US10353976B2
A method includes receiving a search query containing one or more query terms from a remote device and identifying an entity in the search query. The entity is a known entity name of a known entity type. The method also includes determining a set of alternate search queries based on the identified entity. The alternate search queries are configured to identify states of software applications that correspond to entities that are substitutes for the identified entity. The method also includes identifying a consideration set of application state records stored in an application state data store based on the alternate set of search queries. Each application state record defines a state of a respective software application that is at least relevant to one or more of the alternate search queries. The method also includes generating search results based on the consideration set and transmitting the search results to the remote device.
US10353971B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to increasing content circulation in a social networking service. A server accesses a content item for a user. The server computes a utility value for a viral action on the content item by the user, the utility value being computed based on user characteristics of the user, content item characteristics of the content item, and information about first degree connections of the user. The server adjusts, based on the computed utility value for the viral action, a position of the content item in a feed for presentation to the user. The server provides for presentation of the feed, including the content item, to the user.
US10353970B2
A previously-browsed information adaptive filter unit and a method of operating the adaptive filter unit are disclosed. In one embodiment, the previously-browsed information adaptive filter unit can be integrated into a web browser as a factory-spec filter, as an aftermarket application software, or as a semiconductor chip. The previously-browsed information adaptive filter unit is capable of identifying, queuing, replacing, and/or substituting a user's previously-browsed information from a website with a fresh content, which the user has not yet interacted with from the website. The previously-browsed information adaptive filter unit may be integrated into a desktop or laptop web browser, or into a handheld mobile web browser. The previously-browsed information adaptive filter unit significantly improves the functioning of a computerized electronic device by minimizing redundant information transmission between the computerized electronic device and a web host server, and by prioritizing fresher information in a limited display screen size for efficient communication.
US10353965B2
Disclosed is a technique that can be performed in a distributed computer network. The technique can include a data index and query system that receives search query, defines a search scheme for applying the search query on distributed data storage systems including an internal data storage system of the data index and query system and an external data storage system. The internal data storage system stores data as time-indexed events including respective segments of raw machine data. The data index and query system can transfer a portion of the search scheme to a search service, which can return search results obtained by application of the search scheme to the distributed data storage systems including the internal data storage system and the external data storage system. Lastly, the search results or data indicative of the search results can be output on a display device to the user.
US10353962B2
A technique that leads a surfer-equipment (SE) to switch to a lower bitrate is disclosed. The technique is implemented at an intermediate node between the SE and a domain. Leading the SE to switch to a lower bitrate is implemented by throttling one or more protocols each carried by one or more connections that carry packets of a multi-level-adaptive-bitrate (MLABR) media.
US10353958B2
A visual analytics system includes a memory and a processor. The processor executes a clustering application having an interactive user-interface rendered on a client computer. The clustering application determines a first cluster of data items of a data set, the data items in the first cluster having first attribute values that are similar to each other within a first degree of similarity and determines a second cluster of data items of the data set, the data items in the second cluster having second attribute values that are similar to each other within a second degree of similarity. For visual analytics, the user interface receives a user selection of a third degree of similarity. In response to which, the clustering application determines a third cluster of data items of the data set, the data items in the third cluster being dissimilar to either the first attribute value of the first reference data item or the second attribute value of the second reference data item by at least the third degree of similarity, and visually displays the third cluster of data items on the user interface.
US10353954B2
This invention prevents a collation database from becoming bulky and shortening the delay time needed from person detection to registration in the collation database. An information processing apparatus comprises an acquiring unit which acquires a video, a detecting unit which detects a whole body or a part of a person from at least one frame of the acquired video, a tracking unit which tracks the whole body or the part of the person detected, and a registering unit which registers, in a database, a feature amount extracted from the whole body or the part of the person tracked during a first period from a timing of a start of tracking of the whole body or the part of the person by the tracking unit to a timing before an end of the tracking by the tracking unit.
US10353947B2
An image search is executed. The search results are presented as a collection of thumbnail images organized according to an initial ranking. As the user browses the thumbnail images, he/she encounters a thumbnail image of interest. Selecting this thumbnail causes an enlarged preview image to be displayed. The user can manipulate the enlarged preview image with panning and zooming operations, thereby enabling the user to more closely inspect portions of the preview image which attract the user's interest. These interactions with the search results, which include the initial selection of the thumbnail image and the subsequent manipulation of the enlarged preview image, provide insight into the user's interest. Once the user has interacted with a threshold quantity of search results, the collection of thumbnail images is filtered and reorganized to more prominently position those search results that correspond to the user's interest, as gleaned from analyzing the aforementioned user interactions.
US10353946B2
Provided are mechanisms and processes for performing live search using multi-view digital media representations. In one example, a process includes receiving a visual search query from a device for an object to be searched, where the visual search query includes a first set of viewpoints of the object obtained during capture of a first surround view of the object during a live search session. Next, additional recommended viewpoints of the object are identified for the device to capture, where the additional recommended viewpoints are chosen to provide more information about the object. A first set of search results based on the first set of viewpoints and additional recommended viewpoints of the object are transmitted to the device. In response, a second set of viewpoints of the object captured using image capture capabilities of the device are received. A second set of search results with enhanced matches for the object based on the first and second sets of viewpoints are then transmitted to the device. This process may continue iteratively until a desired set of search results is obtained.
US10353927B2
In an example, columns in a data table may be categorized according to a data type based upon an analysis of data elements contained in each column with a grammar file. The data type of a column be may be categorized as one of a general data type and a specific data type. In addition, the grammar file may be expanded by at least one of adding a data element to the grammar file in response to a column being categorized as a specific data type and inserting a new data type to the grammar file in response to a column being categorized as a general data type.
US10353926B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a unified activity service. In one aspect, different files stored on different storage platforms may be rendered on different user interfaces. Multiple activities associated with each of the different files may be obtained from the activity service. In another aspect, activity metadata corresponding to the multiple activities may be stored in the activity service. Activities associated with the different files may include content changes in a file (e.g., edits and deletions), sharing a file, renaming a file, comments within a file, messaging, and conversations related to a file. The different storage platforms may be independent of the activity service.
US10353925B2
A document classification device includes a characteristic extraction unit, a clustering unit, and a category update unit. The characteristic extraction unit extracts characteristic information from each of plural document data which are classified in advance into specific categories. The clustering unit classifies the document data with similar appearance frequency of the characteristic information into a same cluster. The category update unit assigns the document data which is classified into the same cluster with a category of different document data which is classified into the same cluster as a category of the document data.
US10353922B1
Some embodiments provide a cube viewer that renders a view for a cube stored in a multidimensional data storage (MDDS). The cube viewer separately stores cube data and the presentation data that relates to the presentation of the cube. The cube viewer uses the separated cube and presentation data to generate the view of the cube.
US10353920B2
Techniques are described herein for re-syncing a snapshot database with a base database. Data units of each database are associated with version numbers. When a data unit is modified, the data unit is associated with the current version number. When a snapshot database is re-synced with a base database, particular data units are copied from the base database to the snapshot database, based on the version number associated with the particular data units.
US10353919B1
A method includes importing legacy data from a legacy application into a new system by storing the legacy data in a database separate from data native to the new system; displaying, to a user via a display screen, an interface configured to allow a user to view both legacy data and data native to the new system; displaying, to the user via a display screen, an interface including information of the legacy data that is associated with a particular patient account, one or more interface elements configured to allow the user to perform limited actions with respect to the particular patient account associated with the information, and a user interface element configured to allow a user to selectively activate the patient account.
US10353918B2
Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the management of data centers. According to various embodiments, a first query dispatcher at a first data center may be disabled. The first data center may include a first data cluster and a first database. The first query dispatcher may be configured to dispatch queries to access data in the first data cluster and in a second data cluster at a second data center. The second data cluster may replicate data stored in the first data cluster. Metadata stored in the first database may be replicated to a second database in the second data center. The metadata may describe a state of the first data cluster. A second query dispatcher may be enabled at the second data center. The second query dispatcher may be configured to dispatch queries to access data in the second data cluster.
US10353915B2
Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online social network are notified according to various criteria that they have set. With this feature, users can browse through content of other users efficiently.
US10353914B2
Metadata is managed for different distributed federated workspaces. A distributed metadata infrastructure is provided for supporting at least two different distributed federated workspaces. The distributed metadata infrastructure monitors the at least two different distributed federated workspaces to identify common metadata between the at least two different distributed federated workspaces. The distributed metadata infrastructure presents a consistent view of the common metadata.
US10353911B2
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby one or more computerized tools may be configured to discover, form, and analyze, for example, via one or more user interface applications, interrelations among a system of networked collaborative datasets In some examples, a method may include causing transformation of a set of data to an atomized format to form an atomized dataset, monitoring creation of a dataset, and presenting data representing a status of a portion of the creation of the dataset. The status may depict an atomized dataset linked to at least one other dataset.
US10353910B2
Systems and methods for preemptive adjustments of connections in a database connection pool are provided. In example embodiments, a number of quality of service engines analyze database connection pool metrics data to generate instructions to increase or decrease the number of connections in a connection pool, preemptively, before shortages or surpluses of connections occur. Corrective engines can analyze performance of the quality of service engines and can, when necessary, instruct the quality of service engines to modify their prediction mechanisms.
US10353901B2
The current disclosure generally relates to database management systems (DBMSs) and may be generally directed to methods and systems of using artificial intelligence (i.e. machine learning and/or anticipation functionalities, etc.) to learn a user's use of a DBMS, store this “knowledge” in a knowledgebase, and anticipate the user's future operating intentions. The current disclosure may also be generally directed to associative methods and systems of constructing DBMS commands. The current disclosure may also be generally directed to methods and systems of using a simplified DBMS command language (SDCL) for associative DBMS command construction. The current disclosure may also be generally directed to artificially intelligent methods and systems for associative DBMS command construction. The current disclosure may also be generally directed to methods and systems for associative DBMS command construction through voice input. Other methods, systems, features, elements and/or their embodiments are also disclosed.
US10353900B2
The present invention provides a re-partitioning-based sampling system and method which provides for generating a synopsis from large database tables such that an aggregation query performed on the synopsis provides an approximate answer to the aggregation query which is in prescribed error bounds relative to a query on the full database. The system includes a partition function generator, a synopsis vector calculator, and a synopsis constructor. The synopsis constructed by the system is sufficiently small to be held in memory to allow quick and resource efficient satisficing of aggregation queries.
US10353899B2
Provided are techniques for processing window partitioning and ordering for OLAP functions. A prior compare operation is performed by: receiving an input vector for each of one or more attributes of input data that represent one of a partition-by column and an order-by column in a database query; generating a per-attribute comparison vector for each input vector; and producing a single output vector using each per-attribute comparison vector, wherein each value of the single output vector is a Boolean attribute whose value for a given tuple is true if a current value and a most recent prior value of any of the one or more attributes are different.
US10353879B2
A computer-implemented method for managing the differences in the schema of data stored in a database and the schema of data as consumed by a client application. The method involves creating additional metadata related to a property, attribute, or characteristic of a database object stored in the database, storing this additional metadata in a database catalog, and making the additional metadata available for access or retrieval by a query received from the client application for the database object stored in the database.
US10353864B2
A respective volatility attribute associated with each of one or more tables of a computerized database is used to determine circumstances under which a page of table data is paged out of memory, by preferentially retaining pages from volatile database tables in memory. Various optional additional uses of a volatility attribute to manage a database are disclosed. Preferably, database parameters are automatically monitored over time and database table volatility state is automatically determined and periodically adjusted.
US10353838B1
Methods and systems for allowing pilots and aircraft maintenance personnel to load data used by aircraft avionics (including but not limited to, Map Data, charts, XM Radio configuration data, LRU (line replaceable unit)/LRM (line replaceable module) specific configuration data or LRU/LRM software updates), wirelessly through the use of a USB to Wireless data bridge. The methods and systems can reduce and eliminate use of a USB (universal serial bus) hard drive or ‘keys’ be carried around with different collections of cockpit data.
US10353829B2
A processor includes a cache memory and a cache controller. The cache controller fetches first data from a first location of an information handling system, stores the first data to a first cache line of a plurality of cache lines, determines first proximity information for the first data based upon the first location, stores the first proximity information in a first proximity tag associated with the first cache line, and evicts the first cache line from the cache based upon the first proximity tag.
US10353819B2
Next line prefetchers employing initial high prefetch prediction confidence states for throttling next line prefetches in processor-based system are disclosed. Next line prefetcher prefetches a next memory line into cache memory in response to read operation. To mitigate prefetch mispredictions, next line prefetcher is throttled to cease prefetching after prefetch prediction confidence state becomes a no next line prefetch state indicating number of incorrect predictions. Instead of initial prefetch prediction confidence state being set to no next line prefetch state, which is built up in response to correct predictions before performing a next line prefetch, initial prefetch prediction confidence state is set to next line prefetch state to allow next line prefetching. Thus, next line prefetcher starts prefetching next lines before requiring correct predictions to be “built up” in prefetch prediction confidence state. CPU performance may be increased, because prefetching begins sooner rather than waiting for correct predictions to occur.
US10353815B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to data security. In one example of the technology, data is stored in a memory. The memory includes a plurality of memory banks including a first memory bank and a second memory bank. At least a portion of the data is interleaved amongst at least two of the plurality of memory banks. Access is caused to be prevented to at least one of the plurality of memory banks while a debug mode or recovery mode is occurring. Also, access is caused to be prevented to the at least one of the plurality of memory banks starting with initial boot until a verification by a security complex is successful. The verification by the security complex includes the security complex verifying a signature.
US10353811B2
A system and methods to emulate an application executing in real time in a mobile device. The mobile device is emulated in real time using a model running on a processor extrinsic to the mobile device. The model is based on characteristics indicative of performance of the mobile device. The application is executed in real time within the model and the application executing in the model is monitored to determine resource utilization information by the application for the mobile device. The resource utilization information for the mobile device is displayed.
US10353805B2
Aspects of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product for using customer workload profiling and analytics to better understand customer workload execution. The method includes a processor collecting data relating to a customer workload for a particular customer from among a plurality of customers; determining one or more relationships between the customer data, activity, and work units; collecting from the particular customer multiple sets of data relating to the work unit distribution based on customer execution data; responding to one or more changes in one or more activities in the work unit distribution; determining, by the processor, to view the one or more activities in the work unit distribution; and displaying for viewing the one or more activities in the work unit distribution.
US10353802B2
A connection can be made to a processing element of a remotely deployed and live streaming application executed by a first data processing system, the processing element containing at least one operator that processes at least one tuple. As the live streaming application is executed, without slowing or modifying data flow of the live streaming application execution to client devices, a copy of the tuple and a memory dump of state data for a state of the operator can be received, and the tuple can be tracked through a call graph. The state data can be loaded into a local instance of the operator loaded into a debugger. At least a portion of the call graph can be presented to a user, and a flow of the tuple through the call graph based on the state data for the operator can be indicated.
US10353788B2
A processing method executed by a processor included in a first communication device, the method includes outputting, from a first communication interface of the first communication device, a plurality of data items to a communication path between the first communication interface and a second communication interface of the second communication device while changing a communication setting value regarding the first communication interface; acquiring error information related to the outputting; storing the acquired error information as error management information acquired by associating the communication setting value with the error information; specifying a predetermined number of continuous communication setting values at which an error is not detected based on the error management information; setting a target setting value of the specified communication setting values for the first communication interface; and executing a communication process between the first communication interface for which the target setting value is set and the second communication interface.
US10353779B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a host system comprising a host system processor and a device coupled to the host system processor. The information handling system may also include a management controller communicatively coupled to the host system processor and configured to provide management of the information handling system via management traffic communicated between the management controller and a network external to the information handling system and perform runtime verification of a firmware image of the management controller by responsive to each particular read request of the firmware image during runtime of the firmware, verifying integrity of a respective block of the read request and responsive to determining the respective block is corrupted, causing a bootloader of the firmware to, on a subsequent boot of the firmware image, perform recovery of the firmware image.
US10353777B2
Ensuring crash-safe forward progress of a system configuration update in a storage system that includes a storage array controller and a plurality of storage devices, including: determining a number of storage devices in the storage system; determining a number of unavailable storage devices in the storage system; and determining, for the one or more system configurations, whether the system configuration can be reconstructed in dependence upon the number of storage devices in the storage system and the number of unavailable storage devices in the storage system.
US10353774B2
A method for execution by a dispersed storage and task (DST) processing unit includes generating a first access request for transmission via a network to a first one of a plurality of storage units in a dispersed storage network (DSN). A first access response is received via the network from the first one of the plurality of storage units that includes a first access time duration. Access duration data is updated to include the first access time duration received from the first one of the plurality of storage units. A subset of storage units is selected from the plurality of storage units based on comparing a plurality of access time durations corresponding to the plurality of storage units included in the access duration data to perform a second data access. At least one second access request is generated for transmission via the network to the subset of storage units.
US10353773B2
According to one embodiment, a RAID storage system includes a RAID storage device and a storage controller. The RAID storage device includes at least one RAID array. The at least one RAID array has a plurality of stripe groups. The storage controller controls access to the at least one RAID array. The storage controller includes an input/output controller and a patrol controller. The input/output controller executes one of a write access and a read access to a requested stripe group in the at least one RAID array according to an access request from a host device. The patrol controller patrols a stripe group having been subjected to write access, more preferentially than other stripe groups.
US10353772B2
A method includes receiving a first write request that includes a first encoded data slice, a slice name, a new revision level associated with the slice name, and a previous revision level associated with the slice name. The method further includes determining whether another write request from another requesting device is pending. The other write request includes another encoded data slice, the slice name, the new revision level, and the previous revision level. The method further includes when the other write request is pending, adding the first write request to a list of pending write requests for the slice name. The method further includes generating a write response to the first write request to include the list of pending write requests. The method further includes receiving a finalize request for the first or the other encoded data slice. The method further includes closing the list of pending write requests.
US10353770B2
An error correcting method of a memory system includes: reading data and an error correction code from a plurality of memory chips; correcting an error of the data based on the error correction code; determining whether or not a miscorrection occurs in the correcting of the error of the data; designating one memory chip among the plurality of the memory chips as a chip-killed memory chip when a miscorrection occurs; re-correcting the error of the data based on the error correction code in consideration of the designated chip-killed memory chip; and re-determining whether a miscorrection occurs in the re-correcting of the error of the data.
US10353758B2
In a data encoding method for a communication between semiconductor chips, a data sequence is received. The data sequence includes multiple characters and multiple identification codes coupled to the characters, respectively. The data sequence is stored in a buffer in a unit of a predetermined number of pairs of characters and identification codes. Whether at least one control character is stored in the buffer is determined based on the identification codes stored in the buffer. When at least one control character is stored in the buffer, the at least one control character is converted to at least one internal control character, respectively. When multiple control characters are stored in the buffer, at least one internal control character includes a reference number representing a location of a sequentially next control character in the buffer. A first type data block is generated. The first type data block includes data characters stored in the buffer and the at least one internal control character.
US10353754B2
An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or web sites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
US10353746B2
A system for providing automatic resource resizing is provided. The system may be configured to maintain a plurality of virtual machine instances. The system may be further configured to receive a request to execute a program code and allocate computing resources for executing the program code on one of the virtual machine instances. The amount of resources allocated for executing the program code may be specified by the request and adjusted as needed.
US10353740B2
To efficiently recover from a multiple storage node failure, a storage node concurrently restores data fragments to the multiple failed storage nodes, as opposed to restoring each node individually. In the VCS based storage technique, storage nodes are restored as part of an ECG repair process. For each ECG being repaired, a storage node performing the restoration process reads data fragments from active nodes in the ECG and generates new data fragments to replace any lost data fragments. The node then stores one of the new data fragments across each of the failed storage nodes. By concurrently restoring data fragments to each failed storage node, the data fragments needed to repair each ECG are only read once, thereby preserving disk operations and network bandwidth.
US10353730B2
The present invention relates to a method for running a virtual machine on a destination host node in a computer cluster, comprising the steps of requesting (S101) a set of target configuration parameters assigned to the virtual machine, wherein the target configuration parameters have prioritizations; requesting (S102) a set of actual configuration parameters of the destination host node for checking against the requested set of target configuration parameters; and running (S103) the virtual machine on the destination host node, if the set of actual configuration parameters of the destination host node falls within the set of target configuration parameters, wherein when selecting destination host node, the prioritization of the target configuration parameters is considered.
US10353724B2
Techniques are disclosed for controlling and managing virtual machines and other such virtual systems. VM execution approval is based on compliance with policies controlling various aspects of VM. The techniques can be employed to benefit all virtual environments, such as virtual machines, virtual appliances, and virtual applications. For ease of discussion herein, assume that a virtual machine (VM) represents each of these environments. In one particular embodiment, a systems management partition (SMP) is created inside the VM to provide a persistent and resilient storage for management information (e.g., logical and physical VM metadata). The SMP can also be used as a staging area for installing additional content or agentry on the VM when the VM is executed. Remote storage of management information can also be used. The VM management information can then be made available for pre-execution processing, including policy-based compliance testing.
US10353723B2
In some database systems, a user device may query for data records using a procedural language extension to structured query language (PL/SQL) call. However, some databases may not be configured to process PL/SQL code. In these cases, a virtual machine may intercept the PL/SQL call, and may transform the call to a format usable by the database. For example, the virtual machine may deconstruct the PL/SQL call to determine the procedural and query functions that comprise the PL/SQL call. The virtual machine may then search a database for non-PL/SQL code snippets that correspond to these determined functions, and may generate non-PL/SQL code (e.g., Java code) that may perform the same functions as the PL/SQL call. The virtual machine, the database, or a combination of the two may execute the non-PL/SQL code to retrieve the data records from the database, and may return the records to the user device.
US10353718B2
Techniques for remote application access are described. Some embodiments provide access to an application executing on a host system via a Web browser of a client device. A user operating the Web browser may request access to the application via a uniform resource identifier. A service executing on the host system receives the request and facilitates access to the application. Facilitating access may include transmitting to the Web browser image data corresponding to a window or graphical user interface generated by the application and stored on the host system. Client logic executing within the Web browser receives the image data and displays a local copy of the application window on the client device. The client logic also forwards user input events made with respect to the to the local window to the remote presentation service, which in turn forwards the events to the window/application on the host system.
US10353716B2
A virtual-computing environment definition language automates the deployment of a virtualized computing environment. A set of basic requirements of a planned virtual computing environment is described in the definition language to provide a concise, textual representation of the planned environment's architecture. This representation also predicts the planned environment's performance characteristics as a function of expected workloads, such as expected numbers of concurrent users or expected numbers of concurrent transactions. The definition-language representation is then translated into an orchestration template from which virtual resources are provisioned and the virtual-computing environment deployed.
US10353712B2
Utilizing signatures to discover and manage derelict assets of an information technology environment
A set of asset signatures can be analyzed. Each asset signature can be associated with an asset. Derelict assets can be discovered based on the asset signatures. The asset can represent a fundamental structural unit of an information technology (IT) environment. A multi-stage screening process can be performed to discover derelict assets. In a first stage, assets having a normal state are able to be changed to a suspect state based on results of analyzing the corresponding asset signature. In a second stage, assets having a suspect state are able to be selectively changed in state to a normal state or to a derelict state. An asset management system record can be maintained for each of the set of assets. Each record of the asset management system can be a configuration item (CI), which indicates whether each of the set of assets is in a normal state, a suspect state, or a derelict state. The asset management system can periodically reclaim resources consumed by derelict assets.
US10353710B2
A technique for operating a processor includes identifying a difficult branch instruction (branch) whose target address (target) has been mispredicted multiple times. Information about the branch (which includes a current target and a next target) is learned and stored in a data structure. In response to the branch executing subsequent to the storing, whether a branch target of the branch corresponds to the current target in the data structure is determined. In response to the branch target of the branch corresponding to the current target of the branch in the data structure, the next target of the branch that is associated with the current target of the branch in the data structure is determined. In response to detecting that a next instance of the branch has been fetched, the next target of the branch is utilized as the predicted target for execution of the next instance of the branch.
US10353706B2
One embodiment provides for a graphics processing unit to accelerate machine-learning operations, the graphics processing unit comprising a multiprocessor having a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the multiprocessor to execute at least one single instruction; and a first compute unit included within the multiprocessor, the at least one single instruction to cause the first compute unit to perform a two-dimensional matrix multiply and accumulate operation, wherein to perform the two-dimensional matrix multiply and accumulate operation includes to compute a 32-bit intermediate product of 16-bit operands and to compute a 32-bit sum based on the 32-bit intermediate product.
US10353698B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for comparing RPM versions. In operation, a system identifies a first version of a RPM data package to compare with a second version of a RPM data package. The system compares the first version of the RPM data package with the second version of the RPM data package. The system generates difference information based on comparing the first version of the RPM data package with the second version of the RPM data package.
US10353685B2
The method for model management includes, within a testing platform: building candidate model(s), validating the candidate model(s), and selectively deploying the candidate model(s) into a production environment. The method can optionally include, within a production environment: detecting a class instance based on the raw data using deployed model(s) within the production environment, and transmitting a notification to an endpoint associated with the detected class.
US10353677B2
An operator split mechanism analyzes code in a streaming application according to specified split criteria to determine when an operator in the streaming application can be split. At compile-time, when an operator satisfies the split criteria, the operator split mechanism splits the operator according to the split criteria. In an integrated development environment (IDE), the operator split mechanism determines when an operator satisfies the split criteria, and splits the operator according to the split criteria. The operator split mechanism can operate in an automatic mode where operators are split without further input from the user, or in a more interactive mode where the operator split mechanism provides recommendations and options to a user, who makes appropriate selections, and the operator split mechanism then functions according to the selections by the user.
US10353676B2
A machine learning tool for resolving a compiler error in an application is provided. The application and an associated application metadata file may be stored on a server. The machine learning tool may identify one or more referenced external dependencies causing the compiler error. The machine learning tool may comprise a web crawler configured to locate one or more comparable external dependencies. The web crawler may retrieve an external dependent metadata file for each of the located comparable external dependencies and download the comparable external dependent metadata files. The machine learning tool may be configured to compare the metadata of each comparable external dependent metadata file to the metadata of the application metadata file, assign a confidence level relative to a pre-determined confidence level, for each located comparable external dependency, and download the located comparable external dependencies having a confidence level greater than the pre-determined confidence level.
US10353674B2
Data processing systems and methods for: (1) receiving from a first set of users, respective answers for question/answer pairings regarding a product's proposed design; (2) using the question/answer pairings to prepare an initial privacy impact assessment for the product; (3) displaying the plurality of question/answer pairings to a second set of users; (4) receiving recommended steps to be implemented as part of the design of the product to address any privacy-related concerns identified in the initial privacy impact assessment; and (5) after the tasks have been completed, generating a report documenting that: (a) the initial privacy assessment has been conducted for the product; (b) one or more revisions have been made to the product to facilitate the compliance of the product with the one or more privacy standards; and (c) an updated privacy assessment has been conducted for the product.
US10353661B2
A method of sharing a screen of a first device with a second device and a device using the same are provided. The method includes transmitting information on a first screen displayed on the first device to the second device, in a first connection state so that a same screen is displayed by the first device and the second device; switching the first connection state between the first device and the second device into a second connection state; and performing a control so that the first screen displayed on the first device is switched into a second screen so that the first screen displayed is continuously displayed on the second device, when a user input is received in a state in which the first connection state is switched into the second connection state in which an independent screen is displayed by the first device and the second device.
US10353660B2
Image display system 10 comprises: a plurality of display devices 111; an image processing unit for receiving input of a plurality of input video signals and generating an output video signal for each display device in accordance with a layout for the display devices from the input video signals; a pattern signal generation unit for generating pattern signals indicating a plurality of different test pattern images; a selector for receiving input of the output video signals and the pattern signals and selecting and outputting either the output video signals or the pattern signals; imaging device 120 for capturing an image of the test pattern images displayed on the respective display devices; and a control device 140 for analyzing the captured image captured by the imaging device and generating control information for controlling the image processing unit, based on analysis results.
US10353657B2
A projector includes a transmitter that transmits a signal, a receiver that receives a signal transmitted from another projector, and a control unit that achieves synchronization of the signals between the projector and the another projector based on the signal transmitted from the another projector and received by the receiver. The control unit includes a synchronization judgment portion that judges whether or not the projector is synchronized with the another projector, and a state judgment portion that judges whether or not the synchronization with the another projector is stable.
US10353642B2
Presented herein are methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and devices for selectively limiting the amount of data in a file system, which include: determining a reparity bit value for a write disk block range, wherein the reparity bit is configured to track a number of writes in progress to a stripe range; determining the reparity bit value; updating a threshold written disk block number as a highest disk block number of the reparity bit value; and initiating a RAID operation until it reaches the threshold written disk block number, wherein the threshold written disk block number comprises a maximum written disk block number representing the last disk block number written.
US10353641B2
A storage system includes a plurality of storage media and a method of managing volumes of the storage system is applied thereto. The method includes receiving a volume management request and correlation information between the volumes, and allocating storage spaces of the storage media to the volumes based on the correlation information between the volumes. The correlation information indicates information of the volumes in which the allocated storage media are physically isolated from each other.
US10353638B2
A method for generating a secure nonce using a one-time programmable (OTP) memory within an integrated circuit to provide persistence, the method including randomly selecting k currently-unprogrammed bits in the OTP memory, creating a data set using data derived from current contents of the OTP memory altered by changing the states of the k currently-unprogrammed bits of the OTP memory, and employing as the secure nonce the data set or data derived from the data set. The selected k bits are programmed in the OTP memory.
US10353633B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for virtualizing mass storage using an interface card, or other special hardware unit, operatively coupled to a host system. In various implementations, the interface device and host system may collectively emulate a mass storage device for another “terminal” computing system in a manner that is transparent to the terminal system. Moreover, in various implementations, a mass storage device may be emulated in a manner that is transparent to the terminal system, without requiring modifications to the terminal platform's hardware or software architecture.
US10353628B2
A method includes: receiving a plurality of host commands from a host to access storage media of a solid-state drive (SSD); monitoring a raw rate for performing the plurality of host commands; calculating an average rate by taking an average of the raw rate over a time unit; comparing the average rate against a threshold; detecting that the average rate falls below the threshold indicating an opening of an opportunity window; providing hints for the opportunity window; and determining whether to perform pending or imminent background operations during the opportunity window.
US10353627B2
The invention relates to a memory device and a memory system having the same. The memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of pages, a peripheral circuit including a plurality of buffers sensing data stored in a selected page of the plurality of pages, temporarily storing high usage frequency data, and outputting the data, and a control circuit controlling the peripheral circuit to output the data after performing a sensing operation on the selected page, storing the high usage frequency data to at least one of the buffers, or outputting the high usage frequency data without performing the sensing operation in response to a read command.
US10353624B2
A method for writing data in a buffer to a magnetic recording tape includes identifying a size of an unused area of the magnetic recording tape based on a current writing position on the magnetic recording tape. An upper limit of a capacity for data that can be stored in the buffer is determined based on the size of the unused area. The predetermined data is stored, according to a command for storing predetermined data in the buffer, in the buffer on condition that the capacity for data in the buffer does not exceed the upper limit.
US10353622B2
Systems and methods for internal copy-back with read-verify are described. In one embodiment, a storage device includes a controller to select a first single level cell (SLC) page of a plurality of SLC pages on the storage device to transfer to a triple level cell (TLC) page. The controller, in conjunction with an error correcting code (ECC) decoder, read-verifies the first SLC page. Read-verifying the first SLC page includes reading the first SLC page to an internal page buffer, decoding the first SLC page read into the internal page buffer, determining a number of errors contained in the first SLC page based at least in part on the decoding, and verifying whether the number of errors contained in the first SLC page satisfies an error threshold. The controller transfers the first SLC page to the TLC page according to a result of read-verifying the first SLC page.
US10353618B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for data movement. An example apparatus includes a memory device that includes a plurality of subarrays of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the plurality of subarrays. The sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component. The memory device also includes a plurality of subarray controllers. Each subarray controller of the plurality of subarray controllers is coupled to a respective subarray of the plurality of subarrays and is configured to direct performance of an operation with respect to data stored in the respective subarray of the plurality of subarrays. The memory device is configured to move a data value corresponding to a result of an operation with respect to data stored in a first subarray of the plurality of subarrays to a memory cell in a second subarray of the plurality of subarrays.
US10353617B2
In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes identifying data files in external storage, where the data files correspond to a computer software application (application) on a mobile device and where the data files were previously stored on the mobile device. The method may also include sorting the data files into different access levels, where the access levels designate a hierarchy for the data files. The method may also include predicting the sorted data files that will be accessed on the mobile device using a prediction engine. The method may also include locating, in response to the predicting, the predicted data files in the external storage. The method may also include migrating the predicted data files from the external storage to the mobile device, where the migrating is done in order of the access levels.
US10353612B2
According to one embodiment, a storage system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller classifies blocks in the nonvolatile memory into a plurality of first blocks and a plurality of second blocks organized as a plurality of block groups each including a set of blocks. The controller receive a first read, write or erase command from a host, and performs a read, write or erase operation on one first block in the first blocks that is designated by a physical address of the first read, write or erase command. The controller receive a second read, write or erase command from the host, and performs a read, write or erase operation on blocks in one block group in the block groups that is designated by a physical address of the second read, write or erase command.
US10353609B2
A memory allocation method and apparatus is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining unoccupied mirrored memory in an initial mirrored memory, where the initial mirrored memory is indicated by a mirrored memory address range that is provided by an BIOS of a computer system to the an OS of the computer system during initialization of the OS (101); performing detection on data requiring memory allocation (102); and when detecting that the data is data to be stored in mirrored memory, allocating, from the unoccupied mirrored memory, the mirrored memory to the data to be stored in the mirrored memory (103). The memory allocation method can accurately find the mirrored memory, and allocating the mirrored memory to the data that needs to be stored in the mirrored memory. Therefore, this method ensures usage efficiency of the limited mirrored memory.
US10353599B2
A storage system includes a first storage unit including a first processor and a first array of node modules, each including a memory unit, and a second storage unit including a second processor and a second array of node modules, each including a memory unit. The first processor is configured to control the first and second storage units, and the second processor is configured to control the second storage unit and not the first storage unit when the first processor is set to control the first and second storage units, and control the first and second storage units, when the first processor is set to not control the second storage unit.
US10353595B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using geographical location information to provision one or more target storages for a source device. A determination is made of a geographical location of the source device and of geographical locations of the target storages. A determination is made of one of the target storages whose distance from the source device based on the geographical locations of the source device and the target storages satisfies at least one distance requirement. A configuration procedure is initiated to configure the source device and the determined target storage to have the source data backed-up from the source device to the target storage over the network.
US10353594B2
An electronic control unit for a vehicle including a nonvolatile memory capable of erasing and writing data electrically and two buffers to acquire, by communication, divided data obtained by dividing a program by predetermined size. Then, in parallel with using the two buffers alternately to receive divided data, the electronic control unit for a vehicle uses one buffer that is not used to receive divided data to write the received divided data into the nonvolatile memory.
US10353592B2
Saving a capacity of an on-premises storage apparatus, a high access performance of the on-premises storage apparatus, and resuming an operation quickly and accurately by using data on a cloud when a resource in the on-premises fails are achieved.A processor provides a first volume which is a virtual volume, and configures a copy pair of the first volume and a second volume provided from another storage system. Write data to the first volume is transferred to the second volume via a network, based on the copy pair. The processor writes to the memory a part of data written to the second volume, and writes to the storage device the data written to the memory.
US10353587B2
A method of operating a data storage device includes fetching a first plurality of commands from at least one submission queue generated in a host memory, determining whether a ratio of a second plurality of commands from among the fetched first plurality of commands exceeds a reference ratio, and adjusting a number of a plurality of pointers being fetched at substantially a same time based on determining whether the ratio exceeds the reference ratio. The second plurality of commands has a same property, the plurality of pointers indicates a physical address of the host memory corresponding to the first plurality of commands, and the data storage device includes a storage controller configured to perform an interfacing operation with a host including the host memory.
US10353582B2
A terminal apparatus according to the present application includes a receiving unit, a first display control unit, and a second display control unit. The receiving unit receives an operation to designate a first area. When the receiving unit has received the operation to designate the first area, the first display control unit displays first input candidates. When an operation to designate a second area has been received, the second display control unit displays second input candidates corresponding to a first input candidate determined to be selected among the first input candidates.
US10353581B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for the use of mobile computing devices, such as tablets and/or smartphones, as user-customizable input devices that interface with more sophisticated computer systems (or “parent computing systems”), such as a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and/or an electronic medical record system (EMR). Further described are systems and methods of mobile device user input and interface optimization and customization based on a user's identity, a parent computing system's characteristics, and/or a tilt angle of a display.
US10353566B2
Semantic zoom techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described that may be utilized by a user to navigate to content of interest. These techniques may also include a variety of different features, such as to support semantic swaps and zooming “in” and “out.” These techniques may also include a variety of different input features, such as to support gestures, cursor-control device, and keyboard inputs. A variety of other features are also supported as further described in the detailed description and figures.
US10353565B2
A media device for storing and playing media such as audio, video or images, includes a memory device configured to store a plurality of media items in a digital format. The media device also includes a display configured to present a group of media items from the plurality of stored media items and to present a visual indicator that is capable of scrolling through the displayed group of media items in order to designate a specific media item from the group of media items. The media device further includes a touch pad configured to receive input from a sliding motion or a tapping motion of a finger. The sliding motion of the finger controls the movement of the visual indicator through the group of media items. The tapping motion of the finger selects the specific media item that is designated by the visual indicator.
US10353564B2
A device and a method for generating a graphical user interface on a display area involve displaying main content in an initial location on the display area. Supplemental content is assigned to a virtual extension area and include a fixed set of user interface elements. Responsive to a request to switch from the main content to the supplemental content, the main content is shifted away from the virtual extension area together with shifting the supplemental content from the virtual extension area onto the display area.
US10353560B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for developing, debugging, and growing workflows. Embodiments enable the developer to test the workflow in place in a workflow designer that displays input/output parameter values for each workflow step during the test run. The developer is enabled to toggle the workflow step(s) between a development mode, where the developer may edit input parameter values, and a test mode, where the developer is displayed (but cannot edit) the input parameter values and is displayed the output parameter values at each workflow step. A record of workflow runs of a workflow is also maintained. The developer is also enabled to transition a workflow from being a business application to a robust software application having additional functionality. The workflow logic generated is transported between a visual workflow designer and a full-blown code editor.
US10353557B2
A graphic drawing device includes a display unit and a processor. The processor executes a process includes: displaying on the display unit, a measurement item corresponding to at least one graphic part drawn on the display unit; displaying on the display unit, a slider identifier for setting a slider in a case that the displayed measurement item is a type capable of setting a slider for changing a value of the displayed measurement item; and displaying on the display unit, a slider for changing the value of the displayed measurement item according to an operation by a user with respect to the displayed slider identifier.
US10353555B2
A method, system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer program product provide the ability to manage a digital asset. One or more media content assets are acquired. Metadata describing the assets is also acquired. The metadata enables a search of the assets within a content repository. The assets and metadata are stored in the content repository. An online collaboration tool is provided. Such a tool: provides a discussion thread regarding the assets; manages, controls, and provides preview, download, and upload capability, of the assets, to a defined set of users; provides search capability of the content repository for the assets based on the metadata; provides opt-in capability to allow the users to opt-in to receive notifications regarding the assets; and provides a multi-contributional workspace where the users with authorization may preview, download, and upload the assets.
US10353554B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes presenting, by a user device, an answer box as a search result in a search result location of a search results page. The answer box can include first content responsive to a query that submitted with a first resource request over a network. The user device determines that a user interaction with the answer box has occurred. In response to determining that the user interaction has occurred, the user device can presents second content in the answer box. The second content is selected from available content that has not been presented prior to the user interaction. The second content is presented independent of submission of a second resource request over the network subsequent to submission of the first resource request.
US10353553B2
The field of the invention relates to methods, systems and computer program products for navigating digital media content, in particular for navigating digital media content using an interface abstracted from that digital media content instead of, or as a supplement to, traditional user interface controls. There is provided a method for presenting a user interface to an end user to facilitate the searching, browsing and/or navigation of digital media content, the method comprising the steps of: (a) analysing the digital media content to create “hooks” related to the digital media content, or retrieving “hooks” in the digital media content, and (b) replacing or augmenting a graphical or textual representation of the digital media content with the “hooks”.
US10353543B2
A system for presenting a skill-based game, the system includes at least one server including a processor configured to execute machine readable code, the machine readable code executable by said processor configured to cause the server to serve a set of matchups of participants of an event, to the plurality of presentation devices, the plurality of presentation devices displaying the set of matchups on a display; receive over the wide area network data from the presentation devices characterizing a set of user selected winners of the matchups made by the users; update the event data pertinent to participants in the actual events; using the updated data to calculate and assign payoffs to the users based on the fixed payoff odds.
US10353542B2
Techniques for context sensitive illustrated graphical user interface elements, comprising a social networking application. The social networking application may include, among other components, a social networking graphical elements management component to provide a list of recommended graphical element identifier information, in response to a request for the list of recommended graphical element identifier information, a context determination component to determine user context information representative of the at least one user context based at least partially on user communications intent information, user profile information, device location information, calendar event information, and/or external event information, and a graphical elements recommendation component to generate the list of recommended graphical element identifier information based at least partially on the user profile information, graphical elements promotion information, and/or the user context information.
US10353541B1
Context menu fragment management includes obtaining an event triggering a display of a context menu, and generating a first portion of the context menu. Generating the first portion includes performing an operation in a context menu fragment expression using data from a data source to obtain a context menu fragment identifier, selecting a context menu fragment identified by the context menu fragment identifier, and adding the context menu fragment to the context menu. Context fragment management further includes generating a second portion of the context menu, and presenting the context menu.
US10353535B2
Systems and methods are described for managing a multi-view display, including user interface techniques for manipulating viewing zone information and assigning content to viewing zones in the context of the viewing area. The multi-view display system may be calibrated to a coordinate system of the viewing area. The coordinate system can be based on the physical dimensions of the viewing area, a model or other representation of the viewing area, and/or characteristics detected by a sensing system observing the viewing area. A zone management device provide a user interface showing a representation of the viewing area along with representations of established viewing zones rendered in context within the viewing area. User interface elements allow a user to add, remove, manipulate, configure viewing zones, and/or assign content to viewing zones. User interface elements can also allow a user to manipulate the representation of the viewing area.
US10353533B2
Technologies relating to manipulating visual representations of data. A method is provided that includes displaying a first visual representation including a zoom parameter having a first value; receiving a first input while maintaining a first position of a cursor relative to the first visual representation; modifying the zoom parameter to have a second value, where the first visual representation of the document is adjusted according to the second value to provide a second visual representation; identifying a change in position of the cursor to a second position relative to the second visual representation; receiving a second input to modify the zoom parameter of the second visual representation; and modifying the zoom parameter to have a third value, where the second visual representation of the document is adjusted relative to the second position of the cursor according to the third value to provide a third visual representation of the document.
US10353519B2
An electronic device includes a touch operation part that enables information to be input by touch operation to a predetermined input region, and a controller that controls validation and invalidation of an input function of the touch operation part. The controller invalidates the input function to a partial region in the input region of the touch operation part, validates the input function to the partial region in a predetermined period, when predetermined touch operation is performed to a specific region where the input function in the input region is valid, while the input function to the partial region is invalidated, and invalidates the input function to the partial region after the predetermined period has passed.
US10353515B2
Disclosed is a touch-sensitive controller system employing a controller comprising a plurality of separate FMT sensor patterns adapted to detect a variety positions of the human hand. The controller system outputs both touch events as well as data reflective of the hand interaction with the controller. The FMT sensors may be driven by a common signal generator, and can look at body-generate crosstalk to aid in understanding the position, orientation and grip of a hand on the controller. In an embodiment, signal injection can supplement FMT sensor data. Fusion among the data transmitted and received by the plurality of FMT sensors and additional injected signals may provide improved fidelity in both touch and hand modeling.
US10353505B2
An in-cell touch screen includes a pressure sensing structure. The pressure sensing structure includes a plurality of pressure sensitive electrodes arranged in an array and being independent from each other, each pressure sensitive electrode configured for generating a potential difference in response to a pressure caused by pressing; an input electrode electrically connected to the plurality of pressure sensitive electrodes for receiving a fixed potential in a pressure detection phase; and a plurality of output electrodes each electrically connected to a respective one of the plurality of pressure sensitive electrodes for outputting a signal indicative of a change in a potential of the respective pressure sensitive electrode with respect to the fixed potential in the pressure detection phase.
US10353503B2
An integrated force sensing element includes a piezoelectric sensor formed in an integrated circuit (IC) chip and a strain gauge at least partially overlying the piezoelectric sensor, where the piezoelectric sensor is able to flex. A human-machine interface using the integrated force sensing element may include a conditioning circuit, temperature gauge, FRAM and a processor core.
US10353498B2
A touch structure for touch display pane includes a plurality of first sensing strip, each of first sensing strips is extending along first direction and first sensing strips are parallel to each other and separately positioned, each of first sensing strips comprises a plurality of first sensing pad and a plurality of first bridge connector connecting in cascade with first sensing pads; a plurality of second sensing strip, each of second sensing strips is extending along second direction which is perpendicular to first direction and second sensing strips are parallel to each other and separately positioned, each of second sensing strips comprises a plurality of second sensing pad and a plurality of second bridge connector connecting in cascade with second sensing pads, second bridge connector is insulating with first bridge connector.
US10353495B2
Systems and methods for performing personalized operations of a mobile device are provided. An example method includes determining a sensor signature has been received. The sensor signature may be a combination of acoustic and non-acoustic inputs. A classification or recognition or matching score for the received sensor signature may be calculated. A context associated with one or more of the operations of the mobile device may be determined. A confidence level or weight may be determined for the acoustic and non-acoustic inputs based on the context. Based on the confidence level or weight, a determination may be made whether to perform the one or more operations. The determination whether to perform the one or more operations may be further based on a combination of the confidence level or weight and the score. Determining the context can include identifying the type and level of noise associated with the mobile device's environment.
US10353494B2
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus includes setting a cursor operation area in a display area, wherein the cursor operation area is an area other than an area in which a cursor displayed in the display area is movable and other than a keyboard displayed in the display area.
US10353493B2
Methods and devices for synchronizing a digitizer with a pen are disclosed. An example method describes detecting that the digitizer has lost tracking of the pen. The example method further includes the digitizer searching for a subsequent beacon from the pen based on at least a previous location of a previous beacon during a tracking mode of the digitizer. The digitizer synchronizes with the pen based on a subsequent location of the subsequent from the pen identified during the search.
US10353486B1
Additional computer keys inserted on a computer keyboard that would be in the primary colors; red, blue, and yellow and the achromatic colors; black and white when typed or held down with an alphabetical, numerical, or alpha character create complicated passwords. When there is a combination of primary colors typed together they create the secondary colors; purple orange, and green. And when the primary and secondary colors are typed with the achromatic colors black and white they create lighter and darker shades. When additional keys are typed with the various combinations they form complicated passwords that are used to keep information on a computer private and secure.
US10353474B2
Techniques for providing a unified computational platform for implementing virtual reality systems. In an aspect, a virtual reality (VR) client includes input and output modules for generating a VR user experience. The client also incorporates an assistant interface that couples the input and output modules to an assistant server using a semantic information interchange language (SIIL). The assistant server includes a command inference block for converting user-input SIIL messages to command-input SIIL messages, thereby encoding user VR inputs into a general command set that is recognized and processed by both VR and non-VR modules. Further aspects include techniques for seamless integration between virtual environments and joint VR sessions supporting multiple users.
US10353471B2
A system is provided that controls a haptic effect experienced at a peripheral device. The system receives a haptic effect definition including haptic data. The system further receives spatialization data including: a distance of the haptic effect; a direction of the haptic effect; or a flow of the haptic effect. The system further includes modifying the haptic effect definition based on the received spatialization data. The system further includes sending a haptic instruction and the modified haptic effect definition to the peripheral device. The system further includes causing one or more haptic output devices to produce one or more haptic effects based on the modified haptic effect definition at the peripheral device in response to the haptic instruction.
US10353461B2
A system includes (100) includes a display (112) that sequentially displays images from an image data set at a predetermined rate, an optical attention monitoring device (120) that senses a characteristic indicative of a clinician's attention to each displayed image of the image data set, and a processor (106) that executes an attention detection module (118) that detects a lapse in attention with respect to one or more of the displayed images based on the sensed characteristic indicative of the clinician's attention and generates a signal indicating the one or more of the displayed images.
US10353453B2
A controller may be communicatively coupled to a power supply and may be configured to receive a status signal indicative of whether a level of power delivered by the power supply exceeds a threshold power level. The controller may also be configured to, in response to the status signal indicating the level of power delivered by the power supply exceeds the threshold power level, cause a module power limit of at least one of a plurality of modules disposed in a chassis to decrease, wherein the module power limit of a module defines a maximum amount of power the module may consume from the power supply. The controller may also be configured to, in response to the status signal indicating the level of power delivered by the power supply does not exceed the threshold power level, cause the module power limit to increase.
US10353452B2
A method for prioritized charging of battery backup units (BBUs) is provided. The method may include identifying critical system racks associated with computing data centers based on characteristics associated with the system racks on the computing data centers. The method may also include identifying critical system enclosures associated with the identified critical system racks based on system architectures associated with the computing data centers. The method may further include prioritizing the identified critical system enclosures based on parameters associated with the identified critical system enclosures. The method may also include identifying and ranking a plurality of critical BBUs associated with the identified and prioritized critical system enclosures based on prioritized charging rules associated with the plurality of critical BBUs. The method may further include charging the identified and ranked plurality of critical BBUs in an order based on the prioritized charging rules.
US10353443B2
An example carrier module may include a carrier board. The carrier board may include a storage drive interface and an adapter connector in electrical communication with the storage drive interface. The adapter connector may engage with a complementary adapter receiver. The adapter connector may include a plurality of signal pins, at least one ground pin that is longer than the signal pins, and at least one power pin that is longer than the signal pins. The plurality of signal pins, the at least one ground pin, and the at least one power pin may engage with the adapter receiver to facilitate electrical communication between the adapter receiver and the adapter connector.
US10353440B2
A housing includes a metal base and a non-conductive member. The metal base has an internal surface and a plurality of gap. The non-conductive member covers at least a portion of the internal surface of the metal base, and the non-conductive member is formed on the bottom of the at least one gap. The metal base is spaced by the gaps to form a plurality of metal sheets and at least one main body. Each gap is completely filled with one dielectric member. The metal sheets and the at least one main body are all bonded with the dielectric member and are electrically isolated with each other.
US10353439B2
A housing assembly for a mobile terminal includes a housing body, a circuit board, and a fixing member. The housing body has a wiring hole. The circuit board is disposed in the housing body and has an end which passes through the wiring hole and extends out of the housing body. The fixing member is sleevedly attached to the circuit board and engages with the circuit board. An outer sidewall of the fixing member is attached to an inner sidewall of the wiring hole.
US10353437B1
A coupled structure is capable of suppressing breakage of a hook member and keeping the coupled state between members. An electronic device includes the coupled structure. A coupled structure is a keyboard unit coupled to a main body chassis. The coupled structure includes an engagement hole on the keyboard unit and a hook member that protrudes from an upper face of a support plate on the main body chassis and can be engaged with the engagement hole. The support plate has a plate spring capable of elastic displacement with respect to a peripheral part. The hook member is on the plate spring.
US10353436B2
This is directed to providing a cosmetic finish on a component constructed by connecting several elements. A single manufacturing process, such as machining or grinding, can be applied to the connected elements to remove material from some or all of the elements and to form a smooth and continuous surface across interfaces between the individual elements of the component. In some cases, settings of the material removal process can be adjusted based on the material of the component elements. For example, the settings can be adjusted based on the manufacturing or mechanical properties of each element material.
US10353435B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device, such as a notebook computer or laptop, that includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which includes any type of components, elements, circuitry, etc.). One particular example implementation of the electronic device may include a keyboard portion that includes a plurality of keys; a display portion that includes a first display interconnect for operating the electronic device in a first configuration, and a second display interconnect for operating the electronic device in a second configuration; and a docking portion that includes a keyboard interconnect configured to be mated with at least one of the first display interconnect and the second display interconnect.
US10353434B2
A flexible electronic device includes a base substrate and first and second lines disposed thereon. The first and second lines extend in a first direction and are arranged in a second direction. Each of the first and second lines includes a first conductive layer including first and second portions alternately disposed with each other, and second conductive layers respectively overlapped with the first portions in a third direction substantially perpendicular to the first and second directions. The second conductive layer is not overlapped with the second portions of the first conductive layer in the third direction. The first and second conductive layers have a first modulus and a second modulus, respectively. A first width in the second direction of each of the first portions is smaller than a second width in the second direction of each of the second portions.
US10353411B2
A power supply unit for use with thermostats or other like devices. The power supply unit may keep electromagnetic interference emissions and harmonics at a minimum. A unit may have enough power for triggering a switch at about a cross over point of a waveform of input power to the unit. Power for triggering may come from a storage source. Power for the storage source may be provided with power stealing which require switching transistors which can generate emissions. In-line thermostats using MOSFETS power steal may do the power steal during an ON state (triac, relay or silicon controlled rectifier activated). Gate signals to the transistors may be especially shaped to keep emissions from transistor switching at a minimum. All that may be needed, during an OFF state as a bypass, is a high voltage controllable switch. The need may be achieved using high voltage MOSFETS.
US10353401B2
A distance from an aerial vehicle to a terrain feature located forward and lower with respect to the aerial vehicle is measured. A current orientation of the aerial vehicle with respect to a reference orientation is detected. At least the measured distance and the current orientation is utilized to determine a relative vertical difference between a vertical location of the aerial vehicle and a vertical location of the terrain feature. The determined vertical difference is utilized to automatically adjust a flight altitude of the aerial vehicle.
US10353394B2
A driving assistance device includes a driving situation acquisition unit that acquires driving situations of vehicles that may collide with each other, a driving characteristics acquisition unit that acquires driving characteristics of drivers of the vehicles, a driving action determination unit that determines driving actions that allow the vehicles to avoid collision with each other in the driving situation acquired by the driving situation acquisition unit and that match the driving characteristics acquired by the driving characteristics acquisition unit, and a driving action instruction unit that instructs the vehicles about the driving actions determined by the driving action determination unit.
US10353392B2
Provided is an autonomous moving body that controls driving wheels by allowing a trailing caster to be located on a front side with respect to a traveling direction when it is recognized that there is no step in a traveling direction and controls the driving wheels to change the orientation of a base body in which the driving wheels and the trailing caster are arranged and approach the step so that at least one of two driving wheels contacts the step before the trailing caster contacts the step when it is recognized that there is a step in the traveling direction.
US10353391B2
A travel control device sets a limitation in relation to traveling of a vehicle during automatic driving. Further, compared with a case in which the vehicle is not in a stopped state or not in a slowly traveling state, or a case in which the vehicle velocity is in excess of a vehicle velocity threshold value by which the stopped state or the slowly traveling state is determined, the travel control device alleviates the limitation in a case in which the vehicle is in the stopped state or in the slowly traveling state, or in a case in which the vehicle velocity is lower than the vehicle velocity threshold value.
US10353389B2
Cross-cueing systems allow users to instantly understand the geographic location of objects in the video scene, as well as instantly understand the location within the scene of objects on a map. This provides an unprecedented level of situation awareness for unmanned vehicle operators and video surveillance system operators.
US10353388B2
An example method may include receiving, from a client computing device, an indication of a target drop-off spot for an object within a first virtual model of a first region of a delivery destination. A second virtual model of a second region of the delivery destination may be determined based on sensor data received from one or more sensors on a delivery vehicle. A mapping may be determined between physical features represented in the first virtual model and physical features represented in the second virtual model to determine an overlapping region between the first and second virtual models. A position of the target drop-off spot within the second virtual model may be determined based on the overlapping region. Based on the position of the target drop-off spot within the second virtual model, the delivery vehicle may be navigated to the target drop-off spot to drop off the object.
US10353385B2
A method enhances an emergency reporting system for controlling equipment. A message receiver receives an electronic message from a person. The electronic message is a report regarding an emergency event related to equipment. One or more processors identify a profile of the person who sent the electronic message, and determine a bias of the person regarding the emergency event based on the person's profile. One or more processors amend, based on the bias of the person, a content of the electronic message to create a modified electronic message regarding the emergency event. The message receiver detects that the modified electronic message came from an unauthorized source. A local controller on the equipment, in response to detecting that the modified electronic message came from the unauthorized source, automatically isolates the equipment from remote control signals for controlling the equipment.
US10353384B1
A radio-frequency identification (RFID) device includes an RFID block configured to support RFID communication; a memory having a storage area configured to store a list of pulse width modulation (PWM) parameters; a PWM circuit configured to generate a PWM signal based on a PWM parameter received by the PWM circuit; and a configuration and control (CC) circuit coupled to the RFID block, the memory, and the PWM circuit, where the RFID block, the PWM circuit, the CC circuit, and the memory form part of an RFID tag, where the CC circuit is configured to, in an automatic playback mode: sequentially read the list of PWM parameters from a beginning of the list of PWM parameters; and sequentially send the list of PWM parameters to the PWM circuit.
US10353370B2
A programmable logic controller (10) is connected to external equipment (40) through a serial communication unit (30), and the programmable logic controller (10) includes: a memory (7), including a user program (11) and a setting document (13), where the user program (11) records both of a command for the communication interface device and command target information thereof, and the setting document (13) saves address information corresponding to the command target information; and a processor (8), reading the user program (11) and the setting document (13) to execute the command.
US10353368B2
An improved occupancy detection and load management system wherein a plurality of scout sensors and their surrogates may be networked to a master controller to control the load of a designated control zone. When occupancy is detected by an actual sensor or a sensor surrogate, scout sensors report only that event and each event, regardless of source, has the potential to initiate or sustain the occupied state of the master controller. As a zone becomes unoccupied, event reports stop being sent allowing the master controller to time out and exit its occupied state. Loss or addition of scout sensors does not affect operation as the master does not track individual sensors which additionally allows event reports to be created and sent by plurality of sources including momentary contact buttons, user controls, personal computers, and other building automation systems like fire alarms, security, and access control.
US10353367B2
The disclosed hot cutover box creates an electronic virtual bypass around a terminal strip to which existing control system, new control system, and final control element connections may be made, thereby allowing migration from an existing to a new control system to take place. Sensors allow measurement of a current signal without disrupting electrical continuity and connectors allow the hot cutover box to be introduced to the circuit with no disruption to the controller output. Once the hot cutover box is in place, wiring connections can be removed from the terminal strip as the hot cutover box effectively provides a parallel current pathway around the terminal strip.
US10353366B2
In a customization method of a motor control device, a customization module for executing a modifying operation of a specific function in a customizing element is formed. A customization module group is configured by a set of customization modules. The user can form a user module for executing an operation related to the specific function in the customizing element. A buffer memory accessible from both the customization module and the user module is provided. The customization module is configured to execute the operation related to the specific function based on data received from the user module via the buffer memory.
US10353362B2
Systems and methods for maintaining indoor air quality are disclosed. According to embodiments, air quality data measurements and associated dates/times may be received from smart sensors associated with an indoor space. Based on the air quality data detected by the smart sensors, a predictive air quality model for the indoor space may be generated, e.g., by plotting a time series for the air quality data and deriving a linear progression based on the plotted time series. A future time when the air quality for the indoor space will reach a threshold air quality level, above which an allergic or asthmatic reaction may occur in a user, may be predicted using the predictive air quality model. An indication may be displayed notifying a user that an air filter associated with the indoor space should be replaced at or before the predicted future time to prevent an allergic or asthmatic reaction.
US10353350B2
A servo control system includes a position command generator; a position detector of among other things, a feed shaft; a position control loop; a learning controller including a band limiting filter and a dynamic characteristic compensation element; a sine wave sweep input unit for the position control loop; and a frequency characteristic calculator for estimating the gain and phase of position control loop input and output signals. The frequency characteristic calculator calculates an evaluation function that indicates the characteristic of a position control based on the frequency characteristic of the position control loop, the band limiting filter, and the dynamic characteristic compensation element.
US10353345B2
An electronic watch circuit for controlling the operation of a watch having analogue hands has an integrated circuit which contains data values to be transmitted to registers and transmitted to peripheral members of the watch. The electronic watch circuit further has a quartz crystal providing the clock base frequency to the integrated circuit and a connecting device arranged for enabling the peripheral member controllers, the quartz crystal, and the processor to communicate data relating to the operation of the watch to each other. The electronic circuit further has a microcontroller including a processor connected to a programmable memory. The integrated circuit has an interface, the microcontroller has a further interface, and the microcontroller is connected with integrated circuit by the interfaces allowing bidirectional exchange of data between the microcontroller and the integrated circuit.
US10353333B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor; a light source; a rotational polygon mirror including a plurality of mirror surfaces on an outer circumferential surface of a rotating body; and a hardware processor that: controls the light source to perform emission of a light beam; controls to rotate the rotational polygon mirror to perform a sequential primary scanning; and corrects a shift of an exposure position of the light beam; and a clock characteristic changer capable of changing a clock characteristic including at least one of frequency and phase of a write clock, wherein the hardware processor controls to execute two-dimensional exposure with the clock characteristic of the write clock, controls to execute the two-dimensional exposure at a predetermined relative position with respect to the mirror surface, and specifies a mirror surface used for formation of each portion of the detection pattern.
US10353317B1
The present teachings described a bias charging member and a method of manufacturing a charging member. The bias charging member includes a conductive core and an outer surface layer disposed on the conductive core. The outer surface layer includes a polycarbamate resin and a polyaldehyde cross-linker.
US10353313B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming component that forms an image on a recording medium by using a white color material and a color material other than the white color material, and a controller that controls a color material amount of the white color material to differ depending on a position where an image that uses the white color material is formed in order of formation of images that use respective color materials in the image forming component.
US10353300B2
A supporting member on which a wafer table is mounted is substantially kinematically supported, via six rod members placed on a slider. Further, coupling members are placed facing in a non-contact manner via a predetermined gap, thin plate-shaped edges provided at both ends in the Y-axis direction of the supporting member. By this arrangement, vibration-damping is performed by the coupling members (squeeze dampers) facing the edges, on vibration of the supporting member mounted on the wafer table. Further, because the supporting member is kinematically supported via the plurality of rod members, it becomes possible to reduce deformation of the wafer table that accompanies deformation of the slider.
US10353293B2
The conductive pattern formation method according to the present invention comprises a step of providing a photosensitive conductive film including a conductive layer containing conductive fibers, a photosensitive resin layer containing a photosensitive resin and an inorganic filler, and a support film in this order, and laminating the conductive layer and the photosensitive resin layer on a base material such that the conductive layer side is closely bonded to the base material, and a step of exposing and developing the photosensitive resin layer and the conductive layer on the base material to form a conductive pattern.
US10353282B2
The projection display apparatus includes a light source unit, a light deflector, a first light receiver, a second light receiver, and a calculator. The light deflector deflects at least part of incident light coming from the light source unit to a first optical path so as to produce a projection light, and deflects a remaining part of the incident light to a second optical path. The first light receiver receives the at least part of the incident light that has been reflected by the projection surface. The second light receiver receives the remaining part of the incident light. The calculator calculates a distance from the projection display apparatus to a projection surface based on light reception results obtained by the first light receiver receiving the at least part of the incident light and the second light receiver receiving the remaining part of the incident light.
US10353273B2
A screen is provided. The screen includes: a substrate; an adhesive affixed to the substrate; and a mixture of reflective beads and transparent beads affixed by the adhesive to the substrate.
US10353271B2
A depth estimation method for a monocular image based on a multi-scale CNN and a continuous CRF is disclosed in this invention. A CRF module is adopted to calculate a unary potential energy according to the output depth map of a DCNN, and the pairwise sparse potential energy according to input RGB images. MAP (maximum a posteriori estimation) algorithm is used to infer the optimized depth map at last. The present invention integrates optimization theories of the multi-scale CNN with that of the continuous CRF. High accuracy and a clear contour are both achieved in the estimated depth map; the depth estimated by the present invention has a high resolution and detailed contour information can be kept for all objects in the scene, which provides better visual effects.
US10353269B2
A fully confined dual frequency optical resonator configured for optical coupling to light having a first frequency ω1. The dual frequency optical resonator includes a plurality of alternating layer pairs configured in a grating configuration, each layer pair having a first layer formed of a first material and a second layer formed of a second material, the first material and second material being different materials. Each layer having a thickness different than a thickness of an adjacent layer to provide thereby aperiodic layer pairs, the thicknesses of adjacent layers being selected to create, via wave interference with each layer, optical resonances at the first frequency ω1 and a second frequency ω2 which is a harmonic of ω1, and to ensure a maximum spatial overlap between confined modes over the materials such that an overall quality factor Q of at least 1000 is achieved.
US10353256B2
An array substrate according to the present invention includes a non-linear element. The non-linear element includes a first insulation film disposed so as to cover a light-shielding body, an oxide semiconductor film disposed on the first insulation film so as to overlap the light-shielding body in a plan view, a source electrode and a drain electrode that are disposed so as to be apart from each other with a separation portion therebetween on the oxide semiconductor film, a second insulation film disposed so as to cover the oxide semiconductor film, the source electrode, and the drain electrode, and a first back electrode disposed on a third insulation film and connected to a source wire through a first contact hole. The first back electrode is disposed so as to overlap the source electrode and part of the separation portion on the oxide semiconductor film in a plan view.
US10353254B2
An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a first terminal that is formed on the substrate, a second terminal that is formed on the substrate and arranged in a first direction with respect to the first terminal, a third terminal that is formed on the substrate, and arranged in a second direction different from the first direction with respect to the first terminal, and of which the position in the first direction is the same as the first terminal, and a wiring that is formed on the substrate and connected to the third terminal.
US10353249B2
The present invention demonstrates a kind of thin film transistor and a liquid crystal display panel. The thin film transistor substrate includes a substrate and the stacking structure of the first common electrode and the pixel electrode which are isolated from each other. A hollow structure is located in a position where the pixel electrode and the first common electrode overlap and shape of the hollow structure is related to the first common electrode It could increase the control of the electric field of the liquid crystal, decrease the width of the dark line of the pixel, improve the performance and transmittance of the liquid crystal, avoid the through via, and prevent the short-circuited problem.
US10353244B2
This present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies and provides an edge-lit backlight module and a liquid crystal display device. The edge-lit backlight module of the present disclosure includes a light source, a light guide panel and a reflector. The light source is arranged on a light entering side of the light guide panel, and the reflector is arranged below the light guide panel, a bottom surface of the light guide panel faces towards the reflector, and a plurality of dots are arranged on the bottom surface at intervals. The reflector is bonded on the bottom surface of the light guide panel through a glue layer, and the glue layer is provided with light transmission holes at positions of the dots.
US10353237B2
A lighting device includes LEDs 17, and a light guide plate 19 including an edge surface and a pair of plate surfaces, a part of the edge surface being a light entrance surface 19B through which light from the LEDs 17 enters, and one of the plate surfaces being a light exit surface 19A through which the light exits and another one of the plate surfaces being an opposite plate surface 19C opposite from the light exit surface 19A. The light guide plate 19 includes prism portions 51 on the opposite plate surface 19C, projecting from the opposite plate surface 19C and arranged in the X-axis direction and configured to collect light toward in a normal direction of the light exit surface 19A, and an exit light reflection portion 60 provided in a recessed portion 52 that is formed by two adjacent prism portions 51 and configured to reflect light travelling within the light guide plate 19 and facilitate exiting of light from the light guide plate 19.
US10353233B2
A liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel; a light emitting diode (LED) substrate; a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) disposed on the LED substrate; a first diffuser disposed between the plurality of LEDs and the liquid crystal display panel; a bandpass filter being disposed between the plurality of LEDs and the diffuser; and a plurality of focus lenses corresponding to the plurality of LEDs, wherein each of the LEDs includes one of the plurality of focus lenses.
US10353228B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing flexible display substrate, comprising: providing a carrier substrate and depositing a layer of soluble polymer on the carrier substrate; fabricating a flexible substrate on the soluble polymer; fabricating a display component on the other surface of the flexible substrate opposite to the soluble polymer and performing a package process; and, peeling off the flexible substrate from the carrier substrate by dissolving the soluble polymer to obtain the flexible display substrate. The method for manufacturing flexible display substrate of the present invention simplifies the manufacture process and avoids damage to the flexible substrate during the peeling process.
US10353227B2
The present invention provides an optical in-fiber chiral fiber isolator, capable of transmitting a signal of a predetermined optical polarization in a forward direction therethrough, while rejecting all signals traveling in a backward direction therethrough, and a method of fabrication thereof. In one exemplary embodiment, the inventive optical chiral fiber isolator includes a chiral magneto-optical fiber having a helical pitch profile, a birefringence profile, and an effective Verdet constant profile, at least a portion of which is exposed to a magnetic field of a predetermined magnetic field profile (generated by a proximal magnetic field source), where the magnetic field profile, the chiral pitch profile, the birefringence profile, and the effective Verdet constant profile are selected and configured such that the inventive isolator is capable of transmitting a signal of a predetermined optical polarization in a direction from its input end toward its output end, and to reject all signals in a direction from its output end to its input end.
US10353224B2
Integrated active photonic device such as optical amplifiers, lasers, light emitters, photodetectors, optical modulators, optical switches, plasmonic devices, all-optical devices, and active photonic devices with high efficiency capable of very low power consumption, low optical loss, and small device size are of interest. An efficient optical waveguide structure for achieving high overlapping between the optical beam mode and the active electro-active region leads to reduced power consumption, low optical loss, and small device size. In an embodiment, low power consumption, low optical loss, and small device size are enabled by a semiconductor active photonic device structure, together with an active semiconductor material that is an electro-optic or electro-absorption or gain material, that are appropriately doped with carriers to substantially lower the power consumption and still maintain the high device performance. In another embodiment, an efficient optical coupling structure further enables low optical loss. Various embodiments combined enable the active photonic device to reach lower power consumption, lower optical loss, and smaller device size than previously possible in the prior arts.
US10353219B1
Techniques and mechanisms for determining a level of accommodation to be provided by an eye-mountable device (EMD) for a user viewing a 3D stereoscopic display. In one embodiment, the EMD in disposed in or on an eye of the user, and an angle of vergence between the user's eyes is detected. Based on the angle of vergence, the EMD provides a level of accommodation that results in the user having a blurred viewing of an object in the stereoscopic display. The blur induces the user to change the accommodation provided by the eye on which, or in which, the EMD is disposed. Inducing the user to perform such a change in the eye's accommodation more closely approximates what the user would do when viewing real world physical objects. This tends to result in a better viewing experience by the user. In another embodiment, the angle of vergence is detected based on exposure of the EMD to a magnetic field.
US10353218B2
The lens arrangement has at least two lenses, wherein a first lens may be used for autofocus and optical image stabilization. The first lens is tilted to compensate for the shaking movement of the hand-held device and to stabilize the image to be captured on the image plane. The tilt action may occur in two degrees of freedom, wherein an actuator causes the first lens to tilt around a pivot. A second lens is a field flattener lens that compensates for the error caused by the difference between the image plane and the focus plane. The field flattener lens causes the focal plane of the first lens to lie in the image plane when the first lens is in a tilted position.
US10353216B2
An optical unit with a shake correction function may include a movable body having an optical element, a fixed body swingably supporting the movable body through a gimbal mechanism, and a drive mechanism to drive the movable body around the first axial line and the second axial line. The gimbal mechanism includes a movable frame, two first swing support points provided between the movable frame and the fixed body and two second swing support points provided between the movable frame and the movable body. At least one of the two swing support points includes a contact spring having a movable plate part with which the movable frame is abutted, and a fixed plate part which is bent back from the movable plate part, and a fixing member which fixes the movable plate part to the fixed plate part.
US10353213B2
Architecture and designs of wearable devices for viewing multimedia in 3D are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, a display device is made in form of a pair of glasses. A separate enclosure is provided to generate content for display on the glasses. The content is optically picked up by an optical cable and transported by one or more optical fibers in the optical cable to the glasses, where an image polarizer receives the content and produces an alternating polarized content sequence. An optical cube is provided to decouple the alternating polarized content sequence into two orthogonally polarized image sequences are respectively projected onto two lenses.
US10353210B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for dynamically forming an optical component that automatically aligns with and changes positions with a scanning light beam to modify the wave front of the scanning light beam, such as collimating the scanning light beam. More specifically, a patterning beam that aligns with the scanning light beam may be scanned together with the scanning light beam to form the self-aligning and travelling optical component in an electro-optic material layer that is connected in serial with a photoconductive material layer to a voltage source, where the patterning beam optically modulates the impedance of the photoconductive material layer and therefore an electric field within the electro-optic material layer, the modulated electric field causing localized changes of refractive index in the electro-optic material layer to form the self-aligning and travelling optical component.
US10353200B2
A laminated glass includes first and second glass plates to be arranged on a vehicle inner side and outer side, respectively; and an intermediate film positioned between the first and second glass plates and bonded to the glass plates. The laminated glass includes a first region, a transition region, and a second region, from a lower side of the laminated glass. Each of the first and second regions includes a region having a wedge-shaped cross section, in which an upper edge side thickness is greater than a lower edge side thickness, or having a thickness that is constant. The transition region connects the first and second regions, and includes a region having a wedge-shaped cross section, in which an upper edge side thickness is greater than a lower edge side thickness. At least one of the first and second regions includes a region used for a head up display.
US10353194B2
An optical communication system having a data transmitter which includes: at least one optical emission device to output light energy as an optical beam having an operating bandwidth; a beam dividing device to receive and divide the operating bandwidth into plural communication bands; a frequency presence modulation unit to: spectrally segregate the bandwidth of at least one communication band into plural channels, and modulate the bandwidth to selectively produce an optical output signal with wavelengths that correspond to one or more of the channels, wherein presence and absence of energy within channels constitute an information packet for data communication; a controller for providing a control signal to the frequency presence modulation unit to spectrally segregate the bandwidth of the at least one communication band into the plural channels; and a telescope to transmit the optical output signal.
US10353192B2
A rod lens system for an endoscope is provided, in which the rod lens system has at least one reversal stage, in order to image an intermediate image lying in a distal intermediate image plane into a proximal intermediate image plane, wherein each reversal stage has at least one rod lens and images an intermediate image into a next intermediate image plane, wherein the rod lens system is formed as an asymmetrical rod lens system and at least one of the reversal stages is formed as an asymmetrical reversal stage.
US10353188B2
An optical system for generating an Airy beam light sheet comprising an optical arrangement for generating a Gaussian beam, and an optical element for converting the Gaussian beam into an Airy beam light sheet, wherein a single optical element is provided for converting the Gaussian beam into an Airy beam light sheet.
US10353186B2
Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit to a fourth lens unit having negative, positive, negative, and negative refractive powers; and a rear lens group. In the zoom lens, an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, the rear lens group has a positive refractive power over an entire zoom range, the third lens unit is configured to move in an optical axis direction during focusing, and each of a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide angle end (fw), and a focal length of the third lens unit (f3) is appropriately set.
US10353163B1
A fiber optic node includes an electronics equipment enclosure. The electronics equipment enclosure includes a lid, a base, and at least one side wall defining an interior space of the electronics equipment enclosure. The fiber optic node further includes an optical receiver mounted within the interior space of the electronics equipment enclosure. The at least one side wall is coupled to the lid, the base, or both the lid and the base. The at least one side wall is formed of at least a semi-permeable fabric mesh. The semi-permeable fabric mesh includes a rigid mesh screen and a semi-permeable membrane coupled to the rigid mesh screen for convection of heat generated within the interior space by the optical receiver to outside the electronics equipment enclosure.
US10353153B2
A method of manufacturing an optical connector according to the invention includes: holding a first optical fiber by a pair of holding members at a position apart from an end face of a second end and through both sides thereof in a radial direction, the first optical fiber being provided with a solid refractive index-matching material layer, the refractive index-matching material layer being formed on the end face of the second end on an opposite side of an end face of a first end exposed to a front end of a ferrule; and inserting the first optical fiber into a fiber hole of the ferrule through the first end.
US10353152B2
A photonic waveguide structure may include a tapered photonic waveguide structure within a photonic substrate, such that the tapered photonic waveguide structure has a tapered region that progressively tapers in width along a longitudinal length of the tapered photonic waveguide structure. The photonic waveguide structure also includes an optical fiber waveguide having a core region and a cladding region, whereby a portion of the core region is partially exposed by removing a portion of the cladding region. An outer surface of the portion of the core region that is partially exposed is substantially coupled to the tapered photonic waveguide structure. An optical signal propagating along the tapered photonic waveguide structure is coupled from the tapered region of the tapered photonic waveguide structure to the core region of the optical fiber waveguide via the core region that is partially exposed.
US10353146B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to a stretchable packaging system. The system includes a first electronic component. The first electronic component includes a first optical emitter. The system further includes a second electronic component. The second electronic component includes a first receiver. An optical interconnect including a first elastomer having a first refractive index connects the first optical emitter to the first receiver. An encapsulate layer including a second elastomer having a second refractive index at least partially encapsulates the first electronic component, the second electronic component, and the optical interconnect.
US10353145B2
A photonic neural component includes optical transmitters, optical receivers, inter-node waveguides formed on a board, transmitting waveguides configured to receive optical signals emitted from the optical transmitters and transmit the received optical signals to the inter-node waveguides, mirrors to partially reflect optical signals propagating on the inter-node waveguides, receiving waveguides configured to receive reflected optical signals produced by the mirrors and transmit the reflected optical signals to the optical receivers, and filters configured to apply weights to the reflected optical signals. The transmitting waveguides and receiving waveguides are formed on the board such that one of the transmitting waveguides and one of the receiving waveguides crosses one of the inter-node waveguides with a core of one of the crossing waveguides passing through a core or clad of the other.
US10353144B2
Embodiments of optical fiber may include cladding features that include a material (e.g., fluorine-doped silica glass) that may produce a very low relative refractive index difference with respect to cladding material in which the cladding features are disposed. This relative refractive index difference may be characterized by (n1−n2)/n1, where n1 is the index of refraction of the cladding material in which the cladding features are included, and n2 is the index of refraction of the cladding features. In certain embodiments, the relative refractive index difference may be less than about 4.5×10−3. In various embodiments, the configuration of the cladding features including, for example, the size and spacing of the cladding features, can be selected to provide for confinement of the fundamental mode yet leakage for the second mode and higher modes, which may provide mode filtering, single mode propagation, and/or low bend loss.
US10353138B2
A display device may include a display panel having a curved shape, a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board, at least one first carrier tape configured to connect the first printed circuit board to the display panel, at least one second carrier tape configured to connect the second printed circuit board to the display panel, and a connection unit configured to connect the first and second printed circuit boards to each other. A part of a layer of the connection unit may be a portion of a layer included in at least one of the first and second printed circuit boards.
US10353135B2
Disclosed is a backlight unit for minimizing consumption power in realizing partial luminance. The backlight unit includes a light guide member including a first light incident part and a second light incident part, a first light source unit disposed in the first light incident part, and a second light source unit disposed in the second light incident part. The first light source unit and the second light source unit have different luminous intensities.
US10353128B2
Laminated body including a substrate and an optically anisotropic layer. This layer satisfies the following expressions (1), (2), and (3): Δn50(450)/Δn50(550)≤1.00 (1), and 1.00≤Δn50(650)/Δn50(550) (2) wherein Δn50(450), Δn50(550) and Δn50(650) represent the respective birefringences of the layer that are derived from retardation values of the laminated body that are obtained by measuring the laminated body at wavelengths of 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm in the state of inclining the fast axis of the layer at an angle of 50 degrees to act as an inclined central axis; and nz>nx≅ny (3) wherein nx and ny represent the respective refractive indexes of the substrate in directions parallel with the plane of the substrate, these directions being orthogonal to each other, and nz represents the refractive index of the substrate in a direction orthogonal to each of the directions about nx and ny.
US10353122B2
A display device includes a light source to generate a beam of a first color. The display device also includes a display panel having at least one pixel including a first color sub-pixel, a second color sub-pixel, and a third color sub-pixel, wherein the second color sub-pixel is configured to generate a beam of the second color by reacting with the beam of the first color, the third color sub-pixel is configured to generate a beam of the third color by reacting with the beam of the first color, and the first color sub-pixel is configured to allow the beam of the first color to pass therethrough. The display device further includes a beam path converter disposed between the light source and the display panel to direct the beam of the first color from the light source toward the display panel.
US10353105B2
Non-visible objects which differ in their physical properties from their surroundings by association with a variable strength magnetic field may be detected by a suitable array of sensors which can be moved relative to the object in question. By analyzing the signals from the plurality of the sensors in the array, the position of the object can be deduced relative to the array and the array moved to enable a machining guide thereon to be aligned with the non-visible object. The system is of particular value in locating apertures in wing spars when attempting to fix the skin of the wing on to them where it is important to be able to locate the correct point at which to drill a hole through the skin to coincide with the hole in the spar. By defining a magnetic field in the vicinity of the hole to identify the hole magnetically and using an array of magnetic field sensors in a base with an aperture, it is possible to shift the array so that the aperture is precisely aligned with the non-visible hole.
US10353098B2
A technique includes spatially filtering a signal that is derived from a seismic acquisition. The filtering is associated with a filter length, and the filtering includes varying the filter length with frequency. The filtering may be used in connection with adaptive noise attenuation, which is applied to decomposed subbands. Furthermore, the filtering may be applied during the reconstruction of the signal from the subbands.
US10353097B2
Method and system for 3-D imaging of subterranean geologic structures based on seismic data interpretations involves correcting mis-ties that arise as a result of orthogonal polylines failing to intersect due to inconsistencies in seismic interpretations. In some embodiments, the mis-ties may be corrected by adding a data point from one polyline at or near the mis-tie to the other polyline, and vice versa for the other polyline. The two data points are then adjusted so they coincide or merge. The merged data point is then used as intersection points for the polylines and associated with one another such that a change made to one intersection point is automatically made to the other intersection point. In some embodiments, one or more neighboring data points on each polyline are adjusted to smooth out the polyline at the point of the corrected mis-tie.
US10353084B1
Methods and systems are provided for cooling systems for imaging systems. In one embodiment, a manifold assembly for an imaging system comprises: an intake manifold and a return manifold formed by a plurality of unitary sections, the intake manifold and return manifold positioned adjacent to each other and separated by a shared wall; and a plurality of nozzles, with each nozzle of the plurality of nozzles formed by a corresponding section of the plurality of unitary sections. In this way, an assembly difficulty, expense, and/or manufacturing time of the manifold assembly may be decreased.
US10353079B2
A precise positioning method provides a 3D position data in the absence of GPS by correcting the INS error, which generates a precise altitude data in the presence of GPS by integrating the outputs of all the sources providing altitude data and which generates a precise position data by using the INS/GPS integrated system position data. The method is performed by processing the data from relative sensors in the platforms comprising INS which generates the data necessary for terrain-aided navigation, radar altimeter and barometric altimeter sensors, and DTED which is a database comprising the elevation above sea level of the relevant terrain.
US10353070B2
A distance measurement device includes an imaging unit, a measurement unit that measures a plurality of distances to the subject by emitting a plurality of directional light rays the subject and receiving reflection light rays, a control unit that controls the imaging unit to image the subject in an angle of view which includes irradiation positions of the directional light rays used in the measurement of the plurality of distances onto the subject, and a deriving unit that derives a dimension of a real-space region corresponding to an interval between a plurality of pixels associated with the in-image irradiation positions based on distances which are related to in-image irradiation positions derived as positions corresponding to the irradiation positions within a captured image acquired through imaging, among the plurality of measured distances, the interval for each distance within the captured image, and a focal length of the imaging unit.
US10353069B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is described by which a first sequence of ultrasound images of an organ such as the heart is acquired at a first image acquisition rate. The first sequence preferably images a larger volume or area in which a region of interest is located. Then a second sequence of three-dimensional ultrasound images of a sub-volume covering a part of anatomy of interest in the first sequence is acquired at a second image acquisition rate which is greater than the first acquisition rate. A third sequence of three-dimensional ultrasound images of a reference sub-volume is acquired at the second image rate. The second and third sequences of three-dimensional images are compared, enabling a clinician to focus on synchronism defects in the anatomy of interest with more precision and with a faster acquisition time.
US10353065B2
The invention relates to a method for using a driver assistance device of a motor vehicle (1) to detect a mark (7) made on a ground (6) by providing a two-dimensional image by means of an imaging sensor (3) of the driver assistance device (2); by identifying a potential mark (7″) on the basis of the two-dimensional image (11); and by performing a distance measurement by means of a distance sensor (4) of the driver assistance device and also taking a result (17) of the distance measurement as a basis for determining whether the potential mark (7″) is the mark (7) made on the ground (6) or a mark (14) on an object (13) that is on the ground (6).
US10353062B2
Methods and apparatus to determine an accurate distance to a target using reference signal interpolation is disclosed. An example apparatus includes an interpolator to receive a first sample of a reference signal and a second sample of a reference signal; and interpolating a reconstructed reference signal sample based on the first and second samples, the reconstructed reference signal corresponding to the reference signal; a correlator to generate a plurality of phase-shifted, reconstructed reference signals; and correlate each of the plurality of phase-shifted, reconstructed reference signals with a reflected signal; and an optimal phase selector to determine an optimal phase based on the correlations and output a distance to a target based on the optimal phase.
US10353053B2
A method and system for using one or more radar systems for object detection based on machine learning in an environment is disclosed. A scanning radar or combination of radars mounted on a vehicle or moving object scans the environment to acquire information. The radar data may be a 3D point cloud, 2D radar image or 3D radar image. The radar data may also be combined with data from LIDAR, vision or both. A machine learning algorithm is then applied to the acquired data to detect dynamic or static objects within the environment, and identify at least one object feature comprising one of a type, location, distance, orientation, size or speed of an object.
US10353051B2
An apparatus for detecting axial misalignment of a beam sensor calculates, based on a result of first target recognition tasks by a beam recognition unit and a result of second target recognition tasks by an image recognition unit, a percentage of the number of times at least one preceding vehicle, which is running in front of an own vehicle, is recognized by the pair of the first and second target recognition tasks to the number of times the at least one preceding vehicle is recognized by at least the image recognition task. The apparatus detects misalignment of the beam axis of the beam sensor in the vertical plane including the beam axis of the beam sensor in accordance with the calculated percentage.
US10353048B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for estimating a position between wireless apparatuses using a signal transmitted and received between wireless apparatuses in a wireless communication system. A device of a first wireless apparatus for estimating a position comprises: a transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal to and from a second wireless apparatus; and a position estimator for estimating a position of the second wireless apparatus using a signal transmitted and received through the transceiver. The position estimator comprises a range estimator for estimating the distance between the first wireless apparatus and the second wireless apparatus on the basis of a first time difference from a time point at which a request range packet is transmitted to the second wireless apparatus to a time point at which the reception of a response range packet transmitted from the second wireless apparatus is sensed and a second time difference from a time point at which the reception of the required range packet is sensed by the second wireless apparatus to a time point at which the response range packet is transmitted.
US10353042B2
According to one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes a generator, an amplifier, and processing circuitry. The generator sequentially generates RF pulses comprising an RF pulse train defined in a pulse sequence. The amplifier amplifies the RF pulses sequentially inputted from the generator. The processing circuitry calculates a correction value, each time an amplified RF pulse is outputted from the amplifier, based on a difference between an output value of the amplified RF pulse and a reference output value. Further, the processing circuitry applies the correction value promptly to an RF pulse to be inputted to the amplifier, the RF pulse to be inputted to the amplifier being included in the RF pulse train and being generated after an RF pulse corresponding to the amplified RF pulse used for calculation of the correction value is generated.
US10353041B2
In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus, includes a static magnetic field magnet configured to generate a static magnetic field, a gradient coil configured to generate a gradient magnetic field, a transmission and reception coil configured to transmit an RF signal and receive a magnetic resonance signal, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines whether or not a prescan for calculating a correction value that corrects a phase error is skippable or reducible based on an imaging condition of a main scan, and executes a scan including at least the main scan in accordance with a result of the determination.
US10353039B2
Efficient encoding of signals in an MRI image is achieved through a combination of parallel receiver coils, and nonlinear gradient encoding that varies dynamically in such a manner as to impose a unique phase/frequency time varying signal on each pixel in the field of view. Any redundancies are designed such that they are easily resolved by the receiver coil sensitivity profiles. Since each voxel has an essentially identifiable complex temporal signal, spatial localization is easily achieved with only a single echo acquisition.
US10353029B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device includes at least one switching cell that uses a first switcher to switch paths for two of four radio frequency (RF) signals is used to output the two RF signals. The MRI device includes RF coils including a plurality of coils for receiving RF signals from an object to which magnetic fields are applied; an image processor for creating a magnetic resonance image based on the received RF signals; and a switching unit for switching connections between a plurality of input ports connectable to the plurality of coils and a plurality of output ports connectable to the image processor, wherein the switching unit includes at least one switching cell including four input ports, two output ports connected to two of the four input ports, and a first switcher for switching between paths extended from second and third input ports among the four input ports.
US10353028B2
Example apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radio frequency (RF) coils concern controlling current magnitude at different sections in one MRI RF coil. In one embodiment, an MRI RF coil comprises a plurality of loop coils configured to transmit or receive an RF signal. A member of the plurality of loop coils comprises an inductor and at least one capacitor. The MRI RF coil further comprises at least one coaxial transmission line that electrically couple in series a first member of the plurality of loop coils with a second, different member of the plurality of loop coils. The at least one coaxial transmission line has a length that is one-quarter wavelength (λ/4) of the RF signal, or an odd integer multiple of λ/4 of the RF signal.
US10353026B2
In order to provide interventional access during an image-guided interventional procedure, while increasing the signal-to-noise ratio for generated images compared to a single loop coil, a local coil includes a single coil element disposed around an opening through the local coil and two coil elements positioned on opposite sides of the single coil element. The opening provides access for an interventional tool used during the image-guided interventional procedure.
US10353008B2
A method for estimating a state of a battery determines, using a sensor, physical quantities of the battery indicative of a charge of the battery to produce a measured charge of the battery. The method also estimates the physical quantities of the battery using a model of the battery stored in a memory to produce an estimated charge of the battery and updates at least one parameter of the model of the battery to reduce a difference between the measured charge of the battery and the estimated charge of the battery. The method determines the state of the battery using the updated model of the battery.
US10353007B2
The rechargeable battery parameter estimation apparatus includes: a current measurement part for measuring a current flowing through a rechargeable battery, the current measurements having an offset error; a first coefficient calculation part for calculating a first coefficient, which is a partial derivative of an estimated value of an state of charge (SoC) of the battery with respect to the offset error; a second coefficient calculation part for calculating a second coefficient, which is a partial derivative of the estimated value of the SoC with respect to a capacity error, which is a difference of a typical full charge capacity from an actual full charge capacity of the battery; and an error estimation part for estimating the offset error and the capacity error from derivative information including the first coefficient and the second coefficient, the current flowing through the battery, and the estimated value of the SoC.
US10353005B2
Apparatus featuring a signal processor or signal processing module configured to: receive signaling containing information about a sampled leakage magnetic flux sensed from a motor, a motor load profile containing a learned leakage magnetic flux sensed from the motor and stored during a learning stage, and a user selectable band of tolerance related to the motor load profile to trigger an alarm condition for the motor; and determine corresponding signaling containing information about whether to trigger the alarm condition for the motor if the sampled leakage magnetic flux is outside the user selectable band of tolerance of the motor load profile, based upon the signaling received. The leakage magnetic flux may be sensed by, and/or received from, a motor flux leakage sensor arranged on an external surface of a frame of the motor.
US10353002B2
The invention relates to a test system and a method to test a circuit breaker (2) of an electrical switchgear assembly. A sub-station battery (3) of the electrical switchgear assembly is used to generate a supply voltage (7) for the circuit breaker (2) for the testing thereof, wherein the sub-station battery (3) is coupled to a test device (1) in order to generate the supply voltage (7) for the circuit breaker (7) [sic] from an input voltage (6) provided by the sub-station battery (3). The supply voltage (7) is stabilized by means of a voltage regulator (11) of the test device (1).
US10352999B2
A logic analyzer includes a probe, an FPGA module, a first transmission interface, a storage module, and a second transmission interface. A method of retrieving data includes the following steps: retrieving a digital signal through the probe, integrating the digital signal into a piece of signal data through the FPGA module, retrieving the piece of signal data through the first transmission interface, saving the piece of signal data in the storage module through the first transmission interface with a first transmission rate, returning the piece of signal data saved in the storage module to the FPGA module through the first transmission interface, receiving and transmitting the piece of signal data to the computer through the second transmission interface with a second transmission rate, whereby to save the piece of signal data therein. A method of performance testing includes testing multiple objects to correspondingly generate a response time triggered by a digital signal, whereby to analyze the performance of the objects.
US10352993B2
A wafer burn-in test circuit may be provided. The wafer burn-in test circuit may include a timing correction unit configured to generate a plurality of timing-compensated input signals by synchronizing a plurality of pulse signals generated according to a plurality of input signals with an input signal among the plurality of input signals. The wafer burn-in test circuit may include a wafer burn-in signal decoding unit configured to generate a plurality of decoding signals by decoding the plurality of timing-compensated input signals and output the plurality of decoding signals as a plurality of wafer burn-in signals by latching the plurality of decoding signals.
US10352981B2
The present invention provides a power-cable ground current self-adaptive monitoring method. The steps including configuring a sample baseline, determining an impact factor set of the sample data, sampling real-time data of ground current by a power-cable ground current monitoring system, perform digital filtering on the sampled real-time data of ground current, applying a self-adaptive method to process the filtered sample data, and uploading the processed sample data to a backend monitoring device for real-time monitoring. The present invention may solve high energy loss and low information amount problems. The power consumption of monitoring device may be reduced by more than 50%, and server resource occupancy percentage may be lowered by about 20%. Efficiencies of evaluating external insulation status of the are enhanced. The present invention provides a novel grade ranking criterion, which may be dynamically corrected based on actual power-line operations, and reduces objective interferences during value determination process.
US10352979B2
The invention relates to a high-voltage dry apparatus having a semiconductor layer (2) covered by a metal screen (3), this screen (3) being eliminated so as to expose this semiconductor layer (2) over a length, this cable being connected to an element of equipment having an outer envelope (6) mechanically connected to said screen.According to the invention, an electronic monitoring arrangement (20) is contained within said envelope (6), this electronic arrangement (20) being electrically connected to an electrical power supply arrangement (21) surrounding said semiconductor layer (2) and to the metal screen (3) of said cable on either side of said length of the exposed semiconductor layer.
US10352969B2
Systems and methods described herein are directed towards integrating a shield layer into a current sensor to shield a magnetic field sensing element and associated circuitry in the current sensor from electrical, voltage, or electrical transient noise. In an embodiment, a shield layer may be disposed along at least one surface of a die supporting a magnetic field sensing element. The shield layer may be disposed in various arrangements to shunt noise caused by a parasitic coupling between the magnetic field sensing element and the current carrying conductor away from the magnetic field sensing element.
US10352964B2
A method of forming a micropattern, a substrate surface inspection apparatus, a cantilever set for an atomic force microscope, and a method of analyzing a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a probe tip the method including forming pinning patterns on a semiconductor substrate; forming a neutral pattern layer in spaces between the pinning patterns; and inspecting a surface of a guide layer that includes the pinning patterns and the neutral pattern layer by using an atomic force microscope (AFM).
US10352963B2
Implementations include a dynamic sweep-plow microcantilever (DSPM) device for nano-machining, nano-manufacturing, and nano-imaging using SPMs (e.g., an AFM). The DSPM device includes two elongated cantilevered arms that are spaced apart at their proximal ends and on which a piezoelectric layer is disposed. The distal ends of the arms are coupled together, and a distal tip is coupled to the distal ends and extends below a plane that includes a lower surface of the arms. The DSPM device is mounted on the AFM and applies nano-machining force through vibration that is induced by the piezoelectric layers on the arms. The DSPM device can vibrate such that the tip undergoes one or both of bending and torsional vibrations, which allows the DSPM device to perform both plowing and/or sweeping in nano-scale. The piezoelectric layers can be used for sensing by collecting vibrational feedback at the distal tip using a laser sensor.
US10352955B2
A speed detection device includes a comparator module, a sensor lead with a node connected to the comparator module, and a limit set module. The limit set module is connected to the sensor lead node and to the comparator by an upper limit lead and a lower limit lead to provide upper and lower limits to the comparator that vary according to amplitude variation in voltage applied to the sensor lead.
US10352947B2
The invention provides methods for the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease, and for monitoring of the treatment of cardiovascular disease, including heart failure and cardiomyopathy. The invention further provides methods for identifying an agent for treating cardiomyopathy or heart failure, for identifying a cardiotoxic agent, and for identifying a rescue agent to reduce or prevent drug-induced toxicity, by using one or more biomarkers selelcted from the group consisting of CCDC47, HMOX1, PTX3, PAI1, IL27, IGFBP7, Emmprin, CFL2, EDIL3, NUCB1, PE D18:0-20:3/D18:1-20:2/D16:0-22:3; PE D18:0-22:5/D18:1-22:4; PE D16:1-22:6; PE P18:1-18:1/P18:0-18:2/P16:0-20:2; LPC 20:3; and PC-LI-183-D18:22-22:6, or any of the other biomarkers provided herein. The invention further provides kits for practicing the methods of the invention.
US10352946B2
An improved qualitative or semi-quantitative diagnostic test for low levels of any analyte, such as hCG, in a biological sample, such as urine. The test comprises of a test device containing reagents for the detection of the monitored analyte and an electronic reader that measures color development at a detection area of the device. The color development is converted to an electronic or digital signal. Improvements were made to the detection process to optimize the detection of a valid fluid front, increase the detection limit without compromising the reliability and accuracy of the test system, and improve the determination of test result validity.
US10352940B2
Methods and devices are provided for analyzing acetone in breath. One such method comprises disposing a reactant in a reaction zone within the breath analysis device, wherein the reactant comprises a primary amine disposed on a surface, and wherein the reaction zone has an optical characteristic that is at a reference level. It also comprises pre-storing a liquid nitroprusside solution within the breath analysis device separately from the reactant. The method further comprises using the breath analysis device to cause the breath to contact the reactant in the reaction zone so that the acetone in the breath reacts with the reactant to form a reaction product and, after the reaction product has been formed, using the breath analysis device to cause the nitroprusside solution to contact and react with the reaction product and to facilitate a change in the optical characteristic of the reaction zone relative to the reference level. The method also comprises using the breath analysis device to detect the change in the optical characteristic to sense the acetone in the breath. Apparatuses that use these methods are also described.
US10352939B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to the quantitative measurement of halide ion concentration and pH using novel fluorescent polypeptides. One embodiment of the invention provides a polypeptide containing at least one amino acid sequence selected from a group consisting of: Sequence ID No. 3, Sequence ID No. 4, Sequence ID No. 5, and Sequence ID No. 6.
US10352938B2
The present invention provides a novel class of macrocyclic compounds as well as complexes formed between a metal (e.g., lanthanide) ion and the compounds of the invention. Preferred complexes exhibit high stability as well as high quantum yields of lanthanide ion luminescence in aqueous media without the need for secondary activating agents. Preferred compounds comprise hydroxypyridinonyl moieties within their macrocyclic structure and are characterized by surprisingly low, non-specific binding to a variety of polypeptides such as antibodies and proteins as well as high kinetic stability.
US10352922B2
A system for measuring hematocrit in a whole blood sample is provided. An absorbent substrate is adapted to receive a whole blood sample. At least one light source is positioned to illuminate the sample on the substrate at first and second wavelengths. The first and second wavelengths are different from each other. A spectral sensor is positioned to measure a first intensity and a second intensity of light diffusely reflected from the sample at the first and second wavelengths, respectively. The diffusely reflected first and second intensities of light are compared to reference values to generate first and second reflectance values. A controller, coupled to the spectral sensor, is configured to determine a first differential reflectance between the first and second reflectances. The hematocrit level of the sample is determined based on a first stored relationship between hematocrit and a differential reflectance corresponding to the first and second wavelengths.
US10352920B2
Methods for monitoring and adjusting a physiological state of a subject. The methods include (1) providing a subject having one or more physiological parameters defined by one or more biometrics, (2) monitoring a selected biometric analyte associated with a selected biometric to define a state of the selected biometric, (3) based on the results of the monitoring, adjusting the state of the selected biometric by administering to the subject a supplement selected to affect the state of the selected biometric.
US10352915B1
A system for detection of a potentially irradiated object utilizing oxygen-17 (17O) quantities in a local atmosphere contacting the potentially irradiated object. The local atmosphere comprises nitrogen-14 (14N) and is typically air. The 17O quantity in the local atmosphere is determined through sampling using mass spectroscopy, nuclear resonance magnetic imaging, gas chromatography, or some other method. The 17O quantity in the local atmosphere is compared to a baseline quantity of 17O and deviations are treated as an indicator that a nuclear reaction converting 14N to 17O has occurred or is occurring. Typically the local atmosphere is isolated to some degree from an external atmosphere via some type of enclosure or container, and the external atmosphere provides the baseline quantity of 17O used for the comparison.
US10352914B2
An environmental stimulus sensor includes a substrate, a p-type material, and a conductive contact. In some aspects the conductive contact couples an electrode to the p-type material for supplying a current through the p-type material. The p-type material includes a nanotile structure for responding to an environmental stimulus by changing resistance.
US10352903B2
A method and an apparatus for monitoring a material includes adding tagging particles to the material, sensing the tagging particles in the material for an even distribution throughout the material, forming a part from the material if the tagging particles are evenly distributed throughout the material, sensing the tagging particles in the part to determine a physical characteristic of the part, placing the part in operation if the determined physical characteristic is within a predetermined specification, sensing the tagging particles in the part during operation to detect at least one of wear and damage to the part, and generating an indication to a user upon detection of the at least one of wear or damage to the part.
US10352896B2
A cell and/or a measuring instrument are arranged for coulometric titration. The cell has first and second electrochemical half-cells, each of which is connected into a regulated circuit and each of which has an associated electrode. The second electrode (3) is immersed in an electrolyte (2) that is solid or solidified and fills a second housing (1). The second housing is closed, with charge and material exchange only possible through a diaphragm (4) that is disposed between the respective electrochemical half-cells. The electrolyte contains a first redox partner that, along with at least one second redox partner, is part of a redox system. The redox partners are selected to substantially suppress gas development inside the cell during operation. The first electrode and the second housing are disposed in a first housing so that at least the diaphragm and the first electrode are in contact with a sample during operation.
US10352892B2
An apparatus and a method for a trace oxygen sensor is configured with a floating cathode that has a capability to detect part-per-billion (ppb) level or less of oxygen in a gas background. An electrolyte reservoir can supply electrolyte when electrolyte level is low. An electrolyte reservoir may be connected to the main cell along with a protection electrode.
US10352882B2
A method for analyzing an object includes irradiating the object with incident photon radiation and acquiring an energy spectrum scattered by the material using a spectrometric detector in scatter mode. An energy spectrum transmitted by the material is acquired using a spectrometric detector in transmission mode. A signature (f) is reconstructed representing the object, both from the scatter spectrum measured and from the transmission spectrum measured, and the reconstructed signature thereof is compared with signatures of standard materials.
US10352877B2
A method of determining a physical characteristic of an adhesive material on a semiconductor device element using structured light is provided. The method includes the steps of: (1) applying a structured light pattern to an adhesive material on a semiconductor device element; (2) creating an image of the structured light pattern using a camera; and (3) analyzing the image of the structured light pattern to determine a physical characteristic of the adhesive material. Additional methods and systems for determining physical characteristics of semiconductor devices and elements using structured light are also provided.
US10352869B2
An inspection apparatus includes an illumination device including an arch-like lighting unit that is provided around an inspection target in a circular arc form and emits light toward the inspection target, imaging devices that capture images of a light reflection surface of the inspection target by which the light emitted from the arch-like lighting unit is reflected, and a determination device that inspects the light reflection surface of the inspection target on the basis of the images captured by the imaging devices. As a result, the inspection apparatus provides an effect of preventing the apparatus from being increased in size.
US10352864B2
An automatic analyzer includes sample vessels containing samples to be measured and; reaction vessels in which to mix a sample and a reagent. A sample dispenser 5 dispenses a sample from any of the sample vessels to any of the reaction vessels. A reagent dispenser dispenses a reagent from a reagent vessel to a reaction vessel, and a stirrer stirs the sample-reagent mix contained in the reaction vessel. A photometric measurement unit is provided for obtaining multiple measurement data points during the progress of reaction of a mixed solution. At least one approximation formula is performed and an approximation curve from the measurement data points is generated. A shape descriptor is calculated from the approximation curve and abnormalities based on the shape descriptor are determined. This not only allows abnormalities to be detected accurately from each measurement result, but also allows the causes of the abnormalities to be identified.
US10352863B1
The present invention comprises a novel approach for optimizing detection performance of a standoff optical detection system using the inelastic scattering of light from the target and/or inelastic scattering of light from molecules between the light emitting source and the target. This is a useful approach primarily for systems which already employ a pulsed light source, a detector, and a timing mechanism but whose primary function is not the detection of range. Using this methodology removes the need to deploy a secondary device to find range or augments the ability of any included range finder to widen the overall system operating envelope, reliability, and performance.
US10352862B2
In a Raman spectroscopic microscope, a spatial resolution that exceeds the diffraction limit of light is achieved. A diffraction grating diffracts laser light emitted from a light source and thereby generates diffracted light. A spectroscope acquires a spectrum of incident light and a spatial distribution of light intensities of the spectrum. An optical system applies interference light formed by +1st order diffracted light and −1st order diffracted light generated in the diffraction grating to an object to be observed as linear illumination light and guides a Raman scattered light generated by the application of the linear illumination light to the object to be observed to the spectroscope, the linear illumination light having its longitudinal direction in a first direction. A control unit controls the optical system and thereby scans the object to be observed by the linear illumination light in a second direction.
US10352856B2
Ultra-thin conductors are employed to generate plasmon fields near the surface of the conductors. Emitters, such as atoms, molecules, quantum dots, or quantum wells, in the plasmon fields can emit and absorb light via transitions that are otherwise forbidden in the absence of the plasmon fields. Applications using these forbidden transitions include spectroscopy, organic light sources, and broadband light generation. For example, in a spectroscopic platform, an emitter is disposed in the plasmon fields to excite electronic transitions that are otherwise unexcitable. In organic light sources, plasmon fields quench excited triplet states, allowing fast singlet decay with the emission of light. In broadband light generation, strong two-plasmon spontaneous emission of emitters near ultrathin conductors is employed to produce a broad spectrum of light.
US10352855B2
A method, apparatus and optical device for detecting a relationship between an evanescent field and Goos-Hänchen shift, said method comprising: obtaining a potential field function of an evanescent field acting on total-reflection light according to physical meanings of a force function and the potential field function of light in the evanescent field (S101); obtaining a wave function of the perturbed total-reflection light by means of the Schrödinger equation by combining with the potential field function of the evanescent field acting on total-reflection light (S102); and comparing the wave function of the perturbed total-reflection light with a wave function of free total-reflection light with no action from the evanescent field, and determining a momentum gained by the total-reflection light under the action of the evanescent field, which is the same in nature as a momentum of the evanescent field (S103).
US10352854B2
The disclosure relates to a motor vehicle comprising a dust sensor. The dust sensor is a scattered light photometer according to the disclosure. The scattered light photometer measures the dust load of the air in a region of the motor vehicle in which resuspended or emitted dust has a tendency to occur during travel. In addition, the motor vehicle contains a device for dust reduction, which receives measured data from the scattered light photometer, and decides, on the basis of the measured data, whether measures are to be taken against dust resuspension or dust emission. The device takes corresponding measures if the dust load exceeds a threshold value.
US10352853B2
A measuring device includes: a light source that emits, toward a target part of an object, at least one light pulse group each including light pulses emitted sequentially, a photodetector that detects at least a part of at least one reflected light pulse group and including reflected light pulses sequentially returning from the target part, and a control circuit that controls the light source and the photodetector. The control circuit causes the light source to emit the at least one light pulse group within a first period, causes the photodetector to extract, within the first period, a first component that is a component of light included in at least a part of a leading reflected light pulse of the reflected light pulses, and causes the photodetector to output a first electric signal corresponding to the first component.
US10352852B2
A system for widely spaced wavelength tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy includes at least a first and second tunable diode laser generating laser light at a first and second wavelength, wherein laser light of the first and second wavelengths cannot co-propagate efficiently on the same single-mode fiber. A first fiber may be configured to carry light in the first wavelength, and a second fiber configured to carry light in the second wavelength. A fiber bundle may be formed from the distal ends of the first and second fibers stripped of their respective coatings, and arranged with their claddings adjacent to each other. One or more pitch heads are configured to project respective beams of laser light from the fiber bundle through a measurement zone. One or more catch heads located across the measurement zone receive the respective beams and direct the respective beams onto at least one sensor.
US10352842B2
A particulate matter detection element 1 includes paired detection electrodes 12 for detecting particulate matter contained in exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine, and insulating member 13 made of electrically insulating material. In the particulate matter detection element 1, at least part of the paired detection electrodes 12 is exposed from the insulating member 13 in the direction perpendicular to the lamination direction of the paired detection electrodes 1, to cause part of the particulate matter to deposit thereon. The surface roughness of at least the insulating member disposed between the paired detection electrodes is between 0.8 μm and 8.0 μm in 10-point average roughness.
US10352838B2
A rotary shock testing machine including: a base; a shaft rotatable relative to the base; a test disc for holding one or more specimens to be tested, the test disc being rotatable with the shaft; an actuator for applying a rotation to the shaft and test disc; and a brake for applying a braking force to the test disc to subject the one or more specimens to a rotary shock.
US10352831B2
An amount of wear of a railroad vehicle wheel flange online while traveling in a curved section is directly measured. A laser rangefinder 3 is installed on an outer track side in a rounded curve section of a railroad track. When a railroad vehicle travels through the rounded curve section, the laser rangefinder 3 measures a distance to a front rim surface of a wheel on an outer track side of a wheelset in a forward direction of travel of a bogie forming a vehicle. The amount of wheel flange wear is obtained by comparing this measured distance with a previous measurement of the measured distance. It is then possible to control the amount of wheel flange wear when traveling in a curved section, thus making it possible to quickly find wheels having flange wear that has exceeded a control range and ensure safety during travel of the railroad vehicle.
US10352823B2
Engine health monitoring is used to assess the health of an engine, such as a gas turbine engine. Blades mounted on a shaft produce a modal response when excited. The shaft has an order related component that varies with the rotational velocity of the shaft. Modal responses are increased when the natural frequency range of the selected blade mode intersects with one of the order related components. By applying a short time chirp-Fourier transform with a frequency speed that is a function of a rate of change in the rotational velocity of the shaft a selected signal can be isolated. Cracks in the blades can be detected from the isolated signal.
US10352818B2
A method and system for operating fiber optic monitoring systems utilizing solar panels, batteries, and an interrogator system with associated electronics for operating in cold climates.
US10352815B2
An improved leakage testing device for attachment to a flexible wall of an item to be tested is provided with a film (4) that limits a hollow chamber (1) on the outer side of the item to be tested and with a leakage (2), said film (4) being designed to adhere to the item to be tested.
US10352813B2
A method for correcting an ambient pressure measurement, a method for calculating a temperature, and an apparatus for affecting the same for an aircraft measuring system are provided. The methods include the steps of receiving an airspeed measurement from a laser sensor, receiving a total pressure measurement, and calculating an ambient pressure correction. A corrected ambient pressure or a calculated temperature may be calculated. The apparatus includes a laser sensor configured to provide an airspeed measurement, an aircraft instrument configured to provide a total pressure measurement, and a processing system.
US10352811B2
A cold cathode ionization vacuum gauge includes an extended anode electrode and a cathode electrode surrounding the anode electrode along its length and forming a discharge space between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The vacuum gauge further includes an electrically conductive guard ring electrode interposed between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode about a base of the anode electrode to collect leakage electrical current, and a discharge starter device disposed over and electrically connected with the guard ring electrode, the starter device having a plurality of tips directed toward the anode and forming a gap between the tips and the anode.
US10352808B2
Provided is a pressure detection unit in which a waterproof property can be improved. In a pressure sensor, a sealing-resin portion is joined to an outside side surface of an element main body made of stainless steel, aluminum, or nickel such that the sealing-resin portion surrounds a plurality of lead pins. In the pressure sensor, a roughened annular surface portion is provided at a region where the sealing-resin portion is joined on an upper end surface of the element main body so as to be disposed in a manner to partition an external peripheral edge and an internal peripheral edge arranged at the outside side surface of an element main body in the sealing-resin portion.
US10352803B2
A pressure sensor chip according to the present invention includes an annular diaphragm that surrounds a periphery of a low-differential-pressure diaphragm (1) as a high-differential-pressure diaphragm (2). A measurement pressure (Pa) for one surface of the low-differential-pressure diaphragm (1) is transmitted to one surface of the high-differential-pressure diaphragm (2) along a branched path, and a measurement pressure (Pb) for the other surface of the low-differential-pressure diaphragm (1) is transmitted to the other surface of the high-differential-pressure diaphragm (2) along a branched path. Thus, multiple differential-pressure measurement ranges can be provided.
US10352800B2
A pressure sensor includes a piezoelectric substrate having a generally planar structure and an anchor location fixing the piezoelectric substrate at the periphery of the planar structure of the piezoelectric substrate. The planar structure of the piezoelectric substrate has a first region having a first characteristic thickness adjacent to the anchor location, and a second region have a second characteristic thickness at a middle region of the substrate. The second characteristic thickness is less than the first characteristic thickness such that the planar structure in the second region is displaced relative to the neutral axis of the planar structure such that while undergoing bending the second region has either mostly compressive or mostly tensile stress.
US10352797B2
A tunable and resettable shock sensor using a parallel dipole line (PDL) trap system is provided. In one aspect, a shock sensor includes: a PDL trap having a pair of diametric magnets separated from one another by a gap gM, and a diamagnetic rod levitating in between the diametric magnets; and contact pads below the PDL trap, wherein the contact pads are separated from one another by a space that is less than a length l of the diamagnetic rod. A shock monitoring system is also provided that includes a network of the shock sensors, as is a method for shock monitoring using the shock sensors.
US10352793B2
A torque sensor (10), in particular for detecting torques occurring on or in a joint of an articulated-arm robot. The sensor has several measuring spokes (1, 2, 3, 4) that are designed to deform under the effects of torque; and several strain gauges (DR11, DR12, DR21, DR22, DR31, DR32, DR41, DR42), with two strain gauges being arranged on two opposite sides of the several measuring spokes (1, 2, 3, 4). The several strain gauges are each connected in one of at least two bridge circuits (A, B). The at least two bridge circuits (A, B) are each configured to generate a bridge voltage (Ua, Ub). By detecting and comparing differences in the bridge voltage signals (Ua, Ub) generated by the at least two bridge circuits (A, B); a reliability of the detected bridge voltage signals is determined.
US10352792B2
An integrated circuit (IC) chip includes a substrate of a piezo-electric material having a first resistivity coefficient associated with a first direction that is longitudinal to a first crystal axis and a second resistivity coefficient associated with a second direction that is transverse to the first crystal axis. The first and second resistivity coefficients have opposite signs. The IC chip also includes a first stress sensing element formed in the substrate and coupled to pass a first current therethrough. The first stress sensing element includes a first resistor aligned such that the major direction of current flow through the first resistor is in the first direction and a second resistor coupled in series with the first resistor and aligned such that the major direction of current flow through the second resistor is in the second direction. A ratio of the resistance of the second resistor to the resistance of the first resistor is equal to a value α, where α is equal to the ratio of the first resistivity coefficient to the second resistivity coefficient.
US10352782B2
An integrated circuit die that includes a temperature monitoring system that obtains measured temperature data from on die temperature sensors during a mode when power is not being supplied to a system controller of the die. After the system controller is powered up, the system controller obtains the measured temperature data. This system and method can be useful in that heat from a powered up system controller does not affect the temperature readings of the temperature monitoring system.
US10352781B2
A calibration device including a thermal sensing device, and a reference heater, where the heater and the sensing device are integrated together, the heater and the sensing have at least one dimension substantially in common, and the over all dimensions are in the range of thermal micro probes, 100 nm-500 microns.
US10352772B2
An integrated temperature sensor device has a temperature sensor providing an analog signal corresponding to an ambient temperature, an analog-to-digital converter coupled to the sensor conditioning circuit and receiving the analog temperature signal, and a timer and control circuit which is operable to be configured to control the temperature sensor device to perform a sequence of temperature measurements and shut-down time periods, wherein multiple temperature measurements are taken during the measurement period, wherein the timer and control circuit is further operable to be programmed to set the number of temperature measurements and the length of the shut-down period.
US10352770B2
A system for monitoring a chemical reaction in a liquid reactor system includes a sample liquid conduit in communication with the liquid reactor system for receiving sample liquid and directing the sample liquid to an optical spectroscopy device, and a laser beam source. The optical spectroscopy device receives the laser beam from the laser source, and guides the laser beam to the sample liquid to generate an optical spectroscopy signal. A detector detects the optical spectroscopy signal and creates a detection signal responsive to the optical spectroscopy signal. A processor processes the detection signal to determine the identity and amount of at least one chemical species in the liquid. A system for continuously sampling a chemical reaction and a method for continuously monitoring and controlling a chemical reaction are also disclosed.
US10352764B2
An optoelectronic module that includes a reflectance member which exhibits mitigated or eliminated fan-out field-of-view overlap can be concealed or its visual impact minimized compared to a host device in which the optoelectronic module is mounted. In some instances, the reflectance member can be implemented as a plurality of through holes and in other instances the reflectance member may be a contiguous spin-coated polymeric coating. In general, the reflectance member can be diffusively reflective to the same particular wavelengths or ranges of wavelengths as the host device in which it is mounted.
US10352755B2
Systems and methods that use a passive differential optical sensor to measure the level of liquid in a reservoir (e.g., a fuel tank or other storage container). More specifically, the passive differential optical liquid level sensor solves the problem of common-mode intensity variations by employing three optical fibers that will be disposed vertically in the reservoir. The system comprises a side-emitting optical fiber having one end optically coupled to an optical source, a side-receiving optical fiber optically coupled to a first optical detector, and a total internal reflection optical fiber having one end optically coupled to the other end of the side-emitting optical fiber and another end optically coupled to a second optical detector. A computer or processor is configured to perform differential processing of the detected light and then determine the liquid level based on the differential processing results.
US10352753B1
Embodiments of a sight port system of the present invention generally include a primary lens assembly disposed within a hot zone of a sight port component, wherein the primary lens assembly comprises a primary lens positioned between two annular flanges; the gas sealed hot zone is defined between a cavity closure plate, which may comprise a secondary lens, and the primary lens assembly; a jacketed heating means is disposed circumferentially around the gas filled zone and the primary lens; the primary lens assembly is positioned adjacent a process stream chamber or pipe segment; and a process fluid flowing through the process stream chamber may be visually observed through the primary lens, and the secondary lens if present. Embodiments comprising two opposing primary lens assemblies are also disclosed. Embodiments of a method of using embodiments of a sight port system of the present invention are also provided.
US10352749B2
The present invention is about a volume-measuring device installed inside a box that used to store a liquid. The measuring device is placed at the bottom of the box dispensing the liquid, and displays via a measuring tower a measure of the volume of the liquid still in the box. The device is comprised of a receptacle or sealed pouch connected to a measuring tower. As the pressure from the weight of the liquid changes, the receptacle reacts by moving the measuring marker to reflect such change, thus measuring the current liquid volume in the dispensing box.
US10352748B2
To achieve both response speed and accuracy required for a flow rate measuring device without sacrificing the simplicity and inexpensiveness of a PWM type D/A converter, the flow rate measuring device includes an analog conversion part adapted to convert a digital signal indicating a measured flow rate value to an analog signal. In addition, the analog conversion part includes: a PWM signal generating circuit that can output three or more specified voltages is configured to, on the basis of the measured flow rate value indicated by the digital signal, select two adjacent voltages, as well as on the basis of the measured flow rate value indicated by the digital signal, set a duty ratio to generate a PWM signal of which a high level and a low level are the two selected voltages, respectively; and a conversion circuit that smooths the PWM signal to convert to the analog signal.
US10352730B2
The invention relates to a rotation sensor, comprising: —a stator (A) and rotor (B), arranged coaxially and forming a magnetic circuit (10, 20), the rotor being mounted angularly displaced with respect to the stator, —a primary winding, suitable for generating a magnetic field in the magnetic circuit, and —at least one secondary winding, characterized in that the magnetic circuit comprises at least one tooth (220) extending radially with respect to the axis (X-X) of the stator and of the rotor, and at least one notch (12) suitable for receiving said tooth, such that the tooth is separated from the notch by at least one tangential air gap (51) that is variable according to the angular displacement of the rotor with respect to the stator, the tooth and the notch being shaped so that, during a rotation of the rotor with respect to the stator, a variation in the width of the tangential air gap causes an increase or a decrease in the permeance of the air and, respectively, an increase or a decrease in the voltage at the terminals of the secondary winding.
US10352728B2
An angle sensor includes a detection signal generation unit for generating detection signals, and an angle detection unit for generating a detected angle value on the basis of the detection signals. The angle detection unit includes a signal conversion unit for performing a conversion operation, and an angle operation unit for performing an angle operation. The conversion operation is to convert the detection signals into first and second operation signals. The angle operation is to calculate the detected angle value using the first and second operation signals. The conversion operation includes an operation using a correction-term-containing function which contains a correction term for reducing a first error or a second error occurring in the detected angle value. When the angle to be detected varies with a predetermined period, the first error varies with the predetermined period, whereas the second error varies with a period ½ the predetermined period.
US10352713B2
A method and system. A request to generate for a user a geographical map is received, wherein the map depicts one or more travel routes from a specified initial address to a specified destination address, specified features relating to the one or more travel routes, and unique identifiers of preferred service providers of the specified features. After the request is received, it is ascertained that user preferences of the user for service providers of the specified features are not contained in a user preference database and that user preferences of the user for service providers of the specified features have not been provided with the request. User preferences of the user for service providers of the specified features are determined and in response, the map is generated and displayed.
US10352711B2
A method and a system for guiding a vehicle from a source to a target within a scenario with obstacles are disclosed. The source is established as a starting point and a subpath to the target is computed. When an obstacle is detected that crosses the computed subpath, a plurality of obstacle-free subpaths are computed to connect the starting point to a waypoint of an outer boundary of a detected obstacle. Priorities for each waypoint are computed and ordered accordingly in a list of potential waypoints to select the highest priority waypoint in the list as a new starting point. Previous operations are repeated until the target is reached, thus the path is obtained by backtracking waypoints to the source. The vehicle can be then guided and the target reached via the obtained path.
US10352703B2
The present disclosure pertains to a system for effectuating presentation of a terrain around a vehicle on a display in the vehicle. In some implementations, the system receives information related to the vehicle's location, the height above the ground surface of the terrain, and the vehicle's orientation from one or more first sensors coupled to the vehicle; obtains a three dimensional topographical map of a terrain around the vehicle based on the location of the vehicle; and receives imagery data from one or more second sensors coupled to the vehicle, the imagery data corresponding to the terrain, wherein the imagery data comprises instantaneous imagery and previously recorded imagery. The system effectuates presentation of the imagery data corresponding to the terrain on the three dimensional topographical map based on the location, the height above the ground surface of the terrain, and the orientation of the vehicle.
US10352685B2
A device. The device includes a substrate a substrate, a first optical waveguide disposed on the substrate and a second optical waveguide disposed on the substrate. The device further includes a coupling element disposed on the substrate, the coupling element configured to couple an optical signal in the first optical waveguide to the second optical waveguide, and couple an optical signal in the second optical waveguide to the first optical waveguide. A first reflective element is disposed at an end of the first optical waveguide configured to reflect optical signals in the first optical waveguide. A second reflective element disposed at an end of the second optical waveguide configured to reflect signals in the second optical waveguide.
US10352683B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for analysis of synthetic ropes, cords, slings, cables and belts (collectively termed “ropes”) including but not limited to ropes for bearing loads as well as fiber optic cables. The ropes are provided with one or more elements for magnetic detection, wherein the magnetic detection elements each comprise a metal fiber or an appropriately treated synthetic fiber. The methods and apparatuses encompass detection of induced or residual magnetism or magnetic flux in the magnetic detection element(s), to sense for example lay length and/or damage, breakage or wear of the magnetic detection element(s), indicative of the condition of the rope.
US10352675B2
A length-measuring device for measuring a relative position of two objects with respect to each other by scanning a measuring graduation of a scale tape includes a hollow section member in which the scale tape is tensioned along a longitudinal direction of the hollow section member. A tensioner device is configured to tension the scale tape. The tensioner device includes a fixed member which is stationary relative to the hollow section member and a tensioner which is held under tension on the fixed member by a spring acting in the longitudinal direction, as well as a holding member to which the scale tape and the tensioner are attached. The tensioner is detachably secured to the holding member and configured such that the tensioner is separable from the holding member and removable from the hollow section member at an end. An adjuster adjusts the tension of the scale tape.
US10352671B1
A fully automated modular primer processing unit is provided that is controllable, tailorable and increases the safety of operators over current methods. The modular primer process unit is comprised of a plurality of stations. Exemplary stations include: 1) primer cup insertion station, 2) an energetic filling station, 3) a drying station, 4) a consolidation unit, and 5) an anvil insertion station. Additional stations such as a tray feed station, a primer sealing station and a tray stacking station may also be configured with the modular primer processing unit.
US10352657B2
A modular dovetail rail clamping assembly includes a polymer body and a metal fixed clamp component. A threaded fastener extends through the body and into the fixed clamp component to draw the fixed clamp component into engagement with the body. The fixed clamp component and the body have mating longitudinal ridge and groove structures which rigidly fix alignment of the fixed clamp component relative to the body when assembled. A metal movable clamp component opposes the fixed clamp. A threaded clamping fastener extends through the movable clamp component and the body, and is received into the fixed clamp component to draw the movable clamp component into engagement with the body. A removable, reversible crossbar extends transversely across the body between the fixed clamp component and the movable clamp component.
US10352656B2
A mounting system includes a bracket, a first engagement member, and a second engagement member. The bracket includes a first leg, a second leg, and a bridge portion extending between the first leg and the second leg. The first leg defines a first aperture. The second leg defines a second aperture. The first engagement member is disposed within the first aperture and includes a first engagement surface. The second engagement member is disposed within the second aperture and includes a second engagement surface configured to receive the first engagement surface.
US10352647B1
A gas bottle installing structure (1) for use in toy gun includes a gas bottle cylinder (10), including a shell body (11), an accommodation space (100) capable of accommodating a gas bottle (2), and a base (12) formed with a penetration hole (120). The shell body (11) is formed with a communication hole (110) at an opposite side relative to the penetration hole (120); a piercing pin seat (20), disposed at one side of the communication hole (110); and a screw seat set (30), including a nut seat (31) penetrating the penetration hole (120), a screw seat (32) combined at an outer end of the nut seat (31), and an elastic member (33) elastically clamped between the base (12) and the screw seat (32). Accordingly, a structure enabling the gas bottle to be easily installed and allowing the gas bottle to be rapidly pierced is provided.
US10352642B1
A firearm adapter that attaches a muzzle device, such as a suppressor to a broad range of firearm sizes and shapes. The adapter can securely attach and align a suppressor to a wide range of barrel diameters and profiles, including, those barrels with various obstructions, protrusions and geometries. An embodiment of the device reaches over or around barrel obstructions to securely attach a housing to an anchor on an unobstructed section of the barrel and further compresses an alignment surface against the muzzle to create longitudinal and concentric alignment between the barrel and the suppressor.
US10352640B2
A trigger device for activating a firing mechanism, the trigger device comprising a housing, a trigger pivotally mounted on the housing via a trigger pivot pin, a sear arm comprising a first sear surface, a ticker extending generally from the trigger to the sear arm, the ticker pivotable about a ticker pivot pin, the ticker comprising spaced apart flanges, each of which comprises an aperture defining at least a first contact surface, and a captured roller positioned at least partially within the apertures, wherein in a captured position the first sear surface and the first contact surfaces engage the captured roller and in a released position the first contact surfaces disengage from the captured roller to allow the captured roller to move within the aperture.
US10352636B2
In various embodiments, a buffer retention system may comprise a body, a retention tab and a spring. The body may comprise a generally cylindrical portion and a partially annular guide portion. The generally cylindrical portion may define a channel. The partially annular guide portion may be operatively coupled to the cylindrical portion. The retention tab may be installable in the channel. The retention tab may be configured to protrude through the partially annular guide portion. The spring may be installable within the channel. The spring may be configured to position the retention tab through the partially annular guide portion.
US10352634B2
A cooling apparatus for power electronic devices having at least one cooling body comprised of a cooling plate in contact with at least one power electronic component, and having a coolant line which leads through the cooling plate, wherein a device is provided for determining the flow quantity. The coolant line has a cross-sectional tapering in the cooling plate, with at least two measurement ports for connecting a differential pressure gauge for measuring a pressure difference at the two ports, wherein one is downstream of the cross-sectional tapering at the cooling plate. The flow determination device comprises an evaluation device for determining the flow quantity from the measured pressure difference. The cross-sectional tapering is configured as a venturi element, wherein the constriction is tapped after the tapering and the wide point is tapped before the tapering with a measurement port to determine the pressure difference adopted over the venturi nozzle.
US10352632B2
A system includes a matrix material to remove heat from an object. The matrix material includes a plurality of vascular structures. Each of the vascular structures are filled with a fluid. At least one transducer generates field-induced forces into the fluid within the vascular structures of the matrix material. At least one controller pulses the transducer to generate the field-induced forces into the fluid within the vascular structures. The field-induced forces generate fluid flow within the vascular structures to remove the heat from the object.
US10352628B2
A method of forming a membrane panel configured to be secured within an energy exchange assembly may include forming an outer frame defining a central opening, and integrating a membrane sheet with the outer frame. The membrane sheet spans across the central opening, and is configured to transfer one or both of sensible energy or latent energy therethrough. The integrating operation may include injection-molding the outer frame to edge portions of the membrane sheet. Alternatively, the integrating operation may include laser-bonding, ultrasonically bonding, heat-sealing, or the like, the membrane sheet to the outer frame.
US10352627B2
A nucleation device for causing phase change in a heat storage material from a liquid state to a solid state, the nucleation device including: an elastic member including a plurality of annular portions with a ring shape wound in substantially close contact with one another, the elastic member being elastically displaceable such that adjacent pairs of the plurality of annular portions in substantially close contact with one another separate from one another; wherein the heat storage material is caused to phase change by the elastic member elastically displacing while disposed in the heat storage material.
US10352623B2
A heat transfer system includes a main circuit forming a fluid loop, the main circuit being devoid of mechanical or capillary pumping means, at least one evaporator unit arranged in bypass to the main circuit, and at least one cooling heat exchanger that includes a portion of the loop main circuit and a heat exchanger coupled to a heat sink, for dissipating thermal energy. The evaporator unit includes an inlet pipe collecting liquid fluid from the main loop, an evaporator including a porous member with capillary pumping coupled to a heat source to be cooled, and an outlet pipe having an ejection nozzle with injects the fluid in primarily vapor phase into the main circuit at least in the loop direction of flow.
US10352622B2
A direct evaporative cooler includes a liquid delivery system and an assembly of two or more plates. At least one plate of the assembly of two or more plates may include a top surface having a wicking material with an exposed surface for receiving a liquid thereon from the liquid delivery system, and one or more masks lining a portion of the exposed surface. The one or more masks may be impermeable to the liquid thereby preventing the liquid from evaporating through the one or more masks, and the one or more masks may be sized and shaped such that a wick rate of the liquid on the exposed surface exceeds an evaporation rate of the liquid.
US10352616B2
Enhanced low temperature separation (LTS) processes are provided for separating light hydrocarbon components from heavy hydrocarbon components. The enhanced LTS process utilizes an absorber and a de-ethanizer tower to achieve sufficiently pure natural gas liquid (NGL) products and residue gas products. A portion of the de-ethanizer tower overhead is condensed and recycled as reflux for the absorber. The enhanced LTS process requires less refrigeration of the feed gas stream yet still achieves increased recovery of the valuable heavier hydrocarbons from hydrocarbon gas streams. The enhanced LTS process also reduces compression requirements compared to conventional LTS processes.
US10352615B2
A vacuum cooling device for the cooling of foodstuff, in particular hot bakery products has a vacuum chamber, which contains a product chamber for receiving the foodstuff for its cooling and a separation chamber, a vacuum source, which is connected with the product chamber or the separation chamber and a vapor condenser for condensation of vapor containing discharge air generated during the cooling process in the product chamber. The vapor condenser is arranged below the product chamber, whereby the vapor condenser can contain a cooling medium, if the vacuum cooling device is in the operating state. The vapor condenser comprises a cooling medium distribution device to distribute the cooling medium in the vapor condenser. The product chamber has at least an opening for supplying the vapor containing discharge air into the cooling medium.
US10352601B2
A refrigerant evaporator includes: a first heat exchange part in which refrigerant flows to exchange heat with fluid to be cooled; a second heat exchange part arranged to oppose the first heat exchange part; a first tank arranged below the first heat exchange part to distribute the refrigerant to the first heat exchange part; a second tank arranged below the second heat exchange part to collect the refrigerant flowing through the second heat exchange part; and a third tank joined to the first tank and the second tank by brazing. A projection part is formed at one of joint portions between the first tank and the third tank. An insertion part is formed at the other of the joint portions between the first tank and the third tank, and the projection part is inserted in the insertion part.
US10352592B2
A vapor compression system (200; 300; 400) has: a compressor (22); a first heat exchanger (30); a second heat exchanger (64); an ejector (38); separator (48); and an expansion device (70). A plurality of conduits are positioned to define a first flowpath sequentially through: the compressor; the first heat exchanger; the ejector from a motive flow inlet through (40) an outlet (44); and the separator, and then branching into: a first branch returning to the compressor; and a second branch passing through the expansion device and second heat exchanger to a secondary flow inlet (42). The plurality of conduits are positioned to define a bypass flowpath (202; 302; 402) bypassing the motive flow inlet and rejoining the first flowpath at essentially separator pressure but away from the separator.
US10352582B2
Disclosed herein is a decorative panel for a ceiling-mounted indoor unit of an air conditioning device, and the panel is configured to improve the design of a suction grill without increasing the number of manufacturing process steps. The decorative panel includes: a panel body having a suction port; and a suction grill attached to the suction port of the panel body. The suction grill has a grill body which is formed in the shape of a grid to have a large number of suction holes and is positioned over the suction port. A large number of recesses are formed in a lower surface of the decorative panel so as to be arranged along, and to surround, the grill body.
US10352574B2
A falling film of liquid desiccant in direct contact with a gas stream is formed, which allows water vapor transfer between a gas stream (air) and the desiccant, enabling dehumidification and/or humidification of air. Thin films are created in one way by a wettable layer that is in contact with a support structure and in another way directly on the support structure. The devices can be installed on an absorber (conditioner) side or a desorber (regenerator) side or both of air conditioning systems; for example, liquid desiccant air conditioning (LDAC) applications.
US10352553B2
Aspects of the present invention generally relate to an apparatus that combines a light source, a speaker, and other electrical components in a single unit to produce lighting and sound effects. The apparatus may be sized and configured for use in a number of applications. Further, the apparatus may have a number of operating states that may include light and sound effects that correspond with one another.
US10352544B2
The light fixture includes a light emitting panel assembly including a frame and a substantially flat light emitting diode (LED) panel disposed within the frame. The substantially flat light emitting diode (LED) panel has an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The light fixture further includes a power circuitry module, with a power circuit. The power circuitry module is disposed within the frame adjacent an edge of the frame, and is releasably attachable to the light emitting panel assembly. A decouplable source electrical connector electrically couples the power circuit to an AC power supply external to the light fixture, and a decouplable driver electrical connector electrically couples the power circuit to the array of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The source electrical connector and driver electrical connector may be configured to be decoupled as the power circuitry module is detached and separated from the light emitting panel assembly.
US10352538B2
A swinging LED lamp with a wireless charging function comprises a fixing portion and a magnetic suspension portion, wherein the fixing portion comprises a base and a lug boss formed at an upper end of the base; a main control circuit board and a power source end are arranged in the base; an electromagnet and a transmitting coil are arranged in the lug boss; the electromagnet and the transmitting coil are electrically connected with the power source end through the main control circuit board respectively.
US10352533B2
In a light source device, an axis extends from a light-emitting face and perpendicularly to the light-emitting face. A reflective surface includes a curved surface defined by rotating a first arc which is a part of an ellipse around the axis. The ellipse has a first focal point and a second focal point which are located on the light-emitting face. The second focal point is located adjacently to the first arc with respect to a center of the ellipse. A distance from the first focal point to the axis is shorter than a distance from the second focal point to the axis.
US10352532B2
A light source producing a beam of variable divergence, comprising one or more light-emitting devices arranged on a planar substrate, with each of the light-emitting devices having a Lambertian emission distribution. The light source may further comprise a chamber for mixing light emitted from the one or more light-emitting devices, the chamber itself comprising a base defined by the planar substrate, one or more side walls having a reflective interior surface, and a planar diffusive emission surface defining a ceiling of the chamber. The chamber may have an adjustable height. A reflector extends from the chamber for redirecting light exiting from the chamber to form a light beam, the reflector surrounding and having a focal plane coincident with the ceiling of the chamber. Finally, the light source may comprise a mechanism to control a height of the chamber to thereby variably control a divergence of the light beam.
US10352528B2
A lamp is provided that includes a glass tube body composed of a glass composition that includes an optical diffusive agent to increase the light diffusivity of the glass tube body. The lamp can include a glass tube body having a perimeter defined by a sidewall of the glass tube body for enclosing a hollow interior. The glass tube body is composed of a sodium silicate glass including an optically diffusive agent that is alloyed with a silicate base glass composition. The optically diffusive agent can be selected from lithium borosilicate, titanium dioxide, antimony trioxide or combinations thereof. The lamp can further include at least one light emitting diode (LED) on a substrate that provides the light source. The at least one light emitting diode (LED) that is present on the substrate is positioned within the hollow interior of the glass tube body.
US10352522B2
An illumination device for variable illumination in different spatial directions is provided. The illumination device includes a pump radiation unit, which has a pump radiation source for emitting pump radiation, a luminescent element for at least partial conversion of the pump radiation into illumination light, which is emitted in response to excitation with the pump radiation on an illumination light emission surface of the luminescent element, and optics which are assigned to the luminescent element and respectively direct illumination light ray bundles, which come from different positions of the illumination light emission surface and strike the optics on a luminescent material side, into a different spatial direction of the propagation on an illumination side opposite to the luminescent material side, The pump radiation unit is configured to respectively emit a pump ray bundle adjustably in different spatial directions, which pump ray bundles are coupled in on the illumination side.
US10352521B2
In various embodiments, a vehicle lamp is provided. The vehicle lamp includes at least one semiconductor light source, at least one light emission body, and a concentrator arranged between the at least one semiconductor light source and the respective light emission body. A larger light entrance area of the concentrator is separated from the at least one semiconductor light source by a gap. The concentrator at its smaller light exit area transitions into the light emission body. The light emission body has at least one region covered with a partly transmissive layer.
US10352518B2
A lens assembly for implementing a low beam may include: a first lens including an incident surface having a shape enclosing a light emitting diode (LED), and an exit surface through which light of the LED exits in a direction perpendicular to the exit surface; and a second lens disposed on the exit surface of the first lens and configured to project the light of the LED that exits from the exit surface. The light of the LED that is projected through the second lens may form a low-beam pattern.
US10352508B2
A DC-powered lighting device (100) for placement in an external fixture (102) (104), the DC-powered lighting device comprising a lighting unit (110), connector pins (112) configured to mechanically and electrically connect the DC-powered lighting device to the light fixture, a probing unit (118) connected to the connector pins and configured to determine whether electrical power is currently available via the connector pins and to provide a power-present signal indicative of the current availability of electrical power via the connector pins, a DC-power input unit (114) configured to receive DC power from a second external electrical power source, and to deliver the received DC power to the lighting unit and a switching unit (120) configured to allow the delivery of the DC power to the lighting unit in dependence on the power-present signal.
US10352503B2
An apparatus (112, 113) that provides pressurized gas to at least one target location (124), comprising at least one region of adsorptive material that increases an effective storage volume of at least one pressurized gas storage container in selective fluid communication with at least one target location, wherein pressurized gas is stored in the container at a positive pressure of about around 0.5 MPa to 4 MPa. The invention also relates to a method of providing pressurized gas to at least one target location (124) such as a pneumatic system in a vehicle.
US10352502B2
A cylinder filling system is configured to automatically fill fluid cylinders with fluid at varying fluid pressures. The cylinder filling system may include a plurality of pressure control manifolds operatively connected together and disposed in a fluid circuit between a fluid storage container and a fluid outlet. A control unit may be in communication with the plurality of pressure control manifolds. The control unit is configured to operate the plurality of pressure control manifolds to deliver fluid at a rated fluid pressure of a fluid cylinder that connects to the fluid outlet.
US10352500B2
A large volume natural gas storage tank comprises rigid tubular walls having closed tubular cross-sections that are interconnected at opposing ends with two other rigid tubular walls such that interiors of the rigid tubular walls define an interior fluid storage chamber. The storage tank includes bulkhead ring webs positioned in the interior fluid storage chamber across intermediate segments of the rigid tubular walls and closure plates connected between exterior surfaces of successive interconnected rigid tubular walls to define sides of the storage tank. Interior surfaces of the closure plates and exterior surfaces of the rigid tubular walls define an auxiliary fluid storage chamber. The storage tank includes exterior support structures extending through the closure plates and between the exterior surfaces of the rigid tubular walls on some of the sides of the storage tank to reinforce the storage tank against dynamic loading from fluid in the interior fluid storage chamber.
US10352499B2
This application relates to a liquefied natural gas storage apparatus. The apparatus includes a heat insulated tank and liquefied natural gas contained in the tank. The tank has heat insulation sufficient to maintain liquefied natural gas therein such that most of the liquefied natural gas stays in liquid. The contained liquefied natural gas has a vapor pressure from about 0.3 bar to about 2 bar. The apparatus further includes a safety valve configured to release a part of liquefied natural gas contained in the tank when a vapor pressure of liquefied natural gas within the tank becomes higher than a cut-off pressure. The cut-off pressure is from about 0.3 bar to about 2 bar.
US10352497B2
The present invention relates to a stabilizing mount, the stabilizing mount including a cylindrical element and a leveling system adjustably connected to the cylindrical element. The leveling system includes a sleeve adjustably connected to the cylindrical element, wherein the sleeve can be adjusted 360 degrees about the cylindrical element and a first arm adjustably connected to the sleeve, wherein the first arm can be adjusted at least 180 degrees about a connector disposed through the sleeve. The leveling system further includes a mount connector.
US10352486B2
Pipe joints and more particularly circular push-on type pipe joints including a flexible gasket having both hard and soft portions and where the soft portion overlaps a flange and an inner curved section of the hard portion.
US10352485B2
A pipe connecting device configured to connect at least two pipes, comprises a pipe including a catching ledge at a connecting end portion thereof and made of stainless steel or copper; a first connecting member formed in a cylindrical shape and having a spring seating portion on which a circular plate spring is seated, a pipe through-hole through which the pipe passes, and a screw recess provided inside the first connecting member; and a second connecting member provided with an o-ring seating portion on which an o-ring is seated at a side at which the pipe is coupled and an outer surface having a screw thread, wherein a through-portion having the same inner diameter as the pipe is formed in the second connecting member.
US10352482B2
A flexible air duct contains a uniformly-spaced reflective insulation system, with or without bulk insulation, a liner, and an outer jacket that would allow a reduced amount or no amount of bulk insulation to be used to obtain a desired R-value insulation. The flexible air duct can be used to move conditioned air to one or more desired locations.
US10352475B2
The invention provides an electrically operated valve which can more accurately detect a position of a valve body. An electrically operated valve is provided with a valve shaft, a valve body, a rotor member which is movable together with the valve shaft in a parallel direction to a first direction, a stator member which applies a turning force to the rotor member, a permanent magnet member which turns together with the rotor member, an angle sensor which detects an angle of rotation of the permanent magnet, and a guide member which guides a relative movement of the rotor member or the valve shaft in relation to the permanent magnet member. A distance between the permanent magnet and the angle sensor is fixed when the permanent magnet member turns.
US10352473B2
A membrane valve for controlling flow and pressure relief has a format following the anatomy and the action mechanism of a sphincter, in order not to have restriction points to the fluid flow. The valve includes a body provided with terminal sections provided with ends and, internally, a folded membrane which opens and closes according to the flow and/or pressure exerted therein, directly or indirectly, locally or remotely.
US10352471B2
A solenoid valve includes a housing, a bobbin and an armature. The bobbin is received at least partially within the housing and has a body about which a coil is provided. A fluid flow path including an inlet and an outlet and a valve seat is defined by at least one of the housing or the bobbin, and the armature is moveable relative to the valve seat to control flow through the fluid flow path.
US10352464B2
An improved structure of an energy-saving precision pressure adjusting valve includes a main body in an interior of which a main membrane and a balance membrane are arranged. The main membrane is operable by an overflow tube and the balance membrane is operable by a pressure-adjusting stein, so that when pneumatic fluid enters the main body, through a channel, a feedback channel and a pressure regulation channel that communicate with each other, together with a feedback channel flow regulation hole and a steel ball arranged in the feedback channel, the pneumatic fluid is allowed to flow in one direction, in combination with stein covering rubber provided on the pressure-adjusting stein and membrane covering rubber provided on the main membrane, the flowing of the pneumatic fluid is made faster and the purpose of fast increase and decrease of pressure and high precision pressure output can be achieved.
US10352452B2
A seal assembly for use in a dynamic pin joint defining axial and radial directions comprises a counterface seal ring subassembly including a counterface seal ring member that includes a radially extending planar seal face and a first contoured load ring interface, and a first load ring.
US10352441B2
A method for controlling a gear ratio of a continuously variable transmission vehicle includes: a step of detecting a position of a shift lever by a controller; a step of checking, by the controller, a gear ratio variation based on a difference between a desired stage gear ratio and a current gear ratio in a continuously variable transmission when the shift lever is detected to be positioned in a manual range; a step of calculating, by the controller, a gear ratio correction value based on a rate of change of engine RPM when the gear ratio variation is checked as being other than zero after the step of checking the gear ratio variation; and a step of correcting, by the controller, the gear ratio variation in response to the calculated gear ratio correction value after the calculation step.
US10352437B2
The present invention relates to a predictive transmission control method through road shape recognition, and more particularly, to a control method for carrying out predictive transmission by recognizing the shape of a road utilizing information of a high density map. The present invention provides a transmission control method which can provide an accurate predictive transmission by recognizing the shape of the front road based on GPS information.
US10352436B2
An automatic transmission includes hydraulic friction engaging mechanisms for establishing a plurality of gears, at least one control valve for controlling oil pressures of hydraulic oils supplied to the engaging mechanisms, an oil pressure detection unit for detecting the oil pressure of the hydraulic oil supplied by the control valve, a learning unit for learning a correction value of an instructed oil pressure to the control valve such that an engaging time becomes a target engaging time, and a determination unit which determines, based on a difference between the instructed oil pressure to the valve and an oil pressure detection result obtained by the detection unit from the hydraulic oil supplied by the valve in correspondence with the instructed oil pressure, whether to exclude a control result by the instructed oil pressure from a learning target of the learning unit.
US10352432B2
A gear housing for an epicyclic gear set, the gear housing including a hollow wheel having internal teething and a first front end with a first front-side joining surface; a housing cover having a second front end with a second front-side joining surface for longitudinally axially covering the hollow wheel; and a bonded connection for connecting the first front end to the second front end through the mating of the first and second front-side joining surfaces, at which the hollow wheel and the housing cover are connected to each other by a bonded connection, in particular, by heated tool welding, infrared welding, ultrasonic welding, or rotary friction welding.
US10352429B2
A steering rack includes a rack shaft (10), a plurality of rack teeth (11a) formed on the rack shaft and each having a tooth trace inclined with respect to a first direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the rack shaft, and a dummy tooth (33a) aligned with the rack teeth and formed on the rack shaft. The dummy tooth (33a) is non-uniformly formed in a second direction parallel to the tooth trace of the rack tooth (11a).
US10352426B2
A flat strain wave gearing (1) has a mechanism for preventing a flexible externally toothed gear (4) from moving in the direction of the device center axis (1a) with respect to a rigid internally toothed gears (2, 3). The mechanism has an inner-peripheral groove (11) formed on inner teeth (3a) of the internally toothed gear (3), an outer-peripheral groove (12) formed on outer teeth (4a) of the externally toothed gear (4), and a flexible ring (13) mounted between the inner-peripheral groove (11) and the outer-peripheral groove (12). The ring (13) is engageable with groove inner-peripheral surfaces (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b), from the direction of the device center axis (1a), at meshing positions of the both gears (2, 4).
US10352425B2
A vehicle driveline component with a differential case, a cross-pin, a differential gearset, and a retaining member. The differential case is rotatable about a first axis and has an annular wall member that defines a differential cavity. The cross-pin is received in a cross-pin aperture formed through a first side of the annular wall member. The cross-pin extends through the differential cavity along a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis. The differential gearset is received in the differential cavity and includes a pair of side gears, which are rotatable about the first axis, and a pair of pinion gears that are journally supported by the cross-pin and meshingly engaged with the side gears. The retaining member is welded to the annular wall member and limits movement of the cross-pin relative to the differential case along the second axis in a direction toward the retaining member.
US10352424B2
Disclosed herein are systems, gearing assemblies and methods for controlling a differential rotation rate between shafts of a vehicle using a variable speed motor. An embodiment includes a gearing assembly including a differential configured to engage a first axle shaft, a second axle shaft, and a drive shaft of a vehicle. The gearing assembly further includes a plurality of adjustment gears configured to engage the differential, configured to be driven by a variable speed motor of the vehicle, and configured to controllably alter a rotation of the first axle shaft relative to the second axle shaft based on rotation produced by the variable speed motor. The plurality of adjustment gears includes a subassembly of planetary gears including a planetary gear carrier, a first set of planetary gears coupled to the planetary gear carrier, and a second set of planetary gears coupled to the planetary gear carrier.
US10352423B2
A hydrokinetic torque-coupling device for coupling driving and driven shafts. The torque-coupling device includes a casing having a locking surface, an impeller wheel and a turbine wheel hydrodynamically drivable by the impeller wheel, a lockup piston axially movable toward and away from the locking surface, a friction disc including a generally radially orientated friction ring and at least one driving tab, and a torsional vibration damper comprising the friction disc, elastic members and an engagement member elastically coupled to the friction disc through the elastic members. The friction ring has a radially outer peripheral surface defining a centering surface of the friction disc. The engagement member includes at least one centering tab extending toward the friction ring and having a centering surface disposed adjacent to and facing the centering surface of the friction disc to center the friction disc with respect to the engagement member of the torsional vibration damper.
US10352418B2
In a ball screw apparatus, a ball train including a plurality of main balls is housed in a raceway between a ball track of a ball nut and a ball track of a ball screw shaft. A coil spring housed in the raceway includes a first end that engages with an end of the ball train and a second end supported by a stopper (a first recessed portion, a protruding portion, or the like) of the ball nut. A stopper ball having a diameter larger than the diameter of the main ball is interposed between the stopper and the second end of the coil spring.
US10352417B2
A driving apparatus reduces degradation of driving performance and durability when a driven body is displaced using a lead screw. The lead screw has a lead groove that is formed over first and second members and has first and second surfaces that face to each other in a width direction. The lead screw is rotated by a driving source. A moving member engages with the lead groove, and moves parallel to the lead screw according to rotation of the lead screw. A driven body is displaced between first and second positions according to movement of the moving member. A first energization member energizes the moving member toward the second surface when the moving member passes across a first junction that occurs at a boundary between the first and second members in a stroke where the moving member contacts with a drive surface of the first surface to be moved.
US10352412B2
A gear arrangement includes a rack, a gear and a flexible member. The rack includes a plurality of teeth. The gear is configured to be engaged with the rack through the teeth. The flexible member is adjacent to an end of the rack. The flexible member is configured to rotate the gear.
US10352388B2
The invention relates to an article comprising a main body (6, 7, 8) that consists of a polymer material having elastic properties, particularly an air spring bellows (2), a metal-rubber element or a vibration damper. In order for fire-retardant properties to be improved, the article is provided, partially or fully, with a cover (9) formed from at least one flat textile structure and/or at least one three-dimensional textile structure and/or at least one shrink film. The cover can be fire-retardant itself or can be equipped to be fire-retardant.
US10352385B2
A conversion system wherein a crankshaft drives the motion of the tooling assemblies within a number of lanes is provided. The crankshaft is structured to move the tooling assemblies associated with less than the total number of lanes. That is, for example, a four lane conversion press could include two crankshafts each actuating the tooling assemblies of two lanes. In an exemplary embodiment, each lane has a single associated crankshaft. The conversion system includes a multiple press drive assembly with a clutch/brake assembly and a flywheel assembly. The clutch/brake assembly is structured to suspend operation of the press units while the flywheel assembly stores energy in a flywheel. When operation of the press units is restarted, energy from the flywheel aids the motor in bringing the press units to an operating speed.
US10352376B2
A clutch control method of a vehicle may include estimating a change in an input torque supplied by a power source based on an extent to which an acceleration pedal is depressed by the controller; obtaining an additional torque at a level to prevent slippage of a clutch against the input torque estimated in the estimating of a change in input torque by the controller; determining a final clutch control torque for controlling the clutch by adding the additional torque, which is obtained in the obtaining of an additional torque, to the input torque by the controller; and controlling the clutch by operating a clutch actuator with the final clutch control torque determined in the determining of a final clutch control torque by the controller.
US10352372B2
A dog clutch having two clutch members provided with claws or teeth, one of which is movable, as well as a positioning device for engaging and disengaging the clutch by a positioning movement of the movable clutch member. In order to establish a proper engaging of the dog clutch, a sensor is arranged along the movement path of the movable clutch member, which detects the movement of the clutch member into the engaged state, while the clutch member is provided with an activating contour which, upon engaging the clutch, moves past the sensor, which is preferably an electromagnetic actuator for holding the movable clutch member in the disengaged state of the clutch.
US10352370B2
A constant velocity joint boot assembly includes a boot-can having an axially extending main cylindrical body, a radially extending transition portion, an axially extending and generally cylindrical mounting portion. The radially extending transition portion intersects the axially extending main cylindrical body and the generally cylindrical mounting portion. A flexible boot member may be attached to an inner surface of at least two of the cylindrical body, the transition portion and the mounting portion at a coupling region. A method of forming the flexible boot member includes first forming the boot in an outwardly extending conical shape, and then rolling and/or inverting a portion of the boot so that the boot arcs inwardly upon itself and forms a diaphragm.
US10352369B2
In an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint, a cup member and a shaft member are made of medium to high carbon steel and welded together. The cup member has a bottomed cylindrical shape that is opened at one end, and includes a cylindrical portion, a bottom portion, and a short shaft section of a solid shaft shape protruding from the bottom portion and having a joining end surface. The shaft member has a solid shaft shape and a joining end surface. The joining end surfaces of the cup and shaft members are brought into abutment against each other, and a high energy intensity beam is radiated from an outer side in a radial direction to form a welded portion. A structure of a molten metal at the welded portion is in a mixed phase of ferrite and granular cementite.
US10352345B2
An adhesive-bonded attachment device includes a mounting base including a mounting surface, a structural adhesive disposed on the mounting surface, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive disposed on the mounting surface bordering the structural adhesive, wherein the structural adhesive and the pressure-sensitive adhesive define a bonding surface configured to be bonded to a contact surface of a structure, and an attachment feature disposed on said mounting base.
US10352332B2
A reconfigurable pump includes a housing with inlet and outlet openings. An inlet adapter is mounted on the housing and includes an inlet passage communicating with the inlet opening. The inlet adapter is removably mounted on the housing and can be removed and repositioned for reconfiguring the pump between low-inlet and high-inlet configurations. In a low-inlet configuration the inlet passage is generally aligned with an impeller rotatably mounted in the housing. A check valve comprising a flapper valve is provided in the low-inlet configuration and prevents backflow. The flapper valve is removable for configuration in a high-inlet configuration with the inlet passage located generally above the impeller level. The inlet adapter can readily be repositioned from outside the pump housing between its low-inlet and high-inlet configurations.
US10352329B2
A system for controlling the clearance distance between an impeller blade tip of a centrifugal compressor and a radially inner surface of an impeller shroud in a turbine engine. The system comprises a thermal driver coupled between the impeller shroud and engine casing by hinged linkages. The thermal driver includes an annular ring and annular seal which together define thermal driver cavity. Relatively warm or relatively cool air supplied to the thermal driver cavity cause expansion and contraction, respectively, of the annular ring which is translated by linkages into axially forward and aft motion, respectively.
US10352326B2
The invention relates to an assembly on an engine, which comprises a first and a second piece mounted so as to rotate relative to one another. A connecting device is provided between such pieces. It comprises a first annular part defining a flange fixed to the first piece a second annular part extending substantially parallel with the axis of rotation of the engine and studs connecting the first and second annular parts together. An interface for the rotational sliding about said axis is positioned between the second annular part and the second piece. The second annular part is sectorized.
US10352323B2
A method for forming drilled cast which includes drilling with a drill so as to provide communication with a cast hole includes a casting step and a drilling step. The casting step is to cast a cast having a cast hole which includes a flat inner wall surface in which width of a position to be drilled with the drill is obtained by adding first length H1 serving as a manufacturing error range of the cast to a diameter D of the drill, which is a second length H2. The drilling step is to form a through hole providing communication between an interior of the cast hole and an exterior of the cast through the flat inner wall surface with the drill.
US10352307B2
A modular power generator is provided. In some embodiments, the modular power generator can utilize or otherwise leverage one or more harvesting modules, each consisting of one or more nitinol elements, to harvest low grade thermal energy, converting it into high grade mechanical energy. The mechanical energy can be decoupled from the power generator by a mechanical energy storage mechanism, an energy transfer mechanism, and a control mechanism. Stored mechanical energy can be utilized on demand or asynchronously with respect to the generation of the mechanical energy.
US10352299B2
A method for automatically updating data associated with a wind turbine based on component self-identification may generally include providing instructions for transmitting a polling signal to an identification sensor associated with a wind turbine component and, in response to the transmission of the polling signal, receiving current configuration data for the wind turbine component from the identification sensor. The method may also include comparing the current configuration data received from the identification sensor to last-known configuration data for the wind turbine component and automatically updating one or more parameter settings associated with operating the wind turbine based on any differences identified between the current configuration data and the last-known configuration data.
US10352291B2
A device for generating electrical energy from mechanical motion includes a surface float and at least one force modifier disposed at least partially within the interior of the surface float, the force modifier to receive an input force at a pumping cylinder and apply a modified force to a generator through a driving cylinder. The pumping cylinder or the driving cylinder is a tandem cylinder.
US10352283B2
Internal combustion engine fuel, preferably diesel fuel, feed pump assembly, the pump assembly (1) comprising a pump body (2); at least one cylinder (6) formed in the pump body (2) and extending along an axis (A2); a seat (12) formed in the pump body (2), at one end of the cylinder (6); an intake valve (18) for selectively controlling fuel feed into the cylinder (6), which is housed inside the seat (12) and in turn comprises a valve body (25); and an annular seal (26) extending around the axis (A2) and fitted inside the seat (12) between the valve body (25) and the pump body (2); the pump assembly (1) being characterized in that the valve body (25) is positioned contacting the annular seal (26) along a contact surface (45) of the valve body (25) and close to a surface portion adjacent to a radially inner peripheral edge (46) of the seal (26); the valve body (25) having an annular step (48) along another surface portion adjacent to a radially outer peripheral edge (52) of the seal (26).
US10352277B2
In an intake apparatus of an internal combustion engine, an EGR gas inlet port of each of plural EGR gas distribution pipes is provided at a position at which a volume of an intake port from a surge tank to the EGR gas inlet port is equal to or greater than a volume of an EGR gas introduced to an intake pipe from each of the EGR gas distribution pipes during one cycle of the internal combustion engine and at a position towards the surge tank relative to a center of the intake port in a flow direction thereof.
US10352273B2
A thrust reverser for a nacelle may comprise a composite track beam and a composite lug. The composite lug may be inserted through a through-hole in the composite track beam. Continuous fibers in the composite lug may provide strength in the in-plane direction.
US10352271B1
Methods of powering a heat engine with a remote lasers are disclosed, where the ambient air surrounding the engine is used as the working fluid. All methods include inputting the ambient air into the engine, absorbing laser optical radiation, turning it into heat, supplying the heat to the air, harvesting mechanical work from expanding air and releasing the air back into surrounding atmosphere.
US10352266B2
Methods and systems are provided for adjusting fuel injections provided to a cylinder when a fuel rail pressure deviation from a threshold pressure is detected. In one example, a method may include reducing a total number of pilot and/or main fuel injections provided to a cylinder in a given cylinder cycle in response to a reduction of pressure in a fuel rail. In this way, the threshold rail pressure may be maintained, reducing the likelihood the engine will be derated.
US10352255B2
A machine includes an engine and a governor operable to control an operating speed of the engine along a first droop curve such that the operating speed is a function of an operating load of the engine. The first droop curve includes a first region that defines a first slope, a second region that defines a second slope different from the first slope, and a transition point located at an intersection of the first region and the second region. The machine further includes a controller in communication with the governor. The controller is configured to determine an average operating load of the engine over a predetermined time period, adjust the location of the transition point based at least in part on the average operating load to create a second droop curve, and operate the engine based on the second droop curve.
US10352250B2
An equipment support including at least one attachment including an output shaft, an input gear wheel, the input gear wheel being both rotated by the motor shaft at a main speed and also connected to the output shaft of the attachment in order to rotate it at a determined output speed, an input shaft, rotated by the input gear wheel at a determined input speed, and a reducer with magnetic gears, arranged between the input shaft and the output shaft, such that the input speed is different from the output speed.
US10352241B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods related to thermal management systems for gas turbine engines. For example, a thermal management system comprises a thermally neutral heat transfer fluid circuit, a first heat exchanger disposed on the fluid circuit, and a second heat exchanger disposed on the fluid circuit.
US10352225B2
A method of diagnosing deterioration of an exhaust emission control catalyst is provided. The catalyst includes an HC (hydrocarbon) adsorbing part and an oxidation catalyst part. The method includes estimating that an HC discharge amount discharged from the HC adsorbing part is larger than a first value, detecting a parameter relating to a reaction heat of the exhaust emission control catalyst, and diagnosing that the exhaust emission control catalyst is deteriorated when the detected parameter indicates a temperature value lower than a predetermined threshold. The deterioration diagnosis is performed under a first condition that the HC discharge amount is estimated to be larger than the first value.
US10352217B2
A method is provided for controlling the injection, by a reductant injector in an exhaust system for an internal combustion engine, of reductant for an exhaust aftertreatment unit of the exhaust system, for example a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) unit. The method includes determining a reductant injection debt in dependence on a reductant flow according to at least a first request being higher than a threshold of the reductant flow, and, at least partly in dependence on the reductant injection debt, controlling the reductant injector so as to inject a compensation flow.
US10352202B2
A switch valve for controlling a hydraulic fluid flow of a connecting rod for an internal combustion engine with variable compression with an eccentrical element adjustment arrangement for adjusting an effective connecting rod length, the switch valve including a valve housing including a first operating connection and a second operating connection and a supply connection, wherein at least one filter element is arranged in a portion of the first operating connection or the second operating connection or the supply connection. The switch valve is advantageously used in a connecting rod for an internal combustion engine with variable compression.
US10352199B2
A camshaft may include a tube-like outer shaft and an inner shaft arranged coaxially thereto and at least partially rotatable with respect to the outer shaft. The inner shaft may have an end section with a reduced external diameter. The inner shaft may be sealed with respect to the outer shaft at the end section.
US10352196B2
To remove water accumulated in a cooling air system while preventing performance loss of a gas turbine, the gas turbine is provided with a cooling air system that connects an intermediate stage or the exit of a compressor to a turbine to supply compressed air bled from the compressor to the turbine, a TCA cooler, i.e., a heat exchanger, that cools the compressed air on the route of the cooling air system, and a drain water discharge valve, i.e., a first drain water discharge valve and a second drain water discharge valve disposed downstream of the compressed air of the TCA cooler, wherein at least for a predetermined period of time after a rated speed of the gas turbine at start up has been reached, the drain water discharge valve is set to an open state, and thereafter, the drain water discharge valve is set to a closed state.
US10352182B2
A stator for a gas turbine engine includes a stator vane, a first cooling passage located at the stator to provide a cooling fluid flow to a first portion of the stator, and a second cooling passage located at the stator to provide a cooling fluid flow to a second portion of the stator. A connection passage extends at least partially through the stator to connect a first cooling passage inlet of the first cooling passage to a second cooling passage inlet of the second cooling passage. The cooling fluid flow is directed from a common cooling flow source into the first cooling passage and the second cooling passage via the first cooling passage inlet.
US10352178B2
A locking element for a row of blades of a turbomachine includes a number of blades that are inserted by their roots in an anchoring groove on the rotor side and are thereby held in the radial direction in form-fitting manner in the anchoring groove. The locking element has a basic body that has a front bearing surface and a back bearing surface for form-fitting with opposite-lying groove surfaces, a front lock projection and a back lock projection for engaging in opposite-lying recesses of the anchoring groove, and a threaded region for interacting with a tightening element. Access to the threaded region for the tightening element is blocked on one side.
US10352169B2
A rotary actuator includes an output shaft, a housing, a piston, and a friction reducer. The housing includes an arcuate bore that extends around the output shaft. The piston is coupled to the output shaft and moved in the arcuate bore. Pressure fluid acts to move the piston. The friction reducer is configured to reduce friction between a peripheral surface of the piston and an inner circumferential surface of the housing forming the arcuate bore.
US10352168B2
Disclosed is an offset rotational internal combustion engine in which an outer ring rotates on a one axis and an inner disk rotates on a second offset axis. Pistons are connected to the outer ring, while cylinders and other devices for operating the engine are mounted within an inner disk that rotates on a second axis that is offset from the axis of the outer ring. The inner disk and outer ring rotate together, such that the pistons create conditions of compression and explosive expansion within the cylinders without vibrating reciprocal piston motion. A unique fuel injection system is also disclosed that provides a variable fuel pressure that is created by centrifugal forces on the fuel. Because of the rotating inner disk and outer ring, advantages are taken of centrifugal force and gravity to distribute fuel, air, oil, high-voltage current, and cooling air in the engine.
US10352162B2
Methods and systems for generating and utilizing a proxy model that generates a pumping parameter as a function of contamination. The pumping parameter is descriptive of a pumpout time or volume of fluid to be obtained from a formation by a downhole sampling tool positioned in a wellbore extending into the formation. The contamination is a percentage of the fluid obtained by the downhole sampling tool that is not native to the formation. The proxy model is based on a true model that utilizes true model input parameters that include the pumping parameter, formation parameters descriptive of the formation, and a filtrate parameter descriptive of a drilling fluid utilized to form the wellbore. The output of the true model is the contamination as a function of the pumping parameter. The proxy model utilizes proxy model input parameters each related to one or more of the true model input parameters.
US10352160B2
According to certain embodiments, formation fluid properties, such as gas-oil ratio (GOR), formation volume factor (FVF), and density, may be measured at multiple times during sampling. In one embodiment, data representing the measured properties is analyzed and a characteristic of interest is determined through extrapolation from the analyzed data. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US10352159B2
A system and method for monitoring drilling operations by dividing a flow of fluid into at least one discrete fluid unit, circulating the fluid unit through a wellbore, and comparing a measured change to a property of the fluid unit to a predicted change in the property of the fluid unit. In addition to measuring the change to the property of the fluid unit, the fluid unit may be tracked by iteratively calculating the location of the fluid unit as it passes through the wellbore. Data collected for the fluid unit by a control system may be analyzed and used by the control system or an operator to diagnose problems or improve overall efficiency of drilling operations.
US10352157B2
A method for automatically selecting a frequency band for transmission of a telemetry signal includes transforming acquired measurements from a time domain to a frequency domain to obtain a spectrum of measurements. The spectrum of measurements is processed to compute a total energy in band and a standard deviation of the power spectral density in band for a plurality of frequency bands. A ratio of the total energy in band to the standard deviation acquiring a plurality of measurements of transmitted telemetry signals and of the power spectral density in band is computed for at least two of the plurality of frequency bands. The frequency band having the highest computed ratio is selected and automatically downlinked to a downhole transmitter.
US10352155B2
An electromagnetic (EM) telemetry system with telluric referencing for use with downhole equipment is described. Embodiments of an EM telemetry system with telluric referencing include a downhole transceiver comprising an encoded signal transmitter, a downhole sensor disposed to monitor the downhole equipment, the downhole sensor coupled to the transceiver, an encoded signal receiver, a reference receiver spaced apart from the encoded signal receiver and communicatively coupled to the encoded signal receiver, and a telluric voltage module coupled to one of the encoded signal receiver and the reference receiver. The telluric voltage module is communicatively coupled to the encoded signal receiver and the reference receiver to receive an encoded signal and a reference signal, respectively, which may include telluric noise. The telluric voltage module synchronizes the encoded signal and the reference signal, subtracts the reference signal from the encoded signal, and outputs a signal free from telluric noise.
US10352143B2
A method of blowdown for a steam chamber of a thermal recovery process is provided. A blowdown mixture is introduced into the steam chamber. The blowdown mixture can include glycol and water. Heat can be adsorbed from the steam chamber onto the blowdown mixture. A viscosifying agent can also be introduced into the steam chamber. Oil from the steam chamber can be emulsified with the viscosifying agent to produce oil or emulsions of oil. The blowdown mixture and the oil or emulstions of oil can both be recovered from the steam chamber.
US10352140B2
In one example of forming multilateral wells in unconventional reservoirs, a subterranean zone is drilled using a drilling rig to form a main wellbore. Using the drilling rig, the subterranean zone is drilled to form a lateral wellbore off the main wellbore. The drilling rig is removed after forming a multilateral well including the main wellbore and the lateral wellbore. Using a fracturing system, a fracture treatment is performed on the lateral wellbore.
US10352133B2
A downhole article comprises a polymer substrate having a surface that is configured for exposure to a well fluid; the substrate comprising a thermoplastic material, an elastomer, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing; and a coating disposed on the surface of the polymer substrate; the coating comprising a fluorinated poly-para-xylylene.
US10352119B2
A packer setting tool for setting a packer device within a wellbore. The packer setting tool includes an outer housing defining a piston chamber within. A piston member is disposed within the piston chamber and is moveable therein in response to ignition of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel source.
US10352106B1
A retention, transportation and positioning cradle for a blowout preventer. The cradle includes a frame surrounding a circumference of the blowout preventer, with the frame having an opening for receipt or removal of the blowout preventer. A lift connecter mechanism on the frame connects to a lift mechanism. A pivoting gate encloses the opening on the frame. A plurality of rollers on an upper support surface of the frame engages the blowout preventer permitting rotation of the blowout preventer with respect to the cradle.
US10352097B2
A motorized shade for covering a window, a door, or a wall opening is provided that can be actuated by touching its hem bar. The motorized shade, such as a roller shade, comprises a shade material extending from a top end to a bottom end, a hem bar assembly connected to the bottom end of the shade material, and a shade drive unit operably connected to the top end of the shade material. The hem bar assembly comprises a touch sensing module adapted to detect a user touching the hem bar assembly and transmit a control signal in response to the detected touch. The shade drive unit comprises a motor and a motor control module adapted to receive the control signal and control the motor to open or close the shade material. The control signal can be wirelessly transmitted from the touch sensing module to the motor control module.
US10352091B2
An apparatus for sealing an insulating glass unit includes a frame for supporting first and second clamping arrangements. The clamping arrangements support the insulating glass unit during a sealing operation. First and second dispensing assemblies are connected to the frame and movable relative to the frame. Each first and second dispensing assembly includes a nozzle for controlled dispensing of a sealant along a prescribed portion of the supported insulating glass unit during the sealing operation.
US10352089B1
A jack screw-type fastener with a head defining an interior aperture with a Phillips pattern in the top and in communication with a central channel sized and shaped to receive a fastener therethrough for structurally reinforcing the window jamb of a window frame. The jamb adjuster includes a series of oversized and narrowly oriented threads relative to commercially available threaded fasteners (about 50% larger than average), frictionally engaging a greater ratio of the window frame wall depth than conventional. In use, the jamb adjuster is a self-tapping screw member that renders unnecessary a receiver, reducing component cost and structural degradation, and instead displacing a portion of the window frame material, for example vinyl, during insertion, causing a more structurally secure attachment to the window frame. The jamb adjuster also provides a more robust attachment mechanism for vital weather stripping than other fasteners or adhesive as known in the art.
US10352088B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of transferring settings of a motor-operated door system, wherein, in said method, at least one property of a door is transferred to a mobile end device, at least one property of a drive that drives the door is transferred to the mobile end device, settings for the combination of the properties of the door and the drive are requested from a database via the mobile end device, settings for the combination of the door and the drive are sent from the database to the mobile end device, and the settings received by the mobile end device are transferred to the drive of the door system.
US10352083B2
A bottom door of a carriage includes a telescoping cylinder and at least two sets of door bodies, each set of the door body is provided with one set of driving mechanisms, each of the driving mechanisms includes a rotating shaft and a driving rod, and the rotating shaft is connected with the respective door body by the driving rod, to allow the door body to be driven to rotate when the rotating shaft rotates; each of the rotating shaft is driven to rotate by the telescoping cylinder, and at least two of the rotating shafts are configured to be driven to rotate successively by the telescoping cylinder.
US10352082B1
A door stop includes a first end capable of self-engaging and securing into a support structure adjacent a doorway and a second end having a driving tool adapting means. The driving tool adapting means may, in certain embodiments, involve a single notch, a cross-notch, a cube, a pentagonal tube or a hexagonal tube, capable of receiving conventional driving tools.
US10352073B2
A household electric appliance in which a door key is operated in association with an opening/closing operation of a door and is drawn into an inside of the door in the door opening operation is provided. The household electric appliance includes a main body having a space therein, a door coupled to the main body to be rotatable about a first rotation axis to open and close, respectively, the space, and a door key coupled to one of the main body and the door, the door key rotatable about a second rotation axis, so that a rotation of the door about the first rotation axis causes the door key to rotate about the second rotation axis.
US10352068B2
A cable locking device includes a housing, a cable extending outward through a cable passage in the housing and terminating at a cable end connector receivable in a cable connection port in the housing, and a locking mechanism assembled with the housing and movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. When the locking mechanism is in the locked position, a first cable securing portion secures the cable against movement within the cable passage in at least an outward direction, and a second cable securing portion secures the cable end connector within the cable connection port. When the locking mechanism is in the unlocked position, the first cable securing portion permits movement of the cable within the cable passage in the outward direction, and the second cable securing portion permits removal of the cable end connector from the cable connection port.
US10352065B2
A sheeting clamp for a temporary structure includes a first clamping plate and a second clamping plate. The first clamping plate has a first channel parallel and a second channel. The second channel has a plurality of openings therein. The first plate also includes a first plurality of apertures proximal to the first channel and a second plurality of apertures proximal to the second channel. The second clamping plate has a first channel corresponding to the first channel of the first clamping plate, and a first plurality of apertures corresponding to the first plurality of apertures of the first clamping plate. At least one securing structure secures the first clamping plate and second clamping plate around a tubular structure around which a sheet is wrapped.
US10352064B2
A quick and easy way of combining items needed for connecting and securing tents and tarps to a stake in the ground is provided. The stake has an elongated metal shaft with the bottom of the shaft tapered into a triangular shape for easily entering the ground. First and second sets of slots may be located on front and back surfaces of the shaft, respectively. Flexible pins may be inserted into a slot on the front surface of the shaft and extend out a corresponding slot on the back surface of the shaft. A user then bends the portion of the flexible pin extending out the back surface for added gripping strength of the stake when inserted into the ground. The stakes may include a wire or cable connected to a fastener which is used to secure the tent, tarp or tarp like item to the stake.
US10352063B2
A portable demountable canopy system is provided including a canopy defined by a rim arranged around an outer periphery of the canopy, the rim forming an open area, and a rollable membrane deployed across the open area; a plurality of poles being attached to the canopy; and counterweight elements present in an amount at least equal to an amount of the poles, each of the counterweight elements along outer sides thereof fitted with at least two fastening elements for receiving a lower end of each pole. Also disclosed is a kit with parts for assembling the system.
US10352057B2
Improvements in a retractable vehicle cover is disclosed. The cover can be sized and fabricated to provide protection to a number of different vehicles including cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles. The vehicle cover provides a fairly rigid shell to protect from objects falling on the cover and also to protect from snow loads. It uses a telescoping enclosure that retracts to occupy a small footprint when the vehicle is not in the cover. It may also include a side access door to allow a person to access the driver and or passenger door when the enclosure covers the vehicle. A power mechanism can extend and retract the cover. Seal not only protect from wind, snow, sand storm, extreme temperature or weather and rain, but also from rodents and insects that can accumulate in a vehicle if it is left unattended for a period of time.
US10352055B2
A formation aid, for use in the forming of receptacles in a swimming pool, includes a three-dimensional body having an essentially conical shape. The three-dimensional body of the formation aid includes a narrow end, for placement near an interior edge of the swimming pool during formation of the swimming pool; and a wide end, for placement remote from the interior edge of the swimming pool, in order to form a receptacle.
US10352046B2
A self-centring compact coupler for lifting, jacking or pushing apart and positioning concrete elements via their reinforcement bars (rebar) having an adjusting coupler member screwed on a threaded post attached to one rebar to apply a lifting or pushing force against a non-adjustable seating stud with an integral seating head and centring protrusion fixed to a corresponding and opposite rebar. An enclosing coupler member is screwed on the adjusting coupler member to enclose and lock the seating head and couple the rebar. The unitary configuration of the seating stud and seating head reduces the number of parts. The centring facility negates need of large internal tolerances to accommodate rebar misalignment, thus substantially ensuring co axial transfer of force from the coupler to the rebar. The coupler is used to incrementally vary and accurately adjust the relative positions of the concrete elements to one another in the building process.
US10352038B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for improving the water management of exterior walls clad with panel siding. The present invention improves on prior art wall designs by directing water on the exterior surface of a building away from areas which are vulnerable to water penetration, such as joints between panels, joints between trim components, and locations where fasteners are driven from the exterior. The water management system generally comprises a vertical batten assembly, and in certain embodiments a horizontal joint cover. The water management system is designed to be installed on an outer surface of the exterior wall panels. Thus, the system may be installed without removing and replacing existing siding or covering panels with an entirely new layer of siding. The present invention may also be used on new panel siding installations as a lower cost alternative to other siding systems.
US10352035B1
Two connectors are used to improve a system of wood framing commonly used to form roof and floor assemblies. The first, the end-to-end connector, allows end-to- end connection of secondary members. The joint thus formed acts as a structural hinge which, when properly located, significantly reduces maximum moment and deflection compared to current simple-span conditions. The second, the top mount connector, provides a secure connection between continuous secondary members and the tops of primary members. This connector provides support for the secondary members and, by resisting rotation between the primary and secondary members, provides superior bracing of the primary member. Used together, the connectors provide an new way of supporting members in a structure, that both reduces maximum moment and deflection and resists rotation between the primary members and the secondary members.
US10352034B2
A building technique uses standard shipping containers as buttresses to support a truss system that may extend between the shipping containers to provide a roof. A sliding connector system attaches the trusses to the shipping containers to accommodate variations in separation of the shipping containers presenting a versatile framing system that is insensitive to site-related variations.
US10352029B1
A rotatable toilet tank lever equipped with a stopper has a controller to limit its upward movement. When engaged, the upward movement of the controller is stopped by an adjustment stick hitting the cover of toilet water tank. Therefore, the upward movement of the flapper inside the toilet tank is also limited and the amount of water, about half a gallon, draining into the toilet suffices to flush liquid human waste. When the intervention of the controller is eliminated by turning the handle of the rotatable toilet tank lever with controller clockwise 90 degrees to 180 degrees then the flapper can be lifted all the way up to float in the toilet water tank to allow the whole tank of water, about two gallons, to drain into the toilet bowl to flush solid human waste.
US10352020B2
An excavator tool attaching mechanism includes a housing having a pair of housing walls; a fixed engagement member for engaging with a first coupling pin of an excavator tool; a moveable engagement mechanism for engaging with a second coupling pin of the excavator tool; and a safety mechanism moveable between a locked and an unlocked configuration. The moveable engagement mechanism includes an engaging element moveable between a first position for releasing the excavator tool and a second position for engagement with the second coupling pin. The safety mechanism is automatically moved from the unlocked to the locked configuration by movement of the engaging element from the first to the second position, preventing movement of the engaging element between the second and first position. The engaging element is moveable to the second position when the moveable engagement mechanism engages with the second coupling pin.
US10352017B1
A manhole cover assembly removably supported by a manhole skirt or rim wherein when the manhole cover assembly is removed from the manhole skirt or rim an individual can access one or more components (e.g., underground fuel storage tank) through an opening in the manhole skirt or rim. Preferably, the manhole cover assembly is light weight and very strong so that there is little or no deflection of the cover of the manhole cover assembly when subjected to a predetermined load. Preferably, the manhole cover assembly is adapted for use in refueling stations to withstand the load placed thereon when a refueling tanker or other vehicle runs over the manhole cover assembly with little or no deflection of the cover of the manhole cover assembly. Preferably, the assembly forms a liquid tight seal with the manhole skirt to prevent liquid from passing into the storage area below the skirt.
US10352013B2
A ground mounting assembly includes one or a plurality of posts, each attached to at least one stabilizing plate or scoop pyramid. The post may be driven into the ground and then lifted to deploy plates into a locking mechanism, or driven into the ground by a pile driver with plate held in place, released, and driven further and deployed into a locking mechanism, or driven into the ground and double pounded inside the post to drive reinforcing plate into slotted winglets, or driven, double pounded and rotated to extend the reinforcing plates horizontally from the pole or pile. The post also can used as a mooring in harbors, lakes, or at sea. A system based on a double pounder pile driven mono pole, optionally extendable in length, is also described.
US10352002B2
A grass protection mat comprises a body where grass passing spaces are continuously arranged and an outer frame comprising four frames formed in four directions to finish an outer edge of the body, wherein the grass protection mat further comprises at least one hook fastener which horizontally protrudes from a first lateral frame of the outer frame toward a second lateral frame of an outer frame of a neighboring grass protection mat, and wherein the at least one hook fastener is fastened to at least one fastening hole provided in the outer frame of the second grass protection mat adjacent to the first lateral frame and corresponding to the hook fastener of the grass protection mat.
US10352001B2
A method of milling a profile of a railway rail comprises: rotating a milling cutter including a plurality of face mounted cutting inserts mounted about a periphery thereof; milling a railway rail with cutting edges of the cutting inserts rotating in a predetermined plane corresponding to at least a portion of a desired rail profile while controlling the depth of cut of the cutting inserts; traversing the railway rail with the milling cutter while milling the railway rail; and controlling the speed of traverse of the milling cutter along the railway rail.
US10351994B2
The present invention provides a fiber-reinforced resin intermediate material, including not only a thermoplastic resin but also a thermosetting resin, in which defects such as voids are difficult to be generated and which is excellent in shaping ability; and a method for manufacturing the same. The fiber-reinforced resin intermediate material according to the present invention is a fiber-reinforced resin intermediate material formed by attaching a resin to an outer surface part of a reinforcing fiber substrate formed of reinforcing fibers subjected to opening and heating the resin to a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point of the resin to impregnate the reinforcing fiber substrate with the resin, wherein the reinforcing fiber substrate has void space that is opened on an outer surface thereof and the resin is in a semi-impregnated state.
US10351990B2
A dryer appliance and method of operation are generally provided. The dryer appliance may include a drying chamber, an air passage in fluid communication with the drying chamber, and a heater in thermal communication with the drying chamber. The method may include motivating an airflow through the drying chamber and the air passage. The method may include measuring a velocity of the airflow through the air passage. Also included may be determining an article load size within the drying chamber based on the measured velocity, and directing a power output at the heater based on the determined article load size.
US10351989B2
A laundry drying appliance having a cabinet, a treatment chamber inside the cabinet, a drying air recirculation path for conveying air into/out from the treatment chamber, a drying air propeller driven by a drying air propeller motor for causing the drying air to recirculate along the recirculation path, a drying air moisture condensing and heating system the drying air recirculation path for dehydrating the moisture-laden drying air leaving the treatment chamber and heating the dehydrated drying air before it re-enters into the treatment chamber, a laundry drying cycle selector for selecting one out of a number of default laundry drying cycles, a control unit to control the machine operation by operating the drying propeller at a default average speed corresponding to the selected drying cycle, and a command input operable by the user to change an average working speed of the drying air propeller.
US10351988B2
A washing machine appliance and lid assembly is provided. The appliance may include a cabinet defining an opening, a basket, a door, a balance lever, and a counter balance assembly. The door may be pivotable about a pivot axis between an open position and a closed position. The counter balance assembly may be mounted to the balance lever to hold the door in an intermediate position between the open position and the closed position. The counter balance assembly may include a guide pin coupled to the balance lever and a bracket coupled to the cabinet and defining a trailing surface. The guide pin may be slidably disposed on the trailing surface of the bracket.
US10351986B2
A laundry washing machine includes a wash tub that allows laundry and water to be loaded therein, a holding unit that separates some of the water in the wash tub and holds the some of the water, where the water contains a substance that was attached to the laundry and that is dissolved therein, a detection unit that detects a predetermined substance contained in the some of the water held by the holding unit and outputs information indicating a result of detection, and a laundry detergent dispenser that dispenses a laundry detergent into the wash tub or instructs a user to add the laundry detergent to the wash tub after the some of the water is separated.
US10351985B2
A cycle of operation for a laundry treating appliance having a rotatable treating chamber for receiving a laundry load including a washing phase having an application of a treating chemistry to the laundry load to separate soils from the laundry load, an extracting phase having a centrifugal extraction of at least some of the treating chemistry from the laundry load, and a rinsing phase having a spraying of an amount of rinse water onto the laundry load to evenly wet the laundry load to form a wetted laundry load and an applying of a bleach solution to the wetted laundry load.
US10351974B2
Methods and systems are provided for forming carbon allotropes. An exemplary method includes forming a feedstock that includes at least about 10 mol % oxygen, at least about 10 mol % carbon, and at least about 20 mol % hydrogen. Carbon allotropes are formed from the feedstock in a reactor in a Bosch reaction at a temperature of at least about 500° C., and the carbon allotropes are separated from a reactor effluent stream.
US10351972B2
The invention discloses a multifunctional spinning device, comprising a solution storage apparatus, a solution spraying apparatus, a solution delivery apparatus, a drive apparatus, a high-voltage power supply apparatus, and a fiber collecting apparatus. The device not only realizes production of micron and nano fibers with multiple structures or a mixture thereof on one device, but also greatly improves the production yield thereof, tremendously reduces a voltage value of the required high-voltage electrostatic field, even does not require involvement of the high-voltage electrostatic field, reduces costs, and improves production safety.
US10351971B2
This application describes a method of preparation of a natural graphene cellulose blended fiber, which comprises using a graphite powder as a raw material for preparing a graphene solution, adding the graphene solution to a slurry formed by mixing and dissolving a wood pulp with N-methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMMO), removing the water content thereof to form a spinning dope, and then spinning the spinning dope by a Dry-Jet Wet method to manufacture a natural graphene cellulose blended fiber. The present method does not require a highly toxic hydrazine hydrate solution. Further, by increasing the adding ratio of the graphene solution in the manufacturing process, control of the antistatic properties and thermal transferring functions can be achieved, and thereby various requirements of different consumers can be satisfied. Besides, the fibers can decompose naturally after being used, and thus the product is harmless, natural, and environmentally friendly.
US10351964B2
In an artificial photosynthesis module, a plurality of first electrode portions of a hydrogen generation electrode are disposed side by side with a gap, and each of a plurality of second electrode portions of an oxygen generation electrode is disposed at a gap between the first electrode portions of the hydrogen generation electrode as seen from the hydrogen generation electrode side with respect to the diaphragm. A first photocatalyst layer of at least one first electrode portion of the hydrogen generation electrode or a second photocatalyst layer of at least one of the second electrode portions of the oxygen generation electrode is tilted with respect to a flow direction of an electrolytic aqueous solution, or a projecting part is provided on a surface of the first photocatalyst layer of at least one first electrode portion of the hydrogen generation electrode or a surface of the second photocatalyst layer of at least one second electrode portion of the oxygen generation electrode.
US10351962B2
A method for operating and electrolytic system may include an electrolyzer for generating hydrogen and oxygen as product gas. Hydrogen and oxygen produced during the electrolytic process are discharged from the electrolyzer. As a result, the efficiency of the electrolytic system is improved, at least one of the product gases in the expansion turbine is expanded, and a generator is driven by the expansion turbine.
US10351959B2
A method for passivating a metal surface of a light-weight metal part is disclosed, wherein a conversion layer is applied to the surface of the light-weight metal part in a passivation step. A passivation step is carried out wherein an aqueous passivation solution is used to create a calcium phosphate-containing conversion layer (5) on the metal surface of the part, said conversion layer comprising oxides and hydroxides from the material of the part and from the passivation solution and containing amino acids.
US10351957B2
In a method for producing a metal oxide film according to the present invention, a solution containing zinc is sprayed onto a substrate placed under non-vacuum, and then, a dopant solution containing a dopant is sprayed onto the substrate. After that, a deposited metal oxide film is subjected to a resistance reducing treatment. A molar concentration of the dopant supplied to the substrate with respect to a molar concentration of the zinc supplied to the substrate is not less than a predetermined value.
US10351955B2
A semiconductor substrate processing apparatus for processing semiconductor substrates includes showerhead module delivering process gas through a faceplate having gas passages therethrough from the process gas source to a processing zone of the processing apparatus wherein individual semiconductor substrates are processed. The showerhead module comprises a gas delivery conduit in fluid communication with a cavity at a lower end thereof, a baffle arrangement in the gas delivery conduit and the cavity, and a blocker plate in the cavity disposed below the baffle arrangement. The baffle arrangement comprises baffles which divide process gas flowing through the gas delivery conduit into center, inner annular, and outer annular flow streams. The center flow stream exits the baffle arrangement above a central portion of the faceplate, the inner annular flow stream exits the baffle arrangement above an inner annular region of the faceplate, and the outer annular flow stream exits the baffle arrangement above an outer annular region of the faceplate.
US10351951B2
A substrate treatment apparatus includes: a reaction tube including a substrate treatment region in which a substrate is treated; and a furnace opening member disposed in a lower portion of the reaction tube. The reaction tube includes a flange formed to protrude outward in the lower portion of the reaction tube, and an extension portion formed to extend downward from a lower end of the flange, the extension portion being formed to have a thickness larger than a thickness of the reaction tube at a position corresponding to the substrate treatment region, and being configured to cover an inner circumferential surface of the furnace opening member. An inner surface of the extension portion protrudes more inward than an inner surface of the reaction tube at the position corresponding to the substrate treatment region.
US10351945B2
The method for obtaining a nano-capsule structure includes at least one layer of resin deposited on a layer of substrate. The capsule nanometric in size is capable of enabling the encapsulation of a compound. The layer of resin is structured, by low voltage electron lithography, or by optical lithography or by nanoimprinting in such a way as to obtain at least one cavity in the thickness of the layer of resin. The cavity has a depth smaller than the thickness of the layer of resin. At least one layer of an encapsulating material is isotropically deposited by sputtering the material under vacuum. The cavity is sealed with a sealing material. The layer of resin is dissolved by soaking in a suitable solvent.
US10351942B2
In a high strength hot-dip galvannealed hot-rolled steel sheet that has an excellent hole expansibility suitable for a stretch flanging and preferably has a high yield ratio and a tensile strength of at least 650 MPa, a hot-rolled steel sheet used as a base material for plating has a chemical composition comprising: in mass %, C: from at least 0.01 and at most 0.20%; Si: at most 0.50%; Mn: from at least 0.01% to at most 1.30%; P: at most 0.05%; S: at most 0.01%; N: at most 0.01%; Al: at most 0.50%; and Ti: from at least 0.05% to at most 0.50%, and a steel structure consisting of a polygonal ferrite having at least 80 area % and the remainder containing one kind or two or more kinds selected from bainitic ferrite, bainite, pearlite, and cementite.
US10351930B2
The present invention according provides a method of recovering silver from silver containing halide solutions, comprising the steps of: (a) providing an ion exchange column comprising a weak anion exchange resin; (b) introducing the silver containing halide solution to the ion exchange column to absorb silver in the weak anion exchange resin; (c) washing the loaded ion exchange resin with a first washing solution to rinse off absorbed zinc and optionally at least part of copper; (d) washing the loaded ion exchange resin with a second washing solution to rinse off remaining copper; and (e) optionally washing the loaded ion exchange resin with a third washing solution to rinse off absorbed lead; and (f) eluting the loaded ion exchange resin with an eluent to remove silver from the resin and to obtain a silver containing solution.
US10351920B2
The present invention relates to a particulate inoculant for treating liquid cast-iron, comprising, on the one hand, support particles made of a fusible material in the liquid cast-iron, and on the other hand, surface particles made of a material that promotes the germination and the growth of graphite, disposed and distributed in a discontinuous manner at the surface of the support particles, the surface particles presenting a grain size distribution such that their diameter d50 is smaller than or equal to one-tenth of the diameter d50 of the support particles.
US10351900B2
The present invention relates to a method for predicting causative factors (bacteria) of serious bacterial infectious diseases in a clinical sample containing bacteria-derived nano-sized extracellular vesicles, that is, nanovesicles, through the analysis of the genes contained in the nanovesicles. According to the present invention, information on bacteria of serious bacterial infection can be provided, a causative factor of the bacterial infection can be predicted, and the resistance of the bacteria to antibiotics can be predicted.
US10351895B2
The present invention relates to a biological method for the dosage of peptidoglycans in a sample, especially a sample of glucose polymers.
US10351894B2
A method of isolating cells includes providing a microfluidic device having at least one microfluidic channel coupled to an inlet and an outlet, the at least one microfluidic channel comprises at least one expansion region disposed along the length thereof. The at least one expansion region is an abrupt increase in a cross-sectional dimension of the at least one microfluidic channel configured to generate a vortex within the at least one expansion region in response to fluid flow. A solution containing a population of cells at least some of which have diameters ≥10 μm flows into the inlet. A portion of cells is trapped within vortex created within the at least one expansion region. The trapped cells may then released from the expansion region.
US10351892B2
The present invention provides a mutant-type glucose dehydrogenase having glucose dehydrogenase activity and having decreased reactivity with xylose, wherein said mutant-type glucose dehydrogenase comprises a mutant-type α-subunit comprising an amino acid sequence of 520 to 550 amino acids comprising an amino acid sequence of 520 to 550 amino acids comprising SEQ ID NO: 21, SEQ ID NO: 22, SEQ ID NO: 23, SEQ ID NO: 24 and SEQ ID NO: 25 in this order from N-terminus to C-terminus, except that one or more amino acid residue(s) selected from the group consisting of the glycine at position 10 in SEQ ID NO: 23, the histidine at position 4 in SEQ ID NO: 24, and the asparagine at position 4 in SEQ ID NO: 25 is/are substituted with another/other amino acid(s).
US10351890B2
The present invention relates to a method for improving the production of a difficult-to-express recombinant protein in a recombinant microorganism, and more particularly to a method for improving the production of a difficult-to-express recombinant protein by use of a recombinant microorganism into which a gene encoding a target protein and an sRNA against a gene encoding ribonuclease P are introduced. According to the present invention, expressions of a large recombinant protein, a difficult-to-express protein and a useful protein can be dramatically increased by reducing expression of the rnpA gene.
US10351878B2
The present disclosure provides a DNA-targeting RNA that comprises a targeting sequence and, together with a modifying polypeptide, provides for site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA. The present disclosure further provides site-specific modifying polypeptides. The present disclosure further provides methods of site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA The present disclosure provides methods of modulating transcription of a target nucleic acid in a target cell, generally involving contacting the target nucleic acid with an enzymatically inactive Cas9 polypeptide and a DNA-targeting RNA. Kits and compositions for carrying out the methods are also provided. The present disclosure provides genetically modified cells that produce Cas9; and Cas9 transgenic non-human multicellular organisms.
US10351877B2
Described herein are methods and vectors for rational, multiplexed manipulation of chromosomes within open reading frames (e.g., in protein libraries) or any segment of a chromosome in a cell or population of cells, in which various CRISPR systems are used.
US10351868B2
Heterologous expression of E. coli cyclopropane synthase in genotypic and phenotypic fad2fae1 plants facilitates accumulation of cyclopropane fatty acids. Co-expression of Sterculia foetida transferases, including lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase, diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), and Phospholipid Diacyl Glycerol Acyltransferase (PDAT), with E. coli cyclopropane synthase further enhances cyclopropane fatty acid accumulation in fad2fae1 plant seeds.
US10351859B2
The present disclosure relates to a microorganism producing L-leucine and a method for producing L-leucine using the same, and more specifically, to a Corynebacterium glutamicum mutant which has resistance to L-leucine and a derivative thereof and improved L-leucine producing ability, and a method for producing L-leucine using the same.
US10351858B2
The present invention provides improved polysaccharides (e.g., gellan and diutan) produced by mutant gene N, M or I Sphingomonas strains containing at least one genetic modification that favors slime-forming polysaccharide production. Methods of making the mutant Sphingomonas strains and the culture broth containing such mutant Sphingomonas strains are also provided.
US10351857B2
It relates to a LfliZ gene and its application. The sequence of gene LfliZ is shown in SEQ ID NO.1. This invention also relates to the recombinant protein LfliZ encoded by LfliZ gene and its application in preparation of 2′, 3′-cNMPs. The recombinant LfliZ protein encoded by gene LfliZ can bind four kinds of 2′, 3′-cNMPs during its expression in Escherichia coli. Four kinds of 2′, 3′-cNMPs can be prepared simultaneously from the recombinant E. coli by extracting the recombinant protein LfliZ. The yield of 2′, 3′-cNMPs reaches 2.5 mg/L fermentation broth by the method in the present invention, indicating that this method has a good application potential.
US10351856B2
It relates to a ribonucleic acid aptamer having an inhibitory effect on non-small cell lung cancer and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same. The ribonucleic acid aptamer can bind to human non-small cell lung cancer in vivo or in vitro with high specificity and high affinity to achieve an effect of inhibiting non-small cell lung cancer; and the ribonucleic acid aptamer can also be linked, coupled or polymerized with other non-small cell lung cancer therapeutic drugs to achieve a more excellent effect of inhibiting non-small cell lung cancer.
US10351849B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer, which comprises, as an active ingredient, one or more miRNAs selected from the group consisting of miR-3670, miR-8078, and miR-4477a. The pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer according to the present invention exhibits excellent effects of inhibiting cancer cell proliferation and inducing cancer cell apoptosis. Thus, the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention can be effectively used as an anticancer therapeutic agent.
US10351844B2
Expression vectors, viral particles and therapeutic methods of using such constructs to improve the visual function of a patient suffering from diseases of the eye, resulting from failure to produce a specific protein in the eye, or the production of a non-functional protein in the eye, particularly Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) and CEP290-related LCA.
US10351840B2
Reverse transcriptase mixtures with improved storage stability are provided.
US10351823B2
Methods for producing a population of human-derived glial restricted progenitor cells (GRPs) with decreased potentially unintended or undesired cellular phenotypes and/or decreased standard deviation in the cells of the population are provided. Also provided are antibody panels and gene expression profiles to characterize GRPs and a method for its use in characterizing GRP cells. In addition methods for use of these GRP cells to generate astrocytes and/or oligodendrocytes, to re-myelinate neurons and to treat glial cell related and other neurodegenerative diseases or disorders or injuries or damage to the nervous system are provided. A method to manufacture neural cells depleted of A2B5 positive cells is also provided.
US10351821B2
This invention provides a system for efficiently producing differentiated cells from pluripotent cells, such as human embryonic stem cells. Rather than permitting the cells to form embryoid bodies according to established techniques, differentiation is effected directly in monolayer culture on a suitable solid surface. The cells are either plated directly onto a differentiation-promoting surface, or grown initially on the solid surface in the absence of feeder cells and then exchanged into a medium that assists in the differentiation process. The solid surface and the culture medium can be chosen to direct differentiation down a particular pathway, generating a cell population that is remarkably uniform. The methodology is well adapted to bulk production of committed precursor and terminally differentiated cells for use in drug screening or regenerative medicine.
US10351811B2
A cell culture container characterized by being equipped with a container main body and a flat plate attached onto one surface of the container main body, wherein the container main body is equipped with an inflow port through which a liquid can flow into the container main body, a passage through which the liquid flowing into the container main body from the inflow port can pass, and an outflow port through which the liquid passing through the passage can flow out from the container main body, and wherein, on the bottom surface of the passage, multiple cell-seeding areas in which cells passing through the passage can be seeded are arranged side by side along the passage.
US10351808B2
A laundry stain and soil pretreatment sheet including a water soluble or water dispersible carrier layer, preferably polyvinyl alcohol, a removable separator layer, and a layer of cleaning agent composition therebetween. The separator layer is removed, the composition layer is adhered to a stain on clothing, and the clothing is laundered. The carrier layer dissolves or disperses during the laundering. The separator layer can be water soluble or water dispersible. Depressions can be provided in the carrier layer to hold the layer of cleaning agent composition. Without the separator layer, a sheet of the carrier layer can be folded over to hold the cleaning agent composition.
US10351804B2
Disclose herein is a composition comprising a hydrocarbon solvent; an aromatic solvent; a methylated siloxane; and a surfactant. Also disclosed is a method of preparing an emulsion for cleaning purposes comprising mixing a solution at a rate of greater than 500 rpm for at least two hours, wherein the solution comprises a hydrocarbon solvent, an aromatic solvent, a methylated siloxane, and a surfactant. In addition, disclosed herein is a method of cleaning rollers, plates, or blankets of a printing machine with a cleaning mixture, the method comprising contacting the rollers or blankets with the cleaning mixture, wherein the cleaning mixture comprises a hydrocarbon solvent, an aromatic solvent, a methylated siloxane, and a surfactant.
US10351797B2
A fragrance precursor of (E/Z)-9-hydroxy-5,9-dimethyldec-4-enal, comprising at least an enamine and/or an aminal as reaction product of (E/Z)-9-hydroxy-5,9-dimethyldec-4-enal (compound according to formula (I)) and a primary and/or secondary amine useful as a perfume ingredient.
US10351796B2
A perfume composition for improved release from a cyclodextrin complex, wherein the perfume composition includes 10% or more, by weight of the perfume, of one or more perfume raw materials having: a cyclodextrin complex stability constant of about 3.0 or less, a ClogP of about 2.5 or less; and a weight average molecular weight of about 200 Daltons or less.
US10351785B2
Deep desulfurization of hydrocarbon feeds containing undesired organosulfur compounds to produce a hydrocarbon product having low levels of sulfur, i.e., 15 ppmw or less of sulfur, is achieved by with an apparatus arranged for flashing the feed at a target cut point temperature to obtain two fractions. A low boiling temperature fraction contains refractory, sterically hindered sulfur-containing compounds, which have a boiling point at or above the target cut point temperature. A high boiling temperature fraction, having a boiling point below the target cut point temperature, is substantially free of refractory sulfur-containing compounds. The high boiling temperature fraction is contacted with isomerization catalyst, and the isomerized effluent and the low boiling temperature fraction are combined and contacted with a hydrotreating catalyst in a hydrodesulfurization reaction zone operating under mild conditions to reduce the quantity of organosulfur compounds to an ultra-low level.
US10351784B2
The invention relates weldments useful as heat transfer tubes in pyrolysis furnaces. The invention relates to tubes that are useful in pyrolysis furnaces. The weldments include a tubular member and at least one mixing element. The tubular member comprises an aluminum-containing alloy. The mixing element comprises an aluminum-containing alloy. The mixing element's aluminum-containing alloy can be the same as or different from the tubular member's aluminum-containing alloy. Other aspects of the invention relate to pyrolysis furnaces which include such weldments, and the use of such pyrolysis furnaces for hydrocarbon conversion processes such as steam cracking.
US10351779B2
A catalyst precursor suitable for the Fischer Tropsch reaction is described comprising cobalt oxide supported on a porous support wherein the porous support is a ceramic foam comprising a closed cell structure.
US10351773B2
Disclosed are liquid crystal compounds of cycloalkyl-containing dibenzofuran derivatives, a preparation method therefor and use thereof. The compounds are as represented by formula I. In the molecular structures of the compounds of formula I provided by the present invention, liquid crystal compounds of cycloalkyl terminal group-containing dibenzofuran derivatives, compared with those having flexible alkyl chains as terminal groups, exhibit better intersolubility, and thus the use of a compound as represented by formula I provided by the present invention can improve the intersolubility of a liquid crystal compound and extend the application range of a liquid crystal mixture, producing an important application value.
US10351772B2
The present invention relates to a nematic liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable compound and having a negative dielectric anisotropy (Δε) and PSA or PSVA liquid crystal display element produced by using the same. The liquid crystal composition according to the present invention can provide PSA or PSVA liquid crystal display element, in which a sufficient pretilt angle is included, the amount of remaining monomer is small, there are no or almost no problems, e.g., alignment defects and display defects, arisen from a low voltage holding rate (VHR) and the like, and excellent response performance is exhibited. A liquid crystal display element using the liquid crystal composition according to the present invention is useful for an active-matrix-drive liquid crystal display element and can be applied to PSA, PSVA, and other liquid crystal display elements.
US10351768B2
Mixed halide scintillation materials of a first general formula A4B(1-y)MyX′6(1-z)X″6z and a second general formula A(4-y)BMyX′6(1-z)X″6z are disclosed. In the general formulas, A is an alkali metal, B is an alkaline earth metal, and X′ and X″ are two different halogen atoms. Scintillation materials of the first general formula include a divalent external activator M such as Eu2+ or Yb2+ or a trivalent external activator M such as Ce3+. Scintillation materials of the second general formula include a monovalent external activator M such as In+, Na+, or Tl+ or a trivalent external activator such as Ce3+.
US10351766B2
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a phosphor. A first solution is formed by dissolving potassium hexafluorogermanate (K2GeF6) and either K2MnF6 or KMnO4 in a hydrofluoric acid solution. An anhydrous ethanol is added to the first solution to make a total concentration of fluoride ions of potassium hexafluorogermanate (K2GeF6), hydrofluoric acid, and either K2MnF6 or KMnO4 equal to or less than 48M to form a precipitate. Afterward, the precipitate is collected.
US10351765B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, an emitting layer and a cathode, in which the emitting layer includes a first compound and a second compound, the first compound is a delayed fluorescent compound, the second compound is a fluorescent compound, an emission quantum efficiency of the first compound is 70% or less, and an ionization potential Ip1 of the first compound and an ionization potential Ip2 of the second compound satisfy a relationship of 0≤Ip2−Ip1≤0.8 eV.
US10351752B2
Treating a subterranean formation with a composition including a maleic anhydride copolymer, an amine crosslinker, and a gelling agent. The maleic anhydride copolymer includes first repeat units I and II and at least one of second repeat units III and IV: where each R1 is independently —H, —O(C1-C5) alkyl, or —(C1-C5) alkyl; each R2 is independently —H, —O(C1-C5) alkyl, or —(C1-C5) alkyl; each R3 is independently —OH or —O−M1, each M1 is independently an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, an ammonium ion, or a quaternary ammonium ion; and each R4 is independently —NH2 or —OM1. The gelling agent includes at least one of: a calcium chelating agent, a calcium precipitating agent, a pH buffer, an agent reactive with hydroxide, and an acid generating agent, and promotes formation of a gel from the maleic anhydride copolymer and the amine crosslinker in contact with set cement.
US10351744B2
Apparatus and methods for manually applying flexible noodles (e.g., noodles made of adhesive material) to a workpiece (e.g., a composite part) during production or construction. The noodle is fed out over a series of upright rolls and rollers to the target area. Those rolls and rollers are rotatably coupled to a platform that is designed to be worn on the forearm of the operator. In accordance with one example, the noodle applicator comprising an ergonomic handle and an ergonomic forearm brace that are positioned and attached to the platform to allow the weight of the platform to be centered higher up the forearm, protecting the wrist. The direction of application is in-line with the forearm of the operator, decreasing the strain involved.
US10351734B2
An abrasion-resistant adhesive tape (1), that can be formed into a roll, preferably a cable winding tape (1), with a strip-shaped double-layer substrate (2) with a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating (3) on one side. The substrate (2) having a first textile fabric layer (4) and a second textile fabric layer (5), being permanently connected by an adhesive connection layer (6). For a high abrasion resistance, preferably a class-E abrasion resistance according to LV 312, and enabling easy processing with a minimal thickness, the first and second textile layers (4) each have a basis weight ranging from 80 to 300 g/m2, the adhesive connection layer (6) having a basis weight ranging from 50 to 300 g/m2 and a laminate adhesive force, by DIN EN 1939, between the textile layers greater than 10 N/cm.
US10351730B2
Blended, release materials containing crosslinked silicones, crosslinked fluorosilicones, and nonfunctional fluorosilicones are described. Articles including release liners and adhesive articles are also described, as are methods of making such blended release materials and articles incorporating them.
US10351723B2
The present invention is a method for producing an aluminum flake paste including a first step of flaking a raw material aluminum powder in an organic solvent containing an aromatic hydrocarbon as a main ingredient to give aluminum flakes, and a second step of treating the aluminum flakes obtained in the first step with an organic compound having a polar group, and forming the treated flakes into a paste.
US10351715B2
The invention comprises synergistic compositions of at least two metal carboxylates as corrosion inhibitors based on polycarboxylate anions and a variety of different cations. The inhibitors are designed to be added to film forming or other compositions to reduce the corrosion of the metal substrate on which the synergistic compositions are applied.
US10351712B2
The invention described herein relates to a novel process to create carbon black feed stocks derived from coal by utilizing direct coal liquefaction resulting in an economic process for producing carbon black feedstock. Moreover, relative to the current state of the art (use of FCC slurry oil), the invention process will be significantly more profitable when oil prices increase.
US10351710B2
The present invention relates to a method for the production of granules comprising surface-reacted calcium carbonate by a) providing surface-reacted calcium carbonate, b) saturating the surface-reacted calcium carbonate with one or more liquids; c) providing one or more binder; d) combining the liquid saturated surface-reacted calcium carbonate with the one or more binder under agitation in an agitation device; e) removing the liquid from the mixture of step d); as well as to the granules comprising surface-reacted calcium carbonate obtained by this method.
US10351707B2
The present invention relates to a water-soluble ferric ion fluorescent probe, and the fluorescent probe molecule has a structure as shown in the following figure. The present invention also discloses a preparation method of the water-soluble ferric ion fluorescent probe.
US10351706B2
The invention relates to a near-infrared fluorescent dye and use thereof, and particularly relates to compounds represented by following Formulae A, B and C, wherein each group in the Formulae is described in the specification. Further provided are a dye composition comprising the compound represented by Formula A or Formula B, and a preparation method of the compound represented by Formula A or Formula B. The compound has a maximum absorption wavelength of 880 nm, considerably exceeding maximum absorption wavelengths of the majority of small-molecule near-infrared fluorescent dyes in the prior art. Moreover, the structure thereof does not aggregate even if the concentration thereof is excessively high, thereby having considerably high chemical stability and light stability.
US10351704B2
Described are hydrosilylation-curable polyorganosiloxane compositions containing sulfur, including hydrosilylation-curable polyorganosiloxane prepolymers and hydrosilylation-cured polyorganosiloxane polymer products made therefrom, as well as methods of preparing and using the same, devices comprising or prepared from the same, and sulfur-functional organosiloxanes useful therein.
US10351701B2
Embodiments relate to an additive for a biopolymer article, a method for forming the additive and biopolymer articles and sheeting containing or formed using the additive. The additive includes at least one impact modifier between 10-90 weight % of the total weight of the additive; at least one polymer color concentrate between 5-50 weight % of the total weight of the additive; and at least one carrier resin between 5-50 weight % of the total weight of the additive.
US10351690B2
A plasticizer composition for mastics, plastisols and adhesives is disclosed. The plasticizer includes at least one hydrocarbon-containing cut or a cut originating from biomass conversion and at least one fatty acid monoester. The plasticizer is free of phthalates.
US10351689B2
A process for forming voided latex particles is improved by combining swelling and polymerization of an outer shell into a single step. The process includes contacting multi-stage emulsion polymer particles comprising a core, at least one intermediate shell, with a swelling agent, and polymerizing an outer shell after said contacting with swelling agent wherein the core and the at least one intermediate shell are contacted with swelling agent in the presence of less than 0.5% monomer based on the weight of the multi-stage emulsion polymer particles, and substantially all of the swelling occurs during polymerization of the outer shell.
US10351685B2
The present invention provides a water-soluble packaging film which is capable of inhibiting roll contamination, which has favorable unwinding properties to pass through processing steps smoothly, thereby improving the productivity, and which has enhanced water solubility, chemical resistance, visibility, and packaging properties. The present invention relates to a water-soluble packaging film including: polyvinyl alcohol; a plasticizer; and starch, the starch being applied to a front surface and a rear surface of the water-soluble packaging film, the starch being applied in an amount of 0.001 to 0.10 g per 1 m2 of the water-soluble packaging film, the water-soluble packaging film having a contact angle with distilled water measured by the sessile-drop method of 20° to 50°.
US10351683B2
A method of making a carbon fiber having on its surface a partially cured sizing agent, the method comprising covalently binding on the surface of said carbon fiber a sizing agent comprised of an epoxy resin, and partially curing said sizing agent by contact thereof with a curing agent such that at least a portion of epoxide groups remain uncrosslinked on said surface, which corresponds to a curing degree of epoxide groups of no more than about 0.6, and further comprising reacting at least a portion of said epoxide groups with a bifunctional molecule that contains first and second reactive groups, the first reactive group being reactive with and forming a covalent bond with the epoxy group, and the second reactive group being unsaturated and accessible for reaction with a carbon-carbon double bond of an unsaturated resin via a vinyl addition reaction.
US10351679B2
A process produces a polymer composition (A) containing a styrene copolymer (a) and an impact modifier (b), comprising a copolymer (b1) as graft base and a graft (b2), where the steps of the process are: (1) providing a crosslinked copolymer (b1) made of: (b11) from 70 to 99.99% by weight of a conjugated diene or acrylate, (b12) from 0 to 29% by weight of another comonomer, (b13) from 0 to 10% by weight of crosslinking monomers, and (b14) from 0.01 to 0.7% by weight of a chain-transfer reagent; (2) applying, to the copolymer (b1), at least one graft (b2) comprising: (b21) from 65 to 95% by weight of a vinylaromatic monomer, (b22) from 5 to 35% by weight of acrylonitrile and/or methacrylonitrile, and (b23) from 0 to 30% by weight of monoethylenically unsaturated monomers, thus providing the impact modifier (b); (3) mixing the styrene copolymer (a) and the impact modifier (b), and thus leads to improved mechanical properties of the polymer composition (A).
US10351674B2
Sulfur-containing polymeric particles having a high sulfur content can be prepared using emulsion polymerization. The sulfur-containing polymeric particles are useful in aerospace coatings and sealants.
US10351663B2
Provided is a curable composition which has excellent thin-film curability and which can form, via the application of light and/or heat, a cured product having heat resistance and thermal yellowing resistance at excellent levels. This curable composition contains cationically curable compounds and a cationic-polymerization initiator. The cationically curable compounds include an epoxy compound (A) in an amount of 10 to 90 weight percent of the total weight of the cationically curable compounds, and an oxetane compound (B) in an amount of 5 to 40 weight percent of the total weight of the cationically curable compounds. The cationic-polymerization initiator includes an onium borate salt (C). The onium borate salt (C) preferably has an anionic moiety selected from [(C6H5)B(C6F5)3]−, [(C6H5)B((CF3CF2)2C6H2F)3]−, and [(C6H5C6H4)B(C6F5)3]− and a cationic moiety selected from arylsulfonium ions.
US10351662B2
This invention provides, among others, curing agents of Formula II, methods for preparing these curing agents, prepreg materials, degradable cross-linked polymers and reinforced composites made from these curing agents and epoxy resins, and methods for degrading and/or recycling the degradable polymers and reinforced composites.
US10351660B2
A phenolic resin composition and an epoxy resin composition from which a cured epoxy resin having excellent heat resisting properties and a low dielectric constant can be produced. The phenolic resin composition contains a modified phenolic resin and a tetrakisphenolethane compound, the modified phenolic resin being prepared by condensation of a cyclic hydrocarbon compound having two or more unsaturated bonds and a compound having a phenolic hydroxyl group, in which the content of the tetrakisphenolethane compound is 3% to 60% by mass with respect to the total content of the modified phenolic resin and the tetrakisphenolethane compound. The epoxy resin composition is prepared by epoxidizing the phenolic resin composition. The cured epoxy resin is prepared by allowing the epoxy resin composition to react with a hardener.
US10351657B2
The present invention aims to provide a polyester polyol having favorable reactivity and a favorable color tone, which can be used for obtaining a polyurethane having an excellent balance of flexibility, mechanical strength, and chemical resistance, and a method for producing the polyester polyol. The object can be achieved with a polyester polyol in which an aliphatic diol contains as a structural unit 1,10-decanediol derived from a biomass resource, and in which the aldehyde body content in the polyester polyol is 0.01 to 0.5% by weight, and a method for producing the polyester polyol.
US10351654B2
The present invention encompasses polyurethane compositions comprising aliphatic polycarbonate chains. In one aspect, the present invention encompasses polyurethane foams, thermoplastics and elastomers derived from aliphatic polycarbonate polyols and polyisocyanates wherein the polyol chains contain a primary repeating unit having a structure: In another aspect, the invention provides articles comprising the inventive foam and elastomer compositions as well as methods of making such compositions.
US10351651B2
A imprint material is provided, and a film that is prepared from the material and to which the pattern is transferred. An imprint material including: (A), (B), (C) and (D) components; a ratio of the amount of the (B) component to a total amount of the (A) component and the (B) component of 100% by mass is 5% by mass or more and 25% by mass or less: (A) a silsesquioxane compound having a repeating unit of Formula (1) and having two or more polymerizable groups of X0 in Formula (1); (B) a silicone compound having a repeating unit of Formula (2) and having two polymerizable groups at ends thereof; (C) a photopolymerization initiator; and (D) a solvent wherein the formulae, R1 and R2 are each independently a C1-3 alkyl group; R0 is a C1-3 alkylene group; and k is an integer of 0 to 3.
US10351638B2
A precatalyst for the polymerization of α-olefins, having the formula FeuMalcvXw(LA)y(LB)z wherein: Malc is an alkali metal and/or an alkaline-earth metal; X is an anion; LA is a Lewis acid; LB is a Lewis base; u is from 0.001 to 10; v is an integer ≥1; w is from 1 to 20; y is from 0 to 10; z is from 0 to 10.
US10351635B2
The present invention relates to a terminal modified and conjugated diene-based polymer rubber composition including a terminal modified and conjugated diene-based polymer which is characterized in that an aminosilane-based terminal modifier represented by Formula 1 or Formula 2 is combined at the terminal of a conjugated diene-based polymer, and a method for preparing the same.
US10351624B2
It is intended to provide a therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent for transplant rejections, immunological diseases, allergic diseases, inflammatory diseases, thrombosis, cancers, etc., targeting human Orai1. The present invention provides, for example, a pharmaceutical composition comprising an antibody that specifically recognizes human Orai1 and has the activity of inhibiting human T cell activation.
US10351622B2
The present invention relates to discovery of the ectopic expression of EDEM2 in a production cell to improve the yield of a useful multi-subunit protein. Thus, the present invention provides for production cell lines, such as the canonical mammalian biopharmaceutical production cell, the CHO cell, containing recombinant polynucleotides encoding EDEM2. Also disclosed is a production cell containing both an EDEM2-encoding polynucleotide as well an XBP1-encoding polynucleotide. Improved titers of antibodies produced by these cell lines are disclosed, as well as the improved cell densities attained by these cells in culture.
US10351620B2
Antibodies, particularly human antibodies, are disclosed having activity in treatment of demyelinating diseases and diseases of the central nervous system. Neuromodulatory agents are provided comprising a material selected from the group consisting of an antibody capable of binding structures or cells in the central nervous system, a peptide analog, and active fragments, monomers and combinations thereof having one or more of the following characteristics: capable of inducing remyelination; binding to neural tissue; promoting Ca++ signaling with oligodendrocytes; and promoting cellular proliferation of glial cells. Amino acid and DNA sequences of exemplary antibodies are disclosed. Methods are described for treating demyelinating diseases, and diseases of the central nervous system, using polyclonal IgM antibodies and human monoclonal antibodies sHIgm22(LYM 22), sHIgm46(LYM46) ebvHIgM MSI19D10, CB2bG8, AKJR4, CB2iE12, CB2iE7, MSI19E5 and MSI10E10, and active fragments thereof. The invention extends to the use of antibodies and fragments in diagnostic and therapeutic applications, including screening assays.
US10351618B2
The present invention provides UTI fusion proteins, DNA sequences for producing the same, and pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using the same.
US10351605B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods comprising chemopreventive agents that may be cupredoxin(s) or variants, derivatives and structural equivalents of cupredoxins, and at least one other chemopreventive agent. Specifically, these compositions may comprise azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and/or the 50-77 residue region of azurin (p28). The compositions of the invention may be used to prevent or inhibit the development of premalignant lesions in mammalian cells, tissues and animals, and thus prevent cancer.
US10351599B2
Described herein are anti-microbial peptides having enhanced activity and transport.
US10351581B2
Provided are phosphonopyrazole-based phosphohistidine analogs that are useful as haptens for the preparation of immunogens, immunogens that include these haptens linked to carrier molecules, antibodies thereto and uses of these antibodies, haptens, immunogens and phosphohistidine analogs. The invention is based in part on new pHis analogs that are chemically stable and which have been used as haptens and immunogens to generate specific anti-pHis antibodies that bind with high affinity and specificity.
US10351576B2
The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I, a stereoisomer, enantiomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or an amino acid conjugate thereof; wherein variables are as defined herein; and their pharmaceutical compositions, which are useful as modulators of the activity of Farnesoid X receptors (FXR).
US10351572B2
The disclosure relates to aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonists, such as substituted imidazopyridines and imidazopyrazines, as well as methods of expanding hematopoietic stem cells by culturing hematopoietic stem or progenitor cells in the presence of these agents. Additionally, the disclosure provides methods of treating various pathologies in a patient by administration of expanded hematopoietic stem cells. The disclosure further provides methods of synthesizing aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonists, such as substituted imidazopyridines and imidazopyrazines, as well as kits containing aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonists that can be used for the expansion of hematopoietic stem cells.
US10351567B2
The present application relates to compounds and methods for treating pain, incontinence and other conditions.
US10351565B2
The invention provides compounds of Formula 1: and stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and derivatives thereof; and methods of making and using such compounds. The invention includes pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, and the use of such compounds in methods of treating conditions, diseases, or disorders.
US10351564B2
The present invention is directed to 6,7-dihydro-5H-pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyridine-5-one compounds which are allosteric modulators of the M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. The present invention is also directed to uses of the compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these compositions in the potential prevention or treatment of such diseases in which M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are involved.
US10351562B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing methyl {4,6-diamino-2-[1-(2-fluorobenzyl)-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridin-3-yl]pyrimidin-5-yl}methylcarbamate of the formula (I) and to a process for purifying the crude product of the compound of the formula (I) for use as pharmaceutically active compound, where, for purification, methyl {4,6-diamino-2-[1-(2-fluorobenzyl)-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridin-3-yl]pyrimidin-5-yl}methylcarbamate sulphinyldimethane (1:1), i.e. a compound of the formula (II), is isolated as intermediate or is generated as intermediate in this purification process, if appropriate present in a mixture.
US10351544B2
A purified acid composition including 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid is prepared by a process including a) providing an acid composition solution of a crude acid composition in a polar solvent, the crude acid composition including 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) and 2-formyl-furan-5-carboxylic acid (FFCA); b) contacting the acid composition solution with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst to hydrogenate FFCA to hydrogenation products, such that the hydrogenation products contain a minor amount of 2-methyl-furan-5-carboxylic acid (MFA) or no MFA, yielding a hydrogenated solution; c) separating at least a portion of the FDCA from the hydrogenated solution by crystallization.
US10351540B2
1,2-dithiolane and dithiol compounds useful in treating mutant EGFR-mediated diseases and conditions
Compositions of the invention comprise 1,2-dithiolane, dithiol and related compounds useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment and prevention of diseases and conditions associated with aberrant EGFR activity.
US10351539B2
The present invention concerns compounds of formula (I): their process of preparation and compositions thereof. The present invention also concerns their use as diagnostic agent in PET imaging.
US10351535B2
The present invention relates to compounds having dual pharmacological activity towards both the sigma (σ) receptor, and the μ-opioid receptor and more particularly to piperazine compounds having this pharmacological activity, to processes of preparation of such compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use in therapy, in particular for the treatment of pain.
US10351513B2
Provided are: a compound, a thickening/stabilizing agent including the compound, a thickened/stabilized composition including the thickening/stabilizing agent and a fluid organic substance, and a method for producing the thickened/stabilized composition, where the compound effectively thickens the fluid organic substance to a desired viscosity and effectively uniformly stabilizes the formulation of the composition containing the fluid organic substance via thickening of the fluid organic substance. The thickening/stabilizing agent according to the present invention includes a compound represented by Formula (1): (R2—HNOC)4-n—R1—(CONH—R3)n (1) where R1 is a group resulting from removing four hydrogen atoms from the structural formula of butane; R2 and R3 are different from each other and are aliphatic hydrocarbon groups each containing 4 or more carbon atoms; and n is an integer of 1 to 3.
US10351509B2
Methods of preparing a fenfluramine active pharmaceutical ingredient are provided. Aspects of the method include (a) hydrolyzing a 2-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)acetonitrile composition to produce a 2-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)acetic acid composition; (b) reacting the 2-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)acetic acid composition with acetic anhydride and a catalyst to produce a 1-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)propan-2-one composition; and(c) reductively aminating the 1-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)propan-2-one composition with ethylamine using a borohydride reducing agent to produce a fenfluramine composition. Also provided are compositions and pharmaceutical ingredients prepared according to the subject methods including a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of fenfluramine and having less than 0.2% by weight in total of trifluoromethyl regioisomers.
US10351503B2
The present invention relates generally to processes for producing aldehydes wherein an olefinic compound, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen are reacted in the presence of a solubilized rhodium-phosphorous complex. In one embodiment, the process comprises (a) receiving a vaporized aldehyde product stream downstream from a hydroformylation reactor, the vaporized aldehyde product stream comprising aldehydes, phosphorous ligand, and aldehyde condensation by-products; (b) contacting the vaporized aldehyde product stream with a partial condenser so as to condense the phosphorous ligand and the by-products, wherein up to 10 weight percent of the vaporized stream is condensed; (c) removing the condensed phosphorous ligand and the condensed by-products from the liquid condensation stream using a refining column; and (d) further processing the vaporized aldehydes from the separate refining column.
US10351500B2
The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or reducing microbial growth, particularly the growth of dermatophytic fungi, and/or aciduric and acidogenic gram-positive bacteria. More particularly, it relates to the use of trans-3,5,4′-trihydroxybibenzyl, also known as dihydro-resveratrol, or its dihydrostilbene derivatives and/or chemical variants as an anti-microbial agent. The present invention further relates to the management of dermatophytosis often caused by dermatophytic fungi and the management of dental caries often mediated by aciduric and acidogenic gram-positive Streptococci. The present invention therefore has applications in preventing, alleviating and/or treating dermatophytosis and dental caries.
US10351492B2
Novel selective synthesis route to introduce primary alkyl groups on aromatic compounds is disclosed. The synthesis route is based on electrophilic aromatic substitutions of thionium ion species that are generated in-situ from aldehydes and thiols, affording benzyl sulfide that can be reduced with triethylsilane.
US10351491B2
Processes for recovering paraxylene from at least two feedstreams containing xylene isomers. The process includes directing to a paraxylene recovery zone comprising at least one crystallization zone, a paraxylene-lean feedstream having a paraxylene to total xylene isomer ratio of 0.50 or less, and also directing to the paraxylene recovery zone, a paraxylene-rich feedstream having a paraxylene to total xylene isomer ratio of greater than 0.50. A paraxylene-containing product stream is recovered from the paraxylene recovery zone having a paraxylene to total xylene isomer ratio greater than that of the paraxylene-rich feedstream. The process provides improvements in paraxylene recovery efficiency and/or cost effectiveness.
US10351488B2
Unsaturated polyalpha-olefin (uPAO) materials comprising a mixture of vinylidene olefins, 1,2-di-substituted vinylene olefins, and tri-substituted vinylene olefins. The unsaturated PAO material can be made from alpha-olefin monomer(s) in the presence of a metallocene-compound-based catalyst system. The unsaturated PAO material can be used as intermediate material for making PAO materials having functional groups.
US10351478B2
Apparatus and methods for improving the curing process of materials that cure under reaction with CO2 and that do not cure in the presence of water alone are described, and examples are given.
US10351469B2
One or more aspects of the disclosure pertain to an article including a film disposed on a glass substrate, which may be strengthened, where the interface between the film and the glass substrate is modified, such that the article has an improved average flexural strength, and the film retains key functional properties for its application. Some key functional properties of the film include optical, electrical and/or mechanical properties. In one or more embodiments, the interface exhibits an effective adhesion energy of about less than about 4 J/m2. In some embodiments, the interface is modified by the inclusion of a crack mitigating layer containing an inorganic material between the glass substrate and the film.
US10351464B2
A method for manufacturing glass, including the steps of heat-melting a raw material for producing glass by using a melting furnace having a plurality of gas flow paths while the raw material is levitated from the melting furnace by a gas ejected from the gas flow paths, and performing cooling so as to produce glass, wherein the melting furnace includes a recess portion, at least one first gas flow path configured to eject the gas in the vertical direction into the recess portion, a plurality of second gas flow paths configured to eject the gas in the direction toward the center axis of the melting furnace into the recess portion, the raw material is heat-melted while the raw material is levitated by the gas ejected from the first gas flow path and the gas ejected from the second gas flow paths, and the molten raw material is cooled.
US10351454B2
A mining apparatus and method of its use are disclosed. The apparatus includes a heavy metals separating subsystem and a water recycling subsystem. The heavy metals separating subsystem includes one or more classifying screens positioned to receive raw mining material classify materials to a pre-determined size, a slurry tank receiving water and the classified materials, forming a slurry, and a heavy metals concentrating assembly configured to receive the slurry and separate heavy metals from the slurry. The water recycling subsystem is positioned to receive the tailings and separate the tailings into recyclable water and solid waste. The water recycling system is configured to route the recycled water into the heavy metals separating subsystem for reuse.
US10351450B2
Provided is a ballast water treatment apparatus by using sodium dichloroisocyanurate. The ballast water treatment apparatus includes: a cartridge that is provided with an inlet and an outlet in order that a fresh water is introduced and discharged, that is provided with an inlet valve and an exhaust valve installed in the inlet and the outlet respectively, and that is equipped with the sodium dichloroisocyanurate; and a dissolution tank that is equipped with a agitator configured to be connected to the outlet of the cartridge to agitate the sodium dichloroisocyanurate.
US10351449B2
An ice machine or ice maker is configured to produce ionized alkaline ice by having water pass through a medium which causes the water to become ionized. In certain embodiments, the medium contains group II elements, rare earth minerals, metal reducing agents, mineral buffers. The medium may be in a filter with the water passing through the filter to produce ionized alkaline water. The ionized alkaline water is then frozen by the ice machine or ice maker to produce ionized alkaline ice. Exposure of the water to magnetic forces may assist in the production of ionized alkaline water.
US10351439B2
The invention relates to a method for obtaining nanoparticulate titanium dioxide in agglomerate form from a hydrolyzed acidic titanyl compound, the thus obtained titanium dioxide as well as the use thereof as a photocatalyst, process catalyst or adsorbent, especially in aqueous systems.
US10351426B2
The present disclosure provides an oxygen-generating composition comprising an oxygen source and mixed-metal oxide of formula: (Li,Fe,Mg)O, wherein said mixed-metal oxide is in at least partially crystalline form.
US10351415B2
In order to solve the issue, during recessed-shape molding for vehicle seats, of requiring a suspension step, more work, members for suspension, and increased cost in a method using suspension, a recessed-shape molding method is provided for vehicle seats having a seat frame, a seat pad covering the seat frame, and a trim cover covering the seat pad. The seat pad has a seat pad groove. An adhesive sheet is sewn on to the rear surface of the trim cover by using outer stitching, the trim cover is put on to the seat pad, then a die is pressed on to the outer stitching from the trim cover surface, the trim cover is adhered to the seat pad groove, and a recessed shape is formed. As a result, a vehicle seat having simplified molding steps and effectively reducing costs can be provided, as well as a vehicle seat molding method used for same.
US10351410B2
A dispenser system for providing variable carbonation can include a carbonated water source in communication with a carbonated water valve for controlling flow of carbonated water through the dispenser system; a still water source in communication with a still water valve for controlling flow of still water through the dispenser system; a nozzle in fluid communication with the carbonated water source and still water source; a processing device adapted to modulate the carbonated water and still water valves within a modulate cycle to achieve a ratio of carbonated to non-carbonated water; and a pour mechanism adapted to provide an input to the processing device to dispense the beverage.
US10351407B1
An enhanced bottle filler assembly for filling bottles with a liquid from a pressurized vessel into an unpressurized vessel. In a preferred embodiment a molded body has a fitting housing and a grip formed perpendicular to one another. A grip passage interposing the grip, a valve actuator interposing the grip passage, a housing passage interposing the fitting housing, wherein said housing passage is fluidly connected to the grip passage. Two tubes are placed inside each other forming an annulus where a compressed gas can be forced to the bottom of a vessel to purge the vessel of oxygen. A sealing mechanism allows a liquid to flow into the bottle when trigger is pulled.
US10351403B2
A pry bar assembly that has a removable handle includes a handle that may be manipulated. A prying unit is provided and the prying unit is removably coupled to the handle. The prying unit may engage an object thereby facilitating the prying unit to move the object when the handle is manipulated.
US10351397B2
A chain hoist with a chain wheel and a load chain looped around the chain wheel has a shaft rotatably mounted in the housing for driving the chain wheel. A threaded disc with internal thread is connected to an external thread of the shaft and has a drive gear tooth system engaged by a force element actuated manually or motorized. A brake disc rotatable relative to shaft and threaded disc has a braking surface facing a drive surface of the shaft and a braking surface facing the threaded disc. The brake disc has locking teeth engaging a safety catch of the housing. A freewheel device is provided to increase an axial distance between threaded disc and drive surface. Centrifugal elements with outward friction surface are fixed to the threaded disc and expand outwardly against a spring force to contact a braking surface of the housing with their friction surface.
US10351389B2
This invention is concerning a car suspending pulley device including a pair of beams provided parallel to each other on a lower portion of a car and a car suspending pulley arranged between the pair of beams and supported by the pair of beams. A weight suspending pulley is provided on a counterweight. The car and the counterweight are suspended from a main rope wrapped around the car suspending pulley and the weight suspending pulley. A compensating member is suspended between the beams and the counterweight. The compensating member includes a funicular body having a first end portion connected to only one of the pair of beams and a second end portion connected to the counterweight. The first end portion of the funicular body is located in a region of the one beam when viewed in a vertical direction.
US10351381B2
The present application discloses a post-processing apparatus which performs a predetermined process after an image formation process performed by an image formation apparatus. The post-processing apparatus includes an ejection tray, which supports a sheet stack, in which sheets are stacked, and a curl prevention portion including a first tray cursor, which abuts an upper surface of the sheet stack on the ejection tray to prevent the sheet stack from curling. The curl prevention portion includes an angle changer, which changes an inclination angle of the first tray cursor with respect to the ejection tray. The angle changer sets the inclination angle to a first value when a number of sheets is a first number. The angle changer sets the inclination angle to a second value different from the first value when the number of the sheets is a second number different from the first number.
US10351380B2
A diverter conveyor includes a frame supporting an upper conveyor that has an upstream end and a downstream end and that is configured to carry sheets in a first, downstream, direction. A plurality of nip rollers are mounted on the frame upstream of the upstream end of the upper conveyor and are spaced from the upstream end of the upper conveyor by a gap. The nip rollers feed the sheets along a main path to the upstream end of the upper conveyor. A rejection conveyor is supported by the frame and has a portion beneath the gap and extends away from the upper conveyor at an acute angle. A plurality of paddles are mounted at the first gap, and an actuator is operably connected to the paddles and configured to shift the paddles from a first position out of the main path to a second position in the main path.
US10351376B2
The present invention relates to a w winder (1) for winding a web roll (2) from a fibrous web such as a paper web or a web of non-woven material paper (2). The winder (1) comprises two support rolls (3, 4) for supporting the web roll (2) during reeling and a core shaft (5) for winding the paper reel (2). At each longitudinal end of the core shaft (5), there is a carrier chuck (6) in which the core shaft (5) is rotatably journalled. The carrier chucks to are arranged to be movable in a frame towards or away from the support rolls (3, 4) and a rider roll (8) is arranged to be capable of acting against the web roll (2) being wound. The rider roll (8) is carried by a rider roll beam (9) and the rider roll beam (9) is arranged to be movable in the frame (7) such that the rider roll (8) can be moved towards or away from the support rolls (3, 4). There is at least one actuator (10) for moving the rider roll beam (9) towards or away from the support rolls (3, 4); and at least one load cell (12) arranged to detect the force between the rider roll (8) and the web roll (2). The winder (1) also comprises at least one actuator (11) for moving the carrier chucks (6) of the core shaft (5) independently of the rider roll beam (9) and the winder (1) comprises at least one load cell (13) arranged to detect the force with which the carrier chucks (6) act on the core shaft (5). The winder (1) also comprises a logic control system (14) connected to the load cells (12, 13) such that the logic control system (14) receives measured values for the force between the web roll (2) and the rider roll (8) and the force with which the carrier chucks (6) act on the core shaft (5). The logic control system (14) is programmed to control movement of the carrier chucks (6) and the rider roll beam (9) such that the sum of the forces detected from the load cells (12, 13) and the force resulting from a calculated weight of the web roll (2) corresponds to a set value for the force between the web roll (2) and the support rolls (3, 4). The invention also relates to a corresponding method for operating the winder.
US10351374B2
A sheet feeding device comprises sheet storage for storing a sheet, a merging conveying unit for feeding the sheet from the sheet storage to an image forming apparatus, a transmitting element for transmitting an ultrasonic signal to the sheet conveyed on the merging conveying unit, and a receiving element for receiving the ultrasonic signal having passed through the sheet and outputting an output signal according to strength of the received ultrasonic signal. When the sheet is a Japanese paper, the sheet feeding device detects double feeding of the sheet according to an average value of a plurality of the output signals and variation in a plurality of the output signals obtained for the one sheet. If the sheet is not double fed, the sheet is fed to the image forming apparatus. If the sheet is double fed, the sheet is discharged to the escape tray.
US10351372B2
A sheet conveyor includes a tray and a body supporting the tray. The tray is pivotable about a first shaft between a first position at which a free end of the tray is located above its basal end and a second position at which the free end is located farther from the body than at the first position. The tray is slidable between the second position and a third position and pivotable about a second shaft between the third position and a fourth position at which the free end is located farther from the body than at the third position. The first shaft protrudes from one of the tray and the body toward the other. The second shaft protrudes from the other to the one. The other includes a first guide that guides the first shaft. The one includes a second guide that guides the second shaft.
US10351367B2
In an example implementation, a media tray assembly for use in an imaging device includes a media width adjuster having a bottom portion and a top portion. The top portion of the media width adjuster is extendable between a first stable position and a second stable position. The media tray assembly also includes a tension spring to drive the top portion to the stable positions.
US10351361B2
A ship loading system for loading fluidizable materials into a ship's hold is described. The system comprises a self-supporting tubular boom that is attached to a support tower at a single attachment point. An air gravity conveyor is enclosed within the tubular boom for materials from the vicinity of the support tower to the ship's hold.
US10351360B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for print media buffering and sorting. An apparatus for performing at least one of buffering and sorting during an operation includes an enclosure, a storage section within the enclosure, an input section configured to receive at the enclosure at least a portion of a printed element, a gripper associated with the input section, the gripper configured to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the input section to the storage section and to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the storage section within the enclosure, and an output section configured to selectively transfer the at least a portion of the printed element from the enclosure.
US10351357B1
An end effector assembly including an elongate arm plate and one or more manifold cradle assemblies movable along the elongate arm plate. The one or more manifold cradle assemblies are repositionable between a first spaced-apart configuration and a second spaced-apart configuration, and at least one engagement member is provided with each manifold cradle assembly that can be oriented in either a picking orientation or a placing orientation.
US10351355B2
Apparatus for automatic adjustment of guide rails for guiding articles on a conveyor via lanes is provided. The apparatus includes spaced apart first and second tracks, a carriage for driven travel along the first track, and a guide rail hanger for select slaved travel along the second track by the carriage in furtherance of lane adjustment. The guide rail hanger is operatively linked with a guide rail hanger positioning bar for select reversible affixation with respect thereto in furtherance of establishing a fixed guide rail position relative to the conveyor. A latch assembly, supported by the carriage, has a latch selectively operable for captured carrying of the guide rail hanger along the second track during travel of said carriage, the latch effectuating release of an affixed guide rail hanger from the guide rail hanger positioning bar in furtherance of enabling relocating and re-affixing the guide rail hanger relative to the guide rail hanger positioning bar in advance of captured carrying thereof.
US10351347B2
Methods and systems for in route mail sorting and packaging are disclosed. One aspect disclosed is a vehicle including a freight bay. The freight bay includes a plurality of item storage bins. The freight bay also includes a robot. The robot includes a means for grasping items and moving them between the item storage bins. For example, the robot may include an item manipulating attachment that in some aspects may include two or more extending portions for grasping items. The robot may assemble item packages from a plurality of individual items based on addresses of the items. The robot may also manipulate shrink wrap around the item package and position the item package within a station that heats the package and causes the shrink wrap to shrink around the items in the package, thereby forming the items into a package that is easy to deliver to a single address.
US10351334B1
The invention pertains generally to an improved fluid dispensing device, particularly a dispensing device which employs at least one hemispherical domed canister source of reactants and which uses a color-changing dispensing plastic tip to inform the end-user if the reactants are at a proper use temperature.
US10351329B2
An apparatus for preparing a food item in a microwave oven comprises a tray including a plurality of elevated heating areas and a plurality of channels disposed between the elevated heating areas, the elevated heating areas each including a microwave energy interactive material, a cover pivotably connected to the tray for pivoting the cover relative to the tray between an open position and a closed position, and a locking feature operative for releasably maintaining the cover in the closed position.
US10351321B1
A scoop holder is described. Embodiments of the scoop holder can be implemented to secure to either a handle or a bowl of a scoop. The scoop holder can typically be coupled to an interior of a lid of a container and secure a scoop thereto. The scoop holder can be defined by a first curved surface, a second curved surface opposing the first curved surface, and a hollow cylinder including a slot bisecting a wall of the hollow cylinder.
US10351313B2
A beverage container closure or lid adapted for closing an open end of a beverage container. The lid is couplable to the beverage container and includes a selectively openable stopper that when closed, creates a fluid-tight seal between the beverage container and the environment. The stopper may be opened by pressing a button disposed on a side of the beverage container closure. The stopper is subsequently automatically closed when the button is released. Thus, the user may open and close the beverage container closure using a single hand without the need to remove the beverage container closure from the beverage container. The beverage container closure includes an actuating lever configured to press the button when a user applies a force to the lever. By utilizing the mechanical advantage provided by the lever, a user is able to selectively open and close the stopper using a relatively low amount of force.
US10351312B2
Provided is a storage container having a door lid whose opening and closing direction is changeable, and in which a take-out port can be accessed from various directions. The storage container includes a container body and the door lid. The container body has an outer peripheral frame defining the take-out port. The door lid can be attached to the outer peripheral frame, and opens and closes the take-out port. The outer peripheral frame includes plural coupling counterpart portions extending in directions in which the outer peripheral frame extends. The door lid includes a coupling portion detachably coupled to any of the coupling counterpart portions. The coupling portion and the coupling counterpart portions are configured such that, when the coupling portion is coupled to any of the coupling counterpart portions, the door lid can be rotated with respect to the outer peripheral frame to open and close the take-out port.
US10351311B2
A storage container includes a container body, a lid, and a dividing member. The container body defines an accommodating space that has a top opening. The lid is removably disposed on the container body, and has two covering sections that cooperatively cover the opening. Each one of the covering sections is independently operable to uncover a part of the opening. The dividing member is removably disposed in the accommodating space for dividing the accommodating space into two compartments.
US10351303B2
An origami envelope and a method of constructing the origami envelope are enclosed. The origami envelope is quadrilateral in shape. The origami envelope comprises a top layer having a front surface and a back surface opposite to the front surface, and a bottom layer having an exterior side and an interior side opposite to the exterior side. The top layer extends to the exterior side of the bottom layer over a portion of the top envelope side to form a closure flap at the exterior side of the bottom layer.
US10351299B2
A nestable set of pots including a plurality of pots which are nestable together and a plurality of lids, each lid corresponding to a pot and being removably attached to an outside bottom surface thereof. An articulated exterior handle for the pots, having a first retracted position and a second extended position.
