US10248552B2
There is provided a computer-implemented method of testing an application. The method obtains first temporary test scripts for testing at least one test case of a first version of the application, and the first temporary test scripts are recorded with first mark data used for testing the first version of the application. The method obtains a first correspondence between the first mark data and test data. The method substitutes the test data for the first mark data in the first temporary test scripts based on the first correspondence to obtain first test scripts for testing the at least one test case of the first version of the application.
US10248543B2
Systems and methods for functionally testing software using computer vision. Systems can include a functional testing computer vision system and a computer vision-based functional testbed system. Methods can include generating a computer vision-based testing package and functionally testing software on at least one virtualized testbed machine using the computer vision-based testing package.
US10248536B2
According to an aspect of some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a method for verifying correctness of application configuration of an application, comprising: for each of baseline and changed source codes of an application analyzing a graph representation of an execution flow of a plurality of application functionalities performed by execution of the respective source code to identify a plurality of functional dependencies between source code segments of the baseline source code and a plurality of functional dependencies between source code segments of the changed source code, wherein each of the functional dependencies is at least one of data dependency and control dependency, identifying a configuration discrepancy according to a match between functional dependencies of the changed source code when compared to the baseline source code, and producing a notification when the configuration discrepancy is found and is not permitted by the configuration.
US10248533B1
A computer-implemented method for determining features of a dataset that are indicative of anomalous behavior of one or more computers in a large group of computers comprises (1) receiving log files including a plurality of entries of data regarding connections between a plurality of computers belonging to an organization and a plurality of websites outside the organization, each entry being associated with the actions of one computer, (2) executing a time series decomposition algorithm on a portion of the features of the data to generate a first list of features, (3) implementing a plurality of traffic dispersion graphs to generate a second list of features, and (4) implementing an autoencoder and a random forest regressor to generate a third list of features.
US10248528B2
A system monitoring method and apparatus comprises: collecting periodically status indicator data of a monitored system to generate a status indicator data sequence; selecting predetermined pieces of status indicator data according to data collecting time in a reverse chronological order; determining a category from predetermined categories, the predetermined pieces of status indicator data belonging to the determined category; selecting, from the historical status indicator data, status indicator data belonging to the determined category and obtained in a collection period as characteristic data of the determined category; calculating a predicted value of a status indicator of the system at a predicting moment using the characteristic data; and determining whether the system is abnormal, based on a difference between the calculated predicted value and a true value of the status indicator of the system collected at the predicting moment. The present implementation can accurately find the abnormality of the system rapidly.
US10248508B1
A data validation service may validate data sets maintained for one or more data sources. Several rule sets may describe various rules used to validate one or more data sets. The rule sets may be automatically applied to respective data sets in order to validate the respective data sets according to a dynamically determined schedule for the application of the rule sets. Reporting events may be detected which correspond to a rule set. In response to detecting a reporting event, a responsive action may be performed as described in the rule set, such as providing notification of the reporting event.
US10248507B1
Technologies are disclosed for validation of condition-sensitive messages (or other electronic files) in distributed asynchronous message workflows. An asynchronous message processing system includes a message producer configured to generate an original message that includes at least one attribute related to a time of arrival of the original message at a message publishing service. A validation service is also included that initially validates a current time and generates alternatives for the original message. The alternatives for the original message are based upon a plurality of potential times of arrival. A gatekeeper service selects one of (i) the original message or (ii) one of the alternatives for the original message based upon a time of arrival. The selected message or alternative for the original message is provided to the message publishing service to publish the selected one of the original message or the selected alternative for the original message to an entity.
US10248504B2
A method includes identifying resources that are affiliated with a range of slice names of a listing request. The method further includes creating an ordered classification of the resources. The method further includes a resource determining whether it is in a last class of the ordered classification. When the resource is in the last class, it processes the listing request to generate a listing response and sends the listing response to another resource in a next lower class. When the resource is not in the last class, it identifies a second resource for proxying of the listing request and sends the listing request to the second resource. The method further includes receiving a cumulated listing response from the second resource. The method further includes processing the listing request to generate the listing response. The method further includes combining the listing response with the cumulated listing response.
US10248486B2
Various systems and methods for providing a memory monitor are provided herein. An integrated circuit and memory are disposed in a computer system. The integrated circuit to monitor main memory includes: a detection circuit to detect that the computer system enters a sleep state; a test circuit to test for the presence of the main memory; and a recovery circuit to perform a recovery process when the test fails.
US10248479B2
The arithmetic processing device includes a first memory control unit configured to control an access to a first memory, a second memory control unit configured to control an access to a second memory. The arithmetic processing device further includes a diagnostic control unit configured to sequentially diagnose parts within the first memory via the first memory control unit, and configured to sequentially store in the second memory via the second memory control unit, diagnostic results of sequentially diagnosing the parts in parallel with the diagnosing the parts via the first memory control unit.
US10248477B2
A system, method and computer program product are provided for sharing information in an automobile vehicle comprising: receiving information in the form of a packet data unit representing datum information carried by an overall message from a first physical network selected from the group consisting of FlexRay, Controller Area Network, Local Interconnect Network and Media Oriented Systems Transport; in response to the receipt of the information, issuing a storage resource request in connection with a storage resource; determining whether the storage resource is available for storing the information; determining whether a threshold has been reached in association with the storage resource request; in the event the storage resource is not available and the threshold associated with the storage resource request has not been reached, issuing another storage resource request in connection with the storage resource; in the event the storage resource is available, storing the information in the storage resource; and sharing the stored information with at least one of a plurality of heterogeneous processes including at least one process associated with a second physical network selected from the group consisting of FlexRay, Controller Area Network, Local Interconnect Network and Media Oriented Systems Transport, utilizing a network protocol different from a protocol of the first physical network.
US10248460B2
A management computer communicates with a host computer and a storage device, and is provided with a memory and a CPU. The memory stores configuration information which includes information about a plurality of storage media having different performance levels provided in the host computer and the storage device, and which associates storage regions provided by the storage media with the host computer. If the CPU receives a request for allocation of a storage region to the host computer, and which includes information about access characteristics of the host computer and the capacity of the storage region to be allocated, the CPU refers to the configuration information, selects a storage medium that provides a storage region having the requested capacity, from among the storage media and the host computer, and generates and outputs a configuration scheme for allocating a storage region from the selected storage medium to the host computer.
US10248458B2
A control method executed by a control device, the control method including identifying a specified time period based on execution history information on previous jobs related to the plurality of systems, the specified time period being a period prior to execution start timing of a first job, update processing for a data storage area from which the first job refers to data is not executed during the specified time period, performing control so that evaluation timing of an amount of the data that the first job refers to from the data storage area is included in the identified time period, determining a specified system among from the plurality of systems based on the amount of the data evaluated at the evaluation timing, and causing the specified system to execute the first job.
US10248449B1
System for launching application containers inside VMs without data duplication, includes first and second VMs on a host; a storage to which the host has access; a container generation module running on the host and configured to interface to VM-side container generation daemons in the VMs; the container generation daemons transmits to the container generation module a request to pull container layers; a host-side container generation daemon processes the request to pull the container layers from the container generation daemons running inside the VMs; and a DAX device residing on each of the VMs. The host container generation daemon sends the request for any missing container layers to a registry, and writes them onto the storage, maps the layers to the VMs as the DAX devices, maps all needed container layers to the first VM and maps any identical container layers to the second VM, without accessing the registry.
US10248447B2
A method relates to receiving, by a processing device of a host computer system executing a hypervisor, a network packet from a virtual port associated with a virtual machine managed by the hypervisor, generating a metadata item associated with the network packet, the metadata item comprising an identifier of the virtual port, recording the metadata item in a data structure identifying an address space of the hypervisor, determining, in view of the metadata item, a transmission mode to transmit the network packet, wherein the transmission mode is represented by at least one of a link aggregation mode or a high availability mode, identifying a network interface controller (NIC) of the host machine for processing the network packet according to the transmission mode, transmitting the network packet to the NIC.
US10248443B2
An example system and method for facilitating virtual cable modem termination system (VCMTS) migration in cable modem network environments is provided and includes spawning, by an orchestration component executing using a processor, a first instance of a virtual network function (VNF) on a first server in a cable modem network, storing state of the first instance as state information in an external database, spawning a second instance of the VNF on a different second server, synchronizing state of the second instance with the state information stored in the external database, and deleting the first instance. In specific embodiments, the VNF comprises a VCMTS.
US10248441B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving, by a first device, metadata describing a first action of a plurality of actions performed on a second device, identifying a target object of the first action based on the metadata describing the first action, and outputting, by the first device: a sequence of images depicting performance of the first action on the second device, a textual instruction specifying how to perform the first action on the first device proximate to the target object, and an audio instruction specifying how to perform the first action on the first device.
US10248434B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to launch an application. In some aspects, a plurality of process classes is configured. Each of the plurality of process classes includes one or more applications. Each of the process classes is configured to be associated with a template process. Each template process is associated with a different randomized memory layout. A launch request for an application is received. A process class that is associated with the application is determined in response to the launching request. The application is launched using the template process associated with the determined process class.
US10248433B2
A network management apparatus and method for remotely controlling a state of an IT device in order to use WOL to change a remote device from an inactive state to an active state over an IP network. The network management apparatus includes a detection pattern generator, a remote state controller, and a wake-up cause analyzer. By activating an inactivated PC connected over an IP network and positioned at a remote site using WOL to control a state of another IT device interoperating through the IP network as well as a state of the PC, it is possible to inactivate the device without unnecessarily having to leave the device on and then control the device as necessary, thereby reducing power consumption of the device and extending a lifetime of the device.
US10248430B2
One or more embodiments here relate to a processing platform for performing channel management and channel monitoring of a control channel. The processing platform includes a first microcontroller comprising a first core. The processing platform includes a second microcontroller comprising a second core. The second microcontroller is dissimilar to the first microcontroller. The first core is in an active state to perform the channel management of the control channel. The second core is in a monitor state to perform the channel monitoring of the control channel.
US10248419B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for accelerating sorting of data are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes retrieving a plurality of cache lines of data from an input buffer, wherein each cache line comprises a plurality of elements, scattering the plurality of elements of each retrieved cache line into a plurality of bins, wherein said scattering comprises using one or more vector instructions, forming a bin cache line in a corresponding one of the plurality of bins, wherein the bin cache line comprises a group of the plurality of elements which were scattered to the corresponding one of the plurality of bins, writing the bin cache line from the corresponding one of the plurality of bins to a memory, and loading the bin cache line from the memory to the input buffer.
US10248418B2
Aspects include a computer-implemented method for receiving an instruction at a processor, the instruction associated with a memory block having an address. A clear indicator that indicates whether the memory block is in a cleared state is assessed by the processor. The cleared state is a state of the memory block in which the memory block does not have any data stored therein. The method also includes determining based on the clear indicator whether the memory block is in the cleared state.
US10248416B2
Embodiments include systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation for enhancing code review throughput based on separate developer and reviewer profiles. The operation generally includes receiving source code from a first user, determining a set of coding attributes associated with the first user from the first user's developer profile, and determining, for each of one or more second users, coding review attributes associated with the second user from the second user's reviewer profile. The operation further includes evaluating the coding review attributes based on a proficiency score assigned to each coding review attribute. The proficiency score for each coding review attribute indicates a proficiency of the second user in reviewing a coding attribute from the set of coding attributes. The operation further includes selecting at least one of the second users to review the first user's source code based in part on the evaluation.
US10248408B2
A zero downtime upgrade of a source system to a target system is initiated. The source system and the target system operate in a first database layer and a second database layer. Thereafter, differences in structure and/or database type are computed between a source table in the source system and a target table in the target system in each of the two different database layers. The data is then migrated, using the computing differences and in the second database layer, from the source table to the target table. The upgrade procedure is later terminated after completion of the migration of the data. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10248405B2
A method for updating firmware of a vehicle via an air interface, in which data are exchanged with a backend via the air interface through a connection module, the data are managed by a data management module inside the vehicle, the connection module and the data management module are coordinated by a coordination layer, the connection module and the coordination layer are monitored by a monitoring layer, and the data are requested as needed by the coordination layer for an installation.
US10248403B2
Systems and methods for providing an update to a natively rendered application installed on a mobile device are provided. A method includes sending a message to a server, wherein the message includes identifying information about the application. The method also includes receiving an update from the server in response to the message, wherein the update comprises a module of code that corresponds to less than the entire application. The method further includes updating the application using the received update. The method additionally includes executing the application after the updating. The method also includes, based on the executing the application, natively rendering the application using the operating system of the mobile device.
US10248401B1
A method for installation of user device configured web applications includes receiving a request to install a web application, determining if the request is from a user device or a sync server, determining information about the web application based on at least one of a configuration, a platform and a setting associated with the user device, revising the determined information about the web application if the request is from the sync server, determining a logical location of stored files based on the web application and at least one of the configuration, the platform and the setting associated with the user device, and installing the web application using files stored in the determined logical location.
US10248397B2
Exemplary embodiments for deploying code in a computing sysplex environment are provided. In one embodiment, by way of example only, a system-wide trending mechanism is applied. At least one of an idle time and a low Central Processing Unit (CPU) utilization time of one system in the sysplex environment is matched with an estimated deployment time obtained from at least one of a latest measured period of time and a calculated time trend. A system-wide coordinating mechanism is applied. A staggered code deployment operation is recommended for at least one node of the system at an optimum system time generated from the matching.
US10248396B1
A system for conducting a code review of program source code including translation of content in the program source code may include a source control system. The system may also include a resource file translator to facilitate translation of the content from a first language into second languages. Upon receipt of a code review request, the source control system may notify a workflow manager that the resource files contain the content for translation, and the workflow manager may notify a resource file translator that the program source code contains the content for translation. The resource file translator may cause translation of the resource files into translated resource files. The source control system may receive program source code under review from a code reviewer interface, and the resource file translator may update the program source code under review with the translated resource files.
US10248395B2
A method comprising of analyzing and transforming a program executable at compile-time such that a processor design objective is optimized. A method including analyzing an executable to estimate energy consumption of an application component in a processor. A method including transforming an executable to reduce energy consumption in a processor. A processor framework controlled by compiler inserted control that statically exposes parallelism in an instruction sequence. A processor framework to reduce energy consumption in an instruction memory system with compiler inserted control.
US10248386B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating software complexes. In one aspect, a method includes defining a software complex that is to include a group of software members that share information inherent to the software complex and act on that information. The defining includes receiving selections of design aspects as superordinate design inputs for the software complex and storing the superordinate design inputs in a source data store. The superordinate design inputs are compiled in the source data store using a software complex architectural language compiler. An in-memory model of the software complex is generated as an output of the compilation. Software member emitters are selected. For each selected software member emitter, a software member of the defined type of the selected software member emitter is generated.
US10248377B2
A photoinduction loudspeaker, photoinduction loudspeaker control method and apparatus are provided. The photoinduction loudspeaker includes a loudspeaker and a photoinduction device. The photoinduction device is configured to acquire a light intensity value of an ambient environment where the loudspeaker is located and the photoinduction device transmits the light intensity value to the loudspeaker. The loudspeaker controls its own playing status based on the light intensity value. The photoinduction loudspeaker in the present invention is capable of identifying the ambient environment for selecting its own playing status based on the ambient environment in order to provide more intelligent service for a user.
US10248369B2
The invention relates to a method of assigning a print job to a print job queue of a printer, the method comprising the steps of displaying an overview of print job queue representations on a user interface system, each print job queue representation suitable for showing image items representing print jobs in a print job queue dedicated to a printer of a plurality of printers, selecting a first image item of the overview of print job representation, the image item representing a first print job residing in a first print job queue of which a print job queue representation is displayed in the overview, the first print job queue dedicated to a first printer of the plurality, dragging the first image item to a second print job queue representation displayed in the overview, the second print job queue representation representing a second print job queue dedicated to a second printer of the plurality, dropping the first image item on the second print job queue representation displayed in the overview, removing the first print job from the first print job queue, adding the first print job to the second print job queue, and placing the first image item in the second print job queue representation, wherein the method comprises the step of during dragging of the first image item and before dropping of the first image item providing visual feedback of the impact of at least one of the steps according to the method. The invention also relates to a print fleet system configured to apply the method according to the invention.
US10248362B2
Managing data stored in at least one Data Storage Device (DSD) includes generating a Linear Tape File System (LTFS) write or read command including an LTFS block address. The generated LTFS command is for writing or reading data in an LTFS data partition, writing or reading metadata in the LTFS data partition, or writing or reading metadata in an LTFS index partition. The LTFS block address is translated to a device address for the at least one DSD using state metadata representing a state of the LTFS data partition and/or a state of the LTFS index partition. The data or the metadata is written or read in the at least one DSD at the device address.
US10248359B2
A system, method and apparatus directed to fast data storage on a block storage device. New data is written to an empty write block. If the new data is compressible, a compressed version of the new is written into the meta data. A location of the new data is tracked. Meta data associated with the new data is written. A lookup table may be updated based in part on the meta data. The new data may be read based the lookup table configured to map a logical address to a physical address. Disk operations may use state data associated with the meta data to determine the empty write block. A write speed-limit may also be determined based on a lifetime period, a number of life cycles and a device-erase-sector-count for the device. A write speed for the device may be slowed based on the determined write speed-limit.
US10248358B2
An memory component includes a memory bank and a command interface to receive a read-modify-write command, having an associated read address indicating a location in the memory bank and to either access read data from the location in the memory bank indicated by the read address after an adjustable delay period transpires from a time at which the read-modify-write command was received or to overlap multiple read-modify-write commands. The memory component further includes a data interface to receive write data associated with the read-modify-write command and an error correction circuit to merge the received write data with the read data to form a merged data and write the merged data to the location in the memory bank indicated by the read address.
US10248357B2
A data storage system may have a first data storage device and a second data storage device connected with a host via a network. The network can consist of a network controller having a message module that generates a buffer progression plan and then assigns a first system message to a first buffer and first computing unit of the first data storage device and assigns a second system message to a second buffer and second computing unit of the second data storage device. The respective first and second computing units may then service the first and second system messages.
US10248354B2
A hypervisor manages a read buffer, a write buffer and a queuing buffer in a memory used jointly by the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine, the read buffer, the write buffer and the queuing buffer having the same size. The hypervisor assigns the read buffer to a read area readable by the first virtual machine, assigns the write buffer to a write area writable by the second virtual machine and assigns the queuing buffer to a queuing area of the memory that is inaccessible to the first virtual machine and to the second virtual machine. In response to a first request by the first virtual machine, the hypervisor performs a reader-side exchange of the read buffer for the queuing buffer and in response to a second request by the second virtual machine, the hypervisor performs a writer-side exchange of the write buffer for the queuing buffer.
US10248352B2
There is disclosed a method performed by a computer system for managing a location of an object in a hierarchical storage that includes a plurality of storage layers. In the method, the computer system receives a selection of one storage layer for storing a selected object from among the plurality of the storage layers via a network connected to the computer system. The computer system also moves the selected object to the one storage layer from other storage layer currently that stores the selected object among the plurality of the storage layers. The computer system further excludes the selected object from targets of a predetermined space management that is being applied to objects in the hierarchical storage.
US10248351B1
One embodiment provides a memory controller. The memory controller includes a memory controller circuitry and a set pulse determination circuitry. The memory controller circuitry is to identify an address of a target memory cell to be set. The set pulse determination circuitry is to select a positive polarity set pulse if the target memory cell is included in a positive polarity deck or to select a negative polarity set pulse if the target memory cell is included in a negative polarity deck. Each set pulse includes a respective nucleation portion and a respective growth portion. Each portion has a respective current amplitude and a respective time duration.
US10248350B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a queue management method. The method includes writing a PD queue to a DRAM, where the PD queue includes multiple PDs, and the multiple PDs correspond one-to-one to multiple packets included in a first packet queue. The method also includes writing at least one PD in the PD queue to an SRAM, where the at least one PD includes a queue head of the PD queue. Correspondingly, the embodiments of the present invention further disclose a queue management apparatus.
US10248344B2
A control device of the present invention includes: a storage part which retains a storage device list including an operation performance of each storage device and a power consumption corresponding to the operation performance; and a configuration determination part which, on the basis of the storage device list, determines a storage device combination configuration realizing the minimum power consumption of the whole logical volume formed of a combination of storage devices when the logical volume operates under a set operation performance condition.
US10248343B2
Techniques to utilize a very low power state with a memory subsystem that includes one or more non-volatile memory devices and a volatile memory system. A memory controller is coupled with the one or more non-volatile memory devices and the volatile memory system. The memory controller comprising at least an embedded control agent and memory locations to store state information. The memory controller to selectively enable and disable the one or more non-volatile memory devices. The memory controller transfers the state information to the volatile memory system prior to entering a low power state. Control circuitry is coupled with the memory controller. The control circuitry to selectively enable and disable operation of the memory controller.
US10248342B2
A system includes a memory controller and a memory device having a command interface and a plurality of memory banks, each with a plurality of rows of memory cells. The memory controller transmits an auto-refresh command to the memory device. Responsive to the auto-refresh command, during a first time interval, the memory device performs refresh operations to refresh the memory cells and the command interface of the memory device is placed into a calibration mode for the duration of the first time interval. Concurrently, during at least a portion of the first time interval, the memory controller performs a calibration of the command interface of the memory device. The auto-refresh command may specify an order in which memory banks of the memory device are to be refreshed, such that the memory device sequentially refreshes a respective row in the plurality of memory banks in the specified bank order.
US10248340B2
A memory module may be provided. The memory module may include a normal memory device, a spare memory device, and a row hammering determination circuit. The row hammering determination circuit may be configured to control the spare memory device to perform a data input and output operation, instead of a data input and output operation with the normal memory device in which row hammering has occurred.
US10248337B2
According to one embodiment, a hardware-based processing node of a plurality of hardware-based processing nodes in an object memory fabric can comprise a memory module storing and managing a plurality of memory objects in a hierarchy of the object memory fabric. Each memory object can be created natively within the memory module, accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions, and managed by the memory module at a single memory layer. The object memory fabric can utilize a memory fabric protocol between the hardware-based processing node and one or more other nodes of the plurality of hardware-based processing nodes to distribute and track the memory objects across the object memory fabric. The memory fabric protocol can be utilized across a dedicated link or across a shared link between the hardware-based processing node and one or more other nodes of the plurality of hardware-based processing nodes.
US10248336B1
Efficient deletion of a shared snapshot and other workflows are described herein, including: determining to delete a shared snapshot associated with a first container, wherein the shared snapshot shares with a second container at least a subset of data values that are stored by the shared snapshot, the determination is based at least in part on the shared snapshot sharing data values with not more than a prescribed number of containers other than the second container and an occurrence of a deletion triggering event; and causing zero or more data values that are stored by the shared snapshot and shared with the second container to be associated with the second container prior to deleting the shared snapshot.
US10248335B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for backing up data in a backup storage space. A computer receives a request for backing up a second data file, wherein the second data file is created from a first data file. The computer determines whether a third data file satisfies one or more of predetermined conditions for backup; wherein the third data file is generated when the second data file is created from the first data file and the third data file comprises information for creating the second data file from the first data file. In response to determining that the third data file satisfies the one or more of the predetermined conditions for backup, the computer backs up the third data file, without backing up the second data file.
US10248329B2
A method of improving access to a main memory of a computer system includes providing a main memory including at least a first memory of a first memory configuration and a second memory of a second memory configuration, and providing a choice between the first memory and the second memory for access to the main memory, wherein access to the first memory and access to the second memory can be distinguished by the choice depending on the respective access behavior of the first memory and of the second memory, and the choice is provided by a running application program.
US10248328B2
A computer system comprises a processor, a memory module and input/output devices. The memory module includes a circuit board, a volatile memory unit mounted on the circuit board, a non-volatile memory unit mounted on the circuit board and a control circuit mounted on the circuit board. The volatile memory unit comprises DRAM devices, and the non-volatile memory unit comprises flash memory. The processor is configured to execute an operating system (OS) and an application program and to present a memory address space to the application program. The memory address space including a memory mapped input/output (MMIO) space mapped to the I/O devices, a pseudo MMIO (PMMIO) space mapped to the non-volatile memory unit, and a DRAM space mapped to the volatile memory unit, the PMMIO space including a system main memory local storage (MMLS) area and a memory channel storage area, wherein the DRAM space is partitioned into memory pages, and the MCS space is partitioned into storage blocks.
US10248327B2
A semiconductor memory system and an operating method thereof include: a memory device; and a memory controller including a processor, coupled to the memory device, containing instructions executed by the processor, and configured to provide sets of throttling numbers, select a throttling mode, calculate a garbage collection (GC)/HOST ratio based on at least a part of invalid count of garbage collection (GC) blocks and valid count of BGC blocks, and adjust throttling parameters of commands in accordance with the GC/HOST ratio and a number of erased blocks.
US10248324B2
A secure parallel processing technique for converting any parallel random access machine (PRAM) into an oblivious parallel random access machine (OPRAM), whose distribution of memory accesses is statistically independent of the data (with negligible error), while only inducing a polylogarithmic slowdown to both the total and parallel complexities of the program.
US10248320B2
A method and associated systems for a workload-aware thin-provisioning system that allocates physical storage to virtual resources from pools of physical storage volumes. The system receives constraints that limit the amount of storage that can be allocated from each pool and the total workload that can be directed to each pool. It also receives lists of previous workloads and allocations associated with each volume at specific times in the past. The system then predicts future workloads and allocation requirements for each volume by regressing linear equations derived from the received data. If the predicted values indicate that a pool will at a future time violate a received constraint, the system computes the minimum costs to move each volume of the offending pool to a less-burdened pool. It then selects the lowest-cost combination of volume and destination pool and then moves the selected volume to the selected pool.
US10248316B1
A method and system for writing data, including receiving a request to store a file, where the request has context information. The method further includes generating a metadata portion based on the context information, dividing the file into a plurality of data portions, generating a plurality of blocks where each of the plurality of blocks has the metadata portion and one of the plurality of data portions, and storing the plurality of blocks in a storage array.
US10248313B2
In some examples, a computing device includes at least one processor; and at least one module, operable by the at least one processor to: output, for display at an output device, a graphical keyboard; receive an indication of a gesture detected at a location of a presence-sensitive input device, wherein the location of the presence-sensitive input device corresponds to a location of the output device that outputs the graphical keyboard; determine, based on at least one spatial feature of the gesture that is processed by the computing device using a neural network, at least one character string, wherein the at least one spatial feature indicates at least one physical property of the gesture; and output, for display at the output device, based at least in part on the processing of the at least one spatial feature of the gesture using the neural network, the at least one character string.
US10248312B2
The claimed subject matter is directed to providing feedback in a touch screen device in response to an actuation of a virtual unit in a virtual input device. Specifically, the claimed subject matter provides a method and system for providing visual feedback in response to an actuation of a virtual key in a virtual keyboard. One embodiment of the claimed subject matter is implemented as a method for providing luminescent feedback in response to an actuation of a virtual key in a virtual keyboard. User input in a virtual keyboard corresponding to a virtual key is received. The corresponding virtual key is actuated and registered in response to the user input, and a luminescent feedback is displayed to the user as confirmation of the actuation of the virtual key.
US10248300B2
Techniques are described for polymorph rendering of objects in a collaborative platform and/or other environments, through which the same object is presented differently in the user interface depending on which perspective is being used to render the object. In some implementations, the platform supports multiple renderers and each renderer is associated with a particular perspective. Polymorph rendering may also be described as adaptive rendering, given that the presentation of an object may be adapted to the particular accessors of a work routine, and such adaptation is achieved through use of different renderers to render the object according to different perspectives. A particular renderer can be written once and added to the platform, and that renderer may be applied to a variety of objects. Tools may also be rendered according to various perspectives, given that tools also support the normalized object contract and at least expose the mandatory perspectives.
US10248298B2
Interactive content may be presented to a user that is manipulating a peripheral. One or more state parameters that are related to the position of the peripheral may be determined. The peripheral may be identified from a plurality of possible peripherals. The interactive content may be adjusted based at least in part on the one or more position parameters and/or the identification of the peripheral. Haptic feedback to be provided to the user may be determined based at least in part on the one or more position parameters and/or the identification of the peripheral.
US10248296B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for editing a display of a touch display apparatus. A first screen including at least one object is displayed. An object on the first screen is designated. The touch display apparatus is converted to an edit mode for editing the display, when the object is designated. When a movement of the touch display apparatus is detected, the first screen is converted into a second screen according to at least one of a degree and a direction of the movement. The designated object is displayed on the second screen.
US10248294B2
A modal-less save interface enables a user to provide a filename under which to save a document at any time during operation of the application, without interrupting other user tasks of the application. The user inputs a filename and performs a save operation on a document without navigating menu items or launching a modal window. The modal-less save interface may be provided in a portion of the main application window. For example, the modal-less save interface may be presented in a toolbar, taskbar, status bar, window pane, or sidebar. An application may feature a modal-less access control interface. The modal-less access control interface may be provided in a portion of the main application window. The access control interface may comprise a control, such as link, button, checkbox, text box, or pull-down menu. Upon selection of the control, the application sets one or more access control levels for the current document.
US10248292B2
In the prior art, in electronic picture books having a functionality in which scrolling is performed such that an image seems to be moved when a screen is stroked by a hand, it has not been possible to achieve a special representation that greatly surprises the reader by using the scroll functionality. To solve this problem, provided herein is an electronic picture book in which a partial range of an image is displayed and a display range of the image changes due to the screen being stroked by a hand, shapes, colors, and special effects of element images sequentially change in coordination with change to the display range, and a manner and an extent of the change differ depending on the element image. Moreover, the shapes, colors, and special effects of these element images also undergo a different change in coordination with elapsing of time.
US10248285B2
A method of displaying images on an immersive display. The method includes receiving information from an external sensor or input device of the immersive display, based on the information received, detecting an object that conflicts with a virtual reality space, adjusting at least one dimension of virtual reality space to provide an adjusted virtual reality for display on the immersive display to accommodate for the object, and displaying the adjusted virtual reality on the display of the immersive display.
US10248284B2
To prompt input and provide feedback on input to a user with an interface, inputs and graphical cursors associated with those inputs are defined. Each input may have several forms such as base, hover, engaged, completed, and error. User input is anticipated. The base form of the anticipated input cursor is displayed to prompt the user for the anticipated input. If user hover is detected that matches anticipated input, the hover form is displayed to confirm the match to the user. If user input is detected that matches anticipated input, the engaged form is displayed as confirmation. If user input is completed that matches anticipated input, the completed form is displayed as confirmation. If user hover or input does not match anticipated input, the error form is displayed to indicate mismatch. Not all cursors must have all forms, and some cursors may have multiples of some forms.
US10248274B2
A multi-layer conductive coating is substantially transparent to visible light, contains at least one conductive layer comprising silver that is sandwiched between at least a pair of dielectric layers, and may be used as an electrode and/or conductive trace in a capacitive touch panel. The multi-layer conductive coating may contain a dielectric layer(s), and may be used in applications such as capacitive touch panels for controlling showers, appliances, vending machines, electronics, electronic devices, and/or the like. In certain example embodiments, different electrodes of the touch panel may be formed by different silver based layers of the same or different multi-layer coatings. In patterning the electrodes, different laser scribing wavelengths may be used to pattern different respective silver based layers, of the same or different multi-layer coating(s), in certain example embodiments.
US10248273B2
A stylus and touch sensitive device are disclosed. The stylus includes a stylus transmitter for transmitting a stylus signal. The touch sensitive device includes row conductors, each of which is associated with a row transmitter and a row receiver. The row transmitter is adapted to simultaneously transmit row signals, each on its associated row conductor, each of the row signals being orthogonal to each other of the plurality of row signals transmitted on each other of the row conductors. The row receiver is adapted to detect the stylus signal. Column conductors are provided, each associated with a column receiver that is adapted to detect the presence of each of the row signals transmitted by the row transmitter and the stylus signal.
US10248272B2
The present disclosure provides a touch substrate and a touch screen, which belongs to the field of touch technology. The touch substrate includes a touch region and a black matrix pattern surrounding the touch region, the touch substrate including a plurality of touch electrode patterns, wherein the touch electrode pattern includes a first portion overlapped on the black matrix pattern, and wherein in the first portion, if an included angle formed by a first edge and an extending line of a second edge is less than 120°, the first edge and the second edge are formed to be connected with at least one third edge, such that included angles between two edges adjacent to each other among the first edge, the second edge and the third edge are greater than 120°.
US10248254B1
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device and a force touch method thereof. The display panel includes a plurality of force sensors disposed in a display area and a touch electrode including a plurality of touch electrode blocks. Each of the plurality of force sensors includes four force electrodes sequentially interconnected end-to-end, which are a first force electrode, a second force electrode, a third force electrode and a fourth force electrode. One or more of the plurality of touch electrode blocks each are frame-shaped electrodes and each of the plurality of force sensors corresponds to a respective one of the frame-shaped electrodes. Each of the frame-shaped electrodes is provided with a hollow area, and each of the plurality of force sensors is disposed in the hollow area of the respective frame-shaped electrode thereof. The display panel is applied in a display device.
US10248240B2
A touch substrate and a method for forming the same, and a touch display device are provided, relating to the field of display technology. The touch substrate includes a touch region and a light-shielding region surrounding the touch region, a light-shielding pattern is arranged at the light-shielding region; the touch substrate further includes a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode crossing each other and insulated from each other and virtual electrodes at regions defined by the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode, and each virtual electrode is spaced apart from the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode; the first touch electrode, the second touch electrode and the virtual electrodes contact the light-shielding pattern; portions of adjacent virtual electrodes at the light-shielding region are connected to each other via a first bridge, the first bridge is insulated from the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode; and a first ground wire is arranged at the light-shielding region, and the first ground wire is electrically connected to the virtual electrodes connected to each other via the first bridge.
US10248230B2
A window panel for a display apparatus is provided comprising a first reinforced layer formed at a first predetermined depth from entire upper and lower surfaces, a second reinforced layer formed at a second predetermined depth from a side surface connecting an edge of the upper surface and an edge of the lower surface, and a non-reinforced portion formed at at least a portion of the side surface.
US10248228B2
An operation member 30 of an operation input device 20 includes a finger sensor 54 adapted to detect each of a plurality of fingers gripping the operation member 30. A controller 36 specifies the number of gripping fingers Ngf which is the number of fingers 300 gripping the operation member 30 based on the detection result of the finger sensor 54 and switches, in accordance with the number of gripping fingers Ngf, a type of an operation command corresponding to the operation input.
US10248227B2
A wearable terminal device includes a display section configured to display a display image and a processing section. The processing section performs processing for displaying any one kind of information among information of a first information type to information of an N-th information type in respective display regions of first to M-th display regions obtained by dividing the display image, when the display image is switched from a first display image to a second display image, changes the size of at least an i-th display region among the first to M-th display regions, in the first display image, performs processing for displaying information of a j-th information type in the i-th display region at a first information verbosity, and, in the second display image, performs processing for displaying the information of the j-th information type in the i-th display region, the size of which is changed, at a second information verbosity different from the first information verbosity.
US10248222B2
An event signal processing method and an event-based sensor performing the event signal processing method are provided. The event signal processing method includes receiving an activation signal to indicate sensing of an event from a sensor array, increasing the cumulative event number of a sensing area corresponding to the activation signal among sensing areas of the sensor array, reducing the cumulative event number of each of the sensing areas based on a parameter; and determining, as a flickering area, a sensing area among the sensing areas, of which the cumulative event number exceeds a threshold.
US10248205B2
An apparatus comprising: at least one first input configured to receive at least one first sensor signal, the at least one first sensor signal having a first modality; at least one second input configured to receive at least one second sensor signal, the at least one second sensor signal having a second modality different from the first modality; and a codec configured to generate at least one meta signal comprising and stored using separate resources the at least one first sensor signal and the at least one second sensor signal.
US10248203B2
Systems and methods for physics-based tactile messaging are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of receiving a sensor signal from a sensor configured to sense a physical interaction with a messaging device; determining an interaction between one or more virtual message objects and a virtual message environment, the interaction based at least in part on the sensor signal and a virtual physical parameter of at least one of the one or more virtual message objects; and determining a haptic effect based at least in part on the interaction. The method additionally includes the step of generating a haptic signal configured to cause an actuator to output the haptic effect.
US10248194B2
A video camera captures images of retroreflection from the retina of an eye. These images are captured while the eye rotates. Thus, different images are captured in different rotational positions of the eye. A computer calculates, for each image, the eye's direction of gaze. In turn, the direction of gaze is used to calculate the precise location of a small region of the retina at which the retroflection occurs. A computer calculates a digital image of a portion of the retina by summing data from multiple retroreflection images. The digital image of the retina may be used for many practical applications, including medical diagnosis and biometric identification. In some scenarios, the video camera captures detailed images of the retina of a subject, while the subject is so far away that the rest of the subject's face is below the diffraction limit of the camera.
US10248191B2
An apparatus for dynamically determining a displacement of a target sensor in an electronic system is disclosed. The apparatus can comprise a non-line-of-sight sensor rigidly mounted on or proximate to the target sensor and configured to measure a parameter that varies with the displacement of the target sensor. The apparatus further can comprise at least one processor coupled to the non-line-of-sight sensor and configured to compute the displacement of the target sensor based on the parameter, and to compute an adjustment value based on the computed displacement.
US10248188B2
A system and method for generating wireless signals from the physical movement of a person utilizing a movement detection mechanism attached to the person wherein the system allows a person to manipulate the generated wireless signals to selectively control digital responses which may be in the form of sensory-perceivable outputs such as sounds and/or visual effects, for example, through the person's physical movement. Movement sensors attached to the person (e.g., on one foot or both feet) communicate with other system components such as microprocessors, transmitters and/or tactile interface controls, for example, to wirelessly send signal pulses from a person to a computer or mobile device and allow the person wearing the sensors and/or another person to selectively control the dynamics of the digital responses so to create a unique sensory output.
US10248179B2
A method for power throttling upon a system includes: obtaining at least one characteristic information of a power source that is used for providing energy for the system; and, determining an available power range for the system according to the at least one characteristic information, so as to make the system control a behavior of the system according to the available power range.
US10248178B2
A computing system is associated with power consumption based on Power over Ethernet (PoE). Power consumption is compared to a threshold, and a signal is asserted that power consumption is to be limited based on the comparison to the threshold.
US10248177B2
A processor system includes first and second regulators for regulating an adjusted supply voltage. The first and second regulators generate a plurality of control signals to regulate an adjusted power supply voltage and that generate a charge when a droop level falls below a droop threshold value by implementing first and second control loops. A supply adjustment block with the two regulators and control loops are provided for each processor core allowing different cores to have different regulated supply levels all based on one common supply. One regulator is a global regulator while another is a local regulator found in each of the processing tiles. Processing tiles are grouped into two groups wherein one group includes tiles that may powered down to save power. Voltage rails of the two groups are selectively connected to equalize voltage levels when both groups are powered on and operating.
US10248169B2
Electronic devices are provided with a protective housing having one or more housing components. A housing component can be formed from a single sheet of material to appear as if the housing component had been formed from a hollowed out solid block of material. The sheet of material may be deep drawn, forged, and machined to form the housing component. One or more holes may be formed through a portion of the housing component to provide an I/O interface.
US10248158B2
An enclosure assembly of a monitor device includes an enclosure cover having a cover wall extending substantially in a first plane between a plurality of sides, wherein the cover wall includes an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface. The enclosure assembly includes a first stiffener wing and a second stiffener wing each having one or more mounting portions spaced apart from one or more stiffener portions to define one or more wing body ribs, each mounting portion including a mounting surface opposing a corresponding portion of the interior surface of the cover wall. The first stiffener wing includes a first wing body that extends toward a first side of the enclosure cover, and the second stiffener wing includes a second wing body that extends to a second side of the enclosure cover. Additionally, a display and/or a base assembly may be mounted to the enclosure assembly.
US10248156B2
In a data processing device including two sets of circuit pairs which are respectively duplicated in two clock domains which are asynchronous to each other, an asynchronous transfer circuit that transfers a payload signal is provided between the two sets of circuit pairs. The asynchronous transfer circuit includes two sets of a pair of bridge circuits which are respectively connected to the two sets of circuit pairs, and asynchronously transfers the payload signal and a control signal indicating a timing at which the payload signal is stable on a reception side. The two sets of a pair of bridge circuits and the payload signals can be duplicated, but the control signal is not duplicated, and the received payload signal is used for timing control to supply an expected same time difference, to the pair of duplicated circuits. This enables asynchronous transfer between circuits duplicated in the asynchronous clock domains.
US10248147B2
A power supply includes a connector, a power conversion controller to generate a power supply signal at the connector, and a communication and control processor. The communication and control processor is to receive a set of current control parameters including a current limit over a communication link in the connector, receive measurements of current and voltage of the power supply signal, and generate a drive signal for controlling the power conversion controller based on the received current control parameters and the measurements of the current and the voltage.
US10248143B2
A thermostat my include a stored setpoint schedule, temperature sensors providing temperature sensor measurements; and a processing system configured to control an HVAC system based at least in part on the setpoint temperature and the temperature sensor measurements. The processing system may be configured to control the HVAC system by receiving an indication of a first time interval, where energy is available to the HVAC system at a first rate during the first time interval, energy is available to the HVAC system at a second rate during a second time interval that is outside of the first time interval, and the first rate is higher than the second rate; identifying a first one or more setpoints in the plurality of setpoints of the stored setpoint schedule that occur in the first time interval; and decreasing a temperature component of at least one of the first one or more setpoints.
US10248138B2
Some embodiments may include a water supply system for supplying water based on a predetermined planned daily supply amount of water. While the worries supplied, it may be determined whether a second time has reached after a predetermined time passed from a first time. When it is determined that the second time has reached, an accumulated amount of the supplied water may be measured. A difference between the measured accumulated amount of the supplied water and the planned daily supply amount of water may be calculated. The planned daily supply amount of water may be corrected by adding the calculated difference to the planned daily supply amount of water after the second time. Water may be supplied based on the corrected planned daily supply amount of water.
US10248136B2
A flow regulator includes a first sensor determining a first actual value of a first flow parameter of the fluid, a pre-pressure regulator setting a predefinable pre-pressure at a pre-pressure outlet of the pre-pressure regulator, and a regulating pump. The fluid is capable of being supplied to the pre-pressure regulator at a plant pressure in an operating state via an inflow line and a pre-pressure inlet and capable of being conducted further to the regulating pump at the pre-pressure via a flow connection disposed between the pre-pressure outlet and the regulating pump, the pre-pressure outlet being connected to a high pressure connection of the regulating pump in a flow communicating manner via the flow connection such that the fluid is capable of being supplied from the pre-pressure regulator of the regulating pump and guided away from the regulating pump via a low pressure connection into an outflow line.
US10248131B2
The position of a moving object is estimated with high accuracy based on landmark information, and highly accurate state estimation is performed appropriately at high speed. A landmark detection unit obtains a distance between the moving object and each of two or more landmarks as landmark distance information based on observation data obtained by an observation obtaining unit. A candidate area obtaining unit determines a candidate area for a position of the moving object based on the landmark distance information obtained by the landmark detection unit, and obtains candidate area information indicating the determined candidate area. A state estimation unit estimates an internal state of the moving object based on the observation data, the landmark distance information, and the candidate area information to obtain moving object internal state estimation data, and estimates the environmental map based on the candidate area information and the landmark distance information to obtain environmental map data.
US10248123B2
A mobile apparatus includes a main body, a range sensor, an operation device, and a mobile mechanism. The operation device includes a wide route data generation unit that generates a wide route data according to which the main body is moved from a first specified location to a second specified location, a determination unit that determines a location and a posture of a reference object, an approaching route data generation unit that generates an approaching route data according to which the main body is moved from the second specified location to a target location, and a route data switching unit that switches traveling route from the wide rote data to the approaching route data after the approaching route data is generated. The approaching route data generation unit generates the approaching route data while the main body is traveling according to the generated wide route data.
US10248108B2
A schematic for an object to print using a 3D printer is received. Based on the schematic, at least one customizable characteristic of the object that is licensed to a user identified. The at least one customizable characteristic of the object is modified to adjust the print instructions customized for the object. The modified object is printed.
US10248094B2
The disclosed hot cutover box creates an electronic virtual bypass around a terminal strip to which existing control system, new control system, and final control element connections may be made, thereby allowing migration from an existing to a new control system to take place. Sensors allow measurement of a current signal without disrupting electrical continuity and connectors allow the hot cutover box to be introduced to the circuit with no disruption to the controller output. Once the hot cutover box is in place, wiring connections can be removed from the terminal strip as the hot cutover box effectively provides a parallel current pathway around the terminal strip.
US10248091B2
A method and apparatus for providing equipment maintenance are disclosed. The method receives data that is captured by at least one sensor deployed at a location, wherein the data is associated with at least one parameter of an equipment, receives atmospheric data for the location, monitors the at least one parameter of the equipment and the atmospheric data for the location, determines for the at least one parameter, whether an update to a risk measure associated with the equipment is needed, when a deviation from a baseline is detected that is greater than a threshold for a maximum deviation from the baseline, performs the update to the risk measure associated with the equipment, when the update to the risk measure associated with the equipment is needed, and generates a ticket for a remedial action based on the risk measure, when the risk measure triggers the scheduling of the remedial action.
US10248089B2
Flexible control is provided in building automation. By dividing a floor space into segments, different segments may be assigned to rooms. The operation of the building automation likewise includes room level and segment level control functions and corresponding objects. To assign or reassign a given segment to a room, the segment is linked to the room using an identifier of the corresponding room control function. The building automation equipment and corresponding control for the segment is linked to the room operation. The separation of the room and segment functions may avoid any or extensive manual engineering other than re-assignment. The assignment or reassignment of segments to rooms may be performed online (e.g., at a panel or management station), offline (e.g., at a computer or engineering station), or automatically (e.g., moveable wall system).
US10248085B2
A robot design system, and associated method, that is particularly well-suited for legged robots (e.g., monopods, bipeds, and quadrupeds). The system implements three stages or modules: (a) a motion optimization module; (b) a morphology optimization module; and (c) a link length optimization module. The motion optimization module outputs motion trajectories of the robot's center of mass (COM) and force effectors. The morphology optimization module uses as input the optimized motion trajectories and a library of modular robot components and outputs an optimized robot morphology, e.g., a parameterized mechanical design in which the number of links in each of the legs and other parameters are optimized. The link length optimization module takes this as input and outputs optimal link lengths for a particular task such that the design of a robot is more efficient. The system solves the problem of automatically designing legged robots for given locomotion tasks by numerical optimization.
US10248073B2
The present disclosure provides an image forming apparatus capable of preventing members from colliding from each other upon an openable member being closed. An openable member opened and closed with respect to the apparatus body is locked in a closed state by a lock portion located at a lock position, and permitted to open upon the lock portion being moved to a release position. The apparatus body is provided with a movable portion that is moved to a first position if the openable member is opened and to a second position if the openable member is closed. The movable portion includes a block portion that is configured to block a movement of the lock portion from the release position to the lock position if the movable portion is located at the first position.
US10248068B2
An image forming apparatus determines a toner density erroneous detection state based on a patch image density in patch detection auto toner replenishing and, when the toner density erroneous detection state is determined, offsets a target toner density by the amount of erroneous detection so that the actual toner density becomes a desired toner density.
US10248064B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a print job acquisitor that acquires a print job; a hardware processor that calculates, before starting printing based on the print job, a distance in a paper conveying direction in which the printing is continuously executed, and in a case where the distance is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance, allows a user to select at least one image as a print image out of a first image generated on the basis of the print job and a second image different from the first image; and a printing part that prints the print image selected by the user on paper.
US10248061B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on continuous paper; an amount-of-blank setting unit configured to set an amount of blank to be inserted between a plurality of jobs, by user operation; and a control unit configured to cause the image forming unit to form the image such that a blank of the amount of blank set by the amount-of-blank setting unit is inserted between the plurality of jobs.
US10248058B2
The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus including a tubular film, a heater provided at an inside of the film, a protection element provided at the inside of the film, and at least one conductive member provided at the inside of the film. The protection element includes two terminals and a switch that turns off to shut off power to the heater when the heater abnormally generates heat. A first end of the conductive member is electrically connected to one of the terminals of the protection element. The conductive member is not coated with an insulator, and a second end of the conductive member projects out of the film so that the cost of the fixing apparatus is reduced.
US10248054B2
A fuser includes: a rotating body; a roller configured to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction; a pair of bearings supporting the roller; one side frame made of a resin, supporting one of the pair of bearings; another side frame supporting the other of the pair of bearings, and arranged at a distance from the one side frame in the axial direction; and a center frame made of a metal, including a main-body portion arranged on an opposite side of the rotating body with respect to the roller. One end portion in the axial direction of the main-body portion includes a first fixing portion which is fixed to the one side frame, and a second fixing portion which is arranged on an upstream side of the first fixing portion in the conveyance direction, and is fixed to the one side frame.
US10248046B2
An image forming apparatus comprises a controller, an adjustment unit configured to adjust an image forming condition based on an adjustment condition corresponding to a profile of a toner adhesion amount in a sheet conveying direction, and an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet with the adjusted image forming condition while conveying the sheet.
US10248044B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt rotating in a rotational direction, photosensitive drums, primary transferring parts, static eliminating parts and cleaning parts. The static eliminating part is arranged between the primary transferring part and the cleaning part, and includes a light guide body and a light source arranged at one end side of the light guide body. The static eliminating part irradiates upstream and downstream sides from the light guide body in the rotational direction with the static eliminating light. The image forming apparatus comprises a first light shading part and/or a second light shading part. The first/second light shading part is arranged between the photosensitive drum at a downstream/upstream side from the light guide body in the rotational direction and the light guide body to adjust pre-transfer/post-transfer static eliminating light quantity from the light guide body to the downstream/upstream side photosensitive drum.
US10248035B2
A lithographic apparatus includes a first table to support a substrate; a second table, not being configured to support a substrate, including a sensor unit to sense a property of a patterned beam of radiation from a projection system, the second table to move under the projection system when the first table is moved out from under the projection system during a substrate exchange, the first and second tables being independently movable from each other; and a liquid supply system to supply a liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate, the first table, and/or the second table, wherein the second table is configured to provide a confining surface at a bottom of a liquid confinement structure when the first table is removed from under the projection system so as to prevent the liquid from leaking out into the remainder of the lithographic apparatus.
US10248034B2
Liquid is supplied to a space between the projection system and the substrate by an inlet. In an embodiment, an overflow region removes liquid above a given level. The overflow region may be arranged above the inlet and thus the liquid may be constantly refreshed and the pressure in the liquid may remain substantially constant.
US10248029B2
A method involving a radiation intensity distribution for a target measured using an optical component at a gap from the target, the method including: determining a value of a parameter of interest using the measured radiation intensity distribution and a mathematical model describing the target, the model including an effective medium approximation for roughness of a surface of the optical component or a part thereof.
US10248028B2
A system and method for optimizing an illumination source to print a desired pattern of features dividing a light source into pixels and determining an optimum intensity for each pixel such that when the pixels are simultaneously illuminated, the error in a printed pattern of features is minimized. In one embodiment, pixel solutions are constrained from solutions that are bright, continuous, and smooth. In another embodiment, the light source optimization and resolution enhancement technique(s) are iteratively performed to minimize errors in a printed pattern of features.
US10248023B1
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: coating a first resist containing a photoacid generator or a thermal acid generator on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first opening portion in the first resist by optical exposure; subjecting a shrink agent containing an acid to a crosslinking reaction by the heat treatment to form a thermoset layer on an overall surface of the first resist; coating a second resist on the semiconductor substrate and the thermoset layer; and forming a second opening portion located above the first opening portion and larger than the first opening portion in the second resist by optical exposure.
US10248017B2
A method for structure design including a processor performing error processing of an initial design file layout. The processor detects a structure design violation at a design cell boundary for a metal layer above (Ma) a via (Vx) at a tip of the Ma for the initial design file layout for a semiconductor structure based on a library of pattern rules. Upon detection of the structure design violation, the processor retargets the Vx for generating a resulting design file layout of the semiconductor structure. A physical semiconductor structure is generated based on the resulting design file layout of the semiconductor structure.
US10248016B2
A reflection type screen including: a base portion which is tabular; and prism portions which are provided on one surface of the base portion, extending in one direction and lined up in a direction intersecting the one direction, wherein the prism portions each have: a pair of surfaces, at least one of the pair of surfaces being inclined with respect to the normal direction of the one surface of the base portion and intersecting the other of the pair of surfaces; and a reflecting layer, being formed on the one of the pair of surfaces and reflecting light, and the reflecting layer includes, on the one of the pair of surfaces, a first thin portion, a thick portion and a second thin portion in this order from a side of an intersection line of the one of the pair of surfaces and the other of the pair of surfaces.
US10248015B2
An apparatus for displaying a scene with blackbody light includes a sheet of nano-structures having a first side and a second side opposing the first side. The first side and the second side are configured to receive light from an environment facing both sides and emit light to the environment facing both sides. Each nano-structure is configured to receive light in a first range of wavelengths resulting in heating the nano-structure and to emit blackbody light due to the heating to display the scene with blackbody light. The apparatus also includes a projector configured to irradiate the nano-structures on one of the sides of the sheet with light in the first range of wavelengths that form the scene to be displayed with the blackbody light emitted from the sheet of nano-structures.
US10248011B2
A projection apparatus includes a light source that emits light, a projection unit that projects an image on a projection surface based on the light emitted by the light source, a projection control unit that controls the light source and the projection unit, a control unit that controls the projection control unit based on schedule information where an operation of the projection apparatus and a time of performing the operation are associated in advance, and a storage unit that stores a number of operations of turning on/off the light source and a total lighting time of the light source. If the control unit performs a power-off operation of the projection apparatus based on the schedule information, the control unit controls whether to turn off the light source based on the power-off operation based on the number of the operations and the total lighting time.
US10247994B2
The present invention provides a pixel unit and a driving method thereof. By electrically connecting the source of the charge sharing thin film transistor to the scan line corresponding to the next row of sub pixels of the sub pixel where the charge sharing thin film transistor is and setting the voltage level of the scan line corresponding to the next row of sub pixels to be the array substrate common voltage when the sub pixel is scanned, the main region and the sub region of the sub pixel have different voltage levels, and the additional arrangement of a line of the array substrate common voltage is not required. In comparison with prior art, the number of wires in the array substrate is reduced and the aperture ratio of the liquid crystal display panel is increased which facilitates the realization of the narrow frame of the liquid crystal display panel.
US10247992B2
A display device includes a first substrate. A first gate line is disposed on the first substrate. First and second data lines intersect the first gate line. A first transistor is connected to the first gate line and the first data line. A second transistor is connected to the first gate line and the second data line. A first passivation layer is disposed on the first and second transistors, the first passivation layer including a first contact hole. A first pixel electrode is disposed on the first passivation layer, the first pixel electrode being connected to the first transistor through the first contact hole. A second pixel electrode is disposed on the first passivation layer, the second pixel electrode being connected to the second transistor through the first contact hole. The first and second transistors are both exposed through the first contact hole.
US10247978B2
A display apparatus including: a main body having an opening at the front part; a backlight unit configured to generate light; and an image forming unit provided in the front part of the main body, and configured to block or transmit the light generated by the backlight unit to create an image, where the image forming unit includes: a pair of transparent substrates disposed to be opposite to each other; a cable configured to transmit image data to the pair of transparent substrates; and a pair of polarizing films respectively disposed on the outer surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and wherein an edge part of at least one transparent substrate of the pair of transparent substrates protrudes to connect to the cable, and at least one polarizing film of the pair of polarizing films extends to the main body in a direction in which the at least one transparent substrate protrudes.
US10247969B1
A photon source device includes a substrate and a first waveguide arranged on the substrate. The first waveguide is coupled with a first pair of reflectors defining a first resonant cavity in the first waveguide. The first resonant cavity is configured for outputting a first output wavelength and a second output wavelength. The first pair of reflectors include a partial reflector for the first output wavelength and a partial reflector for the second output wavelength. The photon source device further includes a second pair of reflectors defining a second resonant cavity that intersects with the first resonant cavity. The second resonant cavity is configured for receiving an input wavelength distinct from the first and the second output wavelengths. A first reflector and a second reflector of the second pair of reflectors have a first reflectance and a second reflectance for the input wavelength, respectively.
US10247961B2
Method implemented by computer means for determining an ophthalmic lens adapted to a wearer and to a spectacle frame, the method comprising: providing wearer data comprising the wearer's ophthalmic prescription, providing mounting data comprising at least the tie points of the ophthalmic lens to be mounted in the spectacle frame, providing thickness requirement data comprising the minimum thickness of the ophthalmic lens at the tie points, determining ophthalmic lens data based on the wearer data, the ophthalmic lens data comprising the two optical surfaces of the ophthalmic lens and their relative positions, an oversize creating step (S5), during which the ophthalmic lens determined during the ophthalmic lens data determining step is locally thickened by creating an oversize at the tie points, so that the thickness of the ophthalmic lens at the tie points is greater than or equal to the minimum thickness.
US10247960B2
The invention is directed to a method for making a spectacle lens for a non-presbyopic person wherein the spectacle lens is a ready-to-wear lens and has at least one zone having an optical effect to reduce vision stress. In the method, at least one of the following is provided: the contour of the ready-to-wear spectacle lens and one or several visual points whereat the person looks through the ready-to-wear spectacle lens for one or several visual tasks in the near range. This method step is followed by setting at least one of: a design reference point of the zone, the extent of the zone, the optical effect within the zone based on the provided contour, and the visual points. The spectacle lens is then made with this zone.
US10247954B2
A stage apparatus includes a movable member configured to move in a direction parallel to a predetermined plane, a base member configured to support the movable member to move relative to the base member, and a thrust generator including: a magnet provided on one of the movable member and the base member, and a coil provided on the other of the movable member and the base member. The magnet and the coil generating a thrust to move the movable member in a direction parallel to the predetermined plane. A magnetic flux density of the magnet toward the coil changes along the thrust direction.
US10247951B2
A display has an array of light emitting display pixels occupying pixel areas, and a polarizing light transmissive area between the pixel areas. This polarization can be used to improve the contrast ratio of a transparent 2D display. However, it can also be used to enable a transparent 3D display to be formed without distortion of the see-through transparent display function. For this purpose, the light emitting display pixels can emit polarized light orthogonal to the polarization provided by the light transmissive area.
US10247949B2
A method for adjusting a display device with a holder that can be fitted on the head of a user includes a front section in which two spectacle lenses are arranged which are connected to each other via a central part, an imaging unit secured to the holder, which generates an image, and an imaging optical system secured to the holder which, when the holder is fitted on the head of the user, images the generated image into an exit pupil such that the user can perceive it as a virtual image with his first eye. The first spectacle lens with the coupling-out section is positioned in such a way that the exit pupil of the imaging optical system coincides at least partially with the pupil of the first eye of the user when the holder is fitted on the head of the user.
US10247946B2
A Head Mounted Display (“HMD”) includes a display module to generate image light, an optical combiner, a stacked switchable lens, and control circuitry. The optical combiner combines the image light with external scene light. The optical combiner includes a reflective element coupled to receive the image light and direct the image light in an eye-ward direction. The stacked switchable lens is optically coupled to receive the image light. The stacked switchable lens includes at least a first switching optic and a second switching optic. The control circuitry is configured to selectively activate the first switching optic and the second switching optic. The first switching optic is configured to direct the image light toward a first eyeward region when activated by the control circuitry. The second switching optic is configured to direct the image light toward a second eyeward region when activated by the control circuitry.
US10247942B2
An optical device comprises a transparent plate the first surface of which is reflective; a first partially reflective and partially transmissive layer covering a second surface of the transparent plate opposite the first surface, and a second layer covering the surface of the first layer opposite the transparent plate, wherein the second layer is made of a material having an optical index which differs from the optical index of the transparent plate by less than 10% and preferably by less than 5%, and the second layer comprises, on the surface thereof opposite the first layer, structures forming a diffraction grating suitable for promoting the extraction of light towards the outside of the transparent plate.
US10247940B2
An alignment system uses a self-referencing interferometer that incorporates an objective lens system having a plurality of lens element groups. In an embodiment, the objective is configured and arranged to provide a large numerical aperture, long working distance, and low wavefront error.
US10247939B2
A lens unit includes an optical system for forming an optical image of a subject. The optical system includes an optical member. The optical member is disposed closest to the subject. The optical member includes a subject-side surface having at least one groove provided thereto. The optical member transmits the optical image of the subject.
US10247936B2
Thermochromic filters are constructed using absorptive, reflective, or fluorescent dyes, molecules, polymers, particles, rods, or other orientation-dependent colorants that have their orientation, order, or director influenced by carrier materials, which are themselves influenced by temperature. These order-influencing carrier materials include thermotropic liquid crystals, which provide orientation to dyes and polymers in a Guest-Host system in the liquid-crystalline state at lower temperatures, but do not provide such order in the isotropic state at higher temperatures. The varying degree to which the absorptive, reflective, or fluorescent particles interact with light in the two states can be exploited to make many varieties of thermochromic filters. Thermochromic filters can control the flow of light and radiant heat through selective reflection, transmission, absorption, and/or re-emission. The filters have particular application in passive or active light-regulating and temperature-regulating films, materials, and devices, and particularly as construction materials and building and vehicle surfaces.
US10247926B2
An optical system includes an optical element. When the optical element is disposed on a magnification side with respect to an intersection point between an optical axis and a chief paraxial ray, the optical element is a positive lens. When the optical element is disposed on a reduction side with respect to the intersection point, the optical element is a negative lens. The optical element satisfies all of the following conditional expressions: 30≤νd≤40 1.225≤[nd−(14.387/νd)]≤1.276 0.4300≤[θgF−(2.9795/νd)]≤0.5010 where νd is Abbe number of the optical element, θgF is a partial dispersion ratio of the optical element for g-line and F-line, and nd is a refractive index of the optical element for d-line.
US10247919B1
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, the sixth lens is made of plastic material, and the seventh lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10247910B1
An automatic focus system for an optical microscope that facilitates faster focusing by using at least two cameras. The first camera can be positioned in a first image forming conjugate plane and receives light from a first illumination source that transmits light in a first wavelength range. The second camera can be positioned at an offset distance from the first image forming conjugate plane and receives light from a second illumination source that transmits light in a second wavelength range.
US10247898B2
A method of laying an optical fiber comprises providing a continuous optical fiber, a first segment of optical-electrical hybrid cable having a first fiber receiving tube, and a second segment of optical-electrical hybrid cable having a second fiber receiving tube. The optical fiber is laid into the first fiber receiving tube using an air-blowing device. A leading end of the optical fiber is fixed in a transfer apparatus after the leading end passes through an outlet of the first fiber receiving tube. A portion of the optical fiber which has passed through the first segment is wound in the transfer apparatus until the optical fiber is completely laid in the first segment. The leading end of the optical fiber is detached from the transfer apparatus. The portion of the optical fiber which has passed through the first segment is laid into the second fiber receiving tube using the air-blowing device.
US10247894B2
A pressure housing assembly according to exemplary aspects includes: a saddle assembly configured to encase a midpoint access section of a cable; and a pressure housing configured to be mounted on the saddle assembly. The saddle assembly has a first cable SSTL tube opening where a first seal member is provided; and a second cable SSTL tube opening where a second seal member is provided. The pressure housing has a corresponding first cable SSTL tube opening where a third seal member is provided; a second cable SSTL tube opening where a fourth seal member is provided; and a port configured to allow at least one penetrator to be inserted therethrough. The saddle assembly comprises a seal block configured to at least partially surround the midpoint access section of the cable.
US10247886B2
A fiber optic cable slack management module includes a base defining a first cable management spool, an outer face of which is configured to contact cables when cables are pulled away from the base and a second cable management spool, within which the first cable management spool is located. An inner face of the second cable management spool is configured to contact cables when cables are in a relaxed, non-pulled state. The fiber optic cable slack management module defines a cable exit adjacent the first cable management spool and defined at least partially by the inner face of the second cable management spool, the cable exit defined by a channel positioned between the first and second cable management spools.
US10247876B2
Provided is a display device circuit board that includes a flexible substrate having a base portion, a connector mounting portion disposed along a first direction from the base portion, a light emitter mounting portion, and an arm portion connecting the base portion and the light emitter mounting portion, and a connector reinforcing plate provided on one main surface of the connector mounting portion, in which a gap is interposed between the light emitter mounting portion and the connector mounting portion and between the arm portion and the connector mounting portion.
US10247874B2
A glass space partitioning system that is capable of supporting heavy and/or operable glass panels in throughout a range of partially-integrated or fully-integrated configurations, and which integrates an LED-strip light assembly for edge-lighting the glass panels. The system generally includes a framing member comprising a U-shaped horizontal profile with side walls, an intermediate profile attached to the U-shaped profile, a glass pane seated edgewise between a side wall of the U-shaped profile and the intermediate profile, a flexible LED strip cut to length and snap-fit in a vertical orientation against the side wall of the U-shaped profile and adjacent the glass pane for edge lighting, and a cover profile attached to the intermediate profile securing the foregoing.
US10247866B2
An image capture device according to the present disclosure includes: a lens optical system L; an image sensor N on which light that has passed through the lens optical system L is incident and which includes at least a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels; and an array of optical elements K which is arranged between the lens optical system and the image sensor. The lens optical system has a first optical region D1 which transmits mostly light vibrating in the direction of a first polarization axis and a second optical region D2 which transmits mostly light vibrating in the direction of a second polarization axis that is different from the direction of the first polarization axis. The array of optical elements makes the light that has passed through the first optical region D1 incident on the plurality of first pixels and also makes the light that has passed through the second optical region D2 incident on the plurality of second pixels.
US10247865B2
A bandpass filter may include a set of layers. The set of layers may include a first subset of layers. The first subset of layers may include hydrogenated germanium (Ge:H) with a first refractive index. The set of layers may include a second subset of layers. The second subset of layers may include a material with a second refractive index. The second refractive index may be less than the first refractive index.
US10247858B2
A lens includes immobilized liquid crystals. The liquid crystals in a first region are aligned in a first orientation. The liquid crystals in a second region, located between the first region and a third region and adjacent to the first region and the third region, are aligned in a second orientation that is distinct from the first orientation. The liquid crystals in the third region, located between the second region and a fourth region and adjacent to the second region and the fourth region, are aligned in the first orientation. The liquid crystals in the fourth region, located adjacent to the third region, are aligned in the second orientation. A method for making the lens is also disclosed.
US10247854B2
Example methods and systems for detecting weather conditions using vehicle onboard sensors are provided. An example method includes receiving laser data collected for an environment of a vehicle, and the laser data includes a plurality of laser data points. The method also includes associating, by a computing device, laser data points of the plurality of laser data points with one or more objects in the environment, and determining given laser data points of the plurality of laser data points that are unassociated with the one or more objects in the environment as being representative of an untracked object. The method also includes based on one or more untracked objects being determined, identifying by the computing device an indication of a weather condition of the environment.
US10247847B2
The detection and assay of fissionable material is carried out on a container known or suspected to have a material with at least one fissionable isotope. The material is irradiated with neutrons from two or more different neutron sources. The fission rates inducted at each irradiation energy are acquired with at least one neutron detector. A multispectral active neutron interrogation analysis (MANIA) is carried out to compare the detected fission rates of the neutron spectra with calculated fission rates where an iterative algorithm is carried out on a system of linear equations to solve for the isotopic composition of one or more isotopes to determine the presence, identity, and quantities of fissionable isotopes in said container.
US10247846B2
Various triaxial antenna designs having are provided. Some embodiments include a split-z coil that can include two axial coils with saddle coils in the x- and y-directions located therebetween. The split z-coils can function by having a combined magnetic moment similar to that of a single axial coil located between the two parts of the split z-coil. In some examples, the antenna assemblies can include a protrusion or other non-planar structure.
US10247840B2
A method of logging a well can include conveying an optical waveguide and at least one signal generator with a conveyance into the well, causing the signal generator to generate at least one signal in the well, and receiving the signal as distributed along the optical waveguide. A well logging system can include a conveyance with an optical waveguide, and at least one signal generator which is conveyed by the conveyance into a well with the optical waveguide, whereby the signal generator generates at least one signal received with the optical waveguide.
US10247836B2
An embodiment of a method for restoring detector resolution in an X-Ray fluorescence instrument is described that comprises: measuring a resolution value of a detector in the X-Ray fluorescence instrument using a standard material at a first temperature; determining that the measured resolution value deviates from a target value; and adjusting the temperature of the detector to a second temperature that restores the resolution value of the detector to the target value, wherein the temperature is adjusted by an amount defined by a relationship of temperature change to the degree of deviation of detector resolution from the target value.
US10247829B2
The concepts, systems and methods described herein are directed towards real time carrier phase monitoring and platform attitude solutions on a moving platform. In an embodiment, highly accurate platform attitude and monitored carrier phases can be determined in a single step and use data screening, error bounds inflation and statistical tests to ensure both inputs and outputs of an attitude solution are self-consistent. The method includes determining a carrier phase error level for each of the satellite-receiver tracks, identifying the satellite-receiver tracks having the carrier phase error level greater than or equal to a carrier phase error threshold, generating an attitude correction using the received data from the one or more satellite-receiver tracks having the carrier phase error level less than the carrier phase error threshold and determining a convergence state of the attitude correction. The carrier phase monitoring may be activated or dis-activated based on the convergence level.
US10247828B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to positioning systems and location determination using measurement stitching.
US10247824B2
The present disclosure provides an ultrasound imaging apparatus. The ultrasound imaging apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasound signal toward an object, receiving an echo ultrasound signal reflected from the object, and transforming the echo ultrasound signal to an electric signal; a beamformer for beamforming and outputting the electric signal; an image reconstruction unit for generating a reconstructed image by applying a Point Spread Function (PSF) to an ultrasonic image corresponding to the output signal; and an image post-processor for performing filtering to emphasize a peak point of the reconstructed image. The use of a filter to emphasize a peak point may facilitate an accurate setting of a phase parameter to be used in estimation of a PSF. Accordingly, an almost ideal PSF may be estimated, image reconstruction is performed using the estimated PSF, and thus a high resolution image may be obtained.
US10247823B2
Sonar rendering systems and methods are described herein. One example is an apparatus that includes a transducer element, position sensing circuitry, processing circuitry, and a display device. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive raw sonar data and positioning data, convert the raw sonar data into range cell data based at least on amplitudes of the return echoes, make a location-based association between the raw sonar data and the positioning data, plot the range cell data based on respective positions derived from the positioning data and rotate the range cell data based on a direction of movement of the watercraft to generate adjusted range cell data. The processing circuitry may be further configured to convert the adjusted range cell data into sonar image data, and cause the display device to render the sonar image data with a presentation of a geographic map.
US10247820B2
A spatial cognitive radar system, method of assembling the radar, and method of selecting antenna elements in the radar are described. The system includes a phased array of a plurality of antenna elements and a plurality of receiver channels, the plurality of receiver channels being a value greater than one and less than a number of the plurality of antenna elements. The system also includes a processor to determine a subset of the plurality of antenna elements, equal in number to the plurality of receiver channels, to be used in transmitting or receiving with the spatial cognitive radar system.
US10247810B2
A radar apparatus includes a correlator which, in operation, calculates a correlation value between the digital transmission pulse signals and the digital reception pulse signals, an error estimator which, in operation, estimates, on the basis of the correlation value, an I component error and a Q component error included in the digital reception pulse signals, a correction parameter calculator which, in operation, calculates a correction parameter for correcting the I component error and the Q component error, and an error corrector which, in operation, corrects, on the basis of the correction parameter, the I component error and the Q component error included in at least one of the digital transmission pulse signals and the digital reception pulse signals.
US10247806B2
Methods and apparatus for generating site health information are disclosed herein. An example apparatus configured to receive location data generated based on blink data transmitted by tags and received by receivers deployed at a site includes a processor; and memory including machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: generate a data quality value based on the received location data; generate a receiver health value based on a receive rate of respective ones of the receivers; generate a locate gap value based on amounts of time between location estimations; generate a locate rate based on a ratio of a first amount of the location estimations and a second amount of tracked participants at the site; and generate site health value by combining two or more of the data quality value, the receiver health value, the locate gap value, and the locate rate value; and outputting the site health value.
US10247789B2
An object of the invention is to reduce 1/f noise and white noise at the same time by integrally reducing noise of an MR sensor and noise of an operation circuit part. A magnetoresistive sensor according to the invention includes a plurality of magnetoresistive sensor parts each having a bridge circuit in which four magnetoresistive elements are connected, and outputs of the respective magnetoresistive sensor parts are connected in parallel to one another to an input of an amplifier circuit (see FIG. 2).
US10247788B2
A resistive element includes a resistive region in a semiconductor substrate, a first contact structure and a second contact structure. The semiconductor substrate includes a first main surface area. The resistive region extends in a lateral direction parallel to the main surface area and in a vertical direction perpendicular to the main surface area, and includes a first piezo-resistive coefficient for a current flow in the lateral direction and a second piezo-resistive coefficient for a current flow in the vertical direction. The first contact structure contacts a portion of a first face of the resistive region and the second contact structure contacts a portion of a second face of the resistive region. The resistive element generates a current flow distribution within the resistive region having a lateral component and a vertical component that results in a piezo-resistive coefficient of the resistive element.
US10247785B2
An assembled-battery system, a semiconductor circuit, and a diagnostic method enables appropriate self-diagnosis of a measuring unit. An output value (A-B) output from an analog-to-digital converter through power-supply lines, a cell-selection switch, and a level shifter is summed with an output value (B-VSS) obtained by a directly input reference voltage B being output from the analog-to-digital converter. When the summed value is considered equal the reference voltage A—the voltage VSS, it is diagnosed that an abnormality such as a breakdown has not occurred.
US10247770B2
Various embodiments of a gate oxide breakdown detection technique detect gate oxide degradation due to stress on a per part basis without destroying functional circuits for an intended application. Stress on the gate oxide may be applied while nominal drain currents flow through a device, thereby stressing the device under conditions similar to actual operating conditions. The technique is relatively fast and does not require analog amplifiers or tuning of substantial amounts of other additional circuitry as compared to conventional gate oxide breakdown detection techniques.
US10247767B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for fault detection and direction determination with a phase overcurrent relay using individual phase torques and the negative sequence torque, and with a ground overcurrent relay using the zero sequence torque. A directional element includes a ground element logic circuit, a negative element logic circuit and a phase element logic circuit to evaluate the operation state of the system, detect a fault condition and determine the direction of the fault condition in an electrical power distribution system having multiple sources on a power grid.
US10247756B2
The invention relates to a probe card structure, which comprises printed circuit board structure with a first through hole, a center stiffener with a second through hole, a first probe head module with a first through hole set and a plurality of first probe pins, and a second probe head module provided with a plurality of second probe pins. The first probe head module and the second probe head module are respectively arranged on a lower surface and an upper surface of the printed circuit board structure, wherein those first probe pins are set on a periphery of an opening of the first through hole set; and a portion of the second probe head module penetrating the first through hole, the second through hole, and the first through hole set. The first and second probe head module integrated together can be utilized for 3D IC testing.
US10247755B2
Terminals (2, 502) of a device under test (DUT) are connected to corresponding contact pads or leads by a series of electrically conductive contacts. Each terminal testing connects with both a “force” contact and a “sense” contact. In one embodiment, the sense contact (770) partially or completely laterally surrounds the force contact (700). In order to increase the contact surface, the force contact, in a spring pin (700) configuration contacts the device under test terminal at that portion of the lead which is curved or angled, rather than orthogonal to the pin.
US10247754B2
A measuring device (1) for determining a measured variable has a sensor device (2) that generates at least one primary signal depending on the measured variable to be determined, an electronics device (3), a transition section (4) located between the sensor device (2) and the electronics device (3), an interface (5) arranged in the transition section (4) for transmitting energy and/or signals and having at least one signal line (7) between the sensor device (2) and the electronics device (3) are provided. To provide a measuring device that has an interface for transmitting signals or energy, which is easier to access than in the measuring device of the prior art, the interface (5) and the signal line (7) can be reversibly connected for transmitting signals to one another.
US10247751B2
A system for calculating an internal load of a component includes an acceleration module, a skew matrix module, a center of gravity calculation module, a mass/inertia module, and an internal load module. The acceleration module may obtain a plurality of acceleration measurements associated with a component, where each acceleration measurement is associated with a response point relative to a center of gravity of the component. The skew matrix module may determine a skew matrix based on the response points. The center of gravity calculation module may calculate a center of gravity response for the component based on the plurality of acceleration measurements and the skew matrix. The mass/inertia module may determine a mass/inertia matrix based on measured mass and inertia values associated with the component. The internal load module may calculate an internal load of the component based on the calculated center of gravity response and the mass/inertia matrix.
US10247741B2
The present invention relates to sample analysis cartridges comprising micro-environment sensors and methods for assaying coagulation in a fluid sample applied to the micro-environment sensors, and in particular, to performing coagulation assays using micro-environment sensors in a point of care sample analysis cartridge. For example, the present invention may be directed to a sample analysis cartridge including an inlet chamber configured to receive a biological sample, and a conduit fluidically connected to the inlet chamber and configured to receive the biological sample from the inlet chamber. The conduit may include a micro-environment prothrombin time (PT) sensor, and a micro-environment activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) sensor.
US10247740B2
A detector arrangement is disclosed for a blood culture bottle incorporating a colorimetric sensor which is subject to change of color due to change in pH or CO2 of a sample medium within the blood culture bottle. The detector arrangement includes a sensor LED illuminating the colorimetric sensor, a reference LED illuminating the colorimetric sensor, a control circuit for selectively and alternately activating the sensor LED and the reference LED, and a photodetector. The photodetector measures reflectance from the colorimetric sensor during the selective and alternating illumination of the colorimetric sensor with the sensor LED and the reference LED and generates intensity signals. The reference LED is selected to have a peak wavelength of illumination such that the intensity signals of the photodetector from illumination by the reference LED are not substantially affected by changes in the color of the colorimetric sensor.
US10247735B2
The present disclosure provides compositions for regulating glucose metabolism. The compositions provide for reduced levels of p75NTR and/or reduced binding of p75NTR to a GTPase such as Rab31 or Rab5. The compositions are useful in methods of regulating glucose metabolism, which methods are also provided.
US10247730B2
This invention concerns methods for monitoring the development of and for treatment of ARDS in a patient. The method for monitoring the development of ARDS is based on comparing the level or activity of the biomarkers obtained in a sample drawn at a later point of time to the levels or activities of the same biomarkers in a sample drawn at a previous point of time. A favorable change in the level or activity of a certain biomarker represents a regression of the disease (recovery of the patient), and, conversely, an adverse change in the level or activity of a certain biomarker represents a worsening of the disease. If, for example, the level or activity for one or more of the biomarkers monitored discontinues to show a favorable change or starts to show an unfavorable change, the treatment of the patient is enhanced by administering a therapeutically active agent useful in the treatment of ARDS. The invention concerns further a method for simultaneous determination of a multiple of biomarkers in a sample from a patient, wherein said biomarkers are related to ARDS. The level or the activity of the biomarkers is determined. The invention also concerns a diagnostic kit useful for carrying out the method, particularly a kit comprising a chip, such as a microarray suitable for use in biochip technology.
US10247723B2
Presently disclosed is a lighting system and methods of using the lighting system for in vitro potency assay for photofrin. The lighting system includes a lamp housing, a first lens, an infrared absorbing filter, an optical filter, and a second lens. The lamp housing includes a lamp and a light-port. In operation, broad spectrum light from the lamp exits the lamp housing by passing through the light-port. The first lens then collimates the broad spectrum light that exits the lamp housing through the light-port. The infrared absorbing filter then passes a first portion of the collimated broad spectrum light to the optical filter and absorbs infrared light of the broad spectrum light. The optical filter then passes a second portion of the collimated broad spectrum light to the second lens. The second lens then disperses the second portion of the collimated light to provide uniform irradiation of a cell culture plate. A method of using the lighting system for studying a photosensitizer is also disclosed.
US10247704B2
A change in a surface of a wall is detected by transmitting a pulse of input ultrasonic vibrations into a proximal surface of the wall and then receiving ultrasonic vibrations from that proximal surface. The received ultrasonic vibrations are compared with a previously detected pulse of output ultrasonic vibrations that have been received from the proximal surface in order to identify, for example, a time of arrival of a current pulse of output ultrasonic vibrations. The time of arrival of this current pulse of output of ultrasonic vibrations may be used to detect a change in the surface of the wall, such as a change in the thickness of the wall. Other embodiments can detect a change in the roughness profile of the wall using changes in the received ultrasonic vibrations other than arrival time.
US10247689B2
An electrochemical sensor for sensing a gaseous analyte includes a substrate having at least two electrodes disposed thereon, and a carbon nanotube-polyaniline (CNT/PANI) film disposed on the substrate and in contact with at least two electrodes. The CNT/PANI film includes carbon nanotubes coated with a thin layer of polyaniline. The thickness of the polyaniline coating is such that electron transport can occur along and/or between the carbon nanotubes.
US10247687B2
A soil moisture sensor and a soil moisture sensing system are provided. The soil moisture sensor includes a double groove helical structure having grooves and formed from an insulator. The soil moisture sensor further includes at least a first electrode and a second electrode formed from one or more metals deposited at at least two different locations on the grooves. The soil moisture sensor also includes a processor for processing a soil moisture measurement signal based on a conductivity between the electrodes. The soil moisture sensor additionally includes a wireless transmitter for transmitting the soil moisture measurement signal to a remote location.
US10247683B2
An x-ray interrogation system having one or more x-ray beams interrogates an object (i.e., object). A structured source producing an array of x-ray micro-sources can be imaged onto the object. Each of the one or more beams may have a high resolution, such as for example a diameter of about 15 microns or less, at the surface of the object. The illuminating one or more micro-beams can be high resolution in one dimension and/or two dimensions, and can be directed at the object to illuminate the object. The incident beam that illuminates the object has an energy that is greater than the x-ray fluorescence energy.
US10247682B2
An x-ray imaging system may include an x-ray generator, one or more radiation detectors, a rotary stage, a linear translation stage, a motion control system, and a data acquisition system. The rotary stage has an axis of rotation arranged perpendicular to an axis of an x-ray beam emitted by the x-ray generator. The linear translation stage may be configured to move the rotary stage linearly along an axis aligned with the axis of rotation of the rotary stage. The motion control system may synchronize rotational motion of the rotary stage and linear motion of the linear translation stage. The data acquisition system may comprise processors configured to receive user input parameters. The processors may configure, based at least in part on the user input parameters, the x-ray imaging system to acquire radiographs. The processors may generate a three-dimensional image from the radiographs.
US10247681B2
A microwave measuring device having a transmitting module and a receiving module and an apparatus having these modules are described. The two modules are accommodated either in a common housing or in separate housings. The transmitting module can be coupled to a transmitting antenna and the receiving module can be coupled to a receiving antenna. In order to compensate for measurement errors, in particular temperature-related measurement errors, at least one RF bypass cable runs outside the housing/the housings and can be used to couple the transmitting module and the receiving module while bridging the measuring section defined by the two antennas.
US10247676B1
A thermal microring optical sensor is configured such that a portion of the optical resonator and its associated waveguide are encased within a cladding structure to minimize scattering losses along the waveguide and also provide improved evanescent coupling efficiency between the waveguide and the resonator. Functioning as a thermal sensor, incoming radiation modifies the temperature of the resonator, which changes its resonant frequency and, as a result, the percentage of light that it evanescently couples from the waveguide. The cladding structure also functions as a mechanical support for the resonator disk, eliminating the need for a pedestal to suspend the disk above the support substrate. Thermally-induced buckling of the optical waveguide is also reduced by encasing the susceptible portion of the waveguiding within the cladding structure.
US10247674B2
An integrated Raman spectrum measurement system and a modularized laser module are provided. The modularized laser module includes a laser emitter and an axis adjustment mechanism. The laser emitter is configured to emit a laser beam. The axis adjustment mechanism is connected to the laser emitter and configured to adjust at least two parameters of axis and orientation of the laser emitter. A beam splitter is disposed on the path of the laser beam. A signal collection unit is for collecting at least a part of a signal light from the beam splitter, wherein the signal light is converting by an object after receiving the part of the laser beam.
US10247666B2
A detector has a sensor responsive to a first wavelength, a sensor responsive to a second wavelength, and a sensor for collecting reference readings. A gas sample is analyzed to obtain readings corresponding to the first wavelength, the second wavelength and a reference. A first absorption figure is calculated using the first reading and the reference reading, and a second absorption figure using the second reading and the reference reading. A linearizer function is applied to the first and second absorption figures to calculate first and second concentration figures. The sensor for each wavelength is calibrated for detecting the first gas such that the data collected at each wavelength gives the same reading when only the first gas is present. The ratio of the first concentration figure to the second concentration figure is used to identify whether only the first gas is present.
US10247646B2
A self-contained biological sample processing cartridge includes top and bottom portions that close together to form a sealed chamber therein. The chamber is configured to enable one of one or more biological sample staining procedures appropriate for a biological sample. The top portion includes a chamber top section and valve control elements. The bottom portion includes a chamber bottom section and fluidic valves. One of the fluid valves evacuates the contents of the chamber. One of the valve control elements couples to a respective fluidic valve to control fluid flow for the chamber. The cartridge includes a preloaded reagent component to supply the chamber with the reagent component appropriate for a particular biological sample staining procedure. A user desiring to conduct a particular biological sample staining procedure may select a particular cartridge that is preloaded with the preloaded reagent fluidic valves component appropriate for the particular biological sample staining procedure.
US10247641B2
An automated tread registration system includes a sensing system configured to provide at least one surface model of a first object. The surface model of the first object has at least one pattern with at least one groove and at least one protrusion. The automated tread registration system also includes a user system executing processing software reading data corresponding to the at least one surface model of the first object. The surface model corresponds to a current condition of the first object. The processing software executed by the user system may analyze the at least one surface model of the first object and provide at least one indicative metric based on the analysis of the surface model. The indicative metric may be camber wear, toe wear, heel toe wear, overinflation, underinflation, and/or the like.
US10247631B2
A differential pressure measuring cell comprises a measuring membrane; two opposing bodies; and one converter. The measuring membrane is arranged between the opposing bodies and is connected in a pressure-tight manner to the two opposing bodies, forming in each case one measuring chamber. The opposing bodies each have a pressure duct through which a pressure can be made to act upon the respective measuring chamber. The converter is provided in order to convert a deformation of the measuring membrane, which deformation is dependent upon a difference between the pressures, into an electrical signal; wherein the opposing bodies each have a chamber section oriented toward the measuring membrane and a rear wall section oriented away from the measuring membrane with, between these, a decoupling chamber. The chamber sections each have an equalizing duct between the measuring chamber and the decoupling chamber, wherein the decoupling chamber has a diameter that is at least as large as the diameter of the measuring chamber.
US10247623B2
In an in-tank valve, a detector including a detecting sensor is disposed on an end of a body, and the detecting sensor is accommodated inside a sensor housing. Within the sensor housing, a sensor retaining member is formed in an interior part of an opened sensor accommodating section, and the detecting sensor is disposed therein so as to face toward a first communication hole of the sensor retaining member. Lead wires, which are connected to the detecting sensor, are led out to the exterior in a bending fashion from a wiring port, whereby entry of hydrogen gas to the side of the detecting sensor is prevented by suitably closing the wiring port.
US10247620B2
A wiring board includes an insulating substrate composed of a stack of a plurality of insulating layers, the insulating substrate having an upper face, a lower face, and side faces; and a plurality of line conductors formed of platinum or a metallic material comprising platinum as a main component, the plurality of line conductors each including a first end and a second end located on a side opposite to the first end, the plurality of line conductors being respectively disposed in interlayers between the plurality of insulating layers, in the line conductors, a line width of a line conductor located in an interlayer among the interlayers which interlayer is closest to the upper face or the lower face of the insulating substrate being greater than a line width of a line conductor located in each of the other interlayers.
US10247618B2
An active temperature measurement system includes at least one grounded thermocouple and a processor in communication with the at least one grounded thermocouple. The processor is configured to receive measurements from the at least one grounded thermocouple. The at least one grounded thermocouple is biased by an isolated voltage when the processor is receiving a measurement from the at least one grounded thermocouple.
US10247617B2
Middle-of-line (MOL) metal resistor temperature sensors for localized temperature sensing of active semiconductor areas in integrated circuits (ICs) are disclosed. One or more metal resistors are fabricated in a MOL layer in the IC adjacent to an active semiconductor area to sense ambient temperature in the adjacent active semiconductor area. Voltage of the metal resistor will change as a function of ambient temperature of the metal resistor, which can be sensed to measure the ambient temperature around devices in the active semiconductor layer adjacent to the metal resistor. By fabricating a metal resistor in the MOL layer, the metal resistor can be localized adjacent and close to semiconductor devices to more accurately sense ambient temperature of the semiconductor devices. The same fabrication processes used to create contacts in the MOL layer can be used to fabricate the metal resistor.
US10247615B2
A sensor assembly is provided that allows for a more rapid sensing of thermal changes. In preferred embodiments, the sensor assembly includes a housing, sensor package, bushing, coupling and gasket. The bushing is made from a conductive material like copper or silver and provides a conductive path from the bottom of the sensor package directly into the medium whose temperature is to be sensed or close thereto. A coupling is provided between the conductive bushing the metal housing to prevent heat exchange between the metal housing and the bushing. The gasket is placed in compression and provides a constant force holding the conductive bushing against the bottom of the sensor package.
US10247614B2
Passive detector structures for imaging systems are provided which implement unpowered, passive front-end detector structures with direct-to-digital measurement data output for detecting incident photonic radiation in various portions (e.g., thermal (IR), near IR, UV and visible light) of the electromagnetic spectrum.
US10247613B1
A method of determining the angular orientation of headgear is described. The headgear has tracking points being at least four tracking points, the relative position of the tracking points is calibrated and stored as relative position information, each of the tracking points comprises an infra-red (IR) reflective point. Light reflected from at least some of the tracking points of the headgear is filtered to allow only light in an IR wavelength band to pass. The filtered IR light is imaged to provide a detected image including at least some of the tracking points. At least some of the tracking points in the detected image are identified, and the position of the identified tracking points in the detected image is determined. The angular orientation of the headgear is determined in multiple different angular directions based on the stored relative position information and the position of the identified tracking points.
US10247609B2
A spectrometry device includes a spectroscope, an extraneous light sensor, and a light intensity controller. The spectroscope includes a light source that emits illumination light to a medium and a wavelength-selective interference filter that performs spectroscopy on light incident from the medium. The extraneous light sensor detects the intensity of extraneous light which is incident on the medium. The light intensity controller controls the intensity of the illumination light emitted from the light source such that the light intensity ratio of the illumination light and the extraneous light is equal to a first value.
US10247607B2
An optical arrangement for a spectral analysis system, a method for producing an optical arrangement for a spectral analysis system and a spectral analysis system are disclosed. In an embodiment the optical arrangement includes a carrier substrate having a placement area for a frame and a base area, and a diffraction grating movably arranged in the frame, wherein the frame is arranged on the placement area in an inclined placement position with respect to the base area so that the diffraction grating, arranged in a base position, is inclined with respect to the base area.
US10247606B2
An infrared detection system comprises the following elements. A laser source provides radiation for illuminating a target (5). This radiation is tuned to at least one wavelength in the fingerprint region of the infrared spectrum. A detector (32) detects radiation backscattered from the target (5). An analyzer determines from at least the presence or absence of detected signal in said at least one wavelength whether a predetermined volatile compound is present. An associated detection method is also provided. In embodiments, the laser source is tunable over a plurality of wavelengths, and the detector comprises a hyperspectral imaging system. The laser source may be an optical parametric device has a laser gain medium for generating a pump beam in a pump laser cavity, a pump laser source and a nonlinear medium comprising a ZnGeP2 (ZGP) crystal. On stimulation by the pump beam, the ZnGeP2 (ZGP) crystal is adapted to generate a signal beam having a wavelength in a fingerprint region of the spectrum and an idler beam having a wavelength in the mid-infrared region of the spectrum. The laser gain medium and the ZnGeP2 (ZGP) crystal are located in the pump wave cavity.
US10247603B2
Provided an ultraviolet-sensing sheet that facilitates measurement of ultraviolet irradiance over a wide area, that is suitable in ultraviolet irradiance in a range from 1 to 1,000 mJ/cm2, and that is easier to visually assess for coloring on the cumulative illuminance of ultraviolet, an ultraviolet-sensing kit, and a method for sensing ultraviolet.The ultraviolet-sensing kit comprises a sheet containing an ultraviolet-sensing layer and a film for adjusting ultraviolet-sensitivity, wherein the sheet containing an ultraviolet-sensing layer comprising, a support and an ultraviolet-sensing layer in this order, the ultraviolet-sensing layer comprising a capsule containing a photo-oxidant and a capable of developing color by the photo-oxidant, a mass ratio of the photo-oxidant and the leuco dye is 0.2 to 1.0:1, and the leuco dye being present in an amount of 0.1 to 1.0 g per 1 m2 of a surface area of the ultraviolet-sensing layer.
US10247602B2
A confocal measuring device capable of enlarging a measurement range using a compact device configuration is provided. A confocal measuring device (1A) is configured to include: a diffractive lens (11) that causes chromatic aberration in light emitted from a white LED light source (21); a diffractive lens (13b) that increases chromatic aberration of light passing through the diffractive lens (11); and an objective lens (12) that condenses light into a measurement target range such that the condensed light has chromatic aberration along an optical axis.
US10247592B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to dosing dispensers and in particular to dosing dispensers that may be operated using one hand by raising and filling a dosing chamber followed by lowering and dispensing a product from the dosing chamber and wherein the dose may be selected or adjusted and a user may visually confirm that the proper dose is being loaded and delivered by the dispenser.
US10247581B2
The invention relates to a method of interrogating an interferometric optical fiber sensor system including a laser source configured to generate interrogation light and a sensor array with at least a first reflector and a second reflector. The method includes continuously and repeatedly frequency sweeping the interrogation light from the laser source within a sweep bandwidth (SWB) over a sweep duration (tsw) with a substantially constant sweep rate r=SBW/tsw to produce a swept interrogation light signal, launching the swept interrogation light signal into the sensor array, detecting reflected signals being returned from the sensor array by each of the reflectors, respectively, wherein detection includes mixing a return light signal from the sensor array with a local oscillator signal onto an optical receiver to produce an electrical radio frequency signal, demultiplexing the electrical radio frequency signal into a first signal channel and a second signal channel, corresponding to the first and second reflector, respectively, demodulating each of the first and second signal channel into a first phase response from the first reflector and a second phase response from the second reflector, and subtracting the first phase response from the second phase response to obtain a sensor phase signal.
US10247573B1
Systems and methods for navigation of a vehicle use a processing system. The systems and methods can allow an aircraft to take-off in low visibility conditions. The processing system includes a cross tracker, an error processor and an error estimator. The cross tracker is configured to determine a cross track deviation using a hybrid positon and runway heading data. The error processor is configured to determine the hybrid positon from inertial reference system data and corrected error data, and the error estimator is configured to provide the corrected error data using estimates derived from delta range data from a global navigation satellite system receiver.
US10247558B2
A travel direction determination apparatus is provided, including: a sensor signal acquisition unit that acquires sensor signals from sensors mounted in a mobile device; a first travel direction calculation unit that calculates a travel direction of the user without relying on a walking state of the user; a second travel direction calculation unit that calculates the travel direction of the user based on the sensor signals when the user who holds the mobile device is in a walking state; and a determination unit that determines the travel direction of the user first to the travel direction calculated by the first travel direction calculation unit, and then to the travel direction calculated by the second travel direction calculation unit, responding to changes in the state of the user from non-walking state to walking state.
US10247552B2
A level is selectively coupled to a work piece and includes a housing, an adjustable clamping mechanism configured to selectively couple the housing to the work piece, a first bubble vial coupled to the housing and operable to indicate a first levelness of the work piece, and a second bubble vial rotatably coupled to the housing about a first axis. The second bubble vial is operable to indicate a second levelness of the work piece.
US10247549B2
A shaft accuracy measuring device includes: a measurement unit including a light projecting unit that projects a measuring light and a light receiving unit that receives the measurement light projected by the light projecting unit; a motor installation unit that installs the motor such that the output shaft of the motor is disposed between the light projecting unit and the light receiving unit; and a calculation unit that calculates at least one of axial run-out, center run-out, and face run-out of the motor based on a measurement result of the measurement unit.
US10247548B2
A method for measuring the depth of a surface of a test object may include projecting a colored fringe pattern formed by a sequence of colored fringes onto a surface of the test object, and detecting and evaluating a fringe pattern reflected by the surface of the test object using an evaluation device. The colored fringe pattern and the evaluation device may be designed such that the depth of the surface of the test object is measured based on the sequence of colored fringes of the reflected fringe pattern and based on a sequence of fringe widths of the reflected fringe pattern.
US10247546B2
An image processing system, an imager, an area detection method, and a computer program easily and highly accurately detecting an area where a target object exists in an image acquired by imaging the target object are provided. The image processing system includes a projector for projecting a projection image having a stripe pattern or a grid pattern toward a target object, and an imager for imaging a target object on which the projection image is projected, and the imager includes an input image obtaining module for obtaining an input image acquired by imaging a target object on which the projection image is projected, a height information calculator for calculating height information of each pixel in the input image by using the input image, and a target object area detector for detecting a target object area where the target object exists in the input image, based on the height information of each pixel in the input image.
US10247544B2
[Object] To provide a shape measurement apparatus that is capable of measuring the amount of warpage in the width direction of a strip-shaped body with higher sensitivity.[Solution] Provided is a shape measurement apparatus including: a light source configured to irradiate a surface of a moving strip-shaped body with linear light at a prescribed angle of incidence; a screen configured such that reflected light of the linear light on the surface of the strip-shaped body is projected on the screen; an imaging unit configured to image the reflected light of the linear light projected on the screen; and an arithmetic processing unit configured to acquire the amount of warpage in a width direction of the strip-shaped body on the basis of a line length of the reflected light of the linear light imaged by the imaging unit.
US10247543B2
A method for assessing tyre tread depth and/or tyre condition by taking and analysing a camera image or images of a tyre using portable instrumentation.
US10247537B2
For determining the topology of a grid section of an AC power grid, the grid section comprising a grid connection point, at least one branch branching off from the grid connection point and including a plurality of energy consumption and/or energy generation units, and at least one measurement point in the at least one branch, dependencies of variations of a grid voltage measured at the at least one measurement point based on variations of connection power values of at least some individual ones of the energy consumption and/or energy generation units are determined.
US10247535B2
A Hall detection device for a thickness of a sheet medium is provided, including a mounting rack, a reference shaft and a floating wheel assembly, wherein the floating wheel assembly includes a bracket and at least one floating wheel, one end of the bracket being mounted on the mounting rack via a floating wheel rotary shaft and the other end thereof being rotationally fitted with the floating wheel so as to form a free end, a torsional spring is provided between the floating wheel rotary shaft and the bracket so that the floating wheel elastically bears against the reference shaft, and the bracket is fixedly mounted with a detection block and a sensor for detecting a displacement amount of the detection block.
US10247533B2
A tool which incorporates separated dual-impression pads for measuring the Ischial Tuberosity width of a cyclist more accurately since these dual-impression pads match the newer saddles designs. The accuracy of the measurement is further increased by heavy ferrous balls that indefinitely hold the impressions to give the bike fitter enough time to make an accurate Ischial Tuberosity width measurement. The accuracy of the saddle selection is further increased due to the detachable/portable measurement caliper which can be taken out to the saddles being considered.
US10247532B2
A tubing pipe sizing tool is provided, comprising a main body, a measuring portion, a handle-installing hole, a bump portion, and a handle. The measuring portion is provided on a first part of the main body in a first direction. The handle-installing hole is provided on a second part of the main body in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The bump portion is provided around an opening of the handle-installing hole. The handle is configured to engage the handle-installing hole and facilitate pipe sizing. The main body may have a cylindrical shape, and the bump portion facilitates to handle the tool.
US10247523B2
Laminated composite structures, or laminates, may utilize vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs), also termed a nanotube forest, as a layer/ply within a fiber/matrix laminate used as a protection system to mitigate and eliminate penetrating and blunt force damage posterior as a result of impacts with an unknown velocity on the laminated structure. Moreover, a composite may incorporate vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) for ballistic and low velocity impact protection.
US10247519B2
Described embodiments provide methods and apparatus for adjusting a line of sight to a target to compensate for drift. Embodiments can include an optical assembly configured and arranged for viewing an area including the target, a display window for viewing a line of sight to the target, one or more manual operator controls connected to a digital processor configured to adjust offsets to the line of sight, an automatic operating mode configured to automate adjusting the offsets to correct for drift bias of the line of sight to the target, and an operator control switch configured to switch the system between the automatic mode and a manual mode.
US10247515B2
A holographic gun sight has a housing with a viewing end and an opposing target end, a viewing path being defined from the viewing end to the target end. A light source projects a light beam along a path to illuminate a reflection-type holographic optical element (HOE). The HOE reconstructs an object beam with an image of a reticle. The absolute difference between the incidence angle of the light beam on the HOE and the object beam angle is greater than zero and less than or equal to 30 degrees.
US10247502B2
Invention is about the innovation in trigger locking pins which prevent the pistols to be fired involuntarily.
US10247501B2
A firearm and a kit for modifying a firearm is provided. The firearm has an upper receiver, a lower receiver, and a releasable magazine that releases when the upper receiver rotates away from the lower receiver. The firearm further has a firing pin with a striking end that has a cylindrical shape and a substantially sharp shoulder. A hammer is also provided with a depression disposed in a front surface thereof, the front surface configured to strike the striking end of the firing pin when the upper receiver is next to the lower receiver, and the depression configured to align with the striking end of the firing pin when the upper receiver rotates away from the lower receiver.
US10247492B2
A heat exchanger system for cooling liquid having a plurality of finned tube arrays and a plurality of fans for inducing air through the finned tube array comprising: at least one wind deflector installed along the long side of the finned tube arrays on at least one side of the arrays. The present invention for includes a method for minimizing the undesired effect of wind on the operation of a heat exchanger system for cooling liquid having a plurality of finned tube arrays and a plurality of fans for inducing air through the finned tube array, the method comprising the steps of: setting the angle of deflection of the wind deflectors other than the angle of deflection of the uppermost position of the wind deflectors; collecting readings of outlet temperature sensor of the heat exchanger, ambient temperature, wind sensor and inlet air pressure sensor of the heat exchanger; recording readings of outlet temperature sensor of the heat exchanger, ambient temperature, wind sensor and inlet air pressure sensor of the heat exchanger; comparing readings of outlet temperature sensor of the heat exchanger, ambient temperature, wind sensor and inlet air pressure sensor of the heat exchanger to previous readings; and carrying out a correction command if the readings have changed.
US10247491B2
A process of producing shell and tube heat exchangers where the ends of the tubes are secured to a tube sheet while reacting applied FSW forces without introducing a crevice or local deformation near the ends of the tubes. In particular, an interference fit is used to lock the ends of the tubes into the tube sheet without flaring or expanding the tube ends. A FSW process is then used to weld the ends of the tubes to the tube sheet.
US10247485B2
A pipe member is provided that is capable of configuring a heat pipe that can be installed with a high flexibility in accordance with the state of the installation place. A heat pipe configured by using such a pipe member, and a cooling device are also provided. The pipe member includes: an arbitrarily bendable pipe main body whose both ends are closed when used for the heat pipe; a partition wall extended in an axial direction of the pipe main body to partition the inside of the pipe main body into four passages each being utilized as a flow path of the working fluid; and connection paths which allow neighboring passages to communicate with each other out of the four passages.
US10247480B2
A high temperature furnace includes features that provide for multiple heating zones for heating a specimen extending at least partially through a heating chamber defined by the furnace. In one exemplary aspect, the furnace can include multiple heating elements extending at least partially through the heating chamber. Each heating element can be configured in a rod shape, which allows for multiple heating zone capability, better control over the temperature gradient, reduced current to achieve a desired temperature output, and a streamlined furnace shell.
US10247478B2
A monolithic refractory structure includes: a monolithic refractory; a support body which supports the monolithic refractory; and a heat-resistant fiber support material which is buried in the monolithic refractory in a state of being connected to a support surface of the support body. The heat-resistant fiber support material includes a heat-resistant fiber rope which is formed of an inorganic fiber and extends along an X-axis direction perpendicular to the support surface, and a ratio L1/L2 of an X-axis direction length L1 of the heat-resistant fiber rope to an X-axis direction length L2 of the monolithic refractory is 0.35 or more and 0.95 or less.
US10247472B2
A support for a packing column having a support profile with a web section running in the vertical direction and having lower end and an upper end, and having a larger vertical extension than a horizontal extension. The support also has a foot section connected to the upper end of the web section and a head section connected to the lower end of the web section. The head section has an upper face and a sub-section, the width of the upper face being smaller than width of the sub-section and also smaller than the width of the foot section. The support enables a reduced support height and less coverage.
US10247471B2
An argon reflux condensation system and method in which a plurality of once-through condensers are connected to an argon column of an air separation plant to condense argon-rich vapor streams for production of reflux to the argon column. Condensation of the argon-rich vapor streams is brought about through indirect heat exchange with crude liquid oxygen streams that partially vaporize and are introduced into a lower pressure column of the plant for further refinement. The flow rate of the crude liquid oxygen streams are sensed and controlled at locations in the air separation plant where the crude liquid oxygen is in a liquid state and in proportion to the size of the once-through heat exchangers. Prior to flowing into the once-through condensers, the partially vaporized crude oxygen stream enters a phase separator which separates the crude oxygen vapor from the crude liquid oxygen. The separated crude oxygen vapor bypasses the once-through condensers and is mixed with the vaporized oxygen stream that exits the one-through condensers. Feed stream flow rate to the argon column is controlled in response to air flow rate to the plant and product flow rate is controlled in response to the feed stream flow rate to the argon column.
US10247470B2
A refrigerator includes a body having a storage compartment, a door that opens and closes the storage compartment, and a display unit separably provided on a front side of the door. If one side of the display unit is inserted into an inner side of the front side of the door due to rotation, the other side of the display unit is provided to protrude toward a front of the door. With this configuration, the display unit can be easily separated from the door.
US10247466B2
A freezing and refrigerating device comprises a box body and a door body. An air supply path supplying cooling air flow to a storage compartment, an air return path enabling the air flow from the storage compartment to pass, a cooling chamber and a defrosting air return path are defined in the box body, wherein the cooling chamber is provided with an air feeding opening part and an air return opening part and contains an evaporator, a blower and a defrosting heater, and the defrosting air return path is communicated with the air feeding opening part and the air return opening part of the cooling chamber. The air supply path and the defrosting air return path are provided with an air supply door and a defrosting air return door respectively. The present invention further provides a defrosting control method of the freezing and refrigerating device.
US10247464B2
A sealed system for an appliance includes a compressor having a shell and lubrication oil disposed with the shell. A condenser in fluid communication with the compressor such that compressed refrigerant from the compressor flows to the condenser during operation of the compressor. The sealed system also includes a heat exchanger for cooling the lubrication oil during operation of the compressor.
US10247463B1
The solar-powered refrigerating cooler in an insulated container. The interior space of the solar-powered refrigerating cooler forms a temperature controlled space within which items may be stored. The solar-powered refrigerating cooler comprises a refrigeration system that: 1) forms the interior space; and, 2) cools the interior space of the solar-powered refrigerating cooler. The refrigeration system is solar-powered. The solar-powered refrigerating cooler comprises a refrigeration system, one or more USB ports, a cutting board, a bottle opener, an extendable handle, and a power system. The one or more USB ports, the cutting board, the bottle opener, the extendable handle, and a power system are mounted on the refrigeration system.
US10247456B2
A receiver for a refrigeration system includes an enclosure with an inlet for liquid refrigerant at a first end and an outlet for the liquid refrigerant at a second end. A heat exchanger with an inlet and an outlet for refrigerant vapor is surrounded by the enclosure. The heat exchanger includes baffles so that alternatingly positioned flow passages are positioned on opposing sides of the enclosure.
US10247443B2
A method of controlling aerosol production in an aerosol-generating device is provided, the device including a powered aerosol generating element, a flow channel to allow a flow of gas past the element, and a flow sensor to detect air flow in the flow channel, the method including: determining a value of a first parameter related to a change in flow rate; and reducing a supply of power to the element depending on a comparison result between the first parameter value and a threshold value, the first parameter being derived from a combination of a second parameter that is a measure of a flow rate detected by the flow sensor and a third parameter related to the flow rate. Also provided is a method of reducing or suspending aerosol production, based not simply on a detected flow rate, but on another measure indicative of the evolution of the flow characteristics.
US10247436B2
Techniques for controlling a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system at a site are disclosed. A disclosed method includes obtaining or calculating a net load at the site and obtaining a temperature of the site during a time period. The method further includes comparing the net load to a threshold load value and comparing the temperature to a lower threshold temperature or an upper threshold temperature. The method also includes determining one or more operation parameter values for the HVAC system based at least in part on the comparison of the net load to the threshold load value and the comparison of the temperature to the lower threshold temperature or the upper threshold temperature, and setting the HVAC system based on the one or more operation parameter values.
US10247435B2
A method for real-time control of thermal loads in a data center includes storing, in a database, a heat generation data associated with an electronic equipment located in a predetermined area of the data center, transmitting the heat generation data to a data analysis system in communication with a tunable temperature controller, the heat generation data provides a real-time input of an amount of heat generated in the predetermined area, the data analysis system receives and analyzes the heat generation data to determine whether the amount of heat generated in the predetermined area exceeds current settings of the tunable temperature controller, and in response to the amount of heat generated exceeding the current settings of the tunable temperature controller, updating the current settings to provide an amount of cooling that compensates for the amount of heat generated in the predetermined area in association with the electronic equipment.
US10247434B2
According to some embodiments, a heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) system comprises a circulation fan, one or more humidity sensors operable to sense humidity data associated with an enclosed space, and a controller. In operation, the controller receives the humidity data from the one or more humidity sensors and receives air quality data associated with at least one air pollutant. The controller determines, based on the air quality data, that a threshold associated with the air pollutant has been exceeded and determines, based on the humidity data, that a threshold associated with humidity has not been exceeded. The controller operates the circulation fan in response to determining that the threshold associated with the air pollutant has been exceeded and the threshold associated with humidity has not been exceeded, the circulation fan operated for filtration purposes while not servicing any conditioning demand.
US10247433B2
Provided is a humidification and air cleaning apparatus. The humidification and air cleaning apparatus includes: a water tank storing water; a visual body forming at least a portion of the water tank and formed of a transparent material; a watering housing disposed in the water tank, suctioning water stored in the water tank to pump water to an upper side, and spraying the pumped water; a watering motor rotating the watering housing; and a watering blade formed to outwardly protrude from the watering housing. Here, when the watering housing rotates, the watering blade collides with water droplets within a radius of rotation of the watering blade to scatter water droplets.
US10247432B1
In accordance with embodiments of this disclosure, a gas humidifier system includes a reservoir of liquid with at least one selectively permeable tube at least partially submerged within the liquid. A gas stream may be fed into the selectively permeable tube that passes through the liquid reservoir. The selectively permeable tube may be substantially impermeable to the gas flowing therethrough but permeable to vapor (e.g., water vapor) entering the selectively permeable tube from the liquid. Thus, vapor from the liquid reservoir can enter the selectively permeable tube and humidify the gas flowing therethrough.
US10247413B2
Safety devices prevent packaged catalytic converters from being expelled from stacks, or at least reduce the velocity with which such a package may be expelled, in case of an explosion in a bio-fueled appliance, such as a wood-burning stove.
US10247410B2
Gas burner of the type having a cup of the burner accommodating at least one injector for fuel gas, a head of the burner coupled to the cup and including at least one distribution chamber for a first circumferential flame spreader, a mixing chamber for mixing primary air and fuel gas to set up a fuel mixture, the mixing chamber being fluidically connected to the cup and an injector, a duct for transferring the fuel mixture from the mixing chamber into the distribution chamber, and inflow duct of the primary air from the outer environment inside the cup of the burner, as well as a separating element of the transferring duct of the fuel mixture from the inflow duct of the primary air, wherein the separating element could be tightly constrained to the head, or cup of the burner.
US10247402B2
The present invention discloses a lamp device, which comprises a base, a lamp seat installed in the base and electrically connected with a circuit board, at least one USB interface, and a lamp shade hooding the lamp seat thereinside. The USB interface includes a cartridge disposed in the base and a USB socket module disposed inside the cartridge. The USB socket module is separated from the circuit board and electrically connected with the circuit board through cables. A wall of the cartridge has at least one opening. The interface of an external USB data line can be passed through the opening and inserted into the socket of the USB socket module. The USB interface is reduced to a smaller size and requires less space for installation. Therefore, the position for installing the USB interface has higher selectivity, and the overall esthetics of the base is improved.
US10247393B2
A recessed lighting unit includes a light engine and provides angular adjustment of the light emanating from the lighting unit. In one arrangement, the lighting unit includes a heat sink and a module frame that slidingly interact to provide rotation of the light engine in one degree of freedom, for example rotation about a horizontal axis. A rotation mechanism may also be provided for rotating the light engine in a second degree of freedom, for example rotation about the axis of a cylindrical recessed can in which the light engine is disposed. The lighting unit may be configured for use in new construction, or for retrofit applications.
US10247391B2
A stake for holding decorative lights has a stake portion having a pointed end and a head attached to the opposite end of the stake portion. The head has an open center and a top portion. A bulb gripper is pivotably attached to the inner surface of the top portion, such that the bulb gripper can be moved from a position which is co-linear with a centerline through the stake portion to a position which is substantially perpendicular to the centerline through the stake. The bulb gripper has a tab sized and positioned to engage another tab on the head when the bulb gripper is in a position which is substantially perpendicular to the stake portion locking the bulb gripper in place.
US10247380B2
Disclosed is a lighting fixture comprising at least three light functions, said lighting fixture being a trifunctional projector. In particular, a vehicle headlight is disclosed, which has in addition to a dipped beam and a main beam a daytime running light and/or a position light as a further light function.
US10247379B2
In a vehicle headlight comprising a light module (1) with a light source support (3), with at least one light source (17) and a reflector part (5) associated with the at least one light source (17), it being possible for reference elements (24) on the reflector part (5) to be brought into an operative connection with corresponding reference elements (25) on the light source support (3), the light source support (3) can be pushed into a guide part (2) with guide rails (6) for the reflector part (5), and the reflector part (5) has a catch (22) associated with the light source support (3) to displace the reflector part (5) together with the light source support (3) along the guide rails (6), which are designed to bring the reference elements (24) on the reflector part (5) into an operative connection with the corresponding reference elements (25) on the light source support (3) when the light source support (3) is pushed in.
US10247376B2
A light source module and a vehicle headlamp is provided. The light source module and the vehicle headlamp include a circuit board and first and second light emitting modules that are disposed on the circuit board. The first and second light emitting modules are divided by a partition wall. Each of the first and second light emitting modules includes a blue LED light source and a phosphor that is disposed on the blue LED light source. The phosphor is configured to be activated by the blue LED light source to emit first light and includes a phosphor film that is disposed on an exterior of the first light emitting module and the phosphor film is configured to emit a second light.
US10247369B2
A portable and rechargeable lighting apparatus includes an elongated housing having a radially-central cavity extending longitudinally along the elongated housing; one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) affixed to a surface of the elongated housing and operable to emit light; one or more rods operable to extend coaxially from the radially-central cavity; one or more hooks coupled to distal ends of the respective one or more rods; and a battery operable to power the one or more LEDs.
US10247367B1
A lighting system includes an optic that has at least two reflective surfaces that are oriented such that they face each other. Further, the lighting system includes a plurality of light emitting diodes that are disposed adjacent one end of the optic. Furthermore, the lighting system includes a lightguide that is disposed adjacent an opposite end of the optic such that an edge of the lightguide is retained within and disposed between the at least two reflective surfaces of the optic. The at least two reflective surfaces of the optic reflect and guide light emitted by the plurality of light emitting diodes to the edge of the lightguide. The light then couples into the lightguide through the edge and is guided towards an opposing edge of the light guide. The light exits the lightguide through the opposing edge and/or major surfaces of the lightguide.
US10247366B2
A method and device for emitting electromagnetic radiation at high power using nonpolar or semipolar gallium containing substrates such as GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, is provided. In various embodiments, the laser device includes plural laser emitters emitting green or blue laser light, integrated a substrate.
US10247360B2
An object of the present invention is to enable filling a hydrogen storage alloy uniformly and easily at the time of filling the hydrogen storage alloy. The invention relates to a method for filling a hydrogen storage alloy including, when the hydrogen storage alloy that has been made as a resin composite material by mixing hydrogen storage alloy particles or powder with a resin and carbon fiber is filled into a tank, vibrating the tank at a predetermined frequency to adjust a filling ratio of the hydrogen storage alloy in the tank.
US10247357B2
A system and method for maintaining overpressure in a logging unit or other pressurized space through interruptions is disclosed. A backup air supply comprising tanks mounted to a frame is operatively connected to the ambient environment of the logging unit through a valve assembly which also connects a conventional pressure setup (e.g., pumps and filters from the external environment). The valve assembly comprises two auto valves, a shuttle valve, and a pressure sensor that allow the logging unit to switch from the conventional external air supply to the tanks when the pressure detected from the conventional air supply falls below a predetermined level. The valve assembly is independently housed and may be mounted or detached from the frame housing the backup tanks.
US10247329B2
A cable support for securing at least one cable along a surface comprises an elongated central shaft portion having a through opening defined along a length thereof. A pair of shoulders is defined on opposite sides of the central shaft portion at an interface between forward and rearward ends. The forward end defines a stop sized and shaped to contact and abut the surface. First and second hook structures are provided having interior surfaces extending from opposite sides of the central shaft portion rearward end, curving toward the central shaft portion forward end, and terminating rearward of the stop to define a rearward offset between each first and second hook structure and the stop. Each rearward offset is sized to allow receipt of at least one cable therein when the stop is contacting and abutting the surface.
US10247324B2
A flow control device is used to regulate fluid flow from an upstream supply source to a downstream destination within a plant. At least portions of the flow control device are fabricated from one or more thermostatic materials selected based on the specific thermostatic properties thereof. The basic arrangement of the flow control device includes at least one housing with at least one thermostatic beam and at least one wall fixed thereto to define a void interior area with opposed open ends, and a center plug member with at least one opening in at least one wall thereof arranged within the interior area for temperature dependent fluid flow therethrough.
US10247320B2
A pressure regulating valve including an actuator and a valve body. Communicating passages are arranged between a chamber of the valve body and a chamber of the actuator. Further, a pressure tapping tube is disposed in the chamber of the valve body. One end of the pressure tapping tube is connected to the communicating passage and the other end of the pressure tapping tube is suspended. By adopting this pressure tapping structure in the pressure regulating valve, the performance of the pressure regulating valve in a flow accuracy range is improved.
US10247318B2
Fluid apparatus and related methods are disclosed. An example fluid apparatus includes a housing defining a fluid flow passageway between an inlet and an outlet. The housing has a first valve seat and a second valve seat positioned in the fluid flow passageway. The first valve seat is spaced from the second valve seat. A flow control member is positioned in the fluid flow passageway. The flow control member has a first disk and a second disk. The first disk is to engage the first valve seat and the second disk to engage the second valve seat.
US10247305B2
Provided is an automatic transmission including: an input section to which power generated by a drive source is input; an output section configured to output a drive force; and a gear shifting mechanism configured to change a gear ratio. The power is input to the input section without intervention of a hydraulic power transmission device. The gear shifting mechanism includes a predetermined frictional engagement element for achieving a starting gear ratio of a vehicle. The frictional engagement element includes: a plurality of friction plates arranged with clearances therebetween; a piston movable between a releasing position where the friction plates are brought into a released state, and an engaging position where the friction plates are brought into an engaged state by pressing the friction plates; and an urging mechanism configured to urge the piston so that the piston abuts against the friction plates and the clearances are reduced.
US10247296B2
A gearbox and a method for additively manufacturing the gearbox are provided. The gearbox includes a housing having an integral heat exchanger additively manufactured within the housing. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat exchange passageways for transferring heat between two or more fluids. The heat exchanger is defined at any suitable location or locations within the housing, for example, within voids defined between the walls of the housing and components housed within housing, such as driveshafts, gears, bearings, etc.
US10247293B2
An exemplary method may comprise: ascertaining an original distance between a first tooth face and a second tooth face of a sprocket tooth, wherein the sprocket tooth comprises two tooth faces extending from a sprocket core and terminating in a top of the sprocket tooth, wherein an original distance separates the two tooth faces, placing a sprocket gauge on the sprocket tooth, wherein the sprocket gauge comprises: a bottom, and two gauge faces extending from the bottom of the sprocket gauge, wherein the bottom of the sprocket gauge is disposed upon the top of the sprocket tooth and the first gauge face is disposed adjacently on the first tooth; and comparing the original distance defined by the sprocket gauge with an actual distance between the first tooth face and the second tooth face.
US10247284B2
A single-cavity toroidal continuously variable transmission capable of suppressing gyro slippage and achieving mitigation of bearing loss and a longer service life. A pitch circle diameter (PCD) of the output-side bearing is smaller than that of the input-side bearing and a ball diameter of the output-side bearing is smaller than that of the input-side bearing. Therefore, centrifugal force acting on the ball of the output-side bearing on a speed increasing side with a low load can be suppressed. Therefore, gyro slippage can be suppressed and mitigation of bearing loss can be achieved. Furthermore, with a groove R ratio of the output-side bearing smaller than that of the input-side bearing, a longer service life can be achieved even when the pitch circle diameter (PCD) and ball diameter of the output-side bearing are smaller than those of the input-side bearing.
US10247282B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission is provided to improve power delivery and fuel efficiency by applying six engagement elements to four planetary gear sets to achieve multiple speeds. The planetary gear train includes: input and output shafts; first to fourth planetary gear sets respectively including first to third rotation elements, fourth to sixth rotation elements, seventh to ninth rotation elements, tenth to twelfth rotation elements; and first to eighth shafts. In particular, the first shaft is fixedly connected to the second and sixth rotation elements, and the input shaft, the fourth shaft is fixedly connected to the fourth and seventh rotation elements, and the seventh and eighth shafts selectively and respectively connect a transmission housing to corresponding rotation elements of the first and third planetary gear sets.
US10247280B2
A four gearing-arrangement transmission having six shift-elements cooperatively engaging in combinations of three to provide nine forward speeds and one reverse speed. The transmission having a first gearing-arrangement with an end-gear fixedly coupled to a ground. A second gearing-arrangement with one end-gear fixedly coupled to an input and the other end-gear fixedly coupled to an interior-gear of the first gearing-arrangement. A third gearing-arrangement having an interior-gear fixedly coupled to an output. A fourth gearing-arrangement having a fourth interior-gear fixedly coupled to the input.
US10247270B2
A motion conversion mechanism includes: a cylindrical body having an internal screw and third gear teeth in an inner periphery thereof, the internal screw being provided in a screw region that is an intermediate region in an axial direction of the cylindrical body; a shaft body disposed coaxially with the cylindrical body inside the cylindrical body and having first gear teeth and a first external screw in an outer periphery thereof; and a plurality of planetary rollers. First planetary rollers among the planetary rollers mesh with the gear teeth formed in a first gear region and do not mesh with the gear teeth formed in a second gear region, and second planetary rollers among the planetary rollers mesh with the gear teeth formed in the second gear region and do not mesh with the gear teeth formed in the first gear region.
US10247259B2
A device for actuating a clutch-controlled transfer case including a rotatable selector shaft, a clutch cam disk rotatable about a clutch cam disk axis by means of the selector shaft and having a gate, and at least one scissor lever having an end guided in the gate. The gate has at least one curved portion having a continuously increasing radial distance from the clutch cam disk axis. The clutch cam disk defines an opening about the clutch cam disc axis, and the clutch cam disk defines a pair of stops extending radially into the opening. The selector shaft is rotatably positioned in the opening. The selector shaft includes a stopping member in radial alignment with the pair of stops such that the selector shaft can be rotated with respect to the clutch cam disk between two stops.
US10247251B2
A coupling device (K) has a first positive-locking clutch (K0), a second positive-locking clutch (K1), an axially fixed first shaft (W1), an axially fixed second shaft (W2), a connecting shaft (WV) and an actuator (AK). The first shaft (W1), the second shaft (W2) and the connecting shaft (WV) are arranged coaxially to each other. By closing the first clutch (K0), a torque-proof connection between the first shaft (W1) and the connecting shaft (WV) is established, and by closing the second clutch (K1), a torque-proof connection between the connecting shaft (WV) and the second shaft (W2) is established. The actuator through axial displacement of the connecting shaft (WV), shifts both the first clutch (K0) and the second clutch (K1) between an engaged state and a disengaged state, such that the connecting shaft (WV) is movable to a multitude of axial positions to achieve different engaged states of the clutches.
US10247246B2
Coupling a top drive to tools. A drive unit includes a drive stem having torque gear profile, threaded load coupling, torque sleeve movable between first position and second position, a sleeve gear profile engaging the torque gear profile when in second position; or spindle unit and annular motor coupled to the spindle unit; or drive stem having first friction surfaces; transmission unit having second friction surfaces parallel to first friction surfaces; and transmission selector movable to an “on” or an “off” position. A method may include rotating a drive stem of drive unit, threading coupling with a tool stem of tool adapter; moving a torque sleeve of drive unit to engage a torque gear profile of the drive stem and a stem gear profile of the tool stem; or rotating a spindle unit relative to drive stem to contact a counter nut of spindle unit with the tool stem.
US10247239B2
The tilting-pad bearing includes: a plurality of tilting pads arranged around a rotary shaft; a housing including a lubricating oil-supplying hole provided at a position facing a gap formed between the tilting pads disposed next to each other; and a pair of side plates disposed so that the tilting pads are interposed therebetween. The tilting pad is provided with an internal flow passageway through which lubricating oil flow. The internal flow passageway includes a first inflow opening, a second inflow opening, and a discharge opening.
US10247229B2
A method of fastening a sealing bellows to a ball joint as well as to a ball joint is shown comprising a joint housing, a ball stud pivotally received in the joint housing, and a sealing bellows which, related to a joint axis, comprises a first axial end of the bellows resting against the ball stud and a second axial end of the bellows fastened to the joint housing, the joint housing for fastening the sealing bellows comprising a seat of the bellows forming a radial stop as well as an axial stop for the second axial end of the bellows, and wherein a closed retaining ring is provided which is spaced from the joint housing and acts upon the sealing bellows in radial inward direction against the seat of the bellows.
US10247223B2
A multi-glide locking snap hook fastener is disclosed which includes a fastener body and a gate closure. The body includes a curved hook and a base, with the base including a longitudinal bore and a multipart channel extending radially into the bore. The multipart channel includes a first channel segment extending along or across a first part of the base, and a second channel segment extending along or across a second part of the base, with the second channel segment offset at a first angle from the first channel segment. The gate closure is arranged within the bore and includes an elongated shaft and a grip extending from the elongated shaft and into the multipart channel, with the gate moveable both longitudinally and rotatably within the bore. Several different closed configurations are provided, requiring several different and distinct movements to fully open the fastener.
US10247215B2
For joining assemblies, an apparatus includes a bracket, planar supports, and a restraining hook. The bracket includes a first bracket plate and a second bracket plate. The first bracket plate is physically connected to the second bracket plate and is disposed at a specified interior angle to the second bracket plate. Each planar support is formed by bending a corresponding bracket plate inward along a support outer bend as a substantially right angle to the bracket plate, with the planar support disposed toward an interior of the bracket. The restraining hook is in physical communication with the second bracket plate. The restraining hook includes a first hook plate disposed substantially perpendicular to the second bracket plate and a second hook plate in physical communication with the first hook plate and disposed substantially parallel to the second bracket plate.
US10247213B2
The invention relates to an adjustable fastening device including at least one sleeve nut having an aperture with a first internal thread and a through-bore following the same along the longitudinal axis of the fastening device (1), and also including a drum screw with an external thread and a tensioning screw lead-through, in the case of which the drum screw engages, by way of the external thread, in the first internal thread of the sleeve nut. According to the invention, the sleeve nut has on the free peripheral region, which forms the opening of the aperture, a rivet-collar portion and a central sleeve portion, which projects into the aperture in the direction of the rivet-collar portion, wherein the tensioning-screw lead-through of the drum screw is designed to accommodate the central sleeve portion at least in part.
US10247208B2
A speed controller capable of controlling an action speed of an external cylinder in one stroke in a step-wise manner. The speed controller includes a first flow path and a second flow path that allow a first port and a second port to be in communication with each other. The first flow path is provided with a first check valve for allowing flow from the first port to the second port. The second flow path is provided with a first needle valve, and an opening hole of the first check valve is constituted as a part of a flow path. The first needle valve adjusts the flow rate by changing an opening area of the opening hole with a tip portion fixed on a piston in the cylinder chamber. The speed controller further includes a third flow path allowing the first port and the cylinder chamber to be in communication with each other. The third flow path is provided with a second check valve for allowing flow from the first port to the cylinder chamber.
US10247206B2
A fluid circuit includes a pressure fluid source, a switching valve, and a cylinder device having first and second chambers and partitioned by a piston. A first accumulator is configured to communicate with the second chamber when pressure fluid is supplied to the first chamber and to accumulate part of the pressure fluid from the second chamber. A pressure booster is connected in hydraulically parallel to the first accumulator, the pressure booster communicative with the second chamber when the pressure fluid is supplied to the first chamber to boost pressure of the pressure fluid by using part of the pressure fluid from the second chamber. A second accumulator accumulates the pressure fluid whose pressure is boosted by the pressure booster.
US10247197B2
A disc for a fan rotor (with a pilot to connect to a rotating shaft, a hub and a plurality of blades) includes a flat circular portion connecting to the pilot at an inner edge and to the hub at an outer edge; a plurality of first circular cooling holes of a first diameter located around the inner edge of the disc; and a plurality of second circular cooling holes of a second diameter located around the outer edge of the disc, wherein the second diameter is larger than the first diameter.
US10247196B2
A blade module and a fan using the same are provided. The blade module includes a rotating shaft and a plurality of blades. Each blade is connected to the rotating shaft and includes a blade body and an airflow guiding portion. The airflow guiding portion is connected to the blade body and has an opening.
US10247187B2
A variable displacement vane pump has a control slide displaceable within its housing and a first control chamber and a second control chamber for receiving pressurized lubricant. A thermally adjustable control valve is provided in the housing for adjusting pump displacement based on a temperature of the lubricant. In addition to fluid communication channels in the control chambers, at least one vent port is provided in the second chamber. The control valve is configured to control pressure and fluid communication between the chambers along with the control slide. The control valve can help reduce pump displacement at lower temperatures and low engine speeds. At lower temperatures, the second control chamber can be pressurized by the first control chamber. At higher temperatures, the second control chamber can be vented through the control valve and/or the vent port, despite the position of the control slide.
US10247184B2
A pump system includes a first pump and a second pump each having a plunger assembly. The plunger assembly includes a crosshead, a plunger, and a sleeve. The sleeve at least partially surrounds the plunger and an end of the crosshead. The sleeve is configured to create a fluid seal between the plunger and the crosshead.
US10247180B2
A diaphragm pump having a body including a suction connection and a discharge connection, a suction valve and a discharge valve; a control chamber in which the diaphragm is disposed, and a working chamber located on the side of the diaphragm opposite the control chamber; a control pipe suitable for linking the control chamber to a control connection of the body, the control pipe configured to alternately apply a vacuum and a pressure on the diaphragm; the body includes a housing oriented transversely relative to the control pipe, the housing being open towards the outside at one end, and closed at the other end by a bottom including a suction opening and a discharge opening, the diaphragm being positioned close to the bottom, and held by a cap engaged in the housing, the cap having a recess forming the control chamber, linked to a passage communicating with the control pipe.
US10247177B2
Positive displacement machines and methods therefor capable of increasing a load-carrying capacity of a piston-cylinder lubrication interface of positive displacement machines having a cylinder block, a cylindrical bore defined in the cylinder block, a piston reciprocably disposed within the cylindrical bore, and a working fluid within the piston-cylinder lubrication interface to provide a load-bearing function between the piston and the bore wall of the cylinder bore. The method includes providing at least one circumferential groove on a bore wall of the cylindrical bore within the piston-cylinder lubrication interface having an opening facing the piston and that is in fluidic communication with the piston-cylinder lubrication interface so as to contain a portion of the working fluid, and operating the positive displacement machine such that the working fluid enters the cylindrical groove and promotes hydrostatic balancing of pressure of the working fluid within the piston-cylinder lubrication interface.
US10247176B2
A device for choking a fluid flow, with a pot-like base body, in the base of which a first passage opening is arranged, and a closing body guided axially moveably in the pot-like base body against a spring force of a spring element and having a second passage opening that forms a static choke point with a predefined fixed opening cross section. The closing body in combination with the spring element and the first passage opening forms a dynamic choke point with a dynamic opening cross section that is variably adjustable depending on a pressure difference.
US10247172B2
A hanging windmill has a wind turbine and a generator mounted on an airframe supported by a hanger at the center of gravity of the assembly. A stop is provided for preventing the tipping of the airframe on the hanger beyond a point where the blades of the wind turbine strike the hanger.
US10247169B2
A rotor blade for a wind turbine with an aerodynamic device, and an aerodynamic device is provided. The rotor blade includes a main body defining a pressure side and a suction side of the rotor blade, and includes a main body trailing edge section. The rotor blade includes an aerodynamic device with an attachment section for attaching the aerodynamic device to the main body trailing edge section, an aerodynamic section for influencing the aerodynamic properties of the rotor blade, and a buckling section for controlling the orientation and/or the shape of the aerodynamic section with regard to the main body. The aerodynamic device is configured such that it deforms elastically for a force component acting in flapwise direction on the buckling section, and deforms abruptly if a force component of about the size of the stability limit of the buckling section acts in flapwise direction on the buckling section.
US10247168B2
A rotational mechanical transformer has been arranged for transfer and transformation of velocity, force, angular momentum, torque, energy/work, energy density, and pressure, associated with at least one rotating device. The transformer includes an actuator having at least one cylinder arranged to contain the at least one working fluid, an externally supported shaft and a drive shaft having parallel axes orthogonally displaced by a predetermined displacement, and each respectively connected to at least one connecting arm and at least one additional connecting arm. The at least one cylinder includes at least one actuator rod and at least one blind end each respectively connected with at least one revolving eccenter axle and the at least one drive shaft, and have been arranged to allow for angular displacements of the at least one actuator with respect to the parallel axis.
US10247164B2
An ignition apparatus includes an ignition plug, a boost transformer, an ignition power source and a measurement unit. The ignition plug has a center electrode and a ground electrode. The boost transformer supplies the ignition plug with electric power generated in a secondary coil upon supply of AC power from the ignition power source to a primary coil. The measurement unit measures the discharge voltage of the ignition plug. The ignition power source includes a discharge state determining unit that determines the discharge state of the ignition plug based on the measured discharge voltage and a current controlling unit that controls electric current supplied to the primary coil. When a discharge path formed between the center and ground electrodes of the ignition plug is determined by the discharge state determining unit as being in an over-extended state, the current controlling unit reduces the electric current supplied to the primary coil.
US10247162B2
A starter system for start up of a combined heat and power unit comprising a generator which is connectable to the grid. The starter system comprises a variable frequency drive, VFD, operable to receive power from the grid. The VFD reduces the frequency of the power, and provides the reduced-frequency power to the generator to start the generator. The starter system further comprises a bypass relay configured to bypass the VFD. The bypass relay allows direct connection between the grid and the generator after the generator has started. The variable frequency drive is configured to operate temporarily during start up of the combined heat and power unit.
US10247154B2
A fuel pump for conveying fuel includes a conveying unit having a cylinder, a plunger received in the cylinder, a pump spring received in the cylinder, an inner sleeve connected to the plunger, an outer sleeve in contact with the pump spring and in contact with a roller of a cam mechanism, and a locking bolt configured to detachably connect the inner and outer sleeves.
US10247144B2
A method includes operating an internal combustion engine producing, as a byproduct, exhaust gases. The flow of exhaust gases are segregated into a first, relatively hot flow and a second, relatively cold flow. The second flow is directed to an intake of the internal combustion engine for combustion with fresh intake air and fuel. Heat energy from the first flow is stored in a latent heat storage device. Heat energy is released from the latent heat storage device to reduce cold start emissions during a subsequent operation of the internal combustion engine after a period of shutoff.
US10247138B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a track lock assembly that includes a pawl assembly comprising a pawl arm extending from a pawl axis and configured to engage a slot in a slider assembly, a cam arm extending from the pawl axis and having a pawl cam, and a compliant member, and a position lock assembly comprising a first lock arm extending from a lock axis and an actuator configured to urge rotation of the first lock arm between a lock locked position and a lock unlocked position, the first lock arm configured to engage and retain the cam arm in a pawl locked position when the first lock arm is in the lock locked position and disengage the cam arm in the lock unlocked position such that the compliant member is able to urge the pawl assembly to a pawl unlocked position.
US10247134B2
A steel piston with an oil gallery, and process for forming a steel piston oil gallery channel, which corresponds to the complex shape of the combustion bowl in the piston crown. The oil gallery channel is first forged to the basic shape that corresponds to the shape of the walls of the combustion bowl. Machine-turning surfaces in the oil gallery channel can be machine-finished as desired. Surfaces in the oil gallery which cannot be machined with conventional turning operations, such as recesses and protrusions into the channel, are left in the original forged condition.
US10247125B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection valve control device with which variability in the injection amount with respect to drive pulse width can be kept to a satisfactory level in each of a plurality of fuel injection devices. The present invention provides a fuel injection valve control device for controlling a plurality of fuel injection devices each equipped with a valve body and a solenoid for opening the valve body, characterized in that the device is configured such that, a prescribed time after voltage has been applied to the solenoid, a holding current is applied, the prescribed time and the holding current being corrected for each of the fuel injection devices, on the basis of the operating characteristics of the fuel injection device.
US10247116B2
An evaporative emissions (EVAP) control system for a vehicle includes a purge pump configured to pump fuel vapor to an engine of the vehicle via a vapor line and a purge valve. The system includes a hydrocarbon (HC) sensor disposed in the vapor line and configured to measure an amount of HC in the fuel vapor pumped by the purge pump to the engine via the vapor line. A controller is configured to: detect an imminent cold start of the engine and, in response to the detecting, perform the cold start of the engine by controlling at least one of the purge pump and the purge valve, based on the measured amount of HC, to deliver a desired amount of fuel vapor to the engine, which decreases HC emissions by the engine.
US10247113B2
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to control a ratio of an amount of low octane number fuel to be supplied to a cylinder to a total amount of the low octane number fuel and a high octane number fuel to be supplied to the cylinder in order to control an overall octane number of fuel to be supplied to the cylinder. The high octane number fuel has a second octane number higher than a first octane number of the low octane number fuel. The circuitry is configured to calculate a maximum octane number of the fuel to be supplied into the cylinder. The circuitry is configured to restrict a power generated by the internal combustion engine based on the maximum octane number.
US10247104B2
A pneumatic starter system for a turbine engine. The pneumatic starter system includes a pneumatic starter and a compressed gas storage unit. The pneumatic starter is configured to cause at least one turbine of the turbine engine to rotate. The compressed gas storage unit is configured to store oxygen rich gas and expel the oxygen rich gas to power the pneumatic starting system to cause the at least one turbine to rotate. The pneumatic starter system also includes a first exhaust path configured to direct at least a first portion of the oxygen rich gas exhausted from the pneumatic starter to a turbine combustion zone of the turbine engine to create an oxygen rich fuel mixture.
US10247101B2
A device for mounting a spark plug in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine includes a chimney including a collar extending radially inwards, a washer fastened on an axial end of the chimney so as to project towards the inside of the chimney, and a bushing forming a spark plug guide and including an inner collar and an outer collar that are axially spaced apart from each other by a cylindrical portion. Each collar extends radially outwards. The bushing is floatingly mounted inside the chimney with its collars axially positioned between the collar of the chimney and the washer. The inner collar comes in operation to bear against the collar of the chimney. The outer collar presents an outside diameter (d1) greater than the inside diameter (d2) of the washer.
US10247100B2
Airplanes and jet engines are provided that includes an engine compressor; a combustor in flow communication with the engine compressor; an engine turbine in flow communication with the combustor to receive combustion products from the combustor; and a bleed air cooling system in fluid communication with bleed air from the engine compressor. The bleed air cooling system can include a first precooler in fluid communication with the bleed air from the engine compressor; a cooling system turbine in fluid communication with and downstream from the first precooler; and a discharge conduit from the cooling system turbine that is configured to be in fluid communication with at least one of an aircraft thermal management system and an aircraft environmental control system. Methods are also described for providing cooling fluid from a jet engine.
US10247098B2
An inner diffuser case for a turbine engine includes a fore gas path edge and an aft gas path edge defining a strut, wherein each of the fore gas path edge and the aft gas path edge include a gas path opening, a support cone structure extending radially outward from the strut, wherein the support cone structure is operable to structurally connect the strut to a turbine engine case, a diffuser case skirt structure extending radially inward from the strut, wherein the diffuser case skirt structure is operable to structurally connect the diffuser case strut to an inner support structure of the turbine engine, and at least one direct feed air passage passing radially through the strut including a radially outward upper mixing chamber opening and a radially inward direct air feed opening, the direct air feed opening is connected to a direct air feed.
US10247081B2
An aftertreatment assembly for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The assembly includes an aftertreatment component with an inlet, and a pipe connection fluidly connected to the inlet. The pipe connection includes an adjustable spherical pipe joint that joins two angularly offset pipe sections, and a slip pipe joint that joins two axially aligned pipe sections and that can adjust a combined length of the two axially aligned pipe sections. The assembly allows for compensating the positional and orientational displacements between an exhaust outlet and the inlet of the aftertreatment assembly.
US10247068B2
An oil separating module for an internal combustion engine, including: an oil separator, an oil return arranged such that separated oil can flow through the oil return to an oil sump, a mounting, and a non-return valve having: a valve housing having a throughbore with a first end opening and a second end opening, and a valve body movably mounted in the valve housing such that the valve body transitions between an open position and a closed position. When the first end opening is above the second end opening, the valve body automatically transitions to, or remains in, the closed position when a second end opening pressure is greater than a first end opening pressure by at least a threshold pressure difference, and the valve body automatically transitions to, or remains in, the open position when the second pressure is not greater than the first pressure by at least the threshold pressure difference.
US10247066B2
A relief valve device includes: a housing including a valve chamber, an orifice, and a relief discharge port; a valve body that opens and closes the relief discharge port while moving inside the valve chamber of the housing; a relief valve including an elastic member that elastically biases the valve body in a direction in which the valve body closes the relief discharge port; and an oil control valve that controls the supply of oil into the valve chamber, wherein an inlet port for the oil supplied from the oil control valve and the orifice are configured such that oil can always circulate in the valve chamber.
US10247058B2
Disclosed is an apparatus of adjusting valve timing for internal combustion engine configured to adjust at least one valve timing of an intake valve and an exhaustive valve by torque of a cam shaft and pressure of working fluid, and a method thereof. The method of the present disclosure is such that a rotor is embedded with a hydraulic control valve configured to operate a locking pin member, and the hydraulic control valve is so configured as to have various control positions in order to supply or discharge working fluid in response to engine emergency stop or start and normal engine operational state whereby locking and releasing operations are realized with accurate responsiveness and reliability due to smaller working fluid through a passage and an engine performance can be improved by adjusting the valve timing.
US10247056B2
A camshaft adjusting device including —a vane cell adjuster and —a central locking device (26) for locking the rotor (17) with respect to the stator (16), wherein —at least one first valve functional pin (46) is provided in the rotor hub (30), and the working chambers (20, 21, 22, 23) with different directions of action can be fluidically connected to one another via said valve functional pin, —in a first switch position, the first valve functional pin (46) fluidically connects at least two first working chambers (20, 21) with different directions of action to each other via a non-return valve (9, 10) during a movement from the direction “early” or “late” into the central locking position, —in a second switch position, the first valve function pin (46) fluidically separates the at least two first working chambers (20, 21) with different directions of action, —a bridging line (50) is provided for a fluid-free connection of the two first working chambers (20, 21), and —the bridging line (50) can be switched by a valve pin (45).
US10247052B2
A guide assembly for a valve lifter of an engine. The valve lifter is at least partly received within a bore of a body of the engine and an end portion of the valve lifter is exposed to an outside of the body. The guide assembly includes a pin and a guide. The pin is adapted to be fixedly coupled to the end portion of the valve lifter, while the guide is adapted to be coupled to the body. The guide defines a channel. The pin is received within the channel and cooperates with the channel to facilitate a movement of the valve lifter along an axis of the bore and to restrict a rotation of the valve lifter about the axis of the bore.
US10247049B2
At least one aspect of the technology provides a self-contained processing facility configured to convert organic, high water-content waste, such as fecal sludge and garbage, into electricity while also generating and collecting potable water.
US10247047B2
An embodiment of the present invention is a method of controlling an Organic Rankine Cycle system, the system comprising at least one feed pump (2), at least one heat exchanger (3), an expansion turbine (5) and a condenser (6), the organic Rankine Cycle comprising a feeding phase of an organic working fluid, a heating and vaporization phase of the same working fluid, an expansion and condensation phase of the same working fluid, wherein said method controls an adjusted variable (X), which is a function of an overheating of the organic fluid, by means of a controller (20) that acts by varying a control variable (Y), which is a parameter of the organic fluid in its liquid phase, and wherein the adjusted variable (X) is a temperature difference (ΔT) between a current temperature of the organic fluid in vapor phase at the turbine inlet and a temperature threshold (Tlim), under which the expansion phase involves the formation of a liquid phase of the organic fluid.
US10247046B2
The invention relates to a thermodynamic cycle apparatus, comprising: a working medium; an evaporator for evaporating the working medium; an expansion machine; a condenser, and a pump, wherein the geometrical arrangement of the evaporator is selected such that the condensed working medium can flow from the condenser to the evaporator by force of gravity and the working medium can circulate in a closed circuit via the evaporator and the condenser wherein a predetermined head height of the liquid working medium can be provided at the pump. The invention additionally relates to a method of starting the thermodynamic cycle apparatus the method comprising the following steps: applying heat to the evaporator and evaporating the working medium in the evaporator, wherein the working medium is caused to flow to the condenser; condensing the working medium in the condenser; starting the pump when a predetermined head height of the working medium at the pump is reached or exceeded.
US10247044B2
A power plant with at least one steam cycle and with at least one high temperature thermal energy (heat) exchange system is provided. The high temperature thermal energy exchange system includes at least one heat exchange chamber with chamber boundaries which surround at least one heat exchange chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber. The chamber boundaries include at least one inlet opening for guiding in an inflow of at least one heat transfer fluid into the heat exchange chamber interior and at least one outlet opening for guiding out an outflow of the heat transfer fluid out of the heat exchange chamber interior; at least one heat storage material is arranged in the heat exchange chamber interior such that a heat exchange flow of the heat transfer fluid through the heat exchange chamber interior causes a heat exchange between the heat storage material and the heat transfer fluid.
US10247041B2
A frame employed in a turbine exhaust case of a gas turbine engine includes a frame outer ring, a frame inner ring, and a plurality of frame struts that connect the frame outer ring to the frame inner ring. The frame outer ring includes a plurality of bosses disposed circumferentially around the frame outer ring, wherein at least one of the plurality of bosses includes a mounting surface that receives and secures a removable bracket to the frame outer ring that supports a weight of the frame.
US10247022B2
A seal system for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The seal system includes a fairing. The seal system also includes a finger seal retention unit attached to the fairing, the finger seal retention unit comprising a channel defining an opening between the fairing and the finger seal retention unit. The seal system also includes a finger seal comprising a tab corresponding to the channel of the finger seal retention unit, the finger seal configured to be removably attached to the finger seal retention unit by inserting the tab into the channel.
US10247021B2
A method for installing an inner fixed structure (IFS) seal may comprise disposing a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) member over an inner skin of an IFS, disposing a seal retainer over the CMC member, and coupling the IFS seal to the seal retainer. The CMC member may be configured to thermally insulate the seal retainer from the IFS.
US10247008B2
A turbomachine fan blade preform (10) comprising a pair of mutually opposing panels (12), and a membrane (20) sandwiched between the pair of panels (12). The membrane (20) is of a non-uniform thickness. The thickness of at least a portion of the membrane tapers along its length and/or width, between a relative thicker first region and relatively thinner second region.
US10247003B2
A rotating component for a turbine engine includes a rotor portion protruding radially outward, at least one overweight region is located in the rotor portion, and at least one additively manufactured counterweight region is positioned relative to the at least one overweight region such that the rotating component is circumferentially balanced.
US10247000B2
The present invention discloses a knife holder and base system for milling machine. The knife holder and base system comprises a knife holder provided with a fixed part and a base provided with an inner hole; and the fixed part penetrates the inner hole and is matched with a thread in the fixed part through a bolt to be used, so that the knife holder is fixedly connected with the base. According to the knife holder and base system for the milling machine, after the knife holder of the system structure is inserted in the base, more than two V-shaped faying surfaces and the V-shaped supporting surface serve as transition, the knife holder and the base are tensioned through the tensioning bolt, so that the knife holder and base system is of an integrated structure, and the cutting stress of a knife is transmitted into the base better through the knife holder.
US10246998B2
The present disclosure relates to a downhole packer assembly that includes an outer skin, an inner packer disposed within the outer skin such that inflation of the inner packer is configured to expand the outer skin, and a flexible flowline at least partially embedded within the outer skin. The flexible flowline is configured to flex as the outer skin expands.
US10246996B2
An apparatus for estimating properties of an earth formation includes a carrier connected to a drilling assembly, and a sensor assembly configured to measure at least one return flow parameter of a return fluid at a surface location, the return fluid returning to the surface location from a borehole. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to perform receiving one or more return flow parameter values for a period of time after injection of fluid is stopped, analyzing the one or more return flow parameter values to identify a ballooning event, in response to identifying the ballooning event, estimating at least one of a location and a property of one or more fractures in the formation, and performing one or more aspects of at least one of the drilling operation and a subsequent operation based on at least one of the location and the property of one or more fractures.
US10246992B2
A method and a system of analyzing multiphase fluid flow in at least one well or pipeline is provided, the method comprises characterizing slug flow in the multiphase fluid flow by receiving a plurality of well pressure data from the at least one well, processing the plurality of well pressure data to obtain a time-varying slug amplitude and/or a time-varying slug period for slugs in the slug flow, analyzing the slug amplitudes and/or the slug periods over a period of time to thereby determine a measure of well performance. Also an oil field monitoring system for an oil field comprising a plurality of wells is provided. Each well has a pressure gauge installed to measure a well pressure and is connected to a multiphase fluid flow analyzing system. An oil field unit receives the measure of well performance from the multiphase fluid flow analyzing system, and output the measures of well performance for each of the plurality of wells.
US10246986B2
In some embodiments, a magnetometer mounting apparatus and system may reduce noise and magnetic flux interference by mounting the magnetometer inside a cavity in a collar that fits around a tool insert. The cavity may be sealed with a hatch cover/outsert. Another embodiment mounts a plurality of magnetometers around the periphery of a mounting ring that is coupled to the insert. Yet another embodiment mounts the magnetometers in a gap sub in the BHA. Still another embodiment longitudinally mounts the magnetometers on the insert such that a diagonal distance between two magnetometers is the greatest possible on the insert.
US10246978B2
A well stimulation modeling method and simulation model for modeling a stimulation treatment involving a chemical reaction between a treatment fluid and a porous medium, such as acid treatment of a carbonate formation. In a wormhole initiation stage or mode, the medium of the cells having a solid saturation above a respective critical solid saturation is comprised of matrix material behaving as a single permeability, single porosity system; and in a wormhole growth stage or mode, the cells having a solid saturation equal to or less than the respective critical sold saturation comprise two different interconnected media, the matrix material and a wormhole material, defined to include wormhole-forming material as well as mature wormholes, having fluid mobility as a function of the solid saturation.
US10246973B2
The disclosed embodiments include energy harvesting devices, methods to operate the energy harvesting devices, and downhole power generating systems. In one embodiment, an energy harvesting device includes an outer stator having a first cavity formed therein. The energy harvesting device further includes a rotor disposed within the first cavity, the rotor including a second cavity, at least one radial slot, and a helical slot extending from a first end of the rotor towards a second end of the rotor. The energy harvesting device further includes an inner stator disposed within the second cavity. The energy harvesting device further includes an armature adjacent to the rotor, the armature coupled to at least one winding coupled to an electrical component to provide an electrical current to power the electrical component. The energy harvesting device further includes a housing coupled to the outer stator.
US10246966B2
An isolation device with seal element having substantial elongation properties at a time of setting and insubstantial elongation properties at time of drill out. That is, the seal element may be constructed of materials that are geared toward providing effective temporary sealing, for example to support stimulation operations. The seal is also tailored to change elongation properties over time such that upon sufficient exposure to downhole conditions the elongation properties may be substantially reduced. Thus, drillable removal of the device and seal element may be readily attained without undue concern over stretchable tearing of the element leading to an accumulation of large debris left behind in the well.
US10246962B2
Provided herein are methods and apparatus for collecting and preserving core samples from a reservoir. In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining core samples from a reservoir using a rock and fluid sampling tool and depositing the core samples in a vessel filled with a hydrogen-free fluid such that a portion of the hydrogen-free fluid is displaced by the core samples and the core samples are immersed in the hydrogen-free fluid. The method also includes transferring a gas into the vessel to occupy a space in the vessel and sealing the vessel via a cap on an end of the vessel. Methods of analyzing the core samples core samples collected from a reservoir and a rock and fluid sampling tool are also provided.
US10246956B2
Systems and methods recycle liquid(s) by introducing at least a portion of a first liquid from a first centrifuge into a tank. At least a portion of a second liquid is introduced from a second centrifuge into the tank. The first liquid and the second liquid are mixed together in the tank to produce a mixed liquid. At least a portion of the mixed liquid is introduced from the tank into the second centrifuge. Particles from the mixed liquid are separated using the second centrifuge, thereby producing the at least a portion of the second liquid that is introduced from the second centrifuge into the tank.
US10246952B2
A system for placing and removing pipe from a finger rack of a drilling rig, the system comprising a pipe handling apparatus (140) and a finger rack (139) having at least one finger board (102) having at least two fingers (103 to 106) defining a slot (107 to 109) and a multiplicity of latches (114) arranged therebetween defining a space for a pipe, each latch (114) of the multiplicity of latches selectively movable between an open position and a closed position, the system further comprising at least one camera (101) having said at least one latch (114) of said multiplicity of latches in a field of view, capturing an image of said latch and sending said image to a master control computer (12′), said master computer control computer (12′) programmed with a set of instructions to analyze said image for details indicative of the latch (114) being in an open position or closed position, concluding the latch (114) to be in an open position or closed position and allowing or disallowing a pipe handling apparatus to place or remove a pipe in the finger rack (139) based on said conclusion.
US10246951B2
An assembly for hoisting and lowering a drill string of a drilling rig includes a multiple displacement hydraulic cylinder having a blind end, a rod end, and a single piston rod configured for slidable extension and retraction movement within the interior space of the cylinder. The interior space is defined by three chambers, each chamber having a port allowing switchable flow of hydraulic fluid into and out from the cylinder. The assembly also includes a pumping and switching system with hydraulic fluid connections to each port of the cylinder. The pumping and switching system is configured to switch the direction of hydraulic fluid flow through each of the ports of the three chambers, thereby providing the assembly with a plurality of hydraulic fluid flow path combinations. Each flow path combination provides a different speed-to-force ratio for extending or retracting the piston rod, thereby hoisting or lowering the drill string.
US10246946B2
A method and apparatus for transporting heavy machinery, equipment or other heavy load from one location to another, whereby the apparatus is constructed to steer the load in order to move the load in a desired path to a set position, one embodiment directed to a walking machine including a plurality of lifting assemblies operative to lift the load above the supporting surface and then move or rotate the load relative to the supporting surface by transporting the load via rollers or tracks in the walking machines, the lifting assembly including a steering mechanism using an actuator operative for rotating, via a multi-linkage assembly, whereby the lifting assembly lower structure is rotated relative to the lifting assembly structure to set the walking machine at a desired angle so that lifting assemblies may be driven in a desired walking direction.
US10246943B2
A drill bit for directional drilling includes a main body and a wear component. The main body is unitary and formed of a first material. The main body includes opposed outer surfaces and a periphery extending between the opposed surfaces. The wear component is unitary and is formed of a second material that is harder than the first material. The wear component comprises a retention portion and a wear portion. The retention portion is positioned within the first material of the main body. The retention portion includes opposed retention surfaces that, moving in a direction inward from the periphery of the main body, taper apart from each other toward the opposed outer surfaces of the main body. The wear portion extends outward from the retention portion relative to the periphery of the main body. The wear portion is substantially planar and is configured to form an outer wear edge.
US10246939B1
An extension module is provided for attachment to a folding or rigid ladder to extend the effective working height of the ladder. A ladder that is designed for use with an extension module according to the invention defines the base module to which the extension module is attached. Cooperatively constructed interconnecting structures on the ladder and the extension module operate to secure the extension module to the ladder and to stabilize the combination of the ladder with the extension.
US10246938B2
The present invention advantageously provides a motorized roller shade that includes a shade tube, a motor/controller unit and a power supply unit. The motor/controller unit is disposed within the shade tube, and includes a bearing, rotatably coupled to a support shaft, and a DC gear motor. The output shaft of the DC gear motor is coupled to the support shaft such that the output shaft and the support shaft do not rotate when the support shaft is attached to the mounting bracket.
US10246930B2
A system and method for remotely controlling and determining a status of a barrier that include determining that a vehicle is parked at a predetermined vicinity of the barrier. The system and method also include sending at least one barrier control signal to remotely control movement of the barrier based on the initial state of the barrier. The system and method additionally include determining a current state of the barrier. The system and method further include presenting the current state of the barrier, wherein the current state of the barrier is presented to display if the current state of the barrier is a closed state based on the at least one barrier control signal sent to remotely control movement of the barrier.
US10246928B2
An armored window drive mechanism includes a window unit containing a bullet resistant glass, composite or polymeric material window positioned within a window frame of a vehicle. A motorized window mechanism is connected to a door structure of the vehicle and acts to raise or lower the window unit. A mechanism connector is adapted to convert an axial rotational force generated by the window mechanism to a lifting and a lowering force acting directly at a lower face of the window frame.
US10246923B2
A damping or return device for sliding door leaves, particularly for furniture, or for drawers, which is constituted by a pin the shank of which is constituted by a diametrically differently-polarized magnet that slideably and axially interacts with a steel plate or a complementarily-shaped collar, which is made of steel and polygonal.
US10246919B2
A swinging-sliding door module for a rail vehicle is provided, the swinging-sliding door module including a door leaf and a rotatably mounted rotary pillar coupled to the door leaf. Furthermore, the swinging-sliding door module includes a support which is oriented longitudinally in the sliding direction of the door leaf and is mounted so as to be displaceable transversely with respect to the longitudinal extent thereof in the horizontal direction in relation to the rotary pillar and in which the door leaf is mounted displaceably. A first over-center locking brings about the deployment movement of the support. Furthermore, the coupling between rotary pillar and door leaf includes a second over-center locking which acts in the deployment direction of the door leaf.
US10246908B2
An opening device (1) having an opening part (2) and a stationary part (4). The opening part (2) is movable relative to the stationary part (4) between a closed position and an open position. The opening device further includes a device arranged to accompany the movement of the opening part. The accompanying device has a first part (10) secured to the opening part (2) and a second part (12) secured to the stationary part (4), with the first part (10) being movable relative to the second part (12). The accompanying device includes a safety blocking device (20) arranged to block the movement of the first part (10) relative to the second part (12) when an inertial force applied to the opening part (2) toward the open position is above a predetermined threshold force.
US10246906B2
A method of mounting an electronic door lock on a door includes: a manual operation to rotate a protrusion of a rotational actuator to initially press a switch; and an operating procedure implemented by the electronic lock for determining a correct mounting direction of the electronic door lock. The operating procedure includes controlling, in response to a signal sent by the switch that is initially pressed, a driving unit to rotate the protrusion in a direction from the initially pressed switch to the other initially un-pressed switch and to drive a latch to move from an unlatched position toward a latched position, followed by stopping and subsequently controlling the driving unit to rotate the protrusion in a reverse direction and to drive the latch to move toward the unlatched position.
US10246905B2
A wireless ultra-low power portable lock may be realized as a lock apparatus including: a locking mechanism having at least locked and unlocked states, the locking mechanism operable to provide physical resistance to being unlocked when in the locked state; an actuator operable to move the locking mechanism from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to a received signal; and a controlling unit configured to control the actuator and to receive one or more signals from one or more devices external to the lock apparatus.
US10246900B2
A system is provided for easily locating a closure latch release and opening a closure of a motor vehicle. That system includes the closure latch release which may be hidden from view by a body element of the motor vehicle and a highlight feature adjacent the closure latch release that is in clear or plain view so that the closure latch release may be quickly and conveniently located.
US10246897B2
A joint structure has a first main body, a positioning pin, a second main body, and a controlling button. The first main body forms with an annular wall and a limiting groove, and the annular wall forms an engaging passage. The positioning pin is mounted in the first main body. The second main body has a limiting protrusion and is rotatably mounted on the first main body; the limiting protrusion is mounted on the limiting groove. The controlling button is mounted on the second main body and forms a positioning groove and an engaging block corresponding to the engaging passage. The positioning pin can abut the positioning groove. With the cooperation of the positioning groove and the positioning pin, the joint structure can be folded or unfolded easily.
US10246896B2
A device configured to support an object above the ground. The device includes a first end and an opposite second end, an axis being defined between the first end and the second end. A body surrounds the axis and extends from the first end to the second end. A mount section of the body is closer to the first end than to the second end. The mount section has a first cross-section and is configured to be coupled to the object. The first cross-section has a circular shape. A main section of the body is located between the mount section and the second end, which has a main cross-section having a hexagonal shape. An indentation in the body is closer to the second end than to the first end. The device is configured to be installed in the ground such that the indentation is below the ground.
US10246891B2
A sheathed frame includes a support frame comprised of a plurality of interconnected support components, a pool liner comprising a pool bottom and a pool wall connected to an outer edge of the pool bottom and extending upward, an upper edge of said pool wall hanging on said support frame and disposed on an inside of said support frame, and at least one sheath disposed on a junction between at least two of said plurality of interconnected support components. Sheaths are respectively provided at the junction of a horizontal side pipe and a T-shaped pipe joint of the frame pool and the junction of a support pipe and the T-shaped pipe joint.
US10246883B2
A set of essentially identical panels, such as building panels, provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue, which is arranged in a displacement groove at a first edge of a first panel. A second panel is provided with a tongue groove at a second edge. The displaceable tongue is configured to cooperate with the tongue groove for locking together the first and the second edge. The displaceable tongue has a spring constant that varies along the length of the tongue.
US10246878B2
Stackable wall spacer adapted for automated distribution using a feeder device and adapted to support a reinforcement grid, where the wall spacer comprises a plurality of leg sections each having a lower foot adapted to be placed on a mold surface for the concrete, where a plurality of wall spacers can be stacked in each other with the feet of one wall spacer extending into corresponding voids of a subsequent wall spacer, where the side wall of a leg section is parallel with the side wall of a leg section of a subsequent wall spacer. The advantage of the invention is that the wall spacers can be stacked in a space saving manner in each other, which allows a cost-efficient storage and transportation of wall spacers. The invention further allows for wall spacers that can be distributed by using a hand-held or automatic feeder device. Further, a reinforcement grid can be supported by a wall spacer regardless of the position of the spacer.
US10246875B2
The present application relates to a vessel support beam comprising two or more beam elements wherein each beam element comprises a first and second opposing long side connected by a top side, a lower side and two opposing end sides, said beam elements are arranged parallelly with at least one long side of one beam element facing a long side of another beam element, thereby forming a reactor support beam having a first and second opposing long side surface, a top surface and a lower surface.
US10246874B2
In one implementation, a metal deck is provided that includes a plurality of deck components formed in a contiguous metal sheet. Each of the deck components includes a plurality of folded ribs formed along the length of the metal deck. Each of the plurality of folded ribs are configured such that one or more trusses of a building may fit between the plurality of folded ribs. The metal deck may be used to complete the structural diaphragm without using concrete.
US10246872B2
A dwelling wall includes: a vacuum heat-insulating material including an outer cover material, and an inner member which is sealed in a tightly closed and decompressed state on the inside of the outer cover material; and a wall material. In addition, the vacuum heat-insulating material is disposed on a rear surface side of the wall material, and the inner member is configured of a material which does not generate hydrogen in a case of coming into contact with moisture of liquid. According to the configuration, even in a case where the vacuum heat-insulating material used in the dwelling wall is ruptured and water of liquid comes into contact with the inner member, it is possible to realize excellent stability of the dwelling wall.
US10246866B2
A toilet fastening assembly includes a fastener, a washer, and a cap. The fastener includes a base at a proximal end, a support extending from the base, and a threaded shaft extending from the support to a distal end. The base includes two flat surfaces interconnecting two curved surfaces. The support includes two flat surfaces interconnecting two tapered surfaces. The support's flat surfaces are aligned with the base's flat surfaces. The threaded shaft includes two distal tapered surfaces that are positioned perpendicular to the base's flat surfaces and the support's flat surfaces. The cap includes an outer wall defining an inner cavity and an inner cylindrical wall disposed within the inner cavity. The inner cylindrical wall's threaded inner surface receives the threaded shaft of the fastener. The inner cylindrical wall's proximal end is recessed relative to the outer wall's proximal end.
US10246863B2
A drain valve for low-level water tank flushing includes a drain valve body, a low-level washing ring flushing device and a switch assembly. The switch assembly includes a switch element and a switch sheet. The switch element is connected to the switch sheet by using a lifting rod. When the switch element opens a sealing assembly of the drain valve body under the action of an external force, the switch sheet changes a channel between a water inlet and a water outlet from a small opening state to a big opening state.
US10246850B2
A material box can telescope between larger and smaller widths to accommodate legal requirements of traveling down the road, making traveling between job sites easier and safer than conventional, unadjustable material boxes. The material box can be used in a wide configuration to plow a wider area, such as empty parking lots, cutting down work time. When cars are present, the material box can be made narrow to accommodate for the vehicles while still being an effective material moving device.
US10246849B2
An implement system includes a linkage and a bucket coupled with the linkage and movable between a dump position and a racked position. The bucket has a torque tube assembly coupled to an outer surface to increase the bucket's torsional rigidity.
US10246845B2
A pile repair apparatus includes a metal clamp having left and right brackets connected by a hinge member. A friction surface is positioned along an inner surface of the metal clamp to improve the connection of the apparatus to a pile to be repaired. A platform is connected to a top surface of the metal clamp, and a means for providing buoyancy to the pile repair apparatus can be secured to the platform. The buoyancy of the apparatus allows a diver to move and to submerse the apparatus easily and to position the apparatus around a pile to be repaired by opening and closing the apparatus about the hinge member. The apparatus is secured to the pile by inserting a bolt through corresponding apertures in the left and right brackets of the apparatus.
US10246843B1
Apparatus and methods relating to a barrier bag are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the barrier bag is configured for installation in a doorway and includes a receiving cell for receiving a second barrier bag. The barrier bag may include removable attachment portions for attaching it to one or more additional barrier bags.
US10246831B1
A synthetic ice panel system for use on a ground surface includes plurality of substantially flat panels that mutually interlock to form a rink, such as for ice skating. Each panel includes a top surface, a bottom surface adapted for resting on the ground surface, and a peripheral edge. The peripheral edge includes a plurality of interlocking tabs and recesses operative to mutually interlock with adjacent panels. Each panel is preferably made with a high-density polymer infused with a lubricant. As such, ice skates and the like are able to slide with relatively low friction on the top surface of the panel. Weather permitting; the panels may be inverted in some embodiments wherein the bottom surface of each panel includes a cooling channel containing a cooling tube through which a coolant flows to freeze water resting on the panel, thereby forming a layer of ice above the panel.
US10246825B2
A pneumatically actuated doctoring device for paper machine de-watering/paper forming is provided having a base member supported on a papermaking machine structure, and a blade support with a fabric contact element. A single pneumatic air tube having first and second attachments on opposing sides is also provided. The first attachment engages the base member and the second attachment engages the blade support. The tube is configured for connection to a pressurized air source and a vacuum source to extend or retract the blade support. A linkage arrangement is connected between the blade support and the base member and includes first and second links located between the base member and the support member. The links each have a pivotal connection to the base member and provide for a fixed orientation of the blade support relative to the base member as the pneumatic air tube extends or retracts the blade support.
US10246821B2
Compositions for and methods of digitally printing an ink image onto a woven textile material are provided. A base application is applied to the surface of a woven textile material, especially one comprising synthetic resin fibers prior to application of an ink image layer. The base application comprises an acrylic latex material that is formulated to be printed on with a digital ink while still wet, thereby eliminating the need for an intermediate drying cycle in between base application deposit and printing of the ink image.
US10246819B2
Compositions and methods for reversibly dyeing soft contact lenses and medical examination therefrom
A composition, method and kit for producing reversibly dyed soft contact lenses is disclosed. The contact lenses are submerged in saline solution and a dye is added to the saline solution, either directly or by means of a strip that has been impregnated with the dye. After a period of time, the lens absorbs the dye and can be removed from the solution and placed on the eye. Once the lens is illuminated with ultraviolet light, it will glow or fluoresce. An eye having the soft contact lens applied to a cornea thereof is examined under a luminescent radiation stored in the soft contact lens. The dyeing method does not utilize heat and thus is reversible. Soaking the lens in additional saline solution for a period of time will cause the dye to return to its non-dyed state. A stabilizing compound and a method of stabilization are also disclosed herein.
US10246816B2
The present application relates to a steam iron (1) for treating garments, comprising a heel (2) to rest the steam iron (1) on a supporting surface (S) when the steam iron (1) is not treating garments, a pressurization unit (3) having a chamber (4) comprising a water inlet (5) for receiving water and a water outlet (6). The pressurization unit (3) is adapted so that, in a rest position (PI) where the heel (2) is placed on the supporting surface (S), it generates an air vacuum in the chamber (4) to draw water into the chamber (4) via the water inlet (5) and, in a lifted position (P2) where the heel (2) is not placed on the supporting surface (S), pressurizes the water drawn in the chamber (4). The steam iron also comprises a steam engine (7) for generating steam from water towards the garments and a water output channel (8) for carrying water under pressure from the water outlet (6) to the steam engine (7). This invention allows easily pressurizing the water in the chamber for in turn increasing the steam generation.
US10246806B2
Provided herein is a new fire barrier nonwoven composed of flame retardant (FR) cellulosic fiber(s) and untreated cellulosic fiber(s) and optionally a binder fiber and methods of making the same, wherein the FR cellulosic fiber contains FR chemical(s) or FR compound(s) that have melting point or decomposition temperature at 400° C. (752° F.) or below. The FR performance of the new nonwoven provided herein is comparable to the conventional FR nonwoven (FR cellulosic fiber/binder fiber), but has advantages in cost effectiveness.
US10246803B2
This invention provides a knitted wire carrier for use in constructing a (e.g.) automotive weather seal that incorporates a locking stitch formed from a relatively incompressible and expansion-resisting material that passes through at least one of the warp threads adjacent to the wire weft. In an embodiment, the locking stitch constructed from a steel (or another metal) wire that is solid or braided. In other embodiments, the locking stitch can be constructed from fiberglass, monofilament polymer or another similarly performing material. In an embodiment, the lockstitch wire is constructed from approximately 0.5-millimeter diameter steel and the wire carrier is constructed from approximately 0.5-0.91-millimeter diameter steel. The wire lockstitch can be woven through a center warp yarn that is surrounded by other knitted warp yarns along the overall weft of the wire carrier. The wire carrier is coated with an adhesive, e.g., latex to maintain the knit in place.
US10246796B2
A RAMO4 substrate containing an RAMO4 base material part containing a single crystal represented by the general formula RAMO4 (wherein R represents one or a plurality of trivalent elements selected from a group of elements including: Sc, In, Y, and a lanthanoid element, A represents one or a plurality of trivalent elements selected from a group of elements including: Fe(III), Ga, and Al, and M represents one or a plurality of divalent elements selected from a group of elements including: Mg, Mn, Fe(II), Co, Cu, Zn, and Cd), the RAMO4 base material part having a beveled portion at an edge portion thereof.
US10246791B2
Articles including a conductive metal substrate and a protective coating on the metal substrate are provided. The protective coating is electrochemically deposited from an electrodeposition medium including a silicon alkoxide and quaternary ammonium compounds or quaternary phosphonium compounds. Methods of electrochemically depositing such protective coatings are also described herein.
US10246788B2
An electrolytic cell and a method of electrochemical oxidation of manganese(II) ions to manganese(III) ions in the electrolytic cell are described. The electrolytic cell comprises (1) an electrolyte solution of manganese(II) ions in a solution of 9 to 15 molar sulfuric acid; (2) a cathode immersed in the electrolyte solution; and (3) an anode immersed in the electrolyte solution and spaced apart from the cathode. Various anode materials are described including vitreous carbon, reticulated vitreous carbon, and woven carbon fibers.
US10246785B2
Fluidized-bed reactors for producing alane are provided herein. An exemplary process includes inducing an electrical potential difference in an electrolyte solution to produce an anolyte solution that includes an alane adduct, wherein an electrical potential difference is generated between anode aluminum particles and a cathode, the electrolyte solution including an alkali metal hydride dissolved in a solvent, the anode aluminum particles and cathode being separated by a diaphragm.
US10246783B2
The present disclosure discloses a copper etchant solution additives and a method for producing copper etchant solution. The method includes: producing copper etchant solution additives, wherein the copper etchant solution additives is an inorganic solution with cupric ions (Cu2+), and deionized water is a solvent for the copper etchant solution additives and is electric neutrality; before wet-etching, the copper etchant solution additives is added in the copper etchant solution, and the copper etchant solution is with a cupric ions (Cu2+) concentration of 700-1000 ppm. Through the above method, the present disclosure can improve etchant property of copper etchant solution to increase etching rate and uniformity.
US10246782B2
A method for etching a workpiece may be provided, which may include: determining a plurality of reference etch profiles for a plurality of positions of an etchant dispenser, each reference etch profile corresponding to a respective position of the plurality of positions of the etchant dispenser; determining a thickness profile of the workpiece; determining a respective etch duration for each position of the plurality of positions of the etchant dispenser based on the determined thickness profile and the plurality of reference etch profiles, to reduce a total thickness variation of the workpiece; and dispensing an etchant over the workpiece via the etchant dispenser for the determined respective etch duration for each position of the plurality of positions.
US10246780B2
An incombustible color-coated steel sheet for household appliances and building materials and a method for manufacturing the same, includes a flame-retardant coating composition that is a colored coating composition coated on a base steel sheet so that the coated steel sheet can have more than a certain level of flame-retardant properties and can also exhibit excellent physical properties, including processability, coating adhesion, corrosion resistance, and hardness.
US10246776B2
A layer-forming device that enables highly efficient layer formation and has a simplified configuration includes: a substrate feeding mechanism; a plasma-generating electrode; a space-partitioning wall; and a plurality of injectors. The plasma-generating electrode faces towards a feeding pathway of the substrate, and generates plasma using a reactive gas upon a supply of electric power. The space-partitioning wall is disposed between the feeding pathway and the plasma-generating electrode. A plurality of slit-shaped through-holes, through which radicals, ions generated from the plasma, or a portion of the plasma can pass, are formed at predetermined intervals in the space-partitioning wall. The plurality of injectors are sandwiched between the space-partitioning wall and the feeding pathway, such that each of the injectors is sandwiched between two adjacent through-holes from both sides of the two through-holes in the feeding direction, and the layer-forming gas is supplied toward the substrate through a layer-forming gas supply port.
US10246762B2
An aluminum alloy electric wire includes an aluminum alloy strand that contains Mg, Si and a remainder composed of aluminum and inevitable impurities. The aluminum alloy strand contains 0.6 to 1.4 atomic % of Mg and 0.2 to 1.0 atomic % of Si, has a coefficient of variation of 0.8 or less, the coefficient being calculated by dividing a standard deviation of a grain size of crystal grains observed on a cross section by an average grain size of the crystal grains, has tensile strength of 165 MPa or more, has elongation at break of 7% or more, and has conductivity of 40% IACS or more.
US10246761B2
A method for recovering scandium is provided, which is capable of recovering highly-pure scandium from nickel oxide ore in a simple and efficient manner. The method for recovering scandium according to the present invention includes a scandium elution step S2 of passing a solution containing scandium through an ion exchange resin to obtain an eluted liquid containing scandium from the ion exchange resin, a neutralization step S3 of adding for neutralization a neutralizing agent to the eluted liquid, a solvent extraction step S4 of solvent-extracting the neutralized eluted liquid using an amine-based extracting agent, and a scandium recovering step S5 of obtaining a scandium precipitate from residual liquid separated by the solvent extraction, and then roasting the precipitate to obtain scandium oxide.
US10246759B2
Provided is a method of recovering rare-earth elements by performing slight pH adjustment of a leachate, which does not require such significant pH adjustment as in conventional methods, reduces cost and effort, and can efficiently recover rare-earth elements in a bauxite residue in a good yield. The method of recovering rare-earth elements is a method of recovering rare-earth elements, the method including: a leaching step of bringing a raw material bauxite residue, which is produced as a by-product in a Bayer process, into contact with a liquid leaching agent to recover a leachate containing rare-earth elements; an extraction step of bringing the leachate into contact with an extraction treatment liquid containing a phosphoric acid ester-based extractant to recover an extract liquid containing the rare-earth elements; and a back extraction step of bringing the extract liquid into contact with a back extraction treatment liquid to recover the rare-earth elements, the leaching step including recovering a leachate having a pH of 0.5 or more and 1.2 or less by using an acidic liquid leaching agent, the extraction step including adjusting the pH of the leachate to 1.0 or more and 1.7 or less and then bringing the leachate into contact with the extraction treatment liquid.
US10246756B2
The present invention addresses the issue of providing a heat treatment system and a heat treatment method whereby the inner circumference of a cylindrical workpiece can be reliably cooled regardless of the dimensions or shape of the workpiece and productivity can be improved, during quenching of the inner circumference of the cylindrical workpiece. The present invention has: rotating devices 18, 19 that rotate the cylindrical workpiece 11: holding members 181, 191 that hold the cylindrical workpiece 11 at a prescribed position; a heating member 16 that heats the cylindrical workpiece 11 from the inner circumferential surface side; a cooling device 17 that injects cooling fluid and cools the cylindrical workpiece 11 from the outer circumferential surface side; and a injecting device 34 provided at a position separated from the cooling device 17 and which inject the cooling fluid.
US10246755B2
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising spray-dried oxalate decarboxylase crystals are disclosed. Methods to treat a disorder associated with elevated oxalate concentration using compositions comprising spray-dried oxalate decarboxylase crystals are also disclosed.
US10246752B2
There is a need for improved methods for determining the diagnosis and prognosis of patients with conditions, including autoimmune disease and cancer. Provided herein are methods for using DNA sequencing to identify personalized biomarkers in patients with autoimmune disease and other conditions. Identified biomarkers can be used to determine the disease state for a subject with an autoimmune disease or other condition.
US10246751B2
The present invention relates to a method for discrimination of p16INK4a overexpressing metaplasias from neoplastic or preneoplastic p16INK4a overexpressing lesions by determination of the level of high risk HPV encoded gene-products such as e.g. HPV E2 and/or HPV E7 molecules in biological samples in the course of cytological testing procedures. The method thus enables for reduction of false positive results in the p16INK4a based detection of anogenital lesions in cytological testing procedures.
US10246741B2
The invention relates to a new method of determining the presence, absence or characteristics of an analyte. The analyte is coupled to a membrane. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequencing.
US10246727B2
The invention provides processes for the conversion of pyruvate obtained from sugars or other carbon sources, to valuable C5 materials such as levulinic acid, levulinate esters, valerolactone, and derivatives thereof.
US10246723B2
A method for propagating a sterile male plant line includes: (a) providing a first plant that comprises a homozygous recessive male sterility allele; (b) providing a second plant comprising the homozygous recessive allele and a construct, where the construct exists in a heterozygous state and comprises i) a first nucleotide sequence that will restore the male fertility of the first plant after expression, and ii) a second nucleotide sequence that is able to affect the grain shape or the endosperm nutrient material composition in a heterozygous state, which allows for distinguishing the grains with or without said construct by observation through naked eyes or devices; the first nucleotide sequence and the second nucleotide sequence are tightly connected with each other and coexist in plants; and (c) fertilizing the female gametes of the first plant with the male gametes of the second plant.
US10246714B2
The present invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of traits, diseases and conditions that respond to the modulation of CTNNB1 gene expression and/or activity, and/or modulate a beta-catenin gene expression pathway. Specifically, the invention relates to double-stranded nucleic acid molecules including small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules that are capable of mediating or that mediate RNA interference (RNAi) against CTNNB1 gene expression.
US10246711B2
The present disclosure provides for methods of treating or preventing a cardiovascular disorder and/or a related pulmonary disorder in a subject. In certain embodiments, a therapeutically effective amount of a polynucleotide inhibitor of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) or a nucleic acid encoding G6PD is administered.
US10246709B2
Described are novel targeting ligands that may be linked to compounds, such therapeutic compounds, that are useful in directing the compounds to the target in vivo. The targeting ligands disclosed herein can serve to target expression-inhibiting oligomeric compounds, such as RNAi agents, to liver cells to modulate gene expression. The targeting ligands disclosed herein, when conjugated to an expression-inhibiting oligomeric compound, may be used in a variety of applications, including use in therapeutic, diagnostic, target validation, and genomic discovery applications. Compositions including the targeting ligands disclosed herein when linked to expression-inhibiting oligomeric compounds are capable of mediating expression of target nucleic acid sequences in liver cells, such as hepatocytes, which may be useful in the treatment of diseases or conditions that respond to inhibition of gene expression or activity in a cell, tissue, or organism.
US10246707B2
The invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule that binds and/or is complementary to the nucleotide molecule having sequence 5′-GUGGCUAACAGAAGCU (SEQ ID NO 1) and to its use in a method for inducing skipping of exon 44 of the DMD gene in a DMD patient.
US10246704B1
Provided herein are methods and apparatus for the identification of pathogenic and non-pathogenic microorganisms in food and environmental samples. The disclosure solves existing challenges encountered in identifying food borne pathogens, including pathogens of the Salmonella, Campylobacter, Listeria, and Escherichia genera in a timely and efficient manner. The disclosure also provides methods for differentiating a transient versus a resident pathogen, correlating presence of non-pathogenic with pathogenic microorganisms, distinguishing live versus dead microorganisms by sequencing.
US10246703B2
Methods and compositions for high-throughput, single cell analyzes are provided. The methods and compositions can be used for analysis of genomes and transcriptomes, as well as antibody discovery, HLA typing, haplotyping and drug discovery.
US10246701B2
The invention relates to methods and compositions for estimating the absolute abundance individually for each unique rearranged lymphocyte receptor in a mixed sample.
US10246699B2
The present invention relates to a microparticle separation apparatus assembly comprising multiple separable panels, more specifically, to a microparticle separation apparatus assembly having a novel structure, comprising: a first panel comprising a magnetic microstructure for applying magnetophoretic force to microparticles; and a second panel, which can be separated from the first panel and through which a sample comprising microparticles passes, wherein the first panel comprising the magnetic microstructure can be recycled.
US10246696B2
The invention is in the field of protein chemistry, in particular in the field of enzymology. It provides pectinases, i.e. polypeptides with pectin-degrading properties. In particular the invention provides polypeptides with pectate lyase activity (EC 4.2.2.2). Enzymes according to the invention have improved properties, such as improved thermostability and decreased calcium dependence.
US10246689B2
The invention disclosed herein relates to methods and materials for producing simvastatin and related compounds such as huvastatin. In particular, the disclosure teaches that variants of the LovD acyltransferase polypeptide can be engineered to exhibit properties that facilitate their use in the production of simvastatin and/or huvastatin. The materials and processes disclosed herein are designed so that fermentation facilities lovastatin being converted to simvastatin and related compounds with minimal modifications.
US10246688B2
The present disclosure relates to nucleic acids that encode polypeptides with cytochrome P450 activity involved in the biosynthesis of plant derived diterpenoids or diterpenes.
US10246684B2
Provided are a cancer cell-trapping metal filter which has a high opening ratio, a cancer cell-trapping metal filter sheet, a cancer cell-trapping device using the cancer cell-trapping filter, and manufacturing methods therefor.According to a cancer cell-trapping metal filter 1, openings of connected through-holes 12 that are formed in a metal sheet 11 have a wave shape, and thus it is possible to extract a CTC from other components by utilizing a hole diameter on a short-side side of the openings, and it is possible to make the connected through-holes be closer to each other due to the wave shape while maintaining a CTC trapping ability. Accordingly, it is possible to further improve the opening ratio in the cancer cell-trapping metal filter 1.
US10246677B2
One embodiment provides a commensal gut production platform for ex vivo production of human gut commensal microbiota. Another embodiment provides devices, systems and methods for ex vivo culturing of gut microflora in a system that mimics the human gut environment. The culturing of the commensal microbiota in the disclosed systems produces gut microbiota having defined characteristics and properties that can be exploited to treat various conditions in a subject.
US10246676B2
Disclosed is a cell stimulation apparatus. In particular, a cell stimulation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a cell containment part in which at least one cell containment groove containing cells is formed; and a pressure control part that supports the cell containment part and transforms the at least one cell containment groove by applying pressure to the cell containment part, wherein a bottom of the at least one cell containment groove is made of a flexible material.
US10246669B2
A peanut food product with reduced levels of allergenic proteins such as Ala h1/h2/h3 is produced by initiating the germination process in raw peanuts, holding the peanuts in moist conditions to initiate germination, and then treating with bromelain.
US10246662B2
A composition for producing a tribological composite material includes at least one platelet-shaped solid-state lubricant, at least one type of inorganic, platelet-shaped pigment particles, at least one surface-active compound which possesses at least one hydrophilic group and at least one hydrophobic group, and a curable binder system comprising at least one organic polymer or oligomer having one or more functional groups, or a precursor thereof.
US10246661B2
A lubricant composition includes a base oil, an alkoxylated amide, an ester, and an anti-wear agent including phosphorus. The alkoxylated amide and ester have general formulas (I) and (II), respectively. The lubricant composition may be further defined as a racing oil composition. Also disclosed is a method for maximizing the effectiveness of a friction modifier in a racing oil composition thus increasing the fuel economy of a racing vehicle. The method includes providing the racing oil composition and lubricating an internal combustion engine of a racing vehicle to increase the fuel economy of the racing vehicle.
US10246644B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing biodiesel, comprising: adding oil and fat, short-chain alcohol, water, and liquid lipase into a single-stage or multi-stage enzyme reactor; then separating the reaction fluid into an enzyme-containing heavy phase and a light phase; recovering and reusing the enzyme in the heavy phase; using the light phase for subsequent conversion by immobilized lipase; flowing the light phase and the short-chain alcohol into single-stage or multi-stage enzyme reactor containing an immobilized lipase; performing online dehydration during the whole reaction process or part of the reaction process. In the method of the invention for preparing biodiesel, no preprocessing is required for the oil and fat feedstock in the earlier stage of catalysis process by liquid lipase, and the conversion ratio from oil and fat to biodiesel can reach more than 90%; in the later stage of catalysis process by immobilized lipase, by introducing an online dehydration during the whole process or part of the reaction process, the yield of biodiesel can exceed 98%, and the acid value of the product can be less than 0.5 mg KOH per gram of oil. The method thus has good economic and environmental benefits.
US10246634B2
A photosensitive composition including a quantum dot complex having a polymeric outer layer, a carboxylic acid group-containing binder, a photopolymerizable monomer having a carbon-carbon double bond, a photoinitiator, and a solvent, wherein the polymeric outer layer includes a copolymer including: a first repeating unit having a moiety capable of interacting with a surface of the quantum dot, an organic ligand compound bonded to the surface of the quantum dot, or a combination thereof, and a second repeating unit having a reactive moiety.
US10246630B2
The present invention relates to the fracturing field, and discloses a water solution, a clean fracturing fluid, and a method for fracturing reservoir. The water solution contains organic acid amidopropyl dimethylamine, an additive, and water, wherein, the additive is at least one of salicylate, cis-butenedioic acid, o-phthalic acid, dodecyl sulfonate, p-toluene sulfonate, and benzoate. The water solution has high carbon dioxide response performance, a clean fracturing fluid that contains the water solution has superior cyclic utilization performance, and the fracturing fluid can solve the problems of conventional fracturing fluids used in fracturing stimulation of oil and gas reservoirs, including incomplete gel breaking, severe damages to the reservoir, and severe contamination of flow-back fluid, etc.
US10246627B2
In a method of gravel packing a wellbore in a subterranean formation, the wellbore comprising a cased section and an uncased section, the method may include pumping into the wellbore a gravel pack composition comprising gravel and a carrier fluid comprising an invert emulsion fluid, where the invert emulsion fluid may comprise: an oleaginous external phase; a non-oleaginous internal phase, wherein a ratio of the oleaginous external phase and non-oleaginous internal phase is less than 50:50 and an emulsifier stabilizing the oleaginous external phase and the non-oleaginous internal phase.
US10246622B2
It has been found that the chemical reactivity of the metal surface of heat exchangers with coolants in presence of nitrites can be reduced by the addition of additives such as phosphonates or phosphinates. Aluminum, other Group III metals, as well as other metals commonly used in cooling systems, such as those of automobile engines, may thus be effectively protected.
US10246612B2
Provided is an adhesive tape which sequentially comprises a first adhesive layer, a polyurethane foamed layer having a density of about 0.1 g/cm3 to about 0.5 g/cm3, and a second adhesive layer.
US10246610B2
A coating composition comprising a resin material comprising polyester imide polymer one or more titanate material; and one or more OH reactive cross linking material.
US10246603B2
To provide a coating material composition capable of forming a cured film free from flooding or color separation and excellent in weather resistance, as well as a solvent-based coating material, an aqueous coating material, a powder coating material and a coated article, using such a composition. A coating material composition comprising a fluorinated copolymer (A) and a pigment (B), characterized in that the fluorinated copolymer (A) has units represented by the following formula (1) [X and Y are each independently H, F, CF3 or Cl] and units represented by the following formula (2), the number average molecular weight of the fluorinated copolymer (A) is from 10,000 to 100,000, and the content of the pigment (B) is from 20 to 200 parts by mass, per 100 parts by mass of the fluorinated copolymer (A):
US10246599B2
A silver paste ink composition comprises a plurality of first particles comprising silver; a polymer binder; a carrier solvent; and a plurality of second particles comprising silver. The second particles are nanoparticles that are different than the first silver particles, the amount of second particles in the ink composition being sufficient to impart a first color to the uncured ink composition, the first color being different than the color of the same ink composition without the nanoparticles. The silver nanoparticles have a property of causing a change in the color of the ink composition when the ink composition is cured.
US10246596B2
A water-based white pigment ink for ink-jet recording includes a white pigment and water. The ink further includes a first resin emulsion having a tensile elongation from 600% to 1200% as a film, measured in accordance with JIS K 7127 and a second resin emulsion having a maximum tensile stress from 50 MPa to 80 MPa as a film, measured in accordance with JIS K 7127. The solid content (R1) of the first resin emulsion to be added and the solid content (R2) of the second resin emulsion to be added in the total amount of the ink satisfy R1/R2=0.4 to 2.5.
US10246590B2
The present invention relates to the use of indigo derivatives for dyeing synthetic textiles to a process for dyeing synthetic textiles and to dyed textiles and articles containing them. The invention also relates to novel indigo derivatives per se and to a process for the preparation thereof.
US10246583B2
A reinforced polymer composite includes a polymer matrix and a strengthening agent. The strengthening agent includes highly crystalline cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and a stabilizing agent. The crystalline cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) have dimensions of about 3 to 5 nm in width and about 100 to 300 nm in length and a density of about 1.6 g/cm3 and the stabilizing agent may be one of Boehmite nanoclay (Boe) and Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide (CTAB) or a combination of both.
US10246581B2
The present disclosure is directed to rubber compositions comprising a butyl rubber or a halogenated butyl rubber, at least one filler, and a whey protein component. The whey protein component is present in an amount sufficient to provide about 0.1 to about 10 phr whey protein in the rubber composition. The present disclosure is also directed to methods of preparing such rubber compositions and to a tire innerliner or innertube containing the rubber compositions disclosed herein.
US10246580B2
A process for increasing the scratch resistance of a composition comprising a thermoplastic organic polymer and a scratch resistant polymer composition per se. The process for increasing the scratch resistance of a composition comprising a thermoplastic organic polymer (P) comprises reactively mixing a thermoplastic organic polymer (A) and an organopolysiloxane (B) in a first step (I) at a temperature at which the thermoplastic organic polymer (A) and the organopolysiloxane (B) are in liquid phases to form a masterbatch. The organopolysiloxane (B) contains at least one functionality capable of reacting with the thermoplastic organic polymer (A) so that a copolymer of components (A) and (B) is formed in the masterbatch during the reactive mixing. The process further comprises a second step (II) of mixing the masterbatch with the composition comprising the thermoplastic organic polymer (P).
US10246577B2
A tire is provided with a tread comprising a rubber composition based on at least one diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, a crosslinking system and a polymethyl methacrylate thermoplastic resin, the polymethyl methacrylate thermoplastic resin exhibiting a Vicat point, measured according to Standard ISO 306: 2013 B50, within a range extending from 60° C. to 100° C.
US10246572B2
The invention pertains to foamable thermoplastic fluoropolymer composition comprising: at least one fluoropolymer [polymer (A)]; and at least one perfluoroalkoxysulphonic derivative of either of formulae: (Xn+)1/n−O3S—CF2CF2O—Rdf—OCF2CF2—SO3−(Xn+)1/n and Rmf—OCF2CF2—SO3−(Xn+)1/n wherein Rdf is a divalent C1-C12 perfluorocarbon group, possibly comprising one or more ethereal oxygen atom; Rmf is a monovalent C1-C12 perfluorocarbon group, possibly comprising one or more ethereal oxygen atom, optionally comprising heteroatoms, generally selected from S, N, P; X=H, a metal cation, or an ammonium group; n is the valence of the cation X, preferably 1 or 2.
US10246565B2
Methods for making and curing resin-based adhesives are disclosed using encapsulated amine accelerators activated by providing ultrasonic energy.
US10246561B1
A method is used to prepare silver nanoparticle cellulosic polymer composites. A cellulosic polymer, reducible silver ions in an amount of a weight ratio to the cellulosic polymer of 5:1 to 50:1, and an organic solvent are mixed. Each organic solvent has a boiling point at atmospheric pressure of 100° C. to 500° C. The Hansen parameter (δTPolymer) of the cellulosic polymer is less than or equal to the Hansen parameter (δTSolvent) of the organic solvent. The resulting premix solution is heated to at least 75° C., and a (d) nitrogenous base is added to provide a concentration of the nitrogenous base in an equimolar amount or in molar excess in relation to the amount of reducible silver ions, thereby forming a silver nanoparticle cellulosic polymer composite. After cooling, the silver nanoparticle cellulosic polymer composite is isolated and re-dispersed in an organic solvent to provide a non-aqueous silver-containing dispersion.
US10246554B2
The present invention provides articles and methods related to insulation panels made from aerogels, and specifically polyimide based aerogels. Such insulation panels have a wide variety of applications, including specifically in aerospace applications.
US10246546B2
A polymer containing silane groups, a method for synthesizing same, and curable compositions including the polymer. The polymer containing silane groups has a very long shelf life and cures quickly with moisture. The polymer is suitable as an elastic adhesive or sealant or coating that can be applied at room temperature and has good heat resistance, or as a hot melt adhesive.
US10246545B2
Invention relates to bismuth-containing catalysts, obtainable by reacting at least one bismuth(III) salt or bismuth(III) complex with at least one 1,3-ketoamide with the formula (I). Such complex compounds are suited in particular as catalysts for one- and two-component polyurethane compositions. The invention further relates to two-component polyurethane compositions, including at least one polyisocyanate as the first component, at least one polyol as the second component, and at least one such bismuth-containing catalyst. The invention further relates one-component polyurethane compositions, including at least one polyurethane prepolymer having isocyanate groups, produced from at least one polyisocyanate with at least one polyol, and one such bismuth-containing catalyst. The invention also relates to various uses of the aforementioned polyurethane compositions.
US10246541B2
A method for making a biodegradable ophthalmic lens includes steps of mixing poly[bis(methacrylate)phosphazene], hydrophilic monomers, and a photoinitiator to form a mixture; feeding the mixture into a mold, and heating or exposing the mixture to ultraviolet radiation, thereby causing the poly[bis(methacrylate)phosphazene] to function as a cross-linking agent. Such cross-linking agent undergoes a polymerization reaction with the hydrophilic monomers and the photoinitiator to form a polyphosphazenes hydrogel; and the polyphosphazenes hydrogel is then removed from the mold.
US10246537B2
A resin composition according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A); and a block copolymer (B) having a block (b1) that includes a vinyl aromatic monomer unit, and a block (b2) that includes an isobutylene unit, wherein the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) and the block copolymer (B) form a co-continuous phase structure; and a DSC curve obtained following heating the resin composition up to a melting point and cooling at a rate of 50° C./min in a differential scanning calorimetry analysis shows two peaks, with a higher peak top temperature falling within a range of 130° C. or greater and 170° C. or less, and a lower peak top temperature falling within a range of 100° C. or greater and less than 130° C. A resin composition may thus be obtained that is able to give a molded article that is superior in balance between gas barrier properties and flexibility.
US10246536B2
Compared to the prior art, this invention provides a functionalized highly syndiotactic polystyrene, comprising a repeating unit having a structure represented by formula (I), or comprising a repeating unit having a structure represented by formula (I) and a repeating unit having a structure represented by formula (II). It is indicated by the experimental results that the syndiotacticity selectivity of the highly syndiotactic polymer provided by this invention is no less than 90%, and the proportion of the repeating unit having a structure represented by formula (I) in the polymer may be arbitrarily adjusted and may be up to 100%. Meanwhile, the oxygen- or sulfur-containing groups in the polymer may increase the polarity of the highly syndiotactic polystyrene so as to increase the blendability of the highly syndiotactic polystyrene with other polymers.
US10246511B2
A fusion polypeptide capable of binding simultaneously to angiopoietin 2, VEGF-C and VEGF-D; or capable of binding simultaneously to VEGF-C and VEGF-D, and methods for the preparation and use thereof.
US10246510B2
The present invention relates to methods for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory disease using antibodies (e.g. monoclonal antibodies), antibody fragments, and derivatives thereof that specifically bind KIR3DL2. The invention also relates to antibodies, cells producing such antibodies; methods of making such antibodies; fragments, variants, and derivatives of the antibodies; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same.
US10246509B2
Mice having a restricted immunoglobulin heavy chain locus are provided, wherein the locus is characterized by a single polymorphic human VH gene segment, a plurality of human DH gene segments and a plurality of JH gene segments. Methods for making antibody sequences that bind an antigen (e.g., a viral antigen) are provided, comprising immunizing a mouse with an antigen of interest, wherein the mouse comprises a single human VH gene segment, a plurality of human DH gene segments and a plurality of JH gene segments, at the endogenous immunoglobulin heavy chain locus.
US10246507B2
A polypeptide, an anti-VEGF antibody and an anti-c-Met/anti-VEGF bispecific antibody, which includes the polypeptide, a pharmaceutical composition including the antibody, and a method of treating cancer using the antibody.
US10246502B2
The application relates to a conjugate comprising interleukin-22 (IL22) and an antibody molecule. The antibody molecule preferably binds an antigen associated with angiogenesis, such as the ED-A isoform of fibronectin. In particular, the application relates to the therapeutic use of such conjugates in the treatment of a disease/disorder, such as autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
US10246495B2
The present invention relates to polypeptides which are Gal2 variants comprising at least one amino acid substitution at a position corresponding to T354, and optionally further amino acid substitution(s). The present invention further relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding the polypeptides and to host cells containing said nucleic acid molecules. The present invention further relates to a method for the production of bioethanol and/or other bio-based compounds, comprising the expression of said nucleic acid molecules, preferably in said host cells. The present invention also relates to the use of the polypeptides, nucleic acids molecule or host cells for the production of bioethanol and/or other bio-based compounds, and/or for the recombinant fermentation of biomaterial containing pentose(s), preferably D-xylose and/or L-arabinose.
US10246491B2
The present invention provides peptidomimetic macrocycles capable of regulating HIF1α and methods of using such macrocycles for the treatment of diseases.
US10246489B2
In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a composition for inhibiting calcium oxalate monohydrate crystal growth comprising at least one isolated polypeptide comprising a plurality of amino acids that bind the surface of the calcium oxalate monohydrate crystal; and a plurality of amino acids spacers, wherein the amino acid spacers are arranged in varying sequences between the plurality of amino acids that bind the surface of the calcium oxalate monohydrate crystal. In some embodiments, the present disclosure related to a method of controlling calcium oxalate monohydrate crystal growth in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject therapeutically effective amount of the calcium oxalate monohydrate inhibiting polypeptide. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of identifying calcium oxalate monohydrate inhibiting peptides. Such a method may comprise designing a peptide library of potential calcium oxalate inhibiting peptides; screening the peptide library for high efficacy inhibitor peptides for inhibition of calcium oxalate monohydrate crystallization; and conducting molecular characterization of the high efficacy inhibitor to determine specificity.
US10246483B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula I: pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of using these compounds to treat or prevent a disease or disorder mediated by FXR and/or TGR5.
US10246450B2
Disclosed are novel calcium release-activated calcium (CRAC) channel inhibitors, methods for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of treatment using them. The present disclosure also relates to methods for treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with CRAC inhibitors, and to methods for identifying therapeutics for treating and of diagnosing cancer.
US10246443B2
Disclosed is a compound of formula I, a stereoisomer thereof, a cis-trans-isomer thereof, a tautomer thereof, or a mixture thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a solvate thereof or a prodrug thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each as defined in the present application.
US10246441B2
An aromatic amine derivative including a substituent A and a substituent B each represented by the formula (1) or (2) and having an arylene group bound to a carbazole structure, in which the substituent A and the substituent B include groups different from each other in the position at which the arylene group is bonded to the carbazole structure, and the substituent A and the substituent B are bonded to the same nitrogen atom or different nitrogen atoms in the molecule; an organic electroluminescent device including an organic thin-film layer formed of one or more layers including at least a light emitting layer, the organic thin-film layer being interposed between a cathode and a anode, in which at least one layer of the organic thin-film layer contains the aromatic amine derivative, and the molecules are rarely crystallized.
US10246439B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof: which inhibit the Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK-1), which associated with autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, inflammatory diseases, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from ASK-1 related disease. The invention also relates to methods of treating an ASK-1 related disease in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention. The present invention specifically relates to methods of treating ASK-1 associated with hepatic steatosis, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcohol steatohepatitis disease (NASH).
US10246428B2
A method and compound includes mixing dichloroglyoxime with an alcohol containing an alkyne functional group in methanol to create a mixture; adding a salt compound and water to the mixture to create bis-isoxazole diol; and nitrating the bis-isoxazole diol to create 3,3′-bis-isoxazole-5,5′-bis-methylene dinitrate, which has the structural formula: The alcohol containing an alkyne functional group may include propargyl alcohol. The salt compound may include sodium bicarbonate. The method may include nitrating the bis-isoxazole diol with nitric acid. The nitric acid may include at least a concentration of 90% nitric acid in water. Alternatively, the method may include nitrating the bis-isoxazole diol with 100% nitric acid and acetic anhydride. The salt compound and the water may be added to the mixture over at least a six-hour period. The method may include mixing the mixture after adding the salt compound and the water for at least ten hours.
US10246424B2
Compounds having activity as inhibitors of G12C mutant KRAS protein are provided. The compounds have one of the following structures (I), (II) or (III): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, stereoisomer or prodrug thereof, wherein R1, R2a, R2b, R2c, R3a, R3b, R4a, R4b, R5a, R5b, R6, A, B, G1, G2, L1, L2, m1, m2, n, x, y, X and E are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods to modulate the activity of G12C mutant KRAS protein for treatment of disorders, such as cancer, are also provided.
US10246407B2
The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing substituted biphenylamides of the general formula (V) characterized in that anilides of the formula (II) in a solvent other than tetrahydrofuran, are reacted with an organoboron compound of the formula (III) in the presence of a catalyst system consisting of a ruthenium catalyst, an activator, an oxidizing agent and a metal triflate.
US10246404B2
The bifunctional compound according to the present invention is represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, CH3, or C2H5; R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom or CH3; and X is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having no more than 4 carbon atoms and optionally containing a hydroxyl group.
US10246402B2
The present invention concerns the use as perfuming ingredient (of the fruity type) of a compound of formula in the form of any one of its stereoisomers or of a mixture thereof, and wherein R1 represents a C1-3 alkyl or alkenyl group, R2 represents a methyl or ethyl group, R3 represents a C1-4 alkyl or alkenyl group, and the compound (I) has from 8 to 12 carbon atoms.
US10246391B2
In an embodiment, a method of recovering an unreacted phenol from a bisphenol A production facility comprises reacting an initial phenol and an initial acetone in the presence of a catalyst to produce a bisphenol A stream comprising the unreacted phenol of the initial phenol and a bisphenol A, separating a purge stream comprising the unreacted phenol, and wherein the unreacted phenol is present in the purge stream in an amount of 60 to 90 wt %, based on the total weight of the purge stream; adding the purge stream to a phenol purification section of a phenol production facility; and forming a purified phenol outlet stream in the phenol purification section, wherein the purified phenol outlet stream comprises a total phenol concentration of greater than or equal to 99.5 wt % based on the total weight of the purified phenol outlet stream.
US10246385B2
A method of making light olefins is described. The method involves producing an alkyne in a pyrolysis process. The alkyne is catalytically hydrogenated in a hydrogenation zone to produce a product stream containing a light olefin. A byproduct stream from the pyrolysis process comprises carbon oxide and hydrogen. The byproduct stream is treated to convert the carbon oxide and the hydrogen to an oxygenated product in a carbon oxide conversion zone, which can then be converted to an olefin in an oxygenate to olefin process.
US10246377B2
The invention relates to a polycrystalline IR transparent material produced by sintering chalcogenide powder, e.g., ZnS powder, using hot uniaxial pressing followed by hot isostatic pressing. The microstructure of the material described in this disclosure is much finer than that found in material produced using the state of the art process. By using a powder with a particle size fine enough to improve sintering behavior but coarse enough to prevent a lowering of the wurtzite-sphalerite transition temperature, a highly transparent material with improved strength is created without degrading the optical properties. A high degree of transparency is achieved during hot pressing by applying pressure after the part has reached a desired temperature. This allows some degree of plastic deformation and prevents rapid grain growth which can entrap porosity. The crystallographic twins created during this process further inhibit grain growth during hot isostatic pressing.
US10246375B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of materials having high thermal conductivity along with a high dielectric constants. In some embodiments, a two phase composite ceramic material can be formed having a contiguous aluminum oxide phase with a secondary phase embedded within the continuous phase. Example secondary phases include calcium titanate, strontium titanate, or titanium dioxide.
US10246373B2
A curable formaldehyde-free binding composition for use with fiberglass is provided. Such curable composition comprises an addition product of an amine and a reactant to form an amino-amide intermediate. To the amino-amide is added an aldehyde or ketone to form the curable binder composition. The composition when applied to fiberglass is cured to form a water-insoluble binder which exhibits good adhesion to glass. In a preferred embodiment the fiberglass is in the form of building insulation. In other embodiments the product is a microglass-based substrate for use in a printed circuit board, battery separator, filter stock, or reinforcement scrim.
US10246372B2
There are provided coated articles that include two or more infrared (IR) reflecting layers (e.g., of or including NbZr, Nb, NiCr, NiCrMo, and/or a nitride thereof) sandwiched between at least dielectric layers, and/or a method of making the same. The coating may be designed so that the coated articles realize blue glass side reflective coloration in combination with a low glass side visible reflectance, acceptable film side coloration, and low solar factor (SF) and/or a low solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC). Such coated articles may be used in the context of monolithic windows, insulating glass (IG) window units, laminated windows, and/or other suitable applications, and may optionally be heat treated (e.g., thermally tempered) in certain instances.
US10246366B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing an optical fiber base material by an inside mounting method, including: a step of rotating and heating a glass tube fixed at two positions and supplying a gas into a through-hole of the glass tube, wherein in the step, the glass tube is warped so that an axis between respective fixed portions of the glass tube has a shape in which a catenary curve is reversed in the vertical direction.
US10246359B2
The invention comprises an activated sludge treatment system and process that aerates wastewater undergoing treatment using venturis.
US10246358B1
An automated primary condensate drain line chlorination system includes a first T-fitting installed in an existing municipal water supply line that contains chlorine and algaecides, a second T-fitting installed between an outlet of an existing primary condensation tray of the central air conditioning system and the existing primary condensate drain line, a water supply line extending between the T-fittings, and a normally closed solenoid valve installed in the water supply line between the T-fittings operatively connected with the electrical circuit of the thermostat and fan motor of the central air conditioning system. The solenoid valve opens automatically upon operation of the fan of the evaporator unit of the central air conditioning system to allow a small amount of water from the municipal water supply line to flow into the primary condensation tray and the primary condensate drain line to prevent the growth of algae and/or fungus therein.
US10246355B2
An aquaculture system is provided. The aquaculture system includes a cultivation pond, a water circulation unit, a water quality detector, and a water processing module. The cultivation pond for storing the cultivation water has a recirculation inlet and recirculation outlet. The water circulation unit is in fluid communication with the cultivation pond to allow the cultivation water in the cultivation pond to circulate through the water circulation unit. The water quality detector is used to detect the quality of the water to obtain water quality information. The water processing module includes an electrolytic gas generator and a control unit to improve the quality of water. The control unit receives the water quality information and adjusts the applied voltage on the electrolytic gas generator according to the water quality information to control the gas species and a ratio of the gases generated by the electrolytic gas generator.
US10246354B2
A device for preparing washing water, belonging to the technical field of electro-chemical and membrane filtration water treatment. The device comprises a water container which is respectively provided with a water inlet and a water outlet; at least one pair of a cathode and an anode are arranged within the water container; a water-permeable porous membrane is clamped between the coupled cathode and anode with no gaps, and the area of the inside of the water-permeable porous membrane opposite the cathode or the anode is smaller than the area of the inside of the cathode or the anode opposite the water-permeable porous membrane. The device can generate washing water which contains a large a number of ultra-micro bubbles and strong oxidation factors and has excellent reducibility.
US10246353B2
Apparatus for Treatment of Liquid A flow-through assembly for electrocoagulation treatment of a liquid has a replaceable cartridge with sacrificial electrodes held in a chamber arranged for flow of the liquid through and over the sacrificial electrodes. The chamber has a pivoting door which can be opened for removal and replacement or refurbishing of the cartridge. One electrode for providing a current to electrochemically dissolve the sacrificial electrodes is located in the chamber with a second electrode on the inner face of the door, with the sacrificial electrodes located between the current-providing electrodes with chamber door closed in use.
US10246343B2
A process for water removal and/or recycling of sodium sulfate and/or sodium dithionate containing liquors derived from processing cobalt resource material essentially free of lithium comprising the steps of precipitation of cobalt as cobaltous carbonate or cobaltous hydroxide followed by removal thereof from the liquor, crystallization of sodium sulfate and sodium dithionate and removal of the crystals, followed by heating of the crystals to anhydrous sodium sulfate, sulphur dioxide and water and then separating the anhydrous sodium sulfate.
US10246340B2
Included are an ammonia synthesis column that synthesizes ammonia from a raw material gas, a discharge line that discharges a synthetic gas, a water-cooled cooler that cools the synthetic gas with a coolant, disposed in the discharge line, an ammonia separator into which a synthetic gas after cooling is introduced and which separates the ammonia gas and a liquid ammonia from each other, a raw material return line that returns a raw material gas containing the separated ammonia gas to the ammonia synthesis column side as a return raw material gas, and a compressor that compresses the return raw material gas, disposed in the raw material return line. An ammonia concentration in the return raw material gas is 5 mol % or more, and an ammonia synthesis catalyst that synthesizes the ammonia gas in the ammonia synthesis column is a ruthenium catalyst.
US10246337B2
Embodiments of a safe, low-temperature reaction system and method for preparing porous silicon are disclosed. The porous silicon is prepared from porous silica, a low-melting metal halide, and a metal comprising aluminum, magnesium, or a combination thereof. Advantageously, embodiments of the disclosed methods can be performed at temperatures ≤400° C. Silicon produced by the disclosed methods has a porosity that is equal to or greater than the porous silica precursor. The porous silicon is suitable for use in electrodes.
US10246335B2
A method of modifying surfaces of diamond particles comprises forming spinodal alloy coatings over discrete diamond particles, thermally treating the spinodal alloy coatings to form modified coatings each independently exhibiting a reactive metal phase and a substantially non-reactive metal phase, and etching surfaces of the discrete diamond particles with at least one reactive metal of the reactive metal phase of the modified coatings. Diamond particles and earth-boring tools are also described.
US10246327B2
The invention provides a skin disinfectant for treating skin with eczema, preventing bacterial proliferation, and removing biofilm. Compositions of the invention include hypochlorous acid, acetic acid, water, and one or more additives or excipients. The formulation process removes metal ions, reduces ionic strength, controls pH, and reduces exposure to air, thus improving stability and lengthening shelf-life.
US10246318B2
A micromechanical component having a substrate, a membrane that covers an opening structured into the substrate from a first side of the substrate and that can be warped by a pressure difference between the first side of the substrate and a second side, oriented away from the first side, of the substrate, and having at least one actuator electrode that is connected at least to the membrane in such a way that the at least one actuator electrode can be displaced relative to the substrate by a warping of the membrane, the at least one actuator electrode being capable of being displaced relative to the substrate by the warping of the membrane, in each case along a displacement axis oriented parallel to the second side of the substrate. A production method for a micromechanical component is also described.
US10246314B2
A boom-extending wire locking structure has a wire locking tool, provided at a base end side of a first boom member and/or a base end side of a third boom member, that locks an extending wire by winding a lock part of each wire member. The wire locking tool includes: a pair of fixing pieces provided on both sides in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a boom-extending direction and fixed to the first boom member and/or the third boom member; and wire locking parts, provided between the pair of fixing pieces, including arch-shaped grooves for winding the respective lock parts of the wire members. The wire locking parts are arranged in a central axis direction of the arc shape between the pair of fixing pieces. Central axes of the wire locking parts are arranged at different positions in the orthogonal direction from respective adjacent wire locking parts.
US10246312B2
A vehicle lift has lift arms pivoted to a central or to side lifts. A handle is pivoted to an extensible, retractable lift arm end and can be manipulated from outside the vehicle periphery to position the lift arm end in a desired alignment with lift points under the vehicle frame.
US10246289B2
A banknote storage unit comprising: a first tape reel banknote storage device; a second tape reel banknote storage device; and a drive transmission means pivotable between engagement with said first tape reel banknote storage device and engagement with said second tape reel banknote storage device.
US10246283B2
A system and method of installation for installing a rolled sheet material on a vertical or near-vertical surface are described. Specifically the system and method of installation are useful in the construction industry where heavy rolls of sheet materials must be precisely installed on walls and other vertical surfaces that can be several stories high. The system includes a rolled material spool holder with mounting hardware to allow mounting of the spool holder to a piece of construction equipment along with a spool director, which is also mounted to the piece of movable construction equipment, such as a scissor lift. The method of installation involves positioning the scissor lift along the wall in the desired start location and the desired starting height. The operator affixes the start of the roll to the wall and then drives the scissor lift along the wall, which causes the roll to unwind due to the movement of the scissor lift, while an additional worker affixes the roll to the wall at the desired intervals.
US10246277B1
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for print media buffering and sorting. An apparatus for performing at least one of buffering and sorting during an operation includes an enclosure, a storage section within the enclosure, an input section configured to receive at the enclosure at least a portion of a printed element, a gripper associated with the input section, the gripper configured to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the input section to the storage section and to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the storage section within the enclosure, and an output section configured to selectively transfer the at least a portion of the printed element from the enclosure.
US10246275B1
The disclosure describes, in part, a system and method for improving the stacking of containers on or in a transportation unit. In some implementations, a stacking configuration may be planned that identifies containers and a position for those containers in the stacking configuration. The stacking configuration may be planned based on dimension values of the containers such that when stacked the stacking configuration remains stable. In addition, to improve the efficiency at which containers may be stacked, the disclosure describes that containers and/or the picking of items for those containers may be sequenced so that the containers, when packed and routed, arrive in a manner that allows efficient stacking.
US10246263B2
A cleanable belt conveyor and a method for making a cleanable belt conveyor having a simplified frame design. One version of such a conveyor comprises a frame and an insertable conveyor belt support. Another version comprises a modular frame formed by a plurality of shafts connected using connectors. Another version comprises a unitary frame and carryway structure, whereby the carryway for supporting a conveyor belt constitutes support structure for the frame. Another version comprises a carryway support rail including an integral curved reversing element. Another version comprises components connected through curvaceous connecting members.
US10246262B2
Zero tension system conveyor. A conveyor belt is driven by at least a portion of the conveyor belt being in continuous contact with a block chain within at least a portion of an overall conveyor belt system. Such a conveyor belt system may be implemented in a spiral configuration such that a relatively small portion of the overall width of the conveyor belt is in contact with the block chain above and/or below the conveyor belt. The static force/weight of the conveyor belt in conjunction with the continuous contact between at least a portion of the conveyor belt and the block chain effectuates the driving of the conveyor belt through the overall conveyor belt system. The block chain is composed of a number of links, at least some of which include a respective hook/protrusion on one side thereof, for being directly engaged by drum bars implemented within a drum assembly.
US10246261B2
A conveyor belt including a pulley cover layer, a carry cover layer, and at least one reinforcement layer disposed within the belt between the pulley cover layer and the carry cover layer. The belt has a first edge section, a second edge section, and a load carrying section. The first edge section and the second edge section are located on each side of the conveyor belt, and the load carrying section is located between the first second edge sections. The reinforcement layer is comprised of a woven fabric which has weft threads extending across the width of the belt and passing into both the first edge section and the second edge section of the conveyor belt. The woven fabric also has warp threads located in the load carrying section of the conveyor belt extending longitudinally throughout the belt without passing into either the first or the second edge section.
US10246260B2
A return device for empties includes a housing; an empties-introduction opening by way of which empties are introducible; a conveying mechanism disposed in the housing and by which empties that have been introduced can be conveyed away. The mechanism has an empties-receptacle portion facing the opening and by which the empties from the opening reach the mechanism. The portion is disposed to be adjacent to the opening and spaced apart therefrom such that a gap is present between the opening and the portion. The device further includes an optical detection device disposed in the housing adjacent to the opening, so as to be able to optically detect in an at least substantially encircling manner introduced empties; and a web extending in a region between a lower portion of the opening and the portion, to be able to serve as a bearing for the empties at least partially bridges the gap.
US10246255B2
A multi-dimensional automated storage and retrieval system is provided herein that enables the space-efficient storage of containers within a three-dimensional lattice structure. Each container includes one or more drivers to engage with rails of the three-dimensional lattice structure, enabling the container to slide along the rails based on a propulsion system. A control device is provided to selectively engage each container to a desired rail of the lattice structure, and to provide power to the propulsion system, thereby moving the container to a desired location within the lattice structure. Due to the high storage efficiency of the disclosed automated storage and retrieval system, the system may be utilized in space-sensitive applications, such as vending machines for physical goods or in cargo vehicles such as trailers.
US10246233B2
A bottle cap retaining device comprises a flap cap configured to retain a bottle cap to a bottle and includes a lever extending from a lateral side of the flap cap and a grip extending convexly from a crown of the flap cap to the brake configured to stop the angular movement of the lever against the bottle. The device also includes a bi-tether connected to the flap cap in two places. The device additionally includes an O-ring connected to the bi-tether in two places, the O-ring includes a boss and a skirt, the boss configured on a lateral portion of the O-ring to inhibit a torque of the O-ring and the skirt configured on a bottom portion of the O-ring to provide a frictional surface against the bottle. The flap cap also comprises teeth or helical threads configured to hold a bottle cap or act in its place.
US10246231B2
Disclosed is a container comprising a vessel defining a chamber storing a volume of a flowable substance having a fragrance, such as a personal care or a home care product; a body defining an opening through which the flowable substance is dispensable from the chamber; and a porous element for retaining a quantity of the flowable substance, the porous element being at a position relative to the volume of the flowable substance so that the flowable substance comes into contact with the porous element as a result of the flowable substance being dispensed from the chamber through the opening. The porous element may be comprised in the body or in a closure that is movable relative to the body between a first position, at which the closure isolates the opening from an exterior of the container, and a second position at which the opening is not isolated from the exterior.
US10246227B2
In a container having a lid member coupled to a container body by a hinge, the lid member has a top panel, and an inner ring formed on the top panel, the inner ring being fitted to an inner peripheral surface of a sidewall of the container body in a closed state to seal the container body. The inner ring has an outer peripheral surface on which an outer peripheral surface projection is formed along a circumferential direction, and the container body has an inner peripheral surface on which an inner peripheral surface projection is formed along the circumferential direction, in the vicinity of an end portion of the sidewall. When closing the lid member, the outer peripheral surface projection contacts and slides over the inner peripheral surface projection to cause the lid member to be locked to the container body, with the inner ring sealing the container body.
US10246222B2
A handle assembly for grippably engaging a container, and methods for making and using such a handle assembly, whereby the handle assembly is adjustable between a collapsed condition and an extended condition in which the handle assembly provides a grippable element for grippably engaging the container.
US10246218B2
A beverage can for carbonated soft drinks, beer, and other pressurized uses includes a drawn and ironed can body, a highly necked portion, and an relatively small end that is attached to the can body by a double seam.
US10246216B2
The package includes a front panel, a back panel opposing the front panel, the back panel defining at least one first cut line in a semi-circular shape at an upper portion of the back panel, a bottom panel forming a lower end of the package, a first side panel forming a first side of the package, a second side panel forming a second side of the package, and an upper panel forming a top end of the package. The first cut line is configured to form a tear line on an outermost surface of the package, the tear line being configured to be torn to open the top end of the package. The blank is capable of being assembled into the package. The method includes providing a blank, and assembling the package from the blank.
US10246209B2
A vessel is configured to hold a product in an interior region formed in the vessel. In illustrative embodiments, the vessel includes a floor and a sidewall coupled to the floor to extend away from the floor. Together the floor and sidewall cooperate to define the interior region.
US10246208B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus and method for high speed automated installation or attachment of preformed handles onto portable containers such as buckets, boxes, cartons, or pails that are moving on a conveyor system through the apparatus. A frame structure supports the apparatus. A container conveyor conveys the portable containers into and out of the apparatus. A handle sheet conveyor conveys sheets of preformed handles from storage containers into a handle magazine. Individual handles are detached from the preformed handle sheets, after which the handles are attached onto the portable containers at a high rate of speed. A slidable handle separation and insertion mechanism includes a main slide for preforming the handles prior to insertion onto the portable containers. In some embodiments the main slide is angled at approximately a 45 degree angle from the horizontal.
US10246207B2
A pharmaceutical storage and retrieval device and a method of accessing and loading the device. The device includes a housing, at least one port with controlled access to inventory stored within the device, a robotic transfer mechanism for moving inventory items to and from the controlled port, software for tracking the inventory and users of the device, and an interface with the pharmacy software system to track and monitor which inventory is authorized for access by each user and which inventory is needed to fill a prescription.
US10246202B2
A method for treating kegs in a container-treatment machine includes passing a first keg through a first set of treatment stations on the container-treatment machine and passing a second keg through a second set of treatment stations on the container-treatment machine. The first and second sets depend on a condition of the first and second kegs.
US10246201B2
A positioning system is provided for orienting a payload. The system may continuously orient the payload relative to another object without twisting connections of the payload. The positioning system may be provided with a base, a rotating member, a pivoting member, an anti-twist member, and a coupling apparatus. The rotating member may be rotatably mounted to the base such that the rotating member rotates about a first axis. The pivoting member may be pivotably mounted to the rotating member such that the pivoting member pivots about a second axis. The anti-twist member may be rotatably mounted to the pivoting member. The coupling apparatus may rotationally couple the anti-twist member to the base such that the rotational orientation of the anti-twist member relative to the base remains constant regardless of a rotational orientation or a pivoting orientation of the pivoting member relative to the base.
US10246196B2
In order to reduce the width of the attachment between the rear portion of an aircraft engine and its attachment pylon, an engine assembly attachment include an assembly of rear engine attachments comprising a first connecting rod laid out in a longitudinal and median vertical plane, a second connecting rod substantially laid out tangentially to the inter-turbine case, and a rear engine attachment for transversely spreading the loads, axially shifted rearwards relatively to the first and second connecting rods, and comprising a shear pin oriented along a vertical direction of the engine assembly.
US10246189B2
Presently disclosed systems and methods are configured for in-flight retrieval of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Such systems generally include a retrieval ramp, a tether system including a tether, and a capture connector. The retrieval ramp is configured to be moved between a stowed configuration and an extended configuration, in which at least a portion of the retrieval ramp is positioned outside the aircraft for retrieval of the UAV. The tether system is moveable to a capture configuration, in which a terminal tether end of the tether is positioned beyond a terminal end of the retrieval ramp, typically outside of turbulence generated by the aircraft. The system is configured to position the retrieval ramp, the tether system, and the capture connector in order to engage the UAV with the capture connector. Once captured, the system may move the UAV into the aircraft as the tether is retracted towards a retracted configuration.
US10246187B2
In some embodiments, unmanned aerial task systems are provided that include a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) each comprising: a UAV control circuit; a motor; propulsion system; and a universal coupler configured to interchangeably couple with and decouple from one of multiple different tool systems each having different functions to be put into use while carried by a UAV, wherein a coupling system of the universal coupler is configured to secure a tool system with the UAV and enable a communication connection between a communication bus and the tool system, and wherein the multiple different tool systems comprise at least a package securing tool system configured to retain and enable transport of a package while being delivered, and a sensor tool system configured to sense a condition and communicate sensor data of the sensed condition to the UAV control circuit over the communication bus.
US10246179B2
A display system for displaying a layout of controls in a simulator including at least one of an information display, a switch such as a toggle or push-button switch, and a monitoring device such as an indicator, or a gauge, for a vehicle, the display system including a touch sensitive screen which is generally transparent over a significant portion of its area, and a plurality of projectors which project onto a back of the screen, images of the vehicle controls, the projectors each being operatively connected to a computer controller which responds to the front of the screen being touched where a depicted control is displayed, to change the display in a manner to mimic the result of a corresponding actual vehicle control being operated.
US10246178B2
An apparatus for controlling the pitch of an aircraft. The apparatus includes a horizontal control column extending from a control wheel horizontally towards a front wall of a cockpit. A pitch output link is connected to a downstream pitch control mechanism to transfer a force applied at the pitch output link to the downstream pitch control mechanism. A transfer assembly is connected to the horizontal control column and to the pitch output link. The transfer assembly translates a horizontal force applied to the horizontal control column to the pitch output link to provide the force applied to the downstream pitch control mechanism.
US10246165B2
Disclosed is a demountable link, suitable in particular for interconnecting two chains for anchoring floating equipment to the ground. This demountable link, shaped like an oblong ring, includes two straight sections connected by two curved sections, and includes: —two side parts each forming one of the curved sections, and—two connecting parts, each forming at least one portion of one of the straight sections, the side parts being assembled with the connecting parts, through removable fastening unit.
US10246162B2
A marine vessel hull, and marine vessels comprising at least one such hull, comprising a non-entrapment hull having at least one longitudinally vented transverse step, each longitudinally vented transverse step comprising a transverse step extending from starboard to port, and one or more longitudinal steps extending forward therefrom. One or more longitudinal steps may also extend aft of an aft-most longitudinally vented transverse step, and may converge to a relatively lesser depth at the stern than a maximum depth at a location fore of the stern. The one or more longitudinal steps may gradually transition to a maximum depth aft of a discontinuity introduced by a forward transverse step. The hull may also have one or more longitudinal step tunnels.
US10246154B2
Among other things, a compliant element is configured to attach a seat of a device on which a user pedals to a frame of the device. The compliant element has a stiffness that is small enough to permit substantially unimpeded rocking of the seat relative to the frame in a plane in which the spine and pelvic bone of the user lie when the user is on the seat, and is large enough to maintain the seat in a substantially horizontal plane when the user is not on the seat.
US10246149B2
A wheel suspension for a two-track vehicle having at least one stabilizer formed as a stabilizer torsion spring rod, with the stabilizer extending in the vehicle's transverse direction and having a drive lever on at least one vehicle side, which acts upon a wheel guidance element of the wheel suspension, and having at least one suspension spring, which is tensioned with a spring preload between the vehicle body and a wheel guidance element of the wheel suspension. The suspension spring is at least partially formed as a suspension spring/torsion spring rod. The suspension spring/torsion spring rod is arranged radially within the stabilizer torsion spring rod designed as a hollow rod.
US10246148B2
A modular crawler-track unit for a forest machine has an engine, a chassis with a pivot bearing and a crawler-track frame. A sleeve shaft is attached to the crawler-track frame to support the crawler-track frame on the pivot bearing. A drive wheel is mounted in bearings in the crawler-track frame inside a circulation of a crawler mat. A support is arranged in the crawler-track frame inside the circulation to support a part of the crawler mat against the ground. A drive shaft is mounted in bearings in the crawler-track frame coaxially with the sleeve shaft to transmit power to the crawler-track unit. A shaft mounted in bearings on the crawler-track frame pivots the drive wheel to the crawler-track frame at a distance from the drive shaft. A power-transmission is fitted between the shaft and the drive shaft to transmit power from the drive shaft to the drive wheel.
US10246139B2
A multi-wheeled vehicle employing an active aerodynamic control system is described. A method for controlling the vehicle and the active aerodynamic control system includes determining states of parameters related to ride and handling of the vehicle, and determining a current tractive effort based upon the states of parameters related to ride and handling of the vehicle. A desired tractive effort is determined based upon an operator desired acceleration, and an available tractive effort is determined based upon an available downforce transferable to the wheels from the active aerodynamic control system and downforces of the wheels. The active aerodynamic control system controls the downforce on one of the wheels to control the current tractive effort responsive to the desired tractive effort.
US10246135B2
An underbody panel for a motor vehicle is composed of a lightweight sandwich material and is configured as a single part with at least one continuous folding connection (12) that is arranged between first and second portions of the underbody panel (14). The first and second portions can be folded together via the folding connection (12) and, in the folded state, are substantially parallel to each other to reduce a size of the underbody panel during transport and storage. Additionally, the underbody panel is gap-free when installed on a motor vehicle.
US10246122B2
A ball screw mechanism that allows a reduction in contact and friction between a retainer and a nut is provided. In a ball screw mechanism, a nut is threadedly engaged with a screw groove of a rack shaft through balls retained in a retainer groove of a retainer, and an axial force is applied to the rack shaft in accordance with rotation of the nut. The nut includes a uniform diameter portion having a uniform inside diameter and enlarged diameter portions each having an inside diameter larger than that of the uniform diameter portion. The enlarged diameter portions are provided at opposite axial ends of a region on an inner circumferential surface of the nut. The region faces the retainer groove and retainer ends adjoining to opposite axial ends of the retainer groove.
US10246121B2
A vehicle steering device includes: steering reaction force generation device having a steering wheel and a steering reaction force motor; steering reaction force motor resolver for detecting steering angle; turning device having a steering motor and capable of turning steered wheels, in a state being mechanically disconnected from the steering reaction force generation device; steering motor resolver for detecting turning angle; drive control section for performing drive control of the steering motor; and vehicle speed sensor for detecting the vehicle speed of vehicle. The drive control section performs drive control of the steering motor if vehicle speed exceeds vehicle speed threshold for the first time after ignition switch is turned on and if specific phase shift based on type and magnitude of phase shift occurs.
US10246107B2
A chassis for a rail vehicle, in particular for a locomotive. A chassis frame is supported on first and second wheel sets and one triangular link per wheel set on both sides of the chassis for horizontally guiding the axle of the wheel set. An A-arm is hinged to one of two axle bearings by a wheel set-side bearing and by two frame-side bearings. The latter have elastomer bushings with a constant longitudinal and transverse rigidity. The former have hydraulic bushings with constant transverse rigidity and variable longitudinal rigidity. The bearings of each A-arm are arranged on the corners of a horizontal isosceles triangle. The tip of the triangle forms the wheel set-side bearing and the base forms the frame-side bearings. This resolves the conflicting objectives between dynamic running behaviors of the chassis when cornering and the driving stability when traveling straight ahead at a high speed.
US10246103B2
A method includes detecting, based on a first location of a vehicle and weather data, a condition for removing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the vehicle. The first location is a current location of the vehicle. The process further includes determining that a level of VOCs in the vehicle is greater than a predetermined level. A second location is selected to expedite removal of the VOCs, and the vehicle is navigated to the second location.
US10246088B2
A control system which for use in a host motor vehicle is configured and intended for recognizing motor vehicles traveling ahead, to the side, and/or behind and preferably stationary objects situated ahead, based on surroundings data obtained from at least one surroundings sensor associated with the host motor vehicle. The at least one surroundings sensor is configured for providing an electronic controller of the control system with surroundings data that represent an area in front of, next to, or behind the host motor vehicle. The control system is at least configured and intended for detecting another motor vehicle, using the road, relative to the host motor vehicle by means of the at least one surroundings sensor, and determining movements of the other motor vehicle relative to a lane in which the other motor vehicle or the host motor vehicle is present, or relative to the host motor vehicle, determining, starting from an instantaneous location of the host vehicle, a set having a predefined number of trajectories, differing with regard to their length and/or their course, for possible paths of the host motor vehicle, wherein the course of neighboring trajectories differs by a predefined difference between possible different steering angles of the host motor vehicle, correlating the course of the determined trajectories for possible paths of the host motor vehicle with the provided surroundings data, and classifying the determined trajectories as trajectories involving a collision, collision-free trajectories, and/or optimal trajectories, determining an instantaneously traveled trajectory of the host motor vehicle and comparing it to the classified trajectories, and based on this situation recognition for the host motor vehicle, making an intervention decision, and generating at least one signal that assists a driver of the host motor vehicle in controlling the host motor vehicle in order to guide the host motor vehicle at least along a collision-free trajectory, or generating at least one associated control command that causes the host motor vehicle to follow at least one of the collision-free trajectories.
US10246087B2
A system and method for mitigating collisions for an articulated work vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a controller configured to determine a safe-zone around the articulated work vehicle based on signals corresponding to sensed objects around the articulated work vehicle. The controller is further configured to determine a position and velocity of one or more peripheral points on the articulated work vehicle based on signals from a set of sensor systems operatively coupled to the articulated work vehicle. The controller is further configured to receive a driver control input. The controller is further configured to apply a limit to the driver control input when a peripheral point on the articulated work vehicle is expected to be within a predetermined distance to a nearest edge of the safe-zone.
US10246074B2
When a hybrid vehicle travels in CS mode in EV single-drive mode, when a required torque is larger than a torque threshold or when a required power is larger than a power threshold, and when a predetermined high response request is not being issued, a drive mode is caused to shift into HV drive mode. When the predetermined high response request is being issued, the drive mode is caused to shift into EV double-drive mode.
US10246070B2
A brake system control unit for a vehicle having a hydraulic vehicle brake and electromechanical brake device comprises a microcontroller, a system ASIC and a brake motor ASIC, wherein the microcontroller is connected to the system ASIC and the brake motor ASIC via communication interfaces. In the brake motor ASIC, an interrogation signal sequence for interrogating the switched state of an actuation switch of the electromechanical brake device is generated.
US10246052B2
A steering lock device for use with a steering shaft includes a lock bar, a camshaft, and a counterweight. The lock bar is moved between an engagement position where the lock bar is engaged with the steering shaft and a non-engagement position where the lock bar is disengaged from the steering shaft. The camshaft is rotated in response to a locking operation and an unlocking operation. The camshaft includes a lock actuation cam that moves the lock bar to the engagement position in a locking direction, and rotation of the steering shaft is prohibited when the lock bar is engaged with the steering shaft. The counterweight is arranged on the camshaft to adjust rotational balance of the camshaft.
US10246049B2
An intelligent retractor having a mode switching lever includes: a spool around which webbing is wound; a flywheel which is provided at one side of the spool and rotates along with the rotation of the spool; a locking unit which fixes the flywheel when a predetermined condition for preventing an extension of the webbing is satisfied; and a mode switching lever which rotates in a state in which the webbing is extended by a predetermined length or greater, and operates the locking unit so that the locking unit fixes the flywheel.
US10246044B2
A hood assembly for a vehicle includes an inner hood, an outer hood, and a plurality of deployable devices. The outer hood is fixed relative to the inner hood. The plurality of deployable devices are spaced apart from each other between the inner hood and the outer hood. The deployable devices each define an inflation chamber and are formed of thermoplastic elastomer. Upon detection of impact between the vehicle and a pedestrian, the deployable devices are deployed to separate the outer hood and the inner hood. As such, during impact of the pedestrian with the outer hood, the outer hood may deform and/or the outer hood may space the pedestrian from relatively hard components under the hood assembly.
US10246041B2
A side airbag device 1 having a tensioned tether 5 is attached to an outer surface of the airbag 2 on a side facing an occupant. The tether 5 has a shape with a front edge 5a vertical length a longer than a rear edge 5b vertical length. The front edge 5a continuously extends in a vertical direction along a front end 2c of the airbag 2 between upper and lower parts when deployed. The rear edge continuously extends in the vertical near a rear end 2d of the airbag 2 between the upper and lower parts. The front edge 5a joins in the vertical direction to the airbag 2 front end 2c, and the tether 5 moves in an oblique direction having a vertical and horizontal direction components in a state of being pulled in an oblique direction inclined to the vertical direction when deployed.
US10246024B2
A storage container for a tractor trailer. The storage container includes two side walls positioned parallel to two frame rails on the tractor trailer. Two end walls are coupled to the two side walls. A bottom plate is coupled adjacent the tractor trailer. A cover plate is hingedly coupled adjacent the tractor trailer. The storage container opens parallel to the two frame rails. A method for using a storage container includes remotely activating an actuator coupled to a cover plate, wherein the actuator causes the cover plate to rotate in an arc parallel to a frame rail on the tractor trailer from a closed to an open position; adding or removing items from a storage area; remotely activating the actuator, wherein the actuator causes the cover plate to close; and remotely locking the storage container.
US10246023B2
A map pocket usable as a trim component for a vehicle door assembly includes an inward-facing, substrate material layer including a polyethylene/polypropylene fibrous, thermoformed material and an outward-facing, A-side material layer including a non-woven, thermoformed material, disposed abuttingly against the substrate material layer.
US10246019B1
An auxiliary pullout step for a vehicle having a yieldingly resilient mechanism for urging the step into the extended step position thereof and resisting movement of the step into a retracted position thereof and an indexing mechanism for selectively restraining the step in the retracted position thereof and selectively releasing the step from the restrained position thereof to allow the yieldingly resilient mechanism to move the step into the extended step position.
US10246018B1
A step installation structure of the truck includes at least a step support and a fixing member. Said step support is provided with a base for setting with the step assembly, a frame member is provided on the rear side of the base, which is used to insert inside the receiver hitch of the truck; said frame member is set with a plurality of perforations. Said fixing member is provided with a clamp body and a threaded bolt, the clamp body is set with a clip plate and a push plate which are arranged perpendicular to each other, the clip plate and the push plate are provided with a screw nut thereon separately; the end of the threaded bolt is provided with an anti-shedding member. Therefore, with the innovative fixing member, the step support can be more securely combined with the truck.
US10246016B2
A vehicle side-view mirror water removal arrangement is easily retrofitted to vehicles having an existing source of compressed air and a side-view mirror with a reflective surface. The arrangement includes a valve having an input port connected to the existing source of compressed air and an output port, the valve being movable between open and closed positions to control the flow of compressed air from the existing source of compressed air to the output port of the valve. A conduit's proximal end is connected to the output port of the valve with its distal end located at the side-view mirror for conducting the compressed air from the output port of the valve to the side-view mirror. A fastener fastens the distal end of the conduit to the side-view mirror so that the compressed air flows down the reflective surface of the side-view mirror, a nozzle at the distal end being provided to spread the compressed air substantially over an entire width of the side-view mirror to clear any water adhering to the reflective surface of the mirror.
US10246011B2
When a microcomputer detects that a user asks a question about a way of operating an air-conditioner, the microcomputer illuminates a switch of the air-conditioner, and moves a pointer displayed in an area being illuminated in an operation direction of the switch.
US10246007B2
An illumination apparatus for a vehicle component, especially for a rearview device of a motor vehicle, features at least one illuminant for emitting light and a condenser unit having at least one condenser lens. The condenser unit is adapted to focus the light emitted by the at least one illuminant into an optical path. At least one mask means is provided, which is arranged in the optical path and by means of which an image, symbol, logo and/or legend can be displayed on a projection surface. A lens unit having at least one objective lens, is arranged in the optical path, and at least one reflector unit, is arranged between the condenser unit and the projection surface. The reflector unit is adapted to deflect the optical path, especially essentially transversely or diagonally, to the projection surface, wherein the reflector unit comprises a reflector element which comprises at least one surface section by means of which the light can be deflected relative to the optical path. The surface section of the reflector element is configured as a freeform surface in order to focus the light.
US10246002B2
A lighting device for a vehicle includes an irradiator that includes a light source mounted in the vehicle, and a shield that is provided to face an emission side of band-shaped light from the light source. The irradiator is configured to emit the band-shaped light from the light source at a predetermined irradiation angle to irradiate a road surface with the band-shaped light, and the irradiator is configured to change an irradiation direction of the band-shaped light toward the road surface. The shield is configured to shield a part of the band-shaped light such that the road surface is illuminated in a shape of a figure indicating prescribed information.
US10246000B2
A parking assistance system for a motor vehicle includes a monitoring unit for detecting an object in the vicinity of the vehicle and a light system connected to the monitoring unit and configured to emit light into the area surrounding the motor vehicle. The monitoring unit is configured to sense the bearing of an object and to control the distribution of the light emitted from the light system as a function of the sensed bearing.
US10245985B1
A seat assembly reclines during an under-vehicle explosion or other upward impact on the vehicle to mitigate spinal and lower leg damage to a human occupant. The seat assembly has a back frame portion and a lower frame portion. The lower frame portion has a pivotal connection with an energy absorbing mechanism mounted to the vehicle floor. The pivotal connection includes a stop mechanism to prevent seat assembly tilt during normal vehicle operation but allow tilt due to an explosion. A second mechanism is disposed between the back frame portion and the floor; this mechanism controls the seat assembly pivot and provides further absorbing of energy from the upward impact. Projections from the front of the lower frame portion toward the floor can be used to enhance seat assembly pivoting; specially designed seat engagement levers can be used for this purpose as well.
US10245982B2
A vehicle seat includes cushion and a seatback coupled with the cushion. At least one of the seatback and the cushion includes a base body defining an internal cavity open on a side of the base portion and a secondary body slidably mounted with the base body so as to be extendible out of the internal cavity beyond the side of the base body and retractable at least partially within the cavity.
US10245977B2
An armrest control device includes a driving mode determiner that determines a switching state of a driving mode of a vehicle capable of switching between an automatic driving mode and a manual driving mode, and an armrest controller that moves a supporter, which supports an arm of a driver of an armrest, so that the supporter approaches a steering wheel, when the driving mode determiner determines that a switching from the automatic driving mode to the manual driving mode has started.
US10245968B2
A system for managing power consumption in a vehicle, includes an optimizing unit for optimizing a plurality of parameters to determine a power to be consumed by the vehicle based on a plurality of power source signatures for a plurality of power sources; and an operating mode setting unit for setting an operating mode for powering the vehicle based on the determined power.
US10245960B2
An electric power converter device for charging a battery in a vehicle may include a power factor converter, a DC-to-DC converter, and a bypass switch. The power factor converter receives a DC power from a power source and increases a voltage level of the DC power. The DC-to-DC converter is operable to decrease the voltage of the DC power from the power factor converter. The bypass switch is operable to electrically couple a power output device to one of the power factor converter or the DC-to-DC converter such that the electrical power provided by the power output device to the battery is based on one of a voltage output of the power factor converter or a voltage output of the DC-to-DC converter.
US10245956B2
A discharge control device controls a discharge bypass circuit for discharging a charge in a capacitor provided in a drive device for a motor that rotates wheels of a vehicle at time of a collision of the vehicle. The discharge control device includes a control circuit that makes the discharge bypass circuit start discharge if an induced voltage by the motor surpasses a predetermined threshold.
US10245945B2
A driving device of a robot includes at least one driving assembly and a fixing assembly that are arranged outside a base of the robot. The at least one driving assembly includes a motor, an omnidirectional wheel, a connection shaft used to connect an output shaft of the motor to the omnidirectional wheel, and a connection assembly used to connect the connection shaft to the motor and the omnidirectional wheel. The motor, the connection shaft and the omnidirectional wheel are arranged along a radial direction of the base, and the fixing assembly is used to fix the motor to the base of the robot.
US10245938B2
An air guide is assembled on a structural component of a motor vehicle by at least two fasteners that each include a first component and a second component. The fasteners project laterally from a frame defined by lateral edges of the structural component in a direction substantially perpendicular to the fastening direction. The first component is joined to the air guide by a retainer that breaks following an impact directed substantially parallel to the fastening direction. Lateral edges of the air guide exhibit guide parts situated substantially opposite second components. Each guide part guides a lateral edge of the structural component supporting a second component inside the air guide following a breakage of the retainer of the first component working together with the second component, the breakage resulting in movement of the air guide towards the structural component in a direction substantially parallel to the fastening direction.
US10245934B2
A torque rod includes a small ring section to be connected to an engine, a large ring section to be connected to a vehicle body, and a rod section providing a connection between the small ring section and the large ring section. The large ring section includes an outer member connected to the rod section, an inner member to be connected to the vehicle body, and a large ring elastic member providing a connection between the outer member and the inner member. Based on a transmission characteristic map, which is prepared by mapping transmission characteristics of the torque rod that are determined by a rod length, a small ring torsion spring, a large ring spring and a large ring spring ratio as parameters, such a combination of parameters that the transmission characteristics are less than 100 N/mm is selected.
US10245932B1
The bracket includes a front fastening portion, a rear fastening portion, and a connecting portion which connects the two of them. The front fastening portion and the rear fastening portion are brought into contact with the upper surface of the Fr side member and protrude inward in the vehicle width direction from the upper surface of the Fr side member to come into contact with the upper surface of the MGCpm cross member. Further, the front fastening portion and the rear fastening portion are provided so as to be arranged in pairs in the front-rear direction across the bending and buckling starting point of the Fr side member. The connecting portion is formed in an angular groove shape having a front wall portion, a rear wall portion, and a side wall portion and recessed in the vehicle width direction in a cross-section in a plan view.
