valve and the compressor. The air inlet assembly is configured to supply the pressurized air to the cylinder and includes at least one passage configured to collect a condensate from the pressurized air. A vehicle having such an engine is also disclosed.
US10190478B1
Examples of techniques for controlling a cooling system for an internal combustion engine using feedback linearization are provided. In one example implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a processing device, desired temperature targets. The method further includes receiving, by the processing device, temperature feedbacks. The method further includes calculating, by the processing device, a desired temperature derivative for each of the desired temperature targets. The method further includes calculating, by the processing device, desired coolant flows from the desired temperature derivative for each of the desired temperature targets using feedback linearization. The method further includes calculating, by the processing device, actuator commands from the desired coolant flows using an inverted hydraulic model. The method further includes implementing, by the processing device, the actuator commands in actuators in the cooling system.
US10190469B2
A deterioration determination unit determines whether a catalyst in an exhaust passage of an engine is deteriorated; a first determination unit determines whether there is an air-fuel ratio variation among cylinders of the engine on the basis of distortion in waveform of the air-fuel ratio on the upstream side of the catalyst; and a second determination unit determines whether there is an air-fuel ratio variation among the cylinders on the basis that the air-fuel ratio on the downstream side of the catalyst remains on the lean side. A determination mode switching unit makes the first determination unit execute a determination process concurrently with determination by the deterioration determination unit, and it is determined by the determination process that there is an air-fuel ratio variation among the cylinders, makes the second determination unit execute a determination process in priority to determination of deterioration of the catalyst.
US10190457B2
A lean control, in which a target air fuel ratio is made to vary to a lean air fuel ratio and a rich air fuel ratio across a lean air fuel ratio, and a rich control, in which the target air fuel ratio is made to vary to a lean air fuel ratio and a rich air fuel ratio across a rich air fuel ratio, are alternately carried out, wherein when carrying out the lean control, a period per one time in which the target air fuel ratio becomes the lean air fuel ratio is made longer than a period per one time in which the target air fuel ratio becomes the rich air fuel ratio, and a deviation of the lean air fuel ratio from the lean air fuel ratio is made smaller than a deviation of the rich air fuel ratio from the lean air fuel ratio.
US10190455B2
A device for producing vacuum using the Venturi effect, systems utilizing the device, and methods of making the device are disclosed. The device has a housing defining a Venturi gap, a motive passageway converging toward the Venturi gap and in fluid communication therewith, a discharge passageway diverging away from the Venturi gap and in fluid communication therewith, and a suction passageway in fluid communication with the Venturi gap. The suction passageway has an interior surface with a surface topography that renders the interior surface hydrophobic and has an oleophobic coating applied to the interior surface while maintaining the surface topography.
US10190452B2
An engine lubrication structure supplies oil from an oil pump to individual components of an engine in which a balancer shaft is disposed parallel with a crank shaft in a crank case, the engine includes a turbocharger which compresses intake air using exhaust gas of the engine; a main gallery which supplies oil to a bearing of the crank shaft and a bearing of the balancer shaft and a sub-gallery which supplies, to individual components of the engine, oil that has been supplied to the bearing of the balancer shaft are provided in the crank case; and an oil passage which supplies oil to the turbocharger is connected to the sub-gallery.
US10190451B2
A compression-release brake system is provided that includes a lost motion exhaust rocker assembly, an actuation piston, and a reset device. The actuation piston includes an actuation piston body that is slidably received by the rocker arm to define a piston cavity in the rocker arm and is movable between piston retracted and extended positions. The actuation piston is configured to be operatively associated with the exhaust valve to permit unseating of the exhaust valve from the seated state. An actuation piston check valve is configured to move between closed and open positions to permit hydraulic fluid flow through an actuation piston communication port to the piston cavity. The reset device includes a reset check valve and a reset pressure control spring for applying a biasing force to the reset check valve to urge the reset check valve toward an open position.
US10190450B2
A camshaft drive system for an internal combustion engine, includes a camshaft including a plurality of cam lobes thereon. A planetary gear system including a first component drivingly connected to the camshaft. A motor is drivingly connected to a second component of the planetary gear system and a sprocket is driven by the internal combustion engine and drivingly connected to a third component of the planetary gear system. A controller controls operation of the motor for selectively driving the second component at a same speed as the third component for imparting rotation to the camshaft and for selectively preventing rotation of the second component of the planetary gear system for preventing rotation of the camshaft.
US10190446B2
A valve train assembly includes a valve bridge assembly. The valve bridge assembly includes: a valve bridge; a first cavity formed towards a first end portion of the valve bridge; and a hydraulic lash adjuster (HLA) disposed within the first cavity, the HLA for engaging a first valve stem. The valve train assembly further includes: a pivotally mounted first rocker arm for engaging the valve bridge and to pivot in response to a rotating first cam to cause a first valve lift event in an engine cycle. The first rocker arm includes: a rocker arm cavity formed within an end portion thereof; and a control capsule disposed within the rocker arm cavity, wherein the control capsule is configurable in an ON configuration and an OFF configuration.
US10190445B2
A switchable roller finger follower includes an inner lever, an outer lever pivotably mounted to the inner lever by a pivot axle, and a coupling device. The coupling device includes a coupling pin configured to move between a locked position in which the inner lever and the outer lever are connected together for movement in at least one direction and an unlocked position in which the inner lever is movable relative to the outer lever in the at least one direction. The coupling device also includes a spring configured to bias the coupling pin in the locked or unlocked position. A de-aeration flow path is formed between an oil passage and an opening for allowing air to move out of the oil passage, past the coupling pin, and exit through the opening. The de-aeration flow path switches between being open and closed based on a position of the coupling pin.
US10190443B2
The present invention relates to a method for decoupling the provision of electricity and high-pressure steam of a combined heat and power plant which has the primary purpose of providing process steam, i.e. which is heat-led.
US10190433B2
A shaft sealing mechanism (11) that partitions an annular space (14) that is formed between a fixed part (12) and a rotating shaft (13) into a high-pressure-side region and a low-pressure-side region, that obstructs the flow of a fluid (G), and that is provided with: a plurality of annularly laminated thin-plate seal pieces (22) that are fixed to an annular seal housing (21) that is provided to the fixed part and are in sliding contact with the rotating shaft; and an annular low-pressure-side plate (26) that is sandwiched and held such that a low-pressure-side gap (δL) is formed between the seal housing and a low-pressure-side side edge part (22d) of the thin-plate seal pieces. The thin-plate seal pieces have a thick part (31) that is formed further to the inside in the radial direction of the rotating shaft than an inner-circumferential-side tip part (26a) of the low-pressure-side plate.
US10190425B2
A gas turbine engine includes an engine static structure that has a fluid port. A turbine vane is supported relative to the engine static structure and includes a cooling passage. A flow splitter is provided between the engine static structure and the turbine vane. The flow splitter is configured to divide a flow upstream from the flow splitter into a first fluid flow provided to the fluid port and a second fluid flow provided to the cooling passage.
US10190416B2
A blade cascade for a turbomachine, in particular a gas turbine, including multiple identical blade groups which are situated next to each other and which each include a first individual blade (10) having a vane (12) having a blade profile and a first side wall (11), and a second individual blade (20), which differs from the first, having a vane (22) having a blade profile and a second side wall (21), the first and second side walls (11, 21) having different contourings.
US10190414B2
A round internal combustion engine (10) comprising: a stationary toroidal combustion chamber (44); a first (24A) and a second (24B) shaft member, each for connecting thereof to at least one piston (26A1, 26A2, 26B1, 26B2) disposed within the stationary toroidal combustion chamber (44); and a positioning mechanism (60), for changing angular positioning and velocity between the first (24A) and second (24B) shaft members, for increasing and decreasing a distance between the pistons (26A1, 26A2, 26B1, 26B2) of the shaft members (24A, 24B), the positioning mechanism (60) comprising: at least one rotatable wheel (28i, 28ii, 28iii) disposed eccentrically (58) within the first shaft member (24A); and at least one rotatable connecting-rod (56i, 56ii, 56iii) disposed between the first (24A) and second (24B) shaft members, for directly connecting an eccentric anchor (36A) of the at least one rotatable wheel (28i, 28ii) to an eccentric anchor (36B) of the second shaft member (24B).
US10190400B2
A process for the recovery of hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon bearing formation and in which are situated an upper injection well and a lower production well is presented. The region between the wells is preheated by circulating hot solvent through at least part of both of the wells until hydraulic communication between both wells is achieved. Solvent is injected into the upper injection well at or above its critical temperature and the solvent is pentane or a mixture of butane and pentane. A hot solvent chamber is created consisting of solvent vapor and liquid. Bitumen and solvent are mixed at the boundary of the solvent chamber so formed. The hydrocarbon and solvent are caused to be mixed to drain downwards by gravity and sideways by pressure gradient towards the lower production well. The mixture is produced to the surface through the lower production well.
US10190388B2
A diverter fluid having a carbon-containing particulate dispersed therein for controlling fluid flow within subterranean formations. The diverter fluid can be injected into a wellbore for formation of a filter cake by the carbon-containing particulate, and which disperses in hydrocarbons for return to the surface.
US10190385B2
Downhole tools, and methods and systems related thereto, comprising a body; and at least one sealing element composed of an elastomer and anhydrous acid particles, and wherein at least a portion of the sealing element hydrolytically degrades in a wellbore environment. The anhydrous acid particles hydrolyze to form an acid that accelerates degradation of the sealing element.
US10190383B2
A fluid injection system includes a choke valve having at least one inlet. The system also includes a water injection line extending between a water supply and the choke valve, and the water injection line is configured to flow water from the water supply into a first inlet of the at least one inlet of the choke valve. The system also includes a polymer injection line extending from a polymer supply toward the choke valve, and the polymer injection line is configured to flow a polymer in a substantially non-inverted state from the polymer supply toward the choke valve. The choke valve is configured to receive the water and the polymer and to facilitate inversion of the polymer as the water and the polymer flow through the choke valve.
US10190382B2
A BOP booster assembly is provided for use with BOPs that utilize hydraulic actuators mounted in BOP end caps to open the BOP for replacement of the shearing members. The booster assembly has three main components comprising a booster housing, piston, and end plate. An extension in the booster housing is sufficiently long to position the booster hydraulic cylinder axially outside of the ends of the bonnet end caps of the BOP with respect to the wellbore. The booster piston is equal in diameter or larger than the operating piston of the BOP. The operating pistons and booster pistons move simultaneously, in sync, and the same distance for closing and cutting. In one embodiment, an internal hydraulic line is provided in the booster cylinder wall.
US10190378B2
A drilling head can include an annular seal assembly releasably secured in an outer housing, the annular seal assembly including an annular seal and an actuator that pressurizes a lubricant for delivery to an interior of the annular seal. A method can include positioning an annular seal in a drilling head, the annular seal including an inner liner having openings formed through a sidewall of the inner liner, and flowing a lubricant into an opening while the inner liner sealingly engages a tubular. In another method, the annular seal can have a minimum inner diameter for sealing engagement with a tubular, and a lubricant passage extending through the annular seal and intersecting an interior of the annular seal at a location spaced apart from the minimum inner diameter. A lubricant is flowed through the lubricant passage to the interior of the annular seal.
US10190377B2
A mud sensing hole finder comprising: a front steering wheel assembly, a rear wheel assembly, a sensor package, a corrosion package, a ported housing, and a tapered spring joint; wherein the mud sensing hole finder is capable of attachment to a wireline logging tool-string.
US10190375B2
A connection device for connecting a secondary drilling fluids circuit to a drilling element includes a radial aperture. A central body has a first connection portion forming a sealed connection to the secondary circuit. A second connection portion forms a sealed connection to the radial aperture and an intake duct conducts drilling fluids. A clamping system connects the connection device to the drilling element. One opening device is adapted to selectively open and close the radial aperture by acting upon a valve assembly. One coupling device connects the opening device to the valve assembly. The opening device selectively opens and closes the radial aperture by acting upon an obstructor of the valve assembly through rotary movement. The coupling device couples to a clamping element in the obstructor to transfer the rotary movement of the opening device to the obstructor to selectively and securely open and close the radial aperture.
US10190374B2
A system includes a cage having a pipe rack configured to store a tubular in a vertical orientation, such that a longitudinal axis of the tubular is substantially perpendicular to a horizontal plane. The system also includes a first robotic pipe handler configured to transition the tubular from a horizontal orientation, in which the longitudinal axis of the tubular is substantially parallel to the horizontal plane, to the vertical orientation. The first robotic pipe handler transitions between a raised position and a lowered position about a first handler axis.
US10190372B2
A drill string and a threaded coupling region for a drill string include threaded male and female ends that are optimized to maximize energy transmission efficiency for percussion drilling. The coupling includes a male spigot to be received within a female sleeve, such that an axial length of the overlap of the spigot within the sleeve is less than an outside diameter of the sleeve.
US10190368B2
An underreamer for increasing a diameter of a wellbore. The underreamer may include a body having an axial bore extending at least partially therethrough. An electromagnetic activation system may be disposed at least partially within the bore of the body. A valve may be disposed within the bore of the body and coupled to the electromagnetic activation system. The valve may include a mobile element and a static element. The mobile element may be coupled to the electromagnetic activation system and move from a first position where the mobile element obstructs fluid flow through the valve to a second position where the mobile element permits fluid flow through the valve. A cutter block may be movably coupled to the body and move radially-outward as the mobile element moves from the first position to the second position.
US10190364B2
A weft of each rung of a ladder cord is formed of two weft threads, an intersecting portion is formed in the weft threads, a slat is inserted between the intersecting portion and one of warp threads of the ladder cord, and a lifting and lowering cord is inserted between the weft threads at a location between the intersecting portion and another of the warp threads.
US10190354B2
An actuator device for automatically activating the vehicle door of a motor vehicle, in particular the tailgate, includes an electromotive drive and a radially extending arm. The radially extending arm is attached either to the vehicle door or to a vehicle bodywork and is set in motion by the electromotive drive. The electromotive drive has an electrical motor and a gearbox driven by the motor. The gearbox has a wobble mechanism.
US10190351B2
Concealed door closers are found in most commercial building and serve a useful purpose in controlling the closure of exterior entrance doors. The correct placement and installation of a door closer presents an arduous challenge for an installer who is often faced with uneven surfaces upon an active construction site. The related art relies upon the use of plumb bobs attached to upper door frame components and measuring implements placed upon ground surfaces. The task is so difficult that special training is required and specialist in the art are often employed install door closers. The presently disclosed embodiments comprise a jig system allowing for one or two door closers to be correctly positioned without the use of external or hand held measuring implements. An optional laser mounting system vitiates the need to attach lasers to door closer spindles.
US10190350B2
Provided is a retracting device which can decrease a difference of restoring force of a tension coil spring between a retracted position and a stop position. The retracting device of the present invention includes a base 12, a slider 14 which can catch a trigger 8 and move from the stop position to the retracted position with respect to the base 12 and a tension coil spring (B) for relatively moving the slider 14 which has caught the trigger 8 from the stop position to the retracted position with respect to the base 12 to apply force for assisting the closing operation to a sliding door 1. The tension coil spring (B) is an initially-tensioned spring in which a coil closely contacts and which has initial tension in a direction in which the coil closely contacts when it is in a natural length.
US10190346B2
The link assembly constitutes a mechanical connection between a cabinet door (108) and a toe kick plate (112) of the cabinet with both panels being hingedly attached to the same cabinet sidewall (114). The link assembly causes the toe kick plate (112) to move in synchronization with the movement of the door (108) and, when the cabinet door (108) is opened, the link causes the toe kick plate (112) to move into a position underneath the door (108). The link assembly pivots and self-adjusts dimensionally as required throughout the range of movement of the two hinged panels. The link assembly incorporates a resiliently biased over-center mechanism which urges the door (108) to remain in the open position until closed intentionally. The link assembly provides dual-axes adjustability for, and also supports the weight of, the toe kick plate free-swinging edge (112a).
US10190334B2
An adjustable length cable system that can be used in association with transmission of an axial pulling force. The cable system, which can be concealed within and/or behind a structure such as, for example, within an interior region of an entryway device, can accommodate adjustments in the axial lengths of a core wire and a conduit system of the cable system. The core wire can extend through, as well as beyond, the conduit system, and be connected to end fittings and/or connectors that can be used to transmit a pulling force to and/or from one or more components. In some embodiments, the conduit system can include an inner conduit telescopically coupled to an outer conduit such that the axial length of the conduit system is adjustable. Further, the relative axial positions of the inner and outer conduits may be retained by activation of a conduit locking device.
US10190333B2
A strike plate mounting bolt assembly for resiliently mounting a strike plate to a door. The strike plate mounting bolt assembly includes a bolt and a post wherein the bolt is securably engageable with the post. The bolt is inserted through a bore in the door and the post is inserted through a bore in the strike plate. A resilient member such as at least one Belleville washer is disposed between a head of the post and a cavity in the strike plate wherein the at least one Belleville washer is compressed between the post head and cavity upon securing the bolt and post together to provide a resilient mount between the door and strike plate. The at least one Belleville washer may be a number of Belleville washers selectable stacked to form a pack of Belleville washers. By varying the number and orientation of the Belleville washers, the force/deflection characteristics of the pack may be tuned to accommodate the needs of a variety of electromagnetic lock design features.
US10190323B2
A floor panel has a rectangular and oblong shape, and includes a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate and forming a decorative side of the floor panel. The top layer is composed of a print provided on a carrier sheet and a transparent thermoplastic layer situated above the print. The substrate has a thickness from 2 to 10 millimeter and forms at least half of the thickness of the floor panel. The substrate is a polyurethane-based substrate and the transparent thermoplastic layer is polyurethane-based. The floor panel has a length of more than 1.1 meters and has a plurality of reinforcing layers situated outside the center line of the substrate. A reinforcing layer may be provided in combination with the substrate and the top layer.
US10190317B2
A covering employing a fascia gutter is disclosed. The fascia gutter includes a front member, bottom member, a rear member, a ledge, a guiding groove, a protrusion and a receiving space. The bottom member connects the front member to the rear member. The receiving space is defined by the front member, the bottom member, and the rear member. The ledge is connected to the rear member. An opening is defined by the ledge and the protrusion.
US10190312B2
Sound absorbing material for use in rooms inside buildings. The material comprises a continuous polymeric film (11) having smooth surfaces, said film having a thickness (t) of about 0.1 to 0.3 mm. The film is provided with numerous substantially parallel discontinuous microslits (12) with a degree of perforation of from 0.3-3%. The microslits are cut with laser devices to produce a highly smooth and level surface. The film is tensioned in a frame (16) with a level film surface or curved film surface.
US10190303B2
A toilet having an outlet trapway that is movable during a flushing cycle includes a toilet bowl having an opening adjacent its lower end and a conduit linked to the opening so as to be able to swivel between a first upwardly directed position which forms a trap for the toilet, and a second less upwardly directed position which can be reached during the flushing cycle to facilitate evacuation of the toilet bowl. The toilet further includes an actuator that moves the conduit between the first and second positions during the flushing cycle in response to a condition of a water supply for the toilet. The water supply comprises a water tank, and the condition of the water supply is a level of water in the water tank.
US10190302B2
Provided is a sanitary cleansing device configured so that user's defecation can be promoted with a comfortable feeling by spraying of cleansing water. The present invention provides a sanitary cleansing device (1) including a nozzle assembly (6) provided with a spray port, a nozzle drive device (12), an operation device (10) operated by a user, and a spray control device (20) configured to actuate the nozzle drive device to execute a massage cleansing mode. The massage cleansing mode is a cleansing mode for repeating a predetermined massage cleansing cycle including a turning movement pattern for turning a water splash point of the cleansing water sprayed from the spray port at the periphery of a private area position of a seated human body and a front-to-back movement pattern for moving the water splash point through the private area position in a substantially front-to-back direction of the human body.
US10190301B2
A system for preventing overflow of a toilet includes a sensor, a processor and an actuator. The sensor senses a parameter caused by fluid dynamics within the toilet during a flush cycle. The parameter may involve vibration, sound, pressure, fluid flow rate or other detectible characteristics of the toilet. The processor uses information regarding the parameter that is gathered by the sensor to evaluate the condition of the flush cycle to determine if an impeded flush condition exists. In the event of an impeded flush condition, the processor directs the actuator to close a valve, which may be the toilet flapper valve in some embodiments. Also disclosed are methods for preventing toilet overflow, detecting an impeded flush condition and calibrating the system.
US10190300B2
An improved flapper valve has an elastomeric surrounding flapper valve top. A separate inverted dome-like structure, or cone, which is the ballast, is included for insertion into the flapper valve top. The improved flapper valve further includes a ring-like upper structure and a cap-like bottom structure. The ring-like upper “vent band” structure rotates about the cone relative to an air outlet aperture defined in the cone to control air flow from the cone. The bottom cap-like “adjuster” structure also rotates about the bottom of the cone to control water flow into the cone, also via apertures in both structures. Used together, the upper and bottom structures can minimize water consumption by the toilet. Further, the adjuster structure includes means for discretely changing settings with indicia to indicate to the user what the current setting is and means for maintaining that setting as may be desired or required.
US10190294B2
Various embodiments provide for a plumbing fixture comprising a spout. The spout comprises a body with a collar on a top surface of the body and a hole extending through the collar and defining an internal surface of the collar. The spout further comprises a first camming surface formed on the internal surface. The plumbing fixture further comprises a lift knob. The lift knob comprises a head. The head comprises a front side, top side, and a bottom side. The lift knob further comprises a shaft. The shaft is axially movable within the hole and has a first end and a second end. The first end is coupled to the bottom side of the head and the second end disposed within the spout. A second camming surface is formed on the bottom side of the head. The second camming surface has a geometrically complementary surface to the first camming surface.
US10190279B2
The invention refers to a pile for an offshore monopile type foundation structure comprising an elongate cylindrical steel tube comprising a first length with a first wall thickness, a second length with a second wall thickness, wherein the second length comprises several reinforcement ribs extending longitudinally and equally spaced apart from each other over the entire second length.
US10190270B2
A slewing assembly for providing a rotational movement of a loading conveyor pivotally supported on a cold planer is provided. The slewing assembly includes a frame-side structure and a conveyor-side structure. The slewing assembly includes a shaft pin disposed about a vertical axis, and pivotally connecting the frame-side structure and the conveyor-side structure. The slewing assembly also includes an actuator arrangement configured to generate a controlled bi-directional rotational movement of the shaft pin. The slewing assembly further includes a spline arrangement formed on the shaft pin and configured to transfer the controlled bi-directional rotational movement of the shaft pin as a controlled bi-directional rotational movement of the conveyor-side structure. The controlled bi-directional rotational movement of the conveyor-side structure provides the rotational movement of the loading conveyor, about the vertical axis, with respect to the frame.
US10190268B2
A concrete screeding device for screeding uncured concrete placed at a support surface includes a screed head having a grade setting device and a vibrating member, and an extendable and retractable boom. A base end of the boom is attached at a base structure and the screed head is supportable at a distal end of the boom. The boom is extendable so as to position the screed head at a distance of at least 20 feet from the base structure, and the screed head is movable between its extended location and the base structure to screed the concrete placed at the support surface.
US10190260B2
A fluff pulp is provided, which comprises softwood fibers; and 3 to 35% by weight of hardwood fibers. A fluff is also provided, which comprises the fiberized or shredded fluff pulp. A core is also provided, which comprises the fluff and at least an SAP. Processes for making and using the fluff pulp, fluff, and core are provided, and products made thereby.
US10190259B1
A pneumatic hood for a tissue or papermaking machine is disclosed. The hood has an inlet to admit dust and air. The inlet is defined, in part, by an inlet flap that is hingedly connected to the body of the hood. The inlet flap is coupled to one or more linear actuators, such as pneumatic cylinders, by a linkage such that the linear actuators drive the inlet flap between positions in which the inlet is wider and positions in which the inlet is narrower. Thus, the size of the inlet can be increased to clear large obstructions.
US10190236B2
The present disclosure relates to a compact polymer gel consisting of disentangled ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (dis-UHMWPE), at least one nucleator, at least one filler and at least one fluid medium. The present disclosure also provides a process for the preparation of the compact polymeric gel and fibers from the compact polymeric gel of both low and high denier values. The fibers prepared in accordance with the present process have tensile strength ranging from 2.5 to 13 GPa, tensile modulus ranging from 100 to 270 GPa.
US10190227B2
An article comprising an electrodeposited aluminum alloy is described herein. The electrodeposited aluminum alloy comprises an average grain size less than approximately 1 micrometer. The electrodeposited aluminum alloy thickness is greater than approximately 40 micrometers. A ductility of the electrodeposited aluminum alloy is greater than approximately 2%.
US10190225B2
The present disclosure relates to a copper foil that exhibits surprising low repulsive force characteristics; and to methods for manufacturing such copper foils. Typically, the copper foil has (a) a lightness L* value of the nodule untreated side, based on the L*a*b color system, in the range of 75 to 90 and (b) a normal tensile strength in the range of 40 kgf/mm2 to 55 kgf/mm2. The disclosure further relates to flexible printed circuit boards and electronic devices using the above-mentioned copper foils for forming conductive lines therein.
US10190224B2
An anti-explosion gas generator for health use is provided. The anti-explosion gas generator for health use includes an electrolysis device for electrolyzing water to produce a gas mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. The gas generator for health use further includes a gas mixing system coupled to the electrolysis device for receiving the gas mixture. The gas mixing system mixes the gas mixture with water vapor, an atomized medicine, a volatile essential oil or a combination thereof to produce a health gas. The health gas is provided for being inhaled by a user.
US10190222B2
Disclosed are novel compounds and methods useful in applications relating to industrial water systems. The compounds of the present invention are nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds comprising a benzotriazole covalently bonded to a benzimidazole moiety, and provide enhanced protection against corrosion of metals in aqueous systems. The compounds of the present invention are generally resistant to halogen attack and provide good corrosion resistance in the presence of oxidizing halogen-based biocides.
US10190209B2
A thin film deposition system and method provide for multiple target assemblies that may be separately powered. Each target assembly includes a target and associated magnet or set of magnets. The disclosure provides a tunable film profile produced by multiple power sources that separately power the target arrangements. The relative amounts of power supplied to the target arrangements may be customized to provide a desired film and may be varied in time to produce a film with varied characteristics.
US10190206B2
A magnetic component having intermixed first and second regions, and a method of preparing that magnetic component are disclosed. The first region includes a magnetic phase and the second region includes a non-magnetic phase. The method includes mechanically masking pre-selected sections of a surface portion of the component by using a nitrogen stop-off material and heat-treating the component in a nitrogen-rich atmosphere at a temperature greater than about 900° C. Both the first and second regions are substantially free of carbon, or contain only limited amounts of carbon; and the second region includes greater than about 0.1 weight % of nitrogen.
US10190205B2
The method for spraying thermoplastic powders provides to feed a flow of compressed air and/or nitrogen and a liquefied petroleum gas through respective separated discharge chambers (9, 12), shaped inside a mixing device (1) of a spray gun (100), the separated discharge chambers (9, 12) being in communication with a mixing chamber (15). Then a flame is ignited at the mixing chamber, through a flame ignition device (30) connected with the gun (100), said device comprising a spark ignition device (31, 310), and a conductor element (32) associated with the mixing device (1) and connected with the spark ignition device (31, 310). The thermoplastic powders are mixed with a transport inert gas, and fed through a further discharge chamber (7) communicating with the mixing chamber (15). Then the spray gun is operated to spray the thermoplastic powders through the flame onto the surface of the article to be coated, to cause the melting of the same powders.
US10190203B2
A device for processing a metal strip with a liquid coating material is disclosed. Above a coating tank filled with coating material, the device has a blower having an air outlet slot for blowing liquid parts of the coating off of the metal strip. Arranged above the blower is an electromagnetic stabilizer for stabilizing the metal strip by electromagnetic forces after the exiting of the coating tank and the blower. In order to design known devices for treating a metal strip to be more favorable in respect of energy and in order to increase the accessibility for an operating person, the stabilizer is arranged above the blower in such a way that the distance d between the line of action of the maximum force of the stabilizer on the metal strip and on the air outlet gap of the blower is limited to a range of 100-1200 mm.
US10190198B2
A thick film paste comprising at least one particulate platinum (alloy), at least one metal compound, and an organic vehicle, wherein the at least one metal compound is selected from the group consisting of in each case particulate NiO, SiO2, RuO2, Rh2O3, IrO2, Cu2O, CuO, TiO2, ZrO2, PbO, SnO2, CeO2, Al2O3, MgO, MnO2 and MoO2, and metal compounds capable of forming a metal oxide on firing, the metal oxide being selected from the group consisting of NiO, SiO2, RuO2, Rh2O3, IrO2, Cu2O, CuO, TiO2, ZrO2, PbO, SnO2, CeO2, Al2O3, MgO, MnO2 and MoO2.
US10190183B2
The method employs a desulfurization agent that is introduced into a smelt of one of molten pig iron and molten steel. The desulfurization agent contains calcium oxide, bitumen and at least one flux agent, with the agent containing 1 to 10% by weight bitumen.
US10190181B2
The present invention provides for a bio-nematocide for repairing damage to wood and related cellulosic products caused by nematodes.
US10190174B2
Embodiments provide methods and compositions related to detecting neoplasia in ulcerative colitis patients by detection and analysis of the methylation state of miR-1, -9, -124, miR-137 and/or miR-34b/c in samples from UC patients.
US10190173B2
Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided.
US10190171B2
A polynucleotide comprising at least the final six nucleotides of one of the following primer sequences, or a sequence complementary thereto: SEQ. ID NOS. 3 to 16, 18, 20 to 33, 35 or 37 to 39. A method of detecting the presence or absence of a mutation in the PIK3CA gene, wherein the mutation is one of H1047R, H1047L, E542K and E545K, and preferably ARMS primers are combined with Scorpion primers.
US10190162B2
Novel fluorescent nucleotide analogs are provided herein. Also provided herein are methods of using the nucleotide analogs in sequencing-by-synthesis and signal confinement methods.
US10190159B2
Embodiments may include a method of analyzing a nucleic acid molecule. The method may include attaching the nucleic acid molecule to a protein. The protein may be attached to a particle with a first diameter. The method may also include applying an electric field to move a first portion of the nucleic acid molecule into an aperture. The aperture may be defined by a first electrode, an insulator, and a second electrode. The aperture may have a second diameter less than the first diameter. The method may further include contacting the first portion of the nucleic acid molecule to both the first electrode and the second electrode. The method may include applying a voltage across the first electrode and the second electrode. The current through the electrodes and the portion of the nucleic acid molecule may be measured, and a nucleotide of the nucleic acid molecule may be identified.
US10190141B2
Methods that may be used for the manufacture of the chemical compound (R)-Reticuline and synthesis precursors thereof. Compositions useful for the synthesis (R)-Reticuline and synthesis precursors are also provided.
US10190140B2
This invention provides recombinant cells and methods for producing terpenes and terpenoids by increasing production or accumulation or both of isoprenoid precursors thereof.
US10190135B2
The present disclosure relates to chimeric post-transcriptional regulatory elements (PRE) and vectors useful for expressing a protein in a cell. The PRE contains alpha, beta and optionally gamma subelements selected from different native PRE sequences and are discovered to be more potent than their native counterparts.
US10190125B2
Provided are isolated cDNAs comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% identity to SEQ ID NO: 33, SEQ ID NO: 37, SEQ ID NO: 52 or SEQ ID NO: 53. Also provided are expression cassettes; vectors; transgenic plant cells; plants, plant parts, and seeds; isolated polypeptides; amplicons and informative fragments of the presently disclosed nucleic acids; compositions that include amplification primer pairs; methods for producing plants that exhibit HI; methods for identifying the presence or absence of an allele associated with HI in a plant; methods for introgressing Haploid-inducing nucleotide sequences into plants; and methods for selecting parental plants predicted to produce progeny generations with plants that exhibit Haploid Induction trait.
US10190124B2
This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to novel substitution mutant receptors and their use in a Group H nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating the expression of a gene in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screening assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms.
US10190118B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for modulating gene expression in insects by administering a composition comprising an RNA effector molecule and a delivery agent. Methods are provided for controlling pest populations by inhibiting insect growth, development, survival, reproduction and/or viability. Also provided herein are methods for treating or preventing disease in an insect caused by a pathogen or by external factors (e.g., pollution, environment, stress, weather, etc.).
US10190115B2
Provided herein are methods, compositions, and kits for assays, many of which involve amplification reactions such as digital PCR or droplet digital PCR. The assays may be used for such applications as sequencing, copy number variation analysis, and others. In some cases, the assays involve subdividing a sample into multiple partitions (e.g., droplets) and merging the partitions with other partitions that comprise adaptors with barcodes.
US10190111B2
The present invention relates antidotes to anticoagulants targeting factor Xa. The antidotes are factor X and factor Xa protein derivatives that bind to the factor Xa inhibitors thereby substantially neutralizing them but do not assemble into the prothrombinase complex. The derivatives describe herein lack or have reduced intrinsic coagulant activity. Disclosed herein are methods of reversing anticoagulation, stopping or preventing bleeding in a patient that is currently undergoing anticoagulant therapy with a factor Xa inhibitor.
US10190106B2
The present invention provides a Cas9 platform to facilitate single-site nuclease gene editing precision within a human genome. For example, a Cas9 nuclease/DNA-targeting unit (Cas9-DTU) fusion protein precisely delivers a Cas9/sgRNA complex to a specific target site within the genome for subsequent sgRNA-dependent cleavage of an adjacent target sequence. Alternatively, attenuating Cas9 binding using mutations to the a protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) recognition domain makes Cas9 target site recognition dependent on the associated DTU, all while retaining Cas9's sgRNA-mediated DNA cleavage fidelity. Cas9-DTU fusion proteins have improved target site binding precision, greater nuclease activity, and a broader sequence targeting range than standard Cas9 systems. Existing Cas9 or sgRNA variants (e.g., truncated sgRNAs (tru-gRNAs), nickases and FokI fusions) are compatible with these improvements to further reduce off-target cleavage. A robust, broadly applicable strategy is disclosed to impart Cas9 genome-editing systems with the single-genomic-site accuracy needed for safe, effective clinical application.
US10190105B2
The present invention relates to polymerase HBV mutant polypeptides comprising a mutated polymerase domain which is functionally disrupted for polymerase activity and fusion proteins comprising such polymerase mutant polypeptide. The present invention also relates to a nucleic acid molecule and an expression vector for expressing said polymerase mutant polypeptide as well as a composition which can be used for eliciting an immune response to HBV with the goal of providing a protective or therapeutic effect against HBV infection.
US10190100B1
A modified glucose oxidase for use in a sensor for the continuous or semi-continuous monitoring of glucose is disclosed. The modified glucose oxidase may include a glucose oxidase having at least one amino group substituted with a methacrylate through a hydrophilic linker including at least one alkylene oxide unit. A glucose sensor is also disclosed. The glucose sensor includes a crosslinked, hydrophilic copolymer sensing layer in contact with a surface of an electrode, where the sensing layer includes methacrylate-derived backbone chains covalently bound to glucose oxidase through a hydrophilic linker including at least one alkylene oxide unit. Also included is a method for making the modified glucose oxidase and the glucose sensor.
US10190094B2
This invention provides methods of generating induced sensory neurons (iSNs) from non-neuronal cells such as fibroblasts. The invention also provides methods of using iSNs in various therapeutic or non-therapeutic applications, e.g., methods to identify agents or cellular modulations that enhance iSN formation from non-neuronal cells.
US10190088B2
A system for culturing a photosynthetic organism such as a microalga has a liquid storage vessel for storing a liquid that absorbs more light in a short-wavelength range than light in a long-wavelength range, a culture vessel for storing a culture solution containing a photosynthetic organism to be cultured and disposed in the liquid storage vessel, a light quantity measuring unit for measuring the quantity of light that the culture vessel receives and a liquid depth controlling unit for controlling the liquid depth from the surface of the light-absorbing solution to the culture vessel based on the measurement result of the light quantity measuring unit. The light quantity measuring unit measures quantities of light which the culture vessel receives separately for different wavelength ranges. As a result, during the cultivation of a photosynthetic organism for the purpose of producing a biofuel or a useful substance, the increase in temperature and the defect caused by light under a strong light condition can be avoided and the decrease in photosynthetic efficiency can be made smaller.
US10190085B2
A micro-incubator manifold for improved microfluidic configurations and systems and methods of manufacture and operation for a manifold and automated microfluidic systems are disclosed. Various embodiments relate to assays, systems, and/or devices for culturing cells or other biologic material in controlled environments and are applicable to related fields generally using microfluidic systems. Particular embodiments involve configurations that can be used with various standard automated handling systems, with active or passive loading and perfusion of medium and to provide high-throughput multi-assay automated systems for culturing, viewing, and analyzing cell growth, invasion, movement, chemotaxis or other properties. More specifically, specific embodiments relate to heat control systems for microfluidic culture plates and other automated systems for culture plates.
US10190083B2
A device for interfacing coatings, the device comprising at least one well each comprising an elastomeric bottom surface. At least one slit is formed on the elastomeric bottom surface. At least one removable divider is removably inserted into the at least one slit, whereby at least one gap is created and the at least one well is divided into at least two compartments. A designated coating is lined on the elastomeric bottom surface of each of the at least two compartments. Removal of the at least one removable divider then causes the at least one gap to close, allowing for the designated coatings lined on the elastomeric bottom surface of each of the at least two compartments to interface with each other.
US10190074B1
Disclosed is a process for producing a cholesterol concentrate including the steps of (a) distilling a fish oil having no more than 2% free fatty acids in an admixture with an auxiliary fluid in a vacuum distillation column to obtain a first distillate and a first residue; and (b) distilling the first distillate in a vacuum distillation column to obtain a second distillate and a second residue, wherein the second residue includes the cholesterol concentrate.
US10190071B2
The present invention relates to functional fluid compositions containing friction modifiers, and specifically stable compositions containing friction modifiers with limited solubility in and/or limited compatibility with the functional fluids with which they are used. In particular the present invention deals with functional fluids used in internal combustion engines, such as engine oils, and friction modifiers derived from hydroxy-carboxylic acids, where the friction modifier is present in the functional fluid composition at levels that would otherwise cause the composition to be unstable and/or hazy.
US10190066B2
The present invention provides a system and method for producing hydrocarbons from biomass. The method is particularly useful for producing substitute natural gas from forestry residues. Certain disclosed embodiments convert a biomass feedstock into a product hydrocarbon by fast pyrolysis. The resulting pyrolysis gas is converted to the product hydrocarbon and carbon dioxide in the presence of hydrogen and steam while simultaneously generating the required hydrogen by reaction with steam under prescribed conditions for self-sufficiency of hydrogen. Methane is a preferred hydrocarbon product. A system also is disclosed for cycling the catalyst between steam reforming, methanation and regeneration zones.
US10190053B2
One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of modifying thermoplastic properties of lignin rich biomass to reduce agglomeration during any subsequent pyrolysis. The method comprises providing a lignin rich biomass and treating the lignin rich biomass with an alkali metal hydroxide or an alkaline earth metal hydroxide under conditions effective to reduce agglomeration, during any subsequent pyrolysis, compared to when the lignin rich biomass is not subjected to said treating. Also disclosed is a method of fast pyrolysis using the product of this method of modifying the thermoplastic properties of lignin rich biomass.
US10190047B2
Disclosed herein are green-emitting, garnet-based phosphors having the formula (Lu1−a−b−cYaTbbAc)3(Al1−dBd)5(O1−eCe)12:Ce,Eu, where A is selected from the group consisting of Mg, Sr, Ca, and Ba; B is selected from the group consisting of Ga and In; C is selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, and Br; and 0≤a≤1; 0≤b≤1; 0
US10190044B2
A method for producing a β-sialon fluorescent material can be provided. The method includes preparing a composition containing silicon nitride that contains aluminium, an oxygen atom, and europium, heat-treating the composition in a rare gas atmosphere or in a vacuum, and contacting the heat-treated composition with a gas containing elemental fluorine.
US10190043B2
A composition is provided, including one or more quantum dots and at least one organic emitter. Further, a formulation including the composition, a use of the formulation and a device comprising the composition or formulation is provided.
US10190042B2
A silicone product, a lighting unit comprising the silicone product, and a method of manufacturing a silicone product are provided. The silicone product comprises polymeric material, luminescent material and filler particles. The polymeric material comprises a material of the group of polysiloxanes. The polymeric material being light transmitting. The luminescent material comprises particles which have at least in one dimension a size in the nanometer range. The luminescent material is configured to absorb light of a first spectral range and to convert a portion of the absorbed light into light of a second spectral range. The filler particles are of a light transmitting inert material. The filler particles are miscible with the luminescent material. The filler particles are provided in the polymeric material. The particles of luminescent material are distributed along a surface of the filler particles.
US10190041B2
The present disclosure describes proppant materials encapsulated with a polymer encapsulation layer. Proppant particles are formed with a core having relatively larger inner pores and a shell having relatively smaller shell pores. The shell pores and/or inner pores can be loaded with a treatment product, such as a methanogenic microbial consortium capable of converting coal into methane. The polymer encapsulation layer surrounds the shell and provides for sustained time-release of the treatment product when the proppant material has been delivered to a subterranean formation.
US10190038B2
Recovery of fluids from a subterranean formation during a well treatment operation is enhanced by injecting into the formation a treatment fluid comprising a sophorolipid.
US10190032B2
Wellbore fluids may include at least one viscoelastic surfactant, a first brine solution including one or more water soluble monovalent cation salts, and a second brine solution including one or more water soluble divalent cation salts in an amount effective to increase the viscosity of the wellbore fluid. The wellbore fluid may be injected into a wellbore as a gravel packing agent, to enhance the thermal insulation of a production tubing or transfer pipe surrounded by at least one annuli, or to reduce fluid loss.
US10190029B2
The invention relates to a polyurethane (PU) reactive hot melt adhesive removable at elevated temperature as well as having a high bonding strength at room temperature.
US10190026B2
A wood adhesive is provided. The wood adhesive includes a first agent and a second agent. The first agent includes a sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and a styrene-butadiene rubber polymer. The sodium carboxymethyl cellulose has a molecular weight between 15,000 and 500,000 and a degree of substitution of from 0.4 to 2.00 of the sodium salt. The second agent includes a polymeric quaternary amine.
US10190020B2
Polyureas made from amino-functional alkoxysilanes, polyisocyanates, and polyfunctional amino- and/or hydroxyl compounds. The polyureas may be moisture-cured in a 1K system or be included in a 2K system with amino and epoxy or acrylate compounds.
US10190018B2
The present teachings relate to various embodiments of an ink composition, which once printed and cured forms an organic thin film on a substrate such as, but not limited by, an OLED device substrate. Various embodiments of the ink compositions comprise polyethylene glycol di(meth)acrylate monomers, mono(meth)acrylate monomers and multifunctional crosslinking agents.
US10190016B2
[Purpose] Among two-component top coat paints for the automobile coatings field, wherein the base resin paint is circulated from a main tank with a pump upstream of the coating gun, and mixing and coating are effected using a curing agent supplied from a nitrogen-sealed tank and a two-component mixing device, to provide a paint composition with which problems such as thickening and gelling of the circulating base resin paint do not occur, coating is possible with a stabilized constant coating viscosity, and with which the paint film after stoving exhibits excellent Scratch resistance, stain resistance, acid resistance and gasoline resistance, and a multilayer coating formation method using this. [Solution] The present invention provides a two-component paint composition which is applied directly after mixing a base resin and a curing agent, wherein the base resin (A) contains a hydroxy group-containing acrylic resin (A-1) and a curing catalyst (A-2) as essential components, the curing agent (B) contains an isocyanate Compound (B-1) and an alkoxysilyl group-containing copolymer (B-2) as essential components, the aforesaid hydroxy group-containing acrylic resin (A-1) has a hydroxyl value of 80 to 180 mg KOH/g, a glass transition temperature of −40 to 40° C., and a weight average molecular weight of 2,000 to 20,000 g/mol, the aforesaid alkoxysilyl group-containing copolymer (B-2) is a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing 30 to 80 parts by weight of a vinylic monomer containing alkoxysilyl groups and 20 to 70 parts by weight of other copolymerizable monomers, its weight average molecular weight is 2,000 to 20,000 g/mol, and it does not contain hydroxy groups, carboxyl groups or amino groups which react with isocyanate groups.
US10190013B2
A stain composition comprising at least one anti-ticking agent, at least one colorant, and at least one surfactant configured to at least partially suspend the hydrous aluminum silicate in a carrier liquid.
US10190008B2
A method for printing on a water-soluble material which comprises the following steps: a) ink jet printing an ink onto a water-soluble material so as to form an image wherein the ink comprises a self-dispersible pigment which comprises a carboxy-functional dispersant crosslinked around a pigment core by a cross-linking agent having at least two groups selected from oxetane, carbodiimide, hydrazide, oxazoline, aziridine, isocyanate, N-methylol, keteneimine, isocyanurate and epoxy groups; b) overprinting the image formed in step A) with a water soluble overprint varnish, also printed material and inks. Also inks, ink-sets and printed water-soluble material.
US10189997B2
A colorant including a mixture of pigments is disclosed. The pigments have a similar coloration but different resistance to corrosion. The mixing ratio is selected to optimize the corrosion resistance against color brightness, and/or acidic corrosion resistance against alkali corrosion resistance of the colorant.
US10189991B2
Compositions and methods for a melt processable semicrystalline poly(aryl ether ketone) incorporating phthalazinone and 4,4′-biphenol as comonomer units are described herein. The polymers are resistant to and insoluble in common organic solvents and liquids as well as in aggressive organic solvents such as chloroform and chlorinated liquids. The polymers are melt processable via techniques such as extrusion, injection molding, and compression molding. The semicrystalline poly(aryl ether ketone) containing phthalazinone comonomer units have properties which make them suitable for manufacturing high temperature resistant molded systems and other articles.
US10189990B2
A composition includes specific amounts of a poly(phenylene ether), a polystyrene-poly(ethylene-butylene)-polystyrene triblock copolymer, an organophosphate ester, and compound that improves adhesion to potting silicone sealant. The adhesion promoter can be a phenolic compound, a hydroxysilyl-terminated polydiorganosiloxane, or a combination thereof. The composition is particularly useful for molding parts of photovoltaic junction boxes that utilize potting silicone sealant as an internal electrical insulator.
US10189973B2
The present invention provides an LCP derivative/soft magnetic ferrite composite material, which is prepared by complexing and assembling an LCP derivative as a host and soft magnetic ferrite particles as a guest. The present invention also provides a method for preparing the composite material. The composite material of the present invention has high stability and is not easily dissociated, and has high customized magnestic permeability, dielectricity, thermal stability, environmental resistance, and chemical resistance; and the preparation process of the composite material meets the energy-saving and emission reduction requirements. Therefore, the composite material has a wide industrial application prospect. The composite material of the present invention can be widely applied to the wireless communication field, the aviation, spaceflight and military fields, the microwave and radio frequency component application field, the automotive electronic component field, and the like.
US10189972B2
A molding material having from about 10 weight percent to about 25 weight percent of an amorphous thermoplastic resin, from about 3 weight percent to about 25 weight percent of aluminum oxide, boron nitride or aluminum silicate and from about 65 weight percent to about 87 weight percent of iron oxide.
US10189966B2
Disclosed are a polyurethane composition, a molded article, and a vehicle comprising the polyurethane composition or the molded article. The polyurethane composition comprises a polyol composition (A) in which polyether polyol (a1) and polymer polyol (a2) are mixed at a predetermined amount, an isocyanate composition (B) obtainable by polymerizing polyether polyol (b2) and an isocyanate composition (b1) that comprises i) methylene diphenyl isocyanate (M-MDI) and ii) polymethylene diphenyl isocyanate (P-MDI). As such, the molded article such as a vehicle seat pad can be manufactured with improved static and dynamic comfort.
US10189964B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for preparing open-celled polyurethane foams by a discontinuous box foam process in which (a) a polyurethane foam-forming composition is deposited into a container having a gas-permeable base and (b) the polyurethane-foam forming composition is allowed to form an open-celled polyurethane foam in the container. In these methods and systems, the gas-permeable base is heated before, during, and/or after step (a) and heating is continued during at least a portion of step (b).
US10189956B2
A polymer substrate, such as a polymer particle, is formed from a carboxyl functional monomer. In an example, the carboxyl functional monomer has a protection group in place of the OH of the carboxyl group. Once the monomer is polymerized, such a protection group can be removed, providing a polymer network with carboxyl functional sites. Such sites can be used to attach other functionality to the polymer substrate.
US10189954B2
One-pot synthetic methods are disclosed for synthesizing curable, antimicrobial silsesquioxane-silica hybrids by hydrolytically co-condensing a tetraalkoxysilane with two different trialkoxysilanes. Particles are also disclosed that are substantially spherical and have an ordered lamellar internal structure. In addition, polymers prepared from the curable, antimicrobial silsesquioxane-silica hybrids and co-monomers are disclosed.
US10189941B2
The invention relates to polycarbonate compositions with an improved thermal behavior and improved slip characteristics, achieved by the use of oxidized, acid-modified polyethylene waxes.
US10189936B2
Provided is a block copolymer with an acid group that, when used as a dispersant, can provide a dispersion composition having excellent dispersion stability, a dispersant containing the block copolymer, and a pigment dispersion composition using the dispersant. The block copolymer is an ABA block copolymer including an A block and a B block and has the feature that its acid value is 30 to 250 mgKOH/g and the B block contains a structural unit derived from a vinyl monomer with an acid group.
US10189935B2
The invention provides new water soluble polymers for the use in industrial processes, where large quantities of water is handled, such as sludge dewatering and papermaking. These new polymers are water soluble cross-linked block copolymers, wherein the block copolymers are cross-linked together using a cross-linking agent. Each of the block copolymers contain two different blocks, and these blocks are formed from different monomers. The blocks are linked together with a molecular spacer derived from a bifunctional initiator used during the polymerization of the blocks. The monomers used in polymerizing the blocks are different with each other and they are selected from a group consisting of N-vinylformamide, acrylic acid, acrylamide and water-soluble derivatives thereof.
US10189931B2
Provided are: a graft copolymer which can be safely and stably produced with simple operation, while maintaining the characteristics of an amine, and which is lower in the introduction cost than conventional graft copolymers; and a method for producing the graft copolymer.A polyamine graft polymer that is obtained by polymerizing a polyamine derivative, which is obtained by reacting a polymer compound (a) having at least one amino group with a compound (b) having at least one epoxy group, with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (c). A method for producing a polyamine graft polymer, which comprises a step for adding, for polymerization, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (c) and a radical polymerization initiator to a polyamine derivative, which is obtained by reacting a polymer compound (a) having at least one amino group with a compound (b) having at least one epoxy group, in a polar solvent.
US10189927B2
The present invention aims to provide an ionomer that can exhibit high oxygen permeability, especially under both low- and high-humidified conditions, and high power generation durability. The high oxygen permeable ionomer includes a specific repeating unit A and repeating unit B and has an equivalent weight of 250 to 930 and a glass transition temperature of 100° C. to 130° C.
US10189918B2
The present invention is directed to partially fluorinated copolymers and the production thereof. More specifically, the copolymers, which are preferably produced by a solution polymerization process, preferably have at least three units, the first unit selected from 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and 1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, the second unit having a polymerized monomer selected from the vinyl esters and vinyl ethers, and the third unit having a polymerized monomer derived from a hydroxyl group-containing vinyl ether. The resulting copolymer is environmentally friendly, has favorable molecular weight characteristics, and may be shipped economically in high concentration.
US10189917B2
Catalyst systems and methods for making and using the same. A method for making a catalyst support includes forming a mixture of a support material and a fluoride donor. The mixture is added to a fluidized bed reactor. The mixture is fluidized to form a fluidized bed with a height to diameter ratio of at least about 2.3. The mixture is calcined to decompose the fluoride donor, forming a fluorinated support.
US10189907B2
Provided herein, in one aspect, are antibodies that immunospecifically bind to a human KIT antigen comprising the fourth and/or fifth extracellular Ig-like domains (that is, D4 and/or D5 domains), polynucleotides comprising nucleotide sequences encoding such antibodies, and expression vectors and host cells for producing such antibodies. The antibodies can inhibit KIT activity, such as ligand-induced receptor phosphorylation. Also provided herein are kits and pharmaceutical compositions comprising antibodies that specifically bind to a KIT antigen, as well as methods of treating or managing a KIT-mediated disorder or disease and methods of diagnosing a KIT-mediated disorder or disease using the antibodies described herein.
US10189905B2
Bispecific molecule binding TLR9 and CD32 and comprising a T cell epitope for treatment of allergies
A molecule or molecule complex capable of binding to TLR9 and to CD32 comprising at least one epitope of at least one antigen, and its use a medicament for the treatment of allergies.
US10189900B2
The present invention provides a method for screening for an autophagy activator or inhibitor comprising the steps of: (a) making a test material to be analyzed come into contact with cells containing Beclin 1 protein; and (b) analyzing the degree of phosphorylation at the 30th serine amino acid residue of the Beclin 1 protein. The test material is determined to be an autophagy activator when the phosphorylation of the Beclin 1 protein is up-regulated, and the test material is determined to be an autophagy inhibitor when the phosphorylation of the Beclin 1 protein is down-regulated. The present invention first establishes, by ULK1, the mechanism of phosphorylation at the 30th serine amino acid residue of Beclin 1.
US10189897B2
The present invention relates to a process for the purification of an antibody fragment from a periplasmic cell extract comprising a first cation exchange chromatography step and a second anion exchange chromatography step.
US10189896B2
The disclosure provides novel molecules related to growth and differentiation factor-8 (GDF8), in particular epitopes specific to GDF8 and other specific antagonists of GDF8 in particular anti-GDF8 antibodies or antigen binding protein or fragment thereof which may inhibit GDF8 activity and signal in vitro and/or in vivo. The disclosure also provides for an immunoassay used to detect and quantitate GDF8. The disclosure also provides methods for diagnosing, preventing, ameliorating, and treating GDF8-associated disorders, e.g., degenerative orders of muscle, bone, and insulin metabolism. Finally, the disclosure provides pharmaceuticals for the treatment of such disorders by using the antibodies, polypeptides, polynucleotides, and vectors of the invention.
US10189892B2
A feedback control mechanism for a fermentation of yeast cells to make recombinant proteins uses a respiratory quotient measurement which adjusts the levels of oxygenation and/or fermentable sugar feed. The feedback control mechanism permits well controlled cultures that produce good amounts of product while avoiding toxic accumulation of ethanol. Additionally, recombinant proteins so produced have excellent qualitative properties, such as excellent homogeneity and proper inter-subunit assembly.
US10189886B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10189884B2
The invention includes a thioamide-modified peptide, wherein the thioamide modification increases the in vivo half-life of the peptide. The invention further includes methods of treating or preventing a disease or disorder in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the subject a thioamide-modified peptide of the invention.
US10189881B2
This disclosure provides an isolated polypeptide comprising no more than 35 amino acids, wherein the amino acid sequence comprises, or alternatively consists essentially of, or alternatively consisting of XXXRYSYXXSYX (SEQ ID NO: 1) and equivalents thereof, wherein X is a basic amino acid and Y is a hydrophobic amino acid. Polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides and antibodies that bind to the polypeptides are also provided. Therapeutic and diagnostic uses are further provided.
US10189880B2
The technology relates in part to compositions and methods for inducing an immune response against a Bob1 antigen. Provided are methods for treating hyperproliferative diseases by inducing an immune response against a Bob1 antigen; the immune response may be induced using a Bob1 polypeptide fragment, or by specifically targeting Bob1-expressing cells using T cell receptors directed against Bob1.
US10189876B2
A cell-penetrating peptide characterized in that it comprises an amino acid sequence consisting of XWXRLXXXXXX (SEQ ID No: 5), wherein X in position 1 is beta-A or S; X in positions 3, 9 and 10 are, independently from each other, W or F; X in position 6 is R if X in position 8 is S, and X in position 6 is S if X in position 8 is R; X in position 7 is L or none; X in position 11 is R or none, and wherein X in position 7 is L if X in position 11 is none.
US10189868B2
The present invention concerns a method for depolymerizing oxygenated polymer materials and the use of said method in the recycling of plastic materials and the preparation of aromatic compounds that can be used as fuel, synthesis intermediates and raw materials in the construction sectors and in the petrochemical, electrical, electronic, textile, aeronautical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and agrochemical industries. The present invention also concerns the use of aromatic compounds obtained by the method for depolymerizing oxygenated polymer materials according to the invention, in the production of fuels, electronic components, plastic polymers, rubber, drugs, vitamins, cosmetic products, perfumes, food products, synthetic threads and fibers, synthetic leathers, glues, pesticides and fertilizers.
US10189865B1
Gold(I) complexes as antiproliferative or antitumor agents. The gold(I) ion is connected to a N-heterocyclic carbene and further coordinated to a selone ligand. Also described are a pharmaceutical composition incorporating the gold(I) complex, a method of synthesizing the gold(I) complex, and a method for treating a proliferative disorder (e.g. cancer)
US10189859B2
The instant disclosure relates to (among other things) compounds that are derivatives of 6-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,4-triazin-5-amine. The compounds provided possess unique effects and differences over other phenyltriazines known in the art.
US10189858B2
The invention provides deuterium-enriched isoindolinonyl-piperidinonyl conjugates, deuterium-enriched oxoquinazolin-3(4H)-yl-piperidinonyl conjugates, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using such conjugates and pharmaceutical compositions to treat cancer, angiogenesis disorders, immune disorders, and other medical disorders.
US10189853B2
The present invention provides conformationally restricted 4-substituted 2,6-dimethylfuro[2,3-d]pyrimidine compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. Preferably, the compounds exhibit dual inhibition of microtubule assembly and receptor tyrosine kinases. Methods of treating cancer comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one conformationally restricted 4-substituted 2,6-dimethylfuro[2,3-d]pyrimidine compound to a patient is disclosed.
US10189846B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, thereof: which inhibit the protein(s) encoded by hepatitis B virus (HBV) or interfere with the function of the HBV life cycle of the hepatitis B virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HBV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HBV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.
US10189844B2
Compounds of formula (I) defined herein are phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3K) inhibitors and are useful for the treatment of disorders associated with PI3K enzymes.
US10189838B2
The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, W1, W2, W3, A and X are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds for the treatment and prophylaxis of respiratory syncytial virus infection.
US10189826B2
This disclosure provides compounds and methods of using those compounds to treat metabolic disorders and hyperproliferative disorders, including administration of the compounds in conjunction with hormone receptor antagonists.
US10189824B2
Provided are novel compounds of Formula (I): pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical composition thereof, which are useful as dual Hsp90/TRAP1 inhibitors. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the novel compounds of Formula (I) and their use in treating one or more cancers.
US10189822B2
Compounds that are fatty acid synthesis modulators are provided. The compounds may be used to treat disorders characterized by disregulation of the fatty acid synthase function by modulating the function and/or the fatty acid synthase pathway. Methods are provided for treating such disorders including viral infections, such as hepatitis C infection, cancer and metabolic disorders.
US10189820B2
Disclosed are compounds having the formula: wherein q, r, s, A, B, C, RA1, RA2, RB1, RB2, RC1, RC2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R14, R15, R16, and R17, are as defined herein, or a tautomer thereof, or a salt, particularly a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, thereof.
US10189817B2
The present invention provides a compound, solid forms, and compositions thereof, which are useful as inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase and which exhibit desirable characteristics for the same. The present invention also provides methods of making provided compound and solid forms.
US10189809B2
Compounds of Formula I are described. They are useful as stimulators of sGC, particularly NO-independent, heme-dependent stimulators. These compounds may be useful for treating, preventing or managing various disorders that are herein disclosed.
US10189805B2
Novel 2-substituted glutamylanides useful as modulators of ASCT2 inhibitors. Compounds of the present invention can be used to treat patients suffering from diseases caused or influenced by abnormal ASCT2 transporter dysfunction.
US10189804B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an excellent method for producing an excellent therapeutic agent.The solution of the present invention is as shown in the following scheme: wherein R1 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group, R2 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group, and R3 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group.
US10189803B2
Stereoselective and regioselective synthesis of compounds via nucleophilic ring opening reactions of aziridinium ions for use in stereoselective and regioselective synthesis of therapeutic and diagnostic compounds.
US10189787B2
The present application discloses compounds capable of modulating the activity of histone demethylases (HDMEs), which are useful for prevention and/or treatment of diseases in which genomic dysregulation is involved in the pathogenesis, such as e.g. cancer. The present application also discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds and the use of such compounds as a medicament. The compounds take the form
US10189776B2
The invention relates to a method for the stereoselective preparation of compounds of formula (IV).
US10189774B2
The invention provides compositions of novel high penetration compositions (HPC) or high penetration prodrugs (HPP) of mustards and mustard-related compounds, which are capable of crossing biological barriers with high penetration efficiency. The HPPs are capable of being converted to parent active drugs or drug metabolites after crossing the biological barrier and thus can render treatments for the conditions that the parent drugs or metabolites can. Additionally, the HPPs are capable of reaching areas that parent drugs may not be able to access or to render a sufficient concentration at the target areas and therefore render novel treatments. The HPPs can be administered to a subject through various administration routes, e.g., locally delivered to an action site of a condition with a high concentration or systematically administered to a biological subject and enter the general circulation with a faster rate.
US10189771B2
Protected photocrosslinkers and their use in two-stage photocuring of (meth)acrylate monomers is described.
US10189768B2
The present invention relates to a method for hydrogenolysis of alpha-hydroxy esters or acids, comprising reacting the alpha-hydroxy ester or acid in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst. The present invention also relates to a method for producing propionic acid ester, and the use of any of the methods for the production of propionic acid esters, such as alkyl propionate.
US10189766B2
A process for producing 2-ethylhexanal involves performing reaction using a reaction tank equipped with a gas-introducing mixer having extracting, exhausting, and stirring functions in the presence of a palladium on carbon catalyst having a carbon carrier with lower impurity content and higher specific surface area for hydrogenation, and introducing hydrogen gas evenly into reaction liquid; resulted in that the process minimizes operational pressure for hydrogenation and increases a yield of 2-ethylhexanal at least up to 98.0%.
US10189765B2
The present invention relates to a new process for the synthesis of 17β-hydroxy-des-A-androst-9,10-en-5-one, the compound of the following formula (1), which can be used as an intermediate in the synthesis of retroprogesterones.
US10189764B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, processes, and systems for utilizing the dehydrogenation of 2-butanol for hydrogen consuming reactions of biomass or biomass-derived molecules.
US10189760B2
Disclosed is a method for synthesizing a sitagliptin intermediate, the method comprising: in the presence of hydrogen and a transition metal catalyst having a chiral phosphine ligand, subjecting a compound of formula II to an asymmetric reductive amination with ammonia or ammonium salt in a proper organic solvent under the condition of adding an acidic additive to produce a compound of formula I, wherein, an R- or S-configuration of a stereocenter is represented by *; the compound of formula I of R configuration can be used to prepare sitagliptin, and a reaction formula is as follows: R1 and R2 are each independently selected from hydrogen, C1-C12 linear or branched alkyl, C3-C12 cycloalkyl, C2-C12 alkenyl, C2-C12 alkynyl and C7-C12 arylalkyl. The method has a high yield and a high ee % value, a mild reaction condition and a low production cost, and is simple to operate, convenient to purify, environmental friendly and suitable for industrial production.
US10189756B2
The present invention provides adiabatic plug flow reactors suitable for the production of chlorinated and/or fluorinated propene and higher alkenes from the reaction of chlorinated and/or fluorinated alkanes and chlorinated and/or fluorinated alkenes. The reactors comprise one or more designs that minimize the production of by-products at a desired conversion.
US10189754B2
A butadiene production system and a butadiene production method are provided in which butadiene can be produced with a high yield. The butadiene production system (1) includes: a gas preparation device (10) that heats raw materials to prepare a mixed gas including hydrogen and carbon monoxide; an ethanol production device (12) that is provided downstream of the gas preparation device (10) and brings the mixed gas including hydrogen and carbon monoxide into contact with a first catalyst to obtain ethanol; a butadiene production device (16) that is provided downstream of the ethanol production device (12) and brings the ethanol into contact with a second catalyst to obtain butadiene; and return means (18) for returning hydrogen, which is produced as a by-product in the butadiene production device (16), to the ethanol production device (12). In addition, in the butadiene production method, the butadiene production system (1) is used.
US10189744B2
Described is the use of a hardening composition for epoxide-amine-based, multicomponent mortar compositions, particularly the use of one of these epoxide-amine-based, multicomponent mortar compositions for chemical fastening purposes. The multicomponent mortar composition contains (A) a resin component, which comprises as a curable compound at least an epoxide resin and optionally at least one reactive diluent, and (B) a hardener component, which comprises a hybrid hardener, wherein the resin component (A) and/or the hardener component (B) optionally comprises other ingredients selected from among inorganic and/or organic compounds. The hybrid hardener is a mixture of (a) at least one amine, selected from among aliphatic, alicyclic, or aromatic amines, as a hardener, and (b) a novolac resin as catalyst, wherein the novolac resin is contained in a quantity of 30 to 45 percent by weight, relative to the total weight of the hybrid hardener. The use of the hybrid hardener results in a rapid curding of the multicomponent mortar composition, even at low temperatures, with a complete through-curing of the mortar composition. High load values of the cured mortar composition both at low temperatures (+5° C.) and at high temperatures (+50° C.) and improved creep resistance at high temperatures (+50° C.) are hereby achieved. In addition, one can entirely omit the use of free phenols.
US10189742B2
A composition for producing a glass fiber, including the following components with the corresponding percentage amounts by weight: SiO2: 58-62%; Al2O3: 14-18%; CaO+MgO: 20-24.5%; CaO: greater than 14%; Li2O: 0.01-0.5%; Na2O+K2O: less than 2%; TiO2: less than 3.5%; Fe2O3: less than 1%; and F2: less than 1%. The weight percentage ratio of CaO/MgO is greater than 2 and less than or equal to 2.6; and the weight percentage ratio SiO2/CaO is between 3.3 and 4.3. The invention also provides a glass fiber produced using the composition and a composite material including the glass fiber.
US10189737B2
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to systems and methods for forming an optical fiber in a low gravity environment, and an optical fiber formed in a low gravity environment. The system can include a preform holder configured to secure a preform; a heating element secured to a heating element stage and residing adjacent the preform holder; a heating element stage motor configured to move the heating element stage; a tension sensor; a spool; a spool tension motor coupled to the spool and configured to rotate the spool; and a control system communicably coupled to the heating element stage motor and the spool tension motor and configured to control the movement of the heating element stage based on a rotational speed of the spool. The optical fiber can include a fluoride composition, such ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF (ZBLAN), and can be characterized by an insertion loss in a range from 13 dB/1000 km to 120 dB/1000 km.
US10189734B2
An apparatus for the treatment and transformation of municipal wastewater sludge or any other organic putrescible matter into biogas and liquid fertilizer by methanation. Several consecutive floating cylindrical bioreactors almost totally immersed in water, are bathing longitudinally in a thermally insulated basin to maintain set temperatures, mixing their contents by revolving on themselves by the action of air ejected from a conduit underneath them, engaging all elements in a collective momentum, from a multiplied force, because of the constant free power of each air bubble lodged in exterior buckets and grouped as a lifting force. The gas produced by methanation of the organic waste furnishes a source of heat and its pressure is used for the functioning of the whole apparatus, including several types of pumps, valves, and a new model of steam engine. A network of hoses is provided to bring the fertilizer to the farmlands.
US10189729B2
Method and apparatus for preventing mold growth in the reservoir of a food waste recycling appliance
A method and apparatus for operating a food waste recycling appliance includes a food waste recycling container, a condensate reservoir, a first fluid pathway fluidly coupling the food waste recycling chamber and the condensate reservoir, and a fan moving air from the food waste recycling chamber to the condensate reservoir along the first fluid pathway to define a first airflow.
