US10289344B1
Managing input/output (‘I/O’) queues in a data storage system, including: receiving, by a host that is coupled to a plurality of storage devices via a storage network, a plurality of I/O operations to be serviced by a target storage device; determining, for each of a plurality of paths between the host and the target storage device, a data transfer maximum associated with the path; determining, for one or more of the plurality of paths, a cumulative amount of data to be transferred by I/O operations pending on the path; and selecting a target path for transmitting one or more of the plurality of I/O operations to the target storage device in dependence upon the cumulative amount of data to be transferred by I/O operations pending on the path and the data transfer maximum associated with the path.
US10289337B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for initiating data transfer operations between data storage devices based at least in part on relative physical orientation or position of the data storage devices. Data storage devices are disclosed that include a physical enclosure, a non-volatile memory disposed within the physical enclosure, one or more sensors, and a controller configured to determine a physical orientation of the data storage device relative to another data storage device using the one or more sensors and initiate a data storage operation involving the data storage device and the other data storage device based on the physical orientation.
US10289331B2
Systems and methods for use in enhancing and dynamically allocating random data bandwidth among requesting cores in multi-core processors to reduce system latencies and increase system performance. In one arrangement, a multicore processor includes a vertical pre-fetch random data buffer structure that stores random data being continuously generated by a random data generator (RNG) so that such random data is ready for consumption upon request from one or more of a plurality of processing cores of the multicore processor. Random data received at one data buffer from a higher level buffer may be automatically deposited into the lower level buffer if room exists in the lower level buffer. Requesting strands of a core may fetch random data directly from its corresponding first level pre-fetch buffer on demand rather than having to trigger a PIO access or the like to fetch random data from the RNG.
US10289328B2
A method for managing a memory includes: receiving a write request from a host; selecting an internal storage region among a plurality of internal storage regions of the memory based on data characterization information of a data received from a host according to the write request from a host; generating a metadata including the data characterization information of the data according to the write request; and storing the metadata along with the data in the selected internal storage region.
US10289325B1
A technique for supporting multi-tenancy in a NAS cluster provides a management database which tracks, for each tenant of the NAS cluster, a tenant-specific list of identifiers of NAS data nodes that are authorized to run NAS servers owned by respective tenants. In response to a request to run a NAS server owned by a particular tenant of the NAS cluster, the technique limits the scope of NAS data nodes on which the NAS server may be run to the ones identified in the tenant-specific list for that tenant in the management database. The management database thus determines where each tenant's NAS servers may be run, and participates in driving NAS cluster activities, such as NAS server provisioning, load balancing, and failover.
US10289313B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a storage device comprising a NAND flash memory. The storage device is to receive a read request from a computing host; identify a plurality of pages specified by the read request that are stored in the same group of memory cells of the NAND flash memory, wherein each memory cell of the group of memory cells is to store a bit of each of the plurality of identified pages; and read, in a single read cycle, the plurality of pages from the group of memory cells of the NAND flash memory.
US10289299B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects a pinch operation that is an operation of increasing or decreasing a distance between two touch positions on a touch panel; an adjustment unit that, upon reception of setting of a size of a non-standard size sheet, adjusts the set size in accordance with the pinch operation; an angle specification unit that specifies, as a pinch operation angle resulting from the pinch operation, an angle formed by a straight line connecting the two touch positions and one of two orthogonal coordinate axes of a coordinate system of the touch pad; and an adjustment amount change unit that changes an adjustment amount for the set size per operation in accordance with whether the pinch operation angle falls within a first angular range or a second angular range that does not overlap the first angular range.
US10289288B2
Systems of a vehicle for sharing vehicle controls are provided. One example system includes an on-board computer that is part of the vehicle and communications circuitry of the vehicle usable by the on-board computer. The communications circuitry is configured to make connections with a wireless network for accessing a server. The on-board computer is configured to execute instructions for enabling portable devices that enter the vehicle to make a wireless connection with the vehicle. Vehicle electronics are interfaced with one or more vehicle systems and the on-board computer. The on-board computer is configured to provide access to at least one graphical user interface viewable via the portable device using the wireless connection. The at least one graphical user interface includes input options that enable control for features of said vehicle systems of the vehicle. A location for the portable device within the vehicle is identified. The location is associated with select ones of the vehicle systems for an environment zone of the location, and vehicles systems that are not for the environment zone are not provided as input options via the graphical user interface provided for the portable device. The graphical user interface provides preferences associated with a user account when the portable device transfers credentials to the vehicle when making the wireless connection with the vehicle.
US10289282B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for creating a file activity feed for display on a user interface of a client computing device. In one aspect, data comprising a plurality of activities associated with a file may be obtained. A timestamp associated with a user identity of the file may be identified. One or more missed activities (e.g., those that occurred since a user was away from the file) may be identified from the plurality of activities based on the identified timestamp. It may be determined which missed activities of the one or more missed activities are relevant to a user associated with the user identity. The one or more missed activities determined to be relevant to the user associated with the user identity may be displayed within the file activity feed on the user interface of the client computing device.
US10289281B2
A task being initiated by a first data processing system can be detected. The method also can include, responsive to detecting the task being initiated, accessing a progress profile at least indicating a duration of time expected for the task to be performed, wherein the progress profile is generated based on crowd sourced statistics indicating respective durations of time to perform the task by a plurality of other data processing systems that performed the task. A progress bar can be presented on a display. A status of completion of performing the task can be indicated by reiteratively updating the progress bar, wherein the status of completion of performing the task by the first data processing system is determined based, at least, on the duration of time expected for the task to be performed as indicated in the progress profile.
US10289280B2
A device for programming an implantable fluid delivery device receives a therapeutic agent concentration, wherein the therapeutic agent concentration comprises a mass of the therapeutic agent per unit of volume. The device further determines a reference rate value based on the received therapeutic agent concentration, wherein the reference rate value comprises a mass per unit of time. The device additionally displays a graphical user interface comprising a horizontal axis and a vertical axis, wherein the horizontal axis represents time and the vertical axis represents rates of delivery of the fluid by the implantable fluid delivery device. The maximum value of the vertical axis displayed in the graphical user interface is determined based on the determined reference rate value and is determined to be less than a maximum therapeutic agent infusion rate.
US10289276B2
The present disclosure provides an example method and system for managing tab buttons. A tab sliding bar including multiple tab buttons is established. A focusing area is set up at a display area. When the tab sliding bar is slid, information of a tab button among the multiple tab buttons that has fallen within the focusing area is obtained. The information of the tab button that has fallen within the focusing area is used as input information at a page. The page is displayed according to the input information.
US10289275B2
A system and method for standardizing commands used for various application behaviors in an application regardless of the environment of the application. A client intercepts a user input standard command, retrieves a corresponding native command from a standardizing server and inputs the native command in the application.
US10289260B2
One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for application management are provided herein. For example, a system for application management may launch or execute multiple applications, such as a first application and a second application. The system for application management may provide a user with different ways of multi-tasking or ways to switch between applications, such as providing or generating home screen shortcuts for a most recently utilized application or a most frequently launched application. Additionally, the system for application management may enable multi-tasking or swapping of applications when a user double taps a home button, initiates a swipe gesture, hits a task swap button, speaks a voice command, etc. In this manner, application management is provided such that a user may engage in the use of multiple applications or switching between in a quick or efficient manner.
US10289259B2
Defining a presentation format targetable to a demographic by distributing a questionnaire to a terminal connected to a distributed computer network for interactive presentation to a representative in order to elicit selections from the representative, obtaining selections in response to any such interaction, determining preferences based on the selections using code executing in a processor, including positive preferences concerning affirmative selections in response to the interaction with the questionnaire, negative preferences from un-preferred selections in response to the interaction with the questionnaire, or both. The determined preferences are transformed into an integrated passcode using the processor so as to be representative of the selections, the passcode being a representation of the determined preferences for use in defining the presentation format and is used to establish presentation parameters in a message that is delivered over the network to the demographic. A tendency passcode can be defined which combines multiple integrated passcodes.
US10289258B2
A method for controlling a portable device comprising a first body in the center thereof, a second body positioned on the left side of the first body and a third body positioned on the right side of the first body, according to one embodiment of the present specification, may comprise the steps of; detecting a first triggering signal if a first faulted state is converted to a second faulted state; displaying a menu interface in the converted second faulted state on the basis of the detected first triggering signal; detecting a first control input with respect to the displayed menu interface; and if the second faulted state is converted to a third faulted state, displaying a first application in the third faulted state on the basis of the first control input.
US10289257B2
A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (322) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.
US10289250B2
A touchscreen system comprises a touch area. At least one transmitter is positioned proximate to outer edges of the touch area for transmitting first beams in a first direction. At least one beam splitter is positioned proximate to the outer edges of the touch area for splitting the first beams into at least second and third beams that travel through the touch area in at least second and third directions, respectively. The at least one beam splitter comprises a plurality of deflecting elements. Receivers are positioned proximate to the outer edges of the touch area for receiving the at least second and third beams.
US10289248B2
A control circuit of a touch panel is disclosed. The touch panel includes first and second terminals drawn from a first resistive film; and third and fourth terminals drawn from a second resistive film. The control circuit includes a coordinate detection circuit configured to generate an impedance detection signal for an impedance of the touch panel and a voltage detection signal for at least one of voltages of the first to fourth terminals, which are used for generating a coordinate touched by a user. The control circuit further includes a memory configured to store initial data corresponding to an initial state impedance of at least one predetermined path of the touch panel. A calibration circuit of the control circuit acquires an operation state impedance of the path and calibrate the coordinate detection circuit based on detection data corresponding to the operation state impedance and the initial state impedance.
US10289242B2
According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a plurality of pixel circuits arrayed two-dimensionally. Each of the pixel circuits comprises a display element and a pixel memory configured to store a signal to drive the display element. An X-directional driver and a Y-directional driver can select arbitrary pixel circuits and drive the pixel circuits. A touch panel controller converts a sensing output of a touch-type input panel to coordinate data. A display controller receives the coordinate data and partially rewrites the coordinate data in units of pixel circuits of the display device via the X-directional driver and the Y-directional driver.
US10289236B2
To provide a display in which the convergence of potential fluctuation toward the GND potential is improved, while the switch on the driver IC side is kept small.The display includes a plurality of drive electrodes for display and touch detection; a drive electrode driver configured to apply a driving signal to each of the plurality of the drive electrodes; and a first driving signal selector unit and a second driving signal selector unit configured to select each of the plurality of the drive electrodes to which the drive electrode driver applies the driving signal. A ground wiring line to which the drive electrode selected by the first driving signal selector unit is connected in a touch detection period is formed on a substrate on which the plurality of the drive electrodes are formed.
US10289235B2
Touch and hover switching is disclosed. A touch and hover sensing device can switch between a touch mode and a hover mode. During a touch mode, the device can be switched to sense one or more objects touching the device. During a hover mode, the device can be switched to sense one or more objects hovering over the device. The device can include a panel having multiple sensors for sensing a touching object and/or a hovering object and a touch and hover control system for switching the device between the touch and hover modes. The device's touch and hover control system can include a touch sensing circuit for coupling to the sensors to measure a capacitance indicative of a touching object during the touch mode, a hover sensing circuit for coupling to the sensors to measure a capacitance indicative of a hovering object during the hover mode, and a switching mechanism for switching the sensors to couple to either the touch sensing circuit or the hover sensing circuit. The device can switch modes based on a condition of the device, such as an expiration of a timer or a relative distance of an object from the panel.
US10289230B2
A graphene touch sensor is provided. The graphene touch sensor includes a first substrate, a first pattern disposed on the first substrate and having a first protruding region and a first concave region, a second substrate on the first substrate, a second pattern disposed on the second substrate to face the first pattern and having a second protruding region and a second concave region, and a graphene layer between the first pattern and the second pattern.
US10289229B2
Provided is a touch panel. The touch panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other; a plurality of stacks separated by a pixel definition layer and each including an anode block and an organic light emitting block; a plurality of cathodes; a plurality of strip-shaped first touch electrodes arranged in a first direction and each extending in a second direction; and a plurality of strip-shaped second touch electrodes arranged in the second direction and each extending in the first direction. The first touch electrodes may arranged on the same layer with the anodes or arranged on the same layer with the cathodes, and are directly on the pixel definition layer. A projection of the strip-shaped first touch electrode is located between projections of two adjacent cathodes.
US10289225B2
An organic light-emitting display (OLED) device with an integrated pressure sensor is provided. The OLED device includes a substrate, an organic light-emitting element, and a back-plate. The substrate has a thin-film transistor and has flexibility. The organic light-emitting element is connected to the thin-film transistor on the substrate. The back-plate supports the substrate under the substrate and has a pressure sensor configured to measure the intensity of a touch input. The OLED device with an integrated pressure sensor includes a pressure sensor configured to support a substrate and measure the intensity of a touch input, so that a separate pressure sensor attached to the display device in an add-on type touch screen panel can be eliminated.
US10289214B2
A method and device of controlling a virtual mouse and a head-mounted displaying device are disclosed. The method of controlling a virtual mouse includes, but is not limited to utilizing a sensor provided in a head-mounted displaying device to gather a user's head motion data; calculating the gathered head motion data, to obtain a two-dimensional coordinate value in a coordinate system where the displaying screen of the head-mounted displaying device is located; and according to the two-dimensional coordinate value, controlling a virtual mouse of the head-mounted displaying device to perform a corresponding mouse moving operation on the displaying screen. The method directly controls the moving of a virtual mouse according to the user's head motion, and omits externally connected physical mice. Therefore the input control of the head-mounted displaying device is more precise, user operation is facilitated, and the usage experience is improved.
US10289208B2
A wearable sensor system is disclosed that provides a measurable magnetic field that changes horizontally within the range of motion of human limbs. The wearable sensor system includes a magnetic sensing device, and one or more magnet devices that provide the measurable magnetic field with a strength exceeding the Earth's magnetic field. To this end, the magnetic sensing system provides a “personal” magnetic field about a user, with that magnetic field traveling with the user and overpowering adjacent interfering fields. The wearable sensor system may include a sensor arrangement that measures a strength of the personal magnetic field and field direction to perform horizontal localization, and may send a representation of a same to a remote computing device to cause an action to occur. Some such actions include output of pre-recorded or synthesized musical notes, for example.
US10289199B2
Localized haptic feedback at discrete locations or regions of a surface is disclosed. Controllable haptic transmission nodes can be selectively controlled to transmit a haptic feedback signal to a surface. The nodes can be controlled between a first state that transmits the haptic feedback signal to the surface and a second state that dampens or prevents the haptic feedback signal to the surface. The nodes can be located around the perimeter of the surface, where each node can be associated with a particular location or region of the surface and can provide haptic feedback to that particular location or region when the node is selected. A touch surface of a touch sensitive device is an exemplary surface for using localized haptic feedback.
US10289198B2
Technologies for remotely controlling a separate computing device includes a wearable computing device to receive sensor data from an optical sensor of the wearable computing device. The sensor data comprises data is indicative of a skin surface of a forearm of a user of the wearable computing device. The wearable computing device generates control data based on the received sensor data. The generated control data is transmitted to the separate computing device. In some embodiments, an x-coordinate is generated based on detection of longitudinal movement of the wearable computing device relative to the skin surface of the forearm of the user and a y-coordinate is generated based on detection of rotational movement of the wearable computing device relative to the skin surface of the forearm of the user.
US10289197B2
A method and apparatus for determining whether a shift in gear is appropriate based on a gaze of an operator. The method includes detecting a shift from a first gear to engage a second gear, receiving gaze information associated with the gaze of the user, based on the gaze information, determining whether the second gear is inappropriate, and performing a corrective action corresponding to the inappropriate second gear in response to determining that the second gear is inappropriate.
US10289190B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing power to devices in a network, using a centralized power allocation controller. The method of managing power consumption of a plurality of devices includes receiving scheduled upcoming calendar events and/or activities from one or more of a plurality of devices connected in a network. The method further includes centrally managing power consumption of a device of the plurality of devices in the network based on the scheduled upcoming calendar events and/or activities.
US10289187B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a keyboard, a backlight and a hardware processor. The backlight illuminates the keyboard. The hardware processor is electrically coupled to the backlight. The hardware processor is configured to gradually decrease brightness of the backlight during a period of time of which the backlight is continuously on.
US10289182B2
A power conditioning circuit includes at least one power storage device having electrodes coupled for receiving power from a DC power source. At least one active current limit (ACL) circuit coupled to the electrodes of the power storage device is for limiting a maximum power output from the power storage device under fault conditions. A DC-to-DC converter has its inputs coupled to the ACL circuit. At least one crowbar circuit has a first terminal and a second terminal and a shorting device coupled to an output of the DC-to-DC converter for providing output terminals for the power conditioning circuit.
US10289167B2
A portable computing device is disclosed. The portable computing device can take many forms such as a laptop computer, a tablet computer, and so on. The portable computing device can include at least a single piece housing. The single piece housing including a plurality of steps. The plurality of mounting steps are formed by at least removing a preselected amount of housing material at predetermined locations on the interior surface. At least some of the mounting steps are used to mount at least some of the plurality of internal operating components housing.
US10289165B2
An electronic device having two chassis stably attached to each other is provided. The electronic device includes a first chassis having a display and a second chassis detachable from the first chassis. The second chassis includes a support post that protrudes from the attachment surface to which the first chassis is attached and has a claw portion on a tip side. The first chassis includes a post hole into which the support post is inserted and an engaging projection that engages with the claw portion of the support post inserted into the post hole and elastically biased so that the claw portion can be pressed towards the insertion direction to the post hole. The first chassis has an engaging slider having the engaging projection where the engaging projection is elastically biased in a direction of engaging with the claw portion.
US10289164B2
A rollable display device includes: a panel support including a plurality of support bars arranged in a direction and a plurality of flexible coupling portions between support bars of the plurality of support bars and coupling the plurality of support bars together; and a flexible display panel fixed to respective front sides of support bars of the plurality of support bars, and the plurality of support bars includes a first support bar that is spaced apart from an outermost support bar of the plurality of support bars, and the first support bar includes a pair of first holding bars that are spreadable toward an outside from a rear side of the first support bar.
US10289158B2
A structure suitable for a portable information terminal or a wearable device is provided. In addition, an electronic device having a novel structure that can have various forms is provided. It is preferable that a buffer layer which absorbs a difference in the amount of change in form be provided between adjacent film substrates which overlap with each other. As the buffer layer, a gelled resin material, a rubber resin material, a liquid material, an air layer, or the like can be used. Furthermore, an optical film such as a polarizing film or a color filter may be used as the buffer layer. A plurality of buffer layers may be provided in an electronic device.
US10289153B2
A member for chassis is provided. The member for chassis includes a frame part that is made of a thermoplastic resin bonded to at least a part of an external-form end face of a laminated sheet with an intermediate layer arranged between a pair of fiber reinforced resin sheets. The thermoplastic resin that configures the frame part is extended to a surface of the laminated sheet. An opening is provided on the surface of the laminated sheet that has been covered with the extended thermoplastic resin, and the member for chassis includes an anchor part formed by putting the thermoplastic resin into the opening.
US10289152B1
An interactive multimedia assistant device (IMAD) includes an interactive core component (ICC) and a swappable personality customizable skin (SPCS) for performing interactive communication and control actions based on multimedia inputs. The ICC includes multimedia sensors for recognizing multimedia inputs; a storage medium for storing the multimedia inputs and media content; a controller for processing the multimedia inputs, modulating an audio output, and performing control actions based on the multimedia inputs; output devices for rendering outputs of the controller, and one or more communication interfaces for communicating with the SPCS. The SPCS is operably coupled on and activated by the ICC. The SPCS is programmed with a unique identifier that identifies a personality of the SPCS. The SPCS directs and programs behavior of the ICC based on the unique identifier, thereby allowing the ICC to assume the personality for performing interactive communication and control actions based on the multimedia inputs.
US10289151B2
An optical processing system comprises an optical input; one or more spatial light modulator arrays; and a detector array; wherein at least of said spatial light modulator arrays incorporates a plurality of data elements focusing elements; said data elements and/or said focussing elements having multiple degrees of freedom.
US10289150B2
A micro-movement subassembly as a precise driving screw for angle adjustment, comprising a shank, a turnbuckle, and a central cylindrical shaft. The subassembly is precise for linear displacement, good orientation, stable and reliable adjustment, which can be used for a variety of precision-oriented precision micro-angle adjustment of the drive screw.
US10289148B2
An operating device and an operating method are disclosed. The operating device includes a processing assembly and a control assembly. The control assembly includes a control body, an auxiliary unit and a collecting unit. The auxiliary unit is arranged on the control body, a limb of a user is put on said auxiliary unit, and the collecting unit is arranged on the limb of the user. The collecting unit is configured to collect trembling signals indicating limb trembling of the user, and transmit the trembling signals to the processing assembly. The processing assembly is configured to generate driving signals according to the trembling signals and transmit the driving signals to the auxiliary unit. The auxiliary unit is configured to keep a motion state of said auxiliary unit to be the same as a limb trembling state of the user according to said driving signals.
US10289145B2
A voltage generating circuit, in which the influence of offset of an amplifier on an output voltage is reduced, has first and second bipolar transistors (Q1, Q2) having emitter terminals at the same electric potential. A base terminal of Q1 is disposed on a collector side of Q2. A first resistance element connects the collector side of Q2 with the base side of Q2; and a second resistance element (R1) connects a collector side of Q1 to R2. A third resistance element (R3) connects a base terminal of Q2 with the electric potential of the emitter terminals. An amplifier (A1) outputs a voltage based on a voltage difference between the collector sides of Q1 and Q2; and a voltage-current converting section (MP1, MP2) converts amplifier output into a current supplied to the connection node of R1 and R2. A voltage is then output on the basis of the generated current.
US10289133B2
The present invention concerns a method for starting a test testing the operation of at least one fan designed to cool at least one computer of an aircraft turbojet engine, said method comprising steps of:—comparing (E1) the number of flights carried out by said aircraft since the last operation of the fan (N) with a first threshold (y),—comparing (E3) the number of flights carried out by said aircraft since the last operation of the fan (N) with a second threshold (x), said second threshold being greater than or equal to the first threshold,—acquiring an environmental parameter (T) and checking if the parameter satisfies a limit environmental condition of operation of the fan (E6),—controlling (E8) the starting of said fan operation test when the number of flights carried out by said aircraft since the last operation of the fan (N) is greater than or equal to said first threshold (y), less than said second threshold (x) and when the acquired parameter (T) satisfies said limit environmental condition.
US10289121B2
Embodiments include devices and methods for vehicle collision avoidance. A processor of the vehicle may receive sensor data comprising one or more points. The processor may determine a distance and a direction from the vehicle to the one or more points. The processor may determine a velocity constraint for each of the one or more points based on the determined distance and direction from the vehicle to the one or more points. Based on a navigation instruction, the processor may determine one or more velocity solutions that satisfy the one or more velocity constraints. The processor may select a velocity solution from the determined one or more velocity solutions based on the navigation instruction, and may adjust a vehicle velocity based on the selected velocity solution.
US10289108B2
A device for use in monitoring operation of a plurality of system assets includes a storage device configured to store a model of a plurality of system assets and a processor coupled to the storage device. The processor is configured to receive data representative of a status of the system assets, and display, in a first display state, a plurality of asset images representative of the system assets using the model. The processor is also configured to display, in a second display state, a first asset image of the asset images within the display upon a determination that the system asset represented by first asset image is in an alarm state, and display, in a third display state, the remaining asset images within the display upon a determination that the system assets represented by the remaining asset images are not in an alarm state.
US10289101B2
A method and system to help control body-shop processing of vehicles, based on timing of interaction with a touch-screen display. In an example implementation, a body shop will be equipped with a computing system including a touch-screen display, with the computing system being configured to manage presentation on the display of graphical representations of job-cards for individual body-shop jobs, such as individual vehicles in for repair. With such an arrangement, body shop personnel could drag and drop job cards from one section to another to indicate transitions of jobs between body-shop processing steps. The computing system will then advantageously make use of data regarding the timing of those drag-and-drop operations as a basis to control body-shop processing, such as be predicting a processing duration of a job currently in process and taking action to modify processing of the job based on the predicted duration for instance.
US10289100B2
The trajectory planning system for integrating a computer numerical control (CNC) machine, trajectory planning device, trajectory planning method, and computer program thereof are provided. The aforementioned trajectory planning device includes a determining module. The determining module configures the related processing speed or processing acceleration based on type of the processing segment so as to provide a processing setting. Furthermore, the aforementioned trajectory planning device determines the processing segment whether the linear or circular segment and plans the tangent or normal acceleration of related processing segment so as to optimize the processing setting and finish the high order processing trajectory planning.
US10289094B2
In an example, an expected sky condition is calculated for a geographic location, a time of day, and a date based on a mathematical model. A predicted distribution of direct and interreflected solar radiation within the environment is calculated based on the expected sky condition. Measurement data from one or more photosensors is obtained that provides measurements of an initial distribution of direct and interreflected radiation within the environment, including radiation from solar and electrical lighting sources. A target distribution of direct and interreflected artificial electromagnetic radiation produced by electrical lighting is determined, based on the measurement data and the predicted distribution of direct and interreflected solar radiation, to achieve the target distribution of direct and interreflected radiation within the environment. Output parameters are set to one or more devices to modify the initial distribution to achieve the target distribution of direct and interreflected radiation within the environment, including diffusion characteristics of the materials between environments.
US10289090B2
A control device is provided. The control device includes a communication module, a processing module, a driving module and a control module. The communication module is configured for receiving a control instruction forwarded from another control device. The control instruction corresponds to a target object of at least one object. The processing module is configured for capturing a target location of the target object. The driving module is configured for driving the control device to move according to the target location. The control module is configured for performing an operation task to the target object according to the control instruction after the control device is moved according to the target location.
US10289084B2
According to examples, steam breakthrough detection and prevention for a steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) well may include accessing real-time data associated with the SAGD well. Parameter values associated with an operation of the SAGD well may be determined based on the real-time data associated with the SAGD well. A potential of occurrence of steam breakthrough may be determined based on an analysis of selected parameter values from the parameter values associated with the operation of the SAGD well. A procedure to prevent the occurrence of the steam breakthrough may be determined based on an application of hypothetical parameter values associated with the operation of the SAGD well to an engineering analysis model associated with the SAGD well. Further, the operation of the SAGD well may be controlled based on the procedure to prevent the occurrence of the steam breakthrough.
US10289080B2
A system includes at least one variable speed generator system configured to provide power to a load bus and at least one fixed speed generator configured to provide power to the load bus. The system also includes a solid state generator (SSG) system including at least one energy storage device and a converter coupled to the at least one energy storage device and configured to transfer power between the at least one energy storage device and the load bus. The system further includes a control system configured to control the at least one variable speed generator system, the at least one fixed speed generator and the SSG system responsive to changes in a load on the load bus.
US10289078B2
Method, system and computer executable instructions for controlling a process.
US10289077B2
Method, system and computer executable instructions for controlling a process.
US10289073B2
An information display device includes: a position changing unit that changes a position of an information indicator in accordance with a type of information to be displayed by the information indicator; and an operation unit that causes the position changing unit to change the position of the information indicator that represents one type of information to a new position that represents another type of information, the operation unit causing the position changing unit to perform a movement completion operation for indicating to a viewer that the type of information displayed has been changed, in accordance with the another type of the information to be displayed when the position changing unit finishes changing the position of the information indicator to the new position.
US10289062B2
Disclosed is a development cartridge attachable/detachable to/from a main body of an image forming apparatus. The development cartridge includes at least a photosensitive drum to form an electrostatic latent image thereon or a developer roller to develop the electrostatic latent image by supplying a developer to the photosensitive drum, a housing to support the at least one photosensitive drum or the developer roller. A developer roller gear may be provided on a rotation shaft of the developer roller to connect to a driving gear of the main body when the development cartridge is attached to the main body, and a driven coupler provided at an end of the photosensitive drum to couple to a driving coupler located coaxially with the driving gear in the main body, based on shaft coupling when the development cartridge is attached to the main body.
US10289055B2
When viewed in an axial direction, a pair of circumferential ends and a notched portion of a cylindrical shaft are at different positions in a circumferential direction, and a first central angle of a first imaginary arc which connects the pair of circumferential ends and a first force receiving portion nearest to the pair of circumferential ends in an opposite direction to a direction, in which a force is received, from the pair of circumferential ends to the first force receiving portion in the opposite direction is smaller than a second central angle of a second imaginary arc, which connects the pair of circumferential ends and a second force receiving portion nearest to the pair of circumferential ends in the direction, in which the force is received, from the pair of circumferential ends to the second force receiving portion in the direction in which the force is received.
US10289053B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first sheet storage, a second sheet storage, an image forming unit, a sheet conveyer configured to convey sheets from the first and second sheet storages to the image forming unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to set new sheets as a type of sheets stored in the first sheet storage and image-decolored sheets as a type of sheets stored in the second sheet storage, switch a sheet feeding source from the first sheet storage to the second sheet storage when the first sheet storage runs out of sheets during execution of a first image forming job that includes no sheet post-processing, and stop image forming by the image forming unit when the first sheet storage runs out of sheets during execution of a second image forming job that includes sheet post-processing.
US10289040B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing device having: a heating member having a heat source; a pressing member; and a fixing member heated by the heating member and forming a nip portion passing through a recording material together with the pressing member; and a hardware processor that: estimates a temperature of the fixing member based on a temperature of the heating member; and estimates a durability state of the fixing member according to the temperature of the fixing member estimated.
US10289037B2
A fixing device includes a lateral end heater, disposed opposite a lateral end of an inner circumferential surface of a fixing rotator in an axial direction thereof, to heat the fixing rotator and a thermal conduction aid contacting the fixing rotator and the lateral end heater to conduct heat. The lateral end heater includes a power supply portion disposed outboard from a lateral end of the thermal conduction aid in a longitudinal direction thereof and disposed opposite the inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. The power supply portion includes an electrode. A cover covers the power supply portion and includes a cover face disposed opposite the inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. A height adjuster adjusts a height of the cover face of the cover and causes the cover face to define an identical plane with a fixing rotator side face of the thermal conduction aid.
US10289036B2
In an image forming apparatus, a peripheral velocity difference is provided between a peripheral velocity of an intermediate transfer belt and a peripheral velocity of an image bearing member, and when a relative moving distance between the image bearing member and the intermediate transfer belt, which is generated in the transfer nip portion because of the peripheral velocity difference, is taken as a shift amount of the toner image, a lower limit value of the shift amount is set to be at least ⅜, preferably half of an average perimeter calculated from a weight-average particle diameter of the toner, which is measured in advance.
US10289032B2
An oil removing device includes a first heating member that at an outer surface thereof contacts a non-image surface of a recording medium which is transported, and that heats the recording medium, a toner image that is formed by using liquid developer that contains volatile oil and toner being transferred to the recording medium; and a second heating member that is disposed on a downstream side of the first heating member in a transport direction, the second heating member contacting at an outer surface thereof the non-image surface of the recording medium and heating the recording medium. In the oil removing device, a non-contact region where the non-image surface of the recording medium does not contact the first heating member and the second heating member is provided between the first heating member and the second heating member.
US10289028B2
In a developing apparatus, a housing has a first opening. A shutter is movable between an open position and a closed position. A locking member is movable between a lock position and a release position. The locking member is located between the housing and the shutter in a cartridge-attachment direction. The locking member is located at the lock position in a case where the toner cartridge is detached from the developing apparatus. The locking member is in contact with the toner cartridge, thereby moving from the lock position to the release position in a case where the toner cartridge is attached to the developing apparatus. A cover having a second opening that is in communication with the first opening in a state where the shutter is at the open position is located at an opposite side of the locking member with respect to the shutter in the cartridge-attachment direction.
US10289027B2
A developing device includes a developer carrier that rotates while holding a developer, a developer container that supports the developer carrier and contains the developer, a transport member that is supported in the developer container and that transports the developer by rotating, and a conveying member that is disposed on the transport member and that conveys air in the developer container toward an exhaust port, which enables the air in the developer container to be exhausted outside, along with rotation of the transport member.
US10289022B2
A developing device includes a developing member that develops an electrostatic latent image on an image carrying member with developer; a housing that houses and supports the developing member and has an open part facing the image carrying member; a storage portion provided inside the housing and storing the developer; and a leakage suppressing member provided at an edge of the open part that is on a downstream side in a direction of rotation of the developing member, the leakage suppressing member suppressing leakage of the developer from the housing toward the image carrying member. The housing has an opening on the downstream side in the direction of rotation with respect to the leakage suppressing member and on an upstream side in the direction of rotation with respect to the storage portion, the opening being open from a side of the developing member toward the outside of the housing.
US10289018B2
Herein is described a liquid electrostatic ink composition comprising a pigment comprising mica coated with titanium dioxide and an additional metal oxide.
US10289006B2
A beam delivery apparatus is used with a laser produced plasma source. The beam delivery apparatus comprises variable zoom optics (550) operable to condition a beam of radiation so as to output a conditioned beam having a configurable beam diameter (b) and a plurality of mirrors (530a, 530b) operable to direct the conditioned beam of radiation to a plasma generation site. The beam delivery apparatus enables control of the axial position of the beam where the beam has a particular diameter, with respect to the beam's focus position (570). Also, a method is used to control the axial position of the location at a plasma generation site where a beam has a particular diameter, with respect to the beam's focus position.
US10289004B2
A developing apparatus includes: a substrate holder that hold a substrate horizontally; a developer nozzle that supplies a developer onto the substrate to form a liquid puddle; a turning flow generation mechanism including a rotary member that rotates about an axis perpendicular to the substrate while the rotary member is being in contact with the liquid puddle thereby to generate a turning flow in the liquid puddle of the developer formed on the substrate; and a moving mechanism for moving the turning flow generation mechanism along a surface of the substrate. The line-width uniformity of a pattern can be improved by forming turning flows in a desired region of the substrate and stirring the developer.
US10289000B2
A photosensitive composition is disclosed including a fluorinated photo cross-linkable polymer provided in a fluorinated solvent such as a hydrofluoroether. The photo cross-linkable polymer includes a first repeating unit having a fluorine-containing group but not a cinnamate group, and a second repeating unit having a fluorine-containing cinnamate group. The polymer has a total fluorine content in a range of 30 to 60% by weight. The composition can be used to form patterned barrier or dielectric structures over substrates and devices such as organic electronic devices.
US10288998B2
A mask blank with resist film, includes a substrate having a thin film; and a negative resist film formed on a surface of the thin film, wherein in the resist film, a photoacid generator low-concentration region is formed at a part where the resist film is in contact with the thin film; a concentration of the photoacid generator low-concentration region is lower than that of the other region of the resist film; a thickness of the photoacid generator low-concentration region is 5% to 40% of the thickness of the resist film; and a concentration of the photo acid generator at a part in contact with the thin film in the photoacid generator low-concentration region is a value obtained by decreasing the concentration of the photo acid generator in the other region of the resist film by 10% to 40%.
US10288993B2
A wavelength conversion member formed of a single sintered body primarily made of a ceramic material has a first area and a second area having light emission characteristics different from each other.
US10288989B2
A projector that projects an image on a screen includes a projection port for projecting the image in a direction tilting to the lower side with respect to the horizontal direction, a housing, and an exhaust panel provided in an exhaust port formed in the housing and configured to restrict a moving direction of the air discharged through the exhaust port. The exhaust port is formed on a right side surface toward a projecting direction of the image in the housing. The exhaust panel forms a channel that connects the inner side and the outer side of the housing. The channel has a tilt coming closer to a direction vertically opposite to the projecting direction of the image and closer to the screen from the inner side toward the outer side.
US10288966B2
A thin film transistor array panel includes a first substrate, a gate line disposed on the first substrate and includes a lower layer including titanium, a middle layer including a transparent conductive material, and an upper layer including copper, a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate and includes a lower layer including titanium, and an upper layer including the transparent conductive material, a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate line and the pixel electrode, a semiconductor layer disposed on the gate insulating layer, a data line and a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer, a passivation layer which covers the data line and the drain electrode, and a common electrode disposed on the passivation layer.
US10288965B2
This semiconductor device (100) includes: a thin-film transistor (101); an interlevel insulating layer (14) including a first insulating layer (12); a first transparent conductive layer (15) formed on the interlevel insulating layer and having a first hole (15p); a dielectric layer (17) covering the side surface of the first transparent conductive layer closer to the first hole; and a second transparent conductive layer (19a) overlapping at least partially with the first transparent conductive layer via the dielectric layer, which has a second hole (17p). The first insulating layer has a third hole (12p). The interlevel insulating layer and dielectric layer have a first contact hole (CH1), the sidewall of which includes the side surfaces of the second and third holes (17p, 12p). At least a part of the side surface of the third hole is aligned with that of the second hole. The second transparent conductive layer contacts with the drain electrode in the first contact hole to form a contact portion (105), which at least partially overlaps with a gate line layer when viewed along a normal to a substrate.
US10288960B2
The present invention discloses an array substrate, and the array substrate comprises a substrate, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines; the substrate comprises a display region and a peripheral circuit region located at peripheral sides of the display region, and each data line comprises a data line outer section and a data line inner section, and each scan line comprises a scan line outer section and a scan line inner section; the peripheral circuit region further comprises a short connection line, an enable signal line, a plurality of first thin film transistors, a plurality of second thin film transistors, a plurality of first electrostatic discharge protection circuits, a plurality of second electrostatic discharge protection circuits, a plurality of third electrostatic discharge protection circuits and a plurality of fourth electrostatic discharge protection circuits.
US10288959B2
A terminal structure that keeps the resistance of its connecting portion small and secures mechanical reliability is to be achieved. A display device includes a display region and a terminal region. A terminal formed in the terminal region is formed with a terminal metal, a first oxide conductive film covering the end portion of the terminal metal, and a second oxide conductive film covering the first oxide conductive film and the terminal metal. The first oxide conductive film has an opening in the center part of the terminal.
US10288946B2
A flexible liquid crystal panel includes a first and a second flexible substrates opposite to each other, a first and a second flat layers arranged on inner sides of the first and second flexible substrates respectively, a color filter layer arranged between the second flexible substrate and the second flat layer, a spacing retaining wall formed on the second flat layer, seal glue coated on a side of the spacing retaining wall adjacent to the first flexible substrate, and liquid crystal filled between the first and second flat layers. The spacing retaining wall includes a plurality of transverse parts parallel with one another and extending transversely and a plurality of longitudinal parts parallel with one another and extending longitudinally. The transverse parts and the longitudinal parts intersect one another to separate a plurality of sub pixels and define and delimit closed areas in which the liquid crystal is filled.
US10288935B2
An electronic device may generate content that is to be displayed on a display. The display may have an array of liquid crystal display pixels for displaying image frames of the content. The display may be operated in at least a normal viewing mode, a privacy mode, an outdoor viewing mode, and a power saving mode. The different view modes may exhibit different viewing angles. In one configuration, the display may include a switchable phase retarder that can be selectively activated to help reduce contrast ratios at higher viewing angles. A rotated pixel design that includes one or more groups of parallel fingers can be used to help properly align the low contrast regions. In another configuration, the display may include multiple electrically controlled birefringence (ECB) layers that can be selectively activated to provide a desired cone of vision, a region outside of which exhibits substantially reduced contrast ratios.
US10288929B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display panel also includes a first polarized film and a first frame glue, and the first polarized film adheres to a surface of the first substrate facing toward the second substrate. The first frame glue connects between the first substrate and the second substrate such that a closed cell is formed cooperatively by the first substrate and the second substrate. The first polarized film and the liquid crystal layer are received within the closed cell. The present disclosure also relates to a liquid crystal display device. The first polarized film is isolated from external environment so as to enhance the stability of the first polarized film.
US10288928B2
Provided are a photomask and a method of manufacturing a color filter substrate. This belongs to the field of display technologies, and can be used to simplify manufacturing process of the color filter substrate and improve manufacturing efficiency of the color filter substrate.
US10288923B2
This disclosure discloses a COA array substrate, including a base substrate, and an array of pixel structures disposed on the base substrate, wherein the pixel structure is provided with a color filter layer, the color filter layer includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of the color filter layer covers a display region of the pixel structure correspondingly, the second portion of the color filter layer covers a non-display region of the pixel structure correspondingly; in the second portion of the color filter layer is provided with vent holes. This disclosure also discloses a liquid crystal display panel, including an array substrate and a cell aligning substrate disposed oppositely, the liquid crystal molecules are disposed between the array substrate and the cell aligning substrate, wherein the array substrate described above uses the COA array substrate.
US10288916B2
A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device is capable of consuming relatively less power and significantly reducing flickering that may occur when the LCD device is driven by low frequency, the LCD device including: a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a gate line; a data line intersecting the gate line; a timing controller outputting a gate control signal by a frequency of about 15 hertz (Hz) to about 30 Hz; a first electrode on the first substrate; and a second electrode on the first substrate, the second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode. The first electrode includes a plurality of first branch electrodes having an angle of about 9 degrees to about 30 degrees with respect to a normal line which is orthogonal to the gate line.
US10288911B2
A device for emission of polarized light and its detection including a light emitter configured to generate an outgoing light beam directed along an optical emission axis, a light receiver configured to detect an incoming light beam directed along an optical detection axis, and a polarization unit positioned in the optical emission axis and optical detection axis and configured to polarize the outgoing light beam and the incoming light beam. To allow a compact assembly, the device, by reducing the number of its constituent parts and by providing a good detection reliability of the device, the optical emission axis and the optical detection axis are angled with respect to one another such that they include an intersection point and the polarization unit includes a polarizer configured to deflect light from at least one of the incoming light beam towards the optical detection axis and the outgoing light beam away from the optical emission axis, the deflected light being defined by a polarization state produced by the polarizer.
US10288910B2
The invention relates to a device for determining the position of a characterizing point of an eye of a wearer provided with a spectacle frame (400), including: at least one image sensor apparatus (120); and positioning element for positioning the image sensor device relative to the spectacle frame (400), such that, when the spectacle frame is arranged in a useful position on the head of the wearer, the image sensor apparatus is capable of capturing an image of the eye of the wearer; and element for determining the position of a characterizing point of the eye from the at least one image of the eye of the wearer captured by the image sensor apparatus. The invention also relates to a method for determining the position of a characterizing point of an eye of a wearer, a device and a method for determining the direction of the gaze and a method for determining associated areas of wear of an ophthalmic lens.
US10288908B2
A modular electronic communication system is disclosed with interchangeable components attachable on eyewear. A plurality of pre-existing eyewear models can each be retrofitted by attachment of one or more of such interchangeable components to that eyewear. Such components can be configured for custom attachment with a particular eyewear or such components can be configured for universal attachment with one or more different eyewear models. The communication system can be configured to produce an adjustable heads-up display for the wearer of the eyewear. The electronic communication system can comprise a plurality of interchangeable, electronically interconnected components, such as a first optical module, a first base module, a base link, a second base module, and/or a second optical module. In some embodiments, one or more or all of the components of the electronic communication system are integrally and permanently attached to an eyewear and are not interchangeable or modular.
US10288907B2
The invention relates to a mold (2) for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens or an ophthalmic lens blank called a puck (3), equipped with an insert (1), said mold comprising a first portion (2A) intended to mold the front face of the ophthalmic lens or puck, a second portion (2B) intended to mold the back face of the ophthalmic lens or puck and at least one third portion (2C) intended to mold a peripheral lateral face of the ophthalmic lens or puck. According to the invention, said mold (2) comprises at least one recess (2B1, 2B2, 2B3, 2B4) for positioning the insert (1), before and during the molding.
US10288900B2
Glasses frames including temples that may be worn comfortably beneath a head gear, such as helmets, headsets, earmuffs, hard hats, and speakers. In some cases, the temples may be thin, substantially flat, and flexible to allow the temples to deform without substantially increasing the pressure applied by the head gear to a head of a wearer.
US10288898B1
Eyeglasses include a temple having upper and lower notches spaced proximally of an opening. A cord including a looped end may be passed through the opening and then over a proximal end of the temple to engage the notches. A related method is also disclosed.
US10288892B1
An optical relay system that is capable of re-imaging an image or a pupil from a shared location to two or more optical systems, or from two or more optical systems to a shared location is disclosed.
US10288868B2
Exemplary apparatus, systems, methods of making, and methods of using a configuration in an optical arrangement for forward viewing spectrally encoded endoscopy (SEE) probe can be provided. For example, the probe can comprise a light focusing component, a light guiding component, a light reflecting component, and a grating component.
US10288859B2
A surgical microscope has an upper face provided with a light beam outlet. An assistant scope is mounted on the light beam outlet, and is rotatable in a horizontal plane so as to direct in any direction in the plane.
US10288856B2
A variable magnification optical system includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and at least one lens unit. A second predetermined positive lens element satisfies conditional expressions (1) and (2) and a second predetermined negative lens element satisfies the following conditional expressions (3) and (4). The second lens unit includes three sub-lens units and the following conditional expressions (5) and (6) are satisfied: 0.520<(θg,F)G2p<0.610 (1), 0.680<(θC,t)G2p<0.900 (2), 0.520<(θg,F)G2n<0.560 (3), 0.750<(θC,t)G2n<0.900 (4), −0.25
US10288855B2
An attachment optical system detachably attached to an image capturing optical system, includes a first lens provided with a first aspherical surface including a plurality of concave portions and convex portions that are formed in a rotation direction with respect to an optical system, and a second lens provided with a second aspherical surface including a plurality of concave portions and convex portions that are formed in a rotation direction with respect to the optical axis, and a distance between the first aspherical surface and the second aspherical surface in an optical axis direction changes by relatively rotating the first lens and the second lens around the optical axis.
US10288852B2
An optical lens assembly, which has an optical axis, includes, at least one dual molded lens element having two plastic parts with different colors. The dual molded lens element includes a transparent portion and a light absorbing portion, wherein the transparent portion has an optical effective region. The dual molded lens element has an outer diameter surface connecting a first side surface and a second side surface of the dual molded lens element, the transparent portion is arranged from an optical effective region of the dual molded lens element to the outer diameter surface and surrounds the dual molded lens element, thus the transparent portion is a part of the outer diameter surface, and the light absorbing portion is located on one of the first side surface and the second side surface of the dual molded lens element.
US10288847B1
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10288845B2
An image capturing lens system includes five lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. Each of the five lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The object-side surface of the first lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. At least one surface among the object-side surfaces and the image-side surfaces of the five lens elements is aspheric. The image capturing lens system further includes an aperture stop disposed between an imaged object and the object-side surface of the second lens element.
US10288844B2
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US10288839B2
An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The second lens is formed in a shape so that an entire surface thereof on the object side is convex. The fifth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the object side is convex toward the object side near an optical axis thereof, and a surface thereof on the image plane side is convex toward the image plane side near the optical axis thereof. The fourth lens has a specific Abbe's number.
US10288834B2
A lens module includes a lens barrel having a first bonding surface; a first lens received in the lens barrel and having a second bonding surface which is a side surface of the first lens. At least one of the first bonding surface and the second surface is uneven, and the first bonding surface and the second surface are glued by adhesive. The first bonding surface and the second surface and the adhesive form a gluing structure.
US10288833B2
A portion of a holder is in contact with a lens surface, a holding portion configured to hold a lens in the holder is provided, and a mold shrinkage factor of a material that forms the holder is smaller than a mold shrinkage factor of a material that forms the lens by no less than 0.3%.
US10288832B2
Disclosed is an analyte detector with a light blocking assembly. The light blocking assembly includes a light blocking cartridge positioned within the bore of a sampling tip. The light blocking assembly provides fluid communication between the environment and a sensor assembly in an analyte detector while substantially precluding the passage of light.
US10288830B2
An expandable optical distribution device is provided which includes a basic module defined by a basic box, closed by a front cover, receiving an optical cable and housing an optical fiber derived from the optical cable and coupled to an output adapter to which a user's drop cable of a first user is coupled; and an additional carton-shaped expansion module in the form of an additional box, engageable on the basic box and closed by a tilting cover. The additional box is provided with an input connector attachable to the output adapter, and houses an expansion fiber split into multiple user fibers, each user fiber being coupled to an expansion adapter internal to the additional box and to each of which a user's drop cable is attachable.
US10288822B2
A protective caddy for the installation of an optical fiber cable in optical fiber ducting which temporarily protects a duplex optical fiber cable assembly for an optical fiber duplex connector during insertion of the assembly into a length of ducting. The duplex optical fiber cable assembly comprises a duplex optical fiber cable and a pair of optical fiber connector sub-assemblies. The protective caddy comprises a pair of receptacles, each for receiving one of the optical fiber connector sub-assemblies. Each receptacle has a recess for protectively receiving the termination end of one of the optical fiber ferrules. In use, both the duplex optical fiber cable and the pair of optical fiber connector sub-assemblies are held to the elongate body so that the termination ends are protected by the recesses during insertion of the protective caddy and duplex optical fiber cable assembly into the length of ducting.
US10288821B2
A fiber optic cable assembly for terminating a fiber optic cable along with a method for making the same are disclosed. The fiber optic cable assembly comprises a fiber optic cable having at least one optical waveguide and a jacket, at least one retention component, and a retention body. The retention component is attached to a portion of the jacket of the fiber optic cable to form a retention component sub-assembly. The retention body has an insertion end and a passage extending at least partially along a length of the retention body. The retention component sub-assembly is inserted into the passage so that the at least one retention component is secured to the retention body to complete the fiber optic cable assembly.
US10288819B2
Connector assemblies having an adjustable polarity are described. A connector assembly comprises a frame comprising a single housing having top and bottom frame components, first and second plug frames located within the housing, a first ferrule located in the first plug frame, a second ferrule located in the second plug frame, and a latch component attached to the top or bottom frame component, the latch component having at least one compression element. The latch component is configured to rotate around the housing when the at least one compression element is compressed to change the polarity of the connector assembly from a first polarity when the latch component is located at a first polarity position to a second polarity when the latch component is located at a second polarity position.
US10288816B2
A hybrid connector includes a connector housing, one or more first connection elements configured to transfer a first type of energy or a fluid, and one or more second connection elements configured to transfer a second type of energy, different from the first type of energy, or the fluid. The first connection elements are rotationally fixed and the second connection elements are configured to rotate around an axis that is substantially perpendicular to a mating axis of the housing.
US10288813B2
A platform taper is formed in an optical chip. A light-transmitting medium is attached to the optical chip after forming the platform taper in the optical chip. An waveguide taper is formed in the light-transmitting medium such that the waveguide taper and the platform taper are aligned so as to form an optical taper on the optical device.
US10288811B1
Examples described herein relate to an optical switching device wherein a racetrack resonant structure is positioned to determine a frequency passband by coupling. In some examples, a first waveguide receives an input light signal. A second waveguide is positioned to enable the input light signal to couple between the first waveguide and the second waveguide through a first coupling gap. The racetrack resonant structure is positioned adjacent to the first coupling gap to enable the input light signal to couple between one of the first waveguide and the second waveguide and the racetrack resonant structure through a second coupling gap. Thus, the racetrack resonant structure is to determine the frequency passband such that a first portion of the input light signal that coincides with the frequency passband is output by the first waveguide, and a second portion of the input light signal that does not coincide with the frequency passband is output by the second waveguide.
US10288810B2
A system including a first component having a lensed facet; and a second component optically coupled to the first component, the second component having a tapered facet, the tapered facet and lensed facet spaced from each other so as to establish evanescent-wave coupling between the first component and the second component.
US10288803B2
An image-conducting optical fiber bundle extends along a central bundle axis between image input and image output ends. The bundle is twisted along a portion of its length such that an image inputted into the image input end is angularly displaced about the central bundle axis before being outputted through the image output end. Each constituent optical fiber includes a cladding with a cladding diameter corresponding with the fiber diameter of that fiber and a core with a core diameter. The ratio of the core diameter to the cladding diameter defines a core-to-clad diameter ratio relative to each fiber. In various embodiments, at least one of fiber diameter and core-to-clad diameter ratio varies as a function of a fiber's radial displacement from the central bundle axis.
US10288785B2
A method of manufacturing a color filter substrate includes: forming a plurality of first members, a plurality of second members and a plurality of third members, where each of the first members, the second members and the third members has a pillar shape extending in a direction; stacking the first members, the second members and the third members on one another; forming a preform by inserting the stacked first members, second members, and third members into a cane; forming a stick member from the preform via a drawing process by applying heat to the preform inserted into the cane; and slicing the stick member.
US10288780B2
A reflective transparent screen according to the present invention comprises a light diffusion layer which comprises a binder and microparticles. The reflective transparent screen has a total light transmission of 60% or more and a parallel beam transmittance of 50% or more. The transparent screen has the diffuse reflectance light brilliance profile measured with a goniophotometer characterized to satisfy the conditions A and B.
US10288775B1
Multiple index optical structures, including doublet and triplet lenses, aspheres, torics, atorics, and other types of freeform multiple-index lenses, may be 3D printed as single components from a variety of optical materials having different indices of refraction. 3D-printed Multiple-index lenses may be printed onto other lenses, optical structures, or light emitting structures, or onto components of an electrical optical system to provide color correction and reduced distortions while reducing system complexity by requiring fewer lenses and reducing production costs by reducing the processing power and memory required to maintain system latency. A related method modifies the radiation pattern of an LED assembly by 3D printing optical material directly onto an LED die or an LED emitter bulb.
US10288768B2
The present invention proposes a lightning forecast method, comprising: identifying a Targeted Weather of SDA carrier (TWLC) based on radar reflectivity data; forecasting a future TWLC state based on the identified TWLC; building or updating an SDA model based on SDA observation data and detected TWLC state-related data; and calculating the probability of producing SDA in the forecasted future TWLC according to the SDA model.
US10288765B2
A photoelectric sensor and a control method thereof are provided, the photoelectric sensor includes a driving pulse generating unit, generating a driving pulse of different cycles; a light-emitting part, receiving the driving pulse to emit light; a light receiving part, receiving the light reflected by a detected object to generate a light receiving signal; an output unit, processing the light receiving signal to output a detection signal; and a control unit, controlling the driving pulse generating unit to generate a first driving pulse of a sleep cycle in usual, and triggered by a variation of the detection signal to control the driving pulse generating unit to generate a specified number of second driving pulses of a duty cycles, the duty cycle is formed by two or more specific cycles, an average of the specific cycles serves as the duty cycle, and the duty cycle is shorter than the sleep cycle.
US10288763B2
A neutron generator includes a gas control interface and a vacuum chamber coupled to the gas control interface. The neutron generator also includes a target rod disposed within the vacuum chamber and having a longitudinal axis aligned with a central axis of the vacuum chamber, and further including a target disposed on a surface of the target rod facing the getter. The neutron generator also includes a planar ion source adjacent to the gas control interface and disposed between the target and the gas control interface. The planar ion source includes an array grid that is offset from the target and generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the target rod.
US10288754B2
A method for removing seismic noise from an input seismic trace. The method may receive the input seismic trace. The method may receive one or more noise references for the input seismic trace. The method may receive one or more filters corresponding to the noise references. The method may apply a nonlinear function to the input seismic trace and to the one or more noise references to produce respective output signals for the input seismic trace and for the one or more noise references. The nonlinear function may be capable of determining higher-order statistics. The method may update the filters based on increasing one or more information attributes of the output signals to a predetermined threshold. The method may then filter noise corresponding to the noise references.
US10288745B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining a vehicle position. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processor of a rover vehicle, vehicle position data from one or more parked vehicles; receiving, by the processor of the rover vehicle, global positioning system data from a GPS receiver of the rover vehicle; and processing, by the processor of the rover vehicle, the vehicle position data and the global position system data to determine a position of the rover vehicle.
US10288743B2
A plurality of GNSS satellite signals feeds the signal processing engine operating in certain processing mode including carrier phase smoothed pseudorange positioning, precise point positioning (PPP), pseudorange differential (DGNSS), and carrier phase differential (RTK). The processing engine calculates two estimates of the ionosphere delay for each satellite: the filtered delay and the instant delay. Comparison of them allows to detect turbulent variation of the ionosphere and adjust parameters of two-parametric dynamic mode which improves positioning precision.
US10288741B2
The present application discloses detecting manipulation of GNSS signals using a second time source. If two or more GNSS constellation signals are being detected, the phase error between the GNSS constellation signals may be monitored. When the phase error drifts, then manipulation is determined. The integrity of a GNSS constellation signal may be monitored using an internal time source such as a crystal oscillator by monitoring a slope of the free running counter at the detected rising edges of a pulse-per-second signal from the GNSS constellation. If more than two GNSS constellations are monitored, a voting scheme may be used to determine the manipulated GNSS constellation.
US10288735B1
A binocular telescope with digital laser ranging function, comprising an objective component, a beam splitter and coincidence prism system and an ocular component, and the beam splitter and coincidence prism system is arranged between the objective component and the ocular component; the beam splitter and coincidence prism system comprises a roof prism and a composite prism, the composite prism is composed of an isosceles prism, a right-angle prism A and a right-angle prism B, wherein the right-angle prism A and the right-angle prism B have the same shape and symmetrically abut on the two isosceles planes of the isosceles prism. The binocular telescope of the invention not only has observation function, but also has laser ranging function, and can display the target characters such as optical virtual sight and measured distance in the form of character in the field of view.
US10288733B2
A method for aiding finding of available parking areas of a street section includes receiving data corresponding to parking areas situated in a street section, the data including information ascertained by an ascertaining vehicle driving through the street section and information received from a server, determining an instantaneous occupancy estimate of the street section based on the received data, calculating a forecasted occupancy estimate based on the instantaneous occupancy estimate using a timer series forecasting model, and generating a display representation of the calculated forecasted occupancy estimate. The method includes receiving the data and determining the occupancy estimate, for example, each time an ascertaining vehicle drives through the street.
US10288719B2
An object information acquiring apparatus, comprises a light irradiating unit configured to irradiate an object with light; a probe configured to receive an acoustic wave generated from the object and convert into an electrical signal; a characteristic information acquiring unit configured to acquire characteristic information relating to the object based on the electrical signal; an area information acquiring unit configured to acquire information relating to a reachable area of the light; a location detecting unit configured to acquire an operator location; and a determining unit configured to determine whether the operator location is in a first state where the operator location overlaps with the reachable area of the light or a second state where the operator location does not overlap with the reachable area of the light.
US10288716B2
The concepts, systems and method described herein provide direction finding (DF) methods based on a minimum distance (MINDIST) search to principal components. In an embodiment, the method includes capturing samples of data from one or more array elements. The samples may be samples of a signal received at the array elements. The method includes generating a spatial sample covariance matrix (SCM) using the samples of data, extracting principal components from the SCM and generating a principal component table using angle and frequency measurement for each of the principal components. The method further includes determining a distance between a test point and each value in the principal component table and identifying a minimum distance point corresponding to a direction of the received signal. The minimum distance point may correspond to direction of arrival of a signal on the one or more array elements.
US10288715B2
In an array antenna having a plurality of subarrays, a direction finding system and technique includes receiving signals at an array antenna and capturing data with a plurality of groups of subarrays. Each group of subarrays may capture data during a selected one of a plurality of different dwell times. The method further includes generating a plurality of dwell spatial sample covariance matrices (SCMs) using data corresponding to one or more of the plurality of groups of subarrays and combining the plurality of dwell spatial SCMs in complex form to generate an aggregate covariance matrix (ACM). The ACM may then be used in subsequent processing with MINDIST technique to estimate a direction of a received signal based on the combined data.
US10288704B2
A sLASER-first-COSY sequence is disclosed. After a delay time, Δ1, from application of a first 90° radio frequency (RF) pulse, a first pair of adiabatic full-passage (AFP) pulses are applied to an object in a MRI scanner. The first 90° RF pulse is a non-adiabatic slice-selective 90° RF pulse and the first pair of AFP pulses is separated by an inter-pulse time interval, Δ2. A second pair of AFP pulses, separated by the time Δ2, is then applied, followed by a second 90° RF pulse. The second 90° RF pulse is a non-adiabatic non-slice-selective 90° RF pulse. MR signal is acquired after an echo time (TE) from application of the excitation RF pulse. The present method may achieve intended full magnetization transfer between a coupled spin pair of a metabolite and maintain metabolite cross peak intensity of a coupled spin pair of a metabolite in the object.
US10288694B2
A secondary battery monitoring device is equipped with a resistance circuit and a detection circuit detecting an abnormality of a secondary battery, a current generation circuit generating a failure detection circuit for setting an output terminal of the resistance circuit to a failure diagnosis voltage, and a switch which permits the failure detection circuit to flow to the output terminal of the resistance circuit by switching. Further, a method for diagnosing failure of the secondary battery monitoring device is provided.
US10288692B2
System and methods for estimating a relationship between a SOC and an OCV of a battery system included in a vehicle are presented. In certain embodiments, an initial relationship between an open circuit voltage (“OCV”) and a state of charge (“SOC”) of a cell of the battery system may be determined at a beginning of life of the cell. Changes in one or more stoichiometric points of a half-cell of the cell may be determined as the cell ages. Based on the determined stoichiometric point changes of the half-cell, an initial relationship between the OCV and the SOC of the cell may be adjusted to generate an updated relationship between the OCV and the SOC of the cell.
US10288681B2
An automated test equipment (ATE) apparatus is presented. The apparatus comprises a computer system comprising a system controller, wherein the system controller is communicatively coupled to a site module board comprising a tester processor and an FPGA wherein the system controller is operable to transmit instructions to the tester processor, and wherein the tester processor is operable to generate commands and data from the instructions for coordinating testing of a device under test (DUT) wherein the site module board comprises a compact form factor suitable for use during prototyping, and wherein the site module board is operable to be coupled with a DUT. Further, the FPGA is communicatively coupled to the tester processor, wherein the FPGA comprises at least one hardware accelerator circuit operable to internally generate commands and data transparently from the tester processor for testing the DUT.
US10288675B2
A system for diagnosing circuit protection device field issues includes a remote computer system and a diagnostic circuit protection device installed at a customer location, wherein the circuit protection device includes a processor configured to execute a number of routines, a plurality of sensors structured to sense power circuit information, a memory accessible by the processor, and a communications module coupled to the non-volatile memory. The routines are structured to input sensed power circuit information and determine trip information for one or more trip cycles and cause the stored power circuit information and trip information to be transmitted to the remote computer system by the communications module over a network for storage and subsequent access for diagnostic purposes.
US10288658B2
Described example user interface control apparatus includes a first structure, with a first side, conductive capacitor plate structures spaced along a first direction on the first side, a movable second structure with an auxiliary conductive structure, and an interface circuit to provide excitation signals to, and receive sense signals from, the conductive capacitor plate structures to perform a mutual capacitance test and a self-capacitance test of individual ones of the conductive capacitor plate structures to determine a position of the second structure or a user's finger relative to the first structure along the first direction.
US10288657B2
A sensor device for detecting a number of objects, has a number of electrode configurations forming a sensor surface, each electrode configuration having a number of measurement electrodes and each electrode configuration being associated with at least one transmitter electrode, and an evaluation device coupled to the measurement electrodes and the transmitter electrodes, which is adapted for using a time multiplexing method for applying an alternating signal to one of the transmitter electrodes, and to apply a predetermined constant electrical potential to the remaining transmitter electrodes, and tapping an electrical signal indicating the position of the object relative to the sensor surface at the measurement electrodes associated with the transmitter electrode having the electrical alternating signal applied.
US10288655B2
The present disclosure provides a touch structure, a test method thereof, a touch panel and a display apparatus. In the touch structure, by taking touch driving electrodes as an example, a plurality of third leads which are insulated from each other and are in one-to-one correspondence with various touch driving electrodes are additionally provided, wherein each of the third leads has one terminal electrically connected to a corresponding touch driving electrode and the other terminal serving as a test point for testing whether there is an open circuit on the corresponding touch driving electrode and the corresponding first lead. In this way, two probes may be placed at a test point in a third lead and a first wiring terminal in a binding area respectively when an open circuit test is conducted on each of the touch driving electrodes and a corresponding first lead.
US10288652B2
A cable includes a core and a plurality of layers surrounding the core. In one embodiment, at least one of the layers surrounding the core includes multiple sets of phase conductors. The respective sets of phase conductors are electrically isolated from one another. Other cables are also provided.
US10288646B2
Systems and methods include determining energy usage of a residence from a current that flows through a first main conductor and a second main conductor that transport the current into the residence. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to sensors (130a-b) that monitor magnetic fields (150a-b) generated by the first and second main conductors (120a-b). After a resistive load (210a-b) is added for an electrical path in the residence, the first and second magnetic fields (150a-b) may be converted to generate first and second calibrating currents. A first prototype current is corrected to eliminate the influence of the second magnetic field (150b) onto the first magnetic field (150a) and a second prototype current is corrected to eliminate the influence of the first magnetic field (150a) onto the second magnetic field (150b). The energy usage of the residence is determined from the corrected currents.
US10288644B2
A test socket includes a base to receive a semiconductor package, an actuator in the base, the actuator including a through-hole, and a socket pin in the through-hole of the actuator, the socket pin contacting a terminal of the semiconductor package, wherein the socket pin includes a pin body, a pin head to contact the terminal of the semiconductor package, and an inclined portion inclined with respect to a longitudinal direction of at least an upper portion of the pin body, the pin head being connected to a top end of the inclined portion, and the pin body being connected to a bottom end of the inclined portion, wherein the inclined portion contacts at least a portion of an inner sidewall of the through-hole.
US10288639B2
A wheel hub, a pulsar ring, and a magnetic sensor are provided. The wheel hub supports an axle. A brake disc is secured to the wheel hub. The pulsar ring is secured to the wheel hub. The magnetic sensor is configured to detect a passing of a pulsar hole disposed on the pulsar ring. The wheel hub forms a cylindrical outer peripheral surface as an outer peripheral side spigot portion. The brake disc includes a disc-side spigot portion in contact with the cylindrical outer peripheral surface. The pulsar ring includes a ring-side spigot portion in contact with the cylindrical outer peripheral surface. The brake disc and the pulsar ring are co-clamped and secured to a hub-side flange formed at the wheel hub.
US10288638B2
Systems and methods are described for a non-contact method for positioning a tip of an object. A light beam of known dimensions is projected and a position of the tip of the object relative to the light beam is adjusted. Light scatter indicative of the tip of the object being positioned within the dimensions of the light beam is detected and a position of the tip of the object is determined based at least in part on the known dimensions of the light beam and the detected light scatter.
US10288631B2
Disclosed is an antibody which binds to quetiapine, which can be used to detect quetiapine in a sample such as in a competitive immunoassay method. The antibody can be used in a lateral flow assay device for point-of-care detection of quetiapine, including multiplex detection of aripiprazole, quetiapine, olanzapine, and risperidone in a single lateral flow assay device.
US10288626B2
Disclosed herein are methods for detecting Pgrmc1 in bodily fluids, e.g., blood, plasma and serum, wherein detection of Pgrmc1 is a biomarker for the presence of cancer, e.g., lung cancer or head or neck cancer. Pgrmc1 levels in bodily fluids may be used to predict patient prognosis, e.g., survival and response to therapy.
US10288621B2
A method to detect local antibodies such as antigen-specific IgE via a brush biopsy specimen of a mucosal surface of a subject is disclosed. The method is easily performed in an office setting on both adult and pediatric patients. Also disclosed is a brush device specially designed for harvesting materials from a mucosal surface such as the medial surface of the inferior turbinate.
US10288597B2
The present invention relates, inter alia, to method of assessing the reactivity of a polymerizable material (especially an aluminosilicate) in forming a geopolymer. The present invention also relates to methods of forming a geopolymer, and to geopolymers formed by the method. The method of assessing the reactivity of the polymerizable material may include first assessing whether the polymerizable material is layered or particulate. Next, if the polymerizable material is layered, the method may include measuring the moles of polymerization network forming elements in an amount of polymerizable material, whereby the moles of polymerization network forming elements is indicative of the reactivity of the polymerizable material in forming a geopolymer. Alternatively, if the polymerizable material is particulate, the method may include measuring the molar charge of polymerization network modifiers in an amount of polymerizable material, whereby the molar charge of polymerization network modifiers is indicative of the reactivity of the polymerizable material in forming a geopolymer.
US10288590B2
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for determining the pH of fluid. Example devices include a device comprising a surface configured to contact the fluid and a pH indicator covalently bound thereto, wherein the pH indicator has a first color prior to contact with the fluid and changes color as a function of the pH of the fluid.
US10288588B2
A system is described that includes a known fuels database of data from gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses of a library of fuels with known fuel properties for a multiple known fuel samples. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry equipment can acquire gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data for an unknown fuel sample. A metaspectrum module can accept and transform the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data collected by the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry equipment for the unknown fuel sample into a single metaspectrum for the unknown fuel sample, wherein the metaspectrum is a quantitative representation of every compound detected in the unknown fuel sample. A correlation module can correlate the metaspectrum for the unknown fuel sample to a plurality of fuel properties of known fuel samples using a regression model to predict fuel properties for the unknown fuel sample. A reporting module can report the fuel properties for the unknown fuel sample to a user.
US10288585B2
Method and apparatus for enabling ultrasonic inspection of a changing, insufficiently defined or unknown shape (e.g., a variable radius or a noncircular radius caused by the use of soft tooling) at a rate that meets production requirements. The apparatus comprises a linear ultrasonic array (i.e., sensor) incorporated in a toppler, which in turn is slidably supported by an oscillating sensor mechanism carried by a traveling trailer vehicle. As a result of this arrangement, the sensor can undergo a back-and-forth sweeping motion coupled with motion along the spar radius. The sensor is further able to displace radially relative to a sweep pivot axis and rotate (hereinafter “topple”) about a topple pivot axis. In this manner, the orientation of the sensor can adjust to the contour of the inspected surface as the sensor scans.
US10288571B2
The longitudinal relaxation times (T1) of water and hydrocarbon inside porous media, such as rock from subsurface formations, behave differently when external magnetic fields vary. A Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion (NMRD) profile from Fast Field Cycling Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (FFC-NMR) technique differentiates the type of fluids filling the pores. Different types of pores in a rock sample are filled with different fluids, water and hydrocarbon, and the absolute porosity and the pore size of each type of pores is determined.
US10288561B1
A gas analyzer is provided, capable of measuring specific gas amount information within a measurement target gas in which pressure varies greatly. The gas analyzer includes a calculation member for calculating specific gas amount information of the nth cycle, a gas pressure change amount calculation unit for calculating an amount of gas pressure change at each time, and a correction signal creation member for generating a time changing, corrected light intensity at each wavelength ν, by performing a fitting process using the time-changing intensity over a long time period in a time zone in which the amount of gas pressure change is small but using the time-changing intensity over a short time period in a time zone in which the amount of gas pressure change is large. The calculation member generates a light intensity change of the measurement light in the predetermined wavelength range of ν1 to ν2 of the nth cycle by using the time changing, corrected light intensity at each wavelength ν, and calculates the specified gas amount information for the nth cycle.
US10288543B2
Disclosed is a method for determining moisture permeability of a textile. The method includes: a) providing at least one textile sample having a top surface and an opposed bottom surface, wherein at least a portion of the top surface is configured into a bowl shape for receiving a predetermined amount of a test liquid; b) introducing the predetermined amount of the test liquid into the bowl shape sample such that there is a minimum depth of the liquid contained above at least a portion of the top surface; and c) after a predetermined period of time, determining the moisture permeability of the textile sample by analyzing liquid penetration characteristics of any of the test liquid that may have permeated through the textile.
US10288542B2
An imaging device for determining particle size distribution including a sample receptacle containing a sample and an imager capable of capturing a plurality of images of the sample in a region of observation. The imaging device further includes a radiation source provided linearly opposite to the imager and a base platform that supports the imager and the radiation source.
US10288532B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems for facilitating automated or semi-automated collection of tissue samples cut by a microtome. In one example, a collection apparatus may be moved back and forth between respective positions at which the collection apparatus is operatively coupled to a microtome so as to collect cut tissue samples, or routine access to the microtome is provided. Relatively easy movement and positioning of the collection apparatus is facilitated, while at the same time ensuring structural stability and appropriate alignment and/or isolation between the collection apparatus and the microtome. A fluid reservoir receives samples cut by the microtome, and the collection apparatus may collect samples via a conveyor-like substrate disposed near/in the reservoir. A linear movement of the substrate may be controlled based on a cutting rate of the microtome, and the fluid level in the reservoir may be automatically maintained to facilitate effective sample collection.
US10288529B2
A vehicle chassis sensor assembly comprising a housing member defining a sensor cartridge slot, a rotatable shaft with a magnet and retained in a sleeve, and a rotatable arm coupled to the shaft. A sensor cartridge is mounted in the slot through the interior of a connector socket and an opening between the slot and the connector socket. A plate on the sensor cartridge covers the opening. The sensor cartridge includes a terminal header and a separate board mounted to the terminal header. The board includes the sensor. Deformable posts on the terminal header and the sensor assembly extend through respective apertures in the board and the terminal header for securing the board and the sensor cartridge to the terminal header and the sensor assembly respectively.
US10288525B2
A testing apparatus includes a chamber, having an interior maintained at a predetermined pressure, a rotor rotatably disposed within the interior of the chamber, and a sensor disposed within the interior of the chamber. When the rotor rotates, the at least one sensor measures a testing characteristic of an object disposed within the interior of the chamber as the object interacts with the rotating rotor. A method includes setting a predetermined pressure of a chamber, rotating a rotor, and maintaining a gap between a surface of an object to be tested and a surface of the rotor by adjusting, with an actuator, the object to be tested or the rotor based upon a change, as measured by a laser, in the dimension of the object to be tested or the rotor.
US10288524B2
There is provided a system and a test instrument for identifying or verifying the fiber arrangement and/or the cable type of multi-fiber array cables (such as MPO cables) which employs a light source and a polarity detector at the near end of the multi-fiber array cable under test, and a loopback device at the far end. The polarity detector comprises light presence detectors used to detect which one of the optical fibers of the multi-fiber array cable returns light looped back at the far end and thereby determine the fiber arrangement and/or the cable type of the multi-fiber array cable.
US10288522B2
The system and methods are made to apply interferometry to ophthalmic applications. The system makes use of a low-coherence interferometer to obtain a plurality of measurements of a contacts lens. The system and methods characterizes the surface profile of both surfaces of a contact lens, a thickness profiles, and combines these measurements with an index information to reconstruct a complete model of the contact lens.
US10288513B2
A combined pressure and temperature sensing device includes a sensor port geometry that provides improved contact between a fluid media being measured and a thermistor cavity of the sensor port. The increased contact area provides improved response time and accuracy compared to previously known integrated pressure-temperature sensors. A temperature sensor element is offset from a pressure sensor element relative to a central axis of the temperature-pressure sensor body/package to facilitate substantially increasing a pressures sensor cavity volume without increasing the overall sensor port diameter. A wire-bondable thermistor support portion facilitates high volume automated production line. The temperature sensing element may be resistance welded to the thermistor support portion in a parallel manufacturing process.
US10288510B2
A pressure measuring device comprising a bracket supporting a pressure sensor which defines a first sealed enclosure with a first face of the bracket, with the pressure measuring device comprising a substrate having opposite faces, opposite which a first deformable membrane and a second deformable membrane respectively extend, with the first membrane and the second membrane respectively defining with the substrate a second sealed enclosure and a third sealed membrane, with the pressure sensor comprising a cover in order to define a fourth sealed enclosure connected through a second channel to the first enclosure, with the pressure sensor comprising means for measuring the deformation of the first and the second deformable membranes.
US10288509B2
Provided is a capacitive pressure sensor that prevents the position of an electrode face in the direction parallel to a diaphragm from deviating from the position of the diaphragm, and accurately measures pressure. The capacitive pressure sensor includes: the diaphragm that deforms under pressure; an electrode member having the electrode face opposed to the diaphragm with a gap between the diaphragm and the electrode face; a body having one end to which the diaphragm is joined, and accommodating at least a portion of the electrode member; an insulating positioning member that is provided in the body and positions at least the portion of the electrode member in the body; and a pressing mechanism that holds and presses the insulating positioning member or the electrode member in the direction parallel to the diaphragm.
US10288507B2
Highly expressive and flexibly programmable foot-operated controllers are described. Specific implementations are intended for musical applications and allow musicians an unprecedented degree of control of a wide variety of musical components and subsystems for recording and/or performance.
US10288500B2
A variable-color region (106) of an information-presentation structure extends to an exposed surface (102) at a surface zone (112), normally appears along it as a principal color, and includes impact-sensitive and color-change components (182 and 184). A segment (192) of the impact-sensitive component responds to an object (104) impacting the zone at an object-contact area (116) by providing an impact effect if the impact meets threshold impact criteria. A segment (194) of the color-change component responds to the effect by causing an impact-dependent portion (138) of the variable-color region to temporarily appear along a print area (118) of the zone as changed color materially different from the principal color. The print area closely matches the object-contact area in size, shape, and location. The color-change component employs an electrode assembly (202) having a core layer (222) sandwiched between two electrode structures (224 and 226) for controlling the color change.
US10288497B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for providing flexible and repairable testing capabilities, including destructive testing, for systems that generate or absorb heat such as energy storage systems. One embodiment can include a temperature bath structure adapted to contain and maintain a fluid bath at a predetermined temperature, an outer containment structure adapted to insert into the temperature bath structure, heat sinks, thermal sensor assemblies, and an internal containment structure where the thermal sensor assemblies, heat sinks removeably attach to different sections of the inner containment structure so as to measure heat flow into or out of the inner containment structure's different sections, and a test cell enclosure which is adapted to contain forces and output from destructive testing of samples. Embodiments of the invention enable rapid insertion/removal of samples as well as replacement of sections of the system including thermal sensor assemblies as well as enabling separate thermal measurements associated with different sections of a sample under test.
US10288494B2
A thermometer circuit configured to estimate a monitored temperature is disclosed. The circuit includes an adjustable resistor presenting a first resistance value that is temperature-independent and a second resistance value that is temperature-dependent, wherein a first current signal is conducted across the resistor when it presents the first resistance value and a second current signal is conducted across the resistor when it presents the second resistance value; a plurality of gated conductors coupled to the resistor; and a control circuit, coupled to the resistor and the plurality of gated conductors, and configured to selectively deactivate at least one of the plurality of gated conductors to compare the first and second current signals to estimate the monitored temperature.
US10288490B2
A temperature sensing assembly includes first and second temperature sensors disposed within an elongate mineral insulated conductive sheath. A junction point of the first temperature sensor is electrically connected to the conductive sheath. The second temperature sensor is electrically isolated from the conductive sheath. Measurements obtained from the electrically isolated temperature sensor can be used to test insulation resistance of the assembly or temperature indications from the electrically isolated temperature sensor can be compared to measurements taken from the electrically connected junction point to take a variety of corrective actions during use of the temperature sensing assembly, such as adjusting the installation of the assembly or applying correction factors to measurements obtained from one of the temperature sensors.
US10288488B2
An infrared detecting device includes: an infrared sensor that has one or more infrared detection elements arranged in one or more columns; and an IC chip that performs signal processing on a signal output from the infrared sensor. The infrared sensor and the IC chip are generally juxtaposed in a direction along a scan rotation axis of the infrared sensor.
US10288485B2
The present disclosure discloses a colorimetry calculation method for a display. The display includes a quantum dot backlight module and a first polarizer, wherein the quantum dot backlight module includes a light guide plate, a quantum dot thin film layer, and a backlight. The method obtains the correction spectrum of the quantum dot backlight module, and obtains the true spectrum of the quantum dot backlight module when the first polarizer is arranged on the light exit side of the quantum dot backlight module based on the correction spectrum and the measurement spectrum, that is, the modified spectrum, so as to accurately simulate the chromatic offset phenomenon due to the secondary excitation of the first polarizer, and provide the basis for the quantitative design of the display including the quantum dot backlight module. The present disclosure also discloses a chromaticity calculation method of a display.
US10288480B2
An optical filter for an optical data transmission system, including a substrate; a first and a second reflective structure which are spaced apart from each other such that they form a Fabry-Perot cavity, and at least one optical waveguide formed on or in the substrate, via which light can be coupled into the Fabry-Perot cavity and/or out of the Fabry-Perot cavity. The Fabry-Perot cavity formed by the first and the second reflective structure at least partly is a free-beam cavity, and the waveguide is an integrated waveguide which is formed by one or more layers arranged on the substrate, and the first and the second reflective structure are at least partly arranged in a cutout of the substrate or adjoin the cutout.
US10288470B2
A method for operating a flowmeter for measuring the flow of a flowing medium through a pipe, wherein the flowmeter has a measuring unit for determining individual measured values of the flow and an error unit for determining the measurement uncertainty of the individual measured values. Determination of the individual measured values is carried out using a measuring frequency. A method for operating a flowmeter, which improves the quality of measurement is achieved in that a present measurement uncertainty is determined for each individual measured value by the error unit and by the measurement uncertainties from static and dynamic error sources being linked to one another by error propagation for determining the present measurement uncertainty.
US10288469B2
A transducer includes a composite waveguide including a composite wire having an internal core of low electrical resistance material and an outer layer of magnetostrictive material.
US10288455B2
The present application describes methods and apparatus relating to sensor assemblies and fiber optic assemblies. In one example, a method is described of deploying a sensor assembly (1) for sensing a property associated with a structure of interest (100). The sensor assembly (1) includes an elongate member (2) configurable between a coiled form and an extended form and at least one sensor (3) disposed along at least a part of the longitudinal extent of the member. The method comprises uncoiling the elongate member (2) and positioning the sensor assembly (1), and then forming the structure of interest around the sensor assembly (1) or introducing a filler material in the space between the sensor assembly (1) and the structure of interest such that the sensor assembly (1) is coupled to the structure and the property of the structure can be sensed by the sensor (3).
US10288452B2
A sensor for an encoder. The sensor includes a sensing circuit, an active setting module, an inactive setting module, and a sensor interface. The sensing circuit module is configured to generate an output signal related to a sensed characteristic. The active setting module includes a first pole width setting. The first pole width setting is associated with a first pole width for the encoder. The first pole width setting is accessible by the sensing circuit module. The inactive setting module includes second pole width setting. The second pole width setting is associated with a second pole width for the encoder. The second pole width setting is not accessible by the sensing circuit module. The sensor interface is configured for retrieving the second pole width setting from the inactive setting module and writing the second pole width setting to the active setting module.
US10288445B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for creating, modifying, and viewing geographic areas and their corresponding routes and items of work. For example, an interface can be provided with a map display area and a route display area. The map display area and the route display area can be synchronized to create new routes, modify existing routes, and/or view information about various routes and/or items of work.
US10288444B2
A first user of a smart phone or vehicle navigation system may invite a second user of a smart phone or vehicle navigation system to participate in a shared travel experience where the second user follows the first user. While on the shared trip, the first user is provided the location of the second user along with a route to a selected destination. The second user is provided the location of the first user, along with the route to the selected destination. The first user is able to identify points of interest on the route, which are then presented to the second user. A network is established that allows the first and second user to have a two-way conversation, and to synchronize the music that is listened to by the first user and the second user to simulate the experience of being together in the same vehicle.
US10288429B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises transmitting a first laser pump signal to an optical resonator; adjusting a frequency of the first laser pump signal; generating a first order Stokes signal from the first laser pump signal in an optical resonator; measuring a first beat signal frequency; ceasing transmission of the first laser pump signal to the optical resonator; transmitting a second laser pump signal to the optical resonator; adjusting a frequency of the second laser pump signal; generating a first order Stokes signal from the second laser pump signal in the optical resonator; and measuring a second beat signal frequency; ceasing transmission of the second laser pump signal to the optical resonator.
US10288421B2
An electrical wire length output method according to the present invention sets a first cavity reference cross section, a first node reference cross section, and a second node reference cross section, and a second cavity reference cross section, calculates a section wire length in each section of the reference cross sections, and outputs the sum of the section wire lengths as the wire length of an electrical wire.
US10288417B2
An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate, an array of optical emitters arranged on the substrate in a two-dimensional pattern, a projection lens and a diffractive optical element (DOE). The projection lens is mounted on the semiconductor substrate and is configured to collect and focus light emitted by the optical emitters so as to project optical beams containing a light pattern corresponding to the two-dimensional pattern of the optical emitters on the substrate. The DOE is mounted on the substrate and is configured to produce and project multiple overlapping replicas of the pattern.
US10288415B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for facilitating an inspection of a sample using an inspection tool. An inspection tool is used to obtain an image or signal from an EUV reticle that specifies an intensity variation across the EUV reticle, and this intensity variation is converted to a CD variation that removes a flare correction CD variation so as to generate a critical dimension uniformity (CDU) map without the flare correction CD variation. This removed flare correction CD variation originates from design data for fabricating the EUV reticle, and such flare correction CD variation is generally designed to compensate for flare differences that are present across a field of view (FOV) of a photolithography tool during a photolithography process. The CDU map is stored in one or more memory devices and/or displayed on a display device, for example, of the inspection tool or a photolithography system.
US10288412B2
An optical measurement apparatus includes an irradiation optical system which linearly irradiates a measurement target with measurement light having a certain wavelength range, a measurement optical system which receives linear measurement interference light which is transmitted light or reflected light originating from the measurement target as a result of irradiation with the measurement light, and a processing device. The processing device includes a first calculation module that calculates a modification factor depending on with an angle of incidence on the measurement optical system from each measurement point in association with a region in the two-dimensional image corresponding to each measurement point in the measurement target irradiated with the measurement light and a second calculation module that calculates optical characteristics of the measurement target by applying the corresponding modification factor to a value for each pixel included in the two-dimensional image.
US10288410B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for identifying wire contact insertion holes of a connector to facilitate the automated insertion of the wire ends of a wire bundle assembly into the wire contact insertion holes of a connector. In the context of a method, each of a plurality of pixels of an image of the connector is analyzed to identify one or more candidate contact insertion holes for the connector. The method also determines whether the one or more candidate contact insertion holes are to be consolidated and, if so, consolidates the one or more candidate contact insertion holes. The method further includes assigning contact identification numbers of the connector to the one or more candidate contact insertion holes.
US10288400B2
A size gauge for a nut having flat edges, the size gauge comprises a first surface against which a first flat of the nut is placed, and a second surface against which a second flat of the nut which is adjacent the first flat is placed. The second surface is at an angle of about 120 degrees to the first surface. Distance markings are provided on the side gauge at or near the first surface, the distance markings indicating an across flat measurement based on the length of the flat.
US10288393B2
A flight vehicle, such as a missile, operates both atmospherically and exo-atmospherically. The flight vehicle has control surfaces which are able to rotate relative to a fuselage of the flight vehicle, with the control surfaces extending outside of the fuselage into the airstream (or space) around the fuselage. The control surfaces may be used to control attitude in both atmospheric flight and exo-atmospheric flight. In atmospheric flight the control surfaces operate conventionally, with the aerodynamic forces on the control surfaces creating a torque on the flight vehicle. The control surfaces may be selectively positioned, such as by use of actuators, to achieve the desired torque on the flight vehicle, to achieve the desired attitude. In exo-atmospheric flight the control surfaces can be used as momentum wheels, with the control surfaces selectively rotated to produce a reaction torque on the fuselage.
US10288375B2
An air gun and methods of manufacture are provided. The air gun includes a barrel block pivotally attached to a compression fork. The barrel block includes two lateral wedges, one extending from each side of the barrel block. The wedges interact with complementary surfaces on the compression fork. This interaction reduces both lateral and vertical movement of the barrel resulting in greater accuracy and reduced need for re-sighting the air gun.
US10288372B2
Exemplary trigger systems reduce trigger slop in polymer-framed pistols. Via use of an oil-impregnated bushing, stacked tolerances are reduced and/or eliminated, leading to improved trigger feel and function.
US10288369B2
A bullpup stock assembly configured for housing a firearm assembly without the use of tools. The bullpup stock includes an upper housing configured to hingedly couple with a lower housing. A hinging means hingedly couples the upper and lower housings such that in a closed configuration the forward ends upper and lower housing are joined, and such that in an open configuration the upper and lower housing are not joined. A bullpup trigger is configured to communicate with a trigger of the firearm assembly by a trigger linkage assembly such that the bullpup trigger activates the firearm when depressed. A block assembly housed with the upper and lower housings is configured to house a firing assembly of the firearm and the trigger linkage assembly. At least one locking means for locking the upper and lower housings together when the forward ends of the upper and lower housing are joined.
US10288367B2
Cooling of a meter by liquid flowing in a flow that is reverse from dispensing flow is described. A plurality of tubes is configured to transport a plurality of fluids comprising a first fluid and a second fluid. Dispense valves attached to corresponding tubes are configured to open when the first fluid is dispensed from a pump to a first outlet. Recirculation valves attached to respective tubes are configured to open when the second fluid is transported from the pump to a second outlet. A meter attached to a tube of the plurality of tubes is configured to measure properties of a fluid when the fluid flows through the tube, wherein the fluid is one of the first fluid and the second fluid. The meter is configured to sense reverse flow when the second fluid flows from the outlet section to the inlet section.
US10288359B2
A curved, three-dimensional, ordered micro-truss structure including a series of first struts extending along a first direction, a series of second struts extending along a second direction, and a series of third struts extending along a third direction. The first, second, and third struts interpenetrate one another at a series of nodes. The series of first struts, second struts, third struts, and nodes form a series of ordered unit cells within the micro-truss structure. The series of ordered unit cells define a curved surface.
US10288356B2
A vapor chamber and heat pipe combined structure and method; the vapor chamber and heat pipe combined structure includes a heat pipe, a vapor chamber and a working fluid. The heat pipe includes a pipe body, a fixing section, and a first capillary tissue. The vapor chamber includes an upper metal casing, a lower metal casing, a containing chamber and a second capillary tissue installed in the containing chamber. The working fluid is filled into the containing chamber, and the fixing section of the heat pipe is coupled to the upper metal casing, so that the first capillary tissue is coupled to the second capillary tissue. The combined structure facilitates the connection and fixation of the heat pipe and improves the reflux speed of the liquid-state working fluid.
US10288350B1
A process for separating solvent from spent oil sand solids involves drying the solids using superheated steam, and thereby producing a vapor comprising the vaporized solvent and vaporized water. The vapor is conveyed through a hot side of a first heat exchanger to produce a cooled stream comprising condensed solvent and condensed water, while a water stream is conveyed under vacuum through a cold side of the first heat exchanger to produce steam. A vacuum blower that applies the vacuum may also compress the steam to adiabatically heat the steam, before the steam is further heated by a steam superheater. The condensed water is separated from the cooled stream, and used in producing the water stream that is conveyed through the cold side of the heat exchanger, as the process continues. The steam is used in producing the superheated steam for drying the solids, as the process continues.
US10288343B2
A refrigerator includes an insulated cabinet having an opening and a first hinge structure. The refrigerator includes a door including a second hinge structure that is movably connected to the first hinge structure. A height adjustment lever operably interconnects the first and second hinge structures. Movement of the lever in a first direction causes the door to move upwardly, and movement of the lever in a second direction causes the door to move downwardly. A stop limits movement of the height adjustment lever in at least one of the first and second directions. The lever is preferably movable by hand, such that tools are not required to adjust the door height/position.
US10288342B2
A refrigerator includes a door having a door liner, a front wall, a user interface housing connected to the front wall, a user interface electrical module and a handle. The user interface housing, the door liner and the front wall are fixedly connected to a heat insulating layer. The user interface housing has first and second receiving spaces which can be in communication. The user interface electrical module can be inserted into the first receiving space through the second receiving space. The handle is detachably received in the second receiving space and separates the first receiving space from a handle groove in the second receiving space. The user interface housing has at least one installation wall between the first receiving space and the handle groove in a depth direction of the handle groove, and the handle is fixed to the installation wall.
US10288341B2
A refrigerator including a main body including a storage compartment defined therein, a cooling device for cooling the storage compartment, a door for opening and closing the storage compartment, a gasket disposed between the door and the main body to seal the storage compartment, and a heat source disposed around the door, wherein the heat source includes a plurality of heaters generating different quantities of heat.
US10288340B2
A refrigerator appliance is provided including a freezer chamber divided into a first compartment and a second compartment by a removable mullion. A first evaporator cover is positioned within the first compartment to define a first evaporator chamber and a second evaporator cover is positioned within the second compartment to define a second evaporator chamber. A crossover duct is defined in the mullion for providing fluid communication between the first evaporator chamber and the second evaporator chamber.
US10288332B2
A condenser includes a condensation section, a super-cooling section located above the condensation section, and a liquid receiver. The liquid receiver has a first space communicating with the condensation section through a refrigerant inlet and a second space located above the first space and communicating with the super-cooling section through a refrigerant outlet. A partition member is provided in the liquid receiver in order to divide the internal space of the liquid receive into the first space and the second space. A suction pipe which is open at upper and lower ends thereof and which establishes communication between the first space and the second space is disposed in the first space of the liquid receiver. The partition member has an internal volume adjustment portion for increasing the internal volume of the first space and decreasing the internal volume of the second space.
US10288331B2
A heat exchanger is provided including a first manifold, a second manifold separated from the first manifold, and a plurality of heat exchanger tubes arranged in spaced parallel relationship fluidly coupling the first and second manifolds. A first end of each heat exchange tube extends partially into an inner volume of the first manifold and has an inlet formed therein. A distributor is positioned within the inner volume of the first manifold. At least a portion of the distributor is arranged within the inlet formed in the first end of one or more of the plurality of heat exchange tubes.
US10288329B2
A condensation and falling film evaporation hybrid heat exchanger is provided, including a shell, a condenser entrance pipe connected to a compressor discharge port, and an evaporator exit pipe connected to a compressor suction port being disposed respectively on the shell. A baffle plate is disposed at a position inside the shell corresponding to the condenser entrance pipe. A refrigerant distributor is disposed in the shell, a condensing tube bundle being disposed above the refrigerant distributor, and a falling film evaporating tube bundle being disposed below the refrigerant distributor. The condensation and falling film evaporation hybrid heat exchanger according to this invention can be used in concert with low-pressure refrigerant, thus efficiently solving the problem of refrigerant distribution with the falling film evaporator using low-pressure refrigerant.
US10288324B2
A pumped refrigerant cooling system having cooling units with associated pumping units for providing working fluid to the cooling unit to enable cooling of a space. The pumped refrigerant cooling system also includes a redundant pumping unit which is activated when a primary pumping unit associated with a cooling unit becomes inactive. The primary pumping unit is deactivated in favor of the redundant pumping unit. Once the primary pumping unit is placed in a condition suitable for reactivation, the redundant pumping unit is deactivated, and the primary pumping unit is reactivated.
US10288323B2
A metamaterials-enhanced solar receiver for a Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plant includes spectrally-selective metamaterials-enhanced surface features engineered into the sunlight-receiving (upward-facing) surface of a high melting point sunlight absorbing material. The spectrally-selective features include substantially cube-shaped microcavities surrounded by associated interlaced walls disposed in a periodic (waffle-like) array having a grating period in the range of 0.5 to 2 microns, thereby forming a metamaterial structure exhibiting high absorptance efficiency (i.e., above 95%) of incident solar radiation having wavelengths in the visible light spectrum through induced coupling of visible light to the interlaced walls by way of generating surface plasmonic waves that resonate at visible light frequencies, whereby thermal energy is efficiently absorbed into the solar receiver to heat a transfer fluid. The metamaterial structure is also configured to minimize emissions in the infrared (IR) spectrum, thus minimizing thermal losses.
US10288318B2
A method for improving the efficiency of a solar heating system based on absorbing heat from solar radiation into the outer surface of a concrete wall. The heat transfer device makes use of a fluid in a tube system to transfer heat from the outside of the wall to the inside of the wall. The inside wall is then used to heat air that is passed over it, and that air is then used to heat up a heat storage system.
US10288313B2
A gas supply manifold has a nozzle forming member having a plurality of gas injection nozzles, a cover member configured to be overlapped on the nozzle forming member, and a caulking-fastening portion configured to fasten the nozzle forming member and the cover member. The caulking-fastening portion is configured such that a convex portion provided for one of the nozzle forming member and the cover member penetrates a hole provided for the other member, and a tip end portion of the convex portion has an engagement portion, the engagement portion having a larger diameter or a larger width than the hole and being engaged with a peripheral edge portion of the hole. A tip end face of the convex portion has a dent portion formed by pressing the tip end face into a base portion side of the convex portion and an area around the dent portion constitutes the engagement portion. Thus, the nozzle forming member and the cover member are appropriately caulked and fastened.
US10288307B2
Systems, devices and processes effectively and efficiently manage the energy consumption of shared workspaces such as meeting rooms and the like. A central control device receives scheduling information and/or sensor information relating to meeting attendees, for example, that can be used to activate or deactivate resources within the shared meeting space. Lights, computing equipment, heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC) or other climate controls, electrical outlets, food or beverage preparation equipment and/or other energy-consuming resources within the workplace can be automatically controlled for efficient operation and energy conservation.
US10288305B2
A first ventilation apparatus of ventilation apparatuses which form a ventilation system includes: a first information transmission part (18a); a first information reception part (19a); and a first control part (17a). The first control part (17a) includes: a first total ventilation air volume determination part (20a); a first-ventilation-apparatus first air volume decision part (21a); and a first air volume detection part (22a).
US10288287B2
A combustion control system that collects and accumulates, at predetermined intervals, combustion controlling information including at least a signal indicating an operating state of an ignition device, a signal indicating the supplying state of fuel to a pilot burner, a signal indicating the supplying state of fuel to a main burner, a signal indicating the supplying state of air to the main burner, a flame detection signal indicating the strengths of the flames of the burners (the pilot burner and the main burner), and information indicating presence or absence of the flames determined based on the value of the flame detection signal, and displays the combustion controlling information as trend data of combustion control in a graph in such a form that the relationship between time zones of the combustion sequences from the start of a combustion device to normal combustion and the trend data is understandable.
US10288280B2
A spray nozzle assembly for a steam desuperheating or attemperator device. In one embodiment, the spray nozzle sub-assembly of the spray nozzle assembly comprises a fixed nozzle element which is integrated into a spring-loaded nozzle element, and is specifically adapted to improve water droplet fractionation at higher flow rates while further providing an effectively higher spray area through the formation of two water cones (rather than a single water cone), such water cones being sprayed into a flow of superheated steam in order to reduce the temperature of the steam. In another embodiment, the spray nozzle sub-assembly of the spray nozzle assembly comprises a nested pair of spring-loaded primary and secondary nozzle elements which are also adapted to provide an effectively higher spray area through the formation of two water cones.
US10288264B2
A lamp unit, including: a main stem including a first end and a second end, and at least two branches. The at least two branches extend outwards from the first end of the main stem. The second end of the main stem includes a connection part. One end of each branch includes a mounting part which is adapted to accommodate a light source or corresponds to a connection part of another lamp unit. In use, the connection part is electrically connected to the power supply, and each mounting part is provided with a light source or is connected to the connection part of another lamp unit. The invention also provides a lamp including a plurality of the lamp units.
US10288253B2
This invention relates generally to a light panel light source shade in the form of a masking tape or sheet. Ideally the masks may be printed directly on a surface design layer for use with the light panel. The invention is for use in the field of decorative 5 lighting. The problem of the alternating bright and dark areas on an illuminated face of a pane of a light panel is that they produce an unpleasant mottled surface brightness around the perimeter or across a face of the pane of a light panel. A light pane light source shade is developed to produce a uniform intensity of light across the face of the light panel.
US10288239B2
A lamp device includes a shell and a light-emitting module. The shell has two guiding fastener members opposite to each other. The light-emitting module includes a carrier board body, fastening members, light-emitting assemblies, and a light-permeable shield module. One side of the carrier board body has two opposite connecting members. The carrier board body is connected with the two guiding fastener members through the connecting members to move relative to the shell along the guiding fastener members. The carrier board body has fastening holes cooperating with the fastening members so that the carrier board body and the guiding fastener members are fastened to each other. The light-emitting assemblies and the light-permeable shield module are fixedly disposed on one side of the carrier board body. The light-permeable shield module does not protrude from the ends of two side walls of the shell that are away from a top wall.
US10288232B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight module, a method for operating the same and a display device including the backlight module. The backlight module comprises a light guide plate, a collimated light source and a shading plate between the light guide plate and the collimated light source. The light guide plate comprises a transparent main body and a plurality of diffusion dots formed on the transparent main body. The shading plate comprises a plurality of shading regions corresponding to the plurality of diffusion dots of the light guide plate. The collimated light source generates collimated light vertically irradiating on the shading plate.
US10288230B2
The invention discloses a built-in switch cap, including a cylinder body, one end of which is open for setting a tube, the other end is closed and is provided with pins and connected with a drive power. There is a micro-switch installed in the cap to control the ON/OFF of the drive power; a flexible button is provided to press the above micro switch, the press button is bulging from on the closed side of the cylinder body. The invention discloses a LED tube, which at least has one cap. The invention uses the micro switch installed in the lamp cap, pressing the button on the cap when touching the switch, the power source supplies power, increasing the safety of products. The cap also can directly replace the existing cap, with a strong commonality.
US10288222B2
A method of refueling a vehicle tank with hydrogen, the refueling is controlled by a refueling station controller, the method including: connecting the tank to the station, initiating the refueling process, during the refueling monitoring the temperature of the gas inside the tank, establishing a pressure stop criterion for the refueling, based on a pressure category of the tank and the monitored temperature of the gas, the establishing of the pressure stop criterion being based on a lookup in a predefined table of a plurality of pressure stop criteria, during the refueling monitoring the pressure of the gas inside the tank, by the controller comparing the pressure of the gas with the pressure stop criterion and terminating the refueling when the pressure of the gas inside the tank has reached the pressure stop criterion, and disconnecting the vehicle and the refueling station.
US10288213B1
The load dock leveler prop is configured for use with a loading dock. The loading dock is further defined with a dock plate. The load dock leveler prop is a prop used to prop the dock plate when the dock plate is bridging a gap between the loading dock and a trailer. The load dock leveler prop is a vertically adjustable jack structure. The load dock leveler prop comprises a dock head, a stanchion and a pedestal. The dock head mechanically supports the inferior side of the dock plate by forming a load path between the dock plate and the stanchion. The stanchion is a supporting shaft that forms a load path between the dock head and the pedestal. The cant between the dock head and the stanchion is adjustable. The pedestal is a foundational structure that forms a load path between the stanchion and a supporting surface.
US10288212B1
The present disclosure relates to a mounting assembly for supporting a machine. The mounting assembly comprises a support frame structure including a plurality of traverse members spaced apart from each other, each traverse member extending from a first longitudinal section to a second longitudinal section of the support frame structure, wherein each longitudinal sections and comprises a plurality of holes and respectively, and an attachment mechanism to increase effective stiffness of the support frame structure, the attachment mechanism comprising any or a combination of a plurality of attachments and a turnbuckle attachment to increase directional stiffness of the support frame structure, wherein the attachment mechanism arrests any or a combination of rolling mode of motion and pitching mode of motion of the support frame structure and the machine by increasing the effective stiffness of the support frame structure.
US10288198B2
This connection plug (14A, 14B; 14) includes a connecting plate (18) equipped with at least a passage channel (46) centered on a central axis (X46), at least one fluid coupling element (20A, 20B) able to be fluidly coupled with an external fluid coupling element of a cold plate. The fluid coupling element is movable (M1), in a housing of the connecting plate, with respect to the passage channel of the connecting plate for misalignment compensation of the fluid coupling element while being in fluid communication with the passage channel. This connection plug also includes a support member (22) able to be fixed with respect to an internal channel (16) for a fluid communication between the internal channel and the passage channel. The connecting plate (18) is movable (M2) with respect to the support member (22) along a principal axis (T) transverse to the central axis (X46) of the passage channel (46). This connection plug (14A, 14B; 14) also includes a spring (34) designed to elastically push the connecting plate with respect to the support member along the principal transverse axis towards a position in abutment against an internal surface of the support member.
US10288188B2
An electromagnetically operated valve, comprises a valve slide with a magnet armature, which is equipped to close a sealing seat in a fluid channel of the valve with a first axial end in a closed position, as well as a sealing element with folded bellows situated between the sealing seat and the first axial end of the valve slide and separates the valve slide from the fluid channel with a fluid-tight seal. The magnet armature is supported in the valve in an essentially non-contact manner due to the fact that the valve slide has a guide pin protruding in the axial direction from the magnetic armature on a second axial end opposite the first axial end, the guide pin being supported to slide in the axial direction; and the valve slide is aligned in the radial direction on a side of the magnet armature facing the first axial end of the valve slide and is supported so it is movable in the axial direction by means of at least one spring element.
US10288184B2
Upper and/or lower seal plates of a sub plate mounted, pilot actuated spool valve are reinforced with one or more metal rings. In a number of preferred embodiments, the metal ring is comprised of steel. Portions of the seal plates may comprise an engineering thermoplastic such as polyoxymethylene (POM) sold by E. I. DuPont de Nemours under the DELRIN® trademark. The plastic material may be molded to the metal ring. In other embodiments, the plastic material and metal ring(s) are mechanically connected together.
US10288183B2
A wall-mounted water-controlling valve assembly has a seat, a valve jacket, a valve, a fixing ring, and a covering cap. The seat is deposited inside a wall and has a tubular sleeve. The valve jacket is slidably mounted in the tubular sleeve of the seat. The valve is mounted in the valve jacket. The fixing ring is connected to the tubular sleeve by screwing. The covering cap is connected to the valve jacket and the fixing ring and has a front side and a rear side. The front side of the covering cap is connected to the valve jacket. The rear side of the covering cap is connected to the fixing ring. The valve is scalably in the tubular sleeve via the valve jacket to adjust a protruding length of the wall-mounted water-controlling valve assembly to remain at the same length relative to the wall.
US10288177B2
A method of manufacturing a thermo valve includes an overlaying step of overlaying a valve body onto a thermo actuator so as to cover a groove portion; and a caulking step of caulking an installing portion of the valve body onto the thermo actuator. The caulking step is performed by pressing, by use of a jig, the valve body and the thermo actuator toward an axis center in a radial direction. A pressing face of the jig has a short side portion and a long side portion longer than the short side portion. Pressing is performed with the long side portion being substantially in parallel to the axis center of the thermo actuator and the short side portion being substantially in parallel to the groove portion.
US10288176B2
The invention provides a method of, and means for, connecting components of a moveable sub-assembly in a fluid control valve. To control a dimensional characteristic of the moveable sub-assembly, a first component of the sub-assembly can be crimped to create a mechanical connection to a second component of the moveable sub-assembly. The sub-components may be configured such that in the absence of the crimp they can be moveably translated between a plurality of positions and they may be slideably translatable between a number of relative positions, while the crimp acts, once formed, to retain the sub-components in a chosen position relative to one another.
US10288175B2
An axial shaft seal for sealing a shaft against a housing of a combustion engine comprises a stiffening section and a sealing element connected to the stiffening section, having a sealing lip which is established for sealing interaction with a counter-running element which is connected to the shaft and runs radially. In the assembled state, a sealing contact exists exclusively between an end section of the sealing lip and the radial counter-running element. A plurality of channels is arranged on the side facing towards the counter-running element and over the periphery of the sealing lip, or on the counter-running surface and over the periphery of the counter-running element, in which a pressure build-up is caused when the shaft is rotating.
US10288171B2
When a butting control is performed at a low temperature at which an oil temperature of an automatic transmission is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, a driving condition changing process is performed. In the driving condition changing process, an execution period from a starting of the butting control to an ending of the butting control is divided into a plurality of sections on the basis of a rotation angle of a motor. By making a torque of the motor greater and a rotation speed higher in a starting-section than in an ending-section, the execution period of the butting control is made short. By making the torque of the motor smaller and the rotation speed lower in the ending-section than in the starting-section, an amount of deformation of a component is made smaller when a part of a component is butted against a limit position so that a reference position can be learned accurately.
US10288169B2
A shift device including: a shift body that is rotatable to change a shift position; an installation body, relative to which the shift body rotates; a contact portion that is provided to one of the shift body or the installation body; a contact member that is provided to the other of the shift body or the installation body, and that makes contact with the contact portion such that a force acts to rotate the shift body from between shift positions toward a shift position side; a rotation portion that causes the shift body to rotate such that a shift position of the shift body is changed; and a release mechanism that releases contact of the contact member with the contact portion when the rotation portion causes the shift body to rotate.
US10288168B2
A corner determinator detects a corner appearing in a traveling direction of a vehicle and determines whether a detected corner is a blind corner based upon a current position of the vehicle and road data. A blind distance calculator calculates a distance from the determined blind corner to the vehicle based upon the current position of the vehicle and the road data. A necessary engine braking amount calculator calculates, on the basis of a calculated distance, a necessary engine braking amount necessary for decelerating a current vehicle speed to a vehicle speed at which it is possible to stop around the blind corner when a braking operation is performed with a full braking amount. A required speed change stage determinator calculates a required speed change stage based upon the determined necessary engine braking amount. A transmission controller performs a downshift to a determined required speed change stage.
US10288157B2
A torque converter is provided. The torque converter includes a rear cover and a front cover. The rear cover includes a rear radially extending section and a rear axially extending section extending axially from an outer radial end of the rear radially extending section. The front cover includes a front radially extending section and a front axially extending section extending axially from an outer radial end of the front radially extending section. The front cover includes a plurality of baffles formed as part of the front cover and bent radially inward from the front axially extending section. A method of forming a torque converter is also provided.
US10288151B2
A multi-stage transmission is disclosed. The multi-stage transmission includes: two simple planetary gear sets, each including three rotary elements; one compound planetary gear set including four rotary elements; and six shifting elements. Since ten forward shifting stages and one reverse shifting stage can be accomplished with a relatively small number of parts, a simple construction and a low weight, the multi-stage transmission provides a further improved speed ratio for the driving conditions of the vehicle, thereby improving the fuel efficiency of the vehicle.
US10288149B2
A transmission device is provided in which a first speed change portion and a second speed change portion are formed. The first speed change portion includes an eccentric shaft having a main shaft portion on a first rotary axis and an eccentric shaft portion on a second rotary axis disposed eccentrically with respect to the first rotary axis; an eccentric unit that is rotatably supported on the eccentric shaft portion, and has external teeth formed on an outer peripheral portion thereof; and a housing having an axial center on the first rotary axis, and having internal teeth that mesh with the external teeth of the eccentric unit. The second speed change portion includes curved wave grooves respectively formed on the eccentric unit and a rotary unit; and rolling elements sandwiched between the curved wave grooves and moving along an orbit defined by the curved wave grooves.
US10288146B2
A dual eccentric shaft driving mechanism comprises a motor, a first eccentric shaft, and a second eccentric shaft. The first eccentric shaft has a first eccentric portion. The second eccentric shaft has a second eccentric portion connected to the first eccentric shaft. The motor is connected to the first eccentric shaft for driving the first and the second eccentric shaft to rotate. Wherein, the first and the second eccentric shaft are connected to have a same rotating direction. A phase difference between the first and the second eccentric portion is maintained at 180 degrees. Compared to the prior art, a second centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the second eccentric shaft is balanced by a first centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the first eccentric shaft in the present invention. Therefore, the vibration generated in the operation of the present invention is drastically reduced.
US10288144B2
A torque transmitting device comprising a torque input element (17a, 17b) and a torque output element (8) able to pivot about an axis (X) with respect to one another, at least one elastic leaf (22), rotationally coupled to the torque output element (8) or to the torque input element (17a, 17b) respectively, the elastic leaf (22) being able to be elastically and radially held torest on a supporting member (18) carried by the torque input element (17a, 17b) or the torque output element (8) respectively, the elastic leaf (22) being able to bend upon rotation of the torque input element (17a, 17b) with respect to the torque input element (8).
US10288143B2
The invention relates to a shock absorber (1), in particular for a motor vehicle, which comprises: a cylinder (2) containing a hydraulic fluid; a main piston (4) actuated by a rod (3), defining in the cylinder a first main chamber (5) and a second main chamber (6), the second main chamber containing the rod; a hydraulic fluid vessel (24); and a valve (11) placed in the flow of the hydraulic fluid between the first main chamber and the second main chamber or between the first main chamber and the vessel. The valve comprises a mobile gate (14) engaging with a seat (13), a spring (20) tending to urge the gate against the seat thereof, and a mobile valve piston (17, 78), defining a first valve chamber (18, 82) and a second valve chamber (19, 83) in the valve, said mobile valve piston being capable of compressing the spring and closing the gate. The shock absorber also includes a control restriction (15) mounted in the flow of the hydraulic fluid from the first main chamber (5) during a compression movement, the control restriction being capable of generating a pressure difference acting on the respective surfaces of the mobile valve piston in a direction that tends to compress the spring during a compression movement and a means (51) for slowing the movement of the mobile valve piston (17, 78).
US10288141B2
A pressure-adjustable gas spring is invented. A gas spring mainly consists of a cylinder tube, a piston in the cylinder tube, a piston rod, a valve rod and so on; gas and oil liquid are stored in the cylinder tube. Since the piston occupies the volume in the cylinder tube, the piston is compressed into the cylinder tube when working, then the piston moves in the axial direction in the cylinder tube to press the oil liquid, then the oil liquid compresses the gas so that the piston reaches the working position; when the external force loaded on the piston rod is removed, the gas recovers and expands, and the expanded gas pushes the oil liquid to reset the piston and move out the piston rod, so that the gas spring realizes a compression motion and a restoration damping motion.
US10288135B2
The present invention provides an elevator brake and a cushion replacement method of the elevator brake, and relates to the field of elevator braking technologies. The elevator brake of the present invention includes a first block and a second block that collide with each other during braking, and a cushion located between the first block and the second block, and further includes a cushion support detachably mounted on the first block or the second block, where the cushion is disposed on the cushion support. A cushion of the elevator brake in the present invention can be replaced without disassembling the whole elevator brake.
US10288134B2
A damped anti-rotational system is provided comprising a pawl carrier having an axis of rotation, a pawl pivotably mounted to the pawl carrier on a pivot joint, the pawl having a contact portion and a counterweight portion, a stop pin axially disposed in the pawl carrier and configured to contact the contact portion of the pawl in response to radially inward movement of the pawl, wherein the stop pin is mounted to the pawl carrier at a forward portion of the stop pin and an aft portion of the stop pin, wherein a forward O ring is disposed on the forward portion of the stop pin and an aft O ring is disposed on the aft portion of the stop pin.
US10288127B2
The invention relates to a method for connecting in rotation an output member (5) of an electric motor (1) and an element (2) that is to be driven in rotation, comprising the use of at least one fusible pin (11) that links the output member and the element that is to be driven, and that has at least one section that is prone to fail in shear when a torque transmitted by the fusible pin exceeds a predetermined threshold. The method comprises the step of interposing, between the pin and either the output member or the element that is to be driven, at least one elastic member (20) comprising a first travel with a first stiffness followed by a second travel with a second stiffness greater than the first stiffness.
US10288120B2
A method is provided that forms a solid film on a bearing component of a rolling bearing. A solution containing a fluorine compound and a lubricant having no functional group is allowed to adhere to the bearing component as a first liquid film (adhesion step). The adhering first liquid film is hardened to form the solid film on the bearing component. The rolling bearing including the bearing component with the solid film formed thereon is rotated. The rolling bearing is washed in a washer fluid containing the same lubricant as that used in the adhesion step, and the washer fluid is allowed to adhere to the bearing component as a second liquid film. Then, the adhering second liquid film is dried.
US10288118B2
Provided is a sliding material including a substrate; and a copper alloy layer bonded to the substrate. The copper alloy includes 2.0 to 15.0% by mass of tin. The copper alloy layer includes a sliding body part including a sliding surface, and a gradient region including a bond surface with the substrate. A tin concentration in the gradient region reduces from the sliding body part toward the bond surface. A method for producing the siding material is also provided. The method includes preparing the substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; melting the copper alloy; casting the molten copper alloy on the first surface of the substrate; and solidifying the copper alloy unidirectionally by cooling the substrate from the second surface by a coolant.
US10288116B1
A linear slide rail includes a rail having four primary grooves respectively defined in two opposite sides of the rail. A first slide includes a first passage, and each of two opposite insides of the first passage has two first grooves. Multiple first balls contact the primary grooves and the first grooves. Each of the first grooves has a first contact angle. When a first wearing trace is formed along the rail by the first balls and the first slide, the first slide and the first balls are replaced with a second slide and multiple second balls. Each of the second grooves of the second slide has a second contact angle which is different from the first contact angle. A second wearing trace is formed along the rail by the second balls and the second slide. The first and second wearing traces are not overlapped with each other.
US10288112B2
A floating-bush bearing device (1) for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft (2), includes: a floating bush (3) having a cylindrical shape and including a bearing hole (33) into which the rotational shaft (2) is to be inserted; and a bearing housing (4) which rotatably houses the floating bush (3). At least one of an inner peripheral surface (31) of the floating bush (3), an outer peripheral surface (32) of the floating bush (3), or an inner peripheral surface (41) of the bearing housing (4) includes, in a cross section in an axial direction thereof, a plurality of land portions (311, 321, 411) having a true arc shape which is a part of a true circular shape, and a plurality of recess portions (312, 322, 412) being disposed at a position recessed from the land portions, the recess portions being configured such that a distance between the recess portions and a virtual true circular line (31a, 32a, 41a) passing through the land portions increases in a direction opposite from a rotational direction of the rotational shaft (2) from end portions (311b, 321b, 411b) of the land portions opposite from the rotational direction of the rotational shaft.
US10288110B2
An assembly includes a first structure having a first pin aperture and at least one first fastener aperture adjacent the first pin aperture and a second structure to attached to the first structure having a second pin aperture and at least one second fastener aperture adjacent the second pin aperture. At least one fastener is configured to pass through the first and second fastener apertures and attach the first structure to the second structure. An assembly pin passes through the first and second pin apertures and is trapped within the first and second pin apertures. A pin-securing washer having a fastener surface defining at least one fastener aperture and a pin-securing surface to secure the assembly pin within the pin apertures. The at least one fastener passes through the at least one fastener aperture of the pin-securing washer.
US10288109B2
A nut for securing first and second pipe end-pieces together includes a nut lock having a stop member secured to the nut body, and a second element which is rotatable inside the nut body and having a locking feature adapted to lock onto a corresponding locking structure of the second end-piece. The stop member and the second element include corresponding face teeth which are urged to intermesh by an axial compression spring. At or near the tightened condition of the assembly, the second element is locked onto the second end-piece so that rotation of the nut is possible only if the torque applied exceeds a given threshold, for which the face teeth jump over each other while the spring is alternately stressed. A compact design is obtained with the lock positioned at the rear of the nut thread. The clamping face is axially between the nut thread and the lock.
US10288097B2
A fiber-reinforced resin member is provided in which a non-conductive sleeve and first and second non-conductive sheets are disposed between a metal fastening member and CFRP laminate, electrical continuity between the metal fastening member and the CFRP laminate is cut off, and corrosion of the metal fastening member due to galvanic corrosion is prevented. A first annular space is formed between a first flange portion of a first member and the first non-conductive sheet, a second annular space is formed between a second flange portion of a second member and the second non-conductive sheet. Therefore, even if frayed carbon fiber sticks out from a gap between the non-conductive sleeve and the first and second non-conductive sheets, due to the first and second annular spaces being formed therein, it is possible to prevent the sticking-out carbon fiber from contacting the first and second members and providing electrical continuity.
US10288094B2
A hydrostatic drive includes a diesel engine and a hydrostatic adjustable machine which supplies multiple consumers in normal operation as a pump. The machine has a pressure/flow regulator to which is communicated, according to the load-sensing principle, the highest load pressure of the consumers, in particular when the machine is operated as a pump. In order to realize a start/stop function of the diesel engine, a previously charged high-pressure reservoir supplies the hydrostatic machine, which then acts as a starter motor for the diesel engine. In order to switch from pump to starter motor, the hydro-machine is adjusted over zero. In order for this switch to take place quickly and reliably, the pressure/flow regulator is deactivated by means of a switching valve and the adjustment device is supplied with an adjustment pressure medium via the switching valve, which medium is taken from the high-pressure reservoir or from an auxiliary reservoir.
US10288092B2
A compressed air supply installation for operation of an air spring installation of a vehicle includes an air feed with an air compressor configured to supply a compressed air feed with compressed air, a pneumatic main line with an air dryer and a compressed air connection for supplying the pneumatic installation with compressed air, a purge line branching from the pneumatic main line to the compressed air feed and comprising a purge valve connected in the purge line and a purge connection for releasing air to the environment, wherein the purge valve is part of a controllable valve assembly. The controllable valve assembly with the purge valve can be pneumatically loaded with a control pressure derived from the air compressor.
US10288086B2
A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.
US10288078B2
An axial flow fan having an axis of rotation includes a central hub including a base wall and a lateral wall which projects from the base wall to form a cup-shaped structure, a plurality of blades each fixed to the central hub and including a leading edge and a trailing edge, a plurality of extractors of a fluid which are associated with the base wall for conveying air from the inside of the cup-shaped structure to the outside of the cup-shaped structure through the base wall.
US10288074B2
A control sub-system for controlling an electric machine is presented. The control sub-system includes a phase shift control unit to receive an electric signal indicative of an angular position of a rotor. The phase shift control unit generates a phase shifted electric signal by applying a phase shift to the electric signal. The magnitude of the phase shift is determined based on a speed control signal. The phase shift control unit is configured to generate a phase command signal based on the phase shifted electric signal. The control sub-system also includes a switching unit to control a supply of a phase current to one or more phase windings the electric machine based on the phase command signal such that the rotor is operated at a predetermined rotational speed. Related method of controlling the electric machine is also presented.
US10288072B2
An electric fluid pump and method of regulating flow of liquid therethrough is provided. The pump has an electric motor including a stator and a rotor, wherein the rotor is supported for rotation to drive an impeller that is fixed thereto for rotation to pump coolant from a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet. A controller is in operable, closed loop communication with the electric motor, and the impeller is operable to rotate in a first rotary pumping direction and an opposite second rotary pumping direction in response to a signal from the controller. The first rotary pumping direction produces a first positive flow rate of coolant outwardly from the fluid outlet and the second rotary pumping direction produces a second positive flow rate of coolant outwardly from the fluid outlet, with the first positive flow rate being greater than the second positive flow rate.
US10288066B2
A housing of an oil pump includes a suction port, a discharge port, and a partitioning section formed to partition the suction port and the discharge port. The discharge port has discharge groove portions each formed in a groove shape so as to introduce oil from the partitioning section, and an extension portion formed adjacent to the discharge groove portions and extending continuously from an end of the partitioning section. The extension portion has a taper surface extending from an end of an upper surface of the partitioning section to form a downward slope.
US10288064B2
A fluid pump for a linear actuator is provided. The pump causes a rod in the actuator to extend or retract by controlling the flow of fluid to and from portions of a fluid chamber on either side of a piston disposed within the fluid chamber and supporting the rod. The pump includes a valve structure that enables the pump to redistribute fluid obtained from one portion of the fluid chamber on one side of the piston to the other portion of the fluid chamber on the other side of the piston without first returning the fluid to a fluid reservoir thereby increasing the efficiency of the pump.
US10288061B2
A method for protection and diagnosis of a linear compression including at least one electronic control. At each work cycle of the linear compressor, the protection method includes detecting a suction time of the linear compressor; detecting a compression time of the linear compressor; and calculating, after detecting a compression time of the linear compressor, a decision parameter equivalent to the difference between the previously detected suction time and the compression time.
US10288051B2
A hydraulic machine arrangement (1) is described having a housing (5), a working section and a hollow inside said housing (5), a supply port arrangement LPin, HPin, LPout connected to said working area, and a leakage path (7) between said working section and said hollow. It should be possible to detect wear with simple means. To this end, said housing (5) is provided with a leakage port (8) connected to said hollow.
US10288049B2
The invention provides an energy recovery system comprising a first Shape Memory Alloy (SMAs) or Negative Thermal Expansion (NTE) core and adapted to convert movement of the core into energy in response to a first temperature. Various embodiments are disclosed to include cascaded core arrangements, preheating/cooling of cores and how to decrease the time of reaction for the shape memory alloy in an efficient manner.
US10288036B2
The stability of power generation efficiency against variation of fluid speed and direction can be improved. The disclosed rotor 1 for a wind or water power machine includes a hub 10, supported by a main shaft, and blades 20, each having a root end 21 connected to the hub. In a projection plane perpendicular to a rotational center axis O of the rotor, a leading edge 31 of the blade has leading edge bulge portions 36 and 37 protruding forward in the rotor rotational direction only at two different locations in the rotor radial direction.
US10288034B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an apparatus for power generation from the surface ocean waves in deep seas and methods thereof. Wave energy moves a float, vertically up and down, within the confines of four vertical pillars that are fixed to a buoyant tank. This buoyant tank is placed deep below the ocean surface and the upper surface of the float connects to a rack and pinion system which is coupled to a gearbox. Within the gearbox are freewheels and gears, that drive a generator shaft, in one direction only, as the float oscillates up and down on the ocean waves. For generating large amounts of power, a number of units are placed in a row. Many rows are placed side by side and the mechanical energy of all the rows is transferred to a long horizontal shaft which drives a generator through a gear box.
US10288020B2
A flexible airflow system providing customizable components for mounting, directing airflow and/or modifying airflow. The system may include a dual fan apparatus for providing heated or cooled air which is compact fit within limited spaces. The dual fan apparatus includes two axial fans on opposing sides of a thermal exchange component which operate in coordination to move air in one direction at a time through the apparatus. The dual fan apparatus increases airflow and thermal transfer efficiency through the thermal exchange component. The system may also include a flexible bracket system and/or a flexible ventilation system to facilitate custom configurations for the airflow system.
US10288019B2
Systems and methods for evaluating whether or not degradation of an engine air intake air filter is present based on a pressure drop across the air filter are presented. In one example, a mean and standard deviation of a pressure drop across an air filter are a basis for indicating whether or not the air filter is degraded. Further, the mean and standard deviation are a basis for estimating a useful life cycle of the air filter.
US10288011B2
A gas turbine engine includes a very high speed low pressure turbine such that a quantity defined by the exit area of the low pressure turbine multiplied by the square of the low pressure turbine rotational speed compared to the same parameters for the high pressure turbine is at a ratio between about 0.5 and about 1.5.
US10288009B2
A gas turbine engine includes a bypass flow passage that has an inlet and defines a bypass ratio in a range of approximately 8.5 to 13.5. A fan is arranged at the inlet. A first turbine is coupled with a first shaft such that rotation of the first turbine will drive the fan. A first compressor is coupled with the first shaft and includes three stages, and a second turbine is coupled with a second shaft and includes two stages. The fan includes a row of 16 (N) fan blades that has a solidity value (R) that is from 1.0 to 1.2 and a ratio of N/R that is from 13.3 to 16.0.
US10288006B2
Provided is a metal gasket, which is capable of limiting localized decreases in contact pressure of the seal bead and of securing superior sealing over long periods. In order to achieve said purpose, the invention is a metal gasket, in which an opening that is open in the shape of the opening of the space to be sealed and a seal bead that extends along the perimeter of the opening are formed in a metal plate. The seal bead is one in which two or more portions from among half bead portions, fold-up bead portions and full bead portions are continuous with each other.
US10288005B2
Additional approaches for the reduction of particulate emissions in gasoline engines using optimized port+direct injection are described. These embodiments include control of the amount of directly injected fuel so as to avoid a threshold increase in particulates due to piston wetting and reduction of cold start emissions by use of air preheating using variable valve timing.
US10288002B2
An operating method for an apparatus, having an internal combustion engine that can be operated in a lean mode and a stoichiometric mode, a crankcase, at least one combustion chamber and preferably a throttle element via which charge air can be fed from a charge air cooler to the combustion chamber internal combustion engine is switched to a lean mode during idling and is operated in the lean mode, with the result that, in particular, the pressure difference between the crankcase and the combustion chamber is reduced.
US10287991B2
A gas turbine engine comprises a gas generator rotating along a first axis of rotation, with at least one compressor rotor, at least one gas generator turbine rotor and a combustion section. A fan drive turbine rotates along a second axis of rotation, downstream of at least one gas generator turbine rotor. The fan drive turbine drives a pair of shaft portions extending in opposed directions beyond the axis of rotation of the gas generator.
US10287984B2
Turbine engine, comprising two structural annular casings (16, 22) which are interconnected by connecting rods (54), characterized in that the turbine engine further has at least one accessory gearbox (40) which is fixed to a first of the casings (16) and which is connected by the connecting rods to the other of the casings (22).
US10287983B2
A heat exchanger system for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The heat exchanger system may include a first structure at least partially defining a first plenum configured to receive a first air stream, a second structure at least partially defining a second plenum configured to receive a second air stream having lower pressure than the first air stream, a third structure at least partially defining a third plenum configured to receive a third air stream having lower pressure than the second air stream, and a heat exchanger configured for operative communication with the first air stream, the second air stream, and the third air stream while disposed between the second air stream and the third air stream. The heat exchanger may be configured to transfer heat from the first air stream to the third air stream.
US10287980B2
A fluid intake including first and second ducts and a particle separation spinner defining an interface between the first and second ducts is disclosed. Spinner includes flow passages passing from first duct side of the spinner to second duct side of the spinner and splitter bodies separating the flow passages. Flow passages and splitter bodies are arranged in thread-like screw manner about spinner. In use, the spinner is spun about an axis of rotation, axis and direction of rotation being such that, from static frame of reference with respect to first duct, splitter bodies and flow passages have a component of movement towards a main travel direction of a fluid flow incident towards spinner from first duct. Splitter bodies are arranged such that they oblige fluid in the fluid flow to follow a convoluted path if it is to pass from first duct to second duct via the flow passages.
US10287976B2
A gas turbine engine includes a fan section, a compressor section aft of the fan section, a combustor fluidly connected to the compressor section, and a turbine section fluidly connected to the combustor. The turbine section includes at least a first turbine and a second turbine. The second turbine operates at a higher pressure than the first turbine. A shaft is connected to the first turbine section such that the first turbine section is operable to drive rotation of the shaft. The shaft is a rotational input for a split gear and the split gear is connected to the fan and at least one of the multiple compressors.
US10287968B2
An engine cooling system includes a coolant circuit, a multi-way valve, a relief route and a relief valve. The coolant circuit includes a first route and a second route into which the coolant circuit is branched off at a branched position. The first route passes through a radiator. The multi-way valve is provided at the branched position. The relief route sets a relief source to a portion downstream of a pump and upstream of the multi-way valve in the coolant circuit, sets a relief destination to a portion downstream of the radiator in the first route, and causes coolant to flow from the relief source to the relief destination so as to bypass the multi-way valve. The relief valve interrupts circulation of coolant through the relief route when the relief valve is closed, and permits circulation of coolant through the relief route when the relief valve is open.
US10287967B2
An engine assembly including an internal combustion engine, an oil cooler connected to the engine to receive heated oil and discharge cooled oil, and an engine cover mounted to the internal combustion engine and having an opening to receive the oil cooler therein.
US10287965B2
A wax motor thermostat for an engine cooling system. The thermostat includes a cylinder having at least a first wax portion and a second wax portion each configured to expand at different temperatures. A piston is movable in response to expansion of the first and second wax portions to move the wax motor thermostat from a closed position to a fully open position or a partially open position between the closed and fully open positions to allow coolant to flow through the wax motor thermostat.
US10287958B2
A catalytic converter includes a cylindrical catalyst substrate and a detection device monitoring the integrity of the catalyst substrate. The detection device monitoring the integrity of the catalyst substrate is a band formed on an outer circumference of the catalyst substrate.
US10287956B2
In a failure diagnosis apparatus that carries out standard diagnosis processing in which a failure of the particulate filter is diagnosed by making a comparison between an output value of the PM sensor at the time when a predetermined period of time has passed from a point in time at which sensor regeneration processing for removing the particulate matter deposited on an insulation layer of the PM sensor has ended, and a predetermined threshold value, the standard diagnosis processing is carried out in the case where rich spike processing according to the in-cylinder rich control is not carried out during the predetermined period of time, whereas the rich spike processing according to the in-cylinder rich control is carried out during the predetermined period of time, the standard diagnosis processing is not carried out.
US10287955B2
A module for the metered provision of a liquid includes a chamber having a chamber wall enclosing, at least partially, a chamber space of the chamber. The chamber is surrounded at least partially by a hood. At least one cavity is arranged between the hood and the separated chamber and the hood is heatable.
US10287945B2
A method for increasing the exhaust temperature of an exhaust system. The method includes receiving an inlet temperature of a selective catalytic reduction system; determining whether the inlet temperature meets a temperature setpoint; adjusting an exhaust manifold pressure setpoint based on the determination of the inlet temperature; determining whether the exhaust manifold pressure of at least one of first or second bank meet the exhaust manifold pressure setpoint; and causing an adjustment of an effective flow area of at least one of the first bank or second bank based on the exhaust manifold pressure, the adjustment of the effective flow area structured to increase exhaust temperature during light load operation.
US10287939B2
An exhaust gas after-treatment unit includes a first catalytic converter, a particle filter arranged downstream of the first catalytic converter, and a second catalytic converter arranged downstream of the particle filter and which is a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter. The first catalytic converter is a combination catalytic converter including a first catalytic converter part which is an SCR catalytic converter, a second catalytic converter part arranged downstream of the first catalytic converter part which is an ammonia slip catalytic converter and has a noble metal layer with a first noble metal content, a third catalytic converter part arranged downstream of the second catalytic converter part which is an oxidation catalytic converter and has a noble metal layer with a second noble metal content, and an SCR layer arranged on the noble metal layers and extending over the entire length of the second and third catalytic converter parts.
US10287938B2
A method for a vehicle comprises responsive to installation of a new exhaust particulate filter, doping fuel with an ash-producing additive, and combusting the doped fuel to produce ash, wherein the ash deposits as an ash coating on the new exhaust particulate filter. In this way, a filtration efficiency of an exhaust particulate filter can be increased quickly as compared to a filter with no deposited ash coating, inexpensively as compared to conventional methods using membranes, and with a lower back pressure drop as compared to conventional methods.
US10287929B2
The present disclosure relates to a variable valve drive for a lifting valve, in particular for a charge-exchange valve of an internal combustion engine, which is periodically movable between a closed position and an open position indirectly by way of a cam via a rocker lever. The variable valve drive includes a switchable rocker lever arrangement for the actuation of the lifting valve, having a transmission rocker lever and a valve rocker lever which are mounted pivotably on different rocker lever axles which are each parallel to the camshaft axis.
US10287923B2
An apparatus includes a pump circuit structured to receive pump data indicative of an operating characteristic of a pump feeding a fluid to a waste heat recovery (WHR) system; a flow circuit structured to receive valve position data indicative of a position of a valve downstream of the pump, estimate a flow rate of the fluid exiting the pump, and estimate the flow rate of the fluid exiting the valve; and a pressure circuit structured to receive pressure data indicative of the pressure of the fluid exiting the valve, estimate a change in pressure of the fluid across the WHR system, and determine a pressure of the fluid in a hot section of the WHR system based on the pressure of the fluid exiting the valve and the change in the pressure of the fluid across the WHR system.
US10287921B2
A first steam turbine and a second steam turbine of a combined cycle plant are connected by a reheat steam line via a reheat section of an exhaust heat recovery boiler. The reheat steam line and a condenser are connected by a second bypass line. A control device includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not the flow rate of first steam flowing into the first steam turbine has reached a stipulated flow rate; a command output unit that, upon determining that the flow rate of the first steam flowing into the first steam turbine has reached the stipulated flow rate, outputs a close command to close a ventilator valve that is provided in the second bypass line and is open; and a threshold alteration unit that alters the threshold with which the determination unit determines whether or not the stipulated flow rate has been reached, the threshold being positively correlated with a temperature of the first steam.
US10287917B2
A turbofan engine includes a geared architecture for driving a fan about an axis. The geared architecture includes a sun gear rotatable about an axis, a plurality of planet gears driven by the sun gear and a ring gear circumscribing the plurality of planet gears. A carrier supports the plurality of planet gears. The geared architecture includes a power transfer parameter (PTP) defined as power transferred through the geared architecture divided by gear volume multiplied by a gear reduction ratio and is between about 430 and 645.
US10287914B2
A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a turbine section including a fan drive turbine and a second turbine. The fan drive turbine has a first exit area at a first exit point and is rotatable at a first speed. A mid-turbine frame is positioned intermediate the fan drive turbine and the second turbine, and can include a bearing support. The second turbine has a second exit area at a second exit point and is rotatable at a second speed. A first performance quantity is defined as the product of the first speed squared and the first area. A second performance quantity is defined as the product of the second speed squared and the second area.
US10287911B2
A turbine engine rotor shaft includes at least one portion having an outer periphery having a determined diameter forming a free surface for heat exchange with the environment of said rotor. The outer periphery includes a plurality of irregularities which are designed to provide a heat exchange surface of the shaft of the rotor which is greater than a surface of the periphery of a cylinder having the same determined average diameter.
US10287906B2
A gas turbine engine includes a blade track, a support assembly, and a seal system. The blade track is arranged around a central axis of the gas turbine engine to direct gasses through the gas turbine engine. The support assembly is arranged around the blade track to support the blade track relative to the central axis. The seal system is configured to block fluid communication between pressurized cavities formed in the support assembly.
US10287905B2
One exemplary embodiment of this disclosure relates to a gas turbine engine. The engine includes a first rotor disk, a second rotor disk, and a circumferentially segmented seal. The segmented seal engages the first rotor disk and the second rotor disk. The segmented seal further includes a fore surface contacting the first disk, an aft surface contacting the second disk, and a radially outer surface. Further, (1) the aft surface and (2) one of the fore surface and the radially outer surface include perforations to allow fluid to flow through the interior of the segmented seal.
US10287900B2
A disclosed turbine vane assembly for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil including a pressure side and a suction side that extends from a leading edge toward a trailing edge. The airfoil is rotatable about an axis transverse to an engine longitudinal axis and includes a forward chamber within the airfoil and in communication with a cooling air source, a forward impingement baffle defining a pre-impingement cavity within the forward chamber. The pre-impingement cavity is split into a leading edge cavity, pressure side cavity and a suction side cavity defined between an inner surface of the forward chamber and an outer surface of the forward impingement baffle.
US10287898B2
A blade root including of a plurality of lobes and fillets and flanks in between is provided. A shoulder is provided between the flanks and the fillets to increase the distance to a corresponding lobe of a corresponding rotor disc into which a blade with such a blade root is inserted. A rotor blade having such a blade root is also provided. Furthermore this feature may alternatively or additionally also be applied to a rotor disc slot of a rotor disc, such that a flank of the rotor disc slot merges into a fillet of the rotor disc slot via a soft shoulder to increase the distance to a corresponding lobe of a blade root. A shoulder could also be applied to both the blade root and the corresponding slot of the rotor disc.
US10287896B2
A blade (60; 60-2) comprises an airfoil (61) and an attachment root (63). The blade has a tipward zone (80; 80-2; 80-2, 81) and a rootward zone (82; 82-2, 81; 82). The rootward zone has a single crystal structure. The tipward zone has a single crystal structure. The crystalline orientations of the rootward zone and tipward zone are at least 15° out of registry with each other.
US10287893B2
Provided is a turbine including a rotor; a blade provided on the rotor and comprising a cooling flow path through which a cooling fluid flows; and a shroud surrounding an exterior of the blade, wherein the blade includes: at least one rib turbulator protruding into the cooling flow path; and at least one subsidiary protrusion protruding from an outer surface of the at least one rib turbulator.
US10287886B2
A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.
US10287878B2
In some aspects, injection fluid is flowed into a closed wellbore in a subterranean region. Wellbore pressure in response to flowing the injection fluid into the closed wellbore is measured. A plot representing a wellbore pressure in response to cumulative injection fluid volumes is substantially linear is determined. After determining the plot is linear, a first injection fluid pressure measured in response to flowing the injection fluid deviates from the substantially linear plot by a first variance greater than a threshold variance is determined. A second injection fluid pressure measured in response to flowing the injection fluid deviates from the substantially linear plot by a second variance greater than the threshold variance is determined. In response to the above two determinations, flow of injection fluid into the closed wellbore is stopped.
US10287871B2
An assembly for use in subsurface drilling includes a downhole probe supported by a locking mechanism with a bore of a drill string section. The probe comprises a first spider and a second spider at the uphole and downhole sections of the probe. The locking mechanism secures the probes in the bore against axial and rotational movement relative the drill string section.
US10287869B2
A monitoring system includes a subsea laboratory configured to be positioned and operated below a sea surface. The subsea laboratory includes a housing, a fluid chamber within the housing and configured to receive a fluid from subsea drilling or production equipment, and a sensor within the housing and configured to generate a signal indicative of a characteristic of the fluid. The monitoring system also includes a controller having a processor configured to receive and to process the signal to determine the characteristic of the fluid, to determine an appropriate output based on the characteristic of the fluid, and to provide a control signal that causes an indication of the output via a user interface of a remote base station positioned above the sea surface.
US10287867B2
Methods including creating or extending a first main fracture with a pad fluid into a subterranean formation, wherein the pad fluid is a high-viscosity fluid; alternatingly introducing a micro-proppant fluid with the pad fluid, wherein the micro-proppant fluid is a low-viscosity fluid comprising micro-sized proppant particulates; creating or extending a first branch fracture extending from the first main fracture with the alternatingly introduced micro-proppant fluid, whereby at least a portion of the micro-sized proppant particulates enter into the first branch fracture and form at least a partial monolayer of micro-sized proppant particulates therein; and introducing a macro-proppant fluid through the first opening at a second flow rate, wherein the macro-proppant fluid is a low-viscosity fluid comprising macro-sized proppant particulates, and whereby at least a portion of the macro-sized proppant particulates enter into the first main fracture and form a proppant pack therein.
US10287864B2
Producing hydrocarbons by steam assisted gravity drainage, more particularly utilizing conventional horizontal wellpair configuration of SAGD in conjunction of infill production wells the production wells comprising two or more fishbone lateral wells to inject steam initially and then switch to NCG-steam coinjection after establishing thermal communication between the thermal chamber and infill well.
US10287861B2
A method employs sand jetting to perforate a wellbore casing at various locations using sandjetting, to further flush/clean the wellbore in the region of the tool, and to further frac the formation, all without removing the tool from the wellbore. An uphole and downhole packer is provided, uphole of which a sand jet port is provided for jetting a fluid stream containing sand. Locking jaw members and a ‘j’ slot subassembly, downhole of both the jet port and frac port are together used to set and unset the tool in the wellbore for the fracking operation. A slidable sleeve is utilized to open and close the jet port. A piston member is provided to set the uphole packer. A selectively openable and closeable bypass-port is provided to assist in moving the tool uphole during the perforating and fracking process.
US10287857B2
A method of solving a optimization problem is described. The method includes creating an initial model having a plurality of wells, each well being associated with a parameter and dividing the well field into first and second regions, the first region including a first subset of the plurality of wells and the second region including a second subset of the plurality of wells. The method also includes solving for the parameters associated with the wells in the first subset to get a first set of values while holding constant the parameters associated with the wells in the second subset, setting the parameters associated with the wells in the first subset to the first set of values, and solving for the parameters associated with the wells in the second subset to get a second set of values while holding constant the parameters associated with the wells in the first subset.
US10287850B2
It is sometimes desirable to differentially regulate fluid flow in a subterranean formation using autonomous inflow control devices (AICDs), but they are not readily configurable in the field at present. Wellbore systems providing adjustable flow control may comprise: a wellbore pipe having a flow control assembly fixedly coupled thereto, the wellbore pipe having an interior space, an outer surface, and one or more AICDs establishing a fluid connection between the interior space and the outer surface of the wellbore pipe, and the flow control assembly comprising one or more flow chambers defined on the outer surface about the one or more AICDs, one or more inlets being fluidly connected to the one or more flow chambers; wherein the one or more inlets are configured to accept a plug for occluding fluid flow therethrough, so as to limit access of a fluid to an entry location of the AICDs.
US10287847B2
A downhole sealing apparatus includes a cup sealing assembly defining a central bore to permit mounting on a mandrel. At least a portion of the cup sealing assembly is configured to be rotatably coupled to a mandrel. Such a downhole sealing assembly may be millable when in situ.
US10287835B2
A coiled adaptive seat is held to a smaller diameter for delivery with a tool that can feature a locating lug for desired alignment of the seat with an intended groove in the inner wall of a tubular. The release tool retracts a cover from the seat allowing its diameter to increase as it enters a groove. Alternatively the adaptive seat is released near the groove and pushed axially in the string to the groove for fixation. Once in the groove the inside diameter of the string is a support for a blocking object so that sequential treatment of parts of a zone can be accomplished. The blocking object is removed with pressure, dissolving, milling or disintegration leaving a narrow ledge in the tubular bore from the seat that can simply be left in place or milled as well. An E4#10 from Baker Hughes is modified for adaptive seat delivery.
US10287833B2
A combination of a carrier block and gripper block is disclosed. The gripper block includes a first side and a second side spaced apart from the first side, and an upper surface spanning the distance between the first side and the second side. The upper surface includes a gripping surface. The gripper block includes at least one recess positioned in at least one of the first side and the second side of the gripper block, the at least one recess including an engagement surface. A retention device includes a retention feature proximate the first end and extending laterally away from a longitudinal axis of the retention device. The carrier block includes at least one retention recess disposed at least partially through the carrier block, the at least one retention recess being configured to receive a second end of the retention device.
US10287832B2
The invention relates to a tong system for connecting a drill rod element (12) to an often stationary drill rod element (12) or for disconnecting a drill rod element from another drill rod element (12), wherein the tong system comprises at least two clamping blocks (20, 22), which face each other and are intended to fasten the tong system to the stationary drill rod element (12), and wherein at least one clamping block (20, 22) comprises movable means (30, 32) having a centering contour, which movable means (30, 32) are effective for adjusting the tong system in relation to the stationary drill rod element (12). The invention further relates to a clamping block (20, 22) as a component of such a tong system.
US10287831B2
The invention relates to a lifting device for picking up a member from the bottom of the sea, the lifting device comprising; a body extending along a central axis of the lifting device and having means for connection to a hoist cable, a housing configured to be at least partially introduced into a cavity of the member to be picked up and accommodating at least a part of the body and wherein the body and the housing are moveable with respect to each other along the central axis of the lifting device.
US10287826B2
A technique facilitates forming couplings along a power cable used, for example, to supply power to an electric submersible pumping system. In coupling the power cable to the electric submersible pumping system, a pothead may be provided with individual pothead bodies connected to individual conductors of the power cable. The pothead bodies are held with respect to each other by a plate structure which may be readily secured to a submersible motor of the electric submersible pumping system. If splices are formed along the power cable, individual potheads may be secured to conductor ends of the sections of power cable. The conductor ends are then inserted into corresponding individual adapters in a manner forming a secure and sealed connection.
US10287822B2
In an embodiment, a method of fabricating a polycrystalline diamond compact is disclosed. The method includes sintering a plurality of diamond particles in the presence of a metal-solvent catalyst to form a polycrystalline diamond body; leaching the polycrystalline diamond body to at least partially remove the metal-solvent catalyst therefrom, thereby forming an at least partially leached polycrystalline diamond body; and subjecting an assembly of the at least partially leached polycrystalline diamond body and a cemented carbide substrate to a high-pressure/high-temperature process at a pressure to infiltrate the at least partially leached polycrystalline diamond body with an infiltrant. The pressure of the high-pressure/high-temperature process is less than that employed in the act of sintering of the plurality of diamond particles.
US10287820B2
Fall protection device for a rescue cage of an aerial ladder, in particular for firefighting vehicles, comprising a retractable fall protection device having a body with a first and a second end, opposite to said first side, wherein said first side is individuated by an opening through which a relative self retractable safety belt slides, deflecting means arranged in front of said first side and spaced apart from said first side, supporting means comprising a joint connected to said second side of the body and supporting said deflecting means so as to be in front of said first side and spaced apart from said first side.
US10287819B1
A gate within a gate within a barrier. A first, relatively small gate is engaged within a second, relatively large gate, which is engaged in the barrier for extending across a passageway of a residence. The relatively large gate can be closed to, for example, minimize access of toddlers to the passageway, while the relatively small gate can be opened to, for example, maximize access of small dogs to the passageway. One example of a passageway is the head or bottom of a stairway. The relatively large gate, when closed, minimizes toddlers from falling down or climbing up stairs. The relatively small gate, when open, permits small dogs to walk down or climb up the stairs.
US10287808B2
A rotation unit includes a first rotor, a second rotor coupled to the first rotor, and a third rotor coupled to the second rotor. The second rotor has reflection-symmetric structure, and the first rotor and the third rotor are reflection-symmetric to each other with respect to the second rotor. Each of the first rotor, the second rotor, and the third rotor includes one or more grooves and one or more pins. In response to the pins moving in the corresponding grooves, a length of a first face formed by inner faces of the first rotor, the second rotor, and the third rotor in the groove direction remains unchanged, and a length of a second face formed by outer faces of the first rotor, the second rotor, and the third rotor in the groove direction varies.
US10287807B2
A vehicle glovebox includes a frame rotationally operable within a housing. A downstop is defined within the frame, wherein the downstop in a blocking position engages the housing to define a fully-open position of the frame. The downstop is operable to a release position that defines rotation of the frame beyond the fully-open position.
US10287800B2
A lock comprises: a body with a housing comprising a first and a second portion mutually adjacent along an longitudinal development direction corresponding to an insertion direction of a key; a first rotor with a further housing, rotationally housed within the first portion of the housing of the body; a second rotor comprising a first portion rotationally housed within the second portion of the housing of the body; a second portion rotationally housed within the further housing of the first rotor. The second rotor, inserting the key, translates along the longitudinal development direction of the body with respect to the first rotor and, by a first rotation portion of the key, rotates with respect to the first rotor, passing from disengaging to engaging the first rotor, wherein the first rotor and the second rotor, by a second portion of rotation of the key, integrally translate to actuate the lock.
US10287795B2
Fabric structures with raceways and methods of making same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the fabric structures are air supported structures that form an enclosure via internal pressurized air. The air supported structures include an outer membrane that defined an outer surface of the structure. The air supported structures further include a plurality of inner segments formed of tab members coupled to and extending from the outer membrane toward the interior of the enclosure, and at least one inner liner panel coupled to and extending between adjacent tab members spaced inwardly from the outer membrane to form at least one air pocket therebetween. An attachment portion of the tab members extends inwardly past the at least one inner liner panel into the enclosure and forms at least one hardware attachment point.
US10287793B1
An umbrella anchoring system for selectively supporting and anchoring an umbrella to an anchoring surface, comprising a supporting sleeve having a supporting cavity adapted to selectively receive and support the umbrella, and an anchor adapted to detachably connect to the supporting sleeve. The anchor is affixed within an anchoring recess formed within the anchoring surface, and holds the supporting sleeve in a position perpendicular to the anchoring surface. The supporting sleeve may further comprise a tightening assembly which locks the umbrella within the supporting cavity. The supporting sleeve may be detached from the anchor when the umbrella is not in use, leaving the anchoring surface free of obstructions. The umbrella anchoring system may further comprise a base cap which covers the anchor when the supporting sleeve is detached from the anchor.
US10287784B2
Provided herein are exemplary floor installation tools comprising a base having a total length L 2, a receded portion of the base having a length L 1, an impact edge having a vertical height H 3 and forming a right angle with the receded portion of the base, a rounded nose, the rounded nose having an internal angle of approximately sixty degrees, a strike plate forming a sixty degree angle with the rounded corner, the strike plate configured for receiving a force for transfer to the impact edge, and a handle adjacent to the strike plate, the handle mounted in a middle of the base.
US10287770B2
A structural insulated building unit is provided for constructing a building. The structural insulated building unit includes an insulating core, first and second cementitious panels, and a connecting portion. The insulating core is defined by multiple sides and opposing first and second faces. The first and second cementitious panels are coupled to the first and second faces of the insulating core. The connecting portion is provided on one of the sides of the insulating core, and aligns the structural insulated building unit with an adjacent structural insulated building unit having a complementary connecting portion when constructing a building.
US10287755B1
A portable washout runoff catchment for commercial trailers. Catchment includes a liquid container base, a removable vertical barrier for reclaiming overspray and a liquid transfer pump.
US10287750B2
A rotatory energy recycling control device for a hydraulic excavator, comprising: an oil line selector valve (1), a direction selector valve (2), a sequencing valve (3), a one-way valve (4) and an overflow valve (5); two oil inlets of the oil line selector valve (1) are respectively connected to an opening A and an opening B of a rotary motor; an oil outlet of the oil line selector valve (1) is connected to an inlet of the direction selector valve (2); an outlet of the direction selector valve (2) is connected to an net of the sequencing valve (3); a drainage port of the sequencing valve (3) is connected to an oil tank; an outlet of the sequencing valve (3) and an net of the one-way valve (4) communicate with the overflow valve (5): the outlet of the one-way valve (4) is connected to an energy storage and utilization device; and an outlet of the overflow valve (5) is connected to the oil tank. One device can simultaneously achieve energy recycling from rotatory start and deceleration braking with fewer components and simplified piping designs.
US10287748B1
A dredge and spud apparatus provides a dredge or hull or floating tank. The hull supports one or more spuds. An interface mounts each spud to the hull. The interface includes a frame attached to the hull and a carriage supported by the frame for movement between a forward position and a rear position. The hull can support one or more dredge components. The hull can be a barge. The carriage can be moved from the forward position to the rear position (or from the rear position to the forward position) in order to change position of the hull or floating tank relative to the spuds when the spuds are anchored to the water bed, sea bed, lake bed, river bed, etc. The interface includes inner and outer links, at least one link being powered to move between forward and rear positions.
US10287741B2
A soil retaining system combining flat sheet pile walls in an open cell configuration includes integral soil anchors providing an improved earth retaining system. Another aspect of the invention is a method of designing and installing a soil retaining system with an open sheet pile cell structure having integral soil anchors. The method includes, inter alia, calculating soil forces by taking into account material strength of sheet pile, soil friction against the sheet pile in combination with the strength of the integral soil anchor, selecting sheet pile size and length based on soil forces calculation; and installation of sheet pile to form a soil retaining system. The integral soil anchors serve to provide higher load resistance to the improved earth retaining system.
US10287732B1
A temporary walkway used in construction areas to allow access to a building before the concrete sidewalk is installed. The temporary walkway has plank sections made up of a panel and a leading and a trailing edge. The leading edge is configured to lock into the trailing edge of an adjacent plank to create a large walk way. The Planks remain locked throughout an upward and downward angle of rotation to account for variance in the terrain.
US10287726B2
A steam head for a garment steamer includes a handle, and a steam duct having an upstream end connectable to a steam hose and a downstream end that defines a steam ejection opening with a circumferential edge that forms a frontal contact surface. A surface area of the frontal contact surface is smaller than an area of the steam ejection opening. The steam head further includes a drainage tube extending between condensate inlet and outlet ends, where the condensate inlet end is disposed within a downstream portion of the steam duct while the condensate outlet end is disposed elsewhere, such as connected to a water reservoir or a boiler of the garment steamer, or to a dedicated condensate collector.
US10287725B2
The present application relates to a steam device comprising a steam chamber having a steam generating surface onto which liquid water is provided to be evaporated into steam, a fabric treating plate comprising a fabric treating face and at least one steam vent through which steam is expelled onto a fabric to be steamed, an outlet flow section located between the steam generating surface and the fabric treating face wherein the outlet flow section defines an indirect flow path between the steam chamber and the at least one steam vent and a heater for heating the outlet flow section such that liquid water which enters the outlet flow section from the steam chamber is evaporated into steam. The outlet flow section comprises at least one boundary surface with a plurality of recesses for reducing the flow rate of liquid water travelling through the outlet flow section.
US10287722B2
Provided is a washing machine including an auxiliary washing unit configured with an auxiliary washing space formed separately from a main washing space formed in a rotating tub, and a discharging assembly by which the auxiliary washing space and the main washing space are selectively in communication with each other. Through such a structure, auxiliary washing may be independently performed, and washing efficiency may be enhanced.
US10287719B2
A device for providing reinforcement strand loops for a multi-needle system for mechanically reinforcing a component made of a foamed plastics material, has a profile body, at least two clamps positioned on the periphery and/or end face of the profile body for fixing a reinforcement strand to the profile body, at least one slider which can be moved in parallel with a central longitudinal axis of the profile body to produce a reinforcement strand loop, at least two separators positioned in the periphery and/or end face of the profile body for separating the reinforcement strand loop from the reinforcement strand and a feeder for feeding the reinforcement strand loop. As a result, reinforcement strand loops can be produced with high precision and individually presented to the needles and/or grippers of a multi-needle system.
US10287716B2
Disclosed are a fabric manufacturing method, a manufacturing control method, a manufacturing control device and a manufacturing system, wherein the fabric manufacturing method comprises the steps of: obtaining information of a fabric function area setting performed using human morphology information, motional force analysis data and heat and moisture analysis data, wherein the information of the fabric function area setting comprises fabric function area type information; calling a corresponding relationship between the fabric function area type information and knitting member information, wherein the knitting member information comprises knitting stitch structure information and knitting action information; and performing integrated forming and seamless knitting of the fabrics according to the control instructions corresponding to the knitting stitch structure information and the knitting action information. The present invention achieves the technical effects, such as strengthening the supporting and protecting effect of the fabrics on moving human bodies and improving the ductility and wearing comfort of the fabrics.
US10287712B2
A machine for forming the shed of a weaving loom, of the dobby or cam machine type utilizes output levers performing, during the weaving, an alternating oscillation movement around another common shaft, a casing (12) with an output aperture crossed by the levers, as well as a frame (6) which delimits, with the casing (12), an inner volume (V) of the machine, including an area for receiving torque transmission members between a driving shaft and a shaft for actuating the output levers as well as an area for receiving the output levers, this receiving area being adjacent to the area for receiving the torque transmission members, while the frame (6) supports the actuation shaft. The casing (12) and the frame (6) are in sealed contact, via at least one seal gasket (16, 18), at both external (16) and internal (18) seal barriers (B1, B2) respectively distant from each other, both seal barriers each extending over the whole periphery of the casing (12) except at the output aperture.
US10287707B2
A film growth apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a reactor configured to perform film growth processing on a substrate; an exhaust configured to discharge an exhaust gas from the reactor to the outside; a first valve including a valving element, the first valve provided in a pipe connecting the reactor with the exhaust and configured to control a pressure of the reactor by a position of the valving element; a valving element driver configured to cause the valving element to operate; and a valve controller including a closed position storage configured to store a closed position of the valving element, an opening degree controller configured to control the position of the valving element operated by the valving element driver, and a closed position shifter configured to detect a load of the valving element driver and shift the closed position in a case where the load exceeds a predetermined reference value.
US10287706B2
The present invention relates to an ingot growing device for growing a single crystal silicon ingot. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the ingot growing device comprises: a growing chamber having an inner space; a growing container located in the inner space and having a silicon solution accommodated therein; a heating unit encompassing the growing container and located thereat, and generating heat; and a susceptor for supporting the growing container, wherein the heating unit comprises: a first ring heater having a ring shape; a second ring heater having a ring shape and located at the lower part of the first ring heater; a first coupling part for coupling the first ring heater and the second ring heater; and a first ring support unit located between the first ring heater and the second ring heater and supporting the first ring heater.
US10287703B2
A substrate characterised in that it is at least partially surface-coated with a coating containing at least one so-called “barrier” layer having silica and one or more material(s) X selected from among SiC, Si, Si3N4, in which layer the amount of X varies between 25-wt. % and 50.-wt. % in relation to the total weight of the barrier layer, the barrier layer being formed by grains of one or more materials X covered at least partially in a silica shell, and the barrier layer being in direct contact with the substrate.
US10287695B2
The design and method of fabrication of a three-dimensional, porous flow structure for use in a high differential pressure electrochemical cell is described. The flow structure is formed by compacting a highly porous metallic substrate and laminating at least one micro-porous material layer onto the compacted substrate. The flow structure provides void volume greater than about 55% and yield strength greater than about 12,000 psi. In one embodiment, the flow structure comprises a porosity gradient towards the electrolyte membrane, which helps in redistributing mechanical load from the electrolyte membrane throughout the structural elements of the open, porous flow structure, while simultaneously maintaining sufficient fluid permeability and electrical conductivity through the flow structure.
US10287690B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an aluminum strip, in which the aluminum strip is coated with a sorption layer which has a binder and a sorbent. The object to propose a method for producing an aluminum strip coated with a sorption layer, by means of which an aluminum strip can be coated cost-effectively having constant performance characteristics with respect to the sorption of, for example, water vapor, is achieved according to the invention by means of a method for producing an aluminum strip coated with a sorption layer by applying a suspension to the aluminum strip in the coil-coating process, which in addition to a liquid comprises at least one binder, formed as a solid, and a sorbent, and by subjecting the aluminum strip, together with the applied suspension, to a drying process, in which the binder is activated.
US10287689B2
There is provided a method for producing a metal-plated stainless material, the method including performing an acid treatment of treating a stainless steel material with an acidic solution; performing an etching of treating the stainless steel material after the acid treatment with an etching treatment agent; and a modifying the surface of the stainless steel material after the etching into a state suitable for a metal plating process.
US10287681B2
The present invention relates to a copper metal film to be used as a seed layer for electrodeposition for forming a copper interconnect for a semiconductor device, a method for preparing the same, and a method for forming a copper interconnect for a semiconductor device using the copper metal film.
US10287674B2
A medical, dental or surgical instrument comprising a substrate on at least part of the instrument with a rough surface structure and a layer which is applied to or deposited on the substrate in such a way that the rough surface structure of the substrate is at least not completely smoothed by the layer or the roughness is increased, wherein the layer applied to or deposited on the substrate is embodied as a glass-ceramic layer. In addition, for producing such an instrument or part thereof is described.
US10287660B2
A steel wire rod includes, in terms of mass %, 0.95-1.10% C, 0.10-0.70% Si, 0.20-1.20% Mn, 0.90-1.60% Cr, 0-0.25% Mo, 0-25 ppm B, 0-0.020% P, 0-0.020% S, 0-0.0010% O, 0-0.030% N, and 0.010-0.100% Al. In a surface area of the steel wire rod, the Vickers hardness is HV 300 to HV 420, the area ratio of pearlite is 80% or more, and the area ratio of pro-eutectoid cementite is 2.0% or less. In an inner area of the steel wire rod, the area ratio of pearlite is 90% or more, and the area ratio of pro-eutectoid cementite is 5.0% or less. In the steel wire rod, the area ratio of pearlite blocks having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 40 μm is 0.62% or less, and the difference in Vickers hardness between the surface area and a center portion is HV 20.0 or less.
US10287652B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for recovering calcium-containing solid components from steelmaking slag, with which it is possible to easily increase the calcium recovery rate. With the method, steelmaking slag is immersed in an aqueous solution containing carbon dioxide, and calcium in the steelmaking slag is made to leach out into the aqueous solution. Next, the immersed steelmaking slag is removed from the aqueous solution, and, subsequently, the pH of the aqueous solution is increased. When solid components precipitated by doing so are recovered, it is possible to recover solid components containing 20% or more by mass in terms of calcium atoms.
US10287649B2
A cold-rolled flat steel product may have a yield strength Rp0.2 of not more than 320 MPa, a fracture elongation A80 of at least 20% and a microstructure having by percent area 62%-82% ferrite, 10%-30% martensite, 1.5%-8% residual austenite, and a sum total of not more than 10% other microstructure constituents. The flat steel product may comprise a steel alloy containing in percent by weight 0.06%-0.1% C; 0.15%-0.4% Si; 1.5%-2% Mn; 0.2%-0.5% Cr; not more than 0.1% Al; wherein the sum total of C, Si, Mn, and Cr is at least 2.3% and not more than 2.8%; wherein the sum total of Si and Al is not more than 0.4%; not more than 0.03% P; not more than 0.006% S; not more than 0.008% N; unavoidable impurities including not more than 0.0006% B, not more than 0.02% V, and not more than 0.01% each of Nb and Ti, and not more than 0.1% each of Mo, Ni, and Cu; as well as iron. For production of such a flat steel product, a cold-rolled flat steel product may first be produced and then brought to 760-860° C. in a continuous run and kept at that temperature over an annealing period Gt for which, depending on the thickness D of the flat steel product, Gtu≤Gt≤Gto with Gtu [s]=3.56*D2 [s/mm2]−5.1*D [s/mm]+9.8 s Gto [s]=−21.4*D2 [s/mm2]+132.8*D [s/mm]+47 s.
US10287644B2
A method for desulfurizing molten steel comprising taking a sample out from molten steel after tapping from a converter or during secondary refining and analyzing the sample rapidly with high accuracy by a method comprising a high frequency induction heating step wherein the sample is combusted and oxidized under the high frequency induction heating in an oxygen atmosphere having an oxygen purity of 99.5 vol % or more to convert S in the sample into SO2 and an analyzing step wherein SO2-containing gas produced in the high frequency induction heating step is analyzed through an ultraviolet fluorescence method to quantify S concentration of the sample.
US10287641B2
The invention relates to new isolated Lactobacillus strains chosen from Lactobacillus mellifer Bin4N.sup.T (LMG P-28344) and Lactobacillus apinorum Fhon13N.sup.T (LMG P-28345), which have been isolated from honeybees or their processed food. The bacterial strains have unique properties such as production of benzene, free fatty acids and 2-heptanone, rendering them useful in many areas such as in food and beverage products, feed products and medical products.
US10287637B2
A method and system for analyzing a microbiome of an individual, comprising: providing a sampling kit to the individual at a location remote from the sample processing network, the sampling kit including a sample container having a lysing component and a sample preservation component and configured to receive a sample from a collection site of the individual; receiving the sample container with the sample from the collection site of the individual; generating a microbiome sequence dataset based upon sequencing nucleic acid content of a microorganism portion of the sample; identifying a set of microorganisms represented in the microorganism portion based upon performance of a mapping operation on portions of the microbiome sequence dataset; generating an analysis based upon a set of features related to the microorganism portion; and transmitting information derived from the analysis to the individual.
US10287636B2
A universally usable method for specific detection of target nucleic acid sequences, which method can be performed very rapidly and also simply and furthermore which does not need any expensive instrumental systems. The method is intended to be suitable as a molecular genetic rapid test and to respect the requirements of diagnostic specificity assurance. In this regard it is important that only one specific amplification product be detected and that amplification artifacts can be unambiguously discriminated. A nucleic acid amplification kit suitable for performing this method.
US10287630B2
Methods and compositions for digital profiling of nucleic acid sequences present in a sample are provided.
US10287628B2
The present invention provides, inter alia, methods and kits for identifying where a polypeptide of interest binds in a genome. The methods include a) carrying out a chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled to exonuclease digestion (ChIP-exo) process with an antibody against the polypeptide of interest; (b) extracting a polynucleotide fragment to which the polypeptide of interest binds; (c) carrying out a library preparation protocol adapted from an individual nucleotide resolution UV cross-linking and immunoprecipitation (iCLIP) process on the ChIP-exo processed polynucleotide fragment; and (d) sequencing the resulting polynucleotides. The kits include: (a) reagents sufficient to carry out ChIP-exo; (b) reagents sufficient to carry out the library preparation protocol adapted from the iCLIP process; and (c) instructions for use.
US10287626B2
Methods of cleaving double-stranded DNA that can be recognized and cleaved by a rationally-designed, I-CreI-derived meganuclease are provided. Also provided are recombinant nucleic acids, cells, and organisms containing such recombinant nucleic acids, as well as cells and organisms produced using such meganucleases. Also provided are methods of conducting a custom-designed, I-CreI-derived meganuclease business.
US10287624B2
Reagents and methods for the analysis of nucleic acids (e.g. genomic DNA) of circulating microparticles (i.e. microparticles originating from blood) are provided. The methods comprise linking at least two fragments of a target nucleic acid of a circulating microparticle to produce a set of at least two linked fragments of the target nucleic acid. In the methods, fragments of a target nucleic acid may be linked by techniques such as barcoding, partitioning, ligation and/or separate sequencing. The sequencing of a set of linked fragments provides a set of informatically linked sequence reads corresponding to the sequences of fragments from a single microparticle.
US10287623B2
The present invention is directed to methods, compositions and systems for capturing and analyzing sequence information contained in targeted regions of a genome. Such targeted regions may include exomes, partial exomes, introns, combinations of exonic and intronic regions, genes, panels of genes, and any other subsets of a whole genome that may be of interest.
US10287621B2
The invention relates to a method which enables the possibility to capture chromosome conformation as well as a kit containing components useful to be used the method, such as to detect promoter and enhancer relations. The method comprises the following steps: i) providing cross-linked genomic DNA, wherein the DNA comprises a first and a second set of regions, ii) fragmenting the cross-linked genome, thus creating a plurality of fragments with junctions, iii) adding a labelled junction marker such as biotin and ligating the fragments to the marker, iv) purifying the marked fragments, v) adding labelled capture probes and selectively purifying the hybridized fragments, and vi) analyzing the fragments captured by hybridization and identify the fragments.
US10287609B2
A plant activator composition increases the concentration of terpenes a terpinoids in aromatic plant oils, and hence resulting in an increased concentration of terpene and terpinoids in the harvested dried plant or fruit. The composition contains one of more bio-active compounds that are optionally extracted from plants selected from one or more of the group consisting of mango, citrus (including grapefruit), Catharanthus roseus and Pelargonium odoratissimum, but alternatively may include one or more synthetic compounds selected from the group consisting of geranyl acetate, geraniol, beta-sitosterol, alpha-amyrin, beta amyrin, carotenoid, geranyl acetate, alpha-humulene, mevalonate kinase and geranyl. Depending on the type of plant being treated, the formulation is added during watering and feeding in optimum doses during the vegetative growth, flowering, and fruit set and/or swell stages.
US10287607B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for selective expression of a transgene. Compositions and methods for selective expression of a transgene comprise one or more human regulatory elements, which, when operably linked to a transgene, can facilitate selective expression of a transgene (e.g., cell-type selective expression) in a target cell as compared to at least one or more non-target cells.
US10287604B2
A technique by which the production of plant biomass can be significantly increased is provided. A protein phosphatase 2C gene having 3 consensus sequences comprising the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-3 from the N-terminal side in such order is over-expressed.
US10287603B2
The present invention relates to methods and means to increase seed weight in Brassica. More specifically, the invention relates to mutant DA1 genes in Brassica plants and the use thereof to seed weight.
US10287596B2
MPO1 and MPO2 can be regulated for either decreasing or increasing alkaloid levels in plants, in particular in Nicotiana plants. In particular, suppressing or overexpressing one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used to decrease or increase nicotine and nicotinic alkaloid levels in tobacco plants. Suppression or overexpression of one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used in combination with modification of expression of other genes encoding enzymes on the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway such as A622, NBB1, PMT, and QPT.
US10287594B2
The invention provides to improved methods for the modification of genes in plant cells, and plants and seeds derived therefrom. More specifically, the invention relates to the increased efficiency of targeted gene mutation by combining gene repair oligonucleotides with approaches that enhance the availability of components of the target cell gene repair mechanisms.
US10287586B2
An antisense molecule capable of binding to a selected target site to induce exon skipping in the dystrophin gene, as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 to 59.
US10287580B2
Disclosed are memory-regulating agents and methods that target actin binding LIM protein family, member 3 (ABLIM3). Specifically, the disclosure provides methods of inhibiting Ablim3 using inhibitory nucleic acids that target the Ablim3 gene or mRNA to improve memory in subjects with memory dysfunction associated with Alzheimer's Disease (AD), normal aging, or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Further disclosed is a cell-based assay that can be used to screen for small molecule regulators of Ablim3 function.
US10287574B2
Transposomes and oligonucleotide replacement methods to make DNA libraries that have distinct 5′ and 3′ tags, and to make directional libraries that are enriched for a desired strand.
US10287572B2
This disclosure describes non-naturally occurring protein scaffolds and methods of making and using the protein scaffolds. In one aspect, therefore, this disclosure describes a non-naturally occurring protein scaffold that includes a plurality of structural domains and a plurality of loop regions that include an amino acid sequence that varies from a naturally-occurring loop region by at least one amino acid deletion, substitution, or addition. Generally, the structural domain or domains can include at least one β structure and/or at least one a helix.
US10287567B2
The present invention provides engineered tyrosine ammonia-lyase (TAL) polypeptides and compositions thereof. In some embodiments, the engineered TAL polypeptides have been optimized to provide enhanced catalytic activity while reducing sensitivity to proteolysis and increasing tolerance to acidic pH levels. The invention also provides methods for utilization of the compositions comprising the engineered TAL polypeptides for therapeutic and industrial purposes.
US10287548B2
The present approach relates to the design and use of a functionally closed bioreactor designed to immobilize, culture, and mature tissue on a loading platform. The bioreactor may be equipped with sensors for tissue monitoring which in conjunction with stiffness data can provide closed-loop control of tissue maturation. Based on a relationship between cartilage stiffness and tissue maturity, measurements of stiffness can be acquired and used as a surrogate for cartilage maturity without the need for destructive tests.
US10287541B2
Provided is a cell culture vessel characterized in that a surface to be in contact with cells is coated with a laminin fragment having integrin α6β1 binding activity or a modified form thereof in a dry state, the laminin fragment being derived from at least one kind selected from laminin α5β1γ1 and laminin α5β2γ1, the cell culture vessel being any of the following: (1) a cell culture vessel of which a surface to be in contact with cells is coated only with a laminin fragment having integrin α6β1 binding activity or a modified form thereof in a dry state; (2) a cell culture vessel of which a surface to be in contact with cells is coated with a laminin fragment having integrin α6β1 binding activity or a modified form thereof in combination with a laminin fragment having no integrin α6β1 binding activity in a dry state; and (3) a cell culture vessel of which a surface to be in contact with cells is coated with a laminin fragment having integrin α6β1 binding activity or a modified form thereof in combination with a protein that is neither a laminin nor a laminin fragment, in a dry state.
US10287537B2
In a clarification method for a beverage liquid, in particular for producing beer, the beverage liquid, after it passes through a fermentation stage, is subjected to a clarification which serves for removing active haze components from the beverage liquid, and fed to a maturation vessel in which the beverage liquid is stored for a maturation time. In a further method step, the beverage liquid is charged with at least one pectin-containing clarification agent for increasing a filtration performance. In this case it is provided that the pectin-containing clarification agent is introduced into the beverage liquid on the path from the fermentation stage to the maturation vessel and the pectin present therein, before the feed to the maturation vessel, is at least for the most part removed again from the beverage liquid.
US10287533B2
An automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including a dispersant polymer and a surface-modification surface-substantive polymer wherein the composition leaves glass after being washed with the composition in an automatic dishwasher with a contact angle with deionised water of less than about 50° and wherein the surface-modification surface-substantive polymer has a rivulet forming effect on water drainage from glass.
US10287523B2
A coal deactivation processing device includes: a rotary kiln body provided rotatably into which coal and a processing gas are supplied; and a feed pipe provided so as to be able to rotate along with the rotary kiln body, extending along a lengthwise direction of the rotary kiln body, and having a coolant flowing therein. A pair of blades is provided on an outer circumferential section of the feed pipe and protrudes in a radial direction. The feed pipe and the pair of blades are arranged so as to pass through an accumulated coal layer of the coal within the rotary kiln body upon rotation of the rotary kiln body, and such that an angle formed by a tangent of a path along which the central axis of the feed pipe passes and the bisector of the pair of blades is from 0 to 40 degrees.
US10287520B2
A system including a quench system that may cool a syngas generated in a gasification chamber. The quench system includes a quench chamber, a dip tube that may direct the syngas from the gasification chamber into a quench liquid in the quench chamber to cool the syngas and to generate a first cooled syngas, and a draft tube disposed circumferentially about the dip tube and configured to receive the first cooled syngas in a first direction along a first passage. The first passage is disposed between a first wall of the dip tube and a second wall of the draft tube. The quench system also includes a droplet tube that may receive the first cooled syngas from the first passage. The droplet tube includes a third wall that may redirect a flow of the first cooled syngas in a second direction different from the first direction.
US10287512B2
The present invention relates to a process and apparatus for reducing the desorbent recovery cost in a light desorbent system. More specifically, the present invention relates to an alternate flow scheme that for pre-fractionation of the extract column feed which includes two extract columns which reduces the desorbent recovery costs in a light desorbent system.
US10287494B2
Silicon nanocrystals with surface passivation shell are exhibiting unexpected and quite exceptional optical properties (for example ultra narrow linewidth). They are synthesized from hydrogen silsesquioxane-like molecules, which are modified by organic molecules, and subsequently annealed at high temperatures in an inert atmosphere. Silicon nanocrystals are formed from hydrogen silsesquioxane during annealing and the added organic molecules for a surface passivation shell by bonding to the surface Si atoms of the nanocrystals. The invention is particularly useful for preparation of light emitting fluorophores with a narrow emission band, given that inhomogeneous broadening can be reduced.
US10287491B2
A coated phosphor comprises phosphor particles, wherein said phosphor particles comprise manganese-activated complex fluoride phosphors; and a coating on individual ones of said phosphor particles, said coating comprising a layer of carboxylic acid material encapsulating the individual phosphor particles.
US10287486B2
An oil recovery composition of an aqueous solution of one or more salts and dilute polymer and processes for enhanced oil recovery using the oil recovery composition are provided. An oil recovery composition may include an aqueous solution of one or more salts having a salinity of about 4000 parts-per-million (ppm) total dissolved solids (TDS) to about 8000 ppm TDS, a polymer having a concentration of 250 ppm to 500 ppm, metal oxide nanoparticles of up to 0.1 weight (wt) %, and dissolved CO2. The one or more salts may include at least one of sodium chloride (NaCl), calcium chloride (CaCl2), magnesium chloride (MgCl2), sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) and magnesium sulfate (MgSO4). The polymer may include a copolymer of acrylamide and acrylamido tertiary butyl sulfonate (ATBS). The oil recovery compositions provided may be suited for enhancing oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs having in situ oil viscosities less than 3 centipoise (cP).
US10287485B2
An oil recovery composition of an aqueous solution of one or more salts and dilute polymer and processes for enhanced oil recovery using the oil recovery composition are provided. An oil recovery composition may include an aqueous solution of one or more salts having a salinity of about 5000 parts-per-million (ppm) to about 6000 ppm and a polymer having a concentration of 250 ppm to 500 ppm. The one or more salts may include at least one of sodium chloride (NaCl), calcium chloride (CaCl2), magnesium chloride (MgCl2), sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) and magnesium sulfate (MgSO4). The polymer may include a copolymer of acrylamide and acrylamido tertiary butyl sulfonate (ATBS). The oil recovery compositions provided may be suited for enhancing oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs having in situ oil viscosities less than 3 centipoise (cP).
US10287483B2
Methods and compositions comprising an emulsion or a microemulsion for use in various aspects of the life cycle of an oil and/or gas well are provided. In some embodiments, the emulsion or the microemulsion comprises an aqueous phase, a non-aqueous phase comprising a terpene alcohol a non-oxygenated terpene, and a surfactant, and optionally, one or more additives.
US10287477B2
Cement slurries, cured cements, and methods of making cured cement and methods of using cement slurries are provided. The cement slurries have, among other attributes, improved rheology, such as improved flowability and pumpability and may be used, for instance, in the oil and gas drilling industry. The cement slurry contains water, a cement precursor material and a surfactant having the formula R—(OC2H4)x—OH where R is a hydrocarbyl group comprising from 10 to 20 carbon atoms and x is an integer from 1 and 10. The cured cement have improved strength and density properties due to reduced fluid loss and even placement during curing. The cured cement contains a surfactant having the formula R—(OC2H4)x—OH where R is a hydrocarbyl group comprising from 10 to 20 carbon atoms and x is an integer from 1 and 10.
US10287472B2
A thermally conductive material according to the present invention is prepared by allowing silicon carbide having an average particle size of 10 μm or more and less than 50 μm, aluminum hydroxide having an average particle size of 1 μm or more and less than 10 μm, and magnesium hydroxide having an average particle size of 0.5 μm or more and less than 1 μm to be contained in a polymer obtained by polymerizing a monomer containing acrylic acid ester.
US10287468B2
The present invention relates to a CMP slurry composition, for an organic film, for polishing an organic film and an organic film polishing method using same, the CMP slurry composition comprising: a polar solvent and/or a non-polar solvent; metal oxide abrasives; an oxidant; and a heterocyclic compound, wherein the heterocyclic compound, as a heteroatom, comprises one or two of oxygen (O) atom, sulfur (S) atom and nitrogen (N) atom and has carbon content of 50-95 atom %.
US10287443B2
An electrothermal composition and electrothermal textiles are provided. The electrothermal composition includes a polyurethane and a plurality of metal nanomaterials. The polyurethane has repeating unit of Formula (I): wherein R1 is R2 is R3 is R4 is R5 is C1-4 alkylene group, R6 is C2-6 alkylene group, R7 is C2-6 alkylene group, R8 is C1-4 alkylene group, X is R9 is C2-6 alkylene group, a is 1 to 100, b is 0 to 100, and a≥b. The polyurethane has dynamic viscosity of 1000 cP to 5000 cP at 25° C.
US10287439B2
Carbonate pigment compositions are provided. In some instances, the pigment compositions are CO2 sequestering pigment compositions. Also provided are methods of making and using the pigment compositions, e.g., in paints and coatings, as well as other applications.
US10287438B2
Color-bleed resistant pigment particles containing an anionic dye, a quaternary ammonium compound, and a silica and/or silicate material having a negative zeta potential are disclosed. Related methods of making these colored pigment particles also are provided.
US10287432B2
Provided are: a thermoplastic elastomer composition, excellent in both abrasion resistance and mechanical characteristics, obtained by heat-treating a mixture under molten condition thereof, the mixture including: 100 parts of at least one addition-polymerized block copolymer selected from a block copolymer and a hydrogenated product thereof; the block copolymer has a polymer block mainly including a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and containing 1% by mass or more of a structural unit derived from a styrene having an alkyl group bonded to a benzene ring and a polymer block mainly including a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound, 10 to 300 parts olefin-based resin, 0.01 to 20 parts crosslinking agent; 1 to 50 parts crosslinking adjuvant containing one methacryloyl group, one acryloyl group, and one or more hydroxyl group, and 30 to 250 parts rubber softener; and a molded article including the said thermoplastic elastomer composition.
US10287431B2
Compositions comprising a continuous phase of at least one polypropylene; within the range of from 5 wt % to 50 wt % of a mineral hydroxide filler by weight of the composition, having an aspect ratio within the range of from 5 or 6 or 8 to 20 or 40 or 100 or 200 or 800 or 1000; and within the range of from 5 wt % to 40 wt % of a olefin block-containing copolymer by weight of the composition. Also described is a method of forming the compositions comprising combining the components as “masterbatches” or as neat ingredients, or some combination thereof.
US10287430B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a patterned substrate. The method may be applied to a process of manufacturing a device such as an electronic device or integrated circuit, or another use, for example, to manufacture an integrated optical system, a guidance and detection pattern of a magnetic domain memory, a flat panel display, a LCD, a thin film magnetic head or an organic light emitting diode, and used to construct a pattern on a surface to be used to manufacture a discrete tract medium such as an integrated circuit, a bit-patterned medium and/or a magnetic storage device such as a hard drive.
US10287424B2
The present invention provides a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing: (A-1) a crosslinked ethylene copolymer containing monomer units derived from ethylene and monomer units derived from propylene and/or α-olefins having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, (B) a propylene polymer containing monomer units derived from propylene and having a content of the monomer units derived from propylene of greater than 50% by weight, and (E) an inorganic filler having an average particle diameter of less than 1.0 μm. In the thermoplastic elastomer composition, the content of the component (E) is 10% by weight to 23% by weight and the Shore A durometer hardness of the thermoplastic elastomer composition is 30 to 99. Molded articles formed of the thermoplastic elastomer composition are superior in adhesiveness to thermoplastic elastomer molded articles.
US10287422B2
There is provided a dispersion composition capable of forming a film being excellent in surface conditions, the dispersion composition containing metal oxide particles (A) having a primary particle diameter of 1 nm to 100 nm, a polymer compound (B) having an acid value of less than 120 mgKOH/g, which is represented by the following Formula (1), and a solvent (C).
US10287421B2
A polymer composition having a reduced tendency to create a static electric charge during a molding operation is provided. More particularly, the composition contains an ionic liquid that is distributed within a polymer matrix that contains an aromatic polymer. In addition to being electrically conductive, the ionic liquid can exist in liquid form during melt processing, which allows it to be more uniformly blended within the aromatic polymer matrix. This improves electrical connectivity and thereby enhances the ability of the composition to rapidly dissipate static electric charges from its surface.
US10287416B2
Provided is a thermoformed container having a superior appearance as a result of inhibition of coloring and generation of defects during the melt molding, having sufficient strength, and further having a self-purge feature in a production process. The thermoformed container includes an EVOH layer (A) containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (I) as a principal component, wherein the EVOH layer (A) contains a carbonyl compound (II), the carbonyl compound (II) is an unsaturated aldehyde (II-1), a saturated aldehyde (II-2), a saturated ketone (II-3) or a combination thereof, and the content of the carbonyl compound (II) in the EVOH layer (A) is 0.01 ppm or greater and 100 ppm or less. The carbonyl compound (II) is preferably an unsaturated aldehyde (II-1), and the unsaturated aldehyde (II-1) is preferably an unsaturated aliphatic aldehyde.
US10287413B2
The present disclosure relates to polymer composites that include a thermoplastic polymer, network structure and a soft, ferromagnetic particulate material. The polymer composites may be used, for example, as magnetic flux field directional materials. The present invention also relates to methods of making the polymer composites, e.g. polymer composite sheets, of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a polymer composite including a thermoplastic polymer, network structure; and a soft, ferromagnetic particulate material distributed within the thermoplastic polymer, network structure. The weight fraction of soft, ferromagnetic particulate material may be between 0.80 and 0.98, based on the total weight of the polymer composite and/or the thermoplastic polymer may have a number average molecular weight between 5×104 g/mol to 5×107 g/mol.
US10287411B2
Aerogel compositions, methods for preparing the aerogel compositions, articles of manufacture that include or are made from the aerogel compositions are described and uses thereof. The aerogels include a branched polyimide matrix with little to no crosslinked polymers.
US10287409B2
The present invention provides an anion exchange resin capable of producing an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, a binder for forming an electrode catalyst layer and a battery electrode catalyst layer. The anion exchange resin of the present invention has a hydrophobic unit, a hydrophilic unit and divalent fluorine-containing groups. The hydrophobic unit has divalent hydrophobic groups composed of one aromatic ring or a plurality of aromatic rings that are repeated via carbon-carbon bond. The hydrophilic unit has divalent hydrophilic groups composed of one aromatic ring or a plurality of aromatic rings, at least one of which has an anion exchange group, that are repeated via carbon-carbon bond. The divalent fluorine-containing groups have a specific structure and are bonded via carbon-carbon bond to the hydrophobic unit and/or the hydrophilic unit and/or a moiety other than these units.
US10287404B2
The present application relates to a polymer particle manufacturing method, and according to an example of the manufacturing method and a manufacturing apparatus therefor, a reduction in energy can be achieved by simplifying a manufacturing process thereof.
US10287398B2
A functionalized siloxane includes a ligand capable of coordinating a metal. The functionalized siloxane includes a pyridine-containing ligand attached to a siloxane polymer. The functionalized siloxanes can be employed to provide complexes including a metal that may impart a desired property to the polymer. In one embodiment, the polymer can complex lanthanide metals that are capable of phosphorescing upon exposure to UV irradiation. Such polymers can be employed to provide functional materials such as, for example, luminescent films, coatings, etc.
US10287397B2
A complex prepared by combining a metal compound and an N-heterocyclic carbene has catalytic activity for condensation reaction of polyorganosiloxane compositions. The composition includes the complex, a silanol functional compound having an average per molecule of one or more silicon bonded hydroxy moieties.
US10287391B2
A polyester resin according to the present invention comprises a constitutional unit represented by general formula (1): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, CH3, or C2H5; and R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom or CH3.
US10287386B2
The present invention is related to a core-shell particle and preparation and use thereof. The core of the core-shell particle includes a vinyl polymer. The shell of the core-shell particle includes a hydrophobic silane bonded to a surface of the core via a silane coupling agent. The core-shell particles are applied in a matting material as a matting agent.
US10287381B2
A process of forming a non-halogenated flame retardant hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS) impact modifier is disclosed. The process includes co-polymerizing a mixture of monomers that includes an acryloyl-functionalized 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine (TMP) monomer, a styrene monomer, a butadiene monomer, and a phosphorus-functionalized monomer to form a co-polymer. The process also includes forming a non-halogenated flame retardant HALS impact modifier by converting a piperidine amide bridge of the co-polymer to a nitroxyl radical. The process further includes utilizing the nitroxyl radical to directly bond the non-halogenated flame retardant HALS impact modifier to a polymeric material to form an impact resistant, flame retardant, light-stabilized polymeric material.
US10287375B2
A process for the preparation of a propylene polymer in a multistage polymerisation process in the presence of a single site catalyst, said process comprising: (I) in a prepolymerisation step prepolymerising a single site catalyst in the presence of propylene and optionally at least one C2-10 alpha olefin comonomer and in the presence of hydrogen or in the absence of hydrogen; (II) in a slurry polymerisation step, polymerising propylene and optionally at least one C2-10 alpha olefin comonomer, with the pre-polymerised catalyst of step (I) in the presence of hydrogen; and subsequently (III) in a gas polymerisation step polymerising propylene and optionally at least one C2-10 alpha olefin comonomer, in the presence of catalyst and polymer from step (II) and optionally in the presence of hydrogen so as to form a propylene homopolymer or copolymer; wherein the amount of hydrogen fed to the pre-polymerisation step (I) is at most 15% of the total amount of hydrogen fed to steps (I) and (II) of the polymerisation process.
US10287367B2
Provided herein are organic solvent-based processes for the removal of rubber from non-Hevea plants such as TKS. By the use of the processes, solid purified rubber can be obtained that contains 0.05-0.5 weight % dirt, 0.2-1.5 weight % ash, and 0.1-4 weight % resin (when it has been dried so as to contain 0.8 weight % volatile matter).
US10287366B2
Methods for producing an activated pectin-containing biomass composition are provided. The method includes (A) mixing a starting pectin-containing biomass material having an insoluble fiber component and an insoluble protopectin component with an aqueous solution of an alcohol to form a mixture; (B) activating the starting pectin-containing biomass material to form an activated pectin-containing biomass material having the insoluble fiber component and a soluble pectin component by subjecting the starting pectin-containing biomass material to (i) an activating solution formed by adding acid to the mixture to adjust the pH of the mixture within the range from at or about 0.5 to at or about 2.5 and (ii) heat to a temperature greater than at or about 40 degrees Celsius; and (C) applying mechanical energy either (i) to the mixture of step A), (ii) during the activating of step B), or (iii) to the mixture of step A) and during the activating of step B); and (D) separating the activated pectin-containing biomass material from the mixture; wherein during the method the alcohol present in the mixture is at or greater than about 40 weight percent based on the total weight of the mixture. Activated pectin-containing biomass compositions are also provided.
US10287358B2
The present invention relates to antibodies against human CSF-1R (anti-CSF-1R antibody), methods for their production, pharmaceutical compositions containing said antibodies, and uses thereof.
US10287354B2
Compositions and methods relating to regulatable chimeric antigen receptors (RCARs), where the intracellular signaling or proliferation of the RCAR can be controlled to optimize the use of an RCAR-expressing cell to provide an immune response, are provided. For example, a RCAR can comprise a dimerization switch that, upon the presence of a dimerization molecule, can couple an intracellular signaling domain to an extracellular recognition element, e.g., an antigen binding domain, an inhibitory counter ligand binding domain, or costimulatory ECD domain. An RCAR can be engineered to include an appropriate antigen binding domain that is specific to a desired antigen target and used in the treatment of a disease.
US10287350B2
The invention is directed to a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) directed against CD19, which comprises an amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NO: 1-SEQ ID NO: 13. The invention also provides T-cells expressing the CAR and methods for destroying malignant B-cells.
US10287349B2
In accordance with the present invention, there are provided functionally modulated tool receptors which are useful for drug discovery and development. In certain aspects and embodiments as described herein, a sophisticated and powerful approach has been designed that allows the rapid development of enhanced receptors, while simultaneously exploring millions of possibilities for improved properties with respect to such properties as protein expression, homogeneity, stabilization, conformational and activation pathway selectivity, antigenicity, immunogenicity, and the like. Indeed, the new methodology described herein represents a breakthrough by leveraging a full range of combinatorial amino acid replacements, in multiple positions simultaneously, in order to generate modified membrane-spanning proteins.
US10287340B2
The invention provides single domain antibodies and derivatives thereof that bind antigens of interest, which are stable, soluble, and do not tend to aggregate. The invention also provides methods for constructing a dAb library and methods for screening dAb libraries to identify the dAb of the invention. The invention also provide methods of treating or preventing conditions by antigen neutralization by administering the dAbs of the invention.
US10287338B2
Compositions of recombinant FVIII protein comprising point mutations. Methods for using recombinant FVIII to activate FX and FIXa in cells and treat diseases mediated by the degradation of FVIII are described.
US10287336B2
The present specification discloses erythropoietin receptor agonists, compositions and medicaments comprising such erythropoietin receptor agonists, methods and uses for such erythropoietin receptor agonists and compositions and medicaments, and methods and uses for erythropoietin receptor agonists and compositions and medicaments for treating an anemia.
US10287311B2
The disclosed invention provides compositions and methods of treating a Flaviviridae infection, including hepatitis C virus, West Nile Virus, yellow fever virus, and a rhinovirus infection in a host, including animals, and especially humans, using a (2′R)-2′-deoxy-2′-fluoro-2′-C-methyl nucleosides, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof.
US10287309B2
The present invention relates to a disaccharide intermediate and a synthesis method thereof, relates to the chemical pharmaceutical field, and more specifically relates to a method for preparing a disaccharide segment of a key intermediate for chemically synthesizing heparin and heparinoid compounds. Disclosed are a new disaccharide intermediate and three methods for synthesizing the disaccharide intermediate, that is, compounds of a formula (4) and glucopyranose protected by different anomeric carbon are made to react in the presence of an active agent, to obtain the disaccharide intermediate. According to the technical solutions of the present invention, synthetic raw materials are easy to obtain, have a mild reaction condition, and are suitable for industrialized production.
US10287308B2
The present teachings relate to compounds and compositions for treatment of cancers. In some embodiments, the composition comprises a platinum (IV) complex having at least one polar moiety as a ligand.
US10287303B2
The disclosure relates to a novel class of compounds that exhibit activity inhibitory activity toward arginase, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the disclosure. Also provided herein are methods of treating cancer with the arginase inhibitors of the disclosure.
US10287301B2
Compounds, methods of use, and processes for making inhibitors of complement Factor D comprising Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or composition thereof wherein R12 or R13 on the A group is an aryl, heteroaryl or heterocycle (R32) are provided. The inhibitors of Factor D described herein reduce the excessive activation of complement.
US10287298B2
The present invention concerns compounds of formula (I), enantiomers, mixture of enantiomers, diastereoisomers and mixture of diasteroisomers thereof formula (I): wherein at least one of W, X and Y is selected from the group consisting of —NR1R2; —NR3—(CH2)n—NR4R5; —O—(CH2)n—NR4R5; —NR3—(CH2)n—N′R6R7R8; and —O—(CH2)n—N′R6R7R8 and Z is a functional group capable of chelating iron salts. The present invention also concerns the compounds of formula (I) for use as a drug, in particular, in the treatment of cancer and malaria.
US10287288B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): or stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein all the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are selective factor XIa inhibitors or dual inhibitors of FXIa and plasma kallikrein. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating thromboembolic and/or inflammatory disorders using the same.
US10287287B2
The disclosure provides process developments and novel routes for the preparation of the NK-1 receptor antagonist, Compound (I) and intermediates in those routes.
US10287284B2
Substituted fused imidazole derivatives, methods of their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising a substituted fused imidazole derivative, and methods of use in treating inflammation are provided. The substituted fused imidazole derivatives may control the activity or the amount or both the activity and the amount of heme-oxygenase.
US10287275B2
The invention discloses 20,23-modified novel derivatives of 16-membered demycarosyltylonolide antibiotics, which are useful against bacterial and mycoplasmic pathogens in humans and animals. Also claimed are pharmaceutical compositions of such derivatives and their use in treating bacterial and mycoplasmic infections in humans and animals.
US10287272B2
The present invention relates to compounds according to Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Such compounds can be used in the treatment o RORgammaT-mediated diseases or conditions.
US10287269B2
The present invention is directed to pyrimidine carboxamide compounds of formula I which are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of central nervous system disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 2 (PDE2). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD), or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.
US10287267B2
Isoquinoline compounds for treating various diseases and pathologies are disclosed. More particularly, the present disclosure concerns the use of an isoquinoline compound or analogs thereof, in the treatment of disorders characterized by the activation of Wnt pathway signaling (e.g., cancer, abnormal cellular proliferation, angiogenesis, Alzheimer's disease, lung disease, inflammation, auto-immune diseases and osteoarthritis), the modulation of cellular events mediated by Wnt pathway signaling, as well as neurological conditions/disorders/diseases linked to overexpression of DYRK1A.
US10287264B2
A method of enhancing binding of cells to an integrin-binding ligand comprises treating integrin-expressing cells in vitro with an agonist of integrin, wherein the integrin is selected from the group consisting of α4β1, α5β1, α4β7, αvβ3 and αLβ2, and contacting the treated cells with an integrin-binding ligand; integrin agonist compounds having the general formula I; methods of treating integrin-expressing cells with such agonists to enhance binding; and therapeutic methods comprising administering agonist-treated cells or agonist compounds to a mammal.
US10287255B2
A compound of formula (I), having histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibitory activity, wherein X, Q, N, R1, R2, L, and n are as described, isomers thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, the use thereof for the preparation of therapeutic medicaments, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, a method of treating disease using the composition, and methods for preparing the novel compounds. The novel compounds according to the present invention have histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibitory activity, and are effective for the prevention or treatment of HDAC6-associated diseases, including cancer, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, neurological diseases and neurodegenerative disorders.
US10287244B2
The present invention provides a process for purifying methionine. A methionine product having a purity of up to 99% or higher is obtained by separating methionine from a salt by-product through a process comprising adsorption and desorption using a macroporous adsorption resin, where the methionine content in the salt by-product is ≤0.03%. The yield of methionine extracted with the resin is up to 98% or higher. By using the process of the present invention, the existing production process is simplified, the quality of the methionine product is improved, and the production costs for methionine are reduced.
US10287232B2
At least a first fluid and a second fluid are used and are not miscible with each other. At least the first fluid includes one or two items selected from an organic compound, a reactant, and a phase transfer catalyst. From among the fluids other than the first fluid, at least the second fluid includes at least one item from among the items not selected from the three items. The first fluid and second fluid contain all three items. Each of the fluids are merged in a thin-film fluid formed between processing faces that rotate relative to each other. A phase transfer catalyst reaction occurs in the thin-film fluid. Among the first fluid and the second fluid, at least the fluid containing the phase transfer catalyst is prepared so that the phase transfer catalyst is substantially homogeneously mixed before being introduced between the processing faces.
US10287231B2
This invention concerns a process for the production of vinyl esters of carboxylic acids with 3 to 20 carbon atoms, via vinylation in the presence of palladium (Pd) catalyst in combination with copper (Cu) as co-catalyst stabilized by organic salts in the presence of ethylene and air or oxygen.
US10287228B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds and compositions for the treatment of malarian diseases. The compounds comprise a class of halogenated alkyl-aromatic secondary metabolites, including hierridic C, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, solvates or prodrugs thereof. The compounds comprise a halogen; C1-C6 alkyl, H, COCH3, COH, CO-alkyl, or CO-aryl; and a C3-C30 alkyl. In at least one embodiment, the compound is 3-chloro-4,6-dimethoxy-2-pentadecylphenol. The present disclosure also relates to methods of obtain the compounds from a solution comprising a cyanobacterium.
US10287218B2
A method of additively manufacturing propellant elements, such as for rocket motors, includes partially curing a propellant mixture before extruding or otherwise dispensing the material, such that the extruded propellant material is deposited on the element in a partially-cured state. The curing process for the partially-cured extruded material may be completed shortly after the material is put into place, for example by the material being heated at or above its cure temperature, such that it finishes curing before it fully cools. The propellant material may be prepared by first mixing together, a fuel, an oxidizer, and a binder, such as in an acoustic mixer. After that mixing a curative may be added to the mixture. The propellant mixture may then be directed to an extruder (or other dispenser), in which the mixture is heated to or above a cure temperature prior to the deposition, and then deposited.
US10287208B2
Provided is a functional building material for windows and doors, which is a multi-layered structure including: a transparent glass substrate; and a low emissivity coating formed on a surface of the transparent glass substrate, wherein the low emissivity coating includes a lowermost barrier layer, a dielectric layer, a low emissivity protective layer, a low emissivity layer, and an uppermost protective layer, wherein the lowermost barrier layer is located at the lowermost portion of the low emissivity coating to contact the transparent glass substrate, and the uppermost protective layer is located at the uppermost portion at which the low emissivity coating is outwardly exposed, wherein the lowermost barrier layer is multi-layered to include a first layer contacting the transparent glass substrate and a second layer located on the upper part of the first layer.
US10287198B1
Compositions and methods and systems for treating wastewater within a wastewater treatment system of described. In an embodiment, a composition for treating wastewater within a wastewater treatment system and for preventing or reducing the occurrence of struvite scale formation within the wastewater treatment system may include an admixture including a magnesium compound. The admixture may also include a dispersing agent. The admixture may further include at least one of a free magnesium control agent and a seed material. Other compositions and methods are described.
US10287189B2
Electrocoagulation (EC) reactors having pellet flow circuits are disclosed. In one embodiment, the EC reactor includes a reactor vessel having a first inlet and an outlet through which a contaminated feed stream is received and discharged, respectively. An EC reaction chamber is located within the reactor vessel, fluidly coupled between the first inlet and the outlet, and configured to be loaded with consumable EC pellets. The EC reactor further includes an EC pellet flow circuit around which the consumable EC pellets circulate as the contaminated feed stream flows through the EC reaction chamber. First and second electrodes are coupled to the reactor vessel and positioned to generate an electrical field. The consumable EC pellets are exposed to (e.g., pass through or circulate within) the electrical field to induce coagulation of contaminants within the contaminated feed stream as the feed stream flows through the EC reaction chamber.
US10287187B2
The present invention relates to an elongate microreactor (1) for desalinating a saline fluid (2), comprising at least one compartment (C1) for migrating ions, at least one compartment (C2) for separating ions and at least one compartment (C3) for collecting fluid, characterized in that first and second cathode electrodes (11A, 11B) and first and second anode electrodes (12A, 12B) each have a first surface (11F, 11G, 12F, 12G) that is in contact with the air and a second surface (11E, 11H, 12E, 12H) opposite said first surface, respectively, said second surface being in direct contact with a plastic wall (13B, 13C, 13A, 13D) that is in direct contact with the saline fluid.
US10287185B2
A sustainable system for removing and concentrating per- and polyfluoroallcyl substances (PFAS) from water. The system includes an anion exchange vessel having a selected anion exchange resin therein configured to remove PFAS from the water. A line coupled to the vessel introduces a flow of water contaminated with PFAS such that the PFAS bind to the selected anion exchange resin and are thereby removed from the water. A regenerant solution line is coupled to the anion exchange vessel to introduce an optimized regenerant solution to the anion exchange vessel to remove the PFAS from the anion exchange resin, thereby regenerating the anion exchange resin and generating a spent regenerant solution comprised of the removed PFAS and the optimized regenerant solution. A separation and recovery subsystem recovers the optimized regenerant solution for reuse and separates and concentrates the removed PFAS.
US10287183B2
An electroplating wastewater treatment method includes steps of: (A) crushing the straws into particles, stirring and mixing the crushed straw particles with the electroplating wastewater, and obtaining a mixture, wherein 40-50 g of straw particles are added into each liter of the electroplating wastewater; (B) mixing the seawater with the red mud, adjusting a pH value in a range of 8.5-9.5, filtering after standing, and obtaining a filtrate, wherein: a weight of the red mud which is added into the seawater is 200-300 g per liter seawater; (C) ultrasonically mixing the mixture in step (A) with the filtrate in step (B), standing, and then ultrasonically mixing, and then filtering after standing; and (D) adjusting a pH value of the filtrate obtained in step (C) to 7.
US10287178B2
A water filter, comprising a mechanical filter and a biological filter in fluid communication with the mechanical filter is disclosed. The biological filter comprises a carbon dioxide stripper and a nitrification bed.
US10287174B2
A method for revamping a front-end of an ammonia plant, said front-end comprising a reforming section (1, 2) with air-fired secondary reformer or autothermal reformer (2), a treatment section (3) of the effluent from said reforming section, and an air feed compressor (6), wherein an O2-containing stream (8) is directed to said reforming section (2) for use as oxidant, at least one nitrogen stream (9) is introduced at a suitable location of the front-end, to provide a desired molar ratio between hydrogen and nitrogen in the product gas, and at least part of said nitrogen stream (9) is compressed via said feed compressor (6).
US10287172B2
The present invention provides a preparation method of Beta molecular sieve, comprising: activating a mineral having low silica-to-alumina ratio and a mineral having high silica-to-alumina ratio, respectively, wherein the mineral having low silica-to-alumina ratio is activated via a sub-molten salt medium, and the mineral having high silica-to-alumina ratio is activated via means of high-temperature calcination; mixing the activated minerals with sodium chloride, potassium chloride, water and template agent for hydrothermal crystallization, wherein the charged amounts of the raw materials satisfies a molar ratio of: 0.03-0.18 Na2O: 0.01-0.03 K2O: 0.1-0.4 (TEA)2O: 1 SiO2: 0.01-0.5 Al2O3: 12-40 H2O; cooling the crystallized product and removing the mother liquor by filtration, washing the resulting filter cake with water to neutral and drying it to obtain the Beta molecular sieve.
US10287166B2
A carbon nanotube film includes a first end and a second end. The second end is opposite to the first end. The carbon nanotube film includes a number of carbon nanotube wires and at least one first carbon nanotube film connected adjacent carbon nanotube wires of the number of carbon nanotube wires. The carbon nanotube wires fan out from the first end to the second end such that a distance between the adjacent carbon nanotube wires gradually increases from the first end to the second end. The carbon nanotube film defines an open angle. A method for making the above-mentioned carbon nanotube film is also provided.
US10287165B2
Provided is a novel imidic acid compound having a divalent anion useful as a pharmaceutical intermediate, an agrochemical intermediate, an acid catalyst, a battery electrolyte or an antistatic agent. The imidic acid compound is a divalent imidic acid compound represented by the following general formula (1) or (2). [In formulae (1) and (2), R1 to R3 represent a fluorine atom or an organic groups selected from a linear or branched C1-10 alkoxy group, a C2-10 alkenyloxy group, a C2-10 alkynyloxy group, a C3-10 cycloalkoxy group, a C3-10 cycloalkenyloxy group and a C6-10 aryloxy group, and wherein a fluorine atom, an oxygen atom or an unsaturated bond may also be present in the organic group. M1 and M2 represent protons, metal cations or onium cations.]
US10287155B2
An electronic cigarette vaporizer that includes an air pressure valve or device to enable excess air to escape from an e-liquid reservoir in the vaporizer during pressurized filling of the vaporizer with e-liquid. If the vaporizer includes a ceramic cell, then the air pressure device is the wall of the ceramic cell and the reservoir is the chamber arranged outside of the external wall of the ceramic cell.
US10287142B2
A Crane boom segment is provided for assembly of a crane boom by interconnection of multiple crane boom segments from a transport configuration to an operational configuration. The crane boom segment includes a first and second planar latticed truss, each with two chords between which permanent lacing elements extend. Both chords of each planar latticed truss include segment connection parts at their head ends allowing crane boom segments to be connected to each other in series, and in the operational configuration the first and second planar latticed trusses are provided at opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of the crane boom segment. A crane boom segment further includes a first and second lattice web, each lattice web connectable to one of the chords of the first planar latticed truss and one of the chords of the second planar latticed truss. A modular crane includes a travelling base frame which allows for travel of said crane over a surface, and a crane boom assembled from crane boom segments, one end of the crane boom being hingedly connected about a substantially horizontal pivot axis to said travelling base frame.
US10287140B2
An engine hoisting assembly for supporting an engine comprises a ground supporting frame, a substantially upright member having a longitudinal axis, a boom operably connected to the upright member, lifting means to selectively move the boom up or down along upright member's longitudinal axis and engine connecting means to operably connect the boom to the engine. The boom is maintained at a substantial horizontal orientation when lifting means selectively moves boom up or down.
US10287136B2
A method and heave compensator for eliminating snap-load and heave effects at offshore deposition of a load into or onto the sea or seabed involves a heave compensator suspended between the load and the lifting device having a relatively stiff stroke response at small to moderate stroke lengths and then a softer stroke response at larger stroke lengths to avoid exceeding the dynamical amplification factor (DAF)-limitations of the crane/lifting device or on the load.
US10287134B2
A system, apparatus, and methods are configured for cleaning and conditioning handrails. A cleaning pad is curved to approximate the shape of a handrail, and is disposed on an arm. The arm may be mounted on a support structure, allowing it to be rolled up to an escalator handrail and left to do the cleaning while the escalator runs. When mounted, the arm may include a spring or piston to keep the arm in a particular position. A second cleaning pad may be included to dry or polish the handrail, the handrail going first through the cleaning pad and second through the drying pad. The arm may be hand-held, allowing a user to reach up or down steps or an incline. The cleaning pad may be mounted such that it rotates about the arm for storage, maintenance or better reach, such as around bends or corners.
US10287129B2
A spool holder includes a cylinder defining a longitudinal axis and having an external surface on which a spool of wire may be supported. A first plate is positioned at a first end of the cylinder and a second plate is positioned at a second end of the cylinder. Both first and second plates have portions extending radially outward from the external surface of the cylinder. The first and second plates both have a perpendicular orientation relative to the longitudinal axis. The first and second plates restrict axial movement of the spool of wire therebetween. The first plate and cylinder are stationary relative to a mounting structure, while the second plate is configured to rotate with the spool of wire. A mechanism urges the second plate and, thus, the spool of wire toward the first plate, thereby regulating rotation of the spool of wire.
US10287121B2
A sheet handling apparatus (for example, banknote handling apparatus 20) includes a storing and feeding unit (25) in which a sheet is stored on a rotary member (for example, drum (25a)) by winding the sheet on the rotary member and the sheet wound on the rotary member can be fed from the rotary member, a transport unit (23) that transports the sheet fed from the storing and feeding unit (25), a curl correction mechanism (70) that corrects a curl of the sheet transported by the transport unit (23), and a stacking unit (for example, banknote collection bag (34)) in which the sheet that has passed through the curl correction mechanism (70) is stacked.
US10287117B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an image processing apparatus comprises a sheet feed cassette, an operation lever, a sliding section, a sheet lifting and lowering tray, and a main body rail section. The sheet feed cassette is housed to be capable of being pulled out from an apparatus main body. The operation lever is arranged at the side of the sheet feed cassette and is rotatable around a shaft positioned at the middle in a longitudinal direction. The sliding section is arranged at the rear side of the shaft of the operation lever. The sheet lifting and lowering tray can place a sheet and adjust an inclination thereof in conjunction with the operation lever. The main body rail section is arranged in the apparatus main body and guides running of the sliding section at the time of pulling out the sheet feed cassette.
US10287102B2
A connection device connects a driving device and a feeding device and is for use in a scale or combination scale. A connection element has at least one magnet. A receiving device, which is located within the feeding device, includes at least one iron core. The receiving device includes a protrusion, where the receiving device meshes with the connection element in the mounted state for a simple, interlocking, and backlash-free self-centering connection.
US10287100B2
A removable cover assembly for a bracket mounted roller is provided and that includes a cover having a contoured bottom to cover a portion of a bracket mounted roller, a pin slidably disposed on the contoured bottom and a retaining tab configured to be slidably received in a slot on a top portion of the roller bracket. The removable cover assembly further includes a lever having a flanged end pivotally coupled to the cover, being pivotal to cause the flanged end to displace the pin, the latch being pivotal between a latched position in which the pin is displaced to cause the retaining tab to be received within the slot to retain the cover assembly to the bracket, and an unlatched position in which the pin is retracted to withdraw the retaining tab from the slot and permit removal of the cover assembly.
US10287094B2
The present invention is directed to a waste packaging system, a method of storing waste and to a film for use in this system and method.
US10287093B2
A waste basket liner bag retaining apparatus including a pair of liner bag retaining apertures formed on opposing sides of a waste basket to receive and secure a waste basket liner bag. Reusable aperture covers can be secured over the apertures to occlude the apertures. In another embodiment, the waste basket liner bag retaining apparatus includes two sets of magnets, each set formed within, or secured to inner surfaces of, opposing waste basket container walls of a waste basket container. Magnetized hooks are positioned over a selected magnet in each set to permit retention of a liner bag. In a further embodiment, a waste basket liner bag retaining apparatus includes apertures formed on opposing sides of a waste basket container, each with a retractable cover to secure portions of a liner bag in the apertures. The retractable covers may include rotatable bag retaining tabs.
US10287090B2
A package for tobacco products or tobacco related commodities or smoking devices, including an openable closure with at least two walls sliding over another when the closure is being opened and closed, at least the one wall includes a sequence of magnetic elements, extending in the direction of the relative movement of the two walls when they slide over another and having alternating positive and negative poles, and that the other wall includes at least one magnetic element with a magnet pole, which slides along the magnetic elements of the one wall when the two walls slide over another. Methods of use are also described.
US10287088B2
An improved mounting cup and valve assembly combination for an aerosol container. The combination comprises a mounting cup which has a pedestal portion and a perimeter curl, a valve stem which has a product outlet and at least one radial orifice formed therein which communicates with the product outlet, an open ended valve body defining an interior chamber, the valve body has a dip tube coupling adjacent a partially closed base thereof, and the dip tube coupling facilitates conveying product to be dispensed into the interior chamber of the valve body, and a gasket is sandwiched between the mounting cup and the valve body. The base of the valve body forms a first seat while a surface of the valve stem, facing toward the dip tube coupling, forms a second seat. A rubber compressible member is captively retained between the first and the second seats.
US10287086B2
An anti-breakage and anti-scald bottle includes an inner container and a plastic jacket arranged outside the inner container in a sleeving mode, wherein a soft rubber retainer ring is arranged at the inner bottom of the plastic jacket, and the bottom end of the inner container is clamped on the soft rubber retainer ring; an opening of the plastic jacket is connected with a fixed sleeve in a threaded mode, the neck of the fixed sleeve abuts against the periphery of an opening of the inner container, a soft rubber ring is fixedly arranged on the inner surface of the neck of the fixed sleeve and makes contact with the opening of the inner container, and a top opening of the fixed sleeve is sealed and covered with a bottle cap.
US10287085B2
A transport-container system has at least one container with a base, a casing and a top, and having inner-wall elements, which are arranged on the inner surfaces of the walls of the container and can be removed from the container and inserted into the container. Each inner-wall element has predetermined dimensions matching those of the associated inner surface of the container. At least as far as some of the inner-wall elements are concerned, the transport-container system has a number of embodiments with at least substantially the same dimensions, wherein it is possible to insert optionally one of the embodiments of inner-wall elements at the position in the container which is envisaged for the relevant inner-wall element. A method is for providing a container of a transport-container system with correspondingly different embodiments of inner-wall elements.
US10287080B2
A device for easily unwrapping a package forming a personalized pattern in the paper is provided. The device includes a first adhesive elongated strip layer, comprising: a first and second horizontal elongated edges having first and second ends; and first and second vertical side edges extending between the first and second horizontal elongated edges. Further included is a second adhesive elongated strip layer separated from the first adhesive layer by a gap, the second adhesive layer elongated strip, comprising first and second horizontal elongated edges each having first and second ends and first and second vertical side edges extending between the horizontal elongated edges. A first non-adhesive strip layer placed over the gap, a tearing thread located on the first non-adhesive strip layer; and a second non-adhesive strip layer located on top of the tearing thread and the first non-adhesive strip layer.
US10287070B2
The invention provides a container (40) of the type to hold fresh food or produce. Container (40) has a base (42) and a lid (44) moveable with respect to the base (42) between an open position and a closed position. The lid (44) has a planar area (54). The base has a second planar area (56). In the closed position, the first planar (54) and the second planar area (56) include a substantially flat area suitable for receipt of an adhesive membrane, such as a self-adhesive label. The substantially flat area includes an edge (55) of the first planar area (54) and at least part of the second planar area (56).
US10287068B2
A flow restrictor assembly for a beverage kettle having a valve member that moves with respect to an opening in the interior of the beverage kettle to restrict the flow of liquid from the opening in the beverage kettle. The valve member may be coupled to a handle that enables movement of the valve member into varying positions with respect to the opening to control the flow rate.
US10287067B2
A method of manufacturing a tamper-evident closure, comprising the steps of: forming a body having a base and a lid; and inserting a dispensing member and a tamper-evident member into the body.
US10287066B2
A slit valve (10) to selectively restrict the passage of a fluent substance between an interior environment (17) and an exterior environment (15) and a method for forming the valve (10), the method including the steps of providing at least one layer of film material and permanently deforming the film material to define a valve (10) for selectively restricting the passage of a fluent substance between an interior environment (17) and an exterior environment (15).
US10287055B2
A soft-sided insulated container assembly has a generally box-shaped form, having a main body and a lid. The lid is joined to the main body of the box by a hinge. The front face of the unit may have a mid or partial height work surface. The work surface may be movable between a collapsed or retracted position, and a raised or deployed position. The work surface may be formed in a substantially rigid molded stiffener member, and may be divided into sub-regions with raised retainers to discourage sliding of objects where not precisely level. The container assembly may include a rigid internal liner with which the lid may mate zipperlessly. The mating portion of the lid may be formed in the same rigid member as the work surface. The work surface may be located at a depressed height relative to the main container opening.
US10287054B2
The present invention provides a movable load bearing structure with a surface that includes antimicrobial agents capable of eliminating, preventing, retarding or minimizing the growth of microbes and also minimizing cross-contamination when the load bearing structure is being reused for cargos that differ from a previously transported cargo, for example, different food types, such as poultry, fresh vegetables, and fresh fruit. The load bearing structure may be a dunnage platform or a container for storing and/or shipping cargo.
US10287046B2
A structure accurately detects biting of a foreign object in a packaging machine. A control apparatus controls a packaging machine that sequentially seals and/or cuts a packaging material transported in a first direction using a rotor. The rotor is arranged to have a tangent to its outer circumference portion in contact with the packaging material extending in the first direction. The rotor is drivable and rotatable by a driver. The control apparatus includes an information obtaining unit that obtains information indicating a rotational position of the rotor and a status value of the driver in predetermined cycles, and a determination unit that determines a presence of an abnormality in a sealed portion of the packaging material using, from the information obtained by the information obtaining unit, a status value of the driver corresponding to a rotational position of the rotor falling within a predetermined range or being a predetermined position.
US10287036B2
An arcjet thruster system for a spacecraft is provided. The arcjet thruster system may include a power supply that includes a radio-frequency start power supply and a continuous direct-current power supply, each selectively coupled to electrodes of an arcjet for initiation and maintenance of an arc between the electrodes. A radio-frequency/direct-current control module may be provided for selectively coupling the radio-frequency start power supply and a continuous direct-current power supply. The radio-frequency start power supply may be used to initiate an arc that is then sustained by the continuous direct-current power supply.
US10287025B2
The invention relates to a system for suspending two modules of a propulsion unit, such as two fan modules, said system comprising a pylon (28) and a rudder bar (30). One part (30′) of the rudder bar is hinged to the pylon, while the opposing ends thereof are hinged to connecting rods (34, 36). The system also comprises a torque bar (40) which has an elongate shape and is mounted on the pylon such that it can pivot about an axis substantially parallel to an axis (B) of elongation of the torque bar, the opposing ends (42) of said bar being secured on each side of the above-mentioned part of the rudder bar.
US10287018B2
A seat arrangement includes a first group of seats having first and second passenger seats, a second group of seats having third and fourth passenger seats, a first aisle parallel to a longitudinal axis, and a second aisle parallel to the longitudinal axis. The first passenger seat is situated next to the first aisle with a seat direction parallel thereto, and the fourth passenger seat is situated next to the second aisle with a seat direction parallel thereto. The seat direction of the second passenger seat is angled by at least 2° relative to the seat direction of the first passenger seat. The seat direction of the third passenger seat is angled by at least 2° relative to the seat direction of the fourth passenger seat. The first and second groups are next to each other, and have a longitudinal offset relative to each other along the longitudinal axis.
US10287009B2
The present invention relates to a blade folding apparatus that may incorporate an overhead blade lifting system that reduces binding loads on blade pins induced by blade weight and pitch, and a folding mechanism that removes the necessity of personnel with external guide-poles to rotate main rotor blades. The apparatus may include flap locks, an overhead lifting system support structure attached to the flap locks, and two blade support beams to create and support a lifting point near each blade's longitudinal and lateral center of gravity. The blade support beams may be fitted with an articulation mechanism that lifts and/or lowers the overhead lifting structure. The apparatus facilitates rapid folding of the main rotor blades, and, when used with blade clamping mechanisms, is capable of aiding in the removal and/or the re-installation of the main rotor blades without external lifting mechanisms.
US10287008B2
A bond fixture includes a first fixture having a heater and a plurality of clamps. Each of the plurality of clamps includes a first member and a second member rotatable between a first position and a second position. A second fixture includes a root end lift translatable vertically between a retracted position and an extended position and a root end clamp translatable along a horizontal axis. The root end clamp is configured to cooperate with the root end.
US10286994B2
The nose section for a flying machine according to the invention comprises an enclosure delimiting a nose cone extending along a longitudinal axis (A-A′), the enclosure delimiting a window, and a glass closing the window extending transversely relative to the longitudinal axis (A-A′). The nose section includes an optical sensor, in particular a camera, positioned in the enclosure behind the glass. The enclosure defines a recess, the window covered by the glass being at least partially positioned in the recess.
US10286992B2
There is described a fluid treatment system that is particularly well suited for treating ballast water on a shipping vessel. The present fluid treatment system is characterized by having two general modes of operation. A so-called ballasting mode and a so-called deballasting mode. In the ballasting mode, water is pumped from the sea or other body of water in which the shipping vessel is located to a ballast fluid inlet in the present fluid treatment system. Thereafter, it passes through the filter separation and radiation treatment sections in the fluid treatment zone of the fluid treatment system. Next, the fluid exits the fluid outlet of the fluid treatment system and it is pumped to one or more ballast tanks that are located on the shipping vessel. In the deballasting mode, water contained in the ballast tank(s) is pumped to a deballasting fluid inlet of the fluid treatment system after which it is treated in the radiation section only—i.e., in the deballasting mode, water substantially bypasses the fluid separation section of the fluid treatment system. Next, the treated fluid exits the fluid outlet of the fluid treatment system and is discharged overboard the shipping vessel. A valve system is used to switch between ballasting mode and deballasting mode.
US10286982B2
A bimini top for a boat. The bimini top includes a cover and a frame supporting the cover. The frame may include a first support pivotally connected to an inboard side of a first leg of a tower. The first support has a profile in a stowed position that, when viewed from the port side in the stowed position, is hidden behind the portion of the first leg with the first profile. The frame may also include a second support pivotally connected to an inboard side of a second leg of the tower. The second support has a profile in the stowed position that, when viewed from the starboard side in the stowed position, is hidden behind the portion of the second leg with the second profile. The bimini top may also include a line including a plurality of hangers is integrally formed in the line.
US10286967B2
A prebuck unit includes side hangers mounted on a handling robot at both sides of the transport path and restricting lower parts of side assemblies. A guide post is fixedly installed in a prebuck frame at both sides of the transport path in a vehicle body height direction. The guide post is coupled with the side hanger so as to restrict the side assembly in a transverse direction and is configured to regularly position the side hanger at both sides of the floor assembly. A welding robot is installed at both sides of the transport path and is configured to weld the lower part of the side assembly and the floor assembly.
US10286955B2
In a rear vehicle-body structure of a vehicle provided with rear side frames, a first deformation promotion portion (recess portions) to promote inward deformation of the rear side frame is provided at each of both-side side face portions of the rear side frame, a second deformation promotion portion (opening portions) to promote outward deformation of the rear side frame is provided at a lower face portion of the rear side frame, and the first deformation promotion portion and the second deformation promotion portion are alternately arranged in an axial direction of the rear side frame.
US10286950B2
A trailer backup assist system for motor vehicles includes an auxiliary user input feature that can be used by a vehicle operator to provide a steering curvature command corresponding to a desired vehicle path curvature without requiring a user to move a steering wheel of the motor vehicle. The trailer backup assist system is configured to control a vehicle speed while the vehicle is backing up with a trailer attached thereto utilizing an input comprising at least one of a steering curvature command and an angle of a trailer relative to the vehicle. The trailer backup assist system controls at least one of a brake system, an engine torque, and a transmission gear selection to thereby control vehicle speed in a reverse direction.
US10286938B1
A backpack cart that can be used on rugged terrain and can hold a variety of sizes of backpacks. The cart includes a pair of wheels, a central post, a horizontal support member, a lower strap holding member, an upper strap holding member, a handle member, a pack support plate and a lower support post. The horizontal support member terminates on each side in a wheel retaining shaft holding large pneumatic wheels. The central post is attached to the horizontal support member. The pack support plate is attached the horizontal support holder. The upper and lower strap holding members are attached to the central post. The handle is attached to the top of the central post facing in the opposite direction of the pack support plate. The lower support post is attached to the pack support plate and in a downward orientation allowing its lower tip to touch the ground.
US10286934B2
The invention is intended for conserving energy expended by railway rolling stock, for instance by a locomotive when carrying out train operations and shunting, when trains are run in an automatic mode or in a train operator assistance mode. A method for increasing the efficiency of rolling stock includes the following steps: obtaining the parameters of the rolling stock, including at least the following: speed, coordinates, overhead system voltage, traction engine current voltage, brake line discharging; in addition, determining at least the dependence parameters of an active traction force, braking force, motion resistance force, force of wheel adherence to the rails, and the mass of the rolling stock; then, determining the optimal control to be carried out by traction and braking equipment of railway rolling stock based on the dependence parameters obtained during the previous step; then, transmitting the optimal control, determined during the previous step, to a rolling stock control system for implementation or for displaying to the train operator.
US10286931B2
A railway vehicle includes two adjacent carriages (6), each including a carriage body (8), each carriage (6) including a lower floor (54) and an upper floor (56), positioned above each other so as to define a lower level (58) and an upper level (60), the bodies (8) being supported by a common bogie (1) and being articulated with each other through an articulation device (2). The carriages (6) are connected to each other through an interconnection passage (62), the passage (62) extending substantially at right angles to the articulation device (2) and including a lower floor connecting the lower floors (54) of both carriages (6) and an upper floor connecting the upper floors (56) of both carriages.
US10286925B2
A transport system has a first set of substantially parallel rails supported above ground level by support structures, a trolley having wheels mounted to a frame with the wheels engaging the rails, at least one wheel powered to move the trolley along the set of rails, a portion of the frame depending between the rails to a level below the rails, and a downward-facing latching interface on the depending portion of the frame, and a pod enabled to carry a passenger or parcels, or both, engaged by an upward-facing latching interface to the downward-facing latching interface of the trolley, such that, as the trolley travels along the rail set, the pod is carried along below the rail set.
US10286904B2
Methods and systems are provided for controlling parking of an autonomous vehicle. A method of parking an autonomous vehicle includes receiving sensor data indicative of an exterior environment of the autonomous vehicle. The received sensor data is processed to determine a parking space characterization. Additional sensor data is received that is indicative of an occupant location within the autonomous vehicle. A processor determines a parking position within a parking space based on the parking space characterization and the occupant location. The processor generates control signals to operate one or more actuator devices to maneuver the autonomous vehicle into the parking space at the parking position.
US10286903B2
A method (and corresponding parking facility management server, parking system, and computer program) for carrying out an automatic parking process of a vehicle includes a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility being sent to a parking facility management server via a communication network, navigation data for an autonomous navigation to the reserved parking position corresponding to the reservation request being received by the vehicle via the communication network, and the vehicle autonomously navigating in the parking facility to the reserved parking position based on the navigation data. It is preferably provided that the vehicle autonomously pulls into the parking position, pulls out of this parking position, and travels back to a drop-off position or pick-up position, from which a driver of the vehicle may pick up the vehicle.
US10286902B2
Provided are a driving assistance device and a driving assistance method using the same, which are capable of guiding safe parking-in or parking-out by increasing engine torque and applying the increased engine torque to an engine control unit when there is no movement of a vehicle during automatic parking-in control or automatic parking-out control of the vehicle at preset engine torque and brake pressure.
US10286900B2
An intelligent driving system with an embedded driver model. The system includes a driver model module that adjusts vehicle performances according to driving characteristics of a driver and road environment. A driver's visual and tactile information may be taken into account when driving a vehicle, so as to tune vehicle performances to allow the vehicle to adapt itself to the individual driver.
US10286899B2
A vehicle includes a battery control module and a controller. The battery control module is configured to issue at regular intervals a message indicative of a state of charge (SOC) of a battery. The controller is configured to, in an absence of receiving the messages at the regular intervals while in a key-on state and a torque demand is present, restrict power flow between the battery and an electric powertrain to a limit that is based on a predicted SOC to provide limited propulsive force.
US10286896B2
A hybrid vehicle includes an electric control unit. A predictable condition may be a condition that the time period from beginning of a charging of a battery to beginning of a rapid decrease in charged electricity is predicted to be within a specified time period. The electronic control unit may be configured to control a first motor such that a motoring of an engine is performed at a first speed by the first motor. The electronic control unit may be configured to prevent motoring of the engine by the first motor when the predictable condition is not satisfied. The electronic control unit may be configured to control the first motor such that the motoring of the engine is performed at a second speed that is higher than the first speed by the first motor when the predictable condition is satisfied.
US10286892B1
A computer-implemented method includes, responsive to absence of a motor controller receiving communication packets for a predetermined time during a drive cycle, operating by the controller (i) an inverter to output voltage at a setpoint defined by an inverter terminal voltage at expiration of the predetermined time, and (ii) a motor coupled with the inverter to apply torque according to a change in the voltage.
US10286891B2
A system includes an autonomous sub-system that includes first and second braking modules. Each of the modules includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor for detecting a fault. The system further includes a brake sub-system programmed to actuate a brake mechanism in response to a signal from the second braking module. The autonomous sub-system is further programmed to select one of the braking modules to provide a signal to the brake mechanism depending on whether a fault is detected.
US10286890B2
A wake-up device for a brake system component of a vehicle includes a magnet that is arranged to be set, via a transmission device, in rotational motion jointly with a shifting of a driver brake force transmission component, thereby effecting a relative motion between the magnet and an electrical conductor. The relative motion induces an induction voltage. An output device outputs the induction voltage or a wake-up signal generated based on the induction voltage to the brake system component, thereby controlling the brake system component to transition from a first energy use mode to a second energy use mode. A method includes controlling the brake system component to transition from the first energy use mode to the second energy use mode by outputting the induction voltage or wake-up signal generated as described above.
US10286878B2
A windshield wiper device for large size curved windshields comprising first and second arms hingedly connected to each other at a distal end by a main spacer and reciprocatingly operable. The device further comprises a windshield wiper blade rockingly mounted relative to said main spacer through rocking means and a secondary spacer mounted on the distal end in redundancy with said main spacer. The rocking means comprise a first toothed member integral with said secondary spacer and a second toothed member integral with said wiper blade, which are mounted meshed with one another to cause the rocking of said wiper blade about time longitudinal axis thereof in the rocking direction opposite to the direction of reciprocating movement of said first and second arms.
US10286874B2
A recovery system and method with repeating communication functionality includes a station configured to send a first message and at least a first remote transmitting unit responsive to the central station and configured to transmit a second message to a locating unit. At least a second remote transmitting unit includes a receiver which receives the second message, a controller configured to process the second message, and a transmitter for transmitting a third message to the locating unit.
US10286873B1
A tailgate lock controller device is wirelessly controlled. The tailgate lock is in electrical communication with the automobile's lock controller which in turn is in electrical communication with the automobile's wireless lock sensors. The key fob is in wireless communication with the wireless lock sensors and the automobile's electronic anti-theft features. The tailgate lock is also configured to be actuated by use of a traditional lock and key mechanism, as well as keypads located on the automobile.
US10286869B2
A system and method for assembling a trim cover. A seam may be provided to attach the first trim panel to a second trim panel. Tabs and notches may be provided with at least one of the trim panels. One or more stitch attributes may be measured in response to detection of a tab or notch.
US10286868B2
A method for ascertaining an inner resistance of a supply network for supplying energy to an occupant protection system of a vehicle. The occupant protection system includes a charging unit connected to the supply network using a primary interface and to an energy buffer store using a secondary interface for the temporary storage of energy for activating occupant protection devices system and for supplying the system after being separated from the supply network. The method includes impressing a first charge current value at the secondary interface, and a first current/voltage at the primary interface during the impression. Further, a second, different, charge current value is impressed at the secondary interface. The method also includes determining a second current/voltage at the primary interface during the impression, and ascertaining the inner resistance of the supply network, using the detected first current and second current and/or the first voltage and the second voltage.
US10286865B2
A crash box for a vehicle, which mediates a back beam and a side member disposed in a width direction of the vehicle and absorbs crash energy when a crash occurs, may include a connecting body including a front coupling portion coupled to the back beam, a pair of side connecting portions bent from the front coupling portion to face each other, and a rear coupling portion extending from an end portion of each of the side connecting portions by being bent to be coupled to the side member; and a pair of connecting plates coupled to open upper and lower end portions of the connecting body, respectively.
US10286864B2
A vehicle frame structure includes: a pair of main side rails extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and facing each other; and an extension side rail connected to a front portion of the main side rail in the vehicle front-rear direction and extending in the vehicle front-rear direction. The main side rail includes a main side rail body having a substantially C-shaped cross-section and the extension side rail includes an extension side rail body having a substantially Z-shaped cross-section. A part of a front end surface of the main side rail body and a part of a rear end surface of the extension side rail body face each other in the vehicle front-rear direction.
US10286863B2
A motor vehicle includes a vehicle body, a bumper cover, and a fastening device for attaching the bumper cover to the vehicle body. The fastening device has a triangular shape and includes a restraining member, a fastener configured to secure the restraining member to the vehicle body, and a pivot member articulated to the restraining member for swinging about a pivot. The pivot member has a pivot-distal end which is supported on the restraining member via a support member which is angled in relation to the pivot member. The support member is configured to undergo a deformation, when a force is applied upon the bumper cover in a vehicle longitudinal direction and transferred onto the fastening device, thereby causing the pivot member to swing about the pivot against the restraining member.
US10286859B2
A wire harness waterproofing structure includes a grommet that includes a pipe-formed body part the periphery of which is watertightly attached to a through hole which is bored in a body panel which separates a compartment outside part and a compartment inside part, and a small diameter tubular part one end of which is connected to the pipe-formed body part, a wire harness that includes a plurality of electric wires inserted through the tubular part in an unbound state and is wired with a predetermined height difference relative to the through hole, a diameter-increased part that are provided on at least one of the electric wires to forms a gap between the electric wires adjacent to the one of the electric wires.
US10286852B1
The invention is a captive weapon rack object that is intended to secure any shoulder fired weapon from moving or being moved. The object captures each end of the weapon and constricts itself assuring that the weapon is secured. The captive weapon rack constricts the ends of the weapon with tension that is created by a retracting mechanism. At least one of the captivating ends is oblong to prevent the weapon from rotating while in the captive weapon rack. A locking device prevents the captive weapon rack from extending.
US10286846B1
A linkage mechanism associated with a handrail assembly of a machine is provided. The handrail assembly is coupled to an operator platform. The handrail assembly includes a first handrail member coupled to the frame. The linkage mechanism connects the first handrail member to the frame such that the first handrail member can be pivotally moved between an extended position and a retracted position. The linkage mechanism includes a first bracket and a pair of linkage members. The first bracket is coupled to the frame. The pair of linkage members pivotally connect the first bracket with the first handrail member. The first bracket, the pair of linkage members and the first handrail member together form a four-bar linkage. Further, a spring biased latching mechanism is configured to retain the handrail assembly in a retracted or an extended position.
US10286840B2
A vehicle lighting assembly is provided that includes a window panel provided on a vehicle body and a light reflecting medium provided on a surface of the window panel. The vehicle lighting assembly also includes a plurality of lighting assemblies each comprising a plurality of light sources arranged to direct light onto the reflecting medium for reflection towards different areas in the vehicle interior.
US10286836B2
A lighting and/or signaling device for a motor vehicle able to perform a side signaling function, the device comprising a bezel provided with an opening and a reflex-reflective element arranged at this opening, the reflex-reflective element being mounted to the rear of the bezel.
US10286815B2
A seating assembly includes a seat. A seatback is rotatably coupled with the seat to a fully reclined position. A rear seat lift device includes a mechanism disposed below a cushion support proximate a rear portion of the seat and is operable between a lowered position and a raised position. A rear portion of the seat is elevated relative to the seatback to minimize a height difference between the rear portion of the seat and a bottom portion of the seatback when the seatback is in the fully reclined position.
US10286811B2
A device for pneumatically adjusting a seat in a transport vehicle, in particular in a motor vehicle, including one or more adjusting devices, each of which includes a pneumatic actuating device for adjusting the seat by generating pneumatic pressure, and including a trigger device, which the actuating device is switched from a standby state to an active state in response to a trigger signal when the device is being operated. The pneumatic actuating device brings about an adjustment of the seat in the active state. The pneumatic actuating device is designed such that the actuating device is mechanically preloaded in the standby state, and the mechanical preload is released in the active state in order to thus bring about the adjustment of the seat.
US10286810B2
A vehicle adjustment assembly including sensors for adjusting the position of an auxiliary component of the vehicle is disclosed. The sensor is connected to the vehicle and is configured to detect a user's characteristics. The sensor generates data regarding the user's characteristics, and a computer receives the data generated by the sensor related to the user's characteristics. The auxiliary system is adjusted via input signals from the computer in response to the data generated by the sensor.
US10286808B2
A method can be used for charging a battery of a vehicle. The method includes performing a first charging process in which the battery is charged with a maximum amount of charges corresponding to a current temperature of the battery, the battery being heated while performing the first charging process. The method also includes performing a heating process in which the battery is heated without charging of the battery, and performing a second charging process in which, when the maximum amount of charges of the battery increases by heating of the battery, the battery is further charged with the increased maximum amount of charges.
US10286805B2
The present invention relates to an energy storage module system and, more specifically, to a hybrid energy storage module system selectively using, according to the amount of power required in a load, a lithium battery and a lead storage battery by mutually supplementing the lithium battery and the lead storage battery. According to the present invention, the hybrid energy storage module system is an energy storage module system for supplying power necessary for the driving of a load and comprises an energy storage device, a first sensing unit and a second sensing unit, and a controller. The energy storage device includes at least one lithium battery module and at least one lead storage battery module. In addition, the energy storage device includes a switching network configured so as to connect the lithium battery module and the lead storage battery module in different arrangement modes. The energy storage device is connected to both ends of a load and supplies power. The switching network can include a path for connecting the lithium battery module and the lead storage battery module, and a plurality of switches provided on the path. The first sensing unit is configured so as to measure the temperature and the voltage of the lithium battery modules, and the second sensing unit is configured so as to measure the temperature and the voltage of the lead storage battery module. The controller controls the switching network in order to change the arrangement modes of the lithium battery module and the lead storage battery module of the energy storage device.
US10286803B2
A charging and discharging system includes an electric storage device, a connection port configured to supply electric power between the electric storage device and the outside of a vehicle, a charger configured to receive electric power from the outside of the vehicle via the connection port and to supply the electric power to the electric storage device, a power converter configured to receive electric power from the electric storage device and to output the electric power from the connection port to the outside of the vehicle, a voltage detector configured to detect a voltage across output nodes of the power converter, and a control unit configured to control the power converter. The control unit causes the power converter to output electric power after checking that the voltage across the output nodes is in an inactive state when a command for outputting electric power from the power converter is received.
US10286793B2
A charging station can be autonomously coupled to an electric vehicle. Sensors on the vehicle determine a location of the vehicle, and the vehicle is positioned within a connection envelope. A travel path for bringing a charging connector into contact with a charging port on the vehicle can be determined, and then the travel path is autonomously carried out. A charging station may include a mount, a bracket, and a charging connection.
US10286791B2
A method for recognizing an over-temperature in a region of a charging socket of a motor vehicle without a temperature sensor. A temperature value is detected by means of a temperature sensor at an installation location of the temperature sensor that is different from the region. At least one configuration value of a current operating configuration in which the charging socket is operated is determined, and then a temperature reading for the region without the temperature sensor is generated by means of a characteristic map, which is designed for the purpose of including the temperature value and the at least one configuration value as input variables and of assigning the temperature reading to these input variables.
US10286783B2
Provided are a vehicle control device capable of displaying a high quality seamless image without data transmission delay and a difference in image quality between a plurality of displays, and a method thereof. The vehicle control device includes a plurality of different displays installed in a vehicle and a controller generating a first image having a plurality of pieces of first information, generating a second image having a plurality of pieces of second information, merging the first and second images, dividing the merged image into a plurality of images, and displaying the plurality of divided images on a plurality of displays, respectively.
US10286782B2
Lens fogging or frosting on inside surfaces of an instrument lens may be reduced or prevented by sealing the instrument housing. Damage or rupture of the sealed housing due to an increase or decrease in pressure within the housing may be avoided while reducing introduction of moisture into the housing by venting the housing through a tube to a location having a relatively lower humidity.
US10286781B2
A method for the automatic execution of at least one driving function of a motor vehicle, in which it is checked whether the driver uses an unapproved electronic device. In the event that the driver is using an unapproved electronic device, a warning is output to the driver.
US10286770B2
A power transmission apparatus of a hybrid electric vehicle HEV has an engine clutch mounted between a driving motor, which is mounted to a front end of a transmission, and an engine. An internal gear unit, in which an inner gear is enmeshed in an outer gear while the inner gear is inserted into the outer gear, is mounted between the engine clutch and the driving motor, so that an output of the engine is transmitted to the transmission while rotational speeds of the engine and the driving motor are not asynchronous when the engine is coupled.
US10286764B2
A roof panel includes a first member and a second member. A panel is attached to and interconnects the first member and the second member. The panel is configurable between a deployed configuration for attachment to a vehicle, and a stowed configuration for storage. The panel has a planar form when in the deployed configuration, and a rolled up form when in the stowed configuration. The panel may include an adjustable stiffness panel, such as a layer jamming panel, controllable in response to a control signal to exhibit a first stiffness when in the deployed configuration or the stowed configuration, or a second stiffness for reforming the panel between the deployed configuration and the stowed configuration.
US10286747B2
A vehicle-height control system includes: a fluid supply and discharge device including a compressor configured to suck fluid, and a tank configured to supply the fluid; an actuator-side passage connected to the fluid supply and discharge device; a vehicle-height control actuator provided for a wheel and connected to the actuator-side passage via a vehicle-height control valve; and a vehicle height controller configured to control a vehicle height for the wheel by controlling the fluid supply and discharge device and the vehicle-height control valve to control supply and discharge of the fluid in the vehicle-height control actuator. The vehicle height controller includes a start controller configured to open the vehicle-height control valve after establishing communication between the actuator-side passage and at least one of the tank and the compressor in a state in which the vehicle-height control valve is closed at a start of control of the vehicle height.
