US10430640B2
A particle classifier system and a method of training the system are described. The particle classifier system is suitable for classification of particles in a liquid sample, said particle classifier system comprises an optical detection assembly comprising at least one image acquisition device with an optical axis, the image acquisition device is configured to acquire images of an image acquisition area perpendicular to said optical axis; a sample device comprising at least one sample container suitable for holding a sample in liquid form; a translating arrangement configured to translate said image acquisition area through at least a part of said sample container; a control system configured to controlling said optical detection assembly and said translating unit to acquire images of a plurality of image acquisition areas; an image analyzing processing system programmed to analyze said acquired images by a method comprising creating objects (sub-images) of individual particles captured by said acquired images, creating stacks of objects of each individual particle, identifying complete stacks of objects comprising at least one object wherein said particle is in-focus, and two objects wherein said particle is out-of-focus, and determining, for each of said complete stacks of objects, a set of values for a set of features of at least N features, wherein N is larger than or equal to 1, and wherein the determination of said values of said set of features involve data obtained from said at least one object wherein said particle is in-focus, and/or said at least two objects wherein said particle is out-of-focus; and an artificial intelligent processing system programmed to associate said set of values for said determined set of features for each individual particle to a particle classification.
US10430636B2
A display panel includes an array substrate including organic light-emitting structures, and at least one fingerprint identification unit. Each organic light-emitting structure has a first side facing the array substrate, and the fingerprint identification unit is disposed in a display region on the first side of the organic light-emitting structure. The display panel also includes a plurality of spacers and a plurality of anti-crosstalk pads. When being projected onto the array substrate, the orthogonal projection of each spacer is disposed between orthogonal projections of adjacent organic light-emitting structures. Each anti-crosstalk pad is disposed between a corresponding spacer and the fingerprint identification unit. An orthogonal projection of the anti-crosstalk pad onto the array substrate include a first region overlapping with the orthogonal projection of the spacer onto the array substrate. The anti-crosstalk pad blocks light scattered by the spacer from entering the at least one fingerprint identification unit.
US10430628B2
A slip processing device includes: an imaging unit that images an object; a barcode scanner that reads a barcode; and a processor configured to perform the following: causing the barcode scanner to scan a barcode on a slip to obtain an identification information on the slip; determining whether the obtaining of the identification information has succeeded; when the obtaining of the identification information has succeeded, causing the imaging unit to image the slip to obtain a slip image; and causing the identification information that has been obtained and the slip image that has been obtained to be stored in association with each other in a storage unit.
US10430627B2
The label creating device is configured to image the article and generate code information including first characteristic information indicating a characteristic of the article and first identification information associated with the article. The label creating device is configured to create the label on which the code information is printed. The information device is configured to image the article and the code information, to extract the first characteristic information and the first identification information from the code information, to analyze the characteristic of the article, to generate the second characteristic information, and to acquire the second identification information used for determining the first identification information. The information device is configured to determine whether the first characteristic information and the second characteristic information match each other, and whether the first identification information and the second identification information match each other.
US10430626B2
A workpiece having an identification code is arranged on a workpiece carrier having coded therein, by a pattern made from a plurality of mutually separate regions of different density, at least one character of the identification code. The workpiece and carrier are scanned together by computed tomography, the regions or part of the regions and the densities thereof in the computed tomography scan are ascertained, the scan is oriented in response to at least the location of a straight line through two of these regions, the character that is coded by way of the density pattern of the plurality of regions is determined in the scan, and the oriented scan is processed in response to the coded character.
US10430624B2
Disclosed are a reader device, system, and method for communicating with a wireless sensor. The reader device may be configured to analyze the strength of a response signal transmitted from the wireless sensor in response to an excitation pulse generated by the reader device. In one embodiment, the reader device may be configured to engage be placed in a plurality of modes to allow the reader to transmit a signal, such as a short pulse of energy or a short burst of radio frequency energy to cause the wireless sensor to output a resonant signal. The reader device may receive the resonant signal from the wireless sensor and evaluate it against predetermined values. The evaluated signals may be used to assess the strength and the proximity of the reader device relative to the wireless sensor as it is implanted in a patient.
US10430614B2
Approaches for transferring control to a bit set. Execution of a bit set upon a host operating system is monitored. A determination is made that the execution of the bit set exhibits a suspicious characteristic. In response, the execution of the bit set on the host operating system is ceased. Then, the bit set is copied into an isolated environment and control to the bit set is transferred within the isolated environment. Thereafter, execution analysis upon the bit set is initiated in the isolated environment. The isolated environment may, but need not, reside on a different physical device than upon which executes the host operating system.
US10430605B1
A differentially private system receives a request from a client to perform a query on data stored in a database. The differentially private system establishes a set of permissions of the client with respect to the data in the database. The differentially private system deconstructs the query into query components. The query components include at least one relation that identifies a dataset in the database and at least one expressions specifying an operation to be performed in the identified dataset. The differentially private system identifies permissions necessary to perform the specified operation on the identified dataset. The differentially private system determines whether the established permissions grants of the client include the identified permissions necessary to perform the specified operation on the identified dataset. The differentially private system selectively executes the query responsive to the determination.
US10430598B2
Various embodiments are described that relate to a generalized Bloom filter design methodology. The Bloom filter design methodology can be used for preventing Bloom filter-specific cyber-attacks instead of designing special-purpose Bloom filters that can be applied preventing a specific kind of attack for a given kind of communications networking environment. The resultant security functionalities that can be considered as a package for the generalized secure Bloom filter can include Identifier Modifications, Secure Indexes, Dynamic Salting, Independent Multiple Hash Functions, Random Bit Insertions, Fake Bit Injections, Secure Record Linkage, Single Bloom Filter with all Identifiers, and Encryption. The overall secure generalized Bloom filter algorithms can be devised along with numerous sub-algorithms for these functionalities for making the Bloom-filter-based communications over a network providing robust security, reliability, and availability, preventing known cyber-attacks.
US10430597B1
Techniques include: receiving a search query; identifying content responsive to the search query; identifying one or more members of a social networking service that have an association with identified content; and outputting, to a computing device, data corresponding to the one or more members, where data corresponding to the one or more members is for generating display areas, and where the display areas are for obtaining information about corresponding members and for display along with search results.
US10430596B2
The invention provides an information processing method. The information processing method is applied to a terminal that comprises a plurality of operating systems. The information processing method comprises: upon receiving an instruction of copying data information in an arbitrary operating system to a specified operating system among the plurality of operating systems, acquiring a target entering key of the specified operating system; and after copying the data information to the specified operating system, encrypting the data information in the arbitrary operating system by using the target entering key of the specified operating system, or not displaying the data information in the arbitrary operating system again. The technical solution guarantees that data are not lost and also guarantees that data are not easy to divulge. The invention also provides a terminal and a nonvolatile machine-readable medium.
US10430594B2
A system for generating at least one policy includes a static permission database containing a plurality of static permission records identifying access permissions for at least one credential holder to at least one resource, a policy database, and a processor to analyze the plurality of static permission records to generate the at least one policy, wherein an outcome of execution of the at least one policy corresponds to the plurality of static permission records.
US10430587B2
Described is a system and method for monitoring and enforcing information flow security in software systems. The system maintains security tags and reference counts for objects in computer memory. When an object or a portion of an object in the computer memory is being modified, the system arbitrarily performs operations of updating a security tag for the object being modified; updating reference counts for all objects that the portion of the object in the computer memory being modified pointed to immediately prior to modification; and updating reference counts for all objects that the portion of the object in the computer memory being modified points to immediately after the modification. Subsequently, the system examines the security tags and if the examination reveals a potential information flow security violation, a corrective action is performed.
US10430586B1
A non-transitory storage medium including instructions that are executable by one or more processors to perform operations including instrumenting a VM is shown. The VM is used to process an object to determine whether the object is associated with malware. Logic within the VM analyzes memory allocated for a process within the VM for a point of interest (POI), the POI being an address of one of a set predetermined instructions likely to be associated with malware. The VMM detects a memory violation during processing of the object and responsive to detecting the memory violation, injects a transition event at the POI on the page on which the POI is located in memory. Further, responsive to detecting an attempted execution of the transition event, the VMM (i) emulates an instruction located at the POI, and (ii) the logic within the VM performs one or more malware detection routines.
US10430581B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing telemetry to detect anomalous activity. One of the methods includes accessing data describing a telemetry tree that includes a plurality of nodes and edges; querying, for each of the edges in the telemetry tree using at least one value for the edge from a number of values, historical telemetry data that quantifies an anomaly score for each value to determine whether a relationship indicated by the edge in the telemetry tree represents a potentially malicious relationship; and performing an action using a result of the querying of the historical telemetry data that indicates whether one of the anomaly scores indicates that the relationship indicated by the edge in the telemetry tree represents a potentially malicious relationship.
US10430567B2
Embodiments include validating a user for performing a service procedure for a system and customizing the system for the user for the service procedure. An example computer-implemented method includes validating authorization of the user based on authentication data from a tag uniquely identifying the user. The method further includes receiving attribute data for the user from the tag. The method further includes generating and/or adapting a set of service procedure instructions that are customized for the user based on the attribute data. The method further includes displaying the set of service procedure instructions that are customized for the user.
US10430563B2
Systems and methods for entitlement tracking and control with blockchain technology are provided. A server node may receive usage information indicating usage of a licensed component by a remote device. The server node may generate a datablock that includes the usage information and append the datablock to a blockchain. The server node may acquire, from the blockchain, a license smart contract. The license smart contract may include control logic to control access to the license component. The server node may control access to the license component by the remote device based on the usage information and the control logic.
US10430557B2
Methods and systems for monitoring compliance of a patient with a prescribed treatment regimen are described. Patient activity is detected unobtrusively with an activity sensor at the patient location, and activity data is transmitted to a monitoring location. Patient speech detected during use of a communication system such as a mobile telephone by the patient may also be used as an activity signal. Patient activity and/or speech is processed at the patient location or monitoring location to identify activity parameters or patterns that indicate whether the patient has complied with the prescribed treatment regimen. The activity sensor and other components at the patient location may be incorporated into, or associated with, a cell phone, computing system, game system, or vehicle system, for example. The system may provide a report to an interested party, for example a medical care provider or insurance company, regarding patient compliance with the prescribed treatment regimen.
US10430547B2
A universal circuit design environment that designs universal circuits that can be applied to a variety of applications is disclosed. The system cross-references attribute requirements of each contemplated application against components to select application set components that are used to populate the universal design circuit environment for use in a universal circuit design. The set components are capable of satisfying every resolvable attribute requirement of the variety of applications, and the universal circuit may be designed with specialized inputs to set some attributes of the universal circuit. Preferably, the footprint of each set component and universal circuit is preserved between versions to allow for optimized updating between component versions.
US10430545B2
Simulation or calculation to estimate activity per unit in a chip design, combined with estimation of the specific location or region in which the unit logic will be finally placed, provides for calculation of an estimation of the activity distribution within the floorplan. Activity distribution estimation can be performed with fine granularity (at a gate level), at coarse granularity (at a macro level), or at an intermediate granularity (at a network-on-chip unit level). The estimation is displayed, visually, to a user of a design tool. Furthermore, the estimation is used to make manual or automatic optimizations of the floorplan and the location and configuration of units within the floorplan.
US10430543B2
A matrix is produced for a semiconductor design. Interactions between mask edges in forming semiconductor shapes are determined and a graph created that shows those interactions. The graph is then partitioned into groups using a coloring algorithm, with each group representing one or more non-interacting mask edges. A lithography simulation is performed for each group, with the edges of that group perturbed, but the edges of other groups unmoved. The partial derivatives are calculated for the edges of a group based on the simulation with those edges perturbed, and used to populate locations in a Jacobian matrix. The Jacobian matrix is then used to solve an Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) problem by finding a mask edge correction vector for a given wafer targeting error vector.
US10430541B2
Always-on (AO) tie cells, whose power supply has to remain on when the primary supply to the power domain is off, are used to implement logic constants. In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, insulated and non-insulated AO tie cells improve the QoR of the layout design and lower the power consumption.
US10430535B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor: where the memory stores first correspondence information in which, regarding each of regions delimited based on a level of possibility that a path included in a circuit does not meet timing constraints, region information representing the region and a range of a value of an item relating to delay of the path are associated with each other and second correspondence information in which, regarding a certain region, region information that represents the certain region and countermeasure information that represents a countermeasure against delay of the path whose value of the item corresponds to the certain region are associated with each other; and the processor outputs the countermeasure information by referring to the first and the second correspondence information, regarding a value of the item relating to delay of a path included in a target circuit of verification.
US10430532B2
A method, performed by a computer device, may include selecting one or more input and output points in an executable graphical model in a modeling application and simulating the executable graphical model over a plurality of time points. The method may further include generating a time domain response plot for the executable graphical model based on the simulating; obtaining matrices of partial derivatives based on the selected one or more input and output points at particular time points of the plurality of time points; generating a frequency domain response plot for the executable graphical model based on the obtained matrices of partial derivatives; and generating a bidomain simulator user interface, the bidomain simulator user interface including the generated time domain response plot and the generated frequency domain response plot.
US10430525B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reconfigurable spaces. One of the methods includes identifying plan information relating to a space under evaluation. Constraints related to structures associated with the plan information are identified. Input regarding uses or elements to be included in a reconfigurable design for the space is received. A library of elements for inclusion in the space is evaluated, including determining one or more reconfigurable elements that satisfy the received input. A first configuration of a reconfigurable element is determined including a first placement in a first design associated with the space, and the first design in accordance with the first configuration is presented. A second different configuration is determined, including a second placement in a second different design associated with the space, and the second different design in accordance with the second different configuration is presented.
US10430518B2
A word vector processing method is provided. Word segmentation is performed on a corpus to obtain words, and n-gram strokes corresponding to the words are determined. Each n-gram stroke represents n successive strokes of a corresponding word. Word vectors of the words and stroke vectors of the n-gram strokes are initialized corresponding to the words. After performing the word segmentation, the n-gram strokes are determined, and the word vectors and stroke vectors are determined, training the word vectors and the stroke vectors.
US10430517B1
An apparatus, system and method of providing an artificially intelligent (AI) agent capable of assisting information technology (IT) personnel in addressing an IT ticket. The AI agent may include a visualization interface for display capable of receiving dialog from the IT personnel related to the IT ticket; a translation module capable of translating the received dialog to at least one machine language translation; a solutions module capable of receiving the machine language translation, comparing the machine language to a plurality of prospective solutions for IT issues, and selecting a subset of the plurality of prospective solutions deemed most relevant to the IT ticket and returning that subset to the visualization interface; and a feedback module capable of receiving explicit and implied feedback from the IT personal regarding the machine language translation and the selected subset, wherein the selecting of the subset varies upon subsequent received dialog according to the feedback.
US10430516B2
Suggestions are automatically displayed in response to an event. For example, suggestions may be automatically displayed in response to a receiving an indication from a user to enter content (e.g. receiving a selection of a content entry area). The suggestions may be displayed before a user enters any characters and before an input device is displayed and/or used (e.g. keyboard, Software Input Panel (SIP), and the like. Suggestions may also be automatically displayed in response to detecting a pause while a user is entering content. For example, when a user is actively entering content, suggestions are not automatically displayed but when a user pauses a predetermined amount while entering content, suggestions are automatically displayed. The suggestions may be determined from content that may be seen on a display and/or hidden from view (e.g. hidden rows in a spreadsheet).
US10430504B1
An example method includes receiving an input via a computing device indicative of a request to display a plurality of visual identifiers, each visual identifier corresponding to a different respective version of a document stored in at least one remote document management system. The method also includes receiving information from the document management system, determining a chronological sequence associated with displaying the plurality of visual identifiers; and generating a respective visual identifier representative of each version of the document. The method also includes displaying the visual identifiers on a display of the computing device according to the chronological sequence.
US10430496B2
As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, respective sets of media content data, having disparate formats, are received from disparate content providers. The content is reformatted into a common format type and restructured into renditions having an article-oriented structure. Reformatted assets are generated for each rendition based upon characteristics of devices by which the renditions are to be accessed. Device-indeterminate ID linking data is generated for linking portions of each rendition with the media content data received from the content providers.
US10430492B1
A system and method for determining the location of a wireless handset on a premises is described. The system comprises a plurality of beacons and a plurality of sensors associated with the premises. The sensors are configured to detect a radio frequency signal comprising a signal identifier from the beacons. A plurality of virtual reference point fingerprints are generated based on the beacon signal strengths detected by the sensors. The virtual reference points comprise signal strengths for each of the plurality of beacons estimated at intervals throughout the premises. The system further comprises a wireless handset configured to receive a handset fingerprint comprising a signal identifier and a signal strength from the beacons. The location of the wireless handset is determined based on a comparison between the handset fingerprint signal strengths and the signal strengths of a subset of the virtual reference point fingerprints.
US10430491B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating between applications. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a system for communicating between applications where the system includes a Rich Internet Application and a control room within a server system The Rich Internet Application broadcasts information to the control room and the control room broadcasts the information to applications connected to the system. Moreover the Rich Internet Application also transmits low priority information to a web application for delayed logging and processing.
US10430487B2
A system to share content utilizing universal link format is described. The system may an access request detector, a universal link interpreter, and a communication module. The access request detector may detect a request to access target content provided by a resource host computer. The universal link interpreter may determine that the request is associated with a uniform resource locator (URL) that comprises one or more directives for directing the requested content to an execution environment suitable for a platform of the client computer, may determine a platform of the client computer, and determine execution environment for the requested target content. The universal link interpreter may then interpret the one or more directives in the URL, based on the determined execution environment.
US10430484B2
Methods and apparatus related to determining points of interest based on content of one or more sources associated with a user. Relevance scores are determined for the points of interest based on additional information associated with the user and the content. Point of interest information that is related to the points of interest is provided based on the determined relevance scores.
US10430481B2
There is disclosed a computer-implemented method of generating a content recommendation for a user of an electronic device, the method executable by a recommendation, the content recommendation being associated with a content item available at one of a plurality of network resources accessible via the communication network. The method comprises: executing a first machine learning algorithm module in order to determine a sub-set of recommended content sources from a plurality of possible content sources that is based on at least some of a first sub-set of user-specific content sources and a generated second sub-set of user-non-specific content sources; analyzing the sub-set of recommended content sources to select a plurality of potentially-recommendable content items; executing a second machine learning algorithm module in order to select, from the plurality of potentially-recommendable content items, at least one recommended content item; the selection being made on the basis of a user-profile-vector.
US10430476B2
A method for identifying products associated with items of content, including: receiving, by a server from a first client device, a first request for a first item of content; retrieving, by the server from data storage, the first item of content in response to the first request for the first item of content; retrieving, by the server from data storage, an identification of an Internet search request transmitted by a second client device within a predetermined temporal window of playback of the first item of content by the second client device; retrieving, by the server from data storage, a second item of content selected in response to the Internet search request transmitted by the second client device; and providing, by the server to the first client device, the first and second items of content.
US10430473B2
Architecture for deep mining of network resource references such as URLs. The architecture includes an extraction component configured to extract useful entity information from a collection of entity information, the collection of entity information derived from local search data; a distributed processing component configured to distributively query a search engine using the useful entity information and receive search results from the search engine, the search results comprising resource references; and, a selection component configured to remove non-relevant resource references to obtain candidate resource references and select a top resource reference from the candidate resource references, using an unsupervised machine learning algorithm.
US10430471B2
An information acquisition system includes: a mobile terminal; and an information search system. The information search system searches for information on a route based on route information input from the mobile terminal and transmits a search result to the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal includes a navigation unit that navigates the route from a departure point to a destination. The information search system includes: a database in which information on the route is stored in correspondence with the route information; and an information search server that searches for the information on the route from the database based on the route information and acquires reservation information for transportation on the route based on the information on the route from a reservation system of the transportation, and the information search server transmits the reservation information to the mobile terminal together with the information on the route.
US10430467B2
A method and system provide the ability to determine matching subjects for features provided in a stimulus. Subject information is pre-processed by receiving input (a feature type definition and a subject set) and building BitSets across all subjects in the subject set. The stimulus is received and includes stimulus features. For each feature type in the stimulus features, all feature type BitSets from the subject set that match are assembled. An evaluation BitSet is built by combining the assembled feature type BitSets. Matching subjects that match the stimulus are determined based on the evaluation BitSet.
US10430464B1
Systems and methods for adding labels to a graph are disclosed. One system includes a plurality of computing devices including processors and memory storing an input graph generated based on a source data set, where an edge represents a similarity measure between two nodes in the input graph, the input graph being distributed across the plurality of computing devices, and some of the nodes are seed nodes associated with one or more training labels from a set of labels, each training label having an associated original weight. The memory may also store instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the plurality of distributed computing devices to propagate the training labels through the input graph using a sparsity approximation for label propagation, resulting in learned weights for respective node and label pairs, and automatically update the source data set using node and label pairs selected based on the learned weights.
US10430446B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to semantic indexing to improve search results of a large corpus. Some embodiments, with at least one of the keywords of the search query encoded by a semantic vector in a semantic vector space, identify a plurality of candidate publications in the publication corpus, the plurality of candidate publications encoded by a cluster of a plurality of semantic vectors in the semantic vector space, the identifying based on proximity in the semantic vector space between the at least one of the keywords of the search query and keywords in the plurality of candidate publications, the proximity based on a first machine-learned model that projects the at least one keyword in the search query and the keywords in the plurality of candidate publications into the semantic vector space.
US10430443B2
A method for data storage implemented in a data storage system is disclosed. Data storage nodes may be interconnected by means of a communications network. The method may include sending a request for a first data item to a plurality of storage nodes. The first data item may include a reference to a second data item stored in the storage system. The method may include receiving the first data item from at least one storage node, and sending a request for the second data item to the plurality of storage nodes based on the reference included in the first data item.
US10430437B2
Disclosed is a system for automated archival and synchronization that includes a processor and a memory, wherein archival, partition, and synchronization applications are stored in the memory. The system is typically configured for: identifying triggering of an event and establishing a communication link between a source system and a destination system, determining that the event meets archival criteria and initiating archival process, wherein the archival process comprises determining that a first configuration of the source system does not match the second configuration of the destination system and synchronizing the second configuration with the first configuration, migrating a first set of data from the source system to update a second set of data in the destination system based on determining a change in the first set of data, and compressing the updated second set of data in the destination system.
US10430435B2
In a recurring revenue management system, a first unit of data and a second unit of data is received. Content is extracted from the first unit of data and the second unit of data based on one or more parameters of a predefined data object that is part of an asset data model. The extracted content is added to an instance of the predefined data object, and a reference tag with identification information for its associated content is associated with the content extracted from each of the first unit of data and the second unit of data. A duplicate data condition can be detected and resolved by applying a predefined approach to conflict resolution based on the identification information in the reference tags of the content of the first unit of data and the second unit of data. Related methods, systems, and computer program products are also described.
US10430431B2
A course recommendation system is provided with an on-line social network system. The course recommendation system detects that an electronic presentation is being presented on a display device of a viewer, determines skills that are being discussed in the electronic presentation, and determines electronic courses that have been identified as associated with one or more skills discussed in the electronic presentation. References to one or more of the determined electronic courses are recommended to the viewer of the electronic presentation.
US10430428B2
Smart mapping is provided. A smart mapping system (SMS) and method identify an information source (IS) as an intended recipient of an information request item by matching one or more data elements in a dataset associated with an information request (IR) item with an IS candidate stored in a mapping database. An IS candidate may be an exact match, or a partial match with a highest match agreement score. The SMS provides for notifying an information requestor in real time or near real time when a match is determined or when a plurality of matching IS candidates are identified, such that a user is enabled to select an intended IS, or provide additional input. When a trend associated with matching particular data items to a particular IS candidate is identified, the SMS may add mapping property values to the mapping database for refining and improving the system.
US10430427B2
An on-line social network system includes or is in communication with a search engine optimization (SEO) system that is configured to partition a number of available links from authoritative web pages to Job Search Results Rages (JSERPs) in a way that maximizes gain expressed by a predetermined metric, such as, a metric representing a number of certain type of events observed over a period of time or an improvement in respective ranks generated for the JSERPs by a third party search engine.
US10430423B1
A system and method for translating and matching attributes in data records that describe travel items is provided. In an embodiment, a plurality of records is received from a plurality of data sources. Record parsing logic is used divide strings in the records into individual words and match single words in the plurality of records to attributes. Using the matched attributes, record comparison logic creates a confidence score that describes the likelihood that two records describe the same listing or inventory item. If the confidence score exceeds a given threshold, the records are determined to match. A consolidated record is then created from the two matched records.
US10430418B2
An action framework system provides context-based actions in association with a source application. The source application detects selection of a content element presented by the source application. The content element is associated with an application identifier identifying a target application and an action identifier identifying an operation to be executed by the target application on the content element. The target application identified by the application identifier is executed to perform the operation identified by the action identifier on the content element, responsive to detection of the selection of the content element. In one implementation, the source application is a search feature providing different contexts of search results (e.g., from a local file system search, a local application content search, a Web search, a remote application content search).
US10430414B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for sharing an environment context. When an environment context of a first user is lacking, a context awareness platform can acquire an environment context of a second user adjacent to a first user, and provide, to the first user for accessing an application device such that when a user accesses an application in non-smart space or different smart space, the user can also obtain an environment context lacked by the user, and therefore the embodiments of the present disclosure have strong commonality.
US10430410B2
As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, for enabling a SPARQL explain tool that provides query execution statistics via an explain plan includes initiating a database query comprising a SPARQL query pattern, optimizing the database query according to query semantics and database metadata to produce an optimized query, and generating an explain plan for the optimized query. The explain plan may include a sequence of operations and an execution time, an input, and an output for each operation of the sequence of operations. A computer system, and a computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.
US10430405B2
An approach is provided to correct documents ingested by a question answering (QA) system. A document previously ingested by the QA system is selected. A correction to the selected document is identified from one or more correction sources and the correction is applied to the selected document within the QA system. In one embodiment, the correction source is a non-ingested document, such as a published document or an issued correction. In another embodiment, the correction source is a post in a forum. In this embodiment, a statement in the ingested document is compared with a contradictory statement found in an ingested post of a threaded discussion. The statement and the contradictory statement are evaluated by the QA system. The statement in the ingested document is replaced with the contradictory statement in response to the evaluation revealing that the contradictory statement is correct and that the statement is incorrect.
US10430385B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for limited deduplication scope on a distributed file system is discussed. A write request is received from a client at the metadata server (“MDS”), where the write request comprises a data object identifier and a preferred object store identifier. The MDS determines whether a preferred object store associated with the preferred object store identifier contains a copy of a data object associated with the data object identifier. A write URL comprising the data object identifier and a object store location associated with the preferred object store is transmitted to the client when the preferred object store does not contain the copy of the data object.
US10430384B1
A write request is transmitted from a client to a metadata server (“MDS”), wherein the write request comprises an object identifier associated with a data object. An object store location is received for an object store from the MDS. A metadata request is transmitted to the object store using the object store location, wherein the metadata request includes the object identifier. A metadata response is received from the object store. Determine the metadata response contains an object designator. A count associated with a mapping between the object identifier and the object designator is incremeneted, wherein the mapping resides on an object version manager shared with a second MDS.
US10430378B1
Storage system accelerated techniques to distribute and run containerized applications are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication to run a container is received. A snapshot identifier comprising an image data associated with the container is used to create a clone based on a snapshot with which the snapshot identifier is associated. The clone is used to store data associated with at least a topmost layer of the container.
US10430361B1
A write blocking system may include a host computer. The host computer may include a host processor configured as a blocking driver. A separate connection interface device may be is configured to be operatively coupled to the host computer, and include a drive socket and a processor assembly. The drive socket may be connected to a storage drive. The processor assembly may communicate with the blocking driver while the connection interface device is operatively coupled to the host computer. The processor assembly may selectively establish communication between the storage drive and the host computer after communication between the processor assembly and the blocking driver. The blocking driver may prevent the host computer from altering data stored on the connected storage drive.
US10430358B2
An HDMI apparatus and a method for controlling the same are provided. The HDMI apparatus includes an HDMI connection port, a control circuit, a master circuit, a slave circuit, and a switch circuit. The master circuit and the slave circuit are respectively configured to generate a master HDMI output signal and a slave HDMI output signal. The switch circuit is selectively conducted in a first conductive state and a second conductive state according to a control signal generated by the control circuit. In the first conductive state, the switch circuit is electrically connected to the master circuit, so that the master HDMI output signal is output through the HDMI connection port. In the second conductive state, the switch circuit is electrically connected to the slave circuit, so that the slave HDMI output signal is output through the HDMI connection port.
US10430354B2
An apparatus to facilitate source synchronous signaling is disclosed. The apparatus includes transfer protocol logic to provide for source synchronous transfer of data within an interconnect fabric, including one or more synchronizers having logic to a transmit data signal and a source clock (clk) signal during the transfer of data.
US10430351B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a peripheral device, and a service processor communicatively coupled to the processor and the peripheral device and configured to perform out-of-band management of the information handling system. The service processor may further configured to communicatively couple to a management controller having executing thereon a virtual service processor, receive a command associated with the peripheral device from the management controller, deliver the command to the peripheral device, receive data from the peripheral device, and communicate the data to the management controller.
US10430346B2
A method of accessing a persistent memory over a memory interface is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes allocating a virtual address range comprising virtual memory pages to be associated with physical pages of a memory buffer and marking each page table entry associated with the virtual address range as not having a corresponding one of the physical pages of the memory buffer. The method further includes generating a page fault when one or more of the virtual memory pages within the virtual address range is accessed and mapping page table entries of the virtual memory pages to the physical pages of the memory buffer. The method further includes transferring data between a physical page of the persistent memory and one of the physical pages of the memory buffer mapped to a corresponding one of the virtual memory pages.
US10430335B2
A cache controller with a pattern recognition mechanism can identify patterns in cache lines. Instead of transmitting the entire data of the cache line to a destination device, the cache controller can generate a meta signal to represent the identified bit pattern. The cache controller transmits the meta signal to the destination in place of at least part of the cache line.
US10430333B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to provide a first interface between a first storage device and a host device, and provide a second interface directly between the first storage device and a second storage device. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10430328B2
Systems and methods for configuring, controlling and operating a non-volatile cache are disclosed. A host system may poll a memory system as to the memory system's configuration of its non-volatile cache. Further, the host system may configure the non-volatile cache on the memory system, such as the size of the non-volatile cache and the type of programming for the non-volatile cache (e.g., whether the non-volatile cache is programmed according to SLC or the type of TRIM used to program cells in the non-volatile cache). Moreover, responsive to a command from the host to size the non-volatile cache, the memory system may over or under provision the cache. Further, the host may control operation of the non-volatile cache, such as by sending selective flush commands.
US10430327B2
Systems and methods for virtual machine based huge page balloon support are provided. A guest operating system (OS) receives a request from a hypervisor for guest memory to be made available to a host operating system (OS). The guest OS further receives a huge page size of a host page and a quantity of requested guest memory. The guest OS then allocates unused guest memory and transmits at least one address of the allocated guest memory to the hypervisor, where the allocated guest memory is a contiguous block of memory that is at least the size of the huge page size and aligned to the size of the huge page size.
US10430324B2
A system for automated mobile application testing and activity monitoring where the mobile app runs on one of a plurality of available mobile devices running an operating system supported by the testing system. The automated testing system intelligently exercises each user interface element on each screen of the test mobile app for expected function, creating a graphical map of screen relationship and links in the process. Summary reports on user interface element function, mobile app usability and programming remediation hints on detailed pages may be displayed or sent to a client's software engineer task tracking package.
US10430318B1
The disclosed method may include (1) identifying a software update that includes at least one software function that has changed since a previous software update, (2) determining, based at least in part on the software update, one or more call paths that include (A) the software function that has changed since the previous software update and (B) at least one additional software function, (3) mapping the changed software function to one or more test scripts, (4) mapping the additional software function to one or more additional test scripts, (5) identifying at least one test script that is commonly mapped to both the changed software function and the additional software function, and then (6) performing a regression test by executing the test script that is mapped to both the changed software function and the additional software function. Various other systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10430317B2
Techniques are described for managing creation and/or implementation of compliance-based procedures and policies for computing environments executing software programs using computing resources. In at least some situations, the described techniques include performing one or more defined compliance tests on a target computing environment by employing user-defined and/or predefined compliance profiles to test one or more computing resources in the target computing environment. Profiles typically include one or more user-defined or predefined controls that each includes one or more compliance tests, which in turn utilize one or more user-defined or predefined testing-implementation modules to execute the tests. Profiles can introduce dependencies so that one profile can access and utilize the controls or testing-implementation modules in other profiles. A user can dynamically execute a profile, and/or profiles can be scheduled for execution (e.g., so that multiple target computing environments can be tested simultaneously or at different times).
US10430315B2
A method for classifying warning messages generated by software developer tools includes receiving a first data set. The first data set includes a first plurality of data entries, where each data entry is associated with a warning message generated based on a first set of software codes, includes indications for a plurality of features, and is associated with one of a plurality of class labels. A second data set is generated by sampling the first data set. Based on the second data set, at least one feature is selected from the plurality of features. A third data set is generated by filtering the second data set with the selected at least one feature. A machine learning classifier is determined based on the third data set. The machine learning classifier is used to classify a second warning message generated based on a second set of software codes to one of the plurality of class labels.
US10430304B2
Described herein are methods, systems, and software for accommodating failover of a content node in a content delivery network. In one example, a method of operating a control node includes receiving content requests issued by end user devices. The method further provides, for at least a first content request, mapping a first connection between a first end user device and a first content node, the first connection defined by at least a network address of the first end user device and a virtual next hop network address, and directing traffic associated with the first connection to the first content node using at least the virtual next hop network address. The method also includes identifying a service interruption associated with the first content node and, responsive to the service interruption, identifying a second content node to handle the communications for the first connection.
US10430301B2
Provided is a processor system including a first processor driven by a first driving voltage and a first driving clock, a second processor driven by a second driving voltage and a second driving clock and configured to perform an identical task to the first processor, and a defect detector configured to perform level synchronization or clock domain synchronization on a first output signal provided from the first processor and a second output signal provided from the second processor to compare the first and second output signals, wherein the first and second driving voltages are respectively provided from mutually independent power supply sources and the first and second driving clocks are respectively provided from mutually independent clock generators.
US10430298B2
The subject disclosure relates to a database recovery technique that implements various aspects of transaction logging to optimize database recovery performance. Transactions are logged logically with no reference to physical location, which enables logging to be performed via multiple independent log streams in parallel. A set of log streams can further be adjusted to conform to a local configuration of a mirror or secondary node in order to increase mirroring flexibility. Additionally, individual transactions or groups of transactions are recorded using a single log record, which contains timestamp information to enable database recovery without reference to physical checkpoint files. Further, techniques are provided herein for processing transactions without Write Ahead Logging or hardening of undo information. As further described herein, a transaction can be committed via a set of hierarchical stages, which in turn can facilitate integration of an in-memory database system with one or more external database systems.
US10430288B2
A data backup method and a data recovery method are provided. The data backup method includes: updating a main information table and a sub information table and generating physical unit information according to an erase count and a physical unit status of a physical unit; writing the physical unit information into the physical unit before writing data into the empty physical unit; writing the main information table and the sub information table into a rewritable non-volatile memory module according to corresponding conditions. The data recovery method includes: writing a latest main information table stored in a rewritable non-volatile memory module into a memory; updating the main information table in the memory according to a sub information table which is newer than the main information table; and updating the main information table in the memory according to physical unit information which is newer than the sub information table.
US10430287B2
A computer for executing processing through use of a database, the computer comprising: a processor including a cache memory; and a non-volatile memory coupled to the processor, the non-volatile memory having the database constructed thereon. The computer comprises: a database management module configured to execute processing on the database; and a write processing module configured to write data stored in the cache memory into the database. The write processing module writes data that is operated in the transaction processing into the database among data stored in the cache memory, in a case of receiving a commit request for transaction processing that uses the database.
US10430277B2
A method includes identifying an encoded slice for rebuilding. The method further includes determining whether the set of encoded slices is stored in an encrypted section of a vault or within an unencrypted section of the vault. The method further includes, when the set of encoded slices is stored in the unencrypted section of the vault, determining whether the set of storage units have viewing rights. The method further includes, when the set of storage units does not have the viewing rights, enabling a restricted rebuilding process to rebuild the encoded slice. The method further includes, when the set or storage units does have the viewing rights, enable an unrestricted rebuilding process to rebuild the encoded slice.
US10430276B2
A method includes receiving an DSN access request, identifying an DSN address of the DSN access request, identifying one or more DS processing units affiliated with the DSN address. The method further includes selecting a DS processing unit of the one or more DS processing units based on DS processing attributes, determining if the selected DS processing unit is associated with a favorable availability level and, when it is determined that a favorable availability level does not exist, deterministically selecting another of the one or more DS processing units and, when it is determined that a favorable availability level does exist, forwarding the DSN access request to the selected DS processing unit to be processed for storage in one or more DSN storage units.
US10430275B2
In general, according to an embodiment, a memory system includes a memory device including a memory cell; and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive first data from the memory cell in a first data reading; receive second data from the memory cell in a second data reading that is different from the first data reading; convert a first value that is based on the first data and the second data, to a second value in accordance with a first relationship; and convert the first value to a third value in accordance with a second relationship that is different from the first relationship.
US10430273B2
Systems and methods for recovering corrupted data or missing data from a cache are provided. When a data corruption is discovered in a storage system, the cache may be searched to determine if a valid copy of the corrupted data can be recovered from the cache.
US10430269B2
Methods and systems for performing root cause analysis for an assembly line including a plurality of nodes using path tracking. One method includes receiving tracking data identifying a subset of the plurality of nodes processing a product produced by the assembly line and receiving approval data associated with the assembly line identifying whether each product produced by the assembly line fails an approval metric. The method also includes enumerating a plurality of paths through the assembly line based on the tracking data and determining a failure rate for each of the plurality of paths based on the approval data. In addition, the method includes identifying a malfunctioning path included in the plurality of paths based on the failure rate for each of the plurality of paths, identifying a malfunctioning node based on the malfunctioning path, and performing an automatic action to address the malfunctioning node.
US10430262B2
Apparatus having an array of memory cells include a controller configured to read a particular memory cell of a last written page of memory cells of a block of memory cells of the array of memory cells, determine whether a threshold voltage of the particular memory cell is less than a particular voltage level, and mark the last written page of memory cells as affected by power loss during a programming operation of the last written page of memory cells when the threshold voltage of the particular memory cell is determined to be higher than the particular voltage level.
US10430260B2
A troubleshooting method implemented by a processor device is provided, comprising determining, according to collected information of correctable errors, that a correctable error storm has occurred, disabling a system management interrupt (SMI) of generation modules of correctable errors in a correctable error set, wherein the correctable error set comprises correctable errors related to the correctable error storm, sending SMI-disabled notification information to a baseboard management controller (BMC), receiving enable-SMI notification information that is sent by the BMC after a predetermined time elapses after the SMI-disabled notification information has been received, and enabling the disabled SMI of the generation modules of the correctable errors according to the enable-SMI notification information.
US10430259B2
Systems and methods are provided for data object validation using multilayer computing environments. A dashboard monitor initiates monitoring of a listener component belonging to a processing center core layer for changes in data objects stored in a data store. The listener component monitors a data maintenance component for changed data objects recorded in a changed objects list stored within the listener component. A daemon framework orchestrates compliance validation of the changed data objects with policies stored in another data store. Compliance of the changed data objects with the policies based on validation rules is validated by a shadow processing component. Real time results associated with the validated compliance are provided to a user interface dashboard.
US10430253B2
Provided a method, system, and article of manufacture for updating workflow nodes in a workflow. A workflow program processes user input at one node in a workflow comprised of nodes and workflow paths connecting the nodes, wherein the user provides user input to traverse through at least one workflow path to reach the current node. The workflow program transmits information on a current node to an analyzer. The analyzer processes the information on the current node to determine whether there are modifications to at least one subsequent node following the current node over at least one workflow path from the current node. The analyzer transmits to the workflow program an update including modifications to the at least one subsequent node in response to determining the modifications.
US10430248B2
A method of managing virtual resources executing on a hardware platform that employs sensors to monitor the health of hardware resources of the hardware platform, includes filtering sensor data from the hardware platform and combining the sensor data with a fault model for the hardware platform to generate a health score, receiving an inventory that maps the virtual resources to the hardware resources of the hardware platform, receiving resource usage data describing use of the hardware resources of the hardware platform by the virtual resources, and generating resource utilization metrics from the resource usage data. The method includes receiving policy data specifying rules applicable to the inventory, determining a set of recommendations for changes to the inventory based on the health score, the resource usage data, and the policy data, and executing at least one recommendation to implement the changes to the inventory.
US10430243B2
A runtime system for distributing work between multiple threads in multi-socket shared memory machines that may support fine-grained scheduling of parallel loops. The runtime system may implement a request combining technique in which a representative thread requests work on behalf of other threads. The request combining technique may be asynchronous; a thread may execute work while waiting to obtain additional work via the request combining technique. Loops can be nested within one another, and the runtime system may provide control over the way in which hardware contexts are allocated to the loops at the different levels. An “inside out” approach may be used for nested loops in which a loop indicates how many levels are nested inside it, rather than a conventional “outside in” approach to nesting.
US10430242B2
Systems and methods provide an extensible, multi-stage, realtime application program processing load adaptive, manycore data processing architecture shared dynamically among instances of parallelized and pipelined application software programs, according to processing load variations of said programs and their tasks and instances, as well as contractual policies. The invented techniques provide, at the same time, both application software development productivity, through presenting for software a simple, virtual static view of the actually dynamically allocated and assigned processing hardware resources, together with high program runtime performance, through scalable pipelined and parallelized program execution with minimized overhead, as well as high resource efficiency, through adaptively optimized processing resource allocation.
US10430230B2
The use of a skip element when redoing transactions, so as to avoid tracking dependencies between transactions assigned to different threads for parallel processing. When the second thread comes to a second task in the course of redoing a second transaction, if a first task that is mooted by the second task is not already performed, the second thread inserts a skip element associated with the object to be operated upon by the particular task, instead of actually performing the particular task upon the object. When the first thread later comes to the first task in the course of redoing a first transaction, the first thread encounters the skip element associated with the object. Accordingly, instead of performing the dependee task, the first thread skips the dependee task and perhaps removes the skip element. The result is the same regardless of whether the first or second task is redone first.
US10430218B2
Systems and methods for managing demand for virtual computing resources are disclosed. A demand forecasting service can obtain and analyze historical demand data for purposes of predicting future demand. The analysis includes identifying untargeted demand corresponding to requests for virtual machine instances that can be fulfilled by any availability zone of a set of zones. The demand forecasting service may provide predictions of future demand including information regarding future untargeted demand, thereby enabling efficient allocation of computing resources among various availability zones to meet the future demand.
US10430217B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a first virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) determining that the first VIM is to be an active manager of a plurality of virtual machines running on a plurality of host devices and that a second VIM is to be a standby manager of the plurality of virtual machines. The first VIM selects a first host device from the plurality of host devices to serve as a passive witness node in arbitrating active and standby roles between the first VIM and second VIM. The first host device runs one or more virtual machines and is managed by the active manager. The first VIM selects a first host device by confirming that the first host device is available to each of the first VIM and the second VIM. The first VIM writes a file on the first host device indicating that the first VIM is the active manager.
US10430206B1
A firmware can include multiple features for multiple users enabled based on the presence of authenticated variables. When attempting to access functionality of a feature, the firmware will check for the presence of an authenticated variable corresponding to the feature. The authenticated variable for the feature may be installed by a user. The firmware may data to enable a feature that includes an authenticated variable for enabling the feature and an authenticated variable corresponding to an end-user of the firmware. If the firmware has access to the end-user authenticated variable, the feature authenticated variable is installed.
US10430205B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a method for changing a multi-processor system from a performance mode to a safety mode while the system continues to run software. When an external event or exception occurs, context is switched from the performance mode to the safety mode. After context is switched, at least one pair of CPUs is synchronized to operate in the safety mode. In addition, a multi-processor system may be switched form the safety mode to the performance mode while the software continues to operate.
US10430193B2
A processor includes a first mode where the processor is not to use packed data operation masking, and a second mode where the processor is to use packed data operation masking. A decode unit to decode an unmasked packed data instruction for a given packed data operation in the first mode, and to decode a masked packed data instruction for a masked version of the given packed data operation in the second mode. The instructions have a same instruction length. The masked instruction has bit(s) to specify a mask. Execution unit(s) are coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit(s), in response to the decode unit decoding the unmasked instruction in the first mode, to perform the given packed data operation. The execution unit(s), in response to the decode unit decoding the masked instruction in the second mode, to perform the masked version of the given packed data operation.
US10430177B2
The invention is a method of updating a first executable code comprised in a first package in a secure element, a class instance being instantiated from said first package and comprising instance data. The method comprises the following steps: loading in the secure element an upgrade file comprising a second executable code and creating a second package from said upgrade file, changing said first executable code for said second executable code by replacing a reference to the first package by a reference to the second package in a package list stored in the secure element, while leaving the class instance alive and said instance data unchanged.
US10430175B2
A thermostat for a building includes a communications interface communicably coupled to an HVAC network and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configure to determine that a HVAC device is connected to the HVAC network and retrieve a software update from the HVAC device via the communications interface and install the software update in response to a determination that the thermostat must install the software update in order to be configured to communicate with the HVAC device.
US10430173B2
A computing device for receiving an update package comprising a plurality of updates for a plurality of hardware and/or software components of the computer device. An update engine may determine a time order for performing the updates based on relationships and groupings of the updates. The update engine may identify common groupings, interdependent groupings, and any independent updates in the received update package. The update engine may perform a common grouping update method for all identified common groupings and an interdependent grouping update method for all identified interdependent groupings. In the circumstance that all updates in the update package are determined to be independent updates, the update engine may perform an independent update method that enables a selected independent component to be made available at the beginning of the update period, while other components are updated and enabled, and then the selected independent component is updated last.
US10430170B2
A system for deploying software includes a processor programmed to identify a collection of deployable elements for use in deploying the software. The instructions also include instructions to receive information associating, with the collection of deployable elements, an item and an activity that is to be performed, using the item, when the software is deployed to a specified type of computing system. The instructions also include instructions to, using at least one of the collection of deployable elements, deploy the software to the specified type of computing system, and in response to a deployment of the software to the specified type of computing system, initiate performance of the activity.
US10430162B2
In this application, example methods for performing quantum Montgomery arithmetic are disclosed. Additionally, circuit implementations are disclosed for reversible modular arithmetic, including modular addition, multiplication and inversion, as well as reversible elliptic curve point addition. This application also shows that elliptic curve discrete logarithms on an elliptic curve defined over an n-bit prime field can be computed on a quantum computer with at most 9n+2┌log2(n)┐+10 qubits using a quantum circuit of at most 512n3 log2(n)+3572n3 Toffoli gates.
US10430160B2
The method for generating a random bit sample involves a quantum tunneling barrier. The method generally has: generating a current of charges tunneling across said quantum tunneling barrier, the current of the tunneled charges having an instantaneous level varying randomly due to quantum tunneling fluctuations and forming a raw signal; from said raw signal, obtaining a raw bit sample having a first bit number n, the first bit number n being an integer; extracting the randomness out of the raw bit sample into the random bit sample, the random bit sample having a second bit number m being smaller than the first bit number n, said extracting being based on calibration data comprising at least a quantum contribution value of said quantum tunneling fluctuations in said raw bit sample; and on an external contribution value in said raw bit sample.
US10430158B2
Implementations provide user access to software functionality. In some implementations, a method includes selecting one or more portions of text. The method also includes employing the one or more portions to select software functionality. The method also includes presenting one or more user interface controls in combination with a representation of the text, where the one or more user interface controls includes a user selectable outline around one or more keywords in combination with a drop-down menu.
US10430157B2
A speech recognition method and apparatus are provided, in which the speech recognition apparatus may recognize a user feature and a speech recognition environment, determine a speech recognition speed for performing speech recognition based on one of the recognized user feature and the speech recognition environment, and perform the speech recognition based on the determined speech recognition speed.
US10430141B2
A display method and apparatus of a portable terminal are provided. A given application is executed on the portable terminal and the executed application is entered into a division mode. At least one device other than the portable terminal is set to output at least one of a plurality of layers of the executed application. The at least one layer is transmitted to the at least one device.
US10430138B2
In a case where the setting information does not include a frequency band information corresponding to the first frequency band and does not include a frequency band information corresponding to the second frequency band or in a case where the setting information includes the frequency band information corresponding to the first frequency band and the frequency band information corresponding to the second frequency band, the communication apparatus wirelessly connects with the external apparatus using the first frequency band with priority than the second frequency.
US10430136B2
A multifunctional image forming apparatus includes: a communication device communicable with a server providing a service related to image formation with the user; a display operation device having a display function, for receiving a user operation; and an image forming unit for forming an image in response to a user instruction received through the display operation device. The multifunctional image forming apparatus receives an input operation by the user through the display operation device, displays a screen in accordance with the input operation and, in addition, executes a user registration process for the service provided by the server through communication with the server through the communication device, and displays a screen thereof.
US10430127B2
In one example of the disclosure, for each of a plurality of printers of a printer fleet, identification data indicative of marking agent cartridges installed is obtained via a network. The identification data is caused to be stored in association with a fleet identifier for the printer fleet. A request for fleet installation information with respect to a first marking agent cartridge is received from a computing device. It is determined, based upon the identification data, whether a first marking agent cartridge was previously installed at a printer of the printer fleet. Determination data indicative of the determination is sent to the computing device.
US10430126B2
In a method for printing a plurality of print jobs on a flat bed printer, each print job specifies an image receiving area with a given shape and given dimensions where an image is to be printed on a recording medium. Each of the print jobs includes a number of sub-jobs specifying image layers to be printed in a predetermined print order, with print settings being individually assigned to each sub-job. The method includes grouping the sub-jobs by their print settings; nesting the image receiving areas of the print jobs on a flat bed of the printer; and printing the sub jobs group by group, with sub-jobs of the same group and from different print jobs being printed in common steps of scanning the flat bed. The scanning steps are performed in a scan order which preserves the print order in each print job.
US10430116B2
Devices and techniques for correcting for power loss in NAND memory devices are disclosed herein. The NAND memory devices may comprise a number of physical pages. For example, a memory controller may detect a power loss indicator at the NAND flash memory. The memory controller may identify a last-written physical page and determine whether the last-written physical page comprises more than a threshold number of low-read-margin cells. If the last-written physical page comprises more than the threshold number of low-read-margin cells, the memory controller may provide a programming voltage to at least the low-read-margin cells.
US10430114B2
Apparatuses and methods for performing buffer operations in memory are provided. A method can include storing second page data and third page data on a buffer while programming first page data during a first pass programming operation and programming the second page data and the third page data from the buffer to the array of memory cells during a second pass programming operation.
US10430110B2
A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by instructing computing nodes to suppress write requests. Once pending write requests from the computing nodes are completed, storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot and finalizes and performs garbage collection with respect to segments allocated to the previous snapshot. The snapshots may be represented by a storage manager in a hierarchy. Deleted snapshots may be flagged as such in the hierarchy and deletion may be implemented only in memory on a storage node, which is then restored from the hierarchy in the event of a crash. A hybrid storage node may perform both computing and storage services. An IO module determines whether IOPs reference a locally-mounted storage device or a remote storage device. The IO module issues a library call for local IOPs using a shared memory in kernel space.
US10430109B2
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to a hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric. The processing node may include a memory module storing and managing one or more memory objects, the one or more memory objects each include at least a first memory and a second memory, wherein: each memory object is created natively within the memory module, and each memory object is accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions; and a router configured to interface between a processor on the memory module and the one or more memory objects; wherein a set of data is stored within the first memory of the memory module; wherein the memory module dynamically determines that at least a portion of the set of data will be transferred from the first memory to the second memory; and wherein, in response to the determination that at least a portion of the set of data will be transferred from the first memory to the second memory, the router is configured to identify the portion to be transferred and to facilitate execution of the transfer.
US10430108B2
A determination is made that data has to be moved internally within a non-volatile memory from a plurality of pages of a first type of storage media to a page of a second type of storage media. A first subset of the plurality of pages is copied from the first type of storage media to the page of the second type of storage media. Concurrently with the copying of the first subset of the plurality of pages, a second subset of the plurality of pages is copied from the first type of storage media to the page of the second type of storage media. In response to completion of the copying of the first subset and the second subset of the plurality of pages, it is determined that the copying of the data from the first type of storage media to the second type of storage media has completed.
US10430103B1
A file system interface receives, from one or more clients, file system operations over a network. In response to receiving a file system operation for a file, a file-object manager calls an object storage interface to store, via an application-level network protocol, a log object indicating the file system operation into a file system log in the object storage system and creates or updates a file object in a file object construction buffer in volatile system memory. To evict the file object, the file-object manager calls the object storage interface to store the file object into a file object store in the object storage system. The file-object manager does not have access to local persistent storage. After power failure, the file-object manager calls the object storage interface to retrieve log objects from the file system log and replays file system operations to restore file objects in the volatile system memory.
US10430090B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a non-volatile memory, a temperature measurement circuit that measures a temperature of the non-volatile memory, and a controller. The controller also writes information about the temperature which is measured by the temperature measurement circuit in the non-volatile memory together when writing data in the non-volatile memory. Further, the controller performs write-back processing of writing data, which is written at a temperature in a rewriting temperature range, back when the temperature measured by the temperature measurement circuit is not in the rewriting temperature range.
US10430084B2
Method and apparatus for managing data in a memory. In accordance with some embodiments, a data object is stored in a first non-volatile tier of a multi-tier memory structure. A metadata unit is generated to describe the data object, the metadata unit having a selected granularity. The metadata unit is stored in a different, second non-volatile tier of the multi-tier memory structure responsive to the selected granularity.
US10430075B2
Image processing includes: applying shader code to an original image to generate a blurred image version (BIV); obtaining a composite image that is generated based at least in part on the original image and the BIV, wherein the composite image is generated by: obtaining a mask that includes an unblurred region and a blurred region; applying the mask to combine the original image and the BIV to render a composite image that includes an unblurred portion comprising a portion of the original image corresponding to the unblurred region of the mask, and a blurred portion comprising a portion of the BIV corresponding to the blurred region of the mask; and outputting the composite image to be displayed.
US10430066B2
This invention relates to signal space architectures for generalized gesture capture. Embodiments of the invention includes a gesture-primitive approach involving families of “gesteme” from which gestures can be constructed, recognized, and modulated via prosody operations. Gestemes can be associated with signals in a signal space. Prosody operations can include temporal execution modulation, shape modulation, and modulations of other aspects of gestures and gestemes. The approaches can be used for advanced touch user interfaces such as High-Dimensional Touch Pad (HDTP) in touchpad and touchscreen forms, video camera hand-gesture user interfaces, eye-tracking user interfaces, etc.
US10430065B2
A method implemented by a computer. The method includes displaying, on a tangible display device, a pinboard including a first breadcrumb; receiving input from a user, via a tangible user input device, commanding that an action be taken with respect to the breadcrumb, the action being other than navigating to where the breadcrumb points; and performing the action, wherein the action enables faster operation of the computer by avoidance of intervening user actions.
US10430061B2
A computer-implemented method for controlling an electromagnetic energy source is disclosed. Instructions are executed on a processor to display on a computer-human interface display device a user interface region. The user interface region includes a pie-graph. An input is received via the user interface region, where the input is an interaction with the pie-graph that changes one of the radius or a sector of the plurality of the sectors. A power output of one or more of the electromagnetic energy sources is adjusted based on the input.
US10430055B2
A system and method for facilitating adjusting a displayed representation of a visualization. An example method includes employing a touch-sensitive display to present a user interface display screen depicting a first visualization; and providing a first user option to apply touch input to a region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a portion of the first visualization to facilitate affecting an arrangement of data displayed via the first visualization, wherein the touch input includes a multi-touch gesture. In a more specific embodiment, the touch gesture includes a rotation gesture, and the method further includes displaying a visual indication of a change, e.g., a pivot operation, to be applied to a second visualization as a user performs the rotation gesture, and updating the second visualization as a user continues perform the rotation gesture. The first visualization is updated based on the second visualization upon completion of the rotation gesture.
US10430053B1
An apparatus having an interactive display configured to display a first navigation user interface (UI) element in a first predetermined area of the interactive display, the first navigation UI element being an indicator for navigating forward one or more pages of the e-presentation, and memory configured to store an e-presentation including a plurality of pages, is disclosed. The apparatus displays a current page of the e-presentation, detects a first input from a user, makes a first determination that the first input initiated in the first predetermined area, in response to the first determination, display a second UI element on the interactive display, wherein the second UI element indicates a page immediately after the current page of the e-presentation, and make a second determination as to whether the first input exceeds a predetermined navigation threshold. When the first input exceeds the predetermined navigation threshold, the second UI element is updated.
US10430044B2
Method, system and computer storage medium for displaying microblog wall are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining microblog messages of a specified topic; obtaining a set display duration of the microblog messages; pulling the microblog messages according to a specified time interval; displaying the pulled microblog messages according to the corresponding display duration. By obtaining the set display duration of the microblog messages and pulling the microblog messages according to the specified time interval, the method, system and computer storage medium for displaying microblog wall may control the display duration of the microblog messages and prevent the chaos from occurring during the displaying of microblog messages.
US10430042B2
Conversation-based context rules for altering virtual reality (VR) gaming and for switching between input languages based on heuristics related to past conversations between users.
US10430038B2
Systems and methods include receiving an indication of a selection of a first piece of equipment in an industrial monitoring system. The systems and methods also include determining a first feature of interest in a plot corresponding to a first sensor. Additionally, the systems and methods include matching the first feature of interest with corresponding second features of interest in a second plot. Furthermore, the systems and methods include overlaying the first plot with the second plot based at least in part on the first feature of interest and the corresponding second feature of interest.
US10430037B2
A method of controlling webpage behaviour on a web enabled device 3 in order to assist in, for example, collection of monitoring information, preserving session context, and improving security. The method includes monitoring a user interaction with a webpage (step 203), using a client side module 31 at the web enabled device 3, and determining whether predetermined conditions are satisfied (step 204). Where the predetermined conditions are satisfied the further steps below are carried out: capturing details concerning an intended result of said user interaction (step 205), using the client side module; at least temporarily preventing occurrence of the intended result of said user interaction using the client side module (step 206); carrying out additional processing (step 207) using the client side module; determining a controlled result (step 208), using the client side module, in dependence on said intended result and the additional processing; and causing the controlled result to occur (step 209). The additional processing might, for example, include collecting monitoring information, dynamically re-writing the URL to allow preservation of session context, or performing in checks or modifications to improve security.
US10430033B2
In an approach for displaying applications associated with content in a clipboard, a computer receives a selection of content to transfer to a clipboard, wherein the content is selected from a first application on a computing device. The computer identifies one or more applications on one or more computing devices capable of processing the received selection. The computer assigns the identified one or more applications to one or more categories. The computer displays one or more user interface objects representative of the one or more applications with a respective assigned category.
US10430021B2
A client computing system (CCS) receives a download including (i) an image representative of at least one circuit in a vehicle, the at least one circuit including a first circuit configured for carrying a first signal within the vehicle, and (ii) symbol data associated with at least one symbol, the at least one symbol including a first symbol. After receiving the download, the CCS displays the image and the at least one symbol. The CCS then receives a first input corresponding to selection of the first symbol. The CCS then responsively receives, from the vehicle, data representing value(s) of the first signal. The CCS then determines a first display-location at which to display the data representing the value(s) of the first signal. While the image and the at least one symbol are displayed, the CCS then displays, at the first display-location, the data representing the value(s) of the first signal.
US10430020B2
The present invention provides a method for opening a file in a folder, including: obtaining an operation performed on an icon area of a folder; determining whether the operation is performed on a preset area in the icon area of the folder, where the preset area displays information about a preset file in the folder; and if the operation is performed on the preset area in the icon area of the folder, opening the preset file. The present invention further provides a corresponding terminal. In embodiments of the present invention, an icon of a file in the folder is displayed on an icon of the folder. When the folder is not opened, a user may directly view, from the icon of the folder, an icon of a file that needs to be opened, so as to directly implement a trigger operation of opening the file, which is simple and convenient.
US10430018B2
Systems and methods for providing user tagging of content within a virtual scene are described. One of the methods includes sending data for display of a virtual environment on a head-mounted display. The virtual environment includes a virtual item. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selection associated with the virtual item. The method includes sending option data for allowing entry of content regarding the virtual item upon receiving the indication of the selection, receiving the content, associating the content with the virtual item, and sending tagged data for displaying a tag associated with the virtual item.
US10430017B2
There is disclosed a target pointing system for use in graphical user interface. The system provides a fan-shaped area cursor with a variable spanning angle, a variable range for capturing target items on the user interface and/or a variable orientation. The spanning angle of the area cursor ranges from >0° but <360°. The spanning angle, the range of the area cursor for acquiring target items and/or the orientation of the area cursor is dependent on velocity of movement of the area cursor.
US10430016B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for controlling user interface with an object depicted within the user interface. The systems and methods initiates an augmented reality mode configured to present augmented reality elements within a graphical user interface. A face is detected within a field of view of an image capture component and presented within the graphical user interface. In response to detecting the face, the systems and methods sequentially present a set of augmented reality elements within the graphical user interface. A subset of the augmented reality elements and the face may be depicted contemporaneously. A movement is detected of at least a portion of the face relative to a first augmented reality element and presentation of the first augmented reality element is modified and at least one second augmented reality element is presented.
US10430013B2
A touch substrate and its manufacturing method thereof, a display device, a fingerprint determination device and a method for determining a fingerprint are provided. The touch substrate touch driving electrodes, touch sensing electrodes and signal lines on a base substrate which at least includes a first region and a second region. The plurality of touch driving electrodes include a plurality of first touch driving electrodes in the first region and a plurality of second touch driving electrodes in the second region, and each first touch driving electrode and one second touch driving electrode are connected with a same signal line; and/or the plurality of touch sensing electrodes include a plurality of first touch sensing electrodes in the first region and a plurality of second touch sensing electrodes in the second region, and each first touch sensing electrode and one second touch sensing electrode are connected with a same signal line.
US10430002B2
A touchscreen input method and a terminal are provided. The method includes, when a signal for waking up a touchscreen is received, obtaining on the touchscreen an effective touch area that corresponds to the signal for waking up the touchscreen according to a preset correspondence between the signal for waking up the touchscreen and the effective touch area. The method also includes detecting position information of a touch point within the effective touch area and generating an operation instruction according to the position information of the touch point. The embodiments of the present invention also disclose a terminal. The terminal can accurately obtain a touch point in a preset touch area when the terminal is being woken up.
US10430000B2
A touch display device including a substrate, a first touch electrode, a display layer and an insulating layer is provided. The substrate includes a first bending portion. The first touch electrode is disposed over the substrate. Over the first bending portion of the substrate, the display layer is disposed between the substrate and the first touch electrode, and the insulating layer is disposed between the display layer and the first touch electrode.
US10429998B2
A capacitance-sensing circuit may include a plurality of channel inputs associated with measuring a capacitance of a unit cell of a capacitive sense array. The capacitance-sensing circuit may also include a baseliner component that is coupled to the plurality of channel inputs. The baseliner component may generate a baseline compensation signal using a capacitive circuit and may provide the baseline compensation signal to each of the plurality of channel inputs of the capacitive sense array.
US10429995B2
A coordinate detecting apparatus includes a plurality of light-receiving sensors and a controller. The plurality of light-receiving sensors detect light emitted from a light-emitting member in a detection area. The controller detects a position of the light-emitting member based on the light detected by the plurality of light-receiving sensors, and controls the light-emitting member such that an intensity of the light emitted from the light-emitting member is higher than an intensity of ambient light incident on the plurality of light-receiving sensors.
US10429991B2
The present application provides a method for determining mistaken approaching/touching event, comprising: gathering one or more touch sensitive signal value corresponding to a line piece; calculating a sum of differences of each signal value and a baseline value; and if the sum is less than or equals to zero, determining the line piece is corresponding to a mistaken approaching/touching event.
US10429985B2
The disclosure provides a touch terminal, a near-field communication method and system of the touch terminal. The method includes: a second touch terminal receiving a wireless communication request of establishment of the near-field sent by first touch terminal through the near-field electric field; the second touch terminal sending a interference source peripherals closing signal to a main control chip, and informing the main control chip to close interference source peripherals; the first touch terminal and the second terminal establishing a wireless connection by touching near-field electric field, and exchange data. The disclosure enables to make the communication environment purified and guarantee the quality of communication.
US10429975B2
A touch panel, a display device and a manufacturing method of the touch panel are provided. The touch panel includes: a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer configured to sense a touch; an insulating layer located between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; a first ground wire disposed on a side of the insulating layer facing the first electrode layer; and a second ground wire disposed on a side of the insulating layer facing the second electrode layer. The first ground wire or the second ground wire is electrically connected with a grounding terminal. The insulating layer is provided with a ground wire vias through which the first ground wire and the second ground wire are electrically connected with each other.
US10429964B2
A touch panel of the present invention includes a touch panel substrate, a cover substrate provided to overlap the touch panel, and a connection part including a scattering layer laminated from the cover substrate side toward the touch panel substrate side and is provided between the touch panel substrate and the cover substrate in an area other than a display area.
US10429947B2
A method for dynamically learning a material of a working surface on which an optical navigation device is moving, includes: using light emitting unit (s) to emit light ray (s) to the surface so as to generate image(s) on an image sensor; estimating and calculating average offset(s) of image(s) of sensing pixel(s) of the image sensor according to at least one image motion information sensed by the sensing pixel(s) during a specific time; and, dynamically determining whether the image value(s) sensed by the sensing pixel (s) correspond to a fixed pattern or correspond to a feature image of the device moving on the surface according to the average offset(s) and a threshold.
US10429946B2
A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a memory configured to store instructions, and a screen configured to display data. The portable electronic device also includes a keyboard including a plurality of physical keys configured to receive key inputs. Each of the physical keys is associated with inputting a primary character and a secondary character. The portable electronic device further includes a processor configured to execute the instructions to detect an input of a physical key, determine whether the input is a press input or a tap input, the press input being associated with inputting the primary character, and the tap input being associated with inputting the secondary character. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions to enable display on the screen of the secondary character associated with the physical key based on the determination that the input is a tap input.
US10429945B2
A display device includes a calculator that calculates a number of horizontal pixels and a number of vertical pixels, a determiner that divides pixels of an image into a plurality of pixel groups, determines at least one pixel among the pixels as a first pixel based on a pixel value of the pixels included in each pixel group, and determines at least one pixel except for the first pixel among the pixels as a second pixel, a first image processor that performs an image-enhancement process on the first pixel among pixels to be included in the image to allow a first substance to correspond to a first substance increase rate, and a second image processor that performs an image-enhancement process on the second pixel among the pixels to be included in the image to allow a second substance to correspond to a second substance increase rate.
US10429940B2
An electronic device includes at least one laser source configured to direct laser radiation toward a user's hand. Laser detectors are configured to receive reflected laser radiation from the user's hand. A controller is coupled to the at least one laser source and laser detectors and configured to determine a set of distance values to the user's hand for each respective laser detector and based upon a time-of-flight of the laser radiation. The controller also determines a hand gesture from among a plurality of possible hand gestures based upon the sets of distance values using Bayesian probabilities.
US10429939B2
An apparatus for projecting an image, according to one embodiment of the present invention, projects an image, detects a user gesture operation in an area between an image screen area, where an image screen corresponding to the projected image is displayed, and the apparatus for projecting an image, and carries out a control operation corresponding to the detected gesture operation. The operation of detecting the user gesture operation includes distinguishing, into a plurality of areas, the area between the image screen area and the apparatus for projecting an image, and detecting the user gesture operation with respect to the plurality of distinguished plurality of areas.
US10429938B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for interpreting text entry for an input/output device. The method includes one or more processors receiving input from a set of sensors. The sensors are grouped in segments corresponding to a finger of a user. The method further includes one or more processors identifying input by a user of a gesture into a sensor of the set of sensors. The method further includes one or more sensors determining a first alphanumeric character that corresponds to the identified gesture input by the user. The method further includes one or more processes generating an input stream of alphanumeric characters, the input stream comprising the determined first alphanumeric character that corresponds to the identified gesture and one or more additional alphanumeric characters determined from identified gestures input by the user.
US10429936B2
The present disclosure provides a remote control method for virtual operating interface including following steps. A voice command is obtained by the to-be-controlled terminal according to a voice signal input by a user, and the voice command is sent to a control terminal. A corresponding virtual operating interface is projected by the control terminal according to the voice command. A graphic image formed by the virtual operating interface is collected by the control terminal at each preset time interval. A remote command corresponding to a location within the virtual operating interface at which a fingertip of the user keeps operating is determined by the control terminal according to the collected graphic image, and the remote command is sent to the to-be-controlled terminal, thereby controlling the to-be-controlled terminal to perform corresponding remote operations.
US10429934B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods of providing haptic feedback based on media content and one or more external parameters used to customize the haptic feedback. The system may modify or otherwise alter haptic feedback that is determined using the media content alone. In other words, the system may use both the media content and the external parameters to determine haptic feedback that should be output to the user or others. The external parameters may include, for example, sensor information, customization information, and/or other external parameters that may be used to customize the haptic feedback.
US10429921B2
Methods and apparatus for datacenter power management optimization are disclosed. Metrics, including workload data, thermal measurements and the like are collected from numerous endpoints within a datacenter. System profiles of a plurality of servers, and application workload profiles for various workloads, are stored. Based on analysis of collected metrics, power optimization operations comprising either workload scheduling operations, power configuration change operations, or both, are initiated.
US10429915B2
A low-power state current/power consumption for each volatile memory device in a plurality of volatile memory devices is obtained. Data is copied from a first set of the volatile memory devices to a second set of the volatile memory devices, where the second set of volatile memory devices has a lower current/power consumption than the first set of volatile memory devices. Additionally, a current/power consumption may be obtained for each memory bank within each of the plurality of volatile memory devices. Data is then copied from a first set of memory banks to a second set of memory banks within the same memory device in the second set of memory devices, where the second set of memory banks has lower current/power consumption than the first set of memory banks. The first set of volatile memory devices and/or first set of memory banks are then placed into a power-down state.
US10429895B2
A display device includes a display panel including a folding area and a nonfolding area located around the folding area, a panel bottom member under the display panel and overlapping with the folding area and the nonfolding area, and a first pattern formed in the panel bottom member and overlapping with the folding area.
US10429892B1
An electronic device may have a housing formed from a rigid material such as metal or fiber-composite material. A display such as an organic light-emitting diode display may be attached to a planar wall portion of the housing using a layer of adhesive. A display cover layer may be attached to the organic light-emitting diode with a layer of adhesive. The adhesive layers may be rigid to enhance device stiffness. The housing may have curved sidewall portions that extend outwardly from the planar wall portion to enhance stiffness. The organic light-emitting diode display may have an array of pixels formed from thin-film transistor circuitry. The thin-film transistor circuitry may be formed on a substrate such as a glass substrate that is attached to the planar wall portion. The organic light-emitting diode display may have a circular polarizer that is attached to the thin-film transistor circuitry.
US10429876B2
A reference current generating circuit includes a current source circuit configured to generate a reference current based on an internal resistor; and a compensation circuit configured to comprise a first compensation circuit comprising a first compensation resistor and a second compensation resistor, and the first compensation resistor and the second compensation resistor are configured to convert the reference current into a first output current and compensate for process variation of the current source circuit.
US10429863B2
Systems and methods for controlling refrigerator temperatures are provided. In one example embodiment a control system for adjusting the temperature of a refrigerator, wherein the refrigerator includes a fresh food compartment, a freezer compartment and a cooling system, the control system includes a printed circuit board, one or more thermistors, one or more processors and one or more memory devices, the one or more memory devices storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations can include monitoring one or more characteristics of the one or more thermistors, determining the temperature of the fresh food compartment based, at least in part, on the characteristics of a first thermistor, comparing the determined temperature of the fresh food compartment to a first predetermined threshold value, and determining, by the one or more processors, whether to operate the cooling system.
US10429835B2
A surface treatment robotic system configured to determine direction references by providing different direction sensors in different surface treatment robots, the surface treatment robotic system comprising a surface treatment robot and a remote control; the surface treatment robot comprises a control unit and a drive unit; the control unit receives remote control instructions of the remote control and controls the drive unit to execute corresponding actions; the surface treatment robot is provided with a direction sensor for determining a reference direction; the direction sensor is coupled to the control unit; and the direction sensor transmits the determined reference direction to the control unit, and the control unit determines a walking direction of the robot by referring to the reference direction and according to the remote control instructions inputted by the input terminal of the remote control.
US10429834B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system and a graphical user interface configured to enable an Ux V operator (e.g. an APCS operator) to direct the Ux V to view a selected object from a desired viewing angle, notwithstanding the fact that the desired viewing angle of the object is not exposed in a displayed image.
US10429830B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for improving the performance of a water pumping station. A server can be configured to receive data from a plurality of sensors included within the water utility plant. The server can cleanse the data received from the water utility plant to generate cleansed data. The server can prepare the cleansed data for use by the water utility plant to generate plant-specific data. The server also can generate real-time analytic data based on the plant-specific data.
US10429827B2
Disclosed is a system for measuring and controlling the thickness of asphalt roofing materials during manufacturing. Light beams are used to generate a time of flight signal that is used to determine the thickness of the asphalt roofing layer. A controller generates a thickness control signal that controls a coater to modify parameters of the coater to produce the asphalt roofing layer with a desired thickness.
US10429818B2
A numerical control device includes an operating condition acquisition unit, an executing part acquisition unit, a stopping factor acquisition unit, an acquired information storing unit, a reduction information storing unit, a stopping factor reduction information acquisition unit configured to acquire a reduction information of a stopping time corresponding to a stopping factor information from the reduction information storing unit, and a display unit configured to display the executing part and the stopping factor information and the reduction information of the stopping time corresponding to the stopping factor information.
US10429817B2
Devices, methods, and systems for voice control of components of a facility are described herein. One computing device apparatus includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive a voice command or voice query from a user, determine location context information associated with the computing device, and determine which component or components of the facility are associated with the voice command or voice query based, at least in part, on the location context information associated with the computing device.
US10429814B2
A numerical control apparatus includes a command argument determination unit which determines whether a vector is included in an argument of a circular arc interpolation command which is included in command data and a circular arc shape forming unit which forms a circular arc shape based on a machining program, and a start point, an end point, and the vector, which are specified by the argument of the circular arc interpolation command, when the command argument determination unit determines that the vector is included in the argument of the circular arc interpolation command.
US10429813B2
A communication system includes a communication device functioning as a master device and a plurality of slave devices communicably connected to the communication device via a communication line, the communication device setting a prescribed address in an added slave device based on a position of the added slave device in a topology composed of a plurality of slave devices, judging whether a change has possibly occurred in the topology when the prescribed address is set in the added slave device, if there is an erroneously set slave device whose address was erroneously set, specifying that slave device, when it is judged that a change has possibly occurred, and resetting the address of the specified erroneously set slave device to an original address.
US10429811B2
Systems and methods for evaluating closed-loop control systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of evaluating a control system includes determining, using a processing device, one or more convergence classifier functions from a closed-loop model, wherein the one or more convergence classifier functions convey convergent behavior of the closed-loop model over a pre-determined period of time. The method further includes generating, using the processing device, a plurality of test cases of an input space of the closed-loop model under evaluation, and determining, using the processing device, whether one or more individual test cases of the plurality of test cases do not satisfy the one or more convergence classifier functions.
US10429810B2
A controller for controlling a microfluidic device. A first computing device receives commands from a user interface in a relatively high level protocol using a standardized command language, converts the commands from the standardized command language into a relatively mid-level protocol, sends the commands in the relatively mid-level protocol, receiving data, converts the data into the standardized command language, and sends the data to the user interface according to the standardized command language. A second computing device receives the commands from the first computing device in the relatively mid-level protocol, converts the commands from the relatively mid-level protocol to at least one relatively lower level protocol that is understood by a microfluidic device that is connected to the controller, receives data from the microfluidic device, and sends the data to the first computing device.
US10429803B2
System and techniques for multifactor intelligent agent control are described herein. A history of intelligent agent activity may be received. The history may include a record of intelligent agent activities and corresponding factors used as intelligent agent input to generate the activities. Detail-level-feedback input from a user may also be received. The detail-level-feedback input is the result of a user manipulating a detail-level-feedback user interface that is generic to any factor. An entry-time corresponding to the user manipulation of the detail-level-feedback user interface may be recorded. A set of factors may be identified from the corresponding factors based on a combination of the history of intelligent agent activity and the entry-time. The intelligent agent may be modified by changing an internally represented influence of members of the set of factors on the intelligent agent. The internally represented influence may be changed in accordance with the detail-level-feedback input.
US10429802B2
A control system for an operable system such as a flow control system or temperature control system. The system operates in a control loop to regularly update a model with respect at least one optimizable input variable based on the detected variables. The model provides prediction of use of the input variables in all possible operation points or paths of the system variables which achieve an output setpoint. In some example embodiments, the control loop is performed during initial setup and subsequent operation of the one or more operable elements in the operable system. The control system is self-learning in that at least some of the initial and subsequent parameters of the system are determined automatically during runtime.
US10429801B2
A method is provided for controlling a first switch terminal or equivalent of a building occupied by one or more building occupants. A plurality of switch terminal or equivalent parameters are provided relative to the building. A first computer system is coupled to the first switch terminal or equivalent of the building at a first location of the building. The first computer system runs on at least one platform. A first plurality of sensors is coupled to the first switch terminal or equivalent and the first computer system. At least a portion of the sensors are used to provide signal data to the first computer system. From the first computer system a command or data output is produced that relates to at least one of: a command output for a local control system, a command output for a different system, a data output for a different system, a command output for a non-local device or a data output that is a non-local device. Each of an output includes learned data from that is based on a machine intelligence from previous data collected about patterns of a building occupant.
US10429797B2
A module including a hand driving mechanism section which drives a hand shaft to which hands are attached so as to move the hands, and a display section which is arranged in parallel with the hand driving mechanism section and displays information.
US10429792B2
A waste toner container is attachable to and detachable from a housing of an image-forming apparatus through an opening of the housing. The waste toner container includes a casing and a guide pipe connected to the casing. The casing has a first end and a second end positioned opposite to the opening with respect to the first end in a state where the waste toner container is attached to the housing. The guide pipe is pivotally movable relative to the casing between a first position and a second position. The guide pipe extends in a first direction connecting the first end to the second end at the first position, while extending in a second direction crossing the first direction at the second position. The guide pipe at the first position has a length in the second direction smaller than a length thereof in the second direction at the second position.
US10429786B2
A drive transmission device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a drive transmission body to which a drive force is applied from a driving source, and a rotary shaft having a press-in portion mounted on one end thereof in the axial direction. The press-in portion has multiple planes disposed parallel to an axial direction and configured to receive the drive transmission body. The multiple planes include upstream and downstream side planes disposed downstream from the upstream side plane in a press-in direction of the drive transmission body. The upstream and downstream side planes are aligned along the press-in direction of the drive transmission body and have respective distances different from each other from an axial center of the rotary shaft. A distance from the downstream side plane to the axial center is greater than a distance from the upstream side plane to the axial center.
US10429782B2
A fixing device includes a cylindrical film a pressing member, and a preventing member including a preventing surface configured to prevent movement of the film in a longitudinal direction, and a film rotation guiding surface. As viewed in the longitudinal direction of the film, the preventing surface includes first and second regions positioned downstream and upstream, respectively, of a nip center line with respect to a recording material feeding direction. The first region retracts from a longitudinal film end surface relative to the second region. The second region continuously extends in the recording material feeding direction from a portion upstream of the nip center line to a portion downstream of the nip center line, and has a length, with respect to a rotational direction of the film, that is greater at the portion upstream of the nip center line than at the portion downstream of the nip center line.
US10429778B2
An image forming apparatus includes a heat generation member to heat a recording material placed on a placement portion, an image forming unit, a detecting unit, a measuring unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms an image on the recording material conveyed from the placement portion. The detecting unit may detect information about a recording material characteristic. The measuring unit may measure a moisture content around the image forming apparatus as information. The storage unit stores information about a moisture content around the placement portion when the heat generation member is energized. When the heat generation member is not energized, the control unit sets an image forming condition based on an obtained detection result and measuring unit information. When the heat generation member is energized, the control unit sets the image forming condition based on the obtained detection result and the stored information.
US10429775B1
An imaging device includes a controller and fuser assembly. The fuser assembly has a heat transfer and backup member defining a nip and process direction of media travel. The heat transfer member includes a resistive trace with a length twice extending transverse to the process direction. The controller selectively applies AC power to the resistive trace. The controller calculates a power level from zero power to full power to heat the trace to a predetermined set-point temperature from a measured current temperature. The controller maps the calculated power level to one of only eight actual heating power levels that become applied or not to the resistive trace to achieve a desired power flicker and harmonics response otherwise unattainable by merely applying the calculated power level. The actual heating power levels include differing numbers of consecutive half-cycles of AC power and are applied at zero-crossings thereof.
US10429769B2
An image transfer assembly includes a transfer belt formed as an endless loop around a backup roll and a tension roll. A tensioning arm is movably mounted on a side of a frame and operatively connects to an axial end of the tension roll such that the arm and axial end of the tension roll moves together relative to the frame. A translating member slidably mounted about the axial end of the tension roll is movable in an axial direction. A cam disposed below the translating member has an angled cam surface in contact with a portion of the translating member such that as the translating member moves in the axial direction, the translating member moves along the angled cam surface changing an elevation of the arm and axial end of the tension roll and changing an amount of skew of the tension roll relative to the frame.
US10429768B2
In some examples, a printing liquid developer includes a developer roller that has a hollow tubular base body formed of a material including conductive carbon fiber, a conductive, compliant layer around an outer surface of the hollow tubular base body, and an electrically conductive support separate from the hollow tubular base body and electrically contacted to a surface of the hollow tubular base body.
US10429764B2
A network system including a customer replaceable unit (CRU) having an excellent security function for operation information which system can realize improvement of the use efficiency of operation information for making the CRU operate, and reduction in costs, is provided. An apparatus main body of a multifunction printer, a server, a personal computer, etc. are connected to a network of a network system, and a CRU is attached to the apparatus main body so as to be detachable. Operation information necessary for making the CRU operate is stored in the server. The apparatus main body obtains operation information of the CRU from the server via the network and stores the obtained operation information into a buffer memory, and causes the CRU to operate based on the operation information. The operation information stored in the buffer memory is erased when communication between the apparatus main body and the CRU ends.
US10429759B2
A holding member that holds an optical print head for exposing a photosensitive drum is provided with one abutting pin at each end thereof in the longitudinal direction. Each abutting pin has both a function of forming a gap between the optical print head and the photosensitive drum, and a function of restricting movement of the holding member in the X direction and Y direction. The holding member is supported by a link member further toward the side of the photosensitive drum than the lower end portion of the abutting pins.
US10429747B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for correcting overlay errors on a surface of a substrate. A processor performs a measurement process on a substrate to obtain an overlay error map. The processor determines an order of treatment for the substrate based on the overlay error map. The order of treatment includes one or more treatment processes. The processor generates a process recipe for a treatment process of the one or more treatment processes in the order of treatment. The processor provides the process recipe to a substrate treatment apparatus.
US10429746B2
Methods and apparatus for estimating an unknown value of at least one of a plurality of sets of data, each set of data including a plurality of values indicative of radiation diffracted and/or reflected and/or scattered by one or more features fabricated in or on a substrate, wherein the plurality of sets of data include at least one known value, and wherein at least one of the plurality of sets of data includes an unknown value, the apparatus including a processor to estimate the unknown value of the at least one set of data based on: the known values of the plurality of sets of data, a first condition between two or more values within a set of data of the plurality of sets of data, and a second condition between two or more values being part of different sets of data of the plurality of the sets of data.
US10429744B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided that determine an offset between actual feature/mark locations and the designed feature/mark locations in a maskless lithography system. For example, in one embodiment, a method is provided that includes opening a camera shutter in a maskless lithography system. Light is directed from a configuration of non-adjacent mirrors in a mirror array towards a first substrate layer. An image of the first substrate layer on a camera is captured and accumulated. Light is directed and images are captured repeatedly using different configurations of non-adjacent mirrors to cover an entire field-of-view (FOV) of the camera on the first substrate layer. Thereafter, the camera shutter is closed and the accumulated image is stored in memory.
US10429739B2
The present invention provides a compound for forming an organic film which has a minimum complex viscosity of 10 Pa·s or less when the complex viscosity is measured within a range of 50° C. to 300° C. This compound for forming an organic film can provide an organic film composition having high filling and planarizing properties.
US10429735B2
A coating agent capable of favorably reducing the roughness of a resist pattern, and a method for forming a resist pattern in which roughness is reduced. The method includes coating the resist pattern with the coating agent. The coating agent is a composition including a resin, an amine compound, and a solvent, the amine compound having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 8 to 20 carbon atoms and having 1 or more unsaturated double bond and a group having a specific amount of ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide added thereto.
US10429731B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for generating a reference image in the characterization of a mask for microlithography, wherein the mask comprises a plurality of structures and wherein the reference image is generated by simulation of the imaging of said mask, said imaging being effected by a given optical system, both using a rigorous simulation and using a Kirchhoff simulation, wherein the method comprises the following steps: assigning each structure of said plurality of structures either to a first category or to a second category, calculating a plurality of first partial spectra for structures of the first category with implementation of rigorous simulations, calculating a second partial spectrum for structures of the second category with implementation of a Kirchhoff simulation, generating a hybrid spectrum on the basis of the first partial spectra and the second partial spectrum, and generating the reference image with implementation of an optical forward propagation of said hybrid spectrum in the optical system.
US10429729B2
A method and system for generating EUV light includes providing a laser beam having a Gaussian distribution. This laser beam can be then modified from a Gaussian distribution to a ring-like distribution. The modified laser beam is provided through an aperture in a collector and interfaces with a moving droplet target, which generates an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength light. The generated EUV wavelength light is provided to the collector away from the aperture. In some embodiments, a mask element may also be used to modify the laser beam to a shape.
US10429724B2
A system and method for synchronizing a remote lighting device to a camera using a hot shoe connection and an external device connected via the hot shoe connector. The external device receives TTL data and a synchronization signal from the camera via the hot shoe connector. The external device wirelessly communicates using a radio frequency transmitter an exposure compensation value from the external device to a remote lighting device. The external device also wirelessly communicates a synchronization signal and a TTL information to the remote lighting device for use in synchronizing the remote lighting device to image acquisition by the camera.
US10429719B2
An inspection system/method in which first optics direct continuous wave (CW) light at 181-185 nm to an inspected article, and second optics redirect image information affected by the article to detectors. A laser assembly generates the CW light by generating fourth harmonic light from first fundamental CW light having a first wavelength between 1 and 1.1 μm, generating fifth harmonic light by mixing the fourth harmonic light with the first fundamental CW light, and mixing the fifth harmonic light with second light having a second wavelength between 1.26 and 1.82 μm. An external cavity mixes the first light and the fourth harmonic light using a first nonlinear crystal. The CW light is generated using a second cavity that passes circulated second fundamental or signal CW light through a second nonlinear crystal, and directing the fifth harmonic light through the second nonlinear crystal.
US10429703B2
A liquid crystal display includes substrates facing each other, plural pixels, a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, and a pixel electrode in each pixel. The pixel electrode defines: a first stem extending in a first direction, a second stem extending in a second direction, first edge bars extending in the first direction and connected to the second stem, second edge bars extending in the second direction and connected to the first stem, and plural branches extending from the first or second stem and inclined with respect to the first or second directions and terminating spaced apart from the first and second edge bars. Distal ends of each of the first edge bars are spaced apart from distal ends of each of second edge bars, and in the second direction, each of the first edge bars overlaps lines along which the second edge bars respectively lengthwise extend.
US10429694B2
According to one embodiment, a display device comprises first and second substrate having light transmissivity and opposing each other, a light-modulating layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, a light source unit which illuminates the light-modulating layer from an outer side of a position which opposes a display area, along a normal direction, first to third color filters of different colors arranged on the first substrate, and first to third electrodes which oppose the first to third color filters, respectively, the light-modulating layer being able to change light dispersibility of each of regions which oppose the first to third color filters according to the electric field produced by each respective one of the first to third electrodes.
US10429685B2
An embedded touch panel (100) having a high resistance film (70) comprises a sequentially stacked first substrate (10), thin-film transistor substrate (20), liquid crystal layer (30), color filter (40), touch sensing layer (50), second substrate (60), and the high resistance film (70). A plurality of mutually insulated sensing wires are disposed on a surface of the thin-film transistor substrate (20) facing toward the liquid crystal layer (30). The thin-film transistor substrate (20) and the touch sensing layer (50) work together to embed a functionality of a touch panel into liquid crystal pixels, reducing a thickness of the touch panel (100). The high resistance film (70) is disposed on a surface of the second substrate (60) facing away from the touch sensing layer (50), and is electrically connected to the thin-film transistor substrate (20).
US10429684B2
A display tile having a frame whose compliance is increased in a well determined region to accommodate the different thermal expansions of the frame and one or more substrates to which the frame is fastened. The display tile has also regions of increased compliance that will deform to allow different parts of the frame to be brought into contact and glued to the lateral sides of two superimposed substrates when at least one lateral side of one of the substrates is not coplanar with the corresponding lateral side of the other substrate.
US10429681B1
The invention provides a structure of GOA circuit, which is manufactured on both sides of the ultra-thin flexible substrate with holes, wherein the wires pass through the holes to connect the TFTs in the GOA circuit on the front side to the TFTs in the GOA circuit on the back side to reduce the area occupied by GOA circuit. As such, the circuit area utilization is improved so that the same size of substrate area can carry almost twice the circuit structure to reduce the border width of the non-active area to achieve borderless or ultra-narrow border display panel with high resolution.
US10429678B2
Disclosed is a panel reversing apparatus which reverses a panel, the panel reversing apparatus including: a panel support unit which supports the panel; and a rotating unit which rotates the panel support unit so as to reverse a direction, in which one surface of the panel supported by the panel support unit faces, and a direction, in which the other surface of the panel faces, in which the panel support unit includes a single surface contact unit which is in contact with only one surface between the one surface and the other surface of the panel.
US10429670B2
One embodiment of an ocular lens includes a lens body configured to contact an eye where the lens body has an optic zone shaped to direct central light towards a central focal point of a central region of a retina of the eye. At least one optic feature of the lens body has a characteristic that directs peripheral light off axis into the eye away from the central region of the retina. Another embodiment of an ocular lens has at least one isolated feature of the lens body that has a characteristic of directing peripheral light off axis into the eye away from the central region of the retina. Methods of making contact lenses include forming the features during the manufacturing process.
US10429665B2
A synthetic aperture optics (SAO) imaging method minimizes the number of selective excitation patterns used to illuminate the imaging target, based on the objects' physical characteristics corresponding to spatial frequency content from the illuminated target and/or one or more parameters of the optical imaging system used for SAO. With the minimized number of selective excitation patterns, the time required to perform SAO is reduced dramatically, thereby allowing SAO to be used with DNA sequencing applications that require massive parallelization for cost reduction and high throughput. In addition, an SAO apparatus optimized to perform the SAO method is provided. The SAO apparatus includes a plurality of interference pattern generation modules that can be arranged in a half-ring shape.
US10429660B2
A directive color filter and a naked-eye 3D display apparatus are provided. The directive color filter includes a color filter and a directive functional structure layer. The color filter includes multiple light filtering units, and each light filtering unit includes at least three light filtering sub-units with different colors. The directive functional structure layer includes multiple structure units, and each structure unit and one light filtering unit are arranged correspondingly. Each structure unit includes at least three structure sub-units. Each structure sub-unit and one light filtering sub-unit are arranged correspondingly. Each structure sub-unit includes multiple nano diffraction gratings.
US10429659B2
An optical arrangement having at least a lens mode in which the optical arrangement is a lens arrangement having an array (9) of lenticular lenses (11) each of which has a particular lens surface shape such that, when tracing rays through a lenticular lens after they have entered one side of the lenticular lens, there exists at least one ray that hits the lenticular lens surface perpendicularly. This arrangement gives reduced banding and loss of intensity at steep angles when used in an autostereoscopic display.
US10429657B1
A head-mounted display (HMD) includes a pancake lens block, an eye tracking system, and an electronic display. The electronic display is coated with a dichroic film that transmits visible light and reflects infrared light (IR). An IR emitter illuminates an eye of the user, and infrared light is reflected from an eye through the pancake lens block and is incident on the dichroic film. The reflected light undergoes multiple reflections before being captured by an image capturing element of the eye tracking system that is positioned at a periphery of HMD located off-axis relative to an optical axis of the pancake lens block. Moreover, each reflection results in a particular view of the eye that results in multiple views of the eye being received by the image capturing element.
US10429656B1
A head-mounted display (HMD) includes a pancake lens block, an eye tracking system, and an electronic display. The electronic display is coated with a dichroic film that transmits visible light and reflects infrared light (IR). An IR emitter illuminates an eye of the user, and infrared light is reflected from an eye through the pancake lens block and is incident on the dichroic film. The reflected light is captured by an image capturing element of the eye tracking system that is positioned at a periphery of HMD located off-axis relative to an optical axis of the pancake lens block.
US10429650B2
A head-mounted display including a transparent display, a liquid crystal lens and a first Fresnel lens is provided. The transparent display is configured to emit an image light beam. The liquid crystal lens is disposed near the transparent display. The transparent display is disposed between the liquid crystal lens and the first Fresnel lens. The first Fresnel lens is configured to receive an ambient light beam. The head-mounted display allows at least a part of the image light beam emitted from the transparent display passing through a pupil by phase modulating of at least a part of the liquid crystal lens.
US10429644B2
Measures, including methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media, for processing data for an augmented reality environment. An augmented reality user device receives at least one signal from a radio frequency beacon at at least one radio frequency receiver of the augmented reality user device. A spatial resolution operation is performed in relation to the at least one received signal to determine a location of the radio frequency beacon. A virtual object is rendered in an augmented reality environment on the augmented reality user device at least on the basis of the determined location.
US10429640B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a specification unit configured to perform surface specification processing for specifying a reflective surface that deflects light; a correction unit configured to perform correction processing for correcting image data in accordance with which reflective surface deflects light; and a control unit configured to control so as to cause scanning of a first photosensitive member to start before the surface specification processing completes, and control so as to, after the surface specification processing completes, cause the correction processing to be performed, with respect to image data for causing light to be emitted from a second light source and in accordance with a specification result of the surface specification processing, and cause scanning of the second photosensitive member to start.
US10429635B2
Disclosed are: a practical color changeable optical filter that can change hue or saturation by a relatively simple structure, the color changeable optical filter including two or more polarizers 20, 30 containing a dichroism pigment and a frame 10 that supports the polarizers 20, 30, wherein a polarization plane of light incident on at least one polarizer 30 or a polarization plane of light output from at least one polarizer 20 is rotated relatively, whereby the hue or saturation of light passing through the optical filter is changed; and eyeglasses provided with the color changeable optical filter.
US10429634B2
A microelectrical mechanical system (MEMS) implementation of tunable Fabry Perot filter devices is disclosed. The advantages associated with the use of these tunable etalons include increases in aperture size, displacement, reliability, and a reduction in cost. In some examples, integrated tunable detectors in miniature spectrometers using a thermal driven MEMS Fabry-Perot tunable filter are provided. Other examples use integrated thermal driven tunable MEMS Fabry-Perot filter to select fiber optical communication channel.
US10429632B2
A microscopy system includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire slice images generated by capturing an object image while shifting a focal position along an optical axis of an observation optical system included in a microscope; an image shift processing configured to relatively shift, with respect to one slice image among the slice images, another slice image in a plane including the one slice image; an all-in-focus image generation unit configured to generate all-in-focus images by combining the one slice image and the other slice image relatively shifted with respect to the one slice image under conditions in which shift amounts of the other slice image with respect to the one slice image are different; and a display unit configured to display the all-in-focus images.
US10429629B1
Methods and systems are provided to facilitate simultaneous high-resolution microscopic imaging of cells and detection of side-scattered light from such cells using an immersion objective. A container maintains a volume of an immersion oil or other immersion fluid in contact with the immersion objective and with a stage that contains a sample of the cells. The container also includes a window through which the cells can be illuminated off-axis to generate side-scattered light. The side-scattered light can then be detected through the immersion objective. The container maintains the immersion fluid in contact with an internal surface of the window to control the geometry of the optical interface between the off-axis illumination source and the immersion fluid. These systems permit high-throughput identification and imaging of cells for biological research, improvement of side-scatter cell classifiers, improved high-throughput cell sorting, and other applications.
US10429627B2
An imaging system can include an optical fiber and a light source for providing optical stimulation to a region of interest along the optical fiber. A camera can capture emission such as fluorescence resulting from the optical stimulation. A cannula configured for implantation into a subject can be configured to direct the emission from the subject. A mating sleeve coupling the cannula to the optical fiber, and configured to support the camera, can include a dichroic mirror to allow the optical stimulation to pass from the optical fiber to the cannula and to redirect the emission from the cannula to the camera.
US10429623B2
A four-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US10429589B2
An optical fiber for efficient coupling of optical signals to photonic devices. The optical fiber includes a Cl doped tapered core region with a changing outer diameter and changing maximum core refractive index to provide improved coupling at wavelength of interest to photonic devices. The photonic devices may be, for example, silicon photonic devices with an operating wavelength at or near 1310 nm, or at or near 1550 nm.
US10429576B2
A lighting fixture that includes a frame, a heat sink assembly, an LED assembly, and a reflector. The frame includes a first end plate and a second end plate, each end plate including a slot formed therein. The slot extends from a top edge of the end plates towards a bottom edge of the end plates. The heat sink assembly includes one or more LEDs and a lightguide having a first longitudinal edge that receives light emitted from the LEDs. A first edge and a second edge of the lightguide are slidably inserted into respective slots. The heat sink assembly includes a heat sink base and a heat sink cap coupled thereto which forms a first cavity for housing the LEDs and a second cavity adjacent the first cavity for housing a portion of the lightguide. The reflector is coupled to the end plates.
US10429575B2
A backlight module and a liquid crystal display device are provided. An outer wall located on the light incident side of the plastic frame is arc-shaped, so a graphite sheet attached to a flexible printed circuit board can be attached to a backside of a reflector plate along the arc-shaped outer wall, thereby increasing the size of the graphite and enhancing heat dissipation efficiency of the backlight module.
US10429572B2
A light source module including a first backlight module, a second backlight module, a turning film, and a first absorptive polarizer film is provided. The first backlight module has a first side and a second side. The first backlight module includes a first light guide plate (LGP) having a first light incident surface and a first light source disposed beside the first light incident surface. The second backlight module is arranged at the second side. The second backlight module includes a second LGP having a second light incident surface and a second light source disposed beside the second light incident surface. The turning film is arranged at the first side. The turning film includes a plurality of reverse prisms. The reverse prisms extend along an extension direction. The first absorptive polarizer film is disposed between the first backlight module and the second backlight module. A display device is also provided.
US10429568B2
A dynamic random access memory is provided, including a main body and a transmission port. The main body has a substrate, a light-emitting module and a light-guiding portion. The substrate is provided with a memory module, the light-emitting module has a carrier board and a light-emitting portion disposed on the carrier board, the light-guiding portion is arranged corresponding to the light-emitting portion, and at least a part of light from the light-emitting portion is projected to outside of the dynamic random access memory through the light-guiding portion. The transmission port is disposed on the substrate, and the transmission port is electrically connected with the memory module.
US10429567B2
A multi-view pixel directional backlight module and a naked-eye 3D display device are provided. The multi-view pixel directional backlight module includes at least two rectangular light guide plates closely stacked together. A light-emerging surface of the rectangular light guide plate is provided with multiple pixel arrays. Light emitted by pixels in a same pixel array is pointed to a same viewing angle, and different pixel arrays have different viewing angles. At least one side of each rectangular light guide plate is provided with a light source group. Light emitted by the light source group enters the corresponding light guide plate, then emerges from pixels of respective pixel arrays on the light-emerging surface of the light guide plate, and is totally reflected at positions other than positions of the pixels within the light guide plate. Each of the pixels is a nano-diffraction grating.
US10429562B2
An illumination apparatus, which is to be connected to a light source apparatus that generates laser light and which is to be attached to an optical cable that guides the laser light, is provided. The illumination apparatus includes a light-emitting module which is to be attached to a tip portion of the optical cable. The light-emitting module receives the laser light emitted from the optical cable, converts the laser light into light having a different wavelength of a predetermined color, and emits the light. A heat dissipating lens case includes a lens and dissipates heat generated by the light-emitting module. The lens controls distribution of the light emitted by the light-emitting module. The heat dissipating lens case includes an attachment structure which allows the heat dissipating lens case to be removably attached to the light-emitting module.
US10429559B2
Provided are a polarizing plate and a display. The illustrative polarizing plate may exhibit desired characteristics in a wide range of wavelengths, and have excellent reflection and visibility at an inclined angle. For example, the polarizing plate may be used in a reflective or transflective liquid crystal display or an organic light emitting device.
US10429550B2
Penetration of moisture and propagation of cracks is prevented in a polarizer. An adhesive is provided to cover one or more edges of the polarizer to seal the side section of the polarizer. The adhesive fills initial cracks to prevent the initial crack from being propagated to the inside of the polarizer. A protective film and the adhesive include a material having a hydrophobic characteristic. In a method of fabricating a polarizer, a polarizing film is shaped to form a polarizing layer, and a protective film is then attached by applying an adhesive onto the edges of the polarizing layer. Then, the adhesive is cured, and the protective film having the polarizing layer attached is processed, thereby dividing the protective film into a plurality of polarizers. The adhesive can firmly fix the crack since the adhesive is fills in cracks in the polarizing layer.
US10429538B1
According to exemplary inventive practice, an ADCP system (including one or more acoustic Doppler current profilers) and a magnetometer system (including one or more magnetometers) are placed underwater. The ADCP system is used to obtain ADCP time series data. The magnetometer system is used to obtain magnetometer time series data. A computer performs computations with respect to input from the ADCP system and input from the magnetometer system. The computations include formulation of a least squares matrix to minimize a least squared error between the ADCP time series data and the magnetometer time series data. The present invention may be practiced, for instance, whereby a magnetometer is centrally located in relation to a triangular arrangement of three ADCPs, or whereby the ADCP system and the magnetometer system are co-located.
US10429530B2
Methods and apparatuses for processing marine seismic data with a process of combined deghosting and sparse τ-p transformation. The process is formulated as an optimization problem. The optimization problem has an objective function that is a weighted sum of two norms: one norm is an Lp norm of the differences between the modeled data and acquired survey wherein the modeled data are derived from a model and a set of adaptive filters; the other norm is an Lq norm of the model; and the optimization variables and solutions are the coefficients of the model and coefficients of the adaptive filters.
US10429526B2
A radiation detector and detection method comprising one or more antineutrino capture sections having a plurality of cells. The cells including hydrogen, act as scintillators and contain a wavelength shifter. Also included are a plurality of neutron capture layers containing a neutron capture agent. The cells are disposed between said neutron capture layers. The layers act as scintillators to convert the radiation emission of a neutron capture to light for transmission to at least one of the cells and the cells and layers have different scintillation time constants.
US10429517B1
A radio-opaque plastic scintillator detector (PSD) for use in various medical applications and methods of making and using the PSD. The method requires coating a plastic scintillator fiber with a radio-opaque material; cutting the scintillator fiber; stripping the end of a plastic fiber optic fiber; cutting the naked end of a plastic fiber optic fiber; inserting a closely fitting guide tube over the naked end and inserting the cut scintillating fiber into the guide tube; coating the detector end of the cable with a light opaque polymer or jacket and adding a connector to the other end.
US10429507B2
A system uses range and Doppler velocity measurements from a lidar system and images from a video system to estimate a six degree-of-freedom trajectory of a target. The system estimates this trajectory in two stages: a first stage in which the range and Doppler measurements from the lidar system along with various feature measurements obtained from the images from the video system are used to estimate first stage motion aspects of the target (i.e., the trajectory of the target); and a second stage in which the images from the video system and the first stage motion aspects of the target are used to estimate second stage motion aspects of the target. Once the second stage motion aspects of the target are estimated, a three-dimensional image of the target may be generated.
US10429497B2
An ultrasonic device that transmits and receives ultrasonic waves includes: ultrasonic elements having first and second surfaces from which the ultrasonic waves are emitted; and a backing unit that supports the second surfaces of the ultrasonic elements and attenuates the ultrasonic waves emitted to the second surface side. The backing unit includes microlenses, which are arranged on the second surface side of the ultrasonic elements so as to be located corresponding to the ultrasonic elements, and a backing member having slits through which the ultrasonic waves transmitted through the microlenses pass. The ultrasonic elements are arranged in the shape of an array, and the microlenses are arranged in the shape of an array corresponding to the ultrasonic elements.
US10429490B2
A system for bistatic radar target detection employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a ramjet providing supersonic cruise of the UAV. Deployable antenna arms support a passive radar receiver for bistatic reception of reflected radar pulses. The UAV operates with a UAV flight profile in airspace beyond a radar range limit. The deployable antenna arms have a first retracted position for supersonic cruise and are adapted for deployment to a second extended position acting as an airbrake and providing boresight alignment of the radar receiver. A mothership aircraft has a radar transmitter for transmitting radar pulses and operates with an aircraft flight profile outside the radar range limit. A communications data link operably interconnects the UAV and the tactical mothership aircraft, transmitting data produced by the bistatic reception of reflected radar pulses in the UAV radar antenna to the mothership aircraft.
US10429489B2
Innovative new methods in connection with lighter-than-air (LTA) free floating platforms, of facilitating legal transmitter operation, platform flight termination when appropriate, environmentally acceptable landing, and recovery of these devices are provided. The new systems and methods relate to rise rate control, geo-location from a LTA platform including landed payload and ground-based vehicle locations, and steerable recovery systems.
US10429484B1
A compact harmonic tuner system uses a two-carriage harmonic slide-screw impedance tuner employs, single and dual frequency band metallic disc probes travelling along and rotating diametrically inside the same slabline, which therefore is only one half, instead of full, the wavelength long at the minimum frequency of operation. Using disc probes allows probe control operation without high precision vertical axes, as well as high resolution in the area where the gap between center conductor and probe is small (high GAMMA), a smooth increase of proximity between probe and center conductor and the possibility to compensate for the negative phase slope at higher GAMMA, native to traditional slide screw tuners using vertically moving square probes (slugs).
US10429481B2
A method for calibrating at least one operating parameter of a magnetic resonance apparatus and a corresponding magnetic resonance apparatus and computer program product are provided. The at least one operating parameter includes a constant component and a variable component. The method includes, after a start-up of at least one part of the magnetic resonance apparatus, determining the variable component of the at least one operating parameter. The constant component of the at least one operating parameter is provided. The constant component and the variable component are used to calibrate the at least one operating parameter.
US10429480B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, and a combining unit. The first acquiring unit is configured to acquire data by executing a pulse sequence based on a first radio-frequency pulse transmission condition. The second acquiring unit is configured to acquire data by executing a pulse sequence based on a second radio-frequency pulse transmission condition that is different from the first radio-frequency pulse transmission condition. The combining unit is configured to perform a combining process either on the data acquired by the first acquiring unit and the data acquired by the second acquiring unit or on data obtained by reconstructing the data acquired by the first acquiring unit and data obtained by reconstructing the data acquired by the second acquiring unit.
US10429478B2
A medical system (10) and method (100) image a vessel wall automatically. A scout scan of a patient for localizing a target vessel of the patient is automatically performed (102) using magnetic resonance (MR). The scout scan is three-dimensional (3D) and isotropic. An MR data set of the scout scan is automatically reconstructed (104) into foot-to-head (FH), left-to-right (LR) and posterior-to-anterior (PA) projections. A3D imaging volume (16) encompassing the target vessel is automatically determined (106) from the projections, and a diagnostic scan of the 3D imaging volume (16) is performed (108) using MR.
US10429476B2
Improved correction of MRI images is provided making use of three main principles. First, a hybrid representation of the image reconstruction problem is used where the raw MRI data is Fourier transformed in x to provide a x-ky-kz representation. Second, blip-up blip-down acquisition is performed to provide data having equal and opposite regular k-space encoding. Third, joint least squares reconstruction is performed using a singular value decomposition of a joint blip-up, blip-down encoding matrix. The encoding matrix includes at least the effects of regular k-space encoding and known phase variations due to system non-ideality. Preferably, suitable regularization of the encoding matrix based on its singular values is used to automatically remove poorly conditioned parts of the data.
US10429471B2
The invention provides a device for producing a magnetic resonance image. The device comprises a collecting unit adapted for collecting k space samples that are located on a non-Cartesian grid in a non-Cartesian coordinate space or non-uniformly located on a Cartesian grid in a Cartesian coordinate space, the non-Cartesian/Cartesian coordinate space adapted to be decomposed into a plurality of subspaces, each of which extends along one or more coordinate axes of the non-Cartesian/Cartesian coordinate space; a weight calculation unit (203) adapted for calculating a decomposed sample density weight function of the k space samples in each individual subspace and determining a density weight function in the non-Cartesian/Cartesian coordinate space via a multiplication of the decomposed sample density weight functions of the k space samples in the plurality of subspaces; a gridding unit adapted for interpolating the k space samples in the non-Cartesian/Cartesian coordinate space onto a uniform Cartesian grid in a k space based on the density weight function of the k space samples in the non-Cartesian/Cartesian coordinate space; and a reconstructing unit adapted for reconstructing the magnetic resonance image based on the interpolated k space samples. By means of the invention, fast, preferably on-demand, calculation of the sampling density weights may be achieved.
US10429461B2
A magnetic resonance imaging device produces a magnetic field gradient with parallel driving of positive-side subcoils and negative-side subcoils with different power sources in the magnetic field gradient direction, to detect a misalignment in drive timing of the positive side and the negative side. Pulse sequences for timing misalignment detection having a slice magnetic field gradient pulse and a read-out magnetic field gradient pulse in the same direction as a magnetic field gradient of interest are executed. A positive-side slice echo and a negative-side slice echo of the magnetic field gradient are acquired. A phase difference between a positive-side projection image and a negative-side projection image is derived by computation with phase error from other factors being removed. From the slope of the phase difference with respect to a location, the drive timing misalignment between the positive-side subcoil and the negative-side subcoil of the magnetic field gradient production is detected.
US10429451B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for testing a luminaire based on USB. The apparatus for testing a luminaire based on USB includes a power measurement unit for measuring power consumption by measuring power input from a host system to a luminaire based on USB; a message interpretation unit for generating a result of interpretation of a message based on a USB-based control message sent and received between the host system and the luminaire; an illuminance reception unit for receiving a result of measurement of illuminance of the luminaire, measured by a light reception device; and an information generation unit for generating test result information based on a result of the measurement of the power consumption, the result of the interpretation of the message, and the result of the measurement of the illuminance.
US10429450B2
A method and apparatus is provided the battery sensor for a large-scale battery system. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to the architecture and measurement scheme for a high-accuracy battery voltage sensor based on a calibration scheme. The present disclosure also related to the architecture and measurement method for a cell-level current sensor to effectively and reliably manage a battery pack.
US10429426B1
A noise parameter test setup allows accurately measuring the four noise parameters (Fmin, Rn, ┌opt) of microwave transistors over a wide frequency range using two distinct wideband measurement paths, based on differential wafer probes, instead of SPDT switches, to commute between s-parameter (signal) measurement and noise measurement path, avoiding thus the uncertainty of the accuracy as well limited availability of SPDT switches. Calibration of the system is the same as when using switches, when hopping the DUT chip from one set or subset of probes to the next. Additional power control precautions of the VNA sources are necessary to avoid injecting signal power into the sensitive noise receiver during s-parameter measurements and jamming the weak noise power during noise measurement.
US10429420B1
A system for measuring and mapping sheet resistivity of the film on flat-panel has a frame, a collection of leveling chucks, a probe-mounting assembly, and a collection of four-point probes. The probe-mounting assembly is a frame that holds the four-point probes in place. The leveling chucks and the probe-mounting assembly are mounted onto the frame, within the probe chamber. The flat panel is positioned in between the probe-mounting assembly and the leveling chucks. The sheet resistivity measurement by each of the collection of four-point probes can be done by electrical switching instead of mechanical repositioning and the flat panel transportation to and from the measurement position only needs to be done in one round trip instead of two, thus much time is saved. Also, the leveling chuck's speed in pressing the flat panel against the collection of four-point probes can be well controlled to avoid damaging of the flat panel.
US10429417B2
Brown-out detector and method thereof. For example, the brown-out detector includes a variable resistor and a P-type current mirror including a P-type transistor associated with a threshold on-voltage. The P-type current mirror is configured to generate a characteristic voltage of a supply voltage and generate a characteristic current flowing through the variable resistor to generate a reference voltage based at least in part on the characteristic current. Additionally, the brown-out detector includes a voltage comparator configured to compare the characteristic voltage and the reference voltage and output a signal indicating a comparison result, and a controller. The threshold on-voltage is associated with a first rate of thermal change, and the characteristic current is associated with a second rate of thermal change.
US10429413B2
A coaxial probe structure, comprising: a support member, comprising a first connecting member; a connector, comprising a second connecting member; a coaxial probe, connecting with a connecting end of the coaxial probe to a bottom of the connector, and extending downwards from the bottom of the connector to a probe tip, and an included angle formed at a junction of the probe tip and the connecting end; and an elastic body connecting the support member with the junction of the connecting end and the probe tip of the coaxial probe.
US10429412B2
A test circuit, a test method, an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The test circuit includes a plurality of to-be-tested units and plurality of test electrodes connected to the to-be-tested units. The plurality of to-be-tested units are arranged in a matrix. At least one of the test electrodes is multiplexed by the plurality of to-be-tested units in a row direction and at least one of the test electrodes is multiplexed by the plurality of to-be-tested units in a column direction.
US10429407B2
An inertial sensor includes a proof mass spaced apart from a surface of a substrate. The proof mass has a first section and a second section, where the first section has a first mass that is greater than a second mass of the second section. An anchor is coupled to the surface of the substrate and a spring system is interconnected between the anchor and the first and second sections of the proof mass. The spring system enables translational motion of the first and second sections of the proof mass in response to linear acceleration forces imposed on the inertial sensor in any of three orthogonal directions.
US10429392B2
The present invention relates to the identification of nucleic acid and amino acid sequences that are characteristic of tumor tissues, in particular tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) such as glioma, in particular glioblastoma and which represent targets for therapy or diagnosis of tumor diseases in a subject.
US10429388B2
Methods, devices, kits and compositions for detecting the presence or absence of one or more helminthic coproantigens in a sample are disclosed herein. The methods, devices, kits and compositions of the present invention may be used to confirm the presence or absence of roundworm, whipworm and/or hookworm in a fecal sample from a mammal and may also be able to distinguish between one or more helminth infections. Confirmation of the presence or absence of roundworm, whipworm and/or hookworm in the mammal may be made, for example, for the purpose of selecting an optimal course of treating the mammal and/or for the purpose of determining whether the mammal has been rid of the infection after treatment has been initiated.
US10429387B2
The system includes a simple system for CD4 and CD8 counting in point-of-care HIV staging within resource poor countries. Unlike previous approaches, no sample preparation is required with the sample added directly to a chip containing dried reagents by capillary flow. A large area image cytometer consisting of an LED module is used to excite the fluorochromes PerCP and APC labeled targets and a monochrome CCD camera with a combination of two macro lenses captures images of 40 mm2 of blood (approximately 1 microliter). CD4 and CD8-T-lymphocyte counts correlate well with those obtained by flow cytometry. The cytometer system described in the present invention provides an affordable and easy-to-use technique for use in remote locations.
US10429386B2
The present disclosure provides antibodies that bind the surface of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts, methods for using such antibodies and kits and devices for practicing such methods. Such antibodies, methods, kits and devices find use in detection of T. gondii oocysts and the isolation of such oocysts from samples including environmental samples, food-based samples, diagnostic samples, and the like.
US10429378B2
Described herein are methods of transdifferentiating preadipocytes, populations of transdifferentiated preadipocytes, and methods of using the transdifferentiated preadipocytes.
US10429374B2
The present invention relates to a polypeptide comprising at least one signaling domain and a potassium sensor which is capable of binding K+ and the first signaling domain is capable of generating a detectable signal upon binding of K+ to the potassium sensor. The invention also relates to a polynucleotide encoding said polypeptide and the use of the polypeptide in various applications for the detection of K+.
US10429366B2
A system for detection of non-volatile solutes dissolved in solution comprises: a spray emitter system configured to receive a flow of the solution and generate an aerosol comprising droplets thereof, the generated droplets comprising a restricted size range; a spray chamber configured to receive the aerosol and emit a modified aerosol comprising droplets having a diameter smaller than a predetermined value; a conduit configured to receive a flow of the modified aerosol and to evaporate the solvent so as to generate an aerosol comprising solid particles of the solutes; a charging chamber configured to receive the aerosol and impart electric charge to the solid particles; and a detector configured to measure a quantity of charge imparted to the solid particles, wherein the restricted size range is such that solid particles having diameters greater than 10 nm comprise a substantial portion of all particles received by the charging chamber.
US10429365B2
For vector A which expresses an absorption spectrum of a target component, vector F orthogonal to vector A is designated as a filter for extracting an impurity superposed on the target component on a chromatogram. For vector I which expresses a measured spectrum obtained by a chromatographic analysis performed on a sample, the inner product of vectors I and F is defined as an index value u of the amount of impurity. If an impurity is present, a peak-like waveform appears on a graph which shows a temporal change in the index value u for the measured spectrum obtained at each point in time of the measurement. By detecting this waveform, the presence or absence of the impurity can be correctly determined. The direction of vector F may be determined so that, when vector B which expresses a spectrum of the impurity is decomposed into vector Ba parallel to vector A and vector Bo orthogonal to vector A, vector F becomes nearly parallel to vector Bo (i.e. the cosine similarity index is maximized).
US10429359B2
Automated two step chromatography purification system comprising a, system controller, a capture flow path comprising at least one pump, an elution flow path comprising at least one pump, and a valve arrangement for selective connection of two capture columns to the capture flow path and the elution flow path respectively such that both flow paths may be operated simultaneously and in parallel.
US10429354B2
An ultrasound device for checking the quality of a composite material structure during the production cycle. Preferably, the device is incorporated into a production tooling performing the LRI process in which the composite material structure is placed between two molds during the production cycle. A layer of piezoelectric material is deposited on the face of one of the molds, opposite the face which is in contact with the structure. One face of an electrically insulating flexible material film is placed against the outer face of the piezoelectric material layer. The face of the film further includes conductive pads in contact with the piezoelectric material layer. Each pad is energized by electric voltage applied by a conductive strip. Each pad forms an independent ultrasonic transducer with the region of the piezoelectric material layer opposite of its placement.
US10429347B2
A method of determining a charge of at least one test particle (as herein defined), comprising: applying one of an electric current or a voltage across an aperture connecting two chambers, whereby the chambers are at least partially filled with electrolyte and whereby the at least one test particle is suspended in the electrolyte of at least one of the chambers; measuring a value indicative of the other of the electric current or voltage across the aperture; determining a time interval between a first and a second point in time, the second point in time corresponding to a point in time when the measured current or voltage has reached a specific proportion of the measured current or voltage at the first point in time; and determining the charge of the at least one test particle by: determining a value indicative of an electrical velocity component of a total velocity of at least one calibration particle having a known charge, taking into account that the total velocity of the at least one calibration particle comprises a non zero-convective velocity component and the electrical velocity component; determining a value indicative of an electrical velocity component of a total velocity of the at least one test particle, taking into account that the total velocity of the at least one test particle comprises a non-zero convective-velocity component and the electrical velocity component; and using the determined values indicative of the electrical velocity components of the test particle and the calibration particle to calibrate the quantitative relationship between the charge of the at least one test particle and the determined time interval.
US10429345B2
Electrophoresis device including: a first flow passage extending in a first direction and through which a sample and a buffer solution flow; a sample collecting part provided at an end portion of the first flow passage and configured to collect the sample; electrodes disposed at both sides of the first flow passage in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and configured to apply a voltage to the first flow passage in the second direction; second flow passages communicating with both sides of the first flow passage in the second direction, configured to accommodate the electrodes, and through which a second buffer solution flows; and partition walls fixed to communicating portions between the first and second flow passages with a predetermined bonding strength and configured to block movement of substances between the first and second flow passages. The partition walls are formed of a gel material having ion permeability.
US10429343B1
Various technologies pertaining to a transistor having a variable-conductance channel with a non-volatile tunable conductance are described herein. The transistor comprises source and drain electrodes separated by a conducting channel layer. The conducting channel layer is separated from an electrochemical gate (ECG) layer by an electrolyte layer that prevents migration of electrons between the channel and the ECG but allows ion migration. When a voltage is applied between the channel and the ECG, electrons flow from one to the other, which causes a migration of ions from the channel to the ECG or vice versa. As ions move into or out of the channel layer, the conductance of the channel changes. When the voltage is removed, the channel maintains its conductance state.
US10429341B2
A method for testing a partially fabricated bio-sensor device wafer includes aligning the partially fabricated bio-sensor device wafer on a wafer stage of a wafer-level bio-sensor processing tool. The method further includes mounting an integrated electro-microfluidic probe card to a device area on the partially fabricated bio-sensor device wafer, wherein the electro-microfluidic probe card has a first major surface. The method further includes electrically connecting one or more electronic probe tips disposed on the first major surface of the integrated electro-microfluidic probe card to conductive areas of the device area. The method further includes flowing a test fluid from a fluid supply to the integrated electro-microfluidic probe card. The method further includes electrically measuring via the one or more electronic probe tips a first electrical property of one or more bio-FETs of the device area based on the test fluid flow.
US10429332B2
An oil degradation meter and a method for evaluating oil degradation are provided, in which a user is enabled to arbitrarily set a degradation of oil/fat using an acid value (AV value) as an index, and capable of learning a replacement time of oil/fat easily with a stable reproducibility, even in a case where a condition such as a moisture amount in food (deep-fried food) is different. In a setup procedure, an acid value (AV0) of unused oil/fat is set to 0, a dielectric constant (D0) at that time is measured and recorded, a dielectric constant (D100) of oil/fat at a replacement time under a specific oil/fat usage condition is measured, and it is recorded along with an acid value (AV100) at that time, and in a measurement procedure, a dielectric constant (Dn) of the sample oil/fat is measured, and an acid value (AVn) of said sample oil/fat is calculated based on the dielectric constants (D0, D100) and the acid value (AV100) recorded in said setup procedure, according to a calculation formula of [AVn=AV100×{(Dn−D0)/(D100−D0)}].
US10429326B2
An X-ray optics assembly for an X-ray diffractometer is provided, comprising a multilayer mirror, in particular a Goebel mirror, and a switching system with which beam paths for an X-ray beam are selectable. The X-ray optics assembly includes a monochromator, in particular a channel-cut crystal, and three beam paths for the X-ray beam are selectable using the switching system. A first beam path in a first position of the switching system leads past the multilayer mirror and leads past the monochromator, a second beam path in a second position of the switching system contains the multilayer mirror and leads past the monochromator, and a third beam path in a third position of the switching system contains the multilayer mirror and contains the monochromator. The invention provides an X-ray optics assembly and an X-ray diffractometer which may be used even more universally for various measurement geometries in a simple manner.
US10429324B2
A method of inspecting a pipe includes locating a container around a pipe when the container is in an open position and moving the container from the open to a closed position. Then passing radiation through the container and at least a portion of the pipe substantially enclosed by the container. The distance between a source of the radiation and the at least a portion of the pipe being equal to or less than 300 mm. An apparatus comprising a container moveable between an open and a closed position. In the open position the container is locatable around a pipe and in the closed position the container substantially encloses at least a portion of the pipe. In the closed position the distance between a source of radiation enclosed in the container and the at least a portion of the pipe is equal to or less than 300 mm.
US10429322B2
The present invention relates to a millimeter or terahertz wave sensor for providing inline inspection, preferably including but not limited to continuous monitoring of objects, for example thin sheet dielectric material.
US10429320B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of tool matching that employs an auto-learning feedback loop to update a library of key parameters. According to the method, measurements are performed on a control wafer to collect a set of parameters associated with the process/analysis tool that is being matched. When deviated parameters correlate to a correctable tool condition (i.e. a tool matching event), the parameters are added to the library of key parameters. These key or critical parameters may be monitored on a more frequent basis to identify deviations that have a strong likelihood of matching with a correctable tool condition. The tool matching methodology advantageously allows for monitoring of an automatically updated list of key parameters instead of needing to look at the full set of parameters collected from a control wafer each time. As such, tool matching can be performed on a more frequent basis.
US10429311B2
Methods and systems for colorimetrically analyzing a liquid medium by analyzing chemical test strip images are provided. The liquid medium can be industrial water in an industrial water system. Image analyzing software carries out the analysis. The results of the analysis can be used to diagnosing a chemical treatment regimen of the industrial water system. A chemical test strip holder can be used to enhance reliability and repeatability of the imaging process and/or subsequent analysis.
US10429300B2
The present invention provides assays utilizing SPR to detect protein-ligand interactions as well as compositions utilized is such assays.
US10429292B2
For analyzing a sample containing particles of at least two categories, such as a sample containing blood cells, a particle counter subject to a detection limit is coupled with an analyzer capable of discerning particle number ratios, such as a visual analyzer, and a processor. A first category of particles can be present beyond detection range limits while a second category of particles is present within respective detection range limits. The concentration of the second category of particles is determined by the particle counter. A ratio of counts of the first category to the second category is determined on the analyzer. The concentration of particles in the first category is calculated on the processor based on the ratio and the count or concentration of particles in the second category.
US10429289B2
A particle detection system (100), such as an active video smoke detection system, includes at least one illumination means (102) for directing a beam (106) of radiation through at least part of the air volume being monitored (110), an image sensor (104) is positioned to capture images of at least part of a beam (106) from illumination means (102); and means to analyse (107) the captured images to detect the presence of particles within the volume. At least 29 different aspects are described for improving the sensitivity, usability, and robustness of particle detection. These include, for example, configuring illumination means (102) to create a curtain of light or a rapidly-scanned beam across the air volume (110), and configuring a reflector to steer or change direction of a beam reflected from illumination means (102).
US10429277B2
Apparatuses and methods for removing magnetic particles from suspensions are described. One embodiment of the apparatus is called a magnetic needle.
US10429275B2
A trace analyte collection swab having a collection surface at least partially coated with a microscopically tacky substance to enhance pick-up efficiency is described. In embodiments, the trace analyte collection swab comprises a substrate including a surface having a trace analyte collection area and a coating disposed on the surface of the substrate in the trace analyte collection area. The coating is configured to be microscopically adhesive to collect particles of the trace analyte from a surface when the trace analyte collection area is placed against the surface. In one embodiment, the coating comprises Polyisobutylene.
US10429253B2
An armor plate damage detection and testing system is disclosed that uses an initial electrical signal to generate mechanical energy waves that travel across the armor plate and reflect off the plate surfaces, wherein the reflections of those waves are recorded and analyzed with reference to a previously stored wave reflection signature to determine if damage has occurred to the armor plate. The analyzed results are communicated to the user in real time using a display unit and can further be communicated to a remote entity through an incorporated wireless transmitter.
US10429245B2
An optical system comprising a randomizer that has a plurality of randomly positioned scatterers for scattering and thereby randomizing light to generate a speckle pattern and a detector for detecting the speckle pattern to determine at least one property of the light and/or change in at least one property of the light.
US10429238B2
There is provided an optical measurement method using a detector having a detection sensitivity to at least a near-infrared region. The optical measurement method including: obtaining an output value by measuring a light sample at any exposure time with the detector; and correcting the output value with an amount of correction corresponding to the output value, when the exposure time at which the output value is obtained is within a second range. The amount of correction includes a product of a coefficient and a square of the exposure time, the coefficient indicating a degree to which an output value obtained when the light sample is measured with the detector at an exposure time within the second range deviates from output linearity obtained when the light sample is measured with the detector at an exposure time within a first range.
US10429237B2
This disclosure relates to a Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) photoelectric detection device, a method of driving the MSM photoelectric detection device, and an X-Ray detector. The device comprises: a plurality of detection units each including: at least one first MSM structure, at least one second MSM structure, a first control unit, a second control unit, a third control unit, a threshold comparison unit, and an energy storage unit, wherein the first control unit is used for controlling the output/reset signal terminal to be connected to or disconnected from the first node; the second control unit is used for controlling the first node to be connected to or disconnected from the second MSM structure; the threshold comparison unit is used for outputting an ON control signal or an OFF control signal; the third control signal is used for connecting or disconnecting the first node to or from the second MSM structure under the control of the control signal outputted by the threshold comparison unit; the energy storage unit is used for storing charges. This disclosure is used for manufacturing the MSM photoelectric detection device.
US10429234B2
A distributed fiber optic acoustic detection device employs a novel distributed acoustic detection method using a phase noise cancelling distributed acoustic sensing (PNC-DAS) technique.
US10429232B2
A weight measurement system includes a load-bearing member, a sensing module, a processor, and a prompting module. The load-bearing member supports an object and is made of an elastic material. The sensing module is electromagnetically coupled with the load-bearing member. The processor is electrically connected to the sensing module. The prompting module is electrically connected to the processor. The sensing module outputs a sensing signal to the processor upon detecting a deformation of the load-bearing member caused by the object. The processor processes the sensing signal and outputs a weight signal to the prompting module.
US10429230B2
A method for verifying the accuracy of a custody meter having a custody flow capacity with a displacement prover having a prover flow capacity includes providing a first master flow meter and a second master flow meter operating in parallel. The displacement prover is in series with the master flow meters and has a prover flow capacity that is less than the custody flow capacity. A fluid flow is diverted through the custody meter so that a portion of the fluid flow passes through each of the master flow meters. Each of the master flow meters are proved individually with the displacement prover. The custody meter is proved with both of the master flow meters operating simultaneously in parallel.
US10429228B2
An apparatus for measuring the level of fuel in a fuel tank is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an in-tank measuring system that provides an oscillating output signal generated, for example, by an oscillator such as a multivibrator, where the oscillating output signal has a frequency corresponding to the fuel level. The in-tank measuring system includes a capacitive fuel probe mounted within the fuel tank to contact the fuel. The fuel probe has a capacitance that is a function of the level of the fuel. The oscillator is configured for mounting within the fuel tank at a position in close proximity to the capacitive fuel probe. The oscillator circuit uses the capacitance of the fuel probe to generate the oscillating output signal. A communication path communicates the oscillating output signal from the clock circuit to a circuit exterior to the fuel tank.
US10429226B2
A cap for a fluid sensor is provided. The cap comprises a cap input port including a first toolless connector configured to removably couple to a cable; and a cap output port including a second toolless connector configured to removably couple to a cable. The cap may further comprise an interface circuit including a circuit input port, a circuit output port, and a sensor port configured to couple to the fluid sensor. The first toolless connector may be configured to removably couple the circuit input port to a cable and the second toolless connector may be configured to removably couple the circuit output port to a cable. The circuit will automatically sequence the signals on the cable, so standard one-to-one wired cables can be used.
US10429222B2
Embodiments relate generally to a system comprising a flow sensor assembly. The flow sensor assembly includes a housing defining a flow channel. The flow channel has an inlet serpentine portion fluidly coupled to an inlet port, and an outlet serpentine portion fluidly coupled to an outlet port. The housing further defines a sensor chamber fluidly coupling the inlet serpentine portion to the outlet serpentine portion, where the sensor chamber has a split planar region. The flow sensor assembly further includes a sensor die located proximate to the split planar region and configured to sense a measure related to a flow rate of a fluid.
US10429208B2
A position sensor device comprises at least two Hall elements (11, 12) and a signal evaluation circuit (14) that is coupled on its input side to the at least two Hall elements (11, 12) and is designed to provide a digital position signal (ANS). Moreover, the position sensor device (10) comprises a processing unit (15) comprising a loop filter (16) that is coupled on its input side to the signal evaluation unit (14). The processing unit (15) is designed to adaptively control a filter parameter of the loop filter (16) during operation.
US10429206B2
A counting device and a pedometer device is described. The counting device includes: a piezoelectric sensor generating a voltage signal when pressed; a rectifier receiving the voltage signal and rectifying the voltage signal to produce a trigger signal; a non-volatile counter receiving the trigger signal, and including a plurality of non-volatile D flip-flops counting according to the trigger signal and storing count data; a processing module reading the count data and using the count data to generate a counting value; and a wireless communication module transmitting the counting value to an external device. The counting device is powered with electrical energy of the voltage signal generated by the piezoelectric sensor.
US10429204B2
Athletic performance monitoring systems include GPS data to enhance various features of the workout as well as the post-workout data analysis. Such features include using output from multiple sensors to determine the most accurate data available for providing distance measurements for individual segments of a route. The most accurate data for each route segment, from whatever source, then is used to provide the overall route distance and as the basis for making other calculations, such as pace, calorie burn, etc. Another feature relates to the ability to both input and output geographically tagged messages while moving along a route during an athletic performance.
US10429203B1
One or more devices in a data analysis computing system may be configured to receive and analyze movement data, and determine driving trips associated driving data based on the received movement data. Movement data may be collected by one or more mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and the like. One or more driving trips may be identified based on the movement data collected by the mobile devices, including acceleration data, speed data, and rotation rate data. After identifying a driving trip, the previously collected movement data and/or additional driving data may be analyzed to determine additional driving trip data, such as the driver, vehicle, and/or additional driving factors.
US10429202B2
A method and system for generating a route through a navigable network in a geographic area is disclosed, the navigable network being represented by an electronic map comprising a plurality of segments each having a traversal direction associated therewith. An area is defined around a location represented by the electronic map, and at least some of the outgoing segments from the area are determined. A first optimum cost route from an origin is determined to each of the determined outgoing segments, and these routes are ranked according to their cost. At least one of the first optimum cost routes is selected based on the ranking, and a second optimum cost route is determined from the outgoing segment from the area of the selected route to a destination. The generated route from the origin to the destination comprises the selected first optimum cost route and the second optimum cost route.
US10429196B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for cart navigation using a portable device that is conveyed by the cart, but may be tethered or untethered and wherein mobility of the portable device may be constrained or unconstrained within the cart. The cart may be any apparatus propelled by on foot motion of a user. The portable device may have an integrated sensor assembly integrated with at least one sensor outputting data representing motion of the portable device. From the motion sensor data, it may be determined if the portable device is in a cart motion mode, if the cart is moving and an effective motion frequency for the portable device. Further, the motion sensor data may be reconstructed, a heading misalignment angle calculated and steps taken by the user detected. From this information, dead reckoning for the cart may be performed so that a navigation solution may be provided.
US10429195B2
A method is provided for generating a route from an origin to a destination factoring in the time dimension. Methods may include: receiving an indication of an origin and a destination; determining potential routes from the origin to the destination, where each route includes a sequence of nodes with road segments in between; determining, for each sequence of nodes, an anticipated time at which point each node in the sequence would be reached by a vehicle traveling along the respective route; determining, for each sequence of nodes, the availability of each node in the sequence at the anticipated time each node in the sequence would be reached; and establishing a recommended route between the origin and the destination according to the availability of each of the sequence of nodes in the sequence at the time each node in the sequence would be reached.
US10429194B2
An online system builds a high definition (HD) map for a geographical region based on sensor data captured by a plurality of autonomous vehicles driving through a geographical region. The autonomous vehicles detect map discrepancies based on differences in the surroundings observed using sensor data compared to the high definition map and send messages describing these map discrepancies to the online system. The online system ranks the autonomous vehicles based on factors including an upload rate indicating how often the vehicle was used providing data to the online system. The sensor data from vehicles is uploaded to the online system (e.g., in the cloud) to create the HD map while spreading the burden of uploading this data as evenly as possible across a fleet of vehicles. Data uploads are expensive and time consuming, so the system makes this negligible for each vehicle by balancing/managing the uploads carefully across the fleet.
US10429192B2
Generating trail network maps, including: receiving a plurality of GPS recorded activities; identifying a subset of the plurality of GPS recorded activities that is associated with a trail network region; and generating a trail network map corresponding to the trail network region based at least in part on the subset of the plurality of GPS recorded activities.
US10429191B2
Systems and methods are provided for improved data integration in augmented reality devices. The systems and methods include obtaining contextual information associated with an individual and device information associated with an augmented reality device associated with the individual from the augmented reality device, obtaining a plurality of data sets associated with the individual or augmented reality device from a plurality of data sources, determining a subset of information from the data sets that is relevant to the individual or the augmented reality device wherein the relevancy of the subset of information is based on an analysis of the contextual information and the device information, generating display data based on the determined subset of information, providing the display data to the augmented reality device for display on the augmented reality device wherein a graphical overlay representative of the display data is displayed in front of the individual's field of view.
US10429189B2
A method and system obtaining positioning data from an object traveling on a plurality of routes; mapping the data into a plurality of points on a digital map; identifying points that are unmatched to the stored route trajectory; obtaining candidate transition points from the unmatched points; aggregating the candidate transition points by applying a clustering algorithm; selecting a first cluster of points and a plurality of second clusters of points, determining a confidence level that the first cluster of points are transition points indicating a transition between the routes, classifying the first cluster of points as a first plurality of traveling points having a first direction in response to the confidence being below a threshold confidence and automatically adjusting the stored route trajectory to indicate that the first cluster of points are on the route trajectory.
US10429186B2
A microelectromechanical device that comprises a first structural layer, and a movable mass suspended to a primary out-of plane motion relative the first structural layer. A cantilever motion limiter structure is etched into the movable mass, and a first stopper element is arranged on the first structural layer, opposite to the cantilever motion limiter structure. Improved mechanical robustness is achieved with optimal use of element space.
US10429178B2
An arrangement measures coordinates of a workpiece and/or machines the workpiece. The arrangement has a first part and a second part that can be moved relative to the first part. The relative mobility of the first and second parts is specified in addition to a possible mobility of a probe that is optionally additionally fixed to the arrangement. The mobility of the probe is specified by a deflection of the probe from a neutral position during a mechanical probing of the workpiece for the purpose of measuring the coordinates. A measuring body is arranged on the first or second part, and at least one sensor is arranged on the other part, i.e. on the second or first part. The sensor generates a measurement signal corresponding to a position of the measuring body and thus corresponding to the relative position of the first and second part.
US10429176B2
A pipeline inspection system includes a pipeline pig having a controller and a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements situated in an array. Each of the plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements emits an ultrasonic signal into a wall of a pipeline and receives echoes of the ultrasonic signal from the pipeline wall. The controller selects a first subset of the plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements from which to emit the ultrasonic signals into the wall of the pipeline as the pipeline pig passes through the pipeline, analyzes the echoes of the ultrasonic signals received by the plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements to detect a feature in the pipeline wall, and selects a second subset of the plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements to emit the ultrasonic signals into the wall of the pipeline as the pipeline pig passes through the pipeline when the feature is detected in the pipeline wall.
US10429172B2
A defect detection method includes the following processes: a) stroboscopically illuminating the entire surface of an object within an examination area of the object while inducing a first elastic wave across the examination area on the object, and controlling the phase of the elastic wave and the timing of the stroboscopic illumination to collectively measure a back-and-forth displacement of each point within the examination area in at least three phases of the elastic wave; b) identifying a surface location which is the location of a defect on the examination area, based on the back-and-forth displacement of each point within the examination area in the at least three different phases; and c) injecting a second elastic wave into a region inside the surface location from a limited area including the surface location, and determining the location and/or size in the depth direction of the defect, based on a response wave.
US10429171B2
A sensor for a vibration imaging system is provided. The sensor includes a transmitter configured to project an array of laser beams onto a surface of an object such that neighboring beams in the array of laser beams are frequency shifted relative to each other, an interferometer configured to mix radiations reflected from neighboring points on the surface of the object such that the radiations from neighboring points interfere with one another, a photodetector array configured to produce output signals representative of the interfering beams, a demodulator configured to demodulate the output signals, and a computing device configured to calculate a deformation profile for the object based on the demodulated output signals.
US10429170B2
An exemplary system can be provided which can include, for example, a plurality of source arrangements configured to provide a plurality of electro-magnetic radiations to at least one of at least one sample or at least one reference structure, a first arrangement configured to receive a first radiation(s) from the reference structure(s), a second arrangement configured to receive a second radiation(s) from the sample(s), where a portion(s) of the second radiation(s) can be in an invisible spectrum, a third arrangement configured to combine the first radiation(s) and the second radiation(s) into a third radiation(s), and a fourth arrangement configured to convert the third radiation(s) into a further radiation in a visible spectrum based on the at least one portion.
US10429162B2
Systems, methods, blasting machines and wireless bridge units are presented for wireless blasting for safe firing of detonators under control of a remote wireless master controller in which the blasting machine is connected by cabling to the wireless bridge unit and power to a firing circuit of the blasting machine is remotely controlled via the bridge unit. The bridge unit selectively provides first and second firing messages to the blasting machine contingent upon acknowledgment of safe receipt of the first firing message by the blasting machine, and the blasting machine fires the connected detonators only if the first and second firing messages are correctly received from the bridge unit. A wireless slave blasting machine is disclosed, including a wireless transceiver for communicating with a remote wireless master controller, which fires the connected detonators only if first and second firing messages are wirelessly received from the master controller.
US10429152B2
A structural panel includes a shell having spaced first and second fiber reinforced polyester (FRP) exterior panels and separate frame members adjacent edges of the FRP panels, and at least one polymeric sheet disposed between the FRP exterior panels and bonded to an adjacent exterior panel. The polymeric sheet is made of a thermoplastic material and has a plurality of openings through its thickness spaced apart by flat wall portions of the polymeric sheet. At least one blast- or ballistic-resistant core layer is disposed adjacent the at least one polymeric sheet. A curable and hardenable foam insulation material fills substantially all the space between the polymeric sheets, frame members, and blast- or ballistic-resistant core layer in the shell interior.
US10429151B2
Upon loss of a valid track of a remotely-sensed command guided vehicle, a delta actuator command including an orthogonal component orthogonal to the straight-line path is generated as a next sample of a time-based alternating signal. The time-based delta actuator command is added to the nominal actuator command, which is “held” upon loss of valid track, to maneuver the vehicle in first and second orthogonal directions back and forth across the straight-line path to increase an area of vehicle motion relative to the tracker's FOV. This increases the likelihood of recapture of the vehicle given vehicle motion after track is broken. The penalty is a reduction in energy efficiency. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished without modification to guidance system hardware or the existing tracking valid or invalid guidance algorithms.
US10429135B2
Configurations and related processing schemes of specific inter-plants and hybrid, intra- and inter- plants waste heat recovery schemes for thermal energy consumption reduction in integrated refining-petrochemical facilities synthesized for grassroots medium grade crude oil semi-conversion refineries to increase energy efficiency from specific portions of low grade waste heat sources are described. Configurations and related processing schemes of specific inter-plants and hybrid, intra- and inter- plants waste heat recovery schemes for thermal energy consumption reduction in integrated refining-petrochemical facilities synthesized for integrated medium grade crude oil semi-conversion refineries and aromatics complex for increasing energy efficiency from specific portions of low grade waste sources are also described.
US10429132B2
A heat exchanger has a core comprised of at least one core section defined by a plate stack comprising a plurality of core plates, each core plate having a plurality of spaced apart, raised openings surrounded by a flat area. The raised openings of adjacent plates are sealed together to define a plurality of tubular structures. Top and bottom manifolds are sealed to the top and bottom of the core, with continuous top and bottom end plates providing structurally rigid connections between multiple core sections of the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger may have numerous configurations, including stepped core, curved core, angled core, and/or a core having multiple sections of the same or different length, while minimizing the number of unique parts and/or parts of complex shape.
US10429127B2
For the purpose of improving a stability a home appliance device, in particular a home appliance chiller device, at least one elongate frame element which has at least one first fixing feature and at least one deposit element for depositing of victuals are provided. The deposit element has at least one second fixing feature in an end region and is connected to the frame element. The first fixing feature and the second fixing feature being fixed to each other in a form-fit manner in order to prevent a movement of the deposit element with respect to the frame element in a direction which is at least substantially parallel to a main extension direction of the frame element.
US10429120B2
Disclosed is a refrigerator including a cabinet, a storage compartment provided in the cabinet to form a single space in which a storage item is stored, a single door for opening or closing the space formed by the storage compartment, a first cold air supply duct and a second cold air supply duct provided respectively on left and right sides of the single storage compartment, the first cold air supply duct and the second cold air supply duct supplying different amounts of cold air, and a storage unit for being pushed into or pulled from the storage compartment in a front-and-rear direction along with the door.
US10429115B2
A refrigerator has a storage compartment, a door for opening and closing the storage compartment, an ice-making machine and an ice storage compartment. The ice-making machine is used to produce an ice cube. The ice storage compartment is disposed below the ice-making machine, so as to accommodate an ice cube. The ice storage compartment has a discharge port. A movable blocking member and an ice-crushing cutter are located in the ice storage compartment. A distributor is located on the door and used to distribute the ice cube from the ice storage compartment to the outside. The ice storage compartment further includes an opening and closing mechanism for opening or closing the discharge port. Because the discharge port of the ice storage compartment can be closed, the ice-crushing cutter disposed above the discharge port will not be unconsciously touched, and a user is avoided from being hurt by the ice-crushing cutter.
US10429112B2
A control method for a refrigerator includes driving a refrigerator compartment compressor that is configured to cool a refrigerator compartment; determining whether a temperature in the refrigerator compartment satisfies a first temperature; driving, based on the determination that a temperature in the refrigerator compartment satisfies the first temperature, a freezer compartment compressor that is configured to cool a freezer compartment; stopping the refrigerator compartment compressor; maintaining, after stopping the refrigerator compartment compressor, operation of the freezer compartment compressor; restarting the refrigerator compartment compressor; and varying a driving frequency of the refrigerator compartment compressor.
US10429107B2
An environmental control system (ECS) includes an air cycle machine (ACM), a condenser downstream of the ACM, a reheater between the condenser and the ACM, a primary heat exchanger upstream of the reheater, a first regulated flow path between the condenser and a first environment outside of the ECS, a second regulated flow path between a second environment to be conditioned and the reheater, and a third regulated flow path between the primary heat exchanger and the reheater.
US10429102B2
An HVAC&R system including a pumping device configured to circulate a first two-phase medium, a plurality of secondary HVAC&R units, wherein at least one of the plurality of secondary HVAC&R units is operably coupled to the pumping device, and a primary HVAC&R unit operably coupled to at least one of the plurality of secondary HVAC&R units, wherein the pumping device, a portion of the plurality of secondary HVAC&R units, and a portion of the primary HVAC&R unit form a primary loop.
US10429095B2
A compressor unit for heating and sanitizing water for human use including a combustion housing defining a combustion chamber. A heat exchanger is partially supported in the combustion chamber and configured to heat water. An igniter ignites fuel and air in the combustion chamber. The compressor unit further includes a compression housing defining a compression chamber in fluid communication with the combustion chamber. An intake valve is configured to meter air into the compression chamber. An oscillation plate is supported in the compression chamber and movable between first and second positions wherein movement of the oscillation plate between the two positions compresses air directed toward the combustion chamber. A sealed case around a heat fan and an attached exhaust pipe contain exhaust gasses after a release valve. A case for a crankshaft contains lubrication and is sealed with a lid similar to an oil pan.
US10429094B2
A window mounted room air conditioner insulation and installation device that assists with the efficient and effective installation of a window air conditioner, so that an indoor room environment remains relatively constant despite changes in external weather conditions or in internal heat loads.
US10429090B2
An air conditioning system including a condenser system and a closed-loop air-to-water system. The condenser system includes a compressor which pressurizes refrigerant and distributes the pressurized refrigerant to at least one condenser coil, which climatizes water; and a fan which exhausts heat from the pressurized refrigerant. The closed-loop air-to-water system includes a climatized liquid tank, which receives climatized water from the at least one condenser coil; and an air handler disposed within a building, the air handler having a climatized liquid coil. The air handler is disposed to receive air from inside the building; transfer thermal energy from the climatized liquid coil to ambient air, creating climatized air; and distribute the climatized air to at least a portion of the building. The climatized water may be distributed to a recycled liquid tank, which may redistribute the climatized water to the climatized liquid tank, forming a closed-loop air-to-water system.
US10429089B2
In an outdoor unit of an air conditioner, a control box of the outdoor unit of the air conditioner is configured so that heat exchange chamber-side air flows toward a fan motor assembly via an inside of the control box by operation of the fan motor assembly. Thus, the inside of the control box may be efficiently cooled.
US10429087B2
An indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a box-shaped casing having an air inlet in a top surface of the casing and an air outlet in a bottom surface of the casing, an air-sending device disposed in the casing and configured to suck in indoor air through the air inlet and blow conditioned air through the air outlet, a heat exchanger disposed in the casing and configured to cause the indoor air to exchange heat with refrigerant to supply the conditioned air, a vertical deflector, a first auxiliary vertical deflector, and a second auxiliary vertical deflector each rotatably arranged in the air outlet and configured to change an air flow direction in a vertical direction.
US10429085B2
The invention solves the problem of hot water flow in a domestic hot water installation. The subject of the installation according to the invention is that on a third cold water branch (13) that feeds the heating device (1) a control switch (4) is installed, said switch (4) is connected by control system (11) with hot water flow forcing device (3) set on a second hot water circulation branch (2).
US10429084B2
A water heater includes a water tank for storing water to be heated and a thermosiphon tube in the water tank. The thermosiphon tube has a first end in a bottom portion of the water tank and a second end in a top portion of the water tank. At least a portion of a condenser tube of a heat pump is surrounded by the thermosiphon tube to define a water flow channel between the thermosiphon tube and the condenser tube. The condenser tube is at an elevated temperature compared to water temperature in the water flow channel due to a refrigerant cycle of the heat pump. A water pump is configured to flow water through the water flow channel to heat the water in the water flow channel and deliver the heated water into the top portion of the water tank through the second end of the thermosiphon tube.
US10429081B2
A cooking apparatus includes a frame configured to form a cooking chamber; a burner cover provided inside the frame and configured to form a combustion chamber; a burner accommodated in the combustion chamber; a fan provided at an outside of the burner cover in the frame; and a fan cover configured to cover the fan and the burner cover.
US10429073B2
A combustor cap module is provided with a retention system to facilitate assembly and disassembly. The combustor cap module further includes a cap face assembly having a cooling plate; a cylindrical sleeve including a connecting surface for attaching the cap face assembly to the retention assembly; and a coupling member mounted in a downstream fuel nozzle opening in the cooling plate. The retention system includes a support plate having an inner panel that defines an upstream fuel nozzle opening. The coupling member extends through the upstream fuel nozzle opening, such that its upstream end extends upstream of the support plate. A retaining ring at least partially encircles the upstream end of the coupling member and is engaged by a spring plate that is removably secured to the support plate at multiple locations. A method for assembling a combustor cap module is also provided.
US10429070B2
A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor dome and a combustion chamber liner formed integrally of a ceramic matrix composite material. The combustor dome defines a plurality of openings for receiving a respective plurality of fuel air injector hardware assemblies and may extend continuously along a circumferential direction.
US10429066B2
An apparatus for thermal exhaust gas purification includes at least one thermal reactor to which a raw gas to be purified is supplied and in which the supplied raw gas is thermally purified, and an energy recovery apparatus to which a gas purified in the thermal reactor is supplied via at least one outlet line. For improving the balance of energy, it is proposed that the energy recovery apparatus includes at least one condensation heat exchanger in which the purified gas is cooled down such that condensable substances contained in the purified gas condense, and enthalpies released thereby are transmitted to a heat exchange medium and/or the raw gas upstream of the thermal reactor.
US10429048B2
An LED socket comprises an LED package having an LED mounted on an LED printed circuit board, a contact having a receiving section adapted to be connected to a terminal end of an electrical cable and a contact lug having a T-shaped contact section, and a base defining a receptacle for receiving the LED printed circuit board. The receptacle is open to an opening in the base adapted to expose the LED at a front face of the base. The base holds the contact and the T-shaped contact section is exposed in the receptacle and electrically contacts a pad of the LED printed circuit board.
US10429041B2
A ceiling light LED retrofit kit is provided. The kit is configured for attachment to an existing, installed linear fluorescent tube lighting fixture. The kit includes a light panel, a first profile extending along a first longitudinal side of the existing fluorescent light fixture, and a second profile extending along a second longitudinal side of an existing light fixture. The retrofit kit light panel includes light emitting diodes. A raceway may be defined between the retrofit kit and the previously-installed fixture, in which wiring and other components may reside away from you.
US10429018B2
A light fixture includes a housing and a light emitting element. The housing includes a lower edge and is configured to be recessed within a surface. The light emitting element is supported in the housing, and the light emitting element includes a planar surface spaced apart from the lower edge of the housing.
US10429016B1
An LED light string has a plug, a socket, a lighting string connected between the plug and the socket, and a control circuit provided in either the plug or the socket. The control circuit uses at least one current controller to control a driving current flowing through the lighting string stably. When a temperature of the lighting string exceeds a threshold, the current controller activates its over-temperature protection function to lower the driving current. When short-circuit occurs on the lighting string, the current controller activates its short-circuit protection function to lower the driving current.
US10429012B2
A solution for packaging an optoelectronic device by aligning an optical element with respect to the package is provided. After initial placement of the optical element on the device package, an emitted light pattern can be measured and compared to a target light pattern. Subsequently, the position of the optical element can be adjusted. The emitted light pattern can be repeatedly compared to the target light pattern until the emitted light pattern is within an acceptable range of error and the optical element can be secured to the device package.
US10429005B2
These objects are attained in a mount for a lubricant dispenser and that has a protective casing forming a cavity adapted to hold the dispenser and having a lower edge and a bracket having a lower generally horizontal leg on which the lower edge of the casing sits. An outlet fitting is provided on the lower leg positioned to received lubricant from the dispenser in the cavity of the casing sitting on the lower leg.
US10428975B2
A pipe clamp includes two clamp parts, each clamp part having a curved pipe clamping portion, and an anchoring portion formed at or near a first end of each pipe clamping portion to anchor the pipe clamp to a profile element. The anchoring portion is formed as a leg with a hammerhead. A flange is formed at a second end of each pipe clamping portion. The flanges of the clamp parts are adapted to be positioned opposite each other. A tightening member is associated with the clamp flanges for tightening them together. The curved pipe clamping portion has a varying stiffness along the curve length between the first end and the second end of the pipe clamping portion, where on average the stiffness of the pipe clamping portion decreases or increases from the first end towards the second end.
US10428974B2
A routing and securing system with adjacent components is provided to route and secure hoses, lines, and harnesses of vehicles in a manner that is repeatable and straightforward and can be documented. The routing and securing system uses a base block provided in a first plane and a retainer, or wrap, provided in a second plane. The base block provides concave receptacles, or slots, for seating elongate routed components in the first plane, while the retainer overlaps the elongate routed components in the second plane to secure the elongate routed components to their respective concave receptacles. A mounting bracket may be used to mount the routing and securing system to the vehicle, and may also be used to join a pair of routing and securing systems together.
US10428967B2
A shear valve for use in a high performance liquid chromatography system. The shear valve includes a first valve member having a plurality of first fluid-conveying features, and a second valve member having one or more second fluid-conveying features. The second valve member is movable, relative to the first valve member, between a plurality of discrete positions such that, in each of the discrete positions, at least one of the one or more second fluid-conveying features overlaps with multiple ones of the first fluid conveying features to provide for fluid communication therebetween. At least one of the first and second valve members is at least partially coated with a protective coating that includes an adhesion interlayer and a diamond-like carbon (DLC) layer. The DLC layer is deposited on the adhesion interlayer via filtered cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA) deposition.
US10428961B2
The sanitary diverter valve (70) is for use in a drying system or powder conveying system including conveying lines and a purge line of a purge arrangement. The sanitary diverter valve comprises a valve housing (71) with a number of openings (72, 73, 74) configured to be connected to respective lines of the system. The valve housing (71) is substantially cylindrical and includes a first opening (72), a second opening (73) and a third opening (74). Furthermore, the diverter valve (70) comprises a rotatable diversion member (75) provided with a flow channel (76) having a first end (76a) and a second end (76b), an open space (77) being defined between the valve housing (71) and the rotatable diversion member (75). The rotatable diversion member (75) is configured to be rotated between a first position and a second position to allow that fluid communication is selectively provided between the first opening (72) and the third opening (74) and between the first opening (72) and the second opening (73) of the valve housing (71).
US10428959B2
An annular assembly for compressing a seat of a ball-valve, including: a valve body or insert, including an annular internal counter-bore that defines an inner counter-bore diameter; a sleeve inserted into the annular internal counter-bore, defining at least one outer diameter of the sleeve; the body or the insert defining with the sleeve an annular housing in which the assembly includes, in succession: a downstream stack of head rings, an annular head shim, a stack of mechanisms of compression, an annular base shim, and an upstream stack of base rings.
US10428958B2
A valve with removable components is provided. The valve includes a housing in which a seat is arranged between a flow inlet and a flow outlet. A shut-off body displaceable by a displacing element is arranged to shut off flow through the seat. The shut-off body displacing element is surrounded at least partially by a guide sleeve which is connected to the seat in a manner which allows the seat to be removed with the guide sleeve, shut-off body and shut-off body displacing element.
US10428956B2
The invention is directed to a device (2) for regulating the pressure and/or flow of pressurized gas, comprising a body (4) with a gas inlet (6), a gas outlet (8) and a gas passage (10, 26) connecting the outlet (8) with the inlet (6), a gas shut-off device comprising a seat (22) in the passage (10) and a movable closure element (24) cooperating with said seat (22) and a piston (12) carrying the closure element (24) and delimiting with the body (4) a low pressure chamber (28) downstream of the shut-off device (22, 24). The body (4) comprises a first portion (41) with the seat (22) and the inlet (6) and a second portion (42) housing the piston (12) and delimiting the low pressure chamber (28). The second portion (42) is movable relative to the first portion (41) between a closed position, and an open position.
US10428955B2
A butterfly valve assembly for use in a fluid flow containing particles of debris is provided including a valve element. The valve element has a seal groove that extends about a periphery and defines an upstream side and a downstream side of the valve element. A seal is disposed within the seal groove. A clearance exists between the seal and an edge of the seal groove. Also, a relief is formed in either the valve element or the seal. The particles of debris accumulate in the relief and not the clearance.
US10428954B2
The fluid-cushion sealing device (100) for a piston (101) moving in a cylinder (102) and defining with the latter a chamber to be sealed (104) includes: a continuous perforated ring (105) through the radial thickness of which passes a calibrated opening (111) and which is sealingly accommodated in a ring groove (109) provided in the piston (101) so as to define, with the groove (109), a pressure distribution chamber (119) connected to a pressurized fluid source (112), while an axially blind counter-pressure recess (115) is provided recessed on an external cylindrical ring surface (107) which faces the cylinder (102) and which the continuous perforated ring (105) includes, the calibrated opening (111) leading into the recess (115).
US10428952B1
Systems and methods for sealing a static or rotary tube to a rotary tube that is part of a thermal unit performing an airless or oxygen starved high-temperature incineration process like pyrolysis in such a way that the joining of the tubes does not interfere with the oxygen controlled processes within the rotating thermal unit tube. Embodiments comprise a seal comprising chambers for sealing material supported by rollers contacting flanges of rotating tube elements and suspended by gimbals to permit the seal to move in a transverse direction, to swing, and to rotate while maintaining the seal.
US10428943B2
A side rail (1) is formed in a sprit ring shape with an opening (10) and to be mounted on a space expander (2) in an annular shape to constitute, together with the space expander (2), a multi-piece oil ring (3) used in an internal combustion engine. The side rail (1) includes an outer peripheral surface (14) facing radially outward, an inner peripheral surface (13) facing radially inward, a first axial surface (11) facing a crankcase, a second axial surface (12) facing a combustion chamber and parallel to the first axial surface (11), and a protrusion (20) formed on the outer peripheral surface (14) in a position offset from an intermediate position between the first axial surface (11) and the second axial surface (12) toward the first axial surface (11) and protruding radially outward from the outer peripheral surface (14).
US10428940B2
Disclosed is a hydraulic pressure supply system of a dual clutch transmission for a vehicle in which by independently configuring a low pressure supply route and a high pressure supply route, the hydraulic pressure supply system can enable a low hydraulic pressure that is generated in a hydraulic pump for a low pressure to be supplied to a gear lubrication device and a clutch cooling/lubrication device and enable a low hydraulic pressure that is generated in a hydraulic pump for a high pressure to be supplied to a gear control device and a clutch control device.
US10428937B2
A road information acquisition unit (12a) acquires information about the road in a prescribed segment in front, a vehicle information acquisition unit (12b) acquires information about the vehicle (1), a velocity prediction unit (12c) predicts, on the basis of the road information and the information about the vehicle (1), the changes in the vehicle velocity that would be brought about in the prescribed segment in the case of travelling the prescribed segment in a first gear, and a shift control unit (12d) which maintains the first gear if the condition is satisfied that the predicted vehicle velocity exhibits a minimum value other than at the ends of the prescribed segment and the minimum value is greater than the delay speed, which is set to a value less than a predetermined velocity set as the velocity that would result from downshifting.
US10428935B2
A method of controlling an automatic transmission is provided. The automatic transmission includes a piston having first and second surfaces opposite from each other, friction plates, engaging and disengaging hydraulic pressure chambers for supplying hydraulic pressure and directing the piston to push the friction plates to be engaged and disengaged, a hydraulic pressure control valve for supplying and discharging hydraulic pressure to and from the chambers, and first and second oil paths communicating the valve with the chambers. The second surface has a larger area for receiving hydraulic pressure than that of the first surface. The method includes controlling the friction plates to change from the disengaged state to the engaged state. Controlling the friction plates includes adjusting the hydraulic pressure to a first instruction pressure in a first period in response to a gear shift command, and to a second instruction pressure in a second period.
US10428932B2
At a shift lever device, a shift lever is supported at a retainer due to the shift lever being inserted into the retainer from an upper side portion, and select shafts of the shift lever being inserted into select frames of the retainer. Here, at the select shafts, amounts of projection of circular shafts and intermediate shafts are small as compared with amounts of projection of plate shafts. At a time when the select shafts are inserted into the select frames, the circular shafts and intermediate shafts can pass supporting pillars of the select frames, and an angle of tilting of the shift lever with respect to the retainer in a left-right direction can be made to be small. Therefore, a left-right direction dimension of the retainer can be made to be small, and the shift lever device can be made to be compact in the left-right direction.
US10428928B2
A system has an input shaft driving a first gear and supported by at least one input shaft bearing. The first gear drives at least a second gear. The second gear drives an output shaft. The output shaft is supported by at least one output shaft bearing. A gear bearing also supports at least one of the first and second gears. Lubricant movement structure is associated with at least one of the first and second gears for moving lubricant in an axial and in a radial direction to drive the lubricant toward at least one of the shaft bearing and the gear bearing. A spacecraft is also disclosed.
US10428925B2
A hydrokinetic torque-coupling device for coupling driving and driven shafts. The torque-coupling device includes a casing, an impeller wheel and a turbine wheel hydrodynamically drivable by the impeller wheel, and a lock-up clutch. The lock-up clutch includes a lockup piston axially movable toward and away from the casing, a first disc carrier non-movably secured to the casing, a second disc carrier radially offset from the first disc carrier and drivingly coupled to the turbine wheel, at least one drive disc non-rotatably and axially movably mounted to the first disc carrier, at least one driven disc non-rotatably and axially movably mounted to the second disc carrier and disposed adjacent to the at least one drive disc so as to define a clutch pack, and a clutch biasing spring disposed between the casing and the clutch pack so as to bias the clutch pack toward the lockup piston.
US10428909B2
An automatic transmission with housing, input shaft, output shaft, four planetary gear sets, and six shift elements. Second element of second planetary gear set forms first shaft; second element of third planetary gear set forms second shaft; first elements of first and second planetary gear sets form third shaft; third element of third planetary gear set forms fourth shaft; second element of first planetary gear set and third element of second planetary gear set form fifth shaft; third element of first planetary gear set forms sixth shaft; first elements of third and fourth planetary gear sets form seventh shaft; and third element of fourth planetary gear set forms eighth shaft. First shift element is between third shaft and housing; second shift element is between fourth shaft and housing; third shift element is between second and eighth shafts; fourth shift element is between fourth and fifth shafts; fifth shift element is between fifth and seventh shafts; sixth shift element is between sixth and seventh shafts.
US10428906B2
A transmission mechanism includes a plurality of drive gears disposed on a counter shaft and a plurality of driven gears disposed on a drive shaft. Each of the plurality of drive gears is engaged with each of the plurality of driven gears to form a plurality of shift-gear pairs. An eight-speed drive gear, which forms an eight-speed shift-gear pair having the smallest reduction gear ratio, and a seven-speed drive gear, which forms a seven-speed shift-gear pair having the second smallest reduction gear ratio, are disposed adjacent one another at a center portion of an arrangement of the drive gears. An eight-speed driven gear, which forms the eight-speed shift-gear pair, and a seven-speed driven gear, which forms the seven-speed shift-gear pair, are disposed adjacent one another at a center portion of an arrangement of the driven gears.
US10428905B2
A powershifting multispeed reversing transmission includes a converter lockup clutch (31) arranged in a space (13) provided by arranging the forward-driving clutch (8) between the fixed gear (5) and the loose gear (7) on a forward-driving shaft, and the reverse-driving clutch (12) between the fixed gear (9) and the loose gear (11) a reverse-driving shaft.
US10428903B2
A transmission for the power-train of a rail vehicle, in which the transmission (3) includes an input shaft (4), an intermediate shaft (5) and a drive output shaft (6). The input shaft (4) can be connected so as to be driven by a drive motor (2), and the drive output shaft (6) forms a wheelset shaft of the rail vehicle. The transmission (3) has at least two selectively shiftable transmission stages with different transmission ratios for the same travel direction, and a shifting device (7) for engaging the transmission stages. Furthermore, a power-train for a rail vehicle having a transmission of such type is proposed.
US10428900B2
A ballasting weight (20) having a length, width, thickness, first side, second side, top, and bottom, and a cross-sectional profile comprising a notch forming a groove (28) extending longitudinally along the length of the first side of the ballasting weight (20), wherein the groove (28) is operatively adapted so as to facilitate the automatic dispensing and/or applying of the ballasting weight (20), e.g., on the rim flange of a wheel rim adjacent to its flange lip, and a device for so dispensing and/or applying the ballasting weight.
US10428894B2
Provided is a resin-made impact absorption member including: an impact absorption portion which includes a fiber-reinforced resin material containing reinforcing fibers and a thermoplastic resin and has a hollow structure including an outer cylindrical portion and a hollow portion, in which the reinforcing fiber has an average fiber length of 1 mm to 100 mm, the thermoplastic resin has a fracture elongation of 10% or more, the fiber-reinforced resin material has a compressive elastic modulus of 10 GPa or more and a compressive strength of 150 MPa to 500 MPa, and in the impact absorption portion, a maximum value of a ratio L1/t1 of a distance L1 from a position of the center of gravity to the outer cylindrical portion on a same section in a sectional shape in a direction orthogonal to an impact absorption direction, to a thickness t1 of the outer cylindrical portion, is 40 or less.
US10428887B2
A hybrid structural apparatus is provided for a vehicle air braking system. The hybrid structural apparatus comprises a member including a non-pressure plate of a brake actuator and an arm portion that extends from the non-pressure plate. The member is made of a first material. The hybrid structural apparatus further comprises a first flange made of a second material fastened to the arm portion of the member. The second material is different from the first material. The hybrid structural apparatus also includes a second flange for fastening to a brake spider, and a camshaft support tube interconnecting the first and second flanges.
US10428885B2
A brake cylinder dust cover is installed on a waterproof brake cylinder. The brake cylinder includes a brake cylinder body and a front cover. A waterproof dust cover assembly is arranged on the front cover. The waterproof dust cover assembly includes a dust cover fixedly connected to the front cover, and a filter felt support and a filter felt pad which are arranged in the dust cover. The filter felt support is connected with the dust cover, and the filter felt pad is fixed on the filter felt support. An outwards extending skirt is arranged at the edge of the dust cover in the axial direction thereof.
US10428884B2
A brake pad for a motor vehicle is provided. The brake pad includes a body having upper and lower edges and a friction surface extending between the upper and lower edges for engaging a rotor. A notch is located along a section of the upper edge of the brake pad. The notch has an arc length of about ¼ to about ½ of an arc length of the pad and a depth of about ⅛ to about ⅙ of a height of the pad. During engagement with the rotor, the notch is configured to reduce squeal noise caused by tangential modes of the rotor.
US10428877B2
An adaptor is disclosed for connecting a generator to a prime mover. The adaptor comprises two separable parts. By providing an adaptor comprising two separable parts, it may be possible for one part to be removed in order to allow access to moving parts which would otherwise be inaccessible. This may simplify the process of servicing moving parts such as a coupling or bearings, without requiring the generator and the prime mover to be moved apart. A coupling with a radially removable elastomeric component is also disclosed.
US10428871B2
A bearing ring having an elongated sensor element that runs along at least a part of a surface of the bearing ring. The connection between the sensor element and the bearing ring is established by a metallic metal material connected by material bonding with the bearing ring as well as with the sensor element. To improve the life of the bearing a sensor element is arranged in a groove that is machined in the bearing ring. The groove extends from the surface of the bearing ring. The metallic material includes or is connected with a flat metallic strip. The flat metallic strip is arranged at or in the surface of the bearing ring and covers the groove.
US10428863B2
A variable compression ratio (VCR) internal combustion engine having a compression stroke and an expansion stroke includes an engine block defining a cylinder and a cylinder head mounted to the engine block and defining at least a part of a combustion chamber. The VCR engine also includes a reciprocating piston arranged inside the cylinder and configured to compress a mixture of air and fuel and receive a combustion force, wherein the compression stroke of the piston defines a compression ratio of the engine. The VCR engine additionally includes a six-bar linkage mechanism configured to operatively connect the piston to the engine block, articulate on seven distinct parallel axes, decouple the compression stroke from the expansion stroke, and continuously and selectively vary the compression stroke of the piston and the compression ratio of the engine.
US10428856B2
Provided is an expanding rivet connection for the connection of at least two components to be joined comprising an expanding rivet, comprising an expanding rivet body, which is shaped so that it can be inserted through openings into the first component to be joined, and a threaded part, which is shaped so that it protrudes, at least in part, after insertion from the first component to be joined, an expanding rivet mandrel, which is constructed so that it can be pushed through an opening in the expanding rivet into the expanding rivet body in order to protrude through the first component to be joined, and a clamping element, which is constructed to be screwed to the threaded part of the expanding rivet in order to connect at least a third component to be joined to the first component to be joined.
US10428844B1
A method and system for generating electrical power from a wheeled engine-driven vehicle. At least two hydraulic pumps are provided for pumping hydraulic fluid though respective hydraulic fluid outputs of the hydraulic pumps. A first one of the hydraulic pumps is driven by the engine of the vehicle and a second one of the hydraulic pumps is driven by one or more of the road-wheels of the vehicle. Hydraulic fluid pumped by the first and second hydraulic pumps is input in parallel to a hydraulic motor.
US10428843B2
An example tool includes a hydraulic actuator cylinder; a piston slidably accommodated within the hydraulic actuator cylinder, where the piston includes a piston head and a piston rod extending from the piston head along a central axis direction of the hydraulic actuator cylinder, the piston head divides an inside of the hydraulic actuator cylinder into a first chamber and a second chamber, and the piston rod is disposed in the first chamber and configured to move one or more jaws of the tool; a pump configured to provide pressurized fluid; and a sequence valve configured to block the pressurized fluid from flowing into the second chamber of the hydraulic actuator cylinder until pressure of the pressurized fluid exceeds a threshold pressure value.
US10428842B2
A triplex pneumatic architecture system is disclosed having first, second, and third pneumatic subsystems where triplex redundancy may be accomplished by measuring only one particular node in each system, such as a measured current of the servo valve. Each of the first, second, and third pneumatic subsystems are configured to control a separate redundant pneumatic actuation assembly. Each subsystem may comprise a current sensor to measure a control current from a servo driver to a servo valve that controls the pneumatic actuation assembly to output a measured current value, and a dump valve coupled to a relay. Each processor is configured to generate a termination signal to actuate the first relay to open the first dump valve. The triplex pneumatic architecture system further includes a communication bus to communicatively couple each of the first, second, and third pneumatic subsystems. Each processor is configured to generate the termination signal and to communicate the termination signal to one or more of the relays when one measured current value deviates from the two other measured current values by a predetermined error value.
US10428837B2
A fan for generating an air current includes a body having an air inlet, and a nozzle connected to the body. The nozzle includes an interior passage and an air outlet from which the air flow is emitted from the fan. The interior passage extends about an opening or bore through which air from outside the nozzle is drawn by air emitted from the air outlet. The body includes a duct having a first end defining an air inlet of the duct and a second end located opposite to the first end and defining an air outlet of the duct, an impeller located within the duct for drawing the air flow through the duct, and a motor for driving the impeller. The second end of the duct protrudes from the body into the interior passage of the nozzle.
US10428836B2
A rotor balance adjustment method includes: an impeller adjustment process of adjusting, with respect to each of the plurality of impellers, a balance of a position of the center of gravity of the impeller by separately adjusting a weight of the impeller before being attached to the rotor main body; a fixing process of fixing the plurality of impellers to the rotor main body after the impeller adjustment process is performed, wherein the plurality of impellers comprises a large-sized impeller that is larger and heavier than the other impellers; an inclination adjustment process of adjusting an inclination of the large-sized impeller with respect to the rotor main body after the fixing process is performed; and a rotor adjustment process of adjusting a balance of a position of the center of gravity of the rotor.
US10428835B2
A fan of the invention includes an impeller having a plurality of blades and rotating around a rotation axis, and at least one balance weight having at least one claw portion and attached to the impeller to correct the center of gravity of the impeller. The impeller has a circumferential convex portion formed along the circumferential direction, and on which the claw portion is hooked to restrict a range of movement of the balance weight in the radial direction of the impeller, and at least one radial concave-convex portion formed along the radial direction, and on which the claw portion is hooked to restrict the range of movement of the balance weight in the circumferential direction of the impeller.
US10428832B2
A compressor assembly of a gas turbine engine includes a case including at least one opening and a stator assembly supported within the case. A lug assembly is secured to the case and sets a position of the stator assembly relative to the case. The lug assembly includes a lug engaging the stator assembly and a boss extending from the lug through the opening in the case. The boss including a threaded hole receiving a threaded member holding the lug assembly to the case and defines a seat for the threaded member that is spaced apart from an outer surface of the case.
US10428830B2
An impeller includes a hub and a plurality of blades. The blades are connected with the hub. Each blade includes a base part connected with the hub and a tip part opposed to the base part. The thickness of the tip part of the blade is greater than that of the base part of the blade. In addition, an airflow-guiding part is disposed at the tip part of the blade.
US10428829B2
The invention relates to a fan having a fan wheel (2) comprising fan blades (3), which fan wheel extends radially outwards about a rotational axis of the fan (1) and whose outer radial circumference defines a fan wheel diameter (Dv), and a stator (4) with air deflecting webs (5) disposed in the axial direction of flow at a distance (A) from the fan wheel (1), which stator extends radially outwards and has a stator diameter (Dl) that is smaller than the fan wheel diameter (Dv), such that the stator (4) defines a partial cross sectional area of a fan wheel cross sectional area.
US10428828B2
Extracorporeal circuit devices can be used for on-pump open-heart surgery to support surgical procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting. In some cases, a centrifugal pump is used as part of an extracorporeal circuit. Centrifugal pump heads are described herein that induce flow on two sides of an impeller plate, and that can be conveniently mechanically assembled.
US10428825B2
A fan blade includes a blade body and a shape memory alloy actuator. The blade body has a pressure side disposed opposite a suction side. Each of the pressure side and the suction side extends radially from a root towards a tip and extends axially from a leading edge towards a trailing edge. The blade body defines a passageway that is disposed between the pressure side and the suction side. The shape memory alloy actuator is received within the passageway and is operatively connected to the blade body.
US10428824B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may include a rotational component for moving air, a speed sensor, an electrical draw sensor, and a controller. The speed sensor may configured to determine a speed of the rotational component. The electrical draw sensor may be configured to determine an electrical draw of the air mover. The controller may be communicatively coupled to the rotational component, the speed sensor, and the electrical draw sensor, and may be configured to control the speed of the rotational component based on the speed and the electrical draw.
US10428822B1
An outer barrel is configured to rotate. A first central shaft passes through the outer barrel. The first central shaft is configured to rotate with the outer barrel. A first bearing assembly is attached to the first shaft on a first side of the outer barrel. A second bearing assembly is attached to the first shaft on a second side of the barrel. The second bearing assembly supports the first shaft to an isolation can. An inner barrel is magnetically coupled to and is configured to rotate with the outer barrel. A second central shaft passes through the inner barrel. The second central shaft is configured to rotate with the inner barrel. A third bearing assembly is attached to the second shaft. The isolation can fluidically isolates the inner barrel assembly from the outer barrel assembly. The isolation can supports the second bearing assembly to the housing.
US10428816B2
A multi-stage gear pump includes a first pump stage, a second pump stage, and a variable speed gearbox including an input and an output, wherein the input is rotationally coupled to the first pump stage and the input rotates at a first rotational speed, and the output is rotationally coupled to the second pump stage and rotates at a second rotational speed, wherein a variable gear ratio determines the second rotational speed relative to the first rotational speed.
US10428811B2
The present disclosure relates to a reciprocating compressor and a method for assembling the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a reciprocating compressor includes: a shell to which a discharge pipe is coupled; a driving unit mounted inside the shell to generate a rotary force; a compression unit having a connecting rod configured to convert the rotary force to a straight driving force, a piston connected to the connecting rod, and a cylinder into which the piston is movably inserted; a discharge hose from which a refrigerant compressed in the cylinder is discharged, and disposed to abut an inner circumferential surface of the shell; and a connection member configured to connect the discharge hose to the discharge pipe, wherein at least a portion of the connection member is inserted into an inner portion of the discharge pipe, and another portion thereof is supported outside the discharge pipe.
US10428810B2
A linear compressor is provided that may include a compressor casing including a cylindrical shell and a pair of shell that covers both ends of the shell; a frame fixed to an inside of the shell; a cylinder accommodated in the shell and defining a compression space for a refrigerant; a piston inserted into the cylinder to linearly reciprocate in an axial direction of the cylinder and compress the refrigerant provided to the compression space; a motor assembly including a motor that provides power for a linear reciprocating motion to the piston, and a motor support that supports the motor; a spring that allows a resonant motion of the piston; a back cover that supports the spring; and a stopper provided in one of the pair of shell covers and contacting the back cover when the motor assembly vibrates in a radial direction of the cylinder, thereby preventing the motor assembly from colliding with the shell.
US10428807B2
Methods and apparatus for reducing the power consumption of a pump are provided herein. In some embodiments, a pump power consumption reduction system for use in a substrate processing system may include a vacuum chamber having an exhaust port; a valve; a first pump having a pump inlet port coupled to the exhaust port via the valve and a pump exhaust port to couple the first pump to an exhaust handling system; and a second pump coupled to the pump exhaust port to selectively reduce an exhaust pressure of the first pump.
US10428804B2
Systems, methods and devices for direct conversion of chemical energy into mechanical energy are provided. The system can have a flow of ions, such as between an anode and a cathode. In between the flow of ions, is a membrane, either synthetic or biologically derived. Proteins are bound to that membrane. Further, the proteins are responsive to the ions and undergo a conformational shift, thus using the presence or absence of ions for creating movement. This portion can be referred to as a “kinetic cell”. A portion of the proteins, such as the aqueous portion, can be tethered to a moveable substrate, which translates the motion in the kinetic cell to the exterior. Multiple kinetic cells can be used in coordination to increase the kinetic force generated, analogous to a battery stack.
US10428797B2
One example includes a wind farm power control system. The system includes a wind farm controller configured to monitor a power characteristic at a high-side of a generator step-up (GSU) transformer. The high-side of the GSU transformer is coupled to a point-of-interconnect (POI) that provides power from the wind farm to a power grid. The system also includes an automatic voltage regulator (AVR) configured to monitor a voltage of a power bus associated with a low-side of the GSU transformer, the power bus being provided power from a plurality of feeder groups. Each of the plurality of feeder groups includes a plurality of wind turbines. The AVR can be further configured to regulate the power characteristic at the high-side of the GSU transformer to within a predetermined range of amplitudes based on the voltage of the power bus.
US10428795B2
The invention concerns a method of operating a wind power installation in which the rotor is brought to a halt and fixed, comprising the steps: braking the rotor, positioning the rotor at a stopped position, and fixing the rotor in the stopped position. According to the invention it is provided that an end position is predetermined, the rotor is braked in regulated fashion to a stopped position associated with the end position, and for positioning for the predetermined end position the rotor is braked in an automated procedure until stopped at the stopped position, and for fixing in the stopped position a mechanical fixing device is applied, in particular automatically.
US10428779B2
A fuel injector for direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber includes: a housing having at least one combustion chamber-side injection aperture; a linearly movable valve needle for opening and closing the injection aperture; a solenoid; an armature which is linearly movable by the solenoid; and a first sleeve attached to the armature. A first stop surface facing away from the combustion chamber is formed on the first sleeve, and a second stop surface facing the combustion chamber is formed on the valve needle, the first and second stop surfaces striking one another when the valve needle and/or the armature is/are moved linearly.
US10428776B2
A fluid filter cartridge has a first filter element and a second filter element. The first and second filter elements are arranged consecutively along a longitudinal extension of the fluid filter cartridge. The first filter element has two opposite end faces, one of the end faces being covered by a connection end cap and the other end face being covered by a first end cap. The second filter element has an end face being covered by the connection end cap and another end face covered by a second end cap. At least one port is at the connection end cap in fluid communication with at least one of the first filter element and second filter element. A central axis of the connection end cap orthogonal to a main extension plane of the connection end cap is offset in relation to a central axis of the first end cap orthogonal to a main extension plane of the first end cap and/or a central axis of the second end cap orthogonal to a main extension plane of the second end cap.
US10428769B2
A fuel vapor treatment apparatus is provided with an air-fuel-ratio obtaining portion and a clogging determining portion. The air-fuel-ratio obtaining portion obtains the air-fuel ratio. The clogging determining portion determines whether a purge line is clogged based on a maximum variation amount of air-fuel ratio. In a case where no clogging is occurred in the purge line, the air-fuel ratio significantly fluctuates temporarily. In a case where at least a part of the purge line is fully clogged, even when a purge valve receives a valve opening command to be opened, fuel vapor cannot be introduced into the engine, so that the air-fuel ratio is not varied. In view of an air-fuel ratio variation, it is determined whether the purge line is clogged.
US10428765B2
Disclosed is a flutter damper, including an acoustic liner in fluid communication with a fluid flow the acoustic liner being configured for peak acoustical energy absorption at a frequency range greater than a frequency range associated with fan flutter, and a plurality of modular chambers configured for peak acoustical energy absorption at a frequency range associated with one or more fan flutter modes, the plurality of modular chambers disposed radially outside the acoustic liner, the plurality of modular chambers including a circumferential gap between proximate circumferential ends of at least one adjacent pair of modular chambers, and the plurality of modular chambers each including a plurality of circumferentially aligned and connected chamber segments, and wherein at least one of the chambers in the plurality of modular chambers has a mutually unique length, width and/or height or shape.
US10428752B2
A method for determining the angular position of an engine by a crankshaft sensor, having the following steps: production by the crankshaft sensor of a signal exhibiting a “revolution” event, determination of the revolution out of two revolutions, since a crankshaft makes two revolutions per engine cycle for a four-stroke engine, for each “no tooth” event potentially produced, a change in the direction of rotation of the engine is suspected, and an analysis step is performed which comprises: if, during an inverse window, a further “no tooth” event is produced, the change in direction of rotation is confirmed.
US10428746B2
A method of controlling an operation of an inlet valve system arranged in connection with each cylinder of an internal combustion piston engine, includes monitoring at least one parameter relating to engine load conditions, controlling using a primary control procedure an opening and closing timing of an inlet valve in response to the at least one parameter, and feeding charge air into the cylinder when the inlet valve is open. In a secondary control procedure a parameter relating to engine load conditions is measured and the closing timing of the inlet valve of the inlet valve system is controlled in response to the at least parameter independently from and with higher priority than the primary control procedure.
US10428737B2
A method is disclosed of disassembling a gas turbine which includes a combustor, a liner, a turbine vane carrier (TVC) and an outer housing, the method including disengaging the liner from the TVC and removing the TVC from the gas turbine. The liner is disengaged from the TVC before the TVC is removed, the liner remains inside the outer housing and the combustor remains in the outer housing.
US10428736B2
A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor dome defining an opening, a cooling hole, and at least in part defining a combustion chamber. The combustor dome includes a first side and a second side, the cooling hole extending from the first side to the second side. The combustor assembly additionally includes a fuel-air injector hardware assembly positioned at least partially within the opening of the combustor dome and including a heat shield. The heat shield includes a heat deflector lip. The cooling hole in the combustor dome is oriented to direct a cooling airflow onto the heat deflector lip to maintain at least a portion of the heat shield within a desired operating temperature range.
US10428732B2
A rotor assembly for an engine, comprising: a rotor, supported on bearings for axial rotation, a rotor portion forming a compression passage extending outwards from the axis, gases entering the rotor through inlets at the axis and flowing outwards through the compression passage; a combustion chamber supported within the compression passage near the maximum radius of the rotor having a closed outer end and combustion chamber gases inlets through which gases enter the combustion chamber, each combustion chamber having a fuel inlet, and; one or more expansion passages in fluidic connection with and extending radially inwards from the combustion chamber within a compression passage and fluidically connecting at or near the rotor axis to a combustion gas outlet tube that extends along the rotor axis, combustion gases created by combustion of fuel with inlet gases within the combustion chamber expanding as they flow inwards through the expansion passage.
US10428730B2
Technology is provided for a bilateral engine control system for use on a multi-cylinder opposed piston engine. The system includes first and second sets of injectors, each set mountable on first and second sides of an engine. Each injector is in fluid communication with a corresponding cylinder of the engine. First and second engine control units are each connected to a respective set of injectors. First and second crankshaft speed sensors are connected to respective engine control units. The first engine control unit independently controls the first set of injectors based on a first speed signal and the second engine control unit independently controls the second set of injectors based on a second speed signal. The first engine control unit and the second engine control unit are configured to activate corresponding injectors of the first and second sets of injectors at substantially the same time.
US10428725B2
Systems and methods are provided for cooling an overheated engine using a combination of variable displacement engine (VDE) technology and direct injection technology. In one example, a method may include deactivating a subset of engine cylinders based on an engine temperature and directly injecting liquid fuel into the deactivated cylinders. In this way, an increased thermal conductivity of the liquid fuel compared to air decreases the engine temperature at a faster rate than when air-based engine cooling methods are used, thereby preventing overheating-related engine degradation.
US10428721B2
In a cooling control device CM that controls the cooling state of an external device by controlling the flow rate of cooling water that flows in from an introduction port 10 and causing the cooling water to flow out from a first to a third discharge ports E1 to E3, the cooling control device CM is configured that, for example, the flow rate of the cooling water to be supplied to a radiator side from the cooling control device CM is controlled by the cooperation of a flow rate control valve CV that controls the flow rate of the water supply according to a preset rule, and a switching control valve SV that controls the flow rate of the water supply independently from the flow rate control valve CV through a route different from that of the flow rate control valve CV.
US10428719B2
A cylinder block assembly may include a cylinder block, a cylinder body disposed in the cylinder block, with a plurality of cylinder bores formed in the cylinder body, a fluid jacket, which is formed between an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder block and an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder body, and through which coolant flows, and a block insert disposed in the water jacket and configured to guide a flow of coolant, wherein the cylinder block may include a second block coolant outlet, which is formed at a second side in a surface of an exhaust side of the cylinder block, and through which the coolant in the water jacket is discharged, and wherein the exhaust side may include a side at which combustion gas is exhausted out of the cylinder body.
US10428713B2
An exhaust heat recovery system. The system includes a heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from engine exhaust to a heat transfer fluid. A reservoir is in fluid communication with the heat exchanger. A pump is configured to pump the heat transfer fluid out of the heat exchanger and into the reservoir, and in doing so displace air out of the reservoir to the heat exchanger, when temperature of the heat transfer fluid exceeds a predetermined temperature.
US10428703B2
A lubrication system in a machine includes a sump to collect a bulk portion of lubricant and a pump adapted to circulate the lubricant from the sump through a lubricant line to an area of the machine for lubrication. The lubrication system also includes an oil filter disposed along the lubrication line adapted to filer the lubricant flowing through the lubricant line. The lubrication further includes an additive fixture in fluid flow communication with the oil filter adapted to house at least one additive material section and distribute the additive material in a lubrication flow circulation.
US10428700B2
A highly wear-resistant valve seat insert for an internal combustion engine, having a material composition in which hard-particles are uniformly and finely dispersed in the matrix phase, and which is excellent in wear-resistance and radial crushing strength, based on a blended fine powder and a matrix forming powder with a particle size approximately equal to that of the hard-particles so as to prevent the hard-particles from aggregating and thus coarsely dispersing as a hard-particle phase.
US10428698B2
A valve drive for an internal combustion engine may include a camshaft, at least one cam follower, at least one adjusting device, and at least one control shaft. The camshaft may include at least one cam group. The at least one cam group may include a first cam and a second cam. The at least one cam follower may be drive-connected to the first cam in a first position and to the second cam in a second position. The at least one adjusting device may include a first adjustable engagement element and a second adjustable engagement element. alternately adjustable between a basic position and a switching position. The at least one control shaft may include at least one control element group including a first control element and a second control element adjustable to a switching element position and to a basic element position.
US10428692B2
A fairing assembly is provided which is located between a frame hub and an engine casing. The assembly provides for use of a metallic structure in combination with a light weight low alpha material in order to improve engine efficiency and performance. Relative growth between the dissimilar materials is compensated for by a flexible bracket which provides biasing force on one of the assembly components in a cold engine condition as well as allowing for growth at the high temperature operating conditions of the engine.
US10428685B2
Disclosed is flutter damper including a first cavity having a radially inner side in fluid communication with a flow path, and a second cavity having a radially inner side in fluid communication with a radially outer side of the first cavity, and the flutter damper having an impedance characteristic at one or more target frequencies defined as ftarget=fS,ND+Ω·ND wherein fS,ND is a resonance frequency corresponding to a structural mode of a rotating component, ND is a nodal diameter count of the structural mode, and Ω is a rotational speed of the rotating component, and wherein the flutter damper has the following impedance characteristic at the one or more targeted frequencies R≥2ρc −3ρc≤X≤−0.6ρc wherein R is the real part of the impedance characteristic, X is the imaginary part of the impedance characteristic, ρ is air density, and c is speed of sound.
US10428680B2
The present invention relates to a system (100, 300, 400) for detecting abnormal movement of a gas turbine shaft. The system comprises: a magnetic circuit (104, 302, 402) comprising a first magnetic portion (110, 304) and a second portion (112, 404), and including at least one air gap between the first portion and the second portion; and a detection coil (106) wound around the first magnetic portion. The second portion is coupled to or moveable with the shaft to reduce the air gap, on axial movement of the shaft to change the reluctance of the magnetic circuit and thereby induce a voltage in the coil. The system may comprise a controller (108) for shutting off power to the gas turbine when the induced voltage exceeds a threshold voltage.
US10428670B2
An arrangement of a rotating component and a stationary component of a gas turbine engine includes a rotating component, a stationary component positioned to define an actual gap between the rotating component and the stationary component, and a flow restriction feature formed at one of the stationary component or the rotating component. The flow restriction feature is configured to induce a recirculation flow at the actual gap, thereby defining an effective gap between the rotating component and the stationary component to reduce a leakage flow therebetween, while maintaining the actual gap greater than the effective gap.
US10428668B2
The invention relates to a guide vane segment for an aircraft gas turbine, comprising at least a radially outer shroud and a radially inner shroud, which extend along a respective circular arc and together form a ring segment, wherein, in the radial direction, between the outer shroud and the inner shroud, a plurality of guide vanes are arranged next to one another in the peripheral direction (UR), the vanes being materially joined with the inner shroud and the outer shroud, in particular joined in one piece. At least two securing ribs are arranged next to one another are formed on the trailing end face for at least one guide vane, wherein an intermediate space delimited by the two securing ribs in the peripheral direction (UR) is formed, this space tapering from radially outside to radially inside.
US10428665B2
A clamping assembly includes a shaft, a first plurality of clamps, and a second plurality of clamps. Each of the first and the second pluralities of clamps includes a first wall, a second wall extending outwardly from the first wall in a first direction, and a third wall extending outwardly from the first wall in a second direction. Each of the first plurality of clamps is longitudinally spaced apart by one of the second plurality of clamps. The second walls of the first plurality of clamps are transversely spaced apart from the second walls of the second plurality of clamps. The first and the second walls of the first and the second pluralities of clamps collectively define a first slot that receives the shaft. The first and the third walls of the first and the second pluralities of clamps collectively define a second slot for receiving adjacent components.
US10428664B2
A nozzle assembly for a gas turbine engine includes at least one pair of fixed vanes to define a nozzle between the pair of fixed vanes. The vanes can have an interior chamber defining a cooling circuit with a particle separator located within the interior chamber. The particle separator, which can comprise a virtual impactor, can have an accelerator for accelerating fluid moving through the virtual impactor such that the flow path is divided into a major flow moving into the interior chamber and a minor flow moving into a particle collector defined within the virtual impactor. The accelerator accelerates the fluid such that particles within the fluid are carried by their momentum into the particle collector with the minor flow, removing the particles from the major flow of fluid moving into the interior chamber.
US10428650B2
A system and method for high wall bench mining, for example, of horizontal coal seams in mountains, includes a launch platform having two side-by-side tracks for guiding mining equipment, and utilizes two continuous miner machines and conveyor cars. Two side-by-side mine entries can be worked simultaneously, one miner advancing deeper into the coal seam and conveyor cars being added behind the miner at a first mine entry, and the mining completed and cars and miner retreating and being extracted from a second mine entry. As conveyor cars are being extracted onto one track from the mine entry that a string is retreating from, the cars are moved across the launch platform to the other track and are added behind the advancing miner machine launched from that track into the other mine entry.
US10428636B2
A weir assembly system comprises an insert dimensioned to be inserted into a section of a wellbore and a plurality of weirs spaced within the insert so as to increase the separation of solids from fluid within the section of the wellbore when the fluid is flowing through the wellbore. The plurality of weirs may be oriented to create a tortuous fluid flow path, such that a flow opening of a first weir causes solids to deposit at a second weir without obstructing a flow opening of the second weir. Additional apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed.
US10428635B2
A system and method of removing sand from a wellbore by mixing the sand with a liquid to form a slurry, and forcing the slurry through a discharge line to surface. The sand is separated from the production fluid within the wellbore by centrifugal action created using a specially design screen or tangential perforations, and directed into a portion of the wellbore that is sealed from the remainder of the wellbore. The liquid and sand are mixed together in the sealed portion of the wellbore, and the pressure of the fluid is sufficient to force the slurry uphole. Included in the sealed portion of the wellbore is a perturbation element for mixing the sand and liquid.
US10428634B2
A water jet borehole mining system controlled and operated aboveground includes a high-pressure cutting nozzle that is delivered to an underground resource body through a relatively small diameter borehole. A series of water and air streams at various pressures are delivered to the resource body, and the target resource is disaggregated and/or fluidized and conveyed back to surface via the water jet borehole mining pipe which serves as the conveyor of the system. The mining pipe is used to transport a high-pressure stream of water fluids that have been directed and aligned into laminar flow to a focused water jet cutting head. The central bore of the mining pipe brings the disaggregated and slurrified resource to the surface. The mining pipe transports the slurry via airlift, fluid eduction or a combination of both.
US10428628B2
A surface-driven fluid recovery system for recovery of hydrocarbons, having an uphole prime mover, typically an electric motor, and an uphole speed-reduction transmission to reduce speed of rotation supplied by the prime mover to a rod string to thereby reduce frictional and cyclic fatigue stresses imparted on the rod string. A downhole speed-increasing transmission is provided to increase rotational speed prior to supply of rotational energy to a downhole centrifugal or progressive cavity pump. A magnetic coupling is interposed between the prime mover and the speed reduction gearbox or between the speed reduction gearbox and the rod string, to provide damping of high transient rotational stresses between the prime mover and the rod string and/or provide a method for selectively coupling or partially coupling/decoupling the rod string to the prime mover.
US10428623B2
A ball dropping system includes a ball retention feature. The ball retention feature includes an ejection arrangement blocked from activating in a first condition of the ball dropping system, activatable in a second condition of the ball dropping system, and activated to eject a ball from the ball dropping system that is releasably secured by the ball retention feature in a third condition of the ball dropping system. A setting sleeve is movable from a first position to a second position with respect to the ejection arrangement. The setting sleeve has the first position to block the ejection arrangement from activating in the first condition of the ball dropping system. The setting sleeve is movable to the second position to render the ejection arrangement activatable in the second condition of the ball dropping system.
US10428622B2
A rotating ball valve assembly includes a rotatable ball element. The rotatable ball element includes a first side portion, a second side portion, and a central passage. One of the first and second side portions includes first and second outwardly projecting pin elements. A sliding sleeve assembly includes a sliding sleeve member having a first guide track with a first force reducing profile associated with the first outwardly projecting pin element and a second guide track having a second force reducing profile associated with the second outwardly projecting pin element. The sliding sleeve member is shiftable relative to the first and second tubular members to selectively pivot the rotatable ball element between an open orientation and a closed orientation.
US10428620B2
A tubular system includes a tubular having an outer surface and an inner surface defining a flow path, one of the inner surface and the outer surface includes a hub receiving recess, and an electronics hub detachably mounted in the hub receiving recess, the electronics hub including an input conductor connector and at least one output conductor connectors and a control module that facilitates communication between a surface system and one or more downhole devices.
US10428617B2
A morphable packer and method of setting the packer to anchor one tubular within another tubular or borehole, and create a seal across an annulus in a well bore. The packer is formed as a single tubular member having a central section between end sections. Undulations are formed on the tubular member to create recesses in which annular slips having oppositely arranged inclined surfaces and an outer gripping surface are located to provide an anchoring arrangement. When morphed the slips move uniformly radially outwards and anchor to an outer tubular. Embodiments include pairs of reversed slips located in the recess, pairs of anchoring arrangements located along the tubular member and a gasket seal arranged around the tubular member.
US10428614B2
A system, in certain embodiments, includes a horizontal fracturing tree. The horizontal fracturing tree includes a first hydraulic fracturing bore configured to flow a first fluid, wherein the first hydraulic fracturing bore extends along a first horizontal axis, and the first horizontal axis is generally perpendicular to a vertical axis of a wellhead.
US10428606B2
Multiple wires run parallel to one another. Each of wires is spaced apart from each adjacent wire at a distance less than a width of an encased microchip. Each of the plurality of wires includes a plurality of straight segments in a plane and bent segments that connect two of the plurality of straight segments. For each of the wires, each bent segments includes a first end, a second end, and a curved portion curved away from the plane. The first end is connected to at least one of the straight segments and separated from the second end a distance greater than the width of the encased microchip. The curved portion includes a diameter greater than the width of the encased microchip.
US10428604B2
The invention provides a bit breaker comprising a plate that bounds a pipe slot. The bit breaker has two jaws that define two working surfaces located on opposite sides of the pipe slot. The two jaws are configured to move relative to the plate. In some embodiments, the invention is an assembly that further includes a pipe, tool section, tool or pipe joint received in the pipe slot. The pipe, tool section, tool or pipe joint has formed therein two crosswise grooves located on opposite sides of the pipe, tool section, tool or pipe joint. In some embodiments, the plate defines two fixed arms and a fixed base leg, with the two jaws mounted respectively against the two fixed arms. The bit breaker can have an adjustable arm such that the pipe slot can be surrounded about 360 degrees by the bit breaker.
US10428599B2
A mobile offshore drilling unit is converted to provide drilling, completion and workover access to multiple dry tree wells from a drilling derrick to allow production and export of oil and gas from high pressure, high temperature reservoirs in deep offshore waters. Existing practice has been for the drilling derrick on a production platform supporting dry tree wells to be moved over a fixed well slot. The present invention provides a movable wellbay that supports multiple top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers, which may be positioned directly below the derrick's rotary table and/or beneath another operating device. The use of top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers supported by the movable wellbay allows the converted facility to drill, complete, maintain, improve and produce from subsea wells through dry trees.
US10428593B2
A threaded end (1; 2) of a tubular component for drilling or working hydrocarbon wells, said end comprising a threaded zone (3; 4) produced on its external or internal peripheral surface depending on whether the threaded end is male or female in type, at least a portion of the end (1; 2) being coated with a dry film comprising an organic matrix in which ion exchange pigments are dispersed in proportions in the range 3% to 30% by weight; and a connection resulting from connecting two corresponding ends by makeup.
US10428587B2
A downhole drilling tool designed for drilling a wellbore is disclosed. The drilling tool includes a bit body, and a first plurality of blades and a second plurality of blades on exterior portions of the bit body. A first group of cutting elements is located on exterior portions of the first plurality of blades. A second group of cutting elements is located on the second plurality of blades and under-exposed with respect to the first group of cutting elements. The first and second plurality of blades and the first group and second groups of cutting elements cooperate with each other to form a composite bit face profile such that each respective group of at least three neighbor cutting elements on the composite bit face profile is force balanced with respect to each other.
US10428586B2
Embodiments of a reamer of the present invention generally include a substantially tubular body sub, a substantially planar base plate having one or more receiving cavities disposed therein, one or more gussets, a fluid chamber, and a plurality of leg/cone assemblies having a leg end and a cone end; wherein the base plate is disposed around the body sub and stabilized by the gussets, and each leg end comprises an exterior surface geometry complementary to the interior surface geometry of a base plate receiving cavity and is insertable into and affixable therein. The receiving cavities are constructed in defined locations and orientations in the base plate and the leg/cone assemblies are precisely formed such that insertion of the leg end into the receiving cavity accurately and precisely disposes the cutting component about the reamer. Embodiments of methods of providing and using an apparatus of the present invention are also provided.
US10428572B2
An adjusting device for a vehicle part which is movable relative to a body of a vehicle, includes a drive arrangement having a drive unit and a movement state sensor, an adjusting element which is displaceable relative to the drive arrangement via the drive unit and a control unit for controlling the drive unit. The control unit is designed to actuate the drive unit according to an actual movement state. The disclosure also relates to a motor vehicle having a body and a vehicle part movable relative to the body, which part is equipped with an adjusting device.
US10428568B2
An actuating drive for driving a movably mounted furniture part includes an actuating arm connected to the furniture part. The actuating arm is configured to be movable between a first end position and a second end position, and a damper is provided for damping a movement of the actuating arm into the first end position and a movement of the actuating arm into the second end position. The damper performs a damping stroke during the damping, and a coupling mechanism is provided for coupling the actuating arm or an actuating part connectable thereto to the damper when the actuating arm is moved into the two end positions. The coupling mechanism has an actuator for performing the damping stroke of the damper, and the actuator acts on the damper when the actuating arm is moved into the first end position and when the actuating arm is moved into the second end position.
US10428566B2
A flexible unitary sandwich-like panel overhead door (11) consists of two relatively thin elastic sheets (12) and (13) connected by a plurality of elongated parallel web panels (14) which have supporting rollers (16) attached. The sheet-web connections are hinged (15) so that the panel may be flexibly moved from a closed vertical position to an open overhead nearly horizontal configuration. A rectangular beam (17), attached to the elastic sheets, provides additional stability and strength to the door structure. Additional embodiments are described.
US10428565B1
A hinge structure may comprise a first assembly including a central post with an outer surface and a first connector element on the central post for mounting on a first structure, a second assembly pivotally coupled to the first assembly and including a ring extending about the central post, a ring connector connected to the ring, and a second connector element on the ring for mounting on a second structure. A braking element may apply a selectable amount of resistance to pivot movement of the second connector element with respect to the first connector element and including a friction pad extending about a portion of the central post, a pressure band for pressing the friction pad against the central post, and a connecting structure connecting the ends of the band and being adjustable to move the ends closer toward each other and to relax the ends away from each other.
US10428560B2
An e-latch assembly for a closure member and a method of operating the e-latch assembly coupled to a closure member are provided. The e-latch assembly includes an actuation group operable to selectively secure the closure member. An electronic control circuit is coupled to the actuation group and includes a control unit configured to manage a plurality of handle activation signals. The control unit is also configured to receive a plurality of signals indicative of the state of a vehicle. Additionally, the control unit is configured to control the actuation group to selectively allow the closure member to be opened in response to receiving the plurality of signals indicative of the state of the vehicle and based on the plurality of handle activation signals.
US10428556B2
A high security locking system comprising a deviated key and a lock housing. The lock housing may further comprise a face plate with a keyhole for receiving the deviated key and first pin slots disposed within the lock housing. The high security locking system may comprise a lock cylinder disposed within the lock housing and include second pin slots disposed within the lock cylinder. An idler block may be disposed within the lock cylinder and may be rotatable, which may allow the deviated key to align with one or more of the second pin slots in the lock cylinder. Additionally, a stationary block may be disposed within the lock cylinder and the deviated key may rotate around the lock without interfering with the stationary block.
US10428550B2
A tent cloth connecting structure for a fold-up tent includes a leg pole including first and second poles that slide relative to one another; and a tent cloth having a lower portion disposed with a first connecting unit and a first flexible element, a second connecting unit disposed above the first connecting unit, and a sliding element attached to the tent cloth and slidably connected to the first pole. The sliding element and a lower portion of the first pole are retained by a locking structure. The first pole is disposed with a limit structure limiting passage of the second connecting unit and having a protruding portion. The second connecting unit includes a connecting base slidably connected to the first pole and located below the protruding portion which limits the passage of the connecting base, and a second flexible element that connects the connecting base and the tent cloth.
US10428548B2
The purpose of the invention is to reduce a cost and a construction period, secure measures for stability of the shelter main body against a tsunami, water pressure resistant performance against the tsunami generated by the Nankai Trough Great Earthquake, safety performance necessary for using the evacuation shelter, and good living comfort, and shorten evacuation time.The shelter main body 3 is connected to the concrete foundation 2 and has a structure with the frame 3a of a columnar structure, the ceiling 3b, and the internal space 9 of a columnar structure. The inner hatch 5 is attached to the periphery of the opening 4 provided in the ceiling 3b by a hinge in an openable and closable manner. A rising portion 6 rises upward from the peripheral edge of the opening 4. The outer hatch 7 is connected to the upper surface of the rising portion 6 by a hinge 7a in an openable and closable manner. A pair of rails 8 is arranged in the vertical direction on the inner wall surface of the frame 3a of a columnar structure of the shelter main body 3. The movable floor 10 is capable of moving up and down inside the internal space 9 along the rails 8.
US10428546B2
Components of automatic pool cleaners (APCs) are detailed. The components may include brushes configured to attach to blades of scrubbers of the APCs. The flexible brushes may rotate as their associated blades rotate and have fingers which flex so as to adduce contact between a to-be-cleaned pool or spa surface and bristles protruding outward from sides of the fingers.
US10428541B2
A shelter includes: at least two side walls; a back wall; and a roof, wherein the side walls, the back wall, and the roof comprise a material that is weatherproof and insulated, and wherein the shelter is collapsible, detachable, and portable. The shelter can also include at least two side walls, wherein an upper end of the at least two side walls conjoin to form a roof. The shelter is lightweight, detachable, and portable. The shelter can be weatherproof and insulated for permanently or temporarily housing people and/or animals. The shelter can be transported to a desired location and assembled on-site with ease. When the use of the shelter is no longer desired, the shelter can be quickly disassembled and transported to another location.
US10428536B2
A scaffold system adapted for securing to a structure and for vertical movement relative to the structure. The scaffold system includes first and second wall mounts, each of the wall mounts having a bar and at least one spring biasing the bar in a first direction, a slide post having a slide hook, a slide arm and a hanging pad secured to the slide arm, the slide post arranged for vertical axial movement within at least one of the first and second wall mounts, a main post having at least one post hook, a first deck fixedly secured to the main post, and a ball screw jack having a mounting plate and a lifting screw, the mounting plate secured to the first deck and the lifting screw secured to the hanging pad. The main post is arranged to complementarily fit within slide post, the slide hook is adapted for releasable engagement with the first wall mount bar or the second wall mount bar and the at least one post hook is adapted for releasable engagement with the first wall mount bar or the second wall mount bar.
US10428535B2
Floor panel, characterized in that it is of the type that can be installed according to the fold down-technique, that it comprises coupling means in one piece on all four edges, and that measures are taken in order to avoid an undesired shifting on the long edges during the turning down of the floor panel.
US10428531B2
A foldable staircase that can be easily transported and conveniently used rather than a ladder. The foldable staircase includes a lower staircase and an upper staircase. The upper staircase and the lower staircase are constructions that bridge vertical distances and provide platforms allowing the user to walk up or down the foldable staircase. The foldable staircase provides an alternative means to reach high areas that is easy and safe to ascend or descend as conventional stairways and staircases along with the transportability of a conventional ladder. The foldable staircase can be adjusted to a collapsed configuration or operative configuration. The collapsed configuration allows a user to store or easily transport the foldable staircase. The operative configuration allows the user to ascend or descend the foldable staircase.
US10428525B2
A roofing shingle includes an asphalt-coated sheet and a reinforcement member. The asphalt-coated sheet includes a shingle mat and an asphalt coating applied to the shingle mat. The asphalt-coated sheet has a lower tab portion normally exposed on a roof and an upper headlap portion normally covered-up on a roof. At least a portion of the asphalt-coated sheet is coated with granules. The reinforcement member is adhered to the asphalt-coated sheet along an upper edge of the headlap portion, with the reinforcement member and the headlap portion together providing a nail pull-through value that is greater than an otherwise identical shingle having no such reinforcement material.
US10428499B2
A backflow preventer for water distribution installations includes a body having an inlet conduit arranged along an inlet axis, an outlet conduit arranged along an outlet axis, and a discharge conduit arranged along a discharge axis of the body. The backflow preventer is provided with check valves that prevent a backflow of fluid from the outlet to the inlet in the event of low pressure upstream of the backflow preventer and/or high pressure downstream of the backflow preventer. The backflow preventer further includes a discharge valve arranged along the discharge axis of the body of the backflow preventer for discharging fluid in the low and/or high pressure conditions. A discharge pipe is connected to the discharge valve to discharge the fluid outside the backflow preventer along an end discharging axis of the fluid outside the backflow preventer. Coupling elements are provided to adapt the backflow preventer to various applications for varying the angular position of the discharge pipe with respect to the body of the backflow preventer.
US10428496B1
A kitchen faucet mounting structure includes a faucet body, a pipe connector, and a fixing assembly. The faucet body is connected to an upper portion of the pipe connector. The fixing assembly includes an upper casing, a press block, a return C-shaped ring, and a lower casing. Through the cooperation of the upper casing, the press block and the lower casing, the fixing assembly and the pipe connector can be assembled and fixed quickly. Through the cooperation of the return C-shaped ring and the press block, the fixing assembly and the pipe connector can be disassembled quickly.
US10428489B2
An arm for a construction machine, including an arm top formed by casting, being easily produced with high dimensional accuracy. The arm includes an arm body and an arm top. The arm top is formed of left and right arm top pieces individually formed by casting and joined together. The left and right arm top pieces include first left and right bosses constituting a first connection section, second left and right bosses constituting a second connection portion, and left and right projecting wall portions constituting a connection wall connecting the first and second connection portions to each other, respectively. The left and right arm top pieces are joined together by welding at respective opposing surfaces of the first left and right bosses, those of the second left and right bosses and those of the left and right projecting wall portions, thereby forming the arm top.
US10428479B2
A snowthrower includes a motor, an auger driven by the motor to rotate, a handle device for a user to operate, an auger housing for containing the auger and a frame for connecting the handle device and the auger housing. The auger housing is made of at least two different materials.
US10428474B2
In one embodiment, a safety trailer has semi-tractor hitches at both ends and a safety wall that is fixed to one side of the trailer. That side, however, can be changed to the right or left side of the road, depending on the end to which the truck attaches. A caboose can be attached at the end of the trailer opposite the tractor to provide additional lighting and impact protection. Optionally, the trailer can be equipped with overhead protection, lighting, ventilation, onboard hydraulics, compressors, generators and other equipment, as well as related fuel, water, storage and restroom facilities and other amenities.
US10428469B2
An improved magnetic transportation system comprised of Halbach array systems and London Assemblage systems having a plurality of magnets that are magnetically and structurally arranged to form a magnetic field of flux that attracts and repels the connections to enable loads on the xz-axis to levitate at rest, during object acceleration or deceleration, and at high-speeds, as well as on the yz-axis enable initial propulsion and for lateral stabilization on the xz/yz-axis.
US10428466B2
A sheet manufacturing apparatus having: a defibrating unit configured to defibrate, in air, feedstock containing fiber; a mixing unit configured to mix, in air, resin with the fiber defibrated from the feedstock by the defibrating unit; an air-laying unit configured to lay a web from the mixture output from the mixing unit; a liquid application unit configured to add water to part of the web laid by the air-laying unit; and a sheet forming unit configured to form a sheet with parts having different light transmittance by heating and compressing the web to which water was added by the liquid application unit.
US10428461B1
A toilet tissue mist with a liquid discharge device for spray application to toilet paper. The liquid dispensed onto the paper in small quantities is for personal cleansing of the human body and results in a cleansing and freshening up of the selected areas. The mist turns the toilet paper into the equivalent of a wet wipe or cloth which would be soothing to sensitive areas. Likewise, the mist is scented and helps freshen up any unwanted odors. The device is portable and compact and may be used on the go as well as being used at home. Likewise, the resulting moistened wipe can be discarded by flushing it down the toilet, just like regular toilet paper. In a preferred embodiment, the device is configured to provide a diameter of mist to the toilet tissue with a dry outline circumscribing it.
US10428459B2
A pulp in accordance with a particular embodiment includes crosslinked cellulose fibers. The pulp can have high brightness, reactivity, and intrinsic viscosity. The pulp, therefore, can be well suited for use as a precursor in the production of low-color, high-viscosity cellulose derivatives. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology includes forming a pulp from a cellulosic feedstock, bleaching the pulp, crosslinking cellulose fibers within the pulp while the pulp has a high consistency, and drying the pulp. The bleaching process can reduce a lignin content of the pulp to less than or equal to 0.09% by oven-dried weight of the crosslinked cellulose fibers. Crosslinking the cellulose fibers can include exposing the cellulose fibers to a glycidyl ether crosslinker having two or more glycidyl groups and a molecular weight per epoxide within a range from 140 to 175.
US10428456B2
Disclosed is a steel wire rope for conveyor belts. The steel wire rope includes a central steel wire, a steel wire layer externally wound on the central steel wire, and a plurality of external steel wire strands. Each external steel wire strand includes a core steel wire and N external steel wires. The central steel wire, the steel wire layer externally wound on the central steel wire, and the plurality of external steel wire strands are wound into a steel wire rope for conveyor belts in one step. The steel wire layer is externally wound on the outer side of the central steel wire, the external steel wire strands are wound to wrap the outer side of the steel wire layer, and the external steel wire strands are in line contact with the steel wire layer.
US10428455B2
A method of treating a substrate, comprising providing a substrate having a generally sheet or planar form or a fiber or yarn form; providing a colorant to be set at the surface of the substrate; and subjecting the substrate and colorant to reactive species from a plasma generated by an atmospheric plasma apparatus until the colorant is set at the surface of the substrate. A method of setting a colorant on a substrate, comprising performing an etch operation, or plasma pre-treatment to change surface charge, on a substrate using a plasma, particularly a plasma generated at atmospheric conditions, to create a desired surface texture, or surface charge, at the surface of substrate; and depositing a colorant on the surface under plasma or non-plasma conditions; and allowing the colorant to set at the surface of the substrate.
US10428447B2
A compression article which is produced from an elastic textile material, in particular a knitted fabric, and which is provided with at least one elastic holding strap which protects against slipping on the body part, characterized in that the holding strap is produced using a friction thread which is located in places on the strap inner side on the surface of the strap.
US10428446B2
A woven flame-resistant fabric for garments, the warp and fill yarns being made up of at least about 30 wt. % inherently flame-resistant fibers. The fabric is woven from a plurality of warp yarn groups consecutively arranged across the width direction in a recurring pattern, each warp yarn group consisting of a plurality of adjacent consecutively arranged warp yarns. At least one warp yarn in each warp yarn group is woven with the fill yarns in a plain (1/1) weave and at least one warp yarn in each warp yarn group is woven in one or more non-plain weaves each selected from the group consisting of 1/2, 2/1, 2/2, 1/3, and 3/1. Approximately half of the warp yarns in the fabric are woven in a plain (1/1) weave and the remaining warp yarns in the fabric are woven in the one or more non-plain weaves, in an alternating fashion.
US10428435B2
The present invention relates to a method for modifying the surface of a substrate made of electrically conductive metal oxide and notably made of ITO, comprising the following steps consisting in: (i) bringing into contact said surface with a solution containing copper ions (Cu2+) and ammonia then washing and optionally drying the surface thus obtained; and (ii) bringing into contact the surface obtained following step (i) with a solution containing sodium tetraborohydride then washing and optionally drying the surface of said conductive metal oxide substrate. The present invention relates to the use of such a method within the scope of the metallization by copper of a conductive metal oxide substrate as well as the surfaces of a modified and metallized conductive metal oxide substrate thus obtained.
US10428431B2
Water-splitting devices and methods for manufacturing water-splitting devices or solar cells is disclosed. The method seeks to provide a relatively high-volume, low-cost mass-production method. In one example, the method facilitates simultaneous co-assembly of one or more sub-units and two or more polymer films or sheets to form a water-splitting device. According to another aspect, there is provided an improved water-splitting device. In one example form, there is provided a water-splitting device which includes a first electrode for producing oxygen gas and a second electrode for producing hydrogen gas from water. The first electrode and the second electrode are positioned between a first outer polymer layer and a second outer polymer layer, and at least one spacer layer is positioned between the first outer polymer layer and the second outer polymer layer.
US10428421B2
Methods are provided for selectively depositing a material on a first metal or metallic surface of a substrate relative to a second, dielectric surface of the substrate, or for selectively depositing metal oxides on a first metal oxide surface of a substrate relative to a second silicon oxide surface. The selectively deposited material can be, for example, a metal, metal oxide, metal nitride, metal silicide, metal carbide and/or dielectric material. In some embodiments a substrate comprising a first metal or metallic surface and a second dielectric surface is alternately and sequentially contacted with a first vapor-phase metal halide reactant and a second reactant. In some embodiments a substrate comprising a first metal oxide surface and a second silicon oxide surface is alternately and sequentially contacted with a first vapor phase metal fluoride or chloride reactant and water.
US10428414B2
The present invention provides a carburized part having a total amount of TiC, AlN and ZrC, which are precipitate particles, of 4.5×10−10 mole or less per 1 mm2 of grain boundary area of prior austenite grains after carburization. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a carburized part which allows effective inhibition of abnormal grain growth in spite of a carburizing treatment and makes it possible to solve the problem of reduction in properties caused by abnormal grain growth.
US10428410B2
Steel alloys having high yield and ultimate tensile strengths in combination with high toughness based on medium carbon secondary hardening steel compositions having low cobalt content. Nickel is added to the medium carbon secondary hardening steel compositions to increase the yield and tensile strengths and fracture toughness. Applications of a steel alloy of the present disclosure include structural applications requiring high strength and high fracture toughness, such as aircraft landing gear.
US10428407B2
Provided is a cylindrical member made of flake graphite cast iron that has practical processability as well as excellent mechanical strength and further is excellent in abrasion resistance and seizing resistance. Specifically, provided is a cylindrical member made of flake graphite cast iron, the flake graphite cast iron including a composition containing, in terms of mass %, 2.85% or more and 3.35% or less of C, 1.95% or more and 2.55% or less of Si, 0.45% or more and 0.8% or less of Mn, 0.03% or more and 0.25% or less of P, 0.15% or less of S, 0.15% or more and 0.55% or less of Cr, 0.15% or more and 0.65% or less of Mo, 0.15% or more and 0.65% or less of Ni, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities.
US10428404B2
The present invention provides a method of converting copper containing material to blister copper comprising: (a) providing copper containing material comprising copper sulfides and iron sulfides, whereby the copper containing material comprises at least 35 wt % copper of the total weight of the copper containing material; (b) reacting the copper containing material in a furnace with an oxygen containing gas, in the absence of flux, to effect oxidation of iron sulfide and copper sulfide, and controlling injection of the oxygen containing gas and the temperature so that the resulting converter slag is in a molten phase to obtain blister copper and converter slag.
US10428403B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet using an inhibitor-less technique, in which cold rolling includes final cold rolling with a total cold rolling reduction being set to 85% or more and a rolling reduction per pass being set to 32% or more. The final cold rolling includes one or more passes and a final pass succeeding the one or more passes and uses work rolls having a surface roughness Ra of 0.25 μm or less in at least one of the one or more passes other than the final pass. According to this method, it is possible to stably manufacture a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet exhibiting excellent magnetic properties at low cost.
US10428402B2
The invention relates to a method for hot forming semi-finished products of steel, in which the semi-finished product is heated to the forming temperature, is conveyed to the forming tool, and in the forming tool is hot formed, hardened or press hardened. The object of proposing a method for hot-forming semi-finished products of steel, in which also extremely thin-walled blanks may be conveyed at the forming temperature without issues and be fed to the forming tool properly and without limiting the degree of forming of the semi-finished product, is achieved in that prior to hot forming, hardening or press hardening, at least one structure which increases rigidity at least is incorporated in the semi-finished product, and the structure which increases rigidity of the semi-finished product is at least partially or completely disposed in the trimming region of the semi-finished product.
US10428395B2
The aim of the present invention is a method for the preparation of anallergic probiotic bacterial cultures.
US10428394B2
A microorganism selected from the group consisting of a Bacillus sp. ITB090 strain (NITE BP-01725), a Bacillus sp. ITB100 strain (NITE BP-01726), and a Bacillus sp. ITB105 strain (NITE BP-01727), or a variant strain derived therefrom is used to control plant diseases, control nematodes, promote plant growth, and the like.
US10428392B2
The invention relates to the identification of secretory antibody-bound bacteria in the microbiota in a subject that influence the development and progression of inflammatory diseases and disorders. Thus, the invention relates to compositions and methods for detecting and identifying the constituents of a subject's microbiota, methods of modifying the constituents of the microbiota, and methods for treating inflammatory diseases and disorders in a subject in need thereof.
US10428390B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for detecting methylation of the bowel-cancer-specific methylation marker GPM6A (NM_201591, glycoprotein M6A) gene in order to diagnose bowel cancer, and more specifically relates to a method for providing information for diagnosing bowel cancer by detecting the methylation of a bowel-cancer-specific marker gene that is specifically methylated in bowel cancer cells. The method for detecting methylation and a diagnostic composition, kit and nucleic-acid chip according to the present disclosure can be used to advantage in diagnosing bowel cancer more accurately and quickly than by normal methods as they permit bowel cancer to be diagnosed at the initial genetic transformation step and so allow early diagnosis.
US10428379B2
Provided herein is technology relating to sequencing nucleic acids, but not exclusively, to compositions, methods, systems, and kits related to nucleotides comprising an electrochemically detectable moiety and one or more photolabile synthesis-inhibiting moieties.
US10428376B2
This disclosure describes, in one aspect, a method of amplifying an RNA template. Generally, the method includes synthesizing an oligonucleotide from the RNA template, isolating at least a portion of the oligonucleotide, and subjecting the isolated product to treatment with an RNase and/or glycosylase.
US10428374B2
A liquid dispensing device for a container, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed. The liquid dispensing device can include a penetrating tip configured to penetrate a container, which is configured to have a liquid disposed therein. Relative movement of the penetrating tip and the container toward one another can be operable to create an opening in a portion of the container, and the liquid can dispense from the container through the opening.
US10428364B2
Provided is a method for preparing rebaudioside M by using an enzyme method. In the method, rebaudioside A or rebaudioside D is used as a substrate; and in the existence of a glucosyl donor, rebaudioside M is generated by means of reaction of the substrate under the catalysis of UDP-glucosyl transferase and/or recombinant cells containing the UDP-glucosyl transferase.
US10428360B2
Methods for the improved acylation of chemical substrates using LovD acyltransferases, thioesters having acyl groups, and (i) thiol scavengers and/or (ii) precipitating agents are presented. An improved method for the production of simvastatin using (i) activated charcoal as a thiol scavenger and/or (ii) ammonium hydroxide as a precipitating agent is also presented.
US10428359B2
A method for producing an L-amino acid such as L-glutamic acid is provided. An L-amino acid is produced by culturing a bacterium having an L-amino acid-producing ability, which has been modified so that the activity of a C4-dicarboxylic acid-uptake carrier such as DctA, DcuA, and DcuB is increased, in a medium, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or cells of the bacterium.
US10428358B2
A method of producing a chemical product includes cultivating microorganisms or culture cells in a fermentation tank; transferring a culture liquid from the fermentation tank to a membrane separation tank to filter the culture liquid through a separation membrane; and collecting a fermentation product from a filtration liquid as the chemical product while refluxing an unfiltered culture liquid that has not been filtered to be joined to the culture liquid on an upstream side of the membrane separation tank, wherein one portion of the culture liquid to be transferred from the fermentation tank is allowed to bypass the membrane separation tank depending on a pressure at a culture liquid flow-in side of the membrane separation tank.
US10428356B2
A bioconversion method of making vanillin including expressing VaoA gene in a mixture, expressing MtSAD1 gene in the mixture, feeding eugenol to the mixture, and converting ferulic acid to vanillin by incubating with a microbial Amycolalopsis sp. strain (Zhp06) and/or a recombinant E. coli strain.
US10428350B2
The present invention relates generally to methods and compositions for gene therapy and immunotherapy that activate gamma delta T-cells, and in particular, can be used in the treatment of various cancers and infectious diseases.
US10428345B2
The present invention provides a transgenic corn event MON87460, and cells, seeds, and plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the corn event. The invention also provides compositions comprising nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for MON87460 in a sample, methods for detecting the presence of MON87460 event polynucleotides in a sample, and probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of MON87460 in a sample. The present invention also provides methods of breeding with MON87460 to produce water deficit tolerance corn plants.
US10428337B2
Provided are constructs and methods for expressing a transgene in plant cells and/or plant tissues using gene regulatory elements obtained from Brassica napus.
US10428336B2
The present invention provides a method for modulating non-root plant growth of a plant employing plant regulatory peptides, nucleotides encoding same, receptors therefor, binding agents thereof or agonists or antagonists thereof. Such methods encompass methods for increasing shoot growth or accelerating shoot development of plants, whereby said plants: yield a greater amount of above-ground plant matter than an untreated or wild-type plant grown under the same conditions; grows faster than an untreated or wild-type plant grown under tire same conditions; develops faster than an untreated or wild-type plant grown under the same conditions. The methods find particular application, wherein the conditions comprise stress conditions, and in particular abiotic stress conditions, which may be selected from increased salinity, drought, nitrogen limitation and pH stress.
US10428332B2
Hybrid immunoglobulins containing moving parts are provided as well as related compositions and methods of use and methods of production. In addition, analogous genetic devices are provided as well as related compositions and methods of use and methods of production.
US10428330B2
The application discloses methods and compositions for the inhibition of the alternative complement pathway. The methods and compositions involve the use of aptamers for inhibiting complement Factor D. The application further provides anti-Factor D aptamers for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration, geographic atrophy, wet age-related macular degeneration or Stargardt disease. In some cases, stem-loop aptamers are provided for the inhibition of Factor D.
US10428329B2
Novel processes and compositions are described which use viral capsid proteins resistant to hydrolases to prepare virus-like particles to enclose and subsequently isolate and purify target cargo molecules of interest including nucleic acids such as siRNAs and shRNAs, miRNAs, messenger RNAs, small peptides and bioactive molecules.
US10428328B2
Oligonucleotides capable of binding to and modulating the splicing of the pre-mRNA of the CFTR gene, compositions including the oligonucleotides, kits including the compositions, and uses thereof. Compositions of oligonucleotides useful in methods for suppressing exon 10 skipping optionally in combination with additional CFTR therapeutics.
US10428325B1
Compositions and methods are disclosed for identifying B-cell receptor sequences that bind to corresponding antigens. The disclosed methods and related embodiments permit the identification paired relationships between rearranged gene segments of B-cell receptors with unique antigens.
US10428321B2
The present invention relates to alpha-amylase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US10428320B2
The invention concerns the determination and evaluation of the crystal structure of autolysin E (AtlE) of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), or a crystallizable fragment of AtlE, a method for producing a crystal of AtlE and the respective crystallization kit, and its use in a method for screening an inhibitor of the N-acetylglucosaminidase activity of AtlE, for obtaining atomic spatial relationship data, and for identifying a binding compound of AtlE, e.g. by in silico screening.
US10428318B2
The invention provides engineered enzymes of transsialidase and/or sialyl transferase activity that have increased regioselectivity and/or increased thermostability.
US10428315B2
The present invention relates to methods for the production of biopharmaceuticals implementing a baculovirus-based system. These methods advantageously allow the production of biopharmaceuticals with a reduced number of or without contaminating baculoviral virions.
US10428291B2
Described herein is an ashless oil additive, comprising at least one diazabicyclo or triazabicyclo compound. Also described is a composition comprising an engine oil mixed with an oil additive, wherein the oil additive comprises at least one diazabicyclo or triazabicyclo compound. Further described is a method for boosting the total base number (TBN) of an engine oil composition, comprising adding an oil additive to said engine oil composition, wherein the oil additive comprises at least one diazabicyclo or triazabicyclo compound.
US10428290B2
A de-icing lubricant composition is provided, including isopropyl alcohol; and mineral oil. The isopropyl alcohol may be 60-90% of the composition by weight. The mineral oil may be 10-30% of the composition by weight. The composition may include a dye and/or a propellant. The propellant may be CO2. A method of restoring mobility to frozen components is also provided by applying a composition as described above to a frozen component.
US10428283B2
A hydrotreating reactor including a vessel comprising an upper zone, and intermediate zone and a lower zone. The upper zone comprises at least one upper catalyst bed. The intermediate zone comprises a vapor/liquid separation zone, wherein gas separated within the vapor/liquid separation zone is directed to a high pressure knockout drum and the liquid separated within the vapor/liquid separation zone is directed to a stripping section and then the lower zone. The lower zone comprises at least one lower catalyst bed. Preferably, the stripping section is configured and arranged for removing hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from the gas.
US10428266B2
Methods of treating a subterranean formation having a vertically oriented fracture with a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid, a gelling agent, proppant particulates, and swellable particulates having an unswelled form and a swelled form; placing the treatment fluid into the vertically oriented fracture; swelling the swellable particulates at a first location against walls of the vertically oriented fracture, thereby forming a first swelled particulates plug; swelling the swellable particulates at a second location above or below the first location against the walls of the vertically oriented fracture, thereby forming a second swelled particulates plug; and settling the proppant particulates atop the first swelled particulates plug and the second swelled particulates plug to form a proppant-free channel.
US10428263B2
A method of treating a subsurface formation comprises mixing an unfractionated hydrocarbon mixture with a foaming agent to form a waterless stimulation fluid comprising foam. The unfractionated hydrocarbon mixture comprises ethane, propane, butane, isobutane, and pentane plus. The method further includes increasing a pressure of the stimulation fluid and injecting the stimulation fluid into the subsurface formation.
US10428258B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for wellbore pressure control with separated fluid columns. One embodiment is a composition comprising: a base fluid, a hectorite clay, a secondary clay comprising at least one clay selected from the group consisting of an attapulgite clay, a sepiolite clay, a palygorskite clay, and any combination thereof, and a plurality of fibers. Another embodiment is a method comprising: introducing a first fluid into a wellbore; introducing a barrier pill into the wellbore, wherein the barrier pill comprises: a base fluid, a hectorite clay, and a plurality of fibers; and introducing a second fluid into the wellbore. Another embodiment is a method comprising: introducing a first fluid into a wellbore; introducing a barrier pill into the wellbore, wherein the barrier pill comprises: a base fluid, a hectorite clay, and a secondary clay comprising at least one clay selected from the group consisting of an attapulgite clay, a sepiolite clay, a palygorskite clay, and any combination thereof; and introducing a second fluid into the wellbore.
US10428257B2
A thermal interface material includes at least one polymer, at least one thermally conductive filler; and at least one ion scavenger. In some embodiments, the ion scavenger is a complexing agent selected from the group consisting of: nitrogen containing complexing agents, phosphorus containing complexing agents, and hydroxyl carboxylic acid based complexing agents.
US10428256B2
The present disclosure provides a two component releasable thermal gel that is useful in transferring heat from heat generating electronic devices, such as computer chips, to heat dissipating structures, such as heat spreaders and heat sinks. The two component releasable thermal gel is mixed before the point of application and facilitates catalytic cross-linking. The thermal gel includes a first component including a primary silicone oil, an inhibitor, a catalyst, and at least one thermally conductive filler, and a second component including a primary silicone oil, a cross linking silicone oil, and at least one thermally conductive filler, wherein the ratio of total content of Si—H groups to total content of vinyl groups in the thermal gel is between 0.03 to 10. The thermal gel is releasable from a substrate upon which the thermal gel is applied.
US10428250B2
The present invention pertains to a method for manufacturing a laminated textile product comprising providing a first intermediate product comprising a primary backing having a front surface and a back surface, and yarns stitched into the primary backing, the yarns extending from the front surface of the backing material, feeding the intermediate product along a body having a heated surface, the back surface being pressed against the said heated surface, to at least partly melt the yarns present in the intermediate product to bond the yarns to the backing, wherein the part of the back surface that is pressed against the heated surface has a relative speed with respect to the heated surface, so as to provide a second intermediate product having a calendered back surface, providing a dimensionally stable carrier sheet or secondary backing, and connecting the second intermediate product to the carrier sheet by providing a hot melt adhesive between the calendered surface and the sheet, and pressing the sheet to the second intermediate product to form the textile product.
US10428243B2
A method of assembling a door on a vehicle begins by identifying critical fit areas between the door seal and the door frame. Pressure indicator tape is adhered to the seal in critical fit areas and the door is closed against the seal to produce a marking on the pressure indicator tape. Intensity of the marking is visually compared to a reference pressure intensity scale to establish an observed pressure intensity level. The observed pressure intensity level may be recorded, correlated to a specific critical fit area and analyzed to make operational and design improvements to the door, door frame or seal.
US10428238B2
A resin composition comprises a modified polyimide compound, an epoxy resin, and a solvent. The modified polyimide compound has a chemical structural formula of the Ar′ represents a group selected from a group consisting of phenyl having a chemical structural formula of diphenyl ether having a chemical structural formula of biphenyl having a chemical structural formula hexafluoro-2,2-diphenylpropane having a chemical structural formula of benzophenone having a chemical structural formula of and diphenyl sulfone having a chemical structural formula of and any combination thereof, the epoxy resin and the modified polyimide compound are in a molar ratio of about 0.1:1 to about 1:1. A polyimide film and a method for manufacturing the polyimide film using the resin composition are also provided.
US10428233B2
A water-based ink set for ink-jet recording includes: a water-based yellow ink containing a yellow pigment, a resin dispersant, and water; a water-based magenta ink containing a magenta pigment, a resin dispersant, and water; a water-based cyan ink containing a cyan pigment, a resin dispersant, and water; and a water-based black ink containing self-dispersible carbon black and water. At least one water-based color ink selected from the group consisting of the water-based yellow ink, the water-based magenta ink, and the water-based cyan ink further contains a dye. The self-dispersible carbon black has an average particle size of 120 to 170 nm.
US10428230B2
A composition which is particularly effective for removing paint or varnish from wood concrete or metal surfaces comprising synergistic mixed solvents-based compositions with Improved efficiency of performance and environmental safety. The mixed solvent compositions are made from about 10-90% by weight of each polar solvent selected from the group consisting of (pentanoic acid, 5-(dimethylamino)-4-methyl-5-oxo-methyl ester; propylene carbonate, N,N-dimethyl imidazolidinone, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethyl acetamide, gamma butyrolactone, benzyl alcohol, and mixtures thereof and an activator, ethyl ethoxy propionate, and an aqueous system additive. Methods for use of the composition are also disclosed.
US10428229B2
An aqueous coating material is provided. The aqueous coating material includes an aqueous resin and a surfactant. The surfactant having a hydrophilic segment of poly(alkylene glycol), a hydrophobic segment of siloxane, and a terminal hydrophilic group. The aqueous resin and the surfactant may have a weight ratio of 100:1 to 100:25.
US10428228B1
A composition for pretreating surfaces of equipment for use with an uncured cementitious material, such as uncured concrete, and/or for cleaning cured cementitious material from the surfaces of such equipment includes an aqueous solution with colloidal silica. Pretreatment of a surface with such an aqueous solution may reduce or eliminate adhesion of uncured cementitious material to the surface. Cured cementitious material may be removed from equipment surfaces by wetting the cured cementitous material with the aqueous solution to chemically soften the cured cementitious material, along with abrading the cured cementitious material to mechanically remove the same from the equipment surfaces. Systems for removing cured cementitious material from the surfaces of equipment configured to use with uncured cementitious material include an abrasive element and an aqueous solution with colloidal silica.
US10428227B2
Provided is an antistatic composition for a vehicle, including a nickel powder and a polyolefin resin. The antistatic composition contains 2.5 to 15 vol. % of the nickel powder as a pigment volume concentration (vol. %).
US10428221B2
A liquid polymerizable composition including an anhydride derivative monomer with mineral nanoparticles homogeneously dispersed therein, as well as its use for the preparation of a transparent polymeric material having a high refractive index and its use in the optical field.
US10428220B2
This invention relates to polymer particles, a process for their preparation, the use of these particles for the preparation of an electrophoretic device, and electrophoretic displays comprising such particles.
US10428210B2
The present invention is related to an article comprising a substrate, having at least one propylene terpolymer comprising propylene derived units, one or more dienes, and an alpha-olefin content of less than about 35 wt % of the propylene terpolymer; and an adhesive composition, having about 20 to about 80 wt % of a polymer blend comprising a first propylene-based polymer, that is a homopolymer of propylene or a copolymer of propylene and ethylene or a C4 to C10 alpha-olefin, and a second propylene-based polymer, that is a homopolymer of propylene or a copolymer of propylene and ethylene or a C4 to C10 alpha-olefin; wherein the second propylene-based polymer is different than the first propylene-based polymer; and wherein the adhesive composition is applied to the substrate at temperature of less than about 150° C.
US10428195B2
A formulation includes a polymeric material, a nucleating agent, a blowing, and a surface active agent. The formulation can be used to form a container.
US10428193B2
The invention relates to a process for producing a prepreg based on polyurethane, which is notable for high storage stability at room temperature, a two-stage reaction mechanism, and adjustable adhesion on metal surfaces. It is based on the problem of making the surface tack of the prepregs controllable during processing. The solution is to assemble the PU mixture from which the matrix originates at a later stage such that the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic polymer is above 30° C. For this purpose, the invention proposes two basically independent but certainly synergistic measures, namely: i) use of a polyol compound or a mixture of a number of polyol compounds as binder, the OH number or mean OH number of which is above 300 mg KOH/g, ii) choice of the proportion of hardener corresponding to the co-binder in the reactive composition at greater than 2% by weight, based on the total solids content of the reactive composition.
US10428192B2
There is provided a plate-shaped carbon fiber reinforced molding material comprising a thermoplastic resin, carbon fibers (A) and carbon fibers (B), wherein: i) the carbon fibers (A) have fiber lengths ranging from 0.01 mm to less than 3 mm, ii) the carbon fibers (B) have fiber lengths ranging from 3 mm to less than 100 mm, iii) 1.0
US10428188B2
The present invention provides, inter alia, a method for producing a masterbatch in which the dispersibility of microfibrillated plant fibers is further increased to obtain excellent processability and improved rubber properties such as fuel economy, tensile strength, and elongation at break. The present invention relates to a method for producing a masterbatch, the method including step (I) of mixing a rubber latex with microfibrillated plant fibers oxidized with an N-oxyl compound to obtain a mixture, and coagulating the mixture by adjusting its pH to 2 to 6.
US10428186B2
Multi-component particles comprising inorganic nanoparticles distributed in an organic matrix and processes for making and using same. A flowing aerosol is generated that includes droplets of a precursor medium dispersed in a gas phase. The precursor medium contains a liquid vehicle and at least one precursor. At least a portion of the liquid vehicle is removed from the droplets of precursor medium under conditions effective to convert the precursor to the nanoparticles or the matrix and form the multi-component particles.
US10428176B2
The present invention relates to: a thermosetting alkoxysilyl compound (hereinafter, referred to as “alkoxysilyl compound”) having two or more alkoxysilyl groups showing excellent heat-resistance characteristics in a composite; a composition and a cured product comprising the same; a use thereof; and a method for preparing an alkoxysilyl compound. The composition of an alkoxysilyl compound, comprising a novel alkoxysilyl compound according to the present invention shows, in a composite, improved heat-resistance characteristics, i.e., an effect of decreasing the CTE of the composition of an alkoxysilyl compound and not showing a glass transition temperature (hereinafter, referred to as “Tg-less”). Further, the cured product comprising an alkoxysilyl compound according to the present invention shows excellent flame retardant properties due to the alkoxysilyl groups.
US10428171B2
The present invention relates to a one-component processing method and system for preparing polyurea materials. This method and system involves a polymerization process using cyclic oligomeric polyurea precursors. These cyclic oligomeric precursors have dynamic urea bonds such as hindered urea bonds (HUBs). These cyclic oligomeric precursors exhibit dynamic properties to reversibly dissociate in situ yielding isocyanate and amine components which polymerize to yield the polyureas, such as linear, branched or cross-linked polyureas. This method and system has advantages over conventional methods that utilize two-component systems. Such two-component systems require the segregation of the isocyanate and amine components to prevent premature or too rapid polymerization. The resulting polyureas are useful for a variety of applications including coatings.
US10428158B2
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising one or more antibodies that specifically bind active plasma kallikrein (e.g., human plasma kallikrein) and methods of using such compositions for the treatment of retinal diseases, such as diabetic macular edema.
US10428153B2
According to one aspect there is provided An isolated human antibody molecule which binds to the TSHR and which reduces ligand-induced stimulation of the TSHR but has no effect on TSHR constitutive activity wherein the isolated human antibody molecule has the characteristic of patient serum TSHR autoantibodies of inhibiting TSH and M22 binding to the TSHR.
US10428146B2
The present invention relates to antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind to PD-1, and to methods of using such antibodies and antigen-binding fragments. For example, the present invention provides humanized anti-PD-1 antibodies and methods of use thereof.
US10428140B2
It is intended to provide an anti-EphA4 antibody or an EphA4-binding fragment thereof which is capable of binding to EphA4 and inhibiting the binding between EphA4 and its ligand, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the anti-EphA4 antibody or the EphA4-binding fragment thereof as an active ingredient. A mouse anti-EphA4 antibody having binding affinity for EphA4 was obtained, and the sequences of complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) of the mouse anti-EphA4 antibody were identified. This allowed for preparation of a humanized antibody comprising the CDR sequences of the mouse anti-EphA4 antibody in heavy chain variable region and light chain variable region.
US10428129B2
A recombinant protein is provided. The recombinant protein of the invention comprises an erythropoietin and a highly glycosylated peptide, and has a longer half-life. Further, the recombinant protein of the invention may also comprise a carboxyl-terminal peptide of human chorionic gonadotropin and a carboxyl-terminal peptide of thrombopoietin.
US10428128B2
The disclosure provides helix grafted proteins, methods of producing helix grafted proteins and methods of use of helix grafted proteins as inhibitors of protein-protein interactions involved in disease pathogenesis.
US10428125B2
Provided are non-naturally occurring cystine knot peptides (CKPs) that bind to VEGF-A. Additionally, provided are methods of using non-naturally occurring CKPs that bind to VEGF-A, including diagnostic and therapeutic compositions and methods. Non-naturally CKPs that bind low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 6 (LRP6) are also provided.