US10293405B2
A casting and molding equipment for producing an amorphous alloy structural unit, including an injection system, an alloy melting system, a material feeding system, a mold system, a vacuum system, and a protective gas supply system. The injection system includes an injection tube, an injection mechanism, and a plunger rod; the plunger rod is adapted to move along an inner wall of the injection tube, and the injection mechanism is configured to control a moving direction and moving speed of the plunger rod. The alloy melting system includes a melting chamber and a heating unit; the heating unit is configured to melt an alloy material in the melting chamber; the heating unit includes an induction coil or resistance wire; the melting chamber is disposed in the injection tube, and the heating unit is disposed out of the injection tube.
US10293387B2
The present invention is directed to a self-cleaning water pipe including a secondary pipe that directs a stream of filtered water to the top of the main pipe. The stream of water is introduced to the main pipe proximate or adjacent to the mouthpiece in a lateral direction so as to cover the entire inner surface of the main pipe with a water membrane. The water membrane presents a barrier to smoke residue and particulates from being deposited on the inner surface of the main pipe. A tertiary pipe may also introduce a stream of water to a downstem pipe so as to create a similar water membrane in the downstem pipe.
US10293385B2
A foreign substance collection structure, a display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The foreign substance collection structure includes a frame and a first baffle plate. The frame includes a first inside wall, the first baffle plate is configured to move toward the first inside wall. The first baffle plate includes a first surface and is capable of being moved from a position away from the first inside wall to a position where the first surface of the first baffle plate faces the first inside wall; an adhesive layer is disposed on at least one of the first inside wall and the first surface, and the adhesive layer is configured to bond foreign substances appearing on the first inside wall and/or the first surface.
US10293384B2
In order to adapt a centrifugal cleaning installation (1) in a simple manner to different components (7), the centrifugal cleaning installation (1) is provided with a clamping unit (14) for clamping and retaining a component holder (4a, 4b, 5a-5d) for the component (7). The clamping unit (14) and a drive (6) are removably connected to the component holder (4a, 4b, 5a-5d) and said component holder (4a, 4b, 5a-5d) is adapted to a specific component (7) by positioning devices (25) and/or balance weights (26) provided on the holder.
US10293383B2
A mobile high-pressure cleaning apparatus is provided with a vehicle trailer, on the chassis of which at least two running wheels are held so as to be rotatable, and with a high-pressure cleaning appliance having a motor and a pump, and also with at least one water storage tank for storing water for the high-pressure cleaning appliance. So that water can be provided to the apparatus from the at least one water storage tank or from a water supply mains, without risk of water from the water supply mains being returned thereto, the high-pressure cleaning apparatus has a decoupling tank with at least one inlet which can be connected to the water supply mains, and at least one outlet which is connected to the high-pressure cleaning appliance and to at least one water supply tank via a shut-off member which can be actuated by the user.
US10293371B2
An assembly and a method of joining a first part with a second part at an attachment area that includes a localized area on the first part. The localized area is cleaned and activated by a plasma jet. An organosilicon composition is applied by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition to the localized area. An adhesive is applied to the localized area and the second part is mechanically fastened to the first part in the localized area.
US10293369B2
A light emitting device is provided which includes a printed board, light emitting elements, and a light-transmissive member. The light emitting elements are arranged in three or more rows, and mounted on the printed board. The light-transmissive member includes three or more semi-semi-cylindrical lens portions that are arranged side by side transversely to cover the three or more rows. The heights of the tops of the semi-cylindrical lens portions are substantially equal to each other. The semi-cylindrical lens portions include first semi-cylindrical lens portions which are arranged to cover at least the both end rows, and a second semi-cylindrical lens portion which is arranged on the interior sides relative to the first semi-cylindrical lens portions in the transverse direction. The radius of curvature of the second semi-cylindrical lens portion is smaller than the first semi-cylindrical lens portions.
US10293365B2
A device which prints an electrically conductive pattern on a downhole tool using electrical ink includes a print head assembly and gripper claw assembly to print and manipulate the downhole tool during printing, respectively. The electrically conductive pattern may be an antenna coil, circuit or other desired pattern. After printing, the accuracy of the pattern is verified by the system and an impact resistant coating is applied to the pattern.
US10293363B2
The present invention is a paint roller system comprising a frame, a paint roller that may be supported by the frame. The frame may not include any moving parts. The paint roller may have end caps incorporated therein or connected thereto that may prevent liquids from entering the paint roller. The paint roller system of the present invention may be configured to prevent paint becoming lodged in elements of the paint roller system, and to prevent corrosion or plugging. The paint roller may rotate substantially freely when positioned within the frame. The paint roller system may be utilized to adhere paint to a surface with minimal effort or force being applied by a user. The paint roller system may include a paint roller container operable for storage of a paint roller as well as engagement and disengagement of the paint roller from the frame without the user handling the paint roller directly.
US10293359B1
An in-ground sprinkler assembly configured to be height adjustable and/or crush resistant from topside forces. An outer body is configured to receive an inner body therein. The outer body includes one or more wing members to facilitate stability and contain forces applied to the inner body. Across most embodiments, the outer body includes an interior surface configured with one or more recessed networks to facilitate the relative vertical positioning and/or movement of the inner body. The recessed networks of the outer body includes at least one vertical channel configured to engage at least one tab extending outward from the inner body. Securement of the selected vertical position of the inner body is facilitated by an upward bias on the inner body, an outward bias on one or more tabs, and/or a retaining member connected to the outer body that compresses a locking member against the inner body.
US10293355B2
The invention relates to a method for dispensing viscous or pasty ingredients (12), which are packaged in an aseptic manner, from a tubular bag (1), which is closed prior to the first use, by means of a disposable pump (4) attached to the bag. The disposable pump (4) has an inlet (5) with a cutting element (6), and a nozzle (2) with a flange (3) is welded onto the tubular bag (1). The disposable pump (4) is rotated relative to the nozzle (2), and the tubular bag (1) is thereby cut open. A valve (9) is arranged in the region of the outlet opening of an outlet tube (8) of the pump, and the disposable pump (4) is operated after the initial opening process until a freely selectable volume has exited the closing valve. The disposable pump (4) is then operated in the opposite rotational direction in order to suction ingredients (12) present on or in the region of the valve (9) back into the outlet tube (8). In the process, the valve (9) reaches or remains in the closed valve state. A valve (9) is proposed for carrying out the method. The valve is arranged in the outlet tube (8) and comprises a membrane (93, 191) which is sealingly mounted in a sliding manner or can be inverted. Using the method, the ingredients (12) can be dispensed in a metered manner from a tubular bag (1), in which the ingredients are aseptically packaged, into virtually aseptic containers until the ingredients are practically completely used.
US10293353B2
An automated flowable material dispenser for dispensing flowable material from a flowable material container is provided. The dispenser may include a dispenser housing and a motor assembly. The dispenser housing may include a dispensing opening and be configured to receive the flowable material container therein. The motor assembly may be positioned within the dispenser housing and configured to translate with respect to the dispenser housing between a home position and a dispensing position to dispense the flowable material from the flowable material container. The motor assembly may include a motor housing and a motor positioned at least partially within the motor housing.
US10293348B2
In a centrifugal scroll screen apparatus there is provided a scroll assembly (20) driven by a scroll assembly drive shaft (25) and being connected to the scroll assembly by an axial adjuster comprising a shaft cam portion (92) and a scroll portion (96) each having a respective camming surface (94) whereby relative rotation of the scroll portion (96) and the shaft portion (92) axially adjusts the proximity of the vanes to a coaxial conical screening surface, and a locking ring (97) selectively operable to rotationally secure the scroll portion (96) and the shaft portion (92).
US10293343B2
A carrier assembly for canisters of a mechanical exfoliation apparatus, the carrier assembly including a hub having an external surface and an open center therethrough with an internal surface, at least two bearings mounted on the internal surface of the hub, and a canister cradle integrally extending from the external surface of the hub.
US10293340B2
This invention provides devices, systems, and methods for performing point-of-care, analysis, including multiplexed analysis, of a biological fluid analyte, such as blood. The invention includes a cartridge for collecting the biological fluid analyte. The cartridge is configured to be inserted into an assay reader, in which one or more assay reactions may be performed. The assay reader is designed to read and report the results of the one or more assay reactions.
US10293339B2
According to aspects of the present invention, a cartridge assembly for transporting fluid into or out of one or more fluidic devices includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a first surface. The first surface includes at least one partial channel disposed thereon. The second layer abuts the first surface, thereby forming a channel from the at least one partial channel. At least one of the first layer and the second layer is a resilient layer formed from a pliable material. At least one of the first layer and the second layer includes a via hole. The via hole is aligned with the channel to pass fluid thereto. The via hole is configured to pass fluid through the first layer or the second layer substantially perpendicularly to the channel. Embossments are also used to define aspects of a fluidic channel.
US10293337B2
Apparatus for isolating an individual cell from a group of cells and transferring that isolated cell to a desired location, the apparatus comprising: a single-cell pipette tip, the single-cell pipette tip comprising: a structure having a distal end; a Y-shaped microchannel formed in the structure, the Y-shaped microchannel comprising a base microchannel, a first branch microchannel and a second branch microchannel, wherein the base microchannel extends to the distal end of the structure, the first branch microchannel is connectable to a first pressure channel, the second branch microchannel is connectable to a second pressure channel, and a single-cell trap is disposed in the base microchannel, distal to the convergence of the base microchannel with the first branch microchannel and the second branch microchannel.
US10293325B2
According to various aspects and embodiments, core-shell particles and methods of making the same are disclosed. The core-shell particles may include a liquid metal core, at least one layer of inorganic material surrounding the liquid metal core, and at least one layer of organic material attached to the at least one layer of inorganic material.
US10293318B2
A pressure release mechanism for use with a capsule for processing materials or growing crystals in supercritical fluids is disclosed. The capsule with the pressure release mechanism is scalable up to very large volumes and is cost effective according to a preferred embodiment. In conjunction with suitable high pressure apparatus, the capsule with pressure release mechanism is capable of processing materials at pressures and temperatures of 20-2000 MPa and 25-1500° C., respectively. Of course, there can be other variations, modifications, and alternatives.
US10293306B2
A reverse osmosis system and method of operating the same includes a membrane housing comprising a reverse osmosis membrane therein. The membrane housing has a feed fluid input, a brine outlet and a permeate outlet; The system further includes a charge pump, a plurality of valves and a tank having a volume comprising a movable partition dividing the volume into a first volume and a second volume. The plurality of valves selectively couples the charge pump to the first volume or the second volume and the brine outlet to the second volume or the first volume respectively.
US10293300B2
A natural-gas purification apparatus includes: a plurality of carbon-dioxide separation units that are arranged in series and separate carbon dioxide, through carbon-dioxide separation membranes, from natural gas pressurized by a compressor, cooled by a cooling unit to liquefy and separate a high-boiling-point hydrocarbon component, and heated by a heating unit; a gas supply pipe that is provided between the plurality of carbon-dioxide separation units through on-off valves and that supplies the natural gas; a compressor that is provided to the gas supply pipe; a cooling unit that liquefies and separates a high-boiling-point hydrocarbon component by cooling the natural gas pressurized by this compressor; and a heating unit that heats the natural gas after the separation of the high-boiling-point hydrocarbon component by this cooling unit.
US10293299B2
A method of treating oil and gas streams to remove total organic sulfur or total acid gas including the step of treating the gas stream with a solution of an amine, physical solvent, and water wherein the amine solution may optionally also contain an activator.
US10293298B2
Provided are apparatus and systems for performing a swing adsorption process. This swing adsorption process may involve passing streams through adsorbent bed units to treat the pipeline quality natural gas to form a stream that complies with liquefied natural gas (LNG) specifications. The process may involve a combined TSA and PSA process, which is utilized to remove contaminants from the feed stream.
US10293272B2
Processes and systems suitable for purifying or otherwise treating liquids to remove contaminants therein, including but not limited to contaminated water, to permit reclaiming, recycling, and reuse of the liquids. Such a process and system entails the use of a cascading distillation system that evaporates a liquid from the feedstock and then condenses and collects a more purified form of the liquid. The cascading distillation system can be operated to selectively process the feedstock through any of a series of vessels at which different amounts and/or contaminants may be removed from the feedstock.
US10293270B1
The present invention concerns a toy bead (10, 100) comprising: two conjugated parts (11, 12; 110, 120), each part comprising a proximal end and a distal end; proximal ends of said conjugated parts comprising conjugated screwing means (11a, 12a; 110a, 120a) adapted to screw conjugated parts to each other in order to build the bead; distal ends of said conjugated parts comprising plugging means (17, 18; 170, 180), either male or female, adapted to plug said parts respectively to parts of other similar toy beads comprising corresponding plugging means; each conjugated part further comprising an internal canal (15, 16; 150, 160) extending from its proximal end to its distal end and opening to each end, the internal canal of one part being collinear to the internal canal of the its conjugated part when the conjugated parts are screwed to each other, so that a yarn can be threaded successively into internal canals of said conjugated parts.
US10293261B2
Disclosed in some examples is a method of providing a computer implemented game comprising: displaying one or more on-screen objects in accordance with the computer implemented game; accepting input from a user of the computer implemented game; responsive to receiving input from the user, updating the one or more on-screen objects according to one or more game rules using one or more computer processors; receiving a notification from a game server, over a network, that the user of the computer implemented game has completed a gameplay specific task in a second computer implemented game, wherein the second computer implemented game is provided on a separate platform from the computer implemented game; and responsive to receiving the notification from the game server, providing a reward to the user in the computer implemented game.
US10293254B2
It is an object of the present invention to continuously and effectively motivate players playing a game to create and upload play-videos. At a server 1, an event obtaining unit 11 obtains log data of a demand-invoking event that has been processed as being negative in the game from a terminal 2-1, etc. on which the demand-invoking event has occurred. The event obtaining unit 11 obtains log data of a possible supply event that has been processed as being positive in the game from a terminal 2-2 on which the possible supply event has occurred. A demand-level calculating unit 13 selects demand-invoking events related to the possible supply event from one or more demand-invoking events on the basis of the individual log data obtained and calculates the level of potential demand on the basis of the result of selection. A play-video-recording-recommendation notification unit 14 issues a notification to the terminal 2-2 on which a possible supply event having a demand level satisfying a predetermined condition has occurred to prompt recording of a play-video of the possible supply event.
US10293253B2
A program, a game control method, and an information processing apparatus, which are capable of improving operability of a game. A program causing an information processing apparatus to execute a step of causing an object arranged on a field object in a virtual space in which a coordinate system having a first axis and a second axis is set to be displayed on a screen in which a coordinate system having a third axis and a fourth axis is set, a step of detecting first and second positions on the screen while the first user operation is being detected, and a moving step of moving the object according to a first user operation.
US10293250B2
A game device (information processing device (4)) includes a communication unit communicable with a portable terminal (2), an executing unit that executes a game application, a rendering unit that renders a game screen of a game based on the game application, and a switching unit that switches an operating state. The game device is configured to be usable in an independent use form in which the executing unit executes the game application and the rendering unit renders the game screen to cause the game to progress and a task processing form in which the executing unit processes a partial task of a game application executed in the portable terminal (2) and transmits a processing result of the partial task to the portable terminal (2). The switching unit carries out switching to any of the independent use form and the task processing form to cause the game device to operate.
US10293246B2
A three dimensional structures, which may be formed as a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, are described. The structure has one or more viewing directions along which different images are viewable. An image to be presented is divided into image portions that are applied to primary surfaces, where the structure has the primary surfaces arranged to present the image when viewed along an axis. The structure may also have secondary surfaces that are hidden from view along a viewing direction, and which become viewable when the structure is rotated relative the viewer. The structure may also be in a puzzle, which may be in the form of a kit.
US10293241B2
The present invention is directed to a leg guard that provides increased protection while also providing maximum articulation and increased freedom of movement for the user. More particularly, the leg guard includes a toe guard, a shin guard, a knee guard including an extended knee cap wrap, an extended knee guard, a thigh guard, a left hinge, and a right hinge. Through the use of an extended knee cap wrap and a hinged configuration, the leg guard provides additional protection for the knees of a catcher and allows catchers to freely and quickly move to or through different stances without having to re-position the pads of the leg guard. The hinged configuration provides enhanced mobility for the user by preventing the leg guard from shifting and rotating about the shin of the user and allowing the leg guard to remain static without axial rotation or vertical movement.
US10293231B2
Provided is a golf club grip having a grip portion and a front portion adjacent the grip portion each having a bore for receiving a shaft of a golf club. The front portion is weighted to provide a weighted golf grip with the weight below the golfer's hands effectively increasing the weight of a head of the golf club. The golf club grip has a total weight and the front portion of the grip has a weight greater than or equal to thirty percent of the total weight.
US10293223B2
A head 2 includes a face member fc1 formed by casting and a body member bd1 having an opening 20 on a hitting surface 4 side. The opening of the body member bd1 is covered by the face member fc1. The face member fc1 includes a flat plate portion PT forming the hitting surface 4 and a flange FL extending backward from a peripheral edge of the flat plate portion PT. The flange FL includes a first flange FL1 located in a top-side region, and a second flange FL2 located in a sole-side region. The flange FL is not provided in a toe-side region and a heel-side region. The flange FL is joined to the body member bd1.
US10293221B2
Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may have a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a top portion, and a bottom portion. The golf club head may include a first plurality of weight ports in the bottom portion and a second plurality of weight ports in the bottom portion. The first plurality of weight ports may form a first discrete arc along the bottom portion. The second plurality of weight ports may form a second discrete arc along the bottom portion. The first plurality of weight ports and the second plurality weight ports may be separated by a gap. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10293217B2
A multi-piece solid golf ball having a two-layer core with an inner core layer and an outer core layer and having a cover of one or more layer with numerous dimples on the surface is characterized in that the hardest cover layer has a specific material hardness and the ball has a specific value obtained by subtracting the surface hardness of the overall core from the surface hardness of the hardest cover layer, a specific deflection, and a specific value obtained by subtracting the initial velocity of the inner core layer from the initial velocity of the sphere consisting of the inner core layer encased by the outer core layer. This golf ball enables relatively low head speed golfers to achieve a good distance on full shots with drivers and iron clubs and also provides a soft, comfortable feel at impact.
US10293207B1
Systems and methods are described for computing real-time athletic performance parameters that characterize an athlete's activity while participating in a sport. A system includes a performance measuring unit that is, for example, attached to an article of clothing of an athlete and that monitors movement and activity while the athlete participates in the sport. The performance measuring unit can include multiple types of activity-based sensors (e.g., an accelerometer, a magnetometer, and/or a gyroscope) that are configured to collect sensor data reflective of positional changes of the performance measuring unit. The computing unit of the performance measuring unit processes the collected sensor data in real-time using specified techniques to identify the occurrence of “events,” which refer to a particular time periods during which the collected sensor data are associated with movements of interest (e.g., movements associated with a high intensity action).
US10293206B2
A collapsible lower body fitness apparatus is disclosed, providing enhanced gluteal muscle engagement, body stability, and range of motion. The apparatus includes a base, a frame, a line-swiveling assembly, and a gripping device that is horizontally displaced from the line-swiveling assembly's swivel axis, allowing a user to stabilize themselves in tripod posture during exercise. Thus a user can perform full range of motion for any combination of hip extension and hip abduction under resistance transmitted by a line, all from a central standing position that substantially straddles the swivel axis. This functional framework of elements can be realized through a variety of possible embodiments. While the frame provides space for leaning during exercise, it may otherwise vary in structural design. In all cases, the frame can be collapsed into a stowable position that is substantially parallel with and adjacent to the base, thereby rendering the apparatus portable and stowable.
US10293202B2
An exercise apparatus that includes a handle frame and a base frame.
US10293200B1
An integrated system of straps that is used for exercise and activity. The straps are gathered at a waist band that is sewn into a garment, and the straps wrap around the waist and the buttocks of a person. The straps are attached to the garment by sewing, and the straps exit the garment through pockets, that can be used to stow the straps when not in use. The system offers a comfortable tethering system, while wearing a fashionable, athletic outfit. The system is used for centralized, balanced pulling or towing from the front center or back center of the person's midsection. The system is applicable to any sports activity that is appropriate for tethering to a moving animal or object, and also, for pulling an object such as a sled.
US10293181B2
A therapy planner is configured to construct a therapy plan based on a planning image segmented into segments delineating features of a subject. A predictive plan adaptation module is configured to adjust the segments to represent a foreseeable change in the subject and to invoke the therapy planner to construct a therapy plan corresponding to the foreseeable change. A data storage stores a plurality of therapy plans generated for a subject by the therapy planner and the predictive plan adaptation module based on at least one planning image of the subject. A therapy plan selector is configured to select one of the plurality of therapy plans for use in a therapy session based on a preparatory image acquired preparatory to the therapy session.
US10293173B2
A method and system for supplying energy to an electrically operable medical device (100) implanted in a patient. Wireless energy is transferred from an external energy source (104) located outside the patient to an internal energy receiver (102) located inside the patient and connected to the medical device. An internal control unit (108) determines an amount of energy currently required for the operation of said medical device. A control signal is transmitted to the external energy source, reflecting the required amount of energy. An external control unit (106) controls the amount of transferred energy in response to the control signal, by adjusting the energy transfer efficiency from the external energy source to the internal energy receiver. The energy transfer efficiency is adjusted by adjusting the position of a primary coil, serving as the external energy source, relative to an implanted secondary coil, serving as the internal energy source.
US10293160B2
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed that allow a patient to self-treat neurodegenerative diseases, such as dementia, Alzheimer's disease, ischemic stroke, post-concussion syndrome, chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the like by electrical noninvasive stimulation of a vagus nerve. The system comprises a handheld stimulator that is applied to the surface of the patient's neck, wherein the stimulator comprises or is joined to a smartphone. A camera of the smartphone may be used to position and reposition the stimulator to a particular location on the patient's neck. The system may also comprise a base station that is used to meter the charging of a rechargeable battery within the stimulator. The base station and stimulator transmit data to one another regarding the status of a stimulation session.
US10293136B2
An efficiently packaged ready to use intermittent urinary catheter. The catheter is retained within a retention chamber having a profile that mimics the profile of the catheter by sealing the upper and a lower films together along a peripheral seal line. The retention chamber includes an enlarged compartment intermediate axial ends of the catheter in which lubricant is stored.
US10293134B2
A humidifier includes a water receiving chamber enclosed by a main body and a bottom plate, the water receiving chamber is divided into a gastight liquid reservoir chamber and a heating chamber communicated with exterior environment by a vertically disposed partition plate. A passage for communicating the liquid reservoir chamber and the heating chamber is disposed adjacent to the bottom plate. A baffle extending toward the bottom plate from a top wall of the main body is disposed in the heating chamber, there is a gap between the baffle and each of a circumferential sidewall of the heating chamber and a level of liquid in the heating chamber. A circumferential sidewall of the baffle, the partition plate and the top wall collectively form a backflow tank. When the humidifier and a respirator including the humidifier are tilted, the water inside the humidifier does not flow out.
US10293128B2
Techniques for emergency apneic oxygenation include a cannula having a longitudinal inner passage with an inner diameter. A distal portion has a first outer diameter greater than the inner diameter, and is made of shape memory material shaped to bend in a first direction along the inner passage. A cannula base has a second outer diameter greater than the first outer diameter. A distance from a distal end of the cannula to a proximal end of the distal portion of the cannula is less than a distance from a surface of a throat of a subject to a distal surface of an airway of the subject. The inner passage is configured to pass a catheter connected at a proximal end to an oxygen source. In various embodiments, the cannula is used with a trocar and, optionally, a system base, or supplied in a kit with a catheter.
US10293121B2
This invention relates to apparatus used to alter the temperature and humidity of gases. The apparatus of the present invention comprises an insufflator, humidifier and transportation means connected to delivery means to deliver humidified and heated gases to a body cavity prior to and during a medical procedure. In one form of the present invention the insufflator and humidifier are contained in the one housing, while in another form the humidifier is located proximal and external to the insufflator. The transportation means that delivers the humidified gases to the body cavity comprises a flexible tubing having located within, throughout or around it heating means. The heating means may be a heat conductive wire, a ribbon of PTC material, or a conducting wire extruded into the walls of tubing, where the tubing may be made from a PTC material or flexible plastics.
US10293116B2
A device (10) is provided for facilitating insertion of a needle or a cannula into a vein of a patient. The device comprises a fluid chamber (23) adapted to be held in operable engagement with a surface of the patient's skin by a fastener (30/34/35) that extends about a limb of the patient. The device is adapted to create a volume of reduced pressure within the fluid chamber, so as to facilitate expansion of an underlying part of the vein. The device enables insertion of a needle or cannula into the expanded part of the vein, whilst the fluid chamber remains operably engaged with the surface of a patient's skin.
US10293112B2
The invention relates to a disposable drug delivery device for selecting and dispensing a number of user variable doses of a medicament. The device comprises a housing, a cartridge holder for retaining a cartridge containing the medicament, a piston rod displaceable relative to the cartridge holder, a driver coupled to the piston rod, a display member for indicating a set dose and being coupled to the housing and to the driver, and a button coupled to the display member and to the driver.
US10293109B2
A system for optimizing a patient's basal insulin dosage regimen over time, adapted to determine from blood glucose values whether and by how much to vary a patient's present recommended amount of the insulin-containing drug in order to maintain the patient's future blood glucose level measurements within a predefined range, and wherein a given blood glucose value is disregarded if no patient-actuated operation being indicative of the administration of a dose of an insulin containing drug has been detected in a pre-defined amount of time prior to the determination of the given blood glucose value.
US10293101B2
A variety of location-based and/or proximity-based features related to diabetes management systems can be used to improve maintenance compliance and/or to provide important information to PWD designated assistance entities (e.g., family, friends, givers, HCPs, emergency medicine providers) under certain conditions. In some cases, a user's location can be tracked or determined to trigger and/or time alerts about upcoming maintenance tasks in a way that will increase the likelihood that the PWD will immediately perform the designated maintenance task. In some cases, methods, devices, and systems provided herein can use proximity to non-paired mobile computing devices to deliver data to PWD designated assistance entities.
US10293098B2
A system for removing undesirable elements from blood. The system includes a centrifuge bowl to separate the blood into components according to relative densities of the components, a pump to provide wash solution that washes the blood in the centrifuge bowl, and a controller to wash the blood in the centrifuge bowl in a first wash and remove first undesirable elements and to wash the blood in the centrifuge bowl in a second wash and remove trapped undesirable elements. The controller to further mix the blood and the wash solution in the centrifuge bowl and provide diluted blood, separate the diluted blood into concentrated blood and the wash solution, fill the centrifuge bowl with previously concentrated blood to build a buffy coat, and empty the centrifuge bowl of the concentrated blood and the previously concentrated blood after the buffy coat is reached.
US10293091B2
A dialysis system including a disposable fluid pumping cassette including at least one flexible membrane attached to a housing and at least one port extending from the housing, the at least one port including a spike; at least one dialysis fluid supply in fluid communication with at least one tubing and tubing connector; an autoconnection device including a shuttle for moving the at least one tubing and tubing connector towards the spike of the at least one port, the autoconnection device including at least one lead screw in mechanical communication with the shuttle, a motor and power transmission equipment to transmit power from the motor to the at least one lead screw; and a controller programmed to operate the motor to move the at least one tubing and tubing connector towards the spike of the at least one port of the disposable fluid pumping cassette.
US10293083B2
The present invention relates to hydrogels comprising a plurality of amphiphilic peptides and/or peptoids capable of self-assembling into three-dimensional macromolecular nanofibrous networks, which entrap water and form said hydrogels, wherein at least a portion of said plurality of amphiphilic peptides is chemically cross-linked. The present invention further relates to methods for preparing such hydrogels and to various uses of such hydrogels, e.g. as cell culture substrates, for drug and gene delivery, as wound dressing, as an implant, as an injectable agent that gels in situ, in pharmaceutical or cosmetic compositions, in regenerative medicine, in tissue engineering and tissue regeneration, or in electronic devices. It also relates to a method of tissue regeneration or tissue replacement using a hydrogel in accordance with the present invention.
US10293071B2
This invention relates to an air purification apparatuses and methods for air purification. The air purification apparatuses pass air through energy beams that form one or more fields of energy within a chamber to produce an outflow of sterilized air. In some aspects, a charge generation system is implemented to repel particles from the chamber walls. In some aspects, the fields of energy extend across substantially an entirety of the cross sectional area of the interior volume of the chamber and longitudinally within the chamber. In some aspects, a controller is configured to rotate a beam of collimated light energy within the chamber at a rotational velocity corresponding to at least V/W, wherein V is the linear velocity of a particle within the chamber along the longitudinal axis, and W is the width of the beam of collimated light energy.
US10293070B2
A waste gas scrubbing tower includes a tower body unit, a filtration unit arranged in the tower body unit, a washing unit that introduces water from an external supply into the tower body unit. The tower body unit includes division boards that define a plurality of channels through which waste gas flows, the tower body unit including a waste gas inlet opening and a waste gas outlet opening. The filtration unit includes a plurality of filter members, which are arranged in the channels. The washing unit is operable to generate water mist curtains in the channels to wash the waste gas so that the waste gas that enters the waste gas scrubbing tower is subjected to multiple times of washing and filtration and purification.
US10293069B2
An assembly for evaporating a volatile fluid is described, the assembly including a device and a refill which are detachable from one another:wherein the device includes a magnetic induction coil configured to operate with an alternating current passed therethrough at a frequency of between substantially 20 KHz to substantially 500 KHz and a volatile fluid transport part receiving area containing at least one piece of heat-conducting, non-magnetic metal foil and/or deposited heat-conducting, non-magnetic metal; and wherein the refill includes a reservoir for the volatile fluid, a volatile fluid transport part to draw the fluid from the reservoir, and at least one magnetic susceptor having a coercivity of substantially 50 ampere/meter (Hc) to substantially 1500 ampere/meter (Hc).arranged to heat the wick predominately by magnetic hysteresis when an alternating current is passed through the induction coil, wherein the refill is attached to the device such that at least one magnetic susceptor is at least partially located within the volatile fluid transport part receiving area. Refills, devices and methods of operation are also described.
US10293062B2
Provided herein are magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents comprising a compound having a structure represented by: Y—X—Z, wherein, X is: Fe(III) or Mn(II), and Y and Z are each independently selected from pyrophosphate and bisphosphonate (e.g., 1-hydroxybisphosphonate), or a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrate and/or salt thereof. Methods of use of the MRI contrast agent are also provided.
US10293061B2
For Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR), particularly for the esophagus and stomach, a kit includes two endoscopes that are used alternatingly to separate chromoendoscopy for staining of intestinal metaplastic mucosa, injecting solution to raise diseased mucosa, snare polypectomy, and wound clipping from cap-assisted suction and ligation of the mucosa, for making these procedures more focused and readily accomplished, with less likelihood of bleeding and perforation.
US10293056B1
The present invention relates to non-viral gene therapy methods and compositions for treatment of hyperproliferative disease in humans. More specifically, the invention is directed, in one embodiment, to lipid formulations which form stable liposome structures, capable of efficient in vivo nucleic acid transfer. In other embodiments, methods and compositions are directed to liposome transfer of anti-proliferative nucleic acids, wherein the transfer of the nucleic acids is cell specific via cell specific targeting moieties. The present invention, thus provides non-viral, liposome compositions and methods of gene transfer particularly useful for targeting and treating hyperproliferative disease.
US10293054B2
In some embodiments, a lipofullerene-saccharide compound and a method of inhibiting and/or ameliorating metastasis of neoplastic cells using said compound is disclosed herein. The lipofullerene-saccharide compound may be used in therapeutically effective doses to inhibit the metastasis of neoplasms in mammals. In some embodiments, the method may include administering to a subject an effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable formulation including a lipofullerene-saccharide compound. In some embodiments, the lipofullerene-saccharide compound may be formed by reacting (e.g., coupling) a lipid and a saccharide with a fullerene. In some embodiments, neoplastic cells may include pancreatic cancer cells, prostate cancer cells, lung cancer cells, breast cancer cells, colon cancer cells, and/or brain cancer cells. A significant anti-metastatic effect has been observed on a metastatic nude-mouse model of human pancreatic cancer BxPC-3 cell lines constructed orthotopically as a result of therapeutic treatment with the lipofullerene-saccharide conjugate.
US10293053B2
Described herein in part are silanol based therapeutic payloads comprising a silanol terminus, a divalent spacer moiety, and a drug moiety capable of effecting a target cell or tissue.
US10293050B2
Provided is a drug delivery composition comprising at least one polymer and at least one active agent; wherein the active agent is present in crystalline form on at least one region of an outer surface of the composition and wherein active agent surface content is adjusted to provide a selected active agent release profile.
US10293036B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10293030B2
A pharmaceutical formulation in a lyophilised form, which comprises pharmacologically effective amount of interferon beta-1a as an active ingredient, disaccharides as a bulking agent and a non-ionic surfactant. After reconstitution, the composition can be administered intravenously.
US10293028B2
The present invention relates to novel therapies for treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. More specifically, the present invention relates to a use of low dose interleukin-2 for the treatment of type I diabetes and other autoimmune and/or inflammatory diseases.
US10293026B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical preparation that can promote the proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells to effectively prevent or treat a demyelinating disease. FGF21 acts to promote the proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells, and thus, the administration of FGF21, DNA encoding FGF21, an FGF21 production-promoting substance, and/or FGF21-producing cells is effective for preventing or treating a demyelinating disease.
US10293015B1
Compositions including water, petrolatum, dimethicone, glycerrhetinic acid, at least one ceramide, at least one C2-C5 alkanol substituted with two to four hydroxyl groups, at least one N-acylethanolamine, and grape seed extract comprising proanthocyanidin, as well as methods of treating skin dermatoses and/or reducing symptoms associated with skin dermatoses using such compositions, are provided.
US10293008B2
Disclosed herein is (i) a method related to the growth promotional activity of plant based fibers on Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856; (ii) the combination of plant based fibers and Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 to inhibit Gram Negative pathogenic bacteria; and (iii) the production of short chain fatty acids (SCFA) by Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 using plant based fibers.
US10293002B2
Embodiments of the invention stimulate three levels of beta cell physiology: (i) glucose metabolism, (ii) membrane receptor function, and (iii) transcriptional factors that result in the in vivo formation of beta cells in the pancreas for the purpose of treating diabetes. In certain aspects, the methods include the integration of three levels of cellular physiology: metabolism, membrane receptor function, and gene transcription. The integration of multiple levels of cellular physiology produces a synergistic effect on beta cell formation.
US10292994B2
The present invention relates to bioactive fractions and compounds from Dalbergia sissoo for the prevention or treatment of osteo-health related disorders. The present invention relates in the field of pharmaceutical composition that provides new plant extracts, their fractions and pure compound isolated from natural sources that are useful for the prevention and/or treatment of various medical indications associated with estrogen dependent or independent diseases or syndromes or disorders preferably in the prevention or treatment of estrogen dependent or independent diseases or syndromes or disorders caused in humans and animals, and achievement of peak bone mass during skeletal growth and health in humans and animals. Particularly the present invention further relates to the processes for the preparation of biologically active extracts, fractions, and isolation of pure compounds, from Dalbergia sissoo plant from the family Fabaceae their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and compositions of the principal aspect of the present invention.
US10292993B2
Provided are a use of D-galactose in inhibition of quorum sensing and/or in prevention and/or treatment of oral bacterial diseases; in particular, a composition for inhibiting quorum sensing and a composition for preventing and/or treating oral bacterial diseases, the composition comprising D-galactose, and a method of inhibiting quorum sensing and a method of preventing and/or treating oral bacterial diseases, the method comprising administering D-galactose.
US10292987B2
Disclosed are compounds having the formula: wherein X, Y, Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, R5, RA, m, A. L, and B are as defined herein, and methods of making and using the same.
US10292984B2
The present invention provides methods for increasing plasma dUrd levels comprising the administration of 6R-MTHF. The methods of increasing plasma dUrd increase dUrd levels compared to equimolar concentrations of LV. The present invention also provides methods for increasing TS inhibition comprising the administration of 6R-MTHF. The present invention also provides methods for increasing TS inhibition comprising the administration of 6R-MTHF.
US10292982B2
The present disclosure provides a method of treating a subject that is resistant to one or more drugs by identifying a subject having one or more drug resistant cells; administering to the subject a pharmaceutically effective amount of an inhibitor compound, and contacting one or more drug resistant cells with the inhibitor compound to reduce the export of the inhibitor compound from the one or more drug resistant tumor cells and to block the transport of drug(s) from the one or more drug resistant cells.
US10292980B2
In DN-DISC1 mice, a mouse model for major mental illnesses, the model that expresses pathological phenotypes relevant to schizophrenia, mood disorders, and addiction simultaneously, the inventors of the present invention found pronounced levels of oxidative stress in the prefrontal cortex, but not in the striatum. These mice also displayed greater amounts of GAPDH-Siah1 binding, a protein-protein interaction that is activated under exposure to oxidative stress. The present inventors investigated the role of oxidative stress in other organ systems. As detailed herein, the inventors found that GAPDH-Siah1 binding was increased in mouse models of cardiac failure. It was also found, that certain novel analogs of deprenyl, significantly inhibited GAPDH-Siah1 binding in cardiac tissue. Thus, with experimental data provided herein, it is clear that this GAPDH-Siah1 binding cascade is a crucial mechanism involved in major mental illness, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, and addiction, as well as in stress-associated diseases involving other organs where GAPDH is expressed.The present invention provides compounds and composition comprising analogs of deprenyl and their use in the inhibition of nuclear GAPDH-Siah1 binding and the activation of p300 and MEF2. Also provided herein are methods of prevention and treatment of stress induced disorders of the body, including, for example, major mental illness, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, and addiction, as well as in stress-associated diseases involving other organs, such as cardiac hypertrophy, in vivo, comprising administering to a mammal a therapeutically effective amount of analogs of deprenyl.
US10292978B2
Methods of selectively inhibiting Akt3 are provided. It has been discovered that 4-[(6-nitroquinolin-4-yl)amino]-N-[4-(pyridin-4-ylamino)phenyl]benzamide selectively inhibits Akt3. Because Akt3 modulates the suppressive function of natural Tregs and the polarization of induced Tregs, 4-[(6-nitroquinolin-4-yl)amino]-N-[4-(pyridin-4-ylamino)phenyl]benzamide can be used for modulating immune responses.
US10292973B2
Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for treating cancer by, for example, modulating immune system activity, are provided.
US10292972B1
A pharmaceutical composition containing an anticancer compound, named isopicrinine, isolated from the plant Rhazya Stricta. The pharmaceutical composition may contain a salt, an analog, a derivative, and/or the prodrug of isopicrinine. A method of treating cancer with the pharmaceutical composition is disclosed. A method of extracting isopicrinine is also disclosed.
US10292970B2
The present application relates to novel heteroaryl-substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines, to processes for preparation thereof, to the use thereof, alone or in combinations, for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, and to the use thereof for production of medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of cardiovascular disorders.
US10292965B2
The present invention relates to a nintedanib diethanesulfonate salt A-type crystal represented by formula (II), and also relates to a crystalline composition and pharmaceutical composition comprising the crystal, and preparation method and use thereof. An X-ray powder diffraction spectrum of the nintedanib diethanesulfonate salt A-type crystal of the present invention has a diffraction peak at about 14.64, 18.79, 19.31, 20.11, 21.20, 22.45 and 26.71° when represented via a 2θ value. The nintedanib diethanesulfonate salt A-type crystal of the present invention has a stable property, is non-hygroscopic and difficult to degrade, and is particularly suitable for medicine production.
US10292961B2
The present invention relates to novel disulfur bridge linkers containing hydrazine used for the specific conjugation of compounds/cytotoxic agents to a cell-binding molecule, through bridge linking a pair of thiols on the cell-binding molecule. The invention also relates to methods of making such linkers, and of using such linkers in making homogeneous conjugates, as well as of application of the conjugates in treatment of cancers, infections and autoimmune disorders.
US10292958B2
Lipid compositions comprising nuts, seeds, oils, legumes, fruits, grains, and dairy useful in specified amounts as dietary supplements and diet plans designed around and including the aforementioned for the prophylaxis and treatment of numerous diseases are disclosed. The compositions include omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids where the ratio of the omega-6 to the omega-3 fatty acids and their amounts are controlled based on one or more factors including age of the subject, sex of the subject, diet of the subject, the body weight of the subject, medical conditions of the subject, and climate of the subject's living area.
US10292951B2
This disclosure features chemical entities (e.g., a compound exhibiting activity as a mitochondrial uncoupling agent or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or hydrate and/or cocrystal thereof; e.g., a compound, such as niclosamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or hydrate and/or cocrystal thereof; e.g., a compound, such as a niclosamide analog, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or hydrate and/or cocrystal thereof) that are useful, e.g., for treating one or more symptoms of a pathology characterized by an abnormal inflammatory response (e.g., inflammatory bowel diseases) in a subject (e.g., a human). This disclosure also features compositions as well as other methods of using and making the same.
US10292949B2
The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising as active ingredient an effective amount of 2-Methyl-4,5-di-(methylsulfonyl)-benzoyl-guanidine, or derivatives thereof, for the prophylaxis and therapy of Type II diabetes mellitus, the Metabolic syndrome, diabetic nephropathy and/or neuropathy. Another object of the invention concerns the use of 2-Methyl-4,5-di-(methylsulfonyl)-benzoyl-guanidine, or derivatives thereof, for the enhancement of insulin sensitivity and the preservation or increase of ß-cell compensation.
US10292945B2
A dressing for applying to the skin is characterized in that the adhesive mass is applied discontinuously in a strip or wave and contains an active substance.
US10292943B2
Methods and compositions are disclosed for delivering lutein or other antioxidant to target tissues such as the eye, in bioactive form, while protecting the antioxidant from degradation. The antioxidant is encapsulated in nanoparticles comprising a protein such as zein or a polymer such as poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA). Preferably a surfactant is associated with the nanoparticles as well, further helping to protect the antioxidant. After the nanoparticles are administered to the target tissue, bioactive antioxidant is released to the tissue over time. Optionally, the nanoparticles are admixed with a thermosensitive, bioadhesive gel to promote slow release of antioxidant. The methods and compositions are useful for treating or preventing conditions such as age-related macular degeneration or cataracts.
US10292940B2
Disclosed are a hyaluronic acid-based amphiphilic polymer, preparation method and application thereof. A main chain of the amphiphilic polymer is a hydrophilic hyaluronic acid and can be employed in active targeting, and a side chain thereof is a hydrophobic group represented by Formula (1). The amphiphilic polymer can carry a small molecule anticancer drug. Polymer nanoparticles are obtained via chemical crosslinking, such that the nanoparticles are not readily dissociated outside a cell or in blood, thus ensuring the stability of a drug encapsulated by the nanoparticles. Upon arriving at a tumor tissue, the hyaluronic acid on a surface of the nanoparticle can immediately combine with a CD44 receptor on a surface of a tumor cell, and effectively enter the tumor cell via endocytosis mediated by the receptor, and then quickly de-crosslink to be dissociated. The drug is quickly released, obtaining an enrichment ratio at a tumor site markedly higher than that of the prior art, resulting in a highly effective treatment, and addressing deficiencies such as drug leakage, low carrying efficiency, low occurrence of endocytosis and slow release in a cell.
US10292936B2
Covalently modified alginate polymers, possessing enhanced biocompatibility and tailored physiochemical properties, as well as methods of making and use thereof, are disclosed herein. The covalently modified alginates are useful as a matrix for the encapsulation and transplantation of cells. Also disclosed are high throughput methods for the characterizing the biocompatibility and physiochemical properties of modified alginate polymers.
US10292934B2
An object of the present application is to provide an orally-disintegrating tablet having excellent tablet hardness and disintegrability, and including a disintegrative particulate composition. This invention relates to a disintegrative particulate composition comprising the four components consisting of a first disintegrator component of an acid-type carboxymethylcellulose, a second disintegrator component other than the acid-type carboxymethylcellulose, an excipient of a sugar or sugar alcohol, and crystalline cellulose; and to an orally-disintegrating tablet, including the disintegrative particulate composition and a medicinal ingredient.
US10292932B2
Disclosed are an anionic drug-containing polymeric micelle particle comprising: an anionic drug as an active ingredient; a cationic lipid; and an amphiphilic block copolymer, wherein the anionic drug forms a complex with the cationic lipid, and the complex is entrapped in the micelle structure of the amphiphilic block copolymer, and a method for preparing the same. The particle may increase stability of the anionic drug in blood or in a body fluid, and it may enable intracellular delivery to improve efficacy of anionic drugs.
US10292926B2
The invention is directed to methods of treating dermatological conditions, including cosmetic treatments intended to moisturize the epidermis, improve the firmness of the dermis, combat ageing of the skin. The methods include application of cosmetic or dermatological compositions containing mannoproteins as an active ingredient and/or adjuvant, to the use of said cosmetic or dermatological compositions and to cosmetic treatment methods.
US10292922B2
The disclosure relates to compositions and methods for removing cosmetic films and makeup compositions from keratinous fibers. Compositions comprise at least one low-viscosity, low-volatility silicone. Methods comprise applying the compositions to keratinous fibers.
US10292918B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium: —at least water, —at least alkylcellulose, —at least one first hydrocarbon-based non-volatile oil, chosen from: —C10-C26 alcohols, preferably monoalcohols; —optionally hydroxylated monoesters, diesters or triesters of a C2-C8 monocarboxylic or polycarboxylic acid and of a C2-C8 alcohol; —esters of a C2-C8 polyol and of one or more C2-C8 carboxylic acids, at least one second non-volatile oil chosen from silicone oils and/or fluoro oils or hydrocarbon-based oils other than the said first oil; at least one particular wax; at least one gemini surfactant of particular formula (I).
US10292915B2
An anhydrous antiperspirant composition includes a) an antiperspirant active; b) a perfume; and c) a microcapsule comprising a shell and a core, wherein the shell comprises a polymerized acrylate amine; wherein the composition has less than about 100 ppm of a residual metal catalyst and/or metal ion.
US10292907B2
This invention discloses a smart medicine box, comprising a box body and a cover body attached to an upper portion of the box body, wherein the box body is provided with continuous medicine bags for use with the same. The continuous medicine bags are connected with one another in a point break manner. The box body is provided with a medicine taking port at one side thereof. The cover body is provided with a detection head, a PCB board and a power source, and the detection head is close to the side of the medicine taking port on the box body. The medicine bag is provided with a detection zone to cooperate with the detection head. The smart medicine box has the following advantages: medicine bag tracking can be implemented according to a predetermined medication plan by means of encapsulating medicines taken by the patient each time.
US10292892B2
A pneumatic lower extremity gait rehabilitation training system includes a support device for reducing the burden of supporting a user's body weight by lower extremity in a walking therapy, an exoskeleton rehabilitation device for adjusting the user's walking coordination at a treadmill, a center-of-gravity adjusting device for adjusting a change of upper and lower centers of gravity, and a remote monitoring device for receiving and capturing a signal of an angle displacement of a joint mechanism in a walking cycle. The user may support her/his body weight by the support device and the center-of-gravity adjusting device to reduce the gravity exerted onto the user's legs. The exoskeleton rehabilitation device improves the flexibility, safety and lightweight of walking and requires fewer driving elements. The remote monitoring device sends analyzed signals to the treadmill to adjust the user's walking speed, so as to improve the rehabilitation effect.
US10292889B1
A compliant bimanual rehabilitation system. The device allows for the user or operator's hands to be coupled with a variety of coupling stiffnesses and in a variety of symmetry modes, leading to enhanced rehabilitation of the impaired arm. Structurally, the device includes a carrier assembly slidably coupled to a base along a y-axis, an upper assembly rotatably coupled to the carrier assembly along a z-axis, handle slides slidably coupled to the upper assembly along an x-axis, compliant handle assemblies coupled to the handle slides, and handles coupled to the compliant handle assemblies. Encoders and load cells can also be positioned accordingly to monitor the position of the components and force applied to the device. Spring stacks can be coupled to the compliant handle assemblies to adjust coupling stiffnesses. The handles are indirectly linked to each other to facilitate rehabilitation of the paretic arm using the sound arm.
US10292888B2
A bridge assembly is described for use with a patient positioning system including a patient support panel. The panel includes a pair of side rails extending along a central longitudinal axis of the panel. The bridge assembly is configured to be releasably secured via respective clamps at any position along the side rails and includes a pair of side sections and a central section connected between the side sections. The length of each side sections can be adjusted independently to enable the distance of the central section at each of the side sections from the patient support panel to be individually established. The central section can also be adjusted laterally with respect to the central longitudinal axis of the patient support panel.
US10292884B2
A support structure device is configured to assist a human patient to rise. The support structure includes a tube bent into a shape described by way of a reference frustum such as a four-sided truncated pyramid. Each side of a top rectangular perimeter of the frustum is shorter than a corresponding side of the bottom rectangular perimeter, and each parallel side of a first trapezoidal perimeter of the frustum is shorter than a corresponding parallel side of a second trapezoidal perimeter. The reference frustum has a height between 10 and 18 inches, the top rectangular perimeter has a length between 10 and 16 inches and a width between 6 and 14 inches, and the bottom rectangular perimeter has a length between 12 and 18 inches and a width between 8 and 16 inches.
US10292880B2
The present disclosure illustrates a transport aid which can be quickly assembled, disassembled, and adjusted in width, and includes two support members, a chair seat and two horizontal assembly frames, wherein the horizontal assembly frames are disposed on left and right sides of the chair seat, respectively, and each includes a first quick connector assembled to a corresponding second quick connector of the chair seat, and ends of the two horizontal assembly frames are pivotally connected to corresponding support members, respectively, and other ends of the two horizontal assembly frames are assembled to each other through a quick packing connector for forming a horizontal bottom support member. As a result, the transport aid can be quickly disassembled into members for easy carry; furthermore, these members can be quickly assembled to a transport aid as a wheelchair, so that any person with disability can sit thereon and easily and comfortably be transported.
US10292878B2
This present invention describes a system for fixation of a flexible stretcher to a hard stretcher, comprising multiple belts made of flexible material affixed via a multiplicity of strap adjusters and bars to the flexible stretcher, and a flexible and adjustable cross connection belt, which, because of their disposition and technical characteristics, enable fixation of the hard stretcher, together with a victim individual, to the body of the flexible stretcher, making the movement of the individual from one stretcher to another unnecessary.
US10292876B2
A pull-on disposable diaper includes a front side portion; a back side portion; a crotch portion; a waist opening; and a pair of leg openings. An edge portion of the waist opening of the front side portion includes a recessed portion that is recessed in the lengthwise direction toward the crotch portion with respect to an edge portion of the waist opening of the back side portion. A tape member is fixed on a non-skin side surface of the back side portion so as to be extendable toward the waist opening in the lengthwise direction, the tape member being used for fixing the diaper in a small state in the lengthwise direction when the diaper is disposed of. The recessed portion is provided at a position corresponding to the tape member in the lateral direction.
US10292875B2
An absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core comprising channels disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and a printed adhesive layer disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core such that the printed adhesive layer is visible through the topsheet. At least a portion of the adhesive layer forms a pattern of one or more pairs of contoured lines that run lengthwise in the machine direction of the absorbent article, each pair being symmetric to its compliment across an axis of the absorbent article drawn in the machine direction and at the center of its width. The distance between the innermost pair of contoured lines is from about 15 mm to about 25 mm or the amount of adhesive comprising the printed adhesive layer is such that the pattern coverage with the adhesive is from about 15% to about 30%.
US10292866B2
A method of transplanting a cornea from a donor to a recipient is disclosed. An undercut is incised within stromal tissue of the donor cornea. Following formation of the undercut, the donor cornea is grafted onto a recipient. The undercut may be formed before or after the cornea is removed from the donor, and is preferably formed by photoaltering the stromal tissue using a laser. A sidecut may also be incised in the donor cornea, thereby forming a corneal flap, prior to grafting. In addition, a corneal section may be excised from the donor cornea using a trephine, a laser, or other appropriate surgical equipment.
US10292860B2
A device and method used to help reduce aches and pains to joints, muscles, and other body parts; helps to relieve swelling; provide support to joints and muscles. Comprising of a plurality of ridges 120 affixed to a flexible thermal sheet 110. Said ridges 120 produce an acupressure-like massage effect and the flexible thermal sheet 110 absorbs and reradiates heat between the device and skin producing a self-heating effect. The device can be sized for a particular application. A user places the device against his or her body part and device is held in place by a method of user's choice.
US10292859B2
A cooling device for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a subject having skin is provided. The cooling device includes a plurality of cooling elements movable relative to each other to conform to the contour's of the subject's skin. The cooling elements have a plurality of controllable thermoelectric coolers. The cooling elements can be controlled to provide a time-varying cooling profile in a predetermined sequence, can be controlled to provide a spatial cooling profile in a selected pattern, or can be adjusted to maintain constant process parameters, or can be controlled to provide a combination thereof.
US10292857B2
Head-and-neck immobilization devices may include a yoke sized and shaped to contact a person's back and shoulders. Straps may extend from the yoke, the straps configured to secure the yoke to the person's torso. Two head immobilization pads may be sized and shaped to respectively contact opposing sides of the person's head, each of the two head immobilization pads connected to the yoke by a respective selectively rotatable, selectively rigid connection. A majority of the person's head may remain unobstructed by the head-and-neck immobilization device when the two head immobilization pads contact the two opposing sides of the person's head and are rigidly secured in place to immobilize the person's neck and head.
US10292850B2
The present invention relates to a deployment handle for a prosthesis delivery device and to a delivery device including such a handle. The handle assembly facilitates the controlled release of a prosthesis from the delivery device, while ensuring that various deployment steps are performed in a particular sequential order. The handle assembly comprises a main handle and a second handle which is rotatably and/or longitudinally moveable relative to the main handle. The second handle has an initial position on the main handle such that it prevents access to, and premature manipulation of, a proximal stent release mechanism, until the stent graft has been at least partially unsheathed.
US10292849B2
A metal balloon catheter having a main tubular body, a metal balloon proximate a distal end of the main tubular body, a central annulus extending along an entire longitudinal aspect of the catheter for accommodating a guidewire therethrough and an inflation annulus adjacent the central annulus which extends along the longitudinal axis of the main tubular body and terminates in fluid flow communication with an inflation chamber of the metal balloon. The metal balloon catheter may be either unitary integral metal catheter in which the main tubular body and the balloon are fabricated of metal, or it may consist of a polymeric main tubular body and a metal balloon.
US10292841B2
A device with a wall (6) designed to tightly enclose a body part is made of an electrically non-conductive material (9) and has a shape adapted to the body part or adapting thereto as a result of the elasticity of the wall, wherein an inner face (7) of the wall (6) comes to bear on the skin (14) of the body part, and the inner face (7) is provided with at least one electrically conductive portion (4) which, in order to transmit electrical signals from or to the skin (14) of the body part, is arranged all the way through the electrically non-conductive material (9) of the wall (6), permits reliable transmission of electrical signals with a simple design of the liner, by virtue of the fact the electrically conductive portion (4) is covered by the electrically non-conductive material (9) and is connected to at least one conductor (5, 5′) passing through the electrically non-conductive material (9).
US10292840B2
A prosthetic device includes a phalanges portion, a metatarsals portion that is movably coupled to the phalanges portion, an ankle portion that is movably coupled to the metatarsals portion, and a calcaneus portion that is movably coupled to the ankle portion.
US10292837B2
A disassembly tool for disassembly of a first component of a prosthesis to a second component of the prosthesis for use in joint arthroplasty. The tool includes a first member having a radial portion operably associated with the first component and adapted to exert a radial force on the first component. A second member operably associated with the second component is also included and the second member has a second member longitudinal axis. A drive mechanism is coupled to the second member, such that as the drive mechanism is activated, the second member exerts a force against the second component in the direction of the longitudinal axis. Such exertion of force against the second member further causes the second member to move relative to the first member along the second member longitudinal axis.
US10292834B2
Intervertebral implants, assemblies, and methods thereof. An intervertebral implant includes opposing chamfered edges to reduce a diagonal distance between the edges. The reduced diagonal distance minimizes distraction of an intervertebral disc space during insertion of the implant. A tool for insertion and rotation of the implant is also provided.
US10292826B2
A knee prosthesis comprising a femur component defining a ball-like femoral condyle and a tibia component defining a cavity on its medial side corresponding to the ball-like condyle. The knee prosthesis enables pivoting of the tibia component about the medial side of the femur component as a function of the flexion angle γ as long as there is joint compression applied to the knee prosthesis as exemplified by muscle forces, weight, and ligament tensions, to enforce contact between the tibia component and the femur component. The geometries of the spherical load bearing surfaces of the medial tibia condyle and medial femur condyle provide the kinematic degrees of freedom and the geometric constraints required for proper guiding of the rolling and sliding surfaces of the femoral component and tibial component during articulation of the present knee prosthesis.
US10292823B2
Photodynamic devices for replacement of an articular head of a bone are provided. In an embodiment, a photodynamic device includes a photodynamic support member and an articular member attachable, either fixedly or removably, to the photodynamic support member and having a bearing surface. In an embodiment, the articular member includes a recess designed to receive the photodynamic support member. In an embodiment, the photodynamic support member includes an opening into which a shaft of the articular member can be inserted to attach the articular member to the photodynamic support member.
US10292821B2
The present disclosure is directed to an external cardiac basal annuloplasty system (ECBAS or BACE-System: basal annuloplasty of the cardia externally) and methods for treatment of regurgitation of mitral and tricuspid valves. The BACE-System provides the ability to correct leakage of regurgitation of the valves with or without the use of cardiopulmonary bypass, particularly when the condition is related to dilation of the base of the heart. This ECBAS invention can be applied to the base of the heart epicardially, either to prevent further dilation or to actively reduce the size of the base of the heart.
US10292803B2
The invention relates to a thrombectomy device with a substantially cylindrical stent structure (1), which has a multiplicity of meshes (3, 4) and two connectors (5, 5′) that are arranged on different meshes (3) at the proximal end of the stent structure (1), and with a guide wire (12), which has a coupling element (11) to which the connectors (5, 5′) are coupled, with a slit (7), which extends in a helical formation across the jacket surface (8) of the stent structure (1), and with a tensioning bow (9), which spans the slit (7) at the proximal end.
US10292802B2
This invention is directed to a device and a method for controlling fecal incontinence. The device of this invention is easily inserted into the anal canal, and is designed for remaining where required in the anal canal or rectum, above the dentate line and hemorrhoidal vein area, despite the peristaltic movements of the intestine.
US10292794B2
Method and system for the construction of a total dental prosthesis, wherein the shapes of the upper and lower jaw bases taken in the plastic material are digitized and stored as a digital prosthesis model in a data-processing device, and the upper and lower jaw prosthesis bases are produced from dental materials according to the digital prosthesis model by ablative or constructive methods.
US10292783B2
An ophthalmic illumination system includes a light source generating a source light beam and a beam splitter splitting the source light beam into first and second light beams. A first attenuator is located in a path of the first light beam and a second attenuator is located in the path of the second light beam, the first and second attenuators operable to change the intensities of the first and second light beams, respectively. A first optical fiber port is configured for connection to a first optical fiber for delivering the first light beam to a patient's eye and a second optical fiber port is configured for connection to a second optical fiber for delivering the second light beam to the patient's eye. A control unit is communicatively coupled to the first and second attenuators and is operable to adjust the attenuators to control the intensities of the light beams delivered to the patient's eye.
US10292782B2
The invention relates to a lighting device (100), which is equipped for fastening to a surgical instrument (200) or, by means of adapter (90; 91), to a body part (92), in particular a finger of a surgeon or of an operating room assistant, in order to serve as a light source during a surgical operation, in particular within a body cavity or organ cavity of genuine or traumatic origin and in other body regions that are difficult to access. At least one pin (20) pointing outward from the wall of the housing (10) is arranged on the housing (10) of the lighting device (100) in a wall area (30) directed toward the surgical instrument in the fastening position, which pin has a light emitting opening (40) at the distal end of the pin and is designed for passing through an opening (220) of the surgical instrument or of the adapter (90; 91) and thus establishing a form-closed or force-closed connection to the opening. The pin (20) is preferably movable in order to achieve optimal illumination of the operation site. The invention further relates to a surgical instrument suitable for accommodating the lighting device (100) and a set comprising the lighting device (100) and at least one surgical instrument.
US10292781B2
A method of manufacturing a glove that includes discrete elements and component systems, such as, but not limited to, lights, electrical cautery, suction, and irrigation, attached to the surgical glove. The gloves produced by this method can be used as surgical gloves or for other industrial applications. In a particular application, the method includes providing a former comprising a hand-shaped portion and a first surgical system comprising a first surgical instrument, and a first switch for controlling the first surgical system. The former includes a first depression for receiving the first surgical system. The first depression is adapted to produce an interference fit with at least a portion of the first surgical system. The first surgical system can be loaded into the first depression and a polymer coating can be applied over the loaded former to form a surgical glove.
US10292780B2
A haptic glove configured to transmit haptic feedback to an operator of a surgical robot system may include: a plurality of vibrators on a first surface of the haptic glove, the plurality of vibrators configured to apply vibrations; at least one pressure sensor at a finger part of a second surface of the haptic glove opposite to the first surface, the at least one pressure sensor configured to sense grip force in the finger part; at least one sensation applier on the second surface, the at least one sensation applier configured to apply sensations including vibration or force to the finger part; and/or a controller configured to output the grip force sensed by the at least one pressure sensor, and configured to control the vibrations applied by the plurality of vibrators and the sensations applied by the at least one sensation applier.
US10292774B2
There is described a method for tracking a patient in a coordinate system of a surgical tool using an optical waveguide modeling system having one multicore optical fiber with a portion attached to the surgical tool and a portion attached to the patient. The method generally includes receiving a patient model representing a shape and orientation of at least one of a limb and a bone of the patient, generating a waveguide model representing a shape and orientation of the multicore optical fiber as attached to the surgical tool and to the patient, and tracking the patient model in the coordinate system by registering the patient model in the coordinate system using the waveguide model and known spatial relationships relating to the surgical tool, the portion of the multicore optical fiber attached to the surgical tool, and the portion of the multicore optical fiber attached to the patient.
US10292772B2
The present teaching relates to surgical procedure assistance. In one example, a first set of positions of a plurality of sensors are obtained in an image captured prior to a surgical procedure. The plurality of sensors are coupled with a patient's body. One or more second sets of positions of the plurality of sensors are obtained based on information from a tracking device associated with the plurality of sensors. The one or more second sets of positions change in accordance with movement of the patient's body. One or more similarity measures are calculated between the first set of positions and each of the one or more second sets of positions of the plurality of sensors. A timing at which the surgical procedure initiates is determined based on the one or more similarity measures.
US10292767B2
Surgical tools having a two degree-of-freedom wrist, wrist articulation by linked tension members, mechanisms for transmitting torque through an angle, and minimally invasive surgical tools incorporating these features are disclosed. An elongate intermediate wrist member is pivotally coupled with a distal end of an instrument shaft so as to rotate about a first axis transverse to the shaft, and an end effector body is pivotally coupled with the intermediate member so as to rotate about a second axis that is transverse to the first axis. Linked tension members interact with attachment features to articulate the wrist. A torque-transmitting mechanism includes a coupling member, coupling pins, a drive shaft, and a driven shaft. The drive shaft is coupled with the driven shaft so as to control the relative orientations of the drive shaft, the coupling member, and the driven shaft.
US10292761B2
A medical device includes a sheath extending from a proximal end to a distal end and having a lumen extending therethrough and an end-effector disposed at the distal end of the sheath including a first resection loop configured to resect tissue and a secondary tool including one of a second resection loop and a tissue-vaporizing structure mounted distally to the first resection loop.
US10292757B2
An electrosurgical instrument comprising a first arm carrying at least a first and optionally a second and third electrode, and a second arm opposing the first arm, the second arm carrying one of a nonconductor element or one or more conductive elements.
US10292756B2
A system for controlling operation of a radiofrequency treatment device to apply radiofrequency energy to tissue to treat tissue to create lesions without ablating the tissue. The system includes a device having flexible outer tube, an expandable basket having a plurality of arms movable from a collapsed position to an expanded position, a plurality of electrodes movable from a retracted position to an extended position to extend through the openings in the arms, and an advancer slidably disposed within the outer tube to move the electrodes. An elongated spacer is positioned within the outer tube, the spacer having a central lumen to receive the advancer and to maintain a central position of the advancer.
US10292745B2
This disclosure describes exemplary screw and intramedullary devices that are better able to bring bone fragments into close proximity with each other, generate a compressive load, and maintain that compressive load for a prolonged period of time while healing occurs. The devices are made of a shape memory material.
US10292739B2
A rasp tool for preparing an implantation site includes a first arm, a second arm, a first wing, and a second wing. The first arm and the second arm are pivotally connected to one another. The first wing extends from a distal end of the first arm and includes a sharp tip positioned at a distal end of the first wing and configured to ease insertion into the implantation site, and a cutout defined along a first side of the first wing. The second wing extends from a distal end of the second arm. The first wing and the second wing are configured to move between a closed position and an open position by pivoting the first arm and the second arm, and the second wing is received at least partially within the cutout when the first wing and the second wing are in the closed position.
US10292733B2
An assembly includes a catheter that has an insemination lumen for injecting sperm into a uterus. The insemination lumen includes two branches (sub-lumens), one directed toward a left ostium and the other directed to a right ostium of fallopian tubes.
US10292731B2
A medical tube is disclosed, which is configured to have an elongated implant inserted in the medical tube. The medical tube includes a tube having a proximal end opening where the tube is open at a proximal end of the tube. The tube can include a bent region where an intermediate portion in the longitudinal direction of the tube is bent and where a bent state is maintained, and a connection portion which is provided near the proximal end opening and to which a puncture needle having a sharp needle tip at a distal end of the puncture needle is connected from a needle tip side.
US10292718B2
An orthopedic reamer cutting tool is disclosed that incorporates a second material such as graphene having an increased coefficient of thermal conductivity to remove heat generated at the tissue cutting surface during use. The reamer is constructed having a hemispherical cutting shell that extends from an equatorial base to an apex at a distal end. A plurality of cutting teeth, each having a tissue cutting surface, extend from the exterior of the cutting shell. A reamer driver interface may be positioned spanning the diameter of the reamer base. The second material, having increased thermal conductivity, may be applied to the interior and/or exterior shell surfaces. In addition, the second material may be incorporated within the shell or the driver interface.
US10292708B1
A device for creating a fistula between blood vessels operates in conjunction with a guidewire to locate and position itself so that it straddles both vessels and is able to draw them together. A fixing agent is released either from within the device or from an external needle, or both, into the procedural site. The fixing agent functions to hold the relative position of the two vessels, to seal the surrounding tissue so that any leaks that do occur don't spread into the tissue to create a hematoma, and to limit expansion of the fistula. After the vessels are in close proximity to each other and the fixing agent is applied, the device of the invention employs a cutting mechanism which opens a portal between the two vessels.
US10292703B2
Devices and methods are provided for forming and securing a tissue plication. More particularly, the devices and methods of the present invention can be used to create multiple tissue folds on an anterior and posterior wall of a stomach cavity to reduce the volume thereof. In one aspect, a method of gastric volume reduction is disclosed that includes advancing a tissue acquisition and fixation device endoscopically into a stomach, manipulating the device to form a first fold of tissue on an interior surface of an anterior wall of the stomach, and manipulating the device to form a second fold of tissue on an interior surface of a posterior wall of the stomach, where the second fold is not attached to the first fold.
US10292699B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for managing suture filaments when performing soft tissue repair. One exemplary embodiment of a surgical suture management device is in the form of a suture loop management card. The card can generally be configured to hold open a collapsible loop of suture until a force applied to the loop is greater than a threshold tension. The card can include a number of different features that help to keep the loop open until the threshold tension is achieved, including features designed to prevent the filament from being mistakenly offloaded. The card can be configured to be removably inserted into a handle of an inserter tool for use as a surgical tissue repair system. Other devices, systems, and methods for performing soft tissue repair are also provided.
US10292695B2
A surgical filament snare assembly including an anchor capable of being fixated in bone and having a filament engagement feature. A first filament has a noose on a first portion of at least a first limb and has a second portion connected to the filament engagement feature of the anchor. Preferably, at least one free filament limb, which in some embodiments is a length of the first filament and in other embodiments is a second filament, is capable of being passed through tissue to be repaired and has at least one end passable through the noose to enable incremental tensioning of the tissue after the anchor is fixated in bone. The noose strangulates the free filament limb when tension is applied to at least one of the free filament limb and the noose.
US10292694B2
Apparatus for securing a first object to a second object, said apparatus comprising: an anchor body which is longitudinally and laterally deformable; and a working suture which is connected to said anchor body; said anchor body and said working suture being configured such that, when at least one of said anchor body and said working suture receives a repair suture which is connected to the first object, and said anchor body is thereafter disposed in a hole in the second object, applying tension to said working suture secures said anchor body to the second object and secures said repair suture to said anchor body without requiring that a knot be tied after said anchor body is disposed in the hole in the second object.
US10292690B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for treating heart failure by normalizing elevated blood pressure in the left and right atria of a heart of a mammal. The present disclosure includes methods for creating and maintaining an opening in the atrial septum. Tools for making an opening and enlarging the opening are also disclosed. Use of the techniques and tools described herein prolongs the patency of an intra-atrial pressure relief opening.
US10292677B2
An endoluminal filter, comprising a first support member having a first end and a second end; and a second support member attached to the first end of the first support member or the second end of the first support member and forming a crossover with the first support member to form two loops one on either side of the crossover, wherein at least a portion of the first or second support member is modified to provide an enhanced echogenic characteristic. A system for positioning a filter within a vasculature including an endoluminal filter, a user interface, a display, and a processor is also provided. A method for positioning a filter within a lumen is also provided wherein the steps are performed using an intravascular ultrasound system and the filter is modified to provide at least one echogenic characteristic.
US10292664B2
A monitor configuration system which communicates with a physiological sensor, the monitor configuration system including one or more processors and an instrument manager module running on the one or more processors. At least one of the one or more processors communicates with the sensor and calculates at least one physiological parameters responsive to the sensor. The instrument manager controls the calculation, display and/or alarms based upon the physiological parameters. A configuration indicator identifies the configuration profile. In one aspect of the invention, the physiological sensor is a optical sensor that includes at least one light emitting diode and at least one detector.
US10292662B2
The present invention relates to a device and method for obtaining pulse transit time and/or pulse wave velocity information of a subject (14). Based on a set of image frames (19) of a subject (14) and detected motion of body parts of the subject (14) regions of interest are selected from different non-moving body parts and pulse transit time and/or pulse wave velocity information is obtained from acquired PPG signals extracted from different regions of interest and the respective determined physical distance between the respective regions of interest.
US10292651B2
Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring a user of a helmet for cumulative concussions. Aspects include monitoring one or more sensors in the helmet and receiving an output from the one or more sensors corresponding to an impact experienced by the helmet. Aspects also include calculating a cumulative concussion score based on the output of the one or more sensors and displaying an indication of the cumulative concussion score via an indicator on the helmet.
US10292650B2
The present invention provides a system for monitoring a physiological parameter of players engaged in a sporting activity. The system includes a plurality of reporting units, a controller, and a signaling device. The reporting unit has an arrangement of sensing devices that measure the physiological parameter of an individual player and generate parameter data. The controller receives the parameter data transmitted from each reporting unit and then processes the parameter data to calculate a parameter result. When the parameter result exceeds a predetermined value, the controller communicates with a signaling device that provides an alert to sideline personnel to monitor the player(s) in question. The system also includes a remote storage device for holding historical data collected by the system which permits subsequent analysis. The system can monitor a number of player physiological parameters, including the acceleration of a player's body part that experiences an impact and the temperature of each player.
US10292643B2
Systems and methods are provided for rapidly introducing treatment to patients suffering traumatic brain injuries. A wearable map of the brain electroencephalography (EEG) points is worn in a headscarf, helmet, or other headgear for providing real-time information on a wearer's brain condition. The overall system includes an application (app) or program software that may run on a tablet, portable communication device, or computing device that processes the data from the EEG sensors and interprets the data in real time. If there is an accident or other stress forces experienced by the wearer that mimics a concussion, the system initiates the real-time ejection of a cooling agent within the headgear to provide a reduction in the victim's brain temperature with the helmet cooling system. A drug intervention system and injury detection app for expedited treatment of a potential brain injury during the critical early phases of the injury is also provided.
US10292626B2
A screening device for conducting a tone audiometry includes a tone generator, an input device, and a controller device. The controller device is arranged to repeatedly perform: selecting a test stimulus from a group of test stimuli; applying the selected test stimulus to a test person; receiving via the input device from the test person a response indicating which test stimulus was heard by the test person; and adjusting an intensity according to the received response for selecting a next test stimulus. The group of test stimuli includes (i) no tone at all, (ii) a single tone with a first frequency and a first given intensity, and (iii) a multitude of tones of a second frequency and a second given intensity. The second frequency is higher than the first frequency and the multitude of tones have a duration shorter than the duration of the single tone.
US10292622B2
A device and method for bioimpedance spectrography corrects for breathing artifacts. A breathing signal is used in conjunction with an impedance signal to adjust for a point in time within a respiratory cycle of a user at which the measurements are made. The correction allows the device to characterize tissue parameters accurately with fewer measurement points.
US10292620B1
A stereo-imaging device that operates by translating a single lens in front of an exposed imaging sensor, or translating one of the objective lens group for higher image quality. The device and method is used as a surgical instrument guide. An objective lens with a translating lens part can directly attached in front of a camera with an exposed sensor or an endoscopic circuit with an exposed imaging fiber bundle surface to capture/record the image shift generated by the lens translation. The stereo-imaging device can realize a camera which can swing back and forth from regular 2D image capturing mode to the stereo mode to capture images for 3D viewing, or a switchable stereo endoscope without size increases of multiple imaging systems to be used for periodical 3D inspections.
US10292611B2
A medical device is utilized to monitor physiological parameters of a patient and capture segments of the monitored physiological parameters. The medical device includes circuitry configured to monitor one or more physiological parameters associated with the patient and an analysis module that includes a buffer and a processor. The buffer stores monitored physiological parameters and the processor analyzes the monitored physiological parameters and triggers capture of segments from the buffer in response to a triggering criteria being satisfied. The analysis module selects a pre-trigger duration based at least in part on the triggering criteria.
US10292610B2
Neuromodulation systems with nerve monitoring assemblies and associated devices, systems, and methods are disclosed herein. A neuromodulation system configured in accordance with some embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, a generator, a nerve monitoring assembly configured to detect electroneurogram (ENG) signals, and a neuromodulation catheter. The neuromodulation catheter can include an elongated shaft with a distal portion and a proximal portion. The distal portion of the shaft can include an array of electrodes configured to detect nerve activity from within a blood vessel of a human. The proximal portion of the shaft can include at least one connector that operably couples the electrodes to the generator and to the nerve monitoring assembly.
US10292598B2
A device for detection of internal bleeding in a patient's body is provided. An optical interface for transmitting IR light through an area of a skin of a patient and to collect IR light from the area of the skin, is provided. In some embodiments the optical interface includes one or more delivery components and one or more collection components. The delivery component includes a plurality of first optical channels configured to transmit the IR light through a plurality of respective first sub-areas on the area of the skin, into an internal layer of the body. The collection component includes a plurality of second optical channels, configured to collect IR light from a plurality of respective second sub-areas on the area of the skin.
US10292590B2
A method of performing an optical examination on a test object and an optical examination device. The method includes obtaining a first detection light quantity distribution that is a detection light quantity distribution obtained for each of a plurality of optical models that simulate the test object, obtaining, using the optical sensor, a second detection light quantity distribution that is a distribution of an amount of light detected on the test object, and selecting based on the first light quantity distribution and the second detection light quantity distribution, an optical model suited to the test object from the plurality of optical models. The optical examination device includes an optical sensor, and a control system to control the irradiation system to obtain an amount of light detected by the detection system.
US10292587B2
Implementations of energy harvester systems may include: an accumulator having an air bladder separated from water by a membrane; one or more hydro turbines coupled with the accumulator; two or more check valves each coupled with one of the one or more hydro turbines; a system battery coupled to the power conditioner; and an electronic load coupled to the system batter through the power conditioner; wherein the two or more check valves are configured to be in contact with water.
US10292586B2
The present invention relates to a non-invasive health indicator monitoring system including a sensing module, an electric power storage module, and a circuit module to collect health indicator information by contacting with a subject. In addition, the present invention also relates to a method for monitoring health indicator continuously by using the health indicator monitoring system.
US10292584B2
Systems and methods for detecting onset, presence, and progression of particular states, including hypoxia, include observing eye movements of a subject to and correlating the observed movements to known baseline or hypoxic conditions. A detection system may record eye movement data from a user, compare the eye movement data to a data model comprising threshold eye movement data samples, and from the comparison make a determination whether or not hypoxia, fatigue, or other detrimental conditions are present. The detection system may alert the user to take corrective action if onset or presence of a dangerous condition is detected. The eye movements detected include saccadic and intersaccadic parameters such as intersaccadic drift velocity. Measurements may be collected in situ while the subject is performing normal duties, processed to determine indicators of detrimental conditions, and reported to the subject within a few seconds.
US10292581B2
A display device with a retaining device is disclosed, which can be placed on the head of a user. The display device contains a first image generator, which is secured or can be secured to the retaining device, and a first optical imaging system which is secured to the retaining device and which is designed to image an image generated on a first image plane (E) by the first image generator such that the user can perceive the image with a first eye (LA) when the retaining device is placed on the head of the user. The retaining device supports a first refraction determining optical system which is designed to determine the subjective refraction of the first eye (LA) when the retaining device is placed on the head of the user and/or the first optical imaging system is configured to be variable.
US10292579B2
The invention is a method of automatically adjusting a retinal electrode array to the neural characteristics of an individual patient. By recording electrically evoked electroretinograms (eERG) to a predetermined input stimulus, one can alter that input stimulus to the needs of an individual patient. A minimum input stimulus is applied to a patient, followed by recording the eERG response to the input stimulus. By gradually increasing stimulus levels, one can determine the minimum input that creates a neural response, thereby identifying the threshold stimulation level. One can further determine a maximum level by increasing stimulus until a predetermined maximum neural response is obtained. However, eERG signals include a significant amount of noise. Applicants have developed novel techniques for artifact reduction and noise filtering to provide an accurate measure of neural activity.
US10292577B2
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to an image processing apparatus. The apparatus may include a processor and memory storing instructions that when executed on the processor cause the processor to perform the operations of detecting a deep region of a duct in an image and extracting a plurality of contour edges of an inner wall of the duct in the image. The apparatus then may identify a plurality of convex regions among the plurality of contour edges, analyze a respective curvature of each of the plurality of convex regions to identify a convex direction for each of the plurality of convex regions, and detect, as an abnormal region, a convex region having a convex direction directed toward the deep region.
US10292575B2
The exemplary embodiments illustrated provide the discovery of systems, methods, and apparatuses of endoscope stabilization devices for use with, for example, slim scopes, so as to provide, for example, a flexible outer structure capable of bending and holding a fixed position so as to provide, for example, support to make cannulation with a slim scope and target anatomy easier and more efficient.
US10292571B2
A handheld surgical endoscope has a disposable, single-use portion that includes a and a re-usable portion that includes a handle and display module. The distal tip includes LED illumination and an imaging module that feeds live video to the display module. The imaging module includes a lens system of no more than two lenses and provides the imaging module with a field of view greater than 120 degrees, preferably 130 degrees or more, and most preferably 140 degrees or more. LED illumination is provided by plural LED arranged symmetrically around an optical axis to provide a field of illumination that substantially coincides with the field of view of an imaging module. An image brightness balance arrangement selectively varies the illumination provided by different LEDs to reduce brightness differences between different areas of the displayed images.
US10292566B2
A dishwasher includes a tub with walls that at least partially define a treating chamber with an access opening, a door that selectively closes the access opening, a dish rack located within the tub, and a utensil caddy that comprises a wire frame and is mounted to the dish rack.
US10292551B2
A switch assembly for a wet/dry vacuum cleaner is disclosed. The switch assembly includes a switch movable by a user between an ON position and an OFF position. An automatic shutoff assembly is operable in conjunction with the switch assembly to turn the switch to the OFF position in the event that a level of liquid within a tank of the wet/dry vacuum cleaner rises above a predetermined level. When triggered, the automatic shutoff assembly exerts a biasing force urging the switch toward the OFF position. A user can manually override the automatic shutoff assembly by providing a force sufficient to overcome the biasing force.
US10292535B2
A bathtub extension liner includes, but is not limited to a plurality of horizontally inflatable tubes adapted to be positioned around an outer perimeter of a bathtub; a vinyl assembly connected to the plurality of horizontally inflatable tubes, the vinyl assembly adapted to line an interior area of a bathtub; and a drain assembly, said drain assembly centrally positioned within the vinyl assembly adapted to line the interior area of the bathtub near an end of a lengthwise dimension of the vinyl assembly wherein water that is held inside the inflatable bathtub liner is released through the drain assembly and exits through a conventional bathtub drain as provided on the conventional bathtub.
US10292533B2
An apparatus for cooking food which includes a receiving container provided for receiving food, a stirring device arranged inside the receiving container, at least one main heating system and at least one ventilation motor for generating a heating airflow, the receiving container and the stirring device being designed to be imparted with a relative rotation movement.
US10292531B1
A cooking device includes a housing assembly, a cooking structure, a first heat source, and a second heat source. The housing assembly defines a single, integrated cooking volume that includes a central portion disposed between a first portion and a second portion. The cooking structure has a cooking surface arranged for placement of a foodstuff and is disposed between the central portion and the first portion. The first heat source is positioned a first distance from the cooking structure in a first direction. The first heat source is disposed in the central portion and arranged to heat the cooking structure via convection. The second heat source is disposed a second distance, which is greater than the first distance, from the cooking structure in the first direction. The second heat source is disposed in the second portion and is arranged to provide thermal energy indirectly to the first portion and the central portion.
US10292522B2
A microwave kettle includes a main vessel having a pivotally attached lid, with an insert attached to an interior of the lid and extending into the main vessel. The insert is configured with a number of nucleation sites to facilitate boiling of a liquid within the vessel.
US10292516B1
A hat hanger with a small form factor is described herein. The hat hanger having a body with a wall mating face configured to mate with a surface of a vertical wall, and a top side face disposed on a top side of the body and being a serrated face with a plurality of saw tooth members. The wall mating face may include a wall mounting component such as a nail for affixing the hat hanger to the vertical wall. The plurality of saw tooth members may include at least one saw tooth member with a greater height than the other saw tooth members of the plurality of saw tooth members.
US10292512B2
A liquid container orifice assembly, lid assembly, and unibody lid construction enable a user to outfit particularized liquid containers for enabling lid-based liquid-pooling or compartmentalization and heat transfer from lid-pooled or lid-compartmentalized liquid prior to liquid egression from a lid-outfitted liquid container prior to liquid consumption. All embodiments provide liquid re-directing or damming structures that operate to control the delivery of hot liquid for promoting heat loss from re-directed liquid flows. Certain structures cooperate with existing art to minimize leakage problems associated therewith. Other structures operate to particularly shape parceled liquid volumes for effecting rapid heat transfers therefrom. Still other structures harness material-philic properties of liquids for further effecting rapid heat transfers and liquid directional control mechanisms. Combinations of the various structural features here noted are also contemplated throughout the following specifications.
US10292502B2
A foldable chair includes a seat panel having a first end portion and a second end portion, a pivotable support having a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion of the pivotable support pivotally connected to the first end portion of the seat panel, and a variable resistance support assembly pivotally coupled to the second end portion of the seat panel for selectively raising and lowering the seat panel. The variable resistance support assembly can include a housing, with a first spring and a second spring stored therein. The first spring can have a first pressure load and the second spring can have a second pressure load that is less than the first pressure load.
US10292498B2
A reconfigurable apparatus having: a frame; at least a first component on the frame upon which a force is applied in a first manner in using the apparatus for its intended purpose; and at least a second component on the frame that is movable relative to the at least first component and/or the frame and upon which a force can be applied in a second manner to reconfigure the apparatus by moving the at least second component relative to the at least first component and/or the frame. An adjusting assembly cooperates between the at least first component and the at least second component and is configured so that as an incident of the force being applied in the first manner changing, the force being applied in the second manner required to reconfigure the apparatus changes.
US10292494B1
A slide rail self-return mechanism includes a holder base including a base block, a guide plate extended from the base block, a sliding groove defined in the guide plate and abutted to the base block and a mounting groove defined in the guide plate remote from the base block and disposed in communication with the sliding groove, a sliding seat slidably coupled to the holder base, and a biasing member including a body pivotally connected to the sliding seat and a position-limiting block located at the body and movable through the mounting groove into the sliding groove when the sliding seat is coupled to the holder base.
US10292487B2
A dental dispensing tip includes a body having a first body end, a second body end, and a fluid passageway extending between the first and second body ends. A brush cup is provided at the second body end and has a brush barrel defined therein. A brush applicator is secured within the brush barrel and includes a plurality of bristles, wherein a first end of the brush applicator is received within the brush barrel and a second end of the brush applicator extends out of the brush barrel. A delivery cannula is in fluid communication with the fluid passageway and has a bent end entering the plurality of bristles at an intermediate location between the first and second ends to deliver the dental solution to the plurality of bristles.
US10292484B1
An apparatus and a method for non-invasive repositioning of sagging skin, cellulite and fat tissue. The apparatus includes a flexible tape having at least three sections. The first segment includes an adhesive and a removable liner thereon. An opposed second segment includes an adhesive and a removable liner thereon. An intermediate segment is located between the first and second segments which is devoid of adhesive.
US10292483B2
An eyebrow shaping apparatus, including: a camera, for capturing one image of each of two eyebrows of a user at an initial state; an image processor, for horizontally flipping one of the two images, and for searching for differences between the horizontally flipped image and the other image, and for suggesting corrections in at least one of the captured images for obtaining a requested state having two equal mirrored images; CNC (Computer Numerical Control), for producing a program including physical steps for modifying the eyebrows from the initial state to the requested state; and a painting tip, a hair removing tip, and a robotic arm, for executing the program.
US10292482B2
A system for optically acquiring data from hair comprises a hair-holder including: upper and lower plate assemblies respectively having downward-facing and upward-facing opposing surfaces defining a gap therebetween, the lower plate assembly having a window-void therein, the upper plate assembly further comprising a sideward-facing sample-thickness-regulating surface above the gap; and an alignment-wall mechanically coupled to both plate assemblies and having a side-facing alignment surface within gap or sideward-facing into the gap, the alignment surface being straight along a longitudinal direction parallel to both of the opposing surfaces, the hair-holder being configured so that: when an externally-tensioned sample of hair is loaded onto the hair-holder by laterally moving the sample towards the alignment surface, a presence of the sideward-facing sample-thickness-regulating surface regulates an amount of hair permitted to enter the gap, thereby regulating a thickness of hair above the window-void to at least 0.5 mm and at most 2 mm, and after the loading and after release of the external tension, static friction applied by the side-facing alignment surface upon shafts of the hair sample maintain alignment of hair above the window-void.
US10292477B2
A drawing apparatus that enables visual check when placing a nail on a movable section and accurately positions the nail in a drawing area in the apparatus is provided. The drawing apparatus includes: a finger insertion section in which a finger is inserted from an insertion opening; and a movable section that is provided in the insertion section, is biased toward a first position near the insertion opening, and moves the finger from the first position to a second position by pushing, against the bias, the finger inserted in the insertion opening.
US10292474B2
A liquid dispensing comb for untangling hair. The liquid dispensing comb includes a handle attached to a head, wherein the head is hollow and includes a shaft extending from the handle and a plurality of tines extending perpendicularly from the shaft. A plurality of apertures are included along the length of each tine so to allow liquid to pass therethrough. Further, each tine alternates in length so as to allow the comb to access varying depths of a portion of tangled hair. A bladder is disposed within the interior of the handle, wherein the bladder can store and selectively release liquid into the head of the comb. In use, the bladder is actuated or pressed, wherein liquid is forced outward therefrom, into the tines, and out through the apertures, such that the hair is wetted with water or untangling liquid as the user combs through tangled hair.
US10292471B2
A bag expander is preliminarily inserted into a bag when the bag is in a compressed condition, such as for shipping and/or storage. The expander is expanded within the bag when the bag is to be expanded such as for purposes of display for sale. The expander includes side walls which are positionable against the bag interior and coupling members articularly connected together and to the side walls. One or more rubber bands or other spring mechanisms are coupled to the members to urge them apart when the expansion is desired. The members are folded when the bag is compressed and expanded by the rubber band or the like to expand the bag to its expanded displayable condition. Sliding mechanisms are connected either (a) on and within the interior of the members or (b) between the members and the side walls to provide a selected sliding movement (a) amongst the members themselves or (b) between the members and the side walls to enable the expander to be placed in its collapsed or extended position.
US10292466B2
In one aspect of the present disclosure, an umbrella hub assembly comprises an a cylindrical portion and a socket coupled to the cylindrical portion. The socket can have a fixed end, a free end, and a cylindrical wall defining a concave space extending from the free end toward the fixed end. The socket can have an access aperture disposed through the cylindrical wall. The assembly can further include an umbrella rib comprising a first end, a second end, and an elongate body extending along a longitudinal axis. The first end can be configured to be received in the concave space through the free end such that the socket engages the umbrella rib and such that the first end is accessible through the access aperture.
US10292463B1
A formable decorative item that includes an outer sleeve having an outer decorative surface and an inner cavity, an elongated flexible plastic insert that is disposed within the inner cavity of the outer sleeve, and an elongated resilient wire element mounted with the elongated flexible plastic insert and that extends substantially a length of the elongated flexible plastic insert. The elongated resilient wire element is constructed and arranged so that the elongated resilient wire element can be formed in a predetermined configuration and maintained in that predetermined position so as to correspondingly maintain the outer sleeve in the predetermined position.
US10292458B2
A buckle includes a female part having a housing and an engaging portion provided at an inner surface of the housing, and a male part including a base and an inserted portion to be inserted into the housing of the female part. The inserted portion includes a base end coupled to the base, a free end opposite to the base end, and an engaged portion to be engaged with the engaging portion. When a force is applied to the male part for pulling the male part out of the housing, the engaged portion has a contact surface that is in contact with the engaging portion. Relative to a first center point at the center of the base end in the thickness direction of the inserted portion, a second center point at the center of the contact surface in the thickness direction is positioned downward.
US10292456B2
An article of footwear with adjustable stiffness is provided. The article of footwear in the form of a snowboard boot is provided with adjustable tensioning systems that are disposed on either side of an inner liner of the snowboard boot. The adjustable tensioning system includes a comb body structure having flex portions made of a plurality of extending fingers with a flexibility that can be controlled by the adjustable tensioning system. Depending on the level of tension applied by the tensioning system, or lack thereof, a range of flex profiles having varying amounts of stiffness are available to the wearer to adjust the overall stiffness of the snowboard boot.
US10292446B2
Whiplash reduction systems and devices and methods to use the same. In an embodiment of a system of the present disclosure, the system comprises a front anchor strap coupled directly or indirectly to a headgear; a top anchor coupled to the front anchor strap, the top anchor having a connector coupled thereto, the connector configured to connect to at least one rear strap; a first retainer configured to fit within apertures defined within the headgear and to wrap around at least part of the headgear and at least part of the front anchor strap to secure the front anchor strap to the headgear at or near the apertures; and a plate having a central portion defining a recessed portion and further having a first side portion and a second side portion.
US10292441B2
A configurable garment capable of being worn in a plurality of positions on a user, one of the plurality of positions including a combination of a scarf and a headband, wherein the configurable garment is formed from a unitary body section of material that includes at least two closed loop sections coupled together by a connection, the connection including at least one seam, is provided. An associated method is also provided.
US10292436B2
The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for electronic smoking. The embodiments disclosed herein can be utilized to ignite combustible substances in all conditions and do not require supplementary igniters or tools. The embodiments disclosed herein provide an all-in-one smoking experience. Further, in some embodiments described herein comprise a cartridge system for easy insertion, removal, and/or replacement of loose-leaf products in a pod or cartridge for smoking. Some embodiments herein relate to all-in-one, integrated smoking systems or devices comprising compartments for holding and lighting combustible substances, a combustion device such as a lighter or high voltage electric combustion system, insulating components, and one or more electric batteries or other power devices.
US10292434B2
The present disclosure relates to an aerosol delivery device. The aerosol delivery device may include a control body and a cartridge. The cartridge may include a base, a flow director, an outer body, a reservoir substrate, an outer body, and a mouthpiece. Heating elements may be molded into the flow director. The flow director may be welded to the base and the outer body, or the base and the flow director may include deformable ribs that engage the outer body. The flow director and the outer body may cooperatively define a reservoir compartment in which the reservoir substrate and the atomizer are received. The flow director and the base may define an electronics compartment in which an electronic control component is received. A related assembly method is also provided.
US10292433B2
One atomizer for an artificial cigarette includes an atomizing assembly and an adjustment assembly thereon. The atomizing assembly includes an accommodation cavity and the adjustment assembly includes a substrate and an adjustment member rotatably disposed on the substrate. A liquid inlet port is defined in the substrate, the port communicating with the accommodation cavity. The adjustment member adjusts a size of the liquid inlet port exposed during rotation of the adjustment member. A second atomizer includes an atomizing assembly and an air inlet port, the atomizing assembly includes an atomizing cavity and an air passage. The air passage has one end communicating with a top of the atomizing cavity and another end communicating with the air inlet port. An aerosol generating device including either one of the above atomizers is also provided.
US10292432B2
An electronic cigarette has a shell assembly, a power generation assembly mounted inside or outside the shell assembly, and a storage battery mounted inside the shell assembly. The power generation assembly has a microgenerator electrically connected with the storage battery and a power generation blade mounted on the microgenerator. External air drives the power generation blade to rotate. The rotation of the power generation blade drives the microgenerator to generate electricity, which is in turn stored in the storage battery. The electronic cigarette according to the present disclosure, by driving the rotation of the power generation blade with airflow, and drives the microgenerator to generate electricity so as to charge the storage battery and thus realize the object of recharging the battery and slowing down the power consumption of the battery.
US10292431B2
Pellet substrates configured for use with a vapor delivery device to vaporize and deliver an aerosol to a user include porous, substantially inert activated carbon and activated alumina pellets that have generally spherical, semi-spherical and/or rounded shapes. The pellet substrates are formed by mixing the pellets together with a liquid solution of an aerosol former admixed with flavoring and/or nicotine, tobacco powder, or tobacco extract such that the liquid solution is absorbed into and/or adsorbed onto the porous structure of the pellets with or without the addition of heat. The pellets may be coated with an inert dry powder, such as calcium carbonate, to better adhere the liquid solution to the porous surfaces of the pellets. Alternatively, or in addition, the pellets may be coated with a liquid solution of a cellulose gum, such as sodium carboxymethylcellulose, and distilled water to reduce fracturing, cracking, chipping and dusting of the pellet substrates.
US10292426B2
A cartridge for an e-vaping device includes a reservoir configured to hold pre-vapor formulation, a vaporizer assembly configured to draw at least some of the pre-vapor formulation from the reservoir and vaporize the drawn pre-vapor formulation to form a vapor, and a superabsorbent polymer configured to absorb free water from pre-vapor formulation held in the reservoir. The superabsorbent polymer includes a cross-linked polyacrylate copolymer that is substantially inert to the pre-vapor formulation. The superabsorbent polymer may be included in a layer on one or more surfaces in the cartridge. The layer may include the superabsorbent polymer and a binder. The superabsorbent polymer may be included with the pre-vapor formulation in a formulation mixture. The superabsorbent polymer may be included in an interior of at least one element comprising the cartridge. The superabsorbent polymer may be included in a separate compartment in the reservoir.
US10292422B2
According to some embodiments, systems and methods for altering the draw of a cigar are provided. The systems may include an elongate shaft with a working portion at the distal end. The working portion may have any of number of blades, corners, recesses, grooves, textures, and sharp points, among others. The methods may include assessing the draw of a cigar, inserting the working portion into the cigar, using the working portion to catch, cut, and pull and then remove tobacco from within the cigar, testing the draw of the cigar, and repeating the above steps until the draw is ideal.
US10292414B1
A fruit decapping apparatus and method, particularly suited for strawberries. The fruits items (100) are placed by a robotic arm (200) in a lateral aperture (310) of a plate (300), leaving the calyx (120) and the main body (130) below the plate (300). When the robotic arm (200) pulls from the peduncle (110), the plate (300) also pulls from an elastic connection (500). This movement is detected by a sensor (600) which activates a pair of blades (800) solidarily disposed under the lateral aperture (310) of the plate (300).
US10292408B2
A cooking apparatus includes a cooking vessel, a support structure, an assortment of ferrous members and a source of electro-magnetic radiation. The ferrous members are mounted on the support structure along with food. The source of electro-magnetic radiation heats the ferrous members and enables a previously unobtainable level of precision and control in the preparation of food.
US10292403B2
Multiple Stacked Rotatable Lollipop comprising at least two stacked individual components each with a plurality of flavors, colors and shapes, each provided with tubular holding sticks, except the uppermost component which has a solid holding stick, while the upper open ends of the tubular holding sticks of the lower and intermediate components are accessible at the top of their candies or edible parts, and each tubular stick is conveniently dimensioned to loosely insert the holding stick of the individual component stacked above, each longer than the immediate holding stick below, so the lower end of each holding stick protrudes out in a telescopic fashion, thereby when the user holds the stick of one of the stacked components with one of his/her hands, can rotate for his/her amusement any of the other components with the other hand or with his/her tongue directly driving its corresponding edible part.
US10292394B2
The present invention relates to herbicidal heteroarylmethoxy/heterocyclylmethoxy substituted phenyl diones and heteroarylmethoxy/heterocyclylmethoxysubstituted phenyl-dioxo-thiazinone derivatives of formula (I), as well as to processes and intermediates used for the preparation of such derivatives. The invention further extends to herbicidal compositions comprising such derivatives, as well as to the use of such compounds and compositions in controlling undesirable plant growth: in particular the use in controlling weeds, such as broad-leaved dicotyledonous weeds, in crops of useful plants.
US10292384B2
The method comprises contacting a silicon substrate with a silver salt and an acid for a time effective to produce spikes having a first end disposed on the silicon substrate and a second end extending away from the silicon substrate. The spikes have a second end diameter of about 10 nm to about 200 nm, a height of about 100 nm to 10 micrometers, and a density of about 10 to 100 per square microns. The nanostructures provide antimicrobial properties and can be transferred to the surface of various materials such as polymers.
US10292379B2
A flying insect station for attracting and killing insects on the exterior and interior of a structure is disclosed. The flying insect station includes features for attracting and killing files within a shortened window of time, preferably within one hour. The station includes in one aspect a surface being substantially dark in color and substantially reflective in nature to provide a facade of an opening. Suppression means such as a pesticide is included on one or more of the surfaces of the station for killing flying insects staging on the surface(s). An attractant may be used to provide a plume of attractant around surfaces of the housing to attract and lure flying insects to stage about a reflective surface. Increased catch rates for insect suppression devices are realized when used in combination with embodiments of the station.
US10292362B2
An animal feeding device comprising a body having a first opening in a first end thereof and a second opening in a second end thereof, the body being in the form of a channel having a substantially C-, U- or V-shape in cross section and comprising a passageway extending between the first opening and the second opening, the body further comprising one or more bends therein such that the first opening and the second opening are provided in different orientations to one another, and wherein the body is adapted to substantially preclude the accumulation of animal feed on an inner surface of the passageway during use, and wherein in use an open portion of the channel is located so as to abut an inner surface of a receptacle in which animal feed is housed.
US10292352B2
This application provides high yielding tobacco plants with Oriental tobacco aroma and flavor characteristics and development of these plants via breeding. This application also provides hybrid seeds that give rise to high yielding tobacco plants with Oriental tobacco aroma and flavor characteristics. This application provides methods of growing and harvesting high yielding tobacco plants with Oriental tobacco aroma and flavor characteristics. This application further provides tobacco products made from high yielding tobacco plants with Oriental tobacco aroma and flavor characteristics, and methods making such tobacco products.
US10292345B2
A plant watering system includes a reservoir, a plant growth container located adjacent the reservoir, the reservoir having a water level in use below the container, one or more channels communicating between the reservoir and container, and a closing member for each channel movable between a lower open position and an upper closed position, wherein in the open position water in the reservoir may pass into the container to moisten a plant growth medium contained in the container and wherein, in the closed position the passage of water is prevented.
US10292340B2
The present invention discloses a system for illuminating plants in an indoor site, comprising a plurality of illumination units for emitting light in intermittent pulses; a central unit connected to the plurality of illumination units for synchronizing the operation of the plurality of illumination units, such that two or more plants clusters receive light in intermittent pulses emitted in the same time. The illumination units may contain wireless communication units and are synchronized wirelessly. The present invention also discloses adjusting an illumination plan of plants according to information of various types from a central server and adjusting the height of the illumination units accordingly. The system adjusts illumination plans according to information received from one or more sites, and predicts problematic situations from a series of images.
US10292339B2
The present invention relates to a terrarium of the closed type which includes a base for holding a plant (typically tropical plant varieties such as moss) and any excess moisture, and a removable lid which together with the base forms an enclosure around the plant and creates a humid and sheltered environment. The terrarium may include a removable lid which has an internal upper surface that is shaped to direct condensate forming on the upper surface of the lid to a particular area of the plant. The terrarium may include a base and lid having overlapping portions wherein the overlapping portions include edge deviations or apertures that may be brought into co-alignment to provide for no, partial or full aeration.
US10292338B2
A light wall for cultivating at least one plant indoors may be provided. The light wall may include a first side, a second side, a top side, a bottom side, a front side, and a back side. The light wall may further include a first lighting structure unit disposed within sides of the light wall, and may include a first set of mechanical devices configured to enable movement of the light wall. The first lighting structure may be configured to provide light to the at least one plant through at least the first side. The first set of mechanical devices may be configured to enable movement at least along an axis substantially perpendicular to the first side.
US10292335B2
A signal processing method of a baler system includes the steps of receiving a signal, determining a steady state level and relating the steady state level to a characteristic of a forming bale. A signal is received from at least one sensor associated with a bale chamber of the baler system and a steady state level is determined from the signal. The steady state level of the signal is related to a characteristic of the forming bale in the bale chamber.
US10292333B2
A header for a combine harvester has a primary implement and a secondary implement with a roller unit. The roller unit has a frame element, an outer roller set with a rotatably supported roller and a central roller set with a rotatably supported roller. The central roller set is guided on the frame element to be lowerable relatively to the external roller set.
US10292329B2
A sugarcane harvester comprises a frame, a knockdown roller, and a telescopic roller support mounted to the frame and to which the knockdown roller is mounted. The roller support is configured to telescope to cause linear movement of the knockdown roller relative to the frame.
US10292327B2
In a grain unloading system for a combine harvester a grain bin includes a frame, the frame has a floor with a trough. An unloading auger is disposed at least partially within the trough. An auger cover at least partially covers the auger. The auger cover has a hat for a top portion of the auger cover and a pair of gates movable between the hat and locations on the floor that are proximal to the trough. A gate adjustment structure is coupled to the pair of gates to move the pair of gates relative to the auger. A control system is coupled to the gate adjustment structure and configured to control the gate adjustment structure.
US10292324B2
A meter roller for an agricultural metering system includes multiple flutes and recesses. The flutes and recesses are arranged on one or more segments in one or more respective alternating patterns along a circumferential axis of the meter roller, and the flutes and recesses are configured to meter flowable particulate material from a storage tank to a material distribution system via rotation of the meter roller. In addition, each segment includes at least 12 flutes, each segment includes at least 12 recesses, and an aggregate volume of the recesses is between about 80,000 mm3 and about 84,000 mm3.
US10299415B1
A water barrier structure for display unit is arranged on one lateral side of a casing of a display unit. In the casing there are received an illuminating module and a display module of the display unit, the lateral side is provided with at least one air inlet and at least one air outlet. The water barrier structure includes at least one intake fan mounted in the at least one air inlet; at least one exhaust fan mounted in the at least one air outlet; and a plurality of water-stop caps used to cover the at least one air inlet and the at least one air outlet. With the specially structured intake fan, exhaust fan and water-stop caps, the water barrier structure can provide good water barrier effect while allows heat in the casing produced by the display unit to be effectively removed from the casing through air convection.
US10299412B1
A system for cooling computing devices within a facility includes an air inlet that delivers cool air to a supply air space within the facility, an exhaust air damper that is configured to exhaust heated air from an exhaust air space within the facility, and computing devices that are arranged within the facility to at least partially partition the supply air space from the exhaust air space. The system also includes an air filter that is configured to filter the cool air and a mixing damper that is positioned within the interior space of the facility and that is operable to control an amount of exhaust air that is mixed with the cool air. The cool air and/or a portion of the exhaust air are used to cool the computing devices and airflow through the system is substantially driven by fans of the computing devices.
US10299408B1
A datacenter or other building includes an intake housing for receiving air from outside of the building. The air is routed through an evaporative cooling system in the housing, resulting in humidified air. The humidified air is mixed with a suitable amount of return air from within the building so as to yield a supply of air having a target relative humidity.
US10299397B1
A locking mechanism for securing a component card to a main board is provided and includes a base having a top portion with a beveled edge and a coupling portion engageable with the main board. The locking mechanism includes a sliding element slidably, coupled to the base, having an extended protrusion. The sliding element is slidable between a locked and an unlocked position, where the protrusion is displaced towards the base in the unlocked position. The locking mechanism includes a biasing element between the base and the sliding element within a protuberance opposite the protrusion. The biasing element urges the sliding element toward the locked position. The protuberance includes an aperture formed at an end opposite the protrusion and allows a portion of the biasing element to pass through. In the locked position, a bottom surface of the protrusion and a top surface of the base define a receiving space.
US10299395B2
An electrical device includes a housing with a flange. The flange has a top side, an opposite bottom side, and an outer side extending between the top and bottom sides. The flange defines a bolt aperture extending from the bottom side towards the top side. The flange includes a nut retention slot within the flange. The nut retention slot has a size and shape configured to receive a nut therein through an opening along the outer side of the flange. The bolt aperture is positioned relative to the nut retention slot to align with a threaded central bore of the nut disposed within the nut retention slot to allow insertion of a bolt through the bolt aperture into the threaded central bore of the nut.
US10299393B2
The present disclosure provides three-dimensional structures and related methods. The three-dimensional structures may define patterns of positive and negative spaces on opposing surfaces that combine to form the three-dimensional structures. The negative spaces of the patterns may intersect to form apertures through the three-dimensional structures, which may define linear or non-linear paths therethrough. The apertures may be configured to provide desirable characteristics with respect to light, sound, and fluid travel therethrough. Further, the three-dimensional structures may be configured to define desired stiffness, weight, and/or flexibility. The three-dimensional structures may be employed in embodiments including heat sinks, housings, speaker or vent covers, springs, etc.
US10299391B2
A rollable display device is provided. The rollable display device may include a flexible display panel, a body including a main roller, around which the flexible display panel is wound, and a link drive unit for moving the flexible display panel, and two link assemblies for connecting the link drive unit and the flexible display panel to each other. Each of the link assemblies may include an upper link frame, a lower link frame, a center link connector, and an elastic plate. The upper link frame and the lower link frame may be coupled to the center link connector independently of each other. The elastic plate may allow the lower link frame to operate later than the upper link frame.
US10299388B2
A solder alloy suitable for high temperature environments, such as for example electronic systems used in an oil or gas well where the temperature may be in the region of 175° C., the solder alloy having a Silver weight % in the range of 3.5 to 7.0, a Copper weight % in the range of 1.0 to 4.0, and an Antimony weight % in the range of 1.0 to 3.0. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10299387B2
A substrate on which an electronic component is soldered, includes an electronic component, a through hole positioned on the substrate and passing through the substrate, a solder that joins the through hole and a terminal of the electronic component inserted in the through hole, a pattern formed on a first surface of the substrate, the first surface facing a second surface on which the electronic component is placed, a first resist superimposed on the pattern, an exposed portion of which the pattern is exposed from the first resist around the through hole, and a second resist superimposed on the pattern and arranged between the through hole and the exposed portion.
US10299386B2
A placement machine for equipping a substrate with unhoused chips is described. The placement machine has a chassis on which is mounted a feed device, providing a wafer which has a multiplicity of chips. A lifting device is mounted on the chassis, and a substrate-receiving device for receiving the substrate is mounted on the lifting device is movable relative to the chassis by the lifting device. The substrate-receiving device has a one-piece support element, which constitutes at least an upper part of the substrate-receiving device, wherein the substrate to be equipped can be laid on the one-piece support element; and a transport device for transporting the substrate on an upper side of the one-piece support element along a transport direction. The transport device is spatially integrated in the one-piece support element on the upper side of the one-piece support element.
US10299380B1
An electronic device includes a first and second printed boards, a bottom plate fixed to first printed board, first and second rotating arms, and an electronic member. The first rotating arm has first and second ends and the second rotating arm includes third and fourth ends. The first and third ends are rotatably fixed to the bottom plate. The fourth end defines a sliding groove into which the second end is slidably fixed. When the second end rotates around the first end toward the bottom plate, the second end slides along the sliding groove and the third end rotates toward the bottom plate. An elastic member is between the first rotating arm and the bottom plate and when the first rotating arm rotates, the elastic member abuts against the bottom plate to drive the first printed board to move toward the second printed board.
US10299363B2
In some aspects, nozzles for a plasma arc torch can include a first body having a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis; and a second body disposed about a portion of the first body to complement the first body, the second body defining a set of channels formed on an internal surface shaped to form a set of liquid flow passages between the first body and the second body, the second body at least partially defining at least one inlet and at least one outlet to the set of liquid flow passages.
US10299360B2
A smart lamp comprising: a lamp; and a processor configured to operate said lamp, said processor having at least active and standby modes of operation, in said active mode, said processor uses a first communication protocol having a first power consumption, and, in said standby mode, said processor uses a second communication protocol having a second power consumption, wherein said first power consumption is significantly higher than said second power consumption.
US10299345B2
An illuminated badge system is provided for a motor vehicle. The illuminated badge system includes an illuminated badge and a controller. The controller is configured to adjust a parameter of the light emitted from the illuminated badge in response to a designated operating parameter such as the headlight status of the motor vehicle.
US10299344B2
The invention comprises an infrared source and method of use thereof comprising the steps of: (1) providing a solid state source comprising: an electrically conductive zinc oxide film having a thickness of less than five micrometers and a film of metal oxide particles, the metal oxide particles comprising a mean diameter of less than ten micrometers; (2) passing an alternating, pulsed current through the zinc oxide film, the pulsed current heating the zinc oxide film to greater than 700° C. in less than twenty milliseconds using less than one Watt, which results in a first infrared emission from the zinc oxide film; and (3) heating the film of metal oxide particles, using thermal conduction from the zinc oxide film, to at least 700° C., resultant in a second infrared emission from the film of oxide particles, where the first and second infrared emissions exit the source through an emission side.
US10299343B2
An exterior aircraft light unit includes a power input coupleable to an aircraft on-board power supply; at least one LED coupled to the power input for receiving power from the aircraft on-board power supply and configured to emit a light output; an optical sensor arranged for sensing an intensity detection portion of the light output and configured to output a detection signal indicative of an intensity level of the light output; an end of life detector, coupled to the optical sensor for receiving the detection signal and configured to determine an end of life condition; and a fuse circuit coupled to the end of life detector; wherein the fuse circuit is configured to irreversibly disable an LED circuit board upon the end of life detector communicating the end of life condition to the fuse circuit.
US10299336B2
A luminaire can include a housing having at least one outer surface that forms a cavity. The luminaire can also include at least one electrical component disposed, at least in part, within the cavity. The luminaire can further include an electrical cable having a first end and a second end, where the first end is coupled to the at least one electrical component. The luminaire can also include a switch coupled to the electrical cable, where the switch is disposed remotely from the housing, where the switch has multiple positions, wherein each position of the switch corresponds to a discrete correlated color temperature (CCT) output by one or more light sources of the luminaire.
US10299335B2
A system can configure a luminaire for providing illumination of a selected color temperature, a selected lumen output, or a selected photometric distribution. The luminaire can comprise at least two light sources that have different illumination characteristics, for example different color temperatures, different lumen outputs, or different photometric distributions. The system can configure the luminaire to operate a first of the two light sources, a second of the two light sources, or both of the light sources based on an input. When the luminaire is configured to operate both of the light sources, the luminaire can produce illumination having a color temperature, a lumen output, or a photometric distribution that is different than either of the two light sources.
US10299333B2
An LED tube lamp is disclosed. An installation detection circuit is configured in the LED tube lamp configured to receive an external driving signal. The installation detection circuit is configured to detect during one or more pulse signals whether the LED tube lamp is properly installed on a lamp socket, based on detecting a signal generated from the external driving signal. The installation detection circuit includes a switch circuit coupled to the pulse generating circuit, wherein the one or more pulse signals control turning on and off of the switch circuit. The installation detection circuit is further configured to: when it is detected during one or more pulse signals that the LED tube lamp is not properly installed on the lamp socket, control the switch circuit to remain in an off state to cause a power loop of the LED tube lamp to be open; and when it is detected during one or more pulse signals that the LED tube lamp is properly installed on the lamp socket, control the switch circuit to remain in a conducting state to cause the power loop of the LED tube lamp to maintain a conducting state.
US10299331B2
A LED retrofit driver circuit (3) is provided, comprising at least an input (6) for receiving an operating voltage from a power supply (2), an output (8) for connection to one or more LED units (5), a power converter (7) connected with said input (6) and said output (8) and configured to provide a lamp current (50) at said output (8) during operation in at least a first and a second operating state. To provide a versatile circuit (3), allowing operation with a variety of power supplies and under various load conditions, in said first operating state, the power converter (7) is adapted to switch between a high current generating mode (40), in which the power converter (7) is configured to draw current pulses from said power supply (2) to provide a first average input current (33a), and an OFF mode (42) in which no current is drawn from said power supply (2). In said second operating state, said power converter (7) is adapted at least to operate in a low current generating mode (41), in which the power converter (7) is configured to draw a current from said power supply (2) to provide a second average input current (33b) which is lower than said first average input current (33a).
US10299327B2
An LED device is disclosed. The LED device comprises a first LED light string, a second LED light string, a rectifying module, and a control unit. The control unit generates a driving current flowing through the first LED light string and the second LED light string. The control unit cuts off the driving current when the input signal is between a threshold voltage and a sum voltage.
US10299326B2
A universal serial bus (USB)-powered utility tool includes a housing defining an interior space, at least one dimmable light source positioned on one side of the housing and a USB connector extending outwardly from the housing. The USB connector may be positioned on another side of the housing. The USB connector may be positioned orthogonal to the at least one dimmable light source. The USB-powered utility tool may further include a printed circuit board (PCB) positioned orthogonal to the USB connector. The USB-powered utility tool may further include a processor logic configured to control a current being supplied to the at least one dimmable light source. The at least one dimmable light source may be controlled manually or via wireless communication.
US10299323B2
Various embodiments provide a light emitting diode (LED) flasher bulb that provides a flashing function for LED string lights. The LED flasher bulb is inserted into any one of a plurality of connectors of the LED string lights, and is compatible with an alternating current power source. The LED flasher bulb alternates the LED string lights between an on state in which LEDs of the LED string lights are lit up, and an off state in which the LEDs are not lit up. The LED flasher bulb is able to continuously alternate the LED string lights between the on state and the off state according to a determined pattern independent of the AC signal generated by the AC power source being positive or negative.
US10299320B2
The present invention discloses a light-emitting module using a special circuit design to solve the abnormal breakage of the battery lifetime and comprising a power supply module storing an electrical power; a first sub-circuit and a second sub-circuit, the first sub-circuit comprising a first light-emitting diode module, the second sub-circuit comprising a second light-emitting diode module and a passive component, wherein the passive component is connected with the second light-emitting diode module in series, the lighting color of the first light-emitting module is different from the lighting color of the second light-emitting diode module; and a control module coupled to the power supply module, the first sub-circuit, and the second sub-circuit, for supplying the electrical power with the first sub-circuit and the second sub-circuit and driving the first light-emitting diode module and the second light-emitting diode module to emit light.
US10299319B2
Embodiments of the zero-resonance microwave oven are described herein that include a cooking cavity, an opening that allows access to the cavity, one or more microwave-transparent walls surrounding the cavity, a microwave-opaque housing also surrounding the cavity, and a reservoir disposed between the microwave-transparent walls and the microwave-opaque housing. The reservoir is filled with a dielectric material, and has a depth greater than or equal to half the penetration depth of microwaves in the dielectric material and less than or equal to twice the penetration depth of microwaves in the dielectric material. Other embodiments of the zero-resonance microwave oven are also described herein.
US10299318B2
A cartridge holds a perishable dielectric load, e.g. blood plasma, during heating n a heating chamber by means of an electromagnetic field from an emitting element. A conducting container of the cartridge is arranged between the emitting element and the perishable dielectric load. The conducting container holds dielectric matter and is arranged in contact with a load container for the perishable dielectric load, so that energy from the electromagnetic field is bridged into the perishable dielectric load. A first surface of the cartridge faces the emitting element and contains a recess for receiving any fluid having leaked out from the conducting container and/or the load container. A transmitter module for generating the electromagnetic energy repeatedly measures an impedance of the perishable dielectric load and the conducting container. If, due to any fluid being located in the recess, the impedance deviates substantially from a previous measurement, an alarm signal is generated.
US10299313B2
A cable modem is provided that comprises: a base station interface; a cable network interface that connects the cable modem to a cable modem termination system and one or more other cable modems, the cable network interface communicating using orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA); a memory storage comprising instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the cable network interface, the base station interface, and the memory storage. The one or more processors execute the instructions to: receive, via the base station interface, coordination data addressed to a first cable modem of the one or more other cable modems; receive, from the cable modem termination system via the cable network interface, an allocation of a resource block in an OFDMA symbol; and transmit, to the first cable modem via the cable network interface, in the allocated resource block in the OFDMA symbol, the coordination data.
US10299300B1
A system and method for tethering wireless audio devices. The method includes establishing a first wireless connection between an intermediary device and a primary audio device. A random resolvable address is received by the intermediary device from a secondary audio device. The random resolvable address is transmitted to the primary audio device via the first wireless connection. An instruction is transmitted to the primary audio device to analyze broadcasted data from nearby audio devices for a matching audio device having broadcasted data corresponding to the random resolvable address, and to initiate a second wireless connection with the matching audio device. Audio data is transmitted to the primary audio device via the first wireless connection for streaming the audio data from the primary audio device to the secondary audio device, identified to the primary audio device as the matching audio device, via the second wireless connection.
US10299299B2
A control node (e.g., MME, BSC, RNC), a database (e.g., distributed database) and associated methods are described herein for attaching a UE which is embedded within a device (e.g., vehicle) to a telecommunication network and selecting a gateway (e.g., P-GW, S-GW, SGSN, GGSN) for a connection (e.g., PDN connection) so that the UE can connect to an external network like the Internet.
US10299285B2
Method performed by a first network node (111) for handling scheduling of wireless devices. The first network node (111) obtains information about a first type of time resource used by HD-FDD wireless devices (151). The first network node (111) also obtains information about a second type of time resource not used by the HD-FDD wireless devices (151) due to a transition at the HD-FDD wireless devices (151) between UL and DL. The first network node (111) schedules a first wireless device out of FD-FDD wireless devices (152) during the second type of time resource, based on the obtained information about the second type. The first network node (111) decides whether or not to schedule a second wireless device out of the FD-FDD wireless devices (152) during the first type of time resource, based on the obtained information about the first type, and further based on whether first conditions are met.
US10299282B2
An AP, a wireless device as well as a method performed by the AP and a method performed by the wireless device for communication between the AP and the wireless device are provided. The AP and wireless device are operable in a WLAN employing contention based access for radio resources. The method performed by the AP comprises obtaining (110) information about transmission pattern(s) of interfering radio system(s), and determining (130) a deviation of packet length for transmission(s) of the interfering radio systems(s). The method further comprises indicating (140), to the wireless device the deviation of packet length and the information about transmission pattern(s) of interfering radio system(s) when the deviation is less than a deviation threshold.
US10299281B2
In a radio network having a plurality of first users on channel (FUOCs) and one or more second users on channel (SUOCs), a method and apparatus for a SUOC to select a channel to co-occupy based upon a “selfish” goal of achieving a desired SUOC rate and an “altruistic” goal of causing low-impact on the FUOC. A SUOC collects signal parameters for a plurality of FUOCs, orders the FUOCs based upon different criteria, and attempts to co-exist with FUOCs until a suitable FUOC channel is found.
US10299280B2
System and method embodiments are provided for interference alignment in a wireless local area network (LAN) with an overlapping basic service set (OBSS). In an embodiment, a method includes instructing a first access point (AP) in the wireless LAN to broadcast a null data packet (NDP) sounding packet to a plurality of stations when no other AP is broadcasting, wherein the NDP sounding packet comprises a plurality of long training field (LTFs), and wherein a total number of LTFs is equal to a total number of transmission streams, receiving channel beamforming (BF) information and a signal plus interference to noise ratio (SINR) from each of the stations, wherein each of the stations computes the channel BF information and the SINR from sounding packets received from each of the APs in the wireless LAN, and determining a transmission schedule according to the SINRs and the channel BF information.
US10299279B2
The invention pertains to a communication system for use in a railway vehicle, comprising: a first communication network (10) and a second communication network (20), the communication networks (10, 20) using physically separate communication media; and a plurality of communication terminals (100, 200), each connected to both communication networks (10, 20). The communication system is adapted to prioritize communications from the communication terminals (100, 200) over the communication networks (10, 20) according to at least two levels of service. A first communication terminal (100) comprises a first functional module (110) and a second functional module (120), the functional module (110, 120) being functionally equivalent, the first functional module (110) being adapted to interface with the first communication network (10) and the second functional module (120) being adapted to interface with the second communication network (20). The functional modules (110, 120) are configured to be simultaneously operational.
US10299277B2
A base station including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: wirelessly communicate with one or more terminals via a plurality of component carriers of carrier aggregation, and allocate each of the plurality of component carriers to each of the one or more terminals based on both of each number of terminals allocated to each component carrier and each wireless quality of each component carrier for each terminal.
US10299272B2
A method may include determining, by a base station, a switching occasion during which at least one connected user equipment will be in a connected off cycle and at least one idle user equipment will be in an idle off cycle, instructing the at least one connected user equipment and at least one idle user equipment to switch, during the switching occasion, from communicating with the base station via a source carrier frequency to communicating with the base station via a target carrier frequency, and switching, during the switching occasion, from communicating with the at least one connected user equipment and the at least one idle user equipment via the source carrier frequency to communicating with the at least one connected user equipment and the at least one idle user equipment via the target carrier frequency.
US10299271B2
In a communications device a wireless access interface provides a primary carrier within a first frequency range, forming a primary cell providing a contiguous set of communications resources across the first frequency range. A controller is configured to generate data representing an estimation of a location of a communications device, to detect signals received within one or more predefined candidate channels within a second frequency range different and mutually exclusive from the first frequency range at the estimated location, each of the candidate channels in the second frequency range representing a minimum unit of communications resource. The controller generates, for each of the one or more candidate channels, channel measurement information from the signals detected within the candidate carrier at the estimated location, and transmits the channel measurement information with an indication of the estimated location of the communications device for each of the candidate channels to the infrastructure equipment.
US10299268B2
A method and an apparatus for supporting multiple frequency bands efficiently in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes generating first system information including a frequency band indicator indicating a frequency band supported by the base station and an additional frequency band indicator indicating at least one frequency band supported by the base station, and broadcasting the first system information.
US10299264B2
Where first and second reference signals for a first and second communication system, respectively, are transmitted, resources that affect a reception apparatus compatible only with the first communication system can be minimized, and the throughput can be prevented from being deteriorated. As resources for a reference signal CSI-RS for LTE-A, last half symbols in a time direction of a resource unit RB/Sub-frame defined in a frequency-time domain are used, and the CSI-RS is allocated in a position up to the last two symbols or in the last symbol, or the like, of a particular RB/Sub-frame and transmitted when a reference signal 4RS for LTE is transmitted to a reception apparatus in addition to transmitting CSI-RS for LTE-A. The reception apparatus receives CSI-RS allocated in the last half symbol of RB/Sub-frame based on CSI-RS allocation information, measures channel quality by using this CSI-RS, and transmits and reports feedback information.
US10299259B2
A method of operating a base station in a wireless telecommunications system. Downlink communications from the base station to terminal devices are made using a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers spanning a system frequency bandwidth. The base station supports communications with a first type of terminal device on a host carrier using OFDM sub-carriers distributed across the system frequency bandwidth and supports communications with a second type of terminal device on a restricted bandwidth carrier using OFDM sub-carriers distributed across a restricted frequency bandwidth which is smaller than and within the system frequency bandwidth. Respective base stations can exchange information regarding their restricted bandwidth carrier transmissions to help them coordinate their respective transmissions with a view to reducing intercell interference.
US10299256B2
A method and device for detecting a Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, are provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for detecting a PDCCH at a UE includes: receiving (100) a configuration of an Enhanced-PDCCH, E-PDCCH; receiving (101) a subframe; determining (102) whether the received subframe is a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service Single Frequency Network, MBSFN, subframe; and according to a determination result, detecting (103) the PDCCH, where if the received subframe is an MBSFN subframe, a common PDCCH in the MBSFN subframe is detected, and if the received subframe is a non-MBSFN subframe, an E-PDCCH in the non-MBSFN subframe is detected.
US10299254B2
The present disclosure proposes a general method for accessing a network when a wireless device, e.g., a user equipment, knows about a wireless network because it can e.g. measure on a cell and read its system information, but is unable to access it. The disclosure relates to transmitting uplink control messages relating to data received in a wireless device and in particular it relates a method, performed in a wireless device supporting a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology, of transmitting uplink control messages relating to data received in the wireless device. The method comprises receiving a configuration message defining in the first radio access technology, a Physical Fast Control Channel for transmission of uplink control messages relating to data received in the wireless device using the second radio access technology and transmitting uplink control messages relating to data received using the second radio access technology on the Physical Fast Control Channel. The proposed technology also relates to methods of handling and receiving uplink control messages in radio network modules, and to a wireless device and radio networks modules for implementing the methods as well as to corresponding computer programs.
US10299244B2
Techniques are provided for transmission of small data packets through a paging procedure in a MTC or cellular internet of things system (CIoT). A core network may receive data to be transmitted to a user equipment (UE) and may determine that a small data packet transmission may be initiated for the data. The core network may format the small data packet into a paging request that includes the data and a UE identification, and transmit the paging request to a base station. The base station may receive the paging request, and initiate a page process with the UE. The UE may receive a page message, and initiate an access procedure that may be used for transmission of the small data. The UE may be in idle mode prior to the small data transmission, and in some examples may return to idle mode following the transmission of the small data.
US10299239B2
A capability exposure implementation method and system, and a related device are provided. A method embodiment of the present disclosure includes: obtaining capability information of a radio access network device, configuring an API, and setting a use time limit of the API, where the API is used to provide the capability information for a second mobile edge platform; triggering a registration function to send registration information to the second mobile edge platform, where the registration information includes an identifier of the API; receiving an API request sent by the second mobile edge platform, where the API request includes the identifier of the API; detecting whether the use time limit of the API expires; and if the use time limit of the API does not expire, sending an API response to the second mobile edge platform by using the API, where the API response includes the capability information.
US10299238B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages utilization of mobile subscriber identity information including enabling reuse of such information by a different communication device and/or re-authorizing use by a communication device that previously was authorized to utilize the information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10299237B2
An electronic device for wireless communications, and a wireless communication method. The electronic device includes: one or more processors, each processor configured to: respectively conduct space-domain filtering on received signals of a plurality of antennas, respectively; estimate frequency shift of corresponding received signals based on the signals, on which space-domain filtering is conducted, of various antennas; estimate, according to the estimated frequency shift and a parameter of the space-domain filtering, a Doppler frequency shift generated by the relative motion between transceiving ends of the received signals and a carrier frequency offset generated by frequency inconsistency of the transceiving ends; and conduct frequency preprocessing on sent signals of the antennas according to the estimated Doppler frequency shift, and/or control to feed back information related to the estimated Doppler frequency shift to a signal sending end.
US10299231B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for synchronization between electronic devices and, more particularly, to a synchronization method and apparatus for wireless communication between electronic devices. As a synchronization method for an electronic device performing wireless communication with other electronic devices, the method may include: checking, when two or more reference synchronization signals are received within a preset period, whether the received reference synchronization signals are synchronized; determining, when the received reference synchronization signals are not synchronized, to operate as a device sending a reference synchronization signal of a class lower than or equal to that of the lowest class reference synchronization signal among the received reference synchronization signals; sending a reference synchronization signal at a preset time in a synchronization frame designed to preserve temporal orthogonality between classes; and performing synchronization between reference synchronization signals in cooperation with different devices having sent reference synchronization signals.
US10299230B2
Disclosed is a method by a terminal in a communication system, including acquiring synchronization information from a cell, identifying whether information for synchronization transmission is acquired from the cell, and transmitting synchronization information, by the terminal, if the information for synchronization transmission is acquired from the cell, based on the acquired information for synchronization transmission.
US10299221B1
Exemplary embodiments described herein include systems, methods, and nodes for managing channel quality for a relay wireless device. Interference experienced in one or more sectors of an access node that include a relay wireless device may be monitored. It may be determined that the monitored interference in at least one sector of the access node meets a mitigation criteria. One or more potential interfering sectors from access nodes neighboring the access node that are performing reference signal power boosting may be identified such that the potential interfering sectors are adjacent to the one sector of the access node. One or more neighboring access nodes may be instructed to selectively reduce reference signal power boosting in the potential interfering sectors.
US10299217B2
A method for ensuring parallel data random access and a user equipment are provided. An embodiment of the present invention includes controlling a random access sequence transmitted by a user equipment through a physical random access channel (PRACH) not to be sent with other uplink transmission in the same subframe, or, when a random access sequence transmitted by a user equipment through a PRACH is sent with other uplink transmission in the same subframe, controlling a priority of power transmission of the PRACH and a priority of power transmission of an uplink channel over which the other uplink transmission is performed, when power is limited.
US10299215B2
A relay apparatus includes multiple ports, a switch section, multiple physical layer (PHY) sections, a first control section, and a second control section. Each of the ports transmits or receives a frame. The first control section switches a subject PHY section, which is one of the multiple PHY sections and corresponds to the port receiving the frame, from an off state to an on state when the switch section is in an off state and each of the multiple PHY sections is in an off state. The second control section switches the switch section from the off state to an on state when (i) the subject PHY section is switched from the off state to the on state, (ii) the switch section is in the off state, and (iii) the multiple PHY sections except for the subject PHY section are in the off states.
US10299206B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
US10299203B2
According to an aspect of the teachings herein, dynamic cell activation uses the spectrum of a spectrum owner to provide wireless communication services in a location that may not be served by the spectrum owner. For example, a base station determines which one of two or more network operators is targeted by a wireless device requesting access, and correspondingly activates communication services for the device, using spectrum owned by the targeted network operator. Advantageously, the cell(s) may not be persistent and instead may be provided only when access is requested and then only in the spectrum of the targeted network operator(s). This approach offers power savings as compared to providing persistent cells for multiple network operators. Further, the contemplated arrangement makes it economic for third parties and network operators to use of operator-owned spectrum that might otherwise remain unexploited in the involved locations.
US10299193B2
Disclosed are a network access method and a mobile communications terminal, said method comprising the following steps: if a current visited public land mobile network identifier is not present in a network log file of a mobile communications terminal, then obtaining said current visited public land mobile network identifier and storing same in a network log file of said mobile communications terminal; simultaneously adding to an equivalent public land mobile network list the current visited public land mobile network identifier and home public land mobile network identifier in the network log file of said mobile communications terminal; searching for a network according to said equivalent public land mobile network list, and if any network is found in said equivalent public land mobile network list, then executing a network registration operation for said mobile communications terminal.
US10299180B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for controlling the mobility of a user equipment for performing mobile communication network-based Vehicle To Everything (V2X). For example, a handover method may be provided for a user equipment for performing Vehicle To Everything (V2X) communication. The handover method may includes receiving synchronization type information for the V2X communication from a source base station, and configuring a synchronization type, receiving, from the source base station, handover command information including resource configuration information for the V2X communication which is configured by a target base station; and performing the V2X communication until completion of a handover to the target base station by using the resource configuration information.
US10299179B2
The present invention discloses a method for determining cell selection and reselection parameters, a base station, a terminal and a system, and relates to the field of communication. The method for determining cell selection and reselection parameters includes: setting at least two sets of cell selection and reselection parameters according to a terminal capability parameter, and sending the at least two sets of cell selection and reselection parameters, wherein, one set of cell selection and reselection parameters, which matches with the terminal capability parameter of a terminal, of the at least two sets of cell selection and reselection parameters is used for cell selection and/or reselection of the terminal. The present invention further discloses a computer storage medium.
US10299176B2
A mobile station determines, in accordance with reception quality of a radio signal from a base station, a measurement cycle of a predetermined measurement on a link status and/or on/off of the predetermined measurement and controls execution of the predetermined measurement based on the determination.
US10299175B2
The embodiments of the invention relate to a method for operating a first base station (BS1) in a radio communication system (RAN). The method contains transmitting first reference signals via a first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) being directed towards a first direction and at least second reference signals via at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . , BM5-BS1) being directed towards at least one second direction. The method further contains receiving for a hand over of a mobile station (MS) from a second base station (BS2) being a serving base station of the mobile station (MS) to the first base station (BS1) an indication for a radiation beam being selected from a group of radiation beams comprising the first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) and the at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . , BM5-BS1) for applying the selected radiation beam as an initial radiation beam at the first base station (BS1) for serving the mobile station (MS). The method even further contains scheduling radio resources for the initial radiation beam for serving the mobile station (MS) based on the indication. The embodiments further relate to a method for operating a second base station (BS2) in a radio communication system (RAN), to a first base station (BS1) for operation in a radio communication system (RAN) and to a second base station (BS2) for operation in a radio communication system (RAN).
US10299173B2
A long-term evolution (LTE) network for handling mobility from the LTE network to a new radio (NR)/fifth generation (5G) network comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage device. The instructions comprise activating a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection with a communication device; communicating a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) Session identity/identifier (ID) for the PDN connection with the communication device; communicating data via an evolved packet system (EPS) bearer associated to the PDN connection with the communication device; receiving a context request for the communication device from the NR/5G network; and transmitting a context response comprising a context of the communication device to the NR/5G network in response to the context request.
US10299170B2
A source Home Node B (HNB) of a mobile communication system transmits, to a Home Node B-Gateway (HNB-GW) of the mobile communication system, a Direct Transfer message including a Target Radio Network Controller (RNC)-ID and a Target Cell ID. A mobile station receives a channel reconfiguration message from the source HNB, synchronizes with the target HNB, and transmits a channel reconfiguration complete message to the target HNB. The HNB-GW constructs a RANAP relocation request message using the Target RNC-ID. The HNB-GW transmits the RANAP relocation request message to the target HNB, and detects a relocation from the source HNB to the target HNB, after receiving the Direct Transfer message from the source HNB.
US10299167B2
Disclosed is a method includes treating, at an access point, a data flow between a first station and a second station during a first period of time as a non-fast flow. After a condition is met, the method includes marking the data flow as a fastACK flow during a second period of time and during the second period of time, storing data frames in the data flow at the access point to yield stored data frames. Next, the method includes generating a spoofed TCP acknowledgment signal on behalf of the first station and associated with the stored data frames and transmitting the spoofed TCP acknowledge signal to the second station.
US10299161B1
A mobile device having improved resource management predicts that a user is likely to access an application based on prior application access history while the user of the mobile device is inactive and a screen status of the mobile device is off. The mobile device communicates over an established multiplexed connection and a second connection is established while the established multiplexed connection remains connected. Data for the application is fetched based on the prediction. Data for the application is fetched over the second connection before the application is accessed.
US10299148B2
A device and a method for providing a wireless LAN service in an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a communication interface that transmits and receives a signal for a wireless LAN service; and a processor that selects a plurality of channels using the communication interface and based on channel scan information, accesses at least one Access Point (AP) corresponding to at least one channel among the plurality of channels, and monitors the plurality of channels in a state in which the access to at least one AP is maintained.
US10299135B2
Systems and methods relating to coexistence of a cellular communications network technology (e.g., Long Term Evolution (LTE)) and another wireless technology (e.g., WiFi) in a shared unlicensed spectrum are disclosed. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods that mitigate or avoid grabbing of an unlicensed, or shared, frequency band utilized by a wireless communications network node by a node of another wireless technology that operates according to a listen-before-talk scheme.
US10299131B2
A wireless gateway controls access through a communication portal to a shared communication link. By way of non-limiting example, the wireless gateway receives input (such as a passcode) from a user operating a communication device in a subscriber domain. The user provides the input to communicate through the communication portal or wireless gateway over the shared communication link. The wireless gateway maps the received input to corresponding access profile information stored in a repository of the wireless gateway hardware. The wireless gateway then provides the communication device access to a remote network over the shared communication link through the communication portal in a manner as specified by the corresponding access profile information.
US10299122B2
Disclosed herein is a device and method for validating users, such as for entry into a given area. The method includes transmitting a plurality of access control tokens from an access control system to a portable device, and detecting proximity a user portable device associated with one of the plurality of access control tokens to the portable device. A symbolic representation of the access control token associated with the user portable device is generated by and displayed on the portable device. Selection of the displayed symbolic representation is accepted at the portable device. The access control system is notified of selection of the displayed symbolic representation, thereby indicating identification of a user associated with the access control token symbolically represented by the symbolic representation. The venue symbolic representation includes at least one pictograph.
US10299117B2
A method for authenticating direct mirroring connection between a target screen device currently presenting images or video and a mobile device is provided. The method includes capturing currently displayed image by the mobile device, detecting image feature detection by image processing of the captured image, sending capture image features to a dongle device connected to the target screen device, identifying similar features by comparing the captured image features to the features of currently displayed image of the representation or the video frame, analyzing geometrical transformation between similar image features for verifying the correspondences between the set of putative points of the captured image and the real copy of the presented image and computing the homography between the images by the verified putative point correspondences and incase the computed homography is above a predefined threshold authenticate the user as currently located in the vicinity of the target screen.
US10299116B2
Solution for security negotiation during handover of a user equipment (UE) between different radio access technologies is provided. In the solution, the UE receives non-access stratum (NAS) security information and access stratum (AS) security information which are selected by the target system and then performs security negotiation with the target system according to the received NAS security information and AS security information. As such, the UE may obtain the key parameter information of the NAS and AS selected by a long term evolution (LTE) system and perform security negotiation with the LTE system when the UE hands over from a different system, such as a universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN), to the LTE system.
US10299115B2
A technique is provided for receiving, by a MS from a BS a failure notification message indicating a failure of a BS-core network interface, sending, from the MS to the BS, a security agent (SA) notification including a MSID identifying the MS, a service profile identifying one or more services, and one or more user group IDs that identify one or more user groups of which the MS is a member, and receiving, by the MS from the BS, a SA configuration message including a service identification identifying at least one of the one or more services, one or more user group IDs identifying one or more user groups for which the MS has been configured as a security agent to perform the identified service, and a BS access key to allow one or more other MSs to access or establish a connection with the BS.
US10299113B1
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a mobile service provider, a mobile number portability request from a mobile device connected to a current mobile service provider; fetching mobile device porting data from a blockchain ledger accessible by the mobile service provider and by the current mobile service provider; verifying fetched mobile device porting data; in response to a successful verification, sending a request to the blockchain ledger to update current mobile service provider data; and receiving a notification from the blockchain indicating that a connection between the current mobile service provider and the mobile device is disconnected; porting a mobile device number; and updating the mobile device porting data in the blockchain ledger.
US10299098B2
A method and system for automatically connecting one customer device with another over a Bluetooth or similar connection. The automatic connection may be made by generating a unique identifier to store on a new customer device and a backend system associated with an existing customer device and connecting the new customer device with the existing customer device using the unique identifier.
US10299097B2
Disclosed herein is a mobile phone with the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and method of operating the mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a display; a baseband chip; a near field communication (NFC) module comprising an RF antenna, an NFC tag circuit and an NFC main chip; and the RF antenna configured to receive incoming RF signals in 13.56 MHz.
US10299090B2
A field bus device for detecting an operating state of an automation device includes: a sensor for acquiring sensor data which indicate an operating state of the automation device; a controller configured to generate a signalling information based at least in part on the acquired sensor data; and a wireless communication interface configured to receive a request to transmit the generated signalling information via a wireless communication network and to emit the generated signalling information via the wireless communication network in response to the reception of the request.
US10299089B2
A computer-implemented technique can include detecting, by a first computing device, a set of user communications at least one of transmitted to and received by from a second computing device via a first communication mode, identifying a second communication mode that is available for communication between the first and second computing devices, and obtaining an appropriateness score for the first and second communication modes based on a contextual feature of the set of user communications, wherein the contextual feature relates an appropriateness of a particular communication mode for the set of user communications, and wherein each appropriateness score is indicative of a level of the appropriateness of a particular communication mode for the set of user communications. The technique can also include selectively outputting a suggestion to switch from the first communication mode to the second communication mode.
US10299084B1
Systems and methods are described for providing group call service areas. It may be detected at a wireless device that participation in a group call with a first group call identification is available, wherein the detecting is based on entry into a service area for the group call. The wireless device may be automatically registered to join the group call. A user of the wireless device may be notified that participation in the group call is available. The wireless device may join the group call after receiving an indication from the user, wherein joining the group call includes receiving downlink group call voice data from an access node in communication with the wireless device.
US10299082B2
Methods and systems for providing information associated with a location history of a mobile device to one or more applications are disclosed. A mobile device generates one or more location history records based on one or more locations of the mobile device, each location history record comprising one or more points of interest and a duration at the one or more points of interest, receives an information request from at least one application, determines a subset of the one or more location history records that meet criteria from the information request, determines a level of permission for the at least one application based on the information request and the subset of the one or more location history records, and provides information associated with the subset of the one or more location history records to the at least one application based on the level of permission.
US10299076B2
Disclosed are a device for recommending locations in a building using fingerprints of access points and a method using the device. The locations of access points are detected by collecting fingerprints for the access points from terminals of multiple users, the locations of stores in the building are detected by using the fingerprints and payment histories of the multiple users, and locations may be recommended to a recommendation target user based on a meta-path, using a metamap generated by integrating the locations of the access points and stores with the indoor plan of the building. Indoor positioning is enabled by detecting the locations of access points using the information obtained from the terminals of multiple users, whereby constructing infrastructure information for the access points in the building in advance may not be required.
US10299074B2
A system discloses analyzing global positioning system (GPS) parameters of a mobile device to determine if the mobile device is outside a predetermined range and if it is determined that the mobile device is outside the predetermined range, communicating a notification to the mobile device to download maps on the mobile device using an alternate communication channel.
US10299065B1
A method alters an appearance of an emoji based on whether a listener is wearing headphones or earphones. During an electronic communication, an electronic device of the user receives the emoji and sound to play to the user. The electronic device determines whether the user is wearing headphones or earphones and alters an appearance of the emoji based on this determination so the user knows that the sound will externally localize as binaural sound.
US10299061B1
Systems and methods for calibrating a playback device include (i) outputting first audio content; (ii) capturing audio data representing reflections of the first audio content within a room in which the playback device is located; (iii) based on the captured audio data, determining an acoustic response of the room; (iv) connecting to a database comprising a plurality of sets of stored audio calibration settings, each set associated with a respective stored acoustic room response of a plurality of stored acoustic room responses; (v) querying the database for a stored acoustic room response that corresponds to the determined acoustic response of the room in which the playback device is located; and (vi) applying to the playback device a particular set of stored audio calibration settings associated with the stored acoustic room response that corresponds to the determined acoustic response of the room in which the playback device is located.
US10299060B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for determining distances and angles between speakers and other home theater components for performance of calibration operations and functions. Distances are determined through timing playback of sweep signals from a reference speaker to the speakers, and also by timing playback the sweep signals between the speakers and a capture device at a desired listening position. Angles between the speakers and other theater components are determined based on the distances, and locations or mappings of the speakers and other theater components are determined from the angles and distances. The locations/mappings are utilized to perform different calibration operations. The calibration operations improve the user audio experience for speakers that are located in non-optimal positions for speaker configurations.
US10299046B2
A MEMS microphone package includes a substrate including a base layer, a sound hole cut through opposing top and bottom surfaces of the base layer, a conduction part arranged on the base layer and a notch located on the top surface of the base layer, a sidewall connected with one end thereof to the top surface of the base layer and having a conducting line electrically connected to the conduction part, a cover plate connected to an opposite end of the sidewall and having a solder pad and a third contact disposed in conduction with the solder pad and electrically connected to the conducting line, a processor chip mounted in the notch and electrically connected to the conduction part, and an acoustic wave sensor mounted on the base layer to face toward the sound hole and electrically connected to the processor chip.
US10299042B2
Embodiments of the disclosure may provide an apparatus and method of controlling and altering the acoustic output of audio devices that are used in conjunction with a computing device. In some embodiments, the apparatus and methods include a wireless speaker communication method and computing device software application that are configured to work together to more easily setup and deliver audio information from an audio source to one or more portable audio speakers.
US10299040B2
A system can be provided for increasing loudness of an audio signal to present a perceived loudness to a listener that is greater than a loudness provided natively by a loudspeaker. The system can include one or more of the following: a frequency suppressor, a loudness adjuster, an equalizer, and a distortion control module. The frequency suppressor can increase headroom in the audio signal by filtering out low and/or high frequencies. The loudness adjuster can calculate a loudness of the audio signal and apply a gain to the audio signal to increase the loudness. The equalizer can further increase headroom by attenuating portions of a passband of the loudspeaker's frequency response. The distortion control module can induce partial harmonic distortion in the audio signal to further increase loudness.
US10299033B2
The present disclosure discloses a loudspeaker module and relates to the technical field of electroacoustic products. The loudspeaker module comprises an outer casing; the outer casing accommodates a speaker unit; the speaker unit comprises a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system; the speaker unit partitions an inner cavity of the whole module into two cavities: a front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity; the rear acoustic cavity is internally provided with a sound-absorbing material; the rear acoustic cavity is further provided with an isolating structure used for isolating the sound-absorbing material from the speaker unit; the isolating structure partitions the entire rear acoustic cavity into a filling area and a non-filling area; the sound-absorbing material is located in the filling area; the sound-absorbing material is a foaming material; the sound-absorbing material is formed by the foaming of the foaming material and then fills the filling area. The loudspeaker module of the present disclosure solves technical problems of the loudspeaker module products in the prior art such as undesirable consistency and high production costs. The loudspeaker module according to the present disclosure exhibits a good acoustic performance, a high production efficiency, low production costs and high product consistency.
US10299028B2
A method and system is disclosed for a headset with force isolation, where the headset comprises a headband having two upper headband sections coupled by a center block and two ear cups, where each ear cup is coupled to one of the two upper headband sections. The two upper headband sections may include side support strips between which a movable strip may be placed utilizing a slider knob, thereby increasing the rigidness of the headband when fully extended between the side support strips utilizing the slider knob. The rigidness of the headband may decrease when the movable strips are retracted from between the side support strips and into the center block utilizing the slider knob. The side support strips may be plastic and the movable strip may be metal. The center block may be more rigid than the side support strips. The center block may be plastic. The headband may include headband endcaps at lower ends of the headband.
US10299026B2
An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.
US10299016B2
One variation of a method for distributing a composition of audio and visual media includes: at a first computing device, generating a first meta file for a first composition, including pointers to an audio track and pointers to, positions and durations of video masks for, and an order for a set of videos; storing the first meta file and a portion of a private video, in the set of videos, in a remote database; serving the audio track and the set of videos to a second computing device for playback at the second computing device according to the first meta file; in response to modification of the first composition at the second computing device, generating a second meta file for a second composition defining a modified arrangement of the first composition; and storing the second meta file for local playback of the second composition at a third computing device.
US10299009B2
Applying a presentation timestamp to an element of a sequence of sub-titles. A minimum presentation timestamp TMIN of an element of a sequence of sub-titles N is initialized. The presentation timestamp T(N) of the new element of a sub-title sequence N is compared with the minimum presentation timestamp for sub-titles TMIN. The minimum presentation timestamp for sub-titles TMIN is applied to the element of a sequence of sub-titles N if the presentation timestamp T(N) of the new sub-titles element is prior to the minimum presentation timestamp for sub-titles TMIN. The minimum presentation timestamp for sub-titles TMIN for an element of a sequence of sub-titles N+1 is calculated as a timestamp posterior to the presentation timestamp T(N) of the new sub-titles element.
US10299001B2
There is provided a method including rendering a gating media content segment presentation, providing a user interface to a user viewing the gating media content segment presentation, and determining two user interaction indices, including an under-threshold index and an over-threshold index, associated with the gating media content segment presentation. The method determines the under-threshold index using a first user interaction data measured before a threshold event and determines the over-threshold index using a second user interaction data measured after the threshold event, the threshold event occurs after beginning the rendering of the gating media content segment presentation and makes a user interactive mechanism selectable, the second user interaction data includes data corresponds to a user selection of the user interactive mechanism, and one of the under-threshold index and the over-threshold index is calculated using a user interaction with the user interface using an input device.
US10298989B2
An audio/video (A/V) hub that determines an environment of a portable electronic device is described. In particular, the A/V hub may identify the environment based on performance information about communication between the portable electronic device and receiver devices (which was received from the receiver devices), and a history of behavior of an individual associated with the portable electronic device and the A/V hub. Alternatively, the A/V hub may identify the environment based on performance information about communication between the portable electronic device and the A/V hub and the portable electronic device and another A/V hub (which was received from the portable electronic device and/or the other A/V hub), and a history of behavior of an individual associated with the portable electronic device and the A/V hub. Based on the determination, the A/V hub provides an instruction to power on an A/V display device in the environment.
US10298987B2
A method includes receiving, at a server computing device, a request to stream media content to a user device. The request is associated with data identifying a personal quality profile. The method includes retrieving, via the server computing device, the personal quality profile associated with the data. The personal quality profile indicates media quality preferences. The method includes determining, via a processor of the server computing device, a version of the media content to send to the user device based on the media quality preferences of the personal quality profile and based on a delivery bit rate. The method also includes sending the version from the server computing device to the user device in response to the request.
US10298986B2
A process and apparatus for incorporating web based selected material in real time into a graphics template in a graphics system to be rendered and mixed with a video signal and broadcast, by first selecting the material as a key value to be paired with a key name where said key name is associated with a key name in a preexisting graphics template prepared to receive key value data associated with the key name, assigning the selected material to the desired key name to create a key pair, retrievably storing the key pair, monitoring the graphics system for a change to at least one key value for a key name in a template to be rendered in the graphics system, retrieving at least one key value in a key pair, inserting the key value in the template corresponding to the key name in the key pair, rendering the template, mixing the template with a video signal, and broadcasting the mixed signal.
US10298985B2
Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention enable quality based streaming. A content player in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a processor; a network interface; and memory containing a content player application. The content player application can direct the processor to: receive quality metadata describing a plurality of streams, where: the plurality of streams are encoded at different maximum bitrates; each stream is divided into content segments; and the quality varies between content segments in each stream. Furthermore, the content player application directs the processor to measure available bandwidth; request content segments from the plurality of streams based upon the available network bandwidth and the quality metadata, where the requested content segments include content segments encoded at a maximum bitrate and having quality that is the lowest maximum bitrate that achieves a target quality level.
US10298981B2
A mobile device including a content module, an imaging module, and an interface. The content module is configured to attempt to access content including transmitting a content request signal from the mobile device to a user receiving device. The imaging module is configured to acquire an image of at least a portion of a screen shown on a display connected to the user receiving device. The interface is configured to transmit the image or information pertaining to the image to the user receiving device, a head end or a content provider to cause the user receiving device or the mobile device to receive an authorization signal for access to the content.
US10298980B2
An apparatus can include an external interface, a video aggregator, and a system controller. The external interface can receive multimedia content directed to a plurality of customer premises equipment. The video aggregator can multiplex the multimedia content directed to the plurality of customer premises equipment. The system controller can electronically deliver the multiplexed multimedia content, within a scheduled lead-time, in response to a subscriber request to electronically deliver the multimedia content to a particular customer premises equipment from the plurality of customer premises equipment. A subscriber content price of the multiplexed multimedia content can be based on the scheduled lead-time of electronic delivery.
US10298976B2
A satellite broadcast system is used to transmit streams of variable bit-rate content using fixed bit-rate channels that correspond to respective satellite transponder carriers. High bandwidth content is transmitted over multiple transponder carriers in parallel with a combined bandwidth sufficient for the peak bit-rate of the high bandwidth content, whereas multiple streams of low bandwidth content can be transmitted over a single transponder carrier simultaneously by multiplexing the low bandwidth content. High bandwidth content may be multiplexed with low bandwidth content rather than assigning all high bandwidth content to be transmitted exclusively over dedicated high bandwidth transponders.
US10298962B2
The present invention relates to a deblocking filtering method, a method for inducing bs (boundary strength) therefor, and a method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding using the same. The method for inducing the bS of the present invention comprises the steps of: inducing a boundary of a deblocking filtering unit block as a unit block for applying the deblocking filtering; and setting the bS according to each bS setting unit block within the deblocking filtering unit block, wherein the bS setting step can set a bS value for a target boundary corresponding to a boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block as the bs setting unit block.
US10298951B2
A method and apparatus for video encoding or decoding used by an AVS2 (Second Generation of Audio Video Coding Standard) video encoder or decoder respectively are disclosed. According to this method, first motion vectors associated with spatial neighboring blocks of a current block are determined. For each spatial neighboring block, a value of 1 is assigned to a first BlockDistance associated with the spatial neighboring block if a corresponding first reference picture is a G picture or GB picture. Motion vector predictor candidates are derived from the first motion vectors by scaling each first motion vector according to a corresponding first BlockDistance and a current BlockDistance. A final motion vector predictor is determined among the motion vector predictor candidates. The current motion vector is encoded or decoded using the final motion vector predictor
US10298948B2
Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular method includes accessing a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture (826), accessing information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined (806, 808, 822), decoding the video picture to provide a decoded representation of at least one of the multiple pictures (824, 826), and providing the accessed information and the decoded video picture as output (824, 826). Some other implementations format or process the information that indicates how multiple pictures included in a single video picture are combined into the single video picture, and format or process an encoded representation of the combined multiple pictures.
US10298945B2
Regions based on which an interpolation method of a fractional-accuracy pixel is switched are optimized, and the interpolation method is switched for each of the divided regions, thereby reducing residual energy of inter-frame prediction with motion compensation. A video encoding apparatus is provided with: an encoding information acquiring unit which acquires encoding information for each block; a region classification unit which performs a region classification on a block-by-block basis in accordance with the encoding information; a divided region redefinition processing unit which shifts a region dividing line in a horizontal direction, a region dividing line in a vertical direction, or both the region dividing line in the horizontal direction and the region dividing line in the vertical direction based on a result of the region classification, and determines a region dividing line with which density of blocks belonging to a particular region classification is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; an interpolation method switching unit which switches an interpolation method of a fractional-accuracy pixel for each of divided regions divided by the region dividing line; an interpolation performing unit which performs interpolation of the fractional-accuracy pixel for each of the divided regions; a picture encoding unit which encodes a picture using inter-frame prediction with motion compensation of fractional-accuracy for an interpolated picture; and a region classification information encoding unit which encodes information on the region classification.
US10298944B2
A decoding circuit applied to a multimedia apparatus is provided. The decoding circuit is for decoding encoded data to generate system information, and includes multiple processing circuits and a determination circuit. The multiple processing circuits individually process the encoded data to generate multiple processed signals, and respectively correspond to multiple bit combinations of a part of the system information. The determination circuit determines the system information according to the multiple processed signals.
US10298933B2
A method for composing an intermediate representation of a video sequence from at least two different representations of the video sequence, the at least two representations being spatially partitioned into a plurality of tiles, each tile being associated with compressed data in the representation. The method is such that the tiles can be decoded independently from one another and at a given time the various representations are partitioned identically. The method includes selecting, according to at least one selection criterion, a set of tiles forming a partition of the sequence from the at least two representations, and composing an intermediate representation of the video sequence from compressed data associated with the selected set of tiles. The method can be implemented in a video decoding terminal or broadcasting server.
US10298931B2
Innovations in the area of sample metadata processing can help a media playback tool avoid loss of synchronization between sample metadata and media samples. For example, a media playback tool identifies encoded data and sample metadata for a current media sample, then couples the sample metadata with the current media sample. The media playback tool provides the sample metadata and encoded data for the current media sample to a media decoder, which maintains the coupling between at least one element of the sample metadata and the current media sample during at least one stage of decoding, even when the current media sample is dropped, delayed, split, or repeated. For example, the media playback tool can determine whether to drop the current media sample and, if the current media sample is dropped, also drop the sample metadata that is coupled with the current media sample.
US10298916B2
An autostereoscopic image output device includes an image panel having an array of image pixels defining an image, the image pixels being arranged in rows and columns. An array of parallel lenticular elements is positioned over the image panel, the lenticular elements having optical focal axes that are slanted at an angle (ϕ) to the image pixel columns. The image output device is operable in first and second modes, with the image panel and lenticular element array rotated by 90 degrees between the modes, thereby providing a landscape mode of operation and a portrait mode of operation, the slant angle ϕ in the landscape mode satisfies: 1≥ϕ≥1/2.
US10298911B2
Technologies are generally described for visualizing spatial relationships and other relationships. In one example, a method includes capturing, by a system comprising a processor, a stereoscopic image based on a view area from a reference point determined by the system. The stereoscopic image comprises objects. The method also includes determining respective depth indication data for a set of the objects based on respective depths of the set of the objects. The method also includes converting the stereoscopic image to a monocular image and initiating a presentation of the monocular image to a viewing device. The respective depths are respective distances determined between the reference point and the set of the objects. The monocular image comprises the depth indication data for the set of the objects and simulates depth perception.
US10298909B2
An optical inspector with feedback capability includes an optical device that captures an image when a sample is within the field of view of the optical device, a storage device that stores the captured image, a processor that determines a quality characteristic value of the sample based on the captured image, and an interface circuit that outputs inspection data or a command based on the quality characteristic value. A method of controlling a sample processing line is also disclosed, the method including capturing an image of a sample traversing the processing line, determining a quality characteristic of the sample based at least in part on the captured image, and causing the operation of a device included in the processing line to be adjusted based at least in part on the quality characteristic value. In one example, the optical inspector is an in-flight 3D inspector located in the processing line.
US10298894B2
A projector includes a projection lens, a first imaging section that takes an image of a projection surface, a second imaging section that takes an image of the projection surface with a wider field angle than the first imaging section, a lens mount on which a first projection lens and a second projection lens are mountable in an exchangeable manner, a lens information acquisition section that obtains projection lens identification information used for identifying a projection lens mounted on the lens mount, and a control section. The control section makes the first imaging section take the image of the projection surface when the projection lens identification information indicates that the first projection lens is mounted on the lens mount, and makes the second imaging section take the image of the projection surface when the projection lens identification information indicates that the second projection lens is mounted on the lens mount.
US10298892B2
An image projection apparatus includes processing circuitry that receives, for each surface of a plurality of surfaces in a projection region, an adjustment value to increase or decrease an effective distance from an imaging device to a curved position of the surface. The processing circuitry further determines, for each surface, a curved shape of the surface in accordance with a change of distortion corresponding to the effective distance that was increased or decreased by the received adjustment value. The processing circuitry further calculates, for each surface, correction parameters to correct the distortion of projection images projected onto the surface, in accordance with the determined curved shape of the surface. The processing circuitry further divides an image into a plurality of divided images in accordance with positions and sizes of the each surface of the plurality of surfaces in the projection region.
US10298885B1
A system includes a plurality of cameras each enabled to operate independently of the others as a component camera. The system includes logic operable to form the component cameras into a network operable as a single federated camera device. The lens types of the component cameras are non-heterogeneous, and the federated camera forms a virtual lens comprising characteristics combining the lens types of the component cameras.
US10298882B1
A device, system and method for embedded video chat is provided. A device renders, at a display device, a text-based application that includes a region for rendering an embeddable video chat application. The device retrieves, using a communication interface, from a server, the embeddable video chat application associated with an identifier. The device embeds the embeddable video chat application in the region of the display device. The device identifies, using the embeddable video chat application as retrieved from the server, a remote instance of the embeddable video chat application also identified using the identifier. The device initiates a video communication session with the remote instance of the embeddable video chat application using the display device and the camera device.
US10298877B2
Enterprise communication display systems enable life-like images for videoconferencing and entertainment productions. Life-like images appear in a 3D environment where imaged people are visible through the use of specially configured see-through displays. Imaged people can also be viewed amongst a reflected foreground. A dual mode large high-resolution display is inventively configured for watching and working. Methods for enterprise wide deployments for corporate, healthcare, education, and government communications, including hotel properties and a property management system are shown. The invention further discloses an online production system for events. Further, a black void illusion is described and is applicable to numerous displays including event and live theater stages and movie theaters. Numerous inventive features are described enabling and advancing the black void illusion.
US10298876B2
An information processing system, a control method and a non-transitory storage medium through which reproduction that matches characteristics of devices of a playback side can be performed by generating abstracted presence reproduction information are provided. The information processing system includes: a generation unit that generates abstracted presence reproduction information depending on features extracted from content data; and a storage controller that controls the presence reproduction information generated by the generation unit to be stored in association with the content data.
US10298873B2
Provided are an image display apparatus and an image display method. The image display apparatus includes a display configured to display a use guide comprising help information, and a controller configured to extract a keyword from a sentence spoken by a user, assign the keyword to a help category, and generate the help information based on the help category and the keyword.
US10298872B2
A method for transmitting an image and an electronic device thereof are provided. An image transmission method of an electronic device includes displaying a message transmission/reception history with at least one other electronic device, sensing a selection of a camera execution menu, displaying a preview screen of a camera within a screen in which the message transmission/reception history is displayed, detecting a touch on the displayed preview screen, if the displayed preview screen is touched, capturing an image of a subject, detecting a gesture for the captured image, and, if the gesture for the captured image is detected, transmitting the captured image to the at least one other electronic device according to the detected gesture.
US10298869B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes a photoelectric conversion unit which includes a phototransistor having a collector region, an emitter region, and a base region to generate an output current according to an intensity of incident light to the phototransistor, and a base potential setting unit which is configured to set up a base potential of the phototransistor so that the output current from the photoelectric conversion unit is equal to a predetermined current value.
US10298867B2
The imaging device includes a first pixel group and a second pixel group that include a plurality of pixels each having a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions that are separated by an isolation portion and arranged in a first direction and a plurality of transfer gates that transfer charges of the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions. A position of at least a part of the isolation portion within each of the pixels of the first pixel group and a position of at least a part of the isolation portion within each of the pixels of the second pixel group are shifted relative to each other in the first direction. Respective widths of portions where the plurality of separated photoelectric conversion portions overlap with the plurality of transfer gates in a planar view are the same.
US10298866B2
A photoelectric conversion element includes: light receiving elements that convert an optical signal into an electrical signal per pixel; offset fixing units that fix an offset of an output level of each of the light receiving elements to a reference level; analog/digital conversion units that convert signals respectively corresponding to a signal level being converted from an optical signal and output by the light receiving elements and a reset level output independent of an optical signal, into digital signals, according to the reference level; amplifier units that amplify a signal; and correlated double sampling units that perform correlated double sampling per each of the light receiving elements by using a signal based on the reset level and a signal based on the signal level, wherein the amplifier units amplify the signal corresponding to the reset level and the signal corresponding to the signal level before implementing the correlated double sampling.
US10298859B2
Various techniques are provided to generate enhanced visual representations of captured infrared (IR) data values. For example, various methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums are provided that may be used to map color and/or grayscale values to temperature values. Such mapping permits a user to intuitively interpret the temperatures associated with the IR data values. The temperatures may be presented as a visual representation of the captured IR data values having an enhanced contrast.
US10298854B2
Systems and methods are provided for capturing high quality video data, including data having a high dynamic range, for use with conventional encoders and decoders. High dynamic range data is captured using multiple groups of pixels where each group is captured using different exposure times to create groups of pixels. The pixels that are captured at different exposure times may be determined adaptively based on the content of the image, the parameters of the encoding system, or on the available resources within the encoding system. The transition from single exposure to using two different exposure times may be implemented gradually.
US10298849B2
Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus including: an image producer configured to produce an image of an object; and an image information generator configured to identify the object, to receive geometry change information for the image of the object, and to generate extraction information corresponding to a geometry image of the object changed according to the geometry change information. Accordingly, it is possible to intuitively display a user's desired information.
US10298847B2
There is provided an image stabilization device including: a control unit configured to perform first camera shake correction processing based on an optical camera shake correction method using a lens and second camera shake correction processing based on an electronic camera shake correction method of cutting out a captured image.
US10298846B2
A method for adjusting a pointing angle of an actively stabilized camera is provided. The camera is housed by an active stabilization system configured to stabilize the camera in accordance with a commanded pointing angle. The active stabilization system comprises a steering member rotatable around one or more of a pan axis, tilt axis, and roll axis of the system. The method comprises: deriving a joint angle measurement of the steering member associated with a rotational movement of the steering member and adjusting the pointing angle of the camera, based on the derived joint angle measurement, in a direction of the rotational movement of the steering member, if the joint angle measurement exceeds the threshold window. If the joint angle measurement is within the threshold window, the pointing angle of the camera is actively stabilized in accordance with the commanded pointing angle.
US10298842B2
An information processing device includes a first input interface to receive data transferred in a first transfer mode in which a plurality of elements of the data each belonging to a same line of a plurality of lines are transferred in parallel, a second input interface to receive data transferred in a second transfer mode in which a plurality of elements of the data each belonging to a corresponding one of the plurality of lines are transferred in parallel, a mode selection circuit to change a transfer mode of the data from the second input interface from the second transfer mode to the first transfer mode based on a signal indicating selection of the second input interface, and an output interface to output one of the data from the first input interface and the data from the second input interface.
US10298838B2
An approach is provided for the presentation of guidance information for capturing media content by a mobile device. Location information of the mobile device is acquired. A presentation is initiated of guidance information for capturing media content by the mobile device as part of a sequence of media contents. The guidance information is based on the location information and specifies distance and directional angle for the capture of the media content according to the sequence of media contents. Whether there is a deviation from guidance information is determined. A signal is generated to provide feedback relating to the determined deviation.
US10298836B2
An image sensor includes: a first light-receiving unit that: receives a modulated optical signal having being reflected on an image-capturing target and including a modulated component with an intensity modulated at a predetermined modulation frequency; and outputs a first electrical signal; a second light-receiving unit that: receives a reference optical signal with an intensity modulated in synchronization with the modulated optical signal; and outputs a second electrical signal; and a detecting unit that: is provided to a substrate stacked on a substrate including the first light-receiving unit; refers to the second electrical signal; and detects, from the first electrical signal, a third electrical signal corresponding to the modulated component.
US10298828B2
A multi-imaging apparatus includes: a display unit; an internal imaging device that acquires a first live view image or a first image captured by a main imaging operation thereof; a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with an external imaging device that acquires a second live view image or a second image captured by a main imaging operation thereof; and a controller. Here, the controller receives an input of the first live view image from the internal imaging device, receives the second live view image from the external imaging device through the wireless communication unit, and causes the display unit to display the input first live view image and the received second live view image as a multi-live view.
US10298824B2
A color sensor module including a color sensor for detecting a surrounding color condition, and a concave lens located in front of the color sensor can ensure an amount of light reaching the color sensor, thereby obtaining more accurate color condition information, regardless of the incident angle.
US10298819B2
A camera apparatus, e.g., a stereoscopic camera apparatus, includes a slideable filter plate inserted into a slot in a dual element mounting plate. The slideable filter plate includes a plurality of selectable pairs of filter mounting positions and changes between pairs of filter mounting positions may be performed without altering camera alignments. Each pair of filter mounting positions includes a right eye filter mounting position and a left eye filter mounting position. Each pair of filter mounting positions in the slideable filter plate includes a pair of filters or no filters.
US10298813B2
A camera and imaging method with nonclassical imaging resolution, for applications in long-distance imaging, such as satellite and aircraft-to-ground based distant imaging, utilizing an intensity-fluctuation correlation measurement of thermal light.
US10298800B2
A local application is prepared for each access destination for accessing the URL of a Web application. Upon calling the local application, a setting and URL associated with it are set and displayed in a Web browser. The local application monitors the state of the Web browser and initializes the state of the Web browser when they are hidden.
US10298799B2
A printing system includes a printer and an information processing device that includes a processor and a memory storing processor-executable instructions, the instructions being configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to, when condition information does not include trigger information, determine to instruct the printer to start a pre-printing operation, when the condition information includes the trigger information, determine not to instruct the printer to start a pre-printing operation, in response to determining to instruct the printer to start the pre-printing operation, transmit the preparation instruction information to the printer, in response to determining to instruct the printer to start the pre-printing operation and performing the preparation instruction process, generate print data based on specified contents data, and transmit the print instruction information to the printer.
US10298798B2
An image processing apparatus, including a display, a memory, and a controller, to provide a plurality of functions is provided. The controller controls the display to display one of a first screen, through which one of the plurality of functions is selectable; a second screen, through which one of a plurality of options for the selected function is selectable; and a third screen, through which selection of the one of the plurality of options is indicated. When the controller reads shortcut information that indicates a first option for a selected one of the functions, and when the first option is permitted to the user, the third screen is displayed. When the first option is not permitted to the user, and if there is a second option permitted to the user, the second screen is displayed.
US10298793B2
Examples of an imaging device (100) are described herein. In an example, the imaging device (100) includes a drive control assembly (110), a first drive assembly (106), a second drive assembly (108), a movable carriage (102), and a locking mechanism (112). The drive control assembly (110) can be used to regulate transmission of drive from an actuator (200) to the first drive assembly (106) and the second drive assembly (108). The locking mechanism (112) can lock the drive control assembly (110) in an engaged position with the first drive assembly (106) or the second drive assembly (108). The movable carriage (102) can actuate the locking mechanism (112) to lock the drive control assembly (110) in the engaged position.
US10298781B2
A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design.
US10298779B2
A method to diagnosis an electro-mechanical part on an image forming device comprises: determining an incident count for a first time interval for the electro-mechanical part; determining if the incident count for the first time interval exceeds a first threshold level; marking the incident count as a high rate if the incident count exceeds the first threshold level; marking the incident count as a low rate if the incident count is more than 0 but equal to or less than the first threshold level; marking the incident count as a zero rate if the incident count is equal to 0; monitoring the electro-mechanical part for a second time interval, wherein the second time interval is a plurality of first time intervals; cumulating a number of first time intervals with the low rate during the second time intervals; and marking the electro-mechanical part as needing to be one of repaired or serviced when the number of first time intervals with the low rate during the second time intervals exceeds a second threshold level.
US10298778B1
A communication system has a network access device (NAD) that is designed to deliver Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) along with high-speed data to Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). The NAD is backpowered by the CPE across a subscriber line. When backpower is provided from the CPE, circuitry (referred to as a “POTS signaling element”) within the network access device converts POTS control signaling to digital data for transmission to the CPE. The band vacated by the POTS control signaling is used for the power signal on the subscriber line. In the absence of backpower, components of the network access device are bypassed, thereby providing POTS in the event of a power failure. The NAD receives advance warning of the backpowering so that it can disable the bypassing in order to prevent the power signal from leaking through the NAD to the network.
US10298776B2
A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to or selected by another party participating in the call, or may be related to or selected by a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, and allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list.
US10298764B1
A method and apparatus of processing caller experiences is disclosed. One example method may include determining a call event type occurring during a call and assigning a weight to the call event type via a processing device. The method may also include calculating a caller experience metric value representing a caller's current call status responsive to determining the at least one call event type, the caller experience metric being a function of the current event type weight and a discounting variable that discounts a value of past events. The method may also provide comparing the caller experience metric to a predefined threshold value and determining whether to perform at least one of transferring the call to a live agent and switching from a current caller modality to a different caller modality.
US10298763B2
Techniques for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for techniques for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system comprising: cycling, by at least one processor, among at least two pairing strategies; and determining, by the at least one processor, a difference in performance between the at least two pairing strategies.
US10298757B2
A curator captures input data corresponding to service tasks from an external source. Further, a browser extension collects intermediate service delivery data for the service tasks from the external source. Subsequently, a learner stores the input data and the intermediate service delivery data as training data. Then, a receiver receives a service request from a client. The service request is indicative of a service task to be performed and information associated with the service task. Further, an advisor processes the service request to generate an intermediate service response. Thereafter, the advisor determines a confidence level associated with the intermediate service response and ascertains whether the confidence level associated with service response is below pre-determined threshold level. If the confidence level is below a pre-determined threshold level, the advisor automatically generates a final service response corresponding to service request based on training data.
US10298752B1
Methods are provided for routing communications between different recipients at an entity having access to a shared communication log and using presence information. The methods include receiving a communication from a user to an entity by a primary recipient at a call center for the entity, obtaining identifying information for the user, storing a communication log regarding the communication of the user, identifying a current presence of a secondary recipient for the entity, transferring the communication from the primary recipient to the secondary recipient in response to the presence identification of the secondary recipient indicating the secondary recipient is accessible, updating the communication log with information regarding the transfer from the primary recipient to the secondary recipient, and providing the communication log to the secondary recipient during the communication between the first user and the primary recipient or secondary recipient.
US10298744B2
Electronic arrangement, optionally comprising one or more servers, for a mobile communication network to enable dynamic policy regulation, through a master device, of a slave device, being a user device operable in the mobile communication network, the arrangement comprising at least one communication interface for transferring data, at least one processing unit for processing instructions and other data, and memory for storing the instructions and other data, said at least one processing unit being configured, in accordance with the stored instructions, to cause: receiving and storing an indication, preferably from the master device optionally being other user device operable in the mobile communication network, of the slave device, wherein the indication stipulates master and slave association between the devices in controlling usage of network resources by the slave device, receiving and identifying a request, from the master device, indicative of at least one policy adjustment to be enforced on the slave device regarding the usage of network resources, and communicating the at least one policy adjustment to a policy control entity of the mobile communication network to instruct the policy control entity implement said at least one policy adjustment. Related user device and method are presented.
US10298719B2
If it is determined that a delivery permission flag of a network device being a delivery target of a software program is inactivated (OFF), a delivery server instructs a set-value management server to activate (ON) the delivery permission flag of the network device being the delivery target. The set-value management server activates the delivery permission flag of the network device in response to the instruction and notifies the completion to the delivery server. The delivery server performs delivery preparation for the software program in response to the notification of the completion and, after the delivery preparation, controls the delivery of the software program in response to a request from a network device with the delivery permission flag activated.
US10298704B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for determining geolocation for networks (e.g., IP addresses) for which accurate geolocation information in unknown. Various techniques are described for determining the physical location of networks by tracking user/device movement across different networks, and more particularly by tracking movement of particular users and/or devices from networks with known geolocation to networks with unknown geolocation. Aspects of the technology include using time and network address information (e.g., IP addresses) from user's queries and merging this information with known geolocation information to create new, high quality, geolocation mappings for previously unseen networks.
US10298703B2
Embodiments of the present invention address delivery of content, including advertising, in an online or networked digital environment. Undesirable content or content that needs to be removed from the digital environment may be eliminated through invocation of a ‘kill switch’ that terminates further delivery of the aforementioned content. The ‘kill switch’ may also eliminate certain instantiations of that content already delivered to end-user client devices. In order to lessen the need for termination of content following delivery to the digital environment, content developers and content providers may view content scheduled for delivery in digital environment ‘mock ups’ prior to actual delivery. Content developers and content providers, too, may control certain attributes related to content scheduled for delivery to further obviate post-delivery termination or modification.
US10298697B2
A device management system includes: a performance request transmitting unit that transmits a performance request to perform data processing, including identification information identifying a static destination server with a fixed destination and identification information identifying a dynamic destination server with a dynamically changing destination; a dynamic destination data obtaining unit that transmits an obtaining request requesting to obtain data for performing the data processing, to the dynamic destination server using identification information of the dynamic destination server included in the performance request; a static destination data obtaining unit that determines that the data cannot be obtained, when there is no response to the obtaining request from the dynamic destination server, and then, transmits an obtaining request requesting to obtain data for performing the data processing, to the static destination server using identification information of the static destination server included in the performance request.
US10298695B2
A system for configuring communications in an apparatus. An apparatus may determine whether access to resources not in the apparatus is desired. If it is determined that access to the resource is desired, an access request may be sent to a resource manager. The apparatus may then receive connection information in response to the access request, and may then utilize the connection information when selecting a communication configuration usable for accessing the desired resources that are accessible via the other apparatus.
US10298683B2
A method for execution by a dispersed storage and task (DST) unit includes receiving a request for DSN configuration information from one of a plurality of additional DST units via a network. Distributed storage network (DSN) configuration information is generated for transmission to a second DST unit in response to receiving the request. An access request that indicates a data object is received from a requesting entity via the network. An access of a set of encoded data slices corresponding to the data object based on the access request, where the set of encoded data slices are stored in a set of DST units, and where the set of DST units includes the DST unit and a subset of the plurality of additional DST units. The access of the set of encoded data slices is processed to produce a data response for transmission to the requesting entity via the network.
US10298682B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling device data collectors using omni-collection techniques. A computing platform may receive configuration settings associated with a first collector and a second collector. Subsequently, the computing platform may generate one or more configuration commands for a native collector based on the configuration settings. The computing platform may send, to a client interface computing platform associated with the native collector, the one or more configuration commands generated for the native collector. Thereafter, the computing platform may receive state information collected by the native collector based on the one or more configuration commands generated for the native collector. Then, the computing platform may send the state information to an authentication hub computing platform, and sending the state information may cause the authentication hub computing platform to share at least a portion of the state information with one or more collector support servers for processing.
US10298677B2
The disclosure includes implementations for executing one or more computations for a vehicle. Some implementations of a method for a vehicle may include identifying one or more computations as being un-executable by any processor-based computing device of the vehicle. The method may include generating a query including query data describing the one or more computations to be executed for the vehicle. The method may include providing the query to a network. The method may include receiving a response from the network. The response may include solution data describing a result of executing the one or more computations. The response may be provided to the network by a processor-based computing device included in a hierarchy of processor-based computing devices that have greater computational ability than any processor-based computing devices of the vehicle.
US10298676B2
A method and associated systems for enabling digital asset reuse. Users are each associated with a collection of digital assets and each user and each asset is assigned an eminence value. When a first user initially accesses an asset, the asset is copied to the first user's collection, thus indicating the first user's favorable view of the asset. When a second user accesses the first user's copy, the asset is copied to the second user's collection, and the eminence of the first user and of the asset are increased. If a third user accesses the second user's copy, the asset is copied to the third user's collection and eminence values of the first and second users and of the asset increase. The second user may locate an asset in the first user's collection through means that include the second user's decision to “follow” the first user.
US10298666B2
A service provider can efficiently allocate server computer resources to tenant users, while isolating tenants from such allocation decisions. A tenant specifies a desktop model to be used for virtual desktops to be provisioned for a pool of users. The service provider has desktop managers for each tenant, each of which manages a homogeneous set of server computers to be used for provisioning virtual desktops for the tenant. Different desktop managers for a tenant are used to manage different sets of server computers to support virtual desktops using different desktop models or desktop models with different resource requirements. A resource manager of the service provider assigns virtual desktops to a desktop manager in a manner that optimizes the utilization of the server computers by using information about the desktop model used by the virtual desktops.
US10298659B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for data transfer disclosed herein. Specifically, embodiments may utilize a protocol module deployed on a computing device, where the protocol module may be configured to receive data from an application and send that data using a particular protocol. The protocol module may, for example, utilize a latency tolerant protocol such as the Mobile Transport Protocol (MTP).
US10298655B2
A first set of posts associated with a verified entity can be identified. A second set of posts associated with the verified entity and with one or more particular topics can be identified. At least a first subset of the first set of posts and at least a second subset of the second set of posts can be ranked to produce a ranked set of posts that are associated, at least in part, with the verified entity. The verified entity can be provided with access to at least some posts in the ranked set of posts. Moreover, a canonical post authored by a verified entity can be identified. It can be determined that one or more subsequent posts have at least a specified threshold level of relevance with respect to the canonical post. The verified entity can be provided with access to the one or more subsequent posts.
US10298649B2
A file system is configured to ensure exclusive access by an application to a “stream” comprising one or more erase blocks on a storage device. The file system may receive, from an application, a request for a stream identifier token, create a file to store one or more stream identifiers associated with the application, send, to the application, a token associated with the file, the token providing access to the one or more stream identifiers by the application, receive, from the application, a request for access to a stream, the request comprising the token, determine that a stream is available, the stream comprising one or more erase blocks on a storage device, send, to the application, a stream identifier associated with the stream, and remove the stream identifier from a pool of available stream identifiers, thereby ensuring exclusive access to the stream by the application.
US10298647B2
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable managing a start time of media content in a media receiver device. A processor of the receiver device may receive media content labeled with a transmission time from a sending device. The processor may determine a service construction delay of the media content of the media content. The processor may determine a time offset of the media content based on the service construction delay. The processor may deliver the media content to a streaming media client in the receiver device using the time offset.
US10298639B2
Streaming media, such as audio or video files, is sent via the Internet. The media are immediately played on a user's computer. Audio/video data is transmitted from the server under control of a transport mechanism. A server buffer is prefilled with a predetermined amount of the audio/video data. When the transport mechanism causes data to be sent to the user's computer, it is sent more rapidly than it is played out by the user system. The audio/video data in the user buffer accumulates; and interruptions in playback as well as temporary modem delays are avoided.
US10298638B2
Streaming media, such as audio or video files, is sent via the Internet. The media are immediately played on a user's computer. Audio/video data is transmitted from the server under control of a transport mechanism. A server buffer is prefilled with a predetermined amount of the audio/video data. When the transport mechanism causes data to be sent to the user's computer, it is sent more rapidly than it is played out by the user system. The audio/video data in the user buffer accumulates; and interruptions in playback as well as temporary modem delays are avoided.
US10298632B2
A system and computer program product for an integrated blog in a collaborative environment is provided. In this regard, the computer program product includes a computer program comprising a set of instructions which when executed by a machine causes the machine to perform the steps of processing a single sign-on for a member of the collaborative environment, associating a role with the member so as to place the member into a collaborative space in the collaborative environment and to regulate the member in interacting with the collaborative space, retrieving a list of collaborative applications for the role assigned to the member, and loading the collaborative applications in the list into the collaborative space for use by the member from within the collaborative space, the collaborative applications including at least a blogging application.
US10298624B2
Measures, including methods, apparatus and computer programs, for use in operating a network node. A method includes, at the network node: receiving a session initiation protocol (SIP) message directed towards a downstream network element, wherein the received message comprises session description protocol (SDP) data indicating a first SDP preconditions setting; forwarding the received SIP message on to the downstream network element with no modifications; in response to forwarding the received SIP message, receiving a rejection message from the downstream network element; on the basis of the received rejection message, determining that the first SDP preconditions setting is not supported by downstream device; generating a second SIP message comprising SDP data indicating a second SDP preconditions setting different from the first SDP preconditions setting; and transmitting the generated second SIP message comprising SDP data indicating the second SDP preconditions setting to the downstream network element.
US10298623B2
Techniques pertaining to seamless WebRTC support on mobile appliances are described. In one aspect, a method includes one or more processors of one or more gateway servers receiving from a browser-based application executed by a mobile device a request for access to multimedia provided by a multimedia access platform. The method also includes the one or more processors retrieving information related to a profile associated with a user of the mobile device from an identity and access management server. The method further includes the one or more processors enabling the browser-based application to receive from the multimedia access platform one or more types of multimedia based at least in part on the profile associated with the user of the mobile device.
US10298622B2
Methods and systems for obtaining reconstructing activities of target users in social networks, such as for decoding and displaying social network sessions held by a target user, or identifying other users who are associated with the target user. This analysis is typically carried out based on passive monitoring of network traffic. A social network decoding system constructs and maintains a replica database, which mimics a portion of the user profile database maintained by the social network servers. The social network decoding system monitors network traffic between users and social network servers. Based on the monitored traffic, the system gradually constructs a replica database that attempts to replicate a portion of the social network user profile database, relating to one or more predefined target users. Using the replica database, the system is able to correlate loosely-coupled information objects, events and interactions between the target users and social network pages.
US10298606B2
The disclosed apparatus may include a physical processing that (1) receives, at a network device, a packet that is destined for a computing device within a network, (2) performs pattern matching on the packet by (A) comparing at least a portion of the packet with a set of signatures that facilitate pattern matching in connection with network traffic and (B) determining, based at least in part on the comparison, that the portion of the packet matches at least one of the signatures, (3) parses, after performing the pattern matching, at least the portion of the packet to determine whether the packet is malicious based at least in part on the portion of the packet, and then (4) upon determining that the portion of the packet is malicious, performs at least one security action in connection with the packet. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10298595B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for improving both node-based and message-based security in a fiber channel network. Entity to entity authentication and key exchange services can be included in existing initialization messages used for introducing fiber channel network entities into a fiber channel fabric, or with specific messages exchanged over an already initialized communication channel. Both per-message authentication and encryption mechanisms can be activated using the authentication and key exchange services. Messages passed between fiber channel network entities can be encrypted and authenticated using information provided during the authentication sequence. Security services such as per-message authentication, confidentiality, integrity protection, and anti-replay protection can be implemented.
US10298592B2
Systems, devices methods and media are provided for selecting data received from or sent by a client device. In one example, a system is configured to initiate a user-configurable API data endpoint on the client device and issue a request for access to specified data residing on the client device. The specified data resides in a first user-designated storage area on the client device. In response to receiving an authorization by a user of the client device of the access request, the system communicates with the user-configurable API data endpoint on the client device to perform a data-pull of at least some of the requested specified data from a second user-designated data pull portion of data residing on the client device.
US10298583B2
An integrated activity management system and method for a firm comprising at least one user is disclosed. The system includes at least one communicator, at least one firm unit, a firm network, and a firm administrator. The communicator includes a unique carrier identification, a subscriber identification module, a user memory, and a local processor to generate a log of the time spent on firm activities. The firm unit comprising a firm memory, and a firm processor to determine output based on the user information and firm information stored in the firm memory. The administrator is coupled to the firm unit to selectively grant access to the firm network to the communicator and the firm unit whereby secured communication between the at least one communicator and the at least one firm unit is provided.
US10298579B2
Methods, systems, and devices for enterprise-wide management of disparate devices, applications, and users are described. A cloud-based central server may maintain an integrated hosted directory, which may allow user authentication, authorization, and management of information technology (IT) resources across device types, operating systems, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-premises applications. IT resources for multiple and separate customers may be managed from a single, central directory, and servers may be brought online to allow access to the directory according to system loading.
US10298572B2
Block chain-based multifactor personal identity verification may be provided. Verification addresses may be established on a block chain by: associating identifiers with individuals having previously verified personal identities, assigning verification addresses on a block chain to the individuals, and recording identifiers and biometric data associated with the individuals at corresponding verification addresses. Block chain-based multifactor personal identity verification using the verification addresses may be performed by: receiving one or more identifiers in connection with one or more requests to verify an identity of one or more individuals, extracting the biometric data associated with the one or more individuals from the corresponding verification addresses, and verifying the identity of the one or more individuals upon receiving matching biometric data and private keys.
US10298570B2
Optoelectronic systems include an array of optoelectronic modules and a computational unit. The array of optoelectronic modules and the computational unit are operable to collect data of a user of the optoelectronic system. The data can be used, for example, to authenticate the identity of the user by being used in multiple user authentication protocols. In some instances, facial recognition data can be augmented with three-dimensional data of the user and can be combined with iris recognition data to authenticate the identity of the user. Such optoelectronic systems can comprise hardware authentication systems external to auxiliary devices such as tablet computers and laptop computers.
US10298567B1
A system is disclosed that enables a user to access a first piece of content on a first computing device while accessing a related, but different piece of content on a second computing device. In some cases, the different piece of content is a portion of the first piece of content. In some embodiments, the system can automatically identify complementary content and can automatically cause the second computing device to access the complementary content without the user interacting with the second computing device. In some cases, the system may reformat the complementary content for presentation to the user based on characteristics of the second computing device.
US10298565B2
A method for user identity authentication is provided. The method includes receiving an authentication image selected by a user, and acquiring, based on the authentication image, a password to be verified. The method may further include acquiring a preset verification password, and comparing the verification password with the password to be verified to obtain a user identity authentication result.
US10298558B2
An access manager manages access to a resource. At a first time, the access manager designates a variable attribute associated with a recurring public event as a shared secret between the access manager and a user. At a second time occurring after the first time, the access manager receives a shared key from the user. As received, the shared key is based on a value of the variable attribute associated with the recurring public event at a most recent recurrence of the recurring public event relative to the second time. The access manager evaluates the shared key. In response to the evaluation, the access manager grants or denies the user access to the resource.
US10298548B2
An apparatus for data replication is disclosed. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a read module configured to read into a communication buffer, from a persistent storage volume, a first file that is encrypted with file-level encryption without decrypting the first file. In certain embodiment, the apparatus also includes a write module configured to write data from a second file from the communication buffer, that is received from a source device and that is encrypted with file-level encryption, to the persistent storage volume without decrypting the second file.
US10298540B2
Provided is a method for making it impossible to track a vehicle performing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication through a network. The network may allocate the same IP address to all UEs performing V2X communication. Since the UEs performing V2X communication transmit data using the same IP address, an application server cannot track a vehicle transmitting corresponding data.
US10298535B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a post corresponding to a civic issue on a civic-issues platform of an online social network associated with a first municipality from a client system of a first user of the online social network, where the post includes text describing the civic issue, a location, and a user-reported category, extracting one or more n-grams from the text, determining a classification of the post based on social-networking information associated with the first user, the extracted n-grams, and the user-reported category, assigning the post to a first agency of the first municipality based on the determined classification and the location, receiving a request to update the post with a current status of the civic issue from a first entity associated with the online social network, and sending a notification indicating the post has been updated to the client system for display.
US10298531B2
An emotion function chain may be generated from an email thread and displayed to a user in one or more windows on a computer display of a computer system. An email content analyzer may extract emotion indicators from the body of an email within the email thread. Using the emotion indicators, an attitude factor for an email may be determined. The attitude factors determined from each email within the email thread may be pictorially depicted in the emotion function chain. In response to a user interaction with a pictorial depiction of an attitude factor within the emotion function chain, a second window may generated to display the body of the email used to calculate the attitude factor interacted with.
US10298530B2
Disclosed are examples relating to scheduling events using devices in communication through a network. In some examples, an email message comprising an encoded data element is obtained. The encoded data element includes data that specifies a proposed time for an event. The data that specifies the proposed time for the event is extracted from the encoded data element. Content from the email message is rendered in a user interface. A user interface element is rendered within the user interface. The user interface element represents the proposed time for the event and an availability for the event at the proposed time.
US10298518B2
Methods and systems for fast switching between bi-directional co-shared sessions having different network paths over a resource reservation network. Embodiment of one method includes: creating a bi-directional parent session (Sp) between first and second session partners, creating a bi-directional derivative session (Sd) between the first session partner and a third session partner, and reassigning a predetermined amount of co-shared network resources (PA-CSNR) assigned to the Sp using the following steps: (i) sending a first message to request the second session partner to stop using the PA-CSNR, (ii) sending a second message to register whether the PA-CSNR are assigned to the Sd, and (iii) sending a third message to allow the third session partner to utilize at least some of the PA-CSNR for the Sd.
US10298513B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, devices and systems for accessing a network. The methods include: receiving a request message requesting for accessing a network, the request message being broadcast by a first communication device; detecting a current state of the network access device; when the network access device is in a device-access forbidding state, sending a state switching request to a terminal bound with the network access device, the terminal being configured to generate a reply message based on the state switching request; receiving the reply message sent by the terminal; and when the reply message instructs the network access device to switch to a device-access permitting state, switching the state of the network access device to the device-access permitting state.
US10298512B2
System and method for performing resource allocation for a host computer cluster use resource allocation weight scores for resource nodes in a cluster resource allocation hierarchy of the host computer cluster based on the number of powered-on clients in the resource nodes.
US10298507B2
A computer implemented system is provided for improving performance of transmission in real-time or near real-time applications from at least one transmitter unit to at least one receiver unit. The system includes an intelligent data connection manager utility that generates or accesses performance data for two or more data connections associated with the two or more communication networks, and based on the current performance data determining current network transmission characteristics associated the two or more data connections, and bonds the two or more data connections based on: a predetermined system latency requirement; and dynamically allocating different functions associated with data transmission between the two or more data connections based on their respective current network transmission characteristics. The data connection manager utility then manages dynamically the transmission of relatively large data sets across the two or more bonded or aggregated data connections in a way that meets the system latency requirement and improves performance in regards to other network performance criteria (including data transfer rate, errors, and/or packet loss). Related computer implemented methods are also provided.
US10298503B2
A system includes a scheduling device of a data distribution service (DDS) that determines bandwidth for communication of time sensitive communications between devices using the DDS in a time sensitive network (TSN). The scheduling device determines available bandwidth for communication of non-time sensitive communications of the control system using the DDS in the TSN, and controls communication of the non-time sensitive communications in the TSN without preventing communication of the time sensitive communications in the TSN based on the available bandwidth. The system also can include a traffic shaper of the TSN that receives a communication change from the control system at the TSN. The scheduling device changes one or more of the bandwidth for the communication of the time sensitive communications or the available bandwidth for the communication of the non-time sensitive communications in the TSN without restarting the TSN.
US10298496B1
A data or packet processing device such as a network interface controller may include cache control logic that is configured to receive a first request for processing a first data packet associated with the queue identifier, and obtain a set of memory descriptors associated with the queue identifier from the memory. The set of descriptors can be stored in the cache. When a second request for processing a second data packet associated with the queue identifier is received, the cache control logic can determine that the cache is storing memory descriptors for processing the second data packet, and provide the memory descriptors used for processing the second packet.
US10298494B2
A method includes, in a computing system that includes multiple compute nodes that run workloads and are connected by a network, establishing a dedicated Transport Control Protocol (TCP) connection over the network between a first compute node and a second compute node. Packets, which originate from one or more source workloads on the first compute node and are destined to one or more destination workloads on the second compute node, are identified and queued in the first compute node. The queued packets are aggregated in the first compute node into one or more TCP segments, and the TCP segments are sent over the dedicated TCP connection to the second compute node. In the second compute node, the TCP segments are received over the dedicated TCP connection, the packets are extracted from the received TCP segments, and the extracted packets are forwarded to the destination workloads.
US10298493B2
Measures, including methods, systems and computer program products, for use in processing route data in a network comprising a plurality of autonomous systems. At a network device, route data defining at least one route for network traffic which is configured on at least one border network device is received from the at least one border network device. The at least one border network device is located at a border of an autonomous system in the plurality of autonomous systems. The network device processes the received route data according to a set of policies to generate modified route data. The network device transmits at least a part of the modified route data to the at least one border network device. The at least part of the modified route data is operable to instruct the at least one border network device to modify the behavior of the at least one route.
US10298488B1
In some examples, a network device is configured to obtain a set of N paths between a pair of nodes of a network topology model for a network of routers interconnected by a plurality of links in a network topology, where N>2, and configured to, for each label switched path from a plurality of label switched paths to be routed to the network topology: in response to identifying, from the set of N paths, a path for the label switched path that has capacity for a required bandwidth of the label switched path, deduct the required bandwidth of the label switched path from one or more links of the path of the network topology model to modify the network topology model and output data to the network for programming the label switched path in the network on the path; and in response to failing to identify a path for the label switched path from the set of N paths, add the label switched path to a set of failed label switched paths.
US10298487B2
A method includes: generating an active route (AR) between a first network element (NE) and a second NE, the AR includes a first route between an active core device (ACD) and the first NE and a second route between the ACD and the second NE, transmitting data between the first NE and the second NE through the AR; sending an identity and a state of a first gateway interface that is connected to the first NE and is included in the ACD to a standby core device (SCD), the SCD generates a standby route (SR) between the first NE and the second NE, the SR includes a third route between the SCD and the first NE and a fourth route between the SCD and the second NE; and when a fault occurs on the first route, transmitting the data between the first NE and the second NE through the SR.
US10298485B2
Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for generating a Network on Chip (NoC), which can involve determining a plurality of traffic flows from a NoC specification; grouping the plurality of traffic flows into a plurality of groups; utilizing a first machine learning algorithm to determine a sorting order on each of the plurality of groups of traffic flows; generating a list of traffic flows for NoC construction from the plurality of groups of traffic flows based on the sorting order; utilizing a second machine learning algorithm to select one or more mapping algorithms for each group of the plurality of groups of traffic flows for NoC construction; and generating the NoC based on a mapping from the selection of the one or more mapping algorithms.
US10298481B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a network device that includes a test frame generator and an analyzer. The test frame generator is configured to generate a request frame that is compliant with a Layer 2 protocol and to transmit the request frame to a target network device that is a member of a virtual local area network (VLAN) of which the network device is also a member. The analyzer is configured to transmit a query to the target network device to detect whether a forwarding database associated with the target network device includes a first media access control (MAC) address of the network device, and to determine whether the target network device is connected to the network device based on the detection.
US10298480B2
The present invention includes various novel systems and methods for communication in a network. A System Environment Monitor is employed in some embodiments to extract from the network both real-time and historical Network Metrics at the Infrastructure Layer, as well as Application Metadata at the Application Layer. Network analytics facilitate decisions based upon the differing characteristics of Application Components and lower-level hardware components across multiple DTTs. In response, an SDN Controller generates modified sets of SDN Flows, and implements them in real time across a mixed technology (multi-DTT) network in a manner that avoids disrupting existing SDN Flows and other real-time network traffic.
US10298478B2
An information processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected to each other, and communication is performed between the plurality of information processing apparatuses. Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses includes a processor. The processor included in one of the plurality of information processing devices serving as a first information processing device receives, from each of second information processing devices other than the first information processing device, state information regarding each state of the plurality of information processing devices determined by the second information processing devices, determines each state of the plurality of information processing devices, based on the state information received from each of the second information processing devices, and transmits state information for transmission regarding the determined state of each of the plurality of information processing devices to each of the second information processing devices.
US10298474B2
Embodiments include methods, systems, and apparatuses for automatic broadband information correlation and record generation. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving performance information related to a broadband connection of customer premises equipment (CPE), and receiving information related to a local network connected to the CPE. The method includes processing the local network information to generate location information associated with the CPE. The method further includes generating a record including the performance information and the location information associated with the CPE.
US10298472B2
A computing device for media connection channel quality testing is described, including communications hardware; non-volatile memory storing a test initiation program; and a processor configured to execute the test initiation program to: transmit, via the communications hardware, a plurality of comparative testing media streams to a test server, each of the comparative testing media streams sent over one of a plurality of media connection channels; receive, via the communications hardware, a plurality of objective quality scores from the test server, each objective quality score corresponding to one of the plurality of media connection channels and are determined by the test server using an objective scoring test comparing the comparative testing media stream to reference testing data associated with the one of the comparative testing media streams; and select a recommended operational media connection channel from the plurality of media connection channels based on the objective quality scores.
US10298466B2
System and method embodiments are provided for enabling software defined topology (SDT) to interwork with network function virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN). In an embodiment, a method for software defined topology (SDT) management interworking with network function virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN) includes receiving, at an SDT Manager, from a service customer, a service request comprising a virtual service function forwarding graph (VSF FG); selecting a virtual network function (VNF) forwarding graph (FG) template in accordance with the received service request; generating a virtual function (VF) FG in accordance with the service request and the selected VNF FG template; selecting a point of presence (PoPs) for a VF in the VF FG; and transmitting, to an NFV Manager, instructions to instantiate the VF in accordance with at least one of the generated VF FG and the determined PoP.
US10298464B2
The present application relates to a method and apparatus of predicting network performance, wherein the method includes: obtaining M performance parameter data of a link; calculating a cloud model digital feature of network performance of the link according to the M performance parameter data; calculating N predicted performance parameter data of the network performance of the link according to the cloud model digital feature; and raising a prediction alarm that the link has a risk of exceeding a limit if there is data exceeding a preset upper limit value in the N predicted performance parameter data, wherein M and N are preset positive integers. A change trend of network performance is analyzed according to real-time monitored data of the network performance of the link to predict future performance parameter data, and whether an alarm is raised and protection switching is performed is determined based on the prediction.
US10298461B2
A device and method for determining a master device in a neighborhood aware network (NAN). The method includes identifying a number of peer devices located within communication range of a first device and that are capable of communicating via the NAN. A master rank value associated with a corresponding peer device is retrieved from each received response. A first master rank value is calculated for the first device, at least partially based on the number of responding peer devices. The first master rank value is compared with the received master rank values of the responding peer devices. In response to the first master rank value being greater than each of the received master rank values, the first device assumes a role of a master device within a NAN cluster that includes the first device and the responding peer devices.
US10298457B2
Methods and systems for synchronization of configuration files of a plurality of blades in a virtual application distribution chassis are disclosed. In an exemplary method, a master blade processes a configuration command, updates a first configuration file with the configuration command and generates an updated tag, and sends a configuration message to at least one slave blade of the virtual application distribution chassis informing of the updated configuration file. The configuration message is received by a given slave blade of the one or more slave blades and compared with a second configuration file stored at the given slave blade; and in response to determining that the updated tag in the configuration message is more recent than the tag in the second configuration file stored at the given slave blade, the slave blade sends a request for the updated configuration file to the master blade.
US10298456B1
Some embodiments of the invention provide a network forwarding element that can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust its data message processing to stay within a desired operating temperature or power consumption range. In some embodiments, the network forwarding element includes (1) a data-plane forwarding circuit (“data plane”) to process data tuples associated with data messages received by the IC, and (2) a control-plane circuit (“control plane”) for configuring the data plane forwarding circuit. The data plane includes several data processing stages to process the data tuples. The data plane also includes an idle-signal injecting circuit that receives from the control plane configuration data that the control plane generates based on the IC's temperature. Based on the received configuration data, the idle-signal injecting circuit generates idle control signals for the data processing stages. Each stage that receives an idle control signal enters an idle state during which the majority of the components of that stage do not perform any operations, which reduces the power consumed and temperature generated by that stage during its idle state.
US10298454B2
A communication path switching apparatus in an application unit that executes a certain function of performing wireless communication with another communication apparatus, a data switching unit that forwards data for causing the application unit to execute the certain function, a control unit that makes the setting for causing the data switching unit to forward the data, and a virtual device unit that forwards the data forwarded from the data switching unit to the application unit based on the setting made by the control unit.
US10298451B1
Systems and methods permit a wireless device to receive data wirelessly via an infrastructure wireless network, without physically connecting the wireless device to a computer in order to configure it, and without having an existing infrastructure wireless network for the wireless device to connect to. A remote server hosts a website that permits a user of the wireless device to input via a computer credential data for at least one infrastructure wireless network. The content access point transmits the credential data for the at least one infrastructure wireless network to the wireless device via the ad hoc wireless network, such that, upon receipt of the credential data for the at least one infrastructure wireless network, the wireless device is configured to connect to the at least one infrastructure wireless network.
US10298441B1
Embodiments determine failures of a network element (NE) in an outside plant utilizing a connectivity trail that indicates NEs starting at the headend and ending at a distribution tap that serves one or more customer premise devices associated to a customer account. Embodiments determine a failed NE that serves the highest number of customers for which a trouble is reported to a ticketing system. Embodiments avoid reporting downstream child NEs that may be performing poorly due to the upstream failed parent NE. Embodiments associate the one or more customer premise devices, and a customer account with respective NEs of the connectivity trail, perform operational metric tests to determine whether a customer premise device associated with a customer account has failed, determine when an NE of the connectivity trail has failed. Embodiments also include rebooting the failed NE and/or notifying a ticketing system accordingly.
US10298436B2
The present disclosure discloses an arbitration processing solution when brain split occurs in cluster. The solution includes: receiving, by a quorum storage apparatus within a first refresh packet detection period, first master quorum node preemption requests sent by at least two quorum nodes in the cluster; sending, by the quorum storage apparatus, a first master quorum node preemption success response message to the initial master quorum node indicating that the initial master quorum node succeeds in master quorum node preemption when the first master quorum node preemption requests received within the first refresh packet detection period comprise the master quorum node preemption request sent by the initial master quorum node.
US10298425B2
The present disclosure is aimed at making an adjustment operation for sound quality evaluation of a radio device easy. A radio repeater includes: a reception unit configured to receive a radio signal from a first radio terminal; a relay equalizer configured to adjust a frequency characteristic of the radio signal based on a configuration; a configuration reflection unit configured to reflect configuration information on the frequency characteristic received via a communication line in a configuration of the relay equalizer; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the radio signal that has been adjusted to a second radio terminal.
US10298419B2
A low voltage differential signaling driver includes at least one output circuit, a first control circuit, and a second control circuit. The output circuit includes a first input terminal to receive a first input signal, a second input terminal to receive a second input signal, a first output terminal to output a first output signal, a second output terminal to output a second output signal, and first to sixth transistors. The first control circuit controls a voltage of a control terminal of the first transistor to make a voltage of the first output signal equal to a first reference voltage when the first input signal has a first value. The second control circuit controls a voltage of a control terminal of the second transistor to make the voltage of the first output signal equal to a second reference voltage when the first input signal has a second value.
US10298404B1
A client establishes a cryptographically protected communications session with a server. To detect a man-in-the-middle, the client echoes information about a certificate purportedly received from the server. The information echoed by the client is digitally signed so as to be verifiable by the server without any cryptographic key used in the cryptographically protected communications session or its establishment, thereby rendering the echoed information unmodifiable by a man-in-the-middle without invalidating the signature. The server can therefore verify both the echoed information and the digital signature to determine whether it has established a cryptographically protected communications session with the client or with a man-in-the-middle purporting to be the client.
US10298400B2
Provided is a computer implemented method for performing mutual authentication between an online service server and a service user, including: (a) generating, by an authentication server, a server inspection OTP; (b) generating, by an OTP generator, a verification OTP having the same condition as the server inspection OTP and using the same generation key as an OTP generation key and a calculation condition different from a calculation condition is applied or a generation key different from the OTP generation key is used and the same calculation condition as the calculation condition used for generating the server inspection OTP is applied to generate a user OTP; and (c) generating, by the authentication server, a corresponding OTP having the same condition as the user OTP and comparing whether the generated corresponding OTP and the user OTP match each other to authenticate the service user.
US10298395B1
For shielded cryptographic data exchange interoperation, an interoperability node is in communication with a furnisher participant node of a furnisher distributed ledger technology (DLT) network and a receiver participant node of a receiver DLT network. The interoperability node may obtain a shielded exchange instruction. The shielded exchange instruction may include a zero-knowledge proof, a selected token nullifier, a new token nullifier, and a new token digest. The zero-knowledge proof may be indicative of the furnisher participant having access to the selected token identifier. When the interoperability node determines that the new token nullifier is not present on a receiver blockchain, the interoperability node may submit the shielded exchange instruction to a furnisher smart contract and a receiver smart contract. The furnisher smart contract may retire the selected token nullifier on the furnisher blockchain. The receiver smart contract may insert the new token nullifier and the new token digest to the receiver blockchain.
US10298392B2
An entitlement system includes at least two computing devices and a management controller which all include a trusted platform module. Each of the trusted platform modules include a non-volatile storage for storing entitlement records. A management unit of each computing device includes configuration means to enable and disable computing resources of the respective computing device based on entitlement records. The management controller receives ensemble entitlement records in encrypted form and distributes sub-entitlement records in a second encrypted form to the management units of the computing devices.
US10298386B1
An unencrypted media access control layer (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) having a header is received at a wireless network interface device. The header includes a sequence number. The wireless network interface device uses the sequence number to encrypt data in the unencrypted MPDU to generate an encrypted MPDU, and transmits the encrypted MPDU.
US10298384B2
A hardened VoIP system is presented that includes secure push-to-talk voice functionality. Through the addition of encryption, authentication, user filtering, and integration with the new and existing LMR systems, a secure voice platform ensures malicious software, unauthorized access and brute force security attacks will not compromise the voice communications of the system. The VoIP system is engineered to ensure graceful system degradation in the event of maintenance activities, natural disasters and failure modes. The hardened VoIP system offers the functions a LMR trunking system while utilizing broadband connections. Private calls, group calls, Emergency Alarms with covert monitoring capability, scanning and priority scanning may be incorporated into the system. The system includes a VoIP controller that serves as a trunking controller, manages available VoIP based conference bridges, and assigns them as needed to the parties involved in each voice call.
US10298382B2
A frequency divider unit has a digital frequency divider configured to divide by an odd integer, and a dual-edge-triggered one-shot coupled to double frequency of an output of the digital frequency divider. The frequency divider unit is configurable to divide an input frequency by a configurable ratio selectable from at least non-integer ratios of 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5. In embodiments, the frequency divider unit relies on circuit delays to determine an output pulsewidth, and in other embodiments the output pulsewidth is determined from a clock signal. In embodiments, the unit is configurable to divide an input frequency by a configurable ratio selectable from at least non-integer ratios of 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5, 6.5, and 7.5 as well as many integer ratios including 2, 4, 6, and 8. In embodiments, the digital frequency divider is configurable to provide a 50% duty cycle to the one-shot.
US10298379B2
A method for transferring data over a half-duplex wired communications link, comprises, in each of a plurality of frames: transferring a synchronization data pattern in a first direction; transferring first payload data in the first direction; transferring second payload data in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and transferring control data, wherein the format of the frame is such that, irrespective of whether the control data is transferred in the first direction or in the second direction, there is only one pair of reversals of a direction of data transfer in each frame.
US10298378B2
Half-duplex (HD) operations enable low cost implementations of LTE terminals. Traditionally, HD operations may be linked to a particular frequency band which may not allow a mix of full-duplex (FD) and HD terminals in the same frequency band. Therefore, certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enabling coexistence, in a given frequency band, of HD and FD terminals, by introducing frequency bands designated for HD operation and overlapping existing frequency bands designated for FD operation.
US10298369B2
A reference signal transmission method in a downlink MIMO system is disclosed. The downlink MIMO system supports a first UE supporting N transmission antennas among a total of M transmission antennas (where M>N) and a second UE supporting the M transmission antennas. The method includes transmitting, by a base station (BS), subframe-associated information which designates a first subframe in which data for the first UE and the second UE is transmitted and a second subframe in which data only for the second UE can be transmitted within a radio frame having a plurality of subframes, and transmitting the first subframe and the second subframe. Reference signals corresponding to antenna ports ‘0’ to ‘N−1’ of the N antennas are mapped to the first subframe, and reference signals corresponding to antenna ports ‘0’ to ‘M−1’ of the M antennas are mapped to the second subframe.
US10298365B2
An orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame includes a 256 tone payload. The 256 tone payload may consist of either 234 data tones when the payload is carried in a downlink transmission. The 256 tone payload may consist of 216 data tones when the payload is carried in an uplink transmission. In addition, the OFDMA frame may include one or more resource units (RUs). Each of the one or more RUs may consist of either an integer multiple of 26 data tones or an integer multiple of 24 data tones and 2 pilot tones. Another embodiment OFDMA frame comprises a symbol-based RU (SRU) that may include an integer multiple of 2 pilots tones and either an integer multiple of 24 data tones or an integer multiple of 26 data tones.
US10298355B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to supporting cooperative transmission in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, such as a wireless distribution system (WDS). A WDS includes a plurality of remote units each defining a home coverage cell. A selected remote unit can coordinate with a neighboring remote unit(s) to help mitigate inter-cell interference for a selected client device(s) located in an overlapping coverage area between the home coverage cell of the selected remote unit and a neighboring coverage cell(s) defined by the neighboring remote unit(s). The selected remote unit receives channel-data information from the selected client device(s) and forms a first radio frequency (RF) beam based on the channel-data information to distribute a downlink signal(s) to the selected client device. The selected remote unit coordinates with the neighboring remote unit(s) based on the channel-data information to form a second RF beam to distribute the downlink signal(s) to the selected client device.
US10298351B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for implementing hybrid automatic repeat request, a user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: determining first indication information and second indication information separately according to feedback information of each downlink subframe of a primary cell and that of a secondary cell that need to be sent in a same uplink subframe of the primary cell, where the first indication information is used to indicate first feedback information of each downlink subframe of the primary cell that needs to be sent in the uplink subframe, and the second indication information is used to indicate second feedback information of each downlink subframe of the secondary cell that needs to be sent in the uplink subframe; sending mapping information of the first indication information and the second indication information in the uplink subframe.
US10298334B2
Embodiments include a technique for a signal strength boosting in a human-body near-field communication systems, the technique includes receiving a configuration of a set of devices disposed on a body of a user for transmitting a signal across the body of the user, the devices being configured to amplify the signal, and receiving an indication of a signal strength of the signal transmitted through the devices of the set of devices. The technique also includes identifying a location of signal loss based on the signal strength, and providing a recommendation to modify the configuration of the set of devices based on the identified location of signal loss, wherein the recommendation provides a location for placement of one or more additional devices to increase the signal strength. The technique includes updating the configuration based on the one or more additional devices.
US10298325B1
An optical transceiver for controlling a steering angle between a receive light beam and a transmit light beam includes an optical beam coupling device. The optical beam coupling device comprises a plurality of optical elements configured to control a steering angle between the receive light beam received by the optical beam coupling device along a first line of sight (LOS) and the transmit light beam that is output from the optical beam coupling device along a second LOS different from the first LOS, wherein both the receive light beam and the transmit light beam pass through the plurality of optical elements. The plurality of optical elements have a set of combinations for different positions of each of the optical elements, wherein each position in the set of combinations induces a different steering angle between the transmit light beam and the receive light beam.
US10298320B2
Interference noise is eliminated and fitting accuracy is enhanced.A spectrum analysis apparatus includes an electromagnetic wave source configured to emit an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength from 0.1 mm to 10 mm, a spectrometer a detecting section configured to detect an emitted electromagnetic wave that exits from the measurement object, the wave being transmitted through or reflected by the measurement object, and to generate a detection signal; and an analyzing section configured to analyze the detection signal. The analyzing section has a noise eliminating unit configured to generate a noise eliminated signal by eliminating from the detection signal a round-trip electromagnetic wave having reciprocated twice or more inside the measurement object and then emitted from the measurement object, in the emitted electromagnetic wave. Furthermore, the analyzing section is configured to generate a transmission or reflection spectrum that is a corrected detection signal by using the noise eliminated signal.
US10298311B2
Techniques and examples of overhead reduction for linear combination codebook and feedback mechanism in mobile communications are described. A user equipment (UE) receives from a base station of a network one or more reference signals via a communication link between the UE and the base station. The UE constructs a channel state information (CSI) feedback by utilizing a correlation of channel responses in a frequency domain to reduce feedback overhead. The UE then transmits the CSI feedback to the base station.
US10298304B2
When an AP (access point) performs sounding to transmit a frame to one or more STAs using a beamforming scheme in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system, the AP receives a beamforming feedback, which is generated based on measurement of a specific signal transmitted by the AP in a manner that the one or more STAs group a prescribed number of tones according to a tone grouping element (Ng). In this case, the Ng is configured by a multiple of 4.
US10298302B2
A signal generation method is used in a transmission device that transmits a plurality of transmission signals from a plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time, in the case where larger power change is performed on a first transmission signal than on a second transmission signal during generation process of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal, the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal are mapped before the power change such that a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the first signal is longer than a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the second signal.
US10298298B2
A consumer premise equipment (CPE) which may comprise a processor, a storage medium, and an antenna, wherein the processor may be operatively coupled to the storage medium and the antenna to receive, from multiple antennas of a hub station, a first beam training announcement signal that may inform the CPE to be ready to receive a beam training packet using one or more beams, wherein the beam training packet may include a plurality of symbols that are each beamformed using a different beamformer or precoder; and send, to the hub station, a beamforming feedback report based on measurements taken by the CPE, possibly as a result of the CPE receiving the first beam training announcement signal.
US10298291B2
A method and system for communicating audio, video, and/or control signals within a home entertainment system. One or more signals are communicated between an input device and one or more output devices via one or more networks. The output device can include loudspeakers, display devices, and headphones. In some embodiments an output device, for example a center channel loudspeaker, transmits signals to other output devices. For example, the center channel loudspeaker can transmit a combined audio signal and control signal to a remote loudspeaker over a first network and transmit a video signal to a display device over a second network. The display device displays the video signal. The networks can be wireless, wired, infrared, RF, and powerline.
US10298284B2
A full duplex transceiver includes a phased array antenna panel transmitter and a phased array antenna panel receiver. The full duplex transceiver may include at least one dummy antenna row situated between the phased array antenna panel transmitter and the phased array antenna panel receiver, the at least one dummy antenna row having at least one dummy antenna connected to a terminating resistor. The phased array antenna panel transmitter forms a desired radio frequency (RF) transmit beam at a target angle, and forms a null at an angle so as to minimize reception of offending transmit signals at said phased array antenna panel receiver. The phased array antenna panel receiver may receive offending transmit signals from the phased array antenna panel transmitter and a desired receive signal at a combined input power level. The full duplex transceiver may include an automatic gain controller configured to adjust a receiver chain of the phased array antenna panel receiver such that the receiver chain maintains operation in a linear region at the combined input power level.
US10298283B2
A protective case adapted to be mounted on an electronic device is provided, wherein the electronic device is adapted to perform wireless signal transmission, and has a front surface for usage. The protective case is adapted to surround a periphery of the front surface, and has a frame which surrounds the periphery of the front surface when the protective case is mounted on the electronic device. The protective case includes a core material and a plated coating. The core material includes a metal material. The plated coating covers a surface of the core material, and has a thickness between 15 μm and 25 μm. Materials of the plated coating include a metallic oxide and an alloy oxide. Specifically, with the metallic oxide and the alloy oxide, the plated coating separates the core material from the exterior, and therefore provides an anticorrosion function, as well as prevents external interferences.
US10298273B2
A demultiplexing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an amplifier that amplifies transmission signals in three or more communication bands having different frequency bands; multiple signal paths which are commonly provided for an output terminal of the amplifier and on which the signals in the corresponding communication bands are propagated; and multiple transmission-reception filters which are provided on the multiple signal paths, and each of which isolates a transmission signal and a reception signal of the corresponding communication band from each other. The gains of the amplifier in the frequency bands of multiple reception signals are smaller than the gains of the amplifier in the frequency bands of multiple transmission signals.
US10298260B2
A zero padding apparatus and method for variable length signaling information are disclosed. A zero padding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a processor configured to generate a LDPC information bit string by deciding a number of groups whose all bits are to be filled with 0 using a difference between a length of the LDPC information bit string and a length of a BCH-encoded bit string, selecting the groups using a shortening pattern order to fill all the bits of the groups with 0, and filling at least a part of remaining groups, which are not filled with 0, with the BCH-encoded bit string; and memory configured to provide the LDPC information bit string to an LDPC encoder.
US10298256B1
An analog-to-digital conversion system includes two quantizers having a least significant bit arranged in a parallel pair. An input circuit coupled to the quantizers provides an analog input signal to the quantizers. A dither generator coupled to the quantizers provides an analog differential dither signal for perturbing quantization of the analog input signal. A combiner coupled to the quantizers adds respective outputs of the quantizers to obtain a linearized digital representation of the analog input signal.
US10298252B2
An analog front end system can include a filter bypass switch connected in a boot-strapped configuration to pull a control terminal of the filter bypass switch above or below a supply voltage. Using bootstrapped switches can allow both the charge injection and capacitive coupling of the bypass switches of a differential anti-alias filter (AAF) to be common mode. A differential input signal of the ADC is not affected by the charge injection and capacitive coupling of the bypass switches in the AAF filter to a first order.
US10298251B2
An embodiment electronic circuit includes an electronic switch comprising a load path, a first protection circuit configured to generate a first protection signal based on a current-time-characteristic of a load current through the load path of the electronic switch, and a drive circuit configured to drive the electronic switch based on the first protection signal. The first protection circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive an ADC input signal representing the load current, to sample the ADC input signal once in each of a plurality of successive sampling periods, and to output an ADC output signal that includes a sequence of values such that each of the values represents a respective sample of the ADC input signal. The ADC is configured to pseudo-randomly select a sample time in each sampling period.
US10298248B1
An example apparatus for analog-to-digital conversion includes a plurality of channels each including an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a switch configured to couple a differential input to the ADC, a first offset calibration circuit coupled to an output of the ADC, a multiplier coupled to an output of the first offset calibration circuit, a second offset calibration circuit coupled to an output of the multiplier, and a pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) generator coupled to the switch and the multiplier. The apparatus further includes a gain calibration circuit coupled to an output of the second offset calibration circuit in each of the plurality of channels; and a time-skew calibration circuit coupled to an output of the gain calibration circuit.
US10298230B2
A front end for an inductive proximity sensor includes a coil for detecting an approaching metal object and a circuit board, wherein the coil is designed as a circuit board coil disposed in the circuit board, wherein a metal influencing element which is disposed in or on the circuit board has an opening to receive at least one electrical connecting element, wherein a through connection of the circuit board to an electrical connection plane, which serves for electrical connection of the circuit board to a control electronics of the proximity sensor, is made by the at least one electrical connecting element.
US10298227B2
An apparatus includes a circuitry to perform a high current and/or a high voltage switching. The circuitry includes a first Gallium Nitride (GaN) on a silicon (Si) substrate lateral field effect transistor. A source terminal of the first GaN lateral field effect transistor on the Si substrate includes an electrical connection to backside of P-type Si substrate through a high voltage isolated resistor that is coupled to a source terminal or a second resistor that is operably coupled to a drain terminal and a substrate terminal. The high voltage isolated resistor and the second resistor cause to a leakage current from the drain terminal to the source terminal via a buffer layer. The leakage current equalizes the voltage drop on the first GaN lateral field effect transistor on the Si substrate to a voltage drop on a serially connected second GaN lateral field effect transistor on the Si substrate.
US10298223B2
A semiconductor device driving circuit includes: a threshold adjustment circuit; a desaturation voltage detection circuit; and a drive circuit. The threshold adjustment circuit switches the threshold between a first voltage and a second voltage which is larger than the first voltage, outputs the first voltage as the threshold when the semiconductor switching device is in an off-state, and outputs the second voltage as the threshold when the semiconductor switching device is turned on and a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode is a saturation voltage.
US10298220B2
A switching element drive circuit that drives a main switching element by providing a control terminal of the main switching element with a drive signal that has asymmetric positive and negative potentials with respect to a reference potential, the main switching element including a ground terminal, which is a source terminal or an emitter terminal, and to which the reference potential is connected.
US10298219B2
A pass switch circuit for transferring the voltage of an input node to an output node and a method of controlling the pass switch circuit are disclosed herein. The pass switch circuit includes a pass switch, a first capacitor, and a first switch. The pass switch transfers a voltage level from an input node to an output node. The first capacitor is configured such that the node of one side thereof has a first level of voltage when the voltage of the control node of the pass switch is in a first state. The first switch connects the node of the one side of the first capacitor with the control node of the pass switch.
US10298217B2
The disclosure relates to a skew control circuit for controlling the skew between at least three clock signals, the clock signals being forwarded to different clock domains associated with the respective clock signals. The skew control circuit comprises multiple programmable delay elements arranged within a signal flow before the respective clock domain, a skew detector arrangement operable for detecting skews between at least two pairs of the clock signals, and a control circuit operable for adjusting delays caused by the programmable delay elements. The control circuit is operable for carrying out a de-skewing operation. The de-skewing operation comprises determining an order of occurrence of edges of the signals, selecting one of the programmable delay elements based on the determined order, and adjusting the delay caused by the selected programmable delay element.
US10298200B2
A surface acoustic wave device of a ladder type includes a series resonator and a parallel resonator, in which the parallel resonator includes a first reflector, a second reflector, and a comb-shaped electrode located between the first reflector and the second reflector, and the comb-shaped electrode includes a first section in which electrode fingers are formed at a constant cycle, and a second section in which electrode fingers are formed at a constant cycle different from the cycle of the first section.
US10298199B2
An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; an acoustic wave generating part disposed on a surface of the substrate; a ground pad disposed on the surface of the substrate; a support part spaced apart from the acoustic wave generating part on the surface of the substrate; a shielding member disposed on the support part, and spaced apart from the acoustic wave generating part; and a ground terminal disposed on the ground pad, wherein the ground pad and the shielding member are electrically connected to each other through the ground terminal.
US10298196B2
Embodiments of radio frequency (RF) filtering circuitry are disclosed. In one embodiment, the RF filtering circuitry includes a first port, a second port, a first RF filter path, and a second RF filter path. The first RF filter path is connected between the first port and the second port and includes at least a pair of weakly coupled resonators. The weakly coupled resonators are configured such that a first transfer response between the first port and the second port defines a first passband. The second RF filter path is coupled to the first RF filter path and is configured such that the first transfer response between the first port and the second port defines a stopband adjacent to the first passband without substantially increasing ripple variation of the first passband defined by the first transfer response.
US10298195B2
The present invention relates to a radio frequency filter employing a notch structure, wherein the notch structure is a dual notch structure which comprises: a C notch structure formed in a predetermined region at a partition between two cavities to be cross-coupled; and an L notch structure formed together with the C notch structure in a predetermined region at a partition between two cavities.
US10298192B2
A recorded signal representing a recorded sound generated by a sound generation source is reproduced. A type of a sound generation source of a performance sound represented by a performance signal is specified. A sound volume of the recorded signal is reduced in a case where the sound generation source of the recorded signal corresponds to the specified type of the sound generation source.
US10298191B2
In a power amplifier module for performing slope control of a transmitting signal, a gain variation due to a variation in battery voltage is suppressed while suppressing an increase in circuit size. The power amplifier module includes: a first regulator for outputting a first voltage corresponding to a control voltage for controlling a signal level; a second regulator for outputting a second voltage that rises as a battery voltage drops; a first amplifier supplied with the first voltage as a power-supply voltage to amplify an input signal and output an amplified signal; and a second amplifier for amplifying the amplified signal, wherein the second amplifier includes a first amplification unit supplied with the second voltage as the power-supply voltage to amplify the amplified signal, and a second amplification unit supplied with the battery voltage as the power-supply voltage to amplify the amplified signal.
US10298189B1
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with gain adjustment. One embodiment of an ADC with autonomous gain adjustment includes an ADC, a gain stage coupled to the ADC, a scaler coupled to the ADC, and a control logic that may be configured to configure the gain of the gain stage responsive to measured output of the ADC.
US10298188B2
A class-D amplifier of an embodiment includes: a PWM modulator configured to output a PWM pulse based on an input signal; a first output transistor group, in which a connection point of complementarily operated two first output transistors is an output end; a second output transistor group, in which a connection point of complementarily operated two second output transistors is connected to the connection point of the first transistors; a driver circuit capable of driving the first output transistors and the second output transistors of the first and second output transistor groups, based on the PWM pulse from the PWM modulator; and a control circuit configured to generate a control signal for operating at least one of the first output transistor group and the second output transistor group.
US10298186B2
A carrier aggregation front-end module with a receive sub-module for receiving signals from a plurality of transmit modules. The module comprises a first receive path configured to receive a first set of signals from one or more of a plurality of antennas, wherein the first set of signals comprises at least one desired receive signal and at least one undesired transmit blocker signal from the plurality of transmit modules. The second receive path is configured to receive a second set of signals from one or more of a plurality of antennas comprising at least one desired receive signal and at least one undesired transmit blocker signal from the plurality of transmit modules. The module also comprises at least one shared tunable notch filter configured to reject at least one of the undesired transmit blocker signals for each of the first receive path and the second receive path.
US10298185B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to calibrating a power amplifier. The power amplifier calibration circuit is configured to provide a plurality of bias signal combinations each including a respective first bias signal and a respective second bias signal to the power amplifier. Power amplifier performance parameters for each of the bias signal combinations can be measured and provided to a control circuit in the power amplifier calibration circuit. The control circuit is configured to rank the measured power amplifier performance parameters based on predefined ranking criteria and determines a selected bias signal combination that can optimize the power amplifier performance parameters of the power amplifier. As such, it is possible to calibrate the power amplifier to operate at a balanced performance level, thus helping to improve radio frequency (RF) coverage and performance of the remote unit in a wireless distribution system (WDS).
US10298176B2
A mixer includes a transconductance circuit and a mixing circuit. The transconductance circuit includes a capacitor and first and second transconductance modules. The first transconductance module converts a single-ended to-be-shifted voltage signal at a first terminal of the capacitor into a first input current signal. The second transconductance module converts a voltage signal at a second terminal of the capacitor into a second input current signal that cooperates with the first input current signal to constitute a differential input current signal pair. The mixing circuit mixes the differential input current signal pair with a differential oscillatory voltage signal pair to generate a differential mixed voltage signal pair.
US10298168B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods configured to monitor and protect an electric motor during startup using a motor model. The motor model parameters may be calculated using measurements taken during a calibration start of the electric motor. The measurements may include slip, stator current, stator voltage, frequency, and/or other electrical or physical parameters. In some embodiments, the motor model parameters may be calculated by minimizing the difference between a measured slip and a calculated slip. The motor model may comprise a variety of parameters used to determine operation parameters of the motor during the startup. In one specific embodiment, the motor model may determine a thermal capacity used (TCU). The TCU may be compared to a threshold value to determine whether protective action is necessary.
US10298167B2
A motor controller includes a rectifier for converting AC power supplied from an AC power supply into DC power and outputting the DC power; an AC voltage detector for detecting an AC voltage value of the AC power supply and outputting the AC voltage value as a detection value; a power failure detector for determining that a power failure is occurring, when a state in which the outputted detection value is equal to or lower than a regulation voltage has continued for a regulation time or more; and a power failure detection condition determiner for determining or modifying the regulation time.
US10298164B2
A system includes a plurality of actuators configured to provide forces to an actuatable member to actuate the member between a first position and a second position during an actuation mode. The actuators are also configured to return the member from the second position to the first position during a retrace mode. The system also includes a controller configured to control the actuators. The controller is configured to identify a back electromotive force (BEMF) of each of the actuators during the retrace mode. The controller is also configured to responsively provide control signals to drive the actuators such that the forces provided by the actuators to the member during the actuation mode are substantially equal.
US10298157B2
On the basis of an energization phase signal being output from a rotational phase sensor and changing its output at every predetermined rotational phase corresponding to a stepwise change (increase or decrease) in rotational phase, a motor controller switches a phase current passing through the corresponding phase coil, and changes the magnitude of the phase current passing through the corresponding phase coil such that an actual motor torque detected by a torque sensor coincides with a target motor torque.
US10298153B2
Provided are an input buffer, a semiconductor device and an engine control unit making it possible to execute fault diagnosis in real time. The input buffer includes a first comparator which compares a voltage of an input signal with a first reference voltage, a hysteresis circuit which generates a first high voltage side or low voltage side reference voltage on the basis of a comparison result from the first comparator, a second comparator which compares the voltage of the input signal with a second reference voltage, and a hysteresis circuit which outputs a second high voltage side reference voltage which is higher than the first high voltage side reference voltage or a second low voltage side reference voltage which is lower than the first low voltage side reference voltage.
US10298147B2
A power device includes a semiconductor relay and a pre-charger that has a reference voltage generator and a controller. The semiconductor relay is disposed at a position between a battery supplying electric power to a power converter that serves as a load and a smoothing capacitor connected on a battery side of the power converter in parallel with the power converter. The reference voltage generator generates a reference voltage having a gradually-increasing voltage value in a pre-charge period, prior to a turning ON of the semiconductor relay accompanying a turning ON of an ignition switch. The controller controls the semiconductor relay such that a charge voltage which is an inter-terminal voltage of the smoothing capacitor is set to a preset value according to the reference voltage.
US10298141B2
A motor drive device that inputs AC power from a power supply to drive a motor includes: a converter that converts the AC power from the power supply into DC power; a DC/DC converter that generates DC power produced by stepping-up, stepping-down, or stepping-up and stepping-down the DC power from the converter; an inverter that converts the DC power from the DC/DC converter into AC power and supplies to the motor; and an electrical storage capacitor that is provided between the DC/DC converter and the inverter.
US10298139B2
A switch mode power supply comprises a power converter including a transformer having a primary winding connected to a primary circuit, and a secondary winding connected to a secondary circuit delivering an output voltage to a load. The primary circuit comprises a controller for operating a switch element to chop the current flowing in the primary winding to transfer energy selectively to the secondary winding. The secondary circuit comprises a storage capacitor delivering the energy to the load, a first regulator receiving the output voltage and delivering a first control current for the controller via an isolator element, and a second regulator receiving an auxiliary output voltage that is an image of the output voltage and delivering a second control current for the controller. The second control current is added to the first control current to avoid any interruption in the chopping of the current flowing in the primary winding.
US10298133B2
Synchronous rectifiers for wireless power receivers are disclosed herein. An example receiver includes: an antenna configured to: (i) receive radio frequency (RF) power transmission waves and (ii) convert the received RF power transmissions waves into an alternating current. The receiver also includes a synchronous rectifier, coupled to the antenna, configured to synchronously rectify the alternating current into a direct current, wherein the synchronous rectifier includes: a first diode configured to receive a first portion of the alternating current that has a positive polarity, a second diode configured to receive a second portion of the alternating current that has a negative polarity, a first transistor coupled to the first diode, and a second transistor coupled to the second diode.
US10298129B1
A switching power supply using a power switch, and a drive circuit therefor are disclosed. This circuit includes a power supplying capacitor with distal end connected with control terminal of the power switch and proximal end to receive a voltage regulation signal generated by a first control signal and a pulse signal. The power switch may be turned on or off, depending on whether the first control signal is placed in a first state during which the voltage regulation signal is in pulse state with the voltage at said distal end made effective, or in a second state during which the voltage regulation signal is in low-level state with the voltage at said distal end made ineffective. A continuous drive and power supplying for the switching power supply is realized, and the capacitance of said capacitor is small, thereby facilitating circuit integration.
US10298124B2
A power converter to convert power between a first converter voltage at a first converter port and a second converter voltage at a second converter port is presented. It contains a first capacitor network, an inductor and a first switching matrix to arrange the first capacitor network and the inductor within different states. One of the states is a bypass state enabling current to flow from the first converter port or from ground through the first capacitor network to the second converter port without going through the inductor. Another state is an inductor state enabling current to flow from the first converter port or from ground through the inductor to the second converter port. The power converter also includes a control unit to control the first switching matrix repeatedly in a recurrent sequence of the different states.
US10298123B2
A power supply includes a reference voltage generator circuit, a ramp generator circuit, and control circuitry. During operation, the reference voltage generator circuit compares a magnitude of a received output voltage feedback signal to a received reference voltage. Based on the comparison, the reference voltage generator circuit produces a varying reference voltage and outputs it to the ramp generator circuit. As its name suggests, a magnitude of the varying reference voltage varies over time. The ramp generator circuit produces a ramp voltage signal, a magnitude of which is offset by the varying reference voltage. To maintain an output voltage of the power supply within regulation, the control circuitry receives the varying reference voltage and controls activation of a power converter circuit to power a load based on a comparison of the ramp voltage signal and the output voltage feedback signal of the power supply.
US10298121B2
Provided are a switching regulator and a voltage-current conversion circuit configured to shorten a start-up period. The voltage-current conversion circuit includes: a first MOS transistor of a first conductivity type including a gate and a drain connected in common, and a source connected to a first power supply terminal; a first resistor connected between the drain of the first MOS transistor and a second power supply terminal; and a correction current generation unit including a second resistor, and configured to generate, as a correction current, through use of the second resistor, a current corresponding to a current generated when a voltage corresponding to an absolute value of a gate-source voltage of the first MOS transistor is applied to the first resistor. The voltage-current conversion circuit is configured to add the correction current to a current flowing through the first resistor, to thereby generate the conversion current.
US10298120B2
A charge pump circuit includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor to which respective pulse signals are input; a first transistor including a source connected to a voltage input terminal, a drain connected to the first capacitor and a gate connected to the second capacitor; a second transistor including a source connected to the voltage input terminal, a drain connected to the second capacitor and a gate connected to the first capacitor; and a potential fixing circuit provided between a first node that is a connection node of the first transistor and the first capacitor, and a second node that is a connection node of the second transistor and the second capacitor. The potential fixing circuit fixes a potential of the first node to a potential according to a potential of the second node.
US10298115B2
A semiconductor device includes self-arc-extinguishing elements and a clamp circuit. Each of the self-arc-extinguishing elements has a control terminal and main electrode terminals. The clamp circuit clamps, at the time of turnoff of one of the self-arc-extinguishing elements, the voltage between the main electrode terminals of the self-arc-extinguishing element at a clamp voltage set equal to or lower than 70% of a static withstand voltage that the self-arc-extinguishing element has. The self-arc-extinguishing elements are connected in series with each other. The clamp circuit may be provided between the control terminal and the main electrode terminal of the self-arc-extinguishing elements. The clamp circuit may include a circuit formed by connecting Zener diodes in series such that an anode of one of the Zener diodes is connected to a cathode of another Zener diode.
US10298114B1
Techniques are described for ripple detection and cancellation in switching voltage regulator circuits. For example, in a switching voltage converter, a voltage is up-converted or down-converted by switching high side and low side switches and passed through a low-pass filter for averaging. While the act of switching can result in conversion of the voltage with good efficiency, it also typically generates ripples on the output voltage, which can be undesirable in some applications. Embodiments use the switching voltage, the output voltage, and a feed-forward loop to generate a current cancellation signal to have particular gain, timing, and polarity that effectively emulates the complement of the inductor ripple current. The cancellation current signal can be injected into the output node, such that the cancellation current signal sums with the inductor ripple current at the output node, thereby at least partially cancelling the effect of the inductor ripple current.
US10298107B2
A non-contact power generator includes: a magnet disposed at a distance to a main surface of a moving body that moves in one direction and the opposite direction, and the magnet generating a magnetic flux passing the main surface; a coil being separated from a surface of the magnet that faces away from the main surface, the coil being linked with the magnetic flux from the magnet; and a magnetic flux guide member disposed in a part of a magnetic path of the magnetic flux linked with the coil. The magnet is moved along the shaft in the moving direction of the moving body at a speed lower than the speed of the moving body by a reaction force acting on the magnet on a basis of eddy currents generated in the main surface in such a direction as to hinder a change of the magnetic flux from the magnet.
US10298084B2
A rotating electric machine including a stator including a stator core and a stator coil wound around the stator core, and a rotor including a rotor core arranged coaxially and radially in a face-to-face relationship with the stator core and a field coil wound around the rotor core. Both axial end portions of the rotor core project more axially outward than respective axial end faces of the stator core. The rotor core has a cutout surface between one of the axial end faces of the rotor core and an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core. A corner at which the cutout surface and the outer peripheral surface intersect is not more axially outward than either of the axial end faces of the stator core.
US10298081B2
A separator (10, 60, 65, 100) is disclosed for electrically separating groups of end windings (52) in the stator of a rotating electrical machine. The separator is arranged to provide circumferential air channels (24, 74, 85) through the windings. This can allow air flow to be delivered to inside the windings, thereby cooling the windings more effectively.
US10298079B2
A method of making a magnetically loaded pre-impregnated tape uses a drum 1 that is heated and which is associated with a heated bath 2 containing a thermoplastic resin solution. A fiber tape material 4 is fed onto the drum 1 and, just prior to the fiber tape material meeting the periphery of the drum, the fiber tape material 4 is impregnated with an isotropic magnetic particle material 6 to form a pre-impregnated tape 8. The pre-impregnated tape is fed to a heating station where it is bonded with a thermoplastic resin impregnated fiber tow to produce a magnetically loaded composite tape. The heating station includes a rotatably driven heated mandrel (20) having a magnetic field (41, 42) embedded therein to provide the pre-impregnated tape (8) with a desired magnetic configuration.
US10298074B2
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling the wireless induction power supply. The apparatus comprises a transmitter control circuit and a receiver control circuit. The method comprises generating a plurality of switching signals for switching a transmitter winding and generating a power; detecting a level of a transmitter signal from the transmitter winding; and controlling a switch to deliver the power from a receiver winding to a load. The receiver winding is coupled to receive the power from the transmitter winding. The switching signals will be disabled if the level of the transmitter signal is not higher than a threshold over a first period or the level of the transmitter signal is higher than a high-threshold over a second period. Accordingly, the method and the apparatus according to the present invention have the foreign object detection (FOD) function for the safety.
US10298066B2
The wireless power reception apparatus includes: a duty controller configured to calculate an amount of current of a transmission coil required for the wireless power transmission apparatus and control a duty cycle by using at least one of distance information between the wireless power transmission apparatus and the wireless power reception apparatus or load current information; a power converter configured to convert an effective load resistance according to the duty cycle; a wireless data transmitter configured to transmit a signal that requires a control of the calculated amount of current of the transmission coil to the wireless power transmission apparatus; and a reception resonator configured to receive a power according to the amount of current of the transmission coil controlled by the signal that requires a control of the amount of current of the transmission coil from the wireless power transmission apparatus.
US10298040B2
The maximum time that external components of a switch mode power supply over-conduct is determined by an actual ambient temperature at which the devices are operating before they are turned on. Their operation time is thus extended when temperatures are low and decreased when temperatures are high.
US10298032B2
A protective device (28) is provided for a plug-in electric vehicle having a charging plate (22) and a traction battery (26). The protective device (28) has a diode that includes an anode for connecting the diode to the charging plate (22) and a cathode for connecting the diode to the traction battery (26). A charging plate, a high-voltage line and a plug-in electric vehicle having such a protective device also are provided.
US10298030B2
A battery pack includes a battery, a terminal unit, a first current path, a second current path, and a first voltage sensing path. The battery has first and second battery terminals. The terminal unit includes a first pack terminal, a second pack terminal, and a first sensing terminal. The first current path includes charging and discharging switches and is located between the first battery terminal and the first pack terminal. A charging current and discharging current of the battery flows on the first current path. The second current path is between the second battery terminal and the second pack terminal. The first voltage sensing path includes the first sensing terminal, and voltage between the first sensing terminal and another terminal corresponds to a voltage between the first battery terminal and the first sensing terminal.
US10298023B2
A power supply includes an LLC resonant power converter to provide a first reference signal having a first voltage. The power supply also includes a DC-DC power converter to provide a second reference signal having a second voltage. The DC-DC converter receives power from the first reference signal. The power supply further includes a switch circuit including a first input to receive the first reference signal, a second input to receive the second reference signal, an input to receive a switch control message, and an output coupled to a power rail. The switch circuit is configured to connect the first reference signal and the second reference signal to the power rail based on the switch control message.
US10297998B2
An electrical junction box that includes a circuit board on which a coil element is installed; a partition wall that surrounds the coil element and separates an installation region on the circuit board on which the coil element is installed from a region around the installation region; a frame that is formed in one piece with the partition wall and surrounds the circuit board; a heat dissipation plate on which the circuit board and the frame are placed; and a cover that covers the circuit board from the frame side, wherein the coil element is fixed to the partition wall using a synthetic resin material, and wherein the frame and the heat dissipation plate are positioned relative to each other through a recess-projection engagement, and the cover is fixed to the heat dissipation plate using screws.
US10297996B1
A junction box assembly may include a junction box base and a junction box cover. The junction box base may define a junction box internal recess. The junction box cover may include a mounting flange, a cover barrier spaced from the mounting flange, and a wall extending between the mounting flange and the cover barrier and defining a junction box cover recess. The junction box cover may be configured to be alternatively coupled to a backing panel to form a junction box, such that either (1) the cover barrier of the junction box cover is received in the junction box internal recess and defines a first junction box space, or (2) the cover barrier is spaced from the backing panel and on a side of the backing panel opposite the junction box base and defines a second junction box space larger than the first junction box space.
US10297990B2
A subsea splice termination unit for terminating and splicing two fiber optic cables, in particular of an umbilical, is provided. The subsea splice termination unit is configured for deployment in an underwater environment. The subsea splice termination unit includes a subsea enclosure, a first termination assembly for terminating a first fiber optic cable at the subsea splice termination unit, a second termination assembly for terminating a second fiber optic cable at the subsea splice termination unit, a chamber inside the subsea enclosure, a first penetrator leading at least a first optical fiber of the first fiber optic cable into the chamber, and a second penetrator leading at least a second optical fiber of the second fiber optic cable into the chamber. A splice between the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber is arranged in the chamber.
US10297966B1
An electrical connector assembly includes a header connector having a header housing with a cavity and header signal and ground contacts held in the header housing. The assembly includes a mating adapter having first and second mating ends and an adapter housing holding adapter signal and ground contacts. The adapter signal contacts have receptacles. The first mating end and the second mating end are configured to be selectively received in the cavity of the header housing. The first receptacles are mated to corresponding mating pins of the deader signal contacts when the first mating end is received in the cavity and the second receptacles are mated to corresponding mating pins when the second mating end is received in the cavity.
US10297964B2
A memory device includes first and second parts. The first part includes a plug receiver configured for reception of a plug and a head coupled to the plug receiver. The second part includes a cap end and a dummy socket coupled to the cap end. The dummy socket includes a first portion insertible into the plug receiver and a second portion configured for reception of the head. The cap end is configured for placement thereon of a cap, which is disposable over the plug.
US10297960B2
A connector for coupling a coaxial cable to an interface port comprising a capacitor segment configured to interpose a center conductor of a coaxial cable and an RF interface and an outer conductor segment extending over and electrically shielding the capacitor segment. The capacitor segment comprises an inner and outer pin having a dielectric insulator therebetween and is configured to electrically connect an inner conductor of the coaxial cable to the RF interface port. The capacitor segment facilitates the passage of RF energy from the inner conductor of the coaxial cable to the RF interface while inhibiting the passage of electric current through the capacitor segment to the RF interface.
US10297956B2
A plug connector for insertion into a socket comprises a plug connector frame and a spring element. The plug connector frame has a side wall and a front opening receiving a cable head. The spring element is formed of a resilient material and electrically connects the cable head and the socket. The spring element has a first contacting portion projecting inward from the side wall and electrically contacting the cable head and a second contacting portion projecting outward from the side wall and electrically contacting the socket.
US10297954B2
A reversible dual-position electric connector comprises: an insulated seat provided with a base seat and one docking part, wherein the docking part is provided with two connection surfaces facing opposite directions; two terminal sets disposed on the insulated seat, wherein each of the terminal sets is provided with at least one row of terminals, and the contacts of the two terminal sets are exposed from the two connection surfaces of the docking part, respectively; and a metal housing, which covers the insulated seat and is provided with a four-sided primary housing; characterized in that a metal shell is further provided to rest against the metal housing, the metal shell is provided with a four-sided housing, the four-sided housing is fitted with and rests against the four-sided primary housing.
US10297949B2
Connector assemblies are disclosed. More particularly, connector assemblies including a housing with an inclined wall are disclosed. The inclined wall helps maintain a folded flat cable by contacting substantially its entire fold edge. The housing with the inclined wall may be removably attached to the rest of the connector assembly.
US10297931B2
A conductor connection contact element for clamping an electrical conductor, having a power rail piece and a clamping spring. The power rail piece is formed from a sheet-metal part with an oppositely situated second side wall, a base section and an oppositely situated cover section. The side walls, together with the base section and the cover section, border a conductor insertion channel. The clamping spring is arranged on the power rail piece. The clamping spring has an abutment section and a clamping section with a clamping edge for clamping the electrical conductor. The abutment section is arranged on the base section of the power rail piece. The freely movable end of the clamping section extends toward the cover section. An actuation section which is accessible to an actuation tool lies adjacent to the clamping edge in the direction of the side wall.
US10297928B2
A compact MIMO antenna system having connected arrays supporting multi-bands with multiple configurations. Two low band microwave MIMO antenna arrays operate at frequency bands below 6 GHz, and two high band microwave MIMO antenna arrays operate at frequencies above 10 GHz. The antenna arrays are connected together as connected arrays and support 4G as well as 5G bands. The antenna arrays are carried by an overlying layer of dielectric material and overlie two slots formed as rectangularly shaped closed loop in an underlying ground plane. The low band arrays each have a feeding arm that spans across the slots to act as a single antenna element, and the high band antenna arrays are power combiners/dividers with a single feeding point and four elements forming a two-to-one structure exciting the underlying slots, wherein the slots are excited and shared for compact design and wide operating bandwidth.
US10297922B2
A microwave system comprises an antenna, antenna feed, a radio transceiver, and appropriate cabling among the aforementioned. Cost, performance and reliability improvements are achieved with further integration of these elements and with design improvements in the antenna feed. One improvement is the integration of the radio transceiver with the antenna feed. This improvement has many benefits including the to elimination of RF cables and connectors. Another improvement, is the incorporation of parasitic radiators and sub-reflectors as part to of the antenna feed. The entire antenna, including the feed design is optimized with 3D finite element method (FEM) software and numerical optimization software. Another improvement is the utilization of the digital cable to power the integrated radio transceiver and a center fed parabolic reflector.
US10297921B2
A dipole antenna with resonant cavities operates with a resonant frequency near the antenna operating frequency to widen the operating bandwidth of the dipole antenna. Specifically, a ground consisting of multiple layers of electrically conductive planes and electrically conductive vias connecting the electrically conductive planes to form a ground wall cavity for a dipole member. The ground wall induces multiple resonant frequencies due to its coupling effect to the dipole member. A radio frequency (RF) frontend for mobile communication devices contains the dipole antenna with cavity coupled to a transceiver to receive and transmit communication signals.
US10297919B2
An antenna is provided from a dielectric wedge waveguide having an AMC wall feed structure 15 coupled thereto through a transition which matches the impedance of the AMC feed structure to dielectric wedge so as to ensure efficient transmission of RF signals between the AMC wall feed structure and the dielectric wedge. In some embodiments, the antenna may be implemented as a flush mounted or conformal antenna on an outer surface of a supporting platform.
