US10479701B2
Systems and methods related to desalination systems are described herein. According to some embodiments, the desalination systems are transiently operated and/or configured to facilitate transient operation. In some embodiments, a liquid stream comprising water and at least one dissolved salt is circulated through a fluidic circuit comprising a desalination system. In some embodiments, a portion of the desalination system (e.g., a humidifier) is configured to remove at least a portion of the water from the liquid stream to produce a concentrated brine stream enriched in the dissolved salt. In certain cases, the concentrated brine stream is recirculated through the fluidic circuit until the concentrated brine stream reaches a relatively high density (e.g., at least about 10 pounds per gallon) and/or a relatively high salinity (e.g., a total dissolved salt concentration of at least about 25 wt %). In certain embodiments, additional salt is added to the concentrated brine stream to produce an ultra-high-density brine stream (e.g., a brine stream having a density of at least about 11.7 pounds per gallon). Some aspects relate to a system that is configured to promote energy efficiency by recovering heat from the recirculated concentrated brine stream upon discharge from the fluidic circuit.
US10479696B2
Provided is a method for preparing molybdenum oxide nanoparticles, including (a) preparing a precursor solution by dissolving a molybdenum salt in a first polar solvent, (b) generating an aerosol by applying ultrasonic waves to the precursor solution, and spraying the aerosol to a pre-heated reactor using a carrier gas, (c) obtaining molybdenum oxide micron-sized particles by pyrolyzing the aerosol, and (d) obtaining molybdenum oxide nanoparticles by dispersing the molybdenum oxide micron-sized particles in a second polar solvent and performing a solvothermal reduction reaction.
US10479692B2
Disclosed is a method for readily and inexpensively producing zeolite without using an organic structure-directing agent (organic SDA). Specifically disclosed is a method whereby a gel containing a silica source, an alumina source, an alkaline source and water is reacted with zeolite seed crystals, to produce a zeolite with the same kind of skeletal structure as the zeolite. The gel used is a gel of a composition whereby, when a zeolite is synthesized from this gel only, the synthesized zeolite comprises at least one of the kinds of composite building units of the target zeolite.
US10479689B2
The problem addressed by the present invention is to provide an apparatus for preparing ultrathin graphene pieces capable of preparing ultrathin graphene pieces in which less than 10 pieces of graphene are overlapped in large quantities, a method for preparing ultrathin graphene pieces capable of preparing the ultrathin graphene pieces with high yield, an ultrathin graphene piece in which less than 10 pieces of graphene are overlapped, a capacitor having high performance by using the ultrathin graphene piece as an electrode, and an efficient method of manufacturing the capacitor. The above-described problem can be solved by using an apparatus 20 for preparing ultrathin graphene pieces, the apparatus comprising: a graphite electrode 21; a counter electrode 22 which is made of graphite, a corrosion resistant alloy, or a precious metal; an electrolytic solution 25 in which one end sides of the two electrodes 21 and 22 are immersed; a container 24 which stores the electrolytic solution 25; and a power source 28 which is connected to the two electrodes 21 and 22 via wirings 26 and 27. The apparatus is also provided with a porous filter 23 so as to cover at least the immersed part of the graphite electrode 21 that is immersed in the electrolytic solution 25.
US10479688B2
A tube manufacturing system is provided that is capable of manufacturing tube structures that are on the nanoscale and larger. The system provides for control as to the structure and atomic makeup of the feed sheet material used and provides motive force to the sheet material being used to continuously advance the sheet material through the various system components. After the tube structures are formed, they may be used in providing a source material for manufacturing macroscopic objects thus increasing the level of performance and capabilities of such objects due to the engineered properties of the tube structures formed within this system and method of manufacturing. Processes for manufacturing of nanotubes are also disclosed, as are nanotubes manufactured by the processes and system of the invention.
US10479681B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel substance that has a high reactivity as a fluorinating agent, is effectively used in various fluorination reactions, and is safely handled even in air. As the solution for achieving this object, the present invention provides a complex obtained by reacting bromine trifluoride with at least one metal halide selected from the group consisting of halogenated metals and halogenated hydrogen metals in a nonpolar solvent. This complex serves as a fluorinating agent that provides excellent fluorination performance and that is stable in air.
US10479680B2
A method and design of providing high temperature heat for an endothermic gasifier without combustion includes flowing a stream of a first hydrocarbon gas sequentially through an annular plenum and a cylindrical plenum while heating the gas using electrical resistance immersion heating elements. These heating elements may be heated by three phase electrical power, minimizing the number of electrical leads emerging from the top of the heating elements. This method and design reduces the risk of extremely hot syngas exiting the gasifier damaging downstream fittings.
US10479679B2
The system comprises a steam reforming unit to produce hydrogen from exhaust gas supplied, a hydrogen permeable membrane to allow only hydrogen produced by the steam reforming unit to pass through it, a hydrogen storage unit to absorb hydrogen supplied through the hydrogen permeable membrane and release absorbed hydrogen, a fuel cell to generate power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage unit, a gas clean-up unit to clean up residual gases delivered not passing through the hydrogen permeable membrane, and a control unit to control the hydrogen storage unit to absorb or release hydrogen depending on whether the fuel cell is supplied with sufficient hydrogen.
US10479673B2
A saddle bag connector is disclosed. An example saddle bag connector includes a base portion, a post having an opening formed through the post, a pin configured to fit through the opening formed through the post, and a double threaded mounting portion configured for connection to the post. The mounting portion further configured to fasten the post to a saddle to receive a saddle bag on the post.
US10479666B2
The sampling control station comprises at least one grasping and transporting group (22) for picking up containers or bottles (16) from conveying means (18) and transporting them to at least one measuring module (21′,21″,21′″), the containers or bottles (16) being provided with a body tapered into a neck and ending with a mouth, wherein an annular ribbing (19) is foreseen at the mouth, and it is characterized in that the grasping and transporting group (22) comprises gripping means (23) connected to a mobile support structure (30), the gripping means (23) being mobile between a gripping position, in which they are engaged with the neck of the container (16) at and below the annular ribbing (19), and a release position in which they are not engaged with the container (16).
US10479655B2
A support installation includes support members for supporting an electric cable, a tower crane, a mast and a jib linked to an upper portion of the mast. The jib and the mast respectively extend according to a jib direction and a substantially vertical mast direction. The support members are secured to the jib and disposed at a plurality of locations distant according to the jib direction. The support members extend transversally to the jib direction to protrude laterally from the jib. The jib is cantilevered when the support installation is in the service configuration.
US10479653B2
A monitoring system includes: an imaging sensor configured to sense a lighting device of the passenger conveyor to acquire image data; and a processing apparatus configured to process the image data, the processing apparatus being configured to include: a background acquisition module configured to acquire a background model based on sensed image data; a foreground detection module configured to compare image data sensed in real time with the background model to obtain a foreground object; and a working condition judgment module configured to perform data processing at least based on the foreground object to judge whether the lighting device is in a normal state. Then, a failure or an abnormal lighting state of the lighting device can be timely diagnosed so that maintenance is performed.
US10479646B2
A machinery brake of an elevator includes a frame part including an electromagnet, an armature part, an inductive proximity sensor indirectly mounted to one of the following: the frame part, the armature part, and a target mounted to another of the following: the frame part, armature part. The machinery brake further includes, for establishing the indirect mounting: a temperature change compensation device mounted between the inductive proximity sensor and one of the following: the frame part, the armature part. Some aspects relate to a method for compensating a change in switching point of an inductive proximity sensor.
US10479629B2
An image reading apparatus includes a feed roller configured to feed paper toward a reading section, and a medium detection section provided along a transport path between the feed roller and the reading section and configured to include a transmitting portion configured to output an output value equivalent to a magnitude of an ultrasonic wave, and determines whether the transport of the paper is to be continued or to be brought to a halt on the basis of a lower limit value and an upper limit value for the output value, which are set in accordance with the kind of the paper. Further, in a case where the output value satisfies a first condition, a transport of the medium is continued, and in a case where the output value satisfies a condition different from the first condition, the transport of the medium is brought to a halt.
US10479623B2
A sludge handling system includes a bin from which treated sewage sludge is discharged. A rotabable discharge device includes an arm for scraping the inside of the bin and a frusto-conical chute from which sludge is discharged through a gate to a waiting truck. A stationary scoop is provided mounted on the gate to scrape the interior wall of the chute of adhering sludge.
US10479620B2
In a destacking device comprising a stacking magazine (2), the respective lowest sheet of a stack (1) of metal sheets is destacked by way of a suction element (5, 15). This element can be moved upward and downward by way of a drive (6). At the end of the upward movement, the respective lowest metal sheet (4) of the stack (1) is gripped by suction power and pulled from the stack. A second suction element (5′, 15′) is provided, which can be moved upward and downward by way of a drive (6′) and by way of which the lowest sheet (4) of the stack (1) can be gripped at the end of the upward movement. The second suction element is driven so as to be leading with respect to the first suction element, so that the respective lowest sheet (4) of the stack (1) can first be pulled from the stack by the second suction element (5′), and subsequently by the first suction element (5). In this way, it becomes possible to destack thin sheets having a thickness of only 0.12 mm and a square shape without disruption. The stack is held magnetically in the stacking magazine, which facilitates destacking.
US10479607B2
A conveyor system is provided, comprising an endless belt mounted in a longitudinal direction through the service line, the endless belt having an upper transport portion adapted to move a wheeled structure through a service line, and a lower return portion, a support deck positioned below the upper transport portion of the endless belt to support the endless belt, the support deck having a belt contact surface extending along a top of the support deck and in contact with the upper transport portion of the endless belt, the belt contact surface being constructed from a material that is at least partially thermoplastic, a belt rinsing system including a rinsing system conduit arrangement connectable to a source of rinsing system liquid, and at least one belt rinsing arrangement, wherein each of the at least one belt rinsing arrangement includes a rinsing system dirt pass-through aperture in the support deck.
US10479598B2
A system for a greeting card. The greeting card has a planar greeting card portion and a greeting card cover moveably coupled to the planar greeting card portion. The greeting card cover can move from an open position whereby the planar greeting card portion is readable to a closed position adjacent to said planar greeting card portion whereby the planar greeting card portion is not readable. The greeting card portion is coupled to a gift storage compartment which has a volume and a depth for storing an item. The greeting card cover can open and close without moving the gift storage compartment.
US10479592B1
A case for securing an aerosol canister, including a body, including a first lateral wall having a first top edge and a first bottom edge, a bottom wall connected to the first lateral wall proximate the first bottom edge, and at least one cutout arranged in the first lateral wall proximate the first top edge, and a cap connected to the body, including a nozzle in fluid contact with a stem of the aerosol canister, and at least one gusset arranged to engage the at least one cutout, wherein in an unlocked position, the cap is displaceable in a first axial direction relative to the body to dispense the contents of the aerosol canister out of the nozzle, and in a locked position, the cap is not displaceable in the first axial direction.
US10479587B2
A cartridge (12) for a viscous-material dispenser includes a plunger (10) that is slidable within a cylinder (18). A seal body (104) forms between an outer circumferential surface (82) of the plunger and an inner circumferential surface (84) of the cylinder when a viscous material flows into a radial tubular clearance (106) that continuously extends both axially and circumferentially between the outer circumferential surface and the inner circumferential surface. Ridges (100) may be formed on the outer circumferential surface of the plunger to guide the inflowing viscous material and facilitate the formation of the seal body.
US10479579B2
A method of packaging a product includes heating a film of plastic material to a forming temperature until it is thermoformable. At least one of the heated film and at least one product to be packaged are moved in relation to each other until the at least one product deforms the heated film and forms at least one pocket in the heated film that at least partially encapsulates the at least one product. The deformed film with the at least one product at least partially encapsulated in the at least one pocket is then cured.
US10479575B2
Methods of covering an animal feed product involve depositing in an open end of a container an animal feed. Placing a cover on an exposed surface of the feed at the open end of the container, where the cover includes a flowable coating arranged on one side of a flexible film and a rigid or semi-rigid layer bound to an opposite side of the film. The exposed surface of the feed comprises irregular surface structures due to feed components positioned at the exposed surface. A central portion of the flexible film of the placed cover conforms to the irregular surface structures at the exposed surface of the feed upon the flowable coating reaching a temperature of at least about 125° F.
US10479571B2
The present invention relates to a capsule (11) for diffusing a substance in a liquid within a receptacle (50). The capsule comprises an expandable element and, in a first state the capsule has a first width and in a second state the capsule has a second width. The width of the capsule in the second state is greater than that of the first state.
US10479562B2
Systems and methods for storing a liquid include a container including a body portion defining an internal chamber and at least one opening in communication with the internal chamber, and an insertable plug including a plug body with two rings attached to the plug body via hinges, the insertable plug configured to be inserted into the opening so that a portion of the plug body covers a lip of the opening to restrict access through the opening to the liquid contained in the internal chamber, wherein the hinges can be deformed to raise the two rings away from the plug body. An insertable plug for a container can include a cylindrical plug body, and two rings attached to the plug body by hinges, wherein the hinges can bend to orient the rings towards or away from the plug body.
US10479560B1
A bag convertible to a bib. The bag is comprised of a primary flexible material (such as paper) and may also incorporate an attachment mechanism and a scored or perforated portion. Score lines enable a user to transform a portion of the bag walls from the open end of the bag into the straps of a bib. With the straps of the bag unfurled, the user can connect the strap ends to each other behind the neck of the user (or, if there is one long strap, around the neck of the user and then re-connected to the bag), such that the remainder of the bag hangs from the user's neck presenting a portion of the bag to collect falling debris, and a bib surface which rests on the chest (or clothing, etc.) of the user to intercept spillage.
US10479553B2
A nestable pallet includes a deck having opposed side edges and opposed end edges. A plurality of feet extend downward from the deck. The feet are hollow and elongated in a direction parallel to the side edges of the deck. The deck includes openings therethrough that lead into the feet for receiving the feet of an identical nestable pallet nested thereon. A half pallet includes a half deck and a plurality of feet extending downward from the half deck. The feet of the half pallet extend into half of the plurality of feet of the nestable pallet. Optionally, the deck further includes a handle opening having at least one handle wall adjacent the handle opening. A plurality of ribs extend upward from the handle wall.
US10479550B2
A crack-propagation line is separate from a seal joining two shells of a confectionery packaging. The confectionery packaging is opened by separating the packaging along the crack-propagation line such that a portion of at least one of the parts of the confectionery packaging is broken to form an opening through which the packaged confectionery can be removed. Consequently, there is provided a method of forming a confectionery packaging and a method of packaging a confectionery product wherein two shells of a confectionery packaging are sealed together and a crack-propagation line is formed in a portion of at least one of the parts of the confectionery packaging. Suitably, the crack-propagation line extends away from the seal joining the two parts. The confectionery packaging is opened by separating at least one of the parts of the confectionery packaging, leaving the seal substantially unaffected. The additional step of forming a separate crack-propagation line rather than intending the confectionery packaging to be opened by separating the two parts through the seal provides improved opening characteristics.
US10479549B2
A carton for holding at least one article. The carton comprises a plurality of panels comprising a bottom panel, a front panel, a back panel, and a top panel and a plurality of end flaps for closing an end of the carton. A dispenser comprises a dispenser panel pivotably connected to at least one panel of the plurality of panels. The dispenser panel comprises a front portion comprising at least a portion of the front panel and as swing arm foldably connected to the front portion and comprising at least a portion of at least one end flap of the plurality of end flaps. The dispenser panel is moveable between a closed position and an open position allowing access to the interior of the carton. The dispenser comprises locking features for engaging the front panel and locking the dispenser panel in the open position.
US10479540B2
An adjustable tunnel for a bagging machine that enables a variety of bag sizes to be fitted to the tunnel is disclosed. The adjustable tunnel has a height adjustable overhead panel, an adjustable width base, a first and second side panel, a first and as second intermediate panel, and a surface tensioning assembly.
US10479536B2
A method and apparatus for collecting and storing urine comprises a collecting funnel and collection tank. The funnel has a valve that opens flow of urine begins and closes once the flow stops based on a flow sensor. The flow time of urine is recorded and used to regulate the evacuation and inert gas filling of a head space in the collection container once the urine is collected. The inert gas protects the urine from oxidation so that degradation is minimized while in the collection container. A similar control can be exercised when a bottle is filled with urine from the collection container, wherein head space in the bottle is filled with inert gas for oxidation protection to form a finished package. The head space of finished package can be evacuated to minimize degradation of the urine once the urine is accessed an initial time in the finished package.
US10479535B2
A deployment and aiming device of an instrument comprises: a first support, a second support to receive the instrument, N mandrels, N being an integer number greater than or equal to 1, positioned around the first support, each of the N mandrels rotationally mobile relative to the first support about a mandrel axis ZN intersecting the mandrel, N linear elements, each of the N linear elements cooperating with one of the N mandrels, each of the N linear elements having first and second ends, wherein the first end of the N linear elements is fixed in the mandrel with which it cooperates at a fixing point, wherein the second end of the N linear elements is linked to the second support, such that a rotation of the mandrel about its axis ZN generates a displacement of the fixing point.
US10479530B2
An aircraft high-lift device comprising a kinematic chain connected to flaps, the kinematic chain comprising a plurality of shafts connected by coupling systems. This high-lift device comprises at least one differentiated coupling system different from the non-differentiated coupling systems, the differentiated coupling system being configured to be coupled to an adapter and comprising at least one poka-yoke feature. Another subject of the disclosure is an aircraft which comprises at least one high-lift device.
US10479529B2
A method and apparatus for holding a panel. A rigid frame is secured on an aircraft on a rework area on the aircraft. A carrier is attached to the rigid frame. The panel is held on the carrier and the carrier moves the panel about a plurality of axes. The panel moves with the carrier such that the panel has a desired position relative to a rework opening in the rework area. The panel is attached to the aircraft while the panel is held in the desired position relative to the rework opening.
US10479526B2
Systems, devices, and methods for impacting, by a small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV), a net having at least three sides; and converting the kinetic energy of the SUAV into at least one of: elastic potential energy of one or more tensioned elastic cords connected to at least one corner of the net, gravitational potential energy of a frame member connected to at least one corner of the net, rotational kinetic energy of the frame member connected to at least one corner of the net, and elastic potential energy of the frame member connected to at least one corner of the net.
US10479525B2
A system includes a turbo pump configured to convert a tank compressed gas or an engine compressed gas into at least one of electrical power, hydraulic power, or pneumatic power. The system also includes a storage tank configured to store the tank compressed gas. The system also includes a bleed line configured to port the engine compressed gas from the gas turbine engine to the turbo pump. The system also includes a propellant selector valve having an off position in which the turbo pump is prevented from receiving either the tank compressed gas or the engine compressed gas, a tank position in which the tank compressed gas from the storage tank is ported through the propellant selector valve to the turbo pump, and an engine position in which the engine compressed gas from the bleed line is ported through the propellant selector valve to the turbo pump.
US10479512B2
A heating element for in-flight de-icing of aircraft is disclosed. The heating element includes a carbon fiber material that is designed to be arranged on a component of an aircraft. The carbon fiber material includes at least two electrical contacts for connecting to an electrical wiring system, and at least one insulation layer for electrical insulation.
US10479497B2
A proprotor system for a tiltrotor aircraft having helicopter and airplane flight modes includes a yoke having a plurality of blade arms each having an inboard pocket with an outboard surface. Each of a plurality of bearing assemblies is disposed at least partially within one of the inboard pockets with each bearing assembly including a shear bearing and a centrifugal force bearing having an integral shoe with an outboard surface. Each of a plurality of inboard beams is disposed at least partially between one of the centrifugal force bearings and one of the shear bearings. Each of a plurality of proprotor blades is coupled to one of the inboard beams. The integral shoes are coupled to the yoke such that there is a spaced apart relationship between the outboard surfaces of the integral shoes and the outboard surfaces of the pockets to prevent centrifugal force load transfer therebetween.
US10479494B2
A rotorcraft tail rotor comprising at least two blade elements, each blade element being suitable for pivoting about a collective pitch variation axis Z in order to vary the collective pitch of each blade element of the tail rotor, each blade element including at least one compensation weight comprising a projection emerging substantially perpendicularly to a main inertia axis of the blade element, the main inertia axis being parallel to a longitudinal direction of the blade element. In the invention, the tail rotor is wherein the compensation weight includes a deformable portion that is movable relative to the projection in a plane P that is parallel to the main inertia axis of the blade element.
US10479490B2
A system for video imaging and photographing using an autonomous aerial platform. The system may be a quad rotor system using electrically powered propellers. The aerial platform may be commanded by the user to follow an object of interest. The aerial platform may have multiple configurations for its thrust units such that they are clear of the field of view of the imaging device in a first configuration, such that they protect the imaging device during landing in a second configuration, and that allows for efficient storage in a stowed configuration.
US10479486B2
The invention relates to an aircraft undercarriage having a leg (2) pivotally mounted on a structure of the aircraft to pivot about a pivot axis (X1) between a deployed position and a retracted position, the undercarriage including a foldable brace (3a, 3b) comprising two hinged-together elements, one of which is hinged to the leg and the other of which is hinged to the structure of the aircraft, in such a manner that when the leg is in the deployed position, the two brace elements are locked together in a substantially aligned position, the undercarriage also being provided with a rotary drive actuator (10) having an outlet shaft acting on one of the elements of the foldable brace in order to cause the leg to pivot between its two positions. The drive actuator is pivotally mounted on the structure of the aircraft to pivot about an axis of rotation (X3) of the outlet shaft, the drive actuator having a casing (12) connected by a reaction rod (13) to the leg in order to take up the torque developed by the drive actuator when driving the undercarriage.
US10479484B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling aircraft flight control surfaces are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a flight control surface controller to move a control surface of an aircraft to a target position via at least one of a first actuator or a second actuator associated with the control surface based on a command input received by the flight control surface controller. The flight control surface controller to: obtain a flight characteristic of the aircraft; compare the flight characteristic to a flight characteristic threshold; in response to a first comparison result, cause the first actuator to move the control surface to the target position based on the command input without moving the second actuator; and in response to a second comparison result, cause the first actuator and the second actuator to move the control surface to the target position based on the command input.
US10479483B2
Pitch control assembly and propeller blade assembly having a spider hub are disclosed. The spider hub includes a hub and a set of arms spaced circumferentially about the hub and projecting radially from the hub, wherein the set of arms are configured to receive a set of blades such that a blade root of a blade is rotationally mountable into an arm included in the set of arms, a crosshead located within the hub and axially moveable relative to the hub, a torque tube located in the arm and extending into the hub, wherein a pitch angle of the blade can be adjusted by axially moving the crosshead to rotate the torque tube to effect a corresponding rotation of the blade.
US10479477B2
In one aspect, there is an engagement member for splicing a spar assembly in an aircraft wing including a joining portion having a first attachment for connecting to a first spar and a second attachment surface for connecting to a second spar; and a rib post extending from the joining portion and disposed between the first attachment surface and the second attachment surface. In an embodiment, the rib post is integral to the joining portion and is configured to couple with a rib web.
US10479461B1
A wakeboat has a hull, the hull forming a wake when moving forward in the water, with a left quiet region and a right quiet region in the wake. The hull may exhibit rotation around its yaw axis which affects the quiet regions in the wake. Yaw rotation may be measured via one or more sensors. Yaw measurement may be used to control the hull and quiet regions. A trim tab is supported by the hull at the stern of the hull. The trim tab comprises a primary subtab and a secondary subtab. One or more actuators may be optionally included to reposition the trim tab more into, or more out of, the water to create a surf left and/or surf right configuration. Other systems and methods are also provided.
US10479458B2
An example inflatable paddle board includes an inflatable stand-up board chamber. The example inflatable paddle board also includes a curve-shaped front hull chamber at least partially overhanging at least a front portion of the inflatable stand-up board chamber. The example inflatable paddle board also includes a tent covering between the inflatable stand-up board chamber and the curve-shaped front hull chamber.
US10479452B2
A tow body arrangement for a towable device in a sonar system includes a bridle having a front for connecting to a first tow cable and back for connecting to a second tow cable. The tow body arrangement also includes a tow body rotatably connected to the bridle between the front and back of the bridle. The tow body is shaped to generate hydrodynamic forces tending to rotate the tow body perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the bridle.
US10479451B2
A retractable anchor fixture for accessories is described. The retractable anchor fixture is adapted for being movably disposed in a surface aperture in a surface and includes a fixture body, a fixture base extending from the fixture body, the fixture base including a stopper portion adapted for abutting an edge of the surface aperture, a first aperture defined by the fixture body, the first aperture being adapted to receive therethrough a portion of an anchor for anchoring an accessory to the anchor fixture, and an anchor chamber defined by the fixture body and communicating with the first aperture. An anchor fixture system including a retractable anchor fixture is also described.
US10479450B2
The present invention provides a sealing device for an opening. The device includes a body that has a first side and a second side. A passageway is formed through the body such that the passageway has a first end adjacent to the first side and a second end that is adjacent to the second side. A sealing member is provided that includes an outer gasket and an inner gasket. The outer gasket is positioned adjacent the first side and the inner gasket is positioned adjacent the second side. A seal connector connects the inner gasket and the outer gasket and the seal connector passes through the passageway. In this way, the inner gasket and the outer gasket are mechanically attached to the ring. The sealing device is configured for use in such applications as sealing the cargo opening on the deck of a kayak.
US10479449B2
A watercraft is made of at least two inflatable members, each being made of a drop-stitch which provides strength and stiffness comparable to a solid material. Air pressures of twenty to thirty pounds are possible with drop-stitch material. Using near net shape structures, a cockpit is formed by stacking one inflatable member on top of the other. The two members are separately inflatable and bound together adhesively or with heat welding or tacking. Advantageously, the watercraft can function as both a board type watercraft or as a boat, capable of being paddled while standing up, or motored with an outboard motor.
US10479443B2
Disclosed is an energy harvesting power-assist system and method for human powered light vehicles. The power-assist system comprises a drive mechanism, one or more motor/generators and a high capacity storage device. The system continuously harvests and stores energy which is converted to motion by the motors, providing additional power to the user's pedaling. A controller determines the amount of pedal assist based on a user's preset value, and manages the charge and discharge of the high capacity storage device. As such, the system does not require any other external energy source, and the storage device never needs external charging under the described usage cases.
US10479442B2
A vehicle operable by muscle force and/or pedaling force including an electric drive, a control unit for actuating the electric drive, a crankshaft drive; a first detection device for detecting a cycle time across a predefined crank angle, a second detection device for detecting a force applied by a driver; and a third detection device for detecting a first time during which the force applied by the driver lies above a threshold value, or a second time during which the force applied by the driver lies below the threshold value, and the control unit is configured to calculate a quotient of the first time and the cycle time, or a quotient of the second time and the cycle time, or a quotient of the first time and the second time, and the control unit is further configured to control the electric drive as a function of the calculated quotient.
US10479426B2
A rubber crawler including: an endless belt shaped rubber belt; a main cord layer that is disposed within the rubber belt, that is configured by plural main cords extending along a crawler peripheral direction and arranged side-by-side in a crawler width direction, and that is formed with an overlapping portion where both end, sides in the crawler peripheral direction overlap one another in a crawler thickness direction; and a stretching and contracting portion that is formed at the overlapping portion of the main cords, and is capable of stretching and contracting more in the crawler peripheral direction than other portions of the main cords, wherein the stretching and contracting portion includes a curved portion where the main cords are curved with an amplitude in the crawler width direction as viewed along the crawler thickness direction.
US10479425B2
A fifth wheel hitch is shown and described. The fifth wheel hitch may include a base frame configured to be secured to a load bed of a towing vehicle, a trolley operatively engaged with the base frame, the trolley adapted to move along the base frame between first and second positions, and a cam member attached with the base frame, the cam member having a cam path. The fifth wheel hitch may also include a cam follower coupled with the trolley, the cam follower operatively engaged with the cam path, and a fifth wheel head pivotally coupled with the trolley, where the trolley is moved between the first and second positions in response to pivoting of the fifth wheel head.
US10479424B2
A tool storage device used in a vehicle includes a first member storing tools and made of a first material, and a second member receiving the first member to be arranged below a vehicle floor and having a plate shape extending along a floor surface of the vehicle floor, the second member made of a second material different from the first material.
US10479417B1
A vehicle, such as a pickup truck, includes a bed pillar and a tailgate pivotally engaging the bed pillar. A bumper includes a body secured to the bed pillar, a lever pivotally mounted to the body and having a pad, and a spring biasing the pad into contact with the tailgate in a closed position. The lever may pivot to push the tailgate rearward.
US10479413B1
A sill assembly for a vehicle includes an energy-absorbing region and a force-spreading region. The energy-absorbing region is elongated in a fore-aft direction and includes an inboard subregion and an outboard subregion. The outboard subregion is arranged outboard of and proximate to the inboard subregion. The force-spreading region is elongated in the fore-aft direction and is arranged outboard of and proximate to the energy-absorbing region and spreads force from outboard loading to the energy-absorbing region. Along the fore-aft direction, the force-spreading region has greater inboard compressive strength than the outboard subregion, and the outboard subregion has greater compressive strength than the inboard subregion.
US10479406B2
A motor vehicle assembly includes a front end module, a front suspension and a SORB structure connected to the front end module and the front suspension. That SORB structure includes a cross member, a first crush horn, a second crush horn, a first support bracket and a second support bracket.
US10479401B2
A power steering system including a sensor arranged or located in the steering system. The sensor detects an acoustic vibration or an acceleration signal in the steering system during a change in the steering angle and generates a sensor signal representing the vibration or the acceleration signal. A control unit receives the sensor signal and compares the sensor signal with a threshold value to detect a fault state; for example when the sensor signal is larger than the threshold value.
US10479393B2
A steering device of a vehicle, the steering device includes: a column housing supported by a vehicle body; a column tube supported to be movable with respect to the column housing in an axial direction; and a pressing mechanism interposed between the column tube and the column housing to press the column tube. The pressing mechanism includes: an abutment member that abuts against an outer surface of the column tube; a biasing member that is interposed between the abutment member and the column housing so as to bias the abutment member in a direction toward the column tube; and a shim member that is interposed between the biasing member and the abutment member and includes a supporting portion abutting against the biasing member, and a pressing portion abutting against the abutment member in a region shifted from the supporting portion.
US10479388B2
Exemplary embodiments are generally directed to shopping carts and associated systems and methods. Exemplary embodiments of the shopping cart include a shopping cart body and a plurality of wheels supporting the shopping cart body. Exemplary embodiments of the shopping cart include a receiver configured to detect a position of the shopping cart relative to a range of a network or an area defined by a geo-fence. Exemplary embodiments of the shopping cart include an electromagnetic generator operatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of wheels. A resistive load can be selectively connected between an input and an output of the electromagnetic generator to restrict rotation of the at least one of the plurality of wheels as the position of the shopping cart detected by the receiver varies between within or outside of the range of the network or the area defined by the geo-fence.
US10479387B2
A transporting device includes a first carrying device and a second carrying device arranged above the first carrying device. The first carrying device is wider than the second carrying device. The first carrying device has first fixing members each arranged in the rear area of the carrying device and on both sides. A handle device for moving the carrying device is fixed to each first fixing members. The second carrying device has second fixing members each arranged in the rear area of the carrying device and on both sides. Each handle device is additionally fixed to the nearest of the two second fixing members. Between the two handle devices an interspace is formed, which is used by the second carrying device of a rear transporting device when the latter is pushed into a transporting device located in front.
US10479386B2
A collapsible cart assembly includes a frame and a pair of supports. Each of the supports is pivotally coupled to the frame. Each of the supports is selectively positioned in a first position having each of the supports extending away from the frame. Each of the supports is selectively positioned in a second position having each of the supports resting against the frame. A base is pivotally coupled to the frame. The base is selectively positioned in a deployed position having the base being oriented perpendicular with respect to the frame. In this way the frame, supports and the base defines a cart. The base is selectively positioned in a folded position having the base being oriented collinear with the frame. A plurality of boxes is each of the boxes is removably coupled between the pair of supports. Each of the boxes may contain objects for transporting the objects in the cart.
US10479380B2
A hazardous event alert system for a train includes a sensor, a communication device, a positioning system, and a computer. The sensor is positioned on or associated with the train and configured to sense or monitor at least one parameter or condition. The computer is programmed or configured to determine that a hazardous event occurred based at least partially on data generated by the at least one sensor, determine or receive the location or position of the at least a portion of the train from the at least one positioning system, generate a hazardous event notification based at least partially on the at least one condition and the location or position of the at least a portion of the train, and communicate the hazardous event notification to at least one of a back office system and at least one remote server associated with at least one specified entity.
US10479378B2
Methods, devices and apparatuses pertaining to aberrant driver classification and reporting are described. A method may involve receiving a message from a user of a first vehicle, the message indicating an instance of aberrant driving of a second vehicle. The method may also involve determining that the instance has occurred using one or more classifiers. The method may further involve collecting information of the second vehicle and generating a warning message based on the information.
US10479375B2
In general, techniques are described for autonomously performing default operations. A vehicle comprising a processor and a memory may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may determine, while currently operating autonomously, a current context in which the vehicle is operating autonomously. The memory may store the current context. The processor may further determine, while currently operating autonomously and based on the current context, one of a plurality of operations to perform when the vehicle is unable to continue to operate autonomously, and unable to transfer control of the vehicle to an occupant, and perform the determined one of the plurality of operations.
US10479372B2
Disclosed herein are a vehicle control apparatus and a control method thereof. The vehicle control apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive a current yaw rate value, a current steering angle value, and a current lateral acceleration value detected by a detection device, an estimator configured to obtain an estimated lateral acceleration value of lateral acceleration estimation model information on the basis of the received current yaw rate value and current steering angle value, a determiner configured to determine that the current lateral acceleration value is abnormal when the received current lateral acceleration value is not equal to the estimated lateral acceleration value of the lateral acceleration estimation model information, and a controller configured to receive the current yaw rate value, the current steering angle value, and the current lateral acceleration value, deliver an estimation command to the estimator, and deliver a determination command to the determiner.
US10479370B2
A system for authorizing a user to operate a vehicle comprises first and second image capturing devices disposed inside and outside the vehicle to capture first and second images of the user, respectively; an identification device to compare the first image with a first stored user image, generate a first output, and upload the first image to the database as a second stored user image if a matching degree of the first image with the first stored user image is greater than a first threshold. The identification device further compares the second image with the second stored user image and generates a second output if a matching degree of the second image and the second stored user image is larger than a second threshold. The system further comprises first and second operation execution devices to perform first and second vehicle operations upon the first and second outputs, respectively.
US10479366B2
Disclosed is a gear shift control method of a Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) vehicle. The gear shift control method includes a gear shift start determination step of determining whether a kick down shift, a biaxial shift determination step of determining, when the kick down shift is started, whether the gear shift is a biaxial shift; a clutch torque control step of uniformly decreasing torque of a release-side clutch and uniformly increasing torque of a connection-side clutch to synchronize revolutions per minute of a target gear input shaft with increasing revolutions per minute of an engine, a clutch synchronization determination step of determining whether the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft is synchronized with the revolutions per minute of the engine by the clutch torque control, and a gear shift performing step of performing gear shift control for engaging the target gear.
US10479365B2
An electronic control unit controls a motor so that a torque applied to an input shaft does not exceed an upper limit torque. The electronic control unit sets so as to restrict the upper limit torque from a first torque to a second torque smaller than the first torque, and then return the upper limit torque to the first torque more gradually when a first condition that a driver is assumed to have felt a decrease in driving force output to driving wheels is met before the upper limit torque is returned than when the first condition is not met.
US10479360B1
A system, method, and apparatus includes management of coasting during operation of a vehicle equipped with a predictive cruise control system.
US10479356B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a road segment. A set of features associated with the road segment can be determined based at least in part on data captured by one or more sensors of a vehicle. A level of similarity between the road segment and each of a set of road segment types can be determined by comparing the set of features to features associated with each of the set of road segment types. The road segment can be classified as a road segment type based on the level of similarity. Scenario information associated with the road segment can be determined based on the classified road segment type.
US10479351B2
Disclosed is a downshift control method for a hybrid DCT vehicle. The method includes: determining, by a controller, whether a downshift is desired while a vehicle travels on a slope having equal to or more than a predetermined reference gradient; comparing, by the controller, a motor speed with a desired shift stage input shaft speed, and selectively performing either a forward control step of increasing a motor torque in a forward direction to increase the motor speed in the forward direction or a negative control step of increasing the motor torque in a negative direction to increase the motor speed in the negative direction. Thus, it is possible to reduce the backward sliding of the vehicle by suppressing the motor speed from unnecessarily increasing and rapidly finishing the downshift.
US10479350B2
A method is provided to control a hybrid powertrain, comprising a combustion engine; a gearbox with an input shaft connected to the combustion engine and an output shaft; a first planetary gear connected to the input shaft a second planetary gear connected to the first planetary gear; first and second electrical machines respectively connected to the first and second planetary gears; first gear pair connected with the first planetary gear and the output shaft; and second gear pair connected with the second planetary gear and the output shaft. The method comprises: a) engaging gears corresponding to the first gear pair and to the second gear pair; and b) connecting a second sun wheel, arranged in the second planetary gear and a second planetary wheel carrier with each other, with the use of a second coupling device.
US10479347B2
A method of protecting the high voltage DC bus of a hybrid vehicle as well as to a hybrid vehicle and controller configured to implement the method. The method involves detecting a plurality of requests to start the vehicle and, in response to at least the first request, precharging and energizing the high voltage DC bus without starting the engine. When one or more further requests are detected the engine is started and the high voltage DC bus is energized if each of the further requests is detected within a respective predetermined time interval from the preceding request. Starting the engine provides an audible feedback to the driver that the vehicle is ready for operation, thereby preventing overheating of the precharging circuit.
US10479344B2
A method for operating a vehicle drivetrain (1) having a drive machine (2), an output (3) and a gearbox (4) with the gearbox (4) arranged in power flow between the drive machine (2) and the output (3) includes opening, in the presence of a demand for activation of a sailing operating function of the vehicle drivetrain (1) and a simultaneously activated engine start-stop function, a positively engaging shift element (F) while the drive machine (2) is left both decoupled from the output (3) and shut down.
US10479334B2
A vehicle brake system includes a brake control device, a vehicle acceleration sensor, and a trailer brake controller. The trailer brake controller outputs an initial trailer brake torque demand based on an input received from the brake control device and adjusts the initial trailer brake torque demand to converge a signal from the vehicle acceleration sensor to an expected negative acceleration value correlated with the input from the brake control device.
US10479323B2
A vehicle wiper device and vehicle wiper device control method are provided that are capable of changing a position of a wiping range of a wiper arm in a manner that is less distracting.When a switch for an enlarged wiping operation has been switched ON, a microcomputer 58 performs control to change the position of a wiping range by starting rotation of an output shaft of a second motor 12 in a predetermined direction when a rotation angle of an output shaft of a first motor 11 has reached an angle corresponding to a position within a predetermined range in the vicinity of one out of a upper return position P1P or a lower return position P2P. Accordingly, when a front passenger seat side wiper blade 36 changes direction at either the upper return position P1P or the lower return position P2P, a front passenger seat side wiper arm 35 begins to extend, and the position of a wiping range of the front passenger seat side wiper blade 36 is moved upward on a front passenger seat side.
US10479322B2
An arrangement to reduce refreezing of meltable snow includes a wiper arm configured to wipe the meltable snow from an ambient-facing surface of a window positioned on a vehicle. The arrangement also includes a sensor coupled to the wiper arm that is configured to gather and transmit a parameter on the vehicle and environment. The arrangement also includes a processor that is configured to receiving the parameter, determining refreezability of the meltable snow based on the parameter, and defining an action to be performed by the wiper arm.
US10479315B2
An airbag (1) including two opposing side walls (3) a lower wall (4) and an upper wall (5) forming an inflation opening (2) and a front wall (6). The airbag (1) is formed by sections of a one-part cut fabric (7). The upper wall (5) or the lower wall (4) is formed by two sections (8) of the cut fabric (7) along a connection (9), wherein the cut fabric (7) is folded and only the upper wall (5) or only the lower wall (4) is formed from two sections (8) and from the inflation opening (2) one connection (9) of the one-part cut fabric (7) extends toward the front wall (6). The one-part cut-fabric (7) forms a fitting section (10) for a gas generator. In a flatly extended state the fitting section (1) is adjacent to the two sections (8) forming lower wall (4) or the upper wall (5).
US10479312B2
A side air bag device is described which is disposed in a space between a vehicle body and a back seat and for which rigidity of attachment to a vehicle body member is improved. The side air bag device provided between a vehicle body and a back seat includes: a base member including a base storage configured to store an air bag and an inflator and a base attachment portion attached to the vehicle body; and a retainer member configured to hold the base storage from a vehicle back side. The retainer member extends from a portion holding the base storage while being bent along the shape of the vehicle body. The retainer member is attached to the vehicle body together with the base attachment portion while being overlapped with the base attachment portion.
US10479304B2
A capacitive detection device and capacitive detection system for use in a vehicle interior includes at least one electrically conductive wire, at least partially attached to a component of the vehicle interior, and at least one electrically conductive layer that is arranged in close proximity to the at least one electrically conductive wire, compared to a potential minimum distance to a vehicle occupant, wherein a galvanic connection between the at least one electrically conductive layer and the at least one electrically conductive wire is avoided.
US10479298B2
Disclosed herein are a method and a system for automatic and intelligent determination and usage of internal reserve energy in an energy system associated with a vehicle. The system processes pre-configured inputs and inputs collected in real time, generates a distribution optimization profile which possesses information on values of different control parameters required to keep selected components operational, by considering energy availability in the energy storage system. Further, the system distributes energy to selected components, based on the distribution optimization profile. Further, the system verifies whether the selected distribution optimization profile matches a safe use profile and if not, automatically overrides settings associated with the distribution optimization profile to ensure safe driving of the vehicle, with at least a minimum comfort level.
US10479292B2
An interior trim element for a motor vehicle, comprising a main part, more particularly a trough-shaped main part, that defines an interior space, and comprising at least one clip element, wherein the at least one clip element is pivotally hinged to the main part (2) via at least one film hinge, wherein the film hinge is formed on a shoulder created on an edge portion (4a) of the main part that partially delimits the interior space, the shoulder being offset with respect to the free end of the edge portion.
US10479290B2
A container assembly for a vehicle having a container receiving base having one of a catch and a catch receiving space and a removable container selectively disposed on the container receiving base, the removable container having a container body defining an item receiving space, and a handle pivotally connected to the container body and being movable between a locked and an unlocked position, the handle having an other one of the catch and the catch receiving space, the other one of the catch and the catch receiving space being movable with the handle, where in the locked position, the catch is received in the catch receiving space, preventing separation of the container from the base and in the unlocked position, the catch is out of the catch receiving space, allowing separation of the container from the base. A removable container and a vehicle incorporating the container assembly are also disclosed.
US10479283B2
A rack assembly to be selectively coupled to a riding lawn mower, the rack assembly including a rack configured to have a forward and a rearward edge, one or more support members configured to extend forward from the rack proximate the forward edge and to be at least partially received in a riding lawn mower frame, a stability support configured to extend downward and forward from the rack proximate the rearward edge and to rest upon a trailer hitch mechanism of the riding lawn mower frame.
US10479282B2
An accessory mount mountable to a roof of a vehicle with the use of an existing brake light opening. The accessory mount has a horizontal mounting surface and a vertical mounting surface. Accessories, such as lights, may be mounted on the mounting surfaces. A shaped clamp is placed through the existing brake light opening and when rotates the horizontal mounting surface tightly against the roof of the vehicle securely attaching the accessory mount to the vehicle without the need for making any additional holes in the vehicle.
US10479278B2
A vehicle step apparatus including a first extending and retracting device having a first mounting bracket, a first step bracket, and a first arm assembly configured to drive the first step bracket to move between a first extending position and a first retracting position; a second extending and retracting device comprising a second mounting bracket, a second step bracket, and a second arm assembly configured to drive the second step bracket to move between a second extending position and a second retracting position; a step mounted on the first and second step bracket; a first permanent magnet direct current motor mounted on the first mounting bracket and coupled with the first arm assembly to drive the first arm assembly; and a second permanent magnet direct current motor mounted on the second mounting bracket and coupled with the second arm assembly to drive the second arm assembly.
US10479277B2
A rearview mirror assembly includes a main housing defining an exterior surface, an interior, and an open side, the exterior surface having a recess therein. The assembly also includes a control module coupled within the interior of the housing, a mirror coupled over the open end of the housing, and a communication module. The communication module includes an antenna electrically coupled with the control module and an antenna housing at least partially enclosing the antenna and coupled within the recess of the exterior surface of the main housing.
US10479272B2
A vehicle driver notification assembly for notifying a driver when to drive forward includes a housing and a control circuit mounted in the housing. A sensor array is mounted on the housing and is electrically coupled to the control circuit. The sensor array detects parameters that indicate when a vehicle may proceed forward. The parameters include when a mass in front of a vehicle moves away from the vehicle and when the sensor array receives a proceed signal from a requisite traffic signaling device. An alert is electrically coupled to the control circuit and is turned on to provide an emission detectable by a person when the sensor array detects the parameters that allow the vehicle to proceed forward.
US10479267B2
A light assembly for a motor vehicle according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a light source, and a lens arrangement configured to direct light from the light source in a first direction toward a running board and a second direction away from the vehicle. A method is also disclosed.
US10479266B2
A multifunctional lamp unit includes a side turn indicator including a housing for at least one light conductor with at least one illuminant, and a projection unit. A rearview device including the multifunctional lamp unit, a method of operating the rearview device, and a vehicle including the rearview device are also described.
US10479263B2
The present invention relates to a lighting module for a motor vehicle, the lighting module comprising: an optical means, a support for the optical means, at least one light source housed in the lighting module. The light source is removable and includes light emitting means, a mechanical support for the light emitting means, movement means for moving the optical means, which are arranged so as to allow the optical means to be moved between a locked position for holding the light source on the support for the optical means and an unlocked position for removing the light source from the lighting module.
US10479259B1
A composite design bunk rail system comprises low coefficient of friction adjustable slides with a shock absorbing base, simplifying and precluding damages from loading and handling vehicles, a supporting structure, and adjustable support frames.
US10479253B2
A vehicle mounted loading and unloading apparatus is provided which has a stationary mounting rack removably attachable to a roof of a vehicle and a top rack that includes a container for storing cargo, such as bales of hay. An adjustment mechanism is provided to move the top rack relative to the mounting rack from a transporting position to a loading/unloading position in which the top rack is lowered behind the vehicle to facilitate loading cargo. A movable shelf may be provided on the top rack for assisting with loading and unloading cargo. The shelf is slidable between a rear end of the top rack and a front end of the top rack for placing the cargo.
US10479251B2
Provided is a leg-rest for a vehicle which is switchable at the front lower end of a seat between a receiving position in which the leg-rest is folded on the seat and a deploying position in which the leg-rest is drawn out to support the calves of a passenger, the leg-rest including: a support panel of which the front end is rotatably connected to an extending slider which is folded at the receiving position and unfolded at the deploying position; a tilt link which is spaced apart from a connection point between the support panel and the extending slider so that one end thereof is rotatably connected to the support panel; a slider which is rotatably connected with the other end of the tilt link and tilts up or down the support panel when sliding; and a tilt motor which slides the slider.
US10479249B2
A seat adjuster, includes a brake acting between fixed and adjustable parts so the adjustable part is blockable in positions on the fixed part and releasable by a release element, an adjustment element acting on the release element, selectively adjusting the adjustable part in two opposite directions, and a locking element automatically engaging and interlockingly locking the adjustable part to the fixed part when the adjustment element is not actuated and automatically disengaging when the adjustment element is actuated, disengagement of the locking element and adjustment of the adjustable part being effected by moving the adjustment element out of neutral position, the locking element having a toothed segment for meshing with a toothed ring coupled to the adjustable part so the locking element is movable in the radial direction of the toothed ring between locking and release positions, in which the locking element meshes with or moves away from the toothed ring.
US10479248B2
A vehicle seat including: a surface cover covering a surface of the vehicle seat; a pad; a shape change unit including an air bag configured to expand and contract and configured to change a shape of the surface of the vehicle seat; and a buffer member provided between the air bag and the surface cover, wherein the buffer member is configured to be deformed elastically by expansion and contraction of the air bag.
US10479247B2
A vehicle seat including: an elastic support body including a seat pad; and an adjacent member adjacent to the seat pad, wherein a gap is provided between the elastic support body and the adjacent member and extends toward an inner area of the seat in which a frame material is provided, and wherein the elastic support body has a protruding portion which protrudes between the adjacent member and the frame material and is configured to block the gap.
US10479245B2
A seat assembly includes a seat back frame, a support and a bracket subassembly. The bracket subassembly connects the seat back frame to the support. The bracket subassembly includes a first bracket having a first attachment feature and a second bracket having a second attachment feature wherein the first and second attachment features engage to lock the bracket assembly around the support. A method of securing a seat back frame to a support is also disclosed.
US10479240B2
A seat element that includes a supporting structure, a padding configured to serve as a support for a user, and a ventilation system having at least one fan and a duct defining an air passageway placing the fan and the padding in communication. The duct has a first member and a second member fixed to one another, the first member being arranged between the supporting structure and the padding.
US10479239B2
A seat element includes a supporting structure, padding resting on the supporting structure and configured to serve as a support for a user, and a ventilation system having at least one fan and at least one duct placing the padding and the fan in communication. The duct is formed of a flexible material which preferably comprises a foam of polyolefin and/or ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) and/or acrylonitrile butadiene (NBR).
US10479237B2
A rebound bar adapted for being supported between a child safety seat and a backrest of a car seat is disclosed. The rebound bar includes a main body and at least one shock absorbing portion. The main body is connected to one of a seat portion and a base portion of the child safety seat. The at least one shock absorbing portion combined with the main body for absorbing an impact from the backrest. The at least one shock absorbing portion can produce deformation when the rebound bar receives the impact from the backrest. Therefore, it can effectively reduce risk of injury to a child. Furthermore, a child safety seat assembly having the aforementioned rebound bar is disclosed.
US10479232B2
A passenger support includes vehicle seat having a seat base mounted to a track for sliding the seat base longitudinally. A sliding motion controller is provided. The seat base is movable from a slid-back configuration to a forward-seating configuration when the sliding motion controller is activated.
US10479228B2
The invention relates to a position-determining device for determining a position of a vehicle seat inside a vehicle, wherein the position of the vehicle seat in the vehicle can be adjusted along an adjustment direction between a first and at least one second location, comprising a vehicle component and a vehicle seat component, wherein the vehicle component can be arranged in the vehicle as part of a vehicle electronics system, and the vehicle seat component can be arranged in the vehicle seat as part of a vehicle seat electronics system, said vehicle seat component having at least one vehicle seat transmitting/receiving device and said vehicle component having at least two vehicle transmitting/receiving devices. The at least one vehicle seat transmitting/receiving device and the at least one of the vehicle transmitting/receiving devices are configured for a contactless transmission of information and/or energy, wherein the at least two vehicle transmitting/receiving devices are configured to be arranged offset to one another along the adjustment direction.
US10479227B2
A method for adjusting a vehicle seat onboard a vehicle is provided. The method obtains vehicle status data, by a processor communicatively coupled to a plurality of sensors onboard the vehicle; detects a current actuation state of the vehicle seat based on the vehicle status data, by the processor, wherein the current actuation state comprises at least one of a user input actuation state and an emergency actuation state; calculates seat adjustments, by the processor, based on the current actuation state; and actuates the vehicle seat based on the seat adjustments, via an electromagnetic vehicle seat rail device communicatively coupled to the processor.
US10479221B2
A vehicle includes: a battery; an inlet to which a charging connector provided external to the vehicle is connectable; a power receiving device configured to contactlessly receive power from a power transmitting device provided external to the vehicle; a connector electrically connected to the inlet and the power receiving device; and a connector electrically connected to the power receiving device and the battery. Power supplied to the inlet is supplied to the battery via the connector, the power receiving device, and the connector.
US10479214B2
A method and system for controlling air flow is arranged to reduce power consumption of an air blower or an air compressor by controlling air flow, enhance stack performance by preventing stack dry-out that is more likely to occur in a low-flow range, and improve durability of the stack by decreasing frequency of exposure to high voltages.
US10479209B2
A relay device provided in vehicle having a battery, converting control signal formats, and relaying same between: a first communications unit that sends and receives control signals in a first format relating to charging; and second communications unit that supplies DC voltage, is provided in a charging station that charges battery, and sends and receives control signals in a second format relating to charging. The relay device includes: a limiting unit that limits power supplied between charging station and battery, regardless of vehicle side control performed on control signals' basis; an acquisition unit that obtains DC voltage supplied by charging station and obtains the battery's voltage; a determination unit that determines whether the voltage difference between each obtained voltage is less than threshold value; and a release unit that releases the limits by limiting unit if a determination has been made that the voltage difference is less than threshold value.
US10479207B2
An arrangement structure of a wheel drive system comprising a tire wheel and a drive unit for driving the tire wheel, wherein the tire wheel includes a brake part arranged to a hollow space of the tire wheel, the drive unit includes a motor and an inverter for driving the motor, the inverter includes a power module for supplying power to the motor and a bus bar for supplying power supplied from outside the tire wheel to the power module, and the bus bar is arranged to the brake part side than the power module.
US10479180B2
A system and method are provided for hybrid electric internal combustion engine applications in which a motor-generator, a switchable coupling and a torque transfer unit are arranged co-axially-arranged with the front end of the engine crankshaft in the constrained environment in front of an engine in applications such as commercial vehicles, off-road vehicles and stationary engine installations. The motor-generator is preferably laterally offset from the switchable coupling. The switchable coupling is an integrated unit in which a crankshaft vibration damper, an engine accessory drive pulley and a clutch overlap with an axial depth nearly the same as a conventional belt drive pulley and engine damper. The system includes an electrical energy store that receives energy generated by the motor-generator when the coupling is engaged. When the coupling is disengaged, the motor-generator may drive the pulley portion of the clutch-pulley-damper to drive engine accessories using energy returned from the energy store.
US10479177B1
An electrical passenger car, the electrical passenger car including: an electrically driven motor; and wheels, where the wheels include a first wheel, a second wheel, a third wheel, and a fourth wheel, where the first wheel and the second wheel have a radius 20 percent larger than the third wheel and the fourth wheel, where the electrical passenger car includes a total weight, where the electrical passenger car includes a center of gravity designed so that greater than 50% of the total weight will be over the first wheel and the second wheel, where the electrical passenger car is designed to travel for a greater distance for the same axial to wheel friction energy loss than a similar electrical passenger car having wheels of a smaller radius, and where the second wheel width is equal to or less than the third wheel width.
US10479176B2
A door hole seal includes: a sheet body configured to operably couple to a door inner panel for covering an opening on the door inner panel; a synthetic resin film for joining the sheet body to the door inner panel, the synthetic resin film being transparent, the synthetic resin film including: an internal circumferential end which sticks to the sheet body; and an outer circumferential end which sticks to an inner-cabin side of the door inner panel by adhesive; and a sheet separation provided at a distance from the sheet body and between an outer circumferential end of the sheet body and the outer circumferential end of the synthetic resin film, the sheet separation adhering to the synthetic resin film.
US10479171B2
A laminated vehicle glazing is disclosed, the glazing comprising a first glass ply coated with an electrically conductive coating, a second glass ply, an interlayer ply comprising polyvinyl butyral, and a first busbar comprising a conductive foil, wherein the electrically conductive coating comprises a pyrolytically deposited transparent conductive oxide layer and in that the first busbar is in direct contact with both the electrically conductive coating and the interlayer ply. Preferably the pyrolytically deposited transparent oxide layer comprises doped tin oxide and is the outermost layer of the electrically conductive coating. Also disclosed are a vehicle windshield and a train having a power supply at 25 V to 250 V, comprising a laminated vehicle glazing. A method for manufacturing a laminated vehicle glazing is also disclosed.
US10479166B2
A toggle button assembly for a human-machine interface (HMI). The toggle button assembly includes a circuit board. A first switch and a second switch are mounted to the circuit board. A toggle body is rotatable about a toggle body rotation axis. A first switch actuator is between the toggle body and the first switch, and a second switch actuator is between the toggle body and the second switch. Upon actuation of the toggle body from a center position to a first position, the toggle body rotates about the toggle body rotation axis and presses the first switch actuator against the first switch to actuate the first switch. Upon actuation of the toggle body from the center position to a second position, the toggle body rotates about the toggle body rotation axis and presses the second switch actuator against the second switch to actuate the second switch.
US10479165B2
The disclosure relates to a method for operating a filling adapter for filling refrigerant R744 into vehicle air conditioning systems as well as to a corresponding adapter. The adapter comprises mechanical clamping elements actuated by a pneumatically or mechanically controlled clamping piston. The clamping elements are clamped b the clamping system onto specifically designed sections of the vehicle air conditioning system for the filling process and are kept in the clamping position during the filling process. The clamping piston comprises at least two separate piston surfaces to be subjected to the pressure of two different pressurization media, one piston surface being effectively connected to the control pressure of the filling adapter and the other piston surface being effectively connected to the filling pressure of the refrigerant.
US10479163B2
A method for controlling a thermal comfort control system for ride share vehicles includes providing a plurality of occupant seats in a vehicle cabin and controlling a cabin set temperature using a cabin comfort control system configured to adjust a plurality of HVAC functions. At least one thermal comfort parameter is adjusted at a number of the plurality of occupant seats using at least one seat comfort control system. Adjusting the at least one thermal comfort parameter causes the cabin control module to adjust the set temperature of the vehicle cabin.
US10479151B2
A trailer coupling for a motor vehicle including a coupling arm for attaching a trailer or for carrying a load carrier, and including at least one sensor for detecting a deformation, caused by a load engaged on the bearing element, of a bearing element of the trailer coupling, wherein at least one recess is provided on the bearing element for the at least one sensor, wherein the at least one sensor is provided for measuring a spacing of reference surfaces of the at least one recess. The reference surfaces move toward one another or away from one another during a deformation of the bearing element and extend in a transverse manner in relation to a support section of the bearing element which deforms during stress applied by the load and/or are free from a flow of forces through the support section of the bearing element.
US10479145B2
A tire 2 includes: a pair of beads 10 including cores 28; chafers 22, disposed near the beads 10, which are brought into contact with a rim; an inner liner 18 disposed inward of a carcass 32 in an axial direction; and an insulation 20 disposed between the carcass 32 and the inner liner 18 in the axial direction. The chafers 22 include bottom surfaces 22a that are brought into contact with the rim in portions inward of the cores 28 in a radial direction. The insulation 20 includes insulation lower portions 20a disposed between the cores 28 and the bottom surfaces 22a of the chafers 22 in the radial direction. The inner liner 18 includes inner liner lower portions 18a disposed between the cores 28 and the bottom surfaces 22a of the chafers 22 in the radial direction.
US10479139B2
A wheel bearing apparatus has a seal (8) with a metal core (15) and a sealing member (6). The sealing member (6) has a first side lip (16a), a second side lip (16b) and a third side lip (19c). The first side lip (16a) opposes a metal annulus (17) via an axial gap. The second side lip (16b) is in sliding contact with a base (18), via an axial interference. The third side lip (19a) covers the outer surface of the metal core (15). The tip end of the third side lip (19a) is formed with a vertically flat surface opposing the inner-side surface (4b) of the wheel mounting flange (4, 28), via an axial gap (S1), to form a first labyrinth seal (20). The outer edge of the metal annulus (17) opposes the sealing member (6), via an axial gap, to form a second labyrinth seal (25).
US10479138B2
An electromagnetic wheel assembly includes a spindle that may be rotatably coupled to an axle of a vehicle. A wheel is removably positioned on the spindle. A hub is provided and the spindle is rotatably positioned in the hub. An electromagnet is coupled to the hub. The electromagnet is selectively turned on to magnetically engage the wheel thereby retaining the wheel on the disk. The electromagnet is embedded within the disk. A lock is movably coupled to the spindle. The lock is selectively urged into a locking position to inhibit the wheel from coming off of the spindle when the electromagnet fails. Additionally, the lock is selectively urged into an unlocked position to facilitate the wheel to be removed from the spindle.
US10479137B2
A vehicle wheel is provided which includes a sub air chamber member capable of suppressing a surface deformation amount in case of an action of an internal pressure of the sub air chamber member. A sub air chamber member of a vehicle wheel includes an upper surface member, a lower surface member, and bridge sections causing the upper surface member and the lower surface member to strike on each other. An end-to-end distance of an opening part of a bridge section opening on an upper surface of the upper surface member is set longer than a distance to an end portion of an opening part of another bridge section adjacent thereto. Moreover, the area of the opening parts of the bridge sections opening on the upper surface of the upper surface member is larger than the area of other general parts.
US10479132B2
A binding tool for paper sheets includes: a base member extending in a longitudinal direction; and a plurality of first binding members and second binding members each having a base end portion formed protruding outward in a width direction from the base member and a tip end portion integral with the base end portion and curved inward in the width direction so as to be movable between a binding position where the tip end portions contact each other and an open position where the tip end portions are separated from each other by a prescribed distance. The base end portions are positionally displaced from each other by at least an amount corresponding to a thickness TH of the base end portion in the longitudinal direction when the tip end portions positioned facing each other in the width direction are in contact with each other in the binding position.
US10479130B2
The invention includes a method for forming a card with an embedded three dimensional (3-D) image and the resultant card formed by the method. The method includes forming a first assembly which includes a layer of deformable material and an overlying layer of pattern conforming material. An engraved laminating plate is applied to the deformable layer during an engraving and laminating step applied to the first sub-assembly under predetermined pressure and selected temperature conditions for embossing the deformable layer with a well defined and sharp pattern. Then, a second assembly including a pattern conforming layer is laminated with the first assembly to embed and secure the pattern between the two conformable layers.
US10479125B2
A bookbinding device includes a control unit for calculating set parameter values for a clamper and a processing unit on the basis of thickness on a book body to be bound, and initially setting the clamper and the processing unit in accordance with the set parameter values. The control unit includes an input unit for receiving an input of a reference parameter value for two or more different book body thicknesses; a function generation unit for generating, on the basis of the reference parameter value, a function for calculating a set parameter value that has been adjusted in accordance with the book body thickness; a parameter calculation unit for calculating, on the basis of the book body thickness, the set adjusted parameter value by using the function; and an initial setting unit for initially setting the clamper and the processing unit in accordance with the set adjusted parameter value.
US10479122B2
A method for evaluating performance of a plurality of nozzles of a printing head includes repeatedly operating each of the nozzles to print test marks on a surface of a substrate, each of the test marks printed by that nozzle being printed at a different time. At least once during the repeated operation of each of the nozzles, at least some of the test marks are erased from the surface. The test marks that were printed by that nozzle are inspected for a feature that is indicative of the performance of that nozzle.
US10479116B2
A base material processing apparatus includes first and second edge sensors and a displacement amount calculation part. The first edge sensor acquires a first detection result (R1) by detecting the position of an edge of a base material in a width direction at a first detection position. The second edge sensor acquires a second detection result (R2) by detecting the position of the edge of the base material at a second detection position. The displacement amount calculation part calculates the amount of displacement in the position of the base material in the transport direction or the amount of difference in the transporting speed of the base material on the basis of the first and second detection results (R1, R2). Thus, the amount of displacement in the position or the amount of difference in the transporting speed can be detected without depending on images such as register marks.
US10479114B2
A vacuum table for a wide format printing system, wherein a medium support surface with vacuum holes therein is spaced apart from a bottom plate by a spacer array. The spacer array is formed by an integrally formed spacer structure with a first and a second longitudinal plate positioned between the bottom plate and the medium support surface. These plates comprise a plurality of air flow through-holes as well as a top support edge and a bottom support edge extending equidistantly to one another. A connection element connects the first longitudinal plates and is positioned between the bottom support plane and the top support plane. The use of longitudinal plates allows the spacer to be cheaply and easily produced by punching. The plates further offer the advantage of a low air flow resistance while maintaining a high rigidity of the spacer array.
US10479110B2
In one example, a system for partially dried inkjet media fusers include a plurality of fusers aligned to receive partially dried inkjet media from a printing device, wherein the plurality of fusers each comprise a top roller and a bottom roller to apply pressure to the received partially dried inkjet media, and a finisher to receive the partially dried inkjet media from the plurality of fusers.
US10479107B2
A printer a housing, a printer cover that is rotatable relative to the housing about a first rotary axis, a thermal head configured to print on print medium, a connecting part capable of being connected to and disconnected from the thermal head, and a head cover that is rotatable about a second rotary axis being parallel to the first rotary axis, the head cover pivotally supported at the printer cover, the head cover rotating between a first position at which the head cover closes the connecting part and a second position at which the head cover does not close the connecting part to connect and disconnect the thermal head and the connecting part. The space is defined between the head cover located at the second position and the printer cover. The connecting part is exposed through the space.
US10479099B2
A system includes a cartridge attachment section and a cartridge attachable to the cartridge attachment section. The cartridge includes a board supporting portion supporting a board provided with an electrical interface. The cartridge attachment section includes a slider having a first wall, a second wall and an electrical contact. During insertion of the cartridge, the slider is moved from a second posture where the electrical contact separates from the electrical interface into a first posture where the electrical contact contacts the electrical interface. Upon completion of attachment of the cartridge, the first wall and the second wall are received respectively in a first space and a second space defined between the cartridge and the cartridge attachment section.
US10479096B2
A device for introducing and maintaining a cartridge in a CIJ-type inkjet printer comprises a first support having two lateral sides, a back side and a front opening, this first support able to contain a cartridge and the back side having a fluidic connector. A second support, called the cartridge support, against which a cartridge can be maintained, can be actuated in rotation about a first axis of rotation extending between the two lateral sides of the first support between a position for loading and unloading a cartridge and a position for connecting a cartridge to the fluidic connector. The second support is, in the position for connecting, contained within the first support and comprises at least an opening this is opposite, or in contact, with the fluidic connector of the back side of the first support. An actuator is provided to rotate the second support about the first axis.
US10479090B2
An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording unit, a first ink storage unit, a second ink storage unit, a discharge unit, a first detection unit configured to detect that an amount of the ink stored in the first ink storage unit is below a first predetermined amount, and a second detection unit configured to detect that an amount of the ink stored in the second ink storage unit is below a second predetermined amount. The inkjet recording apparatus further includes a control unit configured to control the discharge operation after the detection by the first detection unit and the detection by the second detection unit based on a detection timing of the first detection unit and a detection timing of the second detection unit.
US10479075B2
A print head substrate includes: a substrate surface including a plurality of printing elements and a plurality of pads disposed along a first side and electrically connected to the printing elements, the substrate surface having an acute angle portion formed by the first side and a second side; and a test element group (TEG) area including a TEG not electrically connected to the printing elements, at least a part of the TEG area being located between the second side and a pad closest to a vertex of the acute angle portion among the pads.
US10479074B2
A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes: a carriage configured to scan in a main scanning direction; a jetting head installed in the carriage, having nozzles arranged in a sub scanning direction intersecting with the main scanning direction, and configured to jet liquid droplets from the nozzles; a conveyer configured to convey the recording medium in the sub scanning direction; and a controller configured to control the carriage, the jetting head and the conveyer. The nozzles form nozzle groups including two nozzle groups adjacent in the sub scanning direction; and the controller is configured to execute a predetermined printing mode in which a pass printing and conveyance of the recording medium in the sub scanning direction are alternately performed. The pass printing causes the carriage to move one time in the main scanning direction while jetting the liquid droplets from the nozzles.
US10479071B2
The present invention relates to a decoration method, for applying a new décor (170) on a surface (2) of an object (1) including an existing décor (120), characterized in that the method comprises the following successive steps: a step a) for measuring at least two identification points (120a, 120b, 120f) of the existing décor (120) applied on the surface (2) of the object (1); a step b) for dynamic correction of localization points (170a, 170b, 170f) of the new décor (170) to be applied on the surface (2) of the object (1), using the identification points (120a, 120b, 120f) measured during the measuring step a); and a step c) for application of the new décor (170) on the surface (2) of the object (1), by using the localization points (170a, 170b, 170f) determined in the dynamic correction step b). The invention also relates to a control system and a decoration machine comprising such a control system.
US10479068B2
There is provided an additive manufacturing system comprising a vertical stage (also known as a z-stage) that moves the object being created along an axis of motion that is not perpendicular to the image plane (non-parallel to the z-axis of the image plane). By moving the build platform, upon which the additively manufactured object is being supported, along a predetermined axis of motion, such as one adapted to the dominant axis of the object design, the additive manufacturing system is capable of making larger objects, shortening build times, improving part resolution, and/or reducing the volume of photocurable material needed, among other benefits.
US10479060B2
A concealable film including 10 to 94% by mass of a crystalline polyamide resin, 1 to 40% by mass of an amorphous polyamide resin and 5 to 50% by mass of titanium oxide, with the proviso that the total content of these is 100% by mass.
US10479059B2
A film comprising the following layers: I. a layer based on a polyamide whose monomer units contain an average of at least 8 carbon atoms, II. an immediately adjacent layer composed of a moulding composition comprising a polyamide as in I. and a copolymer having functional groups is used for the production of a composite with a substrate which comprises PA6, PA66, PA6/66 or PPA, giving secure adhesion.
US10479054B2
The present invention relates to methods for forming a composite product having a patterned surface. A substrate including a porous structure (136), a sheet-form material (134) and a patterned sheet (131) are pressed together to form the composite product. In preferred examples, the patterned sheet is permeable to curable material in the sheet-form material.
US10479048B2
In order to provide a new and improved bonding arrangement, especially for use in an aircraft or spacecraft, which is designed to overcome problems of bonding arrangements under Mode I loading stress and which is designed or configured particularly to create a bond design which is incapable of locally loading the adhesive bond above the peel strength, a bonding arrangement is disclosed with a coating structure, which is split into a plurality of neighboring structural elements spatially separated from each other, and at least one supporting member is provided, which comprises a plurality of recesses receiving the structural elements in operating position.
US10479040B2
In an apparatus and a method for controlling the primary drive of a hydraulically driven fine blanking press, the hydraulic circuit is simplified due to the elimination of hydraulic tubes, and the amount of hydraulic fluid is reduced, while increasing the number of strokes and achieving a simple design for the press.
US10479039B2
A novel briquetting roll having excellent performance such as providing both abrasion resistance and spalling resistance, which can also be manufactured at low cost and in a short period of time, and a method for manufacturing the same, are provided wherein the briquetting roll 1 integrally has an inner layer material 4 and an outer layer material 5, which comprise mutually different materials and are in contact with each other at the respective exterior and interior thereof, and has pockets 6 formed at the outer circumference of the outer layer material 5. A chromium-molybdenum forged steel material is used for the inner layer material 4 and a high-carbon high-speed steel material is used for the outer layer material 5. The outer layer material 5 may be formed on the outside of the inner layer material 4 by a continuous pouring process.
US10479038B2
A juicer cartridge includes a liquid impermeable compartment at least partially surrounding food matter. An information region may be disposed on the liquid impermeable compartment, wherein the information region includes information for controlling at least one pressing parameter for pressing the juicer cartridge, such as a desired pressing speed, force profile, pressing temperature, total pressing stroke, number of pauses, number of press and/or retract cycles, and a distance of a press and/or retract cycle. The juicer cartridge may be used by placing it in the pressing chamber of a juicer that reads information from the information region and presses the juicer cartridge using the information.
US10479028B2
A socket for a prosthetic limb is created by making a cast of a residual limb. Marks can be applied to the interior surface of the cast to indicate the locations of anatomical features of the residual limb. The marked interior surface can be scanned and the scan data can be sent to a master fabrication center. The scan data can be modified and a master can be produced from the modified scan data. The socket can then be formed from the plastic material on the master.
US10479027B1
An edge banding machine, which is adapted for processing a workpiece, includes a base, a slide rail, a positioning pressing wheel set and a pre-milling mechanism. The base has a slide installation seat having an first outer wall and an second outer wall arranged parallel to each other. The slide rail is movably disposed on the slide installation seat. The positioning pressing wheel set is spacedly disposed above the slide rail and the slide rail are arranged apart for clamping the workpiece therebetween. The pre-milling mechanism is fixed to the second outer wall.
US10479021B2
A method of producing a curved plate by additive layer manufacture is provided. The method includes building up the plate layer-by-layer such that a first layer forms a bottom edge of the plate and the plate is additively extended upwards therefrom by subsequent layers such that a last layer forms an opposing top edge of the plate. In this way, spaced, first and second lateral edges of the plate each grow layer-by-layer to extend between respective ends of the bottom and top edges. The plate thus built up arches over from the bottom edge to adopt a curved shape on cross-sections through the plate normal to the bottom edge.
US10479015B2
The invention concerns a method of manufacturing a container in a blowing mould, the blown container having a neck and a bottom aligned along a longitudinal axis and being enclosed within a blowing mould, the blowing mould comprising two side halves which are in contact with each other along a joint plane when the blowing mould is in a closed position, the blown container having at least one transverse dimension in a longitudinal cross-section including the longitudinal axis, characterized in that the method comprises a step of moving apart the two side halves of the blowing mould along a substantially transverse direction, the two side halves being moved apart from the joint plane over an overall distance that is less than the greatest transverse dimension of the blown container and that enables extraction of the blown container from the blowing mould.
US10479010B2
There is provided a metal product having an internal space formed therein, allowing for improvements in the flow of a coolant in the internal space, such as a cooling channel and an increase in cooling efficiency, and a method of manufacturing thereof. The metal product includes a body part having a first space formed therein; a space formation member having a second space formed therein, mounted on the body part to be communicated with the first space; and a finishing part forming an exterior by covering the space formation member in a state in which the space formation member is mounted on the body part.
US10479009B2
A molded vehicle component (10) having a skin (14) and a lower density core (16) formed by a co-injection molding process. In a first phase, a first material for forming the skin of class A surface material is injected into a mold to partially fill the mold cavity (104). Thereafter, in a second phase, a second material is injected into the same cavity (104) to complete filling of the mold cavity (104). The second material can flow only to portions of the part where the first material is still molten and displaces the molten core of the first phase, pushing it away from co-injection gates until the mold cavity is full. The second material is pre-treated with a chemical blowing agent in order to reduce part weight by foaming the core material. The finished co-injection molded part (10) has one material on all visible class A surfaces (14) and a core (16) that is a different, less dense material.
US10479006B2
An injection molding apparatus may include a first mold plate and a second mold plate. The second mold plate may be movable outside an injection molding station defined by these mold plates. The second mold plate may carry parts of type A′ and parts of type B′ molded at the same time within the injection molding station. A transferring mechanism may carry the second mold plate to removing and assembling stations where molded parts A′ are first removed from the second mold plate and next parts A′ are positioned relative molded parts B′, where the molded parts B′ and A′ are finally assembled. Simultaneously other parts A′ and B′ may be molded at the injection molding station using an additional and identical second mold plate. Depending on the application, molded parts A′ and B′ may be made of the same or different materials.
US10478997B2
Described is an apparatus for heating end portions of pipes made of thermoplastic material, comprising an internal heating element, designed to be inserted at least partially inside an end portion of a pipe made of thermoplastic material for heating an inner cylindrical surface of the portion, the heating element comprising at least one infra-red ray radiation unit which has an operating zone designed to face at least partially the inner cylindrical surface, the operating zone extending longitudinally along a predetermined direction, parallel to a central axis of the pipe to be heated.
US10478993B2
A carpentry block is provided to support a remote end of a board or work piece to be cut with a table saw or chop saw. The block has a triangular body which can be positioned on any base to define three different heights to support the remote work piece end. The block can also be positioned on the one end to define a fourth height for work piece support. An extension member can be added to the block to provide additional heights with the block, the outer end of the work piece is level with the saw table, thereby assuring an accurate cut of the work piece by the saw blade.
US10478982B2
A cutting apparatus for hair or fiber protruding from a surface includes a roller, a number of cutting features disposed at an outer peripheral surface of the roller, wherein the number of cutting features is adapted for cutting the hair or fiber when the roller rotates in contact with the filamentous surface or is moved while in contact with the filamentous surface.
US10478977B2
A utility knife has a housing, a blade, and a blade support carrying the blade and supported on the housing so as to be displaceable in a straight line with the blade between a safety position, a cutting position, and a blade-change position. A torsion spring biases the blade into the safety position.
US10478975B2
A robotic configuration employs a system of low-cost, relatively lightweight beams and linkages fabricated from a planer material from a series of cuts and folds. The beams are folded along crease lines to form a 3-dimensional structure from a 2-dimensional substrate such as a polyester or other semi-rigid sheet. Tabs and appendages, or keys, cut into the planar material engage slots or apertures cut into adjacent members to define linkages. The linkages include tabs that are insertable in a one-way manner, such that removal is prevented but articulate and rotational movement is permitted by the resilient and flexible nature of the planar sheet material. An arrangement of beams and linkages are cut and formed based on a pattern imposed on a single planar sheet. The beam and linkage arrangement defines a robotic configuration for transport and other actions from an actuation source such as a motor.
US10478969B2
A method of detecting collision between a robot and its environment comprises: generating, on the basis of a dynamic model of the robot, a signal representative of the collisions between the robot and environment, the signal being a residual r; carrying out an adaptive high-pass filtering of the residual r; determining, in a recursive manner, an adaptive threshold T composed of at least one first dynamic term TΔ1 equal to an item of information regarding the parametric uncertainties between the model and real behavior of the robot, the parametric uncertainties being related to a first variable characteristic of the state of the robot among the following variables: position, velocity or acceleration of an articulation of the robot, or a linear or nonlinear function of one of these variables or of a combination; comparing the filtered residual with the adaptive threshold T to deduce the existence or otherwise of a collision.
US10478968B2
A driving assembly for a joint of a robot includes a first driving source having a first output shaft; a second driving source; and a gear set including a first gear and second gear that are engaged with each other. The first gear is arranged around the first output shaft. An ankle assembly and a robot having the driving assembly are also provided.
US10478956B1
Method of equipping a hammer handle with a magnetic, nail-head retainer for starting a nail, and kit
A method of method of equipping a hammer handle with a magnetic, nail-head retainer for starting a nail includes steps such as follows. A tubular sleeve is produced from tube stock. The tubular sleeve extends between spaced open ends and has a hollow core characterized by an inside diameter. An unequipped hammer handle is bored with a bore hole which extends between an open end and closed end. A magnet is inserted in the bore hole. The tubular sleeve is inserted in the bore hole afterwards to trap the magnet in the bore hole.
US10478955B2
A tool comprises a handle and a tool head at an end of the handle. The tool head has a channel for receiving a fastener. There is a resilient member disposed along a length of an inner surface of a wall defining the channel. The resilient member may be retained by a recess in an edge of the wall defining the channel. The channel may be defined by a first wall and a second wall and a web extending between the first wall and the second wall. The resilient member may be disposed along an inner surface of the first wall. There may be a lip extending along the second wall. The channel may alternatively be defined by a substantially tubular wall. The resilient member may be a spring disposed along an inner surface of the substantially tubular wall.
US10478951B2
A device, a modular construction system and a method for inserting an elastic ring into an inner groove of a workpiece opening provides that the device the ring is fixed by multiple retainers to specific retaining regions and between the retaining regions said ring acquires a wavy shape or crown shape in an axial direction.
US10478950B2
A power tool includes a tool-main-body part, an electric motor as a drive source, a grip part, which extends downward from the tool-main-body part and is configured to be gripped by a user, and a power-supply unit at a tip of the grip part. The power tool includes a controller configured to control the operation of the electric motor, the controller being located on the power-supply unit, and a display controlled by the controller and configured to indicate an operating state of the electric motor. The controller and the display each have a flat-plate shape and are disposed along a surface direction with respect to one another, and the display includes a first portion that overlies the controller and a second portion that projects beyond an end edge of the controller.
US10478942B2
A coolant nozzle carrier for use with a grinding machine that has a grinding spindle for supporting and driving a grinding disc with a rotational axis. The coolant nozzle carrier comprises at least two coolant nozzles and at least a center leg and two side legs that are attached to the center leg. Each of the side legs supports at least one nozzle and extends in a plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis. The side legs are configured to accommodate the grinding disc in between the side legs with a moving gap defined between the grinding disc and the side legs.
US10478941B2
This invention relates to a conditioner for a chemical mechanical planarization pad, which is necessary for global planarization of a wafer in order to increase the degree of integration of a semiconductor device, and more particularly to a pad conditioner having a structure able to reduce friction with a pad so as to solve the problems caused by a lot of friction being generated upon conditioning, and to a method of manufacturing the same.
US10478919B2
A method for producing an aluminum joined body includes a step of forming a flare joint by using a first aluminum member and a second aluminum member; and a step of performing laser welding by irradiating a groove of the flare joint with a laser beam having a beam diameter of 0.8 to 3.5 mm while feeding a filler material to the groove, the filler material being made of an aluminum alloy containing, in percent by mass, 1.0% to 3.0% of Mg, 0.50% to 1.0% of Mn, 0.05% to 0.20% of Cr, and 0.05% to 0.20% of Ti, with the balance being aluminum and incidental impurities.
US10478916B2
A system, apparatus, or method for joining components is provided. The system applies force along an axis, with a friction pin, to a first substrate, such as with a joiner or joining apparatus. The system also frictionally melts a portion of the first substrate adjacent the friction pin by rotating the friction pin about the axis at a first speed within the first substrate. The system also applies force to the second substrate along the axis and frictionally melts a portion of the second substrate adjacent the friction pin by rotating the friction pin at a second speed within the second substrate. The system embeds a portion of the friction pin within the first substrate and the second substrate. In some configurations, the first speed and the second speed are substantially equivalent. In other configurations, the first speed is different from the second speed.
US10478894B2
A method of fabricating an article includes providing an arrangement of loose nanowires and bonding the loose nanowires in the presence of carbon together into a unitary cellular structure.
US10478889B2
A method for operating an electrically-operated portable riveting machine includes providing an electrically-operated portable riveting machine and informing the user when it is necessary to empty the collecting vessel. The electrically-operated portable riveting machine includes a housing, a rivet setting mechanism arranged in the housing which sets rivet elements into workpieces to be connected, a collecting vessel, a delivery duct that delivers spent rivet mandrels created during a setting of the rivet elements into the collecting vessel, a spent rivet mandrel determination device which determines a number of the spent rivet mandrels in the collecting vessel, and a user information device which informs a user when it is necessary to empty the collecting vessel.
US10478887B2
Provided is an abnormality prediction system and an abnormality prediction method that are capable of predicting an abnormality occurring in a die that is used in a press machine. A die abnormality prediction system (50) includes: an acoustic emission (AE) sensor (62) configured to detect an elastic wave that occurs in a processing portion of a die during processing performed by a press machine using the die; a stamping load detection sensor (61) configured to detect a parameter (a stamping load) other than a parameter regarding the elastic wave, out of parameters regarding a state of the die during the processing performed by the press machine using the die; a score calculation unit (56) configured to calculate an abnormality prediction score of the die based on an output signal from the AE sensor (62) and an output signal from the stamping load detection sensor (61); and an abnormality prediction unit (57) configured to predict an abnormality occurring in the die, based on a result of the calculation performed by the score calculation unit (56).
US10478871B2
A side-opening sleeve valve having an inner barrel with a shaped opening through its cylindrical wall having a longer size along the axis of the inner barrel, and a co-annular outer barrel having shaped opening through its cylindrical wall having a longer size along the axis of the outer barrel. The inner barrel is rotatable relative to the outer barrel between a first open position where the shaped openings overlap to form a side opening into the sleeve valve, and a second closed position where the shaped openings do not overlap. The side opening has an effective axial opening size and an effective lateral opening size in a ratio of at least about 2:1. The side-opening valve is useful with water-less toilet that can empty into the side-opening valve when opened, and when closed, a pigging fluid flush system pushes the waste in the side-opening valve to a sewage system.
US10478864B2
A food article defect removal apparatus includes a manifold that defines one or more chambers for holding pressurized fluid. First channels extend from a first side of the manifold into fluid communication with the chambers. Second channels extend from the first side of the manifold to a second side of the manifold. Valves selectively connect corresponding first channels and second channels together to dispense the pressurized fluid from the manifold. The manifold can have an exterior wall that at least partially defines a first chamber and a second chamber, with an interior wall disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber. The interior wall can define the second channels. The valves can be included with a valve assembly, which includes a driver operably coupled with the valves. The valves can be pluggably coupled with the driver.
US10478857B2
An ultrasonic piezoelectric transducer device includes a transducer array consisting of an array of vibrating elements, and a base to which the array of vibrating elements in the transducer array are attached. The base include integrated electrical interconnects for carrying driving signals and sensed signals between the vibrating elements and an external control circuit. The base can be an ASIC wafer that includes integrated circuitry for controlling the driving and processing the sensed signals. The interconnects and control circuits in the base fit substantially within an area below the array of multiple vibrating elements.
US10478856B2
The present disclosure provides a linear vibration motor, including: a base, a vibrating unit and an elastic member. The elastic member comprises a first elastic member and a second elastic member. The first elastic member comprises a first fixing arm, two first elastic arms respectively extending from the first fixing arm, two first connecting arms respectively extending from the two first elastic arms, and two first avoiding holes penetrating through the first fixing arm; the second elastic member comprises a second fixing arm, two second elastic arms respectively extending from the second fixing arm, and two second connecting arms respectively extending from the two second elastic arms, the first avoiding holes are respectively arranged directly facing the two second connecting arms. Comparing with the prior art, the linear vibration motor of the present disclosure can be conveniently assembled, and has good vibration property and high reliability.
US10478845B1
A remote activation dispenser for dispensing fluids. An actuating device positioned on a dispensing tube is operably connected to a flexible link that is operably connected to a valve in a dispenser by a rigid link. Upon manipulation of the actuating device, the valve is actuated for passing or cutting off fluids from the dispenser to the dispensing tube.
US10478843B2
A liquid hand wash container includes an outer casing, a rear casing, a liquid storage bottle, a liquid discharging pump module, a pressing plate, a pressing base, two thrust arc plates and a compression rod module, wherein the outer housing and the rear housing are connected with each other to form an accommodating cavity through a buckle; all of the liquid storage bottle, the liquid discharging pump module, the pressing base (6) and the compression rod module (8) are disposed within the accommodating cavity; all of the liquid storage bottle (3), the liquid discharging pump module and the compression rod module are fixedly disposed on the rear housing; an upper portion of a liquid discharging pump is connected with the liquid storage bottle through a liquid discharging tube, a lower portion of the liquid discharging pump is movably connected with the pressing base.
US10478838B2
A centrifugal water spray structure is provided. The centrifugal water spray structure includes: a chamber having a chamber axis and an opening, a water jetting device for jetting water into the chamber in a direction not parallel to the chamber axis, thereby creating a vortex flow in the chamber, and a rotary plug received in the chamber. One end of the rotary plug abuts an edge of the opening of the chamber in a manner that sealing is formed between the rotary plug and the edge of the opening, and the other end of the rotary plug is a free end so that the rotary plug is able to be driven to rotate about the chamber axis by the vortex flow. A plug water passage is formed inside the rotary plug. Further, a showerhead using the centrifugal water spray structure is provided.
US10478833B2
A fluid treatment system, a fluid processing apparatus and a method of treating a mixture are provided in which a separator has two outlets for different components of mixed fluid.
US10478832B2
Various embodiments relate to devices and methods for treating a mixture of expansion gas and filling product foam in a beverage filling plant, comprising the steps of introducing the mixture of expansion gas and filling product foam into a closed separation container and extracting the expansion gas out of the closed separation container via suction.
US10478826B2
A system and method directed to the economical recovery of valuable iron constituents from iron blast furnace and steel-making slag fines wherein the slag is obtained and subjected to a series of classification steps which progressively sort the slag fines by various physical characteristics, including magnetism, size, and density, into relatively iron-rich and relatively iron-poor classifications, resulting in the isolation of iron-rich commercial byproduct at one or more of the classification steps.
US10478822B1
The present disclosure provides a reagent cartridge configured for use in an automated multi-module cell processing environment.
US10478819B2
A microfluidic device includes a particle sorting region having a first, second and third microfluidic channels, a first array of islands separating the first microfluidic channel from the second microfluidic channel, and a second array of islands separating the first microfluidic channel from the third microfluidic channel, in which the island arrays and the microfluidic channels are arranged so that a first fluid is extracted from the first microfluidic channel into the second microfluidic channel and a second fluid is extracted from the third microfluidic channel into the first microfluidic channel, and so that particles are transferred from the first fluid sample into the second fluid sample within the first microfluidic channel.
US10478817B2
An automatic analyzer cartridge, spinnable about a rotational axis, has fluid and aliquoting chambers, a metering chamber connected to a vent that is nearer to the rotational axis than the metering chamber, first and second ducts connecting the fluid and aliquoting chambers, and the metering and aliquoting chambers, respectively. Metering chamber side walls taper away from a central region, wherein capillary action next to the walls is greater than in the central region. Fluid flows to the metering chamber using capillary action via the second duct that has an entrance and exit in the aliquoting and metering chambers, respectively; the exit being closer to the rotational axis than the entrance. A downstream fluidic element connects to the metering chamber via a valve. A fluidic structure receives and processes a biological sample into the processed biological sample and has a measurement structure that enables measurement of the processed biological sample.
US10478813B2
A porous catalyst for catalytic activating persulfates to decompose typical pollutants in papermaking wastewater is provided, and a synthesis method thereof and a method of degrading the typical pollutants in paper wastewater by using the porous catalyst are also provided. The porous catalyst MIL-88A@MIP is prepared by a molecular imprinting method comprising using metal organic framework MIL-88A as a precursor and using phthalates as templates.
US10478811B2
A method is disclosed for synthesizing MTW framework type zeolites via interzeolite transformation in the presence of polyethyleneimine.
US10478810B2
A zeolite catalyst capable of maintaining a high conversion of raw materials over a long period of time, and a method of producing a lower olefin stably over a long period of time using the zeolite catalyst is to be provided.A CON zeolite catalyst containing aluminum (Al) as a constituent element, wherein the CON zeolite catalyst has a ratio ((A2/A1)×100 (%)) of an integrated intensity area (A2) of signal intensity in a range from 57.5 ppm to 70 ppm to an integrated intensity area (A1) of signal intensity in a range from 45 ppm to 70 ppm is not less than 49.0% when analyzed by 27Al-MAS-NMR is prepared, and a lower olefin is produced by a MTO process using the zeolite catalyst.
US10478801B2
The present invention relates to the process of obtaining adsorbent materials based upon supported metal species on porous silicates, and their use for reducing the amount of sulfur and nitrogen contaminants in petroleum fractions and products derived of, i.e., light and heavy gas oils, FCC gasoline and fuels, where FCC stands for Fluid Catalytic Cracking process. The invention comprises the selection, preparation, modification and adsorptive properties of the abovementioned porous materials, which are based on porous silicates with metal species intercalated and/or impregnated, such as Ti(O,OH), Mg(O, OH)—, Zr(O, OH)—, Fe(O, OH), Al(O, OH). Also, additional options were considered, for example those comprising metals from the 1st and 2nd transition series, such as Cu+, Ni2+, Zn2+, Fe2+, Ag+, Co2+, Ti4+, V2+,5+, Cr3+ and Mn2+.
US10478800B2
Titania nanotube arrays are useful for phosphopeptide enrichment and separation. These highly ordered titania nanotube arrays are a low cost and highly effective alternative to the use of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) methods using meoporous titania beads or particles. The highly ordered TiO2 nanotubes are grown on surfaces coated with Ti metal, or preferably on Ti wires, by methods that preferably include anodic oxidation.
US10478796B2
Systems and processes for controlling fouling in the manufacture of ethylene polymers and copolymers at high pressure. Disclosed is a high pressure polyethylene polymerization system comprising a reactor, a primary compressor, and a secondary compressor, the secondary compressor comprising: a) a first stage, wherein the first stage comprises at least two cylinders, and the discharge pipes of the at least two cylinders are fluidly connected by a first stage discharge cross-connect pipe; b) a second stage; c) an interstage; and d) a first cooler applied to the interstage piping starting at a location within 10 meters downstream of the first stage discharge cross-connect pipe.
US10478790B2
The problem of providing a stirrer capable of more effectively shearing a fluid to be treated is addressed, by using the action of an intermittent jet stream. A stirrer is provided with a rotor having a blade and a screen, which are relatively rotated such that the fluid to be treated is discharged from the inside of the screen to the outside as an intermittent jet stream through a slit in the screen, the stirrer satisfying condition 1 and condition 2. (Condition 1) the relationship among the width b in the rotating direction of a tip part of the blade, the width s in the circumferential direction of the slit, and the width t in the circumferential direction of the screen member is b≥2s+t. (Condition 2) the relationship between the width b in the rotating direction of the tip part of the blade and the maximum inner diameter c of the screen is b≥0.1c.
US10478789B2
This invention belongs to the field of biomass energy utilization at the large scale. A material stirring device for a biomass bin includes a transmission mechanism, a main stirring mechanism, and an auxiliary stirring mechanism. The main stirring mechanism includes a cylinder connected to the transmission mechanism. The outer wall of the cylinder is provided with a hollow stirring rod. The auxiliary stirring mechanism includes a rotating shaft vertically penetrating through the hollow stirring rod. Both ends of the rotating shaft are provided with stirring blades and the rotating shaft is connected to the transmission mechanism. That the stirring device is easily damaged due to too high density of the biomass material is overcome through the automatic conversion adjustment of the main and auxiliary stirring mechanisms. The continuous discharge efficiency of the biomass bin is improved by the organic integration of over and partial stirring.
US10478788B2
Provided are a device and a method for adjusting the number and size of air bubbles, more particularly, a device and a method for adjusting the number and size of air bubbles, capable of mixing a liquid and gas to form an air bubble mixture or air bubble water (water containing air bubble) and freely adjusting the number and size of air bubbles contained in the formed air bubble mixture to thereby be used in various fields.
US10478774B2
A denitrator removes nitrogen oxide in a flue gas generated from a combustion furnace by injecting a reducing agent into the flue gas. The denitrator includes a housing disposed above the combustion furnace. The housing includes a discharge port for the flue gas at one end of the housing. A cross-sectional area of flow of the flue gas gradually increases toward the discharge port. The housing gathers and guides the flue gas to the discharge port. The denitrator injects the reducing agent in another end of the housing.
US10478764B2
Disclosed is an arrangement of a filtering element for a device for purifying gas from the crankcase of an internal combustion engine, which includes: a filtering element mounted so as to rotate about an axis and having an annular filtering medium; a rotor element capable of being part of a rotating system, making it possible to turn the filtering element by way of notches formed on the outer surface of a sleeve. The flanges of the filtering element are attached to one another in an inner space defined by the medium, typically by snap-fitting, using at least one retaining member and an anchor portion engaging with one another with an anti-rotation effect. The anchoring portion is provided with inner projections forming contact surfaces, preferably angular, which are inserted into the notches of the sleeve when the rotor element is inserted into the inner space.
US10478763B2
A water filter having a housing having a water inlet and a water outlet on a first end, and a pair of replaceable carbon elements contained within the housing, each carbon element having a water inlet near an outside diameter and a water outlet near the center, both the water outlet and water inlet being on a first end of each carbon element and each of the carbon element inlets being in fluid communication with the housing water inlet and each of the carbon element outlets being in fluid communication with the housing water outlet.
US10478743B1
Provided is an audio-lighting control system, including a first device and a second device. The first device includes an audio module, which generates audio data and plays music accordingly; a first processor unit is electrically connected to the audio module and generates a lighting control signal. The second device is wirelessly connected to the first device through a wireless transmission device and the second device receives the lighting control signal from the first device, while the second device displays lighting effects according to the lighting control signal. The wireless transmission device is wirelessly connected to the first device and the second device through standard 2.4 GHz wireless communication. The audio-lighting control system achieves the goals of displaying music and lighting simultaneously, and reducing the cost of setting up the system.
US10478739B1
A model airplane engine starting stick is provided with a blade edge engaging roller having a roller surface of a material which will grip the blade edge of the propeller when against the blade edge of the propeller to cause the roller to roll along the blade edge without sliding over and damaging the blade edge as the starting stick is moved with respect to the blade edge to rotate the propeller. The starting stick of the invention includes a handle by which the starting stick can be held and manipulated by a user and a roller attached to the handle to freely rotate or roll with respect to the handle.
US10478736B1
A child's swing seat has a bottom support and a back support integral with the bottom support. A cover removably connected to the back support is provided. A child restraint is provided, which is fixed in some embodiments and moveable about a hinge in others. In other embodiments, the cover is fixed and integral with the back support. The cover may be dome-shaped or substantially flat. A drain hole is provided in the seat bottom to dispose of rainwater.
US10478727B2
Provided herein is an angling event detecting and reporting apparatus to identify and report angling events, the apparatus comprising an angling event sensor adapted to be located in the reel of a fishing rod and generating data indicative of a parameter of the rod or reel when the rod or reel is in use. Additionally, there may be at least one processor in communication with the angling event sensor programmed to identify an angling event based on the data indicative of a parameter of the rod or reel.
US10478724B2
A game device includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to implement: an input process that acquires line-of-sight information about a player who wears a head-mounted display, and input information that has been input by the player using an input device; a game process that performs a first game process based on the input information, and performs a second game process based on the line-of-sight information, when a game includes a first game and a second game, the first game process being a process for the player to play the first game, and the second game process being a process for the player to play the second game; and a game result calculation process that calculates a game result achieved by the player based on a result of the first game process and a result of the second game process.
US10478720B2
A system includes a memory, processors, and an asset player module configured to identify a playable asset configuration for a first playable asset, including a first graph configuration identifying processing nodes and edges, each node in the graph configuration represents a media processing component configured to modify media inputs to generate a media output, construct a graph in the memory based on the first graph configuration, receive a first set of media inputs, execute the media processing components in an order based on the graph configuration and using the first set of media inputs as the one or more input media components, based on said executing, generate a media output configured to be played by a conventional media player, alter the graph at runtime, thereby changing the media processing components identified within the graph, and execute the media processing components of the graph after the altering.
US10478716B1
A bottle puzzle used as a training or learning tool for children and adults with cognitive disabilities has puzzle pieces with uniquely shaped concave and convex walls, with only one wall in one puzzle piece matching another wall in a different puzzle piece. Each puzzle piece is a fully contained compartment capable of holding and dispensing beverages. When puzzles are put together, they form a normal bottle that can be filled with beverages contained in the puzzle pieces. A mixing chamber allows consuming several beverages contained in the puzzle pieces simultaneously.
US10478711B2
A game that includes a game hub having a draw tray and a discard tray for point cards; four game boards, four sets of score markers; sixteen indicator cards; and fifty-one point cards divided into eight classification sets and a wild card set. Each set of the eight classification sets of point cards includes six point cards, where each of the point cards has a combination of: a classification set name; a point value indicator; a symbol associated with the classification set; an image associated with the classification set name; and a common name for the image; where the combination is different for each of the point cards in the eight classification sets. The wild card set includes three point cards each having a number zero on the first major surface.
US10478695B2
An instrumented batting system measures a bat speed and an exit velocity as a batter swings a bat and initiates contact between the bat and a ball positioned on a batting tee assembly. The batting tee assembly includes a bat speed radar device and an exit velocity radar device each in communication with a computing device. The bat speed radar device emits a radar beam that intersects a swing plane of the batter in a direction generally toward an expected position of the batter. The exit velocity radar device emits another radar beam that intersects a flight path of the ball in another direction generally away from the expected position of the batter. The system determines the bat speed and exit velocity using the radar beams, calculates a batting metric based on the bat speed and exit velocity, and displays the swing metric using a computing device.
US10478694B2
A tennis net anchoring device and method securely anchors a tennis net center strap to a recessed anchor post on a tennis court surface. The anchoring device comprises a longitudinal, double-sided, unitary body supporting a net-retention member and a ground-retention member. A top portion of the unitary body includes two arcuate T-shaped, net-retention members that retain the tennis net through grommet holes in the net. The net-retention members extend downwardly from the upper end of the middle portion to define an arcuate net-support surface. A lower portion of the unitary body includes two off-set, J-shaped ground-retention members, opposite the net-retention members. The ground-retention members have a ground-retention surface that forms an anchor post insertion channel. The insertion channel enables insertion of an anchor post recessed beneath the court surface. The ground-retention members have free ground ends that enable maneuvering of the anchor post within the anchor post insertion channel.
US10478676B2
A golf ball including a spherical body, first regions, and second regions. The spherical body includes a core layer and a cover layer made from a synthetic resin covering the core layer. Dimples are formed in a surface of the cover layer. First regions that are electrically conductive are formed on a surface of the spherical body. The first regions are formed on a spherical surface having a center of the spherical body as a center. The first regions are positioned at six vertices of an imaginary regular hexahedron such that the vertices are positioned on the surface of the spherical body and, thus, six of the first regions are formed. The second regions are formed in areas of the surface other than where the first regions are formed. The second regions have a radio wave reflectance lower than that of the first regions.
US10478663B2
An exercise machine reversible resistance system for reversing the directional force of resistance against an exercise implement before, during, or after the performance of a routine of one or more exercises. The exercise machine reversible resistance system generally includes a frame, an elongated member movably positioned upon the frame, wherein the elongated member has a first run and a second run, a resistance device that applies a resistance force to the elongated member in a single direction, an exercise implement movably connected to the frame and a clutch connected to the exercise implement. The clutch is adapted to selectively engage the first run or the second run of the elongated member for selective control of the resistance direction of the exercise implement.
US10478660B2
Various embodiments related to a recumbent therapeutic and exercise device are provided herein. The recumbent therapeutic and exercise device includes a frame; a hand crank system coupled to the frame, the hand crank system including a hand crank rotatable by a user, wherein the hand crank is movable in a substantially vertical plane closer to and further from a support surface for the frame; and a foot crank system coupled to the frame, the foot crank system including a foot crank rotatable by the user, wherein the foot crank is movable in a substantially horizontal plane relative to the support surface for the fame.
US10478658B2
A sports dumbbell comprises a grip section (2), which runs along a grip shaft (L1), and a support shaft (L2) of a support section (3) spaced apart from the grip section (2) perpendicular to and running parallel to the grip shaft (L1). The support section is connected at at least one end to the grip section (2). The sports dumbbell has a center of gravity (S) which is arranged within the support section (3). A distance (d2) between the grip shaft (L1) and the support shaft (L2) is at least 11 cm, and an external shape of the sports dumbbell forms a closed annular body or open annular body.
US10478657B1
A novel weight lifting plate is disclosed. The novel weight lifting plate has a large shaped central aperture. The central aperture is shaped to receive the hand of a user. The central aperture has a plurality of ball bearings extending into the central aperture. There are four lateral ball bearings which hold a barbell in the center of the central aperture when the plate is mounted on the barbell. The plate also has two central ball bearings. The central ball bearings are disposed in recesses with springs within the recesses. When the plate is placed on the barbell the barbell pushes the central ball bearings into the recesses. When the user desires to use the plate by hand, the user places their hand in the central aperture with the ball bearings disposed between the user's fingers.
US10478652B2
A method and composition for biodegrading or bioremediating a pyrene or other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (“PAH”) with one or more bacteria of the genus Halomonas or Idiomarina. Bacterial strains useful for degrading or remediating pyrenes and other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
US10478646B2
A fall arrest device includes a bracket having first and second side panels, a rotating member rotatably mounted to the bracket, a safety belt wound around the rotating member, a brake wheel engaged with the rotating member and having a groove, a brake block pivotally connected to the brake wheel and located between an inner surface of the brake wheel and an outer surface of the first side panel, and a restoring spring. A stopper is disposed on the outer surface of the first side panel. In this way, the groove could accommodate a part of a body of the restoring spring, preventing the brake block from propelling away from a surface of the brake wheel by the restoring spring, preventing the brake block from rubbing against the first side panel.
US10478645B2
A removable anchoring device comprising a fixed first part with an expansion head, and a movable second control part having wedging half-rings and a gripping knob associated with a stop and a spring. The stop is arranged on the fixed first part and is movable with respect to the gripping knob by a relative translational movement to disable any release command in a predefined position. The gripping knob is thus able to occupy a first axial adjustment position offset from the stop to indicate the non-locked state enabling the release command, and is movable to a second axial adjustment position in engagement against the stop to indicate the locked state and to disable said release command.
US10478641B2
A radiotherapy device control apparatus instructs a radiotherapy device to execute instruction information based on a treatment regimen determined in advance, controls the operations of an irradiation-related instrument provided in the radiotherapy device on the basis of irradiation conditions included in the instruction information, determines whether irradiation is permitted on the basis of results detected by an irradiation target detection unit that detects movement of a target to be irradiated, controls execution and interruption of therapeutic irradiation on the basis of the determined result, stores the history of interruption of irradiation according to the determination by the irradiation permission determination unit, and causes the instrument to run the operations based on the instruction information to completion, regardless of whether irradiation has been interrupted during execution of the instruction information.
US10478639B2
Neurological Disease Mechanism Analysis for Diagnosis, Drug Screening, (Deep) Brain Stimulation Therapy design and monitoring, Stem Cell Transplantation therapy design and monitoring, Brain Machine Interface design, control, and monitoring.
US10478637B2
A cold cap adapted for connecting to a chiller unit for circulating chilled fluid through the cap. The cap is formed from at least three layers of material which are sealingly attached around their periphery so as to form a cooling fluid chamber, wherein the cap is configured to apply compression and cooling to the scalp.
US10478633B2
Combined methods for treating a patient using time-varying magnetic field are described. The treatment methods combine various approaches for aesthetic treatment. The methods are focused on enhancing a visual appearance of the patient.
US10478630B2
A defibrillator (AED) and method for using a defibrillator incorporates a user activated button truncates an ongoing ECG analysis to immediately perform a different defibrillator-related function. The AED may use two different ECG analysis algorithms having different sensitivities to a shockable cardiac rhythm, and a press of the button may automatically shift from a first algorithm to a second algorithm with the higher sensitivity. The button may also allow truncation of ongoing analysis and CPR for immediate preparation for electrotherapy.
US10478621B1
A retractable lead system is provided that includes a cup, a spherical contact, and a plunger. The cup is disposed proximate a vacuum end of the retractable lead system, and defines a cavity and a contact reception seat. The contact reception seat defines a spherical portion having a contact reception spherical radius. The spherical contact is disposed within the contact reception seat, and defines a contact spherical radius that corresponds to the contact reception spherical radius. The spherical contact is configured to be electrically coupled to an interior lead disposed within a vacuum environment. The plunger includes an ambient contact and a retractable contact disposed on opposite ends of the plunger. The plunger is configured to be actuated between an open position at which the retractable contact is retracted from the spherical contact and a closed position at which the retractable contact is coupled with the spherical contact.
US10478618B2
An electrical stimulation device comprises a stimulation lead with an adjustable length tension sleeve to prevent induction of an electrical current when the electrical stimulation device is in the presence of a magnetic field generated by a device such as an MRI machine. The tension sleeve is shaped to organize excess length of the stimulation lead while providing a variable length between a distal end of the stimulation lead and an electrical source. The shape of the tension sleeve avoids coils and may utilize combinations of straight and curved legs that lie substantially in a common plane to both organize excess length of the stimulation lead and prevent electrical induction.
US10478614B2
Tools and methods for removing anchors from medical leads involve a guide portion and a blade. The lead is inserted within a lead passageway of the guide portion of the tool and the tool is moved along so that the blade contacts the anchor and cuts a slit in the anchor as the tool. Once the blade has cut the slit through the entire anchor, the anchor comes free of the lead and the tool can be removed. The tool may include a manner of opening and closing the guide portion so as to provide access to the lead when open and to contain the lead when closed. Opening the guide portion allows the lead to be inserted or removed by laterally moving the lead into or out of the lead passageway such that the tool may be installed or removed at any available point along the lead.
US10478612B2
Various systems and methods for non-invasively monitoring and treating a medical condition of interest via transcutaneous stimulation of a target nerve are described. For instance, a subject can be monitored for improvement of a medical condition, where such improvement corresponds with a decrease in the threshold level at which a sensory or motor response is elicited in a subject upon stimulation as compared to a baseline level. Further, transcutaneous stimulation of the nerve can also treat the condition. Both monitoring and treatment can be carried out in a non-invasive manner substantially free of a painful response via electrical nerve stimulation of a target nerve, where the stimulation is delivered from an electrode placed on a non-glabrous skin surface. The electrode placement sufficiently immobilizes the target nerve such that the stimulation is effective and can be delivered in a controlled manner.
US10478608B2
A valve device (1) for a medical system comprises a valve housing (10), an inlet port (102) arranged on the valve housing (10), an outlet port (103) arranged on the valve housing (10), a flow duct (12) extending through the valve housing (10) connecting the inlet port (102) and the outlet port (103) to allow for a fluid flow (P) through the valve housing between the inlet port (102) and the outlet port (103), and a closure element (11) arranged on the valve housing (10) for selectively opening and closing the flow duct (12). Herein, the closure element (11) is displaceable along a displacement direction (A) relative to the valve housing (10) between a closed position in which the flow duct (12) is closed for preventing the fluid flow (P) from the inlet port (102) to the outlet port (103) and an opened position in which the flow duct (12) is opened for allowing the fluid flow (P) from the inlet port (102) to the outlet port (103), wherein the closure element (11) is elastically pretensioned towards the closed position. In this way the valve device is provided which allows for an optimized integration into a medical device such as an infusion line or an infusion pump.
US10478591B2
A stent graft delivery device that is pre-loaded with a single guide wire for both tracking the device within a main vessel as well as for cannulating one or more branch vessels is described. The delivery device comprises a delivery catheter having a prosthesis releasably secured thereto and a nose cone extending from the proximal end of the catheter. In a delivery configuration, a secondary catheter is coaxial with the guide wire and extends through at least a portion of the prosthesis lumen and is held within a channel formed in the nose cone. In a released configuration, secondary catheter and guide wire are retracted distally out of the channel formed in the sidewall of the nose cone dilator and can be manipulated for cannulating a branch vessel.
US10478588B2
A portable therapeutic field generator device (10) generates a reduced magnetic field component for a relatively large electric field by virtue that adjacent conductive tracks in a radiating element (40, 50) conduct electrical current in opposing directions. The device (10) includes a processor (12) that, in response to a control algorithm stored in memory (14), supplies a pulse wave (22) to a circuit containing the radiating element (40, 50). The pulse establishes generation of a base heartbeat reference having a frequency around a nominal heart rate. At periodic times, the base heart beat reference is supplemented by mutually exclusive periods of alpha wave, theta wave and delta wave generation (or other selected frequencies below about 200 Hz) based on selected brainwave frequencies for these waves, with the pulses having a duration generally corresponding to that ascribed to neuron depolarisation pulses. The device (10) cycles through multiple cycles (88) and, dependent upon the effect that is desired, may see delta wave frequencies follow theta wave frequencies that follow alpha wave frequencies. Delays may exist between transitions between the generated waves, with delta wave generation occurring no later than sixty minutes from commencement of alpha wave production for a mode that induces sleep. Delta waves production has, typically, a duration that is twice that of either the alpha or theta wave production. A second mode of operation sees longer pulse times for higher frequencies—between about 100 Hz and 500 Hz—associated with muscle stimulation.
US10478582B1
The present disclosure provides a universal breathing tube adaptor that can accept or otherwise accommodate a metered dose canister (MDC) having a variety of shapes, structures, sizes, and/or configurations. The present breathing tube adaptor includes a sidewall which defines a chamber. A conduit extends from the chamber through a floor of the device for discharging aerosolized medicament from the MDC. The sidewall includes opposing exposed edges which define a channel. The sidewall supports the MDC when it is invertingly inserted into the chamber. The channel permits structure of an MDC to extend radially outward through the channel and outside the chamber thereby enabling the valve stem of the MDC to engage the conduit.
US10478579B1
Disclosed is an apparatus and method to facilitate insertion of the endotracheal tube into the patient's trachea.
US10478576B2
A device for maintaining an airway in a patient includes a mask having a portion that forms a seal with the larynx when the mask is positioned in the laryngo pharynx to thereby prevent ingress of extraneous fluids into the larynx, includes an airway tube connected to or formed with the mask for passing gas to the larynx when the mask is properly inserted into the laryngo pharynx. The mask includes a proximal portion adapted to collapse or compress so that a proximal ventral part of the mask can move relatively towards a dorsal part of the mask during insertion of the mask. This facilitates insertion of the mask into the patient.
US10478574B2
A delivery device for and method of providing for delivery of substance to the central nervous system (CNS) of a subject, the delivery device comprising: a nosepiece unit (17) for insertion into a nasal airway (1) of a subject and comprising an outlet unit (21) which includes a nozzle (25) for delivering substance into the nasal airway of the subject; and a substance supply unit which is operable to deliver a dose of substance to the nozzle: wherein the delivery device is configured such that at least 30% of the dose as initially deposited in the nasal airway is deposited in an upper posterior region of the nasal airway, thereby providing a CNS concentration of the substance, and hence CNS effect, which is significantly greater than that which would be predicted from a counterpart blood plasma concentration of the substance.
US10478570B2
A medication delivery apparatus and system for the application of a local anesthetic to a treatment site, such as an airway, and method for use of same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the medication delivery apparatus and system, a reservoir supplies a local anesthetic to a lower chamber of a housing wherein an ultrasonic transducer applies ultrasonic energy thereto, thereby nebulizing the local anesthetic. A control valve is interposed between a source of positive pressure air and an upper chamber of the housing to selectively apply positive air pressure to the upper chamber. Upon the application of positive air pressure, the airflow delivers the nebulized anesthetic to a patient's airway by way of a laryngoscope side port coupling, laryngoscope vacuum port coupling, or catheter coupling, for example. The application of local anesthetic, itself, in this nebulized manner mitigates gaging, chocking, aspirating, bucking and laryngospasms.
US10478565B2
An assembly (100) for a drug delivery device is presented. The assembly comprising a housing, a clicker member (2) and a clutch member (1) comprising a rotatable clutch feature (20). The assembly further comprises a counter clicker (8) which is configured to interact with the clicker member (2) to form a clicker mechanism, and a spring element (3) arranged between the clicker member (2) and the clutch member (1), the spring element (3) being arranged to move the clutch member (1) towards the first position and away from the clicker member (2) away from each other. The assembly (100) is further configured such that the clutch member (1) is axially movable with respect to the housing between a first position and a second position different from the first position, wherein, when the clutch member (1) is rotated in the first position with respect to the clicker member (2), the counter clicker (8) rotates with respect to the clicker member (2) and, when the clutch member (1) is in the second position, a rotation of the clutch member (1) with respect to the clicker member (2) is prevented.
US10478559B2
A jet injector that includes a prefilled syringe. The syringe includes a fluid chamber that contains a medicament. The syringe also has an injection-assisting needle, and a plunger is movable within the fluid chamber. A housing is configured for allowing insertion of the needle to a penetration depth. The housing includes a retractable guard and an interference component, e.g., a lock ring, adjacent to the retractable guard that interferes with the movement of the retractable guard. An energy source is configured for biasing the plunger to produce an injecting pressure to jet inject the medicament from the fluid chamber through the needle to an injection site.
US10478555B2
A system and method for accessing and treating the cerebrospinal fluid with a multilumen catheter configured for placement along a cerebrospinal fluid pathway and a subcutaneous, dual reservoir/pump. The subcutaneous dual reservoir/pump allows simultaneous, bidirectional cerebrospinal fluid access and cerebrospinal fluid exchange. The two chambers prevent mixing of newly treated and discardable cerebrospinal fluid. The subcutaneous dual reservoir/pump can be used inline with other cerebrospinal fluid devices. The catheter may be coupled with a medical probe that sends a wire to a computational device, which can then send wireless data and receive wireless instructions. A method of assessing cerebrospinal fluid infections is provided, whereby monitoring of the cerebrospinal glucose concentrations with a cerebrospinal glucose sensor and analysis of the data by a computational device can notify a patient or medical provider of an impending infection. This assembly can help better diagnose and treat injury and disease.
US10478553B2
An apparatus includes a body, a cannula, and a needle. The cannula is flexible and extends distally from the body. The needle is slidably disposed in the cannula. The needle includes a sharp distal tip and a curved portion. The needle is configured to translate relative to the cannula between a proximal position and a distal position. The distal tip is configured to be positioned inside the cannula when the needle is in the proximal position. The distal tip is configured to be positioned outside the cannula when the needle is in the distal position. The needle is resiliently biased to extend along a curve through the curved portion.
US10478551B2
A system and method can provide for a remote electronic device to be used to remotely initiate delivery of a medicament bolus with a medical device, such as an insulin pump, with the medical device providing audible or tactile confirmation of the programmed bolus. The bolus amount can be calculated by or programmed or otherwise entered into the smartphone, etc., and then transmitted to the medical device. When the pump receives the transmitted bolus amount, it issues one or more indications such as audible sounds and/or vibrations in any number of desired combinations. For instance, each individual sound or vibration may correspond to an increment of the medicament. The user can therefore determine the size of the medicament bolus by the number of sounds or vibrations and can confirm or cancel delivery of the bolus.
US10478548B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to poles with wheels with an onboard power unit that be longitudinally fixed in place and positioned about a medial position of the pole or may be configured to rise and lower in concert with wheels supporting the floor when on the floor and that can hold medical and/or accessory equipment, typically in a clinical or hospital environment.
US10478546B2
A hemodialysis vascular access device includes a proximal end sized and shaped to sealably couple to a hemodialysis catheter, a movable structure coupled to the proximal end, a fixation structure coupled to the movable region and sized and shaped for fixation on a patient, an elongated sleeve coupled to the fixation structure and sized and shaped for insertion into a patient's vasculature, and a valve at a distal end of the internal lumen. When a hemodialysis catheter is inserted into the device and coupled to the proximal end, distal movement of the proximal end relative to the fixation structure biases a distal end of the hemodialysis catheter from a position inside the elongated sleeve through a valve out of the device and into the patient's blood.
US10478542B2
An intravascular heart pump assembly can include a rotor with at least one impeller blade, and a cannula. The present application describes various cannulas that can be manufactured from multiple layers of material to improve flexibility, manufacturability, and durability without increasing an outer diameter of the cannula. In one embodiment, the cannula includes an inflow section having a sheet formed of a shape memory material embedded within a polymer and having at least one lateral hole or aperture in the inflow section. The at least one lateral hole is defined by a first hole in the sheet and a second hole in the outer polymer layer of the cannula. The first hole and the second hole overlap so that blood can enter the cannula through the holes.
US10478536B2
In one example embodiment, an apparatus may include a panel with integrated fluid channels, wherein the panel and the fluid channel consist only of surfaces that can be manufactured with a straight-pull mold. A port may also be integrated into the panel to facilitate coupling the fluid channel to pneumatic components in an assembly. A seal may be secured to the panel over the fluid channel to form an integrated fluid conductor. The seal is preferably an adhesive label that can also be used for product labeling. Such an apparatus may be used in a control unit of a therapy system, employing several integrated fluid conductors. A method of manufacturing may include molding a panel, wherein the mold forms a channel integral to the panel. The panel and the channel preferably consist of surfaces that can be molded with a straight-pull mold.
US10478535B2
A suction catheter system is described with a suction extension interfaced with a guide catheter to form a continuous suction lumen extending through a portion of the guide catheter and through the suction extension. The suction extension can be positioned by tracking the suction nozzle through a vessel while moving a proximal portion of the suction extension within the lumen of the guide catheter. The suction extension can comprise a connecting section with a non-circular cross section for interfacing with the inner lumen of an engagement section of the guide catheter. The tubular body of the guide catheter can have a reduced diameter distal section the can be useful to restrain the movement of the suction extension.
US10478534B2
Methods and apparatuses for automatically switching different aspiration levels to an ocular probe are disclosed herein. The probe may be a phacoemulsification probe. A first aspiration level, supplied by a first pump, may be applied to the probe simultaneously with ultrasonic energy. A second aspiration level, supplied by a second pump, may be automatically switched from the first aspiration level. Control feed back of the pumps may be varied according to set thresholds.
US10478533B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of pressurized fluid delivery devices for use in medical procedures. In particular, a fluid delivery pump comprises at least one compressive member configured to apply a force to a fluid reservoir. The at least one compressive member is associated with a flexible envelope, such that the flexible envelope may move the compressive member. The flexible envelope may be substantially air-tight so that it may be pressurized. When a negative pressure is created inside the flexible envelope, the flexible envelope may change volume, applying a force to the at least one compressive member. The at least one compressive member may then apply a force to the fluid reservoir and the fluid is forced out of the reservoir.
US10478532B2
A surgical hand piece is described that maintains a vacuum pressure within the hand piece at a selected level. A check valve is provided substantially near an inlet of an integrated aspirating pump. The check valve opens to introduce fluid into the hand piece to maintain the vacuum pressure within the hand piece at or above the selected level so as to prevent or substantially reduce post-occlusion flow.
US10478523B2
A composition comprising Polyhydroxyurethanes, Glycosaminoglycans, hydrolysed glycosaminoglycans, glycosamines of glycosaminoglycans, chemically modified or not and a Protein or a peptide; said protein being collagen, elastin, keratin, fibronectin, actin, myosin, laminin, a peptide or a blend of those proteins or peptides, fibrillated, hydrolysed, chemically modified or not. This homogenous composition is obtained by the polymerisation or the covalent bounding of two preparations containing cyclic polycarbonates, polyamines, glycosaminoglycans, hydrolysed glycosaminoglycans, glycosamines, chemically modified or not and proteins or peptides or a blend of those proteins or peptides, fibrillated, hydrolysed, chemically modified or not.
US10478522B2
More specifically, granules made of biocompatible metal material, preferably osteoinductive metal, for use in vertebroplasty surgery, as well as the use of these granules for this purpose, are the object of the present invention.
US10478519B2
Compositions-of-matter comprising a matrix made of one or more, preferably two or more elastic layers and one or more viscoelastic layer are disclosed. The compositions-of-matter are characterized by high water-impermeability and optionally by self-recovery. Processes of preparing the compositions-of-matter and uses thereof as tissue substitutes or for repairing damaged tissues are also disclosed.
US10478518B2
A method for disinfecting contact lenses, including immersing the contact lenses in a volume of cleaning agent with about 3% hydrogen peroxide for up to 4 hrs, and immersing up to 0.7 g of a fibrous catalyst enhancer material in the volume of cleaning agent for up to 4 hrs. The fibrous catalyst enhancer material is immersed simultaneously with the contact lenses.
US10478505B2
The present invention relates to the formulation of steroids, including neurosteroids (e.g., allopregnanolone (ALP)) in edible oils to enhance their absorption when administered, e.g., orally or transmucosally to a patient.
US10478503B2
Provided herein are branched oligonucleotides exhibiting efficient and specific tissue distribution, cellular uptake, minimum immune response and off-target effects, without formulation.
US10478500B2
The invention relates to RNAi agents, e.g. double-stranded RNAi agents, targeting the HAO1 gene, and method of using such RNAi agents to inhibit expression of HAO1 and methods of treating subjects having, e.g., PH1. Described herein are double-stranded RNAi agents which inhibit the expression of a HA01 gene in a cell, such as a cell within a subject, e.g., a mammal, such as a human having a HAO1 associated disorder, and uses of such double-stranded RNAi agents. In certain aspects of the invention, substantially all of the nucleotides of an iRNA of the invention are modified.
US10478491B2
As described below, the present invention features methods for enhancing the efficacy of a tumor antigen in inducing an anti-cancer immune response in a subject by administering an OX40 agonist and an Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitor with the tumor antigen.
US10478487B2
Compositions for prevention of Foot and Mouth Disease (FM D) are provided, comprising an antigen component in the amount equivalent to 0.5-20 μg FM D virus and an adjuvant component comprising oil, an immunostimulatory oligonucleotide, and a polycationic carrier. Methods of using the composition, as well as the methods of reducing FM D persistence are also provided.
US10478485B2
Certain embodiments are directed to methods and compositions for preventing treating bacterial infections. In certain embodiments the compositions comprise thioredoxin deficient bacteria.
US10478482B2
The present invention provides new immunological compositions and vaccines comprising selected M. tuberculosis antigens and antigenic peptides as well as nucleic acids encoding said antigens for use in the prevention, prophylaxis and treatment of mycobacterial infection, especially tuberculosis. In particular the invention provides recombinant BCG based vaccines in which one or more of the selected M. tuberculosis antigens are over expressed. The invention further provides isolated peptides for use in methods for diagnosing, characterizing, or classifying mycobacterial infections.
US10478479B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a dendritic cell, a dendritic cell prepared thereby and a use thereof, and more specifically, to a method for preparing a dendritic cell, including: treating a dendritic cell at a maturation stage rather than at an immature stage with an antigen bound to a peptide having a cell membrane permeability to prepare a dendritic cell with improved antigen-presenting ability, a dendritic cell prepared by the method, and an immunotherapeutic agent thereof, a use for anti-tumor vaccines, or a pharmaceutical composition for treating tumors, containing the same.
US10478468B2
Disclosed is a method for enhancing the effect of an immunotherapy for cancer in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a polysaccharide extract of Astragalus membranaceus. Also disclosed is a method for increasing a subject's pool of M1 macrophages, wherein the subject is suffering from one or more conditions associated with undesirable M2 macrophage activation, the method comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a polysaccharide extract of Astragalus membranaceus.
US10478467B2
A method for the treatment or prophylaxis of depressed mood is described, for subjects with increased MAO-A levels, subjects prone to excessive crying, or beyond 5-days postpartum. The subject is administered an antioxidant source on at least the first day of a 3 to 5 day regime; a tryptophan composition on the evening of the penultimate treatment day, simultaneously or following the antioxidant source; and a tyrosine composition the day after the tryptophan composition, on the final treatment day. The antioxidant source may comprise blueberries or another anthocyanin-containing fruit, vegetable, nut, legume, or a juice or extract thereof. Individuals with depressed mood due to perimenopause, due to an alcohol use disorder or withdrawal therefrom, or who are in a postpartum period up to or beyond 18-months, may benefit from the treatment regime. The described method can reduce the likelihood of advancing from depressed mood to postpartum depression in the postpartum period.
US10478465B2
Herbal composition for the treatment and management of cancer and method of preparation are disclosed herein. The disclosed composition includes a combination of herb and mineral components that facilitate in inhibiting abnormal cell proliferation. The embodiments of the composition can thus be used in treatment of cancer and related morbidities. Also, disclosed herein is a method for inducing cytotoxicity in cancer cells.
US10478461B2
The invention describes methods and agents for improving cosmetic appearance, for promoting, improving or restoring health of cells and tissues, preferably skin, and more preferably, for restoring aged or damaged skin to a healthy appearance. The agents include compositions of cells, eggs, cell extracts, egg extracts, and extract components such as purified nucleic acids, polypeptides, lipids, carbohydrates or other natural products.
US10478457B2
The present invention provides a chimeric protein having the formula: Casp-Ht1-Ht2 wherein Casp is a caspase domain; Ht1 is a first heterodimerization domain; and Ht2 is a second heterodimerization domain and wherein, in the presence of a chemical inducer of dimerization (CID), an identical pair of the chimeric proteins interact such that Ht1 from one chimeric protein heterodimerizes with Ht2 from the other chimeric protein, causing homodimerization of the two caspase domains. The invention also provides a cell comprising such a protein and its use in adoptive cell therapy.
US10478454B2
The invention discloses aluminium oxyhydroxide for use in the treatment and prevention of AD.
US10478448B2
Disclosed herein are antisense compounds and methods for decreasing apo(a) to treat, prevent, or ameliorate diseases, disorders or conditions related to apo(a) or Lp(a). Certain diseases, disorders or conditions related to apo(a) or Lp(a) include inflammatory, cardiovascular and/or metabolic diseases, disorders or conditions. The antisense compounds disclosed herein can be used to treat such diseases, disorders or conditions in an individual in need thereof.
US10478447B2
The disclosure provides an oral antiviral supplement composition comprising a lysine, an ascorbic compound, a flavonoid glycoside, a threonine, and a pyridoxine. The disclosure also provides a method of reducing viral replication in a cell comprising treating a virus-infected cell with a composition of the disclosure. The disclosure further provides a method for the treatment and prophylaxis of a viral infection in a patient comprising administering a composition of the disclosure.
US10478443B2
Novel methods for treating or reducing the likelihood of acquiring vaginal dysfunctions, more particularly vaginal dryness and dyspareunia, leading to sexual dysfunction and low sexual desire and performance, in susceptible warm-blooded animals including humans involving administration of a sex steroid precursor. Further administration of estrogen or selective estrogen receptor modulator, particularly those selected from the group consisting of Raloxifene, Arzoxifene, Tamoxifen, Droloxifene, Toremifene, Iodoxifene, GW 5638, TSE-424, ERA-923, and lasofoxifene, and more particularly compounds having the general structure: is specifically disclosed for the medical treatment and/or inhibition of development of some of these above-mentioned diseases. Pharmaceutical compositions for delivery of active ingredient(s) and kit(s) useful to the invention are also disclosed.
US10478441B2
A method of treating and/or preventing Dravet Syndrome in a patient such as a patient previously diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome, by administering an effective dose of fenfluramine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt to that patient. Dravet Syndrome patients are typically children under the age of 18 and are treated at a preferred dose of less than about 0.5 to about 0.01 mg/kg/day.
US10478435B2
Described herein are methods of treatment of stroke and traumatic brain injury comprising administration of a CRAC channel inhibitor.
US10478433B2
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.
US10478420B2
The present invention relates to solid oral formulations comprising a compound of formula (3Z,5S)-5-(hydroxymethyl)-1-[(2′-methyl-1,1′-biphenyl-4-yl)carbonyl]pyrrolidin-3-one-O-methyloxime, and/or an active metabolite thereof, and the use of said formulations in the treatment and/or prevention of preterm labor, premature birth, dysmenorrhea and embryo implantation failure due to uterine contractions. The present invention is furthermore related to processes for their preparation.
US10478419B2
Disclosed herein are methods of using daphnoretin to treat, prevent or reduce the incidence of organ transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). According to embodiments of the present disclosure, daphnoretin is administered to the recipient subject or to the donor organ prior to the transplantation to reduce immune response in the recipient subject against the transplanted organ, or to lower the risk of developing GVHD in the recipient subject.
US10478411B2
Treatment of intrahepatic cholestatic diseases by therapy with seladelpar or a salt thereof.
US10478408B2
A method of reducing the risk of medication-related overdose, death, or other injury associated with inappropriate consumption of alcohol in conjunction with prescription opioid analgesics, comprising: administering a combination medication having an effective amount of one or more opioid medications, and an effective amount of one or more aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitors, in order to provide the powerful analgesic effects of the opioid in conjunction with a substance that prevents concomitant alcohol consumption, thereby reducing the risk of alcohol mediated opioid overdose or death. A combination medication, including an effective amount of one or more opioid medications, and an effective amount of one or more aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitors and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US10478399B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition, particularly a modified release tablet composition comprising mirabegron or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and to a process for preparing such a composition.
US10478398B2
Discrete microstructures of predefined size and shape are prepared using sol-gel phase-reversible hydrogel templates. An aqueous solution of hydrogel-forming material is covered onto a microfabricated silicon wafer master template having predefined microfeatures, such as pillars. A hydrogel template is formed, usually by lowering the temperature, and the formed hydrogel template is peeled away from the silicon master template. The wells of predefined size and shape on the hydrogel template are filled with a solution or a paste of a water-insoluble polymer, and the solvent is removed to form solid structures. The formed microstructures are released from the hydrogel template by simply melting the hydrogel template in water. The microstructures are collected by centrifugation. The microstructures fabricated by this method exhibit pre-defined size and shape that exactly correspond to the microwells of the hydrogel template. The method of preparing microstructures based on hydrogel templates is simple and can easily produce large quantities of the microstructures.
US10478395B2
The composition containing a pamoate salt of donepezil, the method of preparation and the use thereof are disclosed.
US10478390B2
This invention relates to the cosmetic use of at least one glycoside chosen from glycosides having the following general formula (I): Sacc-(CH2)i—X—R in order to increase the hair mass.
US10478387B2
A hair coloring mixture including a carrier liquid with alumino-silicate micro-tubes having a hair dye agent loaded into the lumen of the micro-tubes. The micro-tubes may be present in the carrier liquid in a concentration of between about 5 mg/ml and about 50 mg/ml, while the mixture will have a pH of between about 4 and about 7.
US10478372B1
A motorcycle seat-massage system includes a frame forming at least a front seat and a front backrest. The front backrest frame includes an upper lateral member. A first massage unit is disposed on the front backrest frame lateral member and is laterally translatable thereon. The massage unit includes an electric motor coupled to a drive unit for powered translation of the massage unit on the backrest frame lateral member and further includes a massage head having a plurality of spherical massagers affixed thereto. The massage head is rotationally coupled to the electric motor, and a flexible seat cover is fitted over the frame and the massage unit. At least one controller is electrically communicative with the massage unit, the controller is operable to selectively engage and disengage the massage unit.
US10478369B2
A motion assist device, comprises a brace (2, 3, 5, 6, 11; 23, 24, 32, 35) configured to be worn by a user, an assist motor (4, 34) provided in association with the brace to assist a prescribed motion of the user, a control unit (10; 40) for controlling an operation of the assist motor, and an attitude detection sensor (8, 18; 38) connected to the control unit for detecting an attitude of the user. The control unit is configured to activate the assist motor when a prescribed attitude of the user is detected by the attitude detection sensor so that loads on parts of the user's body other than the part which is directly assisted can be minimized.
US10478367B2
A therapeutic massage chair is reclinable between a horizontal and inclined position. The chair includes an upper back support member and a lower support member that is axially movable along a support frame and is also rotatable about an axis which is perpendicular to the plane of the upper back support member. Electric linear actuators are provided to both axially move and oscillate the lower body support member.
US10478362B2
A device for repositioning bone fracture fragments is disclosed. The device has a carrier assembly and a first arm assembly attached to the carrier assembly, the first arm assembly configured to hold a first bone fracture fragment. The device also has a second arm assembly attached to the carrier assembly, the second arm assembly configured to hold a second bone fracture fragment. The device further has an actuator assembly configured to adjust the second arm assembly, and an operating assembly configured to control an adjustment of the second arm assembly via the actuator assembly. The operating assembly is a manually operatable operating assembly.
US10478356B2
A male urine receptacle is provided that includes a liquid permeable inner layer, a liquid impermeable outer layer and an absorbent core located therebetween. The inner layer, outer layer and absorbent core are assembled together to form a layered assembly, which, when folded into a into a “U” configuration, defines a front portion and a back portion of the receptacle. At least a portion of the side edges between the front portion and the back portion are closed by sealing or otherwise securing together the side edges of the layered assembly. At least one of the closed sides forms an expandable gusset and, preferably, both sides include at least one gusset. A closure mechanism is configured to adjust the open, upper periphery of the receptacle to provide a comfortable fit onto a penis, thus retaining the male urine receptacle on the penis.
US10478348B2
A feeding unit for feeding a component of a hygiene absorbent article; the feeding unit has: at least one sucking-holding head, which is designed to receive and hold the component; a conveyor to cyclically move the holding head along an annular application path; an input station in which the holding head receives a corresponding component which is connected—without gaps—to a continuous web; a cutting station provided with a cutting device, which cuts the continuous web crosswise; and an output station in which the holding head releases the component; the conveyor has: an annular guide; a slide which supports the holding head and is coupled to the guide so as to freely slide along the guide itself; and a linear electric motor, which has a stator, which is arranged in a fixed position along the guide and a mobile slider which is electro-magnetically coupled to the stator so as to receive, from the stator, a driving force and is rigidly connected to the slide.
US10478346B2
Methods of handling adhesive laminate patches. A first article, passed over a first supporting structure, includes disconnected adhesive laminate patches adhered to a first web, each patch being aligned over and adhered to a tab. A second web can be passed over a second supporting structure that is separated from the first supporting structure by a gap. The first article can be passed over the first supporting structure to lift a leading portion of a first tab and a first patch off of the first web together, such that the first tab facilitates transfer of the first patch across the gap. The first patch can then be adhered to the second web; and the second web can be advanced to transfer the first patch, and first tab, onto the second web to form a second article comprising patches aligned over tabs on the second web.
US10478335B2
Injection devices for delivering pharmaceutical compositions into the eye are described. Some devices include a resistance component for controllably deploying an injection needle through the eye wall. The resistance component may be disposed on a removable injector attachment or on a portion of the injection device housing. Other devices may include a filter for the removal of air, infectious agents, and/or other particulate matter from the composition before the composition is injected into the eye. Related methods and systems comprising the devices are also described.
US10478328B2
An ostomy pouch replacement device allows ostomates with a surgically created stoma to collect, contain and dispose of bodily fluids during hygienic maintenance. The device is customizable to each ostomate's unique stoma diameter and provides a disposable waste receptacle having a hollow absorbent section and a solid absorbent section for sanitary, discreet and odorless disposal of both urine and excrement. The disposable waste receptacle may include a super absorbent polymer powder that becomes a gel in the presence of liquid. The device preferably consists of a disposable waste receptacle that may be positioned over the stoma and includes an absorbent inner material for capturing waste, a cap or plug for scaling the device after use, and a collar stand for pressing an adhesive wafer to the skin and for holding the assembled device in an upright position.
US10478327B2
A wearable garment device, design, and method of manufacture that to support proprioceptive posture recovery and rebalance. The wearable device can be stand alone or integrated as lining into any outer apparel for daily wear with the additional therapeutic posture correction. The wearable device maintains breathability, comfort for daily wear, improves function, range of motion, and aesthetic appeal. A wear tech garment device and method of manufacture.
US10478321B2
The present invention relates to a self-expanding vascular implant for implanting into a blood vessel of a patient. The vascular implant has a main body and at least one side body, and has integrally formed, one-piece stent springs, which are successively arranged in the longitudinal axis of the main body, with each stent spring meandering perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and an implant material which is fixed to and connects the stent springs. The stent springs have pointed arches that alternately point toward the proximal end and the distal end of the main body and parallel to the longitudinal axis thereof. The at least one side body that branches off from the main body is, in the self-expanded state, set out at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the main body.
US10478306B1
Methods for prevention of cold welding and/or corrosion between and/or tissue/bone overgrowth on implant components may include obtaining a first medical implant component having a first implant contact surface; obtaining a second medical implant component having a second implant contact surface, the second implant contact surface adapted for placement into contact with the first implant contact surface, the first implant contact surface and the second implant contact surface encompassing all points of contact between the first medical implant component and the second medical implant component; and applying a nonmetallic biocompatible separation coating material having a wax formulation on at least one of the first implant contact surface and the second implant contact surface, the nonmetallic biocompatible separation coating material separates the first implant contact surface from the second implant contact surface at all of the points of contact between the first medical implant component and the second medical implant component. Medical implant for prevention of cold welding, corrosion and tissue overgrowth on medical implant components are also disclosed.
US10478304B2
A system for repairing a tricuspid valve and positioned at a distal end of a catheter having a proximal end and a distal end and a bore extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The system comprises an activation element extending along the bore, the activation element including a first push element and a first pull element; a second push element and a second pull element; a third push element and a third pull element; wherein the first push element, the second push element, and the third push element are independently slideable in relation to each other; a first lower jaw being pin connected to the first pull element; a second lower jaw being pin connected to the second pull element; a third lower jaw being pin connected to the third pull element.
US10478302B2
This material comprises an annuloplasty member able to be introduced using a catheter through minimally invasive vascular access, then to be delivered by said catheter and fixed to the valve annulus. According to the invention, it includes at least one catheter comprising at least one guide member able to be deployed from said catheter such that it extends along one portion of the valve annulus of the valve, in the immediate proximity of said valve annulus, and an implant having a helical shape engaged on said guide member, connected, with separation possibility, to actuation means making it possible to cause this implant to move forward while driving it in rotation around its axis; the implant can thus be deployed from the catheter while being simultaneously moved forward and driven in rotation along its axis.
US10478295B2
A delivery apparatus can include a handle portion and at least one rotatable drive shaft. The handle portion can have an actuation mechanism with a motor. The rotatable drive shaft can have a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The proximal end portion of the rotatable drive shaft can be coupled to the motor, and the distal end portion of the rotatable drive shaft can be configured to be releasably coupled to a prosthetic heart valve. The actuation mechanism can be configured to control and monitor expansion of the prosthetic heart valve and to control and monitor torque of the motor.
US10478289B2
Apparatus for endovascularly replacing a patient's heart valve, including: a replacement valve adapted to be delivered endovascularly to a vicinity of the heart valve; an expandable anchor adapted to be delivered endovascularly to the vicinity of the heart valve; and a lock mechanism configured to maintain a minimum amount of anchor expansion. The invention also includes a method for endovascularly replacing a patient's heart valve. In some embodiments the method includes the steps of: endovascularly delivering a replacement valve and an expandable anchor to a vicinity of the heart valve; expanding the anchor to a deployed configuration; and locking the anchor in the deployed configuration.
US10478285B2
The present disclosure concerns a curvature-changing, accommodative intraocular lens (IOL) for implantation in the capsular bag of a patient's eye. The IOL includes a fluid optic body having a cavity for containing an optical fluid, the cavity at least partially defined by a sidewall extending around the cavity and defining a diameter of the cavity and a deformable optical membrane intersecting the sidewall around a circumference of the sidewall and spanning the diameter of the cavity. The IOL further includes a second optic body spaced a distance apart from the fluid optic body and a plurality of struts extending from the sidewall and coupling the fluid optic body to the second optic body. The struts are configured such that axial compression of the capsular bag causes the struts to deform the sidewall in a manner that increases the diameter of the cavity, modifying a curvature of the deformable optical membrane.
US10478281B2
An implantable prosthesis for mending anatomical defects, including a groin hernia. The prosthesis includes a prosthetic repair patch that may be implanted in different tissue planes to mend a defect. The patch may include a medial portion configured to be positioned in a first tissue plane and a lateral portion configured to be positioned in a second tissue plane offset from the first tissue plane. The patch may include a transition region configured to extend through tissue and/or muscle, such as fascia, separating the tissue planes and transition the patch from one tissue plane to the other tissue plane. The transition region may be configured to inhibit buckling and/or bunching of the patch when implanted through the fascia. The lateral portion of the patch may have a level of stiffness that facilitates implantation of the patch in different tissue planes while inhibiting patient sensation to the implanted patch.
US10478271B2
The invention relates to orthodontic appliances that simulate the center of resistance in orthodontic treatment. The orthodontic appliance includes at least one bonding pad for attaching said appliance to a corresponding lingual side of a tooth and a netted structure extending in a mesial-distal direction substantially below the at least one bonding pad. The netted structure engages or passes components for delivering force in orthodontic treatment. With aid of the force delivering components engaged or passed in the netted structure, a dentist or a clinician can advantageously simulate the center of resistance in a dentition or a tooth in orthodontic treatment for space closure and/or distalization.
US10478269B2
The present invention relates to a method for automatically moving an object in a simulation system, and a simulation system using the same. The method for automatically moving an object in a simulation system includes: moving a first object of a plurality of objects in a first direction; measuring a vector distance between the first object and a second object which is an object adjacent to the first object according to the movement of the first object; and automatically vector-moving the second object by a predetermined distance in the first direction along a preset path so that the vector distance is in a preset vector distance range.
US10478265B2
Cranial fixation devices are provided. For example, a cranial fixation device may include positive stops that provide visual and tactical feedback when a predetermined compression is applied once a medical device is inserted therein and placed in position.
US10478260B2
Arrangements described herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for an enclosure for a device having a probe supported by a housing. The housing defines a cavity through which the probe protrudes. The probe is configured to move within the cavity. The enclosure includes a removable enclosure body. The enclosure body is configured to enclose at least a portion of the housing while covering an entirety of the cavity. The enclosure further includes a probe interaction portion in the enclosure body. The probe interaction portion is configured to be operatively engaged with the probe such that the probe is configured to transmit acoustic energy to a subject from within the enclosure.
US10478254B2
A system and method for navigating to a target site in a patient is provided. The system includes an extended working channel and a tool usable with an electromagnetic navigation system. In particular, the extended working channel and the tool contain an electromagnetic sensor configured to provide location information within a patient of the extended working channel and the tool to the electromagnetic navigation system. The distance from the tool and the target site can then be determined and displayed to a clinician on a display device.
US10478251B2
A device includes a catheter section comprising a flexible joint region disposed between a distal end and a proximal end. The device includes a laser fiber disposed within the catheter section. The laser fiber emits laser light at a fiber distal end. The device includes a wire comprising a distal end coupled to the catheter section. The wire is configured to move the distal end of the catheter section from a first position to a second position about the flexible joint region.
US10478246B2
Methods and systems for modulating intraosseous nerves (e.g., nerves within bone) are provided. For example, the methods and systems described herein may be used to modulate (e.g., denervate, ablate) basivertebral nerves within vertebrae. The modulation of the basivertebral nerves may facilitate treatment of chronic back pain. The modulation may be performed by a neuromodulation device (e.g., an energy delivery device).
US10478245B2
An energizable surgical attachment is configured for positioning about a shaft of a surgical instrument. The energizable surgical attachment includes an outer sheath defining a lumen extending longitudinally through the outer sheath, an energizable rod member coupled to the outer sheath, a connector attachment electrically coupled to the energizable rod member, and at least one o-ring disposed within the lumen of the outer sheath. At least a portion of the energizable rod member extends distally from the distal end of the outer sheath. The o-ring(s) are configured to establish a fluid-tight seal between the outer sheath and the shaft of the surgical instrument and to bias the outer sheath towards a stationary position relative to the shaft of the surgical instrument.
US10478241B2
The present disclosure illustrates an osteotome for treating hard tissue. The osteotome embodiments described herein include a shaft with a working end configured to displace hard tissue and a lumen to deliver material through the shaft. The working end may create pathways by selectively transitioning from a linear to a non-linear configuration. The lumen may deliver material through the shaft while the working end is in a linear or a non-linear configuration allowing precise filling of the pathways.
US10478238B2
Active compression devices, methods of assembly and methods of use are disclosed. A bone fixation device may include a first member, a second member shaped to engage the first member, and at least one deformable member. A bone fusion device including a female member with a proximal and distal end, a male member with a proximal and distal end, and at least one elastic element positioned between the female member and the male member. A bone plating device including a first member, a second member shaped to engage the first member, and at least one deformable member positioned between the first member and the second member. Methods of assembling and using the bone fixation devices, bone fusion devices, and bone plating devices are also disclosed.
US10478237B2
A bone plate has first and second sides, each with the same structure. The plate includes nodes separated by deformable bridges. Each node defines a screw hole, and wings extending laterally therefrom. The wings taper in thickness between the first and second sides. Screw holes are threaded into the nodes. Each of the first and second sides of the body define longitudinal channels in the nodes. The plate can be shaped to the bone by deformation at the bridges or removal of portions of the plate at bridges. A pair of benders, each with clamp bracket and clamping bolt threadedly coupled within a threaded hole of the bracket, is also provided for shaping the plate.
US10478229B2
A polyaxial bone anchor with a receiver, a shank, a pressure insert, a retainer for holding the shank in the receiver, and a closure. The receiver having at least one vertically aligned guide on a surface of an interior shank and insert receiving chamber. The insert having at least one shoulder that aligns with the guide and both properly positions the insert relative to the receiver during assembly and prevents the insert from axially rotating relative to the receiver.
US10478222B1
A perianal support device is provided that is configured to inhibit the formation and/or progression of tissue damage in the perianal region of the body. A method is provided to apply the perianal support device to patients during childbirth to inhibit the formation and/or progression of tissue damage in the perianal region of the body.
US10478218B2
A scalpel holder, having a grip piece with a longitudinal direction and a blade holder which is connected to the grip piece and which functions to receive a scalpel blade and hold the same fixed, wherein the grip piece has a slider guide which runs substantially in the longitudinal direction of the grip piece for the purpose of receiving a slider, wherein the same can be movably guided in said slider guide toward the blade holder, and the slider guide is arranged on the grip piece in such a manner that the end piece, the same designed with a wedge shape, of the slider which is guided in the slider guide in the direction of the blade holder slides past the scalpel blade while lifting the same out of the blade holder.
US10478213B2
A tissue-removing catheter includes a drive shaft and a tissue-removing head. The tissue-removing head is at the distal end of the drive shaft and is configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the drive shaft. The tissue-removing head is selectively adjustable from an initial cross-sectional dimension to an expanded cross-sectional dimension larger than the initial cross-sectional dimension.
US10478202B2
A valvuloplasty system comprises a balloon adapted to be placed adjacent leaflets of a valve. The balloon is inflatable with a liquid. The system further includes a shock wave generator within the balloon that produces shock waves that propagate through the liquid for impinging upon the valve. The shock wave generator is moveable within the balloon to vary shock wave impingement on the valve.
US10478190B2
A circular stapling instrument is disclosed which comprises a replaceable staple cartridge. The circular stapling instrument and/or staple cartridge comprises a lockout configured to prevent a previously-fired staple cartridge from being re-used.
US10478188B2
A staple cartridge assembly is disclosed which comprises a cartridge body and an implantable layer. The implantable layer includes fibers comprised of a first material and a second material. The first material and the second material have different glass transition temperatures. After the fibers comprised of the first material and the second material have been intermixed or interwoven, the layer is exposed to a temperature which exceeds the lower of the two glass transition temperatures. This heating process causes the layer to constrict and increase in thickness. The layer, when implanted, can compensate for variations in tissue thickness within the staples.
US10478187B2
A surgical stapler end effector comprises a staple cartridge, an anvil, and a buttress assembly. The staple cartridge comprises a plurality of staples and a deck. The staple cartridge is operable to drive the staples through the deck. The anvil is movable from an open position toward the staple cartridge to reach a closed position. The anvil includes an underside having staple forming surface configured to receive staples driven through the deck. The buttress assembly comprises a buttress body and an adhesive material. The buttress body defines a plurality of cells. The adhesive material comprises a polymer. The polymer is bioabsorbable. A first portion of the adhesive material is located within cells of the plurality of cells. A second portion of the adhesive material is located on the buttress body outside the plurality of cells.
US10478185B2
A surgical stapling device includes a handle assembly, an elongate body extending distally from the handle assembly, and a tool assembly. The tool assembly includes an actuation sled that is movable through a staple cartridge to eject staples from the staple cartridge and a clamp member that is movable through the tool assembly to move the tool assembly from an open position to an approximated position. In order to minimize dead space in a proximal portion of the tool assembly, the actuation sled and clamp member are supported in a nested relationship in a pre-actuated state of the surgical stapling device. The clamp member is subsequently moved to a position proximal of the actuation sled during a firing stroke of the stapling device.
US10478183B2
Various adjunct releasing mechanisms are provided herein that can be incorporated into surgical devices, such as an end effector of a surgical stapler. For example, an adjunct releasing mechanism can act to release an adjunct attached to an end effector of a surgical stapler upon deployment of staples retained within the end effector. The adjunct can be retained on the end effector through a variety of means, such as through use of adhesive or by having a portion of the adjunct partially received within cavities formed on a tissue-facing surface of the end effector. The releasing mechanisms can extend into the cavities formed on the tissue-facing surface of the end effector to cause the adjunct to detach from the end effector upon deployment of staples.
US10478181B2
A surgical cutting and stapling end effector. Various embodiments comprise a channel that is configured to operably support a removable staple cartridge. A rotary end effector drive shaft is supported within the channel and is configured to move a firing assembly longitudinally within the end effector to cause the sled to eject surgical staples from the staple cartridge. The firing assembly is prevented from moving distally through the channel unless a surgical staple cartridge that has a sled in a starting position has been seated within the channel.
US10478179B2
A method of forming and deploying an improved absorbable fastener for hernia mesh fixation is disclosed. The absorbable fastener of the present invention functions to securely fasten tough, non macro-porous, and relative inelastic mesh to soft tissue. The fastener is formed from co-polymers of lactide and glycolide.
US10478178B2
The present invention discloses methods for producing a surgical suture having a reduced cross-sectional area portion from monofilaments fibers of various polymeric and metallic materials. Also disclosed are novel sutures having novel tips. Novel suture tipping apparatuses are also disclosed. The monofilament is subjected to the application of thermal treatment coupled with application of mechanical shaping of the fiber element to produce a deformed cross sectional portion of the suture body. The deformed suture body region is subsequently subjected to a trimming operation within a punching/stamping die. The reduced section of the suture body region and is severed to form a suture having a reduced-cross sectional area end portion. Preferably, each reduced region is severed approximately in the center of the trimmed reduced cross sectional area portion to form a suture having both ends of a reduced cross-sectional area.
US10478167B2
Medical adhesive applicators are disclosed which allow medical adhesives to have long storage life and be easily dispensed in a controlled manner. In one embodiment, the applicator has a frangible glass vial with the medical adhesive. The frangible glass vial is held in a plastic enclosure with a dispensing tip. Attached to the plastic enclosure is a squeeze tube capable of imparting air pressure into the enclosure. To dispense medical adhesive quickly and with precision, one simply breaks the frangible glass vial and pushes on the squeeze tube. In another embodiment, the applicator has a proximal chamber containing medical adhesive, a distal chamber for dispensing medical adhesive and one or more rupturable membranes between them. To achieve long shelf life, the applicator chambers and membrane(s) are formed from fluorinated plastic. To dispense medical adhesive, one ruptures the membrane(s) and pushes on the sides of the proximal chamber.
US10478153B2
An intravenous ultrasound (IVUS) system can include a catheter and a translation mechanism for translating the catheter. Engagement between the catheter and the translation mechanism may be detected, and the translation mechanism can be placed in a connected or disconnected mode, accordingly. When in connected mode, certain IVUS operations may be enabled when compared to disconnected mode, wherein such operations may be disabled. Thus, some embodiments may ensure proper engagement between the catheter and the translation mechanism prior to allowing certain IVUS operations to be carried out.
US10478152B2
There is provided an endoscope apparatus in which a forceps elevator can be operated according to the operator's intention even when a treatment tool has large bending stiffness. The forceps elevator is erectably provided in a distal end part of the insertion part of the endoscope apparatus and guides the treatment tool led out from the distal end part. The forceps elevator has an erecting motion range from a minimum angular position to a maximum angular position. If a state in which the treatment tool is not led out from the distal end part is assumed, the erecting operation lever for operating the movement of the forceps elevator has: a first operation range where the erecting operation lever is operated within the erecting motion range of the forceps elevator; and a second operation range where the erecting operation lever is operated beyond the first operation range.
US10478147B2
A calibration object is imaged in a radiographic system such as a CT system. The images are processed to calibrate the system, without prior measurement of the calibration object. Initial estimates are refined to improve accuracy.
US10478137B2
An imaging apparatus includes a first imaging modality (1021), a second imaging modality (1022), wherein the first and second imaging modalities are in alignment with scanning zones for scanning an object or subject, and a third imaging modality (102N) which is selectively moveable between a first location (114) in which the third imaging modality is in alignment with the scanning zones for scanning the object or subject and a second location (122) in which the third imaging modality is outside of alignment with the scanning zones.
US10478133B2
Methods and systems are provided for calibrating a nuclear medicine imaging system. In one embodiment, a method comprises: detecting, with a plurality of detectors, photons emitted by a calibration source comprising a radioactive line source and a fluorescence source, while pivoting one or more detectors of the plurality of detectors; and calibrating, with a processor communicatively coupled to the plurality of detectors, each detector of the plurality of detectors based on energy measurements of the detected photons. In this way, a two-point energy calibration of detectors can be performed with a single isotope, and without removing or adjusting a collimator attached to the detector.
US10478132B2
Composition methods and kits for diagnosing and treating tumors within a subject. The compositions disclosed comprise: a gold nanoparticle; PEG or derivatives thereof, wherein said PEG or derivatives thereof have a molecular weight of 400 to 1500 Dalton; and a 2-Deoxy-D-glucose, wherein the PEG or derivatives thereof are linked to the gold nanoparticle and to said 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose, and wherein the 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose is linked to the PEG or derivatives thereof at the 2-Carbon position of the 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose.
US10478129B2
A computer-implemented method for estimating biophysiological rates using the Hilbert transform includes receiving a quasiperiodic data stream from a biophysiological sensor, and removing at least a portion of an offset from the quasiperiodic data stream to provide a smoothed data stream by filtering the quasiperiodic data stream through a bandpass filter and phase compensating the filtered quasiperiodic data stream. The method also includes transforming the smoothed data stream into an analytic data stream using a Hilbert transform approximation and calculating the time derivative of the phase angle of the analytic data stream, where the time derivative is a frequency of the quasiperiodic data stream. The method further includes providing an output data stream derived from the frequency.
US10478124B2
This document discusses, among other things, using a pressure sensor to detect body sound information of a patient, such as cardiac murmurs, respiratory sounds, etc.
US10478118B1
The various embodiments of the method of the present invention include a method to improving or expanding the capacity of a sleep analysis unit or laboratory, a method sleep analysis testing a patient admitted for diagnosis or treatment of another primary medical condition while being treated or diagnosed for that condition, a method of sleep analysis testing a patient that cannot be easily moved or treated in a sleep analysis unit or laboratory and other like methods.
US10478116B2
An aspect of the invention described herein includes a method for a digestion diagnosis of a subject. The method includes obtaining electrogastrogram (EGG), bowel sound and NIRS signals from one or more sensors positioned about an abdominal region of a subject, removing artifacts from the signals to obtain conditioned signal data, and determining a digestion condition or feeding readiness of the subject based at least in part on the conditioned signal data.
US10478113B2
The present disclosure relates generally to using detected bladder events for the diagnosis of urinary incontinence or the treatment of lower urinary tract dysfunction. A system includes a sensing device comprising a pressure sensor to directly detect a pressure within a bladder. The sensing device is adapted to be located within the bladder. The system also includes a signal processing device to: receive a signal indicating the detected pressure within the bladder; detect a bladder event based the detected pressure within the signal; and characterize the bladder event as a bladder contraction event or a non-contraction event. The characterization of the bladder event can be used in the diagnosis of urinary incontinence or the treatment of lower urinary tract dysfunction.
US10478100B2
A medical device and a method for configuring a process for determining a dose of insulin to be administered for glycemic control is provided, wherein the dose is stepwise adapted, comprising defining different dose adjustment profiles for stepwise adapting the dose, wherein each of the different dose adjustment profiles is based at least on a specific initial dose value, a specific time interval for increasing the dose, a specific dose increase step and a specific low blood glucose threshold value, storing the different dose adjustment profiles, selecting one of the stored different dose adjustment profiles based on specific requirements for stepwise adapting the dose, and personalizing the selected dose adjustment profile by defining at least a specific target blood glucose value for a specific user.
US10478095B2
The present invention relates to analyzing fatigue level of users by transmitting pressure data from user's shoes wirelessly for real-time monitoring. Athletes for in body-contact games such as football, are often suddenly forced out of games due to injuries as it is often difficult to ascertain the nature of the injury on the field. The present invention enables a coach to have an ability to monitor performance of the athletes as they play, thus help in determining current level of athlete's injury, and help in preventing career threatening and/or fatal injuries. Further, pressure sensors can be used to determine fatigue detection and can be verified by readings from knock sensor, accelerometer data, etc. Variations in all such sensors for a time slice t-seconds can be used as an indicator for fatigue.
US10478091B2
Provided is a micro robot position detection device. The device includes a micro robot position detection unit that uses a micro robot control parameter to filter a reflected signal of an ultra wide-band impulse radar signal emitted to a micro robot to extract, as a micro robot signal, a natural oscillating frequency signal generated when the micro robot is driven through control of external electromagnetic field, and analyzes the micro robot signal based on a transmission and reception parameter of the ultra wide-band impulse radar signal to calculate position information for the micro robot. Also, the device may further include an image matching unit that receives position information for the micro robot and performs position correction on the received position information based on pre-stored reference image data and the image data.
US10478087B2
An open bore coil system enabling electronic steering and rotation of a Field Free Line (FFL) inside a large volume. An FFL is generated by placing two parallel coil pairs (fed with alternating current directions) side by side. Using two of these coil groups, the FFL can be rotated in the plane perpendicular to the coil axes. The FFL can be translated in the rotation plane of the FFL using a coil pair placed on the same axis with the other coils. It can also be translated in the perpendicular plane by asymmetrical coil excitation. As all the coils in the system are parallel, the imaged object can be reached from the sides during imaging.
US10478078B2
The present invention relates to a Device for determining vital signs of a subject comprising an interface (22) for receiving a periodic photoplethysmographic, PPG, signal obtained from a subject (14) by a PPG measurement, a signal partitioning unit (24) for partitioning the PPG signal in time into a plurality of PPG sub-signals covering a half period or an integer multiple of a half period, a normalizing unit (26) for normalizing the PPG signal in advance of the partitioning and/or the PPG sub-signals in time and/or amplitude, a signal combination unit (28) for combining a number of normalized PPG sub-signals to obtain a combined PPG sub-signal, and a vital sign processor (30) for deriving a desired vital sign from the PPG signal, one or more combined PPG sub-signals or an enhanced PPG signal obtained by consecutively arranging a number of combined PPG sub-signals.
US10478071B2
A medical imaging method includes imaging a target with a hyperspectral imaging system in order to obtain imaging data. There is provided a method in medical imaging. In the method, a target is imaged with a hyperspectral imaging system in order to obtain imaging data. The obtained imaging data is pre-processed by spatial and spectral averaging. A number of endmembers to be determined from the pre-processed imaging data is selected. The endmembers are extracted from the pre-processed imaging data based on vertex component analysis on the pre-processed imaging data and the selected number of endmembers, said endmembers defining an extremity of projections of the pre-processed imaging data in a subspace spanned by the endmembers. At least one abundance map is generated of the selected number of endmembers in the pre-processed imaging data using a filter vector algorithm on the extracted endmembers and the imaging data.
US10478070B2
An adjustable anatomy display table is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the adjustable anatomy table includes a display configured to visualize the anatomy in a real size, a base configured to support the display, and an adjustable mechanism that mechanically couples the display to the base. The adjustable mechanism is configured to adjust a position of the display relative to the base.
US10478069B2
Disclosed is a method for estimating an onset time of an infarct region based on brain images, the method including: obtaining brain images; extracting from the infarct region included in the brain images a set of quantitative values that vary according to the onset time of the infarct region; and having the set of quantitative values correspond to the onset time of the infarct region by applying a corresponding relation prepared therefor.
US10478067B2
Procedures, implantable wireless sensing devices, and sensor assemblies suitable for monitoring physiological parameters within living bodies. Such sensor assembly includes a sensing device and an anchor for securing the sensing device within a living body. The sensing device comprises a housing having at least one internal cavity and a transducer and electrical circuitry within the at least one internal cavity. The sensing device further comprises an antenna that is within the at least one internal cavity or outside the housing. The housing has at least one additional housing portion in which the transducer, the electrical circuitry, and the antenna are not located. The anchor has a metal portion that surrounds the at least one additional housing portion so as not to surround the transducer, the electrical circuitry, or the antenna.
US10478065B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for monitoring in real time the physiological status of one or more subjects, especially subject engaged in potentially hazardous or dangerous activities. Systems include wearable items with one or more physiological sensors and a local data unit (LDU) operatively coupled to the sensors. The LDUs digitize and filter sensor data, extract physiological parameters, determine abnormal or not acceptable physiological conditions, and communicate to external monitoring facilities. The external facilities display status and data concerning monitored subjects. In preferred embodiments, communication between the LDUs and the external monitoring facilities dynamically adjusts to the condition of the subjects and to system changes such as subjects and external facilities entering and leaving and/or moving from place to place. The invention also provides program products for performing this invention's methods.
US10478064B2
A device for determining an intraocular pressure of an eye is disclosed. The device comprises; (a) a housing; (b) a plunger axially movable within the housing, a first end of the plunger having a tip for contacting the eye; (c) an indicator arm operatively connected to a second end of the plunger; (d) a measurement gauge for indicating the intraocular pressure of the eye; and (e) a resilient biasing member for biasing the plunger towards an extended position in which the plunger tip protrudes beyond the housing and the indicator arm is biased towards a first position on the measurement gauge. Applying pressure to the eye via the plunger tip causes the intraocular pressure of the eye to exert an opposing force on the plunger tip causing the plunger to retract into the housing to cause a reciprocal movement of the indicator arm towards a second position thereby indicating the intraocular pressure of the eye on the measurement gauge.
US10478063B2
An eyeblink measurement system 10 is a measurement apparatus for measuring a subject's eyelid position, and includes a lighting device 1 that irradiates light extending across upper to lower eyelids of the subject's eye region E, and an image measurement device 2 that has an optical axis Ia on a plane for which a plane including an irradiation optical axis La of the light is rotated by a predetermined angle θ around an axis A1 along the light to be irradiated onto the subject, obtains height information based on the position of an optical image of the light in an image imaged, and measures the eyelid position based on the height information.
US10478052B2
An endoscope sheath comprising: a proximal end; a distal end having a distal end region; a surface extending between and connecting the proximal end and the distal end; and a plurality of positioning devices located along the surface; wherein the sheath is configured to: (1) receive all or a portion of an endoscope having a cylindrical end and (2) provide a conduit for communicating fluid between the proximal end of the sheath and the distal end of the sheath when the endoscope is inserted inside the sheath; and wherein the distal end region of the sheath includes the plurality of positioning devices that secure the cylindrical end of the endoscope against a portion of an inner wall of the surface extending between the proximal end and the distal end so that a fluid barrier is created between the cylindrical end of the endoscope and the inner wall.
US10478028B2
A rechargeable vacuum cleaner assembly includes: a rechargeable vacuum cleaner provided with a first magnetic member (1011); and a charging stand (100) provided with a second magnetic member (1012), in which the first magnetic member (1011) is configured to cooperate with the second magnetic member (1012) through magnetic attraction so as to position the rechargeable vacuum cleaner to the charging stand (100).
US10478014B2
The semi-automatic collapsible chafer system is a multi-angle framework with a plurality of locking joints arranged at the corners thereof and a plurality of interlocking rail pole assemblies. The frame is designed with at least one well to accommodate one or more industry standard chafing pans with a unique dual canned heat compartment for each well. The semi-automatic collapsible chafer system quickly opens to be used as a complete food service station then quickly retracts for easy storage and mobility. The complete assembly utilizes these joints to collapse horizontally and vertically in the X, Y, and Z axis. The present invention is the only fully collapsible/erectable chafer with heater supports and built in safety features.
US10478013B2
Cooking appliance including a lid that closes, in a removable manner, a working container receiving a tool spun by a motor, the lid having a body equipped with a tube for adding food, arranged in an off-center manner on the lid, wherein the lid includes a locking ring that can move by spinning on said body, and the locking ring can be in a closed position in which locking components hold the lid in a closed position on the working container, and in an open position in which the lid can be lifted off of the working container.
US10478004B2
A device for cooking proteins is provided. The device includes first and second pans. Each pan includes a base and an alignment wall. The bases each have a top surface with a non-stick coating. The alignment walls each include a cutout to provide a space for a food product to be disposed therein such that the top surface of the first and second pans cook a food product disposed therein.
US10477996B2
This invention relates to anti-spill disposable and reusable drink-through lids for hot and cold disposable and reusable beverage cups. The present invention is directed to drink-through lids which may be placed over and attached to disposable and reusable beverage cups and which provides a drink-through opening near the perimeter of the lid's top surface for easy drinking. The drink-though lid can accommodate a consumer's lips or a beverage disposable or reusable straw. When used with a straw, the lid and straw combination creates a spill-proof seal.
US10477988B2
A system and method are disclosed which facilitate installation of modular shelving through utilization of a notch indication tape. The notch identification tape may include an adhesive surface and an opposing identification surface having a plurality of identification markers. The identification markers can be numbers, letters, a combination thereof, or any other identification scheme. The notch identification tape may be placed on a vertical plane of a modular shelf so that it adheres to the vertical plane in order to identify specific notches on the vertical plane.
US10477986B2
A fan plenum assembly for a merchandiser. The fan plenum assembly includes a plenum housing that defines an opening configured to receive a fan, and that has a side wall with a slot and a slot extension continuous with the slot. The slot has a major axis extending through a center of the slot. A bearing is configured to rotationally support a hinge pin and is coupled to the side wall. The bearing includes a positioning element that is disposed in the slot and in the slot extension. The positioning element is movable within the slot and the slot extension such that the bearing is movable along the major axis to permit axial adjustment of a position of the bearing relative to the plenum housing and the bearing is immovable rotationally relative to the plenum housing.
US10477984B2
A universal accessible kitchenette holder and dispensing unit configured to be setup in a horizontal serving surface to provide easy access by disabled and non-disabled to various items commonly used in a lunch room or kitchenette, such as plates, cups, napkins, utensils, small food items and packaged condiments, and etc. Each unit includes two L-shaped outer side walls, a lower tier front wall, a bottom panel, a rear wall, and an upper tier front wall. An intermediate floor panel may be disposed between the two side walls dividing the unit into a lower tier and an upper tier. Each tier is divided into one or more bins by dividing walls. Extending forward from each front wall are optional extensions. Also formed on the front wall of the lower and upper tiers are optional tactile indicators used by visually handicapped individuals to identify the contents in the bins directly behind the front wall.
US10477982B2
A baby crib comprises an upper frame, a lower frame and support members attached to the upper frame and the lower frame. The upper frame comprises a first part firmly attached to the support members and a second part. The second part is pivotally coupled with the support members to move reversibly from a first position to a second position to move said second part relative to said first part.
US10477974B2
Outdoor seating furniture is provided, which includes at least one seat element arranged on a frame with a seat surface and a reverse side, wherein, in a basic state, the seat surface is oriented downwards and, in a functional state, the seat surface is oriented upwards. The seat element as part of a pivot bearing is pivotably mounted about the longitudinal axis of a transverse strut of the frame and is stabilized by force of gravity, force of spring, magnetic force and/or an electromechanical actuator in the basic state.
US10477970B2
A gas cylinder includes: a base tube including a cavity; a spindle inserted into the cavity and performing a reciprocating motion in a longitudinal direction of the base tube; a cylinder mounted in the spindle and charged with gas; a piston dividing the cylinder into an upper chamber and a lower chamber; a valve portion sealing an upper portion of the cylinder and including a pipe holder having a cavity through which the gas is introduced; a flow prevention portion inserted into the spindle and having an inner surface contacting a surface of the spindle; and a spindle guide disposed between the base tube and the spindle and mounted to include at least a portion of the flow prevention portion.
US10477966B2
This Product will add or create storage space in a pull-out sliding drawer and provide support to prevent additional material from falling off/out of a pull-out sliding drawer. The user will be able to securely store additional material in a pull-out sliding drawer than anticipated. Pull-out sliding drawers common in several cabinets provide a certain amount of area in which to store material, which can be defined by the area within the height of the drawer side (walls or dividers) of a pull-out sliding drawer and the amount of space above a pull-out sliding drawer and below the cabinet or drawer above. In some cases, the height of the drawer wall or divider (which can hold material in the drawer) does not allow for adequate use of the overall area provided to store material due to the walls or dividers not being high enough to store and hold material in. The area above a pull-out sliding drawer and below the cabinet or drawer above is defined as “potential storage area.” This product can be easily placed on and removed, from the top of the walls/dividers of a pull-out sliding drawer. Once in place, it will provide additional height and support for material stored. As a result of this product, the total “potential storage area” in a drawer to store material is more efficiently utilized.
US10477964B2
An improved locker seat includes a pair of spaced-apart upstanding sidewalls having a pair of front edges. A generally horizontal seat extends between and at least partially forward of the front edges of the sidewalls. A lower seatback is connected at a lower extent by a hinge between the sidewalls and extending above the seat, the lower seatback is movable about the hinge between an open position and a closed position. An upper seatback is connected at an upper extent by a hinge between the sidewalls and above the lower seatback, the upper seatback being movable about the hinge between an open and a closed position.
US10477959B2
A method (200) for manufacturing a brush head (100). The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of polypropylene bristle tuft retention rings (50), and inserting a respective nylon bristle tuft (21) into each of the bristle tuft retention rings. Heat is applied to each bristle tuft proximal end (23) at a temperature sufficient to at least partially melt the bristle tuft proximal end and create a proximal head portion (26). The platen (42) of the brush head is positioned in relation to the retaining rings (50) and proximal head portions (26) to define a space (92) in relation to the proximal head portions for injection of a thermoplastic elastomer, and the thermoplastic elastomer is injected into the space to create an elastomeric matrix (30) that at least partially encompasses the neck and the proximal head portions.
US10477958B2
An oral care implement including at least one multi-component bristle. In one aspect, the invention can be an oral care implement having a handle; a head coupled to the handle; at least one bristle tuft extending from the head, the at least one bristle tuft comprising at least one multi-component bristle comprising first and second components. The first component may include a first plastic and a first oral care additive and the second component may include a second plastic and a second oral care additive such that the first oral care additive is different than the second oral care additive.
US10477956B2
Two-in-one cosmetic systems having a tweezer removably disposed in a handle are disclosed. The tweezer may be removably disposed in a handle of the applicator, such that the tweezer is restrained and a pinching tip of the tweezer is in a closed position. By virtue of having a tweezer restrained and having a pinching tip in a closed position, the pinching tip of the tweezers remain sharp and undamaged until a time of use.
US10477950B2
Generally, aspects of the subject matter are directed to a carrying strap or a carrying loop suitable for use with a container. The carrying strap and loop include first and second attachment portions for securement to various locations on the container. In one example, a carrying strap has a stowed position, where the strap wraps around the container, to a carrying position, where the strap secures to a second location on the container such that the strap can be used to carry the container. In another example, a carrying loop has a deployed position, where the loop secures to only a first location on the container and is used to carry the container. The carrying straps and loops are suitably positioned as covering a label of the container, as a replacement for the label, or placed in any different position on the container from the label.
US10477944B2
A heating system comprising a packette for heating a mask, wipe or towelette. In preferred embodiments, the packette comprises printed heating elements, printed circuit elements and a means of connecting to a power source. Power may be supplied through a USB-type connector or a handheld power supply that is custom designed to work with the heating packette.
US10477933B1
A smart luggage system includes a piece of luggage configured to store items for transport and a handle coupled to the luggage. The handle includes a pull rod coupled to a connecting rod. One or more cameras are disposed in a top portion of the pull rod and configured to take a photograph and/or video. One or more cameras are coupled to the luggage and/or the handle and configured to take a photograph and/or video.
US10477928B1
An apparatus for joining two pieces of material comprises a zipper slider along with a right-hand-side bottom stop and a left-hand side bottom stop to stop the zipper slider. The zipper slider has an outer-face width, and the right-hand-side bottom stop and left-hand side bottom stop each include a front face having a portion that extends beyond the outer-face width of the slider. The zipper slider is topped with a slider holder that includes various electronics such as a light, a speaker, a microphone, a GPS device, and a Bluetooth device.
US10477927B2
A fixturing apparatus that includes a housing defining an interior space and having a trapezoidal cross-section, a first end, and an opposing second end, and is formed to include an aperture extending therethrough from the first end to said second end. The fixturing apparatus further comprises a flexible strap and a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip to allow identifying and tracking the fixturing apparatus.
US10477922B2
According to an embodiment, a component for attachment to an article includes an upper component that is made of a thermoplastic material having a first melting temperature and a flange member that is molded onto the upper component and made of a thermoplastic elastomer material having a second melting temperature that is lower than the first melting temperature of the upper component. The flange member extends laterally from a bottom end of the upper component so that a bottom surface of the flange member is flush with or positioned axially below a bottom surface of the upper component. The melting temperature of the thermoplastic elastomer material enables the flange member to be directly coupled to the article via heat welding and the like without substantially affecting the upper component.
US10477917B2
A plurality of orthotic systems are provided. One bi-layer system is constructed from a single sheet of fabric that is molded into two layers. One tri-layer system includes a base layer; a mid-layer; and an upper layer. The upper layer is joined to the mid-layer and the mid-layer is joined to the base layer. The coupling of the base layer, the mid-layer and the upper layer create a rear spring section, a mid-spring section and a front spring section in which the upper layer is suspended over the mid-layer and the heel portion is suspended on the proximal heel end of the base layer.
US10477916B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a first midsole body and a second midsole body. The first midsole body defines a ground-facing surface and a foot-facing surface opposite the ground-facing surface and includes a first midsole material, which has a first hardness. The second midsole body extends through the first midsole body. As such, the second midsole body extends beyond the ground-facing surface of the first midsole body. The second midsole body includes a second midsole material, which has a second hardness, and the first hardness is greater than the second hardness.
US10477915B2
Provided is a device for insertion into a heeled shoe, having a rear region positioned to underlying a wearer's calcaneal tuberosity, the rear region being shaped to accommodate a planer surface of the wearer's calcaneal tuberosity, an upper surface of said rear region having a raised portion underlying an area of the wearer's calcaneus immediately forward of the wearer's calcaneus tuberosity; and a forward region positioned to underlie at least a portion of the shafts of the wearer's metatarsals, the second upper surface of said forward region having a raised portion which gradually rises to an apex position to underlie the shafts of the wearer's second and third metatarsals.
US10477910B2
A midsole for an article of footwear is strategically incised or scored to produce various straight and arcuate lines. Straight lines are integrated widthwise between edges on an arch side on an outer side. Arcuate lines are integrated into various places at the top of a toe portion, with at least one extending down through a midpoint in a heel portion. The latter arcuate line maintains curvatures that parallel curvatures on the outer side at some places and the arch side at other places. Also crossing at the midpoint in the heel portion are intersecting lines.
US10477903B2
A lower torso garment, such as a brief, includes a body having a pair of leg openings, a crotch portion between the leg openings, and a waist opening, and a waist band connected to the body and positioned at the waist opening. The waist band includes a folded fabric portion forming an inner layer and an outer layer surrounding an elastomeric band. The elastomeric band includes a thermoplastic elastomer film including a styrenic block copolymer, and is positioned between the inner and outer layers.
US10477901B2
A maternity garment, which provides mild support to shape a woman's body and to act as a suspender for bottoms such as pants, shorts, or skirts that may be ill fitting due to body changes as a result of pregnancy, wherein the preferred garment has at least one shoulder strap, a belly panel, a hip band, two side panels, and a back panel, and is made of high performance fabric with varying degrees of compression.
US10477899B2
An atomizer includes a top cover, a bottom seat, and an atomizing assembly mounted between the top cover and the bottom seat. The top cover includes a mouthpiece and a liquid injection member mounted on one end of the mouthpiece. The atomizing assembly includes a first pressing ring and a fixing member fixed on one end of the first pressing ring. The fixing member is sleeved on the liquid injection member, and the liquid injection member is able to move along an axial direction of the atomizer, to cause the liquid injection member separating apart from the first pressing ring for adding cigarette liquid. An aerosol generating apparatus with the atomizer is also provided.
US10477878B2
A machine for making liquid or semi-liquid products, includes: a first processing container for processing a basic liquid or semi-liquid product and defining a processing chamber; a cooling cylinder mounted inside the first container; a second processing container; a connecting duct between the first container and the second container; a dispensing device associated with the first processing container and configured, in a dispensing configuration, to deliver the liquid or semi-liquid product to the outside or, in an inhibiting configuration, to prevent the liquid or semi-liquid product from being dispensed; and a shutoff valve configured, in a closed configuration, to close the connecting duct between the first container and the second container or, in an open configuration, to open the connecting duct between the first container and the second container.
US10477866B1
A composition, for repelling geese, coots and other ground feeding birds which feed on seeds, grasses, grains, sedges and forbs from a desired area that receives the composition that includes a mixture of peanut hulls as a granular base, cedar oil, thyme oil, cinnamon oil, castor oil, fish oil, garlic oil, and white pepper.
US10477864B2
Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates to agrochemical compositions which comprise compounds of formula (I), to preparation of these compositions, and to the use of the compounds or compositions in agriculture or horticulture for combating, preventing or controlling infestation of plants, harvested food crops, seeds or non-living materials by phytopathogenic microorganisms, in particular fungi.
US10477862B2
The present disclosure is related to percarboxylic acid compositions formed in situ in non-equilibrium reactions. The peroxycarboxylic acid compositions are formed using ester based starting materials. Methods for using the percarboxylic acid compositions are also disclosed.
US10477861B2
A method of operating an emanation system is disclosed that includes the step of providing a dispensing device containing an air treatment material and a substrate. The method further includes the steps of aligning a nozzle of the dispensing device with the substrate and actuating the dispensing device to spray an amount of the air treatment material onto at least a portion of the substrate.
US10477854B1
The present invention discloses a mousetrap with alarming and reminding functions, including a mousetrap shell, a mouse clip and a vibration induction alarm are disposed inside the mousetrap shell, the vibration induction alarm includes an alarm shell, a circuit board, a power supply device, a buzzer and a vibration sensor, a voltage comparison module and an alarm signal control module are disposed on the circuit board. The present invention can prevent the mouse clip from injuring pets and children, thereby enhancing safety use performance of the mousetrap. Moreover, the vibration induction alarm of the mousetrap can trigger the buzzer to give an alarm according to strength of a vibration induction signal, so as to remind a user that a mouse is catched by the mousetrap.
US10477851B2
A dual-bearing reel includes a reel body, a drive shaft, a roller clutch, and a prevention member. The reel body includes a boss portion. The drive shaft extends through the boss portion and is rotatably supported in the reel body. The roller clutch includes an outer race non-rotatably mounted in the boss portion, an inner race connected to the drive shaft so as to be integrally rotatable, and a rolling element disposed between the outer race and the inner race. The roller clutch prevents rotation of the drive shaft in one direction. The prevention member is mounted on the outer perimeter of the boss portion to prevent radially outward expansion of the boss portion.
US10477850B2
A bearing housing structure includes a bearing, a lid part and a supporting part. The bearing rotatably supports spool shaft. The lid part is opposite an end surface of the spool shaft and extends in a direction that intersects the spool shaft. The supporting part houses and supports the bearing and holds the lid part to oppose the end surface of the spool shaft. The supporting part includes a bearing hole and a lid hole, the bearing hole having the bearing inserted thereinto and removed therefrom, and the lid hole has a portion of the lid part inserted thereinto and removed therefrom in a direction intersecting the spool shaft and a direction along the lid part, and the lid part closes an opening of the bearing hole such that the lid part is held by the lid hole of the shaft supporting portion.
US10477848B2
The spool brake device is equipped with a brake unit, a detector, and a controller. The controller controls the braking force by the brake unit based on the variation of the rotational speed of the spool detected by the detection unit. When the rotational speed is increasing, the controller controls the braking force by the brake unit in the regular braking mode. In the regular braking mode, the controller changes the braking force by the brake unit according to the rotational speed of the spool. In addition to it, when the rotational speed of the spool stops, the controller is to control the braking force by the brake unit in the first braking mode, during a period of predetermined time. In the first braking mode, the controller makes a braking force by the brake unit that is less than the braking force in the regular braking mode. In addition, after the predetermined time, the controller may make a braking force in a second braking mode by the braking unit that is less than the braking force in the first braking mode.
US10477846B2
A spool for a fishing reel attached to a reel body of the fishing reel includes a spool body, a spool ring, a fixing ring and a first regulating part. The spool body has a bobbin trunk, an annular flange extending from the bobbin trunk in a radially outward direction that intersects the spool axis, and a tubular connecting portion extending from the flange. The spool ring surrounds an outer peripheral edge of the flange, and is attached to the flange so as to be separable. The fixing ring is attached to the spool body via the tubular connecting portion so as to be separable and is configured to fix the spool ring against the flange from the front direction. The first regulating part regulates relative movement of the fixing ring with respect to the spool body and is detachably attached to the tubular connecting portion.
US10477845B1
A fishing lure includes a jig having a body, a hook, and a blade attached to the body at two attachment points. The hook extends along a longitudinal axis of the body. A fixed wire loop extends from a forward end of the body along the longitudinal axis to directly connect the blade to the body. The blade has an edge near the body, a first attachment hole through the blade near the first edge, a second attachment hole aligned with and spaced near the first attachment hole, and a pair of line attachment holes spaced apart from the second attachment hole. The wire loop is fed directly through both the first and the second attachment holes, and the first edge is outside the wire loop. This arrangement controls the jig body's movement relative to the blade, reducing the likelihood of rollover that could lead to snagging.
US10477837B1
An interactive cat toy having a passageway holding an object of prey movable in response to a motor between a recessed position within the housing and an extended position outwardly of the housing; and a switch for selectively directing an electric current to flow to the motor, the movement of the object of prey, attracting the attention of a cat, provides physical and mental exercise and activity for the cat. A method is disclosed for moving the object of prey within the passage between the recessed position in the housing and the extended position outwardly of the housing for entertaining and exercise of the cat.
US10477833B2
Compacting expanded perlite fines in the presence of a clay and water, followed by drying, produces particles with low density, good integrity, and surprisingly higher absorption by volume than non-compacted expanded perlite or non-swelling clay. Furthermore, addition of a clumping agent to the compacted granules results in a clumping litter with low density, good integrity and comparable clumping ability to traditional clay clumping litter.
US10477828B2
A method for applying disinfectant to the teats of a dairy livestock comprises moving a robotic arm along a track in relation to a rotary milking platform housing a dairy livestock and independent of any physical coupling between the robotic arm and the rotary milking platform. The rotary milking platform has a substantially circular perimeter. The track is positioned outside the perimeter of the rotary milking platform. At least a portion of the track is straight and offset in relation to the rotary milking platform. The robotic arm comprises an arm member operable to pivot about an axis that is parallel to the track, and a spray tool attached to one end of the arm member. The method further comprises extending the robotic arm between the hind legs of the dairy livestock while the rotary milking platform rotates such that the spray tool is located at a spray position from which it may discharge disinfectant to the teats of the dairy livestock.
US10477826B2
A method includes positioning a robotic attacher under a dairy livestock located in a milking stall, wherein the robotic attacher comprises a nozzle. The method continues by rotating the robotic attacher such that the nozzle is positioned generally on the top of the robotic attacher and performing a spraying operation using the nozzle. The method concludes by retracting the robotic attacher from under the dairy livestock.
US10477819B1
A soybean cultivar designated 75162339 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 75162339, to the plants of soybean cultivar 75162339, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 75162339, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 75162339. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 75162339. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 75162339, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 75162339 with another soybean cultivar.
US10477810B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH906071. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH906071, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH906071 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 CH906071.
US10477803B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV691303. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV691303, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV691303 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV691303 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV691303.
US10477797B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH999869. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH999869, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH999869 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 CH999869.
US10477794B2
The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated CL6665383H. Also included are seeds of canola CL6665383H, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola CL6665383H and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola CL6665383H with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola CL6665383H.
US10477791B2
A method of producing cannabinoids for use in medical treatments by growing cultured Cannabis sativa plant cells through tissue culture, the method comprising the steps of: selecting Cannabis sativa leaf tissue for culture; and growing a tissue culture from the selected leaf tissue in a liquid based medium whilst controlling the light exposure of the tissue culture to control the cannabinoid content of the tissue culture. Control of the light exposure can enable the phytocannabinoid content of the grown tissue culture to be tailored to the use intended for the tissue culture. For example, the THC content of the tissue culture can be controlled to be maximised or minimised depending on the intended use. Use of tissue culture is beneficial as compared to prior art methods as it allows for genetic consistency and reduces the resources necessary to produce plant cells containing phytocannabinoids.
US10477787B2
The present invention is in the field of plant breeding and disease resistance. More specifically, the invention includes a method for breeding soybean plants containing quantitative trait loci that are associated with resistance to Asian Soybean Rust (ASR), a fungal disease associated with Phakopsora spp. The invention further includes germplasm and the use of germplasm containing quantitative trait loci (QTL) conferring disease resistance for introgression into elite germplasm in a breeding program for resistance to ASR.
US10477784B1
A land irrigation system to irrigate farmland. The system includes a water delivery pipe assembly having a plurality of drive motors mounted thereto. The water delivery pipe assembly is configured for one or the other or both of linear-move irrigator travel and center pivot irrigator travel. The water delivery pipe assembly is further configured to stagger the operation of select ones of the drive motors wherein when one or more of the selected drive motors are in operation one or more of the selected drive motors are not in operation. Staggering the operation of select ones of the drive motors can serve to reduce the carbon footprint as well as size footprint of the power supply that powers the drive motors whether that supply be a diesel generator or a water motor driven generator or an inverted battery power supply or a fuel cell or other.
US10477777B2
The invention pertains to an agro- or geotextile (1), comprising: i) a carrier (2); and ii) an electric network (3) of one or more lighting units (4, 18), whereby said electric network (3) of one or more lighting units (4, 18) is provided on a surface of said carrier (2). The invention further pertains to a method for producing an agro- or geotextile (1) and to a use of an agro- or geotextile (1) according to the current invention.
US10477763B2
A dual cut header assembly a header, a chopper suspended from the header, and at least one actuator is provided between the chopper and the header for adapting a distance between the chopper and the header. The dual cut header assembly further includes at least one sensor for measuring a state of the chopper, and an actuator steering module connected to the at least one actuator. The header is provided to be lifted by an agricultural combine to cut crop material from a field at a first height. The chopper is provided to cut the crop material at a second height lower than the first height. The actuator steering module is configured to automatically adapt the distance based on the measured state.
US10477757B2
A dual-disk seed meter for a planter may include a housing defining a first seed chamber configured to receive first seeds of a first seed type and a second seed chamber configured to receive second seeds of a second seed type. The seed meter may also include a first seed disk rotatable within the housing to convey the first seeds from the first seed chamber, a second seed disk rotatable within the housing to convey the second seeds from the second seed chamber, and a drive assembly configured to simultaneously rotate the first and second seed disks. In addition, the seed meter may include a seed deflector movable relative to the first seed disk and/or the second seed disk to control which of the seed types is discharged from the housing based on a selected seed type to be delivered by the seed meter.
US10485151B2
A loose component supply device includes a loose component support section that supports multiple components in a loose state, an imaging device that images the components supported on the loose component support section, a component holding head provided with at least one component holding tool capable of picking up and holding each of the components supported on the loose component support section, a holding head moving device that moves the component holding head at least to and from the loose component support section and a component transfer section at which transfer to a next process is possible, and a holding tool changing device that changes at least one of the one component holding tools based on image data obtained by the imaging of the imaging device.
US10485141B2
A method of cooling a data centre, and a data centre, is disclosed. Optionally, the data centre comprises: a cooling air source (201); at least one rack room (202) having a floor and rack storage areas (203a-203d) on the floor, each rack storage area accommodating racks in which items of electronic equipment having at least one fan (204) are housed; one or more cold aisles (205) in the rack room, each cold aisle being adjacent to a rack storage area; one or more hot aisles (206) in the rack room, each hot aisle being adjacent to a rack storage area; and an air supply corridor (207) for transporting cooling air, above the floor, from the cooling air source to the one or more cold aisles. The method optionally comprises transporting cooling air from the cooling air source (201) to the one or more cold aisles (205) substantially under the control of the fans (204) of the items of electronic equipment.
US10485135B2
A system provides cooling to a storage device, such as solid-state drive, installed within a sealed compartment of an IHS (Information Handling System). The heat pipe extends between the storage device and a fan housing that seals a cooling fan in a physically isolated compartment from the sealed compartment of the IHS. A plurality of clips allow the heat pipe to be removably secured to an outer surface of the fan housing. A cooling plate is used to removably secure the heat pipe to a surface of the storage device. Once installed, the heat pipe transfers heat directly from the surface of the storage device to the outer surface of the sealed fan housing. The heat pipe may be uninstalled by removing screws that secure the cooling plate to the storage device and the heat pipe to the fan housing, allowing the storage device to be removed as needed.
US10485131B2
A power-supply device including: a casing having a space therein and formed by metal stamping or having a thickness ranging from 0.3 to 3.0 mm; and a circuit board disposed inside the casing, wherein the casing includes a casing portion having an opening, and a cover portion disposed to cover the opening of the casing portion, the casing portion has a through hole formed at a position corresponding to a connector terminal connected to the circuit board, and the cover portion includes a storage portion bulging outward from the casing, the storage portion storing either one of an electronic component provided to a face of the circuit board which faces the cover portion and an electronic component provided across the circuit board.
US10485130B2
A surface mount type device includes: an electronic component, a main substrate on which the electronic component is mounted, a pedestal on which the main substrate is mounted, a lower substrate on which the pedestal is mounted, and a cover mounted on the lower substrate so as to cover the pedestal. The soldering pattern is soldered with the cover from a region where the cover is mounted to an inside of the lower substrate, on the lower substrate. The pedestal includes a cut-out portion in a side surface portion so as to form a space above the soldering pattern. The cover is secured to the soldering pattern by a solder formed in the space.
US10485125B2
A USB device is disclosed including an integrated memory module and USB connector. Integration of the memory module with the USB connector according to the present technology provides a USB device with a compact footprint and efficient heat transfer to a host device in which the USB device is used.
US10485110B2
An electrical connection method of a printed circuit includes overlapping a base material and a thin member in which a thin conductor is mounted, forming a through hole which passes through the base material overlapped with the thin member in the overlapping and reaches the thin conductor of the thin member, and forming a printed circuit on the base material by a screen printing method using conductive paste. The through hole formed in the forming of the through hole is filled with the conductive paste in the forming of the printed circuit.
US10485103B1
An item may include fabric having insulating and conductive yarns or other strands of material. The conductive strands may form signal paths. Electrical components can be mounted to the fabric. Each electrical component may have an electrical device such as a semiconductor die that is mounted on an interposer substrate. The interposer may have contacts that are soldered to the conductive strands. A protective cover may encapsulate portions of the electrical component. To create a robust connection between the electrical component and the fabric, the conductive strands may be threaded through recesses in the electrical component. The recesses may be formed in the interposer or may be formed in a protective cover on the interposer. Conductive material in the recess may be used to electrically and/or mechanically connect the conductive strand to a bond pad in the recess. Thermoplastic material may be used to seal the solder joint.
US10485100B2
To provide a circuit board in which a curvature of a display surface can be controlled, or to provide a highly portable circuit board. A circuit board includes a substrate with flexibility and a curvature control mechanism. The curvature control mechanism includes a first electromagnet and a second electromagnet provided over a first surface of the substrate, an insulating film provided over the first and second electromagnets, and wirings electrically connected to the first and second electromagnets.
US10485094B1
Integrated multilayer structure suitable for use in sensing applications is disclosed including at least one plastic layer, at least one film layer provided on both sides of the plastic layer. A film layer on a first side of the plastic layer includes electronics incorporating reactance sensing electronics for sensing of selected target quantities, and conversion thereof into representative electrical signals. The sensing electronics include an electrode and a connection element for connecting the electrode to control circuitry. A film layer on a second side of the plastic layer includes features including one conductive feature that is configured to shape an electromagnetic field to adapt a sensitivity or directionality the sensing response of the sensing electronics on the first side of the plastic layer.
US10485084B2
The present invention relates to a protective ionizing laminate (PIL) static eliminating device that uses a wide variety of laminate materials to protect ionizing points that eliminate static. In an embodiment, the protective encasement is made from laminate and in others it is made from a substrate onto which of electrically conductive or static dissipative material is printed or placed. The present invention includes a plurality of electrically conductive or static dissipative material or microfibers, wherein the plurality of electrically conductive or static dissipative material or microfibers forms a pattern and a ground in communication with the electrically conductive or static dissipative microfibers or material. The laminate materials form an encasement or enclosure of the electrically conductive or static dissipative microfibers or material and at least a portion of the ground. The PIL of the present invention includes an edge or slit in the enclosure that exposes the plurality of electrically conductive or static dissipative material or microfibers at the edge or slit to create a series of ionizing points. When air between the ionizing points and charged material passes by or near the PIL static eliminating device, the PIL sufficiently removes or reduces static charge from the passing material.
US10485082B2
Devices and methods for protecting against a surge in a luminaire are provided. For example, a controller for use with a luminaire is provided. The controller can include a first circuit configured to sense a surge in voltage or current. The controller can further include a second circuit configured to switch a relay in response to the first circuit having sensed the surge in voltage or current.
US10485072B2
A light emitting diode lighting assembly that receives an electrical excitation signal that is varied from a dimming device. Driving circuitry receives the varying input and has first and second paths that each have a plurality of light emitting diodes. Each plurality of light emitting diodes has a threshold voltage with the threshold voltage of the first plurality of diodes being less than the threshold voltage of the second plurality of lighting emitting diodes. The current within the first path is controlled by a current limiting device that is controlled by a resistor that receives input from the second path to gradually turn off the first plurality of light emitting diodes as the second plurality of lighting emitting diodes increase in intensity. A shunt voltage regulator within the circuit having a threshold voltage that is above threshold voltages of components in the assembly to minimize voltage increases in the assembly.
US10485070B2
An embodiment of the disclosure provides a light source apparatus including a light-emitting module and a control unit. The light-emitting module is configured to provide a light. The control unit is configured to change proportion of a first sub-light and a second sub-light to form the light so that a circadian action factor (CAF) and a correlated color temperature (CCT) of the light varies along a CAF vs. CCT locus of the light different from a CAF vs. CCT locus of sunlight. A CAF vs. CCT coordinate of one of the first sub-light and the second sub-light is below the CAF vs. CCT locus of sunlight, and a CAF vs. CCT coordinate of the other one of the first sub-light and the second sub-light is above the CAF vs. CCT locus of sunlight. A display apparatus is also provided.
US10485069B2
An illuminating apparatus includes a first light emitter, a second light emitter which emits light including more predefined color components than light emitted by the first light emitter, and a lighting device which supplies current modulated according to a visible light communication signal, to the first light emitter. The lighting device supplies a constant current to the second light emitter, while the first light emitter is supplied with current.
US10485068B2
A presence or an absence of an occupant is detected, and an occupancy sensor signal is generated representative of an active state in which the presence of the occupant is detected, and an inactive state in which the absence of the occupant is detected. An ambient light sensor detects the ambient light level and generates an ambient light sensor signal representative of the ambient light level. Dimmable illumination is generated at a first dimming level, based on the ambient light level, corresponding to the active state and a second dimming level corresponding to the inactive state. A transition delay time between an onset of the inactive state and a transition between the first dimming level and the second dimming level may be controlled. The first dimming level, the second dimming level, and/or the transition delay time may be variably set or controlled locally or via a remote device.
US10485061B2
A heatable laminated side pane is described. The heatable laminated side pane comprises at least an outer pane and an inner pane, which are connected to each other via a thermoplastic intermediate layer. An electrically conductive coating is arranged on the surface between the outer pane and the inner pane. The electrically conductive coating is divided into segments by isolation lines, wherein the coating has heating strips extending between a first current collector rail and a second current collector rail. Each collector rail contains at least one segment, wherein the heating strips are electrically isolated from each other. At least one heating strip is formed by at least two segments, which are electrically connected to each other via at least one electrically conductive connector element, and the length of each individual heating strip deviates by a maximum of 15% from the average length of the heating strips.
US10485056B2
A method includes sensing a hand position on a mobile device via sensors on the mobile device, providing information identifying the sensed hand position to a processor of the mobile device, identifying a position of a user interface on a touch screen display of the mobile device responsive to the information identifying the sensed hand position using the processor of the mobile device, and adjusting a user interface display position on the mobile device to the identified position using the processor of the mobile device.
US10485055B2
The present invention provides a lighting apparatus including a function configuration switch module and a control method therefor. The lighting apparatus may include: a lighting module; a lighting driving module for driving the lighting module; a communication module for performing data communication; a storage module for storing a program for controlling the lighting module, data generated by the program, and unique identification information of a lighting apparatus; a function configuration switch module for outputting a switching function selection signal to perform a bridge setting or releasing function; and a control module controlling the lighting driving module, and the communication module to transmit a signal for configuration or release of a bridge together with the unique identification information of the lighting apparatus. Therefore, a bridge access delay time can be minimized and an access success rate can be maximized, and thus, wireless mesh network-based lighting apparatuses can be efficiently controlled.
US10485051B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for updating stored User Equipment (UE) context information upon re-suspend of the UE in response to a resume request from the UE. In some embodiments, a method in a UE comprises transmitting a Radio Resource Control (RRC) resume request message and, in response to the RRC resume request message, receiving an RRC connection release message with an indication for suspend. The method further comprises, in response to receiving the RRC connection release message with an indication for suspend, replacing information in a stored Access Stratum (AS) context of the UE with new information.
US10485041B1
A method for executing an application based on a connection between devices by automatically connecting devices, and a device, are disclosed. The method includes: detecting an occurrence of first short distance communication between at least one external device and the device; receiving connection information which relates to a second short distance communication mode and application information which relates to the at least one external device from the at least one external device via the first short distance communication; establishing a connection based on the second short distance communication mode between the at least one external device and the device based on the received connection information which relates to the second short distance communication mode; and controlling the at least one external device via the second short distance communication mode by using an application which is executable based on the received application information.
US10485040B2
A system and method is disclosed for establishing authenticated Bluetooth Low Energy communication session between a slave device and a master device. The slave device lacks ability to control which mater device can connect to it; however, the after connection authentication process enables a slave device to terminate connection with unauthenticated master device.
US10485039B2
The application relates to a communication device configured to perform a device to device communication with a plurality of further communication devices using a second frequency band, wherein the communication device is configured to receive a control message from a further communication device of the plurality of communication devices, the control message indicating that the further communication device is within a coverage area of a cellular communication network; and wherein the communication device is further configured to, upon reception of said control message, start listening for messages from further communication devices of the plurality of communication devices using a first frequency band.
US10485035B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and apparatus for adapting the IKE/IPsec peer status time interval in accordance with the service delivered to the UE. The peer status time interval is used to detect IKE/IPsec peer liveliness in the UE. The evolved Packet Data Gateway, ePDG, sets the peer status time interval according to the type of bearers or GTP tunnels established with the PDN GW. The ePDG uses a default peer status interval T1 when the ePDG connects the UE to the PDN using the default GTP tunnel established at the time of PDN connection establishment. When a multimedia service is established for the UE, one or more dedicated GTP tunnels of different quality of service requirements may be established at the ePDG. The ePDG would then use a different peer status time interval T2 that may be derived from the quality of service parameters associated with the one or more dedicated GTP tunnels.
US10485034B2
A method for accessing a wireless network includes accessing a target router according to first access information, so as to access a part of one or more servers. The method also includes sending device verification information to the part of one or more servers; and receiving second access information, wherein the second access information is sent by the target router when the device verification information passes a verification performed by the part of one or more servers. The method further includes accessing the target router according to the second access information, so as to access all of the one or more servers.
US10485032B2
A device may receive information associated with establishing a gateway connection. The gateway connection may be an ad hoc connection to a user device that permits the user device to transfer network traffic to/from a base station via another user device and without the user device directly connecting to the base station via a radio access network. The information being associated with determining that a gateway establishment condition is satisfied. The device may cause the gateway connection to be established based on the information associated with establishing the gateway connection. The device may cause the user device to utilize the gateway connection to transfer network traffic to/from the base station.
US10485031B2
A method, an apparatus and a system process very-high-speed random access. The method includes: selecting a ZC sequence group according to a cell type and a first cyclic shift parameter Ncs, and setting N detection windows for each ZC sequence in the ZC sequence group, where N≥5; sending the cell type, a second Ncs, and the ZC sequence group to a UE; receiving a random access signal sent by the UE, and obtaining the random access sequence from the random access signal; performing correlation processing on the random access sequence with each ZC sequence in the ZC sequence group, detecting a valid peak value in the N detection windows of each ZC sequence, and determining an estimated value of an RTD according to the valid peak value, so that a UE in a very-high-speed scenario can normally access a network, thereby improving network access performance.
US10485023B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for payload-less physical uplink measurement indication channel (PUMICH) design for uplink based mobility. According to certain aspects, a method of wireless communication by a base station (BS) is provided. The method generally includes selecting a first set of random access procedure (RACH) sequences from a second set of RACH sequences, wherein the second set of RACH sequences comprises a pruned set of RACH sequences, and wherein at least some of the first set of RACH sequences selected for a first user equipment (UE) is also available for selection for a second UE, and transmitting the selected first set of RACH sequences to a UE in response to a request from the UE.
US10485018B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method for communication by a base station is provided. The method includes transmitting a scheduling assignment including a first part of a destination identifier (ID), and transmitting a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) including a MAC header including a user equipment (UE) ID and a second part of the destination ID.
US10485010B2
A wireless device receives at least one message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells being in a cross-carrier scheduling group comprising a first cell and a second cell. The first cell identified by a first cell identifier employs a first number of bits. The configuration parameters indicate that the second cell is a cross-carrier scheduling cell for the first cell. The configuration parameters comprise the first cell identifier and a first cell indicator field. The first cell indicator field employs a second number of bits. The wireless device receives downlink control information via a control channel of the second cell for a packet transmitted via the first cell. The downlink control information comprises the first cell indicator field identifying the first cell. The wireless device receives the packet on the first cell via radio resources identified by the downlink control information.
US10484996B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A base station operation method in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining, on the basis of channel information received from each of a plurality of terminals, power to be used by each of the plurality of terminals with respect to resources allocated to be overlaid and used by the plurality of terminals; and transmitting resource information, which comprises information about the determined power, to each of the plurality of terminals.
US10484969B2
A call processing method, including receiving a first call request of a calling terminal for a called terminal, triggering a mobility management entity to control a base station to page the called terminal, performing call waiting according to a paging response message when receiving the paging response message from the mobility management entity indicating that the called terminal is a power saving state and cannot be paged by the base station, and establishing a session coupling between the calling terminal and the called terminal according to addressing information of the called terminal when receiving, in a call waiting process, the addressing information of the called terminal from the mobility management entity.
US10484965B2
A method and a vehicle as well as a method and a user equipment for enabling a network node to manage paging of the user equipment are disclosed. Moreover, a method and a network node for managing paging of a user equipment are disclosed. The user equipment sends, to the vehicle, an identification of the user equipment by use of a direct wireless communication connection. Then, the vehicle sends, to the network node, the identification of the user equipment. The network node sends, to the user equipment, a control message instructing the user equipment to apply a second DRX cycle, wherein the second DRX cycle is longer than a first DRX cycle. The network node also receives, from the vehicle, position information of the vehicle, whereby the network node, upon paging of the user equipment, sends a paging message, based on the position information of the vehicle, to the user equipment. Corresponding computer programs and carriers therefor are also disclosed.
US10484952B2
Provided is a communication device, which is enabled to improve the throughput of a communication system by reducing the difference of a transmission power between an SCCH and an SDCH thereby to satisfy the required quality of a PAPR. In this device, an MCS selection unit (111) of a transmission unit (110) decides, with reference to a CQI lookup table, an MCS pattern (MCS1) of the SDCH, an MCS pattern (MCS2) of the SCCH and information (multiplex information) on multiplex positions on the time axes of those two channels, on the basis of the CQI information. On the basis of the MCS2 and the MCS1, encoding modulation units (112 and 113) perform encoding and modulating operations. According to the multiplex information, a channel multiplexing unit (114) time-division multiplexes the SCCH and the SDCH thereby to generate a transmission signal.
US10484947B2
According to an embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a determiner, and an executor. The determiner is configured to determine whether the wireless communication device can continue operation by a stored electric power in which remaining capacity changes according to operation of the wireless communication device for a predetermined period, based on information including an operation timing associated with a cycle in which a management server. The executor is configured to execute an operation in which the data is transmitted and received between the other wireless communication device and the management server via the wireless communication device when the wireless communication device is able to continue the operation, and otherwise, cause the wireless communication device to move into intermittent operation and causes the other communication device to transmit the data to the management server not via the wireless communication device.
US10484942B2
A wireless access point managing apparatus that includes a radio, and wireless communication control circuitry that communicates information via the radio between the wireless access point managing apparatus and one or more electronic devices so as to provide a wireless access point to a network for the electronic devices. Processing circuitry performs access point management including: communicating with a separate apparatus that provides another wireless access point to the network; performing a determination as to whether shutdown of the wireless access point of the separate apparatus is appropriate; and sending a shutdown instruction to the separate apparatus if shutdown is determined to be appropriate, the shutdown instruction being an instruction to cause the separate apparatus to shut down a wireless access point radio in the separate apparatus.
US10484938B2
An electronic device includes a first connection interface and a second connection interface configured to be electrically connected to at least one host system, a transmission control device, a data access device, and a channel-detecting device. The transmission control device includes a first communication channel electrically connected to the first connection interface and a second communication channel electrically connected to the second connection interface. The transmission control device determines a connection state according to impedance information and provides corresponding operation functions for at least one host system according to the connection state. The data access device is electrically connected to the transmission control device, and is configured to receive data transmitted by the host system. The channel-detecting device detects the impedance information between one or both of the first connection interface and the second connection interface and the at least one host system.
US10484934B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive network search information related to the accessible bands. In some examples, the UE may receive network search information from a server that has access to the network search information. The UE may receive the network search information directly from the server or through another wireless device. In other examples, a base station may broadcast network search information on an anchor carrier. The UE may tune to a carrier of a first radio access network to receive the network search information and use the network search information to assist connecting to a second radio access network. The network search information may include, for example, a network name or network ID, a technology type, band or channel information, security information or credentials.
US10484929B2
Examples provide an access node controller, an apparatus for an access node, an access node for a mobile communication system, a mobile communication system, method and computer program for an access node. The access node controller is configured to determine one or more transmission parameters for a first access node of a mobile communication system. The mobile communication system further comprises a second access node. The access node controller comprises one or more interfaces configured to obtain priority area information of the second access node. The second access node has priority access in the priority area compared to the first access node. The access node controller comprises a control module configured to control the one or more interfaces and configured to determine the one or more transmission parameters for the first access node based on the priority area information of the second access node and based on an access condition at a priority area boundary.
US10484923B2
Systems, methods, and devices for steering an IEEE 802.11 station (STA) using a cloud server are disclosed herein. There may be a plurality of IEEE 802.11 access points (AP)s, where at least one AP of the plurality of APs operate at least a first virtual network. One or more APs of the plurality of APs may run a Client Steering Daemon (CSD) configured to perform unassociated STA monitoring that produces a log of data that may be sent to the cloud server on a regular or dynamic basis. The cloud server may receive the log data and transmit a signal to at least one of the APs of the plurality of APs to enable it to steer the STA between the first virtual network and a second virtual network.
US10484918B2
Distribution of traffic to cells in a communication network can be controlled. A distribution management component (DMC) can determine overall device traffic throughput for cells of a sector that satisfy a defined traffic throughput criterion relating to a harmonic mean of the device traffic throughput for the cells to desirably enhance or maximize the harmonic mean of the overall device traffic throughput. Based on the overall device traffic throughput for the cells, the DMC can determine whether to adjust a characteristic associated with a cell of the cells to facilitate adjusting distribution of device traffic among the cells of the sector to achieve desirable load balancing of traffic by the sector and in the network. Load balancing can be achieved by controlling respective parameters with regard to communication devices that are in idle mode or connected mode to facilitate directing communication devices and associated traffic to desired cells.
US10484911B1
A device can receive, at a radio access network (RAN) and from a user device, first information to initiate a communications session that has one or more properties. The device can send second information to an access and mobility management function component (AMF) to authenticate the user device. The device can send third information to a user plane function component (UPF) to determine a set of network slice policies for managing the communications session. The device can receive the set of network slice policies and apply the set of network slice policies to the communications session. The device can detect a change in the one or more properties of the communications session and send a signal to the UPF to analyze the communications session. The device can receive a new set of network slice policies and apply the new set of network slice policies to the communications session.
US10484906B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for processing packets. A method for processing packets in a base station (ENB) may include: obtaining information on a rule for dealing with a packet according to supplementary information contained in the header of the packet; receiving a packet; extracting supplementary information from the header of the received packet; and processing the received packet on the basis of the obtained rule information and extracted supplementary information. Hence, the base station may adequately perform packet control operations in accordance with the state thereof.
US10484903B2
A method for providing a bearer service in a communications system is disclosed. The method includes establishing a radio bearer service between a network apparatus and a user terminal, for transmitting messages over an air interface, such that a point-to-point radio bearer is to be used for transmitting unicast messages and its associated shared point-to-multipoint broadcast radio bearer in downlink is to be used for transmitting one or more of broadcast and multicast messages from a local IP network via the network apparatus to user terminals. Messages received from the point-to-point radio bearer and its associated point-to-multipoint broadcast radio bearer in downlink are combinable in the user terminal to a single connection emulating one or more of a broadcast and multicast capable media respectively over the air interface.
US10484901B2
The present invention provides a method of receiving a timing advance command by a user equipment in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives information on a time advance group from a base station, and also receives the tuning advance command corresponding to the time advance group from the base station.
US10484899B2
The present invention relates to a method for efficiently supporting communication for vehicles in a next-generation wireless communication system and a device for the same. To this end, a user equipment (UE) receives signals from a network through a plurality of antenna units which are located in dispersed locations of the UE, determines, through a central unit thereof, whether a mobility related event of the UE has occurred through the signals received through the plurality of antenna units and transmits an event occurrence report to the network when the mobility related event of the UE has occurred, wherein whether the mobility related event of the UE has occurred is determined in consideration of receive (Rx) power of the signals received through the plurality of antenna units and a ray distribution between the network and the UE.
US10484893B2
A method for a mobile communication system, the mobile communication system defining a dedicated channel (DCH) active set and an enhanced-dedicated channel (E-DCH) active set, the method including performing a power measurement of a pilot signal from a cell that is not included in the E-DCH active set but included in the DCH active set, and performing a power measurement of a pilot signal from a cell that is included in the E-DCH active set.
US10484890B2
Methods and apparatuses for performing a measurement in a wireless communication system are disclosed herein. In one method, a user equipment (UE) is served by a cell supporting multiple numerologies. The UE is configured with a first numerology for data reception. The UE performs a measurement with a second numerology.
US10484889B2
Systems and methods for adjusting cell site parameters are described. The systems and methods cause a map of a geographical area to be displayed, access known or stored location coordinates for antennas at a cell site that is located within the of the geographical area, and present display elements representing the antennas at first positions within the displayed map that correspond to the known location coordinates for the antennas at the cell site. In response to input received from a user, the systems and methods adjust the known location coordinates for the antennas at the cell sites to new location coordinates associated with second positions of the display elements within the displayed map. Further details are described herein.
US10484888B2
A method of operating a terminal device capable of coverage enhancement in a wireless telecommunication system including receiving a signal from a base station within the wireless telecommunication system, measuring the received signal strength of the received signal, comparing the measured signal strength with at least one threshold value, and selecting a mode of operation of coverage enhancement based on a result of the comparison.
US10484877B2
An embodiment logical function architecture for next-generation 5G wireless networks may include a control plane comprising a software defined topology (SDT) logical entity configured to establish a virtual data-plane logical topology for a service, a software defined resource allocation (SDRA) logical entity configured to map the virtual data-plane topology to a physical data-plane for transporting service-related traffic over the wireless network, and a software defined per-service customized data plane process (SDP) logical entity configured to select transport protocol(s) for transporting the service-related traffic over a physical data-plane of the wireless network. An embodiment virtual service specific serving gateway (v-s-SGW) for next-generation 5G networks may be assigned specifically to a service being provided by a group of wirelessly enabled devices, and may be responsible for aggregating service-related traffic communicated by the group of wirelessly enabled devices.
US10484872B2
Techniques for device quarantine in a wireless network are described. According to various implementations, a device (e.g., a mobile client device) that requests a connection to a wireless network is placed in a quarantine state in the wireless network. Attributes of the device are determined and connection parameters are specified based on the attributes. In at least some embodiments, the device can be released from the quarantine state subject to the connection parameters.
US10484871B2
A method and a device for transmitting verification information are disclosed. The method includes following steps: separating the verification information into multiple sub-verification information; numbering the multiple sub-verification information of the verification information in accordance with sequence numbers of the multiple sub-verification information in the verification information; generating sets of multicast frames according to the multiple sub-verification information and the sequence numbers of the multiple sub-verification information; selecting one set of multicast frames to be filled with the length of the verification information; transmitting generated sets of multicast frames, when the overall length of the sub-verification information in the sets of multicast frames received by the recipient, equating to the length of the verification information in the sets of multicast information, recombining the sub-verification information to obtain the verification information according to the sequence numbers of the sub-verification information. A device for transmitting verification information are also disclosed.
US10484868B2
Configuring a privacy policy by identifying one or more applications that are installed on a mobile device. A set of privacy-related questions are formulated based upon the one or more identified applications. A response to the set of privacy-related questions is received from a user. One or more classified privacy instances are determined for the user from the received response. A latent, implicit privacy policy is established from the one or more classified privacy instances.
US10484866B2
Published are a device-to-device identification conflict solution method and a D2D UE. The method comprises: a first D2D UE determining whether a terminal identification of the first D2D UE has a conflict with a terminal identification of another D2D UE or a D2D group identification; when the terminal identification of the first D2D UE has a conflict with the terminal identification of the other D2D UE or the D2D group identification, reallocating a terminal identification to the first D2D UE; and sending the terminal identification reallocated to the first D2D UE to a second D2D UE, wherein the second D2D UE is a D2D UE adjacent to the first D2D UE, or a D2D UE which has established a PC5 connection with the first D2D UE.
US10484864B2
In one embodiment, a mobile terminal (200) transmits behavior data of the mobile terminal (200) to a monitoring server (700). The monitoring server (700) acquires the behavior data of the mobile terminal (200), and performs communication with a subscriber server (400) to update the subscriber data (410) regarding the mobile terminal (200) based on the behavior data. The subscriber server (400) updates a subscriber data (410) based on the communication with the monitoring server (700).
US10484860B2
A mobile communications terminal communicates data using a mobile communications network that includes base stations and mobility managers that can send and receive signalling packets for controlling user data communications between communications terminals and a destination. The communications terminal can communicate packets with the base stations via a wireless access interface provided by the base stations and send a signalling packet to the mobility managers, the signalling packet including user data intended for a destination, prior to establishing a signalling connection with the mobility managers. The mobility managers can, upon receiving a signalling packet from a communications terminal, detect the packet is not associated with any established signalling connection between the mobility managers and the communication device. The mobility managers can, responsive to the detection, transmit the user data in the signalling packet to the destination. Accordingly a short message may be sent in a reduced context or context-less manner.
US10484848B2
The present disclosure includes systems and methods that enable V2X communications over a wireless wide area network (WWAN). A registration request is sent to an intelligent transportation system (ITS) function. The registration request is for requesting authorization for a device to host a V2X service in a cellular network. A registration response is received from the ITS function. The registration response is for authorizing the device to host the V2X service in the cellular network. The V2X service is hosted in the cellular network via the ITS function.
US10484847B2
A method to associate a unique identifier (ID) of an object, such as a Bluetooth Low Energy beacon, to a spatial coordinate in a facility is described. In one embodiment, the method utilizes a visual indicator, such a barcode to transfer a beacon's unique ID to a mobile device. In another embodiment, the method transfers a beacon's unique ID to the mobile device via an optical data transmission. For either embodiment, the transfer is activated by a user prompting an activation sensor, such as a push button, on the beacon, or by the user sending a wireless signal from the mobile device to the beacon.
US10484845B2
An electronic notebook system is described that comprises a housing, a computing device, wireless interfaces, antennas, sensors, a touch display configured to receive input via a stylus and/or human digit input, the stylus comprising a pressure and/or an inclination sensor, a microphone, camera, the notebook system configured to provide a user condition interface, receive a user selection of a first user condition, provide an interface configured to receive user details, receive audible user details via the microphone, convert the audible user details received via the microphone to text, perform natural language processing to identify text keywords utilizing sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, paraphrase recognition, and/or co-reference resolution, identify a condition based at least in part on the identified one or more keywords, dynamically generate an alert based at least in part on the identified condition, wirelessly transmit the generated alert to one or more destinations via at least a first wireless interface and antenna.
US10484844B2
A service capability exposure function (SCEF) receives a short message service (SMS) message associated with a user equipment. The SCEF identifies a destination for the SMS message on the basis of a mapping between a unique identifier of the user equipment and an external identifier of the user equipment. The SCEF transmits the SMS message towards the destination. Receiving the SMS message and transmitting the SMS message are performed without establishing a packet data network (PDN) session for conveying the SMS message. A mobility management entity (MME) receives the SMS message and identifies the destination for the SMS message on the basis of a unique identifier of the user equipment included in the SMS message. The MME transmits the SMS message towards the destination.
US10484842B2
A communication system is provided which comprises a mobile terminal and a wearable device connected wirelessly to each other. The mobile terminal comprises a first communication module and an auxiliary module comprising an instant messaging unit and an information processing unit connected to the instant messaging unit and the first communication module respectively. The wearable device comprises a second communication module, an input module, an output module and a control module respectively connected to the second communication module, the input module and the output module. The embodiments of the present invention can realize instant messaging, reduce the volume, hardware requirement and the cost of the wearable device, and extend a stand-by time of the wearable device.
US10484835B2
Embodiments relate to method products for publishing messages within a geographic area. Aspects include receiving a location from each of a plurality of user devices and creating a geo-hash tree based on the location of each of a plurality of user devices. Aspects also include receiving a message with the geographic area, computing a geo-hash grid for a region that includes the geographic area and identifying one or more nodes of the geo-hash tree that corresponds to the geo-hash grid. Aspects further include transmitting the message to one or more of the plurality of user devices associated with the one or more identified nodes.
US10484833B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing and using ultra-wide-band (UWB) local area networks (LANs) are disclosed. A system for locating UWB devices includes UWB local area networks (LANs). Each UWB LAN includes anchors configured for performing UWB ranging and a LAN master anchor surrounded by at least some of the anchors. The LAN master anchor is configured for transmitting a UWB beacon to identify the UWB LAN to one or more candidate tags to join the UWB LAN. The system includes a tag securable to an object for tracking. The tag is configured for receiving a first UWB beacon from a first LAN master of a first UWB LAN; receiving a second UWB beacon from a second LAN master of a second UWB LAN; and determining to associate with the first UWB LAN based on the first UWB beacon and the second UWB beacon.
US10484831B1
The disclosure relates to technology for determining a location of a user in a physical venue without need for the user to carry extraneous devices. The method includes installing a background peripheral service (BPS) in a personal mobile device routinely carried by the user where the BPS outputs a temporary ID sequence (TID) when activated. The signal strength of the TID is measured at scanner locations each time the BPS is activated and the measured strengths are used to determine the location of the user. The TID is used to identify an order placed by the user for goods and/or services. This allows a human server to locate the user and deliver the goods and/or services to that user.
US10484824B1
A method may include causing first content to be displayed on a display device. The method may also include determining a location of a mobile device relative to the display device. In some embodiments, the mobile device may be positioned such that the first content is visible to a viewer of the mobile device. The method may additionally include causing second content to be displayed on the mobile device such that the second content is layered over the first content.
US10484820B2
Methods, apparatus and systems are described that manage a multi-level wireless node network with package ID nodes associated with different packages, a container node in a logistics container, a facility master node, and a server at different levels. In one method, the container node detects an advertising signal broadcast by each package ID node and detects an advertising signal broadcast by the facility master node as the container node approaches the facility. The method offloads management control of each of the package ID nodes from the facility master node down to the container node as part of managing the first level of the network, and has the container node transmitting relevant node information to the facility master node. Such relevant node information provides information about at least one of the packages in the logistics container and reflects status information to be sent to the server by the facility master node.
US10484819B2
The disclosure generally relates to a method and apparatus for using a location token to locate a mobile device in a mapped environment. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to identifying an AP in the environment using an AP location token. By finding a map from a map vendor which has a substantially identical map token, the AP and the map may be matched together. Once the AP is matched to the map, its exact location will be known. The location of a mobile device may be determined in relation to the AP's location. The same process may be used to identify the location of several APs on a map and thereby identify the location of the mobile device relative to the APs.
US10484818B1
Systems and methods for providing location information for registered users in a venue. A facial recognition process is used to identify each registered user, and associate each identified registered user with a location of the image from which the identification was made. The location information may then be provided when an authorized user requests the location information for a particular registered user.
US10484801B2
Configuration of hearing prosthesis sound processor based on visual interaction with external device
As disclosed, an external device is associated with the recipient of a hearing prosthesis and provides to the hearing prosthesis a control signal carrying an indication that the recipient is looking at output of the external device, perhaps including an indication of one or more characteristics of visual output and/or audio output from the external device. In response to such a control signal, the hearing prosthesis then automatically configures its sound processor in a manner based at least in part on the provided indication, such as to help process audio coming from the external device and/or to process audio in a manner based on the indicated characteristic(s) of visual output and/or audio output.
US10484796B2
An array speaker device (1A) includes a vibrator (20) arranged on one face of a substrate having a uniform thickness, the vibrator being formed of a base material layer (11), a first electrode layer (12), a piezoelectric element layer (13), and a second electrode layer (14), each of which has a uniform thickness, and which are layered in the order mentioned on the substrate. A hole through which a sound wave is outputted in the thickness direction of the substrate is provided on the substrate at a position corresponding to the vibrator (20), the sound wave being generated by vibration of the vibrator (20) to which a voltage signal is applied via the first electrode layer (12) and the second electrode layer (14). Scallops (S) made of an indentation and a projection alternating in the thickness direction of the substrate are formed on the inner circumferential wall of the hole.
US10484784B1
A sound producing apparatus is provided. The sound producing apparatus comprises a driving circuit, comprising a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) module, configured to generate an driving signal according to an audio input signal, wherein the driving signal comprises a pulse amplitude modulated signal generated according to the audio input signal, the pulse amplitude modulated signal comprises a plurality of pulses at a pulse rate, two consecutive pulses among the plurality of pulses are temporally spaced by a pulse cycle, the pulse rate is a reciprocal of the pulse cycle, and the pulse rate is larger than a maximum audible frequency; and a sound producing device, coupled to the driving circuit, configured to produce sound according to the driving signal.
US10484783B2
This application relates to earbuds configured with one or more biometric sensors. At least one of the biometric sensors is configured to be pressed up against a portion of the tragus for making biometric measurements. In some embodiments, the housing of the earbud can be symmetric so that the earbud can be worn interchangeably in either a left or a right ear of a user. In such an embodiment, the earbud can include a sensor and circuitry configured to determine and alter operation of the earbud in accordance to which ear the earbud is determined to be sitting in.
US10484779B2
In at least one embodiment, a headphone system is provided. The system includes a first housing, a second housing, a flexible coated wire, a first loudspeaker, a second loudspeaker, and a magnet. The flexible coated wire is coupled to the first housing and the second housing. The first loudspeaker is positioned within the first housing for transmitting an audio signal. The second loudspeaker is positioned within the second housing for transmitting the audio signal. The magnet is embedded within the flexible coated wire for electrical coupling with a sensor positioned within the first housing to control an operation of playback of the audio signal based on a distance of the magnet in relation to the first housing.
US10484778B2
A headset includes a housing provided at one end of a headband, an ear pad attached to the housing, a boom main body attached to the housing on a side opposite to the ear pad, an arm portion provided in the boom main body and protruding to a side opposite to one end of the headband with the housing interposed between the headband and the arm portion, a first microphone provided at a protruding tip of the arm portion, and a second microphone provided on the arm portion, and disposed on a substantially straight line passing through a mouth of a user and the first microphone and on a side opposite to the mouth of the user with the first microphone interposed between the mouth and the second microphone.
US10484770B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for display devices with transverse planar microphone arrays. In one embodiment, an example device may include a frame component having a first portion and a second portion transverse to the first portion, the first portion having a first surface and a second surface. The device may include a first hole extending through the second portion, a first microphone array coupled to the second portion, the first microphone array having a first microphone aligned with the first hole, and a display assembly coupled to the first surface. The device may include a second hole extending through the display assembly and the first portion, and a second microphone array coupled to the second surface, the second microphone array having a second microphone aligned with the second hole.
US10484769B2
The present disclosure provides a speaker box, including a housing having an accommodation space, an acoustic device accommodated in the accommodation space, a first air-permeable separation component, a second air-permeable separation component. The acoustic device separates the accommodation space into a front cavity and a rear cavity. The first air-permeable separation component is fixed inside the housing and separates the rear cavity into a first rear cavity and a second rear cavity in air communication with each other. The acoustic device is located in the first rear cavity. The second rear cavity is filled with acoustic absorption particles. The second air-permeable separation component separates the second rear cavity into at least two rear sub-cavities in air communication with each other. Types of the acoustic absorption particles filled in two of the rear sub-cavities are not completely the same. Acoustic performance of the speaker box in the present disclosure is better.
US10484756B2
Technologies for presenting an advertisement on a media consumption device includes receiving a request to seek past a commercial included in media content played on the media consumption device, determining an advertisement based on the commercial, and presenting the advertisement to a user of the media consumption device during performance of the requested seek function. The advertisement may be, for example, an extracted frame or image of the commercial and may include a logo or phrase associated with a product or service advertised in the commercial. Similar technologies related to a media content distribution system are also disclosed.
US10484755B2
Methods and systems are provided that can include iconization and later play of video content items, such as advertisements. During presentation of an online video, video advertisements may be presented. Upon user selection, during or after presentation of a particular video advertisement, the advertisement may cease to be presented, but an icon may be displayed that represents the video advertisement. The icon may be displayed in an area adjacent to the online video display area, which area may include multiple icons. Later, upon user selection of the icon, the video advertisement may be played, or may continue playing, utilizing local storage of the video advertisement. This, in turn, may provide, for example, efficient, convenient user access to the video advertisement, leading to enhanced advertisement performance with minimal intrusive impact on the user experience as a whole.
US10484741B2
A system for facilitating access to items of content presents recommendations to a user. Items of content may include movies and television shows. Recommendations may include access plans specifying a plurality of digital media services, where each specified digital media service provides availability to items of content included in a user defined set. Further, recommendations may be based on one or more use defined constraints. User defined constraints may include a user budget for accessing items of content during a specific time period.
US10484740B2
An interactive television program guide application is provided that queries a user regarding the user's interest in television programs and suggests television programs to the user based on the user's responses. The interactive television program guide application identifies a television program that is potentially of interest to the user. The interactive television program guide application then queries the user regarding the user's interest using questions that are formulated based on attributes associated with the identified television program. Using the user's responses to the questions, the interactive television program guide application identifies and suggests one or more television programs to the user.
US10484734B2
A transmitting method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes transmitting video control information for reproduction of video data having an individually reproducible unit, transmitting the video data, determining a transmission order of audio control information for reproduction of audio data in a reproduction interval corresponding to a reproduction interval of the video data in such a way that the audio control information is transmitted after the video control information, and transmitting the audio control information according to the determined transmission order, and transmitting the audio data. Thus, in the receiving apparatus, a delay time from reception of data to reproduction of video and audio is shortened.
US10484732B2
Systems, devices, and methods according to the present disclosure can include a backplane device for exchanging audio information, video information, or other data among multiple audio, video, and/or data (AVD) processing or storage hardware modules. The backplane device includes a group of AVD module slots, and each of the module slots can receive an AVD processing hardware module, an AVD storage hardware module, or other signal processing hardware module. The backplane device includes a serial bus communication loop to couple each of the AVD module slots. The serial bus communication loop is maintained even when an AVD module slot of the backplane device is unoccupied by a hardware module. In an example, multiple backplane devices according to the present disclosure can be daisy-chained together, and packetized information can be exchanged among modules in any of the multiple backplane devices using the communication loop.
US10484730B1
Techniques for estimation of bandwidth for transfer of video content in chunked transfer mode are described herein. A number of chunk samples may be collected during video content transmission. For each chunk sample, its respective delivery speed may be compared to its respective encoding bitrate. If the delivery speed is greater than or equal to the encoding bitrate, then the chunk sample may be included in a primary set of chunk samples. The primary set of chunk samples may be clustered into a lower speed cluster and a higher speed cluster. A representative speed, such as an average or weighted average speed, of the delivery speeds of the chunk samples in the lower speed cluster may be determined, and the bandwidth may be estimated based on the representative speed.
US10484727B2
An exemplary method includes a virtual reality media provider system acquiring, from a plurality of capture devices physically disposed at different vantage points in relation to a scene, a distinct set of two-dimensional (2D) color data and depth data (2D data) for each capture device included in the plurality of capture devices, each distinct set of 2D data representing a distinct unmeshed view of the scene from a respective vantage point of a respective capture device included in the plurality of capture devices, acquiring metadata for each distinct set of 2D data, packaging each distinct set of 2D data into a transport stream such that the transport stream includes data representing each distinct unmeshed view of the scene from each respective vantage point of each respective capture device, and providing the metadata and the transport stream for streaming to a media player device.
US10484709B2
A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a motion vector of a current block. The method of encoding including: generating information about the motion vector based on a motion vector of a current block and a motion vector predictor of the current block by estimating the motion vector and determining a first motion vector predictor candidate from among a plurality of motion vector predictor candidates as the motion vector predictor based on a result of the estimating; and generating a virtual motion vector by using a second motion vector predictor candidate and the information about the motion vector, generating vector differences between the virtual motion vector and the plurality of motion vector predictor candidates, comparing the vector differences with the information about the motion vector, and selectively excluding the second motion vector predictor candidate according to the comparing.
US10484698B2
A video decoding method is implemented by a computer having multiple parallel processing units. A stream of data elements is received, some of which encode video content. The stream comprises marker sequences, each marker sequence comprising a marker which does not encode video content. A known pattern of data elements occurs in each marker sequence. A respective part of the stream is supplied to each parallel processing unit. Each parallel processing unit processes the respective part of the stream, whereby multiple parts of the stream are processed in parallel, to detect whether any of the multiple parts matches the known pattern of data elements, thereby identifying the markers. The encoded video content is separated from the identified markers. The separated video content is decoded, and the decoded video content outputted on a display.
US10484696B2
A method and apparatus for coding a block of video data using index or pixel value prediction including a copy-by-pattern-search mode are disclosed. According to the present invention, a current search pattern is determined based on one or more previous coded pixels. One or more predictors are derived according to the current search pattern for a current index or pixel value of a current pixel in the current block. Encoding or decoding is then applied to one or more following indices or pixel values of one or more following pixels including the current pixel using the predictors. In a simplest case, the one or more previous coded pixels correspond to a single previous coded pixel at the left side of the current pixel and the one or more following pixels contain only the current pixel.
US10484692B2
An image decoding method of decoding, on a block-by-block basis, image data included in a coded stream includes: deriving candidates for an intra prediction mode to be used for intra prediction for a decoding target block, the number of the candidates constantly being a plural number; obtaining, from the coded stream, an index for identifying one of the derived candidates for the intra prediction mode; and determining, based on the obtained index, one of the derived candidates for the intra prediction mode as the intra prediction mode to be used for intra prediction for the decoding target block.
US10484687B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image. The image encoding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: an encoding level decision unit determining an encoding level of an input image; a sampling unit outputting an encoding target picture associated with the encoding level determined in the encoding level decision unit; an encoding unit encoding the encoding target picture output from the sampling unit; a reference picture storage unit storing at least one reference picture; and a reconstructed image generation unit generating a reconstructed image corresponding to the input image in association with the encoding level determined in the encoding level decision unit.
US10484681B2
The image predictive encoding device 10 comprises an intra frame predictive signal generation method determination section 15 which determines, for adjacent areas comprising regenerated pixel signals and adjacent to the target area, a predictive method which is derived on the basis of data corresponding to the adjacent areas as an R mode predictive method or an L mode predictive method, an intra frame predictive signal generation section 16 which generates an intra frame predictive signal on the basis of the R mode predictive method thus determined, and a subtractor 18, a transform section 19, a quantization section 20, and an entropy encoding section 25 which encode a residual signal of a pixel signal of the target area on the basis of the generated intra frame predictive signal.
US10484674B2
In a supersampling technique, an adjacent pair of pixels in a three-dimensional (3D) electronic display is driven based on angular combinations. In particular, a pixel in the pair is driven by an angular combination of a pixel in a 3D view of a 3D image and at least one product of a pixel in an intermediate 3D view and an associated weight. Moreover, the 3D views applied to the pair have different associated angular ranges with different principal angular directions, and the intermediate 3D view has an associated intermediate angular range with an intermediate principal angular direction that is between the principal angular directions. When viewing the 3D electronic display along a principal angular direction in the principal directions of the 3D view, a viewer sees the 3D view, and when viewing the 3D electronic display along the intermediate principal angular direction, the viewer sees the intermediate 3D view.
US10484666B1
A computer vision camera unit comprising first and second pairs, of image capture assemblies, both of which have an approximately same orientation to a first axis. The first and second pairs are optically focused to capture first and second fields of view that, at least, overlap each other. Providing the first and second pairs with imager chips of differing light sensitivity permits high dynamic range to be realized. Having the second field of view within the first field of view permits specialization, between the first and second pairs, similar to the roles of peripheral and foveal vision, found in biological stereo vision systems. The image capture assemblies can be organized in a rectangular configuration that implies third and fourth pairs, orthogonal to the first and second pairs. The orthogonal but interlocking nature, of the first and second pairs in relation to the third and fourth pairs, enables an autocalibration technique.
US10484663B2
The disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and information processing method. The information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry configured to: derive a disparity map of an object based on at least two images among multi-view images of the object; estimate confidences of disparity values in the disparity map using a classifier trained in advance; and perform an optimization process on the disparity map based on disparity values of reference pixels having confidences higher than a predetermined level.
US10484659B2
According to one implementation, a robotic system for performing large-scale environmental mapping in real-time includes a mobile reconnaissance unit having a color sensor, a depth sensor, and a graphics processing unit (GPU) with a GPU memory, and a navigation unit communicatively coupled to the mobile reconnaissance unit and having a central processing unit (CPU) with a CPU memory. The robotic system begins a three-dimensional (3D) scan of an environment of the mobile reconnaissance unit using the color sensor and the depth sensor, and generates mapping data for populating a volumetric representation of the environment. The robotic system continues the 3D scan of the environment using the color sensor and the depth sensor, updates the mapping data, and partitions the volumetric representation between the GPU memory and the CPU memory based on a memory allocation criteria.
US10484656B1
A display device is provided, including a laser beam emitter, a fast-scan driver system including a nonlinear driver and a fast-scan MEMS sensor, and a slow-scan MEMS driver. The nonlinear driver and the slow-scan MEMS driver may respectively drive a fast-scan mirror and a slow-scan mirror. The display device may further include a signal generator configured to generate a periodic electrical signal. The nonlinear driver may receive, amplify, and drive the fast-scan mirror with the amplified electrical signal. The fast-scan MEMS sensor may detect a motion of the fast-scan mirror. The display device may further include a signal detector configured to receive and detect an amplitude difference between a periodic electrical signal and a fast-scan MEMS sensor output signal. The display device may further include a processor configured to receive the amplitude difference and determine a driver system resonant frequency of the fast-scan driver system.
US10484654B2
A modular device includes base and color sensing portions. The color sensing portion has a face, a controlled light source offset from the face to define an interior, the face configured to engage a target surface about a perimeter of the device housing wherein ambient light is restricted from entering the interior. A color sensor receives light reflected from the target surface and generates output signals representative of a surface color. The base portion communicates with the color sensor and a user device having a hosted program which generates a user interface enabling users to provide control input for the color sensor. The program further receives the output signals from the color sensing device and displays a first image of the detected color, and displays a second image of a user-selected color beside the first image. Color data values are further displayed corresponding to the difference between displayed colors.
US10484651B2
An image display control device according to an embodiment includes a display and a controller. The controller displays a first screen on the display. The first screen includes a first image and a second image. The first image is and image of a vehicle viewed from above. The second image is obtained by capturing a second area that is a part of a first area where is a capturing target around the vehicle. The controller displays, on the display, a third image that is switched from the second image, the third image. The third image is obtained by capturing a third area where is different from the second area. The third is selected as a part of area included in the first area. The controller displays identification information for identifying the third area within the first image, before the second image is switched to the third image.
US10484648B1
Systems and methods enabling inbound calls to controlled-environment facility resident telephone numbers employ resident-associated communications devices deployed in the facilities. An inbound and outbound calling platform assigns a telephone number to each resident and associates a routable (IP) address of each resident communications device with such telephone number. This calling platform also presents an online directory to accessing inbound callers that lists residents the caller is allowed to call, the telephone number(s) of such resident(s), and whether such residents and their communications devices are ready to receive a call. The calling platform reconfirms such information upon an inbound call being placed to a telephone number assigned to a resident and signals the resident communications device associated with the resident assigned that telephone number. A controlled-environment facility communication processing system routes the call to the resident communications device associated with the resident called and connects the call.
US10484638B2
A solid-state imaging device having a pixel portion in which a plurality of pixels each including a photodiode are arranged in rows and columns, a reading part for reading pixel signals from the pixel portion, and a key generation part which generates a unique key by using, as the key generation-use data, at least one of fluctuation information of pixels and fluctuation information of the reading part, wherein the key generation part includes a tamper resistance enhancement processing part for processing the key generation-use data to enhance the tamper resistance making it difficult to break the unique key as tamper resistance enhancement processing. Due to this, it is possible to generate a unique key having a high confidentiality. Further, it is possible to improve reproducibility and uniqueness of the unique ID, is possible to secure a high tamper resistance of the unique key, and consequently is possible to reliably prevent tampering and forgery of an image.
US10484632B2
An imaging element that images a subject through an imaging optical system, and includes a plurality of pairs each including a photoelectric conversion unit which is formed within a semiconductor substrate, receives one of a pair of luminous flux passed through different portions arranged in one direction of a pupil area of the imaging optical system, and accumulates electric charges corresponding to a light reception amount, and a photoelectric conversion unit which is formed within the semiconductor substrate, receives the other one of the pair of luminous flux, and accumulates electric charges corresponding to a light reception amount, each of pixels including the photoelectric conversion units constituting the pair includes an electric charge retaining unit as defined herein, and when being viewed in a direction perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate, the electric charge retaining unit included in the pixel is disposed in an area as defined herein.
US10484621B2
Systems and methods for providing imaging content using spatially varying encoding quality. Imaging content may be acquired using spherical lenses (e.g., fisheye). When viewing spherical imaging content, spherical to planar image transformations may be utilized. Such transformations (e.g., equirectangular) may be characterized by spatially varying image distortion. Transformed images may be encoded. Encoding process may be configured based on spatially varying encoding quality. Encoding quality may be configured based on the transformation such that portions of the transformed image characterized by greater distortion may be encoded using lower quality (e.g. greater QP values); portions of the transformed image characterized by lower distortion may be encoded using greater quality (e.g. lower QP values). Such encoding may produce a bitstream characterized by a lower bitrate for a given quality and/or better quality for a given bitrate as compared to an encoding process that may apply a uniform encoding quality.
US10484619B2
An imaging apparatus mounted to a vehicle includes a lens, an image sensor, a light-blocking panel, and a control unit. The image sensor has a light-receiving surface which receives light from the lens and a plurality of pixels provided on the light-receiving surface. The image sensor acquires brightness of light at each of the pixels on the light-receiving surface. The light-blocking panel is disposed between the lens and the image sensor, which has a plurality of cells that are arranged so as to correspond to the plurality of pixels in the image sensor. In the light-blocking panel, transmittance of light of the cells is variable for each cell. The control unit sets the transmittance of each of the cells in the light-blocking panel corresponding to each of the pixels in the image sensor, based on the brightness of light at each of the pixels acquired by the image sensor.
US10484616B2
A method includes capturing a first image of a scene, detecting a face in a section of the scene from the first image, and activating an infrared (IR) light source to selectively illuminate the section of the scene with IR light. The IR light source includes an array of IR light emitting diodes (LEDs). The method includes capturing a second image of the scene under selective IR lighting from the IR light source, detecting the face in the second image, and identifying a person based on the face in the second image.
