US10438458B2
The present invention provides for a portable apparatus and method for detection of environmental warning signals. The apparatus having an acoustic input device configured to produce an electrical representation of detected environmental warning signals, an electronic pre-processing unit configured to determine if the electrical representation satisfies a primary set of criteria, an electronic post-processing unit configured to verify if the electrical representation satisfies a secondary set of criteria and a warning indicator configured to transmit an alarm notification. The method having the steps of detecting an environmental warning signals, producing an electrical representation of the detected environmental warning signals, pre-processing the electrical representation to determine if a primary set of criteria has been met, if the set of criteria has been met, post processing the detected electrical signal to determine if a secondary set of criteria has been met and producing an alert message through at least one of an audible indicator, vibration indicator, visual indicator or wireless signal transmitter.
US10438456B2
Disclosed is a device, a method and a system for issuing real-time receipts, the device being connected to a point-of-sale terminal sending it a command to print data representative of the receipt. The device is further connected to a printer, in such a way as to allow the command to print the data representative of the receipt to be transferred to the printer. The device makes it possible to convert the data representative of the receipt, originating from the point-of-sale terminal, into a digital file representative of the receipt. The device then transmits the digital file representative of the receipt, previously associated with an identification number, to a remote storage network accessible via a mobile telephone network of a mobile terminal with which it communicates according to a contactless communication protocol.
US10438453B1
A system controls access to games, such as Lottery games, over communication devices, including wireless devices. A ticket comprising a substrate identifies a game and indicates that it is a lottery electronic access ticket (LEAT). A participation number, typically obscured, is provided and communicated by typing or keying the number. In one aspect, the system placing a limit on the number of plays allowed, where the number is greater than one, and the system placing a time limit on game play. The use of the system is subject to limits on the number of plays allowed, and includes a time component. Game play proceeds once the system verifies that the number is valid. If valid, and a monetary amount remains available to the player, game play is permitted to proceed. The player is then provided with an indication of whether they have won, and if so, the amount.
US10438446B2
Gaming machines and systems are configured to distribute of viral events, such as viral gaming events, amongst devices. The devices can present the viral events. The devices can, for example, be gaming machines and/or mobile devices. According to one embodiment, once a viral event is triggered, it is presented at one or more first devices at a first time. The viral event spreads to other devices, such as one or more second devices where it can be presented at a later time. The viral event may continue to spread to numerous other devices. Feedback or metrics may be used to control the devices to which the viral event spreads and/or the rate of spread.
US10438441B2
A service device provides a multiplayer game which a user can enjoy by a new technique. The server device includes a storage unit for storing information on at least one predetermined team operated by a predetermined player corresponding to a terminal device and made up of a plurality of characters; a first control unit for transmitting to the terminal device information on other players corresponding to other terminal devices located within a predetermined distance from the location of the terminal device; and a second control unit for controlling a game between the at least one predetermined team and an opponent character, and transmitting information on a specified character selected from among a plurality of characters constituting at least one other team operated by the other players to the terminal device as a candidate for an additional character to be added to the at least one predetermined team.
US10438440B2
A integrated wagering process interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive controller configured to: communicate application telemetry comprising a random event occurrence and wager occurrence; receive a resolution to the random event occurrence; display the random event resolution; receive a wager resolution; and display the wager resolution; a wager controller constructed to: receive random outcome request; determine a sequence of at least one random outcome; and communicate random outcome data comprising the sequence; and the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, constructed to: determine the random event occurrence and the wager occurrence; communicate the random outcome request; receive the random outcome data; determine the resolution to the occurrence of the at least one random event and the resolution to the occurrence of the at least one wagering event based on the sequence of at least one random outcome; communicate the resolution and wager outcome.
US10438431B2
An electronic lock that interacts with a mobile device is presented. In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic lock includes a wireless power receiver configured to receiver power from a mobile device; a processor coupled to receive power from the wireless power receiver; a memory coupled to the processor and to receive power from the wireless power receiver; a communication unit coupled to the processor and to receive power from the wireless power receiver, the communication unit configured to communicate with the mobile device; and an actuator coupled to the processor and to receive power from the wireless power receiver. The processor executes instructions stored in a memory for authenticating the mobile device, and providing signals to the actuator according to instructions received from the mobile device once it is authenticated. The mobile device provides power to the electronic lock and instructs it to lock or unlock a locking mechanism.
US10438430B2
An on-vehicle device includes: a communication unit capable of executing communication using a first communication scheme; a transmitter that transmits a request signal and a measurement signal to a mobile device, using a second communication scheme different from the first communication scheme of the communication unit; and a receiver that receives a response signal from the mobile device that has received the request signal and the measurement signal transmitted from the transmitter. The transmitter changes a number of times of transmission of the measurement signal transmitted subsequently to the request signal based on whether or not the communication of the communication unit is in a connected state.
US10438424B2
Certain example embodiments of the disclosed technology may include systems and methods for telematics monitoring. An example method is provided that includes receiving, at a mobile computing device, and from a Vehicle Identification Unit (VIU), identification (ID) data representing a first vehicle. The method further includes receiving, by the mobile computing device, sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the mobile computing device. Certain embodiments may further include receiving, at an Operational Measurement Unit (OMU), an operation indication associated with the first vehicle. The OMU may include an operational measurement component configured to advance an operational count in response to receiving the operation indication. Certain example embodiments may include transmitting telematics data by the mobile computing device. In certain embodiments, the telematics data may include least a portion of one or more of the ID data, the sensor data, and/or the operational count data.
US10438415B2
A method for training a student in medical condition identification and intervention. The method can include the step of providing a mixed reality viewing device, providing a computing device, providing a physical object, storing a medical condition scenario in memory of the viewing device, storing the scenario in the memory of the computing device, anchoring a virtual image of at least a portion of a virtual patient on at least a portion of the physical object, selecting the scenario, commanding the processor of the computing device to initiate displaying the virtual image in a selected one of a plurality of stages, controlling one or more states and one or more properties of the physical object, assessing the student's identification of the one or more virtual critical cues; and assessing the student's identification of the one or more physical critical cues.
US10438414B2
Various methods and systems are provided for authoring and presenting 3D presentations. Generally, an augmented or virtual reality device for each author, presenter and audience member includes 3D presentation software. During authoring mode, one or more authors can use 3D and/or 2D interfaces to generate a 3D presentation that choreographs behaviors of 3D assets into scenes and beats. During presentation mode, the 3D presentation is loaded in each user device, and 3D images of the 3D assets and corresponding asset behaviors are rendered among the user devices in a coordinated manner. As such, one or more presenters can navigate the scenes and beats of the 3D presentation to deliver the 3D presentation to one or more audience members wearing augmented reality headsets.
US10438411B2
A display control method includes generating virtual space data representing a virtual space in which a virtual camera is arranged. The method further includes moving a visual field of the virtual camera along with movement of a head-mounted display (HMD). The method further includes generating visual-field image data based on the visual field of the virtual camera and the virtual space data. The method further includes displaying a visual-field image on the HMD based on the visual-field image data. The method further includes identifying a relative position relationship between the HDM and a user's hand. The method further includes determining whether or not a detected movement of the hand satisfies a first condition. The method further includes displaying a menu object in the visual field of the virtual camera based on the relative position relationship when the detected movement of the hand satisfies the first condition.
US10438409B2
A method includes receiving a signal from a device to be located, the signal identifying the device, determining location information from the received signal, creating a graphic representative of the location of the device, and providing an augmented reality view of an area where the device is located with the graphic to provide user visible location information corresponding to the device.
US10438407B2
This disclosure provides a method for providing spatial gradients of 3D CAD models of solid objects with respect to various parameters used in defining the solid object. A modeler is designed and implemented to provide spatial gradients of solid objects (when represented on a computer as 3D CAD models) with respect to the various parameters that define the objects. Although primarily based on finite difference operations, several additional steps are performed to ensure that the gradients computed are correct and valid for a general class of solid objects and the parameters that define the objects. No commercially available 3D CAD tool provides such ability for a general class of solid objects.
US10438403B1
The present disclosure relates to a method, computer program product, and system for rendering one or more objects in a set. The illumination agent designates a region of interest in the set to be rendered. The illumination agent defines an amount of photons to be directed towards the region of interest in the set. The illumination agent generates a photon map of the set. The illumination agent generates a portion of the photon map based on the region of interest and the designated amount of photons to be applied to the region of interest. The illumination agent generates a remainder of the photon map based on an area exterior to the region of interest and a second amount of photons to be applied to the area. The processor transmits the photon map for processing.
US10438399B2
Methods, systems and user interfaces enhance an augmented reality experience of a user having freedom of movement within an external environment. A local user interface is created and displayed to the user in a first viewable region. A global user interface is created and displayed to the user in a second viewable region, further from the user than the first viewable region. The local user interface is maintained at a first spatial position, the first spatial position being stationary with respect to a part of the user's body; and the global user interface is maintained at a second spatial position, the second spatial position being stationary with respect to the external environment.
US10438396B2
Graphics processing systems and methods are disclosed which may minimize invocations to a pixel shader in order to improve efficiency in a rendering pipeline. In implementations of the present disclosure, a plurality of samples within a pixel may be covered by a primitive. The plurality of samples may include one or more color samples and a plurality of depth samples. The nature of the samples which were covered by the primitive may be taken into account before invoking a pixel shader to perform shading computations on the pixel. In implementations of the present disclosure, if at least one sample is covered by a primitive, but none of the samples are color samples, an invocation to a pixel shader may be avoided.
US10438393B2
A computing system and method to implement a three-dimensional virtual reality world with avatar posture animation without user posture tracking devices. A position and orientation of a respective avatar in the virtual reality world is tracked to generate a view of the virtual world for the avatar and to present the avatar to others. In response to input data tracking a position, orientation, and motions of a head of a user of the virtual reality world, the server system uses a posture model to predict, from the input data, a posture of an avatar of the user in the virtual reality world, and computes an animation of the avatar showing the posture of the avatar in the virtual reality world.
US10438389B2
A method for virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) includes sensing a relative angle between a reference direction defined by a first tracking device and a navigate direction defined by a second tracking device, calculating a viewing angle according to the relative angle between the reference direction and the navigate direction, and displaying a VR or AR environment in the corresponding viewing angle.
US10438387B2
A graphing system (FIG. 2) and method (200) for generating a one-page multi-Y axis graph (207) for analyzing alternate scenarios. The WHATIF SYSTEM can generate a one-page multi-Y axis graph using input from a spreadsheet file (208). The WHATIF SYSTEM can also generate a one-page multi-Y axis graph using input from one or more sets of financial project profitability measures (203). The WHATIF SYSTEM allows the user to generate a BASE CASE file (201) of a projects financial description. The BASE CASE file is simulated by the SIMULATE function (202) producing a set of profitability measures (203): Internal Rate of Return on Investment (IRROI) before taxes, IRROI after taxes, Internal Rate of Return on Equity (IRROE) after taxes, payback period, minimum equity, minimum loan, and minimum period required to repay debt. A file named WHATIF (204) defines percentage adjustments to be automatically applied to the BASE CASE file by the AUTOMATE function (205). The GRAPH function (206) generates a one-page multi-Y axis graph (207) displaying a graph of a spreadsheet file or a graph of financial metrics and profitability measures.
US10438386B2
The present disclosure provides a data visualization method and apparatus. The method includes: displaying a distribution curve diagram by using a display device, where the distribution curve diagram is used to represent time-based distribution of multiple pieces of spatial-temporal data, and the distribution curve diagram includes a timeline, a curve changing with the timeline, and an irregular region enclosed by the curve; and displaying a tree map in the irregular region by using the display device, where the tree map divides the irregular region into m sub-regions that are in a one-to-one correspondence with m regions, and an area of each of the m sub-regions is used to indicate an amount of spatial-temporal data distributed in a region corresponding to each sub-region. The present disclosure implements visualization of spatial-temporal data by using the tree map.
US10438379B2
A system (10) and a method (100) iteratively reconstruct an image of a target volume of a subject. In each iteration of a plurality of iterations, an estimate image of the target volume (54) is forward projected (58) and compared (62) to received event data (44) to determine a discrepancy (64). The discrepancy (64) is back projected (66) and the back projection (68) updates (70) the estimate image (54). In at least one iteration, the estimate image (54) is filtered (52) in the image domain prior to being back projected.
US10438375B2
Provided is a method in which a web client receives a whole slide image (WSI) having an image compression format and a tile size different depending on a digital pathology vendor from a digital pathology server in a streaming manner. The method includes a WSI acquisition operation of acquiring the WSI from the digital pathology server. The WSI acquisition operation includes a normalized tile definition operation of defining a normalized tile having a minimized time cost, a determination operation of comparing a tile with the normalized tile, and a conversion operation of optimizing the tile with the normalized tile.
US10438362B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to determining correspondence between a template and an object in an image. A method may include: receiving an image of an environment including an image of an object within the image of the environment; resizing the first template to obtain a scaled first template having a size corresponding to a size of the image of the object; calculating a number of correspondences between the scaled first template and the image of the object; receiving a candidate homography; testing the candidate homography; and replacing the image of the object with a second template of a different object according to the candidate homography in response to the candidate homography being established as corresponding to the image of the object.
US10438335B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a quality trainer and quality calculator collaborate to establish a consistent perceptual quality metric via machine learning. In a training phase, the quality trainer leverages machine intelligence techniques to create a perceptual quality model that combines objective metrics to optimally track a subjective metric assigned during viewings of training videos. Subsequently, the quality calculator applies the perceptual quality model to values for the objective metrics for a target video, thereby generating a perceptual quality score for the target video. In this fashion, the perceptual quality model judiciously fuses the objective metrics for the target video based on the visual feedback processed during the training phase. Since the contribution of each objective metric to the perceptual quality score is determined based on empirical data, the perceptual quality score is a more accurate assessment of observed video quality than conventional objective metrics.
US10438334B2
Three dimensional image fusion method and device are disclosed. The method includes steps of obtaining a spherical image and a two dimensional image; projecting the two dimensional image onto a planar surface predetermined in a spherical coordinate system where the spherical image is located, so as to acquire a projected image having a predetermined number of feature points on the spherical surface corresponding to the spherical image; determining multiple mapping points on the spherical surface which correspond to the predetermined number of feature points, letting the predetermined number of feature points superpose on the multiple mapping points, respectively, and carrying out spatial coordinate conversion, so as to attain a converted image; and mapping multiple points except the predetermined number of feature points in the converted image onto the spherical image based on a predetermined mapping relationship, so as to fuse the two dimensional image onto the spherical image.
US10438316B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for calculating graphics resources for a virtual machine. One of the methods includes determining resources available on a graphics card device included in a computer executing a plurality of virtual machines, each virtual machine configured to execute a virtual desktop; determining, based on data received from a hypervisor that manages execution of at least one of the plurality of virtual machines, a graphics profile for a virtual machine included in the plurality of virtual machines executing on the computer; determining a portion of the available resources on the graphics card device allocated to the virtual machine using the graphics profile; and computing an amount of resources on the graphics card device consumed by a virtual desktop of the virtual machine based on the portion of the available resources on the graphics card device allocated to the virtual machine.
US10438309B2
A method of making a security device including: (a) forming an array of focussing elements on at least a first region of a focussing element support layer, by: (a)(i) applying a first transparent curable material either to the focussing element support layer or to a casting tool carrying a surface relief corresponding to the focussing elements, over an first sub-region of the first region and applying a second transparent curable material to a second sub-region of the first region laterally offset from the first sub-region, the first and second transparent curable materials having different optical detection characteristics from one another; (a)(ii) forming the first and second transparent curable materials with the casting tool; and (a)(iii) curing the first and second transparent curable materials in the first region, so as to retain the surface relief.
US10438300B2
A social networking system prices advertisements presented to a user of a social networking system via a client device in a state that provides the user with limited functionality by applying discount factors to bid amounts associated with advertisements selected for presentation. A discount factor is based on the likelihood of the user viewing or interacting with an advertisement via the social networking system presented while the client device is in the state providing the user with limited functionality. This likelihood is determined based on information including a history of user interaction with the client device and contextual information indicating whether the client device is in use.
US10438289B1
Methods and systems disclosed herein assist users in determining when to retire from a first career and how to allocate retirement funds from the first career. The user may set retirement goals and select a retirement date for the first career. The system may estimate a retirement income for the first career. The user may indicate the payment schedule in which the user will receive the first career retirement funds. The user may provide, or the system may collect from other sources, information regarding other assets and debts associated with the user. Thereafter, the user may be provided information regarding the second career needed to meet the retirement goals and advice regarding the retirement from the first career, including the retirement payout.
US10438287B2
Systems and methods for electronic transformation of a portfolio via an electronic exchange server are provided. The electronic exchange server transforms an initial portfolio (e.g., a non-hedged trading portfolio) into a transformed portfolio (e.g., a hedged trading portfolio) by receiving buy or sell orders of an initial portfolio to be transformed, determining an imbalance in the received buy or sell orders, and receiving offsetting buy or sell orders to offset the imbalance. The transformation can be performed, for example, by comparing data from the buy or sell orders with data from the offsetting buy or sell orders, pairing the buy or sell orders with the offsetting buy or sell orders, determining a final auction price, determining an adjustment amount, applying the adjustment amount to the final auction price to determine a final settlement price, and applying the final settlement price to the initial portfolio.
US10438283B2
Systems and methods are provided for linking a customer's preexisting financial account to a merchant issued payment vehicle. If an account number associated with the preexisting financial account changes, the linking of the merchant issued payment vehicle is updated with an updated account number.
US10438282B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with invoice record and receipt record matching utilizing best match criteria are described. In one embodiment, a method includes matching a plurality of invoice records to a plurality of receipt records based on a first set of criteria. When an invoice record matches no more than one receipt record, the invoice record is marked to indicate that the invoice record is matched to the receipt record. When an invoice record matches at least two receipt records based on the first set of criteria, one of the at least two receipt records is selected as a best match receipt record based on a second set of criteria. The invoice record is marked to indicate that the invoice record is matched to the selected receipt record. The invoice records determined to have matching receipt records are transmitted for payment by a financial system.
US10438276B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for smart recurrent orders are presented. An inventory indicator corresponding to an inventory level of a first item may be received. An order schedule for the first item may be identified. An adjustment to the order schedule based on the inventory indicator may be determined. The adjustment to the order schedule for the first item may be facilitated.
US10438274B2
An online shopping concierge service allows shoppers to purchase items on behalf of customers and checkout using a mobile application, circumventing traditional point-of-sale check-out systems. A customer places an order using a mobile application or website associated with the online shopping concierge service. The online shopping concierge service charges a payment instrument of the customer in the value of the selected items. The system transmits the order to a shopper, who receives an order for fulfillment on a mobile device. The shopper collects and scans items using a mobile application. The mobile application transmits an identification of the items for purchase and their total cost to the online shopping concierge service, which transmits payment to the retailer. Alternatively, the mobile application encodes an identification of the items for purchase into an encoded image, which is scanned by a cashier, allowing the shopper to complete an accelerated check-out.
US10438264B1
Embodiments disclosed herein include artificial intelligence systems and methods for automatically filling or completing required attribute values for features associated with an item that is being offered. In embodiments, an offer for an item may include an image of the item and unstructured text related to the item. Potential candidate values are selected and ranked according to generated confidence scores that represent the correct candidate value for the selected feature. A user interface may be presented to the user offering the item that presented the ranked potential candidate values and request confirmation. In response to the user confirming the candidate value for the feature a web page may be generated for offering the item with appropriate features and attribute values auto-populated thus providing an efficient method for offering items on behalf of a user.
US10438261B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to receive a message from a user device. The message may include metadata that includes data related to one or more specifications of the user device. The method may also determine a sales price for the user device based on the one or more specifications of the user device and create a listing for the user device that includes at least the sales price and at least one of the one or more specifications of the user device.
US10438256B2
The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for marketing and selling used vehicles during an extended sale period and dynamically matching used vehicle dealers to used vehicle transactions. A used vehicle marketing and sales platform allows vehicles to be marketed and sold through a dynamic user interface before its date of availability and/or before auction using a dynamic price listing generation system. The used vehicle marketing and sales platform also matches used vehicle dealers to complete transactions through a dealer matching system in order to provide a physical location for delivery of a used vehicle and to provide fulfillment of the transaction.
US10438255B2
A matching support device which achieve matching between demand information and supply information, quickly and accurately reflecting changes in information. The present invention is provided with an information recording unit which acquires supply information and/or demand information in order to record the supply information and/or the demand information, a matching unit which performs the matching between the demand information and the supply information, and a result transmission unit which transmits results of the matching to a supplier terminal and a consumer terminal. The information recording unit, during an arbitrary period specified from the supplier terminal and/or the consumer terminal, continues reception of the supply information and/or the demand information and holds a record of the supply information and/or the demand information for the arbitrary period. The matching unit performs the matching between the supply information and the demand information for the arbitrary period.
US10438248B2
Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services in a predictive manner to a device with an advertising exchange. In one embodiment, a system receives a configuration call from a device upon initiation of a software application and associated advertising services software on the device. The system generates, prior to a predicted ad play event on the device, a predictive ad request for obtaining at least one advertisement (ad) from at least one of an ad store and an advertising exchange prior to the predicted ad play event. The at least one ad is stored on the device prior to an actual ad play event. The system determines, just prior to the actual ad play event, a bandwidth for a connection between the device and the system. The system determines if any ad source includes at least one ad that is more likely to convert or cause user interaction than the ads stored on the device based on the bandwidth for the connection between the device and the system.
US10438234B2
Methods, systems, and media for review content traffic are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a method, implemented on a processor, for reviewing advertisement placement on webpages is provided. The method can include: receiving a plurality of uniform resource locators (URLs) relating to the placement of a plurality of advertisements associated with an advertiser; obtaining, for the plurality of URLs, a plurality of images and a plurality of advertisement traffic and rating information relating to each of the plurality of URLs, wherein each of the plurality of images shows the placement of an advertisement on the page accessed by a URL; presenting a traffic display that includes the plurality of images for the plurality of pages, wherein the plurality of images are user selectable; and, in response to selecting one of the plurality of images, presenting the advertiser with the advertisement traffic and rating information for a URL corresponding to the selected image and providing the advertiser with an opportunity to provide feedback information for the rating information associated with the URL.
US10438229B1
Systems and related methods of providing promotional offers to consumers are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for an apparatus including circuitry configured to provide promotional offers to consumers based on dimensions representing criteria by which promotions may be deemed relevant to a consumer. Some examples of dimensions may include location, time, environment, price, and/or consumer preference. Based on receiving signals from the consumer device, among other sources, indicating associated times, locations, and other characteristics of consumer activity, the apparatus may recognize patterns or trends in consumer behavior, and use such information to predict or influence future consumer behavior.
US10438228B2
A method and system for providing a consumer comparative pricing data from at least two merchants is discussed. In one aspect of the invention a customer queries a database containing time and location specific pricing data for competitors of a first merchant. If the query shows that the customer could have purchased the same item or items for a lower price at a competitor, the first merchant awards the customer an on-line credit that is redeemable at the merchant. In another aspect, a consumer uploads an image of a competitor's receipt. The item specific data on the receipt is converted to UPC codes on an item-by-item basis. These UPC codes are then compared against the merchant's pricing database and the consumer is provided data set comparing the prices the consumer paid to the prices the consumer would have paid had the consumer shopped at the merchant.
US10438224B1
A marketing platform and corresponding methods for providing incentive offers to customers are provided. An example method may commence with streaming content to a customer. The content may be provided by a content provider. The method may continue with rendering an incentive offer based on customer data in response to an access of the content by the customer via a customer device. The incentive offer may be provided by a marketer. The incentive offer may be associated with a plurality of choices designed to entice the customer to review the incentive offer in exchange for discounted or free access to the content. The method may further include receiving, from the customer, a selection of at least one of the plurality of choices. The method may continue with modifying the customer data based on the selection. Future incentive offers may be based on the modified customer data.
US10438222B2
A computer-implemented system and method of influencing customer behavior. The customer is offered a price-per-unit (PPU) discount for fuel as a reward for performing a predefined action. A point-of-sale (POS) system at a merchant determines that the customer performed the predefined action, and stores the PPU discount and a customer identifier in a Discounts-Earned database. When the customer initiates a subsequent purchase of fuel, at the merchant or a different retail fueling merchant, a fuel dispenser controller retrieves the PPU discount from the database, discounts the posted price of the fuel by the PPU discount, and causes the dispenser to dispense fuel to the customer at the reduced price. A redeemed discounts calculator multiplies the PPU discount by the number of units purchased in the fueling transaction, and a clearing mechanism allocates the redeemed discount between the merchant and the retail fueling merchant.
US10438213B2
Embodiments of the disclosed technology include systems and methods that can establish a communication link with a customer device, can receive call information from the customer device, can retrieve a customer profile based on a comparison of the call information to stored call information, and can save the customer profile as temporary profile data. Embodiments can receive identifying information from the customer device and, responsive to determining, based on a comparison of the identifying information to the temporary profile data, that the communication link is authenticated, connect the communication link to an authenticated call path. Responsive to determining that a predetermined amount of time has elapsed without determining that the communication link is authenticated, embodiments can determine that the communication link is unauthenticated and can connect the communication link to an unauthenticated call path and delete the temporary profile data.
US10438210B1
A device receives a transaction request concerning a transaction and a transaction card from a transaction terminal, and determines, based on the transaction request, information concerning the transaction card. The device sends, based on the transaction request and to a user device, a query concerning possession of the transaction card by a user of the user device, where the query includes an instruction for the user to confirm possession of the transaction card via a component of the user device. The device receives, from the user device and after sending the query to the user device, a response concerning possession of the transaction card by the user, and determines, based on the response and the information concerning the transaction card, whether the user has possession of the transaction card. The device performs, based on determining whether the user has possession of the transaction card, at least one action.
US10438207B2
Systems and methods for tracking, predicting, and mitigating advanced persistent threats in networks
Systems and methods for tracking, predicting, and mitigating Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks in a network include detecting, from monitoring, events related to one or more subscribed entities, wherein the monitoring includes two or more of analyzing traffic flow, analyzing virtual currency transactions, and monitoring information related to the one or more subscribed entities on the Internet; analyzing the events to determine a likelihood of an attack on a specific subscribed entity of the one or more subscribed entities; and causing mitigation of the attack based on the determined likelihood, wherein the mitigation comprises one or more actions in the network relative to the specific subscribed entity.
US10438206B2
Mobile communications devices, systems and methods are provided for identifying a risk of fraudulent activity associated with a merchant before a user executes a transaction with the merchant. In an embodiment, a mobile communications device obtains first information identifying prior instances of fraudulent activity associated with a merchant. The mobile communications device may determine a level of risk of fraudulent activity associated with the merchant based on the obtained first information, and may identify, based on the determined risk level, one or more payment instruments and associated incentives appropriate for financial services transactions involving the merchant. The mobile communications device may present, to a user, a notification including the identified payment instruments and associated incentives prior to execution of a transaction between the user and the merchant.
US10438204B2
A system, method and computer program product for granting access and/or an authorization are disclosed. For instance, a computer-implemented method may include receiving a first sequence of plurality of biometric data elements. The sequence of plurality of biometric data elements may comprise a biometric passphrase. The method may include registering the biometric passphrase to a known user and/or a transaction account. The method may include receiving a transaction request comprising a second sequence of plurality of biometric data elements. The method may include comparing the second sequence of plurality of biometric data elements to the biometric passphrase to resulting in a confidence factor of the comparison. The comparison may include comparing the sequencing of the second sequence of plurality of biometric data elements and the characteristics of each biometric data element of the second sequence of plurality of biometric data elements to the biometric passphrase.
US10438203B2
An Internet based system for executing transactions is described. The system may include transaction data, a database, a business logic manager and user profiles. A rules may also be included, and store information about system responses to modifications of the data. The user profiles may be configured to store information concerning the availability of information and displays depending upon the user.
US10438200B1
Systems and techniques are disclosed for vending machine authorization and customization based on confidences of user identities. One of the methods includes receiving identifying information for a user device, the identifying information being received in response to the user device being within a distance of a vending machine. The vending machine can include sensors that trigger the user device to provide identifying information. A portion of profile information is accessed, portion of profile information indicating a unique identifier assigned to the user device. The portion of profile information is provided to one or more servers that communicate with the vending machine over one or more networks. Preference in formation is displayed via a display of the vending machine, the preference information being maintained by servers and being associated with the unique identifier.
US10438192B2
A transaction system and process includes providing financial transactions based on a single card. The transaction system and process further including providing prepaid wireless service based on the single card and providing long-distance service based on the single card.
US10438179B2
An object is to provide information more suited to the needs of the user by appropriately controlling timing with which information is provided to the user and the contents of the information. An electronic money server receives log data, identifies a store ID by searching a payment terminal DB by using a payment terminal ID of the log data as a key, checks a breakdown data providing store flag of a store DB (B) by using the store ID as a key, and, if a store is not a store providing the breakdown data, identifies the location of the store by searching a store DB (A) by using the store ID as a key. The electronic money server 2 acquires e-mail which conforms to the identified location by searching an e-mail (A) DB by using the identified location as a key. For example, it is information on a discount which is offered in a nearby store. The electronic money server creates e-mail (A), acquires an address by searching a user DB by using an electronic money number of the received log data as a key, and sends the created e-mail (A) to a mobile terminal.
US10438174B2
Software application systems and associated methods for recycling, purchasing, and/or performing other processes with mobile phones, tablet computers, laptop computers, and/or other electronic devices at a kiosk are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods associated with an electronic device to facilitate a consumer-operated kiosk processing (e.g., purchasing) the electronic device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes using a mobile app to identify an electronic device, evaluate the electronic device, resolve device issues to enable purchase of the electronic device, etc. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein.
US10438150B2
A method for reducing energy costs at a facility includes identifying candidate production entities at the facility having a high potential for energy intensity variation reduction, determining potential cost savings associated with reducing energy intensity variation in the candidate production entities, identifying a root cause for energy intensity variation in the candidate production entities, and causing an action to be performed to mitigate the root cause.
US10438148B2
A scheduling supporting method includes: storing one or more sets of task information and subtask groups each of which corresponds to one set of task information and which is structured to have one or more stages, by a processor; and presenting, at time of presenting each of a plurality of tasks, from among a subtask group corresponding to each task, a subtask of a preset stage according to structure, by the processor.
US10438129B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training machine learning systems. One of the methods includes receiving a plurality of training examples; and training a machine learning system on each of the plurality of training examples to determine trained values for weights of a machine learning model, wherein training the machine learning system comprises: assigning an initial value for a regularization penalty for a particular weight for a particular feature; and adjusting the initial value for the regularization penalty for the particular weight for the particular feature during the training of the machine learning system.
US10438125B2
A mechanism is provided for forecasting air pollution. One or more air-pollution monitoring stations correlated to a forecasting point from a plurality of air-pollution monitoring stations are identified. For the one or more air-pollution monitoring stations that correlate to the forecasting point, one or more patterns of the forecasting point, historical patterns of the forecasting point relating to the one or more patterns of the forecasting point, and one or more patterns of the air-pollution monitoring stations that relate to the one or more patterns of the forecasting point are identified. Based on the one or more patterns of the forecasting point, the historical patterns of the forecasting point relating to the one or more patterns of the forecasting point, and the one or more patterns of the air-pollution monitoring stations that relate to the one or more patterns of the forecasting point, a pollution forecast is provided.
US10438118B2
A device may receive, from a user device, a request to verify a machine learning (ML) application using a metamorphic testing procedure. The device may determine a type of ML process used by the ML application, and may select one or more metamorphic relations (MRs), to be used for performing the metamorphic testing procedure, based on the type of ML process. The device may receive test data to be used to test the ML application, wherein the test data is based on the one or more MRs, and may perform, by using the one or more MRs and the test data, the metamorphic testing procedure to verify one or more aspects of the ML application. The device may generate a report that indicates whether the one or more aspects of the ML application have been verified and may provide the report for display on an interface of the user device.
US10438117B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing a layer output for a convolutional neural network layer, the method comprising: receiving the layer input, the layer input comprising a plurality of activation inputs, the plurality of activation inputs represented as a multi-dimensional matrix comprising a plurality of depth levels, each depth level being a respective matrix of distinct activation inputs from the plurality of activation inputs; sending each respective kernel matrix structure to a distinct cell along a first dimension of the systolic array; for each depth level, sending the respective matrix of distinct activation inputs to a distinct cell along a second dimension of the systolic array; causing the systolic array to generate an accumulated output from the respective matrices sent to the cells; and generating the layer output from the accumulated output.
US10438115B2
A neural network unit convolves an H×W×C input with F R×S×C filters to generate F Q×P outputs. N processing units (PU) each have a register receiving a respective word of an N-word row of a second memory and multiplexed-register selectively receiving a respective word of an N-word row of a first memory or word rotated from an adjacent PU multiplexed-register. H first memory rows hold input blocks of B words each of channels of respective 2-dimensional input row slices. R×S×C second memory rows hold filter blocks of B words each holding P copies of a filter weight. B is the smallest factor of N greater than W. The PU blocks multiply-accumulate input blocks and filter blocks in column-channel-row order; they read a row of input blocks and rotate it around the N PUs while performing multiply-accumulate operations so each PU block receives each input block before reading another row.
US10438111B2
Roughly described, the technology disclosed provides a so-called machine learned conversion optimization (MLCO) system that uses evolutionary computations to efficiently identify most successful webpage designs in a search space without testing all possible webpage designs in the search space. The search space is defined based on webpage designs provided by marketers. Website funnels with a single webpage or multiple webpages are represented as genomes. Genomes identify different dimensions and dimension values of the funnels. The genomes are subjected to evolutionary operations like initialization, testing, competition, and procreation to identify parent genomes that perform well and offspring genomes that are likely to perform well. Each webpage is tested only to the extent that it is possible to decide whether it is promising, i.e., whether it should serve as a parent for the next generation, or should be discarded.
US10438102B2
An integrated circuit for a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag is described. In an example embodiment, the integrated circuit (101) comprises: a memory (104) for storing data; a transceiver (107) for receiving signals from, and transmitting signals to, an antenna (102); and a controller (103) configured to process signals received via the transceiver (107) and to access data stored in the memory (104); wherein upon receiving, via the transceiver module (107), a lock command referring to a data block in the memory (104), the controller (103) is configured to perform a data integrity check on the data block to determine whether the data block is strongly stored.
US10438095B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that can be used to classify a feedback image in a user review into a semantically meaningful class. During operation, the system analyzes the captions of feedback images in a set of user reviews and determines a set of training labels from the captions. The system then trains an image classifier with the set of training labels and the feedback images. Subsequently, the system generates a signature for a respective feedback image in a new set of user reviews using the image classifier. The signature indicates a likelihood of the image matching a respective label in the set of training labels. Based on the signature, the system can allocate the image to an image cluster.
US10438082B1
A method for learning parameters of a CNN capable of detecting ROIs determined based on bottom lines of nearest obstacles in an input image is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device instructing a first to an n-th convolutional layers to generate a first to an n-th encoded feature maps from the input image; instructing an n-th to a first deconvolutional layers to generate an n-th to a first decoded feature maps from the n-th encoded feature map; if a specific decoded feature map is divided into directions of rows and columns, generating an obstacle segmentation result by referring to a feature of the n-th to the first decoded feature maps; instructing an RPN to generate an ROI bounding box by referring to each anchor box, and losses by referring to the ROI bounding box and its corresponding GT; and backpropagating the losses, to learn the parameters.
US10438080B2
A method of generating handwriting information about handwriting of a user includes determining a first writing focus and a second writing focus; sequentially shooting a first local writing area, which is within a predetermined range from a first writing focus, and a second local writing area, which is within a predetermined range from a second writing focus; obtaining first handwriting from the first local writing area and second handwriting from the second local writing area; combining the first handwriting with the second handwriting; and generating the handwriting information, based on a result of the combining.
US10438070B2
A method for surveillance of a predetermined volume comprising the following steps: a) preparing at least one video camera designed to acquire images of a predetermined volume which is under surveillance; b) defining in the images at least a first predetermined authorized region having a first level of authorization and at least a second predetermined unauthorized region, c) analyzing the images to identify a moving object and to identify at least one position associated with the moving object; d) comparing the position of the moving object identified with the positions of the above-mentioned authorized region and/or unauthorized region; e) making available an alarm indication depending on the results of the comparison.
US10438057B2
A skin care evaluation method, which is adapted for an electronic device to evaluate a skin care procedure including a plurality of skin care behaviors. The skin care evaluation method includes following steps. A plurality of image information is sequentially captured at a plurality of image capturing time. A plurality of user actions corresponding to the image information is analyzed, where a plurality of consecutive image information of the image information corresponds to one of the user actions. The image information is classified to the skin care behaviors according to the user action corresponding to each of the image information. Each of the skin care behaviors corresponds to a plurality of the user actions. A duration of each of the skin care behaviors is calculated according to the image capturing time of the image information classified to each of the skin care behaviors. An electronic device using the skin care evaluation method is also provided.
US10438055B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide an image-based face detection and recognition system that processes and/or analyzes portions of an image using “image strips” and cascading classifiers to detect faces and/or various facial features, such an eye, nose, mouth, cheekbone, jaw line, etc.
US10438054B2
In real biometric systems, false match rates and false non-match rates of 0% do not exist. There is always some probability that a purported match is false, and that a genuine match is not identified. The performance of biometric systems is often expressed in part in terms of their false match rate and false non-match rate, with the equal error rate being when the two are equal. There is a tradeoff between the FMR and FNMR in biometric systems which can be adjusted by changing a matching threshold. This matching threshold can be automatically, dynamically and/or user adjusted so that a biometric system of interest can achieve a desired FMR and FNMR.
US10438035B2
The invention relates to a method and a system for reading coded information from an object. The system comprises one or more three-dimensional cameras configured such as to capture three-dimensional images of the object and a processor configured such as to process the captured three-dimensional images. The processor is designed to: identify planes upon which faces of the object lie; extract two-dimensional images that lie on the identified planes; and apply coded information recognition algorithms to at least part of the extracted two-dimensional images.
US10438032B1
A card may store data on an integrated circuit housed within the card. The card includes at least two antennas that are configured to transmit the data. Antennas of the card may be configured to transmit the data in different directions as a result of a signal-blocking layer embedded within the card that isolates respective antennas from electromagnetic signals originating from a direction on the opposing side of the blocking layer. The card may be configured to send a first set of data through a first antenna and a second set of data through a second antenna, where together the two sets of data can be used to execute a transaction.
US10438028B2
The invention relates to a switch spring arrangement in a card reader, comprising a contact carrier which is integrated into the card reader and includes a plurality of pockets, open on one side, for accommodating holding elements of a spring contact element, and a spring contact element that has two mounting arms to be secured in the contact carrier as well as a spring arm which can be actuated by a card and is placed between the mounting arms.
US10438026B2
In accordance with various embodiments of the present invention, mechanical systems incorporating movable microelectromechanical (MEMS)-based features, e.g., cantilevers or suspended micron- and submicron-scale beams are utilized to secure solid-state devices such as controllers, microcontrollers, central processing units (CPUs), solid-state storage drives, and memory cards. In various embodiments of the invention, the beams are double-clamped, initially curved (or “pre-buckled”) segments that are provided within the solid-state device (e.g., on the top layer thereof) prior to encapsulation and packaging of the device.
US10438020B2
In particular embodiments, a data processing data inventory generation system is configured to: (1) generate a data model (e.g., a data inventory) for one or more data assets utilized by a particular organization; (2) generate a respective data inventory for each of the one or more data assets; and (3) map one or more relationships between one or more aspects of the data inventory, the one or more data assets, etc. within the data model. In particular embodiments, a data asset (e.g., data system, software application, etc.) may include any entity that collects, processes, contains, and/or transfers personal data (e.g., a software application, database, website, server, etc.). A data asset may include any software or device (e.g., server or servers) utilized by a particular entity for such data collection, processing, transfer, storage, etc. The system may then utilize the generated model to fufill a data subject access request.
US10438017B2
In particular embodiments, a data subject request processing system may be configured to utilize one or more local storage nodes in order to process a data subject access request on behalf of a data subject. In particular embodiments, the one or more local storage nodes may be local to the data subject making the request (e.g., in the same country as the data subject, in the same jurisdiction, in the same geographic area, etc.). The system may, for example, be configured to: (1) receive a data subject access request from a data subject (e.g., via a web form); (2) identify a suitable local storage node based at least in part on the request and/or the data subject; (3) route the data subject access request to the identified local storage node; and (4) process the data subject access request at the identified local storage node.
US10438015B2
System and method for enabling data modification, classification and enforcement of IRM capabilities in standard isolated software applications is disclosed, according to which an add-on code is installed on the terminal device of a user that runs the standard application. The add-on code is adapted to interact with the virtual keyboard used by the standard application, to form a custom virtual keyboard to which the features of classifying data item(s) and/or of modifying the content of the data item are added, without changing the natural environment, the user is normally used to. Then a custom virtual keyboard that includes a designed UI interfacing objects is created, for adding inputs that are associated with classification and modification in the data item in the form of a hidden tag to the content of the data item.
US10438012B2
The present disclosure generally relates to an interface system and method of interfacing to generate data compatible with an external system in an oil and gas asset supply chain, and in particular to an interface and interface method for generating secure and verifiable data to prevent tampering, injection of unwanted data resulting from an unauthorized access along a supply chain. An interface generates and transforms data in an oil and gas supply chain for compatibility with external systems. Collected data is captured by an industrial control system sensor or data collector, which is transferred in a secure intermediary hardware platform to interface with a software component. The collected data is then modified using a business rules engine to create enhanced data and events created from the enhanced data.
US10438006B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include systems and methods for secure storage and/or retrieval of customer secrets by, e.g., a cloud services provider. According to methods, secret data that is to be securely stored may be transmitted, along with an initialization vector, to an encryption service for encryption using a private key stored on in a remote key vault. The encrypted data can be returned and stored, in its encrypted form, in a secure storage along with the initialization vector data. To retrieve the securely stored data, embodiments disclose retrieving the encrypted form of the data and transmitting it, along with its related initialization vector data, to the encryption service for decryption using the private key stored in the remote key vault. The decrypted data can then be made available to a requesting product service.
US10438002B2
A communication subscriber for a field-bus system for transmitting data, comprises a safety layer with an error-safety layer protecting the data against random data transmission errors and an information-security layer protecting against manipulation of data and/or against unauthorized reading of data. The communication subscriber is configured during transmission mode to process the data to be transmitted first by means of the error-safety layer and then by means of the information-security layer, and during receipt mode to process the data first by means of the information-security layer and then by means of the error-safety layer.
US10437999B1
A method for runtime malware detection is described. In one embodiment, the method may include classifying a first file as clean and a second file as malware, performing a sample execution of the first and second files, identifying system processes called during sample executions of the first and second files, mapping each system process of the host operating system to a position on an image matrix, indicating each system process called during the sample execution of the first file in a first image matrix and each system process called during the sample execution of the second file in a second image matrix, and determining at runtime a probability an unknown file includes malware based at least in part on an analysis of the unknown file in relation to at least one of the first instance and the second instance of the generated image matrix.
US10437982B2
A communication management method for managing communication made by a plurality of users with a computer including a processor, the computer being accessible to a storage device holding user management information including information on users participating in a community, group management information including information on groups to which the users belong, and community management information including information on the community, and the communication management method comprising steps of: registering, by the processor, in a case of receiving a request to let a group join a community from a client terminal, an administrative user of the group designated by the request to the user management information; registering, by the processor, the group designated by the request to the group management information; and registering, by the processor, the group designated by the request to the community management information, to allow users belonging to the group to participate in the community.
US10437978B2
A mobile device detects its location and other devices in proximity to the mobile device. When the device is in an untrusted location, or is in physical proximity to an untrusted device, the mobile device ensures existing security and authentication mechanisms are in place, and may additionally require enhanced security measures on the device. In addition, the device may modify its functionality based on the mobile device being in an untrusted location or in physical proximity to an untrusted device.
US10437977B2
A communication system involving an access point, a vehicle and a user is provided. The vehicle and user possess a registration code, the user possesses a public and private key pair, and the access point and vehicle possess certificates and associated private keys. The access point issues a certificate to the user associated with the user's public and private keys, and the certificate of the access point is known and trusted by the vehicle. The access point signs a message granting ownership of the vehicle to the user, and the identity of the user indicates the user's certificate. The vehicle conditionally accepts the ownership registration request of the user.
US10437976B2
Systems and methods verifying a user during authentication of an integrated device. In one embodiment, the system includes an integrated device and an authentication unit. The integrated device stores biometric data of a user and a plurality of codes and other data values comprising a device ID code uniquely identifying the integrated device and a secret decryption value in a tamper proof format, and when scan data is verified by comparing the scan data to the biometric data, wirelessly sends one or more codes and other data values including the device ID code. The authentication unit receives and sends the one or more codes and the other data values to an agent for authentication, and receives an access message from the agent indicating that the agent successfully authenticated the one or more codes and other data values and allows the user to access an application.
US10437972B2
An image exposure method for a mobile terminal may be based on eyeprint recognition and an image exposure system, wherein the image exposure method may include acquiring image data through a camera when it is detected that the mobile terminal turns on the eyeprint recognition; positioning an eyeball at an eyeball position, and acquiring a brightness parameter of the eyeball position; and querying a prestored exposure parameter corresponding to the acquired brightness parameter, adjusting the exposure parameter, and exposing the eyeball at the eyeball position according to the adjusted exposure parameter.
US10437969B2
Examples of techniques for detecting and tracking virtual containers are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a virtual container. The method further includes collecting virtual container data for the virtual container. The method also includes associating, by a processing device, the virtual container to at least one of a plurality of images. Additionally, the method includes building, by the processing device, a container event database based on the virtual container data and the association of the virtual container to the at least one of the plurality of images, so as to enable tracking of software in the plurality of images and in live virtual containers.
US10437965B2
Systems and methods described herein relate to detecting the existence of unauthorized content in multiuser composite media stream. In particular, multiuser composite media streams can be examined and to determine if these composite streams include unauthorized content such as copyrighted content or nudity, violence, language violations where desired. The multiuser composite media stream can be partitioned into sections associated with broadcasting users and the portions can be analyzed independently. A notification can be provided to, e.g., the broadcasting user responsible for the unauthorized content in response to detection of the unauthorized content.
US10437958B2
A method for monitoring the treatment of a patient in his home environment is provided. The method includes supplying treatment-related data to a home treatment unit, transmitting the treatment-related data from the treatment, analyzing the treatment-related data with respect to an ideal state or a normal state or for the success of a treatment by the monitoring unit, detecting a deviation from an ideal state or a normal state, requesting additional treatment-related data from the home treatment site with respect to the deviation found, supplying the additional treatment-related data, and transmitting the additional treatment-related data to the monitoring unit.
US10437954B1
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for electronic design recommendations. Embodiments may include receiving, using at least one processor, an electronic design. Embodiments may further include recognizing one or more circuits within the electronic circuit design. Embodiments may also include identifying one or more user-specific circuit performance preferences. Embodiments may further include generating a first set of one or more placement and routing topology recommendations based upon, at least in part, the one or more user-specific circuit performance preferences. Embodiments may also include receiving a selection of at least one of the placement and routing topology recommendations. Embodiments may further include generating a second set of one or more placement and routing topology recommendations based upon, at least in part, the selected at least one placement and routing topology recommendations.
US10437953B2
Systems and methods for engineering integrated circuit design and development are described. A requester posts a request for an integrated circuit chip design using the systems and methods. Moreover, using design tools of the systems and methods, one or more designers generate one or more designs. The designers use computer software that is provided by the systems and methods to test the one or more designs. Moreover, the designs are independently verified by a design engineering entity or by other designers. The one or more designs are provided to a fab via the systems and methods to fabricate a prototype of an integrated circuit chip. The prototype is tested on a printed circuit board by using a test software, which is provided by the systems and methods.
US10437950B2
Disclosed are mask definition tools, apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products configured to process data representing a semiconductor fabrication mask. A non-limiting example of a method includes performing a decomposition process on a full Transmission Cross Coefficient (TCC) using coherent optimal coherent systems (OCS) kernels; isolating a residual TCC that remains after some number of coherent kernels are extracted from the full TCC; and performing at least one decomposition process on the residual TCC using at least one loxicoherent system. The loxicoherent system uses a plurality of distinct non-coherent kernel functions and is a compound system containing a paired coherent system and an incoherent system that act in sequence. An output of the coherent system is input as a self-luminous quantity to the incoherent system, and the output of the incoherent system is an output of the loxicoherent system.
US10437945B2
Systems and methods for predicting order-of-magnitude viral cascades in social networks are disclosed.
US10437943B2
A method of and program for optimizing NURBS optical surfaces for an imaging system. Preferably, the number and location of field point sources to be used in ray tracing of a NURBS modeled imaging system surfaces are determined by automatically iteratively increasing the number of field point sources during ray tracing until the spot size from adjacent field points sources on the image plane of the imaging system varies by less than a predetermined value. The number of rays for each field point source to be used in ray tracing of the NURBS modeled imaging system surfaces is preferably determined by automatically iteratively increasing the number of rays for each field point source during ray tracing until a predetermined number of rays intersect each NURBS rectangular grid sub-area. In ray tracing the modeled NURBS surfaces, the determined number and location of field point sources and the determined number of rays from each field point source are used and the grid control points of each NURBS surface are preferably iteratively adjusted, keeping symmetry or allowing freeform shapes, by means of an optimization algorithm based on ray tracing until spot sizes on the image plane meet a set requirement and/or until improvement in spot size is below a predetermined value.
US10437940B2
There are provided systems and methods for the computational design of linkage-based characters. The system including a display, a memory storing a software application, and a processor configured to execute the software application to display a linkage on the display, the linkage including a plurality of links and a plurality of motors, each of the plurality of links being connected to at least another of the plurality of links using one of the plurality of motors, receive a user input selecting a first link and a second link from the plurality of links and a motor from the plurality of motors, the motor being located between the first link and the second link, and generate an updated linkage by connecting the first link to the second link using a new link and replacing the motor with a pin.
US10437939B2
A probabilistic method for determining an operability interval for fasteners in a nuclear power plant assembly is provided. The probabilistic method includes determining or assuming a geometric distribution of a given initial condition of fasteners in the nuclear power plant assembly at an initial time T0; determining a future fastener failure probability model of the geometric distribution over time; generating a plurality of random future fastener failure patterns by applying the fastener failure model to the geometric distribution at a given time T1>T0; postulating fastener spacing rules designed to evaluate the acceptability of fastener failure patterns for the fasteners in the nuclear power plant assembly; applying the fastener spacing rules to a plurality of randomly generated fastener failure patterns for the given time T1 to determine the probability of the randomly generated fastener failure patterns passing the fastener spacing rules at the given time T1; iterating, by a processor of a computer, the applying step for a given range of time values T2, T3, . . . , Tx>T0 and determining a maximum future time Tmax at which a predetermined acceptable probability of the fastener failure patterns passing the fastener spacing rules is met, thereby justifying the acceptability of the fasteners for continued operation of the nuclear power plant assembly; and determining the operability interval as being Tmax-T0.
US10437936B2
A personality model is created for a population and used as an input to a text generation system. Alternative texts are created based upon the emotional effect of the generated text. Certain words or phrases are “pinned” in the output, reducing the variability of the generated text so as to preserve required information content, and a number of tests provide input to a discriminator network so that proposed outputs both match an outside objective regarding the information content, emotional affect, and grammatical acceptability. A feedback loop provides new “ground truth” data points for refining the personality model and associated generated text.
US10437933B1
A machine translation system capable of clustering training data and performing dynamic domain adaptation is disclosed. An unsupervised domain clustering process is utilized to identify domains in general training data that can include in-domain training data and out-of-domain training data. Segments in the general training data are then assigned to the domains in order to create domain-specific training data. The domain-specific training data is then utilized to create domain-specific language models, domain-specific translation models, and domain-specific model weights for the domains. An input segment to be translated can be assigned to a domain at translation time. The domain-specific model weights for the assigned domain can be utilized to translate the input segment.
US10437930B1
The present disclosure provides a system and method of semiotic digital encoding, transfer, and decoding of semiotic data. In an embodiment, the present disclosure teaches a process and method of taking semantic knowledge/information and converting it into a digital format, allowing that digital format to be transmitted or communicated to a receiver and processing the digital format back to the semantic knowledge/information.
US10437927B2
The present disclosure describes methods and a graphical user interface implementing techniques for delivering an integrated mobile graphical media presentation, including optimized compiled-content provided from at least one compiled-content source, executed in a mobile device. A technique is provided that includes generating the integrated mobile graphical media presentation. A display format for delivery of the integrated mobile graphical media presentation is determined. The technique also includes defining a second layout for the plurality of display frames of the integrated mobile graphical media presentation based on the determined display format, and displaying, based on the second layout, the selectable tiles housed by the plurality of display frames within the sub-content display window.
US10437926B2
A computerized method and system for correlating template data to select contextually relevant content including receiving a request from a consumer device to serve a template at a server, the template comprising at least one tag, selecting a content in a database associated with the at least one tag based at least in part on a correlation between the template and the at least one tag, substituting the at least one tag with the content, and transmitting the template from the server to the consumer device.
US10437924B2
Disclosed herein is an optimized data interchange system, method and architecture. An original data interchange document, such as a JavaScript™ Object Notation (JSON) document, comprising a number of name/value pairs is separated, or split, into a template document and a data document for separate transmission. The two documents can be recombined at a destination computing device.
US10437904B2
A wheel servicing method, for a wheeled vehicle with tires coupled to respective rims, comprises a step of receiving, in a control unit provided with a processor and a memory, reference data uniquely correlated with the vehicle. The method also comprises a step of processing the reference data and generating image data representing a QR code and a step of transmitting the QR code to an output peripheral in order to make the code available to a user for subsequent displaying.
US10437894B2
A method for an app search engine leveraging user reviews is provided. The method includes receiving an app search query from a user, determining a plurality of relevant apps based on the received app search query, and extracting app descriptions and user reviews associated with the plurality of relevant apps from an app database. The method also includes preprocessing the extracted app descriptions and user reviews of each of the plurality of relevant apps to generate a text corpus and creating a topic-based language model for each of the plurality of relevant apps based on the generated text corpus. Further, the method includes ranking a list of relevant apps using the topic-based language model and providing the ranked app list for the user.
US10437887B1
Methods and systems for identifying information based on matching information to a query based on an index value are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for identifying information entered by a user includes computing an numeric index value, receiving input, calculating a query value, comparing the query value to the index value, and displaying items from the dataset.
US10437885B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide for graph modeling of applications for detection of duplicate modules. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprising: a memory to store graphs; and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory is provided. The processing device identify a first executable code module of a plurality of executable code modules associated with an application represented by a graph data structure. The graph data structure is updated with an indicator for each of the executable code modules matching the first module. The indicator references the first executable code module. One or more corresponding modules associated with the graph data structure are selected in view of the indicator. Using the graph data structure, an amount of a computing resource to allocate for a migration of the corresponding modules of the application is determined in view of a selection criterion.
US10437884B2
Facilitating navigation of a computer-navigable graph of sensed features that were gathered by recognition or estimation of one or more features of physical entities that were sensed over time by sensor(s) within a physical space. The computer-navigable graph includes multiple nodes including multiple signal segment nodes and multiple feature nodes. Each of at least some of the signal segment nodes evidence feature(s) represented in feature node(s). Navigation is facilitated by, for each of multiple signal segment nodes, identifying relationship(s) between the corresponding signal segment node and other node(s) of the graph. At navigation time, when a user navigates to the corresponding signal segment nodes, a visualization of any detected relationship may be rendered to the user. When the user interacts with the rendering in such a way as to select the relationship, the user is navigated to the other node.
US10437880B2
Embodiments of the invention include systems, methods, and computer-program products for a feedback loop for enhancing archive validation and retention parameter determination for documents. The system may generate or receive image documents. Utilizing image quality and data storage metrics the system may trigger the purging and/or retention of documents in image and/or paper form. Upon retention, the system may continually monitor the documents and store metadata associated with the use of the retained documents. Once the documents are purged, the system compiles historic data points associated with the image quality and data storage metrics. Furthermore, the system extracts the metadata associated with the monitoring of retained documents. These data points and metadata are reviewed to provide revisions in retention parameters for specific documents. A feedback loop directly communicates and integrates the revisions to the metric and criteria for instant integration.
US10437877B2
A user-configurable radiological data transformation, routing and archiving engine includes a plurality of sub-engines representing algorithms programmed to be processed by a processor, the sub-engines including a user-configurable transformation sub-engine, a user-configurable routing sub-engine, a user-configurable archiving sub-engine and a user-configurable priors puller sub-engine.
US10437875B2
A method, system, and computer program product for managing media. The method comprises a computer system. The computer system identifies a configurable media item in a media for a user. The computer system searches for a corresponding media item in a collection of media items for the user. The computer system replaces the configurable media item with the corresponding media item in the collection of media items.
US10437872B2
A computer implemented and computer controlled method of arranging data for processing and storage thereof at a data storage engine. To identified data elements, an action is assigned from a plurality of actions as well as an association between data elements of an action according to a respective topology comprised of an ordered plurality of data categories including a subject data category, an object data category, a spatial data category and a temporal data category. By matching the identified data elements with action topology combinations and using the order of the data elements, one data element is matched with one data category. Instance information is supplemented to matched action topology combinations. In a computer readable format, at a data storage engine, identified data elements, instance information and associations between identifiers resulting from identifying, assigning, matching and supplementing are stored.
US10437865B1
Decentralized deduplication operations in a virtualized computer environment having multiple storage devices employ a hash index for each storage device. When an image of a virtual machine is selected to be migrated from a source storage device to a destination storage device, hash values representing content of the storage blocks of the virtual machine are compared with hash entries of the destination hash index. Storage blocks of the virtual machine that have matching hash entries in the destination hash index are not transferred as part of the migration process so that the overall migration process can be accelerated.
US10437859B2
Entity pages are created that are optimized for search engines to return entity information from the entity pages in response to search queries. An entity page may be created for an entity by identifying electronic content sources that include data about the entity. Usage data indicative of how users have consumed data at the electronic content sources is also determined. The usage data is analyzed to identify topics for the entity and topic content is retrieved from the electronic content sources to create topic summaries. An entity page with the topics summaries is generated. When a search engine receives a search query related to the entity, the search engine may provide information from the entity page in response to the search query.
US10437853B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a first transaction timestamp from a record that is replicated across a set of data sources. Next, the system includes at least a portion of the first transaction timestamp in a first key of a first mapping of the record to a first set of values for the record from the set of data sources. The system then audits the record by comparing the first set of values in the first mapping. Finally, the system outputs a result of the audited record based on the compared first set of values.
US10437848B2
The system may validate a data source having a structured format and a grammar that includes tags. The system may identify a tag in the grammar. The system may parse the data source to extract attributes and/or values associated with the tags in response to successful validation. The system may also write the attributes and/or values to an output file separated by a preselected delimiter. A configuration file may identify the grammar, the preselected delimiter, and/or the data source. The data source may be in an XML format or a JSON format. The system may generate execution ready code in response to the validating the data source and the grammar. The output file may be a load ready file for ingestion into a big data storage format. The tag may include a parent tag and a sub tag corresponding to a hierarchy in the data source.
US10437845B2
In response to a query including a proposed trademark and or more search parameters, a system receives search results, each including at least one ascertainable text-based property and a numeric score indicative of a measure of similarity between the search result and the proposed trademark. To generate an interactive graphical representation of the search results, the system (i) generates a reference indicator for the proposed trademark at a reference location in the interactive graphical representation, (ii) determines, for each of the search results, a first offset along a first axis and a second offset along a second axis relative to the reference location using the numeric score and the at least one ascertainable text-based property of a respective search result, and (iii) generates, for each of the search results, a search result indicator in the interactive graphical representation, in accordance with the determined first and second offsets.
US10437844B2
A computerized system manages health documents in a computer database. Each document in the database is associated with an author, which is in turn associated with group. When documents for a patient are listed for a user, the computerized system uses the user's own group assignment within the database to organize and present the patient documents. Rules associated with the user's group create ad hoc categories of documents that are of special interest to the user.
US10437843B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to receive at least one database query to be executed. At least one computation graph corresponding to the at least one database query is generated. The computation graph is transformed to an optimized computation graph. The respective portions of the optimized computation graph are distributed to a plurality of distributed computing systems for execution. A result for the at least one database query is provided.
US10437842B2
In one embodiment, a method including maintaining an index of a plurality of nodes of a social graph, each node being associated with an assigned value, wherein the value for each node is calculated based at least in part on one or more factors. The method further includes receiving, from a client device of a first user, a query from the first user, searching the index to identify a top N nodes having the highest assigned values that match the query, ranking the identified nodes based at least in part on the query, and sending, to the client device of the first user for display, a search-results interface responsive to the received query, the search-results interface comprising M search results corresponding to the top M ranked nodes, respectively.
US10437841B2
Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to automatically rank and select extensions triggered in a digital assistant. A sample set of extensions are executed against a set of curated queries in order to extract a set of features and/or statistics. The system trains a machine learning model based on the features and/or statistics to rank and select extensions based on their response to a query. New extension incorporated into the system are executed against a second set of curated queries to obtain a set of extracted features and/or statistics which are saved for use at runtime. At runtime, a query phrase received by the system triggers one or more tasks from extensions. Extracted features for the triggered extensions are combined with stored features/statistics and at least a subset of the results presented to the trained ranking and selection model. The model ranks and selects appropriate tasks which are presented to the user.
US10437837B2
A method to generate a topic label for a set of electronic documents may include crawling, by a processor, the set of electronic documents. The method may include extracting knowledge points from the set of electronic documents. The method may also include selecting a candidate set of knowledge points from the plurality of knowledge points based on occurrence values. The method may include calculating relatedness scores between each knowledge point in the candidate set of knowledge points. The method may also include calculating hierarchical relationships between each knowledge point in the candidate set. The method may further include calculating comprehensive scores for each knowledge point in the candidate set based on the relatedness scores and the hierarchical relationships. The method may include selecting, from the set of knowledge points, a first candidate knowledge point with the highest comprehensive score as a topic label for the set of electronic documents.
US10437831B2
A computerized system for recursively detecting anomalies in monitored behavior of entities. The system comprises a storage unit to store monitored events, event deviations and parameters related to each event and to each event deviation. The system comprises a processing unit configured to receive a plurality of input events, construct a plurality of baseline models, receive an input event that occurred during an analyzed timeframe, compare parameters of the received input event to a corresponding baseline model in order to detect an event deviation, and associate an event deviation score to the detected event deviation. Using the detected event deviation as an input event, said operations are repeated until a predetermined condition is satisfied, and an alert is generated, indicating suspicious activity has been detected. A viewer application configured to receive and display alerts relating to the detected event deviation is provided.
US10437830B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate the identification of one or more media files stored on respective ones of a plurality of user devices. In the context of a method, a current context is determined. The method also automatically identifies one or more media files stored on respective ones of a plurality of user devices based upon a relationship between a context associated with the respective media file and the current context. The method also causes the one or more media files to be transferred to an output device for presentation. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US10437828B2
The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems, including a method for querying extension point information and providing extension patterns for core process models. Information for a core process model user interface is provided to a client device for displaying a core process model as a visualization including core process model steps and dedicated extension points for inserting user-defined extensions. The information is provided by a server from a core process model meta-model. Selections of the extension points and customization of extensions associated with the extension points are received from a client device. A core process model instance including the core process model and customizations of the extensions is stored. Information is provided for use at the client device for presenting a process extension query interface. A query is received from the client device. Query results are identified and provided for presentation in the process extension query interface.
US10437827B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for decompressing data in a database system. A query is received, which pertains to a subset of data within a compressed set of data. One or more decompression strategies are evaluated using a cost model. The cost model includes an estimated filter factor. A low cost decompression strategy is selected based on the results of the evaluation of the one or more decompression strategies. One or more bytes representing the requested subset of data are located within the compressed set of data. Only a portion of the compressed data that corresponds to the subset of data is decompressed, using the selected decompression strategy, while leaving the remaining set of data in a compressed state.
US10437825B2
A data condenser and method provides lossless condensation of numbers, letters, words, phrases, and other indicia to data object values which results in reduction of file size. The data condenser and method classifies data as individual data objects or groups of data objects and distinguishes terms which repeat (e.g. recur). A reference library is optimized according to the quantity of classified data to minimize storage requirements. The classified data is assigned a unique value which populates the reference file. An output file is created by the data condenser using the reference library to achieve optimal lossless condensation. A data reverter and method provides for reversion of condensed data objects such as numbers, letters, words, phrases and other indicia to uncondensed data objects for efficient and accurate use without loss of data objects.
US10437821B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for split query optimization. In some example embodiments, a method may include: determining, for a query comprising a plurality of operations, a first workload distribution between a first data store and a second data store, the first workload distribution indicating that a first portion of the query is to be performed at the first data store and a second portion of the query is to be performed at the second data store; and determining, based at least on the first workload distribution, a second workload distribution, the determining of the second workload distribution includes pushing down, to the first portion of the query, a first operation from the second portion of the query such that the first operation is performed at the first data store instead of at the second data store.
US10437813B2
Layer metadata within a layering system can be self-healed. When a layer is mounted, a scanning module can scan the file system structure of the layer to identify what content is stored on the layer as well as attributes of this content. Based on this scan, the scanning module can determine if the layer metadata is consistent with the actual contents of the layer and report any discrepancies to a healing module. The healing module can then repair the layer metadata so that it accurately reflects the contents of the layer.
US10437807B1
Techniques for improving database searches are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer system stores one or more first datasets in a first data repository and one or more second datasets in a second data repository. The server computer receives a request to perform an analysis on a particular dataset. The server computer determines that the particular dataset is stored in the first data repository and the second data repository. Based, at least in part, on an attribute of the request, the server computer selects the second data repository and responds to the request with data from the particular dataset stored in the second data repository.
US10437799B2
Embodiments for using a migration data placement tool between storage systems based on data access by a processor. Events from a plurality of heterogeneous storage systems may be indexed into a common repository. A migration data placement tool uses analytics to determine data placement of the data in a target storage system according to the data identified as hot data, warm data, or cold data based on the events indexed in the common repository. The data may be placed according to a migration template during migration to the target storage system.
US10437788B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for the automatic detection, retry, and resolution of errors in data synchronization. An embodiment operates by receiving one or more changes to a local copy of a master document. An error is detected during a synchronization of the one or more changes with the master document. A count is incremented and the synchronization is retried until either the synchronization completes or a threshold has been reached.
US10437784B2
A storage system may include at least one storage device and a server. The storage device may store an incoming data, calculate a hash value for the incoming data, and store the hash value as meta data. The server may provide the incoming data to the storage device, read the meta data from the storage device, determine whether the meta data is duplicate in the table, and perform a deduplication process regarding the incoming data based on the determination result.
US10437774B2
Low noise serial interfaces with gated clock are provided herein. In certain configurations herein, a slave device of a serial interface includes a shift register for serially shifting in an interface data signal based on timing of an interface clock signal, a control circuit (for instance, a finite-state machine) for controlling the slave device, and a register bank for storing data programmed to the slave device via the serial interface. The control circuit cuts off or gates the interface clock signal in response to determining that an interface command received over the serial interface is not intended for the slave device.
US10437768B2
Embodiments of the present technology presented herein relate to a method for configuring a remote node and to a host node for performing said configuring of the remote node. The present technology presented herein also generally relates to embodiments of a method for reconfiguring the host node and to a reconfigurable host node. More particularly, the embodiments presented herein relate to configuring the remote node and reconfiguring the host by duplicating Peripheral Component Interconnect express, PCIe, hot-plug elements such that they are present at both the host node and the remote node. Furthermore there is introduced a connection state indicator at both the host node and the remote node for indicating that an optical connection has been established between the host and remote node.
US10437756B2
Operation of a multi-slice processor implementing datapath steering, where the multi-slice processor includes a plurality of execution slices. Operation of such a multi-slice processor includes: identifying, from a set of instructions, a second instruction that is dependent upon a first instruction in the set of instructions; and responsive to the second instruction being dependent upon the first instruction in the set of instructions, issuing each of the instructions in the set of instructions to a particular set of execution slices configured with bypass logic between execution slices that reduces execution latencies between dependent instructions.
US10437755B2
A technique for handling interrupts in a data processing system includes receiving, at an interrupt presentation controller (IPC), an event notification message (ENM). The ENM specifies an event target number, a number of bits to ignore, an event source number, and an event priority. The IPC determines a group of virtual processor threads that may be potentially interrupted based on the event target number and the number of bits to ignore specified in the ENM. The event target number identifies a specific virtual processor thread and the number of bits to ignore identifies the number of lower-order bits to ignore with respect to the specific virtual processor thread when determining a group of virtual processor threads that may be potentially interrupted.
US10437751B1
A device hot-plug system includes a chassis. A connector is included in the chassis. A reset pin is included on the connector. A hot-plug device is configured, in response to being hot-plugged to the connector, to enter a device reset state. While in the device reset state, the hot-plug device monitors a reference clock and determines that the reference clock has been stable for a predetermined time period. In response to determining that the reference clock has been stable for a predetermined time period, the hot-plug device exits the device reset state and provides a de-assertion signal on the reset pin.
US10437746B2
Dynamic bus inversion (DBI) for programmable levels of a ratio of ones and zeros. A transmitting device identifies a number and/or ratio of ones and zeros in a noninverted version of a signal to be transmitted (“noninverted signal”) and a number and/or ratio of ones and zeros in an inverted version of the signal (“inverted signal”). The transmitting device can calculate whether a difference of ones and zeros in the noninverted signal or a difference of ones and zeros in the inverted signal provides a calculated average ratio of ones to zeros closer to a target ratio. The transmitting device sends the signal that achieves provides the calculated average ratio closer to the target ratio.
US10437745B2
Systems and methods are disclosed and include a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a nontransitory computer-readable medium. The instructions include generating first message authentication code (MAC) bytes based on a shared secret key. The instructions include generating first nonce bytes and an authenticated packet based on the first MAC bytes, the first nonce bytes, and a message byte. The instructions include generating a de-whitened tone byte based on the shared secret key. The instructions include generating a message packet that includes the authenticated packet and the de-whitened tone byte. Generating the message packet includes pseudo-randomly identifying a first location of the authenticated packet and inserting the de-whitened tone byte at the first location. The instructions include transmitting the message packet to the peripheral device and establishing the communication link between a portable device and a peripheral device in response to the peripheral device validating the message packet.
US10437740B2
The present technique presents a hardware mechanism by which high performance computational engines utilize external/system memory buffers for data source and sync thus requiring a minimized amount of local buffering and imposing almost no buffer or data size limitations.
US10437737B2
A data storage device includes a flash memory and a flash memory controller. The flash memory controller operates the flash memory to store data, and stores a mapping table to record the mapping information between a plurality of logical addresses and a plurality of physical addresses of the flash memory. The mapping table is divided into a plurality of groups. Some of the groups are categorized into a first type of trim group and some of the logical addresses of each of the groups of the first type of trim group are included in a trim command. The flash memory controller performs the trim on the groups of the first type of trim group.
US10437736B2
A data processing system includes a memory and an input output memory management unit that is connected to the memory. The input output memory management unit is adapted to receive batches of address translation requests. The input output memory management unit has instructions that identify, from among the batches of address translation requests, a later batch having a lower number of memory access requests than an earlier batch, and selectively schedules access to a page table walker for each address translation request of a batch.
US10437720B2
Memory reclamation includes executing a process that has a plurality of objects, the objects being accessible via a plurality of references, at least some of the plurality of references being transient references, at least some of the plurality of references being persistent references; reaching a reclamation point at which a process state has no transient references, or has transient references only at known locations; and at the reclamation point, destructing objects that have no persistent references and no transient references.
US10437712B1
Provided is a process, including: obtaining a model of an application program interface (“API”); receiving a request to generate a functional-test specification for the API; detecting sets of functionality identified by the model of the API and respective sets of parameters corresponding to the detected sets of functionality by parsing the model of the API; in response to receiving the request, generating the functional-test specification for the API by, for at least some respective detected sets of functionality, specifying respective sets of functional tests based on corresponding sets of parameters.
US10437707B2
Systems and methods for evaluating and presenting software testing project status indicators. An example method may comprise: determining, by a computer system, a plurality of project status indicators comprising one or more average test execution rates, a required test execution rate, a test execution schedule variance, an actual test completion ratio, and/or a test completion schedule variance; and causing one or more project status indicators to be displayed in a visual relation to each other, to a timeline, and/or to another project's status indicators.
US10437693B1
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an automated computer implemented method and system for implementing a network architecture comprising: a first co-location comprising: a first pod that supports a first subset of users; a second pod that support a second subset of user; a first failover pod that supports one or more other pods from a second co-location and one or more other pods from a third co-location during failover mode; the second co-location comprising: a third pod that supports a third subset of users; a fourth pod that supports a fourth subset of users; a second failover pod that supports one or more other pods at the first co-location and one or more pods from another co-location during failover mode; and an enterprise entity that replicates data for each of the co-locations and communicates the replicated data to the first co-location and the second co-location.
US10437689B2
When a particular event record requires a particular service, but that service has failed for the event, an error record that includes an aggregate identifier (AgID) is stored for the event in an error queue. Storing an error record in the error queue causes the service to notify a remediation team to fix the failed event. All events with the AgID in the error record are put on hold and an error record is created for each of these events. The remediation team generates a fixed version of the event record and causes the system to retry the failed service for the event based on the fixed version. If the fixed version of the event is successfully processed, then any other events with the same AgID that have error records in the error queue, are routed in order of enqueue time through the event processor to be handled.
US10437687B2
Filtering a directory enumeration of a directory of an image backup. In one example embodiment, a method for filtering a directory enumeration of a directory of an image backup may include exposing an image backup to directory enumeration command with the image backup listing a particular file as existing in a directory of the image backup even though the file content of the particular file is missing from the exposed image backup, receiving a directory enumeration command corresponding to the directory of the exposed image backup, generating a filtered directory enumeration that excludes the particular file, and returning the filtered directory enumeration.
US10437683B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting data affected by system changes may include (i) receiving, at an installation application, a request to perform a system change on an endpoint computing device, (ii) identifying, via the installation application, one or more data items currently installed on the endpoint computing device that will be modified when the system change is performed, (iii) using the installation application to protect the data items such that the system change becomes revertible, and (iv) after protecting the data items, using the installation application to perform the system change. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10437682B1
Methods and apparatuses are described to provide a mechanism to improve replication performance by understanding available bandwidths of multiple source servers and load balancing the replication among the source servers based on fingerprints of data units to be replicated. A separate source server can be identified for one source server to replicate the data units to a target server. A replication request is sent from the one source server to the separate source server to identify the data units. A reply may be received from the separate source server to indicate that one or more of the data units are replicated from the separate source server. Subsequently, the remaining ones of the data units not indicated in the reply may be sent directly from the one source server to the target server without sending the one or more data units indicated in the reply.
US10437681B2
Featured are a method and apparatus for managing various point-in-time copies of workloads or applications using a software system called workload manager. An aspect of the invention is to receive backup images of point-in-time backup images of workload from a backup client and realize corresponding virtual resource from backup image on the cloud platform that is part of the workload manager appliance. Workload manager maintains catalog of point-in-time copies of workloads. Each item in the catalog refers resource entries on the cloud platform. When user wishes to instantiate a point-in-time copy, workload manager instantiates all the resources identified in the catalog entry. User can also restore a particular point-in-time workload to production system or migrate a particular point-in-time workload to remote application.
US10437677B2
A method includes performing, by a storage unit, a rebuild scanning function to identify an encoded data slice in need of rebuilding. The method further includes identifying, by the storage unit, storage units in the set of storage units storing encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices that are usable for rebuilding the encoded data slice in need of rebuilding. The method further includes selecting, by the storage unit, one of the identified storage units to rebuild the encoded data slice in need of rebuilding based on a selection protocol. The method further includes sending, by the storage unit, a rebuild command to the one of the identified storage units regarding rebuilding the encoded data slice in need of rebuilding, wherein, in accordance with a rebuilding function, the one of the identified storage units rebuilds the encoded data slice in need of rebuilding.
US10437668B2
According to one embodiment, a memory controller includes: a memory I/F that reads a codeword written in a NAND memory as any one of hard-bit information, first soft-bit information, and second soft-bit information; a codeword processor that generates a codeword of an first soft-decision value from the first soft-bit information, and generates a codeword of a second soft-decision value from the second soft-bit information; a first decoder that executes hard-decision decoding on a codeword of a hard-decision value configured from the hard-bit information; a second decoder that executes first soft-decision decoding on the codeword of the first soft-decision value; and a third decoder that executes second soft-decision decoding on the codeword of the second soft-decision value, wherein the first soft-bit information includes information having a first number of bits greater than the number of bits of the hard-bit information, and the second soft-bit information includes information having a second number of bits greater than the number of bits of the first soft-bit information.
US10437659B2
A novel method of reporting pertinent information in the event of an error during the execution of a software application is disclosed. The software application includes one or more error reporting structures, which are used to store the pertinent information for each error that is encountered. The pertinent information may include, for example, the file name, the function name, the line number within the function, and others. In some embodiments, a macro is used to populate one or more fields of the error reporting structure. Various methods of identifying the location of the error reporting structure are also disclosed.
US10437656B2
The invention relates to a method for automatically determining necessary or sufficient cause of a malfunction of a system made up of a plurality of hardware or software components. The method comprises, from the obtaining (22) of an execution trace including a sequence of events observed during the execution of the system, obtaining a tested subset of components comprising at least one component in which the execution trace has (24) at least one non-conformity with the specification of correct operation of said component and a subset of components processed in accordance with said tested subset of components; for a processed subset of components, a calculation, for each of the components of the system, of a prefix of an execution trace not affected by events that do not conform with the specification observed for the components of the processed subset of components, the determination of a counterfactual execution model of the processed subset making it possible to generate all of the possible behaviors, starting with the unaffected prefixes, in the absence of a malfunction of the components of the processed subset of components and the determination (28, 30) of the necessary or sufficient cause of the components of the subset of components tested for the malfunction of the system in accordance with the verification that said counterfactual model of the processed subset of components complies with said global property of the system.
US10437653B2
A method is provided for efficient event notification in a computer system. The method includes processing messages as events at an event notification engine of a computer system maintaining a database of subscriptions of a plurality of subscribers, the subscriptions including first predicates stored in the database as first datums that are searchable. This includes receiving a message as an event including a second datum. The event is transformed into a query in a query language used to search the database, the second datum being transformed into a second predicate that is included in the query. The query is executed in the database to search the first datums for a first datum that matches the second predicate, and from the first datum, identifying a subscription that matches the event, the subscription being for a subscriber to which the event is routed.
US10437650B2
Provided is a processing apparatus, including: a plurality of processing unit; at least one or more data buffers that are connected between a first processing unit and a second processing unit and is able to store data output from the first processing unit and data input to the second processing unit; a command buffer that stores a task command specifying execution of a task to be executed in one or more specific processing units, the command buffer being able to output the task command to the processing unit; and a task control unit that is configured to control operational processing in the task, by controlling at least one of the data buffer and the command buffer, on the basis of the task command, task setting information representing the processing unit in which the task is executed, and information representing a state of operational processing in respective processing unit.
US10437643B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to enabling independent storage and processing of data with centralized event control. An event control computing platform may receive an indicator of a processing task associated with processing a dataset. Subsequently, the event control computing platform may authenticate the indicator of the processing task. Then the event control computing platform may identify and allocate resources for executing the processing task and storing the dataset. Finally, the event control computing platform may generate and transmit a series of commands to cause the dataset to be accessed by the processing platform, cause the processing task associated with the dataset to be executed, and cause the processed dataset to be stored on the storage platform.
US10437634B1
An asynchronous engine identifies API calls that are to be made in order to fulfill a received service request. The asynchronous engine secures a separate computing thread for making each API call, and generates the API calls on the separate computing threads. Workflows performed in responding to the service call interact with the asynchronous engine to obtain results from the API calls.
US10437632B2
A method and an apparatus execute a non-maskable interrupt. The method includes: obtaining a secure interrupt request in a non-secure mode, and interrupting an operation of an operating system OS, where the secure interrupt request cannot be masked; entering a secure mode by using the secure interrupt request, and saving, in the secure mode, an interrupt context of an OS status when the operation of the OS is interrupted; returning to the non-secure mode to execute user-defined processing; after the user-defined processing is completed, entering the secure mode again, and resuming the OS status in the secure mode according to the interrupt context; and returning to the non-secure mode again, and continuing to execute an operation of the OS. The method and the apparatus for executing a non-maskable interrupt in embodiments of the present invention can easily implement an NMI mechanism without depending on hardware.
US10437623B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method, and other techniques to handle interrupts directed to secure virtual machines. Work is added to a work queue in a shared memory buffer in accordance with a received request, and a task-priority register is updated to block interrupts not directed toward the secure virtual machine. A timer that expires after a number of cycles of the computer processor have elapsed is started. The secure virtual machine is launched on the computer processor, and a work queue in a shared memory buffer is polled for work to be executed by the secure virtual machine until the work queue is empty or until the timer expires.
US10437615B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for providing personalized, emotionally connected responses from a digital assistant. The emotionally connected (personalized) responses may include, among other things, a handwritten response. The handwritten response may be provided in an image format in a handwriting script unique to the digital assistant. The emotionally connected responses may be provided in response to an event that triggers emotionally connected/personalized responses such as emotional query inputs, calendar entries, holidays, tasks, and the like.
US10437609B1
An Intelligent Platform (“IP”) comprises a Platform that employs an instance of a Software Defined Device (I-SDD) such that the Values of a set of Variables in an I-SDD shall reflect the Device State of interest at any given time. Whenever the Value of a Variable in I-SDD is changed, it could cause the Device to change to a different Device State.
US10437606B2
A computing device supports distributed application execution by sending a code module to different remote devices that have different device-specific support for a platform-independent device function, and sending, to at least two of the different remote devices, a platform-independent message indicating an event has occurred in order to trigger each of the at least two of the different remote devices to autonomously select a device-specific function from a plurality of device-specific functions, and execute the different device-specific support for the platform-independent device function. Each of the at least two of the different remote devices comprises an output interface and triggering each of the at least two of the different remote devices to execute the different device-specific support comprises triggering each of the at least two of the different remote devices to use their output interface for outputting differently from each other.
US10437602B2
Program exception conditions cause a transaction to abort and typically result in an interruption in which the operating system obtains control. A program interruption filtering control is provided to selectively present the interrupt. That is, the interrupt from the program exception condition may or may not be presented depending at least on the program interruption filtering control and a transaction class associated with the program exception condition. The program interruption filtering control is provided by a TRANSACTION BEGIN instruction.
US10437598B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for selecting between a plurality of instruction sets available to a microprocessor. An instruction fetch address is supplied. At least one predetermined bit of the instruction fetch address is used to select between the instruction sets. Once an instruction set has been selected, instructions may be fetched and decoded with a decoding scheme appropriate to the instruction set.
US10437588B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a request to open a source code file for editing within an integrated development environment (IDE), determining that the source code file includes source code with first comment text having a first digital signature associated therewith, authenticating the first digital signature, and in response, providing the source code file for display in the IDE, receiving input data, determining that the input data includes authoring of comment text within the source code file, and in response, automatically: providing comment metadata that is associated with the comment text and providing a second digital signature that is associated with the comment text, and storing the comment text, the comment metadata, and the second digital signature in a comment metadata repository.
US10437582B2
An apparatus and a method for a client to server deployment via an online distribution platform can include a mechanism to update at least part of a system software or server-side software via a parallel client software update. Online distribution platforms such as mobile application stores can be utilized in embodiments of the apparatus and method to provide not only the client update, but also the system software update in the underlying system (e.g. server-side version).
US10437573B2
General-purpose distributed data-parallel computing using a high-level language is disclosed. Data parallel portions of a sequential program that is written by a developer in a high-level language are automatically translated into a distributed execution plan. The distributed execution plan is then executed on large compute clusters. Thus, the developer is allowed to write the program using familiar programming constructs in the high level language. Moreover, developers without experience with distributed compute systems are able to take advantage of such systems.
US10437569B2
A device receives application information associated with a monolithic application, and generates a recommendation based on utilizing an artificial intelligence technique. The recommendation relates to a service to be generated, a service category for the service, and a deployment model for the service. The artificial intelligence technique generates the recommendation based on the application information. The device automatically generates code for the service based on the service category and the application information, receives a request to deploy the generated code for the service via the deployment model, and deploys the generated code, based on the request, to provide the service via the deployment model.
US10437565B2
This disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for code suggestion. The method comprises collecting a set of runtime context features of a program that is being edited. The method further comprises comparing the set of runtime context features with at least one set of stored context features to find at least one matching set of stored context features. Each of the at least one set of stored context features is extracted from a corresponding code segment. The method further comprises presenting at least one code segment with its set of stored context features matching the set of runtime context features, for the user to choose to add into the program.
US10437554B2
Embodiments described herein provide for smart configuration of audio settings for a playback device. According to an embodiment, while a playback device is a part of a first zone group that includes the playback device and at least one first playback device, the playback device applies a first audio setting. The embodiment also includes the playback device joining a second zone group that includes the playback device and at least one second playback device. The embodiment further includes the playback device applying a second audio setting based on an audio content profile corresponding to the second zone group.
US10437532B2
An information processing device includes a controller that controls a notification of a linkage function which is executable by using at least one object to be linked when a user transmits information of the object to be linked to a conversation partner on an interface for making a conversation with the conversation partner.
US10437519B2
A method for processing a write request is disclosed, the method includes: determining, by an IO scheduler, that current IO scheduling is in a blocked state; selecting, by the IO scheduler, a target synchronous write request from to-be-processed IO requests; adding, by the IO scheduler, an acceleration flag to the target synchronous write request, where the acceleration flag is used to instruct a flash memory controller to perform acceleration processing on the target synchronous write request by using idle space of a flash memory; after the flash memory controller receives, from the IO scheduler, the target synchronous write request, determining, by the flash memory controller, a size of the idle space of the flash memory; and when the size of the idle space of the flash memory is greater than a threshold, performing, by the flash memory controller, acceleration processing on the target synchronous write request.
US10437518B2
Provided herein may be a memory system and a method of operating the same. The memory system may include a controller configured to generate and output a first command for a program operation in response to a request from a host, and generate and output a second command for a read scan operation when the memory system is powered on after an abnormal power-off is detected; and a semiconductor memory device configured to perform the program operation on a page basis in response to the first command, perform the read scan operation in response to the second command, and perform a single read operation per page using a set read voltage during the read scan operation.
US10437513B2
Systems and method relating generally to solid state memory, and more particularly to systems and methods for recycling data in a solid state memory. The systems and methods include receiving a data set maintained in a memory device, applying at least one iteration of a data decoding algorithm to the data set by a data decoder circuit to yield a decoded output, counting the number of iterations of the data decoding algorithm applied to the data set to yield an iteration count, and recycling the data set to the memory device. The recycling is triggered based at least in part on the iteration count.
US10437511B2
The method includes receiving a read request for a record stored on the tape. The tape is mounted in a tape drive which includes a data buffer. The tape stores data as a plurality of data sets. Each of the plurality of data sets contains one or more records. The method also includes buffering at least one of the plurality of data sets to the data buffer. At least one of the plurality of data sets includes a target data set which includes the requested record. The method also includes monitoring read operations on the tape to count a number of continuous read operations occurring in a backward direction relative to the tape. The method also includes, in response to the number of continuous read operations reaching a threshold, activating a read-behind mode that executes an extended buffer operation on data preceding a record requested to be read next.
US10437504B1
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a storage system having at least first and second storage tiers each comprising a plurality of storage devices. The storage system implements a plurality of data mover modules for controlling movement of data objects between the first and second storage tiers. A given one of the data objects is transferred between the first and second storage tiers utilizing a distributed multi-part data movement protocol in which different portions of the given data object are transferred between the first and second storage tiers by different ones of the data mover modules. For example, each of the different portions may be transferred between the first and second storage tiers by its corresponding data mover module as a plurality of distinct non-overlapping parts. In such an arrangement, each of the plurality of distinct non-overlapping parts of each of the different portions may have a corresponding unique tag identifier.
US10437501B1
A storage system in one embodiment comprises a plurality of storage devices and an associated storage controller. The storage controller implements a logical storage layer in which logical blocks are associated with respective content-based signatures and a physical storage layer in which the content-based signatures are associated with respective physical blocks in the storage devices. The storage controller maintains reference counts for respective ones of the physical blocks, with a given such reference count indicating a number of the logical blocks that map via their respective content-based signatures to the same physical block, groups the content-based signatures into one or more subsets, and for a given one of the subsets, executes a scan of the logical blocks to detect any discrepancies in the maintained reference counts for the given subset, and corrects detected discrepancies by updating the reference counts for the given subset based at least in part on results of the scan.
US10437499B2
The present disclosure provides a hybrid memory system and a method of operating the same. The hybrid memory system includes a non-volatile memory, a volatile memory and a controller. The volatile memory stores data. The controller is configured to move the data from the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory in response to a command to enter a power-saving mode. The controller precludes the volatile memory from having a self-refresh operation performed thereon after the movement of the data.
US10437497B1
Accessing at least two separate physical storage devices as a single logical device includes receiving data/metadata from both of the separate physical storage devices and causing the data/metadata to appear to be coming from only one of the storage devices by spoofing data/metadata from at least one of the storage devices to appear to be coming from the other of the storage devices. Spoofing data/metadata may include revising storage device identifiers. The storage device identifiers may include serial numbers and port identifiers.
US10437496B1
A system and method provides an integrated buffer management with flow control, in some cases via credits that may be redeemed for buffers, and interprocess communication.
US10437494B2
A storage control apparatus configured to control a storage apparatus accessed by an information processing apparatus when the information processing apparatus executes a job, the storage control apparatus includes a memory configured to store plan information that indicates a plan in which the information processing apparatus executes the job and history information that indicates an history of access from the information processing apparatus to the storage apparatus when the information processing apparatus executes the job, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to perform, based on the plan information and the history information, a prediction of whether the information processing apparatus accesses the storage apparatus in a certain time segment, and control power supply to the storage apparatus based on the prediction.
US10437485B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device of managing storage array configuration by storing a basic configuration information of a user drive onto a system drive; storing an extended configuration information of the user drive onto the user drive, and in response to a change of the storage array, creating a new disk array group or updating a disk array group according to the basic configuration information and the extended configuration information.
US10437481B2
A data access method and a related apparatus and system, where the data access method includes receiving, by a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) from a processor, a first key-value command whose format meets an NVMe interface standard, where the first key-value command carries a first operation manner indicator and a first operation object type indicator, and an operation object type indicated by the first operation object type indicator includes a value, obtaining, by the NVMe, N keys corresponding to the first key-value command, and performing, by the NVMe on a value corresponding to each of the N keys, an operation indicated by the first operation manner indicator. Hence, the data access method is helpful in promoting a data access manner in an NVMe technology.
US10437477B2
An information handling system includes storage drives, a first storage controller configured to map to a first subset of the storage drives, a second storage controller configured to map to a second subset of the storage drives different from the first subset, and a BMC. The BMC directs the storage controllers to detect storage traffic to the first and second subsets of storage drives, compares the storage traffic from the storage controllers, and remaps the first storage controller to map storage transactions on a third subset of the storage drives different from the first subset when the comparison indicates that the first storage traffic is greater than the second storage traffic.
US10437476B2
A computer storage device having a host interface, a controller, non-volatile storage media, and firmware. The firmware instructs the controller to: receive, via the host interface, a request from a host to allocate a namespace of a quantity of non-volatile memory; generate, in response to the request, a namespace map identifying a plurality of blocks of addresses having a same predetermined block size, and a partial block of addresses having a size smaller than the predetermined block size; and convert, using the namespace map, logical addresses in the namespace communicated from the host to physical addresses for the quantity of the non-volatile memory. For example, the request for allocating the namespace can be in accordance with an NVMe protocol.
US10437474B1
A technique for overwriting compressed data tests whether new data compressed with a first compression procedure fits within spaces provided for previous data. If the compressed new data does not fit, the technique compresses the new data using a second compression procedure. Assuming the second compression procedure reduces the compressed size of the new data to fit the available space, the technique stores the new data in the same location as the previous data. In this manner, overwrites can be accommodated in place without the need to create new mapping metadata.
US10437472B2
A storage system and method for dynamic duty cycle correction are disclosed. In one embodiment, a controller of a storage system provides a clock signal to the memory, receives the clock signal back from the memory, monitors the duty cycle of the clock signal received back from the memory, and in response to the duty cycle of the clock signal received back from the memory not meeting a target value, adjusts the duty cycle of the clock signal provided to the memory so that the duty cycle of the clock signal received back from the memory better meets the target value. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US10437469B2
Methods of obtaining input on a physical input device are provided. A method includes superimposing an image of a virtual keypad over an image of a touchscreen keypad, wherein the virtual keypad device has a different layout than the touchscreen keypad, mapping a first input on the touchscreen keypad to a second input on the virtual keypad, wherein the second input is different from the first input, and displaying on the touchscreen keypad a visually encoded symbol that defines a mapping from the touchscreen keypad to the virtual keypad, wherein mapping the first input on the touchscreen keypad to the second input on the virtual keypad is performed in response to the visually encoded symbol.
US10437465B2
A vehicle may include a display displaying a character input user interface to select at least one character among a selected character type; a touch input sensor detecting a touch; and a controller changing the selected character type based on a distance between two touch positions detected at the same time.
US10437462B2
The present disclosure relates generally to technologies for sensor networks, machine-to-machine (M2M), machine-type communication (MTC), and Internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be used in intelligent services (smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, or connected car, health-care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.), or the like, without limitation. According to the present disclosure, a method for locking a device comprises displaying a screen requesting selection of an image category for a lock screen when an input corresponding to a lock request through a display unit supporting a touch input is detected; displaying a screen requesting setting a password for unlocking when an input corresponding to the selection of the image category is detected; and selecting images supporting the password setting among images included in the selected image category into a group when an input corresponding to the password setting is detected, and locking the touch input to the display unit by displaying one of the selected images.
US10437456B2
A terminal can include a touch screen, and a control unit to control at least one touch-available icon to appear on the touch screen in a first direction of a first touch-drag on the touch screen, in response to a touch input to one of the at least one touch-available icon, execute a specific function such that an execution image related to the executed specific function is displayed on the touch screen. Further, the control unit of the terminal can receive a message while the specific function is being executed, receive a second touch-drag in a second direction on the touch screen, and control a message window for the received message to appear on the touch screen.
US10437452B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus which makes it easier to avoid a condition in which the viewing of on-screen elements included in a web page is interfered with.An information processing apparatus displays a main display area that represents content of a web page on a screen of a display device. The information processing apparatus identifies, among a plurality of on-screen elements of interest, an on-screen element of interest that enters or departs from the main display area as the web page is scrolled along a given scrolling direction, when the web page that includes the plurality of on-screen elements of interest and that can be scrolled along the given scrolling direction appears in the main display area. The information processing apparatus also determines whether or not to include the identified on-screen element of interest as a target to be displayed in a subordinate display area that appears at a position overlapping the main display area in response to the entry or departure of the identified on-screen element of interest into or from the main display area.
US10437449B2
The system comprises the ability to detect certain gestures made by sliding a finger or stylus on a touch sensitive screen on a handheld device, even when a so called “screen lock” is active where the gesture is used to unlock the device and trigger the desired function associates with the gesture.
US10437436B2
A control method for switching a playlist of a play system and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving an identification change operation of a graphic label corresponding to a play status of a first play group on a user interface so that the identification change operation of the graphic label corresponding to the first play group is consistent with an identification change operation of a graphic label corresponding to a play status of a second play group; transmitting an acquisition instruction of a playlist to the first play group so that the first play group acquires a current playlist and a current play progress of the second play group via the local area network; and controlling at least one playing device of first play group for playing the play files of current playlist of second play group according to the current play progress of second play group.
US10437435B2
Systems for delivery management are provided. According to one embodiment, the system includes a manifest component configured to aggregate a plurality of items into a manifest, an identifier component configured to identify respective items within the aggregated plurality of items using the manifest, a tracking component configured to calculate a delivery route and track the plurality of items during a plurality of delivery events, and an inspection component configured to require inspection of the respective items at each of the plurality of delivery events. The delivery systems can ensure quality and manage connections between distributors and manufacturers by incorporating required checks through each step of a delivery (e.g., pick up, freight aggregation, line shipping, local shipping, etc.). Inspections at delivery transitions can be required and include each time a good (e.g., an item) is moved on or off a delivery truck, and transitions between delivery areas within specific location.
US10437432B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for integration of user interface technologies. One of the methods includes receiving, from a user device, a user request to execute a web application, the web application being associated with one or more rendering systems, and each of the rendering systems executing one or more respective remote applications. Respective video streams for the remote applications are obtained from each of the rendering systems. Each of the video streams is provided for presentation on the user device. While the video streams are provided, data identifying a user event is received from the user device. The user event is determined to be intended for a first rendering system. The user event is provided to the first rendering system.
US10437423B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing an infinitely scrolling accumulator. An example of the method includes providing, by a computer processor, a user interface comprising an available window and a selected window, the available window associated with an available window query and the selected window associated with a selected window query, displaying at least one record in the available window via the user interface, receiving, via the user interface, a selection of the at least one record displayed in the available window, modifying the available window query such that the available window query does not select the at least one record from a database, and modifying the selected window query such that the selected window query selects the at least one record from the database.
US10437419B2
A control method according to the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on a display a display screen representing a floor plan including one or more rooms; and using at least one memory that associates first information indicating a type of each of one or more device icons representing one or more target devices with second information indicating an attribute of each of the one or more rooms, display a device icon having a room that corresponds to a type of a device icon among the one or more device icons in a region on the display screen corresponding to a room that corresponds to the device icon and display a device icon not having a room that corresponds to the type of the device icon among the one or more device icons in a prescribed region on the display screen.
US10437404B2
According to one embodiment, a detection device includes a substrate, detection electrode, terminal formed of a metal material, lead, coating layer, conductive adhesion layer, and circuit board. The lead connects the electrode and the terminal. The coating layer covers the electrode and the lead, and partly covers the terminal. The adhesion layer covers a part of the terminal exposed from the coating layer and covers a part of the coating layer. The circuit board is connected to the terminal with the adhesion layer interposed therebetween. At least in an overlapping area where the adhesion layer covers the coating layer, an area of the metal material per unit area is smaller than that of the other area of the terminal.
US10437402B1
Integrated active-matrix light emitting pixel arrays based displays and methods of fabricating the integrated displays are provided. An example method includes: forming multiple layers on a first substrate to form a light emitting structure, integrating the light emitting structure on the first substrate with a backplane device on a second substrate by connecting a first top layer of the light emitting structure with a second top layer of the backplane device, e.g., by using low temperature bonding, the backplane device including at least one backplane having pixel circuits, and after the integration, patterning the light emitting structure to form an array of light emitting elements each conductively coupled to respective pixel circuits to thereby form an array of active-matrix light emitting pixels. A pattern of different color phosphor or different size quantum dots materials can be deposited on the light emitting pixels to form an array of multi-color display pixels.
US10437398B2
The present disclosure provides a touch substrate and a method for manufacturing the same and a touch screen, and belongs to the field of touch technology. The touch substrate comprises a touch area and a non-touch area surrounding the touch area with a black matrix pattern provided thereon. The touch substrate further comprises: a plurality of touch electrodes provided on the touch area and the non-touch area, wherein at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes overlaps with the black matrix pattern; dummy electrode patterns, provided in gaps between adjacent touch electrodes, wherein a dummy electrode pattern between touch electrodes overlapped on the black matrix pattern comprises a plurality of dummy electrode blocks that are insulated from each other.
US10437396B2
Provided is a conductive film for a touch panel including: an insulating substrate including a pair of surfaces facing each other; a detection electrode pattern portion which is formed of thin metal wires formed on at least one surface of the pair of surfaces of the insulating substrate; a wiring portion which is disposed on the same surface as the surface of the insulating substrate where the detection electrode pattern portion is formed, and includes a plurality of lead-out wirings formed of metal which are connected to the detection electrode pattern portion; and a shielding electrode formed of metal which is disposed on a surface on a side opposite to the surface of the insulating substrate where the wiring portion is disposed and at a position corresponding to the wiring portion, in which the shielding electrode includes a mesh-like pattern portion which is formed of metal wires respectively intersecting with the lead-out wirings of the wiring portion and has an opening ratio equal to or greater than 80%, and has sheet resistance equal to or smaller than 20 Ω/sq.
US10437394B2
A multi-layer touch panel having an upper and a lower electrode that cross over one another. The electrode pattern for either electrode at the cross over area is complementary to the other electrode at the cross over area.
US10437390B2
A frame assembly is disclosed, which is mounted on an object surface. The frame assembly includes a frame and at least a frame fastening assembly. The frame fastening assembly includes a first fastening member, a second fastening member and an anti-skid member. The first fastening member has a first magnetic element and an adhered surface, and the adhered surface adheres on the object surface. The second fastening member has a second magnetic element, a supporting portion and a fastening portion, the second magnetic element magnetic attracts the first magnetic element, the supporting portion bears the frame and the fastening portion covers parts lateral surface of the frame. The anti-skid member is disposed on a surface of the second fastening member, wherein the surface is opposite to the fastening portion.
US10437383B2
A display device includes a first organic insulating layer covering video signal lines; a first metal layer provided above the first organic insulating layer; a first conductive layer provided above the first organic insulating layer and connected to a switching element via a first contact hole; a first inorganic insulating layer covering the first conductive layer and the first metal layer; a second conductive layer provided above the first inorganic insulating layer and connected to the first metal layer; a second inorganic insulating layer provided above the second conductive layer; a third conductive layer provided above the second inorganic insulating layer and connected to the first conductive layer via a second contact hole; and a fourth conductive layer provided above the second inorganic insulating layer, connected to the first metal layers via a third contact hole, and connected to the second conductive layer via a fourth contact hole.
US10437371B2
A semi-reflective display and a method for fabricating and assembling a semi-reflective display are presented, where the display may be comprised of visible light rectifying antenna arrays tuned to four different colors, which when forward biased may use electric power to amplify reflected colored light, and when reversed biased may generate electric power by absorbing light. TFT-tunnel diode logic may be used to control each sub-pixel.
US10437366B1
Display module and using method thereof are provided. The display module includes: a self-luminous display panel including first and second substrates and a self-luminous circuit layer, the self-luminous circuit layer being disposed between the first and second substrates, and including multiple display pixel units each of which includes at least one light blocking region and non-opaque region; an optical fingerprint sensor below the second substrate and including a fingerprint sensing circuit layer and a third substrate which is non-opaque, the fingerprint sensing circuit layer including multiple photosensitive pixel units each of which includes a non-opaque region and a light blocking region where a photosensitive element of the photosensitive pixel unit is disposed; a point-shaped backlight source below the optical fingerprint sensor, light emitted from the point-shaped backlight source entering the optical fingerprint sensor with first incident angle which is acute. Fingerprint recognition function is well integrated in the display module.
US10437358B2
A touch sensor can be used with a finger and/or a pen configured to provide a touch input to the touch sensor. Some implementations involve touch capacitive touch sensing, although many implementations are also applicable to other touch and pen technologies, such as resistive, surface acoustic wave, bending wave, touch force, electromagnetic (E-M).
US10437349B2
A display device includes a display; a communication device which communicates with a remote controller that includes a first button group having at least one button, and a second button group having at least one other button. A processor highlights and displays at least two key objects on the keypad from among a plurality of key objects arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, upon receiving a first control signal according to manipulation of the at least one button of the first button group from the remote controller, and recognizes, as an input key, one key object, which corresponds to a second control signal according to manipulation of the at least one other button of the second button group, among the at least two key objects, upon receiving the second control signal from the remote controller.
US10437343B2
A wearable device includes a display, a transceiver, and a processor. The processor is configured to detect, via the transceiver, a device controllable by the wearable device. The processor is also configured to generate a user interface (UI) associated with the device for display on the display based on the detected device. The processor detects an input based on the UI and transmits, via the transceiver, a signal to the device to control the device based on the detected input.
US10437341B2
Systems and methods for user generated content authoring are disclosed. One illustrative method disclosure herein includes: receiving a video signal; displaying a user interface associated with haptic authoring; detecting a gesture associated with a haptic effect; determining a haptic effect based in part on the gesture; associating the haptic effect with a location in the video signal; and storing the video signal and the associated haptic effect.
US10437340B1
A device for providing thermoreceptive haptic feedback includes a first array of low mass elements, arranged in a geometric pattern, the array having a first temperature and a first collective thermal effusivity, and configured for selectively contacting a user, a second array of low mass elements, interspersed among the low mass elements of the first array, and thermally isolated from the low mass elements the first array, the array having a second temperature and a second collective thermal effusivity, and configured for selectively contacting a user, and a means for mechanical switching coupled to the low mass elements of the first and the second arrays and configured to place selected low mass elements of the first and the second arrays in contact with a user, to realize a thermal effusivity between the first collective thermal effusivity and the second collective thermal effusivity.
US10437338B2
A vibration-mechanism-equipped input device includes a manipulation part on which the manipulator can perform an input manipulation, one end of a bracket being attached to the manipulation part, a vibration generating part that generates vibration to be transmitted to the manipulation part, and a controller that controls the operation of the vibration generating part. The vibration generating part is attached to another end of the bracket, the position of the other end being offset from the one end of the bracket.
US10437337B2
The present disclosure relates to a wearable haptic pattern display device for a blind person, and more particularly, to a wearable haptic pattern display device for a blind person, which has a compact size to make it easy for a user to carry the display device, includes a touch screen installed on the front surface of a main body thereof and having a touch panel and electro-sensitive panel integrated and coupled to each other in order to provide a text screen composed of various combinations of haptic textures through the touch screen, includes a ring-shaped wearing member installed on the rear surface of the main body thereof such that a user can conveniently read a text screen composed of haptic textures displayed on the touch screen using his thumb with the ring-shaped wearing member worn around his index finger, and thus read characters of news, books or messages using the display device regardless of time and location, includes an NFC module installed in the main body thereof and configured to receive guide information from NFC tags installed at various places such as roads, intersections, stores or existing braille signs, such that blind users can effectively use the guide information.
US10437322B2
A method for dynamic virtual reality includes receiving vehicle data. The vehicle data includes a velocity, an orientation, and a location of a vehicle within a first frame of reference. The method also includes receiving user data. The user data includes a velocity, an orientation and a location of a user within a second frame of reference different than the first frame of reference. The method includes generating a view based on the vehicle data, the user data, and a model, the model including one or more components that define the view. The method includes determining a difference between the user data and the vehicle data. The method includes rendering the view to the output device by controlling the output device to update display of the view according to the determined difference relative to the second frame of reference.
US10437318B2
Dynamically switching cores on a heterogeneous multi-core processing system may be performed by executing program code on a first processing core. Power up of a second processing core may be signaled. A first performance metric of the first processing core executing the program code may be collected. When the first performance metric is better than a previously determined core performance metric, power down of the second processing core may be signaled and execution of the program code may be continued on the first processing core. When the first performance metric is not better than the previously determined core performance metric, execution of the program code may be switched from the first processing core to the second processing core.
US10437317B2
A circuit for driving a motor of a compressor includes a microcontroller that generates a reference current value for a power factor correction (PFC) converter. A programmable logic device (PLD) receives control messages from the microcontroller. The PLD sets a value in an off-time register based on a control message from the microcontroller. The PLD controls a power switch of the PFC converter to turn off in response to receiving a comparison signal indicating that a measured current in the PFC converter exceeds the reference current value. Subsequent to controlling the power switch to turn off, the PLD waits for a period of time determined by the off-time register before controlling the power switch to turn on.
US10437312B2
A system and method for managing occupation of a shared space using a management system comprising a display device located at the shared space and a server, wherein the display device and the server include first interfaces configured for exchange of data and lower power second interfaces configured for signaling the presence of data to be exchanged, where the first interface is in an active mode by default and is placed into an active mode when the server sends a signal to the display device via the second interfaces, or when a user performs an action at the display device, that indicates there is data to be exchanged between the display device and the central server.
US10437308B2
A system and method for predictive virtual machine halt includes a memory, a host central processing unit (CPU) in communication with the memory, a hypervisor executing on the host CPU, and a virtual machine executing on the hypervisor. The virtual machine includes a virtual central processing unit (VCPU) and a guest. In an example, the hypervisor starts executing the VCPU on the host CPU. When the hypervisor detects a request to stop executing the VCPU from the guest, the hypervisor starts a timer associated with the host CPU. A predetermined amount of time is set in the timer. Then, the hypervisor stops executing the VCPU and starts executing a task on the host CPU while the timer is running. When the hypervisor detects an expiration of the timer, the hypervisor stops executing the task on the host CPU and restarts executing the VCPU on the host CPU.
US10437306B2
A memory controller includes a current information storage unit storing information about various current amounts of a memory system, a current management unit controlling an output time of an operation execution signal by calculating the information about the various current amounts, and a command controller outputting a command to operate a memory device in response to the operation execution signal.
US10437304B2
Streaming content using a data streaming device having limited power is described. A data streaming device receives streaming content from a network and provides the streaming content for display on a content display device. Data streaming device includes power supplies that receive power from the content display device. The power supplies use the power to operate components of data streaming device that process the streaming content. A measuring module measures the power provided to the data streaming device. When the power is insufficient, a controller generates an indication that there is insufficient power to operate the components of the data streaming device. The controller may also modify functionality of the components to operate using available power or disable a component of the data streaming device.
US10437282B2
An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be mounted in a display housing having multiple display housing layers. The display housing layers may include metal layers and fiber composite layers. A fiber composite display housing layer may have an array of dimples. The fiber composite display housing layer may be attached to a planar metal layer using adhesive. An array of openings may be formed in the metal layer to lighten the display housing. A foam layer or other core may be sandwiched between display housing layers. Components may be embedded in the foam. Edge members may run along peripheral edges of the display housing layers. Electrical components may be mounted on printed circuits and housed within cavities in the display housing. The electrical components may include light-emitting diodes for a display. Heat from the electrical components may be dissipated in the metal layer.
US10437275B2
A current reference circuit and a semiconductor IC including the current reference circuit, the current reference circuit including a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current generator configured to generate, in an output branch, a first current proportional to a temperature; and a current subtractor configured to generate a reference current by subtracting a second current generated based on a current flowing in an internal branch of the PTAT current generator, from the first current flowing in the output branch. The second current is set to have a same temperature-based change characteristic as the first current and a level different from a level of the first current.
US10437267B2
A pressure regulator device, particularly a dome-loaded pressure regulator, regulating a blowing pressure in a blowmolding machine, including a regulator chamber. The regulator chamber includes a primary pressure port for introduction of primary medium into the regulator chamber with primary pressure, and a secondary pressure port for discharging primary medium from the regulator chamber with secondary pressure. A regulator piston is mounted displaceably inside the regulator chamber, movable into an open and a closed position by a switch position of a valve control device for controlling and/or setting the primary and/or secondary pressure. The valve control device includes a control chamber, and a sealing device arranged at a lower movement stop inside the control chamber between the secondary pressure port and the control means, such that contact of the primary medium with the control means is prevented at least partly, preferably completely, independently of the control pressure and/or primary pressure.
US10437257B2
A vehicle includes an autonomous driving system that can determine whether an interruption of autonomous driving control is required. The autonomous driving system can determine that interruption is required based on an evaluation value dependent upon a target position and a control position, and an evaluation value threshold. The vehicle further includes communication systems that provide interruption information on the autonomous driving control to an occupant of the vehicle and to other vehicles around the vehicle if it is determined that the interruption of the autonomous driving control is required.
US10437253B2
The present application provides a control method, and system, and a mobile robot using the same. The control method comprises the following steps: under a navigation operating environment of the mobile robot, controlling the image acquisition device to capture images in real time; analyzing at least one captured image; and controlling the movement of the mobile robot after analyzed that the image acquisition device faces an overexposure region. In the present application, the problem that the robot cannot determine the navigation and pose thereof based on the acquired images due to lighting problems is solved.
US10437252B1
Roughly described, a three-dimensional, multi-layer map is built employing sensory data gathering and analysis. The sensory data are gathered from multiple operational cameras and one or more auxiliary sensors. The multi-layer maps are stored in a map stored to be distributed to one or more autonomous vehicles and robots in the future. The techniques herein are described with reference to specific example implementations to implement improvements in navigation in autonomous vehicles and robots.
US10437241B2
A power plant system includes a turbine system, a sensor, and a controller. The sensor is configured to collect a first set of data regarding the turbine system. The controller is configured to receive user input regarding constraints of the turbine system, a second set of data regarding the power plant system, and the first set of data. The controller is configured to determine whether a first notification is present based on a determined status and to generate a first maintenance package based on the first notification, life odometer solutions, condition monitoring solutions, and the first set of data. The controller is configured to generate a model of implementing the first maintenance package with respect to the turbine system as well as to generate a second maintenance package based on the user input, the second set of data, the first maintenance package, and the scenario model.
US10437240B2
Manufacturing evaluation systems including motion sensors are disclosed. A manufacturing evaluation system includes one or more motion sensors configured to output motion data in response to motions of a user in association with manufacturing of an article, a processor communicatively coupled to the one or more motion sensors, a memory module communicatively coupled to the processor, and machine readable instructions stored in the memory module. The machine readable instructions cause the manufacturing evaluation system to perform, when executed by the processor, receiving the motion data output by the one or more sensors, calculating a quality score associated with the article of manufacture based on the motion data, comparing the quality score to a quality score threshold, and providing a notification in response to comparing the quality score to the quality score threshold.
US10437237B2
A controller of a process includes a resource consumption optimizer which receives sets of control actions for a plurality of actuators from an advanced process controller performing independent data processing with respect to the resource consumption optimizer, each set of control actions resulting in a set-specific combined control action effect. The resource consumption optimizer optimizes resource consumption associated with the sets of control actions by modifying at least one control action on the basis of resource consumption associated with the actuator performing the control action while keeping a difference between a combined control action effect of a modified control action set and a combined control action effect a received control action set set-specifically within an accepted range.
US10437232B2
This disclosure relates to a method for producing a padding for transporting general cargo in an outer packaging using a computer, a 3D scanner and/or a padding machine by obtaining 3D data of a 3D CAD model and material data for each item of cargo from a database and/or by three-dimensional scanning of the cargo with the 3D scanner, sorting the cargo on the basis of the 3D CAD data and the material data into an existing transport category or into a transport category that is created, grouping the items into a cargo group on the basis of the transport category and/or the general cargo ID, virtually arranging the cargo group in the outer packaging, selecting a 3D CAD model of a padding template based on the virtual arrangement, calculating a difference, a break and/or an association between the virtual arrangement of the cargo group in the selected 3D CAD model of the padding template and the 3D CAD model of the selected padding template, the 3D CAD model of the cargo and the coordinates and orientation of the 3D CAD model of the cargo as 3D CAD model of a virtual padding, and producing the padding from the 3D CAD model of the virtual padding with the padding machine.
US10437231B2
The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method for designing an outer surface of a composite part manufactured by molding a stack of material layers. The method comprises defining constant offset surfaces, a constant offset surface being a respective part of the outer surface which is to have a constant offset value relative to the reference surface, the constant offset value of a respective constant offset surface corresponding to the sum of the thicknesses of the material layers below the respective constant offset surface, and determining a final surface that corresponds to a tangent continuous connection of the constant offset surfaces. This provides an improved solution for designing an outer surface of a composite part.
US10437212B2
High availability and data migration in a distributed process control computing environment. Allocation algorithms distribute data and applications among available compute nodes, such as controllers in a process control system. In the process control system, an input/output device, such as a fieldbus module, can be used by any controller. Databases store critical execution information for immediate takeover by a backup compute element. The compute nodes are configured to execute algorithms for mitigating dead time in the distributed computing environment.
US10437201B1
An actuator system designed to avoid load position hunting. The system may eliminate a voltage drop of resistance of connecting wires between a load (e.g., a motor) and a power source, by removing current flow through the wires. A command source may provide a command voltage for controlling the load relative to a ground at the power source. However, the voltage may be different relative to a ground at the load. A switch may break a connection between the power source and the load, thus removing the potential difference between the grounds. After the command voltage is entered at the load, the switch may remove the break of the connection between the power source and the load. During the break, a power storage module, such as a capacitor, may provide a current flow to the load. The power storage module may be replenished with current when the break is removed.
US10437200B1
The present invention is directed to devices that may be used to help young children stay in bed or their room until it is time to get up. The device may be configured as a clock. The clock may be programmable to have a duration of a nap time, or a time when the child is able to get up. A visual countdown timer may be provided with the device (e.g., on the clock face), which may include a graphical representation of the remaining fraction of time before “get up” time. The visual countdown timer may not include number indicia, but rather includes a graphic (e.g., ring extending about the perimeter of the clock face), which gradually diminishes as the predetermined “get up” time is approached. A reward drawer may also be provided, which automatically unlocks at the “get up” time, and provides the child with a prize.
US10437194B2
A photosensitive drum is rotatably supported in a main body. A developing cartridge is detachably mountable on the main body in a state where the photosensitive drum is supported in the main body. The developing cartridge includes a developing device and a frame. The developing device includes a developing roller disposed in confrontation with the photosensitive drum to supply developer to the photosensitive drum when the developing cartridge is mounted in the main body, and a developer-accommodating portion configured to accommodate developer. The frame includes a waste-developer-accommodating portion configured to accommodate waste developer and supports the developing device that is movable relative to the frame. The frame is disposed on an opposite side of the developing roller from the photosensitive drum. An urging member is disposed between the frame and the developing device to urge the developing roller toward the photosensitive drum.
US10437182B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing apparatus including a heating member that is heated by a heater and a pressure member that forms a fixing nip between the pressure member and the heating member by pressing the heating member; and a supplier that, when toner images of a plurality of images including non-image regions overlapping each other are consecutively fixed by the fixing apparatus, supplies a cleaning sheet on which a cleaning image is formed on one surface, to the fixing nip in a state where the one surface faces the pressure member, wherein the non-image regions are regions extending along the conveyance direction from an upstream side end in the conveyance direction in an image to a downstream side end in the conveyance direction, and not including a toner image having a length of equal to or more than a first value in the conveyance direction.
US10437168B2
Disclosed is an intermediate transfer belt used for an electrophotographic image-forming apparatus, wherein the intermediate transfer belt contains a substrate layer and a surface layer; the intermediate transfer belt has a relative dielectric constant of 15 or more, and a volume resistivity at an applied voltage of 100 V in the range of 1.0×105 to 9.0×109 Ω·cm under an environment of temperature of 23° C. and humidity of 50% RH; and the surface layer has a relative dielectric constant of 6 or less.
US10437135B2
A lens limiting assembly includes an elastic element, a lens assembly ring arranged on the elastic element, and a locking ring arranged outside the lens assembly ring and configured to press a portion of the elastic element along an axial direction when the locking ring rotates in one direction.
US10437134B2
A camera housing/lens system comprises a camera housing for a camera and a lens. The camera housing/lens system further comprises a lock for locking the lens in position. The lock includes a stop member joined to the lens or the lens mount, and an elastic element arranged between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens, wherein the elastic element is compressed between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens to lock the lens in position. A gap remains between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens. This “elastic compression” allows the position of the lens to be finely adjusted in relation to the lens mount, without having to release the compression in order to do so.
US10437133B2
The present invention relates to a camera module comprising: a printed circuit board having an image sensor mounted thereon; a holder member provided on the printed circuit board and having a lens barrel provided therein; an optical module arranged on the upper side of the holder member and performing an auto-focusing function and/or an image stabilization function; and an electric current applying unit for electrically connecting the printed circuit board and the optical module, wherein the electric current applying unit comprises: first and second conductive members connected to the printed circuit board; and first and second plate members which are arranged on the upper side of the holder member and are electrically connected to each of the first and second conductive members, and which are electrically connected through the optical module. Through the present invention, a separate circuit board for applying a power source to an optical module is not required, and thus, it is possible to lower the height of the camera module as much as the thickness of a circuit board.
US10437132B1
Examples provide a compact, dynamic non-uniformity correction mechanism and counter-countermeasure mechanism. In one example an optical imaging system includes an imaging sensor configured to receive optical radiation and to produce an image of a viewed scene from the optical radiation, an optical train including at least one optical component configured to receive the optical radiation from the viewed scene and to focus the optical radiation to the imaging sensor, and an acousto-optic modulator positioned in the optical train and having an ON state and an OFF state, the acousto-optic modulator being configured in the OFF state to pass the optical radiation, and the acousto-optic modulator being configured in the ON state to diffract the optical radiation and blur the image produced by the imaging sensor from the diffracted optical radiation.
US10437128B2
A multi-layer device comprising a first substrate and a first electrically conductive layer on a surface thereof, the first electrically conductive layer having a sheet resistance to the flow of electrical current through the first electrically conductive layer that varies as a function of position.
US10437127B2
An electrochromic apparatus comprises an electrochromic device and a drive unit operating for normal drive and heating drive of the electrochromic device. The electrochromic device comprises a pair of electrodes and an electrochromic layer including at least an electrochromic material and a solvent. Each of the paired electrodes has at least a pair of power supply sections on a surface thereof. The pair of power supply sections include a first power supply section and a second power supply section arranged oppositely relative to the first power supply section on the surface. The drive unit operates for the heating drive such that the electrochromic layer is heated by applying an alternating voltage between the pair of power supply sections of each of the paired electrodes so as to put any oppositely disposed positions of the paired electrodes in phase with each other.
US10437110B2
A color filter substrate and a display panel are provided. The color filter substrate includes a substrate, first spacers, second spacers, color resist patterns, and at least one dummy-color resist pattern. A first area has a first projection area A. A second area has a second projection area B. The color resist patterns are disposed at least partially around of at least one of the first spacers. A covering area of the color resist patterns in the first area is a. (a/A)*100% is defined as a first coverage rate M. The dummy-color resist pattern is disposed at least partially around of at least one of the second spacers. The covering area of the dummy-color resist pattern in the second area is b. (b/B)*100% is defined as a second coverage rate N. The first projected area A is equal to the second projected area B and 27%≤(N−M)≤58%.
US10437106B2
A liquid crystal display panel (100A) includes a first polarizing plate (22) and a first phase difference plate (32a) disposed on an observer side, and a second polarizing plate (24) and a second phase difference plate (34a) disposed on a back surface side. Δnd of a liquid crystal layer having a homogeneous alignment when no electrical field is applied is 360 nm or greater and 490 nm or less, and an in-plane retardation R1 of the first phase difference plate is 100 nm or greater and 160 nm or less. A thickness direction retardation of at least one of the first and second phase difference plates has a negative value. The slow axes of the first and second phase difference plates are substantially parallel to each other and substantially orthogonal to an azimuthal direction of the liquid crystal director.
US10437101B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel having a display area including a plurality of pixels; and an illuminator provided so as to overlap the display panel and configured to illuminate the display area. The illuminator has a plurality of segment blocks set in different positions in the display area. Each of the segment blocks is provided such that the luminance of the segment block is individually controlled. At least one of the segment blocks satisfies a predetermined condition. The predetermined condition is such that at least two light source rows each including a plurality of light sources arranged in a first direction are arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and that none of the light sources included in the two light source rows adjacent in the second direction are in the same straight line along the second direction.
US10437099B2
A backlight module comprises a light source, a light guide plate and at least one transparent light guide structure. Each transparent light guide structure comprises a first surface adjacent to a side of the light guide plate and a second surface far away from the light guide plate, a light emitted by the light source is directed into the first surface of the transparent light guide structure through the light guide plate. Each transparent light guide structure is configured to change a propagation direction of a first light in the light emitted by the light source, so that an emergence angle of the first light emitted from the second surface is smaller than an incidence angle of the first light incident from the first surface. The incidence angle of the first light onto the first surface is less than 90 degrees.
US10437090B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a first substrate, a frame positioned in the rear of the first substrate, a second substrate opposite the first substrate and positioned between the first substrate and the frame, the second substrate having an area less than an area of the first substrate, and a member layer electrically connected to the first substrate and extended toward the frame.
US10437083B1
A mask array apparatus includes a monolithic structure that includes a substrate layer transmissive for at least a portion of an infrared wavelength band and an array of individually addressed pixel structures. Each pixel structure is in stacked relation above or below the substrate layer, and includes at least one micro-plate heating element layer, circuitry, and at least one phase change material (PCM) element. The heating element layer is transmissive for the wavelength band, and has switchable on and off states configured to produce temperature changes. The circuitry is configured to individually address the heating element layer, separately from heating element layers in other pixel structures, to switch the heating element layer between the on and off states. The PCM is in stacked relation above or below the heating element layer and configured to change transmissive states in the wavelength band in response to the temperature changes.
US10437081B2
A phase controller for controlling the phase of a light signal in a surface waveguide and a method for its fabrication are disclosed. The phase controller controls the phase of the light signal by inducing stress in the waveguide structure, thereby controlling the refractive indices of at least some of its constituent layers. The phase controller includes a phase-control element formed on topographic features of the top cladding of the waveguide, where these features (1) provide a shape to the phase-control element that matches the shape of the mode field of the light signal and (2) give rise to stress-concentration points that focus and direct induced stress into specific regions of the waveguide structure, thereby providing highly efficient phase control. As a result, the phase controller can operate at a lower voltage, lower power, and/or over a shorter interaction length than integrated-optic phase controllers of the prior art.
US10437079B2
Provided is an eyewear lens, including a lens substrate and an optical interference coating. The lens substrate is comprised of an optical material, and the optical interference coating is combined with the lens substrate and is stacked by the composition of high and low reflectivity materials. A predefined reflective appearance color will be formed by light getting through the optical interference coating. The lens substrate contains another filter on one side surface or both side surfaces or inside the lens substrate which is complementary to the light after penetrating the optical interference coating such that the overall transmittance light color remains neutral balance. Moreover, the overall transmittance spectrum of a lens uniformly filters the reflected visible light of objects. As such, a stylish reflective appearance color lens having neutral balance perspective visual tone and most colorful rendering effect of watching the scenery is achieved.
US10437077B2
The present invention provides a method, a system, and a computer program code for optimizing geometry of at least one semi-finished ophthalmic lens in a set of semi-finished ophthalmic lenses having a designated lens material, each of the semi-finished ophthalmic lenses in the set having an Initially determined geometry including one of a plurality of base curves determined to allow manufacture of finished ophthalmic lenses for ophthalmic lens prescriptions.
US10437073B2
Systems, devices, and methods for beam combining within laser projectors are described. A laser projector includes first, second, and third laser diodes to generate red, green, and blue laser light respectively, a controllable scan mirror, and a heterogeneous beam splitter system. The red, green, and blue laser light have distinct maximum powers. The heterogeneous beam splitter system splits at least one of the red, green, and blue laser light and combines respective first portions of all three into an aggregate beam. Second portions of laser light are excluded from the aggregate beam. At the maximum power of each laser light the aggregate beam is white as defined by a target white point. The heterogeneous beam splitter system directs the aggregate beam towards the controllable scan mirror which scans the beam onto a projection surface. Decreasing the power of the laser light post-generation provides a larger range of aggregate beam colors.
US10437061B2
A display device includes a two-dimensional array of tiles. Each tile includes a two-dimensional array of pixels and a lens, of a two-dimensional array of lenses. Each pixel is configured to output light so that the two-dimensional array of pixels outputs a respective pattern of light. Each lens is configured to direct at least a portion of the respective pattern of light from the two-dimensional array of pixels to a pupil of an eye of a user. The display device also includes one or more processors configured to obtain a transformed image for forming a non-transformed image on a retina of the eye; and activate a subset of the two-dimensional array of tiles for outputting, from at least the subset of the two-dimensional array of tiles, a collective pattern of light that is based on the transformed image and directed to the pupil of the eye.
US10437056B2
A head-up display device virtually displays an image to be viewable by an occupant by projecting the image on a projection member located above an instrument panel of a vehicle in a vehicle upward direction. Assuming that a direction along an up-down direction of the vehicle when the image is virtually displayed is defined as a vertical direction of the image, the head-up display device includes a projector that projects an image as light polarized in a polarization direction intersecting the vertical direction of the image and a reflecting mirror that reflects and redirects the light of the image from the projector toward the projection member, on an optical path between the projector and the projection member, and has a difference between S polarization reflectance and P polarization reflectance for the light from the projector.
US10437055B2
A master device providing an image to a slave device providing a virtual reality service is provided. The master device includes: a content input configured to receive an input stereoscopic image; a communicator configured to perform communication with the slave device providing the virtual reality service; and a processor configured to determine a viewpoint region corresponding to a motion state of the corresponding slave device in the input stereoscopic image on the basis of motion information received from the slave device and control the communicator to transmit an image of the identified viewpoint region to the slave device.
US10437038B2
The invention is directed to a method for creating an optical tomogram, which comprises the steps providing an optical microscope, arranging a sample (1) in the optical coverage region of a lens (5) of the microscope, setting the focus of the lens to a particular focal plane (2), recording an image of the sample through the microscope, rotating the sample through an angle α, optionally displacing the sample along the longitudinal axis (z) of the lens (5) and/or perpendicular to the plane of the previously recorded image (9) and continuing the method with step d) until a predetermined number of section images (9) of the sample (1) have been recorded, wherein the sample (1) is displaced along the longitudinal axis (z) of the lens (5) and/or perpendicular to the plane of the previously recorded image (9), in accordance with step f), at least once during a rotation of the sample through 360°. Furthermore the invention is directed to an optical microscope for creating tomograms, which comprises at least one lens (5), at least one sample suspension device (10) and at least one illumination device (6), wherein the sample suspension device (10) is rotatable about an axis (3) arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (z) of the lens (5) and is displaceable along the longitudinal axis (z) of the lens (5).
US10437031B2
A light-guide device includes a light guiding element (13) with a number of faces, including two parallel faces (26), for guiding light by internal reflection. A transparent optical element (19) has an interface surface for attachment to a coupling surface (14) of the light guiding element, and is configured such that light propagating within the transparent optical element passes through the interface surface and the coupling surface (14) so as to propagate within the light guiding element (13). A non-transparent coating (15) is applied to at least part of one or more faces of the light guiding element (13), defining an edge (17) adjacent to, or overlapping, the coupling surface (14) of the light guiding element (13). A quantity of transparent adhesive is deployed between the coupling surface and the interface surface so as to form an optically transmissive interface. An overspill region 31 of the adhesive extends to, and overlaps, the edge (17).
US10437030B2
The invention provides various designs for enabling a non-circular area of collimated light output or to enable tessellation of collimators. In a first aspect, a collimator arrangement comprises a plurality of collimators, each having a circular general outer shape with one or more indentation into the circular general outer shape, wherein each indentation comprises a pair of edges which meet at an internal angle and each indentation defines a pair of external angles where the cut-out meets the general outer shape. The collimators are tessellated with each internal angle adjacent one of the external angles of an adjacent collimator. In another aspect, a collimating optical structure comprises a first section comprising one or more portions of a first collimator lens design with a first diameter and a second section comprising one or more portions of a second collimator lens design with a larger, second diameter. The portions comprise sectors which together form an annular shape around the optical axis with non-constant radius from the optical axis.
US10437024B2
A process for producing an optical element, which may be suitable for use in an infrared camera with sharp surface features and low emissivity surfaces, including the steps of casting the element in the desired shape in a zinc alloy, deburring the zinc alloy element with a thermal deburring operation, and coating the deburred zinc alloy element with an electrocoating operation.
US10437022B2
Compact folded lens systems are described that may be used in small form factor cameras. Lens systems are described that may include five lens elements with refractive power, with a light folding element such as a prism, located between a first lens element on the object side of the lens system and a second lens element, that redirects the light refracted from the first lens element from a first axis onto a second axis on which the other lens elements and a photosensor are arranged. The lens systems may include an aperture stop located behind the front vertex of the lens system, for example at the first lens element, and an optional infrared filter, for example located between the last lens element and a photosensor.
US10437020B2
An optical lens assembly includes five lens elements and provides a TTL/EFL<1.0. In an embodiment, the focal length of the first lens element f1
US10437012B1
An optical imaging system leveraging an ultra-thin flat metalens to increase system functionality with a reduced set of imaging sensors. The optical imaging system is particularly adept at reconfiguring to and camouflaging within its external environmental.
US10437005B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, an apparatus comprising a beam shaping element (lens) is provided. The apparatus comprises a substrate; a beam shaping element; and an elastic intermediate layer disposed between, and in contact with, the substrate and the beam shaping element, wherein the elastic intermediate layer has a Young's Modulus in a range of 2-600 MPa and a Poisson's ratio in a range of 0.2-0.5. Techniques for reducing thermal distortion of lens are described.
US10437000B2
A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a frame and a fiber optic module. The fiber optic module includes a main housing portion defining fiber optic connection locations for connecting cables to be routed through the frame and a cable management portion for guiding cables between the main housing portion and the frame. The main housing portion of the fiber optic module is slidably mounted to the frame, the main housing portion slidable between a retracted position and an extended position in a sliding direction. The cable management portion of the fiber optic module includes a radius limiter slidably coupled to both the main housing portion and the frame, wherein movement of the main housing portion with respect to the frame slidably moves the radius limiter with respect to the main housing portion along the sliding direction.
US10436998B2
A telecommunications cabinet includes a cabinet housing; a fiber optic splitter; a plurality of spools disposed on a cable management surface; a panel oriented at a fixed angle relative to the access opening so that the panel extends laterally and rearwardly between the access opening and the cable management surface; and a plurality of adapters disposed on the panel.
US10436994B2
An optical fiber cable includes a plurality of optical fibers and at least one tubular jacketing element surrounding the plurality of optical fibers. The jacketing element has a jacketing material containing at least a first ingredient being a thermoplastic polymer, a second ingredient being an intumescent material capable of releasing gas, under the influence of heat, for generating a foam, and a third ingredient being a stiffening agent capable of decomposing, under the influence of heat, with formation of a glass and/or of a ceramic material for stiffening the foam.
US10436988B2
An optical fiber adapter for supporting a non-collimated laser light source transmitting a laser light with a first signal wavelength. The optical fiber adapter includes an infrared signal transmitter for transmitting an infrared signal, and an infrared signal receiver for receiving the infrared signal. The infrared signal includes a second signal wavelength. The optical fiber adapter also includes a movable shutter door intersecting the infrared signal in a shutter closed position. The shutter door includes a material that is adapted to pass the infrared signal therethrough when in the shutter closed position. The shutter door includes a material that is adapted to block the first signal wavelength therethrough when in the shutter closed position. The shutter door is positioned distally from the non-collimated laser light source a distance by which the laser light attenuates to not transmit through the shutter door in the shutter closed position. The shutter is movable to a shutter open position to not block the laser light source transmitting the laser light with the first signal wavelength.
US10436987B2
An optical module includes a substrate on which an optical waveguide is provided; a housing that houses the substrate and includes a through path arranged on a side wall of the housing so as to extend in a direction that crosses the optical waveguide; a ferrule that houses an end portion of an optical fiber; and an optical path conversion element that is fixed on the ferrule, that is fixed on an end surface of the substrate on the end portion side of the optical waveguide, and that has a size smaller than a width of the substrate and a width of the ferrule along a longitudinal direction of the substrate. The end portion of the optical waveguide is arranged at a position close to the through path of the housing relative to a central portion in a width direction of the substrate.
US10436986B2
A multimode interference (MMI) coupler with an MMI region of curved edges, and a method of design and manufacturing by using a computerized optimization algorithm to determine a favorable set of segment widths for the MMI region for a predefined set of coupler design parameters.
US10436980B2
It is provided a circuit assembly, comprising at least one electronic circuit; at least one optical waveguide, wherein the core and the cladding of the optical waveguide are formed of an amorphous material; at least one carrier on which the optical waveguide is arranged; and at least one electro-optically active material layer electrically connected to the electronic circuit. The at least one electro-optically active material layer at least partially extends in the optical waveguide and the electrical connection between the electronic circuit and the at least one electro-optically active material layer is produced in that at least one electrical contact extends from the electronic circuit through at least one section of the cladding of the optical waveguide to the at least one electro-optically active material layer or is connected to a section of the electro-optically active material layer, which protrudes from the cladding of the optical waveguide.
US10436978B2
Provided is a cladded single crystal sapphire optical fiber. In one embodiment, the innovation provides a method for forming a cladding in a single crystal sapphire optical fiber by reactor irradiation. The reactor irradiation creates ions external to the fiber that enter the fiber, displace atoms in the fiber, and are implanted in the fiber, thus modifying the index of refraction of the fiber near the surface of the fiber and creating a cladding in the sapphire fiber.
US10436976B2
A luminaire can comprise a top housing fastened to a bottom housing, the top housing comprising at least one rib, the luminaire further comprising a lightguide disposed between the top housing and the bottom housing, the rib securing the lightguide against a gasket, wherein the gasket is located between the lightguide and the bottom housing, and the luminaire further comprising a light source disposed between the top housing and the bottom housing and further disposed adjacent an edge of the lightguide. The bottom housing can define an opening through which light emitted by the lightguide exits the luminaire.
US10436964B2
Provided is an inorganic polarizing plate having a wire grid structure including: a transparent substrate; and grid-shaped protrusions arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a use band, in which the grid-shaped-protrusion includes, in order from the transparent substrate side, a reflection layer and a reflection suppressing layer which includes a dielectric material and a non-dielectric material and of which a content of the non-dielectric material increases as a separation from the reflection layer increases. In addition, provided are a method of manufacturing the inorganic polarizing plate and an optical instrument including the inorganic polarizing plate.
US10436962B2
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a polarizer, including: preparing a polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizer dyed with one or more of iodine and dichromatic dyes; and forming a depolarization region having simple substance transmittance of 80% or more in a wavelength band of 400 nm to 800 nm by bringing a decoloring solution including 1 wt % to 30 wt % of a decolorant into local contact with some regions of the polarizer, and a polarizer manufactured using the same.
US10436953B2
An arched, cylindrical Fresnel lens is designed to collimate an optical beam in one plane while allowing the beam to propagate in the orthogonal plane with minimal reflection and efficient transmission. The lens comprises a thin lens body that arches about a vertical axis to yield a hollow cylindrical shape. The lens can comprise refractive areas on one or both of its outward-facing surface or inward-facing surface, the refractive areas comprising a series of parallel angled grooves etched into the lens' substrate. The lens can also be realized by a gradient change of the refractive index in the bulk of the lens material, or can comprise diffractive gratings comprising parallel binary structures. The lens may also comprise a holographic imprint on one of its surface or its bulk, thereby attributing diffractive optical power.
US10436944B2
An optical element includes an optically effective surface and an optically non-effective surface, and a light-shielding coating film is formed on the optically non-effective surface. The optically non-effective surface includes a round-chamfered concave step corner section, the light-shielding coating film is formed over the entire concave step corner section, the light-shielding coating film has a raised area near a location where one of planes of the concave step corner section is connected to the round chamfer. Consequently, film cracking of the optically non-effective surface of a stepped shape is inhibited and a reliable optical element is provided.
US10436926B2
Marine survey data resulting from a first signal comprising a signal representing a flat spectral far-field pressure generated by a marine vibrator source swept over a frequency range according to a time function of motion such that acceleration of the marine vibrator source is a flat function in a frequency domain can be used to improve full waveform inversion. For example, full waveform inversion can be performed using the marine survey data received from the first signal and from a second signal generated by an impulsive seismic source to estimate a physical property of a subsurface location.
US10436916B2
A module system for a radiometric measuring device includes a basic module having a sensor arrangement designed to generate a measurement signal on the basis of radiation which strikes the sensor arrangement, a signal evaluation unit electrically coupled to the sensor arrangement and being designed to determine a measurement variable on the basis of the measurement signal, a control device interface, wherein the basic module is coupleable to at least one control device by the control device interface for interchanging data, the basic module being supplied with electrical energy solely via its control device interface in a basic operating state, and an expansion module interface. The module system further includes an expansion module which is separate from the basic module and has a basic module interface, the basic module interface being able to be coupled to the expansion module interface for interchanging data, interchanging energy, and/or interchanging measurement signals, a number of functional groups, and an energy supply interface coupleable to an energy supply unit separate from the basic module and the expansion module, wherein energy provided via the energy supply interface is used to supply energy to the expansion module.
US10436913B2
A bale information system includes a baling machine configured to process a material into a bale, the baling machine including a sensor configured to measure a release of the bale from the baling machine, a global positioning system receiver in operable communication with the baling machine, and a data storage system operable to receive and store data from the global positioning system receiver.
US10436900B2
An object detection apparatus is applied to a movable body including an object detection sensor which transmits a search wave and receives a reflected wave of the search wave as detection information of an object, and detects the object present around the movable body based on the detection information. The apparatus includes a frequency detection section which detects an occurrence frequency of a disturbance signal at the same time within a predetermined transmission time period determined with reference to a transmission period of the search wave, and a disturbance determination section which determines presence or absence of occurrence of disturbance based on the occurrence frequency detected by the frequency detection section.
US10436899B2
An object detection apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires, as a first direct wave group, reflected versions of first probing waves transmitted from and received at a first position, and acquires, as a first indirect wave group reflected versions of the first probing waves received at a second position, a second acquisition unit that acquires, as a second indirect wave group, reflected versions of second probing waves transmitted from the second position and received at the first position, and acquires, as a second direct wave group, reflected versions of the second probing wave received at the second position, and a determination unit that determines whether the object is a real object or a ghost in accordance with the receptions times of the first and second direct wave groups and the first and second indirect wave groups.
US10436895B2
An efficient RADAR imaging method that is able to detect an object within an interested area. This method uses electromagnetic waves transmitted by one or many transmitters to illuminate the interested area, and then estimates the phase shift of the scattered wave of an object according to the path that the electromagnetic wave propagated. By reversing the phase of the obtained scattered signal to the transmitters' position, an image is constructed for the entire interested area according to the correlation of signals in all channels. The present method works in the frequency domain. It produces a microwave image by using the phase and magnitude of the obtained signal, or using the phase information only. Other unique features include the way it synthesizes the signals obtained in multiple channels and at multiple frequencies. Its overwhelming high efficiency makes rapid microwave imaging and real-time imaging possible.
US10436888B2
Disclosed is a system and method for a hybrid radar system that integrates frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) mode and interferometry mode. The radar works as a time division system that continuously switches between the FMCW mode and interferometry mode. The FMCW mode is responsible for absolute range detection and the interferometry mode takes cares of the weak physiological movement monitoring. The respective accuracies in range detection and displacement measurement complements the advantages of the two radar modes, providing versatile performance. By steering the antenna beam, the proposed radar system becomes an ideal solution for indoor health care, human localization, and human-computer interaction. Objects or human targets with or without stationary clutters can be precisely located. At the same time, the targets' vital signs and gestures can be monitored.
US10436873B1
A method of calibration is described that simplifies the measurement of battery impedance conducted in-situ while determining battery state-of-health. A single shunt measurement with a known Sum of Sines (SOS) current, at the desired frequency spread and known root mean squared (RMS) current is used to create a calibration archive. A calibration selected from this archive is used to calibrate an impedance measurement made on the battery.
US10436870B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. By using image data of a subject acquired by performing a first imaging process, the processing circuitry is configured to detect a first region including at least a part of a first site, the first site and a second site having a symmetrical relationship with each other in the subject. The processing circuitry is configured to derive a second region including at least a part of the second site on the basis of the first region. The processing circuitry is configured to set a Radio Frequency (RF) pulse application region used for performing a second imaging process, on the basis of the second region.
US10436866B2
Systems and methods for simultaneous multislice (“SMS”} magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”}, in which a random blip gradient encoding scheme is utilized to impart a different phase to each of a plurality of different slice locations. Because of the random blip gradient encoding, the amount of the imparted phase is randomized for each phase encoding step in a Cartesian k-space trajectory. This data acquisition strategy leads to incoherent aliasing artifacts across the simultaneously excited slices. Images of the individual slices can be reconstructed using a compressed sensing framework.
US10436865B2
A method for combining nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis and digital rock physics (DRP) analysis based on drilling cuttings or other rock samples for improved downhole nuclear magnetic resonance validation and characterization. A system for performing the method also is provided.
US10436863B2
Method for analyzing a sample including a species to be characterized and a reference species, includes: acquiring one or more complex free induction decay (FID) signal(s) (S(t)), obtaining a FID spectrum S(ω) by applying a Fourier transform to the signal S(t), with the FID spectrum obtained including two portions, each extending from the resonance frequency of the reference species (F0ref) and respectively on either side of F0Ref, with the frequency of the species to be characterized located on a portion of the spectrum; modeling the signal of the reference species from the real and complex parts of the at least one complex FID signal; obtaining a spectrum Sref(ω) of the reference species including the reference species only, obtaining a modified FID {tilde over (S)}(ω) spectrum; applying a reverse Fourier transform to {tilde over (S)}(ω) to obtain a modified signal {tilde over (s)}(t); calculating the module of the {tilde over (s)}(t) modified FID signal.
US10436856B2
A sensor apparatus adjusts output timings of a detection signal and a sensing signal for sensing an abnormality in the detection signal. Provided is a magnetic sensor apparatus comprising a magnetic sensor element, an amplifying section that amplifies and outputs an output of the magnetic sensor element, a plurality of comparing sections that compare the output of the magnetic sensor element or an output of the amplifying section to a threshold value, and a plurality of delaying sections that each delay and output a comparison result output by a corresponding comparing section among the plurality of comparing sections. Also provided is a current sensor apparatus including a current path through which a current serving as a measurement target flows and a magnetic sensor apparatus that is arranged corresponding to the current path and detects a magnetic field generated according to the current serving as the measurement target.
US10436849B2
A system and method estimates the state of charge of a battery comprising at least two modules each provided with at least one cell. A sensor senses a series current flowing through all cells of the modules connected in series. A switching device selectively disconnects one of the modules, the other modules remaining connected in series. A calculator calculates the state of charge of the cells through which the series current flows from the integration of the series current and calculates the state of charge of each of the cells of the disconnected module from an open circuit voltage thereof.
US10436848B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery capacity active estimation method for an electric vehicle. The method is capable of determining the battery capacity based on estimating a State Of Charge (SOC) of the battery before and after a discharge operation but without having to wait until an establishment of sufficient thermal and electric equilibria in the battery. The estimation of SOC may even be made while the battery is being slowly charged. Depending on the equilibrium state of the battery, SOCs may be either directly obtained by measuring Open Circuit Voltage of the battery when the battery is in electric equilibrium or calculated and estimated when the battery is not in electric equilibrium.
US10436847B2
Described herein are techniques to accurately detect that a secondary battery has been replaced. A secondary battery state detecting device detects a state of a secondary battery installed in a vehicle. The device includes a control unit that learns element values of an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery on the basis of a voltage and a current of the secondary battery. The control unit also compares the element values obtained through learning at different timings and, when at least one of the element values has changed more than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, determines that the secondary battery has been replaced.
US10436821B2
A device for detecting alternating-current components iAC of an electric current iACDC flowing in a direct-current circuit includes an inductor arranged in the direct-current circuit, and an AC path arranged electrically in parallel with the inductor, wherein the AC path comprises a series circuit made up of a capacitor and a primary winding of a transformer. The device further includes a voltage measuring device, wherein a secondary winding of the transformer is connected to the voltage measuring device via a low-pass filter circuit.
US10436817B2
A test matrix adapter device having a plurality of segments arranged in a plane, the respective segments have line-shaped and column-shaped frame sections, and the segments are connected to one another in a form-fitting manner by the frame sections. Semiconductor receiving devices are arranged within the segments, that each have a plurality of first contact surfaces that are spaced apart from one another. The semiconductor receiving device are form-fittingly connected by webs to the frame sections of an assigned segment. The semiconductor receiving device has a bottom side and a base region at least partially enclosed by a frame, and an outer side. The column-shaped frame sections have projections that have second contact surfaces that are connected by conductor tracks to the first contact surfaces. The semiconductor receiving device adapted to receive a packaged semiconductor component with terminal contacts and to connect the terminal contacts to the first contact surfaces.
US10436816B2
A test coaxial connector has a probe portion with a small height, and prevents breakage of a switch-equipped coaxial connector even when the test coaxial connector is not properly fitted to the switch-equipped coaxial connector. The test coaxial connector includes a housing and a probe housed in the housing. The probe is formed of one continuous structure having elasticity, the structure including a contact at or near an end portion of the structure and including, at or near another end portion of the structure, a connection portion to which a central conductor of a coaxial cable is to be connected.
US10436812B2
A MEMS acceleration device for measurement of the acceleration along three axes. The device includes capacitors, which capacitance changes under the influence of an acceleration acting upon the device. The change of capacitance for acceleration parallel to the substrate are, normally used with distinct capacitors. This device combines capacitors for using the change in capacitance for sensing in two independent and different directions parallel to the substrate thereby reusing the capacitor. Thereby allowing shrinking of the device while maintaining substantially the same sensitivity.
US10436802B2
Disclosed herein are compounds, compositions and methods for modulating splicing of SMN2 mRNA in a subject. Also provided are uses of disclosed compounds and compositions in the manufacture of a medicament for treatment of diseases and disorders, including spinal muscular atrophy. Also provided are kits for detecting the amount of SMN protein in a sample of cerebrospinal fluid.
US10436799B2
The present invention is related to novel methods for diagnosing and treating acute pulmonary exacerbation in subjects in need thereof.
US10436795B2
Carbon-detected NMR is well-suited for mapping binding sites in intrinsically disordered regions of a polypeptides, and for mapping of binding motifs in intrinsically disordered regions with single-residue resolution. Provided are methods of carbon-detected NMR for determining the amino acids that mediate the interaction between an intrinsically disordered polypeptide or protein, or an intrinsically disordered region of a polypeptide, and a biomolecule such as another polypeptide or a nucleic acid.
US10436788B2
Described herein are compositions and methods of use of anti-Trop-2 antibodies or antigen-binding fragment thereof to isolate, enrich, detect, diagnose and/or characterize circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from patients with a Trop-2 positive cancer. Preferably, the antibody is an RS7, 162-46.2 or MAB650 antibody. The compositions and methods are of use to detect, diagnose and/or treat metastatic Trop-2+ cancers, such as breast, ovarian, cervical, endometrial, lung, prostate, colon, rectum, stomach, esophageal, bladder, renal, pancreatic, thyroid, epithelial or head-and-neck cancer.
US10436787B2
The present invention is in the technical field of breast cancer management, and more particularly relates to the diagnosis of breast cancer. The invention is more particularly based on the finding that specific biomarkers (olfactomedin-4, neudesin and desmoplakin) are abberantly expressed in the blood of breast cancer patients.
US10436786B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting the activation states of components of signal transduction pathways in tumor cells. Information on the activation states of components of signal transduction pathways derived from use of the invention can be used for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and in the design of cancer treatments.
US10436781B2
A specimen delivery cartridge includes a lower housing, and an upper housing. The upper housing is coupled to the lower housing at a hinge. The specimen delivery cartridge further comprises a testing chamber comprising a paper testing substrate. The paper testing substrate may include a wicking conduit and a plurality of test areas. The specimen delivery cartridge may also include a lens assembly proximate the plurality of test areas and operable to transmit light emissions from the plurality of test areas to an image sensor of a computing device. In some embodiments, the specimen delivery cartridge includes a testing substrate having a plurality of test areas made of an array of electrodes. Each electrode is printed on a first side of the testing substrate and coupled to a conductive via formed in the testing substrate and a conductive trace printed on a second, opposing side of the testing substrate.
US10436774B1
The glove having chromogenic material is a medical glove that further comprises a chemical indicator. The chemical indicator is selected to indicate the presence of a specific chemical or chemical condition within a biological material that is being handled by the medical glove. The chemical indicator reacts to the specific chemical or chemical condition in a visible manner such that medical personnel handling the biological material is notified of the specific chemical or chemical condition. In the first potential embodiment of the disclosure, the chemical indicator that forms the coating indicates the pH of the biological material. In a second and third potential embodiment of the disclosure, the chemical indicator that forms the coating detects the presence of a biologically active chemical that is diagnostically relevant when found in the urine of a mammal.
US10436773B2
A mobile device based multi-analyte testing analyzer for use in medical diagnostic monitoring and screening, and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. A reflectance based, colorimetric test strip reader for use with a mobile device having a jack plug receiving socket, said test strip reader adapted for removably receiving a test strip having a test strip longitudinal axis, comprising a housing; a jack plug operably coupled to and extending from said housing and adapted for operable coupling with said jack plug receiving socket; a test strip adapter including structure defining a test strip receiving channel; a light source oriented within said housing for directing light toward said test strip receiving channel to illuminate a test strip arranged within said test strip adapter; and a light sensor oriented within said housing to sense light reflected from a test strip carried by said test strip receiving channel.
US10436772B2
A system and method for quantifying white blood cells in a blood sample is described. The system includes a sample medium for depositing the same blood. The sample medium is positioned between a first electrode and a second electrode. The system also includes an electrical analyzer for supping pulsing sweeping voltage across the electrodes through the sample medium. The electrical analyzer is also configured for measuring capacitance across the sample medium before and after adding a chemical analyte. The system also includes a general processor in electrical or wireless communication with the electrical analyzer configured for quantifying the white blood cells in the blood sample based on the generated capacitance-voltage profile. The method is described to operate the system and to quantify the white blood cells in a blood sample.
US10436771B2
Systems and methods for targeted therapy based on single-cell stimulus perturbation response. In one embodiment, a method for optimizing stimulus combinations for therapy includes receiving a cell sample, treating the cell sample with a plurality of stimuli by treating a different portion of the cell sample with one of the plurality of stimuli for each of the plurality of stimuli, labeling the cell sample with a plurality of metal-conjugated probes, analyzing the cell sample using a mass spectrometer, obtaining mass spectrometry data from the mass spectrometer, identifying subpopulations within the cell sample using the mass spectrometry data, computing stimulus effects, generating a nested-effects model using the mass spectrometry data, and scoring stimuli combinations using the computing device, wherein the stimulus combinations are combinations made from the plurality of stimuli.
US10436767B2
A device and method for determining characteristics of a concrete sample includes the use of multiple transducers. The transducers may couple to the concrete surface so that they can impart or receive mechanical waves from the sample. An area within a plane in the concrete sample is bounded by a collective extent of mechanical waves that pass through the plane and has a dimension at least as long as a distance between reinforcing bars in the concrete.
US10436762B2
A method of monitoring catalytic performance of a catalyst used in a reforming process, comprising a) collecting gaseous component data from the reforming process; b) calculating a gaseous component ratio from the gaseous component data; and c) utilizing the gaseous component ratio to estimate an amount of catalytic activity remaining in the catalyst used in the reforming process, a number of days on stream remaining for the catalyst used in the reforming process, or both.
US10436756B2
A system for detecting rodent activity in an area. A series of detectors that calibrated to detect rodent vocalizations are placed in a geographic area. One or more of the detectors detect rodent vocalizations and transmits data notifying a central computer of detected vocalizations. The computer is provided with a program that generates a report of incidences and locations of detected vocalizations.
US10436753B2
A method for adjusting array of omnidirectional EMATs includes: uniformly arranging N EMATs in a detection region of a metal plate; calculating positions of scattering points according to amplitudes and travel times of guided wave scattering signals, and forming a first defect profile curve by performing three smooth spline interpolations on coordinate data of positions of scattering points; calculating curvatures of points on the first defect profile curve by solving a first and second derivatives of a function of the first defect profile curve; determining an array adjustment region by comparing the curvature with a preset threshold, adjusting the array and calculating a second defect profile curve; and performing data fusion on the first and second defect profile curves to form a defect profile image of the metal plate.
US10436750B2
The dielectric barrier discharge ionization detector includes: a dielectric tube through which a plasma generation gas is passed; a high-voltage electrode formed on the outer wall of the dielectric tube; two ground electrodes and formed on the outer wall of the dielectric tube, with the high-voltage electrode in between; a voltage supplier for applying AC voltage between the high-voltage electrode and each ground electrode to generate electric discharge within the dielectric tube and thereby generate plasma from the plasma generation gas; and a charge-collecting section for detecting an ion current formed by ionized sample-component gas produced by the plasma. The distance between one ground electrode and the high-voltage electrode is longer than a discharge initiation distance between these two electrodes, while the distance between the other ground electrode and the high-voltage electrode is shorter than the discharge initiation distance between these two electrodes.
US10436749B2
A fluid testing system can be used to measure the levels of contaminants in a fluid system. The system can utilize anodic stripping voltammetry or some other chemical, electrical, or electrochemical process to measure the contaminant levels. Wire electrodes may be used to facilitate the tests. Unused portions of the electrode wires can be fed into the test chambers between tests to ensure clean and reliable electrodes for subsequent testing.
US10436745B2
A system for measuring pH includes a substrate and a sensor medium on the substrate. The sensor medium includes at least one oxidized carbon nanostructure and optionally at least one composition immobilized on the at least one oxidized carbon nanostructure. The at least one composition has at least one property that depends on pH. The system further includes at least one measurement system to measure a property of the sensor medium.
US10436740B2
A method for manufacturing a sensor element for detecting (i) a gas component in a measuring gas or (ii) a temperature of the measuring gas includes: introducing at least one functional element into at least one slip at least once in such a way that a slip layer is applied to the functional element, the functional element including at least one solid electrolyte and at least one functional layer; sintering the slip layer on the functional element; grinding the slip layer at least in the area of the at least one functional layer; impregnating the slip layer; and thermally treating the impregnated slip layer.
US10436739B1
A unique solution to measure NOx emissions is achieved less expensively and with much greater sensitivity than commercially available NOx sensors. A sensor's active materials are modified and operational algorithms are used to concurrently measure single ppm levels of NOx and NH3 with response times of one second or less. A combined NOx/NH3 sensor to have much finer control of an SCR system, thereby reducing NOx emissions and ammonia slip in a closed-loop device, all at lower cost than the current state-of-the-art solutions.
US10436734B2
An example system includes an array of capacitive elements, a measurement lead, and a ground plane lead. One or more respective capacitive elements of the array of capacitive elements include a dielectric substrate and a corresponding top conductive layer, with each dielectric substrate configured to be positioned between the top conductive layer and a common ground plane. The measurement lead is coupled to the top conductive layer of each of the one or more respective capacitive elements. The ground plane lead is configured to be coupled to the common ground plane. The capacitive elements are structured such that the capacitive elements have varying respective capacitances, and the capacitive elements are arranged positionally within the array of capacitive elements such that a change in total capacitance is indicative of damage to a particular capacitive element at a particular position within the array of capacitive elements.
US10436729B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a conductivity sensor, including a conductive conductivity sensor, including method steps of producing a thermoplastic sensor body of a plastic, which is doped at least partially with a laser activatable, metal compound as an additive, radiating the sensor body at doped locations by means of a laser, so that conductive metal nuclei form from the metal compound, immersing the sensor body in a metal bath, until at least one conductive trace forms on the region having the metal nuclei, where the at least one conductive trace serves as an electrode of the conductivity sensor.
US10436727B2
A tool having a pump-out unit, pumping unit, and NMR unit is disposed in a wellbore. On a pump-up cycle, after removing borehole fluids, a fluid is injected into a region of investigation. NMR measurements are made while fluid migrates into the region of investigation. On a production cycle, pressure is removed, allowing fluid to exit the formation while NMR measurements are made. A rate of fluid production is estimated using the time-dependent NMR measurements. Alternatively, the mass of a sample is measured. Fluid is injected into the sample and the mass of the injected sample is measured. Pressure is removed and the mass of the injected sample as the fluid migrates out of the sample is measured. The change in mass of the injected sample as the fluid migrates out of the sample is determined and a rate of fluid production is estimated using the determined change in mass.
US10436726B2
A palm-size portable μNMR relaxometer system for performing multi-step multi-sample chemical/biological assays, comprising a PCB having a CMOS μNMR transceiver and a DMF device integrated thereon. A portable magnet has an inner gap configured to at least partially receive the DMF device. The DMF device comprises a platform of electrodes including a sensing site and receives one or more samples for analysis at an electrode and automatically transports the one or more samples on individual paths sequentially to the sensing site, for performing sensing on each sample sequentially. A Butterfly coil disposed on the PCB and underneath the DMF device and is at least partially received in the inner gap. The Butterfly coil excites the sample at the μNMR sensing site by transducing a magnetic field produced at the sensing site to an electrical signal which is processed by the CMOS μNMR transceiver to produce an analytical signal.
US10436719B2
Disclosed is a method of monitoring and optimizing the concentration of an additive composition in a fuel ethanol. The method includes adding a known amount of the additive composition to the fuel ethanol to create a treated fuel ethanol. A measured fluorescent signal provides information for determining the concentration of the additive composition in the fuel ethanol. A component in the additive composition is capable of providing the fluorescent signal or capable of being chemically derivatized to provide a fluorescent signal or a colorimetric signal. Based upon the measured fluorescent signal or colorimetric signal, the concentration of the additive composition in the fuel ethanol may be adjusted.
US10436717B2
Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for detecting and analyzing anomalous events (i.e., arcing events) from spectral data gathered during a wafer fabrication process.
US10436715B2
Provided is a fluorescence reading device capable of narrowing a distance between a lens unit and an observation object to a distance according to a focal length of a refractive index distribution type lens and focusing fluorescence emitted from the observation object on detecting unit without blurring. Optical fiber sub-bundles equivalent to a light guide unit are buried in lens holding parts of a lens unit. Emission ends of the optical fiber sub-bundles are exposed to upper surfaces of the lens holding parts that face the observation object holding unit. The optical fiber sub-bundles guide the excitation light emitted from the light source and radiate the guided excitation light toward the surface of an observation object that faces the lens unit.
US10436709B2
A device for calibrating an in-line sensor is disclosed, including a housing having a first aperture and a second aperture arranged along an optical path extending through the housing, a first filter and a second filter disposed within the housing such that the filters are moveable from an operating position to a calibration position. In the calibration position the filters are arranged in the optical path and the housing includes a connection adjacent each of the first aperture and the second aperture, the connection structured to enable the housing to be reversibly attached to a flow cell, a detector and a light source of an in-line sensor.
US10436702B2
A corrosion monitoring system includes at least one corrosion sensor. The corrosion sensor includes a metallic plug having at least one opening, at least one ceramic sheath in the opening of the metallic plug, and a plurality of probes. Each probe has a central portion with a predetermined cross sectional area extending from the metallic plug. The ceramic sheath electrically isolates each first end and each second end of the probes from the metallic plug and the other first ends and second ends. The probes are sized to provide a distribution of predetermined cross sectional areas of the central portions. The corrosion monitoring system also includes a resistance meter measuring an ohmic resistance for at least one of the probes and a computer determining a corrosion rate by correlating a rate of change of the ohmic resistance to the corrosion rate of the probe.
US10436700B1
A cell capture system including an array, an inlet manifold, and an outlet manifold. The array includes a plurality of parallel pores, each pore including a chamber and a pore channel, an inlet channel fluidly connected to the chambers of the pores; an outlet channel fluidly connected to the pore channels of the pores. The inlet manifold is fluidly connected to the inlet channel, and the outlet channel is fluidly connected to the outlet channel. A cell removal tool is also disclosed, wherein the cell removal tool is configured to remove a captured cell from a pore chamber.
US10436693B2
Provided herein are portable apparatus as well as methods of analyzing an injection fluid using these portable apparatus. In some embodiments, the injection fluid can contain a polymer, but a polymer is not necessary. For example, the portable apparatus and methods may be used to determine viscosity, long term injectivity, filter ratio, or any combination thereof of the injection fluid.
US10436690B2
An impact resistance test method of a glove having a protective material includes applying an impact force, with an impactor, to the glove at a plurality of locations on a section of the glove, measuring, with a load cell, a transferred impact force transferred through the section of the glove, and determining an impact resistance of the glove based on the measured transferred impact force. The impactor has a predetermined weight and is dropped from a predetermined height to apply the impact force to the section of the glove. An apparatus for carrying out the test method is also provided.
US10436689B2
The invention relates to a test pendulum arrangement for carrying out a crash test dummy certifications, having a test probe which is arranged suspended on a cable arrangement, wherein test conditions are standardized and a cable standard length (lN) is provided, the cable arrangement having a suspension, wherein a first drive for accelerating the test probe and at least a second drive for displacing the suspension are provided. The invention also relates to a method for operating a corresponding test pendulum arrangement.
US10436680B2
A cell capture, disruption, and extraction apparatus includes a disruption chamber configured to receive cell solution and having therein a plurality of abrasives, which can include diamond powder, variably and multi dimensionally disbursed therein, and a pestle positioned in the disruption chamber. The apparatus includes an actuation device configured to agitate the disruption chamber and/or pestle, movement of the abrasives tearing cell structure in the solution to access its contents. A binding column or size exclusion column can be positioned downstream of the disruption chamber. The pestle can rotate with respect to the disruption chamber. The pestle can include a nut-shaped core or axle, and/or include a plurality of extrusions. Cell solution can first be introduced in the disruption chamber, the abrasives capturing the cells and allowing therethrough and purging the waste content, then breaking the cell content through the foregoing agitation process. The lysate can then bind to an extraction matrix downstream of the disruption chamber or it can be mixed in with the abrasives.
US10436674B2
The lifetime estimation device for a rolling bearing includes a buildup height estimation unit operable for estimating the buildup height of the indentation from a rolling surface from the depth of an indentation or the indentation size in accordance with a predetermined rule; and a lifetime estimation unit for estimating the service life of the rolling bearing in accordance with a rule stipulated according to the relationship between the estimated buildup height of the indentation and the rate of reduction of the rolling fatigue life and a dynamic equivalent load. The lifetime estimation unit calculates the service life of the rolling bearing corresponding to the contact surface pressure.
US10436648B2
To provide a temperature sensor that can be attached to or removed from a neutral line without skilled technique, a temperature sensor is attached to a rectangular coil and detects temperature of the coil. The temperature sensor includes: a sensor holder extending from front end side toward back end side; a sensor body that is held by the sensor holder to locate a thermosensitive device on the front end side and from which lead wires are drawn toward the back end side, the lead wires being electrically connected to the thermosensitive device; and a clip that is fixed to the sensor holder and presses the coil against the sensor body by elastic force.
US10436642B2
A lens scanning mode hyperspectral imaging system and a rotor unmanned aerial vehicle include: an imaging lens, an imaging spectrometer and a surface array detector arranged in sequence and coaxial to a main optic axis, wherein the imaging spectrometer and the surface array detector are connected and mounted to each other; wherein the lens scanning mode hyperspectral imaging system further includes: a driving device for driving the imaging lens to translate relative to a plane where a slit of the imaging spectrometer is. The hyperspectral imaging system of the present invention overcomes the technical bias in the prior art that the imaging lens must be fixed, and the present invention provides relative motion between the target object and the imaging spectrometer by the lens scanning mode for imaging, which solves the image distortion problem of conventional hyperspectral imaging system using a slit scanning mode or a scanning mode.
US10436639B2
A spectrometer (100) and an optical input portion (32) thereof are disclosed. The optical input portion (32) comprises an assembly structure (322), and the assembly structure (322) is formed at a hole wall (321) of a through hole (3211) of the optical input portion (32). A light (L1) is incident into a dispersing element (2) of the spectrometer (100) along an optical path (13) after passing through the through hole (3211), and is dispersed by the dispersing element (2). The assembly structure (322) is used to be detachably assembled with an optical element (200). When the optical element (200) is assembled with the assembly structure (322), an optical axis of the optical element (200) is linked to the optical path (13). As a result, the light (L1) passing through the optical element (200) is incident to the dispersing element (2) along the optical axis and the optical path (13).
US10436630B2
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to an apparatus including a weighing scale and external circuitry. The weighing scale includes a platform including force sensor circuitry and a plurality of electrodes to collect signals indicative of the user's identity and cardio-related physiologic data while the user is standing on the platform and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry configured with the force sensor circuitry and the plurality of electrodes to collect the cardio-related physiologic data from the user and output at least portions of the cardio-related physiologic data as user data. The external circuitry receives user data from a plurality of weighing scales include the weighing scale and provides a hierarchy of services using scale-obtained data, wherein the hierarchy of services include different services enabled in response to user selection of the service and activation of subscription levels of different weighted values.
US10436622B2
In one aspect, a control system is provided which determines fluid flow in a suspension system for an agricultural machine by determining total fluid in a closed loop piston system. Fluid is determined using position sensors and a pressure transducers and application of the ideal gas with respect to each accumulator. A closed loop control system can then target an amount of fluid for optimum suspension control.
US10436617B2
At least one aspect of the disclosure includes a method for start-up of a sensor comprising the steps of performing a factory adjustment during the manufacture of the sensor to generate factory adjustment data; permanently storing of the factory adjustment data from the factory adjustment in a memory of the sensor; prior to first use of the sensor, performing an initial user adjustment to generate initial user adjustment data; and permanently storing of the initial user adjustment data from the initial user adjustment in the memory. Another aspect of the disclosure improves the status evaluation of the sensor by enable permanent access to both the factory adjustment data and the initial user adjustment.
US10436607B2
An integrated circuit (IC) chip including an array of asymmetrically distributed magnetic field sensing elements. Additionally, an integrated circuit (IC) chip includes a substrate, a sensing coil supported by the substrate and enclosing a portion of substrate, and a Hall effect sensor supported by the portion of the substrate enclosed by the sensing coil.
US10436603B2
A vehicle control system includes: an automated drive control unit that performs automated driving where at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle is performed automatically; a route guidance unit that decides a traveling route over which the vehicle will travel to a destination that has been set, and performs guidance to the decided traveling route; and a presentation unit that presents, to the passenger, at least one of an automated drive proportion that indicates the proportion of the traveling route to the destination where the automated driving can be performed, distance over which automated driving can be performed, predicted driving time over which automated driving can be performed, timing for performing the automated driving, and number of times of performing the automated driving.
US10436602B2
A method and apparatus for providing an indication to a driver of a geared vehicle that the vehicle is not in an optimal gear is disclosed. The method comprises determining a current gear of the vehicle and determining a current speed of a drive unit of the vehicle. An indication is then provided to the driver of the vehicle that the vehicle is not in an optimal gear when: (i) the determined current speed of the drive unit is greater than a predetermined threshold; and (ii) the determined current gear of the vehicle is less than a maximum gear of the vehicle. A method and apparatus is also disclosed for determining a score indicative of the amount of time during a journey on a road network that a geared vehicle is driven in an optimal gear.
US10436598B2
Whether route guidance information output from a navigation device to which an external device is connectable is provided by a navigation function of the external device or by that of the navigation device is able to be identified. A navigation device (100) that outputs route guidance information to HMI devices (104) to (110) and an external device (102) having a navigation function connected to the navigation device are included. The navigation device includes an external device detection means (322) that detects an input from the external device and an output control means (324) that controls output of route guidance information to the HMI devices. When the external device detection means has detected an input from the external device, the output control means outputs route guidance information provided by the navigation function included in the external device to the HMI devices in an output mode different from when route guidance information is output to the HMI devices by a navigation function included in the navigation device.
US10436597B1
A request for directions for traveling to a destination is received via a user interface of a user device, where a mode of transport is not selected via the user interface. A current geographic context of the user device is determined, and suggested mode of transport for travelling to the destination is determined based on the current geographic context. Directions for travelling to the destination using the suggested mode of transport are obtained and provided via the user interface of the user device.
US10436586B1
The adjustable laser line, level, and square is a leveling tool. The adjustable laser line, level, and square comprises a pedestal, a slewing bearing, a stanchion, a drafting triangle, and a laser. The laser and the drafting triangle are attached to the stanchion. The slewing bearing attaches the stanchion to the pedestal. The laser generates a straight beam of light that is used to form a straight line along the surface. The adjustable laser line, level, and square allows for the adjustment of both the azimuth angle and the polar angle of the laser. The slewing bearing is used to adjust the azimuth angle. The drafting triangle is used to adjust the polar angle. The stanchion further comprises a plurality of bubble levels that measure the angle of the stanchion relative to the force of gravity.
US10436583B1
A system for detecting a sensor fault of an aerial refueling boom. The system comprises a data collector configured to receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors and determine an aerial refueling boom elevation angle of the aerial refueling boom based on the sensor data, wherein the sensor data comprises at least one of cable length data, a dynamic pressure data or aerial refueling boom position data. The system further comprises a processing unit configured access a database table in a storage unit to determine an estimated aerial refueling boom elevation angle, a comparator configured to compare the estimated aerial refueling boom elevation angle to the determined aerial refueling boom elevation angle, and a fault detector configured to generate a sensor fault signal based on the comparison.
US10436580B2
A surface measurement system is configured to measure a sample with a low reflectivity surface. The surface measurement system includes a condensation device and a measurement device. The condensation device is configured to form a liquid layer on the surface of the sample. The condensation device includes a chamber, a temperature controlling gas source, and a humidification gas source. The chamber is configured to accommodate the sample. The temperature controlling gas source is connected to the chamber to provide temperature controlling gases to the chamber, so as to control the temperature of the sample. The humidification gas source is connected to the chamber to provide water vapor to the chamber, so as to form the liquid layer on the surface of the sample. The measurement device includes a plate, a light source, and an image capturing device.
US10436578B2
An endoscope apparatus includes an endoscope including a flexible insertion tube and a curved-shape detection sensor. The curved-shape detection sensor includes an optical fiber for propagating detection light and a sensing part provided in at least a part of the optical fiber. The curved-shape detection sensor detects a curved shape of the insertion tube based on a change of characteristics of the detection light after passing the sensing part made in accordance with a change in a curved shape of the optical fiber when the optical fiber is curved. The optical fiber is arranged on a curve axis of the insertion tube defined when the insertion tube is curved in a predetermined curve direction, or in a proximity region of the curve axis.
US10436576B2
To review minute defects that were buried in roughness scattered light with an observation device provided with a dark-field microscope, a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and a control unit, the present invention configures the dark-field microscope by installing a filter for blocking a portion of the scattered light, an imaging lens for focusing the scattered light that has passed through the filter, and a detector for dividing the image of the scattered light focused by the imaging lens into the polarization directions converted by a wavelength plate and detecting the resulting images, and the control has a calculation unit for determining the position of a defect candidate detected by another inspection device using the plurality of images separated into polarization directions and detected by the detector.
US10436561B2
A fuse mechanism for e.g. a pyrotechnic grenade in which a spring loaded striker lever (31) is blocked via a cammed surface (22) of a safety lever (21) comprising a handle. (25). Release of the handle (25) enables deployment of the fuse assembly. Spring-loaded striker lever (31) is urged upwards by the force of torsion spring (38). Contact between the free end (34) of the striker lever (31) exerts a rotational force on cammed portion (22). The safety lever (21) rotates away from the body of the munition (20). Rapid upward movement of the striker lever (31) is prevented at this stage by contact of the free end (34) with the cammed portion (22). Further rotation of the safety lever (21) occurs until point where the cammed portion (22) is no longer in contact with the striker lever. Ultimately, once the safety lever (21) has rotated beyond a certain extent, the free end of the striker lever (31) is no longer in contact with the cammed portion (22), and the striker lever is urged rapidly away from the body of the munition (20).
US10436560B2
A lightweight projectile having an integrated driving band positioned around the exterior of the polymer base of the projectile for engaging the filing of a barrel to impart spin stabilization to the projectile. The driving band protrudes from the polymer base to minimize the contact between the polymer base and the rifling to reduce friction between the barrel and the projectile as the projectile is fired. The reduced friction allows the lightweight projectile to be propelled with minimal propellant force while still retaining the ballistic advantages of a spin stabilized projectile.
US10436558B1
A preformed warhead is provided with a casing having a front section and a rear section. A plurality of target piercing fragments is arranged at the front section. The density of a given fragment diminishes the further the given fragment is from a centerline of the warhead. An initiating point located on the centerline is positioned at the rear section of the warhead. An explosive charge is positioned between the initiating point and the target piercing fragments. Upon detonation of the warhead, the explosive wave propagates in a radial fashion such that the fragments receiving the impact of the explosive force soonest and most directly are those fragments closest to the centerline. Thus, a substantially planar velocity profile of all the fragments is achieved.
US10436557B2
A projectile for piercing armor includes an outer jacket built around a penetrator assembly. The penetrator assembly includes an inner jacket, a penetrator, and an incendiary charge. The inner jacket includes a leading part and a trailing part. The incendiary charge is carried by the leading part of the inner jacket. The penetrator is made of an armor-piercing material and includes an armor-piercing leading extremity, a trailing extremity, and an outer surface. The armor-piercing leading extremity extends into the trailing part of the inner jacket, and the inner jacket bears against the outer surface of the penetrator between the armor-piercing leading extremity and the trailing extremity. An empty space within the inner jacket is between the armor-piercing leading extremity of the penetrator and the incendiary charge.
US10436555B1
An improved shooting target having a printed front face sheet mounted to a core sheet which has an integral cutout area positioned directly behind the aim point of the printed target face. Dye-filled packets positioned within the cutout area are held in place with the glue of an adhesive faced backer sheet which covers the back side of the cutout area of the core sheet and is held in place by adhering to the back face of the core sheet. The result is an improved target having the qualities of providing the marksman or recreational shooter with immediate enhanced visual identification as to the impact area of their shot as the projectile bursts a dye packet leaving a colorful or contrasting mark on the printed target face.
US10436552B2
A laser sight system for switching between one color of projected light, and a second color of projected light, depending upon ambient lighting levels. The system includes laser projectors of at least two colors, and optionally, a light level sensor having a setpoint and a setpoint adjuster. Actuation of an appropriate laser projector may be determined by sensing ambient light. The system may include a flashlight for general illumination, and a manual selector for selecting among three modes of operation. In one mode, only the laser projectors operate. In another mode, only the flashlight operates. In another mode, the lasers operate subject to the light level sensor, and the flashlight operates when the low light level laser is operating.
US10436550B2
A holster system that comprises a holster and an accessory configured to be fixed to a mounting rail of a handgun. The holster has a holster body with a pair of opposing wall portions defining a cavity. A retention mechanism of the system has a blocking portion movable between a blocking position and a non-blocking position. The blocking member at least inhibits removal of the handgun and accessory if the handgun and accessory are urged rearwardly before a thumb receiving portion is depressed. The blocking portion is on a spring member that is deflected by an elongate exteriorly extending sliding member that has a cam surface that selectively deflects the spring member from the blocking position.
US10436547B2
An electrically powered airsoft gun includes a rechargeable battery; an indicator; an air canister; a solenoid valve for opening or closing the air canister; an electronic circuit board electrically connected to the rechargeable battery and including a microswitch and a processor electrically connected to the indicator and the solenoid vale respectively; and a trigger for activating or deactivating the microswitch. Various firing rates or intervals can be set by pulling the trigger a number of times.
US10436543B2
An archery stabilizer includes a tubular member and an insert member. The tubular member has a first end, a second end and an interior sidewall defining an interior bore that extends between the first end and the second end. The tubular member has a first resonance frequency. The insert member is positioned in the interior bore and extends for more than one third of the length of the tubular member. The insert member has an exterior surface. The insert member has a second resonance frequency that differs from the first resonance frequency. A vibration dampening gel is positioned between the exterior surface of the insert member and the interior sidewall of the tubular member. A mounting assembly is positioned at the first end of the tubular member, whereby the archery stabilizer is mounted to an archery bow. A weight support assembly is positioned at the second end of the tubular member, whereby one or more weights are supported.
US10436538B2
A slide for an automatic pistol includes a cavity, a housing in the cavity, a laser module at least partially received in the housing, a power source, circuitry, and a striker. The slide has a first mode in which it emits laser light and a second mode in which it does not emit laser light. The striker has a first position in which it does not cause the laser module to emit laser light. When the pistol's trigger is pulled, the pistol's firing pin contacts the striker and moves the striker backwards from the first position to a biased position. When the firing pin moves out of contact with the striker, the striker moves forward to a second position and causes the circuitry to transmit power from the power source to the laser module, which causes the laser module to emit laser light.
US10436529B1
Hydraulic fluid coolers suitable for cooling hydraulic fluid in a closed loop hydraulic circuit and capable of withstanding high hydraulic fluid pressures may include at least one heat exchanger. The at least one heat exchanger may include a header assembly having a header inlet conduit, a header outlet conduit and a fan motor outlet conduit. A plurality of primary cooling conduits may be disposed in fluid communication with and extend between the header inlet conduit and the header outlet conduit. A plurality of secondary cooling conduits may be disposed in fluid communication with and extend between the header inlet conduit and the fan motor outlet conduit. A cooling fan may be disposed adjacent to the plurality of primary cooling conduits and the plurality of secondary cooling conduits. A hydraulically-actuated cooling fan motor may drivingly engage the cooling fan. The cooling fan motor may be disposed in fluid communication with the fan motor outlet conduit of the header assembly.
US10436526B2
A heat exchanger may include a plate, a seal and a cover. The plate may have at least two receiving grooves having a respective groove base, an intermediate region disposed in a plane between a plurality of rim holes, and a ramp extending between the intermediate region and the respective groove base of the at least two receiving grooves. The seal extends in the at least two receiving grooves. The ramp may be rounded at a transition to the receiving grooves with a first radius and at a transition to the intermediate region with a second radius, and the ramp may be inclined between 20°<α<65° relative to the intermediate region or has an S-shaped progression. An inflection point of the plate may be arranged in a region from 10% to 80% of a height difference between the intermediate region and the respective groove base.
US10436523B2
The present invention relates to a thermal battery (1) comprising an enclosure (3) comprising a fluid inlet and outlet and comprising within it tubes (5) of encapsulated phase-change material, said thermal battery (1) further comprising a device (7) for holding and spacing the tubes (5) of encapsulated phase-change material, said holding and spacing device (7) being arranged between the tubes (5) themselves and between the tubes (5) and the enclosure (3), said holding and spacing device (7) being porous.
US10436521B2
A system may include a pump, an evaporator, a condenser, an accumulator, a pump bypass line, a first valve, and a second valve. The system may operate in a powered-pump mode, in which the pump drives fluid circulation, the first valve prevents fluid circulation through the pump bypass line, the pump pumps liquid from the accumulator to the evaporator, gas exiting the evaporator flows to the condenser, liquid exiting the evaporator flows through the second valve to the accumulator, and liquid exiting the condenser flows to the accumulator. The system may operate in a passive-capillary mode, in which capillary pressure in the evaporator drives fluid circulation, the first valve prevents fluid circulation through the pump, liquid flows from the accumulator, through the pump bypass line, and to the evaporator, gas exiting the evaporator flows to the condenser, the second valve is closed, and liquid exiting the condenser flows the accumulator.
US10436520B2
The plate pulsating heat spreader according to the present disclosure may lower the degree of superheat to thereby allow nucleation to easily occur by including the cavities, thereby preventing a sudden temperature rise of an evaporator and having improved thermal performance. The pulsating heat spreader includes fluid channels and cavities.
US10436516B2
Thermal cycling devices are provided. In one embodiment, a thermal cycling device includes a packed tube comprising an inlet portion defining an inlet and an outlet portion defining an outlet. The packed tube is provided in a double coil arrangement, wherein the double coil arrangement causes radially neighboring turns of the packed tube to have opposing flow directions therethrough. The thermal cycling device further includes a cooling device disposed axially adjacent to the packed tube, and a heating device disposed axially adjacent to the packed tube opposite the cooling device.
US10436510B2
The invention disclosed is an ammunition cartridge case dryer for use in the cleaning, drying and reloading of ammunition cartridge cases. It comprises an upper housing, a base, means for forcing air into a hollow space defined by the upper housing and base, an array of cups or nozzles that are located on the upper surface of the dryer and are adapted to receive a wet cartridge case. The nozzles have apertures in communication with the hollow space such that air can be expelled through said nozzles into said cases for quick drying.
US10436508B2
One object of the present invention is to provide an air separation method and an air separation apparatus which can collect a larger amount of nitrogen gas, liquefied oxygen, and liquefied nitrogen which have higher pressure than the operating pressure in the low-pressure column while inhibiting a decrease of the argon recovery, and the present invention provides an air separation method comprising a step in which the low-pressure liquefied oxygen at the bottom part of the low-pressure column is reboiled by the argon gas at the top part of the argon column and the middle-pressure nitrogen gas at the top part of the middle-pressure column, and a step in which the middle-pressure liquefied oxygen at the bottom part of the argon column is reboiled by the high-pressure nitrogen gas at the top part of the high-pressure column.
US10436502B2
A door shelf for a refrigeration device includes a base. A support frame on the base defines a front and two side portions, each side portion includes front, central and rear side portions, the rear side portion is offset inwardly to the front side portion and the central side portion includes a first end at the front side portion. A preferably metal decorative strip which includes front, two side and two rear fastening portions is mounted securely on the frame with the front portion of the strip on the front portion of the frame, each side portion of the strip on the front side portion and a first region of the rear fastening portion on the central side portion. A second end of the central side portion defines a bending edge along which a second region of the rear fastening portion is bent to fasten the strip to the frame.
US10436495B2
A transport refrigeration unit (TRU) includes a compressor. The TRU further includes a condenser disposed downstream of the compressor. The TRU further includes an expansion device disposed downstream of the condenser. The TRU further includes a first flow control device disposed downstream of the condenser. The TRU further includes a first evaporator disposed downstream of the expansion device and the first flow control device. The first evaporator is disposed upstream of a second flow control device. The second evaporator is disposed downstream of the first flow control device, the expansion device, and the second flow control device. The second evaporator includes a thermal accumulator. The second flow control device disposed upstream of the compressor.
US10436484B2
A caulking fixation type power element has a diaphragm, an upper lid member forming a pressure actuation chamber with a working gas, a receiving member provided with a through hole in its center portion and arranged in an opposite side to the upper lid member in relation to the diaphragm, and a stopper member arranged in a lower space formed between the diaphragm and the receiving member, and is integrated according to a circumferential welding by lapping the upper lid member, the diaphragm and the receiving member, the stopper member has a main body portion inserted to the through hole of the receiving member, and a flange portion having a larger diameter than the through hole and formed in one end of the main body portion, and the flange portion is arranged so as to come into contact with the receiving member from the lower space side.
US10436479B2
A fixture which fixes a solar cell module to a rail member for supporting the solar cell module is provided with: a side section that abuts a side surface of the solar cell module intersecting a light-receiving surface of the solar cell module; an upper section that extends from the upper end of the side section so as to face the light-receiving surface of the solar cell module; a lower section that extends from the lower end of the side section so as to face the lower surface, of the solar cell module, on the opposite side to the light-receiving surface of the solar cell module; and a fixing section that is fixed to a side section of the rail member. The fixing section extends downward from a position on the lower section that is away from a connecting part between the side section and the lower section.
US10436477B2
A water heater includes a burner, a heat exchanger, a passing water quantity control unit, a temperature detection unit, and an operation control unit. The operation control unit performs the output hot water temperature control by configuring the passing water quantity control unit to have a predetermined passing water quantity that is further restricted compared with a predetermined water quantity, and upon confirmation that a predetermined release condition of the passing water restriction is satisfied, executes the passing water control in which the passing water quantity is returned back to the predetermined water quantity by gradually releasing the passing water restriction, and the operation control unit, when a predetermined undershoot factor of the detected temperature is confirmed while the passing water quantity is returned back to the predetermined water quantity, temporarily stops the release of the restriction of the passing water quantity until the undershoot factor is resolved.
US10436470B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of building power management are disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment is a system comprising a load management controller and a power circuit interrupter. The load management controller is configured to repeatedly perform a first test wherein a time rate of change of temperature of building regions is determined, repeatedly perform a second test wherein a lighting controller is operated to rank a plurality of lighting loads according to ambient light of building regions associated with the plurality of lighting loads, assign the plurality of HVACR loads and lighting loads to a plurality of load shed groups, and reduce power consumption by the plurality of HVACR loads and the plurality of lighting loads in order of the ranked load shed groups effective to minimize occupant perceptibility of the power consumption reduction while implementing the operator specified priority criteria.
US10436465B2
A coaxial ventilator exchanges atmosphere between parts of a building that are at differing heights. The coaxial ventilator includes an outer conduit that extends from an upper end thereof downward to a lower end thereof. The outer conduit surrounds an inner conduit that extends substantially the entire length of the outer conduit. Both the outer and inner conduits are open at their respective upper ends and lower ends. Temperatures of atmosphere both surrounding and within the outer conduit and the inner conduit induce an exchange of atmosphere between the coaxial ventilator and surrounding atmosphere.
US10436453B2
An insulation device for a door of domestic cooking device includes a first pane, a second pane and a frame arranged between the first pane and the second pane and connected thereto. The frame is made of a foam material, e.g. a foamed inorganic material. The foam material can be closed-pore and configured so as to be impermeable to steam.
US10436450B2
A staged injector in a combustor of a gas turbine. The staged injector may include an injector tube comprising a lateral wall enclosing an injection passageway that extends between an outlet and inlet. An outboard segment of the injector tube may include an exterior face. A cover may be formed about the outboard segment so form a surrounding plenum. The cover may include a side wall that radially overlaps the outboard segment and forms a first portion of the surrounding plenum therebetween. A ceiling wall of the cover may form a second portion of the surrounding plenum. A screening plate may be formed within the side wall of the cover that includes a multitude of apertures configured to fluidly connect the first portion of the surrounding plenum with a feed cavity formed exterior to the side wall.
US10436444B2
A gas valve unit for controlling a gas throughput guided to a gas burner of a gas device includes a plurality of on-off valves. Each on-off valve includes a movable valve body with a shut-off body and an activation area, a closing spring which, when the on-off valve is closed, pushes the shut-off body onto a sealing seat and thereby closes an opening. A driver lifts the shut-off body away from the sealing seat for opening the on-off valve by a force caused by the driver when engaging into the activation area against a force of the closing spring. The valve body has a shoulder area to accept a torque arising on engagement of the driver into the activation area.
US10436443B2
A closing member includes an annular portion and a flange portion. The annular portion is provided with a through hole and is in contact with an outer circumferential surface of an exhaust tube in at least a part of the through hole. The flange portion extends from an outer circumferential surface of the annular portion toward an outer side and is larger in outer diameter than an exhaust pipe. The flange portion contacts a tip end portion of the exhaust pipe on outside of a building so as to close a gap between the exhaust pipe and the exhaust tube. The flange portion is formed to protrude toward an outer side such that an entire circumference of the flange portion extends beyond an outer circumferential surface of the tip end portion of the exhaust pipe.
US10436439B1
Embodiments include a wood pellet burner unit with a sliding floor hopper. The wood pellet burner unit includes a wood pellet fire pit, a wood pellet kettle burner, a wood pellet barbeque burner, and/or a wood pellet smoker, or the like. The sliding floor hopper includes an upper loading section having an opening therein that receives wood pellets, and a staging section coupled to the upper loading section and stages the wood pellets received from the upper loading section. A sliding floor is disposed atop a staging surface of the staging section and through a slit in the staging section. The sliding floor oscillates between a forward position and a back position. The sliding floor oscillates between a forward position and a back position to automatically and periodically feed the wood pellets to a lower region of the wood pellet burner unit on a continuous basis.
US10436435B2
An LED high intensity illumination work light assembly including a front portion and a back casing with a circuit box housed in the middle. On the left and right sides of the back casing portion are configured threaded receiving holes for fixing the work light assembly to a supporting frame at a selected angle, and on the back section of the back casing are figured with two protruding fin plates that can fix the LED work light to a supporting surface that is close to the user in the working area.
US10436434B2
A luminaire comprising a base, a circuitry housing attached to the base and comprising circuitry, a first rotational structure attached to the circuitry housing, a second rotational structure attached to the first rotational structure, and a lighting apparatus attached to the second rotational structure. The circuitry is positioned in electrical communication with each of the base and the lighting apparatus. The first rotational structure is attached to the circuitry housing so as to rotate about a first rotational axis that is parallel to a longitudinal axis of the luminaire. The second rotational structure is attached to the first rotational structure so as to rotate about a second rotational axis that is parallel to a transverse axis of the luminaire.
US10436429B2
Various embodiments of a compression activated switch device for holding light emitting packages are provided. The device includes an electrical switch configured to operatively couple between a light emitting package and a power source. The light emitting package includes a light emitting element on a support, the electrical switch biased to an open position from a closed position. The compression activated switch also includes a coupling component configured to couple the light emitting package to a structure and a biasing element biasing against coupling the light emitting package to the structure with a predetermined force, wherein in response to a force being applied to the coupling component sufficient to overcome the predetermined force the electric switch moves to the closed position. Visual or audible feedback may be provided upon the application of the predetermined amount of force.
US10436417B2
A signaling apparatus for command and/or indicating devices includes a base unit having at least two light sources which each generate light and are arranged on the base unit at a spacing from one another, and at least two light modules which are stacked along a main axis of the signaling apparatus and are operatively connected to the light sources such that light generated by the light sources is coupled into the light modules in a beam direction parallel to the main axis, the light modules each having a reflection region for reflecting at least in part the light coupled into the light modules in a signaling direction. A particular reflection region occupies only a portion of the light module in a peripheral direction of the corresponding light module perpendicular to the main axis of the signaling apparatus, which portion is smaller than a total periphery of the light module.
US10436416B2
A vehicle light assembly is provided herein and includes a light source, an optic configured to output light emitted by the light source, and a thermal conductive member enclosing the light source and the optic. The thermal conductive member is thermally coupled to a vehicle body via a thermal transfer adhesive.
US10436413B2
An illumination device includes: an elongated light guide; a first light source; a second light source; and a controller. A first increase beginning time point at which the brightness of the first light source begins to increase from zero is prior to a second increase beginning time point at which the brightness of the second light source begins to increase from zero. A first increase finish time point at which the brightness of the first light source finishes increasing to the first set brightness is simultaneous with or prior to a second increase finish time point at which the brightness of the second light source finishes increasing to the second set brightness. A time from the first increase beginning time point to the second increase finish time point is not more than 0.2 seconds.
US10436406B2
This vehicle lamp fitting (10) includes a plurality of arranged light sources (12) and a light guide body (11) into which light from the plurality of light sources (12) is introduced. The light guide body (11) includes a light entry section (15) into which the light from the plurality of light sources (12) is incident; a light exit surface (11a) extending in an arrangement direction of the plurality of light sources (12); a step-shaped first lens cut section (21) provided between the light entry section (15) and the light exit surface (11a) and extending in the arrangement direction; and a step-shaped second lens cut section (22) provided between the first lens cut section (21) and the light exit surface (11a) and extending in the arrangement direction.
US10436405B2
A lighting module includes at least one light-emitting assembly and one lens for shaping the emitted light rays, the lens having an entrance face for the light rays and an exit face. The lens is a flat lens, the lens and the emitting assembly being configured so that the exit face includes a first section and a second section that differ in the amount of light rays exiting from the lens via one or other of these sections in order that the first section forms an optical section and in order that the second section forms a lighting neutral section. The second section extends from the first section in order to have a largest dimension that is larger than the thickness of the flat lens, the exit face of the lens including features over the entirety of its area.
US10436403B2
A dual printed circuit board assembly for vehicle lights, the dual printed circuit board including a dual printed circuit board and a dual connector. The dual printed circuit board having a first substrate with a first layout, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate with a second layout, and a common panel that supports the first substrate on a first side and the second substrate on a second side, wherein the first layout is populable by a first plurality of light sources to be used in a first light of the vehicle lights and the second layout is populable by a second plurality of light sources to be used in a second light of the vehicle lights. The dual connector having a first jumper connector electrically connected to the first layout, and a second jumper connector opposite to the first jumper connector and electrically connected to the second layout.
US10436400B2
The invention provides a ceiling mounting structure, comprising a hanging board, at least one connector and at least one guide rail of which the quantity corresponds to that of the connector, wherein one end of the hanging board is articulated with one end of the connector, and the other end of the hanging board is provided with first clamping hooks; the guide rail has one end provided with rail-type clamping hooks and the other end is provided with second clamping hooks; the connector has hook grooves; the hanging board is fixed on a ceiling; the hook grooves and the rail-type clamping hooks form rail-type sliding and are connected with in a hooking way; and the first clamping hooks and the second clamping hooks are connected in a snap-fit way.
US10436397B2
A concealer plate for a lighting fixture includes a first concealer plate surface, a second concealer plate surface, and two or more magnets. The magnets are recessed in the first concealer plate surface such that the magnets are inset from the first concealer plate surface by approximately a predetermined depth. Each one of the magnets is configured to magnetically engage one of a number of fasteners protruding from a mounting portion of a trim of the lighting fixture by a distance that is approximately equal to the predetermined depth. Accordingly, the second concealer plate surface hides the fasteners from view. The concealer plate hides one or more fasteners exposed on the lighting fixture while avoiding any interference in the operation of the lighting fixture and is easily installed onto currently existing lighting fixtures.
US10436387B2
Disclosed is a pressure vessel for storing gas. The pressure vessel for storing gas includes a body provided with a hollow portion and configured in a cylindrical shape having a constant thickness along an axial direction thereof; a pair of caps provided with respective injection holes formed through the caps along the axial direction, having threads on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and engaging to both ends of the body to close the body tightly; a flange coupled to each end of the body, the flange having a central opening; and a metal wire wound on an outer surface of the body to strengthen the body. In addition, one end of the wire is fixed on the outer surface of the body by soldering and an opposite end of the wire is fixed on the wire wound on the body by soldering.
US10436386B2
A modular pressure vessel suitable for housing, storage, and/or supplying a pressurized fluid is disclosed. In one aspect, the modular pressure vessel comprises removable end-caps attached to each end of a center section. The center section includes longitudinal rails. In another aspect, methods for manufacturing the modular pressure vessel are described, including extrusion processes for the center section. The modular pressure vessel allows for various components to be easily swapped out or changed, such as the end-caps, or components easily installed and removed from inside the pressure vessel, such as a compressor and related components.
US10436385B2
Apparatuses are disclosed including an apparatus for machine fluid monitoring or sampling comprising a transparent sight glass attachable to a machine such that machine fluid is transferable to the sight glass. The sight glass may have one or more ports, an open first end, a closed second end, and a cavity for the machine fluid. A grommet may be positioned in a first port of the sight glass and may have a sealable access pathway through the grommet to the cavity within the sight glass through which a probe may be extended. A magnetic plug may be positioned in the second port of the sight glass extending into the cavity within the sight glass such that the magnetic plug is positionable for contact with the machine fluid. A sample port assembly may be connected to the sight glass whereby samples of the machine fluid are accessible.
US10436384B2
A setting task of a setting unit includes a task to determine, based on a detection result of a detector, whether a click operation is carried out with a part of an operator's body mounted on a mount portion. The click operation is defined as an intentional movement of the part of the body by the operator in accordance with a predetermined pattern.
US10436379B2
A system for positioning a rotatable vessel includes a rotatable vessel having a target block fixed thereto. A protrusion that is configured to mate with the target block is coupled to a slide plate and moveable relative to the slide plate toward the target block. The slide plate is slidably adjustable relative to a fixed base plate. The precise rotational position of the vessel can be controlled by fixing the slide plate relative to the base plate, such that when the slide plate is locked to the base plate, extension of the protrusion into engagement with the target block will rotationally position the vessel. When the protrusion and the target block are engaged, the vessel and the slide plate are linked, and the position of the slide plate may be adjusted relative to the base plate to set an adjusted desired position of the vessel.
US10436378B2
A monitor stand comprises a first arm for coupling to a first monitor and a second arm for coupling to a second monitor. The first and second arms are coupled to an upper column of the monitor stand. A lower column of the monitor stand supports the upper column. The first arm, the second arm, and the upper column are configured to rotate around a rotation axis offset from a longitudinal center axis of the lower column to fold or unfold the monitor stand between an open and closed position.
US10436372B2
A large-gap-seal (“LGS”) assembly and methods for its assembly and use are described. The LGS assembly has an elastomer core surrounded by adjoining structural segments. Non-adjoining gap segments are located on the sidewall surfaces of the elastomer core, with each gap segment approximately centered beneath the edges of two adjoining structural segments. The gap segments are exposed by the spaces that form between the structural segments when the LGS assembly is activated. Exposing the gap segments rather than the elastomer core protects the elastomer core from damage and preserves the integrity of the seal between the isolation tool and the inner wall of the pipeline.
US10436359B2
A gasket for preventing the separation of a pipe joint formed between plastic pipes such as pipes manufactured from PVC. The invention provides a restrained pipe joint including a first pipe including a bell with a spigot entryway and a substantially V-shaped annular groove. The annular groove includes a front radial wall and a rear radial wall and a gasket seated in the annular groove. The gasket includes an inner radial face, an opening defined by the inner radial face and an outer radial face with a front radial section located adjacent to the front radial wall of the annular groove and a rear radial section located adjacent to the rear radial wall of the annular groove. A plurality of restraining segments is at least partially embedded in the gasket, each restraining segment including a toothed inner face and a smooth, sliding front radial face arranged to slide against the front radial wall of the annular groove and facilitate wedging of the segment between the plastic pipes.
US10436349B2
A valve piece urging member urges a valve piece toward a valve closing side, at which an opening degree of a restriction passage is reduced by the valve piece. An actuation member exerts a drive force against the valve piece in a direction of moving the valve piece toward a valve opening side, at which the opening degree of the restriction passage is increased by the valve piece. A vibration limiting member limits vibration of the valve piece in a direction, which intersects with the axial direction, by generating an urging force for urging the valve main body at a location between the valve main body and the valve piece. When the valve piece is moved beyond a predetermined displacement position toward the valve opening side, the valve piece releases the urging force of the vibration limiting member.
US10436346B1
A pressure regulator has a pressure chamber connected to an inlet flow area which receives liquid flow. As liquid flows into a forward chamber of the pressure chamber, pressure is exerted on the forward face of the piston, which in turn causes the piston to slide longitudinally through the pressure chamber. A bypass fluidically connects the forward pressure chamber and rear pressure chamber such that as the piston slides into the rear pressure chamber pressure increases at the rear pressure chamber, which in turn forces the piston to move forwardly, thus regulating flow out of the pressure chamber. A hand wheel is configured to turn a movable plate located inside the pressure chamber, with the movable plate configured to impede the piston from moving rearwardly. Pressure sensors and vents with a pressurized air source may be used to keep the pressure within a desired range.
US10436345B1
An actuator converts linear motion into rotational motion. The actuator includes a power piston having a longitudinal axis. The power piston is configured to move back and forth along the longitudinal axis. A slider bearing is disposed within a cross-bore opening in the power piston. The cross-bore opening has a slider bearing axis orthogonal to the longitudinal axis. The slider bearing is configured to move back and forth within the cross-bore opening. An output shaft has a central axis orthogonal to both the longitudinal and the slider bearing axes. The output shaft includes an eccentric shaft pin inserted through a slot in the power piston and disposed within a cavity of the slider bearing. The eccentric shaft pin is offset from the central axis of the output shaft. The reciprocating movement of the power piston causes the slider bearing to move back and forth rotating the output shaft.
US10436344B2
An example push-type manual actuation mechanism includes: a piston having: (i) a first flanged portion with a first annular surface area, (ii) a second flanged portion with a second annular surface area, (iii) a longitudinal cavity bounded by an interior peripheral surface of the piston, and (iv) a shoulder on the interior peripheral surface of the piston; and a pin disposed in the longitudinal cavity of the piston, where the pin has a flanged portion interfacing with and resting against the shoulder of the piston, such that a force applied on the pin in a given axial direction is transferred to the piston, and wherein a difference between the second annular surface area of the second flanged portion and the first annular surface of the first flanged portion is substantially equal to a cross-sectional area of the pin.
US10436339B2
A rupture disk (20), along with associated methods, is disclosed. More particularly, a miniaturized rupture disk is disclosed, comprising a transition area (23) configured to determine a pressure at which the rupture able portion will rupture. A method for forming a rupture disk is also disclosed, wherein a radius (R) of a transition area is configured to set the burst pressure of the rupture disk. A rupture disk having an indent at its apex (24) and a circular line of weakness configured to improve opening performance is also disclosed. Additionally, a method of relieving pressure in a pressurized system is disclosed, wherein a set of rupture disks is provided, wherein each rupture disk in the set has a different radius of transition area. A rupture disk may be selected from the set and installed based on a burst pressure set by the radius of transition area.
US10436338B2
A rupture disk includes a body including an internal wall extending from a first end of the body to a second end of the body. The internal wall defines an opening extending through the body. In some embodiments, the body further includes an internal flange formed on the internal wall, and the internal flange has a stepped surface. A rupture membrane is positioned within the body, and secured, for example, by cold welding. The rupture membrane may be secured to the stepped surface. The rupture membrane is positioned within the body such that the rupture membrane does not extend beyond the first end of the body. A process system including the rupture disk is also provided. A method of maintaining a process system that includes the rupture disk is also provided.
US10436327B2
Bi-directional seal assemblies for use with valves are described. An example apparatus for use with a fluid valve includes a closure member disposed between an inlet and an outlet of a fluid flow passageway of the fluid valve. The closure member is to slide relative to a cage or a valve body, wherein the closure member includes a seal gland and a passageway in fluid communication with the seal gland, the passageway to fluidly couple the seal gland and the fluid flow passageway of the fluid valve. The apparatus further includes a seal assembly positioned in the seal gland, the seal assembly including a first seal, a second seal opposite the first seal, and a spacer ring disposed between the first and second seals.
US10436319B2
A method for controlling a gearbox that includes, a) shifting gear from a low range gear to a high range gear in the range gearbox (7); b) disconnecting a ring gear (54) of a planetary gear from a gearbox housing (52), synchronizing the speed between a third gear drive (74) on the main shaft (14) and the main shaft (14), connecting the third gear drive (74) and the main shaft (14); c) disconnecting a first part (14a) of the main shaft (14) from a second part (14b) of the main shaft (14), synchronizing the speed between a first gear wheel (64) and a lay shaft (22), connecting the first gear wheel (64) and the lay (22) shaft via a second and a third gear wheel (70, 76); and d) disconnecting the first, the second and the third gear wheels (64, 70, 76) and from the lay shaft (22), synchronizing the speed between the second part (14b) of the main shaft (14) and a planet carrier (38) of a planetary gear (37), connecting the second part (14b) of the main shaft (14) and the planet carrier (38); a gearbox (2), controlled by the method; and a vehicle (1) that comprises such a gearbox (2).
US10436316B2
The present disclosure provides a method for preventing interlock of a transmission. The method may include: sensing, with a controller, target currents of a plurality of solenoid valves, where each solenoid valve of the plurality of solenoid valves is connected to corresponding friction element; and when it is determined that target currents of at least two solenoid valves of the plurality of solenoid valves are equal to or greater than a predetermined current, interrupting, with the controller, a supply of power to the plurality of solenoid valves based on a degree of deviation of an actual speed of a transmission output shaft from a target speed for a predetermined time.
US10436315B2
Systems and methods for controlling an engine and hazard lights based on start/stop switch actuation
A torque request module is configured to, while a vehicle speed is greater than a predetermined speed, decrease a torque request in response to a first signal from a start/stop switch being in a first state continuously for greater than a first predetermined period and less than a second predetermined period. A control module is configured to, as the torque request decreases, decrease torque output of at least one of an engine and an electric motor. A light control module is configured to: selectively turn exterior hazard lights on and off in response to a second signal from a hazard light switch being in a first state; and selectively turn the exterior hazard lights on and off in response to the first signal from the start/stop switch being in the first state continuously for greater than the first predetermined period.
US10436299B2
A stationary steering wheel assembly includes a steering wheel connected to an axially extending column. The assembly also includes a steering wheel locking component engageable with the steering wheel and moveable between a first position and a second position, the first position locking the steering wheel to prevent rotation and the second position unlocking the steering wheel to allow rotation of the steering wheel.
US10436294B2
Fletching wear caused by elastic deformation in the axial direction of an input-side disk 2c due to thrust force of a pressure device is prevented. A female-spline section 13a formed around the middle section in the axial direction of the inner-circumferential surface of a center hole 19 in the input-side disk 2c and a male-spline section 12a formed around the outer-circumferential surface of one end section in the axial direction of an input rotating shaft 1b engage with a spline engagement. A disk-side fitting surface section 22 formed around a portion of the inner-circumferential surface of the center hole 19 in the input-side disk 2c that is adjacent to the other end side of the female-spline section 13a and a shaft-side fitting surface section 23 formed around a portion of the outer-circumferential surface of the input rotating shaft 1b that is adjacent to the other end side of the male spline section 12a are fitted together with an interference fit.
US10436289B2
An automatic transmission includes an input shaft; an output shaft; a first planetary gear set including rotation elements; a second planetary gear set connected to the input shaft, and including a rotation element which is connected with the first planetary gear set; a third planetary gear set including a rotation element which is connected with the first planetary gear set, and connected with the output shaft; a fourth planetary gear set including rotation elements which are connected with the second planetary gear set and the third planetary gear set, respectively; a rotation shaft unit connected to the first to the fourth planetary gear sets, and transferring power; three clutches selectively connecting predetermined elements of the rotation shaft unit or selectively connecting predetermined elements of the rotation shaft unit and the input shaft; and four brakes selectively connecting predetermined elements of the rotation shaft unit and a transmission housing.
US10436288B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission including: input and output shafts, first to fifth planetary gear sets respectively having first to third, fourth to sixth, seventh to ninth, tenth to twelfth, and thirteenth to fifteenth rotational elements, a first shaft connected with the second rotational element and the input shaft, a second shaft connected with the fourteenth rotational element and the output shaft, a third shaft connected with the sixth and thirteenth rotational elements, a fourth shaft connected with the tenth and fifteenth rotational elements, a fifth shaft connected with the third, fourth, and seventh rotational elements, a sixth shaft connected with the eighth rotational element, a seventh shaft connected with the fifth, ninth, and eleventh rotational elements, an eighth shaft connected with the first rotational element, and a ninth shaft connected with the twelfth rotational element.
US10436275B2
A gas strut includes a housing, a piston assembly, a dye, and a dye containment seal. The housing includes an inner surface defining a chamber extending along a centerline. The chamber includes a working portion and a dye storage portion disposed axially adjacent to the working portion. The piston assembly is constructed and arranged to reciprocate within the working portion, and the dye is located in the dye storage portion. The dye containment seal is disposed in the dye storage portion, and is constructed and arranged to transfigure from a normal state to a dye release state thereby releasing the dye upon the piston assembly.
US10436270B2
A disc brake, having a brake caliper which engages over a brake disc, is held on a stationary brake carrier such that it can be displaced axially in relation to the brake disc, and in which brake pads are positioned which, during a braking operation, can be pressed against the brake disc by a brake application device. A device for visual wear detection of brake disc wear and/or brake lining wear is provided, and is configured in such that, for wear detection, a comparison element which extends in the displacement direction of the brake caliper and in an opposed manner with respect to the brake disc is fastened to the brake carrier. The comparison element is of strip-shaped configuration, with continuously planar side surfaces, and has at least one step on the edge side in the displacement direction of the brake caliper.
US10436269B2
A brake piston assembly is described. The brake piston assembly includes a brake piston, the brake piston comprising: a front face and a back surface, the front face opposite the back surface and the front face configured to exert pressure on a brake pad; a cavity extending into the brake piston from the rear surface; and a projection located within a cavity of the brake piston at a position intermediate the front face and the rear surface; a brake piston nut receivable into the cavity; and a flexible retainer, the flexible retainer located in a groove in an outer wall of the brake piston nut; wherein, when the piston nut is fully inserted into the cavity, the flexible retainer will be located between the projection and the front face.
US10436249B2
A method for producing a plain bearing bush includes providing a flat supporting metal layer and an anti-friction layer on this supporting metal layer to produce a flat composite material. The flat composite material is then rolled into the shape of the plain bearing bush in such a way that the supporting metal layer in the plain bearing bush is disposed radially underneath the anti-friction layer. The plain bearing bush includes the supporting metal layer disposed underneath the anti-friction layer in the radial direction.
US10436247B2
A lock nut system includes a nut threadably engageable with a shaft and a keeper having a projection configured to fit within a slot of the shaft to engage the shaft. A retaining member is formed separate from the keeper and the nut. The retaining member is receivable within a slot of the nut to engage the nut. A portion of the retaining member engages the keeper by extending into a keeper cavity within the keeper. The nut is lockable onto the shaft when the projection of the keeper is fit within the slot and the keeper is abutted and supported by an inner shoulder of the nut and the retaining member engages the nut and the portion of the retaining member extends into the cavity within the keeper.
US10436239B2
A sealing device in the form of a plug that is receivable in a threaded hole of a case includes a threaded central body, a skirt connected to the central body, and locking/unlocking means that opposes spontaneous unscrewing of the plug and is automatically activated by rotation of the plug and corresponding movement along an axis. The locking/unlocking means includes a first releasable coupling component coupled for rotation with the central body, and a second releasable coupling component facing the first coupling component at least during screwing and unscrewing. In at least in a tightened condition of the plug, the second coupling component is secured against rotation relative to the case by rotation restricting means located inside the threaded bore. In the screwed condition, an annular end face of the skirt bears against a bearing face of the second releasable coupling component to transmit tightening thrust to the case.
US10436231B2
A cable gripping apparatus comprising a plurality of jaw members, each jaw member being tapered on an outer surface thereof from a larger first end to a smaller second end, said plurality of jaw members being configured to receive and grip a cable therebetween. A cylindrical collar having external threads and a tapered internal bore is receivable of the tapered jaw members in the tapered internal bore. A cylindrical turnbuckle body having a threaded bore is receivable of the threaded cylindrical collar entirely within the turnbuckle bore. The cylindrical collar, plurality of jaw members, and cable gripped therewithin define collectively a collar sub-assembly receivable within the turnbuckle bore. When the turnbuckle body is rotated, the collar sub-assembly is moved axially within the threaded bore of the turnbuckle body, thus changing the tension in the cable.
US10436227B2
A sealing device for a jet pump of a boiling water reactor is provided. The jet pump includes an inlet mixer and a diffuser receiving the inlet mixer at a slip joint such that an outer circumferential surface of the inlet mixer is received in an inner circumferential surface of the diffuser at the slip joint. The diffuser includes a plurality of guiding fins, each guiding fin including a radially inner surface, a radially outer surface and lateral surfaces extending radially between the inner and outer surfaces. The sealing device includes a seal configured for sealingly contacting the outer circumferential surface of the inlet mixer and a collar configured for holding the seal against the outer circumferential surface of the inlet mixer. The collar includes portions configured for being received radially between the radially inner surfaces of the guiding fins and the outer circumferential surface of the inlet mixer. The sealing device further includes a clamp configured for contacting the radially outer surfaces of the guiding fins to axially clamp the guiding fins. A method of mounting a sealing device onto a slip joint of a jet pump of a boiling water reactor is also provided.
US10436226B2
A climate-control system may include a compressor and a control module. The compressor includes a motor driving a compression mechanism to compress a working fluid. The control module is in communication with the motor and may be configured to determine a balance speed of the motor at which a forward-rotational inertial force of the compression mechanism is equal to a backward-rotational gas force on the compression mechanism. The control module may be configured to adjust a running speed of the motor to the balance speed after receipt of a compressor-shutdown-command and before shutting down the compressor.
US10436223B2
A fan includes a fan frame and a rotor having a hub, a shaft connected with the hub at its rotation center, blades, and a disk structure connected with the blades and hub within the fan frame. The fan frame has a frame wall having inlet and outlet surfaces, a base carrying the rotor and frame wall, a cover on one side of the frame wall opposite to the base, and a tongue structure between the base and cover. The normal lines of the inlet and outlet surfaces are not parallel to the extension direction of the shaft. The distance between the virtual line segment of the outlet surface and shaft is the shortest distance between the shaft and outlet surface. The extended line from the center of the groove opening of the tongue structure intersects the imaginary plane where the virtual line segment and shaft are located.
US10436219B2
A fin array is disclosed for use in a centrifugal fan having a housing and a fan wheel, the fin array having: a first tube in a first plane perpendicular to an axis of the fan wheel; a second tube in a second plane parallel to the first plane; and a fin in a third plane parallel to the first place. The fin is sandwiched between the first tube and the second tube, all of which partially surround the axis of the fan wheel. The fin comprises a slotted fin apparatus for permitting condensate to move from a region between the fan wheel and the first tube to a region between the first tube and the housing. The slotted fin apparatus has a first cutout disposed between a first extension and a second extension along at least a port of the length of the fin.
US10436217B2
A cooling system for optimizing fan air flow performance without compromising acoustic performance is disclosed. At least three fan feature embodiments are disclosed: (1) sloped fan blades, (2) sloped impeller hubs, and (3) inlet flow guidance features. For the first embodiment, fan blades attached to an impeller disc and having leading edges that progressively curve toward a center of the impeller disc. For the second embodiment, the impeller disc is attached to and centered on an impeller hub that has a sloped hub surface that progressively curves toward the fan blades. For the third embodiment, an inlet flow guidance feature is positioned within a region surrounding a fan's inlet promoting smooth passage of air into the fan. In some embodiments, all three fan features are combined.
US10436215B2
A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.
US10436210B2
An impeller which can be rotated about a rotation axis X-X, the impeller comprising a shroud having opposed inner and outer faces and an outer peripheral edge portion remote from the rotation axis, a plurality of pumping vanes projecting from the inner face of the shroud, a plurality of auxiliary vanes projecting from the outer face of the shroud, one or more of the auxiliary vanes having an inner edge which is closer to the rotation axis and an outer edge which is closer to the peripheral edge portion of the shroud, the auxiliary vanes extending in a direction between the rotation axis towards the outer peripheral edge portion of the shroud, one or more of the auxiliary vanes having a leading side and a trailing side each of which extends from the inner edge to the outer edge with an upper side spaced from the outer face of the shroud, and at least one projection extending from the trailing side of one or more of the said auxiliary vanes, and preferably each auxiliary vane.
US10436200B2
A rotor assembly for a rotary fluid device that includes a first body at least partially exposed to a process fluid, a second body at least partially exposed to the process fluid, a connecting apparatus that includes at least one connector and at least one seal that connects the first body to the second body and seals the at least one connector from exposure to the process fluid.
US10436197B2
A blower may include a blower housing that may include a plurality of rotor chambers and a plurality of rotors. The plurality of rotors may be substantially identical and each may include a twist angle and a helix angle. The rotors and the blower housing may be configured to create internal fluid compression when the rotors are rotating at a first rotational speed and not to create internal fluid compression when the rotors are rotating at a second rotational speed. The rotors and the blower housing may be configured to create the internal fluid compression without backflow slots in the blower housing. The twist angle may include the angular displacement of lobes of the plurality of rotors between axial ends of the plurality of rotors. The helix angle may be a function of the twist angle and a pitch diameter of the plurality of rotors.
US10436191B2
Disclosed is a compressor for use with an apparatus having a refrigeration cycle where the compressor includes a piston which reciprocates in a cylinder; a linear motor configured to provide a driving force to move the piston; a sensor configured to sense a motor current of the linear motor; and a compressor controller configured to detect information related to a load of the apparatus, in a separated manner from a controller which controls a body of the apparatus, wherein the compressor controller calculates a phase difference between a stroke of the piston and the sensed motor current, and wherein the compressor controller compares the calculated phase difference with a reference phase difference, and controls a driving of the linear motor in correspondence to the detected load, according to a result of the comparison.
US10436179B2
In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for remotely resetting faulted wind turbines may generally include receiving fault data associated with a turbine fault that has occurred for a faulted wind turbine, analyzing one or more reset conditions associated with the turbine fault; determining whether the faulted wind turbine is remotely resettable based on the one or more reset conditions associated with the turbine fault and if the turbine fault is remotely resettable, transmitting a reset notification to a client device authorized to receive notifications for the wind turbine, wherein the reset notification indicates that the faulted wind turbine can be remotely reset.
US10436173B2
Provided are a rotary device for fluid power generation and a fluid power generation device that are capable of converting the kinetic energy of a fluid to an electric energy. By utilizing a longitudinal vortex as a driving force, a rotary body such as a cylinder as a high-strength and tough wing-shaped member can be rotated, and power can be efficiently generated in a wide range of flow rate without letting the longitudinal vortex disappear even if the flow rate changes in a wide range. This rotary device for power generation includes a rotary body 3; and a wake body 8 that is a distance away from the rotary body 3 toward the downstream side of a flow direction 10 of the fluid, and has at least one crossover section at which the wake body 8 intersects with the rotary body 3.
US10436164B2
A roller assembly, comprising a roller shoe having a bottom surface, and a groove at the bottom surface, the groove having a semicircular portion and a straight portion extending from the semicircular portion, the semicircular portion having a first diameter and the straight portion having a first width, and a cylindrical roller positioned in the roller shoe groove, the cylindrical roller having a second diameter, wherein the first width is greater than or equal to the first diameter and the second diameter is less than the first width.
US10436162B2
A current control unit in a fuel injection device controls a magnitude of a current flowing through a coil during single energization. A current Ip1 flows once a signal input to the current control unit is turned ON at time t11. As a result, a movable core and a needle abut against each other with a lift amount increased at time t12, and then the needle is separated from a valve seat and pre-injection is performed. At time t13, which follows the pre-injection, the needle and movable core lift amount becomes a lift amount D1 at a time when the needle and the valve seat abut against each other, and temporary valve closing occurs. At time t14, which follows time t13, currents Ix1 and Im1 larger than the current Ip1 are caused to flow through the coil, and then main injection is performed with the needle and movable core lift amount turned into a lift amount D2 larger than the lift amount D1. Therefore, fuel injection can be performed twice during the single energization.
US10436161B2
Provided is a strainer including: a filter paper filtering fuel and having a space part disposed therein; an inner rib disposed inside the filter paper; protruding parts protruding up and down from the inner rib to be disposed inside the filter paper; and a communicating pipe combined with the filter paper to communicate with the space part. The filter paper and the inner rib are partially folded up longitudinally. The folded portion is formed in a rounded form, and the upper and lower portions of the filter paper are formed not to contact each other at the folded portion. Widths of the protruding parts are each formed differently and distances between the protruding parts are each formed differently. The width and the distance are more narrowly formed at the portion at which the filter paper is folded than at the portion at which the filter paper is not folded.
US10436160B2
An engine intake structure for an internal combustion engine (13) of a vehicle (1) comprises a vehicle body opening (6) formed in a front part of an engine room (3) of the vehicle, an intake duct member (22) defining an air inlet (22A) facing in a forward direction and an air passage extending rearward from the air inlet, the air inlet being positioned higher than the vehicle body opening, and a flow obstructing member (60) typically consisting of an auxiliary device such as a horn positioned in a straight path extending from the vehicle body opening to the air inlet.
US10436158B2
An abnormality detection device for a humidity sensor has a humidity sensor disposed in an intake passage, a temperature sensor to detect an intake air temperature, and a controller. The controller is configured to detect a first sensor signal at a time of the intake air temperature being a first intake air temperature, and a second sensor signal at a time of the intake air temperature changing from the first intake air temperature and reaching a second intake air temperature, calculate values from which an influence of a temperature difference between the first and second intake air temperatures is excluded, from the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal, as respective humidity index values, and detect presence or absence of abnormality of the humidity sensor according to whether or not a deviation degree of these humidity index values is larger than a predetermined degree.
US10436157B2
An apparatus for in-line re-calibration of engine load signal, the apparatus having a housing and a first connector disposed on the housing, adapted to plug into an electrical connection socket of an automotive air intake sensor. A second connector is disposed on the housing, adapted to mimic the electrical connection socket of the automotive air intake sensor. An electronic circuit is disposed in the housing, the electronic circuit adapted to re-calibrate signals from the automotive air intake sensor and deliver the re-calibrated signals the to the second connector. The housing is adapted to plug in-line directly into the electrical connection socket of the automotive air intake sensor, whereby the corresponding electrical wiring connector to an engine control unit plugs directly into the second connector of the housing, completing the inline connection.
US10436149B2
An exhaust mixer for a gas turbine engine has a lobe cross-over offset. The proposed geometric feature leads to improved exhaust performance and potential weight reduction.
US10436147B2
Methods and systems are provided for a surface structure for a piston. In one example, the surface structure is located on at least a portion of the piston.
US10436144B2
A control device for an internal combustion engine including an in-cylinder injection fuel injection valve, and a port injection fuel injection valve, has a controller that controls injection amount ratios of the in-cylinder injection fuel injection valve and the port injection fuel injection valve in accordance with a driving condition of the engine. A fuel cut is performed at a predetermined deceleration of the internal combustion engine. The injection amount ratio of the in-cylinder injection fuel injection valve is corrected to be decreased at a fuel cut recovery at which a fuel supply is restarted from the fuel cut state, during a predetermined period from the start of the recovery.
US10436139B2
An alarm system is used for a vehicle including a fuel pump and an engine. The alarm system includes a measuring device, a computing device and a warning device. The measuring device is used to read a current rotation speed of the engine and respectively measures a plurality of running times of a plurality of rotation speed values of the current rotation speed. The computing device calculates a plurality of consuming times of the fuel pump corresponding to the rotation speed values according to the running times of the rotation speed values, respectively. When an accumulating consuming time accumulated by the consuming times reaches a default critical value, the warning device generates a warning message.
US10436138B2
Methods and systems are provided for indicating a presence or absence of a source of degradation stemming from one of an intake manifold, exhaust system, or engine of an engine system. In one example, a method comprises rotating the engine unfueled and indicating the source of degradation based on both an intake air flow and an exhaust flow, as compared to baseline intake air flow and baseline exhaust flow. In this way, a source of degradation may be pinpointed, which may increase a lifetime of a vehicle engine system, reduce undesired emissions, and which may increase customer satisfaction resulting from shorter time spent on diagnosing such a source of degradation.
US10436137B2
A method for operating a drive device with a drive unit and an exhaust gas purification device. The gas exhaust purification device is provided with a catalytic converter through which an exhaust gas stream can flow, as well as with a first lambda sensor arranged upstream of the catalytic converter in the exhaust gas stream and with a second lambda sensor arranged downstream of the catalytic converter in the exhaust gas stream, wherein an oxygen filling value of an oxygen storage device of the catalytic converter is determined on the basis of a first lambda signal provided by the first lambda signal sensor as well as an offset value.
US10436133B2
Methods, devices, estimators, controllers and algorithms are described for estimating the torque profile of an engine and/or for controlling torque applied to a powertrain by one or more devices other than the engine itself to manage the net torque applied by the engine and other device(s) in manners that reduce undesirable NVH. The described approaches are particularly well suitable for use in hybrid vehicles in which the engine is operated in a skip fire or other dynamic firing level modulation manner—however they may be used in a variety of other circumstances as well. In some embodiments, the hybrid vehicle includes a motor/generator that applies the smoothing torque.
US10436120B2
A propulsion system includes a fan, a gear, a turbine configured to drive the gear to, in turn, drive the fan. The turbine has an exit point, and a diameter (Dt) is defined at the exit point. A nacelle surrounds a core engine housing. The fan is configured to deliver air into a bypass duct defined between the nacelle and the core engine housing. A core engine exhaust nozzle is provided downstream of the exit point. A downstream most point of the core engine exhaust nozzle is defined at a distance from the exit point. A ratio of the distance to the diameter is greater than or equal to about 0.90.
US10436118B2
A panel is provided for attenuating noise. This panel includes a perforated first skin, a second skin, an array of corrugations, a first channel, a second channel, a plurality of first sidewalls and a plurality of second sidewalls. The array of corrugations includes a first corrugation and a second corrugation. Each of the corrugations includes a baffle and a septum. The first channel is formed by the baffle of the first corrugation, the septum of the first corrugation and the first skin. The second channel is formed by the baffle of the second corrugation, the septum of the first corrugation and the second skin. The first sidewalls divide the first channel into a plurality of first chambers. The second sidewalls divide the second channel into a plurality of second chambers. A first of the second chambers is fluidly coupled with a subset of the first chambers through perforations in the septum of the first corrugation.
US10436105B2
An exhaust structure is provided with an exhaust manifold, and a supercharger having a turbine housing. The turbine housing is provided with an inflow port interconnected with the exhaust manifold, a housing member in which a space for housing turbine blades is formed, and an inflow port in which an inflow passage communicating from the inflow port through the housing space is formed. A sensor mounting part is formed in the inflow port, and a throttle member is formed such that the width thereof in an aligning direction of cylinders gradually decreases from the inflow port toward the sensor mounting part. With this configuration, the accuracy of detecting the combustion state of the cylinders can be increased.
US10436103B2
Methods and system are provided for a cooling arrangement of an engine. In one example, the cooling arrangement may include first and second cooling ducts, where the second cooling ducts are arranged in gaps formed between adjacent cylinders and the first ducts are arranged outside of the gaps of the adjacent cylinders.
US10436101B2
A cooling control device for an internal combustion engine has an internal coolant passage formed in the internal combustion engine, external coolant passages formed outside the internal combustion engine and connected to the internal coolant passage, the cooling control device performing coolant passage switching in which the internal coolant passage and a certain one of the external coolant passages are connected to or disconnected from each other by a circuit switching mechanism, a branching passage that sends coolant in the internal coolant passage to one of the external coolant passages which passes through a radiator, when the circuit switching mechanism has a failure and fails in circuit switching of connecting the internal coolant passage and the external coolant passage passing through the radiator to each other, and a wax-type thermostat provided in the branching passage that opens the branching passage when the internal combustion engine is excessively heated.
US10436098B2
An engine equipped with a turbo supercharger has an exhaust manifold coupled to an engine body, a turbo supercharger including a turbine housing demarcating a turbine chamber and a supply path of exhaust air, and a turbine insulator covering the same, and a manifold insulator covering at least the upper surface of the exhaust manifold and the side surface of the exhaust manifold on the turbo supercharger side. The exhaust manifold has a flange as a connection section with respect to the turbo supercharger. The manifold insulator has a cut-away section exposing a joining surface of the flange, and an opening caused by having the interval between the cut-away edge of the cut-away section and the outer peripheral edge of the flange be relatively wider in a predetermined position than in other positions.
US10436094B2
In one embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus for decontaminating exhaust gasses. The apparatus includes a monolith catalytic substrate having a length and a width. The substrates length separates first and second opposed ends. The first end and second ends each have a one piece retention ring fitted thereon. The apparatus includes a housing having a length separating opposed, spaced apart open first and second ends. The housing has a side wall extending substantially unbroken there between to define a body having an interior space. The monolith catalytic substrate is disposed in said interior space. The housing has a greater length than said monolith catalytic substrate. The substrate is centered in the housing and the housing is swaged at the first and second ends respectively to engage the retention rings and retain the monolith catalytic substrate within the interior space in said housing.
US10436093B2
In an engine device having a urea mixing pipe which injects urea water into exhaust gas of an engine, and an SCR case which removes nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas of the engine, and structured such that an inlet side of the SCR case is connected to an outlet side of the urea mixing pipe, an exhaust gas outlet side of the SCR case is connected to an exhaust gas inlet side of the urea mixing pipe where a urea water injection means is arranged, and an exhaust gas inlet side of the urea mixing pipe is supported to the exhaust gas outlet side of the SCR case.
US10436091B2
An apparatus for reducing toxic gases from exhaust of a vehicle comprises a shell disposed in line with an exhaust path of a vehicle and an electrode that passes through the shell. Further, the apparatus comprises a power control system programmed to supply at least 120 kV to the electrode at a predefined pulse rate, which creates an arc of electricity forms between the electrode and a first screen. A substrate coated with an oxidizer is disposed within the shell downstream from the first screen. Further, a second screen is disposed within the shell downstream from the substrate such that the substrate is disposed between the first screen and the second screen.
US10436086B2
A system includes an Active Noise Control (ANC) module unit configured to be installed within an air intake or exhaust of a power generation unit. The ANC module unit includes an ANC housing shaped to fit within the air intake or exhaust, an ANC core configured to be secured within the ANC housing, which includes a microphone configured to detect a sound generated by the power generation unit, a control board configured to control the noise-canceling sound based on the sound signal from the microphone and a set of pre-determined noise reduction transfer functions, and a first speaker configured to deliver a first noise-canceling sound to the air intake or exhaust.
US10436080B2
A multiple variable valve lift apparatus may include a moving cam formed of a hollow cylindrical shape, configured to be moveable in an axial direction of a camshaft while being rotated with the camshaft, and forming a plurality of cams implementing a cam guide protrusion device and different valve lifts from each other; an operation device selectively guiding a cam guide protrusion device to move the moving cam in the axial direction of the camshaft; a controller configured for controlling an operation of the operation device; a valve opening/closing device in contact with any one cam among the plurality of cams; a plurality of stopper grooves formed at an external circumference of the camshaft; and a stopper device provided at the moving cam and inserted to the stopper groove to be rotated at a position after the moving cam is moved.
US10436078B2
In a control device for an engine, the engine includes combustion chambers, ports connected to the combustion chambers, and valves that open and close areas between the combustion chambers and the ports. The control device includes an electronic control unit that is configured to execute an anti-freezing operation of performing control to fully close the valves or make the valves be in a state of being opened with a lift amount of 1 mm or more, in a case where temperatures around the valves are lowered to a predetermined temperature range after the engine is stopped, or in a case where an outside air temperature when the engine is stopped is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature. The predetermined temperature range is a temperature range in which an upper limit value is lower than 10° C., and the predetermined temperature is lower than 5° C.
US10436075B2
The present disclosure relates to a multi-pressure stage, organic Rankine cycle (“ORC”) that includes a dry organic working fluid that may be split, such that a first portion of the working fluid flows through a high pressure stage and a second portion of the working fluid flows through a low pressure stage. Components of the high pressure stage and the low pressure stage may be heated by a heat source stream that may be split in a tee downstream of a high pressure evaporator and recombined in a mixer before entering a low pressure preheater.
US10436064B2
A method of bowed rotor start response damping for a gas turbine engine is provided. A spring rate and a damping characteristic of one or more bearing supports in the gas turbine engine are selectively modified while a shaft of the gas turbine engine rotates below a speed which is adversely affected by a bowed rotor condition of the gas turbine engine.
US10436063B2
An assembly is provided for mounting a turbine engine to an airframe. The turbine engine extends along an axial centerline and includes an engine core mount and an engine exhaust mount. The assembly includes a thrust pin linkage connecting and extending axially between a core thrust pin and an exhaust thrust pin. The core thrust pin is adapted to connect to the engine core mount, and the exhaust thrust pin is adapted to connect to the engine exhaust mount. One of the core thrust pin, the exhaust thrust pin and the thrust pin linkage is also adapted to connect to the airframe.
US10436060B2
There is described herein methods and systems for detecting a shaft event in a gas turbine engine comprising a power turbine having a first shaft extending in a first direction and a second shaft extending in a second direction opposite from the first direction. A first speed measurement is obtained at a first location along the first shaft and a second speed measurement is obtained at a second location along the second shaft. A speed ratio is determined between the first speed measurement and the second speed measurement, and is compared to a detection threshold. The shaft event is detected when the speed ratio is beyond the detection threshold.
US10436058B2
A turbine control unit and method for controlling a turbine, in particular for controlling the start-up of a turbine, the unit being designed as a cascade controller having a master controller and an inner controller, the master controller being a thermal stress controller for the components subjected to thermal stress.
US10436057B2
A combined cycle power generation plant has parallel normally-independent power generation trains, each having a gas turbine in line with a heat recovery steam generator. In a “parked” or spinning reserve operational state, combustion is discontinued at the gas turbine of one power generation train, placed on turning fear. Combustion at the other power train is reduced, preferably to a minimum emissions-compliant level (NOx, CO) of the gas turbine operated at low level combustion. A bypass duct with controllable dampers apportions exhaust from the operating gas turbine to the heat recovery steam generators of both power trains. This maintains an elevated temperature in both heat recovery steam generators and enables fast restart.
US10436047B2
A method of repairing a diaphragm of a rotary machine includes removing an initial steam path from the diaphragm. The initial steam path includes a plurality of initial partitions. Each initial partition is associated with an original trailing edge profile and an original axial length. The method also includes coupling a replacement steam path to the diaphragm. The replacement steam path includes a plurality of replacement partitions. Each replacement partition has a replacement axial length that is greater than the original axial length.
US10436043B2
A rotationally symmetrical part, such as a disk, for a turbine engine rotor. The part has a rotational axis (A) and includes, an annular row of teeth defining grooves therebetween for therein holding fir tree-shaped rotor blade roots. Each tooth includes a first side flank, having at least two projecting portions for holding a blade root and separated from each other by a hollow portion, and a second side flank including at least two projecting portions for holding an adjacent blade root and separated from each other by a hollow portion. Each tooth has, on substantially the entire longitudinal dimension thereof, a lack of symmetry in relation to a substantially radial median longitudinal plane. At least one of the circumferences of the projecting portions of the second flank is located between the circumferences of the projecting portions of the first flank and is radially shifted from the circumferences.
US10436041B2
A shroud assembly of a turbine system is presented. The shroud assembly includes a plurality of outer shroud segments disposed annularly and defining a first gap between a pair of outer shroud segments of the plurality of outer shroud segments; a plurality of inner shroud segments disposed annularly and radially inward of the plurality of outer shroud segments, and defining a second gap between a pair of inner shroud segments of the plurality of inner shroud segments, wherein the plurality of inner shroud segments is same in number to the plurality of outer shroud segments, and wherein the first gap and the second gap are offset; and an impingement plate coupled to an outer shroud segment of the pair of outer shroud segments and interposed between the outer shroud segment and the pair of inner shroud segments.
US10436040B2
An airfoil with dual wall cooling for a gas turbine engine comprises a spar having pressure and suction side walls that meet at leading and trailing edges of the airfoil, with a tip extending therebetween. An interior of the spar includes a coolant cavity, and each of the pressure and suction side walls includes an arrangement of pedestals on an outer surface thereof and a plurality of cooling holes in fluid communication with the coolant cavity. A pressure side coversheet overlies the pressure side wall and terminates in a radial direction short of the tip of the spar to form a shelf extending along a chordal direction. Flow channels between the pressure side wall and coversheet are configured to direct coolant from the cooling holes to radial flow outlets adjacent to the shelf. A suction side coversheet overlies the suction side wall, and a coolant circuit between the suction side wall and coversheet does not include radial coolant outlets.
US10436037B2
A blade includes an airfoil body defined by a concave pressure side outer wall and a convex suction side outer wall that connect along leading and trailing edges and, therebetween, form a radially extending chamber for receiving the flow of a coolant. The airfoil body has an inner surface facing the radially extending chamber and an outer surface, a first corrugated surface on a portion of the outer surface, and a second corrugated surface on the inner surface paralleling the first corrugated surface. The corrugated surface on the outer surface of the airfoil provides wake mixing. The blade may also include an integrally formed impingement cooling structure having a third corrugated surface parallel to the second corrugated surface, which is made possible through additive manufacturing. The impingement cooling structure so formed provides improved cooling of the blade.
US10436026B2
A downhole monitoring system and method that includes a sensor system with a sensor array with a number of sensors and a hub. Data measured by the sensors is processed by the hub and wirelessly communicated to a smart node. The sensor system may be mounted in the annulus formed between a borehole wall and an exterior surface of a well casing. The sensors may be configured to monitor the formation for microseismic events generated during hydraulic fracturing. The fracture growth and propagation may be monitored using the data obtained by the sensors. The data may facilitate real time control of the hydraulic fracturing operation.
US10436019B2
Methods and apparatus of adjusting matrix acidizing procedures are disclosed. An example method includes determining parameters of a wellbore fluid during a matrix acidizing procedure using at least a first sensor and a second sensor. The parameters include velocity of the wellbore fluid and a temperature difference between the first sensor and the second sensor. The method also includes, based on the parameters, determining a characteristic relative to an invasion length of a reactive fluid within the formation, the reactive fluid used in association with the matrix acidizing procedure.
US10436017B2
A system for tracking an object in oil and gas wellbore operations wherein a releasable object carrying a first signal system is released into tube system associated with a wellbore. The first signal system communicates with one or more second signal systems positioned along the travel path of the object; along the surface of the formation; and/or throughout the wellbore. First signal system and the second signal system may communicate by RF signals. First signal system and any second signal systems positioned on the surface communicate by through-the-earth or very low frequency signals. A global positioning system may be utilized in conjunction with any second signal systems on the surface to identify the absolute location of the object in the underground wellbore. The first signal system carried by the object may be a piezoelectric system disposed to transmit a signal when the object experiences a predetermined pressure.
US10436008B2
An apparatus, methods and systems for multi-configuration, multi-stage gas-liquid separation are presented. A production string is fitted with a shroud of size similar to the collars. Gaseous fluids intake into the upper portion of the shroud into a first chamber. Tubes or pipes collect the fluids for transport into the lower portion of a receiving chamber. Another plurality of tubes collect fluids in the portion of the receiving chamber above the first set for transport into a third chamber. Separated gases are collected and disposed. One or more receiving chambers are used. A final set of tubes or pipes transport the processed fluid to the bottom portion of a final chamber for delivery into the production string. The final chamber may be fitted with material-packed cylinders for further gas separation prior to delivery. The material-packed cylinders may be used alone as separators, or in combination with the receiving chambers.
US10436007B2
The present invention relates to a liquid evacuation device for an extraction well. The device comprises a tank presenting a liquid accumulation area. The tank is connected to a gas evacuation tubing. An insulant limits a flow of fluid between a wall of the tank and a wall of the well, from a first space formed between the insulant and the well bottom to a second space formed between the insulant and the well head. A first opening on the tank enables circulation of a gas-liquid mixture from said first space to a third space formed in the gas evacuation tubing. A second opening on the tank enables circulation of fluid from said second space to the liquid accumulation area. The first opening is made between the liquid accumulation area and the connection to the evacuation tubing.
US10436004B2
Methods including isolating a first treatment zone comprising an opening into a subterranean formation. A high-viscosity treatment fluid (HVTF) is introduced through the opening and incrementally increased fracturing rate steps (IIFRSs) are applied to create or enhance a dominate fracture, wherein between each IIFRS a downhole pressure slope over time will increase, decline, or stabilize at a measured pressure slope. The measured pressure slope is evaluated to determine whether an increasing pressure slope, a stabilizing pressure slope, or a declining pressure slope exists to determine whether and when to apply a subsequent IIFRS. The result is increasing a volume of the dominate fracture due to efficient dominate fracturing with generated back pressure until a first maximum fracturing rate is reached.
US10435999B2
A fluid release valve includes valve housing (VH) coupled between a pump and an outlet pipe, VH chamber providing fluid from its inlet and outlet when the pump starts, and fluid release orifice (FRO) draining outlet pipe fluid flowing back into the VH when the pump stops; and check valve (CV) combination having a CV shuttle that moves towards/away from the inlet/outlet and an internal shuttle chamber (ISC), and having a CV that moves towards/away from the inlet/outlet within the ISC. The CV combination responds to a pumped fluid pressure when the pump's pumping and stops the fluid from flowing from the inlet around the CV shuttle and out the FRO. The CV combination responds to a fluid differential pressure (FDP) when the pump stops and allows the outlet pipe fluid to drain out the FRO until the FDP reaches an equilibrium.
US10435992B2
A lateral junction liner system may include a liner sleeve proximate to a junction between a lateral bore and a main bore of a well. The liner sleeve may be movable between a first position and a second position. The liner sleeve may separate an upper section of the main bore from a lower section of the main bore while in the first position. The lateral junction liner may further include a liner positioned at least partially within the lateral bore and in contact with the liner sleeve. The lateral junction liner system may also include a lock mechanism attached to the liner sleeve that, when enabled, retains the liner sleeve in the first position and that, when disabled, enables selective displacement of the liner sleeve from the first position to the second position.
US10435990B1
A method of cleaning a blow-out preventer stack that is preferably attached to an oil and gas well drilling platform including an initial disconnecting of the stack from the well so that it can be lifted. The stack is then preferably lifted vertically a selected distance. The method further includes lowering a water pressure cleaning tool into the stack bore using a hose, the tool preferably being attached to a lower end portion of the hose. Pressurized cleaning fluid is transmitted to the cleaning tool via the hose. A collection vessel is preferably placed below the stack and spaced from the stack so that cleaning fluid and cleaned debris exit the stack bore or interior and enter the vessel during cleaning. The method includes continuously discharging the fluid and debris from the vessel via a discharge outlet of the vessel.
US10435980B2
An integrated rotating control device and gas handling system for a marine drilling system is disclosed. The system includes a flow spool; a riser sealing tool coupled to the flow spool; a rotating control device coupled to the riser sealing tool below a tension ring of a riser section of a drilling riser, the rotating control device fluidically coupled to the flow spool; and an auxiliary line routed around the rotating control device between the riser sealing tool and the riser section.
US10435977B2
A downhole stroking tool (1) comprising a housing (2), a first chamber (3), a first tool part (4) comprising a pump unit (5) providing pressurized fluid to the chamber, a shaft (6) penetrating the chamber, and a first piston (7) dividing the first chamber into a first chamber section (8, 8a) and a second chamber section (9, 9b). The piston is connected to or forms part of the housing which forms part of a second tool part (10) and is slidable in relation to the shaft so that the housing moves in relation to the shaft, the shaft being stationary in relation to the pump unit during pressurization of the first or the second chamber section, thereby generating a pressure on the piston, wherein the shaft is fixedly connected with the first tool part, and wherein the housing is slidable in relation to the first tool part and overlaps the first tool part.
US10435973B2
An automated system for assessing pumpoff risk can be used to warn operators and/or control machinery in order to avoid pumpoff. Pumpoff risk is assessed through the use and/or comparison of one or more models of pumpoff risk. These models can include a sand build up model (e.g., to determine the threshold buildup size where pumpoff risk is too great), a line speed increase model (e.g., to determine the maximum flow rate allowable given a maximum support line feed rate), a residual error comparison model (e.g., to compare the deviation of predicted tension from actual tension), and a statistical analysis model (e.g., to determine likelihood of pumpoff given statistical probability of each of a multitude of possible scenarios).
US10435970B2
An anchor and seal system including a slip, a cone in radially expanding communication with the slip, an element in loadable communication with the cone, and a pusher configured to radially displace the element to reside on an element retention surface of the pusher. A method for treating a borehole including running an anchor and seal system above to depth, activating a setting arrangement to anchor and seal the anchor and seal system.
US10435965B2
An improved multi-bolt and nut torque wrench for installing and removing bolts or nuts from flanged joints or the like which includes a plurality of torque stations having a plurality of high torque wrenches for engaging the heads of the bolts or nuts during a high torque phase of removal or installation; a plurality of low-torque motors operatively engaged with the wrenches for rotating the bolts or nuts during the low torque phase of removal or installation; a source of hydraulic fluid for driving the low-torque motors during the low-torque phase, and driving the high-torque wrenches during the high torque phase; and a mechanism for switching between the two phases depending on the torque needed.
US10435964B2
The systems, devices, and methods described herein relate to a modular gripperhead system for a drilling rig. The system includes a gripper having a first gripper arm and a second opposing gripper arm, each gripper arm having an inwardly facing gripping surface that forms at least a portion of a chamber sized to receive a portion of a cylindrical tubular, wherein the portion of the chamber has a longitudinal axis. The system also includes a grabber having a first grabber arm and a second grabber arm. Each grabber arm may be displaceable between a retracted position and an extended position in a direction along a first axis that is transverse to the longitudinal axis. The first and second grabber arms may be pivotable about a first and second pivot point between an open position sized to permit a portion of a cylindrical tubular to enter between the first and the second grabber arms and a closed position sized to secure a portion of a cylindrical tubular between the first and the second grabber arms.
US10435962B2
A bell design crown block for a top mounted compensator includes a removable, tilting sheave block mounted within the outside perimeter of a crown block yoke. An actuator installed in the crown block actuates the tilt function. No hinge adaptor is required and the sheave block does not hang past or below the crown block yoke. When used in a floating platform application, idler sheaves are mounted on the crown block yoke and an optional interface beam may be provided for the active heave cylinder head.
US10435960B2
In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, a system and method for rotationally orienting two wellbore tool components on a tool string relative to each other is provided. The system may include an alignment sub that is simple to operate and allows for quick adjustments to the relative orientations of downhole tool components. The disclosed alignment sub may include a first tubular component on one side and a second tubular component on the other side, and these tubular components are coupled together. The disclosed alignment sub utilizes an axially deformable and variable length sleeve attached to the first tubular component and adjacent to a tip of the second tubular component. The sleeve may provide an appropriate standoff distance between the opposing tubular components while enabling the components to be rotated relative to each other up to at least one full rotation about an axis of the alignment sub.
US10435955B2
A cold worked and spinodally-hardened copper alloy comprising from about 8 to about 20 wt % nickel, and from about 5 to about 11 wt % tin, the remaining balance being copper, and having a 0.2% offset yield strength of at least 75 ksi, is used to form a sucker rod coupling or subcoupling. Each coupling is formed from a core having two ends, each end having an internal thread. These box ends engage the pin of a sucker rod or other rod. The exterior surface of the core includes grooves running between the two ends.
US10435946B2
A collapsible ladder includes two vertical stiles with rungs disposed therebetween. Each stile is formed by a plurality of telescopically collapsible columns. Each collapsible column has a bottom opening, an inner wall and a cover to cover the bottom opening. The cover has a small cylindrical portion and a large cylindrical portion with a peripheral surface located under the small cylindrical portion. The small cylindrical portion is inserted into the bottom opening of a column The large cylindrical portion is exposed outside of the column and inserted inside of a next lower column. A sealing ring is disposed inside a annular groove and touches the inner wall of the next lower column when the stile is extending or collapsing. One or more air ducts are provided in the cover. A first air opening iarranged above the large cylindrical portion in correspondence with an opening in a lower wall part of the column.
US10435941B2
A core for a fire rated door includes a fire resistant center panel and an extruded fire resistant border. The fire resistant center panel has a bottom, a top, a first side, a second side, a first end and a second end. The fire resistant center panel is made of a first fire resistant material. The extruded fire resistant border is attached to the first side, the second side, the first end and the second end of the fire resistant center panel. The extruded fire resistant border is made of a second fire resistant material having a higher density than the first fire resistant material.
US10435937B2
A storage and dispensing system including a frame defining a plurality of compartments and a door assembly including a plurality of doors. Each door is sized to generally correspond to one of the compartments of the frame to selectively provide access thereto, and the door assembly is removably coupled to the frame.
US10435931B2
A door closer device for driving a door to a predetermined closed position includes an adjustment mechanism and a door closer which is integrated with the door. The adjustment mechanism includes a base, an adjusting plate and at least one fixing element, wherein the adjusting plate is stacked with the base and coupled with the door closer. The adjusting plate and the base respectively include at least one adjusting bore, and the adjusting bores are corresponding with each other. One of the adjusting bores includes a first limiting end and a second limiting end, and a first moving path is defined between the first and second limiting ends. The fixing element is disposed in the adjusting bores and can move along the first moving path to fix the adjusting plate on the base.
US10435928B2
A portable door securement device is provided having a member extending from a first end engaged to a doorknob of a door to a second end engaged with a floor adjacent the door, to prevent opening of the door in a direction toward the engaged member. A slot at a first end of the member engages around a stem of the door handle thereby preventing disengagement of the member from the door, and preventing opening of the door.
US10435919B2
Anti-vandalism padlocks are used to secure chains, latches or similar elements, consisting of two coupling armors, with a particular geometry according to their application, with a tumbler cam lock. This padlock does not have an exposed shackle nor any other similar element which may be subject to violation either by cutting, lever movements or the like.
US10435910B2
Apparatus allowing ventilation through a ventilation shaft to an underground ventilation duct fluidly communicating through the ventilation shaft to an atmospheric opening of the shaft and on threat of flooding operable to prevent downward flow of surface water into the underground ventilation duct includes support sidewalls fitting in the shaft providing a ventilation passage between support top and bottom openings and a suspension member supported on opposed lateral sidewalls unobstructively horizontally spanning the passage proximate the top opening and holding one or more hinge connected panels in the passage that manually release to rotationally close the passage and prevent flooding and are manually rotationally liftable to a home position allowing ventilation. The suspension member is liftingly removable from the support and may include end keys received in keyed supports to allow the suspension member to fit in the supports so a specific panel closes to a specific sidewall.
US10435909B2
Apparatus allowing ventilation through a ventilation shaft to an underground ventilation duct fluidly communicating through the ventilation shaft to an atmospheric opening of the shaft and on threat of flooding operable to prevent downward flow of surface water into the ventilation duct includes support sidewalls fitting in the shaft providing a ventilation passage between support top and bottom openings and a suspension member supported on opposed lateral sidewalls proximate the top opening holding one or more hinge connected panels that manually release to rotationally close the passage and are manually rotationally liftable to a home position allowing ventilation. A panel drain automatically closes when the panel is raised to home position. A releasable latching system between panel and a suspension member holder catches rising panels to hold them in home position. The suspension member may include end keys received in keyed supports so a specific panel faces a specific sidewall.
US10435902B2
A portable pool filter system is disclosed. The portable pool filter system is fully immersible and self-contained. Water is suction fed through the filter before entering the pump and being discharged. The device decontaminates water from all contaminations to include algae, iron, red clay, and oils.
US10435900B2
A skimmer basket handle with a horizontal crossbar, a post that extends upwardly from the crossbar to a grip, and a leg that extends downwardly from the crossbar to a foot. The crossbar extends the diameter of the basket. Horizontal knobs at each end of the crossbar fit into openings in the sides of the basket. The post maintains the grip above the water line. The leg and foot are sized and shaped so that the bottom of the foot rests on the floor of the basket when installed to maintain the handle in the upright position. To make the length adjustable for baskets of different depths, the leg is relatively short with a number of spaced annular grooves and the foot has a tubular upward extension with an internal annular ridge. The leg is pushed into the extension until the ridge snaps into the desired groove.
US10435899B2
A spa includes a thermo-insulating cover having a carrier segment and a carried segment rotatably connected to each other along an axis or rotation, the carrier segment rotatably mounted along an axis of rotation on and above a plane of an edge of the spa. An accumulation member has a fixed portion mounted on the spa and a movable portion that transmits force to the carrier segment. A travelling wheel is mounted on each opposite side at a front end of the carried segment, the wheels having a circumference equal to a distance of the front end of the carried segment spaced from the edge of the spa in the open position of the cover.
US10435898B2
A structure and its adjacent group-segregated outdoor spaces or an arrangement of structures and their adjacent group-segregated outdoor spaces includes at least one structure comprising at least one a unit and at least one b unit. The areas adjacent to the structure or structures are physically separated into a first group-segregated outdoor space and a second group-segregated outdoor space. The first group-segregated outdoor space is associated with the at least one a unit. The second group-segregated outdoor space is associated with the at least one b unit. The areas adjacent to the structure or structures are physically separated by a barrier, whereby the barrier at least partly limits visibility and access between the first and second segregated outdoor areas.
