US10354361B2
An image stitching method is applied to a camera system with an image stitching function, so as to combine monitoring images captured from different view angles. The camera system includes two image capturing units respectively having a first coordinate system and a second coordinate system, and monitoring regions of the two image capturing units are adjacent and include an overlapped monitoring region. The image stitching method includes detecting at least one moving object within the overlapped monitoring region, calculating at least one set of transforming parameters of the first coordinate system relative to the second coordinate system, acquiring a reliability level according to comparison result generated by mutual comparisons between several sets of transforming parameters and then further comparing with a threshold respectively, determining a final transform parameter by the reliability level, and utilizing the final transform parameter to stitch the monitoring images captured by the two image capturing units.
US10354354B2
Methods, devices and computer program products allow improved synchronization among multiple contents. One disclosed method includes receiving a first and a second content and performing watermark extraction to recover a first timecode as part of a watermark embedded into a segment of that content. The first timecode conforms to a first type of timing system. Next, a timing system associated with the second content is determined, and a mapping is obtained that allows timecode conversion between the first and the second timing systems. Using the mapping to synchronize the presentation of the second content with that of the first content. Thus synchronization of multiple contents is properly maintained even when processing operations such as format conversion and transcoding cause metadata streams that carry timing information to be removed.
US10354353B2
The disclosure provides a digital video content security authentication method, wherein the method comprises: a secret information embedding step of selectively modifying a pixel grayscale value for each frame image in a digital video so as to complete the embedding of 1-bit secret information; and a secret information extraction and video authentication step of carrying out secret information extraction from the digital video in which the secret information is embedded according to a key so as to realize the security authentication of the digital video content. The disclosure also provides a digital video content security authentication system. According to the technical scheme provided by the disclosure, the authentication security is improved on the basis of not influencing user experience.
US10354346B1
An inventive system related to implementation of dynamic virtual local area network (VLAN) assignment and provisioning in communication networks. The inventive system enables per-room 802.1q VLANs that are enforced through 802.1X distribution equipment. This inventive system enables facilities such as hotels to implement per-room VLANs to increase security and efficiency in handling a plurality of devices brought in by guests as well as devices that are provided by the facility itself.
US10354345B2
Described herein are methods and systems, including computer program products, for determining a load control schedule for energy control devices using a load shifting optimization model and applying the load control schedule to adjust the energy control devices. A server receives thermodynamic models, energy price data and energy load forecast data. The server generates price probability distribution curves based upon the price data and load probability distribution curves based upon the load forecast data. The server executes a load shifting optimization model to determine a profit probability distribution curve for demand response decision rules. The server determines a profit curve that has an optimal profit value. The server generates a load control schedule based upon the optimal profit curve and generates operational parameters for energy control devices using the load control schedule. The server transmits the operational parameters to the energy control devices to adjust operational parameters.
US10354343B2
Automated hardware device engineering and design by representing hardware engineering requirements via a wiring typical schema. An engineering workbench application executing on a computing device utilizes a wiring typical schema representing generic and project-specific requirements to automate hardware device engineering and design tasks in real time.
US10354337B2
A method and system are disclosed for managing catalog resources within a social commerce environment. Users are referred by a plurality of affiliates to a social commerce marketplace system. Once referred, the users are presented with a customized social commerce storefront that is associated with an individual affiliate. Each of the customized social commerce storefronts comprises a micro catalog of purchasable products, which is a subset of a master catalog comprising a set of available products. Social data associated with the user and catalog data associated with the purchasable products is processed to generate product catalog data to the user, which is then provided to the user. The user reviews the social commerce content and selects individual purchasable products for purchase.
US10354323B2
An enhanced system and method for handling, matching and executing a diverse group of limit-priced orders in an electronic options environment is disclosed. Most of the order types disclosed are automatically repriced and reposted as the NBBO changes to increase their execution opportunities. Market maker entitlements are integrated with the order processing, so that the market maker is guaranteed an allocation of the trade if the market maker is at the NBBO when an order priced at or better than the NBBO is received. Once posted to the order book, the displayed price of an order may be eligible for preferential execution in a market maker entitlement process, regardless of whether the displayed price is original or has been automatically repriced.
US10354315B2
A computer-implemented method and system are described for ordering items within a zone of a physical location. An example method may include wirelessly receiving at a server via a computer network a unique identifier associated with a physical ordering device, the physical ordering device being remotely located from the server, retrieving, at the server from an information source, item information describing an item configured to be associated with the unique identifier of the physical ordering device, retrieving, at the server from the information source, shipping data including a physical location uniquely associated with the physical ordering device, and generating at the server a purchase request for re-ordering the item. The method may further include processing at the server the purchase request, and authorizing at the server shipment of the item to the physical location associated with the physical ordering device responsive to the processing of the purchase request.
US10354314B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for ranking items in an electronic commerce system. A subset of a plurality of items is identified in at least one computing device, where the items are sold through an electronic commerce system. The items in the subset are ranked relative to each other based, at least in part, on the virtual shopping cart activity of a plurality of users with respect to the items.
US10354313B2
A communication is emphasized based on a past interaction related to promoted items. A communication application initiates operations to process a previous communication associated with an item upon receiving a communication from a provider associated with the item. The previous communication includes an order and/or shipping confirmation associated with a past purchase of the item by a recipient of the communication. Next, the item is identified as an item of interest for the recipient based on the previous communication, a recipient attribute, and/or an item attribute. The communication is also assigned to a list of communications to be emphasized based on the identification of the item as the item of interest. Furthermore, the communication is provided to a client application to be presented to the recipient with an emphasis.
US10354308B2
Offer listings can be classified as accessory offers or product offers using a classification operation performed on a corpus of offers. Data from the classification operation can be used to classify received queries as either product or accessory, and to classify results as products or accessories for purposes of presenting a relevant list of results to a user.
US10354291B1
Methods and systems herein involve a computing system receiving a listing-suggestion request associated with a first account, and responsive to the listing-suggestion request: (a) detecting, in point-of-view (POV) image data received from one or wearable devices, one or more occurrences of a first surface of a real-world object; (b) determining that the first surface of real-world object is associable with the first account; (c) determining that the first surface is not associated with the first account in a database for augmented-reality overlay rights and (d) responsive to determining that the first surface is associated with the first account: (i) using the POV image data as a basis for determining a numeric measure corresponding to overlay of augmented-reality content on the first surface of the real-world object; and (ii) sending a listing-suggestion message to a computing device corresponding to the first account, wherein the listing-suggestion message indicates the determined numeric measure.
US10354280B2
Disclosed are a method and system for distribution of targeted advertising between mobile communication devices. An endorsement program is set up based on a profile of an advertiser having at least one advertising media. A qualified subscriber is identified for the advertiser based on a profile of a subscriber. One or more advertisers and endorsement programs for the qualified subscriber are selected. In addition, when a communication transmission is received from a source communication device, at least one advertising media is associated with the communication transmission and the communication transmission is transmitted from a source communication device to a destination communication device.
US10354276B2
The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for decreasing latency and/or preventing data leakage that may arise from advertisement insertion. In some embodiments, the systems, methods, and devices described herein provide for asynchronous advertisement selection and/or insertion separate from user-requested content retrieval and/or delivery, wherein the advertisement selection can be performed in parallel with and/or at a separate location from the user-requested content retrieval and/or delivery, thereby decreasing latency in rendering user-requested content. Further, in certain embodiments, the systems, methods, and devices described herein can prevent data leakage by preventing and/or circumventing the need to use cookie syncing among different DSPs, SSPs, or the like. Moreover, in some embodiments, the systems, methods, and devices described herein are configured to deliver advertisements as a native content, thereby further decreasing latency and/or preventing data leakage.
US10354274B2
A server computer receives data indicating a data feed to use to create a feed-based advertisement to represent content, which is to be advertised, of a content provider. The server computer receives the data feed that is associated with the content to be advertised and generates the feed-based advertisement using one or more data elements associated with an item in the data feed. The server computer provides the feed-based advertisement to a user device.
US10354263B2
Methods, systems and apparatus are disclosed to model consumer choices. An example apparatus includes a multinomial logit (MNL) engine to add a set of products having respondent choice data to a base MNL model, the MNL engine to include an item utility parameter and a price utility parameter associated with corresponding ones of products in the set of products, an aggregate building engine to improve a computational efficiency of model generation by generating a number of copies of the base MNL model to form an aggregate model based on a number of the corresponding ones of products in the set of products, each one of the number of copies of the base MNL model exhibiting an effect of an independence or irrelevant alternatives (IIA) property, a sourcing modifier to proportionally affect interrelationships between dissimilar ones of the number of products in the set by inserting sourcing effect values in the aggregate model to be subtracted from respective ones of the item utility parameters, an estimator to estimate the item utility parameters of the aggregate model based on the number of copies of the base MNL model and the respondent choice data, and a simulation engine to calculate the choice probability for the corresponding ones of the products in the set of products based on the estimated item utility parameters and the price utility parameters.
US10354260B2
An individualized discount and reward server includes one or more linked databases storing customer data including at least one retailer account and purchase history associated with the customer. The server including a processor to allocate at least one customized offer to the retailer account using at least the purchase history associated with the customer, the at least one customized offer including a loyalty adjustment changing a general market price point of a retail product in accordance with a competitor price. The processor further displays to the customer, via the interface, a display page including the at least one customized offer and an option for selection of the at least one customized offer. The processor also updates, upon reception of the customer input indicating selection of the at least one customized offer, the retailer account to indicate selection of the at least one customized offer.
US10354258B2
The present invention relates to the use of Free Delivery to create a new system, method, and apparatus for delivering uniquely identified hard copy advertising and marketing materials to a consumer, which includes a system, method, and apparatus for Coupon Exchange, in which the coupon may be a hard copy or soft copy, which includes a uniquely identified bar code or other uniquely identified machine readable code, or which may be configured as a structured or semi-structured electronic message.
US10354256B1
A method and system are provided that provide an avatar based customer service experience with a human support agent. The methods and systems receive, from a customer computing (CC) device, a request for assistance fulfillable by one of a plurality of support agents. The methods and systems launch an avatar-based exchange that includes receiving customer issue definition (CID) information from the CC device regarding the request for assistance, defining a virtual character to be presented on the CC device; and providing pre-recorded support (PRS) content based on the CID information. The PRS content is presented in combination with animation of the virtual character. The methods and systems select a support agent, and transition a basis for the avatar-based exchange from the PRS content to support agent content such that the support agent communicates with the customer through the virtual character animated on the CC device.
US10354247B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for communicating transaction-related data to a recipient device. In at least one embodiment, a computer-implemented method can be provided. The method can include directing storage of transaction-related information comprising payment data and value added services data. The method can further include communicating the transaction-related information to a recipient device during a card emulation communication initiated by the recipient device, wherein the recipient device utilizes the transaction-related information to complete a payment transaction and provide one or more value added services associated with the payment transaction.
US10354246B1
Introduced is a technology for withdrawing cash from a cash transaction machine (CTM) by use of a mobile payment application installed on a mobile device of a consumer user (“the CTM technology”). Briefly described, the CTM technology enables a consumer user to identify one or more CTMs from which to withdraw cash by using his/her mobile device (e.g., a smartphone) as a “virtual” card. A particular CTM can be a conventional ATM or a POS system at a merchant's place of business. The user can use a mobile payment application installed on the user's mobile device to identify any nearby CTMs, request a withdrawal amount from a particular CTM from the identified nearby CTMs, receive a transaction code specific to that particular CTM, and physically obtain, or collect, the cash representative of the withdrawal amount at that particular CTM using the transaction code.
US10354245B2
Various methods, systems, and devices are described for performing money transfers to one or more payees from one or more payors using a money transfer system. A party, such as a payor, a payee, or a third party may create a set of payee rules. The same or a different party may also create a set of payor rules. The payee rules may comprise conditions which, when satisfied, permit a payee to receive funds from a funds pool. The payor rules may comprise conditions which, when satisfied, permit a payor to provide funds to the funds pool. The money transfer system may determine whether requests from a payor and a payee comply with the payor rules and the payee rules, respectively. Based on the determination, the payor and/or payee may be permitted to complete their requested transaction, or their transaction may be denied.
US10354237B2
Systems, processes, and computer programs are disclosed for facilitating personal payment transactions. In certain embodiments, disclosed embodiments may provide an interface dialog engine for providing a dynamic and customized interface for effecting the personal payment transaction and a funding source engine for providing options to fund the payment. The disclosed embodiments may also provide a payee identity engine for identifying the intended payee receiving the payment and a routing option engine for providing options to route the payment. The embodiments may also provide a messaging engine for providing channels for related parties to the personal payment transaction to communicate.
US10354231B2
An information processing device for supporting an operation procedure in maintenance of an apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store part list information for the operation procedure in the maintenance, and part definition information for specifying a part that the apparatus has; a specification unit configured to specify a part of an operation subject to be used in the operation procedure, and a first part number that is a number of the part, based on the part list information; a capturing unit configured to generate image data of an image of the apparatus; an analyzing unit configured to specify the part of the operation subject in the image data, and a second part number that is a number of the part, based on the part definition information; and a display control unit configured to display maintenance information based on a result of comparing the first and second part numbers.
US10354228B2
In a method for determining an area milled by at least one construction machine or at least one mining machine by means of a milling drum (2) by means of working a predetermined area in several milling trajectories by at least one machine (1), determining the length of the milling trajectories along which a milling operation has taken place by evaluating the continuous machine positions, adding up the previously milled partial areas taking into account the length of the milling trajectory and the installed width of the milling drum (2), wherein the partial area currently milled along the milling trajectory is checked, either continuously or subsequently, for overlapping or multiple overlapping with any previously milled partial areas, and any partial areas which overlap are deducted, as overlapping areas, from the added-up previously milled partial areas, the total added-up partial areas milled minus the total overlapping areas established give the milled area.
US10354227B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for managing electronic documents. For example, systems and methods described herein provide an electronic document owner with an analysis of one or more potential recipient's availability to review and sign the electronic document. Additionally, systems and methods described herein schedule the review and signing of an electronic document for a recipient such that the recipient does not miss the signing deadline for the electronic document.
US10354223B2
Methodologies, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for reading machine readable features of objects. A local terminal generates a temporary object number corresponding to an unreadable object and captures an image of the unreadable object. A message is sent to a number of portable devices requesting that a duplicate of the unreadable object be located and that a machine readable feature on the duplicate object be read. Once a duplicate object is located, one of the portable devices reads a machine readable feature on the duplicate object, and the portable device calls a service offered by a server to retrieve a data value corresponding to the duplicate item from a database. This data value is then sent to the local terminal invoking a service offered by the terminal to replace the temporary object number with the data value corresponding to the duplicate item.
US10354203B1
Systems and methods for monitoring the quality of document reviews used in continuous active machine learning are described herein. Two orthogonal processes may be run simultaneously, asynchronously, and continuously. The first process performs continuous active machine learning for training machine classification models. The second process classifies documents that have been reviewed as part of the first process to generate classification scores of the reviewed documents. The original review may be compared to the classification scores using false negative and a false positive thresholds to identify documents that may have been incorrectly reviewed. A master review of identified documents is used to correct original reviews that were incorrect. Original incorrect reviews may be replaced in a training corpus by corrected reviews, and the models may be retrained using the corrected reviews.
US10354200B2
Methods are provided for modeling mobility based on one or more devices of the user. Methods may include: receiving at least a portion of a first mobility model from a first device, where the first mobility model may be established based on learning algorithms performed on the first device; updating a shared mobility model to become a first shared mobility model based on the at least a portion of the first mobility model; providing the first shared mobility model to the first device; receiving at least a portion of a second mobility model from a second device, where the second mobility model may be established based on learning algorithms performed on the second device; updating the first shared mobility model to become a second shared mobility model based on the at least a portion of the second mobility model; and providing the second shared mobility model to the second device.
US10354198B1
Techniques relate to operating a quantum processing device is provided. The device includes at least two fixed-frequency quantum circuits coupled to a frequency-tunable coupler. The frequency of the coupler can be modulated so as to drive at least two selectively addressable energy transitions in the quantum processing device. The method includes modulating the frequency of the coupler so as to drive two first-order energy transitions. This is done so as to transfer (at least partly) an excitation of one of the quantum circuits to at least another one of the quantum circuits, via the tunable coupler. Related quantum processing devices are also provided.
US10354194B2
A reasoning engine is disclosed. Contemplated reasoning engines acquire data relating to one or more aspects of various environments. Inference engines within the reasoning engines review the acquire data, historical or current, to generate one or more hypotheses about how the aspects of the environments might be correlated, if at all. The reasoning engine can attempt to validate the hypotheses through controlling acquisition of the environment data.
US10354192B2
Systems and methods for enhancing exploratory data analysis using a recommender system are provided. The recommender system receives feedback when a set of raw data is analyzed (e.g., from one or more data analysts exploring a data set). Based on the collected feedback, the recommender system can automatically infer the need for certain analytical operations to be performed on a data set. These inferences can be used by the recommender system to infer analytical operations when new data sets are analyzed.
US10354191B2
A method of attaining a linguistic goal output of a process using a linguistic goal oriented decision making system, comprising setting the output value to a linguistic goal, and establishing a set of descriptive rules using historical data, wherein each descriptive rule has at least one variable, a decision variable, and at least one linguistic output value. The method further comprises grouping the set of descriptive rules into subsets of descriptive rules according to the linguistic output value of each descriptive rule and establishing decision rules based on comparing the grouped subsets of descriptive rules, the one or more decision rules describing a modification of a decision variable associated with at least one of the descriptive rules to affect the process.
US10354189B2
A system in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises at least two electrodes communicatively coupled to a bio-organism. The system further comprises a data acquisition device coupled to the electrodes for receiving analog signals indicative of voltage potential differences in the bio-organism. In addition, the system comprises logic configured to compare a fast Fourier transform (FFT) signature of the signals received with an FFT signature of a bio-organism known to be healthy to determine whether the bio-organism has a particular disease.
US10354186B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for modifying a computational graph to include send and receive nodes. Communication between unique devices performing operations of different subgraphs of the computational graph can be handled efficiently by inserting send and receive nodes into each subgraph. When executed, the operations that these send and receive nodes represent may enable pairs of unique devices to conduct communication with each other in a self-sufficient manner. This shifts the burden of coordinating communication away from the backend, which affords the system that processes this computational graph representation the opportunity to perform one or more other processes while devices are executing subgraphs.
US10354183B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to meeting latency constraints in a multi-core neurosynaptic network. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method of and computer program product for power-driven synthesis under latency constraints is provided. Power consumption of a neurosynaptic network is modeled as wire length. The neurosynaptic network comprises a plurality of neurosynaptic cores. Each of the plurality of neurosynaptic cores is modeled as a node in a placement graph. The graph has a plurality of edges. A weight is assigned to each of the plurality of edges based on a spike frequency. An arrangement of the neurosynaptic cores is determined. The arrangement comprises a length of each of the plurality of edges. A maximum length is compared to the length of each of the plurality of edges. The weight of at least one of the plurality of edges is increased where the length is greater than the maximum length.
US10354181B2
An identification module for mobile objects, in particular hand-held power tools, includes a housing, a transponder, and a stored energy source. The housing has a mechanism configured to arrange and/or fasten the identification module to a mobile device. The transponder has a data memory and a radio module. The memory is configured to store identification data, and the radio module is configured to send the identification data. The stored energy source is configured to power the transponder. The housing has a chamber, an opening into the chamber, and a lid configured to close the opening. The opening is configured so as to enable the stored energy source to be removably arranged in the chamber via the opening.
US10354180B2
A transaction card construction and a method for making a transaction card are provided for improving card performance. The transaction card construction comprises an inlay component comprising wood and a housing component. The inlay may comprise a wood or wood-containing layer and a backer layer. The backer layer may comprise the same or a different wood or wood-containing layer, or a non-woven fiber material.
US10354179B2
A transaction card construction and a method for making a transaction card are provided for improving card performance. The transaction card construction comprises an inlay component comprising wood and a housing component. The inlay may comprise a wood or wood-containing layer and a backer layer. The backer layer may comprise the same or a different wood or wood-containing layer, or a non-woven fiber material.
US10354173B2
In one respect, there is provided a system for training a neural network adapted for classifying one or more scripts. The system may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The memory may include program code that provides operations when executed by the at least one memory. The operations may include: extracting, from an icon associated with a file, one or more features; assigning, based at least on the one or more features, the icon to one of a plurality of clusters; and generating, based at least on the cluster to which the icon is assigned, a classification for the file associated with the icon. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US10354171B2
Methods and apparatus to automatically generate an image quality metric for an image are provided. An example method includes automatically processing a first medical image using a deployed learning network model to generate an image quality metric for the first medical image, the deployed learning network model generated from a digital learning and improvement factory including a training network, wherein the training network is tuned using a set of labeled reference medical images of a plurality of image types, and wherein a label associated with each of the labeled reference medical images indicates a central tendency metric associated with image quality of the image. The example method includes computing the image quality metric associated with the first medical image using the deployed learning network model by leveraging labels and associated central tendency metrics to determine the associated image quality metric for the first medical image.
US10354158B2
Disclosed are an iris-based living-body detection method, a mobile terminal and a storage medium. According to the method, in response to detection of the mobile terminal being lifted, the touch display screen is lighted, and the touch display screen is controlled to display preset guide content, the preset guide content is used to guide eyes watching the touch display screen to move; the iris recognition apparatus is notified to perform iris acquisition for a target object associated with the eyes, to obtain a plurality of iris images; and it is determined whether the target object is a living body with the plurality of iris images.
US10354157B2
Systems and methods are provided for navigating an autonomous vehicle. In one implementation, a system for detecting whether a road on which a host vehicle travels is a one-way road may include at least one processing device. The processing device may be programmed to receive at least one image associated with an environment of the host vehicle, identify a first plurality of vehicles on a first side of the road, identify a second plurality of vehicles on a second side of the road, determine a first facing direction associated with the first plurality of vehicles, determine a second facing direction associated with the second plurality of vehicles, and cause at least one navigational change of the host vehicle when the first facing direction and the second facing direction are both opposite to a heading direction of the host vehicle.
US10354151B2
Disclosed is a method of detecting obstacle around a vehicle. The method of detecting an obstacle around a vehicle, includes: acquiring an image of the obstacle around the vehicle using a monocular camera; creating, by a controller, a distance based cost map, a color based cost map and an edge based cost map from the image; and integrating, by the controller, the distance based cost map, the color based cost map, and the edge based cost map to create a final cost map, and estimating, by the controller, a height of the obstacle from the final cost map.
US10354143B2
A method (100) for comparing a first video shot (Vs1) comprising a first set of first images (I1(s)) with a second video shot (Vs2) comprising a second set of second images (I2(t)), at least one between the first and the second set comprising at least two images. The method comprises pairing (110) each first image of the first set with each second image of the second set to form a plurality of images pairs (IP(m)), and, for each image pair, carrying out the operations a)-g): a) identifying (120) first interest points in the first image and second interest points in the second image; b) associating (120) first interest points with corresponding second interest points in order to form corresponding interest point matches; c) for each pair of first interest points, calculating (130) the distance therebetween for obtaining a corresponding first length; d) for each pair of second interest points, calculating (130) the distance therebetween for obtaining a corresponding second length; e) calculating a plurality of distance ratios (130), each distance ratio corresponding to a selected pair of interest point matches and being based on a ratio of a first term and a second term or on a ratio of the second term and the first term, said first term corresponding to the distance between the first interest points of said pair of interest point matches and said second term corresponding to the distance between the second interest points of said pair of interest point matches; f) computing (140) a first representation of the statistical distribution of the plurality of calculated distance ratios; g) computing (150) a second representation of the statistical distribution of distance ratios obtained under the hypothesis that all the interest point matches in the image pair are outliers. The method further comprises generating (160) a first global representation of the statistical distribution of the plurality of calculated distance ratios computed for all the image pairs based on the first representations of all the image pairs; generating (170) a second global representation of the statistical distribution of distance ratios obtained under the hypothesis that all the interest point matches in all the image pairs are outliers based on the second representations of all the image pairs; comparing (180) said first global representation with said second global representation, and assessing (190) whether the first video shot contains a view of an object depicted in the second video shot based on said comparison.
US10354142B2
A method for detecting holographic elements in a video stream containing images in the form of documents includes: processing of a video stream in which the document image is stabilized; constructing saturation and color tone maps; analyzing color characteristics in image regions; constructing histograms of color characteristics; estimating a change in the color characteristics at least in part based on data obtained by calculating a difference between the histograms of a current and a previous frame; constructing an integrated map of hologram presence estimates by combining calculated estimates for all video stream frames based at least in part on the estimation of the change in color characteristics; and determining final regions of the holographic elements based at least in part on the integrated map of the hologram presence estimates.
US10354127B2
One or more audio feedback output devices receive warning signals for controlling types of audio output by the audio output devices, the warning signals representing that a predicted behavior of a monitored user represents a particular behavior that is potentially adverse and a percentage probability that the predicted behavior is adverse, the monitored user detected within a particular environment monitored by a supervising user, audio feedback output devices worn by the supervising user. The audio feedback output devices operative to control the types of audio outputs of the audio output devices that are detectable by the supervising user wearing the audio feedback output devices according to the warning signals to specifically alert the supervising user that the predicted behavior of the monitored user represents the particular behavior that is potentially adverse and the percentage probability that the predicted behavior is adverse.
US10354116B2
A method and apparatus for authenticating a fingerprint image captured through an optical sensor. For at least some embodiments, light scattering characteristics associated with a fingerprint are determined and compared to a reference light scattering characteristic. The fingerprint is authenticated when the light scattering characteristics are within a threshold difference of the reference light scattering characteristic. For some embodiments, the light scattering characteristics associated with the fingerprint are compared to light scattering characteristics associated with one or more reference (enrollment) images. For at least some embodiments, the light scattering characteristics may be based on a correlation value based on identified pixels and one or more pixels neighboring the identified pixel.
US10354115B2
The present invention relates to a capacitive fingerprint sensor, and the capacitive fingerprint sensor includes: a fingerprint sensor electrode for sensing a fingerprint of a human body; a first transistor of which a current or an output voltage is changed according to a voltage change of capacitive coupling formed by fingerprint capacitance formed when a fingerprint contacts the fingerprint sensor electrode and coupling capacitance formed for capacitive coupling; a fifth transistor that resets a gate electrode of the first transistor and applies capacitive coupling to the gate electrode of the first transistor through a coupling pulse; a second transistor of which a current or an output voltage is changed due to a difference in the current flowing through the first transistor and a gate voltage is maintained by a capacitor; a third transistor that resets a gate electrode of the second transistor; and a fourth transistor that controls a current flowing through the second transistor or an output voltage of the second transistor and transmits the controlled current or output voltage to a readout circuit.
US10354113B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for detecting a fingerprint is provided, which includes a plurality of sensor pads receiving a response signal from a finger applied to a driving signal, a sensing circuit outputting a sensing signal based on the response signal, and a sensing signal adjusting unit sampling the sensing signal outputted from the sensing circuit maintaining the sensing signal, and adjusting an average voltage level of the sensing signal based on a reference voltage.
US10354111B2
A primary localization method for QR codes comprises: S1, binarizing pixel points of a received image containing a QR code; S2, partitioning the image into at least one mesh region; S3, recording the number of black pixel points in each mesh region, assigning the value 1 to mesh regions including black points, and assigning the value 0 to mesh regions not including black points; S4, marking the image as a non-object region; S5, scanning the non-object region line-by-line and column by column and marking the union of the mesh regions continuously with the value 1 for the first time in each line and the mesh regions continuously with the value 1 for the first time in each column as an object region; S6, judging whether the object region is the QR code region, if not, returning to step S5, and if yes, outputting the line numbers and the column numbers.
US10354109B2
A stationary scanning device includes: a fixed scanner portion that is mounted on a front surface of a support column and is configured to optically read item data; a handheld scanner configured to optically read the item data; and a holding portion that is mounted on a side surface of the support column and is configured to hold the handheld scanner, the holding portion being configured to hold the handheld scanner such that a cable extending from an end portion of the handheld scanner falls in a space with a predetermined distance from the front surface and the side surface of the support column.
US10354106B2
The present invention relates to a programmable tag that is encoded with information associated with ingestible substances, a system for producing such a tag, and a reader for capturing and decoding the tag. Predetermined profiles and predetermined coding schemes are used to encode such information to form the tag and to decode and extract such information in accordance with the present invention.
US10354093B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a first request to grant an account access to a software application of a plurality of software applications, and determining whether a native database stores first permission data for the account to access the software application. This example method further includes, in response to determining that the database does not store the first permission data: sending, via a network to an application server configured to provide the software application, a second request for second permission data for the account to access the software application; responsive to sending the second request to the application server, receiving the second permission data from the application server; responsive to receiving the second permission data from the application server, storing the second permission data in the database; and granting, in accordance with the second permission data, access to the account to access the software application.
US10354084B2
A system and a method for managing confidential data in a cloud service is provided. The system comprises a cryptographic key service comprising two or more cryptographic key servers, Si, each being arranged to compute file encryption keys, kj, on the basis of information regarding data and using one or more cryptographic keys, Kj. The cryptographic keys, Kj, are secretly shared among the cryptographic key servers, Si, and none of the cryptographic key servers, Si, possesses knowledge of all of the cryptographic keys, Kj. A single point of trust at the cryptographic key service is avoided.
US10354082B2
Disclosed are various examples for an interface reflecting the states of files. A client application determines the states of files accessible through a file management system. An interface is generated with user interface elements corresponding to the files. The user interface elements are modified to reflect the states of the corresponding files.
US10354081B1
Interprocess communication between processes that run on a host operating system of a computer is performed by way of a protected temporary file. File access operation on the temporary file is hooked to detect writing to the temporary file. When a process writes a message to the temporary file, a verification is performed to determine whether or not the process is authorized to access the temporary file. When the process is authorized to access the temporary file, the process is allowed to write the message to the temporary file. This allows another process that is intended to receive the message to read the message from the temporary file and act on the message. Otherwise, when the process is not authorized to access the temporary file, the process is blocked from writing the message to the temporary file.
US10354077B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a memory configured to store inheritance limitation information of sharing permission owned by an application in a sharing permission relationship with an installed or executed application for sharing at least part of permission, and a processor functionally connected to the memory and set to process a sharing permission acquisition of the installed or executed application, based on the inheritance limitation information of the sharing permission when the application is installed or executed.
US10354070B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a processing circuit and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processing circuit. The logic causes the processing circuit to monitor a plurality of application instances operating on a first host. The logic also causes the processing circuit to detect that a first application thread has been called by a first application instance operating on the first host and determine whether the first application thread is registered to be called by the first application instance on the first host by consulting a registration index. Moreover, the logic causes the processing circuit to quarantine the first application thread in response to a determination that the first application thread is not registered to be called by the first application instance on the first host.
US10354068B2
Disclosed are various approaches for integrating application scanning into a mobile enterprise computing management system. A management service instructs the client device to provide a list of installed applications to the management service and receives the list of installed applications from the client device. The management service then adds the list of installed applications to an aggregate listing of applications representing a list of client applications installed on one or more client devices. Subsequently, the management service sends to a scanning service a policy comprising an identifier of a client application that is prohibited on the client device. The management service also sends the aggregate listing of applications to the scanning service. The management service then receives a notification from the scanning service that the prohibited client application is present in the aggregate listing of applications. In response, the management service determines whether the prohibited client application is installed on the client device and instructs the client device perform a remedial action specified by the policy.
US10354067B2
An endpoint computer system can harvest data relating to a plurality of events occurring within an operating environment of the endpoint computer system and can add the harvested data to a local data store maintained on the endpoint computer system. In some examples, the local data store can be an audit log and/or can include one or more tamper resistant features. Systems, methods, and computer program products are described.
US10354062B2
The present invention relates to a system for simultaneous forensic acquisition and analysis of data from a target data repository. The system comprises a source agent in communication with the target data repository. The source agent is incapable of writing to the target data repository and is configured to read a portion of the target data repository. The system further comprises an investigator computer having a processor configured to send at least one prioritized read command to the source agent to schedule a read of the target data repository based on a predetermined priority. A data sink is configured to store at least a partial forensic image of the target data repository based on the data read by said source agent.
US10354061B2
Methods and systems for a transportation vehicle are provided. For example, one method includes storing a key on a device of a transportation vehicle and a headset; generating a challenge by the device using the key when the headset is connected to the device; presenting the challenge to the headset by the device; creating a response to the challenge by the headset; presenting the response to the device; validating the response by the device; and enabling a data line for the headset by the device when the response is valid.
US10354060B2
A method for receiving a first access request from a client computer is described. The method comprises, in response to receiving the first access request, generating a query string comprising a predetermined number of characters, designating, via a unique indicator, a first randomized subset of the predetermined number of characters, wherein the first randomized subset comprises a plurality of the predetermined number of characters, and requesting a first predefined response comprising the first randomized subset of the predetermined number of characters. The method further comprises receiving a first client input from the client computer, determining whether the first client input matches the first predefined response, and accepting the first access request if the first client input matches the first predefined response.
US10354055B2
A portable electronic device includes a biometric information obtaining unit and an authentication information generating unit. The biometric information obtaining unit obtains biometric information that represents a physical feature of a user of the portable electronic device. The authentication information generating unit generates authentication information that is numerical information for authentication of the user having a predetermined number of digits, based on the biometric information that has been obtained by the biometric information obtaining unit.
US10354038B1
Integrated circuit design computing equipment may perform register moves within a circuit design. When moving the registers, counter values may be maintained for non-justifiable elements. The counter values may be maintained and updated on a per element, per clock domain basis to account for register moves across the corresponding non-justifiable elements. The maximum counter value for each clock domain may be chosen as an adjustment value that is used to generate a sequence for resetting the circuit design. The adjustment value may be bound by a user-specified maximum value. The user-specified maximum value may constrain logic/physical synthesis transforms and local/global retiming operations. If the counter value for a non-justifiable element is equal to the user-specified maximum value, then all future forward retiming across that element is prevented. If the maximum counter value is less than the user-specified maximum value, the user may optionally shorten the reset sequence.
US10354037B1
Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for manipulating a hierarchical structure of the electronic design. These techniques identify a set of layout components instantiated from a layout of an electronic design. This set of layout components may constitute, for example, a FigGroup. One or more schematic instances and corresponding schematic connectivity information may be identified from a schematic design of the electronic design, and the one or more schematic instances correspond to the set of layout components. A layout cell or a figure group may be generated for the set of layout components based in part or in whole upon the schematic connectivity information. The original layout may then be transformed into a transformed layout at least by replacing the set of layout components with the generated layout cell or figure group.
US10354035B2
Metrology overlay targets are provided, as well as method of monitoring process shortcomings. Targets comprise periodic structures, at least one of which comprising repeating asymmetric elements along a corresponding segmentation direction of the periodic structure. The asymmetry of the elements may be designed in different ways, for example as repeating asymmetric sub-elements along a direction perpendicular to the segmentation direction of the elements. The asymmetry of the sub-elements may be designed in different ways, according to the type of monitored process shortcomings, such as various types of hot spots, line edge shortening, process windows parameters and so forth. Results of the measurements may be used to improve the process and/or increase the accuracy of the metrology measurements.
US10354024B2
Failsafe robustness of critical load carrying structures is an important design philosophy for aerospace industry. The basic idea is that a structure should be designed to survive normal loading conditions when partial damage occurred. Such damage is quantified as complete failure of a structural member, or a partial damage of a larger structural part. This paper establishes for the first time the concept and formulation of failsafe requirement within the context of topology optimization. Efficient computational scheme and computer implementation are carried out. Several examples are shown to demonstrate the impact of failsafe requirement to design concept generated by topology optimization.
US10354019B2
A computer-readable recording medium having stored herein a program for causing a computer to execute a dental prosthesis design process includes: searching a database storing data including structures of teeth including natural teeth to search for candidate teeth, which correspond to a part where a prosthesis is to be mounted on, based on information of a shape surrounding the part where the prosthesis is to be mounted on; putting priority levels on the candidate teeth by applying a predetermined rule to a matching degree of the searching; and outputting information of the candidate teeth based on the priority levels.
US10354017B2
In an example, disclosed is a machine automated method of identifying a set of skills. In some examples, the method includes extracting a plurality of skill seed phrases from a plurality of member profiles of a social networking site, creating a plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases by disambiguating the plurality of skill seed phrases using one or more computer processors, and de-duplicating the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases to create a plurality of de-duplicated skill seed phrases.
US10354016B2
A system and method for menu-based navigation to view audio and/or visual media is disclosed. A user can navigate through a menu system by moving a cursor between various showcases listed in a second display area of a screen. When the user selects a category, the menu changes to display sub-categories within the category in a first area of the screen. The second display area can display information about available media items within a selected category or sub-category. A third display area can display additional information about the selected media item. There can also be a display area where a user can create a filter within a selected category or sub-category. The menu selections can contain images representative of categories. The categories can be genres of movies or music. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.
US10354008B2
Systems and methods for providing a visual scroll representation of production data on a display receive a digital script comprising production data, wherein the production data comprises a plurality of production elements; extract the plurality of production elements from the digital script; classify each of the plurality of production elements into one or more predefined classes; map at least one of the one or more predefined classes to one or more relations, wherein a relation represents a definable attribute of at least two predefined classes; determine a respective weight for each of the one or more relations; generate the visual scroll representation of the plurality of production elements, wherein visual representation of each of the one or more production elements is based at least in part on the determined weight of each of the one or more relations; and display the visual scroll representation on the display.
US10354003B2
A method for data filtering includes displaying on a display device a cell set including data of a common data type, and displaying a first filter icon within a first cell of the cell set and a second filter icon within a second cell of the cell set. The first cell includes a first cell entry and the second cell includes a second cell entry. The first filter icon filters based on the first cell entry and the second filter icon filters based on the second cell entry. The method further includes applying a filter to the cell set in response to selection of the first filter icon by a user, the filter being based on the first cell entry.
US10354002B2
A technology for building and displaying interaction relationships between visual components of a dashboard is provided. In accordance with one aspect, interaction relationships are defined between the components of the dashboard using a data grid. A relationship may be defined by associating a component to a grid cell and defining a formula in the grid cell based on one or more other grid cells which are further associated to one or more other components. In accordance with another aspect, information of a dashboard including dashboard components, input data and output data in the dashboard is converted into dashboard data models. An interaction relationship graph may be generated based on interactions of the input data and output data of the components. The interaction relationship graph comprises source-to-target relationships between source and target components of the dashboard. The interaction relationship between the visual components of the dashboard may be presented using the dashboard data models containing the source-to-target relationships.
US10354001B2
Embodiments are disclosed in which an algorithm that evaluates the contents of a cell within an application incorporates error tracking. In certain such embodiments, a second cell is identified that is responsible for generation of an error indication within the cell. A link may be provided to the second cell to facilitate resolution of the error condition.
US10353991B2
A layout engine generates a visual layout tree for a visual description tree of a document whose content is to be rendered in one or more display areas. A visual description tree describes the content of a document along with formatting and logical arrangement the content. Visual description nodes of a visual description tree represent the organization of the constituent elements a document hierarchically. A visual layout tree defines the layout of a document within one or more display areas. Visual layout nodes of a visual layout tree represent the layout of the content of a document hierarchically. The layout engine receives as input a visual description tree and generates the corresponding visual layout tree. A rendering engine then inputs the visual layout tree and generates a graphics buffer containing the pixels representing the layout of the document as defined by the visual layout tree.
US10353984B2
Identifying sequential browsing operations includes receiving session data associated with a plurality of sessions, creating a reduced page for each page in a series of pages associated with a first session in the plurality of sessions, and creating a hash value associated with each reduced page for each page in the series of pages associated with the first session of the plurality of sessions. Responsive to a determination that the hash value of the first session is equivalent to the hash value of the second session, an associated page is identified as an equivalent page and the equivalent pages are merged to create a common sequence without a need to resend requests associated with the session data to a server.
US10353982B1
This disclosure describes a system for disambiguating between multiple potential users that may have performed an item action (e.g., item removal or item placement) at an inventory location. For example, if there are three picking agents (users) standing near an inventory location and one of the agents removes an item (item action) from the inventory location, the example systems and processes described herein may utilize various inputs to disambiguate between the users and determine which of the potential users performed the item action.
US10353979B2
The present application provides an information recording method, apparatus, browser and electronic device. The method includes: displaying a quick navigation item on the browser; receiving a trigger signal acting on the quick navigation item; after receiving the trigger signal, opening the preset webpage file according to the file save path corresponding to the quick navigation item; recording information in the editable region of the preset webpage file opened. By opening a corresponding preset webpage file using the quick navigation item corresponding to the file save path, a user can record information in the preset webpage file. Since the preset webpage file does not need to be logged into by connecting to a server via a network, notes can be made using the preset webpage file when offline and since a large amount of content is recorded in the preset webpage file, time and traffic can be saved.
US10353974B2
There are provided methods and systems for generating a refined search engine results page (SERP) for a search query received from a user. A search query result set is generated in response to the search query and displayed to the user on a SERP. A user interest parameter for a search result element is generated based at least in part on user interaction with the search result element on the SERP, based on summing a first and second weight for the search result element on a first and second search result, respectively. A second search query including the initial search query, the search result element, and the user interest parameter as a reformulation of the initial search query indicating significance of the search result element is generated, and the search query results generated in response to the second search query are displayed to the user, thereby generating the refined SERP.
US10353973B2
A digital magazine server displays content items from various sources to users of client devices. Each source of a content item is identified by a domain, and content items for different sources have different domain-level quality. To differentiate sources of content items, the domains identifying the sources are ranked based on domain scores of the domains generated by an aggregate of multiple trained domain classifiers. A domain score of a domain indicates a domain-level quality of content items provided by a source identified by the domain. Each of the trained domain classifiers (e.g., a naïve Bayes classifier, a random forest classifier, and a logistic regression classifier) generates a prediction of whether a domain is a spam domain based on the domain features and domains with known labels. Based on the domain scores of domains, the domain ranking module may adaptively select content items from the sources with corresponding domains scores.
US10353972B2
Systems and methods are described herein for detecting that a person of interest is displayed in a live video for a threshold amount of time, attempting to identify an identity of the person determining that the attempting has failed, identifying broadcast times corresponding to a period of time in which the person was displayed in the live video, identifying trending topics in a social media space that relate to the live video, ascertaining an identity of the person of interest based on the trending topics, comparing the identity of the person of interest to a database of social media profiles, identifying a social media component that corresponds to the person, determining whether the person has modified the social media component within a predefined period of time, and providing information relating to a modification of the social media component simultaneously with the video.
US10353966B2
A dynamic attribute search engine system can be implemented to execute faceted searches using dynamic facets. In embodiments, a dynamic attribute search engine system includes one or more product databases, a data ingestor, an index, a query service, and a faceted searcher. The dynamic attribute search engine system is programmed to dynamically determine facets for a faceted search in response to dominant categories identified for each search query.
US10353951B1
A method is provided for receiving from a user a first search query for media files from a collection of media files. The method includes providing, in response to the first search query, a first search result to the user, the first search result including responsive media files associated with the first search query, detecting a user selection of a responsive media file based on an interaction between the user and the responsive media file and selecting multiple similar media files having a visual similarity with the responsive media file. The method also includes generating a refined query based on a caption associated with a refined cluster of media files, the refined cluster of media files being proximal to the similar media file, and displaying, to the user and based on the refined query, a refined search result comprising refined media files from the refined query.
US10353943B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, a method for associating metadata with a media object is provided. The method provides the ability to tag, or bookmark, a point in time for future use. The method includes receiving the metadata, an associated time condition, and an associated user identification. The method further includes storing at least the time condition. The at least stored time condition is used, at least in part, for associating the metadata with the media object. The media object is then provided to the user. In some embodiments the media object is not available for association with the metadata at the time the metadata is received. In other embodiments, the media object is provided by an external application.
US10353942B2
Disclosed is a method and system for enabling storytelling on a computing device. A processor analyzes a set of media items associated with the user, each media item having associated metadata. The processor identifies one or more related characteristics among the media items in the set to form a cluster of media items associated with an event associated with the user. The processor selects templates from a template database, each template configured to represent a moment in the event. The processor edits selected media items in the cluster to fit into the selected templates. The processor creates a mixed-media module comprising the templates organized into a desired sequence. The processor displays, to the user, a preview of the mixed-media module, receives edit commands for editing the module, and applies the edit commands to the module to create a final module. The processor then displays the final mixed-media module.
US10353941B2
The present invention is in the technical field of geolocation. More particularly, the present invention is in the technical field of making content in the form of electronic data available for retrieval when a device has satisfied the Retrieval Range and other Rules which govern the ability to retrieve the content. Retrieval of Content by user devices may be based on Rules communicated by an App, Admin or third party interface and shall be contained and processed by an application interface engine.
US10353937B2
Systems, methods, and devices for automated provisioning are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory including a user profile database having n-dimension attributes of a user. The system can include a user device and a source device. The system can include a server that can: generate and store a user profile in the user profile database and generate and store a characterization vector from the user profile. The server can identify a service for provisioning, receive updates to at least some of the attributes of the first user, and trigger regeneration of the characterization vector from the received inputs. The server can: regenerate the characterization vector, determine an efficacy of the provisioned services, and automatically identify a second service for provisioning for a second user based on the efficacy of the provisioned services to the first user.
US10353935B2
A method includes associating, for each one of a plurality of answer definitions, at least one or more pattern-form questions, wherein each answer definition has an associated jump target that defines a respective entry point into the workspace analytics system to provide information responsive to the associated one or more pattern-form questions. The method further includes receiving a user input including capturing input text defining a natural language user query, matching the received input text to one of the pattern-form questions thereby selecting the jump target associated with the matched pattern-form question, and generating a response to the natural language user query by retrieving information from the workspace analytics system by referencing a link based on the selected jump target and zero or more parameters values.
US10353932B2
A method includes hierarchically identifying occurrences of some of the words in the set of sentences; creating a first index for each of some of the words based on the upper hierarchy of occurrences identified for each word; receiving input of a queried word; hierarchically identifying occurrences of the queried word in the set of sentences; creating a second index based on the upper hierarchy of occurrences identified for the queried word; comparing the first index and the second index to calculate an estimated value for the number of occurrences of a word in the neighborhood of the queried word; and calculating the actual value of the number of occurrences of a word in the neighborhood of the queried word based on an upper hierarchy and lower hierarchy of the occurrences on condition that the estimated value is equal to or greater than a predetermined number.
US10353923B2
In various example embodiments, systems and methods for building data cubes to be stored in a cube store are presented. In some embodiments, a metadata engine generates the cube metadata. In further embodiments, cube data is generated by a cube build engine based on the cube metadata and source data. The cube build engine performs a multi-stage MapReduce job on the source data to produce a multi-dimensional cube lattice having multiple cuboids. In further embodiments, the cube data is provided to the cube store.
US10353907B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system stores a set of feed updates associated with a set of entities in descending chronological order within a set of resizable blocks. For each entity in the set of entities, the system generates an index containing one or more lists of resizable blocks storing a subset of the feed updates associated with the entity, wherein the one or more lists are sorted in descending chronological order. The system then uses the index to generate a content feed containing a selection of the feed updates for outputting to a viewer.
US10353902B2
A retrieval support method including acquiring, for each of a plurality of categories relating to computer systems, frequency information including a frequency of occurrence of each of a plurality of terms included in pieces of text information on the computer systems, specifying, a plurality of first terms and a plurality of second terms, the plurality of first terms being terms which is not used in common to the plurality of categories, the plurality of second terms being a terms which is used in common, generating correspondence information, for each of the plurality of first terms, that associates selected first term with at least one of the plurality of second terms which is included in a piece of text information including the selected first term, and generating specified information to identify each combination of first terms, belonging to different category among the plurality of categories, that have correlativity.
US10353898B2
A computer-implemented method for enhancing and utilizing user data derived from digital interactions includes receiving user submission data comprising records generated by input into a client side application interface by a first user on a first computing device and transmitted from the first computing device to the aggregation point via at least one of a data transmission service and a data transmission provider. The method includes generating a first dataset associated with the first user, generating a data model based on data in the first dataset and one or more correlations based on attributes in the first dataset, and generating a modeled dataset based on the data model.
US10353893B2
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for data partitioning and ordering.
US10353891B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for interpolating conformal input sets based on a target output. A database management system can store sets of operational data, such as financial, medical, climate or other information. A user can input or access a set of target data, representing an output which a user wishes to be generated from an interpolated set of input data based on an interpolation function. Thus, the average air temperature of a region may be known for the last ten years, along with various inputs including water temperature, wind speed, and other climate data. The target data can include an expected average temperature for the current year. The interpolation engine can receive the target temperature for the current year, and generate those water temperatures, wind speeds, and other input variables that will produce the target output temperature.
US10353890B2
Embodiments relate to analyzing dataset. A method of analyzing data is provided. The method obtains a description of a dataset. The method automatically generates a plurality of analysis options from the description of the dataset. The method generates a plurality of queries based on the analysis options. The method deploys the queries on the dataset to build a plurality of statistical models from the dataset.
US10353880B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for managing performances of hardware devices on a real-time basis. The method includes identifying, by a managing device, at least one electronic device through at least one personal network, identifying, by the managing device, at least one device manufacturer through at least one commercial network, associated with the at least one electronic device, determining, by the managing device, one or more device parameters associated with the at least one electronic device, analyzing, by the managing device, performance data associated with the at least one electronic device based on the one or more device parameters, and generating, by the managing device, one or more recommendations data based on the performance data.
US10353868B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for analyzing equipment data, determining an occurrence of an event, and transmitting a message based on the event.
US10353863B1
A device receives, from a user device, a request to prune a primary database, and receives primary database information associated with the primary database and secondary database information associated with a secondary database that is different than the primary database. The device processes the primary database information and the secondary database information, with a machine learning model, to generate suggested pruning parameters, and provides the suggested pruning parameters to the user device. The device receives selected pruning parameters from the user device, where the selected pruning parameters are selected from the suggested pruning parameters or are input via the user device. The device removes pruned information from the primary database based on the selected pruning parameters, and provides the pruned information to the secondary database based on the selected pruning parameters.
US10353862B2
A neural network unit includes a random bit source that generates random bits and a plurality of neural processing units (NPU). Each NPU includes an accumulator into which the NPU accumulates a plurality of products as an accumulated value and a rounder that receives the random bits from the random bit source and stochastically rounds the accumulated value based on a random bit received from the random bit source.
US10353849B2
A system includes a slave device, and first and second master devices. A chipset of the slave device is capable of communication with a specific number of master devices. The first master device is configured to connect the information handling system with the slave device, to receive a transmission power setting of the slave device while the first master device is connected to the slave device, to disconnect the from the slave device, and to continuously track a received signal strength indicator of the slave device while the first master is disconnected from the slave. The second master device configured to connect with the slave device in response to the first master device disconnecting from the slave device, wherein the connection to the second master causes the slave device to communicate with at least one more master device than the specific number of master devices.
US10353848B2
Embodiments relate to portable continuous integration (CI) devices configured to facilitate local CI development. In one embodiment, a portable CI device can comprise a housing comprising at least one external port for communications and power; a router disposed in the housing and communicatively coupled within the housing with the at least one external port; and a plurality of processor modules disposed in the housing and including a clock processor module, a memory processor module, a source code management processor module, a continuous integration processor module, a code quality processor module, and a repository management processor module, each of the plurality of processor modules being communicatively coupled with the router.
US10353847B2
A firefighting or rescue apparatus includes a frame having a cab defining an interior within which a flash memory device is permanently mounted. The flash memory device is isolated so that it is incapable of receiving any onboard operating data pertaining to the operation and status of the firefighting apparatus. Instead, the device primarily stores data regarding a service manual, maintenance manual, electrical diagrams and/or troubleshooting guide related to the firefighting apparatus. The device is able to be selectively coupled to a portable computing device so that a user working on the firefighting apparatus can access the data without risk of loss or misplacement thereof.
US10353843B1
A device can include one of more configurable packet processing pipelines to process a plurality of packets. Each configurable packet processing pipeline can include a plurality of packet processing components, wherein each packet processing component is configured to perform one or more packet processing operations for the device. The plurality of packet processing components are coupled to a packet processing interconnect, wherein each packet processing component is configured to route the packets through the packet processing interconnect for the one or more configurable packet processing pipelines.
US10353842B2
Various embodiments concern techniques for intelligently switching between multiple sources of USB signals. More specifically, user devices are described that include a physical USB port for receiving a USB connector and one or more wireless transceivers that communicate with an accessory. The wireless transceiver(s) may communicate with the accessory using a USB-based protocol (e.g., Wireless USB). The user devices described herein can intelligently switch between these different sources of USB signals so that USB signals can be simultaneously or sequentially received from a peripheral (via the USB port) and an accessory (via the wireless transceiver(s)). In some embodiments, a switching routine is executed (e.g., by a processor or signal switch) that determines which peripheral and/or accessory is connected to a user device at a given point in time.
US10353841B2
Methods are provided for optimizing a routing of a signal path in terms of delay and signal integrity in a semiconductor device. The signal path includes at least one track in a metal layer. The method includes selecting an already routed original signal path to be optimized, modifying at least one original routing parameter, creating an alternative signal path based on the modified routing parameter value, determining at least one timing value describing the delay and signal integrity of the alternative signal path and signal integrity, and replacing the already routed original signal path by the alternative signal path based on the timing value indicating that the alternative signal path complies with predefined constraints related to the delay and signal integrity.
US10353839B2
The present disclosure provides a server system including a rack, a rack management controller, host devices, storage devices and two signal switches. The rack management controller generates a controlling signal. The host devices are located in the rack. The storage devices are electrically connected to the host devices respectively, are disposed in the rack and located under the host devices. The two signal switches are electrically connected to the host devices and the rack management controller respectively, each of the signal switches is electrically connected to the storage devices, and the two signal switches are disposed in the rack and located above the host devices. Each of the host devices receives the control signal through the two signal switches, so as to match one of the storage devices, such that each of the host devices performs the access and process operation for the data of the matched storage device thereof.
US10353835B2
A modular control apparatus, having a head module, and at least one supply module and peripheral module arranged on the head module and having a bus structure. The supply module and the peripheral module have a base module part, an electronic module part and a connection module part. The base module parts are arranged next to one another and provide the bus structure that electrically couples the head module, the supply module and the peripheral module to one another. The supply module additionally comprises an electrical line that runs from the connection module part through the electronic module part to the base module part and connects the supply connection of the supply module to the bus structure. An overload identification unit is arranged at the electrical line and determines a parameter of the electrical line and produces a warning signal if the parameter exceeds a threshold value.
US10353834B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for adapter configuration in accordance with one embodiment of the present description, in which a set of configuration data structures including both a primary and a secondary configuration data structure, may be automatically created by automatic adapter configuration control logic. Upon detection of the replacement of the original host adapter with a replacement host adapter, the primary configuration data structure, for example, may be automatically selected to configure the replacement host adapter. In the event of a failure in the configuration process, the secondary configuration data structure may be automatically selected to configure the replacement host adapter. Other aspects of adapter configuration in accordance with the present description are described.
US10353833B2
A computer system with a configurable ordering controller for coupling transactions. The computer system comprises a coupling device configured to send first data packets with an unordered attribute being set to an ordering controller. The computer system further comprises the coupling device configured to send second data packets with requested ordering to the ordering controller, back-to-back after the first data packets, without waiting until all of the first data packets are completed. The computer system further comprises the ordering controller configured to send the first data packets to a memory subsystem in a relaxed ordering mode, wherein the ordering controller sends the first data packets to the memory subsystem in an arbitrary order, and wherein the ordering controller sends the second data packets to the memory subsystem after sending all of the first data packets to the memory subsystem.
US10353824B2
A method for processing data, a memory management unit and a memory control device are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a memory control device, a first data packet carrying a virtual address and a page table base address that are sent by a memory management unit, executing, by the memory control device, a page table walk operation according to the virtual address and the page table base address, to obtain a physical address corresponding to the virtual address and sending, by the memory control device, the physical address corresponding to the virtual address to the memory management unit.
US10353823B2
An integrated circuit (122) includes an on-chip boot ROM (132) holding boot code, a non-volatile security identification element (140) having non-volatile information determining a less secure type or more secure type, and a processor (130). The processor (130) is coupled to the on-chip boot ROM (132) and to the non-volatile security identification element (140) to selectively execute boot code depending on the non-volatile information of the non-volatile security identification element (140). Other technology such as processors, methods of operation, processes of manufacture, wireless communications apparatus, and wireless handsets are also disclosed.
US10353816B2
A system includes a non-volatile memory to store a page cache that contains pages of data allocated by an operating system, the pages in the page cache being persistent across a power cycle of the system. The page cache is located in a specified region of the non-volatile memory and is to store the pages of data without tagging a memory region.
US10353807B2
A device may receive testing instructions, for testing a computer program product, in a first format. The testing instructions may include testing data and a testing script. The testing data and the testing script may be associated with the first format. The device may identify a set of commands in the first format. The device may extract the set of commands from the first format. The device may convert the testing instructions from the first format to a second format based on extracting the set of commands. The device may execute the testing instructions based on the second format.
US10353800B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for graph based monitoring and management of network components of a distributed streaming system. In one aspect, a method includes generating, by a processor, a first metrics and a second metrics based on data collected on a system; generating, by the processor, a topology graph representing data flow within the system; generating, by the processor, at least one first metrics graph corresponding to the first metrics based in part on the topology graph; generating, by the processor, at least one second metrics graph corresponding to the second metrics based in part on the topology graph; identifying, by the processor, a malfunction within the system based on a change in at least one of the first metrics graph and the second metrics graph; and sending, by the processor, a feedback on the malfunction to an operational management component of the system.
US10353799B2
A mobile application portfolio management system that estimates performance of a mobile application portfolio on various metrics and provides suggestions for improvements is disclosed. The mobile application portfolio manager calculates different KPIs for estimating performance of the mobile applications within the mobile application portfolio. The KPIs that underperform their respective thresholds are analyzed to isolate the elements of the KPIs that result in subpar performances by the KPIs. Various corrective actions to improve the performance of the elements of the KPIs can be derived based on the rules configured within the mobile application portfolio management system.
US10353792B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for summarizing large amounts of data over time into one or more data layers. The systems and methods provide for storing data from a large data feed, which may include machine-sourced and human-sourced information, into one or more layers that are defined by layer parameters. A user of an interface may provide various parameters that define the portion or portions of the raw data feed to be included in the layer. With the received parameters, the system may analyze the raw data feed as it is received at the monitoring or collecting system to identify instances of data that match the received parameters. Through the system, data from a large raw data feed is searched and made available to a network administrator for easier management of the network without consuming vast network resources and administrator time.
US10353782B2
Non-destructive data storage is disclosed. An information change is stored that is associated with a business object such that tracking of the information change is enabled with respect to one a transaction time and/or an effective time. The stored information change is accessed with respect to a time.
US10353778B2
The present application provides a method for planning a recovery resource for resisting N-time faults and an optical transmission device, and the method includes: planning, on an optical transmission device according to preset network planning information, a recovery resource for resisting (N−1)-time faults for preset (N−1)-time faults, and the recovery resource for resisting (N−1)-time faults is an optimal recovery resource corresponding to each interrupted service during the preset (N−1)-time faults; and planning, by the optical transmission device according to the network planning information and the recovery resource for resisting (N−1)-time faults, a recovery resource for resisting N-time faults for preset N-time faults, where the recovery resource for resisting N-time faults is a network-wide optimal recovery resource corresponding to interrupted services during the N-time faults. According to the present application, recovery resource costs can be reduced, and recovery resource planning reliability can be improved.
US10353766B2
A computer-implemented method comprises identifying a computer task; determining a hardware exception source associated with the computer task; determining an exception unit associated with the hardware exception source; determining a parallelization factor associated with the hardware exception source; and determining a parallel execution scenario associated with the computer task based on the exception unit and the parallelization factor. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.
US10353765B2
A scalable method of determining in a firmware environment if the rate of occurrence of a detectable specified type of system event that occurs to a system component or discrete functional unit, has met a criteria with respect to a pre-selected threshold. When the meeting of the threshold criteria is detected, a previously defined action associated with the threshold criteria for the particular event can be invoked by the firmware. Embodiments may establish a sliding time-window that includes a currently detected type of system event and extends back a set duration in the past. Any occurrences of the specified event taking place earlier than the established time-window may be discarded while occurrences of the events during the specified time-window are added together with the newly detected event and compared to a threshold value to see if the threshold criteria has been met.
US10353761B2
Described herein are apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for asynchronous sensing and/or validating of data using a first sensor and a second sensor for a purpose of transforming input data into validated output data when at least one attribute of external data or the input data, as determined by a sensor, is missing. The external data is associated with the input data and is used for determining a set of attributes for the first sensor. The asynchronous sensing and/or validating of the input data enables faster transforming of the input data into the validated output data.
US10353757B2
A method for processing vehicle-to-X messages in a processing module and a method for processing vehicle-to-X messages in a control module. In the course of this messages are checked in a specified checking sequence.
US10353755B2
A device may identify a tool operating on a first device for integration into a lifecycle management platform operating on a second device. The tool may be associated with providing a functionality not included in the lifecycle management platform. The first device may be external to the second device. The device may determine a set of tool attributes for data events associated with the tool. The data events may include a data input, a data output, a new message, an updated message, a deleted message, or the like. The device may select a message format based on the set of tool attributes. The device may configure adaptation for a tool application programming interface (API) of the tool and a platform API of the lifecycle management platform based on the message format. The device may provide information associated with configuring adaptation for the tool API and the platform API.
US10353753B1
An event-driven compute service generates a checkpoint package based on an initialized state of a function. The checkpoint package may be generated through proactive or reactive checkpointing. The checkpoint package includes function code and checkpoint data for an initialized state of the registered function. The event-driven compute service registers the checkpoint package. In response to a determination that an event matches a defined event to trigger the registered checkpoint package, the registered checkpoint package launches in a container. A checkpoint framework causes the container to launch the registered function from the initialized state according to the checkpoint data of the registered checkpoint package. The container terminates the registered function upon completion of one or more tasks.
US10353751B2
Various embodiments provide an interface between a Web browser's layout engine and a scripting engine. The interface enables objects from the layout engine to be recognized by a memory manager in the scripting engine and interact in a streamlined, efficient manner. In accordance with one or more embodiments, the interface allows browser layout engine objects to be created as objects that are native to the scripting engine. Alternately or additionally, in some embodiments, the native objects are further configured to proxy functionality between the layout engine and the scripting engine.
US10353745B1
Systems and methods are described for accurately determining the performance of a networked computing environment relative to the predicted performance of a target computing environment. The computing environment performance for a particular workload are related to each other by determining a coefficient of equivalency. The coefficient of equivalency may be determined based on the time, cost, or other criteria associated with executing the workload, and may be determined by assessing the relative performance of various computing resources (such as central processing units and computer-readable media) in the respective environments and assessing the demand placed upon these resources by the particular workload. The coefficient of equivalency may further be determined based in part on capacity limitations and substitutions of one computing resource for another in the respective computing environments.
US10353744B2
Techniques for providing a system wide manageability interface are provided. In one aspect, manageability data may be received from a plurality of manageability subsystems. Each manageability subsystem may be contained in a domain. The received manageability data may be coalesced into a system wide view. The system wide view may span all domains.
US10353743B1
Ensuring the fair utilization of system resources using workload based, time-independent scheduling, including: receiving an I/O request associated with an entity; determining whether an amount of system resources required to service the I/O request is greater than an amount of available system resources in a storage system; responsive to determining that the amount of system resources required to service the I/O request is greater than the amount of available system resources in the storage system: queueing the I/O request in an entity-specific queue for the entity; detecting that additional system resources in the storage system have become available; and responsive to detecting that additional system resources in the storage system have become available, issuing an I/O request from an entity-specific queue for an entity that has a highest priority among entities with non-empty entity-specific queues.
US10353733B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for updating virtual machines without rebuilding distributed databases thereon. In one example, a system for updating a virtual machine on a cloud service may include at least one processor configured to: generate and transmit, to the cloud service, a first command to disconnect a virtual storage from a first virtual machine; after the virtual storage is disconnected, generate and transmit, to the cloud service, a second command to offline the first virtual machine; generate and transmit, to the cloud service, a third command to build a second virtual machine; after the second virtual machine is built, generate and transmit, to the cloud service, a fourth command to connect the virtual storage to the second virtual machine; and generate and transmit, to the cloud service, a fifth command to online the second virtual machine with the address of the virtual machine.
US10353727B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising executing a device driver in a private logical partition on a compute host, wherein the device driver is configured to execute in an environment different than an environment of a hypervisor of the compute host, establishing a communication channel between the private logical partition and an adjunct partition executing on the compute host, and configuring, responsive to a command sent by the adjunct partition to the device driver via the communication channel, a physical function of a single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) device of the host system.
US10353725B2
A computer system implements a hypervisor which, in turn, implements one or more computer system instances and a controller. The controller and a computer system instance share a memory. A request is processed using facilities of both the computer system instance and the controller. As part of request processing, information is passed between the computer system instance and the controller via the shared memory.
US10353720B1
A computerized method, system and media that assists the user in creating optimal answers for an academic or employment application and interview. The computer processor: computes a “brand” for the user to characterize and differentiate himself from other applicants; guides them through brainstorming their unique stories or anecdotes, and then allocating their stories or personal traits amongst the discrete pieces of an application; checks to make sure that an optimal mix of stories is being used; guides a user on a strategy for soliciting strong letters of recommendation; advises on the best type of resume to construct; breaks down a specific set of essay or interview questions into sub-questions; compiles and rearranges the sub-questions into a rough draft; provides guidance on how to create a final draft; automatedly solicits editing feedback from third parties; and, prepares the user for an interview, to include recording and critiquing a mock videotaped interview.
US10353715B2
Memory structures are provided, where a fast SRAM in an mNVSRAM block may serve as the buffer for a large block NVM memory to increase the data exchange rate between computing units or processor cores and the large NVM memory. The mNVSRAM blocks may also provide a fast boot function, where a boot code may be stored in the NVM parts of the mNVSRAM block, and due to the high bandwidth communication between fast SRAM part and the associated NVM memories, the boot code may be transferred into the fast SRAM in one or a few clock cycles enabling fast boot up function. Similarly, code stored in the NVM parts of an mNVSRAM block may be transferred into fast SRAM rapidly at wake-up time enabling fast wake up and voiding a need to wake up any other memory part, which may also result in energy savings for the computing system.
US10353714B1
Techniques are provided to enable non-disruptive upgrades of multipath device drivers. A multipath device driver includes a core module and a thin module. The core module is configured to implement all multipathing functionality of the multipath device driver, and the thin module is configured to create and maintain an instance of a multipath device, which is utilized by the core module to control I/O operations over a plurality of I/O paths from the host system to an array of data storage devices. In response to an upgrade command, the thin module replaces I/O entry points of the core module so that I/O operation requests are routed to the thin module during an upgrade operation of the core module. The thin module utilizes the instance of the multipath device during the upgrade operation to execute the I/O operation requests that are routed to the thin module.
US10353713B2
An information handling system includes a processor, a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot volume, and a memory including UEFI code and a setup module. The UEFI code is executable by the processor to boot the information handling system, determine if the UEFI boot volume includes a setup data file, and launch the setup module in response to determining that the UEFI boot volume includes the setup data file. The setup module is executable by the processor to read first information from the setup data file, and set a first configuration setting of the information handling system based upon the first information.
US10353709B2
Techniques and mechanisms described herein include a signal processor implemented as an overlay on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device that utilizes special purpose, hardened intellectual property (IP) modules such as memory blocks and digital signal processing (DSP) cores. A Processing Element (PE) is built from one or more DSP cores connected to additional logic. Interconnected as an array, the PEs may operate in a computational model such as Single Instruction-Multiple Thread (SIMT). A software hierarchy is described that transforms the SIMT array into an effective signal processor.
US10353697B2
A hierarchical shared resources spatial visualization system and method including a visualization runtime user interface that quickly and efficiently displays a spatial layout of a shared resource having a hierarchical nature. The user interface provides a spatial layout of the hierarchical shared resource and overlays salient activity information of a group's interaction with the shared resource. In software development, the user interface provides software teams with awareness of activity by other developers in the group regarding files in the shared source code base. The salient activity includes active file information (such as which files are open and by whom) and source repository actions (such as a developer's activity within a project's source repository system). Visual geometry and colors are employed to create a visually distinctive environment that is used to convey the salient activity information quickly and efficiently.
US10353693B2
Server-side authentication of user accounts by using multiple authentication tokens and transmission of update statement to users for updates to applications installed on their devices. Prompting users that updates are available upon determining that a threshold event has occurred and if requisite network and situational conditions exist. Batching and sending notifications or requests for authentications that are required for each application update that is currently ready for download.
US10353684B2
A Quick Application Launch System that serves for rapid launch of varied types of applications in a range of Portable Computing Devices. The quick application launch system includes a Mobile Server Platform (MSP) and a Client Application Unit (CAU).
US10353683B2
A system for dynamically generating a timeout value based on a customer runtime environment for use with a manufacturer update package. More specifically, the system for dynamically generating a timeout value decomposes calculation of a timeout value based upon the major steps contained within the update service and dynamically calculates the timeout value based upon processor load. In certain embodiments the system uses a heuristic algorithm to perform the calculation.
US10353682B2
A device includes a processor configured to: divide loop in a program into first loop and second loop when compiling the program, the loop accessing data of an array and prefetching data of the array to be accessed at a repetition after prescribed repetitions at each repetition, the first loop including one or more repetitions from an initial repetition to a repetition immediately before the repetition after the prescribed repetitions, the second loop including one or more repetitions from the repetition after the prescribed repetitions to a last repetition, and generate an intermediate language code configured to access data of the array using a first region in a cache memory and prefetch data of the array using a second region in the cache memory in the first loop, and to access and prefetch data of the array using the second region in the second loop.
US10353681B2
A method for improving performance of an access triggered architecture for a computer implemented application is provided. The method first executes typical operations of the access triggered architecture according to an execution time, wherein the typical operations comprise: obtaining a dataset and an instruction set; and using the instruction set to transmit the dataset to a functional block associated with an operation, wherein the functional block performs the operation using the dataset to generate a revised dataset. The method further creates a pipeline of the typical operations to reduce the execution time of the typical operations, to create a reduced execution time; and executes the typical operations according to the reduced execution time, using the pipeline.
US10353669B2
Managing entries in a mark table of computer memory errors including identifying at least two mark table entries as candidates for merger, wherein each mark table entry indicates an error at a location in a computer memory; and merging the identified mark table entries into a single mark table entry, including removing one of the identified mark table entries from the mark table.
US10353665B2
Provided is a method of providing information through a mobile device, in which an information providing screen is outputted only during the first activation performed within a predetermined time range designated by a user. Therefore, inconvenience resulting from repetitive outputs of the information providing screen can be resolved.
US10353654B1
A system to is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store application integration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, the one or more processors to execute the application integration logic to provide an interface between a print manager and one or more client devices supporting a plurality of language formats and to convert print job instructions from the plurality of language formats to a language format supported by the print manager and allow the print manager to communication status back on the print job in its own language and have that converted in to the language the client device understands.
US10353646B2
An information processing apparatus executes a printer driver that requests an image processing apparatus to perform image processing on data. The information processing apparatus includes a processor, in communication with a memory, executing a process including executing, by a plurality of process executors, predetermined processes corresponding to extended functions added to the printer driver, according to a request from the printer driver; storing process information relating to the predetermined processes that are respectively executed by the plurality of process executors; determining an execution order of the predetermined processes that are respectively executed by the plurality of process executors in the printer driver, based on the stored process information; and requesting the plurality of process executors to execute, on the data, the predetermined processes in the determined execution order, according to an instruction from the printer driver.
US10353644B2
A print control apparatus includes: a print controller that controls operation of an image forming apparatus which prints images on a continuous sheet; a display controller that causes a display apparatus to display a main screen which is a print setting screen including setting items corresponding to contents of the operation of the image forming apparatus; and an input controller that receives instructions related to setting contents of the setting items. The main screen includes a first print pattern diagram. The first print pattern diagram includes: a sheet diagram part that represents a figure corresponding to pages in the continuous sheet; and setting diagram parts that represent figures corresponding to the setting contents of the setting items. The display controller updates contents of the first print pattern diagram in response to the setting contents of the setting items that the input controller receives.
US10353643B2
A touch operation device displays a lock release screen on a touch screen. The lock release screen includes a plurality of guides which are arranged according to a predetermined rule and a plurality of symbols which are arranged around the guides. One of the guides is set to a start guide. Release symbols are arranged around the start guide. The touch operation device releases lock state when the first guide of an input pattern agrees with the start guide and the shape of the input pattern agrees with the shape of a release pattern.
US10353639B2
An array controller for connection between a solid state drive controller and multiple non-volatile storage units is provided. The array controller comprises a plurality of enable outputs, each of which is connected to an enable input of one of the non-volatile storage units, and a buffer in which data to be written into or read from the non-volatile storage units is stored. The array controller further comprises a control unit configured to enable a communication path between the solid state drive controller and one of the non-volatile storage units according to an address received from the solid state drive controller.
US10353637B1
A method and system for use in managing data storage is disclosed. Data storage in a data storage system is managed. The data storage system comprises a first cache and at least one solid state drive for storing data. The data storage in connection with the at least one solid state drive is monitored. The amount of free data storage capacity in connection with the at least one solid state drive is determined in response to monitoring the data storage in connection with the at least one solid state drive. At least a portion of the free data storage capacity is provisioned as a second cache in response to determining the amount of free data storage capacity in connection with the at least one solid state drive.
US10353636B2
A write filter can be configured to employ a dynamically expandable overlay. The size of the overlay could initially be small and could then grow and shrink during the current session based on demand. The overlay can span both RAM and disk to thereby allow the size of the overlay to be relatively large. When sufficient RAM is available, the overlay can be allowed to grow in RAM. In contrast, if RAM is low, the overlay can grow on disk. Also, artifacts in the overlay can be moved from the RAM portion to the disk portion to reduce the amount of RAM consumed by the overlay. Because the overlay is dynamically expandable, it will typically not become full and will therefore not force a reboot.
US10353634B1
Data volumes for a customer can be placed on various storage tiers, including different hardware types or storage systems, that are determined to be appropriate for the anticipated usage of those data volumes. The actual usage can be monitored to determine one or more types of workload for the data volume, and a determination made as to whether all, or portions, of the data volume could obtain a significant performance improvement by being migrated to a different storage tier. In some instances the chunks or partitions of a volume can be concurrently distributed across multiple different storage tiers in order to satisfy various performance and/or cost criteria. Once workload information is available for a customer, that information can be used to determine the storage tiers for initial placement of subsequent data volumes.
US10353631B2
Examples are disclosed for moving data between a network input/output (I/O) device and a storage subsystem and/or storage device. In some examples, a network I/O device coupled to a host device may receive a data frame including a request to access a storage subsystem or storage device. The storage subsystem and/or storage device may be located with the network I/O device or separately coupled to the host device through a storage controller. One or more buffers maintained in a cache for processor circuitry may be used to exchange control information or stage data associated with the data frame to avoid or eliminate use of system memory to move data to or from the storage subsystem and/or storage device. Other examples are described and claimed.
US10353621B1
Systems and methods for backing up data and for restoring at least sub-sets of the backed up data or for restoring sub-sets of data from a single file. An offset map is generated when backing up data. The offset map identifies at least starting locations of files and data records in the backup. A request for specific data is accommodated by identified the start locations of the specific data and then extracting the requested data from the backup. The requested data can then be restored independently of the entire backup.
US10353616B1
A method is used in managing data relocation in storage systems. Data access activity information is gathered for a set of slices of a storage tier in a data storage system for migrating the set of slices from the storage tier to another storage tier. The data storage system includes a first storage tier and a second storage tier configured such that performance characteristics associated with the first storage tier is superior to the second storage tier. Based on a pattern indicated by the data access activity information, a temperature for the set of slices is determined by applying a predictive analysis technique. Based on the determination, relocation of data is effected in the storage system.
US10353614B2
A RAID system and method based on a solid-state storage medium. The system includes a plurality of solid-state storage devices and a main control unit. Each solid-state storage device includes a solid-state storage medium and a controller for controlling reading and writing of the solid-state storage medium. The main control unit is electrically connected to the controller of each of the solid-state storage devices in a RAID array. The main control unit is used for performing address mapping from a logical block address in the RAID array to a physical block address of the flash memory solid-state storage device. The address mapping and the RAID function can be integrated to solve the problems of write amplification and low performance. The unified management of address mapping of the solid-state storage devices can be implemented to improve the efficiency of garbage collection and wear leveling of the solid-state storage system.
US10353610B1
There are disclosed techniques for use in configuring a data storage system. The techniques disclose defining a first workload including a first storage capacity requirement, a first IOPS requirement and a first skew value describing an expected workload profile. The techniques also disclose determining a percentage of the storage capacity requirement to be allocated from a storage tier based on a policy as well as allocating an amount of storage capacity from the storage tier in accordance with the percentage of the first storage capacity requirement. The techniques also disclose utilizing the first skew value to map the percentage of the first storage capacity requirement to a corresponding IOPS percentage to be handled by the storage tier. Further, the techniques disclose determining a first distribution of IOPS to the allocated storage capacity based on the IOPS percentage and the first IOPS requirement. The techniques further disclose determining, for a second workload, a second distribution of IOPS to the allocated storage capacity based on a second IOPS requirement and a second skew value and the first distribution of IOPS.
US10353607B2
Systems and methods for managing content in a flash memory. A data structure such as a Bloom filter is implemented in flash memory such that updates to the data can be performed by overwriting pages in the memory.
US10353606B2
A host divides a dataset into stripes and sends the stripes to respective data chips of a distributed memory buffer system, where the data chips buffer the respective slices. Each data chip can buffer stripes from multiple datasets. Through the use of: (i) error detection methods; (ii) tagging the stripes for identification; and (iii) acknowledgement responses from the data chips, the host keeps track of the status of each slice at the data chips. If errors are detected for a given stripe, the host resends the stripe in the next store cycle, concurrently with stripes for the next dataset. Once all stripes have been received error-free across all the data chips, the host issues a store command which triggers the data chips to move the respective stripes from buffer to memory.
US10353604B2
A device transmits the capabilities of the device for performing transformations on offloaded objects, to a host. The device receives an object definition command from the host, where the object definition command indicates one or more transformations to apply to an object. One or more transformations are performed on the object to generate one or more transformed objects. A completion command is transmitted to the host to indicate completion of the one or more transformations on the object.
US10353600B2
A method for verification of content of tape cartridges in a tape library system using tape drives of the tape library, is provided. The method includes instructing the tape drive to perform tape cartridge verification on the tape cartridge. The method further includes after completion of the tape cartridge verification, unloading the tape cartridge to its original storage position. The method further includes transmitting verification data of the tape cartridge verification to a database of the tape library system for analysis.
US10353596B2
A computer system can dynamically manage the performance of a data storage system that includes sets of data storage devices. One set of the data storage devices can include read-intensive (RI) solid-state drives (SSDs). The computer system can detect, in response to a specified number of input/output operations per second (IOPS) of data contained on the RI SSDs exceeding the access density of the RI SSDs divided by the portion of data locations of the RI SSDs containing the data, a free area within the RI SSDs having space for additional data. Additional data within the data storage system that has a required access time less than a specified access time threshold and an access frequency less than a specified access frequency threshold can also be detected. In response, the detected additional data can be moved to the free area within the RI SSDs.
US10353593B2
A method and apparatus for staged execution pipelining and allocating resource to staged execution pipelines are provided. One or more execution pipelines are established, where each of the one or more execution pipelines includes one or more execution stages. Data is provided to the one or more execution pipelines for processing and resources are allocated to the execution pipeline.
US10353589B2
A data management method includes steps of: receiving a read command; reading a page containing target data from a non-volatile memory when the target data corresponding to the read command is stored in the non-volatile memory; determining whether a count of reading of the page is greater than a read threshold; and if false, storing at least one record of subsequent data into a first storage space of a data buffering storage device; or if true, storing the at least one record of subsequent data into a second storage space of the data buffering storage device. Both of the target data and the at least one record of subsequent data are stored in the page, and the target data and the at least one record of subsequent data have a sequential relationship in terms of data reading. Another data management method and a corresponding data storage device are also provided.
US10353580B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a detection unit for detecting pressure applied by user input performed on a touch screen; a determination unit for determining which of two or more input states the user input belongs to, in accordance with the pressure detected by the detection unit; and an operation control unit for enabling or disabling a limitation imposed on operation with a user interface displayed on the touch screen, in accordance with the state of the user input determined by the determination unit.
US10353576B2
An electronic device, with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, one or more processors and memory, displays a first representation of a first controllable external device, where the first controllable external device is situated at a location. The device detects a first user input corresponding to a selection of the first representation of the first controllable external device. The device, after detecting the first user input, adds data identifying the first controllable external device and a first state of the first controllable external device in a scene profile.
US10353575B2
A touched display item from among a plurality of display items is dragged by a touch operation, and in a case where an amount of movement of the touch operation is less than a predetermined distance in a second direction, a plurality of items located between an original position of the touched display item and a current position of the touched display item are moved, and in a case where the amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than or equal to the predetermined distance in the second direction, in a case where the touch operation ends, the touched display item is inserted where the touch operation ended and a display item located at the position where the touched display item is inserted is moved to the original position of the touched display item.
US10353568B2
A display apparatus includes a number-of-touches detecting unit, a first touch-area detecting unit and a first switching control unit. The number-of-touches detecting unit detects the number of touch operations when a user performs a plurality of touch operations on a touch panel. The first touch-area detecting unit detects areas, including touch positions of the plurality of touch operations, from a plurality of areas into which the touch panel is partitioned. The first switching control unit controls switching display, based on the number of detected touch operations and the detected areas.
US10353563B2
Methods and system for enabling locally generated transition graphics interaction with virtualized host computer service includes receiving a control command issued by a user to control screen data currently being rendered at the display device, at a display device of a client device. The control command is transmitted to the host computer service for processing. The host computer service processes the control command and returns updated screen data to the client device. In response to the receipt of the updated screen data, the client device identifies a desired screen effect associated with the control command. The updated screen data received from the host computer service is packaged at the client device with data associated with the desired screen effect to generate a visual response at the client device. The packaged screen effect is returned to the display device for rendering, in response to the control command.
US10353558B2
An appliance is provided that includes a control unit, a plurality of components, and a touchscreen in which the plurality of components and touchscreen are configured to operate under control of the control unit. A graphical user interface (GUI) may be generated for display by the touchscreen. The GUI may include graphical control elements for respective components of the plurality of components. For each graphical control element of the graphical control elements, a touch gesture to drag the graphical control element may be detected for a component of the respective components. In response, a mode or setting of a plurality of modes or settings of the component may be adjusted.
US10353549B2
Systems, methods, and media related to utilizing a wearable device to monitor a remote system include receiving historical data related to operation of a remote system. The historical data includes recorded events occurring in the past. Predictive data is also received. The predictive data relates to operation of the remote system. Moreover, the predictive data includes an indicator of a predicted breach of a condition in the future. The historical and predictive data is displayed on the wearable device along with a graphical indicator for the predicted breach.
US10353548B2
Random access to any arbitrary object stored in a database from a displayed virtual object image corresponding to an object wherein some properties of the object are displayed in the virtual object image is provided through manipulation of a drag icon to cause, in sequence, display of a ghost template listing types of properties for which data is stored in a database, select a property type from the ghost template, display all instances of the selected property type and display another virtual object image containing a selected instance of the property type and including other properties of a corresponding object. All properties of the object to which the resulting virtual object image corresponds can be determined from further manipulation of the drag icon to display another ghost template.
US10353538B2
A user interface method comprises: causing a plurality of first objects to be displayed; causing one or more second objects to be displayed, each second object associated on the display with one or more of the first objects; and, in response to an input, causing at least one of the first objects to be displayed with decreased prominence and causing at least one second object that is associated with the first object to be displayed such that the relative decrease in prominence of the second object, if any, is less than the relative decrease in prominence of the first object.
US10353537B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to present an overlay combined with a presentation of media content at each of a plurality of computing devices on an electronic communications network to illustrate a collection of one or more commentaries temporally associated with portions of the presented media content where the portions of the presented media content comprises portions of a teleconference workflow meeting, to collect one or more commentaries from each of the plurality of computing devices, and to present the commentaries from the plurality of computing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10353523B2
A passenger communication lighting display on or adjacent a touch bar on a passenger door of a transit vehicle comprises a display that can be controlled to display multiple colors continuous or blinking, and a control means causing the display to be dark when the door is closed, the display to be a first color when the operator has authorized opening, the display to flash a second color when the passenger has requested the door be opened, the display to be blinking the second color when the door is opening, the display to be continuously the second color when the door is resting in the open position, and the display to be blinking a third color while the door is closing.
US10353512B2
A display apparatus capable of reducing the lowering of detection sensitivity is provided. A display apparatus provided with a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form includes: detection electrodes which are in parallel with each other, which are arranged so as to extend in a first direction, and which are connected so as to form a magnetic-field detection coil; and a detection electrode having one end which is arranged inside the magnetic-field detection coil and which is connected to the magnetic-field detection coil, and the other end which is electrically insulated from the magnetic-field detection coil. At the time of each of the magnetic field detection and the electric field detection, an external object is detected based on a change in a signal in the detection electrodes.
US10353509B2
Controlling an audio volume is disclosed. An indicator identifying a force intensity of a touch input provided on a touch input surface is received. It is determined that the touch input is associated with an audio volume control. The audio volume is controlled based at least in part on the indicator identifying the force intensity of the touch input.
US10353508B2
Provided are a touch display panel and a touch display device. The touch display panel includes at least one semiconductor pressure-sensing touch device, and the semiconductor pressure-sensing touch device includes a first pressure-sensitive resistor, a second pressure-sensitive resistor, a third pressure-sensitive resistor and a fourth pressure-sensitive resistor. A first end of the first pressure-sensitive resistor and a first end of the second pressure-sensitive resistor are connected to a first power inputting terminal, a second end of the first pressure-sensitive resistor and a first end of the fourth pressure-sensitive resistor are connected to a first sense signal measuring terminal, a second end of the fourth pressure-sensitive resistor and a second end of the third pressure-sensitive resistor are connected to a second power inputting terminal.
US10353504B2
Techniques include receiving a user notification (e.g., a text-based notification, a phone call, or a voicemail) at a user device. The techniques further include receiving a pressure input from a user of the device at a pressure-sensitive display of the device and determining that the display is covered (e.g., obscured from the user's view). The techniques also include, in response to receiving the pressure input and determining that the display is covered, performing an action associated with the notification using the device (e.g., speak or playback the notification at the device, enable the user to vocally interact with the notification at the device, or forward the notification to another device for display, speech or playback output, and/or user vocal interaction). Additional techniques include, in response to receiving the pressure input and determining that the display is covered, setting the device into a predetermined state (e.g., of a software application).
US10353502B2
An apparatus includes a display stack and a controller. The display stack includes a display and a ground layer. The ground layer includes a plurality of columns. Each column of the plurality of columns includes a plurality of nodes. The controller provides voltages to a first plurality of nodes of a first column of the plurality of columns of the ground layer such that a sum of the voltages of the first plurality of nodes of the first column is less than or equal to two millivolts. The controller also measures values at a second plurality of nodes of a second column of the plurality of columns. The values at the second plurality of nodes indicates an amount of charge transferred from the first plurality of nodes to the second plurality of nodes.
US10353501B2
Disclosed is a display device having a first layer and a second layer over the second layer. The first layer possesses a display region including: a plurality of first sub-pixels; a plurality of second sub-pixels; a plurality of third sub-pixels; a partition wall sandwiched by two adjacent sub-pixels; and a sealing film thereover. The second layer includes: a first touch electrode overlapping with the partition wall and arranged along the partition wall; and a second touch electrode overlapping with the partition wall, arranged along the partition wall, and intersecting the first touch electrode. The first touch electrode and the second touch electrode exist in the same layer. The first touch electrode and the second touch electrode each have a plurality of openings. Among the number of the first sub-pixels, the number of the second sub-pixels, and the number of the third sub-pixels, one is different from the other two.
US10353496B2
A touch panel includes a light-transmitting cover lens, a sensor portion, and a first adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer bonds the cover lens and the sensor portion to each other. The first adhesive layer has a storage elastic modulus at 90° C. of 68 kPa or more and 200 kPa or less. When a surface of the cover lens, being in contact with the first adhesive layer, is a bonding surface, a water contact angle on the bonding surface of the cover lens is more than 0° and 59° or less.
US10353490B2
An image display apparatus, a driving method of the image display apparatus, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The image display apparatus may include: a display; and a processor configured to control the display to display a pointer at a preset area of a screen when a position to which a remote control apparatus directs is outside of the screen of the display, to move the pointer into the screen to correspond to a movement amount of the position and display the pointer, and to display the pointer at the position to which the remote control apparatus directs.
US10353487B2
An electronic apparatus includes a structure and an optical navigation circuit. A first end of the structure is located inside the electronic apparatus and its second end corresponds to a user's control. The structure can be moved forward/backward in a specific direction and/or rotated in another direction. The optical navigation circuit emits light to the structure, captures reflected light from the structure to sense/receive an image from the surface of the structure, detects displacement of the image along a specific axis of the structure, and determines the user's operating behavior as a specific operation according to a change of the sensed displacement of the image.
US10353484B2
A method implemented by a computing device having a memory and a motion sensor detection sensor is disclosed. The memory stores an input model associated with a gesture input. The method includes detecting a motion of the computing device; matching the detected motion with the input model; and determining a confidence level associated with the match. If the confidence level is above a pre-determined threshold, an action associated with the gesture input is performed automatically by the processor; and if the confidence level is below the pre-determined threshold, the action is performed by the processor responsive to receiving a positive confirmation of the gesture input.
US10353479B2
A display apparatus, which improves operability in a case where operations are performed by plural indicators, and a display apparatus control method. A detection unit that detects an operation performed by a first indicator on a screen and an operation performed by a second indicator on the screen, and an invalid determination unit that receives an indication which causes the operations to be invalid are included. In a case where the indication is received after the detection unit detects the operation performed by the second indicator, and, thereafter, detects the operation performed by the first indicator, the invalid determination unit causes the operation performed by the second indicator to be invalid.
US10353475B2
Techniques for text entry using gestures are disclosed. As disclosed, a camera may capture a frame and the face of the user can be detected therein. Landmarks can be aligned to the face in the captured frame. A left eye image and a right eye image may be extracted from the captured frame. The left eye image and the right image each may be resized and compared to a calibration template. A direction of eye gaze may be determined based upon the comparison. A character or word may be predicted based upon the determination of the direction of eye gaze and a known configuration of an eye gaze board (e.g., an E-tran board). The predicted character or word can be included as a part of a text-based message.
US10353464B2
A system is disclosed which may include an eye tracking device and a processor. The eye tracking device may be for determining a gaze direction of a user. The processor may be configured to cause a first image to be displayed on a display device. The processor may also be configured to determine a velocity of a saccade by a user based at least in part on the gaze direction. The processor may further be configured to modify the first image to generate a second image based at least in part on the velocity of the saccade. Modifying the first image may include altering an image quality of an area of the first image, and the area may be selected based at least in part on the velocity of the saccade.
US10353463B2
A smart contact lens system is provided. The contact lens system comprises a contact lens substrate, an embedded display, and an onboard, embedded or off board, remote processor. The embedded display may form a part of the contact lens substrate. The embedded display is configured for outputting variety of UI components to the user. The processor is configured to shift at least a part of an image to a central position of the embedded display to bring the part of the image into focus on the embedded display and select UI component and optionally trigger it; thereby generating appropriate system event. Hence the entire system operation may be controlled with the eye(s).
US10353462B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for assisting a user when interacting with a graphical user interface by combining eye based input with input for e.g. selection and activation of objects and object parts and execution of contextual actions related to the objects and object parts. The present invention also relates to such systems and methods in which the user can configure and customize specific combinations of eye data input and input that should result in a specific contextual action.
US10353460B2
An apparatus and method of use for tracking eye and head movement comprising (1) at least one optoelectronic array sensor or optical flow sensor formed of a plurality of optoelectronic sensor cells; (2) a body configured to support the optoelectronic array sensor with focusing means along with a source of light with collimating means in front of and in proximity to an eye of a user; (3) an optical focusing means to focus an image of the ocular surface of the user on the optoelectronic array sensor; (4) a focusing lens with a source of light; (5) a means to detect blinking; (6) a driver configured to receive signals from the sensor array to generate coordinate signals corresponding to changes in the position of the ocular surface relative to the sensor array; and (7) a means to detect user's additional input and gestures.
US10353448B2
A computer mainboard includes components intended for operating a computer, a control logic that controls voltage supply of the computer mainboard, and a connector plug that receives at least one supply voltage (+12V DC) specified for the computer mainboard, an auxiliary voltage (Vin_ext_DC) and a monitoring signal (Vin_ext_OK) that indicates the presence of an external supply voltage (VEXT_DC, VEXT_AC) that has a predetermined specification, wherein the control logic is configured to detect the monitoring signal (Vin_ext_OK) via the connector plug and, after detection of the monitoring signal (Vin_ext_OK), to generate a first control signal (EN_REG_EB#) and output it to the outside via the connector plug so that, depending thereon, an external voltage supply device can be activated to provide the at least one supply voltage (+12V DC) specified for the computer mainboard from the external supply voltage (VEXT_DC, VEXT_AC).
US10353447B2
A programmable logic circuit such as a finite state machine is provided that is configured to determine a memory array power-up sequence from a configuration signal to successively enable each memory array. A delay circuit triggers an initial memory bank in each enabled memory array to power-up without a delay. The delay circuit then counts responsive to a clock to determine a delay between a successive triggering of remaining memory banks in each enabled memory array to power-up.
US10353442B2
An expansion slot interface may include a low-profile interface card to engage with an expansion slot, a linking device fixed to the interface card, and an expansion component connector to operably engage with an expansion component. The expansion component may be disposed apart from the interface card. The low-profile interface card may fit underneath a doublewide expansion component that is engaged with an adjacently disposed expansion slot, and the linking device may operably engage the interface card with the expansion component connector.
US10353441B2
Example alignment members are provided herein. In one example, the alignment member includes a frame member, a stiffener member, a bracket member, and a spring member. The frame member includes a set of roller bushings. The stiffener member includes a set of cam members. The bracket member to receive the stiffener member. The spring member is connected to the stiffener member. The spring member to expand and contract based on the position of the set of roller bushings.
US10353431B2
In an example, there is disclosed a hybrid tablet computing device comprising a tablet member configured to dock to a base member. The base member may include peripherals and other elements to augment the functionality of the tablet member. While docked, the base and tablet may operate in a cooperative mode, while undocking the tablet from the base places the tablet in an independent mode. A user's intent to undock may be inferred by natural interactions, including for example a user gripping the tablet along its top edge while simultaneously placing a hand over a trackpad on the base. If an undocking intent is inferred but the user does not complete the docking process within a timeout period, the tablet may redock and enter the cooperative mode.
US10353429B2
Eyewear is provided including a frame, and a camera connected with the frame, in which the camera is configured to be controlled by a remote controller. The camera may be configured to capture video and/or a photo. The eyewear may include data storage, and the camera may be connected to the data storage. A wrist watch may be configured to act both as a time piece and a controller of the camera. The eyewear may also include a heads up display and/or a video file player. The eyewear may also include an electro-active lens.
US10353426B2
A mobile electronic device, for example a smartphone, may feature thin or curved borders at the left, right, top, and/or bottom edge of the display screen. To accommodate front-facing optical sensor(s) and/or emitter(s) despite a border that is too thin (e.g., too thin for a front camera module and lens), two or more corners of the display panel have a cutout, and the optical sensor(s) and/or emitter(s) are disposed, at least in part, in the areas of these cutouts at the corners. The cutouts may have a convex shape for the most part, thereby maximizing the remaining screen area. At least one embodiment may display scrollable screen content that extends over the entire height of the screen, such that the uppermost part is displayed between two cutouts. To adjust the layout, the elements displayed on the screen may be categorized by relevance.
US10353425B2
A time information providing apparatus includes a power supply; a clock oscillator configured to generate a clock signal; a communicator configured to transmit a current-time information request to a content providing server or receive a current-time information response corresponding to the current-time information request from the content providing server via the network; a real-time clock (RTC) module configured to generate real-time information representing an actual time; and a controller configured to, in response to the power supply supplying power, control the clock oscillator to generate a clock signal, apply the clock signal to the RTC module, and control the communicator to transmit the current-time information request, and in response to the communicator receiving the current-time information response, control the RTC module to record current-time information based on the current-time information response, and control the RTC module to generate the real-time information by using the clock signal and the current-time information.
US10353422B2
A bidirectional pedal assembly for a vehicle. The assembly includes a support mounted on the vehicle and a pedal pivotally coupled to the support about a pivot shaft. The pedal pivots between a neutral position and first and second operational positions. A biasing member is mounted within the support and continuously biases the pedal to the neutral position. A control mechanism is coupled to the support and the pedal to retard pivotal movement of the pedal as the pedal returns from the operational positions to the neutral position. A handle can be coupled to the pedal and pivot concurrently with the pedal. A frictional mechanism can be disposed within the support and provide increasing resistance as the pedal moves increasingly away from the neutral position. The biasing mechanism, frictional mechanism, and/or control mechanism are configured to force the pedal to the neutral position with no overshoot within a predetermined period.
US10353421B2
A current mirror device includes an input end for receiving an input signal, an output end for outputting an amplified signal of the input signal, first through third transistors, and an operational amplifier. The first transistor includes a first end coupled to first reference current and a second end coupled to a bias voltage. The control end of the second transistor is coupled to the input end. The third transistor includes a first end coupled to the output end, a second end coupled to the first end of the second transistor and a control end coupled to a reference voltage. The operational amplifier is configured to keep a first voltage and a second voltage at substantially the same level, wherein the first voltage is obtained on the first end of the first transistor and the second voltage is obtained on the first end of the second transistor. Therefore, the reference current flowing through the first transistor can be accurately amplified to a desired value and mirrored to become load current flowing through the second transistor.
US10353420B2
Methods and control apparatus are presented for controlling supply of electrical power to a micro-grid power system, in which a master controller automatically rebalances the micro-grid by changing an activation state of one or more loads and/or activating and deactivating individual power supplies to preferentially activate non-fuel consuming power supplies and deactivate fuel consuming power supplies so as to minimize fuel consumption for the micro-grid power system.
US10353418B2
Methods of powering a radio that is mounted on a tower of a cellular base station are provided in which a direct current (“DC”) power signal is provided to the radio over a power cable and a voltage level of the output of the power supply is adjusted so as to provide a substantially constant voltage at a first end of the power cable that is remote from the power supply. Related cellular base stations and programmable power supplies are also provided.
US10353417B2
A ripple pre-amplification based fully integrated LDO pertains to the technical field of power management. The positive input terminal of a transconductance amplifier is connected to a reference voltage Vref, and the negative input terminal of the transconductance amplifier is connected to the feedback voltage Vfb. The output terminal of the transconductance amplifier is connected to the negative input terminal of a transimpedance amplifier and the negative input terminal of an error amplifier. The positive input terminal of the transimpedance amplifier is connected to the ground GND, and the output terminal of the transimpedance amplifier is connected to the positive input terminal of the error amplifier. The gate terminal of the power transistor MP is connected to the output terminal of the error amplifier, the source terminal of the power transistor MP is connected to an input voltage VIN, and the drain terminal of the power transistor MP is grounded.
US10353415B2
To provide a voltage regulator capable of switching a voltage of an output terminal from an internal voltage to an external voltage while suppressing an increase in circuit scale. The voltage regulator includes a voltage output circuit configured to generate a constant internal voltage lower than an external voltage applied to an input terminal from the external voltage and supplying the constant internal voltage to an output terminal, a temperature sensing circuit configured to decrease an output voltage of an output node thereof according to a rise in temperature, an overheat detection circuit connected to the output node of the temperature sensing circuit and a test terminal, and a voltage detection circuit connected to the output node of the temperature sensing circuit and the test terminal.
US10353414B2
In some examples, a bandgap reference circuit comprises a first bandgap pair having multiple first diodes and a first resistor positioned between the multiple first diodes. The circuit also comprises a second bandgap pair having multiple second diodes and a second resistor positioned between the multiple second diodes, the second bandgap pair being an inverted form of the first bandgap pair. The circuit further comprises a scaling resistor coupled to the first and second bandgap pairs. The circuit still further comprises an operational amplifier coupled to the first and second bandgap pairs.
US10353413B2
A voltage generation circuit includes a current source connected to a first node to generate a first internal current corresponding to a constant current, a comparison circuit generating a drive voltage whose level is controlled according to a voltage difference between the first node whose voltage level is controlled by the first internal current and a second node, and a charge supply circuit controlling an amount of charge supplied to the first and second nodes from a power supply voltage terminal according to a level of the drive voltage to generate a supply voltage.
US10353410B2
Systems and methods for automatically adjust control parameters of a TRS according to local, regional and/or federal regulations on emissions, noise and/or other requirements applicable to a particular location and/or time, are provided. When the TRS is operating within a predefined geographic region at a specific time, control parameters or an operation mode of the TRS can be automatically adjusted so that emission and/or noise from the TRS can be compliant with the regulations applicable to that predefined geographic region.
US10353402B2
A method and system for vector limiting of a rotor control volume for a helicopter with one or more controllers configured to issue a displacement command during a flight maneuver and a computer operably connected to the one or more controllers and configured to receive signals with a processor indicative of a displacement command for a rotor during a flight maneuver; determine with the processor an origination point for a command vector in a reference frame; determine with the processor the command vector in the reference frame; determine with the processor a command radius for the command vector; compare with the processor the command radius with values of estimated command radii in a look-up table; and determine with the processor a control volume limited command in response to the comparing of the command radius with the estimated command radius.
US10353399B2
Provided is a robot-implemented, real-time, process to plan a coverage path, the process including: obtaining environment-sensor data indicating distances from the robot to surfaces in a portion of a working environment; obtaining odometry-sensor data; based on the environment-sensor data and the odometry-sensor data, determining at least a part of a coverage path of the robot through the working environment; and commanding an electric-motor driver to move the robot along the at least part of the path.
US10353398B2
The present disclosure provides a moving object detection device including a first input circuitry that receives positional information indicating a position of an object present around a vehicle in time sequence from an object detector included in the vehicle, and a controller that processes the positional information received by the first input circuitry in time sequence, detects at least a first continuum along a traveling road of the vehicle, and when a shape of a detected first continuum of this time is changed in comparison with a shape of a previous first continuum, outputs information indicating that another moving object different from the vehicle is present to a vehicle control circuitry of the vehicle.
US10353395B2
An example method includes receiving image data captured by a sensor on a robotic device. The robotic device is in a warehouse, including multiple inventory items stored at storage locations in the warehouse. Each inventory item has an on-item identifier that identifies it in a warehouse management system (WMS), each storage location has a storage-location identifier that identifies it in the WMS, and a first on-item identifier for a first inventory item is associated in the WMS with a first storage-location identifier for a first storage location. The method includes analyzing the received sensor data to detect an identifier captured by the sensor. The detected identifier includes one or both of the first on-item identifier and the first storage-location identifier. The method includes determining a warehouse location associated with the detected identifier and, based on the warehouse location, determining a location of the robotic device within the warehouse.
US10353390B2
Techniques for generating and executing trajectories to guide autonomous vehicles are described. In an example, a first computer system associated with an autonomous vehicle can generate, at a first operational frequency, a route to guide the autonomous vehicle from a current location to a target location. The first computer system can further determine, at a second operational frequency, an instruction for guiding the autonomous vehicle along the route and can generate, at a third operational frequency, a trajectory based at least partly on the instruction and real-time processed sensor data. A second computer system that is associated with the autonomous vehicle and is in communication with the first computer system can execute, at a fourth operational frequency, the trajectory to cause the autonomous vehicle to travel along the route. The separation of the first computer system and the second computer system can provide enhanced safety, redundancy, and optimization.
US10353387B2
A method, apparatus and computer program products are provided for grouping a plurality of vehicles together into a platoon and using navigation and other available data to optimize the efficiencies of operating the vehicles together as a platoon. Methods may include receiving a first trip request including a first vehicle identification, trip destination, and associated preferences; receiving a second trip request including a second vehicle identification, trip destination, and associated preferences; and generating a platooning plan including assignment of platoon leader to the first vehicle identification and a joining location where a vehicle of the first vehicle identification is to form a platoon with a vehicle of the second identification. Methods may include joining the first vehicle and the second vehicle in a secure vehicle-to-vehicle communication session.
US10353377B2
A method of generating a topographic map of a region of a body for the manufacture of a body fitting article to be fitted to the region of the body. The method allows for the resultant topographical map of the body feature to be coupled to an anatomical and functional datum on the body. The method involves use of a contact probe which is configured to generate positional data which defines the surface it is drawn across. The method comprises the steps of urging a contact probe towards the outer surface of the body such that the contact probe is touching the outer surface of the body or separated from the outer surface of the body only by a barrier layer which is flattened against the outer surface of the body by the probe. The contact probe is drawn over the region of the body where the body fitting article is to be located such that the contact probe generates 3D positional data of the surface of the outer surface of the body in the region of the body where the body fitting article is to be located.
US10353374B2
A controller including: a positional deviation calculating unit that calculates positional deviation using a position command directed to a servo motor for driving a cutting tool, etc., and a position feedback value corresponding to the position of the cutting tool, etc.; an oscillation command calculating unit that calculates an oscillation command using the position command and a spindle axis angle of the rotated work, etc., or using the position feedback value and the spindle axis angle; an oscillation offset calculating unit that calculates an offset for the oscillation command using the positional deviation, the oscillation command, and the spindle axis angle; and a driving unit that determines a drive signal for the servo motor based on the positional deviation, the oscillation command, and the oscillation offset, and outputs the drive signal.
US10353369B2
A controller for an HVAC system comprises an interface, a memory, and a processor. The interface receives data related to user interactions with the system, and receives a temperature of the enclosed space. The memory stores an accumulated user discomfort value and discomfort score values, associated with user interactions. The processor determines a difference between the enclosed space temperature and a setpoint temperature. The processor determines whether the temperature difference exceeds a first threshold, and in response to determining that, determine whether a user has interacted with the system. In response to determining that the user has interacted with the system, the processor determines a current user discomfort value based on the discomfort score values, updates the accumulated user discomfort value, and determines whether the accumulated user discomfort value exceeds a second threshold. In response to determining that, the processor generates an alert indicating that a user discomfort event has occurred.
US10353363B1
A system composed of a function receive block and a function send block for a graphical, block-based modeling environment for graphical modeling of technical and mathematical relationships with a block diagram. Blocks of the block diagram have input ports and/or output ports, wherein the blocks can be connected through their ports by signal lines for data transmission. Especially flexible management of a functionality to be implemented is achieved in that the function receive block has a function receive port through which the function receive block can be assigned a functionality and only the interfaces of the assignable functionality are specified in the function receive block in the form of the number of inputs and/or the number of outputs of the functionality. The function send block has a function send port through which a functionality is sent out to an associated function receive block.
US10353361B2
A smart device control system, comprising a smart device control center, a smart device, and a user control terminal. By means of a local area network, the smart device is connected to the Internet and thereby also connected to the smart device control center, and the user control terminal is connected to the smart device control center by means of the Internet; the smart device control center comprises a communications unit, a data storage unit, a mass data processing unit, a smart processing unit, a service processing unit, and an instruction assembly unit. The smart device control center is connected by means of the Internet to the smart device and the user control terminal, achieving communications between the smart device and user control terminal and the smart device control center.
US10353359B1
Systems and methods for managing the operation of devices within a home or other property based upon electrical usage data. With customer knowledge or consent, a home controller may retrieve and analyze electrical usage data corresponding to a device, such as by comparing it to certain threshold data. If the analysis results in a trigger condition, the controller may generate a command, and transmit the command to the device for implementation, allowing modification of device operation to address any issues indicated in the electrical usage data. The controller may also notify a home owner/occupant. As a result, faulty devices may be managed prior to their faults causing damage to the device and/or the property, and/or property owners may be timely prompted to investigate, repair, and/or replace a failing device. Insurance discounts may be provided based upon the risk mitigation/prevention functionality.
US10353354B2
The present invention simplifies the processing for compensating an influence for a controlled quantity generated from shaping interference in motion control. A controller (10) as a model predictive control device computes an error between an actually measured value of a controlled quantity in a certain action cycle when shaping interfering is applied and a predictive value of the controlled quantity in the certain action cycle, i.e., the model predictive error, and corrects the predictive value in the action cycle after the certain action cycle by using the computed model predictive error.
US10353337B2
An image forming apparatus includes an optical print head, an optical print head moving mechanism, an abutting portion, a projected portion, an opposing portion, and a preventing portion provided on the projected portion so that in a state in which a drum cartridge is dismounted from a main assembly of the image forming apparatus, the preventing portion is contacted to the opposing portion by movement of the optical print head moved by the moving mechanism toward a side downstream of the exposure position with respect to the movement direction and prevents further movement of the optical print head in the movement direction and so that in a state in which the drum cartridge is mounted in the main assembly and the abutting portion contacts the drum cartridge, the preventing portion is in non-contact with the opposing portion.
US10353335B2
An image forming apparatus includes a casing; a process unit for forming a developer image on a sheet; an image exposing unit; a sheet cassette detachably mounted to the casing; a feeding roller for single the sheet from the cassette; a feeding guide provided in the casing and configured to guide the sheet moving from the cassette to the process unit. The exposing unit is disposed right above the feeding roller. The process unit is at a position the same position as the exposing unit in the vertical direction and downstream of the exposing unit in a horizontal direction. The cassette is below the feeding roller. The guide is between the exposing unit and the cassette in the vertical direction. The guide includes upper and lower guides. When the cassette is drawn out of the casing, the lower guide moves to an accommodating portion in the cassette.
US10353332B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image, a reference member, a sensor including a substrate, a light-emitting element provided on the substrate, a light-receiving element provided on the substrate, and a blocking member provided between the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element on the substrate, the sensor configured to output an output value based on a light reception result of the light-receiving element, a memory storing data related to a relationship between a measurement condition and an offset value, and a controller configured to control the sensor based on a plurality of measurement conditions to acquire an output value corresponding to a measurement result of reflected light from the reference member, and determine a measurement condition for measuring the image based on the acquired output value and the data stored in the memory.
US10353326B1
A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressuring member, a separating claw separating a recording medium from the fixing member and a moving mechanism of the separating claw. The moving mechanism includes a biasing member, coaxial two input gears having different numbers of teeth, a bearing depression and a shaft protrusion. The two input gears rotate according to rotation the fixing or pressuring member while shifting by a difference of the numbers of teeth for each rotation. The bearing depression is depressed in one input gear, and has an inclined contact face. The shaft protrusion is protruded from the other input gear, and has an inclined distal end face contact with the contact face. The two input gears rotate to repeat coincidence of inclination directions of the contact face and the distal end face and shifting the inclination directions, and reciprocatingly move the separating claw.
US10353320B2
Example implementations provide a method of controlling an ink developer used in electro-photography; the method comprising, following cessation of printing, varying a plurality of voltages associated with movement of ink within the ink developer at temporally disparate times.
US10353301B2
In an exposure operation, as a second stage is moved in a direction parallel to a predetermined plane, another head different from a plurality of heads faces a grating section instead of one head of the plurality of heads, and positional information of the second stage is measured by multiple heads including remaining heads and the another head, the remaining heads excluding the one head of the plurality of heads, and correction information is acquired for the positional information obtained from the another head, based on the positional information obtained from the plurality of heads including the one head.
US10353299B2
The present invention provides a method of forming a first layer including a layout of first shot regions each having a first size and a second layer including a layout of second shot regions each having a second size corresponding to a size including at least two first shot regions to be overlaid on each other, by first processing of forming the first layer in a process including scanning exposure and second processing of forming the second layer, the method including determining, for each of the first shot regions, a scanning direction when performing scanning exposure for the first shot region in the first processing so that combinations each including the scanning directions and the at least two first shot regions included in the second shot region in the first processing are identical in at least some of the second shot regions.
US10353294B2
An illumination optical system includes a fly's-eye lens having a back focal plane arranged on a pupil plane of the illumination optical system or in a vicinity of the pupil plane; a first spatial light modulator which is arranged on an incident side of the fly's-eye lens and which includes a plurality of first mirror elements; a first optical system arranged in an optical path between the first spatial light modulator and the fly's-eye lens; a second spatial light modulator arranged in an optical path between the first optical system and the fly's-eye lens and which includes a plurality of second mirror elements; and a polarizing element arranged in the optical path between the first spatial light modulator and the fly's-eye lens.
US10353289B2
The method for forming a resin cured film pattern according to the invention comprises a first step in which there is formed on a base material a photosensitive layer composed of a photosensitive resin composition comprising a binder polymer with a carboxyl group having an acid value of 75 mgKOH/g or greater, a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, and having a thickness of 10 μm or smaller, a second step in which prescribed sections of the photosensitive layer are cured by irradiation with active light rays, and a third step in which the sections of the photosensitive layer other than the prescribed sections are removed to form a cured film pattern of the prescribed sections of the photosensitive layer, wherein the photosensitive resin composition comprises an oxime ester compound and/or a phosphine oxide compound as the photopolymerization initiator.
US10353288B2
A litho-litho-etch double patterning method including forming a resist layer by coating a substrate with a resist composition; exposing the resist layer to a first radiant energy density of UV rays; forming a first pattern in the resist layer by developing the resist layer with a positive developer; exposing the resist layer to a second radiant energy density of UV rays; and forming a second pattern in the resist layer by developing the resist layer with a negative developer, the second pattern including one or more features of the first pattern.
US10353283B2
Provided are an adhesive comprising substantially no surface modifier and leaving a less residue behind after a pellicle is separated; a pellicle; and a method of selecting an adhesive leaving a less residue behind. More specifically, provided are an adhesive for a pellicle having a ratio of a peel strength to a tensile strength of from 0.10 to 0.33; a pellicle comprising a pellicle frame, a pellicle film provided over an upper end face of the pellicle frame, and the adhesive adhered to a lower end face of the pellicle frame; and a method of selecting an adhesive, comprising the steps of: measuring a peel strength and a tensile strength of an adhesive, and selecting an adhesive having a ratio of the former to the latter of from 0.10 to 0.33 as the adhesive for a pellicle.
US10353277B1
A camera mounting bracket is disclosed. The camera mounting bracket is adapted for use underwater by a scuba diver, and includes a first handle portion, a second handle portion, and a junction connector positioned between the first handle portion and the second handle portion. The first handle portion and second handle portion are connected at the junction connector. The junction connector includes a mounting adapter for receiving a mount attached to a camera. The mounting adapter includes a base plate for fastening the adapter to the junction connector, and linkage plates for connection to a camera mount. When the camera is positioned adjacent a user's mask when bracket is gripped by the first and second handle portion. Handle portions are curved or orthogonal. Handle grips may be included, such as knurled end surfaces, rubber or foam wrapping, or non-slip tape attached at the distal ends.
US10353262B2
The present invention discloses a method for fabricating an electrochromic device, which adopts the vacuum cathodic arc-plasma deposition to comprise five layers with an ionic conduction layer (electrolyte) in contact with an electrochromic (EC) layer and an ion storage (complementary) layer, all sandwiched between two transparent conducting layers sequentially on a substrate. The method owns superior deposition efficiency and the fabricated thin film structures have higher crystalline homogeneity. In addition, thanks to the nanometer pores in the thin film structures, the electric capacity as well as the ion mobility are greater. Consequently, the reaction efficiency for bleaching or coloring is enhanced.
US10353259B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a semiconductor layer including a first extension portion and a second extension portion, a gate line, a first common electrode opposed to at least the second extension portion, a source line extending above the second extension portion, a pixel electrode including a main pixel electrode, a second common electrode including a second main common electrode opposed to the source line, and a first alignment film.
US10353255B2
An electro-optical device includes a frame including a conduction part and a resin part, an electro-optical panel that is housed in the inner side of the resin part, and an exposure part that is formed by exposing the conduction part from the resin part. The exposure part is disposed to face at least a part of an end face of the electro-optical panel or protrude from a surface of the electro-optical panel over the end face.
US10353251B2
A display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs), a plurality common electrodes, a plurality of common electrode lines, a plurality of coupling electrodes, and a plurality of pixel electrodes. Each of the TFTs comprises a gate, a source, a drain and a channel layer coupling the source to the drain. The gate, the common electrodes, and the common electrode lines are formed on a surface of the substrate and are separated from each other. Each of the coupling electrodes couples a corresponding common electrode to a corresponding common electrode line, and a space is defined between the corresponding common electrode and the corresponding common electrode line.
US10353250B2
A liquid crystal includes first and second substrates, the first substrate including intersecting data lines and scan lines. A liquid crystal layer is sandwiched therebetween. Also, a plurality of sub-pixels districted by data lines and gate lines, and arranged along the long-axis and the short-axis directions in a matrix. A pixel electrode in the sub-pixels includes a central portion. A common electrode including linear electrodes arranged along the data lines and disposed with gaps therebetween. Sub-pixels are bent at the center portion, such that the linear electrodes or the gaps in both sides of the sub-pixels are inclined in opposite directions with respect to the long-axis direction. At least one of the linear electrodes or at least one of the gaps has a bent portion at the central portion of the respective pixel electrode. The common electrode is provided on liquid crystal layer side over the pixel electrode.
US10353247B2
An optical member having a base and an underlayer with a region A of surface energy AE and a region B of surface energy BE (BE-AE>0 mN/m), in which a dot of a wavelength-selective reflective cholesteric structure is disposed on the region B, has high pattern position accuracy for the patterns formed with the dots.
US10353236B2
A color film substrate includes: a plurality of first color filters, a plurality of second color filters, a plurality of first common electrode sheets and a plurality of second common electrode sheets; the plurality of first color filters and the plurality of second color filters are arranged in an array, and the plurality of first common electrode sheets and the plurality of second common electrode sheets are arranged in an array, the first color filter is in one-to-one correspondence with the first common electrode sheet, and the second color filter is in one-to-one correspondence with the second common electrode sheet; and pixels corresponding to the first color filter and the second color filter serve to store pixel voltages having opposite polarities, respectively, and the first common electrode sheet serves to transmit a direct-current common voltage, and the second common electrode sheet serves to transmit a square-wave common voltage.
US10353234B2
A liquid crystal display is provided. A liquid crystal display comprising a first substrate which comprises a display area and a non-display area, a second substrate which faces the first substrate, a sealing member which is disposed in the non-display area between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate comprises a light-shielding pattern, a column spacer which is protruded from the light-shielding pattern toward the second substrate to maintain an interval between the first substrate and the second substrate, an opening which is disposed in the light-shielding pattern, and overlapping the sealing member.
US10353232B2
An optical film includes a plane and a plurality of dents. The plane has a normal, and the dents are formed on the plane. Each of the dents is asymmetric relative to the normal, wherein each of the dents includes an opening, and the maximum aperture of each of the dents is the caliber of the opening.
US10353229B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a curved display, which produces a curved display using a flat display module. A method for producing a curved display, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is to produce a curved display using a flat display module, the method comprising the steps of: masking the display module with a masking element so as to cover parts of the upper plate and the lower plate thereof, in which a masking area of the upper plate and a masking area of the lower plate are disposed asymmetrically up and down; etching the display module to a preset thickness so as to reduce the thickness of the display module except for the masking areas in the masked display module; removing the masking element from the display module after the etching step; and curving the display module.
US10353226B2
An electrochemical mirror includes a first transparent electrode; a second transparent electrode disposed to be spaced apart from the first transparent electrode; and an electrolyte layer disposed between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode and including an electrolyte solution, the electrolyte solution including a compound having a sulfonate functional group or a derivative compound having the same, as an electrolyte solution additive.
US10353221B1
Various aspects include audio eyeglasses with through-hinge wiring configurations. In particular aspects, audio eyeglasses include: a frame for resting on a head of a user, the frame having: a lens region; a pair of arms extending from the lens region; and a hinge coupling the lens region and one of the pair of arms, the hinge including: a body; and a cavity within the body, the cavity sized to accommodate a cable extending therethrough, the hinge permitting movement of the arm relative to the lens region; and an electro-acoustic transducer at least partially housed in the frame and having a sound-radiating surface for providing an audio output.
US10353215B2
A coded pattern projector apparatus comprises a surface-emitting array of emitters comprising a plurality of emitters where each of the plurality of emitters generates one of a plurality of optical beams in response to an electrical drive signal applied to a respective electrical input of each of the plurality of emitters. A first optical element projects each the plurality of optical beams generated by the surface-emitting array of emitters. A second optical element collimates the plurality of optical beams in a first dimension and diverges the plurality of optical beams in a second dimension such that the plurality of optical beams form at least one stripe patterns. A controller has electrical outputs, each of the electrical outputs is connected to a respective electrical input of each of the plurality of emitters. The controller generates electrical drive signals that produce a coded stripe pattern.
US10353196B2
An electro-optical device is configured by a laminated body of a second conductive layer and a reflective layer for a mirror. The second conductive layer includes a mirror support post facing a concave portion at a side opposite to a substrate, and a flat plate which extends from an end portion of the mirror support post and faces the substrate. The concave portion is filled with the resin. Surfaces of the flat plate and the resin configure a continuous plane. The reflective layer for a mirror is laminated on a surface of the resin at a side opposite to the substrate, and a surface of the flat plate of the second conductive layer at a side opposite to the substrate.
US10353179B2
An optical image lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, wherein at least one surface of the fifth lens element is aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein at least one surface of the sixth lens element is aspheric, and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element has at least one inflection point thereon.
US10353178B2
Provided are a lens optical system and an imaging device including the lens optical system. The lens optical system includes first to sixth lenses sequentially arranged from an object side toward an image plane side. The first to sixth lenses have negative, positive, positive, negative, positive, and negative refractive powers, respectively. The lens optical system may satisfy 100≤FOV≤160, and DiaL3≤DiaL1≤DiaL6 where FOV refers to the field of view of the lens optical system in degrees (°), and DiaL1, DiaL3, and DiaL6 refer to the effective diameters of the first lens, the third lens, and the sixth lens, respectively.
US10353177B2
An image capturing lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power, and an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power, and an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric.
US10353170B2
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of glass material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10353167B2
A camera lens module includes an image sensor and a lens assembly. The image sensor includes a photosensitive chip defining a photosensitive path, wherein the lens assembly is coupled to the image sensor along the photosensitive path of the photosensitive chip. The lens assembly includes at least one optical lens module and an aperture member coupled at the optical lens module, wherein the optical lens module includes a lens barrel and at least an optical lens supported within the lens barrel. A relative position of the lens assembly with respect to the image sensor is adjustable for calibration and the relative position of the optical lens module is permanently fixed after calibration.
US10353166B2
An image focus alignment structure includes a base, a lens barrel, a first sealant layer and a second sealant layer. The base has a first installation portion and a second installation portion. The lens barrel is disposed on the base. The first sealant layer is for fixing a partial barrel body of the lens barrel on the first installation portion. The second sealant layer is for fixing another partial barrel body of the lens barrel on the second installation portion.
US10353158B2
A light emitting element bonded board includes an optical waveguide formed within a board, a hollowed portion in the board, a light emitting element installed in the hollowed portion, and a conductive portion formed in an upper layer and/or a lower layer of the optical waveguide, wherein an optical axis of the light emitting element coincides with a center line of the optical waveguide, and a bonding portion of the light emitting element is bonded to the conductive portion.
US10353156B2
Multi-fiber, fiber optic cable assemblies may be configured so that the terminal ends of the cables have pre-assembled back-post assemblies that include pre-assembled ferrules, such as MPO ferrules that meet the requisite tolerances needed for fiber optic transmissions. To protect the pre-assembled components from damage prior to and during installation, pre-assembled components may be enclosed within a protective housing. The housing with pre-assembled components may be of a size smaller than fully assembled connectors so as to be sized to fit through a conduit. The remaining connector housing components for the multi-fiber connectors may be provided separately and may be configured to be attached to the back-post assembly after installation of the cable.
US10353142B2
A LED light source includes a longitudinally extending first light guide, a housing, and a cartridge. The first light guide has a longitudinally extending light emitting face. The light emitting face has a first end face and a longitudinally spaced apart second end face. The housing has a first side proximate the first end face of the first light guide. The cartridge is mountable to the first side of the housing and has at least one LED on a first face of the cartridge. The first face extends generally transverse to the first light guide when the cartridge has been mounted to the housing. When the cartridge is mounted to the first side of the housing, the first face of the cartridge is adjacent the first end face. A LED light bulb is also disclosed.
US10353139B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight module including a rubber frame, a light guiding plate disposed in the rubber frame, a light strip located on a light incident side of the light guiding plate, an optical film set disposed on a surface of a side of the light guiding plate, and a reflecting sheet disposed on a surface of a side of the light guiding plate deviating from the optical film set. The reflecting sheet is fixed on the rubber frame by a double-faced adhesive, the light strip includes a light strip circuit board, a heat-radiating sheet is disposed on a surface of a side of the light strip circuit board deviating from the light guiding plate, and the heat-radiating sheet includes a fitting portion attached onto the light strip circuit board and a bendable first extension portion extending to an outside of the rubber frame.
US10353137B2
A quantum dot (QD) light source component, a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The QD light source component includes a bracket, a light source, and a QD unit, the bracket is formed with a groove; the light source is arranged at bottom center of the groove of the bracket for emitting light; the QD unit is arranged at opening of the groove of the bracket, and includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a QD layer; at least one of the upper substrate and lower substrate is provided with a substrate groove, the upper substrate and lower substrate form enclosure space through the substrate groove; the QD layer is located within the substrate groove, and emits light under excitation of light emitted from light source, where the QD layer is thicker at its central position than at its edge position.
US10353130B2
An apparatus and method of delivering a precisely sized, homogeneous field of light within an optical system. The apparatus operates equally well over UV, visible, and NIR wavelengths, over a wide range of input beam divergence and regardless of heterogeneity. A tapered or contoured homogenizing rod that creates an evenly distributed illumination at a target area of specific size.
US10353121B2
The present invention aims to provide a retroreflective material that exhibits high reflective luminance for incident light with a large incident angle, and has excellent retroreflective performance for incident light with a wide incident angle. A retroreflective material includes a support, a fixing resin layer held on the support, transparent microspheres embedded in the fixing resin layer, and a reflective layer provided between the transparent microspheres and the fixing resin layer. In the retroreflective material, the transparent microspheres used have a refractive index of 1.6 to 2.5, and are exposed in air with an exposure ratio of 53 to 70%. The retroreflective material can thus have excellent retroreflective performance for incident light with a wide incident angle.
US10353117B2
An optical element includes a lens base and an antireflection film arranged on a surface of the lens base. The antireflection film includes a multilayer film including a layer formed of a silicon oxide film and a layer formed of a tantalum oxide film, the layer formed of the silicon oxide film and the layer formed of the tantalum oxide film being stacked. The antireflection film further includes an inner layer arranged on a surface of the multilayer film, the inner layer being formed of a magnesium fluoride film, and an outer layer arranged on a surface of the inner layer, the outer layer being formed of a silicon oxide film.
US10353112B2
Disclosed is a system and a method of estimating a well inflow profile along a section of a wellbore of a well passing through a formation. The method comprises: collecting field data as a function of time during testing of the well, analyzing the collected field data to obtain selected field parameters, providing a created dynamic simulation model of the well inflow profile of the well based on at least the geometry of the well, defining a number of different possible inflow profile scenarios, simulating the defined inflow profile scenarios by means of the dynamic simulation model, analyzing the simulated inflow profile scenarios to obtain characteristics of intermittent or slug flow behavior in the form of selected modelling parameters as a function of time, comparing the selected modelling parameters as a function of time for each inflow profile scenario to the corresponding selected field parameters as a function of time and identifying the most likely inflow profile scenario on the basis thereof, and estimating the well inflow profile along the section of the wellbore based on the comparison of the selected modelling parameters as a function of time to the corresponding selected field parameters as a function of time.
US10353100B2
A technique includes receiving first data acquired by at least a particle motion gradient sensor or a rotation sensor of a streamer that is subject to vibration due to towing of the streamer; and receiving second data acquired by at least one particle motion sensor of the streamer and being indicative of particle motion and vibration noise. The technique includes processing the second data in a processor-based machine to, based at least in part on the first data, attenuate the vibration noise indicated by the second data to generate third data indicative of the particle motion.
US10353095B2
A method is described for seismic imaging of complex subsurface volumes using prismatic seismic energy. The method receives a seismic dataset and an earth model. The earth model is perturbed such that prismatic reflections will generate perturbed seismic amplitudes in a target area and seismic imaging is performed using the perturbed model. A second seismic image is generated using a second earth model; the second earth model may be the original earth model or a second perturbed model wherein the perturbation generates different seismic amplitudes in the target area. The two seismic images are differenced to generate a prismatic seismic image that can be used to identify geologic features that are poorly illuminated in conventional imaging. The method may be executed by a computer system.
US10353090B2
Methods and systems for improving time-semblance processing of acoustic data are disclosed. Acoustic data is obtained from a tool in a formation. A delay filter is then designed and applied to the obtained acoustic data to obtain delayed acoustic data. Time semblance is then applied to this delayed acoustic data.
US10353089B2
A method for developing or maintaining a subterranean field includes: parameterizing seismic wave records for each identified seismic event to provide a parameter describing each seismic wave record used to identify each seismic event; generating a reference seismic event data base having the identified seismic events and the parameter; calculating a similarity value for new received seismic wave records with respect to each seismic event in the reference seismic event data base using the corresponding parameter to provide a plurality of similarity values; identifying a maximum similarity value from any of the similarity values in the plurality of similarity values that meets or exceeds a similarity threshold value; identifying a new seismic event at a location of the seismic event in the reference seismic event data base corresponding to the maximum similarity value; and modifying operation of subterranean field-related equipment in response to identifying the new seismic event.
US10353086B2
Disclosed herein is a method to measure an intensity distribution of X-ray using an X-ray detector, the method comprising: determining values of dark current at at least three locations on the X-ray detector, wherein the three locations are not on a straight line; determining a spatial variation of absorptance of the X-ray using the values of the dark current; measuring an apparent intensity distribution of the X-ray; determining the intensity distribution by removing a contribution of the spatial variation the absorptance from the apparent intensity distribution.
US10353082B2
A second insulating film is disposed so as to cover a conversion element that includes a first insulating film, photodiode, and electrode. The second insulating film is made of a SiNxOy material, where x is greater than 0 and y is greater than or equal to 0. This makes it possible to provide a TFT and photodiode with excellent anti-moisture characteristics.
US10353081B2
For count loss correction, the capability of the discriminator, measured periodically, to detect an event is identified. Rather than inserting an actual event or a signal emulating an actual event for discrimination, the capability to discriminate is tested by a virtual injection. The count loss may be directly measured without causing extra actual discrimination by the discriminator. Direct measurement with virtual testing may avoid loss of accuracy due to time and use-case variation.
US10353075B2
A LIDAR system is provided. The LIDAR system comprises at least one processor configured to: control at least one deflector to deflect light from a plurality of light sources along a plurality of outbound paths, towards a plurality of regions forming a field of view while the at least one deflector is in a particular instantaneous position; control the at least one deflector such that while the at least one deflector is in the particular instantaneous position, light reflections from the field of view are received on at least one common area of the at least one deflector; and receive from each of a plurality of detectors, at least one signal indicative of light reflections from the at least one common area while the at least one deflector is in the particular instantaneous position.
US10353071B2
A traffic measuring device includes: an irradiation part to irradiate laser light at an irradiation angle of predetermined interval to form a scan layer inclined upward or downward in a gravity direction; a light receiving part to receive the laser light irradiated from the irradiation part and reflected by a vehicle; and a distance acquisition part that detects a distance to the vehicle as a detection distance for each irradiation angle using the laser light received by the light receiving part. The distance acquisition part acquires a group of the detection distance relative to a whole of the scan layer. The traffic measuring device further includes a width calculation part that computes a width of the vehicle using a shortest distance, a shortest time irradiation angle, a longest distance, and a longest time irradiation angle.
US10353068B1
A weather radar system can be used as an airborne sensor for providing an image on an electronic display during low visibility offshore IFR operations (e.g. for a helicopter approach to an offshore platform, such as, a petroleum rig or other structure). The weather radar sensed image is representative of the external surroundings of the maritime environment associated with radar returns received by the weather radar system. Beam sharpening technology produces higher angular resolution of the sensed objects in the radar image which reduces the interpreted azimuth errors from the sensed radar image. Accordingly, beam sharpening technology advantageously allows object isolation of closely clustered offshore platforms and nearby objects. With operational credit provided to these capabilities, the minimal distance for obtaining visual reference with the target platform could be reduced, increasing the success rate of completing offshore operations in low visibility IFR conditions.
US10353061B2
A system for detecting a target object includes a first detector that detects an object by emitting radio waves and receiving reflected waves that are the emitted radio waves reflected by a target object, a second detector that detects heat generated by the target object, and an information collection apparatus that determines the presence or absence of the target object on the basis of the detected reflected waves and the detected heat, and the information collection apparatus determines the presence of the target object in a case where the first detector has detected a movement of the target object and the second detector has detected the heat.
US10353056B2
An apparatus including a semiconductor substrate; an absorption layer coupled to the semiconductor substrate, the absorption layer including a photodiode region configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons; one or more first switches controlled by a first control signal, the one or more first switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the first control signal; and one or more second switches controlled by a second control signal, the one or more second switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the second control signal, where the second control signal is different from the first control signal.
US10353055B2
Provided is a 3-dimensional (3D) scanning technique using a laser. The technique includes a laser outputting device configured to emit omni-directionally a laser beam output from a laser beam source in 360 degrees and a laser receiving device formed above or below the laser outputting device and configured to receive a laser beam reflected by an object which is located on a propagation path of a laser beam output from the laser outputting device.
US10353044B2
A system for determining a reconstruction of a particle distribution in an object based on electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) measurement data of the object comprising the distribution of particles is described. The system comprises a data input for obtaining electron paramagnetic resonance measurement data of the object under study. The system also comprises a processor for processing the obtained data by applying a numerical model for solving a numerical inverse problem of deriving from the electron paramagnetic resonance measurement data a reconstruction of the particle distribution. The system furthermore comprises an output port for outputting data based on the derived reconstruction of the particle distribution.
US10353043B2
In a method and apparatus for correction of magnetic resonance image data, at least on environmental conditions map is provided to a computer, measurement data are acquired using a prospective correction method and storage of a first set of correction data, established within the framework of the prospective correction method, is stored. Image data are reconstructed from the recorded measurement data, and a second set of correction data are determined for the created image data and/or the recorded measurement data by a second correction method on the basis of the environmental conditions map and on the basis of the first set of correction data. Corrected image data are generated using the second set of correction data.
US10353033B2
The present invention provides a method for quantitative analysis of a compound in a sample characterized in that the quantitative analysis is performed by a method of using an external standard which obtains NMR spectra of a sample and a standard substance and then compares them, and it can be applied even to an insoluble sample.
US10353024B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a plurality of first coil elements and a connector. The first coil elements are embedded in a couchtop on which a subject is placed. The connector is provided in such a region of the couchtop that is positioned on the inside of the loop of at least one of the first coil elements. It is possible to attach and detach a second coil element different from the first coil elements to and from the connector.
US10353023B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system (100) has a radio frequency system (114, 116, 120, 124, 126) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (142, 144, 156). The radio frequency system includes a coil (124) with multiple antenna elements (126). The MRI system further includes a processor (133) for controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system. Execution of instructions (140, 170, 172, 174) cause the processor to: acquire (200) calibration magnetic resonance data (142) from a first field of view within the imaging zone using the multiple antenna elements, calculate (202, 300, 302, 304, 400) modified magnetic resonance data (144) by interpolating the calibration magnetic resonance data to a second field of view, calculate (204, 500, 502, 504, 602) a coil sensitivity kernel (146) by deconvolving the modified magnetic resonance data, and calculate (206, 604, 610) a coil sensitivity (148) by transforming each coil sensitivity kernel into image space. The second field of view encompasses and is larger than the first field of view.
US10353009B2
A secondary battery capacity measuring system that estimates maximum capacities of other cells using characteristics of a deteriorated cell even when a charging process in the deteriorated cell having a smaller maximum capacity than the other cells in cells constituting a battery module ends and data for measuring the maximum capacities of the other cells cannot be acquired is provided.
US10353004B2
In aspects, the present invention discloses a method of detecting a rotor fault in an electric machine using a data analysis unit. The method comprises measuring magnetic field strength along a first axis and a second axis, determining operating slip frequency of the electric machine using the measured magnetic field strength along the first axis and the second axis, determining an amplitude of the determined operating slip frequency in a first frequency spectrum and an amplitude of operating slip frequency in a second frequency spectrum, and detecting the rotor fault by comparing the amplitude of the determined operating slip frequency in the first frequency spectrum and the amplitude of operating slip frequency in the second frequency spectrum against a predetermined threshold.
US10353000B2
A multi-bit flip-flop includes: a single scan input pin to receive a scan input signal, a plurality of data input pins to receive first and second data input signals, a first scan flip-flop to select one of the scan input signal and the first data input signal as a first selection signal in response to a scan enable signal and to latch the first selection signal to provide a first output signal, a second scan flip-flop to select one of an internal signal corresponding to the first output signal and the second data input signal as a second selection signal in response to the scan enable signal and to latch the second selection signal to provide a second output signal, and a plurality of output pins to output the first and second output signals, wherein scan paths of the first and second scan flip-flops are connected to each other.
US10352995B1
A pulse laser test system including a conditioning pulse circuit, a probe pulse circuit, a pulse laser, a trigger mode controller, and a laser pulse modulator. The conditioning pulse circuit provides asynchronous conditioning trigger pulses at a selected rate. The probe pulse circuit provides a synchronized probe trigger pulse. The trigger mode controller selects the probe pulse circuit while the synchronized probe trigger pulse is provided causing the pulse laser to provide a synchronized probe laser pulse, and otherwise selects the output of the conditioning pulse circuit causing the pulse laser to provide asynchronous conditioning laser pulses. The laser pulse modulator has an optical input coupled to the laser output of the pulse laser, has a gating input receiving a gate signal from the trigger mode controller, and has an optical output that provides laser pulses passed from the pulse laser while the gate signal is asserted.
US10352988B2
An approach for determining leakage current and threshold voltage for ensemble semiconductor devices, implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having program instructions, are operable to: receive a number m of individual devices within an ensemble device; identify a sub-threshold slope; determine an uplift factor; separate random variation in logarithm of a leakage current into a correlated random component and an uncorrelated random component; determine a first standard deviation of correlated random component for the ensemble device; determine a second standard deviation of the uncorrelated random component for the ensemble device; generate a statistical model for electrical features of the ensemble device, based on the number m of individual devices, the sub-threshold slope, the uplift factor, the first and second standard deviation, and statistical random variables; and determine the electrical features of the ensemble device based on the statistical model.
US10352957B2
A method for the improved speed determination of electric motors while taking into account angle errors of an angular position sensor is provided. A commutation sensor based on a magnetic rotary encoder, the angle signal of which has an angle-dependent and thus periodic angle error, is used. By differentiation, this defective angle signal is converted into a raw speed signal, which has two disturbance components. One disturbance component results from the angle error and is the disturbance waviness, which is periodic similar to the angle error. The second disturbance component is formed by a noise component superposing the raw speed signal. In order to correct the defective raw speed signal, half of the period duration of the raw speed signal must be ascertained. If this half of the period duration is ascertained two samples of the raw speed signal lying exactly one half of the period duration of the raw speed signal apart from each other are averaged. A speed signal having no disturbance waviness but rather only the noise component results from these method steps.
US10352956B2
A method is described for automatically determining a proper threshold for a tachometer signal in order to produce desired tachometer pulses necessary for analysis of machine vibration data. A tachometer signal is low-pass filtered to exclude high frequency noise and a running derivative of the filtered tachometer waveform is taken to create a derivative waveform. Another waveform is created that includes only positive values from the derivative waveform that correspond to positive values in the low-pass filtered tachometer waveform. In general, a tachometer signal has the greatest derivative value (slope) when a tachometer pulse is present. Based on this observation, a threshold value is determined using both the low-pass filtered tachometer waveform and the positive-value derivative waveform along with statistics from both waveforms.
US10352954B2
A sensing tip including a pipette tip having a cavity which communicates with an external environment of the pipette tip through an aperture located at a distal end of the pipette tip, and an impedance sensor having a sensing area including at least two electrodes located respectively outside and inside the pipette tip, wherein the sensing area is arranged within the aperture.
US10352942B2
Described herein are methods for identifying signature peptides for quantifying a polypeptide of interest in a sample. The methods include cleaving the polypeptide into peptides; detecting a multiplicity of the peptides with a quantitative analytical instrument; comparing the linearity of signals attributable to pairs of the peptides in a multiplicity of samples; and selecting signature peptides from a group of peptides with more highly correlated signals.
US10352935B2
The present invention relates to a method for diagnosis of cancer and for monitoring the progression of cancer and/or the therapeutic efficacy of an anti-cancer treatment in a sample of a subject by detecting oncogenic and cancer related proteins in microvesicles, and to the use of an agent blocking exchange of microvesicles for treating cancer.
US10352931B2
The present invention provides a diagnostic device allowing highly specific and efficient in vivo and/or in vitro detection of a bio marker in a broad range of bodily fluids or tissues. The diagnostic device is composed of a binding agent that specifically binds a bio marker present in the bodily fluid linked by a linker compound or layer to the substrate, which includes a metallic, a semiconductor, or a polymeric carrier. The present invention further provides methods using said device for the detection of bio markers, as well as kits comprising said device and suitable ingredients for the detections of bio markers in a bodily fluid. Furthermore, the invention provides suitable in vivo and in vitro applications of said binding agent for the detection of specific disease-related target structures.
US10352912B2
According to an embodiment, a structure evaluation system has a plurality of sensors, a signal processor, and an evaluator. The sensors detect an elastic wave generated from a structure. The signal processor acquires a reliability from a source of the elastic wave to the plurality of sensors by performing signal processing on the elastic wave detected by the plurality of sensors. The evaluator evaluates the soundness of the structure on the basis of the acquired reliability.
US10352908B2
An apparatus and a method for measuring a speed of sound in a fluid in a well bore may include a frame adapted to receive the fluid there through are provided. The apparatus includes an acoustic source mounted on the frame; an acoustic detector to measure a signal propagating through the fluid, the acoustic detector disposed proximate the frame at a known distance from the acoustic source; and a test circuit adapted to synchronize the acoustic detector with a signal propagating through the frame. A method to determine physical properties of a fluid in a geological formation including a shear wave anisotropy in the geological formation and the formation composition using the fluid density and the fluid speed of sound is also provided.
US10352897B2
An expanding cam lock for use with an electrophoresis system is disclosed herein. The cam lock allows the simultaneous use of multiple slab gel cassettes in first and second buffer core assemblies in an electrophoresis system while maintaining the necessary compressive force to create a liquid-tight seal between the anode and cathode buffer solutions. In one example embodiment, the expanding cam lock includes a base plate with a first surface adapted to engage the first buffer core assembly and a follower plate having second surface adapted to engage the second buffer core assembly, buffer dam or buffer displacement dam. The base plate and the follower plate are slidably coupled together and are designed for insertion between the first buffer core assembly and the second buffer core assembly, buffer dam or buffer displacement dam in the electrophoresis container. A cam is positioned between and moveably coupled with the base plate and the follower plate. The cam is movable from a first position to a second position to urge the first and second surfaces to secure the gel cassette to the first and second buffer core assemblies. Also provided herein is a buffer displacement dam. Also provided herein are kits and assemblies which incorporate the expanding cam and buffer displacement dam described herein.
US10352880B2
This disclosure presents systems for x-ray microscopy using an array of micro-beams having a micro- or nano-scale beam intensity profile to provide selective illumination of micro- or nano-scale regions of an object. An array detector is positioned such that each pixel of the detector only detects x-rays corresponding to a single micro- or nano-beam. This allows the signal arising from each x-ray detector pixel to be identified with the specific, limited micro- or nano-scale region illuminated, allowing sampled transmission image of the object at a micro- or nano-scale to be generated while using a detector with pixels having a larger size and scale. Detectors with higher quantum efficiency may therefore be used, since the lateral resolution is provided solely by the dimensions of the micro- or nano-beams. The micro- or nano-scale beams may be generated using an arrayed x-ray source or a set of Talbot interference fringes.
US10352874B2
A method and an associated device for verifying the transmittance of a flat-glass substrate. Light of a light source is guided through the flat-glass substrate and is captured by a receiving unit. The transmittance of the flat-glass substrate is determined by means of a comparison between the intensity of the light emitted by the light source and the light incident upon the receiving unit. In a first measurement, a light source generates polychromatic light, wherein the transmittance is determined at a point of the flat-glass substrate. In at least one further measurement, a light source generates monochromatic light of a defined wavelength, the transmittance also being determined at the same point of the flat-glass substrate. By comparing the at least two measurements, it is determined whether the transmittance is approximately the same or not the same in all measurements, in order to narrow down the cause for a reduced transmittance.
US10352872B2
The present invention discloses a damage detection apparatus for a lock gate sill, including a support, a water storage tank, a water inlet barrel, a filter device, a water pump, and a control device, wherein a barrier is vertically disposed at the bottom of the water storage tank, multiple water discharge pipes are vertically disposed in the barrier, upper ends of the water discharge pipes are communicated with the water storage tank, the water discharge pipes have different heights, lower ports of the water discharge pipes together compose a truncated conical cavity, a camera is disposed at the bottom of the water storage tank in a sealed manner, and a lens of the camera is located in an upper part of the truncated conical cavity. When it is desired to perform damage detection for the lock gate sill, muddy water is filtered by the filter device into clear water, and the clear water is pressurized by the water pump and then discharged from the water discharge pipes, such that the muddy water in the barrier is continuously diluted by clear water, the camera is in a shooting environment of clear water, and the lock gate sill is shot for detection at this time, whereby it is ensured that the taken picture has good definition, and thus the position of abrasion and the amount of abrasion of the lock gate sill can be clearly determined.
US10352870B2
Improved wafer-scale testing of optoelectronic devices, such as CMOS image scan devices, is provided. A probe card includes an LED light source corresponding to each device under test in the wafer. The LED light sources provide light from a phosphor illuminated by the LED. A pinhole and lens arrangement is used to collimate the light provided to the devices under test. Uniformity of illumination can be provided by closed loop control of the LED light sources using internal optical signals as feedback signals, in combination with calibration data relating the optical signal values to emitted optical intensity. Uniformity of illumination can be further improved by providing a neutral density filter for each LED light source to improve uniformity from one source to another and/or to improve uniformity of the radiation pattern from each LED light source.
US10352866B1
A system for detecting bubbles within a liquid flowing in an interior of a pipe. The system includes a transmitter emitting directed light through the liquid flowing through the pipe and a receiver for receiving the emitted directed light from the transmitter. The transmitter and receiver are affixed on opposite sides of the pipe. The system also includes a microcontroller having a modulator. The microcontroller communicates with the transmitter and receiver. The microcontroller sends a modulation protocol for emitting the directed light with a specified modulation protocol to the transmitter and receiver. The transmitter emits the directed light as modulated light based upon the modulation protocol and the receiver filters out all unmodulated light, correlates information on modulated light received from the transmitter and sends correlated light information to the microcontroller. The microcontroller determines a presence of bubbles in the liquid based on the light information received from the receiver.
US10352846B2
This invention relates to a device for calibrating circular or linear dichroism spectrometers, or other photoelastic modulator (PEM) based devices or instruments. In preferred embodiments, the present invention features a device for calibrating circular dichroism or linear dichroism spectrometers comprising at least one waveplate (Q) providing (n±¼) waves of retardation at a defined set of wavelengths, and at least one isotropic plate (P). The invention also features methods for using the device, for example, for calibrating circular dichroism spectrometers or linear dichroism spectrometers.
US10352827B2
A tire contact state estimation method includes: an information acquisition step of acquiring information of the tire; a correlation strength calculation step of calculating a first correlation strength between the rotational velocity and the braking and driving force, and also calculating a second correlation strength between the slip angle and the generated lateral force; a change detection step of detecting whether the first correlation strength has increased or decreased by a first threshold or more with respect to a predetermined first reference value, and also detecting whether the second correlation strength has increased or decreased by a second threshold or more with respect to a predetermined second reference value; and an estimation step of estimating at least two of the following: a condition of a road surface in contact with the tire, a tire internal pressure state, and a tire abrasion state.
US10352822B2
A temperature display device of a vehicle is provided, which includes a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of coolant of an engine, the coolant being switched in circulation state by opening and closing a thermostat, between a first state where the coolant is circulated through a radiator and a second state where the coolant is circulated bypassing the radiator, a display unit for displaying a temperature of the coolant, and a controller for controlling a display mode of the display unit based on the detected temperature by the temperature sensor. When the detected temperature changes within a first temperature range where the thermostat is in an open state, the controller changes the displayed temperature on the display unit by less than the change of the detected temperature.
US10352807B2
A sensing unit with an enclosure senses an environmental parameter that includes an environmental sensor to sense the environmental parameter. A processor enclosed within the enclosure receives a sensor signal from the environmental sensor related to the environmental parameter. A wireless communication circuit enclosed within the enclosure receives data from the processor for being transmitted wirelessly related to the environmental parameter. The wireless communication circuit is configured to wirelessly transmit the received data from the processor. The processor and the wireless communication circuit, including the wireless communication circuit wirelessly transmitting the received data, only receives power from a 4-20 ma input signal to the sensing unit from a remote controller.
US10352806B2
A pressure sensor device which uses appropriate passivation materials/patterns to make the device more robust and resistant to a hot and humid environment. The pressure sensor device uses moisture resistant passivation material(s) covering exposed glass areas, including sidewalls, and bonding interfaces to avoid the glass and bonding interfaces absorbing and reacting with moisture, thus maintaining the integrity of the device output after exposure in a humid/hot environment. These passivation materials/patterns used for the MEMS devices described may be applied to any MEMS based sensors and actuators using glass as one type of material for fabrication. The pressure sensor devices may be front side absolute pressure sensors, differential pressure sensors, or back side absolute pressure sensors.
US10352801B2
Intelligent temperature and pressure gauge assemblies (52) for use with vessels (24) having pressurized hazard suppression materials therein include temperature and pressure sensors (136, 138) coupled with a digital processor (72) with associated memory for storing empirical temperature and pressure data. The data includes normalized linear temperature-pressure curves consistent with static or slowly changing temperature conditions experienced by the vessels (24), as well as nonlinear temperature-pressure curves consistent with rapidly changing temperature conditions. In use, the assemblies (52) repeatedly sense temperature and pressure conditions of the hazard suppression material and compare sensed values with stored values, and generate an output in conformance with the comparison. In this fashion, the assemblies (52) compensate for rapidly changing temperatures without generating false failure signals.
US10352791B2
The present disclosure relates to a flexible strain sensor. The flexible strain sensor includes a composite structure, a first electrode, a second electrode and a detector. The composite structure includes a carbon nanotube film and a substrate combined with each other. The carbon nanotube film defines a desired deformation direction and includes a plurality of first carbon nanotubes oriented substantially perpendicular with the desired deformation direction. The plurality of first carbon nanotubes are joined end to end with each other along their orientation direction. The first electrode and the second electrode are separately located at two opposite ends of the carbon nanotube film and electrically coupled with the carbon nanotube film. The detector is electrically connected with the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10352790B2
Force measurement systems and methods are disclosed for accurate real-time measurement of forces. The system is configured to measure force as a function of time. The system may comprise a handheld device capable of measuring a force externally applied to opposing surface regions thereof for the purpose of monitoring or directing isometric exercises for personal wellness. Additionally, the system may be configured to communicate force measurement data to a remote device or server.
US10352786B2
A pressing sensor that includes a pressing portion deformed by pressing, a piezoelectric sensor that generates a detection voltage based on the deformation amount, and a first current-voltage conversion circuit that converts a charge/discharge current for a capacitance of the piezoelectric sensor into a voltage signal and outputs the voltage signal. Moreover, a deformation amount detector obtains an integrated value of an output voltage and detects the integrated value as the deformation amount of the pressing portion. A minute vibration sensor detects presence or absence of minute vibration of the pressing portion according to presence or absence of a minute fluctuation state of the output voltage and an integration reset processor resets the integrated value in response to absence of the minute vibration.
US10352779B2
Embodiments of an integrated rail efficiency and safety support system and method are shown comprising a server operable to receive a plurality of sets of collected information, each of the sets of collected information comprising a consist physical location and weather conditions and rail temperatures in an area of the respective consist and to process a predictive rail temperature algorithm for predicting a rail temperature and/or a trend in rail temperature for a selected section of track; and wherein the predictive rail temperature algorithm factors the information provided to it and provides a predicted rail temperature and/or trend in rail temperature for the selected section of track.
US10352775B2
A temperature sensor is disclosed. The temperature sensor includes an analog core having at least first and second circuit nodes and configured to provide a temperature dependent output, a multiplexer coupled to the first and second circuit nodes and configured for at least first and second states in each of which the first circuit node couples to a different circuit element and in each of which the second circuit node couples to a different circuit element, and a controller coupled to the analog core and configured to provide a temperature measurement that is an average of at least first and second readings of the temperature dependent output of the analog core, the first reading taken while the multiplexer is in the first state, and the second reading taken while the multiplexer is in the second state.
US10352774B2
Methods and Apparatus to monitor components of an aircraft landing system are disclosed herein. An example method includes determining an initial temperature of at least one of a wheel or a fuse plug based on a temperature value to be provided by a first temperature sensor; estimating a temperature of a brake assembly based on a temperature value provided by a second temperature sensor; after determining the initial temperature, estimating a subsequent temperature of the at least one of the wheel or the fuse plug; and determining if the subsequent temperature is a peak temperature.
US10352773B2
A sensor device includes a system carrier including at least a first planar support element and a second planar support element. The support elements are disposed in a mounting plane at a distance from one another. An integrated signal-processing component is disposed on the support elements. An encapsulation at least partially encloses the signal-processing component. At least two temperature sensors are integrated within the signal-processing component. Each of the temperature sensors is disposed in a vicinity of a respective one of the support elements.
US10352769B2
A method of implementing a self-calibrating database of spectral data includes receiving remotely-sensed spectral data for a geographic location. The method also includes accessing spectral data for a composition of materials at the geographic location from a database of spectral data for compositions of materials at respective geographic locations. The method includes calibrating the spectral data to match the remotely-sensed spectral data and thereby produce calibrated spectral data for the composition. The method includes validating the calibrated spectral data for the composition. And in an instance in which the calibrated spectral data for the composition is validated, the method includes replacing the spectral data with the calibrated spectral data to produce an enhanced database of spectral data for use in identifying materials or compositions of materials therefrom; and in at least one instance, outputting identifiers of the materials in the composition of materials.
US10352766B1
Focusing modules and methods are provided, which use a spatial light modulator (SLM) configured to yield a circumferentially sinusoidal pattern to derive focusing signals. For example, the SLM may comprise an optical chopper wheel made of a glass disc with a circumferentially sinusoidal pattern. The circumferentially sinusoidal pattern simplifies phase derivation from the focusing signal, providing a faster and more accurate estimation of defocusing. Signal detection may be carried out by a diode array that provides a more accurate signal faster, as well as a more differentiated analysis of the focusing signal than the one available by current technology.
US10352762B2
A system for detecting vibrations from a surface is provided. The system includes a coherent light source for projecting a multi-beam pattern onto the surface and an imaging device for mapping a speckle field generated by each spot formed on the surface by the multi-beam pattern to a unique region of an imaging sensor. The system further includes a processor for processing speckle field information received by the imaging sensor and deriving surface vibration information.
US10352756B2
A mass measurement device comprises a force sensor, a hose, a base part, an article-holding part, and a computation unit. The force sensor has a fixed end and a free end, and outputs a sensing signal in accordance with the magnitude of a force in a sensitivity direction. The hose is configured to pass suctioned air through it. The fixed end is fixed to the base part. The article-holding part is fixed to the free end, one end of the hose is connected to the article-holding part, and the article-holding part holds an article by air suction. The computation unit computes the mass of the article based on the sensing signal.
US10352745B2
An apparatus for making a flow determination with respect to a flow through a fluid conduit such as a domestic water pipe, the fluid conduit comprising a wall having an inner surface surrounding a flow space through which the fluid flows and an outer surface, the apparatus comprising: a first temperature sensor arranged to be mounted on the outer surface of the fluid conduit and arranged to generate a first temperature signal indicative of a first temperature being the temperature of the outer surface; a second temperature sensor arranged to be positioned spaced apart from the first temperature sensor and to generate a second temperature signal indicative of a second temperature being the ambient temperature outside of the fluid conduit; and a processor having inputs for the first and second temperature signals; in which the processor has an output for the flow determination and is arranged to make the flow determination by determining a measure of the convergence of the first and second temperatures over time.
US10352742B2
An interface circuit to an electromagnetic flow sensor is described. In an example, it can provide a DC coupled signal path from the electromagnetic flow sensor to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit. Examples with differential and pseudo-differential signal paths are described. Examples providing DC offset or low frequency noise compensation or cancellation are described. High input impedance examples are described. Coil excitation circuits are described, such as can provide on-chip inductive isolation between signal inputs and signal outputs. A switched mode power supply can be used to actively manage a bias voltage of an H-Bridge, such as to boost the current provided by the H-Bridge to the sensor coil during select time periods, such as during phase shift time periods of the coil, which can help reduce or minimize transient noise during such time periods.
US10352736B2
A rotating laser (30), including a device housing (31) having a base housing (35), a rotating head (36) and three or more handles (37), whereby the base housing (35) includes a bottom surface (38), a top surface (39) opposite from the bottom surface (38) and a side surface (41) that connects the bottom and top surfaces (38, 39), and a measuring unit (32) that is arranged at least partially inside the device housing (31), whereby the handles (37) have a first segment with a grip element (45), and a lower shock absorbing element (49) at the lower end (43) of the handles (37) facing away from the rotating head (36), and the lower shock absorbing elements (49) project relative to the bottom surface (38) in an axial direction parallel to the axis of rotation (34).
US10352729B2
A system is disclosed for detecting when an electronic locking (e-Locker) differential of a vehicle is in a stuck condition. The system may have an e-Locker differential for driving a plurality of wheels, and may be configured to move between first and second positions, one of which places the e-Locker differential in a locked state, and the other of which places it in an unlocked state. An e-Locker coil, when energized may cause movement of the differential e-Locker actuator between the first and second positions. A position sensing subsystem may use an inductance of the e-Locker coil to determine if the differential e-Locker actuator is stuck in one of the first and second positions.
US10352725B2
A sensor calibration method and system dynamically compute a bias offset which is subtracted from field strength readings generated by a sensor to correct them. The three-dimensional space around a sensor is seeded with orientation targets. As the sensor is rotated to different orientations, field strength readings are generated by the sensor and assigned to different targets based on estimated proximity. Once occupancy of targets conforms to a first state of occupancy, a coarse bias offset is computed for the sensor using readings from occupied targets. Once occupancy of targets conforms to a second state of occupancy, a refined bias offset is computed for the sensor using readings from occupied targets. Multiple sensors may be calibrated concurrently. Moreover, a user interface provides a real-time graphic showing the location and occupancy status of individual targets and highlighting the individual target best aligned with a most recent corrected sensor reading.
US10352724B1
A mobile device includes a pedometer function that calculates an estimated distance based on sensor measurements. The sensor measurements are used to determine a step frequency of the user, which is used to estimate the distance traveled by the user. To correct for the unique step frequency of the user, a calibration factor is calculated that can be multiplied by the estimated distance to improve the accuracy of the distance estimate. New calibration factors resulting from calibration trials are assigned to step frequency bands. An average calibration factor is calculated for each frequency band. The average calibration factors of the bands are updated to ensure that the average calibration factor of any given band is greater than or equal to the average calibration factors in all lower bands.
US10352717B2
Navigation application programming interfaces that can be used to obtain navigation information in third party software applications are provided. In one example implementation, an application programming interface (API) can include a first set of instructions associated with a navigator class. The navigator class can specify a plurality of functions to control the implementation of a navigation service by the software application. The navigation service can provide navigation information to a user of the software application. The API can include a second set of instructions associated with a navigator delegate protocol. The navigator delegate protocol can be a delegate of the navigator class. The navigator delegate protocol can implement one or more calls to update the navigation information provided as part of the navigation service.
US10352716B2
A method of providing a sequence of turn-by-turn navigation instructions on a device traversing a route is provided. Each turn-by-turn navigation instruction is associated with a location on the route. As the device traverses along the route, the method displays a turn-by-turn navigation instruction associated with a current location of the device. The method receives a touch input through a touch input interface of the device while displaying a first turn-by-turn navigation instruction and a first map region that displays the current location and a first location associated with the first turn-by-turn navigation instruction. In response to receiving the touch input, the method displays a second turn-by-turn navigation instruction and a second map region that displays a second location associated with the second turn-by-turn navigation instruction. Without receiving additional input, the method automatically returns to the display of the first turn-by-turn navigation instruction and the first map region.
US10352714B2
A route guidance unit includes: a detection unit configured to detect a position of a host vehicle; a guide unit configured to provide guidance on a travel route when a distance from the position of the host vehicle detected by the detection unit to a branch point on the travel route reaches a predetermined distance; and an accuracy determination unit configured to determine a degree of accuracy of the position of the host vehicle, wherein, when the accuracy determination unit determines that the degree of accuracy of the position is a predetermined threshold or less, the guide unit provides the guidance on the travel route at a point before the distance from the position of the host vehicle to the branch point reaches the predetermined distance.
US10352708B1
A method and system of localizing a mobile device having a processor and a memory. The method comprises monitoring, using the processor and the memory, mobile device barometric data along a sequence of positions describing a route being traversed, accessing, using the processor, a repository of barometric fingerprint data associated with respective positions along the route, and using the processor, localizing the mobile device based at least in part on matching a mobile device barometric pattern segment with a correlating pattern segment of the barometric fingerprint data of the repository, the mobile device barometric pattern segment derived at least partly based on ambient barometric pressure measurements associated with at least a pair of contiguous positions in the sequence of positions describing the route.
US10352699B2
Measuring device with a control and evaluation unit, a radiation source for emitting an illumination light ray and a fine targeting and target tracking functionality, a variation of the emission of the illumination light ray being effected automatically controlled by the control and evaluation unit, in the course of the fine targeting and target tracking functionality, such that a known sequence of illumination ray flashes is generated.
US10352698B2
Disclosed is a composite hydrological monitoring system, in which a counterweight component and a test component are respectively connected to both opposite ends of a strip and a plurality of sensors are disposed at different vertical positions. Accordingly, the scour depth can be measured by sensing the location of the counterweight component, whereas the water level and/or flow velocity can be determined by signals from the sensors. When the counterweight component moves downward with sinking of the riverbed, the strip would be pulled down and thus causes the test component to present a change in mechanical energy. Accordingly, the sinking depth can be measured by sensing the change of the mechanical energy. Additionally, since the water level variation would cause signal changes of the sensors arranged in a row along a vertical direction, the change of water level can be determined accordingly.
US10352693B2
A method and system determining texture data at least by performing fiducial point registration with a triggerable texture source and generating virtual objects and texture data based at least in part upon a fiducial point. Fiducial point registration textures a desired point with one or more projectors in response to the identification of a desired point in space, generates data with one or more projected patterns, determines a final location or depth of a point using the generated data, and registers the point as a fiducial point by groom a data structure based on a registration requirement pertaining to a distribution of fiduciary points and a requirement pertaining to machine recognition of physical objects. Virtual objects are generated relative to a real-world scene and the generated texture data-based at least in part upon the final location or depth of a fiducial point.
US10352686B2
The present invention relates to a method for calibrating a projection device, in particular a hand-held projection device, in a navigational environment for medical purposes, comprising the steps of: providing a detection device (1) configured to detect light emitted by the projection device (2); determining the spatial position of the detection device (1); projecting a known projection (3), comprising an area (4) configured to stimulate the detection device (1), towards the detection device (1) by means of the projection device (2); determining the position of the projection device (2), particularly in relation to the detection device (1) when the area (4) stimulates the detection device (1). The present invention also relates to a calibration device (11) for automatically calibrating a projection device (2), said calibration device (11) comprising a reference array (7) and a detection device (1) which is coupled to the reference array (7), in particular in a predetermined position, wherein the detection device (1) is configured to detect light, and to a self-calibrating projection device system comprising the calibration device (11) and a projection device (2) which is configured to generate a known projection (3) comprising an area (4) which is configured to stimulate a detection device (1) of the calibration device (11).
US10352680B2
Magnetoquasistatic through-the-wall non-line-of-sight coupling between a mobile transmitting device located within a building, or indoor, and a fixed receiving device located outside the building, outdoor, enables positioning of the transmitting device through the wall of the building and in non-line-of-sight environments. Systems based on magnetoquasistatic coupling can separately sense the distance and orientation of the transmitting device accurately even in heavy non-line-sight environments such as steel-reinforced buildings. The approach permits sensing and determination of location and attitude of mobile devices in buildings and can be used to locate rescue workers, first responders, or law enforcement officers inside a building.
US10352668B1
A mortar ammunition round which contains at least three fragment producing regions covered by a threadably removable aluminum cowling. Detachment of the cowling provides access to several of the fragment producing regions which are located on a removable cup device. A different cup device may then be selectively inserted and the cowling replaced, forming a new mortar round of different select performance capabilities.
US10352658B1
A scope and mount block assembly for a rifle includes a scope having sets of spaced apart ribs for seating into complementary arcuate grooves in scope mount components. An underside keyseat in the scope aligns with a complementary keyseat in a scope mount block, and a key residing in the combined volume of both keyseat enforces this alignment. The scope mount blocks clamp to any standard rail such as a Picatinny rail. When the scope is removed, leaving the blocks in place, it can be reattached so that the key reestablishes its alignment to the rifle and no re-sighting of the scope is required. Also, careful selection of pitches for the scope ribs and for spaced apart features for engagement of the mount blocks to a mounting rail can offer much finer incremental location of the scope on the rifle for more precise adjustment of eye relief.
US10352651B1
A holster for a wide range of carried items including revolver-type and semiautomatic handguns of various types, models and calibers, pepper- and mace-spray, and other similarly configured items, the holster ambidextrous and adaptable to be worn in various user preferred carry modes and positions. The holster having an interior space created by hinged first and second side plates having a plurality of receptacles accommodating universal securing of carried item and multiple options for attachment points for body mounting facilities. Selectable hinge knuckles, spring-biased opening and adjustable latch provide user-configurable expandable holster capacity for secure carry containment and ease of retrieval of various carried items.
US10352637B1
The present disclosure provides a buffer kit or assembly for an AR-15, M16, M4 carbine, SR-25, AR-10 and LR-308 type firearm with enhanced fatigue resistance. The buffer assembly includes a weighted buffer, a spring, and a buffer tube. The spring is helically shaped and is formed from multiple wire strands. The stranded wire spring has a greater nominal wire diameter, in comparison to prior art single wire springs, and thus the stranded wire spring itself has a smaller internal diameter. The shoulder of the weighted buffer is provided with a reduced diameter to accommodate the smaller internal diameter of the stranded wire spring.
US10352631B2
Provided are a layered heat exchanger that can prevent deterioration of sealing property due to deformation of sealing portions of inlet and outlet header sections when a PTC heater is sandwiched between flat heat exchanger tubes, and is pressed to be brought into close contact with the flat heat exchanger tubes, and a heat medium heating apparatus and a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus using the layered heat exchanger.
US10352630B2
According to the present invention, a heat exchanger comprises a fin having a plurality of through holes. The plurality of through holes include mutually adjacent first and second through holes disposed on a side closest to a heating gas's inlet side. The fin has a slit located between the first through hole and the second through hole and cut into the fin from an edge thereof located on the heating gas's inlet side to a side farther from the heating gas's inlet side than a reference line connecting a center of the first through hole and a center of the second through hole. Furthermore, the fin has at least one opening between the slit and the first and second through holes. The opening includes a first opening having a portion located on the side farther from the heating gas's inlet side than the reference line.
US10352620B2
A system for transferring molten metal from a vessel and into one or more of a ladle, ingot mold, launder, feed die cast machine or other structure is disclosed. The system includes at least a vessel for containing molten metal, an overflow (or dividing) wall, and a device or structure, such as a molten metal pump, for generating a stream of molten metal. The dividing wall divides the vessel into a first chamber and a second chamber, wherein part of the second chamber has a height H2. The device for generating a stream of molten metal, which is preferably a molten metal pump, is preferably positioned in the first chamber. When the device operates, it generates a stream of molten metal from the first chamber and into the second chamber. When the level of molten metal in the second chamber exceeds H2, molten metal flows out of the vessel and into another structure, such as into one or more ladles and/or one or more launders.
US10352619B2
An anchor assembly for anchoring refractory materials within a vessel is disclosed that provides for a more reliable refractory anchor and resultant refractory lining system that is easier to install both in terms of the refractory lining and the anchor assembly itself when compared to prior art anchor assemblies. The anchor assembly includes a base pin assembly, and at least one anchor leg connected to and extending from the base pin assembly. The base pin assembly includes a mounting end formed on one end of the pin assembly adapted for securing the base pin assembly to the vessel. The mounting end has an electrical resistance contact point formed thereon. The electrical resistant contact point preferably has a flux material located thereon.
US10352611B2
In various implementations, frost in a vapor compression system may be controlled. A property of a fan may be determined. A determination may be made whether a frost event and/or a nonfrost event has occurred based at least partially on the determined fan property.
US10352607B2
A method for controlling a vapor compression system, in particular an opening degree of an expansion valve. According to a first control strategy, the expansion valve is closed until the superheat value has increased above a lower threshold superheat value. According to a second control strategy, the expansion valve is kept open until the suction pressure has increased above a lower threshold suction pressure value. In the case of low superheat value as well as low suction pressure, the second control strategy is selected for a limited period of time.
US10352605B2
An apparatus includes a first compressor, a first load, a second compressor, a second load, a first heat exchanger, and a second heat exchanger. The first compressor compresses a first refrigerant. The first load uses the first refrigerant to remove heat from a space proximate the first load. The first load sends the first refrigerant to the first compressor. The second compressor compresses a second refrigerant. The second load uses the second refrigerant to remove heat from a space proximate the second load. The second load sends the second refrigerant to the second compressor. The first heat exchanger receives the first refrigerant from the first compressor. The first heat exchanger transfers heat from the first refrigerant to a fluid. The second heat exchanger receives the second refrigerant from the second compressor. The second heat exchanger transfers heat from the fluid to the second refrigerant.
US10352602B2
A portable monitoring system that monitors various aspects of the operation of a refrigerant-cycle system is described. In one embodiment, the system includes a processor that measures power provided to the refrigerant-cycle system and gathers data from one or more sensors and uses the sensor data to calculate a figure of merit related to the efficiency of the system. In one embodiment, the measurements performed by the monitoring system include one or more of: an evaporator input air temperature, an evaporator output air temperature, evaporator air flow, evaporator air humidity, condenser air input temperature, condenser air output temperature sensor, electrical power. In one embodiment, the portable monitoring system receives information about the refrigerant-cycle system from either the system itself or from a computer network.
US10352598B2
Heat exchanger, in particular condenser, comprises two parallel end closing plates (1, 2) having made a coolant inlet and outlet and at least one inlet and an outlet of the refrigerant. A heat exchange unit is provided between the closing plates (1, 2) and at least one coolant compartment and at least one refrigerant compartment, separated by an inner plate (5). The coolant compartments and, refrigerant compartments are arranged alternately and connected such that they form together with said inlets and outlets separated hydraulic circuits for the coolant and refrigerant and a turbulator panel (3, 4) is arranged in each of the compartments (3, 4). The turbulator panels (3) of the refrigerant circuit comprise on their surface first disturbing elements (9) the shape of which is matched to the physical properties of the gaseous refrigerant, and which determine the height of the turbulator panel of the refrigerant circuit, while the turbulator panels (4) of the coolant circuit comprise on their surface second disturbing elements (10) the shape of which is matched to the physical properties of the liquid coolant which determine the height of the turbulator panel of the coolant circuit, wherein the shape of the first disturbing elements (9) is different from the shape of the second disturbing elements (10). The shape of the turbulator panels (3, 4) is matched to the independent optimal managing, slowing down and disturbing of the refrigerant and the coolant, while ensuring a low pressure drop of their flow to achieve a high heat exchange coefficient.
US10352589B2
An apparatus is disclosed including: a trough shaped reflector extending along a longitudinal axis and including at least one reflective surface having a shape which substantially corresponds to an edge ray involute of the absorber.
US10352587B2
A split system water heater includes a storage tank and a separate power module for heating water outside of the tank. A distribution tube provides high volume, low velocity flow of water between the tank and the power module to avoid or limit mixing and maintain thermal stratification within the tank. The distribution tube includes a longitudinal axis and a plurality of openings generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
US10352584B2
A ventilation fan comprises a fan, a cover module and a filter. The fan includes an inlet and an outlet. The cover module is disposed at the inlet and includes a main body and a cover. The main body includes an opening and fixing portions. The opening is disposed corresponding to the inlet. The periphery of the opening is configured with two opposite slideways. The fixing portions are disposed on the main body. The cover and the main body are disposed separately to form a gap and the cover includes connecting portions correspondingly connected to the fixing portions. The filter detachably slides on the slideways to be disposed at the opening. The size of the cover is larger than that of the opening. The air flows to the filter and inlet through the gap and flows out of the outlet through the fan.
US10352581B2
A control apparatus controls a facility device and is used in an energy consumption management system that grants an incentive to a user of the facility device when the facility device performs an adjustment of energy consumption for an adjustment period in response to an adjustment request. The control apparatus includes an incentive standard setting unit, a comfort standard setting unit, an incentive prediction calculation unit, a comfort prediction calculation unit, a control condition change unit, and a control unit. The control condition change unit determines whether incentive and comfort predictions are within ranges of incentive and comfort standards, and changes a preset control condition when there is variation in a derivation element of the incentive during the adjustment period. The control unit controls the facility device based on the control condition changed by the control condition change unit after the variation has occurred in the derivation element.
US10352580B2
An air conditioner includes a housing having a suction port and a discharge port, a main fan configured to draw air into the housing through the suction port and discharge air from the housing through the discharge port, an auxiliary fan configured to draw, into the housing, air discharged by the main fan and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the auxiliary fan to change a direction in which air is discharged from the housing.
US10352570B2
A fuel injection system for use in a combustor of a turbine engine includes a mixer assembly including a mixer housing and a fuel nozzle assembly positioned radially inward of the mixer housing. The fuel nozzle assembly includes a substantially annular fuel injection housing and a substantially annular main fuel injector coupled to the fuel injection housing. The main fuel injector includes a body, a fuel delivery passage defined in the body, a swirl chamber defined in the body downstream of the fuel delivery passage, and a plurality of circumferentially-spaced fuel metering slots defined in the body and coupled in flow communication with and between the fuel delivery passage and the swirl chamber.
US10352563B2
The present invention concerns a flame detector with optical sensors situated within a housing, which is coupled to a signal collector and focuser enclosure. The enclosure includes a reflective surface or reflective surfaces generally oriented outwardly and in optical communication with the sensors through a shield window exposing the sensors; the shield window is situated between the enclosure and the housing of the flame detector. The enclosure may have a conical shape, a parabolic shape, and may include convex or concave surfaces that reflect emission signals from an emission signal source to the sensors in optical communication with the reflective surfaces. The enclosure is thus adapted to collect emission signals and narrow or focus a field of view of the sensors, thereby increasing a detection range between the flame detector and an emission signal source such as a flame source.
US10352560B2
A pressure vessel includes a pump having a passage that extends between an inlet and an outlet. A duct at the pump outlet includes at least on dimension that is adjustable to facilitate forming a dynamic seal that limits backflow of gas through the passage.
US10352550B1
A submersible luminaire includes a housing and a transparent pressure bearing window positioned at a forward end of the housing. Window supporting structure is mounted in the housing behind the transparent window. A water-tight seal is located between the window and the housing. A circuit element is configured and positioned within the housing behind the window supporting structure to bear at least some of the pressure applied to the transparent window. At least one solid state light source is mounted on the circuit element behind the transparent window.
US10352548B2
According to the present disclosure, a lighting device is provided with a support member with a fork-like shape with two prongs carrying mutually facing electrically powered light radiation sources, and an annular heat sink member fitted onto the prongs and extending around the light radiation sources.
US10352547B2
In some embodiments, a lighting device comprising two or more light sources and an optical device configured to enhance uniformity of light emitted from the light sources and emerging from a surface of the optical device, an average distance between light sources less than one half of the square root of the area of the surface divided by the number of light sources. In some embodiments, a fixture structure comprising a reflective structure and a heat conductor in contact with the reflective structure and covering not more than 30 percent of the surface area of the reflective structure. In some embodiments, a lighting device comprising a fixture structure, at least one light source mounted on one substrate, and at least one light source mounted on another substrate. Other fixture structures and lighting devices.
US10352540B2
An LED tube lamp including a glass lamp tube, an end cap disposed at one end of the glass lamp tube, a power supply provided inside the end cap, an LED light strip disposed inside the glass lamp tube with a plurality of LED light sources mounted on. At least a part of an inner surface of the glass lamp tube is formed with a rough surface, and the glass lamp tube is covered by a heat shrink sleeve. The LED light strip has a bendable circuit sheet which is made of a metal layer structure to electrically connect the LED light sources with the power supply. The glass lamp tube and the end cap are secured by a highly thermal conductive silicone gel with its thermal conductivity not less than 0.7 w/m·k.
US10352539B2
A yoke effect, multi-beam lighting device is provided. The yoke includes a plurality of bays, one for each beam head. Each beam head of the yoke is individually controllable and configured to tilt in the yoke independent of the other beam heads.
US10352537B2
Provided is a lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus comprises a lighting device. The lighting device comprises a first lamp body and a second lamp body. The first lamp body and the second lamp body comprise a first lamp and a second lamp respectively. The first lamp and the second lamp provide lighting when connected to a power source. The first lamp body and the second lamp body are oppositely disposed and can rotate relative to one another.
US10352520B2
A vehicle lighting fixture can effectively utilize an inner space of a lighting chamber defined by a housing and an outer lens for the formation of an optical path, so that the light can be projected through the entire surface region of the outer lens. A reflector can extend forward and obliquely downward and can be arranged below a mounting substrate on which LEDs are mounted. An extension can be arranged in front of an LED substrate holder and the reflector. The extension can have a mirror-finished reflecting rear surface, and include a window hole portion positioned in front of the reflector, a curved portion configured to extend from an upper edge portion of the window hole portion upward and obliquely forward, and an annular flange portion configured to extend from respective outer rim portions of the window hole portion and the curved portion rearward.
US10352516B2
A flame simulating assembly including a light source, a screen having a translucent region which subjects light from the light source transmitted therethrough to diffusion and a transparent region, and a flicker element for intermittently reflecting the light from the light source toward the screen, to provide images of flames in a predetermined portion thereof. The screen includes a fringe region positioned between the translucent region and the transparent region. The fringe region includes a number of diffusing areas for diffusing the light from the light source and a number of transparent areas positioned between the diffusing areas, to at least partially provide images of flames in the diffusing areas.
US10352506B1
LED retrofitting system for retrofitting High Intensity Discharge Lighting (HID) fixtures with Light Emitting Diode (LED) arrays and the method for retrofitting.
US10352501B2
A cryostat arrangement has an outer jacket, a first tank with a first cryogen, and a second tank with a second liquid cryogen which boils at a higher temperature than the first cryogen. The first tank comprises a neck tube, whose hot upper end is connected to the outer jacket at ambient temperature and whose cold lower end is connected to the first tank at a cryogenic temperature. The arrangement uses a riser pipe protruding into the second tank through which the second liquid cryogen can flow out of the second tank and into a first heat exchanger in thermal contact with the neck tube. An outflow line is provided through which second cryogen evaporating from the first heat exchanger can flow out and into an optional second heat exchanger. It is thus possible to greatly reduce heat input from the neck tube into the first tank.
US10352498B2
A tool for multi-positioning and holding a device without requiring a user's hands. In one embodiment, a tool, such as a robotic arm, is secured to a user's forearm, such as with a pair of hook-and-loop fasteners attached to the robotic arm that wrap around the arm and then are fastened to each other. The tool has many points of articulation and many degrees of freedom. The tool may include a telescoping or expandable section joined at its distal end with a device support member. The device support member may grasp a mobile device, a smart phone, a camera or other electronic or mechanical device. The device support member may be coupled to the expandable section or an extension member by one or more attitude mechanisms making it possible for a user to flip and orient the device by body motion into many positions or attitudes, as the user desires.
US10352495B2
A gimbal for controlling an optical device includes a rocker and a controlling assembly. The rocker is configured to receive an action instruction and generate a control instruction based at least in part on a duration of the action instruction. The controlling assembly is configured to (1) receive the control instruction from the rocker, and (2) generate, based on the control instruction, a performing instruction for controlling the optical device.
US10352484B2
An exhaust gas system includes a first exhaust component and a second exhaust component that are spaced apart from each other by a solder gap that can be has great as 1.20 mm. A high temperature solder material is provided near the solder gap and is heated by an inductor to form an induction solder joint between the first and second exhaust components.
US10352481B2
An ER fluid valve includes a housing and a plurality of parallel flow passages through the housing each defined by spaced electrodes at least one of which is controllable independently of other flow passages electrodes. A controller is configured to selectively establish electrical fields for all of the independently controllable electrodes to close all of the flow passages to ER fluid flowing through the housing. By removing the fields from all of the independently controllable electrodes, all the flow passages are open to the ER fluid flowing through the housing. By establishing fields for select independently controllable electrodes to close their associated flow passages and by leaving other flow passages open, restricted flow of the ER fluid through the housing is accomplished to vary the flow rate through the housing.
US10352479B2
The present invention relates generally to a parallel cylinder-type check valve and, more particularly, to a parallel cylinder-type check valve in which two shock-absorbing dampers are connected in parallel to each other so as to absorb shock when a valve is closed, wherein the length of a rocker arm connected to any one shock-absorbing damper is adjusted to be longer according to the principle of a lever in order to provide a sufficient shock-absorbing effect. Also, the present invention relates to a parallel cylinder-type check valve, which is rapidly closed at a high speed at the time of the initial closing of the valve and is slowly closed at a low speed at the later closing of the valve by means of the parallel cylinder, thereby preventing noise and vibration, as well as preventing water hammer.
US10352477B2
A computer with a proper program generates a phased array sequence of signals. In a pulser with delays, the signals are fed through a multiplexor into multiple water wedges that are attached to a globe valve being tested. For a sequential operation of the globe valves from the open to the closed position, ultrasonic signals are transmitted through the fluid contained in the valve and reflected back through piezo-electric crystals to the multiplexor. By summation and merger of the signals, an image can be developed of the operation of the globe valve to determine if the globe valve is operating properly. By comparing the signals received with a known standard for that globe valve, proper operation, or lack thereof, of the globe valve under test can be determined. Separation of the valve stem from the globe can also be measured.
US10352470B2
A control valve and an air starting system for an engine having a pressurized air source, an air starter, and a control valve. The control valve having a housing defining a flow passage with an inlet port fluidly coupled to the pressurized air source and an outlet port fluidly coupled to the air starter, a valve body movable between an opened and closed positions to selectively open and close one of the inlet and outlet ports, resulting in a corresponding opening and closing of the control valve, and a linear motor operably coupled to the valve body to move the valve body between the opened and closed positions.
US10352466B2
A valve assembly includes a body having a longitudinal axis and defining a cavity therein. A shuttle valve is arranged within the cavity. The shuttle valve has a first surface and a second, opposing surface. An actuator element is adjacent the first surface of the shuttle valve and configured for translating the shuttle valve along the longitudinal axis between a first position and a second position. The actuator element is formed from a shape memory alloy that is transitionable between a martensite crystallographic phase and an austenite crystallographic phase in response to a thermal activation signal to thereby translate the shuttle valve between the first position and the second position. Furthermore, a resilient member is adjacent the second surface of the shuttle valve. The resilient member is configured to oppose the movement of the shuttle valve moving from the first position to the second position.
US10352460B2
Disclosed is a coolant control valve unit having a sealing structure, the control valve unit including: a rotary valve provided with a valve coolant passage formed from an inner surface to an outer surface of the rotary valve; a valve housing in which the rotary valve is rotatably provided; a fitting coupled to the valve housing, and having a fitting coolant passage; and a sealing unit provided between a front surface of the fitting and the outer surface of the rotary valve, wherein the sealing unit includes: a sealing ring being in contact with the outer surface of the rotary valve; and a rubber ring provided on the front surface of the fitting, and bringing the sealing ring into contact with the outer surface of the rotary valve, wherein the rubber ring has an X-shaped cross-section, with a front groove, a rear groove, an inner groove, and an outer groove.
US10352459B2
Seal assemblies for use with fluid valves are disclosed. An apparatus includes a valve plug having a first annular shoulder adjacent an end of the valve plug, a seal disposed on the first annular shoulder, and a fastener at the end of the valve plug to force the seal against the first annular shoulder to apply a load to the seal.
US10352458B2
A method for removably securing a component within a bore having a shoulder, includes: forming a housing with a generally cylindrical wall with an open first axial end and a partially closed second axial end having an annular shoulder, and an annular lip section at the first end of the cylindrical housing wall, the lip section having a radially outwardly projecting and circumferentially extending annular ridge, an inner chamfer creating a frustoconical surface with a base toward the housing first axial end and an outer chamfer creating a frustonconical surface with a base toward the housing first axial end; and, inserting the housing into the bore, engaging the bore shoulder, engaging the inner chamfer of the housing lip section with a tool for applying axial force, the tool having a conical surface corresponding to and engageable with the housing inner chamfer, and applying axial force against the inner chamfer by means of the conical surface of the tool.
US10352454B2
In an embodiment, a mechanical seal device has a mating ring (131) that rotates with a rotating shaft (101), as well as an opposing seal ring (133) that slidably contacts the mating ring (131), so as to seal between the rotating shaft (101) and a seal cover (105) fixed to an equipment main body (102); wherein the seal cover (105) is a split structure comprising at least a first seal cover (107, 108) and second seal cover (106), the first seal cover (107, 108) is detachably connected in the axial direction by leaving the second seal cover (106) free from it, and the seal ring (133) is connected to the first seal cover (107, 108) in a securely following manner.
US10352450B2
The invention provides a sealing device sealing so as to prevent a sealed fluid in a machine inner side from leaking to a machine outer side between a housing and a rotating shaft which is inserted to a shaft hole provided in the housing. The sealing device has a seal flange which is installed to an outer periphery of the rotating shaft, and a seal lip which is installed to an inner periphery of the shaft hole of the housing and slidably comes into contact with the seal flange over an entire periphery. The sealing device includes a thread groove which exerts a fluid pumping action when the rotating shaft rotates. The thread groove is provided at a position which does not intersect a contact area where the seal lip slidably comes into contact with the seal flange over the entire periphery, thereby suppressing generation of static leakage.
US10352449B2
A mechanical seal has a stationary side seal ring and a rotating side seal ring in opposed sliding contact with the stationary side seal ring. One seal ring of the stationary side seal ring and the rotating side seal ring is disposed on a sealed fluid side and constitutes a slide bearing which supports the rotating shaft. The other seal ring is disposed on the opposite side to the sealed fluid side, and a pressing member is attached to the other seal ring for biasing the other seal ring in the axial direction to press sealing faces of both the seal rings.
US10352448B2
A method for manufacturing a seal is disclosed. The method includes forming a layer of a hardened metal layer on a metal base plate. Further, the method includes melting the layer of the hardened metal in a nitrogen atmosphere to form a layer of metal nitride. Furthermore, the method includes depositing a plurality of layers of a metal alloy on the layer of metal nitride to form a main seal body portion, wherein the layer of metal nitride and the main seal body portion together correspond to the seal.
US10352447B2
The gasket of the present invention is mainly comprised of a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet containing a non-halogenated flame retardant, and at least one surface thereof is a pressure-sensitive adhesive face of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet containing a non-halogenated flame retardant.According to the present invention, a highly flame retardant gasket having practically sufficient tight-sealing property, which does not produce a toxic halogen gas during combustion can be realized. In addition, a highly flame retardant gasket having practically sufficient tight-sealing property, which does not produce a toxic halogen gas during combustion, and does not cause corrosion and discoloration of a metal member to be an adherend can be realized.
US10352443B2
A system, in certain embodiments, includes a composite piston. The composite piston comprises a piston body made of a composite material, wherein the composite material comprises a reinforcing material distributed in a matrix material.
US10352442B2
A continuously variable transmission (CVT) including a hydraulically-controllable variator is described. A method for controlling the CVT includes detecting a transient event causing a commanded change in a speed ratio of the variator and disabling feedback control of hydraulic pressure to the variator during the transient event. A target pressure that achieves the commanded change in the speed ratio of the variator is determined, and a pressure trajectory is determined based upon the target pressure. A feed-forward control of the hydraulic pressure to the variator is executed in response to the pressure trajectory during the transient event.
US10352422B2
A rotor assembly includes a torque converter including a housing forming a hydraulic chamber, a rotor for an electric motor, a rotor carrier non-rotatably connected to the rotor that is fixed to the torque converter housing, a rotor carrier flange, a spring, and a snap ring. In some embodiments, the rotor carrier includes a groove and a castellated portion, the snap ring is disposed in the groove, and the spring clamps the rotor carrier flange between the snap ring and the castellated portion.
US10352416B2
An apparatus for unlocking an actuator comprises a first member mounted in a housing for rotation about an axis and having a circumferentially extending surface, a recess being formed in a section of the circumferentially extending surface. A second member for operative connection to a lock release element of an actuator is mounted for movement in a direction generally transverse to the axis of rotation of the first member and has a follower element resiliently biased into contact with the circumferentially extending surface of the first member. A rotary actuator is provided for rotating the first member about the axis between a first, locking position in which the follower element engages on the circumferentially extending surface and a second, unlocking position in which the follower element is at least partially received within the recess.
US10352409B2
A brake of an automatic transmission includes: first and second recessed portions and formed in a center support; a first piston having a first pressure-receiving portion that is disposed in the first recessed portion and defines a first engagement oil chamber and having a plate-pressing portion that presses friction plates and separator plates; a second piston having a second pressure-receiving portion that is disposed in the second recessed portion and defines a second engagement oil chamber and a piston-pressing portion that presses the first piston by supply of oil pressure to the second engagement oil chamber; and a return spring that biases the first piston so that the first piston moves away from the friction plates and the separator plates.
US10352406B2
A planetary gear train may include input and output shafts, first to fourth planetary gear sets having first to third, fourth to sixth, seventh to ninth, and tenth to twelfth elements, a first shaft fixedly connected to the fourth and tenth elements, and selectively connectable to the input shaft, a second shaft fixedly connected to the third element, and selectively connectable to the input shaft, a third shaft fixedly connected to the eleventh element the output shaft, a fourth shaft fixedly connected to the first, sixth, and ninth elements, a fifth shaft fixedly connected to the eighth and twelfth elements, and a plurality of shafts each of which is selectively connectable to the transmission housing and fixedly connected to an element of the first, second and third planetary gear sets which is not fixedly connected to any of the first to seventh shafts.
US10352398B2
Some embodiments of a gearbox for an irrigation system can comprise a housing, a worm gear within the housing, a bull gear within the housing and configured to be engaged with the worm gear, a diaphragm, and a vent. The diaphragm can define a chamber configured for expansion and contraction and configured to be positioned inside the housing to relieve pressure build-up within the housing. The vent can be configured to allow air to flow between the atmosphere and the chamber.
US10352394B2
An elastomeric bushing for vehicle suspension includes inner and outer metal tubes, an elastomeric material between the tubes, and one or more bundles of woven wires (ropes or cables) in entangled or mesh form wherein at least a portion of the wires contact at least one of the tubes. The bushing has enhanced thermal conductivity via metal-to-metal contact and improved damping capacity to reduce heat buildup inside the material upon cyclic loading and unloading. The metallic wire rope, metallic wire ropes or wire mesh are embedded in the elastomeric material during injection molding where the ends of the wire ropes are attached to the opposing side walls of the inner and outer metal tubes or are spaced apart from the opposing side walls for tunability and to thereby enable a more effective dissipation of the heat generated inside the elastomeric bushing during its usage into the kinematically connected suspension members.
US10352393B2
A craft damper (torsion damper) includes a crankshaft (shaft member) to be input with a torsion vibration, a disc member coaxially attached to the crankshaft, a ring-shaped inertia mass body connected to an outer peripheral side of the disc member via a magneto-rheological elastomer member so as to be coaxial with the crankshaft, and an electromagnetic coil for applying a magnetic field to the magneto-rheological elastomer member.
US10352382B2
A bicycle disc brake rotor, having a rotational center axis, comprises an outer portion having plural layers including first and second braking surfaces in opposite axial directions. The plural layers include a first layer made of a copper or a copper alloy.
US10352380B2
A brake assembly having a brake spider that may receive an anchor pin or a sleeve that receives an anchor pin. Features such as splines may be provided with the anchor pin to help secure the anchor pin to the brake spider or the sleeve. Engagement features may be provided with the sleeve to help secure the sleeve to the brake spider.
US10352364B2
The invention includes a sensor mounted in a through-hole formed in the center of a roller of a roller bearing device, a recording device that records detection signals from the sensors, and an installation jig for installing the recording device in the roller. The installation jig passes through the through-hole, and has a first engagement portion that engages with one axial end portion of the roller from an outer side in an axial direction, and a second engagement portion that engages with the other axial end portion of the roller from the outer side in the axial direction.
US10352360B2
An adjustable spacer with hardened end portions and a non-hardened intermediate portion therebetween is mountable between a pair of roller bearings also mounted on a shaft such an axle or spindle or the like. The hardened material contacts the faces of the roller bearings but helps prevent wear therebetween and unwanted movement of the bearings on the shaft. The unhardened material allows the spacer to collapse in the axial direction to maintain desired axial loads on the bearings.
US10352343B2
A mounting fixture for interconnecting at least two tubular members, the mounting fixture including: at least one first connection section including a first connection aperture for receipt of a connector configured to secure a receiving element to the mounting fixture via a second connection aperture of the receiving element; a mounting sleeve configured to be secured around a section of a tubular member, the mounting sleeve comprises at least two interconnectable fixture sections, each fixture section comprising a portion of the mounting fixture which includes a section of the mounting sleeve and a portion of the first connection section; and at least one connecting arrangement for interconnecting adjacent fixture sections to form the mounting sleeve, each connecting arrangement being located on or within an inner side of each fixture section of the mounting sleeve to interconnect each fixture section to an adjoining fixture section at a location on or within an inner side of the mounting sleeve.
US10352342B2
A formed steel part includes a first steel plate having a first base, a first intermetallic alloy layer on the first base and a first metal alloy layer on the first intermetallic alloy layer, the first steel part having a first area without the first metal alloy layer and having at least part of the first intermetallic alloy layer; and a second steel plate having a second base, a second intermetallic alloy layer on the second base and a second metal alloy layer on the second intermetallic alloy layer, the second steel part having a second area without the second metal alloy layer and having at least part of the second intermetallic alloy layer in the second area. The first and second steel plates are joined together. The formed steel part may also include a butt-weld joining the first and second steel plates.
US10352337B2
A fluid pressure cylinder which has a head cover and a rod cover provided on both ends of a cylinder tube, wherein the head cover and the rod cover are formed by casting such as die-casting. A first connecting channel which recesses in a groove shape in the outward radial direction is formed in the outer-circumferential surface of a first concave section of the head cover. A ring-shaped first holder is pressed into the first concave section, causing the formation of a cross-sectionally rectangular first connecting channel, the opening region of which is sealed. In addition, the first connecting channel connects a cylinder chamber of the cylinder tube and a first cushion chamber of the head cover.
US10352335B2
A hydraulic system of a work machine includes a first hydraulic actuator, a first control valve, a first oil passage, a second hydraulic actuator, a second control valve, a second oil passage, and a bypass oil passage. The first control valve is connected to the first hydraulic actuator to control the first hydraulic actuator. The first oil passage is connected to the first control valve to supply hydraulic oil to the first control valve. The second control valve connected to the second hydraulic actuator to control the second hydraulic actuator. The second oil passage connects the second control valve and the first hydraulic actuator via the first control valve. Hydraulic oil returning from the first hydraulic actuator to the first control valve is to be supplied to the second control valve through the second oil passage. The bypass oil passage connects the first oil passage and the second oil passage.
US10352334B2
The invention is directed to controlling a hydraulic actuation system having at least one degree of freedom, a prime mover, at least one actuation module and a controller, with each actuation module including: an over-center variable displacement pump having a power input connection configured to power the pump from the prime mover and a displacement varying input for varying the displacement of the pump; a displacement varying actuator configured to modulate the displacement varying input of the pump; an output actuator in direct communication with the pump, the output actuator configured to drive a corresponding degree of freedom; and at least one sensor establishing a feedback measurement that represents a force or motion of the output actuator. Based on a value of each feedback measurement, the force or motion of the output actuator is regulated by controlling the prime mover and the displacement actuator for the output actuator.
US10352320B2
A valve stem for use with an air compressor includes an upper portion, a connecting portion, an extended intermediate portion positioned between the upper portion and the connecting portion, and a lower tapered portion positioned on a bottom surface of the connecting portion. The valve stem may define a through hole extending from a top surface of the valve stem to a bottom surface of the valve stem. An upper portion of the through hole may be threaded. The upper portion may include a hexagonal cross-sectional shape. The lower tapered portion may include an inclined surface that transitions from a larger diameter to a smaller diameter. The valve stem allows for fluid connection from a pressurized volume to atmosphere.
US10352318B2
A hydraulic regulating device includes a continuously adjustable regulating valve with a control piston. The control piston is displaceable in a first direction in which a connection of a pump port to an actuating-pressure port is configured to be controlled to open. The control piston is also displaceable in a second direction in which a connection of the actuating-pressure port to a tank port is configured to be controlled to open. In the first direction, the pump pressure acts on the control piston, and in the second direction, a control pressure and a spring act on the control piston. During movement of the control piston in the first direction, a damping connection, equipped with a damping nozzle, from the pump port to the tank port is configured to be controlled to open.
US10352313B2
A linear compressor is provided that may include a shell including a suction inlet, a cylinder provided in the shell to define a compression space for a refrigerant, a piston reciprocated in an axial direction within the cylinder, a discharge valve provided at a first side of the cylinder to selectively discharge the refrigerant compressed in the compression space, at least one nozzle, through which at least a portion of the refrigerant discharged through the discharge valve flows, the at least one nozzle being disposed in the cylinder, and at least one expansion portion that extends from the at least one nozzle to an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder, the at least one expansion portion having a flow cross-section area greater than a flow cross-section area of the at least one nozzle.
US10352312B2
A hermetic compressor (100) includes an electric element (110), a compression element (112), and a hermetic container (102). The compression element includes a shaft (118), a cylinder block (124), a piston (136), a connection section (144), and an oil supply mechanism (130). The piston has a columnar seal section (160) in sliding contact with an inner peripheral face of the cylinder, two extension sections (162) that have circular arc faces each having the same radius as a radius of the seal section and extend from the seal section to the bottom dead center side in the axial direction with a circumferential gap therebetween, and a columnar capture section (164) that extends further toward the bottom dead center side than the extension section and has a smaller radius than the radius of the seal section.
US10352310B2
A compressed air storage and power generation device (1) is provided with motors (3a-3c), compressors (4a-4c), compressed air storage tanks (5a-5c), injection-side valves (6a-6e), expanders (7a-7c), discharge-side valves (8a-8e), generators (9a-9c), an output sensor (10), pressure sensors (11a-11c), and a control device (12). The control device (12) uses a tank (5c) with a relatively large capacity for long-period variable power and uses tanks (5a, 5b) with relatively low capacities for short-period variable power, all such power having been generated using natural energy, and thereby performs control by which both the long-period and short-period variable power are leveled out and power is output according to the power demand. The compressed air storage power generation device (1) levels out both the long-period and short-period variable power and outputs the power according to the power demand.
US10352306B2
A wind turbine nacelle configured for mounting on a wind turbine tower and for supporting a rotor assembly, the nacelle comprising at least a first and a second nacelle module. The first nacelle module comprises a first frame structure and a main bearing system for a main shaft of the rotor assembly, and the second nacelle module comprises a second frame structure and a drive train system for the wind turbine. When the nacelle is mounted on the wind turbine tower, the main bearing system is supported by the wind turbine tower, and the drive train system is attached to the main bearing such that the weight of the drive train system is transferred to the main bearing system and thereby to the wind turbine tower. Further, the first frame structure is configured to support the main bearing system during transportation and prior to mounting of the nacelle, and the second frame structure is configured to support the drive train system during transportation and prior to mounting of the nacelle, and the first and second frame structures form a load carrying structure of a first and a second shipping freight container such that the first and second nacelle module can be transported as shipping freight containers. When the nacelle is mounted on the wind turbine tower, the first and second frame structures may be placed side by side in a direction along a rotational axis of the wind turbine rotor and may be oriented such as to have a length extending transversely to a rotational axis of the wind turbine rotor.
US10352301B2
A method of operating a wind power plant in a weak grid environment is provided to achieve desired system stability criteria and to support an electrical grid during disturbances or faults. The wind power plant is coupled to an electrical grid, and includes a power plant controller for controlling a plurality of wind turbine generators. The method includes, when a weak grid criterion is fulfilled, setting the power plant controller to operate in a weak grid mode by providing, when a grid voltage deviates beyond a threshold voltage, a reduced active power reference to the plurality of wind turbine generators. The method further includes, when the electrical grid recovers, generating a reduced amount of active power based on the reduced active power reference.
US10352287B2
The present disclosure relates to controlling engine of a vehicle. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, when it is determined that the vehicle has entered a deep water area, an engine start-stop function of the vehicle is disabled. The deep water area has a water depth which allows water to enter the engine of the vehicle or causes the engine of the vehicle to be susceptible to water inflow.
US10352285B2
In a nozzle plate, a portion of fuel flowing out from a fuel injection port of the fuel injection device is atomized by impinging on an interference body. At the same time, the flow of the portion of fuel is sharply bent and impinges on fuel which straightly advances and passes through a nozzle hole and an orifice thus turning the flow of fuel into a turbulent flow. Further, both end portions of the orifice form non-rounded sharpened corner portions. Hence, a liquid film of fuel injected from the corner portions and areas in the vicinity of the corner portions of the orifice is formed into a thin sharpened and pointed state whereby an end portion of the liquid film of fuel injected from the orifice is easily atomized due to a friction between the end portion of the liquid film of fuel and air.
US10352275B2
A field of test methods, and more particularly to a method for testing a device, the method including one operating stage corresponding to a stable value of one operating setpoint for the device and/or for a test bench for testing the device. The operating stage is finalized before a maximum duration threshold if a criterion associated with a set of physical parameters picked up during the operating stage is satisfied and if a confidence level associated with the set of physical parameters reaches at least a predetermined threshold.
US10352269B2
An object of the present invention is to, while forming a heat insulating layer on a squish area surface of a top surface of a piston main body, prevent generation of large cracks on the heat insulating layer and suppress damages and peeling of the heat insulating layer. To achieve this object, in the present invention, pressure is applied to a heat insulating layer provided on a top surface of a piston main body, that is, a pressing stress is applied to the heat insulating layer in advance.
US10352263B2
A control apparatus comprising an air-fuel ratio sensor disposed between the exhaust gas aggregated portion and the three-way catalyst, and which outputs an output value corresponding to an amount of oxygen and an amount of unburnt substances that has reached the exhaust-gas-side electrode layer via the porous; an actual detected air-fuel ratio obtaining section which obtains an actual detected air-fuel ratio by converting an actual output value of the air-fuel ratio sensor into an air-fuel ratio; and an instructed fuel injection amount calculation section which corrects the amount of the fuel injected from a plurality of the fuel injection valves so that the actual detected air-fuel ratio coincides with a target air-fuel ratio; and an air-fuel ratio imbalance indicating value obtaining section which obtains an air-fuel ratio imbalance indicating value which becomes larger as a degree of a non-uniformity among a plurality of the cylinders of cylinder-by-cylinder air-fuel ratios.
US10352260B2
A fuel vapor purge system includes: a fuel tank; a canister; a passage component that defines an intake passage of an internal-combustion engine; a purge pump pumping vapor fuel; and a valve device having a valve object, a main part having an internal passage, an inflow port through which the vapor fuel pumped from the canister flows into the main part, an outflow port connected with the inflow port through the internal passage and being opened to the intake passage, and a leak port connected with the inflow port through the internal passage and being opened to outside of the main part. The leak port has a leak preventive structure which prevents the vapor fuel from leaking to outside when the valve device is attached to the passage component such that the vapor fuel is able to flow into the intake passage.
US10352254B2
An internal combustion engine control device for a dual-injection internal combustion engine acquires first and second increase values, which are fuel increase ratios according to respective alcohol concentrations of a fuel injected by cylinder injection and a fuel injected by port injection. The control device determines a basic total injection amount of fuel that should be supplied to each cylinder in the case where the alcohol concentration of the fuel is zero. An amount of fuel injected from a cylinder injection valve is determined as if the alcohol concentration of the fuel were zero. A total injection amount is to correspond to an amount in accordance with the basic total injection amount and both, the first increase value and the second increase value, so that the increase in injected fuel amount is borne by port injection.
US10352252B2
An air intake device includes: a valve body which includes a rotating shaft; a bearing member which rotatably supports the rotating shaft of the valve body; and an air intake port which includes a concave portion on which the bearing member is disposed, wherein the bearing member includes a positioning portion for positioning the bearing member with respect to the concave portion of the air intake port, facing surfaces which extend from the positioning portion along the concave portion of the air intake port and face each other in an inward radial direction of the rotating shaft with respect to the concave portion, with a gap therebetween, and protruding portions which protrude toward the concave portion of the air intake port from the facing surfaces and seal the gap.
US10352249B2
The occurrence of corrosion on the inner surfaces of pipes is to be minimized in a cooling air system of a gas turbine. Specifically, this gas turbine power generation equipment has: a gas turbine including a turbine connected to a generator, a combustor that supplies combustion gas to the turbine, and a compressor that supplies compressed air to the combustor; a cooling air system that supplies compressed air bled from the compressor to the turbine, the cooling air system being connected at a first end side to an intermediate stage or an outlet of the compressor and connected at a second end side to the turbine; and a drying air system that supplies drying air into the cooling air system when the gas turbine is stopped, the drying air system being connected to the cooling air system.
US10352245B2
A windage shield system is provided. The system includes an annular cavity having an inlet end and an outlet end. The annular cavity is configured to direct a flow of cooling fluid from the inlet end to the outlet end. The system also includes a source of a flow of cooling fluid coupled in flow communication with the annular cavity. The annular cavity is bounded by a stationary component and a rotating component, and the rotating component introduces heat into the annular cavity by windage effects. The system also includes a cooling channel coupled in flow communication with the outlet end, and a first windage shield extending from the outlet end towards the inlet end within the annular cavity.
US10352239B2
A method of filtering air entering the intake opening of a gas turbine engine. A straightening tube provides a straight channel for incoming air flow. A flow redirector provides a path for air flow that is at right angles to the channel provided by the straightening tube and that leads to the intake opening of the engine. A filter at the downstream end of the flow redirector has a pair of rollers for unrolling and re-rolling a roll of adhesive tape, with an exposed section of the adhesive tape blocking the downstream end of the flow redirector and capturing particles in the air flow. The rollers are activated as needed to expose fresh sections of tape.
US10352232B2
A turbocharger includes: a shaft provided with a small-diameter portion, and two large-diameter portions formed on two sides of the small-diameter portion; and a semi-floating bearing to rotatably support the shaft. The semi-floating bearing includes a cylindrical body into which the shaft is inserted. An inner peripheral surface of the body includes: two bearing surfaces opposed to the large-diameter portions of the shaft; a non-bearing surface located between the two bearing surfaces, having a larger inner diameter than inner diameters of the bearing surfaces; and an oil passage opened to the non-bearing surface to supply lubricant oil to a gap in a radial direction between the non-bearing surface and the shaft. At least one of the two bearing surfaces extends more in an approaching direction of the two bearing surfaces than does the large-diameter portion opposed in the radial direction to the one bearing surface.
US10352231B2
In an upstream portion from a valve connecting surface that is formed in an opening of an intake port to a combustion chamber, an upper wall surface of the intake port continues from an upstream side end of the valve connecting surface and extends substantially straight and diagonally with respect to a ceiling surface on the intake port side. In addition, a cross-sectional shape of the portion in the intake port in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the intake port is a flat shape with an axis in a transverse direction being a long axis.
US10352223B2
A method for cold start emissions diagnostic of a catalytic treatment device of an internal combustion engine includes determining a torque reserve; determining a catalyst light off (CLO) state; integrating the total torque reserve over a time period established by the CLO state; determining if a value from the integration exceeds an integration threshold; and if the value from the integration exceeds the integration threshold, indicating that the cold start emissions diagnostic is positive.
US10352201B2
A valve mechanism for an engine includes a camshaft, a rocker arm, a synchronization cam that rotates in synchronism with a valve driving cam, and a switch assembly that switches the driving state of an intake valve or an exhaust valve when a cam follower is pressed by the synchronization cam. The synchronization cam presses the cam follower at a time when the intake valve or the exhaust valve is closed. The switch assembly includes a switch unit that switches the driving state when a switch moves, a driver that drives the switch via a transmission, and a positioner including a spring-biased presser that engages with a concave portion of the transmission. The concave portion includes a first concave portion with which the presser engages in a first driving state, and a second concave portion with which the presser engages in a second driving state.
US10352194B2
A bearing assembly includes a case, a bearing spring positioned inside the case, a first seal positioned between the case and the bearing spring, and a second seal. The a second seal is positioned between the case and the bearing spring and is spaced apart from the first seal, wherein the second seal is an adjustable seal that is movable between a closed position and an opened position to inhibit or allow, respectively, a fluid to flow from a cavity that is defined by the case, the bearing spring, the first seal and the second seal.
US10352193B2
A bearing spring support/damping apparatus has: a first end portion; a second end portion; and a flexible portion between the first end portion and the second end portion, and further comprising: a single outer diameter groove in the second end portion.
US10352191B2
A thermal management system according to one disclosed non-limiting embodiment of the present disclosure includes an at least partially annular oil tank; and a fan airflow diverter upstream of the cooling fins.
US10352187B2
A variable vane mechanism for adjusting the angle of stator vanes in a gas turbine engine is provided. The mechanism includes a circumferentially extending unison ring that is driven circumferentially around a casing by an actuator. The unison ring is connected to the stator vanes via levers such that the angle of the vanes changes with circumferential movement of the unison ring. The unison ring and the casing are each provided with at least one rigging hole in order to set the initial angle of the vanes. At least one of the unison ring and the casing are each provided with at least two rigging holes, so that the initial angle of the vanes can be adjusted by selecting different combinations of rigging holes. This may allow accumulations in tolerances to be compensated for and/or may allow the engine to be tested at different initial vane angles.
US10352183B2
An embodiment of a turbine assembly includes, among other possible things, a first component including a first component surface, a second component including a second component surface spaced apart from the first component surface, and a brush seal disposed between the first component and the second component. The brush seal includes, among other things, a first bristled region extending in a first direction from a backing plate, and sealingly engaging one of the first component surface and the second component surface. At least one of the backing plate and the first bristled region includes a nickel-based superalloy material having at least 40% of a Ni3(Al,X) precipitate phase, X being a metallic or refractory element other than Al.
US10352181B2
Methods and systems of cooling airfoils are provided. The present invention provides systems and methods for providing cooling channels located within walls of a turbine airfoil. These cooling channels include micro-circuits that taper in various directions along the length and width of the airfoil. In addition, these cooling channels have a variety of shapes and areas to facilitate convective heat transfer between the surrounding air and the airfoil.
US10352177B2
An airfoil for a turbine engine having a perimeter wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side, a radially extending rib located within the interior and spaced from the leading edge to define a radially extending leading edge chamber, and at least one impingement opening in the rib defining a flow path aligned with the leading edge.
US10352167B2
The present invention discloses a process method for withdrawing and recovering a mechanical constant-resistance single prop, specific steps involving: detecting a working resistance and a degree of deformation of a mechanical constant-resistance single prop, releasing lug clamp bolts of a recoverable base, knocking a lower portion of a cylinder body of the mechanical constant-resistance single prop to disengage the mechanical constant-resistance single prop from the recoverable base, and dismantling the mechanical constant-resistance single prop. Parts are classified and recovered based on degree of deformation thereof. By means of the foregoing method, a process of withdrawing and recovering a mechanical constant-resistance single prop is standardized, simple and fast disengagement of the mechanical constant-resistance single prop is achieved, and parts that can still be used can be sufficiently recovered and reused, thereby achieving the objectives of saving energy and reducing costs.
US10352165B2
A mine mining system mining ore from a vein in a mine including a mining area provided inside an ore body, a first mine shaft provided inside the ore body, and a second mine shaft connecting the mining area and the first mine shaft to each other, the mine mining system includes: a transporting machine which loads the ore mined in the mining area and transports the ore to a soil discharge area while traveling in the first mine shaft; and a loading machine which stays in the second mine shaft, excavates the ore in the mining area, conveys the excavated ore in a direction moving away from the mining area, and loads the ore on the transporting machine.
US10352164B2
The invention relates to a bit holder having an insertion projection and having a holding projection having a bit receptacle, the insertion projection comprising a bearing segment and the holding projection comprising a supporting segment. In order to allow the bit holder to be braced in permanent and stable fashion with respect to a base part, provision is made according to the present invention that the supporting segment and/or the bearing segment comprise two supporting surfaces and bearing surfaces, respectively, arranged at an angle to one another; and that the longitudinal center axis of the bit receptacle and the longitudinal axis of the insertion projection enclose an obtuse angle.
US10352153B2
A technique is provided for modeling flow simulations at downhole reservoir conditions and rock formations after performing wellbore perforations. By utilizing these flow simulations, a user may be able to simulate and compare different scenarios, thereby facilitating a more effective, profitable, and realistic choice of perforating systems and operating conditions.
US10352152B2
An apparatus and method may operate to mount acoustic sensors, azimuthally offset from each other, to the exterior of a casing. After the casing and acoustic sensors are in the borehole, signals are provided to the acoustic sensors to cause the acoustic sensors to emit acoustic signals into the annulus around the casing. The method further includes detecting reflected compression waves, shear waves or a combination or conversion thereof at the acoustic sensors to generate a set of two]way travel times of the acoustic signals. The method can further include generating distance measurements of a distance between corresponding acoustic sensors and points on the borehole wall based on the two]way travel times, to determine a position of the casing within the borehole. The method can further include identifying fluids based on the two]way travel times. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10352151B2
A drill string section receives an electronics package. A flow channel extends through an aperture in the electronics package. The flow channel carries a flow of drilling fluid through the drill string section. The flow channel is sealed to a body of the drill string section. The electronics package need not be pressure-rated.
US10352150B2
A method for monitoring an electric submersible pump. The method includes acquiring data indicative of surface measurements obtained while the pump is operating in a downhole environment, acquiring data indicative of downhole measurements obtained while the pump is operating in the downhole environment, storing the downhole data in the downhole environment, periodically transmitting the downhole data from the downhole environment to a remote computing device, and establishing a baseline signature profile based on a correlation of the surface data with the downhole data.
US10352148B2
An illustrative method for estimating casing wear, including estimating, as a function of position along a casing string, a side force of a tubular string against the casing string, wherein said estimating accounts for a bending stiffness of the tubular string. The method further including determining, based at least in part on the side force, a casing string wear volume as a function of position along the casing string, and presenting the casing string wear volume to a user.
US10352147B2
A debris collection device creates circulation with surface pumped fluid that draws debris laden flow into a long tail pipe. The tail pipe advances as debris is sucked out of the way and into the tailpipe. A shoe with a check valve at the tailpipe lower end prevents debris exit from the tailpipe either when the surface pump is turned off or when the tailpipe is removed with the tool to get the debris out of the borehole. The device handles horizontal runs where debris such as sand accumulates on the borehole bottom. Additional stands are added above the debris collection device as the tailpipe penetrates deeper into the borehole as sand that lies ahead of it is removed into the tailpipe. A volume of sand extending into the thousands of gallons can be removed in a single trip.
US10352146B2
Present embodiments are directed to a method that includes receiving inputs indicative of a property of a fracture within a dynamic fracture network, assigning an orientation to each of the plurality of fractures, and assigning a plurality of fracture nodes and fracture cells encompassing each fracture node along the fracture. The method also includes receiving variables representative of apertures at a first fracture node and a second fracture node and determining fluid flow within the fracture cell based on Navier-Stokes equations with proppant transport, as a function of the conditions at the first fracture node and the second fracture node. The method further includes displaying a simulation representative of a flow of proppant through the fracture based on the junction conditions via a display coupled to the processing component.
US10352131B2
An apparatus and method relating to down-hole production equipment for use in an oil well environment is provided. The apparatus and method are for selectively isolating fluid flow through a production packer or other down-hole tubular device. The apparatus and method use a ball valve, which is moved from an open position to a closed position by lateral or axial movement of the tubing string as opposed to by rotating the tubing string.
US10352128B1
Example of the present disclosure relate to a frac plug. More specifically, embodiments are directed towards a frac plug with a flapper, wherein the flapper is configured to set and unset based on a pressure differential and/or fluid flow associated with the frac plug.
US10352117B2
A pin whose movement triggers setting of the borehole tool, is initially held by a collet that is supported off a surrounding housing. A spring is supported off the pin and would push a housing that locks the collet to the pin axially to unsupport the collet but for the presence of a Kevlar® wire that has an associated heater. The wire pulls the housing that locks the collet against the spring bias and has an end attached to the pin. Melting the wire allows the spring to move the housing that traps the collet to the pin. At that point hydrostatic pressure can move the pin to either open a port on the borehole tool to set it hydrostatically or to move an actuation rod attached to the pin to set the borehole tool mechanically or with a combination of mechanical and hydraulic force.
US10352108B2
Systems, tools, and methods include using a milling assembly with a catch mechanism configured to maintain a connection between the drill string and the mill in the event a primary connection between the mill and catch mechanism fails. A primary connection may support the weight of the mill by using a connection between the drill string and the mill. The catch mechanism may operate as a back-up or redundant connection and may support the weight of the mill by coupling the catch mechanism to both the mill and the drill string.
US10352104B2
A drill bit button insert is attached to a button inserts mounted in a drill bit and performs a drilling. The drill bit button insert includes a tip body and an abrasive layer that is formed of a diamond sintered body harder than the tip body and is coated at least at the button insert working surface of the tip body. The abrasive layer has two or more high hardness layers and a low hardness layer having a hardness lower than that of the high hardness layers disposed between the high hardness layers. The high hardness layers and the low hardness layer are provided from the surface side of the abrasive layer toward the tip body side.
US10352095B2
A flood barrier (100) is disclosed, which comprises at least two supporting posts (104a, 104b) for positioning at an entrance (102) of a building; and at least one panel (108) removably arranged intermediate a pair of the supporting posts to form the flood barrier, wherein the panel includes a plurality of seals having corrugated surfaces to interface with the supporting posts to provide a water-tight arrangement against entry of flood waters into the building. A method of operating said flood barrier is also disclosed.
US10352094B1
A storage system positioned within a door is presented. The storage system is generally comprised of a storage unit attached within a door assembly by a mounting system.
US10352092B2
The present invention generally relates to modular recessed dispensers for holding consumable products such as, but not limited to, disposable latex gloves, gowns, masks that may be contained within a consumables box. In one embodiment, the modular recessed dispensers include replaceable doors or front panels and adjustable shelves and dividers that may be quickly reconfigured to cooperate with the replaced door. The modular recessed dispensers may be fully recessed or semi-recessed into a wall or other structure.
US10352086B2
An escape system for a sinking car and an optoelectronic component thereof are disclosed. The optoelectronic component includes a housing and an optoelectronic module. The escape system for a sinking car includes an optoelectronic component and a motherboard. A lighting unit of the escape system for a sinking car and an optoelectronic component thereof is installed on a car to emit light. After the car fell into water, by the characteristic that when light passes through a medium, the attenuation in light energy can be detected effectively because light is absorbed by that medium (such as liquid), the car sinking signal can be received and transmitted quickly, thereby actually taking the opportunities of rescue to reduce casualties.
US10352060B2
Methods for producing connecting or junction elements, which in some cases may be utilized in steel structures of towers for wind turbines, may involve using a flow forming process to produce which a flange and a casing integrally adjoining the flange from a blank. Further, an end of the casing opposite the flange may be adapted to a contour of a component to which the casing is intended to be connected. In some examples, the casing may be formed with a second flange. Likewise, in some examples, at least a portion of the casing may have a conical design.
US10352059B2
In some embodiments, a shelter includes an impact-resistant panel having an energy-absorbing core positioned between two outer layers, wherein the energy-absorbing core includes a syntactic foam material that has a plurality of hollow microspheres compounded with a polymeric resin.
US10352052B2
A formwork for performing horizontal castings for the provision of floors, of the type comprising a series of props, and supporting heads to be arranged on the props for the resting of panels designed to form a surface for a concrete casting, each panel comprising at least two longitudinal profiles, for resting on the supporting heads; each one of the longitudinal profiles comprises a central body, a first longitudinal part, for the fixing of the transverse elements, and an opposite second longitudinal part, each one of the supporting heads comprises a plate-like base from which there extends at least one lateral shoulder for the resting of the central body of a longitudinal profile in an intermediate configuration for assembly or disassembly, and a central protrusion, which protrudes from the same side as the lateral shoulders.
US10352040B1
A building comprises an exterior substrate, such as an exterior prepped for application of a building material and one or more expansion and control joints. A terminating point, such as a window or door casing, has a surface extending above the substrate, and a casing bead control joint with a permanent gasket or backer rod preinstalled for filling the space between the casing and the control joint. The control joint may be combined with one or more other expansion or control joints fixed to the exterior of the substrate, and a layer of a building material may be applied on the substrate and overlapping a portion of the expansion and control joints.
US10352025B2
The present invention provides a plumbing fixture fitting with a mounting system.
US10352024B2
A bulldozer includes a steering clutch, a steering brake, a hydraulic pump that discharges a lubricating oil, a first lubricating oil supply path, a second lubricating oil supply path, a third lubricating oil supply path, and a flow amount switching valve disposed on the second lubricating oil supply path. The first lubricating oil supply path supplies a portion of the lubricating oil discharged by the hydraulic pump to the steering clutch The second lubricating oil supply path supplies a portion of the lubricating oil discharged by the hydraulic pump to the steering brake. The third lubricating oil supply path supplies, to the steering brake, a portion of the lubricating oil that has passed through the steering clutch. The flow amount switching valve switches an amount of the lubricating oil supplied to the steering brake.
US10352023B2
A power connection device is provided for transmitting electric power from an external power source to a working machine). The working machine has an undercarriage and a superstructure, and the undercarriage and the superstructure are pivotable relative to each other about a substantially vertical pivot axis. The power connection device includes a first power conductor member which is adapted to be pivotally arranged relative to the undercarriage and the superstructure about the substantially vertical pivot axis.
US10352022B2
A sectional grader system for a mold board that includes a plurality of abutting grader segments for detachable connection to the mold board. Each grader segment includes a front face, a back face, a first bolt hole aperture, a right edge having a first recessed section, a left edge having a second recessed section, and a lower edge having a plurality of spaced sockets. The first recessed section may be adapted to accommodate a first portion of a second bolt hole aperture. The second recessed section of an adjacent grader segment may be adapted to accommodate a second portion of the second bolt hole aperture. The sectional grader system may further include a bridge segment adapted to engage the first recessed section and the second recessed section of the adjacent grader segment in flush mount. The bridge segment may have a third bolt hole aperture whereby the third bolt hole aperture aligns with the first and second portions of the second bolt hole aperture for receiving a bolt connector for mounting the plurality of grader segments to the mold board.
US10352019B2
A front loader includes a boom, a first pivotal shaft disposed on a tip portion of the boom, a bucket supported by the first pivotal shaft to be capable of performing a shoveling movement and a dumping movement, a boom cylinder to swing the boom, a bucket cylinder to move the bucket to make the bucket perform the shoveling movement and the dumping movement, a control valve to be switched to any one of a first state supplying an operation fluid to the bucket cylinder and a second state stopping supplying the operation fluid to the bucket cylinder, a first movable member to turn around the first pivotal shaft in accordance with the movement of the bucket, and a wire connecting the first movable member to the control valve.
US10352015B2
A shoring end section assembly is described which may allow increased strength, increased longevity, and ease of use. The end section assembly may be comprised of a through-wall tube that is substantially hollow, and a connection assembly comprised of one or more through-wall tubular coupling assemblies. Each through-wall tubular coupling assembly may be comprised of a hollow through-wall tubular coupling which extends through the through-wall tube, a spreader stop disposed inside the hollow through-wall tubular coupling, a through-wall collar disposed between the hollow through-wall tubular coupling and the through-wall tube, a tubular coupling pin washer plate, and a tubular coupling collar disposed around the proximal end of the tubular coupling. Each through-wall tubular coupling assembly may have a transverse rigidifying member extending between them, and a notched angle brace assembly may be attached to the lowest through-wall tubular coupling assembly.
US10352010B2
A self-installing offshore platform includes a top deck that supports an offshore facility, a column having a top end and a bottom end, the top end connected to the top deck, the column that supports the top deck to maintain the top deck above water in a water body in both the deployed state and the undeployed state of the self-installing offshore platform, a skirt connected to the bottom end of the column, the skirt residing above a floor of the water body in the undeployed state of the self-installing offshore platform and residing on the floor of the water body in the deployed state of the self-installing offshore platform, and a ballastable float positioned between the top deck and the skirt, the ballastable float floating in the water when the self-installing offshore platform transitions from the undeployed state to the deployed state.
US10352009B1
An animal feces collection assembly for collecting animal feces includes a collection unit that may be positioned on the ground in front of animal feces. A bag is removably positioned on the collection unit for receiving the animal feces. A scooper is provided for urging the animal feces into the collection unit.
US10351991B2
A method and device for directly determining the region of the respective laundry item to be inserted into a clamp. In this way, it is possible to determine whether the clamp has actually been loaded with a laundry item and whether the region of the laundry item designated for this has also been properly inserted into the clamp. During the transport and the spreading out of laundry items being washed it is customary at commercial laundry establishments to hang the laundry items from clamps, which are transported further by a conveyor to various processing stations. It happens that the clamps may move away before having been loaded with the laundry item. This results in operational disruptions in most cases.
US10351984B2
Provided is a sewing machine including: a pair of feed bars that are incorporated in a cylinder and are each capable of conveying a material by moving to draw elliptical trajectories in side view; an oil seal abutting outer surfaces of the pair of feed bars by surrounding an entire periphery in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the pair of feed bars; and a seal-supporting unit provided on an inner wall of the cylinder and configured to support the oil seal, wherein the pair of feed bars are configured to be movable upward through the opening of the cylinder, the seal-supporting unit includes an upper opening that allows the pair of feed bars to move upward, and the seal-supporting unit is immovable relative to the cylinder when the pair of feed bars move upward through the opening.
US10351979B2
The present disclosure provides an upper for an article of footwear. The upper may include a knit element defining a portion of at least one of an exterior surface of the upper and an opposite interior surface of the upper. The interior surface may define a void. A tongue and the knit element may have a common yarn, and the tongue may extend through a throat area of the upper. The tongue may comprise a lateral edge, a medial edge, and a forward portion. At least one of the lateral edge, the medial edge, and the forward portion may be unsecured to the knit element. The tongue may be secured to the knit element at least at one of the lateral edge, the medial edge, and the forward portion of the throat area.
US10351978B2
A method for continuously knitting a footwear element (101), in particular a shoe element (100), including a knitted upper (110), a knitted tongue (111), and a knitted sole (112).
US10351973B2
A fiber comprising polyethylene-2,5-furan-dicarboxylate, is prepared by melt spinning in a process wherein a molten composition comprising polyethylene-2,5-furan-dicarboxylate having an intrinsic viscosity of at least 0.55 dl/g, determined in dichloroacetic acid at 25° C., is passed through one or more spinning openings to yield molten threads; wherein the molten threads are cooled to below the melting temperature of the composition to yield spun fibers; and wherein the spun fibers are drawn to a linear density in the range of 0.05 to 2.0 tex per fiber. The invention also proves a fiber comprising polyethylene-2,5-furan-dicarboxylate having a linear density of 0.05 to 2.0 tex, wherein the polyethylene-2,5-furan-dicarboxylate has an intrinsic viscosity of at least 0.45 dl/g, determined in dichloroacetic acid at 25° C.
US10351967B2
The present invention provides a method for forming a sensitive film for neutron detection, wherein the sensitive film is formed by electrophoresis coating, the liquid used for electrophoresis coating includes neutron sensitive material, electrophoresis paint and deionized water, and the neutron sensitive material is 10B single substance, 10B compound or mixture containing 10B. The sensitive film for neutron detection has the high detection efficiency because of the high content of 10B. The sensitive film for neutron detection has the uniform and stable film thickness, and excellent consistency. The production efficiency and the cost of the sensitive film are improved.
US10351963B2
Important components of direct solar based nanowire enabled chemical processing and electrochemical systems are a high efficiency and highly stable photocathode and 2-photon dual electrodes. The former enables photo-excited electrons that lead to hydrogen generation whereas the later with complementary energy bandgap photoanode and photocathode enables high efficiency, unassisted solar-driven water splitting. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to leverage the high surface areas and self-contained conversion of direct solar illuminated hydrogen generation from such nanowires with multiple junctions for broad solar spectrum absorption by providing monolithically integrated multi-junction photocathodes. It would be further beneficial to provide nanowire based dual-photoelectrode systems that together with a parallel illumination scheme, can fundamentally address these critical challenges. It would be further beneficial for these nanowire based dual-photoelectrode systems to exploit a semiconductor material family that can be tuned across the solar spectrum, can be doped both p-type and n-type and supported large current conduction.
US10351954B2
A process for depositing a thin film material on a substrate is disclosed, comprising simultaneously directing a series of gas flows from the output face of a delivery head of a thin film deposition system toward the surface of a substrate, and wherein the series of gas flows comprises at least a first reactive gaseous material, an inert purge gas, and a second reactive gaseous material, wherein the first reactive gaseous material is capable of reacting with a substrate surface treated with the second reactive gaseous material, wherein one or more of the gas flows provides a pressure that at least contributes to the separation of the surface of the substrate from the face of the delivery head. A system capable of carrying out such a process is also disclosed.
US10351946B2
Provided are a sputtering target composed of a Cu—Ga sintered compact that has a further reduced oxygen content and can suppress abnormal discharges, and a method for producing the same. The sintered compact has a component composition containing a Ga content of 20 at % or higher and less than 30 at % with the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, and has an oxygen content of 100 ppm or lower and an average grain size of 100 μm or less, and exhibits the diffraction peaks assigned to the γ and ζ phases of CuGa as observed in X-ray diffraction, wherein the main peak intensity of the diffraction peaks assigned to the ζ phase is 10% or higher relative to that of the diffraction peaks assigned to the γ phase.
US10351943B2
A Mg-containing Zn alloy coated steel including a steel and a metallic coating layer placed on a surface of the steel, in which the metallic coating layer is a layered structure of plural flat-form metal particles having a particle diameter of from 5 to 100 μm, and a thickness of from 0.5 to 30 μm, the composition of the metal particles include Zn from 11 to 80 mass %, Al from 3 to 80 mass %, Mg from 8 to 45 mass %, and Ca from 1 to 5 mass %, and the Zn, Al, and Mg content satisfy Zn+Al>Mg, and in which the metal particles include a quasicrystalline phase, an MgZn2 phase, and optionally a balance structure.
US10351941B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an α+β titanium alloy cold-rolled and annealed sheet having a high strength and a high Young's modulus in the sheet width direction. A titanium alloy sheet in which, when the texture in the sheet plane direction is analyzed, the ratio XTD/XND between the X-ray relative intensity peak value (XTD) in directions close to the sheet width direction and the X-ray relative intensity peak value (XND) in directions close to the normal-to-sheet-plane direction on the (0002) pole figure of the α-phase is 5.0 or more and which contains, in mass %, Fe: 0.8% to 1.5% and N: 0.020% or less and has an oxygen-equivalent Q of 0.34 to 0.55. Annealing of the titanium alloy sheet is performed at not less than 500° C. and less than 800° C. in the case where the cold rolling rate is less than 25% and at not less than 500° C. and less than 620° C. in the case where the cold rolling rate is 25% or more.
US10351931B2
Extraction of rare earths from end-of-use machinery having rare earth magnets provides a closed-loop process towards recycling rare earths from commingled devices having embedded magnets such as motors, generators and disk drives. A low temperature process selectively leaches the magnet material from mixed scrap containing shredded fragments of the machinery which includes other metals such as steel and copper. Filtration separates the other metals from the leached, dissolved magnet material, which is precipitated by oxalic acid to form oxalates in powder form, suitable for use in production of new rare earth magnetic material. Leaching acid, such as HCl (hydrochloric acid), is recoverable via pyrohydrolysis, and redirected back to the leaching step for completing the closed-loop aspect.
US10351924B2
A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on the base steel sheet, the base steel sheet including, by wt %, C:0.02% to 0.08%, Mn:1.3% to 2.1%, Si:0.3% or less (excluding 0%), Cr:1.0% or less (excluding 0%), P:0.1% or less (excluding 0%), S: 0.01% or less (excluding 0%), N:0.01% or less (excluding 0%), sol.Al: 0.02% to 0.06%, Mo:0.2% or less (excluding 0%), B:0.003% or less (excluding 0%), and a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the base steel sheet has a microstructure comprising 90% or more by area of ferrite, 3% or less by area of bainite as described in Formula 1, and martensite as a remainder.
US10351921B2
A martensitic stainless steel alloy is strengthened by copper-nucleated nitride precipitates. The alloy includes, in combination by weight percent, about 10.0 to about 12.5 Cr, about 2.0 to about 7.5 Ni, up to about 17.0 Co, about 0.6 to about 1.5 Mo, about 0.5 to about 2.3 Cu, up to about 0.6 Mn, up to about 0.4 Si, about 0.05 to about 0.15 V, up to about 0.10 N, up to about 0.035 C, up to about 0.01 W, and the balance Fe and incidental elements and impurities. The nitride precipitates may be enriched by one or more transition metals. A case hardened, corrosion resistant variant has a reduced weight percent of Ni, enabling increased use of Cr, and decreased Co.
US10351917B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for identifying soybean plants that are tolerant or have improved tolerance, or those that are susceptible to, iron deficient growth conditions. The methods use molecular markers to identify, select, and/or introgress genetic loci modulating phenotypic expression of an iron deficiency tolerance trait in soybean plant breeding. Methods are provided for screening germplasm entries for the performance and expression of this trait.
US10351911B2
Provided are methods and kits for determining predisposition of a subject to develop a kidney disease, by identifying in a sample of the subject at least one APOL1 polypeptide variant which is characterized by a higher trypanolytic activity on Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense as compared to the trypanolytic activity of wild type APOL1 polypeptide as set forth in SEQ ID NO:1 on the Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense under identical assay conditions; or at least one APOL1 nucleotide mutation in the APLO1 genomic sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:3, wherein the at least one nucleotide mutation or polypeptide variant being in linkage disequlibrium (LD) with the S342G mutation in the APOL1 polypeptide set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, wherein presence of the APOL1 polypeptide variant indicates increased predisposition of the subject to develop the kidney disease.
US10351908B2
Described herein are variants of alpha-hemolysin having at least one mutation, such as a mutation to a positive charge. In certain examples, the mutation is selected from V149K, E287R, H35G, T109K, P151K, K147N, E111N, M113A, or combinations thereof in the mature, wild-type alpha-hemolysin amino acid sequence. The α-hemolysin variants may also include a substitution at H144A and/or a series of glycine residues spanning residues 127 to 131 of the mature, wild-type alpha hemolysin. Also provided are nanopore assemblies including the alpha-hemolysin variants, the assembly having a decreased time-to-thread. The decreased time-to-thread, for example, increases DNA sequencing efficiency and accuracy.
US10351905B2
The invention generally relates to detecting target molecules.
US10351898B2
Methodologies for labeling the epigenetic modification 5-hydroxymethyl-cytosine (5hmC) along a DNA molecule, and for imaging this epigenetic modification along a DNA molecule are disclosed. Related compositions and reagents, and methods of preparing same are also disclosed.
US10351891B2
The present invention provides a hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase gene, an acyl-coenzyme A thiolase gene, genetically engineered strains and a use thereof. The hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase gene encodes a protein (i) or (ii) as follows: (i) having an amino acid sequence according to SEQ ID NO 2; (ii) derived by substituting, deleting or inserting one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence defined by (i) and having the same function as that of the protein of (i). The present invention constructs genetically engineered Mycobacterium strains lacking of a hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase gene or an acyl-coenzyme A thiolase gene, which are used in the preparation of steroidal compounds, such as 1,4-BNA, 4-BNA, 9-OH-BNA, etc. Further, the invention improves the production efficiency and product quality of steroidal drug, improves the utilization of drug precursors, reduces the production costs, and provides the advantages of mild reaction conditions, environmentally friendly, and high economic and social benefits.
US10351883B2
This invention relates to methods for increasing lipid accumulation and lipid production in cells. Methods of producing biofuel from cells and preparing nutraceuticals comprising lipids produced according to a method provided herein are also provided.
US10351864B2
The object is to provide an expression vector capable of expressing with a higher expression efficiency a protein derived from a foreign structural gene by genetic engineering using a yeast of the genus Schizosaccharomyces as a host, a cloning vector to produce the expression vector, a method for producing the expression vector, a transformant containing an expression cassette of the expression vector, a method for producing the transformant, and a method for producing a protein using the transformant.A cloning vector comprising a promoter capable of functioning in a yeast of the genus Schizosaccharomyces, a cloning site for introducing a foreign structural gene which is located downstream from the promoter and is regulated by the promoter, and ihc2 gene terminator of the yeast of the genus Schizosaccharomyces, and an expression vector comprising the promoter, the foreign structural gene and the ihc2 gene terminator.
US10351863B2
The present invention relates to methods for constructing a recombinant fungal host cell comprising one or more copies of a polynucleotide construct integrated in its genome, said method comprising transforming a fungal host cell with an integrative polynucleotide construct comprising a first polynucleotide encoding a selectable marker, wherein the first polynucleotide, a 5′ untranslated region thereof and/or a riboswitch operably linked therewith comprises a spliceosomal intron which has 5 nucleotides or less between its branch site and its acceptor site; and a second polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of interest; as well as suitable polynucleotide constructs, resulting fungal host cells and methods of manufacture.
US10351853B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for reactivating latent immunodeficiency virus and/or reducing transcription of HIV integrated into the genome of an HIV-infected cell. The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for treating an immunodeficiency virus infection.
US10351852B2
The present invention concerns methods and reagents useful in modulating gene expression in a variety of applications, including use in therapeutic, diagnostic, target validation, and genomic discovery applications. Specifically, the invention relates to synthetic chemically modified small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules capable of mediating RNA interference (RNAi) against target nucleic acid sequences. The small nucleic acid molecules are useful in the treatment of any disease or condition that responds to modulation of gene expression or activity in a cell, tissue, or organism.
US10351847B2
A carrier to which is attached a peptide and DNA encoding the peptide, wherein the peptide includes at least one non-natural amino acid and/or wherein the peptide has a constrained secondary structure; or a carrier to which is attached β2 microglobulin, a peptide, and DNA encoding the peptide, said carrier not bearing an MHC or MHC-like molecule.
US10351839B2
The present invention relates to: a novel lysine decarboxylase; a microorganism transformed with a gene coding for the activity concerned; and a method for producing cadaverine by using the same.
US10351837B2
The present invention relates to subtilase variants exhibiting alterations relative to the parent subtilase in one or more properties including: wash performance, thermal stability, storage stability or catalytic activity. The subtilase variants of the invention are suitable for use in, e.g., cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dishwash compositions, including automatic dishwash compositions.
US10351834B2
The present invention relates to GH61 polypeptide variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US10351833B2
The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a variant of a parent lipase which variant has lipase activity, has at least 60% but less than 100% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 2, and comprises substitutions at positions corresponding to T231R+N233R and at least one or more (e.g., several) of D96E, D111A, D254S, G163K, P256T, G91T, and G38A of SEQ ID NO: 2. The present invention also relates to use of the compositions, methods of producing the compositions, and methods of cleaning. The present invention furthermore relates to variants and polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides.
US10351827B2
There is provided a method of differentiating an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) into a renal proximal tubular cell (PTC)-like cell. The method comprises culturing an undifferentiated iPSC in a renal epithelial cell culture medium in the presence of one or more extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules, bone morphogenic protein 2 (BMP2) and bone morphogenic protein 7 (BMP7), for a period of from about 8 to about 10 days, under conditions sufficient to induce differentiation of the iPSC into a PTC-like cell. A cell population of differentiated PTC-like cells is also provided, as well as uses and methods of use of the cell population.
US10351820B2
The present invention is directed to methods to differentiate pluripotent stem cells. In particular, the present invention is directed to methods and compositions to differentiate pluripotent stem cells into cells expressing markers characteristic of the definitive endoderm lineage comprising culturing the pluripotent stem cells in medium comprising a sufficient amount of GDF-8 to cause the differentiation of the pluripotent stem cells into cells expressing markers characteristic of the definitive endoderm lineage.
US10351816B2
The present invention relates to application of a novel signal peptide in L-arginine and its derivatives production from konjac powder, which belongs to the field of gene engineering, enzyme engineering and metabolism engineering. The present invention fused the signal peptide set forth in SEQ ID NO.1 with the β-mannanase of Bacillus subtilis CCTCC M 209200, and expressed the fused gene in the strain with high L-arginine yield. The recombinant strain Corynebacterium crenatum CGMCC 0890/p MSPman had advantages on utilizing cheaper konjac powder as substrate, and after fermenting for 96 hours in a 5 L bioreactor, the L-arginine yield reached 45 g/L. Another two recombinant strains were constructed based on Corynebacterium crenatum CGMCC 0890/pMSPman, and after fermenting for 96 hours in a 5 L bioreactor, the L-ornithine yield and L-citrulline reached 23.5 g/L and 26.3 g/L respectively.
US10351810B2
A water-soluble unit dose article comprising a water-soluble film and a laundry treatment composition, wherein said laundry treatment composition includes: between 0.0001% and 8% by weight of the composition of a non-surfactant benefit agent; and between 40% and 80% by weight of the composition of an alkoxylated alkyl surfactant system.
US10351807B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of treating a textile with an antimicrobial agent over a plurality of laundry cycles each including a wash cycle and a treatment cycle. The method includes (a) receiving a textile in a wash system for a first laundry cycle, (b) initiating a wash cycle comprising a detergent, (c) initiating a post-detergent treatment cycle comprising dosing the textile with a solution having a predetermined concentration of an antimicrobial agent that comprises a metallic ion, and (c) repeating steps (a)-(c) for each of a plurality of additional laundry cycles. The predetermined concentration is insufficient to achieve a predetermined antimicrobial efficacy for the textile due to the first laundry cycle alone but sufficient to achieve the predetermined antimicrobial efficacy for the textile due to a combination of the first laundry cycle and one or more of the plurality of additional laundry cycles.
US10351806B2
A liquid detergent comprising: (a) from 0 to 30 wt % water; (b) from 60 to 90 wt % surfactants; and (c) from 0.5 to 10 wt % of an acrylic polymer comprising from 20 to 50 wt % polymerized units of (meth)acrylic acid and from 50 to 80 wt % polymerized units of a monomer of structure H2C═C(R)CO2(CH2CH2O)n(CH(R′)CH2O)mR″; wherein R is H or CH3, R′ is C1-C2 alkyl; R″ is C8-C22 alkyl or C8-C16 alkylphenyl; n is an average number from 6-30 and m is an average number from 0-10, provided that n≥m and m+n is 6-30.
US10351800B2
Provided are amine-neutralized anionic surfactants and their use in detergent formulations. The amine-neutralized an ionic surfactants are of the formula I, as described herein.
US10351795B2
The present invention relates to a method of reducing the phospholipid content in an oil or fat composition and polypeptides having PI-specific phospholipase C activity as well as polypeptides having PC, PE-specific phospholipase C activity and combinations thereof capable of catalyzing this reduction. The invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US10351792B2
The present disclosure relates to polymers suitable for viscosity index improvers in lubricating oil compositions and further relates to oil compositions comprising such polymers. The disclosure also relates to polymer compositions derived from alkyl (meth)acrylate monomers and selected molar ratios of the (meth)acrylate monomers in the polymer suitable to use as viscosity modifiers.
US10351787B2
Described herein are processes for the conversion of ethylene into CS+ olefins, naphthenics, and aromatics via a dual catalyst reaction utilizing a dehydroaromatization catalyst.
