US10572608B2
A method and system are provided for data driven shrinkage compensation. The method includes calculating, by at least one processor operatively coupled to a memory device, one or more dimensions of an object modeled in a file from one or more directional strands disposed between facets of one or more predetermined facet pairs. The method further includes predicting, by the processor, dimensional changes in the one or more directional strands as a result of the fabrication of the object using an additive manufacturing process based on a shape shrinkage model. The method further includes correcting, by the processor, coordinate data of at least one facet of the one or more predetermined facet pairs to compensate for the one or more predicted dimensional changes in the one or more directional strands.
US10572605B2
An electronic device and method for providing a translations service are disclosed. The electronic device for providing a translation service includes an input unit comprising input circuitry configured to receive input text of a first language, a processor configured to divide the input text into a main segment and a sub-segment and to generate output text of a second language by selecting translation candidate text corresponding to the input text from translation candidate text of the second language, based on a meaning of text included in the sub-segment, and an output unit comprising output circuitry configured to output the output text.
US10572600B2
Systems and methods for using machine learning and rules-based algorithms to create a patent specification based on human-provided patent claims such that the patent specification is created without human intervention are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a claim set; obtain a first data structure representing the claim set; obtain a second data structure; obtain a third data structure; and determine one or more sections of the patent specification based on the first data structure, the second data structure, and the third data structure.
US10572599B2
Determining whether a proposed message contextually fits a messaging session. A method obtains a proposed message to be sent in a messaging session between users of a messaging service. The method identifies a context of the proposed message. The method determines whether the proposed message contextually fits the messaging session based on characteristics of an expected response to the proposed message, the characteristics of the expected response being based on patterns of communication between the users. The method also performs processing based on whether the proposed message contextually fits the messaging session.
US10572593B2
Determining whether a proposed message contextually fits a messaging session. A method obtains a proposed message to be sent in a messaging session between users of a messaging service. The method identifies a context of the proposed message. The method determines whether the proposed message contextually fits the messaging session based on characteristics of an expected response to the proposed message, the characteristics of the expected response being based on patterns of communication between the users. The method also performs processing based on whether the proposed message contextually fits the messaging session.
US10572589B2
A computer-implemented method for cognitive matching of narrative data may include collecting a set of data for a party and determining, by analyzing the set of data, an identifiable event for the party. In addition, the method may include identifying, using the identifiable event, a relevant feature of a corpus and providing an output corresponding to the relevant feature.
US10572585B2
This disclosure provides a computer-implemented method. The method may include extracting one or more features based on a first utterance from a first interlocutor in a dialog and a second utterance from a second interlocutor in the dialog. The method may further include inferring one or more personality traits of the first interlocutor based on the one or more extracted features from the dialog.
US10572584B1
A system for spreadsheet region and cell sharing includes an interface and a processor. The interface is to receive an indication to modify a first cell of a first document, wherein a first user is associated with the first document and with a first set of user access descriptors. The processor is to determine whether the first user has write permission for the first cell based on the first set of user access descriptors; and in the event that the first user has write permission: indicate a modification to a location in a database storage location referenced by a pointer formula associated with the first cell; and modify a second cell in a second document based on a dependency graph, wherein the second document is associated with a second user different from the first user.
US10572576B1
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating data object extraction from unstructured documents. Unstructured documents may include data in an unorganized format, such as raw text. The system may use natural language processing to determine characteristics of the terms used in the unstructured document. The system may prompt a user to select terms from the document corresponding in characteristics to properties of a data object being generated. The user may select terms from the document and the system may generate a data object according to the selected terms.
US10572575B2
In various aspects, systems and methods according to certain embodiments do not require that fonts be available on each user's system. An on-demand font service provides any required font data to the client. Accordingly, no matter what client device, a document rendered with font data provided by the service will look the same across all platforms even if a substituted font is used.
US10572570B2
In some examples, measurement data is received from at least one sensor that detects a signal reflected from a surface inside a platform. A likelihood ratio test is applied using the measurement data, and a load status of the platform is determined based on the likelihood ratio test.
US10572563B2
A mobile computing system for accessing data moves between a first geographic location where internet access is not available and a second geographic location where internet access is available. The mobile computing system receives a query from a computing device at the first geographic location, retrieves data associated with the query from the mobile computing system and provides the data to the computing device in response to the query if the data associated with the query is available in the mobile computing system at the first geographic location, stores the query in the one or more memory modules if the data associated with the query is not available in the mobile computing system at the first geographic location, executes the stored query at the second geographic location and retrieves data associated with the query from the internet, and stores the data in the one or more memory modules.
US10572561B1
A first search is performed in response to a received search query. The first search is based at least in part on a first portion of the search query. In the first search, a first set of content items are searched over to identify a first set of search results. Each result in the first set of search results identifies at least one content item of the first set of content items. A second set of content items for performing a second search is determined based at least in part on one or more of the results in the first set of search results. The second set of content items includes content items not included in the first set of search results. A second search is performed, searching over the second set of content items to identify a second set of search results. The second search is based at least in part on a second portion of the search query. Each result in the second set of search results identifies at least one content item of the second set of content items.
US10572560B2
An approach to finding facets of big data across multiple subject fields which have mutual relevance and provide useful information and insights. The approach is based on an analysis of diagrams associated with facets found in big data, such as that available on the internet, and the results of the analysis are further refined through a regional analysis and a search of social media data for events pertaining to the facets. Embodiments can further make use of statistical analysis software to provide statistical evidence related to the facets that can validate the results and findings of facet relevancy.
US10572556B2
In accordance with some embodiments, processes and interfaces provide for enhancing search results of a group research project. For example, members of a group may be provided with information regarding other group member's search activities and/or be restricted from viewing certain search results (e.g., search results that are most popular with the public for a given search term, that are most popular with the group for the given search term or for the project, and/or search results that are restricted by a group manager).
US10572555B1
The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items. A significant attributes system for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items comprises an item analysis engine, at least one driver models database, and a model building engine, wherein the item analysis engine comprises an item description receiver and one or more driver calculators.
US10572550B2
A method for determining a crawling schedule is disclosed, the method being executable at a crawling server coupled to a first web resource server and a second web resource server. The method comprises: acquiring a first new web page associated with the first web resource server; acquiring a second new web page associated with the second web resource server; determining a first crawling benefit parameter for the first new web page, the first crawling benefit parameter being based on a predicted popularity parameter and a predicted popularity decay parameter thereof; determining a second crawling benefit parameter for the second new web page, the second crawling benefit parameter being based on a predicted popularity parameter and a predicted popularity decay parameter thereof; based on the first crawling benefit parameter and the second crawling benefit parameter, determining a crawling order for the first new web page and the second new web page.
US10572541B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing an aggregate key performance indicator (KPI) that spans multiple services and for providing adjustment to KPI factors via a GUI that enables an aggregate KPI to be configured with feedback that better characterizes the performance of the services. The GUI may enable selection of KPIs and adjustment to weights (e.g., importance) associated with the KPIs. The weight of a KPI may affect the influence a value of the KPI has on the calculation of an aggregate KPI value (e.g., score). The GUI may provide near real-time feedback concerning the effect the weights have on the aggregate KPI value by displaying the aggregate KPI value (e.g., score) and updating the aggregate KPI value as the weights are adjusted.
US10572534B2
portable recording devices digitize audio signals and store the resulting digital audio samples locally. A master device periodically communicates a time marker and index value. Upon receiving a time marker from the master device, the recording devices latch their sample recording address occurring at that time, and store this latched address along with the received index value. Since the same index value is associated with recorded sample addresses occurring at the same time across all units, the shared index value provides a coordination means to later align the individual recordings, emulating a central multi-track recorder. Optionally, one of the portable recording devices can assume the additional role of master.
US10572530B2
In some implementations, a coordinator device can prefetch images from a camera accessory in response to receiving a doorbell event notification from a doorbell accessory. For example, the coordinator device can prefetch an image in response to receiving a doorbell event notification from a doorbell accessory so that the captured image is contemporaneous with the doorbell event and to avoid making multiple subsequent requests for the same image from the camera accessory when multiple user devices request the captured image. The coordinator device can store the image received from the camera accessory and serve the image to user devices when the user devices request a snapshot image corresponding to the doorbell event.
US10572520B2
A method of disambiguating user intent in conversational interactions for information retrieval is disclosed. The method includes providing access to a set of content items with metadata describing the content items and providing access to structural knowledge showing semantic relationships and links among the content items. The method further includes providing a user preference signature, receiving a first input from the user that is intended by the user to identify at least one desired content item, and determining an ambiguity index of the first input. If the ambiguity index is high, the method determines a query input based on the first input and at least one of the structural knowledge, the user preference signature, a location of the user, and the time of the first input and selects a content item based on comparing the query input and the metadata associated with the content item.
US10572515B2
The invention relates to electronic indexing, and more particularly, to the parallelization of indexing. Systems and methods of the invention index data archives by breaking a job into work items and sending the work items to multiple processors that can each determine whether to index data associated with the work item or to create a new work item and have a different processor index the data. This gives the system an internal load-balancing that results in indexing jobs during which no processor stands idle while another processor indexes data of unexpected complexity.
US10572510B2
Technologies are described for facilitating transaction processing within a database environment having a coordinator node, a first worker node, and at least a second worker node. The coordinator node receives local transaction tokens from the first and the at least a second worker nodes. The coordinator nodes determines a synchronized transaction token using at least the local transaction tokens from the first and the at least a second worker nodes. The coordinator node sends the synchronized transaction token to the first and the at least a second worker nodes.
US10572509B2
Embodiments are provided for partially replicating endpoint routing information, and comprise calculating a first shard interval of a key space based, at least in part, on capacities of a plurality of spine nodes in a network fabric. Embodiments also include mapping the first shard interval to a first spine node of the plurality of spine nodes, communicating shard mapping information associated with the mapping to a set of leaf nodes in the network fabric, and populating an endpoint repository in the first spine node with routing information for one or more endpoints corresponding to the first shard interval. More specific embodiments include calculating respective shard intervals for other spine nodes of the plurality of spine nodes based, at least in part, on the capacities of the plurality of spine nodes. In specific embodiments, the calculating the first shard interval is based, in part, on one or more dynamic parameters.
US10572505B2
Provided are systems and methods for managing asynchronous replication in a distributed database environment, wherein a cluster of nodes are assigned roles for processing database requests. In one embodiment, the system provides a node with a primary role to process write operations against its database, generate an operation log reflecting the processed operations, and permit asynchronous replication of the operations to at least one secondary node. In another embodiment, the primary node is the only node configured to accept write operations. Both primary and secondary nodes can process read operations. Although in some settings read requests can be restricted to secondary nodes or the primary node. In one embodiment, the systems and methods provide for automatic failover of the primary node role, can include a consensus election protocol for identifying the next primary node. Further, the systems and methods can be configured to automatically reintegrate a failed primary node.
US10572493B2
A method includes obtaining from a database: at least one initiating cause that causes a hazard, an initiating cause frequency corresponding to the at least one initiating cause, a set of independent protection layers configured to operate to prevent the hazard and including protection equipment for which no industry safety standards and regulations are defined, and a failure probability of each protection layer. The method includes estimating a frequency of occurrence of the hazard using a product of the initiating cause frequency and a failure probability of the set of independent protection layers. The method further includes adjusting the estimated frequency of occurrence of the hazard based on a change of at least one of: the initiating cause frequency, and a failure probability of a protection layer in the set of independent protection layers.
US10572485B2
Systems for database query processors. In a method embodiment, processing commences upon receiving a first set of a plurality of database language queries that reference a normalized column in an RDF table and that also includes a JOIN clause that references both the normalized column in the RDF table and a corresponding lookup table (e.g., a denormalization dictionary) that contains both normalized RDF data and denormalized RDF data. An in-memory table is allocated and formatted to comprise virtual columns that correspond to denormalized RDF data. Virtual columns of the in-memory table are populated with denormalized RDF data. In case of receipt of a SPARQL query, the incoming query is first translated into non-SPARQL database statements which are in turn recoded into database language statements that use lookup functions to lookup the denormalized RDF data from the virtual columns of the in-memory table rather than by incurring expensive disk I/O operations.
US10572483B2
In an example, an aggregate function is associated with an aggregate projection for a data storage system. Input data to be loaded into the data storage system is aggregated according to the aggregate function and stored in the aggregate projection.
US10572476B2
A method includes receiving a search request from a user, the search request specifying one or more search criteria for selecting one or more selection items from a respective selection domain; identifying one or more schedule items relevant to the search request; augmenting the search request based on information contained in at least one of the identified schedule items; and presenting the augmented search request or search results retrieved based on the augmented search request to the user.
US10572469B2
Techniques for non-disruptive versioning of in-memory units in a database are provided. A database server generates and maintains a first IMU that reflects changes made to a mirrored-data-set up to a first snapshot time, and a second IMU that reflects changes made to the mirrored-data-set up to a second snapshot time. During a first period, the database server responds to updates to first data items in the mirrored data by storing first staleness metadata that indicates that the copies of the first data items in the first IMU are stale. During a second period, the database server responds to updates to second data items in the mirrored data by storing second staleness metadata that indicates that the copies of the second data items in the second IMU are stale. The database server responds to a request by accessing the first IMU or the second IMU.
US10572460B2
Compressing data in dependence upon characteristics of a storage system, including: receiving an amount of processing resources available in the storage system; receiving an amount of space available in the storage system; and selecting, in dependence upon the priority for conserving the amount of processing resources and the amount of space, a data compression algorithm to utilize to compress the data.
US10572459B2
Flexible, high-accuracy data processing techniques and accompanying systems avoid criticality in intermediate computations through intelligent, low cost sanitization of data operations. A data processing operation including one or more plans is received, with each plan having a data operation described as a tree based-structure. The plans that are determined to create criticality on execution are sanitized by transforming the plan itself, ancestors, and/or children of the plan. Determining whether execution of a plan creates criticality is based on the determination of whether a set of criticality conditions includes data signals that are associated with the plan. After sanitization, the data processing operation can be fully executed without criticality arising in intermediate operations.
US10572458B2
Some aspects disclosed herein are directed to, for example, a system and method of detecting database application incompatibilities. Systems and methods described herein may format traces, collect data, store the data, and/or provide one or more user interface which allows an end user to quickly and easily identify affected statements, such as structured query language (SQL) statements, for remediation action(s).
US10572457B2
Appearance of a forming condition of data constituting a database is promoted when work to construct the database is made efficient. The database construction device includes an original file storage, a configuration data specification information storage, and a database construction unit. The database construction unit stores one of pieces of original data as follows in the database storage device as at least a part of the database while correlating the one of pieces of original data with configuration data specification information. The original data is correlated with original data specification information stored in the configuration data specification information storage in the pieces of original data specification information of an original file. The original data specification information indicates a plurality of kinds of original data forming conditions. The configuration data specification information indicates a plurality of kinds of database configuration data forming conditions.
US10572455B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an instance of a distributed database at a first compute device configured to be included within a set of compute devices that implement the distributed database. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to define a first event linked to a first set of events. The processor is configured to receive, from a second compute device from the set of compute devices, a signal representing a second event (1) defined by the second compute device and (2) linked to a second set of events. The processor is configured to identify an order associated with a third set of events based at least one a result of a protocol. The processor is configured to store in the instance of the distributed database the order associated with the third set of events.
US10572453B2
Techniques to enforce policies with respect to managed files and/or endpoints are disclosed. A policy to be applied with respect to one or more files included in a synchronization set and/or an endpoint associated with the synchronization set is received. Compliance with the policy is ensured across a plurality of heterogeneous endpoints associated with the synchronization set.
US10572451B2
A system for storing a file system can include writing a file system to a memory device, the file system including a plurality of files, a subset engine to determine a subset of the plurality of files, a marking engine to mark each file of the plurality of files that is not included in the subset as a not-for-use sector, a crosslinking engine to crosslink duplicate files of the subset, a compression engine to compress a directory structure and a file allocation table (FAT) associated with the subset; and a storing engine to store the compressed directory structure and FAT in the file system.
US10572441B2
A method of data recovery of a remaining set of original data from a partial set of the original data. The original data is organized by a geometry having a locality function. Each original datum occupies a point of the geometry and has a corresponding distance to each other point of the geometry as defined by the locality function. The original datum further has corresponding values. The method includes, for each remaining datum of the remaining set: identifying a family of points of the geometry corresponding to members of the partial set local to the remaining datum by using the locality function; estimating the corresponding values of the remaining datum by using a peridynamic differential operator on the corresponding values of each of the members of the partial set in the family of points; and storing the estimated values of the remaining datum on a nonvolatile storage device.
US10572440B2
Various embodiments provide a content addressable memory (CAM) architecture that utilizes non-bit addressable memory, such as a single or dual port random access memory. The CAM includes a first non-bit addressable memory, a second non-bit addressable memory, a multiplexer, a write operation encoder, a read operation encoder, and a match signal generator. In contrast to bit addressable memories, non-bit addressable memories are widely available, have high performance frequency, and are area efficient as compared to bit addressable memories. Accordingly, the CAM architecture described herein has low costs and time to market, increased processing time, and improved area efficiency.
US10572439B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus are described. An apparatus provides a clock signal, transmits an address on a second line of the serial bus followed by a read/write bit configured to initiate a read transaction, and delays a pulse in the clock signal after transmitting the read/write bit. The pulse may be delayed for a first duration configured to accommodate a latency associated with a first slave device that is a participant in the read transaction. The apparatus may receive an acknowledgement from the first slave device while the pulse is being transmitted and may receive a first data byte from the first slave device after receiving the acknowledgment. The apparatus may stall the clock signal for a second duration after receiving the first data byte from the first slave device, and receive a second data byte from the first slave device after the acknowledgment.
US10572438B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus for improving end-to-end timing closure of a serial bus are described. An apparatus is coupled to a serial bus through an interface circuit and has a clock generator that provides a first clock signal, a delay circuit that is adapted to generate a second clock signal by delaying the first clock signal, and a controller that is configured to cause the interface circuit to use an edge of the first clock signal to initiate transmission of a first data bit over the serial bus during a write operation, delay the first clock signal to obtain a second clock signal, and cause the interface circuit to use an edge of the second clock signal to capture a second data bit from the serial bus during a read operation. The edge of the second clock signal is delayed with respect to the edge of the first clock signal.
US10572429B2
Port extension apparatus for providing better usage and utilization efficiency ports of end-user devices are disclosed. Port extension apparatus includes at least a main port module for connection to end-user device, first data port module, data transmission control module, second data port module, and video port module. When a to-be-connected device connects to the first data port module, the first data port module and the main port module form a transmission path enabling data transmission between the to-be-connected device and the end-user device. When the to-be-connected device connects to the second data port module, the data transmission control module controls the data transmission between the to-be-connected device and the end-user device. When the to-be-connected device connects to the video port module, the data transmission control module receives the to-be-displayed information from the end-user device and transmits to the to-be-connected device to display.
US10572425B2
A method of operating a computer network system configured with disaggregated inputs/outputs. This system can be configured in a leaf-spine architecture and include a router coupled to a network source, a plurality of core switches coupled to the router, a plurality of aggregator switches coupled to each of the plurality of core switches, and a plurality of rack modules coupled to each of the plurality of aggregator switches. Each of rack modules can include an I/O appliance with a downstream aggregator module, a plurality of server devices each with PCIe interfaces, and an upstream aggregator module that aggregates each of the PCIe interfaces. A high-speed link can be configured between the downstream and upstream aggregator modules via aggregation of many serial lanes to provide reliable high speed bit stream transport over long distances, which allows for better utilization of resources and scalability of memory capacity independent of the server count.
US10572412B1
A technology is described for prioritizing a plurality of interruptible computing instances. An example method may include receiving a request to interrupt an executing interruptible computing instance that may be included in a group of interruptible computing instances having assigned instance priority values. The instance priority values may establish an order in which the interruptible computing instances may be interrupted. The interruptible computing instance may be identified that has a lower instance priority value as compared to other instance priority values assigned to the interruptible computing instances. The interruptible computing instance identified may then be terminated.
US10572403B1
A complex programmable logic device with capability of performing multi-address response includes a I2C slave circuit, a first multiplexer, a plurality of second multiplexers and a plurality of register circuits. The I2C slave circuit outputs an address message and an input data by analyzing a data flow. The address message is responsive to one of a plurality of predetermined addresses, and the I2C slave circuit outputs the predetermined address to which the address message is responsive as an address command as well as the input data. The first multiplexer outputs the input data to a respective one of the plurality of second multiplexers according to the address command. The second multiplexer received the input data accesses to a register unit included in a respective one of the register circuits according to the input data.
US10572391B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for managing a logical to physical (L2P) table in a Solid State Drive (SSD). Methods and apparatus provide for using a non-volatile memory (NVM) to store the L2P table in its entirety, where the L2P table is separated into a plurality of partitions. The SSD is partitioned into front and back-end processing portions where a partition table is managed by the back-end portion and includes one or more addresses of partitioned portions of the plurality partitions of the L2P table stored in the NVM. The back-end processing portion receives requests from the host via the front-end processing portion and accesses the partition table for scheduling read or write access to the NVM by determining one or more addresses of the respective partitioned portions of the plurality partitions of the L2P table stored in the NVM from the partition table.
US10572384B2
A computer implemented method to operate different processor cache levels of a cache hierarchy for a processor with pipelined execution is suggested. The cache hierarchy comprises at least a lower hierarchy level entity and a higher hierarchy level entity. The method comprises: sending a fetch request to the cache hierarchy; detecting a miss event from a lower hierarchy level entity; sending a fetch request to a higher hierarchy level entity; and scheduling at least one write pass.
US10572367B2
A device may receive, from a user device, a request for one or more code quality assessments of a program. The device may obtain authorization to access one or more environments associated with the program. The device may obtain one or more tokens that are associated with the one or more environments. The device may obtain a set of test classes for the program. The device may determine one or more code quality assessment scores by performing, for the program, a code quality assessment of the one or more code quality assessments. The device may perform the code quality assessment by accessing the one or more environments using the one or more tokens, executing the set of test classes in each environment, and determining the one or more code quality assessment scores. The device may provide the one or more code quality assessment scores to the user device.
US10572365B2
A method of eliminating false positives when testing a device management platform for controlling endpoints. The method includes sending, by a computing device, a request to a cloud controller to create an entity. The request causes operations including i) creating, by an endpoint responsive to a receipt of an interface request from the cloud controller, the entity, ii) receiving, by the cloud controller from the endpoint, response data generated by the entity, the response data indicating the creation of the entity, and iii) generating, by the cloud controller, control data based on the response data. The method includes receiving the control data from the cloud controller; sending, responsive to the receipt of the control data, a call to the endpoint for entity data; receiving entity data from the endpoint; comparing, the response data to the entity data to validate the response data; and generating a test status.
US10572358B1
A data storage system includes a plurality of Data Storage Devices (DSDs) having a total storage capacity available for storing user data among the plurality of DSDs. Each DSD of the plurality of DSDs has a DSD storage capacity that contributes to the total storage capacity of the plurality of DSDs. A strip size is assigned to each DSD of the plurality of DSDs based at least in part on a portion of the total storage capacity that is contributed by the DSD storage capacity of the respective DSD. Data is received for storage in a data stripe across the plurality of DSDs and the data stripe is stored across the plurality of DSDs such that each DSD of the plurality of DSDs stores a different portion of the data stripe having the strip size assigned to the DSD.
US10572357B2
A computer program product, system, and method for switching over from using a first primary storage to using a second primary storage when the first primary storage is in a mirror relationship. Migration operations are initiated to migrate data in the first primary storage to a second primary storage while the data in the first primary storage indicated in first change recording information is mirrored to a secondary storage and switch from using the first primary storage to the second primary storage. Resynchronization operations are initiated to indicate changes to data in the second primary storage in a second change recording information, copy writes from the second primary storage indicated in the first and the second change recording information to the secondary storage, and mirror writes to the second primary storage to the secondary storage in response to the copying the writes.
US10572352B2
Techniques for implementing Byzantine fault tolerance with verifiable secret sharing at constant overhead are provided. In one set of embodiments, a client can determine a secret value s to be shared with N replicas in a distributed system, s being input data for a service operation provided by the N replicas. The client can further encode s into an f-degree polynomial P(x) where f corresponds to a maximum number of faulty replicas in the distributed system, evaluate P(x) at i for i=1 to N resulting in N evaluations P(i), generate at least one f-degree recovery polynomial R(x) based on a distributed pseudo-random function (DPRF) fα(x), and evaluate R(x) at i for i=1 to N resulting in at least N evaluations R(i). The client can then invoke the service operation, the invoking comprising transmitting a message including P(i) and R(i) to each respective replica i.
US10572346B1
While performing a backup of a virtual machine running on a host computer, a backup application stores virtual machine data and metadata. The virtual machine can be restored from the backed up virtual machine data, and the backed up virtual machine metadata can be used to check data integrity of the restored virtual machine.
US10572343B2
A memory device is configured to provide internal or on-die ECC (error checking and correction or error correction coding). In such a system, the code matrix can be managed as four quadrants of (N/4) bits, with two adjacent quadrants in an (N/2)-bit segment or portion. The N codes of the matrix correspond to the N bits of a data word to be protected by the ECC. The code matrix includes M codes corresponding to the M ECC check bits. The memory device includes internal ECC circuitry to perform ECC in the DRAM device with the ECC bits and code matrix in response to a request to access the data word. The codes in a quadrant steer an aliased bit to a quadrant other than an adjacent quadrant.
US10572341B2
A semiconductor device includes an error count signal generation circuit and a row error control circuit. The error count signal generation circuit generates an error count signal which is enabled if the number of erroneous data of cells selected to perform an error scrub operation is equal to a predetermined number. The row error control circuit stores information concerning the number of the erroneous data in response to the error count signal if the number of the erroneous data is greater than or equal to the predetermined number or stores information concerning the number of row paths exhibiting the erroneous data in response to the error count signal after more erroneous data than the predetermined number is detected.
US10572340B2
A method for managing a solid state disk (SSD) storage device and accessing data of the SSD storage device in order to resolve problems of highly complex data management in an SDD and different service lives of NAND flash physical pages in a NAND flash physical block where, lengths of a user data area, primary metadata, and an error checking and correction (ECC) code in each storage unit of an SSD storage device are set to fixed values. As a result, a format of data stored in the storage unit is fixed, and the ECC code can also ensure consistency between data in the user data area and the primary metadata at a fixed code rate in order to ensure correctness and integrity of the data in the user data area and the primary metadata.
US10572339B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods to manage memory latency operations are described. In one embodiment, an electronic device comprises a processor and a memory control logic to receive data from a remote memory device, store the data in a local cache memory, receive an error correction code indicator associated with the data, and implement a data management policy in response to the error correction code indicator. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10572337B2
Hardware accelerator memory address translation fault resolution is provided. A hardware accelerator and a switchboard are in communication with a processing core. The hardware accelerator determines at least one memory address translation related to an operation having a fault. The operation and the fault memory address translation are flushed from the hardware accelerator including augmenting the operation with an entity identifier. The switchboard forwards the operation with the fault memory address translation and the entity identifier from the hardware accelerator to a second buffer. The operating system repairs the fault memory address translation. The operating system sends the operation to the processing core utilizing an effective address based on the entity identifier. The switchboard, supported by the processing core, forwards the operation with the repaired memory address translation to a first buffer and the hardware accelerator executes the operation with the repaired address.
US10572336B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and non-transitory computer program product for fault handling for an information technology system. Historical data for the information technology system is read from a database. A continued fraction model is applied to the historical data to generate spatial metrics. Real-time parameters for the information technology system are received. Jacobian modeling is applied to the real-time parameters to generate state space metrics. The spatial metrics and the state space metrics are combined using a recurrent space transformer to identify an actionable event in the information technology system. The recurrent space transformer maps the spatial metrics and the state space metrics to a common space. An alert is generated in response to identifying the actionable event in the information technology system.
US10572333B2
A method for diagnosing faults in products of one type includes determining a fault type of the products and all of the underlying reasons for the fault which correspond to the fault type. A probability of each underlying reason is calculated and a decision tree is constructed, a root node of the decision tree being the determined fault type and all the underlying reasons being child nodes of the root node. When the decision tree is solved, the underlying reasons for the fault of that type of product can be presented.
US10572330B2
Aspects are related to reducing size of diagnostic data downloads. To reduce the size, format and content are read from a diagnostic data file so that pre-defined priority rules may be applied to the diagnostic data file and/or a subset of the diagnostic data file utilizing the format or the content. Then, a priority level is assigned to the diagnostic data file or the subset based on an ability of that file or that subset to diagnose a failure as determined by the pre-defined priority rules. Next, an ordering of the diagnostic data file and/or the subset into a file stream occurs, followed by a streaming of the file stream to a remote diagnostic system. A notification can be received from the remote diagnostic system to stop the streaming if sufficient diagnostic data to diagnose the failure has been received by the remote diagnostic system.
US10572327B2
In one example of the disclosure, incident data indicative of a crash of an application is obtained, the crash occurring during an access of the application by a user at a computing device. A session depth at which the crash occurred is determined based upon the incident data. Time period data is obtained, the time period data indicative of a time period, following the crash, until the user next accesses the application at the computing device. A severity score for the crash is determined based upon the session depth and the time period.
US10572326B2
A self-diagnosing watchdog monitoring system having a watchdog IC and a microcontroller is provided. The microcontroller has a microprocessor, and a digital input/output device with an enable pin and a disable pin. An enable application in the microcontroller monitors the disable pin of the digital input-output device, and if the disable pin does not have a low logic state within a predetermined amount of time after a first time indicating that the disable application is malfunctioning, then the enable application generates a control message.
US10572323B1
Maintaining a data storage device having a plurality of physical storage units includes constructing a model that predicts failure of the physical storage units in the data storage device, where the model is trained using empirical data containing operational parameters of physical storage units, determining failure predictions of the physical storage units in the data storage device using the model, moving applications in the data storage device based on the failure predictions of the physical storage units in the data storage device, and maintaining the physical storage units in the data storage device according to the failure predictions of the physical storage units in the data storage device. The model may be constructed using a Random Forest Classifier model from the Scikit-Learn software package. Using empirical data containing operational parameters of physical storage units may include accessing publicly available empirical data.
US10572315B1
An API gateway hosts one or more APIs for use by client applications. The API gateway includes facilities for maintaining state information on behalf of a client application, a backend service, or an API. The state information may include cached information retrieved from backend services as well as cached results returned from the API to the customer applications. Cached results generated by the API may be shared across a number of customers or across a set of APIs managed by a single API gateway. Cached information associated with a backend service may be shared across a number of APIs that access the backend service. In some examples, session information associated with secure connections between an API gateway service and a backend service provider is maintained by the API gateway service and shared among APIs hosted by the API gateway service.
US10572314B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to distribute a workload for execution are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a workload container interface to access a workload for execution at a remote device, the workload including workload instructions and a specified capability to be met by the remote device. A runtime selector is to select the remote device for execution of the workload based on the specified capability being present in a list of capabilities discovered for the remote device. A workload transmitter to transmit, in response to the selection of the remote device for execution of the workload, the workload to the remote device for execution.
US10572309B2
A computer includes a processor and multiple components directly or indirectly connected to the processor. Each component is coupled to a control device, and is configured to provide resources for one or more application programs running in the computer. The processor, when executing an application program, attaches a tag to an application request, and sends the tag-attached application request to a control device coupled with a component to which the tag-attached application request is directed. The control device receives the tag-attached application request, determines, based on the tag and a resource allocation policy, an amount of resources in the component and instructs the component to allocate the amount of resources and process the application request in accordance with the amount of resources allocated for the application request.
US10572307B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, processes, and/or methods may receive first task sets that include respective first tasks and one or more of respective first priorities, respective first minimum computing resource allocations, and respective first maximum processing times; receive first satisfaction information associated with processing the first task sets; receive first execution metric information associated with processing the first task sets; determine a first pattern based at least on the first satisfaction information and based at least on the first execution metric information; receive second task sets that include respective second tasks and one or more of respective second priorities, respective second minimum computing resource allocations, and respective second maximum processing times; determine, based at least on the first pattern, computing resources allocations for the second task sets; and determine, based at least on the first pattern, a processing order for the second task sets.
US10572304B2
Embodiments are directed to methodologies for efficiently sampling data for analysis by a pipeline analysis algorithm. The amount of sampled data is maximized without increasing sampling overhead by sampling “non-pipeline activity” data if the subject pipeline is inactive during the sampling time. The non-pipeline activity data is selected to include overall system information that is relevant to the subject pipeline's performance but is not necessarily dependent on whether the subject pipeline is active. In some embodiments, the non-pipeline activity data allows for confirmation of a pipeline performance characteristic that must otherwise be inferred by the subsequent pipeline analysis algorithm from data sampled while the pipeline was active. In some embodiments, the non-pipeline activity data allows the pipeline analysis algorithm to analyze additional performance characteristics that cannot otherwise be inferred from the data sampled while the pipeline was active.
US10572288B2
An apparatus and method are described for efficient inter-virtual machine (VM) communication. For example, an apparatus comprises inter-VM communication logic to map a first specified set of device virtual memory addresses of a first VM to a first set of physical memory addresses in a shared system memory and to further map a second specified set of device virtual memory addresses of a second VM to the first set physical memory addresses in the shared system memory.
US10572284B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing a virtualization congestion control framework. In one aspect, a method might include a hypervisor assigning application resources of a virtual machine (“VM”), which operates on a host computing system, with maximum allowable settings to each software application to be executed on the VM. The hypervisor or an orchestrator might determine a running mode of the host computing system, and might execute the software application(s) using running mode attributes of the determined running mode. The hypervisor or the orchestrator might monitor application resource utilization, and, based on a determination that application resource utilization has changed, might modify allocation of application resources to each of the software application(s). In some cases, the hypervisor or the orchestrator might monitor for mass congestion indicators, and, based on a determination that a mass congestion indicator is present, might modify the running mode of the host computing system.
US10572272B2
An audio-video-navigation (AVN) system for vehicles includes: a communication unit connected with a service or device; a memory storing at least one of first operation parameters or at least one of second operation parameters corresponding to a connected service or device; and a controller determining whether a normal operation is performed with the at least one loaded operation parameter and changing the at least one loaded parameter based on whether a normal operation is performed with the at least one loaded operation parameter. The controller performs a control operation to store at least one part of adaptively changeable predetermined parameters as the at least one of second operation parameters based on whether a normal operation is performed with the at least one loaded operation parameter.
US10572270B1
A processor configured to reduce the amount of time necessary for a mobile device to resume from a hibernation state is described. While in the hibernation state, power to all components of a mobile, except a motion sensor, may be powered off. The processor, upon receiving a signal from a wakeup sensor, causes the mobile device to initiate a transition from the hibernation mode to an awake mode. A validation sensor on the mobile device detects a user contact with the mobile device or user proximity with respect to the mobile device. Upon receiving a validation signal confirming validation of the transition from the hibernation state to the awake state, the processor resumes the transition to the awake mode. In the awake mode the mobile device may detect user input indicative of activating the mobile device. Upon receiving a signal indicating user input to activate the device, the processor may cause the device to become fully active, and ready for user interaction.
US10572267B2
A technique for managing a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)-controlled computing device from a separate mobile computing device is discussed.
US10572264B2
Aspects of the invention include detecting, in an out-of-order (OoO) processor, that all instructions in a first group of in-flight instructions have a status of finished. The first group of in-flight instructions is the oldest group in an entry of a global completion table (GCT). It is determined that the entry in the GCT is a merged entry that is associated with both the first group of in-flight instructions and a second group of in-flight instructions dispatched immediately subsequent to the first group of in-flight instructions. The first group of in-flight instructions and the second group of in-flight instructions are completed in a single processor cycle. The completing is based at least in part on detecting that all instructions in the first group of in-flight instructions have a status of finished. The completing includes requesting release of resources utilized by both the first and second groups of in-flight instructions.
US10572259B2
An apparatus and method of operating a data processing apparatus are provided. The data processing circuitry is responsive to a hint instruction to then assert at least one performance modifying control signal, when subsequently generating control signals for other data processing instructions. This causes the data processing functional hardware which performs the data processing operations defined by the data processing instructions to operate in a modified manner, although the data processing results produced do not change in dependence on whether the at least one performance modifying control signal is asserted.
US10572246B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing live device driver updates are disclosed. When a processor loads a given version of a device driver, the given version registers with a proxy module rather than registering with the operating system. If a previous version of the device driver is already running, the proxy module provides the given version with a pointer to the previous version. The given version uses the pointer to retrieve static data from the previous version. After the previous version is quiesced, the given version retrieves transient data from the previous version and then takes over as the running version of the device driver. Subsequent versions of the device driver are able to replace previous versions in a similar manner. Also, previous versions of the device driver are able to replace subsequent versions in a similar manner in the case of downgrading.
US10572232B2
A method is provided to convert a textual data prompt embedded within a graphical user interface (GUI) to a widget. A textual prompt is parsed to identify parameters including a topic and an intent. An algorithm compares the parameters to additional parameters associated with widgets. When a percentage of a first match between the parameters and the additional parameters associated with a first widget exceeds a threshold, the first widget is embedded within the GUI on a second computing device. The first widget includes responses to the textual prompt. A size, a shape, and a color of the first widget mirrors the confidence threshold. When the first response is selected by a user, the first response is embedded and displayed within the GUI of the first computing device as textual data.
US10572231B1
Components associated with application entities can be grouped into one or more component groupings. A grouping can include, for example, components that include or specify parameters and settings for a gameplay entity of a gaming application. The grouping of components enables a single component group to be displayed through an editor interface instead of all the individual grouped components, which simplifies the view through the interface. A user can select important parameters to be exposed at the group level, such that those parameters can be accessed and set without having to access and search through the individual grouped components. The grouping can also be saved and used to develop subsequent entities, which can simplify the development process and ensure that necessary components are included for specific entity types.
US10572226B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for accelerating the development and distribution of data science workloads, including a consistent, portable and pre-configured data science workspace for development of data science containers allowing for the creation of a standardized, modular and reusable library of data science containers that can be maintained, extended and reused in a clear and repeatable manner. The containers may be submitted to a build and deployment process that ensures consistency across multiple environments in terms of the application code and the operating system environment. Runtime execution may be managed through the authoring of definitions which detail aspects of how the workload should operate within a certain environment.
US10572225B1
A and a request generator circuit is configured to read data elements of a three-dimensional (3-D) input feature map (IFM) from a memory and store a subset of the data elements in one of a plurality of N line buffers. Each line buffer is configured for storage of M data elements. A pixel iterator circuit is coupled to the line buffers and is configured to generate a sequence of addresses for reading the stored data elements from the line buffers based on a sequence of IFM height values and a sequence of IFM width values.
US10572216B2
An approach for utilizing a motivational effect value for music on a computing device, the approach involves determining a performance indicator for a first segment of distance traveled, retrieving one or more performance factors associated with the first segment, calculating a first motivational effect value for one or more songs associated with the first segment, wherein the calculating is based on the performance indicator and the one or more performance factors, developing a playlist of music based on a plurality of motivational effect values, wherein the developing comprises at least one of generating a new playlist and modifying an existing playlist, and developing a playlist of suggested music based on receiving one or more motivational effect values associated with one or more groups of users.
US10572212B2
A content sharing method is provided. The content sharing method is performed by a display device connected to at least one user terminal. The content sharing method includes displaying content on the display device, receiving information included in a transparent layer of a first user terminal among the at least one user terminal from the first user terminal, and overlapping the transparent layer, including the information received from the first user terminal, on the displayed content.
US10572211B2
Provided is a display device or a display system capable of displaying images along a curved surface, a display device or a display system capable of displaying images seamlessly in the form of a ring, or a display device or a display system that is suitable for increasing in size. The display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a first part and a second part and is flexible. The first part can display images. The second part can transmit visible light. The display panel is curved so that the second part and the first part overlap with each other.
US10572208B2
A display device includes a signal receiver configured to receive an image signal; a display including a plurality of modules each including a plurality of light sources, and display an image based on the received image signal; and a controller configured to perform first uniformity calibration between light sources within each individual module with regard to the modules, and second uniformity calibration between the modules, wherein the controller controls the first uniformity calibration to be applied to the image signal received in the signal receiver based on a first coefficient determined for each of the light sources within each individual module, controls the second uniformity calibration to be applied to the image signal subjected to the first uniformity calibration based on a second coefficient determined for each of the modules, and controls a calibrated image to be displayed based on the image signal subjected to the second uniformity calibration.
US10572199B2
A printer includes a printing mechanism, a printer BLT communicator, a printer device communicator capable of communicating with a customer display, and a printer processor for performing printing based on print data in a case where the print data is received and transmits display data to the customer display in a case where the display data is received, in which the printer processor temporarily stops wireless communication by shifting an operation mode of the printer BLT communicator to a Sniff mode to transmit a communication request to the POS terminal device at a communication request interval in a case where a period during which the print data or the display data is not received exceeds a shift period, and changes the communication request interval depending on whether or not the customer display is connected.
US10572172B2
Multi-granular deduplication is performed on I/O data received at a storage system as part of replicating the I/O data to another storage system. Deduplication may be performed in an iterative fashion, for example, on blocks and smaller and smaller sub-blocks of the I/O data. Deduplication may be performed on blocks and smaller sub-blocks by comparing each block or sub-block to preceding blocks or sub-blocks, respectively, in the I/O data to determine if there is a duplicate. If a duplicate block of sub-block is determined for a block or sub-block, the block or sub-block may be replaced in the I/O data with a reference to the duplicate block or sub-block in a deduplication header for the block. A metadata structure may indicate which blocks of the I/O data have had deduplication performed thereon. The replicating storage system may use the metadata structure and deduplication block headers to restore the I/O data.
US10572169B2
A device includes a schedule engine including a mode selection input. The schedule engine has an operating mode based on the mode selection input. The operating mode includes an opportunistic scheduling mode based on the mode selection input having a first value and a pipelined scheduling mode based on the mode selection input having a second value. The device further includes a buffer coupled to the schedule engine.
US10572165B2
Method and system are provided for predictive point-in-time copy for storage systems. The method may include: recording a frequency of writes to an area of a storage volume; and prioritising areas for having point-in-time copies carried out based on the write frequency to an area, wherein areas in the storage volume having a high write frequency are prioritised before areas with a lower write frequency. An area may be of a coarser granularity than a region tracked for the point-in-time copy. The method may include: recording the frequency of writes to an area in a given period; and prioritising areas by their frequency of writes in the given period immediately prior to the point-in-time copy.
US10572162B2
A computerized method is disclosed in which an automation device stores, in a parameter storage, application-related parameters, each parameter uniquely identifying a specific automation device application. The automation device also stores, in an application repository, automation device applications as separate computer program entities. The automation device may detect a pre-determined act, performed by a user, the predetermined act comprising the user selecting via a user interface an application-related parameter among the application-related parameters stored in the parameter storage. Based on the detecting, the automation device retrieves, from the application repository to an execution memory, the automation device application corresponding to the selected application-related parameter, wherein the retrieved automation device application is executable from the execution memory, in order to drive the automation device for an application-related purpose.
US10572160B1
Technologies are provided for dynamically changing a size of a cache region of a storage device. A storage device controller writes data to the cache region of the storage device using a particular storage format. The storage device controller then migrates the cached data to a storage region of the device, where the data is written using a different storage format. A dynamic cache manager monitors input and output activity for the storage device and dynamically adjusts a size of the cache region to adapt to changes in the input and/or output activity. The dynamic cache manager can also adjust a size of the storage region. The storage device controller can automatically detect that the storage device has dynamic cache support and configure the storage device by creating the cache region and the storage region on the device.
US10572159B1
An object-based data storage service receives a request to store a data object in association with a smart data storage tier. Based at least in part on characteristics of the data object, the object-based data storage service identifies and stores the data object in a first location corresponding to a first data storage tier. The object-based data storage service monitors access to the data object to identify a second set of characteristics of the data object. This second set of characteristics is used to determine that the data object is to be transitioned to a second data storage tier. The object-based data storage service, based at least in part on this determination, stores the data object in a second location corresponding to the second data storage tier.
US10572157B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for data integrity and acceleration in compressed storage environments in combination with software defined native redundant array of independent disks (RAID). The mechanism receives a data portion to write to storage and divides the data portion into a plurality of chunks. The mechanism performs real-time compression on a given chunk within the plurality of chunks and determines a compression rate for the given chunk. The mechanism determines a RAID level for the given chunk based on a value of the compression rate and stores the given chunk based on the determined RAID level.
US10572155B2
A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device; and a controller including a plurality of buffers and suitable for, when a program fail occurs in the nonvolatile memory device, transmitting exchange data stored in an optional exchange buffer among the plurality of buffers, to the nonvolatile memory device, storing and updating, in the exchange buffer, failed program data received from the nonvolatile memory device, and transmitting the updated program data to the nonvolatile memory device.
US10572153B2
A system and method for efficiently managing data through compression interfaces may include receiving, by a controller, data, generating, by the controller, a compressed payload based on the data, generating, by the controller, metadata describing the compressed payload, the metadata including fixed size metadata and variable size metadata, generating, by the controller, a data container comprising the uncompressed payload and the metadata, and transmitting, by the controller, the data container to an application. Some implementations of the system may include a storage media, and a storage controller executable by a processor that may include an interface processor, a controller logic, and a media processor configured to communicate with an application and the storage media to perform aspects of the method.
US10572148B2
An electronic device and a display method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a touch screen including a main display region positioned on a front surface of the electronic device and an auxiliary display region displaying a first keypad, a sensor configured to sense a first touch input for selecting at least one of user interaction (UI) elements included in the first keypad, and a controller configured to control the touch screen so that a character corresponding to the selected UI element is displayed in the main display region according to the touch input sensed by the sensor.
US10572141B2
A control system for an autonomous agricultural system includes a display configured to display at least one control function associated with at least one operation. The display is configured to output a first signal indicative of a first input. The control system includes a controller comprising a processor and a memory. The controller is communicatively coupled to the display and configured to receive the first signal indicative of the first input and to send a second signal to the display indicative of instructions to display a second control in an unlocked state. The display is configured to output a third signal to the controller indicative of the second input. The controller is configured to receive the third signal and to output a fourth signal indicative of instructions to control the at least one operation of the autonomous agricultural system.
US10572137B2
Improved computer efficiency for document navigation is provided. A transparent overlay is automatically applied to an interactive content element to prevent inadvertent interaction with the element during scrolling operations. In some examples, upon determining a user's intent is to navigate a parent document comprising an embedded interactive element, the overlay is applied, and user-interaction with the interactive element is temporarily disabled. Upon determining the user's intent is to interact with the interactive element, the overlay is removed, and user-interaction with the interactive element is enabled. When the overlay is removed, a contextual hint, such as via a user interface control, can be provided to indicate how to continue navigating the parent document. In other examples, the transparent overlay is customized according to each interactive content element, wherein user controls associated with the interactive element are exposed, and wherein the overlay is perpetually applied to the interactive element.
US10572134B2
The present disclosure provides a method for providing a prototyping tool, including at least: acquiring input data from a user; defining, as a trigger, a gesture generated by using the input data; and defining an interaction for allowing at least one action to be performed if the trigger occurs.
US10572132B2
The present disclosure generally relates to displaying content on a reduced-size user interface. An electronic device with one or more processors, memory, and a display, receives content associated with a designated area of the display, where the content is associated with a plurality of available display formats stored in the memory. The device determines a size of the designated area and determines a first display format for the content from the plurality of available display formats based on at least the content and the size of the designated area. The device displays a representation of the content according to the first display format.
US10572131B2
According to various disclosed embodiments, a method for setting a date and time by an electronic device may include: displaying a user interface that includes a plurality of time points arranged at regular intervals along a circumferential direction in an edge area of a substantially circular dial and including a date change point, a first icon positioned at a first point among the plurality of time points, and a second icon positioned at a second point among the plurality of time points; receiving an input for at least one of the first icon and the second icon; displaying movement of the at least one of the first icon and the second icon on the plurality of time points based on the received input; and displaying a date and time corresponding to a movement direction and movement location of the at least one of the first icon and the second icon.
US10572118B2
A system is provided for obtaining a landscape design pattern based on selected landscape design elements in a landscape design system having landscape design patterns comprised of at least two of said landscape design elements. The system stores multiple landscape design elements in a storage device, enables a user to select a plurality of landscape design patterns each of which includes a plurality of landscape design elements, matches the landscape design elements in the selected landscape design patterns with stored landscape design patterns, and renders the selected landscape design patterns using stored landscape design elements. The system preferably stores photographs of the multiple landscape design elements, and retrieves and displays photographs of the matched landscape design elements. In one implementation, a unique mnemonic code is assigned to each of the stored landscape design elements.
US10572110B2
Apparatus and method are disclosed for adaptively adjusting a user interface of an intelligent terminal device. The method may include acquiring a posture parameter of the intelligent terminal device. The method may also include determining dominant hand information of a user of the intelligent terminal device based on the posture parameter. In addition, the method may include adjusting a user interface of the intelligent terminal device based on the dominant hand information of the user.
US10572109B2
An electronic device provides, to a display, while in a screensaver mode, data to present a first media, that includes a first visual motion effect. In response to receiving a user input on a remote user input device, a type of the user input on the remote user input device is determined. If the user input is of a first type, the device provides, to the display, data to present the first media, that includes the first visual motion effect, with corresponding descriptive text. If the user input is of a second type, the device exits the screensaver mode.
US10572108B2
Hierarchical inventory tree operation can include receiving an indication of an update made to a hierarchical inventory tree. The tree can represent a hierarchical inventory of objects. The indication can include an identification of at least one object affected by the update and an identification of at least one property of the at least one object affected by the update. The update can be particular to a single node of the tree. Hierarchical inventory tree operation can further include flagging the particular node without updating the particular node in the graphical user interface (GUI) responsive to a determination that a portion of the tree including the particular node is not displayed by the GUI.
US10572105B2
An information processing device includes: a pointing device; a display unit; and a processor configured to cause the display unit to display a first GUI component selected by a cursor and a second GUI component, calculate a displacement of an input position in a predetermined coordinate system, set a reaction area in the predetermined coordinate system, set a selection area in the predetermined coordinate system based on a second coordinate, set the reaction area as an identified reaction area, cause the display unit to display the second GUI component, corresponding to the identified reaction area, as selected by the cursor, and set the reaction area so that a distance between the first coordinate and the second coordinate, required for the selection area to overlap with the reaction area with the overlapping area exceeding the overlapping criterion, becomes a predetermined distance.
US10572103B2
Some embodiments provide a method for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) for an electronic device. The method receives input to display files recently opened on the electronic device. In response to the input, the method displays a chronologically-arranged graphical representation of files recently opened on the electronic device from two or more applications that operate on the electronic device. The files are arranged in several groups based on when the files were open on the electronic device. A first group of the several groups is selectable to initiate opening of several files in the first group so that the files in the first group are open concurrently. A second group of the several groups is selectable to initiate opening of several files in the second group so that the files in the second group are open concurrently.
US10572092B2
A method for acquiring data from a resistive film touch panel includes: A step in which, in a first drive mode in which a first drive circuit sequentially drives a first drive electrode group of the plurality of drive electrodes, a first detection circuit detects a first detection electrode group of the plurality of detection electrodes, and a second detection circuit detects a second detection electrode group of the plurality of detection electrodes. A step in which, in a second drive mode in which a second drive circuit sequentially drives a second drive electrode group of the plurality of drive electrodes, the first detection circuit detects the first detection electrode group, and the second detection circuit detects the second detection electrode group.
US10572091B2
The present application discloses a touch substrate including a base substrate, and a touch electrode layer on the base substrate having a first region having a plurality of first mesh electrode patterns, a second region having a plurality of second mesh electrode patterns corresponding to the plurality of first mesh electrode patterns, and an interface region between the first region and the second region. Each of the plurality of first mesh electrode patterns includes a plurality of first mesh electrode lines having a first line width. A corresponding second mesh electrode pattern includes a plurality of second mesh electrode lines corresponding to the plurality of first mesh electrode lines and having the first line width. The first mesh electrode line in the interface region has a second line width no less than the first line width.
US10572088B2
A sensor for use with vehicular components. The sensors may comprise transmitting and receiving antennas that can be interleaved or placed within the various materials throughout the vehicle so that interaction with the materials will provide information related to the use. Sensors may also infuse signal into an occupant within the vehicle via the material which can provide enhanced interactions with various vehicle features and components.
US10572085B2
A fingerprint sensor including first, second, and third lines, and a unit sensor coupled to the first, the second, and the third lines. The unit sensor includes a pixel electrode coupled between the first line and the second line, a first capacitance element coupled between the first line and the pixel electrode, a second capacitance element coupled between the second line and the pixel electrode, a switching element coupled between the pixel electrode and one of the first line, the second line, a first line of an adjacent unit sensor, and a second line of the adjacent unit sensor, and including a control electrode coupled to the third line, and a third capacitance element coupled between the third line and the pixel electrode, in which at least one of the first and the second capacitance elements includes a variable capacitance element.
US10572073B2
There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of inputting information input by a plurality of users to targets manipulated by the users even in a situation in which the plurality of users perform manipulations at the same time, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to identify and acquire input information from each of a plurality of target regions serving as acquisition sources of the input information, for each of the target regions; and a control unit configured to associate each of at least one or more applications with any of the plurality of target regions, and allocate the input information acquired from the target region to the application associated with the target region.
US10572065B2
Automotive acceleration compensation force sensing includes determining a total force value from the measurements from force sensors, obtaining, from an accelerometer, an environmental acceleration value, and calculating an input object force value on an input surface using a total force value and the environmental acceleration value. Automotive acceleration compensation force sensing further includes reporting the input object force value.
US10572063B2
A touch-sensitive display device includes a touch sensor having a plurality of display electrodes and control logic coupled to the plurality of display electrodes. The control logic is configured to receive, for each of a plurality of stylus electrodes of an active stylus interacting with the touch-sensitive display device, a spatial capacitance measurement over the touch sensor for that stylus electrode. Relative to the touch sensor, and based on spatial capacitance measurements of the stylus electrodes, the control logic is configured to determine (i) a tip position of the active stylus, (ii) a tilt parameter of the active stylus, and (iii) a twist parameter of the active stylus.
US10572057B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device with a touch sensor. The display device has a touch sensor that is directly disposed on a sealing part, thus removing the necessity of an additional adhesion process, simplifying a manufacturing process and reducing manufacture cost. In addition, the display device with the touch sensor includes a display cover electrode of a display pad that is made of a same material as a conductive layer included in the touch sensor, thus preventing damage to the display pad electrode.
US10572056B2
An organic light-emitting display panel having a built-in touchscreen includes a plurality of subpixels defined therein by a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, an encapsulation layer having an encapsulating function, and a color filter layer located on the encapsulation layer. An organic light-emitting display device includes the organic light-emitting display panel. Both the organic light-emitting display panel having a built-in touchscreen and the organic light-emitting display device having a built-in touchscreen is provided with a structure enabling a touchscreen disposed therewithin.
US10572055B2
Discussed are a driving method, a touch sensing circuit, a display panel, and a touch display device in which touch driving of driving touch electrodes using a multi-frequency driving method while modulating a frequency of a touch driving signal of a pulse type. The touch driving signal drives at least one touch electrode and senses a touch or a touch position in touch sections for a touch mode. Each of the touch sections for the touch mode includes k or more unit touch sections. The frequency of the touch driving signal output in at least one unit touch section is different from the frequency of the touch driving signal output in another unit touch section. Accordingly, it is possible to enable touch sensing and to suppress an EMI phenomenon which may occur due to the touch driving signal.
US10572054B2
A method for controlling an interface in an electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display. A first predefined user action is detected, together with a second user action, and the electronic device defines and positions a cursor on the display screen. A first display area which contains soft buttons from a certain part of the display screen (depending on cursor position) is projected within or around the portion of the display within reach of a user's thumb, for one-handed operation. The soft buttons in such first display area can be shrunk or enlarged in size as user requires.
US10572052B2
Embodiments of the present invention relates to the field of display technology, and particularly to a pressure force touch panel and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display apparatus including the abovementioned pressure force touch panel. In one embodiment, the pressure force touch panel comprises an array substrate and a color film substrate assembling with each other, and, the color film substrate comprises a black matrix, a plurality of spacers are provided at a side of the color film substrate facing the array substrate; grooves, in one-to-one correspondence with at least some of the spacers, are provided in a side surface of the array substrate facing the color film substrate, and a piezoelectric mechanism electrically connected to a detection circuit is mounted in each of the grooves and is located within a region of projection of the black matrix onto the array substrate; wherein, the piezoelectric mechanism generates an electrical signal when the spacer is pressed against the corresponding piezoelectric mechanism.
US10572051B2
According to one or more embodiments of the invention, a touch sensor includes: a first substrate; sensor electrodes spaced apart from each other on a first layer on one surface of the first substrate; sensor lines disposed on a second layer different from the first layer; contact portions electrically connecting a sensor electrode of the sensor electrodes to a sensor line of the sensor lines; and branch wires overlapping the sensor electrode and connecting the contact portions corresponding to the sensor electrode to each other.
US10572050B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes first and second substrate units, a display function layer, and a drive element. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate, a display unit, and a circuit unit. The first substrate has a first surface including a display region and a peripheral region. The display unit is provided in the display region, and includes first lines, second lines, switch elements, pixel electrodes, and third lines. The circuit unit is provided in the peripheral region, and is electrically connected to one of the second lines and one of the third lines. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate and fourth lines. The display function layer is provided between the first and second substrate units. The drive element is provided on the peripheral region. At least a portion of the circuit unit is disposed between the drive element and the first substrate.
US10572039B2
A touch sensing display device including a first substrate with a display unit, a second substrate disposed on the first substrate, a window cover disposed on the second substrate, and a touch force sensor. The touch force sensor includes a first electrode disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate or on a bottom surface of the first substrate, and a second electrode disposed under the first substrate.
US10572034B2
An input device includes a fingerprint sensor, an operating layer having a first operating surface, at least one force sensor, and an evaluation unit. The first operating surface has an acquisition surface which acquires a fingerprint of a finger of an operator via the fingerprint sensor. The at least one force sensor measures an operating force of the finger of the operator acting on the first operating surface. The evaluation unit is electrically conductively connected with the fingerprint sensor and with the at least one force sensor. The evaluation unit assigns at least one first switching function to the operating force applied on first operating surface of the operating layer if the operating force measured on the first operating surface exceeds a first threshold value.
US10572027B2
Gesture detection and interaction techniques are described. Object detection used to support the gestures may be accomplished in a variety of ways, such as by using radio waves as part of a radar technique. In a first example, the techniques are implemented such that one hand of a user sets a context for a gesture that is defined by another hand of the user. In another example, a gesture recognition mode is utilized. In yet another example, detection of distance is used such that the same motions may be used to different between operations performed. In a further example, split gestures are supported. In another instance, entry into a gesture recognition mode may be implemented through touch and then recognized through three-dimensional orientation and motion of that hand or another.
US10572026B2
Techniques are disclosed for generating a reference point on a path of a vector image using a preview reference point. In some examples, a method includes receiving selection of a path included in one or more paths of a vector image presented on a display, thereby identifying an active path; causing display, via the display, of a preview reference point on the active path; receiving a moving off-path input gesture and causing the preview reference point to move along the active path correspondingly with the moving off-path input gesture; and in response to the moving off-path input gesture terminating, set a current position of the preview reference point on the active path to a final reference point on the path, the current position of the preview reference point on the active path corresponding to a last position of the off-path input gesture. The display may be a touch-sensitive display.
US10572024B1
A head-mounted display (HMD) tracks a user's hand positions, orientations, and gestures using an ultrasound sensor coupled to the HMD. The ultrasound sensor emits ultrasound signals that reflect off the hands of the user, even if a hand of the user is obstructed by the other hand. The ultrasound sensor identifies features used to train a machine learning model based on detecting reflected ultrasound signals. For example, one of the features is the time delay between consecutive reflected ultrasound signals detected by the ultrasound sensor. The machine learning model learns to determine poses and gestures of the user's hands. The HMD optionally includes a camera that generates image data of the user's hands. The image data can also be used to train the machine learning model. The HMD may perform a calibration process to avoid detecting other objects and surfaces such as a wall next to the user.
US10572022B2
The invention relates to a control device with sensory feedback (1) comprising: a detector (11) of gestures of the hand (9) of a user (3), a sensory feedback unit (15) connected to the gesture detector (11) and providing sensory feedback to the user (3) in accordance with the gestures of the user's hand (9), characterised in that the sensory feedback unit (15) includes a unit (17) for blowing a stream of air towards an area (19) for detecting gestures of the hand (9) of the user (3).
US10572021B2
A haptic-enabled user interface device comprising a user input component, an elastomer suspension, a signal generating circuit, a signal sensing circuit, one or more switches, and a control unit is presented. The elastomer suspension is formed by at least one stack that includes an elastomeric layer, wherein the at least one stack forms at least one capacitor. The control unit is configured, in an actuation mode, to cause the one or more switches to electrically connect the signal generating circuit to the at least one capacitor and to electrically disconnect the signal sensing circuit from at least one capacitor, and to cause the signal generating circuit to apply a drive signal to the at least one capacitor. The control unit is further configured, in a sensing mode, to cause the one or more switches to electrically connect the signal sensing circuit to the at least one capacitor.
US10572009B2
An eye tracking method includes: capturing, by a camera, an image of an eye; detecting, by a processing circuit, a pupil region of interest in the image of the eye; analyzing, by the processing circuit, the pupil region of interest to obtain a gaze vector of the pupil region of interest; calculating, by the processing circuit, a viewpoint of the eye according to the gaze vector based on an eye model, in which the eye model includes a matrix indicating relationship between the viewpoint of the eye and the gaze vector of the pupil region of interest; and tracking, by the processing circuit, a motion of the eye based on the viewpoint calculated using the eye model.
US10571997B2
Approaches that manage energy in a data center are provided. In one embodiment, there is an energy management tool, including an analysis component configured to determine a current energy profile of each of a plurality of systems within the data center, the current energy profile comprising an overall rating expressed as an integer value, the overall rating calculated based on a current workload usage and environmental conditions surrounding each of the plurality of systems; and a priority component configured to prioritize a routing of a workload to a set of systems from the plurality of systems within the data center having the least amount of energy present based on a comparison of the overall ratings for each of the plurality of systems within the data center.
US10571989B2
A data collection system includes one or more input sensing devices and a data collection device. The data collection device includes data collection circuitry that is continuously activated to capture measurement data samples from the one or more input sensing devices and locally store the measurement data samples. The data collection device also includes a digital processor that is coupled to the data collection circuitry and is activated to locally perform a sample analysis of the measurement data samples, wherein the sample analysis is a regular analysis of routine measurement data samples when the measurement data samples are without a triggering event, and wherein the sample analysis is an event analysis when the measurement data samples include a triggering event. A data collection integrated circuit and a measurement data sample collection method are also included.
US10571988B1
A dispatch module implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device is operatively coupled to a first processing module and a second processing module. The first processing module has a priority higher than a priority of the second processing module. The dispatch module includes a workload counter associated with the first processing module to provide an indication of a workload at the first processing module. The dispatch module initiates a clock signal at the second processing module only if the indication of the workload at the first processing module satisfies a criterion. The dispatch module sends a data unit to the second processing module for processing only if the indication of the workload at the first processing module satisfies a criterion.
US10571987B2
A power supply device includes: a first power supply circuit capable of exerting control of both boosting and bucking; a second power supply circuit configured to be supplied with an output of the first power supply circuit and cause an output to be controlled in accordance with a frequency or a pulse width; and a control unit configured to control the first and second power supply circuits. The control unit is configured to execute control while switching between first control in which the output of the first power supply circuit is made variable and the output of the second power supply circuit is accordingly made variable, and second control in which the output of the first power supply circuit is made constant and the output of the second power supply circuit is set to a predetermined output.
US10571983B2
A computer controls power distribution. The computing system determines a topography for a power delivery system that powers a group of computing devices. The computing system determines a number of worker programs for a pool of worker programs based on the topography. The computing system generates the pool of worker programs. The pool of worker programs includes both the number of worker programs and a number of back-up worker programs. The computing system generates a number of power management tasks to manage power consumption through one or more power elements included in the topography of the power delivery system. The computing system sends one or more power management tasks to a worker program included in the pool of worker programs.
US10571980B2
In one implementation, a system for hybrid cooling control of a computing system includes a coordinated controller engine to: determine a number of liquid loop set-points and a number of air loop set-points, determine a number of system parameters corresponding to the number of liquid loop set-points and the number of air loop set-points, determine a correlation factor for the number of system parameters; and alter the number of liquid loop set-points and the number of air loop set-points based on the correlation factor to lower an energy consumption or to maximize energy reuse of a number of cooling resources associated with the number of system parameters.
US10571973B2
An electronic device can include a first and second portions that are pivotally coupled to each other so that the electronic device can have at least a closed configuration and an open configuration. A magnetic sensor system can be carried by the electronic device to detect the closed configuration so that the electronic device can automatically turn to a mode, such as a sleep mode, when the electronic device is bought to the closed configuration. A magnetic sensor can have a detection axis that targets a horizontal component of a magnetic field. A triggering magnetic element can be laterally offset relative to the magnetic sensor. The magnetic sensor can also be a magneto-resistive sensor. The electronic device can also include a second set of magnetic sensor system to confirm when the electronic device is brought to the closed configuration.
US10571968B2
A display method and a display device based on a flexible display screen (11) are provided. The display method includes: determining a width (L3) of a visible region of the flexible display screen (11); determining data lines (111) within a range of the visible region of the flexible display screen (11) according to the width (L3) of the visible region of the flexible display screen (11); and outputting display data to the data lines (111) within the range of the visible region of the flexible display screen (11), so as to display a picture in the visible region of the flexible display screen (11). The power consumption of the flexible display screen (11) is reduced.
US10571965B2
A display unit which can realize reduction in thickness and weight of the display unit by omitting a void between a touch panel and a display panel, and its manufacturing method. Whole faces of the touch panel and the display panel are directly bonded together with an adhesive layer in between. The display panel has a structure wherein a driving substrate in which organic light emitting devices are formed and a sealing substrate are bonded together with an adhesive layer in between.
US10571963B2
A housing includes: a top cover; a bottom cover having a rising wall member erected toward the top cover and joined to the top cover at a rim; and a reinforcing structure which is disposed in a space divided by the top cover and the bottom cover, and has an opening, the reinforcing structure being joined to the bottom cover. The bottom cover is formed of a material having a thickness of 0.1 mm or more and 0.8 mm or less and an elastic modulus of 20 GPa or more and 120 GPa or less.
US10571962B2
In a mobile terminal, a second housing includes a second hinge configured to fit together with a first hinge to allow a flexible display to fold between a first housing and the second housing. The first housing includes a cutout portion configured to form a space for permitting elastic deformation of a bending portion of the flexible display that is folded.
US10571961B2
A backplate of a display device has a first rigid region, a second rigid region spaced apart from the first rigid region, and a flexible region between the first rigid region and the second rigid region. The flexible region includes an electromagnet and encloses a magneto-rheological fluid that suspends magnetic particles. The rigidity of the flexible region changes responsive to changes in magnetic field generated by the electromagnet.
US10571960B2
An information handling system hinge provides friction against rotational motion to generate torque that regulates housing portion relative position. Friction is generated by compression of friction elements with a super elastic wire under tension. For example, a nickel titanium alloy wire under two to eight percent strain provides a relatively low spring rate having consistent compression even as wear reduces the size of the friction elements.
US10571955B2
A portable sanitizer dispenser for use with a cellular phone includes a hand sanitizer dispenser configured to releasably engage at least one surface of a cellular phone. The sanitizer dispenser includes a compressible cavity defined therein configured to retain a sanitizer therein. The sanitizer dispenser further includes a nozzle disposed on an outer surface thereof. The nozzle is in fluid communication with the compressible cavity such that when pressure is applied to the compressible cavity, sanitizer is expelled from the nozzle.
US10571954B2
Examples herein disclose an identification of a set of skew requirements corresponding to a set of data signals. Based on the set of skew requirements, the examples prioritize an order of transmission for the set of data signals. The example queue the set of data signals in accordance with the prioritized order.
US10571952B2
A wireless transmitter includes a pair of control sticks, circuitry coupled to control sticks, and an antenna coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry is configured to process signals produced by the control sticks to provide control inputs for the speed, direction, and other flight characteristics of the model aircraft being controlled by the transmitter. The transmitter is configured for multiple operational modes in which the pair of control sticks engage or disengage functionality, such as return-to-center functionality, vertical or horizontal position limiting functionality, or position select functionality.
US10571944B2
A voltage generator which generates an internal voltage based on a varying voltage derived from the internal voltage includes a feedback control circuit configured to variably transmit the varying voltage responsive to a control signal to generate a feedback voltage. A voltage generation circuit is configured to generate the internal voltage based on the feedback voltage.
US10571939B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include core circuitry connected between a high voltage source and a low voltage source. The core circuitry may include multiple transistors including a first transistor of a first polarity type and a second transistor of a second polarity type that is different than the first polarity type. The integrated circuit may include voltage regulation circuitry connected between an external positive voltage source and ground. The voltage regulation circuitry may operate to provide the low voltage source to the core circuitry. The low voltage source may be equal to or higher than ground. The voltage regulation circuitry may further operate to body bias the multiple transistors with a single voltage that is applied to a body terminal of the first transistor and the second transistor.
US10571936B2
A device for forming at least part of a head part of a liquid treatment apparatus is arranged to receive a connecting head of a replaceable liquid treatment cartridge and includes at least one ratio-setting valve. The ratio-setting valve is provided with at least two first ports, each placeable in essentially sealed liquid communication with respective cartridge ports of a connecting head of a replaceable liquid treatment cartridge inserted into the device, and with at least one second port. The ratio-setting valve includes at least one movable regulating part for setting a volumetric flow rate ratio between a first flow of liquid between a first of the first ports and the at least one second port and a second flow of liquid between a second of the first ports and the at least one second port at any of a plurality of values.
US10571926B1
The described positional awareness techniques employing sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to find new area to cover by a robot encountering an unexpected obstacle traversing an area in which the robot is performing an area coverage task. The sensory data are gathered from an operational camera and one or more auxiliary sensors.
US10571920B2
A method is provided by which a complex electronic system for controlling a safety-critical technical process, for example driving an autonomous vehicle, can be implemented. A distinction is made between simple and complex software, wherein the simple software is executed on error-tolerant hardware and wherein a plurality of diverse versions of the complex software are implemented simultaneously on independent fault containment units (FCU). A consolidated environmental model is developed from a number of different environmental models and represents the basis for trajectory planning.
US10571917B2
Systems and methods for providing a vehicle service are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving data indicative of a service request to provide a vehicle service for an entity with respect to one or more cargo items designated for autonomous transport. The method includes obtaining a first cargo item among the one or more cargo items, from a representative of the entity at a dedicated first transfer hub proximate to a first location associated with the first cargo item. The method includes controlling a first autonomous vehicle to transport the first cargo item from the first transfer hub to a dedicated second transfer hub proximate to a second location associated with the first cargo item. The method includes providing the first cargo item to a representative of the entity at the second transfer hub, to provide the vehicle service.
US10571909B2
One example aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method. The method can include determining, by one or more autonomous distress tracking (ADT) devices installed in a designated fire zone, a state of the vehicle. When the state of the vehicle is the normal state, the method can include transmitting first data via a first transmitter at a first interval, wherein the first transmitter is configured to transmit messages over a frequency band used for normal communications. When the state of the vehicle is the possible distress state, the method can include transmitting second data via the first transmitter at a second interval. When the state of the vehicle is the distress state, the method can include transmitting third data continuously via a second transmitter, wherein the second transmitter is configured to transmit messages over a frequency band reserved for emergency communications.
US10571902B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to robotic programming and motion control. A robotic device may determine a connection with a controller device, the controller device comprising one or more buttons and a pointing device. The device may identify one or more input locations associated with the controller device. The device may determine to follow a path of motion of the controller device based at least in part on the one or more input locations. The device may determine an indication of location transition associated with the controller device. The device may determine to transition an end effector of the robotic device to a first position in space relative to the location transition.
US10571895B2
A 3D printing method adapted to a 3D printing apparatus is provided. The 3D printing apparatus is configured to edit a plurality of sliced images, and execute a 3D printing operation according to the edited sliced images. The 3D printing method includes: analyzing a plurality of sliced objects of the sliced images, so as to draw a plurality of sliced object casings according to individual contours of the sliced objects, where the sliced object casings respectively include a part of the sliced objects; and respectively deleting the other parts of the sliced objects outside the sliced object casings, and integrating the sliced object casings of the sliced images to obtain a 3D model casing. Moreover, the 3D printing apparatus applying the 3D printing method is also provided.
US10571893B2
Systems and methods are provided, in which an input module receives a model file, configuration(s) and cost parameters, and a processing unit selects and updates orientation sets for the model, and calculates the received cost parameters for pairs of orientation and configuration. Systems and methods further calculate for each orientation, a cost function value by weighting the calculated cost parameters according to the configuration(s) and display the calculated cost function values for the orientations on a respective sphere in a user interface. The sphere may be colored according to the cost function values, the orientation set may be enhanced and costs may be recalculated according to the cost function, and various information and statistics may be presented on the sphere. Finally, a selected orientation may be used to define the printing configuration and parameters and be used to provide a 3DP file.
US10571870B2
The present disclosure relates to an intelligent control method and system, and an intelligent monitoring system. One method comprises: acquiring an error value between a monitored parameter and a set parameter of a plant growth environment; adjusting a proportional gain, an integral gain, and a differential gain of a PID controller using a Q-Learning Algorithm; and outputting a control command that minimizes the error value based on the error value and the adjusted proportional gain, integral gain, and differential gain.
US10571869B2
Described herein are systems for mode switching in an appliance, and related analysis and reporting. Associated methods can include determining, by circuitry of an appliance, that an operation of the appliance is abnormal. The determination can include sensing the abnormality and identifying that the operation of the appliance is an abnormal operation according to the sensing of the abnormality. The methods also include switching, by the circuitry, the operation of the appliance to a safe mode. The safe mode can include reducing power used with the operation (such as to stop or reduce speed of rotation of a fan in the appliance). The method also includes communicating, by the circuitry, information regarding the abnormality and/or that the abnormality was resolved, to an electronic device and/or a server. The electronic device can display the information on a display device. The server can generate statistics according to the information.
US10571854B2
A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a drum unit containing the drum, a developing unit containing the roller and being movable so the roller contacts and is spaced from the drum, and a first force receiver receiving a force from a main-assembly first force applier by movement of a door from open to closed positions when mounting the cartridge and a second force receiver movable from a stand-by position by movement of the first force receiver by a force received from the first force applier. The second force receiver takes a projected position receiving a force from the second force applier to move the developing unit so the roller moves out of contact with the drum, the projected position being higher than the stand-by position.
US10571853B2
An open/close assembly, having a first housing with an aperture; a second housing being openable and closable to the first housing; a first protrusion arranged in the second housing and movable between a first position protruding from the second housing to be inserted in the aperture and a second position being more inward than the first position; a spring arranged in the second housing and configured to urge the first protrusion toward the second position; a sensor arranged in the first housing and configured to detect the first protrusion inserted in the aperture; and an actuator with a surface configured to move the first protrusion to the first position when the second housing is being closed and to move the first protrusion to the second position when the second housing is being opened, is provided.
US10571848B2
A feeding apparatus comprises a blower unit that is able to perform a first air blowing operation on sheets which are stacked on a stacking unit, and a second air blowing operation in which the volume of air blowing is smaller than volume of air blowing in the first air blowing operation; a feeding unit, brought into contact with the sheets stacked on the stacking unit and located on a feeding position to which feeding is performed while pressing the sheets from above, for feeding the sheets on which the first air blowing operation has been performed; and a control unit for controlling the blower unit to perform the first air blowing operation until a start of feeding by the feeding unit so as to separate the sheets stacked on the stacking unit.
US10571840B2
The image processing apparatus measures a density of a first test chart printed using first pattern data obtained by binarizing multi-value patch pattern data with a first resolution, converts the first pattern data into second pattern data with a second resolution, and measures a density of a second test chart printed using the second pattern data. The apparatus obtains difference correction data for correcting differences between the densities of the first and second test charts, corrects the density of the multi-value patch pattern data with the first resolution based on the difference correction data, and generates test chart data including a first pattern obtained by converting pattern data obtained by binarizing the corrected multi-value patch pattern data into pattern data with the second resolution and a second pattern obtained by binarizing multi-value patch pattern data with the second resolution.
US10571837B2
A fixing device includes a fixing rotator that is flexible, endless, and rotatable. A heater heats the fixing rotator. A pressure rotator is disposed opposite the fixing rotator. A nip former defines a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. A support supports the nip former. The nip former includes a back face that contacts the support and has a nonlinear shape in a longitudinal direction of the nip former.
US10571823B2
In an image forming apparatus which includes a plurality of image forming units each including an image bearing member, a contact charging member, and a developer bearing member for forming toner of normal polarity, and which, in a printing operation, applies a charging bias having a first direction, in a cleaning operation, applies a charging bias having a second direction, and recovers residual toner remaining on the image bearing member which was not used for printing by the developer bearing member, before performing the cleaning operation, when successively performing the printing operation on a plurality of recording materials including a first recording material and a second recording material, which is used for printing following the first recording material, the charging voltage larger in absolute value in the printing operation for the second recording material than in the printing operation for the first recording material is applied.
US10571817B1
A method of curing a protective overcoat layer on the outermost portion of an organic photoconductor drum using dual curing process is provided. The first curing step applies either ionizing irradiation, such as with an electron beam or by gamma rays or applies non-ionizing irradiation such as ultraviolet light to the overcoated photoconductor drum. A mask or shield is sized to be placed over the print area of the initially cured photoconductor drum, thereby exposing the outermost edges of the photoconductor drum. The outer edges of the masked photoconductor drum is then exposed to a second curing step using non-ionizing irradiation such as ultraviolet light.
US10571816B2
The disclosure relates to an assembly in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, with an optical element and at least one weight compensating device, which includes at least one magnetic circuit. A magnetic field generated by this magnetic circuit brings about a force for compensating at least partially for the force of the weight acting on the optical element. The apparatus also includes a coil arrangement with a plurality of coils. The arrangement is energizable with electrical current to generate a compensating force acting on the optical element. This compensating force compensates at least partially for a parasitic force that is exerted by the magnetic circuit when there is movement of the optical element and does not contribute to the compensation for the force of the weight acting on the optical element.
US10571808B2
Provided is a polarized light irradiation apparatus for exposure of a photosensitive film on a substrate. The polarized light irradiation apparatus includes: a transport stage including a stage surface that is reciprocated in a state where the substrate is placed on the stage surface and a heating mechanism that heats the substrate placed on the stage surface; and a polarized light irradiation mechanism irradiates the stage surface moving in an exposure region with polarized light. The transport stage moves in the exposure region at a first average speed in a forward path while heating the substrate by the heating mechanism. The transport stage moves in the exposure region at a second average speed lower than the first average speed in a backward path while heating the substrate by the heating mechanism.
US10571806B2
A method involving determining a contribution that one or more process apparatuses make to a characteristic of a substrate after the substrate has been processed according to a patterning process by the one or more process apparatuses by removing from values of the characteristic of the substrate a contribution of a lithography apparatus to the characteristic and a contribution of one or more pre-lithography process apparatuses to the characteristic.
US10571791B2
A projection system is provided, which includes a first light source, a second light source, a wavelength converter, a first light splitting element, and a second light splitting element. The first light source is configured to emit a first light. The second light source is configured to emit a second light. The wavelength converter is configured to convert portions or all of the second light into a third light. The third light includes a red light and a green light. A wavelength range of the first light is within a wavelength range of the red light. The first light splitting element is configured to permit the first light to pass through or to be reflected. The second light splitting element is configured for removing a portion of the first light or not removing the first light.
US10571789B2
A wavelength conversion element, a forming method of the wavelength conversion element, a wavelength conversion module and a projection device are provided. The wavelength conversion element includes a wavelength conversion material, a binder, a filling material and a plurality of cavities. The wavelength conversion material is dispersed in the binder to form a wavelength conversion layer. The filling material is located in the wavelength conversion layer. The cavities are located in the wavelength conversion layer, wherein the filling material fills some of the cavities. The wavelength conversion module includes a substrate and the above wavelength conversion element. The projection device includes the above wavelength conversion module, an excitation light source, a light valve and a projection lens. The disclosure enables the projection device to have good conversion efficiency and reliability.
US10571787B2
A projection device includes a light source module, a light engine module and a projection lens. The light source module is used for emitting an illumination beam. The light engine module is used for receiving the illumination beam and converting the illumination beam into an image beam. The light engine module includes a first shell, a second shell, an elastic sealing member and an electronic component. The second shell and the first shell are combined with each other to form an accommodation space. The elastic sealing member is disposed between the first shell and the second shell for sealing a junction of the first shell and the second shell. The electronic component connects with a transmission cable. The transmission cable is penetratingly disposed at the elastic sealing member to penetrate out of the first shell and the second shell. The projection lens is used for receiving and projecting the image beam.
US10571786B2
A projection system includes a first lens group that does not move when the projection magnification is changed with the aid of the zoom function, and the first lens group includes a correction lens group that is moved in the direction of the optical axis to correct worsened astigmatism. The projection system satisfies the following conditional expressions (1) and (2): |ΔBF20|
US10571783B1
The camera support adapter for a tripod may prevent a camera from falling to the ground while being attached to or removed from a tripod. In an embodiment, the camera support adapter for a tripod may comprise a swivel plate, a top bushing, a bottom bushing, a camera plate, a tripod head, and one or more straps. The camera plate may be held in place on the bottom of a camera by the tripod head. The swivel plate may couple to a tripod via the top bushing and the bottom bushing. The one or more straps may detachably couple the camera plate to the swivel plate. The one or more straps may limit the distance that a dropped camera may fall and may be detached from the camera plate so that the camera may be carried away from the tripod.
US10571782B2
An apparatus and system for analyzing one or more points of interest. The apparatus includes a main support having first and second legs. The first and second legs extending transversely from the main support. The main support nests an imaging device capable of capturing an image of a point of interest during use. An imaging shroud is coupled to and extending from the first leg, the shroud having a first opening for surrounding the point of interest. A second opening in the shroud is positioned such that it extends to be within the main support for the passage of a captured image of the point of interest during use.
US10571780B2
A lens unit includes an optical system that includes at least one lens, a lens barrel that receives the optical system, and a lens mount that is provided on one end side of the lens barrel and is fastened to a body mount provided on a camera. The lens mount includes a reference surface that is in contact with the body mount; a cylindrical portion that extends to the body mount from the reference surface; a plurality of bayonet claws that are provided in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion and extend outward in a radial direction; a plurality of bayonet grooves that are defined by the reference surface, the cylindrical portion, and the plurality of bayonet claws and are engaged with body claws of the body mount; and an elastic member that is provided in at least one bayonet groove of the plurality of bayonet grooves, includes a contact surface to be in contact with the body claw, is provided in a rotational direction of the body claw, and applies a biasing force to the body claw in the radial direction.
US10571779B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided an arrangement comprising, a volitant body comprising at least one actuator; a control unit for controlling said actuator; and a mechanical arrangement for operationally connecting said volitant body to a reference point remote from said volitant body. There is further provided a corresponding method for operating such an arrangement.
US10571777B2
An imaging apparatus includes an electronic viewfinder unit that includes an image display element configured to display an image, an eyepiece optical system configured to enable the image to be observed from a rear side of the imaging apparatus, and a holder unit configured to hold the eyepiece optical system and the image display element. The holder unit moves the eyepiece optical system from a retracted position in which the eyepiece optical system is retracted in a body of the electronic viewfinder unit to an observable position in which the eyepiece optical system projects from the body of the electronic viewfinder unit to the rear side from the retracted position, and moves the image display element to the rear side.
US10571775B2
An optical transmission apparatus includes a wavelength converter that wavelength-converts input signal light using a nonlinear optical medium to output the converted signal light, a memory that holds first information relating to a wavelength conversion characteristic of the wavelength converter, a communication interface that receives second information relating to a second wavelength conversion characteristic of an adjacent optical transmission apparatus, and a control circuit that determines, using the first information and the second information when the second information is received, an excitation light frequency at which a gain deviation of main signal light subjected to a wavelength conversion is minimized to set the determined excitation light frequency in the wavelength converter.
US10571774B2
Optical receivers configured to demodulate phase modulated optical signals. In one example, an optical signal receiver includes an optical resonator configured to receive an arriving optical signal and to emit an output optical signal in response to receiving the arriving optical signal, the optical resonator being further configured to transform phase transitions corresponding to phase modulation of the arriving optical into intensity modulation of the output optical signal, an opto-electrical converter configured to convert the output optical signal into an electrical signal, a pulse detector configured to detect pulses in the electrical energy indicative of the phase transitions in the arriving optical signal, and a memory configured to record timing information associated with the pulses detected by the pulse detector.
US10571771B2
Transparent conductive coatings are polished using particle slurries in combination with mechanical shearing force, such as a polishing pad. Substrates having transparent conductive coatings that are too rough and/or have too much haze, such that the substrate would not produce a suitable optical device, are polished using methods described herein. The substrate may be tempered prior to, or after, polishing. The polished substrates have low haze and sufficient smoothness to make high-quality optical devices.
US10571770B2
A liquid crystal display includes a display panel including first and second subpixels, where the first subpixel includes a first switching device including a first electrode connected to the j-th data line, a second electrode connected to a first subpixel electrode and a gate electrode connected to an i-th gate line, the second subpixel includes a second switching device including a first electrode connected to a j-th data line, a second electrode connected to a second subpixel electrode and a gate electrode connected to the i-th gate line, a third switching device including a first electrode connected to the second subpixel electrode and a gate electrode connected to the i-th gate line, and a fourth switching device including a first electrode connected to the j-th data line, a second electrode connected to the first electrode of the third switching device and a gate electrode connected to the i-th gate line.
US10571768B2
Disclosed are a pixel array, a display panel and a display device. The pixel array includes: a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, wherein each of the pixel units includes four sub-pixel units; the first sub-pixel unit group includes two adjacent sub-pixel units, and the second sub-pixel unit group includes remaining two adjacent sub-pixel units; the first sub-pixel unit group and the second sub-pixel unit group are alternately arranged in both a row direction and a column direction; the data line connected with the two adjacent sub-pixel units included in the first sub-pixel unit group is different from the data line connected with the two adjacent sub-pixel units included in the second sub-pixel unit group.
US10571762B2
A display provides increased contrast and resolution via first LCD panel energized to generate an image and a second LCD panel configured to increase contrast of the image. The second panel is an LCD panel without color filters and is configured to increase contrast by decreasing black levels of dark portions of images using polarization rotation and filtration. The second LCD panel may have higher resolution than the first LCD panel. A half wave plate and/or film is placed in between the first and the second panel. The panels may be directly illuminated or edge lit, and may be globally or locally dimmed lights that may also include individual control of color intensities for each image or frame displayed.
US10571754B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels arranged in an array, each of the pixels comprising: a first pixel region and a second pixel region aligned vertically with the first pixel region. Any two adjacent pixels in the same row have structures being mirror-symmetric with respect to each other. And, for any two adjacent rows of pixels, a structure of the mth pixel in the (N+1)th row and a structure of the (m+1)th pixel in the Nth row are the same, where N and M are natural numbers.
US10571744B1
A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated by a backlight unit that includes an array of light-emitting diodes. A backlight brightness selection circuit may select brightness values for the light-emitting diodes. The backlight brightness selection circuit may select the brightness values based on image data, based on brightness values used in previous image frames, based on device information, and/or based on sensor information. The backlight brightness selection circuit may select the backlight brightness levels to mitigate visible artifacts such as flickering and halo. The backlight levels selected by the backlight brightness selection may be modified by a power consumption compensation circuit. The power consumption compensation circuit may estimate the amount of power consumption required to operate the backlight using the target brightness levels and may modify the target brightness levels to meet maximum power consumption requirements.
US10571743B2
A display may have a backlight unit that provides backlight illumination. The backlight unit may include a light guide that distributes light through the display. Light-emitting diodes may emit light into the light guide. A reflector that is overlapped by the light guide may help reflect light upwards through an array of pixels. The backlight unit may have a chassis that receives the reflector, light guide, light-emitting diodes, and optical films such as diffusers and prism films. Optical and mechanical features in the backlight unit may enhance color and intensity uniformity for the backlight illumination and may help enhance durability.
US10571716B2
Eyeglasses are described that have optical transmission curves capable of directing selected wavelengths of light to the eyes based on the response of intrinsically photosensitive ganglion retinal cells (IPGRC). In one embodiment, glasses for evening use are described that block blue portions of the visible spectrum. In another embodiment for evening use, blue portions are blocked but violet light is transmitted. In an embodiment for daytime use, blue light is transmitted and red light is blocked.
US10571714B2
An embodiment includes a snap-fit temple interface of a lens. The snap-fit temple interface includes a first snap-fit feature and a second snap-fit feature. The first snap-fit feature of the lens is configured to be engaged with a first corresponding snap-fit feature of a temple assembly. The first snap-fit feature is configured to be engaged with the first corresponding snap-fit feature by a first movement of the lens in a first direction relative to the temple assembly followed by a second movement of the lens in a second direction relative to the temple assembly. The second snap-fit feature of the lens is configured to be engaged with a second corresponding snap-fit feature of the temple assembly. The second snap-fit feature is configured to be engaged with the second snap-fit feature by the second movement of the lens in the second direction relative to the temple assembly. The first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction.
US10571710B2
Provided is an optical component including multiple annular zones that each provides a predetermined phase to a light flux passing through an optical system, where for each of the annular zones, the surface closer to the inner circumference of the optical component is substantially equal in area to the surface closer to the outer circumference thereof, and in a cross section in the radial direction of the optical component, the tangent at an outer circumferential end of each annular zone is substantially equal in inclination to the tangent at an inner circumferential end thereof.
US10571709B2
Optoelectronic apparatus includes a substrate and an array of light-emitting elements formed on a semiconductor die and mounted on the substrate, wherein the array includes at least first and second sets of the light-emitting elements. A controller is coupled to drive the first set of the light-emitting elements independently from the second set of the light-emitting elements. A first optical element is mounted on the substrate to receive light emitted from the array of light-emitting elements and to direct the received light toward the second optical element. A second optical element projects the light received from the first optical element so as to create a pattern.
US10571703B2
Systems, devices, and methods of manufacturing optical engines and laser projectors that are well-suited for use in wearable heads-up displays (WHUDs) are described. Generally, the optical engines of the present disclosure integrate a plurality of laser diodes (e.g., 3 laser diodes, 4 laser diodes) within a single, hermetically or partially hermetically sealed, encapsulated package. Photonic integrated circuits having grating couplers thereon may be used to wavelength multiplex beams of light emitted by the plurality of laser diodes into a coaxially superimposed aggregate beam. Such optical engines may have various advantages over existing designs including, for example, smaller volumes, better manufacturability, faster modulation speed, etc. WHUDs that employ such optical engines and laser projectors are also described.
US10571693B2
Systems and methods are provided for selectively incoupling light having different wavelengths into one of a plurality of waveguides. The systems and methods provided for selectively incoupling light having different wavelengths into one of a plurality of waveguides comprise a switching device comprising switchable reflective elements that can be configured to redirect incoming light towards an incoupling element associated with one of a plurality of waveguides.
US10571688B2
The invention relates to a method of protecting a camera (2) for inspecting printed work during printing from soiling. A transparent protective element (7) is placed here between the camera (2) and the printed work for inspection, and the protective element (7) is replaced when the transparency thereof decreases. The transparent protective element (7) can form part of a strip of transparent film (7) which is unwound from a supply reel (9) and wound onto a take-up reel (10). The decrease in transparency can be determined on the basis of a recording made by the camera (2). The invention also relates to a device (1) for protecting such a camera (2) from soiling, comprising a transparent protective element (7) to be placed between the camera (2) and the printed work for inspection; and means ( ) for replacing the protective element (7) when the transparency thereof decreases. The replacing means (8) can comprise a strip of transparent material (7) supplied on a supply reel (9) and be configured to unwind the film (7) from a supply reel (9) and wind it onto a take-up reel (10). The supply reel (9) and the take-up reel (10) can be received in a cassette (3) which has between the supply reel (9) and the take-up reel (10) an opening (4) along which the transparent film (7) is moved. Finally the invention further relates to a printing installation in which a camera (2) with such a protective device (1) is applied.
US10571683B2
An illustrative example MEMS device includes a base and a plurality of mirror surfaces supported on the base. The plurality of mirror surfaces are respectively in a fixed position relative to the base. The plurality of mirror surfaces are at respective angles relative to a reference. The respective angles of at least some of the mirror surfaces are different from the respective angles of at least some others of the mirror surfaces.
US10571674B2
A 3D localization microscopy system, 4D localisation microscopy system, or an emitter tracking system arranged to cause a phase difference between light passing to or from one part of the objective relative to light passing to or from another part of the objective, to produce a point emitter image which comprises two lobes, a separation between which is related to the position of the emitter relative to the objective of the imaging system, and in the 4D system a further property of the image or of the light to or from the objective is related to another location independent property of the emitter.
US10571669B2
An optical lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group is disposed between a magnified side and a minified side and has a negative refractive power. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the minified side and has a positive refractive power. The optical lens is capable of forming an image at the magnified side. 0.52>F/H>0.46, where F is an effective focal length, and H is an image height.
US10571665B2
Zoom digital cameras comprising a Wide sub-camera and a folded fixed Tele sub-camera. The folded Tele sub-camera may be auto-focused by moving either its lens or a reflecting element inserted in an optical path between its lens and a respective image sensor. The folded Tele sub-camera is configured to have a low profile to enable its integration within a portable electronic device.
US10571654B2
A four-surface, near-infrared wafer-level lens system for imaging a scene onto an image plane includes (a) a first wafer-level lens having a first convex lens surface facing the scene and a second concave lens surface facing the image plane, and (b) a second wafer-level lens disposed between the first wafer-level lens and the image plane and including a third concave lens surface facing the scene and a fourth aspheric convex lens surface facing the image plane. The four-surface, near-infrared wafer-level lens system is further characterized by an image resolution corresponding to at least 60% contrast of 2 line pairs per millimeter in object plane across a scene portion having at least 10 millimeters extent in the object plane.
US10571652B2
An imaging lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element with refractive power, wherein an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric; a fourth lens element with refractive power, wherein an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric; and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, which are both aspheric.
US10571651B2
Provided is the image pickup optical system including a first lens unit, a second lens unit, and a third lens unit disposed in an order from an object side to an image side, in which an interval between adjacent lens units is changed during focusing. The third lens unit includes an aperture stop. A distance on an optical axis from a lens surface closest to object side to aperture stop when focused at infinity Lf, a distance on optical axis from aperture stop to a lens surface closest to image side when focused at infinity Lr, a distance on optical axis from a lens surface closest to object side to an image plane when focused at infinity L, a focal length of the entire system f, and a moving amount of first lens unit during focusing from infinity to a closest distance M are appropriately set.
US10571639B2
The present disclosure provides an optical module comprising: a photoelectric conversion unit, a first demodulation circuit, and a second demodulation circuit; the first demodulation circuit and the second demodulation circuit are respectively connected to the photoelectric conversion unit; the photoelectric conversion unit is configured to convert the received optical signal into an electrical signal; the first demodulation circuit is configured to demodulate an electrical signal converted by the photoelectric conversion unit and generate a high-frequency electrical signal; the second demodulation circuit is configured to demodulate an electrical signal converted by the photoelectric conversion unit and generate a low-frequency electrical signal.
US10571632B2
A waveguide and methods for manufacture can include a silicon wafer and a silicon substrate on the wafer that can be patterned into a silicon waveguide. A cladding can be deposited on the wafer and that waveguide using a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process. When a PECVD process is used, the cladding portions that are in contact with that waveguide and in the immediate vicinity can have a lower density, and a lower refractive index n of less than (n<1.3). The lower uniform cladding refractive index can be uniform from the waveguide surfaces out to approximately one micrometer from the waveguide. This can further in result in an increased difference between the refractive index of the silicon waveguide and the adjacent lower refractive index cladding portions, which can further result in greater light confinement within the waveguide (i.e. reduced losses during transmission).
US10571622B2
A light guide plate is provided in the invention. The light guide plate has a light incident surface, a bottom surface and a light exit surface. The bottom surface is opposite to the light exit surface. The light incident surface is connected between the bottom surface and the light exit surface. The light guide plate includes a plurality of light guide units and a plurality of microstructure units. The plurality of light guide units are convex to the bottom surface and arranged to be disposed along a direction parallel to the light incident surface. The plurality of light guide units is connected to each other on the light incident surface. The plurality of microstructure units are disposed corresponding to the plurality of light guide units respectively. Each of the microstructure units includes a plurality of microstructures. The invention further provides a backlight module having this light guide plate.
US10571618B2
A backlight unit may include a turning film that receives light from a light guide layer. The turning film may have a plurality of elongated protrusions that extend across the turning film. Each protrusion may have a concave surface. The concave surface may be a curved surface that curves inward towards the interior of the turning film. Light from the light guide layer may pass through the turning film and be reflected towards a viewer by the concave surfaces of the protrusions. In a liquid crystal display, the turning film may be interposed between the light guide layer and a lower polarizer. In certain embodiments, the turning film may be the only optical layer interposed between the light guide layer and the lower polarizer. In other embodiments, the turning layer and a diffuser layer may be the only optical layers interposed between the light guide layer and the lower polarizer.
US10571609B2
An image sensor includes an optical sensor layer including a plurality of light-sensitive cells configured to sense light to generate electrical signals, and a color filter array layer disposed on the optical sensor layer and including a plurality of color filters respectively facing the plurality of light-sensitive cells. Each of the plurality of color filters includes a nanostructure in which a first material having a first refractive index and a second material having a second refractive index higher than the first refractive index are arranged. The first material and the second material are alternatively positioned at an interval less than a central wavelength of a color of the color filter. Thus, a thin image sensor having good wavelength selectivity and suitable for obtaining high resolution images is provided.
US10571607B2
A color developing structure capable of achieving multi-hued color through a simple process, and a method of producing the same are provided. In the color developing structure formed on a surface of a base material: the color developing structure has a rectangular shape in plan view, and is formed of a concavo-convex structure having a plurality of convexities with different heights and a laminated film including a plurality of layers laminated on the concavo-convex structure; the plurality of layers adjoining in a lamination direction are made of materials that transmit light of the same wavelength band and have different refractive indices with respect to light of the wavelength band; and the plurality of layers have about the same thickness.
US10571605B2
The present disclosure describes methods and systems to enhance subsurface models of fractured reservoirs. In particular, the methods and systems described herein incorporate the effects of “dynamic” compressible fractures and, thus, can improve predictions of fractured reservoir performance over time. The methods and systems may utilize predictive algorithms for mechanical and hydraulic stiffness properties of the fracture network that are based at least in part on a database of measurements derived from single fractures.
US10571597B2
Systems and methods are provided for scanning an item utilizing an X-ray scanner in order to facilitate a determination of whether the X-ray radiation penetrated through the entirety of the scanned item. Various embodiments comprise a conveying mechanism, an X-ray emitter, a detector, and an X-ray penetration grid (XPG). The XPG may comprise a radiopaque grid that may serve as a reference for determining whether radiation passes through the scanned item, the grid oriented such that the grid members are neither parallel nor perpendicular to the direction of travel. Such orientation may minimize or eliminate “ghosted” radiation signals included in a visual display of the radiation received by the detector. A scanned item may be oriented with the XPG such that radiation emitted by the X-ray emitter that passes through a portion of the scanned item must also pass through the XPG before being received by the detector.
US10571596B2
A resistivity measurement while drilling (MWD) device, including: a transmitting module arranged on an outer surface of a drill collar, for generating an induced current between the drill collar and surrounding formation by inductive coupling; a receiving electrode group including at least two electrodes, for receiving a measured current that reaches the electrode from the induced current through corresponding formation, two electrodes in the receiving electrode group being multiplexing electrodes; a resistivity calculation module configured to be connected to all or a part of the electrodes in the receiving electrode group in a measurement mode of the resistivity MWD device, to calculate the measured current received by a corresponding electrode and obtain resistivity of formation corresponding to the corresponding electrode; and a data transmission module configured to be connected to the multiplexing electrodes in a transmission mode of the resistivity MWD device, for transmitting calculated resistivity to a ground device.
US10571594B2
A transmitter system for providing current to a utility when performing a locate operation is disclosed. The transmitter system may include a tray apparatus, a transmitter module for generating an output current for provision to the utility so as to generate a magnetic field for detection by a utility locator disposed on or in the tray apparatus, and a sonde antenna node, a satellite antenna node, or a combined satellite navigation and sonde antenna node.
US10571588B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods to perform or facilitate operation of a seismic survey. The system can include a seismic data acquisition unit. The seismic data acquisition unit can include a cap free subsea connector. The connector can be formed of a snap ring, pin interconnect and socket insert. The snap ring can contact the pin interconnect. The pin interconnect can contact the socket insert. The socket insert can be in contact with isolation electronics within the seismic data acquisition unit. The snap ring can lock or keep the pin interconnect in contact with the socket insert. The pin interconnect can be removable and replaceable.
US10571587B2
Wavefield reconstruction may include reconstructing a wavefield at a location away from a seismic receiver based on seismic data sampled from the seismic receiver, a vector of model coefficients comprising a scattering potential, and at least one of a mapping matrix comprising a dictionary of Green's functions and an operator defined by a combination of a number of functions.
US10571581B2
A radiation detector has a photoelectric conversion element array having a light receiving unit and a plurality of bonding pads; a scintillator layer stacked on the photoelectric conversion element array; a resin frame formed on the photoelectric conversion element array so as to pass between the scintillator layer and the bonding pads away from the scintillator layer and the bonding pads and so as to surround the scintillator layer; and a protection film covering the scintillator layer and having an outer edge located on the resin frame; a first distance between an inner edge of the resin frame and an outer edge of the scintillator layer is shorter than a second distance between an outer edge of the resin frame and an outer edge of the photoelectric conversion element array; the outer edge and a groove are processed with a laser beam.
US10571574B1
A laser radar includes: a laser, an optical transmission system, a 1-dimensional array of photo-detectors, an optical reception system, and an electronic control system. The laser emits a wavelength of light, and the optical transmission system shapes the light into a beam, and scans the beam along a fan of transmission light paths toward a target. The photo-detectors are capable of time-of-arrival measurements and are sensitive to the wavelength of light. The optical reception system collects the laser light reflected from the target along a fan of reception light paths. The electronic control system synchronizes the scan of the beam with a respective time-of-arrival measurement from each of the photo-detectors, and analyzes the time-of-arrival measurements. The system is configured for all of the transmission light paths and all of the reception light paths to lie in one plane, with all of the reception light paths intersecting with at least one of the transmission light paths.
US10571568B2
A distance measuring device executes a collection process that includes driving a MEMS mirror in each of a plurality of sensors and collecting a drive voltage of the MEMS mirror satisfying a given condition, executes a drive frequency determination process that includes determining a drive frequency of the MEMS mirror when measuring distances by the plurality of sensors based on the drive voltage of the MEMS mirror, and executes a control signal generation process that includes generating and transmitting a control signal to the plurality of sensors, the control signal including configuration information specifying the drive frequency as a drive frequency of the MEMS mirror in each of the plurality of sensors, the configuration information including the drive frequency determined by the drive frequency determination process.
US10571560B2
A method and a device for detecting at least one target in an image, wherein the image comprises a set of pixels with a magnitude assigned to each pixel is provided. The method comprises an iterative process until the K+1th target does not show a probability increase above a predetermined threshold value. The method is performed by creating a candidate free image, calculating, for the candidate free image, the probability of there being a target at each pixel, by using Bayes theorem, determining a location of the candidate target K+1 in the image, determining the probability that there is a target at the determined location, by determining the calculated probability of there being a target at the determined location. By performing the above, the most probable locations for targets in the image are located together with the probability that the location holds a true target.
US10571542B2
A system for performing time-domain magnetic resonance imaging includes an excitation device for transiently exciting a sample thereby causing the sample to emit an MRI signal. A receiving coil receives the MRI signal. A simulated signal of the receiving coil is generated in a time domain, based on a plurality of spatial parameter distributions, wherein the spatial parameter distributions include a spatial distribution of a magnetization, wherein the spatial parameter distributions further include at least one of a spatial distribution of a material property of a material of the sample and a spatial distribution of an electromagnetic field. An objective function is based on a difference between the received MRI signal and the simulated signal in the time domain. The plurality of spatial parameter distributions are fitted based on the objective function. The sample is excited again before the sample reaches an equilibrium state.
US10571539B2
Using a plurality of distinct behavioral tasks conducted in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, fMRI data acquired from one or more subjects performing working memory tasks can be used for diagnosing psychiatrics and neurological disorders. A classification algorithm can be used to determine a classification model, tune the model, and apply the model. An output indicative of a subject's clinical condition can then be provided and used to diagnose new cases.
US10571533B2
A manufacturing method includes forming a superconductive thin-film layer on a substrate and processing the superconductive thin-film layer into a shape of a detection coil for magnetic resonance measurement. Accordingly, a superconductive thin-film layer having the detection coil shape can be formed. The method further includes irradiating the shape-processed superconductive thin-film layer with ions. Accordingly, lattice defects serving as pinning can be formed in the superconductive thin-film layer.
US10571532B2
A cesium optical pump detector for buried and abandoned chemical weapons of Japan is provided, comprising a pumping light generation module, a first optical module, a magnetic resonance module, a photoelectric detection module, and a signal processing module. The signal processing module includes an amplifying and filtering unit, a self-oscillation unit, a measuring unit, and a calculating unit connected in sequence. The amplifying and filtering unit comprises a first band-pass filter configured to coarsely measure a frequency of the electrical signal and a second band-pass filter configured to finely measure the frequency of the electrical signal. The self-oscillation unit comprises a first phase shifter connected to the first band-pass filter and a second phase shifter connected to the second band-pass filter. In the present disclosure, the intensity of a magnetic field detected can be finely measured, so that the ACWs can be found efficiently and accurately.
US10571531B2
A Hall sensor may include a Hall sensing element configured to produce a Hall voltage indicative of a magnetic field when traversed by an electric current, and a first pair of bias electrodes mutually opposed in a first direction across the Hall sensing element. The Hall sensor may include a second pair of bias electrodes mutually opposed in a second direction across the Hall sensing element. The Hall sensor may include a first pair of sensing electrodes mutually opposed in a third direction across the Hall sensing element, and a second pair of sensing electrodes mutually opposed in a fourth direction across the Hall sensing element. The fourth direction may be orthogonal to the third direction, each sensing electrode being between a bias electrode of the first pair and a bias electrode of the second pair.
US10571530B2
A system includes a plurality of magnetometers that are each configured to generate a vector measurement of a magnetic field. The system also includes a central processing unit that is communicatively coupled to each of the magnetometers. The central processing unit is configured to receive from each of the plurality of magnetometers the respective vector measurement of the magnetic field. The central processing unit is further configured to compare each of the vector measurements to determine differences in the vector measurements and to determine, based on the differences in the vector measurements, that a magnetic object is near the plurality of magnetometers.
US10571528B2
A magnetic sensor circuit includes a vertical-magnetic-field sensor, a horizontal-magnetic-field sensor, a control circuit controlling a first measurement mode and a second measurement mode through switching, a first feedback circuit configuring a feedback loop of a first operational amplifier, a second feedback circuit configuring a feedback loop of a second operational amplifier, a connecting circuit, and at least any one of a first switch switching an impedance of the first feedback circuit, a second switch switching an impedance of the second feedback circuit, and a third switch switching an impedance of the connecting circuit those which controlled by the control circuit. The magnetic sensor circuit detects magnetic fields in nearly the same two-axial sensitivity without using a magnetic converging plate while reducing an occupation area of the amplifier circuit.
US10571526B2
A ground fault circuit interrupter device includes a switch module having a reset switch, a control switch mechanically linked to the reset switch, a ground fault detection module, a self-testing module and a tripping module. The switch module controls the electrical connection between the input and output ends of the device. The ground fault detection module detects a leakage current signal at the output end. The self-testing module is coupled to the ground fault detection module and periodically generates a self-test pulse signal which simulates the leakage current signal. The tripping module is electrically coupled to the ground fault detection module and mechanically coupled to the switch module and the control switch, to control the movement of the switch module and the control switch. The control switch, which opens and closes at the same time as the reset switch, controls the power supply to the self-testing module.
US10571521B2
A method for detecting a failure mode in an electronic selector having a button coupled to a first switch, a second switch, and a third switch, the method includes incrementing a button activation counter once for each button activation event and incrementing a first switch-closed counter, a second switch-closed counter, and a third switch-closed counter once for each button activation event if the respective switch is closed at any time during the button activation event. The method further includes incrementing a first switch-opened counter, a second switch-opened counter, and a third switch-opened counter once for each button activation event. The method further includes evaluating a fault status of the first switch, the second switch, or the third switch when the button activation counter reaches or exceeds a predetermined threshold; and reporting the fault status of the first switch, the second switch or the third switch.
US10571506B2
A machine vision system for identifying optical fibers is provided that includes a support plate supporting one or more optical fibers. The one or more optical fibers each include a jacket. A light source is configured to emit light onto the one or more optical fibers. An imager is positioned above the light source. The imager is configured to receive reflected light from the light emitted onto the one or more optical fibers. A display system is configured to receive a signal from the imager and display an augmented image.
US10571498B2
A system for analyzing a microwave-frequency signal by imaging is provided, comprising: a solid material at least one optical property of which is modifiable in at least one zone of the material, when the zone is simultaneously in the presence of an optical excitation or electrical excitation and a microwave-frequency signal having at least one frequency coinciding with a resonant frequency of the material, the material furthermore being such that a value of the resonant frequency varies as a function of the amplitude of a magnetic field, a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field having, in the interior of a portion of the zone, a spatial amplitude variation in a direction X, the material then having a resonant frequency that is dependent on a position in the direction X, and a detector configured to receive an image of the zone in said direction X.
US10571495B2
A system includes a plurality of power monitors that, in operation, monitor parameters of power in an automation system at points between loads and/or power sources. Each of the power monitors includes sensing circuitry to sense the power parameters, peer-to-peer communications circuitry to communicate with other power monitors via peer-to-peer communication, network communications circuitry to communicate with automation devices via a network, and functional circuits to perform analysis of monitored power parameters in a cooperative manner based upon the power parameters monitored by the respective power monitor and power parameters monitored by other power monitors communicated via peer-to-peer communication.
US10571493B2
Techniques for determining aspects of a topology of a smart grid are described herein, and particularly for determining if one or more electrical meters are connected to the same transformer. In one example, time-stamped voltage data is collected from at least two meters. The voltage data may indicate a slight transient change in voltage resulting from a consumer turning on or off an electrical load. In particular, the slight voltage changes may be sensed by all meters attached to a same transformer based on electrical load changes by any one of the customers on the same transformer. Using the time-stamped voltage data, a time-series of voltage-changes may be generated for each electrical meter. A correlation between the time-series of voltage-changes of pairs of meters may be calculated, to thereby determine an affinity between the meters, and particularly if they are connected to a same transformer.
US10571484B2
Systems and methods for determining acceleration based on phase demodulation of an electrical signal
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus for measuring acceleration may include a spring-mounted mass, a positional encoder configured to measure a position of the spring-mounted mass and output one or more signals indicative of a sine and a cosine of the position, a driver to set and maintain an oscillation of the spring-mounted mass, and a decoder configured to process the one or more signals to calculate an acceleration of the spring-mounted mass.
US10571479B2
The present invention provides a method of measuring a vitamin D.Specifically, the present invention provides a method of measuring a vitamin D, comprising:(1) treating a sample with a surfactant having a steroid skeleton; and(2) detecting the vitamin D in the treated sample.The present invention also provides a kit for measuring a vitamin D, comprising:(1) a surfactant having a steroid skeleton; and(2) an affinity substance for a vitamin D and/or a vitamin D standard.Examples of the surfactant having the steroid skeleton may include a bile acid or a derivative thereof or a salt thereof.
US10571469B2
A kit for labeling bacteria, the kit including: an analog of an endogenous monosaccharide residue of glycans of the outer membrane of a given category of bacteria, the endogenous monosaccharide residue being an ulosonic acid or ulosonate salt residue, the analog of a monosaccharide compound being a modified monosaccharide substituted at a given position by a first reactive group capable of reacting with a second reactive group of a labeling molecule; the labeling molecule having the second reactive group capable of reacting with said first reactive group; reactants for generating the reaction of the first reactive group of the analog residue incorporated within the glycans of the outer membrane of the bacteria with the second reactive group of the labeling molecule; and a culture or incubation medium allowing growth of the given category of bacteria, specific to the growth of the given category of bacteria.
US10571468B2
The invention is directed to engineered Fc gamma receptor type III (Fcγ111, HNA-1) polypeptides and use of these polypeptides to detect antibodies specific for human neutrophil antigens (HNA). The invention is also directed to methods for the diagnosing and determining susceptibility for developing Transfusion Reaction Acute Lung (TRALI).
US10571465B2
Techniques for metal enhanced fluorescence include determining a calibration curve that relates concentration of a particular analyte to at least one of intensity or lifetime of fluorescent emissions at a plasmonic substrate in response to incident light, for a plurality of known concentrations of the particular analyte mixed with a reagent. The reagent comprises a detection molecule. A concentration of the particular analyte in a vicinity of a cell in a sample is determined directly from the calibration curve and measurements, in response to the incident light, of at least one of intensity or lifetime of fluorescent emissions at the plasmonic substrate in contact with the cell and reagent.
US10571462B1
This disclosure relates to the technical field of liver transplantation and discloses a set of biomarkers that can be used to assess the quality of the liver graft before transplantation. More specifically, this disclosure describes a process of predicting the appearance of primary non function (PNF) of a liver graft via determining the relative abundance of the undergalactosylated glycans in the perfusate N-glycome of the liver before transplantation.
US10571461B2
The present invention is drawn to the generation of micropatterns of biomolecules and cells on standard laboratory materials through selective ablation of a physisorbed biomolecule with oxygen plasma. In certain embodiments, oxygen plasma is able to ablate selectively physisorbed layers of biomolecules (e.g., type-I collagen, fibronectin, laminin, and Matrigel) along complex non-linear paths which are difficult or impossible to pattern using alternative methods. In addition, certain embodiments of the present invention relate to the micropatterning of multiple cell types on curved surfaces, multiwell plates, and flat bottom flasks. The invention also features kits for use with the subject methods.
US10571458B2
A method and a device for determining the emission of greenhouse gas, in particular methane, by ruminants, in particular dairy animals includes counting eructations (“belches”) of the animal. This is done by measuring a signal linked to the eructations, for example sound with a microphone. Given that the methane content of an eructation of this type is more or less constant, the total methane emission can be derived therefrom by counting.
US10571456B2
Provided is an electrical measuring cartridge including at least: a biological sample holding section that accommodates a liquid biological sample containing a sedimenting component; a measuring electrode unit that is fixed to the biological sample holding section and composed of a pair of electrodes for electrically measuring a state of the biological sample; and a sedimentation measuring electrode unit that is fixed to a position at a different height from the measuring electrode unit of the biological sample holding section and composed of a pair of electrodes for electrically measuring a degree of sedimentation of the sedimenting component.
US10571452B2
A system and a method are provided for calculating one or more indicative properties, e.g., one or more of the cetane number, octane number, pour point, cloud point and aniline point of oil fractions, from the density and high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) data of a sample of the crude oil.
US10571450B2
Methods of incendivity testing include applying a flexible sheet over a test article to form a sealed space between the flexible sheet and a surface region of the test article. Methods further include filling the sealed space with an indicator gas mixture, applying an energy discharge to the test article, and determining whether the indicator gas mixture in the sealed space reacted in response to the energy discharge. The indicator gas mixture may be flammable and may be formed while filling the sealed space. Incendivity test systems include the test article, the flexible sheet sealed to the test article to form the sealed space, a gas control module configured to fill, flush, purge, and/or sample gas in the sealed space, and an energy source configured to apply the energy discharge to the test article.
US10571449B2
The invention relates to a method suitable for detecting, capturing and/or selectively releasing chemical elements selected from poor metals, alkalines, alkaline earths, actinides and rare earths. Said method involves a molecular assembly formed by at least one amine, and at least one aldehyde and/or an imine and/or CO2, or an adduct formed by the contact between an amine and CO2, and at least one of said chemical elements. The invention also relates to a kit for implementing said method for detection, capture and/or release.
US10571446B2
A system, a computer readable storage medium, and a method for data quality control using a correlated sensor group includes selecting a sensor group, by at least one processor, according to a uniformity and a correlation with air pollution concentration data from a reference station, selecting a time series based on the correlation, generating a particle concentration model between the sensor group and the reference station, calculating a deviation in the particle concentration data from the particle concentration model, and recognizing outliers from the deviation as unacceptable data.
US10571445B2
A method for detecting chemical vapors includes acquiring an environmental air sample within at least one fielded chemical detector, detecting that at least one chemical from a selected set of possible chemicals is present within the environmental air sample, analyzing data relating to the detecting, determining at least one of a chemical name, a chemical concentration, a chemical category, or a toxicity level, and transmitting the determined information to a central data collection site.
US10571444B2
A computer program product for providing data to a distributed blockchain database includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computer to cause the computer to receive sensor data from a first sensor unit at a first location, receive additional data corresponding to a first parameter at the first location and forecast data corresponding to the first parameter at the first location, convert the sensor data into a standardized format, generate predicted future sensor data based on a comparison between the additional data, the sensor data, and the forecast data, write the sensor data, the additional data, and predicted future sensor data into a ledger. and submit the ledger to a distributed blockchain database.
US10571438B2
At least one baseline structural interrogation of a physical structure is performed in one or more corresponding baseline conditions of the structure. The one or more baseline conditions are stored, and one or more current conditions are sensed. It is determined whether a difference between the one or more current conditions and the one or more baseline conditions satisfies at least one threshold deviation criterion. A current structural interrogation of the structure is performed in response to determining that the difference between the one or more current conditions and the one or more baseline conditions satisfies the least one threshold deviation criterion. An indication that the at least one threshold deviation criterion is not satisfied is output in response to determining that that the difference between the one or more current conditions and the one or more baseline conditions does not satisfy the at least one threshold deviation criterion.
US10571432B2
Methods, systems, and devices for solid axle testing are provided.
US10571424B2
The present invention provides: a reagent composition having higher storage stability; a sensor involving the reagent composition; and others. According to the present invention, a specific heterocyclic compound is added to a reagent composition to improve the storage stability of the reagent composition and reduce the degree of fluctuation in current values in a sensor that utilizes reagent composition.
US10571423B2
This disclosure describes a stud sensor configured to locate a stud. The stud sensor includes a housing and a sensor carried by the housing. The sensor includes two or more electrodes. The two or more electrodes are configured to form a substantially circular configuration. The stud sensor further comprises one or more processors carried by the housing. The one or more processors are communicatively coupled with the sensor. The one or more processors are configured by machine-readable instructions to calculate a stud location by measuring a change in capacitance from a fixed capacitance of a wall structure as the stud sensor is moved along a surface of the wall structure; and generate one or more signals to report a result relating to a location of a stud.
US10571416B2
Solar bioelectrical impedance spectrometer and bioelectrical impedance monitoring system having same
A solar bioelectrical impedance spectrometer includes a microprocessor module, a radio module connected with the microprocessor module, a spectrometer module connected with the microprocessor module, a battery management module, a battery module connected with the battery management module, a solar power supply management module separately connected with the battery management module and the microprocessor module and a wearable solar cell module connected with the solar power supply management module. The battery management module is configured for receiving current output from the solar power supply management module under a preset condition and charging the battery module by the current. The spectrometer module includes an impedance network analyzer, a differential amplifier connected with the impedance network analyzer, and a wide-band current source connected with the impedance network analyzer.
US10571410B2
An equipment mount for an x-ray apparatus is disclosed. The mount includes a main shield element, a peripheral shield element and a secondary shield element arranged to permit a mounting element to pass through the main shield element in a shielded manner. A support apparatus for an x-ray apparatus is also disclosed. The support apparatus comprises a separable bearing for translating a support part between a first position and a second position and an elevator mechanism for translating the support part from the second position to a third position, thereby separating the bearing.
US10571408B2
A method propagates a pulse of wave through the material to receive a set of echoes resulted from scattering the pulse by different portions of the material and simulates a propagation of the pulse in the material using a neural network to determine a simulated set of echoes. Each node in a layer of the neural network corresponds to a portion of the material and assigned a value the permittivity of the portion of the material, such that the values of the nodes at locations of the portions form the image of the distribution of the permittivity of the material. The connection between two layers in the neural network models a scattering event. The method updates the values of the nodes by reducing an error between the received set of echoes and the simulated set of echoes to produce an image of the distribution of the permittivity of the material.
US10571407B2
Systems and methods for determining information for defects on a wafer are provided. One system includes an illumination subsystem configured to direct light having one or more illumination wavelengths to a wafer. The one or more illumination wavelengths are selected to cause fluorescence from one or more materials on the wafer without causing fluorescence from one or more other materials on the wafer. The system also includes a detection subsystem configured to detect only the fluorescence from the one or more materials or to detect non-fluorescent light from the wafer without detecting the fluorescence from the one or more materials. In addition, the system includes a computer subsystem configured to determine information for defects on the wafer using output generated by the detection subsystem responsive to the detected fluorescence or the detected non-fluorescent light.
US10571405B2
A quality control station (2) for a sheet element processing machine, having at least one camera (6) arranged for capturing images of sheet elements (4) transported through the quality control station (2), and further having an illumination unit (5) with at least one light emitter (16) and two reflectors (12, 14), the illumination unit (5) directing light onto a viewing area of the camera (6) such that the illumination intensity is constant despite changing media thickness. An illumination unit for such quality control station is disclosed.
US10571400B2
A method for detecting a target cell surface molecule and classifying cell types in a fluid sample. The method involves the addition of a reagent to the fluid sample. The reagent includes nanoparticles with optical plasmonic resonances, and at least one fluorescent probe. The nanoparticles are a bio-optical probe for the target cell surface molecule. Each fluorescent probe targets a cell classification marker. The method further involves the acquisition of an image using dark field microscopy and fluorescence microscopy to detect and quantify the presence or absence of any cells in the fluid sample having the target cell surface molecule or having the cell classification marker.
US10571395B2
A universal rapid diagnostics test reader is disclosed and described herein that includes a set of control electronics, a digital camera component, an illumination component, a housing component, and a rapid diagnostics test tray, wherein the tray can hold at least one rapid diagnostics test having a shape and a size in a fixed position relative to the digital camera component and the illumination component, and wherein the reader can accommodate more than one different rapid diagnostics test. Methods are also disclosed that include: providing at least one first rapid diagnostics test having a first physical size, first feature and first format; providing at least one second rapid diagnostics test having a second physical size, second feature and second format; inserting the first rapid diagnostics test in a universal rapid diagnostics test reader; analyzing the first rapid diagnostics test using the universal rapid diagnostics test reader; removing the first rapid diagnostics test from the reader; inserting the second rapid diagnostics test in a universal rapid diagnostics test reader without any mechanical adjustments of the reader or without the use of any additional parts or additional inserts; and analyzing the second rapid diagnostics test using the universal rapid diagnostics test reader.
US10571391B2
The present application relates to a method for adjusting a measuring device for measuring a measurand of a medium using at least one measuring sensor, including: laboratory calibration of the measuring device in a calibration solution, laboratory calibration of the measuring device in air, determination of a correction factor for correcting the laboratory calibration value of the measuring device in air to the laboratory calibration value of the measuring device in the calibration solution, on-site calibration of the measuring device in air, using the correction factor to correct the on-site calibration value of the measuring device in air, and on-site adjustment of the measuring device using the corrected on-site calibration value.
US10571377B2
A system can include a torsion applicator (e.g., a torsion motor and shaft) configured to apply a torque to a test article that is additively built on and attached to a build plate. The system can include at least one twist sensor and at least one torque sensor. A method for determining quality of an additively manufactured article or batch thereof can include torsion testing at least one additively manufactured test article that is built on and attached to a build plate while the at least one test article is still attached to the build plate.
US10571371B2
The disclosure provides improved materials and methods for optically clearing biological tissue that is subsequently used for deep tissue imaging analysis. Also provided is a description of a microscopic image acquisition methodology in which imagery of intact tissues are acquired to rapidly acquire microscopy data on a whole-organ scale to maximize cost effectiveness for biological microscopy and minimize time spent performing such analysis.
US10571370B2
A method and a machine for drying blood smears and an automatic smearing device are provided. In the method, a dry gas is used as a drying medium to dry a blood film on a blood smear in drying the blood smear, thus reducing drying time and the number of blood smears which are dried together. The dry gas is obtained by: first, removing a liquid from a pressurized gas, second, filtering a vapor, and finally, decompressing the dried pressurized gas to be a non-pressurized gas having lower humidity. In addition, the dry gas is further heated for further reducing the humidity of the dry gas. In order to prevent cell distortion from occurring, the heated dry gas is caused to gently flow over the blood smear in a direction which the blood film is spread.
US10571368B2
An automated tape transfer apparatus including a tape feed mechanism feeding a continuous length of an adhesive tape through the automated tape transfer apparatus and a tape applicator applying the adhesive tape to a cutting face of a sample block, wherein a section of the sample block is adhered to the adhesive tape after cutting of the section from the sample block. A slide station transfers the cut section from the adhesive tape to a slide.
US10571366B2
Methods and systems are provided for diagnostics of a cylinder valve actuation mechanism in a variable displacement engine (VDE). In one example, during an engine-off condition, the engine may be rotated unfueled, via a starter motor, and a reference exhaust air flow may be estimated. One or more deactivatable engine cylinders may then be deactivated and degradation of the cylinder valve actuation mechanism may be indicated based on a difference between the exhaust air flow following the cylinder deactivation and the reference exhaust air flow.
US10571358B2
Disclosed is a method for detecting anomalies in a distribution network equipped with sensors. The steps are: acquiring for each sensor a time series of physical measurements separated by time intervals; defining time windows each corresponding to a plurality of successive time intervals; extracting operational characteristics of each time series in each time window; forming, for each time window, at least one current vector having for coordinates the operational characteristics, structural data relating to the network and situational characteristics specific to the time window; comparing the current vector with preceding vectors corresponding to preceding time windows and the situational characteristics and structural data of which are similar to those of the current vector; and signalling an anomaly in cases where the current vector is significantly dissimilar to the preceding vectors.
US10571340B2
A wavefront measuring device and method obtain wavefront information of an optical system. The method including: irradiating the optical system with a light beam; allowing the light beam passed via the optical system to come into a diffraction grating having periodicity in a first direction; and obtaining the wavefront information based on an interference fringe formed by light beams generated from the diffraction grating. The diffraction grating including: first portions which allow light to pass therethrough; and second portions which shield light, each of the second portions being provided between two of the first portions. A ratio between a width of one of the first portions in the first direction and a width of one of the second portions in the first direction is changed in the first direction, the one of the first portions and the one of the second portions being adjacent to each other.
US10571339B2
A plane source blackbody is provided. The plane source blackbody comprises a panel and a carbon nanotube composite material. The panel comprising a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface is opposite to the second surface. The carbon nanotube composite material is located on the first surface. The carbon nanotube composite material comprises a black lacquer and a plurality of carbon nanotubes, and the plurality of carbon nanotubes is dispersed in the black lacquer.
US10571337B2
Examples described herein generally relate to apparatus and methods for rapid thermal processing (RTP) of a substrate. In one example, a process chamber includes chamber body, a window disposed on a first portion of the chamber body, a chamber bottom, and a shield disposed on a second portion of the chamber body. The shield has a flat surface facing the window to reduce reflected radiant energy to a back side of a substrate disposed in the process chamber during operation. The process chamber further includes an edge support for supporting the substrate and a cooling member disposed on the chamber bottom. The cooling member is disposed in proximity of the edge support to cool the edge support during low temperature operation in order to improve the temperature uniformity of the substrate.
US10571336B2
A system for analyzing and processing user input and providing a result based on a predetermined set of color identifiers, the system comprising a first user input, wherein the first user input comprises of one or more digital images, a second user input, wherein the second user input comprises of responses to queries, a white balancing method for removing color casts from the first user input to create a final corrected image of the first user input, a first database for storing a predetermined set of color identifiers, a second database for storing product profiles, and a processor for analyzing the final corrected image of the first user input and the second user input collectively, comparing the final corrected image of the first user input and the second user input collectively to the predetermined set of color identifiers, and providing a color output.
US10571329B2
The invention describes a vibrating fork point level switch with multiple switching points.
US10571324B2
A method and system may track liquid consumption by a user from a liquid container using a flexible, network-connected, smart band. The smart band may detect orientations of the liquid container and identify sips taken by a user based on a pattern in the detected orientations. The smart band may also estimate a liquid consumption metric based on characteristics of the identified sips such as the duration of the sip. The identified sip as well as sip characteristics and the liquid consumption metric may be displayed on the smart band, and also may be transmitted to a server for storage and for display on another network-enabled device.
US10571316B2
A method and a device for determining, in real time, the flow rate of air collected from an aircraft engine by a system for collecting air from the engine, including an acquisition device for acquiring at successive times measurements of physical quantities in respect of temperature, pressure and pressure loss, specific for the air collection system, a computing device for evaluating at each current time of the successive times a first current estimation of the flow rate of air collected from the aircraft engine on the basis of the physical quantity measurements, the acquisition device for acquiring at the current time a minimum current air flow rate data item defined on the basis of a predetermined flow rate tables, the computing device for hybridising, at the current time, the first current air flow rate estimation and the minimum current air flow rate data item to form a second current air flow rate estimation.
US10571310B2
In a position-measuring device for determining the position of a first object with respect to a second object that is displaceable relative to the first object, a measuring standard is connected to the first object and includes at least one periodic scale grating, which is arranged as a transmission grating and has a first periodicity. A scanning unit is connected to the second object and includes at least one light source, at least one periodic scanning grating, which has a second periodicity, and a detector system, which includes detector regions that are sensitive to radiation and are periodically disposed at a third periodicity in a detection plane. The bundles of rays emitted by the light source first impinge upon the scale grating and then pass through the scanning grating. The interaction of the bundles of beams with the scale grating and the scanning grating produces a periodic fringe pattern having the third periodicity in the detection plane which, when scanned with the aid of the detector system, makes it possible to generate a plurality of incremental signals that are phase-shifted relative to one another. The scanning grating is arranged between at least one first and one second transparent, plate-shaped carrier element, and the space between the scanning grating and the detector regions is completely filled with a material that has a refractive index of n>1.3. The clearance between the scale grating and the adjacent boundary surface of the first carrier element is in the range of 10 μm to 200 μm.
US10571308B2
A correction apparatus for an angle sensor includes a correction processing unit, an indicator value generation unit, and a correction information determination unit. The correction processing unit performs correction processing on a plurality of detection signals to reduce an error of a detected angle value. The details of the correction processing are determined according to correction information. The indicator value generation unit generates, on the basis of the plurality of detection signals, an indicator value having a correspondence with the error of the detected angle value. The correction information determination unit generates an estimated indicator value using a function that takes one or more values each having a correspondence with the correction information as one or more variables, and determines the correction information by adaptive signal processing so as to reduce the difference between the indicator value and the estimated indicator value.
US10571291B2
A method is provided to generate a route between an origin and a destination using historical travel times between segments of a road network map. Methods may include accessing a memory configured to store road network data segmented into tiles represented by quadkeys; determining a travel time between any two quadkeys of the stored road network data; receiving an origin and a destination within a road network corresponding to the road network data; calculating a route between the origin and the destination using the travel time between quadkeys that can be traversed from the origin to the destination; generating route guidance for the route between the origin and the destination; and providing the route guidance to a user indicating the route between the origin and the destination. The travel time between any two quadkeys may be determined based on historical travel times between the respective two quadkeys.
US10571287B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a system for managing the energy resources of a vehicle, such as an electric car. A destination location for the vehicle, as well as a desired amount of energy that should remain in the vehicle upon arrival at the destination location, is determined. Based on this information, the system generates a set of candidate paths along which the vehicle can navigate to the destination location such that, upon arrival, the vehicle has the desired amount of energy in reserve. One of those paths is selected, and while travelling to the destination location, a database with information regarding its energy consumption along the selected path. So updated, the system can generate more accurate candidate paths with respect to an estimated energy consumption for the vehicle.
US10571286B2
A method and system for arranging service provider selection are described. A network computer system can establish a set of criteria to determine whether to display, before actually receiving an acceptance from a service provider, an assumed acceptance or a likely service provider to provide on-demand services in response to data corresponding to a request for service sent from a computing device of a user. For example, the network computer system can predetermine a likely service provider or number of matching service providers and display this information to the user in lieu of a “requesting” screen.
US10571285B2
An apparatus includes a processor configured to send detour instructions defining a travel path that avoids a location of the traffic event. The detour instructions may be sent responsive to receiving notification of a traffic event. The processor is further configured to update the detour instructions to alter the travel path based on the proposed vehicle routes such that autonomous vehicles operate to follow the altered travel path. The update may be responsive to proposed vehicle routes different than the travel path received from vehicles in a vicinity of the location.
US10571284B2
An apparatus, including a housing, microphone, speaker, camera, memory or database which stores information regarding a travel schedule or itinerary, global positioning device, controller, and a transmitter. The controller is specially programmed to detect a deviation of the apparatus from the travel schedule or itinerary or to detect an absence of, or a leaving of, the apparatus from an expected location on the travel schedule or itinerary, and, if the controller detects a deviation of the apparatus from the travel schedule or itinerary or detects an absence of, or a leaving of, the apparatus from the expected location on the travel schedule or itinerary, the controller generates a travel route deviation message. The transmitter transmits the travel route deviation message to a first communication device.
US10571283B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for calculating a risk index for one or more areas (e.g., roads, intersections, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure). For instance, high risk intersections may be identified and mapped from historic auto insurance claim data. High risk intersections may be identified because of an excessive number of vehicle collisions there, and/or an amount and extent of vehicle damage, personal injuries, and/or insurance liability expenses associated with, or resulting from, the vehicle collisions at those locations. Risk indices for various areas may be compared to one another, enabling comparison of the relative riskiness of the areas. In some embodiments, a risk map may be generated to visually depict one or more risk indices for areas within a depicted region. The risk map may be used to quickly identify the riskiest area(s) in the region, and to notify government bodies to facilitate repairs and improve road safety.
US10571281B2
A method executed by a computer includes outputting, by a processor, information representing a position of a spot that is ahead, in a traveling direction of a vehicle, of an occurrence spot on the basis of a position of the occurrence spot and the traveling direction of the vehicle at an occurrence time of an incident of a sudden stepping on a brake, the occurrence spot being of the incident of the sudden stepping on the brake and the position of the occurrence spot and the traveling direction of the vehicle having been determined on the basis of acceleration and a position measured by a sensor provided to the vehicle.
US10571275B2
A navigation device is disclosed that provides navigational guidance to boats needing to cross a boundary line at a milestone event time. Port and starboard laylines and guidelines may be displayed with the boundary line using wind direction data. The port and starboard layline angles may change with the wind direction, while their lengths may represent a distance traversed by the boat tacking at the port and starboard layline angles for a target time period at a target speed. A predictor line may be displayed extending from the boat in the direction in which the boat is traveling and may have a length indicating a distance traversed by the boat at its current speed until the milestone event time. The predictor line length and color may provide feedback regarding whether the boat will cross the boundary too early or too late given its current speed and direction.
US10571272B2
A method and mobile transceiver with adaptive monitoring are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of operating a mobile transceiver, comprising: waking up the mobile transceiver from a low power mode in response to a wakeup event; determining a waypoint in a travel itinerary corresponding to the wakeup event, the travel itinerary defining a number of waypoints including an origin endpoint and destination endpoint; performing an action associated with the wakeup event; determining a wakeup frequency associated with the determined waypoint; and setting a wakeup frequency of one or more subsequent wakeup events in accordance with the determined wakeup frequency.
US10571271B2
An inertial measurement system comprising: a first, roll gyro with an axis oriented substantially parallel to the spin axis of the projectile; a second gyro and a third gyro with axes arranged with respect to the roll gyro; a controller, arranged to: compute a current projectile attitude from the outputs of the first, second and third gyros; operate a Kalman filter that receives a plurality of measurement inputs including at least roll angle, pitch angle and yaw angle and that outputs at least a roll angle error; initialise the Kalman filter with a roll angle error uncertainty representative of a substantially unknown roll angle; generate at least one pseudo-measurement from stored expected flight data; provide said pseudo-measurement(s) to the corresponding measurement input of the Kalman filter; and apply the roll angle error from the Kalman filter as a correction to the roll angle.
US10571262B2
There is provided a method for controlling a surface texture measuring apparatus equipped with a probe that cannot detect an edge portion so as to automatically perform edge detection and automatically set a workpiece coordinate system. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce discrepancies by individual operators when setting a coordinate system, and improve the workability of coordinate system setting. A surface to be measured is scanned with a probe along a preset preliminary measurement path. When a detection error which causes when the surface to be measured is out of the tracking range of the probe occurs, a measurement value immediately before the detection error has occurred is temporarily registered as a temporary edge point. When the detection error continues during the subsequent scanning for a predetermined distance along the preliminary measurement path, the temporarily registered temporary edge point is set to an edge point.
US10571255B2
A device for measuring a shape of a wall portion of a coke oven is provided. The device includes a box having a main part defining at least one opening and a closing system movable with respect to the main part between an open position and a closed position, an internal protective screen located within the box and defining at least one scanning window, the scanning window being narrower than the opening along a transverse direction (T) of the box and at least one 3D laser scanner located in the box for scanning the wall portion through the scanning window and through the opening when the closing system is in the open position.
US10571248B2
A system includes one or more wafer geometry measurement tools configured to obtain geometry measurements from a wafer. The system also includes one or more processors in communication with the one or more wafer geometry measurement tools. The one or more processors are configured to apply a correction model to correct the geometry measurements obtained by the one or more wafer geometry measurement tools. The correction model is configured to correct measurement errors caused by a transparent film positioned on the wafer.
US10571243B2
Various systems and methods for sequential angle illumination to achieve ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. One example OCT system includes a light source, a beam divider, sample arm optics, a detector, and a processor. The light source generates a light beam to illuminate the sample. The beam divider separates the light beam into reference and sample arms. The sample arm optics sequentially illuminates a location in the sample with the light beam from different angles. The detector receives light returned from the reference arm and the sample illuminated at each angle and generates signals. The processor combines the signals to generate an image, which has a transverse resolution that is higher than the transverse resolution achieved from the signal generated from a single angle.
US10571240B2
Disclosed is a wheel flange planeness detection device, comprising a frame, a lifting cylinder, a lifting platform, guide posts, a support frame, a servo motor, a bearing seat, a shaft, a bearing, a rotating platform, guide rails, a sliding block, a small chain wheel, a large chain wheel, a clamping cylinder, a chain wheel driving motor, a left sliding plate, rotating shafts, rotating wheels, a visual sensor, clamping guide rails, gear rack structures, a right sliding plate, intelligent dial indicators, a support plate, a linear motor and a motor support. The device may monitor the state of flange planeness in an automatic production line in real time; when the flange planeness is out of tolerance, the device may immediately give an alarm, and the technologist adjusts the machining process in time after receiving the alarm, thereby avoiding a large batch of rejects.
US10571234B1
A venting lifting plug is provided for an unfuzed munition having a cavity with internal threads.
US10571231B2
The present invention provides a primer insert for a polymer ammunition cartridge comprising: a top surface; a bottom surface opposite the top surface; a coupling element that extends from the bottom surface, wherein the coupling element comprises an interior surface and an exterior surface, wherein the interior surface comprises: a transition region that transitions from the bottom surface to a second segment wherein the transition region has a radius of from 0.1 to 0.2; a first segment extending from the second segment and terminates at a tip, wherein the first segment has a first segment distance from 0.06 to 0.14 inches and the second segment has a second segment distance from 0.05 to 0.15 inches, wherein the second segment has a second segment angle from +3 to −3 degrees relative to the first segment angle and the first segment has a first segment angle from +6 to −6 degrees from perpendicular to the top surface; a primer recess in the top surface that extends toward the bottom surface; a primer flash aperture positioned in the primer recess through the bottom surface; and a flash aperture groove in the primer recess and positioned around the primer flash aperture and adapted to receive a polymer overmolding through the primer flash aperture.
US10571220B2
A holster for a firearm includes a first wall and a second wall delimiting, at least in part, an area for containing the firearm. The first and the second walls are connected to each other with one or more elastic elements.
US10571219B2
A pistol brace for a pistol having a frame with a rear end portion and defining a median plane longitudinally through the pistol. The pistol brace has a longitudinal support configured to attach to and extend rearwardly from the pistol frame. A first plate and a second plate are pivotably attached at an upper end portion to the longitudinal support and extend down from the support in opposed alignment. The first plate and second plate can pivot independently of each other. Optionally, a flexible strap is connected to the first plate and second plate. The strap defines an adjustable passageway for the user's forearm.
US10571218B2
The rail interface system uses a lever mechanism that pivots to extend through and restrictively engage the edges of the rail openings, thereby securely affixing the weapon accessory against the weapon or weapon component. The lever mechanisms may be adapted for use with M-Lok® or KeyMod style rail openings without the use of specialized nuts and fasteners.
US10571213B1
A 5.56 mm class bolt for a firearm including a first ejector housing to receive, through a first ejector opening, a first ejector and a second ejector housing to receive, through a second ejector opening, a second ejector.
US10571202B2
The heat storage apparatus of the present disclosure includes a casing, a heat storage material that is located in the casing, a stirrer that is located in the casing, that is in contact with the heat storage material, and that rotates to stir the heat storage material, and a projection that is in contact with the heat storage material, that projects from the stirrer, and that rotates with rotation of the stirrer. The projection is continuously in contact with an inner face of the casing while the stirrer rotates.
US10571199B2
A cooling device includes first heat pipes thermally connected to a first heat-generating element at one end and thermally connected to the superimposed first and second heat-radiating fin groups at another end; and second heat pipes thermally connected to a second heat-generating element at one end and thermally connected to the superimposed second and third heat-radiating fin groups at another end, wherein the respective another ends of the first heat pipes altogether span a substantially entirety of a planar area between the first and second heat-radiating fin groups, and the respective another ends of the second heat pipes altogether span a substantially entirety of a planar area between the second and third heat-radiating fin groups.
US10571197B2
An improved indirect heat exchanger is provided which is comprised of a plurality of coil circuits, with each coil circuit comprised of an indirect heat exchange section tube run or plate. Each tube run or plate has at least one change in its geometric shape or may have a progressive change in its geometric shape proceeding from the inlet to the outlet of the circuit. The change in geometric shape along the circuit length allows simultaneously balancing of the external airflow, internal heat transfer coefficients, internal fluid side pressure drop, cross sectional area and heat transfer surface area to optimize heat transfer.
US10571195B2
A furnace monitoring device for monitoring the inside of a gasifier through which a combustible gas flows is provided with: a nozzle that has an internal cavity, and that is inserted inside the gasifier and fixed to the gasifier; a cylindrical protection tube which is inserted into the nozzle, and a part of which, located on the inside of the gasifier is, blocked; a monitoring window which is provided on the protection tube on the inside of the gasifier, and is made of a material that transmits light; a purge mechanism which supplies a gas containing an oxidizer to a surface of the monitoring window facing the inside of the gasifier; and an image capturing means which captures an image of the inside of the gasifier through the monitoring window.
US10571190B2
A liquefied gas cooling apparatus including: a gas flow path for carrying a liquefied gas that is liquefied by cooling; and a refrigeration unit including a refrigerating cycle formed by an evaporator for cooling the liquefied gas flowing through the gas flow path, a compressor, a condenser, and a throttle expansion unit. The compressor is driven through an electric motor contained in a sealed housing together with a compressor mechanism.
US10571182B2
An ice crushing device includes an ice storage container and an ice knife assembly arranged in the ice storage container. The ice knife assembly includes a rotary shaft, a fixed ice knife, a movable ice knife and an ice cube separator, the rotary shaft is capable of driving the movable ice knife to rotate, the fixed ice knife and the ice cube separator are located at two sides of the rotary shaft separately, and the fixed ice knife and the ice cube separator are both fixed relative to the ice storage container.
US10571177B2
Systems and methods for compressor unloading detection are provided and include a compressor having a compression mechanism. A controller determines a predicted discharge temperature of the compressor, receives an actual discharge temperature of the compressor, and compares the predicted discharge temperature with the actual discharge temperature. The controller also compares a speed of the compressor with a speed threshold and detects unloading of the compression mechanism based on the comparison of the predicted discharge temperature with the actual discharge temperature and based on the comparison of the speed of the compressor with the speed threshold. The controller performs at least one of generating an alert and a remediating action in response to detecting the unloading of the compression mechanism.
US10571173B2
An air conditioning system includes a bypass passage and a cooling-heating switching mechanism. The bypass passage is configured to be at least a part of a flow passage connecting a third port to a refrigerant inlet of a compressor. A linear expansion valve opens and closes the bypass passage. The cooling-heating switching mechanism includes check valves and four-way valves. The four-way valve causes a refrigerant outlet of the check valve to communicate with one of the refrigerant inlet and a refrigerant outlet of the compressor. The four-way valve causes a refrigerant inlet of the check valve to communicate with one of the refrigerant inlet and the refrigerant outlet of the compressor and causes a port to communicate with the other of the refrigerant inlet and the refrigerant outlet.
US10571171B2
Systems and methods that detect a loss of charge associated with a climate controlled environment are described in the present disclosure. In various embodiments, a controller receives operating condition parameters associated with a climate-controlled environment. The controller determines whether a compressor is operating in a first mode of operation or a second mode of operation. The controller applies a first model to the operating condition parameters when the compressor is operating in the first mode of operation to represent a loss of charge associated with the climate-controlled environment and applies a second model to the operating condition parameters when the compressor is operating in the second mode of operation to represent the loss of charge associated with the climate-controlled environment.
US10571166B2
A power generation module of a vehicle air-conditioning system is provided. The air-conditioning=includes a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. The power generation module includes a high-temperature flow channel through which a refrigerant in a high-temperature state flows and a low-temperature flow channel through which a refrigerant in a low-temperature state compared with the high-temperature flow channel flows. A thermoelectric module is provided in which heat of the high-temperature flow channel is transferred to a first side thereof, heat of the low-temperature flow channel is transferred to a second side thereof, and an electromotive force is generated by a temperature difference between the first and second sides due to the transferred heat.
US10571148B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for providing a cognitive solution for maintaining a microenvironment. A cognitive service in an infrastructural computing system receives from a user computing device data of one or more sensors in the microenvironment. The cognitive service receives from the user computing device a profile of a user of the microenvironment. The cognitive service determines one or more current conditions of the microenvironment, based on the data of the one or more sensors. The cognitive service determines a cognitive solution for maintaining the microenvironment, based on the profile of the user and the one or more current conditions of the microenvironment. The cognitive service sends to the user computing device the cognitive solution. The user computing device adjusts one or more devices based on the cognitive solution.
US10571137B2
A filtration material comprising a blend of polypropylene and acrylic fibers of round, flat, dog bone, oval or kidney bean shape in any size from 0.08 to 3.3 Dtex. A preferred blend contains about 50 weight percent polypropylene fibers and about 50 weight percent acrylic fibers. The fibers can be blended ranging from 90:10 to 10:90 polypropylene to acrylic. The shape contains 25 weight percent round, flat, oval, dog bone and kidney bean shapes. The fiber blend contains 25 weight percent of at least one size between 0.08 and 3.3 Dtex. Electret fibers incorporated within these blends have 0.02 to 33 weight percent of a charge control agent. These fibers can be used in producing electret material by corona or triboelectric charging methods.
US10571134B2
An oven appliance includes a cabinet having a chamber defined therein. The chamber is accessible through an opening. The oven appliance also includes a first door having a first side and a second side. The first side of the first door is rotatably mounted to one side of the cabinet proximate the opening. A second door includes a first side and a second side. The first side of the second door is rotatably connected to the second side of the first door by a hinge comprising a pivot. The first door and the second door are movable between an open position and a closed position to selectively sealingly enclose the chamber. The first door and the second door define a gap therebetween in the closed position.
US10571130B2
A masonry oven constructed with the aid of a mold. An exemplary foam mold to provide inside shape of for pizza oven when covered in concrete is disclosed. Our mold allows DIY Homeowners the ability to make a pizza oven in their own backyard (or wherever) by simply pouring high˜temp concrete into our mold.
US10571124B2
A burner supporting primary and secondary combustion reactions may include a primary combustion reaction actuator configured to select a location of the secondary combustion reaction. A burner may include a perforated flame holder structure configured to support a secondary combustion reaction above a partial premixing region. The secondary flame support location may be selected as a function of a turndown parameter. Selection logic may be of arbitrary complexity.
US10571122B2
A fuel-fired furnace incorporates specially designed fuel/air mixing and combustion structures. The fuel/air mixing structure is of a mixing sound-attenuating design and comprises a venturi having a perforated sidewall portion and being surrounded by a noise-damping housing chamber communicating with the interior of the venturi via its sidewall perforations. During use of the mixing structure, air is flowed through the venturi in a swirling pattern while fuel is transversely injected internally against the swirling air. The combustion structure comprises a burner box housing into which the fuel/air mixture is flowed, combusted, and then discharged as hot combustion gas into and through the heat exchanger tubes. The fuel/air mixture entering the burner box housing initially passes through a non-uniformly perforated diffuser plate functioning to substantially alter in a predetermined manner the relative combustion gas flow rates through the heat exchanger tubes.
US10571121B2
An oxy-gaseous fuel burner (400, 500) or a solid fuel burner (700) having an annular cavity (404, 504, 704) upstream from and proximate to an outlet plane (416, 516, 716) and a converging (434, 734) or converging-diverging nozzle (537) located upstream from and proximal to the cavity (404, 504, 704). The solid fuel burner (700) also is preferably operated so that the velocity of gas exiting a second annulus (730) is less than the velocity of gas exiting a central conduit (710).
US10571117B1
A system for creating a flow of gas for use in creating relatively low-temperature ornamental flame uses a support connector with a vertical inlet adapted for accepting a flow of gas and a pair of generally horizontal outlets. Nipples are attached to the support connector. The nipples carry gas from the support connector to jets that mix the gas with air and deliver the mixture to be burned. The nipples include at least one landing of integral, one-piece construction with each of the nipples. The landings are adapted for accepting the mating surface of the wrench. The nipples include a plurality of apertures for accepting gas jets that include a side aperture for creating a gas-air mixture. The attachment of the nipples is achieved with a mating wrench, which allows assembly of the system to proper torque settings without marring of the surfaces of the system.
US10571113B2
Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for heat sinks within light fixtures. In embodiments, the heat sink may be a passive system that creates a cross-flow thermal management system to dissipate large amounts of heat in a slim light fixture. Embodiments may utilize a series of wings assembled in a linear design that are positioned perpendicular to the length of the light fixture to preserve the cross-flow heat sink.
US10571112B2
A high mast luminaire includes a power housing that defines an internal space, and a power source is disposed within the internal space. A light emitting diode (LED) housing supports a plurality of LEDs that are powered by the power source, and a plurality of LED cooling fins extend from a back face of the LED housing. An extension member extends from the power housing to the LED housing. The LED housing and the plurality of LED cooling fins are rotatable with respect to the power housing.
US10571107B2
The present invention has as its object the provision of a fluorescence light source apparatus which provides a high emission efficiency of a fluorescent plate and a sufficiently high fluorescence intensity. According to the present invention, the fluorescence light source apparatus includes a fluorescent plate that receives excitation light to emit fluorescence, and a heat dissipation substrate that dissipates heat generated in the fluorescent plate, the fluorescent plate and the heat dissipation substrate being bonded via a solder layer, wherein the solder layer has a void ratio of not more than 75% and a maximum void diameter of not more than 0.4 mm. The solder layer may preferably have a void ratio of not more than 50% and a maximum void diameter of not more than 0.2 mm.
US10571106B2
The invention provides a multi-part cable module (10) for association with a receiver rail element (350) of a support (30), the multi-part cable module (10) comprising a primary part (100) and a secondary part (200), wherein the primary part (100) is configured to engagingly receive the secondary part (200), wherein the primary part (100) comprises a) a cavity (110) to receive at least part of the secondary part (200), and b) a primary part opening (120) to provide access to at least part of a functional part (210) of the secondary part (200) when the secondary part (200) is engagingly received by the primary part (100), and wherein the primary part (100) further comprises c) a primary part rail element (150) configured for a male-female association with the receiver rail element (350) of the support (30); the secondary part (200) comprises (a) an inlet (220) for receiving a cable (410), and (b) said functional part (210), wherein the functional part comprises an outlet (230) for said cable (410).
US10571105B2
A light-emitting apparatus including a light source, a light-diverging element, a conductive structure, and a drive control module is provided. The light source is used to emit a light beam. The light-diverging element is disposed on a transmission path of the light beam, wherein after the light beam passes through the light-diverging element, a plurality of light beams separated from each other are produced. The conductive structure is disposed on a first surface of the light-diverging element. The drive control module is used to drive the light source and is electrically connected to the light source and the conductive structure.
US10571100B2
A magnetically attachable wireless light emitting diode lamp includes a light emitting diode lamp assembly, a magnetic part (2) and a holding part (1). The light emitting diode lamp assembly is provided with buckles (4). The holding part is provided with buckling holes (3). The buckle (4) and the buckling hole (3) are matched and connected. The holding part (1) is provided with a recess structure at the center. The magnetic part (2) is matched with and mounted in the recess structure of the holding part (1). The magnetically attachable wireless light emitting diode lamp is simple in structure and convenient to install, and can be used under severe conditions. When a strong magnet is used, the magnetic force can reach 5 kgf or more. The magnetically attachable wireless light emitting diode lamp is both convenient and firm.
US10571098B2
A lighting assembly, comprising a housing (2) and a lighting element (6). The housing (2) is manufactured by extrusion from at least one flexible material, and comprises a first housing wall (21), a second housing wall (22) and a third housing wall (23). The first housing wall (21) is pivotably connected to the second housing wall (22) by means of a first flexible hinge (31), and the second housing wall (22) is pivotably connected to the third housing wall (23) by means of a second flexible hinge (32). The lighting element (6) is located inside the housing (2), and arranged to emit light out from the housing (2). The housing (2) comprises locking means for releasably locking a free edge of the first housing wall (21) to a free edge of the third housing wall (23) to arrange the housing (2) in an operating position, the locking means comprising a first locking member (81) formed in the first housing wall (21), and a second locking member (82) formed in the third housing wall (23) and arranged to cooperate with the first locking member (81). The housing (2) is manufactured in one extrusion process, the material of the third housing wall (23) is translucent, and the lighting element (6) is arranged to emit light out from the housing (2) through the third housing wall (23).
US10571093B2
An apparatus for supporting an optical reflector to change a path of light and introduce the light to a lens includes an inclined unit configured to support a reflective surface of the optical reflector; a guide wall formed at a side of the inclined unit to support a side surface of the optical reflector; a guide opening formed in the guide wall; and a support member made of a material different from the material of the optical reflector and inserted into the guide opening so that an inner surface of the support member is fixedly coupled to the side surface of the optical reflector.
US10571063B2
A pipe replacement system and method are shown. Configurations are shown that include a pulley that does not damage a bursting tool, as the bursting tool is pulled into a pit. Configurations are also shown that include a boom that does not need an extraction cage for the bursting tool.
US10571059B2
A hose clamp system is disclosed. The system includes a hose clamp and a retainer configured to attach the clamp to a hose substrate such that a desired radial, axial and circumferential position relative to the substrate outer diameter and hose end is maintained. The hose clamp includes an annular band including a radial inner surface facing toward a central axis and a radial outer surface positioned opposite the radial inner surface and a tension mechanism configured to tighten the annular band. The retainer includes an elongated body extending over the radial outer surface and a clip extending outward from the annular band that is configured to engage a hose substrate. The retainer is moveably coupled to the annular band such that the retainer is permitted to move circumferentially along the radial outer surface of the annular band.
US10571050B2
Air brake tubing is provided having an air brake tube body comprising at least one layer formed from a composition comprising a copolyester, polyethylene terephthalate or polybutylene terephthalate; and a thermoplastic polyurethane.
US10571046B1
A shroud assembly for covering a portion of a utility line is encompassed by the present disclosure. The shroud assembly can include a shroud forming a cavity for aligning with a portion of a utility line and an access port for accessing the utility line and a marker removably connected to the shroud to mark the location of the portion of the utility line that is covered.
US10571044B2
An adapter system for a check valve which comprises a housing open at the bottom and a lateral wall pierced by a hole, and a flap fitted inside the housing and movable between a shut-off position in which the flap shuts off the hole and a free position in which the flap does not shut off the hole. A plug is provided for being inserted into the hole through an end face and a stop is provided for being placed against the lateral wall of the housing opposite the lateral wall pierced by the hole and comprising an attachment device provided for attaching the stop to the housing and provided so that the plug comes to rest against the stop. Such an adapter system may be installed without it being necessary to dismantle the housing.
US10571034B2
A water valve cartridge includes an operation disk which is provided in an assembly space between a cartridge base and a cartridge housing and adjusts degrees of opening and closing of an introduction passage and a discharge passage according to a rotational state so as to adjust an amount of water flow and a water temperature, wherein a cold water introduction hole and a hot water introduction hole which are introduction passages of water supplied from an external source and a plurality of discharge holes which are discharge passages of the introduced water have different rotation radii and are located on the same plane and the operation disk individually opens and closes the cold and hot water introduction holes and the plurality of discharge holes by a separate rotational operation in a state of being stacked in a surface-to-surface manner at a position corresponding to the different rotation radius.
US10571029B2
A fluid control valve includes a shaft member configured to move along an axis by drive force from a drive source, and a holding member including a cylindrical portion in which a second end portion of the shaft member is placed by insertion with a predetermined clearance provided in a radial direction. The holding member includes a valve element and a seal member. The fluid control valve includes a housing including an inlet port, an outlet port and a valve seat. The cylindrical portion includes a protrusion protruding radially inward. The second end portion of the shaft member includes a first region including a first contact portion configured to be in contact with a bottom portion of the cylindrical portion. The second end portion of the shaft member includes a second region including a second contact portion being in contact with the protrusion.
US10571028B2
A circumferential seal for a rotating machine having a ceramic runner and support system is provided. The circumferential seal may comprise a sealing runner having a radially inward facing surface and a mounting element. The mounting element may comprise a radial pilot, an axial flange, an isolating element, a spring element to provide an axially clamping force to the runner, and a support ring extending axially along a shaft a distance greater than the radially inward facing surface of the runner.
US10571027B2
A metal ring seal capable of providing a fluid seal between two downhole assemblies. The ring seal has a “C” shape, is initially located inside one of the downhole assemblies adjacent to an internal wedged section of that assembly and has an inner diameter that is at least as large as the outer diameter of the second downhole assembly. When the ring seal is moved along the internal wedged section into a sealing position, the two ends of the “C” shape sealingly contact each other and the inner diameter of the ring is smaller than the outer diameter of the second assembly so as to create a seal between the first and second assemblies.
US10571025B2
A fire seal structure prevents flame from coming out of a fire-prevention region of an aircraft including a panel and a duct. The fire seal structure includes: a first member provided on the duct at a connection portion between the panel and the duct; and a second member that faces the first member around the opening and is provided on the panel. The panel defines the fire-prevention region. The duct communicates with an opening provided in the panel. The duct defines, together with the panel, the fire-prevention region. The first and the second members each contain refractory material, and the first and the second members form a labyrinth-shaped gap between the duct and the panel.
US10571016B2
A hydraulic control system for a continuously variable transmission (CVT) of a motor vehicle includes a source of pressurized hydraulic fluid that communicates with an electronic transmission range selection (ETRS) subsystem. The ETRS subsystem may include one or more mode valves, a park servo, and a park mechanism. A pressure regulator subsystem is configured to provide a pressurized hydraulic fluid. The ETRS subsystem is in downstream fluid communication with the pressure regulator subsystem and has first and second outputs. The ETRS subsystem has an electronically-activated mode control valve in communication with the mode valve. The mode control valve is operable to move the mode valve between a first position and a second position. The ETRS subsystem is configured to selectively communicate pressurized hydraulic fluid to the forward clutch for the CVT through the first output and to the reverse clutch through the second output.
US10571014B2
An integrated apparatus for implementing shift lock and shift lock release functions of an automatic transmission vehicle includes a shift lock solenoid having a plunger capable of moving forward and backward; a shift lock release lever forcibly moving the plunger backward by coming into contact with the plunger when moving toward the shift lock solenoid; and a casing coupling the shift lock solenoid and shift lock release lever to be integrally modularized.
US10571013B2
A planetary gear mechanism a sun gear, pinion gears meshing with the sun gear, a planetary carrier having pinion shafts pivotally supporting the pinion gears, a ring gear meshing with the pinion gears, and washers provided between the planetary carrier and the pinion gears. The washers include first washers that are disposed on the side of the planetary carrier and that have projections projecting radially outwardly from outer circumferential sides and second washers that are disposed between the first washers and the pinion gears. The projections come into contact with the planetary carrier and thereby prevent rotation of the first washers.
US10571007B2
A differential system provides an axle disconnect function, a synchronizer function, and it has the ability to transmit large amounts of torque and has a limited slip differential function in a compact and cost effective module.
US10571005B2
A lock-up device transmits a torque and includes a clutch disc, a piston, a cover plate and a support boss. The clutch disc is disposed between a front cover and a turbine. The piston is disposed between the front cover and the turbine. The piston is movable in an axial direction. The cover plate is disposed between the piston and the turbine, and includes a torque transmission part in an outer peripheral part thereof so as to transmit the torque to the clutch disc. The support boss has an annular shape. The support boss is fixed to an inner peripheral part of the front cover and includes a piston support part and a coupling part. The piston support part supports an inner peripheral end surface of the piston such that the piston is slidable thereon. The coupling part receives an inner peripheral part of the cover plate coupled thereto.
US10571004B2
A torque converter includes an impeller, a turbine, and a variable-pitch stator adjacent the turbine. The stator includes a hub and blades circumferentially arranged around the hub and pivotal between open and closed positions. The stator further includes an annular carrier connected to the blades and configured to rotate relative to the hub in response to pivoting of the blades, and a thrust disk engageable with the carrier to inhibit rotation of the carrier relative to the hub to maintain positions of the blades.
US10570998B2
A continuously variable transmission 1 includes: a primary pulley 20 including a nipping groove 22 receiving a V belt 12 wound across pulleys, the primary pulley 20 including a fixed half pulley 21 having a back side, opposite to the nipping groove 22, provided with a hollow part S; and a reinforcing member 41 having a center hole receiving a driving shaft 11 and tapering from an outer circumference side toward an inner circumference side to have an annular conical shape. The reinforcing member 41 has an outer circumference side end portion 41a brought into contact with and attached to an outer circumference side end surface Sa of the hollow part S and has an inner circumference side end portion 41b attached to an inner circumference side end surface Sb of the hollow part S via a holding member 42 having a wedge-shaped cross section.
US10570993B2
A chain link for a handling chain and to the handling chain. The handling chain has a body consisting of a plurality of chain links, which adjoin each other in the longitudinal direction of the handling chain, wherein the chain links are connected to each other in the adjoining connection regions thereof in such a way that, in each case, the chain links can be pivoted about a first pivot axis extending in the transverse direction. The chain link is designed to form a hinge-joint connection with the joint partner, wherein the chain link has at least one connection region designed as a first connection region, said connection region being designed in such a way that the hinge-joint connection enables at least one further relative motion of the joint partners in addition to the pivoting about the first pivot axis.
US10570985B2
A high frequency vibration spindle system which includes a spindle having a spindle housing and a spindle shaft disposed in the spindle housing; a toolholder, engaged with the spindle and adapted to be engaged with a tool; an electric power transmission device disposed at the front end or a rear end of the spindle, including a first coil and a second coil; the first coil is disposed on the spindle housing, and the second coil is disposed on the spindle shaft to be rotated with the spindle shaft coaxially; the first coil and the second coil are spaced with a gap; the second coil is adapted to receive an electric power from the first coil with a non-contact induction method; and a transducer, adapted to be controlled to vibrate the tool and disposed in the toolholder and electrically connected with the second coil to receive the electric power.
US10570980B2
An assembly for damping the movement of a vibrating body includes an energy dissipating material, a vessel, and a seal. The energy dissipating material may include one or more types of loose particles. The loose particles may include similar and/or dissimilar materials or a mixture thereof. The loose particles may at least partially fill the vessel. The vessel may be configured to conform to requirements of an environment of the vibrating body and to retain and/or store the loose particles. The seal may include a molded material, a plate, and/or a flange. In an embodiment, the plate may be at least partially encompassed within the seal, and the seal, plate, and/or flange may be configured to engage the vessel and/or to retain the loose particles within the vessel.
US10570967B2
Some OEM clutch suppliers provide a clutch system that is welded closed and accordingly these systems are difficult to maintain, service and/or upgrade, for example after drive or driven (friction) disks have worn out. Typically, these systems are intended to be entirely replaced. Alternatively, in order to access the clutch internals the welded assembly needs to be cut open and only then can the disks can be replaced. After re-assembly, re-welding is required in which alignment of components is difficult to achieve and costly. The serviceable clutch housing system provides a solution to overcome the disadvantages of a non-serviceable OEM clutch product by providing a means to retrofit to the clutch allowing assembly and disassembly of the clutch, while maintaining many of the original OEM parts. This results in reduction in the maintenance cost and time required for assembly after servicing.
US10570963B2
A torque limiting device comprises an input shaft, an output shaft and a machined torsion spring having a first end and a second end. The first end and the second end of the torsion spring are coupled to the both the input shaft and the output shaft, whereby torque is transmitted between the input shaft and output shaft via the torsion spring. The couplings between the torsion spring and the input shaft and the output shaft permit limited relative rotation between the input shaft and the output shaft. The device further comprises a jamming mechanism operable in response to relative rotation between the input shaft and output shaft to stop rotation of both the input shaft and the output shaft.
US10570962B2
A sealed bearing includes an inner race; and seal members each including a seal lip made of rubber. Each seal lip includes a plurality of protrusions circumferentially spaced apart from each other, and kept in sliding contact with the inner race with fluid lubrication condition generated between the protrusions and the inner race. Each protrusion has a circular arc-shaped cross section along the circumferential direction, and the circular arc-shaped cross section has a radius of 0.4 mm or more and less than 9.0 mm.
US10570950B2
A bearing joint assembly includes a bearing sleeve, a first mount, a pair of second mounts and a fastener. The bearing sleeve extends axially along a centerline and includes a spherical bearing, a first collar and a second collar. The spherical bearing is axially between the first collar and the second collar. An annular channel is formed by and extends axially between the spherical bearing and the first collar. The first mount is mounted on and slidably engages the spherical bearing. The bearing sleeve is axially between the second mounts. The fastener projects through the bearing sleeve and secures the bearing sleeve to the second mounts.
US10570946B2
A blind rivet-nut having an annular-flange-like setting head and a hollow shaft for securing a blind rivet-nut in an opening of a carrier. The hollow shaft has a free end having a threaded portion for receiving a threaded element of a tensioning tool. A clamping portion adjacent to the setting head forms a bead-like deformation when the tensioning tool is used to clamp the carrier between the bead-like deformation and the setting head. A threadless shaft portion is formed between the clamping portion and the threaded portion. The threadless shaft portion is threaded by a thread self-rolling or thread self-tapping fastener. The fastener is received in a positive-locking manner when the fastener is screwed into the thread formed on the previously threadless shaft portion. A method is also disclosed for securing a component to a carrier by a blind rivet-nut.
US10570945B2
A pressing-type screw includes a screw-head component, two first drilling-fastening components, and a drilling-head component. The screw-head component is provided with a fastening slot. The two first drilling-fastening components form an axis passing through the center of the screw-head component. The two first drilling-fastening components each has a top end in connection with the screw-head component, and each includes a first thread portion formed on a surface of each of the two first drilling-fastening components and furthest away from the axis. The drilling-head component is in connection with the bottom end of each of the two first drilling-fastening components. A hollow space is formed between the two first drilling-fastening components and the drilling-head component.
US10570944B2
A gas turbine engine includes a bushing that is non-round in cross-section, the bushing receivable within an aperture. A fastener passes through the bushing to retain a second component to a third component with respect to the first component.
US10570941B2
Provided is a clip to be attached to a vehicle body panel having panel surfaces that intersect each other, while separately holding different wire groups in a state of being near each other. The clip disclosed in the present specification includes a first wire holding portion for holding a first wire group; a second wire holding portion for holding a second wire group; a vehicle body attachment portion to be attached to the vehicle body; and a coupling portion for coupling the first wire holding portion and the second wire holding portion. The coupling portion includes a first coupling portion that is continuous with the first wire holding portion and a second coupling portion that is continuous with the second wire holding portion. The first coupling portion and the second coupling portion intersect each other.
US10570939B2
A rivet (1) for fixing cementitious sheets to supports is provided, which rivet comprises a metal rivet body (10) with an axial length Lr, metal rivet head (12) and metal mandrel (14), characterized in that the rivet further comprises at least one polymer tubular member (20) having a length Lm in axial direction (30), Lm being less than Lr, said polymer tubular member being coaxially mounted on the rivet body along its length Lm. In addition, methods for fixing a cementitious sheet to a support by means of such rivets are provided as well as uses of such rivets in the building industry. Also, building systems, comprising a support and a cementitious sheet, which cementitious sheet is fixed to the support by means of at least one of the rivets of the invention is provided herein.
US10570935B2
An actuator includes a piston assembly movably disposed within an assembly housing having a fixedly supported end and an opposing end that receives a movable piston assembly. The piston assembly includes a piston rod and an attached piston head having a fixed orifice as well as an orifice with a check valve to create rate control of the assembly. Hydraulic fluid is caused to move through the axially movable piston head based on compressive and tensile loads imparted to the assembly. A plurality of pre-loaded springs are configured to selectively provide pressure relief in the event the orifices of the piston become clogged, wherein the plurality of pre-loaded springs, such as disc springs, further provide an energy absorbing function of the assembly based on loading conditions.
US10570933B2
A pressure-medium unit includes a housing, which is produced by injection molding and composed of plastic, in the housing wall of which housing at least one connection bush having a passage opening is fastened, through which pressure medium is fed into and/or led out of the interior of the housing. In the injection molding process of the housing, the connection bush, with the exception of the passage opening, is at least partially injection-molded into the housing wall.
US10570929B2
One embodiment provides a fan, including: a hub for connection to a motor; and a plurality of blades coupled to the hub, the plurality of blades being mutually diverging from the hub and spaced apart around a common rotating axis, with each of the plurality of blades defining a centroid, wherein at least one blade of the plurality of blades is deviated with respect to a corresponding centroid of the at least one blade to provide a non-uniform arrangement of the plurality of blades while maintaining a respective centroid of the plurality of blades on a common circumference around the common rotating axis. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10570927B2
A boosting system which boosts a target gas to a pressure which is equal to or greater than a target pressure higher than a critical pressure includes a compression portion which compresses the target gas to an intermediate pressure which is equal to or greater than the critical pressure and is less than the target pressure to generate an intermediate supercritical fluid, a cooling portion which cools the intermediate supercritical fluid generated by the compression portion to a temperature near to a critical temperature to generate an intermediate supercritical pressure liquid, a pump portion which boosts the intermediate supercritical pressure liquid generated by the cooling portion to a pressure which is equal to or greater than the target pressure, and a cooling temperature adjusting portion which adjusts a temperature of the intermediate supercritical pressure liquid generated by the cooling portion in an upstream side of a pump.
US10570915B2
A compressor airfoil of a turbine engine having a geared architecture includes pressure and suction sides that extend in a radial direction from a 0% span position to a 100% span position. The airfoil has a relationship between a camber angle and span position that defines a curve with a decreasing camber angle from 80% span to 100% span.
US10570905B2
A centrifugal compressor for a turbocharger includes an inlet-adjustment mechanism in an air inlet for the compressor, operable to move between a closed position, an open position, and a super-open position. The compressor also includes a ported shroud system. The inlet-adjustment mechanism includes a plurality of blades disposed about the air inlet and movable radially inwardly and outwardly for defining the various positions. In the closed position, the effective diameter of air inlet is reduced and the blades block flow through the ported shroud system. In the open position, the blades still block the ported shroud but the effective inlet diameter is increased relative to the closed position. In the super-open position, the blades unblock the ported shroud so that an additional amount of flow can pass through the ported shroud, thereby shifting the compressor's choke flow line to higher flow rates.
US10570900B2
Disclosed is an oil separation barrel, which includes a barrel body and an oil separation and filtration structure provided in the barrel body, the barrel body provided with an oil separation cavity and an output port. An output gas flow is filtered by the oil separation and filtration structure, then enters the oil separation cavity, and finally is output from the output port. At least part of a barrel wall of the barrel body forming the oil separation cavity includes two or more layers of circumferential walls. The output gas flow flows in the oil separation cavity in such a manner that it changes the advance direction multiple times, which can make the flow field uniform and reduce noise and vibration; and the output gas flow impacts the circumferential wall surfaces in the oil separation barrel multiple times, which can further improve the efficiency of oil separation.
US10570892B2
A Fiber-fed Pulsed Plasma Thruster (FPPT) will enable enhanced low Earth orbit, cis-lunar, and deep space missions for small satellites. FPPT technology utilizes an electric motor to feed PTFE fiber to its discharge region, enabling high PPT propellant throughput and variable exposed fuel area. An innovative, parallel ceramic capacitor bank dramatically lowers system specific mass. FPPT minimizes range safety concerns by the use of non-pressurized, non-toxic, inert propellant and construction materials. Estimates are that a 1U (10 cm×10 cm×10 cm, or 1 liter) volume FPPT thruster package may provide more than 10,000 N-s total impulse and a delta-V of 1.4 km/s delta-V for an 8 kg CubeSat.
US10570889B2
The present disclosure is directed to a wind turbine. The wind turbine includes a tower, a machine head having a generator, and a rotor mechanically coupled to the generator. The rotor includes a hub and a plurality of rotor blades coupled to and extending outwardly from the hub. The wind turbine also includes an adaptor coupled between the tower and the machine head, with the adaptor defining an interior chamber. Furthermore, the wind turbine includes one or more electrical components electrically coupled to the generator, with the one or more electrical components being positioned within the interior chamber defined by the adaptor.
US10570888B2
The present disclosure is directed to a working platform mounted within a nacelle of the wind turbine during a repair procedure. More specifically, the working platform may be mounted to a bedplate within the nacelle in an area where one or more drivetrain component(s) would normally be during operation of the wind turbine, but have been removed due to repair or replacement thereof.
US10570887B2
Disclosed herein is a vibration monitoring and diagnosing system for monitoring conditions of a wind power generator and diagnosing a defective portion thereof using vibration characteristics obtained from acceleration sensors mounted to the wind power generator. A vibration-based defect detecting method may include: collecting vibration data of the wind power generator using the plurality of sensors; extracting a first characteristic value of a time domain based on the vibration data; extracting characteristic values in one or more frequency bands for a location of each sensor in a frequency domain or an envelope frequency domain if the first characteristic value is greater than a preset alarm setting value; and determining that a defect is present when at least one characteristic value of the characteristic values is greater than a preset normal value.
US10570885B2
Controlling a wind turbine during a grid fault where the grid voltage drops below a nominal grid voltage. After detection of a grid fault, the total current limit for the power converter output is increased to a total maximum overload current limit. Depending on whether active or reactive current generation is prioritized, an active or reactive current reference is determined. The active current reference is determined in a way so that a reduction in active power production due to the grid voltage drop is minimized and based on the condition that the vector-sum of the active output current and the reactive output current is limited according to the total maximum overload current limit, and a maximum period of time is determined in which the power converter can be controlled based on the active/reactive current references. Afterwards the power converter is controlled based on the active and reactive current references.
US10570883B2
A system and method for protecting a wind turbine from extreme wind gusts includes monitoring a wind speed and a wind direction at the wind turbine. The method also includes determining a wind gust threshold, wherein wind speeds and wind directions exceeding the wind gust threshold, respectively, are indicative of an extreme wind gust occurring at the wind turbine. In addition, the method includes comparing, via a controller, the monitored wind speed or a function thereof and the wind direction or function thereof to the wind gust threshold, respectively. Thus, the method includes implementing, via a controller, a corrective action when the monitored wind speed and the monitored wind direction exceed the wind gust threshold, respectively.
US10570868B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a power generating device having a combustion engine, in particular a gas motor or a gas turbine, and an energy accumulator. The combustion engine and the energy accumulator are electrically coupled together. The combustion engine can be operated in accordance with a first estimated value and in accordance with a second estimated value.
US10570865B2
A fuel injector and method are disclosed wherein an injector body defines a cavity and passages from an inlet at the cavity through an outside surface of the injector body. Each passage may have a first inner contour at a first angle and a second inner contour at a second angle. An injector pin with a fuel pass-though volume may be movable within the cavity to selectively overlap an outlet of the pass-through volume with an inlet of the passages to selectively direct fuel in varying quantities along the first second inner contours.
US10570863B1
A fuel injector includes an injector body, and a plunger movable within a plunger cavity in the injector body. The fuel injector also includes a spill valve positioned at least partially within a main fuel passage, a fill passage forming a fluid connection between the plunger cavity and the main fuel passage, and a cross passage forming a second fluid connection between the plunger cavity and the main fuel passage. The fuel injector also includes a metering edge within the plunger cavity and positioned such that the plunger passes the metering edge during pumping to the plunger for valvetrain noise suppression. A metering slot may be formed in the injector body or the plunger.
US10570854B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a system includes a turbofan engine, a nacelle surrounding the engine and defining an annular bypass duct through the engine to define a generally forward-to-aft bypass air flow path, a thrust reverser movable to and from a reversing position where at least a portion of the bypass air flow path is reversed and comprising a first reverser portion having a first latch element, and a second reverser portion having a second latch element that is reversibly engageable with the first latch element to reversibly secure the second reverser portion to the first reverser portion, and an actuator comprising a catch element coupled to a portion of at least one of the first latch element and the second latch element to move the first reverser portion and the second reverser portion into and out of the reversing position.
US10570853B2
A thrust reverser assembly for a gas turbine engine including a core engine, a nacelle surrounding at least a portion of the core engine to define a bypass duct between the nacelle and the core engine, including a translating cowl moveable between a first position and a second position, a blocker door movable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The thrust reverser assembly includes multiple actuator assemblies to both translate the cowl and deploy the blocker door.
US10570852B2
An exhaust section of a gas turbine engine includes an exhaust plug defining a plurality of exhaust plug apertures circumferentially spaced from each other. Also included is an exhaust nozzle radially offset from the exhaust plug defining an exhaust pathway between the exhaust plug and the exhaust nozzle. Further included is an exhaust plug liner having a non-uniform outer surface axially aligned with the exhaust plug apertures. The exhaust plug liner is rotatable relative to the exhaust plug between a first position and a second position to selectively change a cross-sectional area of the exhaust pathway during thrust reversal operation to reduce an amount of reverse thrust necessary.
US10570848B2
A method for diagnosing a purge control solenoid valve (PCSV) may include forming a negative pressure in a fuel tank, checking a pressure in the fuel tank and determining whether a target negative pressure is generated, when the target negative pressure is determined not to be formed based on a result of the determining whether the target negative pressure is generated, suspecting a stuck of the PCSV that electrically controls an inflow amount of evaporated gas from the fuel tank to an intake system of an engine, and increasing a purge amount of the PCSV.
US10570845B2
A method and apparatus for diagnosing an engine system are provided. An apparatus for diagnosing an engine system including a continuous variable valve duration (CVVD) apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: an accelerator pedal position detector configured for detecting a position of an accelerator pedal; a brake pedal position detector configured for detecting a position of a brake pedal; a vehicle speed detector configured for detecting a speed of a vehicle; an intake pressure detector configured for detecting an intake pressure; and a controller configured for determining whether a fuel cut condition is satisfied and determining whether the CVVD apparatus is in a failure state when the fuel cut condition is satisfied.
US10570843B2
The exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine comprises: a catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine and able to store oxygen; an ammonia detection device arranged in the exhaust passage at a downstream side of the catalyst in a direction of flow of exhaust; and an air-fuel ratio control part configured to control an air-fuel ratio of inflowing exhaust gas flowing into the catalyst to a target air-fuel ratio. The air-fuel ratio control part is configured to perform rich control making the target air-fuel ratio richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and make the target air-fuel ratio leaner than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio when an output value of the ammonia detection device rises to a reference value in the rich control.
US10570838B2
To provide sensing system layout structure of an internal combustion engine that enables increasing a degree of freedom in laying out a sensing system. In sensing system layout structure of an internal combustion engine provided with a sensing system for sensing rotation of a camshaft, the internal combustion engine is provided with a driving shaft rotated in synchronization with the camshaft, the sensing system is provided with a driving shaft rotation detecting sensor arranged opposite to a rotated portion on a side of the driving shaft, and rotation of the driving shaft is sensed by the driving shaft rotation detecting sensor.
US10570833B2
A method for predicting failure in a cylinder of a multi-cylinder engine is provided. Each cylinder has an associated pressure sensor to provide a signal indicative of pressure in the cylinder. The method includes identifying whether there is a non-fueling interval associated with any of the cylinder on the engine. The method includes determining at least one of parameters such as an indicated mean effective pressure, a peak cylinder pressure, a total heat released, or a total duration of heat released over a combustion cycle for the cylinder. The method includes comparing the at least one of the parameters with predefined threshold value, determining whether any of the parameters exceeds the predefined threshold value, and generating a signal indicating the impending cylinder failure if at least one of the parameters exceeds the corresponding predefined threshold value.
US10570812B2
A variable geometry turbine having a turbine wheel, an inlet passageway, a movable wall member being moveable axially to vary the width of the inlet passageway, an annular seal being mounted to the movable wall member or an adjacent housing member to provide a seal between adjacent surfaces of the movable wall member and housing member respectively, wherein a bypass passage is provided in the other of said movable wall member or housing member, extending from an inlet bypass port to an outlet bypass port, said ports being spaced from each other and provided in said adjacent surface of said other of the movable wall member or housing member, arranged such that as the movable wall member moves axially, the annular seal moves axially relative to the ports to vary the flow that may pass from a region of the cavity inboard of the seal, through the bypass passage.
US10570788B2
The oil pan assembly includes an oil pan and a slideable cover. The oil pan includes a base and a sidewall which surrounds the base wherein the base and the sidewall are configured to retain a pool of oil. The oil pan further includes a peripheral flange operatively configured to be coupled to an engine block. The slideable cover is affixed to the oil pan and is configured to maintain the pool of oil proximate to the base of the oil pan.
US10570780B2
An exhaust assembly may include an exhaust body and a pivoting attachment feature. The exhaust body, such as a center body or a nozzle, may be configured to direct an annular exhaust stream exiting from a gas turbine engine. The pivoting attachment feature may be coupled the exhaust body and may be configured to pivotally couple the exhaust body to an engine flange. The pivoting attachment feature may be one of a plurality of attachment features circumferentially distributed around the exhaust body. The exhaust body may be a center body and the plurality of attachment features may be coupled to a radially inward surface the center body. The pivoting attachment feature may enable a degree of relative thermal expansion movement between the engine flange/turbine exhaust case and the exhaust body while mitigating detrimental thermal loads, according to various embodiments.
US10570773B2
A turbine shroud segment has a body having a radially outer surface and a radially inner surface extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge and circumferentially between a first and a second lateral edge. A first serpentine channel is disposed axially along the first lateral edge. A second serpentine channel is disposed axially along the second lateral edge. The first and second serpentine channels each define a tortuous path including axially extending passages between a front inlet proximate the leading edge and a rear outlet at the trailing edge of the body.
US10570744B2
A method of manufacturing a component includes additively manufacturing a crucible; directionally solidifying a metal material within the crucible; and removing the crucible to reveal the component. A component for a gas turbine engine includes a directionally solidified metal material component, the directionally solidified metal material component having been additively manufactured of a metal material concurrently with a core, the metal material having been remelted and directionally solidified.
US10570739B2
A circle-ellipse engine includes a stationary circular outer housing having a fixed elliptical inner cam surface, and a separate internal round rotor partitioned into equal segments that are populated by identical movable radial vanes. During rotation, the end of the vanes are positioned a precise, constant distance from the elliptical inner cam surface of the housing. During rotation, a variable height cavity is created representing the difference between the major and minor axes of the elliptical inner cam surface and the rotor face. During each rotation, aspirated air is continuously drawn into combustion chambers, compressed, mixed with fuel, ignited, and exhaust gas products are expelled.
US10570731B2
Systems and methods for extracting and analyzing formation fluids from solids circulated out of a subterranean formation are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise: providing a sample of formation solids that have been separated from a fluid circulated in at least a portion of a well bore penetrating a portion of a subterranean formation at a well site; performing a solvent extraction on the sample of formation solids using one or more solvents at an elevated pressure at the well site, wherein at least a portion of one or more formation fluids residing in the formation solids is extracted into the one or more solvents to produce an extracted fluid; and analyzing the extracted fluid at the well site to determine the composition of the extracted fluid.
US10570728B2
Systems and methods using multi-electrode configurations for characterizing fluids in subterranean formations during various treatment operations are provided. In certain embodiments, the methods comprise: placing a tubular base structure having a multi-electrode configuration disposed thereon in at least a portion of a well bore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation, the multi-electrode configuration comprising at least first and second electrodes with a dielectric layer between the tubular base structure and the electrodes; collecting electromagnetic measurements using the multi-electrode configuration; and processing the electromagnetic measurements to obtain a characterization of at least one fluid in an annulus between the tubular base structure and an inner wall of the well bore. The first and second electrodes of the multi-electrode configuration may be oriented along non-parallel planes and/or positioned at different heights from an outer surface of the tubular base structure.
US10570726B2
An assembly for receiving telemetry signals from downhole equipment is located at a top end of a drill string above a drill rig floor. The assembly may be configured to receive multiple types of telemetry signals, for example, two or more of electromagnetic telemetry, mud pulse telemetry and drill string acoustic telemetry signals. The assembly may comprise a cap comprising a coupling and an end separated by an electrically-insulating gap region. The end of the cap may be connected to a grounding system for the drill rig.
US10570724B2
A sensing system that includes a cylindrical body including an internal flow channel that channels a first fluid therethrough, and a sampling chamber. The sampling chamber is in flow communication with an ambient environment. A venturi device is coupled within the cylindrical body, and the venturi device includes a high pressure portion and a low pressure portion. The low pressure portion is in flow communication with the sampling chamber. A valve is coupled within the cylindrical body and is positionable in at least a first position. A first flow channel is defined between the internal flow channel and the high pressure portion through the valve. The first flow channel channels the first fluid towards the high pressure portion such that the low pressure portion draws a second fluid into the sampling chamber from the ambient environment. A sensor assembly determines characteristics of the second fluid within the sampling chamber.
US10570723B2
A technique facilitates joining of sections of tubing and related monitoring. An expandable tubular member may be coupled with an external tubing, e.g. a casing. The expandable tubular member is deployed into the external tubing to a desired position. Then, an expandable portion of the expandable tubular member may be plastically deformed in a radially outward direction and into engagement with the external tubing. A sensor system may be combined with the expandable tubular member to monitor a characteristic of the expandable tubular member.
US10570715B2
A method of enhanced oil recovery from an unconventional resource reservoir comprises injecting an enhanced recovery fluid into the unconventional resource reservoir via an injection well and producing hydrocarbons from the unconventional resource reservoir via the injection well or a production well offset from the injection well.
US10570712B2
Techniques for managing a hydraulic fluid pipeline pressure include measuring a fluid pressure of a hydrocarbon fluid circulating, from a wellbore by a pump positioned in the wellbore, through an above-ground hydrocarbon fluid pipeline network at a plurality of particular locations in the hydrocarbon fluid pipeline network to determine a plurality of measured process pressures; determining that at least half of the plurality of measured process pressures exceed a specified threshold value; and based on the determination, actuating at least one flow control device operable to control the flow of the hydrocarbon fluid in the wellbore to reduce a fluid pressure of the hydrocarbon fluid in the hydrocarbon fluid pipeline network.
US10570701B2
A system includes a support structure that is configured to be positioned at a fixed location relative to a component of a mineral extraction system. The system also includes a drive assembly having a drive motor and a valve attachment, and the drive assembly is configured to move about the support structure and to actuate multiple valves of the component of the mineral extraction system.
US10570693B2
An apparatus for use in a fluid conduit comprises a plurality of segments arranged along a longitudinal axis, each segment comprising an extendable structure configured for extension in a lateral direction relative to the longitudinal axis, wherein the apparatus is configured for the sequential initiation of lateral extension of the extendable structures of at least two segments. At least two segments may be configured to define different maximum extended dimensions in the lateral direction and may include adjacent support surfaces which provide mutual support for one another when the at least two segments are laterally extended. The apparatus may be configured to form a seal, an anchor, a supporting structure and/or a flow restriction in a fluid conduit.
US10570688B2
The present invention relates generally to a well casing hanger system that provides for orientation of a hanger with respect to a landing ring during installation. The landing ring has a mating feature, such as a recess, adapted to engage with a mating feature, such as a protrusion, on the casing hanger. The shape of the mating features of the landing ring and hanger is such that rotation to a specific alignment will occur during installation if there is an initial rotational offset.
US10570686B2
A downhole tool including a mandrel, at least one moveable component mounted to the mandrel, and a locking ring mounted to the mandrel. The locking ring includes a plurality of locking ring segments that enable relative movement between the mandrel and the at least one moveable component. A plurality of circumferential spaces is arranged between corresponding ones of the locking ring segments. At least one load bar is arranged in at least one of the plurality of circumferential spaces. The at least one load bar is mechanically connected to the at least one moveable component.
US10570684B2
A downhole assembly includes a tool-orienting device including an operating unit that obtains downhole measurements and a pulse-generating device that transmits the downhole measurements to orient a downhole tool. A restrictor sub is coupled to the tool-orienting device and includes a nozzle that restricts fluid flow therethrough, and a circulating valve is coupled to the restrictor sub and includes a nozzle that restricts fluid flow therethrough. A liner running tool is coupled to the circulating valve to convey a liner and a pressure-activated tool into the wellbore. The pulse-generating device operates with a fluid at a first pressure and the restrictor sub is actuatable by increasing the first pressure to a second pressure. The circulating valve is actuated by the fluid at a third pressure and the pressure-activated tool is activated by increasing third pressure to a fourth pressure.
US10570677B2
Apparatus for use in subsurface drilling permits coupling and uncoupling of drill string sections while continuously moving the drill string. Tripping times can be reduced while maintaining low speeds of the drill string. In one embodiment coupling units operable to make or break couplings between drill string sections are arranged to circulate around a closed path. Each of the coupling units includes an elevator. Drill string sections may be passed off to a pipe handling system on a back side of the apparatus.
US10570674B1
In an oilwell produced by a downhole pump operated by the reciprocation of a string of rods disposed within a string of tubing, a system connects an upper section of the string of rods to a plunger assembly. The system has an upper mechanism attached to the upper section of the string of rods, where the upper mechanism has a housing member having an internal bore section having an approximate inverted conical profile. The upper mechanism has a slip member which is configured to be received into the inverted conical profile. A lower mechanism attaches to the plunger assembly. The lower mechanism has an upward end comprising a pin which, upon engagement by the upper mechanism, is received into the slip member and firmly retained within the slip member. Once the pin is engaged within the slip member, the pin is retained within the slip member until it can be manually released.
US10570664B2
A reaming tool includes a reaming tool body configured to be coupled within a drill string or a string of drilling tools. A plurality of reaming blocks is attached to the reaming tool body at circumferentially spaced apart locations. Each reaming block comprises at least one row of shear cutters and gouging cutters, the gouging cutters in the at least one row disposed rotationally ahead of the shear cutters in the at least one row.
US10570656B2
A door assist system for a vehicle comprises an actuator configured to control a position of a door about a hinge assembly and an interference sensor. The interference sensor is configured to generate an electromagnetic field in an interference zone between the door and a body of the vehicle. Based on changes or fluctuations in the electromagnetic field, the interference sensor is configured to detect an obstruction in the electromagnetic field and generate a detection signal. The system further comprises a controller configured to control the actuator in response to the detection signal.
US10570645B2
An inline motorized lock drive is mountable within a lock housing to drive a sliding locking element between a locked and unlocked position. The lock drive includes a reversible motor having a shaft with an augur thereon to drive a lock spring, which drives the locking element. The sliding motion of the locking element is axially aligned with the motor axis to substantially reduce friction. The lock drive is preferably modular and emulates a solenoid lock drive with a control circuit. The control circuit is connected to drive the motor is switchable to default to a locked position or an unlocked position and emulate a “fail safe” or a “fail secure” type solenoid lock drive. The control circuit operates on 12 or 24 volts to replace solenoid locks of either voltage and stores power when power is applied, then uses the stored power to return the lock drive to the selected default state when power is removed.
US10570642B2
An LED ring or light guide for a mechanical or mechatronic closure system that includes an actuating means, such as socket wrench receptacle or swivel handle, which is rotatably supported in a housing or tray. The LED ring or light guide also includes a retaining nut or bearing piece that can be screwed on with the housing or with the tray with the intermediary of a thin wall such as door panel of a sheet-metal cabinet or sheet-metal housing. A light ring surrounds a flange of the housing or of the tray, and a flexible foil is arranged between light ring and thin wall. The flexible foil carries light emitting diodes (LEDs) and relays the light thereof. A closure indicator integrated in the actuating means is achieved in this way.
US10570634B1
A portable bathroom assembly for facilitating a disabled user to use a toilet without assistance includes a surround that has a floor, a wall and an entrance extending through the wall for entering the surround. A urinal is coupled to the surround for receiving urine from a male user. The urinal is positioned on the second lateral side of the panel adjacent to the entrance. A portable toilet is positioned on the floor and the portable toilet is mounted for urination and defecation. The portable toilet is slidably coupled to the surround and the portable toilet is slidable between a maximum distance and a minimum distance from the entrance.
US10570632B1
An adjustable concrete form brace includes a horizontal adaptable extension member. A first lower brace element and a second lower brace element opposing the first lower brace element each have a horizontal insertion channel adapted to receive the horizontal extension member. A first upper brace element and second upper brace element are attached to the first lower brace element and the second lower brace element respectively. Each of the lower brace members include a saddle, and each saddle is adapted to retain one or more reinforcement bars. The first upper brace element and second upper brace element each include a form retaining element.
US10570624B1
A reveal device usable with fixation mechanisms for a pair of panels that include a pair of strips that are held together by a third strip to form a reveal unit. The reveal unit may contain adhesive or other filler material as well as conduits usable in the electrical or plumbing arts.
US10570620B2
The disclosure herein discloses a rebar tying tool that ties plural rebars using a wire. The rebar tying tool includes a housing and a twisting motor, and may include a twisting mechanism that twists the wire around the plural rebars by the twisting motor. The twisting mechanism may include a screw shaft, a gripping member that grips the wire in cooperation with rotation of the screw shaft, a first reduction mechanism that reduces and transmits rotation of the twisting motor to a relay shaft, and a second reduction mechanism that reduces and transmits rotation of the relay shaft to the screw shaft. The first reduction mechanism may be a coaxial reduction mechanism, and the second reduction mechanism may be a parallel-axis reduction mechanism.
US10570618B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for a building truss chord including a first face having a bottom longitudinal corner and a top longitudinal corner. A second face having a bottom longitudinal corner and a top longitudinal corner, a portion of the first face and the second face are spaced apart and form a cavity between the inner surfaces of the first face and the second face. A lower connection member is disposed between the bottom longitudinal corner of the first face and the bottom longitudinal corner of the second face.
US10570613B2
The invention relates to a fire protection device for hung back-ventilated facades, comprising a closure element which is designed to close a gap in a hung back-ventilated facade in the event of a fire, and which can be moved between an open position and a closed position, wherein a tension element is provided which impinges the closure element into the closed position and which can be moved between a pretensioned position and a closing position, wherein the closure element is retained in the pretensioned position by means of a securing element, wherein the securing element is designed in such a way that it releases the closure element when a temperature threshold value is exceeded.
US10570609B2
Disclosed embodiments include a structural assembly having a first panel having a first edge and a first aperture adjacent to the first edge, and a clamp having a first piece that passes through the first aperture, a second piece, and a fastening portion that fastens together the first piece and the second piece. The structural assembly may include a second panel having a second edge and a second aperture adjacent to the second edge, and the second piece passes through the second aperture, and the clamp holds the first panel and the second panel together.
US10570608B2
A wall lift mount apparatus is provided for an easier and more efficient construction and erection of a wall in a building structure. Also provided is a method of constructing and erecting a wall using such a wall lift mount.
US10570607B2
A method of erecting an acoustic shell for stage performances, the shell have frame defining a concave volume that is curved in two orthogonal planes and has an inner surface facing forwardly of a stage for a performance. A plurality of polygonal acoustic panels are positioned in the frame and spaced in rows and column along the inner surface, each panel having an outer acoustically active surface. The frame is formed of plural curved trusses each with a base for support on the stage and a peak. An oculus ring is connected to the peak of each arch and the bases of the arches are space along a bottom curve of the concave volume. The panels comprise plural adjacent blocks in rows and columns, each with a base and inner closed end, the length of each block being different for adjacent blocks.
US10570597B2
A valve fitting for filling a sanitary cistern includes a connection element, a shutoff valve including an actuation element, and a float-actuated filling valve. The connection element, shutoff valve and filling valve are interconnected to form a water passage into the cistern. A float is connected to the filling valve. The actuation element of the shutoff valve is rotatable about a rotational axis when the float is in the operating position thereof, the shutoff valve being operationally usable in the valve fitting in at least two different positions, the connection element configured to be mounted at an opening in the left-hand cistern side wall in one of the positions, and at an opening in the right-hand cistern side wall in another of the positions, and the actuation element being accessible from the front of the valve fitting in the at least two positions of the shutoff valve.
US10570594B2
A hair straining device for a drain is disclosed. The device has a central element, a bottom seal element, and a pair of arms.
US10570589B2
A method for determining an N+1-dimensional environmental model is provided. According to the method, environmental information in N dimensions is determined using a sensor. In a further step, position and/or orientation of the sensor is/are determined. Then, the N+1-dimensional environmental model is determined based on the determined environmental information in N dimensions and the determined position and/or orientation of the sensor. Further, a device and a mining apparatus are provided.
US10570585B2
The present invention relates to a control device and control method for a construction machine. A control device and control method for a construction machine according to the embodiments of the present invention can determine a need for the operation of the alternator by taking into account required electrical energy and the current charge amount of a battery when auxiliary power is received from the auxiliary power device, and can thus decrease an engine RPM in a situation in which power generation is not required, thereby improving the fuel efficiency of a construction machine.
US10570579B2
A roller cart and methods for installing in an excavation support system. The roller cart can include a generally vertical back plate having a front surface, a back surface, a top end, and a bottom end. A generally horizontal base plate, having a top side and a bottom side, can be attached to the back plate at about a 90-degree angle, proximate the bottom end of the back plate. A first side plate and a second side plate that are generally L-shaped, having a generally vertical top portion, and a bottom portion that is generally perpendicular to the top portion can be attached to and generally perpendicular to the back surface of the back plate. The bottom portion of both side plates can be attached to and generally perpendicular to the bottom side of the base plate. The first side plate and the second side plate can be generally parallel to one another. A first plurality of guide plates can be attached to, and generally perpendicular to, the generally vertical top portion of the first side plate, and a second plurality of guide plates can be attached to, and generally perpendicular to, the generally vertical top portion of the second side plate. At least one roller can be connected to the back plate and extending from the back surface thereof. The roller acts as a contact point and ball bearing to compensate for any angular deviations from the vertical and straight lines of the excavation structure. This significantly eases installation and removal, and greatly reduces the time to install and remove the cart.
US10570562B2
The present invention provides an enzymatic method for reducing the content of hexenuronic acids in a chemical cellulosic pulp and/or improvement of the brightness of cellulosic pulp using haloperoxidase.
US10570561B2
The present invention relates to a sizing agent for carbon fibers, a carbon fiber with improved interfacial adhesion, a polymerization reaction type carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite material using the same, and a production method therefor and, more specifically, to a sizing agent for carbon fibers, comprising a phenoxy resin and a block isocyanate compound prepared through a reaction of ε-caprolactam with one of two isocyanate groups of a diisocyanate compound, and the production of a carbon fiber with improved interfacial adhesion using the same, a polymerization reaction type carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite material using the carbon fiber with improved interfacial adhesion, and a production method therefor.
US10570558B2
A laundry apparatus having a first cabinet with a dry chamber therein; a first air supply unit to supply air to the dry chamber; a second cabinet disposed on a top surface of the first cabinet or supportively disposed below a bottom surface of the first cabinet; a second air supply unit to supply air to a drum located in the second cabinet; and a hinge unit for rotatably coupling a rack in the dry chamber, wherein the hinge unit has a rotational shaft; a first operation body located outside the dry chamber and rotatable by the shaft; a stopper body having first and second stoppers spaced apart from each other and located outside the dry chamber; and a second operation body rotatable between the first and second stoppers and rotatable in the reverse direction of a rotational direction of the first operation body by contacting the first operation body.
US10570556B2
A washing machine appliance that includes a spot treating device is provided. The spot treating device includes features that allow a user to conveniently spot treat laundry articles and provides for an improved visual rendering of the laundry articles during a treatment operation.
US10570552B2
The present invention relates to a laundry-care appliance (100) comprising a metering system (105) for metering a first liquid substance and a second liquid substance, wherein the metering system (105) comprises a first storage container (107) for providing the first liquid substance, a second storage container (109) for providing the second liquid substance, and a pump unit (112) which comprises a first pump head (113) and a second pump head (115). The metering system (105) comprises a common drive (129) for driving the first pump head (113) and the second pump head (115), wherein the common drive (129) can be driven in a first drive direction (137) and in a second drive direction (139). The first pump head (113) is designed in the case of the first drive direction (137) of the common drive (129) to convey the first liquid substance in a first conveying direction (149) from the first storage container (107). The second pump head (115) is designed in the case of the second drive direction (139) of the common drive (129) to convey the second liquid substance in a second conveyor direction (153) from the second storage container (109).
US10570542B2
An apparatus and method for pre-shrinking a wet fabric prior to drying. The apparatus includes, among other components, a balloon extractor station and a hydro-sizer compression station. The balloon extractor station removes some water from the wet fabric. The hydro-sizer compression station is operatively connected to, and disposed downstream of, the balloon extractor station, and compresses the wet fabric in a lengthwise direction, and in so doing, pre-shrinks the wet fabric prior to drying. The method includes, among other steps, extracting some water from the wet fabric so as to faun a hydro-extracted and wet fabric, compressing lengthwise the hydro-extracted and wet fabric so as to form a compacted and wet fabric that is now pre-shrunk prior to drying, and drying the compacted and wet fabric so as to form a compacted and dry fabric.
US10570530B2
A periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystals grown with a non-polar or semi-polar principal surface have numerous stacking faults. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a period table Group 13 metal nitride crystal wherein the occurrence of stacking faults of this kind are suppressed. The present invention achieves the foregoing by a periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal being characterized in that, in a Qx direction intensity profile that includes a maximum intensity and is derived from an isointensity contour plot obtained by x-ray reciprocal lattice mapping of (100) plane of the periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal, a Qx width at 1/300th of peak intensity is 6×10−4 rlu or less.
US10570529B2
A SiC epitaxial wafer includes: a substrate having an off angle of less than 4 degrees; and a SiC epitaxial growth layer disposed on the substrate having the off angle of less than 4 degrees, wherein an Si compound is used for a supply source of Si, and a C compound is used as a supply source of C, for the SiC epitaxial growth layer, wherein the uniformity of carrier density is less than 10%, and the defect density is less than 1 count/cm2; and a C/Si ratio of the Si compound and the C (carbon) compound is within a range of 0.7 to 0.95. There is provide a high-quality SiC epitaxial wafer excellent in film thickness uniformity and uniformity of carrier density, having the small number of surface defects, and capable of reducing costs, also in low-off angle SiC substrates on SiC epitaxial growth.
US10570526B2
An electroplating apparatus has a vessel for holding electrolyte. A head has a rotor including a contact ring for holding a wafer having a notch. The contact ring includes a perimeter voltage ring having perimeter contact fingers for contacting the wafer around the perimeter of the wafer, except at the notch. The contact ring also has a notch contact segment having one or more notch contact fingers for contacting the wafer at the notch. The perimeter voltage ring is insulated from the notch contact segment. A negative voltage source is connected to the perimeter voltage ring, and a positive voltage source connected to the notch contact segment. The positive voltage applied at the notch reduces the current crowding effect at the notch. The wafer is plated with a film having more uniform thickness.
US10570520B2
An improved process for forming a conjugated thiophene precursor is described as in the formation of an improved polymer prepared from the conjugated thiophene and an improved capacitor formed from the improved polymer. The improved process includes forming a thiophene mixture comprising thiophene monomer, unconjugated thiophene oligomer, optionally a solvent and heating the thiophene mixture at a temperature of at least 100° C. to no more than the lower of 250° C. or the boiling point of a component of said thiophene mixture with the lowest boiling point temperature.
US10570502B2
In one embodiment, a method for forming an alkali resistant coating includes forming a first oxide material above a substrate and forming a second oxide material above the first oxide material to form a multilayer dielectric coating, wherein the second oxide material is on a side of the multilayer dielectric coating for contacting an alkali. In another embodiment, a method for forming an alkali resistant coating includes forming two or more alternating layers of high and low refractive index oxide materials above a substrate, wherein an innermost layer of the two or more alternating layers is on an alkali-contacting side of the alkali resistant coating, and wherein the innermost layer of the two or more alternating layers comprises at least one of: alumina, zirconia, and hafnia.
US10570500B2
The present invention provides a stacked body including a germanium layer, an organic material layer, a zinc compound layer, and the like, thereby exhibiting a specific color and glossiness, transmitting electromagnetic waves, and having excellent water resistance, and more particularly, a stacked body including a substrate and a deposition layer formed on the substrate, wherein the deposition layer includes the organic material layer made of an organic material, the zinc compound layer made of zinc sulfide (ZnS) or zinc selenium (ZnSe), and the germanium layer made of germanium (Ge) or a germanium alloy.
US10570491B2
A metallic alloy, more particularly, a high-entropy alloy with a composite structure exhibits high strength and good ductility, and is used as a component material in electromagnetic, chemical, shipbuilding, machinery, and other applications, and in extreme environments, and the like.
US10570477B2
High-strength steel having a specified chemical composition, wherein X (%) calculated by using equation (1): X=0.35Cr+0.9Mo+12.5Nb+8V (1) is 0.75% or more, wherein the symbols of chemical elements in equation (1) respectively denote the contents (mass %) of the corresponding chemical elements and wherein the symbol of a chemical element which is not included is assigned a value of 0, a microstructure having a bainite phase fraction of 50% or more, a dislocation density of 1.0×1015/m2 or more after aging has been performed under the condition of a Larson-Miller parameter (LMP) of 15000, and a yield strength of 550 MPa or more before and after the aging is performed, as well as methods of manufacturing such high-strength steel, is disclosed. The high-strength steel can be used as a raw material for manufacturing large diameter steel pipe having the strength properties required for its use in steam transportation.
US10570468B2
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising spray-dried oxalate decarboxylase crystals are disclosed. Methods to treat a disorder associated with elevated oxalate concentration using compositions comprising spray-dried oxalate decarboxylase crystals are also disclosed.
US10570452B2
The present invention describes an association between genetic polymorphisms in the BAI3 gene and a predisposition to prolongation of the QT interval, and provides related methods for the prediction of such a predisposition, the administration of QT interval-prolonging compounds to individuals having such a predisposition, and determining whether a compound is capable of inducing QT prolongation.
US10570443B2
This invention provides a method of quantifying chimeric DNA in a cell-free DNA sample.
US10570441B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for assaying the activity of nicking enzyme and polymerase in a reaction involving the use of a nucleic acid substrate molecule that detects nicking enzyme and polymerase extension activities by the release of a detectable reporter (e.g., a fluorophore).
US10570433B2
The present invention relates to enzyme compositions and processes of producing and using the compositions for the saccharification of lignocellulosic material.
US10570408B2
This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.
US10570403B2
This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription and translation of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a 3′UTR from Zea mays chlorophyll a/b binding protein gene. Some embodiments relate to a 3′ UTR from a Zea mays chlorophyll a/b binding protein gene that functions in plants to terminate transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
US10570399B2
Disclosed are a recombinant Corynebacterium glutamicum (C. glutamicum) for producing fucosyllactose which is transformed to express α-1,2-fucosyltransferase, GDP-D-mannose-4,6-dehydratase (Gmd), GDP-L-fucose synthase (WcaG) and lactose permease (LacY), wherein the Corynebacterium glutamicum has phosphomannomutase and GTP-mannose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase, and a method for producing fucosyllactose using the same. According to the recombinant Corynebacterium glutamicum and the method for producing fucosyllactose according to the present invention, with use of a GRAS Corynebacterium glutamicum strain, which is safer than conventional Escherichia coli, 2′-fucosyllactose can be produced at a high concentration while overcoming drawbacks of conventional methods associated with industrial inapplicability resulting from low production concentrations.
US10570394B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of treating a patient suffering from or at risk of developing an ocular disease, disorder or injury, and includes treatment regimens using a double-stranded RNA compound that down-regulates CASP2 expression, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US10570391B2
The present invention provides RNAi agents, e.g., double stranded RNAi agents, that target the transthyretin (TTR) gene and methods of using such RNAi agents for treating or preventing TTR-associated diseases.
US10570387B2
Methods and compositions for identifying antigens of human lymphocytes are provided herein.
US10570381B2
A novel peptide sequence that is a modified derivative of a neuron-specific tyrosine phosphatase is shown and described. Specifically, the novel peptide sequence is a modified derivative of striatal-enriched tyrosine phosphatase (STEP). The peptide sequence has been modified so as to be able to ameliorate and treat brain injury resulting from excessive glutamate release and/or oxidative stress. Examples of the types of brain injury which the presently disclosed peptide sequence is useful for treating includes acute brain injury resulting from stroke or traumatic brain injury and chronic disorders such as Huntington's chorea and schizophrenia. Furthermore, the presently described peptide sequence may further be useful in the treatment and amelioration of disorders associated with fear memory such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
US10570378B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for acetylating histones at targeted chromosomal locations in a cell. In particular, the disclosure provides a fusion protein comprising a DNA binding domain and at least one histone acetyltransferase (HAT) domain, such that the DNA binding domain targets the fusion protein to a targeted chromosomal location and the HAT domain acetylates histones at the targeted location.
US10570376B2
A process for the purification of influenza virus or derivative thereof requires providing a source of influenza virus or derivative thereof, optionally subjecting the source to a pre-purification step, followed by subjecting the source to at least one chromatographic step on chromatographic material selected from the group consisting of porous particles having mean pore sizes of at least 20 nm, perfusion particles, gel-in-a-shell particles, tentacle like particles, membrane adsorbers, and monoliths, and collecting fractions eluted from the chromatographic material that contain the influenza virus or derivative thereof, excluding sulfuric ester of cellulose or cross-linked polysaccharides.
US10570369B2
The present invention provides a new readily accessible source of adult somatic stem cells from the gastrointestinal tract in general and oral mucosa in particular, methods for isolating pluripotent stem cells from oral mucosa, cells derived therefrom and uses thereof.
US10570367B2
Provided herein are seed train processes and methods of producing a recombinant protein that include the use of these seed train processes.
US10570360B2
A method of testing an analyte can include using a cell culture device that includes: at least three distinct chambers between the top wall and bottom wall. The chambers can include: an internal chamber defined by at least one porous internal wall; one or more boundary layer chambers having at least an inner boundary layer chamber defined by the at least one porous internal wall and at least one porous inner boundary layer wall, the at least one porous internal wall having a plurality of pores fluidically coupling the central internal chamber to the one or more boundary layer chamber; and an outer chamber.
US10570355B2
A cleaning composition for a glass hard disk substrate has high detergency and can reduce the deterioration of the surface roughness of a substrate.In an embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a cleaning composition for a glass hard disk substrate, which contains an amine (component A) expressed by the formula (I) and a surface active agent (component B) expressed by the formula (II).
US10570354B2
The present invention relates to fabric softener active compositions comprising a combination of a mixture of quarternary ester ammonium compounds and fatty solvents (a fatty acid ester, a fatty acid, a fatty alcohol and mixtures thereof) and methods of making and using the same. The fabric softener active compositions preferably comprise component (a), said component being a mixture of quarternary ester ammonium compounds obtained by esterification of a mixture of alkanolamines comprises at least a trialkanolamine and a monoalkyldialkanolamine; component (b), said component being a fatty acid ester or a mixture of fatty acid esters, wherein the component (b) content is in the range from 5 to 60% wt. based on the total weight of the fabric softener active composition; and a component (c), said component being a fatty acid or a mixture of fatty acids, wherein the component (c) content is in the range from 0 to 15% wt. based on the total weight of the fabric softener active composition. The invention also proposes fabric softener compositions, comprising the previously described active compositions, and methods of making and using the same.
US10570353B2
Cleaning compositions which can be used to clean surfaces and treat materials.
US10570347B2
Rheology modifying agents and methods of modifying the rheology of a slurry are disclosed. Methods for the prevention of fouling and methods for monitoring the rheology of a slurry are also provided. The slurry can be a lime slurry or a magnesium oxide slurry, for example. The rheology modifying agent can be polymer-grafted nanocrystalline cellulose. The rheology modifying agent can optionally include other components, such as a chelating agent.
US10570345B2
The invention relates to a regenerative reactor system which includes a reverse flow regenerative reactor. The reverse flow regenerative reactor includes a housing enclosing an interior region, and process flow components configured to manage the flow of a pyrolysis stream through the interior region. The process flow components include reactor beds. The reverse flow regenerative reactor also includes a pyrolysis inlet conduit for managing flow of the pyrolysis stream to the reverse flow regenerative reactor, and further includes a liquid distribution device that is configured to disperse a liquid portion of the pyrolysis stream along an internal surface of the pyrolysis inlet conduit.
US10570329B2
Engineering bead slurries may be useful in producing lightweight cement slurries for use in subterranean cementing operations. For example, a method may include engineering a bead slurry to have a shelf-life of about 1 month or greater by performing at least one of (1) calculating the shelf-life for the bead slurry and (2) calculating a minimum yield point required to prevent a lightweight bead of the bead slurry from floating or settling in the bead slurry; wherein the bead slurry comprises a gelled base fluid and a plurality of lightweight beads having a specific gravity of about 0.8 or less; producing the bead slurry; mixing the bead slurry and a cement slurry to yield a lightweight cement slurry; introducing the lightweight cement slurry into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation; and allowing the lightweight cement slurry to set therein.
US10570325B2
Compositions may contain an oleaginous base fluid, and a branched amidoamine surfactant prepared from the reaction of an alkylene amine or an oligoalkylene amine and a branched acid having a C4 to C24 primary hydrocarbon chain, and having one or more C1 to C24 branches. Methods may include emplacing a wellbore fluid into a wellbore, wherein the wellbore fluid contains an oleaginous base fluid; and a branched amidoamine surfactant prepared from the reaction of an alkylene amine or an oligoalkylene amine and a branched acid having a C4 to C24 primary hydrocarbon chain, and having one or more C1 to C24 branches.
US10570322B2
Disclosed herein is a polishing composition comprising a pH of 6 or less, sulfonic acid-modified colloidal silica obtained by immobilizing sulfonic acid on surfaces of silica particles, and water, wherein the sulfonic acid-modified colloidal silica is derived from sulfonic acid-modified aqueous anionic silica sol produced by a production method comprising: a first reaction step of obtaining a reactant by heating raw colloidal silica having a number distribution ratio of 10% or less of microparticles having a particle diameter of 40% or less relative to a volume average particle diameter based on Heywood diameter (equivalent circle diameter) as determined by image analysis using a scanning electron microscope in the presence of a silane coupling agent having a functional group chemically convertible to a sulfonic acid group; and a second reaction step of converting the functional group to a sulfonic acid group by treating the reactant.
US10570320B2
Provided is an adhesive member to be adhesively fixed through pressure which has both position adjustability and adhesiveness and is capable of producing a sufficient adhesive strength in addition to the position adjustability. The adhesive member comprises a support, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on one surface of the support, and a plurality of protrusion elements arranged, in spaced-apart relation to each other, on a principal surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a side opposite to the support. Each of the protrusion elements is composed of an aggregation of a plurality of cohesive particles, wherein the adhesive member has a frictional force of 0.4 N/cm2 or less, with respect to a stainless steel plate serving as an adherend, as measured when the protrusion elements are in contact with a surface of the adherend, and a shear adhesive strength of 45 N/cm2 or more.
US10570316B2
A chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) composition (Q) comprising (A) Colloidal or fumed inorganic particles (A) or a mixture thereof in a total amount of from 0.0001 to 2.5 wt.-% based on the total weight of the respective CMP composition (B) at least one amino acid in a total amount of from 0.2 to 1 wt.-% based on the total weight of the respective CMP composition (C) at least one corrosion inhibitor in a total amount of from 0.001 to 0.02 wt.-% based on the total weight of the respective CMP composition (D) hydrogen peroxide as oxidizing agent in a total amount of from 0.0001 to 2 wt.-% based on the total amount of the respective CMP composition (E) aqueous medium wherein the CMP composition (Q) has a pH in the range of from 6 to 9.5.
US10570313B2
This invention pertains to slurries, methods and systems that can be used in chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) of tungsten containing semiconductor device. Additives are used to reduce the dishing on large and small feature sizes (large bond pad as well as fine line structures) without retarding the tungsten removal rate.
US10570302B2
An aqueous dye dispersion for an aqueous ink including a dye derivative as indicated at Formula (1) below; a water-insoluble dye; a dispersant; and water, makes it possible to provide an aqueous dye dispersion for aqueous ink, which reduces flocculation of particles within aqueous ink even when the aqueous ink is prepared, and has satisfactory dispersion stability during storage, thereby providing an aqueous ink having satisfactory dispersion stability during storage.
US10570287B2
Disclosed is a non-aqueous dispersant which is a graft copolymer comprising a constitutional unit represented by the following general formula (II) and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a constitutional unit represented by the following general formula (I) and a constitutional unit represented by the following general formula (I′), or which is a block copolymer comprising a block portion containing a constitutional unit represented by the following general formula (III) and a block portion containing at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a constitutional unit represented by the following general formula (I) and a constitutional unit represented by the following general formula (I′):
US10570285B2
A modified bitumen composition used in asphalt-coated roads as a binding raw material having petrocoke, a derivative of carbon based crude oil, and extract, a base oil unit by-product, as additives, and to a method of producing the same. The modified bitumen composition of the invention contains at least 55% by weight of bitumen with a penetration in the range of 40 to 110 as per EN 1426 standard, and 1%-40% by weight of petrocoke with a particle size preferably less than 300 micrometers, and 2% to 5% by weight of extract, a base oil unit by-product, as additives. Determination of the amount of the additives petrocoke and extract to be added to the bitumen, optimum values of such parameters as mixing temperature and mixing rate to distribute in the bitumen homogenously and the conditions at which the modified bitumen may be stored and/or transported without losing its improved properties.
US10570284B2
Disclosed herein is an oxygen scavenging composition for containers. The oxygen scavenging composition may comprise at least one polyester component, which is a copolyester containing a metal sulfonate salt group, a transition metal catalyst, and a vegetable oil. The vegetable oil may comprise at least one molecule having a double allylic structure. The copolyester containing a metal sulfonate salt group may comprise at least one acid unit and at least one diol unit. The concentration of the double allylic structures of the vegetable oil in the composition may be greater than 5.0 meq/kg of all of the polyester components. The composition may also be void of or substantially void of a polyamide.
US10570277B2
A polyethylene composition for producing blow-molded hollow articles, having the following features: 1) density from greater than 0.952 to 0.957 g/cm3, determined according to ISO 1183-1 at 23° C.; 2) ratio MIF/MIP from 12 to 25; 3) MIF from 18 to 40 g/10 min.; 4) η0.02 from 30,000 to 55,000 Pa·s; 5) long-chain branching index, LCBI, equal to or greater than 0.55; 6) ratio (η0.02/1000)/LCBI from 55 to 75.
US10570272B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous polymer dispersion composition comprising a stable aqueous dispersion of single-phase thermoplastic polymer particles imbibed with a thermosettable compound having at least two oxirane groups. The thermoplastic polymer particles have a sufficient concentration of anti-agglomerating functional groups to stabilize the latex against agglomeration, and the thermoplastic polymer particles being a copolymerization product of a monomer mixture comprising, based on the total dry weight of the monomer mixture (a) 35 wt. % to 71 wt. % of ethyl acrylate, (b) 30 wt. % to 60 wt. % of methyl methacrylate, and (c) 5 wt. % to 10 wt. % methylol acrylamide.
US10570270B2
Provided herein are polyolefin-based compositions useful for making rotomolded parts having useful properties, including those related to impact resistance and color. In one aspect, there are provided compositions comprising (a) a rotational molded polyolefin, comprising a resin, wherein the resin is polyethylene or a copolymer thereof, having a melt index (MI) ranging from about 1 g/10 minutes to about 10 g/10 minutes; and (b) an additive package comprising: (i) an antioxidant; (ii) a processing stabilizer; (iii) optionally a UV light stabilizer; (iv) optionally a fatty acid-based acid scavenger comprising a metal salt of a fatty acid; and (v) a dihydrotalcite-based acid scavenger present in the composition at between about 800 ppm to about 3,000 ppm. In some embodiments, the ARM Impact Percent Ductility is greater than or equal to about 60% for a molded part made from the cured composition and measured after the composition has been cured between 18-24 minutes at a temperature of 550° F.
US10570269B2
A composition which contains microparticles and does not undergo the long-term process of aggregation of the microparticles during storage of the composition. An imidazole compound having a specific structure is added to a composition containing microparticles having a volume average particle diameter of 3000 nm or less. The composition may contain a base material component. The base material component may be a heat-curable or photocurable base material component. The microparticles may be inorganic particles and/or organic particles.
US10570267B2
A polyolefin composition comprises a polypropylene polymer, 1,3:2,4-bis-O-[(3,4-dichlorophenyl)methylene]-D-glucitol, and an ester composition or an amide compound.
US10570249B2
A process for producing cycloalkenamer-containing compositions involves converting at least one cycloalkene by ring-opening metathetic polymerization to obtain a polyalkenamer-containing product mixture. The product mixture is worked up to remove monomers and oligomers of the cycloalkenes to obtain the polyalkenamer-containing composition by extraction with CO2. The extraction involves at least two stages: an extraction with liquid CO2 under the supercritical conditions, and then an extraction with supercritical CO2. Such cycloalkenamer-containing compositions can be used, for example, in the field of packaging materials, especially for food and drink.
US10570243B2
A non-tin catalyst for accerating the curing of alkoxysilyl-containing polymer contains a mixture and/or complex of organotitanium compound and a compound containing at least one (—)2N—C═N— linkage.
US10570242B2
The invention relates to an aqueous polyurethane dispersion U comprising at least two aqueously dispersed polyurethanes whereof at least one is an aqueously dispersible polyurethane U1 having a mass-average molar mass Mw1 of at least 10 kg/mol, and at least one is an aqueously dispersible polyurethane U2 having a mass-average molar mass Mw2 of less than 10 kg/mol, a process for the preparation thereof, and a method of use thereof.
US10570236B2
A combined sealing member is provided that includes a composition comprising two or more polyolefin elastomers selected from the group consisting of a dense, a micro-dense and a dynamic silane-crosslinked polyolefin elastomer having a respective density of less than 0.90 g/cm3, less than 0.70 g/cm3, and less than 0.60 g/cm3. The combined sealing member exhibits a compression set of from about 5.0% to about 35.0%, as measured according to ASTM D 395 (22 hrs @ 70° C.).
US10570235B2
A composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery functional layer comprises: non-conductive particles; a water-soluble polymer containing a (meth)acrylamide monomer unit in a proportion of 70.0 mass % or more and 99.0 mass % or less; and a water-insoluble polymer containing an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer unit in a proportion of 1.5 mass % or more and 5.0 mass % or less and having a degree of swelling in electrolyte solution of more than 1.0 time and 3.0 times or less.
US10570234B2
Provided are: a heavy release additive for a release sheet, for imparting an excellent release coating whereby heavy release force is obtained curability is not reduced, low-temperature curing is possible, and there is also minimal reduction in residual adhesion rate of a released adhesive sheet; an addition-reaction-type organopolysiloxane composition; and a release sheet. A heavy release additive for a release sheet, containing an acrylic-silicone-based graft copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 30,000-2,000,000 obtained by radical polymerization of an organopolysiloxane compound (A) having a radical-polymerizable group, and a radical-polymerizable monomer (B) having an acrylic group and/or a methacrylic group, the heavy release additive for a release sheet wherein the component (A) includes an organopolysiloxane compound (A1) having one radical-polymerizable group in each molecule thereof, and the component (B) includes a radical-polymerizable monomer (B2) having two or more radical-polymerizable groups in each molecule thereof.
US10570230B2
The invention relates to a heterogeneous, co-continuous copolymer composition of vinylidene fluoride and at least one other comonomer. Preferred comonomers are hexafluoropropylene and perfluoroalkylvinyl ether. The co-continuous morphology is provide by first forming a first phase polymer, then adding one or more comonomers before half of the original monomer stream has been added, and at an effective level to cause phase separation of the copolymer. The co-continuous morphology provides a means for incorporating a high level of comonomer into the copolymer with little or no adverse effect on the melting temperature. The morphology also provides the copolymer composition with a unique combination of properties, including a high melting point, good flexibility and good low temperature impact resistance. The unique properties of the polymer make it useful in end-use application where those properties provide performance advantages, such as in the wire and cable market, and in oil and gas applications.
US10570229B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing a styrene-based resin having a low oligomer content and a styrene-based resin prepared thereby. The preparation method according to the present invention may prepare a styrene-based resin having a reduced oligomer content by using a polymerization initiator having a 1 hour half-life temperature, which is 5° C. to 25° C. lower than a temperature during polymerization, and controlling devolatilization conditions.
US10570220B2
The present invention relates to a composition for a display sealing material having a photopolymerization initiator and a photocurable monomer, the photocurable monomer comprising: a monomer not having the aromatic hydrocarbon group; and a monomer having two or more substituted or unsubstituted phenyl groups of chemical formula 1, wherein about 5 wt % to about 45 wt % of the monomer having two or more substituted or unsubstituted phenyl groups is comprised on the basis of the photocurable monomer and about 55 wt % to about 95 wt % of the monomer not having the aromatic hydrocarbon group is comprised on the basis of the photocurable monomer.
US10570200B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and compositions for contraception. In some embodiments, vector based approaches for contraception are provided.
US10570197B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing a low-molecular-weight antibody such as a Fab-type antibody, using yeast as a host, wherein the method is able to produce the low-molecular-weight antibody with high productivity. According to the present invention, there is provided a gene comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding an amino acid or an amino acid sequence capable of increasing the secretion amount of a Fab-type antibody at the 3′-terminus of a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence of the Fd chain or L chain of an antibody.
US10570196B2
The disclosure provides methods of treating tauopathies (e.g. Alzheimer's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17, Pick's Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Dementia Pugilistica, Down's Syndrome and others) by administering humanized antibodies. The disclosure also provides the anti-tau humanized antibodies that bind the N-terminal region of tau and also bind to pathological tau aggregates, conformational epitopes and peptides mimicking these epitopes (mimotopes).
US10570194B2
Compositions and methods of the present invention prevent, inhibit or reduce the toxic effects of proteins and toxins secreted from microbes. A method for neutralizing microbial protein products in a subject comprises administering a composition to the subject, said composition comprising plasma-derived IgM and optionally one or more excipients in a pharmaceutical carrier, wherein the composition is administered in an amount effective to neutralize the microbial protein products.
US10570193B2
Binding agents able to disrupt bacterial biofilms of diverse origin are described, including monoclonal antibodies suitable for administration to a selected species, and antibody mimics including aptamer nucleic acids. Methods to prevent formation of or to dissolve biofilms with these binding agents are also described. Immunogens for eliciting antibodies to disrupt biofilms are also described.
US10570192B2
The invention provides anti-wall teichoic acid antibodies and antibiotic conjugates thereof, and methods of using the same.
US10570179B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to substituted urea depsipeptide analogs, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as activators the ClpP endopeptidease; synthesis methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating infectious disease using the compounds and compositions. 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.
US10570176B2
The present invention relates to the field of polypeptide medicine, and relates to polypeptides against hepatitis B virus X Protein and uses thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to polypeptides comprising D-amino acids, which have a function of inhibiting hepatitis B virus X protein, and inhibit HBx activities, inhibit replication of hepatitis B virus DNA and expression of related antigens (e.g., HBeAg) at molecular level, cellular level and animal level, and further inhibit hepatitis and hepatic cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B virus infection and liver cancer that occurs on the basis of hepatic cirrhosis. The polypeptides can be widely used in the prevention and treatment of liver diseases after hepatitis B infection, including hepatitis, hepatic cirrhosis, and liver cancer.
US10570169B2
Provided herein are oligomeric compounds with conjugate groups. In certain embodiments, the gomeric compounds are conjugated to N-Acetylgalactosamine or to N-Acetylgalactosamine analogues.
US10570163B2
Disclosed are steviol glycosides referred to as rebaudioside V and rebaudioside W. Also disclosed are methods for producing rebaudioside M (Reb M), rebausoside G (Reb G), rebaudioside KA (Reb KA), rebaudioside V (Reb V) and rebaudioside (Reb W).
US10570161B2
A new family of therapeutics which provides a controlled-release delivery platform for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents on an ester or an ester-carbonate backbone is disclosed herein. These agents are reversible inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase and are thus useful for clinical conditions benefiting from inflammation suppression and cholinergic intervention. These compounds are of the general formula wherein n=0, 1; X=C, Si, and N+ and NSAID=ibuprofen, naproxen, indomethacin and diclofenac. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10570158B2
The present disclosure provides boron-containing diacylhydrazines having Formula I: and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, wherein A, R4, and R5 are defined as set forth in the specification. The present disclosure also provides the use of boron-containing diacylhydrazines is ecdysone receptor-based inducible gene expression systems. Thus, the present disclosure is useful for applications such as gene therapy, treatment of disease, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based screening assays, functional genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms, where control of gene expression levels is desirable.
US10570150B2
The present invention discloses a probe useful for the selective detection of metallo-beta-lactamases, in particular carbapenemases, thereby distinguishing those species of bacteria that are carbapenem-resistant from bacterial strains that are sensitive. Cephalospori based probes that have the 6,7 R,R configuration are susceptible to cleavage by beta-lactamases but cannot distinguish between cleavage by metallo-beta-lactamases and other beta-lactamases. By modifying a side group of the cephalosporin, selectivity can be introduced allowing the probes to distinguish between various types of metallo-beta-lactamases.
US10570144B2
The present invention describes compounds of Formula (I): or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their medical uses. The compounds of Formula (I) have activity as prostaglandin EP4 receptor antagonists, and are useful in the treatment or alleviation of pain and inflammation and other inflammation-associated disorders, such as arthritis, treating or preventing disorders or medical conditions selected from pain, inflammatory diseases and the like. Also described herein are methods of treating pain by administering the compounds of Formula (I), which are EP4 receptor antagonists.
US10570139B2
The invention is fused heterocyclic compounds of formula (I), and salts thereof, compositions thereof, and methods of use therefor. In particular, disclosed herein are certain fused heterocyclic compounds that can be useful for inhibiting protein kinase, including Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk), and for treating disorders mediated thereby.
US10570137B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or hydrate thereof, wherein R1 is C1-C3alkyl optionally substituted with F, C3-C6cycloalkyl, C1-C3alkoxy; X represents a bond or C1-C3alkylene optionally substituted with OH, ONO, ONO2; R2 is H, OH, ONO, ONO2, C(O)OH, C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, CHO, CN, C1-C3alkoxy, OC(O)H, OC(O)—C1-C3alkyl, C(O)N(R6)OR7, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OH, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)N(R6)OR7, S(O0-2)C1-C3alkyl, CR8═N—OR9, CR8═N—NR10R11, CR8═NR12 or CR8═N—ONO2; R3 is C1-C6alkyl optionally substituted with F, OH, ONO, ONO2, C1-C3alkoxy, C3-C6cycloalkyl; C3-C6cycloalkyl, C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl; R4 is C1-C6alkyl optionally substituted with C3-C6cycloalkyl, C1-C6alkoxy, F, ONO, ONO2; C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl; R5 is H, SO2NR13R14, NHSO2NR13R14; R6 is H or C1-C3alkyl; R7 is H, C1-C3alkyl, C1-C3alkoxy, C1-C3alkyl substituted with phenyl, benzyl or a heterocyclic ring, wherein said phenyl, benzyl or said heterocyclic ring are independently optionally substituted by C1-C3alkyl, F; R8 is H, CH3 or C2H5; R9: H, C1-C3alkyl optionally substituted with OH, ONO, ONO2, CN, COOH, COOC1-C3alkyl, C1-C3alkoxy, OC(O)H, OC(O)—C1-C3alkyl, C(O)N(R6)OR7, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OH, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)N(R6)OR7, S(O0-2)C1-C3alkyl; R10 and R11 are each independently H, C1-C3alkyl optionally substituted with OH, ONO, ONO2, CN, COOH, COOC1-C3, C1-C3alkoxy, OC(O)H, OC(O)—C1-C3alkyl, C(O)N(R6)OR7, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OH, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)N(R6)OR7, S(O0-2)C1-C3alkyl; or together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic ring, wherein preferably said heterocyclic ring is selected from aziridine, azetidine, pyrollidine, piperidine, morpholine, piperazine and homopiperazine, wherein said heterocyclic ring is optionally substituted with C1-C3 alkyl; R12 is C1-C3 alkyl optionally substituted with OH, ONO, ONO2, CN, COOH, COOC1-C3alkyl, C1-C3alkoxy, OC(O)H, OC(O)—C1-C3alkyl, C(O)N(R6)OR7, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OH, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)OC1-C3alkyl, OC1-C3alkylene-C(O)N(R6)OR7, S(O0-2)C1-C3alkyl; R13 and R14 are each independently H or C1-C6alkyl optionally substituted with F, OH, ONO, ONO2, COOH, C1-C3alkoxy, C3-C6cycloalkyl; or together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic ring, wherein preferably said heterocyclic ring is selected from aziridine, azetidine, pyrollidine, piperidine, morpholine, piperazine, homopiperazine, 2,5-diazabicyclo[2,2,1]heptane and 3,7-diazabicyclo[3,3,0]octane, wherein said heterocyclic ring is optionally substituted with R15; R15 is C1-C6alkyl optionally substituted with halogen, OH, ONO, ONO2, C1-C3alkoxy, C1-C3haloalkoxy, COOR16, NR17R18, C═NR19, or with a tetrazole group which is optionally substituted with C1-C3alkyl; or a heteroaryl ring which is optionally substituted with F, wherein the at least one heteroatom of said heteroaryl ring is nitrogen; R16 is H, or C1-C4alkyl optionally substituted with F, OH, ONO, ONO2, NR17R18, or with a heteroaryl ring, wherein the at least one heteroatom of said heteroaryl ring is nitrogen, and wherein preferably said heteroaryl ring is selected from pyrrolidine, piperidine, piperazine, morpholine, pyrrole, and imidazole, wherein nitrogen atom is directly bound to C1-C4 alkyl; R17 and R18 are each independently H or C1-C4alkyl optionally substituted with ONO, ONO2; R19 is C1-C4alkyl optionally substituted with F, ONO, ONO2; C3-C6cycloalkyl; and their use in methods of treating or preventing a disease alleviated by inhibition of PDE-5 in a human or in a non-human mammal.
US10570124B2
There are provided, inter alia, compounds useful for binding to deoxycytidine kinase, and compounds and methods useful to modulate deoxycytidine kinase.
US10570121B2
This invention relates to compounds of general formula (I) in which R1, R2, R3, R4, L, X and Z are as defined herein, and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts, and to methods of using such compounds, salts and compositions for the treatment of abnormal cell growth, including cancer.
US10570117B2
Phenylimidazole compounds of formula (1) shown below and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: Also disclosed are a pharmaceutical composition and a lipoprotein lipase activator, each containing one of the phenylimidazole compounds.
US10570110B2
Improved processes for the extraction of quassinoids such as quassin and neoquassin from natural substances containing these compounds are described. The process uses compounds that are Generally Recognized As Safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In a first embodiment, the process includes a sonication method using water and no organic solvent. The process is highly efficient and comprises fewer steps than other processes known in the art. In a second embodiment, a method of extracting quassinoids from natural substance comprising bark of a plant of the plant family Simaroubaceae is also disclosed. In a third embodiment, indirect sonication of quassinoids is described using a mixture of polar and non-polar organic solvents.
US10570103B2
A method for treating a lysophosphatidic acid-dependent disease or condition in a subject in need thereof is provided. The method includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a heterocyclic compound. The heterocyclic compound is a lysophosphatidic acid receptor ligand. Lysophosphatidic acid-dependent diseases and conditions include diseases involving fibrosis, such as fibrosis of the heart, kidney, liver and lung, and scleroderma; inflammatory diseases such as diabetic nephropathy and inflammatory bowel disease; ocular diseases such as diseases involving retinal degeneration; nerve diseases such as pruritus and pain.
US10570098B2
Provided herein are dUTPase inhibitors, compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds and compositions.
US10570083B2
The present disclosure provides 15-oxo-EPA and 15-oxo-DGLA, compositions comprising 15-oxo-EPA and/or 15-oxo-DGLA, and methods of treating and/or preventing fibrosis, skin disorders, inflammation, kidney disease or renal dysfunction in a subject in need thereof by administering 15-oxo-EPA and/or 15-oxo-DGLA.
US10570078B2
A process for large scale and energy efficient product of oxygenates from sugar is disclosed in which a sugar feedstock is introduced into a thermolytic fragmentation reactor comprising a fluidized stream of heat carrying particles. The heat carrying particles may be separated from the fluidized stream prior to cooling the fragmentation product and may be directed to a reheater to reheat the particles and recirculate the heated particles to the fragmentation reactor.
US10570073B2
The present invention relates to a novel process for the synthesis of 9,9-bis(hydroxymethyl)fluorene. The syntheses from fluorene to 9,9-bis(hydroxy-methyl)fluorene via a hydroxymethylation and further to 9,9-bis(methoxymethyl)-fluorene via a etherification are known. 9,9-bis(methoxymethyl)fluorene is a compound that is used as an electron donor for Ziegler-Natta catalysts. The present invention is related to an improvement in the synthesis of 9,9-bis(hydroxymethyl)fluorene leading to a decrease in the amount of solvent used and an easier work up while achieving high yield and purity.
US10570067B2
Aspects of the invention include compositions for enhancing pollination. Dry compositions according to certain embodiments include a carbon skeleton energy compound, macronutrients, a vitamin cofactor composition, micronutrients, an ionophore, and a source of extracted humate. Methods for using the dry compositions of the invention to enhance pollination are also described.
US10570062B2
A method for producing a gypsum plasterboard comprising the steps of providing bundler dust obtained from gypsum plasterboard leftovers of a plasterboard trimming process by a trimming device, in particular by a bundler saw; and adding at least a part of the bundler dust to a gypsum slurry for producing the gypsum plasterboard.
US10570058B2
This invention relates to a coated article including a low-emissivity (low-E) coating. In certain example embodiments, the low-E coating is provided on a substrate (e.g., glass substrate) and includes at least first and second infrared (IR) reflecting layers (e.g., silver based layers) that are spaced apart by contact layers (e.g., NiCr based layers) and a dielectric layer of or including a material such as silicon nitride. In certain example embodiments, the coated article has a low visible transmission (e.g., no greater than 60%, more preferably no greater than about 55%, and most preferably no greater than about 50%).
US10570057B2
A low-E coating has good color stability (a low ΔE* value) upon heat treatment (HT). The provision of an as-deposited crystalline or substantially crystalline layer of or including zinc oxide, doped with at least one dopant (e.g., Sn), immediately under an infrared (IR) reflecting layer of or including silver in a low-E coating has effect of significantly improving the coating's thermal stability (i.e., lowering the ΔE* value). One or more such crystalline, or substantially crystalline, layers may be provided under one or more corresponding IR reflecting layers comprising silver.
US10570055B2
A glass-ceramic composition is disclosed herein including: from about 60 mol. % to less than 72.0 mol. % SiO2; from about 10 mol. % to about 17 mol. % Al2O3; from about 3 mol. % to about 15 mol. % Na2O; from about 1 mol. % to about 8 mol. % Li2O; and from about 3 mol. % to about 7 mol. % TiO2. The glass-ceramic composition can be used to form one, two, or more, cladding layers of a laminated glass article, wherein the layer(s) of glass-ceramics material can be cerammed to form one or more glass layers.
US10570052B2
An aluminum-free borosilicate glass includes the following glass composition (in weight-% on oxide basis): 70-80 SiO2; 8-14 B2O3; 0 Al2O3; 0-4 Na2O; 3-10 K2O; 0 Li2O; 3-14 sum Na2O+K2O; 0-1 CaO; 0-1 MgO; 0-1 BaO; 0-1 SrO; 0-2 sum CaO+MgO+BaO+SrO; 0-1 ZnO; 3.6-14 ZrO2; 0-10 TiO2; and 0.01-2.0 one or more refining agents, the weight ratio of ZrO2:K2O being in a range of 1.2:1 to 1.4:1.
US10570045B2
The invention includes systems and methods for melting materials to make glass and other materials subject to electric melting that improve the capacity of the melters and/or the melt quality and/or the melting costs and/or the life of tank melters. These systems and methods use one or more of boosting with one or more streams of super hot melt coming from one or more boosting melters, cooling one or more components of one or more of the melters normally cooled using water with a high temperature cooling fluid or fluid suspension and protecting the normally high wear areas of refractory linings by covering those high wear areas with one or more strips of a corrosion and oxidation resistant metal or alloy useful above 2400 degrees F.
