US10480014B2
A method for producing natural rubber by using a recombinant microorganism is disclosed, the method comprising: (a) manufacturing an expression vector capable of expressing a gene encoding a cis-prenyltransferase, which is a guayule-derived natural rubber synthetase represented by the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or a Hevea brasiliensis-derived natural rubber synthetase represented by the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6, and an expression vector capable of expressing a gene coding for a natural rubber precursor synthetase; (b) transforming a host microorganism with the expression vector; (c) culturing the transformed host microorganism; and (d) separating natural rubber from the cultured transformed host microorganism. The natural rubber obtained by the method has a white powder form identical to that of natural rubber, and shows an FT-IR spectrum pattern extremely similar to that of natural rubber.
US10480005B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 5PEKB42. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 5PEKB42. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 5PEKB42 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 5PEKB42 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10480002B2
Provided are edible vaccines including transgenic microalgae expressing at least one exogenous antigen or an intervening organism including the transgenic microalgae. The antigen expressing microalgae are used for oral delivery of the antigen to a target organism in its intact and functional form. The exogenous antigen, expressed in the microalgae, is characterized by exerting at least one immunogenic response in the subject consuming the vaccine.
US10479991B2
A method and reagent for constructing a nucleic acid double-linker single-strand cyclic library. The method comprises: breaking a nucleic acid into nucleic acid fragments; connecting a first linker sequence; producing by amplification a first product provided with the first linker sequence at either end, where a U nucleobase site is provided on primer sequences and a nicking enzyme recognition sequence is either provided or not provided on same, and a first affinity tag is provided on one of the primer sequences; using USER enzyme to cleave the first product; cyclizing the cleaved first product; treating the cyclization product with either a phosphatase or a nicking enzyme; using a solid-phase vector for combination with a cyclized molecule; performing a restrictive gap translation reaction; removing by digestion any portion that did not undergo the restrictive gap translation reaction; connecting a second linker sequence; producing by amplification a second product provided with the second linker sequence at either end; denaturing the second product, and cyclizing a single-strand nucleic acid molecule. The method allows an increase in the length of library insert fragments, a simplified library construction process, reduced library construction time, and reduced library construction costs.
US10479986B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide methods for identifying cell-type-specific nucleosomal DNA modifications. The methods leverage nucleosomal DNA barcoding and pool-and-split multiplexing to provide high-throughout, quantitative profiling of nucleosomal DNA states. The methods enable the profiling of multiple nucleosomal DNA marks across different cell types and/or conditions thereby linking quantitative changes in chromatin landscapes to different genotypes and chemical and physical perturbations.
US10479984B2
Disclosed herein are polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding modules and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules. Disclosed herein are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprise the polynucleotides as well as their uses, and methods of producing the polypeptides, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding modules.
US10479979B2
A method for preparing cold atmospheric plasma stimulated cell culture media with a cold atmospheric plasma system having a delivery port out of which an inert gas flows. The inert gas may be helium. The method comprises the steps of placing a cell culture media in a first well, the first well having a bottom and having a diameter greater than 20 mm; wherein the cell culture media placed in the first well has a volume of 4 ml or less, treating the cell culture media in the first well with cold atmospheric plasma, wherein the treating is performed with a gap between the delivery port and the bottom of the first well is between 2.5 cm and 3.5 cm, and transferring a portion of the treated media to cultured cancer cells in a second well. The cold atmospheric plasma may be applied for 0.5 minutes to 2 minutes.
US10479978B2
Enhanced postnatal adherent cells and a preparation method therefor are provided. The preparation method of enhanced postnatal adherent cells can increase the yield and the proliferation rate of adherent cells from placental tissues; and prepare adherent cells, which secrete proteins effective for neurological diseases and have an improved ability for movement to damaged tissues.
US10479972B2
One aspect of the invention provides a sample chamber for use in the dynamic imaging of cells. In one embodiment, the chamber includes a holding mechanism for positioning the cells against a viewing window in the chamber. A housing is positioned against the viewing window to define the closed chamber. The housing may include access ports allowing for the perfusion of fluid through the chamber, the control of the internal temperature of the chamber and the micromanipulation and electrical stimulation of the cells.
US10479969B2
Bioreactors and methods for cultivating microalgae under heterotrophic growth conditions using fruit wastewater as a carbon source are provided herein. The heterotrophic growth conditions include low irradiance of light sufficient to initiate light-activated metabolism, but not photosynthesis. The methods provide a cost effective and environmentally friendly solution for converting wastewater from dried fruit and wine industries into products like biofuels.
US10479967B2
In general, certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide devices and methods for fermentation. According to various embodiments, a device is provided comprising a container for housing an amount of a carbohydrate solution therein. An atomizer coupled to the container converts the carbohydrate solution into an aerosol suspension of particles that is emitted into a first chamber. A first panel separating the first chamber from a second chamber includes a fermentation agent thereon. The carbohydrate solution is emitted as the aerosol suspension of particles into the first chamber and onto the first panel such that the carbohydrate solution is fermented by the fermentation agent. The carbohydrate solution is collected in the second chamber and is returned to the atomizer until the carbohydrate solution has been fermented to a desired state. In certain embodiments, the fermentation agent comprises a yeast culture or other microorganism.
US10479960B2
Fibrous structures containing a plurality of wood pulp fibers and a surface having thereon a surface softening composition containing a metathesized unsaturated polyol ester having one or more of the following properties: (i) a weight average molecular weight of from about 5,000 Daltons to about 50,000 Daltons; (ii) an oligomer index from greater than 0 to 1; and (iii) an iodine value of from about 30 to about 200 is provided.
US10479947B2
An integrated hydrocracking and solvent deasphalting process that provides for removal from the heavy oil recycle stream heavy polycyclic aromatic compounds formed in the hydrocracking step and recycling the resulting deasphalted paraffinic oil as a feed to the hydrocracker reactor of the process for further conversion.
US10479942B1
A continuous high capacity system for converting hydrocarbon-containing post-consumer waste, post-industrial waste, and/or renewable hydrocarbon feedstock into biofuels having an extruder for agglomerating particles and pressurizing them, a shredder to shred the agglomerated particles, a heating system to rapidly heat the fine particulate, a separator that receives heated solids and prevents heated vapors from leaving the system, and a filter with solids separator that receives the heated vapor and further separates microfine solids from the heated vapor forming a substantially cleaned vapor. A vapor cooling system receives the substantially cleaned vapor and using controlled pressure and controlled temperature, cools the substantially cleaned vapor to at least one hydrocarbon liquid and a gas, forming a hydrocarbon liquid for transfer to another device and/or using the gas as a fuel.
US10479941B2
Systems and methods for reducing atmospheric emission of hydrocarbon vapors by flashing off hydrocarbon vapors in an overflow drum where the pressure is ultimately reduced to 0 psig and then flashing off any remaining hydrocarbon vapors in an overflow tank wherein the pressure in the overflow tank is reduced to 0 psig by an overflow ejector.
US10479935B2
Provided are a fluorescent material having a high light emission intensity, a method for producing the same, and a light emitting device using the same. The present fluorescent material includes a composition represented by formula (I): SiuEuvAlwOxNy, wherein when the sum of a parameter u and a parameter w is taken as 13, parameters u, v, w, x, and y in the formula (I) satisfy the following formulae (1) to (5). 2.77≤u≤2.88 (1) 0.04≤v≤0.08 (2) 10.12≤w≤10.23 (3) 0.42≤x≤0.95 (4) 12.89≤y≤13.65 (5)
US10479932B2
According to an embodiment, a phosphor composition and a light-emitting device package including the same includes a first phosphor excited by an excited light source so as to emit light of a first wavelength area; a second phosphor excited by the excited light source so as to emit light of a second wavelength area; and a third phosphor excited by the excited light source so as to emit light of a third wavelength area. Therefore, light emitted from the phosphor composition has an improved color rendering index due to an increase in the intensity of light in a cyan wavelength area, and has an improved light velocity due to a shortened wavelength of light in a red wavelength area.
US10479930B2
A fracturing fluid composition that includes a chelating agent, e.g. GLDA, and a polymeric additive comprising a copolymer of acrylamido-tert-butyl sulfonate and hydrolyzed polyacrylamide diluted in an aqueous base fluid, e.g. seawater, and a method of fracking a geological formation using the fracturing fluid composition. Various embodiments of the fracturing fluid composition and the method of fracking are also provided.
US10479924B2
Packing fluids that include (a) an aqueous solvent, and optionally one or more water-miscible organic liquids; and (b) one or more organic cationic and/or alkali metal tungstates, molybdates, and/or silicates dissolved in the solvent are disclosed. The fluid may be substantially free of salts and esters of formic acid. The disclosure further relates to methods of making and using the packing fluids.
US10479916B2
Disclosed are latent two-part polyurethane adhesives that rapidly develop adhesive strength when cured by application of infrared radiation containing a polyol component which includes; one or more polyols having a hydroxyl equivalent weight of 400 to 2000 and a nominal hydroxyl functionality of 2 to 4; one or more aliphatic diol chain extenders; and one or more latent room temperature organometallic catalysts; b) a polyisocyanate component containing one or more polyisocyanate compounds; and v) a carboxylic acid-blocked cyclic amidine compound and vi) a phenol-blocked cyclic amidine compound which each may be located in the polyol component or the isocyanate component. Further disclosed are methods of bonding structures together using the latent two-part polyurethane adhesives.
US10479915B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for transient adhesive polymers, methods of making transient adhesive polymers, structures including the transient adhesive polymer attaching two portions of the structure to one another, and the like.
US10479913B2
A pressure sensitive adhesive film comprises a substrate film and a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) layer formed on a surface of the substrate film. The PSA layer is formed from a silicone composition comprising: a diorganopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups in a molecule and having a viscosity at 25° C. of from 10,000 to 1,000,000 mPa·s; (B) a diorganopolysiloxane having at least one alkenyl group in a molecule, and being raw and rubber-like at 25° C. or having a viscosity at 25° C. of more than 1,000,000 mPa·s; (C) an organopolysiloxane resin represented by the following average unit formula: (R13SiO1/2)x(SiO4/2)1.0, wherein each R1 represents a halogen-substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group free from an alkenyl group and x is a number from 0.5 to 1.0; (D) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms in a molecule; (E) silica fine powder; and (F) a hydrosilylation catalyst.
US10479905B2
Graphene ink compositions as can be utilized with gravure and screen printing processes, to provide flexible electronic components with high-resolution printed graphene circuitry.
US10479900B2
VO2 and V2O5 nano- or micro-materials. The VO2 nano-materials and micro-materials have an M1 phase structure and oxygen stoichiometry that deviates 2% or less from theoretical stoichiometry. The VO2 nano-materials and micro-materials may doped with cation dopants and/or anion dopants. The VO2 and V2O5 nano- or micro-materials can be made by hydrothermal methods starting with V3O7.H2O nano- or micro-material. The VO2 and V2O5 nano- or micro-materials can be used as, for example, thermochromic window coatings.
US10479896B2
A corrosion inhibition composition is disclosed comprising a zinc oxide, a zinc phosphate, a calcium silicate, an aluminum phosphate, a zinc calcium strontium aluminum orthophosphate silicate hydrate, a molybdate compound, a silicate compound, and a zinc phthalate compound.
US10479894B2
Provided are a compound, including metal atoms for forming metal nano particles through a simple process within a short time at a low production cost for commercial purposes, and a solution including the compound.
US10479893B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for producing iron oxide red pigments by the Penniman process using nitrate (also referred to as nitrate process or direct red process).
US10479890B2
Disclosed herein is an oxygen scavenging composition for containers. The oxygen scavenging composition for containers may comprise at least one polyester component, a transition metal catalyst, an oxygen scavenger, and a vegetable oil. The vegetable oil preferably comprises at least one molecule having a double allylic structure. The polyester component preferably comprises at least one acid unit and at least one diol unit. The concentration of double allylic structures of the vegetable oil in the composition may be greater than 5.0 meq/kg of all of the polyester components. The oxygen scavenger is preferably present in the composition at a level less than 1.0% by weight of the total composition. The vegetable oil is preferably present in the composition at a level greater than 0.3% by weight relative to the total weight of the polyester components, the transition metal catalyst and the vegetable oil.
US10479889B2
A thermoplastic resin composition including a polylactic acid, a thermoplastic polymer having a lower glass transition temperature than the polylactic acid, a nucleating agent, and a reactive plasticizer, a molded article made therefrom, and a method of preparing the thermoplastic resin composition.
US10479885B2
A thermoplastic resin composition includes: a first rubber-modified vinyl graft copolymer obtained by grafting a monomer mixture including an aromatic vinyl monomer and a vinyl cyanide monomer to a diene rubber polymer; a second rubber-modified vinyl graft copolymer obtained by grafting a monomer mixture including an aromatic vinyl monomer and a vinyl cyanide monomer to an acrylate rubber polymer; a first aromatic vinyl-vinyl cyanide copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of about 250,000 g/mol to about 450,000 g/mol and including about 25 wt % to about 31 wt % of a repeat unit derived from a vinyl cyanide monomer; a second aromatic vinyl-vinyl cyanide copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of about 70,000 g/mol to about 150,000 g/mol and including about 33 wt % to about 42 wt % of a repeat unit derived from a vinyl cyanide monomer; and a third aromatic vinyl-vinyl cyanide copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of about 70,000 g/mol to about 150,000 g/mol and including about 25 wt % to about 31 wt % of a repeat unit derived from a vinyl cyanide monomer. The thermoplastic resin composition can have excellent properties in terms of chemical resistance, stiffness, impact resistance, and the like.
US10479880B2
Provided are a rubber composition for tires which achieves both abrasion resistance and processability while maintaining fuel economy, and a pneumatic tire including the rubber composition. A rubber composition for tires, containing an organosilicon compound represented by the average compositional formula (I) below having a ratio of the number of sulfur atoms to the number of silicon atoms of 1.0 to 1.5, wherein x represents the average number of sulfur atoms; m represents an integer of 6 to 12; and R1 to R6 are the same or different and each represent a C1-C6 alkyl or alkoxy group, at least one of R1 to R3 and at least one of R4 to R6 are the alkoxy groups, and two or more of the alkyl or alkoxy groups for R1 to R6 may be joined to form a ring.
US10479874B1
A method for making rubber films with improved ESD (electrostatic discharge) property relates to a method for making better ESD gloves using improved rubber composition with a precipitated CaCO3 filler. In addition, non-metallic filled organic pigment such as AZO compounds are suggested to make better ESD gloves. Additionally, other improved method steps such as chlorination and addition of Carbon Black in conjunction with chlorination are suggested to make better ESD gloves.
US10479872B2
An antifogging film includes a film base and a saponified layer. The film base is formed of cellulose triacetate as cellulose acylate. The saponified layer is provided on a first base surface of the film base and serves as a first film surface of the antifogging film. The saponified layer contains saponified cellulose triacetate. The antifogging film is configured such that the first film surface has a contact angle of 20° or less 15 seconds after dropping of pure water thereto. In a case where the amount of acyl groups of the first film surface is X and the amount of acyl groups of a second base surface is Y, an acyl group ratio obtained by X/Y is 0.7 or less.
US10479867B2
Method of producing super soft PAU core-shell copolymer dispersions is a solvent free process. The products have characteristics of both polyurethane and polyacrylate including being non-sticky, having a feeling of touching a peach when touching it by the hand, and having improved adhesion, tensile strength, and toughness.
US10479866B1
The present invention relates to polymers and copolymer including a poly(phenylene) structure, as well as a long tether. In some embodiments, the long tether facilitates a reaction between the poly(phenylene) structure and another subunit of a second polymer. In some embodiments, the tether is flexible.
US10479861B2
In one aspect, the present invention provides catalysts for the carbonylation of heterocycles. The inventive catalysts feature metal-ligand complexes having cationic functional groups tethered to the ligand, wherein the tethered cationic groups are associated with anionic metal carbonyl species. The invention also provides methods of using the inventive catalysts to affect the ring opening carbonylation of epoxides.
US10479859B2
This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. The disclosure provides aromatic polyester polyether polyols and compositions comprising such polyols. The disclosed aromatic polyester polyether polyols and compositions including same are the products of the transesterification reaction of polyethylene terephthalate (“PET”) and an ethoxylated triol, namely glycerin or trimethylolpropane, wherein the degree of ethoxylation is from 1 to 9 moles. At least some of the PET used to generate the aromatic polyester polyether polyols is derived from recycled PET. The disclosed aromatic polyester polyether polyols have utility in preparing polyurethane materials, for example.
US10479857B2
An anhydride-free impregnating resin for an electrical insulation body, the impregnating resin has an epoxy resin, a curing agent and nanoscale and/or microscale inorganic particles. An impregnable electrical insulating tape for an electrical insulation body has a curing agent applied to the electrical insulating tape. A method includes producing an electrical insulation body An electrical insulation body includes an anhydride-free impregnating resin, where the impregnating resin has an epoxy resin, a curing agent and nanoscale and/or microscale inorganic particles.
US10479854B2
A peptide-polymer conjugate is provided for use in treating malaria infections, and in particular terminal or drug resistant malaria infections. The conjugate is formed from a polymer to which a peptide having activity against a malaria parasite is co-valently attached. The peptide is a cyclic decapeptide from the closely-related group of tyrocidines, tryptocidines, phenycidines and gramicidin S, and the polymer is a hydrophilic and biocompatible polymer with a terminal thiol, such as poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP). The polymer chains can be decorated with a hydrophilic targeting ligand that specifically targets an epitope on red blood cells, and in particular red blood cells infected with a plasmodial parasite. A method for synthesising the peptide-polymer conjugate is also provided.
US10479846B2
This invention relates to hafnium metallocene compounds having a group substituted (preferably at the 3 position) on at least one cyclopentadienyl ring represented by the formula —R20—SiR′3 or —R20—CR′3 where R20 is a C1 to C4 hydrocarbyl (preferably methyl) and R′ is a C1 to C20 substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl.
US10479843B2
The present invention provides a method for producing natural rubber with which the odors of solid natural rubber is easily reduced, and further which does not degrade physical properties such as heat aging resistance. The present invention relates to a method for producing natural rubber, the method including a sheeting step including sheeting a non-deproteinized solid natural rubber to form a natural rubber sheet, the natural rubber sheet having a moisture content of 20% or less.
US10479831B2
This invention relates to chimeric and humanized antibodies that specifically bind the BCR complex, and particularly chimeric and humanized antibodies to the BCR complex. The invention also relates to methods of using the antibodies and compositions comprising them in the diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of diseases such as cancer, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders, and infectious disease.
US10479829B2
The present invention relates to antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof, which bind to a complex of GARP and TGF-β1, particularly a complex of human GARP and human TGF-β1. These antibodies and antigen binding fragments exhibit a combination of advantageous properties including high affinity antigen binding and the ability to inhibit the release of active TGF-β from regulatory T cells. The antibodies and antigen binding fragments of the present invention are relatively resistant to deamidation, isomerization and oxidation, such that they display improved stability.
US10479824B2
The present invention relates to single chain polypeptides comprising one or more immunoglobulin Fc domains. In particular the present invention relates to single-chain Fc polypeptides in which at least one functional Fc domain is formed within the polypeptide chain.
US10479804B2
A process for preparing an ammonium or phosphonium borate salt KA containing a cation K and an anion A. The process includes providing a melt of a borate salt K1A, and adding a solution of an ammonium or phosphonium salt KA1 in a solvent or solvent mixture (i), wherein K is an organic ammonium or phosphonium cation, and A is a borate anion of formula (Ia) or (Ib).
US10479802B2
Provided are imaging agents comprising a compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of their use.
US10479799B2
Provided is a solid acid catalyst which enables the production of isomannide and/or 2,5-sorbitan from mannitol with high yield and high safety at low cost. The mannitol may be derived from a cellulose and/or a hemicellulose. The solid acid catalyst for dehydration contains an acid type β-zeolite and/or a Y type zeolite.
US10479795B2
This application relates to compounds of Formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or stereoisomers thereof, which are inhibitors of PI3K-γ which are useful for the treatment of disorders such as autoimmune diseases, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases.
US10479789B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a crystalline Form of pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidone analog, a preparation method therefor and an intermediate thereof.
US10479788B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1, R4, Ar, W, X and Z are all as defined herein. The compounds of the present invention are known to inhibit the spindle checkpoint function of Monospindle 1 (Mps1—also known as TTK) kinases either directly or indirectly via interaction with the Mps1 kinase itself. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of these compounds as therapeutic agents for the treatment and/or prevention of proliferative diseases, such as cancer. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them.
US10479773B2
Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide a process for converting biomass into furfural. The process may include subjecting a pentosan-containing biomass material to an acid catalyzed digestion process in a digestion vessel to produce a digested product stream comprising C5-carbohydrates and solids comprising cellulose. The digested product stream may be separated into a liquid product stream and a solid product stream comprising lignin and cellulose. The solids product stream may be contacted with water and an organic solvent, thereby converting at least part of the lignin to a phenolic solvent. The C5-carbohydrate in the liquid product stream may be subjected to a dehydration reaction in the presence of an acid catalyst and a biphasic mixture comprising an aqueous phase and a water-immiscible organic phase, wherein the water-immiscible organic phase includes at least a portion of the phenolic solvent, to produce furfural or a furan derivative.
US10479770B2
The present application provides the compounds of formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, isomers, tautomer, or a mixture thereof, wherein t, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 are as described herein.
US10479765B2
The present application relates to novel substituted N,2-diarylquinoline-4-carboxamide derivatives, to processes for preparation thereof, to the use thereof alone or in combinations for treatment and/or prevention of diseases, and to the use thereof for production of medicaments for treatment and/or prevention of diseases, especially for treatment and/or prevention of fibrotic and/or inflammatory disorders.
US10479764B2
This invention discloses 2-methylene-(22E)-25-hexanoyl-24-oxo-26,27-cyclo-22-dehydro-19-nor-vitamin D analogs, and specifically 2-methylene-(22E)-25-hexanoyl-24-oxo-26,27-cyclo-22-dehydro-19-nor-1α-hydroxyvitamin D3, and pharmaceutical uses therefor. This compound exhibits relatively high transcription activity as well as pronounced activity in arresting the proliferation of undifferentiated cells and inducing their differentiation to the monocyte thus evidencing use as an anti-cancer agent and for the treatment of skin diseases such as psoriasis as well as skin conditions such as wrinkles, slack skin, dry skin and insufficient sebum secretion. This compound also shows low activity in vivo on bone calcium mobilization, and therefore may be used to treat autoimmune disorders or inflammatory diseases in humans as well as renal osteodystrophy. This compound may also be used for the treatment or prevention of obesity.
US10479763B2
The present specification relates to a chiral resolution method of a stereoisomer mixture, comprising a step of mixing a stereoisomer mixture of compounds, in which an amine group is bound to an asymmetric carbon atom, with a chiral auxiliary and salt-forming auxiliary compound, wherein the chiral auxiliary is an O,O′-diacyltartaric acid derivative, more specifically, a 2,3-dibenzoyl-tartaric acid or O,O′-di-p-toluoyl tartaric acid, the salt-forming auxiliary compound is mandelic acid or camphorsulfonic acid, and an optical isomer having a high level of optical purity can be obtained by using the method. Therefore, according to one aspect of the present invention, the method can be useful in pharmaceutical or cosmetic field when preparing an optical isomer having a high optical purity.
US10479760B2
The present disclosure relates generally to catalyst materials and processes for making and using them. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to molybdenum, bismuth and iron-containing metal oxide catalyst materials useful, for example, in the partial oxidation or ammoxidation of propylene or isobutylene, processes for making them, and processes for making acrolein, methacrolein, acrylonitrile, and methacrylonitrile using such catalysts.
US10479758B2
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) having inorganic nodes that comprise an octahedral Hf6 cluster capped by eight μ3-ligands and having twelve octahedral edges, wherein the μ3-ligands are hydroxo ligands, oxo ligands or aquo ligands; and organic linkers connecting the organic nodes, the organic linkers comprising 1,3,6,8-tetrakis(p-benzoic acid)pyrene units; wherein eight of the twelve octahedral edges of the inorganic nodes are connected to the 1,3,6,8-tetrakis(p-benzoic acid)pyrene units are provided.
US10479755B2
Methods of carrying out metathesis reactions of natural oil-derived polyenes (e.g., dienes and trienes), including functionalized polyenes, are generally disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the dienes or trienes contain a terminal carbon-carbon double bond, and the metathesis reaction is selective toward reaction of the terminal carbon-carbon double bonds in the polyene. Compounds made by such methods are also generally disclosed herein.
US10479751B2
The present invention provides an apparatus comprising a feed arranged below the middle of the apparatus, a quenching agent inlet arranged above the feed, an outlet arranged below the feed and a draw arranged above the quenching agent inlet, the apparatus having a region provided with one or more packing elements, wherein at least one means which ensures the formation of a liquid layer having a height of at least 1 cm is present between the quenching agent inlet and a packing element present between the quenching agent inlet and feed. The present invention also provides a process for preparing acrylic acid, which includes a step of oxidizing acrolein, wherein the reaction mixture obtained in this oxidation is contacted with water as quenching agent in an inventive apparatus, and a composition obtainable as bottom product in the process according to the invention, comprising acrylic acid and water.
US10479748B2
A method for the oxidation of C1-9-alkanes including providing a mixture of a C1-9-alkane in a liquid phase, a boron containing reagent, a free radical initiator, and a drying means, and performing an oxidation reaction at a temperature from 130° C. to 180° C. in the presence of oxygen. The drying means may be a drying agent such as a molecular sieve, or a membrane. Also a composition for oxidation of C1-9-alkanes to sec-C1-9-alcohols.
US10479736B2
A method of enhancing plant growth comprises a) selecting a mobile, self-contained system comprising a mobile structure, a vessel supported by the structure for receiving water and nutrients, a recirculating pump, a generator powering the pump, and a discharge line adapted for discharging contents of the vessel directly into an irrigation system; b) introducing into the vessel water and nutrient; c) moving the system; d) after moving, coupling the discharge line to an irrigation system or spray; and e) pumping the water and nutrient in the vessel with the pump out of the vessel through the discharge line directly into the irrigation system or spray.
US10479725B2
Methods and devices for producing a composite pane having a functional coating are presented. The functional coating is applied to part of a surface of a base pane, and a first pane is cut out from the base pane while introducing a frame-shaped peripheral coating-free region into the functional coating having an inner region that is not adjacent a side edge of the first pane. The surface of the first pane with the functional coating is then bonded via a thermoplastic intermediate layer to a surface of a second pane.
US10479706B2
An apparatus, system and method to purify water is disclosed. In addition, the apparatus, system and method can effectively discharge the brine effluent. The apparatus can comprise an offshore structure, wherein the offshore structure comprises a water intake device connected to a pre-desalination filters connected to a plurality of reverse osmosis filters in communication with a purified water line and effluent discharge device. A plurality of filters for filtering the water from the intake, filter the water to remove solid contaminates before running the filtered water through the reverse osmosis system to the discharge device and purified water lines. Herein also disclosed is a wastewater discharge system. In an embodiment, the system comprises a control panel that controls, the offshore structure plurality of filters, plurality of reverse osmosis filters, purified water line and effluent discharge device, to achieve favorable water purification. Herein also described is a method that utilizes the apparatus and/or system disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the method comprises: obtaining an offshore structure comprising a water purification system, flowing water into an inlet device, pumping the water through a filtration system, flowing the filtered water through a plurality of reverse osmosis filters; flowing purified water through a purified water line; and flowing discharge effluent through a discharge device.
US10479695B2
Provided are porous titanate compound particles capable of giving excellent fade resistance and moisture-proof properties when used in a friction material, a friction material composition, a friction material, a friction member, and a method for producing the porous titanate compound particles. Porous titanate compound particles have a cumulative pore volume of 5% or more within a pore diameter range of 0.01 to 1.0 μm, are each formed of titanate compound crystal grains bonded together, and each includes a treated layer formed on a surface thereof and made of a hydrophobic surface treatment agent.
US10479684B2
A method for recovering sulfur from an acid gas feed is provided. The method comprising the steps of mixing the acid gas feed and an absorption process outlet stream to form a combined Claus feed, introducing the combined Claus feed and a sulfur dioxide enriched air feed to a Claus process to produce a Claus outlet gas stream, introducing the Claus outlet gas stream to a thermal oxidizer, treating the thermal oxidizer outlet stream in a gas treatment unit to produce a dehydrated stream, introducing the dehydrated stream to a membrane sweeping unit to produce a sweep membrane residue stream and a sulfur dioxide enriched air feed, introducing a sweep air stream to a permeate side of the membrane sweeping unit, and introducing the sweep membrane residue stream to a sulfur dioxide absorption process to produce the absorption process outlet stream and a stack feed.
US10479683B2
A mobile system is described that that produces and applies an ozonated liquid to clean and sanitize a variety of articles and surfaces. The mobile system includes an ozonated liquid dispensing unit that forms the ozonated liquid from water and ozone gas.
US10479677B2
A MEMS device, e.g., a flexible MEMS pressure sensor, is formed by disposing a sacrificial layer, such as photoresist, on a substrate. A first flexible support layer is disposed on the substrate, and a first conductive layer is disposed over a portion of the first support layer. A liquid or gel separator, e.g., silicone oil, is disposed on an internal region of the first conductive layer. A second flexible support layer encapsulates the first conductive layer and the separator. A second conductive layer disposed over the second support layer at least partially overlaps the first conductive layer and forms a parallel plate capacitor. A third flexible support layer encapsulates the second conductive layer and second support layer. Soaking the sensor in hot water releases the sensor from the sacrificial layer.
US10479675B2
A semiconductor device production method includes performing trench etching to form a trench in a thickness direction of a semiconductor layer so that both of a first pattern portion and a second pattern portion whose side walls face each other across the trench are formed. In the trench etching, the semiconductor layer is etched and removed while a protective film is formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer, and the trench etching is performed so that the first pattern portion and the second pattern portion are configured to have a same potential or a same temperature during the trench etching.
US10479668B2
Systems and methods for filling a beverage container with a carbonated fluid at ambient temperature while minimizing foam formation are provided. The carbonated fluid can maintain a laminar flow through the filling machine.
US10479667B2
A device for handling containers and/or packagings, includes a first handling unit which handles the containers and/or packagings in a first predetermined manner, and a second handling unit which handles the containers and/or packagings in a second predetermined manner, a transport unit for transporting the containers and/or packagings, and a monitoring unit for monitoring the device. The monitoring unit includes an unmanned and remote-controlled flying device and a control unit for wirelessly controlling the flying device, wherein the flying device has an image capturing unit, and wherein the device has a delimiting unit which delimits a flying region of the flying device.
US10479665B2
The invention relates to apparatus for use in the movement of goods and includes a transportable goods storage area or trailer. The trailer can be moved to a position adjacent a platform of lifting apparatus to allow goods to be moved to and from the trailer. A bridging assembly including one or more bridge portions is provided to form a bridge between the plat form and floor of the trailer. In one embodiment weight detection means are provided to allow the weight of the transportable goods storage area or trailer, and the goods therein, to be detected and compared to predetermined weight limits.
US10479657B2
An adjustable length tensioning member that comprises a rope, a first connector on the rope, a second connector on the rope, and a plurality of connection points between the first connector and the second connector is disclosed. The plurality of connection points have a diameter greater than a diameter of the rope. The rope may be passed through a socket coupled to a first crane component and one of the connectors on the rope is coupled to a second crane component. One of the plurality of connection points engages a seat on the socket to tension the rope between the socket and the connection point.
US10479652B2
An intermediate support structure for an escalator or moving walk having a dampening device with slots formed therein allowing a supported escalator truss to be free to move laterally to accommodate lateral displacement caused by story drift during an earthquake or seismic event.
US10479651B2
An electric machine includes a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor is rotatable about a central axis of the machine. The machine further includes a stator having a stator hub and a plurality of stator windings positioned at the stator hub and located radially inboard of the plurality of permanent magnets. A plurality of fins extend radially inwardly from an inner surface of the stator hub.
US10479645B2
A brake system for an elevator car includes a multiple of brake segments to control a timing and a rate of brake torque for deceleration of the elevator car, a first of the multiple of brake segments includes a first electromagnetic coil with a characteristic different than a second electromagnetic coil of a second of the multiple of brake segments.
US10479641B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for adjusting and repositioning a coiled tubing tensioning device while deployed. The system comprises a tubing guide for receiving a coiled tubing, a tensioning device for maintaining the coiled tubing in tension, and a tower frame having a moveable platform supporting the weight of the tensioning device. The moveable platform is adjustable vertically to raise and lower the tensioning device with respect to the tower frame, and the tower frame permits the tensioning device to move horizontally with respect to a fixed ground point.
US10479630B2
A sheet transfer device for transferring a sheet between two sheet processing devices comprising a switch for directing sheets from a first transport path coming from the first sheet processing device onto a two-way transport path or for directing sheets from the two-way transport path onto a second transport path for feeding sheets to the second sheet processing device. A transport pinch is provided along the two way transport path for reversing a sheet on the two-way transport path. When in use, the two-way transport path extends downward in a vertically extending free-hanging chamber wherein the sheet engaged by the transport pinch is allowed to hang freely under the influence of gravity. Thereby, a compact device is formed which is able to adjust the sheet to a suitable orientation for the second processing device. The device further prevents forces from the first processing device to disrupt the sheet's orientation in the second processing device.
US10479622B1
A stacker-reclaimer apparatus for handling bulk material at a storage site comprising a central tower having a vertical axis; an infeed conveyer; a stacker boom rotatably mounted to the central tower about the vertical axis, the stacker boom receiving the bulk material from the infeed conveyer; a reclaimer boom rotatably mounted to the central tower about the vertical axis; first and second conveyer screws mounted on the reclaimer boom, the first and second conveyer screws extending along first and second longitudinal sides of the reclaimer boom, respectively; a first harrow extending upwardly and angularly away from the first longitudinal side of the reclaimer boom; a second harrow extending upwardly and angularly away from the second longitudinal side of the reclaimer boom; a reclaim hopper, the reclaim hopper receiving bulk material from the reclaimer boom; and an outfeed conveyer, the outfeed conveyer receiving bulk material from the reclaim hopper.
US10479611B2
A material handling system includes a very high speed linear sortation conveyor that receives articles at an operating speed of 650 to 700 feet per second (fps) and up to 100 fps with gapping as small as one inch. In one or more embodiments, a recirculation sortation conveyor receives articles that are not diverted by the linear sortation conveyor with dynamic capacity sufficient to handle a high speed shutdown of the linear sortation conveyor. The recirculation sortation conveyor is itself a very high speed linear sortation conveyor having a pusher pre-sort feature that can distribute received articles at different lateral positions on an endless conveyor to align with more than one recirculation sortation conveyors that may be operating at a slower operating speed. In an exemplary embodiment, the recirculation sortation conveyor has a divert section for diverting articles to a divert target on a lateral side.
US10479609B2
A conveyor system comprises a track extending along a conveying path, and one or more carriages having a mounting section slidably engaging the track, with a vacuum connection being formed in the mounting section. A driving mechanism moves the carriages along the conveying path. A plurality of vacuum valves connected to the track along the conveying path, and a vacuum source is connected to the plurality of vacuum valves to supply vacuum thereto. The conveyor system is configured to selectively supply vacuum to the vacuum connection of the least one carriage via the plurality of vacuum valves based on a proximity of the at least one carriage thereto.
US10479608B2
A linked disc assembly for use in continuous chain tensioning assemblies in tubular chain drag conveyors, comprising link members and alternating double ear disc members. Each disc member comprises a disc plate and an ear member transversely projecting therefrom. Each ear member consists of an arcuate leg defining a channel extending parallel to the disc plate and hingedly engaged by a link member. Each open chain link member defines a spacing gap. Each ear member arcuate leg defines a transverse notch adjacent a corresponding disc plate, the notch sized and shaped complementarily to the link member gap so as to form a sliding ramp for manual guided quick release through passage of a link member.
US10479603B2
A control system of an article according to an embodiment includes a first transmitter having a first radio signal range, being mounted at a first location, and transmitting first position information relating to the first location, a second transmitter having a second radio signal range, being mounted at a second location, and transmitting second position information relating to the second location, the second radio signal range being narrower than the first radio signal range, an acquirer acquiring the first position information and the second position information, and a memory part, information relating to the article is associated with the first position information or the second position information and stored in the memory part.
US10479569B2
A container for storage is provided which includes, as principle components, a base member (1) and a lid (100) therefor, with the lid (100) in use overlaying said base member (1) in a sealing relationship, with both the base member (1) and lid (100) having associated therewith a strip or base (5.104) of a color different to the remainder of the base member (1) and lid (100) respectively, the strip or band (5) of the base member (1) being of the same color as the strip of band (104) of the lid (100), thereby to allow for ready matching of the lid (100) with container base (1).
US10479556B2
An improved method for molding a plastic container within a mold including an RFID tag to generate a container which leaves a mold having an RFID tag bonded between the container and a label. This method provides for an improved integrally, extrusion blow molded container, label and RFID tag combination.
US10479551B2
An end closure for food and beverage containers provides controlled opening characteristics to prevent the unintentional missiling of a tear panel. The end closure comprises a score line that defines a portion of the tear panel, and the end closure may comprise one or more anti-missile features that inhibit the propagation of a fracture down a score line, which reduces the likelihood that a tear panel will inadvertently detach from the end closure and injure the user or another.
US10479546B2
A fluid housing of a fluid treatment system of a fluid system has a housing part of plastic material that is provided with a receiving chamber for accommodating a fluid treatment component; an installation opening, closable by a closure housing part, for installing the fluid treatment component in the receiving chamber; and a housing connecting section to connect the housing part to the closure housing part. A housing fastening section is provided with which the fluid housing can be fastened to a holding component of the fluid system. An insert is at least partially introduced into the plastic material of the housing part. The insert is provided with a reinforcement region extending with sections thereof in the housing connecting section and is further provided with fastening region extending with sections thereof in the housing fastening section. A fluid treatment system with such a fluid housing is provided.
US10479545B2
Provided is a double container (1) configured so that water entrance through an atmospheric air introduction hole (15) can be reliably prevented and that an adverse effect due to water entrance into an intermediate space (21) between an outer shell (11) and an inner bag (12) can be avoided. The double container (1) has the outer shell (11) and the inner bag (12). The inner bag (12) contracts in association with a decrease in contents housed in the inner bag (12). The outer shell (11) is provided with the air introduction hole (15). Further, a hydrophobic filter configured to allow air penetration and block water is provided to close the air introduction hole (15).
US10479543B1
A container for storing, dispensing, and serving liquids has a bottle a dispenser outlet an outlet cap, and a serving cup. The bottle has a shoulder that is laterally connected around a body of the bottle. The shoulder is positioned offset from a base of the bottle so that the base can be inserted into the serving cup while the bottle is being transported. The serving cup acts as a stand for the bottle as well as a serving dish for any fluid in the bottle. The dispenser outlet is integrated into a base of the bottle and enables the stored fluid to flow out of the bottle. Additionally, the outlet cap is detachably mounted over the dispenser outlet so that the user can prevent or allow the fluid to flow through the dispenser outlet.
US10479539B2
A centrifugal bowl parts feeder system for various relatively heavy parts feeding including automotive bearings, gears, castings and other small, rugged and heavy part—1 to 6 inches in diameter and ½ to 5 pounds apiece. The components for this heavy duty centrifugal parts feeder system embraces a feeder bowl system with a durable, high impact bowl and surface, a drive assembly and a shaft connected to an inner disk, a set of selection tooling to separate and organize the parts, and a heavy support structure contiguous and beneath the inner disk. The system also contains both an input and output parts conveyor. All the components permit the heavy duty centrifugal bowl parts feeder system to feed and orient the relatively heavy, rugged and small.
US10479537B2
An apparatus for producing packages of infusion products, such as a bag filled with a dosed quantity of a product, a tag and a length of thread attached at opposite ends to the bag and to the tag respectively, includes a closing station of the filled bag, a feeding group of the closed bag and of the tag, a sewing station for sewing each length of thread to the tags and to the bags, and an inlet station to a winding group for winding the stitched length of the thread around the bag.
US10479519B2
A fan assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a fan including a plurality of fan blades extending radially outwardly from a fan hub to a blade tip defining a fan diameter. A nacelle surrounds the fan and defines a fan inlet upstream of the fan, relative to an airflow direction into the fan. The nacelle has a forwardmost edge defining an inlet length from the forwardmost edge to a leading edge of a fan blade. A ratio of inlet length to fan diameter is between 0.20 and 0.45. A nacelle inner surface defines a nacelle flowpath having a convex throat portion and a diffusion portion between the throat portion and the leading edge of the fan blade at a topmost portion of the nacelle. The throat portion has a minimum throat radius measured from a fan central axis greater than a blade tip radius.
US10479517B2
An engine nacelle comprised of a top portion with hinges and a composite fan cowl pivotally connected to the top portion by the hinges. The composite fan cowl comprises a core with a hinge zone having a first thickness and a body zone having a second thickness. The hinge zone includes the hinges. The body zone is distal from the hinge zone, and the first thickness is less than the second thickness.
US10479516B2
To surely grasp an unlocked state of a cowl member while suppressing cost and time necessary for measures against forgetting of locking of an engine nacelle. An aircraft according to the present invention includes: an engine (3) that includes an engine main body (4, 5) outputting thrust force and an engine nacelle (7) surrounding the engine main body (4, 5); an engine pylon (2) that supports the engine main body (4, 5) to a main wing (1) and axially supports a cowl member (8) to be openable, the cowl member (8) configuring the engine nacelle (7); a locking part (30) that locks the cowl member (8) of the engine nacelle (7) in a closed state; and one or more light emitting sections (15) that are disposed inside the cowl member (8) and show an unlocked state of the cowl member (8).
US10479507B2
An airplane seat device having at least one backrest, at least one seat component coupled to the backrest and a backrest impact safety device which, by partially decoupling the backrest from the seat component, is provided to at least partly reduce impact forces on the backrest at least in the event of crash. The backrest impact safety device is provided to decouple the backrest from the seat component before the impact forces takes effect.
US10479505B2
A fluid-disposing system for a galley sink includes: a galley sink for a galley cabin monument, a self-regulating valve, a control unit, a sensor, and a signal connection between the sensor and the control unit. The valve input is connected to a fluid line, connected to a drainage opening of the galley sink. The valve is arranged underneath the drainage opening, such that fluid from the galley sink can flow through the associated drainage opening into the fluid line. The valve output is designed to be couplable with a source of negative pressure. The valve is designed to automatically open at a predetermined amount M1 of fluid in the fluid line, such that fluid can flow out of the fluid line, and to automatically close at a predetermined amount M2 of fluid in the fluid line, such that the predetermined amount M2 of fluid remains in the fluid line.
US10479502B2
An aircraft provided with a wing and a winch device. The winch device is provided with a hoist device that includes a storage drum and a motor member for winding a suspension member around the storage drum and for unwinding said suspension member off the storage drum. The hoist device is surrounded at least in part by a fairing of the winning, said hoist device being arranged in an inside volume of the wing at least in a position referred to as the “streamlined” position.
US10479501B2
Systems and methods for maintaining and stabilizing the position and orientation of a payload attached to a high-altitude balloon are provided. A payload may be attached to a powered gimbal. The powered gimbal may be configured to orient and position the payload in a plurality of directions corresponding to a first, second, and third rotational axis of the balloon-mounted payload system. After the payload is positioned by the powered gimbal, the position and orientation of the payload may be maintained and stabilized by one or more rotational stabilization devices. The stabilization by the one or more rotational stabilization devices can occur along any one, or combination of, the first, second, and third rotational axes.
US10479489B2
A rotary device comprises a frame with a guide for flowing medium, a rotor with a number of blades, whereby a relation is obtained between the flowing medium and the rotation of the rotor, and energy converting means, the one part of which is connected to the frame and the other part to the rotor. The device has the feature that the end zones of the blades are connected to a ring, the ring has a radial section with the shape of an isosceles triangle or trapezium, the medium guide has an encircling recess, the form of which corresponds to the form of the ring and the ring fits with clearance into the recess, permanent magnets are added to the truncated conical surfaces, electromagnets debouch on both the corresponding surfaces of the recess, this such that the ring and the frame together form an annular induction motor or an electric generator.
US10479481B2
A process and a machine for improving a performance of a particular model of an aircraft, via reducing a size of a horizontal stabilizer for the particular model of the aircraft, the process comprising augmenting a nose-up moment, for the particular aircraft model, provided by a reduced horizontal stabilizer for the particular aircraft model, via addition of an ailevatoron mixer.
US10479471B2
An aircraft is provided. The aircraft includes truss elements configured to form a space frame fuselage, and skin panels connected with the truss elements and configured to form a skin over said space frame fuselage. The skin panels are movable relative to one another so as to prevent loading of the space frame fuselage from inducing loading in the skin. The aircraft includes a fitting. The fitting includes a first intermediate portion, a first outer portion, and a first inner portion. The first outer and inner portions are spaced apart from each other and interconnected by the first intermediate portion. The skin panels include first and second skin panels that are adjacent to each other. The first skin panel has a first end portion that is adjacent to a second end portion of the second skin panel. The fitting is positioned between the first and second skin panels such that the first and second end portions of the skin panels extend between the first inner and outer portions. The fitting is configured to enable the first and second skin panels to move towards each other along a first plane of first outer and inner surfaces of the first and second skin panels while constraining non-planar movement of the skin panels with respect to the first plane.
US10479466B2
A paddling apparatus that includes a paddle having a blade on at least one end of a paddle shaft, an attachment removably attachable to the paddle shaft, and an accessory connecting element on a first side of the attachment for removably connecting at least one accessory to the attachment. The accessory includes a training aid that has a first base rotatably attached with the accessory connecting element and an elongated element pivotally attached to the base.
US10479463B1
A personal flotation device having a vest, an inflatable balloon, a gas cartridge, a tube, and a harness assembly. The vest comprises a first prong, a second prong opposite the first prong; and a connection member connecting the first prong to the second prong. The connection member comprises a pocket and a flap. The gas cartridge is disposed in the first prong of the vest. The tube connects the inflatable balloon to the gas cartridge. An end of the tube is directly attached to the inflatable balloon. The inflatable balloon is characterized by a deflated condition, stored in the pocket, and an inflated condition.
US10479462B1
A life vest with a rescue handle located on the back side thereof. The rescue handle has a flange located at the lower end thereof, the flange being attached to the back side of the life vest with the rescue handle extending substantially vertically upwards. The rescue handle is attached to the back side of the life vest in a manner adapted to support the weight of a user. The rescue handle has a non-loop shape that eliminates the potential for entanglement with objects in the water.
US10479453B2
The invention relates to a rescue device for a container (7) having container corners (9) loaded onto a damaged ship (110), comprising a crane (50) arranged on a carrier (20, 21, 22), wherein the crane (50) has a front support arm (51), over which a load cable is guided, whose section leading away from the support arm (51) is connected to a container (7) to be unloaded, and the length of which can be changed. The invention is characterized in that the carrier (20, 21, 22) has at least one locking mechanism (204, 205) located opposite the crane (50), by means of which the carrier (20, 21, 22) is temporarily fastened in a releasable manner at the container corners (9) of at least one of the containers (7) fastened on the deck (1) of the damaged ship (110).
US10479441B2
A bicycle hub assembly includes a hub shell including a braking surface. A coaster brake shoe is accommodated in the hub shell and cooperates with the braking surface to generate braking force. A motor is accommodated in the hub shell and configured to be controlled for at least changing or maintaining a gear ratio.
US10479436B2
A powered vehicle has a rear frame assembly and a front frame assembly that are pivotally attached to one another, and can be pivoted from a normal fully-extended operating position to a folded position in which the frame assemblies are positioned substantially adjacent to one another, effectively reducing overall vehicle length to about half. One or more latch members lock the front and rear frame assemblies in the fully-extended, normal operating position, and they may be used to lock the frame assemblies in the folded position. The seat support structure may be integrated with the front and rear frame assemblies such that pivoting the frame assemblies toward the folded position collapses the seat support. The steering tiller may also be collapsible toward the front frame assembly. The rear wheels may be mounted on a transaxle that is pivotally mounted on the rear frame assembly. An extendable handle may be provided to assist in the folding operation and to tow the collapsed vehicle on its anti-tip rollers.
US10479434B2
In a saddle-riding-type electric vehicle fuel cell stack fixation structure, a vehicle body frame includes: a pair of right and left main frames that extend rearward from a head pipe and that are arranged on an outer side in a vehicle width direction of a fuel cell stack; a pair of right and left downward frames that extend rearward from the head pipe and that are arranged below the pair of right and left main frames; and a cross member that bridges a space in a vehicle width direction between at least the right and left downward frames and that fixes the fuel cell stack.
US10479431B2
An adjustable height seat post including supporting means connectable to a bicycle frame, a quill associated with said supporting means and having a head suitable to clamp rails of a bicycle saddle, hydraulic adjusting means, associated with said supporting means, for lifting or lowering said quill in a desired position selected by the user, said hydraulic adjusting means including a cylindrical chamber inside which a piston assembly is foreseen, and valve means, suitable to selectively open or close an hydraulic path through said piston assembly for selectively lock or unlock the position of said piston assembly relative to said cylindrical chamber, and the valve means comprise at least a valve body, associated with said piston assembly, which is selectively rotatable from an open position, in which the hydraulic path is open, to a closed position in which the hydraulic path is closed.
US10479423B2
An underbody panel for a motor vehicle, in particular a passenger vehicle, has at least one first underbody panel element which is arranged in a region of a pivotable vehicle wheel and moves with the wheel during a pivoting movement of the wheel and at least one second underbody panel element which is arranged in the region of the wheel and which is pivotable with the wheel during a pivoting movement of the wheel in the opposite direction.
US10479409B2
A vehicle-body front structure includes a pair of left and right side frames, a cross member, a pair of sub-frames, projections, and buckling structures. The pair of left and right side frames extend in a front-rear direction. The cross member is coupled to a lower side of the pair of left and right side frames and extends in a left-right direction. The pair of sub-frames are coupled to a lower side of the cross member and extend in the front-rear direction. Each projection is disposed on a front end side of the corresponding sub-frame and projects from the corresponding side frame outward in the left-right direction in a plan view. Each buckling structure is formed in the corresponding sub-frame and causes the sub-frame to buckle such that the corresponding projection comes into contact with the cross member when an impact load is applied to the projection from a front side.
US10479402B2
A method for supplying power to an inductive load including an H-bridge switching structure coupled to a power supply and including a first, a second, a third and a fourth switch and current measurement means designed to measure a current through each switch, the power supply method including: a) supplying power to the inductive load, b) reducing an accumulated current in the inductive load. Upon detection of an anomaly: c) identifying the switch that caused a circuit break, d) identifying whether the anomaly was detected during step a) or step b). If an anomaly is detected in step a): e) performing step b) for a third duration, f) identifying the origin of the anomaly, g) if an anomaly is detected in step b): h) identifying the origin of the anomaly.
US10479376B2
A self-driving vehicle (SDV) can operate by analyzing sensor data to autonomously control acceleration, braking, and steering systems of the SDV along a current route. The SDV includes a number of sensors generating the sensor data and a control system to detect conditions relating to the operation of the SDV, such as vehicle speed and local weather, select a set of sensors based on the detected conditions, and prioritize the sensor data generated from the selected set of sensors to control aspects relating to the operation of the SDV.
US10479373B2
A system and method for determining whether a driver of a host vehicle intends to make a left or right turn with a certain level of confidence. The method obtains a plurality of turning cues that identify external parameters around the host vehicle and/or define operating conditions of the host vehicle, and determines a confidence level that the host vehicle will make a left or right turn based on the turning cues, where determining the confidence level includes weighting each of the cues based on current vehicle operating conditions.
US10479368B2
A method for operating a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, which includes multiple wheels in contact with a roadway, the driver assistance system including at least one unit which includes a friction coefficient model and at least one sensor, which provides an input signal for the friction coefficient model, a friction coefficient between at least one of the wheels and the roadway being ascertained with the aid of the friction coefficient model, and the driver assistance system being set or calibrated as a function of the ascertained friction coefficient. Friction coefficients are ascertained with the aid of multiple of the units that ascertained friction coefficients are compared to one another, at least one valid friction coefficient of the friction coefficients is determined with the aid of the comparison, and the driver assistance system is set or calibrated as a function of the valid friction coefficient.
US10479361B2
An apparatus and method of controlling a braking force of a vehicle can improve fuel efficiency by increasing the rate of regenerative braking in the vehicle. The method includes: determining a required deceleration based on a running state of other vehicle ahead; determining a maximum value of a maximum creep torque of a motor and a maximum creep torque of a battery as an amount of available creep torque; determining a smaller value of a required deceleration and the amount of available creep torque as the creep torque; determining a motor torque based on the creep torque; performing regenerative braking by controlling the motor so as to follow the determined motor torque; calculating a deceleration torque based on the creep torque and calculating an amount of hydraulic braking based on the deceleration torque; and performing hydraulic braking according to the calculated hydraulic braking amount.
US10479355B2
A driving control system for a vehicle is provided. The vehicle includes a steering device, a steering operation amount sensor that detects a steering operation amount of the driver, and an abnormality determining device configured to determine whether the driver is in an abnormal state. The driving control system includes: an actuator configured to adjust a turning state quantity; and an electronic control unit configured to calculate a target turning state quantity of the vehicle based on the steering operation amount and control the turning state quantity adjusting device. The electronic control unit is configured to correct the target turning state quantity such that a magnitude of the target turning state quantity does not exceed a predetermined allowable range and to control the actuator based on the corrected target turning state quantity when the driver is in the abnormal state.
US10479353B2
A vehicle surrounding situation estimation device includes a collision detection unit that detects that a vehicle collides with an object outside the vehicle; a surrounding situation detection unit that detects a situation of a detection area around the vehicle; a surrounding situation estimation unit that estimates a situation of a prediction area around the vehicle at a collision time based on a detection result of the surrounding situation detection unit before the collision detection unit detects the collision; a surrounding situation recording unit that records the situation of the prediction area; and a surrounding situation prediction unit that predicts a situation of a vehicle surrounding area around the vehicle based on the situation of the prediction area after the collision detection unit detects the collision, the situation of the prediction area being recorded by the surrounding situation recording unit before the collision detection unit detects the collision.
US10479345B2
A method of decoupling output torque from input torque during engine speed control of a hybrid powertrain for a vehicle comprises determining, via a controller, a virtual output torque required on an output member of a multi-mode transmission given a virtual input torque commanded on an input member of the multi-mode transmission for engine speed control in a selected mode of the multi-mode transmission such that rotational speed of the output member is unchanged to prevent undesired torque variation at the output member. The controller determines the virtual output torque via a first stored transfer function relating virtual output torque to virtual input torque based on modeled physical dynamics of the vehicle driveline for the selected mode of the multi-mode transmission. A hybrid powertrain includes an engine and a hybrid transmission, and a controller that controls the hybrid transmission according to the method.
US10479338B2
A hydraulic unit for a slip controller of a hydraulic vehicle brake system includes an electric motor, a plurality of hydraulic pumps, a hydraulic block, a plurality of solenoid valves, a rotation angle sensor, an electronic control unit, and a valve cover. The electric motor is positioned on a narrow side of the hydraulic block, and is configured to drive the hydraulic pumps. The electronic control unit includes a contacting mechanism, and is positioned in the valve cover. The electric motor and the solenoid valves are arranged so that the electric motor and electromagnets of the solenoid valves protrude to approximately a same extent from the hydraulic block to enable simple commutation with the rotation angle sensor and the contacting mechanism of the electronic control unit.
US10479333B2
A system includes a processor configured to access a train schedule to determine active train crossings along an original route, based on a predicted vehicle-arrival time at a given crossing. The processor is also configured to determine that a driver identity has an avoidance parameter associated therewith and determine a new route avoiding active train crossings, if possible, responsive to the avoidance parameter and determination of at least one active train crossing along the original route.
US10479332B2
A method for assisting in parking a vehicle, comprises the steps of: initiating a parking sequence having a reference velocity; altering a velocity of the vehicle to about the reference velocity by generating a brake torque during a first mode of operation of a controller; outputting the brake torque to a disturbance estimator; storing the brake torque within the disturbance estimator; and utilizing the brake torque from the disturbance estimator in a second mode of operation of the controller to stop the vehicle at a target location.
US10479328B2
An autonomous vehicle includes interior sensors including a camera, IR camera, electro-chemical sensor, humidity sensor, and temperature sensor. Initial and final outputs of these sensors are captured for a trip conveying one or more passengers. If changes in the outputs of the sensors are detected, whether the final outputs of the sensors are acceptable may be evaluated. In some embodiments, an aggregation of the outputs is evaluated and found unacceptable even where individual outputs are acceptable. Outputs may be presented to a dispatcher to confirm that the outputs are unacceptable. If the outputs are found to be unacceptable, the vehicle may be autonomously driven to a cleaning station. Personal items may be identified in camera outputs and alerts generated in response.
US10479327B2
Embodiments provide vehicle camera cleaning systems used for cleaning foreign matter off of a camera lens, including, for example, a water flow nozzle arranged to eject water flow, an air nozzle arranged to eject air, and a central controller used to control the water flow nozzle and air nozzle. In certain embodiments, a plurality of sensing devices are used for sensing the conditions of the camera lens, such as an infrared water drop sensor, a temperature sensor, a camera sensing sensor, and the like. The central controller may determine whether there are water drops, ice, snow, or other foreign matter on the lens based on signals received from the plurality of sensing devices, and may control the air nozzle and the water flow nozzle to clean the camera lens based on the foreign matter present.
US10479326B2
A motor-powered windshield scourer for any type of a motor-powered vehicle and or motor craft. The motorized windshield scourer may have a motor propelled appendages or a singular appendage that have replaceable scouring attachments joined to the appendages. The motor that propels the appendages can be positioned anywhere on or in the motor vehicle/craft, whether under the hood, in the cabin or elsewhere. The motor driven appendages with joined scouring attachments may be mounted on the windshield of the vehicle directly opposite of the windshield wiper blades. When turned on, the motor may move the appendages with joined attachments in a side to side and/or up and down motion across the windshield. The appendages may include an unpliable metal such as: steel, titanium, tungsten, or inconel, and the scouring attachments may include nylon scouring pads or a vinyl coated mesh attached to and covering rubber or foam.
US10479320B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling access to at least one function of a motor vehicle (10), comprising: —an action step during which an electronic control unit (11) on board the motor vehicle detects an interaction of a user with the motor vehicle, —a verification step during which the electronic control unit verifies that the user is authorized to access said function, and —an authorization step during which the electronic control unit authorises access to said function. According to the invention, said verification step comprises sending of a query message by said electronic control unit to a mobile terminal (20) carried by the user or by a person accompanying the user, and said authorisation step is only implemented if, in response to the query message, the electronic control unit receives an access-right validation message from the mobile terminal.
US10479313B2
The curtain airbag device includes: an inflator; an airbag; and a restricting member. The airbag includes an outer circumferential joining portion forming a bag body, a gas inlet portion, and a joining portion which is arranged in a region surrounded by the outer circumferential joining portion. The airbag, while being stored in a folded state, includes a roll folding portion formed by folding the bag body into a roll shape with a vehicle interior side base fabric facing outside, and a flip folding portion formed by folding back the bag body with the vehicle interior side base fabric facing inside. The restricting member includes a tip portion fixed to a lower side of a sidewall of a vehicle, and a base end portion joined to a vehicle exterior side base fabric located at the flip folding portion or an upper end portion of the roll folding portion.
US10479308B2
Provided is a damping member for a vehicle having excellent efficiency of input energy absorption. A damping pad serving as a damping member for a vehicle includes a base plate portion having a flat plate shape, a vertical wall arranged at a rim of the base plate portion in a flange-like manner, a plurality of ribs arranged in parallel as rising from the base plate portion, each of the ribs connected to a vertical wall as extending in a direction intersecting with the vertical wall, and a fragile section arranged between adjacent two of the ribs. The fragile section includes a groove formed at the vertical wall and a slit formed at the base plate portion.
US10479307B2
An apparatus for controlling a crash pad may include a hinge disposed at a lower portion of a knee bolster of the crash pad; a first guide rail configured to drive the hinge; a second guide rail configured to drive the hinge; a first gear configured to drive the first guide rail; a first actuator configured to drive the first gear in response to a signal to operate a vehicle seat; and a second actuator configured to drive the second gear in response to a seat operation signal for the vehicle.
US10479306B2
A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat pan operably coupled to a seatback. The vehicle seating assembly further includes a restraint bar coupled to the seatback and operable between a first position and a second position. The restraint bar is equipped with at least one deployable occupant restraint and the restraint bar is generally U-shaped.
US10479305B1
A method of determining a seat back status of a passenger seat in a vehicle. The method includes monitoring a seat back orientation sensor coupled to a seat back of the passenger seat and monitoring a reference orientation sensor coupled at a fixed position within the vehicle. The seat back orientation sensor determines an orientation of the seat back relative to Earth, and the reference orientation sensor determines an orientation of the vehicle relative to Earth. The method further includes determining an orientation of the seat back relative to the vehicle based on a comparison between the orientation of the seat back and the orientation of the vehicle relative to Earth, and transmitting seat back orientation data, of the seat back relative to the vehicle, to a remote monitoring unit, wherein the remote monitoring unit is configured to display a first notification when the seat back is not fully upright.
US10479294B2
A circuit arrangement for an onboard network of a motor vehicle, includes a line having a first inductivity and connecting a component of a power electronics of an onboard network with an element, wherein the component is adapted for being clocked during operation of the power electronics at a clock frequency; and an absorber circuit assigned to the line and having a second inductivity and a capacitance, wherein the second inductivity of the absorber circuit is coupled with the first inductivity of the line.
US10479293B2
A mounting arrangement and method for securing elongated interconnection members, such as wire and cable harnesses, rigid and flexible fluid lines, and the like, of different peripheries to a vehicle frame, utilize a mounting arrangement including a body defining a through-passage for securing an elongated interconnection member having a first periphery in the passage. The body also defines a mating and interlocking base block and a cap block that are separable along a parting line passing through the passage and separating the passage into a body segment and a cap segment of the passage. At least one of the body and cap segments of the passage includes a knock-out that can be broken out and separated from the body, to thereby adapt the passage to receive an elongated interconnection member having periphery that is different from the first periphery.
US10479287B2
A heater system for clearing moisture (frozen and liquid) from a windshield (14) around a through-windshield vehicle sensor (18) provides a chamber between the sensor and the windshield containing air that may be heated by a chamber supported heating element (30, 51). The warm air within the chamber applies heat over the windshield in the critical viewing area (26) without obstructing the sensor (18).
US10479286B2
An apparatus for light intensity adjustment mountable on an automotive camera includes at least one first linear polarizing filter, at least one second linear polarizing filter, the first linear polarizing filter and the second polarizing filter are arrangeable in front of a lens unit of an automotive camera such that incident light passes through the at least one first linear polarizing filter and the at least one second linear polarizing filter before entering the lens unit of the automotive camera, and at least one actuator for moving the at least one first linear polarizing filter and/or the at least one second linear polarizing filter with respect to each other such that the intensity of the emergent light is adjustable. The apparatus is characterized in enabling adjustment of the emergent light intensity by moving the first linear polarizing filter and/or the second linear polarizing filter with respect to each other.
US10479284B1
A load-bearing system configured to rotatably support heavy cargo loads supported from a vehicle is provided. The system includes a pivot platform coupled to the vehicle and having first and second swing arms pivotably mounted to the pivot platform, each swing arm having a first end coupled to the pivot platform and a second end coupled to a mounting platform, the mounting platform rotatably mounted to the second ends of the first and second swing arms and designed to permit attachment thereto of one or more cargo carriers to support cargo, and a locking assembly coupled to the vehicle. The locking assembly pivotably adjusts to a first position to lock the mounting platform into a first position against the vehicle. The locking assembly pivotably adjusts to a second position to unlock the mounting platform and permit rotation of the mounting platform away from the vehicle.
US10479280B2
A motor vehicle is provided with a luggage compartment opening arranged at the rear of a body of the motor vehicle, and a tailgate arranged pivotably on the body and in a closed position closes the luggage compartment opening and in an open position at least partially opens the luggage compartment opening. In order to provide a motor vehicle with a luggage compartment of variable size, the motor vehicle comprises a cover attached to a vehicle portion of the motor vehicle adjacent to the luggage compartment opening and/or defining the luggage compartment opening, and which is made of a flexible material and is configured and arranged such that, in the open position of the tailgate or by pivoting of the tailgate into the open position, it can be transferred from a compact rest state into an extended function state.
US10479279B2
A slidable luggage board assembly for a vehicle is provided. The slidable luggage board includes a luggage board that is disposed above a floor panel of a cargo area of a vehicle and has an upper surface onto which an article is loaded, and a wheel unit which is disposed on the floor panel and has a wheel that contacts an inner surface of the luggage board when the luggage board is slid. An operation handle is disposed at one side of the luggage board and receives an operating force. A cable has both ends connected to the wheel unit and the operation handle and transmits operating force applied to the operation handle to the wheel unit.
US10479270B2
A vehicle cup holder includes a console substrate defining a well for receiving cup; a light source provided within a lamp cavity positioned below the well; a film provided between the well and the lamp cavity, such film defining a grating for projecting a desired image when illuminated by the light source.
US10479265B2
An auxiliary brake light system has a middle light bar, a left light module, and a right light module for being mounted on a back of the vehicle. The left light module has a right part extending upwards and a left part. The right light module has a left part extending upwards and a right part. The middle light bar is above the left light module and the right light module and has a left part extending downwards and a right part extending downwards. The left part of the middle light bar and the right part of the left light module are separated from each other and opposite to each other. The right part of the middle light bar and the left part of the right light module are separated from each other and opposite to each other.
US10479261B2
The towable trolley (1) for the transport of equipment (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) intended to be mounted on telescopic loaders or the like, comprising a support platform (10), movement members (7), for example wheels or the like, and one or more attachment units (8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20), mounted on said platform (10) and adapted to stably secure at least one equipment to the platform (10) itself.
US10479254B2
A tracked dumping compartment including frame cross members and frame rails, a guide rail fixed on the frame cross members, and said guide rail supporting a chain; the chain includes inner link plates, outer link plates, rollers and pins, the rollers rollingly fit to the guide rail; carrier plates are fixed on irregularly shaped outer link plates, and a rubber track is fixed on the carrier plates; blocking plates are fixed on the frame cross members and frame rails, the blocking plates including a first angled section and a vertical section, the rubber track positioned below the first angled sections and between the vertical sections, the angle between the first angled sections and the top surface of the rubber track being 30°-70°, and the width of the rubber track when in a free state being less than or equal to the distance between the vertical sections.
US10479250B2
Provided is a structure of a leg-rest which is switchable at a front lower end of a seat between a receiving position where a support panel is folded on the seat and a deploying position where the support panel is drawn out to support the leg of a seated person. The structure of the leg-rest can include a fixing bracket which is fixed to the seat; a rotary arm of which one end is rotatably connected to the fixing bracket; a base slider which is slidably coupled to the rotary arm in a longitudinal direction; an extending slider which is slidably coupled to the base slider in a longitudinal direction and mounted with the support panel; and a rotary assist arm of which one end is separated from the rotary arm to be rotatably connected to the fixing bracket and the other end is rotatably connected to the base slider.
US10479242B2
A vehicle seat including: a seat frame extending in a first direction; and an air conditioning duct extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the duct intersects the seat frame, and wherein the duct is inserted into a through hole which is formed in the seat frame and penetrates the seat frame in the second direction.
US10479241B2
A fixed frame supports a movable seat structure. The movable seat structure is configured to move relative to the fixed frame. An air duct supported by the fixed frame supplies an air vent positioned on a rearward side of the fixed frame with air. Movement of the movable seat structure relative to the fixed frame has no effect on the position or orientation of the air vent.
US10479238B2
The invention relates to a vehicle seat, preferably for a utility vehicle, comprising a seat part and a backrest part. The backrest part has a left portion and a right portion when viewed in the seating direction of an occupant of the vehicle seat, and a first recess is arranged on the left portion so as to extend to a first distance and a second recess is arranged on the right portion so as to extend to a second distance starting from an upper end of the backrest part in a height direction of the backrest part. The first and the second recess are mutually spaced and are continuous from a front border surface to a rear border surface of the backrest part, and the first distance has a greater value than the second distance.
US10479229B2
A vehicle seat apparatus includes: a seat main body configured to seat an occupant; a first gear that is joined to the seat main body; a second gear that is capable of being engaged with the first gear; a rotation mechanism that rotates the second gear in a state of being engaged with the first gear and that rotates the seat main body in a yaw direction from a reference direction; a biasing part that applies, when the seat main body is rotated by the rotation mechanism, a biasing force in a direction that is opposite to a rotation direction; and a release control part that releases an engagement between the first gear and the second gear, that rotates the seat main body by a biasing force which is preliminarily biased by the biasing part, and that allows the seat main body to return to the reference direction.
US10479223B2
This disclosure describes at least embodiments of a power management system for a vehicle. The vehicle can include a first transducer and a second transducer supported by a housing of the vehicle. The first transducer can be powered by a first battery, and the second transducer can be powered by a second battery different from the first battery. The first transducer and the second transducer can propel the housing, and the second transducer can charge the second battery. Electronic circuitry can cause the first battery to power the first transducer while the second transducer charges the second battery.
US10479218B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for an electric vehicle. The system includes a battery control unit configured to be in a grid-connected mode or a stand-alone mode. The system includes a shared boost converter connected to a battery. The shared boost converter receives alternating current (AC) power, steps up voltage and converts the AC power to direct current (DC) power when the battery control unit is in the grid-connected mode. The shared boost converter receives DC power from the battery and steps up voltage when the battery control unit is in the stand-alone mode. The system also includes an inverter configured to receive the stepped up DC power when the battery control unit is in the stand-alone mode and convert the DC power to AC power. The system also includes a motor/generator connected to the inverter and configured to receive AC power for powering a drivetrain of the electric vehicle.
US10479208B2
A non-contact charging system includes: a power receiving unit mounted on a transportation device; a power transmission unit, installed on a flat surface, configured to transmit power to the power receiving unit in a non-contact manner; and a power supply unit configured to control power supply to the power transmission unit, the power supply unit including an operation portion configured to temporarily stop or resume non-contact power transmission from the power transmission unit to the power receiving unit.
US10479206B2
The invention relates to a method and to a device for changing from the idle operating state of an electric motor (5) having three phase terminals (5-1, 5-2, 5-3) to a short-circuit operating state. Thereby significant voltage rises are avoided. For this purpose, after receiving (120) a request for changing of the operating state of the electric motor (5) to the short-circuit operating state, three switching elements (1-1, 1-2, 1-3) are closed. Thereby the switching elements (1-1, 1-2, 1-3) are at least partially closed successively and the times of closing the individual switching elements are predetermined as a function of control parameters of the electric motor.
US10479204B2
A failure determination apparatus includes an electricity storage, a state sensor, a data accumulator, and a controller. The state sensor is to detect a state of the electricity storage as data. The data accumulator is to accumulate the data acquired by the state sensor as accumulated data. The controller is to determine, based on the accumulated data, whether a failure occurs in at least one of the electricity storage and the state sensor.
US10479202B2
A vehicle display system includes a display device, a position acquiring unit, and a display controller. The display device is configured to provide a display on a window of a vehicle. The position acquiring unit is configured to acquire a position of a target person present outside the vehicle. The display controller is configured to control the display device to invert the display to be provided for the target person, on the basis of the position of the target person.
US10479201B2
An in-vehicle display system is provided with first display unit, second display unit, vehicle information acquisition unit, and CPU. When a display operation for outputting at least a portion of first content to second display unit with the first content being output to first display unit is performed, CPU selects either of first display unit and second display unit with which to associate an authority to operate the output of at least one of first display unit and second display unit according to at least one signal from among a plurality of signals indicating a type of the first content, an attribute of first display unit, an attribute of second display unit, vehicle information, and a detail of the display operation.
US10479199B2
A power transfer unit is comprised of: a hollow input shaft rotatable about the first axis; an intermediate shaft rotatable about the first axis; an output shaft in mesh with the intermediate shaft and rotatable about the second axis; a clutch coupling the input shaft with the intermediate shaft; an input member rotatable about the first axis and including an eccentric shaft eccentric from the first axis; a fixed member immovable about the first axis; an intermediate member fitting on the eccentric shaft to make an eccentric motion and meshing with the fixed member to make a rotary motion about the eccentric shaft; an output member engaging with and following the intermediate member; and a cam mechanism interposed between the output member and the clutch and converting the rotary motion of the output member into an axial motion.
US10479193B2
A grille shutter device includes a decorative surface curved in a convex shape toward a front side of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction of a vehicle front portion and provided with an opening in a part; and a fin provided in the opening and configured to rotate about a shaft so as to open and close the opening. In the open state in which the opening is opened, a tip end on a front portion of the fin in a front-rear direction of the vehicle is in a linear shape as viewed from the front side of the vehicle, and in the closed state in which the opening is closed, an opposing tip end on the opposite side of the fin from the tip end is enlarged in the vehicle width direction to form a curve in a convex shape toward the front side of the vehicle.
US10479189B2
In one aspect, a child vehicle is provided comprising a motor, a wheel selectively operatively coupled to the motor for driving the child vehicle under the power of the motor, and a motor drive selector mechanism. The motor drive selector mechanism allows the child vehicle to be operated in a first operational mode wherein the wheel is driven by the motor and a second operational mode wherein the wheel is substantially free from drag or resistance due to the motor. A method of operating the child vehicle is also provided.
US10479184B2
An electric drive system adapted to utilize an existing vehicle with a combustion engine and to add an electric drive capability. Components of the system may be implemented rearward of the vehicle engine and transmission along the drivetrain. In some aspects, the system allows for combustions engine, electric motor, or combination powering of the vehicle. In some aspects, the vehicle's original secondary systems, such as air conditioning, and power steering, are able to be used in the electric motor only drive mode.
US10479183B2
A hybrid vehicle having a pendulum damper in which resonance at around an idling speed of an engine can be prevented to improve N.V. performance. The hybrid vehicle comprises an engine and at least one motor. In the hybrid vehicle, a power transmission path is formed between the engine and drive wheels. In the power transmission path, a pendulum damper is disposed to suppress torsional vibrations, and a disconnecting clutch is disposed to selectively interrupt power transmission between the engine and the pendulum damper.
US10479179B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a rechargeable battery cell: wherein —a first measurement (101) of a first voltage of the battery cell is carried out, —a first comparison (102) of the first voltage with a first limit voltage is carried out, —a charging process (104) of the battery cell is carried out if the first voltage is less than the first limit voltage, —a second measurement (106) of a second voltage of the battery cell is carried out, —a second comparison (107) of the second voltage with a second limit voltage is carried out, —a discharge process (109) of the battery cell is carried out if the second voltage is greater than the second limit voltage, wherein the first limit voltage is greater than the second limit voltage. The invention also relates to a battery control device which is equipped to carry out the method according to the invention.
US10479174B2
An opening and closing mechanism includes a connecting member and a sliding member. A movable panel of a sunroof device is fastened to the connecting member which has a plate-type connecting member main body extending in a front-rear direction, and a thickness direction of the connecting member main body coincides with a width direction. The connecting member main body is formed with a through hole which goes through the connecting member main body in the width direction and extends along the specified curve in the front-rear direction. The sliding member has a sliding member main body formed by sheet metal, the sliding member main body includes a pair of vertical walls and a connecting wall which connects upper ends of the vertical walls, and the connecting wall engages with and slides in the through hole so the connecting member inclines in an up-down direction or moves in the front-rear direction.
US10479173B2
A window assembly (190) for a window opening of a motor vehicle, which has a front-rear direction and a vertical direction, comprises a door frame member (21), a movable window pane (140), and a window guiding profile (100). The door frame member (21) includes an outer surface (25). The movable window pane (140) includes a guiding section, and a window section (141). The window section comprises an outer window surface (142) and an inner window surface (143). The window guiding profile (100) is fastened to the door frame member (21), and includes a sealing portion (115, 117, 118). The sealing portion seals and supports the window pane (140). The window guiding profile (100) includes a first guiding portion (110) configured to guide the window pane (140) only at the inner window surface (143). The window guiding profile (100) further includes a second guiding portion being configured to guide the window pane (140) at the window outer surface (142) and at the window inner surface (143).
US10479164B2
The present invention provides an air conditioning system for a vehicle, which includes an evaporator mounted in a cold air passageway and a condenser mounted in a warm air passageway inside an air-conditioning case to perform cooling and heating, and protecting means for surrounding a plurality of electronic units mounted on the outer surfaces of the air-conditioning case and blowers, thereby preventing breakdowns and malfunctions by preventing foreign matters or water from entering into the electronic units.
US10479160B2
An electrically adjustable hydraulic shock absorber includes a tube defining a fluid chamber and a piston assembly positioned within the tube. The piston assembly divides the fluid chamber into a first working chamber and a second working chamber. A piston rod is attached to the piston assembly and projects out of the tube. Further, a rod guide guides the piston rod and an electronically-controlled valve is positioned within the rod guide for controlling a damping state of the shock absorber. A circuit board is positioned around the piston rod for actuating the electronically-controlled valve. A carrier housing receives the circuit board and engages with the rod guide. The carrier housing includes an inner column and an outer column. A bumper cap is mounted on the carrier housing and is engaged with the inner and outer columns.
US10479149B2
The tool includes an elongate rigid bar with fixed chain leaders extending from the bar near ends of the bar. A removable chain leader is provided between these two fixed chain leaders. In one form of the invention, the bar is hollow and a pin translates within this hollow core. A slot in the bar allows a proximal link of the removable chain leader to pass into the hollow core of the bar where the pin can removably capture this proximal link. Because the removable chain leader is provided on the bar, it can initially be captured to the bar for use along with the fixed chain leaders to position a tire chain onto a dual wheel pair. Then, the removable leader can be removed from the bar and act as a handle on a middle elongate section of the tire chain to assist in connection thereof.
US10479148B2
A reception control section obtains a rotation angle of each wheel assembly when a reception circuit receives transmission data. The reception control section calculates the absolute value of the difference between the obtained rotation angle and a previously obtained rotation angle. The reception control section determines whether the absolute value of the difference is included in a reference range or a specific range. The reference range includes 0. The specific range includes the angle difference between specific angles.
US10479141B2
A child stroller comprises a wheel assembly that includes a wheel disposed on a wheel mount, a wheel bushing including a bore, a pivot pin including an upper end, the pivot pin extending from an upper portion of the wheel mount and into the bore of the wheel bushing, and a force finger disposed in an upper end of the bore and at least partially surrounding and frictionally engaging the upper end of the pivot pin.
US10479136B2
A multiple directional wheel including a wheel frame comprising identical component parts. Each of the wheel frame components comprise: a hub having a main axis about which the multiple directional wheel is adapted to rotate; a hub rim radially surrounding the hub; a first plurality of peripheral roller supporting arms (“first arms”) radially extending from the hub rim and aligned in a first plane; and a second plurality of peripheral roller supporting arms, each member arm of the second plurality of peripheral roller supporting arms having a radially inner base and being circumferentially offset with respect to diagonally adjacent members of the first plurality of peripheral roller supporting arms. Each of the wheel frame components further comprise a plurality of beams corresponding to the number of member arms of the second plurality of peripheral roller supporting arms, each respective beam extending from the hub rim to a corresponding inner base of a member arm of the second plurality of peripheral roller supporting arms, and a plurality of spigots extending from each corresponding one of the plurality of beams or the inner bases. The second plurality of peripheral roller supporting arms lie in a second plane normal to the main axis, spaced from, and parallel to, the first plane; and each of the spigots from one of the wheel frame components is received in a recess formed in a facing surface of a complementary one of the wheel frame components to join the wheel frame components to form the wheel frame.
US10479135B2
An omni-directional wheel for a pool vacuum head includes a first frame and a second substantially identical frame, each frame having a hub rotating around a common axis, lower supports extending radially from the hub, risers extending from the hub along the common axis, and upper supports individually coupled to the risers, the upper supports extending radially from the common axis. Rollers coupled to the first frame and the second frame, are radially spaced from the common axis on each frame. The rollers rotate normal to the common axis to impart omni-directional movement. When the first frame and the second frame are interlocked, the risers on the first frame engage the hub on the second frame, and the lower supports on the first frame engaging the upper supports on the second frame, maintaining the rollers in a staggered arrangement around the wheel.
US10479133B2
A film for molding has an annular olefin-based resin as the main component thereof and is characterized by an X surface and a Y surface both having a surface glossiness of no more than 50%, when one surface is the X surface and the other surface is the Y surface. The film has excellent winding properties during processing, has high design properties and excellent fingerprint wipe-off properties for the surface of product members (molded members after molding and decoration) when the film is used as a transfer foil for molding.
US10479129B2
A method of manufacturing a hybrid security structure for a security document, the method comprising the steps of: providing a document substrate; applying to the document substrate, by a first process, a first element comprising a first electrically conductive region of the hybrid security structure; applying to the document substrate, by a second process, a second element comprising a second electrically conductive region of the hybrid security structure, wherein the first process is different from the second process; and electrically coupling the first and second electrically conductive regions of the hybrid security structure for detection by a capacitance sensor.
US10479121B2
A method for processing an object for printing, the object comprising a plurality of properties defined at each of a plurality of locations within the object, each property represented by a metamer set of possible combinations of proportions of at least one of a set of printing materials, the method comprising: selecting a combination of the metamer sets of a given location within an object that provides all of the plurality of properties defined for the given location.
US10479119B2
The three-dimensional fabrication apparatus is provided with: a first discharge section and a second discharge section, which have multiple discharge nozzles disposed in rows and which discharge molding material from the discharge nozzles toward a fabrication stage; a guide member of a head unit-moving unit, which is equipped with the guide member to guide the movement of the first discharge section and the second discharge section in the main scanning direction (X-direction) that is orthogonal to the direction in which the discharge nozzles are disposed and which moves the first discharge section and the second discharge section relative to the fabrication stage along said guide member; and a stage rotating unit for changing the rotational position of the main scanning direction of the first discharge section and the second discharge section relative to the fabrication stage.
US10479113B1
The disclosed embodiments illustrate a thermal printer apparatus that includes a media sensor. The sensor generates an input signal indicative of a measure of a media transmissivity/reflectivity. Further, the thermal printer includes a processor that is configured to receive the input signal from the sensor, while the media is stationary with respect to a print head. The processor further determines one or more characteristics of the input signal. Thereafter, a first transmissivity/reflectivity threshold is determined based on the one or more characteristics in the input signal. Further, the processor receives the input signal from the sensor, while the media traverses with respect to the print head. Subsequently, the processor determines one or more current characteristics of the input signal while the media traverses with respect to the print head. A media jam condition is detected based on the one or more current characteristics and the first transmissivity/reflectivity threshold.
US10479112B2
There is provided a printing device that carries out printing with respect to a medium; the printing device including inkjet heads, which are ejection heads that eject an ink to the medium; and an infrared irradiating portion that irradiates an infrared light in which a wavelength is smaller than or equal to 3 μm with respect to the ink on the medium; where the inkjet heads eject the ink containing a solvent that generates heat by absorbing the infrared light; and the infrared irradiating portion volatilizes and removes at least one part of the solvent in the ink by irradiating the infrared light with respect to the ink on the medium.
US10479106B2
A drop detector includes a printed circuit board (PCB) including a number of optical channels each formed by a light emitter and a light detector and a number of holes defined in the PCB over which the optical channels pass over and through which a number of ejected drops from a number of printheads pass through wherein each of the number of holes defined in PCB are sized to contour the shape of the number of the printheads.
US10479084B2
A method for manufacturing liquid ejection heads includes the steps of forming ejection port members on a substrate, the ejection port members each having a liquid channel and an ejection port for ejecting liquid through the channel, the liquid channel communicating with the substrate; forming supply ports passing through the substrate to supply liquid to the channels; and forming a separation groove in the substrate to separate the substrate for each liquid ejection head. The step of forming the ejection port members includes the step of hardening a material constituting the ejection port member by heat treatment. The step of forming the separation groove is performed before the step of hardening.
US10479080B2
In an embodiment, a fluid ejection device includes a substrate with a fluid slot formed therein, a chamber layer formed on the substrate defining fluid chambers on both sides of the fluid slot, a thin-film layer between the substrate and chamber layer that defines an ink feedhole (IFH) between the fluid slot and the chamber layer, and a chamber layer extension that forms a bridge across the IFH between two chambers.
US10479069B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an angle and curvature detection sensor, and the sensor and, more specifically, to: a method for manufacturing a thin-film transistor array-based backplane by a roll-to-roll gravure printing process and manufacturing a sensor for measuring an angle change and a degree of curvature of the X axis and the Y axis by using the backplane; and the sensor. The method for manufacturing an angle and curvature detection sensor, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: manufacturing a thin-film transistor backplane by a roll-to-roll gravure printing process; forming a protective layer on the thin-film transistor backplane by printing; forming a sealed space by adhering a flexible plastic case onto the upper part of the protective layer by means of an adhesive; and filling the sealed space with a first liquid and injecting a second liquid.
US10479064B2
The present invention discloses a heat radiator, especially an infrared radiator, having at least one radiation source by means of which supplied electrical energy is convertible into heat radiation, as well as a control. This control comprises at least one frequency converter having a first, a second and a third output so that between the first and the third output a first alternating current is providable and between the second and the third output a second alternating current is providable by means of which the at least one radiation source is operable.
US10479058B2
Provided is a PSA sheet that shows high peel strength to low polar adherends while having excellent flexibility. This invention provides a PSA sheet that comprises a PSA layer (A) constituting an adhesive face and a viscoelastic layer (B) supporting the PSA layer (A). In the PSA sheet, the viscoelastic layer (B) comprises hollow particles or have bubbles. The PSA layer (A) comprises an acrylic polymer (a) as the base polymer. The copolymerization ratio of an acidic group-containing monomer in the acrylic polymer (a) is 5% by weight or lower.
US10479055B2
The present invention relates to a multilayer structure including a base (X) and a layer (Y) stacked on the base (X). The layer (Y) contains an aluminum-containing compound (A), an organic phosphorus compound (BO), and a polymer (F) having an ether bond and having no glycosidic bond.
US10479052B2
A method of forming a 3D glass article from a glass sheet includes locating the glass sheet on a mold assembly including a mold surface with a 3D surface profile corresponding to that of the 3D glass article. The glass sheet is heated to a forming temperature. The forming temperature is greater than a temperature of the mold surface. The heated glass sheet is forced onto the mold surface by applying a pressurized gas to a first surface of the glass sheet opposite the mold surface to conform the glass sheet to the mold surface with the glass sheet at the forming temperature that is greater than the temperature of the mold surface.
US10479049B2
The present disclosure relates to a part made from composite material that includes a base and a T-shaped reinforcement. The T-shaped reinforcement includes a first L-shaped element having a first right-angled connection portion and a second L-shaped element having a second right-angled connection portion. The part further includes a plurality of needles, each connecting the base to the T-shaped reinforcement of the part, close to the connection portions and extending in multiple directions so as to oppose, in particular, the separation of the base from the T-shaped reinforcement.
US10479046B2
Absorbent microstructure panels are described herein. An example filter device includes a plurality of microstructure panels each having a front surface and a back surface, and a plurality of capillary ridges protruding from the front surface. The plurality of capillary ridges are each spaced apart from one another. The plurality of microstructure panels form an absorbent microstructure array by layering the plurality of microstructure panels together such that the plurality of capillary ridges of one microstructure panel contacts the back surface of an adjacent microstructure panel to create capillary tubes that draw fluid into the absorbent microstructure array.
US10479035B2
A method and a plant for managing the production cycle of a plant for building tires for vehicle wheels, wherein the plant provides for a storage region for anchoring annular structures and a plurality of processing stations at least one of which is associated with a forming drum, includes feeding a plurality of anchoring annular structures to the storage region, picking up the anchoring annular structures from the storage region at a predetermined picking-up position that does not change on changing of the types of the anchoring annular structures, and feeding the picked-up anchoring annular structures to the processing station associated with the forming drum.
US10479034B2
A method of manufacturing a fibre-reinforced polymer object by means of vacuum-assisted resin transfer moulding (VARTM), wherein fibre material is impregnated with liquid resin in a mould cavity comprising a rigid mould part having a mould surface defining an outer surface of the object, is described. One or more pressure sensors are connected to resin inlets of the VARTM system. A control unit is used for controlling a polymer supply unit based on measured resin pressure and is adapted to adjusting a resin flow rate, if pressure measured by the pressure sensors is below a lower threshold level or above a higher threshold level.
US10479031B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for infiltrating a fiber preform of a component of fiber composite material with a matrix material. On the method side, it is proposed that an elastic coating (3) is applied onto the fiber preform (1, 23, 37), wherein the elastic coating (3) is widened to form a gap space (22) between the fiber preform (1) and the coating (3). The matrix material (21) is then fed into the gap space (22) and the elastic coating (3) is subsequently pressed against the fiber preform (1, 23, 37). On the device side, it is claimed that an elastic coating (3) is arranged on the fiber preform (1, 23, 37) and means are provided, which are in operative connection with the elastic coating (3), by which the coating (3) can be widened while forming a gap space (22) between the fiber preform (1, 23, 37) and the coating (3). A matrix material (21) can be fed into the gap space (22) and the coating (3) can be pressed against the fiber preform (1, 23, 37).
US10479026B2
A method for connecting plastic profile parts (2) brings into contact at least one profile part (2) and a heating surface (34) of a heating, element (36) so that the profile part (2) begins to melt in its welding area before it is joined together with the other profile part (2). A delimiting element (7) regulates the flow and deformation of the melt material. The delimiting element (7) has at least one contact element (21) and a molded part (22), which are movable both in relation to one another and in relation to the profile part (2). During the melting of the at least one profile part (2), the contact element (21) is moved—together with the molded part (22)—relative to the at least one profile part (2) and relative to the heating element (36) out of, a resting position in the direction of a working position, whereby at least the molded part (22) is kept in contact with the heating surface (34) and the contact element element (21) is, kept in contact with a profile surface (9). When a changeover is made from melting to compressing, the relatively movable contact element (21) is moved together with the molded part (22) in the direction of its working position so that the delimiting element (7) projects beyond a free front edge (4) of the at least one profile part (2) and creates a holding plane (37).
US10479025B2
An apparatus for fabricating an elastic nonwoven material generally includes a first bonding module, a second bonding module positioned in close proximity to the first bonding module, and a pinching device. The first bonding module and the second bonding module are adapted to bond at least one elastic strand of the elastic nonwoven material. The pinching device is adapted to limit a snap-back potential of the at least one elastic strand if the at least one elastic strand becomes severed during bonding.
US10479019B2
A method of forming a textured effect on a substrate, the method comprising steps of: (a) creating a data file of an image having a thickness to be formed as the textured effect on the substrate, the data file comprising print image(s) and a number of times specified for printing of the print image(s); (b) preparing the data file for surface deposition by a printer; (c) providing the substrate on the printer; (d) the printer printing the print image(s) in the data file on the substrate using a layer of clear ink; (e) the printer UV curing the layer of ink; (f) repeating steps (d) and (e) for every print image of the print image(s) for the number of times specified in the data file such that the image formed as the textured effect on the substrate comprises a plurality of layers of printed and UV cured clear ink.
US10479018B2
An additive manufacturing apparatus including a scanner for directing a laser beam on to layers of flowable material to selectively solidify the material to form an object in a layer-by-layer manner. The scanner includes an optical component operable under the control of a first actuator to reflect the laser beam over a first range of angles in a first dimension and the or a further optical component operable under the control of a second actuator to reflect the laser beam over a second range of angles in the first dimension, wherein the second actuator provides a faster dynamic response but a smaller range of movement of the laser beam than the first actuator.
US10478992B2
Disclosed is a self-powered timber slasher. The self-powered timber slasher includes a self-propelled carrier and a powered circular saw mounted on a first end of the self-propelled carrier, wherein the powered circular saw is configured to cut timber. Further, a hydraulic motor coupled to the powered circular saw impart a rotational motion to the powered circular saw based on a flow of the hydraulic fluid that is stored with a hydraulic tank as the hydraulic motor is in fluid connection with the hydraulic tank. Yet further, the self-powered timber slasher a wireless controller electrically coupled to the powered circular saw. The wireless controller is configured to control operation of the powered circular saw based on a command received over a wireless communication channel.
US10478990B2
A punching device for processing samples applied to a sample card is provided. The punching device includes a movable gripper unit and an image capturing device and at least one punching head having a punch and a lower die. The punching head has a receiving opening into which a sample card is introducible by means of the movable gripper unit and is positionable relative to the punching head. The punching device further includes a punching drive which is couplable or coupled to the punch of the punching head. The punching device further includes a receiving plate supporting the receiving container and having a light source illuminating at least a part of the receiving plate. The light source is arranged such that at least a part of the receiving container located on the receiving plate can be illuminated from the direction of the receiving plate. The punching device further includes an image processing device configured to use data about positioning of the receiving container relative to the image capturing device to determine an analysis set of receiving recesses of the receiving container.
US10478989B2
A die cutter includes an anvil cylinder, a die cylinder, and a sleeve that is mounted on the die cylinder for generating a pressing force on an anvil cover to force a locking component of the anvil cover into a locking component receptor of the anvil cylinder.
US10478985B2
Machine for cutting cardboard tubes, including a cutting unit (CU) with a carriage (7) on which is mounted a blade (6) and a support element (4, 5, 8) for supporting a cardboard tube (1) intended to be transversely cut by the blade (6). The support element (4,5,8) allows the tube (1) to slide along a predetermined direction (A) parallel to its axis longitudinal (x) and to rotate about the same axis, and the carriage (7) is adapted to move bidirectionally the blade (6) parallel to the longitudinal axis (x) of the tube (1). The support element (4,5,8) has, where the cutting unit (CU) is arranged, apart (5) movable from and towards the blade (6) to maintain the tube (1) spaced from the latter and, respectively, for approaching the tube to the same blade (6) during a cutting phase.
US10478981B2
An electric shaver having at least one drivable cutter element and at least one rinse opening having a horn shape for rinsing water through the interior of the shaver head.
US10478976B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to a handle and a knife. In some embodiments, the handle includes: a handle body, a locating portion is provided on the handle body; and a handle clamp, the handle clamp including a first clamping arm, a second clamping arm and a connecting portion, the connecting portion is provided between the first clamping arm and the second clamping arm, and the first clamping arm is movably provided on the handle body and enables the handle clamp with a retraction position and an extension position. Some embodiments solve the problems in the prior art that a handle is prone to slide off from a pocket due to a bad fit between the handle and the pocket and the handle is not prone to be hidden in the pocket when the handle is clamped in the pocket.
US10478972B2
A method of covering a surface of a building, the method comprising spraying an expandable foam material onto the surface and allowing the foam material to solidify whereby to form a covering of the surface and a robotic vehicle configured to carry out the method.
US10478965B2
Provided is a robot system including a robot; a control device configured to control the robot; a portable teach pendant connected to the control device; and a teaching handle attached to the robot and connected to the control device, where the teach pendant is provided with a first enable switch configured to permit operation of the robot by the teach pendant, the teaching handle is provided with a second enable switch configured to permit operation of the robot by the teaching handle, and the control device enables operation of the robot by the teaching handle only when the first enable switch is in an off state and the second enable switch is switched to the on state, and enables operation of the robot by the teach pendant only when the second enable switch is in an off state and the first enable switch is switched to the on state.
US10478954B2
A portable linear fastener driving tool is provided that drive staples, nails, or other linearly driven fasteners. The tool uses a gas spring principle, in which a cylinder filled with compressed gas is used to quickly force a piston through a driving stroke movement, while a driver also drives a fastener into a workpiece. The piston/driver is then moved back to its starting position by use of a rotary-to-linear lifter, and the piston again compresses the gas above the piston, thereby preparing the tool for another driving stroke. The driver has protrusions along its edges that contact the lifter, which lifts the driver during a return stroke. A pivotable latch is controlled to move into either an interfering position or a non-interfering position with respect to the driver protrusions, and acts as a safety device, by preventing the driver from making a full driving stroke at an improper time.
US10478945B2
An abrasive recovery system for a waterjet cutter, the abrasive recovery system comprising: a drain coupler including at least one drain nozzle, the drain nozzle having at least one wall defining a drain nozzle bore, the drain coupler defining a drain opening wherein the drain opening is in fluid communication with the drain nozzle bore; and a flexible hose coupled to the drain nozzle to establish fluid communication between the drain opening and the flexible hose.
US10478937B2
A chemical mechanical polishing apparatus includes a platen to support a polishing pad, and an in-situ acoustic emission monitoring system including an acoustic emission sensor supported by the platen, a waveguide configured to extending through at least a portion of the polishing pad, and a processor to receive a signal from the acoustic emission sensor. The in-situ acoustic emission monitoring system is configured to detect acoustic events caused by deformation of the substrate and transmitted through the waveguide, and the processor is configured to determine a polishing endpoint based on the signal.
US10478934B2
A tool post of a machine tool, in which the tool post is capable of receiving a cutting insert for machining a component, is provided. The tool post includes at least one sensor capable of determining a parameter representative of a cutting action between a component to be machined and a cutting insert; and a support housing which is electrically connected to the sensor and includes a battery and a printed circuit board supplied with current by the battery. The printed circuit board supports, at least partially, a radio transmission unit. The housing includes a base and a cover which can be detached from one another. The battery is supported by the cover and the printed circuit board by the base or vice versa.
US10478925B2
The present invention provides a brazing filler material in which the formation of coarse Si particles is suppressed, and a brazing sheet using the same. The brazing filler material includes Si: 3.5% by mass or more and 13.0% by mass or less, Ti: 0.001% by mass or more and 0.05% by mass or less, V: more than 0.0005% by mass and 0.05% by mass or less, and B: 0.001% by mass or less (excluding 0% by mass), with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and the value of V/Ti, which is a value obtained by dividing the V content (% by mass) by the Ti content (% by mass) is 0.05 or more and 5 or less.
US10478924B2
An electro-conductive paste includes a metal particle and a vehicle in which the metal particle is dispersed. The metal particle has a particle size in a range from 1 μm to 20 μm and consists of an outer shell and a core part. The core part contains Sn or a Sn alloy. The outer shell contains an intermetallic compound of Sn and Cu and covers 50% or more of a total surface area of the core part.
US10478921B2
A method for generating, in layers, an application structure made of high heat resistant super alloys on a substrate is provided. A powdery construction material is melted by an energy beam at a working point, wherein the working point is guided across the substrate along a primary movement direction and thus swings transversely to the primary movement direction. The working point thereby swings from a first edge of a respective layer of the application structure to a second edge of the layer. In this way, a time interval passes between departure from a respective edge and a return to the respective edge directly following the departure, such that a melt bath on the respective edge solidifies into a paste-like zone during the time interval.
US10478914B2
For butt-welding, which includes bringing joining end surfaces of a cup member and a shaft member into abutment against each other and radiating a high energy intensity beam from a radially outer side, the shaft member has a recess on a radially inner side of the joining end surface to obtain a welded portion having a closed hollow cavity on a radially inner side after butt-welding. The joining end surface (protruding surface) of the cup member protrudes toward a radially inner side with respect to an inner diameter of the joining end surface of the shaft member. With this, a welded portion of an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint, which is manufactured by joining the cup member and the shaft member, can be improved in strength and quality.
US10478908B2
An accessory tool for an oscillating power tool includes a support arm portion having a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge and a blade portion extending from a forward end portion of the support arm portion generally in a lateral direction. The blade portion includes a cutting edge arranged facing in the forward direction and a trailing edge that faces toward the mounting portion. The mounting portion defines a central axis which intersects the oscillating axis when the mounting portion is attached to a tool holder of the oscillating power tool. The first lateral edge of the support arm portion and the trailing edge of the blade portion define an open region which is interposed between the blade portion and the mounting portion. The central axis intersects the open region and both the trailing edge and the cutting edge of the blade portion.
US10478907B2
The invention relates to a machine-tool, especially a circular saw bench. The machine-tool has a clamping device that can be moved with the work piece in an advancing direction and which is guided at a certain height in relation to the workbench. The clamping device is used to support the work piece, in a carrying manner, in the region of the clamping device, in relation to the workbench.
US10478906B2
A duplex saw, including a machine head assembly of which a top portion is mounted with a cutting working platform, a base, a rotating disk, and a machine head rotating seat positioned between the machine head assembly and the rotating disk and hinged with the machine head assembly and the rotating disk. The machine head assembly includes a motor, a machine frame, a gear box body, a transmission mechanism and a saw blade. The motor is fixed on the machine frame. The transmission mechanism is provided in the gear box body and constitutes a gear box assembly. A gear shaft of the motor drives the transmission mechanism. The gear box assembly can be rotated about the gear shaft of the motor. The blade is fixed on an output shaft of the transmission mechanism, the output shaft and the gear shaft of the motor are parallel to each other.
US10478892B2
A method is provided for additive manufacturing. This method includes monitoring a current to a recoater blade. The monitored current is compared to a predetermined current. An operation is initiated in response to the monitored current exceeding the predetermined current. Another method for additive manufacturing includes comparing a movement of a recoater blade to an expected movement. A single exposure sequence is initiated in response to movement of the recoater blade being different than an expected movement. An additive manufacturing system is also provided which includes a recoated blade and a control. The control is operable to identify resistance to movement of the recoater blade.
US10478886B2
A recess is formed in a plate-like workpiece. Then, an inner ejector is engaged with the recess to restrict deformation of a body portion. In this state, a flange is formed in the outer periphery of the workpiece. A processed product portion is then punched out.
US10478879B2
One or more hollow billets are loaded onto an elongate mandrel bar for extrusion. The billets are transported along the mandrel bar to a rotating die. The billets are transported through fluid clamps, which engage the mandrel bar and provide cooling fluid to the mandrel bar tip, and through mandrel grips, which engage the mandrel bar and prevent the mandrel bar from rotating. One or more press-rams advance the billets through a centering insert and into the rotating die. A quench assembly is provided at an extrusion end of the extrusion press to quench the extruded material. A programmable logic controller may be provided to control, at least in part, operations of the extrusion press system.
US10478872B2
A method for treatment of a plastic transport box for conveyance and atmospheric storage of substrates including walls bounding a volume intended for storage of substrates, and a station for treatment of transport boxes for conveyance and atmospheric storage of substrates, the method including: at least one plasma treatment in which at least one interior wall of the transport box is subjected to a plasma of a treatment gas at a gas pressure lower than 10000 pascals.
US10478859B2
In one aspect, matching layers for an ultrasonic transducer stack having a matching layer comprising a matrix material loaded with a plurality of micron-sized and nano-sized particles. In another aspect, the matrix material is loaded with a plurality of heavy and light particles. In another aspect, an ultrasound transducer stack comprises a piezoelectric layer and at least one matching layer. In one aspect, the matching layer comprises a composite material comprising a matrix material loaded with a plurality of micron-sized and nano-sized particles. In a further aspect, the composite material can also comprise a matrix material loaded with a plurality of heavy and light particles. In a further aspect, a matching layer can also comprise cyanoacrylate.
US10478852B2
A device for dispensing a material has a container for holding the material, a piston movably arranged within the container and a spindle in cooperation with the piston. The device is configured such that the spindle and the container are rotatable relative to each other to move the piston for dispensing the material. The piston and the spindle are adapted to anti-twist lock against each other in a first axial position of the piston relative to spindle. And in a second axial position of the piston relative to spindle the anti-twist lock between the piston and the spindle is suspended. The device helps minimizing any residual dental material upon attempting to empty the device.
US10478848B2
An apparatus for preventing a cover from being drawn into a joint of a paint robot includes a circular ring member mounted to the paint robot proximate the joint. The circular ring member may include first and second blocking members. The paint robot includes first and second portions rotatable relative to one another about an axis of the joint. The circular ring member circumferentially surrounds the first portion of the paint robot such that the axis of the joint passes through the circular ring member.
US10478846B2
In certain embodiments, a system comprises a robot, a spray gun coupled to the robot and operable to spray a first predefined number of passes of a material onto a substrate at a first flow rate, and a measurement device operable to measure one or more properties of the material sprayed onto the substrate while the material is wet. The system further comprises an analyzer operable to determine a thickness of the wet material based on the one or more measured properties and calculate a second flow rate required to achieve a cured thickness of the material within a second predefined number of passes. The calculated second flow rate is based on the first predefined number of passes, an expected thickness of the wet material for one pass of the first predefined number of passes, the determined thickness of the wet material, and the first flow rate.
US10478840B2
An apparatus and a method for mixing and atomizing a hydrocarbon stream is disclosed. The apparatus comprises of an inner conduit having a first inlet for receiving the hydrocarbon stream, and a second inlet for receiving a primary dispersion stream. The inner conduit produces a primary mixture comprising the hydrocarbon stream and the primary dispersion stream. The apparatus further includes an outer conduit having a third inlet for receiving a secondary dispersion stream. Further, said inner and outer conduits together define an annular passage. The distal end of the annular passage defines a second set of orifices for allowing the secondary dispersion stream flowing there-through to come in contact with the primary mixture and thereby dispensing the secondary mixture so obtained through an outlet.
US10478837B2
The present disclosure is related to a method of producing a massaging spray mode for a showerhead. The method includes fluidly connecting a plurality of nozzles to a fluid source where each of the first plurality of nozzles are opened substantially simultaneously and fluidly disconnecting the first plurality of nozzles from the fluid source where each of the nozzles within the first plurality of nozzles are closed substantially simultaneously. Additionally, the present disclosure is related to a method of assembling a showerhead. The method includes connecting together two or more flow directing plates to create an engine for the showerhead; placing the engine within a spray head a number of degrees out of phase from an operational orientation; rotating the engine the number of degrees into the operational orientation; and connecting the engine to the spray head by a fastener received through a back wall of the spray head.
US10478814B2
The invention relates to ion exchangers laden with transition metal hexacyanoferrate complexes, to processes for the production thereof and to the use of these ion exchangers for removal and purification of cesium ions.
US10478807B2
The invention relates to CeO2 and La2O3 for catalyzing Fe2O3—Al2O3 based chemical-looping reforming of CH4 with CO2 (CL-DRM). The reaction performance of all the composite oxygen carriers was evaluated in a fixed-bed reactor at atmospheric pressure condition. The influencing factors, including temperature and time-on-stream (TOS) were investigated. The characteristics of the oxygen carriers were checked with Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The reducibility of the composite materials was elucidated with temperature-programmed reduction by CH4 (CH4-TPR). Preliminary experimental observations suggest that the simultaneous presence of CeO2 and La2O3 can not only enhance the reactivity of Fe2O3—Al2O3 toward CH4 oxidation and its oxygen releasing rate for fast reaction kinetics, but also improve the reactivity of its reduced form toward CO2 splitting.
US10478805B2
Provided are a supported catalyst including: a support body which is formed by a catalyst composition being supported by a carrier, in which the catalyst composition contains an oxide of copper, and the carrier contains αAl2O3.βB2O3 (α and β each represent a positive number); and a hydrogen production method for producing hydrogen from ammonia, including: an ammonia combustion step of reacting ammonia with oxygen in the presence of the supported catalyst; and an ammonia decomposition step of decomposing the ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen by utilizing heat generated by the reaction between the ammonia and the oxygen.
US10478804B2
Activated carbon monolith catalyst including a finished self-supporting activated carbon monolith having at least one passage therethrough, and including a supporting matrix and substantially discontinuous activated carbon particles dispersed throughout the supporting matrix and at least one catalyst precursor on the finished self-supporting activated carbon monolith. A method for making, and a method for use, of such an activated carbon monolith catalyst in catalytic chemical reactions.
US10478802B2
Titania-based porous nanoparticle coatings are mechanically robust, with low haze, which exhibit short time scales for decomposition of fingerprint oils under ultraviolet light. The mechanism by which a typical dactylogram is consumed combines wicking of the sebum into the nanoporous titania structure followed by photocatalytic degradation. These TiO2 nanostructured surfaces are also anti-fogging, anti-bacterial, and compatible with flexible glass substrates and remain photocatalytically active in natural sunlight.
US10478795B2
A method for manufacturing capsules for an in inkjet ink includes the steps of a) preparing a non-aqueous solution of a first shell component for forming a polymeric shell and one or more chemical reactants optionally in an organic solvent having a low miscibility with water and having a lower boiling point than water; b) preparing an aqueous solution of a second shell component for forming the polymeric shell and an amphoteric surfactant; c) dispersing the non-aqueous solution under high shear in the aqueous solution; d) optionally stripping the organic solvent from the mixture of the aqueous solution and the non-aqueous solution; and e) preparing a polymeric shell around the one or more chemical reactants by interfacial polymerization of the first and second shell components for forming the polymeric shell.
US10478794B1
A bi-modal radial flow reactor comprising: a cylindrical outer housing surrounding at least five cylindrical, concentric zones, including at least three annulus vapor zones including an outer annulus vapor zone, a middle annulus vapor zone, and a central annulus vapor zone, and at least two catalyst zones, including an outer catalyst zone and an inner catalyst zone, wherein the outer catalyst zone is intercalated with the outer annulus vapor zone and the middle annulus vapor zone, and wherein the inner catalyst zone is intercalated with the middle annulus vapor zone and the central annulus vapor zone; and a manifold configured to introduce a feed vertically into a bottom end of each of one or two of the at least three annulus vapor zones, and remove a product from a bottom end of each of the one or two remaining of the at least three annulus vapor zones.
US10478791B2
Provided is a stirring device including: a stirred tank, of which an inner peripheral wall has a circular shape in cross section; and at least one flow impeller and at least one shearing impeller that are located inside the stirred tank and configured to be rotatable independently of each other, in which rotational centers of the flow impeller and the shearing impeller are coaxially provided, the flow impeller rotates around a vertical axis along the inner peripheral wall of the stirred tank to form at least a flow directed toward a lower side in the stirring object existing in the stirred tank, and the shearing impeller imparts a shearing force to the stirring object and is provided on a radially inward side of the flow impeller in the stirred tank and at a position contacting the flow of the stirring object formed by the flow impeller.
US10478786B2
A gas separation membrane has a gas separation layer containing a poly(benzoxazole-imide) compound in which the poly(benzoxazole-imide) compound having structural units represented by General formulae (I) and (II), or structural units represented by General formulae (I), (II) and (III) satisfies a specific molar quantity condition. In the formulae, X and Y each represent a single bond or a specific divalent linking group; L represents a specific divalent linking group including a phenylene group; and R represents a specific group. A gas separation module and a gas separation method use the gas separation membrane. A gas separation apparatus includes the gas separation module.
US10478783B2
A separation membrane structure comprises a porous support, and a separation membrane formed on the porous support. The separation membrane has an average pore diameter of greater than or equal to 0.32 nm and less than or equal to 0.44 nm. The separation membrane includes addition of at least one of a metal cation or a metal complex that tends to adsorb nitrogen in comparison to methane.
US10478776B2
A process for removal of heavy metals and/or dioxins from a fluid including heavy metals, where the fluid is brought in contact with a mixture including between 30% vol. and 60% vol. of an activated carbon catalyst impregnated with sulfur, between 30% vol. and 60% vol. of an activated carbon catalyst impregnated with iron and between 5% vol. and 40% vol. of a filler material, the total of these three ingredients being 100% vol, where the fluid is left in contact with the mixture, the heavy metals and/or dioxins are absorbed onto the mixture to obtain a fluid with a depleted level of heavy metals, which fluid is then evacuated from the mixture.
US10478773B2
The invention is related to the sphere technologies for desulfurization and demercaptanization of gaseous hydrocarbons. It can be used for purification of any gaseous hydrocarbon medium. The device includes a catalytic reactor loaded with a catalyst solution in an organic solvent, a means of withdrawal sulfur solution from the reactor into the sulfur-separating unit, and a sulfur-separating unit. The sulfur-separation unit includes a means of sulfur extraction. The reactor design and the catalyst composition provide conversion of at least 99.99% of hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans into sulfur and disulfides. The catalyst is composed of mixed-ligand complexes of transition metals. The technical result achieved by use of claimed invention is effectively a single-stage purification of gaseous hydrocarbons from hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans with remaining concentration of —SH down to 0.001 ppm while leaving no toxic waste.
US10478771B2
A dryer for a compressed gas provided with a vessel with a drying agent and a drying zone and a regeneration zone; at least one intermediate zone that, viewed in the direction of rotation of the drum, is situated between the regeneration zone and the drying zone and which is provided with a separate inlet and an outlet that is shared with or connected to the outlet of the regeneration zone; a tap-off pipe that branches off from the outlet of the drying zone and connects to the aforementioned separate inlet of the intermediate zone; one or more blowers in the tap-off pipe for effectuating an intermediate flow from the drying zone, where the dryer is configured such that the entire flow of gas to be dried supplied to the dryer is first guided through the regeneration zone.
US10478770B2
Process and apparatus for producing helium, neon, or argon product gas using an adsorption separation unit having minimal dead end volumes. A second separation unit receives a stream enriched in helium, neon, or argon, and a stream is recycled from the second separation unit back to the adsorption separation unit in a controlled manner to maintain the concentration of the helium, neon, or argon in the feed to the separation unit within a targeted range.
US10478765B2
A method for in-line control of the integrity of a filtering system implemented during an industrial process including the filtering of a gas through the filtering system, the filtering system including at least one filtering cartridge, the method including at least the following steps: —a measurement step (S1) which involves measuring a pressure difference ΔP representative of the pressure loss caused by the filtering system (F1; F2), —a testing step (S2, S3) which involves comparing the measurement (S1) with a predefined high threshold (Sh) and a predefined low threshold (Sb), in such a way as to consider the at least one filtering cartridge to be non-compliant when the pressure difference measured in the measurement step (S1) falls outside a range located between the high threshold (Sh) and the low threshold (Sb).
US10478759B2
A filter element has a preferably multilayer structure of a pleated filter medium (3) with a plurality of individual filter pleats (5, 7). Due to an alternating sequence of filter pleats (5) with a first pleat height (h1) and filter pleats (7) with a second pleat height (h2), more effective filter surfaces are available than with filter pleats with a uniform pleat height. Upon throughflow by a fluid to be filtered, a lower surface load for the filter medium (30 and lower passage speed of the fluid are present during filtration. A static loading of the filter medium (3) during operation of the filter is then reduced. A hydraulic circuit has such a filter element (1).
US10478750B2
Techniques are described for accelerating thermal equilibrium in a chromatographic column. An apparatus comprises a chromatography column, and a plurality of temperature control units in thermal contact with the chromatography column. A method of performing liquid chromatography comprises setting an inlet of a chromatography column to a first temperature using a first temperature control unit in thermal contact with said inlet, setting an outlet of the chromatography column to a second temperature using a second temperature control unit in thermal contact with the outlet, wherein the first temperature is less than the second temperature; and injecting a sample into a liquid stream that flows through the chromatography column after the inlet is set at the first temperature and the outlet is at the second temperature.
US10478746B2
The present invention concerns a process for producing a solid product and a liquid product, comprising the steps of a. heating by direct steam injection a finely divided starting material, b. separating the heated starting material in the solid product and an aqueous liquid, c. heating and pressurizing the aqueous liquid, and d. reducing the pressure of the aqueous liquid thereby generating steam and the liquid product, wherein the steam generated in step d is returned to step a for injection into the finely divided starting material. The process suggests a solution for extracting the additional water appearing in the aqueous liquid due to condensed steam.
US10478744B2
A railway bogie includes one or more operative components for the operation of the railway bogie and an impact guard protecting the one or more operative components from flying debris. The impact guard is made of a high density polyethylene (HDPE). The railway bogie can be used in Jacobs bogies of multiple units operating under wintery conditions.
US10478741B2
The present disclosure relates to a chain block toy assembled by interconnecting multiple assembly blocks in a fitting manner by using a female coupling part and a male coupling part. In particular, in each of the assembly blocks provided with a plurality of female coupling parts defined by a partition, an open groove is formed in the partition for forming the plurality of female coupling parts such that, when coupling or decoupling a male coupling part or rotating same in a coupled state, vertical supports of the female coupling parts are rolled to the left and right sides, thereby facilitating the coupling and decoupling, while preventing abrasion by minimizing friction.
US10478738B1
The present discloses a toy duck comprising a main body shaped as a duck; a nozzle disposed on the main body for spraying water in case the main body is pressed externally; a hole at the bottom of the main body for receiving a piston assembly; and a piston assembly disposed in the hole for sealing the main body so as to prevent water from leaking from the main body, and allowing complete drainage of water in the toy duck when the toy duck is disposed on a horizontal panel to keep the duck toy clean and hygienic. The internal cavity of the main body will not contain water any more due to the piston assembly, and can be kept clean and hygienic, which is not suitable for generation and growth of bacteria therein. The new toy duck will not cause harm to health of the children.
US10478735B2
The field of the invention relates to multi-user online gaming systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that enable a spectator's experience for online active games. In an embodiment, an online multiuser game system includes an online game session server system communicatively coupled to a public network for access by a plurality of users to establish a plurality of real-time interactive games sessions. The online multiuser game system further includes a spectator server communicatively coupled to the online game session server system and configured to enable a user to view summary information of an active game session. In another embodiment, the spectator server enables the user to time shift the active game session and to view the summary information of the active game session. In another embodiment, the spectator server enables the user to view the summary information of the active game session while the user is playing the active game session.
US10478732B2
An arbitration system is configured to receive, as a set of results data, separate instances of results data from corresponding client computing devices being used to participate in a multiplayer game session. In some examples, an instance of results data comprises input representing an indication or a selection of an identity associated with an outcome of the multiplayer game session. For instance, the input can indicate a participant identity that won the multiplayer game session. In some examples, an instance of results data comprises game data describing the overall activity in a multiplayer game session from a perspective of a player's client computing device, the game data indicating a particular participant identity as a winner of the multiplayer game session. The arbitration system is configured to use the set of results data to determine an arbitrated outcome for the multiplayer game session.
US10478731B2
A method and an apparatus for storing user data are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a login request; generating an interactive data identification and a first game data identification based on a designated user identification and a first game scene identification included in the login request, the interactive data identification is configured to indicate interactive user data, and the first game data identification is configured to indicate first game user data corresponding to the first game scene; generating the interactive user data based on an interactive operation executed by the terminal and storing the interactive data identification and the interactive user data correspondingly; and generating the first game user data based on a game operation executed by the terminal in the first game scene and storing the first game data identification and the first game user data correspondingly.
US10478729B1
An adaptive video game system and method includes a game server linked to various game clients. A game client executes a user-selected game program, each of one or more selectable game programs comprising specified gameplay objects programmed to interact with dynamic text objects, and further obtains text strings (e.g., constituent letters, words, and phrases) associated with user-defined text sources. The game client dynamically applies text objects generated via a first set of rules associated at least with the selected game program and based on the obtained text strings, to interact with the specified gameplay objects via a second set of rules associated at least with the selected game program. Video game users accordingly may solve presented challenges according with both internally defined video game rules and integrated text strings of externally obtained written works. User performance may be monitored and analyzed for determination of written work retention, user improvement, etc.
US10478728B2
It is an object of the present invention to enable a player playing a game to readily view an image that may serve as a reference for the game. A server 1 carries out communications with a terminal 2-2 that generates metadata when needed during the execution of a game, the metadata including one or more kinds of attribute information. A management unit 11 manages one or more sets of data, the sets of data each including: image data related to the game or location data of the image data, and the metadata. A correlation calculating unit 21 calculates a correlation between metadata generated by the terminal 2-2 at a certain timing and the metadata included in each of the one or more managed sets. An image-sending control unit 22 sends, to the terminal 2-2, the image data or location data included in the same set as metadata whose correlation satisfies a predetermined criterion.
US10478725B2
A game machine includes a game operation acceptance device configured to accept one or more game operations. The game machine also includes a skill evaluating device configured to determine whether or not the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions. The game machine also includes a game value consuming device configured to consume a game value in case that the skill evaluating device determined that the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions.
US10478715B2
A projectile launching apparatus comprising a frame, a target, and a launcher. The frame comprises a base portion and an upper portion. The target comprises a rim and a projectile receiver. The launcher comprises a projectile saddle and a plurality of resilient cords. The projectile saddle comprises a front surface and a rear surface. The projectile launching apparatus further comprises a means for attaching the plurality of resilient cords to the upper portion and a means for attaching the plurality of resilient cords to the projectile saddle. The front surface is configured to receive a projectile. The projectile receiver is attached to the rim. The rim is attached to the upper portion.
US10478714B1
A ring-tossing game assembly for entertainment includes a post that is coupled to a base, from which the post extends perpendicularly. Each of a plurality of crossbars is coupled to and extends bidirectionally from the post. Each crossbar is substantially U-shaped so that opposing ends of the crossbar extend toward a top of the post. Each of a plurality of rings is configured to be grasped in a hand of a user who is positioned proximate to the post. The user is positioned to toss the ring toward the post intending the ring to insertably couple to a respective crossbar.
US10478710B1
A magnetized playing card having: a first component; and a second component that joins with the first component to form the magnetized playing card; the first component having: a front first component face; a back first component face; wherein at least a first section of the back first component surface is a magnetized surface; the magnetized surface having: a plurality of magnetic poles comprising north poles and south poles; wherein the north poles and the south poles are in parallel with each other, and the north poles alternate with the south poles in an alternating formation; and wherein the alternating formation faces a first direction to create a first magnetic alignment; the second component having: a front second component face; a back second component face; wherein the second component joins with the first component via the back first component face and the back second component face.
US10478708B2
The present invention is generally directed to methods, systems, and computer program products for coordinating musculoskeletal and cardiovascular hemodynamics, and more directly to stationary and non-stationary exercise equipment that include adjustable behaviors and are used with repetitive activities. The equipment is adjusted automatically in real-time to alter the work output, cadence, and/or timing of the user's physical activity in response to their monitored cardiovascular and musculoskeletal signals to achieve and maintain a targeted coordination of their heart and musculoskeletal pump cycle timing.
US10478707B2
A motion analysis device includes a calculation unit which specifies a first imaginary plane, that is, a shaft plane formed by a first line segment representing a direction in which a shaft part of a sporting gear in a static posture extends and a second line segment representing a ball hitting direction, with the use of an output from an inertial sensor.
US10478702B2
Exercise equipment, particularly a linear movable structure and associated selectable elastic resistance bands with or without guide track members are designed to allow low-impact exercises for one or two persons at the same time while permitting either or both participants to remain stationary when utilizing the equipment.
US10478698B2
A cognitive/multisensory stimulation system simulates sports scenarios during real sports actions for assessing, profiling, training, or improving performance of athletes or other populations. Cognitive/multisensory training can be provided by: establishing with an athlete a sensory semantic language for relating a number of sensory signals to corresponding possible actions, the sensory semantic language being essentially new to the athlete; instructing the athlete to perform an athletic exercise involving skills and full body movement; providing during exercise sensory signals to the athlete to require rapid discernment by the athlete of the semantic meaning of the sensory signal to correctly chose one possible action; and determining whether the athlete correctly responds to the selected sensory signal during said exercise.
US10478696B2
A sports training device attached to the shaft of a swinging sports apparatus, such as a baseball bat. The device includes a drag chute disposed between two rigid members, a support rod disposed between the two rigid members along the longitudinal axis of the chute, and a plurality of coupling elements connected to the support rod. Each coupling element includes an annular opening for positioning of the sports apparatus therethrough. One coupling element has a stationary component that secures the device to the sports apparatus and a rotating component that rotates 360° around the sports apparatus. As such, the entirety of the device, with exception to this stationary component, can substantially freely rotate 360° around the sports apparatus. Resistance during a swing can be adjusted by sliding the coupling mechanisms along the support rod to expose more or less of the chute.
US10478684B2
Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a toe portion, a heel portion, a top portion, a sole portion, a front portion, a back portion, a hosel portion, a first interior cavity, and a hosel transition portion between the first interior cavity and the hosel portion. The golf club head may include a second interior cavity extending into the hosel transition portion and connected to the first interior cavity. The body portion may include a port connected to the first interior cavity. The first interior cavity may be filled with a polymer material from the port. The golf club head may include a mass portion located at or below a horizontal midplane of the body portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10478674B2
A golf ball including a core; an inner cover layer formed from a thermoplastic composition and having a thickness of about 0.005 inches to 0.40 inches and a surface hardness of about 60 Shore D or greater; and an outer cover layer formed from a thermoset material and having a thickness of about 0.01 inches to 0.05 inches and a surface hardness of about 60 Shore D or less. The thermoplastic composition has a first melt flow index at 280° C. under a 10-kg load of less than about 35 g/10 min and a second melt flow index at 265° C. under a 5-kg load of less than about 10 g/10 min.
US10478668B2
A base station for an activity monitoring system that facilitates live monitoring of a plurality of individuals. The base station may include a ventilation channel and a heat sink for cooling a control module disposed within the base station. The base station may be water resistant so as to protect the control module from water damage. The base station may also have an egg-shape for facilitating the drainage of water off the base station and to reduce the force of an impact on the base station.
US10478662B2
A stretching apparatus for use during a stretching exercise includes a strap and a ratchet device. The strap is configured to attach to a limb of a user. The strap extends through the ratchet device and the ratchet device controls tension in the strap. The ratchet device is positionable between a ratcheting position and a release position. The ratcheting position prevents movement of the strap in a first direction and allows movement of the strap in a second direction. The release position allows movement of the strap in the first direction. The stretching apparatus also includes a remote trigger connected to the ratchet device to move the ratchet device between the ratcheting position and the release position. The stretching apparatus removably connects to support structures and is adjustable between different positions for different stretching exercises.
US10478653B2
A foldable diving platform for attachment to a wakeboard tower. The platform includes a base section affixable to tubing of the wakeboard tower and a folding section hinged to the based section. The folding section may be rotated about the hinge to enable storage atop the base section or full deployment collinear and coplanar with the base section.
US10478644B2
A firefighter hood comprising a hood body configured to fit around a head of a wearer, wherein the hood body includes a face opening configured to be aligned with a face of the wearer when the hood is worn. The hood further includes a flap coupled to the hood body. The flap is movable between an extended position wherein the flap covers only part of the opening in front view, and a retracted position wherein the flap does not cover any of the opening in front view or covers less of the opening in front view compared to when the flap is in the extended position.
US10478642B2
A particle beam treatment apparatus includes: a rotating gantry configured to axially rotate in a state where a bed fixed to a stationary system is disposed inside the rotating gantry and an irradiation port of a beam is fixed to a body of the rotating gantry; a tunnel structure configured to have at least a horizontal floor surface and have an internal space in which at least a part of the bed is accommodated; and a rotation supporter configured to cause the tunnel structure to be stationary in the stationary system independently of axis rotation of the rotating gantry by rotationally displacing the tunnel structure with respect to an inner side surface of the rotating gantry.
US10478632B2
The defibrillator may include a heart rhythm detector to detect the heart rhythm of a patient, a manual mode controller structured to set the defibrillator in a synchronous shock operating mode or an asynchronous shock operating mode depending on an input from a human operator, a shock module to cause the defibrillator to deliver a shock to the patient according to the operating mode, and an automatic mode controller structured to, after the shock module has delivered the shock to the patient, set the external defibrillator to the synchronous shock operating mode or the asynchronous shock operating mode depending on the detected heart rhythm of the patient and without input from the human operator.
US10478627B2
An implantable leadless pacemaker (iLP) for a human or animal heart is provided that includes a housing, at least two electrode poles for picking up electrical potentials and/or delivering electrical stimulation, a stimulation control unit in connection with the electrode poles, a sensing unit that is in connection with at least one electrode pole, a signal processing unit in connection with the sensing unit, a signal evaluation unit in connection with the signal processing unit and/or the sensing unit, and an energy source. The sensing unit is configured to sense a first signal associated with an activity of the first heart chamber, and the stimulation control unit is configured to deliver electrical stimulation in the first heart chamber via the at least two electrode poles. The sensing unit is configured to sense a second signal associated with an activity of a second heart chamber.
US10478626B1
The present invention relates to methods for tuning treatment parameters in movement disorder therapy systems. The present invention further relates to a system for screening patients to determine viability as candidates for certain therapy modalities, such as deep brain stimulation (DBS). The present invention still further provides methods of quantifying movement disorders for the treatment of patients who exhibit symptoms of such movement disorders including, but not limited to, Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism, Dystonia, Chorea, and Huntington's disease, Ataxia, Tremor and Essential Tremor, Tourette syndrome, stroke, and the like. The present invention yet further relates to methods of tuning a therapy device using objective quantified movement disorder symptom data acquired by a movement disorder diagnostic device to determine the therapy setting or parameters to be provided to the subject via his or her therapy device. The present invention also provides treatment and tuning remotely, allowing for home monitoring of subjects.
US10478610B2
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for an electrotherapeutic system including a first and second electrode. Each electrode includes a respective resistance wherein during operation of the electrotherapeutic system, an electrochemical reaction involving one or both of the electrodes varies the respective resistance of at least one of the electrodes.
US10478606B2
A conventional medical connector allows a gap therein to function as a passage for a flowing liquid at the cost of the flow rate of the flowing liquid. The present invention provides a medical connector which comprises a tubular resilient element. One end of the resilient element is a closed end. A through hole is disposed on the wall of the resilient element, allowing an infusion liquid to flow fluently through the cavity of the tubular resilient element. Therefore, the medical connector is effective in increasing the flow rate and thereby suitable for massive liquid infusion.
US10478604B2
A hemostatic connector includes an insertion hole, a hemostatic member, a connector main body part, and a coupling pipe part. The insertion hole is configured such that an introduction member is inserted through the insertion hole. The hemostatic member is configured to block a gap between a peripheral surface of the insertion hole and the introduction member. The hemostatic member is provided in the connector main body part. The coupling pipe part is configured to be coupled to a hub of a sheath introducer. The coupling pipe part is configured to be coupled to the hub in a state in which the coupling pipe part penetrates a hemostatic valve provided in an internal hole of the hub when the coupling pipe part is inserted into the internal hole. The connector main body part and the coupling pipe part are configured to be inseparable.
US10478601B2
To provide a solution applicator with which irritation on an affected part of a patient may be reduced even when a solution is used.According to the present invention, an applicator comprises a solution container which comprises an opening, and a columnar brush member formed by bundling synthetic fibers in a columnar shape. The columnar brush member is disposed at the opening of the solution container, a tip portion of the columnar brush member at an outside of the solution container has a fan shape expanding in a perpendicular lateral direction against a pillar axial lengthwise direction, and a thickness of the fan-shaped tip portion of the columnar brush member decreases in a perpendicular lengthwise direction against the pillar axial lengthwise direction toward the tip portion of the columnar brush member. The solution applicator of the present invention has the fan-shaped tip portion so that irritation on an affected part may be decreased and a liquid tinea unguium medicine may be applied to the affected part.
US10478600B2
A segmental crimper comprises at least three crimper segments and an actuator. The crimper segments are arranged circumferentially about a crimper axis that defines axial and radial directions. The crimper segments are movable relative to each other in a manner such that the crimper segments collectively define a variable size aperture that is aligned with the crimper axis. Each of the crimper segments comprises a radio frequency heating element. The actuator is operatively connected to the crimper segments in a manner such that movement of the actuator causes all of the crimper segments to simultaneously move relative to each other and alters the size of the aperture.
US10478597B2
A medical catheter includes a deflectable and compressible catheter shaft; a pull ring near a distal end of the catheter shaft; a distal tip that includes a tip element and a mounting shaft; and an attachment apparatus for securely attaching the distal tip to the catheter shaft, the attachment apparatus including a compression ring which compresses the catheter shaft and the mounting shaft together. The compression ring can be located around the catheter shaft to compress the catheter shaft against an outer surface of the mounting shaft, or within the catheter shaft to compress the catheter shaft outwardly against an inner surface of the mounting shaft. The catheter can be a non-irrigated ablation catheter, with the tip element being a tip electrode, and it can be an irrigated ablation catheter, with the distal tip including a fluid manifold.
US10478585B2
A humidifier includes a tub configured to hold a supply of water. The tub includes a tub lid and a tub base adapted to be coupled to the tub lid. The tub further includes a base plate formed of a heat conducting material and adapted to be coupled to the tub base and a seal positioned between the base plate and the tub base. The tub also includes a retaining mechanism with at least one projection that projects from the tub base and is configured to force the base plate against the seal so that the seal is secured against the tub base.
US10478583B2
A limb for a breathing circuit manufactured from very thin walled polymer materials has an elongate axial reinforcing spine lying freely inside the conduit and fixed to each end connector. The spine is laterally compliant but axially stiff. The spine provides resistance to tensile and compressive loads on the conduit, including that induced by prevailing internal pressures.
US10478578B2
A bougie for insertion in a patient, the bougie including: (i) a main shaft having proximal and distal ends and a bore extending axially therein; (ii) a movable tip having proximal and distal ends, the proximal end of the movable tip being connected to the distal end of the main shaft; (iii) a control member having proximal and distal ends, the control member being mounted for sliding movement in the bore of the main shaft; and (iv) the distal end of the control member being coupled to the distal end of the movable tip, the arrangement being such that an operator can slide the control member relative to the main shaft so as to cause displacement of the tip relative to the axial direction of the main shaft.
US10478573B2
A counter for a handheld device for dispensing a pharmaceutical substance includes at least one counter wheel having legible characters. The counter wheel is rotatable about a rotational axis, and a drive part having a shaped engagement section rotates the counter wheel. An acting part, displaceable relative to the counter wheel in the direction of extension of the rotational axis against a spring force, is connected to and rotates together with the drive part. A base part which can form a part of the housing and can be inserted into the housing at least partly overlaps the substance container in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the substance container, and has a stationary rotational axis for the counter wheel, the drive part preferably being guided in the rotational axis. The drive part is located on the side of the substance container with respect to the counter wheel.
US10478572B2
A dry powder inhaler for pulmonary or nasal use, comprising at least an inhaler body 801 and a cartridge 803 with at least one powder compartment 805 including one dose of a drug. The body has an opening 804 shaped for receiving the cartridge 803 and the means to allow a controlled sliding movement of the cartridge 803 relative to the body 801 after mounting. The cartridge powder compartment 805 comprises at least two inlets or slits 806, 809, at least one of which is a side inlet 809, for the admission of air, and a compartment outlet 807 to allow filling and fluid communication with an inhalation channel 808 provided in the body 801. In use, the patient slides the cartridge 803 relative to the body 801 from the storage position, where the inlets in the cartridge powder compartment 805 are blocked and sealed by walls comprised in the body 801, into the inhalation position, where the compartment inlets become available for the admission of air used in the dispersion of the particles there contained and the compartment outlet 807 becomes aligned with the inhalation channel 808 in the body 801 to allow the entrainment of the dose dispersed through the device and into the desired site of action during inhalation. The addition of one or more lateral vents 809 in the cartridge powder compartments induces a turbulent and swirling flow pattern that promotes improved dispersion and entrainment. The invention affords a very economical and simple device for the delivery of high dosages of inhaled medicines.
US10478566B2
A Huber safety needle assembly including a body, configured to receive a needle. The body further including an upper portion having a first gripping portion coupled thereto, a lower portion having a second gripping portion coupled to thereto, and a hinge mechanism. The needle having a needle tip configured to be received in the body. The hinge mechanism is configured to operably transition the body between a closed configuration and an open configuration. The closed configuration allowing at least a portion of the needle, including the needle tip, to extend below the bottom surface of the lower portion of the body. The open configuration allowing the needle tip to be securely received within the lower portion such that it does not extend below the bottom surface of the lower portion.
US10478562B2
A drive mechanism of a drug delivery device for setting and dispensing of a dose of a medicament includes a housing, a piston rod, a dose indicating member with a dose size information thereon, and a drive wheel. The piston rod engages with a piston of a cartridge for displacing the piston in a distal direction. The dose indicating member is connected to a spring element and is rotatable in a dose incrementing direction against the action of the spring element for setting a dose. The drive wheel is operably engaged with the piston rod for displacing the piston rod in the distal direction for dose dispensing. The dose indicating member is engageable with the drive wheel during dose dispensing to transfer a force to the drive wheel when driven by the relaxing spring element in a dose decrementing direction.
US10478550B2
In a device for ambulatory wearing by the patient containing a pump for delivery of injection fluid or for removal of analysis fluid, the drive motor for the mechanically driven pump system is a Lavet-type stepper motor of small size designed for having a high mechanical power and low peak current requirement. Using this Lavet-type motor for syringe-type or peristaltic preferably patch-type pumps high infusion rates needed for e.g. bolus insulin injection or the delivery of therapeutic antibodies are achieved, and important safety features can be easily and reliably controlled, manufacturing costs get significantly reduced, and the overall size and weight of the device becomes smaller, for patient convenience.
US10478549B2
An intravenous line connection support device holds an intravenous connection port in a static position relative to a static structure or patient to facilitate connection to the port. The device includes a support flange coupled to and extending from a base. A connection post is coupled to and extends from the base. A slit extends into the connection post defining a pair of spaced arms. Opposite faces of the spaced arms include concavely arcuate portions defining a receiver within the slit configured for receiving a connection port of an intravenous line therein. A fastener has a head and a shaft. The shaft extends through the arms and across the slit. The shaft engages the arms such that movement of the shaft selectively urges the arms together and apart wherein the fastener is configured for securing the connection port within the receiver.
US10478545B2
Parallel modules for in-line recharging of sorbent materials using alternate duty cycles for a sorbent cartridge. The sorbent cartridge can have two or more modules contained therein having connectors connecting each of the modules. One or more of the modules can be reusable and the sorbent materials therein can be recharged.
US10478537B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel filter material and a filter including the same. Specifically, the present invention aims to provide a filter material capable of filtering in a short period of time, without clogging of the filter, while maintaining high cell separation properties, and a filter including the same. More specifically, the present invention aims to provide a filter material in which fiber masses (flocs) are uniformly distributed, and a filter including the same. The present invention provides a novel filter material showing excellent cell separation properties and excellent flow-through properties regardless of design choices for filters known prior to the filing of the present application, and an efficient cell separation method using a novel filter on which the filter material is stacked.
US10478531B2
This document provides methods and materials for treating a mammal (e.g., a human) having one or more stenotic blood vessels. For example, amnion coated balloons that can be used in balloon angioplasty are provided.
US10478526B2
This invention provides compositions in the form of skin substitutes comprising epithelial cells and mesenchymal cells, wherein the mesenchymal cells are not isolated from the occipital or nape region of the scalp, as well as methods for using the same.
US10478515B2
Ultraviolet radiation is directed within an area. The target wavelength ranges and/or target intensity ranges of the ultraviolet radiation sources can correspond to at least one of a plurality of selectable operating configurations including a virus destruction operating configuration and a bacteria disinfection operating configuration. Each configuration can include a unique combination of the target wavelength range and target intensity range.
US10478512B2
The present invention relates to compositions for and methods of optically imaging tissues or cells using imaging agents having desirable in vivo properties that result in improved signal-to-background ratio.
US10478510B2
Anti-lymphoma plant virus particles are described. The anti-lymphoma plant virus particles include a filamentous or rod-shaped plant virus particle linked to an antimitotic agent. A therapeutically effective amount of an anti-lymphoma plant virus particle can be administered to a subject to provide a method of treating lymphoma.
US10478506B2
Described herein are polymeric drug-carrying nanogels that are capable of targeting to P-selectin for the treatment of cancer and other diseases and conditions associated with P-selectin. Furthermore, in certain embodiments, the nanogels presented here offer a drug release mechanism based on acidic pH in the microenvironment of a tumor, thereby providing improved treatment targeting capability and allowing use of lower drug doses, thereby reducing toxicity.
US10478504B2
Disclosed in certain embodiments is a solid oral dosage form comprising a heat-labile gelling agent; a thermal stabilizer; and a drug susceptible to abuse.
US10478501B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition of oligopeptides, preferably cyclic oligopeptides, said composition further comprising one or more lipophilic and/or amphiphilic compounds, in the presence or absence of water as the main ingredients, the use of the lipophilic and/or amphiphilic compounds for making pharmaceutical compositions of said oligopeptides, and methods of making said pharmaceutical composition.
US10478488B2
The present invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical and vaccine formulations. More specifically, formulations which comprise an antigen comprising a mixture of oligopeptides loaded into liposome nanoparticles, optionally including an adjuvant, to provide an improved immune response.
US10478478B2
An effective amount of botulinum toxin type B is administered to a subject in need thereof for treating Raynaud's phenomenon. Botulinum toxin type B may be in a form of an injection, and may be locally administered to a disease affected site, in a dose of 200 to 400 units per disease affected site.
US10478473B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment of subjects with impaired fertility or at risk for impaired fertility. In certain aspects, the invention relates to increasing the level or activity of anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) in a subject.
US10478470B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition containing leuprolide acetate and having both immediate and sustained release properties and, more specifically, to a pharmaceutical composition in which, on the basis of the total weight of active ingredients, leuprolide as an immediate release preparation is contained in 0.001 wt % to 25 wt %; and leuprolide contained in microspheres of a sustained release preparation is contained in 75 wt % to 99.999 wt %. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is characterized by satisfying both a drug immediate release property so as to realize the prompt exposure to a sufficient amount of drug at the early stage for expression of medicinal effects and a drug sustained release property for four weeks or longer, and the pharmaceutical composition is effective in the prevention and treatment of sex hormone-dependent positive or malignant diseases.
US10478462B2
The present invention relates to an agent for effectively suppressing an increase in a blood acetaldehyde level. More specifically, the present invention relates to an alcohol metabolism promoter comprising glycogen obtained from a Veneroida bivalve.
US10478459B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cell transplantation. In particular, the present invention provides a composition with procoagulant cells and at least one factor Xa inhibitor, preferably rivaroxaban, as well as at least one thrombin inhibitor, preferably bivalirudin.
US10478452B2
The invention relates to an antiviral pharmaceutical composition for topical use against those viruses with a lipid envelope, comprising, as active ingredients a cationic copolymer containing tertiary amine groups and a cationic surfactant containing quaternary ammonium groups.
US10478432B2
Methods are provided herein for selectively killing senescent cells and for treating senescence-associated diseases and disorders by administering a senolytic agent. Senescence-associated diseases and disorders treatable by the methods using the senolytic agents described herein include cardiovascular diseases and disorders associated with or caused by arteriosclerosis, such as atherosclerosis; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; osteoarthritis; senescence-associated ophthalmic diseases and disorders; and senescence-associated dermatological diseases and disorders.
US10478421B1
Provided herein are compounds and formulations thereof that can be capable of binding to sortilin or an analogue thereof. Also provided herein are methods of administering the compounds and formulation provided herein to a subject in need thereof.
US10478416B1
Compositions and methods for preventing and recovery from detrimental effects of alcohol consumption
Disclosed are compositions, devices, and methods to prevent and recover from detrimental effects of alcohol consumption, including significant undesirable symptoms of a hangover consciously felt by the alcohol consumer, as well as those that may not be consciously experienced. The present technology comprehensively targets multiple negative effects of hangovers. In one aspect, a composition includes dihydromyricetin (DHM); and N-acetyl cysteine (NAC). The composition may further include Prickly Pear Extract, Milk Thistle, Ginger Root, Vitamins B, C, and E, electrolytes, and/or sugars.
US10478401B2
The invention relates to methods for encapsulating a material comprising the steps of: (a) providing an aqueous solution or suspension of the material that is to be encapsulated, (b) warming the aqueous solution or suspension to a temperature that is sufficient to enable dissolution of a first biocompatible polymer in the aqueous solution or suspension without adversely affecting the properties of the material to be encapsulated, (c) dissolving the first biocompatible polymer in the aqueous solution or suspension, (d) de-aerating the solution or suspension obtained in step (c), (e) emulsifying the solution or suspension obtained in (d) in a biocompatible oil comprising a surfactant to create microdroplets, and (f) hardening the microdroplets by dropwise addition of an aqueous solution comprising Zn2+ ions and a second biocompatible polymer to form microcapsules; the invention further relates to microcapsules obtained by methods of the invention and their uses.
US10478397B2
An avian tincture composition and associated methods for producing the same for treatment of the avian species with the avian tincture. The avian tincture may be used in the treatment of abscesses, inflamed and swollen leg joints, respiratory issues, wounds, infection, and acute disease or parasite overload conditions.
US10478392B2
Peptide and cosmetic composition comprising same for preventing skin aging or skin wrinkle formation
Provided herein is a peptide, a cosmetic composition comprising the same, and a method for inhibiting skin-aging or skin-wrinkle formation using the same, the peptide having activities for facilitating the bindings between keratinocytes; and increasing the expressions of junction proteins.
US10478391B2
The present disclosure relates to skincare products for treating the aging related issues of wrinkles or accidents such as scarring or burning and more specifically to specific formulations used to improve user outcomes in regards to skin elasticity, appearance and/or hydration. The contemplated products relate to formulations including combinations of biomimetic peptides and proteins of naturally occurring venoms in various known wildlife including bees, wasps, snakes, or snails, in a single formulation or in combination with various plant related ingredients with various carrier and/or medicament ability.
US10478389B2
A hair dye composition comprising the following components (A) and (B), in which the mass ratio of the component (B) to the component (A), (B)/(A), in a whole composition is 1 or more and 100 or less and the pH (25° C.) during application is 7.5 to 12: (A): one or more azo dyes selected from the group consisting of the following (A-1), (A-2) and (A-3): (B): at least one member selected from the group consisting of guanidine carbonate, guanidine hydrogen carbonate, sodium carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, potassium carbonate, potassium hydrogen carbonate and lithium carbonate.
US10478385B2
The present invention provides a dental adhesive material kit excellent in storage stability of the materials and exhibiting excellent bond durability to dentin by photopolymerization. The present invention is a dental adhesive material kit comprising a dental aqueous adhesive composition (A) and a dental curable composition (B), wherein: the dental aqueous adhesive composition (A) comprises a (meth)acrylic polymerizable monomer (a) containing an acid group, a vanadium compound (b), water (c), a (meth)acrylic polymerizable monomer (d) containing an amino group, and a polymerization inhibitor (i); the content of the polymerization inhibitor (i) is 25 to 1000 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the vanadium compound (b); and the dental curable composition (B) comprises a (meth)acrylic polymerizable monomer (e) containing no acid group, a hydroperoxide (f), a photopolymerization initiator (g), and a filler (h) and does not comprise a thiourea compound.
US10478378B2
Disclosed is a multi-functional electro-spoon needle therapeutic apparatus, which includes a top cover, locating pieces, a fixed lid, a rear cover, electro-spoon needles and an adjustment mechanism, wherein the locating pieces are respectively mounted on the top cover and the rear cover, and each locating piece is provided with a long groove; the fixed lid is respectively fixed on the top cover and the rear cover so as to respectively hold the locating pieces between the top cover and the fixed lid and between the rear cover and the fixed lid; the rear cover is arranged behind the top cover and connected to the top cover via the adjustment mechanism; and the electro-spoon needles are mounted in the long grooves of the locating pieces and can move along the long grooves. The apparatus has a simple structure, so a patient can perform acupuncture by himself.
US10478375B2
A pulmonary expansion therapy (PXT) device may be a handheld device that covers specific lung fields and may generate negative pressure fields locally. The device also may provide percussion therapy for airway clearance. The PXT may generate a localized negative pressure field non-invasively to the exterior of the chest wall, thereby increasing the functional residual capacity in underlying lung fields. As a result, increased ventilation and perfusion to the targeted internal lung field may be achieved by creating a decrease in the external barometric pressure relative to the more positive intrinsic airway pressures. The PXT device also may improve lung compliance by enabling a medical professional such as a Respiratory Therapist/Care provider to grab and elevate the chest wall to compensate for the dysfunction of the respiratory musculature responsible for lifting the chest wall during normal breathing. In some embodiments, once a targeted functional residual capacity (FRC) has been established, percussion may be applied with increased effectiveness due to greater oscillatory movement of chest wall.
US10478371B2
A body-weight support system is disclosed, including an improved body weight support apparatus and method. The system enables not only the support of patients undergoing rehabilitation therapies, but exercise modes that are both customizable and dynamic in nature, including alternative functionality at differing locations.
US10478353B2
An article including a front region, a back region, and a chassis. The chassis may include an absorbent core having a front end edge and a back end edge. The front region and the back region may extend laterally outward beyond side edges of the chassis. The front region and the back region may abut to form a first seam and a second seam. At least one of the front region and the back region may include an elastic member. A first outer nonwoven layer of the front region and a second outer nonwoven layer of the back region may be folded to form an upper edge in the front and back regions such that a distal end of each of the first and second outer nonwoven layer may be disposed between the upper edge and the front and back end edges of the absorbent core, respectively.
US10478340B2
An optical system for a laser therapy instrument for the application of laser radiation on and in the eye, includes a femtosecond laser, an objective. The objective or at least one lens or lens group of the objective is shiftable in the direction of the optical axis being intended for shifting of the focus position from the region of the cornea to the region of the crystalline lens and vice versa. The optical system may include at least two optical assemblies designed for the axial variation of the focus of the therapeutic laser radiation, with the focus variation range Δz differing between the individual assemblies and a changing device, designed for the insertion of any one of these assemblies into the therapeutic laser beam path at a time.
US10478332B2
In certain aspects, the present invention is directed to a device selected from (a) an operating microscope with an attached or attachable magnet and (b) a magnet that is configured for attachment to an operating microscope. In either case, the magnet is configured to allow a patient's tissue to be viewed through the operating microscope while at the same time permitting the creation of a magnetic field of sufficient magnitude and direction to move a magnetic therapeutic and/or diagnostic agent lying within the tissue to a preferred location in the tissue.
US10478320B2
A device for placement in the aortic arch of a patient is provided. The device includes a distal portion for being engageably received in an aortic arch of a patient beyond the left subclavian artery and a stent portion fluidly engaged with the distal portion, the stent portion being permeable and configured to span a portion of the aortic arches to which the brachiocephalic trunk, left common carotid artery, and left subclavian artery attach to the aortic arch. A diameter of the stent portion may be modified by translation of the proximal portion to thereby alter a length of the stent portion thus causing modification of the diameter of the stent portion to fit anatomical features of differing dimensions.
US10478319B2
A system includes a tool assembly and an expandable spinal implant. The tool assembly includes a first tool and a second adjusting tool. The first tool has first and second engagement prongs positioned at a first distal end and the first tool defines an adjusting tool passage. The second adjusting tool can extend through the adjusting tool passage of the first tool. The expandable spinal implant includes a first expandable spinal implant structure, a second expandable spinal implant structure, and an adjusting screw having a screw head and a threaded portion. The expandable spinal implant defines first and second tool engagement indentations. The adjusting screw is positioned within the expandable spinal implant such that the second adjusting tool can extend through the adjusting tool passage to engage the screw head while the first and second engagement prongs are engaged with the first and second tool engagement indentations.
US10478316B2
A discharge device (1) comprising a housing (200), a container insert (300) rotatably arranged therein and a piston. A lateral cutout (205) is formed in one housing wall (204), and a lateral container opening (303) is formed in one container wall (304). In order to prevent the compound from being compressed as the compound is discharged, the lateral container opening extends continuously as far as the distal container end (302) without a region of the container wall adjoining the lateral container opening in the distal direction along the longitudinal axis. In order to make it easier to put in the compound, the wall thickness of the housing wall decreases continuously toward the lateral cutout (205). In order to prevent clogging of the piston, the cross section of the container insert widens continuously in the distal direction.
US10478313B1
The present invention relates generally to medical devices, systems, and methods for use in surgery. In particular, the disclosed system and methods relate to an intervertebral spinal implant sized and dimensioned for the lumbar spine implantable via a posterior approach. The system includes an implant, instruments for delivering the implant.
US10478312B2
An implant for use in a spine includes a body and a plurality of structural members. The plurality of structural members includes outer members that are arranged to contact a vertebra upon implantation and support members that provide reinforcement and stability to the outer members. The outer members may have sections with a generalized helical geometry. The generalized helical geometry provides distal and proximal outwardly facing surface regions and creates a series of protected fusion zones along the superior and inferior surfaces of the implant to foster adjacent bone growth.
US10478311B2
A surgical implant having a surface treatment which contains primary cavities and secondary cavities. The primary cavities are larger than the secondary cavities and the primary cavities have an average length ranging from 20-500 micrometers. The surface treatment includes recasted material adjacent to a plurality of the primary cavities.
US10478310B2
This disclosure provides various vertebral implants, devices for attaching a vertebral implant and implantation instrumentations. In some embodiments, the implant includes a first body and a second body, each having a face with shapes and dimensions mating that of the other body and forming mutual fitting means, thus allowing assembly of the bodies by sliding along a sliding axis. In some embodiments, a locking means is retained in one of the bodies and an abutment portion may move from an open position allowing sliding for the assembling of the bodies to a closed position locking the bodies in assembly by the contact between the abutment portion, by contact with an abutment of the other body, the abutment being oriented angularly to the sliding axis and the abutment portion passing from the open position to the closed position elastically by flexure or torsion.
US10478307B2
A knee joint prosthesis for a tibia and femur can include a tibial component, a tibial bearing, and a post. The tibial bearing can include a first bearing portion, a second bearing portion, and an aperture. The first bearing portion can be positionable on a first side of the sagittal axis and can have a first shape. The second bearing portion can be positionable on a second side can have a second shape different than the first shape. The post, together with the first bearing portion and the second bearing portion, can be configured to promote the femur to pivot substantially about the first bearing portion.
US10478301B2
The invention is a cardiac implant, and associated methods therefore, configured to repair and/or replace a native heart valve, and having a support frame configured to be reshaped into an expanded/changed form in order to receive and/or support an expandable prosthetic heart valve therein. The implant may be configured to have a generally rigid and/or expansion-resistant configuration when initially implanted to replace/repair a native valve (or other prosthetic heart valve), but to assume a generally non-rigid and/or expanded/expandable form when subjected to an outward force such as that provided by a dilation balloon. The implant may be configured to have a generally D-shaped configuration when initially implanted, but to assume a generally circular form when subjected to an outward force such as that provided by a dilation balloon.
US10478300B2
An elongated member and a method of manufacturing an elongated member may include first, second, and third elongated rod mandrels. The first, second, and third elongated rod mandrels may be fixed together at predetermined proximal and distal locations and at a ball tip. The first, second, and third rod mandrels may be disposed within a tubular coupling element and fixed to the tubular coupling element at the ball tip. The tubular coupling element may be placed into abutment with and fixed to the distal end of an elongated shaft.
US10478297B2
Embodiments hereof relate to a delivery system for a transcatheter valve prosthesis, the delivery system having an integral centering mechanism to circumferentially center both the delivery system and the valve prosthesis within a vessel at the target implantation site. The centering mechanism may include expandable wings that may be selectively aligned with openings formed through a sidewall of an outer shaft of the delivery system, a coiled wing that may be selectively exposed through an opening formed through a sidewall of an outer shaft of the delivery system, a plurality of elongated filaments extending through a plurality of lumens of an outermost shaft of the delivery system that may be selectively deployed or expanded, an outer shaft that includes at least one pre-formed deflection segment formed thereon, a tool having a deployable lever arm, and/or a plurality of loops deployable via simultaneous longitudinal and rotational movement.
US10478294B2
An assembly for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to a native heart valve is disclosed. The assembly includes a self-expanding prosthetic heart valve formed with an expandable metallic stent and a flexible valvular structure. The assembly also includes a delivery apparatus having a delivery sleeve. The delivery sleeve includes a selectively steerable section and a distal portion for retaining the prosthetic heart valve in a compressed state. A handle is coupled to a proximal end of the delivery sleeve and a pull wire extends from the handle to the steerable section of the delivery sleeve. The handle preferably includes a rotatable portion for actuating the pull wire and thereby selectively controlling a curvature of the steerable section during advancement through the patient's vasculature. In preferred embodiments, the steerable section includes a flexible metallic tubular portion formed with a plurality of circumferentially extending openings.
US10478293B2
This invention relates to the design and function of a retrieval device for a prosthetic heart valve for re-positioning or removal of a previously implanted valve prosthesis from a beating heart without extracorporeal circulation using a transcatheter retrieval system.
US10478282B2
A central access vena cava filter catheter having a multi-lumen catheter body with plural longitudinally extending parallel lumens within the single catheter body, a vena cava filter member disposed at a distal end of the catheter body and an outer sheath concentrically disposed about the multi-lumen catheter body and the vena cava filter member. The vena cava filter member may be removably coupled to the multi-lumen catheter for temporary placement and retrieval under recommended indications.
US10478279B2
An implantable prosthesis and a method of repairing an anatomical defect, such as a soft tissue defect, by promoting tissue growth with the prosthetic. The prosthesis includes a body with an inner portion and an outer margin that extends outwardly beyond the inner portion, the outer margin including an inner portion side and an outer peripheral edge. The outer margin includes a tissue infiltratable portion, such as a tissue infiltratable layer, having a thickness that decreases from the inner portion side towards the outer peripheral edge.
US10478278B2
Described are devices, implants, kits, and related methods for treating pelvic conditions such as urinary in incontinence, in a male or a female patient. The invention includes, in one embodiment, a multi-piece implant, including a tissue support piece, extension portion, and one or more self-fixating tips. The device may be employed through a medial incision in the pelvic region of the patient.
US10478277B2
Described are methods, devices, and systems related to pelvic implants, including implants that include absorbable and non-absorbable materials.
US10478261B2
A portable patient-care kit is disclosed. The kit includes two-housing portions, a plurality of compartments, a touch-screen user interface device, and a light bar. The two-housing portions pivotally coupled together to form a container space. The plurality of compartments is disposed within at least one of the housing portions such that each compartment is configured to retain at least one medical apparatus. The touch-screen user interface device has a transceiver that can communicate via a mobile data network. The light bar is disposed along an exterior of one of the two-housing portions configured provide light.
US10478255B2
Holographic image-guidance can be used to track an interventional device during an endovascular percutaneous procedure. The holographic image guidance can be provided by a head-mounted device by transforming tracking data and vasculature image data to a common coordinate system and creating a holographic display relative to a patient's vasculature to track the interventional device during the endovascular percutaneous procedure. The holographic display can also include graphics to provide guidance for the physical interventional device as it travels through the patient's anatomy (e.g., the vasculature).
US10478252B2
Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart, and create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the patient's heart based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to create a physics-based model relating to a blood flow characteristic of the patient's heart and determine a fractional flow reserve within the patient's heart based on the three-dimensional model and the physics-based model.
US10478232B2
An interspinous process device is configured for placement between adjacent spinous processes on a subject's spine. The device includes a housing configured for mounting to a first spinal process, the housing having a lead screw fixedly secured at one end thereof. A magnetic assembly is at least partially disposed within the housing and configured for mounting to a second spinal process. The magnetic assembly includes a hollow magnet configured for rotation within the magnetic assembly, the hollow magnet comprising a threaded insert configured to engage with the lead screw. An externally applied magnetic field rotates the hollow magnet in a first direction or a second, opposite direction. Rotation of the hollow magnet in the first direction causes telescopic movement of the magnetic assembly out of the housing (i.e., elongation) and rotation in the second direction causes telescopic movement of the magnetic assembly into the housing (i.e., shortening).
US10478228B2
A screw assembly for a spinal implant comprises a first unit including insertion holes and an inner space, a rod having a side whose outer circumference surface is positioned on the insertion holes of the first unit and another side whose outer circumference surface is positioned on insertion holes of another first unit positioned adjacent to the first unit, a second unit having an upper portion rotatably received in a lower portion of the inner space and a lower portion screwed to a vertebral body, a third unit screwed to an upper portion of the inner space to hold the rod, and a fourth unit positioned between the inner space and the upper portion of the second unit and including a pressure cap seated in the inner space.
US10478217B2
This document describes rotational atherectomy devices and systems for removing or reducing stenotic lesions in blood vessels by rotating an abrasive element within the vessel to partially or completely remove the stenotic lesion material.
US10478215B2
This document describes rotational atherectomy devices and systems for removing or reducing stenotic lesions in blood vessels by rotating an abrasive element within the vessel to partially or completely remove the stenotic lesion material.
US10478212B2
In one aspect, the dual bevel needle can include a hollow tube having a proximal end, a distal end, a first lateral side, and a second lateral side opposite the first lateral side; a first needle point at the distal end of the hollow tube; a second point at the distal end of the hollow tube; a first bevel on each of the first lateral side and the second lateral side, the first bevel comprising a first bevel angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the tube; and a second bevel on each of the first lateral side and the second lateral side, the second bevel having a second bevel angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the tube, wherein the first and second bevels each form a portion of an ellipse, the ellipse having an inner cutting edge and terminating in the first and second needle points at the distal end of the tube, the second bevel angle being shallower than the first bevel angle, the second bevel being located adjacent the proximal end of the first bevel, and the inner cutting edge converging to a narrow heel.
US10478207B2
A surgical grasper includes a first handle arm, a second handle arm pivotally coupled to the first handle arm, a tool body pivotally coupled to both the first handle arm and the second handle arm, a first jaw member pivotally coupled to the tool body, a second jaw member pivotally coupled to the tool body, a first tension element coupled to both the first handle arm and to the first jaw member, a second tension element coupled to both the second handle arm and to the second jaw member, and a lock that locks relative movement between the first and second handle arms. Rotational movement of the first and second handle arms generates correlated rotational movement of the first and second jaw members.
US10478206B2
Disclosed herein are instruments and methods for delivery of substrates, including cell-seeded substrates, to target tissues requiring treatment for various diseases that induce cell death, damage or loss of function. The substrates are configured to provide cells, including stem cells, with a structural support that allows interconnection with and transmission of biological signals between the cells and the target tissue.
US10478201B2
The disclosure provides plaque treatment catheter assemblies for the treatment of arterial plaques and removal of clots. One assembly includes a second catheter tube movable within a first catheter tube, and an expansion member movable within the second tube. The second catheter tube has one or more distally-disposed and outwardly-expandable plaque treatment portion(s). Another assembly includes a catheter tube and at least one channel(s) within the catheter. The channel includes an elongate member with a distally-disposed plaque scoring or clot retrieval member. Optionally, the assembly includes an expandable member that can cause movement of the scoring member.
US10478199B2
A method of diagnosing, minimizing symptoms and/or treating the pathology of intervertebral disc degeneration includes introducing a first cannula through a vertebra along an axis of at least one pedicle of the vertebra from a generally posterior to a generally anterior direction and inserting a second cannula within a lumen of the first cannula, the second cannula constrained to a relatively straight configuration within at least a portion of the first cannula and assumes a nonlinear or curvilinear geometry external to the first cannula within at least a portion of a vertebral body of the vertebra and away from a longitudinal axis of the first cannula. The method includes forming a channel with the second cannula, the channel extending to or adjacent to a vertebral endplate of the vertebral body in order to create a defect through the vertebral endplate of the vertebra. Related systems, devices, and methods are described.
US10478194B2
An implant can include a frame and a mesh component coupled to the frame. The mesh component can define a first porosity, and the frame can define a frame porosity. The combined porosity of the mesh component and the frame can restrict blood flow into the implant.
US10478186B2
An apparatus comprises an end effector, a shaft assembly, and an interface assembly. The end effector is coupled with the shaft assembly. The shaft assembly comprises a translating member extending through the shaft assembly. The interface assembly is operable to engage the shaft assembly and comprises a plurality of drive shafts and a rack. One of the drive shafts is operable to drive the rack along a path that is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the shaft assembly. A plurality of racks may be used to rotate the shaft assembly, articulate the shaft assembly, and/or drive the translating member through the shaft assembly to thereby actuate the end effector.
US10478175B2
An anchor for securing suture to tissue, the anchor comprising: an elongated body having a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end having a distal slot extending proximally into the elongated body, and the proximal end having a proximal slot extending distally into the body; the distal slot comprising a wide section and a narrow section, wherein the wide section has a width such that the suture is slidably accommodated therein and the narrow section has a width such that the suture is bound therein, and further wherein the wide section is disposed distally of the narrow section.
US10478174B2
An adaptor for a powered surgical instrument includes a casing, a cam drum, a first linear driver, and a second linear driver. The cam drum defines and is translatable along a longitudinal axis of the adaptor between a retracted position and an advanced position. The cam drum is being supported for rotation about the longitudinal axis. The cam drum defines first and second radial cam grooves about an outer surface thereof. The first cam groove defines a first profile and the second cam groove defines a second profile. The first linear driver includes a first cam follower disposed in the first cam groove and the second linear driver includes a second cam follower disposed in the second cam groove. The first and second linear drivers are supported for movement between advanced and retracted positions in response to rotation of the cam drum.
US10478172B1
Methods of tissue repair. At least one example method includes: pulling a tissue in place over a bone location; abutting a distal end of a guide tool against the tissue at a first location, and driving a first bone anchor through a delivery tube of the guide tool, through the tissue, and into the bone at the first location, the first bone anchor coupled to a first suture line; abutting the distal end of the guide tool against the tissue at a second location displaced from the first location, and then driving a second bone anchor through the delivery tube, through the tissue, and into the bone at the second location, the second bone anchor associated with the first suture line; withdrawing the guide tool away from the tissue; and tightening the first suture line to create a first suture over the tissue.
US10478164B2
A jaw assembly for a surgical tubular shaft instrument includes a supporting component, a first arm and a second arm, the first arm and/or the second arm each having one link element. The arms are held by the supporting component in the axial direction. A cam carrier element is axially movable relative to the supporting component and carries at least two cams. Each link element is designed to be in contact with at least two cams when there is a relative axial movement between the supporting component and the cam carrier element, the cams being provided on the cam carrier element. Each link element is further designed to slide off of the cams to effect an opening or closing of the jaw assembly.
US10478163B2
A mechanical interface for a robotic medical instrument permits engagement of the instrument and a drive system without causing movement of an actuated portion of the instrument. An instrument interface can include a symmetrical, tapered or cylindrical projection on one of a medical instrument or a drive system and a complementary bore in the other of the drive system or the medical instrument. Symmetry of the projection and the bore allows the projection to be compression fit to the bore regardless of the rotation angle of the drive system relative to the medical instrument.
US10478158B2
The invention concerns a preoperative probe (2) for guiding an ablation tool, comprising a sensing head (21), said sensing head including: at least one optic fiber (2121, 2123) for receiving and guiding a signal emitted, by radioactive tracers and/or fluorescent molecules in a tissue zone, to an analyzing equipment (32), fixing means (2112) for mounting the head (21) on the ablation tool (1), such that the ablation tool is capable of extracting a portion of tissue in the tissue zone emitting the signal.
US10478150B2
An embryo replacement catheter has a flexible extruded shaft of a transparent polyurethane with a bore extending along its length. Gas bubbles of a diameter in the range 5μ to 10μ are incorporated into the thickness of the wall of the shaft by adding gas during extrusion. The bubbles are selected to increase the visibility of the catheter under ultrasound imaging whilst still enabling material flowing along the catheter to be seen.
US10478145B2
A CT scanner with a device configured to improve the electromagnetic properties and/or the shielding of the rotation transmission devices in the CT scanner. A corresponding method for improving the electromagnetic properties and/or the shielding, of the rotation transmission devices inserted in the CT scanner.
US10478144B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus enables to improve workability and a register of a pathway information on X-ray imaging. The X-ray imaging apparatus comprises a control element that control a driving element 5 so that the X-ray irradiation element to image a subject S and a table loading the subject S are relatively movable based on a pathway information that is pre-registered when imaging the subject S. The control element acquires the information as a representative point relative to the location at which the table and the X-ray irradiation detection element 1 suspend to move relatively based on that relative moving between the table 2 and the X-ray irradiation element suspends; or that once the relative moving between the table 2 and the X-ray irradiation detection element suspends, the relative moving between the table and the X-ray irradiation detection element restarts, after the X-ray irradiation detection element and the table are relatively moved, and registers the pathway information based on the acquired representative point.
US10478141B2
A method of estimating the distribution of bone mineral density in at least one portion of a person's skeleton. The method includes generating a geometrical representation of the portion of the skeleton; a geometrical representation in three dimensions of at least one portion of the outline of the person; and first and second X-ray images; and using software to estimate: a value for the thickness of soft tissue through which the given X-ray has passed; an attenuation coefficient of the soft tissues that have been passed through; a value for the thickness of bone tissue through which the given X-ray has passed; and using the thickness value for the soft tissue through which the given X-ray has passed, and a value for the attenuation of the given X-ray due to the thickness of the bone tissue through which it has passed, the software estimates a value representative of the bone mineral density of the bone tissues through which the given X-ray has passed.
US10478140B2
A system and method for vascular roadmapping include an X-ray imaging device for generating a fluoroscopy image, a data base in which a plurality of contrast-enhanced images is stored, a user interface element and a processor. Each of the contrast-enhanced images is stored together with the imaging parameters based on which the image is generated. The user interface element may be configured for selecting any intended imaging parameters, such as by manually adjusting the imaging device in any position and orientation. The processor may be configured for identifying a stored contrast-enhanced image out of the plurality of contrast-enhanced images, which is generated with specific imaging parameters, where the deviation of the specific imaging parameters from the intended imaging parameters is as small as possible, thus the processor may be configured for identifying the nearest available roadmap.
US10478136B2
Aspects of the present disclosure disclose a system and method for delivering for administering radiation to a patient. The method may include associating the patient with one of a plurality of coded dosage zones wherein each of the plurality of coded dosage zones corresponds to one or more values of a physical characteristic. The method may further include correlating the one of the plurality of coded dosage zones to a dose of radiation and then applying the dose of radiation to the patient.
US10478119B2
There is provided a method for oral drug dosage medicament regime adherence monitoring comprising creating an oral drug dosage medicament regime for a patient, the medicament regime having a plurality of medicament intervals for the oral consumption of a plurality of oral drugs, loading the plurality of oral drugs into a cartridge of an oral drug dispensing device, providing a patient wearable vital sign monitoring device for being worn by the patient and associating the patient wearable vital sign monitoring device and the oral drug dispensing device with a patient profile, the patient profile being further associated with the oral drug dosage medicament regime. Then, for at least one medicament interval, the method comprises: alerting the patient of the medicament interval using at least one of the patient wearable vital sign monitoring device and the oral drug dispensing device; obtaining first vital sign measurement data for the patient using the patient wearable vital sign monitoring device; detecting the dispensing of an oral drug from the cartridge of the of oral drug dispensing device; obtaining second vital sign measurement data for the patient post the dispensing using the patient wearable vital sign monitoring device, and comparing the first and second vital sign measurement data to calculate a probability of the oral consumption of the oral drug.
US10478117B2
A method for early detection of bone deficiency in a patient, comprising: collecting NMR signals of a bone marrow volume in a bone of the patient having normal bone density levels which are not indicative of bone deficiency as indicated by X-ray; and analyzing said collected NMR signals to detect at least a presence or absence of a preclinical stage of bone deficiency in said bone.
US10478115B2
Light weight personal handheld home monitoring and managing device, which includes a Sound Sensor network/array of Sound Sensor networks combined with an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and a build in system and methods, making this device an intelligent and portable apparatus to address specific health issues. The combined apparatus is used for managing and/or guidance and/or diagnosing and/or controlling and managing purposes. This present version of the apparatus will address pulmonary disorders and diseases or similar ailments.
US10478110B2
A social intimacy determining method includes detecting electrocardiogram (ECG) data from at least two subjects; detecting heart rhythm pattern (HRP) data from ECG signals of the two subjects; and determining a relationship (intimacy) between the two subjects by comparing the HRP data of the two subjects.
US10478103B2
Embodiments of the invention provide apparatus, systems, and methods wherein pre-event and post-event analyte concentration readings associated with an event are collected and processed to determine a numerical delta. The numerical delta may be displayed on a visual display to aid in a ready determination of the affect that the event (alone or in combination with medication and/or insulin dosages) had on the analyte concentration levels. Medication and/or insulin dosages may be displayed alongside the numerical delta to gauge immediate relationships between numerical delta, dosage, and/or an associated event. Apparatus and systems for calculating and displaying the numerical delta are described, as are other aspects.
US10478099B2
This relates to systems and methods for determining the axial orientation and location of the user's wrist using one or more sensors located on the strap, the device underbody, or both. For example, the strap can include a plurality of elastic sections and a plurality of rigid sections. Each elastic section can include one or more flex sensors. In some examples, on or more electromyography (EMG) sensors can be included to measure the user's electrical signals, and the user's muscle activity can be determined. In some examples, a plurality of strain gauges can be included to generate one or more signals indicative of any changes in shape, size, and/or physical properties of the user's wrist. In some examples, the device can include a plurality of capacitance sensors for increased granularity and/or sensitivity in measuring the amount of tension exerted by the user's wrist.
US10478098B2
An information processing system includes: a sheet that is usable in a use mode which is any one of an underlay mode and a cover mode; an accumulation unit that accumulates relevant information related to when the sheet is used in association with the use mode of the sheet when being used; and a presentation unit that presents a result of analysis of the information accumulated in the accumulation unit, in consideration of the use mode.
US10478094B1
A ketone measurement and analysis system provides various features for enabling health program participants to interpret their ketone measurements, such as breath acetone measurements. One such feature breaks down ketone measurements into causal components. For example, the system may generate and display an estimate of how much of a participant's ketone measurement is attributable to stored fat metabolism versus consumption of a “confounding substance” such as dietary fat and/or exogenous ketones. The system may also estimate the contributions of specific confounding substances, and/or the contributions of other factors or events (such as exercise, interrupted sleep, a missed medication, etc.) that affect ketone levels. Another feature involves the generation and display of target ketone levels that are personalized for the participants. The system may generate the measurement breakdowns and target ketone levels by applying data mining algorithms to aggregated data of many program participants.
US10478092B2
A registration method whereby a sensor-based approach is used to establish initial registration and whereby upon the commencement of navigating an endoscope, image-based registration methods are used in order to more accurately maintain the registration between the endoscope location and previously-acquired images. A six-degree-of-freedom location sensor is placed on the probe in order to reduce the number of previously-acquired images that must be compared to a real-time image obtained from the endoscope.
US10478088B2
A pack of disposable multi-layered liner sheets suitable for covering non-planar surfaces of medical scanners having a long, hard to clean, bore or tunnel, particularly MRI scanners, to establish a sterile patient environment. Liner sheets are connected end-to-end in a stack by an adhesive or a linear array of perforations to respective succeeding and preceding sheets of the pack. In one embodiment, the pack is secured inside the bore by pegs on the top side of the pack engaging strategically placed clips attached to the bore wall. In other embodiments, the pack is secured inside the bore by opposing sides of a backing layer extending laterally beyond the liner sheets to engage a groove in guide rails affixed inside the bore.
US10478086B2
The present invention includes a responsive neural stimulator having electrodes, a filter, a processor, a recording medium, an extractor for extracting instantaneous voltage amplitudes of biased oscillatory activity with asymmetrically distributed peak/trough amplitudes, and a neural stimulator connected to the processor configured to apply neural stimulation via the neural stimulator when a predetermined state of neuronal excitability is detected, a state of relatively higher neuronal excitability corresponding to a relatively lower instantaneous voltage amplitude extracted by the extractor. Also provided is a system for providing neurofeedback including electrodes, a filter, a processor, a recording medium, an extractor for extracting instantaneous voltage amplitudes of biased oscillatory activity with asymmetrically distributed peak/trough amplitudes, and an output device configured to communicate changes in, increases in, decreases in, or maintenance of instantaneous voltage amplitudes, or any combination, to a participant in a neurofeedback session.
US10478085B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus including: one or more needle-like bases enabled to be inserted into the brain; a first electrode having a first impedance and enabling an input of an electric activity of a nucleus with which the first electrode comes into contact; and a second electrode having a second impedance lower than the first impedance and being able to output an electric stimulation to the nucleus, wherein the first electrode is provided at a tip portion of at least one of the bases, and the second electrode is provided on a part of the at least one of the bases at a position identical to a position of at least one of the first electrode or on a proximal side with respect to the first electrode, in a direction along a long axis of the base on which the first electrode is provided.
US10478081B2
The present invention relates to a decision support system (DSS), a medical monitoring system (100), and a corresponding method for identifying the need for measurement of cardiac output (CO) based on one or more comparisons (COMP1, COMP2) in a physiological model. More specifically, for identifying when an approximated value of CO cannot be correct due to circulatory compromise and as such that another estimated or measured value of CO is required.
US10478079B2
A pulse can be stably estimated based on an image data suitable for extracting a pulse signal. A pulse estimation device includes image input portion (21) to which time-sequential captured images including at least a portion of subject H as an object are input from camera (2); region extractor (22) that extracts a skin-color region from each of the captured images; zoom commander (28) that transmits a zoom command to camera (2) that has imaged the captured images or a user of camera (2) in order to adjust a size of the skin-color region; and pulse estimator (23) that estimates a pulse of subject H based on the skin-color region of the captured images obtained by imaging with camera (2), after the zoom command is transmitted.
US10478076B2
A device is configured to monitor a cardiovascular property of a subject. The device obtains measurement data from a primary pressure wave sensor arranged to detect pressure waves in an extracorporeal fluid circuit in fluid communication with the cardiovascular system of the subject. The device has a signal processor configured to generate a time-dependent monitoring signal based on the measurement data, such that the monitoring signal comprises a sequence of heart pulses, wherein each heart pulse represents a pressure wave originating from a heart beat in the subject; determine beat classification data for each heart pulse in the monitoring signal; and calculate, based at least partly on the beat classification data, a parameter value indicative of the cardiovascular property. The beat classification data may distinguish between heart pulses originating from normal heart beats and heart pulses originating from ectopic heart beats. The cardiovascular property may be an arterial status of the cardiovascular system, a degree of calcification in the cardiovascular system, a status of a blood vessel access used for connecting the extracorporeal fluid circuit to the cardiovascular system, a heart rate variability, a heart rate, a heart rate turbulence, an ectopic beat count, or an origin of ectopic beats. The device may be attached to or part of a dialysis machine.
US10478066B2
A system and method detects and provides alerts when a subject's physiological measurements indicate a likelihood of the presence of drug cravings and a possible return to drug use. The system includes a wearable sensor which monitors movement in three dimensions, Electro Dermal Response (EDR), and temperature. Initially, training measurements are taken while subject is under supervision and not taking drugs, and algorithms process the measurements to determine thresholds. After release from supervision, the physiological measurements are monitored, processed, and compared to the thresholds. When the comparison indicates a presence of cravings for drugs, an alert is provided to the subject and/or to monitoring personnel.
US10478061B2
An improved retinoscopy paddle with lens received through openings extending through the paddle member has an axis compass with indicia for assessing the range of refraction error and axis of astigmatism in the eyes of a patient as part of an optical examination. The axis compass may be formed on the paddle member or on a receptacle member adapted for operative receipt on as associated retinoscopy paddle. A method is provided for integrating a retinoscopy paddle and axis compass.
US10478053B2
An endoscope illumination device includes a light source that outputs primary light, a light guide that includes a first end face from which the primary light is radiated, and guides the primary light, and a light converter that is disposed to face the first end face, includes a second end face which the primary light enters, converts part of the primary light into secondary light. The illumination device also includes a holder that holds the light guide and the light converter so that an incident angle of the secondary light that is radiated from a point of intersection of the second end face and an optical axis of the light guide on the first end face and enters the first end face is equal to or larger than an acceptance angle (NA) of the light guide.
US10478051B2
An endoscopic instrument with a shank which includes at least two segments which are connected to one another via diametrically opposite joints. Between axial face edges of the opposite joints facing one another a gap is present. The gap runs with at least one angular bend.
US10478046B2
An endoscope includes: a conduit that is provided inside an insertion section and into which a guide wire is inserted in a direction opposite to an insertion direction of the insertion section; a bent conduit that is bent to make the conduit communicate with a pipe sleeve of a treatment instrument insertion port provided in an operation section; and a forceps plug that is detachable from the pipe sleeve. An opening is deviated from a center of the pipe sleeve toward an outer circumferential side of a bending direction of the bent conduit.
US10478038B1
A power mop is provided having a tank for holding a liquid positioned for gravity-induced flow of the liquid from a gravity feed conduit into a hand grip. Inside of the hand grip is a liquid inlet, a valve for controlling the flow of the liquid, a pump for providing flow pressure to the liquid, and a battery for powering the pump. Additionally, a switch is accessible external to the hand grip for powering the pump and switching the valve between open and closed liquid flow positions. A handle tube is connected to the hand grip. The handle tube contains a pressure feed conduit for receiving pressurized flow of the liquid from the hand grip. A nozzle is mounted on the handle tube to disperse the liquid onto the surface to be mopped. A mop head is attached to the end of the handle tube remote from the hand grip.
US10478036B2
A cleaner includes: a suction unit that guides air and dust; a main body connected with the suction unit and including a dust separation unit that separates dust from air, and a dust container that stores dust separated by the dust separation unit, at least a portion of the dust container being transparent or translucent; a handle unit connected to the main body and has a battery; a power receiving component disposed in the main body to be supplied with power from the battery; wires that are connected to the power receiver; and a cover member coupled to the main body and disposed between the main body and the wires to prevent the wires from being seen from the outside of the dust container.
US10478034B2
A cleaning apparatus includes a dust collector detachably installed at a cleaning stick. The dust collector includes a cyclone unit to generate a cyclone stream and a dust collecting unit to collect foreign matter. In this structure, a dust collecting efficiency of the dust collector may be increased, and a load of a cleaning apparatus body may be reduced.
US10478020B2
The invention is directed to a touchless soap and water dispenser for a toilet stall. The dispenser provides an internal pair of reservoirs: a refillable water mister reservoir and a refillable or replaceable soap foam reservoir. Two nozzles, one connected to each reservoir, protrude from the bottom surface of the dispenser within a recess. Each nozzle is operated by a touch sensitive button, illuminated with a symbol identifying the contents of the connected reservoir. Only one of the nozzles may be activated at a time; activating one nozzle automatically deactivates the other, with an LED light illuminating the nozzle that is currently activated. Preferably, one or more infrared sensors are provided which detect the approach and stopping of a hand with toilet paper to dispense soap or water. If the hand or other object approaches too closely, a sliding security door is activated which covers the recess to protect the nozzles from vandalism or sabotage. All corners and edges of the cover of the dispenser are rounded, to prevent discomfort or injury to the user in the event of incidental contact.
US10478017B1
Briefly, the present disclosure relates, in one embodiment, to a cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus may include a plurality of chamber walls defining a chamber. The chamber includes a plurality of chamber corners, a chamber bottom end, and a chamber top end. A gas burner including a burner tube is located nearer the chamber bottom end than the chamber top end. The burner tube may include a plurality of tube runs. Each tube run includes a run length extending substantially parallel with a respective chamber wall. A majority of the run length may include a closed wall section of the burner tube. The burner tube may also include a plurality of tube bends. Each tube bend is disposed between two respective tube runs and may include a porous wall section of the burner tube.
US10478016B2
A gas-fired smoker constitutes a cabinet for holding food products to be cooked. A gas burner in the cabinet is connected to a source of flammable gas by means of a valve. The gas burner heats the cabinet and thereby cooks the food products. In one embodiment a pilot light ignites the flammable gas at the gas burner. A control circuit powered by a DC source controls the operation of the gas-fired smoker including igniting and extinguishing the gas burner in order to maintain a cooking temperature in the cabinet. A battery powers the control system. In another embodiment a rechargeable battery is recharged by a Seebeck thermal electric generator that is exposed to the heat from the gas burner.
US10478011B2
An energy-saving method for preparing a fresh brewed cold coffee beverage comprises the steps of: a. filling a brewing means with a predetermined quantity of coffee powder; b. brewing a hot coffee beverage by pushing hot water and/or hot steam through said predetermined quantity of coffee powder in said brewing means; c. cooling down said hot coffee beverage by exclusively bringing it in thermal contact with a stream of cold water; and d. dispensing said cooled-down coffee beverage at a coffee outlet.
US10478008B2
A machine (1) for preparing aromatic beverages by means of extraction of a respective substance, such as espresso coffee and similar, that comprises at least one extraction device (3) adapted for extracting an single dose of said substance provided in a package (2), for example in the form of a substantially rigid capsule or substantially flexible pod, and a previous opening disposition (5) disposed upstream of the extraction device (3) and adapted to provide passageways (53) in the single dose packages (2) before the latter are supplied to the extraction device (3). A process for preparing beverages with anticipated opening of a package (2) by means of the previous opening disposition (5) disposed upstream of the extraction device (3).
US10478005B2
A steam generating apparatus includes: a steam generator including a housing capable of storing water therein, and a heating unit for heating the housing so as to generate steam; a water level measurement unit for measuring a water level in the housing; and a water supply unit for supplying water into the housing. A controller controls, when a time during which the measured water level does not exceed the threshold value continues for a first time, the water supply unit to start water supply into the housing, and controls, when the time during which the measured water level does not exceed the threshold value continues for a second time longer than the first time, the heating unit to stop heating of the housing.
US10478003B2
A system for mounting decorative objects, such as Christmas trees, is disclosed. The system can include a base and a plurality of inserts. The base can comprise a plurality of feet that have a retracted position for ready storage and a deployed position for supporting a tree. The base can further comprise a locking mechanism for locking the feet in the retracted position, the deployed position, or both. The base can further comprise an adapter for receiving one or more inserts. The inserts can comprise a consistent outer diameter, for insertion into the adapter, and a variety of inner diameters for use with a variety of tree diameters. The insert can be installed on the trunk of a tree and then installed into the adapter on the base simplifying the tree erection process.
US10478002B2
Method consisting in allowing a ritual gesture similar to that used to light a non-lit candle with a lit candle, the method using a system including at least two optical units for the ritual-gestural control of the sending/receiving commands between devices, the commands being turning on, turning off and the like, the devices being provided with at least the optical units.
US10477989B2
Modular apparatus and system for accommodating and dispensing cans and a method for forming the same
An apparatus and system for dispensing large amounts of cylindrical food containers or cans. The apparatus includes at least two support frames joined together through a series of connector pieces. Additional support frames may be added to the apparatus to create a modular system of dispensers that are customizable according to user discretion. The apparatus and system may be disposed directly on the traverses of a shelving unit so that large number of can dispensers may be accommodated within a relatively small volume or storage space. Each can dispenser may accommodate multiple cans which are orientated so that as each can is removed from the dispenser, a subsequent can will roll forward and take its place.
US10477980B2
Furnishing elements which include a frame having at least a first and a second wall incident to each other so as to identify an edge, at least one covering associated with and superposed on said frame so as to cover at least partially said walls and said edge are provided. The frame, in correspondence with said edge, may include an attachment element which delimits an attachment seat open in the vicinity of said first and second wall, wherein the covering includes at least two flaps folded and inserted inside the attachment seat, and wherein said attachment seat locks the flaps on the inside against the inner walls of the seat itself. Corresponding methods for covering furnishing elements are also provided.
US10477976B2
A device and method for enabling an individual located on a bed to sustain a side-sleeping orientation on either a left or right side. The device comprises a light weight, elongated back pillow having a longitudinal axis and being configured to assume a rest position at a hack side of the individual and proximate to an adjacent surface of a bed when reclined in a side-sleeping orientation. The back pillow includes a hinge-like attachment structure which is positioned along a longitudinal edge of the pillow to secure the pillow to the individual's bed clothing. The attachment structure provides sufficient rotation to allow the pillow to rotate to the rest position in response to the force of gravity, ready to be engaged in a partial captured configuration between the individual's back and bed surface upon initial rotation of the individual from the side-sleeping orientation toward a supine sleeping position. Additionally, at least one front pillow is positioned and configured for concurrent positioning to a front portion of the individual at a knee and/chest location to complete a three-dimensional frame of reference for sleep position with respect to a bed surface and for developing an expectation within the individual's mind that the presence of the at least one front pillow indicates concurrent, probable presence of the back pillow capable of blocking rotation of the individual to a supine position.
US10477965B1
A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail and a positioning device. The first rail includes a first structure and a second structure. The second rail is movable relative to the first rail. The positioning device is arranged to the second rail and includes an elastic member and a positioning member. The elastic member provides an elastic force to the positioning member. When the second rail is moved relative to the first rail from a first position to a second position, the positioning member is moved to an engaging position through the elastic force and abuts against the first structure. When the second rail is moved relative to the first rail from the second position to a third position, the positioning member is moved from the engaging position to a disengaging position and no longer abuts against the first structure by guidance of the second structure.
US10477961B2
A portable table (1), comprising a table top (11) and a frame (1a) having two front legs (2, 3) and two rear legs (4, 5) as well as two front arms (6, 7) and two rear arms (8, 9). The front arms and front legs are fastened on a first, front connecting element (12), and the rear arms and rear legs are fastened on a second, rear connecting element (13). The first, front connecting element is connected to the second, rear connecting element by at least one first connecting rod (14). Coupling elements connecting the arms to in each case one first or second longitudinal rod (54, 55), are arranged on the upper ends of the arms. The table top comprises at least one device (65a, 65b, 66a, 66b) by means of which the table top is releasably fastenable on the frame.
US10477957B2
Aspects of the present invention are directed to an oral cleaning implements having a head and a handle. The implements distal end of the handle may be a tool adapted for removal of denture adhesive from dentures.
US10477952B2
An oral care implement in one embodiment includes an elongated body comprising a head portion supporting plurality of tooth cleaning elements and a handle portion. The tooth cleaning elements are disposed on longitudinally extending bristle carrier sections hingedly coupled together about a common pivot axis. The axis may be formed by a flexible web. A slidable actuator mounted in the handle portion is mechanically coupled to the bristle carrier assembly by an elongated operating rod. Moving the actuator in opposing rearward and forward directions opens or folds the bristles on the carriers outwards or inwards respectively about the common pivot axis. In the folded position, the bristles are configured for interdental cleaning of the teeth. In the open or extended position, the bristles are configured for general purpose cleaning of the teeth.
US10477942B2
The invention relates to an applicator tip (10) for cosmetic product, said applicator tip (10) comprising a fixing part for fixing to a support rod, and an application part (20, 20′) for applying said product, said application part (20, 20′) having at least two opposing rounded applicator faces (F1, F2) that are hinged to said fixing part (14) and extend as far as a distal end (16) of the applicator (10), said rounded faces (F1, F2) having a radius of curvature (R1, R2) of less than 6 mm.The invention also relates to an associated applicator and applicator assembly.
US10477936B2
A small and portable workstation for manicure and pedicure procedures may have a soft, impervious outer layer, undamaged by, yet easily cleaned with, solvents such as rubbing alcohol (e.g., 99% isopropyl) and nail polish remover (i.e., acetone). Viscoelastic “gel” skin of synthetic hydrocarbon polymer overlies a body of plastic, metal, wood, or expanded polymer (foam). An elastomeric foam such as polyurethane may contribute to flexibility and comfort, resting hand or foot on a gentle, almost horizontal, incline on the front portion of the working surface, transitioning to a wave shape of almost semicircular cross-section along the rear portion thereof. Wells hold tools and materials between organizing dividers. A removable base is a tray for supplies.
US10477935B1
A nail lamp for curing UV-curable nail gel uses light emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit ultraviolet light and are relatively lower power. The nail lamp is powered from an exterior power source, such as a wall socket, or by a rechargeable battery pack. A battery compartment of the nail lamp holds the battery pack, which is removable without disassembling the nail lamp. The nail lamp is easily transportable to different locations and can be used even when a wall socket is unavailable. A curing time of the nail lamp is user-selectable. The nail lamp can also include detection sensors to detect a person's hand or foot in a treatment chamber and automatically turn on or off the LEDs.
US10477932B2
A secure personal wearable carrier for valuable items is disclosed. The wearable carrier includes a secure compartment for valuable item storage to be worn by users during their common activities, including physical exercises. The carrier is constructed to maintain the security and safety of the valuable item while withstanding strenuous activity.
US10477930B2
A lightweight, easily portable, collapsible, and easy to assemble personal-use sunshade is designed for use at beaches or other expanses of loose or non-compacted sand, compacted soil or solid surfaces. The sunshade assembly includes a frame assembly and a shade assembly pivotably coupled to it, with pivot locking means so that the shade can be positioned at any effective angle.
US10477921B2
An air bladder boot fitting device facilitates snug fitting to prevent unintended removal of a boot. The device includes a boot having a sole and an upper coupled to and extending upwardly from the sole. The upper includes a shaft section extending downwardly from an open upper edge. A bladder is coupled to the upper and positioned within an interior of the boot. The bladder extends along the shaft section for securing a foot within the boot when the bladder is inflated. A bulb valve is coupled to the bladder for inflating the bladder.
US10477905B1
Aspects herein are directed to a stowable garment system that allows for quick deployment and donning of an upper-body garment that is stowed within a pouch located on the front of a belt structure configured to encircle the waist of a wearer. The garment comprises at least a front section and a back section, where a portion of the front section is attached to the pouch. The garment further comprises a first tab extending from a bottom margin at a first side of the back section and a second tab extending from the bottom margin at a second opposite side of the back section. When stowed within the pouch, the tabs extend through one or more openings in the pouch. The wearer may exert tension on the tabs to actuate a quick-release mechanism causing the pouch to open, and enabling the garment to be deployed and donned.
US10477902B1
This invention relates to a breast support garment for use in active environments, where the wearer of such garment is engaged in an activity that results in accelerating movements. In some preferred embodiments, these garments may be athletic or sports bras that redirect momentum related to a wearer's accelerating movements, for example, during exercise.
US10477900B2
An aerosol generating device comprises two reservoirs, each arranged to contain a separate aerosol producing composition; means for drawing the compositions from the reservoirs to generate an aerosol for inhalation for a user, and means for mixing the compositions after they have been drawn from the reservoirs, the mixing means being arranged to allow a user to select the relative proportions of the two compounds in the aerosol.
US10477895B2
An e-cigarette atomizer, and an atomizing assembly (30) thereof comprising: a holding frame (31) having an air channel in communication with a flue (202) and an end surface slot for accommodating a heating module (32); and the heating module (32) having a ceramic base body (321) and heating wires (322) wound on the ceramic base body (321). The heating wires (322) are electrically connected to the holding frame (31), and the ceramic base body (321) is a hollow microporous structure and is in communication with a liquid storage cavity (201). As a result of the design of an electrically conductive outer holding frame (313) and inner holding frame (311), the heating module (32) abuts and is electrically connected to the outer holding frame (313) and the inner holding frame (311) respectively; thereby, the structure is simplified and stability is improved.
US10477886B2
The present invention discloses a functional nutritional blend comprising Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract, Coleus forskohlii extract, Zingiber officinale extract and Piperine (Bioperine®), for increasing metabolic efficiency and inhibition of adipogenesis.
US10477885B2
The present invention provides a tomato-derived thickening agent, said agent being characterized in that, on a dry weight basis, it contains: 0.1-3 wt. % of lycopene; 14-34 wt. % of protein; 11-35 wt. % of pectin; 17-39 wt. % of sugars selected from fructose, glucose, and combinations thereof. The invention further relates to a process for preparing a tomato-derived thickening agent and to the use of such a thickening agent in food products such as tomato ketchup, tomato-based sauces, pizza sauce, tomato soup and tomato juice.
US10477881B2
A method of feeding a monogastric mammal, the method including feeding the monogastric mammal a milk replacer during a feeding period and feeding the monogastric mammal a psyllium composition during the feeding period.
US10477877B2
A process for producing powdered cocoa shells as a food ingredient, as replacer for cocoa powder, to impart coloration in food products, and as fat bloom inhibitor in cocoa-based products.
US10477870B2
The invention relates to a plant and method for the treatment of whole muscle meat, wherein the proposed plant includes a brine injection apparatus (1) with a conveyor device (10); three successive injector heads (20), each provided with a plurality of injector needles (21) connected to pressurized brine supply devices (30); one of said injector heads being connected to a first pressurized brine supply device (31), being independent from the remaining injector heads (20); and said plant also including at least one massage application apparatus (2) including a rotary drum (40) of between 140 cm and 210 cm for loading the whole muscle meat after injection thereof, operated at between 14 and 20 revolutions per minute, obtaining an increase in weight of the whole muscle meat greater than 220%.
US10477863B2
The present invention relates to the use of a herbicidal composition comprising as component A) 4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)butanoic acid or salts or esters thereof and as component B) 3,6-dichloro-2-methoxybenzoic acid or salts or esters thereof for controlling unwanted vegetation in crop plants. The present invention also relates to a method for controlling unwanted vegetation in crop plants, which comprises allowing a composition comprising said components A) and B) to act on plants, their seeds and/or their habitat.
US10477855B2
A rodent bait station having a counting mechanism configured to monitor the number of rodents entering the bait chamber of a rodent bait station. The housing has a counting mechanism in communication with the entrance of at least one bait chamber opening. A sensor is in communication with the counting mechanism. The counting mechanism can be mechanically actuated or electronically activated when the sensor detects a rodent entering through the bait chamber of the bait station. The bait chamber has at least one bait rod having an end that is hingedly connected to an inner wall of the bait chamber. A resilient member is in communication with the bait rod to position the bait rod in a substantially horizontal orientation when the housing lid is closed and to position the bait rod in a substantially vertical orientation when the housing lid is opened.
US10477852B2
A new horseshoe has two legs connected by a bridge, the bridge having a pair of physical markers provided directly opposite one another in both a support surface and a ground surface, the pair of physical markers providing a guide for cutting through the bridge of the horseshoe. A method of applying the horseshoe includes fitting the horseshoe to a hoof, attaching the horseshoe to the hoof, and dividing the horseshoe in two parts by cutting through or sawing through the bridge along the physical marker in the ground surface of the horseshoe. A method of upgrading a horseshoe involves providing a pair of physical markers on a bridge of the horseshoe at positions directly opposite one another both on a ground surface and a support surface of the horseshoe.
US10477843B2
A fishing hook assembly includes a hook element including a tie rail, which defines an enlarged line-pass-through area.
US10477842B2
Non-human animals comprising a human or humanized IL-4 and/or IL-4Rα nucleic acid sequence are provided. Non-human animals that comprise a replacement of the endogenous IL-4 gene and/or IL-4Rα gene with a human IL-4 gene and/or IL-4Rα gene in whole or in part, and methods for making and using the non-human animals, are described. Non-human animals comprising a human or humanized IL-4 gene under control of non-human IL-4 regulatory elements is also provided, including non-human animals that have a replacement of non-human IL-4-encoding sequence with human IL-4-encoding sequence at an endogenous non-human IL-4 locus. Non-human animals comprising a human or humanized IL-4Rα gene under control of non-human IL-4Rα regulatory elements is also provided, including non-human animals that have a replacement of non-human IL-4Rα-encoding sequence with human or humanized IL-4Rα-encoding sequence at an endogenous non-human C IL-4Rα locus. Non-human animals comprising human or humanized IL-4 gene and/or IL-4Rα sequences, wherein the non-human animals are rodents, e.g., mice or rats, are provided.
US10477839B2
A dog leash assembly for facilitating hands-free restraint of a dog includes a belt that may be worn around a waist. A pouch is removably coupled to the belt. Thus, the pouch may be positioned on the waist. A leash unit is removably coupled to the belt. The leash unit may be coupled to a dog collar thereby facilitating hands-free restraint of a dog.
US10477838B2
A pet chew toy allowing for the self-cleaning of teeth by domestic pets. The pet toy includes one or more cavities into which a pet's teeth may engage, and the inner and outer surfaces of the cavities may have scrubbing elements designed to enhance removal of plaque and other unhygienic products from a pet's teeth and gums. The chew toy may further include projections to enhance stabilization of the chew toy by the pet, and a reservoir and dispensing system for pet toothpaste or similar additive.
US10477836B1
A device for stabilizing an animal's tail and preventing the animal from licking and biting the tail may include a collar designed to encircle the animal's neck; a belly strap attached to the collar and designed to be positioned along an underside of the animal's stomach; a spine strap attached to the collar and designed to be positioned along the animal's spine; a chest strap attached to both the belly strap and the spine strap, the chest strap sized to encircle the animal's ribcage; a waist strap attached to both the belly strap and the spine strap, the waist strap sized to encircle the animal proximate to the animal's waist; and a rear pad with a tail sleeve extending outwardly therefrom, the tail sleeve sized to accommodate the animal's tail, wherein the rear pad is attached to the spine strap and the waist strap.
US10477834B2
A circular grazing system for poultry and/or livestock. The circular grazing system including a center pivot structure installed at a field. The center pivot structure may have a center pivot axis. The field may be a poultry and/or livestock grazing field. The circular grazing system for poultry and/or livestock may include an enclosure for containing poultry and/or livestock. The enclosure may extend generally radially from the center pivot structure to a circumference of the field. The enclosure may be rotably coupled to the center pivot structure such that the enclosure rotates around the center pivot axis.
US10477831B2
Embodiments of a self-drying litter box are described herein that includes a tray-superposition arrangement having a lower tray and an upper tray. The upper tray is mounted onto the lower tray in spaced relationship so as to define an empty volume therebetween. The upper tray includes a bottom defining a surface capable of receiving litter material and waste material thereon and is provided with apertures for allowing air circulating through the bottom of the upper tray. The lower tray receives second litter material and any portion of the first litter and waste materials that falls from the upper tray through the apertures. The tray-superposition arrangement defines one or more ventilation openings for allowing air circulation between the empty volume and outside of the tray-superposition arrangement that dries litter and waste materials in the upper and lower trays.
US10477824B2
The disclosure relates to a cotton variety, designated PX339042W3FE, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety PX339042W3FE, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety PX339042W3FE, with itself or with another cotton plant, hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety PX339042W3FE with another cotton variety or plan, methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes, and the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety PX339042W3FE, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety PX339042W3FE, and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US10477821B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01067769. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01067769. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01067769 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01067769 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10477815B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PLEC93 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PLEC93, cells from soybean variety 5PLEC93, plants of soybean 5PLEC93, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PLEC93. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PLEC93 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PLEC93, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PLEC93, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PLEC93. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PLEC93 are further provided.
US10477812B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH350667. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH350667, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH350667 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 CH350667.
US10477808B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH341109. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH341109, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH341109 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 CH341109.
US10477807B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH814115. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH814115, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH814115 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 CH814115.
US10477792B2
The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid SV0599TM and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SV0599TM and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US10477789B2
This invention relates generally to the detection of genetic differences among soybeans. More particularly, the invention relates to soybean quantitative trait loci (QTL) for tolerance to protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors, to soybean plants possessing these QTLs, which map to a novel chromosomal region, and to genetic markers that are indicative of phenotypes associated with protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor tolerance. Methods and compositions for use of these markers in genotyping of soybean and selection are also disclosed.
US10477788B2
The present invention relates to methods for identifying sunflower lines having increased resistance to Verticillium wilt, and identification of genetic markers linked to gene(s) conditioning such increased disease resistance. The present invention also relates to methods of breeding sunflower plants from lines having increased Verticillium wilt resistance by marker-assisted selection, compositions including nucleic acid probes or primers which are useful for such marker assisted selection, and plants and plant parts produced by such methods.
US10477786B1
A two-stage aeroponic growing system and method provides a cylindrical container and a sloped container that independently, or in conjunction, work to expose vegetation to nutrients, liquids, and light in two successive stages. A substrate, such as a Grodan® plug, initiates growth of the vegetation. The cylindrical and sloped containers provide a surface for the roots and fibers of the substrate to engage, and also have various apertures on all surfaces that enable 360° exposure to nutrients, liquids, and light. In the second stage of growth, the substrate snugly positions inside the cylindrical container. The sloped container snugly retains the cylindrical container. The sloped container has a sloped lid of about 6° that creates greater space for retaining multiple cylindrical containers. Drain holes and spray nozzles help control moisture exposure in the sloped container to create a controlled environment for the second stage growth of the vegetation.
US10477780B2
A multiple cell horticulture propagation tray arranged in rows of star-shaped cells forming a substantially rectangular shaped tray having the cells formed therein, combined with inserted cylindrically shaped growing media plugs comprising primarily of peat moss with an amount of biochar, and enveloped to retain moisture within the growing media.
US10477771B2
An agricultural harvester having a combine and a header is provided. The combine includes a primary hydraulic system for use in operations of the combine. The primary hydraulic system includes primary hydraulic fluid. The header is attachable to the combine and includes a header hydraulic system having a header hydraulic fluid and a heat exchanger operatively connected to the primary hydraulic system and the header hydraulic system.
US10477762B2
A residue management system for an agricultural vehicle includes: a straw hood defining a first rear opening and a second rear opening; a windrow chute held adjacent to the first rear opening; a spreader assembly held adjacent to the second rear opening; a conveyor held within the straw hood and defining a conveyor axis of rotation; and a selection door pivotably coupled to the straw hood and defining a pivot axis which is rearward and below the conveyor axis of rotation, the selection door being configured to switch between a first position in which material from the conveyor is directed toward the first rear opening and a second position in which material from the conveyor is directed toward the second rear opening.
US10477756B1
Inaccurate agronomic data may be identified and corrected by obtaining agronomic data indicating areas of sub-regions of a farmable region and value for the sub-regions, wherein the value for each sub-region includes an aggregate value of an agronomic parameter for the sub-region and/or a ratio of the aggregate value to the area of the sub-region; identifying a part of a first sub-region that overlaps a part of a second sub-region; determining whether the second sub-region is associated with a first pass or a second pass by a sensor through the overlapping parts; and if the second sub-region is associated with the second pass, determining an adjusted value for the second sub-region based on the value for the first sub-region, the value for the second sub-region, the area of the first sub-region, the area of the second sub-region, and/or an area of the overlapping parts.
US10477755B2
An agricultural implement includes a frame having a longitudinal axis and laterally opposed sides and motive supports mounted to and supporting the frame. The agricultural implement further includes a first wing carried by the frame and at least one second wing, in which each second wing is pivotably connected to the first wing. The agricultural implement also includes an elevator mechanism configured to raise and lower the first wing and the second wing. Each second wing is connected to the first wing by a wing pivot assembly that includes a skewed hinge pivotably connecting one of the second wings to the first wing. The wing pivot assembly allows each second wing to pivot with respect to the first wing between an operating position and a transport position, in which the skewed hinge defines a first pivot axis oriented at an acute angle with respect to the longitudinal axis.
US10485149B2
A composite formulation and a composite article are provided. The composite article includes at least two layers of a composite formulation including a polymer matrix and conductive particles distributed within the polymer matrix, the conductive particles forming, by volume, between 20% and 50% of the composite formulation. The conductive particles in each of the at least two layers include at least one morphology selected from the group consisting of fibrous, dendritic, and flake, and the morphology of the conductive particles in one of the at least two layers differs from the morphology of the conductive particles in another one of the at least two layers. The composite formulation includes a polymer matrix and between 30% and 45%, by volume, tin-coated copper conductive particles at a copper/tin ratio of between 3/1 and 3/2, the conductive particles including at least two morphologies selected from the group consisting of fibrous, dendritic, and flake.
US10485147B2
A display device is provided to achieve air circulation through an inner structure or an outer structure of the display device for efficient heat dissipation. The display device includes a housing, a display module mounted in the housing, a closed-loop air circulation system, and an open-loop air circulation system. The closed-loop air circulation system includes a first channel defined between a front surface of the display module and a front surface of the housing so as to extend along the front surface of the display module, and a second channel defined between one side surface of the display module and one side surface of the housing that is opposite the one side surface of the display module. The first channel is configured to receive air from a first end of the second channel and to discharge the air to a second end of the second channel.
US10485136B2
A fan assembly includes a fan module having a plurality of mounting openings, a housing partially surrounding the fan module, and a plurality of dampers that extend through the plurality of mounting openings to couple the fan module to the housing.
US10485120B1
An enclosure assembly includes a plurality of enclosures. Each enclosure of the plurality of enclosures includes a cabinet including an interior surface defining an interior volume, and a door mounted relative to a respective opening of each cabinet. An interlocking device interlocks a first door of a first enclosure of the plurality of enclosures, a second door of a second enclosure of the plurality of enclosures, and a third door of a third enclosure of the plurality of enclosures. The interlocking device is operable to selectively fasten each of the first door, the second door, and the third door in a closed position.
US10485106B2
Disclosed are an improved structure for connecting printed circuit boards and display apparatus having the structure, by which two printed circuit boards are directly connected by a harness without extra parts. A structure for connecting printed circuit boards (PCBs), electrically connecting a first PCB and a second PCB with printed circuits provided thereon, the structure includes fixing holes formed in the first PCB and the second PCB, and a harness fixed to the fixing holes at both ends to electrically connect the first PCB and the second PCB, wherein the harness includes housings arranged in a pair to be fixed to the first PCB and the second PCB and having projections to be inserted and fixed to the fixing holes, contact terminals arranged in the housings to come into contact with the printed circuits, and a cable connected to the contact terminals to electrically connect the pair of housings.
US10485099B2
A multilayer ceramic substrate according to the present invention includes a plurality of base layers that are laminated containing a low-temperature co-fired ceramic material, a plurality of first constraint layers which contain a metal oxide not completely sintered at the sintering temperature of the low-temperature co-fired ceramic material and which are located between the base layers, and a protective layer which contains the metal oxide and which is in contact with an outermost base layer of the plurality of base layers in the lamination direction, and wherein X1>X2, where X1 is a content of the metal oxide in a surface section of the protective layer and X2 is a content of the metal oxide in a boundary section of the protective layer that is in contact with the outermost base layer.
US10485093B2
Provided are both a flexible printed board, in which heat dissipation performance can be improved in without using an aluminum heal dissipating material, which is light in weight, has good processability and can be reduced in cost, and a method for manufacturing such a flexible printed board. The flexible printed board is a flexible printed board 10 on which a power consuming load is mounted, including: a front surface heat dissipation layer 30 made of a copper foil and having a circuit portion on which the load is mounted; a thermally conductive resin layer 20 having the front surface heat dissipation layer 30 laminated to a front surface side thereof and having a thermal conductivity of 0.49 W/mK or more; and a rear surface heat dissipation layer made of a copper foil, laminated to a rear surface side of the thermally conductive resin layer 20, and having a thickness of 100 to 400% with respect to the front surface heat dissipation layer 30.
US10485091B2
High thermal performance microelectronic modules containing sinter-bonded heat dissipation structures are provided, as are methods for the fabrication thereof. In various embodiments, the method includes the steps or processes of providing a module substrate, such as a circuit board, including a cavity having metallized sidewalls. A sinter-bonded heat dissipation structure is formed within the cavity. The sintered-bonded heat dissipation structure is formed, at least in part, by inserting a prefabricated thermally-conductive body, such as a metallic (e.g., copper) coin into the cavity. A sinter precursor material (e.g., a metal particle-containing paste) is dispensed or otherwise applied into the cavity and onto surfaces of the prefabricated thermally-conductive body before, after, or concurrent with insertion of the prefabricated thermally-conductive body. The sinter precursor material is then sintered at a maximum processing temperature to produce a sinter bond layer bonding the prefabricated thermally-conductive body to the metallized sidewalls of the module substrate.
US10485090B2
A high performance accelerator structure and method of production. The method includes precision machining the inner surfaces of a pair of half-cells that are maintained in an inert atmosphere and at a temperature of 100 K or less. The method includes removing thin layers of the inner surfaces of the half-cells after which the roughness of the inner surfaces in measured with a profilimeter. Additional thin layers are removed until the inner surfaces of the half-cell measure less than 2 nm root mean square (RMS) roughness over a 1 mm2 area on the profilimeter. The two half-cells are welded together in an inert atmosphere to form an SRF cavity. The resultant SRF cavity includes a high accelerating gradient (Eacc) and a high quality factor (Q0).
US10485080B1
The disclosure provides an example of a system and a method for command execution synchronization in a flood network. In one example, the method includes propagating a message including an instruction, from a gateway to a plurality of ancillary nodal devices (devices) in a flood network. Each of the plurality of devices is within an equal number of transmissive steps of the gateway through the flood network such that the message is propagated with approximately equivalent delay to each of the plurality of devices and substantially simultaneously received by all of the devices. The method also includes substantially simultaneously transmitting the message from each respective one of the devices to end nodal devices (end nodes) of a group of end nodes in the flood network in communication with the respective one of the devices. The method further includes, upon receipt of the message from the devices, substantially simultaneously executing the instruction, by each of the group of the end nodes of the flood network.
US10485076B2
An illumination control method includes calculating illuminances of a plurality of lighting apparatuses for at least one flat target surface on the basis of information regarding the lighting apparatuses stored in a database and flat target surface information received from a user, calculating an illuminance contribution of each of the lighting apparatuses for the at least one flat target surface on the basis of the illuminances of the plurality of lighting apparatuses for the at least one flat target surface, and calculating a luminance value of each of the lighting apparatuses on the basis of a target illuminance received from the user and the illuminance contribution of the lighting apparatus and controlling a luminance of each of the lighting apparatuses for luminance of the plurality of lighting apparatuses.
US10485074B2
A lighting system comprising multiple illumination sources is operable to vary a first and second light attribute over an array of locations. A user selects a first layer comprising an image having different values of the first attribute at different positions within the image, and at least one further layer representing motion. The first attribute at different locations in the array is mapped to the values of the first attribute at different positions in the first layer image, and the second attribute is varied based on the further layer so as to create an appearance of motion. The further layer comprises an algorithm selected by the user from amongst a plurality of predetermined algorithms, each configured so as to create the appearance of motion of a plurality of discrete, virtual lighting objects across the array, the motion of each of the virtual lighting objects being related but not coincident.
US10485057B2
Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a first defined connection. The repeater can include a first coaxial cable connector configured to be communicatively coupled to the first defined connection. The repeater can include a repeater unit communicatively coupled to the first defined connection. The repeater can include a controller configured to adjust a gain or output power of the repeater unit that compensates for insertion losses between the first coaxial cable connector and the first defined connection.
US10485047B2
A service processing method and an apparatus are provided. The method may include receiving, by an access network device, a connection setup message sent by user equipment (UE), where the connection setup message includes first voice session indication information that indicates that the connection setup message is sent due to a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) voice session. The method may also include preferentially allocating, by the access network device within a first time period that is after the access network device receives the connection setup message, an uplink transmission resource to the UE if receiving a resource scheduling request message sent by the UE.
US10485046B2
A method for using legacy Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer (P2P) simultaneously is provided. The method includes entering a device discovery process of Wi-Fi P2P, if use of a Wi-Fi P2P function is requested while using a legacy Wi-Fi function, acquiring a Group Owner (GO) right of Wi-Fi P2P in the device discovery process, performing a listen state over the same channel as a channel where the legacy Wi-Fi function is in use, through the acquisition of the GO right, and performing a search state over a social channel of Wi-Fi P2P, and repeating the listen state and the search state until the device discovery process is ended.
US10485044B2
A communication control method comprises: receiving, by a user terminal, from a base station, first information indicating a Device to Device (D2D) frequency available in a D2D discovery procedure for discovering a proximal terminal; and using, by the user terminal, not only the frequency indicated by the first information, but also a frequency not indicated by the first information. The frequency not indicated by the first information is different from the frequency indicated by the first information and is indicated by second information received from another cell different from a cell in which the user terminal exists.
US10485033B2
Provided are a method and device that identify characteristics of data to be sent by a user equipment and send small-sized data via a control message. The data transmission method for the user equipment may include: generating IP data; determining whether the IP data corresponds to small data that has a size less than or equal to a preset reference size or matches identification information of a preset service; and transmitting the IP data through a connection management (CM) layer to the network by use of a control message.
US10485024B2
A method and system provide determining whether to pursue grant free transmission in accordance with a size of at least one packet in a first buffer of at least one buffer and determining a size of a grant free transport block (GFTB) in accordance with a configuration of radio resources available for grant free transmission in instances where grant free transmission is to be utilized. The method also includes populating the GFTB with first data from at least one of the buffers to produce a populated GFTB and transferring the GFTB from a media access control (MAC) layer to a physical layer (PHY).
US10485021B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting control information is provided for use in detection of interference an signal in a wireless communication system. An interference control method of a base station of a mobile communication system includes scheduling data to be transmitted to a terminal and transmitting control information including data channel information on the scheduled data and interference signal information to the terminal.
US10485017B2
A communication device of handling a schedule request (SR) comprises a storage device and a processing circuit, coupled to the storage device. The storage device stores, and the processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of: receiving a first configuration of a first logical channel (LC), a second configuration of a second LC, a first SR configuration corresponding to the first LC, and a second SR configuration corresponding to the second LC from a base station (BS); transmitting a first buffer status report (BSR); starting a BSR retransmission timer (retxBSR-Timer) in response to the transmission of the first BSR; transmitting a SR to the BS according to the first SR configuration, when the retxBSR-Timer expires, the first LC has first data available for being transmitted, and a first priority of the first LC is higher than a second priority of the second LC.
US10485015B2
A method and an apparatus for processing an adaptive flow table are disclosed. When resource scheduling is performed, a terminal device or a data stream that performs uplink data transmission in a scheduled time period is determined; a corresponding flow rule of the terminal device or the data stream is queried, and the found flow rule is updated to a flow table; and when a data packet is received, corresponding processing is performed on the data packet according to a flow rule in the flow table.
US10485009B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication. The UE in sequence receives a first radio signal in a first time interval, conducts blind decoding for the first radio signal in a second time interval and receives a second radio signal in a third time interval, and receives a third radio signal in a fourth time interval. The second radio signal and the third radio signal are transmitted by the same antenna port. The end time of the second time interval is behind the start time of the third time interval, and the fourth time interval is behind the third time interval. The present disclosure reduces the delay in beam scheduling, improves the efficiency of transmission and improves the flexibility of system scheduling.
US10485004B2
Certain features relate to a self-optimizing network entity configured for use with a distributed antenna system having a head end-unit configured to communicate wireless communication information to a plurality of remote units for transmission at a plurality of sites, the self-optimized network entity comprising circuitry configured to determine a network resource allocation plan for the plurality of remote units within the distributed antenna system based on an isolation level determined by at least one of the plurality of remote units based on a power level of a test signal received from at least one of the plurality of remote units.
US10485003B2
Methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed for determining transmission parameters in a wireless network. A method comprises: receiving transmission configuration information used by a network element for determining transmission parameters, wherein the transmission configuration information comprises a first set of parameters comprising at least a first repetition level set index, a first repetition level index, a first resource allocation and a first transport block size index, or a second set of parameters comprising at least a second repetition level index, a second resource allocation, and a second transport block size index, or a third set of parameters comprising at least a modulation and coding scheme level index, a third resource allocation and a third transport block size index; determining transmission parameters used by the network element based at least in part on the transmission configuration information.
US10484999B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide triggers for user equipment (UE) transmissions to support uplink based mobility in a wireless communication system. According to certain aspects, a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes receiving a configuration indicating one or more triggers for transmitting on an uplink access channel, wherein the one or more triggers comprise a first indication of mobility of the UE, determining, based at least in part on detection of one of the one or more triggers, to transmit on the uplink access channel, transmitting a signal on the uplink access channel, and receiving, in response to the transmission of the signal on the uplink access channel, a second indication of at least one of: confirmation of reception of the signal or a paging notification.
US10484995B2
The described technology is generally directed towards a joint procedure in wireless communications for reporting a partial beam failure or performing beam management when no beams have failed. The joint procedure reports the beam management reference signal received power and control beam recovery on a common feedback channel, which avoids the need for a reserved, dedicated feedback channel resource for beam recovery. Also described is configuring a possibly different failure threshold for each selected beam, whereby the network can configure different beams to have different reliability/quality-of-service levels for example.
US10484992B2
Techniques are described herein to selectively protect some resources of a transmission opportunity, but not all resources of a transmission opportunity. A base station may schedule resources to be used to communicate data with a user equipment (UE). To indicate to potential interference sources, a silencing message may broadcast to other network entities. The silencing message may include an indication of resources to be protected for a transmission between the base station and the UE. The silencing message may indicate a subset of resources that is less than a set of all resources of a transmission opportunity. In some examples, the silencing message may indicate a subset of frequency subbands of the transmission opportunity. In response to the silencing message, potential interference sources may refrain from communicating data during the indicated subset of resources.
US10484985B2
A plurality of the same signals to be repetitively transmitted over multiple subframes are multiplied, in each subframe, by one of components of one sequence of a plurality of orthogonal sequences orthogonal to each other thereby generating a transmission signal. The generated transmission signal is transmitted.
US10484981B2
Improved downlink control information decoding is disclosed herein. Downlink control information, can be in different formats depending on the rank of transmission from the network to the user equipment device. For instance, if the transmission rank is between 1 and 4, the transmission will be a single codeword transmission, while a rank of 5-8 can have two codewords. The downlink control information can have a different format, or structure depending on the number of codewords. The user equipment device can predict whether a single codeword transmission or a multicode codeword transmission is more likely, and attempt to decode the downlink control information using the corresponding format. If the first pass is unsuccessful, the user equipment device can make a second pass decoding based on the alternate format of downlink control information.
US10484979B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured for carrier aggregation (CA) operation. The CA configuration may include multiple component carriers (CCs), including an enhanced component carrier (eCC). One CC of the CA configuration may be employed to signal channel availability of another CC of the CA configuration. For instance, a primary CC that utilizes licensed frequency bandwidth may signal channel availability of an eCC that utilizes unlicensed frequency bandwidth. This indication of channel availability may be sent before or after a clear channel assessment (CCA). Additionally, the indication of channel availability may be employed in both self- and cross-carrier scheduling configurations.
US10484975B2
A communication method and system for converging a 5G communication system supports higher data rates beyond a 4G system with IoT technology. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, 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 provides a method for transmission and reception between a base station and a terminal, which can transmit a HARQ-ACK feedback of downlink data or uplink data in various or multiple timings, in accordance with a TA value and a fallback mode.
US10484971B2
The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting machine type communication (MTC), and to various methods for an MTC terminal transmitting/receiving data. A method for an MTC terminal receiving data in a wireless access system supporting MTC, as one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise the steps of: receiving a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index indicating a MCS, and a physical resource block (PRB) index indicating the size of a PRB allocated to a MTC terminal; checking a transport block size (TBS) index that is mapped with the MCS index and deriving a TBS on the basis of the TBS index and the PRB index; and on the basis of the TBS, decoding a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in order to receive data. Here, the size of the MCS index is configured to be a 4-bit size, and the TBS index may be configured so as to support only from 0 to 9 for the MTC terminal.
US10484964B2
A method for paging a first device by a second device includes sending, by the second device, a page message on a first path connecting the second device to the first device, and receiving, by the second device from the first device, a page response in response to the page message on a second path connecting the first device to the second device, wherein the first path and the second path are intentionally selected to be different in at least one of a number of hops in each path, radio access technology, cell or frequency carrier comprising each path, or width of beam pairs forming each path.
US10484961B2
In one example embodiment, a power storage management system includes a user terminal, a power storage apparatus and an information processing apparatus. In one example embodiment, the information processing apparatus is configured to, using a mobile communication network (e.g., Global System for Mobile Communications or the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), communicate with the power storage apparatus.
US10484955B2
A method is disclosed for a network node configured to transmit wireless communication signals using beam forming and configured to apply any of one or more data carrying beam widths for transmission of data carrying signals dedicated to a specific wireless communication device.The method comprises determining one or more requirement parameters for transmission of synchronization signals, wherein the one or more requirement parameters comprise a desired synchronization signal beam width and a minimum effective power, and wherein the determined desired synchronization signal beam width is larger than a minimum one of the data carrying beam widths.The method also comprises calculating beam forming weights based on the one or more requirement parameters, wherein a beam resulting from the calculated beam forming weights has a beam width larger than, or equal to, the determined desired synchronization signal beam width and an effective power larger than, or equal to, the minimum effective power, and wherein the calculation is performed by assigning non-zero value to a number of beam forming weights which exceeds a minimum number of beam forming weights for the determined desired synchronization signal beam width.The method further comprises generating a synchronization signal for transmission and transmitting the generated synchronization signal using the calculated beam forming weights.Corresponding arrangement, network node and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10484948B2
A method for enabling a mobile terminal to be on standby includes determining that a movement speed of the mobile terminal is greater than a preset speed, judging whether the mobile terminal is within a driver's area in an automobile, and enabling the mobile terminal to enter into a standby state if the mobile terminal is within the driver's area.
US10484940B1
In aspects of network association based on network performance capabilities, a device includes a first subscriber identity module (SIM) to enable a first subscription for data communication between the device and data communication networks, and includes a second SIM to enable a second subscription for additional data communication between the device and the data communication networks. The device implements a network manager to determine network data parameters that indicate performance capabilities of the data communication networks. The network manager can associate a first application of the device with a first network of the data communication networks that has a greater performance capability for a data streaming download based on the network data parameters. The network manager can also associate a second application of the device with a second network of the data communication networks for an interactive session of intermittent data communications based on the network data parameters.
US10484936B2
A discovery signal transmission/reception method and an apparatus for improving energy efficiency of the system are provided. The discovery signal transmission method of a base station in a mobile communication system according to the present disclosure includes acquiring a discovery signal configuration of a neighbor cell, transmitting the discovery signal configuration to a terminal, receiving a measurement report including a result of measurement on a discovery signal of the neighbor from the terminal, the measurement being performed based on the discovery signal configuration, and determining whether to make a handover decision for the terminal based on the measurement report. The discovery signal transmission/reception method of the present disclosure is advantageous in improving energy efficiency of a mobile communication system.
US10484932B2
Provided are systems and methods for reversing the conventional roles of central and peripheral devices in a BLE network. Doing so includes implementing an end node (EN) as the sole initiator of a connection between a particular EN and a particular access point (AP). Such implementation includes determining a coordinate location of the EN based on position information for multiple reference points (RPs) and a time of flight (TOF) of an ultrasonic waveform transmitted by each of the RPs.
US10484931B2
A wireless device receives from a first base station, configuration parameters of a plurality of cells. The configuration parameters comprise a first cell group comprising one or more first cells for communication with the first base station, and a second cell group comprising a licensed assisted access (LAA) cell for communication with a second base station. The wireless device receives from the second base station LAA cell signals in a subframe of a plurality of subframes of the LAA cell. The wireless device determines whether the subframe is considered for radio link failure (RLF) detection based on processing the LAA cell signals. The wireless device increments a counter in response to the subframe of the LAA cell being considered for RLF detection, and the wireless device not successfully decoding a control channel in the subframe of the LAA cell. The wireless device detects an RLF based on the counter.
US10484928B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, 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 for permitting and providing operator specific services by allowing an unauthorized terminal to search for and access the operator specific services in a wireless communication system, and includes a method for notifying a terminal of information corresponding to ‘operator specific services’ by allowing a base station to broadcast predetermined information, a method for displaying information acquired by a terminal, matching the information acquired by the terminal with information broadcast from a base station or the like to arrange services, a method for requesting an access including information notifying that a terminal performs an access for ‘operator specific services’ upon accessing a network, a method for providing a menu determining whether there are neighboring base stations capable of ‘operator specific services’ to a user of a terminal, allowing the terminal to determine whether there is the base station broadcasting the information, or the like.
US10484926B2
There are disclosed methods and apparatus for enabling high data rate relay operation using the D2D air interface including a User Equipment (UE) for transmitting and receiving data via a sidelink interface under control of an Evolved Node B (eNB), the UE comprising: receive circuitry to receive a reference signal on a sidelink interface; control circuitry to determine one or more sidelink quality indicators based on the received reference signal; and transmit circuitry to transmit the determined sidelink quality indicators to the eNB.
US10484920B2
A technique is disclosed, according to which a mobile node, having a plurality of interfaces and performing communication according to flow information when an operator is performing communication based on the flow information as defined by a policy, can select an interface suitable for the flow and can perform communication. According to this technique, a mobile node (MN 10) having a plurality of interfaces has a list to indicate domain limited flows to be transmitted only within a specific network (a trusted network), and a list to indicate the trusted networks. When a certain interface performs handover, and in case there is a domain limited flow that uses the interface, it is decided whether the network of handover destination is a trusted network or not, and in case the network of the handover destination is not a trusted network, it is decided whether it is possible or not to transmit and receive the domain limited flow via another interface that is connected to the trusted network.
US10484910B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a traffic flow splitting method and apparatus. In a process of accessing a 3GPP network by UE, an eNB in the 3GPP network sends a first multiflow aggregation instruction to the UE, to instruct the UE to establish a first multiflow aggregation channel between the UE and the eNB via a non-3GPP network. The UE establishes the first multiflow aggregation channel. The first multiflow aggregation channel is used for transmitting a part of data in a downlink traffic flow for the UE, where the part of data is offloaded to the non-3GPP network for transmission, and other data in the downlink traffic flow is offloaded to a 3GPP channel for transmission. In the method, different data packets in a same traffic flow can be simultaneously transmitted in the 3GPP network and the non-3GPP network.
US10484904B2
Automated control of simulcast ratios based on network traffic data provides efficient network capacity management. In one aspect, a remote switching matrix can be utilized at a venue to couple remote transceiver units (RTUs) with different antenna ports, for example, of one or more multi-beam antennas deployed at the venue. A simulcast ratio that can be utilized to support traffic demand at the venue can be determined and implemented by creating dynamic connections between the RTUs and the antenna ports. In one aspect, the simulcast ratio can be modified based on changes in network traffic at the venue that are monitored via self-organizing network devices. In addition, one or more antenna beams of the multi-beam antennas are remotely steered or rotated based on a location of the traffic.
US10484898B2
A method includes comparing at least one received signal received parameter value for at least one channel state information reference signal associated with a first frequency with at least one received signal received parameter value for at least one channel state information reference signal associated with a second frequency; and causing information from said comparing to be reported.
US10484896B2
A wireless communication apparatus (10) includes: a switching control unit (103) that determines an active mode wireless communication apparatus at an opposite side based on a failure occurrence status of an active mode wireless communication apparatus at the opposite side under a situation that the wireless communication apparatus (10) is in the active mode; a wireless transmitting unit (101) that transmits a switch instruction to the opposite side under the situation that the wireless communication apparatus (10) is in the active mode, the switch instruction instructing the active mode wireless communication apparatus at the opposite side that is determined; and a wireless receiving unit (102) that receives the switch instruction from the opposite side, wherein the switching control unit (103) switches the wireless communication apparatus (10) to one of the active mode and the standby mode based on the switch instruction received from the opposite side.
US10484895B2
A computer implemented method includes transmitting a transmit command to a first data concentrator to send out a predetermined signal of predetermined characteristics according to a transmission setting, receiving a received signal from at least one second data concentrator, and determining if there are any signal transmission effects between the first data concentrator and the second data concentrator based on a comparison of the predetermined signal and the received signal.
US10484894B2
System and methods for providing special radio provisions to link budget limited devices. Before establishing a cellular connection with a cellular network, a user equipment device (UE), such as a link budget limited UE, may negotiate the special radio provisions with the network by presenting requested profile information to the network, and receiving back approved profile information from the network. The UE may perform these communications either directly, via a non-cellular communication connection with the network, or indirectly, via a companion or proxy device. When the UE initiates a cellular connection with the network, both entities may use information specified in the approved profile information, which may improve efficiency of the connection. In some scenarios, the approved profile information may identify a class of devices to which the UE belongs. The approved profile information may also be used in establishing connections with other devices of the same class.
US10484878B2
In an embodiment, a central coordination server (e.g., a Spectrum Access Server) partitions a shared communication medium into a contention-free partition where the shared communication medium is reserved for devices associated with a first set of operators and a contention-based partition where devices associated with a second set of operators contend for access to the shared communication medium, at least one operator belonging to both the first and second sets of operators. The central coordination server notifies target devices (e.g., APs, ATs, etc.) of the partitioning. In a further embodiment, a device (e.g., AP, AT, etc.) communicates over a portion of the contention-free partition that is reserved for an associated operator, and also over the contention-based partition.
US10484874B2
A first device can receive an attach request that includes information associated with a user device. The user device can provide the attach request to request access to a network. The first device can provide, to a second device and using the information associated with the user device, a request for information associated with a group identifier that is associated with the user device. The first device can receive, from the second device, the information associated with the group identifier that is associated with the user device based on providing the request for information associated with the group identifier. The first device can determine a network slice identifier that is associated with the user device based on the information associated with the group identifier that is associated with the user device. The first device can permit the user device to access a network slice, of the network, that is associated with the network slice identifier based on determining the network slice identifier.
US10484870B2
Systems and methods for establishing a data connection between a mobile device and a peripheral. The mobile device is configured to determine whether to handle user approval of the data connection between the mobile device and the peripheral. Through the mobile device, an input mechanism is provided for the user to provide input. The input is used in determining whether to approve the data connection between the mobile device and the peripheral.
US10484867B2
A particular method includes detecting, at a managed computing device, a signal from a wireless beacon device via a first wireless connection. The signal is detected while particular functionality is inaccessibly at the managed computing device. The method further includes, in response to detecting the signal, transmitting a first message from the managed computing device to a device management server via a second wireless connection, where the first message identifies the wireless beacon device. The method further includes receiving, at the managed computing device in response to the identification of the wireless beacon device in the first message, a second message that grants the managed computing device access to the particular functionality while the managed computing device is within a transmission range of the wireless beacon device.
US10484865B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for efficiently transmitting and receiving a profile for providing a communication service in a mobile communication system. A method for supporting remote reception of a profile in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a second message including a first message for downloading the profile from a server managing the profile; and transferring the second message including the first message to a plurality of UICCs on the basis of the second message, wherein the plurality of UICCs includes at least one eUICC.
US10484863B1
Processes and systems for locking a NB-IoT device to a NB-IoT SIM before connecting the NB-IoT device to a cellular network are discussed herein. The NB-IoT device may include a status flag that determines whether the NB-IoT device requires a NB-IoT SIM to access NB-IoT-specific functions provided by a cellular network. In one example, a Group Identifier Level 1 (GID1) of the IoT SIM may be queried and compared against a reference value to determine whether the IoT SIM is an NB-IoT SIM, and if confirmed, the NB-IoT device may connect to a cellular network and access the NB-IoT-specific functions. In an example, an NB-IoT device associated with a status flag indicating that the device does not require an NB-IoT SIM may connect to a cellular network, but may not access NB-IoT-specific functions.
US10484862B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to availing at least one service by a user equipment while one of in an international roaming and leaving the international roaming. In a preferred embodiment, a method for automatic IMSI switching by using the proactive commands such as PLI commands, while entering and leaving the international roaming, independent of the cause code sent by any operator and can work regardless of the cause code received is disclosed. The method includes replacing of the home IMSI of the user equipment with the global IMSI in an event the at least one network parameter corresponds to the second location and replacing of the global IMSI of the user equipment with the home IMSI in an event the at least one network parameter corresponds to the first location.
US10484861B2
In the field of electronic devices, there is disclosed a secure module for housing at least one subscriber profile and an interface allowing the local configuration of a profile. The secure module also includes an activation agent including a unit for detection of a mode of local management of the profile for authorising and/or prohibiting the processing of the local configuration requests by a local manager according to the result of the detection. Also disclosed is a detachable integrated circuit cards or secure elements soldered into the device communicating via a mobile telecommunication network.
US10484857B2
An access point (AP) accepts a communications device to join a wireless communications network. The AP registers a service provided by the communications device. The service is available in accordance with a schedule and a set of service parameters. The AP receives a request from a peer communications device seeking the service. The AP announces availability of the service on behalf of the communications device while the communications device is unavailable. The service is later provided by the communications device to the peer communications device when both devices are available to communicate. By utilizing an always-on AP to announce service availability and to exchange service parameters, fast service discovery can be achieved with low power consumption for both service advertisers and service seekers.
US10484856B1
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for normalizing insufficient signals based on additional information. A probability of an event occurring is detected from a raw signal. It is determined signal characteristics of the raw signal are insufficient to normalize the raw signal along at least one of: a time, location, or context dimension. In one aspect, an additional signal relevant to the signal is ingested. In another aspect, a previously detected event relevant to the signal is accessed from a geo cell database. The raw signal is normalized, including deriving at least one of: the time dimension, the location dimension, or the context dimension from a combination of the signal characteristics and characteristics of the other signal and/or characteristics of the previously detected event.
US10484853B2
A method for pairing a first Bluetooth device with an individual Bluetooth device address with a group of Bluetooth devices, said method comprising: assigning a group Bluetooth device address to each of said group of Bluetooth devices; the first Bluetooth device exchanging Bluetooth device addresses with a second Bluetooth device from said group of Bluetooth devices when said first Bluetooth device comes within communication range of said second Bluetooth device; establishing a link key; storing the group Bluetooth device address and the link key; the first Bluetooth device exchanging Bluetooth device addresses with a third Bluetooth device from said group of Bluetooth devices when said first Bluetooth device comes within communication range of said third Bluetooth device; recognizing the group Bluetooth device address assigned to the third Bluetooth device; and establishing a communications channel between said first Bluetooth device and said third Bluetooth device based on said link key.
US10484852B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving a downlink physical channel by a narrowband Internet of things (NB-IoT) device. The method may comprise the steps of: determining whether to receive a signal of a downlink physical channel from an NB-IoT cell, on a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS) of a time division duplex (TDD) special subframe; and receiving the signal of the downlink physical channel on the TDD special subframe including the DwPTS, on the basis of the determination.
US10484851B2
An application associated with an online system executing on a client device identifies an additional application on the client device with which the application may exchange information. To exchange information between the application and additional application, the online system receives a request for authentication information from the application that identifies the additional application and a user of the application. The online system generates and stores authentication information in association with an identifier associated with the user by the application and with an identifier of the additional application. After communicating the authentication information to the client device, the online system receives a request to verify the authentication information from the additional application. If the authentication information is verified, the online system stores an association between an identifier associated with the user by the additional application that was included in the request and the identifier associated with the user by the application.
US10484841B2
A method for LTE trunking communication, a user equipment and a first network element device are disclosed. The method includes: when a user equipment which is ready to receive trunked service data through a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) bearer moves between a cell inside an MBMS single frequency network (MBSFN) area where a trunked service is located and a cell outside the MBMFN area, reporting area identifier information of the user equipment; and the user equipment receiving the trunked service data according to a trunked service bearing mode selected by a network side based on the received area identifier information.
US10484830B1
An indoor positioning system for fireman includes: a wireless tag reading device, worn or carried by a fireman; and a plurality of wireless tags, disposed in a plurality of positioning points defined in an indoor space and each of the wireless tags having a memory for storing a location data, where each of the location data is corresponding to one of the plurality of positioning points; when in use, the wireless tag reading device is coupled with at least one of the plurality of wireless tags within a sensing range via a wireless means, so that at least one of the location data corresponding to at least one positioning point defined in the indoor space is obtained.
US10484827B2
A load control system may include control-target devices for controlling an amount of power provided to an electrical load. The control-target devices may be capable of controlling the amount of power provided to the electrical load based on control instructions. The control-target devices and/or the control-instructions may be determined based on a gesture performed by a user. The user may wear a wearable control device capable of measuring movements performed by the user and transmit digital messages that may be used to control an electrical load. The wearable control device may identify gestures performed by the user for controlling a control-target device and/or provide control instructions to the control-target device based on the identified gestures. A gesture may be associated with a scene that includes a configuration of one or more control devices in a load control system.
US10484823B2
Apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide improved, automatic, and dynamic frequency selection for and/or by medical body area network apparatus are disclosed. Certain examples provide a medical body area network apparatus. The example apparatus includes a radio to receive a beacon signal and a processor to process the beacon signal to determine a location of the apparatus. The example processor is configured to at least: when the beacon signal indicates a first location, communicate via a first frequency band; and when the beacon signal indicates a second location, communicate via a second frequency band.
US10484815B1
Systems and methods for managing communications based upon location information associated with electronic files exchanged during the communications are described. In some embodiments, a method may include intercepting an electronic file exchanged during an electronic communication; identifying location information representative of a physical location where the electronic file was created or edited; and applying, based upon the location information, a selected one of a plurality of processing rules to at least one of: the electronic communication or the electronic file.
