US10570030B2
A device for the treatment of fluids has a flow-through housing, a cover, an inlet, a reactor chamber with inner walls, an outlet and UV LED radiation sources directed into the reactor chamber, and also a power supply. The device achieves a high purifying performance with less technical complexity and less installation space and needs only little electrical power. The interior of the reactor chamber has a flow-related design. The radiation sources are arranged in the fluid on or in an inner wall and a rotating fluid vortex is imparted to a fluid flowing through by the flow-related design. The radiation sources radiate radially from the outside inward and/or laterally onto the fluid vortex. At least a partial stream of the fluid in the fluid vortex passes a number of times by the radiation sources before leaving the reactor chamber.
US10570026B2
Systems and processes for treating, reducing and/or disposing of leachate created by a landfill system by aerating, spraying and/or stripping leachate in a controlled environment to promote evaporation of a water component of the leachate, to strip a portion of ammonia from the leachate and/or to promote biological decomposition of the leachate. The reduced or concentrated leachate produced by the system or process, whether liquid, solid or slurry, can be disposed of as allowed or desired at a cost benefitted by the reduced volume and/or treated condition of the leachate.
US10570023B2
A water filtration system having an adapter portion defining a hollow interior adapter space; and having a first threaded portion and being configured to receive a water filter having a second threaded portion; at least a nut configured to secure the system to a container by being screwed onto the first threaded portion; at least one washer fitted onto the adapter portion and configured to prevent leaks from the container; the water filter having an exterior surface configured to absorb into a hollow interior filter space unfiltered water placed into the container by having a coconut carbon filter; the hollow interior filter space having filtration media configured to remove contaminants such that the unfiltered water becomes filtered water; the water filter further configured to allow the filtered water to drain out of the water filter by gravity, such that the filtered water exits the system and into a receiving container.
US10570020B2
A silica particle has a compression and aggregation degree of from 60% to 95% and a particle compression ratio of from 0.20 to 0.40.
US10570018B2
Production of lime (calcium oxide: CaO) from limestone (CaCO3) is one of the oldest natural chemical processes and this process is reversible, per FIG. 4 (CaCO3→CaO+CO2 under 500 to 600° C. heat). Subsequently when lime is exposed to the moving air; carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air will react with the lime and lime will convert back to limestone. By repeating same limestone to lime chemical process, lime and carbon dioxide (CO2) will be created. After separating and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2), process will be repeated continuously, using the same lime.
US10570017B2
A yolk-shell-structured material (16, 59, 59a, 74) is disclosed as including a plurality of silicon nano-particles (12, 54, 54a, 62) and a cavity (16, 60, 80, 84) enclosed by a micron-sized shell (18, 72) made of carbon nano-particles (14, 56, 58). A method of forming a yolk-shell-structured material with silicon nano-particles (12) and a cavity (16) enclosed by a micron-sized shell (18) made of carbon nano-particles (14) is disclosed as including (a) providing a micron-sized cornstarch core (10), (b) forming a layer of nano silicon-particle (12) on the cornstarch core (10), (c) forming a micron-sized shell (18) of carbon nano-particles (14) on the layer of nano silicon-particle (12), and (d) removing the cornstarch core (10) by heating.
US10570016B2
The present invention relates to carbon nanotubes that are excellent in dispersibility and a process for producing the carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes according to the present invention each comprise a wall that comprises a parallel portion and a narrowed portion having a tube outer diameter that is not more than 90% of a tube outer diameter of the parallel portion. Thus, the carbon nanotubes are readily dispersible owing to a high abundance ratio of easily-breaking portions.
US10570015B2
Techniques for minimizing loss of volatile components during thermal processing of kesterite films are provided. In one aspect, a method for annealing a kesterite film is provided. The method includes: placing a cover over the kesterite film; and annealing the cover and the kesterite film such that, for an entire duration of the annealing, the cover is at a temperature T1 and the kesterite film is at a temperature T2, wherein the temperature T1 is greater than or equal to the temperature T2. Optionally, during a cool down segment of the annealing, conditions can be reversed to have the temperature T1 be less than the temperature T2. A solar cell and method for formation thereof using the present annealing techniques are also provided.
US10570011B1
A method for fabricating a microelectromechanical system device. Submerging a microelectromechanical system device in water. The microelectromechanical system devices include a sacrificial layer deposited on the surface of a substrate between the portion of a structural layer to be freed for movement and a base. Anodically etching the sacrificial layer from the microelectromechanical device to free the portion of the structural layer for movement. A system comprising a solution of water, a microelectromechanical system device including a sacrificial layer of chromium deposited on the surface of a substrate between a portion of a structural layer and a base. The microelectromechanical system device is submerged in the solution of water. An electrode is submerged in the water. The electrode provides a negative bias. A voltage source provides a positive bias to the sacrificial layer of chromium, anodically etching the sacrificial layer of chromium and freeing the portion of the structural layer.
US10570009B2
A microelectromechanical device having a first substrate of semiconductor material and a second substrate of semiconductor material having a bonding recess delimited by projecting portions, monolithic therewith. The bonding recess forms a closed cavity with the first substrate. A bonding structure is arranged within the closed cavity and is bonded to the first and second substrates. A microelectromechanical structure is formed in a substrate chosen between the first and second substrates. The device is manufactured by forming the bonding recess in a first wafer; depositing a bonding mass in the bonding recess, the bonding mass having a greater depth than the bonding recess; and bonding the two wafers.
US10570008B2
A sensing device includes a micro-electromechanical sensor, a source follower and an amplifier. The source follower includes a first output module including a first transistor and a second transistor. The micro-electromechanical sensor is configured to generate an input signal. A first terminal of the first transistor is configured to receive a first reference voltage. A second terminal and a control of the first transistor are electrically connected to the first output terminal and to a first current source respectively. A first terminal and a second terminal of the second transistor are electrically connected to the second terminal and the control terminal of the first transistor respectively. A control terminal of the second transistor is configured to receive the input signal. A first input terminal and a second input terminal of the amplifier are electrically connected to a first output terminal configured to receive a common-mode voltage respectively.
US10570007B2
A MEMS assembly includes a package, wherein the package includes a substrate and a cover element, wherein a through opening is provided in the cover element, a MEMS component within the package on the cover element, an integrated circuit arrangement within the package on the substrate, and a support component within the package on the substrate, wherein the support component on the substrate is electrically coupled, by first electrical connection lines, to the MEMS component on the cover element and is electrically coupled, by second electrical connection lines, to the circuit arrangement on the substrate in order to produce an electrical connection between the MEMS component and the integrated circuit arrangement.
US10570004B2
A beverage dispenser is disclosed herein. The beverage dispenser may include a housing configured to house at least one beverage container therein. The beverage container may include an identification tag associated therewith. At least one identification tag reader may be disposed within the housing. The identification tag reader may be configured to detect the identification tag associated with the beverage container. The beverage dispenser also may include a user interface disposed about an exterior of the housing. The user interface may include at least one beverage identification area that corresponds to the beverage container. At least one controller may be in communication with the at least one identification tag reader and the user interface. The controller may be configured to update the beverage identification area based at least in part on the identification of the beverage container by the identification tag reader.
US10570003B2
A method and means by which capping chucks can be torque adjusted without removing the capping chuck from production or taking the adjustment assembly apart for setting the torque on the equipment.
US10569998B2
A pneumatic jack includes a body, a lifting arm, and a bladder. Inflating the bladder applies downward pressure on a proximal end of the lifting arm and raises a distal end of the lifting arm. Subsequently deflating the bladder has the opposite effect. A mounting block at the distal end of the lifting arm allows the pneumatic jack to be used to raise and lower an object such as an automobile through inflation and deflation of the bladder.
US10569997B1
There is provided herein a load-lifting device for personal or mechanical use, a method of operating the load-lifting device and a fishing pole having the load-lifting device.
US10569996B2
A rope guide of a rope drum in a crane surrounds the rope drum and keeps the hoisting rope in a spiral rope groove of the rope drum when the hoisting rope is wound into the rope groove or unwound from it. The rope guide includes a body that is made up of several parts and surrounds the rope drum; a rope guide element at a winding/unwinding point of the hoisting rope; a hoisting rope retainer for pressing the hoisting rope into the rope groove; and several guide members distributed on the circumference of the rope guide and arranged to move on a surface of the rope drum or the hoisting rope to guide the hoisting rope being wound onto the rope drum or unwound from it. The body is a chain-like entity including chain links interconnected to form a ring-like entity extending around the entire rope drum, to which entity the rope guide element, hoisting rope retainer and control members are installable.
US10569982B2
The present invention concerns a method for joining the ply of a reel of paper in depletion with the initial flap of a new reel, as well as an apparatus adapted for carrying out such a method.Thanks to the method according to the present invention, and to the apparatus suitable for carrying it out, the joining of the reels takes place without using gluing means, like for example the double-sided tape used in known methods, avoiding the relative drawbacks, the adhesion between the plies of the reels to be joined taking place by electrostatic attraction.
US10569973B2
The invention relates to a device for moving objects (11), in particular food products, comprising a plurality of individually movable transport movers (12) for transporting the objects, a track system for the transport movers, in which the transport movers can be moved along at least one specified track (10), and a control apparatus for controlling the motions of the transport movers in the track system, wherein the track comprises a stator (14) and an associated guide (16) for the transport movers, and wherein the track can be converted from an operating configuration into a maintenance configuration at least in some segments, in which maintenance configuration at least one component of the track can be moved out of the working position thereof corresponding to a transport operation in relation to the stator.
US10569972B2
An improved particulate handling system is provided. The system includes a plurality of particulate storage areas and a plurality of types of particulate. Each type of particulate can be housed in a separate particulate storage area. Separate particulate conveyors are in operable communication with each of the particulate storage areas. Separate drive systems can be in operable control of the each of the particulate conveyors. The particulate conveyors convey particulate into an air flow path. The separate drive systems can be operated independently and/or at varied speeds.
US10569961B2
A conveyor device for a transport container for spectacle lenses includes a linear conveyor unit for conveying the transport container in a rectilinear direction, a rotary unit for rotating the linear conveyor unit, and a first housing element for the rotary unit. The first housing element includes a plate and rotates conjointly with the linear conveyor unit in the direction of rotation. The first housing element that conjointly rotates in the rotation of the linear conveyor unit has a first opening through which the linear conveyor unit penetrates the plate and wherein the linear conveyor unit is spaced apart from the plane by an assigned gap dimension, which is smaller than or equal to 5 mm.
US10569957B2
A transporter includes: a first conveyor to receive an object, the first conveyor to convey the object in a first direction; and a second conveyor to receive the object from the first conveyor and to convey the object, the second conveyor being movable in position in a second direction that crosses the first direction, the second direction being a substantially vertical direction.
US10569946B2
An improved zip tie includes a strap with a plurality of spaced holes formed therein. A head is supported at one end of the strap. The head has an entry opening for insertably accomodating the other end of the strap. A guide channel is formed within the head and extends between the entry opening and an opposite exit opening. A tongue is arranged within the guide channel and pivotally supported on a base at the entry opening. The tongue is pivotable between a locked position and an open position. A securing groove receives the tongue in the locked position. The securing groove is formed in the guide channel opposite the base proximal to the exit opening.
US10569945B2
A sleeve for an object is disclosed. In an open configuration, the sleeve is an elongate strip having an inner wall surface and an outer opposed wall surface. The inner and outer wall surfaces can be textured. The inner wall surface is configured to contact the object. The strip includes a clasp mechanism. The clasp mechanism can include at least one protrusion extending radially outward from the outer wall surface. The protrusion can be located at a proximal marginal end of the outer wall surface. The class mechanism can further include at least one indented receptacle located at a distal marginal end of the outer wall surface. The receptacle can extend between the inner and outer wall surfaces. In a closed configuration, the receptacle can be adapted to securably receive and restrain the protrusion therein. In the closed configuration, the strip forms a band around a circumference of the object.
US10569938B2
An enclosure can include a top enclosure portion having a top flange and a first top engagement feature. The enclosure can also include a bottom enclosure portion mechanically coupled to the top enclosure portion, where the bottom enclosure portion has a bottom flange that mechanically couples to the top flange and a first bottom engagement feature that mechanically couples to the first top engagement feature. The enclosure can further include a first fastening device mechanically and movably coupled to the first top engagement feature and the first bottom engagement feature. The first fastening device, in an engaged position, can maintain a flame path between the top flange and the bottom flange. The first fastening device, in a disengaged position, can fail to maintain a flame path between the top flange and the bottom flange.
US10569930B2
A container, in the form of a container body or container closure, or a lid, having a frangible weakened portion formed in a layer of polyethylene terephthalate forming a wall of the container, the weakened portion comprising a groove cut into a first surface of the layer, a first portion of the layer surrounding the groove having a crystallinity of from 35 to 45%, and a second portion of the layer, which second portion is adjacent to the first portion on opposite sides of the groove and remote from the groove, the second portion having a crystallinity at least 5% less than the crystallinity in the first portion, wherein the layer has a thickness of from 200 to 700 μm and the groove has a depth of from 200 to 500 μm.
US10569924B2
A polymeric container including a base, a body, a finish, finish threads, and a tamper lip. The body extends from the base. The finish defines an opening through which a product can pass into, and out of, an internal volume of the container defined at least in part by the body. The finish threads are at an outer surface of the finish, and are configured to cooperate with closure threads of a closure to secure the closure to the finish. The tamper lip extends from the outer surface of the finish, and is configured to replace the support flange during handling, and to cooperate with a tamper tab of the closure. The closure diameter is about the same as the neck diameter.
US10569923B2
A container and a method for making a container are provided. The method includes injection molding a preform having a body forming region, a neck forming region above the body forming region, and a dome forming region above the neck forming region. After forming the preform, the preform is mounted in a mold having a surface, the mold surface having a neck forming surface to form a neck having a snap fit portion or a threaded portion. After mounting the preform, the preform is stretched against the mold surface to form an intermediate article having a dome portion connected to a neck portion of the container. Thereafter, the dome portion is severed from the neck portion to produce a wide mouth container, wherein the ratio of a wall thickness of the neck forming region of the preform to the wall thickness of the neck portion is ranges from 4.8 to 7.
US10569921B2
A labelling unit and a method for labelling containers is provided. Said method provides rapid and reliable switching movements with low noise development and low wear of the mechanical components in that suction bars for suctioning label areas at places where container gaps occur can be actively switched back to an inner position, in which they do not come into contact with a gluing unit, and in that the switching process is triggered with the aid of a stationary toggle lever.
US10569913B2
Methods for manufacturing a plastic container and for filling it with a fill product are described. The methods include introducing a perform into a blow mold, pressuring the preform with a blowing medium, evacuating the interior space of the container to an underpressure, and introducing a fill product in the interior space at an overpressure.
US10569902B2
An exterior aircraft light unit according to exemplary embodiments of the invention comprises: a housing including a mounting portion, which is configured for mounting the aircraft light unit to an aircraft; at least one light source; and a heat sink; wherein the heat sink comprises: a first heat sink portion comprising a plurality of cooling ribs being thermally connected with the at least one light source for transferring heat from the at least one light source to the plurality of cooling ribs; and at least one second heat sink portion comprising two heat sink plates and a clamping pin and being configured such that the second heat sink portion is selectively attachable, particularly clampable, to a respective cooling rib of the first heat sink portion.
US10569899B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling the restitution of alert(s) and/or of system(s) reconfiguration procedure(s), including the surveillance of device(s) of a vehicle and the determination of alert(s) and/or of associated reconfiguration procedure(s) to be restituted for the crew, the vehicle operating according to a mission carried out by using at least one operational capacity, and further including, for a current mission: obtaining a list of operational capacities required by said current mission; from said required operational capacities and at least one piece of information from an accessible database, controlling the restitution of alert(s) and/or of system(s) reconfiguration procedure(s) by: modifying the associated level of alert(s) and/or of procedure(s), and sequencing the restitution of alert(s) and/or of procedure(s) based on said level, and/or filtering said alert(s) and/or reconfiguration procedure(s) before restitution.
US10569898B2
Methods and systems are provided for generating an alert for an aircraft potentially exceeding speed limits in airspace with speed limitations. The method comprises retrieving a flight plan for the aircraft and identifying airspace with speed limitations along the flight plan. A speed profile is generated based on the in-flight aircraft's current position, speed and trajectory. Any predicted speed violations are identified by comparing the speed profile with the airspace with speed limitations along the flight plan. A predictive time window is calculated that allows for the in-flight aircraft to decelerate sufficiently to comply with the speed limits of the airspace with speed limitations. The predictive time window includes a zone for the aircraft to reduce its airspeed and a reaction buffer zone to allow the aircrew sufficient time to comply with instructions to decelerate the aircraft. Finally, an alert is generated for the crew of the in-flight aircraft upon entering the predictive time window.
US10569888B2
An ice-protection system for an aerodynamic structure for an aircraft comprising: an outer skin defined by a leading edge point and a trailing edge point that are interconnected by an upper skin and a lower skin, an internal chamber defined within the outer skin configured to be in fluid communication with the atmosphere external to the outer skin via an inlet and an outlet, and at least one air heater provided within the chamber in proximity to the inlet, wherein during use, a pressure differential exists between the inlet and the outlet that causes external air to flow through the chamber from the inlet to the outlet, and wherein the heater is configured to heat the air passing through the inlet such that the temperature of the air in the chamber is sufficiently increased so as to prevent ice accretion on the outer skin.
US10569886B2
An aircraft air conditioning system includes an ambient air line which is configured have ambient air flow therethrough and is connected to a mixer of the aircraft air conditioning system to supply ambient air to the mixer, and a refrigerating machine which includes a refrigerant circuit configured to have a refrigerant flow therethrough, the refrigerant circuit being thermally coupled to the ambient air line to transfer heat, from the ambient air flowing through the ambient air line, to the refrigerant circulating in the refrigerant circuit, before the ambient air is supplied into the mixer. A control device is configured to control the ambient air flow through the ambient air line such that the ambient air is selectively conducted through different sections of the ambient air line or different bypass lines running parallel to the sections of the ambient air line.
US10569885B2
There is provided an aeronautic vehicle including a first engine capable of providing propulsion and pressurising air and an environmental control system. The environmental control system includes an electrically powered compressor capable of pressurising air and a first pressurised air powered environmental control system pack. The environmental control system is configurable to provide pressurised air from the first engine to the first environmental control system pack, and the environmental control system is configurable to a ground configuration in which pressurised air is provided from the electrically powered compressor to the first environmental control system pack. There is also provided an environmental control system for an aeronautic vehicle and a method of operating an environmental control system of an aeronautic vehicle.
US10569872B2
A system for maintaining a machine. The system includes an aerial vehicle configured to fly to a lubrication location proximate the machine. A supply of friction minimizing material is carried by the aerial vehicle. A controller is configured to deliver at least part of the supply of friction minimizing material to the machine when the aerial vehicle is at the lubrication location.
US10569857B2
An aircraft body and a method of making an aircraft body are provided. In one embodiment, an aircraft body may be molded from a single layer of carbon fiber stock, producing curved sections of single layer molded carbon fiber by molding pliable carbon fiber stock, and heat curing the carbon fiber stock to form a rigid, molded wing section.
US10569856B2
The invention relates to aviation equipment. An object of this invention is to develop a new aerodynamic device which can extend the range of aerodynamic devices for aviation, increase the efficiency of the air flow power use, increase the efficiency of the lifting force and improve the efficiency of controlling the wing resultant forces. For this purpose, the aerodynamic device has an aerodynamic wing (2) with a blower (1) of gaseous working fluid (such as air) mounted above the wing (2), in accordance with the invention, the aerodynamic wing (2) has a specific shape it is designed in the form of a double-curved open surface made up by a system of longitudinal grooves (7,8) along the whole wing surface The wing (2) has a convergent segment (4) and a divergent segment (6); between the convergent and the divergent segments there is a smooth transitional segment (5). The wing outlines have end elements (11). In the convergent and the divergent segments of the wing lower surface which is not blown by air, there is a controlled drive system (10) for the wing surface cambering and area changing. The divergent segment tip on the wing trailing edge has a deflectable controlled element (9). The structural parts of the present invention meet special conditions.
US10569842B2
A system for collection of rainwater in the open ocean may include: (a) one or more ocean-going vessels, wherein each ocean-going vessel is configured for collection and storage of rainwater, wherein each ocean-going vessel is configured to drift with surface ocean currents in order to navigate to one or more delivery locations, wherein each delivery location is on or near to a land mass; and (b) one or more delivery stations located at the one or more delivery locations, wherein each delivery station is configured to receive stored rainwater from one or more of the ocean-going vessels.
US10569838B2
A device for connecting a chain or line, such as a portion of a chain or line, to a structure, the device comprising a first portion comprising a first axis, the first portion being configured to connect or be connectable to a structure so as to be movable relative to the structure; a first guide element, the first guide element being arranged on or relative to the first portion to be movable around or about the first axis of the first portion; and a second guide element, the second guide element being configured to align at least a portion of a chain relative to the first guide element.
US10569833B1
A velocipede includes a pedal crank for pedals to allow an operator to power the velocipede, and a transmission hub or component that is coupled to the pedal crank by a first chain or belt. The transmission component is located rearward of the pedal crank in the frame of the velocipede, such as under a seat position, and is further connected to a rear wheel at an output of the transmission component by a second chain or belt. The transmission has an output that is coupled to a rear wheel assembly. In some embodiments the rear wheel assembly can be mounted in a swingarm that pivots about a transverse axis defined by the output of the transmission. In some embodiments the rear wheel assembly can include an electric motor to drive a rear wheel.
US10569829B1
A chainring installation structure includes a crank, a spindle, and a swing assembly. The spindle includes a first rotational axis, and one end of the spindle is connected to the crank. The crank drives the spindle to cause the spindle to rotate about the first rotational axis. The swing assembly is disposed at one end of the spindle adjacent to the crank without contacting the crank. The swing assembly can shift axially relative to the spindle. The swing assembly includes a second rotational axis that crosses the first rotational axis, in which the swing assembly can rotate about the second rotational axis.
US10569826B1
An ergonomic motorcycle, rear-brake adaptor unit operative to provide constant and immediate accessibility to a rider whose foot is resting on a foot peg when riding in any of variety of riding postures that typically impede immediate access to the rear-brake pedal.
US10569818B2
A vehicle for a standing rider has a single surface-engaging wheel; a pair of foot supports, one on each side of the wheel, for supporting a standing rider astride the wheel in a position facing forward; a frame that mounts the wheel and forms a forward riser extending up and forward from the wheel to a position to be grasped by a rider standing on the foot supports to enable the rider to achieve balance and stability while standing and riding. A rearward riser extends up and rearward of the wheel to a position to be grasped by a pusher to enable the pusher to advance, balance and guide the vehicle.
US10569817B2
A magnetic frame mechanism including an outer frame, first drop center wheels, first brackets, a permanent magnet block. The outer frame includes a face plate, a first side plate, and a second side plate. The first side plate and the second side plate are vertically fixed on two ends of the face plate, respectively. The permanent magnet block is sandwiched between the first side plate and the second side plate. The first side plate and the second side plate include guide structures, and the guide structures include first guide rails. The first drop center wheels are fixed on the inner side of the face plate via the first brackets, respectively. The platform mechanism includes a platform plate, four magnetic travelling wheels, four second brackets, a second guide rail disposed on the surface of the platform plate, and a tension spring.
US10569814B2
Lift axle systems for use with trucks and other heavy duty vehicles are described herein. In some embodiments, lift axle systems configured in accordance with the present technology include upper and lower control arms on each side of the vehicle that operably couple an axle to a support system attached to the vehicle chassis. The upper control arm has a first end portion pivotally attached to a support system bracket at an upper bracket location, and a second end portion pivotally attached to the axle at an upper axle location. The lower control arm has a first end portion pivotally attached to the support system bracket at a lower bracket location, and a second end portion pivotally attached to the axle at a lower axle location. In some embodiments, the upper and lower bracket locations lie in a vertical plane that extends parallel to the vertical and longitudinal axes of the vehicle, and the upper axle location is spaced apart from the lower axle location in a lateral direction that extends parallel to the lateral axis of the vehicle.
US10569812B2
A swing and drop tailgate is configured to undergo two distinct motions, each with advantages depending on circumstances. The swing and drop tailgate can undergo a rotation motion about a hinge, as well as a swing down motion via a linkage. The swing down motion allows closer access to the bed, and extends less far from the rear of the vehicle as compared to the drop motion. The motions may be manually controlled, or actuator controlled. One or more latches may constrain motion, or prevent, of the tailgate. A tailgate assembly may include a post assembly and a tailgate, that may move together as a rigid body when dropping, or move relative to one another when swinging.
US10569810B2
A node is disclosed. The node may have a core. The node may also have a projection extending from the core. Further the node may have a structural member attached to the projection. The node may also have a top cover having a top recess. The top recess may be configured to receive the structural member. Additionally, the node may have a bottom cover having a bottom recess. The bottom recess may be configured to receive the structural member. In addition the node may have a fastener to connect the top cover and the bottom cover.
US10569805B2
A frame assembly for a vehicle can include a cross member, a longitudinal member and a gusset. The cross member can extend along a transverse direction of the vehicle. The cross member can include a bend. The longitudinal member can extend along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The gusset can be connected to the longitudinal member and the cross member at the bend.
US10569803B2
A steerable caddy trailer is provided that has an improved structure including a main frame assembly, spindle assemblies attached to each end of the main frame for attachment of a wheel, a pair of swinging arms forwardly extending from the main frame and pivotally attached to the main frame, and tie rods connecting the swinging arms with the spindle assembly such that pivoting of the swinging arms steers the wheel.
US10569773B2
World objects tracking and prediction by an autonomous vehicle (AV) is disclosed. A method includes identifying, based on first observation data received from sensors of the AV, an oncoming vehicle; identifying, based on second observation data received from the sensors of the AV, a road object; generating a lane-following hypothesis for the oncoming vehicle, the lane-following hypothesis indicating an intention that the oncoming vehicle remain in a current road lane; computing a lane-following reference driveline for the lane-following hypothesis of the oncoming vehicle; in response to determining that the lane-following reference driveline is blocked by the road object, generating a go-around hypothesis for the oncoming vehicle, and computing a go-around reference driveline for the go-around hypothesis; and providing at least one of a go-around trajectory corresponding to the go-around hypothesis or a lane-following trajectory corresponding to the lane-following hypothesis.
US10569772B2
Described is a system for predicting the behavior of an autonomous system. The system identifies a taxonomic state of a motion condition of an autonomous vehicle based on a spatiotemporal location of the autonomous vehicle and elements of a driving scenario. Behavior of the autonomous vehicle is predicted based on the taxonomic state of the motion condition. The autonomous vehicle makes and implements a driving operation decision based on the predicted behavior.
US10569771B2
An advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) provides collision avoidance control for a host vehicle. The system can include one or more sensors mounted to the host vehicle and configured to sense a driving lane in which the host vehicle is traveling and to sense an external vehicle partially engaged in the driving lane. A controller controls steering, braking, or acceleration of the host vehicle on the basis of sensing information received from the sensor. The controller determines the external vehicle partially engaged in the driving lane as a target vehicle having at least a part thereof overlapping with a lane mark of the driving lane, and performs longitudinal braking or acceleration control or lateral steering control on the host vehicle based on lateral and longitudinal positional relationships between the host vehicle and the target vehicle.
US10569765B2
A PCM (14) for controlling a behavior of a vehicle (1) having steerable front road wheels is configured to perform a control to reduce a driving force for the vehicle (1) according to a yaw rate-related quantity (e.g., steering speed) of the vehicle (1). Specifically, the PCM (14) is configured, after reducing the driving force in response to a change in the yaw rate-related quantity and according to the yaw rate-related quantity being changing, to increase the driving force so as to restore a value of the driving force before the reduction, and the PCM (14) is operable, when increasing the driving force so as to restore a value of the driving force before the reduction, to change a change rate during the increasing of the driving force, according to a magnitude of the yaw rate-related quantity thereduring.
US10569762B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle, in which by at least one ultrasonic sensor, operated in the active operation mode, of an ultrasonic sensor device of the motor vehicle ultrasonic waves are emitted into an environmental region of the motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle as hybrid vehicle is equipped with an internal combustion engine (and an electric drive machine and in the active operation mode of the ultrasonic sensor arranged on a rear part of the motor vehicle the motor vehicle at least temporarily is operated by means of the electric drive machine. The invention also relates to a motor vehicle.
US10569750B2
A fuzzy-based control system in a motor vehicle for controlling a speed comprises a brake pressure measurement unit, a signal processing unit and a control unit. The brake pressure measurement unit is adapted as a finite state machine to measure a current brake pressure of a brake of a wheel of the motor vehicle dependent on a trigger. The signal processing unit is adapted to estimate a current adhesion value μ between a tyre associated with the wheel and the current ground, based on the current brake pressure of the brake and further measurement values. The estimating comprises an inference based on fuzzy rules and a fuzzification, a subsequently a defuzzification of the inference. The control unit is adapted to control a speed of the motor vehicle or the brake pressure of the brake, based on the estimated current adhesion value μ.
US10569748B2
An ATV jack may include a clamping engagement member and a leg which pivots which respect to the clamping engagement member a limited amount to enable the jack to lift and hold an ATV. The leg may telescope to allow the jack to be used at variable heights.
US10569746B2
A system includes a sensor base, a sensor cover having a window that is rotatably mounted to the base. The system includes a contacting cleaner and a contactless cleaner. The system further includes a processor that is programmed to actuate, first, the contactless cleaner and, then, upon determining that opacity of the window exceeds a predetermined threshold after actuation of the contactless cleaner, the contacting cleaner.
US10569743B2
The invention relates to a windscreen wiper device for a vehicle, for wiping a windscreen (4), comprising a wiper blade (2) having an elongate upper part (10) and an elongate lower part (12) which are at least partly flexible. Also provided are multiple connecting elements (18) for connecting the upper part (10) and the lower part (12), the connecting elements being mutually spaced along a longitudinal extent (8) of the wiper blade (2) and being attached to the upper part (10) and/or the lower part (12) by a rotary joint (20), and the connecting elements (18) being designed to allow a movement of the upper part (10) and the lower part relative to each other with a movement component along the longitudinal extent (8) of the wiper blade (2). The windscreen wiper device also comprises, on the lower part (12) a receiving slot (50) on one side (57) facing towards the windscreen (4), along the longitudinal extent (8) of the wiper blade (2), wherein the receiving slot (50) is designed so that a wiper blade element (51) can be exchanged.
US10569741B1
A vehicle communicating with a remote controller is provided. A vehicle includes a plurality of car antennas; a storage configured to store a distance value between the first and second key antennas; and a controller configured to select at least two of the plurality of car antennas, control transmission of signals through the selected at least two car antennas, obtain a distance value between the first and second key antennas of the remote controller based on the received signal strength and the transmission strength of the at least two car antennas when a received signal strength of at least two signals received by the first key antenna and a received signal strength value of at least two signals received by the second key antenna are received from the remote controller, and authenticate the remote controller based on the obtained distance value and the distance value stored in the storage.
US10569738B2
A seat belt routing sensing system for a seat belt of a vehicle is provided. The seat belt includes a latch plate. The seat belt routing sensing system includes a seat belt buckle mounting assembly and a sensor. The seat belt buckle mounting assembly includes a first bracket or a first strap. The first bracket or the first strap is configured to connect to a seat belt buckle. The sensor is attached directly or indirectly to the first bracket, the first strap, or the seat belt buckle and is configured to detect changes in a parameter. The changes are indicative of (i) at least one of a bending moment, a force, an angular position, or an angular movement of the first bracket or first strap, and (ii) routing of the seat belt.
US10569734B2
An airbag assembly is provided to include a chute channel disposed between an instrument panel skin and an airbag module. The chute channel includes a base; and a plurality of radial ribs disposed on a surface of the base, extending from a middle portion to an edge of the base and configured to transfer forces from the airbag deployment towards a tear seam on the instrument panel skin.
US10569732B2
An arm rest attachable to a seat for a vehicle occupant to sit on includes a pair of side members, a pair of front members, and an airbag. The side members are at left and right sides of the vehicle occupant, extend in a front-rear direction, and are coupled to the seat. The front members are in front of the vehicle occupant and extend inward in a width direction of the seat from the side members. The airbag deploys toward the vehicle occupant from at least one of the pair of side members or the pair of front members. The airbag includes a lateral abutment unit that abuts on the side members and a front abutment unit that abuts on the front members. The airbag has a substantially-triangular cross section taken in a substantially horizontal direction, the cross section including the lateral abutment unit and the front abutment unit.
US10569704B2
An ambient light controller in an agricultural machine can control multicolor lights arranged in an operator cab of the machine to project light around structures in the cab to areas that are perceivable by a forward facing operator to convey useful information about the machine to the operator. The lights can be projected around such structures by using light pipes. The lights can preferably be in a color which minimizes glare inside the cab to avoid distraction. The light controller can monitor various functions of the machine, such as boom height, and change colors and/or patterns of the lights to indicate states corresponding to the conditions, such as a normal state and a fault state.
US10569703B2
A steering wheel includes a gripping portion that is gripped by a driver when a conveyance is steered, a light source that is disposed inside the gripping portion and is configured to emit light, a light guide body that is disposed inside the gripping portion such that an end portion of the light guide body faces the light source, the light guide body including an emission surface that is configured to emit light from the light source and incident on the end portion and that is formed on a surface on a driver side, and a covering portion that surrounds the light guide body and forms an outer layer portion of at least a part of the gripping portion around the light guide body. The covering portion is formed with a hole, through which light emitted from the emission surface passes.
US10569695B2
A converter controller controls a switching converter. A current detection circuit generates a current detection signal VCS that corresponds to a coil current IL of the switching converter. An error amplifier amplifies the difference between the current detection signal VCS and an analog signal VADIM that indicates a current to be supplied to a semiconductor light source, so as to generate an error signal VERR. A hysteresis comparator compares the current detection signal VCS with an upper threshold signal VTHH and a lower threshold signal VTHL determined according to the error signal VERR, and generates a control pulse SCNT that corresponds to a comparison result. A driver drives a switching transistor according to the control pulse SCNT.
US10569691B1
A cover assembly for a cargo lashing fitting having a substantially planar cover plate which can be readily installed/uninstalled to and from the fitting, which connects to the fitting in an impact-resistant manner, which can resist the forces incurred when subjected to loading from on-deck vehicles and equipment, and which provides a long lasting watertight seal of the socket cavity.
US10569687B1
The tailgate caddy is an apparatus used to organize items during a celebration. The tailgate caddy is configured for use with a pickup truck. The tailgate caddy mounts in the pickup truck. The tailgate caddy organizes and stores items used during outdoor celebrations located proximal to the pickup truck. The tailgate caddy provides electrical power for use in proving power to electrically powered devices associated with the outdoor celebration. The tailgate caddy comprises a bed liner, a tailgate liner, a living hinge, and a plurality of saddlebags. The living hinge attaches the bed liner to the tailgate liner. The plurality of saddlebags attach to the bed liner. The bed liner rests on the bed. The tailgate liner rests on the tailgate when the tailgate is in a horizontal position. Each of the plurality of saddlebags hangs over a sidewall.
US10569686B2
A device for fastening a table top to a side wall of a vehicle includes: a structure for fastening to the side wall, and a support structure of the plate. The support structure includes: at least one crosspiece extending along a transverse direction, and at least two beams each extending in a longitudinal direction substantially orthogonal to the transverse direction, with the crosspiece being connected to each of the beams. The support structure includes bending onset zones configured to deform plastically when a force greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold force is applied on the support structure along the transverse direction.
US10569685B2
A vehicle seat is equipped with a seatback having a mounting portion, a headrest having a headrest frame and an electric component, a first connector, and a second connector. The first connector has an engaging portion engaged with a hole of the headrest frame, a protrusion engaging the second connector, and a first connector terminal electrically connected to a lead wire of the electric component. The second connector has a first engaging piece engaged with a hole of the guide bracket from the outside of the guide bracket, a second engaging piece engaged with the protrusion of the first connector from the outside of the first connector, and a second connector terminal electrically connected to a lead wire wired in the seatback and the first connector terminal. The engagement between the hole of the mounting portion and the first engaging piece of the second connector can be released irreversibly.
US10569683B2
A headrest support assembly is provided that comprises a support member flexible between neutral and loaded states and having first and second ends with a channel extending therebetween. A cable is slidably received in the channel between first and second positions. The cable has first and second ends, and the cable moves from the first position to the second position when the support member moves from the neutral state to the loaded state.
US10569672B1
An adaptive tensile control system includes a covering couple to a motorized retractor operable to release and retract the covering in response to control signals. An adaptive seat suspension includes a flexible suspension mat coupled to a motorized retractor operable to release and retract the flexible suspension mat in response to control signals. A method includes adapting the size of a support in a seat and adapting a covering overlying the support. A device includes an inflatable bolster within a seat having a covering. An apparatus includes a seat back and a seat that includes foam having a variable surface and a seamless covering.
US10569669B2
A vehicle includes first and second rows of seats and a rail system. The rail system includes lateral and longitudinal tracks. First, second, and third seating assemblies are each coupled to the rail system. The first and third seating assemblies are actuatable along the rail system to be positioned between a pair of rearward wheel wells.
US10569666B1
A vehicle is provided to obtain reliable time information via communication with a server without separate hardware. The vehicle includes a communicator that is configured to receive authentication information from a server and a charging port that is electrically connected to a charger. The charging port is configured to receive time information of the charger from the charger. A controller is then configured to derive time information of the vehicle based on the time information of the charger and reference time information included in the authentication information and adjust the time of at least one processor disposed within the vehicle to be synchronized.
US10569663B2
The present disclosure is directed to autonomous vehicle platforms and autonomous vehicles including such platforms. For example, an autonomous vehicle can include a bisymmetrical platform including a first portion, a second portion, a third portion and a fourth portion that collectively provide a supporting structure for the autonomous vehicle and that respectively comprise a wheel mounting frame configured for location of a wheel assembly. A body including front and rear sides and first and second lateral sides can be positioned on top of the bisymmetrical platform configured to receive passengers for transport. The autonomous vehicle can also include a plurality of wheel assemblies configured for secure positioning relative to each wheel mounting frame within the bisymmetrical platform and a powertrain configured to power the plurality of wheel assemblies for operation of the autonomous vehicle to travel in either a forward direction or a rear direction.
US10569662B2
A control apparatus for a vehicle having an electric motor, and a step-variable transmission selectively placed in a speed position with engagement of a coupling device, wherein the vehicle runs rearward with a reverse drive torque of the electric motor generated in a forward-drive low-speed position of the transmission, is provided. The control apparatus includes: a first shift control portion temporarily increasing an input torque of the transmission to raise its input speed toward a synchronizing speed in the low-speed position, and commands an engaging-side coupling device to be brought into its engaged state after the input speed has been raised to a predetermined value; and a second shift control portion increasing an engaging force of the engaging-side coupling device to bring the engaging-side coupling device into the engaged state.
US10569654B2
The present invention improves usability by making it possible to change a display gauge of an added amount of regenerated energy. A regenerated energy display device (1) according to the present invention is installed in a vehicle (10) that is capable of collecting the regenerated energy and comprises: a display unit (2) that is capable of displaying a graph (5) that shows an added amount (Aa) of regenerated energy; and a control unit (3) that controls the display unit (2) such that it is possible to change a gauge (the upper limit) of information indicating the added amount (Aa) displayed on the display unit.
US10569646B2
A fuel cell vehicle includes tanks configured to store a fuel gas to be supplied to the fuel cell, the tanks being respectively disposed in front of and behind the motor drive unit such that a longitudinal direction of each of the tanks corresponds to a width direction of the fuel cell vehicle. The tanks are disposed such that respective end portions of the tanks on a side on which the high-voltage wiring portion is positioned are outside the high-voltage wiring portion in the width direction of the fuel cell vehicle and the respective end portions of tanks overlap a tire-wheel assembly in a front-rear direction of the fuel cell vehicle.
US10569643B2
Motor vehicle front surface including a central air-moving device, wherein the central air-moving device is connected laterally to at least one side air-moving device leading air from a central part of the front surface towards at least one side part of the vehicle, and in that the front surface comprises at least one valve between the central air-moving device and the side air-moving device, making it possible to adjust the air flow circulating between the central air-moving device and the side air-moving device.
US10569627B2
A door seal includes: a first seal mechanism including a first seal portion provided at an end of a door and a second seal portion configured to contact the first seal portion when the door is closed; and a second seal mechanism including a third seal portion provided at the end of the door and a fourth seal portion configured to contact the third seal portion when the door is closed. The third seal portion and the first seal portion are arranged at different locations along a thickness direction of the door.
US10569618B2
A car roof automatic HVAC apparatus disposed within a roof of an automobile to maintain a more comfortable temperature inside of the automobile for a driver to return to, and to act as a safety mechanism to prevent a child or pet left inside the automobile from dying of excessive heat or cold. A plurality of vents has a plurality of fans disposed within, and a heater allows the fans to blow hot air when needed. A first CPU, the heater, a light, the plurality of vents, and the plurality of fans are powered by a rechargeable battery or an alternate power source. A remote control can be used to operate the car roof automatic HVAC apparatus. An automobile interface unit disposed within the automobile can detect when the vehicle has been turned off for a programmed amount of time to automatically begin ventilation or heating.
US10569603B2
This pneumatic tire (1) has a first profile (PL1) wherein land sections (3) located further inside in the tire width direction than right and left outermost circumferential main grooves (2) protrudes outward in the tire radius direction. In addition, the pneumatic tire has a second profile (PL2) wherein shoulder land sections (3) protrudes inward in the tire radius direction within a ground contact surface. The distance d in the tire radial direction from a line extending from the first profile (PL1) to the second profile (PL2) within the ground contact surface increases toward the outer side in the tire width direction. In addition, the distance (Gcc) from a tread profile (first profile (PL1)) within a tire equatorial plane (CL) to a tire inner circumferential surface and the distance (Gsh) from a tread end (P) to the tire inner circumferential surface have the relationship of 1.10≤Gsh/Gcc.
US10569597B2
A pen structure with a glass smasher has the glass smasher mounted at the front end of a pen. When a user holds the pen and presses the front end (i.e., the smashing cone) of the smashing rod of the glass smasher forcibly against a glass obstacle, an impact block will strike the rear section of the smashing rod vigorously such that the smashing cone is instantly driven to smash the glass obstacle. A ballpoint/rollerball refill is detachably provided in the pen and is at least 6 cm long in order to contain enough ink. The overall length of the pen is at least 10 cm so that the pen can be easily held while the user writes or draws with the ballpoint/rollerball tip and while the user applies a force to a glass obstacle through the front end of the smashing rod to smash the glass obstacle.
US10569590B2
A binding apparatus including a plurality of generally coaxially arranged binding coils. Each binding coil includes a pair of generally parallel wires terminating in a tip. Each binding coil is coupled to an adjacent binding coil by a connection portion extending generally parallel to an axis of the binding apparatus. At least one binding coil is directly circumferentially attached to itself, or to a connection portion.
US10569588B2
A thermal transfer sheet, which includes a transfer layer, is superposed on a transfer receiving article, and while the transfer layer is continuously transferred onto the article by a printer comprising a sheet supplying device, heating device, sheet winding device, measuring device located between the heating and sheet winding devices to measure the tensile strength of the thermal transfer sheet conveyed along a conveyance path, and release device located between the heating and the measuring devices, under conditions including an applied power for printing: 0.15 W/dot and a conveying speed for the thermal transfer sheet: 84.6 mm/sec., the transfer layer transferred on the article is released from a constituent member in contact with the transfer layer of the thermal transfer sheet, has a tensile strength measured by the measuring device of 0.1 N/cm or less.
US10569585B2
A tape cartridge includes a platen roller, a winding up core, and a cartridge casing that accommodates a printing tape, an ink ribbon, the platen roller, and the winding up core. The cartridge casing includes an insertion hole in which a head cover on a cartridge installation portion of a tape printing apparatus is inserted when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion. The insertion hole includes a facing portion that faces a convex portion on the head cover when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion. The facing portion is part of an inner wall of the insertion hole.
US10569581B2
A printing pattern creation device includes an input to which information regarding a type of ink to be used to perform printing on a printing target, and information regarding the surface on which the printing is to be performed, are to be provided; a storage having stored thereon a plurality of predefined printing modes each to be executed as one printing process; a main creator to select one or at least two printing modes among the plurality of printing modes based on the information supplied to the input, and to arrange the selected printing modes in the order of execution, to create a printing pattern; and an output to output the created printing pattern to a recording device.
US10569578B2
A printing apparatus includes a platen including a first guide rail and a second guide rail mutually parallel in a width direction that intersects a transport direction of a medium; an edge holder including a plate-shaped member that covers an end portion of the medium in the width direction, a first engaging portion that engages with the first guide rail, and a second engaging portion that engages with the second guide rail; and a changing portion that is provided on the first engaging portion side and is for changing a position of the plate-shaped member in the width direction. A space in the transport direction formed between the first engaging portion and the first guide rail is narrower than a space in the transport direction formed between the second engaging portion and the second guide rail.
US10569575B2
It is possible to more securely reduce the printing time of printing processing to perform printing while conveying printing sheets in an overlapping manner. An image forming apparatus including: a determination unit configured to analyze print data for printing an image on one printing sheet and to determine, based on the analysis results, an overlap amount of the one printing sheet and another printing sheet conveyed in a state of overlapping part of the one printing sheet; and a conveyance unit configured to convey the one printing sheet and the other printing sheet in an overlapping manner in accordance with an overlap amount determined by the determination unit, and a target image range of the analysis of the print data is determined in accordance with a predetermined overlap amount determined in advance, which a printing unit can permit.
US10569570B2
A conveying device includes a blower, a conveyor, and an upstream blower. The blower blows air to a sheet material. The conveyor includes a sandwiching unit to sandwich the sheet material, and conveys the sheet material to a blowing region of the blower. The upstream blower blows air toward a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the sheet material, from an upstream side of the blowing region in the conveyance direction of the sheet material to the blowing region.
US10569567B2
A thermal transfer device includes a fixture that holds a transfer object, a foil transfer tool that presses a thermal transfer foil placed on the transfer object and a light absorbing film placed on the thermal transfer foil and emits light onto the light absorbing film, a carriage moving mechanism that moves the foil transfer tool relative to the fixture, and a temperature detector that measures a temperature of a portion of the light absorbing film pressed and irradiated with light by the foil transfer tool.
US10569561B2
In some examples, a valve assembly for a fluid ejection device includes a plurality of valves to control fluid supply from a plurality of fluid sources to the fluid ejection device, each respective valve of the plurality of valves actuatable between a first valve position to provide fluid communication through a first fluid path between a first fluid source of the plurality of fluid sources and the fluid ejection device, and a second valve position to provide fluid communication through a second fluid path between a second fluid source of the plurality of fluid sources and the fluid ejection device. A common actuator, when energized, controls movement of the plurality of valves. Each respective biasing mechanism of a plurality of biasing mechanisms is to maintain the respective valve at each of the first valve position and the second valve position without energizing the common actuator.
US10569559B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head having nozzles and an opening surface through which the nozzles are opened, the liquid ejecting head being configured to eject liquid from the nozzles, a supply flow path configured to supply the liquid to the liquid ejecting head, a pressurizing mechanism that can pressurize the inside of the supply flow path, an opening/closing mechanism that can open and close the supply flow path, and a control unit that controls operations of the liquid ejecting head, the pressurizing mechanism, and the opening/closing mechanism.
US10569557B2
An inkjet recording apparatus includes a cartridge-attachment portion and an ink cartridge attachable thereto. The ink cartridge includes: a main body formed with an opening; an ink chamber disposed in the main body; a first valve opening and closing the opening; and a first pressing surface. The cartridge-attachment portion includes: an ink supply member providing an ink passage formed with an inlet; a second valve opening and closing the inlet; and a second pressing surface. In the attachment process, the ink supply member enters the ink chamber through the opening, the first pressing surface moves the second valve to a position opening the inlet, and the second pressing surface moves the first valve to a position opening the opening. In an attached state, the inlet is opened and positioned in the ink chamber, and the ink passage is in communication with the ink chamber through the inlet.
US10569555B2
A liquid material filling device and method are provided which are intended to prevent air bubbles from remaining along an entire length of a flow passage extending from a liquid material reservoir (51) to a discharge port (53). The liquid material filling device includes a chamber (10) of an airtight structure, a pressure regulator (70) for regulating pressure in the chamber (10), and a control device (100). The liquid material is filled as follows. A negative pressure supply source (71) is communicated with a chamber communication pipe (90) and with a discharge device communication pipe (91) to reduce the pressure in the chamber (10) and pressure in an upper space of the reservoir (51) to a vacuum or a low pressure level close to a vacuum, and a resulted low-pressure state is maintained for a certain time to expel out air bubbles in the liquid material.
US10569549B2
A printing apparatus configured to print an image on a medium includes a head having a first nozzle group configured to discharge a first liquid onto a medium, and a second nozzle group configured to discharge a second liquid acting on the first liquid, a main scanning unit configured to move the head in a main scanning direction, a sub scanning unit configured to move the medium in a sub scanning direction, and a control section configured to control discharging of the first liquid and discharging of the second liquid, and in the printing apparatus, the second nozzle group includes an upstream unit disposed on an upstream side of the first nozzle group in the sub scanning direction, and an overlapping unit located on a downstream side of the upstream unit in the sub scanning direction and disposed to overlap with at least a portion of the first nozzle group as viewed in the main scanning direction, the control section determines, based on liquid volume of the first liquid to be discharged, liquid volume of the second liquid to be discharged, and in a case where the liquid volume determined of the second liquid is equal to or less than a threshold value, the control section makes, of the overlapping unit and the upstream unit, at least the overlapping unit discharge the second liquid.
US10569548B2
An ink-jet printer, including: an ink-jet head; and a head moving device for moving the head in a scanning direction, wherein the ink-jet head includes a first head unit having a first nozzle row from which first ink is ejected and a second nozzle row from which second ink that differs in color from the first ink is ejected, a second head unit disposed so as to be shifted from the first head unit in a nozzle arrangement direction by a distance less than a nozzle pitch, and a third head unit disposed between the first and second head units in the scanning direction so as to be shifted from the first head unit in the nozzle arrangement direction by a distance corresponding to a predetermined natural number multiple of the nozzle pitch, the third head unit having fifth and sixth nozzle rows from which the first ink is ejected.
US10569546B2
An inkjet printer includes: an oil-based ink containing silicone oil; and inkjet heads each including a nozzle row in which nozzles configured to eject the oil-based ink to a print medium conveyed in a conveyance direction are arranged, the inkjet heads being arranged adjacent to each other with the nozzles in each nozzle row arranged in a direction non-orthogonally intersecting the conveyance direction.
US10569544B2
According to examples, a multi-layered nozzle fluid ejection device may include a first nozzle layer including a first nozzle layer thickness and a first nozzle layer orifice, and a second nozzle layer including a second nozzle layer thickness and a second nozzle layer orifice. The first nozzle layer orifice may include a first nozzle layer orifice dimension that is different than a second nozzle layer orifice dimension of the second nozzle layer orifice.
US10569529B2
The present disclosure discloses a screen printing system and a cleaning method thereof. The screen printing system has a scraper cleaning region and a working region, and the screen printing system includes a scraper and a scraper cleaning unit. The scraper operates within the working region, and the scraper cleaning unit is configured to clean the scraper. The scraper and the scraper cleaning unit are configured as follows: the scraper stays in the working region, and the scraper cleaning unit moves to a position where the scraper stays to clean the scraper; or the scraper cleaning unit is positioned in the scraper cleaning region, and the scraper moves to the scraper cleaning region, so that the scraper cleaning unit cleans the scraper.
US10569526B2
According to some aspects, a method of additive fabrication is provided wherein a plurality of layers of material are formed on a surface of a build platform, each layer of material being formed so as to contact a container in addition to the surface of the build platform and/or a previously formed layer of material. The method comprises forming a layer of material in contact with the container and in contact with a previously formed layer of material, and subsequent to the forming of the layer of the material, separating the layer of material from the container by simultaneously applying a first force to the layer of the material in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the build platform, and a second force to the layer of the material in a direction parallel to the surface of the build platform.
US10569516B2
A multilayered sheet is described. The sheet comprises a first layer comprising a polyolefin having a melting temperature, a storage modulus (G) greater than 100,000 psi (690 MPa) at ambient temperature, and a glass transition temperature less than ambient temperature; and a second layer comprising a polymer having a glass transition temperature greater than ambient temperature.
US10569515B2
A metallized multi-layer film having ultra-high oxygen and moisture barrier properties includes a core layer and a metal bonding layer preferably formed by coextruding. The metal bonding layer includes a preponderance, by weight, of a propylene/butene-1 copolymer free of particulates. A metal coating adhered to the metal bonding layer having a metal adhesion strength to the metal coating in excess of 90%, and the metallized film includes an oxygen barrier of less than 15.0 cc/m2/day and a water barrier of less than 0.1 gms/m2/day.
US10569513B2
The present application relates to a multilayer heat insulation board for thermal insulation for buildings, a back layer for a heat insulation board, a process for preparing a back layer, and the use of a multilayer heat insulation board for thermal insulation for buildings, especially for thermal insulation for ventilated facades.
US10569512B2
A multi-layer foam sheet with an apparent density of 30 to 300 kg/m3 and a thickness of 0.05 to 2 mm, including a foam layer containing a polyethylene-based resin, and an antistatic layer fusion-laminated by coextrusion on each of both sides of the foam layer. The antistatic layer has a basis weight of 1 to 10 g/m2 and contains a polyethylene-based resin, a polystyrene-based resin, a styrenic elastomer, and a polymeric antistatic agent, with the polystyrene-based resin being contained in the antistatic layer in an amount of 15 to 70% by weight.
US10569508B2
A glass facer for a constructions board includes a first non-woven layer of coarse fibers and a second non-woven layer of coarse fibers and microfibers. The glass facer also includes a binder that simultaneously binds or adheres the coarse fibers of the first non-woven layer together, the coarse fibers and the microfibers of the second non-woven layer together, and the first non-woven layer to the second non-woven layer. The first non-woven layer has a porosity and air permeability that enables the first non-woven layer to absorb a material of the construction board when the glass facer is positioned atop the construction board during manufacture of the construction board. The second non-woven layer is configured to block the material of the construction board from passing through the glass facer to an exterior surface of the second non-woven layer so that the material is not externally visible.
US10569505B2
Provided is a polarizing film laminate comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a polarizing film wherein the adhesive layer comprises: a base adhesive zone made of a transparent base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and formed over a given range from one principal surface of the adhesive layer in a thickness direction of the adhesive layer; and a refractive index adjustment zone formed over a given range from the other principal surface of the adhesive layer in the thickness direction and comprising the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and material infiltrated into the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and different from the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material, the refractive index adjustment zone having an average refractive index greater than a refractive index of the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material, and wherein the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material zone of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is located on the side of the polarizing film.
US10569503B2
A method of manufacturing a structure includes: a molding step of impregnating carbon fibers with a resin material and curing the resin material for molding a carbon fiber composite material; a polishing step of polishing a polishing region on a surface of the carbon fiber composite material molded in the molding step, with an abrasive that has a predetermined hardness; and a bonding step of bonding, through an adhesive, another member to a part of the polishing region polished by the polishing step. The molding step forms, in a top layer, a polishing layer that has a hardness which is lower than the predetermined hardness, and forms a surface protective layer that is lower than the polishing layer, protects the carbon fiber composite material from the abrasive, and contains a protective filler having a hardness which is higher than the predetermined hardness.
US10569494B2
A multilayer metal composite includes a metal base layer having a base layer surface textured with a plurality of integral base layer barbs, and a metal substrate layer having a substrate layer surface textured with a plurality of integral substrate layer barbs. The substrate layer is impaled on the base layer barbs to secure the substrate layer to the base layer.
US10569492B2
A binding processing device includes a first pressing member including: a first convex portion; a first concave portion; and a first connection portion which is provided between the first convex portion and the first concave portion; and a second pressing member including: a second convex portion; a second concave portion; and a second connection portion which is provided between the second convex portion and the second concave portion. In a state in which the first convex portion of the first pressing member and the second concave portion of the second pressing member come in contact with each other at the first connection portion and the second connection portion, the first connection portion contacts with the second connection portion and a gap is formed between the first convex portion and the second concave portion along a pressing direction of the first and second pressing members. In a state in which a sheet bundle is sandwiched between the first pressing member and the second pressing member, an increased section having an increased thickness of each sheet of the sheet bundle is formed in the gap. The increased section is pressed by the first convex portion and the second concave portion.
US10569484B2
A device for compacting a contoured elongate composite layup includes flexible first and second fiber reinforced resin flexible sections flexible along their lengths. The first section is flexible within a first plane and the second section is flexible within the first plane as well as within a second plane.
US10569483B2
According to one embodiment, a system for manufacturing a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) prepreg includes a mechanism for continuously moving a fabric or mat and a resin application component that applies a methyl methacrylate (MMA) resin to the fabric or mat. The system also includes a press mechanism that presses the fabric or mat during the continuous movement subsequent to the application of the MMA resin to ensure that the MMA resin fully saturates the fabric or mat. The system further includes a curing oven through which the fabric or mat is continuously moved. The curing oven is maintained at a temperature of between 40° C. and 100° C. to polymerize the MMA resin and thereby form PMMA so that upon exiting the curing oven, the fabric or mat is fully impregnated with PMMA.
US10569475B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an IR tube sealing device and method of sealing a polymer tube with infrared energy. In particular embodiments, the IR tube sealing device can be a portable, hand-held device adapted to receive and compress a polymer tube, and produce and direct infrared energy toward the compressed polymer tube to quickly form a permanent aseptic seal.
US10569474B2
A technique for additive manufacturing that avoids the necessity of having a build plate. The illustrative embodiment comprises two anchor plates from which a structure is constructed that forms at least the initial support for the object to be manufactured. The envelope of the structure can be a cylinder, a box, an n-sided prism, a hyperboloid of one sheet, a cone, the frustum of a cone, a pyramid, and the frustum of a pyramid.
US10569473B2
An additive manufacturing method includes segmenting a CAD file of an component along an build interface to define at least a first component segment and a second component segment each of the first component segment and the second component segment sized to fit within an additive manufacturing build chamber; additive manufacturing the first component segment and the second component segment within the build chamber; and bonding the first component segment and the second component segment to form the component.
US10569466B2
A supply of build material such as a spool or cartridge is instrumented with a data tag that includes information about the build material. A three-dimensional printer can read the information from the tag and determine how to use the build material during fabrication of a three-dimensional object.
US10569463B2
A method of molding a thermoplastic resin material includes: a first molding step in which a second mold that, with a first mold, nips and presses the thermoplastic resin material and molds a product, is divided into plural sections, and one section at the divided second mold is structured so as to be able to enter into and exit from another section, and the one section is made to protrude-out with respect to the another section, and, at the one section, the thermoplastic resin material is pressed, and a portion of the product is molded; and a second molding step in which, after the first molding step, the one section is retracted into the another section, and, at the another section, the thermoplastic resin material is pressed, and a remaining portion of the product is molded.
US10569447B2
Systems and methods for introducing hook fastening elements into a mold traveling along a mold assembly line are disclosed. The system can be configured to cut hook fastening tape into strips having a predetermined length based on information received from the mold assembly line, and to drop the cut strips directly into the mold at the appropriate intervals as the mold travels along the mold assembly line. Also disclosed is a system for facilitating the continuous feeding of hook fastening tape through the system.
US10569443B2
To place an insert cut out of film with no gaps in a cavity formed in a foil, after placing the foil on a supporting substrate, the cavity is punched into the foil by means of a tubular cutting punch comprising an inner pusher with a cutting edge in the required shaped of the cavity and the insert, so that the edge goes through the thickness of the foil and cuts a slug out of it; the punch is lifted with the slug held inside the punch, without moving the foil, the film is brought between the foil and the edge of the punch, the punch is lowered once again so as to cut the insert out of the film and then push the insert cut in that way in the cavity with a pusher, and the punch and the pusher are removed, with the insert held in place in the cavity.
US10569442B2
A cutting blade mounting mechanism includes: a blade mount mounted to a spindle; and an air supply unit supplying air to the blade mount. The blade mount includes: a columnar boss section inserted into a through-hole provided in an annular base of the cutting blade; a flange section projecting in a radial direction from a side of a base end of the boss section; and an ejector type blade suction section having a first air passage connecting a supply port supplied with air from the air supply unit and a discharge port discharging the air, and a second air passage connecting a suction port opening to a side of a support surface of the flange section and the first air passage. A plurality of the discharge ports are formed in an outer peripheral face of the boss section.
US10569437B2
A winder unit for winding cutting line, for vehicle glazing panel removal, has a rotatable spindle shaft for winding the cutting line and a ratchet device mounted to the spindle shaft by means of a one-way rotational bearing or clutch. Typically the ratchet device has a component mounted to rotate in unison with the one-way rotational bearing or clutch. The improvement provides a rotational directional control providing 2 one-way rotational control devices in concert.
US10569427B2
A servo transmission mechanism includes a servo main body, a first housing, a second housing, a connecting rod, and a linking member. The semi main body includes a first end having an output shaft and a second opposite end. The first housing is connected to the output shaft of the servo main body. The connecting rod has an upper end and a lower end that includes a connecting shaft, opposite ends of which are rotatably connected to the first housing and the second housing, respectively. The linking member rotatably connects the upper end of the connecting rod to the second end of the servo main body.
US10569424B1
Various example embodiments described herein relates to a gripping device that includes a top plate, first side plate, a second side plate, a first arm, a second arm, and a driving pin. The first side plate and the second side plate are engaged to the top plate. The first arm is engaged to the first side plate and the second arm is engaged to the second side plate. The first arm defines a first cam slot, and the second arm defines a second cam slot and are constrained together, by the driving pin engaged to an actuation assembly. The driving pin is configured to move between a first position and a second position within the first cam slot and the second cam slot so as to drive movement of the first side plate and the second side plate between an open position and a closed position to grip a container.
US10569417B1
A method for operating a robotic system including determining an initial pose of a target object based on imaging data, wherein the initial pose is for estimating a resting orientation of the target object in a pickup area; calculating a confidence measure associated with the initial pose, wherein the confidence measure is for representing a likelihood of the initial pose being correct; and calculating a motion plan according to the confidence measure, the motion plan for executing a task based on picking up the target object from a start location, transferring the target object to a task location, and scanning one or more object identifiers between the start location and the task location.
US10569412B1
A modular tool storage assembly for organizing and transporting tools includes a case and a lid that is hingedly coupled to the case for opening and closing the case. A pair of support rails is each positionable in the case having each of the support rails being spaced apart from each other. A plurality of storage units is provided and each of the storage units has a plurality of elastic compartments attached thereto. Each of the elastic storage compartments on each of the storage units can store a respective tool. A selected number of the storage units are positionable to releasably engage the support rails having the selected number of storage units being vertically oriented in the case. In this way the storage units and the case can both organize and transport the tools.
US10569409B2
A hand tool includes a handle and a connection portion which is connected to the handle. The handle is a hollow handle and has a space defined therein. The connection portion includes a slit. A blade has a body and a toothed portion which is inserted into the slit of the connection portion when the handle and the connection portion are connected to each other by way of blow molding. A cooling material is located in the space of the handle. The temperature of the cooling material is the same as the temperature of the handle and the connection portion during blow molding. The cooling material contacts the inside of the handle to cool down the handle. The cooling material performing as a weight in the handle 2.
US10569405B2
Provided is an impact tool which can perform control in accordance with working situations. The impact tool converts a torque of a brushless motor into a striking force and applies it to a tip tool. The impact tool includes: a motor control unit which makes detection about whether the tip tool is pressed against an object during the rotation of the brushless motor; and a motor control unit which performs speed increase control for increasing the rotational speed of the brushless motor when a state of pressing the tip tool against the object has been detected continuously for a predetermined time.
US10569403B2
A fastener driver includes a drive blade movable from a retracted position to a driven position for driving a fastener into a workpiece and a gas spring mechanism for driving the drive blade from the retracted position to the driven position. The gas spring mechanism includes a piston movable between a retracted position and a driven position. The fastener driver further includes a first return mechanism for moving the drive blade from the driven position toward the retracted position, and a second return mechanism for moving the piston from the driven position toward the retracted position.
US10569401B2
The invention provides a tensioning device having a traction element and a body. The traction element includes a first lower portion of the traction element that resides in a tie-rod that is able to interlock with a threaded rod and a second upper portion of traction element that resides in a piston, the first and second portions of traction element being integral in displacement. The traction element is axially moveable in a bore of the body and co-axially mounted around the traction element, the body providing a first lower portion of the body that resides in a tubular support sleeve and a second upper portion of body that resides in a cylinder. An annular chamber is formed between the traction element and the body and intended to receive a pressurized fluid.
US10569395B2
A connection structure is connected between a wrench head of a torque wrench and a socket, and the connection structure contains: a body, a casing, and two positioning members. The body includes a coupling section, a driving section, an extension defined between the coupling section and the driving section, and two bolts oppositely inserted into the body from an outer wall of the coupling section. The casing includes a first part, a second part, and two accommodation grooves respectively defined on two inner walls of the first part and the second part and located adjacent to the coupling section. Each of the two positioning members is housed in each of the two accommodation grooves, wherein each positioning member includes multiple toothed projections arranged on an inner wall thereof and abutting against each of the two bolts.
US10569392B2
A rotary impact assembly structure includes a rotary tool and a rotary impact assembly. The rotary tool is assembled with the rotary impact assembly so that the rotary impact assembly is driven by the rotary tool to rotate. The rotary impact assembly has a counterweight plate. The counterweight plate has a first surface and a second surface at two sides thereof. The first surface is provided with a socket portion having an insertion hole at a center thereof. The second surface is provided with a plug portion at a center thereof. The rotary impact assembly structure is able to increase the rotational inertia and the amount of torque to quickly loosen or tighten a fastener and has a simple and convenient operation.
US10569388B2
A fixture for holding a part comprises a frame supporting a guide plate. A controlled engagement device passes through the guide plate and is arranged to be advanced incrementally towards a first end of a fulcrum beam. A second end of the fulcrum beam is connected to a linkage arm, the linkage arm passing through a gap in the guide plate. An end of the linkage arm distal to the fulcrum beam has a swivel clamp mounted thereto. A support is arranged to face the swivel clamp and defines a space there between, the space being configured to receive a part to be clamped in the fixture.
US10569384B1
The present invention concerns a chemical mechanical polishing pad having a polishing layer that possesses a consistent positive zeta potential across the entire surface. Also disclosed is a chemical mechanical polishing method using the polishing pad together with a positively charged slurry.
US10569380B2
A receiving unit receives sensor data output from an eddy current sensor for detecting the film thickness of a polishing object to generate film thickness data. A correcting unit corrects the film thickness data in an inside of the edge of the polishing object based on the film thickness data generated by the receiving unit. The correcting unit corrects the film thickness data generated by the receiving unit in the inside of the edge of the polishing object using the film thickness data generated by the receiving unit in an outside of the edge of the polishing object.
US10569378B2
Disclosed is an automatic wheel front burr removing device, including a station rotating motor, a station I manipulator, a station II manipulator, a station III manipulator, a station IV manipulator, a rim burr cutter head, a feeding slide plate I, guide posts I, cylinders I, a servo motor I, a feeding slide plate II, guide posts II, cylinders II, a servo motor II and a vision sensor. The station I is a wheel positioning and clamping station; the station II is a wheel rim burr removing station; the station III is a wheel cap section burr removing station; and the station IV is a wheel loosening and transferring station.
US10569375B2
A chip suction cover is used for a machine tool including: a spindle configured to rotate a tool; and a suction mechanism unit configured to suck chips of a workpiece that are produced in accordance with rotation of the tool. The chip suction cover includes: a hollow body that is provided with an opening through which a rotation central axis of the spindle extends and that is arranged so as to surround the tool; and a cover body that is provided in the hollow body so as to partially close the opening and that is configured to cover a part of a tip end portion of the tool while exposing a remaining part of the tip end portion of the tool. A chip suction cover having such a configuration that improves the efficiency of sucking chips produced due to workpiece machining is provided.
US10569372B2
A packaging line to pack profiles and a rotor are described herein. An example method includes transferring a first profile to a movable head carrying a rotor, coupling the first profile to the rotor, along a first side wall of the first profile, with a concave section of the first profile facing upwards, rotating, via the rotor, the first profile such that the concave section of the first profile is facing downwards, transferring a second profile to the movable head with a concave section of the second profile facing upwards, and releasing the first profile over the second profile to insert a side wall of the first profile into the concave section of the second profile and a side wall of the second profile into the concave section of the first profile.
US10569370B2
A fastening apparatus includes a retaining member comprising a shape memory material configured to transform, responsive to application of a stimulus, from a first solid phase to a second solid phase. The retaining member is disposed within a hole in a body and secured within the hole by phase change which creates an interference fit to secure the retaining member against rotational and axial movement. The hole has a second axial cross-sectional shape. The retaining member has a first axial cross-sectional shape that is preferably either circular or rectangular.
US10569369B2
A flux-cored wire for gas-shielded arc welding has a steel outer sheath filled with a flux. The flux-cored wire includes specific amounts, relative to a total mass of the wire, of TiO2, at least one of Si, an Si oxide and an Si compound, C, Mn, Mo, Ni, at least one of metal Mg and an Mg alloy, an F compound, a K compound, an Na compound, B and a B compound, and Fe, respectively. A total content of each of Ti and a Ti alloy, metal Al and an Al alloy, and V is restricted to the specific range, respectively. A content of Ti is also restricted to the specific range relative to the total mass of the steel outer sheath.
US10569363B2
A system is disclosed for performing an Additive Manufacturing (AM) fabrication process on a powdered material forming a substrate. The system may make use of a diode array for generating an optical signal sufficient to melt a powdered material of the substrate. A mask may be used for preventing a first predetermined portion of the optical signal from reaching the substrate, while allowing a second predetermined portion to reach the substrate. At least one processor may be used for controlling an output of the diode array.
US10569359B2
This disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for cutting out a workpiece section along a target path from a plate-shaped workpiece using a laser beam of a laser cutting machine having a first drive for moving the workpiece along a first drive axis, a second drive for moving a laser cutting head along the first drive axis. Target values of the target path of the laser beam are divided into target values for the first drive and for the second drive. Before the laser beam reaches a cutting-out end position of the workpiece section, the target values for the first drive are set to a constant value, so that after braking of the first drive, the cutting out of the workpiece section is only still executed by moving the laser cutting head and the workpiece comes to a stop at latest at the cutting-out end position.
US10569354B2
A method for assembling cable wrapping tapes. From an adhesive tape parent roll, strip-like adhesive tapes (11), each having two cut edges (12a) on the sides, are produced from a textile material which has an adhesive coating (12) on one side, by cutting in the drawing direction of the parent roll. The cutting is performed using an ultrasound-excited cutting tool (1) and wherein the cutting is performed using a cooled cutting tool (1). An adhesive tape (11), having a strip-like textile carrier material (13) and an adhesive coating (12) applied to one side and two cut edges (12a) on the sides. The cut edges (12a) are created by ultrasound cutting, and the textile carrier material (13) of the carrier is fused to its cut edges (12a). No adhesive coating (12) exists on the cut edges (12a); which are free of lint and threads.
US10569345B2
A cutting tool includes a body having a cutting edge. A plurality of cutting teeth is formed on the cutting edge. Each cutting tooth includes a tip, a rake face extending from the tip, a planar primary relief surface extending from the tip, and a concave secondary relief surface extending from the primary relief surface. The cutting tool further includes a plurality of non-cutting protrusions formed on the cutting edge. Each non-cutting protrusion includes an apex, a leading edge extending from the apex, and a trailing edge extending from the apex. A plurality of primary and secondary gullets is formed on the cutting edge. Each primary gullet is formed between the secondary relief surface of one cutting tooth and the leading edge of one non-cutting protrusion. Each secondary gullet is formed between the rake face of one cutting tooth and the trailing edge of one non-cutting protrusion.
US10569344B2
A method and system are provided to position and drill an opening for a fastener through one or more workpieces. In the context of a method, a peen mark is formed on a workpiece at a location at which the opening is to be drilled. The method also includes utilizing a robotic vision system to identify the peen mark on the workpiece and thereafter drilling the opening configured to receive the fastener at the location designated by the peen mark. In the context of a system, the system includes a dot peen marking system configured to form a peen mark on a workpiece at a location at which the opening is to be drilled. The system also includes a robot comprising a vision system configured to identify the peen mark on the workpiece and a drilling machine configured to drill the opening at the location designated by the peen mark.
US10569336B2
In an embodiment, a cutting insert includes an upper surface, a front end surface, and a front cutting edge. The upper surface includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion, and a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface, each of which is located between the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The first surface is inclined downward at a first inclination angle. The second surface is inclined upward at a second inclination angle. The third surface is inclined upward at a third inclination angle. The second surface is located lower than an upper end of each of the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The third surface extends further upward than the upper end of each of the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The third inclination angle is smaller than the second inclination angle.
US10569333B2
A carbon-coated metal powder having few impurities, a narrower particle size distribution, and sintering properties is particularly suitable as a conductive powder of a conductive paste for forming internal conductors in a ceramic multilayer electronic component obtained by co-firing multilayered ceramic sheets and internal conductor layers; a conductive paste containing the carbon-coated metal powder; a multilayer electronic component using the conductive paste; and a method for manufacturing the carbon-coated metal powder. The carbon-coated metal powder has specific properties in TMA or ESCA measurements. The carbon-coated metal powder can be obtained by melting and vaporizing a metallic raw material in a reaction vessel, conveying the generated metal vapor into a cooling tube and rapidly cooling the metal vapor by endothermically decomposing a carbon source supplied into the cooling tube, and forming a carbon coating film on metal nuclei surfaces in parallel with generation of the metal nuclei.
US10569331B2
A three-dimensional printer (1) includes a material supply device (3) that supplies material powder to a table which is movable vertically, a powder retaining wall (26) that surrounds the table and retains the material powder, a material-recovery bucket (30) that accommodates excess material powder and impurities discharged from the powder retaining wall, an impurity removing device (43) that removes the impurities from the material powder, and a material drying device (47) that dries the material powder. The material powder from which the impurities have been removed and which has been dried is returned and recycled to the material supply device.
US10569329B2
Metal nanoparticles and compositions derived therefrom can be used in a number of different applications. Methods for making metal nanoparticles can include providing a first metal salt in a solvent; converting the first metal salt into an insoluble compound that constitutes a plurality of nanoparticle seeds; and after forming the plurality of nanoparticle seeds, reacting a reducing agent with at least a portion of a second metal salt in the presence of at least one surfactant and the plurality of nanoparticle seeds to form a plurality of metal nanoparticles. Each metal nanoparticle can include a metal shell formed around a nucleus derived from a nanoparticle seed, and the metal shell can include a metal from the second metal salt. The methods can be readily scaled to produce bulk quantities of metal nanoparticles.
US10569326B2
A thin slab nozzle contains a central bore extending downstream along longitudinal axis X1 from an inlet orifice at an upstream end. The central bore comprises an upstream bore portion with a height Ha, in communication with a converging bore portion of height He, in communication with a thin bore portion of height Hf ending at the upstream end of a divider, and first and second front ports separated from one another by the divider and coupled to the central bore portion at least partially at the converging bore portion. X2 is a transverse axis, normal to X1, along which the nozzle becomes thinner in a downstream portion. In a section of the thin slab nozzle along a symmetry plane Π1 defined by X1 and by X2, the bore wall of the converging bore portion is curved at all points, and Hf/He≤1.
US10569321B2
A device for flow-forming workpieces having a rotatable first, outer forming tool for acting upon an outer contour of a first workpiece in the form of a hollow body. The device also has a first, inner forming tool for acting upon an inner contour of the workpiece. The first workpiece can be set in rotation about a first workpiece axis and can be plastically deformed by a pressure applied by the first, inner forming tool and the first, outer forming tool in a forming zone formed between the first forming tools by the material being made to flow between the first forming tools. The device has a drive for driving the first, outer forming tool.
US10569318B2
A cutting apparatus and a cutting blade is capable of restraining a highly-viscous substance from bending while preventing damage to a blade edge part. A pair of the cutting blades are configured for an approaching/separating movement, and the cutting blades are arranged with blade edge parts facing each other while having thickness directions oriented in the same direction. The cutting blades each have a gradually increasing thickness increased from a blade edge leading end toward a blade root part and have blade edge parts that are offset from one another in the thickness direction of the cutting blades. Each of the cutting blades has a surface in the thickness direction made of a material having a hardness lower than the blade edge part of the other cutting blade.
US10569310B2
A method is for cleaning a substrate transfer mechanism for loading a substrate into a heat treatment chamber for sublimating by-products by heat. The substrate transfer mechanism includes a holding unit for holding the substrate. The method includes repeatedly moving the holding unit into and out of the heat treatment chamber.
US10569305B2
A centrifugal dryer includes a housing and a basket positioned within the housing. The basket defines an opening formed laterally there through. The basket rotates around a central longitudinal axis through the housing. An annulus is formed between the basket and the housing. A cleaning device is positioned within the annulus, and the cleaning device introduces a liquid into the annulus. A scraping device is positioned within the annulus, and the scraping device rotates to remove cuttings from at least one surface.
US10569304B2
A vibratory system for a screening and/or feeder machine, the vibratory system including shaft lines, each shaft line having an unbalance module, the vibratory system also having a drive device configured to drive the shaft lines in rotation in synchronous manner and in the same direction. The vibratory system also includes an angle modifier device configured to modify the angular position of the unbalance module of one shaft line relative to the angular position of the unbalance module of the other shaft line or of one of the other shaft lines.
US10569298B2
Embodiments herein relate to curing of an epoxy using an ultraviolet (UV) laser. A volume of epoxy may be coupled to an area of a surface, and the volume of epoxy is cured and surrounded by material other than cured epoxy, where the area of the surface is substantially equal to a diameter of the UV laser beam used to cure the epoxy. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10569297B2
A substrate is rotated with a holding rotator to form a coating liquid film on the substrate, and at least a part of an excess of the coating liquid is pushed out toward a periphery edge of the substrate by a centrifugal force caused by the rotation of the substrate to build up the excess of the coating liquid along the periphery edge of the substrate. Moreover, gas is blown to the periphery edge of the substrate through a gas nozzle to exhaust the excess of the coating liquid building up at the periphery edge. Blowing the gas toward the periphery edge of the substrate through the gas nozzle makes the coating liquid unbalanced that builds up without being exhausted outside the substrate due to its surface tension. Accordingly, the rotation achieves the coating liquid film having a uniform thickness while the coating liquid film is formed to be thick.
US10569285B2
Some embodiments are directed to a valve made up of a rigid wall and a flap. The flap has a non-perforated flexible and deformable peripheral region situated facing the rigid wall. The rigid wall is perforated by at least one orifice situated facing the peripheral region. The flap is joined to the rigid wall by a non-deformable fixed connection. The peripheral region has a substantially conical shape before mounting with a large base and a small base and an inner face on the inner side of the cone. The peripheral region exhibits a deformation following the pressing of the inner face of the large base against the rigid wall in a assembled position.
US10569284B2
A sprinkler including a fixed base defining a water inlet and a nozzle, a rotating assembly arranged for rotation relative to the fixed based about a rotation axis and including a water stream director, receiving a pressurized stream of water from the nozzle and directing it in a generally radially outward direction and a rotation speed governing assembly operatively associated with the rotating assembly and operative to intermittently reduce a speed of rotation of the rotating assembly, so as to thereby increase a radial range of the stream, the rotational speed governing assembly including a rotating enclosure rotating together with the rotating assembly and enclosing a viscous material, a static element and a moving element.
US10569281B2
Devices, systems, and methods for separating incinerator combined ash to recover desired materials are described. The devices, systems, and methods may include 2-stage screen(s), falling velocity separator(s)/jig(s), magnetic pulley(s), eddy current separator(s), sensor sorters, and optical sorter(s).
US10569278B1
A milling system which includes a reservoir shaped and sized to contain a solvent or a slurry including the solvent and a material to be milled, a treatment column in communication with the reservoir, wherein the treatment column is configured to remove one or more of water, oxygen, and/or other impurities from the solvent, and a mill in fluid communication with the reservoir, wherein the mill is configured to triturate the material. The treatment column may be fluidly isolated from the rest of the system during milling.
US10569274B2
A locking bolt assembly (1) for securing a mantle (40) to a head assembly (60) of a crushing device includes locking bolt (10) having a head portion (10a) and a thread portion (10b); a re-useable thrust plate (30) disposed between the head portion (10a) and a top surface portion (42) of the mantle (40); one or more fasteners (20) for connecting the locking bolt (10) to the re-useable thrust plate (30); and one or more permanent jacking screws (34) for forcing the locking bolt (10) up and the thrust plate (30) down onto the top surface portion (42) of the mantle (40) so that the mantle (40) is secured on the head assembly (60).
US10569272B2
A sorting device (10) is disclosed comprising a channel (40) adapted to allow passage of a plurality of samples in a fluid to a first side of a sorting junction (50) and a plurality of Braille valves (105) connected by a plurality of connectors to the sorting junction (50). An analysis device (80), such as a camera, is used for analysing ones of the plurality of the samples and adapted to control ones of the plurality of Braille valves depending on properties of the analysed ones of the plurality of the samples.
US10569271B2
Single-sided optoelectrowetting (SSOEW)-configured substrates are provided, as well as microfluidic devices that include such substrates. The substrates can include a planar electrode, a photoconductive (or photosensitive) layer, a dielectric layer (single-layer or composite), a mesh electrode, and a hydrophobic coating. Fluid droplets can be moved across the hydrophobic coating of such substrates in a light-actuated manner, upon the application of a suitable AC voltage potential across the substrate and the focusing of light into the photoconductive layer of the substrate in a location proximal to the droplets. Walls can be disposed upon the substrates to form the microfluidic devices. Together the walls and substrate can form a microfluidic circuit, through which droplets can be moved.
US10569269B2
Methods for optimizing detection of immunoassay reactions conducted within a microfluidic microplate
A method for reading a microfluidic microplate having a plurality of cells is provided. The method includes determining target locations on the microfluidic microplate, each of the target locations being deviated from a center of each of the cells, and directing a beam centered at each of the target locations perpendicular to the microfluidic microplate, the beam having a predetermined diameter. Each of the plurality of cells includes a well structure including a side wall for a loading well, a through hole at a center of a base of the well structure, and a microfluidic channel formed in a spiral pattern configured to start from a first end of the microfluidic channel and end with a second end of the microfluidic channel at the base of the well structure, wherein the first end of the microfluidic channel is connected to the through hole, and the second end of the microfluidic channel includes an outlet hole.
US10569258B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a catalyst or catalyst precursor comprising a catalytically active material and a carrier material. The invention relates to a catalyst particle and catalyst precursor thereof obtainable by said method. The catalyst may be used in a process for synthesising hydrocarbons.
US10569257B2
An oxidation catalyst for treating an exhaust gas from a compression ignition engine, which oxidation catalyst comprises: a substrate; a first washcoat region comprising palladium (Pd) and a first support material comprising cerium oxide; and a second washcoat region comprising platinum (Pt) and a second support material.
US10569239B2
A continuous extrusion kneader comprising a first supply section for supplying a solid electrolyte, a first kneading section for kneading a material supplied from the first supply section to provide an intermediate mixture, a second supply section for supplying an electrode active material to the intermediate mixture, and a second kneading section for kneading the intermediate mixture and the material supplied from the second supply section, wherein the first kneading section comprises a forward kneading section for kneading the material supplied from the first supply section and conveying the material downstream, and a reverse kneading section for kneading the material supplied from the forward kneading section and applying a force in the upstream direction.
US10569236B2
The invention relates to a diffusor for adding of gases into water, said diffusor comprising a perforated tube (1) and at least one supply tube (2), said the at least one supply tube (2) is at one end coupled to a source for supplying gas and at the other end in fluid communication with the perforated tube (1), the gas is supplied to the perforated tube (1) through at least one inner supply tube (4; 5; 15) extending from the supply tube (2) to the perforated tube (1). The invention is distinctive in that at the least one inner supply tube (4; 5; 15) is a non-perforating tube and has at least one outlet (4a, 5a, 15a) situated at a free end of the at least one inner supply tube (4, 5, 15), said gas is adapted to be distributed into the perforated tube (1) through the at least one outlet (4a, 5a, 15a).
US10569234B2
Provided herein are copolymers and copolymer compositions that are both hydrophilic and oleophobic. The copolymers include structural units derived from a fluoroalkyl monomer and a zwitterionic monomer. It further relates to membranes formed by coating a porous substrate with the copolymeric compositions. The copolymeric coating imparts hydrophilicity and oleophobicity/oil-tolerance to the membranes. The uses of such membranes as microfiltration membrane or ultrafiltration membrane are also provided.
US10569229B2
A graphene-based membrane and a method of producing the same are disclosed. The graphene-based membrane may include a graphene-polymer composite, wherein the graphene-polymer composite may consist of an amine functionalized graphene and a polymer containing an anhydride group as a linker for linking the amine functionalized graphene to the polymer. The graphene-based membrane may be constructed of a single-layer. A method may include reacting a polymer containing an anhydride with an amine functionalized graphene in presence of a solvent to form an intermediate product; and thermal imidizing the intermediate product to form a graphene grafted polymer composite for use in fabricating a graphene-based membrane.
US10569225B2
A technique for separating components of a microfluid, comprises a self-intersecting micro or nano-fluidic channel defining a cyclic path for circulating the fluid over a receiving surface of a fluid component separating member; and equipment for applying coordinated pressure to the channel at a plurality of pressure control areas along the cyclic path to circulate the fluid over the receiving surface, applying a pressure to encourage a desired transmission through the separating member, and a circulating pressure to remove surface obstructions on the separating member. The equipment preferably defines a peristaltic pump. Turbulent microfluidic flow appears to be produced.
US10569224B2
A device which includes a pulse dampener and a degasser or de-bubbler. The device includes a fluid flow path and a fluid chamber located within the device. In addition, the device includes a pulse dampening membrane for dampening pulses in the fluid as it flows through the device. The device also includes a degassing membrane for degassing the fluid as it flows through the device, and/or a de-bubbling membrane for removing gas bubbles from the fluid as it flows through the device. The degassing or de-bubbling membrane can be separate and distinct from the dampening membrane. The de-bubbling membrane can be in addition to or in place of the degassing membrane in some embodiments.
US10569219B2
Systems and methods for separating hydrogen sulfide from carbon dioxide in a high-pressure mixed stream are disclosed herein. The methods include receiving the high-pressure mixed stream in an oxidation reactor and at an inlet pressure of at least 0.3 megapascals. The high-pressure mixed stream includes 0.01 to 5 mole percent hydrogen sulfide and at least 90 mole percent carbon dioxide. The methods further include oxidizing the high-pressure mixed stream with an oxidant to generate a high-pressure oxidized stream, includes oxidized hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, at an oxidation pressure of at least 0.3 megapascals. The methods also include separating the high-pressure oxidized stream into an oxidized hydrogen sulfide product and a carbon dioxide product and generating the carbon dioxide product at a pressure of at least 0.3 megapascals. The systems include the high-pressure mixed stream, an oxidation reactor, and a separation assembly.
US10569218B2
Combining the features of a glassy polymeric membrane and a rubbery polymeric membrane into a multiple membrane system provides a system having the advantages of both of the types of membranes. The membranes may be in any order in the system and multiple glassy polymeric membranes and multiple rubbery polymeric membranes may be used.
US10569210B2
A filtration media pack including a plurality of layers of filter media is disclosed. The media pack includes fluted sheets and a facing sheet, with a plurality of flutes extending between the fluted sheets and the facing sheets. In an embodiment, the fluted sheet includes a plurality of protrusions that contact the facing sheet.
US10569209B2
A flat filter element for filtering a fluid may include a filter body made up of a folded filter material. The filter element may also include a circumferential edge and a side edge running in a circumferential direction along the circumferential edge. The side edge may have at least one strip portion, running along the side edge, with a side strip that may be separate from the filter body and arranged on the filter body. The side edge may also have at least one adhesive portion running along the side edge for sealing the filter body. The at least one adhesive portion may be formed by gluing of least two folds, adjacent along the side edge, in a region of the side edge.
US10569206B2
In an oil separator that separates mist oil contained in target gas from the gas, the present disclosure is aimed to easily mount the oil separator to various targets and to increase its versatility. An oil separator according to the present disclosure includes: a nozzle that injects oil from an injection hole to rotate a spindle around an axis; a housing having a gas communicating portion and an oil communicating portion on its bottom; and a joint member that is removably mounted to the housing, and that includes a gas introducing portion and an oil discharge portion, the gas introducing portion introducing blow-by gas and transferring the gas to the gas communicating portion, the oil discharge portion receiving oil from the oil communicating portion and discharging the oil to outside.
US10569202B1
A transmission filter includes a baffle with a valve. The baffle defines front and rear openings. When a vehicle climbs or descends a hill, the valve moves in response to the weight of fluid on a higher side of the baffle. The valve prevents flow from the higher of the front and rear openings preventing air ingestion into the filter.
US10569201B2
A sock or bag-type liquid filtering device for use in filtering liquids such as water to remove debris includes a sock or bag of disposable filter material having a rim releasably secured to a two part filter holder. In one embodiment, the holder is designed to engage in an opening of a fish tank filter plate with the filter bag extending through the opening. A first holder part or flanged ring engages inside the rim of the bag and a second holder part or retainer ring engages over the flanged ring and bag rim. In one example the retainer ring is designed for snap engagement over the flanged ring with gripping formations on at least one of the parts, and the bag rim is gripped between the rings.
US10569200B2
A filter arrangement includes first and second media packs with a support core in between. The support core includes a first ring at one end and, optionally, second ring at an opposite end. In some arrangements, at least a first member and second member extend from the first ring while being engagement-free to each other. In some arrangements, no more than a first member extends from the first ring, while being engagement-free relative to itself.
US10569198B2
A fluid separator includes a body, an inlet, a first outlet and/or a second outlet. The first outlet may include a vortex finder that may have a convergent-divergent configuration. The second outlet may include or may be connected to a pressure relief valve. At least a portion of the pressure relief valve may be disposed in the vortex finder. The pressure relief valve may be disposed entirely outside of the vortex finder. The vortex finder may include a divergent section and a convergent section. In embodiments, the divergent section may be at least twice as long as the convergent section, a taper angle of the convergent section may be at least twice as large as a taper angle of the divergent section, and/or an axial length of a portion of the vortex finder extending into the body may be at least 1.5 times a diameter of the inlet.
US10569188B2
A low-temperature distillation facility for distilling a mixed fluid into a pure fluid. An aggregation device has an inlet connected to the vapour space of a supercooling chamber, wherein captured mixed fluid from an evaporator enters the supercooling chamber. The aggregation device's outlet is connected to the vapour space of a superheating chamber, wherein captured pure fluid from a condenser can be sprayed into the superheating chamber. An energy source cools the temperature in the supercooling chamber and heats the temperature in the superheating chamber. A heat exchanger is arranged between the exits of the supercooling chamber and of the superheating chamber. During the process, vapour flows from the supercooling chamber via the aggregation device to the superheating chamber.
US10569186B2
Methods for recovering manganese etchant solutions are provided wherein a process solution used to rinse or neutralize a nonconductive substrate after etching the substrate is collected and evaporated to provide a concentrated process solution that is fed back into the manganese etchant solution or acid rinse.
US10569185B2
A geometric art toy (10) comprises a plurality of first toy members (312A) and a plurality of second toy members (312B). Each first toy member (312A) includes a plurality of first magnets (314A) that are oriented to exhibit a first polarity. Each second toy member (312B) includes a plurality of second magnets (314B) that are oriented to exhibit a second polarity that is substantially opposite to the first polarity. Each first toy member (312A) is movably coupled to another first toy member (312A) and one of the plurality of second toy members (312B). Each of the first toy members (312A) and the second toy members (312B) are formed in a shape of a tetrahedron. The first magnets (314A) and the second magnets (314B) enable the geometric art toy (10) to be alternatively and stably positioned in a first configuration and a second configuration that is different than the first configuration.
US10569176B2
Embodiments are directed towards providing video game gameplay incorporating nuanced character movements and context indicators. In a preferred embodiment, the context indicators include movement indicators programmed into a game world to dynamically interact with characters in order to provide real time information about character movements. The character movements and corresponding movement indicators are important to the combat and landscape navigation aspects of the gameplay design. By providing elements that make gameplay more challenging and engaging, the systems and methods described herein make video games more entertaining for players and profitable for game developers and publishers.
US10569173B2
In an example of a system, in a virtual space, a player camera that follows each player in a multiplay game, a bird's-eye camera that views the virtual space from a bird's-eye view, and an object camera that follows a predetermined object are set. A watcher watches the game by switching the player camera, the bird's-eye camera, and the object camera. In accordance with an operation of the watcher, the bird's-eye camera moves in the virtual space, and a height of the bird's-eye camera is determined in advance in accordance with a position. When virtual cameras are switched by the watcher, a game image from the virtual cameras during the switching is displayed.
US10569166B2
A user input device includes a housing, a user input element adapted to be operated by a user and configured to send a signal to a processor when operated by the user, and an actuator coupled to the user input element. The actuator is configured to receive a control signal from the processor and output a haptic effect to the user input element in response to the control signal from the processor. A vibration isolation barrier is disposed between the user input element and the housing, wherein the vibration isolation barrier substantially mechanically isolates the user input element from the housing. The user input element may be a joystick, button, or trigger.
US10569156B2
A safety component for a skating rink. The safety component comprises a body portion connectable to a transparent barrier located above dasher boards of the skating rink, wherein upon impact the body portion is capable of at least partially absorbing impact forces. The safety component further comprises a curved rink-facing surface that provides a substantially convex curved surface facing the skating rink. The curved rink-facing surface has a radius of curvature suitable for redirecting the impact forces away from the convex curved surface.
US10569155B2
Some aspects include a ski binding system using controllable electromagnets, alone or in combination with permanent magnets, as means of attaching or releasing a ski boot to a ski during use. Some aspects include a ski binding system using a controllable solenoid. In some aspects, microprocessor-based control releases binding electronically based on input from sensors located in binding, ski and/or boot, as well as in other equipment or clothing connected to them or to skier, or binding releases when a mechanical threshold is overcome. In some aspects, sensor data are recorded for analysis of system performance and for adjustment and improvement of system parameters based on data analytics.
US10569154B2
According to the various features characteristics and embodiments of the present invention which will become apparent as the description thereof proceeds, the present invention provides partially fingered gloves and the use of said gloves, intended to increase the overall performance in sports activities including but limited to football and golf. Because of its unique finger configurations, grip enhancers, and/or its hand protective properties, the present invention makes a glove now operable on a football quarterback's throwing hand and on golfers dominant hand, for example.
US10569152B2
A braking system for a treadmill having a tread that rotates around a front axle and a rear axle and a side rail on each side of the tread that does not move includes a brake configured to apply a braking force to one of the front axle and the rear axle, a controller in communication with the brake, and a weight sensor under each side rail configured to detect a load indicating that a user is standing on the side rails, each weight sensor in communication with the controller. The controller is configured to, when the tread is moving, engage the brake when a first signal is received from each weight sensor contemporaneously that a load is detected and disengage the brake when a second signal is received from each weight sensor contemporaneously that the load is removed.
US10569146B2
An golf club head with a structure that improves the sound and reduces stress placed on the face upon impact with a golf ball is disclosed herein. In particular, the golf club head is an iron with a face having a rear protrusion, also referred to as a piston, with both forward and rearward facing surfaces. The piston is at least partially received within a receptacle provided in the body of the golf club head. The receptacle also includes a pair of bumpers, one of which interacts with the piston to improve the sound of the face upon impact with a golf ball at speeds at which an average golfer would swing the club head, and the other of which reduces the stress placed on the face when the club makes impact with a golf ball at high speeds.
US10569144B2
Described herein is a golf club head that includes a body that includes a sole portion, a crown portion, a skirt portion, a forward region, and a rearward region. The golf club head also includes a face portion including a striking face with a maximum height from the ground plane of at least about 50 mm. The golf club head has a peak crown height, from the ground plane, of at least about 60 mm. A volume of the golf club head is at least about 370 cm3. A location of a center-of-gravity of the golf club head is at a minimum distance (Zup) away from the ground plane. The difference between Zup and half of the peak crown height is less than about −5.75 mm. A z-axis moment of inertia of the golf club head about a CG z-axis is greater than about 300 kg-mm2.
US10569134B2
A system and method for analyzing and improving the performance of a body motion of an animal or human subject requires instrumenting a subject with inertial sensors, monitoring a body motion of interest, converting sensor data into motion data and animation, comparing the motion data with existing data for motion related performance parameters, providing a real-time, information rich, animation and data display of the results in color coded displays; and based on the results prescribing a training regime with exercises selected from a library of standardized exercises using standardized tools and training aids.
US10569131B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wrist strengthening device having a first handle, a second handle and a tightening mechanism for increasing the resistance between the first handle, the second handle and the tightening mechanism.
US10569120B2
A weight-balanced apparatus, comprising: a main body shaped substantially like a hollow sphere with spherical caps removed in a same central axis of the body to create two opposing openings sized to account for the natural motion of a user's arm during exercise and where the main body is balanced in each of at least three dimensions from a center point of the sphere, wherein each of the two opposing openings have a continuous, rotationally symmetric beveled edge around the opening; and, a hand hold traversing centrally through the hollow of the spherical main body through the center point and transverse to the central axis.
US10569118B2
A reversible resistance exercise machine for reversing the direction of applied resistance against a movable platform of an exercising machine. The exercise machine has a frame, a carriage movably positioned upon the frame, and a plurality of biasing members. A plurality of first tension connectors are accessible near the first end of the carriage and are adapted for removably attaching selected biasing members near the first end of the carriage to resist motion of the carriage in the first direction. A plurality of second tension connectors are accessible near the second end of the carriage and are adapted for removably attaching selected biasing members near the second end of the carriage to resist motion of the carriage in the second direction. A user selectable amount of force may be applied to the carriage to resist movement in either of the first direction and the second direction.
US10569116B2
Fire extinguisher apparatus comprising at least one vessel containing a fire extinguishing medium and adapted to release said fire extinguishing medium when a fire or potential fire is identified characterised in that said fire extinguishing medium comprises an aqueous suspension of expanded vermiculite.
US10569112B2
An assembly for covering an opening in a structure. The assembly has a roller to be mounted to a portion of the structure defining a portion of the structure opening and a member disposed on the roller assembly. The member is operable between a retracted position where it is wound onto the roller assembly and an extended position where it is unwound from the roller assembly. The member includes first and second portions with mutually opposing edges in a closed position. A fastener releasably attaches the first and second panel portions to each other. The first and second panel portions are separable in response to an egress force to form an egress through the member.
US10569109B2
An enhanced filtration multilayer laminated fabric includes an air permeable, moisture-vapor-transmissive central layer such as polytetra-fluoroethylene (ePTFE) sandwiched between a first pair of nonwoven textile layers and a second pair of woven textile layers. The laminated fabric may also feature a fire resistant application. The top textile layer may also include a permanent, highly breathable and highly durable electro-static discharge feature added to the inside of the layer by laying down a carbon based printed pattern on the inside of the layer. The filtration fabric may be utilized to manufacture a wearable garment that is aesthetically pleasing and comfortable to wear in all weather conditions and which effectively filters airborne particulates from entering a user's respiratory system by blocking particulates having a size of 0.3 microns and larger from inhaled air for a user's respiratory system with a particle blocking efficiency of at least 90%.
US10569108B2
There is disclosed a harness for breathing apparatus comprising a structural support member for supporting a vessel of breathable gas, a waist belt, and a pivot joint mechanism coupling the structural support member to the waist belt. The pivot joint mechanism comprises a release part which is movable to decouple the structural support member from the waist belt.
US10569105B2
A method is described, including acquiring, using a camera, an image of a radiation beam incident on a phantom, the radiation beam being emitted by a radiation source. The method further includes determining a beam pointing offset based on the image and calibrating a position of the radiation source based on the beam pointing offset. A calibration system is described including the phantom, the camera, and a processing device. A phantom having an X-ray luminescent material is also described.
US10569104B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for method for quantifying radioactivity production during a proton treatment of a patient. In some aspects, a method includes administering, using a proton delivery system, a proton treatment using at least one therapeutic proton beam generating positron emitting radionuclides within a region of interest (ROI) of a patient, and acquiring, using an emission tomography system, emission tomography data indicative of an activity of the positron emitting radionuclides in the ROI. The method also includes quantifying, based on a kinetic model, a radioactivity production rate of at least one positron emitting radionuclide using the emission tomography data. The method further includes generating at least one map indicative of the radioactivity production rate of the at least one positron emitting radionuclide.
US10569103B2
The invention discloses a grating device for radiotherapy equipment. A tail-end position controller and a front-end position controller are simultaneously arranged, and can simultaneously verify a tail-end position and a middle position of each single grating blade and measure the time during which one grating blade arrives at the middle position from the tail-end position and/or the total number of revolutions of a motor at any time. Because the distance between the tail-end position and the middle position is fixed and can be accurately measured, the system can accurately verify the position of one grating blade and control the grating blades to arrive at an accurately specified position; because the grating blades can be conveniently verified and controlled one by one, transmission errors caused by different grating blade driving systems and errors caused by instable performance can be effectively overcome; even verification can be performed before each fitting of a radiation field, and then accurate control can be realized according to the latest measured actual parameters.
US10569102B2
A system for inducing respiration according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: an imaging unit for picking a respiration image of a patient; a respiration signal conversion unit for obtaining a respiration signal of the patient by image processing, and tracking and analyzing the respiration image of the patient obtained from the imaging unit; and a respiration determination unit for determining one or more of whether the obtained respiration signal is suitable for radiation treatment, whether the obtained respiration signal is stable, and whether a matching score between the respiration signal of the patient and a guide respiration is greater than a predetermined reference value; and a respiration guide unit for providing the respiration signal of the patient, obtained from the respiration signal conversion unit, together with a stored guide signal.
US10569099B2
Stimulation of target cells using light, e.g., in vivo, is implemented using a variety of methods and devices. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, target cells are stimulated using an implantable arrangement. The arrangement includes an electrical light-generation means for generating light and a biological portion. The biological portion has a photosensitive bio-molecular arrangement that responds to the generated light by stimulating target cells in vivo.
US10569097B2
Systems and methods for phototherapeutic modulation of nitric oxide in mammalian tissue include use of a first wavelength and first radiant flux of light to stimulate enzymatic generation of nitric oxide, and use of a second wavelength and second radiant flux of light to stimulate release of nitric oxide from endogenous stores of nitric oxide. Pulsed light and/or partially non-overlapping light impingement windows may be used. Non-coherent light impinged on tissue may include a peak wavelength in a range of from 410 nm to 440 nm in the absence of light emissions having a peak wavelength of from 600 nm to 900 nm.
US10569095B1
Combined methods for treating a patient using time-varying magnetic field are described. The methods include generating a time-varying magnetic field and applying the magnetic field to muscle fibers, neuromuscular plates, or peripheral nerves innervating muscle fibers within the body region of the patient such that a muscle is caused to contract. The treatment methods include generating optical waves and applying the optical waves to the body region of the patient to heat a target biological structure of the patient. The methods include providing an applicator housing a coil to generate the time-varying magnetic field and an optical waves generating device to generate the optical waves and attaching the applicator to the patient via a belt.
US10569093B1
A subcutaneously implantable device includes a housing, a clip attached to a top side of the housing that is configured to anchor the device to a muscle, a bone, and/or a first tissue, and an electrode that is configured to contact an organ, a nerve, the first tissue, and/or a second tissue. The device further includes circuitry in the housing in electrical communication with the electrode that is configured to sense an electrical signal from the organ, the nerve, the first tissue, and/or the second tissue through the electrode; deliver electrical stimulation to the organ, the nerve, the first tissue, and/or the second tissue through the electrode; and/or deliver a signal to a drug pump to provide a targeted or systemic therapeutic drug to the organ, the nerve, the first tissue, and/or the second tissue.
US10569092B2
Systems and methods for patient activated capture of transient data by an implantable medical device
Systems and methods are provided for managing patient activated capture of transient data by an implantable medical device (IMD). The systems and methods collect transient data using the IMD. The collected transient data is stored in a temporary memory section of the IMD. The IMD receives a patient activated storage request including activation information related to a patient designated trigger point from an external device. The IMD transfers a segment of the transient data from the temporary memory section to a long-term memory, wherein the segment of transferred transient data is based on the trigger point. The activation information includes an elapsed time corresponding to a duration of time between entry of the trigger point and issuance of the patient activated storage request by an external activation device.
US10569087B1
Methods for systematically testing a plurality of therapy programs in a spinal cord modulation system, and associated systems are disclosed. A representative method comprises loading a plurality of therapy programs into a signal generator, wherein individual therapy programs include parameters specifying electrode configuration, signal amplitude, and/or signal frequency. The programs are automatically activated for an automatically instructed period of time. The method includes automatically changing from one therapy program to another after the instructed period of time. The patient is queried for patient input corresponding to the therapy programs. The patient input is received via a remote. The patient input is correlated with a corresponding time of day and recorded in the signal generator. Thereafter, the patient input is retrieved from the signal generator.
US10569085B2
The invention is an implantable electrode configuration having a carrier substrate of a biocompatible polymer in at least some areas and a freely accessible electrode surface applied to the carrier substrate or integrated into the carrier substrate on the carrier substrate surface in at least some areas is described and a method for producing the implantable electrode configuration. The electrode has a metallic base plate having a planar top side and bottom side, including at least one structural element protruding orthogonally from the top side. The planar surface of the metallic base plate is oriented parallel to the carrier substrate surface and the metallic base plate is enclosed by the biocompatible polymer, except for a first surface area of the at least one structural element which faces the carrier substrate surface and is the freely accessible electrode surface.
US10569084B2
A device and method are provided for altering body mass composition in a human subject by applying galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) using electrodes placed in electrical contact with the subject's scalp at a location corresponding to each of the subject's left and right vestibular systems. The current source includes a feedback loop for measuring a resistance across the subject's scalp and adjusting a voltage output to maintain a constant current across the subject's scalp. GVS may be applied for a predetermined period of time at regular intervals.
US10569080B2
Implantable medical leads and implantable lead extensions include a shield. The implantable medical lead is coupled to the implantable lead extension. Stimulation electrodes of the implantable medical lead contact stimulation connectors within a housing of the implantable extension to establish a conductive pathway for stimulation signals from filars of the implantable extension to filars of the implantable medical lead. Continuity is established between the shield of the implantable medical lead and the implantable extension by providing a radio frequency conductive pathway within the housing. The radio frequency conductive pathway extends from a shield of the implantable extension to a shield connector that contacts a shield electrode of the implantable medical lead. The radio frequency conductive pathway may have various forms such as a jumper wire or an extension of the shield within the implantable extension.
US10569071B2
Various exemplary devices and methods are provided for performing surgical procedures. In general, one or more adjuncts can be used in conjunction with surgical instruments. The adjunct(s) can have medicant(s) thereon and/or therein. The medicant(s) can vary depending on the desired effect of the medicant(s) on surrounding tissue. As a non-limiting example, medicant(s) can be provided to influence hemostasis, inflammation, macrophages, and/or fibroblasts. When used in conjunction with a surgical stapler, the adjunct(s) can be disposed between and/or on jaws of the stapler, incorporated into a staple cartridge disposed in the jaws, or otherwise placed in proximity to the staples. When staples are deployed, the adjunct(s) can remain at the treatment site with the staples.
US10569059B2
The device includes a dilator having a locking mechanism configured to limit a distance a guidewire can be advanced out of a distal end of the dilator.
US10569056B2
A catheter assembly including a catheter; a catheter hub fixed to a proximal end portion of the catheter; an inner needle disposed inside the catheter; and a housing supporting the inner needle, the housing accommodating the catheter hub when in an initial state in which a distal end of the inner needle is protruding from a distal end of the catheter. The catheter hub is configured to rotate with respect to the inner needle and the housing when accommodated inside the housing.
US10569053B2
An improved bi-directional steerable catheter is provided. The catheter generally comprises a catheter body, tip section and control handle. The catheter further comprises first and second puller wires extending from the control handle, through the catheter body and into the tip section.The control handle has deflection means for each puller wire that include a gear, and a carrier to which the proximal end of a puller wire is anchored. The gear is rotatably coupled to a lever controlled by an operator and the gear engages the carrier such that rotation of the gear by the lever results in longitudinal movement of the carrier, which results in deflection of the tip section.
US10569044B2
A headgear or headgear segments are manufactured to shape thereby producing little or no waste material. Techniques such as knitting, braiding, crocheting, and 3D printing can be used produce the headgear.
US10569041B2
A mask system for use between a patient and device to deliver a breathable gas to the patient includes a mouth cushion, a pair of nasal prongs, an elbow, and a headgear assembly. The mouth cushion is structured to sealingly engage around an exterior of a patient's mouth in use, and the pair of nasal prongs are structured to sealingly communicate with nasal passages of a patient's nose in use. The elbow delivers breathable gas to the patient. The headgear assembly maintains the mouth cushion and the nasal prongs in a desired position on the patient's face. The headgear assembly provides a substantially round crown strap that cups the parietal bone and occipital bone of the patient's head in use.
US10569040B2
A method and apparatus can be used in the selection of correctly sized respiratory interfaces. The method includes the use of light beams to project sizing markers onto a patient's face, which enables the size of the patient's facial features to be measured relative to a set of interface sizes. A sizing apparatus can include a light source and beam splitters that will refract and project the light source into a series of beams that can be aligned on a patient's face in order to measure the features of the patient.
US10569039B2
An introducer for tracheal tube intubation has a proximal section connected to a distal section having an angled bougie tip. The introducer is configurable (i) for use as a bougie in which a tracheal tube is railroaded over the introducer's back end and into a trachea and (ii) for use as a stylet in which a tracheal tube is pre-loaded onto the introducer for insertion into a trachea. In certain embodiments, the introducer has one or more flexible or malleable sections that enable the introducer to bend into different configurations. The flexible/malleable sections have directional bending such that the sections bend in roughly the same plane as the angled bougie tip. This enables an operator always to know the orientation of the bougie tip even after it has been inserted into the trachea. The flexible/malleable sections enable the introducer to be configured with a handle or other type of grip.
US10569028B2
A drug dispensing-tracking device configured in the form of at least one of a cover, a sleeve, and a cap, and configured to connect with a drug-injection or storage device. The tracking device may comprise at least one or more of: an acoustic sensor, a vibration sensor, an optical sensor, an optical-navigation sensor, and a magnetic sensor, and any combination thereof. At least one sensor may be configured to produce at least one respective signal in response to sensing a vibration, a sound, light, movement, and a magnetic field, respectively, produced by the drug-injection device due to an activity of the drug-injection device.
US10569021B2
It is possible to feed an injection objective substance to a depth of a skin structure of an objective living body without using any injection needle. A syringe having no injection needle comprises an enclosing unit which encloses the injection objective substance, a pressurizing unit which pressurizes the injection objective substance enclosed in the enclosing unit, and a flow passage unit which defines a flow passage so that the injection objective substance, which is pressurized by the pressurizing unit, is allowed to inject to an injection target area. The pressurizing unit has a first pressurizing mode in which a pressure applied to the injection objective substance in the pressurizing unit is raised to a first peak pressure in order to form a penetrating passage in the injection target area, and then the pressure applied to the injection objective substance is lowered to a waiting pressure, and a second pressurizing mode in which the injection objective substance having the waiting pressure is pressurized so that the pressure applied to the injection objective substance is raised to a second peak pressure to inject a predetermined injection amount of the injection objective substance.
US10569020B2
A method of administering subcutaneous treatment to a patient is provided. The method includes delivering, by a needle-free injection device, a first volume of a treatment at a first location on a surface of a body of the patient; detecting a movement of the needle-free injection device relative to the first location; determining, from the movement of the needle-free injection device relative to the first location, a second location of the needle-free injection device relative to the first location; determining a second volume of the treatment to deliver at the surface of the body of the patient at the second location; and delivering, by the needle-free injection device, the second volume of the treatment at the second location on the surface of the body of the patient.
US10569016B2
An infusion pump system providing therapy to a patient in a closed-loop or semi-closed loop mode can safely automatically revert to open-loop therapy. The system stores a default open-loop basal rate profile in memory. The system also continually tracks the insulin on board for the patient over a plurality of closed-loop therapy intervals. When an error or event occurs requiring reversion to open-loop therapy, the system automatically provides therapy according to the open-loop basal rate profile and the tracked insulin on board amount.
US10569002B2
A portable medical apparatus for cardiopulmonary aid to patients includes a transportable machine body that integrates an heater/cooler unit and an extracorporeal circuit for circulating the blood of a patient. The extracorporeal circuit includes a line for drawing venous blood from the patient, a line for returning arterial blood to the patient, a pumping unit for pumping blood along the extracorporeal circuit, a heat exchanger for thermoregulating blood in the extracorporeal circuit, and an oxygenator unit for blood oxygenation.
US10568995B2
A dressing for treating a tissue site with negative pressure is described. The dressing includes a tissue interface and a sealing member. The dressing further includes a sealing tape configured to be coupled to the sealing member and epidermis. The sealing tape includes a bonding adhesive and a sealing adhesive coupled to a side of the sealing tape. The sealing tape includes a layer of the bonding adhesive disposed on a film layer and a layer of sealing adhesive having one or more apertures disposed on the bonding adhesive. The sealing tape can include a layer of the bonding adhesive disposed on a portion of a film layer and a layer of the sealing adhesive disposed on a uncovered portions of the film layer.
US10568993B2
Fixation devices for tissue repair, for example sutures, surgical arrows, staples, darts, bolts, screws, buttons, anchors, nails, rivets, or barbed devices comprise at least one of angiogenic material; angiogenic precursor material which is capable of breaking down in vivo to form angiogenic material; or tissue-engineered material, which tissue-engineered material is capable of producing angiogenic material. In a preferred form, the material is incorporated into a polymer matrix having predetermined hydrophobicity to allow controlled release of angiogenic materials such as butyric or hydroxybutyric acid or salts thereof. Polymer matrix compositions comprising angiogenic materials and methods for tissue repair are also provided.
US10568988B2
Methods for treating tissue matrices and tissue matrices produced according to the methods are provided. The methods can include treating select portions of a tissue matrix with a cross-linking agent and/or a proteolytic enzyme to produce a tissue matrix with variable mechanical and/or biological properties.
US10568986B2
A polymeric scaffold contains pendant liquid crystal side chains and has fully interconnected pores. Such a polymeric scaffold will preferably be 3D in nature and elastomeric, biocompatible and biodegradable. Such 3D liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) scaffolds can be used for various biomedical applications, including cell culture applications. A method for the production of such a polymeric scaffold containing liquid crystals and having interconnected pores is also disclosed that uses a metal foam sacrificial template as a scaffold to produce the polymeric smart response scaffold of the present invention. Consistent and controlled pore sizes result from etching the sacrificial metal foam template away from the polymeric scaffold, permitting the incorporation of growth factors, when needed, for enhancing cell viability and proliferation.
US10568982B2
Articles can be provided with odor resistance by applying a dispersion of a halogenated heterocyclic N-halamine in an inert liquid carrier onto the surface of the article and allowing the inert liquid carrier to penetrate into it. The N-halamine accordingly becomes deposited on the surface of the article after the inert liquid carrier penetrates into the article. This method can be used to provide odor resistance to a variety of substrates, including garbage bags. It can also be used to deposit other functional particulates onto the surface of substrates having sufficient porosity to take up the vehicle. For instance, such functional particles can be oxidants that display antimicrobial and/or enzyme inhibitory efficacy or particles having toxin interaction potentials through oxidative degradation or adsorption of toxic substances in air and/or water, such as fluoride uptake by metal oxide microparticles.
US10568981B2
UV hard-surface disinfection system that is able to disinfect the hard surfaces in a room, while minimizing missed areas due to shadows by providing multiple UV light towers that can be placed in several areas of a room such that shadowed areas are eliminated and that can be transported by a cart that is low to the ground such that the towers may be loaded and unloaded easily by a single operator. The system is able to be controlled remotely, such that during activation of the system, no operator is present, and to automatically cut power to all towers in the event that a person enters the room.
US10568976B2
A compound of the following general formula (I), and isomers, physiologically acceptable salts, and complexes thereof, for use as a contrast agent in diagnostic imaging:
US10568969B2
The present invention relates to isolated immunogenic polypeptides and their use. In one aspect, the isolated immunogenic polypeptide includes a scaffold polypeptide having a hairpin loop modified to include one or more epitopes heterologous to the scaffold polypeptide and from an amino acid loop linked by a disulfide bond. The scaffold polypeptide directs self-assembly with two other of the scaffold polypeptides to form a trimeric structure, which constrains the one or more epitopes to a conformation that is (i) substantially similar to one or more native pathogen epitopes in trimeric conformation and (ii) capable of binding an antibody reactive to the one or more native pathogen epitopes in trimeric conformation. Another aspect relates to an isolated immunogenic polypeptide that includes a scaffold polypeptide having a native loop modified to include one or more epitopes heterologous to the scaffold polypeptide and from an amino acid loop linked by a disulfide bond. The scaffold polypeptide directs self-assembly with four other of said scaffold polypeptides to form a pentameric structure, which constrains the one or more epitopes to a conformation capable of binding an antibody reactive to one or more native pathogen epitopes.
US10568968B2
Provided are methods of treatment for tumors. In particular, methods are provided for use of a chemically modified IL-10 to treat tumors.
US10568966B2
The present invention relates to new formulations, particularly useful in the topical treatment of skin and oromucosal wounds. Formulations can be either a solution or a gel form consisting of a Polyhexamethylene biguanide as an antimicrobial agent, purified water and a tri-blockcopolymer, particularly a triblockcopolymer of polyethylene oxide and polypropylene oxide, and more particularly a poloxamer.
US10568965B2
The present invention relates to new aminopyrimidine inhibitors of tyrosine kinase activity, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof.
US10568964B2
A neutron capture therapy system includes a therapy table on which an irradiation target is placed, a neutron beam irradiation unit which irradiates the irradiation target placed on the therapy table with a neutron beam, a position measurement unit which measures a position of the irradiation target placed on the therapy table, and a radiation dose distribution output unit which outputs a radiation dose distribution of a neutron beam used for irradiating the irradiation target, based on an amount of positional misalignment of the position of the irradiation target measured by the position measurement unit.
US10568957B2
Invention provides novel rotavirus vaccine compositions comprising rotavirus antigens, stabilizers and buffers. The buffers in the invention are pre-mixed in the rotavirus vaccine compositions to neutralize the high acidic pH of the stomach without requiring separate administration of an antacid before vaccine administration. Vaccine compositions with buffers of the invention are stable liquid rotavirus vaccine formulations for oral administration.
US10568952B2
The present invention relates to the field of bacteriology. In particular, the invention relates to methods and compositions for treatment and prevention of infection in wounds, and methods for producing and storing bacterial donor organisms for conjugation-based antibacterial agents. The present invention relates to the field of bacteriology and pharmacology. In particular, the invention relates to novel compositions (e.g., antimicrobial agents) and methods of using the same for treating tissue (e.g., lesions of the skin and other soft tissues) comprising the killing or altering (e.g., inhibiting) growth and virulence of populations of microorganisms.
US10568942B2
5-D-fructose dehydrogenase, optionally in combination with invertase and/or maltase and/or glucose isomerase, may be used to treat fructose intolerance. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10568939B2
An intervention for sleep disorders comprises collagen, a gelatin peptide, or the amino acid glycine; L-theanine; lactucopicrin, deoxylactucopicrin, or another lactucopicrin derivative; hyaluronic acid; epigallocatechin gallate; and quinic acid. The intervention helps regulate pro-inflammatory biomarkers that are often associated with insomnia development and progression. These biomarkers include cytokines and enzymes associated with tryptophan degradation. Inhibition of these enzymes and cytokines improves tryptophan availability and sleep quality, and allows individuals to sleep better with fewer side effects. The novel composition promotes high-quality, deep sleep.
US10568931B2
Provided is a treatment composition for damage treatment and regeneration promotion of corneal epithelial cells containing gintonin as an active ingredient which is glycolipoprotein or its aggregate isolated from ginseng. Since the gintonin as a drug containing high-concentration LPA has an effect of increasing the concentration of LPA in damaged cornea and inducing the proliferation of corneal epithelial cells to rapidly and significantly restore the damage of the cornea, the composition of the present disclosure can be usefully used as drugs for treatment of corneal erosion and corneal ulcer or equivalent therapeutic agents for corneal injury in humans and animals.
US10568930B2
Agents and formulations and cells including plant extracts are useful in a method for controlling pathogen infestation in human and animal subjects. A method for inhibiting growth or infestation of a pathogen in or on a human or animal subject, includes contacting the pathogen with an effective amount of a combination of a plant defensin or a functional natural or synthetic derivative or variant thereof and either: (i) a proteinase inhibitor; or (ii) a chemical pathogenicidic or pathogenostatic agent; in a combined amount effective to inhibit growth or infestation of the pathogen.
US10568923B2
Methods of administering a composition that comprises plant extracts selected from the group consisting of Quercus infectoria, Rhus chinensis and Terminalia chebula containing compounds such as gallic acid, derivative of gallic acid, gallotannins and hydrosable tannins, which have been found to control coccidiosis in poultry and, more specifically, coccidiosis caused by Eimeria spp. The plant extracts result in a reduction of lesion score, oocysts per gram of fecal matter and mortality.
US10568922B2
The present invention relates to a composition containing, as an active ingredient, a mixed extract of Astragalus membranaceus, Angelica gigas, and Trichosanthes kirilowii, for preventing or treating cancer. The mixed extract of Astragalus membranaceus, Angelica gigas, and Trichosanthes kirilowii according to the present invention does not impact normal cell growth, while having an anticancer effect which specifically inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells, and an excellent effect of inhibiting metastasis of cancer cells, and thus can be useful in preventing or treating cancer and supplementing cancer treatment.
US10568916B2
A method and system for the treatment of honey bees (Apis mellifera), bats, and butterflies protects them from various life threatening conditions, including Colony Collapse Disorder, white nose syndrome, etc. and in particular, provides honey bees, bats and butterflies with the ability to assimilate and degrade neonicotinoids.
US10568908B2
The invention relates to methods of treating an EBV-LPD (Epstein-Barr Virus-associated lymphoproliferative disorder) in a human patient who has failed combination chemotherapy to treat the EBV-LPD and/or radiation therapy to treat the EBV-LPD, comprising administering to the human patient a population of allogeneic T cells comprising EBV-specific T cells.
US10568907B1
Provided herein are methods of treating basal cell carcinoma or glioblastoma by administering coal tar or a coal tar product to a patient with basal cell carcinoma or glioblastoma. The coal tar or coal tar product may be administered as a standalone therapy or in combination with other treatments for basal cell carcinoma or glioblastoma.
US10568903B2
The present invention relates to a combination of an anti-toxin, The present invention relates to a combination of an anti-toxin, an immunomodulator and a component that provides energy to mucosal cells, which may be useful for decreasing effects of Clostridia sp. or coccidia sp based diseases or other enteric diseases or by generally improving gastro intestinal health or function.
US10568900B1
The invention discloses novel endocrine treatment phytochemicals which affect androgenic status. The method for treatment of 5-alpha-reductase responsive diseases using four novel 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor compounds; leucoanthocyanidin, glabrene, glabridin, and alpha-terpineol is disclosed. Glabridin does not interfere with normal testosterone to androgen receptor binding.
US10568890B2
An oily formulation of fulvestrant or derivatives thereof and a method for producing the same. The oily formulation comprises: fulvestrant or derivatives thereof in an amount of 10 mg/ml to 170 mg/ml; a lactate compound in an amount of 5 to 80% of the total weight of the formulation; a vegetable oil or synthetic oil (ester); an analgesic; and an optional antioxidant.
US10568886B2
A method for regulating arterial vascular tone in a subject, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof, a therapeutically effective amount of a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having a structure of: wherein A and B are each individually selected from O or S; a is 1 to 4; and Ar is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl.
US10568880B2
Methods for treating a subject having a cancerous tumor are disclosed. The methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of a non-steroidal selective glucocorticoid receptor modulator (SGRM) and an effective amount of a chemotherapeutic agent. The tumor may be cervical cancer. The SGRM may be a fused azadecalin. In embodiments, the SGRM may be a heteroaryl ketone fused azadecalin or an octahydro fused azadecalin.
US10568878B2
Described herein are compounds and compositions for treating glaucoma and/or reducing intraocular pressure. Compositions may comprise an isoquinoline compound and a prostaglandin or prostaglandin analog. Compounds described herein include those in which an isoquinoline compound is covalently linked to a prostaglandin or a prostaglandin analog, and those in which an isoquinoline compound and a prostaglandin free acid together form a salt.
US10568870B2
The present invention provides methods for reducing tumor burden, tumor growth, tumor progression, and/or metastasis in a subject suffering from a solid tumor cancer such as triple negative breast cancer. The methods include administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a PD-L1 inhibitor or a PD-1 inhibitor in combination with a small molecule chemokine receptor antagonist that blocks CCR1.
US10568866B1
A composition of natural and chemical nutrients such as Vitamin C, Vitamin B-complex, Vitamin E, Aronia melanocarpa extract, Fucoidan, Ginger extract, Zinc, Selenium, Alpha lipoic acid, White mulberry extract, Lychee fruit extract and Sour (Tart) cherry fruit extract are made for mammal consumption in liquid or solid form. This specific composition is used for increasing innate immunity in the mammal before and after the infection has occurred.
US10568857B2
Methods of treating the side effects of a toxic medical therapy using nitrated lipids are disclosed herein. In particular, the methods comprise the use of nitrated fatty acids or esters thereof to treat side effects, including organ system damage, caused by chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and the administration of other toxic agents.
US10568855B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for contraception that also enhance the efficacy of microbicides. Such compositions serve the dual purpose of preventing pregnancy and lessening the risk of spreading sexually transmitted diseases. More specifically, the compositions and methods relate to syngergistic contraceptive microbicide and antiviral compositions comprising a combination of a contraceptive microbicide and an antiviral agent in an acidic carrier that enhances the efficacy of both the contraceptive microbicide and antiviral agent.
US10568853B2
Described herein are compositions comprising capsaicin and methods of treating muscle cramping in a subject, comprising orally administering to the subject a composition comprising capsaicin and an excipient.
US10568852B2
Combination compositions and their use in methods for treating obesity and obesity-related disorders
The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least two different active compounds and the use of such combination compositions in medicine, in particular in methods for treating obesity and obesity-related disorders and/or in methods for inhibiting weight gain.
US10568845B2
The invention relates to a transdermal therapeutic system (TTS), comprising a backing layer, which is permeable to the active ingredient, at least one matrix layer, comprising fentanyl or an active agent analogous to fentanyl, based on polyacrylate and a protective layer to be removed before usage, characterized in that the polyacrylate polymer is self-adhesive, free of carboxyl groups, has a saturation solubility for fentanyl of 3 to 20 wt. %, preferably of 4 to 12 and particularly of 5 to 10 wt. % and the layers contain at least 80% of the included active ingredient in a molecularly-dispersed, dissolved form.
US10568840B2
A self-assembled gel composition with enhanced adhesion to cartilage tissue is provided. A cationic agent co-self assembles with a generally regarded as safe (GRAS), low molecular weight (<2,500 Da) gelator, forming homogeneous self-supporting gel that can encapsulate one or more therapeutic agents for controlled release. The composition adheres to connective tissue, e.g., cartilage, to a greater extent and a greater length of time than a self-assembled gel from gelators alone. The composition is used to specifically target connective tissue and deliver one or more therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic agents for controlled release to improve dosing efficacy.
US10568838B2
The present disclosure relates to a separable hard capsule for containing a medication. The capsule may be opened by finger force and used, for example, by pediatric and geriatric patients.
US10568832B2
There is provided a method for preparing an orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) composition comprising microparticles of one or more taste-masked active pharmaceutical ingredient(s), rapidly-dispersing microgranules, and other optional, pharmaceutically acceptable excipients wherein the ODT disintegrates on contact with saliva in the buccal cavity in about 60 seconds forming a smooth, easy-to-swallow suspension. Furthermore, the microparticles (crystals, granules, beads or pellets containing the active) applied with a taste-masking membrane comprising a combination of water-insoluble and gastrosoluble polymers release not less than about 60% of the dose is in the stomach in about 30 minutes, thus maximizing the probability of achieving bioequivalence to the reference IR product having rapid onset of action (short Tmax). A process for preparing such compositions for oral administration using conventional fluid-bed equipment and rotary tablet press is also disclosed.
US10568824B2
The present invention provides a skin cosmetic containing the following components (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F): (A) 0.5 to 6 mass % of a linear saturated fatty acid having 12 to 22 of carbon atom, (B) 0.010 to 5 mass % of an organic base, (C) 0.010 to 1 mass % of an inorganic base, (D) 0.5 to 6 mass % of a linear saturated alcohol having 12 to 22 of carbon atom, (E) 0.05 to 9 mass % of a powder, and (F) water, wherein the component (D) comprises at least a linear saturated alcohol having 12 to 20 of carbon atom, and the mass ratio of the component (E) to the total amount of the components (A) and (D) [(A)+(D)] is (E)/[(A)+(D)]=from 0.01 to 5.
US10568813B2
A pill feeder accepts a quantity of pills and organizes the pills into a single file where each pill is output in a controlled orientation at a controlled rate. The apparatus includes a moving surface, such as a rotating disk, to receive and move pills past one or more gates that separate and orient groups of pills into a single file. The gates can start at a closed position and open until a pill has passed the gate. In one embodiment, a mixer counter-rotates relative to the rotating disk to prevent jams of the pills. The single file of pills is then guided out to an exit chute via an exit path. An alternative exit path provides an alternative route via which the pills exit the pill feeder. Multiple sensors can control the movement of the gates and the rate at which the pills exit the pill feeder.
US10568809B2
A liquid-transfer adapter operatively interposable between an injector and a vial is provided. The adapter has an injector engaging portion configured for fluidly coupling to an injector and a vial coupling. The vial coupling includes a spike that has a spike axis and a tip portion configured for piercing a septum of a vial. The tip portion includes a plurality of facets that meet each other at one or more edges and at least one of the one or more edges is sloped with respect to the spike axis. The spike defines a channel extending therethrough in fluid communication with the injector engaging portion. A channel opening is defined in at least one of the facets and disposed without interrupting the edges.
US10568805B2
A mechanical chest compression device is secured to a gurney, transport stretcher or ambulance cot while engaging a patient's thorax to provide mechanical CPR during transport. The mechanical chest compression device compresses the patient's thorax against the gurney deck. The mechanical chest compression device may engage the side rails on the gurney, the gurney deck or any suitable structural elements of the gurney.
US10568803B2
The present invention provides an interchangeable multi-purpose healthcare apparatus comprising silicate-based ceramic materials containing tourmaline, said apparatus comprising a cylindrical bottle body (101) and different functional heads for different purposes. A top open end of said cylindrical bottle body is configured with a screw-type bottleneck (103) for connecting different functional heads according to different needs of the user. The present apparatus takes advantages of the far infrared ray, microcurrent and negative ions matching human bioelectricity which are emitted and transmitted by the silicate-based ceramic materials containing tourmaline, in association with the addition of liquids of different temperatures as massage medium, to allow suitable temperature adjustment of the user. Massage medium being functionalized by the tourmaline-containing ceramics can also be beneficial to human body. In combination with different functional heads and auxiliary materials, the present apparatus becomes a personalized and specialized apparatus for massage and auxiliary health care.
US10568795B2
The present invention is concerned with a massage device having a drive unit for generating a translational back-and-forth movement of the applicator along a first axis having an amplitude of 0.2 mm to 1.5 mm. The amplitude can be varied between two different operation modes of the device.
US10568794B2
A surgical table comprising a base and a patient support supported between opposed ends of the base, each opposed end including a pitch/roll assembly. The base is configured such that the patient support can be rolled and pitched relative to the opposed ends via the pitch/roll assemblies such that the roll axis of each pitch/roll assembly remains coaxial regardless of how the patient support is pitched or rolled relative to the base. The patient support includes an outer frame and an inner frame supported on, and displaceable relative to, the outer frame. The inner frame is further articulating about, and relative to, itself. The outer frame is rigid in that it does not change configurations.
US10568791B2
A patient monitoring and repositioning system includes a mattress, a sheet residing on an upper surface of the mattress, a housing containing a drive mechanism, and a sensor adapted to sense a position of a patient resting on the mattress. The drive mechanism is operable to pull the sheet and thereby pull the patient resting thereon. The housing receives the sheet through a slot. In the event that the patient is in an undesirable position on the mattress as detected by the sensor, a controller directs the drive mechanism to pull the sheet so as to pull the patient thereon from the undesirable position to a desirable, predetermined position. The controller may direct the drive mechanism automatically or indicate the undesirable position to a caregiver so that the caregiver may direct the drive mechanism accordingly.
US10568790B2
The present disclosure relates to a tilt assembly (1) for a powered wheelchair (15), comprising: an elongated base member (3) provided with an axial channel, a lifting member (5) configured to be received by the base member (3) and to move rectilinearly in the channel, between a retracted position and an extended position relative to the base member (3), a tilt frame (7) pivotally connected to the lifting member (5), the tilt frame (7) being configured for mounting a seat assembly (21) thereto, and an arm (9) pivotally connected to the base member (5) and to the tilt frame (7), wherein the tilt frame (7) is configured to obtain a perpendicular orientation relative to a central axis (11) of the lifting member (5) when the lifting member (5) is in the retracted position and to be inclined relative to the central axis (11) when the lifting member (5) is in the extended position, to thereby provide a tilt functionality.
US10568788B2
A seat unit includes a first seat frame and a second seat frame. The first seat frame is connected with a drive carrier and includes at least one first mounting portion. The second seat frame includes wheel frames and a mounting frame fixedly connected with the wheel frames. Each wheel frame is mounted with an auxiliary wheel. A space is defined between the mounting frame and the wheel frames. The drive carrier is located in the space. The mounting frame includes at least one second mounting portion. One of the first mounting portion and the second mounting portion is a rod, and the other is a receiving portion. The rod is movably inserted through the receiving portion. When the second seat frame is displaced relative to the first seat frame, the auxiliary wheels of the wheel frames can move together relative to the drive wheels of the drive carrier.
US10568784B2
A plastic sheath dimensioned to fit securely and snugly around an arm or leg cast or bandage of a wearer includes a flexible elastic band at an open first end constructed with at least one expandable trough encircling the sheath, with a stretchable band looped over the elastic band and fitted within the trough at said first end, and with the stretchable band being rollable forwardly from the opened first end of the sheath towards an opposite sealed second end from trough to trough when it is desired to remove the sheath from being worn.
US10568781B2
A catamenial device is disclosed. The device having a topsheet, a backsheet joined to said topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core has a perimeter, a longitudinal centerline, and a transverse centerline. The catamenial device further having a visible pattern having at least one circle and at least two or more slots that are visible when viewing the topsheet.
US10568778B2
System and method for determining a pre-existing characteristic and pre-existing state of an article
The present invention relates to systems, methods and devices for determining one or more pre-existing characteristics, pre-existing states or both of a combination absorbent article and electrical circuit after connecting an electronic device to the combination absorbent article and electrical circuit. The method and system is particularly, although not exclusively, suitable for determining pre-existing characteristics such as absorbent article size, type, capacity and a pre-existing state such as whether or not the electrical circuit of the combination absorbent article and electrical circuit has been previously connected to the electronic device or another like electronic device. These pre-existing characteristics, pre-existing states or both are derived from measured electrical variables of the electrical circuit which may include one or more components, such as a resistor or a capacitor or a variable such as charge on a capacitor after the connection of an electronic device, which may include a transmitter or a transceiver. The method includes: measuring an electrical variable after connection of an electronic device to the combination article and electrical circuit to generate data indicative of the electrical variable at sequential time values; and processing the data with a processor including applying an If-Then rule based function comprising two or more conditions to determine a pre-existing characteristic, a pre-existing state or both of the combination absorbent article and electrical circuit.
US10568773B2
In some illustrative examples, a medical drape suitable for treating a tissue site may include an adherent surface including first adherent force profile oriented along a first axis and a second adherent force profile oriented along a second axis. The first adherent force profile may have an average force less than an average force of the second adherent force profile. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also provided.
US10568771B2
A wound dressing system that includes a conformal cover and an infusion pump is provided. The cover includes a fluid port and an oxygen catalyst. The infusion pump is configured to deliver a bioactive liquid to the cover via the fluid port. The liquid includes an oxygen precursor. Upon combination, the oxygen catalyst and precursor react to form oxygen. A method of applying a wound dressing system including a bioactive powder, a bioactive liquid, and a conformal cover to a wound site is also provided. The method includes applying the powder to the wound site; securing the cover around the wound site, where the cover includes an oxygen catalyst and a fluid port; and delivering the bioactive liquid to at least an inner layer of the cover via the fluid port, where the bioactive liquid includes an oxygen precursor.
US10568770B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for generating and releasing iodine are described. Some embodiments may include a dressing member including a plurality of iodine-forming reagents and a water-swellable material. In some embodiments, the dressing member may include water-swellable fibers. The water-swellable fibers may each include a water-swellable material in which iodine-forming reagents are dispersed. As liquid comes into contact with and is absorbed by the water-swellable material, the iodine-forming reagents may come into contact with each other, causing an iodine-forming reaction to occur, producing iodine.
US10568764B2
Embodiments of this invention relate to systems and methods for automatic depth (or Z) detection before, during, or after laser-assisted ophthalmic surgery. When performing ophthalmic laser surgery, the operator (or surgeon) needs to make accurate and precise incisions using the laser beam. With the automatic depth detection systems and methods, the same laser used for the surgical procedure may be used for depth measurement of the surgical incisions. The surgical laser system may include a laser delivery system for delivering a pulsed laser beam to photoalter an eye, a mirror to transmit at least a portion of reflected light of the pulsed laser beam, a lens positioned to focus the transmitted reflected lighted on to a detector, (such as a CCD), and a depth encoder configured to automatically detect depth according to one or more of color, intensity, or shape of the focused spot on the CCD.
US10568763B2
The invention relates to systems and methods for accessing tissue layers of the anterior chamber angle of an eye, targeting one or multiple treatment zones within the anterior angle area of the eye and delivering focused photodisruptive laser pulses with pulse durations <50 picoseconds creating channels into various anatomical structures within the anterior angle of the eye.
US10568761B2
Relatively non-invasive devices and methods for heating or cooling a patient's body are disclosed. Devices and methods for treating ischemic conditions by inducing therapeutic hypothermia are disclosed. Devices and methods for inducing therapeutic hypothermia through esophageal cooling are disclosed. Devices and methods for operative temperature management are disclosed.
US10568748B2
The invention relates to a connection device for connecting a first and a second prosthesis part, in particular of a tibial and a femoral trial prosthesis for trial arrangement on the corresponding bones, wherein the connection device has a first connection element and a second connection element. The first connection element has inner walls, serving as a guide, and a mating piece and serves for arrangement on the first prosthesis part, and the second connection element is enclosed at least in part by the inner walls of the connection element and is movable in a displacement direction along the inner walls relative to the first connection element and has a groove for receiving a portion of the second prosthesis part. The second connection element is movable, in the direction of displacement relative to the first connection element, to an open position in which the second connection element is at least in part pushed out of the first connection element and the groove of the second connection element is at least in part exposed such that the portion of the second prosthesis part can be inserted into and guided out of the groove, and to a closed position in which the second connection element is at least in part pushed into the first connection element and the mating piece of the first connection element lies opposite the groove of the second connection element, in such a way that the portion of the second prosthesis part received in the groove is prevented, by the mating piece of the first connection element, from withdrawal from the groove.
US10568747B2
The invention relates to an operating instrument for minimally invasive or conventional implanting of a spinal implant into the intervertebral space comprising an outer tube which has a hollow handle on its proximal end, wherein the inner rod can be moved in the outer tube and the hollow handle, and the inner rod is provided with a threaded region which extends beyond the distal end of the outer tube, wherein the threaded region serves for fastening to the rear region of an implant and for tensioning the implant with its rear region against the distal end region of the outer tube, wherein the distal end region of the outer tube is at least partially adapted to the rear region of the implant, wherein the tensioning of the implant against the outer tube takes place by means of a tensioning device having a lever.
US10568744B2
An implant system comprises an implant plate adapted to be positioned on a surface of a resected bone. The implant plate has a plurality of openings. A plurality of independently positionable pegs attach the implant plate to the bone. Each peg has a longitudinal axis and comprises: a peg body and a retaining device. The peg body is inserted into a peg hole in the bone. The peg body has a transverse dimension in a direction normal to the longitudinal axis, the transverse dimension larger than the openings of the plate. The retaining device is separate from the peg body, and is configured to attach to the peg body, with at least a first portion of the retaining device positioned above an upper surface of the implant plate, and a connecting portion of the retaining device extending through one of the openings of the implant plate.
US10568743B2
In some exemplary embodiments, an ankle replacement prosthesis includes a tibial component which provides a convex bearing surface, and a talar component which provides a concave bearing surface configured to interface with the convex bearing surface of the tibial component to provide a joint of the ankle replacement prosthesis. The tibial component is configured to be attached to a patient's tibia and the talar component is configured to be attached to the patient's talus.
US10568738B2
An apparatus can include: (1) a steerable tube, having a proximal section, a distal section, and a central longitudinal axis, the tube defining a primary lumen and two secondary lumens; (2) two wires, each extending from the distal section proximally through a respective secondary lumen; (3) a handle, coupled to the proximal section, and including a steering knob that is coupled to the wires such that rotation of the knob adjusts a degree of tension in the wires; (4) a pull ring coupled to the distal section of the tube such that the pull ring circumscribes the longitudinal axis at the distal section of the tube, and defining two recesses, a distal end portion of each wire being disposed in a respective one of the recesses; and (5) at least one cap, bridging the recesses and the distal end portion of the wires. Other embodiments are also described.
US10568735B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for implanting an intraocular lens into an eye are described. For example, an intraocular lens injector may include a passage formed in a distal end portion of the intraocular lens injector. The passage may define an interior surface, and a ramp may be formed on the interior surface so as to cause a leading haptic of an intraocular lens (IOL) being advanced through the passage to lift above a surface of an optic of the IOL to ensure proper folding of the IOL.
US10568731B2
Apparatus and methods are described for regulating blood flow in an ascending aorta of a subject including inserting a device (20) into the ascending aorta. When in a deployed state, the device defines an inner surface (24) that defines a conduit (26) through the device, at least a portion (25) of the inner surface diverging, such that a cross-sectional area of the conduit at the downstream end (34) of the diverging portion is greater than a cross-sectional area of the conduit at the upstream end (30) of the diverging portion. The device is deployed within a longitudinal portion of the ascending aorta, such that blood flow through the portion of the ascending aorta, via any flow path other than through the conduit, is less than 20 percent of total blood flow through the portion of the ascending aorta. Other applications are also described.
US10568729B2
A device for transcatheter insertion into the aortic root at the sinotubular junction by a wire guide and a catheter for protecting surrounding tissues, the device including an assembly serving as a valvular embolic filter, configured to slide in a guided manner inside the catheter, the assembly configured to form, in the aortic root of an aorta, a safety enclosure ensuring a valve function and a protective function against embolic accidents, wherein the assembly includes, a tubular body, and a filtration and valve part configured to deploy outside the catheter or retract inside the catheter, wherein the tubular body is secured, at one end, to the filtration and valve part, wherein the filtration and valve part forms the valvular embolic filter and a temporary valve, wherein the filtration and valve part is configured to prevent regurgitation of blood when deployed outside the catheter for covering a native aortic valve with a seat secured in the aortic root at sinuses of valsalva without obstructing a blood flow.
US10568727B2
The present disclosure relates generally to systems, components, devices and methods for assisting a patient to empty his or her weakened or paralyzed bladder or a neobladder efficiently. The system and method includes a pressure sensor for sensing the pressure in the urinary bladder of a patient and an alert mechanism which alerts the patient of the bladder fullness and the need to void. An actuating device is operably coupled to the system to selectively activate a compression assembly. When activated, the compression assembly compresses the bladder to permit emptying of the bladder.
US10568725B2
A tooth brush device having bristle touch-points composed of a polymer material (e.g., silicone) provides improved biofilm removal from teeth. The tooth brush device comprises a head with an apex, a base opposite the apex, a front surface, and a back surface opposite the front surface. The front surface of the head includes bristle touch-points arranged along rows. The rows are arranged orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the head extending from the apex of the head to the base of the head. Each of a plurality of the bristle touch-points is a single solid elongate structure extending from the head and is composed of a polymer material. The device further includes a neck coupled to the base of the head and a handle coupled to the head via the neck.
US10568724B2
A toothbrush includes a handle and a bristle-carrying head part, which are connected to each other by a neck part, the head part having a multiplicity of tufts of bristles consisting of bristles. An anchor is oriented at right angles to the longitudinal axis. Two or more tufts of bristles have a bristle tuft half with bristle ends standing up higher in relation to the bristle ends of the other bristle tuft half.
US10568723B2
The present application describes a method for designing and manufacturing a denture device for a patient. A method is described for designing a virtual denture and manufacturing a functional fitting replica denture from the virtual denture. An apparatus comprising a functional fitting replica denture is prepared having denture teeth having a fit substantially similar to the final denture. The methods and apparatus described herein reduce the number of visits required to manufacture the final denture.
US10568719B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for implant-bar-supported restoration that includes a superstructure and a plurality of dental bars. At least two of the plurality of dental bars have different shapes or different sizes, and the superstructure is coupled with the plurality of dental bars. Also disclosed is a dental bar including a plurality of separate pieces, wherein: each of the plurality of pieces is shaped and configured to be coupled with a dental implant; each of the plurality of pieces is shaped and configured to be coupled with a superstructure; and each of the plurality of pieces has a different shape or different size.
US10568710B2
A surgical drape is made from a pair of rectangular panels of drape material which are interconnected at a separation zone so that the panels to be pulled apart following a procedure. A fenestration is punched out of the material of one of the panels, near the perforated zone. The fenestration is covered by a flexible, transparent plastic window, preferably made of a polyethylene film and the perimeter of the window is bonded to the drape panel around the fenestration. The window is larger than the fenestration, and is folded or gusseted at its corners so that its center can rise well above the plane of the fenestration, in order to provide clearance for instruments which may be protruding from a surgical site over which the drape is placed.
US10568708B2
A medical instrument system includes a plurality of joints, a plurality of actuators, and a plurality of transmission systems. The transmission systems have proximal ends respectively coupled to the actuators. Each of the transmission systems have a distal end attached to an associated one of the joints to allow the transmission of a force for articulation of the medical instrument system. The system also includes a sensor coupled to measure a configuration of the medical instrument; and a control system coupled to receive configuration data, including a current configuration of a tip of the medical instrument from the sensor and a desired configuration of the tip of the medical instrument. Using the difference between the desired configuration and the current configuration of the tip of the medical instrument, the control system generates control signals for the actuators that cause the actuators to apply a set of tensions to the plurality of transmission systems.
US10568698B2
A method for implanting a spinal plate includes the steps of displaying information about target vertebrae on which the implantation is to be performed and inserting a spacing device between two adjacent vertebrae to achieve a desired relationship there between. The method further includes planning placement of the spinal plate to achieve a desired relationship between the two adjacent vertebrae and defining a virtual cutting boundary on a virtual representation of each of the first and the second vertebrae according to the planned placement of the spinal plate. The method further includes tracking the vertebrae using a tracking array and tracking a position of a cutting tool held by a force feedback device as the tool is manipulated to form a sculpted cavity independently on each vertebrae for receiving the spinal plate, and providing force feedback to the user indicative of interaction between the tool and the virtual cutting boundary.
US10568696B2
A method including generating a 3-D model of an unstenosed geometry of a blood vessel responsive to a 3-D model of an actual geometry of the blood vessel, establishing a parametric description of a stent that is expanded from a collapsed configuration to a final configuration that apposes the unstenosed geometry, developing a design for the stent by varying parameters of the parametric description responsive to a design heuristic that includes risk of stent strut breakage during a plastic deformation between the collapsed configuration and the final configuration, embodying the stent according to the design for the stent, inserting the stent into a blood vessel in its collapsed configuration, maneuvering the stent through the blood vessel to a stenosis, and expanding the stent to its final configuration.
US10568695B2
Embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products for treating skin lesions. Aspects include receiving an indication that a patient is oriented. Aspects also include acquiring data concerning an area of the patient, the area including a skin lesion. Aspects also include analyzing the data to distinguish between an affected region and an unaffected region of the area of the patient. Aspects also include excising the affected area.
US10568694B2
A method and system for performing a biopsy guided by a 3D image of the object obtained from digital tomosynthesis is performed. The method includes applying a compression paddle to an object; performing a tomosynthesis scan; reconstructing at least a portion of the scan; locating a lesion using a displayed or reprojected marker to determine a location of the lesion; correlating the location of the lesion in the scan to a marker on the compression paddle or tool holder; and proposing a needle entry point of a biopsy tool based off of the correlation so that a needle or penetration device will effectively reach the lesion or target if it is inserted at the proposed entry point. A system for performing a biopsy is further disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises: a tomosynthesis imaging apparatus for performing a tomosynthesis scan comprising an x-ray source and an x-ray detector; at least one marker; a compression paddle; a controller; and a display screen for displaying at least a portion of a reproduction of a tomosynthesis scan generated by the imaging apparatus, wherein (i) the at least one marker is displayed on the reproduction, the marker being used to determine a lesion location or target, and (ii) the controller correlates the lesion location or target with the at least one marker and generates a proposed needle entry point based on the correlation so that a needle or penetration device will effectively reach the lesion or target if it is inserted at the proposed entry point.
US10568688B2
An ablation catheter comprises an elongate catheter body and a branch electrode element. The elongate catheter body has a central axis, a distal end, and a proximal end. The elongate catheter body is configured to be steered within a heart chamber. The branch electrode element has a base end and a working end or tip. The base end is secured to the elongate catheter body at a location spaced proximally of the distal end and an effector on the working end. The branch electrode element is configured to evert when the distal end of the elongate catheter body is in a pulmonary vein ostium or os so that the effector can be selectively engaged against locations surrounding the pulmonary vein os which differ in radial direction and distance. One or more of linear or curved ablation patterns are generated on tissue adjacent the pulmonary vein os with the effector.
US10568683B2
An arrangement where surgical instrument having shaft with end effector mounted thereon is provided with rotation wheel to allow user to rotate shaft during use into desired angular position. To allow compact and reliable mechanism the rotation wheel, outer edge of which is generally accessible at external surface of instrument, has internal space around axis of wheel within which is provided part of actuation mechanism for end effector. To allow rotation of actuation mechanism with end effector, part of actuation mechanism located within wheel rotationally mutually engages with inner surface of internal space within wheel, wherein rotation of wheel by user causes actuation mechanism to rotate, which in turn rotates shaft wherein end effector is mounted. Providing benefits allowing otherwise redundant space within rotation wheel to accommodate part of actuation mechanism for end effector, improving compactness of device, whilst still allowing rotation of end-effector and its corresponding actuation mechanism.
US10568679B2
A method includes receiving locations of multiple ablation sites formed on a surface of a heart. Distances are measured among at least some of the ablation sites based on the locations. One or more gaps between the ablation sites, which meet an alerting criterion, are identified. The identified gaps are indicated to an operator.
US10568677B2
Surgical instruments and methods for delivering bone anchor assemblies into bone are disclosed herein. Use of these anchors or instruments can eliminate one or more of the steps in a conventional bone anchor installation procedure, improving surgical efficiency and safety. In general, a surgical instrument can include a handle assembly having an elongate shaft extending distally therefrom. The handle assembly can be configured to axially translate a stylet extending therethrough relative to a bone anchor assembly coupled to the elongate shaft, and it can be configured to move the stylet proximally in response to distal advancement of a bone anchor assembly into bone. The surgical instruments can include various mechanisms for adjusting the position of the stylet.
US10568676B2
A system for repairing separated body tissues includes a tensioning device comprising two proximal handles for grasping, a pair of movable distal tensioning tips, a pivot between the proximal handle and distal tensioning tips, and suture holding clamps proximal to the tensioning tips. The tensioning device is used in conjunction with a buckle with lock bars and a tensioning tab for securing and tensioning suture. The tensioning tab is provided to secure the lock bar in its first position until tension on the suture exceeds a predetermined level.
US10568664B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for treating the vertebral column. An implant for treating the spine is provided comprising at least two articulations between the spacer and the bone facing surface of the fixation plate. Another implant for treating the spine is also provided, comprising two or more fixation plates attached to a spacer with two or more articulations, wherein the fixation plates are independently movable.
US10568662B2
An orthopedic clamp for affixing at least two fixation members relative to each other is disclosed. The clamp includes a first clamp comprising first outer and inner jaws that define first clamping surfaces that form a first recess, and a second clamp comprising second outer and inner jaws that define second clamping surfaces that form a second recess. The clamps also include a post extending from the second outer jaw and through the second inner jaw, the first inner jaw and the first outer jaw. The post defines a clamping axis, and the second recess defines an axis that intersects the clamping axis. The clamp further includes a clamping nut threadably coupled to the post configured to exert a clamping force to the first and second clamps to fix at least one of a first fixation member within the first recess and a second fixation member within the second recess.
US10568660B2
A radial sealing assembly comprises an upper pressing plate, a protection sheet, a positioning plate, a funnel-shaped sealing ring, a lower pressing plate and a corrugated sealing ring. The upper pressing plate is provided with at least two convex connecting hooks for connection with the positioning plate; the lower pressing plate is provided with at least two connecting slots for connection with the positioning plate; the positioning plate is provided with at least two connecting slots for connection with the upper pressing plate and at least two convex connecting hooks for connection with the lower pressing plate; and both the upper pressing plate and the lower pressing plate are connected to the positioning plate by adopting concave-convex engagement structures.
US10568655B2
Atherectomy catheters and methods of using them are described herein. In particular, described herein are optical coherence tomography (OCT) catheters that may include a distal tip that can be deflected away from the long axis of the device using a multi-channel bushing. The bushing may include at a hinge point that is offset (e.g., located on a side of the elongate body near the distal end of the elongate body) and a rotatable cutter near an imaging assembly that can be driven against the wall with a high mechanical advantage.
US10568642B2
A bone surgery grinding experimental device capable of cooling and electrostatic atomization film formation, including a linear three-axis platform capable of moving front, back, left, right, up and down, an electric spindle and a workpiece fixing device, wherein linear three-axis platform includes an X axis structure capable of carrying out left and right movement, Y axis structure capable of carrying out front and back movement and Z axis structure capable of carrying out up and down movement, the workpiece fixing device is fixed on the Y axis structure, and electric spindle is fixed on the Z axis structure and is installed at workpiece fixing device's upper end; a grinding head is installed at the electric spindle's lower end, a grinding cooling device is arranged inside a grinding head handle or on the grinding head's surrounding, and an electrostatic atomization film formation device is arranged on the grinding head's surrounding.
US10568639B2
A surgical method and tool for expanding an initial osteotomy (42) to receive a bone implant (44). An osteotome (22) having a tapered working end (28) is inserted into the initial osteotomy (42). The initial osteotomy (42) is enlarged by simultaneously rotating and pushing the working end (28) of the tapered osteotome (22) into the osteotomy (42). When rotated in one direction the burnishing edges (40) concentrate the pushing and rotational force in outward normal and tangential component forces against the interior surface of the osteotomy (42) to incrementally expand the osteotomy (42) with little to no removal of bone material (46). When rotated in the opposite direction the burnishing edges cut the interior surface of the osteotomy. Progressively larger tapered osteotomes (22) are used until an osteotomy (42) of predetermined size is achieved.
US10568632B2
A surgical stapling instrument is disclosed. The stapling instrument comprises an end effector including a staple cartridge comprising a circular array of staple cavities and staples removably stored in the staple cavities and, in addition, an anvil configured to deform the staples which is movable toward the staple cartridge to clamp tissue therebetween. The anvil is movable away from the staple cartridge to release the tissue after the tissue has been stapled. The stapling instrument further comprises a lockout configured to prevent the anvil from being moved toward the staple cartridge once again until the staple cartridge has been replaced with an unfired staple cartridge.
US10568631B2
The head of a stapler for mucosectomy comprises an external goblet-shaped body (1) wherein an internal goblet-shaped body (2) is concentrically and slidingly located, at the edge of which a circular blade (3) is fixed. The internal goblet-shaped body (2) is provided with a central hole (5) wherein a rod (6) is slidingly inserted, at the end (7) of which an anvil (8; 8′) is fixed. One or more annular grooves (11), which are parallel and suitably spaced one from the other, are formed on the lateral surface of the rod (6) perpendicularly to the axis thereof. Said grooves (11) are intended to receive a portion of mucosa (9a) which is included in a purse string suture as the mucosa is tied around the rod (6). By retracting the rod (6) in the central hole (5) of the stem (2a) of the Internal goblet-shaped body (2) the mucosa to be removed is carried into the internal goblet-shaped body (2). The anvil (8; 8′) and the circular blade (3) are moved closer one to the other, by suitable means, in order to cut the tissues when the stapler is in a closed position.
US10568630B2
The present disclosure provides modular magnetic anastomosis devices that can be implemented in digestive surgery or in any circumstance of anastomosis between adjacent organs or two hollow viscera. The device is minimally invasive and easily and quickly delivered using laparoscopic or endoscopic procedures.
US10568619B2
A surgical access device includes a tissue retractor including a flexible body configured to engage tissue surrounding a tissue opening. A plurality of surgical instrument channels is arranged in a central portion of the tissue retractor. Each surgical instrument channel is configured to guide a surgical instrument distally through the surgical access device. At least one needle entrance port is arranged on a proximal portion of the surgical access device. At least one needle exit port is arranged distally of the needle entrance port. The at least one needle entrance port and the at least one needle exit port are configured to cooperate to define a needle channel extending distally through the surgical access device and obliquely relative to a central axis thereof. The needle channel is configured to guide a suture passer needle through the surgical access device and adjacent tissue to facilitate closure of the tissue opening.
US10568617B2
Meniscal repair devices, systems, and methods are provided.
US10568616B2
An inserter assembly for inserting anchors into bone includes a handle having a handle body. A first inserter is disposed within the handle body and is fixedly connected thereto. The first inserter has an insertion end configured to retain a first anchor for insertion thereof into bone. A second inserter is slidably disposed within the handle body and has an insertion end configured to retain a second anchor for insertion thereof into bone. A sleeve is slidably disposed within the handle body and is releasably connected to the second inserter.
US10568615B2
A surgical device is presented that combines multiple components and functions, such as, joint distraction, soft tissue distraction, a separation force that exerts a uniform tension on the knee ligaments, pre-aligned cut guides, and posterior cut guards that protect the posterior knee joint from unintentional damage by the surgical saw. A method of performing a partial knee replacement is also presented.
US10568614B2
The present embodiments provide a system for facilitating closure of a bodily opening. In one embodiment, the system comprises an anchor having a deployed state dimensioned for engaging tissue surrounding the opening, a first tether coupled to the anchor and extending proximally therefrom, and a graft member comprising a first bore disposed therein. The anchor may comprise a width that is larger than a width of the opening such that the anchor is disposed securely within or distal to the opening. The first tether is dimensioned to be disposed through the first bore in the graft member, such that the graft member is advanced distally over the first tether. The graft member then may be secured to the anchor. Various anchor designs are provided along with a supporting framework that may be coupled to the graft member.
US10568613B2
A device for performing a procedure may include an elongate tube having a proximal end and a distal end and an adapted link having a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end may include a first mating surface, where the proximal end may be configured to attach to the distal end of the elongate tube. The device may also include a rotating link having a second mating surface configured to rotatably interface with the adapted link first mating surface.
US10568612B2
A device for tissue sampling that comprises a needle, a stylet and a sealing member. The needle comprises a distal tip, a proximal end, and one or more interior portions. The needle extends along a longitudinal axis extending between the distal tip and the proximal end. The stylet is moveably supported within the one or more interior portions of the needle. The sealing member Is moveably supported within the one or more interior portions of the needle and substantially conforms to the one or more interior portions, The distal tip is configured to obtain a tissue sample. The stylet and the sealing member are movable, along the longitudinal axis away from the distal tip so that a local vacuum is created at the distal tip so that obtained tissue samples can be aspirated into the needle.
US10568596B2
The present disclosure provides a table and an imaging system and method for PET/CT imaging. The table may include a base, a bracket, and a plate movable relative to the bracket. The bracket may include a releasing position, a CT scan position, and a PET scan position. The table may extend the scan range of the CT scanner without changing the size of the imaging system.
US10568595B2
A portable radiation imaging apparatus including: a detection section which includes a plurality of radiation detection elements for accumulating electric charges corresponding to a radiation amount, the radiation detection elements being two-dimensionally arranged; and a control section which controls accumulation of the electric charges in the radiation detection elements and reading of the accumulated electric charges from the radiation detection elements and generates a plurality of frame images of a subject, the electric charges to be accumulated corresponding to the radiation amount of radiation emitted in a pulsed manner by a radiation source and transmitted through the subject, wherein the control section adjusts a synchronization timing between the radiation source and the detection section by using a waveform of radiation emitted by the radiation source, the waveform being obtained by reading electric charges from at least a part of the plurality of radiation detection elements.
US10568576B2
Transducer-based systems and methods may be configured to display a graphical representation of a transducer-based device, the graphical representation including graphical elements corresponding to transducers of the transducer-based device, and also including between graphical elements respectively associated with a set of the transducers and respectively associated with a region of space between the transducers of the transducer-based device. Selection of graphical elements and/or between graphical elements can cause activation of the set of transducers associated with the selected elements. Transducer activation characteristics, such as initiation time, activation duration, activation sequence, and energy delivery characteristics, can vary based on numerous factors. Visual characteristics of graphical elements and between graphical elements can change based on an activation-status of the corresponding transducers. Activation requests for a set of transducers can be denied if it is determined that a transducer in the set of transducers is unacceptable for activation.
US10568574B2
An electrode device is disclosed comprising: an elongate, implantable body comprising elastomeric material, a plurality of electrodes positioned along a length of the implantable body; an electrical connection comprising one or more conductive elements extending through the elastomeric material and electrically connecting to the electrodes; and a reinforcement device extending through the elastomeric material. The length of the implantable body is extendible by placing the implantable body under tension. The reinforcement device limits the degree by which the length of the implantable body can extend under tension. At least one of the electrodes can extend circumferentially around a portion of the implantable body. A delivery device and method of delivery for an electrode device is also disclosed.
US10568573B2
Users of head-mounted displays (HMDs) often experience nausea and other symptoms often referred to a “virtual reality sickness.” Various health and biometric sensors are employed to gather baseline sensor measurements. The HMD or a device associated with it can then generate a range or threshold such that any future sensor measurements that fall outside of the range or cross the threshold suggest a health concern for the user of the HMD. The HMD can also be coupled to a microphone, and natural language processing (NLP) is employed to detect negative words or noises made by the user that could also suggest a health concern for the user. After detecting the health concern, the HMD can warn its user, can shut off certain functions, can communicate with an external device, or can trigger an alarm.
US10568572B2
Example headsets and electrodes are described herein. Example electrode units described herein include a guide defining an opening and an electrode disposed in the opening. The electrode has a housing, a spring, and a pin. The pin is biased outward from a first end of the housing via the first spring. The example electrode units also include a second spring disposed over the opening adjacent a second end of the housing.
US10568567B1
A method of treating a patient for a disease, such as arthritis, is described. Steps include treating an animal for the disease with a first treatment, capturing video frames, then using optical flow to compute vector fields for each frame, then taking a maximum vector value over a first time period, then selecting a set of maximum vector values over a second time period, then clipping those values to a maximum, and then computing an average of those values. This value is an efficacy and it is compared to a baseline efficacy. If the treatment is efficacious, the patient is so treated. A method of applying for a drug for approval is also described, using substantially the same steps.
US10568563B2
A device for measuring roughness and shine of hair, comprising a) a first area comprising an ascending gradient of shine, and b) a second area comprising an ascending gradient of roughness, wherein the first area is aligned to the second area, and wherein the ascending gradient of shine and the ascending gradient of texture are inverse to each other, and wherein the roughness is provided by a textured pattern which is textured to mimic hair.
US10568561B2
A system and method for the non-invasive measurement of tone, state of tension, biomechanical or viscoelastic properties of soft biological tissues includes a testing-end, an actuator arranged to apply a force to the testing-end, and a sensor to sense movement of the testing-end. A signal generating circuit supplies a control signal to the actuator so the biological tissues are subjected by the testing-end to a load, including means to adjust the signal provided by the signal generating circuit in accordance with the component of weight acting through the testing-end onto the biological tissue so that the load to which the biological tissue is subjected is constant. An impulse signal generating circuit supplies an impulse signal to the actuator so the biological tissue is subjected by the testing-end to a mechanical deformation. In use the soft biological tissue is subjected first to the constant load, and then to the impulse signal; and the consequent movement of the biological tissue is then registered.
US10568553B2
A reusable sensor is disclosed for producing a signal indicative of at least one physiological parameter of tissue. The sensor can include a sensor housing that has a distal opening, a wire lumen, and a proximal opening. The distal opening can include a lumen extending through the body of the sensor housing and the wire lumen can be located on the outside of the sensor housing. The sensor can also include a first component located on a top surface of the sensor housing and along the pathway of the wire lumen. The sensor can also include a second component located on the bottom surface of the sensor housing opposite of the first component. The second component can also be located along the pathway of the wire lumen. The sensor can also include a wire coaxially disposed within the wire lumen and connecting the first component and second component.
US10568544B2
The development and manufacture of thermal interface materials including, among other forms, greases, pastes, gels, adhesives, pads, sheets, solders and phase change materials, with good through-plane thermal conductivity for thermal interface applications. The good through-plane thermal conductivity is achieved through the formation of a conductive network by the use of thermal conductive material-coated fillers, combinations of thermal conductive material-coated fillers and uncoated fillers.
US10568541B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for the detecting of whether a subject has a lung disorder such as asthma, tuberculosis or lung cancer. Monitoring the subject's health and prognosis is also disclosed.
US10568535B2
A surgical guidance system has two cameras to provide stereo image stream of a surgical field; and a stereo viewer. The system has a 3D surface extraction module that generates a first 3D model of the surgical field from the stereo image streams; a registration module for co-registering annotating data with the first 3D model; and a stereo image enhancer for graphically overlaying at least part of the annotating data onto the stereo image stream to form an enhanced stereo image stream for display, where the enhanced stereo stream enhances a surgeon's perception of the surgical field. The registration module has an alignment refiner to adjust registration of the annotating data with the 3D model based upon matching of features within the 3D model and features within the annotating data; and in an embodiment, a deformation modeler to deform the annotating data based upon a determined tissue deformation.
US10568532B2
A method includes accepting from a medical imaging system a plurality of map points, each map point including a respective coordinate on a surface of a body organ measured by bringing a medical probe into proximity with the surface. An operator input, which specifies a spatial density at which the map points are to be displayed, is accepted. A subset of the map points is selected responsively to the operator input. The surface is visualized at the specified spatial density by displaying the selected subset of the map points.
US10568525B1
In one embodiment, a method for creating a blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) value, the method comprises receiving one or more photoplethysmography (PPG) signals for SpO2 detection from one or more PPG sensors; receiving one or more PPG signals for characterizing a heart rate from the one or more PPG sensors; using the one or more PPG signals for SpO2 detection, forming one or more SpO2 datasets wherein the SpO2 datasets respectively comprise one or more noise components; removing the one or more noise components from the one or more SpO2 datasets that are inconsistent with a feature of the one or more PPG signals characterizing the heart rate to produce one or more filtered SpO2 datasets; and using the one or more filtered SpO2 datasets, creating and storing the SpO2.
US10568509B2
A medical device system includes a first medical device and a second medical device. The first medical devices includes a first measuring unit that acquires measurement data of vital signs of a patient and a first communication unit that transmits the measurement data acquired by the first measuring unit to the second medical device. The second medical device includes a second communication unit that receives the measurement data from the first communication unit. The first and second medical devices are configured so that if certification processing succeeds, the measurement data is permitted to be used in the second medical device.
US10568507B2
Certain embodiments pertain to pupil ptychography methods and systems.
US10568506B2
A spectroreflectometric system for performing a spectral analysis on the fundus of a patient's eye is provided. The system projects probing light towards the fundus of the eye and collects return light representative of an image of the fundus. An interface module positioned at a sensing interface at an image plane of the fundus is provided and includes an optical fiber light collector having a collector input extending along the sensing interface for collecting the return light, and a collector output connectable to an imaging device. The interface module further includes at least one extraction optical fiber having a fiber input extending at the sensing interface and a fiber output connectable to a spectral analyser. The fiber input is integrated into the collector input so as to collect a portion of the return light corresponding to an analysis area within the image of the fundus.
US10568501B2
An apparatus for motion compensated modelling of a parameter of an eye, comprising: a first measuring means for measuring a plurality of position parameters of the eye with respect to an optical reference coordinate system of the apparatus; a second measuring means for measuring an interference signal at a plurality of optical reference coordinates, wherein the measurement of the plurality of position parameters and measurement of the interference signal are time synchronised; means for correcting the interference signal to account for a displacements of a parameter of the plurality of position parameters; and means for modelling the eye parameter based at least in part on the corrected interference signal.
US10568499B2
A medical apparatus is described for providing visualization of a surgical site. The medical apparatus includes an electronic display disposed within a display housing, the electronic display configured to produce a two-dimensional image. The medical apparatus includes a display optical system disposed within the display housing, the display optical system comprising a plurality of lens elements disposed along an optical path. The display optical system is configured to receive the two-dimensional image from the electronic display, produce a beam with a cross-section that remains substantially constant along the optical path, and produce a collimated beam exiting the opening in the display housing. The medical apparatus can also include an auxiliary video camera configured to provide an oblique view of a patient on the electronic display without requiring a surgeon to adjust their viewing angle through oculars viewing the electronic display.
US10568485B2
A surface disinfecting assembly for sterilizing a sole of a shoe includes a box that is positionable on a floor and is positioned adjacent to a selected area such that the box can be stepped in. A pad is positionable in the box and the pad is infused with a fluid antiseptic. In this way the pad sanitize a sole of the shoe thereby inhibiting the shoe from transferring bacteria into the selected area. A cushion is positionable adjacent to the box and the cushion can be stepped upon. The cushion is comprised of a fluid absorbent material for absorbing the fluid antiseptic from the sole of the shoe after the pad is stepped upon.
US10568484B2
A method for continuously producing a cleaning member obtained from a multilayer web that includes at least a fiber bundle with hollow fibers, and non-woven fabric strips includes at least: a step for preparing a guide member provided with a pair of width-adjusting member, and having a predetermined interval; a step for conveying a fiber bundle strip, such as the fiber bundle with hollow fibers, between the pair of width-adjusting members of the guide member, and adjusting the width of the fiber bundle strip so as to match the aforementioned interval; a step for forming the multilayer web by overlaying the strip-like fiber bundle, the width of which has been adjusted, on the non-woven fabric strips; and a step for joining the components of the multilayer web.
US10568478B2
A system for the collection and containment of vacuumed dust and debris, and more particularly to waste disposal bags for placement over a portion of a bagless vacuum cleaner, and into which the waste contents of the vacuum cleaner are emptied. The system includes a mouth with a projecting lip, a non-projecting lip and a light tack adhesive strip on the projecting or non-projecting lip. When the mouth is constricted about a portion of the bagless vacuum cleaner, the light tack adhesive strip adheres the bag for temporary affixment to the vacuum cleaner. The projecting lip serves as a flap that is folded over the mouth to seal the bag after the filled bag is separated from the vacuum cleaner.
US10568471B2
A separation unit for separating a web material along preformed lines of weakness. The separation unit has a width direction and includes a first roller having a rotational axis extending in the width direction and a web width extending in the width direction, and a second roller having a rotational axis extending parallel with the rotational axis of the first roller and a web width extending in the width direction. The second roller is positioned at a distance from the first roller. Each of the first and the second rollers is provided with a plurality of protrusion elements being spaced along the rotational axes and protruding perpendicular from the axes. Each of the protrusion elements has a maximum width in the width direction, a maximum radial extension from the rotational axes, an inner portion adjacent to the rotational axes, and an outer portion remote from the rotational axes.
US10568464B2
The invention relates to a strainer for a food container that comprises apertures suitable for allowing liquids to drain therethrough, which is provided with at least two holes through which two fingers of a user can be inserted to a level below the strainer's plane, said strainer being bendable by the action of forces applied by said fingers.
US10568458B2
The present invention relates to a heating device (10) for heating food (12) in a container (14), in particular milk in a baby bottle, comprising a chamber (16) configured to contain a fluid (18) and to receive the container (14), a heating unit (20) for heating the fluid (18) in the chamber (16), a temperature measuring element (22) for measuring a temperature of the fluid (18) over a time range, a calculation unit (24) for determining, for each time point of the time range being a first time point, a temperature difference of the fluid (18) between the first time point and a corresponding second time point of the time range different from the first time point, the calculation unit (24) being configured to compare the determined temperature difference to a predefined amount of temperature, and an estimation unit (26) for estimating an arrival time point, at which a pre-set temperature for the food (12) contained in the container (14) is reached, based on the comparison result of the calculation unit (24).
US10568456B2
A beverage supply device can suppress a decline of a temperature of hot water remaining in a hot-water delivery piping for guiding the hot water pumped up by a pump to a beverage extraction unit without increasing a cost. The beverage supply device with a hot-water tank storing the hot water heated by a built-in heater is provided with the hot-water delivery piping for guiding the hot water pumped up by the pump arranged below the hot-water tank to the beverage extraction unit. The hot-water delivery piping is arranged to pass through the hot-water tank so that the hot water remaining in the hot-water delivery piping during a stand-by time is kept warm at a temperature of the hot water inside the hot-water tank by the hot water inside the hot-water tank.
US10568453B2
Disclosed are a coffee brewing device and a coffee capsule machine having same. The coffee brewing device comprises: a brewing support (10); a capsule holder assembly (4) fixedly installed on the brewing support (10); a movable head assembly (1) installed on the brewing support (10); a driving device configured to drive the movable head assembly (1); and an automatic capsule-dropping mechanism comprising a capsule supporting plate (5), a transmission mechanism and an elastic reset component; wherein the capsule supporting plate (5) is rotatably installed at the bottom of the capsule holder assembly (4) via a rotating shaft (16), and has a supporting position and a non-supporting position; the transmission mechanism is arranged between the capsule supporting plate (5) and the movable head assembly (1), and is configured to drive the capsule supporting plate (5) to rotate from the supporting position to the non-supporting position when the movable head assembly (1) moves away from the capsule holder assembly (4); and the elastic reset component is configured to drive the capsule supporting plate (5) to rotate from the non-supporting position to the supporting position. The coffee brewing device can achieve an automatic capsule-dropping function, is convenient to operate, and has a high degree of safety.
US10568452B2
A brewing unit includes two brewing chamber portions movable with respect to each other, and a guide for guiding a capsule from an insertion aperture to a brewing position. The guide includes guiding channels configured to engage a flange of the capsule and a respective retention member arranged on each guiding channel for retaining the capsule in the brewing position before and during closing the brewing chamber portions, and to disengage the capsule when the brewing chamber portions are moved apart after completion of a brewing cycle. A control member is configured to space apart the retention members upon completion of the brewing cycle, so that a spent capsule is released from the guiding channels when the brewing chamber portions are moved towards an open position. The control member is configured to prevent spacing apart of the retention members when the brewing chamber portions are moved towards a closed position.
US10568433B2
A lordosis support for a seat back rest, includes a support plate, tension members for holding the support plate between two frame legs of the seat back rest, the support plate having on each side at least one point of attack for a respective tension member, and an adjusting device for adjusting a tension force of the tension members by changing the distance between the two points of attack, wherein the distance between the two points of attack is adjustable and the adjusting device is configured to change this distance, wherein the support plate is a one-piece support plate, and the two points of attack are linearly moveably arranged at the one-piece support plate for translational movement.
US10568430B1
A rocking director's chair comprises a chair frame and two rocking bar assemblies, wherein the chair frame is sleeved with a chair cloth, and the two rocking bar assemblies are mounted on the left side and the right side of a rear part of the chair frame.
US10568429B2
Rocker style chairs and rocker style chairs are provided along with modular components for use within rocker style chairs and parts for assembling within the modular components. The related components and chair assemblies minimize manufacturing time, maximize material usage and decrease related installation time. The related rocker style chairs may provide comfort to chair occupants and minimize noise during related chair component motion.
US10568424B2
A drawer pull-out guide includes a fastening portion having a vertical limb and a transverse limb protruding from the vertical limb. The transverse limb is connected to a limb of the carcass rail, an extension rail is displaceably supported relative to the carcass rail, and a rolling body is arranged between the carcass rail and the extension rail and is supported on a running limb of the carcass rail and/or the extension rail. The limb of the carcass rail has a first limb portion connected to the transverse limb. A second limb portion of the carcass rail, in an unloaded condition of the drawer pull-out guide, is spaced from the transverse limb by a gap, and can be tilted or bent towards the transverse limb. Therefore, a change of relative position between the running limb and the rolling body can be compensated for, and the gap can be reduced.
US10568411B2
A brush head (100), including: an elastomeric matrix (30) including a first surface (32); a plurality of retention rings (50) disposed in the elastomeric matrix, each of which includes a first end (51), a second end (53) positioned closer to the first surface of the elastomeric matrix than the first end, an interior wall (55) forming an interior space (59) with a central longitudinal axis (111), and an exterior wall (57). At least one of the interior wall and the exterior wall of at least a first retention ring of the plurality of retention rings (50) includes a taper (61, 67, 73, 63, 69, 71). A plurality of bristle tufts (21), each of which comprises a plurality of bristle strands, having a proximal end (23) and a free end (25), is retained at its proximal end within the interior space of one of the plurality of retention rings.
US10568408B2
A suspension device for hanging seats and hammocks including apertures arranged in a basic body for receiving and guiding a suspension rope. The basic body is realized in at least two parts and is composed of an upper part which receives the suspension rope to be length-adjustable and a lower part which is movably mounted on the upper part and comprises at least one holding body for the fastening of the hanging seat or the hammock. A first aperture enters into the upper part of the basic body approximately at the top for receiving and guiding the suspension rope and exits out of the upper part again from a side outlet opening. A second aperture extends in the upper part of the basic body and exits from the upper body on both sides and comprises an inlet opening below the side outlet opening of the first aperture.
US10568405B2
A nail polish system includes a nail polish cap and a plurality of nail polish applicator brushes. The nail polish cap has an outer handling surface and an inner applicator brush engagement portion. Each nail polish applicator brush includes a stem, a plurality of bristles, and a cap engagement portion. The stem extends from a stem inboard end to a stem outboard end. The plurality of bristles extend longitudinally from a bristle inboard end, connected to the stem outboard end, to a bristle outboard end. The cap engagement portion is connected to the stem inboard end. The cap engagement end is removably connectable to the inner applicator brush engagement portion of the nail polish cap.
US10568403B2
A hair styling accessory includes an elongated hair board having a widened end and a narrowed end with elongated edges extending between the widened end and the narrowed end, a plurality of holes extend through the hair board from an upper surface to a lower surface. At least one end-clip having open and closed orientations and biased into the closed orientation. The at least one end-clip is designed to be positioned in the closed orientation over the narrowed end of the hair board and to grip a lock of hair against one of the upper and lower surfaces. At least one side-clip having open and closed orientations and biased into the closed orientation. The at least one side-clip is designed to be positioned in the closed orientation over one of the elongated edges of the hair board and to grip the lock of hair.
US10568402B2
A luggage transport system includes a first piece of luggage and a transport platform coupled to the first piece of luggage and adapted for supporting at least one additional piece of luggage when in a working position, wherein the transport platform has a first part and a second part pivotably connected to the first part, wherein the second part is substantially perpendicular to the first part when the transport platform is in the working position.
US10568401B2
An adaptable luggage case includes a complete plurality of detachably connected components, including a first reduction group of components and a first reduced plurality of components that includes a second reduction group of components and second reduced plurality of components; such that the first reduced plurality of components assembles into a first reduced size luggage case, which is smaller than the adaptable luggage case; such that the second reduced plurality of components assembles into a second reduced size luggage case, which is smaller than the first reduced size luggage case.
US10568400B2
A luggage article comprising a body including a top face, a bottom face, an a plurality of side faces. A first pair of wheels is disposed at the bottom face of the body. A handle has a first operative orientation wherein the handle is disposed within the body and a second operative orientation wherein the handle extracted from the body. A central wheel is functionally associated with the handle, such that in the first operative orientation of the handle, the central wheel is retracted and disposed in or adjacent a face of the body, and in the second operative orientation the central wheel is extracted and extends outwardly from the body.
US10568386B2
An adjustable heel support member includes a base portion and an extended portion. The extended portion comprises a lateral portion, a medial portion and a rearward portion. The heel support member further includes a fastening member that can be used to adjust the lateral portion, the medial portion and the rearward portion to resize the heel support member. In some cases, the fastening member may be an elastic ring.
US10568384B2
An insole for open-styled footwear that includes a mating attachment system for variably affixing the insole into footwear.
US10568372B2
A neckwear includes a neckband and a neckband module and may further include one or more fastener members and one or more display segments for coins, medals or bars. The neckband is connected to said neckband module, and said one or more fastener members pivotably connects said neckband module and said one or more display segments. Also provided for a neckwear are a hermetically sealed neckband module or display segment, a display segment configured to be intra-changeable, display inserts for a neckband module or display segments, torso segments, and a neckband module with a member of a fastener to accommodate interchangeable display segments.
US10568367B2
A sports bra with flexible reinforcements that aid in reducing inertia caused by movement of the breast weight when a person engages in physical activities.
US10568361B2
A press-type and nasal-inhaling-type smoking paraphernalia for heating cigarettes includes a roasting-type heating device and a press puffing device, wherein the roasting-type heating device heats the cigarette in the radiated manner; and the press puffing device drives the relevant mechanism to compress the smoke by the user pressing the piston support, and the compressed smoke spurts out from the air outlet for snorting by the user, which avoids the design of the complicated gas channel in the traditional electric heating smoking paraphernalia, the local overheating of the cigarette, and the direct contact of the mouth with the cigarette filter.
US10568358B2
An exemplary atomizing head includes a main body, a liquid inlet, an air inlet, an air outlet, an air passage, a connecting electrode, a liquid conducting element in the main body, a heating element in the main body, and a connecting part. The air passage is in communication with the air inlet and the air outlet. The liquid conducting element is configured for absorbing tobacco liquid flowed in through the liquid inlet. The heating element is in contact with the liquid conducting element, and configured for heating the tobacco liquid absorbed in the liquid conducting element to form aerosol. The aerosol is expelled via the air passage. The connecting part is configured for coupling with an atomizer. The atomizing head further includes a temperature sensing element configured for sensing a temperature of the aerosol.
US10568357B2
A rod is provided, formed from a first sheet including an aerosol-forming material and a second sheet including a thermally-conductive material, the first and second sheets being gathered together and circumscribed by a wrapper. The rod may be used as a component part of an aerosol-generating article.
US10568345B2
To provide a bottled carbonated drink containing indigestible dextrin, capable of reducing exuding of a dissolved carbon dioxide. The bottled carbonated drink containing indigestible dextrin, including a caramel pigment and a high-intensity sweetener is provided.
US10568343B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to methods and systems for purifying proteins and carbohydrate rich products from photosynthetic aquatic species and compositions thereof. For example, one embodiment of the present disclosure relates to methods and systems for purifying proteins the present disclosure relates, in some embodiments to methods and systems for extracting proteins, dry biocrude, and carbohydrate-rich meal from Lemna. In some embodiments, a method of treating a biomass comprising a microcrop (e.g., Lemna) to produce a product comprising soluble microcrop protein may comprise: (a) lysing a first portion of the biomass to form a first portion of lysed biomass; (b) separating the first portion of lysed biomass to generate a first portion of a juice fraction and a first portion of a solid fraction; (c) separating the first portion of the juice fraction to generate a first portion of a first juice and a first portion of a first cake, wherein the first juice comprises a soluble microcrop protein; and/or (d) filtering the first portion of the first juice to generate a first portion of the product comprising soluble microcrop protein and a reject stream.
US10568339B2
Methods and/or processes for obtaining coffee extracts and/or processing coffee beans. In certain embodiments, improved methods and/or processes for producing desirable and usable extracts from coffee beans which can be used for instant coffee type powders or liquids, for example. In certain other embodiments, improved coffee extraction techniques which permit or allow retainment or capture of desirable levels of aroma products and/or bio-actives from coffee beans.
US10568334B2
A method for preparing frozen or refrigerated fried eggs from whole, fresh eggs, the method comprising: breaking whole, fresh eggs (1) into a support (3) impregnated with edible fat; introducing the support (3) carrying the broken whole fresh eggs (2) into an oven (4) comprising ventilation means; heating the oven until the inner part of the yolk of the broken whole fresh eggs reaches a temperature of 65 to 73° C.; taking said support carrying the eggs out of the oven, wherein said eggs are fried eggs; cooling the fried eggs for reducing their residual heat in order to prevent the inner part of the yolk to exceed 73° C.; freezing or refrigerating the cooled fried eggs.
US10568331B2
To allow simplification of the operating mechanism for automatic charging of auxiliary material, thus enabling compactization/simplification of the automatic bread making machine as well as increased readiness of its cleaning. An auxiliary material accommodating container detachably attachable to an automatic bread making machine. The container includes a base body 31, a first accommodating section 31a, a second accommodating section 31b, a first opening/closing member (a lid member 32 and a frame member 33) and a second opening/closing member (a yeast lid member 34). The first accommodating section 31a and the second accommodating section 31b accommodate auxiliary materials to be charged to bread. The first opening/closing member is pivotable relative to the base body 31 about a pivot axis G to open/close the first accommodating section 31a. The second opening/closing member is pivotable relative to the base body 31 about the pivot axis G to open/close the second accommodating section 31b.
US10568329B2
A synergistic insecticidal composition comprising two components: (A) at least one carbamate insecticide and (B) at least one pyrethroid insecticide is provided. There is also provided a process for preparing the insecticidal composition. A method to prevent, control and/or treat insect infestations in plants, plant parts and/or their surroundings by applying the synergistic insecticidal composition comprising the two components (A) and (B) is also provided.
US10568325B2
Food processing equipment, food contact surfaces, and non-food contact surfaces are sanitized or disinfected using an acid-anionic surfactant solution that has efficacy in hard water, is non-corrosive, and is stable at elevated temperatures. The sanitizing/disinfecting solution is prepared as a highly concentrated liquid and diluted to end use concentrations prior to application to food processing equipment or food or non-food contact surfaces. Efficacy in hard water is important for sanitizers and disinfectants that are diluted by the end user using potentially hard water. Stability at elevated temperatures is important for long-term storage and transportation. The diluted sanitizing/disinfecting solution exhibits strong antimicrobial activity against gram positive and gram negative bacteria even when diluted in hard water. The sanitizing/disinfecting solution exhibits low toxicity to humans and the environment since it is prepared from low toxicity ingredients that are readily biodegradable.
US10568316B2
A mobile platform structured and operable to perform: in-field phenotype and/or genotype data acquisition; image data acquisition; tissue sampling; selection and/or counting of plants growing in a plot; plant height measurement; product and treatment application to plants growing in the plot (e.g., prescriptive and localized insecticide products); sampling of soil where such plants are growing; removal of weeds in such plots; and real-time analysis of all such data and/or samples acquired/collected. Additionally, when combined with location positioning technology and path planning, such a vehicle is further structured and operable to re-enter a field numerous times throughout a season to accurately and repeatably monitor growing conditions, plant response or prescriptive application of a product.
US10568295B2
A novel hybrid pepper plant, designated Eternity is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of pepper hybrid Eternity, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid pepper Eternity, and to methods for producing a pepper plant by crossing the hybrid pepper Eternity with itself or another pepper plant.
US10568283B1
A novel soybean variety, designated SM27279760 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety SM27279760, cells from soybean variety SM27279760, plants of soybean SM27279760, and plant parts of soybean variety SM27279760. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety SM27279760 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety SM27279760, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety SM27279760, and methods of characterizing soybean variety SM27279760. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety SM27279760 are further provided.
US10568276B1
A raised-bed planter structure includes a plurality of elongated, horizontally extending bed panels secured to elongated, vertically extending joint members to form a close sided structure open at a top and bottom. Each bed panel includes elongated planar edge flanges joined by a longitudinally extending arched center section. The bed panels are constructed from a fiber reinforced resin and formed using a pultrusion process. The bed panels are secured to the joint members by fasteners which extend through ends of the edge flanges. The assembled planter bed structure is positioned at a desired location in a landscape and filled with soil to receive and support plant life.
US10568275B2
A temperature control system includes a shell including an enclosed area, one or more carts moving on a track within the enclosed area, an air supplier within the enclosed area, one or more vents connected to the air supplier and configured to output air within the enclosed area, and a controller. The controller includes one or more processors, one or more memory modules, and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the controller to: identify a plant on the one or more carts, determine a temperature recipe for the identified plant, and control a temperature of the air output from the one or more vents based on the temperature recipe for the identified plant.
US10568274B2
The plant cultivation device includes a frame having four columns, cultivation beds a raising/lowering member, and a cultivation spaces. The cultivation beds are positioned one above the other and each is supported by the affixing claws of the frame. The raising/lowering member has an arm for engaging the cultivation beds and drives vertically between adjacent cultivation beds. The cultivation spaces each formed between vertically adjacent cultivation beds. The affixing claws are fixed to the framed storable in the columns and are driven between a supporting position and a non-supporting position. The arm is fixed to the raising/lowering member storable in the raising/lowering member, and is driven between an engaging position and a non-engaging position.
US10568271B2
A detection arrangement for detecting a state of wear of a chopping assembly comprises at least one magnet arrangement which includes a magnetic excitation arrangement and a flux-conducting device magnetically coupled thereto. The magnet arrangement provides a pole arrangement which forms at least one magnetic pole for outwardly conducting magnetic flux. At least one portion of the chopping blades moves past the pole arrangement during a rotation of the cutting cylinder, and forms an air gap arrangement including at least one air gap with respect to the pole arrangement and, as a result, at least one magnetic circuit excited by the excitation arrangement is closed via the chopping blade. At least one portion of the magnetic flux generated by the magnetic excitation arrangement is longitudinally guided in the chopping blade at least across one longitudinal portion of the chopping blade.
US10568269B2
An agricultural baler for producing rectangular bales, having a reciprocating plunger moving back and forth in the enclosure formed by walls, thereby compressing crop material and forming rectangular bales, and further including at least one actuator for adapting the cross-section of the enclosure depending on the required pressure that needs to be exerted on the advancing bale. Actuators can apply their force on the sidewalls along transversal support beams or brackets forming the ‘density belt’. The baling chamber is provided with one or more friction or moisture sensors which are placed at the location or in the immediate vicinity of one or more side wall reinforcements.
US10568260B2
A trimmer head housing having a first part and a second part. The first and second housing parts are configured to be changed between: a) a first state wherein the first and second housing parts are separated from each other; and b) a second state wherein the housing parts are operatively connected to be movable together around an operating axis. The operatively connected housing parts are configured to support at least one cutting component that is configured to effect cutting as the operatively connected housing parts are turned around the operating axis. The trimmer head housing has interacting parts cooperating between the first and second housing parts and configured to allow the first and second housing parts to be operatively connected with the first and second housing parts in only a single angular relationship with respect to the operating axis.
US10568259B2
A knife head drive assembly for a header of an agricultural harvester including a knife head assembly for attachment to a forward end of the header. A first pivot arm and a second pivot arm are carried by the knife head assembly and are pivotably connected by a linkage. A rotating crank is operatively connected to and extending substantially transverse to the knife head assembly for engagement with a drive. A reciprocating shaft is connected to the rotating crank and either of the pivot arms or the linkage. Operation of the knife head drive assembly results in substantially linear, opposed oscillating motion of cutter bars carried by the knife head assembly.
US10575437B1
An apparatus for providing immersion cooling in a compact-format circuit card environment comprises a plurality of circuit cards, each including first and second subassemblies. Each of the subassemblies is surrounded in a longitudinal-lateral plane by a corresponding first or second perimeter frame. The first and second subassemblies have first and second operating temperatures, respectively. A first temperature tank is formed by first perimeter frames and substantially surrounds the first subassemblies. A second temperature tank is formed by second perimeter frames and substantially surrounds the second circuit card subassemblies. A first temperature cooling supply line selectively introduces the first cooling fluid into the first temperature tank for at least partially inducing the first operating temperature. A second temperature cooling supply line selectively introduces the second cooling fluid into the second temperature tank for at least partially inducing the second operating temperature.
US10575435B2
The present disclosure relates to a storage device and a method of controlling a rotation speed of a fan of the storage device. The storage device comprises: a housing comprising an opening; a fan arranged at an end of the housing opposed to the opening; a tray comprising a plurality of partitions arranged in rows and being operable to be drawn out of or inserted into the housing via the opening in a longitudinal direction of the housing; a plurality of tray position detectors respectively arranged on the plurality of partitions and configured to detect a relative position of the tray with respect to the housing; and a controller adapted to adjust a rotation speed of the fan according to the relative position detected by the tray position detector. The storage device according to the present disclosure can effectively reduce the negative pressure formed in the housing, avoid or reduce the recesses of the housing, and enable the tray to be smoothly inserted into the housing, thereby avoiding damage to the disks therein.
US10575434B2
A heat exchanger assembly includes at least one coil shaped heat exchanger pipe assembly for passing through a fluid to be heated, which has an inlet, an outlet and coil windings extending concentrically around a coil axis. The heat exchanger assembly further includes a housing in which the heat exchanger pipe assembly is received, such that a flue gas transport gap extends between the heat exchanger pipe assembly and the circumferential wall. In use, hot flue gas passes the coil windings, thereby imparting the heat to the fluid present in the heat exchanger pipe assembly. The housing has a first and a second end wall which close off a first end and a second end of the circumferential wall. The housing is made of plastic and the heat exchanger pipe assembly is clamped in axial direction between the first and the second end wall of the plastic housing.
US10575432B1
A system comprises a wheel assembly including a wheel shaft and first and second wheels rotationally coupled to the wheel shaft; a first bracket coupled to a device rack and including a first open slot, the first open slot including a receiving portion configured to receive the wheel shaft at a first position, a delivery portion configured to deliver the wheel shaft upon tilting the rack forwards, and a locking portion configured to secure the wheel shaft upon tilting the rack backwards; and a second bracket configured to be coupled to the rack on a second side and including a second open slot, the second open slot including a receiving portion configured to receive the wheel shaft at a second position, a delivery portion configured to deliver the wheel shaft upon tilting the rack forwards, and a locking portion configured to secure the wheel shaft upon tilting the rack backwards.
US10575428B2
A system includes a rack and one or more server systems mounted in the rack. A server system includes at least one sever node and each server node includes an array of devices including mass storage devices and at least one server device. Segments of the array of devices of a particular server node are mounted in sub-node chassis that include intra node connectors. Multiple sub-node chassis that each include devices such as mass storage devices or server devices of the sever node couple together via the intra node connectors when installed in a server system chassis to form a server node. Each server node of a server system may be a separate logical node. Also, the sub-node chassis of a server node may be configured for vertical airflow through the sub-node chassis in addition to cross airflow.
US10575427B2
Mounting systems can attach electronic devices to a wall such as a wall of a television or a wall of a building. Electronic devices can generate a substantial amount of heat that can be trapped by mounting systems. The mount ventilation systems described herein can allow cool air to flow around electronic devices.
US10575413B2
Apparatuses and methods for forming serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) board edge connectors with electroplated hard gold contacts. One example method can include forming a tie bar on an inner layer of a printed circuit board (PCB), forming a trace on an outer layer of the PCB, forming a via, wherein the via electrically couples the tie bar to the trace, forming a contact coupled to the trace on the outer layer, and sending an electrical charge from the tie bar through the via and the trace to the contact to electroplate the contact.
US10575388B2
A method of configuring and managing a DALI network includes displaying rows of cells on a display of a mobile device. The cells are associated with addresses on DALI networks. The method further includes selecting, by the mobile device, a DALI controller, where DALI controller is connected to a DALI network. The method also includes detecting, by the DALI controller, DALI devices that are on the DALI network, where the DALI devices are controlled by the DALI controller. The DALI controller is configured to detect the DALI devices in response to a request from the mobile device. The method further includes displaying, within some or all cells in the row of cells displayed on the display of the mobile device, icons representing the DALI devices, where each cell having an icon displayed therein is associated with an address of a respective DALI device on the DALI network.
US10575382B2
The present disclosure generally relates to optical modules, and in particular, to an optical module comprising a printed circuit board for reducing crosstalk between differential signal lines. In one implementation, the printed circuit board comprises a top layer, a first intermediate signal transmission layer, a second intermediate signal transmission layer, a bottom layer and multiple ground layers between signal transmission layers. Each signal transmission layer comprises one or more differential signal line pairs. The top layer and the bottom layer each comprises an edge connector, and the top layer further comprises a laser driver chip. The signal transmission layers are connected to the edge connectors and laser driver chips via a combination of blind and through connection holes such that the interference between the differential signal line pairs of various signal transmission layers are reduced.
US10575380B2
A luminaire can include a power supply that receives AC mains power from a power source and delivers intermediate power. The luminaire can also include a control module coupled to the power supply, wherein the control module receives the intermediate power from the power source, where the control module includes at least one first switch that has multiple positions, where each position of the at least one first switch corresponds to an output power level of a plurality of output power levels. The output power level can correspond to a discrete lumen output by a plurality of light sources of the luminaire.
US10575379B1
A system and method for controlling a multiplicity of luminaries connected to a single wire pair. The luminaries contain minimum circuitry to allow dimming and color tuning by pulses on the wire pair without the need for a separate control wire or control communication bus or network. A single luminary can be color tuned to many different colors as well as dimmed and turned on and off. A driver module drives the wire pair and receives commands over a network The driver module contains a pulse generation circuit that generates and applies pulses to the two-wire output. The amplitude of some the pulses control color of the luminary by selecting different LEDs in the luminary to light, while other pulses control brightness.
US10575374B2
An emitter for an LED-based lighting device can incorporate “flip-chip” LEDs, in which all electrical contacts are disposed on the bottom surface of the chip. The emitter base can be a multilayer high-temperature cofired ceramic (HTCC) substrate, with metal traces formed between the layers and vias through the layers to join traces in different layers, thereby providing electrical connectivity to each LED. The paths can be arranged such that current can be supplied independently to different subsets of the LEDs. The top layer of the emitter base is fabricated with exposed vias at the top surface. Metal pads are then printed onto the exposed vias on the top surface, and flip-chip LEDs are bonded to the metal pads, e.g., using solder.
US10575372B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for cooking a food item using RF oven. The food item may include a tag containing information regarding food items associated with the food item. The RF oven may include an interface to receive the information. The RF oven may also include a processor to determine an amount of energy to be delivered to the food item based on the information. The processor may be configured to cause a RF power source to supply RF energy to cook the food item based on the determined amount of energy.
US10575366B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing disaster routing of particular communications through a telecommunications network during a network outage. The disaster routing may ensure that communications from a particular source or to a particular destination are connected to the destination even during times when portions of the network may be inoperable. In one particular embodiment, the disaster routing may be performed for emergency communications received at the network and connected to one or more emergency services configured to receive the emergency communication. However, the disaster routing mechanisms and techniques described herein may be applied or available to any type of communication from any source or customer to the telecommunications network.
US10575363B2
Systems and methods relating to an unacknowledged connection release in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a base station in a cellular communications network comprises sending a connection release message to a wireless device that is in an Out-of-Sync (OOS) state and releasing a connection with the wireless device without receiving, from the wireless device, an acknowledgement of receipt of the connection release message. In this manner, signaling overhead for releasing the connection of the wireless device that is in OOS state is substantially reduced.
US10575362B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to adaptively changing availability of neighbor awareness networking (NAN) devices for post-NAN activities. In some embodiments, a first NAN enabled device may generate a NAN service discovery frame. The first NAN enabled device may transmit the NAN service discovery frame to a plurality of NAN enabled devices during a discovery window of the NAN. A request frame from a second NAN enabled device may be received based at least in part on transmitting the NAN service discovery frame. A response frame may be transmitted to the second NAN enabled device. A second NAN service discovery frame may be generated and include an updated availability bitmap based at least in part on data received in the request frame from the second NAN enabled device. The first NAN enabled device may transmit the second NAN service discovery frame.
US10575361B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for fast switching between control channels during a radio resource control connection in a wireless communication system. A cellular base station and a wireless device may establish a radio resource control connection. The base station may provide a physical layer indication to the wireless device of a control channel to monitor for scheduling information. The base station may provide scheduling information to the wireless device on the indicated control channel. The wireless device may monitor the indicated control channel for scheduling information based at least in part on the physical layer indication and may receive the scheduling information provided by the base station on the indicated control channel.
US10575354B2
A method for resource allocation of a User Equipment (UE) configured to perform device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method includes receiving, from a serving base station, a message including information on a transmission resource region, where the information on the transmission resource region includes information on available resources to transmit D2D data for when the UE is in an out-sync condition, and transmitting, to another UE, the D2D data based on a part of the available resources included in the information on the transmission resource region when the UE is in the out-sync condition.
US10575350B2
A disclosed wireless tunneling system tunnels communications between two processing apparatuses through a wireless link, while maintaining compliance of the communications between the two processing apparatuses with at least two different wired communication protocols. In one embodiment, the wireless tunneling system includes two wireless tunneling apparatuses that communicate with each other through the wireless link. A local wireless tunneling apparatus is coupled to a local processing apparatus through a wired connection and a remote wireless tunneling apparatus is coupled to the remote processing apparatus through another wired connection. The two processing apparatuses may communicate with each other through the wireless link using the two wireless tunneling apparatuses as if the two processing apparatuses were connected through wired connections.
US10575346B2
A method, system and external instrument are provided. The method initiates a communication link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (MD), established a first connection interval for conveying data packets between the EI and IMD and monitors a connection criteria that includes at least one of a data throughput requirement. A battery indicator or link condition of the communications link is between the IMD and EI. The method further changes from the first connection interval to a second connection interval based on the connection criteria.
US10575338B2
A communication method and a system that combines fifth generation (5G) communication systems with internet of things (IoT) technologies to support much higher data rates than fourth generation (4G) communication systems are provided. Based on 5G communication technologies and IoT technologies, the present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, and security and safety measure. A method of communication for a user equipment includes receiving a random access channel (RACH) configuration from a base station (an evolved nodeB (eNB)), and transmitting to the eNB a random access preamble (RAP) message in an uplink subframe of an unlicensed band matching a subframe configured as a RACH resource according to the RACH configuration.
US10575334B2
A terminal of a communication system transmits a first signal through a physical uplink channel that is allocated within a first radio resource based on a first Transmission Time Interval (TTI) having a first time length at a first step for uplink access, performs the remaining steps for the uplink access using a second radio resource based on the second TTI from a base station, when the terminal may operate based on a second TTI having a second time length smaller than the first time length, and transmits uplink data.
US10575330B2
A method for determining an attribute of a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheme, the method may include receiving, by an interface of a wireless communication device, an input signal; calculating, by a processor of the wireless communication device, a strength of the input signal; and determining, by the processor, the attribute of the (CSMA/CA) scheme in response to the strength of the input signal.
US10575326B2
A data transmission method and device, related to the communications field, are disclosed, so as to resolve a prior-art problem that a data decoding error occurs on user equipment because data packets sent by different coordinated network devices to the same user equipment on a same time-frequency resource are different resulting from a data packet loss. A specific solution is: receiving a scheduling grant message (201), where the scheduling grant message includes an identifier of a data packet and time-frequency resource information; and when it is determined, according to the identifier of the data packet, that the data packet is stored in a buffer, sending, according to the time-frequency resource information, the data packet to user equipment on a time-frequency resource indicated by the time-frequency resource information (203); or if the data packet is not stored in a buffer, skipping sending the data packet (204).
US10575312B2
Disclosed is a channel assignment method of a communication system for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the method including receiving assignment data and an interference analysis criterion from a spectrum authority; performing an interference analysis and selecting a control and non-payload communication (CNPC) channel based on the assignment data and the interference analysis criterion; and requesting the spectrum authority for assigning the CNPC channel.
US10575306B2
A method of operating a user equipment comprises addressing multi-subcarrier system resources using multiple different numerologies available within a single carrier, the multiple different numerologies comprising a first numerology having resource blocks (RBs) with a first bandwidth and a first subcarrier spacing, Δf1, and a second numerology having RBs with a second bandwidth and a second subcarrier spacing, Δf2, which is different from Δf1, wherein the first numerology is aligned in the frequency domain relative to a frequency reference, Fref, according to m*Δf1+Fref and the second numerology is aligned in the frequency domain relative to the frequency reference, Fref, according to n*Δf2+Fref, where m and n are integers. The method further comprises transmitting and/or receiving information within the single carrier according to the at least one of the multiple different numerologies.
US10575300B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a bandwidth control method and a bandwidth control device. The method includes: obtaining, by a bandwidth control device, an access request of a mobile terminal, where the access request is used to indicate that the mobile terminal requests to access the Internet by using a home gateway of a fixed terminal; obtaining, by the bandwidth control device, a first bandwidth of the fixed terminal, where the first bandwidth is a subscribed bandwidth of the fixed terminal; and adjusting, by the bandwidth control device, a bandwidth allocated to the fixed terminal from the subscribed bandwidth of the fixed terminal to a second bandwidth, where the second bandwidth is greater than the first bandwidth. In the embodiments of the present application, the impact of mobile terminal access on user experience of the fixed terminal can be reduced.
US10575297B2
A base station is disclosed that enables an efficient use of resources even when a TTI length is shortened. In this base station, a PDCCH section (103) generates one piece of downlink control information (DCI) containing control information for a plurality of first transmission time intervals (TTIs) each having a TTI length shorter than a second TTI, and a transmission section (107) transmits the DCI. Control information on retransmission processing for a data signal is configured for each of the plurality of first TTIs while control information other than the control information on the retransmission processing is configured in common among the plurality of first TTIs in the DCI.
US10575286B2
A method and network element for sending a transition indication to transition a user equipment to a different state or mode, the method receiving a configuration message from a network; and transmitting a transition indication from the user equipment, the transition indication only includes a cause if the configuration message contains an inhibit transition indication. Also, a method and user equipment for processing a transitioning indication from a user equipment indicating the user equipment desires a transition to a different state or mode, the method comprising: receiving the transition indication from the user equipment; if the transition indication contains a cause: releasing a signaling connection of the user equipment or transitioning the user equipment to a different state or mode; and if the transition indication does not contain the cause: releasing the signaling connection.
US10575284B2
In wireless communications, an access point may send a first frame to multiple stations. In one aspect, the first frame may include resource allocation information for uplink multi-user transmission. In response to the first frame, one or more stations may measure the channel characteristics associated with the first frame and send a second frame(s) for uplink multi-user transmission, where the second frame(s) includes resource preference information associated with the respective station(s). The access point may then generate and transmit a third frame based on the resource preference information. In another aspect, in response to the first frame, one or more stations may send a second frame(s) spanning the channel bandwidth supported by the respective station(s). The access point may measure the channel characteristics associated with the second frame and generate and transmit a third frame based on the measured channel characteristics. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10575258B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a wireless communications device may employ different power control loops, associated with different power control reference points, for uplink transmissions that use different uplink waveforms. In some aspects, a wireless communications device may generate and transmit a first type of PHR, associated with a DFT-s-OFDM-based type of uplink transmission, and/or a second type PHR associated with a CP-OFDM-based type of uplink transmission. In some aspects, a wireless communications device may selectively send a HARQ re-transmission using a particular uplink waveform based at least in part on information indicating whether the HARQ re-transmission is permitted to use an uplink waveform that is different from another uplink waveform used for a prior corresponding HARQ transmission or HARQ re-transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10575257B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for simultaneously transmitting, by user equipment (UE), a cellular uplink signal and a proximity service (ProSe) signal. The method may comprise a step of determining the total transmission power PCMAX of the cellular uplink signal and the ProSe signal. Here, the total transmission power PCMAX may satisfy PCMAX_L≤PCMAX≤PCMAX_H. At this time, PCMAX_L may be a lower limit value and PCMAX_H may be an upper limit value. The cellular uplink signal is transmitted in a subframe n, the ProSe signal is transmitted in a subframe m, and subframe n may be considered as a reference subframe if subframe n and subframe m are time asynchronous.
US10575256B2
This disclosure relates to energy budgeted cellular service recovery techniques. A wireless device may determine one or more energy budgets for service recovery. It may be determined that cellular service loss is currently occurring. Cellular service recovery may be attempted, where service recovery scan timing for the attempt to recover cellular service is determined based at least in part on the one or more energy budgets for service recovery.
US10575255B2
A method of scheduling wakeup events, method of operating a mobile transceiver, and devices configured for same are provided. In one aspect, there is provided a method of scheduling wakeup events for a mobile transceiver, comprising: obtaining a first GNSS data set comprising a plurality of GNSS coordinates, the first GNSS data set defining a route; applying a curve simplification algorithm to generate a second GNSS data set comprising a plurality of GNSS coordinates, wherein the second GNSS data set is a subset of the first GNSS data set; defining one or more alarms as wakeup events to activate the satellite receiver from a low power mode based on the plurality of GNSS coordinates of the second GNSS data, wherein the one or more wakeup events are each defined by an alarm; and applying the one or more alarms.
US10575250B2
The normalization of data originating from endpoints within low power wide area networks (LPWANs) is contemplated. The normalization may be beneficial to facilitate normalizing data when collected and/or communicated according to disparate protocols, languages, formats, syntaxes, structures, etc. of the endpoints and/or the LPWANs so as to enable commonization of the data prior to being interfaced with applications or other entities intending to make use thereof.
US10575247B2
Techniques for accessing wireless networks relate to utilizing a second wireless network for enabling a wireless device, being unable to access a first wireless network, to access a first wireless network. An example embodiment comprises a method performed in a wireless device being unable to access a first wireless network. The method comprises accessing a second wireless network and sending information indicating an inability to access the first wireless network to the second wireless network, for further distribution to the first wireless network. Thereby, the method enables the first wireless network to reconfigure at least one access procedure parameter in the first wireless network in order to improve the conditions for the wireless device when accessing the first wireless network. The method further comprises accessing the first wireless network utilizing at least one reconfigured access procedure.
US10575241B2
A method for service discovery in a neighbor awareness network (NAN), and a terminal device, where the method includes receiving, by a first device, a first service discovery message sent by a second device, where the first service discovery message carries service identifier information and first path information, and the first path information includes identifier information of the service initiating device, or identifier information of the second device and the service initiating device, determining, by the first device, second path information according to the first path information, where the second path information includes the identifier information of the service initiating device and identifier information of the first device, and sending, by the first device, a second service discovery message, where the second service discovery message carries the service identifier information and the second path information.
US10575237B2
There is provided a method for transmitting an uplink message, the method performed by a user equipment (UE). The method may comprise: receiving, by the UE, a request about a visited cell history; transmitting, by the UE, in response to the request, the visited cell history. Here, the cell visited history may include an identifier of a visited cell, and time information corresponding to the visited cell.
US10575230B2
This document describes network slicing for WLAN in cellular networks. The techniques described enable the use of WLAN network slices (216c) with cellular networks (202) and mobility management of user equipment (102) between cellular networks (202) and WLAN networks (206). An Access and Mobility Function-Aggregation Proxy (AMF-AP) (218) connects one or more WLAN networks (206) to the cellular core network (110) of a network operator via the Access and Mobility Function (AMF) (212) in the core network (110). The AMF-AP (218) acts as a proxy and a firewall to protect the AMF (212) and other entities in the cellular core network (110) from malicious actors.
US10575220B2
Disclosed is a session management method based on protocol data unit (PDU) session anchor (PSA) relocation, and an device performing the session management method. The session management method may include determining to perform PSA relocation, establishing a new additional PSA device through the PSA relocation, and releasing an existing additional PSA device, in which the PSA relocation may allow traffic moving towards the existing additional PSA device to move to the new additional PSA device.
US10575212B2
Disclosed in the present specification is a method by which network nodes calculate an optimum path for virtualized service functions (SFs). The method can comprise the steps of: generating a service function chain (SFC), in which SFs are put in order, on the basis of subscriber information-based user policy information, session policy information, and SF state information; searching for an optimum SF set on the basis of the SFC so as to calculate an optimum service function path (SFP); and updating the SFP when any one of the subscriber information-based user policy information, session policy information, and SF state information is changed.
US10575210B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for managing cyclic redundancy check field lengths in wireless communications. An exemplary method generally includes determining a size of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) field, from a plurality of possible sizes for a given type of physical wireless channel, to be used for a transmission to be sent on the physical wireless channel, and performing communication based on the transmission on the physical wireless channel with the CRC field of the determined size.
US10575208B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system including a first base station (BS) and a second BS. The UE includes two medium access control (MAC) entities: one MAC entity for the first BS and one MAC entity for the second BS. The method includes mapping a first logical channel group (LCG) including one or more logical channels for transmitting first data to the first BS to the one MAC entity for the first BS and a second LCG including one or more logical channels for transmitting second data to the second BS to the one MAC entity for the second BS; based on the first data belonging to a logical channel in the first LCG having a higher priority than priorities of other logical channels in the first LCG for which data is already available for transmission, triggering, by the one MAC entity for the first BS, a first buffer status report to the first BS independently of logical channels of the second LCG; and based on the second data belonging to a logical channel in the second LCG having a higher priority than priorities of other logical channels in the second LCG for which data is already available for transmission, triggering, by the one MAC entity for the second BS, a second buffer status report to the second BS independently of logical channels of the first LCG.
US10575200B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for reporting channel state information (CSI) of a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource information on a CSI-RS resource to which a CSI-RS is mapped; receiving the CSI-RS from the base station on the basis of the received CSI-RS resource information, by using at least one antenna port; and reporting, to the base station, the CSI generated on the basis of the received CSI-RS, wherein the CSI-RS resource can be configured by aggregating a plurality of legacy CSI-RS resources.
US10575190B2
A wireless communication system includes a terminal configured to performed wireless communication simultaneously using a first-type cell enabling connection without association with another cell and a second-type cell connectable by being associated with the first-type cell; and a base station configured to form the first-type cell and transmit a broadcast signal giving notification that a cell formed thereby is the first-type cell. The terminal selects the cell as the first-type cell, based on the broadcast signal.
US10575189B2
A method for network controlled beam sweeping, may include receiving, at a network control device, location data associated with user equipment (UE) devices within a service area. The method may also include identifying, at each beam sweeping position of a plurality of beam sweeping positions, geo-bins having at least one UE device located within. The method includes receiving, at the network control device, networking requirements and traffic distribution data associated with the UE devices, and determining a sweeping weight for each identified geo-bin, where the sweeping weight is based on the networking requirements and the traffic distribution data associated with the at least one UE device in a geo-bin, and determining a sweeping factor for each beam sweeping position based upon the sweeping weights. The method may also include determining a beam sweeping pattern for all the beam sweeping positions based on the sweeping factors.
US10575184B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal using an unlicensed carrier, applied in a base station. After a right to use the unlicensed carrier is preempted by the base station, the signal in remaining resources and/or a subframe subsequent is transmitted to the remaining resources, herein the signal includes one or more of start symbol identity information, a synchronization signal, a reference signal, and a service data signal, herein, the remaining resources includes the complete Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols located in a contention back-off window and after a time point when the right to use the unlicensed carrier is contended, or complete OFDM symbols from the time point when the right to use the unlicensed carrier is contended by the base station up to an end time of a subframe in which the time point is located.
US10575178B2
In the disclosure, a Bluetooth device networking method and system comprises the following steps: the terminal initialization preset all Bluetooth devices within the region, and record all Bluetooth devices corresponding to the identification information of the preset range. When the terminal needs to control the Bluetooth device in the preset area, only the control command information is broadcasted. The Bluetooth device receives the control command information equipment, judgment unit of the Bluetooth device will determine whether the identification information control command information contained in equipment for self-identification information corresponding, if executing the equipment control command information, otherwise it will continue to broadcast the control command information. When Bluetooth device executes the control command information, it broadcasts the response information to the outside, and is finally received by the terminal after being transmitted by Bluetooth network. Accordingly, the cost of networking the Bluetooth products of the outdoor can be effectively reduced.
US10575174B2
A wireless computing device operating as a controller of a peer-to-peer group configured to generate unique master keys for each device joining the group. The wireless computing device may use the unique master keys to selectively remove remote devices from the group such that the remote device cannot later rejoin the group. Other remote devices, each possessing a master key that remains valid, can disconnect from the group and later reconnect to the group without express user action. To support such behavior, the wireless device may provide a user interface through which a user may manage connected remote devices by providing commands to selectively disconnect or remove remote devices from the group.
US10575169B2
The present application provides an information processing method and device, and relates to the field of information encryption and decryption. The method comprises: sharing first information on a social network; generating a key according to the first information; encrypting second information by using the key, to obtain encrypted information; and wirelessly broadcasting the encrypted information. According to the method, persons in a coverage area of the wireless broadcast all can receive the encrypted information, but only a person having a permission to access the first information on the social network can decrypt the encrypted information. Therefore, it is convenient and secure for a user to broadcast information to friends around and the like.
US10575165B2
It is desirable for a user equipment (UE) 100 to be able to determine if connecting using an access point name (APN) would result in a home routed or local breakout (LBO) routed connection. With this information, the UE can decide which APNs to use for packet data network (PDN) connections e.g. to ensure that the bearers on the PDN connection are able to carry certain services which are incompatible with home routing or LBO routing, or to ensure that charging is carried out by the home or visited network, as desired (e.g. to avoid roaming fees). Alternatively, the user can be presented with the option of home routing or LBO routing for a connection. In order to provide this information to the UE, modified signalling is proposed, among others, by means of a method of operating a mobility management entity (MME) 200 in a mobile telecommunications network. The MME provides, S103, to a UE a mapping between an APN that has been or may be used by the UE to establish a connection to a PGN gateway and a routing type associated with the connection. The routing type is one of home routing and local breakout, LBO, routing. The UE is roaming in a geographical area controlled by the MME.
US10575164B1
Methods and systems for dynamically allowing a guest device to a join a private citizens broadband radio systems (CBRS) network. The method includes determining one of a location of the guest device and a location of a public safety incident. The public safety incident is associated with the guest device. The method also includes determining that one of the location of the guest device and the location of the public safety incident is in a coverage area of the private CBRS network. The method further includes reconfiguring the private CBRS network to allow operation of the guest device on the private CBRS network, and operating the guest device on the private CBRS network.
US10575147B1
A system and method for controlling a mobile device at a headend includes the mobile device communicating a request for content to the headend. The headend requests geographic coordinate location data from the mobile device and, when geographic coordinate data is available, determines a first geographic region associated with the mobile device in response to the geographic coordinate location data. When geographic coordinate data is not available from the mobile device, the headend extracts an IP address from the request and determines a second geographic region based on the IP address and a confidence level. When the confidence level is below a threshold, the headend determines a third geographic region based on subscriber data for the mobile device. The headend controls the mobile device in response to one of the first geographic region, the second geographic region and the third geographic region.
US10575145B1
Provided are systems and methods for establishing a communication between mobile device users that register with a collaboration system. The collaboration system determines a match between profile data of the first registered mobile device and profile data of the second registered mobile device. Displayed at the first registered mobile device is a first list of user identifications, which includes an identification of a user of the second registered mobile device and an identification of a user of at least one other mobile device. Displayed at the second registered mobile device is a second list of user identifications. The second list includes an identification of a user of the first registered mobile device and an identification of at least one other mobile device user.
US10575140B2
A medical device communications network comprises a plurality of medical devices including either or both of a first number of surgical instruments and a second number of implants configured for subcutaneous implantation in a biological body. A corresponding plurality of wireless communication circuits are each mounted to a different one of the plurality of medical devices. Each of the plurality of wireless communication circuits is configured to broadcast medical device information relating to the medical device to which it is mounted and to receive information relating to any other of the plurality of medical devices. The network may or may not include a master wireless communications circuit configured to receive the medical device information broadcast by any of the plurality of slave wireless communication circuits and to broadcast the information relating to any other of the plurality of medical devices.
US10575135B2
Provided is a portable electronic device including a transceiver configured to acquire information from a roadside device, a storage, and a controller configured to acquire position information of the roadside device based on the information acquired by transceiver, and to cause the storage to store the acquired position information as position information of the portable electronic device at a time of acquiring the information.
US10575128B2
A determination unit refers to position information of a terminal device registered in a given base station device to determine ease of connection to another base station device. A generator generates, for the terminal device, guidance information to prompt the terminal device to move to a position where a likelihood of connection to the other base station device is increased, based on a result of determination in the determination unit. A transmitter transmits the guidance information generated in the generator to the terminal device.
US10575125B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, via a mobile station, contextual information or geographic location data relating to a plurality of members of the population within the geographic region, identifying a common element in the received contextual information relating to at least two members of the population as a basis for defining a geofence to include the at least two members, wherein the common element is identified upon a comparison of the first and second contextual information, and defining the boundary of the geofence.
US10575114B2
Embodiments of systems and methods are described for estimating a position of a loudspeaker and notifying a listener if an abnormal condition is detected, such as an incorrect loudspeaker orientation or an obstruction in a path between the loudspeaker and a microphone array. For example, a front component of a multi-channel surround sound system may include the microphone array and a position estimation engine. The position estimation engine may estimate the distance between the loudspeaker and the microphone array. In addition, the position estimation engine may estimate an angle of the loudspeaker using a first technique. The position estimation engine may also estimate an angle of the loudspeaker using a second technique. The two angles can be processed to determine whether the abnormal condition exists. If the abnormal condition exists, a listener can be notified and be provided with suggestions for resolving the issue in a graphical user interface.
US10575111B2
An audio encoding apparatus and method that encodes hybrid contents including an object sound, a background sound, and metadata, and an audio decoding apparatus and method that decodes the encoded hybrid contents are provided. The audio encoding apparatus may include a mixing unit to generate an intermediate channel signal by mixing a background sound and an object sound, a matrix information encoding unit to encode matrix information used for the mixing, an audio encoding unit to encode the intermediate channel signal, and a metadata encoding unit to encode metadata including control information of the object sound.
US10575104B2
A hearing device and a method is provided that alleviate discomfort caused by sound impulses, such as a door slam, clinking of silverware, jangling of keys, etc., by converting sound into an audio signal, subjecting the audio signal to a frequency transformation, detecting presence of an impulse in the audio signal based on the frequency transformed audio signal, and processing the audio signal into a processed audio signal in response to detected presence of the impulse in the audio signal, converting the processed signal into an output sound signal, and emitting the output sound signal towards an eardrum of a human. The processing may involve reducing the gain of the output sound signal if an impulse is detected.
US10575103B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for neural network-driven frequency translation for hearing assistance devices. Various embodiments include a method of signal processing an input signal in a hearing assistance device, the hearing assistance device including a receiver and a microphone. The method includes performing neural network processing to train a processor to identify acoustic features in a plurality of audio signals and predict target outputs for the plurality of audio signals, and using the trained processor to control frequency translation of the input signal.
US10575102B2
A method is provided for operating a hearing aid apparatus including two hearing aids being signal-coupled by a wireless first communication link with a comparatively short range and by a wireless second communication link with a comparatively long range. Each hearing aid has an integrated motion sensor for capturing a fall of the respective hearing aid. A first signal level of the first communication link is monitored and compared to a stored first threshold in each hearing aid. A notification signal is transmitted from the first hearing aid over the second communication link when the motion sensor captures a fall and the first signal level reaches or drops below the first threshold. Upon reception of the notification signal, a perceivable first information signal is produced by the second hearing aid as a protection against loss. A hearing aid apparatus is also provided for carrying out the method.
US10575098B2
A speaker apparatus is provided in order to both receive and dissipate heat and to provide acoustic absorption for sound waves propagating through a speaker cavity. The speaker apparatus includes a speaker and a speaker cavity configured to receive sound waves emitted by the speaker for propagation through the speaker cavity. The speaker apparatus also includes a heat dissipation structure disposed at least partially within the speaker cavity. The heat dissipation structure includes a heat pipe or a heat sink configured to receive heat from a component that generates heat. The heat dissipation structure is configured to provide acoustic absorption for the sound waves propagating through the speaker cavity.
US10575097B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided are a vibration output device and a portable electronic apparatus outputting vibration. An embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a vibration output device including: a magnetic circuit generating vibration; a yoke part contacting an upper surface of the magnetic circuit; an elastic part performing a vibration motion in contact with at least a part of the upper surface of the yoke part, the elastic part including at least two vibration parts which vibrate with the vibration of the magnetic circuit; and a vibration plate contacting at least a part of the upper surface of the yoke part and outputting the vibration to the outside with the vibration of the yoke part, in which the yoke part includes a yoke body contacting the upper surface of the magnetic circuit, and a yoke plate provided on the upper surface of the yoke body and having a plurality of protruding surfaces on the upper surface of the yoke body, and having different shapes in accordance with the number of vibration parts, and a vibration output speaker including the same.
US10575095B2
A method and system for communicating audio, video, and/or control signals within a home entertainment system. A plurality of audio channels is communicated between a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The wireless transmitter is located proximate to a speaker housing. In some embodiments the speaker housing also encloses a center channel loudspeaker. The center channel loudspeaker transmits an audio signal to a remote loudspeaker. An exemplary remote loudspeaker is a subwoofer loudspeaker. The subwoofer loudspeaker provides one or more received audio channels to one or more surround loudspeakers.
US10575094B1
The present subject matter provides a technical solution to the technical problems facing sound localization by separating sounds and reproducing the separated sounds using a set of loudspeakers and a set of headphones. A general soundtrack that is meant to be experienced throughout the room would play through the loudspeakers, and specific sounds that are meant to be experienced near the listener would be played through a binaural representation in the headphones. The headphones may be selected to avoid occluding the ear, allowing sound produced at the loudspeakers to be heard clearly. This separation and reproduction of sounds using a combination of a loudspeaker and headphone provides a technical solution to the technical problem facing typical surround sound systems by localizing sounds for listeners in any location within a room. This improves reproduction accuracy of location-specific audio objects, including audio objects above or below a coplanar speaker configuration.
US10575087B2
Provided are a pickup sensor and a biological sensor that are small-sized and can detect micro vibration efficiently and stably with high accuracy. The pickup sensor includes an electroacoustic converter film including: a piezoelectric polymer composite in which piezoelectric particles are dispersed in a viscoelastic matrix that is formed of a polymer material having viscoelasticity at normal temperature; two thin film electrodes that are laminated on opposite surfaces of the piezoelectric polymer composite, respectively; and a protective layer that is laminated on at least one of the two thin film electrodes, in which at least a part of a surface of the electroacoustic converter film is an abutting surface that abuts against a test object, and the thin film electrode on a surface opposite to the abutting surface is grounded.
US10575085B1
An audio device with at least one microphone adapted to receive sound from a sound field and create an output, and a processing system that is responsive to the output of the microphone. The processing system is configured to use a signal processing algorithm to detect speech in the output, detect a predefined trigger event indicating a possible change in the sound field, and modify the signal processing algorithm upon the detection of the predefined trigger event.
US10575081B2
Earpieces and methods of forming earpieces for radio frequency (RF) mitigation are provided. An earpiece is configured to be inserted in an ear canal. The earpiece includes an insertion element and a sealing section disposed on the insertion element and configured to conform to the ear canal. The sealing section is configured to substantially mitigate radio frequency (RF) transmission and to substantially isolate the ear canal from an ambient environment.
US10575077B2
The present invention relates to a speaker, and speaker module. The speaker comprises a housing and two electrical connection members mounted on the housing, each electrical connection member comprises a second pad portion exposed from a side wall of the housing, and the second pad portion is disposed in parallel to the side wall of the housing. The speaker further comprises a circuit board attached to the side wall of the housing, and the circuit board is electrically connected to the second pad portions. The speaker of the present invention enables attaching the circuit board to the side wall of the housing, thus increasing operation space, and reducing operational risks. By attaching the circuit board to the side wall of the housing, the present invention reduces interference of the circuit board on a terminal antenna, and reduces the possibility of the circuit board involving in vibration of a back chamber, thus improving the performance of the speaker. Meanwhile, by providing the circuit board on the side wall of the housing, the present invention simplifies the shape of the circuit board, thus providing a compact layout, and accordingly saving costs.
US10575076B2
A sound system is shown in the form of a speaker in a speaker box or a media chair. In either embodiment a frame may include a back chamber and a front chamber. In the media chair, a seat support may be coupled to a support adjacent to the front chamber, the seat support may support the weight of a user. The front chamber may be at least partially defined side walls. Walls around the front chamber may be substantially continuous in construction and extend beyond the speaker so as to be able to temporarily maintain an internal sound energy greater than the sound energy outside of the front chamber. The speaker may generate the sound energy.
US10575066B2
Techniques for use in determining redress measures for a television (TV) service outage based on impact analysis are described. A TV service outage may be associated with a TV system apparatus including a TV user interface (UI). In one illustrative example, one or more subscribers impacted by the TV service outage are determined. An impact score is determined for each one of the subscribers. A redress measure for each one of the subscribers is then determined in accordance with their corresponding impact scores. An impacted subscriber and/or an impact score may be determined based at least in part on subscriber TV usage data or subscriber TV UI usage data.
US10575062B2
Subtitles (graphics) can be superimposed and displayed on a video satisfactorily.A container in a predetermined format including a video stream having video data with UHD resolution and a subtitle stream having subtitle data is received. The video data is obtained by decoding the video stream. Bitmap data of the subtitles is obtained by decoding the subtitle stream. In a case where a resolution of the subtitles does not match the UHD resolution, processing of converting a position of the subtitles is performed on the bitmap data of the subtitles. Video data for display is obtained by superimposing, on the video data, the bitmap data of the subtitles on which the processing of converting the position has been performed.
US10575046B2
Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for switching streams in response to detecting a start trigger are presented. A program's start trigger indicating that the program is upcoming may be detected on a first stream, and in response to detecting the start trigger on the first stream, a second stream containing the program may be switched to. The program may be a video program. Segment triggers may be detected and may be used to selectively record and/or delete segments of the program according to a priority scheme. Multiple start triggers may be detected at decreasing time intervals. The existence of a recording conflict may be determined based on a program's start trigger and a user may be alerted of the recording conflict.
US10575044B2
A display device displays a tag overlaid on a video scene in a first portion of a video screen. The displayed tag is associated with content depicted in the video, includes descriptive text information, and is clickable, so that upon selection by a user, additional information associated with the tag is displayed. Based at least in part on an indication that the tag has been selected by a user, the tag undergoes vertical and/or horizontal repositioning relative to the first portion of the video screen, to a second portion of the video screen. The display device displays the video and the tag overlaid on the video in the second portion of the video screen. The displaying of the tag includes displaying at least a portion of the additional information associated with the tag.
US10575042B2
Playing of first and second content streams delivered to respective first and second receiving devices is achieved following a seek command to one of the devices, by a synchronization controller which receives information identifying the segment in the first stream in which the start point is located, and the duration of time between the start point and the beginning of the next segment, and transmits a command to the second receiving device identifying a segment in a second stream, at which to resume play, and a time at which to start displaying, allowing the display controlled by the second receiving device to be resynchronized with the display controlled by the first receiving device after operation of the seek command on the first device.
US10575034B1
The present disclosure describes a monitoring device for determining one or more characteristics of one or more scheduled programs within one or more packetized elementary streams of one or more transport streams. The monitoring device receives the one or more transport streams from a service provider system and de-encapsulates the one or more packetized elementary streams from the one or more transport streams. The monitoring device determines the one or more characteristics of the one or more scheduled programs from the one or more packetized elementary streams. The one or more characteristics can be used by the monitoring device to adapt on a dynamic, real-time, or near real-time, basis to changes to the one or more transport streams.
US10575031B2
Methods and system for managing media clips over a data network. Media streams may be received over a data network and stored by a storage server. Metadata regarding the media streams may be generated and stored at a metadata server. A control station can retrieve media frames originating in the stored media streams from the storage server, based on metadata. Media frames from multiple media streams can be retrieved and displayed in synchronization, based on respective timecodes.
US10575029B1
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to systems and methods for transferring in-flight entertainment content. A content loading panel in an aircraft may load content from at least one of a plurality of types of portable content storage devices. A content server in the aircraft may receive, from the content loading panel via a fiber optic link, the in-flight entertainment content loaded via the content loading panel. The content server may store the received in-flight entertainment content for provisioning to one or more wireless access points located in the aircraft.
US10575023B2
A method of partitioning a video coding block for JVET, comprising representing a JVET coding tree unit as a root node in a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT) structure that can have a quadtree branching from the root node and binary trees branching from each of the quadtree's leaf nodes using asymmetric binary partitioning to split a coding unit represented by a quadtree leaf node into two child nodes of unequal size, representing the two child nodes as leaf nodes in a binary tree branching from the quadtree leaf node and coding the child nodes represented by leaf nodes of the binary tree with JVET, wherein coding efficiency is improved by taking advantage of the similarity of coding modes 2 and 66.
US10575021B2
Pixel values of pixels (12, 14, 16, 22, 24, 26) in a line (15) of pixels (12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 26, 28) are filtered with a strong deblocking filter to obtain filtered pixel values. Each filtered pixel value is clipped off to a respective clipping parameter value defined based on a position of the pixel (12, 14, 16, 22, 24, 26) relative to a block boundary (2) between two adjacent blocks (10, 20) of pixels (12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 26, 28). The clipping parameter values change at least linearly depending in the pixel position relative to the block boundary (2) so that pixels (12, 16) in the line (15) of pixels (12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 26, 28) having different positions from the block boundary (2) will have different clipping parameter values.
US10575020B2
Compensation offsets are provided for a set of reconstructed samples of an image. Each sample has a sample value. A method of providing the compensation offsets comprises selecting, based on a rate distortion criterion, a classification from among a plurality of predetermined classifications. Each predetermined classification has a classification range smaller than a full range of the sample values and is made up of a plurality of classes, each defining a range of sample values within the classification range, into which class a sample is put if its sample value is within the range of the class concerned. A compensation offset is associated with each class of the selected classification for application to the sample value of each sample of the class.
US10575013B2
Method and apparatus of managing a DPB (decoded picture buffer) for a video coding system are disclosed. Whether the IntraBC mode is used for a current picture is determined and a maximum allowed number of decoded pictures in the DPB is allocated based on whether the IntraBC mode is used for the current picture. The current picture is then encoded or decoded using decoded pictures stored in the DPB as reference data. In another method, a maximum number of reordered pictures in the DPB is determined. If certain conditions are true, one or more decoded pictures stored in the DPB will be emptied until none of the conditions is true. One condition corresponds to a number of decoded pictures in the DPB marked as “needed for output” being greater than the maximum number of reordered picture modified according to whether the IntraBC mode is used for the current picture.
US10575012B2
A method for selecting a motion vector predictor is provided. The method of selecting a motion vector predictor includes the steps of selecting motion vector predictor candidates for a current block and selecting a motion vector predictor of the current block out of the motion vector predictor candidates, wherein the motion vector predictor candidates for the current block include a motion vector of a first candidate block which is first searched for as an available block out of left neighboring blocks of the current block and a motion vector of a second candidate block which is first searched for as an available block out of upper neighboring blocks of the current block.
US10575008B2
A method of managing resources on a terminal includes determining a number of downloaded video streams active at the terminal, prioritizing the active video streams, assigning a decoding quality level to each active video stream based on a priority assignment for each active video stream, and apportioning reception bandwidth to each active video stream based on an assigned quality level of each active video stream.
US10575006B2
A video data decoding device and method. The device has an entropy decoder, and a WPP status control module for selecting an operating status according to a syntax structure of a coding tree unit. The device further has a memory selector for controlling the operating status of a memory. The memory has one buffer memory and two update memories. When the number of columns of a row of coding tree units currently decoded is larger than three, the context data of the coding tree units currently decoded is written into the buffer memory and one of the update memories; and when it is determined that the context data of the coding tree units referred by a first coding tree unit in a next row of coding tree units is available when the next row of coding tree units starts to be parsed, the data in the buffer memory is replicated.
US10574998B2
A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane.
US10574995B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may include a source device that generates a scene change notification in response to a movement of a camera, modifies an encoding scheme associated with the video content captured by the camera in response to the scene change notification, identifies a full-frame difference threshold, wherein scene analysis information includes frame difference data, and compares the frame difference data to an intermediate threshold that is less than the full-frame difference threshold, wherein the scene change notification is generated when the frame difference data exceeds the intermediate threshold. A sink device may obtain transport quality data associated with video content, modify an output parameter of a display based on the transport quality data, determine a view perspective of a still image containing a plurality of image slices, retrieve only a subset of the plurality of image slices based on the view perspective and decode the retrieved subset.
US10574994B2
Overlapped block disparity estimation and compensation is described. Compensating for images with overlapped block disparity compensation (OBDC) involves determining if OBDC is enabled in a video bit stream, and determining if OBDC is enabled for one or more macroblocks that neighbor a first macroblock within the video bit stream. The neighboring macroblocks may be transform coded. If OBDC is enabled in the video bit stream and for the one or more neighboring macroblocks, predictions may be made for a region of the first macroblock that has an edge adjacent with the neighboring macroblocks. OBDC can be causally applied. Disparity compensation parameters or modes may be shared amongst views or layers. A variety of predictions may be used with causally-applied OBDC.
US10574992B2
A method and apparatus for sub-picture based raster scanning coding order. The method includes dividing an image into even sub-pictures, and encoding parallel sub-pictures on multi-cores in raster scanning order within sub-pictures, wherein from core to core, coding of the sub-picture is independent around sub-picture boundaries, and wherein within a core, coding of a sub-picture is at least one of dependent or independent around sub-picture boundaries.
US10574990B2
An image processing device and method that enable suppression of an increase in the amount of coding of a scaling list. The image processing device sets a coefficient located at the beginning of a quantization matrix by adding a replacement difference coefficient that is a difference between a replacement coefficient used to replace a coefficient located at the beginning of the quantization matrix and the coefficient located at the beginning of the quantization matrix to the coefficient located at the beginning of the quantization matrix; up-converts the set quantization matrix; and dequantizes quantized data using an up-converted quantization matrix in which a coefficient located at the beginning of the up-converted quantization matrix has been replaced with the replacement coefficient. The device and method can be applied to an image processing device.
US10574986B2
Provided is an inter-layer video decoding method including determining a size of a subblock of a current block by comparing at least one of a height and a width of a predetermined minimum size of the subblock with at least one of a height and a width of the current block of a first layer image; determining at least one subblock from the current block according to the size of the subblock of the current block; determining a candidate block that corresponds to the current block and is included in an encoded second layer image; determining a candidate subblock from the candidate block of the second layer image by using the subblock of the current block; determining motion information of the subblock included in the current block by using motion information of the candidate subblock included in the candidate block; and generating a prediction block of the current block by using the motion information of the subblock included in the current block.
US10574980B1
A video evaluation device is coupled to a video source, such as a set-top box, that obtains video data, and to a display device that presents video data received from the set-top box. Content received by the video source is communicated to the testing device, which communicates the video data to the display device for presentation to a user and generates a copy of the video data. The video evaluation device applies one or more computer vision methods and machine learned models to the copy of the video data to generate metrics identifying quality of the video data from characteristics extracted from the copy of the video data and likely user interaction with the video data. The video evaluation device testing device also communicates with an online system that combines metrics determined by the video evaluation device as well as data from other sources to identify video data quality.
US10574976B2
A medical stereoscopic observation apparatus having circuitry that acquires a status signal according to a status of image processing from each image processing circuit of a plurality of image processing circuits that perform the image processing on input image data through a selected image processing unit among a plurality of image processing units in the respective image processing circuit and generates output image data to be output as a right eye image or a left eye image, and causes a second image processing circuit different from a first image processing circuit to switch the selected image processing unit to match the selected image processing unit of the first image processing circuit, according to the status signal acquired from the first image processing circuit among the image processing circuits of the plurality of image processing circuits.
US10574975B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving content that includes a 360-degree video, determining that guidance is enabled with respect to the content, obtaining an input responsive to determining that the guidance is enabled, and obtaining the guidance with respect to a playback of the content, where the obtained guidance is based on the input. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10574974B2
Various embodiments provide for the generation of 3D models of objects. For example, depth data and color image data can be captured from viewpoints around an object using a sensor. A camera having a higher resolution can simultaneously capture image data of the object. Features between images captured by the image sensor and the camera can be extracted and compared to determine a mapping between the camera and the image. Once the mapping between the camera and the image sensor is determined, a second mapping between adjacent viewpoints can be determined for each image around the object. In this example, each viewpoint overlaps with an adjacent viewpoint and features extracted from two overlapping viewpoints are matched to determine their relative alignment. Accordingly, a 3D point cloud can be generated and the images captured by the camera can be projected on the surface of the 3D point cloud to generate the 3D model.
US10574971B2
An image calibration inspection tool includes: a plurality of substantially rectangular markers, two orthogonal sides of which are connected by an arc-shaped curve; and a calibration chart in which the plurality of markers are formed on a metal plate through machining, laser marking, or the like, wherein two of the markers in a diagonal direction are separated by a predetermined distance.
US10574950B2
A wavelength conversion device includes: a substrate; and a phosphor layer on the substrate. The phosphor layer includes: a base material; and a first phosphor and a second phosphor each of which emits fluorescent light when excited by excitation light. Where chromaticity coordinates of the fluorescent light emitted by the first phosphor and chromaticity coordinates of the fluorescent light emitted by the second phosphor are (x1, y1) and (x2, y2), respectively, −0.02≤x1−x2≤0.02 and −0.02≤y1−y2≤0.02 are satisfied. A peak wavelength of an excitation spectrum of the first phosphor is different from a peak wavelength of an excitation spectrum of the second phosphor.
US10574949B2
A projection apparatus that projects one of a plurality of projection screens for an integrated screen, comprises: at least one processor or circuit to perform the operations of the following units: a first reception unit configured to receive, from other projection apparatus, notification indicating that the other projection apparatus joined a projection apparatus group by a first designation method that involves moving an external apparatus into proximity; and a control unit configured to control a display to display a projection apparatus list for setting the group by a second designation method that involves designating a projection apparatus from among a plurality of projection apparatuses, wherein the control unit controls the display to display the projection apparatus list in a manner in which projection apparatuses that joined the group by the first designation method are identifiable based on the notification.
US10574945B1
Techniques are described for an autonomous asset management system that integrates autonomous devices, such as drone devices and other robotic devices, with a home security system of a property to enable management, monitoring, and/or tracking of various assets located within the property. In some implementations, an indication of an asset associated with a property is obtained by an autonomous device. Sensor data collected by one or more sensors of the property is obtained by the autonomous device based on the indication of the asset. A present status of the asset is determined by the autonomous device based on the sensor data. A determination that the present status of the asset does not correspond to an expected status of the asset is made by the autonomous device. In response, the autonomous device navigates to the particular location of the property.
US10574943B2
An information processing system includes: a first input unit configured to receive an input of a video captured by each of a plurality of image capturing devices; a selection unit configured to select a different moving object that is different from a tracking-target moving object in the video captured by a first image capturing device of the plurality of video devices, from among moving objects in the video captured by the first image capturing device; and an estimation unit configured to estimate a time point at which the tracking-target moving object is to appear, based on whether or not the different moving object has appeared in the video captured by a second image capturing device of the plurality of image capturing devices.
US10574940B2
Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for minimizing face-to-face interaction for law enforcement officers during traffic stops. Aspects include broadcasting, by a law enforcement device, a request to initiate a secure communication channel with a driver device and receiving by the law enforcement device, a notification that the driver device has accepted the request. Aspects also include initiating a video conference between the law enforcement device and the driver device over the secure communication channel and transferring, between the driver device and the law enforcement device, one or more documents over the secure communication channel.
US10574938B1
A depth camera assembly (DCA) for depth sensing of a local area. The DCA includes a light generator, a detector, and a controller. The light generator illuminates a local area with a light pattern. The detector captures portions of the light pattern reflected from an object in the local area. The detector includes pixel rows and pixel columns that form a dynamically adjustable read-out area. The controller reads first data of the captured portions of the reflected light pattern that correspond to a first read-out area, and locates the object based on the first data. The controller determines a second read-out area of the detector based on a portion of the read-out area associated with the object. The controller reads second data of the captured portions of the reflected light pattern that correspond to the second read-out area, and determines depth information for the object based on the second data.
US10574934B2
An image signal processing apparatus includes: circuitry including: a mode setting circuitry configured to change a mode to one of a first mode and a second mode; a dividing circuitry configured to divide an input image signal into a base component signal and a detail component signal when the mode setting circuitry sets the first mode; a first tone compressing circuitry configured to perform a tone compression process on the base component signal to generate a compressed base component signal; a synthesizing circuitry configured to generate a synthetic image signal based on the detail component signal and the compressed base component signal; and a second tone compressing circuitry configured to perform a tone compression process such that tone of the input image signal becomes approximately equal to tone of the compressed base component signal when the mode setting circuitry sets a second mode.
US10574932B2
A method for media subtitling is described, wherein subtitles and/or captions for media are first created on a web interface in a first language along with the appropriate synchronization information with respect to the media. The document content may be created via the web interface, or it may be created locally and uploaded to the interface. Subsequent to creation and/or upload of at least a portion of the subtitling, personnel in different locations (e.g., different terminals or different countries) then access the web interface, which includes the first language and the synchronization information, to create foreign/alternative subtitling.
US10574927B1
An analog-to-digital converter is provided. The analog-to-digital converter is configured to convert an analog signal to a digital signal. The analog-to-digital converter includes a comparison circuit and a processing circuit. The comparison circuit is configured to compare the analog signal with each of a ramp signal and the ramp signal plus a predetermined offset to generate a control signal. The processing circuit, coupled to the comparison circuit, is configured to selectively store a count value of a counter circuit as the digital signal according to the control signal. When the control signal indicates that a signal level of the analog signal is greater than a signal level of the ramp signal and less than the signal level of the ramp signal plus the predetermined offset, the processing circuit is configured to store the count value as the digital signal.
US10574904B2
An imaging method and an electronic device are provided. The imaging method includes obtaining a current imaging mode including a sports mode and obtaining an imaging instruction. The imaging method also includes generating a sports image by processing at least one image based on the current imaging mode and in response to the imaging instruction. The sports image includes a target object and a background image, and at least a portion of the background image has a visual effect in one direction. Further, the imaging method includes displaying the sports image. A moving direction of the target object is signified by the one direction presented by the visual effect of the background image in the sports image.
US10574902B2
A dome type surveillance camera includes a plurality of cameras, a connector to which a wireless adapter is detachably attached, and a controller which wirelessly transmits video data of an image captured by the plurality of cameras to a mobile terminal via the wireless adapter attached to the connector.
US10574898B2
A method is described to greatly improve the efficiency of and reduce the complexity of image compression when using single-sensor color imagers for video acquisition. The method in addition allows for this new image compression type to be compatible with existing video processing tools, improving the workflow for film and television production.
