US10532810B2
An aircraft includes a rotor blade and a rotor hub system. The rotor hub system includes a lead-lag damper having a rod end and being operably associated with the rotor blade; a blade adapter having a first arm and an opposing second arm; a pin carried by the blade adapter and configured to secure in position via the first arm and the second arm; and an actuator secured to the pin and configured to adjust the position of the lead-lag rod end relative to the first arm and the second arm.
US10532808B2
Systems and methods for cueing a helicopter pilot when a flight parameter (such as rotor-induced vibration level, airspeed, bank angle, icing accumulation, etc.) exceeds operational constraints. This is accomplished by reformulating the on-board cockpit active vibration control system to add a pilot cueing aid. When the measured flight parameter becomes excessive, the active vibration control system is temporarily detuned, which reduces the amount of vibration suppression it provides or turns off vibration suppression, causing an increase in airframe vibration levels to cue the pilot to take action (e.g., to fly within operating limits).
US10532806B2
The present invention discloses a low-noise novel thruster, in which a rotor casing is located at an air inlet side of a stator casing, at an inner middle portion of the rotor casing a rotor core is provided which is driven to rotate by a driving module; a rotor core is provided at in inner middle portion of the stator casing; the rotor casing is of a streamlined cylindrical structure with unequal diameter, and the main body of the rotor blade is parallel with the axial direction, and provided with a smooth curve in the rotating direction of the blade adjacent to an edge portion of an air inlet side. The present application provides a new thruster, which has same energy consumption and safety as propellers, but at a significantly greater thrust than the propeller, the more significant the advantage is at higher speeds.
US10532805B2
An airfoil is provided having reduced noise generation for use with an aircraft. The airfoil includes a body and a cover. The body has a leading edge spaced from a trailing edge and a side surface disposed between the leading edge and the trailing edge. The body defines an inlet proximate the leading edge and configured to receive air. The side surface defines an outlet in fluid communication with the inlet. The outlet is configured to exhaust air away from the side surface. The cover overlies the inlet and is movable between a first and a second cover position. The cover is configured to prevent movement of air through the inlet when the cover is in the first cover position and configured to permit movement of air through the inlet when the cover is in the second cover position.
US10532800B2
This invention relates to a thermal hydrogen generator and a process and system for generating hydrogen gas, more specifically to a process and system for generating hydrogen gas by thermally decomposing a metal hydride.
US10532790B2
A bicycle control device has a body for mounting on a bicycle handlebar and a brake lever that rotates about a predetermined axis. The body has abutment portions defining a first brake lever release position and at least one second brake lever release position. The control device includes an adjuster for selecting a release position. The adjuster has a pin that is mounted on the brake lever and slides substantially parallel to the predetermined axis between abutment portions and a coupler that couples with the pin; the coupler being fixed with the brake lever and configured to selectively stop the pin in a selected position.
US10532788B2
A bicycle operating device is basically provided with a first base member, a lever and an operating unit. The first base member includes a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is configured to be coupled to a handlebar. The second end portion is opposite to the first end portion. The first base member extends along a longitudinal direction from the first end portion to the second end portion. The lever is pivotally coupled to the first base member about a lever axis. The operating unit includes a second base member and an operating member. The second base member includes a mounting portion that is mounted to the second end portion of the first base member. The operating member is movably coupled to the second base member between a rest position and an operated position to operate a bicycle telescopic apparatus.
US10532782B2
A multi-leg independent mobile carrier device, comprising: a base (1), a traveling mechanism (2), and a posture adjustment mechanism (3). The base (1) is used for carrying a human being or an object. The traveling mechanism (2) comprises a driving unit (21) connected to the base (1) and a connecting rod unit (22) rotatably connected to the driving unit. The traveling mechanism (2) is used for driving the base (1) to travel and get over any obstacles. The posture adjustment mechanism (3) is connected to the base (1) and used for keeping the human being or object balanced. The multi-leg independent mobile carrier device integrates a traveling mechanism and a posture adjustment mechanism. The posture adjustment mechanism is used for keeping the base balanced all the time and the traveling mechanism is used for driving the entire device to travel and turn around more flexibly. Therefore, the technical problem of a carrier device being unable to satisfy requirements of good obstacle performance, comfortable riding experience, and flexible traveling is effectively solved. The obstacle crossing ability of the multi-leg independent mobile carrier device is enhanced, and user experience is improved.
US10532781B2
A robotic device for providing vertical mobility has a payload is disposed inside a central compartment and supported by a skid. The skid can move up and down through latch and hook pairs to keep intimate contact with the surface and cross over bumps. The apparatus uses a flexible seal to create a reliable vacuum chamber. The flexible seal comprises a foam ring inside fabric pocket. A plurality of rod and spring strips are configured to apply a downward force to the flexible seal to conform with surface curvatures. The fabric pocket fills in the gaps or seams to maintain a vacuum. The air flows inside a manifold and passes through a filter to avoid debris from damaging the vacuum motor assembly.
US10532769B2
A vehicle steering system includes: a steering input unit that is steered by a driver; a steering force detector to detect steering force input into the steering input unit; a first steering control amount calculator to calculate a first steering control amount for bringing the vehicle close to the target traveling line; a steering control amount correction coefficient calculator to calculate a steering control amount correction coefficient for correcting a steering control amount based on the steering force; a second steering control amount calculator to calculate a second steering control amount based on the first steering control amount and the steering control amount correction coefficient; and a steering controller that steers and controls the vehicle based on the second steering control amount.
US10532768B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling the position of a vehicle to ensure stable position of a vehicle against tilting due to a rapid change in vehicle speed. The method includes: determining whether a vehicle speed is rapidly changing in a straight direction on the basis of an extent of depression of a pedal that changes a position of a steering wheel and a change in vehicle speed; determining whether the vehicle is tilting on the basis of a change in a yaw-rate by means of the controller when the vehicle speed is rapidly changing in the straight direction; and providing compensation torque in the direction opposite the direction in which the vehicle is tilted by operating a steering motor when the controller determines that the vehicle is tilting.
US10532752B2
A chassis frame for a rail vehicle includes a plurality of longitudinal beams formed as I-beams, wherein each longitudinal beam includes a longitudinal beam top flange, a longitudinal beam bottom flange and a web, a box-shaped transverse beam interconnecting the plurality of longitudinal beams, each longitudinal beam having a central section in which the longitudinal beam is connected to the transverse beam, where each longitudinal beam forms at least one wheelset guide bushing for connection to a wheelset guide, where a stiffening rib is arranged in each longitudinal beam on both sides of the web, and where the stiffening rib extends outward from the web in a transverse direction on both sides of the web and is configured such that the force flow from the wheelset guide bushing is conducted into the transverse beam such that the shear stiffness and transverse stiffness of the chassis frame is increased.
US10532748B2
A system includes a processor configured to receive information indicating the presence of an upcoming obstacle along a route and determine a vehicle-control strategy to minimize expected fuel usage between a current location and an obstacle location. The processor may further control the vehicle in accordance with the control strategy or recommend driver actions in accordance with the control strategy.
US10532745B2
A monitor unit of a vehicle acquires an object left-right difference parameter corresponding to a command left-right difference parameter or corresponding to a measurement left-right difference parameter. The monitor unit compares the object left-right difference parameter and a first left-right difference threshold. If the object left-right difference parameter exceeds a first left-right difference threshold, the monitor unit limits the motive power of a first rotary electric machine and a second rotary electric machine.
US10532739B2
A first off-network wireless device discovers a second off-network wireless device and a third off-network wireless device. The first off-network wireless device transmits first media traffic employing a first session to the third off-network wireless device. The first off-network wireless device receives a floor request message from the second off-network wireless device. The floor request message comprises an organization field identifier and an organization identifier. The first off-network wireless device determines a call priority based on the organization field identifier and the organization identifier. Based on the call priority, transmission of the first media traffic to the third off-network wireless device is terminated. The first off-network wireless device starts transmission of second media traffic to the second off-network wireless device employing a second session.
US10532728B2
A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a motor, a power storage device, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to limit execution of power storage capacity decreasing control and execution of power storage capacity recovering control when a condition a) and a condition b) are both satisfied than when the condition a) and a condition c) are both satisfied, a) is parking at a predetermined point is predicted b) a temperature of the power storage device is out of a predetermined temperature range, and c) the temperature of the power storage device is within the predetermined temperature range.
US10532721B2
A car wash spray device can include a fluid inlet to receive a pressurized fluid from a fluid source. The car wash spray device can also include a first spray nozzle, and a first pressure-sensitive valve in fluid communication with the fluid inlet and the first spray nozzle. The first pressure-sensitive valve can be configured to allow flow of the pressurized fluid therethrough at or below a first pressure. The car wash spray device can further include a second spray nozzle, and a second pressure-sensitive valve in fluid communication with the fluid inlet and the second spray nozzle. The second pressure-sensitive valve can be configured to allow flow of the pressurized fluid therethrough at or above a second pressure. Controlling a pressure of the pressurized fluid can facilitate delivery of the pressurized fluid through at least one of the first nozzle and the second nozzle.
US10532706B2
An object of the description is to provide a conductive wire with a small diameter. A conductive wire configured to be arranged in a vehicle and electrically connect electrical devices includes: a rigid wire having a first core wire, and a first insulating coating that covers an outer circumference of the first core wire; and a flexible wire having a second core wire that is superior to the first core wire in terms of flexibility and is connected to an end of the first core wire, and a second insulating coating that covers an outer circumference of the second core wire. A wall thickness T1 in a radial direction of the first insulating coating of the rigid wire is smaller than a wall thickness T2 in a radial direction of the second insulating coating of the flexible wire.
US10532701B2
A reversible load floor for a vehicle includes a first side defining a planar surface. The reversible load floor also includes a second side disposed opposite of the first side. The second side includes a container, which extends from the second side along a vertical axis at a center of a spare tire such that, in a first position, the first side is accessible via a cargo compartment and the container is disposed over the spare tire, and, in a second position, the first side extends across a top of the spare tire and the container is accessible via the cargo compartment.
US10532699B2
The present invention relates to a magnetic quick mounting unit for construction machines, particularly road pavers, having a positioning mark configured for permanent attachment to a construction machine, an attachment device which can be magnetically attached on the positioning mark, an alignment mark arranged on the attachment device and indicating the alignment of the attachment device, and an alignment aid arranged on the positioning mark, the alignment mark and the alignment aid being configured such that the alignment of the attachment device relative to the construction machine can be read from the relative position of the alignment mark to the alignment aid when the attachment device has been attached on the positioning mark. The present invention further relates to a method for magnetic quick-mounting of an attachment device, particularly a camera, to a construction machine, particularly a road paver, comprising the steps of: attaching a positioning mark with an alignment aid on the construction machine; attaching an alignment mark on the attachment device; magnetically attaching the attachment device on the positioning mark; and aligning the attachment device by means of the relative positions of the alignment aid and the alignment mark. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a construction machine having such a magnetic quick mounting unit.
US10532698B2
A method for determining trailer angle includes determining angles of a trailer hitch relative to a data recording device via an angle measuring device while the trailer hitch pivots about a hitch ball of the device. While the trailer hitch pivots about the hitch ball of the device, trailer hitch information is determined responsive to processing of captured image data and responsive to determined angles of the trailer hitch. After determining trailer hitch information, data representative of the determined information is provided to an electronic device, which is disposed at a vehicle having a rear backup camera that has a field of view that encompasses a hitch ball of the vehicle and at least a portion of a hitch of a trailer hitched to the vehicle. Using the provided data, and responsive to processing of captured image data, an angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle is determined.
US10532693B2
An undercarriage light assembly includes a light element, a translucent jacket exterior to and surrounding the light element, and an outer housing positioned exterior to and surrounding at least a portion of the translucent jacket. The outer housing includes a first side, a second side connected to the first side, and a third side connected to the second side. The first and third sides are angled toward one another. An opening between the first and third sides allows for light to pass from the light element through the outer housing.
US10532687B2
A cargo bay accessory for inserting into a cargo bay of a truck, the cargo bay accessory having opposing stepped side walls forming horizontal support surfaces at different elevations, wherein the support surfaces on one side are at the same elevation as the support surfaces on the opposite side, and wherein the lower support surfaces are laterally spaced closer together than higher support surfaces.
US10532682B2
A vibration generator includes a vibration transmission member and an exciter. The vibration transmission member is disposed in a seat beneath a seat surface of the seat so as to extend longitudinally in a horizontal direction of the seat surface and is able to transmit a vibration in an extending direction of the vibration transmission member in which the vibration transmission member extends longitudinally. The exciter includes a voice coil, a permanent magnet disposed in the vicinity of the voice coil, a yoke supporting the permanent magnet. The exciter transmits the vibration to the vibration transmission member as the yoke and the voice coil approach or leave to each other. The yoke and the voice coil approach or leave in the same direction as the extending direction of the vibration transmission member.
US10532681B2
A vehicle seat for use in a vehicle comprises a seat body for engagement with a seated occupant's body. The seat body including: a seat base for receiving a seated occupant and a backrest extending upward from the base for supporting the seated occupant's back, and a headrest connected with the backrest and projecting upward from the backrest. The headrest includes a receiving face facing forward for engagement with the occupant's head in the event of a sudden change in velocity to ease rearward movement of the occupant's head.
US10532676B2
A removable car seat cover for a car seat having an integral side airbag including a side panel having a predetermined pre-weakened failure zone that is pretreated by controlled laser ablation of the side panel. The pre-weakened failure zone is located at or adjacent to an airbag deployment area of a car seat when the car seat cover is installed on the car seat, and is in the form of an elongate strip extending along the side panel. The pre-weakened failure zone has a known bursting strength to thereby facilitate reliable deployment of the side airbag from the car seat as a result of tearing of the pre-weakened zone when the removable car seat cover is installed thereon.
US10532675B2
A knitted seat trim cover for attachment to a vehicle seat includes a knitted trim panel configured to be installed over one or more support members of the vehicle seat and at least one fastener tube integrally knitted to the trim panel. The fastener tube is positioned on a back side of the trim panel facing the one or more support members. The knitted seat trim cover also includes an elongated fastener member positioned inside the at least one fastener tube. The elongated fastener member is configured to releasably connect to a complimentary fastener member on the vehicle seat.
US10532674B2
A vehicle seat includes a seat bottom and a seat back. The seat back is coupled to the seat bottom and arranged to extend upwardly from the seat bottom. The seat back includes a seat-back frame and a comfort integrator unit to be mounted to the seat-back frame, as well as a seat-cover shell that can be positioned over the mounted comfort integrator unit.
US10532670B2
Disclosed is a seat recliner for a vehicle, the seat recliner including: a first flange provided with a plurality of guide parts being spaced apart from each other, with guide spaces defined between the guide parts; a plurality of locking gears disposed in the guide spaces of the first flange respectively, configured to slide forward and backward along the guide parts in a radial direction, and provided with external teeth at an outer end of each of the locking gears; and a second flange coupled with the first flange to be rotatable relative thereto, formed in a shape covering the guide parts and the locking gears, and configured to be engaged with the external teeth of the locking gears.
US10532669B2
There is provided a vehicle seat that includes: a waist movement suppressing member that is disposed at a seat front side and a seat upper side of a seat cushion, and that extends in a seat width direction; movable members that support both end portions of the waist movement suppressing member movably in a seat vertical direction; urging members that urge the movable members toward a seat upper side; raising mechanisms that, at a time of sudden braking or at a time a collision is predicted, move the waist movement suppressing member toward the seat upper side; and stoppers that limit movement, toward a seat lower side, of the waist movement suppressing member that has been moved toward the seat upper side by the raising mechanisms.
US10532667B2
A two-way distribution, charging, and vending system permits a subscriber to exchange one or more partially or completely discharged portable electric energy storage devices for a comparable number of charged portable electric energy storage devices. The two-way distribution, charging, and vending system includes a number of charging modules, each with a dedicated power converter, communicably coupled to at least one two-way distribution system controller and to a power distribution grid. Upon receipt of a discharged portable electric energy storage device, the at least one two-way distribution system controller validates a manufacturer identifier and a subscriber identifier stored in a nontransitory storage media carried by the discharged portable electric energy storage device. Responsive to a successful authentication and validation, the at least one two-way distribution system controller dispenses a charged portable electric energy storage device to the subscriber.
US10532664B2
A method of estimating time required to charge a vehicle is provided. The method reduces an error in estimating the time required for charging due to a difference between the voltage of an external power supply unit, measured when setting a reservation for charging, and the voltage applied to an on-board charger during actual charging of a battery, and a charging reservation method using the same. The method includes detecting an input voltage to an on-board charger from an external power supply unit and estimating an input current. A charging voltage margin value is determined based on the detected input voltage and the input current and a charging setting voltage is determined by applying the charging voltage margin value to the input voltage. A time required for charging is then calculated based on the charging setting voltage, the input current, and a charging demand of a battery.
US10532647B2
A system and method are provided for hybrid electric internal combustion engine applications in which a motor-generator, a narrow switchable coupling and a torque transfer unit therebetween are arranged and positioned in the constrained environment at the front of an engine in applications such as commercial vehicles, off-road vehicles and stationary engine installations. The motor-generator is preferably positioned laterally offset from the switchable coupling, which is co-axially-arranged with the front end of the engine crankshaft. The switchable coupling is an integrated unit in which a crankshaft vibration damper, an engine accessory drive pulley and a disengageable clutch overlap such that the axial depth of the clutch-pulley-damper unit is nearly the same as a conventional belt drive pulley and engine damper. The front end motor-generator system includes an electrical energy store that receives electrical 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 the engine accessories using energy returned from the energy store, independent of the engine crankshaft.
US10532638B2
A mounting structure for mounting an interior component to a door trim body includes: a rear locking protrusion including a first portion protruding from a back surface of the interior component and a second portion extending from a distal end of the first portion toward a front of a vehicle; a rear mounting hole in a rear edge section of the door trim body and opposed to the rear locking protrusion; a locking protrusion protruding from the back surface toward the door trim body and is disposed closer to a front of the vehicle relative to the rear locking protrusion; and a mounting hole in a section of the door trim body at a position closer to the front relative to the rear mounting hole and opposed to the locking protrusion. The second portion of rear locking protrusion is locked to a hole edge of the rear mounting hole.
US10532635B2
An attachable sun visor system includes a sun visor extension assembly including a sun shade panel, an extendable rod having a first-end, a second-end, and a mounting member. The sun shade panel is configured to attach to a rod of a stationary sun visor in a vehicle and swivel from being adjacent to the stationary sun visor during non-use to being perpendicular to the stationary sun visor during an in-use condition to provide an effective shade area in combination with the stationary sun visor.
US10532629B2
A radiant heating system includes a radiant heating element, a steering wheel position monitoring device and a controller configured to control the radiant heating element in response to steering wheel position data received from the steering wheel position monitoring device. A method of controlling operation of a radiant system.
US10532619B1
A trailer jack protection arrangement that includes a cushioned plastic or rubber surface in the event of contact between a trailer jack and a portion of the vehicle, such as a tailgate. The arrangement is attached to the trailer jack via the jack stem and projects above the jack handle or jack top cylinder, depending on the type of jack. The arrangement utilizes an embedded metal stamping to provide a mounting surface and extra stability for the plastic or rubber impact surfaces. The arrangement also utilizes a Teflon® washer underneath it for lubricity and stability when it also turns as the jack handle turns to move the trailer up or down, on a top wind jack. The alternative design provides protection for a side wind jack using an adapter, which can have several different forms to accommodate all types of trailer jacks. The design requires installation and prevents easy removal of the invention so it is not lost or stolen.
US10532615B2
A pneumatic tire manufacturing method is provided in which raw cover molding is suitably performed with no, or a minimal amount of, down-stitching in the manufacture of SOT-structure pneumatic tires; also provided is a pneumatic tire. This pneumatic tire manufacturing method involves: a step in which a sidewall, an inner liner, and a ply are bonded on a first molding drum, a pair of beads is set, and the tread side part is formed on the side wall, forming a first cover; a step in which a breaker and band are bonded on a second molding drum and the tread center part is formed on the band, shaping the tread ring; a step in which the first cover is inserted inside of the tread ring and the first cover is inflated, bonding the tread ring and the first cover with pressure; and a step in which the sidewall is folded back towards the lateral surface of the inflated first cover and bonded to the lateral surface of the first cover, and the tread side part and the tread center part are bonded together.
US10532612B2
Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements. First layer C of rubber compound is placed between ends of the two working crown layers. Second layer S of polymer compound is in contact with at least one working crown layer and with the carcass reinforcement. The crown reinforcement includes at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements. The elastic modulus under tension at 10% elongation of first layer C is less than 8 MPa, the maximum value of tan(δ) of first layer C is less than 0.100. The second layer S is made up of a filled elastomer blend having a macro dispersion coefficient Z greater than or equal to 65 and a maximum tan(δ) value less than 0.100, and its complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60° C. on the return cycle, is greater than 1.35 MPa.
US10532609B2
A method for traversing a magnetically inducible surface using a multidirectional wheel is provided. The method includes providing a vehicle having the multidirectional wheel, rotating a hub of the wheel along a first axial direction of rotation, continuing rotation of the hub of the wheel so as to cause a first roller disposed about a periphery of the hub to move out of contact with a first portion of the magnetically inducible surface and to cause a second roller disposed about the periphery of the hub in a plurality of rollers to contact a second portion of the magnetically inducible surface, wherein at least one roller among the plurality of rollers is in contact with the magnetically inducible surface throughout rotation of the wheel, and wherein the flux of the at least one magnet is concentrated toward portions of the surface being traversed adjacent to one or more of the plurality of rollers throughout rotation of the wheel.
US10532604B2
A method is provided for using a rotatable insertion horn to open an envelope prior to insertion of documents. A pair of insertion horns is positioned at the sides of an envelope inserting station. An envelope is fed into the envelope inserting station with its flap open. The collation of documents is pushed into the open end of the envelope. The insertion horns are positioned in an initial position that is fully outside the envelope, prior to arrival of the collation. The insertion horns are controlled to simultaneously rotate into the envelope as the collation passes between the insertion horns. Preferably, rotation of the insertion horns into the envelope does not begin until a lead edge of the collation is in a region between the insertion horns. This facilitates insertion of the collation without catching on an upstream edge of the insertion horns.
US10532598B2
A ring mechanism has pivoting hinge plates supported by a housing so pivoting of the hinge plates can open and close rings for holding the loose-leaf pages. The mechanism has an actuator including a lower arm for moving the hinge plates to open the rings and an upper arm for moving the hinge plates to close the rings. The upper arm has a hook thereon. An intermediate connector comprises a cross bar captured by the hook on the actuator. The intermediate connector connects a travel bar to the actuator so movement of the actuator to pivot the hinge plates causes longitudinal movement of the travel bar in the housing. A locking element is moveable with the travel bar between a locking position and non-locking position.
US10532592B2
A head position adjustment mechanism including: a head fixing section for fixedly supporting a head section; a linear-motion mechanism to which the head fixing section has been attached; and a bracket to which the linear-motion mechanism has been attached, the bracket has a tapered pin attached to the bracket and a plunger attached to the bracket, the tapered pin and the plunger facing each other, the tapered pin has its tapered part brought into contact with a first side end of the head fixing section in the X-axis direction, the plunger biases a second side end of the head fixing section in the X-axis direction toward the tapered pin, and moving up and down the tapered pin causes the head fixing section to linearly move in the X-axis direction so that the position of the head fixing section is adjusted.
US10532590B2
The printing apparatus includes a medium support member including a support surface that supports a sheet of paper on which printing is to be performed, and a positioning member that positions the support surface of the medium support member. The positioning member is a plate-shaped member and is configured to position the support surface of the medium support member, with the medium support member contacting with an end face intersecting a plate surface of the positioning member.
US10532580B2
A fluid ejection apparatus may include a drop generator to eject fluid droplets in a vertical direction and a fluid channel containing the drop generator. The fluid channel may include a vertical inlet through which fluid is to enter the fluid channel and a vertical outlet through which fluid not ejected by the drop generator is to be circulated out of the fluid channel.
US10532572B2
An inkjet printhead having a fluidic chamber substrate, the fluidic chamber substrate having at least two droplet units provided in an array therein, the droplet units comprising: a fluidic chamber, a first fluidic port provided at a first surface of the fluidic chamber substrate, wherein the first fluidic port is in fluidic communication with the fluidic chamber, a nozzle formed in a nozzle layer provided at a second surface of the fluidic chamber substrate; and a vibration plate provided at the first surface of the fluidic chamber substrate, the vibration plate comprising an actuator for effecting pressure fluctuations within the fluidic chamber; and wherein the droplet units are arranged adjacent each other about an axis extending substantially in a width direction of the droplet units, wherein the first fluidic ports of the droplet units are staggered a first stagger offset distance from each other substantially in a length direction of the droplet units, and wherein a wiring layer extends over the first surface of the fluidic chamber substrate and between the first fluidic ports.
US10532571B2
In one example, a printhead structure includes an ejector element, a multi-layer insulator covering the ejector element, and an amorphous metal on the insulator.
US10532566B2
An inkjet recording apparatus includes a shape reading unit that reads a shape of a conveyed recording medium, a line data generating unit that generates line data based on information of the shape of the recording medium read by the shape reading unit, a head unit that ejects ink to the conveyed recording medium, a mask data generating unit that specifies an ejection inhibition part to which ink is not ejected from each of the plurality of line data, and a print image data generating unit that combines the dot image data and the mask data so as to generate print image data.
US10532564B2
According to an embodiment of this invention, a print control apparatus which controls a printhead, including a plurality of nozzle arrays each formed from a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink, for executing printing on a print medium by discharging inks of a plurality of colors from the plurality of nozzle arrays executes the following data processing. That is, image data is received from an external apparatus. One of a plurality of ASICs executes at least common data processing for generating print data corresponding to the plurality of colors with respect to the received image data, and another ASIC executes specific data processing related to each of the plurality of colors. Thus, print data to be output to the printhead is generated, and then transmitted to the printhead.
US10532563B2
Provided are a printing result inspection apparatus, a method, and a program capable of determining a printing defect caused by a printing step and a printing paper defect caused by printing paper by reading the printing paper once. A printing result inspection apparatus 10 accepts designation of paper defect information used for determining a defected region through an operation unit 14. A defect determination unit 24 determines whether defected regions D10, D12, and D14 extracted from a non-image region A10 are the printing defect or the printing paper defect based on designated paper defect information, a density change amount, and a color, and an image feature amount of a defected region determined as the printing paper defect in the non-image region A10 is stored in paper defect information I10 and is accumulated in a paper defect information storage unit 30. The defect determination unit 24 performs the determination of defected regions D20 and D22 extracted from image regions A20 and A22 based on the designated paper defect information, stored paper defect information relating to printing paper P10 being inspected, and the paper defect information I10.
US10532562B2
A droplet ejection device has a nozzle head with a plurality of ejection units, each of which includes a nozzle, a duct connected to the nozzle, and an electromechanical transducer arranged to create a pressure wave in a liquid in the duct so as to expel a droplet of the liquid from the nozzle. The device further includes an electronic control circuit arranged to apply control signals to the transducers and to receive detection signals that are generated in the transducers in response to the transducer being exposed to pressure fluctuations. The nozzle head includes a reference duct which has an electromechanical transducer serving as a reference transducer. The control circuit is arranged to subtract a detection signal of the reference transducer from a detection signal of at least one of the ejection units.
US10532552B2
Linear lengths of build material are initially deposited spaced apart from one another, with the resulting gaps or offsets filled in by subsequent deposition passes. In this manner, each straight length of material can cool independently before bonding to other adjacent lengths of material, thereby avoiding or mitigating non-axial stresses on each linear length of material as it cools.
US10532549B2
Provided are splices, comprising honeycomb cores and adhesive layers with tie clips supporting the honeycomb cores. Also provided are methods of forming such splices. Each tie clip includes two legs and a bridging portion joining the legs. When forming a splice, an adhesive layer is positioned between two honeycomb cores. One leg of the tie clip is inserted into the full cell of one honeycomb core, while the other leg is inserted into the full cell of the other honeycomb core. The bridging portion extends across the adhesive layer. While curing the adhesive layer, the tie clip supports the honeycomb cores with respect to each other and maintains their orientation. The tie clip becomes a part of the splice. The tie clip may be buried in the honeycomb cores without extending above the first face of the splice.
US10532545B2
It is an object to provide a composite in which the adhesion between a sheet layer and a curable resin layer or a film layer is high, and which has high strength and high transparency. The present invention provides a composite wherein a curable resin layer or a film layer is laminated on the one or both surfaces of the sheet layer with a covering layer interposed therebetween, the sheet layer containing fine fibers with an average fiber width of 2 to 1000 nm.
US10532540B2
A vehicle roof glass element having an exterior glass pane and a transparent insulating layer foamed on the inside onto the glass pane has an externally circumferential rim the runner points and the ventilation points of which are provided on the inside of the glass pane. Furthermore, a method and a tool for manufacturing a vehicle roof glass element are described.
US10532539B2
A plate assembly for a motor vehicle may include a first plate, a second arranged substantially parallel to the first plate, the second plate defining a plurality of perforations, and a mesh core including a plurality of wire bundles, the core arranged between the plates, wherein the mesh core is rigidly joined to an inner surface of each plate via the perforations.
US10532530B2
A device, which converts a reinforcing strip from being flat to being undulating, includes a transporter that guides fingers along a closed circuit, with the fingers being able to bear against a first face of the strip; a support plate that rotates about a plate axis and that supports rollers having axes parallel to the plate axis, with the rollers being able to bear against a second face of the strip; and a synchronizer that synchronizes a rotation of the support plate and a forward motion of the transporter. The closed circuit has an intersecting portion at which the synchronizer allows the fingers and the rollers to move rotationally in a common plane perpendicular to the plate axis, with the fingers and the rollers being interposed at the intersecting portion so as to cause the strip to have undulating waves that extend in the common plane.
US10532523B2
Embodiments of the invention allow performing an additive manufacturing process using a base object. Some embodiments enable placement of a three-dimensional base object inside a three-dimensional printer and print on the base object to produce a three-dimensional product. One exemplary embodiment is a method including: obtaining a representation of a three-dimensional physical object as a base object; obtaining a representation of a three-dimensional physical object as a product producible by adding layers of material on the base object. A representation of a support structure configured to retain the base object position within an additive manufacturing apparatus is determined, and the support structure is produced using an additive manufacturing process. Alternatively, a representation of an on-object structure determined and the on-object structure is produced using an additive manufacturing process by adding one or more layers of material on the base object.
US10532521B2
A method of fabricating a composite material part having a body secured to at least one platform present at one end of the body, the method including using the fiber blank to form a preform for the part that is to be made by folding out segments of the second and third portions that are not interlinked with the first portion on opposite sides of the first portion, by shaping the folded-out segments of the second and third portions to form preform portions for a platform of the part to be fabricated, and by folding down the segment of the first portion in order to fill in the groove present in the gap between the second and third portions; and densifying the preform with a matrix in order to obtain a part made of composite material having at least one integrated platform.
US10532520B2
A helical winding unit includes a plurality of guides arrayed in a peripheral direction of a liner, and adapted to guide each of a plurality of fiber bundles supplied to the helical winding unit to the liner, and an opening member arranged downstream of the plurality of guides in a travelling direction of the fiber bundle, and including an inner peripheral surface for forming a hole, through which the plurality of fiber bundles are inserted from one side to the other side in the axial direction. A plurality of opening surfaces on which the plurality of fiber bundles travel while making contact are formed on the inner peripheral surface of the opening member, and a cross-sectional shape orthogonal to the axial direction of each opening surface is linear.
US10532515B2
A method that includes additively manufacturing with an additive manufacturing (AM) system a sub-component that has a locator element. Using a control system of the AM system for positioning a first location of the locator element. Selectively placing a portion of another sub-component adjacent to the locator element, based on the positioning. Then attaching the second sub-component to the first sub-component in a region, wherein the region is based on the positioning knowledge from the control system so as to make a component. A component that comprises a first sub-component that has an AM locator element; and a second sub-component attached to the first sub-component, wherein the locator element is attached to the second sub-component within the same additive manufacturing build chamber as the first sub-component.
US10532513B2
A method of producing a workpiece by using additive manufacturing techniques includes obtaining computer-aided design data representing the workpiece in multiple layers. The method includes providing build platforms and layer tools. Each layer tool is moveable relative to a respective build platform and configured to generate or solidify a material layer on the respective build platform. The method includes producing a first defined material layer of the workpiece on a first build platform by controlling a first layer tool according to a first layer definition. The method includes transferring the first defined material layer from the first build platform to a second build platform and measuring the first defined material layer using a first measuring head to measure individual characteristics. The method includes producing further material layers of the workpiece by controlling a second layer tool in accordance with further layer definitions as a function of the measured individual characteristics.
US10532491B2
A twin-screw extrusion kneader includes: two rotating shafts provided side by side in an internal space; a rotational driving portion configured to rotationally drive the rotating shafts; and paddles provided in the rotating shafts and configured to rotate along with the rotating shafts so as to knead a kneading material. Further, the twin-screw extrusion kneader includes movable portions provided as members constituting a part of the housing, the part of the housing including an inner wall surface of the housing, the inner wall surface being opposed to radially outer peripheral surfaces of the paddles. The movable portions can be moved in a direction to approach the paddles and in a direction to be distanced from the paddles. The twin-screw extrusion kneader can control the viscosity of electrode paste by moving the movable portions.
US10532487B2
The invention relates to a method for treating, especially levelling, at least one surface, preferably at least one flat side surface, of oriented strand boards (i.e. OSB wood composite boards) and also to the products obtainable in this way as well as to the uses thereof.
US10532482B2
The present invention relates to the field of industrial cutting machines and cutting tools therefore. In one particular aspect the present invention relates to a method and system for quickly changing cutting tools in computer controlled cutting machines, in a first aspect of embodiments described herein there is provided a mechanism for retaining a cutting tool of a cutting machine, the mechanism having a longitudinal axis substantially perpendicular to a cutting surface, the mechanism comprising a mount associated with the cutting machine, a holder for a cutting tool, a retaining device for removably attaching the holder to the mouth, wherein the retaining device is adapted to bias the holder in the direction of the longitudinal axis.
US10532477B2
A power operated rotary knife including an annular rotary knife blade supported for rotation in a blade housing. The rotary knife blade including a body and a blade section extending from the body. The body section including an outer wall including an upper, middle and lower portions. The upper portion of the outer wall including a bearing race extending radially inwardly into the outer wall. The lower portion of the outer wall including the driven gear. In one embodiment, the intermediate portion includes an annular land having an outer surface defining a radially outermost portion of the outer wall of the body, the outer surface of the annular land being radially outward of the driven gear and the bearing race. In another embodiment, the intermediate portion includes an annular channel having an inner surface being radially inward of first and second ends of the bearing race and the driven gear.
US10532475B2
The present disclosure relates to a grooming system having an adaptive lighting system (70) and a personal care appliance (50), particularly a hair cutting appliance, the adaptive lighting system (70) comprising at least one sensor (74, 76, 78, 80) that is arranged to detect an illumination-indicative value in the vicinity of a treatment head (54) of the appliance (50), at least one light source (72, 110, 134) that is arranged to illuminate a treatment zone, a lighting control unit (86, 102) operatively coupled with the at least one sensor (74, 76, 78, 80) and the at least one light source (72, 110, 134), wherein the lighting control unit (86, 102) is arranged to control the at least one light source (72, 110, 134) dependent on the illumination-indicative value detected by the at least one sensor (74, 76, 78, 80), and wherein the lighting control unit (86, 102) is arranged to increase a target illumination level when a detected actual illumination level is low, and to decrease a target illumination level when a detected actual illumination level is high. The present disclosure further relates to a method of operating an adaptive lighting system (70) and to a corresponding computer program.
US10532467B2
A robotic system has a plurality of user selectable operating modes. To select one of the operating modes, a user performs a distinguishing action which uniquely identifies a desired operating mode among the plurality of user selectable operating modes. A method implemented by a processor in the robotic system identifies the distinguishing action and places the robotic system in the user selected operating mode.
US10532459B2
Setting a target region determined based on a positional relationship between an object and a holding unit at a time of holding the object with the holding unit, acquiring measurement data on a plurality of objects, recognizing positions and orientations of the plurality of objects based on the acquired measurement data and a three-dimensional shape model of the objects, calculating a position of the set target region for each of the plurality of recognized objects based on the recognized positions and orientations of the plurality of objects, performing interference judgment about interference between the holding unit and the object in an order determined based on the positions of the target regions, and causing the holding unit to hold one of the plurality of recognized objects based on a result of the performed interference judgment.
US10532455B1
An ergonomic handle to be used in conjunction with a hand-operated personal use tool. A unique feature of the ergonomic handle is a series of concave-shaped grooves and convex-shaped protrusions on the top surface and one concave-shaped groove and two convex-shaped protrusions on the bottom surface. The ergonomic handle has an arcuate shape to facilitate a secure grasping of the handle by the fingers of one handle.
US10532454B2
An electric working machine according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an output shaft, a motor, a transmitting device, a drive device, a controller, and a current path. The transmitting device has transmittable allowable torque and transmits rotation of the motor to the output shaft. The drive device energizes the motor with electric supply from a battery in accordance with a command from outside the electric working machine. The current path is configured to be able to energize the motor with a current value larger than an allowable current value required to limit torque generated in the transmitting device due to rotation of the motor to the allowable torque or smaller.
US10532448B2
A hand tool includes a head and a handle. The head is pivotally mounted to the handle, permitting the position of the head to be changed relative to the handle. In addition, the tool includes a primary locking mechanism and a secondary locking mechanism. The primarily locking mechanism primarily fixes the head relative to the handle in a particular position. The secondary locking mechanism can be used to further lock the head and handle. The locking mechanisms are actuated by movement of a sleeve which is located on the handle.
US10532447B2
This disclosure describes embodiments of a combination castlenut and barrelnut socket adapter that may be used to remove castlenuts and barrel nuts from firearms.
US10532443B2
A method is disclosed for grinding grooves on workpieces using a profiled grinding wheel, the profile of which is crushed. A reshaping crush process includes driven crush rollers, each being controlled on the basis of a rotational speed and current consumption. Thus, relative advancement between the grinding wheel and crush roller is controlled according to the speed and current consumption. A grinding machine is also disclosed for grinding a workpiece, wherein the workpiece is held by means of a workpiece spindle head. A crush device comprising a crush roller with a dedicated rotary drive is provided on the grinding machine. The grinding wheel is applied to the crush roller in order to dress the grinding wheel profile. The crush roller has a profile-crushing portion for profile-crushing the grinding wheel with a first dressing volume and a reshaping profile-crushing portion for profile-crushing the grinding wheel with a second dressing volume.
US10532439B2
The invention relates to a device (10) for machining work pieces, particularly for sharpening tools with cutters for cutting-machining, such as for example drills, milling tools or the like, the device (10) comprising a monolithic machine block (12) with at least two functional surfaces (14, 16) disposed at an angle with respect to each other, a work piece support arrangement (18) for clamping-in a work piece (38) to be machined, a machining unit (20), on which at least one tool (66, 68, 70) can be attached to machine the work piece (38), and a support (22), on which the machining unit (20) can be displaceably attached, wherein on a first functional surface (14) of the two functional surfaces (14, 16) of the machine block (12) the machine block (12) has at least one first linear guide (24, 26) for guiding a work piece support arrangement (18) along at least one first guide axis (X1), and on the second functional surface (16) of the two functional surfaces (14, 16) of the machine block (12) the machine block has at least one second linear guide (40, 42) for guiding the support (22) for the machining unit (20) along at least one second guide axis (Z1), the first functional surface (14) or the second functional surface (16) being allocated at least one third linear guide (46, 48) for guiding the work piece support arrangement (18) or the machining unit (20) along a third guide axis (Y1), the machining unit (20) being displaceable relative to the support (22), the first, second and third guide axes (X1, Y1, Z1) each extending inclined with respect to the other, the work piece support arrangement (18) being formed with a first axis of rotation (A1) for rotating the work piece (38) and the machining unit (20) or the work piece support arrangement (18) being pivotable about at least one second axis of rotation (C1, C2, B1).
US10532438B2
A method for drilling an element to be drilled by a drilling device and a cutting tool including drill margins and cutting edges. The method includes determining at least one load value representing overall drag due to internal friction of the drilling device and to friction of drill margins in the element to be drilled. Determining includes: stopping a drilling operation in progress; partial retraction of the cutting tool on a predetermined distance, the predetermined distance being chosen such that the cutting edges are no longer in contact with the element to be drilled; driving the cutting tool with predetermined cutting parameters; measuring at least one load value during the driving of the cutting tool with the cutting parameters before its cutting edges again come into contact with the element to be drilled and after stabilization of the load values, the measured load value representing the overall drag.
US10532434B2
In one embodiment, a brazing sheet comprises: a core layer, a braze liner on the first side of the core layer; and a waterside liner on the second side of the core layer. The core layer is comprised of a 3xxx series aluminum alloy. The waterside liner is an aluminum alloy comprising: 7-20 wt % Zn; up to 0.25 wt % Si; up to 0.1 wt % Cu; up to 0.25 wt % Mn; up to 0.1 wt % Mg; and up to 0.1 wt % Cr. In some embodiments, the brazing sheet has a thickness of 60-180 microns. In some embodiments, the waterside liner comprises 1-15% of the thickness of the brazing sheet.
US10532432B2
Quality judgment on a laser beam intensity distribution is performed by taking an observation condition of the laser beam into consideration. A machine learning device includes: a state observing means that acquires data indicating an intensity distribution of a laser beam and data indicating a condition for observing the laser beam, performed to generate the data indicating the intensity distribution as input data; a label acquisition means that acquires an evaluation value related to judgment of the quality of the laser beam as a label; and a learning means that performs supervised learning using a pair of the input data acquired by the state observing means and the label acquired by the label acquisition means as training data to construct a learning model for judging the quality of the laser beam.
US10532430B2
A laser machining apparatus has a workpiece holding unit, a laser irradiation unit, a machining feed unit that moves the holding unit and the laser irradiation unit in a machining feed direction, an indexing feed unit that moves the holding unit and the laser irradiation unit in an indexing feed direction, and a control unit that controls the operation of each component. The time required to stop the laser irradiation unit relative to the holding unit can be denoted by ‘ta’ and that required to index the irradiation position of the laser beam at the next scheduled division line can be denoted by ‘tb.’ When tb>ta, the control unit initiates the stopping and indexing simultaneously after a machining step and takes advantage of remaining time (tb−ta) following the end of the stopping to start to accelerate the laser irradiation unit relative to the holding unit.
US10532423B2
Provided is a battery pack. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells, each of which is provided with an electrode tab, an electrode lead including first and second lead parts respectively connected to the electrode tabs of the adjacent battery cells and a connection part connecting the first and second lead parts to each other, and a bus bar to which the first and second lead parts are coupled and connecting the plurality of battery cells to each other in series or parallel.
US10532418B2
A welding or additive manufacturing contact tip includes an electrically-conductive body extending from a proximal end of the body to a distal end of the body. The body forms a first bore terminating at a first exit orifice at a distal end face of the body, and a second bore terminating at a second exit orifice at the distal end face of the body. The first and second exit orifices are separated from each other by a distance configured to facilitate formation of a bridge droplet between a first wire electrode delivered through the first bore and a second wire electrode delivered through the second bore during a deposition operation.
US10532413B2
Provided is a fastening structure having a wide application range and a high degree of freedom of design. A fastening structure includes: a head including a first end surface and a first screw part formed on the first end surface; and a shank including a second end surface and a second screw part formed on the second end surface and threadedly engaging with the first screw part. The first end surface includes a first principal surface oriented in an axial direction of the first screw part and a first step surface oriented in a rotational direction of the first screw part. The second end surface includes a second principal surface oriented in an axial direction of the second screw part and a second step surface oriented in a rotational direction of the second screw part. The first and second principal surfaces face each other and the first and second step surfaces face each other when the first screw part threadedly engages with the second screw part.
US10532410B2
Devices, systems and methods for holding devices, including tool holders and/or associated apparatus, that can be attached to various driving mechanisms. Various embodiments can include one or more canted, or slanted, coil springs that are capable of forming to various shapes by the application of a controlled force.
US10532400B2
An assembly system includes a molding machine that molds first parts and second parts and a robot having an assembly unit including a first holder that holds the first parts and a second holder that holds the second parts with each other. The first parts and the second parts that are molded by the molding machine are removed from the mold while being held by the first holder and the second holder of the robot. At least one of the first holder and the second holder is moved relative to the other so as to assemble the first parts and the second parts without releasing the first parts held by the first holder and the second parts held by the second holder.
US10532399B2
Machine for continuous casting of a lead alloy for forming grids for plates of electric storage batteries, which comprises a rotary drum having an external peripheral surface with a plurality of grooves obtained according to the grid design to be made and a sliding block coupled in sliding relation with the external surface of the rotary drum and with a distribution duct obtained in order to insert the molten lead in the plurality of grooves. The plurality of grooves comprises circumferential notches and transverse notches that meet in respective vertices. At the vertices and within the circumferential notches, a plurality of studs are placed that are intended to shape corresponding corners of smoothed form of the grids.
US10532394B2
The invention is an automated machine for reinforcement of piles, pillars, beams, and reinforcing cages in location of construction projects. This machine consists of main elements like loading arms and feeding jaws of longitudinal bars, rotating winch for stirrup and its guides, fixed and moving jaws and welding robot. It can be installed on a specified flat trailer in resting mode and come to an operative mode in project location and will be ready to use. To make reinforcing cages, an automated method for continuous winding of stirrup around longitudinal bars has been applied, and two intelligent welding systems (resistive spot and CO2 welding methods) have been utilized for joints in this machine.
US10532392B2
A workpiece conveying apparatus includes: a conveying table including a workpiece supporting mechanism; a first arm and a second arm each having one end pivotally coupled to the conveying table; a first moving unit coupled to another end of the first arm; a second moving unit coupled to another end of the second arm; and a posture control unit configured to control a posture of the conveying table through control of an angle between the conveying table and one of the first arm and the second arm, in which the first and second moving units are movable by a moving mechanism in a workpiece conveying direction, in which the conveying table is lifted up and down through a change of an interval between the first and second moving units, and in which these moving units are moved in the same direction to convey the workpiece.
US10532391B2
The invention relates to a bending tool storage device (1) for storing bending tools (2), comprising at least one storage unit (3), which comprises an outer tool storage (4) which is ring-shaped or partial-ring-shaped and has a plurality of guide rails (14) for holding and guiding bending tools (2), characterized in that the storage unit (3) comprises at least one inner tool storage (5, 6) which is arranged inside the outer tool storage (4) and has a plurality of guide rails (15, 16) for holding and guiding bending tools (2), and in that the outer tool storage (4) and the inner tool storage (5, 6) are rotatable relative to one another, wherein, in different positions of relative rotation between outer tool storage (4) and inner tool storage (5), at least one guide rail (14) of the outer tool storage (4) is in each case in aligned orientation with another guide rail (15, 16) of the inner tool storage (5, 6).
US10532389B2
Perfected curving machine comprising a support bench configured to simultaneously support one or more bars, wherein said support bench has an oblong development in relation to the length of the bars, and comprises at least one bending unit controllably mobile along the support bench in order to bend said bars, and clamping means configured to constrain the position of the bars on the support bench.
US10532387B2
A method of progressive processing includes feeding a strip-shaped sheet to a press machine; pressing the strip-shaped sheet with the press machine; and joining the strip-shaped sheet with a new strip-shaped sheet by applying a tape over an end of the strip-shaped sheet located in a direction opposite a direction in which the strip-shaped sheet is fed and an end of the new strip-shaped sheet located in a direction in which the new strip-shaped sheet is fed.
US10532386B2
A continuous-cast slab is provided where central porosity is reduced by surly crushing the slab. A method and apparatus of manufacturing the slab is also provided. The continuous-cast slab having horizontally symmetrical granular equiaxed crystals at least in the center in the thickness direction includes a first reduction dent and a second reduction dent that further dents from the bottom surface of the first reduction dent and is narrower than the first reduction dent at least on one long side surface. Such a configuration can makes it possible to achieve the continuous-cast slab of no more than 2.5×10−4 cm3/g in a maximum porosity volume while segregation is reduced.
US10532372B2
A method of manufacturing a plurality of secondary containment panels and assembling and installing the panels in a secondary containment system of an above-ground liquid storage tank or other retention facility includes forming a plurality of flexible substrate pieces. A liquid impermeable coating is applied to the upper surface of each piece such that an edge segment of the piece remains uncoated. The coating is applied to the substrate piece in an indoor enclosure using a computer controlled robotic sprayer that applies a uniform coating. A system for coating secondary containment panels. An apparatus for spraying a coating on a secondary containment panels. The apparatus may be computer controlled and operate automatically to coat the surface of the panel.
US10532357B1
Microfluidic devices and methods for focusing components in a fluid sample are described herein. The microfluidic device has at least one flow focusing channel where the components are focused or re-oriented by the geometry of the channel. From an upstream end of the flow focusing channel to a downstream end of the flow focusing channel, at least a portion of the flow focusing channel has a reduction in height and at least a portion of the flow focusing channel narrows in width, thereby geometrically constricting the flow focusing channel. The devices and methods can be utilized in sex-sorting of sperm cells to improve performance and increase eligibility.
US10532350B2
A method for synthesizing small crystals of silicoaluminophosphate-34 (SAPO-34) molecular sieves with high structural purity. The method includes first forming a slurry comprising monoisopropanolamine. Then, the slurry is aged to form an aged slurry. Finally, crystallization of silicoaluminophosphate molecular sieves comprising the SAPO-34 molecular sieves is induced from the aged slurry.
US10532348B2
A hydrogen oxidation catalyst is provided, comprising a zeolite that contains at least one catalytically active noble metal or a compound thereof, wherein said zeolite is a hydrophobic zeolite. A use of the catalyst and a method for hydrogen recombination in nuclear power plants, reprocessing plants or fuel element repositories is also specified.
US10532346B2
The present invention relates to methods for producing metal-supported thin layer skeletal catalyst structures, to methods for producing catalyst support structures without separately applying an intermediate washcoat layer, and to novel catalyst compositions produced by these methods. Catalyst precursors may be interdiffused with the underlying metal support then activated to create catalytically active skeletal alloy surfaces. The resulting metal-anchored skeletal layers provide increased conversion per geometric area compared to conversions from other types of supported alloy catalysts of similar bulk compositions, and provide resistance to activity loss when used under severe on-stream conditions. Particular compositions of the metal-supported skeletal catalyst alloy structures can be used for conventional steam methane reforming to produce syngas from natural gas and steam, for hydrodeoxygenation of pyrolysis bio-oils, and for other metal-catalyzed reactions inter alia.
US10532343B2
The present disclosure relates to nickel/aluminum-containing catalyst materials useful, for example, as reforming catalysts, processes for making them, and processes for using them in molten carbonate fuel cells. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a catalyst material including an alumina carrier in an amount in the range of about 5 wt % to about 75 wt %; and a mixed metal oxide in an amount in the range of about 25 wt % to about 95 wt %, the mixed metal oxide including at least about 90 wt % of oxides of nickel and aluminum, the mixed metal oxide having an atomic ratio of nickel to aluminum in the range of about 60:40 to about 90:10, the mixed metal oxide being substantially free of zirconium, in the form of a composite of the alumina carrier and the mixed metal oxide.
US10532328B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to chlorine-resistant filtration membranes comprising n-alkyl substituted polyaniline derivatives for use in, for example, water purification, and methods for making and using same. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US10532327B2
Methods of conditioning a membrane utilized for water purification are provided. The methods monitor membrane performance during water purification or membrane conditioning via fluorometric measurement. The monitoring allows for the detection of removal efficiency of the fluorescing substance. A conditioner is introduced in the feed stream to increase the detected removal efficiency of a fluorescing substance by the membrane. The conditioner generally extends the useful life of the membrane being conditioned.
US10532314B2
The present invention provides a waste-liquid processing device, comprising: a first processing device and a mixing device, wherein the first processing device is provided with a first purifying unit for processing waste liquid from a waste liquid source to produce a purified liquid. The mixing device is used for mixing the purified liquid with a chlorine dioxide solution. The present invention also provides an air-pollution treatment device, comprising the waste-liquid processing device and a gas processing device. The gas processing device comprises an air extracting unit, a gas purifying unit, a gas-liquid separation unit, and an exhausting unit.
US10532308B2
A method and a system to assemble a plurality of filter bags within one another using a pole and a pulling guide, and a filter bag unit which includes a plurality of assembled filter bags with creases and stitches oriented relative to each other.
US10532307B2
A filter housing is adapted to be mounted in an air ventilation system and includes: an upstream air entrance opening defined by an air entrance opening frame, a downstream air exit opening defined by an air exit opening frame, a rear wall, a front opening opposite to the rear wall, a cover sealing the front opening, a movable filter holder arranged within the housing and arranged to receive a filter through the front opening, and two clamping mechanisms arranged at opposite first and second walls of the housing. Each clamping device has a release device engaged with the filter holder, and is arranged for releasing the filter from the clamped position to a released position by moving the filter holder.
US10532305B2
An internal oil filter is installed at least partially inside a crankcase and/or an oil sump of a compressor. The internal oil filter can receive oil from an oil pressure regulator and filter the oil via filter media. The received oil radially penetrates through the filter media and flow directly into the oil sump from an outside surface of the filter media. This can eliminate the need of fluid lines connecting an outlet of an oil filter to the oil sump and any sealing mechanism therebetween.
US10532300B2
A filtering device, a system including the filtering device, and methods of using the filtering device. The filtering device is configured to be arranged inside a fluid to be filtered and comprising at least one main filter and a filter holder supporting the main filter. The filtering device is configured to be moved inside the fluid, in such a way that when the filtering device is moved in a first movement direction, at least one part of the fluid passes through the main filter in a first filtering direction. The filtering device is configured in such a way as to prevent the fluid from passing through the main filter in a second filtering direction opposite to the first filtering direction when the filtering device is moved in a second movement direction opposite to the first movement direction.
US10532296B1
A filter controller which comprises a manifold and at least one filter assembly. The manifold comprises a plurality of portholes and channels into and through which a fluid, such as, e.g., a fuel, may flow. The filter assembly comprises an upper filter subassembly and a lower filter subassembly. The filter assembly can be fitted directly onto the manifold without the use of pipes and fittings and such that the filter assembly is in fluid communication with the portholes and channels necessary for effective filtering, polishing, and flow of the fluid through the system and through the assembly into which the system is integrated.
US10532294B2
Continuous extraction concentration and isolation units are constructed with at least one extraction chambers containing extractable material. Without disruption of total fluid flow in the unit: an extraction chamber completely depleted of extract can be refilled with fresh extractable material or can be replaced with an extraction chamber containing fresh extractable material. Extract are continuously separated from one or more solvents in expansion chambers and removed. All solvents can be retained within the unit. One or more compressors circulate the fluids through the extraction chambers, the expansion chamber, and a condenser, where the expansion chamber and the condenser can be coupled as a heat exchanger. One or more isolators can be included for selectively removing components that are extracted from the plant material without disruption of the process and provide the removed components in concentrated or pure form.
US10532292B2
A thin-film treatment apparatus for treating viscous material, including a housing, having a heatable and/or coolable housing casing, which encloses a rotationally symmetric treatment chamber extending in the axial direction, an inlet port, arranged in an inlet region of the housing, for feeding the material to be treated into the treatment chamber, an outlet port, arranged in an outlet region of the housings, for discharging the material from the treatment chamber, and a coaxially extending, drivable rotor shaft, arranged in the treatment chamber, for producing a material film on the inner face of the housing casing and for conveying the material in the direction from the inlet region toward the outlet region, the rotor shaft including a central rotor shaft body and rotor blades arranged on the circumference thereof, the radially outermost end of which rotor blades is distanced from the inner face of the housing casing.
US10532289B2
A program, a control method, and an information processing apparatus capable of improving excitement of a game. An information processing apparatus (including a server device and a terminal device) executing a process of a game including game content for performing a battle using a plurality of game media may store the plurality of game media selected by a user of the game in association with the user, display some game media among the plurality of game media in a field area and proceed with the game content, and perform a process for providing a cooperation effect including changing of a parameter of a first game medium included in some game media when the first game medium satisfies a predetermined condition and a second game medium in a predetermined relationship with the first game medium and not included in some game media is included in the plurality of game media.
US10532284B2
Methods and systems for warning a user of a head mounted display (HMD) during game play of a video game. A game is executed causing interactive scenes of the game to be transmitted for rendering on a display portion of the HMD. Coordinates of the HMD are determined in a three-dimensional space of a real-world environment in which the user wearing the HMD is present, to identify a current position of the user. A movement of the HMD is determined during execution of the game by identifying a change in one or more coordinates of the HMD in the three-dimensional space. When it is determined that the user is approaching a boundary of an interaction space in a real-world environment, a warning signal is conveyed to the HMD to indicate proximity of the user to the boundary of the interaction space.
US10532279B2
A video game system records video gameplay by a player interacting with an endpoint, such as a game controller. The recording includes recording a haptic track of haptic effects generated on the endpoint during the gameplay and recording a video track of video generated during the gameplay. The recording further includes encoding the haptic track with the video track.
US10532278B2
Provided is an information processing device to be connected to an odor presentation device that presents an odor to a user. The information processing device acquires spatial odor information indicative of an odor in a reproduction target space, and instructs, by using the acquired spatial odor information, the odor presentation device to present to the user an odor assumably perceivable in the reproduction target space.
US10532276B2
A three dimensional puzzle (10) is disclosed. Puzzle (10) has having a plurality of three dimensional first components (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24) for engagement to form a three-dimensional finished shape (10), each of the three-dimensional first components (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24) being shaped for interlocking engagement with at least one other of the three-dimensional first components (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24). At least one of the three-dimensional first components (20, 22, 24) is made in two parts (20a, 20b, 22a, 22b, 24a, 24b) adapted to be joined together by engagement different from the interlocking engagement. Also disclosed is a three dimensional puzzle (10) in which the three-dimensional finished shape (10) has an outer surface containing a three-dimensional pattern (52), which can enhance optional overmolding.
US10532275B2
A target that, depending upon a type of game for which the target is programmed, senses whether and where it has been struck by a laser light. The target face displays a game board (such as a dart board) and allows laser light to pass through. A plurality of light sensors are behind the target face. When a designated portion of the target face is struck by a laser light, a sensor records the strike. One or more of: the game to be played using the target, the number of players, starting the game, resetting the target for a new game, and changing players, is accomplished remotely by striking an area on the target with laser light.
US10532264B2
A golf putter alignment system for viewing an orientation of a putter face relative to a putting line. A mirrored viewing surface is retained at a viewing angle by a selective, adjustable mounting system with an engaging portion, a pivot joint for angular adjustment, and a sliding joint for lateral position adjustment. The pivot joint can be a sleeve joint with an outer sleeve pivotable about a longitudinal axis relative to a core member. The sliding joint can be formed with the viewing surface slidable in relation to an elongate member, such as by being retained by a housing that is slidable in relation to the elongate member. A scope surface with an alignment scope can be retained in spaced relation to the viewing surface. In embodiments, the viewing surface can be disposed within the putter head, and a block of transparent material can have a face forming the putter face.
US10532260B2
An apparatus for training athletes having two supporting structures. The first structure has a base that can rest on a surface and walls that extend upward from the base to an upper end, defining an interior space. The walls incorporate a bar connector above the base designed to connect to and support one end of a bar. The walls have supporting elements above the base and below the upper end of the walls. The second structure has walls that are configured so that the lower end of the walls can engage the supporting elements of the first structure so that the second structure is supported by the first structure above the supporting elements. The second structure has a bar connector at the same height as the height of the bar connector of the first structure configured to connect to and support the other end of the bar.
US10532252B2
The present invention provides a method for arranging dimples on a golf ball surface in which the dimples are arranged in a pattern derived from at least one irregular domain generated from a regular or non-regular polyhedron. The method includes choosing control points of a polyhedron, generating an irregular domain based on those control points, packing the irregular domain with dimples, and tessellating the irregular domain to cover the surface of the golf ball. The control points include the center of a polyhedral face, a vertex of the polyhedron, a midpoint or other point on an edge of the polyhedron and others. The method ensures that the symmetry of the underlying polyhedron is preserved while minimizing or eliminating great circles due to parting lines.
US10532249B1
In an oscillating fin propulsion apparatus operatively connected to a scuba diver moving on or through a body of water, a propulsive force may be produced by a pair of fins adapted to sweep back and forth in a generally transverse direction relative to the longitudinal axis of the scuba diver's body. The fins may be mounted on opposite sides of a frame detachably secured to a scuba tank. The fins may be rotatable in an oscillatory motion about respective axes coplanar to the center longitudinal axis of the frame. Drive members operable by the scuba diver may be operatively connected to the fins. The oscillating fins may provide a propulsive force to propel the scuba diver longitudinally forward during both oscillating directions of the fins as they sweep back and forth.
US10532244B2
An exercise machine for performing dip exercises, having: a stationary main frame; first and second mounting brackets connected to the stationary main frame; first and second dip handle assemblies connected to the mounting brackets, each dip handle assembly having a first exercise arm, a first stop plate, and a first arm mount hub, wherein the first and second dip handle assemblies are each configured to be converted between an exercise position and a storage position while connected to the exercise machine.
US10532243B2
A cable attachable forearm cover assembly for performing upper body workouts without using a person's hands includes a sleeve that is worn on a forearm of a person. A securing unit is positioned on the sleeve and secures a hand of the person to the sleeve to inhibit the sleeve from sliding along the forearm. A plurality of attachment members is positioned on the securing unit and engages cabling of a weight lifting apparatus.
US10532232B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods to deploy safety equipment from a drone are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sensor to gather environmental data and an analyzer in communication with the sensor. In this example, the analyzer is to identify an anchor site based on the environmental data and produce an assessment of stability of the anchor site based on the environmental data and model data. The example apparatus also includes one or more actuators to deploy a securing device in response to the assessment of the analyzer indicating the anchor site is stable and to deploy the safety equipment.
US10532230B2
Methods for treating skin and subcutaneous tissue with energy such as ultrasound energy are disclosed. In various embodiments, ultrasound energy is applied at a region of interest to affect tissue by cutting, ablating, micro-ablating, coagulating, or otherwise affecting the subcutaneous tissue to conduct numerous procedures that are traditionally done invasively in a non-invasive manner. Methods of lifting sagging tissue on a face and/or neck are described.
US10532227B2
There is provided a particle beam treatment system which has a simple mechanism and which is excellent in maintainability. Irradiation devices 10a and 10b respectively have a plurality of irradiation ports 102a, 102b, and 102c for irradiating a target with a particle beam in a plurality of directions. In addition, an irradiation nozzle unit 105 of the irradiation devices 10a and 10b is movable between the plurality of irradiation ports 102a, 102b, and 102c. A fixed cover structure 107 is disposed between the plurality of irradiation ports 102a, 102b, and 102c and the irradiation nozzle unit 105. In addition, the cover structure 107 has a slit 110 for allowing the irradiation nozzle unit 105 to move therethrough.
US10532225B2
Disclosed is a tumor surface dose enhancing radiotherapy apparatus using a magnetic field, including a radiation beam generating unit that irradiates a radiation beam towards a tumor of a patient, a magnetic field generating unit that forms a magnetic field that is parallel to the radiation beam between the radiation beam generating unit and the tumor of the patient, and a control unit that controls a surface dose of the tumor by adjusting an intensity and an effective area of the magnetic field of the magnetic field generating unit.
US10532223B2
According to some aspects, a carrier configured for use with a broadband x-ray source comprising an electron source and a primary target arranged to receive electrons from the electron source to produce broadband x-ray radiation in response to electrons impinging on the primary target is provided. The carrier comprising a housing configured to be removeably coupled to the broadband x-ray source and configured to accommodate a secondary target capable of producing monochromatic x-ray radiation in response to incident broadband x-ray radiation, the housing comprising a transmissive portion configured to allow broadband x-ray radiation to be transmitted to the secondary target when present, and a blocking portion configured to absorb broadband x-ray radiation.
US10532217B2
An ambulatory medical device comprising: a monitoring component comprising at least one sensing electrode for detecting a cardiac condition of a patient; at least one processor configured for: adjusting one or more detection parameters for detecting the cardiac condition of the patient based at least in part on at least one of 1) one or more environmental conditions and 2) input received from the monitoring component; and providing at least one of an alarm and a treatment in response to detecting the cardiac condition of the patient based on the adjusted one or more detection parameters.
US10532214B2
Systems and methods for implantable medical devices and headers are described. In an example, an implantable medical device includes a device container including an electronic module within the device container. A modular header core includes a header core module including at least one bore hole configured to receive a lead, an antenna attachment module coupled to the header core, and an antenna engaged with the antenna attachment module. The antenna attachment module is configured to locate the antenna in a selected position with respect to the header core module.
US10532211B2
A system for controlling a therapeutic device and/or environmental parameters can include one or more body worn sensor devices that detect and report one or more physical, physiological, or biological parameters of a person in an environment. The sensor devices can communicate sensor data indicative of the one or more physical, physiological, or biological parameters of a person to an external hub that processes the data and communicates with the therapeutic device to provide a therapy (e.g., neuromodulation, neurostimulation, or drug delivery) as a function of the sensor data. In some embodiments, the therapeutic device can be implanted in the person. In some embodiments, the therapeutic device can be in contact with the skin of the person. The sensor devices can also communicate to the hub that communicates with one or more devices to change the environment as a function of the sensor data.
US10532210B2
The present invention provides a device for stimulating optic nerve fibers. The device includes a plurality of columnar electrodes and a power source. The columnar electrodes are disposed respectively in parallel to a length direction of an optic nerve of a human eye and are also disposed around the optic nerve along a circumferential direction thereof. Each of the columnar electrodes has a length. The power source is configured to supply power to the columnar electrodes. A human retina consists of the optic nerve fibers, which are connected to the optic nerve and a macular area of the human eye in a form of layers. The columnar electrodes are configured to stimulate the optic nerve fibers around the optic nerve with electrical stimulation.
US10532209B2
A cochlear implant including a cochlear lead, an antenna, a stimulation processor, and a magnet apparatus, associated with the antenna, including a case defining a central axis, a magnet frame within the case and rotatable about the central axis of the case, and a plurality of diametrically magnetized magnets that are located in the magnet frame, the magnets defining a longitudinal axis and a N-S direction and being rotatable about the longitudinal axis relative to the magnet frame and biased by the magnet frame to a predetermined N-S rotational orientation.
US10532205B2
A lead fixation accessory configured to be positioned over a skull hole and to transition between an opened state and a closed state during a lead implant procedure protects against lead migration by providing a mechanism for securing the lead in place at the skull hole while a stylet is removed from the lead. The lead fixation accessory remains in place after the implant procedure to provide chronic lead stability. A lead stabilization tool configured to access and grip a lead through a slotted cannula during the lead implant procedure also protects against lead migration by providing a mechanism for securing the lead in place at a point where the lead exits the skull hole while the slotted cannula is removed from the skull hole and peeled away from the lead.
US10532198B2
A method for forming an applicator comprises steps of: creating a digital geometric representation of the structure, the target structure having a flatness ratio; forming the applicator using the digital geometric representation of the target structure, the applicator having a target structure contacting surface; and disposing an active agent upon the target structure contacting surface of the applicator.
US10532193B2
Described in one aspect is a multi-pressure monitoring system for cell or other therapy includes a first catheter having a first lumen for accepting a treatment device, a second lumen for inflating a balloon, a pressure sensor for monitoring fluid pressure within the first lumen, and a flow restrictor such as a hemostasis valve for limiting the exchange of fluids into and out of the first lumen while treatment devices are present or exchanged in the first lumen. Also disclosed is a method of using the first catheter with a first pressure monitor coupled to the first pressure sensor along with a second catheter attached to a second pressure sensor coupled to a second pressure monitor. The second catheter is positioned within the first lumen of the first catheter during treatment operations and the first and second pressure monitors are used to verify proper pressures throughout the procedure. Described also are novel methods, systems, and catheters for delivering flowable therapeutic substances, such as viable cellular preparations, to patients.
US10532189B2
The invention relates to a drug-coated balloon catheter which has a catheter balloon mounted on its distal end and an expansion protection surrounding the same. The invention is characterized in that the catheter balloon is protected from premature expansion even under strong mechanical stress and in that the catheter balloon folds back more easily after dilation.
US10532188B2
Some embodiments of a medical system include a subcutaneous anchor device that extends outwardly from side wall of an intravenous cannula so as to secure the intravenous cannula in a position relative to a skin penetration point.
US10532181B2
A wearable apparatus capable of altering a physiological parameter such as the heart rate of a user to provide a relaxing or stimulating effect on the user is provided. The apparatus comprises a device capable of engaging the patient's skin to provide a rhythmic tactile stimulus to the user that can alter the user's heart rate and an arrangement for securing the device to the user such that the device can apply the stimulus to the user. The apparatus may be part of a system enabling the device to be controlled remotely. The apparatus may also be configured to provide additional tactile stimuli.
US10532174B2
Systems and method for monitoring patient physiological data are presented herein. A gas analyzing measurement head can be provided to sample and analyze respiratory gases of a patient. In one embodiment, the gas analyzing measurement head can read information on an information element of an airway adapter or resuscitation bag. Such information can be used to generate instructions for manual ventilation using the gas analyzing measurement head, airway adapter, and resuscitation bag. Manual ventilation instructions can be displayed on the gas analyzing measurement head or can be transmitted for display on another device, such as a clinician's mobile computing device.
US10532173B2
The present invention relates to a tracheal coupling comprising a patient port 33, an outlet port 36, an inlet port 31 between the patient port and the outlet port, such that flow 34 from the inlet port can go to the patient port or direct to the outlet port, and a flow restriction e.g. 32 between the inlet port and the outlet port, or at the outlet port.
US10532172B2
A patient interface device uses a pressure flap which extends inwardly from an outer edge of a mask of the device. The pressure flap is for contacting the skin of the patient to provide a seal or partial seal between the mask volume and the ambient surroundings. The pressure flap includes a cavity area which is exposed to a reduced pressure compared to the mask volume. This assists in keeping the pressure flap pressed against the patient's skin, and thereby maintain a large contact area. This in turn gives a reduction in local high pressure areas.
US10532171B2
A speaking valve adapter is disclosed for assisting with speech or language expression during the respiratory recovery of a human. The speaking valve adapter including a speaking valve port, the port being orthogonal to a first interface port, the first interface port adapted to support tracheostomy or endotracheal tubing, a second interface port adapted to support at least one of a suction tubing and a bronchoscopy tubing, and a third interface port adapted to support a connection to a ventilator. The speaking valve adapter may be used by the patient for introduction of at least one of sounds and words while connected to the ventilator. A corresponding respiratory management system which implements the speaking valve adapter and configurable ventilator settings adapted for assisting with more effective speech or language expression during patient recovery or use is also disclosed.
US10532170B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may include systems and methods for determining a patient's respiratory effort and blood oxygen saturation based on data acquired from a pulse oximetry sensor and analyzing the parameters in conjunction with each other. For example, the respiratory effort may be determined based on a photo-plethysmographic waveform generated from light attenuation detected by the sensor, and the blood oxygen saturation may be a pulse-based estimate of arterial blood oxygen saturation determined from the detected attenuation. Analysis of the parameters may enable detection and classification of apnea (e.g., obstructive or central) or another underlying cause for respiratory instability. Furthermore, the measured respiratory effort may be compared to respiratory effort supplied by a ventilator to ensure proper sensor placement before enabling automatic adjustment of ventilator settings.
US10532167B2
A device atomizes or vaporizes a liquid for inhalation. A housing has a proximal exit orifice that communicates with an intake orifice. A housing encompasses a reservoir containing a liquid. A wick has a first end in contact with the liquid and a second end that is exposed at an opening in the reservoir. A heater is disposed within housing in an air passage that communicates between the intake orifice and the proximal exit orifice. An actuator responds to a user of the device by placing the heater and the second end of the wick into proximity with the heater to vaporize the liquid.
US10532166B2
A system and method for determining the fill volume of a fluid chamber includes a fluid injector, at least one fluid chamber in fluid communication with the fluid injector, one or more sensors positioned relative to the at least one fluid chamber and configured to detect a position of a liquid-gas interface of the fluid contained in the at least one fluid chamber, and at least one processor in communication with the sensors and the fluid injector, and configured to: determine the position of the liquid-gas interface of the fluid, calculate the volume of fluid in the at least one fluid chamber based on the position of the liquid-gas interface, and at least one of: i) display the volume of the fluid; ii) enable the fluid injector to perform an action; and iii) disable the fluid injector from performing the action.
US10532165B2
A fluid reservoir for a fluid infusion device is provided. The fluid reservoir includes a first portion that has a first end and a second end. The first end includes a fluid delivery port and at least one bubble retaining feature adjacent to the fluid delivery port. The fluid reservoir includes a second portion received in the second end of the first portion and movable within the first portion from the first end to the second end. The fluid reservoir defines a fluid chamber between the first portion and the second portion.
US10532159B2
An injection device for delivering a liquid composition, including a generally elongated housing, arranged to hold an exchangeable cartridge containing the liquid composition. The housing includes a drive device, and a plunger rod connected with the drive device and connected to a plunger within the cartridge, when the cartridge is held at the housing, for driving the plunger within the cartridge. The plunger includes a rod connector connected with a front end portion of the plunger rod. The rod connector comprises a rod stop portion, wherein there is a longitudinal play between the plunger rod on one hand and the entrance opening and the rod stop portion on the other hand, thereby enabling the front end portion to move back and forth between the entrance opening and the rod stop portion without moving the plunger.
US10532151B2
A wearable infusion device for delivering medication into body of a user, the infusion device comprising a medication container containing a volume of medication to be dispensed; an infusion needle that is fully enclosed in a sterile environment until the infusion needle is inserted into underlying tissue; an infusion needle insertion mechanism associated with the infusion needle, powered by one or more mechanical springs, that when activated, inserts the infusion needle through the skin into underlying tissue; means for delivering medication out of the medication container and into underlying tissue via the infusion needle; and a housing associated with the medication container, the infusion needle, the infusion needle insertion mechanism and the means for delivering medication.
US10532137B2
An apparatus and system for fluidly connecting a reduced-pressure source to a dressing and a method for manufacturing and using the same include a base having an aperture and a wall having a peripheral portion coupled to the base. The wall may form a cavity in fluid communication with the aperture. The apparatus also may include a conduit port fluidly coupled to the cavity and adapted to receive a conduit. The base may be adapted to couple to the dressing, and the wall may be adapted to collapse from a first position to a second position in response to a supply of reduced pressure from the reduced-pressure source.
US10532136B2
A suction tool having a hollow handle and a probe extending from the handle near one end of the handle to define a lumen in fluid communication with the hollow handle and a fitting, formed to extend near the other end of the handle and shaped to receive a vacuum source drawing fluids through the probe, handle, and fitting. The handle also includes an aperture extending at an acute angle with respect to the axis of the handle.
US10532134B2
In described embodiments, the present invention includes a magnesium-based composite material formed from a plurality of α-phase magnesium grains; and a β-alloy phase comprising magnesium and nano-diamond and/or and phosphate containing nanoparticles, the β-alloy phase surrounding each of the plurality of magnesium grains. A method of manufacturing a composite material is also disclosed.
US10532130B2
Provided herein is a soft tissue mimetic formed from a block copolymer hydrogel and methods of making such. The hydrogel comprises a glass formed from a dry blend of polystyrene-poly(ethylene oxide) diblock copolymer (SO) and polystyrene-poly(ethylene oxide)-polystyrene triblock copolymer (SOS) in a molar ratio from between 95:5 and 1:99 SO/SOS and a liquid medium at a concentration between about 32:1 and about 2:1 liquid medium/SO-SOS by weight. The soft tissue mimetic has a fatigue resistance to at least 500,000 compression cycles.
US10532122B2
A system, unit, device and method are shown for providing substantially simultaneous disinfection of bacteria or other pathogens in air passing through the system using C-band ultraviolet radiation from an ultraviolet light source and that is also capable of substantially simultaneous and efficient disinfecting air and surfaces outside the device using the same ultraviolet light source.
US10532119B2
An apparatus for destroying pathogens includes a platform and an LED matrix panel. The platform has a portion configured to permit passage of ultraviolet light therethrough. The LED matrix panel is disposed below the portion of the platform and includes a grid and a plurality of discreetly-controlled, ultraviolet light LEDs (UV LEDs). The grid defines a plurality of cells. Each UV LED is associated with one cell such that the cells direct the ultraviolet light emitted by the UV LEDs upwardly through the portion of the platform to sanitize an object supported on the portion of the platform.
US10532115B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods to facilitate replacement between runs of a kit or cassette from an automated radiosynthesis device located in a hot cell. The method and apparatus of the invention enable automated disconnection of the outlet line by sealing the tubing hermetically by means of heat and by cutting the tubing where it is sealed in such a way that there is no risk of environmental contamination with radioactive material. The invention enables disconnection of the outlet line without manual intervention before opening the shielded enclosure.
US10532113B2
Polymeric systems useful for theranostic applications are disclosed. The polymeric systems comprise a fluorescent or fluorogenic moiety and a therapeutically active agent, each attached to the same or different polymeric moiety. The polymeric systems are designed such that a fluorescent signal is generated in response to a chemical event, preferably upon contacting an analyte (e.g., an enzyme) that is over-expressed in a diseased tissue or organ. Probes useful for inclusion in such polymeric systems, processes of preparing such probes and the polymeric systems, and uses thereof in diagnostic and/or theranostic applications are also disclosed.
US10532109B2
Provided herein are therapeutic agents having specificity for having inhibitory activity against cancer cells that overexpress human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER) genes, including therapeutic agents comprising one or more HER-targeting peptides, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such therapeutic agents, and methods of using such compositions to treat or prevent a cancer or other disease condition associated with HER overexpression.
US10532102B2
The present invention provides compositions or formulations comprising the combination of a compound of 5-[3-(4-benzyloxyphenylthio)-fur-2-yl]-imidazolidin-2,4-dione or a salt thereof or hydrate of the foregoing, and a cyclodextrin; or in further combination with an excipient comprising L-Arginine or other additives, wherein the compositions or formulations increases water solubility and oral bioavailability of 5-[3-(4-benzyloxyphenylthio)-fur-2-yl]-imidazolidin-2,4-dione and its related compounds. The method of making or using the compositions or formulations is also disclosed. Such compositions or formulations may be used in treatment of certain diseases including asthma through inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase-12.
US10532101B1
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising an NSAID such as meloxicam and/or rizatriptan in combination with a cyclodextrin and/or a carbonate or a bicarbonate. These compositions may be orally administered, for example, to improve the bioavailability or pharmacokinetics of the NSAID for the treatment of pain such as migraine, arthritis, and other conditions. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating pain, such as migraine, comprising administering meloxicam and rizatriptan to a human being suffering from pain, such as migraine. For migraine, these methods may be particularly useful when the meloxicam and rizatriptan are administered while the human being is suffering from an acute attack of migraine pain or migraine aura. In some embodiments, the combination of meloxicam and rizatriptan may be administered in a manner that results in a Tmax of meloxicam of 3 hours or less.
US10532097B2
Disclosed herein is a multiple drugs delivery system and its uses in treating diseases. The multiple drugs delivery system includes, an anti-PEG antibody for directing the PEGylated therapeutic to the treatment site; and a hydrogel for retaining the anti-PEG antibody and/or the PEGylated therapeutic at the treatment site for at least 3 days. The hydrogel is selected from the group consisting of hyaluronan (HA) or a derivative of HA, collagen, gelatin, fibronectin, fibrinogen, alginate, chitosan, and a synthetic biocompatible polymer. The anti-PEG antibody and the hydrogel are present in the mixture in a ratio from about 1:1 (v/v) to 1:100 (v/v). At least two dosages of the PEGylated therapeutic, which may be the same or different, are administered to the subject, with each dosage being given at about 1 hour to about 1 week apart. Accordingly, a novel method of treating a subject having cancer or ischemic disease is also provided.
US10532096B2
The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a VEGF antagonist and an anti-CTLA-4 antibody, and methods of use thereof. The compositions and methods of the present invention are useful for the treatment of cancers and other diseases and disorders in which anti-angiogenic therapies and/or targeted immune responses may be beneficial.
US10532089B2
Contemplated cancer treatments comprise recursive analysis of patient-, cancer-, and location-specific neoepitopes from various biopsy sites of a patient after treatment or between successive rounds of immunotherapy and/or chemotherapy to inform further immunotherapy. Recursive analysis preferably includes various neoepitope attributes to so identify treatment relevant neoepitopes.
US10532081B2
The embodiments include methods of ameliorating or preventing the worsening or progression and/or ameliorating or preventing the worsening or lack of improvement of symptoms of BPH in mammals, using compositions containing compounds based on small peptides and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The method includes, but is not limited to, administering the compounds intramuscularly, orally, intravenously, intraprostatically, intrathecally, intratumorally, intranasally, topically, transdermally, etc., either alone or conjugated to a carrier to a mammal in need thereof.
US10532080B2
Disclosed herein is an aqueous solution comprising from 80 mg A/mL to 400 mg A/mL of a sulfomethylated polymyxin and a cartridge containing the same. In addition it is disclosed an aqueous solution for use in therapy.
US10532076B2
The present technology relates to foodstuffs that contain a substantially anhydrous fatty food that is solid at room temperature and comprises a substantially anhydrous probiotic bacterial preparation dispersed therein. Methods of making such substantially anhydrous fatty foods are also disclosed.
US10532075B2
The invention relates to the use of a composition comprising at least one extract of propolis, having at least one of the following properties: —an antioxidant value (ORAC) greater than or equal to 500 mmol TE/100 g of dry extract, —a flavones and flavonols content greater than or equal to 5.5% by weight with respect to the total weight of dry material of the extract, —a flavanones and dihydroflavanols content greater than or equal to 5% by weight with respect to the total weight of dry material of the product, in order to prevent and/or limit the side effects of chemotherapy.
US10532073B2
Disclosed herein are methods for treating cancer comprising administering CAR-modified immune cells and at least one Retinoic Acid Receptor agonist.
US10532063B2
A method of producing a liquid pharmaceutical suspension by mixing magnesium aluminum silicate, gellan gum, bismuth subsalicylate, and methyl cellulose.
US10532060B2
The present invention relates to a serum LDL cholesterol lowering edible product containing plant sterol ester and/or plant stanol ester, and especially to a dietary supplement product.
US10532054B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds, which are useful for regulating the expression of apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-I), and their use for treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease and related disease states, including cholesterol- or lipid-related disorders, such as, for example, atherosclerosis.
US10532051B2
Provided herein are compositions, methods and kits for treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in a mammal in need thereof. The method include administering to a subject with IBD a combination therapy containing a therapeutically effective amount of a chemokine receptor 9 (CCR9) inhibitor compound and a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-α4β7 integrin antibody such as vedolizumab. Also provided herein is a kit containing the CCR9 inhibitor compound and anti-α4β7 integrin antibody.
US10532047B2
The present disclosure reports solid forms of ((S)-5-((1-(6-chloro-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinolin-3-yl)ethyl)amino)-1-methyl-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyridine-2-carbonitrile.
US10532043B2
Human therapeutic treatment compositions comprise at least two of a curcumin component, a harmine component, and an isovanillin component, and preferably all three in combination. The agents are effective for the treatment of human conditions, especially human cancers.
US10532039B2
A method for treating psoriasis including the steps of applying an isothiocyanate functional surfactant to an area affected by psoriasis, wherein the isothiocyanate functional surfactant comprises at least one isothiocyanate functional group associated with an aliphatic and/or aromatic carbon atom of the isothiocyanate functional surfactant.
US10532036B2
A combination pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of pain including about 125 mg to about 150 mg ibuprofen and about 475 mg to about 500 mg paracetamol.
US10532035B2
Methods herein are described for improvement in visual function by administering macular carotenoid compositions containing an effective daily dose, to a subject in need thereof. More particularly, methods herein are described and include use of the compositions herein by identifying a subject in need thereof, administering a daily dose of lutein and/or zeaxanthin isomers, comprised of meso-zeaxanthin and R,R zeaxanthin, alone or in combination thereof, the composition also including at least one food grade excipient, and evaluating visual performance. The subject is exposed to light of variable wavelengths and intensity and is suffering from visual fatigue. The composition improves contrast sensitivity, glare performance, photo stress recovery, and/or macular pigment optical density, and thus alleviates visual fatigue. The composition is safe for human and other animals for consumption and can be used for improvement in visual health in the subject, when administered in an effective amount.
US10532033B2
The invention relates to a transdermal therapeutic system on the basis of polysiloxane which contains microreservoirs filled with an active substance and one ambiphilic solvent.
US10532029B2
Provided are an alkyl cellulose excellent in formability when added even in a small amount and not causing marked delay in disintegration; a solid preparation comprising it; and a method for producing the solid preparation. More specifically, provided are an alkyl cellulose for use in tableting, the alkyl cellulose having a specific surface area of from 0.5 to 10.0 m2/g as measured by BET method and a solid preparation comprising the alkyl cellulose. Also provided is a method for producing the alkyl cellulose, comprising the steps of: bringing pulp into contact with an alkali metal hydroxide solution to obtain alkali cellulose, reacting the alkali cellulose with an etherifying agent to obtain a first alkyl cellulose, pulverizing the first alkyl cellulose, and depolymerizing the pulverized first alkyl cellulose through hydrolysis with an acid catalyst or through oxidative decomposition with an oxidant to obtain a second alkyl cellulose.
US10532024B2
Compositions for suppressing sebum production in skin (e.g., seborrheic skin), and minimizing glycation in skin (e.g., mature skin) with enhanced UV absorptive properties are described. In particular, the present invention relates to a composition containing a skin benefit agent that includes Lithospermum erythrorhizon. Also, methods of suppressing sebum production in skin (e.g., seborrheic skin) and minimizing glycation in skin (e.g., mature skin) by applying a composition to the skin, wherein the composition comprises an effective amount of a derivative of Lithospermum erythrorhizon are also described.
US10532021B2
The present invention relates to a non-colouring composition for treating keratin fibres comprising an aqueous dispersion of particles of hybrid hydrophobic acrylic film-forming polymer and a linear block silicone copolymer, and also to a method for treating keratin fibres using such a composition. The composition makes it possible to obtain a coating which is persistent towards shampooing operations, which leaves the treated fibres individualized, with an improved cosmetic feel and a provision of mass and volume.
US10532019B2
The embodiment described herein are related nanoemulsions comprising botulinum toxins. In one embodiment, the nanoemulsions are prepared by high pressure microfluidization and comprise a particle size distribution exclusively between 10 and 300 nm. The nanoemulsions contemplated by the present invention are useful for the cosmetic and medical treatment of muscular contracture states. For example, botulinum toxin may relax facial muscles such that skin wrinkles become smoother and less noticeable. Further, the present invention contemplates a cosmetic formulation that may be self-administered, for example, in the privacy of one's home and without medical supervision.
US10532013B2
A method of achieving improved composition rheology, cosmetic consumer acceptance and deposition comprising applying to hair a composition comprising from about 0.01% to about 2% of a cationic polymer; from about 0.5% to 3% of an associative thickener; from about 1.0% to 10.0% of a polyol; an anti-dandruff active; a cosmetically acceptable carrier; a surfactant; wherein the composition comprises a yield consistency value of about 0.001 s to 0.9 s and having a rate index value of from about 0.01 to about 0.6 and a percentage of coacervate particles with a floc size of greater than about 20 microns is from about 1% to about 40%.
US10532012B2
Methods for preparing high loading core shell silica (CSS) particles, or CSS particles having a relatively greater amount of surface active silicate groups than CSS particles prepared according to conventional methods is provided. The method may include contacting silica particles with a base having a first metal ion to produce core shell silica particles. Each of the core shell silica particles may include a silica core and a silicate of the first metal ion etched on a surface of the silica core. The method may also include contacting each of the core shell silica particles having the silicate of the first metal ion with an acidic aqueous solution including a metal salt having a second metal ion to produce core shell silica particles including the silica core and a silicate of the second metal ion on the surface of the silica core.
US10531997B2
A massage device includes a leg assembly that extends between a table top assembly and a surface. The leg assembly includes a first leg and a second leg that are coupled to one another. The first leg includes a first leg top that is coupled to the table top assembly, a first leg bottom that is positioned adjacent to the surface, and a first leg body that extends between the first leg top and the first leg bottom. The second leg includes a second leg top that is coupled to the table top assembly, a second leg bottom that is positioned adjacent to the surface, and a second leg body that extends between the second leg top and the second leg bottom. The second leg bottom includes a pair of fork members that are coupled to the second leg body, the fork members being positioned relative to one another to provide a pair of spaced apart contact points along the surface.
US10531995B2
The invention provides a patient supporting plate (2) consisting of at least one first and one second patient supporting components (3, 4) and an accessory part (7). The first or the second patient supporting component (3, 4) is provided with a hinge (5) having a swivel axis (6). The hinge (5) has a drive element (11) for swiveling the patient supporting components (3, 4), as well as at least one coupling element (8) for coupling the first patient supporting component to the second patient supporting component (3, 4). The drive element (11) and the coupling element (8) are arranged juxtaposed in the direction of the swivel axis (6) and can be fastened to one another by means of at least one first detachable fastening element (17). The accessory part (7) can be fastened to the coupling element (8) by means of the first detachable fastening element (17) or a second detachable fastening element (24), by providing a first through opening (14) running in the direction of the swivel axis (6) in the drive element (11) and a second through opening (15) in the coupling element (8) for the first or second fastening element (17, 24) and also an aligned receptacle (16) in the accessory part (7), so that the fastening element (17, 24) can be inserted into the first opening (14) from the drive element (11) side located opposite the coupling element (8) and connected to the accessory part (7).
US10531992B2
An absorbent article which has a one-piece chassis and integral side portions. The one-piece chassis can be a bi-laminate material and can have a liquid permeable layer and a liquid impermeable layer bonded together. The side portions can be integrally formed from the one-piece chassis.
US10531990B2
A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff folded edge and an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally inward to form the outer cuff folded edge and folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge, and the leg gasketing system further including a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the leg gasketing system pocket. The disposable absorbent article also includes at least one channel in the absorbent core.
US10531988B2
A laminated film includes a polylactic acid-based resin layer and one or more acetylated hyaluronic acid layers laminated on a side of the polylactic acid-based resin layer, is highly flexible and easy to handle and, when stuck to an adherend with curved surface, the laminated film has excellent followability, adhesiveness and coating properties to the adherend, since the acetylated hyaluronic acid layer(s) can be removed easily with an aqueous solution from the polylactic acid-based resin layer in a thin film shape. The acetylated hyaluronic acid and the polylactic acid-based resin are biodegradable and, therefore, the laminated film is highly compatible with skin and organs such as visceral organs. The laminated film is optimally usable as a dermal material for external application such as a wound coating material, an adhesion inhibitor and skin care articles.
US10531979B2
There is provided a method and apparatus for a tongue implant to induce deformation of the tongue made of nickel titanium alloy in superelastic state at body temperature for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. In one embodiment the implant has a function of a V shaped spring, one leg helically inserted into the tongue, the other leg beneath the root of the tongue, to permanently compress the tongue. In another embodiment, there is provided a method and apparatus for placement of a helical implant to permanently compress the tongue by deforming it and stiffening it to maintain tongue stability for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
US10531973B2
A support device comprising at least one skeleton structure and at least two coupling articles, wherein each of the two coupling articles are connected to an end section of the skeleton structure, such that the support device includes at least four degrees of freedom.
US10531965B2
A time-dependent decay behavior is incorporated into one or more joint actuator control parameters during operation of a lower-extremity, prosthetic, orthotic or exoskeleton device. These parameters may include joint equilibrium joint impedance (e.g., stiffness, damping) and/or joint torque components (e.g., gain, exponent). The decay behavior may be exponential, linear, piecewise, or may conform to any other suitable function. Embodiments presented herein are used in a control system that emulates biological muscle-tendon reflex response providing for a natural walking experience. Further, joint impedance may depend on an angular rate of the joint. Such a relationship between angular rate and joint impedance may assist a wearer in carrying out certain activities, such as standing up and ascending a ladder.
US10531961B2
Anchoring devices, anchoring systems for intervertebral implants, intervertebral implants, and instruments and methods for implanting implants are disclosed. In preferred configurations, these various objects share the feature of comprising or cooperating with an anchoring device having a body comprising at least one curved plate elongated along a longitudinal axis, designed to be inserted through a passage crossing at least a part of implant, in order to penetrate into at least one vertebral endplate and attach implant onto this vertebral endplate by means of at least one stop retaining the implant, characterized in that the body comprises at least one longitudinal rib on at least a part of at least one of its faces, said rib being designed to cooperate with a groove made in passage of implant. In some preferred configurations, anchoring device comprises withdrawal stops or latches, and/or means for withdrawing the anchor from an inserted position.
US10531956B2
An apparatus for repairing a heart valve and methods of use thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a radially expandable body and a blood-permeable member attached to the body at a first end and having at least one cord at a second end. The length or tension of the at least one cord is adjustable when the apparatus is implanted in a heart such that that the extent of atrial displacement of the heart's mitral leaflets during ventricular contraction can be adjusted. To implant the apparatus in a heart, the apparatus is inserted into a retaining sheath and the retaining sheath is then inserted into the heart. The retaining sheath is retracted from the apparatus and the apparatus is positioned inside the heart. The length or tension of the at least one cord is adjusted to adjust the extent of atrial displacement of the heart's mitral leaflets during ventricular contraction.
US10531954B2
A loading tool for loading a collapsible prosthetic heart valve into a delivery device may include a body extending in a longitudinal direction between a proximal end and a distal end, an extension on the distal end of the body, and a slot extending through the extension from a free end of the extension toward the distal end of the body. The body may include a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end, the body lumen having a first diameter. The extension may have a lumen coaxial with the body lumen, the extension lumen having a second diameter less than the first diameter so as to define a shelf surface between the proximal end of the body and the free end of the extension.
US10531952B2
Medical devices and delivery systems for delivering medical devices to a target location within a subject. In some embodiments the medical devices can be locked in a fully deployed and locked configuration. In some embodiments the delivery systems are configured with a single actuator to control the movement of multiple components of the delivery system. In some embodiments the actuator controls the independent and dependent movement of multiple components of the delivery system.
US10531949B2
Provided are rapidly cross-linkable silicone foam compositions, kits, and methods for filling implanted medical devices in situ or in vivo, the implanted medical devices, including for example, body implants and tissue expanders, the compositions including a platinum divinyl disiloxane complex; a low viscosity vinyl terminated polydimethylsiloxane; a low viscosity hydride terminated polydimethylsiloxane; a silicone cross-linker; and a gas and/or gas-filled microcapsules, where the rapidly cross-linkable silicone foam composition has a viscosity of ≤150 cPs for ≥1 min. post-preparation and ≤300 cPs≤5 min. post-preparation, at ambient temperature.
US10531947B2
A stabilization tool supports a blood vessel for suturing during cardiovascular surgery. The support vessel may typically be part of an artificial graft used in replacing an aortic arch. The stabilization tool has a central shaft with a mounting element at a first end. A plurality of retractable arms have their distal ends affixed to a second end of the central shaft. The retractable arms are movable between a nested position flanking the central shaft and a range of extended positions wherein proximal ends of the retractable arms are spaced away from the central shaft. A closing ring is slidable over the retractable arms from a deployed position adjacent the second end of the central shaft to a retracted position spaced away from the second end to move the retractable arms.
US10531943B1
Some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed generally to systems and methods for delivering an implant to a body vessel of a patient. Such disclosed implants may be a monofilament implant, and disclosed systems for implanting the implant may be automatic. Some embodiments may enable retraction of said implant back into the delivery system following partial exteriorization of the implant from the delivery system. Some embodiments may be configured for retraction of said implant from the patient's body following complete exteriorization of the implant from the delivery system. Some of the embodiments are directed at delivering a monofilament implant for preventing embolic stroke. Other embodiments are directed at preventing pulmonary embolism, occluding a body vessel such as the left atrial appendage, occluding a body passageway such as a patent foramen ovalae, stenting a body vessel, or releasing a local therapeutic agent such as a drug or ionizing radiation.
US10531942B2
An absorbable vascular filter is disclosed for deployment within a vessel for temporary filtering of body fluids. A preferred embodiment is the placement of such absorbable vascular filter within the inferior vena cava (IVC) to filter emboli for the prevention of pulmonary embolism for a limited duration in time. Once protection from PE is complete, the filter is biodegraded according to a planned schedule determined by the absorption properties of the filter components. Hence the temporary absorbable vascular filter obviates the long term complications of permanent IVC filters such as increased deep vein thrombosis, neighboring organ puncture from filter fracture and embolization while also circumventing the removal requirement of metal retrievable IVC filters.
US10531931B1
The present invention is a combination light handle cover having flexible light handle cover performance in its grip part and semi-rigid light handle performance in its protective upper flange, where two snap fit connections are formed between the invention combination light handle cover and a rigid light handle which is adapted to be fixed rigidly to a surgical light or lamp. A lower snap fit connection is formed between lower female impressions (such as tabs) in the combination light handle cover at a relatively smaller diameter portion of the combination light handle cover in a zone between the grip part and the protective upper flange, which first female impressions snap fit to a lower extension ridge of the rigid light handle. An upper snap fit connection is formed between upper female impressions (such as tabs) in the combination light handle cover at a relatively large diameter portion of the combination light handle cover in a zone upon its protective cover, which second female impressions snap fit to an upper extension ridge of the rigid light handle, which upper extension ridge has a diameter much greater than that of the lower extension ridge.
US10531929B2
A robotic surgical system including a control system that controls the movement of a robotic arm is described. The robotic arm can be coupled to a tool assembly that includes an end effector positioned at a distal end of a shaft. The control system can assist with controlling the movement of the end effector and any tooling (e.g., cutting tool, boring tool, jaws, etc.) associated with the end effector, such as for either cutting through tissue or controlling a tension in the tissue. The tool assembly can include one or more sensors that measure a variety of forces or velocities associated with either the robotic arm or end effector. The control system can collect and monitor such sensed forces and velocities to determine and control one or more appropriate movement parameters associated with the robotic arm thereby controlling the cutting of tissue and preventing unwanted cutting of tissue. Furthermore, movement parameters associated with more than one robotic arm can be controlled by the control system.
US10531926B2
Navigation systems and methods for tracking physical objects near a target site during a surgical procedure. The navigation system comprises a robotic device and an instrument attached to the robotic device. A vision device is attached to the robotic device or the instrument and generates vision data sets. The vision data sets are captured from multiple perspectives of the physical object. A computing system associates a virtual object with the physical object based on one or more features of the physical object identifiable in the vision data sets. The virtual object at least partially defines a virtual boundary for the instrument.
US10531920B1
A method and device for skin treatment include using a laser diode bar stack to generate a mix of at least two laser wavelengths for application to a skin area to be treated.
US10531917B2
The present invention relates to comprehensive systems and methods for delivering energy to tissue for a wide variety of applications, including medical procedures (e.g., tissue ablation, resection, cautery, vascular thrombosis, treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and dysrhythmias, electrosurgery, tissue harvest, etc.). In certain embodiments, systems and methods are provided for identifying and treating a target tissue region adjusting for ablation-related anatomical changes (e.g., tissue contraction).
US10531908B2
A method for heat treating biological tissues includes providing a pulsed energy source having energy parameters selected so as to raise a target temperature to a level to achieve a therapeutic effect, while the average temperature rise of the tissue over a prolonged period of time is maintained at or below a predetermined level so as not to permanently damage the target tissue. Application of the pulsed energy source to the target tissue induces a heat shock response and stimulates heat shock protein activation in the target tissue so as to therapeutically treat the target tissue.
US10531905B2
A compression screw for applying compression at a bone joint. The compression screw includes an axial screw body extending from a distal end to a proximal end with the distal end including a series of bone engaging threads configured to be self-drilling and self-tapping and the proximal end including a head which defines a radially extending shoulder. At least one proximal rotary cutting structure is defined proximally of the bone engaging threads. The at least one proximal rotary cutting structure is configured to be self-drilling such that a proximal portion of the axial screw body cuts into and advances within a bone of the bone joint as the axial screw body is advanced. A method of inserting the compression screw is also provided.
US10531904B2
A bone screw includes a main body having a proximal end and a distal end. The main body extends along a longitudinal axis. The main body has an externally threaded surface that includes at least one helically extending thread having a minor diameter and a major diameter, which major diameter is greater than the minor diameter. The thread includes at least two flank surfaces extending between the minor diameter and the major diameter. The minor diameter of the thread defines a central portion of the main body. The thread may include at least one aperture that extends along an aperture axis through the thread between the flank surfaces.
US10531900B2
A medical device that may include a main body and a plurality of hooks. The main body includes a length extending along an axis between first and second ends. The main body may be deformable such that the axis forms an arch shape corresponding to a shape of a mandibular jaw or a maxillary jaw. The main body may include a plurality of sections each having first and second edges defining a first width and a plurality of openings disposed between the first and second edges and extending through a thickness of the main body. The main body may include a plurality of recessed portions defining a second width disposed between adjacent ones of the sections. Each of the hooks may extend from a corresponding one of the sections.
US10531898B2
A sacroiliac fixation implant comprising a one-piece anchoring component supporting a connecting element of the linking rod and provided with three orifices for the passage of anchoring screws, where the anchoring component comprises: an elongated main wall in which are formed two orifices, where the connecting element is interposed between the two orifices; and a secondary wall protruding from the main wall at the level of one end so that the anchoring component has a general «L» shape, a third orifice being formed on said secondary wall; wherein each orifice is internally delimited by a spherical shaped bearing face extended by a truncated-cone shaped flared face centered on a central axis, and wherein the orientations of the central axes and the taper angles of the flared faces are shaped so as to enable an arrangement of the screwing axes of the three anchoring screws.
US10531896B2
Described herein are external fixation systems for correcting bone deformities in adjacent bones or fragments thereof. The systems herein include first and second elongate tubes that translate with respect to one another via rotation of an actuation member at an end of one of the rods. At least one housing member is coupled along a length of one of the tubes. The housing member includes at least clamping portion for clamping a portion of a fixation pin therein. When the housing member is in an unlocked state, the clamping portions can move in a variety of directions. When in a locked state, the housing member cannot move with respect to the tube that it is coupled to. The position and orientation of the fixation pin is also set. The locked and unlocked state of the housing member is determined by the positioning of a locking pin coupled to the housing member.
US10531892B2
The disclosure provides examples of a surgical needle for entering a joint space through tissue, such as the hip joint. The surgical needle includes a stylet movable within a hollow body. The hollow body has at one end, a tip of a bevel for cutting tissue and at another end, a feedback member providing a surgeon with tactile feedback. The stylet has at one end, a resistance reducing member that when positioned a preset distance from the bevel reduces the resistance of the surgical needle through tissue. At the other end of the stylet is a stylet hub. In some examples of the surgical needle, the stylet hub includes a proximal stop, stylet locking member and/or locking member. The surgical needle advantageously provides tactile feedback, reduces resistance, and minimizes or prevents damage to delicate structures.
US10531890B2
A device for introduction into a body vessel includes a shaft, a balloon positioned at the distal end of the shaft, a guidewire disposed longitudinally within the shaft to receive a guidewire during use, a balloon disposed at the distal end of the shaft, and longitudinal scoring wires to score a vascular lesion attached to the distal end of the shaft. The scoring wires are disposed over the balloon and disposed within the shaft. The proximal ends are welded or otherwise affixed to a spring mounted in the handle. The balloon expands when fluid is delivered to the balloon through the inflation lumen. This expansion pushes the scoring wires against the vascular lesion. The scoring wires attach to a source of vibrations. The scoring wires are made of a helical coil.
US10531888B2
A dermatological skin treatment device is provided. The device comprises a handpiece and a cutting tool, wherein the tool is inserted through the conduit and percutaneously inserted into a tissue disposed within a recessed area of the handpiece. The device and method cut the fibrous structures under the skin that cause cellulite at an angle substantially parallel to the surface of the skin and replace these structures with a non-cellulite forming structure by deploying a highly fibrous mesh through a single needle hole to create a highly fibrous layer directly or through wound healing processes.
US10531887B2
A surgical instrument comprising an end effector configured to grasp tissue. The end effector comprises at least one sensor configured to measure a parameter corresponding to a thickness of the grasped tissue. The surgical instrument further includes a firing member movable during a firing stroke to cause a motion at the end effector and a motor configured to drive the firing member. A feedback indicator or display is configured to display the speed of the firing member according to one of a plurality of zones of speed, such as the relative speed of the firing member.
US10531886B2
An inflatable device for insertion into a user's nose for controlling nasal exudation has an elongated shaft including at least one lumen for accommodating a fluid; an inflatable balloon connected to the shaft, the balloon being in fluid connection to the lumen; and an absorber for absorbing nasal exudates, the absorber being disposed at an outer circumference of the shaft and/or at a distal tip portion of the device. Another inflatable device for insertion into a user's nose for controlling nasal exudation has an elongated shaft including at least one lumen for accommodating a fluid; and an inflatable balloon connected to the shaft, the balloon being in fluid connection to the lumen; the balloon containing a cooling agent, wherein the cooling agent is configured to cool the balloon when coming into contact with the fluid.
US10531884B2
A method and systems for treating chronic total occlusions, particularly those that are difficult to treat, is disclosed. In this approach, recanalizing the CTO is achieved using a combined antegrade and retrograde approach. The proximal end of the occlusion is penetrated using an antegrade wire, using a traditional approach. Using collateral vessels, the distal end of the occlusion is crossed in a retrograde fashion and by appropriately maneuvering each member, a continuous channel is created. Additional elements such as capture devices, dilators and injection catheters are also disclosed.
US10531880B2
Microfracture apparatuses with a cannula and a penetrator. The cannula has a first end, a second end, and a channel extending between the first end and the second end through which a penetrator can move between a retracted and an extended position substantially without rotation of the penetrator. The cannula has a primary portion and a distal portion between the primary portion and the second end, with the distal portion configured such that the distal portion and/or the second end of the channel is disposed at a nonparallel angle relative to the primary portion, for example, with a curve between the primary portion and the distal portion. The penetrator is configured to flex around such a curve and/or to flex to align with the angle of the send end of the channel and/or the distal portion of the cannula.
US10531864B2
Systems and methods are described herein for tracking an elongate instrument or other medical instrument in an image.
US10531852B2
A display apparatus is provided to display a plurality of different images with different characteristics of an object on a single screen while gradually and mutually converting the color images and an image display method using the same. The display apparatus includes a memory to store a plurality of color images with different characteristics of an object and a display unit to display a second color image while gradually converting a first color image displayed on the display unit into the second color image, the second color image having a different characteristic from that of the first color image.
US10531849B2
There is provided a radiographic imaging apparatus capable of facilitating a comparative radiological interpretation of symmetric portions or a temporal comparative radiological interpretation of a same imaging target. The radiographic imaging apparatus includes an image control unit configured to cause a display unit configured to display a plurality of divided screens to display a first radiographic image of a first imaging target on a first divided screen of the plurality of divided screens. The image control unit causes a radiographic image of the first imaging target that is captured at a different time from the first radiographic image or a radiographic image of a second imaging target that is a symmetric imaging target of the first imaging target to be displayed on a second divided screen of the plurality of divided screens as a second radiographic image.
US10531840B2
Image display device includes image outputting unit, part moving unit, and matching degree score calculating unit. Image outputting unit outputs, among a plurality of images obtained by performing a multilayered anatomy in a plurality of parts of a human body, an image of one layer of one part as a current image. Part moving unit acquires a part moving instruction after current image is output. Matching degree score calculating unit calculates a matching degree score indicating the matching degree between the organ included in current image and a candidate image by comparing label information indicating the organ included in current image and label information indicating the organ included in candidate image, with respect to each of a plurality of candidate images of a movement target part. Image outputting unit outputs candidate image in which a maximum matching degree score is calculated as a new current image.
US10531833B2
An apparatus for monitoring a sleep parameter of a user includes an adhesive pad configured to conform to a surface of the user and a flexible element coupled to the adhesive pad. The flexible element includes a conductive fabric, and exhibits a modified electrical property in response to an applied force. The apparatus also includes a power source electrically coupled to the flexible element, and an electrical circuit electrically coupled to the power source and the flexible conductive element. The electrical circuit is configured to detect, during use, a change in an electrical property of the flexible element.
US10531832B2
An apparatus for monitoring a sleep parameter of a user includes an adhesive pad configured to conform to a surface of the user and a flexible element coupled to the adhesive pad. The flexible element includes a conductive fabric, and exhibits a modified electrical property in response to an applied force. The apparatus also includes a power source electrically coupled to the flexible element, and an electrical circuit electrically coupled to the power source and the flexible conductive element. The electrical circuit is configured to detect, during use, a change in an electrical property of the flexible element.
US10531823B2
Systems and methods for generating notifications based on bladder volume signals and bladder muscle signals are disclosed. A system includes a processor, a plurality of bladder electrical signal application electrodes, a plurality of bladder volume measurement electrodes, a plurality of bladder muscle measurement electrodes, a memory module communicatively coupled to the processor, and machine readable instructions stored in the memory module. When executed by the processor, the machine readable instructions cause the system to output a first electrical output signal with the plurality of bladder electrical signal application electrodes, receive the bladder volume signal at the plurality of bladder volume measurement electrodes in response to the first electrical output signal, receive the bladder muscle signal at the plurality of bladder muscle measurement electrodes, and generate the notification based on the bladder volume signal and the bladder muscle signal.
US10531819B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a hypersaturation index for measuring a patient's absorption of oxygen in the blood stream after a patient has reached 100% oxygen saturation. This hypersaturation index provides an indication of the partial pressure of oxygen of a patient. In an embodiment of the present invention, a hypersaturation index is calculated based on the absorption ratio of two different wavelengths of energy at a measuring site. In an embodiment of the invention, a maximum hypersaturation index threshold is determined such that an alarm is triggered when the hypersaturation index reaches or exceeds the threshold. In another embodiment, an alarm is triggered when the hypersaturation index reaches or falls below its starting point when it was first calculated.
US10531811B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor for monitoring the depth of consciousness of a patient. The sensor includes a plurality of light sources, light detectors, and in some embodiments, electrodes. In an embodiment, the sensor includes reusable and disposable portions.
US10531807B2
Mechanisms are provided to implement an automated echocardiograph measurement extraction system. The automated echocardiograph measurement extraction system receives medical imaging data comprising one or more medical images and inputs the one or more medical images into a deep learning network. The deep learning network automatically processes the one or more medical images to generate an extracted echocardiograph measurement vector output comprising one or more values for echocardiograph measurements extracted from the one or more medical images. The deep learning network outputs the extracted echocardiograph measurement vector output to a medical image viewer.
US10531800B2
Adaptive attachments used in combination with a blood pressure cuff enable various blood pressure measurements to be taken in a hospital or other setting having various single and/or dual lumen manual or electronic blood pressure measuring equipment with a single, patient-worn cuff.
US10531799B2
Aspects of the invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring an intravenous (IV) line functionality of an IV device. In one embodiment, the system includes an IV catheter to be inserted into the vein of the living subject, at least one pressure sensor in fluid communication with the IV catheter to acquire peripheral venous signals; and a processing device. The processing device receives the peripheral venous signals from the pressure sensor, performs a spectral analysis on the peripheral venous signals to obtain a peripheral venous pressure frequency spectrum, and then performs a statistical analysis on amplitudes of peaks of the peripheral venous pressure frequency spectrum to determine an IV line functionality of the IV catheter in real time. When the IV line functionality indicates IV infiltration, the processing device may control the fluid controlling device to stop the fluid flow from the fluid source to the IV catheter.
US10531798B2
Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus having: a receiving unit receiving an acoustic wave generated from an object, which has been irradiated with light, at a plurality of receiving positions and outputting time-series receiving signals; and a processing unit acquiring characteristic information by back-projecting the receiving signals, and the processing unit includes: a unit acquiring, for each receiving position, a dispersion index of light intensity distribution on a back projection spherical surface; a unit acquiring, for each receiving position, an angle range in the back projection based on the dispersion index; and a unit acquiring the characteristic information by back-projecting the receiving signals in the angle range.
US10531788B2
The present invention relates to a wireless capsule endoscope and a power supply control method thereof. The method includes controlling the power supply of the capsule endoscope wirelessly and automatically adjusting power consumption of the power supply in the capsule endoscope. The wireless capsule endoscope includes a capsule casing, a light generator arranged at outside of the capsule casing, an opto-electronic switching starter arranged in the capsule casing, a power supply, a control module, a posture sensor, an illumination unit, an image processing device and a radio frequency transmission unit. The power supply being driven by the light generator in the present invention can effectively solve the incompatible problem between a traditional magnetic switch and a magnetic control device. Meanwhile, the control module and the posture detector enable the power supply to be in different working status under different states, which can prolong the service life of the power supply of the capsule endoscope.
US10531785B2
Systems, devices, and methods for fluid management in an endoscopic procedure are disclosed. In one embodiment, a fluid management device may comprise a pair of electrodes and a controller connected to the pair of electrodes. In at least some embodiments, the controller may be configured to receive signals from the pair of electrodes and determine whether a fluid in a fluid reservoir is an ionic fluid or a non-ionic fluid based on signals received from the pair of electrodes. In at least some additional embodiments, the controller may be further configured to automatically set a fluid deficit alarm threshold based on the determination of whether the fluid in the fluid reservoir is an ionic fluid or a non-ionic fluid.
US10531778B2
A vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner body; a suction unit connected with the cleaner body, sucking dust and air, guiding the sucked dust and air to the cleaner body, and having a handle; a moving unit including a wheel and a motor for driving the wheel to automatically move the cleaner body; and a clutch unit connecting the motor and the wheel or releasing the connection of the motor and the wheel according to an operational state of the cleaner body. The clutch unit includes a sun gear connected with the motor, a ring gear connected with the wheel, a plurality of fixed planetary gears disposed to be spaced apart each other between the sun gear and the ring gear, and a moving planetary gear which may transmit a rotational force transmitted to the sun gear to one gear of the plurality of fixed planetary gears.
US10531770B2
The present application provides a napkin dispenser for dispensing a number of folded napkins from a sheet material to an end user. The napkin dispenser may include a loading station for loading the sheet material, a folding station for folding a napkin from the sheet material, and a presentation station for presenting one or more of the folded napkins to the end user.
US10531768B1
A food chopper having a handle, a first side cutting blade, a second side cutting blade and a central cutting blade. The first side cutting blade is attached to the handle. The second side cutting blade is attached to the handle in a spaced-apart relationship with respect to the first side cutting blade. The central cutting blade is operably attached to the handle intermediate the first side cutting blade and the second side cutting blade for movement between an extended configuration and a retracted configuration. The central cutting blade is biased to the extended configuration. At least one of the first side cutting blade and the second side cutting blade is curved.
US10531767B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for automatically and programmably preparing food. Devices include a container that includes a cavity configured to store at least one food ingredient, where the cavity defines an internal volume of the container. The devices also include a first plate coupled to a first end of the container, where the first plate includes at least one hole configured to receive the at least one food ingredient. The devices further include a second plate coupled to a second end of the container, and a plurality of thermoelectric devices coupled to the container, where the plurality of thermoelectric devices is configured to exchange thermal energy with the container. The devices also include a first thermal conduit coupled to a first side of each of the plurality of thermoelectric devices, and a second thermal conduit coupled to a second side of each of the plurality of thermoelectric devices.
US10531763B1
A compact brewing assembly and method is described. The compact brewing assembly includes a vessel, a filter component, an exterior sleeve and a cap. The vessel includes a vessel top and a vessel bottom, wherein the vessel top includes a fastening component. The filter component is removably coupled to the fastening component of the vessel top. The exterior sleeve includes a top exterior sleeve and a bottom exterior sleeve slidably coupled to the filter component. The cap is removably coupled to the top exterior sleeve.
US10531762B2
A beverage making machine having a cartridge holder with an upper portion movable in pivotal and/or linear ways relative to a lower portion. An actuator for the cartridge portion may include a handle-actuated spur gear and link to move the upper portion, which may be guided in movement via a cam and cam follower engagement. Information from a cartridge detector may be used based on movement of cartridge holder portions, e.g., as an upper portion moves from an open position to a closed position. A mixing chamber may be held by a drawer so as to be removable, and movement of the drawer may engage/disengage the mixing chamber from a fluid supply.
US10531760B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for grease separation during a cooking cycle of a food product in a cooking device. The methods and apparatuses perform grease separation by bifurcating the cooking cycle. In a first portion of the cooking cycle, in which the system is closed to ingress of the atmosphere by creating a water barrier in a collector box to seal a cooking chamber in which the food product is cooking, all cooking fluids exiting the cooking device pass into the water barrier. In a second portion of the cooking cycle, the collector box is emptied and the system is opened to capture all cooking fluids exiting the cooking device in the collector box. During the open portion, a grease/cooking fluid interface is monitored and the captured cooking fluids, containing a high percentage of grease, are pumped out of the collector box.
US10531758B2
An improved curtain rod assembly is provided that obviates limitations and problems with conventional assemblies. In particular, the improved curtain rod assembly utilizes complementary locking and key components which allow for a secure, robust, and reversible connection between a curtain rod and an associated finial. As such, assembling the curtain rod assembly does not require the use of screws, nails, or other items which may permanently damage the curtain rod assembly, limit the longevity or usefulness of the curtain rod assembly, or present a danger to the user.
US10531736B1
A bookshelf defines a book stand space that is configured to receive a book, and includes a tilt guide bar that is located at a bottom portion of the book stand space and that extends in a lateral direction. The tilt guide bar is configured to, based on the book being pressed downward, allow the book to be tilted about the tilt guide bar and to guide a withdrawal of the book in a state in which an upper end portion of the book protrudes forward.
US10531732B1
A table includes a table top with at least one collapsible leg which includes a top tube, a middle tube and a bottom tube. A connector is connected to the underside of the table top and the top end of the outer tube. An inner threaded rod is connected to a motor which is connected to the connector. An outer threaded rod is movably mounted to outside of the inner threaded rod. A top nut is fixed to the middle tube and threadedly connected to the inner threaded rod. A bottom nut is connected to the bottom tube and threadedly connected to the outer threaded rod. When the motor drives the inner threaded rod, the outer threaded rod is moved relative to the inner threaded rod so that the middle tube moves relative to the top tube, and the bottom tube moves relative to the middle tube.
US10531729B1
A removable brush head for a personal groom device, the removable brush head having a stationary portion, wherein the stationary portion is annular and includes a plurality of outwardly-extending brush bristles. The removable brush head also includes a movable portion positioned within the stationary portion, wherein the movable portion is configured to at least partially rotate relative to the stationary portion, and further wherein the movable portion includes a plurality of outwardly-extending brush bristles. Additionally, the removable brush head includes a locking collar, wherein the locking collar is slidably couplable to the stationary portion so as to axially retain the movable portion within the stationary portion while allowing the movable portion to at least partially rotate relative to the stationary portion.
US10531721B2
Disclosed is a deodorant dispenser refill cartridge, comprising: a container defining a chamber storing a fluid deodorant composition and having an opening through which the composition is dispensable from the chamber; and a seal sealing the opening. Also disclosed is a deodorant dispenser, comprising: a body having a cavity for receiving a first portion of the refill cartridge; a device within the cavity and extending along at least a portion of an edge region of the cavity for puncturing the seal of the refill cartridge as the first portion of the refill cartridge is received in the cavity of the body; and an applicator for applying the fluid deodorant composition to a user at an exterior of the dispenser.
US10531712B2
Open-ended slide fastener assemblies with improved operability. In some examples, the slide fastener assemblies are watertight and/or airtight. The slide fastener assemblies include one or more sliders and box and pin mechanisms integrated with the slide fastener. The pin mechanism need not be inserted into the box at the same time it is inserted into the slider, permitting the slide fastener to be operated even when it is not visible or easily accessible.
US10531704B2
A rain boot and uniform footwear with an intelligent temperature-controlling air extractor and water-proofing and air-venting functions, includes: a boot upper layer (10), a middle cushion layer (11) and a boot lower layer (12), wherein a miniature air extractor (13) is provided at a position below an instep of the boot bottom layer (12), a magnetic levitation power switch (14), a temperature sensor (15) and a control main board (16) are also provided in the boot bottom layer (12), the temperature sensor (15) being electrically connected to an input end of the control main board (16) and transmitting a temperature sensing signal of the foot to the control main board (16), and an output end of the control main board (16) being electrically connected to the miniature air extractor (13) via the magnetic levitation power switch (14).
US10531697B2
A waterproof garment is provided that includes a waterproof garment textile defining a garment opening, and a sealing sleeve joined at the garment opening. The sealing sleeve includes a substantially waterproof textile composite in the form of a tube extending between (i) a first end having a first opening and configured to fit tightly around a wearers body part and (ii) an opposing second end having a second opening and joined to the waterproof garment textile by a seam around the garment opening. The textile composite includes a stretchable textile with a substantially waterproof coating layer applied to the stretchable textile.
US10531695B2
A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system may comprise a liquid storage portion, which includes a housing holding a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The housing has a first and a second opening. The cartridge may further comprise a first and a second permeable planar heater assembly, wherein the first permeable planar heater assembly is fixed to the housing and extends across the first opening of the housing, and the second permeable planar heater assembly is fixed to the housing and extends across the second opening of the housing. The first and second permeable planar heater assemblies are arranged opposite each other such that they face each other and form an airflow channel in between.
US10531684B2
Provided is a powder containing ferric pyrophosphate that affords high iron absorbability, as a main component of an oral iron preparation. The present invention relates to a composite powder containing ferric pyrophosphate, which is a powder containing ferric pyrophosphate and a sodium component, wherein (1) the content of ferric pyrophosphate is 95 wt % or higher, and (2) a (Fe+Na)/P molar ratio is 0.8 to 1.0.
US10531674B2
Compositions having an oil-in-water dispersion of submicron particles to enhance foods and beverages
A composition having an oil-in-water dispersion with enhanced stability is provided. The oil-in-water dispersion has particles of a hydrophobic agent with an average particle size between about 100 to about 999 nm, where the distribution of particle sizes are a monodispersity about the average particle size, and the negative charge on the particles generates a force of repulsion that exceeds the force of coalescence among the particles of the hydrophobic agent in the oil-in-water dispersion. A method for applying the composition to a food and/or beverage is also provided. The submicron average particle size, dispersity, and force of repulsion of the particles in the dispersion increase the extent of penetration and accelerate diffusion of the particles of the hydrophobic agent throughout a water phase of a food or beverage, to enhance the physical, chemical, nutritional and/or sensory properties of the food or beverage, and to prevent freezer burn.
US10531670B2
The invention relates to olive processing, and includes methods for producing low-acid olives, as well as the olives produced thereby. In one aspect, the invention provides compositions directed towards packaged olive preparations having novel and beneficial characteristics, for example, olive preparations that are free of packing liquids such as brine solutions. In other aspects, the packaged olive preparations of the invention can have other beneficial properties, such as extended shelf life, have flavor infusions, and/or can be stuffed with various flavored stuffings.
US10531663B2
The present invention relates to an ophthalmic solution comprising 0.00001 to 10.0 weight percent of a simple saccharide, at least 0.00001 weight percent of a preservative, and not more than about 0.2 percent by weight chloride. The simple saccharide is chosen from the group consisting of: inositol; mannitol; sorbitol; sucrose; dextrose; glycerin; propylene glycol; ribose; triose; tetrose; erythrose; threose; pentose; arabinose; ribulose; xylose; xylulose; lyxose; hexose; allose; altrose; fructose; galactose; glucose; gulose; idose; mannose; sorbose; talose; tagatose; adlose; ketose; heptose; sedoheptulose; monosaccharides; disaccharides; sugar alcohols; xylitol; and polyol.
US10531662B2
Compounds and compositions are described herein that inhibit the biosynthesis of mycotoxins and fungal sporulation. Such compounds and compositions are useful for inhibiting mold. Methods of using such compounds and compositions are also described herein that involve applying the compositions to plants, plant parts, structures, containers, and other surfaces.
US10531655B2
In various embodiments a reperfusion protection solution (RPS) is provided along with methods of use thereof. Illustrative reperfusion protection solutions include, but are not limited to a buffer; one or more substrates for the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) under anaerobic conditions; citrate-phosphate-dextrose (CPD); and one or more amino acids that stabilize cell membranes. Typically the pH of the organ reperfusion protection solution ranges from about pH 8.1 to about pH 8.4.
US10531648B2
A genetically modified mouse is provided that comprises a conditional Acvr1 allele that comprises a mutated exon that, upon induction, converts to a mutant exon phenotype, wherein the mutant exon phenotype includes ectopic bone formation. Mice comprising a mutant Acvr1 exon 5 in antisense orientation, flanked by site-specific recombinase recognition sites, are provided, wherein the mice further comprise a site-specific recombinase that recognizes the site-specific recombinase recognitions sites, wherein the recombinase is induced upon exposure of the mouse to tamoxifen. Upon exposure to tamoxifen, the recombinase is expressed and acts on the RRS-flanked mutant exon 5 and places the mutant exon 5 in sense orientation and deletes the wild-type exon.
US10531646B2
A fish transfer apparatus for directional positioning of fish entering a fish transfer pump reducing injury, stress and enhancing sea lice removal when coupled to a Coanda effect fish transfer pump. The apparatus employs a collection structure constructed from a funnel shaped passageway made of spaced apart bars. A manifold is positioned along an outer surface of the spaced apart bars for directing a flow of water through the passageway at a predetermined position. Fish approaching the apparatus are naturally attracted to the outward flow of water past the ring frame and will enter the passageway as they will be swimming against the current. Once the fish passes the manifold, the fish is subject to the suction caused by the fish transfer pump and drawn into the suction pipe for transfer.
US10531644B2
A suet feeder which comprises an inner frame, a tray sized to receive a suet pack, the tray being slidably mounted on the frame, a suet support member which is mounted on the frame, the tray being slidable past the suet support member, and a shroud extending over the frame and tray and suet support member, the shroud having a wall which extends over the tray and suet support member, the wall having a feed opening therein with a relatively closed area of the shroud being located above the feed opening, the arrangement being such that the feed opening is normally located proximate an upper portion of the suet support member such that access may be had to a lower portion of a suet pack mounted on the suet support member.
US10531635B2
The invention relates to a method of cleaning at least a part of a cubicle from a row of individual cubicles in a stable, each cubicle having lateral partitions extending in the longitudinal direction on each side of the cubicle, the method comprising the steps of providing an animal presence sensor for detecting the presence of an animal in a cubicle, and providing an autonomous unmanned vehicle, the vehicle comprising a control system for controlling the operation of the vehicle and cubicle floor cleaning means, and the method further comprising the steps of detecting by an animal presence sensor a first of the cubicles free of an animal, detecting whether an animal is present in a second of the cubicles neighboring next to the first cubicle, and controlling the autonomous vehicle to clean the first cubicle in a first cleaning mode that is dependent on the presence of an animal in said second neighboring cubicle. The invention also relates to an autonomous unmanned vehicle for cleaning cubicles.
US10531630B2
The invention relates to the alfalfa variety designated 410A176. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the alfalfa variety 410A176. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the alfalfa variety 410A176 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing alfalfa plants by crossing the alfalfa variety 410A176 with itself or another alfalfa variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10531626B1
A soybean cultivar designated 72470422 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 72470422, to the plants of soybean cultivar 72470422, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 72470422, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 72470422. 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 72470422. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 72470422, 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 72470422 with another soybean cultivar.
US10531624B1
A soybean cultivar designated S170115 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S170115, to the plants of soybean cultivar S170115, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S170115, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S170115. 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 S170115. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S170115, 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 S170115 with another soybean cultivar.
US10531620B1
A soybean cultivar designated 70140849 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 70140849, to the plants of soybean cultivar 70140849, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 70140849, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 70140849. 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 70140849. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 70140849, 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 70140849 with another soybean cultivar.
US10531617B2
Plant-initiated, cognitive watering is provided, which includes ascertaining tensile stress on a root wall of a plant, and determining whether the tensile stress on the root wall of the plant reaches a specified threshold. Based on determining that the tensile stress on the root wall of the plant reaches the specified threshold, the method includes facilitating increasing water content in soil around the plant. In one or more implementations, the method may be implemented via a cognitive watering system, which controls the increasing of water content in soil around the plant based, for instance, on data analytics.
US10531607B2
A method and system for controlling lateral tilt of a header of an agricultural machine, uses gauge wheels or skids on lateral ends of the header in combination with operation in a free float mode for maintaining uniform cut height across the header, and automatically changes to a controlled tilt mode when one or more conditions for that mode is present. During operation in the controlled tilt mode, if a condition or conditions for free float is present, the system will operate in that mode. The system can also optionally damp relative up and down movements of the gauge wheels or skids and the header on each end, and can limit the tilt in the free float mode.
US10531604B2
An agricultural implement includes a toolbar system having a toolbar frame, an elevator assembly, and a first wing on one side of the toolbar frame. The first wing may be coupled to the elevator and pivotable about a first vertical axis of rotation between an extended and a folded position. Tools may be coupled to the first wing and rotatable relative to a longitudinal axis of the first wing from an operating position below the first wing to a transport/shipping position above the first wing. Further, the first wing may be adapted to be moveable to position the first wing higher than a wheel of the agricultural implement on the same side of the toolbar frame in the folded position. Subsequently, the tools may be circularly rotated and the middle wing and tools pushed down to reduce the overall width and height of the implement for transporting or shipping.
US10537047B2
The present application discloses a heat dissipation structure and a display device, the heat dissipation structure includes a backplate, a circuit board, and a thermal pad; the circuit board includes a first contact area and a second contact area, and the second contact area is in contact with the backplate; a first end of the thermal pad is affixed to a chip of a flexible circuit board of the display device, and a second end of the thermal pad is affixed to the first contact area so as to conduct heat of the chip to the circuit board and the backplate.
US10537043B2
An electronic apparatus includes a case, an electronic part housed in the case, and a heat sink coupled to the electronic part and at least partially arranged outside a side wall of the case with a gap formed between an outer peripheral portion of the heat sink and the side wall of the case.
US10537042B2
An electronic device with a heat-dissipating function and a liquid-cooling radiator module are provided. The electronic device includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board and a liquid-cooling radiator module. The second circuit board is mounted on the first circuit board. The liquid-cooling radiator module is attached on the second circuit board and in thermal contact with an electronic component of the second circuit board. The liquid-cooling radiator module includes plural airflow channels and a fan. The plural airflow channels are in parallel with the second circuit board. The fan produces airflow toward the plural airflow channel. After the airflow passes through the plural airflow channels, the airflow is outputted in a direction parallel with the second circuit board. Since the airflow is not obstructed by the adjacent function circuit boards, the heat-dissipating efficiency is enhanced.
US10537037B2
An electronic device including a display module, a circuit module and a housing is provided. The housing accommodates the display module and the circuit module and includes a transparent cover, a multi-layer stacked structure and a tinted layer. At least a part of the transparent cover presents a curve. The multi-layer stacked structure is disposed on an inner surface of the transparent cover and has a plurality of optical layers stacked in sequence. The tinted layer is disposed on the multi-layer stacked structure. Through the disposition of the multi-layer stacked structure, the housing has variable visual effects.
US10537032B2
The mounting structure for a display screen includes a cabinet for fixing the display screen. The cabinet includes an outer frame that is connected to an external fixed structure and a panel that is detachably connected to the outer frame. The outer frame is fixedly connected to the panel through a lock mechanism in a locked state and is separated from the panel when the lock mechanism is opened. The cabinet is divided into the separate panel and the outer frame, and the outer frame that is lighter in weight is installed at first and then the panel is detachably connected to the outer frame by the lock mechanism.
US10537029B2
A method for producing an electrically conductive thin film on a substrate is disclosed. Initially, a reducible metal compound and a reducing agent are dispersed in a liquid. The dispersion is then deposited on a substrate as a thin film. The thin film along with the substrate is subsequently exposed to a pulsed electromagnetic emission to chemically react with the reducible metal compound and the reducing agent such that the thin film becomes electrically conductive.
US10537020B2
A printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film having an insulating property and a conductive pattern disposed on at least one surface of the base film. The conductive pattern includes a copper particle bond layer which is fixed to the base film, and a lightness L* of a conductive pattern non-formed region of the base film is 60 or less. The base film may include a modified layer on one surface side thereof.
US10537019B1
Embodiments of a substrate are provided herein, which include: a first metal plane and a second metal plane in a first metal layer, the first and second metal planes laterally separated by a first gap of dielectric material; and a third metal plane and a fourth metal plane in a second metal layer vertically adjacent to the first metal layer, the third and fourth metal planes laterally separated by a second gap of dielectric material, wherein the second gap comprises a first laterally-shifted gap portion and a second laterally-shifted gap portion, the first laterally-shifted gap portion is laterally offset from a vertical footprint of the first gap in a first lateral direction, and the second laterally-shifted gap portion is laterally offset from the vertical footprint of the first gap in a second lateral direction opposite the first lateral direction.
US10537012B2
A system and method for illuminating livestock within an agricultural dwelling. The system has a plurality of lighting assemblies that are electrically connected to a dimming device. The lighting assemblies are dimmed from a white color to predetermined wavelength to result in a predetermined behavior of the livestock. The predetermined wavelength and behavior includes a red wavelength that is undetected by the livestock thus resulting in the predetermined behavior of the livestock sleeping while workers can continue to work or function within the agricultural dwelling.
US10537005B2
A system and method may include receiving, at a first node of a circuit electrically coupled to a light emitting diode, a pulsed electrical signal that includes signal current pulses. The system and method may also include enabling discontinuous discharging of a capacitor electrically coupled to the first node during a particular time period between two particular signal current pulses of the pulsed electrical signal.
US10537003B2
A method of operating a smart lighting system comprising a first mobile device, a lighting control device and first through nth (n being a positive integer) lighting devices, includes establishing, by the first mobile device, a first wireless connection with the lighting control device; performing, by the lighting control device, a first time synchronization with the first mobile device; providing, by the first mobile device, the lighting control device with a scheduling information representing operation of each of the first through nth lighting devices according to lapse of time; and controlling, by the lighting control device, operation of each of the first through nth lighting devices based on a current time and the scheduling information, wherein the current time is determined based on the time synchronization.
US10536987B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing non-overlapping time periods within one or more Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycles configured for a Device-to-Device (D2D) capable wireless device for different types of operations. In some embodiments, these different types of operations are cellular and D2D operations such that the D2D capable wireless device performs cellular and D2D operations (e.g., reception of cellular and D2D signals) during non-overlapping time periods during one or more DRX cycles. In this manner, a D2D capable wireless device that, for example, can only receive one type of signal at a time is enabled to receive both cellular and D2D signals.
US10536986B2
Disclosed are a control method for supporting multiple connections in a mobile communication system and an apparatus for supporting multiple connections. In the method for supporting the multiple connections to be performed in first and second base stations, a first base station receives the measured results for multiple connections from a terminal, determines whether the plurality of connections are set on the basis of the measured results, transmits the information for setting the multiple connections to the second base station when setting the multiple results, and the second base station generates the control information for setting the multiple connections of the terminal on the basis of the information for setting the multiple connections received from the first base station. Thus, the multiple connections can be easily supported and the performance of the mobile communication system can be improved therethrough.
US10536977B1
Contention-based random access operations are enhanced by enabling wireless devices to transmit a plurality of orthogonal preambles simultaneously to an access node, thereby increasing the probability of at least one preamble being heard by the access node, and minimizing the risk of preamble collision with another wireless device. Different classes of devices may be configured to transmit different numbers of preambles, depending on a priority level for that class, for purposes such as emergency communications, real-time applications, etc. Parameters including relationships between specific priority levels, device classes, application classes, quality of service, and number of preambles permitted, may be broadcast or otherwise communicated to wireless devices by the wireless network.
US10536967B2
A method for transmitting sidelink data by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, includes determining whether more sidelink data is available in a Sidelink Traffic Channel (STCH) than can be transmitted in a current Sidelink Control (SC) period; selecting a sidelink grant from a resource pool when more sidelink data is available in the STCH than can be transmitted in the current SC period; and transmitting sidelink data available in the STCH based on the selected sidelink grant, wherein the UE considers the selected sidelink grant to be a configured sidelink grant occurring in those time intervals starting at the beginning of an available SC period which starts at least N time intervals after a time interval in which the sidelink grant was selected, where N is a positive integer.
US10536965B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising: a step of receiving scheduling information through a PDCCH in a subframe of #n, and a step of receiving a PDCCH according to the scheduling information in a subframe of #(n+X), wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to 0 and X is an integer greater than or equal to 0 and is determined on the basis of an index of a control channel resource used for the transmission of the PDCCH.
US10536954B2
A user apparatus is provided. The user apparatus performs communications with a base station in a mobile communication system in which at least two carriers with different TTIs are used. The user apparatus includes a gap control unit configured to set a gap that is a period in which the user apparatus does not perform communications with the base station. The gap control unit sets a gap common to a gap set for one of the two carriers as a gap for the other of the two carriers.
US10536952B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a feedback signal in a cellular mobile communication system is provided. The method of transmitting feedback in a Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) system, includes receiving feedback set information including allocation information of a Channel Status Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) transmitted for estimating a channel of a User Equipment (UE), receiving IDentification (ID) information for identifying a CoMP set including CSI-RS allocation information from a cell operating in a CoMP mode, extracting the CoMP set using the ID information and a feedback set, detecting a first feedback mode and first feedback timing with a first CSI-RS not included in the CoMP set among CSI-RSs included in the feedback set, and generating and transmitting feedback with respect to the first CSI-RS according to the detected first feedback mode and the first feedback timing.
US10536951B2
A method of allocating resources in a mobile telecommunications system, the system including a base station configured to communicate via a wireless interface with one or more terminals and one or more infrastructure nodes configured to communicate with the one or more terminals. The method includes: obtaining measurements wherein a measurement relates to a link between a first terminal of the one or more terminals and one of the one or more infrastructure node; obtaining direction information for the first terminal; determining, based on the measurements and direction information, a candidate infrastructure node for the first terminal; and allocating resources for the first terminal to communicate with the candidate infrastructure node.
US10536948B2
Methods and apparatus for allocating multi-user communication resources to one or more stations for uplink data transmissions are provided. In one aspect, a method for allocating multi-user communication resources to one or more stations for uplink data transmissions is provided. The method comprises generating a request frame requesting an uplink buffer report from each of the one or more stations, the request frame selectively requesting that the uplink buffer report indicate either an amount of data in an uplink buffer or a requested amount of time to transmit the data in the uplink buffer. The method comprises transmitting the request frame to each of the one or more stations. The method comprises receiving the uplink buffer report in a report frame from each of the one or more stations.
US10536943B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining first and second tuning states based on selections from first and second groups of tuning states, respectively, detecting an operational function of the communication device, adjusting weighting between the first and second tuning states according to the operational function resulting in an adjusted weighting, and determining a tuning configuration for a matching network of the communication device according to interpolation that utilizes the first and second tuning states in conjunction with the adjusted weighting. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10536940B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for signal block mapping are provided. One method includes configuring, by a network node (e.g., base station or eNB), a group of discovery signaling blocks. The method may then include mapping the discovery signaling blocks of the group onto a subframe structure, including the group information into each of the discovery signaling blocks, and transmitting the discovery signaling blocks in the subframe structure.
US10536938B2
An apparatus and a method for transmitting/receiving downlink data channel signal transmission information in a cellular radio communication system using a Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) scheme are provided. In the downlink data channel signal transmission information transmission method, a Base Station (BS) transmits downlink data channel signal transmission information including information related to Resource Elements (REs) scheduled for a downlink data channel signal transmission to a User Equipment (UE), and transmits downlink data channel signal non-transmission information including information related to REs through which a downlink data channel signal is not transmitted among the REs scheduled for the downlink data channel signal transmission to the UE.
US10536928B2
A resource conflict reducing method, including determining, by a first user equipment (UE), N available resources from S resources detected at the UE, where S is a quantity of resources that are indicated by resource configuration information obtained by the first UE, and where S is an integer greater than or equal to 1, determining, by the first UE, M resources according to the N available resources, and sending, by the first UE, data to at least one second UE by using the M resources, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to S, and wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to N.
US10536927B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose triggering methods and apparatuses of aperiodic channel state information CSI and an aperiodic sounding reference signal SRS for a carrier aggregation system. The method comprises: (1) pre-assigning a corresponding relationship between bits of the CSI request field in an uplink grant and multiple downlink component carriers DL CCs of user equipment, wherein the number of bits of the CSI request field is greater than 1 and less than the maximum allowed number of DL CCs in the system; (2) determining the DL CC for which aperiodic CSI reporting is to be triggered; and (3) mapping the CSI request field in the uplink grant according to the pre-assigned corresponding relationship to mark the value of the bit corresponding to the determined DL CC as “trigger”.
US10536923B2
Sensors provisioned on a first device detect a movement of the first device corresponding to the first device changing position within an environment. Location information for the first device is updated based on the position change. A plurality of signals are detected, at the first device, from a second device in the environment, determine, and a distance between the first and second devices is determined based on each of the signals. From the signals, another change in position of the first device within the environment is determined and the location information updated for the first device. The movement is detected at the first device at an instance between two of the plurality of signals, and location information for the first device based on the first position change is updated prior to detection of the later of the two signals in the plurality of signals.
US10536922B2
A controlling method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a search request for a searching object device from a terminal device, broadcasting a pre-defined search signal in response to the search request, in response to a response signal being received from an external device in response to the pre-defined search signal, analyzing a pattern of the received response signal and determining whether the external device is the searching object device, and in response to the external device being determined as the searching object device, transmitting intensity information of the received response signal to the terminal device to determine a position of the external device which is determined as the searching object device.
US10536921B1
In some scenarios it may be useful for a client terminal to know the location of one or more base stations in a wireless communication network. While a network may know its location accurately, it may not necessarily provide that information to client terminals. Furthermore, the location information for a base station may be required before a client terminal can communicate with a particular base station. A method and apparatus are disclosed that enable one or more base stations to determine their respective locations and efficiently provide that information to client terminals in broadcast, multicast or unicast manner. A client terminal may use the base station location information for improved client terminal and network performance, improved user experience, and reduced power consumption.
US10536920B1
A system for location finding of devices and personnel for in-building applications is described. A group of sensors are distributed throughout a region or building of interest where each sensor contains an RF transceiver and an antenna system, with the antenna system capable of generating multiple radiation patterns or modes. The assets to be tracked by the sensors can have RF transceivers associated with each asset, and these transceivers can have antenna systems capable of generating multiple radiation patterns or modes. A system controller containing a processor is integrated into the system and is used to control the sensors and assets.
US10536918B2
A method and apparatus provides for managing dual registration with multiple networks in one or more radio communication systems. The one or more radio communication systems include multiple networks each supporting a different radio access technology. A communication connection is established between the user equipment and a first one of the multiple networks. A further communication connection is established between the user equipment and a second one of the multiple networks, while maintaining the communication connection between the user equipment and the first one of the multiple networks. A shared common control element in the user equipment manages the flow of information between the user equipment and each of the multiple networks via the respective communication connections, thereby allowing for parallel user equipment activity in at least the first one and the second one of the multiple networks.
US10536907B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data sending method, a data receiving method, a transmit-end device, and a receive-end device. The data sending method provided in the embodiments of this application may include: performing scrambling code initialization to generate a scrambling code; scrambling a data block based on the scrambling code; repeatedly sending the scrambled data block; performing scrambling code initialization to generate a new scrambling code when an interval after previous scrambling code initialization of the data block is greater than or equal to a preset scrambling code initialization parameter threshold; scrambling the data block again based on the generated new scrambling code; and repeatedly sending the data block scrambled again. The embodiments of this application can improve efficiency of data transmission between a transmit-end device and a receive-end device.
US10536900B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a heartbeat adjustment method, an apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes: acquiring a network holding time period of an application program; acquiring an initial heartbeat of the application program, and acquiring a to-be-adjusted heartbeat of the application program according to the network holding time period and the initial heartbeat; and acquiring at least one preset unified heartbeat, and adjusting the to-be-adjusted heartbeat according to the at least one preset unified heartbeat to obtain an adjusted heartbeat, where the adjusted heartbeat coincides with a unified heartbeat in the at least one unified heartbeat. The embodiments of the present invention can flexibly adjust a heartbeat of an application program according to a service requirement of the application program, to improve user experience and reduce power consumption.
US10536897B2
A radio network node may operate in a normal or restricted operating state. In the restricted operating state, the radio network node may have just enough activity to enable UEs to detect the cell. The radio access node may transition to the normal operating state in response to messaging from a wireless communication device, such as reception of a random access preamble.
US10536890B2
The invention relates to an improved handover procedure for a mobile terminal. Under control of the target base station, the mobile terminal is to perform a handoff to a target base station, wherein it is to be configured for communication with the target base station via a target radio cell comprising a downlink carrier and an uplink carrier. The mobile terminal receives a handoff command message for the handoff to the target base station including a handoff execution condition as trigger for executing handoff to the target base station. Then, the mobile terminal determines, based on the received handoff execution condition, whether or not the mobile terminal is to trigger execution of the handoff to the target base station. In case the mobile terminal determines that it is to trigger execution of the handoff to the target base station, the mobile terminal executes the handoff to the target base station.
US10536880B2
A cell reselection procedure in heterogeneous networks is enhanced based on utilization of per category cell reselection parameters. In one aspect, a serving access point can categorize a set of neighbor access points based on cell-type and/or cell-profile data of a set of neighbor access points. Further, the serving access point can determine cell reselection parameters for the different categories. As an example, offset data (Qoffset) can be determined for the different categories. The per category cell reselection parameters can be transmitted to user equipment coupled to the serving access point to facilitate cell reselection. In one example, the per category cell reselection parameters reduce operational costs associated with processing and transmission of system parameters.
US10536873B2
A technique for determining signal quality of a radio access network, RAN, (502) comprising a plurality of transmission-reception points, TRxPs (504), is described. A method aspect of the technique comprises or initiates receiving a control message for determining the signal quality based on a measurement of a reference signal (516.21) from a second TRxP (504.4) at a radio resource. The control message is indicative of the radio resource for the reference signal relative to a synchronization signal (512.1) from a first TRxP (504.1; 504.2; 504.3) other than the second TRxP.
US10536869B2
The present disclosure provides a method of requesting for a measurement report, comprising steps of: setting, in a request message, a first field for indicating an action on measurement to be stop and a second field including cell information for which a stop action on measurement is needed, so as to indicate a reporting eNB to stop measurement reports according to the second field; and transmitting to the reporting eNB the request message for the measurement report. The present disclosure also provides a requesting eNB using the above method, a method of stopping a measurement report by a reporting eNB and a reporting eNB using the above method, as well as a computer readable recording medium comprising computer instructions for executing the above methods.
US10536866B2
A wireless communication system is disclosed. A data store stores for each of a plurality of nodes, each node comprising a wireless communication system element, a node image data comprising metadata about or otherwise associated with the node. In various embodiments, the data store has the capability to create and support an organically changing schema, and provides a mechanism to propagate changes to the schema or data, but only as necessary. A processor receives an indication of an objective and uses node image data stored in the data store to identify programmatically from among the plurality of nodes a node to help achieve the objective and to determine the configuration of the node.
US10536861B2
The stability of a channel in a wireless network is evaluated at a node. Upon transmitting a packet from the node on a network channel, a first counter associated with the channel is incremented. Upon receiving an acknowledgment packet responsive to the transmitted packet, a second counter associated with the channel is incremented. A stability metric for the channel is computed based on values stored in the first and second counters. Additionally, interference on a channel of the network is measured at a node. Upon determining that no packet is received during a predetermined time-period on the channel, a received signal strength (RSS) is measured on the channel at an end of the predetermined time-period. Alternatively, upon determining that a packet is received during the predetermined time-period on the channel, the RSS is measured on the channel following completion of the transmission of the packet on the channel.
US10536855B2
An information processing terminal capable of communicating with a sensor terminal including a first biological sensor which measures a first type of biological information includes: a reception unit receiving a measurement result of the first biological sensor from the sensor terminal; a second biological sensor measuring the first type of biological information; and a control unit authenticating the sensor terminal and establishing connection with the sensor terminal when the measurement result of the first biological sensor satisfies a predetermined condition on a measurement result of the second biological sensor.
US10536850B2
Systems and methods are described for connecting a private network to the Internet through a remote wireless adapter. According to one embodiment, a remote wireless adapter sets up a tunnel with a network security device through a local area network (LAN) adapter of the remote wireless adapter and sets up a wide area network (WAN) connection through a wireless modem which is connected to the wireless adapter. The remote wireless adapter receives an outgoing data packet sent by the network security device through the tunnel and writes the outgoing data packet to the WAN connection. The remote wireless adapter also receives an incoming data packet through the WAN connection and forwards the incoming data packet to the network security device through the tunnel.
US10536842B2
[Problem] To provide a communication system for simplifying terminal device configuration.[Solution] A communication system comprises a server and a terminal device. The server stores first information in order for the terminal device to communicate, and stores second information in order for the terminal device to connect to a network of the other bases. When the power is turned on in a normal operation, the terminal device connects to the network by using network information in a non-volatile memory unit, obtains the first information from the server, and writes the same in a volatile memory unit. Thus, the terminal device starts operation. When the power is turned on by using a particular operation, the terminal device connects to the network by using the network information in the non-volatile memory unit, obtains network information of the other bases from the server, and stores the same in the non-volatile memory unit. Thus, it is possible to connect to the network of the other bases.
US10536840B2
According to a first aspect of the present disclosed subject matter, a SIM virtualization system, having servers selected from a group comprising of: eSIM server; SIM server; SIMs bank; and any combination thereof, the system comprising: a SIM-Less mobile terminal having hardware configuration selected from a group comprising of: first configuration; second configuration; and a combination thereof, the SIM-Less mobile terminal comprising: a processor configured to execute SIM virtualization functionalities; a single cellular modem capable of communicating over CH-1 and CH-2 with at least one cellular network; and a non-transitory memory capable of retaining: at least one native SIM profile used by the mobile terminal for emulating a SIM selected from a group comprising of: a universal integrated circuit card (UICC); embedded UICC (eUICC); and a combination thereof; at least one virtual SIM profile; and software stack operative to cause the mobile terminal to obtain and authenticate the at least one virtual SIM profile; and wherein the virtual SIM profile is obtained from servers selected from a group comprising of: a SIM server coupled with a SIM bank; eSIM server; and a combination thereof.
US10536837B2
Disclosed herein is a mobile phone with the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and method of operating the mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a display; a baseband chip; a near field communication (NFC) module comprising an RF antenna, an NFC tag circuit and an NFC main chip; and the RF antenna configured to receive incoming RF signals.
US10536832B2
The present invention utilizes an application which is loaded onto the mobile devices of attendees who will be attending festivals, concerts, etc, where the large crowds attending the event will create wireless and mobile network congestion. The application will be preloaded with a plurality of presentations which the presenter will utilize during the event to enhance the experience for the attendee. Each presentation will have a triggering mechanism encoded in the app which will initiate the presentation to begin and will synchronize the presentation on the phone with event. In addition to displaying preloaded presentations to the attendees at crowded events, the application can also track the activities of the attendees at the event to see what portions of the events they attended and when, and display real time text messages on the screen of the phone.
US10536830B2
A wireless apparatus mountable to a vehicle includes a transmission function unit, a detector, an acquirer, and a controller. The detector detects a startup of the vehicle. The acquirer acquires start position information of the vehicle at a start timing at which the detector detects the startup of the vehicle. The controller examines whether a start position indicated by the start position information is within a designated region, and determines whether to activate the transmission function unit based on the examination result. Alternatively, the detector detects an operation end of the vehicle, and a startup subsequent to the operation end. The acquirer acquires position information of the vehicle at timings of detecting the operation end and the startup of the vehicle. The controller discriminates whether the distance between the positions indicated by the two pieces of the position information is greater than a threshold, and determines whether to activate the transmission function unit based on the discrimination result.
US10536821B2
A communication device is used in a mobile communication system switching alternately two communication time zones of a control channel (CCH) time zone in which communication using a control channel (CCH) is performed and a service channel time zone in which communication using a service channel is performed. A CCH transmission processor section transmits data using the control channel. When a generated data by a data generator section is determined by an importance determiner section to be equivalent to a data having a high-importance level, the generated data is transmitted in the CCH time zone by the CCH transmission processor section. By contrast, when the generated data is determined to be equivalent to a data having a low-importance level, the generated data is transmitted in the SCH time zone by the CCH transmission processor section.
US10536817B2
A first terminal device communicates with a second terminal device through a fourth terminal device. An acquisition unit acquires a maximum transmission delay time by referring to a transmission delay time with respect to each of the second terminal device through the fourth terminal device. A communication unit transmits data to each of the second terminal device through the fourth terminal device. The communication unit prohibits, when transmission of the data is ended, new data from being transmitted over a prohibition period based on the maximum transmission delay time acquired in the acquisition unit.
US10536815B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for tracking a wireless device using a seamless handoff between a vehicle and a mobile device. An example vehicle includes internal and external antennas, a sensor, and an infotainment head unit with a display. The infotainment head unit tracks, using the external antenna, a wireless-enabled object exterior to the vehicle. The infotainment head unit also determines a location of the mobile device associated with the vehicle based on the sensor and the internal and external antennas. Additionally, when the mobile device exits the vehicle, the infotainment head unit automatically transitions tracking information to the mobile device.
US10536811B2
Disclosed herein is a system that provides location and information communication including a beacon, wherein the beacon transmits both information and data related to the beacon's relevant range and a receiving device, wherein the receiving device determines whether the transmitted information is relevant based on the received signal strength and the transmitted data related to relevant range.
US10536806B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for dynamic generation of an intelligent and location-based puzzle. The method comprises locating a mobile device within a proximity zone associated with an establishment and generating a user dataset comprising a counter representing how many times the user has been identified within the proximity zone. The method further comprises querying, receiving, and displaying a first media element associated with a puzzle. Upon locating the mobile device within the proximity zone for the second time, the method comprises adjusting the counter value and querying, receiving, and displaying a second media element associated with the puzzle.
US10536804B2
Mobile localization of communications allows users to communicate anonymously with other users who share a location that is mobile. The systems and methods provided herein distinguish users who are co-mobile from users who are merely co-located to enable mobile conversations to travel with co-mobile users without a dedicated communications connection being established beforehand between the users. The conversations travel with the co-mobile users and are not tied to a physical location, allowing for localized and anonymous communications for user who are travelling together.
US10536801B2
Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.
US10536800B1
A method of obtaining media content of an event, comprising: identifying a real-life event and, a time of said real-life event a geographic location of the real-life event; identifying a subset of a plurality of client terminals of users located in proximity to the geographic location of the real-life event at said time of said real-life event; sending a message to the subset of client terminals containing a request to acquire media content documenting the real-life event; and receiving at least one media content item documenting the real-life event from at least one client terminal of the subset of client terminals, the at least one media content item acquired by at least one user of the users using the at least one client terminal in response to the message.
US10536793B2
The invention relates to a method for reproducing spatially distributed sounds of a multichannel audio signal comprising: receiving time-dependent input audio signals and performing a time-frequency transform; for each time-frequency tile, determining an active directional vector {right arrow over (Da)} and a reactive directional vector {right arrow over (Dr)} from time-frequency representations of different input channels for said time-frequency tile, determining positions of virtual sound sources (VS1, VS2, VS3) with respect to the reference listening point (O) from the active directional vector {right arrow over (Da)} and the reactive directional vector {right arrow over (Dr)}, and determining frequency signal values to each virtual sound sources (VS1, VS2, VS3), and distributing time-frequency signal values of said virtual sound sources to electroacoustic transducers on the basis of a comparison between the positions of the virtual sound sources in the virtual spatial configuration and the actual positions of said electroacoustic transducers in an actual spatial configuration.
US10536785B2
A method of operating a hearing device and a hearing device are disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a first microphone signal and a second microphone signal. The method comprises obtaining a first beamform signal based on the first microphone signal and the second microphone signal. The method may comprise obtaining a second beamform signal based on the first microphone signal and the second microphone signal. The method comprises determining a first parameter based on the first beamform signal. The method may comprise combining the first beamform signal and the second beamform signal based on the first parameter for provision of an output beamform signal. The method comprises providing the output beamform signal for further processing including hearing loss compensation.
US10536784B2
A hearing device, in particular a hearing aid device, includes an earpiece with a first proximity sensor, a second proximity sensor and a control unit. The first proximity sensor is configured to transfer a first proximity signal to the control unit and the second proximity sensor is configured to transfer a second proximity signal to the control unit. The earpiece can be inserted into the external auditory canal of a user of the hearing device for operating the hearing device. The control unit is configured to control an operating mode of the hearing device according to changes in the first proximity signal and the second proximity signal. A method for controlling a hearing device is also provided.
US10536777B2
Embodiments are described herein that provide numerous volume enhancements to a media playback system. An example implementation involves a playback device playing audio content at a first volume level as part of a first audio playback group configuration, storing a first volume level in association with the first audio playback group configuration, joining a second audio playback group configuration, playing audio content at a second volume level as a part of the second audio playback group configuration, receiving a command to play audio content as part of the first audio playback group configuration, identifying the first volume level in the data storage; and playing audio content at the first volume level as part of the first audio playback group configuration.
US10536776B2
In one embodiment, earphones with bimodally fitting earbuds enable accurate reproduction of music while exposing a wearer to environmental noises on one side of the wearer. More specifically, an open earbud is designed to create a substantially open (i.e., unsealed) sound chamber around one ear while a closed earbud is designed to create a substantially closed sound chamber around the other ear. Because the open earbud is associated with sound leakage that alters both the intended level and the bass content of the music, the earphones include a signal redistribution subsystem that perspicaciously replaces at least a portion of this lost signal energy. Advantageously, such earphones expose the wearer to useful localized sounds, such as noises from an auto lane adjacent to a bike lane, while conveying the intended mix of music more accurately than conventional earphones with two open earbuds.
US10536770B1
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.
US10536769B2
Embodiments are directed to a sealed pipe-loaded loudspeaker for augmenting low frequency response in a portable electronic device. A loudspeaker transducer is configured to radiate sound directly out of a forward radiation area and incidentally out of a rearward radiation area, and a sealed transmission line forming a closed pipe acoustically coupled to the transducer through which the rearward radiation propagates to produce standing waves corresponding to the dimensions of the closed pipe, wherein resonances apply a loading to a diaphragm element of the transducer to lower its resonance frequency. An acoustical wave front radiates away from the diaphragm element for the direct sound and is emitted outside of the device, and the rearward radiation is not emitted from the device.
US10536765B2
An earphone case includes a shell, a rotating drum received in the shell, a driving assembly coupled to the rotating drum and configured for rotating the rotating drum, and a back cover latchable with the shell and receiving the driving assembly in a receiving space defined therein. The rotating drum is driven by the driving assembly to rotate to wind a wire of at least one pair of earphones.
US10536760B2
A microelectromechanical system includes a housing with an access opening and a sound transducer with a membrane and a backplate, wherein the sound transducer is coupled to the access opening. The microelectromechanical system includes a filter arranged between the access opening and the sound transducer and includes a filter material and a pretension element, the pretension element being mechanically connected to the filter material, and wherein the pretension element produces stress in the filter material in order to provide a bending deformation of the filter in a direction away from the backplate.
US10536750B2
A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system has a VOD Application Server which manages a database of templates for presentation of video content elements of different selected types categorized in hierarchical order. A web-based Content Management System receives content uploaded online in file formats with metadata for title and topical area, and automatically converts it into video data format compatible with the VOD content delivery system indexed by title and topical area. A User Interface for the system delivers listings data to the viewer's TV indexed by title and topical area specified by the uploaded metadata.
US10536746B2
Disclosed are methods and systems involving location-based disambiguation of media channel identification, in a scenario where a fingerprint of media content being rendered by a media presentation device matches multiple reference fingerprints corresponding respectively with multiple different media channels. Upon detecting such a multi-match situation, a server or other entity will use a location of the media presentation device as a basis to disambiguate between the matching reference fingerprints and thus to determine the channel on which the media content being rendered by the media presentation device is arriving.
US10536743B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for playing sequential video streams. The technique involves initiating playback of a first video stream within a foreground of a display region and loading at least a portion of a second video stream during the playback of the first video stream. The technique further involves detects an event associated with the playback of the first video stream, and, in response, initiating playback of the second video stream within the foreground of the display region.
US10536738B2
In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine a first media device of a first user of a social-networking system and determine a second media device of a second user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems access a social graph of the social-networking system, update the social graph based on the determined first and second media devices, and stream media from the first media device to the second media device using the updated social graph. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes, the nodes including user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system and concept nodes that are each associated with a particular media device.
US10536729B2
Methods, systems, and media for transforming fingerprints to detect unauthorized media content items
Methods, systems, and media for transforming fingerprints to detect unauthorized media content items are provided. The method comprises: receiving criteria relating to an application of a circumvention technique to one or more video content items, wherein the criteria includes abuse criteria that describes the circumvention technique and a transform for use with the one or more video content items in which the circumvention technique was applied; generating an abuse query that includes at least a portion of the abuse criteria that describes the circumvention technique; determining from a plurality of video content items, a subset of video content items responsive to the abuse query; applying, for each video content item in the subset of video content items, the transform to each video content item to obtain a transformed video content item; generating, for each transformed video content item, a fingerprint that represents the transformed video content item; and comparing the fingerprint of the transformed video content item to a plurality of fingerprints associated with reference video content items to determine whether the video content item corresponding to the transformed video content item matches one of the reference video content items.
US10536727B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are provided to receive network resource information pertaining to a network, and generate timeslot information pertaining to a network based on the network resource information. The timeslot information may indicate a date, a time period, a geographic service area, and quality of service parameters in which the network resource is available for use by subscribers of a multicast service to deliver programs. The timeslot information and cost information are published, and the OTT multicast service provisions the delivery of programs using timeslots secured by the subscribers.
US10536723B2
The present invention provides a method and system to conceal video errors due to lost packets in the transmission without incurring additional bandwidth usage. The present invention is to use current and previous frames to search for similar patches for the corrupted blocks in the current frame. The search process speed for locating the lost packets is significantly improved by incorporating a smart search concept. The concealment algorithm of the present invention can be implemented in GPUs and multi-core CPUs.
US10536722B2
A method for sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering and SAO parameter signaling in a video encoder is provided that includes determining SAO parameters for largest coding units (LCUs) of a reconstructed picture, wherein the SAO parameters include an indicator of an SAO filter type and a plurality of SAO offsets, applying SAO filtering to the reconstructed picture according to the SAO parameters, and entropy encoding LCU specific SAO information for each LCU of the reconstructed picture in an encoded video bit stream, wherein the entropy encoded LCU specific SAO information for the LCUs is interleaved with entropy encoded data for the LCUs in the encoded video bit stream. Determining SAO parameters may include determining the LCU specific SAO information to be entropy encoded for each LCU according to an SAO prediction protocol.
US10536718B2
A method for encoding a current focal stack is disclosed that comprises a set of images focused at a different focalization distance from one image to another. According to present disclosure, the method comprises: —encoding (31) information representing an image of the current focal stack, the image being selected in said current focal stack according to an image sharpness criterion, and reconstructing the image into a reconstructed image; —encoding (32) at least another image of the current focal stack by prediction from at least the reconstructed image.
US10536716B2
A frame buffer is adapted to store at least one reference frame of a video stream, said reference frame being different from a current frame of the video stream. A motion estimation unit is adapted to generate a motion vector by estimating motion between a reference block of the reference frame and a current block of the current frame. A blurring filter selection unit is adapted to select one of a plurality of blurring filters depending on the orientation of the motion vector. A filtering unit is adapted to generate a filtered reference block by applying the selected blurring filter to the reference block. A motion compensation unit is adapted to generate a filtered prediction block of the current block on the basis of the current block, the motion vector and the filtered reference block.
US10536715B1
Systems and methods for utilizing on-camera sensor information to improve video and/or image encoding quality are discussed herein. Specifically, the systems and methods may utilize on-camera sensor information to efficiently determine whether to encode a particular frame within a set of frames as an intra frame. When captured on video, a particular arrangement of a group of pixels within a frame may comprise a visual representation of an object within the frame. When encoding video footage, motion information characterizing motion of an image capturing device over time may be used to predict displacement of an arrangement of group of pixels between frames. These predictions may be used to efficiently determine whether to encode a particular frame as an intra frame.
US10536709B2
In one embodiment, a method of prioritized compression for 3D video wireless display, the method comprising: inputting video data; abstracting scene depth of the video data; estimating foreground and background for each image of the video data; performing different kinds of compressions to the foreground and background in each image; and outputting the processed video data. Thus, the image quality is not affected by the data loss during the wireless transmission.
US10536700B1
Video information defining video content to be encoded may be obtained. Scene composition information for the video content may be obtained. The scene composition information may be determined by a convolutional neural network based on visuals represented within the video content. The video content may be encoded based on the scene composition information. The encoding of the video content may generate encoded video information defining the encoded video content.
US10536693B2
A head mounted display (HMD) identifies viewing trends for a video based on multiple viewings of the video by users having different user characteristics. The analysis identifies viewing trends based on user characteristics, e.g., the age and gender of the user. When a subsequent user is viewing the video, a production & post production module receives the user's profile information and identifies the predicted viewing location of the user at particular times during the video using the identified trends based on where previous users/viewers, who have a profile or characteristics similar to the user, were looking at the particular times during the video. The production & post production module identifies the center tile as the predicted viewing location at a particular time for the user and prepares and encodes the video stream based on the predicted viewing location and, for example, streams the video to the HMD in which the predicted viewing location is the center tile at the associated time in the video. This can increase the effectiveness of the data transmitted to the HUD.
US10536692B2
A picture prediction method and a related apparatus are disclosed, which includes: determining N templates whose degrees of matching with a current template meet a preset condition, where the current template is a template corresponding to a current picture block, and the M templates are obtained by searching reference pictures of the current picture block; determining a weight of a pixel area in a picture block corresponding to each template in the N templates, where weights of at least two pixel areas in a picture block corresponding to at least one template in the N templates are different; and calculating a predicted pixel value of a pixel area in the current picture block based on the weight and a pixel value of the pixel area in the picture block corresponding to each template in the N templates, where the pixel area includes at least one pixel.
US10536686B1
An exoscope with enhanced depth of field imaging is provided. The exoscope includes first and second sets of optical devices, the first set having a fixed image plane, the second set having a variable image plane adjacent the fixed image plane of the first set. The second set includes at least one variable device configured to change the position of the variable image plane. A beamsplitter splits light from a combined optical path of the first and second set to respective image devices of the first and second set of optical devices. A controller controls the at least one variable device to change the position of the variable image plane relative to the fixed image plane, combines images acquired by the respective image devices, and controls a display device to render a combined image.
US10536679B2
An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a control unit, a first image processing unit, and a second image processing unit. The image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a photoelectric conversion unit which converts light into an electric charge. The control unit makes a first control line output a signal based on the electric charge of the photoelectric conversion unit to a first signal line, and makes a second control line output a signal based on the electric charge of the photoelectric conversion unit to a second signal line. The first image processing unit performs first image processing for the signal output to the second signal line. The second image processing unit performs second image processing for the signal output to the first signal line based on a result of the first image processing in the first image processing unit.
US10536672B2
An apparatus includes a first video capture device, a second video capture device and a circuit. The first video capture device may be configured to capture a first plurality of video frames of a first field of view. The second video capture device may be configured to capture a second plurality of video frames of a second field of view. The circuit may be configured to generate a first video stream in response to the first video frames, generate a second video stream in response to the second video frames and wirelessly communicate the first video stream and the second video stream to a device. The first field of view may capture an area in front of the apparatus. The second field of view may capture an area under and behind the apparatus. The second field of view may comprise a blind spot of the first field of view.
US10536671B1
An apparatus, method, and system for controlling camera aiming and operation through a convenient and intuitive interface using correlative touch and feel, which allows a camera operator to primarily pay attention to a game or event, while simultaneously controlling a still or video camera in three control dimensions, with a high degree of accuracy or quality.
US10536668B2
A communication terminal for displaying a predetermined-area image includes circuitry. The circuitry receives first predetermined-area information indicating a first predetermined area, the first predetermined-area information being transmitted from another communication terminal displaying a first predetermined-area image. The circuitry calculates a direction of the first predetermined area with respect to a second predetermined area in a whole image, based on the first predetermined-area information and second predetermined-area information. The second predetermined area is an area of a second predetermined-area image being displayed by the communication terminal. The circuitry controls a display to display the second predetermined-area image including display direction information indicating the calculated direction. The circuitry accepts designation of the display direction information. The circuitry controls the display to display the first predetermined-area image based on the first predetermined-area information, which is a source of calculation of the display direction information for which the designation is accepted.
US10536655B2
A photoelectric conversion device having plural photoelectric conversion pixels includes an imaging unit, a position identifying unit, an interpolation determining unit, and an interpolation processing unit. The imaging unit generates image data for each of plural colors based on light received in the photoelectric conversion pixels. The position identifying unit detects in the photoelectric conversion pixels a defective pixel outputting an electrical signal at an abnormal level, and stores position information of the defective pixel. The interpolation deter mining unit determines, based on respective pixel values of peripheral pixels peripheral to the defective pixel, whether to perform an interpolation process on the defective pixel. The interpolation processing unit performs the interpolation process on the defective pixel when the interpolation determining unit determines to perform the interpolation process on the defective pixel. The interpolation process approximates the electrical signal of the defective pixel to an electrical signal at a normal level.
US10536654B2
The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a control method, an image pickup element, and an electronic device which make it possible to suppress RTS noise. The signal processing apparatus of the present technology may include an amplifying transistor and a short-circuit unit. The amplifying transistor amplifies a signal input to a gate, and the short-circuit unit is capable of short-circuiting the gate of the amplifying transistor to a potential which reduces a gate-to-source voltage of the amplifying transistor. For example, it is determined whether the amplifying transistor is in a period of a non-operating state, and when the amplifying transistor is determined to be in the period of a non-operating state, the gate of the amplifying transistor may be short-circuited. The present technology can be applied, for example, to an image pickup element and an electronic device.
US10536652B2
An imaging device may have an array of image sensor pixels. Each image sensor pixel of the array of image sensor pixels may have split photodiodes that are symmetric about a shared floating diffusion region. The floating diffusion region may be coupled to each of the photodiodes. Each of the split photodiodes and the floating diffusion region may generate charge in response to light incident on the image sensor pixel. The split photodiodes and the floating diffusion region may be covered by a microlens. The charge generated by the photodiodes and the floating diffusion region may be compared and utilized by the imaging device in phase detection applications. The image sensor pixel may also include a dual conversion gain capacitor and a gain select transistor to produce high dynamic range (HDR) images.
US10536626B2
An infrared imaging device includes an imaging element including a plurality of infrared detection pixels which are two-dimensionally arranged, a diaphragm, and a FPN calculation unit which acquires a first captured image data obtained by capturing an image using the imaging element in a state in which an F-number of the diaphragm is set to a first value and a second captured image data obtained by capturing an image using the imaging element in a state in which the F-number is set to a second value while a motion picture is being captured, and calculates fixed pattern noise included in captured image data obtained by capturing an image using the imaging element based on the acquired first captured image data, the acquired second captured image data, the first value, and the second value.
US10536624B2
An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture a plurality of images while changing a focus position of an optical system, a setting unit configured to set a plurality of focus positions, a shake detection unit configured to detect a shake of the imaging unit, and a combination unit configured to combine a plurality of images. The setting unit of the image pickup apparatus changes distances between the plurality of focus positions based on a shake amount detected by the shake detection unit.
US10536621B2
To perform high-accurate correction while securing high-speed process, an image capturing apparatus comprises: an image capturing element having plural unit pixels; a first obtainer obtaining a pixel value of a first image generated by a first method, based on an output signal of the image capturing element; a second obtainer obtaining a pixel value of a second image for autofocus generated by a second method different from the first method, based on the output signal of the image capturing element; a first detector detecting a defective pixel based on the pixel value of the first image; a second detector detecting a defective pixel based on information of the defective pixel detected by the first detector and the pixel value of the second image; and a corrector correcting the second image, by correcting the pixel value of the second image corresponding to the defective pixel detected by the second detector.
US10536617B2
One embodiment of the invention is directed to an imaging probe which comprises a first element supplying electromagnetic radiation in a forward path for illuminating a forward field of view of space in front of the probe, a second element supplying electromagnetic radiation in a sideways and/or rearward path for illuminating a sideways and/or back field of view of space alongside the probe and an image sensor. The probe further includes an imaging device in imaging paths imaging the forward and sideways and/or back fields of view onto the image sensor. Preferably the forward path, the sideways and/or rearward path and the imaging paths are unobstructed by any component of the probe. Preferably the forward and sideways and/or back fields of view are registered in a fixed spatial relationship relative to one another on the image sensor. This probe can also be used with existing endoscopes or laparoscopes so that it will be easily merged into current instruments of different manufacturers, making it easier and cheaper to use this product without the expense of a totally new endoscopy or laparoscope platform. This probe can also be used to image objects in inanimate environments as well, such as in containers, buildings, rooms, engines and pipes.
US10536605B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of accurately returning a carriage to a home position without having to turn ON a light source in the process of returning the carriage to the home position. A first reading-position-detection plate is arranged inside of a reading width of a line sensor and outside of a document-image-reading width. A second color region has a length that gradually increases in the main scanning direction as going away from the home position of the carriage. A reading-position-detecting unit detects the length in the main scanning direction of the second color region on the basis of output from the line sensor. A movement-distance-converting unit converts this length to a movement distance to the home position. A movement-control unit causes the carriage to move toward the home position just the movement distance.
US10536604B2
A line sensor apparatus comprises a rod lens array in which a plurality of rod lenses are arrayed in a first direction, a line sensor substrate including a line sensor which receives light from the rod lens array, a pair of inner supporting members configured to support the line sensor substrate, a transmitter substrate including a transmitter which transfers data based on the light detected by the line sensor, and an outer supporting member configured to support the pair of inner supporting members and the transmitter substrate, wherein the pair of inner supporting members are arranged on two side surfaces of the rod lens array in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US10536581B2
The disclosure includes a method of controlling an Access Network including a plurality of Digital Subscriber Line, DSL, connections, and an Access Network node for performing the method, wherein the method includes: receiving data relating to an event on a DSL connection, the data indicating a factor contributing to the event; and a Dynamic Line Management, DLM, engine, residing in the Access Network, responding to the event, wherein the DLM engine response is dependent on the factor contributing to the event.
US10536574B2
Present invention provides a method, system and application for providing authentication of a mobile device user, based on the measurement of electromagnetic fields modified by a pre-established movement of a specific magnetic token associated to the user. This univocal process will be able to obtain new authentication factors, including something that the user owns (i.e., the token), something that the user knows (i.e., the interaction between the token and the device), and somewhere that the user is (i.e., where the interaction takes place).
US10536571B2
An electronic device includes a first non-contact detection sensor, a second non-contact detection sensor, a display, and a controller. The controller determines a first gesture and a second gesture by referring to the first non-contact detection sensor and a second non-contact detection sensor. The controller, when a first window and a second window are displayed on the display, allocates operation of the first window to the first gesture detected by the first non-contact detection sensor, and allocates operation of the second window to the second gesture detected by the second non-contact detection sensor.
US10536569B2
A contact-note application is disclosed herein that runs in a computing device. When a phone call event occurs, the contact-note application is notified and responsively surfaces a prompt over a user interface to a phone call application. When the prompt is selected, the contact-note application surfaces a user interface to the contact-note application. The user interface provides the end-user with a view of a note associated with a contact on the phone call such that they user may create, edit, and consume the note.
US10536567B2
A terminal device includes a main body and a flexible touch panel. The main body includes a substrate, an earphone assembly, and a microphone assembly. The earphone assembly and the microphone assembly are respectively set on two opposite ends of the substrate. The flexible touch panel is on the substrate. The flexible touch panel is between the earphone assembly and the microphone assembly. The flexible touch panel is set on the substrate, to realize the touch and control function during using by a user. The whole substrate is thin, and the earphone assembly and the microphone assembly are set respectively on both ends of the substrate, communication may be realized simultaneously, the whole structural compactness of the terminal device may also be improved, and the whole thickness of the terminal device may be reduced.
US10536556B2
Techniques for automation of browsing mode switching are described. According to various implementations, a web browser is operable in multiple different browsing modes, including a normal browsing mode and a private browsing mode. Techniques described herein enable automatic switching between browsing modes based on different mode triggers, and enable user configuration of various mode change behaviors.
US10536554B2
Techniques are provided for optimization of user interactions based on connection value scores. A method may comprise receiving input that indicates a selection of one or more social network activities to optimize for a particular member of a social network. The method may also comprise, based on the selection of the one or more social network activities, calculating a connection value score for a social network connection between the particular member and each user in a plurality of other users. Calculating the connection value score may comprise identifying one or more attribute values that are correlated with the one or more social network activities. Further, the method may comprise, based on the connection value score for each user of the plurality of other users, determining a ranking of the plurality of other users. The method may also comprise determining content based on the ranking of the plurality of other users.
US10536549B2
A method and apparatus receive packets, wherein the packets comprise headers, and the headers comprise session parameter values, route the packets in response to the session parameter values matching an active traffic session entry of the active traffic session entries in an active traffic session cache memory, match the session parameter values against historical session entries in an historical session cache memory in response to the session parameter values not matching any active traffic session entry of the active traffic session entries in the active traffic session cache memory, wherein the historical session entries for traffic sessions in the historical session cache memory persist after the traffic sessions are no longer active, and, in response to the session parameter values not matching any historical session entry of the historical session entries in the historical session cache memory, performing a packet security check on the packets.
US10536546B2
The present invention concerns the field of the management of access to resources by an electronic device, in particular in the case where this device is controlled by firmware stored in a rewritable non-volatile memory.The invention aims to solve the aforementioned problems by the use of a reverse proxy module on the device that enables locating some of the resources of the management interface on a remote server. Access to these resources causes a redirection of the request to the remote server, the response from which is then transmitted to the local client by the device as if it came directly from the device.
US10536540B2
Described herein is a system architecture that supports generating analytics data about files hosted by a file hosting server. Also described herein are various graphical user interfaces that are well-suited to present at least a portion of the analytics data to a user.
US10536538B2
Techniques of implementing out-of-band data erasure verification in computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a verification instruction from a system administrator. In response to and based on the received verification instruction, the method includes selecting a set of persistent storage devices to which data erasure verification is to be performed. The method also includes relaying the verification instruction to additional computing devices in additional enclosures, thereby causing data erasure verification on one or more additional persistent storage devices in the additional enclosures be performed generally in parallel to performing data erasure verification on the subset of persistent storage devices in one of the enclosures.
US10536533B2
A method for optimization of a standard TCP connection. The optimization is based on load distributions by a system kernel. A proposed architecture includes an application running a proxy-process. The application is connected locally to an assigned port (e.g., port 9000). A number of connections N (for example 4) is established to a proxy server located on the cloud storage. Thus, the application is not directly connected to a front end server. Instead, it is connected to the proxy process via a local port. The proxy process transfers redistributed data streams to the proxy server on the cloud, which combines N data streams into one and passes it to the front end server residing on the cloud.
US10536530B2
A system for gaging the condition of unmanned platforms is provided. The system can include a plurality of gate machines having a processor and a memory. The system further includes a plurality of sensors for receiving operational data for the unmanned platforms and sending the operational data to the plurality of gate machines. The plurality of gate machines can include computer-readable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the plurality of gate machines, cause the plurality of gate machines to perform various steps. One of the steps can include converting the raw signals from the plurality of sensors to normalized values. Another step can include executing a set of obligations if a gate trigger is valid. Finally, another step can include testing one or more subsequent gates of the plurality of gate machines if the gate closure condition is valid.
US10536522B2
Archiving local logical units of data storage (LUNs) to cloud storage, wherein the local LUNs reside on local physical storage of a data storage system, includes establishing a mirror between a local LUN and a cloud-backed LUN backed by cloud physical storage of a cloud storage system, the mirror making data contents of the cloud-backed LUN identical to data contents of the local LUN. Once the mirror is established, then (a) a stub is deposited on the local LUN to direct subsequent IOs to the cloud-backed LUN, and (b) local physical storage of the local LUN is released for allocation to other local LUNs. Subsequent IOs to the local LUN are satisfied from the cloud-backed LUN. An archived LUN can be restored by a restore process.
US10536521B2
A method and system are provided including a web share module; a display; a memory storing processor-executable process steps; and a web share processor coupled to the memory, and in communication with the web share module and operative to execute the processor-executable process steps to cause the system to: connect at least two devices, each device having a web browser; receive a selection of a web element from the web browser of a first device of the at least two devices; transfer, via a communication channel, the selected web element to the web browser of a second device of the at least two devices; and launch the web element on the second device. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10536516B2
A utilization test generates the multiple dimensions of resource load on the first computer, the multiple dimensions including at least two of: a processor utilization dimension, a main memory utilization dimension, a mass storage utilization dimension, and a network utilization dimension. The utilization test performs iterations of attempts to generate said each dimension of the resource load on the first computer, in an amount equal to a changeable target utilization of said each dimension of the resource load on the first computer. The utilization test adjusts the adjusted utilization to attempt to correct for inequality between (i) the actual utilization of a particular one of the multiple dimensions of the resource load on the first computer, and (ii) the changeable target utilization of the particular one of the multiple dimensions of the resource load on the first computer.
US10536512B2
Dynamic graph adaptation for stream processing over hybrid, physically disparate analytics platforms
Dynamic graph adaptation for stream processing over hybrid, physically disparate analytics platforms, by means of a computer-implemented method that includes obtaining a streaming application graph, generating a partitioned graph by partitioning the streaming application graph in response to a topology descriptor and a partitioning algorithm, compiling the partitioned graph into a plurality of subgraphs for deployment to a plurality of respective runtimes that are described by the topology descriptor, and deploying the plurality of subgraphs to the plurality of respective runtimes.
US10536510B2
An example method of deploying a workload to a public cloud includes: receiving a request to provision a first workload from a first user, wherein the first workload includes metadata describing constraints; generating a first deployment plan for the first workload based on the metadata thereof. The step of generating comprises identifying a plurality of reservations assigned to the first user, each of the plurality of reservations including computing resources backed by a subscription provided by the public cloud; and selecting a first reservation from the plurality of reservations having available computing resources backed by a first subscription provided by the public cloud and satisfying the constraints of the first workload. The method further includes transmitting a deployment request to the public cloud using the first subscription specified in the first deployment plan.
US10536508B2
The present invention relates to a processing entity (100) for providing data for a process during process run-time in a distributed processing arrangement. The processing entity comprises a provider (101) for providing the data for the process during the process run-time by value or by reference in dependency on a data processing criterion.
US10536506B2
Systems and methods for providing web analytics collection and analysis are disclosed. In some embodiments, a central instance control mechanism may be used to enable/disable collection from end-user web browsers. Web analytics may be collected to determine interaction of end-users with web page interfaces to one or more cloud-based service provider offerings. Interaction data may be used by design teams to address problems, improve performance, or generally enhance user experience among other things. Security mechanisms are disclosed to ensure that data may be collected based on contractual requirements or taking into account other restrictions that certain customers may impose on such collection and monitoring.
US10536503B2
Processing a request for delivery of data sent by a customer terminal to a remote server via a telecommunication network. The terminal accesses the network by at least two links of distinct access types. The data is encoded in a stream with a predetermined bit rate, which is cut into segments. Processing includes, for a segment of the stream: determining a sub-segment size based on the number of links and a size of the data stream to be delivered; calculating a partitioning of the segment into sub-segments according to the set size and a distribution of the sub-segments on the plurality of links, according to a scheduling of the sub-segments in the partitioning and a time constraint; and sending a plurality of sub-segment transmission requests to the server over the plurality of links, each request including an identifier of the segment and indexes of a sub-segment start and end.
US10536499B2
This invention concerns the transmitting and receiving of digital media packets, such as audio and video channels and lighting instructions. In particular, the invention concerns the transmitting and receiving of redundant media packet streams. Samples are extracted from a first and second media packet stream. The extracted samples are written to a buffer based on the output time of each sample. Extracted samples having the same output time are written to the same location in the buffer. Both media packet streams are simply processed all the way to the buffer without any particular knowledge that one of the packet streams is actually redundant. This simplifies the management of the redundant packet streams, such as eliminating the need for a “fail-over” switch and the concept of an “active stream”, The location is the storage space allocated to store one sample. The extracted sample written to the location may be written over another extracted sample from a different packet stream previously written to the location. These extracted samples written to the same location may be identical.
US10536498B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for updating content stored in a cache residing at an internet service provider (ISP) location that includes receiving popularity data associated with a first plurality of content assets, where the popularity data indicate the popularity of each content asset in the first plurality of content assets across a user base that spans multiple geographic regions, generating a manifest that includes a second plurality of content assets based on the popularity data and a geographic location associated with the cache, where each content asset included in the manifest is determined to be popular among users proximate to the geographic location or users with preferences similar to users proximate to the geographic location, and transmitting the manifest to the cache, where the cache is configured to update one or more content assets stored in the cache based on the manifest.
US10536492B2
A computing device executes an application that is configured to call a sharing service application programming interface (“API”) to create a sharing session via a sharing service. The application can call the sharing service API to utilize one or more methods exposed by the sharing service API to connect to the sharing service and initiated the creation of the sharing session. The computing device can join the sharing session with one or more other computing devices. The computing device can receive data via the sharing session from one or more of the other computing devices. The data can include screen data and/or application data.
US10536491B2
Described are call handling methods performed by a carrier network or client stations. A method performed by a carrier network includes designating rules for call handling for an account, receiving first and second voice calls for the account, wherein the voice calls may be either an incoming calls or originated calls and handling the first and second voice calls for the account based on the rules. A method performed by a client station includes receiving a first invitation to a first call, responding to the first invitation causing the first call to be active, receiving a second invitation to a second call while the first call remains active and responding to the second invitation causing the second call to be active and the first call to be on hold, the client station is prevented from originating a call when one call is active and one call is on hold.
US10536486B2
Systems, devices and methods are disclosed to assist in configuring devices and policies to protect a regional network (e.g., home network) and its users. Users on the network are monitored to determine appropriate configuration settings and preferences by utilizing a combination of internally configured information and externally gathered information for each user. For example, externally gathered information may include information obtained about a user from one or more social media Internet sites. Automatically obtained information may be used to provide or augment policy information such that a user's preference relative to internet content (e.g., content blocking software configuration) may be achieved without requiring an administrator to individually prepare each users security profile and configuration.
US10536482B2
Described technologies automatically detect computing system security attacks. Departure of occurrence distributions, which are based on leading digit(s) of digital item occurrence data, from model distributions that correspond to particular data sources, indicates a presence likelihood for particular attack types. Some model distributions exhibit Benford's Phenomenon. Described mechanisms detect security attack types such as ransomware, bitcoin mining, and others, using particular corresponding data sources such as file extensions, processor statistics, etc. Mechanisms detect security attacks without a captured baseline of healthy normal behavior, and without relying on malware code signatures. When an item occurrence distribution departs from a model distribution by at least a predefined degree, the technology electronically raises a security attack alert. Then countermeasures may be asserted for a possible type X security attack on the computing system. Countermeasures may include more computationally intensive tests for determining the precise extent or precise nature of an attack, for instance.
US10536479B2
Techniques for code modification for automation detection are described. Web code is obtained corresponding to content to be served to a first client device in response to a first request from the first client device. Instances of a particular programmatic element in the web code are identified. In response to the first request, modified web code is generated from the web code by consistently changing the particular programmatic element to a modified programmatic element throughout the web code. The modified web code is caused to be provided to the first client device in response to the first request from the first client device. A communication is received from the first client device that is made in response to the modified web code. The communication includes an attempt to interact with the particular programmatic element that exists in the web code but not in the modified web code.
US10536476B2
A computer-implemented method generates a trigger registration for a selected triggering type. The generated trigger registration is stored in a triggering persistency. A received event from an event persistency is analyzed and data associated with the analyzed event is compared with the triggering persistency. Based on the comparison and using a pattern execution framework, an enterprise threat detection (ETD) pattern is processed to perform actions responsive to the received event.
US10536474B2
A system and method for intercepting commands issued to a host server. An agent is installed on the host server and configured to intercept commands issued to the host server and to transmit indications of said commands to a collector for logging and evaluation. The collector includes rules for determining whether a command issued to the host is to be blocked. Collector rules may be informed by supplementary information from third party information systems. The agent queries the collector for whether a command is to be blocked, and also include rules for blocking commands without evaluation by the collector. Indications of intercepted commands are stored by the collector in databases accessible by an administrator for monitoring activity on the host server and for configuring rules for blocking commands issued to the server.
US10536473B2
An anomaly detection system is provided and includes a processor, a memory, and a security application that is stored in the memory and includes instructions. The instructions are configured to collect information of behavior data for the users of an organization accessing cloud applications via a distributed network. The behavior data includes one or more parameters tracked over time for the users. The instructions are further configured to: establish baselines for each of the users and for each of the cloud applications or types of cloud applications of the organization; detect anomalies based on the baselines; provide aggregated anomaly data by aggregating anomalies corresponding to two or more of the baselines and a same behavior or corresponding to multiple users of a same cloud application during a same period of time; determine a risk value based on the aggregated anomaly data; and perform a countermeasure based on the risk value.
US10536461B2
A request from a User for a Service is received by an Application. An Open Authorization (OAUTH) Client of the Service is requested from a Service Instance of the Service. A copy OAUTH Client of the Service specific to the User is provided based on a clone OAUTH Client associated with the Service Instance. A Token is obtained to access the Service by providing the copy OAUTH Client to a User Account and Authorization (UAA) entity. Access to the Service is obtained by providing the Token.
US10536452B2
A method for authentication of chat bots includes determining that a first chat bot is authenticated, by a server, for first session communication at a first chat session with a first chat application instance. The first chat session is hosted by a first chat service. The method includes determining authentication intent to authenticate, with the server, a second chat bot for a second session communication at a second chat session with a second chat application instance. The second chat session is hosted by a second chat service, where the first chat bot and the second chat bot simulate respective chat application instances. The method also includes providing authentication credentials, via the first chat session, to authenticate the second chat bot with the server for the second session communication.
US10536448B2
In an approach for controlling access to a resource a processor monitors a first set of traffic of a computing device. A processor calculates reputation based on the first set of traffic of the computing device. A processor associates the reputation with the computing device. A processor receives a request to access a resource from the computing device. A processor determines whether the computing device shall be granted access to the resource based on the reputation.
US10536447B2
Disclosed are various examples for single-sign on by way of managed mobile devices. For example, an identity provider service can receive a request for an identity assertion from an application executed in a client device. The identity provider service can then detect a platform associated with the client device. A response to the request can be sent based at least in part on the platform, where the response requests authentication by a management credential. Data generated by the management credential is received from the client device, and the management credential is determined to be valid for the identity assertion. The identity assertion is then sent to the client device in response to determining that the management credential is valid for the identity assertion.
US10536445B1
An access control system with devices that securitize one or more blockchains using three sets of rules including authentication, validation, and access is provided. The system also can include protection of signals between one or more secure DASA databases and/or one or more blockchains for various user devices. The DASA databases may exist external to, along with, or within the blockchains. Specific methods and devices for securing (primarily digital and normally two-way) communications using applications offering the combination of securing communications from user devices with reader devices, are also provided. This disclosure also provides for the securitization and/or encryption of blockchain(s) for ensuring communication signals transmitted from and data residing within databases and/or the blockchain itself are not corruptible or compromised. In addition, communication processors for monitoring statistics regarding data at rest and data on the move associated with creating these securitized blockchains are included.
US10536444B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for processing security sensor data that enhances the ability of a user to quickly and efficiently review portions of the sensor data streams.
US10536437B2
Example computing devices described herein enable computation of a machine learning model on distributed multi-party data that is vertically partitioned, in a privacy preserving fashion. The computing device computes at a party a sum of local data owned by the party, wherein the local data is vertically partitioned into a plurality of data segments, each data segment representing a non-overlapping subset of data features; transforms a cost function of a data analytics task to a gradient descent function, wherein the cost function comprises a summation of a plurality of cost function values; anonymizes aggregated data shards received from a mediator; updating local model parameters based on the aggregated data shards; and performs privacy-preserving multi-party analytics on the vertically partitioned local data based on a learned global analytic model. It leverages a secure-sum protocol that provides strong security guarantees against collusion and prior-knowledge attacks.
US10536435B2
A digital content distribution system uses a Digital Rights Management Controller that performs a set of arbitrary tests against the transfer request from one user to another such as user A to user B. Assuming these tests are successful, the DRM sends an encryption key to transferring user A. This encryption key E is taken from a table of encryption key/hash pairs which have been provided to the DRM Controller by an external authority such as the content rights holder. User A encrypts the content using they key provided by the DRM controller and then optionally calculates a hash over the encrypted form of the content E(X) and returns this value to the DRM Controller. On checking the returned hash against the hash from the table the DRM controller knows that user A does indeed have the digital content X in good condition. The DRM Controller then instructs both users A and B that the transfer may proceed. The encrypted form of the content E(X) is transferred from A to B. Once the content transfer has completed B ensures that the received content has been physically written to non-volatile storage (to account for crashes etc. during the next step). B then calculates a hash over the received content and returns this value to the DRM Controller. If this value matches the value previously given then the transfer has been successful and the DRM Controller updates whatever central records are appropriate, while also returning a decrypt key to B to allow it to decrypt the content.
US10536432B2
A method is provided for determining an address of a component of a vehicle, wherein a vehicle identification is determined and stored in a first field of the address, and wherein an identification of the component is stored in a second field of the address. Furthermore, a method for accessing a component of a vehicle, in particular, a control unit of the vehicle, by use of the determined address of the component is provided, as well as a vehicle with at least one such component is also proposed.
US10536426B2
Systems and methods for creating custom domain name links are provided. At least one server communicatively coupled to a network receives a request to create a custom domain name link to a third party service. The request identifies a custom domain name. The at least one server retrieves, from a third party service link database, an entry for the third party service specifying how to create the custom domain name link for the third party service and he at least one server creates the custom domain name link in accordance with the entry retrieved from the third party service link database.
US10536425B2
Cross-domain requests by DNS name rebinding. A domain name server at a first domain name receives an initialization request from a user agent device. The request designates a class of domain names to be resolved to an IP address belonging to a second domain name to which the user agent device seeks to issue a safe cross-domain request. That request will be directed to the first domain name, but serviced by a server belonging to the second. In a DNS cache of the user agent, the first domain name is bound to an IP address belonging to the first domain, and to an IP address belonging to the second domain name. This binding is established by providing two or more IP address resource records resolving the designation of the class of domain names, having the relevant IP addresses, and ensuring that the first domain name is pinned to the first IP address in a DNS cache of the user agent device, and that others of the IP addresses are stored in the user agent's DNS cache as alternative binding(s) to the first domain name, and then invalidating the first IP address, so that the binding falls through to an alternative one of the IP addresses.
US10536424B2
A computerized method for integrating message-based services with external execution environments includes receiving from a first external execution environment a request to access message-based services of a messaging software. A processor determines whether the first external execution environment includes a pre-existing relationship with the messaging software. If no, the processor requests access to a second external execution environment on behalf of the first external execution environment. The processor receives a response from the second external execution environment granting the access; and the processor grants the request from the first external execution environment to access the message-based services in the messaging service while integrating services from the second external execution environment to the messaging software. If yes, the processor identifies parameters associated with the pre-existing relationship and grants the request from the first external execution environment.
US10536405B2
A method, system and computer program product for processing messages sent to a recipient. The communication channel used to send the message is identified, where such a communication channel is not currently being used by the recipient. After identifying the communication channel(s) currently being used by the recipient, the contact information of users who have previously communicated with the recipient using the communication channel(s) currently being used by the recipient are analyzed. The message is then marked with the identity of the sender as well as the communication channel used by the sender after matching the contact information of the sender with the contact information of a user who had previously communicated with the recipient using the communication channel(s) currently being used by the recipient. The marked message is then sent to the recipient using a communication channel currently being used by the recipient.
US10536402B2
Examples are generally directed towards context-sensitive generation of conversational responses. Context-message-response n-tuples are extracted from at least one source of conversational data to generate a set of training context-message-response n-tuples. A response generation engine is trained on the set of training context-message-response n-tuples. The trained response generation engine automatically generates a context-sensitive response based on a user generated input message and conversational context data. A digital assistant utilizes the trained response generation engine to generate context-sensitive, natural language responses that are pertinent to user queries.
US10536399B2
Systems and methods to automatically or manually generate various multi-stage pyramid network based fabrics, either partially connected or fully connected, are disclosed by changing different parameters of multi-stage pyramid network including such as number of slices, number of rings, number of stages, number of switches, number of multiplexers, the size of the multiplexers in any switch, connections between stages of rings either between the same numbered stages (same level stages) or different numbered stages, single or multi-drop hop wires, hop wires of different hop lengths, hop wires outgoing to different directions, hop wires incoming from different directions, number of hop wires based on the number and type of inlet and outlet links of large scale sub-integrated circuit blocks. One or more parameters are changed in each iteration so that optimized fabrics are generated, at the end of iterations, to route a given set of benchmarks or designs having a specific connection requirements.
US10536397B2
Methods and system are disclosed that manage access to a logical object in software defined networks. In one aspect, managing access to the logical objects may include determining whether to retain or release a lock object on a corresponding logical object in the software defined network. The software defined network may receive multiple requests to access applications or logical objects. In response, a front-end engine may be instantiated. The front-end engine may communicate with a back-end engine to determine an availability of TCP communication ports, lock objects, etc., to access the requested logical objects. A network monitoring engine working in cooperation with the front-end engine and the back-end engine may receive the above information on the TCP communication ports, the lock objects, etc., and may determine whether to retain a lock object on a corresponding logical object or to release the lock object and the corresponding logical object.
US10536395B2
A token-based billing model for delivering server-side rendered applications to remote users. A token represents a right to access a server-side rendered application. Each remote user is associated with one or more tokens. When a given token expires, the set of tokens associated with a user is decremented. The rate at which tokens expire are modulated based on aggregate load across the resources of the server-side rendered application provider, as well as the individual loads attributable to each of the users.
US10536390B1
A technology is described for embedding hypermedia resources in data interchange format documents. An example method may include receiving an instruction to request a first hypermedia resource from an API (Application Program Interface) server. A second hypermedia resource related to the first hypermedia resource may be identified. A probability that the second hypermedia resource may be requested may be calculated and a determination based in part on the probability that the second hypermedia resource will be requested may be made. Thereafter, an API request for the first hypermedia resource that includes hint data that identifies the second hypermedia resource may be generated.
US10536389B1
A connectivity coordinator may receive a request for a dedicated physical connection between a provider network and a client network. In response, the connectivity coordinator may determine a capacity for each connection capacity group available to accept the dedicated physical connection. The connectivity coordinator may use the determined capacities for each available connection capacity group to determine bias response information for each connection capacity group based on the determined capacities and a capacity bias model. The connectivity coordinator may provide the determined bias response information to the client as part of a response to the connectivity request to influence the client to select to connect to a connection capacity group that has more physical ports available to accept the dedicated physical connection than other connection capacity groups that have less ports available to accept the dedicated physical connection.
US10536383B2
The technology disclosed herein enables the enhancement of attributes used to identify network packet traffic exchanged with micro segmented guests. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a plurality of attributes from a user. The plurality of attributes describes first network packet traffic that should be handled in a first manner. The method further provides processing network packet traffic to identify the first network packet traffic using the plurality of attributes. While processing the network packet traffic, the method provides identifying one or more additional attributes shared among the first network packet traffic and adding at least a portion of the one or more additional attributes to the plurality of attributes.
US10536382B2
Systems, methods, and servers for controlling data flow across a computer network having a first performance enhancing proxy device (PEP1) between a client-facing segment of the network and a second PEP device (PEP2) on a server-facing segment of the network. PEP2 has a receiver for receiving flow control information from across a control channel between PEP1 and PEP2, for each TCP connection on the client-facing segment. The information includes round-trip packet latency (Li) on the client-facing segment and transmit buffer congestion information of PEP1. PEP2 has a determiner for determining if a TCP connection has a congested packet flow; and a congestion reliever for relieving such congestion by synchronizing a receive buffer of the PEP2 to be the same size as a transmit buffer congestion window of the PEP1; and delaying acknowledgments (ACKs) at PEP2 by a time Tack based on a preset threshold level Tlim or Li.
US10536380B2
This disclosure relates to method and system for intelligent link load balancing. In one embodiment, a method for performing intelligent link load balancing in a computer network including a number of network service providers (NSPs) is disclosed. The method includes monitoring ongoing network traffic transaction data of the computer network, predicting a current network latency level for the ongoing network traffic transaction data for each of the NSPs based on a relationship between a network latency level and network traffic transaction data for each of the NSPs, determining an optimal NSP to route ongoing network traffic based on an analysis of the current network latency level of each of the NSPs, and effecting routing of the ongoing network traffic through the optimal NSP. The relationship is learnt based on an analysis of historical network latency level and historical network traffic transaction data for each of the NSPs.
US10536378B2
Detection of the congestion on a link based on an exchange of messages between a sender and a receiver, one sender and several receivers or several senders and one receiver. This equipment is connected to the ends of a transmission channel. One of the items of equipment is designated as the master and the others slaves. These exchanges are aimed at enabling the master to calculate and compare the rate of the data send and the rate of the data received. A divergence in the rates calculated reveals a congestion on the link. All these exchanges are made in the application layer and therefore do not involve the underlying layers.
US10536373B1
A system for proving secure streamed data sessions is disclosed. The system comprises a first computer system executing an orchestrator virtualized network function (VNF). The orchestrator VNF collects performance metrics on routers, receives a request for a secure streamed data session, analyzes the metrics based on the request, determines a secure routing path, creates a routing instruction set that defines the secure routing path, and transmits the routing instruction set to a session aggregator. The system further comprises a second computer system that executes the session aggregator in a trusted security zone. The session aggregator establishes trusted end-to-end communication links with a first edge router, a second edge router, and at least one of the plurality of routers and configures the routing instruction set into each of the CPE node, the first edge router, the second edge router, and the at least one router via the trusted end-to-end communication link.
US10536365B2
Systems, methods, apparatus and computer-readable medium are described for improving efficiency and robustness for configuring data-planes. Furthermore, systems, methods, and devices are provided for efficiently storing, maintaining and retrieving configuration information for data-planes. The configuration information may be stored and retrieved from a hierarchy of information stored in memory, such as a hierarchy of information in memory, wherein the hierarchy of information has configuration data for one or more data-planes and represents one or more command sequences issued by a controller of the control-plane to one or more data-planes. In certain implementations, the hierarchy of information comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein each node represents at least a portion of a command sequence issued by the controller. The command sequences may be configuration command sequences issued by the control plane to configure the data-planes.
US10536364B2
A protocol test device for testing protocol compliance of a wireless device under test comprises a wireless interface for transmitting an outgoing RF signal to the wireless device under test and/or for receiving an incoming RF signal from the wireless device under test, a processing unit for generating messages for the outgoing RF signal based on a predefined protocol and for processing messages in the incoming RF signal based on the predefined protocol, a message log memory for storing the generated messages and the received messages, and a summary message generation unit that generates a summary log message and stores the summary log message in the message log memory, wherein the summary log message comprises information about at least one of the generated messages and/or the received messages and repetitions of the respective generated message and/or the respective received message.
US10536356B2
Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed that enable collection of various types of data from cloud computing services and the generation of various dashboards and visualizations to view information about collections of cloud computing resources. A user can configure collection of data from one or more cloud computing services and view visualizations using an application platform referred to herein as a cloud computing management application. A cloud computing management application further may be configured to generate and cause display of interactive topology map representations of cloud computing resources based on the collected data, where an interactive topology map enables users to view an intuitive visualization of a collection of computing resources, efficiently cause performance of actions with respect to various resources displayed in the topology map, and analyze the collection of resources in ways that are not possible using conventional cloud computing service management consoles.
US10536352B1
In one embodiment, a method includes extracting a cross-platform data-collection schema based, at least in part, on information available via heterogeneous interfaces of a plurality of source platforms. The cross-platform data-collection schema identifies a plurality of collectable data points in relation to particular source platforms. The method further includes configuring a cross-platform data-collection schedule for the plurality of source platforms. The cross-platform data-collection schedule indicates a collected subset of the plurality of collectable data points in relation to collection frequencies. The method also includes causing data values for the collected subset to be collected on an ongoing basis as dictated by the cross-platform data-collection schedule. Furthermore, the method includes processing a proposed change to at least one of the collected subset and the collection frequencies. In addition, the method includes modifying the cross-platform data-collection schedule to reflect the proposed change.
US10536350B2
In a computer-implemented method for determining feature utilization in a software-defined network, an available feature set for the software-defined network is determined, wherein the available feature set is based on a version of the software-defined network. Features enabled on the software-defined network are determined. The features enabled in the software-defined network are compared to the available feature set. A network profile score is generated based on the comparing, where the network profile score includes constituent feature scores for features of the available feature set. The network profile score is presented in a graphical user interface, the network profile score providing an indication of feature utilization of the available feature set, where the graphical user interface allows for receiving a user interaction for presenting the constituent feature scores for the features of the available feature set responsive to the user interaction.
US10536349B1
An integrated computing system configuration system includes a computing system that executes an application to receive one or more user selected design elements (DEs) associated with a customized integrated computing system configuration in which each user selected DE includes abstracted information of a component used in a customized integrated computing system represented by the customized integrated computing system configuration. The application may then obtain an integrated computing system template representing a standardized integrated computing system product configuration, combine the user selected DEs with the established DEs to form the customized integrated computing system configuration, determine whether the customized integrated computing system configuration comprises a valid integrated computing system configuration, and generate a report indicating the results of the determination. The integrated computing system template having a plurality of established DEs representing a plurality of components of the integrated computing system product configuration.
US10536341B2
A fog controller is operable to communicate with fog nodes associated with a plurality of special purpose network connected devices. The fog controller receives, from each of a plurality of the fog nodes, an indication of one or more processing capabilities of the respective fog node. Based on the processing capabilities, the fog controller creates a fog-based service function chain that includes a set of the plurality of fog nodes. The fog controller instantiates the fog-based service function chain at the set of the plurality of fog nodes.
US10536326B2
Method of and systems for network redundancy and failure detection are disclosed. A method of assigning runtime states to nodes in a network includes transmitting initial route metric values associated with IP addresses of mobile network nodes to a router system, the relative magnitudes of the metric values being based on primary or secondary node status and active or standby runtime states. The method also includes transmitting packet(s) from one or more mobile network nodes to the router system destined for a server and one or more mobile network nodes receiving a response to the packet transmission via the router system from the server. In response to receiving the response to the transmissions, the one or more mobile network nodes setting subsequent route metric values having a reversed relative magnitude relationship to that of the initial route metric values.
US10536323B2
A computer-implemented method for correlating alarms that are generated with relation to a computer network is disclosed. The alarms represent faults of the computer network and/or faults of components of the computer network. The computer-implemented method comprises: displaying, on a display device, a graphical user interface that allows a user to select a type of correlation between one or more alarms and a type of fault which causes the one or more alarms from among a plurality of types of correlation; receiving, via the graphical user interface, a user input indicating the type of correlation selected by the user; storing, in a database, at least one rule based on the selected correlation; receiving, by a server, a plurality of alarms generated with relation to the computer network; correlating, by a correlation engine, the plurality of alarms received by the server according to the at least one rule stored in the database to identify a fault which has caused the one or more alarms; and displaying, on the display device, the at least one identified fault.
US10536317B2
Automatic frequency controllers, automatic frequency control methods, wireless communication devices, and/or wireless communication methods are provided. The automatic frequency controllers for correcting a frequency offset between a base station and a terminal includes at least one processor communicatively coupled to a memory and configured to execute computer-readable instructions stored in the memory to obtain a phase estimate from a reference signal received from the base station; classify a downlink channel as a High Speed Train (HST) channel or a non-HST channel based on the phase estimate; adjust a loop gain according to the classified downlink channel; calculate a phase error based on the phase estimate and the loop gain; correct the frequency offset using the phase error; and communicate with the base station after correcting the frequency offset.
US10536316B2
The solution presented herein discloses a method of reducing inter-symbol jitter caused while processing each of a plurality of OFDM symbols in a received signal. For each of the plurality of OFDM symbols, the method comprises receiving a plurality of radio samples produced by a sampling of an OFDM symbol at a reduced sampling rate, where the reduced sampling rate causes inter-symbol jitter between the plurality of OFDM symbols. The method further comprises determining a sample offset corresponding to a symbol number for the OFDM symbol, transforming the samples of the OFDM symbol into a plurality of frequency-domain resource elements, and determining a phase offset for each of the resource elements using the sample offset. The method then reduces the inter-symbol jitter by rotating each resource element using the corresponding phase offset to generate phase-rotated resource elements. Corresponding narrow-band wireless receiver, narrow-band wireless receiver apparatus, jitter compensation circuit and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10536311B2
A direct conversion receiver configured to down-convert a received RF signal by using a local signal and demodulate the down-converted signal, the direct conversion receiver including: a power detector unit configured to detect a signal strength of the down-converted signal; a power determinator unit configured to determine whether the signal strength detected by the power detector unit is equal to or smaller than a previously set threshold value; and a local oscillator circuit configured to output, as the local signal, a first local signal when the power determinator unit determines that the signal strength is equal to or smaller than the threshold value, and output, as the local signal, a second local signal set to a frequency obtained by adding a previously set offset frequency to a frequency of the first local signal when the power determinator unit determines that the signal strength is larger than the threshold value.
US10536304B2
A receiver is equipped with an adaptive phase-offset controller and associated timing-calibration circuitry that together shift the timing for a data sampler and a digital equalizer. The sample and equalizer timing is shifted to a position with less residual inter-symbol interference (ISI) energy relative to the current symbol. The shifted position may be calculated using a measure of signal quality, such as a receiver bit-error rate or a comparison of filter-tap values, to optimize the timing of data recovery.
US10536298B2
There is provided a communication apparatus having a first communication unit configured to hold a first communication parameter and share the held first communication parameter with an external apparatus, and a second communication unit configured to perform communication with the external apparatus by using the first communication parameter that the first communication unit shares with the external apparatus. A control unit performs control so that communication by the second communication unit is started in response to sharing of the first communication parameter by the first communication unit. When communication by the second communication unit is to be performed in response to sharing of the first communication parameter by the first communication unit, the control unit puts the first communication parameter, which has been shared with the external apparatus, in a state in which it cannot be shared via the first communication unit.
US10536296B2
A method and system for multi-bridge LAN aggregation is disclosed. The method includes aggregating a plurality of LANs coupling a host to a first and a second intermediate network device. The system includes an intermediate network device. The intermediate network device includes a multi-bridge engine. The multi-bridge engine includes a tunnel engine coupled to a bridge interconnect port and a first physical port.
US10536295B2
In an embodiment, the infrastructure comprises a script execution module that comprises a compiler that compiles scripts, having instructions that reference device properties, into virtual-machine programs, a virtual machine that executes virtual-machine programs, and a script manager that stores scripts, retrieves scripts, and loads scripts into the compiler. In addition, the infrastructure may comprise gateway(s), communicatively connected to physical device(s). The gateway(s) may each comprise processor(s), driver(s) that each communicate with at least one physical device using a communication protocol to read and/or write device properties of the physical device, and a device manager that maps device properties referenced in the virtual-machine programs to device properties used by the driver(s).
US10536288B1
Systems and methods are provided for managing a conference call with multiple voice-enabled and voice-capturing devices, such as smart speakers. Reproduced, duplicate voice commands can cause unexpected results in a conference call. The voice commands can be determined to be received from the same conference call. A voice command for a particular voice-enabled device can be selected based on an energy level of an audio signal, event data, time data, and/or user identification.
US10536287B1
Systems and methods are provided for managing a conference call with multiple voice-enabled and voice-capturing devices, such as smart speakers. Reproduced, duplicate voice commands can cause unexpected results in a conference call. The voice commands can be determined to be received from the same conference call. A voice command for a particular voice-enabled device can be selected based on an energy level of an audio signal, event data, time data, and/or user identification.
US10536266B2
Apparatus and method for managing entropy in a cryptographic processing system. In some embodiments, a first block of conditioned entropy is generated from at least one entropy source. The first block of conditioned entropy is subjected to a first cryptographic process to generate cryptographically secured entropy which is stored in a memory. The cryptographically secured entropy is subsequently retrieved from the memory and subjected to a second cryptographic process to generate a second block of conditioned entropy, which is thereafter used as an input in a third cryptographic process such as to encrypt or decrypt user data in a data storage device. The first cryptographic process may include an encryption algorithm to generate ciphertext and a hash function to generate a keyed digest value, such as an HMAC value, to detect tampering with the ciphertext by an attacker. The second cryptographic process may decrypt or further encrypt the ciphertext.
US10536264B2
Embodiments include a computing processor control flow enforcement system including a processor, a block cipher encryption circuit, and an exclusive-OR (XOR) circuit. The control flow enforcement system uses a block cipher encryption to authenticate a return address when returning from a call or interrupt. The block cipher encryption circuit executes a block cipher encryption on a first number including an identifier to produce a first encrypted result and executes a block cipher encryption on a second number including a return address and a stack location pointer to produce a second encrypted result. The XOR circuit performs an XOR operation on the first encrypted result and the second encrypted result to produce a message authentication code tag.
US10536263B2
An encrypted table value homomorphically joining method and apparatus comprising receiving a query input. Based on the query input, the method may include determining at least one field on which to join the plurality of tables, and determining that the at least one field contains deterministically homomorphically encrypted data. The method may include determining a homomorphic join strategy directly comparing values in two homomorphically encrypted fields, performing a homomorphic join on the fields in the plurality of tables, and providing resultant homomorphically joined tables.
US10536261B2
Provided is an analysis system including a memory acquisition unit that is configured to acquire at least part of data stored in a memory unit in an information communication apparatus including a computing unit and the memory unit; a communication processing unit that is configured to instruct the memory acquisition unit to acquire data stored in the memory unit when determining that key data including an encryption key for cryptographic communication protocol are stored in the memory unit; and a cryptanalysis unit that is configured to extract one or more key data candidates that are candidates of the key data, from the stored in the memory unit, and extract, from one or more of the key data candidates, correct key data that enables to decrypt correctly the encrypted communication data. The communication processing unit is further configured to execute specific processing according to the decrypted communication data.
US10536248B2
Methods and systems for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) are described. Aspects may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method according to an embodiment includes: receiving control information; obtaining information related to the orthogonal cover code (OCC) length, based on the received control information; and receiving a reference signal, based on the information related to the OCC length. A system according to an embodiment includes, a base station that transmits information related to a reference signal to a terminal, and a terminal that receives the reference signal based on the received information, thereby improving the performance of channel estimation.
US10536236B2
An intranodal reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) fiber management apparatus, and a system employing the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a plurality of ingress optical ports, a plurality of egress optical ports, and a plurality of optical interconnections interposed between ones of the plurality of ingress optical ports and ones of the plurality of egress optical ports. Each of the plurality of ingress optical ports corresponds to one of the plurality of egress optical ports. Each one of the plurality of ingress optical ports is optically coupled by way of the optical interconnections to at least one of the plurality of egress optical ports. Each one of the plurality of egress optical ports is optically coupled by way of the optical interconnections to at least one of the plurality of ingress optical ports.
US10536233B2
Techniques for sending feedback information for multi-carrier operation are described. In an aspect, feedback information may be sent on an uplink carrier that may or may not be paired with a downlink carrier on which data transmission is sent. A user equipment (UE) may receive data transmission on a downlink carrier among a plurality of downlink carriers. The UE may determine feedback information for the data transmission, determine an uplink carrier to use to send the feedback information from among a plurality of uplink carriers, and send the feedback information on the uplink carrier. In another aspect, feedback information for multiple downlink carriers may be sent on at least one uplink carrier using Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA). A UE may receive data transmissions on a plurality of downlink carriers, determine feedback information for the data transmissions, and send the feedback information on at least one uplink carrier using SC-FDMA.
US10536232B2
Systems and methods for integrating audio content presented via an audio playback device with additional digital content are provided herein. The system includes a content retriever configured to retrieve the audio content from a terrestrial radio station, and retrieve the additional digital content from an Internet streaming channel, the terrestrial radio station and the Internet streaming channel being associated with an audio program; and being configured to output the additional digital content. Further included herein is a method for delaying a delivery of additional audio content.
US10536218B2
A free-space optical communication link is proposed that utilizes phase-sensitive amplification of the received optical signal at the input to the receiver portion of the link. The transmitter component of the FSO link generates an idler signal that is transmitted through free space with the original data signal and used at the PSA in conjunction with a pump wave to impart gain onto the received information signal. The PSA performs four-wave mixing (FWM) of the data, idler and pump to create the amplified data signal. In one embodiment, the pump wave used to generate the idler at the transmitter is sent through free space with the information and idler signals and used by the PSA to perform amplification. Alternatively, the PSA may use a co-located pump laser, in combination with the received idler signal, to perform the phase-sensitive amplification process.
US10536211B2
Methods and systems are provided for managing an Internet of Things object having a single active Radio Access Technology for communication with a data network via a hub of a local network. The method comprises: receiving, by a service provider server connected to the data network, information indicating a loss of connectivity between the Internet of Things object and the data network via the hub; and establishing, by the service provider server, a relay connection between the Internet of Things object and the data network, connectivity between the Internet of Things object and the data network being restored via the relay connection.
US10536207B2
An apparatus and a method for configuring antenna arrays for scalable radio frequency (RF) architecture are disclosed. A subset of antenna arrays are grouped into K groups and a receive or transmit weight vector is applied to each of the antenna arrays in each of the K groups. A channel response is measured for each of the antenna in the K groups. The response is summed for each group and complex scaling factors are calculated based on the summed response. Based on the scaling factors the antenna weight vectors are updated and the updated weight vectors are applied to the antenna arrays. The steps of grouping the antennas and refining the weight vectors are performed till the antenna weight vectors reach a steady point, i.e. the current antenna weight does not improve the beamforming gain by a predetermined threshold in comparison to the previous antenna weight.
US10536197B2
A device and method for managing spectrum resources and a wireless communication device and method are provided. The method for managing spectrum resources of a wireless communication system according to the disclosure includes: acquiring resource utilization parameter information of a communication device to be managed, the resource utilization parameter information including the number of antennas; and determining spectrum resource allocation to the communication device based on the resource utilization parameter information. The method for managing spectrum resources enriches contents of signaling interaction between a communication device and a device for managing spectrum resources in a wireless communication system, thereby making it possible to sufficiently utilize a possible spatial freedom degree of a communication device in a multi-antenna system, and to efficiently reduce interference between communication devices or communication systems.
US10536192B2
The present invention relates to a wireless power transmission apparatus and a method therefor. The present invention provides a wireless power transmission apparatus including: a power transmission module; a first communication module; a second communication module; and a controller for searching out a first wireless power reception device performing wireless power transmission/reception, transmitting a second magnetic field signal of a second frequency band through the power transmission module, sensing a second response signal to the second magnetic field signal through the second communication module, and searching out a second wireless power reception device performing wireless power transmission/reception by means of the second frequency band according to whether the second response signal is received.
US10536190B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission device that includes a transmitter that generates a first electromagnetic wave to convey data, the first electromagnetic wave having at least one carrier frequency and corresponding wavelength. A coupler couples the first electromagnetic wave to a transmission medium having at least one inner portion surrounded by a dielectric material, the dielectric material having an outer surface and a corresponding circumference, wherein the coupling of the first electromagnetic wave to the transmission medium forms a second electromagnetic wave that is guided to propagate along the outer surface of the dielectric material via at least one guided-wave mode that can include an asymmetric mode, wherein the at least one carrier frequency is within a microwave or millimeter-wave frequency band and wherein the at least one corresponding wavelength is less than the circumference of the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10536189B2
A signal transmission system includes: a switch component, a first choke component, a first conductive path and a second choke component that are connected in series between a power wire and a load; a third choke component and a resonant circuit that are connected in series between another power wire and a common node of the switch component and the first choke component; a second conductive path connected between the load and a common node of the third choke component and the resonant circuit; and a control block. Under control of the control block, a magnetic core of each choke component reaches magnetic saturation when the switch component does not conduct, and operates at magnetic saturation when the switch component conducts.
US10536188B2
A signal processing method, and a transmitter and a receiver are disclosed. The signal processing method may include converting a transmission signal to a non-periodic sequence type transmission signal using periodic sequences and transmitting the non-periodic sequence type transmission signal to the receiver, in which the receiver may detect a burst from the received non-periodic sequence type transmission signal.
US10536184B2
A method operates a signal coupling device. The signal coupling device contains at least one signal branch section which is or can be connected to a terminal-side interface of the signal coupling device using signaling. At least one signal property of a signal applied to the at least one signal branch section is determined. A signal type is determined on the basis of the at least one signal property. A time duplexing signal or a frequency duplexing signal is determined as the signal type. A signal-type-specific connection is established between the terminal-side interface and an antenna-side interface of the signal coupling device.
US10536183B2
A system and a method for increasing a rate of transfer of data between a radio frequency (RF) generator and a host computer system is described. The rate of transfer of data is increased by implementing dedicated physical layers associated with the RF generator and the host computer system and a dedicated physical communication medium between the RF generator and the host computer system. Moreover, a dual push operation is used between the RF generator and the host computer system. There is no request for data sent from the RF generator to the host computer system or from the host computer system to the RF generator.
US10536169B2
Disclosed relates to a decoder for LDPC code, including: a variable node processing unit; a check node processing unit; a memory for storing iterative messages of edges of a parity-check matrix for LDPC code; and a controller for controlling the node processing units to perform iterations of decoding until the decoding ends, wherein, in each iteration of decoding, the controller controls the variable node processing unit to compute variable node messages in a traversing manner for all variable nodes and updates the iterative messages in the memory according to the computed variable node messages, and controls the check node processing unit to compute check node messages in a traversing manner for all check nodes and updates the iterative messages in the memory according to the computed check node messages.
US10536160B2
A pipelined analog-to-digital converter includes: a first switched capacitor network, a first digital-to-analog converter, a second switched capacitor network, a second digital-to-analog converter, and an operational amplifier. The outputs from the first switched capacitor network and the first digital-to-analog converter form a first subtraction signal. The outputs from the second switched capacitor network and the second digital-to-analog converter form a second subtraction signal. The operational amplifier is arranged to operably generate an output signal based on the first subtraction signal or the second subtraction signal, and to operably switch coupling relationship of multiple candidate capacitors of the operational amplifier based on the magnitude of an input signal of a prior stage circuit, so that only a portion of the multiple candidate capacitors could be participated in the generation of the output signal at a time.
US10536159B2
The disclosed technology relates to a method for improving performance of a feedback circuit comprising an amplifier and a feedback network, wherein the feedback circuit has at least one tunable component. In one aspect, the method comprises measuring first amplitude values at an input of the amplifier and second amplitude values at an output of the amplifier, estimating a linear open-loop gain of the amplifier based on both the amplitude values, estimating a linear finite gain error based on the estimated gain and the second amplitude values, subtracting the linear finite gain error from the first amplitude values to derive a set of samples containing second error information, deriving an signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio estimate based on the variance of the set of samples and a variance of the second amplitude values, and adjusting the feedback circuit in accordance with the signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio estimate.
US10536158B2
An ADC that includes a processing unit configured to receive from first sampling latches N first PWM pulse start counter values and N first PWM pulse end counter value, receive from second sampling latches, N second PWM pulse start counter values and N second PWM pulse end counter value; (c) select a counter that is coupled to a selected sampling latch; (d) calculate an estimated difference between first and second input analog signals based on at least readings of the selected latch. The readings of the selected counter include a first PWM pulse start counter value latched by the selected latch, a first PWM pulse end counter value latched by the selected latch, a second PWM pulse start counter value latched by the selected latch, and a second PWM pulse end counter value latched by the selected latch; and (e) output a digital output signal indicative of the estimated difference.
US10536157B2
A signal processing apparatus, a signal processing system and a signal processing method are provided. The signal processing apparatus includes at least one analog channel and an analog-to-digital conversion unit. Each of the at least one analog channel is configured to, in response to receiving a first analog signal inputted from outside, condition the first analog signal to generate a second analog signal, and send the second analog signal to the analog-to-digital conversion unit. The analog-to-digital conversion unit is configured to convert the second analog signal sent from any of the at least one analog channel into a digital signal.
US10536154B2
In a PLL circuit, a multi-band control oscillator includes multiple bands gradually increasing or decreasing a frequency in accordance with a control signal and being separated from each other, is capable of selectively switching one band among the multiple bands, and generates a signal of a frequency corresponding to the control signal in the band that is switched as a reference signal. A band setting unit sets the band of the multi-band control oscillator. The band setting unit sets the band for a present or subsequent time after a control command generator finishes outputting the control command to gradually increase or decrease from a previous start frequency to a previous stop frequency and before the control command generator starts outputting the control command to gradually increase or decrease from a present start frequency.
US10536138B1
In examples, an integrated circuit package comprises a pin exposed externally to the package; at least one resistor coupled to the pin at a first end of the resistor; a first transistor coupled to the at least one resistor at a second end of the resistor and coupled to a voltage source; a second transistor coupled to the at least one resistor at the second end of the resistor and coupled to a ground connection, the at least one resistor and the first and second transistors couple at a first node, the first and second transistors are of different types; and multiple comparators, each of the multiple comparators coupled to a voltage divider network and to the pin.
US10536137B2
A short pulse generating circuit including a pulse generating circuit, an actuation control circuit and a delay control circuit is provided. The pulse generating circuit is electrically coupled to a switch, which is coupled to a power. When the power is turned on, the power causes the pulse generating circuit to generate a long pulse. The actuation control circuit is electrically coupled to the power and the pulse generating circuit. When the power is turned on, the actuation control circuit controls a voltage level of each output of the pulse generating circuit to a fixed value. The delay control circuit is electrically coupled to the pulse generating circuit. When the switch is turned on, the power controls the delay control circuit to change the voltage level of each output of the pulse generating circuit to generate a short pulse output.
US10536132B2
An elastic wave element having a piezoelectric substrate equipped with a first main surface, and an excitation electrode arranged on the first main surface and having multiple electrode fingers, wherein, in a cross-sectional view in the direction orthogonal to the first main surface, the width of the electrode fingers at a first height at a distance from the first main surface is greater than the width at a second height located closest to the first main surface.
US10536129B2
An impedance matching circuit includes a variable impedance circuit, a reference voltage generating circuit and a control circuit. The variable impedance circuit is configured for coupling to a load having an impedance and has a variable impedance; the reference voltage generating circuit coupled to the variable impedance circuit is configured to receive an input voltage of the variable impedance circuit to generate a reference voltage; and the control circuit coupled to the variable impedance circuit and configured to generate a control signal according to the reference voltage and an output voltage of the variable impedance circuit to control the variable impedance to make the variable impedance match the impedance of the load.
US10536126B2
A notch filter appropriately adjusts the amount of attenuation at a center frequency of its notch band through changing or adjusting a value of an adjustable parameter A, and adaptively controls the amount of signal attenuation of a predetermined frequency component for an input signal that passes the notch filter, so as to partially suppress or partially attenuates the predetermined frequency component without affecting the size of a bandwidth of the notch filter.
US10536125B1
A radio frequency (RF) limiter, and systems and methods thereof, to limit power of received high-power RF signals over a very broad bandwidth (e.g., approximately 17 octaves) using a single-channel solution. The limiter can be comprised of a coarse section and a fine section. The coarse section can include a first capacitor configured to receive a first RF signal; the rectifier, which is coupled to an output of the first capacitor; a transmission medium coupled to the output of the first capacitor and the rectifier; a plurality of PIN diodes each having a relatively thick I-region coupled between a second capacitor and the transmission medium; and a coupling mechanism configured to provide electrical coupling between the transmission medium and the rectifier. The rectifier can include a first inductor and a second inductor connected in series, and a Schottky diode coupled to the second inductor and the coupling mechanism.
US10536123B2
Methods and systems are provided for volume interactions for connected playback devices. In an example implementation, a first playback device applies a state variable update associated with a group of playback devices comprising the first playback device and one or more second playback devices. The state variable update indicates a limited volume range associated with the first playback device. The first playback device renders audio content in synchrony with the one or more second playback devices. Rendering the audio content involves a subwoofer speaker of the first playback device rendering a bass frequency component of the audio content. The first playback device receives input data indicating a group volume adjustment for the group of playback devices and adjusting a playback volume of the first playback device based on the group volume adjustment and the limited volume range.
US10536121B2
The disclosed technology is related to a radio-frequency (RF) amplifier having a bypass circuit and a resonant structure to improve performance in a bypass mode (e.g., a low gain mode). The disclosed amplifiers have a resonant structure that effectively isolates an amplifier core from a bypass circuit. For example, in a bypass mode, the resonant structure is configured to create an open impedance looking into the amplifier core input. This effectively removes any loading from the amplifier core to the bypass circuit. The disclosed amplifiers with resonant structures improve linearity performance in bypass modes due at least in part to the open impedance to the amplifier core provided by the resonant structure.
US10536112B2
An oscillator includes a container, a first heater disposed in a first area of the container, a second heater disposed in a second area of the container that is different from the first area, a vibrator disposed between the first area and the second area when viewed in the direction perpendicular to a surface on which the first heater is disposed, and a layer that is disposed between the vibrator and the container with at least part of the layer overlapping with the first heater, the second heater, and the vibrator when viewed in the direction perpendicular to the surface on which the first heater is disposed, and the thermal conductivity of the layer is higher than the thermal conductivity of the first and second areas.
US10536108B2
A preassembled solar panel module includes a solar panel configured for receiving and converting solar radiation to produce electrical power. Multiple panel rails are coupled in preassembly to a backside surface of the solar panel, including at least two panel rails disposed halfway or more along opposing longest edges of the solar panel. Multiple snap connector components are each coupled to one of the at least two rails and are each configured to couple with a complimentary snap connector component of an adjacent preassembled solar panel module or of a wind deflector accessory, or both. One or more mounting feet are each coupled at a selected location to one of the at least two panel rails and are each configured for coupling at a selected location to a roof or to other sunlight receiving surface.
US10536105B2
A power conversion apparatus having a converter, an inverter controlled by inverter controller, and an input power source fluctuation detecting and controlling circuit is proposed. The input power source fluctuation detecting and controlling circuit includes an input power source fluctuation detector and a converter failure detector to detect overcurrent and/or overvoltage of the converter. When both of the input power source fluctuation and the converter failure are detected, the converter is gate blocked, and the inverter continues its operation, and when the DC voltage become lower than a threshold voltage during the converter is gate blocking, the input power source fluctuation detecting and controlling circuit outputs an inverter control changeover flag to the inverter controller for switching a contents of inverter control.
US10536102B2
A main controller includes: a d-axis current limiter configured to calculate a d-axis current limiting value with priority, based on a dq-converted current limiting value, and calculate a limited d-axis current command value by clipping the d-axis current command value to be the d-axis current limiting value or less; a q-axis current limiter configured to calculate a q-axis current limiting value, based on the dq-converted current limiting value and the limited d-axis current command value, and calculate a limited q-axis current command value by clipping the q-axis current command value to be the q-axis current limiting value or less; and an inverter controller configured to control motor current, based on the limited d-axis current command value and the limited q-axis current command value.
US10536090B2
There has been a problem that a chip or a power module is broken by a repulsive electromagnetic force between positive and negative bus bars and an arc is generated, so that the failure is escalated. Therefore, positive and negative bus bars connecting two devices are configured so as to form a one-turn-loop current path, thereby suppressing a repulsive electromagnetic force occurring between the bus bars and decreasing a possibility of occurrence of an arc at the power module.
US10536089B2
A switching power source apparatus includes: a synchronous rectifier switching element for synchronous rectification constituted of an insulated-gate field-effect transistor; and a secondary-side control circuit including a detector circuit and a timer circuit. The secondary-side control circuit performs ON/OFF control of the synchronous rectifier switching element. The detector circuit monitors a voltage of a drain terminal of the synchronous rectifier switching element, and detects an abnormal state in which the voltage of the drain terminal is undetectable. The timer circuit starts up and measures a predetermined time in response to the detector circuit detecting the abnormal state. When the detector circuit detects the abnormal state, and the predetermined time elapses according to the timer circuit, the secondary-side control circuit outputs a detection signal indicating an abnormality to outside.
US10536081B2
System and method for driving a bipolar junction transistor for a power converter. The system includes a current generator configured to output a drive current signal to a bipolar junction transistor to adjust a primary current flowing through a primary winding of a power converter. The current generator is further configured to output the drive current signal to turn on the bipolar junction transistor during a first time period, a second time period, and a third time period, the second time period separating the first time period from the third time period, drive the bipolar junction transistor to operate in a hard-saturation region during the first time period and the second time period, and drive the bipolar junction transistor to operate in a quasi-saturation region during the third time period.
US10536079B2
A method for discontinuous conduction mode operation of a multi-phase DC-to-DC converter includes (a) forward biasing a first inductor being magnetically coupled to a second inductor, (b) reverse biasing the first inductor after forward biasing the first inductor, (c) while reverse biasing the first inductor and before magnitude of current through the first inductor falls to zero, forward biasing the second inductor.
US10536062B2
An electric motor includes a main winding coupled to a first line terminal, and first and second boost windings coupled in series to the main winding. A high-speed lead wire is coupled to a first tap between the main winding and the first boost winding, a medium-speed lead wire is coupled to a second tap between the first boost winding and the second boost winding, and a low-speed lead wire is coupled to a third tap after the second boost winding. A start winding has a first end coupled to the first line terminal and a second end. A capacitor has a first end series-coupled to the second end of the start winding and a second end coupled to the second tap. A switch coupled to a second line terminal is configured to couple the second line terminal to one of the high, medium, and low-speed lead wires.
US10536046B2
A rotary electric machine includes a rotor core fixed at a rotation axis, a stator core arranged facing the rotor core and including a plurality of teeth, a plurality of windings wound at the plurality of teeth of the stator core, a plurality of winding connection terminals connected to respective ends of the plurality of windings, a plurality of bus bars connected to the plurality of winding connection terminals, each of the plurality of bus bars being formed in either an arc form or an annular form, and a bus bar holder holding the plurality of bus bars in a laminated state and including a holder engagement portion engaging with a bus bar engagement portion which is provided at least at one of the plurality of bus bars.
US10536041B2
A wireless signal may supply a wireless power signal to a device to power the device for an authentication. If the device is authenticated, the wireless signal may be adjusted to provide power to the device. If the device is not authenticated, the wireless signal may be adjusted to avoid providing power to the device.
US10536038B1
A system for harvesting energy for a vehicle includes an antenna, a DC bus, a receiver circuit, and an electrical load. The antenna is located on the vehicle and is configured to receive a plurality of signals in at least one of a 2.4 gigahertz band and a 5.9 gigahertz band. The receiver circuit is coupled to the antenna and the DC bus. The receiver circuit is configured to convert the plurality of signals to a DC signal that is transmitted onto the DC bus. The electrical load is coupled to the DC bus and is configured to operate at least when the vehicle is not running using the DC signal supplied by the receiver circuit.
US10536024B2
One example includes a battery charging system configured to charge a battery associated with a mobile device. The battery charging system includes a transformer configured to receive an AC charging current via a charging cable at a primary inductor and to generate an AC secondary current at a secondary inductor. The battery charging system also includes a rectifier system configured to rectify and filter the AC secondary current to generate a DC charging current that is provided to charge the battery.
US10536016B2
A battery includes an anode having an alkali metal as the active material, a cathode having, for example, iron disulfide as the active material, and an increased electrolyte volume.
US10536014B2
A charger includes: a charging circuit which receives an electric power from external equipment and charges a secondary battery; a control device which determines a power supply capability of the external equipment on the basis of the electric power that is supplied to the charging circuit from the external equipment; and a display device that displays the power supply capability of the external equipment, which has been determined by the control device.
US10536012B2
A compact, decorative portable charger is provided for charging an electronic device on-the-go. The portable charger has a charger housing having a rechargeable battery internally disposed therein for connecting to and recharging an electronic device, as necessary, via a power connection female port, a power connection male interface, and/or a wireless transmitter disposed within the charger housing. The internal rechargeable battery of the portable charger can be recharged via a power connection female port, a power connection male interface, and/or a wireless receiver disposed within the charger housing. The portable charger further includes a motion light triggered by a motion sensor, and an attachment mechanism whereby the portable charger can be used as a fashion accessory attached, for example, to a purse, bag, or article of clothing, readily accessible for use to recharge electronic devices.
US10536003B1
Devices and methods for mechanism-based feedback controller employed in a wind powered power system are provided. A controller can include a vector control-based voltage source converter with feedback control circuitry. The feedback control circuitry is configured to modulate either a power order or a dc-link voltage order to control coupling between voltage and power. The controller can be connected to a wind-based turbine generator of a wind farm and regulate power deployed to a power grid.
US10535998B2
One example includes a forecast engine that generates forecast data that characterizes predicted operating conditions of an energy storage system for a given time period in the future, wherein the predicted operating conditions are based on a load history for a power consuming premises coupled to the energy storage system and on a value history for power provided to and consumed from a power grid. The load history of the power consuming premises characterizes unmetered power transferred to the power consuming premises, metered powered transferred from the power grid to the power consuming premises and metered powered exchanged from the energy storage system to the power grid. In the example, a schedule manager generates an operation schedule for operating the energy storage system. The operation schedule includes charge and discharge patterns for an energy storage source that are tuned to curtail power costs and/or elevate power revenue value.
US10535994B2
An air gap metal tip structure is provided for ESD protection that includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate disposed above the lower substrate. The air gap metal tip structure includes a first and a second metal tip disposed along at least one horizontal axis that is parallel to the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The air gap metal tip structure includes an air chamber formed between the upper and lower substrates within which the first and second metal tips are disposed. The air chamber includes a portion between points of the metal tips. Oxygen trapped in the air chamber is converted into ozone responsive to an occurrence of an arc between the tips to dissipate the arc, and the ozone is decomposed back into the oxygen responsive to an absence of the arc between the tips to maintain the ESD protection for subsequent arcs.
US10535991B2
A method for managing an electronic circuit (2) including a thermal protection device (12) interrupting the operation of the electronic circuit when a measured temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold, includes counting the electronic circuit operation interruptions and interrupting the operation of the electronic circuit when the number of counted interruptions reaches a predetermined value and when no reset has taken place. The corresponding circuit includes: a counter (16); linking elements between the counter and the thermal protection device such that the counter can indicate the number of operation interruptions caused by the thermal protection device; and elements for resetting the counter.
US10535989B2
A semiconductor apparatus is provided, comprising: a power semiconductor element which is connected between a first terminal on a high-potential side and a second terminal on a low-potential side; a first gate control section which controls a gate potential of the power semiconductor element according to a control signal; a discharge circuit which is discharges charges that are charged by the gate of the power semiconductor element; a second gate control section which controls the gate potential of the power semiconductor element according to a collector current of the power semiconductor element; a feedback section which feedbacks the charges to the gate of the power semiconductor element according to the collector potential of the power semiconductor element; and a current cutting off section which cuts off currents flowing from the first terminal to the gate of the power semiconductor element according to the control signal.
US10535988B2
An electrical system includes first, second and third busses; a first interrupter electrically connected between the first and second busses; at least one of a shorting apparatus operatively associated with the first or second bus, and the first interrupter comprising a trip coil; a current sensor to sense a fault current flowing in the first bus and responsively output a first signal; a number of light sensors to sense an arc flash operatively associated with a number of the first, second or third busses and responsively output a second signal; a second interrupter electrically connected between the second and third power busses and output a third signal; and a circuit to invert the third signal to provide a fourth signal, and to operate the at least one of the shorting apparatus and the trip coil responsive to an AND of the first, second and fourth signals.
US10535987B2
An arc detection apparatus is provided. The arc detection apparatus detects an arc using an electrical energy, eliminates the possibility of a false arc detection caused by noise due to a power environment, increases accuracy of arc detection, and prevents fires that may occur in a home or an industrial site due to an arc occurrence.
US10535974B2
Disclosed is a system and method for remote sensing, surface profiling, object identification, and aiming based on two-photon population inversion and subsequent photon backscattering enhanced by superradiance using two co-propagating pump waves. The present disclosure enables efficient and highly-directional photon backscattering by generating the pump waves in properly pulsed time-frequency modes, proper spatial modes, with proper group-velocity difference in air. The pump waves are relatively delayed in a tunable pulse delay device and launched to free space along a desirable direction using a laser-pointing device. When the pump waves overlap in air, signal photons will be created through two-photon driven superrdiant backscattering if target gas molecules are present. The backscattered signal photons propagate back, picked using optical filters, and detected. By scanning the relative delay and the launching direction while the signal photons are detected, three-dimensional information of target objects is acquired remotely.
US10535969B2
A crimping tool for an electrical connector includes a frame defining an interior, a handle rotatably coupled with the frame, and a receptacle disposed within the interior of the frame and configured in size and shape to receive an electrical connector. The crimping tool further includes a push member, coupled with the handle, configured to apply a compressive force to an electrical connector disposed within the receptacle responsive to actuation of the handle relative to the frame and a blade coupled to the frame, to the receptacle, or to the push member, so as to be actuatable to cut excess wiring from an electrical connector disposed within the receptacle.
US10535967B2
An electrical supply system including: an extension module including a composite board having an anode layer and a cathode layer of an electrically conducting material, which anode layer and cathode layer are separated by an insulator of an electrically insulating material, the anode layer and the cathode layer each having a trench extending from a connection surface of the composite board and including a connection element, connector pins for the trenches of the extension module, each connector pin having a first complementary connection element for engaging the connection element of the trench of the composite board of a further extension module and a second complementary connection element for engaging the connection element of the trench of the composite board of the extension module, and a power supply capable of providing a constant voltage or a constant current between the anode layer and the cathode layer.
US10535966B2
This application is directed to an electronic device having an overall exterior and electronic components contained therein. The electronic components includes a first electrical connector configured to supply power and/or data to the electronic components and/or to output data signals from the electronic components when the first electrical connector is connected to an external power and/or data connector. The first electrical connector includes first electrical contacts configured in a pattern that is substantially co-planar with a base surface of the electronic components. A base portion of the overall exterior includes a first opening corresponding to a position and size of the first electrical connector in the base surface of the electronic components. The first opening enables the first electrical contacts of the first electrical connector to couple electrically with corresponding electrical contacts of the external power and/or data connector provided at a second surface external to the electronic device.
US10535964B1
A power cable adaptor includes a casing that has a receiving space, a retaining sleeve disposed in the casing and conductive members disposed within the retaining sleeve. The conductive members respectively define conductive channels. A cap is detachably connected to the casing and covers the receiving space. A wire dispenser is detachably received in the receiving space. The cap has an opening communicating with the conductive channels through the receiving space. The wire dispenser has wire passages communicating with the conductive channels and the opening of the cap.
US10535962B2
A receptacle connector capable of preventing a damage caused by an insertion of a plug connector having a different standard. The receptacle connector may include: a receptacle shell; a contact pin coupling part into which a contact pin of a plug connector is inserted; and a plug shell coupling part providing an insertion space for a plug shell of the plug connector, between the receptacle shell and the contact pin coupling part. The plug shell coupling part may include: a fixed part fixed to the receptacle shell; and extension parts. A part of the extension parts may be first extension parts, the other part of the extension parts may be second extension parts, and distal end parts of the first and second extension parts may be extended on a plane perpendicular to the central axis of the fixed part, while being separated from each other.
US10535951B2
A plug connector comprises a first plug, a second plug, and a securing device configured to mechanically secure the first plug to the second plug. The second plug has a receptacle with a ramp surface and a locking surface. The securing device has a lever pivotably mounted on the first plug. The lever pivotably bears a connecting element which has a securing cam on a free end of the connecting element. The receptacle of the second plug receives the securing cam and the ramp surface of the receptacle cooperates with the free end of the connecting element to forcibly guide the securing cam behind the locking surface of the receptacle when the first plug and the second plug are plugged together.
US10535949B2
An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulative housing forming a pair of receiving slots, two pairs of contacts are retained in the housing and located by two sides of the corresponding receiving slots, respectively. Each contact has a frame having four sides with a pair of first spring arms extending from two opposite sides toward each other and extending into the receiving slot with the corresponding contact points at different levels. A second spring arm extends from another side into the receiving slot. A deflection direction of the first spring arms is perpendicular to that of the second spring arm, and the first spring arms contact one side of the blade type contact of the plug connector and the second spring arm contacts another side of the blade type contact of the plug connector.
US10535947B1
A floating connector includes an insulating housing and conductive terminals. Each conductive terminal has a first portion and a second portion extending from the first portion. Each first portion is inserted into the insulating housing and includes a contacting segment that is at least partially exposed from the insulating housing. Each second portion does not contact with the insulating housing and includes a soldering segment. In each of the conductive terminals, a signal transmission path is defined between the contacting segment and the soldering segment, a frequency adjusting path is defined between the soldering segment and a position of the second portion that is connected to the first portion, and a length of the frequency adjusting path is 40%-60% of a length of the signal transmission path, so that each of the conductive terminals can transmit a high-frequency signal satisfying the SAS 3.0 standard.
US10535946B2
An electrical connector is provided for electrically connecting a circuit board and an electronic component having at least one conductive member. The electrical connector includes: an insulating body; at least one first terminal having a first base accommodated in the insulating body, and a first elastic arm extending upward from the first base and exposed from the insulating body; and at least one second terminal having a second base fixed to the first base, and a second elastic arm extending upward from the second base and exposed from the insulating body. The first elastic arm has a first contact portion and a first notch. The second elastic arm has a second contact portion. The first and second contact portions both extend forward, and the second contact portion is accommodated in the first notch such that the first and second contact portions are in contact with a same conductive member.
US10535944B2
An electrical connector includes a reinforcing plate, which is encapsulated by an insulating body by injection molding. Positioning structures are provided in terminal slots of the insulating body. The insulating body is made of an elastic insulating material. Multiple terminals are mounted on the positioning structures. Each metal terminal is provided with an upper contact portion and a lower contact portion. When the upper contact portions is in contact with a chip module, and the lower contact portions is in contact with a circuit board, each of the metal terminals interferes with an inner wall of the corresponding terminal slot, so as to solve the metal fatigue of the metal terminals and to ensure the strength of the metal terminals.
US10535941B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal fitting and an electric connector for the same. The mobile terminal fitting comprises a case body, an electric connector and a circuit board. The case body includes a bottom plate and a side plate that can be separated from each other, with the mobile terminal disposed in an accommodating groove formed by the side plate and the bottom plate of the case body, wherein the side plate is deformable in shape to ensure that the case body is easy to be installed and removed. The electric connector, disposed on the case body, comprises a socket and a plug, and can guarantee the electrical connection between the charging cord/data cable of the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal in the case body of the mobile terminal fitting.
US10535938B2
Described herein are devices, systems and methods for accessing devices, such as modules or printed circuit boards (PCBs), for electrical communications. Various connectors described herein utilize a side-edge surface of a device, such as a PCB, for connectivity in order to maximize the surface area on the PCB upon which electronic components can be mounted. Such connectors can be used to temporarily connect to devices (e.g., PCBs) for the purposes of debugging, testing and/or configuring circuitry, firmware and/or software. Each such connector utilizes the side-edge surface of a device along its thickness to provide connectivity, which is useful in many situations, including when the device (e.g., a PCB) is to be soldered as a part onto a larger board at a later point in time, or where multiple PCBs are stacked.
US10535930B2
An electrical connector comprises a contact element capable of being coupled to a support element on which a wire is wound and a flexible sleeve mounted around the contact element to retain the contact element on the support element. The contact element has an inoperative undeformed position in which flexible walls of the contact element are outwardly divergent from one another and, when the contact element is fitted over the support element in the inoperative undeformed position, a cutting element of the contact element remains at a distance from the wire. The flexible sleeve is movable into a final operative position in which the flexible sleeve pushes the flexible walls toward an inwardly inclined position in which the cutting element cuts into the insulating material of the wire and forms an electrical connection with the wire.
US10535929B2
A connector includes: an insulating body having a bottom surface facing a circuit board; and multiple first terminals and multiple second terminals. Each of the first and second terminals has a fixing portion fixed to the insulating body and a soldering portion bending and extending from the corresponding fixing portion and exposed out of the bottom surface of the insulating body. The first and second soldering portions are soldered to the circuit board in a surface mounting manner respectively, and are arranged in four rows in a transverse direction. The first soldering portions are distributed in two outer rows. The second soldering portions are distributed in two inner rows. A bottom surface of each first soldering portion has a lowest point. The lowest points of the first soldering portions in the two outer rows define a plane, and the second soldering portions are located above the plane.
US10535927B2
An embedded antenna system is described for use with metallized enclosures and housings used with wireless communication devices. One or multiple radiators are coupled to a metal cover, with ground points established on the metal cover to improve radiation efficiency and control the frequency response of the antenna system. Dynamic tuning methods are described wherein detuning of the antenna system for sources such as body-loading are compensated at adjusting impedance properties of the combination of radiator and metallized cover.
US10535918B2
A unified antenna module includes an antenna, a first preamplifier configured to be connectable to an RF cable, and a second preamplifier configured to be connectable to a transmitter/receiver module. A switch part is configured to connect the antenna with the first preamplifier or the second preamplifier when one of the RF cable and the transmitter/receiver module is connected.
US10535917B1
The invention is directed to an antenna structure for producing a horizontally polarized beam. In one embodiment, the antenna structure includes a first quarter-wave patch antenna and a second quarter-wave patch antenna that are positioned such that the ground planes of the patch antennas or a ground plane shared by the patch antennas is disposed between the patches of the two antennas and the shorting structures associated with the antennas are substantially aligned. In operation, the antenna structure is capable of processing an omni-directional, horizontally polarized beam.
