US10275757B2
A user can set up a travel account with a payment provider, to inform the payment provider of expected dates and locations of travel, along with limits or restrictions at the various locations and/or dates. When the user travels and attempts to make a payment, the payment provider can determine the location and date to aid in processing the payment request, resulting in an easier process for the user, while still providing additional security with the limits and restrictions.
US10275755B2
An example electronic wallet device may include a plurality of card slots configured to hold transaction cards, each card slot, of the plurality of card slots, including a card reader, and the plurality of card slots holding at least two transaction cards; and one or more processors to receive transaction information associated with a transaction at a transaction terminal, select a transaction card, of the at least two transaction cards based on the received transaction information, and/or provide a transaction token, associated with the selected transaction card to be used in connection with the transaction terminal to process the transaction.
US10275752B2
Techniques and arrangements for creating a data structure for recording interactions between a first user and a second user for interactions to occur at a specified future time. The techniques and arrangements include facilitating annotation of the data structure. At the specified future time, the created data structure may be used to track items ordered, track tenders used to pay for items, and the like.
US10275746B1
A system for controlling washing and drying laundry machines, dispensing laundry products, collecting and remitting payments for laundry washing machine use, laundry drying machine use, monitoring location user base sales of laundry products from a dispenser, collecting diagnostic data from laundry machines, clearing laundry machine error codes, displaying advertisements, and scheduling repair visits, as well as an operating method therefor is disclosed, in which remote communication devices, such as cell phones, key fobs, other near field communication devices, or touch-screen kiosks, act on washing machines, dryer and product dispensers.
US10275729B2
A workflow server is connected with operating computer terminals through a network to manage workflow. The workflow server consolidates information necessary for processing multiple consecutive nodes to be processed by one participant operating one of the operating computer terminals, and sends the consolidated information to the operating computer terminal concerned.
US10275722B2
A method of machining a cellular core (14) includes mounting the core (14) atop a table (12) in a multi-axis Computerized Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine (10). The machine (10) is operated to self-scan the core (14) and self-recognize individual cells (30) arranged laterally in columns and longitudinally in rows. A machining path (E) is self-generated from the pre-recognized cells (30), and the core (14) is then machined along the self-generated machining path (E).
US10275721B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for training a machine learning model to route received computational tasks in a system including at least one quantum computing resource. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a first set of data, the first set of data comprising data representing multiple computational tasks previously performed by the system; obtaining input data for the multiple computational tasks previously performed by the system, comprising data representing a type of computing resource the task was routed to; obtaining a second set of data, the second set of data comprising data representing properties associated with using the one or more quantum computing resources to solve the multiple computational tasks; and training the machine learning model to route received data representing a computational task to be performed using the (i) first set of data, (ii) input data, and (iii) second set of data.
US10275720B2
A processing node in a temporal memory system includes a spatial pooler and a sequence processor. The spatial pooler generates a spatial pooler signal representing similarity between received spatial patterns in an input signal and stored co-occurrence patterns. The spatial pooler signal is represented by a combination of elements that are active or inactive. Each co-occurrence pattern is mapped to different subsets of elements of an input signal. The spatial pooler signal is fed to a sequence processor receiving and processed to learn, recognize and predict temporal sequences in the input signal. The sequence processor includes one or more columns, each column including one or more cells. A subset of columns may be selected by the spatial pooler signal, causing one or more cells in these columns to activate.
US10275711B2
The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for capturing, integrating, organizing, navigating and querying large-scale data from high-throughput biological and chemical assay platforms. It provides a highly efficient meta-analysis infrastructure for performing research queries across a large number of studies and experiments from different biological and chemical assays, data types and organisms, as well as systems to build and add to such an infrastructure.
US10275707B2
A method for training a neural network to be configured to filter a multipath corrupted signal is provided. The method includes receiving, at the neural network, real or simulated multipath corrupted signal data, and training the neural network on the multipath corrupted signal data using a complex iterated least square thresholding algorithm (CILST) capable of processing both real and complex signals.
US10275695B2
An information processing apparatus that includes a plurality of communicating units, and that is capable of performing at least one function, includes an identifying unit and a processing unit. The identifying unit identifies the communicating unit connected to an external device. The processing unit performs processing corresponding to the communicating unit identified by the identifying unit, by using correspondence information that indicates correspondence between the communicating unit and regulation information.
US10275693B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head in which a first nozzle group, a second nozzle group, and a third nozzle group which have a plurality of nozzles are disposed in a predetermined direction, and that can eject a liquid on a medium, a main scanning unit that scans the head in a main scanning direction, a sub scanning unit that relatively moves between the head and the medium in a sub scanning direction intersecting the main scanning direction; and a control unit. When the liquid is ejected to form a plurality of raster lines on the medium, the control unit maintains fixed values for each total value of a nozzle usage rate of the first nozzle group, total value of a nozzle usage rate of the second nozzle group, and total value of a nozzle usage rate of the third nozzle group, corresponding to the respective raster lines.
US10275690B2
A computing device automatically classifies an observation vector. (a) A converged classification matrix is computed that defines a label probability for each observation vector. (b) The value of the target variable associated with a maximum label probability value is selected for each observation vector. Each observation vector is assigned to a cluster. A distance value is computed between observation vectors assigned to the same cluster. An average distance value is computed for each observation vector. A predefined number of observation vectors are selected that have minimum values for the average distance value. The supervised data is updated to include the selected observation vectors with the value of the target variable selected in (b). The selected observation vectors are removed from the unlabeled subset. (a) and (b) are repeated. The value of the target variable for each observation vector is output to a labeled dataset.
US10275687B2
Data representing an image is received by an image recognition system. An image recognition system generates an image classification output distribution for a plurality of image features based on analysis of the data representing the image and training data stored for the image recognition system. One or more filters are applied to the image classification output distribution to obtain an updated image classification output distribution. A highest confidence value is selected from the updated image classification output distribution. A selected image feature associated with the highest confidence value is identified from the plurality of image features. Information associated with the selected image feature is obtained from a database and communicated to the user's device by the image recognition system.
US10275683B2
Presented herein are techniques for assignment of an identity to a group of captured images. A plurality of captured images that each include an image of at least one person are obtained. For each of the plurality of captured images, relational metrics indicating a relationship between the image of the person in a respective captured image and the images of the persons in each of the remaining plurality of captured images is calculated. Based on the relational metrics, a clustering process is performed to generate one or more clusters from the plurality of captured images. Each of the one or more clusters are associated with an identity of an identity database. The one or more clusters may each be associated with an existing identity of the identity database or an additional identity that is not yet present in the identity database.
US10275665B2
A method for detecting a curbstone in an environment of a vehicle. The method includes recognizing at least one line segment that belongs to the curbstone with the aid of image data that are read in by an interface to a camera device of the vehicle. The line segment is projected onto a ground plane of the environment in order to generate a projected line segment. A subset of a plurality of three-dimensionally triangulated points in the environment of the vehicle is assigned to the line segment as a function of a position of the points relative to a position of the camera device, relative to a starting point of the projected line segment, and relative to an end point of the projected line segment. A flank plane of the curbstone is ascertained with the aid of the assigned points.
US10275658B2
A method of autonomously monitoring a remote site, including the steps of locating a primary detector at a site to be monitored; creating one or more geospatial maps of the site using an overhead image of the site; calibrating the primary detector to the geospatial map using a detector-specific model; detecting an object in motion at the site; tracking the moving object on the geospatial map; and alerting a user to the presence of motion at the site. In addition thermal image data from a infrared cameras, rather than optical/visual image data, is used to create detector-specific models and geospatial maps in substantially the same way that optical cameras and optical image data would be used.
US10275644B2
Eardrums are automatically classified based on a feature set from a three-dimensional image of the eardrum, such as might be derived from a plenoptic image captured by a light field otoscope. In one aspect, a grid is overlaid onto the three-dimensional image of the eardrum. The grid partitions the three-dimensional image into cells. One or more descriptors are calculated for each of the cells, and the feature set includes the calculated descriptors. Examples of descriptors include various quantities relating to the depth and/or curvature of the eardrum. In another aspect, isocontour lines (of constant depth) are calculated for the three-dimensional image of the eardrum. One or more descriptors are calculated for the isocontour lines, and the feature set includes the calculated descriptors. Examples of descriptors include various quantities characterizing the isocontour lines.
US10275639B2
A face detecting and tracking method includes: acquiring an image and performing a face detection to determine one or more face boxes of each acquired image; performing a detection error removing process to the image of current frame, and saving one of the one or more face boxes of the processed image of current frame as a first face box; and determining a tracking box of the image of current frame based on the first face box and a tracked face box, and tracking the face in the tracking box of the image of current frame.
US10275634B2
Disclosed are methods, devices, apparatuses, and systems for ultrasonic fingerprint sensing with an acoustic shielding structure. One or more layers in an ultrasonic fingerprint sensing system may reflect back ultrasonic waves due to acoustic impedance mismatch that can distort a fingerprint image. An acoustic shielding structure may be configured to absorb, store, trap, or otherwise attenuate ultrasonic waves. The acoustic shielding structure may be positioned underlying an ultrasonic sensor layer. In some implementations, the acoustic shielding structure may include a plurality of periodically spaced apart geometric features or holes in a medium.
US10275630B2
A fingerprint identification apparatus including a light-transmitting device, an image-capture device disposed opposite to the light-transmitting device, and a collimator disposed between the light-transmitting device and the image-capture device is provided. The collimator includes a plurality of light-shielding layers and a plurality of light-transmitting layers that are alternately stacked. Each of the light-shielding layers has a plurality of openings respectively corresponding to a plurality of pixel regions of the image-capture device. Openings of the plurality of light-shielding layers corresponding to one pixel region are arranged along an oblique direction. The oblique direction and a normal direction of a pressing surface of the light-transmitting device have an included angle θ, and 0°<θ<90°.
US10275629B2
The present invention relates to a method for extracting morphological characteristics from a sample of biological material, in particular fingerprints, especially internal or external fingerprints, using an optical coherence tomography acquiring system delivering a signal representative of the sample, in which method an image containing intensity data and an image containing phase data are formed from at least the signal delivered by the acquiring system and representative of the sample, in order to extract the morphological characteristics from the sample.
US10275628B2
A data-analytics application may be optimized for implementation on a computing device for conserving computing or providing timely results, such as a prediction, recommendation, inference, or diagnosis about a monitored system, process, event, or a user, for example. A feature filter or classifier is generated and incorporated into or used by the application to provide the optimization. The feature filter and classifier are generated based on a set of significant features, determined using a data condensation and summarization process, from a high-dimensional set of available features characterizing the target. For example, a process that includes utilizing combined sparse principal component analysis with sparse singular value decomposition and applying k-medoids clustering may determine the significant features. Insignificant features may be filtered out or not used, as information represented by the insignificant features is expressed by the significant features.
US10275623B2
Scanners, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that process variable sized objects with high package pitch on a moving conveyor belt are provided. The scanners are laser scanners that include at least two laser diodes, sensors, and field programmable gate arrays processors. The at least two laser diodes have different focuses. Each diode generates a laser beam when excited by an activation signal and an appropriate modulation. The sensors within the laser scanner device measure light reflected from a target on the objects. The processors toggle activation among the at least two laser diodes based on measurements sensed from the light reflected from the target.
US10275622B2
In one embodiment, a radio tag reading apparatus has an antenna device, a storage device, and a controller. The controller judges what frequency band is usable or not out of a plurality of frequency bands stored in the storage device. Further the controller makes the antenna device radiate a radio wave in the judged usable frequency band at a transmission rate in accordance with a width of the judged usable frequency band.
US10275621B2
This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for determining whether at least a first component and a second component of a personal protection (PP) configuration are compatible so as to be assembled into an approved PP configuration, responsive to being compared against at least one predetermined criterion. Included is a smart tag for each of the first and second components. The first and second smart tags include respective first and second data. A data acquiring system is provided for acquiring the first and second data and a data processing system processes the acquired first and second data for determining if the first and second components are compatible to be assembled as an approved PP configuration.
US10275619B2
Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for managing luggage within a premises such as an airport. A group identifier is established that includes multiple travelers. Each traveler in the group has one or more pieces of luggage that are being checked at a destination airport for a flight. When the travelers arrive, the luggage is reclaimed at the baggage claim area of the arrival airport. The group identifier is associated with each piece of luggage belonging to the group. Thus, any member of the group can properly remove luggage belonging to the group from the baggage area, thereby simplifying the airport exit procedure.
US10275618B2
A system and method of selectively reading sensor data from a memory device is able to search the memory device for an indicator that identifies the sensor data, and read only the sensor data identified by the indicator from the memory device. In this way, interrogating devices are able to sort through sensor data stored in a network of memory devices, such as an RFID network, and report specific data of interest despite the existence of a variety of data types in the network. In some embodiments, flags are stored and associated with specific types of data, such as various sensor data, thereby allowing numerous memory devices and sensors to operate and be read efficiently in the same environment.
US10275616B2
A multi-function card has a non-contact IC card function, a magnetic stripe card function, a function of generating a magnetic card signal and an NFC signal, and a Bluetooth function capable of transmitting a signal to devices such as smartphones. The multi-function card includes a metallic frame, and is robust against bending or breakage. A transmission/reception sensor system is used for the multi-function card or the like, and for a wearable device. The transmission/reception sensor system includes a magnetic sensor 10 including a coil 2 wound around a magnetic sensor core 1, and an NFC coil 12 formed in a planar shape. A metallic frame having of a loop shape is installed along the NFC coil 12 and includes one or more cut portions.
US10275614B2
In particular embodiments, a data processing data inventory generation system is configured to: (1) generate a data model (e.g., a data inventory) for one or more data assets utilized by a particular organization; (2) generate a respective data inventory for each of the one or more data assets; and (3) map one or more relationships between one or more aspects of the data inventory, the one or more data assets, etc. within the data model. In particular embodiments, a data asset (e.g., data system, software application, etc.) may include, for example, any entity that collects, processes, contains, and/or transfers personal data (e.g., such as a software application, “internet of things” computerized device, database, website, data-center, server, etc.). For example, a first data asset may include any software or device (e.g., server or servers) utilized by a particular entity for such data collection, processing, transfer, storage, etc.
US10275600B2
Security analysis and vulnerability testing results are “packaged” or “bound to” the actual software it describes. By linking the results to the software itself, downstream users of the software can access information about the software, make informed decisions about implementation of the software, and analyze the security risk across an entire system by accessing all (or most) of the reports associated with the executables running on the system and summarizing the risks identified in the reports.
US10275595B2
An embodiment may create a memory image including a representation of a thread environment block (TEB) and representation of a process environment block (PEB) according to specifications of an operating system. A memory image may be loaded into a memory and a shellcode may be caused to use the memory image when executed. An access to the memory image, made by the shellcode, may be monitored and controlled.
US10275589B1
Various embodiments are generally directed to identity verification using autonomous vehicles. A security policy may be used to determine when identity verification using autonomous vehicles is required. The autonomous vehicle may be deployed to a location to verify the identity of the user based on one or more of images, audio data, biometric data, and wireless data connections.
US10275582B2
Systems and methods for controlling access to an online account are described. An access control message including an action to be performed on an online account can be sent from a mobile device to a server. The server may identify the mobile device based on identifying information in the access control message. Upon identifying the mobile device, the server may determine whether the user has authority to initiate the action to be performed on the online account. Upon determining that a user of the mobile device does have authority to initiate the indicated action, the action indicated in the access control message may be taken with respect to the online account.
US10275580B2
A method of authenticating a user of a terminal referred of as a first terminal, and suitable for communicating with a service provider via a first communications network, the provider requesting an authentication of the user of the first terminal before providing a service to the first terminal, wherein the authentication of the user is based on user authentication performed with regard to a second terminal.
US10275579B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are set forth herein and can include examining a video file using content of an authorship attribution database, the authorship attribution database including one or more authorship attribution video file record; and determining authorship attribution of the video file based on the examining. The authorship attribution database can include one or more authorship attribution video file record.
US10275578B2
The present disclosure provides identification and continuous monitoring of content, such as broadcast content, in real time, using a hierarchical, distributed approach to content identification. Identification, synchronization and verification are provided. Identification may be performed by an identification server using a reference database of fingerprints. The same or another computing device may be used perform synchronization, such that at least some portion of each fingerprint generated by client devices that form a verification group are synchronized for verification. Verification used to determine whether a client device continues to receive the same content identified during identification compares at least a portion of each fingerprint generated by each client device of a verification group. If a mismatch occurs, identification may be repeated to identify the new content being received by a client device.
US10275569B2
Displaying a comparison of genetic data is disclosed, including receiving an indication of a first individual, receiving an indication of a second individual, retrieving the genotypic information for the first individual and the second individual, comparing the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual, displaying an indication of the comparison of the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual graphically. A first graphical symbol is used to display an indication of the genome regions for which the first individual and the second individual are identical. A second graphical symbol is used to display an indication of the genome regions for which the first individual and the second individual are half identical.
US10275564B2
An apparatus is provided for analysis of a repair for a structure by identifying component parts of the structure that have common material properties and geometric constraints, and based thereon determining a generic repair component for the component parts that also have the common material properties and the geometric constraints. A set of loads are extracted from a loads model of the undamaged structure and redistributed in a loads redistribution model at a damaged or defective portion of the component part. The set of redistributed loads indicate loading incurred by the generic repair component under an external load. The apparatus then uses the redistributed loads to perform an analysis to determine a margin of safety of the generic repair component and, in instances in which the margin of safety is positive, outputs the material properties and geometric constraints of the generic repair component to a fabrication system for production thereof.
US10275560B2
Embodiments relate to using placement grids corresponding to repeating track patterns of metal layers in a region to place circuit elements. Each placement grid is defined by as a vertical pitch of a repeating track pattern of one metal layer and a horizontal pitch of another repeating track pattern of another metal layer. Each circuit element is assigned with a placement grid so that it can be placed in alignment with the assigned placement grid. By using the placement grids derived from the track patterns, routable placement of circuit elements can be performed automatically or manually with reduced efforts.
US10275554B1
A method as provided includes retrieving a correlation value from a correlation table and a coskewness value from a coskewness table. The correlation value includes a correlation between a delay distribution and a slew rate distribution, and is associated with both: an input slew rate and an output load, in a logic stage in an integrated circuit design, and the coskewness value is a coskewness between the delay distribution and the slew rate distribution. The method includes determining a partial derivative of a delay function relative to the input slew rate, determining a delay distribution for a signal through a plurality of logic stages using the correlation value, the coskewness value, and the partial derivative of the delay function relative to the input slew rate. The method also includes verifying that a statistical value of the delay distribution satisfies a desired performance value for an integrated circuit.
US10275550B2
In an embodiment, agricultural intelligence computer system stores a digital model of nutrient content in soil which includes a plurality of values and expressions that define transformations of or relationships between the values and produce estimates of nutrient content values in soil. The agricultural intelligence computer receives nutrient content measurement values for a particular field at a particular time. The agricultural intelligence computer system uses the digital model of nutrient content to compute a nutrient content value for the particular field at the particular time. The agricultural intelligence computer system identifies a modeling uncertainty corresponding to the computed nutrient content value and a measurement uncertainty corresponding to the received measurement values. Based on the identified uncertainties, the modeled nutrient content value, and the received measurement values, the agricultural intelligence computer system computes an assimilated nutrient content value.
US10275549B2
A system and method for estimating frost mass formed in a design component of a multi-component structure are disclosed. In one embodiment, the frost mass formed in the design component is iteratively estimated using a heat transfer rate at an interface between fluid and a frost layer in the design component, a height of the frost layer and a density of the frost layer.
US10275544B1
A project architectural design plan file represents information about an architectural design plan. The project architectural design plan file is compliant with a standardized program, and within each program, includes a plurality of prefabricated building modules. The requirements for the project are dictated by the program, which is included in the project as a program standards file. The requirements for the prefabricated building modules are set out in module design files. Information about components of the prefabricated building module is embedding in links of the project architectural design plan file.
US10275541B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for proactive corrective actions in memory based on a probabilistic data structure. A number of embodiments include a memory, and circuitry configured to input information associated with a subset of data stored in the memory into a probabilistic data structure and proactively determine, at least partially using the probabilistic data structure, whether to take a corrective action on the subset of data stored in the memory.
US10275538B2
A resource set comprising a set of resources may be provided to the public. It may be desirable to associate with the resources a set of public names, such as friendly URLs that may be more memorable, may indicate to users the type of resource so named, and may promote indexing of the resources by search engines. A name hierarchy (such as a portion of a file system) may store at least one reference that associates a public name with a resource. A name hierarchy navigation logic may facilitate navigation through the name hierarchy, and may specify a particular location within the name hierarchy where a reference associated with the public name is to be stored. This manner of associating public names with resources may promote the scalability and efficiency in associating public names with resources and in retrieving a resource associated with a particular public name.
US10275529B1
The systems and methods are directed towards embodiments for incorporating alternative sources of information, other than current online sources, for use with intelligent personal assistants. These alternative sources are processed and prioritized by the intelligent personal assistant when performing queries by the user. Furthermore, the intelligent personal assistant is capable of performing other actions related to the alternative source of information. In another embodiment, the user is capable of providing both audio commands and motion-based commands to the intelligent personal assistant to instruct the intelligent personal assistant to perform specific processes whereby the audio commands correspond to a first set of processes and the motion-based commands correspond to a distinct second set of processes.
US10275526B2
A social networking aggregator computer program that filters user updates from several sources and merges them with geo-tagging data to provide real-time “weather maps” of symptoms and ailments, which can then be used to forecast where and when illnesses spread. Data sources include, but are not limited to popular social media “user broadcasting” platforms, social network sites and smartphone applications.
US10275522B1
A computer-implemented method for presenting relevant information to a customer service representative of a business may include receiving a digitized data stream corresponding to a spoken conversation between a customer and a representative; converting the data stream to a text stream; determining one or more keywords from the text stream; comparing the one or more keywords with a history of keywords that have previously been searched; and/or searching a database for information related to the one or more keywords that have not been previously searched. As a result of the keyword search, information about topics that the customer is interested in, may be located and displayed on a customer service representative display to facilitate the customer service representative timely relaying the information found by the keyword search to enhance the customer experience. Exemplary keywords may relate to insurance and financial services, such as “auto,” “home,” “life,” “insurance,” or “vehicle loan.”
US10275521B2
A system and method for displaying changes in trending topics to a user in a network environment is described. The method includes retrieving a first group of content items, generating a first group of topics for the first group of content items, and displaying a first display to the user. The method further includes retrieving a second group of content items, generating a second group of topics for the second group of content items and zero or more first content items from the first group of content items, determining a similarity or dissimilarity between a second topic from the second group of topics and a first topic from the first group of topics, and displaying a second display which includes the result of determining a similarity or dissimilarity.
US10275510B2
A system and method for seamless access to remotely manage documents using synchronization of locally stored documents are provided. In some embodiments, a content management server stores documents in a cache on the user's computer. Documents can thus be accessed and edited using the document in the local file system of the user and synchronized with the content management server asynchronously to access the documents on the local files system. Advantageously, the teachings of embodiments as described can be used in conjunction with content management systems for providing faster access to documents in conjunction with editing and for enabling offline work on such documents.
US10275499B2
Content object tags at a content hosting service are used to classify stored content objects. Tags and clusters of tags (groups of one or more associated tags) can be recommended to a user of the content hosting service based on a user context, such as the browsing, viewing, uploading, or searching of content objects. Tags are scored based on content objects tagged with the tags in a targeted subset of content objects and a baseline subset of content objects, and based on the relevance of the content objects tagged with the tags. These tag scores can be weighted, and one or more tags can be selected for recommendation based on the weighted tag scores. Tag clusters can be selected for recommendation using a cluster hierarchy and determining whether a targeted subset of tags occur within a maximum number of tag clusters at a particular hierarchy level.
US10275497B2
An electronic whiteboard system includes a search unit configured to search for the electronic whiteboard based on a search condition, an extraction unit configured to extract one or a plurality of the areas that are matched with the search condition or one or a plurality of the areas to which an object that is matched with the search condition belongs as a search result, a creation unit configured to create a search result electronic whiteboard composed of one screen information, and a presenting unit configured to display the created search result electronic whiteboard on a screen. The electronic whiteboard system displays a result in which one or a plurality of electronic whiteboards are searched for based on the search condition on the screen.
US10275486B2
A method includes storing a copy of information, corresponding to a data set, in each of a plurality of data formats, and determining one or more portions of a search criterion to be associated with one or more sets of one or more characteristics. For each portion, based on the associated characteristics, a search is executed on a copy of information stored in a particular data format using a corresponding search algorithm to obtain a set of intermediary search results. A set of final search results corresponding to the search criterion is determined based on two or more sets of intermediary search results.
US10275485B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for retrieving and using contextual data from previous conversation sessions in conversational searches. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first query for a first user session, determining that the first query refers to one or more tags in a first repository, the first repository associating respective identifiers to respective tags, each identifier representing a corresponding user session, determining one or more particular identifiers associated with the one or more tags in the first repository, retrieving particular contextual data associated with the determined particular identifiers in a second repository, the second repository associating respective identifiers to respective contextual data associated with corresponding user sessions represented by the respective identifiers, and performing an action responsive to the first query based on the retrieved particular contextual data.
US10275478B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for synchronizing data to update backup files. In one embodiment, data associated with files to be synchronized is sent to a second computer system by a first computers system. The second computer system matches data associated with the files to be synchronized to a database, and the first computer system determines differences between an old and new version of the files to be synchronized and creates a backup of the files. The backup of the files is stored in a storage device.
US10275473B2
A generative adversarial networks-based or GAN-based method for learning cross-domain relations is disclosed. A provided architecture includes two coupled GANs: a first GAN learning a translation of images from domain A to domain B, and a second GAN learning a translation of images from domain B to domain A. A loop formed by the first GAN and the second GAN causes sample images to be reconstructed into an original domain after being translated into a target domain. Therefore, loss functions representing reconstruction losses of the images may be used to train generative models.
US10275472B2
According to one embodiment, a first keyword-to-image (keyword/image) mapping table is provided. The first keyword mapping table includes a number of entries, each entry mapping a keyword to one or more image identifiers (IDs) identifying one or more images. For each of the keywords of the first keyword/image mapping table, an analysis is performed on the keyword to determine one or more related keywords that are related to the keyword. One or more additional entries corresponding to the one or more related keywords are generated to be incorporated into the first keyword/image mapping table to generate a second keyword/image mapping table. The second keyword/image mapping table is utilized to associated a particular image to a particular content item related to a particular keyword.
US10275469B2
Embodiments described herein provide techniques for maintaining consistency in a distributed system (e.g., a distributed secondary storage system). According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a first set of file system objects included in performing the requested file system operation is identified in response to a request to perform a file system operation. An update intent corresponding to the requested file system operation is inserted into an inode associated with each identified file system object. Each file system object corresponding to the inode is modified as specified by the update intent in that inode. After modifying the file system object corresponding to the inode, the update intent is removed from that inode.
US10275468B2
A request to perform a write operation on a file stored in a distributed file system that includes a first and second storage server and an arbiter system may be received. An identification of whether whether one of the first or second storage servers is available to perform the write operation and that the other of the first or second storage servers is not available to perform the write operation may be performed. An identification of whether the arbiter system is available to record the write operation may be performed. In response to identifying that one of the storage servers and the arbiter system are available and that the other of the storage servers is unavailable, the write operation may be performed on the file in view of write operation data that indicates whether the one of the storage servers is consistent with the arbiter system.
US10275467B2
Implementing a high availability mode. A distributed computing environment includes a plurality of nodes. Each of the nodes has an instance of a particular storage service. One or more of the instances have one or more cluster shared filesystems coupled to them. A method includes monitoring arrivals and departures of cluster shared file systems. The method further includes identifying the arrival of one or more clustered shared file systems previously attached to a different instance of the storage service on a different node and being accessible by following one or more namespace partitions located in that clustered shared file system. As a result, the method further includes connecting the instance of the storage service to the one or more arriving clustered shared file systems and exposing the one or more namespace partitions located in that clustered shared file system.
US10275463B2
Systems and methods for delivering personalized content streams over a variety of devices and networks are disclosed. A user's preferences, customizations, and content are made available to the user through specialized clients for home, car, office, and portable environments. In order to enable personalized content streams on devices that are intermittently connected or that make use of network bandwidth during off-peak hours, the system prescribes a distributed content sequencing engine and a distributed, synchronized user profile and station/channel definitions. The system is also designed to support players connected via unidirectional or asymmetric connections such as satellite radios with or without an upstream data link.
US10275462B2
A request to translate an input collection of collocated separate strings from a source language to a target language is received. The input collection is associated with a combination of meanings for the collocated separate strings within a context of the input collection. A search for the collocated separate strings is performed in a database storing a number of collection units of separate strings in the source language and a correspondingly translated number of collection units of translated separate strings in the target language. An output collection unit of separate strings in the target language is determined as a translated collection of separate strings of the input collection based on evaluating the input collection as a unit and evaluating the number of collection units of separate strings in the source language and the correspondingly translated number of collection units of translated separate strings in the target language at the database.
US10275460B2
Computer systems, methods, and media for guaranteeing the quality of a language translation of content by using a computer network of human and/or machine translators and human reviewers of the original translation. The accuracy and quality of the original translation by a translator is ensured by a translation service provider computer system breaking the original translation into parts, and incorporating fabricated errors into a percentage of the parts while keeping the remaining parts unaltered. Incompetent reviewers are automatedly identified based on their ability to detect the system's fabricated errors. The system then performs an analysis on the remaining unaltered parts rated by the remaining competent reviewers to determine if the quality of the original translation meets a set standard. The translation service provider and the customer are not required to know: the target language; the accuracy of the human or machine translator; and/or, the accuracy of each translation reviewer.
US10275456B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for natural language processing is provided. The present invention may include detecting natural language entities, and running parsing algorithms on the natural language entities to determine the relationship between said natural language entities. The present invention may further comprise assigning, by the parsing algorithms, initial scores to detected natural language entities based on the relationship between said natural language entities; choosing a final score for plurality of natural language entities; and comparing the final score against a threshold to determine whether the natural language entities are within the same context.
US10275455B2
A system for processing text captured from rendered documents is described. The system receives a sequence of one or more words optically or acoustically captured from a rendered document by a user. The system identifies among words of the sequence a word with which an action has been associated. The system then performs the associated action with respect to the user.
US10275448B2
Mechanisms are provided, in a first computing device, for sharing content of communication sessions. The mechanisms establish a first communication session between the first computing device and a second computing device. The first computing device is operated by a first user and the second computing device is operated by a second user. The apparatus establishes, in response to content of the first communication session indicating subject matter for which additional information is desired by at least one of the first user or the second user, a second communication session between the first computing device and a question and answer (QA) system. In response to an input by the first user requesting sharing of information, the first computing device automatically copies a portion of content of the first communication session to the second communication session as an input question submitted to the QA system.
US10275443B2
A system and method for processing a natural language input. The natural language input is initially processed through a strict parser, which results in an initial parse. The initial parse is evaluated to determine if it exceeds a completeness threshold. If the initial parse does not pass the completeness threshold, any open slots are filled using type based slot filling. The final parse is then output for further processing by another system, such as a search engine.
US10275436B2
An electronic device with a display showing a user interface (UI) automatically adjusts the zoom level of a magnification region. The electronic device receives a request to magnify at least a portion of the display showing the UI. The electronic device determines the context that the electronic device was operating in at the time of the magnification request. The context is comprised of display parameters, environmental parameters, or both. The electronic device displays the UI at a zoom level determined based on user preferences. Upon detecting a text input condition, the device resizes and optionally moves the magnification region so that the resized magnification region does not overlap with the newly displayed composition interface window. The device uses an auto-snap feature when the content within the magnification region displays a second boundary upon scrolling the content within the magnification region from a first boundary opposite the second one.
US10275426B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamic kerning pair reduction for digital font rendering. Example methods may include receiving a first font file comprising glyph data and a first set of kerning pairs, determining a first kerning pair of the first set of kerning pairs that comprises a kerning adjustment value below a kerning adjustment threshold, removing the first kerning pair from the first set of kerning pairs to generate a second set of kerning pairs, and generating a second font file comprising the glyph data and the second set of kerning pairs.
US10275419B2
Systems and methods have been developed for performing an advanced or detailed search based on information previously collected about a searcher's interests. In response to a search request, the searcher's interests are retrieved and inspected. In an embodiment, the interests may be obtained from multiple systems including those not associated with the search system. Based on the searcher's interests, the search request may be limited or otherwise modified from the actual request received. The results of the limited search may then presented to the searcher as the results of the requested search.
US10275417B2
A file management system includes a management server, and an electronic device connectable to the management server through a network. The management server includes a first storage unit that stores therein a first workflow that defines first processing, which is executed with a first event as a trigger, for a file, and a first control unit that monitors, based on the first workflow, the first event and executes the first processing if the first event occurs. The electronic device includes a second storage unit that stores therein a second workflow that defines second processing, which is executed with a second event different from the first event as a trigger and in which a final processing operation generates the first event, for the file, and a second control unit that monitors, based on the second workflow, the second event and executes the second processing when the second event occurs.
US10275406B2
There are disclosed methods and systems for generating a search engine results page (SERP) responsive to receiving a search query. A ranked plurality of search results is generated, including at least one general search result and at least one vertical search result, the ranked plurality of search results having been ranked based at least in part on a usefulness parameter. The usefulness parameter indicates the optimal position of the at least one vertical search result in the ranked plurality of search results based on its determined usefulness relative to the search query. The usefulness parameter is predetermined based on a training set of user data on past user interaction with the at least one vertical search result when its original rank was modified such that the at least one vertical search result was ranked randomly and placed on the previous SERP at a random position.
US10275399B2
A ValueID corresponding to a value to be searched for in a database column can be determined by finding a match in a dictionary for the database column. A row of an index vector for the database column at which to begin a scan for the ValueID can be identified by reading a ValueID lookup table that maps each unique ValueID to a starting position in the index vector for the database column. The ValueID can not occur in the index vector prior to the starting position. The index vector can be scanned beginning at the starting position to find at least one occurrence of the ValueID corresponding to the value being searched, and a result that includes one or more row locations in the database column corresponding to the at least one occurrence in the index vector of the ValueID corresponding to the value being searched can be returned.
US10275393B2
A neural network unit configurable to first/second/third configurations has N narrow and N wide accumulators, multipliers and adders. Each multiplier performs a narrow/wide multiply on first and second narrow/wide inputs to generate a narrow/wide product. A first adder input receives a corresponding narrow/wide accumulator's output and third input receives a widened corresponding narrow multiplier's narrow product in the third configuration. In the first configuration, each narrow/wide adder performs a narrow/wide addition on the first and second inputs to generate a narrow/wide sum for storage into the corresponding narrow/wide accumulator. In the second configuration, each wide adder performs a wide addition on the first and a second input to generate a wide sum for storage into the corresponding wide accumulator. In the third configuration, each wide adder performs a wide addition on the first, second and third inputs to generate a wide sum for storage into the corresponding wide accumulator.
US10275386B2
A plurality of registers implemented in association with a memory physical layer interface (PHY) can be used to store one or more instruction words that indicate one or more commands and one or more delays. A training engine implemented in the memory PHY can generate at-speed programmable sequences of commands for delivery to an external memory and to delay the commands based on the one or more delays. The at-speed programmable sequences of commands can be generated based on the one or more instruction words.
US10275384B2
A transmitting device may include a logic circuit, a transmission controller, and a transmission driver. The encoder may generate transmission control signals based on control symbols. The transmission controller may generate driving control signals based on the transmission control signals. The transmission driver may drive a wire to one level among multiple levels, based on the driving control signals.
US10275377B2
The present disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques for dynamic boot image streaming. In some aspects a memory controller that is streaming multiple boot images from a first memory to a second memory is stalled, a descriptor for streaming one of the multiple boot images from the first memory to a non-contiguous memory location is generated while the memory controller is stalled, and the memory controller is resumed effective to cause the memory controller to stream, based on the descriptor generated while the memory controller is stalled, the second boot image to the non-contiguous memory location.
US10275371B2
A method for controlling a memory operation includes determining a number of commands for each memory address based on information of requests stored in an interface buffer and a scheduler buffer, determining a control state of the memory operation according to a command type with a largest number of commands, and determining types of a request transmitted to the scheduler buffer from the interface buffer and a request output from the scheduler buffer according to a control state of the memory operation. Other embodiments including an apparatus for controlling a memory are also disclosed.
US10275365B1
In an embodiment, a processor includes hardware circuitry and/or supports instructions which may cryptographically sign a pointer and its associated capabilities. When the pointer is used to perform a memory operation (read or write), the signed pointer may be authenticated to ensure that unauthorized modification of the pointer or capabilities has not occurred. In response to detecting the modification, the processor may be configured to signal an exception or otherwise initiate error handling to prevent the memory operation from completing.
US10275364B2
A mobile computing device includes a secure token, having an embedded processor, a secure persistent storage medium, and a read only memory; and, an application processor and application memory separate from the embedded processor, the secure persistent storage medium, and the read only memory. The application memory stores application instructions for execution by the application processor. The secure persistent storage medium is configured by the embedded processor to store a master secret for an application executing on a remote host. The read only memory stores a security application for receiving, from the remote host, an identifier associated with the master secret; generating, using at least the identifier, a decryption key; obtaining, using the decryption key, from the secure persistent storage medium the master secret; constructing, using the master secret as an input, a pseudorandom result of a cryptographic operation; and returning it to the application executing at the remote host.
US10275363B2
A cuckoo cache has plural buckets of plural cells each. The cells within a bucket are ranked to approximate relative usage recency. New items can be inserted into empty cells; when a bucket is full, room for a new item can be made by laterally transferring an older item to an alternative bucket. When empty cells and lateral transfers are unavailable, an item is selected for eviction based on the usage recency rank of the containing cell. When a match is found, depending on the embodiment, the hit item can be promoted within its bucket, to its alternative bucket, or to a separate tier of the cuckoo cache. The items can be key-value pairs. No metadata is required to track usage recency so that the cuckoo cache can be a very space efficient tool for finding cached values by their keys.
US10275360B2
Considering a density of tracks to destage in groups of tracks to select groups of tracks to destage
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for considering a density of tracks to destage in groups of tracks to select groups of tracks to destage. Groups of tracks in the cache are scanned to determine whether they are ready to destage. A determination is made as to whether the tracks in one of the groups are ready to destage in response to scanning the tracks in the group. A density for the group is increased in response to determining that the group is not ready to destage. The group is destaged in response to determining that the density of the group exceeds a density threshold.
US10275357B2
In a multi-level cache system, a logic may be responsible for calculating the appropriate sizes for a database cache and a key-value store. Reception circuitry may receive a hit rate for the database cache, a reuse distance for the key-value store, and a user-selected quality of server. An adaption calculator may then calculate a target size for the database cache and a target size for the key-value store. Transmission circuitry may then transmit the target size for the database cache and the target size for the key-value store for use in the multi-level cache system.
US10275354B2
A synchronous input/output (I/O) computing system includes a processor and a memory unit that stores program instructions. The system purges one or more address translation entries in response to the processor executing the program instructions to issue, via an operating system running on the synchronous I/O computing system, a synchronous I/O command indicating a request to perform a transaction. The program instructions further command the operating system to select a device table entry from a device table, load the entry into the DTC, request required address translation entries, install the required address translation entries in the address translation cache, and transfer data packets corresponding to the transaction. The program instructions further command the operating system to automatically purge the address translation cache entries associated with a transaction in response to detect that the transaction is completed.
US10275339B2
Accessibility testing is initiated on UI elements rendered in a web browser. The UI elements are associated with a web application. A document object model (DOM) corresponding to the UI elements is retrieved. The DOM corresponding to the UI elements is parsed to retrieve properties associated with the UI elements. Accessibility testing is performed on the UI elements by applying accessibility rules on the UI elements. Images of one or more UI elements are captured from among the UI elements. The accessibility test is performed on the images by applying accessibility rules on the images in an image-processing unit. A result of the accessibility testing is recorded in a file. The result of the accessibility testing is displayed in runtime of the web application in the web browser.
US10275336B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for determining application matching status. In one implementation, a method is implemented with one or more processors and includes accessing, at a server, a first dependency tree representing a first application and a second dependency tree, and acquiring one or more values for the first dependency tree and one or more values for the second dependency tree. The method also includes comparing the one or more values of the first dependency tree with the one or more values of the second dependency tree. The method further includes determining a matching status between the first application and an application represented by the second dependency tree based on the comparison, and providing, for display, an indication of the matching status.
US10275311B2
A data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes a storage medium configured to store data blocks included in a stripe set, and a controller connected to the storage medium and configured to, decode a first data block disposed in a column among the data blocks, during a read operation of the first data block, and read first group data blocks disposed in the column among the data blocks, based on a read failure of the first data block.
US10275308B2
A file and a sequence of snapshots of the file are stored in a storage device. The sequence of snapshots includes sequentially captured copies of earlier states of the file. A dependency tree indicating data blocks that are different between a given snapshot and a previous snapshot in the sequence of snapshots is stored in the storage device. The sequence of snapshots is sequentially scrubbed, beginning with an earliest snapshot in the sequence of snapshots. When scrubbing a snapshot, each of the data blocks identified in the dependency tree as being different than the data blocks of a previous snapshot in the sequence of snapshots are scrubbed. If a corrupted data block is detected, a determination of which later snapshots include the corrupt data block is made based on the dependency tree and the corrupted data blocks are corrected.
US10275307B2
A method is provided. In an example, the method includes identifying a memory module that includes a plurality of memory dies. Each memory die of the plurality of memory dies includes a plurality of memory regions, and each memory die of the plurality of memory dies services a respective portion of a data access. An error pattern is detected in a first memory region of the plurality of memory regions. The first memory region is associated with a first memory die of the plurality of memory dies. Based on the detected error pattern, the first memory region of the first memory die is marked as erased without marking a second memory region of the first memory die as erased.
US10275304B2
An information processing method for monitoring errors that occur in an information processing apparatus includes: (A) capturing an image to be outputted to a console, sequentially; (B) determining whether the captured image satisfies a condition regarding a preset error display screen; and (C) upon determining that the captured image satisfies the condition, saving in a saving area of a memory unit, data of images that were captured within a predetermined time period, which includes a time when the image that satisfies the condition was captured, or data of a predetermined number of images, which include the image that satisfies the condition.
US10275295B2
Methods and apparatus for presenting clipboard contents on a mobile terminal are provided herein. In an exemplary method, an input-method-control call-out request can be received. An input-method control including a clipboard function key can be displayed. The input-method control can include an input box. A triggering signal for triggering the clipboard function key can be received. A clipboard containing one or more copying items can be displayed.
US10275291B2
In one example, a server system in an electronic trading system facilitates an exchange of messages with a remote client application. An Application Program Interface (API) receives a first request message and a second request message, wherein the first request message including a first data payload defined by a common data component and including a first extended payload data, the first extended payload defined by a first schema definition. The second request message includes a second data payload defined by the common data component and a second extended payload data, wherein the second extended payload is defined by a second schema definition different than the first schema definition. In response to receiving the first request message, the API transmits a first response message, and in response to receiving the second request message, the API transmits a second response message different than the first response message.
US10275286B2
A management method of cloud resources is provided for use in a hybrid cloud system with first and second cloud systems, wherein the first cloud system includes first servers operating first virtual machines (VMs) and the second cloud system includes second servers operating second VMs, the method including the step of: collecting, by a resource monitor, performance monitoring data of the first VMs within the first servers; analyzing, by an analysis and determination device, the performance monitoring data collected to automatically send a trigger signal in response to determining that a predetermined trigger condition is met, wherein the trigger signal indicates a deployment target and a deployment type; and automatically performing, by a resource deployment device, an operation corresponding to the deployment type on the deployment target in the second cloud system in response to the trigger signal.
US10275278B2
The technology disclosed provides a novel and innovative technique for compact deployment of application code to stream processing systems. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to obviating the need of accompanying application code with its dependencies during deployment (i.e., creating fat jars) by operating a stream processing system within a container defined over worker nodes of whole machines and initializing the worker nodes with precompiled dependency libraries having precompiled classes. Accordingly, the application code is deployed to the container without its dependencies, and, once deployed, the application code is linked with the locally stored precompiled dependencies at runtime. In implementations, the application code is deployed to the container running the stream processing system between 300 milliseconds and 6 seconds. This is drastically faster than existing deployment techniques that take anywhere between 5 to 15 minutes for deployment.
US10275269B1
Approaches for performing nested virtualization using a hypervisor which does not support nested virtualization. A first hypervisor is loaded upon booting a computing device. The first hypervisor instantiates a first virtual machine, exposes an emulated hardware virtualization support interface to the first virtual machine, and executes a second hypervisor, which does not support nested virtualization, within the first virtual machine. The first hypervisor provides nested virtualization support to the second hypervisor to allow the second hypervisor to execute a third hypervisor within a second virtual machine by the first hypervisor abstracting hardware virtualization support to the third hypervisor.
US10275259B1
Methods and systems are disclosed for booting an integrated circuit (IC). In an example implementation, boot read only memory (ROM) code is loaded for execution by a processor circuit of the IC. Via execution of the boot ROM code on the processor circuit, a first boot image is retrieved. A memory address is communicated from a host device to the processor circuit of the IC via an external data bus coupled to a bus interface circuit in the IC. The bus interface circuit is configured by execution of the first boot image to map a first block of addresses on the internal data bus to a second block of addresses on the host device starting at the memory address. When bus mastering is enabled, the processor retrieves a second boot image from the host device by issuing read requests to the first block of addresses.
US10275254B2
A Spin Loop Delay instruction. The instruction has a field associated therewith that indicates one or more conditions to be checked. Dispatching of the instruction is initially delayed. The instruction is subsequently dispatched based on a timeout, provided the instruction has not been previously dispatched based on meeting at least one condition of the one or more conditions to be checked.
US10275248B2
A system and method tests computer software using tracking bits in branch instructions to track portions of the software that have been tested. The tracking bits are bits of a branch programming instruction and may be repurposed hint bits used in the prior art to control pre-fetch of instructions. A branch tracking unit sets bits in a branch instruction of an application or program being tested. The branch tracing unit sets a first bit if a branch is taken and sets a second tracking bit if the branch is not taken. The modified program instructions can be analyzed after running the test inputs to determine if any branches in the software have not been exercised by the test inputs.
US10275232B1
A deploy service is provided to determine a set of software artifacts that needs to be transmitted to a target machine upon receiving an application deployment request from a user of a client device. For instance, the deploy service may compare versions of software artifacts on the target machine with the software artifacts of the application that the user desires to deploy to determine the set of software artifacts that needs to be transmitted. Instead of having to transmit the entire application, some embodiments transmit only a small portion that is reflective of what has been changed between the old version of the application and the new version of the application. This enables the transfer of large files across the Internet to be more efficient.
US10275231B1
At least one application may include instructions comprising application instructions and a plurality of separate pipeline definition instructions. The application instructions may be within a virtual container including at least one program that is generically executable in a plurality of different continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) environments. Each of the plurality of separate pipeline definition instructions may be configured for each of the plurality of different CI/CD environments such that each pipeline definition may operate only in the CI/CD environment for which it is created. Each pipeline definition may be configured to cause the CI/CD environment for which it is created to execute the at least one program.
US10275225B1
A variable is identified. Information associated with the variable is identified. A distributed resource for storing a value for the variable is identified based at least in part on the information. The distributed resource for storing the value is automatically provisioned.
US10275221B2
A system provides a high-level visual programming language input through a GUI. User inputs specify a data source, a workflow, processing logic, and a data store. Multiple instances of these primitives may be combined to generate multi-dimensional domain applications. The workflow and processing logic may be specified in a graphical user interface wherein nodes representing workflow actions or processing functions are picked from a palette and placed on a diagram. Interconnections between nodes are received in the interface and represent data flows or dependencies between nodes. The high-level visual programming inputs are the translated into low-level database commands and executed within an execution framework.
US10275219B2
A Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation of a multiplier topology can provide a considerable increase in computation performance and cost benefit as compared to other approaches, particularly for large bit widths (e.g., for multiplication of large-bit numbers). A lack of sufficient input/output (I/O) ports on the FPGA for a particular bit width can be remedied by implementing large-bit number multiplications in a bit-serial fashion. The bit-serial multiplier topologies described herein can provide a relatively small footprint as compared to other approaches. An FPGA-implemented bit-serial multiplier can improve operation of a computing system, for example, by offloading binary multiplication operations from a general-purpose processor.
US10275207B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a controller configured to execute one or more modules, an audio reproduction module configured to reproduce an audio file including reproduction sections, each of the reproduction sections comprising audio data and directional information, a display configured to display selectable objects corresponding to the directional information, and an audio control module configured to determine whether to reproduce audio data corresponding the directional information based on an input for selecting one of the selectable objects.
US10275184B2
Techniques are described herein for executing queries on distinct portions of a database object that has been separate into chunks and distributed across the volatile memories of a plurality of nodes in a clustered database system. The techniques involve receiving a query that requires work to be performed on data that resides in a plurality of on disk extents. A parallel query coordinator that is aware of the in-memory distribution divides the work into granules that align with the in-memory separation. The parallel query coordinator then sends each granule to the database server instance with local in memory access to the data required by the granule and aggregates the results to respond to the query.
US10275175B2
Techniques for providing file system functionality over a PCIe interface are disclosed. In some embodiments, the techniques may be realized as a method for providing file system functionality over a PCIe interface including receiving from a host device a storage command, specially devised for such a standard protocol, at a PCIe-based device controller, parsing, using at least one computer processor of the PCIe-based device controller, the storage command, traversing, using PCIe-based device controller, one or more portions of file system metadata of an associated storage media device, wherein the PCIe-based device controller is configured to traverse the one or more portions of file system metadata based on the parsed storage command independent of any subsequent communication with the host device, and returning data to the host device.
US10275172B2
In a method of operating a SSD device, which includes a nonvolatile memory device having a plurality of memory blocks, the plurality of memory blocks is operated in a single level cell (SLC) mode, an access pattern for each of a plurality of data units stored in each of the plurality of memory blocks of the nonvolatile memory device is periodically analyzed, an operation mode of at least one of the plurality of memory blocks is switched to a multi level cell (MLC) mode based on the analysis result, and at least one of data units is moved to a memory block operating in the MLC mode based on the analysis result.
US10275168B2
A method and technique are provided for providing a service address space. The method includes providing a service co-processor with a service address space attached to a main processor. The main processor is provided with a main address space. Instructions that modify the main address space are intercepted, storage delta packets are generated based on intercepted instructions, and the storage delta packets are sent to a service co-processor maintaining a service address space.
US10275166B2
Systems and methods for saving critical data upon power loss are described. In one embodiment, the systems and methods include performing a write operation to a first track of a storage drive, monitoring a voltage level of a storage drive to detect power loss on the storage drive while performing the write operation, identifying a track ID of a second track adjacent to the first track upon detecting power loss on the storage drive, and storing the identified track ID in a non-volatile memory on the storage drive.
US10275149B2
Disclosed are an electronic device and a method for controlling a text input in an electronic device. The method includes detecting at least one touch input, determining a total number of touches that have made the touch input from the detected touch input, and controlling functions related to a text input, based on the determination.
US10275148B2
In an electronic device, a cover page of a first content item is displayed and a first swipe gesture in a first direction is detected. In response to detecting the first swipe gesture, the electronic device transitions from displaying the cover page to displaying the first content item. During the transition, a portion of the cover page and a portion of the first content item are simultaneously displayed. After the transitioning, the first content item is displayed, and a second swipe gesture is detected in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction. In response to detecting the second swipe gesture, the electronic device transitions from displaying the first content item to displaying the cover page, during which the portion of the first content item and the portion of the cover page are simultaneously displayed.
US10275139B2
Various aspects of a system and a method for integrated user interface for electronic devices are disclosed. The system may include a first electronic device. The first electronic device receives metadata from a second electronic device. The first electronic device generates an integrated user interface (UI) corresponding to the first electronic device and the second electronic device based on received metadata. The received metadata comprises a current set of available operations for controlling the first and/or second electronic device. The first electronic device renders the generated integrated UI on a display of the first electronic device.
US10275134B1
The present disclosure illustrates a reversing reference line adjustment system for reversing image display and method thereof. In an embodiment, the reversing reference line adjustment system may adjust a display position of a set of reversing reference lines, a display position of a horizontal reversing reference line, a display position of a front point of a left reversing reference line, a display position of a rear point of the left reversing reference line, a display position of a front point of a right reversing reference line, or a display position of a rear point of the right reversing reference line on a reversing image, according to an adjustment instruction.
US10275120B2
In a medical imaging apparatus and a method for the operation thereof, on at least one processed image, an evaluation field to evaluate the image quality of the at least one image is displayed.
US10275117B2
Systems and processes for manipulating a graphical user interface are disclosed. One process can include receiving user input through a crown to rotate a virtual object. The process includes selecting a surface of the object from among the multiple surfaces of the object in response to determining that the crown rotation exceeded a speed threshold.
US10275113B2
An example system is provided in according with one implementation of the present disclosure. The system includes a 3D display displaying at least one three-dimensional (3D) visualization, an auxiliary computing device including a multi-touch display and a plurality of sensors, and a behavior analysis engine to perform a behavior analysis of a user by using data from the plurality of sensors. The behavior analysis engine is to: determine an attention engagement level of the user, and determine a pose of the user in relation to the auxiliary computing device. The system further includes an intention analysis engine to determine an intention of the user in relation to the at least one 3D visualization based on the user's attention engagement level and the user's pose, and an interaction mode engine to automatically adjust the system to an interaction mode based on the identified user intention.
US10275106B2
A display device may include: a substrate including a display region and a non-display region; a circuit layer provided on the substrate; a device layer provided on the display region; an encapsulation layer provided to cover the device layer; and a touch layer provided on the encapsulation layer, including: touch patterns; an insulating layer; and touch electrodes provided on the touch patterns, wherein the touch electrodes are electrically connected to the touch patterns, respectively, through contact holes, each of the touch patterns including first sub-patterns extending in a first direction and second sub-patterns extending from the first sub-patterns in a second direction crossing the first direction, and when viewed in a plan view, areas of the touch electrodes gradually decreasing in the first direction, and areas of the second sub-patterns gradually increasing in the first direction.
US10275104B2
A laminate member is provided which has excellent ion migration resistance between a light-sensitive resin layer and a conductive layer formed on a substrate. This laminate member is provided with a resin layer A formed on the substrate, a transparent electrode layer B formed on the resin layer A, and a conductive layer C formed on the resin layer A and the transparent electrode layer B, wherein the resin layer A contains a resin (a) containing a carboxyl group, the conductive layer C contains a resin (c) having conductive particles and a carboxylic group, the conductive layer C contacts the resin layer A and the transparent electrode layer B, and, defining SA as the acid value of an organic component contained by the resin layer A and SC the acid value of an organic component contained by the resin layer C, the value of SA−SC is 20-150 mg KOH/g.
US10275098B1
Mid-air holograms are used, as touch input buttons, for a device. The buttons enable a user to touch input in mid-air, into devices, such as, smarts toilet's, or used as keyboard input buttons. Using the hologram input buttons, eliminates contacting possibly harmful bacteria, that may be on touch input buttons that have a surface. The holograms are created by lasers, are visible, and have haptic touch. The laser excites air molecules, causing them to illuminate.
US10275087B1
An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts: displays a plurality of user interface objects in a first user interface; detects a contact at a location of a first user interface object; and: detects an increase in a characteristic intensity of the contact to a first intensity threshold; in response, visually obscures the plurality of user interface objects, other than the first user interface object, while maintaining display of the first user interface object; detects that the characteristic intensity of the contact continues to increase above the first intensity threshold; and, in response, dynamically increases the amount of visual obscuring of the plurality of user interface objects, other than the first user interface object.
US10275085B2
An information input device including a touch panel configured to be provided with a touch sensor that detects a position at which a sensing object is brought close to a sensing surface. In this information input device, the touch sensor has a scanning electrode and a detecting electrode that is opposed to the scanning electrode with the intermediary of a dielectric substance, and is a capacitive sensor whose electrostatic capacitance changes if the sensing object is brought close to the detecting electrode. Furthermore, a slit is formed in a surface of the detecting electrode opposed to the scanning electrode.
US10275082B2
An intelligent hybrid touch display device, including: a touch display unit; a rotary mechanical switch, being integrated with the touch display unit in a body; and a control unit, located in the body and including: a first interface for driving the touch display unit; a second interface coupled with the rotary mechanical switch; a touch and switch detection unit coupled with the first interface and the second interface; a transmission interface for communicating with at least one external device; and a processor and an operating system stored in a memory, the processor being coupled with the touch and switch detection unit and the transmission interface, and being used for executing a control program with a support of the operating system, so that the touch display unit and the rotary mechanical switch can cooperate to provide a hybrid operation for selecting, changing or activating function options.
US10275079B2
According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a touch detector including first group electrodes extending in a first direction and second group electrodes extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a display unit that displays an image; a display controller that controls the display unit to display the image on the display unit; and a touch detection controller that detects contact or proximity of a detection target object based on mutual capacitances between the first and the second group electrodes. The touch detection controller measures a frame frequency that is a number of times frames are displayed per unit time, to sequentially output touch drive signals having a frequency corresponding to the frame frequency to the first group electrodes, and to detect the contact or proximity of the detection target object based on signals output from the respective second group electrodes.
US10275078B1
Touch sensors with multiple electrically isolated touch regions are disclosed. A touch sensor may include a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate may include two or more resistive layers covering two or more separate areas. The second substrate may include a continuous resistive layer that partially overlaps with each of the two resistive layers of the first substrate. The touch sensor may also include a first controller electrically connected to the continuous resistive layer of the second substrate and electrically connected to a first one of the two resistive layers of the first substrate, forming a first independently operable region. The touch sensor may further include a second controller electrically connected to the continuous resistive layer of the second substrate and electrically connected to a second one of the two resistive layers of the first substrate, forming a second independently operable region.
US10275077B2
A touch control display panel, a touch control display device and a driving method are provided. The touch control display panel comprises a color film substrate including touch sensing electrodes and touch sensing signal lines electrically connected to the touch sensing electrodes, respectively; and an array substrate arranged opposite to the color film substrate and including a driving IC chip and a signal conversion unit. The signal conversion unit includes input terminals and output terminals. The input terminals are electrically connected to the touch sensing signal lines, respectively. The output terminals are electrically connected to the driving IC chip. The signal conversion unit combines a plurality of input signals received at the input terminals into a plurality of output signals, and transmits the output signals to the output terminals, respectively.
US10275075B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device including an encapsulation layer covering a pixel array layer provided on a substrate and a cover window coupled to a touch sensing layer. The touch sensing layer may include a first touch electrode layer provided on the encapsulation layer, a second touch electrode layer provided on the first touch electrode layer, and a pressure reaction member provided between the first touch electrode layer and the second touch electrode layer. Electrical characteristic of the pressure reaction member may be changed according to force applied to the pressure reaction member.
US10275071B2
The present disclosure provides a touch display device, a touch display panel and an array substrate. The array substrate includes a substrate; a plurality of pixel units disposed on the substrate, columns of touch electrodes, a driving circuit for driving the touch electrodes, touch lines connected to a corresponding touch electrode through a first via hole for connecting the corresponding touch electrode to the driving circuit, and at least one auxiliary line positioned between two adjacent touch lines. Each touch electrode covers a plurality of pixel units. Each auxiliary line is connected through a third via hole to a touch electrode at the third via hole and broken between adjacent touch electrodes, wherein for each column of touch electrodes, auxiliary via holes are disposed on the touch electrodes.
US10275067B2
The invention disclosed is a pressure sensor, comprising: a pressure sensing plate and a strain sensing unit which are arranged in a stacked manner, wherein the thickness of the pressure sensing plate is 0.2 3 mm, and the material of the pressure sensing plate is an elastic material with a Young's modulus not greater than 120 GPa. Also disclosed is a display apparatus, comprising a panel, a pressure sensing plate and a strain sensing unit which are arranged in a stacked manner in sequence, wherein the thickness of the pressure sensing plate is 0.2 3 mm, and the material of the pressure sensing plate is an elastic material with a Young's modulus not greater than 120 GPa. Also disclosed is an electronic device comprising the pressure sensor, and an electronic device comprising the display apparatus. The pressure sensor, the display apparatus and the electronic device disclosed can magnify the size of pressure and deformation, so that a pressure deformation signal can be detected using a relatively small pressure, and detection precision is improved.
US10275054B2
A method and computer system for processing a web page. A first web page is parsed. The first web page includes at least one Universal Resource Locator (URL). During the parsing, as each URL of the at least one URL on the first web page is encountered, the first web page is transformed by appending to a link statement of each URL on the first web page an associated two-key code that associates the two-key code with each URL on the first web page. The first web page is displayed on a display screen of the computer system. The display of the web page is initiated after the parsing has been performed.
US10275046B2
In some implementations, an access device may sense movement in six degrees of freedom for interacting with information in a user interface. In some implementations, a security feature may be included for verifying an authorization of a user to use the access device. Additionally, in some implementations, the access device may establish communication with an available computing device for accessing and interacting with information that may include remotely stored information, cloud data, cloud services, and the like.
US10275037B2
Embodiments of this application disclose an action-recognition based control method and control apparatus. The method comprises: detecting a motion of at least one body position of a user by using at least one first-type sensor; in response to that a motion amplitude of the at least one body position does not exceed a preset threshold, activating at least one second-type sensor; and generating a control command based on at least a detection result of the at least one second-type sensor. In the method and the apparatus of the embodiments of this application, different types of sensors can be selectively activated based on a motion amplitude and according to a control objective that needs to be achieved, and relatively good control efficiency and effects can be achieved by means of cooperation between various sensors.
US10275030B2
A handheld apparatus includes a top surface that includes a touch screen defining a plurality of keys, and a bottom surface on an opposite side of the first surface. The apparatus further includes a processor and an actuator coupled to the processor and located on the bottom surface. The processor is adapted to detect an object moving across the keys and in response generate an actuation signal to the actuator to generate a haptic feedback on the back surface.
US10275029B2
In one implementation, a wearable device for providing non-visual guidance to users includes one or more wireless interfaces to obtain information about the wearable device's current surroundings; one or more processors to (i) determine whether to provide non-visual guidance to a user wearing the wearable device based on the information obtained by the one or more wireless interfaces, and (ii) identify particular non-visual guidance to output to the user based on the determination of whether to provide non-visual guidance and the information; a haptic feedback array including a plurality of haptic motors arranged across at least a portion of the wearable device so that each of the plurality of haptic motors, when activated, provides haptic feedback from a distinct location of the wearable device; and a haptic engine to control the haptic feedback array to provide particular patterns of pulses that correspond to the particular non-visual guidance.
US10275024B1
A multi-component method and device for improving vision for some with low vision conditions including age related macular degeneration (AMD) is disclosed. A plurality of co-pathological conditions that together make undistorted, clear and bright vision challenging are dealt with by managing the nature, amounts and patterns of light provided to the eye in a display embodiment. For example, a worn embodiment, in providing an improved image of the view ahead, modifies the frequency mix of incoming light, the relative intensities of light to different retinal locations and the color perception of the wearer while undistorting certain kinds of progressive distortion.
US10275023B2
Combining gaze input and touch surface input for user interfaces in augmented and/or virtual reality
In a virtual reality system, an optical tracking device may detect and track a user's eye gaze direction and/or movement, and/or sensors may detect and track a user's head gaze direction and/or movement, relative to virtual user interfaces displayed in a virtual environment. A processor may process the detected gaze direction and/or movement as a user input, and may translate the user input into a corresponding interaction in the virtual environment. Gaze directed swipes on a virtual keyboard displayed in the virtual environment may be detected and tracked, and translated into a corresponding text input, either alone or together with user input(s) received by the controller. The user may also interact with other types of virtual interfaces in the virtual environment using gaze direction and movement to provide an input, either alone or together with a controller input.
US10275016B2
Disclosed are electrical systems and electronic devices. An electrical system includes an electronic device. The electronic device is configured to receive external power from an external power source, the external power sufficient to support normal mode operation of the electronic device. The electronic device includes control circuitry programmed to operate in the normal mode while receiving external power, and transition to one of a low power mode and a pre-shutdown mode responsive to sensor inputs. An electronic device includes an internal power source configured to provide internal power sufficient to support low power requirements of the electronic device operating in a low power mode, but not sufficient to support normal power requirements of a normal mode. The electronic device includes control circuitry programmed to transition from the low power mode to a hibernate mode while powered by only the internal power source.
US10275002B2
A thermal transfer system includes an enclosure, optional thermal insulation inside the enclosure, a dielectric fluid inside the enclosure, and a porous medium inside the enclosure. The porous medium can be at least partially immersed in the dielectric fluid. A cooling device can have a first surface contacting an interior surface of the enclosure and a second surface contacting the dielectric fluid, the porous medium, or both. The porous medium can include a cutout or cavity configured to support an electrical or electronic device immersed in the dielectric fluid. A port can be in a wall of the enclosure and a set of electrical conductors can run through the port and the electrical or electronic device immersed in the dielectric fluid.
US10275000B2
Techniques of managing heat within an electronic device involve routing a flexible cable or a set of flexible cables within the electronic device to deliver heat to desired locations within the electronic device. Advantageously, it is possible to distribute heat uniformly while using existing components, thus not adding significantly to cost. Furthermore, the flexible cables may be routed in any way that accomplishes it goals of distributing heat and/or electricity.
US10274999B2
A water-cooling device includes a liquid reservoir main body having a heat exchange chamber, a pump having a stator and a rotor and a heat exchange component connected with the liquid reservoir main body. The heat exchange chamber is for a cooling liquid to pass through. The rotor is connected with an impeller and exposed to the cooling liquid in the heat exchange chamber. The stator is integrally embedded in the liquid reservoir main body by embedded injection molding. The stator is isolated from the heat exchange chamber. According to the design of the water-cooling device, the structural strength of the liquid reservoir main body is enhanced and a waterproof effect for the stator is achieved.
US10274994B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling deformation of a flexible screen, configured to control the deformation of the flexible screen, the flexible screen including: a flexible screen body, a metal layer attached to a back surface of the flexible screen body, and a current controlled deformation layer coated on the metal layer; the flexible screen further including a power supply circuit, and a current regulation circuit through which the power supply circuit is coupled to the metal layer; and the method including: controlling intensity of current flowing in the metal layer to soften the current controlled deformation layer; making the flexible screen form a desired shape by means of bending or folding; and controlling intensity of current flowing through the metal layer to harden the current controlled deformation layer. In addition, a system for controlling deformation of a flexible screen is also provided. The above method and system for controlling deformation of a flexible screen can control the flexible screen to be deformed to have a desired shape.
US10274987B2
The present disclosure shows a reconfigurable Dickson Star SC regulator that can support multiple conversion ratios by reconfiguring between various modes. The reconfigurable Dickson Star SC regulator is designed to reduce the number of redundant capacitors by reusing capacitors and switches across multiple modes of operation (across multiple conversion ratios). The present disclosure also shows a hybrid (e.g., two-stage) voltage regulator.
US10274985B2
A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for controlling an electric power system, including implementation of a voltage control and conservation (VCC) system used to optimally control the independent voltage and capacitor banks using a linear optimization methodology to minimize the losses in the EEDCS and the EUS. An energy validation process system (EVP) is provided which is used to document the savings of the VCC and an EPP is used to optimize improvements to the EEDCS for continuously improving the energy losses in the EEDS. The EVP system measures the improvement in the EEDS a result of operating the VCC system in the “ON” state determining the level of energy conservation achieved by the VCC system. In addition the VCC system monitors pattern recognition events and compares them to the report-by-exception data to detect HVL events. If one is detected the VCC optimizes the capacity of the EEDS to respond to the HVL events by centering the piecewise linear solution maximizing the ability of the EDDS to absorb the HVL event.
US10274975B2
The present invention discloses an acid concentration control method and device for cold rolling pickling production line. In the method, the acid circulating tank of the pickling production line are provided with three acid-filling tanks. And the three acid-filling tanks are interconnected with each other. An acid concentration measuring device is concatenated on the acid solution back-flow pipeline of each acid-filling tank and acid tank, through which the actual acid concentration of the acid solution in the acid tank of the production line may be measured. The measured acid concentration, after being analyzed by the analyzer, will be transmitted to the multi-variable controller where it is compared to the specified acid concentration as per process requirements. The difference between the measured acid concentration and the specified acid concentration will be used as the input value for the model of the multi-variable controller. As the acid concentrations of the three acid-filling tanks are affected by each other, the coupling relationship of the acid concentrations at the three measuring points must be found out to build the mathematical model for the acid circulating tank of the production line, and perform the multi-variable decoupling calculation. With the control method of the present invention, the close-loop control to the acid concentration can be achieved, thus to save the hydrochloric acid, reduce the regeneration amount of waste acid and decrease the environmental pollution.
US10274961B2
System and methods are provided for path finding for autonomous driving systems. The systems and methods receive a set of way points defining path segments between adjacent way points, formulate a b-spline function as a function of the path segments, and determine path data based on the formulated b-spline function. Autonomous driving systems use the output path data for controlling a vehicle.
US10274959B2
A marine autopilot system is disclosed. While in autopilot mode, the marine vessel's autopilot system autonomously steers the marine vessel's rudder. Steering input provided using the helm typically results in counter-steering to the autopilot. If the autopilot is following a current heading or course (route), the autopilot may continue its efforts to remain on the heading or course in response to the deviation caused by steering input to the helm. The disclosed autopilot system improves this problem by including one or more sensors that measure helm movement and wirelessly transmit helm movement data to one or more components of the marine vessel's electronic network. If the operator of the marine vessel manually steers the helm to deviate from a current heading or course, helm movement exceeding a predetermined autopilot disengagement threshold may cause the autopilot control to temporarily disengage, allowing a user to manually steer the marine vessel.
US10274953B1
A method includes receiving a request to transport an item from a first location to a second location; selecting a bot for transporting the item from the first location to the second location; determining a first vertical level associated with an initial location of the selected bot and a second vertical level associated with a destination of the selected bot; determining whether the first vertical level associated is different than the second vertical level. The method further includes, in response to the determination that the first vertical level is different from the second vertical level, (a) selecting a transport device configured to transfer the selected bot from the first vertical level to the second vertical level in a vertical direction; and (b) outputting a control signal to the selected bot causing the selected bot to move to a first position associated with the selected transport device.
US10274952B2
In some embodiments, unmanned aerial task systems are provided that comprise multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) each comprising: a UAV control circuit; a motor; and a propulsion system coupled with the motor and configured to enable the respective UAVs to move themselves; and wherein a first UAV control circuit of a first UAV of the multiple UAVs is configured to identify a second UAV carrying a first tool system configured to perform a first function, cause a notification to be communicated to the second UAV directing the second UAV to transfer the first tool system to the first UAV, and direct a first propulsion system of the first UAV to couple with the first tool system being transferred from the second UAV.
US10274950B1
Self-driving vehicles have unlimited potential to learn and predict human behavior and perform actions accordingly. Vehicle management systems can be configured to help govern self-driving vehicles. A vehicle management system can communicatively couple a self-driving vehicle to a remote computing device of a user of the vehicle. Losing communication with the remote computing device can cause the vehicle management system to take actions designed to safeguard the user.
US10274942B2
A method for determining abnormal equipment in semiconductor manufacturing system includes processing wafers. A measurement data relating to wafers at respective processing steps and at each tool stack run count for respective tools is provided. The method also includes performing statistical and correlation analysis on the production history data and the measurement data to determine multiple parameters including bad ratio (Rb) and good ratio (Rg) for each tool. A first bad-to-good probability ratio (R1) for each tool is obtained by dividing Rb by Rg at the tool stack run count. A second bad-to-good probability ratio (R2) of each tool is an overall probability ratio of Rb to Rg of each tool. A first correlation coefficient (C1) is provided for the measurement data corresponding to the tool stack run count. A second correlation coefficient (C2) is provided for the first bad-to-good probability ratio (R1) corresponding to the tool stack run count.
US10274940B2
A management system outputs at least one of a start-up start time and a warming start time of a plurality of machines. An input unit receives the input of a machining start time and the largest number of the machines. An estimation unit estimates a start-up period, a warming period, and a process period of each of the plurality of machines. A determination unit determines at least one of a start-up start time and a warming start time of each of the plurality of machines based on the machining start time, the largest number of the machines, the start-up period, the warming period, and the process period. A notification unit notifies at least one of the start-up start time and the warming start time.
US10274936B2
Provided is a control apparatus that can, by causing multiple control programs that include motion computation programs to be executed in parallel, shorten the execution cycle of control programs that are executed cyclically. A microprocessor is configured to execute multiple control programs in parallel. When executing communication commands included in control programs that are to be executed in parallel, a scheduling program causes the microprocessor to execute the communication commands such that there is no competition between communication processes in a communication controller.
US10274923B2
A scheduler program includes a command to start execution of a motion calculation program in each motion control cycle, a command to cause a microprocessor to start execution of a first user program in each first user program execution control cycle, and a command to repeat output processing and input processing, start of execution of the first user program, end of execution of the first user program, and start of execution of the motion calculation program in this sequence for every period corresponding to the period of the first user program execution cycle.
US10274917B2
Aspects direct to systems and methods for regulating illumination and temperature levels in a designated area. The system includes an internet of things (IoT) based entrance having an IoT device. The IoT device receives authentication information from an identification device, and authenticates the identification device. In response to determining the identification device to be authenticated, the IoT device controls the IoT based entrance to grant access to the user of the identification device. The IoT device also generates personnel access information of the user, and updates personnel information corresponding to the designated area using the personnel access information of the user. Then the IoT device may control lighting and heating/cooling systems based on the personnel information corresponding to the designated area and lighting and temperature rules. The personnel information corresponding to the designated area may include a total number of authenticated users physically located within the designated area.
US10274911B2
Technologies for conversational control of a home automation system include a computing device in communication with one or more home automation devices. The computing device receives text input indicative of a spoken user request including one or more parameters associated with a home automation command. The computing device matches the text input against a home automation language model including several predefined dialog patterns. The computing device resolves parameters of the command using a context model. The computing device may resolve the location, device, or requested device state of the command. The computing device generates a text response and a home automation command using the language model, and then presents the text response to the user and performs the home automation command using the home automation devices. In some embodiments, the computing device may control an application automation system or a data exploration system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10274909B2
Methods and systems are described for controlling access to a home based on user occupancy. According to at least one embodiment, an apparatus for controlling access to a home based on user occupancy includes a processor, a memory in electronic communication with the processor, and instructions stored in the memory which are executable by a processor to determine a location of a user of a home automation system relative to a barrier of a home being monitored by the home automation system. The instructions are executable to determine whether to permit a change in a locking mechanism of the barrier based in part on the determined location of the user, and maintain a current state of the home automation system.
US10274907B2
A system of interlocks for controlling flow of low temperature process streams in a manufacturing process through a cold box to equipment not specified for such temperatures by opening and closing valves and stopping pumps. At least one interlock affects streams heated in the cold box. At least one interlock affects the streams cooled in the cold box. The interlocks are activated due to temperature determinations of process lines by temperature sensors and automatically send a signal to predetermined controllers depending on the process line with the low temperature in order to prevent exposure of equipment to low temperatures while preventing the shutdown of the cold box.
US10274906B2
A cam profile data creation apparatus sets cam profile data in which a phase of a drive shaft is associated with a displacement (set displacement) of a driven shaft, a rotation speed of the drive shaft, and an allowable error for the displacement of the driven shaft. A displacement (predictive displacement) of the driven shaft when the drive shaft rotates at the set rotation speed is found based on the set cam profile data, the set displacement and the predictive displacement are displayed to be comparable, and further a form of the display is changed depending on whether an error between the set displacement and the predictive displacement falls within the range of the allowable error.
US10274899B2
An electronic module including at least one electric motor for driving an analog display, a clock module including a time base delivering a clock signal connected to a divider circuit, the divider circuit delivering a reference signal sent to a control circuit arranged to control the electric motor, the clock module further including a measuring and correction circuit arranged between the time base and the divider circuit and delivering an intermediate compensated signal. The time base, the compensation module, the divider circuit, and the control circuit are arranged in a same case to form the clock module.
US10274898B2
The combination of a wearable device and a security assembly. The wearable device has a band configured to extend at least partially around a limb of a user to maintain the wearable device operatively supported on the user's limb. The security assembly has a flexible sensor configured to define an electrical circuit path. The flexible sensor is secured to the band in an operative state. A stabilizing assembly is configured to bear a part of the flexible sensor against the wearable device with the stabilizing assembly in an operative state.
US10274897B2
A governor includes a balance spring including a base member made of silicon, for example, and a balance wheel. The balance spring includes a coating film of DLC that is applied to a surface of the silicon base member to improve the strength of the balance spring. A spring constant of the balance spring changes in accordance with the temperature change. A moment of inertia of the balance wheel changes in accordance with the temperature change. A change in an oscillation period due to the temperature change is suppressed by the change in the spring constant of the balance spring and by the change in the moment of inertia of the balance wheel.
US10274895B2
An apparatus including a case that includes an electro conductive housing that accommodates a circuit board on which an electronic component is mounted and that includes a first opening for accommodating the circuit board, an electro conductive top plate that is disposed so as to cover the first opening and that includes a second opening, a HDD that is separated from the circuit board with the top plate and is connected to the circuit board, and a signal wire that connects the circuit board and the HDD to each other thorough the second opening. The apparatus includes an electro conductive cover to cover the HDD and the signal wire, and a duct portion formed between the electro conductive cover and the top plate and passes external air from below the HDD to the housing though the second opening.
US10274893B2
A frame of an image forming apparatus includes a bottom plate provided at a bottom of the frame, a plurality of recessed portions each provided on the bottom plate so as to extend toward an inside of the bottom plate, the recessed portions crossing each other, and a reinforcing member fastened to the bottom plate so as to cover at least a portion where the recessed portions cross each other, an area of the reinforcing member being smaller than an area of the bottom plate.
US10274888B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a light exposure device, a developing device, a fixing unit disposed opposite to the light exposure device relative to the developing device, a sheet supply tray disposed below the developing device, an ejection tray disposed above the developing device and having a sheet receiving surface inclined downward, relative to a horizontal direction, toward the charger, and a sheet conveying path through which a sheet is conveyed from the sheet supply tray to the ejection tray. A lowest end portion of the sheet receiving surface is disposed below an upper end of the charger in the vertical direction. The charger is disposed opposite to the developing device relative to the lowest end portion of the sheet receiving surface.
US10274887B2
A binding apparatus includes: a first pressing member that presses a recording-medium stack from one side of the recording-medium stack; a second pressing member that faces the first pressing member and presses the recording-medium stack from the other side of the recording-medium stack; and a suppressing part provided in at least one of the first pressing member and the second pressing member, the suppressing part suppressing damage to recording media that may be caused when a recording-medium stack including a smaller number of sheets than the maximum number of sheets that can be bound is bound with the first pressing member and the second pressing member.
US10274884B2
An image forming apparatus connected to one or more other image forming apparatuses, the image forming apparatus comprises: a detecting unit that detects a characteristic of a recording material; an obtaining unit that obtains a detection result by the detecting unit in each of the one or more other image forming apparatuses; and a determining unit that determines a type of a recording material used for image formation in the image forming apparatus based on the detection result by the detecting unit and the detection result obtained by the obtaining unit.
US10274880B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller to control a driving unit that rotates a developing rotary member. Rotation speed of the developing rotary member is controlled to become a first rotation speed in an image forming period. Rotation speed of the developing rotary member is decelerated from the first rotation speed in a first period of a non-image forming period so that the rotation speed becomes a second rotation speed lower than the first rotation speed, and rotation speed is decelerated from the second rotation speed in a second period subsequent to the first period of the non-image forming period so that the rotation of the developing rotary member is stopped. A deceleration amount per unit time of the developing rotary member in the first period is smaller than a deceleration amount per unit time of the developing rotary member in the second period.
US10274875B2
An image forming apparatus includes a stacking portion, a feeding unit, an image forming unit, a storing unit, an inputting unit for inputting paper kind information of the recording material, and a calculating unit. When the paper kind information of the recording material inputted by the inputting unit is different from paper kind information of the recording material stored in the storing unit, the image forming unit forms the image on the recording material in an image forming condition determined on the basis of the paper kind information of the recording material inputted by the inputting unit, and the calculating means calculates the degree of deterioration of the feeding unit depending on the paper kind information of the recording material stored in the storing unit.
US10274872B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a chassis having an opening, a cover, photosensitive members, an intermediate transfer belt, a primary-transfer member, a secondary-transfer roller, a cleaner device, an external-sheet inlet, a waste toner container, a connector, and a conveying roller, which is arranged within the feeding path to feed the recording sheet inserted through the external-sheet inlet in the feeding path. The conveying roller is mounted on the waste toner container and removable from the chassis along with the waste toner container.
US10274871B2
Herein is described an electrophotographic printing process in which a liquid electrophotographic ink image and a dry electrophotographic toner image may be printed on a print substrate.
US10274866B2
A toner container includes: a containing unit that contains a toner; a storage device that stores information; and an attachment unit. The attachment unit includes a cover member, a supporting member, and an insertion member. The cover member has a first projection and an insertion opening. The first projection extends in a first direction. The insertion opening is provided on the first projection and extends in a second direction. The supporting member has a first depression and a through opening. The first depression extends in the first direction and allows the first projection to be inserted into the first depression. The through opening extends in the second direction and is in communication with the first depression. The insertion member is inserted into the through opening and the insertion opening in a state where the storage device is positioned between the cover member and the supporting member.
US10274861B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller, wherein the controller execute first control of controlling a rotational frequency of the motor based on a light receiving signal, wherein, when the target rotational frequency changes from a first rotational frequency to a second rotational frequency that is lower than the first rotational frequency, the controller executes speed change control of: stopping execution of the first control; and changing a rotational frequency of the motor, and non-lighting period change control of changing the non-lighting period in the lighting control from a first non-lighting period corresponding to the first rotational frequency to a second non-lighting period corresponding to the second rotational frequency, and the controller starts the first control in response to satisfying a condition where the deflection period of the mirror obtained based on a position signal of a rotor of the motor is longer than the second non-lighting period.
US10274860B2
A method of manufacturing a light scanning apparatus, including: forming an optical box having a plurality of protrusions arranged along a longitudinal direction of a reflection mirror and provided at positions corresponding to one end side and the other end side of the reflection mirror in the longitudinal direction, respectively; processing protrusions except protrusions that are used for supporting the reflection mirror so that the protrusions except the protrusions that are used for supporting the reflection mirror on the one end side and on the other end side of the reflection mirror are out of contact with the reflection mirror; placing the reflection mirror on the protrusions that have not been processed in the processing; and fixing the reflection mirror, which has been placed on the protrusions that have not been processed in the placing, to the optical box.
US10274856B2
A toner for electrophotography, which contains a binder resin, and a release agent, wherein a maximum value of loss tangent of the toner at 95° C. to 115° C. is 8 or greater, as a viscoelasticity of the toner is measured, where the loss tangent is represented by the following formula: Loss tangent (tan δ)=loss elastic modulus (G″)/storage elastic modulus (G′).
US10274853B2
A toner includes a binder resin; a release agent; and two or more inorganic fine particles as external additives. At least one of the inorganic fine particles is silica. When an ultrasonic oscillation is applied to a dispersion including the toner and a dispersant and a rate of the silica releasing from the toner is 20% based on total silica, an application energy of the ultrasonic oscillation is from 8 to 14 kJ, and from 70 to 130 kJ when the rate of the silica releasing from the toner is 50%.
US10274846B2
An electromagnetic drive includes a stator, having a stator holder and an actuating element which is movable by electromagnetic interaction with the stator. The stator holder has at least two electrically conductive paths running separately from and adjacent to one another. In each case, the two paths running separately from and adjacent to one another form a path pair, and the paths of the path pair are connected to one another in electrically conductive fashion at their respective ends. The paths of the path pair are arranged such that the stator and/or the actuating element induces eddy currents acting in opposite directions in the paths.
US10274838B2
Systems and methods that include providing for measuring a first topographical height of a substrate at a first coordinate on the substrate and measuring a second topographical height of the substrate at a second coordinate on the substrate are provided. The measured first and second topographical heights may be provided as a wafer map. An exposure process is then performed on the substrate using the wafer map. The exposure process can include using a first focal point when exposing the first coordinate on the substrate and using a second focal plane when exposing the second coordinate on the substrate. The first focal point is determined using the first topographical height and the second focal point is determined using the second topographical height.
US10274829B2
A multiple patterning decomposition method for IC is provided. Features of layout of IC are decomposed into a plurality of nodes. The nodes are classified to assign a plurality of first and second links between the nodes. First and second pseudo colors are assigned to a pair of nodes of each first link. The second links having a pair of nodes both corresponding to the first or second pseudo color are identified. The nodes of the first links are uncolored. A first real color is assigned to the two uncolored nodes of the identified second links in each of the networks. A second real color is assigned to the uncolored nodes connected to the nodes corresponding to the first real color through the first links. First and second masks are formed according to the nodes corresponding to the first and second real colors, respectively.
US10274807B2
Methods of generating second harmonic generation (SHG) signals from interfaces formed with, or formed over, a noncentrosymmetric material, e.g., α-quartz, are provided. The methods make use of the noncentrosymmetric material as an internal phase reference for the determination of a variety of interfacial electrostatic parameters, including interfacial potential, interfacial charge density, and the sign of the interfacial charge (i.e., net positive or net negative).
US10274797B1
A method of fabricating a voltage-tunable liquid crystal-based notch filter requires filling at least two LC cells with cholesteric LC material to create LH and RH LC cells while applying heat to the cell substrates such that their temperatures are raised to near, but below, the clearing point, such that the LC material remains in the cholesteric state. An AC voltage is applied and turned off repeatedly while the LC cells cool down to room temperature, to cause the LC molecules to temporarily deviate from their intrinsic helical alignment. The cells are passed under a UV light sufficient to create cross-linked polymer networks, and self-compensation is used to compensate for in-band retardation. The resulting LH and RH LC cells are stacked such that the electrodes on adjacent substrates are connected to form a common electrode.
US10274796B2
The present disclosure relates to a display having a narrow bezel structure. A flat panel display includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a pull-up thin film transistor including a first gate electrode, a first source electrode and a first drain electrode, disposed in the non-display area; and a boosting capacitor disposed between the first gate electrode and the first source electrode; wherein the boosting capacitor includes a light shielding layer connected to the first gate electrode and overlapping with the first source electrode, but not overlapping with the first drain electrode.
US10274791B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display apparatus. The liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a plurality of common electrode lines on a first substrate, a first planarization layer on the plurality of common electrode lines, a plurality of data lines on the first planarization layer, a second planarization layer on the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of divided common electrodes on the second planarization layer, wherein an opening portion is between the plurality of divided common electrodes, wherein the common electrode lines and the data lines overlap each other at the opening portion, and wherein a width of the common electrode lines is larger than a width of the data lines for reducing a degree of color wash-out phenomenon of neighboring sub-pixels adjacent to the opening portion.
US10274789B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided, a liquid crystal display comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate that are opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; a light blocking pattern including a first light blocking pattern and a second light blocking pattern arranged to extend along one direction on the first substrate; and a column spacer formed on the first light blocking pattern on the first substrate, wherein the light blocking pattern includes an open portion disposed between the first light blocking pattern and the second light blocking pattern, and formed to be spaced apart from the column spacer for a predetermined distance.
US10274787B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display apparatus having a reduced area of a dark line occurring when light is transmitted through a pixel region, and excellent transmittance of light and image quality. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes: two substrates each of which has an electrode and a photo alignment film sequentially formed on one surface and one surfaces of which face to each other; a liquid crystal layer which includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal material, and is interposed between both photo alignment films; a plurality of pixel regions formed on the substrates in a matrix in a planar direction of the substrates; at least two liquid crystal domains which are included in each pixel region, and have different standard alignment directions defined by the photo alignment films; main slits which are formed in regions corresponding to each liquid crystal domain of one electrode, and extend parallel to each standard alignment direction, and sub slits extending between two liquid crystal domains, which are arranged in one direction, in the other direction orthogonal to the one direction. The sub slit has a width of a width or more of the main slit.
US10274773B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a device is described. The device includes a first electrode. The device also includes a second electrode. The device also includes multiple polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs). The multiple PDLCs are disposed between the first and the second electrode and are of varying height.
US10274764B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes first and second substrates, first pixel electrodes, second pixel electrodes, common electrodes, first auxiliary electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and the second substrates. The first pixel electrodes, the second pixel electrodes, and the common electrodes are disposed on the first substrate. The first auxiliary electrodes are disposed on the second substrate. One of the first pixel electrodes is not overlapping one of the first auxiliary electrodes in a vertical projection direction and overlapping one of the common electrodes in the vertical projection direction. A driving method of the liquid crystal display panel includes setting a first voltage difference in a wide viewing mode and a second voltage difference in a narrow viewing mode between the first auxiliary electrodes and the common electrodes.
US10274749B2
A method for producing a spectacle lens having in particular a diffractive microstructure on at least one lens surface. To this end, a thin structural support layer is initially made available, which on a surface has a microstructure. A lens main body is then cast to the microstructure of the structural support layer.
US10274742B2
This disclosure relates to a display device including a lens array unit. An exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept provides a display device including: a display unit including a plurality of pixels; and a lens array unit including a plurality of lenses, wherein a first lens of the plurality of lenses corresponds to and overlaps two or more of the plurality of pixels, the two or more pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, the first pixel is closer to an optical axis of the first lens than the second pixel is in a plan view, and a shortest distance between the first pixel and a reference surface that is perpendicular to the optical axis of the first lens is greater than a shortest distance between the reference surface and the second pixel.
US10274741B2
The present disclosure relates to a display for a personal immersion apparatus for embodying the virtual reality or the augmented reality. The present disclosure suggests a display for a personal immersion apparatus comprising: a display panel; and an imaging lens; wherein the display panel includes: a plurality of pixel areas disposed on a substrate; an emission area defined in the each pixel area; a non-emission area surrounding the emission area in the each pixel area; and a micro deflector configured to deflect lights scattered over the non-emission area from the emission area to a normal direction with respect to a surface of the substrate, and to provide the deflected lights to the imaging lens, and wherein the imaging lens is disposed apart from the display panel with a focal length of the imaging lens.
US10274731B2
According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a near-eye optical see-through display. The display includes a backlight layer including a plurality of point light sources. The display further includes a spatial light modulator (SLM) layer for modulating light from the point light sources. The spatial light modulator is located in the optical path between the point light sources and a user's eye. The spatial light modulator layer includes pixels that are controllable to modulate light from the point light sources such that the light that impacts the user's eye has a desired intensity and color to display a synthetic image. At least a portion of the backlight layer and the spatial light modulator layer are optically transparent to allow a user to view a real scene through the spatial light modulator layer and the backlight layer such that the synthetic image appears to be overlaid on a view of the real scene. Each pixel in the spatial light modulator layer modulates only a portion of the light emanating from the point light sources such that the synthetic image appears to be in focus to the user's eye.
US10274726B2
A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an image source providing illuminated images. At least one mirror is positioned to provide a first reflection of the illuminated images. A windshield is positioned to receive the first reflection and provide a second reflection of the illuminated image such that the second reflection is visible to a driver of the vehicle who has at least one eye within an eyebox defined by the second reflection. An image capturing device captures images of a head of a driver of the motor vehicle. An electronic processor adjusts, based on the captured images of the driver's head, the illuminated images and/or a position of the at least one mirror.
US10274725B2
The present disclosure provides a head-up display that has a first lighting unit to display first information on a windshield. The first lighting unit includes a first lighting source that emits light for the windshield as the first information and a first cylindrical casing that accommodates the first lighting source therein. The head-up display further has a second lighting unit to display second information on the windshield. The second lighting unit includes a second lighting source that emits light for the windshield as the second information. The head-up display further has a package disposed under the windshield. The first and second lighting units are installed on the package. The second lighting unit is installed on the package independently from the first lighting unit.
US10274721B2
A micromechanical device is described as having a stationary element (100) and a deflectable element. The invention relates to a light source that is situated on the deflectable element. Also described is a micromechanical scanner including a micromechanical device having a movable element with a light source disposed thereon.
US10274706B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling the read out of rows of pixel values from sensors corresponding to different optical chains used to capture portions of the same image area are described. The readout is controlled based on user input and/or determinations with regard to the rate of motion in captured images or portions of captured images. For a low rate of motion i, the readout rate of a sensor corresponding to a small focal length is slowed down while the pixel row readout rate of one or more sensors corresponding to one or more optical chains have larger focal lengths are allowed to proceed at a normal rate. For a high rate of motion, the read out rate of the sensor corresponding to the optical chain having the smaller focal length is allowed to proceed at the normal rate.
US10274697B2
A focus detection device includes: a plurality of first pixels having first color filters, via which a pair of first signals, to be used for split-pupil phase detection, are output; a plurality of second pixels having second color filters, via which a pair of second signals, to be used for the split-pupil phase detection, are output; a phase difference detection unit that detects a phase difference manifested by the first signals or a phase difference manifested by the second signals; and a defocus amount calculation unit that calculates a defocus amount by using a first conversion coefficient corresponding to the first color when the phase difference detection unit has detected the phase difference manifested by the first signals and by using a second conversion coefficient corresponding to the second color when the phase difference detection unit has detected the phase difference manifested by the second signals.
US10274693B2
To realize weight reduction and ensure favorable performance of an imaging element.A lens barrel of a medical observation device includes: a barrel unit including an imaging optical system configured to acquire an image of an object, and a housing in which the imaging optical system is disposed; and an element unit including an imaging element configured to photoelectrically convert the image of the object acquired by the imaging optical system, and an element holder configured to hold the imaging element, in which the housing is made of a resin material, and the element holder is made of a material different from that of the housing. With this configuration, the housing in which the imaging optical system is disposed is made of the resin material, and the element holder configured to hold the imaging element is made of the material different from that of the housing. Thus, weight reduction can be realized while favorable performance of the imaging element can be ensured.
US10274687B1
A highly integrated multi-channel optical transceiver module based on silicon photonic chip technology includes an integrated silicon photonic chip, an integrated circuit chip, and a printed circuit board assembly. The integrated silicon photonic chip and the integrated circuit chip are both integrated on silicon substrates and are furthered bonded on printed circuit board assembly. The integrated silicon photonic chip includes a silicon photonic transmitter chip and a silicon photonic receiver chip that both connected to optical fiber connectors through the optical fiber patch cord jumpers. The integrated circuit chip includes an integrated circuit transmitter chip that connected to the silicon photonic transmitter chip through a wire bonding, and an integrated circuit receiver chip that connected to the silicon photonic receiver chip through a wire bonding. The present invention provides a high-data-rate, low-power-consumption, and cost-effective solution for optical transceiver modules and active optical cables based on silicon photonic chip technology.
US10274680B2
An apparatus of polarization self-compensated delay line interferometer. The apparatus includes a first waveguide arm of a first material of a first length disposed between an input coupler and an output coupler and a second waveguide arm of the first material of a second length different from the first length disposed between the same input coupler and the same output coupler. The apparatus produces an interference spectrum with multiple periodic passband peaks where certain TE (transverse electric) and TM (transverse magnetic) polarization mode passband peaks are lined up. The apparatus further includes a section of waveguide of a birefringence material of a third length added to the second waveguide arm to induce a phase shift of the lined-up TE/TM passband peaks to a designated grid as corresponding polarization compensated channels of a wide optical band.
US10274675B2
Apparatuses and methods for photonic communication and photonic addressing are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a plurality of photonic sources, a plurality of memory die, a logic die. Each of the plurality of photonic sources provides a photonic signal of a different wavelength and are provided to a first photonic path. Each memory die of the plurality of memory die includes a photonic modulation circuit coupled to the first photonic path, and further includes a photonic detector circuit coupled to a second photonic path. Each memory die of the plurality of memory die is associated with and addressed by a respective wavelength of a photonic signal. The logic die is coupled to the first and second photonic paths, and includes a plurality of photonic circuits. Each of the photonic circuits of the plurality of photonic circuits is associated with a respective wavelength of a photonic signal.
US10274660B2
A holographic substrate-guided wave-based see-through display has a microdisplay, capable of emitting light in the form of an image. The microdisplay directs its output to a holographic optical element, capable of accepting the image from the microdisplay, and capable of transmitting the light. The holographic optical element couples its output to an elongate substrate, capable of accepting the light from the holographic optical element at a first location, and transmitting the light along a length of the substrate by internal reflection to a second location, the elongate substrate being capable of transmitting the accepted light from the second location. The substrate couples out what it receives to a transparent holographic optical element, capable of accepting the light transmitted from the substrate and transmitting it to a location outside of the holographic optical element as a viewable image.
US10274657B2
In this optical filter, each side of a substrate that is at most 0.3 mm in thickness is coated with a multilayer film. Both of the multilayer films are under compressive stress, and the optical filter satisfies the relation F≥−1.25t+1.525 (where F represents the ratio of the strength of the optical filter to the strength of the substrate (the strength of the optical filter with the substrate coated divided by the strength of the uncoated substrate) and t represents the thickness of the substrate (in mm)).
US10274656B2
The invention pertains to an optical device comprising a substrate with two main faces, and, on at least one face, a first coating which is in contact with a second coating, the first coating being positioned between the second coating and the substrate, the first coating is a release layer, adapted so that it can be selectively activated in order to diminish mechanical properties or adhesion enabling the second coating to be fastened to the substrate.
US10274644B2
A deposition system for forming a stress distributed coating layer is provided which comprises a deposition apparatus comprising a source from which a coating material emanates, the source configured to restrict a flux of the coating material towards a backside of an optical substrate; a holder configured to hold the optical substrate; a drive system configured to provide relative translation of the source and the optical substrate; and a bias voltage power supply operably coupled to the source and the optical substrate and configured to apply a bias voltage between the source and the backside of the optical substrate. A device is operably coupled to the deposition apparatus, the device comprising a processor; and a computer-readable medium operably coupled to the processor, the computer-readable medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the deposition apparatus to deposit the coating material onto the backside of the optical substrate and to adjust the bias voltage between the source and the backside of the optical substrate during the deposition of the coating material as a function of relative position of the source and the optical substrate to provide a stress distributed coating layer on the backside of the optical substrate.
US10274638B2
The disclosed embodiments include downhole gamma-ray generators and methods to utilize downhole gamma-ray generators in a downhole environment. In one embodiment, a downhole gamma-ray generator includes a target foil formed from a first material. The downhole gamma-ray generator also includes a second layer deposited along a back surface of the target foil. The downhole gamma-ray generator further includes a laser system operable to direct optical pulses onto a front surface of the target foil to ionize atoms of the first material, where electrons produced by ionization of the first material propagate through the target foil and decelerates when the electrons interact with the high density material, and where the deceleration of the electrons produces gamma-rays that are utilized to obtain one or more formation properties of a downhole formation.
US10274634B2
The present invention provides a nuclear magnetic resonance logging instrument probe with double-layered magnets and an antenna excitation method, the nuclear magnetic resonance logging instrument probe includes: a probe framework and a shielding layer arranged in the probe framework; a plurality of main magnets are provided above and below the shielding layer, respectively; central axes of the main magnets are parallel with each other, and distances between the central axes of each of the main magnets and a central axis of the probe framework are the same; a distance between central axes of any two main magnets is not smaller than a first preset value; and an antenna is provided at outer side of each main magnety. In the present invention, circumferential recognizing capability of the nuclear magnetic resonance logging instrument probe can be improved and three-dimensional (radial, axial and circumferential) stratum detection can be achieved.
US10274630B2
A system for detecting and discriminating a metal object in a bulk non-metallic material includes at least one triple-axis magnetometer adapted to detect a change of a magnetic field and output a signal including a detection signal representative of a metal object and a signal processing system adapted to detect the detection signal. The bulk non-metallic may be continuously moving through a detection volume, or may be placed in and removed from the detection volume as a batch.
US10274629B2
A method is provided for transmitting signals on a multi-conductor cable (12) formed from a plurality of conductors (1-7) surrounded by an armor (10), the plurality of conductors having a central conductor (7) surrounded by a first peripheral layer of conductors (1-6) with an even number of conductors symmetrically arranged around the central conductor. The two following transmission modes are carried out simultaneously: a common mode (TX1) that uses the central conductor (7) with a return on the armor (10), for transmitting a first signal (s1); and a differential mode (TX2) between a first path comprising all odd rank conductors (1,3,5) of the peripheral layer and a second path comprising all even rank conductors (2,4,6) of the peripheral layer, for transmitting a second signal (s2).
US10274627B2
A seismic sensor system includes a seismic sensor suspended in an acoustic medium, which is disposed between first and second sensor housings. The acoustic medium can be selected to preferentially transmit pressure wave energy, based on the acoustic impedance of the surrounding water column or other seismic medium. The acoustic medium can also be selected to preferentially dissipate or otherwise reduce the transmitted shear wave energy. The second housing can similarly be configured to dissipate shear wave energy, while transmitting pressure wave energy in the form of acoustic waves that propagate through the acoustic medium to the seismic sensor.
US10274624B2
Systems and methods of detecting marine seismic survey parameters are provided. A data processing system can obtain seismic data from seismic data acquisition units disposed on a seabed responsive to an acoustic signal propagated from an acoustic source through a water column. The data processing system can determine from the seismic data, a direct arrival time for the acoustic signal at each of the plurality of seismic data acquisition units, and can obtain an estimated depth value of each of the plurality of seismic data acquisition units and an estimated water column transit velocity of the acoustic signal. The data processing system can apply a depth model and a water column transit velocity model to the estimated depth value and to the estimated water column transit velocity determine an updated depth value and an updated water column transit velocity for each of the plurality of seismic data acquisition units.
US10274618B2
A radiography apparatus includes: a radiation detector that includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a thin film transistor and which are two-dimensionally arranged, and data lines through which charge accumulated in the connected pixels is transmitted as an electric signal; and a first sample-and-hold unit and a second sample-and-hold unit that sample and hold the electric signal transmitted through the data line. In a case in which the charge accumulated in the pixel is read out, the radiography apparatus performs control such that the thin film transistor is turned off and the first sample-and-hold unit samples and holds a first electric signal transmitted through the data line; and the thin film transistor is turned on and the second sample-and-hold unit samples and holds a second electric signal transmitted through the data line.
US10274611B2
A control apparatus which receives a radiation image from a radiation imaging apparatus determines, at the time of activation, whether any unreceived radiation image to be received from the radiation imaging apparatus exists. Upon determining that an unreceived radiation image exists, the control apparatus requests the radiation imaging apparatus to transmit the radiation image.
US10274603B2
The present disclosure is directed to utilities (methods, systems, apparatuses) associated with improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a wireless signal at a receiver. It is known in the art to correlate a received signal with a replica signal generated at the receiver to improve reception. However, the inventors have determined that correlation using a replica signal which is not completely accurate may be detrimental. An improved method of correlation disclosed herein includes identifying data bits which are predictable and performing correlation with respect to those data bits while ignoring data bits which are identified as unpredictable. This method may have particular advantages in the case of receivers having attenuated reception (e.g., indoors) after losing a data connection used for receipt of assistance data.
US10274601B2
A communications system comprising a master-node and a slave-node. The master-node comprising: a GNSS receiver configured to provide a GNSS based time reference signal; a master-timing-reference-calibrator configured to determine a master-timing-reference-calibration-signal, for calibrating the master reference timing circuit, based on the GNSS based time reference signal; and a master-reference-timing-circuit configured to provide a master-clock-signal based on the master-timing-reference-calibration-signal, wherein the master-clock-signal is a clock signal for the master-node; and a master-transmitter configured to determine a master-communications-signal using the master-clock signal. The slave-node comprising: a slave-receiver configured to receive the master-communications-signal from the master-node; a slave-timing-reference-calibrator configured to determine a slave-timing-reference-calibration-signal based on the master-communications-signal; and a slave-timing-reference-circuit configured to provide a slave-clock-signal based on the slave-timing-reference-calibration-signal, wherein the slave-clock-signal is a clock signal for the slave-node.
US10274600B2
A laser designator pulse detector includes an InGaAs photodetector configured to convert laser signals into electrical signals. A Read Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC) is operatively connected to the InGaAs photodetector to condition electrical signals from the InGaAs photodetector. The ROIC can be operatively connected to a peripheral device including one or more modules configured to process signals from the ROIC and provide pulse detection, decoding, and tracking. In another aspect, a laser designator pulse detector includes a two-dimensional array of photodetectors configured to convert laser signals into electrical signals. A ROTC as described above is operatively connected to the two-dimensional array of photodetectors.
US10274598B2
A navigation system for a vehicle may include at least one image capture device configured to acquire a plurality of images of an environment of a vehicle and a radar sensor to detect an object in the environment of the vehicle and to provide and output including range information indicative of at least one of a range or range rate between the vehicle and the object. The system may also include at least one processing device programmed to: receive the plurality of images from the at least one image capture device; receive the output from the radar sensor; determine, for each of a plurality of image segments in a first image, from among the plurality of images, and corresponding image segments in a second image, from among the plurality of images, an indicator of optical flow; use range information determined based on the output of the radar sensor together with the indicators of optical flow determined for each of the plurality of image segments in the first image and the corresponding image segments in the second image to calculate for each of a plurality of imaged regions at least one value indicative of a focus of expansion; identify a target object region, including at least a subset of the plurality of imaged regions that share a substantially similar focus of expansion; and cause a system response based on the identified target object region.
US10274593B2
An object detection device includes a sub-cluster generating circuitry which, in operation, divides a cluster generated by a cluster generator into one or more first sub-clusters each corresponding to a part of an object having a different traveling direction or traveling speed from a main part of the object and a second sub-cluster corresponding to the main part of the object; and a speed calculating circuitry which, in operation, uses one or more capture points belonging to the second sub-cluster and calculates a traveling speed of the object.
US10274591B2
The invention relates to an ultrasonic transducer (10) of the type comprising a housing (16) provided with an electrical connector (17), at least one ultrasonic transducer (15) and an electronic card (13) for controlling the transducer and which is arranged inside the housing and consists of a printed circuit board (14) on which active components (11) and passive components (12) are mounted. According to the invention, the active components include integrated active components (11) which are completely embedded in a substrate of the printed circuit board and the passive components include integrated passive components (12) which are completely embedded in the substrate. According to another feature, the active components and the passive components include surface-mounted components (7) arranged solely on one side of the printed circuit board and the transducer is mounted on an opposite side.
US10274590B2
Techniques describe structures and methods for generating larger output signals and improving image quality of ultrasonic sensors by inclusion of an acoustic cavity in the sensor stack. In some embodiments, an ultrasonic sensor unit may be tuned during manufacturing or during a provisioning phase to work with different thicknesses and materials. In some embodiments, a standing wave signal may be generated using an acoustic cavity in the ultrasonic sensor unit for capturing an ultrasonic image of an object placed on a sensor surface. In some implementations, the ultrasonic sensor may include an ultrasonic transmitter, a piezoelectric receiver, a thin film transistor (TFT) layer and a TFT substrate positioned between the transmitter and the receiver, one or more adhesive layers, and optional cover materials and coatings. The thickness, density and speed of sound of the sensor materials and associated adhesive attachment layers may be used to attain the desired acoustic cavity and improved performance.
US10274578B2
A terminal device positioning apparatus, includes a receiver configured to receive at least one second signal, or receive a first signal and at least one second signal, where the first signal is sent by a terminal device to an antenna terminal, and the at least one second signal is generated after each antenna terminal in at least one antenna terminal performs delay processing or frequency conversion processing on the first signal, and a processor configured to obtain location information of the terminal device by means of calculation according to the at least one second signal or according to the first signal and the at least one second signal. Delay processing or frequency conversion processing is performed on the first signal of the terminal device, and calculation is performed.
US10274569B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system (600) obtains magnetic resonance (MR) images of a volume. The MRI system includes at least one controller (610) configured to perform a preparation scan (103, 301) to acquire preparation echo phase information (105, PEPI) for a plurality of dynamics of a scan (300); output a plurality of pulse sequences (200), each pulse sequence is configured for a corresponding dynamic of the plurality of dynamics of the scan and includes a navigator sequence (204) and an image sequence (206); acquire navigation and image information (111, 117) for each corresponding pulse sequence of the plurality of pulse sequences; and/or form corrected image information (125) by correcting echo phase information in accordance with the preparation echo phase information, correcting at least one of gradient delay or frequency offset of the image information in accordance with the navigation information.
US10274561B2
According to some aspects, a portable magnetic resonance imaging system is provided, comprising a B0 magnet configured to produce a B0 magnetic field for an imaging region of the magnetic resonance imaging system, a noise reduction system configured to detect and suppress at least some electromagnetic noise in an operating environment of the portable magnetic resonance imaging system, and electromagnetic shielding provided to attenuate at least some of the electromagnetic noise in the operating environment of the portable magnetic resonance imaging system, the electromagnetic shielding arranged to shield a fraction of the imaging region of the portable magnetic resonance imaging system. According to some aspects, the electromagnetic shield comprises at least one electromagnetic shield structure adjustably coupled to the housing to provide electromagnetic shielding for the imaging region in an amount that can be varied. According to some aspects, substantially no shielding of the imaging region of the portable magnetic resonance imaging system is provided.
US10274560B2
At least two RF transmission coil arrangements are provided. Each of the at least two RF transmission coil arrangements includes at least one RF transmission antenna. The at least two RF transmission coil arrangements are actuatable by a transmission apparatus of the magnetic resonance imaging system for transmitting RF pulses.
US10274559B2
There is provided a novel method and circuit of compensating for cross-talk between pairs of adjacent array elements of a transceiver phased array and double-tuned transceiver arrays for a magnetic resonance system using a resonant inductive decoupling circuit. The geometry and size of the resonant inductive decoupling circuit allows for the decoupling circuit to compensate for the cross-talk between array elements, including the reactive and resistive components of the mutual impedance while being sufficiently small to not distort a RF magnetic field of the array elements produced within a sample.
US10274557B2
Embodiments of the present invention address the problems with previously known MRI enhancement resonators. The embodiments provide capacitances that are sufficiently large to result in resonance frequencies that are sufficiently low for medical MRI applications in devices that are sufficiently small for implantation into the body. Further, the capacitance and resonance frequency of the MRI enhancement resonator may be easily adjusted to particular desired values by selecting corresponding thin-film dielectrics, or thicknesses of such thin-film dielectrics. Moreover, the design and geometry of the embodiments provide MRI enhancement resonators with high Q-factors. The construction and material of such MRI enhancement resonators also yield flexible and biocompatible devices that are appropriate for applications involving implantation into the body.
US10274553B2
A needle placement manipulator includes, a needle holder configured to hold a needle, a guide system configured to position the needle holder to a predetermined direction with respect to a subject of needle placement, an attachment including an attaching portion to which the guide system is attached and a setting portion on which an RF-coil is set. A base surface of the setting portion is configured to be disposed on the subject.
US10274549B1
An atomic magnetometer includes a vapor cell, one or more pumping lasers, a probe laser, and a sensor. The one or more pumping lasers are disposed to direct one or more laser beams though the vapor cell to interact with atoms of an atomic vapor in the vapor cell. The atomic vapor periodically absorbs light of alternating circular polarization from the one or more laser beams. The probe laser is disposed to direct polarized light to pass through the vapor cell. The sensor is disposed to intersect the polarized light from the probe laser after passing through the vapor cell.
US10274543B2
For each cell in a plurality of cells, a first cell characteristic and a second cell characteristic are received in order to obtain a plurality of cell characteristics. For each cell in the plurality of cells, a batch compatibility number that is associated with a number of compatible cells that that cell is compatible with is determined based at least in part on the plurality of cell characteristics. The plurality of cells is sorted according to the batch compatibility numbers in order to obtain a sorted list of cells. A list of compatible cells to include in a battery is generated, including by evaluating the plurality of cells according to the order specified by the sorted list of cells and beginning with a cell with the lowest batch compatibility number.
US10274542B1
A generator testing appliance for use in servicing an electrical power generation unit that has a generator connected to a controller. Within a cabinet are multiple conductive circuit paths each having an electrically interposed main switch that is mounted to the cabinet. Multiple conductor controller leads are each connected at one end to a first end of a different one of the conductive circuit paths and are connected or connectable at their opposite ends to a different one of the terminals of the controller. Multiple conductor generator leads are connected at one end to the opposite second end of a different one of the conductive circuit paths and at their opposite ends to a different one of the terminals of the generator. Multiple meter test lead ports that are accessible from the exterior of the cabinet are electrically connected to a terminal of a different one of the main switches.
US10274531B2
An overhead power line insulator comprises a dielectric element (4) having an outside surface forming a skirt (5) with a head extended by a metal attachment fitting (7) for attaching the insulator, and a device for detecting surface leakage current flowing on the dielectric (4), the device comprising a conductive ring (8) that surrounds the fitting (7) and that is in contact with the outside surface of the dielectric (4). An electrically insulating protective element (10) is provided in the form of a collared bushing that surrounds the fitting (7), being interposed between the ring (8) and the fitting (7) and extending radially so as to overlie the ring (8) in order to protect it from environmental pollution.
US10274528B2
The invention relates to methods and apparatus for determining properties of a surface. Embodiments disclosed include an apparatus for measuring a surface charge of a sample, comprising: a sample holder having an opposed pair of electrodes and configured to hold a sample in position in a measurement volume between the electrodes such that a planar surface of the sample is aligned orthogonal to the electrode surfaces; a measurement chamber for containing a measurement liquid and having an open end configured to receive the sample holder to position the electrodes in a preset orientation; a laser light source positioned and configured to direct a laser beam through the measurement chamber between the electrodes and parallel to the planar surface of the sample when the sample holder is received in the measurement chamber; and a detector positioned and configured to detect scattered light from the measurement volume, wherein the apparatus is configured to allow for detection of the scattered light by the detector over a range of distances from the surface of the sample.
US10274523B2
A current sensor including first and second current sensor units. Conductors of the first and second current sensor units extend in a length direction and are parallel or substantially parallel to each other with a space therebetween. An arch-shaped portion and an inverted arch-shaped portion of the first current sensor unit are at different positions in the length direction from positions of an arch-shaped portion and an inverted arch-shaped portion of the second current sensor unit. When seen in a width direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the length direction, first and second magnetic sensor elements of the first current sensor unit are outside an opening of the second current sensor unit and first and second magnetic sensor elements of the second current sensor unit are outside an opening of the first current sensor unit.
US10274512B2
A MEMS sensor device provided with a sensing structure, having: a substrate with a top surface extending in a horizontal plane; an inertial mass, suspended over the substrate; elastic coupling elements, elastically connected to the inertial mass so as to enable inertial movement thereof with respect to the substrate as a function of a quantity to be detected along a sensing axis belonging to the horizontal plane; and sensing electrodes, capacitively coupled to the inertial mass so as to form at least one sensing capacitor, a value of capacitance of which is indicative of the quantity to be detected. The sensing structure moreover has a suspension structure, to which the sensing electrodes are rigidly coupled, and to which the inertial mass is elastically coupled through the elastic coupling elements; the suspension structure is connected to an anchorage structure, fixed with respect to the substrate, by means of elastic suspension elements.
US10274504B2
Disclosed is a microcapsule encoded depending on the kind of a target substance included therein. The encoded microcapsule has a hydrophilic liquid core including the target substance and a hydrophobic shell surrounding the liquid core. The encoded microcapsule includes graphical codes introduced on the surface of the shell.
US10274490B2
The present invention provides novel methods of magnetically labeling a bacterial cell by contacting the call with an affinity ligand and subsequently contacting the cell with a magnetic agent, where the affinity ligand and magnetic agent include bioorthogonally reactive groups that can react with each other to form a covalent bond. Compounds, compositions, kits and applications of the method are also described.
US10274487B2
The invention provides a platform technology with rich ability to flexibly perform, create, deploy, maintain, and update a wide range of panels, assay, array, and/or sequence of tests for a wide range of substances and pathogens. The invention provides a unifying framework for widely-ranging miniature sensor implementation, fluidic/gas interfacing, electrical interfaces and optical interfaces, and further by collocating, allowing the integration a large number highly-selective sensors and chemical sensors—together as needed with appropriately selected supplemental sensors (for example temperature, pH, selective ions, etc.), into a common readily-manufacturable framework. The diverse sensor arrays give rise to statistical enhancing through novel statistical processing approaches. The invention is deployable and useable in a wide range of situations previously unavailable, and addresses many otherwise problematic aspects of field testing for food safety, water safety, epidemic outbreaks, routine diagnosis, and disease monitoring.
US10274483B2
Disclosed are systems for measuring the concentration of a disaccharide in an aqueous medium, the system comprising a boronic acid derivative and a fluorescent molecule. Also disclosed are methods of determining gastrointestinal permeability in a subject, the method comprising contacting an aqueous medium obtained from a subject with the above system to obtain a mixture, where the patient has consumed a known quantity of a disaccharide; measuring the fluorescence emission of the mixture; and correlating the extent of fluorescence emission to the concentration of the disaccharide in the aqueous medium; and correlating the concentration of the disaccharide in the aqueous medium to the gastrointestinal permeability in the subject. Also disclosed are methods of determining the concentration of a disaccharide in an aqueous medium, the method comprising contacting the aqueous medium comprising the disaccharide with the above system to obtain a mixture; measuring the fluorescence emission of the mixture; and correlating the extent of fluorescence emission to the concentration of the disaccharide in the aqueous medium.
US10274473B2
The present invention relates to a sensor for sensing hydrogen. The sensor of the present invention comprises: a core which reacts with hydrogen to change a resistance value; at least two electrodes connected to the core; and a variable resistor which is connected to at least one of the two electrodes and of which the resistance value changes in response to a control signal, wherein the core includes palladium having a thin film shape, and graphene which is applied on the palladium and has a thin film shape.
US10274468B2
A method for testing for the presence of a trivalent chromium conversion coating on a metal substrate is provided. According to one embodiment, the method comprises contacting a surface of the metal substrate with at least one solvent to generate a test solution, adding an indicator capable of detecting zirconium to the test solution in an amount sufficient to induce a color change of the test solution if zirconium is present in the test solution, and determining whether a color change indicating the presence of the conversion coating occurs in the test solution.
US10274467B2
The inventive concepts relate to a member for a gas sensor, a gas sensor using the same and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, to a member for a gas sensor using a one-dimensional metal oxide nanofiber complex material containing hetero nanoparticle catalysts synthesized using apo-ferritins, a gas sensor using the same, and a manufacturing method thereof.According to embodiments of the inventive concepts, apo-ferritins containing hetero nanoparticle catalysts are mixed with an electrospinning solution, the mixture solution is electrospun to form complex nanofibers, and then a high-temperature thermal treatment process is performed to remove the apo-ferritins. Thus, the hetero nanoparticle catalysts are uniformly fastened to an inside and a surface of one-dimensional metal oxide nanofibers to form a member for a gas sensor. As a result, the member for a gas sensor has a high-sensitivity characteristic capable of sensing a very small amount of a gas and excellent selectivity capable of sensing various gases. In addition, a catalyst effect is maximized by the hetero nanoparticle catalysts uniformly distributed without aggregation. Furthermore, the member for a gas sensor and the gas sensor using the same can be mass-produced by a process method capable of effectively forming pores and of fastening high-performance catalysts.
US10274465B2
The invention provides an apparatus for polymer chromatography, comprising at least one column that comprises a first stationary phase comprising one of the following: A) a material comprising at least one non-carbon atom, excluding glass or a metal, selected from molybdenum sulfide MoS2, tungsten sulfide WS2, silicon carbide SiC, boron nitride BN, or combinations thereof, or B) glass, or a metal, or combinations thereof, and a material comprising at least one non-carbon atom selected from molybdenum sulfide MoS2, tungsten sulfide WS2, silicon carbide SiC, boron nitride BN, or combinations thereof. The invention also provides a method for polymer chromatography, comprising introducing a solution, comprising a polymer, into a liquid flowing through a first stationary phase, and wherein the first stationary phase comprises one of foregoing materials (A) or (B).
US10274463B2
Analytical-scale separation column assemblies include a tube with a bore packed with a stationary phase through which a mobile phase flows. In one embodiment, thermal elements are disposed remotely from and unattached to the tube. The thermal elements are in thermal communication with an external surface of the tube for producing a spatial thermal gradient outside of and along a length of the tube. In another embodiment, discrete, spatially separated strips of thermally conductive material are disposed on and wrapped around an external surface of the tube. Thermal elements are disposed remotely from the tube. Each thermal element is in thermal communication with one strip of thermally conductive material by a heat-transfer device. The thermal elements produce a spatial thermal gradient outside of and along a tube length by controlling temperature of each strip of thermally conductive material disposed on and wrapped around the external surface of the tube.
US10274462B2
A device for improving the accuracy and precision of measuring equipment changes due to corrosion, erosion, build-up of material, and combinations thereof. Increased control over the placement and removal of a coupon within the equipment is provided. Embodiments of the coupon provide multiple approaches for such measurements such as e.g., weight changes, thickness changes, inspection and analysis of the contacting surface of the coupon, and combination. Improved measurements with coupons using probes such as e.g., ultrasonic transducers is also described.
US10274461B2
Nanochannel arrays that enable high-throughput macromolecular analysis are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of preparing nanochannel arrays and nanofluidic chips. Methods of analyzing macromolecules, such as entire strands of genomic DNA, are also disclosed, as well as systems for carrying out these methods.
US10274454B2
To measure target component concentration in a liquid with higher accuracy without any dedicated apparatus or skill, a method is adapted to include: receiving a successive measurement value obtained by performing successive measurement of the target component concentration with use of a first measurement device immersed in the liquid; receiving a batch measurement value obtained by, with use of a second measurement device, performing batch measurement of the target component concentration in a part sampled from the liquid; and, when the batch measurement value is received, successively calculating a correlation value indicating the correlation between multiple successive measurement values and multiple batch measurement values respectively obtained in mutually corresponding multiple times of successive measurement and multiple times of batch measurement. In addition, the first measurement device is adapted to calculate the target component concentration or correct a successive measurement value with use of the latest correlation value.
US10274448B2
A method and a test fixture for evaluating a weld seam joining an electrode foil element and a terminal of a battery cell include segmenting the weld seam joining the electrode foil element and the terminal into a plurality of zones. For each of the zones, an electrical current is applied between the terminal and the electrode foil element in the zone, and a resistance is determined across the terminal and the electrode foil element in the zone. Integrity of the weld seam is evaluated for each of the zones based upon the resistance between the terminal and the electrode foil element in the zone.
US10274444B2
A device for resistive measurement of the moisture of a material, which is mineral, rigid and which has open porosity, the device including a block of material of which it is desired to measure the resistance variations as a function of its water content, at least two detection electrodes which are rigid, non-oxidising and bare, applied parallel against the material, and sealed on to the latter by a blend of powder of material and lime, wherein each detection electrode is connected to an electronic unit able to generate a measuring current and an electronic unit able to measure the resistance between the said electrodes.
US10274424B2
The present invention provides a Voigt line shape fitting method, including step 1: Calculate a Gauss line shape function and a Lorentz line shape function, and calculate a Voigt line shape function. Step 2: For determined line shape parameters to be fitted, calculate partial derivatives of the Voigt line shape function with respect to the parameters, convert a partial derivative of the Voigt line shape function with respect to a parameter into a partial derivative of the Gauss line shape function or the Lorentz line shape function with respect to the parameter. Step 3: Substitute the Voigt line shape function and the partial derivative of the Voigt line shape function with respect to the parameter to be fitted, into a least squares algorithm step, perform least squares fitting calculation, and determine whether to terminate the least squares fitting calculation or return to step 1 to perform next iterative calculation.
US10274422B2
The present invention is one adapted to correct the effect of a second gas component on a first gas component in real time even when the concentration of the second gas component as a coexistent component varies every moment, and includes: a first gas analysis part adapted to measure the concentration of the first gas component contained in sample gas; a second gas analysis part adapted to measure the concentration of the second gas component contained in the sample gas; a correction coefficient storage part adapted to store a correction coefficient for correcting the effect of the second gas component on the first gas component; and a concentration correction part adapted to correct the first gas component concentration on the basis of the correction coefficient, the second gas component concentration of calibration gas used for calibrating the first gas analysis part, and the second gas component concentration.
US10274418B2
A calibration suspension unit has a container made of a flexible material that is filled with a calibration suspension for the calibration of a turbidity meter. There exists no air supernatant above the calibration suspension in the container. Further, a method for the manufacture of a calibration suspension unit is provided and its use for the calibration of a turbidity meter is described.
US10274414B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory storage medium are disclosed herein for adjusting an output of a particle inspection system representative of a particle characteristic for a particle flowing in a flow-path of a particle processing system. More particularly, the output may be processed and a calibrated output of the particle characteristic generated. In other embodiments, one or more calibration particles are used. Thus, an output of a particle inspection system representative of a particle characteristic for one or more calibration particles flowing in a flow-path of a particle processing system may be compared relative to a standard and an action may be taken based on a result of the comparing the output to the standard.
US10274407B2
A method according to the present invention, it is possible to accurately measure the stretch-flangeability of sheet metal materials without size effects even when a small amount of specimen is used, compared with the stretch-flangeability established as an international standard, and to measure the stretch-flangeability in the local region. The method according to the present invention includes (a) performing a computer simulation of a small-scale specimen having a predetermined size by using finite element analysis to determine a size of the small-scale specimen; (b) using a standard-scale specimen having the same material as the small-scale specimen specified in the step (a) to perform a punching process specified in the standard testing method; (c) observing a distribution pattern of shearing defects in a hole-edge region of the specimen having performed the punching process, and evaluating a hole expansion ratio; (d) comparing the hole expansion ratio and the distribution pattern of shearing defects between the small-scale specimen and the standard-scale specimen to verify measurement reliability for the stretch-flangeability of the small-scale specimen; and (e) using the size of the small-scale specimen having verified the measurement reliability to evaluate stretch-flangeability.
US10274399B2
Determining a gear dynamic transmission error may include calculating a collision time interval via parameter values, such as an angular velocity of an input shaft measured by an angle coder, a drag torque of an output shaft provided by a magnetic powder brake, a gear backlash, and angular displacements of the input shaft and the output shaft and comparing a relative displacement contained with the gear backlash, until a value of the relative displacement of the comparison falls within an appropriate interval and meets requirements. In this way, a transmission error with relatively high accuracy may be obtained.
US10274394B2
There are provided a fluid-path tester and a fluid-path testing-method capable of performing classification of abnormal-modes into a problem in a system, a leakage in a dedicated tube, a problem of a failure in a suppression pressure, and the like, an analysis of the abnormal-modes, and the like in a simplified manner. PAPS valves are included, and an abnormality emulator inspecting an abnormal condition in a fluid path of a DUT by emulating characteristics of the fluid-circuit represented by each of a plurality of abnormal-modes having possibilities of occurring in the fluid path of the DUT through pressurization of a fluid pressure using a compressor-under-test and adjustment of the fluid pressure using the PAPS valves.
US10274389B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has stored therein a material evaluating program. The material evaluating program includes a first program code and a second program code. The first program code causes a computer to evaluate, in units of pages included in a material, an object impression degree for each of all objects included in each of the pages, the object impression degree indicating the strength of an impression made by the object included in the page. The second program code causes the computer to display an evaluation result about the object impression degrees obtained by executing the first program code.
US10274387B2
A pressure sensing device including a light source, at least one resonant structure, a cladding body, a first substrate and a second substrate is provided. The light source is configured to provide an original broadband light. The resonant structure includes a plurality of semiconductor rod structures arranged into a row at intervals along a single arranging direction, and each of the semiconductor rod structures has a lattice constant on the arranging direction. The original broadband light is transmitted between the semiconductor rod structures, and a resonant light is produced, wherein each of the semiconductor rod structures has a length perpendicular to the arranging direction and has a width parallel to the arranging direction, the length and the width are less than the wavelength of the resonant light. The cladding body completely covers the semiconductor rod structures of the at least one resonant structure. The cladding body and the at least one resonant structure are interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. When a pressure is applied on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the pressure is transmitted to the cladding body along a direction perpendicular to the arranging direction, a deformation corresponding to the pressure is occurred on the cladding body and the semiconductor rod structures on the arranging direction, and a wavelength of the resonant light is changed according to the deformation. Besides, a pressure sensing apparatus is also provided.
US10274381B2
The present techniques are directed to a pipeline transporting a production fluid including hydrocarbon. An optical fiber is disposed along a length of the pipeline. A control system determines a predicted operating temperature based on pressure and flow rate of the production fluid in the pipeline. The control system determines a measured temperature along the pipeline using the optical fiber. The control system detects and locates a temperature anomaly by comparing the measured temperature of the pipeline to the predicted operating temperature.
US10274376B2
A system for testing thermal response time of an uncooled infrared focal plane detector array and a method therefor is provided. The system comprises: a blackbody, a chopper, a detector unit under test and a testing system. The method comprises: emitting radiation by the blackbody, chopping by the chopper, then radiating the radiation to the uncooled infrared focal plane detector array under test; generating different responses on the radiation at different chopping frequencies by the uncooled infrared focal plane detector array under test; collecting different response values of the uncooled infrared focal plane detector array under test at different chopping frequencies; obtaining response amplitude at a corresponding frequency in a frequency domain by FFT; fitting according to a formula Rv ( f ) = Rv ( 0 ) 1 + ( 2 π f τ ) 2 to obtain the thermal response time.
US10274368B2
A method of defining a software configuration for a hyperspectral imaging apparatus includes: creating a plurality of different functionalities, each based on at least one wavelength range; storing one or more of the created functionalities into a hyperspectral image processing model; generating a hyperspectral application for a specific hardware implementation of the hyperspectral imaging apparatus by configuring the hyperspectral application to utilize one or more of the created functionalities of the hyperspectral image processing model; and setting a selection of wavelengths as a control parameter in the hyperspectral application for controlling the specific hardware implementation of the hyperspectral imaging apparatus during an image capture. The selection of wavelengths is based on the wavelength ranges of the utilized one or more created functionalities.
US10274362B2
The invention discloses a measuring device for measuring the mass of a weight, comprising: a main frame; a main beam supported on main frame; a balancing system loaded on one end of the main beam; a weighting system, loaded on the other end of the main beam; a weight transportation system capable of transporting and loading a standard weight or a test weight into the weighting system and capable of unloading and transporting them away from the weighting system; and a control system comprising an optical sensor mounted in the main frame, a laser displacement sensor mounted on the main beam, a monitor, and a control unit connected electrically to the optical sensor, the laser displacement sensor and the monitor. The control system is adapted to compare a main beam first displacement data obtained by the optical sensor and a main beam second displacement data obtained by the laser displacement sensor to accurately measure the actual displacement of the main beam.
US10274359B2
A load cell assembly, including an adapter adapted to receive a vertical load, and having loaded and unloaded dispositions; a load cell body including a spring element having a first cutout window defined by a top beam and a bottom beam, the window transversely disposed through the body, the spring element adapted such that responsive to a downward force exerted on a top face of the adapter, the beams assume a primary double-bending configuration; a strain-sensing gage, attached to the spring element, the strain-sensing gage for measuring strain in the spring element; and an at least two-dimensional flexural member having a second cutout window, the second cutout window being transversely disposed through the body; the adapter disposed in mechanical relation to the flexural member such that, in the loaded disposition of the adapter, the flexural member assumes a secondary, substantially double-bending configuration.
US10274351B2
A method of making a sensor assembly for a vortex flowmeter includes securing a vortex sensor to a vortex sensor housing. The vortex sensor housing is secured to a sensor body that is configured to seal a process penetration opening to limit flow of process fluid out of the flowmeter through the process penetration opening. A pair of pressure-responsive diaphragms is secured to the vortex sensor housing such that the pressure-responsive diaphragms face outwardly from opposite sides of the housing and such that the vortex sensor is positioned to detect motion of at least one of the pressure-responsive diaphragms. A mounting hole is made in the sensor body spaced apart from the vortex sensor housing. A temperature sensor housing is secured to the sensor body through the mounting hole. A temperature sensor is inserted in the temperature sensor housing for sensing a temperature of the process fluid.
US10274335B2
The systems and methods disclosed herein are directed to providing a notification of a presence of an occupant in a vehicle before arriving at a destination. In an illustrative embodiment, the vehicle may include a location system for tracking routes taken or traveled by the vehicle. The vehicle may include a detection system for determining whether the occupant is in the vehicle along those routes traveled by the vehicle. The vehicle may also include a notification system. The notification system may store the routes traveled by the vehicle with and without the occupant in the vehicle. The notification system may provide a notification when a route is taken with the occupant and the route is not associated with the occupant based on the historical patterns of the routes traveled by vehicle with and without the occupant.
US10274322B2
A method of tracing a position of a pipeline using a mapping probe includes: inserting and moving the mapping probe in a pipeline; receiving and keeping acceleration information and angular information in real time in a memory; estimating Euler angle (roll and pitch); estimating Euler angle (roll, pitch, and yaw); estimating a system modeling; estimating and applying covariance of system noise and covariance of measured noise; estimating three-dimensional position information modeling; receiving and keeping movement distance information of the mapping probe from an encoder in a memory; estimating and keeping in real time three-dimensional position information of the mapping probe in the memory; receiving the accumulated real-time three-dimensional position information of the mapping probe; mapping the accumulated real-time three-dimensional position information of the mapping probe to geographic information; and displaying the accumulated position information of the mapping probe mapped to the geographic information on a display unit.
US10274321B2
There is provided a mobile device comprising a geomagnetic sensor configured to detect a geomagnetic value, and at least one controller configured to perform a notification for a user using a predetermined device when it determines that a pattern of a change of the geomagnetic value matches with a predetermined geomagnetic pattern.
US10274316B2
A system is disclosed that comprises a camera module and a control and evaluation unit. The camera module is designed to be attached to the surveying pole and comprises at least one camera for capturing images. The control and evaluation unit has stored a program with program code so as to control and execute a functionality in which a series of images of the surrounding is captured with the at least one camera; a SLAM-evaluation with a defined algorithm using the series of images is performed, wherein a reference point field is built up and poses for the captured images are determined; and, based on the determined poses, a point cloud comprising 3D-positions of points of the surrounding can be computed by forward intersection using the series of images, particularly by using dense matching algorithm.
US10274309B2
Provided is a sensor head that can be miniaturized without compromising the measurement accuracy. A case of the sensor head includes a first case part and a second case part respectively having a substantially cylindrical shape with an axis, i.e., optical axis, as a central axis and being opened at an end part, and a connection member having a substantially annular shape with the axis as a central axis. The first case part and the second case part are connected to each other by screwing female thread parts and respectively formed on the inner circumferential surfaces thereof to a male thread part of the connection member.
US10274307B2
A film thickness measurement device includes a light source, an imaging component, and a controller. The controller estimates unknown variables I1(j), I20(j), k(j), and t(i) based on the Formula (1), where i represents an observation point number of an interference image captured by the imaging component, j represents a number for a type of wavelength of monochromatic light, λ(j) represents wavelength of the monochromatic light, n represents a refractive index of a semi-transparent film, g(i,j) represents a brightness value observed at an observation point, I1(j) represents an intensity of reflected light from a front face of the semi-transparent film, I20(j) represents an intensity of reflected light from a rear face of the semi-transparent film when there is no absorption of light in the semi-transparent film, k(j) represents an absorption coefficient of the semi-transparent film, and t(i) represents a film thickness of the semi-transparent film.
US10274299B2
A gauging machine for inspecting bore diameters of a workpiece includes a reference fixture, a first wide range bore gauge arranged on a first three-dimensional positioning apparatus to facilitate inspection of a first set of bores aligned along parallel axes, and a second wide range bore gauge arranged on a second three-dimensional positioning apparatus to facilitate inspection of one bore or a plurality of bores aligned along parallel axes. The gauging machine facilitates inspection of bores on a plurality of different workpieces having different overall dimensions, a different number of bores, different positioning of bores, and/or different size bores, without requiring retooling of the gauging machine.
US10274291B2
A luminescent archery target enabling target shooting in low light conditions. At least a portion of the target is formed from a material that glows in the dark for long durations, such as a strontium-based luminescent composition. Example target configurations include a non-luminescent core and an outer layer applied over at least a portion of the core, wherein the outer layer includes the luminescent material. The target can be configured as a three-dimensional block, as a model of a game animal, or in other shapes and sizes.
US10274282B2
An archery draw stop system and method are disclosed herein. The archery draw stop system, in an embodiment, includes a limb engager configured to be mounted to a limb portion of a limb of an archery bow. The archery draw stop system also has a draw stopper portion configured to engage a member that is coupled to a rotary of the archery bow.
US10274279B2
A firearm adapter that can attach to a rail secured to a firearm barrel and can quickly, accurately, securely, and concentrically attach a suppressor or suppressor extension to the firearm barrel even when the firearm barrel includes a muzzle device, such as a flash hider. The adapter is tool-less and attaches a suppressor or other muzzle device to a variety of rail equipped firearms with different geometries while providing strong securement and proper alignment.
US10274272B1
A firearm slide assist device is disclosed with a handle having a grasping end and a cam end with an upper tine and a lower tine. The firearm slide assist device further includes a securing arm for connection to the cam end, and a fastening device for fastening the securing arm within the upper tine and the lower tine of the cam end.
US10274263B2
A system for cooling a device includes a heat sink comprising a substrate having a plurality of fins arranged thereon, a fan positioned to direct an ambient fluid in a first direction across the heat sink, and a first synthetic jet assembly comprising one of a multi-orifice synthetic jet and a plurality of single orifice synthetic jets. The first synthetic jet assembly is configured to direct the ambient fluid in a second direction across the heat sink, wherein the second direction is approximately perpendicular to the first direction.
US10274261B2
A heat exchanging board (1) and a board-type heat exchanger provided with the heat exchanging board (1). The heat exchanging board (1) comprises a board main body (11). Multiple recessed portions (12) and multiple raised portions (13) are disposed on the surface of the board main body (11). The multiple recessed portions (12) and the multiple raised portions (13) are disposed in a staggered manner along a first direction (S1) and are disposed in a staggered manner along a second direction (S2) perpendicular to the first direction (S1). Top portions of the multiple raised portions (13) are provided slender forms along the first direction (S1). The heat exchanging board (1) and the board-type heat exchanger provided with the heat exchanging board (1) can ensure good strength of the heat exchanger in the case of ensuring the heat exchanging efficiency, and can reduce manufacturing cost of the heat exchanging board (1).
US10274260B2
The invention provides methods and devices for heating or cooling viscous materials such as meal emulsions useful for producing food and other products. The devices include a heat exchanger comprising a first plate, a second plate attached to the first plate, and a first spacer and a second spacer arranged between the first plate and the second plate. The first plate, the second plate, the first spacer, and the second spacer define at least one temperature controlled passage for a product to pass through the heat exchanger.
US10274257B2
The present invention is directed to a method for preparing a permanent magnet, and more specifically, to a method for preparing a high-performance sintered Nd—Fe—B permanent magnet, in order to solve the problems of increased brittleness or high cost present in the permanent magnet prepared by the existing process. A method for preparing a sintered Nd—Fe—B permanent magnet includes the step of ingredient calculation and raw material preparation including calculating ingredients and preparing raw materials according to the ingredient formula of the resultantly sintered Nd—Fe—B permanent magnet, and dividing the raw materials into a rare earth Fe—B compound and rare earth metals.
US10274247B2
Disclosed herein is a refrigerator having an inner case, a storage compartment formed in the inner case, an outer case provided outside the inner case, an inner frame coupled to an outer surface of the inner case to support the inner case, an outer frame coupled to an inner surface of the outer case to support the outer case, and a vacuum insulation panel provided between the inner case and the outer case to insulate the storage compartment and supported by the inner frame and the outer frame. The refrigerator can be assembled without foaming insulation and maintain rigidity.
US10274245B2
A heat exchange unit includes a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger and a water guiding member. The first heat exchanger has a first heat exchange part exchanging heat between a refrigerant flowing in an interior and air passing an exterior. The second heat exchanger has a second heat exchange part disposed below the first heat exchange part and exchanging heat between the refrigerant flowing in an interior and air passing an exterior. The second heat exchanger is integrated with the first heat exchanger. The water guiding member is disposed between the first heat exchange part and the second heat exchange part and guides condensation water generated on the first heat exchange part to the second heat exchange part. The heat exchange unit is preferably part of a refrigeration device that has a two element compression mechanism, an intermediate refrigerant pipe, and a switching mechanism.
US10274242B2
A refrigerator appliance is provided including a freezer chamber divided into a first compartment and a second compartment by a removable mullion. A refrigeration system includes a single evaporator coil having a first evaporator section in series with a second evaporator section. The first evaporator section is positioned in the first freezer compartment to maintain the temperature in that compartment at a fixed, low temperature (e.g., 0° F.). The second evaporator section is positioned in the second freezer compartment which is a “convertible” compartment capable of maintaining temperatures between the freezer and fresh food compartment temperatures (e.g., between about 0° F. and 37° F.).
US10274237B2
An ice maker includes a plurality of fingers extending into a tub. A manifold has a plurality of outlets. The plurality of outlets is positioned below the plurality of fingers within the tub. A multi-speed pump is operable to flow liquid water from a reservoir to the manifold such that the liquid water exits the manifold at each outlet of the plurality of outlets and flows upwardly towards the plurality of fingers. A controller is configured for changing a speed of the multi-speed pump during an ice making cycle of the ice maker.
US10274233B2
Generally, apparatuses, systems, and methods are described that are directed to accessing liquid refrigerant from an evaporator to source a refrigerant pump and pump line to cool and lubricate such moving parts that may be part of the compressor, for example the compressor motor and the compressor bearings, and/or for cooling drives such as an adjustable or variable frequency drive.
US10274216B2
An under-floor HVAC system for a building includes a pliable air duct lying upon a subfloor. A matrix of pedestals resting upon and extending upward from the subfloor supports a set of floor panels, which thus creates a plenum between the subfloor and the set of floor panels. The air duct extends through the plenum to convey conditioned air from a supply air duct to a series of registers in the floor panels. The registers disperse the conditioned air to a room or area just above the panels. To help keep the air duct from repeatedly extending, retracting, and otherwise sliding freely along the subfloor in response to changes in air duct pressure, the air duct is held taut by anchoring a distal downstream end of the duct to one or more of the floor-supporting pedestals. Various air duct configurations can be assembled from a predefined assortment of duct components.
US10274215B2
Disclosed is a hybrid refrigeration full fresh air-conditioning unit, which achieves multistage cooling by means of the combination of a surface cooler cooling system, a refrigerant air-conditioning system and a direct expansion type air-conditioning system. The unit has an outdoor side mainly for cool water supply to a cooler (115) and conducting heat dissipation on a condenser (212) and an indoor side mainly for conducting multistage treatment of air entering a room. The indoor side and the outdoor side are connected to form a whole and are isolated via a panel. The refrigerant air-conditioning system cooperates with one or two of the other systems. Each system can independently operate or simultaneously operate together so that temperature and humidity control for all-weather can be provided, and their operation can be conducted in the most economical and environmental friendly manner under different temperature and humidity condition.
US10274205B2
A cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber (11), the cooking chamber (11) including a bottom wall (12) and a top wall (13), and a gas burner (20) disposed under the bottom wall (12) of the cooking chamber (11). The bottom wall (12) includes an opening (12a) opposite the gas burner (20). The cooking appliance (10) includes a plate (30) disposed in the cooking chamber (11), above the gas burner (20), a space between the plate (30) and the bottom wall (12) forming a passage (34) for flow of the burnt gases coming from the gas burner (20). Use in particular for placing a receptacle (40) on the plate (30) and to obtain even cooking of the food by radiation, convection and conduction.
US10274204B2
A food cooking oven having an enclosure, which defines a cooking compartment and a door, which is movable between an open position and a closed position, is disclosed. The door door may include a first panel, a second panel, which in a closed configuration has a greater distance from the compartment than the first panel. Additionally, a first and a second body for supporting the first and second panels is included. A profile is included, which is movable between a first position retaining the first panel and a second position permitting removal of the first panel from the door. A push-push type connector is included to retain the profile to the door.
US10274198B2
A handheld computer case having an integral lighter for providing a flameless lighter in a case for a mobile phone includes a case body defining a rigid housing sized to fit a conventional handheld computer, a lighter actuator for selectively availing and activating an electric lighter, and a lighter housing in which the electric lighter is disposed. In operation, a user may apply manual force to mechanically actuate the lighter actuator, thereby causing both the lighter housing to open and expose the electric lighter and an electrical switch to direct electricity from an internal battery to a heating element which defines the electric lighter. Once the user is finished with the lighter, the manual force may be removed to cause the lighter housing to automatically close and the flow of electricity to the heating element to be interrupted.
US10274196B2
A combustion controlling system according to the present invention provides a signal path for transmitting the normal combustion signal SB output from the master device to the transmission line through cascade-connected slave devices. Then, the combustion controlling system determines whether each of the slave devices outputs the normal combustion signal SB to the subsequent device based on whether there is a flame of the corresponding burner, or not, during the combustion of burners, and the master device closes a safety shutoff valve on the condition that an input of a normal combustion signal SBo from a transmission line is stopped.
US10274184B2
A dust prevention and heat dissipation module for a color wheel and a light source system employing the same. The color wheel is sealed in a color wheel housing which has an air inlet and an air outlet. The dust prevention and heat dissipation module has a leading-in air channel in communication with the air inlet of the housing, a leading-out air channel in communication with the air outlet of the housing, a filtering device at an inlet of the leading-in air channel and an outlet of the leading-out air channel, and a fan which circulate the air via the leading-in air channel and the leading-out air channel. The air flow caused by the fan realizes heat dissipation of the color wheel, and the filtering device filters the air flowing through the color wheel housing, thereby reducing the amount of dust adhered to the surface of the color wheel.
US10274183B2
The present disclosure relates to a lighting fixture that is configured to transfer heat that is generated by a light source and any associated electronics toward the front of the lighting fixture. The lighting fixture includes a heat spreading cup that is formed from a material that efficiently conducts heat and a light source that is coupled inside the heat spreading cup. The heat spreading cup has a bottom panel, a rim, and at least one sidewall extending between the bottom panel and the rim. The light source is coupled inside the heat spreading cup to the bottom panel and configured to emit light in a forward direction through an opening formed by the rim. Heat generated by the light source during operation is transferred radially outward along the bottom panel and in a forward direction along the at least one sidewall toward the rim of the heat spreading cup.
US10274181B2
An lighting unit including a mounting board and first and second LEDs coupled to the mounting board. First and second optic components are coupled to the mounting board and enclose the LEDs. First and second shield members are respectively associated with the first and second LEDs.
US10274177B2
A lamp module includes a rotatable base, a mount, a light emitter, and an optic. The base includes a plate and a projection extending from the plate. The mount is rotatably connected to the projection. The light emitter is connected to the mount. The optic is positioned over the light emitter. The light module can be used with a housing to form a luminaire.
US10274170B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of luminaires. More specifically, the present disclosure envisages a drain arrangement for use with a luminaire that is supported on a wiring conduit via a junction box. The arrangement includes a hood coupled with the junction box via a connecting conduit, wherein connection cables from the wiring conduit are received within the hood via the connecting conduit and the junction box. An adaptor extends from the hood and the luminaire. The adaptor is defined by a sidewall extending from the luminaire and has an operative top surface configured on an operative top periphery of the sidewall. The adaptor further includes an annular inner sidewall configured to circumscribe an electric connection of the luminaire. A drain conduit extends from the adaptor and is configured to drain out the fluid collected within the adaptor outside of the annular inner sidewall.
US10274168B2
A light emitting device includes a mounting board on which a plurality of light sources are disposed; a partitioning member surrounding the light sources and including a plurality of walls that include top parts and form a plurality of areas; a diffuser sheet that is provided above the partitioning member and is supported directly or indirectly by at least one of the top parts of the partitioning member; a plurality of first reflectors that are provided directly above the light sources and are positioned on one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the diffuser sheet; and a second reflector that is provided directly above the top parts and is positioned on one of the upper surface and the lower surface of the diffuser sheet.
US10274165B2
A backlight module includes a housing, a lighting curtain, a light source, and a diffusion plate. The housing includes a base plate and a side wall inclined relative to the base. The lighting curtain is disposed in the housing, and includes a central portion separated from the base plate, and an edge portion inclined relative to the central portion. The edge portion is connected to the side wall. The light source is disposed on the base plate, and located under the central portion. The diffusion plate is located on the lighting curtain, and separated from the central portion. The edge of the diffusion plate is connected to the side wall.
US10274160B2
Disclosed is an LED luminaire, comprising a housing positionable at a building structure location. The housing has at least one light output boundary and configured to direct light therein toward the light output boundary. A light guide configured to be located at the light output boundary to receive light operationally contained within the housing, so as to emit non-directional light at the light output boundary. At least one first LED light engine is located within the housing, the at least one first LED light engine including at least one first LED light source to emit directional light at the light output boundary.
US10274159B2
Lenses and methods for directing light toward a side of light fixture, and methods for manufacturing the same, are disclosed. Embodiments include lenses with an optical axis and a first (e.g., upper) portion that is rotationally symmetric about the optical axis and a second (e.g., lower) portion that is rotationally asymmetric. The first/upper portion can include a cavity that receives an LED and directs light toward the second/lower portion. The asymmetric side can include a convex surface where the light exits the lens, the convex surface extending across the optical axis. Additional embodiments include a planar surface adjacent the convex surface, where the height of the lens decreases along the portion of the convex surface near the planar surface and along the planar surface as the distance from the optical axis increases. In further embodiments, the maximum height of the lens occurs between two horizontal sides of the lens.
US10274156B2
A light guiding optical system comprising a light guide at least partially formed of an optically transparent material and a light source situated on an input surface of the light guide. The light guide comprises on its front side an output surface for the output of light rays conducted through and out of the light guide, and on its rear side a tooth-like structure to unbind light rays through the output surface out of the light guide. The light guiding optical system further comprises a reflector at least partially formed of an optically transparent material, positioned near the tooth-like structure, and comprising at least two reflective surfaces configured to totally reflect light rays that have escaped from the light guide through the tooth-like structure and to return them to the light guide.
US10274155B2
A mirror device for motor vehicles is provided comprising a main housing and a light guide associated with a light source and attached to the main housing. The light guide extends in at least one portion through the main housing defining at least one housing adapted for receiving the light source. The main housing may comprise a cover and a case; and a housing body may be fitted between the light guide and the cover. The light source housing may be formed at any portion of the length of the light guide.
US10274154B2
A laser unit (11) for a vehicle headlight has a laser diode (12) that is associated with adjustable collimating optics (13) for the laser light emitted by the laser diode. The collimating optics (13), which comprise at least one optical component, e.g., a lens (14), are arranged at a distance, in a longitudinal direction (x), from the laser diode (12), this distance being adjustable by an adjusting device (20). The adjusting device comprises a carrier (24), which is adjustable in the longitudinal direction relative to the laser diode (12) with the help of longitudinal actuation means (21), and in which the optical component (14) is mounted so that it can pivot transverse to the longitudinal direction (x) in a holder (23).
US10274149B2
A battery-operated pendant beacon light comprises a base housing forming a lens, an upper housing coupled to the base housing, a battery compartment coupled to the upper housing and extending into the base housing, a rotatable switch coupled to a top of the upper housing with a hook assembly coupled to the dimmer switch. A plurality of lights is coupled to the upper housing and shine light into the lower housing.
US10274148B2
A lighting fixture having an adjustable collar for accommodating different ceiling thicknesses is provided. The lighting fixture preferably includes a light module, a plaster frame, first and second support arms extending from the plaster frame, a U-shaped support assembly, an adjustment assembly for coupling the support assembly to the first and second support arms, and the collar. The adjustment assembly enabling the support assembly and the adjustable collar to be selectively movable along an axis perpendicular to the plaster frame. The adjustment assembly being configured so that, in a first configuration, the support assembly along with the light module and the collar are movable along the axis, and in a second configuration, the support assembly along with the light module and the collar are fixed to the first and second support arms so that a bottom end of the collar extends beyond a bottom surface of the plaster frame.
US10274143B2
A light emitting device including: a substrate; first and second light emitting units disposed on the substrate separate from each other and respectively including first and second light emitting diodes, on which first and second wavelength converters are respectively disposed; first and second bonding layers interposed between the substrate and the first and second light emitting units, respectively; a sidewall disposed surrounding and adjoining side surfaces of the first and second light emitting units; and a filler evenly disposed in the sidewall and capable of reflecting light from the first and second light emitting units, wherein the substrate includes plurality electrodes, wherein a first portion of the sidewall directly contacts both of the first light emitting diode and the second light emitting diode, and wherein a second portion of the sidewall separates and directly contacts the first wavelength converter and the second wavelength converter.
US10274142B2
A backlight device includes LEDs, a light guide plate, an LED substrate, an optical sheet, and a low light-transmissive member. The light guide plate includes a light entering end surface, a light exiting plate surface, and an opposite plate surface. The LED substrate is disposed such that at least a section of the LED substrate overlaps a light entering-side edge section that is an edge section of the light guide plate on the light entering end surface side. The optical sheet includes a light entering-side edge section overlapping section disposed on the light exiting plate surface side of the light guide plate to overlap the light entering-side edge section. The low light-transmissive member disposed on the light entering-side edge section overlapping section of the optical sheet. The low light-transmissive member has a light transmissivity lower than that of other sections of the optical sheet.
US10274115B2
A pipe joint assembly including a first pipe element, a second pipe element, a pair of segments, each segment defining a first end and a second end, each first end comprising a tongue and each second end comprising a groove, each groove defining a groove shoulder surface, the tongue of the one segment defining a tongue outer surface, the tongue outer surface of the tongue of the one segment angled at a non-zero angle relative to the groove shoulder surface in an assembled and untightened position, the tongue outer surface of the tongue positioned parallel and flush to the groove shoulder surface of the groove of the second segment in an assembled and tightened condition; and a pair of fasteners configured to deflect each segment around the first pipe element and the second pipe element in the assembled and tightened condition.
US10274110B1
The present invention relates to the field of locking fasteners for pipes, in particular to an S-shaped locking fastener structure comprising a locking fastener body which is provided with a vertical fastening plate, wherein extension rods, through which the length of the fastening plate is adjusted, are connected in the middle of the fastening plate. The S-shaped locking fastener structure according to the present invention is convenient to assemble and disassemble, and can be fastened to the pipes without screw fixation. Moreover, the locking fastener has a wide application range, and angles of upper and lower edges thereof can be designed into multiple angles according to different needs, so that the angles for fastening a box body are diversified.
US10274106B2
A pullhead includes a housing that has a first end and a second end. The housing is separable between a first body and a second body. The first and second bodies are pivotally coupled at a joint and the first and second bodies together define an interior pocket of the housing. The interior pocket has an interior pocket width. The pullhead head includes a pulling feature at the first end. The interior pocket includes an interior retainer flange that has an inner width and is disposed within the interior pocket. The inner width is less than the interior pocket width. The first body and second body are pivotable relative to each other around an axis at the joint that is transverse to a pulling direction.
US10274088B2
Some embodiments may include a closure element for a vacuum valve that may be configured, for example, for the gastight closing of a process volume by means of cooperation with a vacuum valve opening of the vacuum valve. In some embodiments, the closure element may include a first sealing surface, corresponding to a second sealing surface of the vacuum valve opening, wherein the second sealing surface surrounds the vacuum valve opening, and a sealing material vulcanized onto the first sealing surface and in accordance with its course and having a defined height in the direction of the surface normal of the first sealing surface. In some embodiments, the sealing material may have a defined shape with respect to a sealing material cross section, comprising a first seal portion, provided on the process volume side, and a second seal portion, provided, in particular, facing away from the process volume.
US10274081B2
A stator assembly of a hydrokinetic torque converter includes a stator rotatable about an axis and having a radially outer stator belt, an annular stator hub disposed radially within the radially outer stator belt, at least one fixed post extending radially outwardly between the stator hub and the stator belt and fixed thereto so as to non-moveably secure the stator belt to the stator hub, and a plurality of pivotable stator blades extending radially outwardly between the stator hub and the stator belt and configured to pivot relative to both the stator hub and the stator belt in the direction orthogonal to the rotational axis.
US10274076B2
Provided is a jointed component (A) in which a first member (10) and a second member (20) in which a pillar (22) stands erect on a surface of a base (21) are fixed to each other, the second member. The jointed component includes the first member and the second member including the base and the pillar disposed on the first surface of the base. The pillar is brought into contact with the first member in an axial direction. The second member includes a positioning surface (23) that has a height difference from an end surface of the second member in the axial direction and the second member includes a curved surface at a ridge between the positioning surface and a side surface of the pillar.
US10274075B2
A hydraulic control apparatus for a vehicle including a first flow path leading oil discharged from a first hydraulic pump to a driving unit, a second flow path leading oil discharged from a second hydraulic pump to a lubrication unit, a flow path switching unit switching a flow path, and a controller controlling the flow path switching unit so as to lead the oil discharged from the second hydraulic pump to the first flow path when inoperation of an accelerator is detected and vehicle speed less than or equal to a predetermined value which is greater than 0 is detected, and to lead the oil discharged from the second hydraulic pump to the lubrication unit when operation of the accelerator is detected or vehicle speed greater than the predetermined value is detected.
US10274074B1
A transfer case having a lubrication guide with an inlet, an outlet and an elongated tubular portion that is disposed between the inlet and the outlet. The lubrication guide is coupled to a drive assembly that transmits rotary power between a pair of output shafts such that the inlet is disposed proximate a first rotary component of the drive assembly to receive splash lubrication (i.e., slung lubrication and/or surge lubrication) therefrom.
US10274060B2
A linear actuator system is provided. The linear actuator system comprises a motor with an output shaft. The output shaft comprises splined features. The linear actuator system also comprises a lead nut with a threaded inner surface. The attachment mechanism has an inner surface configured to functionally engage the splined features. The attachment mechanism also has an outer surface comprising a first and second textured surface. The first textured surface is different from the second textured surface. The lead nut is configured to engage with one of the first and second textured surfaces.
US10274052B2
A multistage transmission device includes a plurality of driving gears provided in a countershaft, a plurality of driven gears meshing with the driving gears, respectively, dog rings that switch mechanical connection or disconnection between the drive shaft and each of the driven gears, and one-way clutches arranged between the countershaft and the driving gears. The one-way clutches transmit rotation of the countershaft to the driving gears when the rotation of the countershaft is faster than the rotation of the driving gears.
US10274048B2
A gear system. The gear system includes a tiered base defining a plurality of circular platforms, wherein each platform includes a distinct diameter. The platforms are arranged in a stacked configuration in order of decreasing diameter from a lowermost platform to an uppermost platform. A plurality of rings are stacked on the platforms, each ring having an inner side with a plurality of gears thereon, wherein each gear is freely rotatable about an axle extending radially inwardly from the inner side of each ring. A ring track is disposed on a lower surface of each ring and a platform track is disposed on an upper surface of each circular platform. Each gear engages both a platform track and a ring track. Each ring increases in rotational speed with respect to a below ring, allowing the gear system to increase the output speed of a motor with minimal loss of torque.
US10274047B2
In a planetary gear device including: a sun gear; a plurality of planet gears; a ring gear; and a tubular support member connected to the ring gear so as to rotate together with the ring gear; an outward flange provided at the ring gear and projecting radially outward and extend over an entire periphery thereof; an wavy inward flange provided at the tubular support member and having a plurality of projection pieces projecting radially inward over an entire periphery thereof, the outward flange and the inward flange are fastened to each other by means of bolts and nuts, and the inward flange has a plurality of recesses formed between the plurality of projection pieces and the plurality of recesses include shallow first recesses and second recesses deeper than the first recesses such that depth of the recesses becomes greater at regular intervals.
US10274040B2
An active damping system for a driveline includes a prop shaft configured to transmit engine power from an engine to a load, a sealed damper housing, and an active damping fluid contained within the sealed damper housing. A viscosity of the active damping fluid is changeable based on a torsional vibration of the prop shaft. The active damping system further includes a piston fixed to a side of the prop shaft and in communication with the active damping fluid. The piston is configured to rotate about an axis of the prop shaft. The system further includes a viscosity changing unit in communication with the active damping fluid, and a controller operatively connected to the viscosity changing unit. The controller is configured to cause the viscosity changing unit to change a viscosity of the active damping fluid. The viscosity of the active damping fluid changes the torsional vibration.
US10274028B2
The present disclosure is configured to include a slip entry determining step of determining, by a controller, whether a driver in a full-lock control releases an accelerator pedal to thereby enter into a micro-slip control; a monitoring step of monitoring, by the controller, whether the release of the clutch occurs, in case of entering into the micro-slip control as a result of performing the slip entry determining step; a control amount adjusting step of resetting a feedback amount of a clutch control torque in the case that the release of the clutch occurs; and a clutch control step of controlling the clutch according to the clutch control torque as reset by the control amount adjusting step to thereby prevent or minimize the release of the clutch.
US10274026B2
Disclosed is a freewheel (4) comprising a first race (38), a second race (40), a clamping gap (46) designed between the first and second race (38, 40), at least one clamping element (48) in the clamping gap (46), and biasing feature (64) for biasing the clamping element (48) into a clamping position within the clamping gap (46), wherein the biasing feature (64) have an accordion spring (66), which is supported directly or indirectly on the first race (38) and which comprises corrugation peaks (70) lying radially outward, corrugation troughs (72) lying radially inward, and a support leg (76) for direct or indirect support on the clamping element (48). In addition, disclosed is a freewheel arrangement (2) comprising such a freewheel (4).
US10274023B2
The present disclosure provides a double clutch assembly and a device for assisting an actuator of the double clutch. The device applies an assistance force to the actuator upon an operation of the actuator. In particular, the double clutch assembly includes first and second actuators which engage or disengage first and second clutches, respectively. The device includes: an elastic member to apply an elastic force; a first transfer portion to transfer the elastic force of the elastic member to the first actuator; and a second transfer portion to transfer the elastic force of the elastic member to the second actuator.
US10274022B2
A clutch structure of a transmission includes: a hub secured to a rotating shaft, a sleeve mounted on the hub so as to slide linearly, a clutch gear to rotate relative to the rotating shaft and integrally formed with a clutch cone, a first friction ring provided between the clutch gear and the hub to be pressed toward the clutch gear, a second friction ring having an inner surface to contact an outer surface of the clutch cone, and a middle cone having an inner surface to contact an outer surface of the second friction ring and an outer surface to contact an inner surface of the first friction ring. Each of the second friction ring and the middle cone is provided with a friction member on at least one of an inner diameter portion and an outer diameter portion each of the second friction ring and the middle cone.
US10274020B2
A joint for coupling two shafts in a vehicle driveline includes a joint part having a bore defining part of a fluid chamber, a boot member coupled to the joint part and defining at least part of the fluid chamber and having a valve portion that has an open state and a closed state, and an insert. The insert may be received adjacent to the boot member and defines at least part of a vent path that communicates the fluid chamber with the valve portion. When the valve portion is in the closed state venting from the vent chamber is inhibited or prevented and when the valve portion is in the open state the vent chamber is communicated with a venting space.
US10274013B2
A bearing assembly for a cam follower assembly for a ram assembly for a metal can production necker includes two or more bearings. Each of the bearing includes an inner ring positioned within an outer ring and a plurality of rolling elements positioned therebetween. The bearing assembly includes a tire press fit on the outer rings of the bearings. The tire has an elongate body portion that extends between a first radially inward projecting shoulder and a second radially inward projecting shoulder. A radially inward facing surface extends between the first radially inward projecting shoulder and the second radially inward projecting shoulder. The first radially inward projecting shoulder extends further radially inward than the second radially inward projecting shoulder.
US10274011B2
A method of electrodynamically finishing a plain bearing includes electrically separating a bearing housing from a journal shaft with a lubricant disposed on a bearing surface of the bearing housing. The bearing housing or the bearing housing is rotated relative to the other and a voltage differential applied across the bearing housing and the journal shaft. One or more asperities disposed on the bearing surface are eroded with electric discharge events between the journal shaft and the bearing housing. Electrodynamically finished bearing assemblies and reaction/momentum wheel arrangements having such bearing assemblies are also described.
US10274009B2
A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail and a working member. The first rail includes a blocking feature. The second rail is movable relative to the first rail. The working member is configured to be switched between a first state and a second state and includes a first blocking part and a second blocking part. When the second rail is located at an extension position and the working member is in the first state, the first blocking part corresponds to the blocking feature. When the working member is operated to be in the second state, the second blocking part corresponds to the blocking feature, to allow the second rail to be moved from the extension position to a predetermined position, in order to keep a distance between a front part of the second rail and a front part the first rail.
US10274007B2
A hybrid dynamic pressure gas thrust bearing, comprises two outer discs, an inner disc clamped between the two outer discs, and foil type elastic parts arranged between each outer disc and the inner disc; and the two end faces of the inner disc are respectively provided with regular groove-type patterns, and the groove-type pattern in one end face is in mirror symmetry with the groove-type pattern in the other end face. The hybrid dynamic pressure gas thrust provided by the invention has the rigidity characteristic of the high-limit rotating speed of the groove-type dynamic pressure gas thrust bearing, and has the flexible characteristic of the high impact resistance and the load capacity of the foil type dynamic pressure gas thrust bearing, it can meet the application of dynamic pressure gas thrust bearings in ultra high-speed areas under larger loads.
US10273994B1
A display panel includes a frame and a plurality of panels. Each of the panels is attached to the frame by a first spring-latch. The first spring latch is configured to switch between a fastened position and an unfastened position by pressing the panel towards the frame and releasing the panel.
US10273992B2
Disclosed is a panel support including a block and a slide. The block has an aperture therein into which the slide can be inserted and the slide has a flange at or adjacent its distal end. A locking unit is provided actuable to substantially lock the slide in a desired position relative to the block so as to clamp a planar member between the slide and the block. Also described is a mounting system utilizing a plurality of panel supports carrying a planar member.
US10273988B2
A fluid pressure system includes an actuator, an operating valve, and a spool valve. The spool valve is connected to a pressure source and a tank by a pressure source line and a tank line, respectively, and connected to the actuator by a first movement line and a second movement line. The spool valve moves from a neutral position to a movement position by a moving amount corresponding to a pilot pressure outputted from the operating valve, the movement position being a position at which the spool valve allows the pressure source line to communicate with the first movement line and allows the second movement line to communicate with the tank line. A relief line branches off from the second movement line, and the relief line connects to a tank. A variable throttle valve is provided on the relief line.
US10273984B2
A hydraulic system, preferably for actuating and engaging a mobile slurry pump, includes a primary circuit, actuating a first hydraulic consumer, which circuit has a hydraulic drive assembly including at least one motor-driven hydraulic pump. The hydraulic system further includes a secondary circuit, actuating a second hydraulic consumer, which circuit has a second hydraulic drive assembly including at least one additional motor-driven hydraulic pump. In a first operating state, hydraulic oil from a common tank can be admitted to the hydraulic consumers arranged in the primary circuit and in the secondary circuit via the hydraulic drive assemblies thereof, independently of one another. In a second operating state, a portion of the hydraulic oil is supplied from the primary circuit to the secondary circuit to actuate the second consumer.
US10273976B2
An actively morphable vane includes a leading edge, a trailing edge downstream of the leading edge, a tip end, a hub end spaced radially outward from the tip end, a pressure side comprising a pressure surface, and a suction side comprising a suction surface. The pressure surface extends continuously between the tip end, the hub end, the leading edge, and the trailing edge. The suction side is positioned opposite of the pressure side and the suction surface extends continuously between the tip end, the hub end, the leading edge, and the trailing edge. The actively morphable stator vane also includes an actuator in mechanical communication with the tip end. The actuator is operable to selectively morph the actively morphable stator vane between a first configuration and a second configuration. The first configuration is optimized for a first operating condition, and the second configuration is optimized for a second operating condition.
US10273974B2
A centrifugal blower unit for motor vehicle air conditioning systems having a fan wheel (8) in a spiral housing (1), wherein the spiral housing (1) corresponds to the shape of the fan wheel (8) and has a bell mouth region (3) and an axial intake opening (2), wherein a diaphragm (4) is arranged at the bell mouth region (3) of the spiral housing (1), being radially inward, whose diaphragm end region (5) bordering the intake opening (2) has at least one sharp edge.
US10273972B2
A rotating component for a turbine engine includes a main component portion including a web and a platform located at a radially outboard portion of the web, relative to an axis of rotation of the rotating component. A snap surface is located at the platform and is configured to interlock the rotating component with an adjacent rotating component. A transition surface extends from the main component portion to the snap surface and includes two or more different radii.
US10273962B2
A hydraulic system is provided to selectively and independently route pressurized fluid to one or more operational systems of a machine. The hydraulic system is capable of switching fluid flow in operation from one of the operational systems to another of the operational systems in the event of hydraulic drive power being required by the latter one of the operational systems. The hydraulic system is also configured to continue supplying a nominal amount of fluid to support one or more auxiliary functions, for example, a lubrication system for bearings associated with the former one of the operational systems while routing the pressurized fluid to the latter one of the operational systems. A recirculation and anti-cavitation arrangement is also provided to allow recirculation of fluid to a hydraulic motor in the former one of the operational systems when pressurized fluid is being routed to the latter one of the operational systems.
US10273961B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell assembly that includes a plurality of individual fuel cells, each fuel cell having an electrolyte medium, a cathode and an anode; and at least one centrifugal blower system for providing a flow of gaseous medium to the fuel cell assembly. The centrifugal blower system includes a series of blower units, each blower unit in the series comprising a casing having an axial inlet and a radial outlet, an impeller disposed within the casing for drawing a gaseous medium at a first pressure in the axial inlet and expelling gaseous medium at a second higher pressure through the radial outlet, and a motor for driving the impeller; and a duct connecting the radial outlet of at least one blower unit in the series of blower units with the axial inlet of at least one successive blower unit in the series of blower units.
US10273956B2
A vane cell pump for a transmission of a motor vehicle includes a housing. A rotor defines a plurality of slots. The plurality of slots runs radially. A plurality of vanes is arranged in the plurality of slots of the rotor. An end plate is positioned in a bottom area of the housing. The end plate is configured as a fluid guide with a suction channel and a pressure channel. The end plate forms a bottom wall of the housing.
US10273952B2
A pressure packing for a piston rod of a reciprocating compressor includes a case having a piston rod through bore. A compartment within the case is coincident with the through bore and the compartment has an axial length at least as long as a stroke of the piston rod.
US10273936B2
Primary blade modules for a wind turbine blade are provided comprising a first blade shell, two opposed spar caps, and at least one shear web. The first blade shell has a root end and a first coupling end configured to be coupled with a secondary blade module. The two opposed spar caps have respective first spar cap portions extending along the first blade shell substantially from the root end to the first coupling end of the first blade shell, and respective second spar cap portions extending beyond the first coupling end. The at least one shear web extends between the opposed spar caps at least partially along the respective first spar cap portions. Secondary blade modules, systems for transporting primary blade modules, and methods of assembling (in situ) wind turbine blades having a primary blade module and a secondary blade module are also provided in the present disclosure.
US10273934B2
A wind turbine blade comprising a shell and at least a first girder wherein the first girder is connected to an upper part of the shell and a lower part of the shell, and where the wind turbine blade comprises at least one reinforcing member having a first end and a second opposite end. The reinforcing member comprises a first part with the first end and a second part with the second opposite end and that a length adjustment member is arranged between the first and the second part of the reinforcing member, and being adapted for mutually positioning and fixing the first and the second part in at least two different distances from each other.
US10273930B2
A power-take-off system for use in a wave energy converter buoy employs a meshing nut and screw shaft assembly for motion conversion. That is, the motion of the buoy float is coupled to drive the nut along the screw shaft on which it is mounted. The linear movement of the nut along the shaft causes the shaft to rotate and this rotational motion is then coupled to rotate an electrical generator.
US10273927B2
Methods and systems are provided for adjusting an ignition timing of an internal combustion engine responsive to a biasing force of a pressure-reactive piston. In one example, an engine may include a pressure-reactive piston having a top wall biased away from a piston base by a pressure of gas contained within the base. An ignition timing of a combustion chamber including the piston is adjusted responsive to an estimated biasing force of the gas against the top wall.
US10273923B2
A vehicle includes an engine having a combustion cylinder, and at least one fuel injector configured to supply a number of fuel pulse to the cylinder. A controller is programmed to issue a first fuel pulse command to actuate the fuel injector allowing fuel to pass through the fuel injector as a first fuel mass. The controller is also programmed to monitor a voltage across the fuel injector, and determine a preliminary fuel injector opening magnitude based on a rate of change of voltage. The controller is further programmed to assign the preliminary fuel injector opening magnitude as a maximum fuel injector opening magnitude in response to the first fuel mass being greater than a quantity threshold. The controller is further programmed to apply a scaling factor to adjust a second fuel pulse command to normalize the maximum fuel injector opening magnitude value to a predetermined full open value.
US10273922B2
An object of a control method to control a direct injection internal combustion engine that directly injects fuel in a cylinder is to reduce an increase in PN caused by attachment of the fuel to a fuel injection valve distal end. The control method cools the fuel before a fuel temperature when the fuel passes through an injection hole on a fuel injection valve reaches a temperature at which an amount of attached fuel to the fuel injection valve distal end increases.
US10273915B2
Combustion air intake ports are provided on left and right side faces of an upper part of an engine cover. An outer louver is disposed to confront the combustion air intake port, and an inner louver is disposed inward of the outer louver at a predetermined interval to face the outer louver. The combustion air received from the combustion air intake port passes through the outer louver and the inner louver and is guided to the engine unit from the guide hole. In this case, a splash of water is dispersed in the outer louver, and a large-sized water droplet falls down due to its self-weight before the combustion air reaches the inner louver, so that a small-sized water droplet can be collected and removed using inertial impaction at the inner louver. Therefore, it is possible to effectively separate water.
US10273907B2
A method is provided, comprising terminating a pressure rise portion of an engine-off natural vacuum test based on an initial rate of change of a fuel system pressure upon sealing a fuel system; and initiating a vacuum portion of the engine-off natural vacuum test responsive to suspending the pressure rise portion. The initial rate of change may indicate a likelihood of the pressure rise portion reaching a pressure rise threshold. In this way, the vacuum portion of the test may be initiated earlier, increasing the likelihood of a conclusive result being obtained during a test time limit.
US10273904B2
The invention relates to a fairing (37) for a mixer (28) of a nozzle (26) of a dual-flow turbomachine (20), said mixer being of an overall annular shape and extending along a longitudinal axis (24) of the turbomachine, said mixer comprising an upstream part (29) provided with a flange (31) extending radially toward the outside of the mixer, intended to be fastened to an exhaust casing (21) of the turbomachine, and a downstream part (33) forming a flow mixing area, the fairing (37) being of an overall annular shape and configured to extend around the upstream part (29) of the mixer (28) and to be attached to the flange (31) of said upstream part (29), the fairing being without means for fastening to the downstream part (33) of the mixer (28), in such a way as to connect the fairing (37) to the mixer (28) at a distance from the flow mixing area.
US10273900B2
A method to determine reference actuator positions for a gasoline engine, includes entering a base torque request, a known spark advance, a known CAM position and a known exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve position into an inverse torque model to generate a first iteration desired air per cylinder (APC) value. The first iteration desired APC value is passed through a deadband filter to produce a filtered first iteration desired APC signal. A Predicted As Cal (PAC) spark advance is calculated for the filtered first iteration desired APC value. The PAC spark advance and the base torque request are modified, and data from a first lookup table is entered to generate a second iteration desired APC value.
US10273899B2
A method and test device for recognizing detecting whether a mass air flow meter of intake air of an internal combustion engine is defective is provided. In the method and device, a test procedure is executed using a pilot controller while a mixture controller that is used in non-test engine operation is deactivated. The pilot controller for the mixture of fuel and air in the respective cylinders outputs control values which, during normal operation of the internal combustion engine via the mixture control, are varied on the basis of a mixture deviation of the current mixture from a stoichiometric mixture. The engine is set to one or more different idling speeds and at each respective idling speed the mixture deviation is detected. If the detected mixture deviation(s) (i'lA.) satisfy a predetermined criteria thresholds, the air flow meter is identified as defective.
US10273892B2
A fuel supply system for use with an internal combustion engine has a check valve and a purge valve disposed in a purge passage that extends from a canister to connect with an intake passage of the internal combustion engine. A controller regulates the purge valve open with a first opening degree or a first duty ratio during a purge operation. The controller may also regulate the purge valve to open with a second opening degree larger than the first opening degree or a second duty ratio larger than the first duty ratio a predetermined time after initiating the purge operation.
US10273890B2
The internal combustion engine comprises a swirl control valve able to change a strength of a swirl generated in a combustion chamber; a load sensor for detecting an engine load; and a control device for controlling the swirl control valve. The control device controls the swirl control valve, when the engine load detected by the load sensor is lower than a predetermined load, so that the swirl ratio is higher when a suction intake gas amount is increasing, compared to when it is decreasing.
US10273889B2
A method and system of periodically cycling an air shutoff valve, upon a pre-determined length of time elapsing since the last valve cycle; or upon the cumulative run time of an engine since the last valve cycle exceeding a pre-determined value.
US10273888B2
A GDCI engine recirculates exhaust gases to a combustion chamber using desired early injection parameters for a steady state engine operation from a controller. An engine control system detects a load increase relative to the steady state engine operation, and insufficient recirculated exhaust gases to the combustion chamber are delivered in response to the detected load increase as a result of transport delays. A last fuel injection into the combustion chamber during an engine cycle with multiple fuel injections is delayed as compared to the steady state engine operation. Combustion phasing within the combustion chamber is retarded in response to the delayed injection.
US10273886B2
The present invention provides a process for reducing abnormal combustion within a combustion chamber of the engine. The process can include simulation of the piston-driven internal combustion engine with oil droplets from the crankcase entering into the combustion chamber. In addition, the oil drops entering into the combustion chamber can be simulated as hot spots, as can simulation of fuel combustion within the combustion chamber. A probability of pre-ignition for at least a portion of the simulated hot spots as a function of the simulated fuel combustion and the simulated hot spots within the combustion chamber can be calculated and based on the calculation a combustion chamber parameter can be altered such that pre-ignition within the combustion chamber is reduced.
US10273882B2
There is provided a gas turbine system including: a compressing portion; a combustor generating a combustion operation by using first compressed air coming from the compressing portion; a turbine portion generating power by using a combustion gas coming from the combustor; a heat recoverer recovering a heat from a discharge gas of the turbine portion; and a compressed air supplier providing second compressed air to which the heat recovered by the heat recoverer is transferred, wherein at least a portion of the second compressed air to which the heat has been transferred is supplied to at least one of the combustor and the turbine portion.
US10273879B2
Circular propulsion jet compressor-engine, through a circular combustion chambers propellants spheroidal geometry set, generates a tangential push the turning radius and therefore resulting angular momentum about the shaft of the circle in rotation. This impulse is the consequence of the principle of action-reaction, the violent expansion that occurs inside the combustion chamber, when burning mixtures of fuel and oxidizer at high pressure, or by merging a small mass of H2, encapsulated and simultaneously subjected to very high pressure, constant electromagnetic fields and high-frequency electric fields and high peak intensity. The high pressure on the oxidant or H2, is achieved using the force resulting from the centripetal acceleration shaft rotating about a significant mass of a piston, solid or liquid and alternatively or cyclically. The gases and vapors produced are cooled inside the engine. In the combustion reaction, water vapor is condensed and water obtained by, pollution is retained inside the engine.
US10273878B2
A rigid cap is provided for a motor vehicle, in particular, for the engine of a motor vehicle. The rigid cap has a first layer made of a metal material and at least a second layer comprising polyamide 11. Preferably, the second layer is made entirely of polyamide 11 and, even more preferably, entirely covers the first layer. The cap may be a press-fit cap or a threaded cap.
US10273872B2
A charge air cooler (CAC) includes a first header including a first interior portion, a second header spaced from the first header. The second header includes a second interior portion. At least one conduit extends between the first header and the second header. The at least one conduit includes a first end fluidically connected to the first interior portion, a second end fluidically connected to the second interior portion, and an intermediate portion extending therebetween. A heating system is arranged in a heat exchange relationship with the at least one conduit. The heating system is selectively operable to increase a temperature of fluids passing through the at least one conduit into one of the first and second headers.
US10273867B2
A thermal management system includes an electric coolant pump, power source, and controller. The pump is in fluid communication with a heat source and a radiator, and has pump sensors for determining a pump voltage, speed, and current. The battery energizes the sensors. The controller receives the voltage, speed, and current from the sensors, determines a performance of the pump across multiple operating regions, calculates a numeric state of health (SOH) quantifying degradation severity for each of a plurality of pump characteristics across the regions, and executes a control action when the calculated numeric SOH for any region is less than a calibrated SOH threshold. The pump characteristics include pump circuit, leaking/clogging, bearing, and motor statuses. A vehicle includes an engine or other heat source, a radiator; and the thermal management system. The controller may execute a prognostic method for the electric coolant pump in the vehicle.
US10273860B2
Provided is an exhaust apparatus for a vehicle, being capable of performing a normal detection of a nitrogen oxide (NOx) concentration in exhaust gas without involving increase in the size and the cost. The exhaust apparatus includes an exhaust pipe having an upstream end connected to an aftertreatment device and a downstream end enclosing an exhaust port at a position higher than the upstream end, a NOx sensor to be retained in the exhaust pipe, and a water barrier wall provided inside the exhaust pipe. The water barrier wall has a shape to form a shield between the NOx sensor and the exhaust port while leaving a gas inlet that allows the exhaust gas to flow to the NOx sensor from the aftertreatment device through the gas inlet.
US10273852B2
An exhaust treatment system comprising: a first dosage device to supply a first additive into an exhaust stream; a first reduction catalyst device downstream of said first dosage device, including a slip-catalyst primarily for reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) through the use of the additive, and secondarily for oxidation of additive; an oxidation catalyst downstream of said first reduction catalyst device; a particulate filter downstream of said oxidation catalyst; a second dosage device downstream of said particulate filter to supply a second additive into said exhaust stream; a second reduction catalyst device downstream of said second dosage device for a reduction of nitrogen oxides in said exhaust stream using at least one of said first and said second additive.
US10273849B2
An injection module (10) for injecting a reducing agent into the exhaust system (22) of an internal combustion engine (2) has at least two outlet openings (12) for discharging at least one reducing agent primary jet (13), the outlet openings (12) being designed in such a way that that the reducing agent primary jets (13) exiting the outlet openings (12) collide and create a spray mist (11) in the exhaust system (22).
US10273828B2
The internal combustion engine is provided which may include a cylinder head, a turbine, and a turbine housing. The turbine housing may include an exhaust gas passage, at least one coolant fluid passage, and a wall between the passages. The wall may have a first area (Aexhaust) disposed to absorb heat from an exhaust flow passing through the exhaust gas passage, and a second area (Acoolant) disposed to transfer heat from the wall to be absorbed by a coolant fluid flow passing through the at least one coolant fluid passage, wherein the following applies: Acoolant/Aexhaust≤1.2.
US10273827B2
A bearing housing, or integrated turbocharger housing, with the oil, and optionally air and water galleries, included as as-cast features, thereby avoiding the problems, design limitations and expense associated with conventional post-casting machining. The method of casting preferably uses lost foam casting, or a technique similar to lost foam casting but in which a ceramic shell is formed on the foam form prior to metal casting, but can use any of a variety of casting techniques or a combination of two or more techniques.
US10273826B2
The invention relates to a lubrication device for a turbine engine, comprising an oil intake pipe (23) provided with a pump (24) for supplying oil and control means (30) located downstream from the supply pump (24), a supply pipe (26) intended for supplying oil to a member to be lubricated and a recirculation pipe (27) connected upstream from the supply pump (24), the control means (30) making it possible to direct all or part of the flow of oil from the intake pipe (23) towards the supply pipe (26) and/or towards the recirculation pipe (27).
US10273818B2
A turbine vane assembly for use in a gas turbine engine includes an endwall, a flow path component, and a load-distribution system. The endwall is arranged around a central axis of the turbine vane assembly. The flow path component is configured to direct fluid flow through the turbine vane assembly. The load-distribution system is positioned between the endwall and the flow path component to distribute loads transmitted between the endwall and the flow path component.
US10273814B2
A tool for installing a turbomachine component in a first dovetail slot of a first component mount is provided. The tool may include a tool mount having a body for selective fixing in a second dovetail slot of a second component mount adjacent to the first component mount. The tool may also include a lever arm including a first portion, an intermediate pivot for pivotally engaging the tool mount, and a second portion for engaging the turbine component. Actuating the lever arm against the tool mount causes the second portion of the lever arm to install the turbomachine component into the first dovetail slot of the first component.
US10273811B2
A component for use in a turbine engine includes a fore edge connected to an aft edge via a first surface and a second surface. Multiple cooling passages are defined within the turbine engine component. A first skin core passage is defined immediately adjacent one of the first surface and the second surface. At least 80% of coolant entering the first skin core passage is expelled from the turbine engine component at the aft edge.
US10273809B2
In one example embodiment, a blade includes an attachment region, an airfoil extending from the attachment region, and a blade cooling arrangement. The blade cooling arrangement includes at least a first feed passage disposed through the attachment region, which is connected to a first cooling passage disposed in the airfoil. A passively actuated first coolant valve is disposed in or proximate the first feed passage. A plurality of such blades can be disposed in a turbine section of an engine.
US10273800B2
A turbine drilling assembly can include a turbine drilling motor having an upper drill string connector, and an inclination sensor positioned in the turbine drilling assembly below the upper drill string connector. Another turbine drilling assembly can include a turbine drilling motor having an upper drill string connector, a sensor positioned in the turbine drilling assembly below the upper drill string connector, and a transmitter which transmits sensor data through a housing of the turbine drilling motor.
US10273797B2
An example cement and casing evaluation tool includes an amplifier and a filter coupled an output of the amplifier. A transducer may be coupled to the output of the filter. A ringing reduction system may be coupled to at least one of the amplifier, the filter, and the transducer, wherein the ringing reduction system selectively dissipates energy from at least one of the amplifier, the filter, and the transducer in response to a control signal.
US10273794B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for ranging operate to use a wireline active ranging system to initially determine a relative distance and relative direction from a first well (e.g., ranging well) to a second well (e.g., target well) and an EM azimuthal logging tool to maintain or adjust the distance from the target well while drilling the ranging well. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10273779B2
A valve with a shuttle for use in a flow management system is capable of bypassing a backflow.
US10273777B2
A down-hole packer is provided for positioning in a wellbore to establish a seal with a surrounding surface. The packer includes a sealing element that is responsive to compression by a setting piston to radially expand into the wellbore. An actuator is provided to longitudinally move the setting piston in response to a telemetry signal received by the down-hole packer. The actuator can include a hydraulic pump, an electromechanical motor or valves operable to control hydraulic energy to apply a down-hole force to the setting piston.
US10273773B2
An electromagnetic jarring tool and related systems and methods provide for the use of an electromagnetic system to generate jarring forces within a wellbore. The electromagnetic jarring tool includes a chamber having a first end and a second end, a magnetic hammer disposed within the chamber, and an electromagnet operable to generate an electromagnetic field across at least a portion of the chamber. The magnetic hammer is operable to move toward the second end of the chamber in response to the electromagnetic field to deliver an impact. One or more electromagnets may be included to enhance operation of the tool, and the tool may be actuated by a surface controller that selectively delivers electrical power or a control signal to the tool to specify a mode of operation of the electromagnetic jarring tool.
US10273772B2
A debris separator device for use with a casing system is provided. The debris separator device may include an impeller having a plurality of blades to generate a vortex of mud in the section of the casing system when the casing system is lowered into a wellbore. The device may also include a baffle disposed in the section of the casing system, the baffle having an annular cup shape that forms an outer circumferential pocket to capture debris from the vortex of mud. The impeller and baffle may enable the debris separator device to separate debris and other debris from a flow of mud through the casing system so that the debris does not clog a float collar of the system. The disclosed debris separator device may be flushable so that the device does not become clogged with debris and can thereby maintain auto-fill through the casing system.
US10273771B2
The invention is a downhole petroleum well tractor having a main body (0) connectable to an electrical conductor logging cable (5) from a surface high voltage DC power supply (50), characterized by said main body (0) comprising a common HV DC power line (4) provided with high-voltage DC power supplied from said electrical cable (5); two or more HV DC branch power lines (40) from said common HV DC power line (4), each said HV DC branch power line (40) feeding power to a HV motor drive electronic unit (21) for a drive motor (2); each said drive motors (2) driving one or more drive devices (6) for running on and along a wall in a well for moving said tractor; separate HV DC circuit breaker units (8) on each said HV DC branch power line (40), each said HVDC circuit breaker (8) unit comprising control means (82, 86, 88) arranged for monitoring a current (I) on said HV DC branch power line (40) and controlling a HV DC power switch (84) on said HV DC branch power line (40) to break said current (I) if said current (I) exceeds said set current level (Imax). Each said HV circuit breaker unit (8) is arranged to disconnect its associated motor (2) in case of said associated motor (2) fails, by detecting an increased current above a set current level, in order to prevent shorting said HV power line (4), thus maintaining operation of the other motors (2) of the tractor.
US10273762B2
An on-off tool for latching a sucker rod to a plunger rod has a housing, a pawl, guide pines, and a key. One end of the housing is connected to the sucker rod, and an interior of the housing defines a key slot terminating at a seat inside the interior. The pawl is disposed in the interior of the housing and is biased longitudinally preferably by disc springs. Bearings in the form of elongate pins are engaged between the pawl and the housing and dispose longitudinally in slots to guiding longitudinal movement of the pawl in the interior and preventing rotation of the pawl. The key has a head at its distal end that is passable through the key slot, interlockable with the pawl, and seatable on the seat. The key's head preferably defines a waist thereabout to provide the head with greater load bearing surface to engage the housing's seat.
US10273761B2
A axial retention connection for a downhole tool is disclosed. The connection includes a drill string component including a socket having a plurality of walls and a top surface. The connection additionally includes a downhole tool coupled to the socket, the downhole tool including a male-type connector having an outer perimeter and a top surface. The connection further includes a seal between the drill string component and the downhole tool. The connection further includes a chamber formed by the plurality of walls and the top surface of the socket and the top surface of the male-type connector; and a fluid filling the chamber.
US10273758B2
A method of forming a cutting element comprises disposing diamond particles in a container and disposing a metal powder on a side of the diamond particles. The diamond particles and the metal powder are sintered so as to form a polycrystalline diamond material and a low-carbon steel material comprising less than 0.02 weight percent carbon and comprising an intermetallic precipitate on a side of the polycrystalline diamond material. Related cutting elements and earth-boring tools are also disclosed.
US10273755B1
Utilities (e.g., apparatuses, systems, methods, etc.) for use in converting a container (e.g., crate, box, packaging) within which a post hole digger (e.g., unassembled) is disposed into a stand useful for facilitating connection of the post hole digger to a tractor or the like.
US10273753B2
A method of operating a drill string comprises independently modifying a rotary speed of a downhole portion of the drill string relative to other downhole portions of the drill string, each of the portions comprising a plurality of drill pipe sections. The modified-speed portion of the drill string can comprise a downhole end portion of the drill string extending between a downhole drill string end and a curved portion of the borehole in which the drill string is located. The downhole end portion can be rotated at an increased speed relative to a portion of the drill string coincident with the curved portion of the borehole. Independent speed modification can be effected by incorporating one or more transmission modifier devices in the drill string, the transmission modifier device being switchable between a disengaged mode in which it transfers unmodified drill string torque and rotation, and an engaged mode in which it transmits torque and rotation along the drill string at a modified speed and torque. Selective switching of the transmission modifier devices, while downhole, maybe controlled from the surface.
US10273750B2
The present invention relates to a track for connecting a pair of flexible membrane barrier segments in a retractable wall system. The track may include an elongated member having a first longitudinal axis and a first cross-sectional profile perpendicular to the first longitudinal axis. The track may include a base surface and a latching surface. The latching surface may be spaced from the base surface and may include a first groove aligned with the first longitudinal axis, a second groove spaced from the first groove, a projecting element located between the first groove and the second groove, the projecting element being aligned with the first longitudinal axis. The latching surface may further include a hooking element spaced from the projecting element, and a guide surface disposed between the projecting element and the hooking element.
US10273749B2
A cord winding mechanism for a blind cord with a first end fixed to a window blind includes a base, a cord winder rotatably mounted to the base, a cord guiding assembly mounted to the base, and an elastic press member mounted to the base. The cord winder defines an annular slot to wind the blind cord layer by layer. The cord guiding assembly is abutted against an unwound portion of the blind cord between the cord winder and the window blind. A second end of the blind cord is fixed to an end of the cord winder in the slot. The press member is elastically abutted against a portion of the blind cord just separate from the cord winder.
US10273748B2
A blind body actuator used in a cordless window blind assembly is provided to include a casing, a winding mechanism, two guide units and two lift cords. The winding mechanism includes two winding wheels and a volute spring connected to the winding wheels. Each of the winding wheels is meshed with one respective lift-cord wheel so that the lift-cord wheels can be driven by the winding mechanism to rotate synchronously. The guide units are respectively disposed adjacent to one respective lift-cord wheel, each including a first cylinder roller. Each of the lift cords is wound around the first cylinder roller of one respective guide unit, having one end thereof connected to one respective lift-cord wheel and an opposite end thereof extended out of the casing.
US10273735B2
An apparatus for opening and closing a deck lid of a vehicle body includes a jack-screw type drive unit having two elongated relatively rotatable drive elements which are threadably engaged for bi-directional displacement. An electric motor engages the rotatable drive element. A first mounting device pivotally connects the rotatable drive element to a relatively fixed point on the vehicle. A second mounting device pivotally connects the non-rotatable drive element to the deck lid, or vice versa. The motor is energized to affect bi-directional control of the drive unit while enabling low back-drive effort. A concentric spring counters loading due to the weight of the deck lid.
US10273733B2
A window glass gripping device which is assembled on a rail with a linking element includes: a glass gripper, slidably connected on the rail; a limiter, secured on the linking element; and an adjusting bolt, screwed to the glass gripper, having a limited portion. The limiter is assembled to correspond to the limited portion for limiting a position of the adjusting bolt.
US10273730B2
A door hinge has a first hinge part, a hinge bracket connected to the first hinge part to be pivotable about a rotational axis and a second hinge part connected to the hinge bracket The hinge bracket has an angled mounting section that is forcibly guided on a receiving block a first direction x and is lockable in place. The receiving block is adjustable in a second direction y in the second hinge part 4.
US10273716B2
A rekeyable lock includes a cylinder, a plug and a blocker. The cylinder includes a main body, an accommodation hole and a through hole penetrating through the main body and communicating with the accommodation hole. The plug is rotatably disposed in the accommodation hole. The blocker is movably disposed in the accommodation hole and includes a block portion and a position portion connecting with each other. The block portion is located between the main body and the plug. The position portion protrudes outside the accommodation hole via the through hole and positioned on a steady portion of the main body. The bottom pins can be removed from or blocked in the plug by the blocker for key replacement, and the position of the block portion can be easily adjusted by the position portion protruding outside the accommodation hole for rapidly replacing the bottom pins.
US10273715B2
A lock includes a housing assembly, an actuatable lock assembly and a latching assembly. The actuatable lock assembly is positionable in at least a closed orientation and an open orientation. The latching assembly further includes a latch, a cam and a motor. The latch, having a cam profile, is movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. In the locked position, the actuatable lock assembly is maintained in the closed orientation. In the unlocked position, the actuatable lock assembly is positionable into an open orientation. The cam is rotatably mounted and has a first follower configured to intermittently coact with the cam profile of the latch, to, in turn, move the latch between the locked position and the unlocked position. The motor is coupled to the cam. Actuation of the motor causes rotation of the cam, resulting in movement of the latch between the locked and unlocked positions.
US10273713B2
A modified fence post and a method for modifying the fence post include modifying the fence post to accommodate an object, including placing a guide around a fence post to locate the center of first surface of a fence post. Based on locating the center, the method include drilling a hole in a portion of the designated center of the fence post using a hole saw. The method includes inserting a spacer with an opening in the center of the spacer into the resultant hole and inserting an object into the spacer.
US10273707B1
An anchoring device for supporting a post from a support surface. The anchoring device comprises a base, at least one stanchion extending from the base, and a plate attached to the stanchion opposite the base. A plurality of side supports is included with each side support attached to and extending from the base. The side supports are also attached to the plate and extend past the plate. First and second guides are included with each guide attached to the plate and each side support. Each guide extends away from the base.
US10273704B2
A parking system includes a plurality of trays having a parking platform for supporting a vehicle and legs for keeping the parking platform in an elevated position on a supporting surface of the parking facility. The parking system also has at least one automated guided vehicle for moving the tray with the vehicle thereon between an access location and a specified parking location. The automated guided vehicle has a frame and drive devices mounted on the frame. Each drive device has a turntable rotatable about a vertical axis and two independently driven wheels mounted on the turntable. The automated guided vehicle can fit beneath the parking platform of the tray and can lift the tray for moving the tray and the vehicle between the access location and the specified parking location.
US10273703B2
An adapter for a pool cleaning system is provided. The adapter includes a base member having a top and a bottom surface. The adapter also includes six upper ports coupled to the top surface of the base member, each upper port including an upper aperture extending through the upper port and through the base member. The adapter further includes five lower ports coupled to the bottom surface of the base member, each lower port including a lower aperture extending through the lower port and through the base member. In some embodiments, four of lower ports are in fluid communication four of the upper ports and one of the lower ports is in fluid communication with two of the upper ports.
US10273702B1
A lift assembly includes a lever arm mounting portion connected to a spring mounting portion, a lever arm, a spa cover engaging portion, and a pneumatic spring. A pneumatic spring proximal end portion has a pivoting connection to the spring mounting portion. A pneumatic spring distal end portion has a pivoting connection to the lever arm. The pneumatic spring exerts an extensive force upon the lever arm both when the lever arm is in the cover closed position and when the lever arm is in the cover open position. The extensive force urges the lever arm towards the cover open position when the lever arm is in the cover closed position, and the extensive force urging the lever arm towards the cover closed position when the lever arm is in the cover open position.
US10273687B1
A moveable wall is connected to a structure and is operable to receive power from a power source. The moveable wall includes a first panel is connected to the structure for movement with respect to the structure. The first panel has a first electrical connection and the first panel receives power from the power source and to direct said power to the first electrical connection. A second panel is connected to the structure for movement with respect to the structure. The second panel has a second electrical connection, and the second electrical connection is configured to electrically connect to the first electrical connection to receive said power from the first electrical connection. One of the first electrical connection and the second electrical connection has a degree of freedom to move relative to the respective panel.
US10273686B2
A thermally broken framing system and method of use are disclosed. The thermal framing system is comprised generally of a structural stud, exterior retention framing and a fastener system comprised of thermal spacer material, and structural fasteners. In one representative embodiment, the structural stud, in cross section is C-shaped, and at one end of the structural stud is a structural tab facing in the direction of the exterior retention framing. The structural tab is further comprised of apertures located at regular intervals. The exterior retention framing is comprised generally of a retention face represented as and two framing tabs attached to the retention face. The framing tabs have framing tab apertures placed at regular intervals from each other to match the spacing of the apertures. The structural tab apertures and framing tab apertures are aligned and thermally insulated fastening units placed through the apertures, securing the apparatus.
US10273682B2
Buildings, particularly high-rise buildings, are retrofitted with a fire resistant liquid-applied material, preferably a material that intumesces with heat, where the exterior of the building is formed of metal clad combustible foam composite panels. Once the fire resistant coating has been applied, new thin panels matching the original fascia are installed outside the original composite panels, with space between, so that the appearance of the building is maintained.
US10273681B2
The invention relates to a support for fastening façade elements of façades, in particular curtain-type, rear-ventilated façades, comprising a wall fastening segment, which is designed for mounting the support to a building wall, and a façade fastening segment, which is designed for the mounting of supporting profiled elements or mounting profiled elements, wherein the façade fastening segment has a first connection segment for the horizontal mounting of supporting profiled elements or mounting profiled elements and a second connection segment for the vertical mounting of supporting profiled elements or mounting profiled elements, which is arranged perpendicularly to the first connection segment.
US10273678B2
A column cap connector for mounting and securing a beam to a post of a building including a central web portion and upwardly extending walls disposed along longitudinal edges thereof, wherein a lower portion of the beam fits within the walls, downwardly extending legs formed from the seat and alternatively from the seat and the walls of the connector attach the connector to the post with projecting tabs attached to the seat to support the connector on the post.
US10273675B2
A hybrid flushing system for water free urinals is presented with a housing having a wall portion forming a cavity for receiving a cartridge. The housing also includes a flushing fluid inlet portion for receiving a flushing fluid and a flushing fluid directing portion configured to direct the flushing fluid. A cartridge for installation into a housing is presented, including a cartridge wall, a flushing fluid receiving portion and a flushing fluid directing portion to direct flushing fluid received to any portion to clean areas of the housing, the cartridge, and connected plumbing. Steps for cleaning a hybrid flushing system are presented with an act of directing a flushing fluid into an area, where the area is one of a cartridge for a hybrid flushing system, a housing for a hybrid flushing system, and a plumbing system connected with the hybrid flushing system.
US10273668B2
An automatic water faucet device 1 for automatically discharging water when an object to be detected is detected has: a sensor 14 that detects the object; a first water discharge part 12 that performs foamy water discharge; a second water discharge part 13 that performs spray water discharge; and a controller 40 that performs control for switching between the foamy water discharge from the first water discharge part 12 and the spray water discharge from the second water discharge part 13, wherein the controller 40 performs the foamy water discharge from the first water discharge part 12 while the sensor 14 detects the object, and when the sensor 14 no longer detects the object, the controller 40 stops this foamy water discharge, and thereafter performs spray water discharge from the second water discharge part 13 for a predetermined period.
US10273660B2
The present disclosure relates to a hydraulic system of construction machinery and a method of controlling the hydraulic system. The hydraulic system of construction machinery and the method of controlling the hydraulic system according to the present disclosure assign a weighted value for each operation, preliminarily distribute a (available torque that can be used) value that an engine can provide, through torque weighted values for each operation, and calculate surplus torque and deficient torque by comparing a preliminary distributable torque value to required torque. The surplus torque is provided for an operation in which torque is deemed to be deficient. Thus, the hydraulic system of construction machinery and the method of controlling the hydraulic system according to the present disclosure can sufficiently use available torque that can be used so that an operator can achieve a desired level of performance during the operation.
US10273656B2
The present invention includes a battery controller that calculates an electrical storage remaining amount of a battery, a charging/discharging request calculation part that calculates a charging/discharging request amount for keeping electric power outputted by the battery within a predetermined range based on the electrical storage remaining amount calculated, a target rotational speed calculation part that calculates a target rotational speed command value of a motor generator, and an inverter that controls the motor generator according to the target rotational speed command value calculated, and it is configured that at least one of the battery controller and the inverter calculates the actual charging/discharging amount of the battery, and that the target rotational speed calculation part calculates a target rotational speed correction value from difference between the charging/discharging request amount and the actual charging/discharging amount and corrects the target rotational speed command value.
US10273653B1
A component sliding mechanism in a work vehicle includes a guided portion provided on a component in the work vehicle. A support deck includes a sliding surface on which the component is provided such that the component is movable on the sliding surface along a sliding direction substantially parallel to the sliding surface. A guide track is connected to the support deck and includes a sliding direction track and a tilt direction track. The sliding direction track is to guide the guided portion to move along the sliding direction. The sliding direction track has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end in the sliding direction. The tilt direction track extends in a tilt direction from the second end to guide the guided portion to move along the tilt direction. An angle between the sliding direction track and the tilt direction track is an obtuse angle.
US10273644B1
A method of clearing debris from under a parked trailer comprising: a) engaging, with a cantilevered debris mover, a surface having debris accumulated thereon and positioned under at least one parked trailer having at least a front portion which is cantilevered; and b) removing said debris accumulated upon said surface under said at least one parked trailer to a surface not located under said at least one trailer; wherein said cantilevered debris mover further comprises: i) a powered mobile prime mover capable of providing a source of power to an accessory; and ii) an accessory configured as a cantilevered debris plow further comprising: 1) a closed end allowing intake of debris; 2) an open end allowing discharge of debris; 3) a mounting plate for attachment to said prime mover; and 4) a powered debris engager configured to accept power from said powered mobile prime mover.
US10273643B1
A waste collection and isolation device and a method for picking up waste materials without the need for the user to come in contact with the waste are disclosed. The device contains a system for ensnaring solid waste in a bag, a mechanism for activating the system for ensnaring the waste and a system for removing the bag. To use the device, the user installs a bag over a housing containing a plurality of overlapping cords. The user places the opening of the bag over the waste disposed on a surface and then activates the snaring mechanism causing the cords to entangle under the solid waste and to close the bag opening with the waste inside it. The bag comprises a drawstring and a tab in a fixed position. To fully close the bag, the user pulls on the drawstring and pulls the bag onto the tab.
US10273630B2
An apparatus for adjusting a scraper bar in a line for producing a paper web, having a wire, assigned to which are scraper bars oriented transversely to its direction of movement and situated at a distance from one another. The scraper bar is supported by a support bar and is adjustable with respect to the support bar and with respect to the wire by means of a positioning device. The scraper bar and the support bar are coupled together by way of links that are mounted thereon. The distance or the angular position of the scraper bar with respect to the support bar and thus with respect to the wire is adjustable by a displacement of the scraper bar with respect to the support bar.
US10273618B2
A laundry system performs a washing function to wash multiple load of fabric items. The system can include a first wash chamber for washing a first clothes load, a drawer below the first wash chamber, a tub supported by the drawer, and a wash basket rotatably mounted within the tub and defining a second wash chamber, which has a low capacity relative to a capacity of the first wash chamber. The laundry system is capable of performing a washing operation in the second wash chamber independently of a washing operation performed in the first wash chamber.
US10273617B1
Different twisting techniques are employed for joining yarn to direct through a single needle of a tufting machine. Additionally, a more durable carpet, for at least some embodiments, is provided than would be expected. Furthermore, twist differential and luster differential amongst yarns are utilized to provide carpets.
US10273613B2
Presented is an apparatus and method for hook timing. An exemplary apparatus includes a frame, the frame having a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion having a needle bar channel, and a spacer, the spacer moveable relative to the frame to overlay a portion of the top portion of the frame. The apparatus further including a clasping element connected to the frame and operable to change an effective diameter of a portion of the channel, and a bottom plate, the bottom plate connected to the bottom portion of the frame.
US10273611B2
A pleatable nonwoven material is provided, including thicker form-giving fibers and thinner fibers determining the filter effect, wherein the thinner fibers are incorporated largely homogeneously in the thicker fibers running in the direction along the surface of the nonwoven material and a distribution density gradient of the thinner fibers is established perpendicular to the surface of the nonwoven material such that the highest concentration of thinner fibers is in the region of the center or on one of the two outsides, wherein the thicker and thinner fibers are bonded together by solidification from the melted condition and are made from the same material.
US10273607B2
The present invention provides a decorative compression sock made from resilient elastic material for the prevention and treatment. The material is composed of a plurality of fibers. An aesthetically pleasing image is stored onto a sublimation transferable medium. The image is transferred from the sublimation transfer medium onto the compression sock wherein the image is permanently incorporated into the plurality of fibers of the material. The compression sock configured as a knee length tubular member having a closed end and an opened lower end. Compression is graduated from the toe, ankle and leg portion.
US10273590B2
A coating method for a clad steel in which stainless sheets are combined on adjacent surfaces of an aluminum sheet may include preparing the clad steel, preparing a coating solution in which an epoxy resin and titanium dioxide (TiO2) powder are combined in an acrylic resin, etching the clad steel to improve adhesion property between the coating solution and the clad steel, heating the clad steel, and performing electrodeposition by immersing the clad steel in the coating solution.
US10273589B2
An electrodes/electrolyte assembly—MEA, electrochemical membrane reactor—is described and a method for the direct amination of hydrocarbons, namely for the direct amination of benzene to aniline, and a method for the preparation of said electrodes/electrolyte assembly. The presented Solution allows the increase of conversion of said amination to above 60%, even at low temperatures, i.e., between 200° C. and 450° C.; preferably between 300° C. and 400° C. The electrodes/electrolyte assembly for direct amination of hydrocarbons comprises: an anode (1), electrons and protons conductor, that includes a composite porous matrix, comprised by a ceramic fraction and a catalyst for said amination at temperatures lower than 450° C.; a porous cathode (3), electrons and protons conductor, and electrocatalyst; an electrolyte (2), protons or ions conductor and electrically insulating, located between the anode (1) and the cathode (3), made of a composite ceramic impermeable to reagents and products of said amination.
US10273581B2
The present invention provides a method for cleaning a carbon coating film, which can clean the carbon coating film that is formed on each portion of a plasma CVD device, and provides the plasma CVD device. The plasma CVD device 1 includes: first and second sealing members 2a and 2b which are formed of insulators and seal both ends of a workpiece W or a dummy workpiece W′, respectively; an anode 3; decompression units 26 which decompress the inside of the workpiece W or the dummy workpiece W′; a source-gas supply unit 6 which supplies a source gas to the inside of the workpiece W; a power source 27; and an oxygen-gas supply unit 8 which supplies oxygen gas to the inside of the dummy workpiece W′.
US10273575B2
In one aspect, articles are described comprising wear resistant coatings employing one or more composite refractory layers. For example, a coated article described herein comprises a substrate and a coating deposited by CVD adhered to the substrate, the coating including a multiphase refractory layer comprising an alumina phase and a zirconia phase, wherein the zirconia phase has a texture coefficient for the (200) growth direction, TC(200), greater than 4.
US10273571B2
A film forming system includes a camera having a field of view in a region through which an edge of a film-formed workpiece rotated by a rotational stage and an edge of the film of the film-formed workpiece pass. Based on three or more images obtained by the camera during the rotation of the film-formed workpiece, widths between the edge of the film-formed workpiece and the edge of the film of the film-formed workpiece at circumferentially different locations are obtained. Based on the widths obtained by the first unit, a first positional deviation of a central position of the film of the film-formed workpiece with respect to a central position of the film-formed workpiece is obtained. By using the first positional deviation of the film-formed workpiece, a transfer position of a transfer modules transferring the workpiece to a film forming apparatus used for producing the film-formed workpiece is corrected.
US10273568B2
The present disclosure is directed to the use of cellulosic materials, such as wood, paper, etc., or synthetic polymeric materials, such as a thermoplastic, rubber, etc., or a composite containing one or more of these materials as feedstock barrels for the process of injection molding of metallic glasses by rapid capacitor discharge forming (RCDF) techniques.
US10273567B2
A method for the production of iron-based alloy powders, or particulate materials, through rotating or centrifugal atomization (CA) is disclosed. The invention is suitable for obtaining steel powder, especially tool steel powder, high strength steels and other iron-based alloys of similar properties by means of centrifugal atomization, particularly conducted by means of a rotating element atomization technique. The fine, smooth, low oxygen content and low satellite, or even satellite-free, powder is atomized by a cooled rotating atomization device (e.g. disk, cup, . . . ) with various geometries in an atomization chamber under a preferably non-oxidizing atmosphere.
US10273558B2
Provided is a hydrometallurgical process for nickel oxide ore effectively reducing the amount of sulfuric acid used in the leaching step and the amount of a neutralizer such as slaked lime used in the final neutralization step without reducing nickel yield. The present invention is a method for pre-treating ore slurry to be submitted for leaching treatment in a hydrometallurgical process for nickel oxide ore, the method comprising: a separating step for separating the ore slurry into a coarse particle fraction, in which particles having a particle diameter of less than 45 μm are 30 mass % of the solids or less, and a fine particle fraction, and feeding said fine particle fraction to the leaching process; and a vibration sieving step for separating the separated coarse particle fraction into oversize particles and undersize particles using vibration sieving and feeding the ore slurry of said undersize particles to the leaching process.
US10273555B2
A hot-pressed steel sheet member includes a specific chemical composition and further includes a steel structure in which an area ratio of ferrite in a surface layer portion ranging from a surface to 15 μm in depth is greater than 1.20 times an area ratio of ferrite in an inner layer portion being a portion excluding the surface layer portion, and the inner layer portion contains a steel structure represented, in area %, ferrite: 10% to 70%, martensite: 30% to 90%, and a total area ratio of ferrite and martensite: 90% to 100%. A tensile strength of the hot-pressed steel sheet member is 980 MPa or more.
US10273554B2
A hot-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.030% or more and 0.120% or less, Si: 0.05% or more and 0.50% or less, Mn: 1.00% or more and 2.20% or less, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0060% or less, Al: 0.005% or more and 0.100% or less, Nb: 0.020% or more and 0.100% or less, Mo: 0.05% or more and 0.50% or less, Ti: 0.001% or more and 0.100% or less, Cr: 0.05% or more and 0.50% or less, Ca: 0.0005% or more and 0.0050% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and has a microstructure including bainitic ferrite as a main phase and martensite and retained austenite as second phases, wherein a volume fraction of the main phase is 90% or more, an average grain diameter of the main phase is 10 μm or less, a volume fraction of the martensite is 0.5% or more and 9.5% or less, and a volume fraction of the retained austenite is 0.5% or more and 9.5% or less, wherein the steel sheet has a yield ratio of 90% or less, a yield strength of 555 MPa or more, and a tensile strength of 650 MPa or more.
US10273538B2
The invention relates to a novel method of error-free sequencing of DNA. Further, the present invention provides for a four-part oligonucleotide, comprising a fixed sequence, a randomized sequence, a restriction nuclease recognition site and/or restriction site, and a primer binding site. The invention also relates to the use of the sequenced DNA fragments obtained by the methods of the invention in methods for DNA sequence analysis, generation of cell lineage trees or assessment of copy numbers.
US10273535B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for amplifying a plurality of targets in a single PCR run while distinguishing between clinically relevant amplification and amplification from other sources such as from background contamination. The methods and devices further enable discrimination between gram-positive, gram-negative and fungal infections as wells as identify antimicrobial resistance genes. When applying the methods and devices of the invention, the species or genus of an infection(s), and genus of a fungal co-infection(s) or category of bacterial (gram-positive or negative) co-infection(s) are identified. Species identification of co-infections can also be achieved. Further, when applying the methods and devices of the invention, organisms which are likely to be contaminating organisms from a blood draw are identified.
US10273533B2
The invention relates to an automatic response/light measurement device and a method therefor, and the purpose is to effectively and quickly perform an optical measurement relating to a reaction with high reliability without increasing a device size. The device is configured to have: a container group in which a plurality of reaction containers are arranged; a measurement mount provided with a plurality of coupling ends that are joinable with apertures of the reaction containers, and have light guide portions that optically connect with the interior of the joined reaction containers; a mount transfer mechanism; a measuring device having a measuring end having at least one light guide portion that is optically connectable to the light guide portions of the coupling ends, that is able to receive light based on an optical state within the reaction containers; an on-mount measuring end transfer mechanism; and a measurement control portion.
US10273532B2
The invention provides an ultra-rapid nucleic acid amplification method performed in a flow channel. Specifically, the invention provides a nucleic acid amplification method for performing a PCR reaction by supplying a PCR sample solution to a nucleic acid amplification device comprising a serpentine channel adapted to perform at least one PCR cycle, the nucleic acid amplification device comprising a DNA denaturation temperature zone corresponding to the curved portions at one side, an annealing temperature zone corresponding to the curved portions at the other side, and an extension temperature zone positioned between the annealing and DNA denaturation temperature zones, wherein the PCR sample solution is introduced in the form of sample plugs separated by gas into the serpentine channel using a pump, the sample solution being supplied into the channel in a state such that the solution is separated by gas into a segment corresponding to one PCR cycle or smaller segments.
US10273522B2
An improved system and method is provided for detecting viable bacteria in a suspension sample. A sample of a suspension in which bacterial presence is suspected is collected from a source and a portion of the sample transferred to a microfluidic unit. A series of analysis signals at different frequencies are applied to the sample portion. An impedance is measured via a signal analyzer for the sample portion for each of the analysis signals to define an impedance data set. An initial bulk capacitance value is determined for a model circuit based on the impedance dataset. After a predetermined time period, a new bulk capacitance value is determined for on another portion of the sample. The difference between the new bulk capacitance and the initial bulk capacitance value is compared to a threshold value to determine if viable bacterial is present in the sample.
US10273521B2
A system for automated microorganism identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing comprising a reagent cartridge, a reagent stage, a cassette, a cassette, stage, a pipettor assembly, an optical detection system, and a controller is disclosed. The system is designed to dynamically adjust motor idle torque to control heat load and employs a fast focus process for determining the true focus position of an individual microorganism. The system also may quantify the relative abundance of viable microorganisms in a sample using dynamic dilution, and facilitate growth of microorganisms in customized media for rapid, accurate antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
US10273519B2
The present invention relates to a method for the production of a diterpene or a glycosylated diterpene, which method comprises: a. fermenting a recombinant microorganism of the genus Yarrowia in a suitable fermentation medium at a temperature of about 29° C. or higher, wherein the microorganism comprises one or more nucleotide sequence(s) encoding: a polypeptide having ent-copalyl pyrophosphate synthase activity; a polypeptide having ent-Kaurene synthase activity; a polypeptide having ent-Kaurene oxidase activity; and a polypeptide having kaurenoic acid 13-hydroxylase activity and whereby expression of the nucleotide sequence(s) confer(s) on the microorganism the ability to produce at least steviol; and b. recovering the diterpene or glycosylated diterpene.
US10273508B2
The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO) pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO and further optimized for expression of BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO.
US10273507B2
The invention relates to a cell capable of converting one or more pentose sugar and one or more hexose sugar into fermentation product constitutively expressing one or more heterologous or homologous polypeptide having the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 20, or a variant polypeptide thereof having at least 45% identity to SEQ ID NO 20. In an embodiment the heterologous polypeptide has glyoxalase activity.
US10273504B2
The invention relates to a cell modification device, comprising a centrifugation chamber with at least one cell modifying surface with a normal vector having an angle of 135−45° to the rotational axis of the centrifugation chamber, wherein the centrifugation chamber comprises at least one input/output port and the cells to be modified are immobilized at the cell modifying surfaces by the rotation of the centrifugation chamber at 2 to 2000 g.Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for modifying cells comprising the steps introducing cells in a cell modification device, comprising a centrifugation chamber with at least one cell modifying surface with a normal vector having an angle of 135−45° to the rotational axis of the centrifugation chamber wherein and comprising at least one input/output port, immobilizing the cells on the cell modifying surfaces by the rotation of the centrifugation chamber at 2 to 2000 g maintaining the rotation of the rotation of the centrifugation chamber until the cells are modified.
US10273497B2
Polynucleotides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The encoded polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer earlier flowering, longer floral organ retention, increased cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, altered carbon-nitrogen balance sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, and/or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.
US10273495B2
A method is disclosed for reducing the level of gossypol in cottonseed. The method generally includes selectively inducing RNA gene silencing in the seed of a transgenic cotton plant, to interfere with expression of the δ-cadinene synthase gene or the δ-cadinene-8-hydroxylase gene in the seed of the cotton plant without substantially affecting expression of that gene in the foliage, floral parts, and roots of the plant. The transgenic cotton plant comprises at least one of a δ-cadinene synthase gene trigger sequence and/or a δ-cadinene-8-hydroxylase gene trigger sequence operably linked to one or more a seed-specific promoter gene sequences, and the trigger sequence(s) is/are able to induce RNA gene silencing when expressed in cottonseed of the plant. Also disclosed are expression cassettes, vectors, cells, seeds, and plants containing at least one of a δ-cadinene synthase gene trigger sequence and/or a δ-cadinene-8-hydroxylase gene trigger sequence operably linked to one ore more a seed-specific promoter DNA sequences.
US10273491B2
Provided are a novel promoter and a method of producing a target product using the same.
US10273490B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing erythritol and to a cyanobacterial cell for the production of erythritol.
US10273488B2
Methods are provided herein for assembling at least two nucleic acids using a sequence specific nuclease agent (e.g., a gRNA-Cas complex) to create end sequences having complementarity and subsequently assembling the overlapping complementary sequences. The nuclease agent (e.g., a gRNA-Cas complex) can create double strand breaks in dsDNA in order to create overlapping end sequences or can create nicks on each strand to produce complementary overhanging end sequences. Assembly using the method described herein can assemble any nucleic acids having overlapping sequences or can use a joiner oligo to assemble sequences without complementary ends.
US10273486B2
The invention relates to nucleic acid modifications for a directed expression modulation by the targeted insertion or removal of CpG dinucleotides. The invention also relates to modified nucleic acids and expression vectors.
US10273481B2
Provided is an siRNA in tandem expression and uses thereof in treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and particularly, provided are a method of a tandem expression for siRNA of BTK, and an siRNA in tandem expression and uses thereof in treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
US10273478B2
The invention relates to double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) targeting a PROC gene, and methods of using the dsRNA to inhibit expression of PROC.
US10273470B2
The present invention pertains to a method for isolating RNA, including small RNA from a RNA and DNA containing sample, wherein the sample is lysed and the optionally further processed lysate is incubated with a DNase to degrade DNA prior to purifying the RNA from the optionally further processed lysate. It was found that performing the DNase digest prior to isolating the RNA from the lysate has considerable advantages.
US10273462B2
The present invention provides viral vector compositions of high titer and purity, as well as methods for production of said compositions. The methods of the invention incorporate multiple features, such as production of viral vector particles in serum free media and multiple harvesting steps following transduction of the producer cell which provides for enhanced production of said viral vectors. The viral vector compositions of the invention, by virtue of their high titer and purity, minimize the deleterious phenotypic changes that typically occur following transduction of target cells, such as loss of a sub-populations of transduced cells, and effects on proliferation, differentiation, reprogramming or functionality of transduced cells.
US10273450B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions relating, in part, to the generation of human progenitor cells committed to the lung lineage and uses of such cells for treatment of lung diseases/disorders or injury to the lung. Whether an adult stem cell can be isolated from human adult lung remains controversial in the art and at present, methods for isolating and using adult lung stem cells from humans lack reproducibility. Thus, the methods and compositions described herein are advantageous over the present state of knowledge in the art and permit the generation of human lung progenitor cells for treatment, tissue engineering, and screening assays.
US10273443B2
A multi-function cooling and thermo-sensitive rack includes horizontal bars, a base, positioning holes, connectors, a lateral frame, connecting holes, a temperature-displaying prompter, and N temperature sensors. The lateral frame and the base are connected through the connectors. The lateral frame and the base have their surfaces facing each other symmetrically provided with plural connecting holes thereon. The horizontal bars have two ends thereof received in the corresponding symmetrical connecting holes. The positioning holes are distributed over the surface of the base. The N temperature sensors have output ends thereof for outputting sensing signals connected with input ends of the temperature-displaying prompter for inputting the N temperature-sensing signals. The present invention is applied to apparatuses used in microbiology experiment.
US10273442B1
A device and methodology for concomitant ejection and suction of a perfusate (CESOP) within a region of interest without spillover of the perfusate to a juxtaposed anatomical region. An inflow line, connected to a perfusate cistern, is coupled to an outflow line, connected to outflow control mechanisms, via an elongate rigid support. Perfusate can flow through the inflow line to the region of interest, and nearly simultaneously, the outflow line can suction the perfusate out of the region of interest. The amount of time that the perfusate remains in the region of interest is sufficient to take effect in the region of interest. The rigid support helps control the inflow and outflow lines. A micromanipulator can also be used to control the lines and application tip thereof. Either or both lines may also have adjustable flow rates therethrough and may include stoppers/regulators.
US10273440B2
Systems and methods for growing microbes and biofilms on a hydrogel in a controlled environment. The system can have a cup, and a liner with the liner inserted into the cup and a hydrogel inserted into the liner. The cup, liner, and hydrogel assembly can be placed into a containment tray. The hydrogel can be sterilized before being placed into the containment tray. A lid can seal the cup, liner, and hydrogel into the containment tray. A lid can have inoculations ports, or can be made out of a self-sealable material keeping the inside environment sterilized and free of contaminants. The hydrogel can be inoculated with microbes through the inoculations ports, and incubated for a period of time at a set temperature to allow the microbes, and biofilms time to grow. After being grown the microbes and biofilms can be separated from each other allowing for both microbes and biofilm to be separately tested.
US10273437B2
A solvent composition is provided that includes a chlorinated ethylene present from 75 to 80 total weight percent and at least one halocarbon miscible with the chlorinated ethylene and present in an amount to define a weight ratio of the chlorinated ethylene to said at least one halocarbon of from 75:25-80:20. The solvent composition has a flash point of less than 23 degrees Celsius and an initial boiling point of greater than 35 degrees Celsius. When the solvent is packaged as an aerosol with a propellant, the resulting solvent can be used in confined spaces owing to reduced ignitibility and better human health and environmental properties compared to conventional aerosol degreasers.
US10273435B2
Compositions include a water-soluble polymer, silica nanoparticles, and a combination of a nonionic and anionic dispersed in an aqueous liquid phase. The polymer is a water-soluble copolymer of acrylic acid and an acrylamide, or a salt of the same. Methods of using the compositions to clean and coat a substrate are also disclosed.
US10273434B2
The present invention relates to the use of a cationic polysaccharide in a detergent composition used for treating dyed textile fibers in an aqueous medium, in order to reduce the loss of color of the dyed fibers when treating same using said detergent composition.
US10273430B2
The present invention relates to conveyor lubricant compositions including an emulsion of a lipophilic compound and also including an emulsifier and/or an anionic surfactant. The present invention also relates to methods employing such lubricant compositions. In an embodiment, the method includes applying the present lubricant composition to a conveyor with a non-energized nozzle.
US10273418B1
The invention relates to removing salt from crude oil via two steps of adding water with harsh mixing of the added water with the crude oil and gravity separating the salty water between steps where the process additionally includes a step of injecting steam into the crude oil after the first of the two water adding and harsh mixing desalting steps, but upstream of the gravity separation of the first step. The steam separates salt by transferring the salt into the condensed water from the steam.
US10273417B2
An apparatus which is an integral hardware consisting of an annular downer reactor and a concentric upflow riser regenerator for catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon feed to is disclosed. The annular downer reactor terminates in annular stripper which is also concentric with the regenerator. The regenerator, reactor and stripper are in fluid connection with each other. The apparatus is highly compact and provides efficient contact between circulating catalyst and hydrocarbon feed. The proposed hardware includes a novel radial distributor for providing improved control and radial distribution of catalyst inside the downflow reactor. The radial distributor has equal numbers of stationary and movable parts placed one after another to cover the entire annular opening at the bottom of the regenerated catalyst vessel. The radial distributor is concentric with regenerator and located between the catalyst holding vessel and the reactor. A process for catalytic cracking using the invented apparatus is also disclosed.
US10273414B2
A method for converting renewable energy source electricity and a hydrocarbon feedstock into a liquid fuel by providing a source of renewable electrical energy in communication with a synthesis gas generation unit and an air separation unit. Oxygen from the air separation unit and a hydrocarbon feedstock is provided to the synthesis gas generation unit, thereby causing partial oxidation reactions in the synthesis gas generation unit in a process that converts the hydrocarbon feedstock into synthesis gas. The synthesis gas is then converted into a liquid fuel.
US10273412B2
The present invention is to provide a method for carbonization of crop straws and a device thereof. Pyrolysis process is controlled by regulating the feeding of oxygen during said pyrolysis process, and pyrolysis and carbonization are respectively conducted in separate pyrolysis and carbonization pools, wherein the straws are pyrolyzed in said pyrolysis pool and entered into said carbonization pool to be carbonized. The present invention can quickly raise the temperature of the pyrolysis process, shorten the time of the pyrolysis process, and improve the pyrolysis carbonization efficiency.
US10273406B2
This invention relates to a thermoluminescent phosphor for the measurement of low radiation doses, including calcium sulphate (CaSO4), Dysprosium (Dy) and manganese (Mn), wherein Dy and Mn are present as dopants. A process for the preparation of a thermoluminescent phosphor is also provided. The process includes the steps of: separately dissolving calcium sulphate (CaSO4), Dysprosium chloride (DyCh) and Manganese chloride (MnC) in hot concentrated sulphuric acid, to obtain sulphuric acid solutions of CaSO4, DyCb and MnCb; mixing the solutions; and followed by slow evaporation of the solvent to obtain a powder of microcrystalline phosphor of CaSO4:Dy, Mn.
US10273393B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing an alkoxylene derivative and an application thereof. A mixture is firstly subjected to a first reaction for obtaining a first intermediate. The mixture includes an alkyl alcohol compound and a glycidyl ether compound. A second reaction is performed to the first intermediate and an epoxyalkyl compound, thereby obtaining the alkoxylene derivative. The alkoxylene derivative can effectively improve antistatic property and anti-fogging property.
US10273380B2
The present invention provides novel packaging articles, e.g., food and beverage cans. Preferred cans typically comprise a body portion and an end portion, wherein at least one of the body and end portions are aluminum and are coated on at least one major surface with a coating composition of the present invention. Suitable coating compositions of the present invention comprise: one or more polyester resins, wherein at least one of the polyester resins has a glass transition temperature (‘Tg’) less than about 50° C., and wherein the polyester resin is formed by the reaction of one or more polyacid molecules and one or more polyol molecules; and a crosslinker. Preferred compositions are substantially free of mobile BPA and aromatic glycidyl ether compounds, e.g., BADGE, BFDGE and epoxy novalacs (e.g., NOGE) and more preferred compositions are also substantially free of bound BPA and aromatic glycidyl ether compounds. In more preferred embodiments (e.g., alcoholic beverage cans), the polyol molecules used to make the polyester resin are substantially free of NPG. The present invention also provides a method of making such cans.
US10273375B2
An ink composition includes colorant, co-solvent system, acid (e.g., oleic, linoleic, undecanoic, dodecanoic, and/or tridecanoic acids), lithium, polymer as binder, and water. The co-solvent system is selected from i) from ˜9 to ˜25 wt % of sulfolane with no other co-solvent, ii) hydroxylated co-solvent, from ˜4 to ˜16 wt % of sulfolane, and at least 8 wt % of another non-hy-droxylated co-solvent; iii) hydroxylated co-solvent, from ˜7 to ˜16 wt % of sulfolane, and at least 3 wt % of the other non-hydroxylated co-solvent; and iv) a hydroxylated co-solvent and from ˜9 wt % to ˜16 wt % of sulfolane. When i) or ii) or iv) is used, at least 0.15 wt % acid and at least 200 ppm lithium are included; or when iii) is used, at least 0.25 wt % acid and at least 100 ppm lithium are included; or when iii) is used, at least 0.15 wt % acid and at least 150 ppm lithium are included.
US10273362B2
A poly(phenylene ether) composition comprises, based on the total weight of the poly(phenylene ether), addition polymer, impact modifier, and flame retardant: 40 to 90 weight percent of a poly(phenylene ether); 1 to 20 weight percent of an addition polymer comprising repeat units derived from a glycidyl ester of an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated acid; 1 to 20 weight percent of an impact modifier other than the addition polymer; and 5 to 20 weight percent of a flame retardant comprising an organophosphate ester. The composition is useful for molding articles.
US10273357B2
Polycarbonate blend compositions are disclosed. The compositions include at least one polycarbonate useful for high heat applications. The compositions can include one or more additional polymers. The compositions can include one or more additives. The compositions can be used to prepare articles of manufacture, and in particular, automotive bezels.
US10273351B2
Disclosed are sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixtures that can be incorporated into treads of vehicle tires, and vehicle tires comprising the disclosed sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixtures. The rubber mixtures comprise: at least one diene rubber, at least one silica, at least one hydrocarbon resin, and 1 to 40 phr of at least one liquid polybutadiene having terminal organosilicon modification and having a weight-average molecular weight Mw by GPC of 500 to 12 000 g/mol.
US10273346B2
A thermoplastic polymer composition comprises a thermoplastic polymer and a compatibilizing agent comprising a fulvene moiety or a fulvene-derived moiety. A heterophasic polymer composition comprises a propylene polymer phase, an ethylene polymer phase, and a compatibilizing agent comprising a fulvene moiety or a fulvene-derived moiety.
US10273337B2
The present invention is a method for producing a stretched film comprising stretching an unstretched film that is formed using a hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene ring-opening polymer at a temperature of 95 to 135° C. and a stretching ratio of 1.2 to 10, followed by heating at a temperature of 150 to 220° C. Since the thus-obtained stretched film has excellent transparency and low coefficient of linear expansion, the stretched film is suitable for not only use in optical applications but also use for electronic materials.
US10273330B2
The present invention relates to unsaturated carboxylic acid ester obtained from or through the use of a source material defined below in formula (I): A(0.9-1.2)(B+C)(1.0) (I) wherein the figures set in parentheses indicate the molar proportion of source material A to the sum of source materials B and C, and wherein the following meanings apply: A: unsaturated dicarboxylic acid, B: a hard diol segment, C: a soft diol segment selected from among compounds having a continuous chain between two hydroxyl groups, which have a length of 5 to 30 atoms, wherein the molar ratio of B:C is between 5:95 and 95:5. Furthermore, it relates to unsaturated polyester resin comprising said unsaturated carboxylic acid ester as defined above and a reactive diluents as well as molded articles, coatings, and surface textiles coated, saturated, laminated, and impregnated from or with a thermoset, which was obtained by hardening said unsaturated polyester resin.
US10273323B2
The present invention relates to a polymer comprising (a1) silyl ester group(s) and (a2) quaternary ammonium group(s) and/or quaternary phosphonium group(s), said quaternary ammonium groups and/or quaternary phosphonium groups being neutralised by counter-ions, wherein the counter-ions consist of the conjugate base of an acid having an aliphatic, aromatic, or alkaryl hydrocarbyl group. The invention further relates to a fouling control coating composition comprising said polymer, a method of protecting a man-made structure immersed in water from fouling, and a substrate or structure coated with the fouling control coating composition.
US10273309B2
This application describes binding proteins that specifically bind to EGFRvIII and multispecific binding proteins that specifically bind to EGFRvIII and CD3. Further described is a multispecific tandem diabody that binds to EGFRvIII and CD3. Further described are highly cytotoxic EGFRvIII/CD3 bispecific tandem diabody for recruiting T cells to specifically and potently kill several types of solid tumor cancer.
US10273301B2
The present invention relates to novel antibodies and fragments that bind to a V-domain Ig Suppressor of T cell Activation (VISTA), and methods of making and using same. Methods of use include methods of treatment of cancer, including leukemias, lymphomas, solid tumors and melanomas.
US10273290B2
The invention provides structurally constrained viral peptides for use as therapeutic and vaccination agents, and for the production of antibodies for use in a number of applications including as therapeutic agents. The invention further provides methods and kits for use of the structurally constrained peptides and antibodies of the instant invention. The invention is based, at least in part, on the result provided herein demonstrating the viral hydrocarbon stapled helical peptides display excellent proteolytic, acid, and thermal stability, restore the native helical structure of the peptide, are highly effective in interfering with the viral fusogenic process, and possess superior pharmacokinetic properties compared to the corresponding unmodified peptides.
US10273288B2
Neutralizing antibodies and antigen binding fragments that specifically bind to Ebola virus glycoprotein are disclosed. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, vectors and host cells are also provided. Methods for detecting Ebola virus using the antibodies and antigen binding fragments are disclosed. The antibodies, antigen binding fragments, nucleic acids, and vectors, can be used, for example, to prevent and/or treat Ebola virus infection in a subject.
US10273282B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10273279B2
The present invention provides novel PAR1 derived cytoprotective oligopeptides or polypeptides which typically contain at least the first 4 N-terminal residues that are substantially identical to the corresponding N-terminal residues of Met1-Arg46 deleted human PAR1 sequence. These cytoprotective oligopeptides or polypeptides are capable of activating PAR1 and promoting PAR1 cytoprotective signaling activities. The invention also provides engineered cells or transgenic non-human animals which harbor in their genome an altered PAR1 gene that is resistant to cleavage at Arg41 and/or Arg46 residues. Additionally provided in the invention are methods of screening candidate compounds to identity additional cytoprotective compounds or cytoprotective proteases. The invention further provides therapeutic use or methods of employing a PAR1 derived cytoprotective oligopeptide or polypeptide to treat conditions associated with tissue injuries or undesired apoptosis.
US10273278B2
The present invention discloses a fragment of peptide which can be utilized in patients suffering from a disseminated mycobacterial infection. The fragment of peptide contains a sequence of amino acids with seven residues as formula (I) shown below, wherein X1 is Leucine (Leu); X2 is Proline (Pro); X3 is Glutamate (Glu); X4 is serine (Ser); X5 is Serine (Ser); X6 is Leucine (Leu) and X7 is Arginine (Arg): X1-X2-X3-X4-X5-X6-X7 (I).
US10273274B2
The present invention relates to methods for treating and/or preventing tumors and/or promoting apoptosis in a neoplastic cell comprising contacting the neoplastic cell with an cell-penetrating dominant-negative ATF5 (“CP-d/n-ATF5”), wherein the CP-d/n-ATF5 is capable of inhibiting ATF5 function and/or activity.
US10273267B2
β-Hairpin peptidomimetics of the general formula cyclo(-Xaa1-Xaa2-Thr3-Xaa4-Ser5-Xaa6-Xaa7-Xaa8-Xaa9-Xaa10-Xaa11-Xaa12-Xaa13-) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, with Xaa1, Xaa2, Xaa4, Xaa6, Xaa7, Xaa8, Xaa9, Xaa10, Xaa11, Xaa12 and Xaa13 being amino acid residues of certain types which are defined in the description and the claims, have elastase inhibitory properties, especially against human neutrophil elastase, and can be used for preventing infections or diseases related to such infections in healthy individuals or for slowing infections in infected patients. The compounds of the invention can further be used where cancer, or immunological diseases, or pulmonary diseases, or cardiovascular diseases, or neurodegenerative diseases, or inflammation, or diseases related to inflammation, are mediated or resulting from elastase activity. These peptidomimetics can be manufactured by a process which is based on a mixed solid- and solution phase synthetic strategy.
US10273260B2
The present invention encompasses compounds and methods for treating urinary tract infections.
US10273247B2
A series of substituted imidazo[2,1-b]thiazole derivatives, and analogues thereof, being potent modulators of human TNFα activity, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of various human ailments, including autoimmune and inflammatory disorders; neurological and neurodegenerative disorders; pain and nociceptive disorders; cardiovascular disorders; metabolic disorders; ocular disorders; and oncological disorders.
US10273240B2
New cortistatin compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof are provided. These compounds can be used to treat a disorder mediated by CDK8 and/or CDK19 kinase or by the Mediator Complex generally. In particular, the compounds can be used, for example, to treat a disorder such as a tumor, cancer, or a disorder associated with angiogenesis.
US10273237B2
Compounds having the following formula (I), or a stereoisomer or pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, where R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as defined herein, are useful in the modulation of IL-12, IL-23 and/or IFNα, by acting on Tyk-2 to cause signal transduction inhibition.
US10273229B2
The present invention provides kinase inhibitor analogs with improved properties, such as improved efficacy, pharmacokinetics, safety, and specificity. In some embodiments, the present invention provides lapatinib analogs that provide therapeutic benefits.
US10273220B2
A derivative of inula lineariifolia lactone A, and in particular, a dimethylamine 4-O-acetyl inula lineariifolia lactone A or a salt thereof, preparation of same, and an application of same in preparation of medicine for treating multiple sclerosis. The dimethylamine 4-O-acetyl inula lineariifolia lactone A compound is represented by formula I:
US10273209B2
A molecular building block composition can include a metal ion component; and a ligand component including a core including at least one functional group associated with the metal ion component and the core.
US10273207B2
Irreversible inhibitors of G12C mutant K-Ras protein are provided. Also disclosed are methods to modulate the activity of G12C mutant K-Ras protein and methods of treatment of disorders mediated by G12C mutant K-Ras protein.
US10273202B2
Described herein are nitroxyl progenitor compounds, and compositions including, and methods or generating, the compounds thereof, and methods of treating or preventing disease and disease symptoms using the compounds and compositions.
US10273199B2
The invention relates to an hydrolysis vessel (200) used during amidification step of acetone cyanohydrin (ACH), in the industrial process for production of a methyl methacrylate (MMA) or methacrylic acid (MAA). The hydrolysis vessel (200) is used for hydrolyzing acetone cyanohydrine with sulfuric acid to produce a mixture comprising α-sulfatoisobutyramide (SIBAM). It comprises at least one cooling system (212; 244) on its internal annular periphery area and it is divided into at least two stages, preferably three, along its vertical wall, each stage (S1 to S3) comprising a ACH feeding inlet (201, 202, 203). Such vessel allows controlling both homogeneity and temperature of the mixture, and thus obtaining a high yield for the hydrolyzing reaction in very safe conditions.
US10273193B1
A horticulture growth medium includes a base organic soil, a soft rock phosphate component, a limestone component, a hydrated magnesium sulfate salt, volcanic dust comprising trace mineral nutrients, one or more humic acids, a shell source of calcium, a bone or blood meal component selected from fish bone meal, blood meal, steamed bone meal, and/or combinations thereof, bat guano, and worm castings. A method of growing a plant using the horticulture growth medium of includes planting a plant with the horticulture growth medium and providing periodic water to the plant, the horticulture growth medium being sufficient for plant growth during a complete cycle without the use of additional fertilizing agents. A kit includes the horticulture growth medium along with instructions for using the horticulture growth medium to grow plants.
US10273176B2
The present invention relates to partial decarboxylation of polyitaconic acid polymers or copolymers. The partially decarboxylated resins are suitable for use in preparation of dispersions as well as for anti-scaling applications.
US10273172B2
A method and system for treatment of flow-back and produced water from a hydrocarbon well in which fracturing operations are carried out using a phase separation and creating of positive charge in the water.
US10273171B2
A water treatment device for altering the chemical and physical properties of water for use in existing plumbing and/or piping systems wherein the treatment device may be customized for intended use and for treatment of the water profile in the geographical area of installation.
US10273169B2
A method for pretreatment of wastewater or recreational water with substantial reduction of total suspended solids and turbidity in a very short time is provided comprising treatment with nanocomposites and a bridging agent.
US10273159B2
Disclosed herein is a method of producing a graphene from a graphite material. The method comprises the step of dispersing the graphite material in a solution, followed by shearing and exfoliating the graphite material produce a graphene-containing solution. The present method does not involve the use of chemical reagent and/or sonication treatment.
US10273158B2
A method for manufacturing a graphene composite film includes preparing a zeolite suspension containing zeolite nanocrystals with a concentration of 50-100 ppm and with a particle size of 50-80 nm. The zeolite suspension has a pH value of 11-13. A graphene oxide suspension containing graphene oxide with a concentration of 50-200 ppm is mixed with the zeolite suspension to form a composite solution. The composite solution is transferred into a 15° C. water bath when a color of the composite solution turns from brownish-yellow into deep brown. A surfactant is added into the composite solution in the 15° C. water bath. The composite solution is then sonicated for 5-30 minutes and removed out of the 15° C. water bath, with the color of the composite solution turning from deep brown into black. The composite solution is further processed to form a graphene composite film having not more than 5 layers.
US10273152B2
Methods for manufacturing MEMS structures are provided. The method includes forming a first trench and a second trench in a MEMS substrate by performing a main etching process and etching the MEMS substrate through the first trench and the second trench to form a first through hole and an extended second trench by performing a first step of an over-etching process. The method further includes etching the MEMS substrate through the extended second trench to form a second through hole by performing a second step of the over-etching process. In addition, a width of the first trench is greater than a width of the second trench, and a height of the first trench is greater than ¾ of a height of the MEMS substrate, and a height of the second trench is smaller than ⅔ of the MEMS substrate.
US10273151B2
A sensing device includes a MEMS sensor and an adjustable amplifier. The MEMS sensor is configured to generate an input signal according to environmental changes. The adjustable amplifier has a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a third input terminal, a fourth input terminal and a first output terminal. The first input terminal is electrically connected to the MEMS sensor for receiving the input signal. The second input terminal is electrically connected to a first signal terminal for receiving a first common-mode signal. The third input terminal is electrically connected to the first output terminal. The fourth input terminal is electrically connected to a second signal terminal. An electric potential of a first output signal output by the first output terminal of the adjustable amplifier is related to electric potentials of the input signal, the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal.
US10273146B2
A micromechanical component is provided, the micromechanical component enclosing a cavity, the micromechanical component including a sensor element situated in the cavity, and the micromechanical component including a getter situated in the cavity. The micromechanical component includes a structure, situated between the sensor element and the getter, which is designed in such a way that a particle that is desorbed by the getter is sorbed onto and/or into an area of the micromechanical component that is spaced apart from the sensor element.
US10273142B2
The present disclosure provides a structure. The structure comprises a cavity enclosed by a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. The structure also includes a movable membrane in the cavity. Further, the structure includes a mesa in the cavity and the mesa is protruded from a surface of the first substrate. In addition, the structure includes a dielectric layer over the mesa, wherein the dielectric layer includes a first surface in contact with the mesa and a second surface opposite to the first surface is positioned toward the cavity.
US10273133B1
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus is described for use in lifting an article. The apparatus includes a support arm, a lever arm that is movably connected to the support arm, and a headpiece supported by the lever arm that is configured and dimensioned to engage the article such that a force applied to the lever arm is transmitted to the article to thereby lift the article. In another embodiment of the present disclosure, a kit is described for use in lifting an article. The kit includes a support arm, a lever arm that is movably connected to the support arm, a first headpiece supportable by the lever arm having a first configuration facilitating engagement with the article, and a second headpiece supportable by the lever arm having a second configuration facilitating engagement with the article different than the first configuration.
US10273128B2
A rope hoist includes: a rope drum around which a wire rope W is wound; a support shaft and a limit switch bolt arranged to be parallel to the rope drum; limit switch mechanisms; and a rope guide mechanism moving in accordance with a winding state of the wire rope W, and making the limit switch mechanisms perform on/off operation. Each of the limit switch mechanisms includes: a limit switch metal fitting into which both of the support shaft and the limit switch bolt are inserted, in which the limit switch metal fitting is sandwiched and fixed by nuts from both sides thereof in an axial direction of the limit switch bolt.
US10273126B1
A cord protector is combined with a cord to protect the cord. An outermost end head of the cord would revolve and is fixedly connected to the cord through a collar. The cord protector is assembled by a first protection seat and a second protection seat. The first protection seat and the second protection seat are made of flexible material resisting impact. Openings at the bottom of the first protection seat and the second protection seat co-clamp the cord. A top portion of the first protection seat is divided into two through grooves by a cross bar. Two side cord bodies of a revolving combination place of the cord respectively enter the two through grooves of the first protection seat and are joined by joining members. With the composition, it prevents collision between combined rigid components to protect the combined rigid components and operating users, thereby increasing use safety.
US10273125B2
A winch is described comprising a guide that includes a fairlead for positioning a cable around a rotatable drum, wherein one or more bristles are positioned within an orifice in the fairlead. The bristles may have an angular orientation such that they provide active cable wiping during winding and passive cable wiping during unwinding of the cable around the drum. Active wiping may reduce the likelihood that dirt, mud, debris, and/or other materials accumulate within the winch during winding.
US10273124B2
A rotation control system may be provided for a material handling machine. The rotation control system may include a boom and a work tool attached to the boom. A swing motor may be capable of swinging the boom and the work tool. A work tool motor may be capable of rotating the work tool relative to the boom. An input device may generate a first signal indicative of a desired swinging of the boom and a second signal indicative of a desired rotation of the work tool. A controller may be in communication with the input device, the swing motor, and the work tool motor. The controller may be capable of actuating the work tool motor based only on the second signal during a first mode of operation and may be capable of actuating the work tool motor based on swinging of the boom during a second mode of operation.
US10273122B2
The present invention relates to a climbing device for a revolving tower crane having a climbing frame movable along, the crane tower for climbing in and/or climbing down tower sections, wherein a guide is provided for the longitudinally movable support of the climbing frame with respect to the crane tower. In accordance with the invention, the guide has resiliently flexibly supported and/or resiliently flexible transverse support elements transversely to the travel direction of the climbing frame.
