US10351619B2
This invention relates pro-coagulant serpin molecules engineered by modification of the P4, P2, P1 and/or P1′ residues within the reactive center loop (RCL) to display increased specificity for anticoagulant proteases. These modified serpin molecules may be useful in therapy, for example as pro-coagulants for the treatment of bleeding.
US10351616B2
Arrangements and methods are provided for obtaining information associated with an anatomical sample. For example, at least one first electro-magnetic radiation can be provided to the anatomical sample so as to generate at least one acoustic wave in the anatomical sample. At least one second electro-magnetic radiation can be produced based on the acoustic wave. At least one portion of at least one second electro-magnetic radiation can be provided so as to determine information associated with at least one portion of the anatomical sample. In addition, the information based on data associated with the second electro-magnetic radiation can be analyzed. The first electro-magnetic radiation may include at least one first magnitude and at least one first frequency. The second electro-magnetic radiation can include at least one second magnitude and at least one second frequency. The data may relate to a first difference between the first and second magnitudes and/or a second difference between the first and second frequencies. The second difference may be approximately between −100 GHz and 100 GHz, excluding zero.
US10351615B2
Use of a growth hormone protein and polynucleotides encoding same comprising an amino-terminal carboxy-terminal peptide (CTP) of chorionic gonadotrophin and two carboxy-terminal chorionic gonadotrophin CTPs attached to the growth hormone in methods of inducing weight loss or body fat reduction, methods of increasing insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) levels, and methods of reducing the dosing frequency of a growth hormone in a human subject are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the growth hormone and polynucleotides encoding the growth hormone of the invention and methods of using same are also disclosed.
US10351612B2
The present invention relates to the use of interleukin-15 (IL-15) as selectable marker for gene transfer, preferably of at least one gene of therapeutic interest, into a mammalian cell or cell line, in particular a human cell or cell line. The present invention furthermore relates to transgenic mammalian cells or cell lines expressing IL-15 as selectable marker and co-expressing at least one protein of interest encoded by at least one gene of interest, which is preferably a protein of therapeutic interest. The present invention is in particular suitable for chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) as the gene or protein of interest and their expression in lymphocytes. The transgenic mammalian cells and cell lines are furthermore suitable for use as a medicament, in particular in the treatment of cancer and in immunotherapy, such as adoptive, target-cell specific immunotherapy.
US10351609B2
Disclosed are methods of determining activity of mTOR variants upon exposure to mTOR inhibitors, such a rapamycin or rapalogs thereof, methods for determining kinase activity of a mTOR variant, and methods for determining tumor cell response to treatment with rapamycin or rapalogs thereof. A method for determining whether a compound inhibits mTOR activity in a cell is also disclosed.
US10351607B1
The present disclosure provides recombinant polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the recombinant polypeptides and methods for using these polypeptides and/or nucleic acids in enhancing or inducing an immune response in a subject in need thereof. The present disclosure also provides methods of treating a cell proliferative disorder, such as cancer, by administering the disclosed polypeptides and/or nucleic acids to a subject in need thereof.
US10351604B2
Provided herein are anti-infective peptides and uses thereof. Such anti-infective peptides are useful against bacteria and viruses. Also provided herein are compositions comprising said anti-infective peptides.
US10351602B1
Disclosed herein are N-aminated variants of Gramicidin S and methods of using the same for treating infections in a subject.
US10351587B2
Methods of using 7α,11β-dimethyl-17β-hydroxy-4-estren-3-one bucyclate (I) and 7α,11β-dimethyl-17β-hydroxyestr-4-en-3-one 17-undecanoate (II) for various hormonal therapies, dosage forms comprising 7α,11β-dimethyl-17β-hydroxy-4-estren-3-one bucyclate and 7α,11β-dimethyl-17β-hydroxyestr-4-en-3-one 17-undecanoate, and processes for their preparation.
US10351583B2
Ligands for use with catalyst compositions used in hydroformylation reactions are described herein. The ligands are used with various octofluorotoluene or hydrocarbon solvents and achieve an increase in isoselectivity with an increase in temperature, an increase in TON with an increase in temperature, and/or will show isoselectivity that is surprisingly high in comparison to the hydroformylation reactions using common solvents.
US10351580B2
Provided herein are transmitter ligands that improve photon upconversion of near infrared light (NIR) to visible light. The presently provided ligands are complexed to semiconductor nanocrystals and improve triplet energy transfer from semiconductor nanocrystal to annihilator in triplet-triplet annihilation. Suitable applications include bio-imaging.
US10351577B2
Ether analogues of galiellalactone, methods of preparing the analogues, and use of the analogues in the treatment of cancer are disclosed. The analogues are of formula (I) or (II):
US10351570B2
The present invention provides novel compounds of any one of Formulae (I)-(IV), and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided are particles (e.g., nanoparticles) comprising compounds of any one of Formulae (I)-(IV) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that are mucus penetrating. The invention also provides methods and kits for using the inventive compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with abnormal or pathological angiogenesis and/or aberrant signaling of a growth factor signaling pathway (e.g., vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)), such as proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers, benign neoplasms, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases) and ocular diseases (e.g., macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, retinoblastoma, edema, uveitis, dry eye, blepharitis, and post-surgical inflammation) in a subject in need thereof.
US10351553B2
Provided herein are compounds of the formula: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and compositions comprising such compounds for use in the treatment of diseases or conditions responsive to modulation of the small conductance calcium-activated potassium channel (SK channel).
US10351552B2
The invention is directed to a compound of formula I, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a pharmaceutical composition containing a compound of formula I, and a method of treatment of a disorder or condition in a mammal, including a human, selected from the group consisting of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), Chagas disease, Leishmaniasis, toxoplasmosis and malaria.
US10351547B2
Described herein are compounds that are somatostatin modulators, methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds in the treatment of conditions, diseases, or disorders that would benefit from modulation of somatostatin activity.
US10351543B2
A furfural derivative having the chemical formula (1) wherein R represents hydrogen, an alkyl group or an acyl group, is prepared in a process, which process includes reacting a fructose- and/or glucose-containing starting material with a liquid hydroxyl group-containing compound of formula R—OH in the presence of an acid catalyst at a reaction temperature in the range of 150 to 300° C. to produce an acid reaction mixture including the furfural derivative of chemical formula (1), which acid reaction mixture has a pH-value of smaller than 3; neutralizing the acid reaction mixture to a pH-value in the range of 3 to 6.5 to provide a partially neutralized reaction mixture; and purifying the partially neutralized reaction mixture to recover the furfural derivative of chemical formula (1).
US10351542B2
A method for the oxidation of ethylene to form ethylene oxide which comprises: providing an aqueous stream containing ethylene glycol and impurities; introducing the aqueous stream in a first ion exchange treatment bed to reduce the content of these impurities; determining whether an outlet of the first ion exchange treatment bed has a conductivity greater than about 5 μS/cm; upon determining that the outlet of the first ion exchange treatment bed has a conductivity greater than about 5 μS/cm, introducing the outlet of the first ion exchange treatment bed into a second ion exchange treatment bed; and upon determining that the outlet of the first ion exchange treatment bed has a conductivity greater than about 60 μS/cm, redirecting the introduction of the aqueous stream to the second ion exchange treatment bed and regenerating the first ion exchange bed.
US10351541B2
Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) compounds, and methods of using the same for treating bone fractures, treating osteoporosis and/or metabolic bone diseases, and inducing osteogenesis and/or chondrogenesis, are disclosed.
US10351530B2
The present invention relates to arylcyclohexyl pyrazole compounds of Formula (I) methods of making them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as NRF2 regulators.
US10351526B2
The present invention provides a colored curable resin composition that exhibits good heat resistance and durability in a sputtering process, a cured film, a color filter, a method for manufacturing a color filter, a solid-state image device, an image display device, a compound, and a cation. The colored curable resin composition contains a colorant represented by Formula (1), Formula (2), or Formula (3), a resin, a polymerizable compound, and a polymerization initiator. In Formula (1), R101 and R102 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, R103 to R106 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heteroaryl group, R107 to R111 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, n1 to n4 each independently represent an integer of 0 to 4, n5 represents an integer of 0 to 6, X represents an anion or is not present, and at least one of R101, . . . , or R111 includes an anion; and in the case where R101 and R102 represent hydrogen atoms, R103 represents an aryl group having a substituent at at least the ortho-position.
US10351523B2
UV-absorbing compounds are provided that have at least one reactive hydrogen. These compounds have structures: wherein the generic notations have meanings as described herein. Also provided are formulations comprising a UV-absorbing compounds.
US10351514B2
The invention relates to compounds useful in treating conditions associated with voltage-gated ion channel function, particularly conditions associated with sodium channel activity. More specifically, the invention concerns compounds (e.g., compounds according to any of Formulas (I)-(XIII) and in particular Formula (X), and Compounds (1)-(236) of Table 1) that are useful in treatment of a variety of diseases and conditions.
US10351511B2
Cyclic vinylogous amides of Formula I are disclosed The compounds are useful for treating diseases that arise from inappropriate activity of proteins containing an acetyl-lysine. The compositions comprise a genus of cyclic vinylogous amides that are inhibitors of bromodomain.
US10351505B2
An integrated process for the production of one or more acetylene derivatives is provided. The integrated process includes a) partially oxidizing a hydrocarbon feedstock to produce a partial oxidation mixture comprising H2, CO, and acetylene, b) providing the H2 and CO of the partial oxidation mixture to a collocated methanol production process to produce a methanol-containing effluent; c) providing the methanol-containing effluent to a collocated carbonylation process to produce an acetic acid-containing effluent; and d) providing the acetylene of the partial oxidation mixture and the acetic acid-containing effluent to one or more of the collocated acetylene-derivative processes following: i) a vinyl acetate monomer production process; ii) an oxidation unit for the production of formaldehyde from the methanol-containing effluent; iii) a vinyl chloride monomer production process, and/or iv) a 1,4-butanediol production process.
US10351501B2
The present invention relates to a compound having the formula (I), as well as a method for preparing such a compound, a cosmetic or pharmaceutic composition containing such a compound, and the use thereof as a depigmenting, lightening, bleaching or whitening agent and for treating pigmentation disorders, notably by topical application on the skin.
US10351497B2
The invention pertains to the use of a solvent that comprises a Lewis donor compound that is selected from the group made up of unsaturated fatty acids that have between 12 and 18 carbon atoms, phosphate esters that have between 12 and 30 carbon atoms, and mixtures thereof to separate the impurities from a feedstock that contains ethanol, acetaldehyde, and impurities.
US10351495B2
A process is provided comprising contacting and reacting the compound CF3CF2CHXCl, wherein X is H or Cl, or the compound CF3CF═CXCl, wherein X is H or Cl, with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst consisting essentially of Cu, Ru, Cu—Pd, Ni—Cu, and Ni—Pd, to obtain as a result thereof reaction product comprising hydrofluoropropenes or intermediates convertible to said hydrofluoropropenes, notably CF3CF═CH2 and CF3CH═CHF.
US10351484B2
Broadly, the instant disclosure is directed towards: fertilizer compositions and methods of making the same, in which, due to the composition, the fertilizer exhibits blast suppression (e.g. measured via specific impulse) and/or desensitization (e.g. measured via unconfined critical diameter and/or booster quantity needed to initiate detonation) as compared to existing ammonium nitrate fertilizer(s).
US10351483B2
A method of making the slow-release fertilizer and the composition thereof includes the steps of adding Class A Exceptional Quality biosolids at a percentage-by-weight of 35% to 75%, brewing grains at a percentage-by-weight of 10% to 50%, and dried algae at a percentage-by-weight of 5% to 20%. Biosolids are digested in an anaerobic digester for 15 days. Biosolids are dried to a moisture content under 6% and brewing grains and algae are dried to a moisture content under 10%. Algae is pressed to isolate the dried algae cell wall. The algae is dried to a moisture content under 10%. The Class A Exceptional Quality biosolids, brewing grains, and algae cell wall are pulverized to a mesh size between 100 to 300 and blended according to the above proportions.
US10351482B1
Natural biomineral fertilizers for sustainable farming are produced in an environmentally sound manner from mine waste. Finely divided mine waste and process tailings serve as a novel source of rock powder for use as fertilizer. Mine waste and process tailings may be treated with non-toxic chemicals to selectively remove certain unwanted elements such as mercury. Solid and liquid fertilizers are also obtained by digesting mine waste and process tailings in combination with bio-waste plus selected bacteria under anaerobic conditions. Anaerobic digestion also generates methane gas for use as fuel for generating electricity or for process heating.
US10351477B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a metal-ceramic substrate including first and second metallizations and at least one ceramic layer incorporated between the first and second metallizations. Advantageously, first and second metal layers and the at least one ceramic layer are stacked superposed, and in such a way that the free edge sections, of the first and second metal layers respectively, project beyond the edges of the at least one ceramic layer and the first and second metal layers are deformed toward each other in the region of the projecting free edge sections and directly connected to each other in order to form a gas-tight, sealed metal container enclosing a container interior for receiving the at least one ceramic layer. Subsequently, the metal layers forming the metal container with the at least one ceramic layer received in the container interior are hot isostatically pressed together in a treatment chamber at a gas pressure between 500 and 2000 bar and at a process temperature between 300° C. and the melting temperature of the metal layers for producing a preferably flat connection of at least one of the metal layers and the at least one ceramic layer, and at least the projecting free edge sections, which are connected to each other, of the metal layers for forming the first and second metallization are subsequently removed.
US10351474B2
Process for preparing a mineral composition based on a mixed solid phase of calcium and magnesium carbonates, comprising a preparation, in an aqueous phase, of a suspension of a solid phase containing at least one calcium compound selected from calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate and mixtures thereof and at least one magnesium compound selected from magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxide, at least partially hydrated dolomite, and mixtures thereof, the weight of said solid phase being between 5% and 15% of the total weight of the suspension, a carbonation of said solid phase in suspension by injecting a gas containing CO2 into said suspension that is heated at a temperature of 55° C. to 90° C., at a flow rate of CO2 of 2.5 to 15 dm3/min/kg of said solid phase of the suspension, with a reduction of the pH of the suspension to a value of less than 9 and with a stabilization of the electrical conductivity of the suspension, the carbonation being stopped as soon as this stabilization of electrical conductivity is observed.
US10351462B1
The manufacture of fiberglass filtration media, and particularly paint arrestance fiberglass media, is disclosed. Fiberglass filtration media is formed in part by controlling the speed of a melter traversing a drum. The fiberglass media passes through rollers and water sprays before it enters a curing apparatus. Progressive density changes from the air intake side to the air exit side of the media result in increased filtration qualities.
US10351457B2
A common final clarifier is provided downstream of a two-stage or three-stage activated sludge (AS) system that includes: (A) one or more flow equalization basin (FEB) reactors and a nitritation reactor as the first AS stage, and an anammox reactor as the second AS stage, or (B) a carbonaceous biological oxygen demand (BOD) removal reactor and one or more FEBs as the first AS stage, a nitritation reactor as the second AS stage, and an anammox reactor as the third AS stage. A first return activated sludge (RAS) flow is conducted from the final clarifier to the first AS stage and a second segregated RAS flow is conducted to the second AS stage. Alternatively, a third segregated RAS flow is conducted to the third AS stage.
US10351451B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an ozone water having enhanced storage stability and a method for producing the ozone water. An ozone water of the present invention as a means for resolution is produced by dissolving 0.1 μM to 1 mM of an organic iron compound and 1 to 300 mM of an inorganic salt in a water with ozone-microbubbles generated using an ozone gas at a concentration of 1 to 300 g/Nm3. The half-life of ozone of the ozone water of the present invention is 3 days or longer, for example, when the water filled in an airtight container under atmospheric pressure is stored under a temperature condition of 40° C.
US10351447B2
Provided is a water treatment system that prevents overlook and misdetection of abnormal flocculation. The water treatment system includes a mix tank, a flocculation tank, a plurality of floc-particle-diameter measurement devices, a fault detection device that detects abnormal flocculation, and a notification device that notifies occurrence of the abnormal flocculation. The fault detection device includes: a calculator that calculates at least one of a difference and a ratio between particle diameters of floc; a storage that stores therein a tolerable range of at least one of the difference and the ratio between the particle diameters of floc; a determiner that, when the calculated value is within the tolerable range, determines that it is normal, and when the calculated value is outside the tolerable range, determines that it is abnormal; and an outputter that transmits an abnormal flocculation detection signal to the notification device.
US10351441B2
A system and process for taking a liquid such as water from a source and supplying the liquid by, for example, pushing the liquid through a filter provided inside a reservoir in order to render the liquid clean and potable. The reservoir and filter may be surrounded 360-degrees by a pressure bladder that may be wrapped with a material such as nylon, so that substantially all pressure goes inwards towards the filter.
US10351435B2
A process for producing metastable nanocrystalline alpha-alumina (α-Al2O3) having particle sizes smaller than 12 nm. Starting crystallites of α-Al2O3 having a particle size larger than 12 nm, typically on the order of about 50 nm, are ball-milled at low temperatures to produce a nanocrystalline α-Al2O3 powder having a particle size of less than 12 nm, i.e., below the theoretical room temperature thermodynamic size limit at which α-Al2O3 changes phase to γ-Al2O3, wherein the powder remains in the α-Al2O3 phase at all times.
US10351434B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing spherical silica aerogel granules and spherical silica aerogel granules prepared thereby. The method for preparing spherical silica aerogel granules, which is suitable for mass production because droplets of a water glass solution are uniformly dispersed with a uniform size in a non-aqueous solvent using a surfactant in a certain step to reduce a process time and enhance productivity, may be provided. The spherical silica aerogel granules having a uniform size prepared by the method may be provided, wherein the spherical silica aerogel granules have a high working property and excellent flowability.
US10351431B2
Provided are methods for growing large-size, uniform graphene layers on planarized substrates using Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) at atmospheric pressure; graphene produced according to these methods may have a single layer content exceeding 95%. Field effect transistors fabricated by the inventive process have room temperature hole mobilities that are a factor of 2-5 larger than those measured for samples grown on commercially-available copper foil substrates.
US10351412B2
A withdrawal system (1) for a container (2) and comprises an immersion pipe (4) mounted on and projecting into the container (2) as well as a withdrawal head (5) that is attachable to the immersion pipe (4) by means of a rotary connection. The withdrawal head (5) attached to the immersion pipe (4) is secured by means of a mechanical locking unit.
US10351406B2
Disclosed is a unique knife plate structure for preventing rotation of a plastic container during the capping operation, wherein the container neck is provided with a finish ring or lip, wherein the knife plate is formed to provide laterally and vertically directed sharp edged or pointed container neck contact spikes each of which spikes penetrates (slightly) a portion of the plastic neck surface at the junction of the underside of the finish ring with the neck to hold the container in a fixed non-rotational position while the cap or lid is being rotationally applied.
US10351405B2
A capping machine for screwing a threaded cap on a threaded container having a threaded finish, the capping machine receiving the threaded cap from a cap distributor. The capping machine includes a cap guiding element provided above cap screwing belts, both being provided above a conveyor. The cap guiding element is movable between an upper position and a lower position. The cap guiding element is configured for abutting downwardly against the threaded cap when the threaded cap is in register therewith and maintaining the threaded cap in a predetermined attitude for at least part of the screwing process. The cap guiding element moves towards the lower position as the cap screwing belts screw the threaded cap on the threaded container.
US10351400B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided, some apparatuses comprise: a location controller separate from a motorized transport unit, comprising: a transceiver configured to receive communications from the motorized transport unit; a control circuit; a memory storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to perform the steps of: obtain, from the communications, a unique light source identifier of a light source detected by the motorized transport unit, and relative distance information determined by the motorized transport unit through an optical measurement; process the at least one unique light source identifier and the relative distance information relative to a mapping of the shopping facility; and determine, in response to the processing, a location of the motorized transport unit within the shopping facility as a function of the at least one unique light source identifier and the relative distance information.
US10351396B2
A method for replacing a length of a wire/cable in a hoisting system. The wire/cable extends from a storage drum to a winch. The method includes removing at least one lock which prevents a deadline anchor arranged between the storage drum and the winch from rotating, reeling onto the storage drum a first length of the wire/cable with a simultaneous coordinated operation of the deadline anchor and the storage drum, the simultaneous coordinated operation being controlled so that the wire/cable is in a continuous tension between the deadline anchor and the storage drum, securing the wire/cable to an attachment point, cutting a section of the wire/cable between the attachment point and the winch and removing the cut section of the wire/cable, reattaching the wire/cable remaining to the winch, reeling out a second length of the wire/cable from the storage drum, and securing the wire/cable to the deadline anchor.
US10351391B2
A traction rope adjustment apparatus includes a traction rope pressing device, and a traction rope pulley apparatus. The traction rope lifting apparatus prevents the traction rope sagging, the traction rope pressing apparatus prevents the traction rope drifting, and the traction rope pulley apparatus enables a car and the counterweight to smoothly pass through the traction rope pressing apparatus, thereby implementing forced guidance of the traction rope and the reliable and smooth running of the car and counterweight. The apparatus can meet the demands of variable gradients and can implement reliable running of an inclined running container in variable gradients, such that the traction rope adapts to the different gradients, solving the challenge of the development of an inclined running container that self-adapts to gradients.
US10351388B2
A first adjustable cabin rail guide is moveably attached to a structural member of an elevator cabin. A second adjustable cabin rail guide is similarly moveably attached to a structural member of an elevator cabin. The first and second adjustable cabin rail guides cooperate together to reduce sound and increase operational efficiency. A piece of textile or similar material is attached to a tube forming the friction portion of the guide. The use of textile thereby reduces the sound of the travel upon the rail associated with the inner portion of the elevator cylinder as the cabin transits therein.
US10351387B2
An elevator with a brake device may be configured to provide a variable brake force, from a minimum brake force up to a maximum brake force (Vmax). The brake device may include a first energy store that provides the maximum brake force and a second energy store that provides an adjustable counterforce. The adjustable counterforce may be directed in an opposed manner with respect to the maximum brake force provided from the first energy store. Further, the variable brake force may amount to a difference between the maximum brake force and the adjustable counterforce. In some cases, the first energy store may comprise a compression spring for providing the maximum brake force.
US10351382B2
Provided is a sheet processing apparatus, including: a placement portion to which a sheet conveyed by a conveyance portion in a conveyance direction is placed; a processing portion configured to perform predetermined processing on a sheet placed on the placement portion, and to be movable in a predetermined moving range; and a control portion configured to control the processing portion to position, at a timing at which a sheet conveyed by the conveyance portion passes through the moving range, from a first position of preventing from interfering with the sheet to a second position of performing the predetermined processing on a preceding sheet having been conveyed by the conveyance portion and placed on the placement portion before the sheet.
US10351377B2
An apparatus for securing the tail end of a spirally wound roll of nonwoven, polymer-based material to the roll to preclude unintended unwinding of the roll, the apparatus comprising a winding assembly for forming about a winding axis a spirally wound roll with a tail end, a fixture for a roll tacking assembly with an ultrasonic tool oscillating on an oscillating axis, and a fixture for moving the tool into momentary tangential contact with an outermost winding layer of the roll in a manner that orients the oscillating axis orthogonally to the winding axis. The apparatus implements a method of locating the tail end of the spirally wound roll and orienting the tail end in relation to the securing tool.
US10351370B2
A sheet-supply tray device for use with an image recording apparatus, includes a lower sheet-supply tray and an upper sheet-supply tray. The upper sheet-supply tray includes a main body, a leading-end stopper, a trailing-end stopper and a side-end stopper. The main body includes a support surface that supports a recording sheet. The leading-end stopper is fixed on the main body and stops a leading end of the recording sheet. The trailing-end stopper includes a trailing-end contact surface having a trailing-end protrusion extending over an upper surface of a trailing-end portion of the recording sheet toward the leading-end stopper. The trailing-end contact surface contacts a trailing end of the recording sheet. The side-end stopper includes a side-end contact surface that contacts a side end of the recording sheet. The side-end contact surface has at least one side-end protrusion extending over an upper surface of a side-end portion of the recording sheet.
US10351366B2
A manual tray device comprises a tray storage body; a tray main body rotatably supported on the tray storage body with a lower end side as a rotation fulcrum; an assistance tray arranged at an upstream side of the tray main body in a sheet feed direction; a rotation regulation link, one end part side of the rotation regulation link being rotatably supported on the tray storage body, the other end part side being slidably supported on the tray main body in a predetermined stroke range; and an interlocking mechanism configured to interlock displacement of the other end part side of the rotation regulation link with forward and backward displacement of the assistance tray. The assistance tray protrudes from the tray main body in a state where rotation of the tray main body in the opening direction is regulated by the rotation regulation link.
US10351362B2
According to an embodiment, a transfer apparatus includes a gripper, a first driving mechanism, an elastic passive joint part, a conveyor, a second driving mechanism, and base. The gripper grips an article. The first driving mechanism linearly moves the gripper in at least two directions including a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The elastic passive joint part is interposed between the gripper and the first driving mechanism, and operates in accordance with an operation of the gripper. The conveyor conveys the article. The second driving mechanism linearly moves the conveyor in the at least two directions, and is connected to the conveyor. The base supports the first driving mechanism and the second driving mechanism.
US10351358B2
A magnetic drive transmission method includes the steps of: disposing solid magnetic device and ring-shaped magnetic device at top and bottom surfaces of work platform, while keeping the solid magnetic device in axial alignment with the hollow inner diameter of the ring-shaped magnetic device the solid magnetic device enters within the magnetic field lines of the ring-shaped magnetic device so as to create a magnetic field downstream between the solid magnetic device and the ring-shaped magnetic device that changes the thrust of the same polarity repulsion and to further cause the solid magnetic device and the ring-shaped magnetic device to attract each other in a balanced manner, and then using the ring-shaped magnetic device to drive the solid magnetic device in moving a predetermined workpiece along one surface of the work platform to a predetermined location.
US10351350B2
This table circulation guide device includes sliders and carriage attached to a table. In a working area, the table is guided by the sliders straddling straight track rails. In a non-working area, the table is guided by the carriages traveling on a curved track rail. An endless circulation circuit is formed by the straight track rails and the curved track rail. In the working area of the circuit, the table travels via the sliders straddling the straight track rails. In the non-working area of the circuit, the table travels via the carriages located between the sliders.
US10351348B2
A lifting device includes a body or frame, a track, a lifting mechanism having a trolley moveable relative to the track for lifting an object, a main set of wheels coupled to a base portion of the body/frame, a maneuvering set of wheels coupled to the base portion between at least a portion of the main set of wheels and the trolley and vertically offset from the main set of wheels, and at least one arm extending outwardly from the base portion. The vertical offset between the main set and the maneuvering set of wheels forms a two stage lever which improves the mechanical advantage of the lifting device, thereby decreasing the amount of force needed to recline the object being lifted by the lifting device.
US10351342B2
The invention relates to a storage rack for accommodating cuboid-shaped piece goods such as loaded standard pallets or standard containers, comprising front and rear vertical support elements (1, 4), storage lanes extending over the rack depth, which are provided with at least two horizontal profiled supporting elements (10), which are arranged parallel to each other, in order to provide supports (11) for the piece goods, and stop elements (7) at the ends of the storage lanes facing away from the placement-into-storage and removal-from-storage ends, wherein the stop elements (7) are located at a level above the level of the supports (11). In order to reduce the risk that the rack can be damaged when piece goods are placed into storage too hard in the direction of the rack depth in the case of a storage rack for accommodating cuboid-shaped piece goods such as loaded standard pallets, by means of economical measures that are simple in respect of assembly, the stop elements (7) are fastened to the rear support elements (4) and/or the profiled supporting elements (10) by means of connecting elements (8) that are designed to be deformable in a yielding manner in the longitudinal direction of the storage lanes.
US10351335B1
An aerosol can spray gun that accepts a top of an aerosol spray gun. The spray gun includes an integral motorized fan. When the trigger on the spray gun is depressed the aerosol spray can dispensing cap is depressed and simultaneously the fan pushes air out through nozzles in the front of the spray gun to control the spray fan pattern. A tab on the cap ensures that the nozzle on the can is oriented forward. Optionally, the air nozzles in the front of the spray gun can adjust the fan pattern between horizontal and vertical.
US10351333B2
A novel chewing gum box includes a gum storage chamber, a storage chamber cover, a funnel apparatus, a gum introducing plate, a gum carrying groove, a carrying groove baffle, a push handle, a spring baffle, guide rails, guide rail grooves, a spring groove, and a spring. The gum storage chamber is communicated with the gum carrying groove through the funnel apparatus. The gum carrying groove is connected to the push handle and is capable of reciprocating along the guide rails and the guide rail groove. When retrieving gum, the box body is tilted and shaken first to allow gum in the storage chamber to slide along the gum introducing plate into the gum carrying groove via the funnel apparatus. The push handle then is actuated to have the gum pushed out along the guide rail and the guide rail groove, so that the gum is available for retrieval.
US10351326B2
Thermally-stabilizing pellets are used in a contents container to stabilize the temperature at which temperature sensitive contents are stored in the container. The pellets provide a thermal buffer between the stored contents and the environment outside the contents container that retards the rate of temperature change of the stored contents. The stored contents do not experience the extremes in temperature variation within a passive or active thermally insulated container when at least partially buried in the pellets. The pellets can also help isolate the stored contents from phase change materials that could thermally damage the stored contents with physical contact.
US10351323B2
A manufacturing method of a package bag (10) according to the present invention includes: a cured portion forming step of forming a cured portion (15a, 15b) on at least one side of a forming position of a rib (14) by crystallizing at least a portion of a resin constituting a film (11) by heating and cooling the film (11); and a rib forming step of forming a rib (14) by pressing the film (11) using concave and convex molds. According to the present invention, it is possible to maintain an opening state of a spout (12). Further, since additional material is not required, it is possible to suppress increase in the thickness of the package bag (10) and to reduce the bulkiness of the package bags.
US10351308B1
A two-part disposable, stackable and recloseable lid for a container holding a beverage. The lid has a dome configuration for higher volume beverages. The lid has a drinking aperture and an a moveable arm with a plug to seal the drinking aperture. The lid has a recess for storing the plug end of the arm when the drinking aperture is being used.
US10351305B2
The invention provides a sterilizable pouch having at least one wall formed of a flexible film and including an opening formed therein for providing communication to an interior space of the package. A breathable material is disposed on an outer surface of the wall covering the opening. The breathable material is joined to the outer surface of the wall with a continuous heat seal. A heat resistant material is positioned between the breathable material an outer surface of the wall.
US10351295B2
A container for transporting and storing or presenting goods includes a bottom, a first side wall segment articulated to the bottom and which can be folded about a folding axis parallel to the bottom between a first folding position and a second folding position, and at least one second side wall segment, which is articulated to a side edge of the first side wall segment and which can be pivoted about a pivoting axis perpendicular to the bottom between a first pivoting position pivoted laterally away from the first side wall segment and a second pivoting position. The first side wall segment and/or the second side wall segment have at least one angled side border segment on the side edges facing each other and the two side wall segments are articulated to each other.
US10351288B2
A paper sheets pre-processing apparatus of an embodiment includes a large band remover, a small bundle coupler, a small band remover and an accumulator. The large band remover conveys a bundle in which a plurality of paper sheets are bound by small bands and a predetermined number of small bundles are bound by a large band, and removes the large band from the bundle. The small bundle coupler conveys the predetermined number of small bundles included in the bundle from which the large band is removed by the large band remover, and couples the predetermined number of small bundles to each other. The small band remover separates a single small bundle from the small bundles coupled by the small bundle coupler and removes the small band from the small bundle. The accumulator accumulates the paper sheets from which the small band is removed by the small band remover.
US10351285B2
Robotic pick-and-place automation is used to transfer oral solid pharmaceuticals from moveable trays or canisters. Sensors are used to verify that the pharmaceuticals have been properly placed in the desired pharmaceutical locations precisely according to the patient prescription data. A pharmacist places pharmaceutical products within dispensing trays or canisters to present the pharmaceutical products for picking and placing via the robotic pick-and-place machinery. Once the canister or tray is located adjacent the pick-and-place device, a sensor or imaging unit associated with the pick-and-place device verifies that the pharmaceutical product the size, shape, and/or color of an expected pharmaceutical product that is to be placed within the packaging material in accordance with patient prescription data stored by a computer associated with the system. Sensors verify that each individual pharmaceutical specified by a patient prescription have been deposited into each specified location strictly in accordance with the patient prescription data.
US10351280B2
A and device method for handling containers, in particular cardboard boxes, for groups of objects, in particular packages, in which the objects are inserted one after another into the container and are deposited there in an ordered formation, and in which the containers are held ready in each case by a handling device, in particular a cardboard box robot, for the insertion of the objects, and in each case several containers are held ready at the same time by the handling device so that they can be filled with objects.
US10351277B2
A capsule is provided containing a dosing agent and a system and process is provided for making capsules containing a dosing agent. The capsule includes a body defining an interior space and an opening, the capsule having ingredients and a dosing agent disposed in the interior space and a cover to seal the opening. The process and system includes depositing ingredients and the dosing agent in the interior space of the capsule and then covering the opening.
US10351271B2
A valve comprises a shell, a flexible valve member sealingly mounted within the shell, and a valve body mounted atop the flexible valve member within the shell. The flexible member is moveable between closed and open positions to allow the flow of fluid therethrough. The valve is engageable with a filling device having flow ports and a surrounding closure. The closure and/or the shaft is movable between (i) a first position wherein the closure closes the port(s), and (ii) a second position opening the port(s). Alternatively, the valve may comprise a portion of a female connector and the filling device may comprise a portion of a male connector to form an aseptic fluid connector for the aseptic transfer of fluid therethrough.
US10351270B2
A system for loading items into a container-defining sheet. The system includes a support for receiving the container-defining sheet, the support having a top surface provided with a number of apertures equal to the number of cavities embossed in the container-defining sheet. A support illumination board is positioned on a back portion of the support. The illumination board includes a plurality of evenly-spaced-apart support light indicators, each support light indicator being positioned substantially centrally with respect to a corresponding aperture of the support and adapted to back-illuminate one of the containers of the container-defining sheet upon placement of the container-defining sheet into the support. An illumination board controller controls operation of the support light indicators to indicate into which container of the container-defining sheet each item is to be loaded. An enclosure includes drawers holding items to be put into the container-defining sheet.
US10351263B2
The invention relates to an assistance device for remote diagnostics during verification of the state of an aircraft engine, carried out in situ by at least one operator with an endoscope used to capture images of the engine and to take measurements intended to be transmitted to at least one remote terminal used by at least one remote expert, with the aim of performing a collaborative analysis of the images and the measurements. The device according to the invention further comprises a portable housing controlled by the operator and equipped with a software module intended for generating an operational context as a function of location data provided by a GPS, weather data from the endoscopy location, and data on the communications network.
US10351260B2
A system for handling an aircraft on a nautical vessel includes a plurality of winches each associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of electromotors and a plurality of cables associated with the plurality of winches. Each of the plurality of cables is configured to attach to an aircraft positioned on a deck of the nautical vessel. A control system is configured to receive a target aircraft hauling speed and direction and operate the winches to achieve the target speed in the selected direction while maintaining load on the aircraft to below a maximum limit and also maintaining the cables in tension.
US10351255B2
There are described herein methods and systems for providing an engine computer with a power request having been determined by an aircraft computer. The power request is sent over a communication bus and once it reaches the engine computer, the latency due to the different update rates of the engine computer and the aircraft computer are compensated for.
US10351254B2
An aircraft engine pylon includes two side panels and an upper stringer and a lower stringer assembled to form a strut assembly extending in a longitudinal direction (AX) corresponding to the direction in which the aircraft is moving and an internal reinforcement structure including a plurality of reinforcements. The pylon also includes a reinforcement zone on each side panel and a front housing to receive a main front center reinforcement and a rear housing to receive a main rear center reinforcement.
US10351242B2
A system for moving loads comprising a cargo hold floor with a plurality of guide rails, and a plurality of transport vehicles removably received in the guide rails and being movable along the guide rails and which each comprise a carrier face movable perpendicularly to a surface of the cargo hold floor, between a first and a second operating position. The carrier face is arranged, in its first operating position, such that the transport vehicle received in a guide rail is positionable under a load which is deposited, at least partly, on the surface of the cargo hold floor. In its second operating position, the carrier face is arranged such that it lifts the load off the surface of the cargo hold floor and carries it. In the region of the carrier face, there are provided a plurality of rollers adapted to permit movement of the load parallel to the surface of the cargo hold floor.
US10351241B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for an unmanned flying aircraft, such as a drone. Sensor data of at least one imaging sensor and of at least one ranging sensor are received with a sensor interface and are supplied to a signal processing unit that is set up to compare the sensor data with reference data in order to detect at least one predefined object and/or to distinguish it from other objects and to determine the parameters of the detected or distinguished object. The parameters of the predefined objects are then output with an output interface.
US10351240B1
Methods and systems for autonomous device reconfiguration are described herein. A system may include aerially-mobile devices each configured to perform a respective end-use function and carry out a portion of a reconfiguration operation, which involves arranging the one or more aerially-mobile devices according to a device configuration. A given device configuration may specify spatial locations within an environment corresponding to the aerially-mobile devices. The system may also include a control system configured to facilitate a reconfiguration operation by executing instructions including: (i) determining, for each aerially-mobile device, a respective spatial location associated with a particular device configuration; (ii) detecting a triggering event indicative of an instruction to arrange aerially-mobile devices according to the particular device configuration; and (iii) responsive to the detection of the triggering event, causing each aerially-mobile device to begin flying to its respective spatial location associated with the particular configuration.
US10351235B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are contemplated for electric powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Such are craft are engineered to carry safely carry at least 500 pounds (approx. 227 kg) using a few (e.g., 2-4) rotors, generally variable speed rigid (non-articulated) rotors. It is contemplated that one or more rotors generate a significant amount of lift (e.g., 70%) during rotorborne flight (e.g., vertical takeoff, hover, etc), and tilt to provide forward propulsion during wingborne flight. The rotors preferably employ individual blade control, and are battery powered. The vehicle preferably flies in an autopilot or pilotless mode and has a relatively small (e.g., less than 45′ diameter) footprint.
US10351232B2
A rotor assembly for an aircraft operable to generate a variable thrust output at a constant rotational speed. The rotor assembly includes a mast rotatable at the constant speed about a mast axis. A rotor hub is coupled to and rotatable with the mast. The rotor hub includes a plurality of spindle grips extending generally radially outwardly. Each of the spindle grips is coupled to one of a plurality of rotor blades and is operable to rotate therewith about a pitch change axis. A collective pitch control mechanism is coupled to and rotatable with the rotor hub. The collective pitch control mechanism is operably associated with each spindle grip such that actuation of the collective pitch control mechanism rotates each spindle grip about the respective pitch change axis to collectively control the pitch of the rotor blades, thereby generating the variable thrust output.
US10351227B2
A locking linkage system may comprise a lockable assembly comprising an upper brace, a lower brace coupled to the upper brace, and a linkage coupled to the upper brace and the lower brace. The locking linkage system may further comprise a downlock actuator comprising an electric motor coupled to the upper brace, a rotary output shaft coupled to the electric motor, a connecting output coupled to the rotary output shaft, wherein the connecting output shaft is configured to rotate between a fixed locked position and a fixed unlocked position, and a link rod having a distal end coupled to the linkage and a proximal end comprising a lost-motion joint, the lost-motion joint being coupled to a connection pin of connecting output shaft. The downlock actuator may be configured to toggle the linkage, the upper brace, and the lower brace between an unlocked position and a locked position.
US10351225B2
A method for position hold override control of an aircraft includes determining, by a processor, that a position hold mode is enabled to hold the aircraft at a substantially fixed position with respect to a target. The processor receives a control input indicative of a commanded change in acceleration of the aircraft as an override of the position hold mode. The processor determines an acceleration command based on the commanded change in acceleration. The acceleration command is adjusted as an adjusted acceleration command responsive to a non-linear scheduled translational rate command based on feedback of a commanded velocity of the aircraft. An update to the commanded velocity of the aircraft is generated based on the adjusted acceleration command.
US10351222B1
A cowling is for a marine drive. The cowling has a first cowling portion and a second cowling portion that mates with the first cowling portion along a perimeter edge so as to enclose the marine drive. A perimeter seal is disposed along the perimeter edge and is axially sandwiched between the first cowling portion and the second cowling portion to thereby prevent ingress of water into the cowling. The perimeter seal is retained on the second cowling portion and is axially compressed against the first cowling portion when the second cowling portion is axially mated with the first cowling portion.
US10351215B2
A vessel or boat includes a hull having a stern at which there is a stern swim platform having at least one moving part capable of moving along and close to a portion of the stern, the moving part being capable of adopting at least a first working position in which it is out of the water on which the boat floats and a second working position in which the moving part is lowered with respect to the hull into the water, steps being provided at the stern. At least part of the steps is of one piece with the moving part of the stern swim platform and moves therewith over fixed steps provided within the stern, the movement of the steps taking place in a guided way, the moving steps forming an elongatable swim ladder with the fixed steps.
US10351212B2
A recovery system for recovering an autonomous underwater vehicle from a ship, the underwater vehicle comprising a front portion referred to as the nose, the system comprising: a receiving device comprising a stop on which the nose of the underwater vehicle is capable of bearing, blocking means making it possible to secure the underwater vehicle to the stop, a flexible link intended to provide the interface between the receiving device and the ship, the flexible link being arranged so the ship pulls the assembly formed by the receiving device and the underwater vehicle on the front of the underwater vehicle when the latter is rigidly connected to the stop, stabilization means configured to make it possible to control the depth and the attitude, in particular the list and trim of the assembly formed by the receiving device and the underwater vehicle when the latter is rigidly connected to the stop.
US10351207B2
A stepper scooter provides step pads that are connected to a laterally arranged rocker bar assembly. Vertical movement of the step pads causes the rocker bar assembly to reciprocally pivot which translates drive chains which cause rotation of the drive wheel or wheels. The rocker bar assembly comprises two four bar linkages between a center fork and each step pad. An alternate embodiment uses the rocker bar to reciprocally rotate a gear axle which drives a bevel gear arrangement to rotate the drive wheel or wheels via one-way bearings. Another embodiment incorporates a chain and sprocket drive between the bevel gear arrangement and the drive wheel or wheels, wherein the one-way bearings are replaced with a one-way sprocket drive. A stand is provided that is useful with any of the above scooter embodiments. The stand lifts the wheels of the scooter off the ground or floor by supporting a rear sprocket tube of the scooter to render the scooter effectively immobile during use. The scooter can be used as a stationary exercise device.
US10351195B1
Panniers according to the present disclosure may be transitionable between a collapsed configuration and a deployed configuration. Transitioning between the collapsed configuration and the deployed configuration may include unlatching an outboard rigid wall from its position adjacent an inboard rigid wall, such that the pannier automatically springs into the deployed configuration.
US10351189B2
A robot system includes: an upper body section including one or more end-effectors; a lower body section including one or more legs; and an intermediate body section coupling the upper and lower body sections. An upper body control system operates at least one of the end-effectors. The intermediate body section experiences a first intermediate body linear force and/or moment based on an end-effector force acting on the at least one end-effector. A lower body control system operates the one or more legs. The one or more legs experience respective surface reaction forces. The intermediate body section experiences a second intermediate body linear force and/or moment based on the surface reaction forces. The lower body control system operates the one or more legs so that the second intermediate body linear force balances the first intermediate linear force and the second intermediate body moment balances the first intermediate body moment.
US10351183B2
A front splitter assembly includes a front splitter having a first end and a second end, a first side splitter at the first end and a second side splitter at the second end. Each side splitter includes a contoured body. In one embodiment each side splitter includes an underwing extending between the extension section and the wicker section inboard of the end plate of the side splitter. A related method of improving stability and peak cornering speed of a motor vehicle is also provided.
US10351180B2
Described herein are a viscous drag reduction apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a pair of rollers connected to a supporting surface on a roof of the vehicle, a belt having a frictional surface and partially wrapped around the pair of rollers, such that the pair of rollers allow the belt to rotate in response to an air flow generated around the vehicle when the vehicle is in motion, the pair of rollers having a length in an axial direction that is at least as long as a width of the belt, an assembly of the pair of rollers and the belt being at least partially recessed with respect to a top line of the roof, and a reverse flow cover connected to the front end of the roof of the vehicle to block an air back flow generated by the belt when rotating.
US10351170B2
A rod-end front suspension is provided for an off-road vehicle. The rod-end front suspension comprises a spindle assembly that is pivotally coupled with an upper suspension arm by way of a first rod-end joint and pivotally coupled with a lower suspension arm by way of a second rod-end joint. A steering rod-end joint coupled with the spindle assembly pivotally receives a steering rod. An axle assembly coupled with the spindle assembly conducts torque from a transaxle to a wheel coupled with the spindle assembly. Each of the first and second rod-end joints comprises a ball rotatably retained within a casing. The ball is fastened within a recess between parallel prongs extending from the spindle assembly. A threaded shank extending from the casing is threadably fixated with the suspension arm, such that the spindle assembly may be moved with respect to the casing and the suspension arm.
US10351169B2
A front suspension lift kit for a golf cart includes a kingpin sleeve and a kingpin. The kingpin is configured to extend through both the kingpin sleeve and a steering knuckle of the golf cart. A frame spacer is mountable to a frame of the golf cart, and a leaf spring is mountable to the frame spacer. The frame spacer is configured for positioning the leaf spring such that the leaf spring is spaced from the frame of the golf cart when the frame spacer is mounted to the frame of the golf cart and when the leaf spring is mounted to the frame spacer.
US10351168B2
When a steering operation by a driver intervenes during autonomous driving of a vehicle, the intervention operation is fully reflected and a feeling of strangeness and a feeling of discomfort that may be given to the driver are reduced. In order to attain this, an ECU of an electric power steering apparatus includes: a steering angle control section 200 to which a steering angle command value is input to control a steering angle; an assist control section 147 to which an assist map gradual change gain is input to output an assist control output gradual change gain; and a switching determination/gradual change gain generating section 145 that generates a gradual change gain, by which steering angle control output and assist control output are multiplied, and multiplies the gradual change gain to make a switching determination between a steering angle control mode by the steering angle control section 200 and an assist control mode by the assist control section 147. The steering angle control section 200 has a position control section 208, a steering angular velocity control section 212, and steering intervention compensating and steering-wheel vibration suppressing means 220.
US10351166B2
A sensor device includes a first sensor section and a second sensor section, and the first sensor section has sensor elements and an output circuit for generating and transmitting an output signal including signals that respectively correspond to sensing values from the two sensor elements, and the second sensor section has sensor elements and an output circuit for generating and transmitting an output signal including signals that respectively correspond to sensing values from the two sensor elements. The sensor device further includes an ECU that has an abnormality determiner for determining abnormality of the sensor sections, and a calculator, thereby enabling a continuation of abnormality monitoring of a normal sensor section, even when a part of the sensor sections is abnormal.
US10351165B2
A steer by wire steering system for a vehicle includes a reaction force actuator 25, a steering actuator 28, a control unit 40, and a clutch 20, 120 that can selectively connect a steering wheel 11 with road wheels 3 to be steered. The control unit is configured to operate in an emergency mode when a failure is detected while the control unit is operating in a steer by wire mode. The emergency mode includes commanding the clutch to engage, terminating the steer by wire mode, performing a position keep control whereby the steering actuator is driven so as to maintain a fixed steering angle of the road wheels, initiating a power assist mode using the reaction force actuator, and once the clutch is fully engaged, terminating the position keep control.
US10351158B2
A climate control device (15) for influencing at least one climatic parameter of a handle (5) of a steering device (2), the climate control device (15) having an air moving device (21) for providing a stream of air, a handle distributor (26) for distributing a stream of air towards at least a part of the handle (5). It is planned that the air moving device (21) as well as the handle distributor (26) can be or are mounted to a static area, which remains static in relation to adjustment movements of the steering device (2), the handle distributor (26) has at least one air outlet (35,35′) to generate a stream of air from the handle distributor (26) at the static area towards the handle (5).
US10351156B1
Disclosed are various embodiments of a two-wheeled apparatus for transporting commercial appliance units on a rooftop or other location without the use of a crane or helicopter. The two-wheeled apparatus may include a chassis configured to support a load of a commercial appliance unit, the chassis comprising a first telescoping member and a second telescoping member. Further, the chassis may include a first mount positioned at a first end of the chassis and a second mount positioned at a second end of the chassis. A first wheel assembly may be coupled to the first distal end of the chassis by a first fixed axle and a second wheel assembly may be coupled to the second distal end of the chassis by a second fixed axle.
US10351154B2
A shopping cart deflection measurement system and associated methods are described. The shopping cart deflection measurement system includes a shopping cart, a sensor, and a processing device equipped with a processor. The shopping cart includes a frame, a basket portion pivotably mounted to the frame so as to enable deflection of at least one edge of the basket portion downward in the direction of gravity following a weight being placed in the basket portion, and a lower rack portion mounted to the frame and disposed below the basket portion. The processing device can be configured to execute instructions to measure deflection of the basket portion relative to the lower rack portion of the shopping cart using data acquired by the sensor. The measured deflection can be indicative of a fullness of the basket portion with one or more products.
US10351146B2
A trailer-detection system includes a radar-sensor, an angle-detector, and a controller. The radar-sensor is used to detect an other-vehicle present in a blind-zone proximate to the host-vehicle. The angle-detector is used to determine a trailer-angle relative to a host-vehicle of a trailer being towed by the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the angle-detector and the radar-sensor. The controller is configured to determine a trailer-presence of the trailer based on the radar-signal and the trailer-angle.
US10351129B2
A respective confidence level of a potential collision is determined for each of a plurality of targets based on each target's heading angle and distance from a host vehicle. A threat number is determined for each target when its respective confidence level is above a threshold. A vehicle component is actuated based on the threat number.
US10351127B2
A vehicle diagnosis system determines whether a vehicle has an abnormality in a temporal engine stop function or a power regeneration function that negates a greenhouse gas reduction effect of the engine. When the vehicle diagnosis system determines an abnormality, the vehicle diagnosis system provides a notification of the abnormality.
US10351126B2
A method for controlling a mild hybrid vehicle is provided. The methods includes: controlling, by a controller, a fuel system for supplying fuel to an engine to be changed to a system that simultaneously uses a gasoline direct injection fuel system and a multi-point injection fuel system based on a number of rotation of the engine and a load of the engine. The method further comprises operating, by the controller, a starter-generator so that torque of the engine operated by the gasoline direct injection fuel system and the multi-point injection fuel system becomes a demand torque of a driver of the mild hybrid vehicle when the demand torque of the driver is greater than a threshold value after the fuel system is changed to the system that simultaneously uses the gasoline direct injection fuel system and the multi-point injection fuel system.
US10351125B2
A method for stabilizing an engine clutch control includes transmitting an engine clutch operation start command from a controller to an engine clutch system, the engine clutch system including an engine clutch, detecting a hydraulic pressure generated during the operation of the engine clutch system, carrying out an oil leakage judgment mode using the controller to determine whether the hydraulic pressure is a normal hydraulic pressure where the operation of the engine clutch is available or if the hydraulic pressure an abnormal hydraulic pressure where the operation of the engine clutch is unavailable, and changing an operation mode to an emergency operation mode wherein the operation of the engine clutch is stopped in case of abnormal hydraulic pressure, and carrying out an operation mode change by operating the engine clutch in a case of normal hydraulic pressure, based on a control by the controller.
US10351124B2
In a method performed by a control unit for controlling energy flows of a vehicle, where the vehicle includes a vehicle energy system which in turn includes a plurality of energy subsystems. Within each energy subsystem one form of energy is used. The energy subsystems are operationally connected by converters, wherein converters are devices converting at least one form of energy to another form of energy. By setting a price, limits for the converters converting energy between the energy subsystem the energy flows of the vehicle can be controlled by the control unit such that at least during period of times the order in which the energy subsystems of the vehicle is provided with energy can be changed.
US10351116B2
A pneumatic brake booster for motor vehicles, comprises a booster housing, the interior of which is separated into a working chamber and a low-pressure chamber by an axially movable wall that can be supplied with a pneumatic differential pressure; a control housing; and a control valve which controls a differential pressure between the working chamber and the low-pressure chamber. The control valve controls an airflow between the working chamber and the low-pressure chamber or a surrounding atmosphere. The control valve has a plate valve and a valve piston, a seal region of which can be sealingly placed on the plate valve and which can be moved in a stroke direction R. A fine and low-noise metering of the brake force is achieved by providing a throttle point between the valve piston and the plate valve for throttling the airflow dependent on the stroke.
US10351097B1
In system and methods for theft prevention or mitigation, driver-related data associated with one or more authorized drivers of an insured vehicle may be collected over time. The authorized drivers and the insured vehicle may be covered by an insurance policy issued by an insurance provider. Based upon the collected driver-related data, a database associated with the authorized drivers may be built. Current driver-related data associated with an individual currently driving, attempting to start, or sitting in a seat of the insured vehicle may be collected. It may be determined, using both the database and the current driver-related data, that the individual is not among the authorized drivers. A disablement of an operation of the insured vehicle may be caused, and/or the individual may be caused to be prevented from starting or otherwise operating the insured vehicle, to facilitate preventing or mitigating theft of the insured vehicle.
US10351096B2
A seat belt holder is provided for securing a latch plate of an associated unused seat belt to the molding around the base of the automobile seat, thereby preventing the latch plate from annoyingly rattling around when the vehicle is in motion. The seat belt holder includes a body providing a snap fit tab and an opposing latch plate receptacle. The latch plate receptacle is adapted to removably engage the latch plate, while the snap fit tab is adapted to removably snap connect to various molding elements of automobile seats.
US10351093B2
An airbag includes a mounting region, a protection inflatable region and an intermediate region disposed between the mounting region and the protection inflatable region. An area of the airbag from the protection inflatable region to the intermediate region is formed of two panels that are continuous with each other at leading end regions of the panels apart from the mounting region and the two panels in that area are connected at opposite edges by a joint. The protection inflatable region includes at the leading end a folded region that is formed by bringing the leading end regions of the two panels closer to the mounting region so as to form four or more layers of the panels, such that the folded region includes at least two inflatable spaces between the layers and a crease that is continuous with the joint.
US10351092B2
An airbag apparatus capable of protecting an occupant by restraining movement of the occupant in an obliquely forward direction and towards a far side during a collision. A far side airbag apparatus (102), which is an airbag apparatus, deploys between a driver seat (106) and a front passenger seat (108) arranged side by side in a vehicle width direction of a vehicle cabin (100). The apparatus (102) includes a cushion (120) which is embedded in a floor of the vehicle cabin (100) and reaches a height at least equal to that of a pelvis region (160) of an occupant (156) seated in either one of the driver seat (106) and the front passenger seat (108) during inflation and deployment.
US10351087B2
A second-time collision position estimator section estimates a second-time collision position that is a position at which an occupant on a two-wheel mobile object has a second-time collision, based on a relative vector estimated by a relative vector estimator section and a first-time collision position identified by a first-time collision position identifier section. An operation instructor section operates an external protection device, which is determined to be able to protect the occupant on the two-wheel mobile object based on the second-time collision position estimated by the second-time collision position estimator section.
US10351086B2
A mounting bracket for a hands-free liftgate sensor of a vehicle includes a bracket body having a substantially rectangular shape configured to be disposed adjacent an inner surface of a vehicle rear fascia member. A plurality of upper sensor cutouts are disposed in the bracket body and extend in a lateral direction of the vehicle. A plurality of lower sensor cutouts are disposed in the bracket body and extend in the lateral direction of the vehicle. A central opening in the bracket body is disposed between the plurality of upper sensor cutouts and the plurality of lower sensor cutouts.
US10351085B2
An energy absorbing assembly for attachment to a vehicle, comprising: a beam, wherein the beam comprises a curved portion contiguous with and oriented between a first end portion and a second end portion, wherein the curved portion comprises a front side and a back side; a first crash can extending from the first end portion of the beam, the first crash can including cavity formed by sides extending from a first attachment face, with a first protrusion projecting forward from the attachment face toward the front side of the beam, and the first crash can extending behind the back side of the beam at the first end portion; wherein the first protrusion extend from the first attachment face by an amount that is greater than or equal to 110% of a distance that the first sides extend from the first attachment face.
US10351073B2
The photographing apparatus for vehicle includes image pickup device which is disposed inside of a window part provided in a vehicle and receives photographing luminous flux passing through a light transmissive portion, a heater, composed of heated wire, generates heat when being supplied electrical power from electric power source, a heated portion, fixed to the heater, faces an inner surface of the light transmissive portion and gives radiant heat to the light transmissive portion when receiving heat from the heater. The heated portion is a plate having a polygonal shape. Both ends of the heater are positioned at two different corner portions of the heated portion.
US10351070B2
A convertible roof rack is provided that is generally comprised of a front support and a roof rack that is spaced from the roof of a vehicle. The roof rack is also rotatably interconnected to a support structure associated with the rear of the vehicle such that it is capable of moving from a first position of use adjacent to the roof to a second position of use away from the roof where the front support remains interconnected to the vehicle adjacent to the windshield. As such, electrical connections associated with the front support remain intact when the roof rack is rotated away from the roof.
US10351069B2
A grab handle assembly is provided for a motor vehicle. That grab handle assembly includes a grab handle, a reel, a line wound on the reel and an anchor point for the line when the line is extended from the reel.
US10351068B2
A glovebox assembly includes a housing having an aperture for accessing an interior volume. An inner flap is rotationally coupled to the housing and is operable to a securing position within the aperture that at least partially encloses the interior volume. An outer door is rotationally coupled to the housing and selectively operable to an open position to access the interior volume wherein the outer door is operable independently of the inner flap.
US10351065B2
An assembly for mounting or dismounting a vehicle comprising a step that is structured to slide on an axis longitudinally along the vehicle on a rail. The step has a pivot assembly enabling rotation from a stowed position to open position and back. The slidable step can be stowed in place by engaging a latch mounted to the vehicle. A handrail assembly can be inserted into a handrail-receiving member to facilitate grasping a handrail upon mounting or dismounting the vehicle.
US10351048B2
An increase in the execution period of light distribution control is inhibited by reducing the number of images required for the light distribution control while achieving both object detection and light distribution control function. The present invention has an object detection unit for performing an object detection process, a light point detection unit for performing a light point detection process, and a light distribution control unit for controlling the illumination state of headlights on the basis of the result of the object detection process and the result of the light point detection process.
US10351046B2
A lamp adjuster is provided that includes a housing having a first adjustment point and a nose, a gear having an extended cylindrical portion, an output shaft disposed longitudinally within the housing, the output shaft having a first threaded portion and a second threaded portion, a first channel and a first retraction stop. The adjuster further including a first housing tang extending from the nose, the first retraction stop engageable with the first housing tang to prevent further retraction of the output shaft, and wherein the first threaded portion has a major thread diameter greater than a major thread diameter of the second threaded portion, and the first and second threaded portions functionally engage the threaded interior of the extended cylindrical portion, and a clutching slot provided at the first threaded portion to allow for selective disengagement of the first threaded portion from the partially threaded interior.
US10351040B2
A trailer for transporting a vehicle may include a supporting structure adapted to carry the vehicle. A bracket structure including a tail light assembly may be attached to a section of the supporting structure. The tail light assembly may include tail lights for the trailer. The bracket structure may be movable between a first position in which the tail lights are positioned at the rear of the trailer in a driving position, and a second position in which the tail lights are positioned away from the rear of the trailer in a loading position. The bracket structure may be adapted to fixate the vehicle to the supporting structure when placed in the first position. A method may also be provided for placing a vehicle for transport on a trailer.
US10351036B2
A tray table assembly including a stowage module, a tray table configured to transition between a stowed position within the stowage module and a deployed position outside of the stowage module, and an assembly coupled to the tray table and the stowage module movable relative to the stowage module to provide arced deployment motion of the tray table as the tray table transitions between the stowed and deployed positions of the tray table.
US10351017B1
An electric vehicle includes a frame unit and a vehicle body cover unit. The vehicle body cover unit includes a thread board shielding left and right tread tubes of the frame unit between which a receiving space is defined to receive a battery box that receives and holds a battery. The battery box has two sides provided with support shafts. The battery box is rotatable between an open position and a storage position. A locking device is selectively set in releasable engagement with a positioning member provided on the battery box so as to selectively lock the battery box in the storage position. An operation unit is provided for controlling the locking device to engage with or disengage from the positioning member so as to allow the battery box to rotate from the storage position to the open position.
US10351015B2
A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a first rotating electric machine, a second rotating electric machine coupled to drive wheels of the hybrid vehicle, a planetary gear mechanism configured to mechanically couple the engine, the first rotating electric machine, and the second rotating electric machine, an electric power storage device configured to perform charging and discharging with the first rotating electric machine and second rotating electric machine, and an electronic control unit configured to, in a case where cruise control is requested or in a case where deceleration torque is requested by the cruise control, execute motoring control and simulated stepped gear shift control.
US10351007B2
A charging device for charging a motor vehicle includes an energy supply unit which is arranged externally in relation to the motor vehicle, and which is designed to provide electrical current for a solid-state gas battery of the motor vehicle. In addition, the charging device includes a gas supply unit which is arranged externally in relation to the motor vehicle and which is designed to provide gas for the solid-state gas battery of the motor vehicle. Furthermore, the charging device has at least one supply connection by which the energy supply unit can be coupled to the motor vehicle for the purposes of a charging process for supplying electrical current for the solid-state gas battery, and by which the gas supply unit can be coupled to the motor vehicle for the purposes of the charging process for supplying gas for the solid-state gas battery.
US10351006B2
An inductive power transfer system for transferring electric energy to a vehicle. The system includes a wayside electric conductor arrangement and a vehicle side receiving device. The wayside electric conductor arrangement is combined with an array of a plurality of sensor coils, placed side by side to form the array. The array extends in directions transverse to a field direction of the electromagnetic field, which field direction extends from the wayside electric conductor arrangement to the vehicle side receiving device during transfer of the energy to the vehicle. A detector arrangement is connected to the plurality of the sensor coils and adapted to detect an effect of any magnetic and/or electrically conducting body, that is possibly located in the field direction on at least one electrical property of at least one of the sensor coils. At least one marker body is combined with the vehicle side receiving device. A position determining device is connected to the detector arrangement and adapted to determine a position of the vehicle side receiving device. The invention also relates to a method of operating and of manufacturing an inductive power transfer system.
US10351002B2
An inverter control device that controls a rotary electric machine drive device that includes an inverter with a plurality of switching elements, where the active short circuit control is executed in a high rotational speed region, and the shut-down control is executed in a low rotational speed region, which is on a low rotational speed side with respect to the high rotational speed region, in accordance with at least a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine.
US10351000B2
In one or more embodiments of the present invention, one or more processors receive a fuel sensor reading from a fuel sensor on a vehicle. The processor(s) receive an environmental state of a route being taken by the vehicle to a destination and a biometric sensor reading that describes a biometric state of a driver of the vehicle. The processor(s) determine whether the remaining fuel will be sufficient for the vehicle to reach the destination subject to the constraints of the environmental state of the route being taken by the vehicle and the biometric state of the driver of the vehicle, and then modify an appearance of a fuel gauge on the vehicle based on whether the remaining fuel will be sufficient for the vehicle to reach the destination.
US10350992B2
A method for controlling a pressure inside a fuel tank system on board a vehicle, the fuel tank system having a fuel tank and a venting circuit having at least one controllable pressure relief valve, the vehicle having a source of energy adapted to activate said at least one pressure relief valve so as to move it from a closed position to a pressure relief position. The method entails: detecting a key off event indicative of the vehicle shut-down; determining an amount of energy available at the source of energy; starting at least one pressure relief operation by verifying whether the amount of energy available is lower than a first predetermined threshold amount and, if the verification is positive, activating the at least one pressure relief valve; and terminating the at least one pressure relief operation.
US10350989B2
A flap device for a heat exchanger of a vehicle has a support structure in which is formed a passage. A shutter is fitted to the passage, pivotable about an operationally horizontal axis (X-X) nearer to a first end of the shutter, between a rest position in which it closes the passage and a operating position in which it opens the passage, thereby allowing a flow of air to pass in a predetermined direction through the passage. In use, the shutter pivots from the rest position towards the operating position under the effect of a flow of air which strikes it in this direction, and returns by gravity towards the rest position when the air flow ceases. A stop projection formed on the first end of the shutter strikes an abutment surface on the structure when the shutter reaches the rest position.
US10350987B2
In a rear exhaust engine, an upper portion of a rear portion of a head cover is provided with a first flow redirecting member facing upward and extending rearward and downward toward an exhaust device. A shield cover extending in a width direction of a vehicle is provided behind the first flow redirecting member. The shield cover has a shield surface extending from an upper end portion of the head cover toward a hood and directed rearward. The shield cover is designed such that its upper end is located below a rear end of the first flow redirecting member.
US10350982B2
A vehicle body includes a vehicle frame and an engine assembly, and further includes an intermediate supporting frame connected between the vehicle frame and the engine assembly. A first cushioning device is provided between the intermediate supporting frame and the vehicle frame. In the application of the vehicle body, since the first cushioning device is provided, the first cushioning device can effectively reduce vibration transmitted from the intermediate supporting frame when the vibration is transmitted to the intermediate supporting frame during the vibration of the engine assembly, and the vibration received by the vehicle frame may be much less than the vibration transmitted from the intermediate supporting frame, thus the vehicle frame can be effectively prevented vibrating heavily. Therefore, the heavy vibration of the vehicle body can be effectively reduced by means of the vehicle body.
US10350960B1
A coupled battery and motor controller thermal management system is disclosed. In various embodiments, a motor controller and a heat sink are coupled thermally to a battery. At least a portion of waste heat generated by the motor controller is transferred to the thermal mass of the battery during at least a first mode of operation in which a relatively low amount of ambient air flows through the heat sink.
US10350959B2
An active roll stabilizer of a motor vehicle including an actuator (8) in the form of a swivel motor arranged so as to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The swivel motor has an essentially cylindrical housing (12) with a cover, first and second stabilizer halves (18, 19) are connected to respective ends of the actuator for the transmission of torque, and a wiring harness (1) has a first end and a second end. The harness includes cables (3, 4, 5) for the transmission of electric power and signals. The first end is connected to the actuator, by way of a plug (2), and the second end is arranged positionally fixed in the vehicle at a cable transfer point (20). The cover forms a dry space and has a plug receiving opening, in its periphery, into which the plug can be inserted, in the radial direction, and secured.
US10350954B2
A multi-axle transport trailer having a plurality of axles includes a suspension comprising air bags associated with each axle, the air bags in communication with an air source, wherein air bags associated with different axles are capable of having different air pressures therein. The trailer further optionally includes a steering system associated with at least one axle, the axle including a tie rod connected between wheels on both ends of the axle, the steering system comprising cylinders configured to articulate the wheels, and a sensing device configured to monitor movement of the tie rod and facilitate actuating the cylinders to turn the wheels.
US10350951B2
A method of producing a control arm for a motor vehicle, in particular a multi-point control arm, preferably a transverse control arm, which is substantially formed by a fiber-plastic composite structure. The method includes the steps: creating of a preform structure with load-adapted fiber orientation, introducing the preform structure into a forming tool, consolidating the preform structure in the tool by application of pressure and/or temperature, and removing and further processing of the control arm.
US10350950B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for monitoring tire pressure according to a tire characteristic. An apparatus for monitoring a tire pressure according to a tire characteristic according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a frequency calculating unit calculating a speed interval specific mean frequency by accumulating and averaging frequency data for each speed interval; a tire searching unit searching a tire corresponding to the calculated speed interval specific mean frequency by comparing the calculated speed interval specific mean frequency with a prestored tire specific mean frequency; a low-pressure threshold selecting unit selecting a low-pressure probability threshold depending on the searched tire; and a low-pressure determining unit determining a low pressure by calculating an integration low-pressure probability by integrating frequency and dynamic radius low-pressure probabilities and comparing the selected low-pressure probability threshold and the calculated integration low-pressure probability.
US10350948B2
The invention provides a filling device for an inflatable unit, e.g., a pneumatic tire for a car. The device is connectable to a source of air pressure and to a valve for the inflatable unit. The valve has a whistle arranged to produce an audible signal based on a flow of air in the release outlet, and to enable improved handling and sound performance, the whistle comprises a flow-path forming a first leg extending radially from the passage, and a second leg extending about the passage.
US10350943B2
A thermoplastic elastomer composition including (a) a halogenated isoolefin para-alkylstyrene copolymer, (b) a modified rubber having an acid anhydride group, (c) a polymer component including an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, (d) a processing aid comprising an alkaline earth metal salt of a higher fatty acid, and (e) a crosslinking agent, wherein the weight ratio (Wa) of the halogenated isoolefin para-alkylstyrene copolymer (a) in the elastomer components ((a)+(b)) is 5-60 wt %, the weight ratio (Wb) of the modified rubber (b) having an acid anhydride group in the elastomer components ((a)+(b)) is 95-40 wt %, and the content (Wd) of the processing aid (d) is 0.3-30 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the halogenated isoolefin para-alkylstyrene copolymer (a).
US10350920B2
A printing apparatus that has a plurality of functions including a printing function and is capable of executing printing with resolution of 300 dpi or more includes a plurality of operating units including a printing unit and a power supply unit. The power supply unit includes a substrate, an input terminal that receives an alternating voltage, a smoothing capacitor that smooths the alternating voltage, a thermistor that detects a temperature, and a comparator that compares a signal output from the thermistor with a standard signal and outputs a notification signal. The input terminal, the smoothing capacitor, the thermistor, and the comparator are mounted on the substrate. The supply of power from the power supply unit is stopped based on the state of the notification signal. A gap between the input terminal and the thermistor is longer than a gap between the input terminal and the smoothing capacitor.
US10350903B2
An inkjet printhead includes: an elongate fluid manifold having a base which includes a truss structure, the truss structure having webs extending between opposite chords, wherein a plurality of openings between the webs and the chords define fluid outlets; a plurality of bracing ribs extending across an upper surface of the truss structure, each bracing rib being aligned with one of the webs; and printhead chips attached to a lower surface of the truss structure, each printhead chip receiving printing fluid from a plurality of the fluid outlets.
US10350902B2
A collection unit configured to collect ink mist generated due to a discharge of ink from a head configured to discharge the ink includes a filter for capturing the ink mist and a liquid supply portion configured to supply a liquid to the filter.
US10350899B2
A printing-fluid containing device configured to be inserted into a cartridge attachment section in an insertion direction includes: a printing-fluid cartridge and an adaptor to which the cartridge is detachably assembled. The cartridge includes: a casing; a supply portion; a detection portion; and an engagement portion. The adaptor includes: an adaptor body; and an electrical interface. The detection portion includes a light accessible portion accessed by light from an outside of the cartridge. The engagement portion is engageable with the cartridge attachment section. The adaptor body has a front wall at its leading end in the insertion direction. The front wall has an opening through which the supply portion extends. The electrical interface is disposed on an outer surface of the adaptor body and electrically connectable to an electric contact of the cartridge attachment section.
US10350893B2
An inkjet printing apparatus includes a head, a platen, a platen absorbent that temporarily stores ink ejected from the head, a waste ink storage container that stores the ink discharged from the platen absorbent, and an estimation unit that, in a case where the platen is divided into a plurality of regions in a direction intersecting a conveyance direction of the printing medium, estimates an amount of ink stored in the waste ink storage container based on a position of a region to which the ink is ejected by the head and an amount of ink ejected to the region.
US10350892B2
A manufacturing method of a fluid control device is provided. Firstly, a housing, a piezoelectric actuator and a deformable substrate are provided. The piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element and a vibration plate having a bulge. The deformable substrate includes a communication plate and a flexible plate having a movable part. Then, the flexible plate and the communication plate are stacked and coupled. A preformed synchronous deformation process is implemented by applying at least one external force to outer portion of the deformable substrate to form a preformed synchronously-deformed structure. A force-exerting mark is formed on a surface of the preformed synchronously-deformed structure. Then, the housing, the piezoelectric actuator and the deformable substrate are sequentially stacked and coupled. The preformed synchronously-deformed structure is aligned with the bulge of the vibration plate. A specified depth is defined between the movable part and the bulge of the vibration plate.
US10350891B2
A printhead cartridge includes: an elongate manifold; a plurality of printhead chips mounted to a lower part of the manifold; and a casing mounted to an upper part of the manifold. The casing includes a first casing part and a second casing part, the first and second parts being longitudinally biased towards each such that the casing is expandable along a longitudinal axis of the manifold.
US10350888B2
A printer includes a printhead configured to eject high viscosity material and refill a reservoir in the printhead with high viscosity material. The printhead includes a transducer having an electroactive element and a member to which the electroactive element is mounted. An electrical signal activates the electroactive element to move the electroactive element and the member in the reservoir of high viscosity material. This movement thins the high viscosity material and enables the printhead to eject the thinned material while refilling the reservoir. The apertures through which the thinned material is ejected share a common manifold without separate chambers for each of the apertures.
US10350885B2
A liquid discharge device performs recording by use of a liquid discharge head including discharge ports to discharge a liquid, pressure generation elements to generate energy to be used to discharge the liquid, and pressure chambers communicating with the discharge ports. The liquid discharge device includes a control unit to control a temperature of the liquid discharge head by applying heat with heating elements arranged in divided areas of a region of the liquid discharge head where the discharge ports are arranged. When there is recording data for the discharge port in a certain one of the divided areas, the control unit causes the heating element in the divided area to generate heat, and when there is no recording data for the discharge port in the certain divided area, the control unit keeps the heating element in the certain divided area from generating heat.
US10350879B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses for screen printing on a surface of a three-dimensional substrate comprising a substantially rigid, substantially planar frame having a perimeter defining a region within the perimeter having a given surface area; and a screen attached to the frame and extending across at least a portion of the surface area, wherein the screen comprises a first portion through which a liquid printing medium can pass onto a proximate three-dimensional substrate; and a second portion coated with an emulsion substantially preventing the liquid printing medium from passing through the second portion of the screen, wherein the screen has a fixed tension of less than about 20 N/cm. Methods and systems for screen printing on a surface of a three-dimensional substrate are also disclosed herein.
US10350876B2
A module for an additive manufacturing system includes a frame configured to be removably mounted on a movable support, a dispenser configured to deliver a layer of particles on a platen that is separate from the frame or an underlying layer on the platen, a heat source configured to heat the layer of particles to a temperature below a temperature at which the particles fuse, and an energy source configured to fuse the particles. The dispenser, heat source and energy source are positioned on the frame in order along a first axis, and the dispenser, heat source and energy source are fixed to the frame such that the frame, dispenser, heat source and energy source can be mounted and dismounted as a single unit from the support.
US10350875B2
A method of printing a three-dimensional structure onto a base having irregularities on the surface is disclosed. A sensing device determines the depth of the irregularity on the surface. A computing system receives an image file including a predetermined thickness of a layer to be printed onto the base. The predetermined thickness is adjusted based on the depth of the irregularity. A printing device prints a layer onto the base having the adjusted predetermined thickness print on the irregularity to make the surface substantially smooth.
US10350873B2
A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional object facilitates the removal of support material from the object. The method includes forming at least a portion of a support for the object with support material containing nanoparticles of a material that readily converts microwave energy into heat. The object and support are moved to a position opposite a microwave radiator and the microwave radiator is operated to begin a change of the phase of the portion of the support material containing the nanoparticles before beginning a change of the phase of a portion of the support made from the support material alone. A controller either monitors the expiration of a predetermined time period or a temperature of the object to determine when the microwave radiator operation is terminated.
US10350870B2
A lamination system includes a film supply, a non-woven material supply, and a laminator. The laminator causes a film from the film supply to be laminated to a sheet from the non-woven material supply to establish a laminated sheet.
US10350859B2
A composite glass for a head-up display is described. The composite glass has an outer pane made of glass and an inner pane made of glass, which are bonded to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer. The inner pane has a thickness less than 1.2 mm, and the thickness of the intermediate layer in the vertical course between a lower edge and an upper edge of the composite glass is variable at least in sections with a maximum wedge angle less than or equal to 0.3 mrad.
US10350858B2
The present invention aims to provide an interlayer film for laminated glass having small optical distortion while having a multilayer structure of two or more layers, and a laminated glass including the interlayer film for laminated glass. The present invention relates to an interlayer film for laminated glass including at least two resin layers laminated together, the interlayer film having a large number of minute recesses and a large number of minute projections on at least one surface, the at least two resin layers including a first surface layer and a second surface layer and each containing a thermoplastic resin and a plasticizer, wherein, provided that the interlayer film is allowed to stand at 23° C. and a humidity of 30% RH for three hours, and cut with a microtome at 23° C. and a humidity of 30% RH in the horizontal direction of the interlayer film at a portion of 80 to 90 μm distant on the first surface layer side from the interface between the first surface layer and a resin layer contacting the interior side of the first surface layer and then at a portion of 50 μm distant from the cut face on the second surface layer side to prepare a resin film 1 having a thickness of 50 μm, the resin film 1 after standing at a temperature of 23° C. and a humidity of 30% RH for three hours has a surface roughness (Rz) measured by a method in conformity with JIS B-0601 (1994) of less than 2.5 μm.
US10350856B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods for coating a zirconium alloy cladding of a fuel element for a nuclear water reactor. The composition includes a master alloy including one or more alloying elements selected from chromium, silicon and aluminum, a chemical activator and an inert filler. The alloying element(s) is deposited or are co-deposited on the cladding using a pack cementation process. When the coated zirconium alloy cladding is exposed to and contacted with water in a nuclear reactor, a protective oxide layer can form on the coated surface of the cladding.
US10350852B2
A releasable adhesive system for joining a first surface to a second surface. The system includes a primary material having a first portion including at least one first-portion molecule configured to be positioned parallel with at least one first-surface molecule of the first surface, and a second portion, opposite the first portion, including at least one second-portion molecule configured to be positioned parallel with at least second surfaced one molecule of the second surface. The first surface molecule, positioned parallel with the first-surface molecule, is configured to maintain bonds between the first portion and the first surface up to one or more pre-determined three scenarios, such as pre-determined shear, pull, and peel forces being exerted on the first surface. The second portion can function similarly with respect to the second surface.
US10350833B1
One or more specific embodiments herein includes a method for producing an anatomical model, comprising providing a mold having a first cavity shaped to correspond to an anatomical structure, providing an insert inside the first cavity of the mold, positioning a first material into the first cavity such that the first material forms a base model, removing at least one portion of the insert from the mold to form a second cavity inside the mold, and positioning a second material into at least a portion of the second cavity.
US10350832B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to an induction sealing device for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of pourable food products. In some embodiments, the sealing device includes: an inductor device which interacts with said packaging material by means of at least one active surface; a flux-concentrating insert; and a supporting body made of heat-conducting material and housing said inductor device and said flux-concentrating insert, wherein said flux concentrating insert is made by a magnetic compound of a polymer and soft magnetic particles; and said flux concentrating insert interacts with said packaging material via at least one interactive surface.
US10350831B2
Cutting of a material, such as a textile or film, can damage the material. A tool is provided that utilizes vacuum pressure near a knife edge to increase a result of the cut. The vacuum pressure passes through a base portion of the tool that has a recessed portion effective to distribute vacuum pressure to one or more apertures extending around an insert of a core portion. The one or more apertures align with a void between the knife edge and the insert allowing for the void to transmit the vacuum pressure through the tool to the knife edge. A machine horn may then cut the material at the knife edge and couple the material with another material.
US10350830B2
A method for assembling a box structure includes elementary parts assembled along an understructure of stiffeners and skins. The understructure and skins are made of composite material with a polymer matrix. The method includes sizing the box structure for the loads to which it is subjected and for a glued assembly. A map of the loads on the structure is obtained and a first load limit is defined depending on the probability of the structure being damaged. The understructure and the skins are assembled by gluing them. An additional layer is applied that covers the assembled elementary parts to areas of the assembled box structure where the first load limit is reached.
US10350827B2
Techniques for measuring a position of a build platform in an additive fabrication device are provided. Such techniques may include detecting the onset and/or dissipation of force applied to a build platform as it moves from being in contact with, to being out of contact with, a container. In some embodiments, the techniques described herein may be applied in a stereolithographic additive fabrication device. According to some embodiments, measurement of forces applied to a build platform may be used to provide for reliable and consistent measurements of the height of the build platform relative to a container by measuring such forces at various positions of the build platform and analyzing the pattern of the forces with distance from the container.
US10350813B2
A system combining a machine for blow-molding articles with a universal in-mold labeling apparatus. The apparatus has a frame on which turntables are mounted. Each turntable has an air rotary union, facilitating rotation of the respective turntable, and suction cups adapted to pick, hold, and release labels. The turntables deliver labels to the open molds of the machine. The apparatus also has a vertical slide positioned between the turntables. A placement head engages the turntables and moves up the vertical slide to a position in the open molds. At least one label magazine is affixed to the frame and retains the labels. Strategically placed air valves provide air and vacuum to pick, hold, and release labels. A human machine interface facilitates communication between an operator of the system and the system. Finally, a control system is provided to allow the operator to program and control both the machine and apparatus.
US10350810B2
A barrel assembly through which flowable material is delivered to a die assembly through which the flowable material is delivered to form a sheet layer. The barrel assembly has: a conduit having a body with a length defining a lengthwise flow passage between upstream and downstream ends; and a support assembly for the conduit. The support assembly has: a) a conduit engaging assembly; and b) a guide assembly through which the conduit body and conduit engaging assembly are moved guidingly relative to a base, to which the guide assembly is mounted, in a path that is substantially parallel to the length of the conduit body.
US10350803B2
An injection molding apparatus is used for making parts having a hollow portion that is disposed under an angle relative to an axis. The molded parts are ejected when a movable stripper plate is displaced relative to the mold core used to cool the angled portion of the molded part. The stripper plate includes cooling channels and a cooling outlet. The cooling outlet is coupled to a cooling inlet of a movable cooling slider element. Leakage of a cooling fluid is prevented by using a sealing device and sealing elements between the cooling slider and a cooling manifold retaining the mold cores when the stripper plate is used during the ejection of the molded parts from the mold cores.
US10350801B2
A system and method for production of a customizable food and beverage cooler are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a mold includes two primary halves configured to produce an injection molded part that is a component of the food and beverage cooler. An aperture intersects one of the primary halves of the mold to accommodate an insertion block that includes a reverse image thereon such that molten plastic flow around the reverse image produces an integrally molded image on the component of the food and beverage cooler. Further, the aperture accommodates a combination insertion block and insertion plate having the reverse image thereon. One of the insertion block or combination insertion block and insertion plate is selected for disposing in the aperture based on the desired production run of the injection molded part.
US10350789B2
A cutting device for a machine tool, suitable for mounting on the spindle support structure of a machine tool for processing and cutting materials, incorporates suckers able to cause the device to adhere to and be fixed to the materials being machined. Further, a cutting head having a protection device with incorporated suckers, a cutting spindle having a protection device with incorporated suckers and a machine for machining the materials, having a cutting spindle incorporating suckers.
US10350784B2
A sheet manufacturing apparatus can process various materials and manufacture a variety of sheets by changing conditions for making the sheets. A sheet manufacturing apparatus according to the invention has a supply unit that supplies feedstock; a defibrating unit that defibrates the feedstock; a classifier that classifies defibrated material that past the defibrating unit; a mixing unit that mixes an additive containing resin with the classified material that past the classifier; a sieve unit that passes the mixture that past the mixing unit through many openings; a deposition unit that deposits precipitate that past many openings in the sieve unit; a forming unit that applies pressure and heat to the web deposited on the deposition unit, forming a sheet; and a control unit that changes a condition of at least one of the classifier, mixing unit, sieve unit, deposition unit, and forming unit.
US10350772B2
An electrically driven device provided with a housing, an electric motor with a drive shaft having a first rotary axis and a drive pin connected to the drive shaft eccentrically with respect to the rotary axis, and a driven shaft mounted in the housing for performing a pivoting is disclosed. The driven shaft is indirectly coupled to the drive shaft by means of a gear mechanism converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating pivoting motion of the driven shaft. The gear mechanism comprises one intermediate shaft having a second rotary axis extending in the longitudinal direction of the intermediate shaft and at least one crank arm coupled to the drive pin. The crank arm is pivotably mounted in the housing and is coupled to the intermediate shaft thereby converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating pivoting of the intermediate shaft about the second rotary axis. The intermediate shaft is coupled to the at least one driven shaft by means of a pivotable bridge such that the intermediate shaft is offset with respect to the at least one driven shaft.
US10350770B1
A pattern knife assembly includes: a blade portion formed by forging and having a rear end integrally formed with a connecting sleeve, and a sheathing hole formed at a rear end of the connecting sleeve; and a tang portion formed by a casting or cutting process and having a tang hidden in a handle and integrally formed with a connector at the front end of the tang. The connector of the tang portion is inserted into the sheathing hole of the connecting sleeve of the blade portion and the connecting sleeve is welded to the connector, so that the connecting sleeve covers the connector and is exposed from the front end of the connecting sleeve to achieve the effects of combining the blade with the tang securely, providing a manufacturing process suitable for mass production, and showing the grain of the pattern steel in the exposed steel portion.
US10350767B2
An elastic member of a torque sensor includes spring portions, a first fastening portion, and a second fastening portion. The spring portions are disposed in a radial pattern between the first and second fastening portions to connect the first and second fastening portions together. The spring portions have a dimension smaller in a direction tangential to a circle centered on an rotation axis than in a direction of the radial pattern. The distance between the first fastening portion and the second fastening portion is smaller than the dimension in the direction of the radial pattern. The optical encoders are opposed on, for example, the same diameter on a circumference of a concentric circle centered on a rotation axis of the rotational displacement of the elastic member. For example, averaging output signals from a plurality of optical encoders reduces influence of disturbance, such as cross-axis force.
US10350757B2
A customer service robot may be selected, or configured, to address a particular work item. Robots may comprise different functionality due to absent software or hardware or due to existent but worn or non-compliant components. A particular work item may have several means of resolution. A particular resolution path is selected in accord with the ability of a robot. Should no path exist, the robot may be transformed by the addition or installation of hardware and/or software to provide the absent functionality. Resolution paths may also be weighted based on the level of success provided by prior resolution paths and/or the requirement for human involvement. Accordingly, a resolution path may be provided that balances robot capability with the likelihood of success and an appropriate level of human involvement.
US10350755B2
A processing system is disclosed for providing processing of homogenous and non-homogenous objects in both structured and cluttered environments. The processing system includes a programmable motion device including an end effector, a perception system for recognizing any of the identity, location, and orientation of an object presented in a plurality of objects at an input location, a grasp acquisition system for acquiring the object using the end effector to permit the object to be moved from the plurality of objects to one of a plurality of destination bins, and a motion planning system for determining a changing portion of a trajectory path of the end effector from the object to a base location proximate to the input location, and determining an unchanging portion of a trajectory path of the end effector from the base location to a destination bin location proximate to a destination bin, wherein the unchanging portion of the trajectory path is chosen to provide a path from the base location to the destination bin location that is consistent with paths taken by other objects.
US10350754B2
A control device controlling a robot including a driving unit, a moving unit that is slidable along a predetermined track and a predetermined shaft that is slidably supported by the moving unit includes an instruction value calculating unit calculating an instruction value that drives the driving unit such that the moving unit is moved to a target position, an accelerating-speed calculating unit calculating an angular accelerating speed of when the instruction value changes, a gravity-center distance calculating unit calculating a gravity center distance, a correction instruction-value calculating unit calculating a correction instruction value by correcting the instruction value such that a position of the gravity center which is projected on the predetermined track approaches the target position, and a driving control unit controlling the driving unit based on the correction instruction value.
US10350736B2
A slogging wrench (10) comprising: a ring socket (36) for receiving a nut or a bolt head (NBH, NBH′); an elongate body (20) for receiving blows from a mass to transmit torque to the ring socket; and a tool-free locking mechanism (22,24,26,26′,28,30) for retaining a nut or a bolt head in the ring socket. The locking mechanism comprises a slider (22) operable to engage a nut or a bolt head in the ring socket; a channel (24) for guiding movement of the slider towards and away from the ring socket; and an actuator (30,74) manually operable to move the slider with respect to the ring socket. The channel (24) opens into the ring socket (36) via an internal periphery (40) of the ring socket. The locking mechanism comprises a resilient member (34) biasing the slider (22) towards a nut or a bolt head (NBH, NBH′) in the ring socket (36).
US10350721B2
An electric oscillating tool has an electric motor having an output shaft, an eccentric shaft that is connected to one end region of the output shaft, and a weight that is connected to the other end region of the output shaft. A blade as a tool accessory is driven to reciprocally rotate around a spindle by reciprocating motion of the eccentric shaft in a transverse direction of the electric oscillating tool. The weight is driven to cancel out the inertial force of the eccentric shaft, so that the output shaft is stably rotated.
US10350718B2
A hybrid fastener comprises a composite body having a tip, and a metal sleeve surrounding and locked to the tip.
US10350700B2
A welding apparatus includes: a welding machine having a lower arm member, an upper arm member, and electrodes configured to advance and retreat; a robot device to which the welding machine is mounted; a support member including a vertical member substantially in a vertical direction, and a horizontal member substantially in a horizontal direction. The vertical member is mounted on one of the lower arm member and the upper arm member at a position away from the electrode of the one of the lower arm member and the upper arm member; and a parts-feeding device mounted to the horizontal member and configured to feed parts to the electrode.
US10350699B2
A method for manufacturing a joined member and a joined member manufacturing apparatus which can manufacture a joined member with a joint portion having an appropriate hardness. A method for manufacturing a joined member C by joining a first member D formed of a metal material having a possibility of undergoing quenching and a second member E formed of a metal material, the method includes a contact-placing step S1 of placing the first and second members D and E with joint target portions of the first and second members D and E respectively being in contact with each other; a joining step S2 of joining the first and second members D and E by passing a pulsed welding electric current A1 for joining through the joint target portions J of the first and second members D and E; a first tempering step S3 of tempering a joint portion F, where the first and second members D and E are joined, by passing a first tempering electric current A2 through the joint portion F; and a second tempering step S4 of tempering the joint portion F by passing a second tempering electric current A3 smaller than the first tempering electric current A2 through the joint portion F.
US10350698B2
The invention provides a switching electrode which has a small variation in resistance value even when a large amount of current is repeatedly cut off and can carry a stable amount of current even when it is continuously used. In the invention, the switching electrode is used in a switch which includes a first switching electrode tip (21) and a second switching electrode tip (22), brings the first switching electrode tip (21) and the second switching electrode tip (22) into surface contact with each other to carry a current, and separates the first switching electrode tip (21) and the second switching electrode tip (22) to cut off the current. At least one of contact surfaces of the first switching electrode tip (21) and the second switching electrode tip (22) is a flat surface having an uneven portion.
US10350697B2
Disclosed herein is a rotary changer including a rotator rotatable on a rotational axis extending vertically. An interlocking member is arranged to rotate integrally with the rotator and be movable in a direction intersecting with the rotational axis. The interlocking member has an interlocking groove interlockable with an outer peripheral surface of a nozzle inserted into the hollow of the rotator. Rotating the rotator with the interlocking member interlocked with the nozzle makes the nozzle replaceable.
US10350692B2
Provided is a plate-like heater for a bonding apparatus (30) including: a lower surface (31b) to which a bonding tool (40) is attached; and an upper surface (31a) to which a heat insulator (20) is attached. The upper surface (31a) is provided with a large number of capillary slits (35), and the large number of capillary slits (35) and a matching surface (21) of the heat insulator (20) attached to the upper surface (31a) form a large number of capillary coolant flow-paths (37) each extending from a cavity (36) to a lateral surface (33). This allows effective cooling of the heater for a bonding apparatus.
US10350690B2
A cutting machine is employed to cut a window blind which includes a first support stem, a second support stem, and multiple slats. The cutting machine contains: a base, a cutting mount, a rotary cutting disc, a slidable cutter, a switch unit, and a positioning mechanism. The cutting mount includes a first through hole and a second through hole. The rotary cutting disc is configured to rotatably cut the window blind from the first through hole to the second through hole. The slidable cutter is configured to slidably cut the window blind from the second through hole to the first through hole. The switch unit includes a separation portion which moves upwardly and downwardly and has a cutting plate proximate to the slidable cutter. The positioning mechanism is configured to fix the window blind based on a desired cut length of the window blind.
US10350688B2
An indexable tangential cutting insert for a milling tool includes two opposing side surfaces and four identical lateral surfaces extending between the side surfaces. Each lateral surface of the insert is provided with a support surface configured to be supported by, on one hand, a corresponding support face of a pocket of a tool body providing an axial support to the insert in two of eight index positions and, on the other, a corresponding support face of the pocket providing a tangential support to the insert in two other of said eight index positions. Each lateral surface of the insert is provided with a single second support surface being concave as seen in a direction perpendicular to said side surfaces and extending diagonally across the lateral surface.
US10350687B2
A cutting insert has opposing first and second end surfaces, and a peripheral side surface (connecting the end surfaces. A central axis penetrates the two end surfaces. The peripheral sure surface includes an outwardly inclined first side surface part related to a major cutting edge and a second side surface part related to a minor cutting edge. The outwardly inclined first side surface part gradually extends outward from the cutting insert, heading from the first end surface to the second end surface. When a second virtual plane, which is substantially perpendicular to the central axis and passes through the major cutting edge, is defined, an inwardly inclined part, on a back side of the cutting edge, of the second end surface is inclined so as to become more distant from the second virtual plane, heading from the outwardly inclined first side surface part to the central axis.
US10350679B2
In a fine silver particle dispersing solution wherein 30 to 75% by weight of fine silver particles, which are coated with an organic acid having a carbon number of 5 to 8 or a derivative thereof and which have an average particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm, are dispersed in a water-based dispersion medium which is a solvent containing water as a main component, the fine silver particle dispersing solution containing ammonia and nitric acid, there is added 0.15 to 0.6% by weight of a surface regulating agent, which preferably contains a polyether-modified polydimethylsiloxane and a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether or a polyether, or 0.005 to 0.6% by weight of an antifoaming agent which is preferably a silicone antifoaming agent.
US10350675B2
A machine for manufacturing continuous bars of nonferrous metal by continuous casting includes a movable casting shell, composed of segments arranged in succession, each one having a portion defined, with a bottom and flanks, of the casting shell, and open on the sides directed toward the contiguous segments. The contiguous segments are movable along a closed path that has a substantially rectilinear portion at the casting region. Along the portion, the segments are substantially aligned and define a portion of the casting shell, with bottom and flanks, which is continuous, substantially rectilinear and closed, for at least one portion of the path downstream of the casting region, by a closure component.
US10350668B2
A tool for hot forming die quenching boron steel structural components having locally different microstructures and mechanical properties is described. The tool includes upper and lower mating dies, each die being formed by two or more die blocks including a working surface that in use faces the structural component to be formed, and side faces. The upper and lower dies include at least two neighboring die blocks adapted to operate at different temperatures corresponding to zones of the structural component to be formed having locally different microstructures and mechanical properties, wherein the neighboring die blocks are arranged with a gap between their side faces and end portions of the side faces of the neighboring die blocks that are close to the working surface are designed such that in use they are in contact.
US10350660B2
An automatic formation device or an automatic formation system sets an equipment operation time from a required manufacturing time per product during the manufacturing of tubes having a round, polygonal, or oblong cross-section, wherein values are calculated from a product diameter (D), and a pitch (P), a product length (L) and a preset time (T) of a metal band plate to be wound, operations of respective components are controlled on the basis of the calculated values while the respective values are being controlled, and the metal band plate is held by a chuck that is disposed on the tip side of a winding core member and rotates in a synchronized manner so as to prevent loosening of the wound metal band plate by tightening/untightening the metal band plate as needed. Also, a rotation speed correction function for a motor system is added.
US10350657B2
A medical waste treatment device for health-care facility includes a frame, a waste disposal device and a control system; wherein the waste disposal device comprises three or more waste disposal boxes which are arranged in a row; a feeding conveyor belt is disposed at one side of the waste disposal boxes and the feeding conveyor belt extends to positions above each of the waste disposal boxes; the feeding conveyor belt is driven by a motor; each of the waste disposal boxes is provided with a waste label identification component, a pushing component which is configured to push waste container into the waste disposal box, and a sealing component; a feeding access is opened on the top of each of the waste disposal boxes and a discharge access is opened on the bottom of each of the waste disposal boxes; a feeding access control system is provided at each of the feeding access and a discharge access control system is provided at each of the discharge access; a branch conveyor belt is disposed below the discharge access of the waste disposal boxes and a major conveyor belt is disposed adjacent to the branch conveyor belts; the control terminal of the motor, the waste label identification component, the pushing component, the sealing component, the feeding access control system and the discharge access control system are coupled with the central controller of the control system. The medical waste treatment device for health-care facility could avoid the collateral contamination caused by incineration, and further avoid the production of Dioxin. The medical waste treatment device could automatically identify and classify waste containers, and treat medical waste according to its category and then package and seal it.
US10350654B2
A pipe thread cleaning device which cleans with pressurized water. The device contains a rigid outer shell and a cleaning assembly which is inserted into the outer shell to form an enclosure and includes a water input and rotatable spray nozzles to clean threaded pipe which is inserted into the device by rotatably applying a pressurized stream of water to the pipe threads.
US10350637B2
A vibrator-mounted holder is attached to a casing of a vibration generator which moves a vibrator to generate a vibration when used. The vibrator-mounted holder includes a vibrator, a vibrator retention unit retaining the vibrator, a fixing unit fixed to a casing, and an arm. The vibrator includes a magnet having a plate shape parallel to a horizontal surface and a yoke arranged on the magnet. The arm connects the fixing unit to the vibrator retention unit, and supports the vibrator retention unit in a manner that the vibrator retention unit is displaceable with respect to the fixing unit. The yoke has a projecting portion which is projected downward and fixed to the vibrator retention unit. The arm is connected to a portion, at which the projecting portion is arranged, within the vibrator retention units.
US10350634B2
Methods for modifying contours of substrate surfaces are disclosed. Methods include depositing filler material on a critical mating surface of a substrate so as to render the mating surface more mateable with a matching substrate. The filler material can be deposited within or around features or defects on the mating surface such that a final desired surface contour is achieved. In some cases, the final surface contour of the mating surface is planar. This can prevent gaps associated with the features or defects from forming between the substrate and the matching substrate when they are joined together. The final surface contour of the mating surface can be determined by comparing dimensions of the mating surface to dimensions of a reference surface. In some cases, ink jet printing techniques are used to deposit the filler material accurately in prescribed locations and with precise thickness control.
US10350625B2
A nozzle pair (3, 6) is used to coat the side faces of spacers (1) for insulating glass with an adhesive material, the adhesive material being applied to the side face of the spacers (1) through the nozzles (15) of the nozzle pair. As the side faces of the spacer (1) are coated with adhesive material the nozzle pair (3, 6) is moved along the sides of the spacer (1), the relative movement between the nozzle pair (3, 6) and the spacer (1) being obtained by a movement of the spacer (1) and/or the nozzle pair (3, 6). With this way of working, there is no need to rotate the spacer (1) about an axis perpendicular to its plane and therefore the rotation can be dispensed with.
US10350624B2
According to one embodiment, provided is a coating apparatus. The coating apparatus includes a first discharger, a second discharger, and a third discharger. The first discharger discharges a first liquid on a top surface of a substrate. In addition, the second discharger discharges a second liquid of which surface tension is higher than surface tension of the first liquid on the top surface of the substrate. In addition, the third discharger is disposed in a side outer than the first discharger in the substrate and discharges a gas on the top surface of the substrate.
US10350617B1
A composition for a single-component polyurethane foam and a nozzle for spraying the same. The composition comprising a polyurethane pre-polymer dissolved in liquid hydrocarbons, wherein the polyurethane pre-polymer further comprises polyethers or polyesters, wherein at least one of the polyethers or polyesters is a diol with an average functionality ƒ=2, a hydroxyl value within 35-180 mg KOH/g, and with an acid value not exceeding 0.2 mg KOH/g. The single-component polyurethane foam composition being sprayable onto a surface at a rate of 6 to 10 grams/second from the nozzle of the present invention wherein a coating depth of up to 30-55 mm is obtained over a 1 m2 surface after one minute of product application. The nozzle of the present invention comprising design features to produce a cone-shaped spray pattern of the foamable product.
US10350614B2
A centrifugal separator is provided with a base and a substantially vertical spindle upstanding from the base. A rotary vessel is mounted on the spindle. A housing is connected to the base and encloses the rotary vessel. A liquid supply duct supplies a liquid to be filtered to the rotary vessel. The rotary vessel has an open top and an upper edge at the open top. The rotary vessel is provided with a filter material and has a weir arranged at the upper edge, wherein the filter material extends upwardly to the weir. The housing has a passageway adjacent to the weir and the passage way communicates with the weir to enable discharge of waste material that is contained in the liquid to be filtered and does not pass through the filter material during supply of liquid to be filtered to the rotary vessel and rotation of the rotary vessel.
US10350610B2
A classifier cleaning and optimization device is provided. The device includes a chamber that is adapted to contain a fluidized bed, an array of two or more adjacently arranged inclined plates positioned above the fluidized bed wherein an inclined channel is formed between each pair of adjacent inclined plates, and a means for introducing a process liquid into the chamber between the fluidized bed and the array of inclined plates such that in use, the process fluid travels through at least one of the inclined channels. A method of cleaning the separation section of a classifier is also disclosed herein.
US10350601B2
A system for isolating cells in at least one of single-cell format and single-cluster format, comprising a reservoir, including a reservoir inlet and a reservoir outlet, configured to receive a biological sample and to receive at least one fluid, a manifold configured to receive and deliver the biological sample and the at least one fluid from the reservoir into a biological sample substrate, the manifold comprising a broad surface comprising a central region configured to receive the biological sample substrate, a set of openings configured to enable fluid flow transmission across the biological sample substrate, a manifold inlet configured to transmit flow from the reservoir the first subset of openings, a manifold outlet configured at a downstream end of the broad surface and coupled to the second subset of openings, the manifold outlet configured to transmit waste fluid from the manifold.
US10350598B2
A fluidic module rotatable about a center of rotation includes a first compression chamber having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a second compression chamber having a fluid inlet, a first fluid channel connected to the first chamber via the fluid inlet of the first chamber, and a second fluid channel connecting the fluid outlet of the first chamber to the fluid inlet of the second chamber. Due to rotation of the fluidic module a liquid may be centrifugally driven into the first chamber and the second fluid channel through the first fluid channel, and thereby a compressible medium may be entrapped and compressed within the second chamber. By lowering the rotary frequency and due to the resultant expansion of the compressible medium, liquid may be driven out of the second fluid channel into the first chamber, out of the first chamber into and through an outlet channel.
US10350587B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst system for olefin metathesis, the catalyst system comprising: a) a first system zone substantially comprising a layered double hydroxide; and b) a second system zone comprising a metathesis catalyst.
US10350578B2
The invention relates to a composition containing zirconium, cerium and yttrium oxides with a cerium oxide proportion of between 3% and 15%, and yttrium oxide proportions corresponding to the following conditions: 6% at most if the cerium oxide proportion is between 12% excluded and 15% included; 10% at most if the cerium oxide proportion is between 7% excluded and 12% included; 30% at most if the cerium oxide proportion is between 3% and 7% included; the balance consisting of zirconium oxide. The composition may optionally include an oxide of a rare earth selected from lanthanum, neodymium and praseodymium. The composition can be used for processing the exhaust gases of a vehicle.
US10350575B2
A reactor has a heat exchanging body including therein a heat medium flow channel in which heat medium flows, and a reaction flow channel in which a reaction fluid flows, to exchange heat between the heat medium and the reaction fluid. A heat transfer promoter is provided in the heat medium flow channel and comes in close contact with the heat exchanging body to promote heat transfer between the heat medium and the heat exchanging body. The heat transfer promoter is an assembly of partial heat transfer promoters of a plurality of types. Replacing the partial heat transfer promoter with another type one, temperature distribution in the heat exchanging body is adjusted.
US10350572B2
A reactor system that includes a single reactor or a plurality of parallel reactors. A method that includes injecting a mixture including liquid water and a gas, into at least one electrically-conductive inlet capillary tube of a continuously-flowing plasma reactor to generate a flowing liquid film region on one or more internal walls of the continuously-flowing plasma reactor with a gas stream flowing through the flowing liquid film region; propagating a plasma discharge along the flowing liquid film region from at least one electrically-conductive inlet capillary to an electrically-conductive outlet capillary tube at an opposing end of the continuously-flowing plasma reactor; dissociating the liquid water in the plasma discharge to form a plurality of dissociation products; producing hydrogen peroxide and nitrogen oxides from the plurality of dissociation products.
US10350563B2
Methods for forming cutting elements comprising polycrystalline materials, methods for forming polycrystalline compacts for cutting elements of a drilling tool, methods for forming polycrystalline diamond compacts, and resulting polycrystalline compacts and cutting elements are disclosed. Grains of a hard material are introduced to a press and subjected to a high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) process to sinter the grains. The system conditions (i.e., temperature and pressure) are then adjusted past a phase or state change point, after which, at least one of the system conditions is held during an anneal stage before the system conditions are adjusted to final levels. The resulting compacts and cutting elements may therefore include inter-granularly bonded hard material grains with a more stable microstructure (e.g., less stressed microstructure) than a polycrystalline compact and cutting element formed without an anneal stage during the HPHT process.
US10350560B2
The invention relates to decanters technology field, more particularly relates to a separated decanter. A separated decanter includes a bottle body, a base and a motor sub-assembly; the bottom of the bottle body protrudes an annular wall, a spacer is provided in the annular wall, the spacer is provided with through holes to connect the lumen of the bottle body; the base includes a base surface, an outer ring and an inner ring; the outer ring is set at the outside peripheral of the base surface, the inner ring lies in the outer ring on the base surface; the annular wall connects with the inner ring, both of them and combine with the spacer to form a cavity; the cavity contains a magnet; the motor sub-assembly is set under the base; the motor sub-assembly drives the magnet to turn, thereby stirring the liquid in the bottle body.
US10350556B2
A compact interaction chamber is used to cause high shear, impact forces, and cavitation to reduce particle size and mix fluids while reducing waste and holdup volume. A first housing made of stainless steel holds an inlet mixing chamber element and an outlet mixing chamber element in a female bore using thermal expansion. The inlet and outlet mixing chamber elements are manufactured so that the diameter of the cooled female bore is slightly smaller than the diameter of the mixing chamber elements. The first housing is heated, expanding the diameter of the female bore enough to allow the inlet and outlet mixing chamber elements to be inserted. After the mixing chamber elements are inserted and aligned within the female bore, the first housing is allowed to cool. Once cooled, the female bore contracts and applies sufficient hoop stress to securely hold the mixing chamber elements during high shear force mixing.
US10350548B2
Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) or other materials are processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as energy, fuels, foods or materials. For example, systems and methods are described that can be used to treat feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, in a vault in which the walls and optionally the ceiling include discrete units. Such vaults are re-configurable.
US10350547B2
A process is disclosed for reversibly absorbing carbon dioxide to an alkali metal or earth alkaline absorbent. For absorption the absorbent is contacted with a first gas composition. For desorption the absorbent is contacted with a second gas composition. The moisture contents of the first and second gas compositions are controlled so that during the absorption step the absorbent is converted to a bicarbonate, and during the desorption step the absorbent is converted to a carbonate hydrate.Compared to prior art processes the process of the invention requires less energy input. The process of the invention is particularly suitable for producing a carbon dioxide enriched gas for accelerating plant growth in a greenhouse.
US10350542B2
A system and a method for industrial plant or utility plant flue gas desulfurization, with zero waste water liquid discharge from a wet flue gas desulfurization system utilized therein, are disclosed herein. The wet flue gas desulfurization system is supplied an absorption liquid for contact with a flue gas to absorb flue gas acid gases. Waste water from the wet flue gas desulfurization system is heated under pressure in a heat exchanger to produce heated waste water, which is supplied to a flash vessel to produce steam. The produced steam is supplied to the flue gas upstream of a particulate collection system and the wet flue gas desulfurization system, supplied to the flue gas upstream of the wet flue gas desulfurization system, or supplied to absorption liquid circulated to the wet flue gas desulfurization system.
US10350537B2
Methods are provided for the production of nitrogen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide from an exhaust gas. Exhaust gas from combustion in a fuel rich (or reducing) atmosphere is primarily composed of CO2, CO, N2, H2O, and H2. CO may be converted to CO2 and H2 via the water gas shift reaction. Carbon dioxide may then be effectively separated from nitrogen and hydrogen to produce a carbon dioxide stream and a nitrogen/hydrogen stream. The nitrogen/hydrogen stream may then be effectively separated to produce a high purity nitrogen stream and a high purity hydrogen stream. The process may be done in any order, such as separating the nitrogen first or the carbon dioxide first.
US10350533B2
This document presents an apparatus for a flexible air filter media that can be configured for shipping and storage having one or more flexible inserts mounted to the filter media along one or more portions of the accordion folds of the air filter material. The current invention permits the air filter apparatus to fold along both X and Y axes, create a tri-fold, and bend in a manner that provides for a much smaller volume for shipping purposes. The invention also permits attaching the flexible material to the center of the filter media and also inserts which allow sections of the air filter media to be nested one into another to reduce both shipping and storage volume.
US10350524B2
A filter device has a filter housing and a clamping bracket engaging around the filter housing. The clamping bracket includes a bracket and a clamping collar that are swivelably coupled by a hinge, the bracket and the clamping collar being positively connected adjacent to the hinge through the engagement of a projection into an engagement window.
US10350516B2
A blood filtering device has a tubular housing with a tubular section and tubular housing volume. A filtration section with a filter medium separating a raw side from a clean side is arranged in the tubular housing. The filtration section is movable along the tubular section and movably sealed relative to the tubular housing. The filtration section separates the tubular housing volume into variable first and second tubular housing volumes. A first communication path extends between raw side and first tubular housing volume. A second communication path exits between raw side and second tubular housing volume. When moving the filtration section, blood in the first tubular housing volume flows through the first communication path to the raw side; blood plasma passes through the filter medium to the clean side; residual blood flows through the second communication path into the variable second tubular housing volume.
US10350514B2
An acoustic standing wave is utilized to separate components from a multi-component fluid, such as oil from an oil-water mixture, in a fluid flow scheme with an acoustophoresis device. For example, the flow scheme and device allows for trapping of the oil as the oil coalesces, agglomerates, and becomes more buoyant than the water.
US10350498B2
The present invention is directed to a system for conducting a game involving a plurality of players. The system includes at least one agent for issuing to each player an entry coupon having a unique identification code; at least one server adapted to receive a request for registration in the game from each player, wherein the request includes the unique identification code from player's coupon; verify that each unique identification code is valid; issue instructions to the players relating to commencement of the game within a predetermined time period; receive a commencement notification from players within predetermined time period; issue series of instructions for each player's completion; receive confirmation from each player on completion of instruction; calculate for each player the total time to complete the series of instructions; and select the game winner based on the time taken for each player to complete the series of instructions.
US10350491B2
When a first operation method using a first operation apparatus and a second operation apparatus as a set is set, first vibration data for vibrating a first vibrator and second vibration data for vibrating a second vibrator are generated, and when a second operation method using either of the operation apparatuses is set, third vibration data is generated based on the first vibration data and the second vibration data. Then, when the first operation method is set, the first vibration data is transmitted to the first operation apparatus, and also the second vibration data is transmitted to the second operation apparatus, and when the second operation method is set, the third vibration data is transmitted to either of the operation apparatus for use in the second operation method.
US10350489B2
Aspects of the present invention are directed to techniques for improving the manufacturing control mechanisms—specifically game controllers—for computerized electronic devices. According to one aspect of the present invention, a button assembly is provided that eliminates the need for dampers or gaskets for shock absorption by implementing the hammer and pad using novel and advantageous geometries. According to one embodiment, the bottom or striking surface of the hammer in a button assembly is implemented at an angle, which, when pressed, strikes a similarly angled surface of the landing pad. The slope of the corresponding angles cause the hammer to slide along the angled surface, and for the kinetic force of the impact to be redirected as shearing force away from the button assembly (and the corresponding user appendage).
US10350488B2
A virtual reality (VR) Proximity Mat with Directional Locators has been provided configured and designed to establish a safety zone, the stability and the location of a person using VR and remote-control devices including video games by employing a tactilely detectable centering home/center locator in the middle and a tactilely detectable directional locator positioned away from the home/center locator. Imbedded sensors with vibration, sound and LED lighting are optionally located around the perimeter along with different textures, patterns and mat shape helping to detect, determine and establish a person's exact location on the mat when they are using the VR Proximity Mat with Directional Locators while going bare footed or wearing socks, or with a variety of shoes.
US10350483B1
A puzzle including a background puzzle surface having printed thereon a background puzzle image including image areas and blank areas, and at least one puzzle piece formed of a transparent material having printed thereon a puzzle piece image including image areas and blank transparent areas. When solving the puzzle, the at least one puzzle piece is superimposed over the background puzzle surface, and is moved thereon to a correct location in which the image areas of the background puzzle image together with the image areas of the puzzle piece image match and form a cohesive image.
US10350478B2
The present invention relates to a snow gliding device comprising: a first gliding surface, a first layer for heating said first gliding surface, which first layer comprises: a positive temperature coefficient superimposed impedance polymeric compound, a first and a second electrode, wherein said positive temperature coefficient superimposed impedance polymeric compound is at least partially sandwiched between said first and second electrode, and which first and second electrodes are adapted to provide a potential difference across said positive temperature coefficient superimposed impedance polymeric compound when connected to a power source, which first layer is arranged adjacent to and in thermal communication with said first gliding surface.
US10350468B2
A golf club head has a striking face. A ledge extends from the perimeter contact rim of the golf club head. The striking face is secured to the club head body proximate the rim. There is a gap between the striking face and the ledge. The inner wall's perimeter edge is disposed in the gap and is in contact with the ledge. The rear surface of the striking face is in contact with a portion of the inner wall.
US10350452B2
A method and a cushion extension for an exercise device are provided. The cushion extension includes a first portion covering a surface of the exercise device, the covered surface configured to contact the user during an exercise, a second portion extending from the first portion in a direction of the exercise, and a third portion and a fourth portion each joined to opposite ends of the first portion and each forming a method of attachment between each and the first portion.
US10350448B2
A bimanual arm trainer that provides therapeutic bimanual repetitive exercise to improve upper body movement and flexibility has a top support that is elevated relative to a ground surface. The trainer further includes: (a) first and second arm holders that are pivotable relative to the top support; and (b) first and second arm holder housings that are pivotably coupled to the top support and can be moved into a plurality of different positions and locked in place in one of the plurality of different positions relative to the top support. The first arm holder is pivotably coupled to the first arm holder and the second arm holder is pivotably coupled to the second arm holder. A reciprocating translation mechanism operatively connects the first and second arm holders such that the motion of one of the first and second arm holders is mirrored in the other of the first and second arm holders.
US10350446B2
A permanently affixed and travelling selector pin, car and weight plate selection mechanism for use with physical fitness equipment is disclosed including a segmented track and/or cut out cavern within the plate body for the car to travel within in either vertically or horizontally in order to select a different weight plate or cumulatively, more or less weight for an exercise. The selector pin and car mechanism features a selector pin which is not removable from the car and is inserted through the car which is contained by the track and or plate body shape and into a throughbore in the weight plate in order to engage with the selector stem.
US10350438B2
Systems and methods are provided for target tracking using a quality indicator during radiation therapy treatment. An exemplary method may include determining a localization result indicating a location of a target in a plurality of images representative of images acquired in a radiation therapy treatment session. The method may also include determining a quality indicator for each localization result. The method may further include extracting one or more features from each localization result. In addition, the method may include training the classifier using the localization result and one or more of the extracted features.
US10350437B2
X-ray delivery system includes a portable base unit to which a first end of a robotic arm is mounted. An X-ray treatment head is disposed on a second end of the robotic arm. The X-ray treatment head includes an X-ray component configured to generate therapeutic radiation in the X-ray wavelength range. A calibration well is disposed at a predetermined location in the portable base unit. The calibration well is comprised of a recess into which the X-ray treatment head can be received and having at least one port through which the X ray treatment head can be inserted by the robotic arm for calibration operations. The calibration well includes a plurality of X-ray radiation sensing elements disposed at distributed locations around a periphery of the calibration well.
US10350421B2
A feedthrough subassembly for an active implantable medical device includes a metallic ferrule having a conductive ferrule body, at least one surface disposed on a device side, and a ferrule opening passing through the at least one surface. An insulator body hermetically seals the ferrule opening of the conductive ferrule body by at least one of a first gold braze ceramic seal, a glass seal or a glass-ceramic seal. At least one hermetically sealed conductive pathway is disposed through the insulator body. At least one pocket formed in the at least one surface has a gold pocket pad disposed within. When the first gold braze ceramic seal is present, the first gold braze ceramic seal and the gold pocket pad are not physically touching one another.
US10350419B2
A system includes a pulse generator including a can electrode and a lead couplable to the pulse generator, the lead including a distal coil electrode and a proximal coil electrode, wherein both of the coil electrodes are electrically uncoupled from the can electrode such that a unipolar sensing vector is provided between at least one of the coil electrodes and the can electrode.
US10350417B2
An implantable medical device system includes an extracardiac sensing device and an intracardiac pacemaker. The sensing device senses a P-wave attendant to an atrial depolarization of the heart via housing-based electrodes carried by the sensing device when the sensing device is implanted outside the cardiovascular system and sends a trigger signal to the intracardiac pacemaker in response to sensing the P-wave. The intracardiac pacemaker detects the trigger signal and schedules a ventricular pacing pulse in response to the detected trigger signal.
US10350413B2
A computer implemented system and method generates a patient-specific model of patient response to stimulation on a neural element basis, receives user-input of target neuromodulation sites, and, based on the patient-specific model, determines which stimulation paradigm and settings, including stimulation sites, would result in the target neuromodulation, where the stimulation sites are not necessarily the same as the resulting neuromodulation sites. The system outputs a visual representation of the stimulation sites that would result in the target neuromodulation. The system monitors a system state and/or patient state and dynamically changes which stimulation program to implement based on the state.
US10350412B2
A nerve stimulation system including one or more of an annular frame, an electrically conductive element disposed in the annular frame, and a controller electrically coupled to the electrically conductive element and a power source.
US10350400B2
The present invention provides apparatus and methods for making multiple aseptic fluid interconnections in parallel with an integral clamping mechanism and elastomeric fluid sealing gasket to provide an initial fluid tight seal while removing sealing tape tabs and a final fluid tight seal after sealing tape tabs are removed. The clamping mechanism comprises a hinge coupling and a first set of snap-fit locks to maintain the initial fluid tight seal and a second set of snap-fit locks to maintain the final fluid tight seal.
US10350399B2
A medical fluid suspension generating apparatus for performing medical procedures includes a Venturi-agitating tip assembly composed of a multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end thereof and a tip at a distal second end thereof. The apparatus also includes a compressed medical fluid unit fluidly connected to the multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end of the Venturi-agitating tip assembly and a medical solution fluidly connected to the multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end of the Venturi-agitating tip assembly. Pressurized gas, from the compressed medical fluid unit, and the medical solution are combined within the Venturi-agitating tip assembly in a manner generating an enriched medical suspension that is ultimately dispensed from the suspension delivery apparatus.
US10350396B2
A device and method for dilating a Eustachian tube of a patient is disclosed. The device includes a guide catheter and a balloon dilation catheter. The balloon dilation catheter has an actuator that prevents injury to the middle ear. The balloon dilation catheter is slidably coupled with the guide catheter through the guide catheter lumen and is fully inserted into the guide catheter lumen when the distal side of the actuator is adjacent to the proximal end of the guide catheter. The method involves advancing the guide catheter and balloon dilation catheter through a nasal passage of the patient to dilate a portion of the Eustachian tube.
US10350389B2
Intravascular devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. In some instances, the intravascular device is a guide wire with distal tip element having a radiopaque marker pattern. For example, in some implementations a sensing guide wire includes a flexible elongate member; a sensing element coupled to the flexible elongate member; a flexible tip element coupled to and extending distally from the sensing element, the flexible tip element having a first radiopaque section, a second radiopaque section, and a non-radiopaque section positioned between the first and second radiopaque sections. Methods of making, manufacturing, and/or assembling such intravascular devices and associated systems are also provided.
US10350382B1
A high torque vascular catheter system includes an inner catheter, a proximal outer catheter section, a distal outer catheter section, at least one discrete connection point connecting the inner catheter to the proximal outer catheter section, and at least one discrete connection point connecting the inner catheter to the distal outer catheter section. The distal outer catheter section is more flexible than the proximal outer catheter section. Methods of construction and use of the catheter system are also disclosed.
US10350373B2
A device for the deposition of adipose tissue, comprising: a) a syringe for grafting the tissue, b) a system for controlling the advance of the plunger of the syringe, which receives information about the movement of the syringe in the direction of withdrawal from an external system for detecting the movement of the syringe, and c) an external system for detecting the movement of the syringe. The control system determines the advance of the plunger of the syringe on the basis of the movement of the syringe in the direction of withdrawal and on the basis of the quantity of adipose tissue per unit of length of deposition. The advantages deriving from the use of this device in lipomodelling (or fat grafting) are in an automatic control of deposition of the adipose tissue and a correct uniformity of the graft.
US10350367B2
Provided is a needle removal operation cover with which a user can safely perform an injection needle removal operation even when a needle tip is directly inserted into the needle removal operation cover, and with which the user can remove the injection needle without requiring a wrist twisting motion. In a needle removal operation cover which is configured such that an injection needle which is detachably and threadedly mounted on a distal end of an injection cylinder is threadedly removed by rotating the injection needle, the needle removal operation cover is formed in a cylindrical shape such that a needle tube of the injection needle including a needle tip is accommodated in the needle removal operation cover and integral mounting of a needle hub in the needle removal operation cover is allowed, a flange body for a rotating operation is formed on a cylindrical outer peripheral surface in a projecting manner, an outer periphery of the flange body is formed of a plurality of continuous mountain-like ridge portions, and among the mountain-like ridge portions, the mountain-like ridge portions which correspond to a rotational direction along which the injection needle is released from the injection cylinder are formed into a shape which allows easy engagement of a finger for an operation with the ridge portions.
US10350363B2
An injection device having a delivery element with an inner thread may be driven by rotation and includes a cylindrical outer wall region, which is substantially smooth. Such features provide a delivery element configured such that it is less intimidating to patients than known threaded rods, and may facilitate easy cleaning. The delivery element may be non-rotatably guided and axially spring-loaded, and may be inserted axially into the housing when the reservoir is replaced. The driving thread element for the delivery element may be mounted in the vicinity of the distal end of the housing.
US10350357B2
A drug injection device is disclosed. A drug injection device, according to the present invention, comprises: a plunger which is connected to an ampoule filled with an injectable solution and applies pressure to the injectable solution in the ampoule; a manual plunger handle which is connected to one side of the plunger and manually applies pressure to the plunger; and an automatic plunger pressurizing unit which is selectively connected to the plunger in a position adjacent to same and automatically applies pressure to same by means of power.
US10350355B2
A computerized electro-mechanical drug delivery device configured to deliver at least one dose of two or more medicaments. The device comprises a control unit. An electro-mechanical drive unit is operably coupled to the control unit and a primary reservoir for a first medicament and a secondary reservoir for a fluid agent, e.g. a second medicament. An operator interface is in communication with the control unit. A single dispense assembly is configured for fluid communication with the primary and the secondary reservoir. Activation of the operator panel sets a first dose from the primary reservoir and based on the first dose and a therapeutic dose profile, the control unit is configured to determine a dose or range of the fluid agent. Alternatively, the control unit determines or calculates a dose or range of a third medicament. Further, a dispense interface for use with a drug delivery device is disclosed.
US10350353B2
A medical device includes a first housing portion (FHP) and a second housing portion (SHP) configured to be to be movable relative to each other from a first position to operatively engage at a second position to couple at least one of a drive device and a needle-inserting device supported by one of the FHP and the SHP to a reservoir supported by the other of the FHP and the SHP. Electronic circuitry configured to detect at least one of a first magnetic interaction between a magnet and at least one of a first magnetically attractive material and a first magnet-responsive device and a second magnetic interaction between the magnet and at least one of a second magnetically attractive material and a second magnet-responsive device, and to provide a signal or a change in state in response to detecting at least one of the interactions.
US10350352B2
A fluid control system for delivery of a liquid includes a pneumatic drive that incorporates a linear actuator to effect known volume changes in a gas reservoir. The gas reservoir is in fluid communication with a gas-side reservoir that is separated from a fluid-side reservoir by a flexible membrane. Movement of the linear actuator effects positive or negative volume differences on the gas in the gas-side reservoir, resulting in a decrease or increase in pressure of the gas that is transmitted to the fluid-side reservoir to draw fluid, primarily liquid, in from a source or deliver liquid out to a sink. In another aspect, a mechanism is provided for the detection and elimination of air bubbles in the fluid path.
US10350345B2
A container for medical use forming a closed compartment for carrying a pressurized liquid includes a side wall member; a rigid bottom portion; a rigid top portion having a through hole; a lid arranged to cover and seal a filling hole; a pressure valve; and a flexible tube arranged inside the closed compartment. The first end of the flexible tube being provided with an opening towards the closed compartment and the second end of the flexible tube is connected to the top portion and in fluid communication with the through hole in the rigid top portion. The side wall member is flexible such that said container is reversibly foldable and unfoldable to be arrangeable in a compact state and an expanded state.
US10350334B2
The present invention includes a catheter locking solution having both antimicrobial and anticoagulant properties including a local anesthetic and a viscosifying agent. The local anesthetic of the present invention may be an amino amide; an amino ester; an aminoacylanilide; an aminoalkyl benzoate; an amino carbonate; an N-phenylamidine compound; an N-aminoalkyl amid; an aminoketone, or combinations and mixtures thereof. In a particular embodiment of the present invention, the local anesthetic is tetracaine or dibucaine.
US10350332B2
The present invention provides an orthopedic implant including a base device having a device surface and a fixation material attached to at least one portion of the device surface. The fixation material is configured to provide a minimally sufficient adhesive force to resist natural pull out caused by forces acting on the base device after implantation and bone growth. Also provided is a method of manufacturing an orthopedic implant. A base device with a device surface is provided and a minimally sufficient adhesive force, that can resist natural pull out caused by forces acting on the base device after implantation and bone growth, is determined. A proper amount of fixation material sufficient to provide an adhesive force equal to the minimally sufficient adhesive force is determined and fixation material is applied to the device. When the proper amount of fixation material is applied to the device surface, application is stopped.
US10350325B2
Disclosed is a disposable absorbent article including two substrates; and an adhesive composition including a first polymer that is propylene-based and has a Mw of no greater than about 75,000, and a second polymer that is propylene-based and has a Mw of at least about 100,000, where the adhesive composition is used for at least two applications in the disposable absorbent article and is delivered via a molten bulk tank.
US10350319B2
Liquid water detection in a sterilization chamber that can distinguish liquid water from material in the load that is outgassing and can dry the liquid, is independent of the vacuum pump and chamber leak rate, and that is capable of detecting small amounts of liquid and drying the liquid without freezing the liquid in the process is achieved by monitoring conditions in the chamber at two different pressures, one above the boiling point of water and another below the boiling point of water at a given load temperature.
US10350312B2
The present invention relates to magnetic contrast structures for magnetic resonance imaging, and methods of their use. The contrast structures include magnetic materials arranged as a pair of disk-shaped magnetic components with a space between a circular surface of each disk shape, or a tubular magnetic structure, a substantially cylindrical magnetic structure, a substantially spherical shell-formed magnetic structure, or a substantially ellipsoidal shell-formed structure, each defining a hollow region therein. The space and/or hollow region in the contrast structure creates a spatially extended region contained within a near-field region of the contrast structure over which an applied magnetic field results in a homogeneous field, such that nuclear magnetic moments of a second material when arranged within the spatially extended region precess at a characteristic Larmor frequency, whereby the contrast structure is adapted to emit a characteristic magnetic resonance signal of the magnetic material.
US10350303B1
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for modulating the production of a protein in a target cell. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are capable of ameliorating diseases associated with protein or enzyme deficiencies.
US10350296B1
Chewable gelatin formulations that include a bovine gelatin and a fish gelatin.
US10350291B2
The present invention relates to antigen-specific immune regulatory response. Methods for detecting an antigen-specific immune regulatory response, methods for selecting candidate vaccine recipients, and methods for improved vaccination strategies are presented.
US10350284B1
The invention provides peptide vaccines comprising the signal peptide domain of selected target antigens of intracellular pathogens. The peptide vaccines of the invention contain multiple class II and class I-restricted epitopes and are recognized and presented by the majority of the vaccinated human population. The invention provides in particular anti tuberculosis vaccines. The invention further provides compositions comprising the vaccines as well as their use to treat or prevent infection.
US10350282B2
Mesothelin can be used as an immunotherapeutic target. It induces a cytolytic T cell response. Portions of mesothelin which induce such responses are identified. Vaccines can be either polynucleotide- or polypeptide-based. Carriers for raising a cytolytic T cell response include bacteria and viruses. A mouse model for testing vaccines and other anti-tumor therapeutics and prophylactics comprises a strongly mesothelin-expressing, transformed peritoneal cell line.
US10350279B2
The present invention relates to a method for generating semi-mature dendritic cells by treating immature dendritic cells with the auto-antigen, cytokine, and PGE2 as a target for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, in which the levels of NR4A2 and/or UBASH3B at gene or protein are increased more than 2-fold compared to the immature dendritic cells In addition, the present invention relates to a cell therapeutic agent for treating or preventing autoimmune diseases, containing the semi-mature dendritic cells as an active ingredient. The present invention increases the therapeutic efficacy on rheumatoid arthritis retaining responsiveness to the same auto-antigen that being used for preparing semi-mature dendritic cells, thereby enabling cell therapy.
US10350272B2
Calcitonin analogues as a medicament for producing a decrease in liver triglycerides or for reducing fat accumulation in the liver of a subject are provided.
US10350246B2
The present application discloses the use of light-gated cation-selective channelrhodopsins (Ch Rs) for the optogenetic control of the secretion of a polypeptide of interest in adipocytes. Engineered adipocytes comprising a channelrhodopsin (ChR) polypeptide, and/or a nucleic acid encoding same, and a secretory polypeptide precursor comprising a bioactive polypeptide and a signal peptide suitable for secretion of the bioactive polypeptide by the engineered adipocytes, and/or a nucleic acid encoding same, are disclosed. The use of such engineered adipocytes for the management or treatment of diseases/conditions in which the secretion of a polypeptide of interest is beneficial, such as the secretion of insulin in diabetic patients, is also disclosed.
US10350241B2
A trace element solution comprises at least the following metals: zinc; manganese; selenium; and copper; and which comprises a concentration of the metals of at least 90 mg/ml. The solution may comprise the following concentrations: at least 60 mg/ml zinc; at least 10 mg/ml manganese; at least 5 mg/ml selenium; and at least 15 mg/ml copper. The solution may comprise chromium, iodine and chromium.
US10350234B2
A composition for use in a nasal application, the composition including an aqueous carrier and a viscosity agent. The viscosity agent is in the range of about 4% to about 15% by weight. The viscosity agent is in solution with the aqueous carrier. The solution of the aqueous carrier and the viscosity agent is configured as a thixotropic composition.
US10350227B2
Neridronic acid, in an acid or a salt form, can be used to treat or alleviate pain or related conditions, such as complex regional pain syndrome.
US10350224B2
A stabilized formulation for controlled release of a vitamin D compound is disclosed. The formulation comprises one or both of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 and a cellulosic compound. The stabilized formulations exhibit a stable dissolution profile following exposure to storage conditions and demonstrate improved pharmacokinetic parameters compared to unstabilized formulations.
US10350218B2
Provided herein are isoquinolidinobenzodiazepine (IQB)-1(chloromethyl)-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[e]indole (CBI) dimers, antibody-drug conjugates comprising them and methods of use for killing cells and treating disease.
US10350216B2
The present invention relates to preventing and treating leukemia and diseases and disorders of the blood, by inhibiting canonical Wnt signaling in the osteoblasts. The inhibition is accomplished by blocking specific molecules and receptors in the pathway. The present invention also relates to a method of diagnosing leukemia and disorders of the blood, and methods and assay for drug screening and basic research.
US10350213B2
The present invention relates to methods for treating cancer with apilimod and related compositions and methods.
US10350205B2
Provided herein are compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds useful as modulators of MAGL and/or FAAH. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of pain and neurological disorders.
US10350198B2
The present application provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising 6-(2-chloro-4-iodophenylamino)-N-(2-hydroxyethoxy)-5-methyl-4-oxo-4,5-dihydrofuro[3,2-c]pyridine-7-carboxamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a binder, a surface stabilizer and a dispersant, wherein the pharmaceutical composition can be dispersed in water to form a pharmaceutical suspension having a median particle size, X50, of 0.5 μm to 4.0 μm. Also disclosed are a preparation method thereof and the use thereof for treating cancers.
US10350196B2
The invention describes a long-acting injectable veterinary composition comprising a spirocyclic isoxazoline, at least one biopolymer, and optionally, at least one veterinary acceptable-carrier, -solvent, -excipient, or any mixture thereof. The invention also includes a method of treating an animal with a parasitic infestation by administering the biopolymeric composition to the animal in need thereof, and a process for preparing the biopolymeric composition.
US10350190B2
In the broadest aspect, the invention provides a composition for and a method of prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of a animal/mammal for any viral disease, mixed bacterial and viral infections, bacterial infections, bacterial endotoxins, bacterial exotoxins, autoimmune diseases, and cellular or humoral mediated allergic conditions that is caused by any virus that relies on the maintenance of specific calcium ion concentrations for the post ribosomal RNA synthesis processing of viral protein translation, transportation and processing of viral structural components by utilizing a therapeutic amount of a blocker selected from the group consisting of a calcium channel blocker, a metabolite thereof, a calmodulin blocker and a metabolite thereof, and a pharmaceutical acceptable diluent or carrier; and/or is caused by damage to the animal/mammal by a pathological immune response to antigens.
US10350185B2
The subject invention provides therapeutic compositions and uses thereof for improving pulmonary function. In one embodiment, the therapeutic composition comprises one or more free amino acids selected from lysine, glycine, threonine, valine, tyrosine, aspartic acid, isoleucine, tryptophan, asparagine, and serine; and electrolytes. In one embodiment, the subject invention can be used to prevent or treat long-term lung complications induced by radiation.
US10350172B2
A porous hollow silica particle with an interpolymer complex immobilized thereon is provided. The interpolymer complex comprises a first polymer immobilized to a surface of the silica particle, and a second polymer complexed with the first polymer. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the silica particle, and methods of forming the silica particle are also provided.
US10350167B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for the targeted delivery to myometrial tissue of one or more agents capable of regulating contractility of myometrial tissue, wherein the one or more agents are contained or encapsulated within a polymeric delivery vehicle conjugated with one or more molecules that recognizes and/or is capable of binding, directly or indirectly, to the oxytocin receptor.
US10350157B2
The present invention provides novel condensation aerosols for the treatment of disease and/or intermittent or acute conditions. These condensation aerosols have little or no pyrolysis degradation products and are characterized by having an MMAD of between 1-3 microns. These aerosols are made by rapidly heating a substrate coated with a thin film of drug having a thickness of between 0.05 and 20 μm, while passing a gas over the film, to form particles of a desirable particle size for inhalation. Kits comprising a drug and a device for producing a condensation aerosol are also provided. The device contained in the kit typically, has an element for heating the drug which is coated as a film on the substrate and contains a therapeutically effective dose of a drug when the drug is administered in aerosol form, and an element allowing the vapor to cool to form an aerosol. Also disclosed, are methods for using these aerosols and kits.
US10350152B2
Disclosed in the present specification are: a skin whitening composition having a skin whitening effect by controlling the secretion of exosomes to be secreted from melanocytes; and a method for screening for materials having a skin whitening effect. The skin whitening composition can promote apoptosis of melanocytes by inhibiting the amount of secretion of exosomes to be secreted from melanocytes, and consequently inhibits the generation of melanin through the apoptosis of melanocytes, thereby exhibiting a skin whitening effect.
US10350149B2
Anhydrous antiperspirant composition in aerosol form comprising an antiperspirant active agent and a water-insoluble film-forming block ethylenic polymer The present invention relates to an anhydrous composition in aerosol form containing: i) an oily phase comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium: —at least one volatile oil, and —one or more antiperspirant active agents chosen from aluminum and/or zirconium salts, and —one or more water-insoluble film-forming block ethylenic polymers comprising a first block with a glass transition temperature (Tg) of greater than or equal to 85° C. and a second block with a Tg of less than or equal to 20° C., and ii) one or more propellants; the said oily phase containing less than 15% by weight and even more preferably less than 12% by weight of non-volatile polydimethylsiloxane relative to the total weight of the oils. The invention also relates to a cosmetic process for treating human perspiration, to a use of the same and to an aerosol device using the said cosmetic composition.
US10350145B2
A system comprising a nasogastric tube comprising a nasogastric location element, a feeding mechanism, a suction mechanism configured to sealingly draw an inner wall of an esophagus against said nasogastric tube, and a gastric decompression mechanism.
US10350142B1
The programmable medicine dispenser is a secured pill dispenser. The programmable medicine dispenser is a locked dispenser that: 1) dispenses a controlled medical substance at the single dose level; and 2) controls access to the contents of the locked dispenser. The programmable medicine dispenser: 1) dispenses the controlled medical substance in single dose quantities; 2) dispenses a single dose of the controlled medical substance at regular intervals; 3) verifies the physical presence of a patient before releasing the single dose of the controlled medical substance; 4) notifies the appropriate authority that a single dose has been dispensed; 5) limits access to the hopper of programmable medicine dispenser to a pharmacy or other secured location; and, 6) operates a beacon to locate the programmable medicine dispenser. The programmable medicine dispenser comprises a dispenser and a control system. The control system is stored within and controls access to the dispenser.
US10350139B2
A sterile glass pharmaceutical container or vessel such as, but not limited to, vials for holding pharmaceutical products or vaccines in a hermetic and/or sterile state. The sterile glass pharmaceutical container undergoes a strengthening process that produces compression at the surface and tension within the container wall. The strengthening process is designed such that the tension within the wall is great enough to ensure catastrophic failure of the pharmaceutical container, thus rendering the product unusable, should sterility be compromised by a through-wall crack. The tension is greater than a threshold central tension, above which catastrophic failure of the pharmaceutical container is guaranteed, thus eliminating any potential for violation of pharmaceutical integrity or sterility (such as stable cracks) in the glass packaging which are not easily identifiable in an otherwise seemingly intact pharmaceutical container.
US10350136B2
A CPR apparatus includes a chest compression unit and mounting apparatus for mounting the chest compression unit on a patient. The chest compression unit includes a plunger disposed in a housing. At its one end extending from the housing the plunger has a compression member. The plunger is driven in a reciprocating manner by a reversible electromotor via a mechanical apparatus for translating rotational motion to linear motion or by a linear induction electromotor. The chest compression unit includes an electromotor control unit including a microprocessor, a first monitor for monitoring the position of the plunger in respect of the housing and a second monitor for monitoring the position of the plunger in respect of the mechanical apparatus for translating rotational motion to linear motion or the rotor of the linear induction electromotor. The monitored positions are communicated to the electromotor control unit. Also disclosed is a corresponding CPR method.
US10350131B2
A walk training apparatus includes a walking assist device, a first tensile portion, and a second tensile portion. The walking assist device is configured to be attached to a leg of a user so as to assist the user in walking. The first tensile portion pulls at least one of the walking assist device and the leg of the user toward a vertically upper side and toward a front side. The second tensile portion pulls at least one of the walking assist device and the leg of the user toward the vertically upper side and toward a rear side.
US10350126B1
A casket comprises a casket shell, a casket lid closeable on the shell, at least one keyhole groove in the shell, a medallion casket ornament having a rear side, the ornament including at least one magnet mounted on the rear side, and an adapter plate having at least one rearward facing fastener with a head thereon and having a forward facing annular magnetic plate. The adapter plate is removably secured to the shell by inserting the head of the fastener in the keyhole groove and seating the head of the fastener in the keyhole groove. The ornament is removably secured to the shell by positioning the at least one magnet of the ornament on the annular magnetic plate. The ornament is plumbed by rotating the ornament relative to the adapter plate until the ornament is plumb.
US10350120B2
The embodiments described and claimed herein are improved wheelchair passenger securement systems and stations. In particular, one embodiment described and claimed herein is a system that includes a wheelchair restraint and a moveable bumper, wherein the movable bumper is configured to induce tension into the wheelchair restraint.
US10350117B2
A sanitary napkin includes a main pad body having an absorbent body, and a flow-guide unit including two flow-guide members having bottom ends connected to a top surface of the absorbent body, and a pull piece connected to top ends of the flow-guide members. Each flow-guide member includes a plurality of flow-guide sections foldably connected to each other, and a plurality of outer junction sections each formed between outer ends of two adjacent ones of the flow-guide sections. The pull piece is pulled to move the flow-guide sections relative to the absorbent body from a folded position, in which the flow-guide sections are stacked one upon the other, to an extended position, in which the outer junction sections of the flow-guide members are configured to contact the buttocks of a user.
US10350116B2
An incontinence detection system includes an incontinence detection pad for placement beneath a person to be monitored. The incontinence detection pad has a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. A reader is provided and a plurality of antennae is coupled to the reader. The reader includes a bistatic radio frequency (RF) switch matrix which is operable to establish a first antenna of the plurality of antennae as a transmit antenna that is used to wirelessly energize the passive RFID tag and to establish a second antennae of the plurality of antennae as a receive antenna that is used to read backscattered data that may be emitted from the passive RFID tag. The first and second antennae are situated in respective housings that are spaced apart from each other. An arrangement of first and second electrodes on an electrical sheet of an incontinence pad is also provided.
US10350114B2
An open-cavity, reduced-pressure treatment device and system for treating a cavity in a patient's body, such as an abdominal cavity, is presented. In one instance, an open-cavity, reduced-pressure treatment device includes a plurality of encapsulated leg members, each having an interior portion with a leg manifold member and formed with fenestrations operable to allow fluid flow into the interior portion, and a central connection member fluidly coupled to the plurality of encapsulated leg members. The central connection member has a connection manifold member. The open-cavity, reduced-pressure treatment devices, systems, and methods allow for, among other things, removal of fluids.
US10350089B2
A medical data processing method of determining a spatial relationship between a marker device (1, 1′, 1″, 20) and a resection plane (50, 120) associated with an anatomical structure (5, 12) of a patient's body, the marker device (1, 1′, 1″, 20) being video-detectable by an imaging unit (6), the method being constituted to be executed by a computer and comprising the following steps: a) acquiring imaging unit position data describing a predetermined spatial relationship between the imaging unit (6) and the resection plane; b) acquiring marker device position data describing a spatial relationship between the marker device (1, 1′, 1″, 20) and the imaging unit (6) based on imaging the marker device (1, 1′, 1″, 20) with the imaging unit (6) in order to generate an orientation-dependent image appearance of the marker device (1, 1′, 1″, 20); c) determining, based on the imaging unit position data acquired in step a) and the marker device position data acquired in step b) and based on the orientation-dependent image appearance of the marker device (1, 1′, 1″, 20), resection plane (50, 120) data describing the spatial relationship between the resection plane (50, 120) and the marker device (1, 1′, 1″, 20).
US10350084B1
A system for performing interbody fusion surgery including an expandable intervertebral spacer and specialized instruments for choosing the correct size of implant, implanting the device within the intervertebral space, and for delivery of bone graft or bone substitute to the interior of the implant.
US10350082B2
An expandable cage which is placed between the vertebrae, is moveable when preferred, closes the opening between the vertebrae upon being moved, and hence can be integrated in any intervertebral opening. The expandable cage has at least one body with at least one space and at least one rib; at least one moveable part which is located inside the body and has at least one bearing area, at least one base, and at least one nail, the moveable part being moved unilaterally by the balloon; at least one balloon which applies the force required to be applied on the base of the moveable part for ensuring unilateral movement of the moveable part; at least one hole through which the balloon can pass; and at least one compression element which supplies the required fluid to the balloon.
US10350078B2
Embodiments of devices, apparatuses, kits, and methods for repairing and/or augmenting the articular surface and/or articular rim of a joint (e.g., repairing the anterior glenoid rim after an anterior shoulder dislocation).
US10350072B2
According to some embodiments, a method of creating for creating a reverse tapered opening within tissue comprises creating a cylindrical opening within a targeted anatomical site of a subject using a first device and removing additional tissue from the sidewalls of the cylindrical opening using a cutting member to create a reverse tapered opening within the targeted anatomical site using a second device, wherein, once the reverse tapered opening is created, a diameter or other cross-sectional dimension of a bottom surface of the opening is larger than a diameter or other cross-sectional dimension of a top surface of the opening.
US10350071B2
A hemi-prosthesis implant comprises a replacement-joint part with an articulation surface for tribological pairing with a joint surface of a natural joint counterpart. The articulation surface is embodied with a coating applied on a substrate. The substrate provides a relief for the adhesion of the coating. The relief may comprise one or more of a plurality of grooves, a plurality of teeth, a ribbing, and a roughened surface. The relief may be embodied entirely or partially outside the articulation surface. The replacement joint part may optionally comprise a ventilation feature, and the articulation surface may be formed by injection molding on the substrate. The hemi-prosthesis implant may be part of an implant set that includes both a hemi-prosthesis implant and a total prosthesis implant, either of which can be chosen intraoperatively.
US10350069B2
A chamber assembly for testing a valve includes a proximal chamber portion that defines a proximal interior space, and a distal chamber portion that defines a distal interior space. The distal interior space includes a gas space. When a liquid is inserted into the proximal and distal chambers there is an interface between the liquid and a gas in the gas space. A valve holder is disposed adjacent to the proximal interior space and the distal interior space. The valve holder is configured to receive the valve in a bore of the valve holder. A shortest distance between a center of the valve when in the bore and the interface is at least about 45 mm.
US10350067B2
A delivery system for delivering a stent-mounted heart valve, or other implant, through an introducer sheath. The delivery system includes an elongate catheter supporting a capsule. The capsule contains the stent-mounted heart valve in a crimped or collapsed condition. The delivery system also includes a nosecone with a tapered distal end and a proximal end enlarged to have a diameter larger than the capsule. Surprisingly, the proximal end of the nosecone, despite having a larger profile than the capsule, reduces an average peak push force for advancing the delivery system through an introducer sheath. Also disclosed are features, such as protrusions and ridges, supported on an outside of the capsule for reducing push force.
US10350065B2
A method for delivering a heart valve prosthesis to a native valve annulus comprises expanding an expandable frame at the native valve annulus and positioning a replacement heart valve within the expandable frame. The expandable frame preferably includes a first anchoring portion that is positioned on a first side of the native valve annulus and a second anchoring portion that is positioned on a second side of the native valve annulus. The first anchoring portion engages tissue on the first side of the native valve annulus and the second anchoring portion engages tissue on the second side of the native valve annulus for securing the expandable frame to the native valve annulus. The replacement heart valve comprises a plurality of leaflets for replacing the function of the native valve.
US10350063B2
A process for the manufacture of a heart valve of polymer material which provides for the deposition of a polymer solution comprising a copolymer which is preferably a copolymer of poly(carbonato-urethane) fluoridate (F-PCU) and intracatenary polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a PDMS with a functional group outside the chain and a solvent onto a mould using a spray technique associated with phase inversion.
US10350053B2
A plate for use in the repair of a torn tendon or ligament and a method for using said plate are provided. The plate includes a plurality of screw holes. The plate also includes a suture anchor point disposed on the plate body. The plate further includes a porous portion configured to allow muscle tissue to migrate through the porous portion and into the bone as the tissue regrows. The method includes the step of securing the plate to a bone by inserting a bone screw and anchor screw(s) through the screw holes. The method proceeds to the step of sewing the sutures to the damaged tendon/ligament and securing the suture to the suture anchor point. Wherein the damaged tendon/ligament is attached to the plate, and wherein muscle tissue may migrate through the porous portion and into the bone as the tissue regrows.
US10350048B2
Devices, methods, and systems are provided for loading an implantable device into a container. One aspect of the loading system contains a loader element with a loading tunnel that is configured to gradually contract an implantable device into a compressed state of reduced size relative to an expanded state as the implantable device travels through the loading tunnel.
US10350046B2
A prosthesis for repairing a hernia defect includes a patch body, a hoisting frame releasably attachable to the patch body, and a tether attached to the hoisting frame with a free end extendable through the thickness of the patch body and accessible from the side of the patch body opposite to where the hoisting frame is releasably attached. The patch body and/or the hoisting frame includes a self-expanding support member. The hoisting frame includes a frame body with an outer frame component and a force translation component for directing pulling forces on the tether across the frame body. The outer frame component has a loop configuration to generally follow the patch periphery with overlapping end portions or a gap between free ends thereof. The force translation component is separable into multiple segments to facilitate withdrawal of the hoisting frame through an opening when released from the patch.
US10350043B2
A urine flow control device, such as an incontinence device, for insertion into a urethra, device comprising: a body having a first end and an opposite second end and a middle part connecting the first end and the second end, a hollow chamber formed in the middle part allowing a mounting tool to extend from the first end to the second end, a fluid channel defined from the second end to the first end via the hollow chamber, a head part at the first end, the head part being integral with said body and comprising a chamber with a displaceable valve member and a valve seal surface, the head part formed so that when a mounting tool is positioned in the device the valve member is displaced inside the head part by the mounting tool and when the mounting tool is not in the device the valve member seals the valve seal surface so as to seal the fluid channel, the head part having an opening for receiving the mounting tool and for urine discharge, the second end being formed so that the distal end of the mounting tool elongates the body when inserted in the hollow chamber and applying an elongating force to the body.
US10350039B2
An oral appliance is provided for delivering a medicament to at least a portion of teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside a mouth. The oral appliance contains an interior surface having a medicament disposed in or on at least a portion of and/or the entire interior surface of the oral appliance. The interior surface of the oral cavity is formed to fit contours of at least the portion of the teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside the oral cavity and is configured for holding the medicament in contact with at least the portion of the teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside the oral cavity to deliver the medicament to strategic areas in need of treatment. In some embodiments, computer, network and computer readable storage media are provided.
US10350034B2
A BENDABLE PROSTHETIC ABUTMENT includes a guiding and anchoring segment, a connection zone, for connecting to an implant arranged on a gingival tissue for receiving a prosthetic abutment model, an intermediate restriction for angular orientation, a mounting and fastening portion forming an upper portion of the bendable prosthetic abutment for receiving a prosthesis, and a sacrificial and anchoring zone which has a diameter greater than a diameter of the connection zone so as to define a protuberant ring-shaped shoulder arranged between the intermediate restriction (4) and the connection zone (2) for connecting to an implant and anchoring in a cavity.
US10350031B2
A method for the treatment of Class II and III malocclusions by applying curved intrusive vector forces to the dental arches. The apparatus is anchored in operational contact by a pair of sheaths that are form fit over some or all of the teeth in the upper and lower dental arches. The apparatus can be removed by the user and can be incorporated into both full and partial Class I malocclusion aligners. Most importantly, the apparatus does not require the use of braces affixed to the teeth and it has an adjustable pressure range of pushing force.
US10350019B2
A medical device, assembly, or kit may be used to hold a plurality of elongate medical instruments, such as guidewires, catheters, etc. A guidewire holder may include a reservoir for holding a liquid and one or more separators for segregating the guidewires from each other. In some instances, the guidewire holder can hold a coiled guidewire such that the guidewire is in contact with liquid held by the reservoir.
US10350004B2
The present invention provides devices and methods for decalcifying an aortic valve. The methods and devices of the present invention break up or obliterate calcific deposits in and around the aortic valve through application or removal of heat energy from the calcific deposits.
US10350003B2
Systems, methods, and devices allow percutaneous mapping, orientation and/or ablation in bodily cavities or lumens. Such may include a structure that is percutaneously positionable in a cavity, such as an intra-cardiac cavity of a heart. Transducers carried by the structure are responsive to blood flow. For example, the transducers may sense temperature, temperature being related to convective cooling caused by blood flow. A controller discerns positional information or location, based on signals from the transducers. For example, blood flow may be greater and/or faster proximate a port in cardiac tissue than proximate tissue spaced from the port. Position information may allow precise ablation of selected tissue, for example tissue surround a port in the intra-cardiac cavity.
US10350001B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying surgical instruments, e.g., MIS instruments, including a shaft including a proximal end and a distal end sized for introduction into a patient's body, a tool tip on the distal end including an end effector, and a handpiece or connector on the proximal end. One or more identifier members may be provided on the proximal end and/or distal end of the shaft, on the handpiece, and/or on the tool tip to identify one of a type and a class of the end effector. For example, a set of surgical instruments may be provided that include identifier knobs added onto the shafts to identify different tool tips, the shafts may include different outer shapes and/or textures, or colored and/or luminescent features may be provided on the instruments.
US10349960B2
Retraction and aspiration devices, systems, and methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed toward an apparatus for use with a catheter system configured to enable intravascular delivery of an interventional device to a treatment site in a blood vessel. The apparatus can include a housing configured to be releasably coupled to a proximal portion of the catheter system and an actuation mechanism coupled to the housing. The actuation mechanism can include a lever movably coupled to the housing, a locking portion configured to engage a portion of the catheter system, and a pressure source coupled to the housing and the actuation mechanism. Movement of the lever simultaneously activates the pressure source to generate pressure, and moves the locking portion to engage and retract at least a portion of the catheter system.
US10349954B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to an ancillary surgical instrument including at least a first contact point to come into contact with a first reference point of an operating area; a second contact point intended to come into contact with a second reference point of the operating area; a contact area intended to come into contact with a third reference point of the operating area; a determination unit for determining an orientation reference of the ancillary instrument in a Galilean orientation reference; and a communication unit for communication the determined orientation reference.
US10349923B2
The present invention includes strainers used to gather solids from voided urine. Embodiments include urinary bowl strainers, hand-held strainers and disposable hand-held urine strainers, all of which are particularly useful for gathering kidney stones passed in urine that are intended for verification of passing said kidney stones, and for laboratory analysis which may be used to guide clinical treatment to prevent recurrent kidney stone formation. Embodiments of disposable urine samplers are also disclosed. The embodiments of urine strainers and samplers disclosed herein are particularly adapted for use by female patients, though male patients may also use the devices.
US10349922B2
An ultrasound imaging system (102) includes an ultrasound sub-system (104) with at least a transducer array (112), and an ultrasound resource pool (106). The ultrasound sub-system and the ultrasound resource pool are separate entities. The ultrasound resource pool provides temporary access to ultrasound processing resources of the ultrasound resource pool on an on-demand basis, based on an identified performance mode of the ultrasound sub-system for a scan.
US10349915B2
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a scanning protocol creation unit, an image acquisition unit, a post-processing unit, and a storage unit. The scanning protocol creation unit creates a scanning protocol for a particular part of body of an object. The image acquisition unit acquires source image data by scanning the particular part using an imaging device according to scanning parameters in the scanning protocol. The post-processing unit performs post-processing on the source image data according to post-processing parameters in the scanning protocol to obtain processed image data. The storage unit stores the scanning protocol, or store the source image data and the processed image data or index identifiers thereof in association with parameters related to the scanning protocol as single job data of the object. The scanning protocol includes the scanning and the post-processing parameters, and information related to the imaging device and the post-processing unit.
US10349905B2
A dental x-ray sensor holder adapted for engaging a portion of an x-ray tube and holding a digital sensor inside a patient's mouth. The holder includes a holder base arm with a first and second tube arm. The first and second tube arms are adapted for engaging a portion of a side of the x-ray tube and hold the tube in a fixed position next to a patient's cheek. The holder also includes a buccal arm adapted for receipt inside the patient's mouth and next to a buccal side of a tooth under review. The buccal arm includes an elongated arm opening for receiving a portion of a sliding interoral position arm. The position arm is attached to a digital x-ray sensor. The position arm is used to adjust the sensor in the middle of the patient's mouth.
US10349901B2
A shock probability determination system and method provides an output of probabilities for different types of shock based on input of selected patient demographic parameters and current clinical parameter values as well as normal ranges for each clinical parameter based on patient demographic data. The probability of different types of shock is determined based on comparison of current clinical parameter values of selected patient hemodynamic parameters to a normal range for each hemodynamic parameter. In one aspect, probabilities of cardiogenic shock, hypovolemic shock, septic shock, and anaphylactic shock are determined. In another aspect, a fluid status indicator is determined based on real-time probability of hypovolemic shock.
US10349899B2
A system for predicting a likelihood of an occurrence of hallucinations in a subject including a master device configured to be at least one of moved, moved on, and manipulated by a subject, a slave device operably connected with the master device and adapted so that the subject is directly or indirectly touched by the slave device according with the master device's movement, a computer device operably connected to both the master and the slave device, the computer device configured to modulate at least one of a time, space, and force activation of the slave device in response to an activation of the master device, record data regarding a difference in at least one of time, space and force activation, compare the recorded data with reference data, and graphically or numerically showing the result of the comparison on a display device, as an indicator of the likelihood of the occurrence of hallucinations in a subject.
US10349891B2
An animate object detection system includes an apparatus configured for supporting an animate object and a sensor disposed in physical communication with the apparatus. The sensor includes a piezoelectric material and is configured for producing an electric signal in response to a force applied to the apparatus by the animate object. The system also includes a signal conditioner disposed in electrical communication with the sensor and configured for manipulating the electric signal and producing an output signal, and a receiver configured for receiving the output signal and generating an indicator signal. A method of detecting an animate object is also disclosed.
US10349890B2
A connector interface configured to enable component interconnection with a location sensor of a catheter placement system is disclosed. The catheter placement system is configured to assist a clinician in positioning a catheter in a desired location within a body of a patient. In one embodiment, the location sensor assembly comprises a location sensor body for temporary placement on a portion of the patient body, and a connector interface. The connector interface is configured to removably attach to the location sensor and provide a plurality of electrically conductive pathways between the location sensor and additional components of the catheter placement system to enable the additional components to operably connect with the location sensor. The connector interface further includes a first connector configured to operably connect with a second connector of one of the additional components of the catheter placement system through a drape interposed between the first and second connectors.
US10349881B1
A system for detecting an incontinence event includes a pad which is deployable on a mattress and which, as deployed, has an open circuit comprised of a first conductor extending from a first terminal of an RFID inlay, and a second conductor extending from a second terminal of the RFID inlay. The system also includes an RFID reader subsystem having an array of two or more spatially distributed antennas. The detection system commands spatially and temporally varying transmission of energy from the antenna array at a variety of powers and frequency settings. The detection system monitors the antenna array for a return signal resulting from the transmission. The return signal has a moisture status indicator which indicates whether or not liquid is present on the pad. The detection system also causes communication of a WET or DRY status to a destination. The reported WET or DRY status depends on the moisture status indicator.
US10349880B2
A needle assembly is disclosed. The needle assembly includes a housing having a flash chamber, and having a distal end and a proximal end engageable with a specimen collection container. The assembly includes a cannula having a patient end, a non-patient end, and a sidewall extending therebetween defining a cannula interior. The patient end of the cannula projects at least partially from the distal end of the housing, and the cannula interior is in fluid communication with the flash chamber. The assembly further includes a shield restrainably engaged with a portion of the housing and axially transitionable over the patient cannula from a retracted position in which the patient end is exposed, to an extended position in which the patient end is shielded by at least a portion of the shield, wherein at least a portion of the flash chamber is visible in the retracted position.
US10349878B2
The present invention provides an electrochemical sensor that employs multiple electrode areas that are exposed for contact with a body fluid, e.g., when the sensor is inserted subcutaneously into a patient's skin. The exposed electrode areas are arranged symmetrically, such that a symmetrical potential distribution is produced when an AC signal is applied to the sensor. The sensors in accordance with these teachings can advantageously be used with AC signals to determine characteristics of the sensor and thus improve sensor performance. These teachings also provide a biocompatible sensor with multiple reference electrode areas that are exposed for contact with body fluid.
US10349877B2
Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided.
US10349863B2
The disclosure describes an apparatus for testing the integrity of mammary tissues comprising one or more transmission antennas configured to strike a mammary tissue with a main electromagnetic field in the microwave frequency band, one or more reception antennas configured to pick up a corresponding reflected electromagnetic field, a processing unit comprising a first operating module configured to determine a main parameter representing an electrical discontinuity of the mammary tissue, and a second operating module configured to generate a signal representing a non-integrity of the mammary tissue.
US10349857B2
A method for positioning an endovascular device in or near the heart using electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. The method includes receiving an endovascular ECG signal including a plurality of waveforms, processing the endovascular ECG signal to calculate a P-wave amplitude and a spectral power for each predetermined time period, determining a maximum P-wave amplitude and an associated maximum spectral power, associating the maximum P-wave amplitude and the maximum spectral power with a predetermined location in or near the heart, calculating a location based on a ratio of the P-wave amplitude to the maximum P-wave amplitude and a ratio of the spectral power to the maximum spectral power, and displaying the location to a user.
US10349851B2
A computerized method comprises statistically analyzing, using one or more processors, at least one section of a digitally recorded electroencephalography (EEG) signal that comprises an arousal segment to determine, for the arousal segment, at least one of amplitude and power at different frequencies as a function of time; selecting specified features from the results of the analysis and normalizing the selected features; and assigning, using one or more processors, an intensity scale value to the arousal segment based on the normalized selected features and a reference data set, the reference data set comprising normalized features corresponding to the normalized selected features and being generated based on a plurality of EEG signals comprising arousal segments to which intensity scale values have been assigned based on a visual inspection of the EEG signals.
US10349850B2
A manometric probe, comprising: a main body (2) provided with a longitudinal axis (X); an extensible membrane (3) sealingly associated to at least two annular areas of the main body (2) so as to delimit a chamber (4) external to the main body (2); feed means (51,52) arranged so as to enable feeding of a fluid inside the chamber (4).
US10349845B2
A computer readable storage medium configured to cause a system to perform operations of computing the standard deviation of a plurality of K−1 most recent heart beat intervals and a current heart beat interval (I1) from a plurality of consecutive heart beat intervals, from a sum (S1) of K most recent heart beat intervals squared and the sum (S2) of the K most recent heart beat intervals and a Kth oldest heart beat interval (I2). The computer readable storage medium calculates an updated sum (S1′) of S1 minus I2 squared plus I1 squared and the updated sum (S2′) of S2 minus I2 plus I1, and a square root of the sum of the ratio of S1′ to K and of the ratio of the square of S2′ to the square of K.
US10349841B2
A blood pressure cuff assembly for an ambulatory blood pressure monitor may include a hollow cuff and an elastic liner provided on the reverse side of the cuff. An airbag may be provided in the cuff. A first connection part and a second connection part may be provided on the cuff. A third connection part and a fourth connection part may be correspondingly provided on the liner. The effect of tight inside and loose outside is achieved by the combination of the elastic liner and the cuff. When worn on an upper arm, the elastic liner has an elastic deformation and consequently tightens around the upper arm so as to realize certain slip resistance, and the cuff will not slip down even tied a bit loosely when located on the upper arm. The feeling of constraint from the cuff is reduced significantly and the comfort is improved.
US10349832B2
A method of detecting the boundary between the iris and the sclera, particularly, a method of detecting the boundary between the iris and the sclera from part of a captured image of a user's eye area, is provided. According to this method, the boundary between the iris and the sclera can be quickly and precisely detected, compared to when using an existing circular boundary detector.
US10349825B2
A method of determining a measurement of at least one cell type in an eye, comprising (i) obtaining a map of the cell type in the eye, (ii) obtaining a representation of the retina of the eye, (iii) matching the eye cell type map to the representation of the retina of the eye, (iv) defining a region of interest on the representation of the retina of the eye, (v) calculating a size of the region of interest on the representation of the retina of the eye, (vi) using the matched eye cell type map and the size of the region of interest to determine a measure of the cell type in the region of interest of the retina of the eye.
US10349821B2
An imaging catheter device includes a catheter body with a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen; a cleaning member disposed at the distal end; and an imaging device movably disposed in the lumen and through the cleaning member; wherein the cleaning member includes a conduit through which the imaging device moves and a flexible material at least partially occluding the conduit such that the imaging device displaces at least some of the flexible material when moved through the conduit. A method of cleaning an imaging catheter device includes disposing a cleaning member including a conduit and a flexible material at least partially occluding the conduit at a distal end of a catheter lumen; positioning an imaging device in the catheter lumen; and cleaning the imaging device by moving it through the conduit such that it displaces at least some of the flexible material.
US10349816B2
An endoscopic device for approximating tissue includes an elongated body having a plurality of articulatable segments and a steerable distal portion. The device includes a first tissue approximation component positioned at a first axial position of the body. The first component is configured to move in a radial direction relative to the elongated body between a first position and a second position and be placed in an actuated state in which it is configured to grip tissue. The device includes a second tissue approximation component positioned at a second axial position of the body. The second component is configured to move in a radial direction relative to the elongated body between a first position and a second position and be placed in an actuated state in which it is configured to grip tissue. The components are configured to translate toward one another along a longitudinal direction of the elongated body.
US10349815B2
Systems, devices, and methods for fluid management in an endoscopic procedure are disclosed. In one embodiment, a fluid management device may comprise a pair of electrodes and a controller connected to the pair of electrodes. In at least some embodiments, the controller may be configured to receive signals from the pair of electrodes and determine whether a fluid in a fluid reservoir is an ionic fluid or a non-ionic fluid based on signals received from the pair of electrodes. In at least some additional embodiments, the controller may be further configured to automatically set a fluid deficit alarm threshold based on the determination of whether the fluid in the fluid reservoir is an ionic fluid or a non-ionic fluid.
US10349800B2
A laminate cleaning implement. The laminate cleaning implement has a backing sheet, a substrate, and a facing sheet. The backing sheet and the facing sheet are connected at a plurality of discrete bonding points to form a coherent laminate structure and the substrate is disposed between the backing sheet and the facing sheet.
US10349795B2
Provided is an autonomous mobile cleaner including a main body, a suction unit having a handle and configured to suck up surrounding foreign material, an air pipe configured to connect the main body and the suction unit and guide the foreign material into the main body, at least one driving wheel installed below the main body, a driving unit configured to drive the driving wheel by operating a driving motor, a wheel sensor configured to sense rotation of the driving wheel, and a controller configured to control the movement of the main body through the driving unit on the basis of the rotation of the driving wheel sensed by the wheel sensor.
US10349787B2
A water faucet system including a faucet having a neck comprising a water passageway and liquid soap delivery line, both integrated within the neck assembly. The water faucet system features a streamlined neck assembly that includes a water outlet or spout, located at the distal portion of the neck assembly, and additionally includes a separate soap outlet located at a predetermined location. The soap delivery (soap dispensing) is initiated by a user performing an activation event directed to a sensor system located in the neck assembly. In preferred embodiments, the sensor system utilizes touchless type sensors so to avoid any physical contact with the neck assembly.
US10349785B2
The present invention relates to a foam dispensing apparatus including a nozzle portion that mixes a liquid with gas so as to dispense the liquid in a form of a foam. The nozzle portion includes: a foam generation mechanism including a gas liquid mixing portion in which the liquid and the gas are mixed and a first porous body that is disposed downstream of the gas liquid mixing portion; a cavity that is located below the first porous body and whose cross-sectional area defined by a plane perpendicular to a foam dispensing direction T is larger than the area of the first porous body; and a foam dispensing outlet that dispenses foam that has passed through the cavity to an outside. The foam dispensing outlet is configured so as to form shaped foam having a predetermined shape, and an opening area of the foam dispensing outlet that is on the cavity side is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the cavity.
US10349784B2
A hinged wall profile door assembly including a first and second longitudinal wall profile having a body configured for mounting to a wall, and a longitudinal hinge profile having a body configured to be received within an inner section of the first longitudinal wall profile. The assembly also includes a profile door, at least a first hinge assembly and a second hinge assembly secured to the longitudinal hinge profile and configured for mounting to the profile door, the first and second hinge assemblies having a body and a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the body is configured to be curved and the second end of the body is configured to form a longitudinal channel for receiving the profile door therethrough.
US10349777B2
A modular food holding bin has multiple food holding units or bins, which can be connected and disconnected from each other in multiple different configurations. Each bin can be set to its own temperature, independently of the others. The modular holding bin includes a power recover mode.
US10349776B2
A grill having a control system that monitors the temperature of the grill grate and adjusts heat output to the grill according to a temperature selected by the user. The grill grate includes channels on the rear face thereof, one channel contains the electrically powered heat source and the other channel contains the temperature sensor. A drip pan is located below the grill grate. The grill grate is removable from the grill and removable from the two channels for cleaning. Multiple zones are provided, each with a controller that allows the user to set the desired temperature of the grill grate/grilling surface.
US10349765B2
A CPAP pillow relies on a shell shaped to provide large reservoirs of fill particles near or against the shoulders of a user and around and under the neck. The system and method uncouple the spring forces supporting a user from the forces used to configure the shape of the pillow in use. Thus, a user can fit the pillow to the body profile in three dimensions with substantially no residual pre-loading to cause discomfort, pressure points, or unsupported regions. The pillow supports, contacts, and cradles the head and neck. It accommodates shoulder intrusion without moving the pillow away from supporting the neck.
US10349748B2
Motion furniture includes a frame with a side mechanism having a torsion activator that may be actuated by a user to impart a motion on a frame member or to bias a frame member in a desired position. The torsion activator includes an activator bracket and an activator arm pivotally attached to the activator bracket. A torsion spring is disposed between the activator arm and the activator bracket. The activator bracket is configured for attachment to a frame member on the side mechanism, such as a seat plate. The torsion activator includes an activator bracket having proximal and distal ends, and one or more press-fit fasteners are disposed on each of the proximal and distal ends of the activator bracket. Each press-fit fastener is configured for insertion into a corresponding hole on the frame member allowing uni-directional installation of the torsion activator using manual or automated assembly.
US10349739B2
A universal monitor mount for attaching a monitor post to a surface, the monitor mount including a base cup with an open top, at least one side wall and a closed bottom. The base cup has an interior cavity for receiving the monitor post in use. A bottom of the base cup includes a recess sized and shaped to receive a head of a mounting bolt. At least one desktop mounting component is provided that has a plurality of attachment holes arranged to align with and attach to holes in the base cup for securing the desktop mounting component to the base cup. At least one restraining surface is formed on the base cup or on the mounting component to prevent the mounting bolt from rotating when the bolt is inserted in the recess and the desktop mounting component is attached to the base cup.
US10349737B2
A height-adjustable frame for furniture, such as a worktable or desk, is disclosed. The frame includes first and second height-adjustable leg elements pivotable about first and second pivot axes between folded-out and folded-in positions. A rotatable shaft is arranged between the first and second leg elements to synchronously drive first and second height adjustment arrangements. The shaft includes a middle section and first and second end sections pivotable towards the middle section about respective first and second joint axes. A locking structure is included that locks the first and second leg elements in a folded-out position, when the first and second joint axes do not run approximately parallel to the first and second pivot axes, and that unlocks when the first and second joint axes run approximately parallel to the first and second pivot axes to permit the first and second leg elements to pivot into a folded-in position.
US10349721B2
A cosmetic applicator includes a body which includes a tip part and an extension which has a threaded portion. A case has a rotary member threadedly connected to the threaded portion. A contact member is received in the case which has a contact portion located corresponding to the shoulder of the body. A liquid supply unit is axially received in the body and the case, and has a liquid tube, a duct and a guide tube. The liquid tube contacts the contact member. The duct is inserted in the liquid tube and has a passage. A sealing member is removably located at the duct to seal or open the guide tube. A clip is connected to a groove between the case and the body before first use. The clip is removed and the case is rotated to move the sealing member to allow cosmetic liquid to reach the tip part.
US10349719B2
A tray is disclosed for securely holding a shaving razor and a shaving cartridge magazine when not in use.
US10349717B2
Exemplary embodiments of an object-securable article-carrier clip apparatus comprise a grip subassembly, and an object securement subassembly for robustly securing the grip subassembly to an object such as a piece of luggage. The grip subassembly has a mouth portion configured to grippingly retain an article, such as a garment, and may include an auxiliary support portion to supportingly receive a supportive component of the article, such as a coat hanger or bag strap. The auxiliary support portion may feature an article support groove with an opening opposite of the mouth portion. A luggage item with extendable handle may have a clip apparatus permanently affixed to the handle, and the grip subassembly may be at least partially received by a recess in the handle. An article-carrier kit may include a clip apparatus, and an article strap subsystem to further secure the article to the object during transport of the object.
US10349700B2
A method for forming a plate includes attaching a first strand portion to a flexible substrate to form a first layer on the substrate and positioning a second strand portion on the first layer to form a second layer on the first layer in a plurality of discrete regions on the substrate. The method also includes positioning a plurality of traction elements into corresponding cavities formed into a first mold surface and positioning the substrate on the first mold surface to change a shape of the substrate. At least one of heat and pressure is applied to the first strand portion, the second strand portion, the substrate, and the traction elements to conform the substrate to the shape of the first mold surface and form the traction elements into the substrate at each of the discrete regions. The method also includes incorporating the substrate into an article of footwear.
US10349693B2
An apparel protecting device for isolating a pocket from a tool attached to the pocket includes a panel. A fold is positioned in the panel and defines a first section of the panel, a second section of the panel, and a slot that is positioned between the first section and the second section. The second section is configured to be inserted into a pocket of an article of clothing to position the first section on an exterior of the pocket. The panel is configured to be inserted into a clip of a tool, such as a tape measurer, to couple the tool to the panel. The first section is configured to be positioned between the tool and the pocket to isolate the tool from the pocket to prevent damage to the article of clothing.
US10349685B2
Clothing articles, e.g., aquatic “board” shorts, are generally comprised of at least one unitary woven fabric panel having multiple seamlessly adjacent different fabric weave sections. These seamlessly adjacent different fabric weave sections may be selected from plain fabric weaves, twill fabric weaves and/or Dobby fabric weaves. Aquatic activity shorts are provided which include a one piece rear fabric panel providing a seamless back rise.
US10349683B2
An electronic smoking article includes a liquid supply region including liquid material and a heater-wick element operable to wick liquid material and heat the liquid material to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the liquid material and form an aerosol. The heater-wick element comprises a plurality of fused metal beads or particles.
US10349682B2
An electronic cigarette includes a shell and a mouthpiece. The external wall of the shell has an air inlet. An atomizer and a liquid-supply are in contact with each other. The air inlet, atomizer, and an aerosol passage are interconnected.
US10349674B2
An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes at least one housing, a nozzle and a control component. The housing encloses a reservoir configured to retain an aerosol precursor composition. The nozzle is coupled to the housing to discharge aerosol precursor composition from the reservoir, and the nozzle includes a piezoelectric or piezomagnetic material surrounding a mesh. The control component includes a microprocessor coupled to and configured to drive the piezoelectric or piezomagnetic material to vibrate and cause a discharge of components of the aerosol precursor composition through the mesh and thereby produce an aerosol for inhalation by a user, with the components of the aerosol precursor composition discharged through the mesh having a diameter of less than one micrometer.
US10349664B2
A skinning knife includes a handle and a blade carrier coupled to the handle, the blade carrier including a mount having a mounting surface, a boss extending outward from the mounting surface, and a spring including a front portion, a middle portion, and a rear portion. The skinning knife also includes a blade including a sharpened edge, a body, and a slot formed through the body, where the slot extends in a longitudinal direction from a front end to a rear end and includes a narrow portion of a first width and a wide portion of a second width greater than the first width. The blade is releaseably secured to the blade carrier by interaction between the boss and the spring of the blade carrier and the slot of the blade.
US10349655B2
Provided is a pest control composition containing a novel iminopyridine derivative and other pest control agents.Provided is a pest control composition containing an iminopyridine derivative represented by the following Formula (I) and at least one of other pest control agents: [in the formula (I), Ar represents a 5- to 6-membered heterocycle which may be substituted, A represents a heterocycle having a 5- to 10-membered unsaturated bond including one or more nitrogen atoms, and has an imino group substituted with an R group at a position adjacent to the nitrogen atom present on the cycle, Y represents hydrogen, halogen and the like, and R represents any one of groups represented by the following Formulae (a) to (e), (y) or (z)].
US10349648B2
A method and system for fumigating a material is disclosed. The method includes the steps of containing the material to be fumigated in a containment volume and forming a gas mixture in the containment volume, the gas mixture including at least a fumigation agent and an ambient gas originally present within the containment volume, wherein the partial pressure of the fumigation agent is elevated with respect to the ambient gas in the containment volume. The method further includes then maintaining a concentration of a fumigation agent within the containment volume for a required time to fumigate the material and then removing the fumigation agent from the containment volume.
US10349647B2
A three-dimensional structure is provided which is obtained by molding a volatile chemical-containing resin composition into a plate form, wherein the three-dimensional structure includes through-holes penetrating therethrough from the front to the back thereof, the through-holes have peripheries having a shape selected from polygonal, circular, circular arc and spiral shapes when the three-dimensional structure is viewed from the front, and the peripheries of the through-holes are formed on a single plane or on a smoothly curved imaginary surface.
US10349645B2
A single-bearing reel includes a reel unit, a spool shaft, a support unit, a spool, a first restriction member, a second restriction member, a pair of first seal members, a second seal member, and a third seal member. The pair of first seal members is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the support unit. One of the pair of first seal members seals between the support unit and the first restriction member. The other of the pair of first seal members seals between the support unit and the second restriction member. The second seal member seals an inner peripheral part of the support unit from an inner peripheral part of the first restriction member. A third seal member seals the inner peripheral part of the support unit from an inner peripheral part of the second restriction member.
US10349636B2
A reduced-weight poultry cage is used in conjunction with a reduced-weight trailer to transport live poultry for maximizing the poundage of poultry being transported while reducing the number of trips and fuel expenses. The poultry cage includes a combination of aluminum and plastic elements that reduce cage weight, provide for nesting of cages in stacks as well as easy replacement of failed parts. Furthermore, a drop-deck aluminum trailer with a reduced floor and guide rail alignment stops allows for a durable yet lightweight trailer that can haul a plurality of stacks of these poultry cages, thereby maximizing cubic feet availability while being compliant with various road and bridge laws.
US10349625B2
An animal interaction device is provided that includes a food access component which allows and disallows access to at least a portion of the food. In various embodiments, the allowing and disallowing of access to at least a portion of the food is dependent upon the animal's condition. A method is also provided such that the device above is provided to an animal, one or more indicators are optionally activated, the animal's first condition is sensed via one or more sensors, and based upon the animal's condition, the previously protected food is made accessible, and subsequently the protected food is made available again based upon the animal's second condition. A system is also provided for automatically interacting with an animal including at least one animal interaction device each of which comprises an initial interaction algorithm to automatically interact with the animal. Other aspects of the invention are provided.
US10349621B2
A method and device for introducing a visible ingredient 7, 12 into the surface of a food present as a flowable mass, in particular a hot processed cheese 1, wherein the flowable mass of the food without the ingredient added is fed into the roller gap between a guide roller 2 and a calibration roller 3 disposed parallel thereto, and is shaped into a food strip having a defined thickness, wherein the food strip is sprinkled on one side with the ingredient 7 by way of a sprinkling device 5 downstream of the roller gap while lying on the guide roller 2, wherein the food strip 4, which has been sprinkled on one side, is fed to a further roller gap, which is formed between the guide roller 2 and a pressure roller 8, wherein the ingredient 7 is pressed into the surface via the pressure roller 8 and wherein the food strip is cut into individual slices, in particular after cooling.
US10349618B2
A method includes housing a dairy livestock in a stall portion of a milking box and retrieving, by a robotic attacher, a cup. For each of a plurality of teats of a dairy livestock, the method further uses the robotic arm to perform the steps of attaching the cup to the teat, detaching the cup from the teat, and maintaining the cup within the stall portion of the milking box from the time that the cup is attached to the first teat of the dairy livestock through the time that the cup is attached to a last teat of the dairy livestock. The method concludes by retracting the cup into an equipment area of the milking box after detaching the cup from the last teat of the dairy livestock.
US10349617B2
A gripper mounted on an arm of a milking machine includes a first clamping part extending from the arm in a longitudinal direction, and a second claiming part extending from the arm in the longitudinal direction. The second clamping part is positioned substantially parallel to the first clamping part such that the first and second clamping parts are configured to hold a first teat cup. The gripper further includes a first conveying belt running lengthwise along the first clamping part in the longitudinal direction. The gripper further includes a second conveying belt running lengthwise along the second clamping part in the longitudinal direction. The first and second conveying belts transport the first teat cup in the longitudinal direction.
US10349613B2
A system includes a robotic arm, a laser, and a processor. The processor is configured to command the robotic arm to move to a first location corresponding to an expected teat position of a first teat. The processor is further configured to determine whether the first teat is found in a first scan by the laser, and if so, command the robotic arm to move to a second location corresponding to the location in the scan. The processor is further configured to determine whether the first teat is found in a second scan by the laser, and if so, determine whether the first teat is within a predetermined distance from a current location of the robotic arm. If the first teat is within the predetermined distance from the current location of the robotic arm, the processor commands the robotic arm to attach a teat cup to the first teat.
US10349610B2
The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid SV8643PB and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SV8643PB and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US10349597B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH803657. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH803657, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH803657 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH803657.
US10349589B2
A point-of-care diagnostic system that includes a cartridge and a reader. The cartridge can contain a patient sample, such as a blood sample. The cartridge is inserted into the reader and the patient sample is analyzed. The reader contains various analysis systems, such as an electrophoresis detection system that uses electrophoresis testing to identify and quantify various components of the blood sample. The reader can process data from the various patient sample analysis to provide interpretative results indicative of a disorder, condition, disease and/or infection of the patient.
US10349587B2
An integral, discrete, drip irrigation emitter that comprises means for facilitating spreading of its water exit “pool” U configured, in cross section, “legs”, so that after affixing the drip emitter onto the inner wall surface of the hose, and following water pressure increase within the hose, an elastic movement of a sector of the hose's wall that is framed and delineated as a consequence of affixing the circumferential rim of the exit pool onto the inner wall of the hose, will take place onto opening a water outlet opening, and from the time the water pressure in the hose decreases, closing of the water outlet opening would occur, and a drip irrigation hose embedding at least one such emitter in it, and a general method for opening and closing water outlet openings in such hose, wherein the opening and closing is performed in accordance with and in correlation to the water pressure prevailing in the hose.
US10349586B2
A stump pulling apparatus comprises a frame, a pair of arms, a pair of stump-engaging wheels, and a drawbar. The pair of arms are pivotally mounted to the frame. The pair of stump-engaging wheels are each rotatably mounted on the pair of arms at a rear end of the corresponding one of the pair of arms. The drawbar includes a front segment, configured to engage the vehicle for towing the stump pulling apparatus and slidably coupled to the rear segment, a rear segment coupled to each of the pair of arms, and a displacement cylinder coupled to and intermediately disposed between the front segment and the rear segment. When the front segment of the drawbar is pulled forward, the displacement cylinder provides a forwardly-acting force on the rear segment, which pivots the pair of arms toward each other, thereby forcibly bringing the stump-engaging wheels together.
US10349573B2
Efficient towed implement guidance to a desired path is achieved by guiding a towing vehicle toward a path on the opposite side of a desired path, then guiding the vehicle back to the desired path. Efficient forward implement guidance to a desired path is achieved by guiding a pushing vehicle along a tractrix. A vehicle leaves a straight line along a tractrix to keep a rear implement on the line as long as possible.
US10356968B2
Described herein is an integrated data center that provides for efficient cooling, as well as efficient wire routing.
US10356957B2
Example implementations relate to an adaptive cooling assembly. For example, an adaptive cooling assembly includes a removable shelf installed in the adaptive cooling assembly, an adaptive cooling bay located in a slot formed by the removable shelf, and a removable thermal bus bar installed in the adaptive cooling bay and connected to a pair of connectors. The adaptive cooling bay includes the pair of connectors and the removable thermal bus bar provides liquid cooling to an electronic device.
US10356943B2
A fan mount assembly is disclosed for an industrial fan assembly that has a motor with a motor shaft, a fan shaft, a transmission operatively connecting the motor shaft to the fan shaft to drive the fan shaft, and an impeller mounted on the fan shaft. A top plate has top plate slots proximate top plate lateral edges, and first and second side plates have side plate tabs extending upward from side plate top edges. The first side plate tabs and the second side plate tabs are each inserted through the corresponding top plate slots until the side plate top edges engage the top plate. The top plate slots and the side plate tabs may be dimensioned for a relatively close fit so that the side plates are at approximately their proper alignment relative to the top plate when the side plate top edges engage the top plate.
US10356942B2
The disclosed embodiments related to a component for use in a portable electronic device. The component includes a wall of the portable electronic device, containing an intake zone that includes a set of intake vents. The wall also includes an exhaust zone containing a set of exhaust vents.
US10356940B2
An air-cooled antenna comprising one or more separate antenna arrays (4) and a plurality of separate respective radio transmitter and/or receiver modules (3) each adapted for generating and/or receiving radio-frequency (RF) transmissions for an antenna array associated therewith. An antenna housing (2) contains the transmitter and/or receiver modules and has a ventilation inlet (8) for receiving air into the housing to an exhaust outlet (9) for outputting the air from the housing. A ventilation driver (6) drives an air flow rate through the housing from the ventilation inlet to the exhaust outlet. Neighboring transmitter and/or receiver modules are arranged to present opposing respective surfaces (10) across a spacing therebetween to define a ventilation gap populated by a plurality of separate heat-conductive projections (30) which extend in a direction across the ventilation gap and which are spaced to generate turbulence in a flow air along the ventilation gap at the flow rate determined by the ventilation driver.
US10356938B1
A connection device for connecting a rail to a rack post, includes a rail and a slidable unit. The slidable unit includes a first member and a second member, and three rivets connected the slidable unit to the rail. The first member includes multiple slots, and the second member includes multiple snapping holes. The first member includes a bent portion which has guide pillars to be inserted into through holes of the bracket of the rail. The slidable unit is slidable along the slots and the snapping holes relative to the rivets. A tongue extends from one inner end of each snapping hole so as to contact the rivet to lock the slidable unit relative to the rail.
US10356921B2
A ventilator waterproofing structure applicable to an electronic component unit of a wire harness includes a projected columnar portion that is formed in a columnar shape and that is projected from a wall body of a casing in a first direction, a notch that is formed on the projected columnar portion in a straight line in a second direction, a step portion provided in the notch on a closed end side, and a closed space surrounded by an inner wall surface of the notch and a step surface of the step portion. A ventilation passage provided with a waterproof ventilation filter has an outside opening that is opened toward a closed space in a third direction in the notch.
US10356919B2
A foldable module and a flexible display device are provided. The foldable module includes a metal frame disposed along a periphery of a flexible display panel, a protective housing configured to hold the flexible display panel and the metal frame, and a flexible hinge for securing to the protective housing. The flexible hinge includes rotating shafts, fixed washers, biasing gaskets, movable washers, and disc springs. The flexible can achieve that it is positioned within a predetermined angular range.
US10356917B2
Provided is a display device. A display device according to the present invention comprises a display panel; a module cover disposed on the rear surface of the display panel and having at least one or more fastening holes; and a cushion covering the vicinity of the fastening hole disposed on the front surface of the module cover, wherein the vicinity of the fastening hole includes a plurality of layers and the cushion is disposed on top of the plurality of layers. According to the present invention, a module cover cannot be easily bent as a cushion is disposed in the vicinity of a fastening hole.
US10356913B2
The present disclosure related to a flexible electronic substrate assembly and a method and system of processing solder paste onto an electrical substrate. The assembly includes a flexible substrate having a solderable medium provided along the flexible substrate. A pattern of solder paste may be cured to a portion of the solderable medium. The solderable medium may be a generally continuous construction or a patterned construction relative to the flexible substrate. The substrate may be unwound from a roll of substrate material before solder paste is deposited thereon. The flexible electric substrate assembly may be formed though a roll to roll process. Infrared heat may be applied to the substrate with the solder paste deposit as the substrate is traveling along the process direction to reflow the solder paste as the substrate is traveling along the process direction at a high rate of speed.
US10356911B2
An electronic device module includes: a board including at least one mounting electrode and at least one external connection electrode and having a protective insulation layer which is provided on an outer surface thereof; at least one electronic device mounted on the mounting electrodes; a molded part sealing the electronic device; and at least one connective conductor of which one end is bonded to the external connection electrode of the board and which penetrates through the molded part to be disposed in the molded part, wherein the protective insulation layer is disposed to be spaced apart from the connective conductor.
US10356910B2
The invention provides a manufacturing method for flexible printed circuit board, by liquefying the flexible insulating material and the metal material, coating the liquefied materials and solidifying the coated layers to form respectively the flexible insulating layer and the anti-EMI layer of the anti-EMI structure. As such, an adhesive layer is eliminated to achieve reducing the thickness of the flexible insulating layer and the anti-EMI layer and the material consumption, resulting in reduced production cost, reduced thickness of the flexible printed circuit board with anti-EMI structure, and improved quality.
US10356907B2
An endoscope includes an image pickup unit at a distal end portion of an insertion portion, the image pickup unit includes a chip part provided with a first electrode pad and a second electrode pad, an image pickup device provided with a third electrode pad and a wiring board including a flying lead, the flying lead is inserted into a gap between the chip part and the image pickup device, the first electrode pad and the flying lead are bonded together via a first bump, a bonded portion between the first electrode pad and the flying lead is sealed with first sealing resin, the second electrode pad and the third electrode pad are bonded together via a second bump which is higher than the first bump and sealed with second sealing resin having a Young's modulus lower than a Young's modulus of the first sealing resin.
US10356898B2
Provided herein is a carrier-attached copper foil having desirable fine circuit formability. The carrier-attached copper foil includes a carrier, an interlayer, and an ultrathin copper layer in this order. The maximum ridge height Sp as measured with a laser microscope according to ISO 25178 on the surface of the carrier-attached copper foil on the side of the ultrathin copper layer is 0.193 to 3.082 μm.
US10356894B2
A composite structure is provided. The structure is formed of rigid composite material in which particulates or fibers reinforce a polymer matrix. The structure has first and second electrically conductive metallic meshes embedded therein, and respective electrodes electrically connected to the meshes. The first and second meshes are electrically isolated from each other in the composite material so that the meshes can be held at different electrical potentials to each other. In use, an electrical unit can be provided to electrically bridge the first and second meshes such that electrical signals can be transmitted between the electrodes and the electrical unit via the meshes.
US10356891B2
A printed circuit board includes a substrate base including first and second inner base layers, a plurality of cover base layers, and a screw hole extending from a top to a bottom surface of the substrate base. At least one first cover base layer is disposed on the first inner base layer. At least one second cover base layer is disposed on the second inner base layer. A heat pipe is disposed along an interface between the first and second inner base layers. A ground conductive layer is disposed on at least one of the top surface and the bottom surface of the substrate base at an edge of the screw hole. A first heat dissipating structure is positioned between the top and bottom surfaces of the substrate base. The first heat dissipating structure is connected to the heat pipe and is in direct contact with the ground conductive layer.
US10356889B1
A technique for controlling and compensating the energy spread of a charged particle beam is provided. This technique is based on a passive dielectric-loaded structure that redistributes the energy within the bunch by means of the wakefield generated in the structure. Cylindrical and planar structure configurations are provided and also means for electrical and mechanical tuning to optimize performance. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
US10356887B2
A communications device connects one or more first lighting devices included in a first local network with one or more second lighting devices included in a second local network different from the first local network. The communications device includes a single semiconductor integrated circuit including: a first processing unit that wirelessly communicates with the one or more first lighting devices via a first communications protocol; a second processing unit that wirelessly communicates with the one or more second lighting devices via a second communications protocol different from the first communications protocol; and a control unit that switches between causing the first processing unit to wirelessly communicate with the one or more first lighting devices and causing the second processing unit to wirelessly communicate with the one or more second lighting devices.
US10356879B2
A load control system for controlling an electrical load may include a sensor, a remote control, and a load control device. The remote control may comprise a button and may be configured to wirelessly transmit a digital message in response to an actuation of the button. The load control device may be configured to control the electrical load, be responsive to the sensor, and/or be configured to be associated with the remote control. The load control device may be responsive to the digital message transmitted by the remote control if the remote control is associated with the load control device. The load control device may be configured to automatically operate in a first mode of operation if the remote control is not associated with the load control device, and automatically operate in a second mode of operation if the remote control is associated with the load control device.
US10356869B2
External programming of at least one processor (30) of a LED driver (10). In a normal operation mode a first control input (22B/22C) of the LED driver (10) may be provided to a first processor input of the processor and a second control input (22B/22C) of the LED driver may be provided to a second processor input of the processor (30). In a programming mode the first and second control inputs (22B, 22C) may be provided to programming inputs of the processor (30) to thereby enable programming of the processor (30) via the first and second control inputs (22B, 22C).
US10356867B2
In a light-dimming device according to an example of the present invention, a controller is configured to be supplied with control electric power from an electricity accumulator to operate and to retain a bidirectional switch in an on state for an on time having a length according to a dimming level in every half period of an AC voltage of an AC power supply in a lighting mode. A charger including a first charger and a second charger causes a current to flow from a pair of input terminals and to the electricity accumulator. An impedance of the second charger which is a charger in a case of causing a current to flow to the electricity accumulator in the lighting mode is lower than an impedance of the first charger which is a charger in a case of causing a current to flow to the electricity accumulator in a non-lighting mode.
US10356858B2
A microLED display panel includes a substrate being divided into a plurality of sub-regions for supporting microLEDs, and a plurality of drivers being correspondingly disposed on surfaces of the sub-regions respectively. The driver includes a low-dropout (LDO) regulator and a drive circuit. The LDO regulator receives a system power, according to which a regulated power is generated and provided for the drive circuit.
US10356854B2
A power conversion apparatus and a power conversion method are provided. The power conversion apparatus includes a rectifier configured to convert AC power to DC power, a smoothing filter configured to control the DC power received from the rectifier to be constant, an inverter configured to convert the DC power received from the smoothing filter into high-frequency power by turning the DC power on and off using a switching device, and a control unit configured to control the rectifier and the inverter. A rating of output power from the inverter is determined in accordance with a frequency of the high-frequency power output from the inverter, a current-applying time, and an operation rate obtained by dividing the current-applying time by a sum of the current-applying time and a non-current-applying time.
US10356853B2
An induction cooking system. The induction cooking system includes a base, one or more side walls, an induction coil, and an infrared temperature sensor. The base includes a base surface associated therewith. The base surface includes a window. The window is disposed within the base surface. The one or more side walls define a well above the base surface. The well is configured to receive a vessel disposed above the base surface. The induction coil is disposed within the base. The induction coil defines a first surface that is disposed below the base surface. The induction coil also defines a second surface that is disposed opposite from the first surface. The induction coil further defines an aperture disposed adjacent to the window and extending from a first surface toward a second surface of the induction coil. The infrared temperature sensor is disposed adjacent to the window and within the aperture.
US10356840B2
A radio terminal according to one embodiment is used in a mobile communication system. The radio terminal comprises a controller configured to perform control related to a DRX operation for intermittently monitoring a downlink control channel based on a comparison result of a value related to a moving speed of the radio terminal and a threshold value when the extended DRX operation is set from a network.
US10356833B2
The present invention discloses a resource allocation method, a resource contention method, and a related apparatus, so as to resolve a problem, in a contention-based distributed resource reuse method in the prior art, that a delay in obtaining an available resource by UE is long. The method in the present invention includes: sending, by a first terminal, declaration information used to indicate an available resource; receiving, by the first terminal, resource request information sent by at least one second terminal according to the declaration information; and sending, by the first terminal, response information, where the response information includes an identification of at least one third terminal, so as to instruct the at least one third terminal to use the available resource, and the at least one third terminal is selected from the at least one second terminal.
US10356831B2
A method for controlling communication between a remote device and a control server includes sending, over a long range radio communication link, to a number of remote devices, a number of reduced packets, each of the number of reduced packets causing each of the number of remote devices to generate a reduced response packet, the reduced response packet indicating a status of each of the number of remote devices, receiving, from a number of responding remote devices, a number of actual reduced response packets to identify when a remote device is in a report state, examining status data related to each of the number of remote devices, the status data comprising a number of attributes include a remote device reduced packet, a remote device reduced response packet, and a number of remote device attributes, when a fault is detected, generating a remote devices fault report, and transmitting, to a control server, a remote device fault report.
US10356828B2
The invention discloses a method for controlling a wireless access device, comprising: storing the channel information when the first processor receives a channel information transmitted by the second processor; wherein, a current used channel information is transmitted from the second processor to the first processor when the second processor is detected to establish a connection with the other wireless devices; establishing a wireless connection between the first processor through channels which are different from the stored channel information and the other wireless devices. The invention also provides a equipment for controlling the wireless access device. According to the method and the equipment, channel avoidance is performed automatically during establishment of a wireless connection of the wireless access device, so that the technical problem of co-channel interference is solved.
US10356815B2
A first communication device associated with a first communication network determines that a second communication device associated with a second communication network is located proximate to the first communication device. The first communication device generates a data unit that includes information indicating i) a color identifier of the second communication network, the color identifier usable to identify transmissions from the second communication network, and ii) that a dynamic clear channel assessment (CCA) procedure should not be used for transmissions from the second communication network. The first communication device transmits the data unit to at least one other communication device associated with the first communication network such that the at least one other communication device associated with the first communication network does not use the dynamic CCA procedure for transmissions identified as being from the second communication network.
US10356800B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide various wireless communication numerology designs that can maintain symbol boundary alignment while multiplexing different numerologies in wireless communication. The symbols may be scaled for different tone or subcarrier spacings while maintaining the symbol boundary alignment between different numerologies. Maintaining the symbol-boundary alignment between different numerologies enables symbol-level numerology multiplexing. The disclosed numerology designs enable low latency communication and improved interference management, and provide non-ambiguous symbol boundary timing reference for multiplexing different numerologies.
US10356791B2
A method of transmitting data from a mobile terminal over a wireless network. The method includes: applying a different priority level to different types of data transmission; determining quantity of data remaining before expiry of the data connection between the mobile terminal and the wireless network; and transmitting the different types of data over the network in an order determined by the applied priority level.
US10356782B2
Enhancement of wireless Channel Order and rank (ECHO) systems and ECHO repeater devices for enhancement of a wireless propagation channel for point to point or point to multipoint radio configurations are disclosed. The enhancement may be used for MIMO communications channels. Aspects support a richer multipath environment to increase the rank of the channel propagation matrix and/or to increase the magnitude of the coefficients of the propagation matrix between two or more radios. Such enhancement is applicable to backhaul radios in terms of increased range or in the number of supportable information streams. The installation, provisioning, optimization, control, monitoring, and adaptation of such devices within a network of backhaul radios is also disclosed. Wireless links and control between IBR and ECHO devices, and between ECHO devices and other ECHO devices, are also disclosed.
US10356779B2
A wireless communication network that forms an ad-hoc network without the arrangement of a controlling station sets a period that a communication apparatus can utilize with priority and performs isochronous communication in the period as required. When isochronous communication has not been performed or after isochronous communication has finished in the priority utilization period, other communication apparatuses perform arbitrary communication. When another communication is performed in a communication apparatus's own priority utilization period, the start of isochronous communication is temporarily delayed. In an ad-hoc communication environment, data having a real-time characteristic, such as AV content, can be efficiently transmitted through the isochronous communication.
US10356776B1
Interference caused between neighboring access nodes deploying wireless air-interface resources in different frame configurations while using the same frequency sub-band is mitigated by modifying the subframes deployed by a first access node by muting the subframes in the first frame configuration. Wireless resources from a different frequency sub-band can be aggregated towards the interfering subframes. A third access node adjacent to the first access node may deploy wireless resources in the first frame configuration and using the second frequency sub-band. A determination of how to reconfigure the interfering subframes is based on numbers of wireless devices in potential interference zones between each access node.
US10356773B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to determination of bandwidth, frequencies, or a set one or more of subbands that carries a downlink control channel. In some examples, a set of one or more subbands that carries a downlink control channel may be determined based on a function of a predetermined reference resource location. The predetermined reference resource location may be a set of one or more subbands that carries one or more synchronization signals and a broadcast channel. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US10356764B2
A method of wireless communication may include transmitting an uplink slot with a first control region, a second control region, and (e.g., optionally) a data region. Each region may include time resources and frequency resources. Transmitting the uplink slot may include transmitting the first control region in an earlier part of the uplink slot and transmitting the second control region (e.g., and the data region) in a later part of the uplink slot. The first control region may include time-critical control information and the second control region may include non-time-critical control information. A receiver receiving the uplink slot may receive the first control region before receiving the data region and the second control region.
US10356763B2
Provided is a terminal that performs communication with a base station, in which a Physical Uplink Control Channel is generated by mapping response information to a Physical Uplink Control Channel resource that is determined in accordance with at least a prescribed offset and generates a Physical Uplink Control Channel, in a case where a Physical Downlink Control Channel is detected in a first Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel-Physical Resource Block set, and in which a Physical Uplink Control Channel is generated by mapping the response information to a Physical Uplink Control Channel resource that is determined in accordance with at least an offset which is configured individually for every terminal and generates the Physical Uplink Control Channel, in a case where the Physical Downlink Control Channel is detected in a second Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel-Physical Resource Block set.
US10356761B2
Uplink control channel transmission in a shared radio frequency spectrum band may be transmitted using different uplink resources UCI based on a format of uplink control information (UCI) to be transmitted in the uplink control channel transmission. Different time resources, frequency resources, or combinations thereof, for the transmission of UCI by a UE may be provided by a base station and selected by the UE based on a UCI format. The resources to be used for UCI transmission may semi-statically configured, or dynamically indicated to a UE. Uplink transmissions may be configured in interlaces of frequency resources, with each interlace having one or more segments, and a base station may configure different segments for transmission of different format UCI. In some cases, different subframes, or different component carriers, may be configured for different formats of UCI.
US10356757B2
A method for a station (STA) not having an association identifier (AID) allocated thereto transmitting a signal in a wireless LAN system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: transmitting a first frame through at least one resource among resources indicated by a trigger frame; and receiving a multi-STA block Ack (M-BA) frame as a reply to the first frame, wherein, if in the M-BA frame a MAC address of the STA that is different from a first information is detected from at least a part of a first field reserved for the first information, an N-bit of a second field preceding the first field is set as a temporary AID of the STA.
US10356756B2
A data transmission method of a station (STA) device in a wireless LAN system is disclosed. The data transmission method of an STA device, according to the present invention, comprises: a receiving step of receiving an uplink data frame from a first STA, wherein the uplink data frame includes first receiving operating mode information indicating a receiving operating mode to be changed by the first STA; and a transmitting step of transmitting an ACK frame for the uplink data frame, wherein the ACK frame includes mode change acceptance information indicating whether to accept or reject the change in the receiving operating mode according to the receiving operating mode information.
US10356747B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a paging method, a related device, and a system. The paging method includes: receiving, by a forwarding plane gateway, a downlink packet; and sending, by the forwarding plane gateway, a second paging message to at least one base station according to the downlink packet, where the second paging message is used for paging a terminal. In the paging method in the present invention, the forwarding plane gateway sends the second paging message to page the terminal, and a control plane gateway is not required to page the terminal.
US10356744B2
A node localization method and device are disclosed. The method includes: determining a first set of radio signal measurement values that can be received by each known-location node of at least one known-location node, and determining a second set of radio signal measurement values that can be received by a to-be-localized node; determining, according to the radio signal measurement values included in the first set that respectively correspond to each known-location node and the radio signal measurement values included in the second set, a weighting coefficient corresponding to each known-location node (101); and determining location information of the to-be-localized node according to the weighting coefficient corresponding to each known-location node and location information of each known-location node (102).
US10356743B2
Systems and methods for wireless location are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for wireless location includes collecting signal strength values from one or more nodes (e.g., mobile devices) in an area over a time interval. The nodes receive wireless signals from one or more other transmitting nodes, where the signal strength values are representative of the signal strengths of the wireless signals. The method further includes normalizing the collected signal strength values and evaluating respective locations within the area of the nodes based on the normalized signal strength values. In a further aspect, the evaluated locations of the nodes may be used to execute an automated light show over the area, by instructing the nodes to display certain color or pattern at their locations in the area.
US10356737B2
According to some embodiments, a method of synchronizing a wireless device with a network node comprises receiving a radio subframe transmitted from the network node. The MBSFN radio subframe comprises a first Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) associated with a first Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and paired with a first Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) associated with a second OFDM symbol. The method further comprises detecting the first PSS and detecting the first SSS within the radio subframe. The method determines system information associated with the network node based on the detected PSS and SSS. The radio subframe is transmitted from the network node as a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services Single-Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe.
US10356735B2
According to an example, signal transmissions by a first antenna apparatus and a second antenna apparatus connected to a central processing apparatus through an Ethernet switch may be synchronized with respect to each other. An Ethernet packet containing first data and second data may be generated, in which the first antenna apparatus is to wirelessly transmit the first data and the second antenna apparatus is to wirelessly transmit the second data. In addition, the Ethernet packet may be communicated to the Ethernet switch, in which the Ethernet switch includes a first port that is in communication with the first antenna apparatus and a second port that is in communication with the second antenna apparatus, and the Ethernet switch is to communicate the Ethernet packet through the first port and a copy of the Ethernet packet through the second port substantially simultaneously with respect to each other.
US10356733B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to distributed joint access of an unlicensed sidelink channel Each sidelink device may perform independent and asynchronous listen before talk (LBT) of the unlicensed sidelink channel with a respective back-off timer value. The first sidelink device to complete back-off may transmit a joint access synchronization (JAS) signal indicating a duration of time that the unlicensed sidelink channel may be accessed by sidelink devices. Synchronized access sharing of the unlicensed sidelink channel across different active sidelinks may then be achieved through distributed handshake signaling.
US10356732B2
Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a narrowband detector configured to detect one or more power levels that correspond to one or more signals communicated in one or more sub-bands of a selected band. The repeater can include a controller. The controller can select a signal from the one or more signals based on a power level of the selected signal. The controller can adjust a gain or output power of the repeater based on the power level of the selected signal communicated in the one or more sub-bands of the selected band.
US10356727B2
For each UE, a base station determines the number of streams for transmitting a data signal, performs different precoding on the data signal depending on the UE, and allocates different transmission powers to at least two UEs. The base station transmits streams addressed to the at least two UEs in a form in which these streams are non-orthogonally mixed, with transmission powers that are different for the UEs. For each of the streams addressed to these UEs, the base station estimates predictive indices for these UEs from channel state information determined by the UEs to which those streams are addressed, and, based on the predictive indices, allocates different transmission powers to those UEs such that the better the predictive index is, the lower the transmission power is.
US10356726B2
An access device of a communication network system calculates power estimation values for successive time slots of a communication channel based on measurement values for the successive time slots from a user equipment accessing the communication network system via the access device. The access device performs transmit power control based on the power estimation values. If a compressed mode is active for the user equipment, from use for the transmit power control, power estimation values or measurement values for predetermined time slots are excluded, which include no time slot or at least one time slot before a first time point T1 at which the user equipment has entered the compressed mode, at least one time slot after a second time point T2 at which the user equipment has returned from the compressed mode, and each time slot between the first time point T1 and the second time point T2.
US10356719B2
A “Skip-Correlator” ensures carrier sensing symmetry between wireless devices of arbitrary transmission power levels, thereby enabling fair sharing of available spectrum of a wireless channel between the wireless devices. In various implementations, receivers of a wireless device receive wireless preambles from neighboring wireless transmitters. This preamble includes an indication of a transmission power level of the neighboring wireless transmitter. The wireless device then selects and correlates a subset of samples of the received preamble as a function of a transmission power level of that wireless device. The remaining samples of the preamble are skipped by the receiving wireless device, hence the use of the term “Skip-Correlator.” Further, the wireless device computes a total preamble energy of the correlated samples of the received preamble. Finally, the wireless device implements carrier sensing symmetry between itself and the neighboring wireless transmitter as a function of the total preamble energy.
US10356715B2
The present invention provides a DRX control method and system in which power consumption of a mobile station can be reduced and an increase in the load of a network can be suppressed. A source base station forwards Dormancy Context, which is information for controlling the activity level of a mobile station that performs inter base station handover, to a target base station and, immediately after the mobile station completes handover, the target base station performs DRX control of the mobile station using the Dormancy Context.
US10356713B2
A resource control method according to an example aspect of the invention includes: carrying out a control of an assigned amount of computation resource for each radio control unit of an accommodation station realizing the radio control unit, which controls an antenna function of a radio base station, with a virtual machine technology.
US10356707B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for connecting to a wireless local area network. In one aspect, a method is performed at a mobile terminal. The terminal detects wireless local area networks near a geographic location where the terminal is located, each of the wireless local area networks includes an identifier. The terminal then matches the identifiers of the wireless local area networks and a prestored geographic location of the terminal with an identifier and a geographic location of a wireless local area network, and determines an accessible wireless local area network that includes a corresponding access key. The terminal sets the corresponding access key. The terminal presents a list of the wireless local area networks on a network connection interface, and a connection identifier for the accessible wireless local area network. The terminal detects an operation on the connection identifier, and connects to the accessible wireless local area network.
US10356702B2
Accordingly the embodiments herein provide a method for provisioning Minimum System Information (MSI) for User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes decoding Primary Broadcast Channel (PBCH) to acquire a first Master Information Block (MIB) periodically transmitted by base station. Further, the method includes determining to perform one of bar a cell from which the first MIB is acquired for a pre-determined period of time and acquire second MIB transmitted on Secondary Broadcast Channel (SBCH) by base station based on cell barring indication received in the first MIB. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting a request message to the base station to obtain at least one SI block of the OSI. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a list of system configuration indexes (SCIs) and corresponding configuration of SI blocks, from the base station based on SI storage capability of the UE indicated to the base station.
US10356698B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus enabling a terminal to obtain information required for a wireless LAN AP search from a cellular base station in order to use a wireless LAN service, and to access a wireless LAN AP having a low network load in a short time. The communication method of a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: switching a channel to an AP scanning channel, which is a channel for searching for a wireless LAN AP between the terminal and the wireless LAN AP; transmitting a wireless LAN AP search signal from the AP scanning channel; receiving, from the wireless LAN AP, a wireless LAN AP response signal, transmitted after an offset time set in accordance with the load state of the wireless LAN AP; and switching the channel to a data transmitting and receiving channel for data communications with the wireless LAN AP. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the terminal can always select the AP having the lowest load by performing a search on all surrounding wireless LAN APs.
US10356684B2
A method, system and apparatus for selecting an access point includes detecting a location and direction of motion of a mobile device, detecting a strength of signal from candidate access points and determining a location of such access points based upon at least one of the (i) location and direction of motion of the mobile device, (ii) access point location information known to the mobile device, and (iii) monitoring of the change in detected signal strength from candidate access points that occurs upon the movement of the mobile device. Embodiments of the system and apparatus way include a mobile terminal device or may include such a device and a plurality of access points that provide access to a network, such as a base station or a router that provide access to an enterprise network or a local area network that is connected to the internet.
US10356679B2
A technique is disclosed to minimize service interruption at a wireless user equipment device during a handover by maintaining dual active connections during the handover. Upon initiating the handover, an initial/first connection with a first access node is maintained while establishing a second connection with a second access node. The user equipment device can receive data over the first connection and second connection during the handover. The first connection may be terminated (by the user equipment device or by timing out due to inactivity) after the handover is completed. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US10356674B2
The method provided in this embodiment improves the capabilities of automatic driving and ADAS of electric vehicles. The method can be applied to vehicle networking, such as V2X, LTE-V, V2X, etc. The method includes receiving, from the mobile device, an indication of a requirement for transmission resources, comprising at least an indication that the resources are required with a periodicity, transmitting, to the mobile device, an assignment of a first scheduling configuration for the device-to-device connection, transmitting, to the mobile device, an indication to begin use of periodically recurring radio resources, and handing over responsibility for providing radio resources for the device-to-device connection from the network node to a target network node such that the availability of radio resources with the periodicity is substantially maintained.
US10356661B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication, and more particularly, to methods and apparatus to enable a node to be aware of active services and context for a mobile device in order to determine the load balancing and admission control for the services. For example, in certain aspects, a mobile device for managing at least one data flow between a core network and the mobile device may determine whether at least one of the data flow or a service related to the data flow should be reported and send a report to a first node based on the determination. The report may identify at least one of the data flow or service and indicates a packet data network (PDN) connection or bearer associated with the service or data flow.
US10356660B2
Systems and methods for optimizing network traffic are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for optimizing the performance of a plurality of networks includes a first terminal device, a traffic steering controller, and a terminal traffic steering agent. The traffic steering controller may be configured to receive user profiles, terminal metrics and network performance metrics and create traffic steering rules based on the user profiles, terminal metrics, and network performance. The terminal traffic steering agent may be configured to receive traffic steering rules from the traffic steering controller and direct a virtual network switch based on the traffic steering rules. The virtual network switch may be configured to handle network traffic at a virtual network interface and, based on directions received from the traffic steering controller, exchange network traffic at least at a physical interface of at least one of the plurality of access networks.
US10356655B2
The disclosure is directed to a data rate modification method and related apparatuses using the same method. According to one of the exemplary embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a data rate control method implemented by a user equipment, the method would include not limited to: transmitting a connection establishment message which comprises an identification (ID) of the UE and a network ID; receiving a data rate configuration comprising a first data rate class ID and a plurality of network data rates which is associated with the network ID as each network data rate is associated with a different data rate class ID; and setting a first data rate based on the first data rate class ID to communicate with a core network.
US10356654B2
User equipments (UEs) may be scheduled by determining relative priorities of data radio bearers (DRBs), each DRB associated with a respective UE. A limit is established dividing radio resources available for allocation in the cell during a scheduling period into at least a first limited portion and a second remaining portion. According to the determined relative priorities: a) up to the first limited portion of the radio resources are allocated to only the DRBs that have a guaranteed bit rate (GBR), and thereafter b) the second remaining portion of the radio resources are allocated to only the DRBs which have not been fully allocated from the first limited portion. Schedules indicating this allocation are transmitted to the respective UEs. In carrier aggregation where each carrier aggregated cells has a respective plurality of DRBs, relative priorities for each respective plurality of DRBs are determined for each carrier aggregated cell.
US10356645B2
The present invention relates to methods for making radio resource measurements in synchronized cells when quasi co-location is applied, and to apparatuses supporting same. A method for a terminal for making radio resource measurements (RRM) in a wireless access system according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving an upper level signal comprising a reference signal for channel state information (CSI-RS) of a first cell, and quasi co-location (QCL) information for a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) and/or CSI-RS of a second cell; receiving the CRS and/or CSI-RS of the second cell on the basis of the QCL information; and measuring a first RRM for the first cell by means of the CRS and/or the CSI-RS of the second cell.
US10356640B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or cellular network communications corresponding to a non-cellular network. For example, an Evolved Node B (eNB) may be configured to transmit to a User Equipment (UE) at least one configuration message to configure one or more measurements to be performed by the UE with respect to at least Wireless-Local-Area-Network (WLAN), to receive from the UE at least one report message including measurement information corresponding to the WLAN, to trigger the UE to start or stop offloading to the WLAN, and/or to transmit to the UE network assistance information corresponding to the WLAN.
US10356631B1
Disclosed herein is a method and corresponding apparatus to help manage wireless communication between a base station and a device served by the base. In accordance with the disclosure, when a base station transitions from serving the device on just a first carrier to serving the device on a combination of the first carrier and a second carrier, the base station will responsively take action to improve downlink communication to the device on the first carrier. In particular, the base station will respond to the occurrence of that transition by starting to beamform downlink transmission to the device on the first carrier.
US10356630B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to receive from an end device operated by a user, a measurement of a signal transmitted by a wireless station of a wireless access network to the end device, wherein the measurement is taken outside of a building; receive, from the end device, another measurement of a signal transmitted by the wireless station to the end device, wherein the other measurement is taken inside the building; calculate, based on the first measurement and the second measurement, a path loss, for a second frequency, between a future generation cell site and the building; calculate a received signal power of the future generation cell site based on the path loss; compare the received signal power to a threshold value; determine, based on the comparison, whether the user is qualified to receive future generation equipment to be placed in the building.
US10356621B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a browser plug-in for accessing hosted websites and web applications are presented. The browser plug-in executing within a user web browser application may query a beacon to determine that the user web browser application is executing outside of the secure network. The browser plug-in may receive a request comprising an internal URL for a website executing within the secure network. The browser plug-in may identify one or more policies for the website and use the one or more policies to redirect the user web browser application from the internal URL to an external URL for a hosted web browser application executing within the secure network. As a result, the hosted web browser application may be navigated to the website, and a client agent executing within the user web browser application may present the hosted web browser application.
US10356616B2
Examples of techniques for identifying external devices using a wireless network associated with a vehicle are disclosed. In one example implementation, a method includes initializing, by a processing system, an unsecure wireless network identified by a service set identifier (SSID). The method further includes receiving, by the processing system, a safety message from an external device external to a vehicle. The method further includes processing, by the processing system, the safety message to determine a location and a movement vector of the external device without performing a dynamic internet protocol address allocation to the external device. The method further includes alerting, by the processing system, an operator of the vehicle of the location and the movement vector of the external device.
US10356614B2
A secure element uses a backup context to restore a deleted electronic Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) without compromising a trust relationship with a mobile network operator (MNO). A backup copy of a data binary large object (data blob) originally used to instantiate the eSIM is retrieved. The secure element determines if the eSIM within the data blob is uniquely associated with the secure element from a previous installation. The secure element examines the data blob to determine an identifier unique to the eSIM. The identifier can be an integrated circuit card identifier (ICC-ID) or a profile identifier. The secure element searches a table of instantiated eSIMs in the secure memory. If the secure element is able to match the recovered eSIM identifier with an entry in the table, then the secure element installs this eSIM in the secure element.
US10356610B2
The present invention presents a method for small cell communications, comprising: MME transmits a message of setting up a user plane for UE to a base station in a small cell cluster of the UE, wherein the messages of setting up a user plane include information about evolved radio access bearer as well as uplink tunnel identity and address of the transport layer assigned by SGW; the base station assigns downlink TEID and address of the transport layer to the UE, and responds to the MME; the MME transmits the downlink TEID and the address of the transport layer assigned to the UE to the SGW that serves the UE, and receives a response message from the SGW. Examples of the present invention further present an MME device, a base station device, an SGW device and a small cell communication system. The above scheme presented by the present invention provides a method of supporting the architecture and data transmission of small cells, which supports quick handover between small cells, reduces data loss during the handover, avoids multi-hop data forwarding, guarantees QoS, and improves user experience and system performance.
US10356607B2
There is provided a wireless communication apparatus including: a communication unit configured to use wireless communication to transmit and receive data related to a service provided by at least one of the wireless communication apparatus and another wireless communication apparatus with other wireless communication apparatuses present within a designated range; and a control unit configured to associate service information for identifying the service with user information for identifying a user using a wireless communication apparatus that provides the service, and include and transmit the associated information in the data.
US10356606B2
A system for supporting the deployment of an embedded subscriber identification module (eSIM) provisioning management system on the ES3 interface between Subscription Manager Data Preparation (SM-DP) of a target mobile network operator (MNO) and Subscription Manager Secure Routing (SM-SR) of a current MNO. A SM-Proxy implements a SM-SR functionality on a first interface towards the SM-DP, and implements a SM-DP functionality on a second interface towards the SM-SR. A hosted SM-DP implements a RESTful API to receive SIM profile information from a provisioning server in the target MNO's network. An Agreement Management system controls a set of eSIM provisioning rules. A Service Portal enables the MNOs to manage their eSIM provisioning rules across their MNO partners.
US10356603B2
A profile server provides a communication profile for communication via a communication network. The communication profile is assigned to a subscriber identity module. The profile server includes: a database, configured to store a plurality of subscriptions comprising a plurality of identifications, wherein an identification is assigned to each subscription, and wherein each subscription comprises subscription data for generating a communication profile; a communication interface, configured to receive an identification from the subscriber identity module; and a processor, configured to call up a subscription from the database, wherein the subscription is assigned to the received identification, to extract subscription data from the called up subscription, and to generate the communication profile based on the extracted subscription data. The communication interface is further configured to send the generated communication profile to the subscriber identity module in order to provide the communication profile for communication via the communication network.
US10356596B2
A method of transmitting data from one point to another point using a vehicle, and a system for performing the same may include searching for at least one neighbor vehicle, determining a vehicle which is to transmit the data to the second station, among the searched at least one neighbor vehicle, and transmitting the data to the determined vehicle.
US10356584B2
A wireless communication device detects presence of a peer wireless communication device within operating range and pairs with the detected peer wireless communication device. The wireless communication device and the peer wireless communication device are operable to communicate wireless broadband signals at a power level that is below a spurious emissions mask using broadband near field communication with full spectrum capture. The pairing may be controlled based on the determined distance between the wireless communication device and the peer wireless communication device. A determination is made whether to utilize security to enable the pairing based on the determined distance. A range of the communicated wireless broadband signals may be limited to provide secure communication between a plurality of wireless communication devices that communicate utilizing the wireless broadband signals. Content is shared among the plurality of wireless communication devices based on the limiting.
US10356581B2
The present document provides a method and apparatus for login processing of a Machine-to-Machine/Man (M2M) terminal device, herein, the method includes: transmitting a login request to an M2M platform; receiving an operation corresponding to a detection result obtained after the M2M platform detects a parameter configuration status of an M2M terminal device; and executing the operation corresponding to the detection result. The present document solves the problem of low login processing efficiency of an M2M terminal device in the related art, and then realizes processing the parameter configuration status of the M2M terminal during the login processing of the M2M terminal device.
US10356577B1
Described herein is a method for asset transportation verification. The method comprises detecting a trigger for asset transportation verification; tracking one or more first asset location updates of a first asset tracking device; tracking one or more second asset location updates of a second asset tracking device; determining, responsive to the trigger, whether the second asset tracking device is co-located with the first asset tracking device based upon the one or more first asset location updates and the one or more second asset location updates; generating an alert in response to determining the first asset tracking device is not co-located with the second asset tracking device.
US10356571B2
Embodiments herein provide a method for sharing enriched information associated with a call. The method includes receiving message including enriched information from a sender device, where the enriched information is received before establishing a call, after establishing a call, or after terminating a call. Further, the method includes determining a correlation between the enriched information with the call. Further, the method includes displaying the enriched information based on the correlation.
US10356569B2
A device may receive, from a subscriber identity module (SIM) over-the-air (OTA) (SIM OTA) device, a short message peer-to-peer (SMPP) message. The SMPP message including an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) associated with a user device. The SMPP message being associated with modifying a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) of the user device. The device may determine, using the IMSI associated with the user device, a network device to which the user device is connected. The device may provide, to the network device, a short message service (SMS) message associated with modifying the UICC of the user device to permit the UICC of the user device to be modified.
US10356562B2
Traces collected by multiple portable devices moving within a geographic area that includes an indoor region, each of the traces including measurements of wireless signals sources at different times by a same device, and at least some of the traces including pseudorange measurements related to distances to respective satellites. Location estimates for the portable devices and the signal sources are generated using graph-based SLAM optimization of the location estimates. More particularly, constraints for the pseudorange measurements are generated and applied for the pseudorange measurements in graph-based SLAM optimization.
US10356561B2
A method and apparatus for tracking a person in a group of people. An example method includes establishing an ad-hoc network between mobile devices for each of the people in the group. A distance from a mobile device for a person in the group is determined to a mobile device for a group leader, based at least in part, on a number of hops between the mobile device for the person and mobile devices for other people in the group to reach the mobile device for the group leader. A direction to the mobile device for the group leader is determined, based at least in part, on the number of hops to reach the mobile device for the group leader by a number of paths.
US10356559B2
This disclosure describes embodiments for harvesting and serving labels for locations. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by one or more server computers, location data including wireless access point data and location labels associated with significant locations, the location data being harvested from a plurality of devices operating at a plurality of geographic locations; and updating, by the one or more server computers, a plurality of fingerprints representing the plurality of geographic locations, the updating including associating at least one of the received location labels with at least one of the plurality of fingerprints.
US10356557B1
A method and system for detecting an indoor threshold transition in a positioning state. The method may be executable using one or more processors and comprises, upon detecting a pattern of magnetic anomaly characteristics associated with a sequence of position changes of the mobile device, extracting the pattern, comparing the extracted pattern with a stored magnetic signature associated with the indoor threshold, and based on the comparing, inferring that the mobile device is one of transitioning in position and has transitioned in position across the indoor threshold.
US10356552B1
Systems and methods for determining hardware requirements for a wireless network event are disclosed. In embodiments, a method comprises obtaining, by a computing device, social user data over a period of time from a plurality of mobile devices associated with a social event at a location; obtaining, by the computing device, bandwidth usage data for each of the plurality of mobile devices based on the social user data; obtaining, by the computing device, crowd density and traffic pattern data related to the social event; determining, by the computing device, participant movement data for the social event based on the crowd density and traffic pattern data; deriving, by the computing device, a social bandwidth density model based on the bandwidth usage data and the participant movement data; and determining, by the computing device, bandwidth requirements within a geo-spatial boundary associated with the social event from the social bandwidth density model.
US10356547B2
The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing appropriate remapping.An offset angle calculation section calculates an offset amount of a position of a reference screen from a reference position present in a front direction of a user, and a position information correction section corrects a position of an audio object referred with the reference position, in conformity with the position of the reference screen on the basis of the offset amount. Furthermore, an object remapping section remaps the position of the audio object in conformity with a position of a reproduction screen on the basis of the corrected position of the audio object. The present technique can be applied to an information processing apparatus.
US10356539B2
A method for performing an active profiling of the sound emitted by a vehicle engine including the steps of injecting second acoustic waves (MW), which are able to combine with the first acoustic waves (EW) in a merge point in said primary propagation path and to generate third resulting acoustic waves (RW); and generating a driving signal for the diffuser by regulating the amplitude of harmonics of the driving signal (SP) as a function of reference acoustic waves and of a workpoint of the engine, calculating equalization coefficients (α1, . . . , αM) to be applied to the amplitudes of said harmonics of the driving signal (SP) via a self-tuning procedure, and comparing the reference acoustic waves (TW) with a simulation (SRW) of the resulting waves. The simulation (SRW) is obtained by applying to a simulation of the second acoustic waves a model of the secondary propagation path.
US10356519B2
The present disclosure generally provides an apparatus and method of providing a performer with a desired combined mix of one or more performer's voices, instruments and/or music tracks with minimal or no overall effect on the setup of the sound system in a venue, such as a concert venue, recording studio or other type of musical gathering in which the performer is performing. The disclosure provided herein generally includes the use of an audio signal intercepting device that is inserted within and/or coupled to a portion of a sound system at a venue to provide the performer with a desired custom monitor mix of one or more performer's voices, instruments and/or music tracks.
US10356518B2
A technology is provided that can obtain two audio data with reduced noise, in a system including independent recording devices. A first frequency analyzer performs first frequency analysis on first audio data for each analysis range and generates first result information indicating the result of the first frequency analysis for each analysis range. A condition determinator determines the analysis range based on a first audio quality of the first audio data. A noise band detector detects a noise band for each analysis range based on the first result information and second result information. A first filter processor generates a first filter for filtering data of a noise band for each analysis range, applies a first filter process by the first filter on first audio data for each analysis range, and generates third audio data.
US10356516B2
A bone conduction microphone device that registers speech signals from a user. The microphone device includes a housing having an abutment or contact part, which has a central axis substantially parallel to a predetermined distal direction and a predetermined proximal direction. The abutment, during use, abuts against and is in vibratory contact with tissue of a head or neck of the user, and receives, during use, vibrations, representing a speech signal and propagating through at least a part of the user's tissue or bone structures in the head or neck when the user is speaking. The housing further includes or is connected to at least one sealing element, which substantially or at least partly encircles the abutment or contact part about the central axis.
US10356515B2
A signal processor comprising a plurality of microphone-terminals configured to receive a respective plurality of microphone-signals. A plurality of beamforming-modules, each respective beamforming-module configured to receive and process input-signalling representative of some or all of the plurality of microphone-signals to provide a respective speech-reference-signal, a respective noise-reference-signal, and a beamformer output signal based on focusing a beam into a respective angular direction. A beam-selection-module comprising a plurality of speech-leakage-estimation-modules, each respective speech-leakage-estimation-module configured to receive the speech-reference-signal and the noise-reference-signal from a respective one of the plurality of beamforming-modules; and provide a respective speech-leakage-estimation-signal based on a similarity measure of the received speech-reference-signal with respect to the received noise-reference-signal. The beam-selection-module further comprises a beam-selection-controller configured to provide a control-signal based on the speech-leakage-estimation-signals.
US10356511B2
The present invention discloses a ultrathin acoustic impedance converter belonging to the acoustic field, which is characterized by comprising one or a plurality of impedance conversion units, wherein each impedance conversion unit is composed of a frame, a plurality of prestressed membranes or prestressed string nets, and multiple layers of acoustic materials, wherein a through cavity is fabricated in the frame, the prestressed membranes or string nets and the acoustic materials are alternately arranged in the cavity, i.e., a prestressed membrane or string net is arranged, and then a layer of acoustic materials is arranged, and so on until the through cavity is fully filled. The cavity can be designed in different shapes either with a variable cross section or a uniform cross section. Each prestressed membrane or string net is required to be applied with prestress before being arranged in the cavity, and the magnitude of the prestress depends on the acoustic impedance value that the membrane or string net is expected to reach. The novel ultrathin acoustic impedance converter of the present invention can realize rapid change from low impedance to high impedance or from high impedance to low impedance and realize ultrathin design.
US10356508B2
A sound collecting apparatus capable of effectively suppressing sounds other than a target sound is provided. The sound collecting apparatus includes a plurality of microphones. A total number of effective microphone pairs in which a distance between two microphones is smaller than a distance D is larger than a total number of the plurality of microphones. The distance D is represented by D=c/2f, where the frequency of the target sound acquired from each of the plurality of microphones is f and sound velocity is c. When an angle formed by a straight line connecting two microphones configuring an effective microphone pair and a predetermined straight line is θ, the angles θ of all effective microphone pairs acquired from the plurality of microphones are different from each other.
US10356505B2
Attenuation of a wireless signal, particularly a short range wireless pairing signal, is accommodated immediately and automatically by a device in response to detection of presence of an object. When a user provides input to the device, such as by touching the device with a finger, presence of the finger may interfere with a signal emitted from the device. To accommodate for such interference, the device may immediately increase its transmission power upon detection of the finger, without waiting for link quality measurements.
US10356504B2
Low latency transmission systems and methods for long distances in SOUNDWIRE systems are disclosed. In an exemplary aspect, a SOUNDWIRE sub-system is coupled to a long cable through a bridge. The bridge converts SOUNDWIRE signals to signals for transmission over the long cable and converts the signals from the long cable to the SOUNDWIRE signals for transmission in the SOUNDWIRE sub-system. Conversion between signal types may include concatenating signals of a similar type into a group that is serially transmitted over the long cable. Concatenation of bit slots in this manner consumes minimal overhead in bus turnaround, thereby reducing latency. In further aspects, the functionality of the bridge may be incorporated into a headset or a mobile terminal.
US10356492B2
The disclosure relates to a method of processing a sequence of image frames to reduce its length. One implementation may involve extracting coefficients (e.g., Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients) from components of individual frames, and comparing the resulting coefficients for sequential frames to identify frames having the least change from a prior frame. Also, scene change values for each frame may be calculated and placed in a sorted list to facilitate identification of frames for removal. Frame removal may be conducted in rounds, where a group of pictures (GOP) may only have one frame removed for any given round.
US10356491B2
A server remote from client device executes an HTML-based virtual client application. Using the HTML-based virtual client application, the server renders an image corresponding to a video frame. The rendered image includes HTML commands. The server generates an HTML wrapper for the rendered image. Generating the HTML wrapper includes converting the HTML commands to HTML primitives that are selected from a subset of available HTML commands. The server sends the HTML wrapper to the client device to be processed by an HTML-based application on the client device to enable the image to be displayed.
US10356490B2
A method of providing a broadcast content, comprising: receiving a broadcast content from an external input source, the broadcast content derived from a broadcast stream, wherein the broadcast content includes a plurality of watermarks carrying fragments of full watermark information, wherein the full watermark information includes first URL data and second URL data, the first URL data including signaling bits which identify a portion of a final URL, the second URL data including the rest of the final URL, wherein values of the signaling bits are pre-assigned to specific URL strings, wherein the full watermark information further includes type information and point information, the type information specifying type of a corresponding watermark, and the point information identifying where the corresponding watermark is embedded in the broadcast content; extracting the watermarks from the broadcast content; re-assembling the full watermark information using the watermarks.
US10356489B2
An advertisement provider issues coupons to an audiences of television set in exchange of viewing a commercial message and receives advertising rate from the advertiser of the commercial message in exchange of informing of the coupon issuance. A television station allows the audience to decompress a downloaded digital image data of a television program in exchange of presentation of the coupon. The television station receives allotment of the advertising rate in exchange of informing of the coupon presentation form audiences. The television station sorts the presented coupons by the advertisement providers to inform each advertisement provider of the coupon presentation. The television station allows the decompression even in a shortage of the presented coupon, provided that it will be compensated by money or later presentation of coupon by due data. The commercial messages are provided automatically or by request. The audience may voluntarily replace television program by commercial message.
US10356478B2
A user receiving device including at least one transceiver module, an output module, and a control module. The at least one transceiver module is configured to receive metadata and a program or video from a first backend device. The metadata indicates where in the program or video a spotted ad is included. The output module is configured to display the program or video on a display. The display is connected to the user receiving device. The at least one transceiver module is configured to receive a request signal from a mobile device. The request signal indicates a viewer of the video has detected the spotted ad. The control module is configured to, based on the request signal, save information pertaining to the request signal, open a dialog window or initiate a survey.
US10356471B2
Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture of a media presentation device is disclosed. The disclosed example includes an output device, an input to receive user input, and a monitor installed in the media presentation device at a time of manufacture of the media presentation device, the monitor provided to a manufacturer of the media presentation device by an audience measurement entity. The monitor to obtain demographic information of a user via the input and present an agreement to the user via the output device of the media presentation device. The monitor to enable collection of monitoring information when the agreement is accepted, prevent collection of monitoring information when the agreement is not accepted and collect monitoring information identifying at least one of a media presentation on the media presentation device or a user interaction with the media presentation device when the collection of the monitoring information is enabled.
US10356469B2
Implementations disclose filtering wind noises in video content. A method includes receiving video content comprising an audio component and a video component, detecting, by a processing device, occurrence of a wind noise artifact in a segment of the audio component, identifying an intensity of the wind noise artifact, wherein the intensity is based on a signal-to-noise ratio of the wind noise artifact, selecting, by the processing device, a wind noise replacement operation based on the identified intensity of the wind noise artifact, and applying, by the processing device, the selected wind noise replacement operation to the segment of the audio component to remove the wind noise artifact from the segment.
US10356465B2
A television demonstration method involves providing a television display and a camera; at a computer processor, receiving a video image from the camera, the computer processor capturing the video image from the camera to determine if the viewer makes a predetermined gesture; and retrieving and playing a specified video segment on the display associated with the gesture in response to determining that the viewer has made the predetermined gesture. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US10356463B2
A media switch enables a terminal to access content by receiving a content request from a terminal for a first piece of content to be distributed over a cable system, identifying a personal channel within resources available in the cable system to distribute the first piece of content to the terminal, transmitting access information to the terminal to enable the terminal to access the first piece of content through the personal channel, and interfacing with a cable headend to provide the first piece of content on the personal channel.
US10356461B2
A system for adaptive multi-device content distribution based on associated internet protocol (IP) addressing, the system including: a computer processor; a content engine executing on the computer processor and configured to: identify media content served to a television client; identify a client internet protocol (IP) address associated with the television client; submit, to a content exchange service, a request for content placement opportunities; receive content placement opportunities from the content exchange service, each content placement opportunity identifying at least a portion of a source IP address; identify, based on the provided portion of the source IP address, a subset of the content placement opportunities associated with the client IP address; and a content provider configured to: identify content relevant to the media content; and provide the content for the subset of the content placement opportunities.
US10356454B1
This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that facilitate employing bandwidth factors to determine, infer, or predict a client device buffer wait time or a client device buffer ratio associated with a video playback on a client device to select an advertisement format for the video and select an advertisement to accompany the video based upon the format.
US10356452B2
Ensuring a long-term average bitrate for channels of a statistical multiplexing meets or exceeds a specified limit. An arbitrary target average bitrate for each of a set of channels of the statistical multiplexer is received. The long-term average bit rate for each channel of the statistical multiplexer is tracked. For each allocation cycle of the statistical multiplexer, bitrates to each encoder are assigned by splitting a bit allocation pool of the statistical multiplexer into a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is allocated to maximize video quality and the second portion is allocated to minimize a gap between the set of channels that are below their arbitrary target average bitrate based on the long-term average bit rate for the set of channels. Thereafter, the bit rates allocated from the first and second portions are distributed to the encoders encoding/transcoding the set of channels.
US10356450B2
To enable a reception side to easily secure a display continuity when video data having a frame rate switched part is distributed. Video data having a switched part from encoded image data of a first sequence to encoded image data of a second sequence having a different frame rate from the first sequence is generated. The video data is encoded in a manner that a display end timing of a last picture of the encoded image data of the first sequence is set to a same timing as a display start timing of a first picture of the encoded image data of the second sequence.
US10356443B2
An image compression method comprises the following steps applied to at least one image: decorrelating the image by applying thereto a mathematical transform to obtain a set of coefficients, decomposing the image into blocks and, for each block of the image, quantizing the coefficients using a dead-zone uniform scalar quantizer having a semi-dead zone of size T and a quantization step size Δ, and coding the quantized coefficients, the size T of the semi-dead zone of the scalar quantizer being determined by minimizing the difference between an estimated quantization distortion D(T), dependent at least on size T, and a target quantization distortion Dc.
US10356437B2
A moving image encoding apparatus executes moving image encoding of a syntax element relating to a moving image signal VS to form an encoded bitstream CVBS. Padding processing of adding padding processing data PD to the moving image signal VS is executed prior to the moving image encoding. Then it is determined whether the encoded block of the syntax element belongs to the moving image signal VS or the padding processing data PD. In the case that the encoded block belongs to the former, an encoded bitstream having a large code amount is formed. In the case where the encoded block belongs to the latter, an encoded bitstream having a small code amount is formed.
US10356424B2
There is provided an image processing device including: a preprocessing unit configured to perform preprocessing for reducing an amount of information of an input image to generate a preprocessed image and supply the preprocessed image to an encoding processing unit that encodes and outputs the preprocessed image, wherein the preprocessing unit includes a transformation unit configured to divide the input image into predetermined blocks, perform transformation processing with a predetermined method, and generate transform blocks, a block-of-interest determination unit configured to hold region information indicating a region of interest or a non region of interest of the input image and determine whether or not each transform block is a block of interest on the basis of the region information, and an information amount reduction unit.
US10356420B2
Disclosed is a method for processing a video signal using graph-based transform and a device for the method. A method for processing a video signal using graph-based transform, including specifying a set of available graph configurations in order to process the video signal, extracting signal structure information from samples within a processing block of the image, configuring a graph for the samples within the processing block using the signal structure information, determining transform for the processing block using the graph, and transforming the samples within the processing block using the transform. The signal structure information may be defined as information about a graph configuration which belongs to the set of specified graph configurations and which is applied to each of the samples within the processing block.
US10356418B2
Provided is a video decoding method including: acquiring offset type information of a current block; determining a neighboring sample of a current reconstruction sample of the current block according to an edge direction when the offset type information of the current block indicates an edge type; determining an offset category of the current reconstruction sample based on a sample value gradient between a sample value of the current reconstruction sample and a sample value of the neighboring sample and a difference in the sample value gradient; and applying, from among offsets acquired from a bitstream, an offset according to the determined offset category to the current reconstruction sample.
US10356414B2
The present invention relates to video encoding and decoding method and apparatus, and a video encoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: entropy-encoding quantized transform information; and transmitting the entropy-encoded information as a bitstream, wherein the bitstream includes information indicating pieces of information to be parallel decoded in byte units.
US10356413B1
The encoding/decoding method and apparatus according to the present invention derives a residual coefficient of a residual block, calculates a quantization parameter for a residual block, performs dequantization on a residual coefficient using a quantization parameter, and performs inverse transform on a dequantized residual coefficient to reconstruct a residual sample of a residual block.
US10356411B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for adapting scan order for entropy coding. For example, methods may include partitioning a block of video data into a plurality of groups of elements; decoding, using an entropy decoder, data from an encoded bitstream to obtain, using a first scan order, elements of a first group from the plurality of groups of elements; determining, based on the elements of the first group, a second scan order for a second group from the plurality of groups of elements; and decoding, using the entropy decoder, data from the encoded bitstream to obtain, using the second scan order, elements of the second group from the plurality of groups of elements.
US10356410B2
An image processing system, and a method of operation thereof, including: a capture device for obtaining an input image block; and an image signal processing hardware including: a wavelet transform module for generating a transformed image block based on the input image block, the transformed image block having wavelet coefficients, a coding module including a scaling correction module for organizing binary values of the wavelet coefficients into bitplanes and for generating a scaled wavelet block with a scaling factor, the coding module for generating a compressed image block by scanning and coding the bitplanes of the scaled wavelet block, and a decoding module and an inverse wavelet transform module for generating an output image block by decoding, rescaling, and performing an inverse wavelet transform on the compressed image block for display on a display device.
US10356402B2
The invention relates to a video encoding device and a video decoding device, and reduces the amount of calculation when applying depth intra-prediction for depth maps, targeting textures and depth maps at respective viewpoints in a multi-view video image. Average calculations and SAD calculations are performed in respective calculation target regions partitioned by wedgelets, and a wedgelet with the minimum SAD for the block is used for prediction. Here, partitioning a target block into sub-blocks and limiting a calculation target region by determining whether to include each sub-block in a calculation target region with each wedgelet based on a region where said wedgelet passes in each sub-block enables reducing the amount of calculation.
US10356390B2
The three-dimensional microscopic imaging system includes: a microscope; a field diaphragm; a narrow-band filter, configured to perform narrow-band filtering; a beam-splitting grating, configured to duplicate a beam into beams with different angles; a lens array with different focal length, configured to perform different phase modulation to each beam with different angles; a micro lens array, configured to modulate the beams with different angles that pass through the lens array with different focal length respectively to different spatial locations at a back focal plane of the micro lens array respectively; and an image sensor configured to record an image corresponding to the modulated beams at the back focal plane of the micro lens array. The system has a simple structure, a cheap cost, and a relatively weak exciting light, and is suit for living samples, and has the adjustable intervals of imaging depths.
US10356387B1
A system and method for facilitating bookmarks in a 360° immersive video network environment. Bookmarks may be set and recorded based on user gaze vector data for defining a spatial dimension component in a bookmark wherein multiple gaze locations in a video frame may be associated with a single point in time. When the user commences playback of a video asset for which multiple bookmarks have been set, the user may be presented with a plurality of resume location points within the paused frame from which the user may resume at a particular time point.
US10356386B2
A video processing method includes obtaining projection face(s) from an omnidirectional content of a sphere, and obtaining a re-sampled projection face by re-sampling at least a portion of a projection face of the projection face(s) through non-uniform mapping. The omnidirectional content of the sphere is mapped onto the projection face(s) via a 360-degree Virtual Reality (360 VR) projection. The projection face has a first source region and a second source region. The re-sampled projection face has a first re-sampled region and a second re-sampled region. The first re-sampled region is derived from re-sampling the first source region with a first sampling density. The second re-sampled region is derived from re-sampling the second source region with a second sampling density that is different from the first sampling density.
US10356384B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an input image generated by image capturing, a specifying unit configured to specify a first area in which unnecessary light contained in the input image is detected, a processing unit configured to perform, for the input image, a reducing process configured to reduce the first area specified by the specifying unit, and a providing unit configured to display the first area on a display unit, specified by the specifying unit in the input image, so that the first area can be recognized in the input image.
US10356381B2
An image output apparatus includes an image signal processing unit configured to perform image processing on acquired image data and a depth information generation unit configured to generate information regarding a depth direction related to an image. A three-dimensional image data generation unit generates three-dimensional image data based on depth information and the image data subjected to the image processing. A system control unit associates the image data subjected to the image processing by the image signal processing unit with the depth information generated by the depth information generation unit and performs control such that the three-dimensional image data generation unit is caused to generate the three-dimensional image data using the depth information changed according to the image data before and after the image processing.
US10356380B2
An apparatus and a method for acquiring depth information are disclosed. To acquire depth information, illumination light of which an amount of light has been modulated by a modulation signal is emitted towards a subject, and an image is captured using an image sensor. An image signal is sequentially acquired from a plurality of rows while shifting a phase of the illumination light at a start exposure time of a row belonging to an intermediate region of a pixel array region of the image sensor. Depth information is calculated from image signals acquired during a plurality of frames while shifting a phase of the modulation signal.
US10356371B2
A wearable camera system includes a wearable camera, an in-car recorder, and an in-car camera. One of the in-car recorder and the wearable camera transmits video recording starting information including information indicating that video recording has been started to the other of the in-car recorder and the wearable camera when one of the in-car recorder and the wearable camera starts the video recording. The other of the in-car recorder and the wearable camera starts video recording after the video recording starting information is received.
US10356367B2
A blind spot coverage device that includes: a sensor section that senses external environmental information; a definition section that defines an external environmental region, in which sensing information is unobtainable, as a blind spot region; a determination section that determines whether or not the blind spot region is to be covered; and an instructing section that, in a case in which the determination section determines that the blind spot region is to be covered, instructs an actuator to move such that the blind spot region is covered. The determination section determines that the blind spot region is to be covered in a case in which determination is made that the blind spot region lacks global coverage.
US10356362B1
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system to determine that a video system is aiming at a single speaker of a plurality of people, receive audio signals from a plurality of microphones, the received audio signals including audio signals generated by the single speaker, based on determining that the video system is aiming at the single speaker, transmit a monophonic signal, the monophonic signal being based on the received audio signals, determine that the video system is not aiming at the single speaker, and based on the determining that the video system is not aiming at the single speaker, transmit a stereophonic signal, the stereophonic signal being based on the received audio signals.
US10356358B2
Techniques are disclosed for capturing, transcoding, and caching off-air programming at a location local to the consumer. According to certain embodiments, a device is provided that receives off-air (e.g., broadcast) and/or cable (e.g. ClearQAM) programming via one or more antennas and caches the programming in various streams having various bit rates for later viewing using, for example, Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) streaming. Such a device can be incorporated in a larger system that can stream content via a data communication network (e.g., the Internet) and the device in a seamless manner. The device also can be controlled by a remote system via the data communication network, and further can be configured to stream content to a remote device via the data communication network.
US10356355B2
A display device includes an imaging unit, a display unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit determines whether or not a subject to be operated is included in a captured image. When the subject to be operated is included in the captured image, the processing unit causes an additional image and the captured image to be displayed so that they are superimposed on each other. When displaying the additional image, the processing unit sets, in the captured image, a first region in which display of a human's hand is allowed and a second region in which display of the hand is not allowed. The processing unit allows a hand imaged into the first region to be displayed as it is and does not allow a hand imaged into the second region to be displayed.
US10356352B2
A differential circuit includes a differential selection block suitable for generating differential selection signals corresponding to differential input signals in response to an enable signal and a differential loading block suitable for loading differential output signals corresponding to the differential input signals on differential lines in response to the differential selection signals.
US10356348B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image capture element in which, at least two or more of the discharge driving units are arranged in series between the photoelectric conversion unit and the discharge unit. During capturing of a still image, when a reset operation of the photoelectric conversion unit is performed in starting exposure of the pixel, driving is performed such that after potentials of all the discharge driving units arranged in series are reduced and the charge remaining in the photoelectric conversion unit is discharged to the discharge unit, the potential of the discharge driving unit on the photoelectric conversion unit side is returned to an original potential first, and then the potential of another discharge driving unit is returned to an original potential. The present technology can be applied to a CMOS image sensor which performs imaging by, for example, a global shutter method.
US10356344B1
Image sensors may have high dynamic range (HDR) functionality. To implement the high dynamic range functionality, the image sensor may use multiple exposure imaging. In multiple exposure imaging, multiple images are captured with an image sensor at different exposure times and are later combined into a single high dynamic range image. Image data from one or more exposures in a multi-exposure imaging scheme may be used to determine that subsequent exposures will not produce useful information. To conserve power in the image sensor, certain readout circuitry such as analog-to-digital converter circuitry and column memory may be disabled during readout of the exposures that are determined to not produce useful information.
US10356334B2
An imaging device may include a first illumination port to output first light having a first illumination distribution at a target to illuminate the target, a second illumination port to output second light having a second illumination distribution at the target to illuminate the target, the second illumination distribution being substantially similar to the first illumination distribution at the target, the second illumination port being spaced apart from the first illumination port, the first and second illumination distributions being simultaneously provided to the target and overlapping at the target. The illumination from the first and second ports may be matched to a same aspect ratio and field of view coverage as the imaging field of view.
