US10472278B2
A method of treating a substrate in a pressure vessel that includes the steps: preparing an ion-exchange bath with a bath composition that comprises a polar solvent and a plurality of ion-exchanging ions in a vessel; submersing a substrate having an outer region containing a plurality of exchangeable ions in the bath; pressurizing the bath in the vessel to a predetermined pressure substantially above ambient pressure; heating the bath in the vessel to a predetermined temperature; and treating the substrate for a predetermined ion-exchange duration at the predetermined pressure and temperature such that a portion of the plurality of exchangeable ions is exchanged with a portion of the ion-exchanging ions. The substrate can consist essentially of a glass, glass-ceramic or ceramic substrate composition, and the predetermined ion-exchange duration, temperature and pressure can each be selected based at least in part on the substrate composition and the bath composition.
US10472277B2
Methods for manufacturing a composite plastic display cover include defining an edge portion of a base plastic cover sheet. A strengthening treatment is applied to the edge portion of the base plastic cover sheet to improve mechanical strength. A hardening treatment is applied to the base plastic cover sheet and over the strengthening treatment to improve anti-glare and anti-scratch properties.
US10472276B2
A composition for forming film having wrinkle structure and a method of forming the film are disclosed. The composition includes photo-curable agent and photoinitiator dissolved in the photo-curable agent. The cut off wavelength of light transmittance of the photo-curable agent is greater than the cut off wavelength of light absorbance of the photoinitiator. Photo-cured thin film is formed at the upper portion of composition layer at an initial time period of irradiation. By subsequent contraction, the photo-cured thin film forms wrinkles. The wrinkle structure is controlled by the relation of the cut off wavelength of light transmittance of the photo-curable agent and the cut off wavelength of light absorbance of the photoinitiator, the photo-curing rate of the composition and the thickness of the composition layer, and the photoinitiator concentration, etc., before photo-curing. The film may increase the emission efficiency of LED and OLED and the sensing effect of sensor.
US10472273B2
A sensitized, photo-structurable glasses and methods for producing are provided. The glasses includes Si4+, one or more crystal-agonist, one or more crystal-antagonist, and one or more pair of nucleating agents. The glasses are sensitized in that the glass reacts more sensitive to irradiation with UV-light and can be crystallized easier and with higher aspect ratios than a non-sensitized glass with equal composition. Furthermore, the sensitized glasses of this invention have smaller crystal sizes after irradiation and tempering than a non-sensitized glass with equal composition. The invention also relates to a structured glass product. Such product can be obtained by submitting the crystallized glass product to a subsequent etching step. The structured product can be used in components or as component for the application fields micro-technology, micro-reaction-technology, electronic packaging, micro-fluidics, FED spacer, bio-technology, interposer, and/or three-dimensional structured antennae.
US10472272B2
A glass for chemical strengthening contains, in mole percentage on an oxide basis, 58 to 80% of SiO2, 13 to 18% of Al2O3, 0 to 5% of B2O3, 0.5 to 4% of P2O5, 4 to 10% of Li2O, 5 to 14% of Na2O, 0 to 2% of K2O, 0 to 11% of MgO, 0 to 5% of CaO, 0 to 20% of SrO, 0 to 15% of BaO, 0 to 10% of ZnO, 0 to 1% of TiO2, and 0 to 2% of ZrO2. A value of X is 30000 or more. The value of X is calculated based on the formula, X=SiO2×329+Al2O3×786+B2O3×627+P2O5×(−941)+Li2O×927+Na2O×47.5+K2O×(−371)+MgO×1230+CaO×1154+SrO×733+ZrO2×51.8, by using the contents in mole percentage on an oxide basis of components.
US10472271B2
Embodiments of a glass substrate including an alkali-containing bulk and an alkali-depleted surface layer, including a substantially homogenous composition are disclosed. In some embodiments, the alkali-depleted surface layer includes about 0.5 atomic % alkali or less. The alkali-depleted surface layer may be substantially free of hydrogen and/or crystallites. Methods for forming a glass substrate with a modified surface layer are also provided.
US10472266B2
A method for treating in an industrial water treatment system for at least two of metal corrosion inhibition, scale inhibition, suspended matter dispersion, biocide efficacy, or biofilm removal/biofilm dispersion is taught by the use of at least one compound which is a salt derived from a thioamine or an oxyamine and an acid.
US10472265B2
In some embodiments, a method may include treating water comprising sulfur based contaminants. The method may include contacting a portion of water comprising a quantity of hydrogen sulfide with a first oxidant. The method may include producing sulfur solids as a result of contacting the hydrogen sulfide in the portion of water with the first oxidant. In some embodiments, the method may include separating the sulfur solids from the water. The first oxidant may include hydrogen peroxide. In some embodiments, oxidation of contaminated fluids may be accelerated by adding an acid in combination with a second oxidant to the contaminated fluids. In some embodiments, oxidation of contaminated fluids may be accelerated by adjusting a pH of the contaminated fluids after addition of an oxidant to the contaminated fluids. In some embodiments, the pH may be adjusted to less than 7.
US10472262B2
Provided are a capacitive deionization electrode module, a method of manufacturing the same, and a deionization apparatus using the same. The capacitive deionization electrode module includes: a conductive support that is formed by injecting and fixing carbon-based electrode powders into and to fine pores of a porous substrate; and a coating layer coated on one surface of the conductive support, to thereby implement a current collector for the deionization apparatus having ultra-thin, slim, and excellent flexible features.
US10472259B2
The present disclosure relates to water purification. The teachings thereof may be embodied in processes for removing contaminants from contaminated water. An example process may include: boiling or evaporating a contaminated water to distill the contaminated water; removing a vapor stream from the boiling or evaporating contaminated water; delivering the vapor stream to an oxidation unit; removing additional contaminants from the vapor stream in the oxidation unit; and discharging a purified water stream from the oxidation unit.
US10472256B2
A system for processing wastewater includes a wastewater source, a biomass burner, and a first heat exchanger. The biomass burner is configured to receive biomass from a biomass source, combust the biomass to produce heat and ash, receive a thermal transfer fluid, and heat the thermal transfer fluid using the heat produced from the combustion of the biomass. The first heat exchanger is configured to heat the wastewater to produce steam. The first heat exchanger includes a first inlet, a second inlet, a first outlet, a second outlet, and a third outlet. The first inlet is configured to receive the wastewater from the wastewater source. The second inlet is configured to receive the thermal transfer fluid from the biomass burner. The first outlet is configured to discharge the steam. The second outlet is configured to discharge the thermal transfer fluid.
US10472248B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing calcium zincate crystals including: placing calcium hydroxide2 and zinc oxide, one of the precursors thereof, or one of the water mixtures thereof in a starting suspension, the mass ratio of water to calcium hydroxide and zinc oxide, or one of the precursors or mixtures thereof, being greater than or equal to 1; milling the starting suspension to an ambient temperature less than or equal to 50° C. in a wet-phase three-dimensional micro-ball mill for a residence time less than or equal to 15 minutes and in particular from 5 to 25 seconds; recovering a calcium zincate crystal suspension coming out of the mill; and optionally, concentrating or drying the calcium zincate crystal suspension so as to obtain a calcium zincate crystal powder. Also disclosed are uses associated with the calcium zincate crystals obtained according to the method described above.
US10472245B2
A method of making Nanostructured Zinc Silicate from renewable sources comprising preparing powders of husks, preparing powders of ZnO, mixing the powders of husks and the powders of ZnO and forming a homogenous sample powder, pressing the homogenous sample and forming pellets, heating the pellets and forming nanostructured zinc silicate. The nanostructured zinc silicate from renewable sources product of the process of preparing powders of husks, preparing powders of ZnO, mixing the powders of husks and the powders of ZnO and forming a homogenous sample powder, pressing the homogenous sample and forming pellets, heating the pellets and forming nanostructured zinc silicate.
US10472243B2
A method for industrially manufacturing large-size graphene comprises following steps: (1) mixing graphite and concentrated sulfuric acid to obtain a mixed liquid, and ultrasonically treating the mixed liquid to obtain an upper layer of graphene and a lower layer of concentrated sulfuric acid liquid under condition that a chemical intercalation and a mechanical stripping were performed simultaneously; (2) separating the upper layer of graphene and the lower layer of concentrated sulfuric acid liquid; (3) the graphene separated in the step (2) being washed with water, filtered, and dried to obtain a large-size graphene. The method has the advantages of good peeling effect, great graphene size, repeated use of sulfuric acid as an intercalating agent, environment-friendliness, resource saving and wide industrial application prospect.
US10472240B2
A method for making a nanostructured material includes the steps of: providing a mixture of carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) having a selected composition; providing intercalation nanoparticles (INPs) configured to intercalate the carbon nanoparticles (CNPs); intercalating the carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) by mixing the intercalation nanoparticles (INPs) in a selected CNP:HNP ratio to form an intercalated material; and combining the intercalated material in a base material in a selected concentration with the base material providing a matrix for the intercalated material.
US10472236B2
The inventions is directed to a new design for catalyst tubes, which makes it possible to apply the concept of regenerative reforming into steam reformers having catalyst tube inlets and outlets at opposite sides of the furnace chamber. The catalyst tube comprises an inlet for process gas to enter the catalyst tube and an outlet for process gas to exit the catalyst tube, which inlet and outlet are located at opposite ends of the catalyst tube. The catalyst tube further comprises a first annular channel comprising the catalyst, a second annular channel for process gas to flow countercurrently or co-currently to the process gas flowing through the first annular channel.
US10472235B2
A method of manufacturing synthesis gas by catalytic partial oxidation can prevent formation of hot spots from taking place when driving mixture gas to pass through a catalyst-filled layer at high velocity. The method comprises converting mixture gas of source gas containing lower hydrocarbons and oxidative gas containing oxygen into synthesis gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide as main components thereof by causing mixture gas to flow through a fixed bed catalyst layer arranged in a reactor. The method of manufacturing synthesis gas by catalytic partial oxidation is conducted such that the mixture gas is made to flow to the catalyst layer under the condition that the Reynolds number does not exceed 20 at the inlet of the catalyst layer.
US10472224B2
A water dispenser assembly for a refrigerator includes a housing having a front fascia with an actuator receiving area. An actuator is received in the actuator receiving area and includes inner and outer surfaces. The actuator is operable between at-rest and pressed positions. A hinge pin includes upper and lower ends with a body portion disposed therebetween. The upper and lower ends are pivotally coupled to upper and lower portions of the actuator receiving area to rotate the body portion of the hinge pin between extended and retracted positions. The body portion is further coupled to the inner surface of the actuator for movement therewith.
US10472223B2
An induction heater and a water dispenser having an induction heater are provided. The induction heater may include a hot water tank assembly formed by coupling edges of a first cover and a second cover to each other and provided with an inner space to heat liquid. The first cover may be configured to have a flat plate shape and to be heated by a working coil. The second cover may include a base configured to face the first cover and separated from the first cover, and a welding portion formed by welding with the first cover and provided on a protruding surface that protrudes from the base toward the first cover.
US10472220B2
The present application provides a dispensing nozzle assembly. The dispensing nozzle assembly may include a core module assembly and an injector ring assembly surrounding the removable core module assembly. The injector ring assembly may include a number of first paths surrounding the core module assembly and extending to a dispensing ring and a number of second paths surrounding the first paths and extending to the dispensing ring.
US10472219B2
The present invention relates to automated batch making assemblies where various component materials, at least, some in liquid form, are combined. Specifically, the invention provides a dispensing assembly that adds efficiency by increasing dramatically the speed with which a liquid is dispensed from a container and by providing means and methods to automate the addition of and account for the amount of each component.
US10472217B2
An apparatus for filling containers with a product, includes a product supply, a pre-filling chamber having a controlled outlet, a movable sealing arrangement having a closed position for isolating the product supply from the pre-filling chamber, and a displacer arrangement that extends into the pre-filling chamber and that has an elastically deformable wall. The displacer arrangement is interactively connected to a control medium in such a way that an elastic volume change in the displacer arrangement changes a volume of the pre-filling chamber, thereby permitting control over an amount of product delivered through the outlet.
US10472210B2
A belt for an elevator system is provided. The belt includes a plurality of tension members arranged along a belt width. A jacket material at least partially encapsulates the plurality of tension members. The jacket material includes a traction surface and a back surface opposite the traction surface together defining a belt thickness therebetween. The jacket material also includes two end surfaces extending between the traction surface and the back surface and defining the belt width therebetween. A metalized polymer coating layer is disposed over at least one of the two end surfaces.
US10472209B2
A governor assembly is provided including a sheave rotatably mounted on a shaft and a ratchet disc mounted on the shaft. Rotation of the ratchet disc is restricted. An overspeed assembly includes a swing jaw mounted to the sheave. The swing jaw is movable between a normal position and a tripped position. The swing jaw is biased into the tripped position. When the swing jaw is in the tripped position, rotation of the sheave in a first direction is restricted. A tripping lever is pivotally mounted to the sheave and is configured to cooperate with the swing jaw. Rotation of the sheave in a second, opposite direction is configured to automatically move the swing jaw against its bias to the normal position.
US10472205B2
According to an embodiment there is provided a building automation system control apparatus comprising building automation system control logic configured to receive signaling from entities connected to a building automation system and to cause transmission of control signaling to the entities connected to the building automation system, wherein the building automation system control logic comprises elevator control logic as an integral part to directly control an elevator system comprising one or more elevators, the building automation system control logic being configured to take into account signaling received from the entities connected to the building automation system when determining control signaling for the elevator system; and the building automation system control logic being configured to take into account signaling received from the elevator system when determining control signaling for the entities connected to the building automation system.
US10472193B2
An image forming apparatus of embodiments includes an accommodation unit and a notification unit. The accommodation unit accommodates both of a paper bundle and a packaging member therein in a state in which at least one of the paper bundle and the packaging member used to package the paper bundle satisfies predetermined conditions. The notification unit performs a notification of guidance on the predetermined conditions.
US10472189B2
User labor relating to determining on an alignment condition is reduced and a stable conveying operation is realized by aligning a sheet bundle also when a sheet bundle is added. A sheet bundle composed of multiple sheet materials is placed on a loading platform. An encoder pulse unit detects the amount of the sheet bundle placed on the loading platform based on the opening amount of a pressure plate. A control unit determines on an alignment condition according to the amount of the sheet bundle. Rotating members align the sheet bundle in accordance with the alignment condition. When it is determined that another sheet bundle has been added to the loading platform, the control unit updates the alignment condition according to the total amount of the other sheet bundle and the sheet bundle remaining on the loading platform.
US10472188B2
A sheet regulating portion includes a body portion including a regulating surface facing an edge of a sheet, a pressing member having a pressing portion capable of projecting out of the body portion, an upper portion formed integrally with an upper part of the pressing portion so as to project to a sheet side and regulating an upward move of the sheet, and an urging member to urge the pressing member so that the pressing portion presses the edge of the sheet. In addition, a holding portion holds the pressing portion movably from a projecting position where the pressing portion projects out of the body portion to a retracting position where the upper portion enters within the body portion while inclining the pressing portion with respect to the regulating surface by resisting against the urging member when the upper portion is pressed from above.
US10472186B1
A port is used for exchanging removable media with a media library. The port includes a port housing with an opening exchanging the media between an internal volume and another opening permitting an exchange of the media between the internal volume and the media library. The port also includes a guiding funnel for guiding the media from the environment to the opening, an elastic element and a plate for receiving the medium. The elastic element and the plate are installed in the internal volume, and the plate is coupled to the elastic element. The elastic element is configured for pressing the plate against the opening to seal the port when the plate is unloaded and for permitting a movement of the plate into the internal volume to allow the exchange of the medium through the other opening when the plate is loaded.
US10472182B2
The present disclosure discloses a positioning apparatus, including an identification code reading assembly which comprises a support part and an identification code reader mounted on the support part, wherein the support part is connected with a running part of a conveyor mechanism; and further comprising a shield, in which at least a portion of the support part is located and out of which the identification code reader is located. The present disclosure also discloses a conveyor mechanism. The shield provided by the positioning apparatus according to the present disclosure may function to protect the identification code reader without affecting the normal reading operation of the identification code reader, thereby ensuring the accuracy of the positioning of the conveyor mechanism conducted by the positioning apparatus.
US10472166B2
A transportable container comprises: a sidewall; a front wall; a floor; and a subfloor, wherein the subfloor is removably attached to a bottom of the floor, wherein the subfloor comprises: two or more rails, wherein the two or more rails matingly engage with two or more hoist rails of a roll-off truck; and two or more rollers. The roll-off truck can include a system for loading, transporting, and unloading the container and subfloor. The system can be a cable/winch system or a hook/lift system. The subfloor can be removably attached to a floor of the container via welding or spot welding, fastening, bracketing, or bolting. The container can be any type of container that is not capable of being loaded, transported, and unloaded using a roll-off truck.
US10472164B2
Tri-fold egg carton has a base and a cover each having a complementary matrix of egg receiving cells such that, when the cover is assembled on top of the base, the complementary cells encapsulate each egg in an individual cell pocket (see FIGS. 3-5). Each base cell and cover cell includes a central dome and first and second radially spaced apart circumferential hinges that surround the central dome, and lie radially inward of a lowermost standing ring, enabling the dome to move up and down above the plane of the standing ring (in the height direction of the closed carton) between multiple positions to accommodate jumbo eggs of varying dimensions (height and width) to hold them securely in their respective cell pocket. The base and cover further include full height cell posts with mating surfaces that engage in the assembled state. The carton further includes a lid which fits over the cover (of the assembled cover and base), in a secure and locked position.
US10472163B2
To provide a fixing plate for an aerosol container that allows positioning thereof, fittable to a mounting cup, applicable to aerosol containers without changes in shape, and fittable to the mounting cup without displacing out of position relative to the mounting cup. The fixing plate (100) for an aerosol container is mounted to a mounting cup (310) having two stems (320) protruding therefrom and is used for positioning of an exterior component. The fixing plate is formed in a cylindrical shape fittable to the mounting cup (310), includes, on an inner circumferential side thereof, container positioning unit and container lock unit for positioning and retaining and fitting of the fixing plate (100) and the mounting cup (310), and includes, on an outer circumferential side thereof, exterior component positioning unit and exterior component lock unit for positioning and retaining and fitting of the fixing plate (100) and the exterior component (200).
US10472161B2
Methods and systems using magnetism to securely hold detachable spray-extension straws to aerosol cans to prevent their misplacement or loss are presented. Created from inexpensive magnetic plastic material: one is a magnetized straw that alone will securely attach to a spray can, and others are a variety of magnetized devices that will affix the straw on the surface of spray cans by magnetic attraction forces. Each device variation is designed to grasp and hold a conventional plastic straw while magnetically attached to an aerosol can.
US10472133B2
Caps for containers or for spouts in particular for containing liquids, such as fruit juice and other similar drinks, are provided having highly visible guarantee seals. Such caps include an annular wall having a lower free rim which has a waved pattern. These features allow consumers to recognize immediately if the guarantee seal has been broken.
US10472128B2
A hanging condiment cup with at least one integral clip and a removable lid that attaches to a food container. The condiment cup has a convex end and a concave end, with the convex end having a radius that matches the food container it attaches to. The condiment cup also has a backslant that matches the slant of the food container to bring the center of gravity of the condiment cup closer to the center of the food container for increased stability. The condiment cup and lid are designed to be stacked and are made from biodegradable or other plastic material that is refrigerator, heat and/or microwave safe.
US10472125B2
A carton blank for forming a carton, and comprising a row of first, second, third and fourth substantially four-edged panels, each panel having substantially the same width and comprising a side wall part, a top closure obturating part and a top sealing fin part, one of said panels from an outermost boundary of the side wall part to an outermost boundary of the top closure obturating part being substantially free from any lateral line of weakness, the obturating part of said one of said panels including a loop of weakness.
US10472118B2
A plastic container includes a neck portion, a sidewall portion, and a base including a support ring that extends downward and is configured to support the container on a support surface; a first base portion that extends upwardly from the support ring; a second base portion that extends downwardly from the first base portion; and a reentrant portion that extends upwardly from the second base portion. In embodiments, the container can hold carbonated contents and the sidewall portion may be substantially smooth.
US10472109B2
A folding unit for producing packages from sealed packs comprises an endless conveyor carrying a plurality of paddles arranged for moving said packs along an advancement direction and fold said packs into formed packages, each paddle having a first surface intended to interact with a first pack to form a portion of a corresponding first package and a second surface intended to interact with a second pack to form a portion of a corresponding second package, said folding unit further comprises releasable connecting elements arranged for releasably connecting said paddles to said endless conveyor.
US10472103B2
Described herein are sealable, breathable bags for packaging, storing, and transporting fresh fruit in boxes. The bags protects the fruit from outside contaminants while maintaining a modified atmosphere environment around the fruit to preserve the freshness of the fruit. Furthermore, the bags are constructed in such a way that they have a flattened closed configuration and an fully opened configuration that allows them to efficiently fit into a generally cuboid, open-topped packaging box to be filled with fresh fruit and then seal around the fruit in the box, such as by sliding a slider across an upper closure of the bag.
US10472099B2
A method for autonomously constructing structural bodies in a zero gravity environment utilizes an assembly line space structure to fabricate segments for constructing a modular space structure. An assembly housing provides an open ended structure through which materials are processed in order to construct a segment. The materials are loaded into a plurality of workstations positioned along the assembly housing through the use of a plurality of external manipulators adjacently connected to the assembly housing. Each of the plurality of workstations provides the equipment for sequentially loading materials into the assembly housing. An assembly line conveyor, positioned throughout the plurality of workstations, guides materials through the assembly housing as the materials are mated to form the segment. Upon completion of the segment, a plurality of segment transport units transports the segment to an orbital construction site, wherein the segment is mated with subsequent segments to form the space station.
US10472096B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure include determining a performance status of a selected component in an aircraft. An ensemble of related machine learning models is applied to feature data extracted from flight data of the aircraft. Each model produces a positive score and a complementary negative score related to performance of the selected component. The positive scores are weighted based on the false positive rates of the models and the negative scores are weighted based on the false negative rates of the models. The weighted positive scores are combined, e.g., by averaging, and the weighted negative scores are combined, e.g., by averaging. The performance status of the selected component is determined as one of a positive category, a negative category, or an unclassified category based on the values of the combined weighted positive scores and the combined weighted negative scores.
US10472078B2
Systems and methods for distributing in an aircraft are provided. More particularly, in one embodiment, a system can include one or more gas turbine engines configured to provide propulsion and electrical power to an aircraft. The system can further include one or more electrical engines configured to provide propulsion for the aircraft. The system can include one or more first electrical power systems configured to provide power to the one or more electrical engines for one or more electrical power propulsion loads for the aircraft. The system can further include one or more second electrical power systems configured to provide power for one or more non-propulsion electrical power loads of the aircraft.
US10472060B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to monitor a shock wave proximate a surface of an aircraft are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first camera at a first location on an aircraft to capture a first image of a surface of the aircraft during a first time period, and capture a second image of the surface during a second time period, a second camera at a second location to capture a third image of the surface during the first time period, and capture a fourth image of the surface during the second time period. The example apparatus further includes a position calculator to identify a first position of a shock wave based on the first and third images, and a second position based on the second and fourth images, and calculate a difference between the first and the second positions, and a command generator to generate a command to control at least one of an actuator and a control surface based on the difference.
US10472052B2
An aircraft flow body includes a flow surface exposed to an airstream during flight, at least one structural component attached to an interior of the flow surface, at least one perforated area having a plurality of openings extending through the flow surface, a manifold positioned interior to the flow surface in fluid communication with the openings and upstream of the at least one structural component, and at least one suction duct having a first end in communication with the manifold and a second end placed exterior to the flow surface downstream of the structural component. The at least one suction duct includes a suction opening facing away from the first end and adapted for inducing a suction force into the at least one suction duct when the flow surface is exposed to the airstream during flight, thereby inducing a flow of air from through the openings to the suction opening.
US10472048B2
A spinner for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The spinner may include a body extending between a first and second end comprised of a cured chopped unidirectional fiber pre-impregnated material. The body may have a generally conical shape and may further be plated with a metal or metal alloy.
US10472045B2
A system for locking a foldable wing tip on a wing end of an aircraft includes at least one engagement device, at least one locking device comprising a support, a latch element rotatably held in the support and a lock element movably held on the support, a latch drive device coupled with the latch element of the at least one locking device for selectively rotating the latch element at least to an open position, a closed position and a test position, a lock drive device coupled with the lock element of the at least one locking device for selectively varying a distance of the lock element to the latch element between a neutral position and a locking position, wherein the support includes a receiving space extending into an insertion opening designed for receiving the engagement device. The latch element includes a circumferential surface section that selectively covers the insertion opening in an open position and uncovers the insertion opening in a closed position of the latch element. The latch element includes at least one locking recess arranged on a circumferential path of motion for engaging with the lock element in the closed position of the latch element and the locking position of the lock element. The rotatable latch element further includes at least one protrusion on the circumferential path of motion, which acts as a stop for the lock element. The system further includes a signaling device indicating a correct function when the lock element rests on the at least one protrusion.
US10472041B2
An aircraft includes a first structure between a pressure-controlled region of the aircraft and a non-pressure-controlled region of the aircraft and a second structure between the non-pressure-controlled region and an exterior of the aircraft. The aircraft also includes a first door assembly that includes a first door configured to cover a first opening between the pressure-controlled region and the non-pressure-controlled region and a second door configured to cover a second opening between the non-pressure-controlled region and the exterior. The aircraft further includes a spring coupled, via a first member, to the first door assembly and coupled, via a mechanical linkage, to the second door. The spring is configured to apply a first force to the first member and to apply a second force, via the mechanical linkage, to the second door, where the second force is applied based on a state of the first door assembly.
US10472037B2
Disclosed is a method of decreasing pressure fluctuation induced on a surface of a hull due to propeller cavitation by adjusting a relative rotation angle of propellers of a twin-propeller ship.
US10472028B2
An anchor light used to fulfill coast-guard requirements consists of a lighting source, a lighting pole, a mounting plate, and a swivel mechanism. The lighting source is terminally connected to the lighting pole. Moreover, the lighting pole is rotatably engaged with mounting plate through the swivel mechanism so that the lighting pole can be positioned at a preferred angle. The swivel mechanism is laterally connected to the mounting plate which is mounted onto an external surface on the boat. More specifically, the mounting plate is mounted onto an anchor used on the boat. Upon establishing a connection between the anchor and the mounting plate, the user can utilize the swivel mechanism to rotate the lighting pole and connected lighting source to a preferred position.
US10472015B1
An electronic device can be mounted at least partly in a frame of a bicycle and used to monitor operations or properties of the bicycle or one or more components associated with the bicycle. The electronic device may integrate and communicate with a variety of components including sensors to facilitate customization of monitoring by the electronic device. The electronic device can have a relatively minimalist design. The electronic device, in some embodiments, may include a display that does not present alphanumeric characters to an operator, and the display may instead include multiple indicators that individually or in combination present information to the operator, such as the level of charge of one or more batteries or an operating mode of the electronic device or bicycle.
US10472010B2
A security system for use with bicycles. The security system includes a tube having two tube halves attached to the down tube of a bicycle and includes two movable arms adapted to releasably hold onto an existing structure. An electromagnet is also attached to the tube for releasably attaching to metallic structures. The two arms and electromagnet can be controlled using a remote control fob or cell phone. A surface detection sensor attached to the handlebars of the bicycle is also employed to locate the bicycle in the event of theft.
US10472005B2
A bellows for a passage between two articulated vehicles or for an air passenger stair or bridge has a plurality of folds or waves arranged behind one another. A floor region has at least one inner jacket and at least one outer jacket spaced from the inner jacket. An intermediate layer is disposed between and spaced apart from the inner and outer and is fire-retardant.
US10471997B2
A vehicular trunk lid panel includes an inner panel that includes an inner upper surface section and an inner rear surface section, an outer panel that includes an outer upper surface section and an outer rear surface section, and a plurality of adhesive members, in which the inner upper surface section includes a plurality of beads, each bead includes a support section that supports the adhesive members, each adhesive member is arranged on the support section so as to be arrayed intermittently along a predetermined direction, and a support section interval between the support sections adjacent to each other with respect to a crossing direction is smaller than an adhesive member interval between the adhesive members adjacent to each other on each of the support sections.
US10471990B2
A steering system for an automotive vehicle is disclosed. The steering system includes, in some embodiments, a steering shaft, a steering column jacket encircling at least a portion of the steering shaft, an emulator enclosed within a housing, the emulator coupled to the steering shaft, and a travel limiter assembly enclosed within the housing and coupled with the steering shaft, the travel limiter assembly comprising at least one rotational member having a pin and a groove configured to receive the pin, the groove including a stop portion. In some embodiments, the at least one rotational member and at least a portion of the steering shaft rotates within the housing and the pin travels within the groove until the pin encounters the stop portion after a predetermined degree of rotation of the steering shaft.
US10471988B2
A steering centering/damping mechanism for a steerable heavy-duty vehicle axle/suspension system which includes a mechanically operated structure that provides a positive steering centering force to the axle/suspension system at a zero steer angle. The mechanically operated structure of the steering centering/damping mechanism also provides a positive steering centering force that increases in intensity as the steer angle of the axle/suspension system increases. In an embodiment of the steering centering/damping mechanism, the mechanically operated structure is a flat spring integrated into one or more steering assemblies of the axle/suspension system. The flat spring is in a pre-loaded condition at a zero steer angle to provide the positive steering centering force to the axle/suspension system at the zero steer angle, and is increasingly elastically deformed with increasing steer angles to provide the positive steering centering force which increases in intensity as the steer angle of the axle/suspension system increases.
US10471980B1
A material cart including a wheeled rectangular base frame includes corner members having an end portion of reduced size at one end thereof and which are arrangable in either reduced end-up or a reduced end-down orientation at the corners of the material cart to facilitate the stacking of the material cart with a material cart of like construction. If desired, these corner members enable the weight of the cart to be supported upon the underlying floor through the corner members, rather than through the wheels of the cart. The cart also includes a top assembly by which the cart is capable of being lifted, and a fork-accepting mount is securable to the top assembly in alternative orientations to enable the material cart to be lifted with the fork of a forklift which approaches the mount from either a side of the cart or from an end of the cart.
US10471969B1
One general aspect includes a method to restrict vehicle operations in response to a detection of vehicle occupant impairment, the method including: detecting a vehicle occupant is in an impaired state; in response to detecting the vehicle occupant is in the impaired state: when a vehicle is in an autonomous driving mode, restricting the vehicle occupant from being able to shift the vehicle to a manual driving mode; and when the vehicle is in the manual driving mode, providing a notification configured to warn the vehicle occupant of risks associated with operating the vehicle while in the impaired state, or the notification being configured to recommend that the vehicle occupant shifts the vehicle to the autonomous driving mode, or the notification being configured to alert the vehicle occupant that the vehicle will automatically be shifted to the autonomous driving mode, or some combination thereof.
US10471966B2
Methods and systems are provided for conducting an ambient air temperature (AAT) sensor test. In one example, a method may include adjusting a vehicle actuator to reduce a deviation of the AAT measured by an AAT sensor on board a vehicle from an expected AAT and remeasuring the AAT with the AAT sensor in response to the AAT measured by the AAT sensor deviating from the expected AAT by more than a threshold temperature difference. In this way, excessively inflated or depressed AAT measurements at the AAT sensor can be reduced, the accuracy and the reliability of the AAT sensor measurements can be increased, vehicle fuel consumption and emissions can be reduced, and vehicle drivability can be increased.
US10471946B2
A method of applying an automated parking brake of a motor vehicle includes at least two phases. In a first preceding phase, no clamping force is produced by the parking brake. In a second following phase, a clamping force is produced by the parking brake via a controllable parking brake actuator configured to produce the clamping force. The method further includes detecting a transition from the first phase to the second phase based on a temporal progression of a specific parameter of a control of the parking brake actuator. A control unit is configured to perform according to the method, and a parking brake is configured to perform according to the method.
US10471941B2
A vehicle includes a powertrain configured to transfer energy to a tire and including both an engine and an electric machine. The vehicle also includes a controller configured to charge a traction battery with torque captured by the electric machine in excess of torque required to maintain the departure. The charging is in response to indication of departure from static friction between the tire and a surface during a line lock tire slip event powered by the engine.
US10471935B2
A vehicular cowl louver assembly, a vehicular windshield assembly and a vehicle. A cowl louver that makes up a portion of the vehicular cowl louver assembly has one or more recesses formed in an upper-facing surface with which to provide storage of an ice scraper. A resiliently-biased clip allows the ice scraper to be selectively removable from the cowl louver to enable a person to scrape ice, snow or other debris from a vehicular windshield. The ice scraper may be returned to the recess after use, where the clip keeps the two secured to one another, even during vehicular movement. In one form, the surface of the ice scraper may be made to form a substantially flush, continuous fit with the portion of the surface of the cowl louver that is adjacent the recess to improve aerodynamic and aesthetic features of the cowl louver assembly.
US10471933B2
This invention relates to security systems. Previously, vehicle vandals and thieves were difficult to stop. Embodiments of the present invention use a vehicle security system (100) includes at least two image capture devices (ICD), sensors, a global positioning system tracking module (GPSTM), a control module (CM), and a monitoring device. The ICD are positioned at predetermined locations of the vehicle for capturing and transmitting images of a target object. The CM receives the captured images and sensor data variables. The CM analyzes the received images and sensor data variables based on predefined criteria to trigger auxiliary units. The CM transmits the images and sensor data variables based on the predefined criteria to the monitoring device. A graphical user interface displays the images for monitoring the vehicle and notifies the user.
US10471929B2
A webbing take-up device includes a spool on which a webbing worn by an occupant is taken up, and a motor that includes a rotation shaft and a first boss portion disposed coaxially with the rotation shaft. The webbing take-up device further includes an A-gear that is fixed to the rotation shaft, and a B-gear that meshes together with the A-gear and that is rotated by the A-gear being rotated such that the spool is rotated. The webbing take-up device further includes a gear housing that includes a B-gear support portion on which the B-gear is supported, and an engaged hole engaged by the first boss portion so as to have tightening margin therebetween, and to which the motor is fixed in a state in which the first boss portion has engaged with the engaged hole.
US10471914B2
A vehicle includes a body with an underbody portion having an outer periphery. At least one traction wheel is rotatably coupled to the body. The traction wheel has a track width defined by an inboard plane and an outboard plane. A movable panel with an inboard edge and an outboard edge is coupled to the underbody portion. An actuator is coupled to the movable panel and configured to actuate the movable panel between a stowed position and a deployed position. In the deployed position the outboard edge projects outboard of the outboard plane of the track width, and in the stowed position the outboard edge is retracted within the outer periphery of the underbody portion. A controller is configured to, in response to an operating condition being satisfied during a drive cycle, control the actuator to actuate the movable panel from the stowed position to the deployed position.
US10471909B2
A clip for mounting a first member on a second member includes a first placement portion adapted to be placed in the first member; a second placement portion adapted to be placed in the second member; and a flange portion provided between the first placement portion and the second placement portion. The second placement portion includes side walls on two sides, each having an elastic engagement piece formed by a notch, and a shielding wall provided between the side walls and shielding a space between the side walls from an upper side. An engagement end portion of each of the elastic engagement pieces extends to a first placement portion side.
US10471906B2
A sensor bracket includes a plate-shaped bracket, a front surface of which is attached to an inner surface of a windshield of a vehicle, the plate-shape bracket having a camera that detects a state around a vehicle mounted on a back surface, reference surfaces provided on a back surface of the plate-shaped bracket, the reference surfaces being parallel to each other.
US10471905B2
An in-vehicle camera including: a camera component that records out of the vehicle through a window glass; a cover that covers the camera component from the vehicle interior side, with a gap existing between the cover and the window glass; and a blocker that is secured to a vehicle interior-side surface of the window glass inside the cover and is configured to allow passage of air between the inside and the outside of the cover via the gap while blocking light passing through the gap and reflected into the camera component.
US10471904B2
A system for adjusting the position of one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle includes a plurality of sensor arms, a plurality of sensor manipulators attached to each of the plurality of sensor arms. The system can be configured to receive output from the one or more sensors, and determine if an occlusion zone is detected. Based on the objects creating the occlusion zone, the sensors can be adjusted to decrease the size of the occlusion zone.
US10471866B2
A vehicle seat including: a seat pad made of foamed resin; and a seat cover being integral with the seat pad, wherein a seating surface of the seat pad includes a seating part and a bank part, wherein a portion of the seat cover covering a seat inner side portion of the bank part includes a seat cover main part and a planar reinforcing member arranged on a back side of the seat cover main part, wherein the reinforcing member is configured by a material bendable and deformable towards a seat pad side and includes a general section and a flexible section which can be more easily bent towards the seat pad side than the general section, and wherein a portion of the reinforcing member covering a peak side of the bank part is configured by the flexible section.
US10471864B1
A vehicle seat includes a thermal comfort module installed in a recess of a foam cushion beneath a trim cover. The thermal comfort module includes an air duct, a thermoelectric device, a heat sink extending inside the air duct from the thermoelectric device, and an air mover that causes air to flow from the passenger cabin, through the seating surface, along the air duct and heat sink, and back out of the seat. In a seat cooling mode, the air flowing along air duct absorbs heat from one side of the thermoelectric device via the heat sink while the opposite side of the thermoelectric device absorbs heat from the trim cover via thermal conduction. The thickness of a foam cushion can be made greatest where most needed, such as at the rear portion of the seat bottom.
US10471859B2
A vehicle seat assembly for a vehicle having a cargo area bounded by a floor and at least one wall is provided along with a method of operation. The vehicle seat assembly comprises a seat back, a seat base, and a linkage assembly. The seat back of the vehicle seat assembly mounts to the wall and the linkage assembly mounts to the floor. The seat bottom is mounted to the linkage assembly and is moveable between stowed and deployed positions. When the seat bottom is in the deployed position, the seat bottom defines a deployed seat bottom plane. When the seat bottom is in the stowed position, the seat bottom is positioned below the deployed seat bottom plane. The seat bottom is separate from the seat back and is spaced apart from the seat back when the seat bottom is in the stowed position.
US10471854B2
A vehicle seat having a seat back and seat cushion connected thereto, the seat back and seat cushion being retractable to a retraction floor disposed lower than a vehicle body floor, is described. The vehicle seat includes: a support base connected to the body floor, disposed below the seat cushion, and pivotally connected to a lower end of the seat back; a detachable leg having an upper end attached to the seat cushion and a lower end connectable to the support base; a leg retaining member attached to the support base and configured to detachably retain the lower end of the detachable leg; and a base cover that covers the support base. The leg retaining member is disposed at a rear side of a front end of a portion of the base cover in a front to back direction that is configured to cover the support base from above.
US10471852B2
Provided is a sliding device for a vehicle seat. The device includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, a lock portion, an operating lever, a first locking protrusion, and a lock lever. When a first contact surface among side faces of the first locking protrusion and a second contact surface among side faces of a second locking protrusion of the lock lever are in contact with each other, the operating lever is retained in one of a first position or a second position, and when a protruding-direction end of the first locking protrusion and a protruding-direction end of the second locking protrusion are in contact with each other, the operating lever is retained in the other of the first position or the second position.
US10471851B2
The invention relates to a seat cushion arrangement comprising a first cushion member; a second cushion member being adjustable relative to the first cushion member; and a seat depth adjustment device for adjusting the second cushion member relative to the first cushion member along a longitudinal adjustment axis, wherein the seat depth adjustment device in particular comprises an adjustment member to which the second cushion member is fastened and which is adjustable between a foremost position and a rearmost position relative to a guiding member for adjusting the second cushion member relative to the first cushion member; a trim member connected to both the first and second cushion members, which trim member covers a gap between the first and second cushion members at least in the foremost position of the adjustment member and is at least partially retracted into the gap in the rearmost position of the adjustment member; and an elastic member (a) connected to the trim member and to at least one of the guiding member and a seat front part of the seat depth adjustment device and (b) configured to pull the trim member into the gap upon adjustment of the adjustment member from the foremost position towards the rearmost position.
US10471849B2
A circuit breaker/disconnector apparatus for use in a power delivery system comprises a unidirectional DC circuit breaker which has a first terminal and a second terminal and is configured to automatically open during an overcurrent condition in a forward direction and to remain closed independent of current level in a reverse direction. A disconnector switch is in series with the circuit breaker. The disconnector switch has a first terminal for connecting to a first polarity connector of a power supply, a second terminal for connecting to a second polarity connector of the power supply and a common terminal connected to the first terminal of the circuit breaker. The disconnector switch has at least a first position in which the first terminal is connected to the common terminal and a second position in which the second terminal is connected to the common terminal. The second polarity connector of the power supply may be coupled to a track of a transport system and the second polarity connector of the power supply may be coupled to a live overhead cable or live third rail of a transport system. The apparatus can be used to safely ground the live cable or third rail when in a maintenance condition.
US10471840B2
An apparatus and method for controlling an LDC of a hybrid vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes a determining controller that receives state information of an auxiliary battery, while the LDC is being operated in a first mode based on a detected voltage, and that determines whether an entry condition for a second mode based on a current is satisfied. An arithmetic controller calculates a charging current compensation value of the auxiliary battery when the entry condition for the second mode is satisfied and a mode controller enters the second mode and that controls the LDC based on the charging current compensation value of the auxiliary battery when the entry condition for the second mode is satisfied.
US10471832B2
The shoe derailment device for use in derailing a conductor shoe assembly of a bridge crane from a conductor rail assembly generally has a wedge head provided at a longitudinal end of a body made of an electrically insulating material, the shoe derailment device being securable to the conductor rail assembly in a derailment position in which the shoe derailment device is positioned outside an operating zone of the bridge crane, with the wedge head facing the operating zone in a manner that if the conductor shoe assembly is moved outside the operating zone, into the area occupied by the shoe derailment device, the conductor shoe assembly is derailed from the conductor rail assembly as the conductor shoe assembly engages the wedge head and is maintained in a derailed state by the electrically insulating material when the conductor shoe assembly is engaged with the body.
US10471831B2
A control system for handling a fault condition on a utility vehicle includes a lithium battery, a contactor configured to control electrical access to the lithium battery, and control circuitry coupled with the lithium battery and the contactor. The control circuitry is configured to detect, while the contactor is closed to provide a set of loads of the utility vehicle with electrical access to the lithium battery, onset of a fault condition. The control circuitry is further configured to perform, in response to detection of the onset of the fault condition, a set of remedial operations to address the fault condition. The control circuitry is further configured to perform, after a predefined amount of time has elapsed since the onset of the fault condition, a subsequent operation which opens the contactor if the fault condition remains and maintains closure of the contactor if the fault condition does not remain.
US10471830B2
An ECU performs a program including: during charging, when abnormality information has been received, bringing each of an SMR and a CHR into an OFF state; when a charging connector is disconnected and when a vehicle is in a Ready-On state, starting a ground fault detection process; when it is determined that a ground fault has occurred on the vehicle side, performing a display process (1); and in the state where it is not determined that a ground fault has occurred on the vehicle side, when a prescribed detection time period has elapsed, performing a display process (2).
US10471829B2
Methods and systems of an electrical vehicle are provided that recognize a power system fault with the vehicle and in response autonomously drive the vehicle to an identified safe location to self-destruct. Upon reaching the location, the vehicle can evaluate the location using imaging sensors to determine whether the location is free of objects, animals, or people. If not, the vehicle may autonomously drive to another safe location. Prior to destruction, the vehicle sends messages, including information about the power system fault, to at least one device or third party. The messages include location information for the vehicle or information about the power system fault.
US10471824B2
A container including sealed walls for containing a liquid, one of the walls forming a container bottom, the container bottom including a plurality of partitions defining therebetween areas contained consecutively inside one another, each of the areas communicating with an adjacent contained area via a passage including a threshold. The threshold of the passage between one area and an adjacent contained area is a low point of the area and a high point of the adjacent contained area, for any given area. The passage between the given area and the area in which the given area is contained, and the passage between the given area and the area contained within the given area are arranged in angular sectors defined by imaginary geometric angles opposed at the vertex thereof, the vertex being located in line with a lower-level area of the container, the angles having a size of less than 45°.
US10471813B2
A soft panel top assembly for a vehicle in sealing engagement with a hard top portion of a roof. The soft panel top assembly has a fixed portion attached to the vehicle and a lightweight pivotal portion that folds back to provide a quick and easy open air effect. Two door rails of the soft panel top assembly are connected to the vehicle. Two side rail linkage assemblies are attached to the header, which is secured to a windshield frame when in a closed position, and are connected at pivot points created with a bracket attached to the door rails to allow the pivotal portion to pivot to an open position. The soft panel top assembly includes a rear header that is lightweight and has a sealing arrangement that engages with the hard top roof portion and existing seal of the hard top roof portion to provide a weatherproof seal.
US10471812B2
A convertible top, having a linkage for displacing the top, a roof tip fixed to a front vehicle cowl in a closed position, a top lock which displacable between a locked and released position and secures the roof tip to the front cowl when the top is in the closed position and has a locking support having a pivotable locking hook and a locking counterpart which can be engaged with the locking hook, and a position detector which detects a relative position between the roof tip and the front cowl. The position detector has a sensor unit having at least two Hall-effect sensor elements, one of which switches at a first distance between the sensor unit and a magnetic element and the other one of which switches at a second distance between the sensor unit and the magnetic element, the second distance being different from the first distance.
US10471811B2
A movable component of a motor vehicle, for example a tailgate can be moved between two end positions by a drive unit of a moving device. A release energy for the drive unit, which is to be used to release the component at the start of a movement from a starting position, is selected as a function of the starting position.
US10471806B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a climate control system includes a power delivery system configured to be driven by a motor of a vehicle and having a first power output that selectively provides power based on a control signal and a second power output that provides power to the vehicle, an air conditioner configured to be at least partly powered by the first electrical output and having a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant, an evaporator configured to expand the refrigerant, a first blower configured to direct air across the evaporator, and a second blower configured to direct air across a heat exchanger, and a load management controller configured to operate the air conditioner and the first control signal based on an operator parameter and one or more vehicle parameters.
US10471799B2
A linkage includes a lower cross member supported by a link support and provided with a rear element turnable about a turning axis behind the link support. The body frame includes an upper frame, a lower frame and a coupling frame. The upper frame and the lower frame extend rearward from the link support to intersect areas respectively located directly above and below a turning range of the rear element. A longitudinal direction of the coupling frame extends in an up-down direction of the body frame. The coupling frame couples the upper and lower frames at a location behind the rear element. A majority of a front edge of the coupling frame extends along the longitudinal direction as viewed from a left-right direction of the body frame when the leaning vehicle is in an upright condition.
US10471796B2
A system, apparatus and method for providing weight-based task-specific speed control in a self-propelled agricultural product applicator utilize a controllable ride-height trailing arm suspension system, including an extensible air strut and an angular position sensor, for independently joining each wheel to a frame of the applicator. An electronic control unit utilizes the angular positions detected by the sensors, in conjunction with a desired task input, to calculate a present suspended weight and control maximum speed of the applicator for each task, per a predetermined schedule in response to the present suspended load of the applicator.
US10471791B2
Provided is a semi-trailing suspension device including: a trailing arm that is coupled to a vehicle body in a turnable manner; a trailing bush that is provided between the vehicle body and the trailing arm and pivotally supports the trailing arm in a turnable manner; a lower arm that is coupled to the vehicle body in a turnable manner; a lower arm bush that is provided between the vehicle body and the lower arm and pivotally supports the lower arm in a turnable manner; and a hinge mechanism that couples the trailing arm and the lower arm to each other in a relatively displaceable manner.
US10471790B2
The disclosure relates to a control arm for a wheel suspension system in a vehicle, including a sleeve-shaped aperture for the receiving of a bearing is formed in an integral control arm body, wherein the integral control arm body comprises a first side wall and a second side wall that is facing the first side wall. The sleeve-shaped aperture penetrates the first side wall and the second side wall. The sleeve-shaped aperture is formed sleeve-shaped with a first circumferential sleeve rim and a second circumferential sleeve rim. The first sleeve rim is formed by an outwardly shaped section of the first side wall that defines the sleeve-shaped aperture.
US10471778B2
To provide a pneumatic tire capable of improving the rolling performance, low noise performance and wear resistance performance while maintaining the wet performance.It is a pneumatic tire (1) provided in the tread portion (2) with a plurality of main grooves (3). The main groove (3) has, in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the groove, a first groove bottom (3A) and a pair of first groove walls (3B, 3B) extending smoothly from the first groove bottom (3A) to the tread surface (S). In the main groove (3), the width (W1) between the first groove walls (3B) is 2.0 to 20.0 mm at a tread surface (S), and the depth (D) from the tread surface (S) to the first groove bottom (3A) is 10.0 mm or more. In the first wall (3B), the ratio (W1/α) of the angle (α) [degree] with respect to a normal direction to the tread surface (S) and the width (W1) [mm] is in a range of 1.0 to 2.0 [mm/degree].
US10471774B2
A radial tire with a lightened belt structure (10) comprises a multilayer composite laminate (10a, 10b, 10c) of specific construction, with a first layer (10a) of rubber (C1) reinforced with preferably weakly heat-shrinkable circumferential textile monofilaments (110) with a diameter greater than 0.10 mm or assemblies of such monofilaments, for example, made of nylon or of polyester, this first layer radially (in the direction Z) surmounting two other layers (10b, 10c) of rubber (C2, C3, respectively) reinforced with monofilaments (120, 130) of high tensile steel. The first reinforcers have an envelope diameter between 0.20 mm and 1.20 mm and a density, measured in the axial direction Y, between 70 and 130 threads/dm, and the second and third reinforcers each have a diameter between 0.20 mm and 0.50 mm and a density, measured in the axial direction Y, between 100 and 180 threads/dm.
US10471764B2
A sheet processing apparatus includes a control unit and an attaching unit. The control unit determines a position along a surface of a sheet adjacent to an edge portion thereof, where a tag including a binding section for binding the sheet is to be attached. The attaching unit has a carrier for the tag and is moved to attach the tag to the position on the surface of the sheet determined by the control unit.
US10471761B2
A transaction card includes a first full thickness portion and a second, reduced thickness portion. Each of the first and second portions includes a top surface and an opposing bottom surface spaced from the top surface by a thickness of the card. The first, full thickness portion includes an extent of the card that remains exposed when the card is inserted into a pocket of a card-carrying case, and a feature deviating from a flat region along at least one of the top surface and the opposing bottom surface of the card. The feature is configured for tactile engagement to facilitate removal of the card from the pocket.
US10471760B2
A multiple-image display body includes a spacer layer, a line tone barrier layer stacked on the first surface of the spacer layer, and a multiple-image formation layer stacked on the second surface of the spacer layer. The line tone barrier layer includes first regions, which transmit electromagnetic waves, and second regions, which absorb electromagnetic waves. The multiple-image formation layer includes images that are visible when observed from specific angles over the first regions of the line tone barrier. The image is formed by a contrast resulting from an area ratio of the third region, which scatters electromagnetic waves, and the fourth region, which absorbs electromagnetic waves.
US10471749B2
Examples of a hinge set for used for mounting a protractible component of a device are described herein. In an example, the hinge set comprises a support hinge and a guide hinge, each having a first end and a second end. The first end of the support hinge is to pivotably couple to the protractible component and the second end of the support hinge is pivotably coupled to a frame of the device. Further, the first end of the guide hinge is to guide the protractile component and the second end of the guide hinge is to pivotably couple to the frame.
US10471747B2
A tape cassette stores a first medium having: a first base having a print surface for printing and first adhesive applied on an opposite side of the print surface; and a first separator removably attached to the first base via the first adhesive; and a second medium having: a second base; and a second separator removably attached to the second base. The tape cassette includes a pressing member that is movable in a direction intersecting with a direction of a plane of the print surface, and the pressing member is disposed at a position of, when a pressing force is externally applied to perform bonding of the first medium and the second medium mutually, receiving the pressing force.
US10471744B2
A recording material cartridge is attached to an image recording apparatus. A main body stores the recording material to be used in an image recordation process on a recording sheet by the image recording apparatus. A storage stores residual amount information indicating a current residual amount of the recording material. An interface receives consumption amount information. A reduction counter circuit subtracts a consumption amount based on the consumption amount information from the current residual amount to acquire the updated residual amount, and updates the residual amount information in the storage so that the residual amount information indicates the updated residual amount in a case where the consumption amount is larger than zero. The reduction counter maintains the residual amount information in the storage so that the residual amount information keeps on indicating the current residual amount in a case where the consumption amount is smaller than or equal to zero.
US10471743B2
According to one example of the present invention there is provided a method of printing, with a printer, an image on a substrate, the printer comprising a substrate support. The method comprises obtaining an image to be printed, determining an offset position of a substrate positioned on the substrate support relative to a predetermined reference printing position, and controlling the printer to print the image to be printed at the determined offset position.
US10471729B2
An example of a printing fluid supply connector is described that has a first connector and a second connector, where each of the first and second connectors is to fluidly connect to a respective replaceable reservoir of printing fluid. The printing fluid supply connector also has an outlet to fluidly connect to a printer and a selector to selectively fluidly connect one of the first and second connectors to the outlet in response to an electrical control signal or to fluid pressure at the first and second connectors.
US10471726B2
In an example, a retainer may comprise a latch to removably engage with a cartridge, an actuator plate to operably engage with the cartridge, a bias member, and a linkage. The actuator plate may operably engage with the cartridge such that, upon engagement with the cartridge, the transmission of signals can occur between the actuator plate and the cartridge. The linkage may be engaged with the actuator plate, the bias member, and the latch, such that linkage causes the actuator plate to be pushed against the cartridge upon the latch being engaged with the cartridge in a locked position.
US10471723B2
An ink replenish container comprises a container main body that is able to store the ink; an ink outlet formation member, attached to a front end side of the container main body, to form an ink outlet; and a cap attachable to a front end side of the ink outlet formation member. The ink outlet includes an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface located inward of the outer circumferential surface, the inner circumferential surface surrounding an opening through which the ink passes. The cap includes a first protrusion that is configured to contact with the outer circumferential surface of the ink outlet to form a first exit seal portion, and a second protrusion that is configured to contact with the inner circumferential surface of the ink outlet to form a second exit seal portion.
US10471721B2
An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a plurality of recording heads, a wipe unit, and an entry prevention member. The wipe unit includes a wiper for wiping an ink ejection face in a predetermined direction. The entry prevention member is arranged between the recording heads in a sheet conveying direction to prevent the recording medium from entering the gaps between the recording heads. The entry prevention member is configured to be movable in an up-down direction, is arranged in an entry prevention position where its lower face is flush with, or projects below, the ink ejection face during printing operation, and is arranged in a retracted position where the lower face is retracted above the ink ejection face during wiping operation by the wipe unit.
US10471720B2
In an example, a printhead-wiping device comprises: a wiper element and a biasing mechanism, the biasing mechanism to bias the wiper element towards a printhead. An actuator may be used to adjust a preload force applied to the biasing mechanism. The preload force applied to the biasing mechanism may be controlled using a controller so as to control a wiping force applied by the wiper element against the printhead.
US10471719B2
A filter is compressed between facing surfaces of a first configuration component and a second configuration component, and a molten resin is poured in such a compressed state. Injection molding of the first configuration component and the second configuration component, joining of the configuration components, and sealing of the circumference of the filter are performed by a pair of metal molds.
US10471718B2
Techniques are provided for making a funnel-shaped nozzle in a substrate. The process can include forming a first opening having a first width in a top layer of a substrate, forming a patterned layer of photoresist on the top surface of the substrate, the patterned layer of photoresist including a second opening, the second opening having a second width larger than the first width, reflowing the patterned layer of photoresist to form curved side surfaces terminating on the top surface of the substrate, etching a second layer of the substrate through the first opening in the top layer of the substrate to form a straight-walled recess, the straight-walled recess having the first width and a side surface substantially perpendicular to the top surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US10471716B2
According to an embodiment, a liquid ejecting head chip includes an actuator plate and an in-channel electrode. In the actuator plate, a plurality of channels are arranged at a distance in an X-direction. Each of the channels includes an extension portion and a raise-and-cut portion. The extension portion extends in a Z-direction. The raise-and-cut portion continues from the extension portion toward one side of the Z-direction and has a groove depth which is gradually reduced toward the one side of the Z-direction. The in-channel electrode is formed on an inner surface of each of the channels, with a plating film.
US10471713B2
An inkjet print head includes an ejection module having a printing element substrate that ejects ink to a print medium and a flexible wiring substrate electrically connected to the printing element substrate; and a member for supporting the ejection module by joining, wherein the flexible wiring substrate has a capacitor, a periphery of the capacitor being covered with a sealing agent, and the capacitor is provided in a recess formed on the member.
US10471712B2
A printing method and a printing apparatus are provided. The print quality of a printing apparatus in a multi-pass method is improved. A scan of applying light after ink droplets of photocurable ink land on a print medium and curing the ink droplets to form dots is performed on a predetermined unit region alternately in a forward direction and a backward direction multiple times. The time from landing of the ink droplets onto the print medium to curing differs between the forward direction and the backward direction. In a subsequent scan to form a surface layer of the unit region in the scan performed multiple times, an ejection controller controls ejection of the ink droplets such that the dots in the surface layer ejected to the print medium are not merged together.
US10471711B2
In a printing apparatus including a circulation system circulating a liquid, a volatile component included in the liquid evaporates from an ejection opening and thus characteristics of the liquid involving with concentration or viscosity change. The invention provides a printing apparatus that uses a liquid ejection head including an ejection opening ejecting a liquid, a print element generating energy for ejecting a liquid, and a pressure chamber having the print element provided therein, the printing apparatus including: a circulator configured to circulate the liquid so that the liquid passes through the pressure chamber; and a concentration adjustment unit configured to adjust a concentration of a liquid inside a liquid circulation system by discharging the liquid from the inside of the liquid circulation system and replenishing the liquid into the liquid circulation system from the outside of the liquid circulation system in response to the amount of the discharged liquid.
US10471709B2
A printing device includes a printing head configured to print an image on a printing medium while moving relative to the printing medium; a detector configured to detect a relative moving amount of the printing head with respect to the printing medium for each sampling cycle; and a processor configured to perform a first control to cause the printing head to perform printing when a moving speed of the printing head based on the moving amount detected by the detector and the sampling cycle is equal to or higher than a first moving speed at which the moving amount for each the sampling cycle becomes a reference distance corresponding to a print resolution of the printing head, the printing being performed at a timing that is set in accordance with the moving speed.
US10471705B2
The present disclosure discloses a printing machine. The printing machine includes a carrying platform for carrying a to-be-printed board, a frame above the carrying platform, a roller-shaped screen printing plate with printing graphic meshes, and an ink supply device within the roller-shaped screen printing plate. The roller-shaped screen printing plate is mounted to the frame in a manner that the roller-shaped screen printing plate is capable of rotating relative to the carrying platform.
US10471704B2
A printing sleeve includes a first and radially inward layer having an inner side for directly contacting the outer side of a printing cylinder, and an outer side which is radially opposite the inner side. The first and radially inward layer has a glass fiber reinforced compressible compound such that the glass fibers may absorb the forces that arise in the circumferential direction and/or in the longitudinal direction, and the compressible compound elements may absorb the pressures that arise in the radial direction. In this way, the materials which to date act separately in the base sleeve and the compressible layer are combined in one common layer in which said materials each may perform their function.
US10471693B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising: a) one or more organometallic compounds; b) one or more high boiling point solvents; and c) one or more low boiling point solvents. The invention further relates to a system comprising a) one or more organometallic compounds; b) one or more high boiling point solvents; and c) one or more low boiling point solvents and an isocyanate functional adhesive. The isocyanate functional adhesive may be a one part or a two part adhesive. The invention further relates to methods of bonding substrates together using the compositions of the invention.
US10471674B2
A filling apparatus comprises a filling material reservoir and a filling chamber that is connected to the filling material reservoir with a filling opening configured to dispense filling material into cavities in the rotary press. A first rotatably driven stirrer blade wheel with one or more stirrer blades and a second rotatably driven stirrer blade wheel with one or more stirrer blades are arranged in the filling chamber. The first rotatably driven stirrer blade wheel has at least one of a different geometry, a different direction of rotation, or a different rotary speed, than the second rotatably driven stirrer blade wheel.
US10471672B2
A midsole molding apparatus which enables production of a high-quality midsole is provided. The apparatus includes a through hole, which passes laterally through a midsole used for a shoe, to be integrally formed, preventing traces of forming the through hole from being left in the through hole and on the periphery of the through hole and a shaft mold crossing the inner space of upper and lower molds, forming extending portions such that the ends of the shaft mold extend beyond the boundary of the inner space, and seating the extending portions in press recesses of the upper and lower molds to seal the insides of the molds so as to prevent raw material from leaking from inside the molds when foaming and forming a midsole, to prevent parting lines and burrs from forming on the inner surface of the through hole passing laterally through the midsole.
US10471670B2
A method for retreading a tire casing is disclosed herein. The method includes a tread is disposed on a casing carcass with a bonding layer being interposed in between, and a strip is tensioned through several circuits on the tread. Also disclosed herein is a tire employing the a method of retreading disclosed herein.
US10471666B2
A dynamic manufacturing system such as for the additive manufacture of a fabrication item with multiformative capabilities presents a processor (29) that can refine movement, instructions, or data to achieve greater manufacturing efficiency and substantially uninterruptive change between formative process elements (24) or capabilities with simple user input (28) or indications. Optimization of movements, deposition of material, positioning, variant repositioning for next item layers during fabrication are provided in manners where the functions can be self contained such as in a 3D printer or the like and can be accomplished without significant interruptions to traditional processing times or even in shorter times through the improved transformations.
US10471664B2
A method is provided for mounting a fiber composite component in the force flow of a clamping connection. The fiber composite material is heated and locally compressed in a mounting region such that the fiber composite material sets by a predefined measure. The fiber composite component is then clamped in the mounting region.
US10471662B2
A rehabilitated pipe system and a method for rehabilitating a pipe system. A lines a host pipe and a coupling member configured for being operatively coupled to a mechanical coupler is positioned adjacent the host pipe so that a connecting section of the liner extends into the coupling member. The connecting section of the liner is adhesively bonded to the coupling member, and the mechanical coupler is installed to fluidly couple the liner to another fluid conducting structure. The connecting section of the liner can be formed in a portion of the host pipe that is removed after lining. The coupling member can be flanged or include a lateral coupling tube. The mechanical coupler can, e.g., be a ductile iron coupler or a bolt.
US10471653B2
Silicon elastomer articles are prepared by a 3-D printing process by depositing droplets of high viscosity curable silicone onto a substrate layer by layer from independently spatially controllable nozzles and irradiation with independently spatially controllable electromagnetic energy.
US10471644B2
A blow molding apparatus is provided with a mold carriage movable in a path between an extruder station and a blow-and-fill station. The mold carriage can have one or more mold assemblies. Each mold assembly has opposed first and second mold halves that together define a mold cavity. The first mold half is fixed to the mold carriage while the second mold half is independently movable relative to the first mold half within the mold carriage to open and close the mold assembly.
US10471640B2
A device (4) for the manufacture of an annular extrudate comprises a jacket (2), a crosshead (1) arranged inside of the jacket. The jacket contains a melt passage, whereby the crosshead is arranged in the melt passage, such that the melt passage extends et least at the outlet of the device as an annular melt passage around the crosshead (1). An annular passage (5) is formed between the crosshead and the jacket. The annular passage contains a static mixer (3), whereby the crosshead is at least partially supported by the static mixer in the jacket. The static mixer comprises a plurality of inserts, whereby at least a portion of the inserts is connected to the crosshead and/or the jacket.
US10471633B2
The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of dies for moulds for the production of tiles with three dimensional texture.
US10471632B2
When cleaning a mold using a mold cleaning system, three-dimensional image data of a molding surface of the mold is acquired by a camera, movement of arms is controlled by a control device based on the acquired image data, and a laser head is moved along the molding surface while a laser beam provided from a laser oscillator is irradiated to remove contamination adhered to the molding surface. Cleaning is performed on a specific site, using a relatively small laser head, or also using a relatively large laser head, or cleaning is performed using a laser head having a variable laser irradiation width and setting an appropriate laser irradiation width for each site to be cleaned.
US10471628B2
A thermally conductive rope includes a plurality of tows of crystalline carbon fiber, a plurality of tows of additional fiber, and at least one of a thermoset and thermoplastic.
US10471625B2
A treated cellulosic material comprising a cellulosic material having a porous structure defining a plurality of pores, at least a portion of the pores containing a treating agent comprising a thermoset comprising a cured epoxy resin. The present disclosure further describes a method for preparing a treated cellulosic material comprising (a) providing a cellulosic material; and (b) a first treatment protocol comprising impregnating the cellulosic material with an aqueous dispersion, the aqueous dispersion comprising an epoxy resin and an emulsifying agent.
US10471618B2
An example system includes a cutting tool and a device configured to remotely control the cutting tool. In response to receiving information indicative of actuation of a first user interface item, the device sends a first signal to the cutting tool so as to request enabling the cutting tool to be operated remotely. The cutting tool sends a second signal to the device indicating that remote operation of the cutting tool has been enabled. The cutting tool receives information indicating that the trigger has been activated, and sends a third signal to the device indicating that the cutting tool is ready to perform a cutting operation. The device receives information indicative of actuation of a second user interface item, and responsively, sends a fourth signal to the cutting tool so as to cause the cutting tool to perform the cutting operation.
US10471612B2
A rotary electric shaver according to the present invention includes an outer blade whose upper surface functions as annular shaving surfaces having multiple hair inlets formed therein, and an inner blade that has a small blade which rotates while coming into sliding contact with a lower surface of the outer blade. The inner blade is an integral structure using a metal material, and has a projection in which an upper surface side is a convex portion and a lower surface side is a concave portion at a center position in a radial direction. An upper end portion of an inner blade drive shaft directly engages with the concave portion so as to be disengageable therefrom.
US10471602B2
A gripper includes a body frame mounted on a magazine transfer robot. A first guide assembly is mounted on the body frame. A first gripping unit is movable along the first guide assembly. A second gripping unit is movable along the first guide assembly. A driver is configured to move the first gripping unit in a first direction. The driver is configured to move the second gripping unit in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The first gripping unit includes a first finger unit and a second finger unit independently moveable with respect to the first finger unit. The second gripping unit is spaced apart from the first gripping unit. The second gripping unit includes a third finger unit and a fourth finger unit independently moveable with respect to the third finger unit.
US10471601B2
An apparatus for controlling a robot arm includes: the robot arm; a calibration board on which calibration marks for self-diagnosis are shown; a distance sensor mounted on the robot arm and configured to measure a distance; an image sensor mounted on the robot arm and configured to obtain an image; and a processor configured to move the robot arm to a position for the self-diagnosis, measure a distance from a predetermined part of the robot arm to the calibration board by using the distance sensor, obtain an image of the calibration board by using the image sensor, and output a signal indicating a malfunction of the robot arm in response to the measured distance being outside a distance error range, and an image measurement value of the obtained image being outside an image error range.
US10471597B1
Method and apparatus for optimizing control of robotic systems. Failures of a robotic device performing a lifting operation for one or more items within a fulfillment center over a window of time are monitored. Responsive to the failures exceeding a predefined threshold number of failures for the window of time, one or more control operations for optimizing performance of the robotic device are determined, by processing environmental metrics, failure type, mode of operation and item type information as inputs to a trained machine learning model. A control system for the robotic device is configured based on the determined one or more control operations, and movement of the robotic device is controlled using the configured control system, to perform the lifting operation for one or more additional items within the fulfillment center.
US10471594B2
A dynamic representation of a robot in an environment is produced, one or more observer agent collects data, and respective values of one or more metrics for the robot are computed based at least in part on the collected data. Tasks for the robot to perform are generated. Ratings and challenge questions are generated. A server may produce a user interface and a value of a metric based on collected observer data.
US10471589B2
A remotely controlled packable robot features a chassis, right and left main tracks for maneuvering the chassis, and right and left tracked rotatable flipper arms for maneuvering the chassis. An integrated drive assembly is provided for each main track and flipper pair and includes a motor in a housing attached to the chassis for rotating the flipper and a stator and rotor disposed about the motor housing for driving the main track and the flipper track.
US10471588B2
A robotic system that can be used to treat a patient. The robotic system includes a mobile robot that has a camera. The mobile robot is controlled by a remote station that has a monitor. A physician can use the remote station to move the mobile robot into view of a patient. An image of the patient is transmitted from the robot camera to the remote station monitor. A medical personnel at the robot site can enter patient information into the system through a user interface. The patient information can be stored in a server. The physician can access the information from the remote station. The remote station may provide graphical user interfaces that display the patient information and provide both a medical tool and a patient management plan.
US10471584B2
A tool system includes a rail, a trolley, a tool, a detent, and a target. The trolley is translatable between first and second positions along the rail. The tool is secured to the trolley. The detent includes a magnet. One of the target and the magnet is located at a third position along the rail, between the first and second positions. The other one of the target and the magnet is coupled to the trolley. The magnet and target cooperate to resist trolley movement away from the third position.
US10471580B1
A multi-purpose tool includes a hollow elongated body with an open end providing access to a cavity within the elongated body; a first tool secured within the cavity and having a first head connected to a first extendable rod; a second tool secured within the cavity and having a second head connected to a second extendable rod; a motor connected to the first tool and second tool and to extend and retract the first extendable rod and the second extendable rod; a control center to control the motor, the control center having a first switch for operating the motor in connection with the first tool; and a second switch for operating the motor in connection with the second tool; a power source secured within the cavity and adapted to provide power to the motor; activation of the first switch causes the motor to extend the first extendable rod, wherein the first head is extended past the open end; and activation of the second switch causes the motor to extend the second extendable rod, wherein the second head is extended past the open end.
US10471578B2
A hydrodynamic compression tool comprises an electrical motor, which can be powered by a control circuit, a hydraulic pump which can be actuated by the motor so as to increase the pressure of a hydraulic liquid acting on an actuating piston, two jaws, which can be mutually moved by the actuating piston between an open position and a closed position for carrying out the compression or the cut, an actuating button, which acts on a switch of the control circuit to actuate the motor, a return device which returns the jaws to the open position by a return of the hydraulic fluid from the actuating piston towards the hydraulic pump through a return valve, and a mechanism for delaying the opening of the return valve via the return device, so as to allow verification of the position of the jaws before the return of the jaws to the open position.
US10471576B2
In an electric driver configured such that a driver bit is coupled to a drive output shaft of an electric motor via a clutch mechanism to perform screw tightening operations, an automatic screw tightening control method and a device in which setting is performed such that an appropriate screw tightened state and various inappropriate screw tightened states in a screw tightening operation can be confirmed and determined, simply and reliably are provided.In a screw tightening operation by an electric driver 10, at start of a predetermined screw tightening operation, a rotation amount Rm of an electric motor 12 at a clutch operation time by a clutch mechanism 18 is detected, this rotation amount is set to be a target rotation amount (including a permissible range) Rm±α, and in the subsequent screw tightening operations, a rotation amount Rt1 of the electric motor at the clutch operation time is detected and compared with the target rotation amount, respectively, so that acceptability of the respective screw tightened states is determined.
US10471571B2
The present invention relates to a bonded abrasive article comprising shaped abrasive particles and a bonding medium comprising a vitreous bond, said shaped abrasive particles each comprising a first side and a second side separated by a thickness t, wherein said first side comprises a first face having a perimeter of a first geometric shape, wherein said thickness t is equal to or smaller than the length of the shortest side-related dimension of the particle, wherein the article exhibits at least on a part of its surface a surface profile comprising at least one surface feature wherein said shaped abrasive particles have a largest dimension of about the same order of magnitude or larger as compared to said surface feature. The present invention also relates to a composition for use of the preparation of a bonded abrasive article, to methods of preparing and using the bonded abrasive article and to methods of grinding and providing a workpiece.
US10471567B2
A chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pad conditioning assembly that includes one or more support structures positioned between one or more abrasive regions of the pad conditioning assembly is disclosed. The support structures and abrasive regions can be separated by one or more channels. A top surface of the one or more support structures is not co-planar with the top surface of the abrasive regions of the pad conditioning assembly, and the height of the top surface of the one or more support structures when measured to the pad facing surface of the pad conditioning assembly backing plate is less than the height of the top surfaces of the abrasive regions when measured to the pad facing surface of the pad conditioning assembly.
US10471566B2
Disclosed is a method for determining location of a lens machining tool (24) having an offset location according to a first direction (Y) smaller than a first predetermined threshold, including the steps of manufacturing a calibration piece (10) according to a predetermined theoretical geometry by using the lens machining tool for providing a at least partially annular groove in a main surface of the calibration piece, the at least partially annular groove being configured to form at least one sharp edge defining a slope discontinuity on the main surface; measuring a distance between the at least one sharp edge and a turning center of the calibration piece for providing data of geometrical characteristics of the calibration piece; and deducing from the measured data a location of the lens machining tool according to a second direction (X) distinct from the first direction.
US10471564B2
A rail processing device (1) comprising at least a first (3A) and a second work station (3B) provided on a common frame (30), and configured to alternately lock a rail (2) when the latter is being processed, each work station (3A, 3B) comprising at least a first magnetic anchorage plane (4) configured to cooperate with a web (2A) of the rail (2) when the latter is being processed in the respective station, and a transport system (50A, 50B) to move the rail (2) from the first work station (3A) to the second work station (3B) and vice versa.
US10471563B2
A control device includes a control part which generates a torque command based on a resultant command, which is obtained by adding a position deviation, which is the difference between a position command and the actual position of a feed shaft, to an oscillation command to control the feed shaft, and an elastic deformation amount calculation part which calculates the elastic deformation amount of a structure composed of a tool or workpiece and the feeding mechanism therefor based on the torque command. An oscillation command generation part generates the above oscillation command based on the rotation speed of the workpiece, the position command of the feed shaft, and the above elastic deformation amount.
US10471562B2
A guiding system for portable machine tools has at least one guiding apparatus which is fixable on a portable machine tool. The guiding system also has at least one positive guidance unit to which the at least one guiding apparatus is connectable in a positive-locking manner to positively guide the portable machine tool. The guiding system also has at least one position fixing unit configured to fix a position of the at least one guiding apparatus on the at least one positive guidance unit. The at least one position fixing unit has at least one fastening unit configured to releasably fix the at least one position fixing unit on the at least one guiding apparatus.
US10471561B2
A pallet changing apparatus adopting a table 4 capable of moving back from and forth for a side of a turning shaft 1 and having an oscillating portion 41 for placing workpieces W, W′ by means of pallets P, P′ so as to oscillate freely by a rising portion 42 at the leading end of the table 4, wherein the turning shaft 1 covers a turning supporting portion 11 at its lower end side and turns together with a pallet changing arm 3 and moves freely in a vertical direction, and an insertion and removal hole 20 is provided, at the covering region, and allows the rising portion 42 to be inserted into the insertion and removal hole 20 and removed from the insertion and removal hole 20.
US10471550B2
A device for positioning a number of function elements, each having a recess for a shaft, in a predetermined angle position on the shaft, may include a plurality of support balconies arranged one above the other, each being destined for a function element. A movable guide carriage may be configured to enable the shaft to be push the shaft from above through the recesses of the function elements. The support balconies may each include at least one gripper respectively fixing one function element. The at least one gripper may be arranged on an associated gripper carriage and may be adjustable in an x-direction and a y-direction relative to the associated gripper carriage and the support balcony. The associated gripper carriage may be mounted on the support balcony so as to be rotatable about a z-axis.
US10471546B1
A laser system is configured to produce a distribution of self-focus damage volumes through the thickness of a substrate. A laser of the laser system produces a laser beam, and an optical assembly receives the laser beam and emits a conditioned laser beam having a geometric focal region. Placing the substrate in the path of the conditioned beam shifts the focal region to an effective focal region. The optical assembly and/or optical elements thereof can be configured such that the distribution of self-focus damage volumes is uniform over the thickness of the substrate by accounting for the non-linear effects of the substrate on the light that propagates through the substrate.
US10471536B2
A reflectance detection method in which a workpiece is irradiated with a laser beam and reflectance is detected, irradiating, with a light amount H0, the workpiece with a laser beam with a first wavelength X1 shorter than a detection-target wavelength X and detecting a light amount H1 of reflected return light, irradiating the workpiece with a laser beam with a second wavelength X2 longer than the detection-target wavelength X with the light amount H0 and detecting a light amount H2 of reflected return light, and employing H calculated based on an expression shown below as the light amount of return light obtained when the workpiece is irradiated with the detection-target wavelength X and calculating reflectance obtained when the workpiece is irradiated with the detection-target wavelength X based on H/H0. H=H1+(H2−H1)×(X−X1)/(X2−X1)
US10471535B2
The present invention provides a spot resistance welding electrode cap for welding two or more work-pieces together, including a substantially cylindrical body having an interior surface, an exterior surface, and a tapered interior cavity for frictionally fitting over an electrode shank. The exterior surface of the body includes a plurality of longitudinally extending depressions or flutes formed therein which provide an increased external surface area to the electrode cap, thus increasing the ability to transfer additional amounts of heat. The electrode cap further includes a plurality of fins disposed on the interior surface of the body within the interior cavity. The free ends of the fins are chamfered in order to ease the transition of coolant flowing throughout the shank proximate the electrode cap.
US10471533B2
A power transfer assembly for supplying electrical power to an electrode of a contact-start plasma arc torch has two conductive elements biased by a compression spring. The conductive elements are provided with mating structures that are defined by parallel surfaces that can be slidably engaged with each other. The conductive elements are configured to engage the spring such that positioning the mating structures to slidably engage each other generates an off-axis force in the spring that biases the mating structures together along at least one line of contact to assure an electrically conductive path through the mating structures from one conductive element to the other. One conductive element is a static element that is positioned against a power supplying element of the torch, while the other is a movable element that engages or is attached to the electrode.
US10471530B2
A brazed part includes two or more components that are brazed together and has related method of making. Using a method of locating parts relative to one another, an inter-component gap between the components may be formed. Subsequently, during brazing, flow control features formed along the inter-component gap may then be used to assist in the retention of the braze material between the components during brazing.
US10471525B2
A saber saw (1) for processing a workpiece, in particular a mineral or metallic material, including a drive (20), and a reciprocating rod (60) having a first end (63), a second end (68) and a drive point (69). Moreover, a first articulated rod (40) having a pivot point (42) and a connection point (44) as well as a second articulated rod (50) having a first pivot point (52) and a second pivot point (54) are provided, whereby the pivot point (42) of the first articulated rod (40) can be rotatably connected to the drive point (69) of the reciprocating rod (60), and the connection point (44) of the first reciprocating rod (40) can be non-rotatably connected to the drive (20) by-a connection mechanism (70), and whereby the drive (20) can be situated at least partially in a drive housing.
US10471521B2
The present invention is concerned with twist drills for drilling of composite materials such as carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) and glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP). The present invention proposes that a twist drill (2) is provided with a variable helix having a defined start and finish helix angle, in combination with primary and secondary relief angles such that the drill (2) is adapted to minimise thrust force, particularly when used for drilling fibre-containing composite materials and especially for hand drilling. Start and finish helix angles of 50° and 10°; 50° and 30°; and 30° and 10° have been shown to provide excellent cutting performance and exit hole quality. A large secondary chisel edge angle (24) has also been found to contribute to excellent performance with composite materials, including stack machining.
US10471512B2
A method of producing a powder suitable for additive manufacturing and/or powder metallurgy applications from a precursor particulate material comprising: subjecting the precursor particulate material to at least one high shear milling process, thereby producing a powder product having a reduced average particle size and a selected particle morphology.
US10471509B2
A fume collector can be operated continuously for a long time, and an influence on a three-dimensional article is minimized.Provided is a lamination molding apparatus (1) in which an inert gas supply/discharge apparatus (4) includes an inert gas supply apparatus (43) configured to supply an inert gas into a chamber (10), and a fume collector (6) including a charging section (63) having a charging electrode (631) configured to positively or negatively charge fumes, a charging electrode cleaner (71) configured to remove fumes adhered to the charging electrode (631) and a dust collecting section (65) configured to collect the charged fumes, wherein the charging electrode cleaner (71) removes the fumes when formation of the sintered layers by a laser radiation apparatus (2) is not being performed in operation.
US10471500B2
A stack molding pattern and a shell for manufacturing aircraft turbine engine blades via lost wax casting. The stack molding shell includes a plurality of shell blade elements, each intended for producing a blade, wire elements being arranged within the shell blade elements; and a metal feeder including a plurality of metal outlets, each one radially open towards one of the shell blade elements and connected with the second end portion of the element. The shell includes a protective screen, associated with each second end portion and intended to protect a sensitive portion of the wire elements against the direct impact of a flow of metal from the feeder. The sensitive portion is located in the second end portion, downstream from the protective screen.
US10471499B2
System for cooling molds for metals, having one or more main conduits, each for transporting a main flow of a cooling carrier fluid containing compressed air and nebulized water, and a plurality of secondary conduits connected to and originating from the main conduit. The free end of each secondary conduit is susceptible of being inserted into a corresponding channel of a duct made in one of the half-molds of a mold. The main conduit is provided with a shaped closed terminal portion for distributing, into the secondary conduits that radially depart therefrom, substantially equal secondary flows of the cooling carrier fluid, injecting them through the free ends thereof into the corresponding channels of each half-mold.
US10471495B2
A material separation device comprises a placement component, a blower, a suction component, a suction pad driver, and a controller. The blower blows air at a plurality of aluminum sheets that have been stacked on the placement component to float an uppermost aluminum sheet. The suction component uses suction pads to chuck and hold the uppermost aluminum sheet from above while the air is being blown. The suction pad driver drives the suction component up and down, using servomotors as a drive source. The controller performs control so that the suction pads chucking the aluminum sheet are raised to a temporary stopping position by the suction pad driver, and the suction pads are stopped for a predetermined length of time at the temporary stopping position while the air is stopped, and the suction pads are then raised by the suction pad drivers to a conveyance position.
US10471489B2
A roll forming apparatus including a plurality of stations each including and an upper roll and a lower roller, wherein a first number of stations are configured to form a pipe blank into a standing seam, and a second number of stations are configured to angle the seam. At least one station includes elongated top and bottom rollers for clinching the pipe blank during the roll forming process. Each elongated top roller is mounted on a pivotable shaft configured to pivot the elongated top rollers away the pipe blank to allow passage of at least one seam formed in the pipe blank.
US10471473B2
Systems and methods for managing the waste associated with the extraction of rubber from guayule shrubs are provided. Also provided is a portable local sub-station for reducing the transportation costs associated with the processing of guayule shrubs for the extraction of rubber. Use of the disclosed systems, methods and/or local sub-station can reduce transportation costs, reduce processing costs and reduce the downstream processing complexity associated with the extraction of rubber from guayule shrubs.
US10471472B2
A support structure for vibrating screening machine with either a flat screen deck or a crowned screen deck which use a coped and then capped variation of the same prefabricated rectangular tubular cross-member but in rotated orientations. The machine further providing support for a crowned screen media without using a crowned cross-member by providing stringers with differing vertical heights with the centermost stringer having the most height above a flat top cross-member.
US10471469B2
Metal nanomaterials and nanostructures may be formed via shearing force in the presence of a reactant.
US10471468B2
An apparatus including a durable porous substrate; and a perfluorinated liquid located within pores of the durable porous substrate. The durable porous substrate and the perfluorinated liquid together are configured to provide an omniphobic surface.
US10471454B2
A dispenser for liquid to pasty substances, has a dispenser head and a dispenser body. The dispenser head is movable in a displacement direction perpendicular to the horizontal bearing plane between an extended position and a retracted position for carrying out a pumping movement, the dispenser head can rotate relative to the dispenser body in such a way that the dispenser mouth moves in a horizontal plane when the dispenser head is rotated. In order to provide an advantageous design of a dispenser of the type in question, the dispenser has a tamper-proofing part which is secured to two parts of the dispenser which can rotate relative to each other, at one of the parts by a rupturable material bridge, and the material bridge can be ruptured in the course of a rotation of the dispenser head.
US10471451B2
A device for applying a mixed component includes first and second receptacles configured to receive first and second components, respectively, a static mixing nozzle, an applicator and an operating member. The static mixing nozzle includes a plurality of mixing elements, has a first end and a second end, and is in fluid communication with the first and second receptacles. The applicator includes a spray tip and an input for pressurized fluid, the spray tip is disposed downstream of the second end of the static mixing nozzle and is in fluid communication with the static mixing nozzle. The operating member is disposed on the applicator and is configured to control the pressurized fluid.
US10471447B2
A system includes an electrostatic tool having a cascade that includes electrical components configured to convert a first voltage from an incoming alternating current into an outgoing second voltage at a direct current and a shell configured to cover the electrical components. The shell radially conforms to the electrical components.
US10471441B2
A housing of a centrifuge having an abutment for a ground on which the housing sits, as well as to a centrifuge. The housing is divided into two parts, i.e. a first housing and a second housing which is connected to the first housing via a pivot bearing, with at least one energy absorber being arranged between the first housing and the second housing, which energy absorber will counteract the forces, in particular the torques, generated in the event of a crash and will absorb the energy of the crash so as to prevent at least the part of the second housing which rests on the ground from moving relative to the ground, which pivot bearing allows the first housing to rotate relative to the second housing against the action of the one or plural energy absorber(s) which is/are separate from the pivot bearing.
US10471435B2
Shredder hammers having first and second major surfaces on opposing sides, and a circumferential edge. A mounting portion includes a mounting hole that extends from the first major surface to the second major surface, and is configured to receive a hammer mounting pin for mounting in a reducing system. The circumferential edge includes a primary impact face to initially impact materials to be reduced and a wear edge to subsequently crush and shear the material against a wall of the equipment. The hammer is biased forward on the pin to admit more material to be crushed between the wear edge and the grates.
US10471429B2
A material film is formed as a thin film having a thickness of 1 μm on a surface of a glass substrate. A plurality of micro-chambers having a diameter of 5 μm are formed in the material film to be arrayed at a high density. The respective chambers filled with an aqueous test solution have openings that are liquid-sealed by a lipid bilayer membrane to provide a high-density micro-chamber array. Significant downsizing of the micro-chambers enhances a change in concentration by a reaction of one biomolecule in the chamber and thereby increases the detection sensitivity. In the configuration that a large number of micro-chambers are formed at a high density, even in the case of an extremely slow reaction of the biomolecule, the reaction proceeds in any of the chambers. This configuration accordingly enables the reaction of the biomolecule to be detected with high sensitivity.
US10471418B2
A porous substrate susceptible to one or both of hydroxylation and alkoxylation by a first protic solvent is exposed to a first relative pressure of the first protic solvent. The porous substrate includes a first plurality of pores having a first average pore diameter and a second plurality of pores having a second average pore diameter that is greater than the first average pore diameter. The first relative pressure is effective to one or both of hydroxylate or alkoxylate substantially only pores of the first average pore diameter to form a first modified porous substrate. The first modified porous substrate is reacted with a first functionalizing reagent that is effective to functionalize one or both of hydroxylated or alkoxylated surfaces, thereby functionalizing substantially only the first plurality of the pores, to form a first functionalized porous substrate.
US10471415B2
A family of highly charged crystalline microporous metallophosphate molecular sieves designated PST-16 has been synthesized. These metallophosphates are represented by the empirical formula of: Rp+rAm+MxEyPOz where A is an alkali metal such as potassium, R is an organoammonium cation such as ethyltrimethylammonium, M is a divalent metal such as zinc and E is a trivalent framework element such as aluminum or gallium. The PST-16 family of molecular sieves are stabilized by combinations of alkali and organoammonium cations, enabling unique metalloalumino(gallo)phosphate compositions and exhibit the CGS topology. The PST-17 family of molecular sieves has catalytic properties for carrying out various hydrocarbon conversion processes and separation properties for separating at least one component.
US10471413B2
Described is a catalyst composition suitable for use as a selective catalytic reduction catalyst, including small-pore molecular sieve particles having a pore structure and a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms and impregnated with a promoter metal, and metal oxide particles dispersed within the small-pore molecular sieve particles and external to the pore structure of the small-pore molecular sieve particles, wherein the metal oxide particles include one or more oxides of a transition metal or lanthanide of Group 3 or Group 4 of the Periodic Table. A method for preparing the catalyst, a method for selectively reducing nitrogen oxides, and an exhaust gas treatment system are also described.
US10471408B2
Devices and methods are provided for spotting an array with fluid. Arrays produced by such methods are also provided. In one aspect of the invention, a spotter device for spotting a plurality of fluids into an array is described, the spotter device comprising a plurality of reservoirs provided in a first configuration, each reservoir holding its respective fluid, a print head having a plurality of positions provided in a second configuration, the second configuration being different from the first configuration, a plurality of tubes, each tube configured to provide fluid communication from a reservoir at a first end of the tube to a position in the print head at the second end of the tube, and a pump for pumping fluid through the tubes from the reservoir to the print head.
US10471404B2
A valve for dosing and mixing two fluids includes two respective inlet ducts, a double chamber for controlling the flows, at least one actuator configured to regulate the flow rates of the two fluids to be mixed, an electronic control unit and a Brix degrees optical sensor, arranged on the mixing duct of the mixture of the two fluids and operatively connected to the electronic control unit. The optical sensor is configured to send a measurement and control signal to the electronic control unit to drive the actuator so as to proportionally control the flow rates of the two fluids and, therefore, regulate the mixing ratio of the two fluids.
US10471403B2
An improved insect trapping and barrier adhesive compound having a significantly enhanced mechanical insecticide and insect repelling action. The improved insect trapping and barrier compound is supplied in bulk to be used outdoors for the spot control of insect pests. Alternatively it may be supplied already applied to a disposable media for indoor or very localized outdoor insect control applications.
US10471398B2
Guanidinyl ligand-functionalized polymers, methods of making the same, and substrates bearing a grafted coating of the ligand-functional polymers are described. The grafted polymer has the requisite affinity for binding neutral or negatively charged biomaterials, such as cells, cell debris, bacteria, spores, viruses, nucleic acids, endotoxins and proteins, at pH's near or below the pI's of the biomaterials.
US10471386B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of emission control equipment for boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices (e.g., those located at power plants, processing plants, etc.) and, in particular to a new and useful method and apparatus for capturing, oxidizing, lowering the concentration and/or level of, and/or eliminating mercury present in any flue gas and/or combustion gas stream. In one embodiment, the method and/or apparatus of the present invention is applied to boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices that have connected thereto at least one type of flue gas, or combustion gas, scrubber device (i.e., a wet scrubber or a dry scrubber).
US10471384B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of emission control equipment for boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices (e.g., those located at power plants, processing plants, etc.) and, in particular to a new and useful method and apparatus for: (i) reducing halogen levels necessary to affect gas-phase mercury control; (ii) reducing or preventing the poisoning and/or contamination of an SCR catalyst; and/or (iii) controlling various emissions. In still another embodiment, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for: (A) simultaneously reducing halogen levels necessary to affect gas-phase mercury control while achieving a reduction in the emission of mercury; and/or (B) reducing the amount of selenium contained in and/or emitted by one or more pieces of emission control equipment for boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices (e.g., those located at power plants, processing plants, etc.).
US10471382B2
An air pollution control system includes a denitration device that removes nitrogen oxide in flue gas from a boiler; a heat transfer tube for recovering part of heat of the flue gas after denitration; a precipitator that removes soot and dust in the flue gas after heat recovery; a desulfurization device that removes sulfur oxide in the flue gas discharged from the precipitator; a heat transfer tube for heating the flue gas discharged from the desulfurization device; a circulation pump that circulates a heat medium between the heat transfer tubes; a heat medium heater provided to the circulation pipe to heat the heat medium; and a control device that controls the heat medium heater based on an ammonia concentration at an outlet of the denitration device. The control device causes the heat medium heater to heat the heat medium when the ammonia concentration is higher than a certain value.
US10471380B2
The invention relates to a specific process and apparatus for separation of gas mixtures with reduced maintenance costs.
US10471377B2
A method for manufacturing a filtration media with improved filtration, strength, tear resistance and air permeability in the form of a relatively thin and lightweight wet-laid fibrous web that has a wet Mullen ratio of 20% to 90% to ensure that the media is flexible enough to be formed into a fluted structure, and strong enough to retain the fluted structure when would into a roll and to permit further processing.
US10471372B2
An ion exchanger includes a housing, which includes an inlet and an outlet for a coolant and is open upwardly, and a cartridge mounted within the housing so as to be removable upwardly out of the housing. The cartridge includes a first case and a second case respectively located above and below the inlet and the outlet and capable of containing an ion exchange resin. The first case includes a first flow entrance, which is in fluid communication with the inlet of the housing, and a first flow exit, which is in fluid communication with the outlet of the housing. The second case includes a second flow entrance in fluid communication with the inlet of the housing and a second flow exit in fluid communication with the outlet of the housing.
US10471370B1
An arrangement of downcomers oriented at a 45-degree angle to a support that is either a wall within a divided wall column or a support beam that allows for reduced spacing of from 0.3 to 0.76 m spacing between trays within a distillation column. The advantages include the use of a single support beam to support two trays as well as more efficient operation and allowing for columns having diameters from 0.9 to 15.2 meters.
US10471367B1
A desalination system that includes a plurality of evaporators that are fluidly connected in series, a primary compressor that is fluidly connected to the evaporators to provide a compressed vapor to the evaporators to run the desalination system, and a secondary compressor that is arranged in parallel relative to the primary compressor, wherein the secondary compressor extracts a portion of vapor from a first evaporator and/or one intermediate evaporator in the series and delivers the vapor to the first evaporator. Various combinations of embodiments of the desalination system are provided.
US10471361B2
The invention relates to a method of sharing a live video with at least two computers on a network. The method comprises: Determining, by a sharing system, the identity of each player in a set of at least two players, of at least one game between the at least two players; associating at least one first player with at least one second player; and receiving, of a video file, by one or more of the at least two computers sent by the at least one first player using one of the at least two computers. The video file includes a performance of a first player, permitting the performance of the first player to be judged by the other at least one second players or more players in the set.
US10471357B2
The field of the invention relates to interactive computer systems and more particularly to systems and methods for simulating a particular user's behavior in an interactive computer system. In one embodiment, a computer program product includes a simulator configured to simulate a user interacting with a computer program. The simulator includes a learning mode of operation and a simulation mode of operation. During the learning mode, the simulator is configured to monitor the user's interaction with the computer program for one or more events and analyze one or more current circumstances during the occurrence of the one or more events. The simulator is further configured to record one or more user inputs in response to the occurrence of the one or more events, store the one or more user inputs in one or more data fields, and associate the one or more data fields with the one or more events and the one or more current circumstances. During the simulation mode of operation, the simulator is configured to monitor the computer program for the one or more particular events, retrieve the one or more data fields associated with the one or more particular events, analyze one or more current circumstances upon the occurrence of the one or more particular events, and invoke one or more simulated inputs based on the value of the one or more data fields in response to the occurrence of the one or more events and the one or more current circumstances.
US10471343B2
A block set assembled by a user and an information processing device communicate with each other. The information processing device thereby obtains information on the structure of the block set. In addition, an object of a crane truck corresponding to the block set is displayed on a display device. Correspondences between joints and wheels and correspondences between movements are set. Thereby, when the block set is moved, the movement of the block set is reflected in the object on display. When the object is moved, the movement of the object is reflected in the block set by transmitting a control signal from the information processing device.
US10471342B1
A system, method and apparatus for capturing data from a plurality of users for providing online gameplay based on captured user sensor data. User sensor data is captured from a plurality of sensor capture devices relative to an associated user so as to be transmitted to a gameplay server. The gameplay server executes instructions to generate a user interface on a user's client computing device for providing gameplay on each user client portable computing device utilizing, and pertinent to, the captured sensor data.
US10471341B1
This disclosure relates to enabling a user to access a game without registering for a platform account. In implementations, if an unregistered user attempts to access a game supported by a gaming platform, a guest account may be automatically created for the user in response to receiving a request for the user to access the game. The guest account may enable the user to access the game without first registering with the gaming platform.
US10471338B2
This invention is a novel word forming board game that uses a unique combination of features that enables and rewards large word formation. In addition, chance is used to make the outcome less predictable and more fun for players of all skill levels. The game apparatus includes a larger number of board spaces, a large number of letter tiles, and chance components (multiplier, bonus word, swap card and swap tiles chance types). The method of play uses a large number of letter tiles per player hand, and the ability to exchange letter tiles at the end of each turn. The basis of the word points is the word length which rewards large word formation. The multiplier chance types amplify the impact of forming large words on the player score, with multiplier values as high as 10 and as low as −10, distributed so lesser skilled players can win more often.
US10471335B2
The present invention comprises a fairing apparatus for a snowboard comprising a raised structure that may be positioned adjacent to the user's binding, having a geometry that deflects snow or ice away from the user's bindings and boots. In various exemplary embodiments, the raised structure may comprise two forward extending ridges located near the edges of the snowboard. In various exemplary embodiments, the forward extending ridges may extend laterally beyond the edges of the snowboard and may generate lift as the apparatus moves through snow or ice.
US10471331B2
A pacing system for pacing an activity receives a desired pace that includes a timing interval and generates a first pace signal based on the desired pace and corresponding to the timing interval. The system receives feedback on an actual pace of the activity and determines if the actual pace is different than the desired pace. When the actual pace is different, the system generates a second pace signal having a timing that is different than the timing interval. When the actual pace is not different, the system generates the second pace signal in accordance with the timing interval.
US10471329B2
A golf putting training device with a base and a plurality of posts extending upwardly from the base is provided. The plurality of posts may be positioned on a diameter of a circle and the diameter may be generally equal to a golf hole diameter. A distance between at least two of the plurality of posts is less than the golf hole diameter and thereby provides a narrow opening for a golf ball to roll through. A pair of sleeves may be positioned on a pair of adjacent posts such that the narrow opening for the golf ball to roll through is reduced. Also, an elastic member may extend between two posts and across the narrow opening for the golf ball to roll through such that a golf ball putted towards the narrow opening is redirected when it is rolls into the elastic member.
US10471321B2
The technology provides practice aids for developing croquet skills and on-mallet playing aids for improving croquet play. The practice aids are used while practicing croquet and offer benefits such as immediate feedback and practice shot repeatability. The practice aids may include a swing trainer, a single ball shot trainer, a croquet shot maker, a cannon shot maker, a mallet alignment tool, a take-off trainer, a hoop maker, and a wiring trainer. The on-mallet playing aids are used while practicing and during croquet games since the rules of croquet allow a player to mark a mallet. The on-mallet playing aids offer benefits such as improved in-game shot setup and improved shot precision. The on-mallet playing aids may include a single ball shot playing facilitator, a take-off playing facilitator, and a croquet-shot playing facilitator. The practice aids and the on-mallet playing aids may offer different ways of achieving a same result.
US10471315B2
A golf ball marker for applying chalk to a golf ball. The golf ball marker includes a housing having two space ends and in which one end is dimensioned to support a golf ball. A plunger is slidably mounted in the housing while chalk is carried at the end of the plunger. Consequently, upon movement of the plunger towards the golf ball, the chalk contacts and marks the golf ball.
US10471314B1
A multi-wheeled golf push cart is shown that combines the functionality of a conventional pushcart and golf bag into a single piece of equipment. The cart comprises a collapsible multi-wheeled configuration and push bar. These collapsible mechanisms enable the cart to be transformed into two positions: folded or extended. The cart is also equipped with a plurality of golf club slots strategically formed into a U-shaped housing for optimized club organization and protection. For golf equipment storage space, the cart has a main console located in the push bar. In addition, the golf cart has a strap-on bag that comes with multiple pockets for additional storage. In an extended position, the cart is designed for walking similar to using a pushcart and bag combination. In a folded position, the compact designed allow it to fit securely onto the back of a motorized cart for riding, similar to a conventional golf bag.
US10471308B2
Multi-layered golf balls having a dual-layered core and cover of at least one layer are provided. The dual-core construction includes a non-foamed inner core (center) made of a thermoplastic or thermoset composition such as polybutadiene rubber. An outer core layer comprising a foamed composition, such as polyurethane foam, is disposed about the inner core. In one version, the foamed outer core layer is made of a relatively soft foam composition having low flex modulus and density. The foamed outer core layer may specific gravity gradient within the layer, wherein the outer surface specific gravity is greater than the midpoint specific gravity. A cover may be disposed about the core structure. For example, an inner cover made of ethylene acid copolymer ionomer and outer cover made of polyurethane may be used.
US10471305B2
A method comprising determining an exercise plan for a user of an apparatus, entering a collaborative exercise session with a separate apparatus, determining a portion of the exercise plan that corresponds with a location of the user, causing display of an exercise indicator that indicates exercise instruction information that corresponds with the portion of the exercise plan, receiving exercise information from the separate apparatus based, at least in part, on the collaborative exercise session, modifying the exercise plan to generate a modified exercise plan based, at least in part, on the exercise information received from the separate apparatus, determining a portion of the modified exercise plan that corresponds with the location of the user, and causing display of another exercise indicator that indicates exercise instruction information that corresponds with the portion of the modified exercise plan is disclosed.
US10471303B2
A non-limiting example training instrument comprises a hollow main body formed of an aluminum alloy. The main body is constituted by two gripping portions opposite to each other with a space therebetween and a coupling portion coupling the two gripping portions. A load sensor is arranged in the coupling portion inside the main body. The load sensor is a load cell, a strain gauge affixed to an interior of the main body, and a part of the main body to which the strain gauge is affixed functions as a strain body. Therefore, if a user applies a force so as to bring the two gripping portions close to each other or a force so as to move the two gripping portions away from each other, a load thereof is detected by the load sensor.
US10471302B1
A system and method for administering an activity program. An activity goal for an activity and an activity sub-goal for the activity is established. The activity sub-goal includes an activity performance goal and an activity period, wherein the activity performance goal must be met within an amount of time equal to the activity period. The activity goal includes a repetition requirement, wherein the repetition requirement sets a minimum number of times that a measured activity must meet the activity sub-goal over a given time period. Activity is measured and a determination is made as to whether the measured activity meets the activity sub-goal. If so, a determination is made as to whether the corresponding activity goal has been met.
US10471300B2
An elliptical trainer includes a base frame, a front upright frame mounted at the front side of the base frame, a transmission device set mounted at the front upright frame, a guide rail device set including a guide rail seat pivotally connected with its rear side to the rear side of the base frame, an upper support unit affixed to the front side of the guide rail seat and a lower support unit pivotally connected to the front side of the guide rail seat and biasable up and down relative to the front side of the guide rail seat, a retractable device set pivotally connected between the upper support unit and the lower support unit, and a pedal device set connected to the transmission device set and slidably supported on the guide rail seat.
US10471299B2
An exercise machine may include a deck, a lift motor connected to the deck, and a cooling mechanism that cools the lift motor when the cooling mechanism is activated.
US10471296B2
A portable exercise apparatus utilized for exercising, stretching, and training multiple muscle groups of the body of a user. The apparatus is adapted to be worn about the waist or carried as a bandolier about the user's body. The apparatus has at least one releasably closable pocket and fixation rings for securing and carrying accessories, such as attachable handles, suspension lines, and elastic bands. The apparatus and methods of use provide the user with a plurality of configurations for assisted exercise regimens and the flexibility to exercise anywhere.
US10471293B2
A stationary exercise apparatus allows one or two users to execute a wide variety of bodyweight exercises including pull-ups, dips, crunches, leg raises, and inclined push-ups. The apparatus can quickly and easily be folded into a compact configuration for storage, e.g., in a closet or under a bed, without the use of tools.
US10471291B2
Patent of utility model pertaining to the non-motorized equipment for the practice of gymnastics constituted with a base, wall support with a format predominantly rectangular provided with holes in the edges and tabs for the fixation of the superior bar of the superior part through fastening elements, as well as holes for fixation in the wall, having a protective cover keeping practically the disposition of the support base. The referred machine is composed at it frontal part of a structure formed by a curved bar provided of a plurality of steps, the top being composed by two opening limiting overhangs in the lateral parts, and the base has a height adjustment through rods composed by cylindrical tubes with pluggable supports, the height being regulated by pins, in a way that the first step is provided with a vertical rod to fix weights. The superior part is composed by a cylindrical curved bar provided of at least two opening limiting supports with a rectangular format, that are fixed in the surface of the same, the edges are closed with covers, the superior part is provided with fastening elements that work as an articulation of the stair.
US10471290B1
A method for training athletes is disclosed. The method comprises: calculating an athletic signature for an athlete comprising normalized values for the concentric net vertical impulse (CON-IMP), the average eccentric rate of force development (ECC-RFD), and the average vertical concentric force (CON-VF) for the athlete; analyzing the athletic signature; and assigning at least one training block to the athlete based on the analysis of the athletic signature.
US10471288B2
A combination fire suppression sprinkler and coupling is provided in a pre-assembled state for rapid installation into a piping network. Coupling segments are pivotably hinged and an adjustable attachment assembly opposite the hinge secures the segments to one another. In the pre-assembled state the segments are held at a separation angle sufficient to permit insertion of a pipe element into the coupling without disassembling the coupling.
US10471278B2
A cranial alignment device for use in intracranial stereotactic radiotherapy includes a nosepiece that is custom shaped to mate with the dorsum and alae of the patient's nose.
US10471276B2
An apparatus and method utilizes photonics, particularly lasers, and biometric feedback for physiological and neurological stimulation. While many areas of the body are candidates, such laser stimulation is particularly directed to the outer ear. Lasers positioned over the ear stimulate targets on the outer ear for pain and stress management and regulation of the autonomic nervous system to affect symptoms and clinical conditions. Laser positioning, wavelength, aiming, focus, power, power density, timing, and sequencing are managed and modified dynamically in real time to effect a personalized and effective treatment protocol.
US10471275B2
A device (10) for light based skin treatment is provided. The device (10) comprises a light source (18) for providing an incident light beam (21) for treating a skin (30), optical elements for focusing the incident light beam (21) in a focal point (22) inside the skin (30), and a skin interface element (11) for, during use of the device (10), providing optical coupling of the incident light beam (21) from the device (10) into the skin (30). The skin interface element (11) comprises a transparent exit window (12) for allowing the incident light beam (21) to leave the device (10), on top of the exit window (12), a transparent mixture (13) of a polar substance and an apolar substance, and on top of the transparent mixture (13), a transparent foil (14), the transparent foil (14) being more hydrophobic than the exit window (12).
US10471274B2
A battery-powered laser-based dermatological treatment device may include a laser unit comprising at least one laser diode, a battery unit, at least one sensor configured to generate sensor signals, and a laser drive control system including a laser drive circuit comprising the laser unit, the battery unit, a first switch (e.g., a first FET), and a second switch (e.g., a second FET), wherein the laser unit is arranged in series between the first switch and the second switch, and control electronics configured to control the first switch based at least on sensor signals from the at least one sensor, and control the second switch using pulse width modulation (PWM), thereby delivering current from the battery unit to the laser unit with a PWM current waveform. The laser drive circuit may also include a snubber circuit configured to prevent voltage spikes upon the second switch being turned off.
US10471270B2
A magnetic stimulation device includes an excitation coil, a coil driving power supply configured to supply a current having a specific current waveform pattern to the excitation coil, and a coil type detection device configured to distinguish a type of the excitation coil connected to the coil driving power supply, among a plurality of excitations coils. The coil driving power supply includes a control unit configured to control the coil driving power supply to select the specific current waveform pattern among a plurality of current waveform patterns predetermined for each of the plurality of excitation coils, based on the type of the excitation coil distinguished by the coil type detection device and supply the current with the specific current waveform pattern to the excitation coil.
US10471269B1
Combined methods for treating a patient using time-varying magnetic field are described. The treatment methods combine various approaches for aesthetic treatment. The methods are focused on enhancing a visual appearance of the patient.
US10471263B2
Various embodiments include methods for conducting cardiac resynchronization therapy and systems implementing the method. Various embodiments may include generating, using a processing unit, a three-dimensional (3D) activation map showing the propagation of electrical signals through a heart of a patient, identifying a stimulation point on the heart for cardiac resynchronization; generating real-time images of the heart, displaying, on a display unit, the stimulation point on the real-time images as a virtual stimulation point, implanting a pacing device into the patient at the identified stimulation point, such that the pace maker is aligned with the virtual stimulation point in the real-time images, and stimulating the heart using the pacing device.
US10471261B2
A connector block that permits simultaneous and continuous interconnection of the three leads of the epicardial pacing wires, the pacemaker, and the ECG monitor on clear separately labeled connectors is provided. Circuitry is provided that allows the display of epicardial signals on the telemetry unit, while still preserving the ability to pace the heart from the pacemaker. When pacing the connector block prevents excessive loading of the pacer signals by the ECG monitor and/or damage to the monitor by the high-voltage pacer signals. The connector block may be used universally on all monitors without the need for sophisticated understanding of the electrical characteristics of the ECG monitor or concern for damage or improper signal loading.
US10471257B2
Systems and methods of reducing pain after surgery in the thoracic or abdominal region and managing chronic nerve pain in the thoracic or abdominal region are provided. Such methods involve an electrode assembly that has a proximal portion and a distal portion with the distal portion including a plurality of electrodes. At least one electrode of the plurality of electrodes is placed over each of a plurality of intercostal nerve bundles in the patient's body. The proximal portion of the electrode assembly is connected to a pulse generator. An electromagnetic field is applied to the plurality of intercostal nerve bundles. The plurality of electrodes is removed from the patient's body after an intercostal nerve block sufficient to alleviate the patient's pain has been achieved.
US10471252B2
A Wearable Cardiac Defibrillator (WCD) system is configured to be worn by a patient who carries a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device has a user interface that is configured to enable the patient to enter wireless inputs. The WCD system includes a communication module that is configured to establish a local comlink with the mobile communication device. The WCD system also includes a tethered action unit that has a user interface configured to enable the patient to enter action inputs. The WCD system can perform some of its functions in response to the action inputs or to the wireless inputs. Since the wireless inputs can be provided from the mobile communication device instead of the action unit, the patient is less likely to attract attention when entering them, and thus exhibit better compliance.
US10471250B2
Implantable devices and systems include one or more leads adapted to be emplaced in the internal thoracic vein (ITV) of a patient. The lead may include features to adapt the lead for such placement. An associated device for use with the lead may include operational circuitry adapted for use with a lead having an electrode for sensing and/or therapy purposes coupled thereto. Methods for implantation and use of such devices and systems are disclosed as well.
US10471249B2
A device for increasing a concentration of at least one analyte in an advective flow of biofluid includes an agent for enhancing a paracellular permeability of an epithelial tissue; and an iontophoresis electrode and a counter electrode, which are adapted to increase the concentration of said analyte in the advective flow of the biofluid. A method of sensing an analyte in a biofluid includes increasing a paracellular permeability of an epithelial tissue layer; and inducing electro-osmotic flow by reverse iontophoresis to increase a concentration of said analyte in an advective flow of the biofluid, wherein said advective flow is driven by at least one of saliva generation, sweat generation, or reverse iontophoresis.
US10471245B2
A method of manufacturing a needle-shaped body includes forming a needle-shaped body precursor such that the needle-shaped body precursor has a base portion and a needle-shaped portion on the base portion, and that the needle-shaped portion has a portion which contacts the base portion and has a form of a polygon, producing a needle-shaped body original plate by forming a curved surface portion in at least a portion of an apex portion of the polygon in a junction portion at a boundary between the base portion and the needle-shaped portion, producing a resin plate by transfer molding with the needle-shaped body original plate such that the resin plate has a concave pattern corresponding to the needle-shaped portion and the curved surface portion, and producing a needle-shaped body by transfer molding with the resin plate such that the needle-shaped body has a transferred needle-shaped portion and a transferred curved surface portion.
US10471242B2
Embodiments are disclosed for an applicator used for inserting flowable pharmaceutical preparations into a body cavity, an adapter for connecting a jar to a cavity dispenser, a jar dispenser with a nozzle for automated transferring and dispensing of flowable pharmaceutical compositions, and a metered dial-dispenser configured to connect to a cavity dispenser for humans and animals.
US10471238B2
A serration balloon can have a number of different components and can be made in a number of different manners. One or more longitudinally extending members with periodic raised wedges can be attached to a medical balloon. They can be attached with a fiber coating, a polymer coating, or other methods. A polymer matrix can be used to bond the longitudinally extending member to the surface of the balloon. The fiber coating can be, for example, a thread or mesh that secures the longitudinally extending member to the balloon. The medical balloon can be an angioplasty balloon, such as an off-the-shelf angioplasty balloon.
US10471236B2
Some embodiments of a medical device anchor system include an anchor device that receives a catheter (or other medical instrument) and secures the catheter in place relative to a skin penetration point. In some embodiments, the anchor device can secure the catheter in an operative position relative to the skin penetration point without the use of sutures or skin tapes.
US10471234B2
A catheter apparatus may have a flexible shaft, guidewire lumens passing through the shaft, and a positioning device for positioning the guidewires relative to an external lumen. The positioning device may be an expansible scaffold covered with a retractable sheath. The positioning device may also be one or more balloons that are inflated through an inflation port in the shaft. The catheter apparatus may be operated by inserting a guide catheter into a vasculature with a chronic total occlusion, inserting the catheter apparatus into the guide catheter, and advancing the guidewires through the guidewire lumens and into contact with a chronic total occlusion. The positioning device may be activated before and/or between attempts to pass the guidewires through the chronic total occlusion to interrogate various parts of the chronic total occlusion.
US10471228B2
A respiratory nosepiece (10) and method of manufacturing the respiratory nosepiece, the respiratory nosepiece including a first nasal prong (110) with a first channel (112) extending there through, and a first side port (130) connectable to tubes (192, 194) having different first and second diameters. The first side port has a second channel (131) extending there through and in communication with the first channel. The second channel includes a first section (134) having the first diameter, a second section (136) having the second diameter, a first step (135) between the first and second sections, and a second step (137) between the second section and an end (133) of the second channel. The first and second channels are formed during injection molding by pins (412, 422, 431, 441) having flat pin-on-pin geometry to reduce resin flash within the channels.
US10471225B2
A breathing assistance apparatus has a pressurised gases source featuring a lightweight impeller with a plastic shaft. The impeller is shroudless. The plastic shaft is supported within the stator by a bearing structure. A resilient motor mount couples the stator and the housing and provide compliance and/or damping for the motor.
US10471204B2
A medical system includes an input assembly for receiving one or more user inputs. The input assembly includes at least one slider assembly for providing an input signal. Processing logic receives the input signal from the input assembly and provides a first output signal and a second output signal. A display assembly is configured to receive, at least in part, the first output signal from the processing logic and render information viewable by the user. The second output signal is provided to one or more medical system components. The information rendered on the display assembly may be manipulatable by the user and at least a portion of the information rendered may be magnified.
US10471202B2
The present teachings provide a blood purification apparatus in which inadvertent replacement of a container bag attached to a hanger portion can be avoided the blood purification apparatus including a holding device capable of holding a container bag that contains a liquid for blood purification treatment, such as dialysate, substitution fluid, or anticoagulant, the blood purification apparatus being capable of performing blood purification treatment using the liquid in the container bag, and the holding device including a hanger portion including an attachment portion to which the container bag can be attached, and movable between a use position and a replacement position, a measuring device capable of measuring the weight of the container bag held by the hanger portion, and a restricting device that restricts attachment and detachment of the container bag to and from the attachment portion when the hanger portion is in the use position.
US10471194B2
A dialysis machine that includes a valve member having a deformable area configured to deform outwardly away when pressurized fluid is introduced into the valve member. The valve member is configured so that, when a dialysis fluid cassette is disposed in a cassette compartment of the dialysis machine and pressurized fluid is introduced into the valve member, the deformable area obstructs a fluid channel of the dialysis fluid cassette to control dialysis fluid flow therethrough.
US10471191B2
A blood processing filter for removing undesirable components from liquid containing a blood component or blood, comprises a sheet-shaped filter element, and a container that includes an inlet-side container element and an outlet-side container element that are disposed to clamp the filter element, and has an internal space separated by the filter element into an inlet space and an outlet space. The filter element includes a pair of filtering surfaces disposed on the inlet space side and the outlet space side, and an end surface along a periphery of the pair of the filtering surfaces, and the inlet-side container element and the outlet-side container element are provided with a gripper that clamps and compresses outer edge portions of the pair of filtering surfaces, and adheres to the end surface with melt resin, and a part of the container is provided with a steam-permeable portion having steam permeability.
US10471184B2
The present invention is related to scoring or cutting balloon catheters carrying at least on a portion of their surface at least one drug or drug preparation and at least one lipophilic antioxidant at a ratio of 3-100% by weight of the at least one lipophilic antioxidant in relation to 100% by weight of the drug, wherein a combination of the at least one drug being a limus drug and the at least one lipophilic antioxidant being butylated hydroxytoluene is excluded.
US10471181B2
The presently disclosed composition and methods are provided for a hydrogel or nanofiber-hydrogel composite integrated with a surgical scaffold or mesh. A surgical scaffold device comprised of laminar composite is disclosed for the purpose of reducing foreign body response, managing tissue-materials interface, and improving the integration of the surgical mesh with the surrounding tissue of a subject.
US10471173B2
Provided is a conformable composition for skin application having good formability into a predetermined shape, good conformability to skin, and shape retention after the contact with water such as excretion without loss of its shape. The conformable composition for skin application includes a reinforcing component, a rubber adhesive component, and a hydrophilic polymer compound, or the conformable composition for skin application at least includes 1 to 20 wt % a reinforcing component, 40 to 90 wt % a rubber adhesive component, and 2 to 40 wt % a hydrophilic polymer compound.
US10471169B2
A dispensing screen for dispensing, by evaporation, volatile materials applied thereto, is provided. The screen comprises a sheet of material and diverting means formed in the plane of the sheet. The diverting means form a minimum path length along the length of the sheet between at least a portion of a first edge and an opposing second edge of the sheet, which minimum path length is longer than the distance between the first and second edges along the surface of the sheet. A dispensing apparatus is also provided, which in embodiments includes the dispensing screen of the invention, and in embodiments includes a sink for capturing un-evaporated volatile material.
US10471167B2
The invention relates to packaged deodorizing products, and in particular, packaged deodorizing products that find use in toileting. In some aspects, the packaged deodorizing product includes a solid substrate such as rice paper, gelatin sheets, or any other suitable substrate, that disintegrates when exposed to water such as in a toilet bowl, where the solid substrate has been pre-infused with a scenting agent, for example, an essential oil. The deodorizing product is removed from the packaging and placed directly into a toilet bowl prior to toileting, thereby expediting the action of the scenting agent. After toileting, the scenting agent is substantially removed when the toilet is flushed. The invention can also be used as a deodorizing product without deployment in liquid water.
US10471161B2
A thio-selective radioactive labeling agent has the following general formula: *R-L-VS, wherein said *R is a radioisotope, L is a linking group, and VS is a vinylsulfone functional group.
US10471147B2
The present document describes methods of use of photo activated compositions for oral disinfection and/or treatments which comprise at least one oxidant, at least one photoactivator capable of activating the oxidant, and at least one healing factor chosen from hyaluronic acid, glucosamine and allantoin, in association with a pharmacologically acceptable carrier.
US10471136B2
The present invention provides an injectable pharmaceutical composition containing the following components: (a) one or more kinds of peptides selected from a peptide represented by the formula (1): wherein the bond between Cys and Cys is a disulfide bond, Leu-OH shows that the C-terminal of Leu is a free carboxyl group, and other bond is a peptide bond, a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence shown by Trp-Ala-Pro-Val-Leu-Asp-Phe-Ala-Pro-Pro-Gly-Ala-Ser-Ala-Tyr-Gly-Ser-Leu (SEQ ID NO: 1) and salts thereof, (b) trehalose or trehalose hydrate, and (c) a pH adjuster.
US10471129B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions enhancing the therapeutic effect of biologically active peptides, especially peptides derived from human lactoferrin. The compositions are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of wounds, scars, and post surgical adhesions.
US10471116B2
An improved plant medicament composition, comprising an extract of Sorghum bicolor plant material for treating sickle cell disease is described. A method for the preparation of said composition having the property of inhibiting sickle cells is also provided.
US10471100B2
Compositions that include extracts from sources of immune modulators that include nanofraction immune modulator molecules (i.e., molecules having molecular weights of about 3,000 Da and less) are disclosed. These compositions may also include other immune modulators, such as transfer factor. Administration of compositions with extracts that include nanofraction immune modulator molecules modulates the cell-mediated immunity (e.g., down-regulates undesired T cell activity) of a subject to which such compositions are administered. When administered with transfer factor, the combination of nanofraction immune modulator molecules and transfer factor down-regulates undesired T cell activity while increasing, or up-regulating, T cell activity against pathogens and other undesirable entities, such as cancer cells and other aberrant or mutated cells. Assays and assay techniques for evaluating the immune modulation capabilities of various substances are also disclosed.
US10471097B2
The present invention relates to hyaluronic acid-rich node and duct system (HAR-NDS)-derived stem cells, a method for separating the same, and a use thereof and, more specifically, to node and ductal stem cells (NDSCs), which are adult stem cells having an ability to differentiate into HAR-NDS-derived neural cells, and hematopoietic stem cells having an ability to differentiate into blood cells. The present invention is capable of separating, from HAR-NDS, adult stem cells NDSCs and hematopoietic stem cells, which are not easy to obtain from bone marrow, peripheral blood and umbilical cord blood (cord blood), as an alternative source, and thus can be usefully used for treatment of brain diseases, neurological diseases, chronic infectious diseases, cancers, autoimmune diseases, organ regeneration treatments and various intractable diseases.
US10471081B2
Disclosed are methods of reducing the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in an infant, toddler, or child using nutritional compositions including human milk oligosaccharides. The nutritional compositions including the human milk oligosaccharides are effective in reducing inflammation and the incidence of inflammatory diseases.
US10471074B2
This disclosure provides a novel pharmaceutical composition for delivering steroid hormones to a patient in need thereof.
US10471069B2
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising a drug such as a triptan (e.g. rizatriptan) and/or an NSAID (e.g. meloxicam) in combination with a cyclodextrin and/or a carbonate or a bicarbonate. These compositions may be orally administered, for example, to improve the bioavailability or pharmacokinetics of the drug for the treatment of conditions such as pain.
US10471066B2
Phenoxy acetic acids and phenyl propionic acids and their use in improving mitochondrial energy output in a subject are provided herein. The present compounds are activators of PPARδ and may be useful for treating conditions mediated by the same.
US10471059B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods of inhibiting tyrosine phosphorylation. In one aspect, a composition comprising a low-dosage tyrosine kinase inhibitor, where the low-dosage tyrosine kinase inhibitor decreases tyrosine phosphorylation, is provided. In another aspect, a method for treating cardiovascular disease or condition associated with a RASopathy having aberrant protein tyrosine phosphorylation is described. Methods for treating congenital heart disease associated with Noonan or Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines and decreasing aberrant levels of Protein Zero-Related (PZR) tyrosyl phosphorylation are also described.
US10471056B2
The invention relates to a dosage form that is suitable for releasing an active ingredient over a long period of time. For this purpose, the active ingredient is released in two-stages in order to do away with an excessively frequent ingestion of the dosage form. The dosage forms according to the invention are for treating dizziness in humans. They are administered with or after a meal. The concept according to the invention provides that the pharmaceutical form has a dimensionally stable portion which, after ingestion of the dosage form by the patients, does not dissolve in the chyme-filled stomach for a number of hours. In this way, this dimensionally stable portion remains in the stomach until same is evacuated by the so-called “housekeeper waves”. Another portion of the dosage form is formed in such a way that it dissolves within a short time of the patients ingesting same. In this way, a quick invasion of the active ingredient with corresponding plasma levels is ensured.
US10471052B2
A pharmaceutical composition containing isomyosmine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is administered to an individual in need thereof for treating a substance addiction, inclusive of addiction to heroin (diacetylmorphine), cocaine, opioids, methadone, d-methamphetamine, barbiturates, alcohol, benzodiazepines, amphetamines, or buprenorphine. The isomyosmine, along with optional additional therapeutic agent(s), may be administered in a capsule, tablet, or lozenge.
US10471047B2
The current invention is in the field of molecular biology/pharmacology and provides methods of using compounds that modulate the effects of GPR30/GPER for treating obesity and diabetes (preferably agonists) as well as disease states and/or conditions that result from excessive formation of reactive oxygen species (preferably antagonists). These compounds may function as agonists and/or antagonists of the disclosed estrogen receptor and/or modulate the expression/upregulation of nox and nox-associated reactive oxygen species (ROS).
US10471037B2
The present application in one aspect provide Fc-containing polypeptide conjugates comprising an Fc-containing polypeptide conjugated to a conjugate moiety, wherein the Fc-containing polypeptide comprises an N-glycosylated Fc region comprising an acceptor glutamine residue flanked by an N-glycosylation site and wherein the conjugate moiety is conjugated to the Fc-containing polypeptide via the acceptor glutamine residue. Also provided are methods of making such Fc-containing polypeptide conjugates by using a wildtype or engineered transglutaminases. Further provided are engineered transglutaminases specifically designed for carrying out such reactions.
US10471033B2
A method of promoting a desired oral microbiota to treat an inflammation condition related to an allergic reaction in a subject in need of such treatment including providing a preformulated edible composition including an amino acid containing ingredient comprising L-arginine, the composition configured to be present as individual molecules of L-arginine within an oral cavity of the subject; removing a biofilm from surfaces within an oral cavity including exposing the biofilm to a biofilm degrading enzyme; wherein during or following removal of the biofilm, the composition is provided contained and at least partially dissolved within an oral cavity of the subject for a period of at least from about 30 seconds to about an hour on a daily basis comprising at least one day to promote an increased concentration of selected oral microbiota, the selected microbiota including Veillonella and Streptococcus.
US10471028B2
Small molecule efflux pump inhibitors are provided, as well as methods for their use in treating infections. Also provided herein are methods of using the small molecule efflux pump inhibitors to restore the antibiotic susceptibility of microbes.
US10471022B2
The present technology relates to a method of treating one or more behavioral symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome in a subject by transdermally administering an effective amount of cannabidiol (CBD) to the subject wherein one or more behavioral symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome are treated in the subject.
US10471014B2
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising a drug such as a triptan (e.g. rizatriptan) and/or an NSAID (e.g. meloxicam) in combination with a cyclodextrin and/or a carbonate or a bicarbonate. These compositions may be orally administered, for example, to improve the bioavailability, solubility, or pharmacokinetics of the drug for the treatment of conditions such as pain.
US10471013B2
The present disclosure disclosed a microsphere-producing process involving three integrated unit operations, 1) microspheres formation; 2) microsphere quality control; 3) post formation microsphere treatment. The first unit operation, i.e. unit operation 1) is integrated with four essential functions: forcing the particle forming materials to pass through a porous membrane to form embryonic micropsheres; enforcing the embryonic microspheres to detach the porous membrane; solidifying the embryonic microspheres; collecting and outputting the solidified microspheres. The quality control unit operation consists discrimination and ejection of oversized microspheres. The post treatment unit operation is integrated with two essential functions, smoothing the microsphere surfaces and reducing organic solvents trapped inside of microsphere matrix.
US10471005B2
Present invention relates to a low dose pharmaceutical composition, preferably oral composition comprising therapeutically effective amount of [(2-hydroxy-4-oxo-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-4H,5H-10-thia-1,4a-diaza-benzo[a]azulene-3-carbonyl)-amino]-acetic acid (compound A) in the range of 2.5 mg to 60 mg. Present invention also relates to a method of treating inflammatory bowel disease in a mammal by administrating said low dose pharmaceutical composition. Further, present invention relates to a use of the compound A for the preparation of low dose pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease in a mammal.
US10471000B2
The present disclosure provides a method for preparing an anti-wrinkle functional cosmetic substance comprising cutting herbal materials comprising Angelica gigas root, Rehmannia glutinosa root, a paeonia albiflora root, Mentha arvensis, Angelica dahurica root, Scrophularia buergeriana, Rheum undulatum root/stalk/stem, Sanguisorba officinalis root, and Cinnamomum cassia bark into pieces, putting a mixture of the herbal material pieces, talc, a pearl powder, deep ocean water into an extractor, sterilizing the mixture, then fermenting the mixture by mixed lactobacillales strain, and then hot-water extracting the mixture into a solid, freeze-drying the extracted solid into a freeze-dried powder, and dissolving and high-speed mixing the freeze-dried powder, adenosine, and borax in a beeswax, a perilla oil, an Olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, and a Helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil heated and Chamaecyparis obtusa water heated.
US10470998B2
An anhydrous personal care composition, comprising: (a) 45 to 60 weight % of at least one ester, selected from (i) triglycerides, (ii) diglycerides, (iii) monoglycerides, (iv) monoesters of diols, and (v) diesters of diols; (b) a first wax having a melting point of from 35° C. to 72° C. present in an amount of 5 to 25 weight %; (c) a second wax having a melting point of 73 to 90 C present in an amount of 1 to 10 weight %; and (d) at least one plant oil having a saponification value of from 150 to 275 mg KOH/g present in an amount of 5 to 35 weight.
US10470997B2
The present invention relates to a liquid cosmetic composition for making up and/or caring for the skin and/or the lips, comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, —at least one non volatile oil, —at least hydrophobic silica aerogel particles, —at least one wax with a melting point of greater than or equal to 60° C., —the said composition comprising less than 5% by weight of water relative to the total weight of the composition, and preferably being anhydrous.
US10470991B2
The present invention relates to novel selective 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) inhibitors and the use thereof to prevent age-induced skin structure and function defects.
US10470989B2
The present invention has an object to develop a surface-treated powder which shows both of smooth touch during application and good compatibility with skin, and to provide a cosmetic preparation which shows smooth touch during application as well as good compatibility with skin, and is excellent in cosmetic-film uniformity and in cosmetic retentivity by incorporating the treated powder into the cosmetic preparation. The powder for cosmetic preparation resolving the problem is characterized by being surface-treated with theanine.
US10470985B2
Disclosed are methods of treating and protecting teeth against erosion by use of oral compositions comprising polymeric mineral surface active agents, metal ions such as stannous and zinc and combinations thereof. The present methods provide improved resistance of teeth to erosive demineralization or dissolution and prevention of tooth damage by subsequent exposure of teeth to erosive chemicals such as acidic foods and beverages.
US10470982B2
Provided herein is a curable silicone composition that has high optical transparency after being cured and that is in a putty form to be hand-mixable. A curable silicone composition contains: a specific organopolysiloxane as a component (1); a specific organohydrogenpolysiloxane as a component (2); a filler as a component (3); and a catalyst as a component (4). The difference between the refractive index of one of the components (1) to (3) that has the highest refractive index and the refractive index of one of the components (1) to (3) that has the lowest refractive index is 0.1000 or less. The complex viscosity of any of constituent compositions of the curable silicon composition before the curable silicone composition is cured is 10 Pa·s to 100000 Pa·s, as measured under predetermined measurement condition.
US10470978B2
A pacifier weaning apparatus is provided that includes a shell or shell assembly providing a housing, and a nipple configured to protrude from the housing. The nipple includes a first end adapted to be held by the housing, and an opposing, sucking end adapted for insertion into a user's mouth. The nipple also defines a first chamber and an expandable, second chamber that are both open at the first end and extend in a direction from the first end to the sucking end, and the first chamber being open and the second chamber being closed at the sucking end. And the pacifier weaning apparatus includes an airflow-control component configured to regulate either or both a break pressure at or above which airflow through the first chamber is permitted, or a rate of airflow through the first chamber.
US10470975B2
A tamperproof dosage form for oral administration comprising: a caplet comprising first and second ends, a middle region extending between said first and second ends, parallel and oppositely disposed top and bottom faces, and a land interposed between the top and bottom faces and extending along a perimeter of the caplet on a plane parallel to a caplet length axis; and first and second shells, each comprising an open end and a closed dome-shaped end, each fitted over at least a portion of the caplet, the portion comprising at least the first and/or second ends of the caplet and at least part of the middle region. An adhesive substance being arranged between the caplet and the shells at least over a portion of the top and/or bottom faces proximal to the first and second ends of the caplet and a corresponding portion of an inner surface of the closed dome-shaped end of the shells to fixedly join the shells to the caplet.
US10470970B2
An adapter assembly for use with a reciprocating treatment device that includes a main body portion having at least a first top male attachment member or a first top female attachment member on a top thereof and at least first and second bottom male attachment members or first and second bottom female attachment members on a bottom thereof.
US10470964B2
A body-weight support system is disclosed, including an improved lift system and method. The system enables not only the support of patients undergoing rehab therapies, but including exercise modes that are both customizable and dynamic in nature, as well as a track system, wherein the system is capable of providing alternative functionality at differing locations. Other features disclosed include a system by which a movable support unit tracks or follows a patient, adjustable and variable supportive forces for users based upon, for example, a percentage of sensed body weight, and a user-interface that may be employed in a mobile, wired or wireless manner and will allow the use of multiple lift systems on a single, looped track system.
US10470948B2
An absorbent article, preferably a disposable absorbent article such as a diaper, is disclosed having an absorbent core which imparts increased wearing comfort to the article and makes it thin and dry. The absorbent core useful for an absorbent article comprises a substrate layer, a discontinuous layer of absorbent material, and a layer of thermoplastic material. A second surface of the discontinuous layer of absorbent material is in at least partial contact with a first surface of the substrate layer. Portions of a second surface of the layer of thermoplastic material are in direct contact with the first surface of the substrate layer and portions of said second surface of the layer of thermoplastic material are in direct contact with a first surface of the discontinuous layer of absorbent material. A process for providing a storage layer for an absorbent core useful in an absorbent article is further disclosed.
US10470947B2
An absorbent article having improved handling of body exudates. The absorbent article can minimize the amount of body exudates in contact with a wearer's skin and can minimize the incidence of leakage of body exudates from the absorbent article.
US10470946B2
A top sheet of a disposable diaper includes projections and depressions. The projection and the depression extend in the front-back direction, and are arranged alternately in the width direction. The top sheet includes a first region disposed at least in the rear waistline region and a second region disposed at least in a crotch region. A height of the first projection is higher than a height of the second projection. A first depression is provided with a widthwise projection configured to divide a space in a first depression extending in a front-back direction. A pitch of the first projection in the width direction is larger than a pitch of the second projection in the width direction.
US10470939B2
A prefastened, refastenable pant and methods and apparatus for preparing the same are provided. The pant comprises a chassis having a leading and trailing edge, and first and second lateral edges, wherein the chassis is folded-over along a transverse fold line orthogonal to the first and second lateral edges of the chassis. A pair of first side panels may be attached to the chassis proximal one of the leading and trailing edge of the chassis, each comprising a first fastening component. A pair of second side panels may be attached to the chassis proximal another of the leading and trailing edge of the chassis, each comprising a second fastening component. Each of the pair of first side panels is detachably secured to the chassis and the first fastening components and second fastening components are refastenably engaged between the first and second lateral edges of the chassis.
US10470938B2
A process for forming an absorbent sanitary article includes feeding a first web including first and second stretches each having front and rear end portions; feeding a second web for forming a first side panel of the article; feeding a third web for forming a second side panel of the article; cutting the second web into a succession of first and second pieces defining the first side panel of the article; cutting the third web in a succession of third and fourth pieces, defining the second side panel of the article; applying the first through fourth pieces to the first web; the first and second stretches being provided in the first web so each first stretch has the rear end portion upstream of the front end portion in a feed direction and each second stretch has the front end portion upstream of the rear end portion.
US10470934B2
A wound closure device and a method of its use are disclosed. The wound closure device comprises a wound closure strip, the wound closure strip comprising a wound-facing side and a top side, the wound-facing side comprises an adhesive applied over at least a portion of the wound facing side of the wound closure strip and a non-symmetric, two-part release liner assembly detachably adhered to the adhesive, the release liner assembly comprising a first section and a second section with the second section comprising a wound closure strip-free portion forming a tab.
US10470932B2
Systems and methods here may be used to support a laser eye surgery device, including a base assembly mounted to an optical scanning assembly via, a horizontal x axis bearing, a horizontal y axis bearing, and a vertical z axis bearing, mounted on the base assembly, configured to limit movement of the optical scanning assembly in an x axis, y axis and z axis respectively, relative to the base assembly, a vertical z axis spring, configured to counteract the forces of gravity on the optical scanning assembly in the z axis, and, mirrors mounted on the base assembly and positioned to reflect an energy beam into the optical scanning assembly no matter where the optical scanning assembly is located on the x axis bearing, the y axis bearing and the z axis bearing.
US10470928B2
An inserter for treating glaucoma can comprise a housing, a needle, a plunger, a slider component, and a drive component. The drive component is disposed within a cavity of the housing and rotatable within the cavity to result in movement along a longitudinal axis of the inserter to the needle and the plunger upon rotation of the drive component. The slider component is coupled to the housing and slidable along an elongate groove of the drive component such that movement of the slider component along the axis rotates the drive component within the housing.
US10470925B2
A method may include accessing a terminal branch of an ophthalmic artery through a face of a subject. Additionally, the method may include positioning a device within the ophthalmic artery of the subject and treating at least one of a blockage, a stenosis, a lesion, plaque or other physiology in at least one of the ophthalmic artery or a junction between an internal carotid artery and the ophthalmic artery.
US10470917B2
A multilayer film including an odor barrier layer having sound dampening properties is provided. The odor barrier layer is formed from a polyamide modified with a functionalized vinyl-bond rich triblock copolymer.
US10470913B2
A customizable ankle-foot orthotic. The orthotic including an ankle brace for installation around a wearer's ankle, the ankle brace including a first wing, a second wing, and a third wing anchored at a point between the first wing and the second wing, the second and third wings independently configurable to couple to a portion of the first wing to enable the wearer to customize the fit; a tension adjustment assembly including one or more strap loops; and an elastic strap operably linking the ankle brace to a wearer's shoe for applying an upward resistive force to the wearer's shoe to prevent inadvertent downward movement of a wearer's foot, the elastic strap threadable through the one or more strap loops such that the elastic strap wraps around the exterior face of the ankle brace and extends at a downward angle to engage the wearer's shoe.
US10470912B2
A method for manufacturing a custom wearable medical device, such as an orthosis (e.g., an ankle brace, etc.), includes use of scanning processes. A digital model of a surface may be generated from data corresponding to a body part for which the customer wearable medical device is to be fabricated, and then applied to a digital device model to define a custom digital device model. The digital device model and, thus, the custom digital device model may include one or more standard features. The custom digital device model may be used with an automated manufacturing process to make some or all of the custom wearable medical device. In some embodiments, additive manufacturing processes may be used to form a portion or all of the custom wearable medical device.
US10470904B2
A braided stent having a plurality of retrieval and/or repositioning levers includes a stent body formed of a plurality of wires interbraided in a braided pattern. The repositioning and/or retrieval levers have a loop portion extending radially away from the stent body and first and second legs extending along the stent body. The levers are configured to be actuated radially inward toward the central longitudinal axis of the stent by a radially inwardly directed force to radially collapse the stent.
US10470901B2
A human exoskeleton is provided and includes a power source. The human exoskeleton also includes a controller configured to activate power between the exoskeleton and the power source. The human exoskeleton further includes a power disconnect mechanism electronically connected to the controller and configured to disconnect power between the exoskeleton and the battery when activated, the power disconnect mechanism physically in contact with a wearer of the human exoskeleton.
US10470900B2
A distraction kit including at least one trial insert, at least one handle for coupling to the at least one trial insert, a correction indication guide, and at least one implant. A method for performing a distraction arthrodesis including inserting at least one trial insert into a joint and selecting a trial insert of the at least one trial insert for correction of the joint in a first plane. The method also including rotating the selected trial insert in a medial-lateral direction for correction of the joint in a second plane and selecting the needed correction in the first plane and the second plane. The method further including marking at least one bone for the selected correction. Then, marking the implant with the correction indication guide to achieve proper placement of the implant and joint correction replication from the desired trial positioning. Implants, devices, and systems are also disclosed.
US10470899B2
An orthopaedic joint replacement system is shown and described. The system includes a number of prosthetic components configured to be implanted into a patient's knee. The system also includes a number of surgical instruments configured for use in preparing the bones of the patient's knee to receive the implants. A method or technique for using the surgical instruments to prepare the bones is also disclosed.
US10470896B2
A surgical inserter includes a shaft, a lever, a bolt, and a locking mechanism. The shaft includes a shaft body and an engaging head. An end of the lever is adjacent to an inner side of the engaging head. The bolt is mounted on the end of the lever and passes through the engaging head to connect a medical device. The locking mechanism is movably disposed on the other end of the shaft body for selectively locking or releasing angular movement of the lever relative to the shaft body. When the lever is bending relative to the shaft body, the end of the lever pries the bolt, so that the medical device is driven by the bolt to abut against an outer side of the engaging head tightly.
US10470892B2
Disclosed is a bone fusion cage that contains bone graft and is implanted between bones in a skeletal system. The cage bears structural loads that are transmitted through the bones of the skeletal system and at least partially shields the contained bone graft from the structural loads. The cage is configured to provide a secondary load to the bone graft independent of the structural load to promote fusion of the bone graft to adjacent bones.
US10470884B2
A catheter member for interacting with a circumferential tissue structure includes: an elongate primary catheter having at least one inner lumen and extending along a longitudinal axis; first and second elongate secondary catheters, each having an inner lumen, and each positionable in an inner lumen of the primary catheter to be moveable relatively thereto and exposable therefrom; and a first flexing mechanism to provide a distal end portion of the first and/or second secondary catheter with a tendency to assume a first secondary bent shape. The distal end portion of the first and/or second secondary catheters is provided so as to be able to be flexed by the first flexing mechanism to form an arm portion substantially transverse to the direction of the longitudinal axis of the primary catheter so as to assume the first secondary bent shape when exposed from a distal end portion of the primary catheter.
US10470881B2
A prosthetic mitral valve includes an anchor assembly, a strut frame, and a plurality of replacement leaflets secured to the annular strut frame. The anchor assembly includes a ventricular anchor, an atrial anchor, and a central portion therebetween. The ventricular anchor and the atrial anchor are configured to flare radially outwards relative to the central portion. The annular strut frame is disposed radially within the anchor assembly and is attached to the anchor assembly. The central portion is configured to align with a native valve orifice and the ventricular anchor and the atrial anchor are configured to compress native cardiac tissue therebetween.
US10470879B2
A heart valve bioprosthesis (100) and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The heart valve bioprosthesis (100) comprises: a support frame (1), valve leaflets (2) and a valve auxiliary structure. The valve leaflets (2) are connected to the valve auxiliary structure, the valve auxiliary structure is connected to the support frame (1). Both the valve leaflets (2) and the valve auxiliary structure are made of biological tissues. The support frame (1) is formed as a single component with an elastic material, and the valve auxiliary structure is preset with suturing marks. The heart valve bioprosthesis improves the biocompatibility with the human body, reduces the total height of the valve, shortens the suturing time, and decreases the possibility of thrombus or bacterial attachment thereto. In addition, the heart valve bioprosthesis is made by a simple process, exhibit excellent compliance with the cardiac tissue, and has a prolonged service life.
US10470876B2
Embodiments of prosthetic valves for implantation within a native mitral valve are provided. A prosthetic valve may comprise a radially compressible main body and a one-way valve portion. The prosthetic valve may further comprise one or more ventricular anchors coupled to the main body and disposed outside of the main body. The ventricular anchors may be configured such that a reduced profile of the prosthetic valve is possible. A space may be provided between an outer surface of the main body and the ventricular anchors for receiving native mitral valve leaflets. The prosthetic valve may include an atrial sealing member adapted for placement above the annulus of the mitral valve. Methods and devices for receiving the native mitral valve leaflets between the ventricular anchors and the main body are described.
US10470873B2
An intraocular lens 1 includes a lens 2 and a haptic 3 connected to the lens 2. The lens 2 is disposed behind an iris 7 in an eye of a patient. The haptic 3 has a main body 3a and first and second projections 3d and 3e. The main body 3a extends from the lens 2 outward in a radial direction about a visual axis C of the patient. The first and second projections 3d and 3e are located so as to project from the main body 3a toward spaces between a plurality of ciliary zonules 10 connecting a crystalline lens 11 and a ciliary body 8 in the eye. Accordingly, an intraocular lens and a haptic for an intraocular lens that are able to inhibit the position of a lens from being displaced are provided.
US10470862B2
A method and device for the diagnosis and treatment of pelvic floor prolapse is provided. The diagnosis and treatment may involve the use of a multiple sensor-enabled device for vaginal insertion capable of providing real-time data regarding the patient's physiology, the position and movement of the urethra, and the muscular strength of the patient's vagina and pelvic floor. The methods and devices of the invention may also be useful to addressing other medical issues, including urinary incontinence, sexual health, and fecal incontinence, as well as facilitate patient home wellness activities.
US10470856B2
Casting jigs, methods, and kits that may be used in manufacture of anatomical healing caps. A casting jig may include a body having one or more wells within the body, each well being open at a proximal end thereof and having a negative shape corresponding to an anatomical healing cuff body of a given tooth position. The casting jig includes an opening through the bottom surface through which an elongate handle may be inserted, allowing a temporary abutment to be coupled into the distal end of the elongate handle, so that the abutment is disposed in the well, held in place by the handle, as it is used as a core about which the anatomical healing cuff body is formed. A crown forming jig for forming an inexpensive, chair-side prepared bis-acrylic temporary crown that may be easily and quickly installed over the anatomical healing cuff body is also disclosed.
US10470837B2
Devices and methods for treating rhinitis are described where the devices are configured to ablate a single nerve branch or multiple nerve branches of the posterior nasal nerves located within the nasal cavity. A surgical probe may be inserted into the sub-mucosal space of a lateral nasal wall and advanced towards a posterior nasal nerve associated with a middle nasal turbinate or an inferior nasal turbinate into a position proximate to the posterior nasal nerve where neuroablation of the posterior nasal nerve may be performed with the surgical probe. The probe device may utilize a visible light beacon that provides trans-illumination of the sub-mucosal tissue or an expandable structure disposed in the vicinity of the distal end of the probe shaft to enable the surgeon to visualize the sub-mucosal position of the distal end of the surgical probe from inside the nasal cavity using, e.g., an endoscope.
US10470832B1
An elastomeric glove having formed integral removal engagement finger tabs for gripping removal without exposing wearer to contaminated glove surfaces. Engagement finger tabs are formed within the glove defining raised exterior surface engagement bands when grasped for assured grasping grip for proper safe glove removal in accordance with accepted glove removal standards.
US10470829B2
An indicator mechanism for a surgical instrument includes an aperture fixed to a base. An indicator body is rotatably supported by the base. The indicator body includes features for engaging a motor that rotates the indicator body. A visual indicator, visible through the aperture, is coupled to the indicator body. A detent mechanism holds the indicator body in one of two positions. A first of the two positions provides a visual indication that the surgical instrument is in service and a second of the two positions provides a visual indication that the surgical instrument is expired. A controller may track use events for a surgical instrument to determine expiration. Use events may include operations and conditions in addition to those that occur in the surgical instrument. When the use events tracked by the controller indicate expiration, the controller may rotate a motor to set the visual indication to expired.
US10470826B2
Transducer-based systems can be configured to display a graphical representation of a transducer-based device, the graphical representation including graphical elements corresponding to transducers of the transducer-based device, and also including between graphical elements respectively associated with a set of the transducers and respectively associated with a region of space between the transducers of the transducer-based device. Selection of graphical elements and/or between graphical elements can cause activation of the set of transducers associated with the selected elements. Selection of a plurality of graphical elements and/or between graphical elements can cause visual display of a corresponding activation path in the graphical representation. Visual characteristics of graphical elements and between graphical elements can change based on an activation-status of the corresponding transducers. Activation requests for a set of transducers can be denied if it is determined that a transducer in the set of transducers is unacceptable for activation.
US10470824B2
A system (102) includes an interventional instrument (104) and an imaging apparatus (106). The interventional instrument includes an interventional instrument event tracking transmitter (116) that transmits an interventional instrument event signal in response to a predetermined interventional instrument event by interventional instrument in connection with an interventional procedure for a region of interest of a subject. The imaging apparatus (106) includes an imager (132) that generates image of the region of interest of the subject. The imaging apparatus (106) further includes a receiver (126) that receives the interventional instrument event signal. The imaging apparatus (106) further includes an instrument event mapper (128) that maps the predetermined interventional instrument event to the image based on the received interventional instrument event signal.
US10470820B2
A laser fiber, is modified to have a tip that has a length that is predetermined to ensure that the tip remains viable throughout a given procedure type, despite the presence of burn-back. The extended tip is defined by stripping back the jacket of the laser fiber over the pre-determined length starting at the distal end of the fiber. The stripped portion of the fiber is then dip-coated with a layer of polymeric coating such as an acrylate. A visual indicator can be printed onto the extended tip to aid in the use of the extended fiber. A self-aligning stability sheath is provided to make insertion easier in certain types of endoscopes. The laser fiber with extended tip can be pre-inserted into the sheath and sold as a pre-prepared kit for ease of use and protection of the fiber.
US10470803B2
A flexible implant system includes a flexible implant, an implant housing, and an implant set screw. The flexible implant is configured to loop around a portion of a bony element. The implant housing includes a housing body defining a rod passage configured to receive a rod. The housing body also defines an implant passage that receives a portion of the flexible implant. The implant set screw engages the flexible implant within the implant passage to fix the flexible implant to the implant housing.
US10470797B1
A system for accessing arterial vasculature from a venous insertion site includes a first elongate tubular member, a second elongate tubular member configured to be disposed within a lumen of the first elongate tubular member, an elongate crossing member including a distal tip comprising a frusto-conical outer surface, and configured to be disposed within a first lumen of the second elongate tubular member, and a stylet configured to be disposed within a lumen of the elongate crossing member, wherein placement of the second elongate tubular member, elongate crossing member, and stylet together through the lumen of the first elongate tubular member does not substantially straighten a curved distal portion of the first elongate tubular member, and wherein the elongate crossing member and stylet are removable from the first lumen of the second elongate tubular member when it is within the lumen of the first elongate tubular member with at least its distal end extending out of the first elongate tubular member.
US10470796B2
A cannula is provided that includes a head portion that defines a proximal opening sized to receive one or more surgical instruments; an elongated inner tube rigidly fastened to the head portion defines an elongated conduit; a surgical instrument can be inserted within the conduit; an elongated overtube rigidly fastened to the head portion is coaxially aligned with the inner tube and extends about a portion of the inner tube; an inner wall of the overtube is spaced apart from an outer wall of the inner tube; sensors are disposed on the overtube to provide an indication of forces applied to the outer wall of the overtube in a direction generally transverse to the longitudinal dimension of the overtube.
US10470793B2
Medical devices for rotating an elongate medical instrument can be used to remove, break up, clear, and/or eliminate obstructions within a lumen. Some medical devices for rotating an elongate medical instrument may include a coupling member for coupling the medical device to a secondary medical device. Some medical devices may include a flared distal region and some medical devices may include an elongate housing that is disposed around a portion of the distal region.
US10470776B2
A device for fastening tissue includes (a) a shaft extending longitudinally from a distal end insertable into a body to a proximal end attached to a controller which remains outside of the body, the shaft including a lumen extending therethrough and an opening extending through a wall of a distal portion thereof to open the lumen to an exterior of the shaft; (b) a first roller housed within the lumen adjacent to a first longitudinal edge of the opening such that a rotation of the first roller grasps and draws tissue from the body into the lumen in combination; and (c) a fastening element housed within the lumen adjacent to the opening and movable from a tissue receiving configuration to a tissue gripping configuration.
US10470768B2
A fastener cartridge including a cartridge body and a layer mounted to said cartridge body is disclosed. The cartridge body can include projections extending therefrom and the layer can include apertures which correspond to the projections. The projections and the apertures can form a releasable interference fit therebetween to secure the layer to the cartridge body.
US10470765B2
Surgical clip appliers are provided and include a housing; at least one handle pivotably connected to the housing; a channel assembly extending distally from the housing; a clip carrier disposed within the channel assembly and defining a channel and a plurality of windows therein; and a plurality of clips slidably disposed within the channel of the clip carrier. The surgical clip appliers further include a drive channel reciprocally disposed within at least one of the housing and the channel assembly; a wedge plate reciprocally disposed within the channel assembly; a pusher bar reciprocally positioned within the housing and the channel assembly; and a motion multiplier system having a plurality of linkage members configured to distally move the pusher bar by an incremental amount upon an initial actuation of the handles, and configured to proximally move the pusher bar and the wedge plate subsequent to the initial actuation of the handles.
US10470763B2
A surgical instrument system comprising an end effector, a staple cartridge, a cutting member, an electric motor, a sensing system, and a control system is disclosed. The end effector comprises a proximal portion, a distal end, a first iaw, and a second iaw movable relative to the first iaw to clamp tissue between the first and second iaw. The cutting member is configured to move within a longitudinal channel of the staple cartridge. The electric motor is couplable to the cutting member and configured to drive the cutting member. The sensing system comprises a plurality of sensing circuits. Each sensing circuit comprises first and second sensing elements positioned adjacent the longitudinal channel. The control system is configured to determine impedances of the tissue at multiple locations along a staple line as the cutting member progresses distally within the longitudinal channel and automatically control a speed of the electric motor.
US10470762B2
A multi-function motor. The multi-function motor can operate in different operating states to perform different functions. For example, the motor can advance a firing element during a first operating state, retract the firing element during a second operating state, and generate amplified haptic feedback during a third operating state. The electric motor can rotate in a first direction to advance the firing element, can rotate in a second direction to retract the firing element, and can oscillate between the first direction and the second direction to generate the amplified haptic feedback. A resonator can be secured to the motor. The center of mass of the resonator can be balanced with respect to the axis of rotation of the resonator. Further, the resonator can comprise a natural frequency, and can oscillate within a range of amplifying frequencies inclusive of the natural frequency during the third operating state.
US10470760B2
Tissue securement fibers of reduced cross sectional area and methods of making them are disclosed. The fibers comprising reduced cross sectional areas provide higher degrees of flexibility by providing discrete bending zones most useful in applications when the fiber is bent at an included angle less than 180°, more particularly when the included angle is less than 90°.
US10470759B2
Some disclosed suture securement devices comprise a flat, thin, generally planar body that has one or more suture engagement slots extending into the body from a perimeter inlet for receiving sutures laterally into the device. The slots can be resiliently widened to receive a suture and then released to clamp onto the suture. Some embodiments include two or more such suture engagement slots that independently receive and secure different sutures. Some embodiments include one or more locking tabs that have a closed position that retains the slots against widening and blocks the inlet to the slot. In some embodiment two or more slots are position next to each other on the same side of the device, while in other embodiments slots are positioned on opposite sides of the device. Other types of suture securement devices are also disclosed.
US10470757B2
An apparatus for passing one or more sutures in tissue repair and/or other surgical procedures. The apparatus includes a pair of jaws mounted on a distal end of a shaft, a hand assembly mounted on a proximal end of the shaft, and a curved needle mounted on the hand assembly and through a shaft. The curved needle remains within the jaw assembly and can be actuated out of the jaw assembly without deformation of the needle and by linear advancement of a needle linkage.
US10470756B2
Suture anchors and associated methods are disclosed having suture securing features able to lock suture ends extending from a body tissue, such as from a bone tunnel.
US10470752B2
The present invention provides a compression and distraction shaft assembly used to apply compression and distraction to bones including vertebrae. Shaft A assembly and shaft B assembly are attached together via a polyaxial fulcrum. The polyaxial fulcrum allows all rotational degrees of freedom between shaft A assembly and shaft B assembly. Such fulcrum, during compression and distraction, does not impart ancillary stresses or motion to vertebrae. An hourglass-shaped bore for engaging pliers is formed in approximately middle of both the shaft A assembly and the shaft B assembly. Distraction pliers having cylindrical tips are used to apply distraction to vertebrae. Once handles are pressed to impart an appropriate amount of distraction to the vertebrae, they are locked in this position. Compression pliers having cylindrical tips are used to apply compression to vertebrae. Once handles are pressed to impart an appropriate amount of compression to the vertebrae, they are locked in this position.
US10470747B2
An ultrasonic imaging apparatus and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes: a user interface to receive an input signal of a user and a power-supply unit. The power-supply unit includes a plurality of power-supply groups to provide power-supply signals for respectively driving a plurality of elements, and a power-supply processor to search for power data corresponding to the received input signal from among predetermined power data and to adjust power-supply signals applied to respective elements corresponding to the plurality of power-supply groups according to the searched power data.
US10470744B2
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and method capable of efficiently measuring the volume of an object is provided. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire ultrasound image data regarding a object including a target bone which is to be diagnosed, and an image processing unit configured to acquire first information about at least one selected from a location of the target bone within an ultrasound image and a length of the target bone, based on volume data included in the ultrasound image data, acquire a boundary surface of a soft tissue that is adjacent to the target bone, based on the first information, and automatically acquire a volume of an interior of the boundary surface of the soft tissue.
US10470731B2
A system and method includes detection of a trigger event, automatic injection, in response to detecting the trigger event, of a bolus of contrast medium into a patient volume after expiration of a predetermined injection delay period, automatic acquisition, in response to detecting the trigger event, of a plurality of images after expiration of a predetermined imaging delay period, where two or more of the plurality of images comprise an image of the bolus at respective different locations within vasculature of the patient volume, generation of a composite image based on the plurality of images, the composite image including a representation of the vasculature of the patient volume, and display of the composite image.
US10470729B2
A carrying device is disclosed for a retaining device for an X-ray tube assembly and an X-ray detector of an X-ray system. The carrying device includes a suspension device; a first carrier element arranged on the suspension device; a second carrier element; a first connecting element, the second carrier element being connected to the first carrier element via the first connecting element; a third carrier element connectable to the retaining device; and a second connecting element, the third carrier element being connected to the second carrier element via the second connecting element. In an embodiment, the first connecting element and/or the second connecting element include a revolute joint. Further, the distance between the suspension device and the first connecting element is variable via the first carrier element, and the distance between the first connecting element and the second connecting element is variable via the second carrier element.
US10470719B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for probabilistically estimating an individual's sleep stage based on spectral analyses of pulse rate and motion data. In one implementation, the method may include receiving signals from sensors worn by the individual, the signals including a photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal and an accelerometer signal; dividing the PPG signal into segments; determining a beat interval associated with each segment; resampling the set of beat intervals to generate an interval signal; and generating signal features based on the interval signal and the accelerometer signal, including a spectrogram of the interval signal. The method may further include determining a sleep stage for the individual by comparing the signal features to a sleep stage classifier included in a learning library. The sleep stage classifier may include one or more functions defining a likelihood that the individual is in the sleep stage based on the signal features.
US10470717B2
Various embodiments identify valid arterial pulses of a subject. The method may include accessing one or more measured pulses from one or more arterial measurement sensors. The processor may identify one or more valid pulses from the one or more measured pulses based on a comparison of one or more pulse characteristics of the one or more measured pulses to one or more reference pulses. The one or more pulse characteristics are determined based on the one or more measured pulses and a wavelet transform. The wavelet transform is determined based on the one or more reference pulses.
US10470708B2
A headphone (3, 4) comprises a body (5) forming a chamber (26) for enclosing an ear of a user of the headphone (3, 4). The body (5) has an acoustic seal (7) of a flexible material surrounding the chamber (26), and the body (5) has a cushion (8) extending around the acoustic seal (7) and separate from the acoustic seal (7). The cushion (8) has a first side face (38) for engaging with the head of the user.
US10470707B2
The present invention involves systems and related methods for performing percutaneous pedicle integrity assessments involving the use of neurophysiology.
US10470706B2
The present invention is a Miniature Vein Enhancer that includes a Miniature Projection Head. The Miniature Projection Head may be operated in one of three modes, AFM, DBM, and RTM. The Miniature Projection Head of the present invention projects an image of the veins of a patient, which aids the practitioner in pinpointing a vein for an intravenous drip, blood test, and the like. The Miniature projection head may have a cavity for a power source or it may have a power source located in a body portion of the Miniature Vein Enhancer. The Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to one of several improved needle protectors, or the Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to a body similar to a flashlight for hand held use. The Miniature Vein Enhancer of the present invention may also be attached to a magnifying glass, a flat panel display, and the like.
US10470702B2
A system for assigning zone rankings to a patient. The system includes a processor, at least one database, and a computer readable medium in communication with the at least one database and comprising one or more instructions that, when executed, can cause the processor to receive at least one physiological signal from a medical monitoring device that is worn by a patient; assign a normal zone ranking to the patient based upon historical patient data stored on the at least one database; determine one or more metrics from the at least one physiological signal of the patient; assign a first zone ranking to the patient based upon the one or more metrics, the first zone ranking selected from a plurality of abnormal zone rankings stored on the at least one database; determine one or more actions to initiate based upon the assigned first zone ranking; and initiate the one or more determined actions.
US10470697B2
The present disclosure provides a wakefulness determination method for accurately determining wakefulness. The wakefulness determination method uses a respiration sensor that obtains respiratory data about respiration of a seated occupant, a calculation unit that calculates the respiratory data obtained from the respiration sensor, and a controller including a determination unit that determines a state of the seated occupant. The wakefulness determination method includes: obtaining, by the respiration sensor, respiratory data of the seated occupant; calculating, by the calculation unit, a degree of change in respiration from the obtained respiratory data; and determining, by the determination unit, wakefulness of the seated occupant by using a Bayesian filter where a probability of occurrence of drowsiness in the seated occupant for the degree of change in respiration is taken as a likelihood and the likelihood is multiplied by a prior probability of occurrence of drowsiness.
US10470695B2
A non-invasive, optical-based physiological monitoring system is disclosed. One embodiment includes an emitter configured to emit light. A diffuser is configured to receive and spread the emitted light, and to emit the spread light at a tissue measurement site. The system further includes a concentrator configured to receive the spread light after it has been attenuated by or reflected from the tissue measurement site. The concentrator is also configured to collect and concentrate the received light and to emit the concentrated light to a detector. The detector is configured to detect the concentrated light and to transmit a signal representative of the detected light. A processor is configured to receive the transmitted signal and to determine a physiological parameter, such as, for example, arterial oxygen saturation, in the tissue measurement site.
US10470687B2
Systems and methods for tracking a surgical tool. Exemplary embodiments can comprise a surgical port, a tracking element configured for coupling to a surgical tool, and a camera mounted to a proximal end of the surgical port and configured to capture image data associated with the tracking element.
US10470686B2
A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system (100) including a housing (102) having first and second openings (110, 116), and first and second solenoid coils (160, 150), the first and second solenoid coils (160, 150) generate a magnetic field suitable for imaging within a region of interest (ROI). The first and second solenoid coils (160, 150) have a common longitudinal axis (LA). The first and second openings (110, 116) are situated on opposite sides of the housing (102) along the longitudinal axis (LA). The first solenoid coil (160) has a different inside diameter than the second solenoid coil (150) and is positioned adjacent the first opening (110). The second solenoid coil (150) is positioned adjacent the second opening (116). Accordingly, the system provides improved access to the patent during imaging, e.g. for MR guided interventional procedures.
US10470684B2
A microsurgical tool is configured for monitoring, evaluating, mapping, and/or modulating electrophysiological activity in the vicinity of a lumen within a body. The microsurgical tool may be part of a system used in evaluating the sympathetic tone of a subject and/or neuromodulating an anatomical site in the vicinity of a lumen within a body. Such systems include a catheter system for controlled sympathectomy procedures and/or controlled micro ablation procedures. Such systems may be used in methods for performing a controlled surgical procedure, including performing controlled surgical procedures in a minimally invasive manner.
US10470682B2
A system for determining electrophysiological data comprising an electronic control unit configured to acquire electrophysiology signals from a plurality of electrodes (130) of one or more catheters, select at least one clique of electrodes from the plurality of electrodes (136) to determine a plurality of local E field data points, determine the location and orientation of the plurality of electrodes, process the electrophysiology signals from the at least one clique from a full set of bipole subcliques to derive the local E field data points associated with the at least one clique of electrodes, derive at least one orientation independent signal from the at least one clique of electrodes (138) from the information content corresponding to weighted parts of electrogram signals, and display or output catheter orientation independent electrophysiologic information to a user or process.
US10470681B2
A medical device, such as an extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), senses R-waves from a first cardiac electrical signal by a first sensing channel and stores a time segment of a second cardiac electrical signal acquired by a second sensing channel in response to each sensed R-wave. The medical device determines at least one noise parameter from a group of the stored time segments of the second cardiac electrical signal, detects noise based on the noise parameter, and withholds detection of a tachyarrhythmia episode in response to detecting the noise.
US10470679B2
This disclosure relates to a system and method to implement a performance test to help evaluate a patient's neurological and cognitive function. The performance test can be executed by the patient autonomously using a portable computing device, such as a tablet computer or smart phone. The portable computing device can be programmed to execute a set of modules configured to assess motor and cognitive performance, such as a manual function test module, a cognitive processing speed test module, and a movement assessment test module. The set of modules can also include a collection module to aggregate test data from the manual function test module, the cognitive processing speed test module, and the movement assessment test module.
US10470674B2
Technologies for a fabric acoustic sensor are disclosed. The fabric acoustic sensor includes a conductive thread and a non-conductive thread, which form a diaphragm that vibrates in response to a sound wave. As a result of the vibration, the conductive thread stretches, and a resistance of the conductive thread varies. The change in resistance is measured by a compute device, and the compute device may determine the sound wave based on the change in resistance. In some embodiments, the fabric acoustic sensor may be used to monitor a heart rate, locate an object, and/or provide an input for noise cancellation.
US10470665B2
An imaging apparatus is disclosed for diagnosis, which can automatically discriminate an optical refractive index of flushing liquid which is utilized during pull-back scanning, and reconstruct a blood vessel cross-sectional image having an appropriate scale. An intensity of reflected light in a medium having a known refractive index is obtained in advance. An intensity of the reflected light on a border surface between a catheter sheath unit and the flushing liquid is detected based on interference light data, which is obtained during the pull-back scanning. The refractive index of the flushing liquid is calculated based on the intensity of the reflected light, an intensity of incident light obtained from the stored reflected light, and a known refractive index of the catheter sheath unit.
US10470648B2
A combined tube set for a disposable water bottle for an endoscope includes a cap with threads suitable for attachment to various water bottles. The combined tube set provides a first tube set for rinsing that includes an air and water tubes, air/water connector, and anchor. The combined tube set also provides a second tube set for irrigation that includes an irrigation connector, backflow valve(s), and flexible tubing section.
US10470640B2
Disclosed herein is a dishwasher including a main body provided with an open hole and a washing tub; a door configured to open or close the open hole; a door opening/closing member configured to open or close the open hole; an air curtain disposed in the main body, to operate a fan such that ambient air is sucked and the sucked air is discharged; a detector configured to detect information of the fan; and a controller configured to diagnose the failure of the fan based on the detected information of the fan, to control an operation of the door opening/closing member such that the door is opened at a predetermined open time and an open time of the door is delayed when the fan is a failure state, and to control an operation of the fan when the fan is a normal state during a drying operation.
US10470635B2
The present invention relates to a device in the form of a suction nozzle (10) for an urban or industrial aspirator (1), preferably self-propelled, comprising a rigid hose or tube (1000), said rigid hose or tube comprising gripping means (100, 200, 300, 400) that comprise a first gripping element (110, 210, 310, 410) in the form of a handle, a support element (120, 220, 320, 420) serving as a lever, and a second gripping element (130, 230, 330, 430) and optionally a base (101, 201, 301, 401).
US10470632B2
A method for operating a suction-type cleaner, in which, in a manner controlled in the filter dedusting position by an electromagnetically actuated switchover valve arrangement (19, 20, 21), at least one filter (9), through which the dirt-laden air flow passes, is dedusted in the opposite direction to said air flow, and the dirt-laden suction air from the dirt-collecting container (1) firstly passes through the at least one filter (9) which is adjoined, in the flow direction, by a suction chamber (12), which is adjoined downstream by an intermediate chamber (26) which is arranged on the suction side of the turbine (30), and a pressure chamber (34) is arranged downstream of the turbine (30), wherein, in order to reduce the actuating force of the switchover valve arrangement (19, 20, 21) in the dedusting position of the suction-type cleaner, the pressure between the pressure chamber (34) and the intermediate chamber (26) is equalized.
US10470630B2
The invention relates to a vacuum cleaner robot comprising a suction device mounted on wheels and a power supply device mounted on wheels, where the suction device comprises a floor nozzle, a dust separator and a motorized fan unit for suctioning an air stream in through the floor nozzle, where the suction device comprises a drive device for driving at least one of the wheels of the suction device, and where the power supply device comprises a drive device for driving at least one of the wheels of the power supply device, where said power supply device is via a power supply cable connected to said suction device for supplying said suction device with power.
US10470629B2
An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arraigned to apply a cleaning fluid onto the surface and to thereafter collect the cleaning fluid up from the surface after it has been used to clean the surface. The robot chassis carries a supply of cleaning fluid and a waste container for storing waste materials collected up from the cleaning surface.
US10470620B2
A bathroom management apparatus includes a case including a air discharge port for the discharge of air, a discharge vane for opening and closing the air discharge port, and a hanger coupled to the case and including a hanger part, wherein a front end of the discharge vane is positioned behind and under the air discharge port when the air discharge port is opened, wherein the hanger part is positioned between a first tangential line and a first straight line, which define a predetermined angle with respect to each other, and wherein the predetermined angle is an angle between a second tangential line extending along a rear inner surface of the second air discharge port and a second straight line extending through a lower rear end of the second air discharge port and a front end of the opened discharge vane.
US10470601B2
A tea drink preparation method for preparing a cold tea drink by: using high temperature and high pressure brewing machine to brew a powdered tea so as to make a hot tea drink, and then using a beverage cooling device to cool down the hot tea drink so as to obtain a cold tea drink, and then using a vessel to take the cold tea drink for service. Thus, this method shortens the contact time between the hot tea drink and the air and reduces the risk of tea drink contamination, avoiding deterioration in color and flavor due to oxidation and maintaining good tea drink hygiene.
US10470598B1
The safety lid can be used on cups. The lid has an outer wall and a flat roof near the outer wall. A red line is placed on the lower outer wall and on the outer edge of the roof. The outer wall and a safety ring thereon will have at least one or more complementary dents/indents. The safety ring is L-shaped and fits closely about the outer wall and roof. In order to secure the safety lid, the ring is pressed downward onto the lid on the cup. The red line on the roof of the lid is covered by the short leg of the L-shaped safety ring and the red line on the lower outer wall is covered by a lower wall section of the safety ring. Locking flaps or triangles may also be included to engage the cup.
US10470597B2
A system for dispensing a flowable food product from a reservoir is provided. A wall of the reservoir defines an aperture therethrough allowing the flowable food product to exit the reservoir. The system includes a valve having a base member having a first passageway extending therethrough and a moving member having a second passageway extending therethrough, the moving member configured to slide relative to the base member between a closed position in which the first passageway and the second passageway do not overlap and an open position in which the first passageway and the second passageway overlap. When the moving member is in the open position, an axis extending through the first passageway and the second passageway extends through the aperture in the reservoir.
US10470585B2
An adjustable mode child rocker can be adjusted to provide a number of different swinging/rocking motions to a child positioned within the rocker. The child rocker can include a seat assembly that can include a seat upon which a child can sit. The child rocker can also include a trolley assembly that is directly or indirectly attached to the seat assembly and can include multiple wheels near the bottom of the trolley assembly. The child rocker can also include at least one stationary track and at least one adjustable track for the wheels to move along to provide the different rocking/swinging motions to the seat assembly. The adjustable track(s) is adjustable from at least a first position to a second position to change the distance between the troughs of the respective stationary and adjustable tracks along a longitudinal axis of the child rocker and thereby changing the rocking/swinging motion.
US10470582B2
A frame system that is adjustable in size and shape is provided with components that move in relation to each other. The frame system uses support rails, side rails, and a center rail to configure the different components to a desired shape and size. Each support rail includes a middle support piece and a pair of adjustable support pieces that move within the middle support piece. Each side rail includes a middle side piece and a pair of adjustable side pieces that move within the middle side piece. The center rail includes a middle center piece and connecting pieces that connect to a slot within each middle support piece. Legs mount the support rails and side rails while the center rail uses a leg piece.
US10470580B1
An all-terrain lounge chair. The lounge chair includes a plurality of legs and a pair of cross bars connecting the legs. The legs are formed such that they may meet at an apex. The apex defines a point that enters the ground. The chair further includes a flexible seat that is attached to the plurality of legs. The chair can be folded from an open position to a closed position.
US10470579B2
A seat, suitable for outdoor use, together with methods for preparing and using the same. The seat includes first and second structural members that can be pivotally coupled to each other at opposing first and second pivot points such that the first and second structural members can selectively rotate about and between open and closed positions. The seat also includes a seat covering positioned across at least a portion of the seating area between the first and second structural members such that the seat covering defines a continuous loop extending between the first and second structural members and wrapping around the top portions of the first and second structural members to define a seating surface.
US10470575B2
A folding chair comprising: a first structure including a pair of front legs and a backrest, a second structure including a pair of rear legs movable with respect to the first structure between an open position and a closed position, and a seat movable about an articulation axis between a lowered position and a raised position, wherein the seat comprises: a support frame pivoting about said articulation axis between a lowered position and a raised position, a seating element movable with respect to the support frame along a direction transverse with respect to said articulation axis, and at least one transmission mechanism configured to move the seating element along said direction between a first position corresponding to the lowered position of the support frame and a second position corresponding to the raised position of the support frame.
US10470572B1
A locking device for a slide rail includes a slide rail, a locking mechanism, and a driving mechanism. The slide rail has an outer rail and an inner rail, the inner rail being capable of moving to a retracted position and an extended position relative to the outer rail along opposite directions. The locking mechanism includes a slide member, a fastening member, and a stopping part formed on the slide member, the slide member being capable of moving to a fastening position and a released position along opposite directions. The driving mechanism includes a traction mechanism and a pull cord connecting the traction mechanism and the slide member. When the locking mechanism is in a locked state, the fastening member is obstructed by the stopping part, and when the locking mechanism is in an unlocked state, the stopping part does not obstruct the fastening member.
US10470569B2
A coupling mechanism adapted for a slide rail includes a first base, a second base, and an adjustment member. The slide rail includes a coupling base engaged with the first base. The second base is movably mounted on the first base. The adjustment member is configured for laterally displacing and thereby adjusting the second base with respect to the slide rail. More specifically, the adjustment member includes an adjusting portion, and one of the first base and the second base includes a transmission structure configured to work with the adjusting portion in order to convert a rotary movement of the adjustment member into a lateral displacement of the second base with respect to the slide rail.
US10470568B1
An adjustment mechanism includes an adjustment device. The adjustment device includes a first component, a second component, and an adjusting element. The first component includes a first feature. The adjusting element is arranged on the second component and includes a second feature. When the adjusting element is operated, the first feature and the second feature work with each other to longitudinally displace, and thereby adjust, the second component and the first component with respect to each other.
US10470558B2
A toothbrush including a main member that includes a handle portion, a neck portion and a head portion. At least one brush member, which forms at least part of the brush head along with the head portion and is movable relative to the head portion, is disposed in the head portion. The at least one brush member can be moved under the effect of a cleaning movement manually exerted on the teeth.
US10470556B1
Disclosed is a belt holder for a tape measure, including: a holder body mounted on the belt; a rotatable holding part having a clip-through hole through which the belt clip of the tape measure passes formed in a vertical direction and rotatably coupled to a front surface of the holder body in order to hold the tape measure by hanging the tape measure; a locking bracket having a locking jaw formed to prevent the belt clip from being removed from the clip-through hole of the rotatable holding part that is rotated with respect to the holder body and slidably provided in the holder body; and a restoring spring resiliently supporting the locking bracket so that the locking jaw of the locking bracket is positioned to prevent the belt clip from being removed.
US10470555B2
An apparatus for holding game-calling devices includes a strap having a first end and a second end. The apparatus is further comprised of a first fastener attached to the strap at the first end and configured to attach to a garment. The apparatus is further comprised of a second fastener attached to the strap at the second end and configured to attach to the garment. The apparatus also includes a plurality of clips attached to the straps between the first and second ends.
US10470554B2
A hydration system is provided. The hydration system includes a container configured to receive and maintain a quantity of liquid, a pump connected to the container, a hose system comprising a plurality of hoses connected to the container and the pump and configured to receive liquid from the container, and an end piece connected to one of the plurality of hoses configured to be used by a user of the hydration system. The pump is configured to circulate liquid through the hose system and container to maintain a relatively similar liquid temperature for all liquid contained in the hose system and container.
US10470541B2
Disclosed is a card wallet for use with cards such as identification cards, credit cards, RFID cards. The card wallet comprises a base and lower and upper arms extending from the base. The lower arm and upper arms each comprise a channel portion and a protrusion disposed at an outer end portion. The base and channel portions of the lower and upper arms form a retention area. The protrusions moveable between a non-biased position where the retention area is closed and a biased position where the retention area is open. In operation, the protrusions of the lower and upper arms are moved to the biased position upon insertion of the cards at the protrusions allowing complete insertion of the cards and then return of the protrusions of the lower and upper arms to the non-biased position where the cards are retained within the retention area.
US10470540B2
Technology associated with covering, protecting, and positioning portable electronic devices is described. In an example embodiment, a protective cover device includes a flap that is magnetically fastenable to a surface located on a backside of a portable electronic device. The protective cover device also includes a display protector attached to the flap and being positionable in a protective position to substantially cover a display of the portable electronic device. The display protector is articulatable to a position underneath a first side of the portable electronic device in which the flap and the display protector cooperatively prop up the portable electronic device in a landscape viewing position.
US10470525B2
An apparatus for tightening and loosening a lace includes a base, a lace tightening and loosening member, a releasing unit and an interlocking member. A temporary sliding portion is disposed between a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion. A stopping member is passed through the temporary sliding portion by a preliminary force. When the stopping member is positioned by the first positioning portion, a second combining portion is correspondingly connected to a first combining portion. When the stopping member is positioned by the second positioning portion, the second combining portion is separated from the first combining portion. When the releasing unit is located at a first position, the elastic abutting arm substantially stops the releasing unit from rotating in a loosening direction and does not substantially stop the releasing unit from rotating in a tightening direction.
US10470521B2
A sole structure includes an outsole having a ground surface as a lower surface; a midsole stacked on a top of the outsole and made of an elastic material; and a supporter provided around a middle of the midsole in a thickness direction, and extending longitudinally to include a heel region corresponding to a heel of a foot. The supporter includes a base provided in a central region of the heel region in a foot width direction, and a corrugated side provided continuously with each side of the base in the foot width direction, and including a ridge with its apex located above the base, and a groove provided continuously with a rear of the ridge with its bottom located below the base at the rear of the heel region.
US10470515B2
A protective helmet comprises a shell made of plastic and having a raised central region oriented from a front of the shell towards a rear of the shell, a first vent opening adjacent to the raised central region on a left side of the raised central region, a second vent opening adjacent to the raised central region on a right side of the raised central region, a pressable front section created by a non-linear slit through the shell, which does not extend to an edge of the shell, ear holes formed in the shell; and an energy absorbing layer protected by the shell and having an outer surface.
US10470513B2
A helmet having two layers that slide with respect to each other is provided. The surface of one or both layers includes a sliding facilitator to improve slidability between the two layers. The sliding facilitator includes at least one of (i) an organic polymer, a polysiloxane and surfactant; (ii) an organic polymer and a copolymer based on a polysiloxane and an organic polymer; or (iii) a non-elastomeric cross-linked polymer obtained or obtainable by subjecting a polysiloxane and an organic polymer to a cross-linking reaction.
US10470495B2
An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes a reservoir configured to retain an aerosol precursor composition, a heating element, and a power source connected to an electrical load that includes the heating element. The power source includes a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and a linear regulator between the power source and load, the linear regulator being configured to maintain a constant voltage level at the electrical load. The aerosol delivery device also includes a microprocessor configured to operate in an active mode in which the microprocessor is configured to direct power from the power source to the heating element and thereby control the heating element to activate and vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition.
US10470493B2
Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for a self-extinguishing smoke device. In embodiments, the self-extinguishing smoke device may include an upper portion and a lower portion.
US10470492B2
A display package configured to receive an elongate body, which includes a rectangular box portion having a side edge cavity formed between a front panel and a cavity side panel, wherein the side edge cavity includes a first cavity panel and a second cavity panel formed by an outer portion of the front panel and the cavity side panel, respectively, and wherein the rectangular box portion, the first cavity panel and the second cavity panel are perpendicular to the front panel and the cavity side panel, respectively.
US10470485B2
A juice extraction device for extracting juice from food includes a hollow juice extraction screw capable of being rotated along an axis and having a food inlet through which food enters the juice extraction device; a mesh filter for separating the juice from the food, the mesh filter encompassing the juice extraction screw; and a housing encompassing the mesh filter. The provision of a hollow juice extraction screw can minimize the length of the device while maintaining juicing efficiency. This feature also allows the device to be placed vertically, such that various components, including the juice exit, may be located at the bottom position for improved efficiency and convenience.
US10470475B2
A system includes memory banks that store data and a data path coupled to the memory banks that transfers the data. The system also includes a latch that gates the data path based on a clock signal in the system. The system further includes interface circuitry coupled to the data path that sends an instruction to the memory banks to transmit the data on the data path in response to receiving a first rising edge of the clock signal. The interface circuitry also outputs gated data in response to receiving a second rising edge of the clock signal. The latch gates the data path to store the gated data in response to receiving a falling edge of the clock signal.
US10470471B2
Baked confectionery containing insoluble dietary fiber in an amount of from 5.0 to 20.0 mass % and starch in an amount of from 20 to 45 mass %, wherein a content of gliadin in the baked confectionery is 1.1 mass % or less, and the insoluble dietary fiber contains insoluble dietary fiber derived from bran of wheat variety.
US10470462B2
Provided is a method which exerts an excellent effect in controlling a pest in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, using a SDHI compound and a PPO-inhibiting compound. A method of controlling a pest (a weed and/or a plant pathogen) in a field of soybean, corn or a cotton, including treating a field before, at or after seeding with a seed of soybean, corn or cotton treated with one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of SDHI compounds, with one or more PPO-inhibiting compounds selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen and a compound of the formula:
US10470460B2
A novel product for mold prevention and treatment is disclosed herein. The product comprises water, one or more anti-mold agents, one or more water-soluble fluoropolymers or other water-soluble polymers with similar properties, and one or more emulsifiers. In some embodiments, the product may further comprise one or more preservatives, one or more stabilizers, one or more binders, one or more fining agents, one or more firming agents, one or more thickeners, and/or one or more clarifying agents. The product may be non-toxic, biodegradable, effective for a long-period of time and against a wide variety of molds, and may also provide other features which render it safe for the environment as compared to other commonly used products in mold prevention and treatment.
US10470457B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for the cryopreservation of stem cells, such as stem-cell derived retinal pigment epithelial cells, that have been seeded onto and cultured on a substrate, such as a polymeric substrate. Such cryopreserved stem cells are useful for cell therapies, such as treatment of ocular damage or disease.
US10470455B2
A fragrance and insect repellant dispenser includes a container, a lid, at least one radial set of dispensing openings, a plurality of top openings, a placement collar, a fan assembly, a power source, a plurality of locking mechanism. The radial set of dispensing openings traverses through a lateral wall of the container. The plurality of top openings traverses through a cover of the lid. The placement collar and the power source are adjacently connected onto the lid. The fan assembly is adjacently connected to the lid, opposite of the placement collar. The fan assembly is electrically connected to the power source and positioned within the container. The lid is perimetrically attached to the container by the plurality of locking mechanisms. Resultantly, the fan assembly is able to dispense at least one solution of fragrance and insect repellant through the plurality of dispensing openings and the plurality of top openings.
US10470433B2
Litter compositions are provided comprising sodium bentonite and various fillers. These litter compositions have substantially the same clumpability properties as a composition consisting of only the sodium bentonite.
US10470432B2
A door assembly for an animal enclosure includes a door frame and a door each having a plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wires. The door frame defines an opening for an animal to pass therethrough, and the door is slidably coupled to the door frame such that it moves between an open position and a closed position relative to the door frame to allow egress and ingress through the opening. A catch member is coupled to the door frame. A latch includes a base member, a bolt, and a lever portion. A first vertical wire and a second vertical wire of the door are spaced from one another such that the first vertical wire is at a first end of the door and the second vertical wire is at a second end of the door. In the closed position, the bolt is coupled to the first vertical wire.
US10470428B2
The cotton variety ST 5471GLTP is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 5471GLTP with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 5471GLTP and to plants of ST 5471GLTP reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 5471GLTP.
US10470422B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PUJG90 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PUJG90, cells from soybean variety 5PUJG90, plants of soybean 5PUJG90, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PUJG90. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PUJG90 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PUJG90, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PUJG90, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PUJG90. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PUJG90 are further provided.
US10470417B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH532426. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH532426, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH532426 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH532426.
US10470416B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH532226. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH532226, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH532226 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH532226.
US10470415B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH341684. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH341684, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH341684 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH341684.
US10470413B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH381182. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH381182, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH381182 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH381182.
US10470412B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH389868. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH389868, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH389868 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH389868.
US10470410B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV598029. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV598029, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV598029 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV598029 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV598029.
US10470402B2
A novel sweet corn hybrid plant, designated HMX59BS605 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of sweet corn hybrid HMX59BS605, to the plants and plant parts of sweet corn hybrid HMX59BS605, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant by crossing the sweet corn hybrid HMX59BS605 with itself or another sweet corn plant.
US10470400B1
A novel maize variety designated PH42KN and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH42KN with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH42KN through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH42KN or a locus conversion of PH42KN with another maize variety.
US10470393B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH906962. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH906962, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH906962 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH906962.
US10470389B2
The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated CL169059A. Also included are seeds of canola CL169059A, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola CL169059A and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola CL169059A with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola CL169059A.
US10470377B2
A growing trough is provided. The growing trough comprises a fabric bottom, a fabric outer wall, and a fabric partition. The fabric outer wall extends upward from the peripheral edge of the fabric bottom. The fabric partition is attached only at opposed edges thereof to the fabric outer wall preventing buckling of the fabric outer wall and equal load distribution when growing media is dumped into the growing trough. The fabric is a porous fabric that catches plant roots and directs the roots into the growing trough thereby preventing root circulation and inducing root branching within the growing trough.
US10470373B2
An agricultural vehicle, includes a chassis; a cleaning system carried by the chassis including at least one sieve and configured to clean crop material; and an unloader carried by the chassis and supplied with cleaned crop material from the cleaning system. The unloader includes: a roller; a belt wrapped around the roller; and an oblong housing at least partially enclosing the belt.
US10470372B2
A suspension mechanism for a rotary rake implement incorporates elastomeric shock absorbing members in the corners of a tubular member situated in between the corners of a square rod formed as part of the wheel assembly and received within the tubular member such that the corners of the square rod assert a pre-load spring force on the tubular member when the implement is in an extended operating configuration. The movement of the implement into a folded transport configuration with the weight of the implement supported on the transport wheel assemblies causes a deflection of the square rod that compresses the elastomeric shock absorbing members within the corners of the tubular member to provide maximum suspension for the implement when in transport, while providing minimum suspension when the implement is in operation. An end cap on the square rod engages a stop formed on the tubular member to control rotation.
US10470371B2
A handle accessory includes a handle body, a base plate, and a precise height measuring gage. The handle body and the precise height measuring gage are both positioned on the base plate. The handle body includes a gage reading opening, which allows the user to read the precise height measuring gage without being obstructed by the handle body. The handle accessory facilitates the usage of the precise height measuring gage for the user to set the height of the lawnmower blade.
US10470368B2
A multi-functional garden implement comprises an underframe connected with a supporting shaft. A pushing handle is fixedly connected to the underframe, and wheels are connected with the supporting shaft. The multi-functional garden implement further comprises a rotating bracket, which is connected to a power source. A working head is connected to the power source. The rotating bracket is rotatably connected to the underframe and capable of driving the working head to swing to both sides back and forth. Between the underframe and the rotating bracket, there is also a locating mechanism which can secure the rotating bracket onto the underframe. The multi-functional garden implement is capable of adjusting the position of the working head, so as to meet various requirements for the working conditions of gardening work.
US10470366B2
An agricultural combine including a residue spreading system that is steerable to influence distribution of the residue spreading system. The combine is provided with a sensor provided for emitting a wave signal through the residue when the combine is spreading the residue. The sensor is configured to measure reflections of the signal from a first zone of the residue and from a second zone of the residue. The spreading system is steered based on the reflections. The wave signal has a wavelength that is larger than 0.001 mm and that is smaller than 50 mm.
US10470365B2
A monitoring system for a combine harvester having a header with a header width for harvesting a crop. The monitoring system includes a plurality of sensors, configured to provide a plurality of measurement waves to a discharge area for crop residue, and receive a plurality of response waves reflected from the discharge area. The system further includes a processing unit comprising an input terminal configured to receive a response signal of the plurality of sensors, the response signal representative of the plurality of response waves reflected from the discharge area. The processing unit is configured to process the response signal and determine, based on the response signal, a distribution of the crop residue over the discharge area. The processing unit further comprises an output terminal configured to output a distribution signal representative of the distribution of the crop residue over the discharge area.
US10470361B2
A device for spreading active agents comprising: a boom, which is arranged pivotably about a rotation axis; a sensor arrangement for the detection of an angular velocity of the boom about the rotation axis; a sensor for the detection of an angular position of the boom; a control unit processing output signals from the sensor; and an actuator, acting on the present angular position of the boom based on control signals from the control unit. For the determination of an angular position of the boom, the control unit calculates an angular position of the boom in relation to a reference plane by integration of the angular velocity and merges the angular position calculated by means of the angular velocity, with the detected angular position to determine the present angular position of the boom to return the boom to a desired angular position.
US10470356B2
A system for dispensing multiple low rate agricultural products, includes an agricultural product metering system, a number of agricultural product tubes, and an agricultural product metering system. The agricultural product metering system is operably connected to sources of low rate agricultural products. The agricultural product tubes are operatively connected to the agricultural product metering system. The agricultural product metering system is configured to dispense liquid low rate agricultural products at a low rate defined as below 3.7 fluid ounces per 1000 row feet.
US10470354B2
A manure spreader implement has a compartment for containing manure, a conveyor for displacing manure in the compartment towards a rear end of the implement, and a rotating beater assembly at the rear end of the implement for spreading the manure outwardly from the rear end of the implement. The implement further includes (i) support brackets for supporting the mounting fasteners of the beater teeth on the auger of the beater assembly in double shear, (ii) auxiliary paddles supported by removable fasteners on the auger of the beater assembly between the auger flighting above and the lower paddles of the auger below, and/or (iii) floor slats on the conveyor which have end portions of reduced internal dimension formed by crimps that allow relative sliding between the floor slats and the mounting bars on the chain of the conveyor.
US10477750B2
A component mounting method for using a component mounting tool which includes a plurality of claw sections that pinch and pick up a component at a component supply position, and release the component on a board to mount the component onto a predetermined position of the board, and which is mounted to be capable of moving between the component supply position and the board, includes determining pinching locations of the component to be pinched by the plurality of claw sections such that positions and a release operation of the plurality of claw sections do not interfere with mounted components which are already mounted on the board when the plurality of claw sections release the component.
US10477741B1
An inductive power transmission system electromagnetic field shielding apparatus includes an enclosure. The enclosure is configured to surround an electronic device and an inductive power transmitter that inductively transmits power to the electronic device. A communication window or high pass filter is formed in the enclosure. The communication window may include an arrangement of one or more conductive materials defining one or more apertures. The enclosure and the communication window block passage of magnetic flux generated by the inductive power transmitter. The communication window allows passage of communication transmissions associated with the electronic device.
US10477740B2
An EMI shielded vent panel for disposition over a corresponding opening in an electronics enclosure includes an electrically conductive medium having a plurality of ventilation passageways, each passageway including an entry and a channel connected to and extending away from the entry; wherein each passageway is selectively actuated between at least a first constricted state and a second deconstricted state upon application of or removal of an activation mechanism.
US10477721B2
An apparatus may be configured to be mounted on a rack. The apparatus may include a communication component. The communication component may be used for communicating with a network device when the network device is mounted on the rack. The apparatus may include a storage device. The storage device may be used for storing information to be provided to the network device, via the communication component, when the network device is mounted on the rack.
US10477719B1
An apparatus for securing a cable access includes a first cable opening in a top plate of a server rack with a tray affixed to the interior side of the top plate and with a second cable opening that overlaps the first cable opening. A hatch element is movable in a space between the plate and tray to cover up the unneeded areas of the first and second cable openings after cables have been installed. A ratchet and pawl attached to the tray and hatch element cooperate to allow movement of the hatch element in a closing direction and resist movement of the hatch element in an opening direction, with a release element disengaging the ratchet and pawl to allow the hatch element to open.
US10477717B2
A self-aligning busbar assembly includes a housing, a busbar having a first terminal connecting end, a second terminal connecting end, and a jog portion disposed therebetween, and a front holder coupled to the housing and the busbar. The front holder includes an inner wall defining a busbar receiving aperture to receive at least a portion of the busbar, and at least one flexible tab extending inwardly from the inner wall into the busbar receiving aperture. The at least one flexible tab is configured to bias and center the at least a portion of the busbar within the busbar receiving aperture. At least one clearance is defined in the busbar receiving aperture between the inner wall and the busbar and is configured to enable at least one of the first and second terminal connecting ends to move to account for tolerances and/or variances during installation of the busbar assembly.
US10477716B2
A portable display device includes a display element provided with a main screen thereon, the portable display device further includes a secondary screen capable of being incorporated with the main screen. By providing a secondary screen, a display region of the portable display device can be extended as required, thereby allowing to run more applications to satisfy user's demands. And at the same time, the drawing structure can extend the display region in a convenient and steady manner.
US10477715B2
A method for installing a pivoting tower assembly is disclosed. The method involves mounting at least one electrical component onto a pivoting pole of the pivoting tower assembly, while the pivoting tower assembly is in an assembly position having the pivoting pole oriented horizontally and parallel to the ground, connecting an electrical wire from the at least one electrical component to a wire harness permitting the electrical wire to travel inside the pivoting pole, and pivoting the pivoting pole, about an axis parallel to the ground, from the assembly position into an erect, vertical position with the at least one mounted electrical component.
US10477713B2
An enhanced portable communication device includes a one-piece metal back plate, configured to reduce device thickness by eliminating the plastic-to-metal joints normally needed to isolate the device antennas and provide rigidity. The one-piece metal back plate includes four integral antennas in an embodiment, forming an antenna pair at each end of the device. An opening and gap used to form each antenna pair may be filled with a nonconductive material such as plastic. In an embodiment, an I/O port is exposed through the nonconductive material in the gap.
US10477706B1
A solid state memory device is provided. The solid state memory device includes a housing and a solid state memory module. The housing includes a housing fastening member, a first housing member, and a second housing member, wherein the second housing member is connected to the first housing member. The solid state memory module is disposed in the housing. The first housing member includes a plurality of first wedging portions, and the second housing member includes a plurality of second wedging portions. Each first wedging portion wedges the corresponding second wedging portion in a first direction. The first housing member further includes a first fastening portion, and the second housing member further includes a second fastening portion. The housing fastening member affixes the first fastening portion to the second fastening portion in a second direction, wherein the first direction differs from the second direction.
US10477702B2
A multilayer wiring board having a high degree of freedom of wiring design and realizing high-density wiring, and a method to simply manufacture the multilayer wiring board is provided. A core substrate with two or more wiring layers provided thereon through an electrical insulating layer. The core substrate has a plurality of throughholes filled with an electroconductive material, and the front side and back side of the core substrate have been electrically connected to each other by the electroconductive material. The throughholes have an opening diameter in the range of 10 to 100 μm. An insulation layer and an electroconductive material diffusion barrier layer are also provided, and the electroconductive material is filled into the throughholes through the insulation layer. A first wiring layer provided through an electrical insulating layer on the core substrate is connected to the electroconductive material filled into the throughhole through via.
US10477701B2
A circuit board includes a substrate, a first dielectric layer, an adhesive layer, a second dielectric layer, and a conductive line. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate. The adhesive layer is bonded to the first dielectric layer and has at least one through hole. The through hole has an inner wall. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the adhesive layer and has a second through hole communicated with the first through hole. The conductive line is located in the second through hole of the second dielectric layer and is in contact with the inner wall of the adhesive layer.
US10477700B2
A method for manufacturing a printed circuit board, comprising in order steps (i) providing a non-conductive substrate having on a surface copper circuitry with a copper surface, wherein said surface is chemically treated by (a) oxidation and subsequent reduction reaction and/or (b) organic compound attached to said surface, a permanent, non-conductive, not fully polymerized cover layer covering at least partially said surface, (ii) thermally treating the substrate with the cover layer at temperature from 140° C. to 250° C. in atmosphere containing molecular oxygen at 100000 ppm or less, based on the total volume of the atmosphere, wherein a substrate with a permanent, non-conductive cover layer is obtained, with the provisos that (ii) is after (i) but before any metal or metal alloy is deposited onto the cover layer, and that in (ii) the cover layer is fully polymerized in one thermal treating step, if the cover layer is a solder mask.
US10477698B1
An improved solder column, having a solder core comprising a solder core material, an exoskeleton sleeve structure surrounding at least a majority of an outside surface of the solder core and comprising a plurality of wires woven together to form a mesh, and a plurality of spaces formed in the exoskeleton between the plurality of wires. The exoskeleton sleeve can be configured such that the exoskeleton sleeve will support the solder core so as to prevent a collapse of the solder core at temperatures exceeding a liquidus temperature of the solder core. Optionally, each of the plurality of spaces can have a width and a height that is at least as large as a width of the wire adjacent to the space, and the spaces can be configured to provide additional flexibility to the solder column.
US10477696B2
A fine interval coating member for a LED display and a coating method using the same are provided. The coating member includes column portions and row portions crossing the column portions, and holes between the column portions and the row portions. The body portion includes a material that is melted at a temperature higher than room temperature and that is cured at the room temperature.
US10477692B2
A method of manufacturing a printed board includes perforating a metal foil with a laser beam or punching to provide a through-hole extending in a thickness direction along a thickness of the printed board. An insulating layer is provided. The metal foil having the through-hole is provided on the insulating layer in the thickness direction. An adhesive is provided between the insulating layer and the metal foil having the through-hole. The metal foil is pressed toward the insulating layer to bond the metal foil to the insulating layer via the adhesive. A mask is provided on the metal foil in the thickness direction to cover at least a part of the through-hole without covering an exposed part of the metal foil. The exposed part of the metal foil is etched to provide a wiring pattern on the insulating layer.
US10477686B2
A printed circuit board includes a power input terminal, a positive trunk line, a negative trunk line, a first switching circuit, a second switching circuit, a first positive wire, a second positive wire, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a bypass circuit. The first positive wire connecting the positive trunk line with the first switching circuit without passing through the second switching circuit. The second positive wire connecting the positive trunk line with the second switching circuit without passing through the first switching circuit. The first capacitor provided between the first positive wire and the negative trunk line. The second capacitor provided between the second positive wire and the negative trunk line. The bypass circuit connecting the first positive wire with the second positive wire.
US10477680B2
The present invention relates to an ink composition for light sintering, a wiring board using the same, and a method of fabricating the wiring board. The present invention aims to provide formation of a wiring pattern without damage to thin and soft wiring boards such as a flexible printed circuit board. The present invention provides an ink composition for light sintering including copper oxide nanoparticles having copper oxide films, a reducing agent for reducing copper oxidized by light irradiation to form copper nanoparticles, a dispersing agent, a binder, and a solvent.
US10477677B2
An optical modulator with FPC and optical transmission device using the same are provided. This optical modulator includes a flexible printed circuit which electrically connects the optical modulator to a circuit board. The flexible printed circuit has a substantially quadrilateral shape. A pad is formed on the flexible printed circuit along one side of the substantially quadrilateral shape so as to be electrically connected to the circuit board. In order to release the mechanical stress applied onto the side or the end portion of the flexible printed circuit and/or to prevent propagation of distortion generated in the side or the end portion, the flexible printed circuit has: a cutout or a notch provided in a direction from a part of at least one side toward the inside of the flexible printed circuit; and/or a curved portion connecting at least two adjacent sides.
US10477674B2
A circuit substrate includes an insulating body, a wiring enclosed by the insulating body, a conductive layer formed within the insulating body on a same plane as the wiring, and electrically insulated from the wiring by the insulating body, and one or more conductive vias extending through an edge portion of the conductive layer in a thickness direction intersecting the plane. A first width of the insulating body between the wiring and the conductive layer at a first position in the plane direction that does not correspond to any of said one or more conductive vias is smaller than a second width of the insulating body between the wiring and the conductive layer at a second position in the plane direction that corresponds to one of said one or more conductive vias.
US10477672B2
An electronic device includes a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a plurality of different signaling planes and a plurality of different reference planes. A single ended via interconnects the plurality of different signaling planes. A return via interconnects the plurality of different reference planes. The electronic device includes a shared void that includes the single ended via and the return via.
US10477670B2
A flexible circuit board assembly for an LED lamp of the present disclosure comprises: a resin layer having a strip shape; a conductive signal line layer formed from a predetermined pattern provided on the upper part of the resin layer; and a radiation layer provided on the lower part of the resin layer, having a thickness relatively thicker than that of the conductive signal line layer, and radiating the heat generated from an LED mounted on the signal line layer, wherein the signal line layer and the radiation layer are made from one material from among copper, aluminum, copper alloy and an aluminum alloy.
US10477668B2
A method, system, and apparatus for vector control of radio frequency signals in narrow band devices such as Super-conducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities driven by injection locked magnetrons using carrier amplitude modulation by spectral energy spreading via phase modulation comprises coupling a magnetron to a cavity associated with a particle accelerator and injection locking the magnetron. A modulated amplitude and modulated phase of a drive signal is provided to the magnetron powering the cavity associated with the particle accelerator by removing power from a carrier according to a modulation scheme and providing vector control of the cavity radio frequency vector.
US10477667B2
An automatic reloading and transport system for solid targets for a particle accelerator using a pneumatic tube transport system from the point of target activation by a particle accelerator to a target processing point and back, comprising a pneumatic tube transport system with end stations for receipt and dispatch of a capsule accommodating the target, a handling mechanism for both manipulating the solid target and handling the capsule and a target positioning system.
US10477665B2
A microwave plasma torch providing two laminar flows is described. Two laminar flows are created using a set of at least three concentric, staggered dielectric tubes connected to a pressurized gas source. An inner laminar flow entrains injected particles entering the plasma. An outer laminar flow creates a sheath around the plasma and prevents it from attaching to the walls of the plasma torch. The entry point of the gas source is designed to ensure laminar flow for both the entrainment of the particles and for the shielding of the plasma plume. The uniform processing conditions results in uniform particles and a homogenous materials distribution. This enables a final product with improved thermal properties, improved corrosion and wear resistance and a higher tolerance to interface stresses. The microwave plasma torch can be used for producing nanomaterial powder and for spray coating materials onto various substrates.
US10477663B2
A method for generating light is provided. The method includes generating targets with a fuel target generator. The method further includes measuring a period of time during which one of the targets passes through two detection positions on a path along which the targets move. The method also includes exciting the targets with a laser generator so as to generate plasma that emits light. In addition, the method includes adjusting at least one parameter of the fuel target generator or the laser generator according to the measured period of time, when the measured period of time is different from a predetermined value.
US10477638B1
A lighting system may include a plurality of suspenders and a beam configured to provide light in at least one direction. The suspenders may structurally support the beam from a ceiling and may provide electrical power and dimming control signals to the beam. The beam may include a plurality of light engines for emitting light. The light engines may be single sided or dual sided, and may transmit electrical power among each other. The dual sided light engines may emit light upwardly and downwardly from the beam, and the single sided light engines may emit light downwardly.
US10477636B1
Lighting system including first-, second-, and third-light sources each having semiconductor light-emitting device. First source includes lumiphor; and is configured for emitting first light source emissions having first color point between isotherms of CCTs of about 4800K-2500K; and is located within about 0.006 delta(uv) away from Planckian-black-body locus of CIE 1931 XY chromaticity diagram. Second light source is configured for emitting second light source emissions having second color point between isotherms of CCTs of about 2900K-1700K. Third light source is configured for emitting third light source emissions having: third color point between line-of-purples and isotherm of CCT of about 1500K; and dominant- or peak-wavelength between about 590-700 nanometers. Lighting system is configured for forming combined light emissions and causing combined color points to remain below Planckian-black-body locus by about 0.001-0.009 delta(uv) throughout light brightening/dimming curve. Related processes.
US10477629B2
An electronic induction heat cooking apparatus includes a rectifier including a bridge diode, for rectifying an input voltage and outputting a direct current (DC) voltage; a plurality of switching elements for switching the DC voltage output through the rectifier; a controller for controlling the plurality of switching elements; a plurality of heating coils for heating a cooking utensil by controlling the plurality of switching elements; a heat sink having the plurality of switching elements mounted thereon, for cooling the plurality of switching elements; a cover covering the plurality of switching elements; and coupling members for coupling the heat sink to the cover. A radiation fin for cooling the plurality of switching elements is formed on the cover.
US10477618B2
A networked battle system includes a communication network, a first rifle that includes at least one accessory coupled thereto that determines a bearing of the first rifle and a communication element allowing the at least one accessory to provide bearing information to the communication network. The system also includes a battle management system in communication with the first rifle through the communication network that receives the bearing information from the accessory and updates a battle plan based on the bearing information to form an updated battle plan.
US10477615B2
A method for handling a PDN disconnection request performed by a communications apparatus communicating with a network device includes transmitting a PDN disconnect request message to the network device to request to disconnect a predetermined PDN connection; receiving a PDN disconnect reject message from the network device; obtaining a reject cause carried in the PDN disconnect reject message; and locally deactivating all other PDN connection(s) other than the predetermined PDN connection when the reject cause carried in the PDN disconnect reject message indicates that the last PDN disconnection is not allowed.
US10477603B2
A communication system is disclosed, in which a mobile communication device communicates user data using a communication bearer provided via a first base station and a second base station of the communication system. The base stations are configured to determine a packet delay for communicating user data using said communication bearer based on the time when the first base station started PDCP processing for a data packet communicated using said communication bearer, and based on the time when the data packet was acknowledged by said mobile communication device to the second base station.
US10477599B2
An electronic device includes a housing, a wireless communication circuit, a wired communication interface, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to connect with an external device by using the wireless communication circuit or the wired communication interface, to receive first information to set the electronic device as an access point (AP) from the external device, to receive second information on another AP from the external device, to configure the electronic device by using the first information, and to wirelessly broadcast a signal by using the wireless communication circuit, to allow wireless devices to connect to the AP.
US10477598B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for providing differentiated actions associated with predetermined types of SSIDs, as determined by a registry computing service. Embodiments include registry databases, SSID transmitters, and WED's connected through the cloud, having a hardware configuration suitable for communicating wirelessly. Hardware of the registry service may execute any number of modules, including SSID Databases, Parsing Modules, Registration Modules, and Query Handling Modules, among others. Suitable SSID databases may store a set of SSIDs, SSID types, and SSID substrings associated with the SSID types. Methods described here include registration processes and processes for providing a WED differentiated actions associated with an SSID. If the registry determines that the SSID matches an SSID in the SSID database, the WED and SSID transmitter may take actions associated with the SSID. Otherwise, the WED and SSID transmitter may take actions defined to be the default actions for an SSID.
US10477593B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may detect one or more base stations based at least in part on synchronization communications associated with the one or more base stations, and may determine one or more priority levels associated with the one or more base stations, wherein a given priority level, of the one or more priority levels, identifies a priority associated with initiating access to a wireless backhaul network via a respective base station of the one or more base stations. The base station may initiate, based at least in part on the one or more priority levels, an access procedure with a set of base stations of the one or more base stations. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10477589B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently scheduling simultaneous uplink transmissions of a plurality of terminals.To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal, the terminal including: a transceiver; and a processor, wherein the processor receives, through the transceiver, a trigger frame transmitted by a base wireless communication terminal, and performs a multi-user uplink transmission based on the received trigger frame, wherein the trigger frame includes a predetermined field indicating whether an additional trigger frame is present or not, and a wireless communication method using the same.
US10477587B2
A method including receiving, by an antenna combiner of a wireless communication system, a set of Random Access Channel (RACH) sequences of a first RACH signal from a first antenna and a set of RACH sequences of a second RACH signal from a second antenna. The method further including selecting, by the antenna combiner, each RACH sequence of the set of RACH sequences of a selected RACH signal from a selected antenna that has a best Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) from each RACH sequence of the set of RACH sequences of the first RACH signal from the first antenna that has a first SINR and each RACH sequence of the set of RACH sequences of the second RACH signal from the second antenna that has a second SINR.
US10477581B2
Access priority for wireless devices located in an area in which radiofrequency (RF) coverage areas of a first wireless access point and a second wireless access point overlap is controlled by coordinating operation of the first wireless access point and the second wireless access point. The wireless devices access a common RF channel via a collision sense multiple access/collision avoidance mechanism. The probability of accessing the RF channel may be varied by adjusting the length of interframe spacings and the length of contention windows. The length of the interframe spacings and the length of the contention windows associated with the first access point and associated with the second access point are configured such that the probability of wireless devices associated with the first wireless access point accessing the RF channel is greater than the probability of wireless devices associated with the second wireless access point accessing the RF channel.
US10477580B2
A user equipment (UE) may, in a first discovery frame, determine whether a discovery resource is available for communication. If the discovery resource is available for communication, the UE may, in a second discovery frame following the first discovery frame, transmit a discovery signal using the discovery resource and puncture the discovery signal during a listening window. The UE may detect the energy of a received signal at the discovery resource during the listening window. The UE may abandon the discovery resource if the detected energy is above a threshold. In some example, the listening window may have a fixed duration and a beginning that is randomly selected from a predetermined set of values. In some example, the listening window may have a variable duration and an end that matches an end of the second discovery frame.
US10477575B2
In embodiments, apparatuses, methods, and storage media may be described for monitoring channel quality of a radio link between a secondary evolved NodeB (SeNB) and a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network configured for dual connectivity. In embodiments, the UE may generate one or more indications of a channel quality of the SeNB-UE radio link and forward the indication to the SeNB. Based on the indication, the UE may receive a radio resource control (RRC) message from a master eNB (MeNB) related to the SeNB-UE radio link. Other embodiments may be claimed.
US10477574B2
A method and apparatus for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) performs a contention free random access procedure on a first frequency, detects a failure of the contention free random access procedure, and performs a contention based random access procedure. When the first frequency is occupied by other media as a result of listen-before-talk (LBT) operation, the contention based random access procedure may be performed on a second frequency.
US10477571B2
To provide a communication terminal capable of suppressing an increase in power consumption of a UE during multi-subframe scheduling, a communication terminal (10) includes a monitoring unit (11) that monitors control information containing allocation information of at least one subframe where downlink data is transmitted, and a control unit (12) that determines monitoring timing to monitor the control information in accordance with a decoding result of downlink data transmitted using the at least one subframe. The monitoring unit (11) monitors the control information at the determined monitoring timing.
US10477561B2
A method and system are described for improving operating efficiency and QoS in a cellular communications network. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method includes predicting background interference levels due at least partly to signals generated in neighboring cells, and transmitting operating parameters to user equipment that include power, frequency, and/or spectral efficiency parameters. The operating parameters are selected according to the predicted background interference to provide acceptable quality of service while also optimizing use of available bandwidth. The method further includes updating the background interference predictions, and transmitting revised operating parameters to the user equipment according to rules that minimize changes to operating parameters that strongly affect background interference in neighboring cells, such as power levels and frequencies, thereby minimizing background interference fluctuations. Power levels for user equipment entering the cell can be initially minimized, and then slowly ramped to an optimal level. SPS can be implemented.
US10477556B2
A terminal device configured to perform D2D transmission by a higher layer includes: a reception unit receiving from a base station device one or a plurality of first parameters relating to transmit power and receiving a second parameter for configuring a first transmission resource from the base station device; and a transmission unit performing, upon receipt of the second parameter in an RRC idle state, the D2D transmission using the first transmission resource with the transmit power in accordance with a first parameter corresponding to an authorized range among the one or plurality of first parameters.
US10477554B2
A method and apparatus for beam detection in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method includes the UE initiating a RA procedure. The method also includes the UE transmitting multiple RA preambles to a base station of the cell at different occasions for the base station to determine a beam set of the UE. The method further includes the UE starts monitoring a PDCCH for RA response reception from the base station after finishing transmissions of the multiple RA preambles.
US10477553B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for aggressive beam selection during a handover procedure. A User Equipment (UE) measures a plurality of candidate downlink beams of a target base station (BS), wherein measurement opportunities for each of the candidate downlink beams are scheduled periodically. The UE reports measurements relating to one or more of the measured candidate downlink beams to a source BS. The UE receives a command to handover to the target BS, and in response to receiving the command, attempts to find a new downlink beam of the target BS having a corresponding measurement opportunity that is earlier than a next measurement opportunity of one of the one or more candidate downlink beam.
US10477551B2
An uplink data transmission resource obtaining method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: sending, by user equipment, a resource obtaining request to a first network node, and receiving a resource obtaining response that is returned by the first network node in response to the resource obtaining request, where the resource obtaining request is used to obtain an uplink data transmission resource used to transmit uplink data; determining, by the user equipment according to the received resource obtaining response, a serving network node that provides an uplink data transmission resource for the user equipment, and determining the uplink data transmission resource that is provided by the serving network node for the user equipment; and sending, by the user equipment, uplink data by using the uplink data transmission resource provided by the serving network node.
US10477545B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for communication between devices in a wireless communication system, the method for communication of a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: determining a resource section for communication between the terminal and an auxiliary device positioned within a critical distance; and performing the communication with the auxiliary device using the determined resource section, wherein the resource section may comprise at least one from among a waiting section which is unused for communication between terminals, a channel section which is occupied by another terminal, and a channel section which is occupied by a channel occupation request signal of the terminal.
US10477544B2
A system for dynamically sharing RF front end resources includes a data processor; a plurality of RF front end resources; a plurality of signal processors for processing an RF signal and scheduling utilization of the plurality of RF front end resources; a digital platform interface (DPIF) for performing real-time resource arbitration and generating control data to share the RF front end resources by dynamically selecting and configuring the RF front end resources responsive to the RF task received by the data processor. The data processor selects a signal processor for technique generation based on availability of one or more of the plurality of signal processors, the selected signal processor makes a request to the DPIF for an RF front end resource allocation, and the DPIF grants an RF front end resource to the selected signal processor to receive or transmit the RF signal.
US10477543B2
Methods and systems for improving communication in a multi-hop, time-slotted wireless network are presented. Embodiments of the present invention are able re-use timeslots to locally transmit information to one-hop nodes, thereby utilizing the bandwidth more efficiently. Other embodiments are able to evaluate the trade-off between power consumption and communication reliability, and are consequently able to provide increasing degrees of robustness for broadcasts in the wireless network. That is, these latter embodiments are able to incrementally use re-transmissions, therein trading-off battery life for an increased message completion rate or a lower packet error rate, for example, in order to reliably broadcast critical or high-priority message network-wide.
US10477538B2
Apparatuses, systems, and devices are described for transmissions and retransmissions of device-to-device (D2D) communications. A D2D message may be transmitted during an initial communications period, followed by one or more retransmissions. A device may transmit an initial transmission, determine a time hopping pattern for the retransmission(s), and determine a transmission resource for the retransmission(s) based at least in part on a resource of the initial transmission and the time hopping pattern. The messages may include, for example, a scheduling assignment (SA) for data transmission, or data transmissions from a transmitting device. Time hopping patterns may be determined based on times and/or frequencies of the initial transmission. A base station may transmit a message to a transmitting device that indicates one or more time hopping patterns that are to be used for the transmissions.
US10477534B2
A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving, from a serving cell, a downlink control channel subject to interference from a neighboring cell. The method comprises the steps of: receiving information on discontinuous reception (DRX), wherein the information on discontinuous reception includes information on a period comprising an interval in which the downlink control channel is monitored and an interval in which the downlink control channel is not monitored; and monitoring the downlink control channel received from the serving cell in the interval in which the downlink control channel is monitored. Here, the downlink control channel may be monitored in a state where the interference from the neighboring cell has not been alleviated.
US10477526B2
The present disclosure relates generally to uplink procedures on a shared communication medium. In an aspect, an access terminal receives a downlink subframe from an access point on the shared communication medium and, in response to receiving the downlink subframe, transmits uplink control information (UCI) for the downlink subframe on a first uplink subframe of a first UCI channel of a plurality of UCI channels.
US10477521B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for communicating data packets in a cloud cell. In one embodiment, a network node from which data packets are received is identified by the BS. If the data packets are received from a data gateway, a network node to which the data packets to be sent is identified. If the data packets are to be sent to a slave BS, partial processing is performed on the data packets by the master BS. Furthermore, partially processed data packets are transmitted to the slave BS so that the slave BS performs complete processing on the partially processed data packets and transmits the completely processed data packets to the MS. If the data packets are to be sent to the MS, then complete processing of the data packets is performed by the BS and transmitted to the MS.
US10477520B2
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to allocating control signaling resources for multiple carrier scenarios. In an example implementation, N-to-1 mapping is used between forward link control signaling resource allocation indices (e.g., control channel elements) and return link control signaling resources (e.g., for ACK/NACK signaling) indices in each return link component carrier. A collision between forward link control signaling assignments for different user terminals (UTs) may occur when UT-specific search spaces overlap each other. Such a collision may be avoided, for example, by scheduling different UTs on different return link component carriers, scheduling return link grants instead of forward link grants, or scheduling a different forward link control signaling candidate that is associated with a different forward link control signaling resource allocation index.
US10477507B2
The disclosure recites a system and method of identifying location data for a server device managing communications for a wireless network. The method comprises: obtaining location data for the server device; identifying a location for the server device by analyzing at least the location data; updating data in the server device with the location; identifying a communication transmission range for the location for the server device; and configuring communications generated by the server device to conform to the communication transmission range.
US10477499B2
A method for synchronization in a wireless system is disclosed. In the method, at least one bit is included in a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), wherein one or more bits of the at least one bit indicates a location of a slot group comprising at least one synchronization signal block in a synchronization signal burst set and/or additional system information.
US10477498B2
A method for inter-station synchronization includes listening, by a first synchronization station, a first reference signal sent by a source station; sending a second reference signal to the source station; obtaining a time difference Δt1 between the first synchronization station and the source station, where the time difference Δt1 is obtained according to a first time parameter of the first reference signal and a second time parameter of the second reference signal, the first time parameter includes a transmit time point t1 and a receive time point t2 of the first reference signal, and the second time parameter includes a transmit time point t3 and a receive time point t4 of the second reference signal; and adjusting current time of the first synchronization station according to the time difference Δt1.
US10477486B2
A communication device is configured to execute instructions of determining that a first uplink (UL) transmission on a first serving cell of a network and a second UL transmission on a second serving cell of the network are overlapped; keeping a transmission power level of the first UL transmission and adjusting a first transmission power level of the second UL transmission to a second transmission power level of the second UL transmission, according to a power level limit of the communication device, if a sum of the transmission power level of the first UL transmission and the first transmission power level of the second UL transmission is greater than the power level limit; performing the first UL transmission according to the transmission power level of the first UL transmission; and performing the second UL transmission according to the second transmission power level of the second UL transmission.
US10477482B2
A method of handling an on-off state of a cell for a communication device comprises receiving a first downlink (DL) control information (DCI) in a first subframe from a network, wherein the first DCI indicates at least one first on-off state of at least one first subframe of a first cell of the network; and determining an on-off state of a second subframe of the first cell according to the first DCI, wherein the at least one first subframe comprises the second subframe.
US10477478B2
There is disclosed a method of operating and a method for reducing power consumption in a wireless communications device. The method comprises receiving a first system request for data from a data access application on a wireless communications device and storing the first system request in a memory of the wireless communications device without transmitting to the server until a first user request for data is received. Upon receiving the first user request for data, the wireless communications module of the wireless communications device is activated and both the first user request and the first system request are transmitted to the server. In cases where the first system request for data is determined to have high priority, then it is not stored and is transmitted to the server, regardless of whether a first user request has been received.
US10477477B2
Monitoring and mass notification systems, such as fire alarm systems, for use in occupied structures, and more particularly to wireless monitoring and mass notification systems include wireless base units that can be modular in design. This allows horns, mini horns, strobes, and audio messaging modules (e.g., speakers) to be physically plugged into the wireless base unit creating a unit with the appearance of a single physical unit. Preferably standardized plugs are used. In some cases, visual and audio modules (i.e., notification devices) have their own battery pack or external power interface. Each wireless base unit can optionally function as a repeater if it has dual transceivers (master transceiver and slave transceiver).
US10477476B2
A wireless device and method of power consumption reduction are generally described herein. The wireless device may map a plurality of data symbols to sub-carriers for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission. The wireless device may divide the plurality of data symbols into first and second groups of data symbols. The wireless device may generate a first OFDM signal from the first group of data symbols for amplification by a first power amplifier (PA). The wireless device may generate a second OFDM signal from the second group of data symbols for amplification by a second PA. The data symbols of the first and second groups may be selected to provide a PAPR of the first OFDM signal that is lower than a PAPR of a composite OFDM signal based on the plurality of data symbols.
US10477474B2
Methods and systems for controlling a personal area network access device are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving an application event associated with a particular application running on a complex Bluetooth® device that is running a plurality of simultaneous applications, and determining whether a low power mode is allowed by the particular application running on the complex Bluetooth® device. If the low power mode is allowed by the particular application running on the complex Bluetooth® device, the complex Bluetooth® device running the particular application may be configured to operate utilizing the allowed low power mode. The allowed low power mode may be switched by the complex Bluetooth® device based on the application event. An active mode may be switched from a current mode prior to switching to the allowed power mode based on the application event.
US10477463B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for cloud-based adaptive configuration and control of a network device include, detecting an access by a user through the network device to a cloud-based service; and responsive to the detected access, configuring the network device to be controlled by the user via a cloud-based configuration controller. Further implementations include, receiving a configuration request from the network device, wherein the configuration request includes access information pertaining to an access made by a user to a cloud-based service; determining a cloud-based identity of the user based upon the received access information; associating the cloud-based identity with an ownership identifier; forming one or more instructions to configure the network device with the ownership identifier as an owner of the network device; and transmitting the one or more instructions to the network device.
US10477460B2
A communication method in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication is provided. The communication method includes transmitting a first message including information for identifying a relay to discover a relay user equipment (UE) that performs a relay function in the D2D communication, and receiving a second message including information about the relay UE that performs the relay function, from the relay UE that has received the first message, the second message being transmitted in response to the first message.
US10477452B1
The present disclosure proposes systems and methods for performing spatial reuse using the following techniques at access points and stations. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to spatial reuse of medium with a spatial reuse opportunity announcement provided to STAs by an AP, opportunistic directional sensing performed by STAs, and a channel access method with a new backoff procedure performed by the STAs. An AP may provision a spatial reuse opportunity announcement in a beacon interval, and STAs may perform opportunistic directional sensing based on the announcement and perform channel access after performing opportunistic directional sensing.
US10477450B2
A bi-directional communication method needs to be switched on the basis of cost of bi-directional communication. Provided is a communication system including a first terminal apparatus and a second terminal apparatus, in which the first terminal apparatus includes a radio unit that transmits a first signal by using a first communication path that is a direct communication path to the second terminal apparatus, the second terminal apparatus includes a radio unit that transmits a second signal by using a second communication path that is a communication path different from the first communication path, and the first terminal apparatus transmits the first signal on the basis of a feature amount of the second signal transmitted by the second terminal apparatus.
US10477448B2
Various solutions for cell reselection with interference avoidance with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive frequency information of a target cell from a broadcast channel of a serving cell. The apparatus may determine an overlapped bandwidth region between the serving cell and the target cell according to the frequency information. The apparatus may compare a signal quality of the serving cell in the overlapped bandwidth region with a signal quality of the target cell in the overlapped bandwidth region. The apparatus may determine whether to perform a cell reselection according to a comparison result.
US10477443B2
A method of mobility management in a cellular system includes determining from a first received indication that at least one communication device intends to receive a multimedia broadcast multicast service or is receiving a multimedia broadcast multicast service. The information is sent to the at least one communication device relating to at least one multimedia broadcast multicast service capable cell. The method further includes receiving from the at least one communication device a report including measurement information of the at least one multimedia broadcast multicast service capable cell. The method finally includes initiating selecting at least one cell on at least one carrier for the at least one communication device, the at least one carrier including one or more cells capable of providing a multimedia broadcast multicast service.
US10477441B2
In some examples, a source wireless access network node generates, for a user equipment (UE), a plurality of security configurations, wherein each security configuration of the plurality of security configurations is associated with a different respective candidate target wireless network node in a set of candidate target wireless access network nodes. The source wireless access network node sends each security configuration of the plurality of security configurations to the respective candidate target wireless network node, and sends security information of the plurality of security configurations to the UE.
US10477439B2
A secondary base station (2) is configured to receive an SeNB addition request message from a second master base station (3) while providing a radio terminal (1) with a secondary cell group (SCG) for DC in cooperation with a first master base station. The SeNB addition request message indicates whether each of at least one bearer that has already been configured in the secondary base station (2) for DC with the first master base station (1) is to be kept at the secondary base station (2). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to performing a procedure for changing a master base station in Dual Connectivity (DC) by using existing inter-base station interface procedures and inter-base station signaling messages.
US10477426B1
A device identifies a subset of network performance indicator (NPI) values that measure network performance during peak usage time periods, selects particular NPI values associated with the peak usage time periods, based on one or more of the subset of NPI values satisfying particular threshold network performance values, and compares the particular NPI values with threshold upper and lower bound network performance values to determine weighted scores for the particular NPI values. The device determines, by processing the weighted scores, a weighted mean score that represents a mean of the weighted scores, and determines, based on an analysis of the particular NPI values and the weighted mean score, an overall site score that represents a viability level in upgrading the cell site. The device generates, based on the overall site score, a plan to upgrade one or more network technologies associated with the cell site.
US10477424B2
A communication device of handling aggregation of cellular network and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) aggregation (CWA) comprises instructions of transmitting a message indicating support of the CWA to a base station (BS) via a cellular connection; receiving a configuration message configuring the CWA from the BS via the cellular connection; transmitting a cellular protocol data unit (PDU) to a WLAN configured by the configuration message via a WLAN connection; receiving a status report indicating that the cellular PDU is lost from the BS; transmitting the cellular PDU indicated by the status report, when the communication device has the cellular PDU in a memory device of the communication device; and transmitting a cellular message in response to the status report, when the communication device does not have the cellular PDU in the memory device.
US10477422B2
Access devices may receive signals over a network and calculate a frequency spectrum of the received signals. An analyzer system may collect the frequency spectrum data from multiple access devices, and based on the collected data, detect, identify, and locate sources of anomalies in a communication network.
US10477414B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with 5G communication systems for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G systems and to a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g. smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security- and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The method for data decoding by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving subframes on the basis of a configuration; obtaining at least one channel phase value on the basis of available subframes, which are configured to transmit identical downlink data, among the received subframes; correcting the other channel phase value(s) with any one of said at least one obtained channel phase value as a reference value; and decoding the downlink data by means of the reference value and the corrected channel phase value(s).
US10477412B2
An example non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions executable by a processor to: determine a channel distribution vector based on a channel priority for a plurality of available wireless channels within a wireless network; receive a set of constraints on a channel plan; determine a channel plan meeting the set of user defined constraints based on the channel distribution vector; and transmit the channel plan to a plurality of radios on the wireless network, wherein the channel plan comprises a channel assigned to each radio of the plurality of radios.
US10477408B2
An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a channel use confirmation unit configured to execute channel use confirmation for confirming that the communication channel is usable by continuously monitoring the detection process by the radar detection unit for a predetermined time.
US10477402B2
Key fob and vehicle control unit identifiers (IDs) are used for entity authentication or trust transfer to achieve a secured initial pairing. The key fob is capable of transmitting only (not receiving) and is paired with a control unit in a vehicle or with any other control device. Use of the key fob and control unit IDs prevents unauthorized pairing and access to the operation key (OpKey) that is later used for communications between the devices. Elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) is used for strong security and efficient implementation. In the pairing process, device IDs are used for entity authentication and public key cryptography is used for easy key management. Symmetric encryption is used for fast normal operation and to accommodate key fob addition or revocation after key fob loss.
US10477399B2
A communication apparatus determines whether or not a security function relating to communication of the communication apparatus is set when the information processing apparatus performs direct wireless communication; and controls to prohibit or permit wireless communication with the information processing apparatus in accordance with the determination result.
US10477396B2
Techniques described herein may provide for affiliation and disaffiliation of devices, such as office communication devices, associated with a user. The affiliation/disaffiliation may be performed using a mobile device (e.g., a smart phone). In one implementation, a method may include receiving a request to affiliate a user with one or more office devices; and receiving context data, from a mobile device, relating to a current context of the mobile device. The method may further include determining, based on the context data, to authorize the affiliation of the user with the one or more office devices; and provisioning, based on the determination to authorize the affiliation, the one or more office devices to customize the one or more office devices for the user.
US10477391B1
Techniques for providing service-based security per user location in mobile networks (e.g., service provider networks for mobile subscribers) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for service-based security per user location in mobile networks in accordance with some embodiments includes monitoring network traffic on a service provider network at a security platform to identify a new session, wherein the service provider network includes a 5G network or a converged 5G network; extracting user location information for user traffic associated with the new session at the security platform; and determining a security policy to apply at the security platform to the new session based on the user location information.
US10477387B2
The invention relates to a method for triggering a transmission of sensor data from a wireless device comprising at least one accelerometer. The wireless device is arranged to an automatic door. The method comprises: receiving from the wireless device data processed from the sensor data; analyzing the received data processed from the sensor data; and generating a control signal to the wireless device in response to a detection of a predefined event, wherein the control signal comprises at least a request to the wireless device to trigger the transmission of sensor data. The invention also relates to a network node and a system performing at least partly the method.
US10477383B2
A download order message is received from a business support function of a wireless communication carrier. The download order message is for initiating a preparation of an unpopulated eSIM profile for downloading to an EUICC on a user device. The unpopulated eSIM profile is an eSIM profile that lacks pre-populated profile metadata. A metadata provision value is extracted from the download order message. The metadata provision value is compared to a mapping table that maps profile metadata provision values to corresponding combinations of one or more metadata element values. Accordingly, a combination of one or more profile metadata element values for the unpopulated eSIM profile is identified based on the comparison of the metadata provision value to the mapping table. The combination of one or more profile metadata element values is then populated into the unpopulated eSIM profile to generate a populated eSIM profile.
US10477380B2
A base station according to a present embodiment is a base station configured to manage a cell, and comprises: a controller configured to transmit, if a relay terminal configured to relay data by direct communication between a remote terminal and a network is not present in a vicinity of a radio terminal located within the cell, control information to the radio terminal. The control information is information for starting transmission of a discovery signal for discovering another radio terminal that can be the relay UE.
US10477378B2
In some examples, a wireless device includes a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver that has a plurality of antennas to perform MIMO wireless communication. At least one processor is configured to concurrently perform discovery of respective different wireless devices using at least two of the plurality of antennas.
US10477376B2
Systems and methods for formatting frames in neighborhood aware networks are described herein. One aspect of the subject matter described in the disclosure provides a method of communicating in a wireless neighborhood aware network (NAN). The method includes determining at least one connection setup information element indicating one or more connection parameters of the NAN. The method further includes determining at least one service identifier of the NAN. The method further includes generating a public action discovery frame comprising the at least one connection setup information element and the at least one service identifier. The method further includes transmitting, at a wireless device, the public action discovery frame.
US10477372B2
In aspects, the present invention discloses a method for communicating with a plurality of field devices using a remote terminal unit. The plurality of field devices includes a first set of field devices and a second set of field devices capable of communicating using a first and second wireless communication protocols respectively. The method comprises scanning for a beacon message from a first field device, determining a corresponding wireless communication protocol associated from the first field device, identifying a first set of configuration blocks for communicating with the first field device based on a configuration schema file and the corresponding wireless communication protocol of the first field device, and building a protocol stack for use with a radio front end from the one or more radio front ends using the first set of configuration blocks, for communicating with the first field device from the plurality of field devices.
US10477367B2
A communication device identifies a subset of physical resource blocks, PRBs, within a Long Term Evolution, LTE, system bandwidth that are eligible for use as narrowband internet of things, NB-IoT, PRBs, wherein the eligibility of PRBs for use as NB-IoT PRBs is determined in relation to at least one machine-type-communication, MTC, narrowband within the LTE system bandwidth, and transmits or receives information via at least one of the eligible PRBs that has been allocated as a NB-IoT PRB, or via the at least one MTC narrowband.
US10477360B2
A mobile communication system of the present invention is a mobile communication system including a mobile station, base stations each of which forms a cell and transmits MBMS data to the mobile station existing in the cell, control stations each of which controls a base station connected thereto, and further including a core network node that instructs each of the control stations connected thereto with respect to the frequency and timing for transmitting MBMS data in the cell, wherein each of the control stations establishes time synchronization with another control station and instructs the connected base station to set the cell to the frequency designated by the core network node and transmits, to the connected base station, the MBMS data in accordance with the transmission timing designated by the core network node and the mobile station then receives the MBMS data.
US10477359B2
Embodiments relate to methods, systems and computer program products for publishing messages within a geographic area. Aspects include receiving a location from each of a plurality of user devices and creating a geo-hash tree based on the location of each of a plurality of user devices. Aspects also include receiving a message with the geographic area, computing a geo-hash grid for a region that includes the geographic area and identifying one or more nodes of the geo-hash tree that corresponds to the geo-hash grid. Aspects further include transmitting the message to one or more of the plurality of user devices associated with the one or more identified nodes.
US10477358B1
Determining whether a mobile device is inside an environment experiencing adverse pressure variation conditions. Particular systems and methods for determining whether a mobile device is inside an environment experiencing adverse pressure variation conditions detect a change in pressure measured by a mobile device that is caused by an HVAC effect of a building or a vehicle, determine a likelihood that the mobile device is inside a building based on an estimated position of the mobile device relative to the building, and determine that the mobile device is inside the building or inside a vehicle based on the likelihood that the mobile device is inside the building.
US10477354B2
An electronic device worn on a user includes one or more accelerometers. The one or more accelerometers generate acceleration information based on acceleration experienced by the electronic device. The electronic device further includes a processor and one or more associated memories, and the one or more associate memories include computer program code executable by the processor. The processor, configured by the computer program code, causes the electronic device to process the acceleration information to extract features from the acceleration information. The processor, configured by the computer program code, further causes the electronic device to process the features to determine the location of the electronic device on the user.
US10477352B2
Various techniques are provided that may be implemented at one or more of a plurality of co-located mobile devices. For example, a first mobile device may identify a plurality of location determination tasks, transmit a request indicative of a subset of the plurality of location determination tasks to be performed by a second mobile device, and receive a response to the request.
US10477346B2
A method for passive access control including a mobile device serving as key and an interaction unit, the mobile device and the interaction unit having in each case at least one data communication facility for exchanging authorization information. Operations are provided for carrying out an electronic distance measurement between the mobile device and the interaction unit and for permitting an access and/or an interaction only if the distance of the mobile device from the interaction unit is within a permitted distance.
US10477341B2
Techniques for controlling updating of information stored on a device, the information including information of a first type and information of a second type. The techniques include determining, using at least one processor, when a first item of information of the first type and a second item of information of the second type are to be updated, wherein the second item of information is to be updated more frequently than the first item of information; and causing the device to update the first and second items of information in accordance with the determination at least in part by wirelessly communicating with at least one other device.
US10477333B1
A system capable of synchronizing audio by determining a playback delay between when an audio sample is sent to and then output from a speaker. The system may generate a test signal configured to reach a saturation threshold and may send the test signal at a first time, followed by blank audio samples, from a first processor to a second processor to be output by the speaker. The second processor may detect that an audio sample exceeds a saturation threshold at a second time, generate a timestamp and send the timestamp to the first processor. The first processor may determine a playback delay between the first time and the second time and may also determine a number of blank audio samples sent between the first time and the second time. Using the playback delay and the number of blank audio samples, the system may generate audio using precise timing.
US10477322B2
The application describes a MEMS transducer comprising:a substrate; a primary membrane supported in a fixed relation relative to the substrate and a secondary membrane provided in a plane overlying the primary membrane. The secondary membrane is mechanically coupled to the primary membrane by a substantially rigid coupling structure. A rigid support plate may be interposed between the primary and secondary membranes.
US10477319B2
A wearing state detection method for a wearable device and a device. The detection method comprises: providing in the wearable device a sensor in an area capable of contacting the skin of a user, wherein the sensor outputs different measurement values when the user wears or takes off the wearable device; acquiring a base value indicating whether the wearable device is being worn; after wearing detection has been started up, collecting measurement values from the sensor at a preset sampling frequency; judging whether the wearable device is currently in a wearing state according to the measurement values and the base value; and controlling the wearable device to turn off a corresponding function that is running when the wearable device is in a non-wearing state. The method and the device can reduce the power consumption and simplify user operation.
US10477312B2
An earphone is provided that can decrease a time delay between a microphone and a loudspeaker. The earphone includes a microphone incorporated with the membrane of loudspeaker. The loudspeaker and the microphone are connected by connection lines to an electronic circuit.
US10477311B2
Apparatus for mixing at least two audio signals, at least one audio signal associated with at least one parameter, and at least one second audio signal further associated with at least one second parameter, wherein the at least one audio signal and the at least one second audio signal are associated with a sound scene and wherein the at least one audio signal represent spatial audio capture microphone channels and the at least one second audio signal represents an external audio channel separate from the spatial audio capture microphone channels, the apparatus comprising: a processor configured to generate a combined parameter output based on the at least one second parameter and the at least one parameter; and a mixer configured to generate a combined audio signal with a same number or fewer number of channels as the at least one audio signal based on the at least one audio signal and the at least one second audio signal, wherein the combined audio signal is associated with the combined parameter.
US10477309B2
The present technique relates to a sound field reproduction device, a sound field reproduction method, and a program that make it possible to further accurately reproduce a certain sound field.A feature amount extraction unit extracts a main sound source feature amount from a sound pickup signal obtained by picking up a sound from a main sound source. A main sound source separation unit separates the sound pickup signal obtained through the sound pickup with a microphone array that mainly picks up a sound from the main sound source into a main sound source component and an auxiliary sound source component using the main sound source feature amount. On the basis of the main sound source component and the auxiliary sound source component that have been separated, a main sound source emphasis unit generates a signal in which the main sound source components are emphasized. A drive signal for a speaker array is generated from the signal generated in this manner and supplied to the speaker array. The present technique can be applied to a sound field reproduction apparatus.
US10477303B1
An adjustable positioning head restraint speaker system includes a head restraint unit mounted to a vehicle seat. A left-side speaker unit and a right-side speaker unit are each manually displaced with respect to the head restraint unit to independently position each of the left-side speaker unit and the right-side speaker unit in different temporarily fixed locations with respect to the head restraint unit. A member connects the left-side speaker unit and the right-side speaker unit to one of the head restraint unit and the vehicle seat. The different temporarily fixed locations include at least a first location creating a direct acoustic path into an ear of an occupant of the vehicle seat and a second location defining an indirect acoustic path toward the ear of the occupant.
US10477300B2
An air pulse generating element, disposed in a sound producing device, includes a membrane, disposed within a chamber; and a plurality of valves, disposed by the membrane within the chamber, configured to seal a plurality of openings of the chamber in response to a plurality of valve control signals; wherein the membrane and the plurality of valves are all fabricated at a first layer.
