US10691305B2
Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.
US10691302B2
A GUI for an LMS includes a plurality of graphical modules, each representing a lesson, medium, or deliverable for a project. Each module has attributes permitting interconnection with other modules within the context of the project when moved adjacent to one another within a course creation workspace. The course creation workspace includes a visual editing facility allowing a user to assemble the project through drag and drop interconnection of the modules within a project prompt that is a visual instantiation of learning goals associated with an educational standard. Such assembly automatically generates lesson content and associates badges representing the lessons, which badges become available to students as they complete the respective lessons.
US10691299B2
Techniques are disclosed for the efficient display of hierarchical datasets using high-water mark scrolling. Certain techniques allow for the creation of simple, intuitive, and computationally inexpensive user interfaces for displaying hierarchical data sets. According to some embodiments, a defined number of items of a hierarchical list are presented in a hierarchical user interface module. This defined number of items may be referred to as a “high-water mark” value. When one of the items having associated child items (that are not currently displayed) is selected, one or more presented items in the hierarchical list are replaced with a corresponding one or more of the child items, thus maintaining a same number of displayed list items (i.e., the high-water mark number of displayed list items).
US10691292B2
A unified experience environment supports mechanisms that collect and utilize contextual metadata to associate information in accordance with its relevance to a user's current context. An ambient data collector obtains contextual and activity information coincident with a user's creation, editing or consumption of data and associates it with such data as contextual metadata. A context generator that utilizes contextual metadata to identify relationships between data and enable the proactive presentation of data relevant to a user's current context. Proactive presentation includes a context panel that is alternatively displayable and hideable in an application-independent manner and a unified activity feed that comprises correlated data groupings identified by correlation engines, including a universal, cross-application correlation engine and individual, application-specific correlation engines that exchange information through data correlation interfaces. The context panel and unified activity feed enable users to more efficiently access data and increase their interaction performance with a computing device.
US10691279B2
Methods are disclosed for dynamic assignment of possible channels in a touch sensitive device having rows and columns. In an embodiment, a method determines a first signal space in which to generate signals for use in the touch sensor. Signals are then generated in the first signal space on separate ones of the rows and a column signal is sensed on a column. The first signal space is replaced with a second signal space, and a second plurality of signals is generated for use in the touch sensor in the second frequency space. The second plurality of signals is sensed to identify a touch event in the touch sensitive device.
US10691271B2
The present application provides a method for determining a touch position and a touch control chip. The method includes: determining a variation caused by a noise to raw data of a capacitive touch screen; performing noise processing on a first raw value set of the capacitive touch screen according to the variation caused by the noise to the raw data of the capacitive touch screen, to obtain a first processed data set; and determining a touch position on the capacitive touch screen according to the first processed data set. The method for determining a touch position and the touch control chip provided by the present application contribute to improving accuracy of the touch position.
US10691264B2
A projection display apparatus includes a light valve that modulates illuminating light on the basis of image data to output the modulated light, an illuminating unit including a light source, and a plurality of optical members for illumination that generate the illuminating light on the basis of light from the light source to guide the illuminating light to the light valve, a projection lens that projects the modulated light from the light valve on a projection surface, and allows detection light to enter from a direction opposite to a travelling direction of the modulated light, and an imaging device that is disposed at a location optically conjugated with the light valve, and allows the detection light to enter through the projection lens. The plurality of optical members for illumination have optical property of reducing a noise component that affects the detection light and arises inside the illuminating unit.
US10691259B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, a driving method, and a driving circuit. More particularly, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, a driving method, and a driving circuit capable of preventing touch sensitivity from being affected by display driving even though simultaneously performing the display driving and touch driving by supplying a data voltage to a plurality of data lines disposed in a display panel, supplying a common voltage to a plurality of common electrodes disposed in the display panel, displaying an image through the display panel, and supplying a common voltage to the common electrodes.
US10691254B2
A serial communication method between a device and a host, in which the device reports touch data including a coordinate of a detected active stylus to a host. The host issues a write command that includes data indicating a request of a descriptor, to the device. After the device performs a predetermined process for the write command, the device transmits an interrupt to the host. The host requests the device to transmit the touch data, triggered by the host detecting the interrupt. The device transmits the descriptor in response to a request for transmission of the touch data. The method can enable a sensor controller to notify the host of the descriptor even in a case where communication is performed between the sensor controller and a host processor in accordance with a standard that does not provide a command usable for the device to notify the host of the descriptor.
US10691247B2
Provided are a display panel and an electronic device, and the display panel includes: shift registers, pressure detecting units and switching circuits; the switching circuit includes a first switching transistor and a second switching transistor, and a control terminal of the first switching transistor is electrically connected with an outputting terminal of one of the shift registers and an inputting terminal of the first switching transistor is electrically connected to a first outputting terminal of the corresponding pressure detecting unit, and a control terminal of the second switching transistor is electrically connected to an outputting terminal of one of the shift registers and an inputting terminal of the second switching transistor is electrically connected to a second outputting terminal of corresponding pressure detecting unit.
US10691244B2
A touch display device is provided. The touch display device includes a substrate and a plurality of display units disposed on the substrate, wherein the display units form a display region and the display region has a first outline. The touch display device further includes an insulating layer disposed on the display units and a plurality of touch units disposed on the insulating layer, wherein the touch units form a touch region, and the touch region has a second outline. The touch display device further includes a reflection reducing layer disposed on the touch units, the reflection reducing layer is in contacted with the touch units and has a third outline, wherein the first outline and the second outline are located within the third outline in a view of a first direction perpendicular to the substrate.
US10691241B2
A display of an electric device includes a plurality of separated transparent electrode blocks, which are configured to provide one or more of supplemental features such as touch recognition. Signal paths between the transparent electrode blocks and the driver for the supplemental feature are implemented with a plurality of conductive lines placed under one or more planarization layers. The conductive lines implementing the signal paths are routed across the display area, directly toward a non-display area where drive-integrated circuits are located.
US10691239B2
A touch display substrate, a driving method of a touch display substrate, and a touch display device. The touch display substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of electrode patterns on the base substrate; signal lines in one-to-one correspondence with the electrode patterns; a compensation circuit on the base substrate, wherein the compensation circuit is configured to provide a common voltage signal to the electrode patterns in response to a touch control signal.
US10691238B2
An array substrate and a touch control display panel are provided. The array substrate comprises a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a plurality of touch control electrodes comprising a plurality of first touch control electrodes and a plurality of second touch control electrodes; and a plurality of touch control signal lines. A first touch control electrode is disposed only in the display area. A second touch control electrode includes a first portion disposed in the display area and a second portion disposed in the non-display area. A ratio m between an area of the first portion of the second touch control electrode and an area of the first touch control electrode is configured to be approximately 0.067≤m≤0.65. A touch control electrode is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of touch control signal lines.
US10691235B2
Integrated touch screens are provided including drive lines formed of grouped-together circuit elements of a thin film transistor layer and sense lines formed between a color filter layer and a material layer that modifies or generates light. The common electrodes (Vcom) in the TFT layer can be grouped together during a touch sensing operation to form drive lines. Sense lines can be formed on a separate layer dedicated to only touch hardware.
US10691231B2
A touch panel includes: a substrate including a touch recognition area and a fingerprint recognition area; a first driving electrode and a first sensing electrode insulated from each other on the substrate and each positioned in the touch recognition area; and a second driving electrode and a second sensing electrode insulated from each other on the substrate and each positioned in the fingerprint recognition area. At least one of the second driving electrode and the second sensing electrode includes: a stem portion; and a branch portion branching off from the stem portion.
US10691218B2
A gesture recognition apparatus includes a sensor unit configured to be worn by a user on a user's body part. The sensor unit includes one or more sensors, a processor unit, the processor unit and the sensor unit are arranged in communication with each other, the processor unit receiving acoustic data from the one or more sensors, wherein the acoustic data corresponds to a gesture performed by a user, and the processor unit is configured to process the acoustic data received from the one or more sensors to determine a gesture performed by the user.
US10691207B2
An example display device includes an input module to receive a touch input that identifies a shape of an electronic device. The display device also includes a display panel. The display panel is to display first data from a computing device in a first region of the display panel. The display panel is also to, in response to a reception of the touch input, display the first data in a second region of the display panel and display second data from the electronic device in a virtual representation of the electronic device in a third region of the display panel. The third region corresponds to the shape of the electronic device. The second data is received via a connection to the computing device. The second region is smaller than the first region.
US10691203B2
A gaze detection device includes a display screen configured to display an image; a sound output device configured to output a sound; a gaze point detector configured to detect a position of a point of gaze of an observer observing the display screen; an area setting unit configured to set a specific area on the display screen or part of the image; a determination unit configured to, when the specific area is set on the display screen or the image, determine whether the point of gaze is within the specific area on the basis of a result of the detecting the position of the point of gaze; and an output controller configured to cause the display screen to display the image and cause the sound output device to output the sound and adjust at least a mode in which the sound is output.
US10691201B2
An example system for image stream switching. The system for image stream switching may include a processor, a display, and a storage. The storage may include instructions that when executed on the processor, cause the processor to provide, to the display, a first image stream from a multiple simultaneous image streams data, the first image stream including a first setting and a first frame. The storage may include instructions that when executed on the processor, cause the processor to detect a signal to switch an image stream setting. The storage may include instructions that when executed on the processor, cause the processor to provide, to the display, a second image stream from the multiple simultaneous image streams data in response to a detection of the signal, the second image stream including a second setting and a second frame.
US10691199B2
Methods and systems for enabling a user to perform a full body movement while viewing a virtual reality environment on a head up displays without interfering with viewing of content on the heads up display. Specifically, a full body movement of the user is detected. In response to detecting the full body movement, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a foreground area of the user's visual field. The additional content assists the user perform the full body movement.
US10691194B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus including a wearable optical device, a state detection unit configured to detect a state relating to the wearable optical device, state determination unit configured to determine that the detected state is at least one of a first state in which the wearable optical device is worn by a user in usable state or a second state in which the wearable optical device is worn or carried by the user in unusable state, and a power supply controller configured to control a power supply state of the electronic apparatus based on a result obtained by the determination.
US10691190B2
The disclosed technology provides methods for performing a power delivery network analysis of the memory unit I/O power domain. The methods include performing a signal and power integrity analysis for a memory unit I/O power domain to extract characteristics of a current waveform, determining characteristics of an expected waveform based on a current response for the memory unit I/O power domain, and determining whether the characteristics of the current waveform and the characteristics of the expected waveform are within a tolerance limit. The method also includes various remedial operations and CPM regeneration which may iteratively occur until the waveform matches and final CPM is generated which is use for PDN analysis.
US10691168B2
A middle frame may include a middle frame and a bearing plate. The middle frame may include a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and defining a first through hole and a second through hole spaced apart from the first through hole, and both the first through hole and the second through hole may penetrate the first surface and the second surface. The bearing plate may include a bearing body having a third surface, a first extending portion extending from the third surface and configured to pass through the first through hole and have an interference fit with the middle frame, and a second extending portion extending from the third surface, spaced apart from the first extending portion and configured to pass through the second through hole and have a clearance fit with the middle frame.
US10691164B2
Device holder assemblies include a first device panel and a second device panel that are configured to selectively couple a first and a second portable computing device to the device holder assembly. The device holder assemblies generally include a spine that is hingedly connected to the first device panel and the second device panel, such that the device holder assembly is repositionable between an open position and a closed position by rotating the first device panel and the second device panel about the spine. The spine may also include a computing entity including driver software that allows the first and second portable computing devices to be operated in conjunction with one another when selectively coupled to the device holder assembly.
US10691163B2
Disclosed aspects relate to a display device. By forming a back cover, which is the support structure constituting the display device, in a bent structure and forming a molding part made of an elastic material to enclose the vertical extension portion, a border gap, which is a clearance between the side surfaces of the display panel and the side surface support structure, can be minimized to maintain an excellent external appearance of the display device, and to prevent infiltration of foreign matter and damage of the display panel, which may be caused by the gap between the display panel and the support structure. By disposing a metal inner plate on the inner surface of the horizontal portion of the back cover, the rigidity of the back cover can be increased, the thickness of the back cover can be decreased, and heat generated from the display panel and the like can be smoothly dissipated.
US10691148B2
Environmental characteristics of habitable environments (e.g., hotel or motel rooms, spas, resorts, cruise boat cabins, offices, hospitals and/or homes, apartments or residences) are controlled to eliminate, reduce or ameliorate adverse or harmful aspects and introduce, increase or enhance beneficial aspects in order to improve a “wellness” or sense of “wellbeing” provided via the environments. Control of intensity and wavelength distribution of passive and active Illumination addresses various issues, symptoms or syndromes, for instance to maintain a circadian rhythm or cycle, adjust for “jet lag” or season affective disorder, etc. Air quality and attributes are controlled. Scent(s) may be dispersed. Hypoallergenic items (e.g., bedding, linens) may be used. Water quality is controlled. Noise is reduced and sounds (e.g., masking, music, natural) may be provided. Passive and active pathogen controls are employed. Controls are provided for the occupant and/or facility personnel, as is instruction, and surveys, including assessing wellness.
US10691143B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to manifolds that comprise a moveable, internal sealing member that can be used to engage one or more ports of the manifold and prevent or reduce fluid flow from the engaged port into the manifold. In certain examples, the manifold can be used in a mass spectrometer to control fluid flow from an interface and a turbomolecular pump.
US10691136B2
A method and device for providing a signal for operating at least two vehicles including: receiving vehicle data values which represent at least one further vehicle, the at least one further vehicle cutting in between the at least two vehicles, acquiring a first driving strategy of the at least two vehicles, determining a second driving strategy for the at least two vehicles, as a function of the first driving strategy and as a function of the vehicle data values, and providing a signal for operating the at least two vehicles as a function of the second driving strategy.
US10691132B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle control device provided in a vehicle and a method of controlling the vehicle. A vehicle control device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a processor to autonomously run a vehicle using driving information that the vehicle has traveled in a manual driving mode, wherein the driving information includes a start place where the manual driving mode is started, an end place where the manual driving mode is ended, and a travel route from the start place to the end place, wherein the processor autonomously runs the vehicle along the travel route from the start place to the end place when the vehicle has moved up to the start place through manual driving.
US10691127B2
Techniques for determining a trajectory for an autonomous vehicle are described herein. In general, determining a route can include utilizing a search algorithm such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to search for possible trajectories, while using temporal logic formulas, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), to validate or reject the possible trajectories. Trajectories can be selected based on various costs and constraints optimized for performance. Determining a trajectory can include determining a current state of the autonomous vehicle, which can include determining static and dynamic symbols in an environment. A context of an environment can be populated with the symbols, features, predicates, and LTL formula. Rabin automata can be based on the LTL formula, and the automata can be used to evaluate various candidate trajectories. Nodes of the MCTS can be generated and actions can be explored based on machine learning implemented as, for example, a deep neural network.
US10691126B1
Methods and systems for autonomous vehicle recharging or refueling are disclosed. Autonomous vehicles may be automatically refueled by routing the vehicles to available fueling stations when not in operation, according to methods described herein. A fuel level within a tank of an autonomous vehicle may be monitored until it reaches a refueling threshold, at which point an on-board computer may generate a predicted use profile for the vehicle. Based upon the predicted use profile, a time and location for the vehicle to refuel the vehicle may be determined. In some embodiments, the vehicle may be controlled to automatically travel to a fueling station, refill a fuel tank, and return to its starting location in order to refuel when not in use.
US10691112B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus performing: storing traceability information that is information which results from associating an apparatus that processes the component, an operating person who is in charge of the processing, and a timing at which the processing is performed, with each other; storing processing situation information that is information that results from associating a situation of the processing of the component and a timing at which the processing is performed, with each other; generating a combination at the same timing, of the processing, the apparatus or the operating person, and the situation of the processing, as an object integration data, based on the traceability information and the processing situation information; and outputting contents of the generated object integration data.
US10691105B2
To provide a control panel having NC function for machine tool, which is capable of using an information medium that is easily and securely manageable without requiring manual input of information to the control unit for simplifying the data reading system construction. The control panel having NC function for machine tool includes an image pickup device for reading a matrix-type two-dimensional code, which is installed on the front surface of the control panel, or on the on-hand manual pulse generator connected to the control panel. The control unit inside the control panel includes a reader which processes image data of the matrix type two-dimensional code captured by the image pickup device, and outputs the image data as read data, and start driving control to the machining section based on the work instruction information contained in the read data.
US10691094B1
A technique for operating a power subsystem includes determining a respective power status of power devices in the power subsystem. The power devices include a first power device and a second power device that derives power from the first power device. Respective visual indicators of the first and second power devices are controlled to uniquely indicate which of the first and second power devices have an associated fault based on the respective power status of the power devices.
US10691093B2
Devices, systems, and methods for controller programming migration automation are described herein. One device includes instructions executable to receive controller programming information associated with a first controller of a building system, wherein the received controller programming information is of a first information type, convert the received controller programming information to a second information type associated with a second controller of the building system, based, at least in part, on a set of conversion rules particular to the first controller and the second controller, and generate a report including information associated with the conversion.
US10691091B2
A controller is provided with a repeated control unit configured to calculate a position compensation value, based on a position command for each control period of a motor, a position deviation, which is the difference between the position command and a position of the motor, and a parameter for repeated control, and a machine learning device configured to predict the position compensation value calculated by the repeated control unit, and the machine learning device constructs a learning model so as to minimize an objective function based on the position command, the position deviation, and the position compensation value.
US10691084B2
A spray rig monitoring system having a plurality of sensors that detect and transmit operational parameters to a computer. The operational parameters are processed to determine if a spray rig and its crew are operating within preset parameters.
US10691074B2
A time-to-digital converter circuit includes a logic gate coupled to receive a first trigger signal indicative of a first clock signal and a second trigger signal indicative of a second clock signal. The logic gate is to generate a logic gate output signal responsive to the earlier of the first or second trigger signals to be a logic high. A synchronization circuit is included and is coupled to the logic gate and is configured to synchronize the logic gate output signal to a third clock to produce a synchronization output signal. A counter circuit counts pulses of the synchronization output signal.
US10691058B2
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier whose rotational speed changes depending on a printing speed of an image onto a sheet, an applicator that applies a lubricant to a surface of the latent image carrier, and a hardware processor that causes a surface of the applicator to move such that a difference between a first moving speed and a second moving speed is within a certain range, the first moving speed being a speed at which the surface of the latent image carrier moves, the second moving speed being a speed at which the surface of the applicator moves.
US10691052B2
In the first charge amount acquisition operation, based on density of a plurality of toner images for measurement or based on a direct component of a developing current at the time of forming the plurality of toner images in addition to the density of the plurality of toner images for measurement, the charge amount acquisition section acquires a first toner charge amount that is a charge amount of toner included in the toner image for measurement. In the second charge amount acquisition operation, based on the toner density detected at the time of image formation and a relationship between the first toner charge amount and the toner density detected in the first charge amount acquisition operation, the charge amount acquisition section acquires a second toner charge amount that is a charge amount of the toner in the development device.
US10691047B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises an image forming section, a fixing section and a controller. The image forming section forms a toner image with at least one selected from a first toner having a first fixing temperature area and a second toner having a second fixing temperature area of which a lower limit fixing temperature is higher than the first toner. The fixing section fixes the toner image on the sheet. The controller controls a standby temperature of the fixing section to a temperature lower than the lower limit fixing temperature of the second fixable temperature area.
US10691046B2
A fixing device to fix an image formed on a recording material to the recording material includes a cylindrical belt, a nip portion forming member contacting the belt, a backup member forming a nip portion with the nip portion forming member, a halogen heater including a bulb filled with gas and having a sealing portion sealing the bulb, and a reflection member that is long in a longitudinal direction of the halogen heater, wherein an image formed on the recording material is fixed to the recording material at the nip portion, and wherein the reflection member has a length greater than a length of a light emission area of the halogen heater, and the nip portion forming member has a length greater than the length of the reflection member.
US10691045B1
A roll includes an electrically-conductive shaft; an elastic layer provided on the shaft; and a non-electrically-conductive annular unit that is attached to at least one of ends of the shaft that protrude from end surfaces of the elastic layer in a shaft direction while being in contact with the end surface of the elastic layer. A protruding part that protrudes so as to cut into the end surface of the elastic layer is provided on a part of the annular unit that makes contact with the end surface of the elastic layer, and the protruding part has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the part of the annular unit that makes contact with the end surface of the elastic layer.
US10691038B2
There is provided a conductive roller for electrophotographic equipment in which a shaft made of core metal has excellent rust resistance. The conductive roller includes a shaft made of core metal, a protective layer formed on the outer periphery of the shaft, and a conductive rubber elastic layer formed on the outer periphery of the protective layer. In a conductive roller for electrophotographic equipment, the conductive rubber elastic layer contains a rubber containing halogen atoms, and the protective layer is formed of a crosslinked material of a composition containing a material obtained by melting and mixing the following components (a) to (c): (a) a polyfunctional maleimide compound having two or more maleimide groups; (b) a benzoxazine compound; and (c) an epoxy resin.
US10691033B2
The present invention provides an electrophotographic photosensitive member sequentially including: a support; a photosensitive layer; and a protection layer formed on the support, wherein the protection layer has a triarylamine structure and a specific cyclic structure, and a specific A-value obtained by measurement using total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy is 0.010 or more and 0.050 or less.
US10691029B2
A method including computing a multi-variable cost function, the multi-variable cost function representing a metric characterizing a degree of matching between a result when measuring a metrology target structure using a substrate measurement recipe and a behavior of a pattern of a functional device, the metric being a function of a plurality of design variables including a parameter of the metrology target structure, and adjusting the design variables and computing the cost function with the adjusted design variables, until a certain termination condition is satisfied.
US10691026B2
An illumination optical system which illuminates an illumination objective surface with a light from a light source. The illumination optical system includes a spatial light modulator which includes a plurality of optical elements arranged within a predetermined plane and controlled individually, and which forms a light intensity distribution in an illumination pupil of the illumination optical system; and a polarization unit which is arranged in a position optically conjugate with the predetermined plane, and which polarizes an incident light beam having a first and second partial light beams, coming into the polarization unit such that the first and second partial light beams have polarization states different from each other, and emits the polarized incident light beam as an outgoing light beam, wherein the polarization unit changes, in a cross section of the outgoing light beam, a ratio between a cross sectional areas of the first and second partial light beams.
US10691023B2
Methods for performing a lithography process are provided. The method for performing a lithography process includes forming a resist layer over a substrate and exposing a portion of the resist layer to form an exposed portion between unexposed portions. The method for performing a lithography process further includes developing the resist layer to remove the exposed portion of the resist layer such that an opening is formed between the unexposed portions and forming a post treatment coating material in the opening and over the unexposed portions of the resist layer. The method for performing a lithography process further includes reacting a portion of the unexposed portions of the resist layer with the post treatment coating material by performing a post treatment process and removing the post treatment coating material.
US10691020B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for dispensing liquid material, including a dispensing arm, a wafer holder against the dispensing arm, a first nozzle on the dispensing arm, a first distance laterally spacing the first nozzle and a center of the wafer holder, and a first height vertically spacing the first nozzle and a surface of the wafer holder, and a second nozzle on the dispensing arm, a second distance laterally spacing the second nozzle and the center of the wafer holder, and a second height vertically spacing the second nozzle and the surface of the wafer holder, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance, and the first height is greater than the second height.
US10691018B2
A photoresist composition includes a photosensitive polymer including a polymer chain and at least one first functional group coupled to the polymer chain, and a photoacid generator. The first functional group has a structure represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, where R1 is one of an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1 to 20 and an aryl group having a carbon number of 1 to 20, and R2 is one of —H, —F, —Cl, —Br, an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1 to 20, and an aryl group having a carbon number of 1 to 20.
US10691017B2
Pellicle-mask systems for advanced lithography, such as extreme ultraviolet lithography, are disclosed herein. An exemplary pellicle-mask system includes a mask having an integrated circuit (IC) pattern, a pellicle membrane, and a pellicle frame. The pellicle frame has a first surface attached to the pellicle membrane and a second surface opposite the first surface attached to the mask, such that the IC pattern of the mask is positioned within an enclosed space defined by the mask, the pellicle membrane, and the pellicle frame. A void is defined between the pellicle frame and the mask, where the void is defined by a portion of the second surface of the pellicle membrane not attached to the mask. The void is not in communication with the enclosed space and is not in communication with an exterior space of the pellicle-mask system.
US10691011B2
An imaging system includes a sound recording apparatus and an imaging apparatus that is connected to the sound recording apparatus and records, as moving-image sounds, sounds collected by the sound recording apparatus. The imaging apparatus detects whether the sound recording apparatus has been connected thereto. Upon detecting that the sound recording apparatus has been connected to the imaging apparatus, the imaging apparatus sets a sound-recording condition associated with the sound recording apparatus as a sound-recording condition for the imaging apparatus in a sound recording process and records sounds under the sound-recording condition that has been set.
US10691010B2
A projection screen with micro lenses or micro mirrors for the purpose of suppressing ambient light by means of a patterned layer stack including at least a polarizer and a quarter wave retarder. The projection screen has a surface structure where light from a projector is focussed at positions where the light can escape from the structure and is optionally diffused. The location of the focus positions depends upon the incident angle of the light coming from the projector, and therefore the screen is tailored for a certain projector configuration and projector light direction.
US10690998B2
A camera module includes a housing including a lens module; a diaphragm module to form N apertures of different sizes, where N is a natural number, with blades disposed on an object side of the lens module; and a diaphragm driving unit disposed with the diaphragm module, and including a driving coil and a magnetic member disposed opposite to the driving coil, the magnetic member being movable in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis to be fixed in N positions along a movement path.
US10690993B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe optical structures and devices, and more particularly to improved, tunable optical structures including optical gratings that are dynamically affected and/or tuned by acousto-optic or electro-optic mechanisms.
US10690990B2
A display device and a display method are provided. The display device includes a display assembly and a refractive component. The display assembly includes a display region and is configured to emit imaging light from the display region to default direction. The refractive component is disposed on a display side of the display assembly and configured to diverge or converge at least partial imaging light. The comfort degree of the head mounted virtual reality device is improved, or a head-mounted display device with anti peeping function is provided.
US10690989B2
A superposition circuitry superposes a dither signal on a reference DC bias voltage and outputs a resultant voltage as a bias voltage to an MZ modulator, during control of a driving voltage amplitude. During the control of the driving voltage amplitude to the MZ modulator, an amplitude setter determines, by varying the amplitude of an output voltage from an amplifier, a plurality of amplitudes of output curves from a synchronous detector, each of which is obtained by varying the reference DC bias voltage output from a bias controller, and the amplitude setter sets the amplification factor of the amplifier, based on an amplitude of the output voltage from the amplifier that corresponds to an amplitude satisfying a predetermined condition, out of the plurality of the amplitudes of the output curves from the synchronous detector.
US10690986B2
An electronic device has an electrically adjustable shutter. The shutter may be placed in a transparent state or a nontransparent state. The shutter may overlap a portion of a display, may overlap a liquid contact indictor or a structure with text in a device, or may overlap an optical component such as an optical proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, visible light-emitting diode or laser, infrared light-emitting diode or laser, visible light image sensor, or infrared light image sensor. Control circuitry in the electronic device may place the shutter in an opaque state to hide an overlapped component from view or may place the shutter in a transparent state to allow the overlapped component to transmit or receive light. The adjustable shutter may exhibit changes in its transmission spectrum in different modes of operation and may be used as a camera filter or neutral density filter.
US10690978B2
An array substrate, a display panel, and a display are disclosed. At least one metal layer is added to make a contact with a first metal layer of an existing GOA circuit and to partially overlap with a second metal layer and/or poly-silicon layer of the existing GOA circuit in an insulated manner to form a capacitor, which means that at least one capacitor in series connection with existing capacitors is added, so that the capacitance of the GOA circuit is increased while the capacitor area of the GOA circuit is still the area of the existing capacitors, thus, facilitating the narrow-border design of LCDs.
US10690975B2
Provided are an active-matrix substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device, which render it possible to inhibit electrostatic discharge from occurring during the process of manufacturing a display panel and suppress manufacturing cost. An IGZO film, which is positioned between a silicon oxide film included in a gate insulating film and an etch-stop layer, is annealed at 200 to 350° C. after a passivation film for protecting a TFT is formed. As a result, the passivation film is annealed, and the IGZO film is changed from a conductor to a semiconductor. Consequently, it is not only possible to suppress the occurrence of ESD, but also possible to eliminate the need to sever an electrostatic discharge prevention circuit from a display panel, resulting in a reduced cost of manufacturing a display device.
US10690966B2
A material of alignment film, a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, and a liquid crystal display panel are provided. The material of alignment film is obtained by mixing a polymerizable monomer in the polyamic acid solution, thus is easy to fabricate. The method of fabricating the liquid crystal display panel obtains an alignment film including a polyimide film and polymer protrusions located on a surface of the polyimide film by coating the material of alignment film on a substrate, and going through a series of processes; the alignment film can allow liquid crystal molecules arrange in vertical alignment and generate a pre-inclination angle, and a risk of the polymerizable monomer contaminating the liquid crystal molecules does not exist, so as to enhance quality of the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel has a simple structure and good alignment effect, and has excellent display quality.
US10690960B2
A display device is provided, which includes a display unit and a backlight module. The backlight module is disposed corresponding to the display unit. The backlight module includes a circuit board, a plurality of light sources, a diffuser plate and an optical film. The light sources are disposed on the circuit board, the diffuser plate is disposed between the light sources and the display unit, and the optical film is disposed between the diffuser plate and the display unit. The optical film includes a micro-structure, and the micro-structure faces the light sources.
US10690950B2
A touch display device includes a touch display module. The touch display module includes a TFT substrate, a color filtering substrate, and a liquid crystal layer encapsulated between the TFT substrate and the color filtering substrate. A first electrode layer is formed on a surface of the color filtering substrate facing the TFT substrate. A second electrode layer is formed on a surface of the TFT substrate facing the color filtering substrate. The touch display device further includes at least one supporting element on a side of the touch display module. The supporting element is elastic and configured for elastically resisting against the touch display module.
US10690948B2
The present application discloses a switchable device, comprising a switching layer and a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, where the switching layer is positioned between the first and the second conductive layer, and where at least one of the first and the second conductive layers comprises a plurality of isolating sections and a plurality of conductive sections, where the isolating sections and the conductive sections alternate over the area of the conductive layer, and where the switching state of the switchable device is controlled by touch motions.
US10690934B2
A lens module comprises a housing, a lens holder movably accommodated in the housing and an optical image stabilization device (OIS device). The OIS device is configured to generate a driving force according to the movement of the lens holder so as to stabilize the lens holder. The OIS device of the lens module further comprises a substrate and a plurality of driving coils received in the substrate by means of embedment so that the OIS device occupies a smaller proportion of space in the lens module and thereby to keep the lens module compact.
US10690928B2
An apparatus for heat deposition in additive manufacturing may include: a first optical beam source configured to generate a first optical beam; a second optical beam source configured to generate a second optical beam; and/or an optical system. The optical system may be configured to move the generated first optical beam over a target area. The optical system may be further configured to move the generated second optical beam over the target area so that a path of the second optical beam moving over the target area is dithered about a path of the first optical beam moving over the target area.The optical system may be configured to focus the generated first optical beam at a plane of a target area. The optical system may be further configured to focus the generated second optical beam at the plane of the target area.
US10690919B1
A waveguide display includes a light source, a scanning mirror assembly, an output waveguide, and a controller. The light source emits image light. The scanning mirror assembly scans the image light as scanned image light to particular locations in accordance with scanning instructions. The output waveguide includes an input area and an output area. The output waveguide receives the scanned image light emitted from the scanning mirror assembly at the input area, and output expanded image light from a portion of the output area, the location of the portion of the output area based in part on a direction of the scanned image light output from the scanning mirror assembly. The controller generates the scanning instructions and provides the scanning instructions to the scanning mirror assembly.
US10690917B2
A variety of femtoprojector optical systems are described. Each of them can be made small enough to fit in a contact lens using plastic injection molding, diamond turning, photolithography and etching, or other techniques. Most, but not all, of the systems include a solid cylindrical transparent substrate with a curved primary mirror formed on one end and a secondary mirror formed on the other end. Any of the designs may use light blocking, light-redirecting, absorbing coatings or other types of baffle structures as needed to reduce stray light.
US10690916B2
An optical display comprises: a first waveguide comprising a first surface and a second surface, an input coupler, a fold grating, and an output grating. The input coupler receives collimated first wavelength light from an Input Image Node causes the light to travel within the first waveguide via total internal reflection between the first surface and the second surface to the fold grating. The fold grating provides pupil expansion in a first direction directs the light to the output grating via total internal reflection between the first surface and the second surface. The output grating provides pupil expansion in a second direction different than the first direction and causes the light to exit the first waveguide from the first surface or the second surface. At least one of the input coupler, fold grating and output grating is a rolled k-vector grating, and the fold grating is a dual interaction grating.
US10690908B2
A head device of three-dimensional modeling equipment is disclosed which has unidirectionally rotating polygon mirrors, can perform biaxial scanning at a high speed due to a combination of the mirrors, can easily control timing and a modeling ray irradiation position, and can enhance modeling precision. A scanning method for a modeling plane using the same is also disclosed.
US10690901B2
A method of generating in-focus images of measurement locations of a sample holder in a microscopy imaging system is provided. A camera sensor and an array of focusing optics are positioned at a first focal distance from the sample holder. A first image of a measurement location is acquired using the camera sensor. A candidate output image associated with the camera sensor and the array of focusing optics is developed in accordance with the first image. The camera sensor with the array of focusing optics is positioned at a second distance from the sample holder and a second image of the measurement location is acquired using the camera sensor. A portion of the candidate output image is updated in accordance with a portion of the second image in accordance with a selection criterion. The updated candidate image is transmitted.
US10690893B2
The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first lens group, an aperture stop, a second lens group having a positive refractive power. During focusing from a distant object to a close-range object, the first lens group remains stationary, and the aperture stop and the second lens group integrally move to the object side. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions relating to a focal length of the whole system, a focal length of the first lens group, a principal point position of the second lens group, a focal length of the second lens group, a back focal length, and the like.
US10690886B2
An imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The image-side surface of the seventh lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof. An object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element are aspheric. At least one of an image-side surface of the fourth lens element and an image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one inflection point.
US10690885B2
A lens module includes lenses sequentially arranged from an object-side toward an image plane sensor and comprising refractive power, respectively. A second lens of the lenses has a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. A first lens and a third lens of the lenses are symmetrical to each other in relation to the second lens.
US10690881B2
The electronic apparatus includes a base member, a rotatable operation member, a clicking member rotatable together with the rotatable operation member, an exterior member disposed between the base and rotatable operation members, a switching operation member provided with an operation knob and movable between first and second positions, a pressing member and a contact, member both held by the base member, the pressing member being biased toward the clicking member, the contact member being biased toward the switching operation member to contact the switching operation member, and a stopper member movable together with the switching operation member. When the switching operation member is located at the first position, the pressing member contacts the concave and convex portions. When the switching operation member is located at the second position, the pressing member contacts the stopper member and held away from the concave and convex portions.
US10690873B2
A closure (100) facilitates upgrading a network to extend optical fibers closer to, or all the way to, the subscribers by facilitating the transition between optical signals to electrical signals. The closure includes a base (110) and a cover (120) defining an interior; and a circuit board (130) disposed within the interior. A management tray (140) can be coupled to the base. The circuit board (130) includes the optoelectronic circuitry. The management tray (140) includes a platform (141) disposed between the circuit board (130) and the cover (120). Various types of fiber and electrical cable sub-assemblies (160) can be received at a port (113) defined in the closure.
US10690869B2
A device including an optical tap and waveguide in the core and cladding of an optical fiber together with a glass ferrule that is angle polished to provide a reflection surface (with or without total internal reflection) that produces a reflection of the light tapped from the optical fiber to reach the bottom of the glass ferrule and propagate in a direction that is perpendicular to (or at least different than the direction of propagation close to) the axis of the optical fiber. The fiber waveguide may be created using an ultrafast fabrication method and the glass ferrule can itself be modified by the same ultrafast laser technique to further manipulate the light traveling inside.
US10690867B1
An optical device includes a substrate including plural waveguide cores and an optical component provided on the substrate. The plural waveguide cores allowing light to pass through the plural waveguide cores and the optical component including plural lenses Each of the plural lenses transmitting light passing through a corresponding one of the plural waveguide cores on the substrate, wherein the optical component includes a body and a protrusion The body being provided with the plural lenses, the protrusion being protruded from a side of the body, and the protrusion is fixed to the substrate with an adhesive.
US10690862B2
A connector assembly includes an adapter, a housing, a ferrule, and a sensor. The housing is received by the adapter and has a bore. The ferrule is translatable within the bore of the housing. The sensor is mounted on the housing or on the adapter. The sensor is configured for detecting translation of the ferrule. An electrical characteristic of the sensor changes to indicate translation of the ferrule to a predetermined position.
US10690861B2
A multi-fiber, fiber optic connector is provided having a housing having a first end for receiving a multi-fiber fiber optic cable and a second end having openings for the fibers from the cable. First and second keys for setting the polarity of the fibers within the connector located on opposing sides of the connector. The connector has either one of guide pins or guide pin receiving holes for guiding the connection with a second connector. The keys are movable between a first active position and a second retracted position, such that when one of the keys is in the first active position, the fibers are presented within the connector in a first polarity and when the second key is in the first active position, the fibers are presented within the connector in a second polarity reversed from the first polarity.
US10690860B2
An optical fiber connector includes a body member, a positioning member, a plastic portion, and an optical fiber assembly. The body member includes a first positioning hole and a concave portion. The positioning member includes a first spacing board and at least one positioning sheet. The first spacing board is provided with a second positioning hole and a protrusion. The second positioning hole corresponds to the first positioning hole, and the protrusion corresponds to the concave portion. The at least one positioning sheet is provided with a third positioning hole corresponding to the second positioning hole. The plastic portion is formed at the third positioning hole. The optical fiber assembly includes a bare fiber and a protective layer, such that the bare fiber passes through the third positioning hole, and is enveloped by the protective layer however with at least an end of the bare fiber uncovered.
US10690856B2
System and method for breaking time-reversal symmetry with acoustic pumping of nanophotonic circuits
Systems and methods provide a nonreciprocal nanophotonic modulator. In some examples, the modulator utilizes acoustic pumping, instead of optical pumping with lasers, and is capable of achieving GHz bandwidth.
US10690852B2
A III-V semiconductor waveguide nanoridge structure having a narrow supporting base with a freestanding wider body portion on top, is disclosed. In one aspect, the III-V waveguide includes a PIN diode. The waveguide comprises a III-V semiconductor waveguide core formed in the freestanding wider body portion; at least one heterojunction incorporated in the III-V semiconductor waveguide core; a bottom doped region of a first polarity positioned at a bottom of the narrow supporting base, forming a lower contact; and an upper doped region of a second polarity, forming an upper contact. The upper contact is positioned in at least one side wall of the freestanding wider body portion.
US10690849B2
A probe structure includes a monolithically integrated waveguide and lens. The probe is based on SU-8 as a guiding material. A waveguide mold is defined using wet etching of silicon using a silicon dioxide mask patterned with 45° angle with respect to the silicon substrate edge and an aluminum layer acting as a mirror is deposited on the silicon substrate. A lens mold is made using isotropic etching of the fused silica substrate and then aligned to the silicon substrate. A waveguide polymer such as SU-8 2025 is flowed into the waveguide mask+lens mold (both on the same substrate) by decreasing its viscosity and using capillary forces via careful temperature control of the substrate.
US10690842B2
Presented is a multiparameter automated luminaire comprised of a plurality of light engine modules, a plurality of which by design homogenize light emitted by its light sources more fully than at least one of the light engine modules, which is intentionally designed to noticeably not fully homogenize the light emitted by its light sources. In the preferred embodiment, the non homogenizing light engine module also includes light modulators optionally engagable to more fully homogenize the light output from that light engine module.
US10690837B2
A display such as a liquid crystal display may have an array of pixels that is illuminated using backlight illumination from a backlight. The backlight may have a light guide layer that distributes light from light-emitting diodes across the display. The light guide layer may have a planar portion that provides backlight illumination to the array of pixels and may have bent edge portions that curve out of the plane of the planar portion. Light scattering structures may be formed in the planar portion to extract backlight illumination from the light guide layer. A light sensor adjacent to the bent portion may monitor leaked light. The light guide layer may have two bent portions on opposing edges of the light guide layer.
US10690834B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and especially discloses a backlight device and a method for manufacturing the same. The backlight device includes a backlight source, a light guide plate, a reflective layer, an optical adhesive layer and an outcoupling structure. Specifically, in the backlight device, the reflective layer and the light guide plate are located on opposite sides of the backlight source respectively.
US10690825B2
A color filter comprising a cured layer of a photosensitive resist composition comprising a highly reactive polyacrylate monomer and a process for the preparation thereof are provided. The color filter is especially useful for low temperature applications such as electrophoretic displays, polymer dispersed liquid crystal displays, OLED devices and the like.
US10690820B2
A retroreflector 10 is provided, which includes light reflecting grooves 11a arranged in parallel and partition walls 15 that are arranged in parallel at predetermined intervals and that orthogonally intersect with the light reflecting grooves 11a on an upper side 12 of a flat plate block 11, in which the light reflecting groove 11a is provided with first and second light reflecting surfaces 13 and 14 that orthogonally intersect with each other, and the partition wall 15 is provided with a draft that upwardly becomes smaller in width, and the partition wall 15 has a perpendicular light-reflecting surface 19 orthogonally intersecting with the first and second light reflecting surfaces 13 and 14 on its one side.
US10690819B2
The relates to multi-layer sealing films for microstructured articles. The multi-layer sealing film may include two or more layers. The multi-layer sealing film has an elastic modulus of at least 3.5×105 kPa and the flexural rigidity of the microstructured article is less than about 4.0×10−8 N·m2.
US10690815B2
The present invention relates to a lens device (1), comprising: a transparent and elastically expandable membrane (10), an optical element (20) opposing the membrane (10), a wall member (300), wherein the optical element (10) and the membrane (10) are connected to the wall member (300) such that a volume (V) is formed, a fluid (F) residing in said volume (V), and a lens shaping member (11) attached to the membrane (10). According to the invention the lens device (1) comprises an actuator means (40) that is designed to move the optical element (20) in an axial direction (A) with respect to the lens shaping member (11) so as to adjust the pressure of the fluid (F) residing inside the volume (V) and therewith a curvature of said membrane (10), wherein said axial direction (A) is oriented perpendicular to a plane spanned by the lens shaping member (11), and wherein said actuator means (40) is designed to tilt the optical element (20) with respect to said plane, particularly so as to form the volume into a prism for deflecting light passing the volume. Further, the invention relates to a method for adjusting a lens device (1) and for image stabilization.
US10690814B2
Influence of chipping in case of dicing a plurality of stacked substrates is reduced. Provided is a semiconductor device where a substrate, in which a groove surrounding a pattern configured with a predetermined circuit or part is formed, is stacked. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a stacked lens structure where through-holes are formed in each substrate and lenses are disposed in inner sides of the through-holes, a camera module where a stacked lens structure and a light-receiving device are incorporated, a solid-state imaging device where a pixel substrate and a control substrate are stacked, and the like.
US10690810B2
The present invention relates to an antireflection film comprising a hard coating layer in which a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of the surface irregularities is 0.05 μm to 0.2 μm and an internal haze is 0.5% to 5%; and a low refractive index layer formed on the hard coating layer, and a display device comprising the antireflection film.
US10690797B2
The invention relates to a portable equipment item for locating metal objects to perform an accurate location of metal objects detected by other means, which comprises at least one proximity locator (11), or pointer, comprising a detection coil as well as control means capable of generating the excitation signal for the detection coil, of performing the detection of echoes originating from metal objects from the electromagnetic signals received by the detection head and of alerting the operator when a detection is made. The control means of the proximity locator (11) further comprise radio communication means configured to exchange information with a remote equipment item comprising communication means functionally compatible with the communication means of the device according to the invention. In a preferential configuration, the equipment item also comprises an operator headset (21) equipped with such communication means.
US10690793B2
Methods are described for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals representing a wavefield where the sources traverse general, related activation lines or grids and are synchronously activated while varying at least one parameter between the sources.
US10690791B2
A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for forming a seismic image of a geological structure are provided. After obtaining seismic wave data including a plurality of seismic wave traces at a first region of the geological structure, a predicted time dispersion error of an actual time dispersion error that results from a use of a finite difference approximation in calculating predicted seismic wave data at a second region of the geological structure as if a seismic wave propagates from the first region to the second region of the geological structure, is calculated. A corrected predicted seismic wave data at the second region of the geological structure is calculated by applying the finite difference approximation to the seismic wave data at the first region of the geological structure compensated with the predicted time dispersion error. A seismic image of the second region of the geological structure is generated using the corrected predicted seismic wave data, such that the actual time dispersion error is negated by the predicted time dispersion error.
US10690789B2
A radiation detection device includes: a radiation detection panel; a supporting member having a first surface and a second surface being opposite to the first surface, wherein the radiation detection panel is provided at a side of the first surface; an electronic component that is provided on the second surface of the supporting member and drives the radiation detection panel or processes an electric signal output from the radiation detection panel; and a housing that accommodates the radiation detection panel, the supporting member, and the electronic component, a bottom of the housing which faces the second surface comprises a flat portion and a slope portion that is adjacent to the flat portion and becomes closer to the second surface as becoming further away from the flat portion, and the electronic component is provided at a position as defined herein.
US10690787B2
A radiation imaging system includes a radiation-emitting device and a radiation imaging device. The radiation imaging device has an electrical insulation layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, a top electrode on the top surface of the electrical insulation layer, an array of pixel units electrically coupled to the electrical insulation layer, and an array of transistors connected to the array of pixel units.
US10690786B2
A X-ray detector includes: a base substrate; a plurality of detection modules disposed on the base substrate, wherein the detection module includes a thin film transistor disposed on the base substrate, an insulating layer with a via hole disposed on the thin film transistor and a photosensitive structure disposed on the insulating layer, a first electrode of the thin film transistor is electrically connected to the photosensitive structure through the via hole on the insulating layer, and the first electrode is a source or a drain electrode of the thin film transistor; and a scintillation layer disposed on the detection module. In the present disclosure, by disposing the photosensitive structure and the TFT in different layers, the photosensitive area of the photosensitive structure is enlarged, and it will not be affected by the TFT.
US10690782B2
The disclosure relates to PET imaging systems and methods. The systems may execute the methods to obtain an anatomical image of a subject acquired when the subject remains in a breath-hold status; obtain PET data of the subject, the PET data corresponding to a respiration signal with a plurality of respiratory phases of the subject, the respiratory phases including a first respiratory phase and a second respiratory phase; gate the PET data; reconstruct a plurality of gated PET images, the plurality of gated PET images including a first gated PET image corresponding to the first respiratory phase and a second gated PET image corresponding to the second respiratory phase; determine a first motion vector field between the first gated PET image and the second gated PET image; determine a second motion vector field between the anatomical image and the second gated PET image; and reconstruct an attenuation corrected PET image.
US10690777B2
A system having two or more antenna-receiver combinations is provided, wherein each of the two or more antenna-receiver combinations has an antenna and a receiver. Furthermore, the system has a position determiner for determining a position of the system. Each antenna-receiver combination is configured to receive time information from each satellite of three or more satellites, if the antenna of said antenna-receiver combination has a line of sight to said satellite. The position determiner is configured to determine said position of the system depending on a satellite position of each of the three or more satellites, and depending on the time information from each of the three or more satellites provided by one or more of the two or more antenna-receiver combinations, if, for each of the three or more satellites, the position determiner receives time information of said satellite from at least one of the two or more antenna-receiver combinations.
US10690775B2
A system and method crowdsources atmospheric data from one or more rovers. The rovers calculate an estimated ionosphere delay value that indicates an adverse effect of ionospheric activity on signals received from the GNSS satellite. The values and identifiers may be transmitted to a server. The server utilizes the received information to generate an ionosphere map that reflects the magnitude of ionospheric delay at different locations. The ionosphere map is transmitted to one or more rovers. The rover determines if a pierce point associated with a selected GNSS satellite in view of the rover falls within the boundaries of the ionosphere map. If so, a corresponding ionosphere delay value is obtained utilizing the ionosphere map and then applied as a correction to account for ionospheric activity. In addition, the central server and/or rover may transmit the estimated ionosphere delay values and identifiers to other rovers.
US10690769B2
A method and system to determine angle of arrival of a target include one or more transmitters, one or more receivers, and one local oscillator to provide a local reference signal each in two or more transceiver nodes. The system also includes a controller to determine obtained phase differences for each of the two or more transceiver nodes. Each of the obtained phase differences is between a signal transmitted by one of the one or more transmitters and received by one of the one or more receivers of a same one of the two or more transceiver nodes. The controller estimates the angle of arrival of the target based on the obtained phase differences determined for the two or more transceiver nodes.
US10690753B2
[Object] To uniformly produce electric fields when performing thinning processing of generating electric fields in only some of a plurality of pixels.[Solution] There is provided an imaging apparatus including: a pair of electric field application electrodes and a pair of electric charge extraction electrodes provided to each of a plurality of pixels; and a voltage application section configured to apply voltage between a first electrode that is one of the pair of electric field application electrodes of a first pixel and a second electrode that is one of the pair of electric field application electrodes of a second pixel when pixel combination is performed, and produce an electric field across the first pixel and the second pixel.
US10690750B2
A method of synchronizing a plurality of spatially distributed multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar systems includes designating one of the plurality of MIMO radar systems that includes a linear frequency modulator as a master MIMO radar system, and designating each of the other plurality of MIMO radar systems as slave MIMO radar systems. Each of the slave MIMO radar systems receives an output of the linear frequency modulator. A synchronization signal is sent from the linear frequency modulator through the modulator splitter to each of the slave MIMO radar systems over respective cables, and a return signal is sent from each of the slave MIMO radar systems to the master MIMO radar system over the respective cables. A time delay is determined between the master MIMO radar system and each of the slave MIMO radar systems based on a frequency difference between the synchronization signal and the respective return signal.
US10690749B2
A method of processing a radar hit from an object using, for each of a plurality of cells, a signal strength threshold, a hit rate threshold, a time of last detection; and receiving, for one of the plurality of cells corresponding to the object, a measured signal strength, a measured hit rate and a time of measurement. The object is identified as clutter if the measured hit rate is greater than the hit rate threshold, and the measured signal strength is less than signal strength threshold. The signal strength threshold is above a conventional CFAR signal threshold. Measured Doppler strength may also be used to identify clutter. Identification can be determined using Doppler-polarity-specific data values. The hit rate and the mean Doppler speed of the one of the plurality of cells can be updated using a running average.
US10690747B2
A system for determining a location of a work machine operator relative to a work machine comprises a machine controller, a radio frequency receiver, and an infrared transmitter unit. The unit comprises a plurality of infrared transmitters configured to generate infrared signals that collectively divide a 360-degree area around the infrared transmitter unit into a plurality of zones. A remote controller remote from the work machine, which comprises a radio frequency transceiver and an infrared receiver, is configured to receive the infrared signal generated by at least one of the plurality of infrared transmitters. The remote controller has a computer system which is configured to decode information within the one or more infrared signals to determine whether the operator is in an approved zone. The computer system enables the radio frequency transceiver to communicate with the radio frequency receiver upon determining that the operator is in the approved zone.
US10690744B1
Methods and systems for spatial filtering transmitters and receivers capable of simultaneous communication with one or more receivers and transmitters, respectively, the receivers capable of outputting source directions to humans or devices. The methods and systems use spherical wave field partial wave expansion (PWE) models for transmitted and received fields at antennas and for waves generated by contributing sources. The source PWE models have expansion coefficients expressed as functions of directional coordinates of the sources. For spatial filtering receivers a processor uses the output signals from at least one sensor outputting signals consistent with Nyquist criteria representative of the wave field and the source PWE model to determines directional coordinates of sources (wherein the number of floating point operations are reduced) and outputs the directional coordinates and communications to a reporter configured for reporting information to humans. For spatial filtering transmitters a processor uses known receiver directions and source partial wave expansions to generate signals for transducers producing a composite total wave field conveying communications to the specified receivers. The methods and communications reduce the processing required for transmitting and receiving spatially filtered communcations.
US10690742B2
Methods and apparatuses for calibrating a center frequency of MR and an MRI system are disclosed herein. An exemplary method comprises applying a first set of gradient fields, receiving data information acquired by an RF coil and generating a first image; applying a second set of gradient fields in directions different than those of the first set of gradient fields, receiving data information acquired by the RF coil and generating a second image; calculating a shift of the center frequency based on the first image and the second image; and correcting the center frequency based on the shift of the center frequency.
US10690734B2
A magnetic resonance examination system comprises cooling clients (113, 144, 115) from which heat is carried-off by way of a system cooling circuit. A heat source (109) is in thermal contact with the system cooling circuit. A main pump (107) drives flow of the coolant in the system cooling circuit. The coolant is kept in motion and may be heated by the heat source. Thus, freezing of the coolant is avoided without the need of antifreeze. A back-up pump (121) of lower performance requirements may maintain flow of the coolant even if the main pump fails. A low viscosity coolant, such as water may be used. The system also contains a shut-off valve (127) and a short-circuit (141) parallel to the shut-off valve.
US10690731B2
A magnetic field sensor including at least one magnetic field sensing element configured to generate a magnetic field signal indicative of a magnetic field associated with a target and a detector responsive to the magnetic field signal and to a threshold level to generate a sensor output signal containing transitions associated with features of the target in response to the magnetic field signal crossing the threshold level further includes a threshold generator to generate an adaptive threshold. The threshold generator is configured to generate the threshold level to achieve a predetermined fixed hard offset and that adapts with a variation in the airgap in order to minimize an error between times or angles of the transitions of the sensor output signal over the variation in the airgap.
US10690727B2
A method for identifying a faulty component in a plasma tool is described. The method includes accessing a measurement of a parameter received from a frequency generator and measurement device. The measurement is generated based on a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals that are provided to a portion of a plasma tool. The RF signals have one or more ranges of frequencies. The method further includes determining whether the parameter indicates an error, which indicates a fault in the portion of the plasma tool. The method includes identifying limits of the frequencies in which the error occurs and identifying based on the limits of the frequencies in which the error occurs one or more components of the portion of the plasma tool creating the error.
US10690726B2
A power supply system includes a lead battery supplying power to the electric load of the vehicle, a battery sensor unit acquiring a value related to a state of the lead battery, and a battery deterioration determination device determining deterioration of the lead battery based on the value acquired by the battery sensor unit. The battery sensor unit acquires a value of a charge amount of the lead battery, a value of a discharge amount of the lead battery, and a value of a discharge depth of the lead battery. An ECU calculates a value of an effective charge/discharge amount of the lead battery based on a charge amount acquisition value, a discharge amount acquisition value and a discharge depth acquisition value acquired by the battery sensor unit and determines deterioration resulting from softening of a positive electrode active material based on the value of the effective charge/discharge amount.
US10690719B2
A system for testing an application-specific integrated circuit, includes a characterization integrated circuit comprising at least two configurable test structures and a test assembly comprising: a device for controlling the characterization integrated circuit, configured to vary at least one physical parameter of at least one configurable test structure, an interface for receiving at least one description of an application-specific integrated circuit and extracting at least one path, a configuration device for activating and interconnecting at least one subset of the logic cells of at least one degraded test structure and of at least one non-degraded test structure, so that they each produce a topology identical to a portion of an extracted path, a measurement control device for performing at least one first measurement of a physical variable on the degraded test structure and at least one second measurement, identical to the first measurement, on the non-degraded test structure.
US10690712B2
Method for detecting soft faults in a cable, which method is based on the integral of a reflectogram
A method for detecting soft faults in a transmission line includes the steps of: acquiring a time-domain reflectogram, calculating the integral of the time-domain reflectogram, selecting, in the integral, three samples P1, P2, P3, calculating a first distance equal to the difference in absolute value between the value of the second sample P2 and the value of the first sample P1 or of the third sample P3, calculating a second distance equal to the difference in absolute value between the value of the first sample P1 and of the third sample P3, performing a first comparison of the first distance to the second distance weighted by a weighting coefficient β, deducing from the result of the first comparison information on the existence of a soft fault.
US10690709B2
A ground electrode (100) positioned in the earth and a monitoring device (200) configured to measure a current and resistance of a ground line, where the monitoring device (200) includes a ground current sensing unit (210) configured to measure the current of the ground line, a resistance sensing unit (220) configured to measure ground resistance of the earth and an earth resistance rate, a voltage sensing unit (230) configured to check a voltage value of commercial power, a temperature and humidity sensing unit (240) configured to check a surrounding temperature and humidity of the monitoring device (200), and a monitoring unit (250) configured to confirm whether the ground current, ground resistance and earth resistance measured are abnormal values by compared with reference values classified based on the temperature and humidity measured.
US10690707B2
A system for verifying an energy generation source, includes a key forming device that forms a key in a DC voltage signal generated by the energy generation source, and a verifying device that verifies the energy generation source based on the key in the DC voltage signal.
US10690703B2
A semiconductor device for monitoring a reverse voltage is provided. The semiconductor device includes an intellectual property having an input node and an output node; a passive component connected between the output node and a potential; a monitoring circuit connected to the input node and the output node and powered by a driving power, the monitoring circuit monitoring a difference between an input level at the input node and an output level at the output node to detect a reverse voltage across the intellectual property. The driving power is provided by the output node.
US10690700B2
A circuit interrupting device includes a grounded neutral transformer core, a high frequency transformer core, and a differential transformer core nested within the grounded neutral transformer core and/or the high frequency transformer core. The grounded neutral transformer core and the high frequency transformer core are disposed in a stacked configuration with one another.
US10690692B2
The invention relates to a method for linking an end (9) of a shaft (8) of a tachometer (7) positioned in a landing gear hub (1) and a wheel (2) mounted to rotate on said hub, the method comprising the step of equipping the wheel with a housing (14) suitable for receiving the end of the shaft of a tachometer and driving the shaft in rotation with the wheel, the housing comprising a bearing member (17) protruding inside the housing to be pushed back by the end of the shaft against an elastic member (18) to take up any play between the end of the shaft and the housing. The invention also relates to a bush ensuring application.
US10690687B2
Compounds and methods for use in detecting pregabalin in a sample suspected of containing pregabalin are disclosed. Pregabalin derivatives are described for producing pregabalin conjugates. A pregabalin-immunogenic carrier conjugate may be used as an immunogen for the preparation of an anti-pregabalin antibody. A pregabalin-detectable label conjugate may be used in a signal producing system in pregabalin assays.
US10690678B2
The present invention provides a cell-based assay for identifying and/or quantifying anti-CD3 homodimers in a composition comprising a T cell-dependent Bispecific antibody (TDB). In some aspects, the invention T cells comprising a T cell activation responsive reporter are contacted with the TDB to detect the presence of anti-CD3 homodimers. Compositions of reporter T cells and kits are also contemplated.
US10690671B2
The present invention provides methods for producing disulfide oxidoreductase A (DsbA) and disulfide oxidoreductase C (DsbC) polypeptides at very high levels of purity. Also provided are ultrapure DsbA and DsbC and methods of using same, e.g., for use in immunoassays to show removal of DsbA and DsbC from biologics produced in bacteria.
US10690663B2
The invention relates to a processing device (110) and a method for manufacturing such a device. In a preferred embodiment, a mixture of magnetic particles (MP), a matrix material, and a volatile carrier is deposited onto binding sites (112) of a reaction surface (113). The deposited mixture is then dried while the magnetic particles (MP) are pulled away from the reaction surface (113) by a magnetic field (B). Thus unspecific binding of magnetic particles to the binding sites can be prevented.
US10690659B2
A method for a mobile computing device with a camera and a screen to measure a test strip in a test strip module includes, in a calibration phase before a sample is introduced to a reaction area on the test strip, detecting with the camera an ambient light effect when the test strip module is mounted on the face of the mobile computing device. In a measurement phase after the sample is introduced to the reaction area on the test strip, the method also includes illuminating the test strip with a light provided by a light source area on the screen, detecting with the camera one or more colors of the reaction area, correcting the detected one or more colors for the ambient light effect, correlating the corrected one or more colors to an analyte property, and displaying a value of the analyte property on the screen.
US10690656B2
The present application relates to materials and methods for exploiting synthetic lethality and/or chemo-sensitisation in DNA damage response (DDR) pathways. In particular, the application relates to ubiquitin hydrolase protein Ubiquitin Specific Protease 4 (USP4) and its association with DDR pathways. Further, the use of USP4 inhibitors in the treatment of cancer and methods of screening is described, in particular, use of inhibitors of USP4 in the treatment of tumours defective in double-strand break repair (DSBR) and/or tumours resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy, or to sensitise, i.e. chemosensitise or radiosensitise tumours to other therapeutic agents.
US10690654B2
Devices and methods are provided that permit efficient and selective separation of liquid biological specimens into at least two constituent components to facilitate subsequent quantitative and qualitative analysis on at least one analyte of interest in at least one of the components. The devices generally include one or more sample deposition regions supported on a base. Each sample deposition region includes a separation membrane for separating the liquid biological specimen into two different fractions. The first fraction is trapped by the separation membrane while the second fraction passes through the separation membrane and into a respective collection membrane. The separation and collection membranes are easily separable from the devices and can be utilized for further processing and analysis.
US10690653B2
The present disclosure provides devices and methods using separating a fluid—e.g., plasma or serum—from whole blood. In some embodiments, the devices and methods use hydrophobic or superhydrophobic surfaces to encourage whole blood to contact a selective membrane that extracts the desired fluid component from the blood.
US10690650B2
A system for imaging captured cells comprising: an illumination module configured to illuminate a target object; a platform configured to position the target object in relation to the illumination module; a filter module configured to filter light transmitted to the target object and/or to filter light received from the target object, an optical sensor configured to receive light from the target object and to generate image data; and a focusing and optics module configured to manipulate light transmitted to the optical sensor. The system can further comprise one or more of: a control system configured to control at least one of the illumination module, the platform, the focusing and optics module, the filter module, and the optical sensor; a tag identifying system configured to identify and communicate tag information from system elements; a thermal control module configured to adjust temperature parameters of the system; and an image stabilization module.
US10690649B2
A supercritical CO2 reactor and a test system of creepage, diffusion and erosion of rock mass. The supercritical CO2 reactor includes a reactor body having a test chamber, a heating layer arranged in a side wall of the reactor body, a temperature sensor and a pressure sensor arranged in the test chamber, a sealing cover configured to seal an opening of the reactor body, a fixing component arranged on the sealing cover, a hydraulic loading component configured to apply an axial load on the specimen. The reactor body is provided with an air inlet/outlet pipe configured to communicate the test chamber with external environment. The air inlet/outlet pipe is provided with a air valve, and the fixing component includes vertical guide bars, an upper pad and a lower pad slideably arranged on the vertical guide bars. The hydraulic loading component includes a oil-loading tank and an axial loading rod.
US10690647B2
A chemical sensor for heavy metal detection is provided. The chemical sensor includes an inlet, a chamber in fluid communication with the inlet, and an outlet in fluid communication with the chamber. A working electrode is provided in the chamber. The working electrode includes a plurality of protrusions extending into a fluid flow path in the chamber beyond a boundary layer of the fluid flow path. The chemical sensor also includes a reference electrode, a counter electrode, and a plurality of contact pads electrically connected to respective ones of the working electrode, the reference electrode and the counter electrode.
US10690644B2
The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a computer system, a plant diagnosis method, and a program in which the measurement accuracy of the temperature of each site of a target is improved. The computer system acquires a visible light image and an infrared image that are imaged by a camera, identifies a region, in the visible light image, which corresponds to a predetermined site of a plant imaged by the camera, identifies a region, in the infrared image, which corresponds to the identified region in the visible light image, and diagnoses the plant based on the temperature of the identified region in the infrared image.
US10690642B2
A method for generating a log of a value of a property of a fluid in an earth formation versus depth includes: obtaining a plurality of samples of drilling fluid that are entrained with a formation gas and correlating each sample to a depth in a borehole from which the formation gas was entrained in the drilling fluid; extracting the formation gas from each sample to provide a plurality of gas samples; analyzing each formation gas sample to provide a chemical composition of each formation gas sample in the plurality of formation gas samples; and determining a property value of the fluid in the earth formation versus depth using the chemical composition of each formation gas sample in the plurality of formation gas samples to provide the log.
US10690640B2
An analysis method for mycotoxins including a separation step, a detection step, and an identification step. In the separation step, each component contained in a liquid sample is separated in a column In the detection step, components separated in the separation step are detected by a PDA and a fluorescence detector. In the identification step, total aflatoxin is identified based on a detection signal from the fluorescence detector, and deoxynivalenol is identified based on a detection signal from the PDA.
US10690636B2
Certain configurations are provided herein of a trap that can be used with chromatography systems. In certain instances, the trap may be designed to remove substantially all oil in a sample comprising the oil and an analyte of interest. Methods using the gravity trap are also described.
US10690627B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for sample preparation, processing and analysis. Also provided in the present disclosure is a fully-integrated electrophoresis cartridge which has a small footprint and configured to removably engage with the system.
US10690619B2
A method for measuring a concentration of an analyte in a bio-sample using an electrochemical bio-sensor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is characterized by a step of obtaining predetermined features from induced currents obtained by applying a DC voltage according to chronoamperometry in which, after a whole blood sample is injected to the electrochemical bio-sensor, a concentration of an analyte is obtained from an induced current obtained by applying a DC voltage for a certain time and from all induced currents obtained by further applying several step-ladder perturbation potentials for a short time subsequent to the DC voltage for the certain time, and is also characterized by minimization of a measurement error caused by a hindering material by forming a calibration equation by combining the at least one feature in a function and optimizing various conditions of the bio-sample through DeletedTextsmultivariable analysis. With this configuration, a perturbation potential application method added to a conventional measurement method can maintain a bio-sensor and a measuring apparatus already used, a line used in the measuring apparatus, and calibration of amperometry as they are, improve accuracy in measurement by effectively minimizing a matrix interference effect of a background material in a bio-sample, particularly an inaccuracy caused by a change in hematocrit, and also remarkably improve accuracy in measurement by simply upgrading a measurement program of a conventional measuring apparatus.
US10690616B2
The present invention relates a setting method for a conducting element of an electrochemical test strip and electrochemical test strip thereof. An inspection body is formed by injection molding polymer plastic materials to coat with the plurality of conducting elements, and an external contact surface on an information outputting end of the conducting element is exposed from an inspection slot of the inspection body, so that the information outputting end of the conducting element is extended from the inspection body. Eventually, the information outputting end is bent to fix on a surface of the inspection body. The present invention is not complex and has more precision and convenience, and the manufacturing cost can be reduced efficiently, so that wide application can be expected in the near future.
US10690607B2
A sample holder for magnetic nanoparticle samples including a plurality of sample wells for holding a magnetic nanoparticle sample, which are distributed on a top surface of the sample holder. The sample wells are distributed such that a first distance between neighboring samples wells and/or a second distance between each peripheral sample well and a respective edge of the top surface of the sample holder and/or a third distance between a deepest point of the sample wells and a bottom of the sample holder is between 1 and 100 times greater than a thermal diffusion length of the sample holder material. The sample holder is used in a lock-in thermography system.
US10690603B2
A water vapor observing system which is capable of observing water vapor regardless of a situation of an external system may be provided. The water vapor observing system may be configured to observe water vapor contained within atmospheric air, and include a transmission unit configured to transmit transmission waves, one of a reception unit configured to receive reflection waves caused by the transmission waves reflected on and returned from a stationary object as reception waves, and a reception unit disposed at a different position from the transmission unit and configured to receive the transmission waves as reception waves, and a relative water vapor amount calculating module configured to calculate a relative water vapor amount that is a relative value of water vapor with respect to a reference water vapor amount being a comparison target, based on the reception wave received by the one of the reception units.
US10690589B2
A broadband radiation source is disclosed. The system may include a plasma containment vessel configured to receive laser radiation from a pump source to sustain a plasma within gas flowed through the plasma containment vessel. The plasma containment vessel may be further configured to transmit at least a portion of broadband radiation emitted by the plasma. The system may also include a recirculation gas loop fluidically coupled to the plasma containment vessel. The recirculation gas loop may be configured to transport heated gas from an outlet of the plasma containment vessel, and further configured to transport cooled gas to an inlet of the plasma containment vessel.
US10690583B2
The present technology provides a technology of improving measurement efficiency in microparticle measurement for optically measuring a characteristic of a microparticle. For this, in the present technology, there is provided a microparticle measuring device and the like provided with a detecting unit which detects light from a microparticle sent from one of a plurality of containers containing microparticles, and an information processing unit which controls to specify a feature amount related to a detection number in a certain time section on the basis of information detected by the detecting unit, determine that the feature amount is abnormal on the basis of a predetermined threshold, and finish detection for the one container.
US10690582B2
An apparatus for sensing biomolecules includes: a storage in which a solution containing a target material is received; a sensor configured to sense the target material; and a flow controller connected between the storage and the sensor to supply the solution to the sensor, wherein the flow controller controls a solution flow to supply the solution containing the target material and the solution containing no target material in an alternating manner. According to the apparatus for sensing biomolecules, the sensing device always achieves a sensing offset, and consequently, long-term continuous measurement is enabled, leading to the maximized usage efficiency of the sensor, and the value of quantitative measurement can be obtained with high precision.
US10690573B2
The present disclosure provides methods for reducing the viscosity of a cell lysate or tissue lysate by: contacting the cell lysate or tissue lysate with a compressible and open-cell foam filter having a pore size from about 0.65 mm to about 1.22 mm, compressing the filter to recover the lysate absorbed in the filter, and collecting the filtered lysate; and also provides kits therefor.
US10690565B2
The invention provides a system for detecting leaks in glovebox gloves, the system having a first seal within a glovebox aperture; a second seal contacting exterior surfaces of a glovebox, wherein the exterior surfaces define a periphery of the aperture; a first fluid supply for circumferentially expanding the first seal against center facing surfaces of the aperture to a first pressure; a second fluid supply for inflating the glove to a second pressure; and a pressure gauge for detecting a pressure decrease of the second pressure. Also provided is an in situ method for detecting leaks in glove box gloves, the method having the steps of applying a radially directed force to inside surfaces of cuffs of the gloves to hermetically seal the gloves from the exterior of the glovebox, thereby establishing a seal; inflating the gloves to a pressure; and monitoring the pressure for any decrease in pressure.
US10690561B2
An example pressure sensor calibration apparatus includes a pressure chamber in which a first pressure sensor is to be disposed; one or more first sensors to determine a capacitance value from the first pressure sensor from a physical test performed on the first pressure sensor; the one or more first sensors to determine a first pull-in voltage value from a first electrical test performed on the first pressure sensor; a correlator to determine correlation coefficient values based on the capacitance value determined during the physical test on the first pressure sensor and the first pull-in voltage value determined during a first electrical test on the first pressure sensor; and a calibrator to determine calibration coefficient values to calibrate a second pressure sensor based on the correlation coefficient values and a second electrical test on the second pressure sensor.
US10690559B1
An electronic pressure sensor array has a plurality of conductive electrodes and interconnects selectively formed on a pressure sensor substrate to form a plurality of individual pressure sensor assemblies. The individual pressure sensor assemblies can be aligned in various configurations to form the electronic pressure sensor array. Each pressure sensor assembly is made of a plurality of layers including a pressure sensor substrate, insulating layers on either side of the pressure sensor substrate, and conductive ink layers on an outer surface of each insulating layer. A cavity is formed in each insulating layer, the cavity in one insulating layer being vertically aligned with the cavity in the other insulating layer, and conductive ink fills each cavity to form electrodes.
US10690555B2
A torque indicator for an aircraft having a main rotor system and a translational thrust system driven by at least one engine includes a first indicator operable to display an actual torque of an engine of the aircraft relative to an engine torque limit, a second indicator operable to display an actual torque of the translational thrust system of the aircraft relative to a translational thrust system torque limit, and a third indicator operable to display an actual torque of the main rotor system of the aircraft relative to a main rotor system torque limit.
US10690552B2
A system and method to determine temperature include an optical fiber and at least two pulse laser sources to transmit light pulses with at least two wavelengths into the optical fiber. The system also includes an optical path length modulator to modulate the optical path length of the optical fiber as the light pulses are transmitted into the optical fiber. At least two photodetectors detect backscatter reflected in the optical fiber, and a processor determines the temperature based on the backscatter.
US10690549B2
A mounting structure of a temperature sensor is adapted to mount a temperature sensor adapted to measure a temperature of a coil to a stator constituted by arranging a plurality of sets of a stator core, the coil wound around the stator core, and an insulator ensuring insulation between the stator core and the coil. The mounting structure of a temperature sensor comprises a holder fixing portion fixed to the insulator, and a sensor holding portion formed integrally with the holder fixing portion and holding the temperature sensor on a coil end portion of the coil. In the sensor holding portion, a storage groove adapted to store the temperature sensor is formed, and at a groove bottom of the storage groove, a sensor pressing portion adapted to press the temperature sensor to the coil end portion is formed.
US10690544B1
Reflective imager sub-systems that have a non-circular entrance pupil and provide substantially increased throughput to a detecting component of a system are disclosed.
US10690536B2
A multihead weigher that includes a feeder plate for receiving a product supply that has at least one feed outlet at an inner edge of the annular feeder plate. A plurality of staging hoppers is located beneath the outlet of the annular feeder plate. Each staging hopper has a staging inlet and a staging outlet. The staging inlet is located for receiving product from the annular feeder plate. A plurality of weigh hoppers are located beneath the plurality of staging hoppers. Each weigh hopper has an inlet and an outlet. The weigh hopper inlet is located beneath a respective staging outlet; and a collector is located beneath the weigh hoppers for receiving product from the weigh hopper outlets. The collector has a tubular element for receiving a weighed batch of the product from one or more weigh hoppers and the tubular element has a lower dispensing outlet.
US10690534B2
A weighing conveyor system, a checkweigher, and a method for weighing conveyed objects with a checkweigher comprising LIM-driven rollers positioned in a conveying line and position sensors for determining the objects' weights from the motion of the objects across the rollers. The LIM drives the rollers with a constant torque. The acceleration of an object driven by the rollers is inversely proportional to the object's weight. So an object's weight can be determined by the effect of the rollers on its motion.
US10690533B2
A system and method for illuminating a volume with an illumination system generating an illumination intensity pattern that maintains irradiance at sufficient on and off axis irradiance levels to allow for accurate identification and measure of objects within a volume, such as within a vehicle trailer or shipping container, is provided.
US10690530B2
A flow meter for determining the flow rate of a fluid through a conduit, including an upper body having an inlet chamber, an acoustic channel, an outlet chamber, a sound wave generator, and a sound wave receiver. The inlet chamber, acoustic channel, and outlet chamber are fluidly connected together and are oriented so as to create a symmetrical fluid pathway through the inlet chamber, the acoustic channel the outlet chamber. The sound wave generator and the sound wave receiver are aligned along a longitudinal axis of the acoustic channel and the sound wave generator is creates a sound wave that moves along the longitudinal axis of the acoustic channel as fluid flows through the acoustic chamber. The receiver detects that sound wave that has moved through the acoustic channel and such information is used to determine the flow rate of the fluid through the flow meter.
US10690527B2
A gas flowmeter and associated method of forming a glass flowmeter includes a body having a passage that communicates with an inlet and an outlet for receiving gas flow therethrough. A selectively variable valve controls a flow of gas to the outlet, and plural calibrated scales are operatively associated with the passage to represent a flow rate of gas through the passage. First and second floats having different material properties are received in the passage and are viewable in operative association with the calibrated scales.
US10690525B2
System and methods may evaluate and/or improve target aiming accuracy for a sensor of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (“UAV”). According to some embodiments, a position and orientation measuring unit may measure a position and orientation associated with the sensor. A pose estimation platform may execute a first order calculation using the measured position and orientation as the actual position and orientation to create a first order model. A geometry evaluation platform may receive planned sensor position and orientation from a targeting goal data store and calculate a standard deviation for a target aiming error utilizing: (i) location and geometry information associated with the industrial asset, (ii) a known relationship between the sensor and a center-of-gravity of the UAV, (iii) the first order model as a transfer function, and (iv) an assumption that the position and orientation of the sensor have Gaussian-distributed noises with zero mean and a pre-determined standard deviation.
US10690502B2
A method for operating a vehicle in order to draw up a digital map of a parking lot, the vehicle driving within the parking lot ascertaining data pertaining to its driving route within the parking lot and transmitting the ascertained data via a communications network to a map server, so that the map server is able to draw up a digital map of the parking lot on the basis of the data. A corresponding device is also described. A method for drawing up a digital map of a parking lot, a map server, and a computer program are also described.
US10690497B2
A technique for more smoothly moving a reflective prism to a target position is provided. A surveying instrument 100 includes a leg part 101, a base 102 supported by the leg part 101, a movable part 112 held by the base 102 and being movable straight in any direction within a two-dimensional plane relative to the base 102, a reflective prism 113 mounted on the movable part 112, and a laser pointer 114 that is mounted to the movable part 112 and that emits a guiding light in a vertical direction.
US10690492B2
The present invention discloses a structural light parameter calibration device and method based on a front-coating plane mirror. The calibration device includes a camera, a laser, a front-coating plane mirror, a flat glass target, and white printing paper. The white printing paper receives a laser beam and presents a real light strip image, and the camera captures the real light stripe image and a mirror light stripe image on the front-coating plane mirror. Feature points are used to determine a rotation matrix, a translation vector, and a vanishing point for the image. The present invention achieves better quality of light stripe and better extraction accuracy, provides feature points with micron-level positional accuracy and more calibration points, and features higher calibration accuracy and more stable calibration results.
US10690488B2
An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate and a monolithic array of light-emitting elements, including first and second sets of the light-emitting elements arranged on the substrate in respective first and second two-dimensional patterns, which are interleaved on the substrate. First and second conductors are respectively connected to separately drive the first and second sets of the light-emitting elements so that the device selectably emits light in either or both of the first and second patterns.
US10690483B2
The present invention relates to a method and system of obtaining a twist rate of a twist applied to an optical fiber (12) about a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber (12) at least in a part along a length of the optical fiber, the optical fiber (12) having a center core (16) extending along the length of the optical fiber (12) and at least one outer core (14, 18, 20) helically wound around the center core (16) with a spin rate. The method comprises acquiring a twist rate phase signal from an optical measurement of strain along the center core (16) and the at least one outer core (14, 18, 20) of the optical fiber (12), calculating from the twist rate phase signal a noise filtered version of the twist rate phase signal, calculating from the twist rate phase signal a first order term of the twist rate, which is proportional to one of: i) the twist rate phase signal, ii) the noise filtered version of the twist rate phase signal, and calculating a correction term to the twist rate, which is proportional to one of the following: iii) a product of the twist rate phase signal with the noise filtered version of the twist rate phase signal, iv) a square of the noise filtered version of the twist rate phase signal.
US10690470B2
A foldable ruler includes a first ruler segment, a second ruler segment pivotally coupled to the first ruler segment, a third ruler segment pivotally coupled to the second ruler segment, and a fourth ruler segment pivotally coupled to the third ruler segment. Each of the first, second, third, and fourth ruler segments includes a first side surface and a second side surface opposite the first side surface. At least one of the first and second side surfaces includes a first set of indicia representing units of measurement. Each of the first, second, third, and fourth ruler segments also includes a top surface extending between the first and second side surfaces. The top surface of the fourth ruler segment includes a second set of indicia representing a plurality of angles.
US10690467B2
Delay tools, systems and methods for achieving a selection of alternative delay times, a tool of which including a body, a drill bit operable relative to the body and a knob operably connected to the drill bit, and operably disposed relative to the body for engagement of the body with a rocket motor bulkhead and the drill both relative to a delay to provide for achieving a selection of alternative delay times.
US10690465B2
Frangible firearm projectiles, firearm cartridges containing the same, and methods for forming the same. The firearm projectiles are formed from compacted metal powders that may include an anti-sparking agent. The compacted metal powders may be or include a compacted mixture of metal powders that may include powders of one or more of iron, zinc, bismuth, copper, tungsten, nickel, boron, and/or alloys thereof, and/or oxides thereof. The compacted mixture may be heat treated for a time sufficient to form a plurality of discrete alloy domains within the compacted mixture. The frangible firearm projectile may be formed by a mechanism that includes vapor-phase diffusion bonding and oxidation of the metal powders and that does not include forming a liquid phase of any of the metal powders or utilizing a polymeric binder. The anti-sparking agent may include a borate, such as boric acid.
US10690456B1
Disclosed is an energy beam interceptor that includes an interceptor vehicle of either a missile or a lighter than air vehicle that carries an energy beam generator with a minimum power output of approximately 500 W, a high density power supply that power the energy beam generator, an energy beam targeting apparatus that directs emissions from the energy beam generator and an energy beam targeting controller that targets emissions from the energy beam generator with the energy beam targeting apparatus.
US10690452B2
The ballistic structure for personal protection according to the present invention includes a plurality of rigid structures, separated from one another, in which at least one rigid element is formed by layering of leaves made of high molecular weight polyethylene tapes arranged in parallel and unidirectional fashion wherein these leaves are cross-plied and pressed at high temperature, with adhesive polymers being laid down on at least one face of the single leaves, and in which at least another rigid element is formed by a layering of unidirectional resin-impregnated yarns, wherein each layer of unidirectional yarn is crossed with the subsequent one. Such layering is pressed at high pressure and at high temperature. In a preferred embodiment, the rigid structure, which is the first to be impacted by the bullet, is made of a rigid element composed of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene yarn. The values of trauma obtained by the bullet impact are considerably reduced with respect to a monolithic layering of the same weight.
US10690441B2
An end cap for a weapon can include a sub-frame, a body, and a rail. The end cap is a modular buttstock interface cap (MBIC) with a NATO STANAG 4694 or MIL-STD-1913 (Picatinny) rail interface that provides interchangeability between braces, stocks, and other accessories for weapon systems, including weapons with recoil buffer systems within the weapon's receiver. The MBIC can be a three-dimensional-printed structure.
US10690440B2
An improved firearm. The improved firearm includes a barreled action; a stock; and a support located between the barreled action and the stock. In one preferred embodiment, the support includes a center support rail and a pair of side rails located parallel to the center support rail.
US10690438B1
A toy gun includes a gun body (1), a slide (2), a slide stopper (3), a return spring (4), a retainer (5), and a rotary bullet supplier (6). The slide (2) is disposed on the gun body (1) and reciprocates against the gun body (1). The slide stopper (3) is pivotedly connected to the gun body (1) and arranged correspondingly to the slide (2). The return spring (4) elastically supports between the gun body (1) and the slide stopper (3). The retainer (5) is pivotedly connected to the gun body (1). An end of the retainer (5) engages with the slide stopper (3), and another end thereof connects with a first magnetic member (51). The rotary bullet supplier (6) is received in the gun body (1) and connects with a second magnetic member (61).
US10690437B2
An accessorized bow assembly and method are described herein. The accessorized bow assembly, in an embodiment, has a projectile support device and an archery bow. The archery bow includes a section. The section has a limb support and a first portion configured to face at least partially in a forward direction. The section also has a second portion configured to face at least partially in a rearward direction. The second portion at least partially defines a plurality of first and second slots. When the projectile support device is coupled to the archery bow, the first slot at least partially receives a first engager of the projectile support device, and the second slot at least partially receives a second engager of the projectile support device.
US10690423B2
A control method for a heat transfer system, wherein the heat transfer system comprises a supply conduit (12), at least one load circuit (2) and a heat transfer device (6; 28) between the supply conduit and the at least one load circuit, wherein a supply flow (qS) in the supply conduit (12) is detected on the basis of a desired entry-side load temperature (Tref), of an actual entry-side load temperature (TL) which is detected in the load circuit (2) and of a load flow (qL) in the load circuit (2), as well to as a heat transfer system, in which such a control method is applied.
US10690417B1
An oven temperature monitoring system including a box top and a box body formed out of an alkene fluorocarbon material for monitoring the temperature and duration of a powder coat curing cycle is provided. The box top includes a receptacle in communication with a printed circuit board and an antenna that are secured within a housing on the inward facing surface of the box top. A pair of thermocouples are attached to an item that has been powder coated and communicates temperature data back to the electronic device that can be transmitted out of the oven during curing cycles to a computer monitored by a user. This information can be used to ensure proper curing time and temperature and significantly reduces wasted thermal energy due to incomplete or repeated cure cycles.
US10690413B2
Methods and apparatuses for drying electronic devices are disclosed. Embodiments include methods and apparatuses that heat and decrease pressure within the electronic device. Some embodiments increase and decrease pressure while adding heat energy, such as by using a heated platen in contact with the electronic device or by supplying a gas (e.g., air), which may be heated, into the interior of the electronic device.
US10690410B2
A freeze-drying system is provided in which freeze-drying is performed by sublimating moisture frozen by cooling an object and collects the sublimated moisture with a cold trap. The freeze-drying system includes: a cooling device which generates cold with an air cycle in which air is used as a refrigerant; a freeze-drying chamber accommodating a heat exchange unit which causes heat exchange between the refrigerant and the object; a cold air supplying mechanism which supplies precooled air into the freeze-drying chamber; and a control unit which controls a cooling capacity of the cooling device. The control unit adjusts the temperature in the freeze-drying chamber to a predetermined target temperature by controlling an amount of the cold generated in the cooling device. The cold air supplying mechanism includes an air supply line through which air, as the refrigerant that circulates in the air cycle, is partially introduced into the freeze-drying chamber.
US10690406B2
The invention relates to a method for low-temperature cooling/liquefaction of a working fluid, in particular a working fluid including helium or consisting of pure helium by means of a refrigerator/liquefier that includes a working circuit provided with a compressor station and a cold box. The refrigerator/liquefier subjects the working gas within the working circuit to a cycle that includes, in series: compressing the working fluid within the compressor station, cooling and decompressing the working fluid in the cold box, and heating the working fluid with a view to the return thereof to the compressor station. The compressor station includes one or more compression levels, each one using one or more compressors mounted on landings. The method is characterized in that the refrigerator includes a device for injecting a seal gas that is separate from the working fluid on at least one landing of the compressor(s) so as to form a gas seal that guides the working fluid leaks, coming from the working circuit, to an area for recirculating and returning the fluid into the working circuit.
US10690404B2
Disclosed is a refrigerator having an improved structure with a display unit. The refrigerator comprises a main body, a storeroom arranged inside the main body with an open front, a door pivotally connected to the main body for opening or closing the open front of the storeroom and a display unit installed on the door. The display unit comprises a display for displaying images, a display glass located on the front of the display to have an area larger than the display and form a touch screen, a display case with a display mounter for the display to be mounted therein, a display unit case fixedly connected to the door and a fixing unit for fixedly connecting the display case to the display unit case by pressing a part of the display case.
US10690402B2
A shelf assembly includes a rotating hinge body rotatably coupled to a stationary hinge body, and a shelf fixed to the rotating hinge body that is rotatable with the rotating hinge body relative to the stationary hinge body about a rotational axis. The shelf is rotatable between first and second positions. Moreover, the shelf assembly includes a cam assembly configured to inhibit rotation of the shelf between its first and second positions. The cam assembly includes a cam fixed to one of the stationary hinge body and rotating hinge body, a cam follower movably attached to the other of the stationary hinge body and rotating hinge body, and a biasing member that biases the cam follower into engagement with the cam. The rotatable shelf includes a glass panel having an upper surface with a plurality of edge portions. At least one of the edge portions is exposed.
US10690398B2
A refrigerator includes a main body that defines a storage space, a door configured to open or close the storage space, and a dispenser located in the door and configured to dispense cooled water and purified water. The refrigerator also includes a purified water input part that inputs a command for dispensing the purified water, a cooled water input part that inputs a command for dispensing the cooled water, and a dispensing amount input part that sets an amount of purified water to be dispensed based on the purified water being selected through the purified water input part. The refrigerator further includes a filter device located within the storage space to purify water supplied from a water supply source, and a water tank storing water that has passed through the filter device in a cooled state.
US10690385B2
In one embodiment, an annular groove and an elastic portion are formed at an end portion of a main bearing on a side facing a cylinder chamber. An annular groove and an elastic portion is formed at an end portion of the sub-bearing on a side facing the cylinder chamber. A depth of the annular groove of the main bearing is formed larger than that of the sub-bearing. An outer peripheral surface of the elastic portion of the main bearing is formed in a straight shape so that thicknesses of a base portion and a tip portion of the elastic portion are the same. An outer peripheral surface of the elastic portion of the sub-bearing is formed in a tapered shape so that a thicknesses of a base portion of the elastic portion is larger than that of a tip portion of the elastic portion.
US10690378B2
A condensing gas-fired furnace has a furnace cabinet, a primary heat exchanger, a secondary heat exchanger located upstream relative to the primary heat exchanger with regard to location within a circulation airflow path, a first baffle carried by a first wall of the furnace cabinet, a second baffle carried by a second wall of the furnace cabinet, wherein the second baffle is located opposite the first baffle, and wherein the second wall is located opposite the first wall, and a third baffle carried by a third wall of the furnace cabinet, wherein the third baffle is located adjacent to the first baffle and the second baffle, and wherein the third wall is located adjacent to the first wall and the second wall.
US10690377B2
A combustion gas supply system and method includes: a cyclonic air filter (or separator), a blower having an inlet and an outlet, and a combustible gas inlet, wherein the cyclonic air filter, the blower, and the combustible gas inlet are in fluid communication.
US10690368B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The memory stores first information and second information. The first information includes a permission time with respect to each of a plurality of operation states of the information processing apparatus in an activation state. The permission time is a time allowed for switching a substitute apparatus from a standby state to the activation state. The second information includes an activation time required for activating each of a plurality of modules which operate on the substitute apparatus. The processor identifies one permission time corresponding to a current operation state. The processor determines stop modules such that a total time for activating the stop modules is equal to or less than the one permission time based on the second information. The processor instructs the substitute apparatus in the standby state to stop the stop modules.
US10690367B2
A zone control panel that is easy and intuitive to use and to program. In some embodiments, a zone control panel may be configured to have an easy to use, single level menu structure with, for example, a configuration mode and/or a checkout mode. The configuration mode may, if present, include a number of menu screens sometimes without any sub-menu levels. Likewise, the checkout mode may, if present, include a number of menu screens sometimes without any sub-menu levels. A mode selector may be provided to select a particular mode, after which, the menu screens that correspond to the selected mode may be sequentially displayed to the user. Other features and aspects are also disclosed.
US10690361B2
A ventilated locker includes a pair of sidewalls and a back wall connecting the sidewalls. A plurality of compartments is defined between the sidewalls, including at least an upper compartment and a lower compartment. A plenum is disposed adjacent the back wall, the plenum configured for connection to an existing HVAC system. At least one ventilation grille is carried by the back wall in fluid communication with at least one one of the plurality of compartments and with the plenum. At least one circulation fan is disposed in one of the plurality of compartments to circulate air from the ventilation grilles through the plurality of compartments.
US10690360B2
A method and system is provided which receives a desired humidity level from a user for the refrigeration compartment of a refrigerator, determines the current humidity level, and then activates an atomizer in the refrigeration compartment to increase the humidity level if needed. The humidity in the refrigeration compartment may be determined based at least in part on the temperature of the refrigeration compartment, the defrost timer, the door opening times, and the compressor timer.
US10690353B2
A ventilation system and a method for discharging hazardous air during cooking are disclosed. The ventilation system allows hazardous air generated by cooking to flow in a backward direction of a cooking device so as to quickly transfer the hazardous air to a hood, such that the hazardous air is prevented from being inhaled by a user. As a result, the hazardous air may be concentrated into a predetermined region without being dissipated, and then subsequently discharged outside. Information about a quality of air generated in a current state of a cooking space is transferred to a user so that the user may more actively use the ventilation system, thereby better protecting the user's health.
US10690352B2
A heating appliance generally includes a housing having a compartment and a door for selectively accessing the compartment. The compartment is sized to receive a food product. The heating appliance also includes a heating element disposed within the compartment for cooking the food product, and a control unit for operating the heating element to cook the food product without preheating the compartment.
US10690348B2
A combustor wall is provided for a turbine engine. The combustor wall includes a shell and a heat shield that is attacked to the shell. The heat shield includes a rail and a cooling element connected to the rail in a cavity. The cavity extends in a vertical direction between the shell and the heat shield. The cavity fluidly couples a plurality of apertures in the shell with a plurality of apertures in the heat shield.
US10690327B2
A folding light tower is provided that utilizes a 4-bar linkage mechanism which enables full vertical extension of the tower with the use of one actuator. The exemplary tower generally includes a base, a lower lift arm, and an upper lift arm. Spring elements are used near the rotating joints of the lower lift arm and upper lift arm of the tower. The spring elements act to preload the joints and help to remove play and movement when the tower is unfolded/during the vertical extension process.
US10690326B2
A self-propelled unit for movable operation on a support structure along a first axis of movement and a second axis of movement that is transverse to the first axis of movement includes a carrier configured for movable displacement on the support structure. A first conveyor assembly is operable to move the carrier on the support structure along the first axis of movement. A second conveyor assembly is operable to move the carrier on the support structure along the second axis of movement. A light source can be attached to the carrier in an operable mode to provide illumination to an area in proximity to the carrier. At least one power contact is configured to maintain electrical contact between the carrier and the support structure.
US10690322B2
Provided is a lamp assembly, including: a housing including a bottom portion and side wall portions forming a light source mount portion in a longitudinal direction, a flange portion being connected to each front end of the side wall portions and forming a first insertion portion with an inner side surface thereof being open, and a second insertion portion provided on a bottom surface of the first insertion portion; a lampshade provided therein with a light source, and coupled to the mount portion; a translucent panel slidably coupled to the first insertion portion; a packing fitted in the second insertion portion; and a press bar being inserted in the first insertion portion between an upper surface of the flange portion and the translucent panel and pressing the translucent panel and the packing, thereby fixing the translucent panel and endowing the packing with watertightness.
US10690319B2
A light emitting device includes: a first semiconductor laser element; a second semiconductor laser element; and a light exit surface which emits light from the first semiconductor laser element and the second semiconductor laser element. The first semiconductor laser element is disposed at a position farther than the second semiconductor laser element as seen from a flat surface including a point on a surface of the light exit surface and perpendicular to a light extraction direction.
US10690318B2
A light emitting diode (LED) apparatus is provided. The LED apparatus includes: an LED layer including a plurality of LEDs corresponding to a plurality of sub-pixels; a phosphor layer which is stacked on a top of the LED layer and includes a phosphor corresponding to at least a part of the plurality of sub-pixels; and a filter layer which is stacked on a top of the phosphor layer and includes a plurality of color filters corresponding to the plurality of sub-pixels, and each of the plurality of color filters includes a plurality of absorption films which are spaced from one another at predetermined intervals to absorb external light.
US10690313B2
An automotive lighting unit wherein the lighting assembly that backlights the front half-shell comprises: at least one light-guide body made of photoconductive material, which is placed inside the rear body and is structured to channel, by total internal reflection and towards said transparent or semi-transparent portion of the front half-shell, the light that enters into the light-guide body through a light-incoupling end or sidewall of the same light-guide body; an active light deflector device which is placed inside the rear body, facing the light-incoupling end or sidewall of said light-guide body; and an electrically-powered light source which is placed inside the rear body and emits, on command, a collimated light beam towards the active light deflector device; the active light deflector device being adapted to reflect/divert said collimated light beam towards the light-incoupling end or sidewall of said light-guide body, so that the collimated light beam can enter into the light-guide body and then travel inside the light-guide body by total internal reflection.
US10690307B2
An optical part includes a transparent or translucent block having first and second collimators that are intended to receive the beams of first and second light sources so that the beams enter into the block. The collimators are arranged in such a way that these sources may be positioned in a plane that an intermediate exit dioptric interface toward which the first collimator guides the first beam so that this first beam exits from the block through this intermediate dioptric interface. A cutoff dioptric interface forms a folder for the first beam and for the second beam, and the first collimator with the intermediate dioptric interface and the second collimator being arranged so that each beam converges on the cutoff edge of the folder.
US10690301B2
Lighting fixtures are provided. In one example implementation, the lighting fixture can include a housing portion and one or more modular lighting components mechanically coupled to the housing portion. Each modular lighting component can include a lighting assembly (e.g., an LED lighting assembly) and a heat sink portion. The one or more modular lighting components can be selectively removable from the housing portion to configure the lighting fixture for a plurality of different lighting configurations.
US10690299B2
A method for driving an LED tube lamp includes providing a rectifying circuit for receiving an AC supply signal from a rectifying input side, wherein the AC supply signal has frequency of 50 Hz or 60 Hz when the LED tube lamp operates in a ballast-bypass mode, providing a filtering circuit electrically connected to the rectifying circuit, providing a driving circuit electrically connected to the filtering circuit and configured to generate a lamp driving signal to drive an LED module for emitting light, providing a circuit configured for forming a detection path between the rectifying input side and a ground terminal, causing a detection current with pulse waveform to flow through the detection path by turning on and cutting off the detection path, and generating a signal for indicating whether a foreign external impedance is electrically connected to the LED tube lamp in response to the detection current.
US10690286B2
A back plate assembly for home hardware is provided with a base and an attachment. The base includes at least one mount aperture and is adapted to be mounted to a support surface. The base defines a receptacle, a through-hole, a pair of grooves disposed at an outer edge of the through-hole, and a pair of ledges offset from an inner edge of the through-hole. The attachment includes a lock member with a pair of lock features and a connector member sized for insertion between the pair of ledges when the attachment is oriented in a first radial position. Each of the pair of lock features is positioned on the attachment for insertion within one of the grooves and the connector member is sized to rest upon the ledges when the connector member extends through the through-hole and the attachment is rotated to a second radial position.
US10690283B2
A gimbal for controlling an optical device includes a rocker and a controlling assembly. The rocker is configured to receive an action instruction and generate a control instruction based on the action instruction. The action instruction includes a long press when a rocker handle of the rocker is deviated from a middle position, and the control instruction includes a back-to-middle control instruction instructing the rocker handle to return to the middle position. The controlling assembly is configured to receive the control instruction from the rocker, and generate a performing instruction based on the control instruction for controlling the optical device.
US10690280B2
An air supply line includes an aluminum tube with a one inch diameter, a network of fins located within the aluminum tube to promote heat exchange, and a wall structure containing a heater wrapped around the aluminum tube to allow for temperature control and prevent freezing upstream of valves.
US10690279B2
A valve connector comprises a body including an inlet port, an outlet port defining a longitudinal axis, at least one aperture extending between an exterior surface of the body and the outlet port. The valve connector also comprises a sleeve arranged about the exterior surface of the body and movable relative to the body between a clamping position and a release position and a biasing member applying a biasing force against the sleeve towards the clamping position. The valve connector further comprises a clamping mechanism including at least one clamping member arranged at least partially within the aperture. When the valve is received in the outlet port, the clamping member is inwardly displaceable into the outlet port in response to the biasing force biasing the sleeve toward the clamping position, such that the clamping member engages the valve.
US10690278B2
A coupling assembly (10) may include a first member (20) and a second member (40), a release sleeve (110) movably connected to the first member, a retainer sleeve (70), and a spring (100). The second member includes a second member flange (50). The spring may be configured to apply a spring force to the retainer sleeve. The spring force may biases the retainer sleeve into a positive engagement with the second member flange.
US10690274B2
An irrigation pipe and method of fabrication that utilizes a pipe that is made of a durable material, e.g., stainless steel or aluminum. During fabrication, the pipe is equipped with a plurality of components, i.e., a flange assembly, a truss mount, and an outlet, without drilling, welding, or the like. In this manner, a method of fabrication is provided that enables a plurality of components to be assembled to the pipe without compromising the integrity of the pipe material or treated surface so that galvanizing or painting is not required after the plurality of components have been fitted to the pipe.
US10690265B2
A fairing device and method for the reduction of vortex-induced vibrations or motions, the minimization of drag about a substantially cylindrical element immersed in a fluid medium, comprising; a fairing rotatably mounted about the cylindrical element, the fairing comprising a shell with a mainly cylindrical cross-sectional shape with an outer diameter (D) following the outer diameter of the cylindrical element from an upward stagnation point of 0 degrees to at least +/−90 degrees, and which at +/−90 degrees continues as two fin-like portions in an aft direction, further comprising that the fin-like portions are convexly curved aft of +/−90 degrees thus tapering towards each other and defining a tail end opening or gap less than the fairing standoff height. A method for mounting, storage, and deployment of the fairing device is also disclosed.
US10690263B2
Valve trim apparatus having multiple fluid flow control members are disclosed herein. An example valve trim apparatus includes a primary valve seat and a first flow control member having a cavity and a first seating surface, where the first flow control member is movable relative to the primary valve seat. A second flow control member is disposed within the cavity and slidably coupled relative to the first flow control member. A secondary valve seat is coupled to the first flow control member and the second flow control member moves relative to the secondary valve seat to throttle a fluid flow across the secondary valve seat.
US10690249B2
A packing seal is provided for a system for sealing the shaft of a primary motor-driven pump unit of a nuclear reactor, intended to ensure sealing between the primary circuit and the atmosphere. The packing seal including a rotary active surface and a floating active surface, in which a face of the floating active surface and/or the rotary active surface is micro- or nano-structured by an array of holes or pillars, each hole or pillar having lateral dimensions and a height of between 10 nm and 5 μm, the distance between two consecutive holes or pillars being between 10 nm and 5 μm.
US10690244B2
A hydrostatic transmission for a traction drive includes a variable-displacement pump and one or more motors coupled to one another in a closed hydraulic circuit. A braking operation by means of the transmission can be initiated in the traction drive by an electronic control unit if there is a risk of overspeeding of an associated internal combustion engine. The braking operation is initiated if at least two activation thresholds are overshot, of which a first activation threshold is variable whereas the further activation threshold is fixed or variable.
US10690241B1
A transmission control apparatus for a vehicle includes: a speed prediction device that predicts speeds for each gear stage from a current position of the vehicle to a position of a speed camera based on a driving state of the vehicle when it is identified that the speed camera exists on a road ahead while an operation of an accelerator pedal is in an OFF state; and a controller that determines a transmission gear stage based on the predicted speeds for each gear stage and performs a transmission control operation of the vehicle based on the determined transmission gear stage.
US10690238B2
Provided are a variator and a transmission controller in an engine-driven vehicle. The transmission controller has an instantaneous interruption recovery control portion configured to, upon a power reset from an instantaneous interruption during running, set a target through transmission ratio and a desired through transmission ratio to a lowest transmission ratio value by initialization and perform recovery control to recover an actual through transmission ratio of the variator to a transmission ratio value for shifting to normal control. The instantaneous interruption recovery control portion is further configured to, upon the power reset from the instantaneous interruption during the running, set a change speed of the target through transmission ratio from the lowest transmission ratio value to the desired through transmission ratio, to be higher than that under the normal control, before a time at which the desired through transmission ratio value deviates from the lowest transmission ratio value.
US10690232B2
A system includes a gearbox having an external surface; a fan or impeller constructed to generate a first cooling airflow when rotated; a shroud operative to guide and discharge the first cooling airflow over the external surface and cool the gearbox, wherein at least a portion of the shroud is spaced apart from the gearbox and disposed radially outward of the external surface; and a flow entrainment structure coupled to the gearbox and/or the shroud, wherein the flow entrainment structure is constructed to entrain a second cooling airflow and combine the second cooling airflow with the first cooling airflow to form a combined cooling airflow directed across the external surface to cool the gearbox.
US10690230B2
A transmission comprising a shaft (6) made as a single piece or as at least two shaft sections (6A, 6B) on a common axis, a “drive toothed” wheel (5) mounted to rotate freely on said shaft (6), and an automatically clutching clutch mechanism (8) arranged between the drive wheel (5) and the shaft (6) or each of the shaft sections (6A, 6B), the or each clutch mechanism (8) comprising: a clutch plate (81) mounted to rotate freely on the associated shaft (6) or shaft section (6A, 6B); a part (82) that is carried by and constrained to rotate with the associated shaft (6) or shaft section (6A, 6B); and a brake of said clutch plate that acts continuously on the angular speed of said plate (81). The brake (83) of the at least one of the clutch plates (81) is threaded on the shaft (6) or the shaft section (6A, 6B) carrying said plate (81).
US10690228B2
An isolator is provided for use with an engine and in particular an engine that is assisted or started by MGU (Motor-Generator Unit) or a motor through an endless drive member. It comprises a double acting spring system for isolating crankshaft pulley from torsion vibration at the crankshaft, and in extreme conditions, such as during engine startup and accelerations or decelerations of the engine crankshaft relative to the pulley and when isolator operates in an “engine-driven” mode with the engine crankshaft is driven by the belt.
US10690227B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement tailored metallic glass-based strain wave gears and strain wave gear components. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating a flexspline of a strain wave gear includes: forming a MG-based composition into a flexspline using one of a thermoplastic forming technique and a casting technique; where the forming of the MG-based composition results in a formed MG-based material; where the formed flexspline is characterized by: a minimum thickness of greater than approximately 1 mm and a major diameter of less than approximately 4 inches.
US10690225B2
A transaxle comprises first and second input shafts coaxial to each other, an output shaft drivingly connected to the second input shaft, a torque limiter interposed between the first and second input shafts, and a housing incorporating the first and second input shafts, the output shaft and the torque limiter. The torque limiter includes first and second sleeves. The first sleeve is fitted to the first input shaft unrotatably relative to the first input shaft. The second sleeve is fitted to the second input shaft unrotatably relative to the second input shaft. The first and second sleeves are layered in a radial direction of the first and second input shafts so as to be pressed against each other with a radial surface pressure to limit a torque transmitted between the first and second sleeves to a limiting value.
US10690218B2
A torsional vibration damping arrangement for a drivetrain of a vehicle comprises a rotational mass arrangement which is rotatable around a rotational axis A and a damping arrangement fixed with respect to rotation relative to the rotational axis A. A displacer unit is operatively connected to the primary inertia element on the one side and to the secondary inertia element on the other side. The damping arrangement includes a slave cylinder with a working chamber having a volume V2, and the working chamber of the slave cylinder is operatively connected to the working chamber of the displacer unit. The damping arrangement includes a stiffness arrangement and a damper mass, and the slave cylinder of the damping arrangement is operatively connected to the damper mass by a stiffness arrangement.
US10690211B2
A shock absorber includes a cylinder and a piston dividing the cylinder in first and second cylinder chambers. The piston includes a first main channel and a first main non-return valve allowing a first main fluid flow from the second to the first chamber; and a second main channel and a second main non-return valve allowing a second main fluid flow from the first to the second chamber. The piston includes a connecting member; a first central member received into the connecting member such that the parts of the first main channel in the connecting member and the first central member are in line; and a second central member including another part of the second main channel and received into the connecting member such that the parts of the second main channel in the connecting member and the second central member are in line.
US10690210B2
A mount assembly for a vehicle includes a housing having an upper mounting portion coupled to a first area of the vehicle and a lower mounting portion coupled to a second area of the vehicle. A dampening arrangement is disposed between the upper mounting portion and lower mounting portion. The dampening arrangement may include one or more biasing layers and one or more springs cooperating with the upper mounting portion and lower mounting portion. One or more relatively high viscoelastic layers are disposed adjacent to and cooperate with the one or more biasing layers. One or more relatively low viscoelastic layers are disposed adjacent and cooperate with the one or more relatively high viscoelastic layers. The one or more biasing layers, one or more relatively high viscoelastic layers, one or more relatively low viscoelastic layers and optional springs are configured to dissipate axial forces acting on the mount assembly.
US10690206B2
A brake device includes: an extendable and contractable coupling member that couples one end portions of a pair of link arms to each other; and an adjuster that causes the coupling member to extend so that positions of brake linings relative to brake discs are adjusted to be constant. The adjuster includes: an extension mechanism that has an extension shaft with a male thread and an extension nut with a female thread, which is threadedly engaged with the male thread, and causes the coupling member to extend; and a pressing spring that presses the extension nut in an axial direction toward a contact surface, which is provided in a main body recess portion housing the extension nut and is in contact with one end portion of the extension nut.
US10690176B2
Systems and methods are provided for cooling a piston arranged within a cylinder of an engine. Oil received from a connecting rod bearing and crank journal interface may be continuously transferred via an internal conduit in a connecting rod coupled to the piston wherein the internal conduit is formed within a hollow flange of the connecting rod. The oil may then be sprayed in a continuous manner via an external nozzle to an underside of the piston, enabling continuous piston cooling as the piston travels from a top-dead-center (TDC) position to a bottom-dead-center position (BDC) and back.
US10690158B2
A device includes a first unit and a second unit. The first unit comprises a first C-shaped portion, a first bridge portion, and a first U-shaped portion. The first U-shaped portion comprises a first projection extending therefrom. The second unit comprises a second C-shaped portion, a second bridge portion, and a second U-shaped portion. The second U-shaped portion comprises a second projection extending therefrom. The first projection interlocks with the second projection when the first C-shaped portion and the second C-shaped portion are fastened to a plate.
US10690156B2
A locking device for fixing a sliding element is disclosed. The locking device employs a cylindrical membrane surrounding a sliding rod element, where both the membrane and the rod are enclosed within a housing. The rod slides freely relative to the membrane until an oil pressure is increased within the oil chamber, the oil chamber being enclosed by the membrane. The pressure within the oil chamber causes the membrane to temporarily deform and press against the rod, thus fixing the rod in a particular position. When the oil pressure is lowered below a threshold value, the membrane returns to its original shape and the rod continues to freely slide within the apparatus. The membrane is very thin yet capable of repeatable use. The membrane spans continuously along the entire portion of the rod within the fixing region of the device, thus creating a precise and powerful fixing means.
US10690154B2
A piezohydraulic actuator system includes four chambers: a first chamber defined by a drive bellows filled with a hydraulic fluid and movable by a piezo actuator, a second chamber defined by a hydraulic cylinder filled with the hydraulic fluid, which defines a first output; a third chamber defined by an output bellows filled with the hydraulic fluid, which defines a second output; and a fourth chamber defining a reservoir of the hydraulic fluid. The drive bellows is hydraulically connected via a first check valve to the second chamber. A hydraulic piston in the hydraulic cylinder is coupled mechanically to the output bellows. The drive bellows is hydraulically connected via a second check valve to the fourth chamber. The hydraulic fluid reservoir is hydraulically connected via a third check valve to the output bellows, and the hydraulic cylinder is hydraulically connected via a fourth check valve to the output bellows.
US10690153B1
A Hydraulic Manifold Control Assembly for use in connection with surface blowout preventers and diverter control systems. Said Hydraulic Manifold Control Assembly incorporates design elements and methods which reduce overall envelope dimensions, improving maintenance accessibility, thereby reducing overall installation and manufacturing time and ultimately contributing to a more robust, cost effective end-product. Said design elements and methods include: the use of intrinsically safe I/O modules and components; the employment of a removable valve assembly rack installation method; the use of a removable face plate for identification of flow control valves; the implementation of a digital automatic diverter sequence; the use of integrated manifold assemblies; and the integration of a wide-range function count.
US10690151B2
Device for recovering hydraulic energy in a machine comprising at least a first differential cylinder-piston assembly having a differential cylinder with a separate rod and base side, at least a second differential cylinder-piston assembly having a differential cylinder with a separate rod and base side, and at least one hydraulic accumulator that can be hydraulically connected to at least one of the differential cylinder-piston assemblies, wherein the differential cylinder-piston assemblies are mechanically coupled to one another, and wherein the potential energy of at least one of the differential cylinder-piston assemblies retracting under a compressive load can at least partially be stored in the hydraulic accumulator.
US10690148B2
A centrifugal compressor (20) comprises: a housing (26); an impeller (34) having an axial inlet (70) and a radial outlet (72); a diffuser (82); and a control ring (90) mounted for shifting between an inserted position and a retracted position. The control ring comprises means (150, 160, 162, 166) for absorbing pulsations.
US10690136B2
Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger. In one example, the turbocharger may include one or more cooling devices for cooling a compressor. The cooling devices may include a ventilation system arranged in a compressor impeller and shaft, the ventilation system configured to allow ambient air to flow into the shaft without being compressed.
US10690135B2
The present invention relates to a technology of efficiently cooling a vacuum pump that produces a vacuum in a process chamber of a semiconductor manufacturing facility. The present invention provides a new type of vacuum pump cooling method that keeps the internal temperature of a vacuum pump at a predetermined level by circulating oil through rotors of the vacuum pump, such that it is possible to prevent a rapid increase in the temperature of the vacuum pump and smoothly lubricate bearings at the early stage of operation, whereby it is possible to ensure stability when performing processes and operating the pump and economically maintain the facility.
US10690131B2
A technique for reducing harmonic vibration in a multiplex multi-pump system. The technique includes establishing a lower bound of system specific vibration-related information such as via pressure variation or other vibration indicator. Establishing the lower bound may be achieved through simulation with the system or through an initial sampling period of pump operation. During this time, random perturbations through a subset of the pumps may be utilized to disrupt timing or phase of the subset. Thus, system vibration may randomly increase or decrease upon each perturbation. Regardless, with a sufficient number of sampled perturbations, the lower bound may be established. Therefore, actual controlled system operations may proceed, again employing random perturbations until operation of the system close to the known lower bound is substantially attained.
US10690130B2
An air compressor includes a tank unit, a compressed air generating unit, a motor unit, a driving current generating unit, a control unit and a temperature detecting unit. The tank unit stores a compressed air. The compressed air generating unit generates the compressed air to be stored in the tank unit. The motor unit drives the compressed air generating unit. The driving current generating unit generates a driving current of the motor unit. The control unit drives the motor unit by controlling the driving current generating unit. The temperature detecting unit detects a temperature of the driving current generating unit. The control unit changes the driving current of the motor unit by controlling the driving current generating unit based on the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit.
US10690123B2
An engine turning “clock work” motor including two shape memory alloy (SMA) torque tube actuators, ratcheting mechanisms, and gearing. The gearing communicates the SMA torque tube actuators with a common gear that applies torque to a shaft, so that while one torque tube is heated and applying torque, the other torque tube is relaxed (using a cooling mechanism). The ratchet prevents the relaxing torque tube from applying torque in the incorrect direction.
US10690119B2
The generation of electricity is described, using an offshore wind turbine. A generating sub-assembly 101 is supported by support mechanism (103) upon a support structure 102. The generating sub-assembly has a wind-responsive turbine and an electrical generator. The support structure includes a buoyancy portion (106) for submersion in water and a mast portion (108) extending from said buoyancy portion to extend the generating sub-assembly above the waterline. The support structure is buoyant and is free to roll when floating in water and the support mechanism is hinged to allow the generating sub-assembly to maintain an operational angle during the rolling of the support structure.
US10690115B2
There is provided a sliding component including, a first sliding part which is non-conductive and which has a sliding surface; and a conductive member provided in the first sliding part or provided on a side opposite to the sliding surface of the first sliding part.
US10690113B2
The present disclosure relates to a wind turbine blade. The wind turbine blade comprises a load carrying structure made of a fibre-reinforced polymer material. The load carrying structure comprises a plurality of stacked fibre layers or fibre mats in a thickness of the load carrying structure. The plurality of said stacked fibre layers or fibre mats are made of hybrid material comprising both carbon fibres and glass fibres and having a carbon fibre ratio. The carbon fibre ratio is defined as a volume of the carbon fibres divided by a total volume of the glass fibres and carbon fibres. At least a number of said stacked fibre layers or fibre mats have different carbon fibre ratios such that the carbon fibre ratio of fibre material varies through the thickness of the load carrying structure.
US10690109B2
The devices comprises a distributor (16) that presents distribution ducts opening out into a radial distribution face (16A), and a distributor-counterpart engaged in each other in such a manner that two main enclosures (18, 20) are provided between their opposite axially-extending faces. The device comprises a cylinder-capacity selector comprising two slides (24, 26) arranged after the other in a bore (22) of the element engaged in the other, to which are connected the main enclosures (18, 20) and at least some of the distribution ducts (30, 31). The slides are able to adopt at least three distinct configurations establishing different connections between the main ducts (18, 20) and the distribution ducts via the main enclosures, in order to be able to obtain at least three distinct operating cylinder capacities.
US10690107B1
An igniter for a dual fuel engine includes a plurality of spray orifices formed in a nozzle and defining a plurality of spray axes. A plurality of spark electrodes are resident on the nozzle and form spark gaps offset from the spray axes, in a spark gap pattern that is at variance in at least one of a circumferential aspect or an axial aspect with the spray plume pattern.
US10690090B2
A modulation device for modulating a gas ejection section, the device being for placing in a nozzle upstream from the throat of the nozzle, the modulation device including a plug having a downstream end forming a member for partially obstructing the nozzle throat; and a plug guide having an internal housing in which the upstream end of the plug is present. The upstream end of the plug is suitable for sliding in the internal housing of the plug guide between a first position in which the upstream end of the plug is present in an upstream portion of the internal housing, and a second position in which the upstream end is present in a downstream portion of the internal housing. The upstream end of the plug is held in the first position by at least one retaining element for breaking under the effect of heat.
US10690088B2
A turbofan including a motor with a fan casing and a nacelle which includes a mobile cowl and a main slider bearing gratings and being mobile in translation between an advanced position and a retracted position in which the mobile cowl and the fan casing define, between them, a window. The nacelle also includes reverser flaps, each one being mounted articulated on the main slider between a closed position in which it obstructs the window and an open position in which it does not obstruct the window, a secondary slider mounted mobile in translation on the main slider between a first position and a second position, a transmission system configured to make each reverser flap pass from the closed position to the open position when the secondary slider passes from the first position to the second position, and a set of actuators that bring about a movement in translation of the main slider, and of the secondary slider.
US10690087B2
A cast cylinder block for an internal combustion engine includes a first and a second cylinder bore and a shared bore wall. The first cylinder bore includes a first bore wall and the second cylinder bore includes a second bore wall. The shared cylinder bore wall includes a first portion and a second portion. A portion of the first bore wall combines with a portion of the second bore wall to form the shared cylinder bore wall. The first portion of the shared bore wall is an as-cast portion. The second portion of the shared bore wall is a metal matrix composite.
US10690081B2
Diagnostic systems and methods for a surge valve that selectively bypasses a compressor of a turbocharger of an engine involve receiving, by a controller, a barometric pressure signal indicative of a barometric pressure external to the engine, receiving, by the controller, a throttle inlet pressure (TIP) signal indicative of an air pressure at an inlet of a throttle valve of the engine and downstream from the surge valve and the compressor, and performing, by the controller, a diagnostic technique on the surge valve, the diagnostic technique comprising generating a pressure ratio signal that is a ratio of the TIP signal to the barometric pressure signal, applying a high-pass filter to the pressure ratio signal to obtain a filtered pressure ratio signal, and based on a quantity of detected pulses in the filtered pressure ratio signal that exceed the diagnostic threshold, detecting a malfunction of the surge valve.
US10690071B1
A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, a conduit, and a controller. The internal combustion engine has a plurality of cylinders. The conduit is configured to channel exhaust gas away from the cylinders and to a catalyst. The controller is programmed to, in response to starting the engine and a temperature of the catalyst being less than a threshold, operate a first of the plurality of cylinders alone followed by operating the first and a second of the plurality of cylinders alone to increase the temperature of the catalyst toward the threshold.
US10690070B2
Methods and systems are provided for tracking a fuel puddle mass in the intake port of a deactivated engine cylinder. The difference in fuel evaporation rate in the deactivated cylinder intake is accounted for by applying distinct time constant and gain values to a transient fuel compensation model. A fuel vapor content is clipped once the intake vapor pressure in the intake port of the deactivated cylinder reaches a saturation pressure limit.
US10690069B2
An engine device of the present invention includes including: an intake manifold configured to supply air into a cylinder; an exhaust manifold configured to output exhaust gas from the cylinder; a gas injector which mixes a gaseous fuel with the air supplied from the intake manifold; and a main fuel injection valve configured to inject a liquid fuel into the cylinder for combustion. At the time of switching from a gas mode in which the gaseous fuel is supplied into the cylinder to a diesel mode in which the liquid fuel is supplied into the cylinder, a supply-start timing of the liquid fuel is delayed relative to a supply-stop timing of the gaseous fuel.
US10690055B2
Gas turbine engine components are provided which utilize an insert to provide cooling air along a cooled surface of an engine component. The insert provides cooling holes or apertures which face the cool side surface of the engine component and direct cooling air onto that cool side surface. The apertures may be formed in arrays and directed at an oblique or a non-orthogonal angle to the surface of the insert and may be at an angle to the surface of the engine component being cooled. An engine component assembly is provided with counterflow impingement cooling, comprising an engine component cooling surface having a cooling fluid flow path on one side and a second component adjacent to the first component. The second component may have a plurality of openings forming an array wherein the openings extend through the second component at a non-orthogonal angle to the surface of the second component.
US10690052B2
A turbocharger assembly is provided which prevents liquid moisture 82 from damaging an air fuel ratio sensor affixed to the exhaust pipe. The turbocharger assembly includes a turbine housing, a turbine wheel, a volute defined in the turbine housing, and an upwardly extending exhaust pipe. The turbine housing may be affixed to a center turbocharger housing member. The turbine housing includes an anterior region and a posterior region having the volute. The turbine wheel may be disposed in the turbine housing. A liquid moisture 82 pathway may be defined in the turbine housing and is configured to provide liquid fluid communication from the anterior region toward the volute.
US10690049B2
A variable compression ratio device may include a connecting rod having a large end portion link-connected to a crankshaft and a small end portion link-connected to a piston by a piston pin, an eccentric cam rotatably installed at the small end portion of the connecting rod and at which the piston pin eccentrically passes through a rotation center, and an low-pressure outer plate and an high-pressure outer plate engaged with both side surfaces of the eccentric cam, formed to partially protrude outward, and selectively engaged with the connecting rod according to a compression ratio. In addition, the low-pressure outer plate and the high-pressure outer plate are selectively engaged with the connecting rod by a controller according to a supply direction of a hydraulic pressure.
US10690045B2
An air boost system for a two-cycle engine, such as an EMD engine, which operates with one or more roots blowers, or for similar engines that use gear-driven roots blowers or centrifugal blowers. At least one of the roots blowers is equipped with a variable transmission, which allows airflow into the engine to be varied in accordance with load or other engine operating conditions.
US10690039B2
An anomaly diagnosing apparatus is adapted for a cooling device in an internal combustion engine. The apparatus is configured to execute an enlarging process, a rate calculating process, and an anomaly determining process. The enlarging process includes enlarging the cross-sectional area of the flow passage between an inner channel and an outer channel in the cooling device. The rate calculating process includes calculating a reference rate for a rate of rise of temperature of cooling water. The anomaly determining process includes determining that an anomaly is present in the check valve if a rate of rise of a detection value of cooling water temperature is smaller than the reference rate. The rate calculating process includes calculating the reference rate such that the reference rate has a smaller value in a case where the enlarging process is executed than in a case where the enlarging process is not executed.
US10690035B2
Briefly, in one aspect, a catalytic assembly described herein comprises a module comprising at least one layer of structural catalyst bodies having an inlet face for receiving a gas stream. A diffuser assembly is arranged a distance of greater than 50 mm from the inlet face, the diffuser assembly including at least one diffuser element comprising a plurality of apertures, wherein a ratio of aperture length (L) in the gas stream flow direction to aperture hydraulic diameter (Da) is less than 1.
US10690029B2
An arrangement of an internal combustion engine with at least one first and one second nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter is provided, wherein the first nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter is arranged within a low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation circuit. A method for operating the arrangement is furthermore provided, wherein the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converters can be used for the production of ammonia under operating conditions with a high load by providing rich exhaust gas conditions.
US10690023B1
A valvetrain assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a first camshaft, a first intake cam, a second intake cam, a first cam slide member, and a first actuator. The first camshaft rotatably is supported by a cylinder head. The first intake cam and a second intake cam are disposed on and engaged with the first camshaft for common rotation. The first cam slide member is fixed for common rotation with the first and second intake cams. The first cam slide member has a pin groove disposed on the outer periphery of the first cam slide member. The pin groove includes a first side wall and a second side wall opposite the first side wall. The first actuator has a first and a second pins. The first and second pins are individually extendable into the pin groove of the first cam slide member.
US10690022B2
Disclosed is an actuator for axial displacement of an object, including a cylinder volume having a first portion, and an actuator piston disc displaceable in the axial direction in the cylinder volume between inactive and active positions, an inlet channel between a pressure fluid inlet and the first portion of the cylinder volume, a first inlet valve body in the inlet channel, an outlet channel between the first portion of the cylinder volume and a pressure fluid outlet, and an outlet valve body in the outlet channel. The slave piston is displaceable in a bore, the slave piston displacing the first inlet valve body to an active position, and interacting with an opening connecting the bore and a control pressure channel, the opening having a first flow area with the slave piston in its inactive position and a larger second flow area with the slave piston in its active position.
US10690016B2
An engine roller lifter for use in a leak-valvetrain of an internal combustion engine includes a body, a roller and an anti-rotation plug. The body includes an outer peripheral surface configured for sliding movement in a bore provided in the engine. The bore is supplied oil by an oil passage communicating therewith. The body defines an opening. The roller bearing is rotatably mounted to the body and is configured for rolling contact with an engine camshaft. The anti-rotation plug is received at the opening and has a plug body including an anti-rotation protrusion that extends radially beyond an outer peripheral surface of the plug body. The anti-rotation plug can be staked into the opening of the body.
US10690011B2
There is provided a technique of a power generation system for performing power generation by introducing a cooling medium for cooling a plurality of semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses into a power generation part, wherein the system comprises a plurality of cooling medium passages, through which the cooling medium for cooling the semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses flows and connected to the power generation part. The system is configured to control an opening/closing part installed in each of the plurality of cooling medium passages based on a temperature of the cooling medium and to control inflow of the cooling medium from the plurality of cooling medium passages to the power generation part such that a temperature of the cooling medium flowing into the power generation part is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature.
US10690008B2
A steam turbine casing includes a lower half part having a plurality of lower support portions projecting horizontally around a lower half part body; an upper half part connected onto the lower half part; a support member fixed to an upper surface part of a respective one of the lower support portions; and a plurality of support columns each having a lower end part on a frame and an upper end part to which a lower surface part of the support member fixed to a corresponding one of the lower support portions. Thus, thermal deformation of the casing is suppressed, and a suitable clearance can be maintained between the casing and a turbine.
US10690007B2
A turbine ring assembly includes both a plurality of ring sectors made of ceramic matrix composite material forming a turbine ring and also a ring support structure having two annular flanges, each ring sector having two tabs held respectively between the two annular flanges of the ring support structure. The two annular flanges of the ring support structure exert stress on the tabs of the ring sectors. One of the flanges of the ring support structure is elastically deformable in the axial direction of the turbine ring. The turbine ring assembly further includes a plurality of pegs engaged both in the annular flanges of the ring support structure and in the tabs of the ring sectors facing the annular flanges.
US10689997B2
A seal assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a seal that has a seal body having a sealing portion that extends from an engagement portion. The sealing portion has a seal face that extends circumferentially between first and second mate faces. The seal body defines an internal cavity that extends circumferentially between the first and second mate faces, and the engagement portion has an impingement face opposite the seal face that defines a plurality of apertures to the internal cavity. A housing is mounted to the seal such that the impingement face is exposed to define a plenum between the housing and the impingement face. The housing defines a plurality of cooling passages, and each of the plurality of cooling passages define a passage axis that is oriented such that a projection of the passage axis intersects the seal body. A method of sealing is also disclosed.
US10689996B2
A turbomachine blade (10) comprising a body (11) and an elastomer gasket (12) fastened to said body (11).
US10689994B2
Various embodiments include gas turbine seals and methods of forming such seals. In some cases, a turbine includes: a first arcuate component adjacent to a second arcuate component, each arcuate component including one or more slots located in an end face, each of the one or more slots having a plurality of axial surfaces and radially facing surfaces extending from opposite ends of the axial surfaces and a seal assembly disposed in the slot. The seal assembly including a backup intersegment seal disposed in the slot on a high-pressure side of the slot and a shim seal disposed in the slot over the backup intersegment seal and covering the backup intersegment seal on a low-pressure side of the slot. The shim seal including one or more shim seal segments and having a gap formed between each of the one or more shim seal segments.
US10689991B2
A turbine wheel for use in a gas turbine engine having a plurality of blades attached to a rotor disk. Each blade is formed from a composite comprising ceramic matrix material. The blades each include a root that fits within dovetail slots of the rotor disk and cooperates with a blade retention assembly to couple the blades to the rotor disk.
US10689989B2
According to the invention, a blade is friction-welded to a rotor disk of a turbomachine, the disk comprising a projecting block having an outer surface to which the blade is to be welded. To this end: a surfacing process is carried out on at least a part of the periphery of the block, in the region of said outer surface; the outer surface of the block and the surfacing are machined in order to level same; and friction-welding is then carried out between the surfaced outer surface of the block and the blade.
US10689988B2
A component for a gas turbine engine includes a root with a neck that extends into a fir tree with at least one tooth, the root includes a feed passage in communication with a multiple of cooling passages that extend through the neck and fir tree.
US10689986B1
A film cooled component is provided that includes a body having a cavity defined therein, wherein a coolant is supplied to the cavity cooling apertures having at least one channel defined on an inside surface. The coolant exits the cavity through the plurality of cooling apertures thereby providing a cooling effect to the body and the channel creates an air flow such that the air coolant moves towards the body upon exiting the plurality of cooling apertures. The film cooled component may include cooling apertures configured to reverse blow coolant air.
US10689985B2
A turbine blade for a turbomachine such as a turboprop or a turbojet, the blade including a root, a vane carried by the root and extending in a spanwise direction, ending at a tip, the vane including a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall spaced apart from each other, and at least one duct configured to collect cooling air at the root and to make same flow in the vane in order to cool same; holes and/or slots made in the walls of same in order to discharge the cooling air out of the vane; an upper inner cavity located at the tip of the vane in order to cool same; and wherein at least one of the ducts directly supplies the upper cavity with cooling air collected in the root.
US10689984B2
An example system includes a casting mold and a casting core. The casting core includes a substrate. A plurality of support structures integral with and extending from the substrate define a plurality of channels. Respective support structures of the plurality of support structures define respective contact surfaces distal from the substrate. A sacrificial composition substantially fully fills the plurality of cooling channels and leaves the respective contact surfaces substantially uncovered. An example technique includes filling the sacrificial composition in the plurality of cooling channels, and casting a cover layer onto the respective contact surfaces of the plurality of support structures.
US10689973B2
A dimensional characteristic of a borehole is determined from a rotary drilling system having a housing and an anti-rotation device with one or more drag members that engage a borehole wall. A sensor detects a biasing force on the drag members and transmits a signal representative of the force on the drag member to a control unit. The control unit determines a dimensional characteristic of the borehole based on the force on the drag member of the anti-rotation device.
US10689970B2
A method for estimating downhole pressure in wells during a treatment procedure. A pressure head in a treatment well may be determined without requiring downhole sensors. The method for measuring downhole pressure may be used in long horizontal wells. By improving the accuracy of such pressure head estimates and providing the data substantially in real time, the data can also be used to control the treatment being applied to the well. The pressure head may be determined by detecting pump harmonics at a detector, typically positioned outside of the well and/or not in direct contact with the fluid in the well. The detector may be a microseismic array.
US10689969B2
Systems and methods are provided for producing a continuous survey of a previously drilled portion of a wellbore. The method includes receiving a plurality of stationary survey measurements taken at a corresponding plurality of locations along the portion of the wellbore. The method further includes receiving at least one continuous survey including a plurality of continuous survey measurements taken between a pair of stationary survey measurements of the plurality of stationary survey measurements. The method further includes combining the plurality of stationary survey measurements and the plurality of continuous survey measurements to produce the continuous survey of the portion of the wellbore.
US10689962B2
Remotely actuated screenout relief valves, systems and methods are disclosed herein. The methods include providing a proppant slurry stream that includes proppant to a casing conduit that is defined by a casing string that extends within a subterranean formation. The methods further include detecting an operational parameter that is indicative of a screenout event within the casing conduit. Responsive to the detecting, the methods include providing a flush fluid stream to the casing conduit, opening the remotely actuated screenout relief valve, and displacing the proppant from the casing conduit into the subterranean formation with the flush fluid stream via the remotely actuated screenout relief valve. The methods may further include closing the remotely actuated screenout relief valve. The systems include hydrocarbon wells that include the remotely actuated screenout relief valve and/or hydrocarbon wells that include controllers that are configured to perform at least a portion of the methods.
US10689958B2
An exemplary method of the present disclosure includes causing, by a processing system proximate to the wellbore, injection of the lift gas into the wellbore at a first gas injection rate; obtaining, by the processing system, a first indication of a parameter associated with the wellbore, an arrival of a first fluid at a wellhead associated with the wellbore, or a composition of the first fluid; determining, by the processing system and based on the first indication, at least one of: a second gas injection rate of the intermittent gas lift system, a first period to inject the lift gas with the intermittent gas lift system, or a second period, subsequent to the first period, with no injection of the lift gas by the intermittent gas lift system; and operating, by the processing system, the intermittent gas lift system according to the determination.
US10689957B2
The disclosed device provides a high-accuracy plunger arrival detection system comprising a low-power magnetometer with high sensitivity and which is capable of sampling low or high intensity magnetic fields. The device processes gathered data from sensors, stores at least some processed data in memory, executes a trending algorithm which compares the magnetic field of the plunger to the ambient magnetic field or a predetermined set of initialization values, and generates an output which is relayed to a well controller. An output signal may be via hard wire, RF, wireless or other known means. In addition, the implementation of two sensing devices mounted in series and in spaced relation to each other, can provide for an actual plunger average velocity. An actual plunger average velocity, as opposed to approximate average velocity, can be used to better optimize well control and improve safety of the overall well production system.
US10689956B2
A plunger lift method can include introducing a plunger sleeve and a plunger closure into a well, engaging the sleeve with the closure, securing the sleeve and closure to each other in a flow passage of the well, and then retrieving the sleeve and closure from the well. A plunger lift system can include a plunger sleeve configured for reciprocal displacement in a flow passage of the well, a plunger closure configured to block flow through a flow path of the sleeve and being displaceable in the flow passage separate from the sleeve. A plunger retrieval device may displace with the sleeve in the flow passage and secure the closure against displacement away from the sleeve. Another plunger retrieval device may be positioned in a lubricator, whereby the plunger retrieval device engages the closure and secures the closure against displacement away from the sleeve in the lubricator.
US10689955B1
A gun tube for a downhole perforating gun assembly includes a body, a first end, and a second end. A motor is directly or indirectly attached to one or both of the ends and is configured to rotate the gun tube around its longitudinal axis in order to position shape charges in the gun tube in a desired position before firing the shape charges. A sensor may be on the gun tube, a sub-assembly, or an outer casing to detect the relative position of the shape charges and a signal including the position of the shape charges could be sent to a human or machine operator.
US10689953B2
A drilling rig system may include a drilling rig including a plurality of surface rig equipment thereon and a plurality of orientation sensors disposed on the plurality of surface rig equipment. The plurality of orientation sensors may be configured to provide relational positioning of the plurality of surface rig equipment on the drilling rig.
US10689949B2
There is provided parts for assembly to produce a flow diverter configured for disposition within a wellbore. The parts include an insert-receiving part including a passageway, and a flow diverter-effecting insert configured for insertion within the passageway. The flow diverter-effecting insert is co-operatively configured with the insert-receiving part such that a flow diverter is defined while the flow diverter-effecting insert is disposed within the passageway. The flow diverter is configured for: receiving and conducting a reservoir fluid flow; discharging the received reservoir fluid flow into the wellbore such that gaseous material is separated from the discharged reservoir fluid flow within the wellbore, in response to at least buoyancy forces, such that a gas-depleted reservoir fluid flow is obtained; and receiving and conducting the obtained gas-depleted reservoir fluid flow.
US10689941B2
A downhole tubular assembly configured to be mounted as part of a well tubular structure in a borehole of a well having a top, has a well metal tubing configured to be mounted as part of the well tubular structure. A tubular metal receptacle has an inner receptacle diameter larger than the outer diameter of the well metal tubing, and a second part extending from the first part towards the well metal tubing. The tubing length is larger than the receptacle length, and the a wall of the well metal tubing extends inside the tubular metal receptacle along the entire length of the tubular metal receptacle, and the second part of the tubular metal receptacle is fastened to the outer face of the well metal tubing, thereby closing the tubular metal receptacle in one end and defining an annular space between the tubular metal receptacle and the well metal tubing.
US10689940B2
An element including an undercut in the element extending from an innermost surface of the element radially outwardly into the element, and a pathway intersecting the undercut and extending from the undercut to an outermost surface of the element, the pathway fluidly connecting the outermost surface of the element to the undercut prior to setting of the seal.
US10689939B1
A plug comprises a pipe having a number of holes, an inlet, and a compound forming a cylinder around a portion of the pipe, the cylinder having a flat top from which protrudes a sealed first end of the pipe and the inlet, and a flat bottom from which protrudes a sealed second end of the pipe.
US10689919B2
A cable release system for permitting detachment of a drilling cable from a drill string. The cable release system has a swivel body, a bearing assembly, one or more locking elements, and a release sleeve assembly. The swivel body is coupled to a drilling cable. The bearing assembly has a receptacle body that receives a portion of the swivel body and defines openings that receive a portion of corresponding locking elements. The bearing assembly has an outer sleeve that circumferentially surrounds the receptacle body and has a variable inner diameter such that axial movement of outer sleeve controls the radial position of the locking elements relative to the swivel body. The release sleeve assembly can be moved in a distal direction to engage the outer sleeve of the bearing assembly to move the outer sleeve to an axial position in which the swivel body and drilling cable are detachable from the remainder of the drill string.
US10689908B2
A ladder for a user to climb and which holds a rag includes a first rail having a top and a second rail and rungs attached to the first rail and second rail. The ladder includes an end cap that is attached adjacent to the top of the first rail. The end cap having an attachment portion which attaches to the first rail and a cover portion which covers over the first rail, and extends from the attachment portion. The cover portion having a rag holder. The ladder includes a pad attached to the back of the cover portion which contacts a surface against which the first rail leans down so as not to mar or scratch or damage the surface. An end cap. A method.
US10689906B2
Systems are provided for storing and retrieving objects such as ladders. The systems can include a carriage having a table that rotates, and a trolley mounted on the carriage for holding the object and moving the object linearly in relation to the carriage, so that the object can be stowed in locations such as on the roof of a fire engine or other emergency vehicle, or the roof of a stationary structure. The systems include features for locking the table and the trolley to increase the safety and efficiency of the loading and unloading processes.
US10689905B2
A motorized window treatment system may include a roller tube, a covering material windingly attached to the roller tube, and a drive assembly that may be at least partially disposed within the roller tube. The drive assembly may include a motor having a drive shaft that is elongate along a longitudinal direction and a drive gear attached to the drive shaft such that a toothed portion of the drive gear is cantilevered with respect to the drive shaft. The drive assembly may include a gear assembly having a pair of intermediate gears on opposed sides of the drive gear. Rotation of the drive gear may be transferred through the pair of intermediate gears, a connecting gear, a planetary gear set, a cage, and an idler to the roller tube. Rotation of the roller tube may cause the covering material to move between an open position and a closed position.
US10689904B2
The present disclosure provides an adjusting device for a curtain cord and a retractable curtain. The adjusting device for a curtain cord comprises a mounting base for fixedly connecting to the lower end of the curtain body, the mounting base is provided with a first threading hole for the cord to pass through, the mounting base is provided with a mounting groove thereon, the first threading hole is provided on the groove wall of the mounting base, and the adjusting device further comprises a stopper for winding and fixing the cord, a winding hole is provided throughout in the middle of the stopper for the cord to pass through, the stopper is detachably jammed within the mounting groove, and a gap for accommodating the cord wound on the outer surface of the stopper is located between the groove wall of the mounting groove and the stopper.
US10689901B2
A portable window insert for the distribution of utilities through a window opening. A main panel has a pass-through opening for the utility lines, a handhold opening and a slider panel slidably engaged with the main panel. A sealing member surrounds the pass-through opening. A sealing panel slidably mounts to the rear of the main panel and can be selectively positioned to cover or expose the pass-through opening for use. When the slider panel is in an extended position the handhold opening is covered, the pass-through opening is exposed for use and the edges and sides of the main panel and slider panel abut the sills and sides of the window opening to secure the insert in the window. When the slider panel is in a retracted position the pass-through opening is covered and the handhold opening exposed for use.
US10689899B2
Embodiments described herein may be directed towards a gasket railing system including a rail, such that the rail includes a rail gasket at least partially disposed within the rail and a leg insertion guide disposed within the rail gasket. The leg insertion guide may form a leg insertion cavity configured to receive a window frame leg. The rail gasket may be made up of a pliable material, and the leg insertion guide may be made up of a rigid material. The window frame leg may be attached to at least one side of a window frame made up of four window sides. The window frame may fully encase a window pane. A first horizontal width of at least one of the window frame sides may be greater than or equal to one half of a horizontal width of the rail.
US10689898B2
A remote control door closure operating system is based on a central server with a backend database identifying a collection of controllable doors and a plurality of authorized users and corresponding credentials. A door interface unit is adapted to communicate with an authorized user to supply a live video stream of a respective door and to execute door opening and closing commands from the authorized user. A mobile device has a user application program configured to interact with the central server and door interface unit in order to 1) obtain configuration data, 2) authenticate the authorized user, 3) receive the live video stream, and 4) initiate the door opening and closing commands. Safe operation of the door opening/closing operation is encouraged by maximizing use of video surveillance before and during door operations and by conducting separate security authentications for video streaming and for door operation requests.
US10689896B2
The assembly includes a drive unit and an ECU connectable to the drive unit in an assembly direction Y, transverse to a rotary shaft of the motor. The ECU includes an L shaped support having a first part parallel to the assembly direction Y and a second part transverse to the first part Y and coupled in a sealing manner to an L shaped opening of the drive unit housing. The assembly includes a seal with a second sealing part which, when the ECU is coupled to the housing, is compressed in the assembly direction Y between the second part of the support and a second perimeter edge of a second opening of the housing and a first sealing part which, when the ECU is coupled to the housing, is housed in a gap defined between the first part and a first perimeter edge of a first opening of the housing, the gap and the first sealing part in a plane parallel to the assembly direction Y. The first sealing has two longitudinal branches and a transverse branch such that the longitudinal branches are compressed in a direction transverse to the assembly direction Y whilst the transverse branch is compressed in the assembly direction Y.
US10689894B2
An adjustable stopper device (1) for a vehicle door or hood, includes a base part (100), and adjustment part (200), a stopper part (300) and a fastening structure (400). The adjustment part is connected to the base part via threads (120, 220) and thereby rotatable around a device axis (210) with respect to the base part (100). The stopper part is configured to contact the vehicle door and to provide an abutment surface (310) for the vehicle door when the vehicle door is closed, wherein the stopper part is connected to the adjustment part and wherein the axial position of the abutment surface is adjustable by turning the adjustment part with respect to the base part around the device axis. The fastening structure fastens the base part to the car body (2). A vehicle with, use of and method for manufacturing such a device are also described.
US10689891B2
A hinge has a door interface comprising a serrated surface and an oversized hole, a bolt at least partially extending into the oversized hole, and a washer disposed on the bolt and captured between the door interface and a head of the bolt, the washer comprising a serrated surface facing toward the serrated surface of the door interface. The oversized hole has a diameter selected to allow significant radial movement of the bolt within the oversized hole.
US10689876B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a beam-to-column connection systems for a moment-resisting frame as well as moment-resisting frames that include such connection systems.
US10689874B2
Disclosed is a method for arranging a vertical lifting intensive parking garage. The garage comprises a main body tower garage (101), wherein a storage rack (102) composed of a plurality of storage garage spaces (106) is arranged in the center of the main body tower garage (101); each layer of the storage rack (102) is an independent movable garage; each layer of the storage rack (102) is provided with a left and right turnover parking stall (104) and is joined to two corresponding vehicle-supporting elevators (103); and different layers of the storage rack (102) can be rotated by a suitable angle as needed so as to be joined to another two vehicle-supporting elevators (103). This arrangement method can increase the number of garage entrances and exits, reduce the waiting time for accessing vehicles, and improve access efficiency.
US10689866B2
Certain embodiments of the invention surround a reusable construction guardrail or stanchion. In certain embodiments, the reusable construction guardrail has features that aid in easier and faster assembly and disassembly. In certain embodiments of the invention, the construction guardrail is transportable, having telescoping features and folding features to allow greater ease in packing and transporting. Certain embodiments of the invention include a reusable construction guardrail having a uniform construction.
US10689864B2
An automated brick laying system is provided including platform means, mortar application means for allowing mortar to be applied to a brick in use, and brick gripping means for allowing at least one brick to be gripped in use. At least one of the mortar application means and the brick gripping means is movably mounted on or to the platform means and is arranged to be independently movable relative to the platform means in use. At least one of the mortar application means and the brick gripping means is capable of or is arranged to undergo linear and/or sliding movement along at least three separate and pre-defined axes of movement in use.
US10689859B2
A system for mounting wall panels to a wall frame or other surface, and methods for assembling and using such a system. The disclosed system may include a plurality of mounting brackets, an adjustable wall panel support mechanism coupled to the mounting brackets, and a wall panel attachment member such as a hook plate. The position and orientation of the wall panel attachment member relative to the mounting brackets may be precisely adjusted, allowing fine adjustments in the position and orientation of a wall panel after the wall panel has been installed.
US10689854B2
A functional roof construction arrangement for a roof frame of a building, includes a plurality of functional roof modules being assembled together. Each of the functional roof modules includes a module housing and a roof functional unit which includes three different roof functional panel units selectively supported by the module housing at different levels thereof to provide different functions for the building. The roof functional panel units are selectively configured for selectively providing multiple functions of solar energy collection, thermal insulation, sound insulation, wireless network system, and the like.
US10689846B2
A panel for a shaftwall system includes a panel body with a core and at least one outer facing layer and an opposite backing surface. A score line is formed in the facing layer, defining two folded panel portions. The panel is folded along the score line to form a folded edge, and the folded panel portions are arranged so that the backing surfaces of the panel portions contact each other. A companion shaftwall building structure system is provided, including a plurality of the panels defining an enclosure, each panel being a ½-inch thick wallboard panel having a “V”-shaped score line defining a pair of panel portions, the score line forms a tapered edge of the folded panel. A plurality of brackets is provided, each bracket defining a panel track dimensioned for slidingly accommodating the folded panel and retaining the panel in place without the use of fasteners.
US10689843B1
Systems and methods for creating insulated sandwich walls with a prefabricated framework are provided. An inner strongback faces an outer strongback. Outer and inner support members are located between the strongbacks. The strongbacks and support members extend vertically from a base. Material for an outer wall, such as concrete, is deposited between the outer strongback and outer support member. Material for an inner wall is deposited between the inner strongback and inner support member. An insulating material is deposited between the outer and inner support members providing longitudinal spacing for the framework.
US10689841B2
A construction anchoring system includes one or more anchor apparatuses which are mountable relative to a form used to create a concrete support structure. The concrete is deposited in the form and cures whereby the one or more anchor apparatuses becomes embedded within the concrete support structure. The embedded anchor apparatus is readily accessible to be coupled with, or to support, construction supplies or equipment such as ductwork, electrical cables, plumbing, sprinklers, safety lines or fences, etc. within a construction site. A plurality of anchor apparatuses may be mounted relative to the concrete form to create a system for organizing the installation of construction materials and/or safety equipment.
US10689840B2
A building structure assembly includes standardized interlocking components sized to suit any particular size of building required and ISO standard shipping containers, including: at least one modular base structure, at least one modular beam structure, and at least one wall support in the form of a shipping container and a method of assembly of the building structure. Each modular beam and base structures a frame, interlocking with each other and a shipping container by corner castings with twist lock assemblies, arranged in a particular orientation with each other. The modular base structure is supported by the corner castings of a shipping container and the base structure supports an end portion of at least one modular beam structure. A modular beam structure spans shipping containers. The modular beam structures can function as roof trusses and are sized to be transported inside shipping containers.
US10689834B2
A pit defining an opening and having a footing. Cutouts are located in the footing and are created in mold to avoid secondary cutting operations. The wall of the pit above the footing is narrower than the footing and includes ribs extending from the wall for added compressive resistance. The ribs may vary in size both in length and extension into the center of the pit.
US10689832B2
A process and tool for monitoring the status, health, and performance of wear parts used on earth working equipment. The process and tool allow the operator to optimize the performance of the earth working equipment. The tool has a clear line of site to the wear parts during use and may be integrated with a bucket or blade on the earth working equipment.
US10689825B1
A radon gas removal apparatus that is operable to substantially inhibit the entrance of radon gas into a structure. The radon gas removal apparatus is operably coupled to an area to which the structure is superposed. A housing is further included wherein the housing has a lower portion and upper portion mateably coupled. A blower assembly is present within the housing and is mounted in a vertical upright position. The lower portion of the housing includes a bottom having a mount extending upward therefrom to which the blower assembly is operably coupled utilizing a coupling. A fluid aperture is present in the mount and is operable to facilitate the egression of accumulated fluid present at the bottom of the housing into a connected pipe. The housing further includes an air turbulence diffusion member present on an exit aperture formed in the upper portion of the housing.
US10689824B2
A system for covering various types of ground where water and wind erosion protection are needed comprises a composite of at least one geotextile tufted or knitted with synthetic yarns (forming a synthetic turf), an open grid mesh, and a geo-filter (filter fabric). The filter fabric is positioned in direct contact with the ground surface, the open grid mesh is positioned over the filter fabric, and the synthetic turf is positioned over the open grid mesh. The system provides a beneficial erosion protection that does not require maintenance and can be used to cover slopes without requiring vegetative support and/or a topsoil layer. An optional sand layer can be placed atop the synthetic turf as desired as infill to ballast the material and protect the system against wind uplift.
US10689821B1
An algae skimmer and debris removal system includes a water filter boat, a water and algae intake disposed on the water filter boat, a water filter disposed on the water filter boat downstream of the intake, a cleaned water outlet disposed on the water filter boat downstream of the filter and a debris collector disposed on the water filter boat for removing solid debris from the water. A debris compactor boat is detachably connected to the water filter boat and a compactor is disposed on the compactor boat for receiving the solid debris from the collector and for compacting the solid debris.
US10689817B2
An energy absorbing apparatus is provided and includes an outer shell having opposed ends and a left side wall, a right side wall and a hollow core. The shell includes a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart fold points positioned on the left and right side walls only located at a height in the middle region of the shell relative to the height of the left and right side walls. The fold points facilitate a controlled folding up of the left and right side walls and at least part of the shell, at or around, the fold points, during an end on impact.
US10689811B2
A ground cover mat for vehicles and equipment to cross over pipes, whether laid below or above ground, wherein the mat comprises two footing members spaced at a distance from each other. Each of the footing members define therein multiple peg holes, and each of the peg holes spaced at different distances from an outer edge of a given footing member. The mat also includes one or more span members. Each of the span members are positioned above and removably attached to the two footing members. Each of the one or more span members comprise at least two pegs that protrude downwards, wherein one of the pegs removably fit into a given peg hole defined in one of the two footing members and another one of the pegs removably fit into a given peg hole defined in another one of the two footing members.
US10689806B2
The present invention relates to a pretreatment process of lignocellulosic biomass, comprising contacting lignocellulosic biomass with pretreatment solution in a temperature ranging from an ambient temperature to 100° C. and a pressure of at least 20 bars, wherein the pretreatment solution comprising water, water-miscible organic solvent and alkali having a concentration of 5 to 15% w/v if the alkali is solid or 5 to 15% v/v if the alkali is liquid. Said pretreatment process operates in mild condition or at low temperature to be specified with the removing of lignin but not destroying cellulose and increasing desired sugar yield.
US10689797B2
Provided are a method for manufacturing a composite fabric capable of further improving the strength of a carbon fiber-reinforced molded article, a composite fabric, and a carbon fiber-reinforced molded article.The method includes a step of holding a surface of a filter part (22A), through which a dispersion solvent and carbon nanotubes dispersed in the dispersion solvent are allowed to pass, in contact with at least one surface of a woven fabric (12A) including a carbon fiber bundle as weaving yarn, a step of immersing the woven fabric (12A) on which the filter part (22A) is held in a dispersion that comprises the dispersion solvent and the dispersed carbon nanotubes and applying ultrasonic vibrations to the dispersion, and a step of extracting the woven fabric (12A) on which the filter part (22A) is held from the dispersion and removing the filter part (22A) from the woven fabric (12A).
US10689796B2
A seam for joining fabric edges in which coils of seam elements shaped as a symbol for infinity or a lemniscate, that is, infinity elements, are joined to the fabric edges and the infinity elements are joined to each other with a pintle. A fabric element may be configured as a continuous loop to form an industrial fabric employing the infinity seam elements.
US10689791B2
A high efficiency vented dryer having a heat pump system comprises an outer drum, an air-intake drying air duct and an air-exhaust drying air duct for allowing the outer drum communicating with outside. The dryer is provided with a heat pump system comprising a first evaporator and a second evaporator arranged in parallel or in series. The first evaporator is arranged in the air-exhaust drying air duct and the second evaporator is arranged in an external atmosphere to absorb heat from the exhaust air and outside, respectively. By arranging the evaporators in the drying air duct and the external atmosphere respectively, the heat pump system can simultaneously or independently absorb heat from the air exhausted by the dryer and from the ambient air of the dryer to heat the intake air by using heat in the exhaust air and heat in the environment to improve drying rate of the dryer.
US10689789B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a drawer. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a cabinet that is configured to receive the drawer. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes an introduction port that is located in an upper surface of the drawer. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a drum that is located in the drawer and that is configured to communicate with the introduction port. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a driving shaft that is located at a bottom surface of the drum. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a driving unit that is configured to rotate the driving shaft. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a controller that is configured to control the driving unit. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes an attachment and detachment unit that is configured to connect the drawer to the cabinet in response to a control signal from the controller.
US10689775B2
A solution deposition method includes: applying a liquid precursor solution to a substrate, the precursor solution including an oxide of a first metal, a hydroxide of the first metal, or a combination thereof, dissolved in an aqueous ammonia solution; evaporating the precursor solution to directly form a solid seed layer on the substrate, the seed layer including an oxide of the first metal, a hydroxide of the first metal, or a combination thereof, the seed layer being substantially free of organic compounds; and growing a bulk layer on the substrate, using the seed layer as a growth site or a nucleation site.
US10689773B2
A method of making property modulated composite materials includes depositing a first layer of material having a first microstructure/nanostructure on a substrate followed by depositing a second layer of material having a second microstructure/nanostructure that differs from the first layer. Multiple first and second layers can be deposited to form a composite material that includes a plurality of adjacent first and second layers. By controlling the microstructure/nanostructure of the layers, the material properties of the composite material formed by this method can be tailored for a specific use. The microstructures/nanostructures of the composite materials may be defined by one or more of grain size, grain boundary geometry, crystal orientation, and a defect density.
US10689769B2
The inventive subject matter is directed to continuous electrochemical production of highly pure micro- or nanostructured lead that at least partially encloses the electroprocessing solvent and molecular hydrogen and optional guest compounds to form a mixed matrix. Such compositions are particularly suitable for cold forming of various structures and/or for alloy and composite material production.
US10689766B2
The disclosure relates to recovering Li ions in a raw liquid into a recovery liquid at a high recovery speed. A lithium selective permeable membrane is constituted of a selective permeable membrane main body constituted of a lithium ion superconductor (ion conductor) having a particularly high ion conductivity and a Li adsorption layer formed as a thin layer on a raw liquid side (a first electrode) thereof. As a material constituting the selective permeable membrane main body, specifically, lanthanum lithium titanium oxide can be used. The Li adsorption layer is formed as a thin layer on a surface of the selective permeable membrane main body by carrying out a chemical treatment on the selective permeable membrane main body.
US10689764B1
A mounting bolt and sacrificial anode assembly is provided. The zinc anode is cylindrical while the mounting bolt is made from aluminum alloy and is machine threaded with an anodized bolt head resting on an anodized bolt head shoulder having two faces with one face being non-anodized. For assembly, the anode is heated to a uniform temperature of approximately two hundred degrees Fahrenheit and the mounting bolt is cooled to approximately zero degrees Fahrenheit after a minimum of six hours and preferably twenty-four hours. The anode is then hand pressed onto the mounting bolt to bottom out on the non-anodized face in order to form a single fused assembly.
US10689749B2
A linear evaporation source is disclosed. In one aspect, the source includes a crucible storing an evaporated material, a heater unit surrounding the crucible and heating the crucible, and a plurality of lateral reflectors surrounding a lateral surface of the heater unit. Each of the lateral reflectors includes a first reflector combined with the heater unit while being spaced apart from the heater unit and having a plurality of first openings and a second reflector movably combined with the first reflector and having a second opening. Open ratios of the lateral reflectors are independently adjusted to control a temperature of the crucible according to areas of the crucible. Thus, deposition uniformity of the linear evaporation source is enhanced.
US10689748B2
At least one layer in a coating located on a surface of a substrate is a domain structure layer constituted of two or more domains different in composition. The average value of the size of each of first domains, defined as the diameter of a virtual circumcircle in contact with each first domain, is 1 nm to 10 nm. The average value of the nearest neighbor distance of each first domain, defined as the length of the shortest straight line connecting the center of the circumcircle with the center of another circumcircle adjacent to the circumcircle, is 1 nm to 12 nm. 95% or more of the first domains has a size within ±25% of the average value of the size, and 95% or more of the first domains has a nearest neighbor distance within ±25% of the average value of the nearest neighbor distance.
US10689747B2
An evaporation device including an evaporation chamber and mask supporting coils is provided. The mask supporting coils include at least a first coil and a second coil disposed opposite to each other. A mask disposing area is disposed between the first coil and the second coil. A first current is provided in the first coil, and a second current is provided in the second coil, so that a magnetic field with a homogeneous magnetic field strength is generated in the mask disposing area.
US10689745B2
A process of converting an outer layer of an object made of a refractory metal, such as titanium, into a carbide of the refractory metal. A molten metal, such as molten lithium, is placed adjacent the outer surface of the object. The lithium does not react with the titanium, nor is it soluble within the titanium to any significant extent at the temperatures involved. The molten lithium contains elemental carbon, that is, free carbon atoms. At high temperature, the carbon diffuses into the titanium, and reacts with titanium atoms to form titanium carbide in an outer layer. Significantly, no other atoms are present, such as hydrogen or oxygen, which can cause problems, because they are blocked by the molten lithium.
US10689744B2
A method (100) for pressing at least one article in an arrangement as well as a pressing arrangement (500). The method comprises providing an article inside a load compartment and feeding a pressure medium into the pressure vessel and increasing (140) the pressure in the load compartment; increasing (120) the temperature and maintaining (150) the increased temperature and the increased pressure for selected periods of time (t1, t2); changing (170) the temperature from the first predetermined temperature level to a second predetermined temperature level (T2); feeding (180) a carbon-containing gas into the pressure vessel; maintaining (190) the second predetermined temperature level for a selected period of time (t3); reducing (200) the temperature in the load compartment; and discharging (210) the pressure medium from the pressure vessel and reducing (220) the pressure in the load compartment.
US10689738B2
The method relates to a method of forming an Al-alloy sheet component. The method comprises heating an Al-alloy sheet blank to its Solution Heat Treatment temperature at a heating station and, in the case of alloys not in a pre age hardened temper, maintaining the SHT temperature until Solution Heat Treatment is complete. The sheet blank is then transferred to a set of cold dies and forming is initiated within 10 s of removal from the heating station so that heat loss from the sheet blank is minimised. The cold dies are closed to form the sheet blank into a shaped component, said forming occurring in less than 0.15 s, and the formed component is held in the closed dies during cooling of the formed component. The claimed method will find application for any Aluminium alloy with a microstructure and mechanical properties that can be usefully modified by solution treatment and age-hardening.
US10689737B2
A hot-rolled steel sheet includes a chemical composition represented by, in mass %, C: 0.010% to 0.100%, Si: 0.30% or less, Cr: 0.05% to 1.00%, Nb: 0.003% to 0.050%, Ti: 0.003% to 0.200% and others, wherein a proportion of grains having an intragranular misorientation of 5° to 14° in all grains is 20% or more by area ratio, the grain being defined as an area which is surrounded by a boundary having a misorientation of 15° or more and has a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.3 μm or more.
US10689728B2
The present disclosure relates to hydrometallurgical technologies wherein liquid-liquid extraction, also called solvent extraction, is used to separate and concentrate metal ions. Exemplary embodiments relate to solvent extraction of copper and a diluent useful in copper solvent extraction. A bio-based composition can fulfil physico-chemical properties that are desired for solvent extraction. Moreover, a composition is disclosed, which in addition to providing more environmental friendly alternative, can also improve the solvent extraction process of copper.
US10689723B2
The present invention relates to a ferritic stainless steel according to the present invention, containing, in mass %: 0.001%≤C≤0.020%, 0.05%≤Si≤0.50%, 0.1%≤Mn≤1.0%, 15.0%≤Cr≤25.0%, Mo<0.50%, 0.50%≤W≤5.00%, and 0.01%≤Nb≤0.50%, with a balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, having a content (coarse Laves phase ratio) of coarse Laves phase having a diameter of 0.50 μm or more being 0.1% or less, and having an average grain size being 30 μm or more and 200 μm or less.
US10689716B1
The disclosure relates to test kits and methods for detecting the presence of Coronavirus polynucleotides in a biological sample.
US10689715B2
Methods are provided for a sensitive and specific assay for the determination of viral load and genotyping of RSV in a biological sample. Compositions and kits for use in the methods also are provided, including optimized primers for the amplification of and detection of the RSV open reading frames from subtypes A and B, and probes for distinguishing between the subtypes. Also provided are methods for amplifying and sequencing an open reading from of an RSV F protein, and compositions and kits for use in the methods.
US10689712B2
Compositions, reaction mixtures, kits and methods used in amplifying and detecting nucleic acids from various species of the class Mollicutes. Particular regions of the 23S rRNA or its gene have been identified as preferred targets for nucleic acid amplification reactions of a sample suspected containing at least one species of Mollicutes. Some oligomers comprise tag regions, target closing regions, promoter sequences, and/or binding moieties. Samples can be from any source suspected of containing a species of the class Mollicutes. Preferred sample sources include bioreactors, cell lines, cell culture wares and pharmaceutical manufacturing wares.
US10689709B2
Provided herein are a kit and method for detecting mutations in CTNNB1 and hTERT, and their use in detection and management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The kit comprises a first pair of primers, configured to specifically bind sequences flanking the genomic region for amplifying the genomic region in a first PCR reaction; and at least one clamp, each configured to bind to one first allele but not any second allele at an annealing temperature in the first PCR reaction to thereby selectively suppress amplification of the one first allele but still allow amplification of other second allele(s). Kits and methods for detecting mutations in CTNNB1 and hTERT are also provided. A method for detecting or monitoring recurrence of HCC is further disclosed, which comprises determining levels of five DNA markers, including CTNNB1 mutations, hTERT mutations, TP53 mutations, RASSF1A methylation, and GSTP1 methylation.
US10689708B2
In one aspect, provided herein are methods for predicting the responsiveness of DLBCL patients to treatment with lenolidomide or Compound A; or a stereoisomer thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, hydrate, co-crystal, clathrate thereof; or a polymorph thereof utilizing biomarkers or classifiers that correlate with responsiveness to one of these drugs. In another aspect, provided herein are methods for treating a DLBCL patient determined to be responsive to treatment with lenolidomide or Compound A; or a stereoisomer thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, hydrate, co-crystal, clathrate thereof; or a polymorph thereof utilizing biomarkers or classifiers (or output thereof) that correlate with responsiveness to one of these drugs.
US10689706B2
Systems, apparatuses, and method are provided for determining the contributions of different tissues to a biological sample that includes a mixture of cell-free DNA molecules from various tissues types, e.g., as occurs in plasma or serum and other body fluids. Embodiments can analyze the methylation patterns of the DNA mixture (e.g., methylation levels at particular loci) for a particular haplotype and determine fractional contributions of various tissue types to the DNA mixture, e.g., of fetal tissue types or tissue types of specific organs that might have a tumor. Such fractional contributions determined for a haplotype can be used in a variety of ways.
US10689704B2
The present invention provides method for predicting risk of cervical shortening, methods for predicting risk of preterm labour (PTL), and methods for characterising a pregnant subject having a history of previous PTL, mid-trimester loss or cervical cone biopsy as being in need of surveillance and/or intervention to prevent preterm labour, comprising determining the expression level of one or more of the miRNA molecules identified in Table 1 or Table 2 extracted from a biological sample obtained from said subject and comparing to a control value. Biochips and kits for use in carrying out the methods of the invention are also provided.
US10689703B2
The present invention is related to novel methods for categorizing and treating subjects having Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).
US10689698B2
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid sequencing method that determines the sequence of a template nucleic acid by electrochemical means via the depletion of metal ions as a result of its binding to and/or precipitation with pyrophosphate.
US10689697B2
Analysis Of A Polymer A biochemical analysis system analyses polymers by taking measurements of a polymer from a sensor element comprising a nanopore during translocation of the polymer through the nanopore. When a polymer has partially translocated, the series of measurements is analysed using reference data derived from a reference sequence to provide a measure of similarity. Responsive to the measure of similarity, the sensor element may be selectively operated to eject the polymer and thereby make the nanopore available to receive a further polymer. Where the biochemical analysis system comprises an array of sensor elements and is takes measurements from sensor elements selected in a multiplexed manner, responsive to the measure of similarity, the biochemical analysis system ceases taking measurements from the currently selected sensor element and to starts taking measurements from a newly selected sensor element.
US10689685B2
The present invention relates to primers, probes, primer sets, primer and probe sets, methods and kits for detecting human papillomaviruses, human beta globin sequences and human papillomaviruses and human beta globin sequences in a test sample.
US10689684B2
This disclosure describes techniques to improve the sequencing of polynucleotides by decreasing the likelihood of errors occurring during a sequencing calibration process. In implementations, regions of polynucleotides that are used for the calibration process can be modified to reduce a number of polynucleotides that have a same nucleotide at one or more positions of the calibration regions. In some cases, the calibration regions can be modified by adding a sequence to the polynucleotides that replaces the original calibration regions. Also, the calibration regions can be modified by rearranging the nucleotides at the different positions of the calibration regions. Additionally, the calibration regions can be modified by adding sequences of varying length to the polynucleotides being sequenced to produce polynucleotides having varying length with different calibration regions.
US10689682B2
To provide a mogrol glycosyltransferase and a method for producing a mogrol glycoside using the enzyme. The present invention provides a mogrol glycosyltransferase and a method for producing a mogrol glycoside using the enzyme, and a transformant into which a mogrol glycosyltransferase gene is introduced and a method for preparing the transformant.
US10689681B2
The present invention relates to a recombinant microorganism comprising one or more nucleotide sequence(s) encoding: a polypeptide having ent-copalyl pyrophosphate synthase activity; a polypeptide having ent-Kaurene synthase activity; a polypeptide having ent-Kaurene oxidase activity; and a polypeptide having kaurenoic acid 13-hydroxylase activity, whereby expression of the nucleotide sequence(s) confer(s) on the microorganism the ability to produce at least steviol. The recombinant microorganism may also be capable of expressing one or more UDP-glucosyltransferases such that the microorganism is capable of producing one or more steviol glycosides.
US10689675B2
Disclosed are methods of synthesizing racemic 2-(difluoromethyl)-1-(alkoxycarbonyl)-cyclopropanecarboxylic acids and 2-(vinyl)-1-(alkoxycarbonyl)-cyclopropanecarboxylic acids and their salts, such as the dicyclohexylamine salt. Also disclosed are methods for preparing enantioenriched (1R,2R)-1-((tert-butoxycarbonyl)amino)-2-(difluoromethyl)cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid and esters of the same. These compounds are useful intermediates in the synthesis of viral protease inhibitors.
US10689667B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for selectively suppressing the expression of a recombinant protein in a male reproductive tissue of a transgenic plant. The invention also provides methods and compositions for inducing male sterility in a transgenic plant. Plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and commodity products including such compositions are aspects of the invention.
US10689655B2
A light funnel collimator has a central lens surface and a back reflecting surface, shaped to provide a wider background beam and a narrower hotspot beam within but off-center of the wider beam. One of the beams is on-axis of the collimator, and the other beam is off-axis. The reflector is at least partly asymmetrical relative to the axis, and provides or contributes to the off-axis beam.
US10689653B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods of altering RNA splicing in a subject. In some embodiments, methods are provided for correcting splicing in a cell that contains a DYSF gene having a mutation that results in defective splicing.
US10689650B2
The present invention provides methods for retaining and expressing physiologically active substances in a target tissue-specific-manner, by administering the physiologically active substances to target submucous tissue. Specifically, the present inventors demonstrated that, when physiologically active substances were directly administered into submucous tissues without using a carrier, the physiologically active substances were effectively and safely retained at the administration sites over long periods without loss and diffusion, and produced the effect acting in a reservoir-like fashion. The physiologically active substances administered as described above were demonstrated to produce the therapeutic effect without having an influence on organs other than the administered organ.
US10689648B2
The present invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of traits, diseases and conditions that respond to the modulation of gene expression and/or activity, and/or modulate a gene expression pathway. Specifically, the invention relates to double-stranded nucleic acid molecules including small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA) molecules that are capable of mediating or that mediate RNA interference (RNAi) against target gene expression.
US10689645B1
In an illustrative embodiment, automated multi-module cell editing instruments are provided to automate multiple edits into nucleic acid sequences inside one or more cells.
US10689643B2
Disclosed herein are compositions, methods and kits useful for epigenetic analysis based on the use of transposons that are targeted to specific regions of chromatin based on DNA-DNA interactions, protein-protein interactions, RNA-RNA interactions, and nucleic acid-protein interactions.
US10689639B2
Described herein are compounds and methods for tethering proteins. For example, dimers of proteins, including SOD1 and DJ-1, are described, where the dimers are formed by the covalent bonding of a cysteine on the first monomer to a cysteine on the second monomer via a cyclic disulfide linker. The covalently attached dimers exhibit increased stabilization.
US10689638B2
Isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius are provided. Further provided are methods for modulating or altering metabolism in a cell using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius.
US10689630B2
The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein an alpha-amylase and a thermostable hemicellulase is present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to compositions suitable for use in processes of the invention.
US10689629B1
Provided are methods and compositions for activating oligonucleotide aptamer-deactivated DNA polymerases, comprising cleaving the aptamer by endonuclease V enzymatic activity to reduce or eliminate binding of the oligonucleotide aptamer to the DNA polymerase, thereby activating DNA synthesis activity of the DNA polymerase in a reaction mixture. Mixtures for use in methods of the invention are also provided. The oligonucleotide aptamers of the present invention are circular and comprise one or more deoxyinosine nucleotides providing for aptamer-specific recognition and cleavage of the circular aptamer by the endonuclease V enzymatic activity. Exemplary oligonucleotide aptamers, mixtures and methods employing endonuclease V enzymatic activity are provided. The methods can be practiced using kits comprising a DNA polymerase-binding oligonucleotide aptamer and at least one endonuclease V enzymatic activity having oligonucleotide aptamer-specific recognition to provide for specific cleavage of the aptamer by the endonuclease V enzymatic activity.
US10689623B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing a non-expanded tissue derivative, that is not subjected to cell proliferation in vitro, comprising a vascular-stromal fraction enriched in stem and multipotent elements, such as pericytes and/or mesenchymal stem cells, or for preparing non-embryonic stem cells obtained from a tissue sample or from said derivative, wherein said tissue derivatives or said cells are subjected to vibrations derived from a heart sound such to control the degree of differentiation or possible differentiation of said stem and multipotent elements into several other types of cells that is to optimize their potency. The invention relates also to a device for carrying out said process, to stem cells obtainable by the process as well as a drug for the regeneration of an animal tissue.
US10689622B2
A medium which comprises a fibroblast growth factor (FGF), and a sulfated compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof at a concentration which promotes the growth of a stem cell in the presence of FGF, is useful for culturing stem cells.
US10689614B2
Provided is a cell culture support, which is a support for attaching and culturing cells, and which includes: a fibrous web which is made by accumulating fibers of a biodegradable polymer and on which a plurality of pores are formed; and a plurality of beads formed on the fibers to secure spaces through which the cells penetrate into the fibrous web and grow therein.
US10689607B2
Disclosed are an enzymatic batchwise or continuous process for the production of fatty acid alkyl esters for use in the biofuels, food and detergent industries and a system therefor. The process utilizes enzymes immobilized on a hydrophobic resin mixed with a fatty acid source and an alcohol or alcohol donor in the presence of an alkaline or mild alkaline aqueous buffer, or in the presence of water or aqueous solution. The production process for fatty acid alkyl esters is carried out by transesterification or esterification simultaneously or sequentially. The biocatalyst activity is maintained with no significant activity losses in multiple uses and also avoids the accumulation of glycerol and water by-products or other hydrophilic compounds on the biocatalyst.
US10689605B2
A laundry detergent capsule containing a laundry detergent composition, the capsule including a capsule base (33) with one or more side walls (35) extending from the base to form a detergent composition cavity accommodating the laundry detergent composition (39), wherein the capsule includes a capsule lid (41) for sealing the detergent composition cavity and the capsule lid includes a flange (43) extending from a lid portion and abutting the side wall or side walls, The flange having 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 breaks or gaps arranged symmetrically around the circumference of the upper rim of the side wall or walls. a container containing a plurality of such capsules and use of such capsules to launder textiles.
US10689598B2
A liquid detergent composition having a pH of from 7.1 to 7.9 as measured at 10% solution in distilled water at 20° C. wherein the composition includes a surfactant system, the surfactant system including an anionic surfactant and a primary co-surfactant selected from the group consisting of amphoteric surfactant, zwitteronic surfactant and mixtures thereof wherein the anionic surfactant and the primary co-surfactant are in a weight ratio of from less than about 10:1 to more than about 2.5:1 and wherein the composition further includes a specific cyclic diamine.
US10689593B2
This disclosure relates to a low viscosity lubricating turbine oil having a composition comprising a lubricating oil base stock, as a major component, and one or more lubricating oil additives, as minor components. The lubricating turbine oil has a kinematic viscosity of about 16 cSt to about 22 cSt at 40° C., a density of about 0.8 g/ml to about 0.9 g/ml, and an absolute evaporation loss at 150° C. of less than about 4%. This disclosure also relates to a method for improving energy efficiency in a turbomachine lubricated with the low viscosity lubricating turbine oil. This disclosure further relates to a method for improving energy efficiency while maintaining or improving deposit control and lubricating oil additive solvency in a turbomachine lubricated with the low viscosity lubricating turbine oil. This disclosure yet further relates to a method for improving solubility, compatibility and dispersancy of polar additives in the low viscosity lubricating turbine oil.
US10689592B2
Relating to the field of lubricant, more particularly relates to lubricant for marine engine, notably for a two-stroke marine engine. More particularly, relates to a lubricant for a marine engine including at least one lubricant base oil and at least one fatty amine.
US10689590B2
Refining assemblies and methods for refining rich natural gas containing a first methane gas and other hydrocarbons that are heavier than methane gas are disclosed. In some embodiments, the assemblies may include a methane-producing assembly configured to receive at least one liquid-containing feed stream that includes water and rich natural gas and to produce an output stream therefrom by (a) converting at least a substantial portion of the other hydrocarbons of the rich natural gas with the water to a second methane gas, a lesser portion of the water, and other gases, and (b) allowing at least a substantial portion of the first methane gas from the rich natural gas to pass through the methane-producing assembly unconverted. The assemblies may additionally include a purification assembly configured to receive the output stream and to produce a methane-rich stream therefrom having a greater methane concentration than the output stream.
US10689583B2
A process is presented for the removal of contaminants like sulfur compounds from hydrocarbons. The sulfur compounds are removed from hydrocarbons that may be a feed to cracking units. A feed stream is treated with a clinoptilolite or a barium exchanged zeolite adsorbent to effectively remove carbon disulfides from the feed hydrocarbon. The adsorbent may be regenerated by a hydrogen stream, a hydrocarbon stream or a mixture thereof.
US10689576B2
Provided are a liquid crystal composition that contains a polar compound having a polymerizable group, in which vertical alignment of liquid crystal molecules can be achieved by action of the compound (or polymer), and a liquid crystal display device including the composition. The composition satisfies at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and heat.The composition is a nematic liquid crystal composition that has negative dielectric anisotropy and contains the polar compound as a first additive, and may contain a specific liquid crystal compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, a specific liquid crystal compound having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a second component and a polymerizable compound as a second additive, and the liquid crystal display device includes the composition.
US10689574B2
A cholesteric resin layered body including a substrate, an intermediate layer, and a cholesteric resin layer in this order, wherein a difference in a reflection band center wavelength of the cholesteric resin layer before and after the layered body is heated at 130° C. for 8 hours is 50 nm or less, method for producing the same, as well as a reflective material, a display medium and a decorating material including the same.
US10689546B2
A method for manufacturing an optical member which can improve bonding properties between a first member having a light transmitting property and a second member. The method includes a precuring step of forming a photocuring precured resin layer on a surface of the first member or the second member, the photocuring precured resin layer having a thin film on a side to be bonded with the second member or the first member, a bonding step of bonding the first member and the second member via the precured resin layer, and a final curing step of final-curing the precured resin layer to form a light transmitting resin layer. It is thereby possible to reduce the elastic modulus of the precured resin layer, suppress protrusion during bonding, and improve bonding properties.
US10689541B2
Wax-modified hyperbranched polyols and wax-modified flexible hyperbranched polyols are described, as are coating compositions containing these polyols. These polyols provide excellent coatings, especially matte coatings, and allow for the exclusion of silica in coatings.
US10689536B2
An ink is provided. The ink includes a colorant, an organic solvent, a resin particle including an anionic urethane resin, and an organic amine compound having a boiling point in the range of from 120° C. to 200° C. and a molecular weight of 100 or less, and water, and the mass ratio of the organic amine compound to the resin particle is in the range of from 0.01 to 1.00.
US10689534B2
The present invention provides an aqueous dry-erasable ink or marking composition, which could be applied to both porous and non-porous surfaces and erasable from both porous and non-porous surfaces or marking substrates. The present invention further provides erasure of mark made by the ink composition from such porous and non-porous substrate, which is achieved by a cloth or the like, without requiring rubbing by conventional erasers. The ink composition comprises water, composite pigment, one or more rheology additive, one or more wetting agent, one or more water-soluble resin, pH adjuster and one or more biocide. The composite pigment is a compound of polymer resin and colored pigment at a weight ratio from 10/90 to 97/3.
US10689531B2
A coating composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of submicron natural ground calcium carbonate particles contained in a liquid binder, wherein the resultant coating may constitute either a clear coat or a glossing and opacifying coating, depending upon the presence of certain additives such as a mineral pigment (e.g., TiO2). The composition is characterised in that comprises, in the case of a clear coating, at least one ground natural calcium carbonate having a median diameter of between 0.05 and 0.15 μm, while in the case of a glossing and opacifying coating, at least one ground natural calcium carbonate having a median diameter of between 0.05 and 0.3 μm and at least one pigment having a refractive index of greater than or equal to 2.5.
US10689510B2
Provided are a nanoparticle-polymer fluorescent composite and a method of preparing the same. The method includes preparing magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles, mixing the magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles, an organic polymer having an aliphatic carbon chain, and a solvent for dissolving the organic polymer to prepare a preliminary composite and drying the preliminary composite to form a nanoparticle polymer composite, and irradiating a pulse laser to the nanoparticle polymer composite to change the magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles to Wustite nanoparticles and providing conjugated polymer characteristics to the organic polymer.
US10689496B2
The resin composition according to the present invention is a resin composition including a cyanate compound (A) and/or a maleimide compound (B), and an inorganic filler (C), wherein the inorganic filler (C) includes a boron nitride particle aggregate including primary hexagonal boron nitride particles, wherein (0001) planes of the primary hexagonal boron nitride particles are stacked on top of each other to thereby form the boron nitride particle aggregate.
US10689490B2
Organopolysiloxanes having an OH content of 3.0-10.0% by weight are produced in a continuous process in which silanes of the formula I R1mSiR2nXo (I), in which R1 is a C1-C18-hydrocarbon radical and R2 is a C1-C6-alkoxy radical and X is a chlorine or bromine radical m is 1, 2 or 3, n is 0, 1, 2 or 3 and o is 0, 1, 2 or 3, with the proviso that 4−m=n+o, and that in at least 30 mol % of the silanes of the general formula I, n≠0 und o≠0,water, and water-insoluble non-polar solvent are metered in continuously into a reactor to form a reaction mixture and the reaction mixture is continuously discharged from the reactor.
US10689489B2
The present disclosure relates to a polyimide-based block copolymer and a polyimide-based film including the same. The polyimide-based block copolymer according to the present disclosure makes it possible to provide a polyimide-based film exhibiting excellent mechanical properties while being colorless and transparent. The polyimide-based film may be used as a cover film of various flexible or foldable devices.
US10689484B2
In one or more embodiments, the present invention provides a method of forming compact, flexible, stable and biocompatible conducting polymer coating for bioelectronics devices. In one or more embodiments, the present invention relates to a novel method of synthesizing a sulfobetaine-functionalized conjugated polymer platform using 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) as the conducting backbone (SBEDOT). This SBEDOT monomer is highly water-soluble and can be directly polymerized to form a densely packed film/coating on conductive or semi-conductive surfaces through electro-polymerization in a 100% aqueous solution without the need for organic solvents or surfactants. These polySBEDOT (PSBEDOT) coated surfaces have been shown to have electro-switchable antimicrobial/antifouling properties and excellent electrically conducting properties, which minimize infection, increase biocompatibility, and improve the performance of bioelectronics.
US10689481B2
A polyisocyanate composition contains a modified product of xylylene diisocyanate and a modified product of pentamethylene diisocyanate, and/or a modified product of the xylylene diisocyanate and the pentamethylene diisocyanate. The ratio of the pentamethylene diisocyanate with respect to the total amount of the xylylene diisocyanate and the pentamethylene diisocyanate is 60 mol % or more and 95 mol % or less.
US10689472B2
The present invention pertains to a process for the manufacture of a crosslinkable fluoropolymer, to said crosslinkable fluoropolymer and the crosslinked fluoropolymer obtainable therefrom, to a film comprising said crosslinkable fluoropolymer or said crosslinked fluoropolymer and to uses of said crosslinked fluoropolymer film in various applications.
US10689462B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to polyrotaxanes comprising a poloxamer core and at least one cyclodextrin and methods for treating Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) and imaging (e.g., MRI) using the polyrotaxanes various embodiments of the present invention.
US10689459B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical combination which comprises (a) a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitor or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and (b) a Her3 antagonist, for simultaneous, separate or sequential administration for the treatment of breast cancer brain metastases; a method of treating a subject having a breast cancer brain metastases comprising administration of said combination to a subject in need thereof; use of such combination for the treatment of breast cancer brain metastases; and a commercial package comprising such combination.
US10689457B2
The present invention concerns treatment of previously untreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer with a combination of a growth inhibitory HER2 antibody, a HER2 dimerization inhibitor antibody and a taxane. In particular, the invention concerns the treatment of HER2-positiv metastatic breast cancer in patients who did not receive prior chemotherapy or biologic therapy with a HER2 antibody binding essentially to epitope 2C4, a HER2 antibody binding essentially to epitope 4D5, and a taxane. The invention further comprises extending survival of such patients by the combination therapy of the present invention. In a preferred embodiment, the treatment involves administration of trastuzumab, pertuzumab and docetaxel.
US10689443B2
This invention relates to humanized antibodies that selectively bind the 31.1 epitope on the A33 protein differentially expressed in cancers including, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreas cancer, breast cancer, and colon cancer, and diagnostic and therapeutic usages.
US10689442B2
This invention provides monoclonal antibodies that recognize one or more Frizzled receptors. The invention further provides methods of using such monoclonal antibodies as a therapeutic, diagnostic, and prophylactic.
US10689430B2
Insulin dimers and insulin analog dimers that act as partial agonists at the insulin receptor are disclosed.
US10689429B2
The invention relates to a derivative of a GLP-1 peptide, which peptide comprises a first Lys residue at a position corresponding to position 36 of GLP-1(7-37) (SEQ ID NO: 1), a second Lys residue at a position corresponding to position 37 of GLP-1(7-37) (SEQ ID NO: 1), and a maximum of seven amino acid changes as compared to GLP-1(7-37) (SEQ ID NO: 1); which derivative comprises two protractors attached to said first and second Lys residue, respectively, each via a linker; wherein the protractor is selected from: HOOC—C6H4—O—(CH2)y—CO—*, and Chem. 1: HOOC—(CH2)x—CO—*, Chem. 2: wherein y is an integer in the range of 8-11, and x is 12; and the linker comprises at least one of: *—NH—CH(COOH)—(CH2)2—CO—*, Chem. 3: *—NH—CH((CH2)2—COOH)—CO—*, and/or Chem. 4: *—NH—(CH2)2—[O—(CH2)2]k—O—[CH2]n—CO—*, Chem. 5: wherein k is an integer in the range of 1-5, and n is an integer in the range of 1-5; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, amide, or ester thereof. The invention also relates to the pharmaceutical uses thereof, such as for the treatment of diabetes and obesity, as well as to the GLP-1 peptides forming part of these derivatives which have Lys residues at positions 36 and 37 and no other Lys residues, and the GLP-1(9-37) fragments thereof. The invention furthermore relates to an intermediate product comprising 3-carboxyphenoxy-nonanoic acid with a protection group at the carboxy group of the nonanoic acid, optionally via a linker. The derivatives have a very good potency and a long half-life which makes them potentially useful for, e.g., oral administration.
US10689428B2
We describe an ELABELA polypeptide comprising a sequence CXXXRCXXXHSRVPFP (SEQ ID NO: 1), in which X signifies an amino acid residue, such as a sequence selected from the group consisting of: SEQ ID NO: 2 to SEQ ID NO: 18, preferably CLQRRCMPLHSRVPFP (SEQ ID NO: 2), or a fragment, homologue, variant or derivative thereof, which polypeptide is capable of maintaining self-renewal and/or pluripotency of a stem cell.
US10689419B2
Processes for preparing compounds of Formula (1) and Formula (2) are described, wherein X, Y, Z, R1-R7, L and n are defined herein. Intermediates useful in the preparation of the compounds of Formula (1) and Formula (2) are also described.
US10689396B2
The present disclosure is directed to compounds of formula I′ and methods of their use and preparation, as well as compositions comprising compounds of formula I′.
US10689387B2
A crystalline form of (1R,2R)-2-[4-(3-Methyl-1H-pyrazol-5-yl)benzoyl]-N-(4-oxo-4,5,6,7-tetrahydropyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrazin-3-yl)cyclohexanecarboxamide, pharmaceutical compositions containing it and its use in the prevention or treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
US10689383B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula I, which are active toward nuclear receptors such as nuclear retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptors (RORs), pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of Formula I, and methods of treating inflammatory, metabolic, oncologic and autoimmune diseases or disorders using the of the compounds Formula I in therapy.
US10689374B1
Pyrimidine-thiazolidinone derivatives may be used for preventing or treating diseases in humans or animals, and have demonstrated efficacy specifically in treating type-2 diabetes. Methods of synthesizing the pyrimidine-thiazolidinone derivatives, described herein, can provide high yields in a short time and with high purity. The pyrimidine-thiazolidinone derivatives demonstrate improved hypoglycemic activity compared to most anti-diabetic drugs currently available.
US10689366B2
Provided herein are bifunctional compounds that inhibit MALT1 and/or promote targeted ubiquitination for the degradation of MALT1. In particular, provided are compounds that can bind MALT1, a protein whose activity is responsible for constitutive NF-KB signaling in certain cancers (e.g., activated B-cell diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (ABC-DLBCL)), and can assist in its degradation by recruiting an E3 ubiquitin ligase (e.g., Cereblon, VHL), which can ubiquitinate MALT1, marking it for proteasome degradation. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the bifunctional compounds, methods of treating cancer with the bifunctional compounds, methods of promoting the degradation of MALT1, and methods of binding E3 ubiquitin ligase activity in a subject by administering a compound or composition described herein.
US10689357B2
Disclosed herein are compounds represented by Structural Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Values for the variables in Structural Formula I are described herein. The compounds can be used to modulate (e.g., inhibit) N-acylethanolamine hydrolyzing acid amidase (NAAA) and thereby treat a variety of diseases, disorders and conditions mediated by NAAA, such as a gastrointestinal motility disorder, irritable bowel syndrome, an inflammatory bowel disorder, neuroinflammation, nicotine addiction, cancer, opioid dependence, analgesia, chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain and pain. Also disclosed herein are compositions and methods including compounds of Structural Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US10689353B2
This invention relates to a method for the manufacture of optically pure (S)-6-chloro-(cyclopropylethynyl)-1,4-dihydro-4-(trifluoromethyl)-2H-3,1-benzoxazin-2-one. Specifically, this invention relates to a flow synthesis method for the manufacture of (S)-6-chloro-(cyclopropylethynyl)-1,4-dihydro-4-(trifluoromethyl)-2H-3,1-benzoxazin-2-one.
US10689350B1
The invention discloses a method for preparation of 4,6-dichloro-5-nitro-2-(propylthio)pyrimidine by conversion of 5-nitro-2-propylthiopyrimidine-4,6-diol with phosgene in the presence of DMF.
US10689347B2
The present invention provides substituted heterocyclylderivatives of formula (I), which are therapeutically useful, particularly as selective transcriptional CDK inhibitors including CDK7, CDK9, CDK12, CDK13 and CDK18, more particularly transcriptional CDK7 inhibitors. These compounds are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases and/or disorders associated with selective transcriptional CDKs in a mammal. The present invention also provides preparation of the compounds and pharmaceutical formulations comprising at least one of the substituted heterocyclyl derivatives of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a stereoisomer thereof.
US10689343B2
The invention relates to a compound of Formula I: Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable enantiomers, or salts thereof. The present invention also relates to the use of compounds of Formula (I) as selective inhibitors of tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase. The invention also relates to the use of the compounds of Formula (I) for the treatment or prevention of cancer and central nervous system disease or disorder, either as a single agent or in combination with other therapies.
US10689338B2
Novel amisulpride derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are disclosed. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may have better membrane permeability compared to amisulpride. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may be used for antagonizing dopamine and/or serotonin (e.g., 5-HT2a) and/or α2 receptor in a subject, either individually or in combination with other CNS active agents. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may be used for treating one or more conditions responsive to modulation of dopamine and/or serotonin (e.g., 5-HT2a) and/or α2 receptor in a subject, either individually or in combination with other CNS active agents. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may be used for treating one or more disorders associated with an abnormality in levels of dopamine and/or serotonin in the brain, either individually or in combination with other CNS active agents.
US10689337B2
Powder formulation comprising 20-75 wt % of di(4-tert-butylcyclohexyl) peroxydicarbonate and 25-80 wt % of ethylene glycol dibenzoate.
US10689333B1
A process comprising reacting, in a reactor having a fixed bed containing a solid catalyst which contains a zeolite, hydrogen sulfide and an oxirane in the presence of the solid catalyst to yield a reaction product with contains a mercapto-alcohol. A reactor system includes the reactor, an oxirane feed stream, a hydrogen sulfide feed stream, a fixed bed containing the solid catalyst placed inside the reactor, and an effluent stream containing the reaction product. The hydrogen sulfide and the oxirane are present in a mole ratio in a range of about 5:1 to 50:1.
US10689330B2
The present invention relates to the discovery of new class of hydrolysable amino acid derivatives and absorbable polyester amides, polyamides, polyepoxides, polyureas and polyurethanes prepared therefrom. The resultant absorbable polymers are useful for drug delivery, tissue engineering, tissue adhesives, adhesion prevention, bone wax formulations, medical device coatings, stents, stent coatings, highly porous foams, reticulated foams, wound care, cardiovascular applications, orthopedic devices, surface modifying agents and other implantable medical devices. In addition, these absorbable polymers should have a controlled degradation profile.
US10689329B2
The present invention provides tertiary amine core-bearing acrylamides and their use in adhesive formulations, particularly including dental adhesives.
US10689324B2
Metabolism-resistant fenfluramine analogs are provided. The subject fenfluramine analogs find use in the treatment of a variety of diseases. For example, methods of treating epilepsy by administering a fenfluramine analog to a subject in need thereof are provided. Also provided are methods of suppressing appetite in a subject in need thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions for use in practicing the subject methods are also provided.
US10689323B2
The invention relates to a method for the preparation of di- and polyamines of the diphenylmethane series, care being taken during the shutdown of the production process that an excess of aniline and respect to formalin is ensured.
US10689318B2
Provided are a bisphenol represented by the general formula (1), a method for producing the bisphenol, and a polyarylate resin, a (meth)acrylate compound and an epoxy resin which are derived from the bisphenol. In the formula (1), R1 to R4 are the same or different, and each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group or a halogen atom, n1 and n2 are the same or different, and each represent an integer of 1 to 4, and k1 to k4 are the same or different, and each represent 0 or an integer of 1 to 4. When at least one of k1 to k4 is 2 or more, corresponding R1 to R4 may be the same or different.
US10689312B2
Disclosed are processes, systems, and reaction systems for the oligomerization of ethylene to form an oligomer product in a reaction zone using a catalyst system having i) a chromium component comprising an N2-phosphinyl amidine chromium compound complex, an N2-phosphinyl formamidine chromium compound complex, an N2-phosphinyl guanidine chromium compound complex, or any combination thereof, and ii) an aluminoxane. Ethylene can be contacted with an organic reaction medium to form an ethylene feedstock mixture prior to contact with the catalyst system. The ethylene feedstock mixture can be contacted with the catalyst system inside or outside of the reaction zone.
US10689305B2
A carbon/carbon brake disk is provided. The carbon/carbon brake disk may comprise a carbon fiber, wherein the carbon fiber is formed into a fibrous network, wherein the fibrous network comprises carbon deposited therein. The carbon fiber may undergo a FHT process, wherein micro-cracks are disposed in the carbon fiber. In various embodiments, the micro-cracks may be at least partially filled with un-heat-treated carbon via a final CVD process, wherein the final CVD process is performed at a temperature in the range of up to about 1,000° C. (1,832° F.) for a duration in the range from about 20 hours to about 100 hours. In various embodiments, the un-heat-treated carbon may be configured to prevent oxygen, moisture, and/or oxidation protection systems (OPS) chemicals from penetrating the carbon/carbon brake disk. In various embodiments, the final CVI/CVD process may be configured to increase the wear life of the carbon/carbon brake disk.
US10689303B2
The present invention relates to admixtures, especially a dispersant for solid particles, in particular a dispersant for mineral binder compositions, comprising: a) a superplasticizer and b) a copolymer having a polymer backbone and side chains bonded thereto, comprising at least one ionizable monomer unit M1 and at least one side chain-bearing monomer unit M2, wherein the copolymer has a nonrandom distribution of the monomer units M1 and/or the monomer units M2 in a direction along the polymer backbone, and wherein the superplasticizer and the copolymer differ from a chemical and/or structural point of view.
US10689300B2
A ceramic bonded body of the disclosure includes a first silicon carbide ceramics, a second silicon carbide ceramics, and a bonding layer positioned between the first silicon carbide ceramics and the second silicon carbide ceramics. The bonding layer contains 25 mass % or more metallic silicon, and 25 mass % or more silicon carbide assuming all components constituting the bonding layer as 100 mass %, and a total of the metallic silicon and the silicon carbide is 75 mass % or more, and the bonding layer further contains at least one of nickel silicide and chromium silicide.
US10689297B2
The present invention relates to new multiferroic materials. More particularly, the present invention relates to new multiferroic single phase ceramic materials as well as to thin films formed from these materials, methods of preparing these materials and their use as multiferroic materials in electronic components and devices.
US10689294B2
The present invention relates to primer compositions in powder form that comprise a dispersion powder based on an acrylate polymer having a glass transition temperature in the range from −50° C. to +30° C. and cement. The compositions of the invention are notable for good water barrier effect, good dust-binding capacity, and a low tendency toward salt efflorescence. The compositions find use in the priming of masonry, concrete, rendered surfaces, abraded render, plaster surfaces, wall blocks, wood, and ceramic tiles. They can also be used as adhesion promoters with nonabsorbent substrates such as glazed ceramic or glass tiles, metal surfaces, or surfaces of plastic.
US10689287B2
A method for preparing a doped optical fibre preform includes formulating, a rare earth material or a functional metal material and a co-doping agent into a doping solution, mixing a high-purity quartz powder with the doping solution, drying same at a temperature of 100° C.-150° C. for 12-48 hours, crushing and screening the same to obtain a doped quartz powder; depositing the doped quartz powder onto the surface of a target rod to form a doped core layer; replacing the doped quartz powder with the high-purity quartz powder, and depositing the high-purity quartz powder onto the surface of the doped core layer to form a quartz outer cladding; and removing the target rod, and gradually collapsing the entirety formed from the doped core layer and the quartz outer cladding at a high temperature to obtain the doped optical fibre preform.
US10689284B2
The present invention is directed to a method for making infrared transmitting graded index optical elements by selecting at least two different infrared-transmitting materials, each with a different refractive index, having similar thermo-viscous behavior; assembling the infrared-transmitting materials into a stack comprising one or more layers of each infrared-transmitting material resulting in the stack having a graded index profile; and forming the stack into a desired shape. Also disclosed is the related optical element made by this method.
US10689283B2
The Invention discloses a manufacturing process for preventing shards of heat-resistant glassware from scattering, comprising the following steps: manufacturing a heat-resistant glass tube into corresponding product ware; performing annealing to remove stress; performing thermal shock testing; performing mechanical shock testing; performing mechanical spraying, and performing baking for 10 minutes to 30 minutes at 180° C. to 220° C. by using IR or in a baker. After this solution is used, shards of heat-resistant glassware are prevented from scattering.
US10689271B2
The present disclosure relates generally to oxidation of ammonia using electrochemistry. Methods and systems may include at least one sensor to measure the concentration of ammonia in the effluent and/or the concentration of chlorine gas in the effluent. Methods and systems may also include at least one controller in communication with the sensor and/or the anode to reduce the current density of the anode generating the chlorine, and/or to change the flow rate of the ammonia containing water entering the reactor.
US10689270B2
A reverse osmosis system includes a wheel formed of a hollow central hub, radial tubes fluidly connected to the central hub, semi-permeable membranes provided in each radial tube, a permeate outlet tube, and a concentrate outlet tube; a permeate collection tank; a concentrate collection tank; and a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism rotationally drives the wheel while the source liquid is supplied to the central hub of the wheel, the rotation causing the source liquid to enter the radial tubes in radially outward directions and cause pressure increase on the source liquid in the radial tubes. The pressure increase forces the source liquid through the semi-permeable membranes to separate into permeate and concentrate, the permeate being directed to the permeate collection tank through the permeate outlet tube and the concentrate being directed to the concentrate collection tank through the concentrate outlet tube.
US10689262B2
A method for producing a nickel-containing hydroxide is provided that includes a particle growth step of promoting growth of nickel-containing hydroxide particles by neutralization crystallization in an aqueous solution accommodated in an agitation tank. In the particle growth step, an averaged value of the maximum accelerations of the flows of streamlines for the aqueous solution is greater than 600 m/s2.
US10689261B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing sodium sulphate from phosphogypsum, comprising: a step (101) of lixiviation of phosphogypsum by means of a basic solution so as to obtain a sodium sulphate solution (S) containing metal impurities, said basic solution comprising a chelating agent suitable for forming complexes with at least one part of said metal impurities, at least one first step (103, 104) of filtration of the sodium sulphate solution by a nanofiltration membrane (NF1, NF2), so as to form a concentrate (C1, C2) containing said complexes and a permeate (P1, P2), a step (105) of evaporation of the permeate (P1, P2) so as to form anhydrous sodium sulphate.
US10689258B2
A method for making a carbon nanotube array includes providing a substrate having a first substrate surface and a second substrate surface opposite to the first substrate surface. The substrate has a plurality of through holes spaced from each other, and each of the plurality of through holes extends from the first substrate surface to the second substrate surface. A catalyst layer is deposited on the first substrate surface, to form a composite structure. The composite structure is placed in a chamber. The carbon source gas and protective gas are supplied to the chamber, and the composite structure is heated to a first temperature, to grow a carbon nanotube array on the first substrate surface.
US10689254B1
A method and system for abating the emissions of at least sulfur dioxide present in a tail gas emitted from sulfur recovery units are provided. The invention is characterized by the provision of at least two adsorber units in a parallel arrangement. While one adsorber is in an adsorption mode, it receives a gas contaminated w/ sulfur dioxide and adsorbs and removes the sulfur dioxide out of the gas. The other adsorber is in regeneration mode, and receives an acid gas stream comprising hydrogen sulfide as well as an oxygen-containing gas to regenerate the spent adsorbent material and produce an off-gas comprising hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide. This off-gas is then recycled back to the sulfur recovery unit.
US10689251B2
MEMS device, in which a body made of semiconductor material contains a chamber, and a first column inside the chamber. A cap of semiconductor material is attached to the body and forms a first membrane, a first cavity and a first channel. The chamber is closed on the side of the cap. The first membrane, the first cavity, the first channel and the first column form a capacitive pressure sensor structure. The first membrane is arranged between the first cavity and the second face, the first channel extends between the first cavity and the first face or between the first cavity and the second face and the first column extends towards the first membrane and forms, along with the first membrane, plates of a first capacitor element.
US10689244B1
An assistance lever that assists a user when operating a fuel nozzle at a fuel dispenser is disclosed. In one embodiment, the assistance lever includes a fulcrum post, a handle post, a support arm, and a press member. The fulcrum post is positionable on a top ridge of the fuel nozzle. The support arm is connected between the fulcrum post and the handle post such that the handle post is positionable beneath a handle of the fuel nozzle. The press member is attached to the fulcrum post and positioned to turn the assistance lever about the fulcrum post when pressed by the user such that the handle post presses the handle of the fuel nozzle. In this manner, a user can simply use their weight to push on the press member, which thereby presses the handle of the fuel nozzle.
US10689242B2
A pour spout, for attaching to a bottle, has a first wireless transceiver and a valve for selectively controlling flow of a beverage from the bottle. A server interface, adapted to be carried by a person who serves beverages, has a second wireless transceiver. A control unit is provided to wirelessly communicate with the second transceiver. In one mode, the pour spout transmits a spout identifier to the server interface, which responds by transmitting the spout identifier and a server identifier to the control unit. The control unit responds with a reply transmission causing the server interface to command the pour spout to open the valve. In another mode, a person selects a cocktail, that results in the control unit sending designations of a plurality of liquor ingredients to the server interface. The server interface controls dispensing each of the plurality of liquor ingredients.
US10689220B2
A media-sheet stacking system for stacking media sheets on a device output tray comprises a kicker to advance a media sheet along the output tray by pushing a trailing edge of the media sheet as it exits the device, and a movable element arranged to face the output tray across a space that receives media sheets exiting the device. A drive mechanism is provided to drive the movable element in the direction of advance of the media sheet along the output tray.
US10689217B2
An inclination of an outer circumferential surface of a film roll with respect to a widthwise axis is restricted. The roll includes: an outer cylinder part having a material thickness that is smaller toward a negative side of a y-axis than it is toward a positive side of the y-axis; and a slit separator which is wound around an outer circumferential surface of the outer cylinder part and which has a thickness that is larger toward the negative side of the y-axis than it is toward the positive side of the y-axis.
US10689209B2
A noncontact support platform includes pressure ports distributed on a surface of a table, each connected to a pressure source. Vacuum ports are distributed on the surface of the table, each connected to a vacuum source. Outward flow through the pressure ports and inward flow through the vacuum ports form a fluid cushion to support a workpiece at a nonzero distance from the table. A plurality of channels each connect at least two of the vacuum ports to enable flow of fluid between the connected vacuum ports. When one of the connected vacuum ports is covered by an edge of the workpiece and the other is not, a suction force that is exerted by the connected vacuum ports on the edge is weaker than the suction force that is exerted on a part of the workpiece where both of the connected vacuum ports are covered.
US10689205B2
A package accumulating device is disclosed. The device conveys bag packages to a predetermined position while performing an accumulating operation that aligns the packages such that parts of each of the packages lie on top of parts of adjacent packages in a thickness direction. The device includes first and second conveyors, and a control unit. The first conveyor performs the accumulating operation. The second conveyor conveys a group of the packages aligned by the first conveyor. The control unit performs switching between a first state where a downstream end of the first conveyor and an upstream end of the second conveyor oppose each other when the second conveyor accepts the group of the packages from the first conveyor and a second state where a position of the upstream end of the second conveyor is lower than in the first state with respect to the downstream end of the first conveyor.
US10689202B2
A system and an apparatus capable of independently driving movers are described herein. The system and apparatus includes: a track that forms a path for movers; a plurality of movers movably mounted on the track for moving along the path; and a plurality of drive elements fixedly arranged along the track. The drive elements each have a surface that is oriented to contact a driven member of the movers. The drive elements are configured to sequentially engage the driven member of a plurality of the movers to provide controlled independent motion of the movers along the track. The drive elements may be driven by rotary motors. A method of independently driving movers is also described herein.
US10689200B1
In one embodiment, a sortation system at a facility has a conveyor system and a mobile drive unit system. The conveyor system has a conveyor surface that transfers payloads to the mobile drive units, and a controller that communicates a payload identifier for each payload to the mobile drive unit system. The payload identifiers are masked such that information about the local destinations are unknown to the conveyor system. The mobile drive unit system determines the local destinations from the payload identifiers by unmasking the payload identifiers, and delivers the payloads to determined local destinations at the facility.
US10689199B2
A continuous bar conveyor includes a plurality of bars, constrained at their ends by chains having links adapted to be engaged by motorized toothed wheels, so as to move the conveyor along fixed guides, and a plurality of spirals wrapping the bars in pairs, the links of the chains and the spirals limiting the maximum distance between adjacent bars, but also allowing their reciprocal movement, wherein, between adjacent successions of at least two bars wrapped by a spiral, there is at least one bar that is not wrapped by spirals, and to which a sheet of plastic material is constrained, having an elevated resistance to the operating temperature of the conveyor and a smooth, non-stick surface, the sheet resting on the upper surface defined by the spirals and having a dimension in the advancing direction of the conveyor smaller than the distance between successive bars not wrapped by spirals.
US10689198B2
A conveyor apparatus includes an endless conveyor belt wound around outgoing path side guide pulleys in turn along a helical conveyance path in a bent state where the belt is folded in two in a width direction such that an upper edge portion thereof is supported by the outgoing path side guide pulleys, and wound around returning path side guide pulleys in turn along the helical conveyance path in the bent state where the belt is folded in two in the width direction such that the upper edge portion is supported by the returning path side guide pulleys, and folded back at each turning positions of a horizontal conveyance unit located at an upper side and a horizontal conveyance unit located at a lower side of the support frame and being in an expanded state where the belt expanded in the width direction in a vicinity of the turning position.
US10689183B2
Container, including a body having a neck delimiting an opening for the access to a body cavity, and a containment element having at least one deformable side wall located inside the cavity to contain fluid substance, the interior of the containment element sealedly coupled to a collar having a surface resting on the body and a tubular member, extending from the bottom thereof, defining a first passage for the fluid substance in use, an insert housed within the collar, the insert formed of first and second parts, connected by first breakable portion, a shutter sealedly housed, inside the insert, formed of first and second sections, connected by second breakable portion, the second section including a surface, to cooperate, in a sealed manner, with the tubular member when second section is fitted thereon, and a breakable wall which, when broken, permits access to the containment element.
US10689176B2
In an example embodiment, a re-sealable label for covering an opening of a box includes a sheet of polymer material that includes a re-sealable adhesive on an underside thereof. A liner is adhered to the underside of the sheet of polymer material. The liner is configured to cover the opening and includes a foil layer and a paper layer. The sheet of polymer material includes a line of perforations wherein one or more of the perforations of the line of perforations include a rectilinear portion and a non-rectilinear portion.
US10689171B1
The present invention is a container lid to be fitted on a container having materials used for constructions and/or maintenance of a structure and container lid facilitates mixing. Moreover, container lid has at least one mixer hole that is capable for permitting a portion of mixing paddle to pass through. When container lid is positioned over container, mixing paddle is rotated power drill, operated by a user, to mix materials within the container. Also, container lid has openings for permitting material/aid for mixing like water so that material/aid reaches container and enables mixing. Container lid and container are formed from existing material boxes like paintboxes, and hence such mixing is possible at a very low cost.
US10689167B2
In the container, when the cap is capped on the container opening portion, an inner wall surface of a cylindrical sub-fitting wall portion of the cap and an outer wall surface of a large diameter opening portion of the container opening portion closely contact each other, and an outer wall surface of a cylindrical main fitting wall portion of the cap and an inner wall surface of a small diameter opening portion of the container opening portion closely contact each other. In this way, pressing force that is applied to the outer wall surface of the cylindrical main fitting wall portion of the cap from the inner wall surface of the small diameter opening portion of the container opening portion is increased.
US10689164B2
An assembly of a container and a closure. The container has a rim defining an upper sealing surface formed of a heat-sealable material, and an external screw thread extending helically along an outer surface at a location spaced below the rim. The closure includes a screw cap assembled with a separately formed disk inserted in the cap, the closure defining an internal screw thread for attaching the closure to the container when the closure is rotated in a first direction. The disk is constructed of a laminated metal having an upper metal layer and a lower heat-sealable layer affixed to an underside of the metal layer. A heat seal between the heat-sealable layer of the disk and the upper sealing surface of the rim affixes the disk to the rim such that the disk seals closed the open top end of the container.
US10689163B2
The invention relates to a dosing device designed to equip a container including a deformable reservoir containing a product. The device includes an insert that includes a dosing chamber that can be deformed by pressure from the product coming from the reservoir. The dosing chamber includes a top valve for the intake of the product from the reservoir, a bottom valve dispensing the product, and a deformable body connecting the top valve and the bottom valve. The dosing chamber is configured such that, under pressure from the product coming from the reservoir, the top valve is closed by the deformation of a first portion of the chamber, the bottom valve remaining closed, whereupon, the bottom valve opens under the effect of the deformation of the body.
US10689158B2
A package includes a container and a closure cap for mounting on the container. The closure cap is coupled to a neck of the container to block selectively removal of product stored within the container at the selection of a user.
US10689153B2
In one embodiment, a maintainable pallet is provided with interchangeable support structures and sensors for identifying any damage that the interchangeable support structures may experience. The maintainable pallet may include two side supports, two end supports coupled to the two side supports end-to-end to form a rectangle, a central support position between the two side supports, a plurality of top transverse support fastened onto the two side supports to form a top loading surface and the central support with two-part releasable fasteners, and two bottom transverse supports fastened to the ends of the two side supports to form a bottom surface with two-part releasable fasteners. Sensors, in some embodiments, may be embedded in the two side supports to measure, for example, acceleration, location, or other logistic information. When a damaged piece is identified, the maintainable pallet can be disassembled by unfastening the two-part releasable fasteners to remove the damaged piece; and a new interchangeable piece will replace the damaged piece.
US10689147B2
A self folding polygonal impermeable food box and a tool for its forming. The box is made from cardboard coated on its inside with PET film or foil. The box has a bottom, six lateral sides, two lateral sides and eight corner sides which are partially transparent and directed towards the inside of the box. The box is covered by a cover so that the sides of the cover rest on the outer surfaces of the lateral sides and seal the box. There is also a second variant of the box. The tool for forming the box, which is preferably made from stainless steel, has a bottom, six guides and two guides, which form the six lateral sides and the two lateral sides of the box.
US10689140B2
The present disclosure relates to a strapping head of a strapping device for strapping packaged goods with a strap. The strapping head includes an advancing apparatus and tensioning apparatus having at most three rollers for transferring an advancing motion, a retracting motion, and a tensioning motion to the strap. A least one of the wheels is operatively connected to a driving apparatus to cause the at least one of the wheels to rotate about a rotational axis for the advancing, retracting, and tensioning motions. The rollers can be brought in contact with the strap in pairs on both sides of the strap in different combinations with each other.
US10689134B2
Disclosed is a device for controlled separation of a first so-called stationary part and a second so-called mobile part, the stationary part having a stationary connecting surface opposite a mobile connecting surface of the mobile part, the stationary part having a different thermal expansion coefficient from that of the mobile part, the separation device including: at least one connecting agent arranged in a layer between the stationary connecting surface and the mobile connecting surface, at least one device for heating at least one of the stationary part and the mobile part, and at least one system for controlling the heating device.
US10689133B2
Disclosed is a satellite including a cylindrical main body, the main body having an inner wall defining an inner space and an outer wall, and extending along a main axis between a lower end surface and an upper end surface, at least one of the lower end surface and the upper end surface including an interface mechanism intended for engaging with a complementary interface mechanism of another satellite or of a launcher, the satellite also including at least one external device attached to the outer wall of the main body, the outer device extending to project transversely from the outer wall relative to the main axis.
US10689124B2
An Adjustable Offset Mount (AOM) device for engines of a model airplane which includes shim-less components with concave and convex components which are used to easily and accurately correct horizontal and vertical thrust angles.
US10689119B2
A seat system for a passenger aircraft. The seat system includes a passenger seat frame having at least one pair of generally parallel spar tubes laterally positioned across the passenger seat frame and an articulating seat pan assembly. In one embodiment, the articulation seat pan assembly includes at least two pairs of opposed crescent-shaped seat pan roller assemblies attached to the spar tubes and a seat pan adapted to be mounted onto the pairs of opposed seat pan roller assemblies whereby the seat pan articulates along the seat pan rollers from back to front of the passenger seat frame. The seat system may further include a seat back tray table attached to the back of the passenger seat.
US10689116B1
A seat system for a passenger aircraft. The seat system includes at least one passenger seat and a mounting option for electronic devices attached to the passenger seat. The mounting option may include (i) a bracket adapted to be attached to the backrest of the passenger seat; and (ii) a first mount including a tilt assembly attached to the bracket for receiving a first electronic device having a monitor or a knockout blank for a monitor; and (iii) a second mount including a shelf attached to the tilt assembly for receiving a second electronic device having a monitor or a knockout blank for a monitor. The seat system may further include a quick detach mechanism for removing the first electronic device having a monitor from the first mount.
US10689113B2
An example system includes an aerial vehicle, a sensor, and a winch system. The winch system includes a tether disposed on a spool, a motor operable to apply a torque to the tether, and a payload coupling apparatus coupled to the tether and configured to mechanically couple to a payload. The system also includes a repositioning apparatus configured to reposition the payload coupling apparatus in at least a horizontal direction. A control system is configured to control the aerial vehicle to deploy the payload coupling apparatus by unwinding the tether from the spool; receive, while the aerial vehicle hovers above the payload and from the sensor, data indicative of a position of the payload coupling apparatus in relation to the payload; and reposition, using the repositioning apparatus and based on the data, the payload coupling apparatus in the horizontal direction to mechanically couple to the payload.
US10689112B2
An unmanned flying object that flies in the air includes a capturer, including at least one of a net, a sucking device, a stick, a rope or a spear, that captures an object other than the unmanned flying object in the air, a sensor that detects that the capturer has captured the object, and a processor that performs operations including: receiving an operation signal via wireless communication; performing a manual flight control that controls the unmanned flying object on the basis of the operation signal; switching from the manual flight control to an autonomous flight control that controls the unmanned flying object to not be dependent on the operation signal received via the wireless communication, when the sensor detects the capture of the object while the manual flight control is being performed.
US10689103B2
A quick release propeller for model airplanes is disclosed including two or more blades mounted to a hub. For each blade, the hub includes a slot and a shoulder. Each blade includes a base portion having pins which slide into the slot in the hub. The slots are curved which prevents the blades from being removed unless they are rotated at predefined threshold angle with respect to the hub.
US10689100B2
An aircraft landing gear assembly having a main strut and a bogie beam pivotally coupled to the main strut via a coupling assembly. The coupling assembly is arranged to define a bogie beam pivot axis which is spaced from the landing gear assembly. The coupling assembly includes an arcuate handle portion defined by a first one of the bogie beam and the main strut, and an arcuate passage defined by the other one of the bogie beam and main strut. The arcuate handle portion is slidably housed within the arcuate passage, and the arcuate handle portion and the arcuate passage each define a respective centre point, the respective centre points being coaxial to define the bogie beam pivot axis.
US10689097B2
Actuators and methods useful in the operation aircraft flight control surfaces are disclosed. Some of the actuators and methods disclosed may be useful in the operation flight control surfaces when a fault condition such as a jam associated with an actuator is detected. An exemplary electromechanical actuator disclosed comprises: a motor; a first screw configured for translation movement relative to a structure of the aircraft when driven by the motor; a second screw mounted in series with the first screw; and a fuse element coupling the first screw and the second screw together to permit translation movement of the second screw together with the first screw. The fuse element may permit at least partial disengagement of the second screw from the first screw to permit translation of the second screw relative to the first screw. The fuse element may also allow an active flutter damping of the flight control surface. The fuse element may comprise magneto-rheological fluid.
US10689095B2
A rotor unit is disclosed. The rotor unit includes a hub and a stacked rotor blade. The hub is configured to rotate about an axis in a first rotation direction. The stacked rotor blade is rotatable about the axis and further includes a first blade element and a second blade element. The first blade element has a first leading edge and the second blade element has a second leading edge. The blade elements are arranged in a stacked configuration. A leading edge of the stacked rotor blade is formed by at least a portion of the first leading edge of the first blade element as well as at least as portion of the second leading edge of the second blade element. In some embodiments, the rotor unit is coupled to an unmanned aerial vehicle.
US10689093B1
Example variable pitch propulsion mechanisms may include propeller hubs having variable pitch propeller blades. The propeller hubs may include shape memory actuators operatively connected to the propeller blades to change their pitch. In addition, the propeller hubs may include linkage arms to transfer movement from the shape memory actuators to the propeller blades. Further, the propeller hubs may include geared connections to transfer movement from the shape memory actuators to the propeller blades. Moreover, the propeller hubs may include latch mechanisms, similar to retractable pen mechanisms, to transfer movement from the shape memory actuators to the propeller blades and decouple movement of the propeller blades from alignment of the propeller blades.
US10689092B2
Methods and apparatus for reacting rotary actuator and control surface loads into a wing structure using reaction links. The apparatus incorporates a structural interface feature that can facilitate a change of the component(s) in the load loop, such as the path connecting a control surface to a fixed aircraft structure via a rotary actuator. In particular, the structural interface between the rotary actuator and the rear spar of a wing can be tuned for stiffness to achieve an optimized load path that reacts actuator and control surface loads back into the wing structure. An actuator integration objective can be met for any rotary actuator using an integration method which tolerates wing and/or hinge line deflection.
US10689087B2
Methods and structures are disclosed. An example method includes: rotating a tubular mandrel about a longitudinal axis of the tubular mandrel; depositing a composite material on an inner surface of the tubular mandrel to form a composite tubular member on the inner surface of the tubular mandrel; inserting and expanding an inner expandable mandrel within the composite tubular member to cause the inner expandable mandrel to press the composite tubular member against the inner surface of the tubular mandrel; curing the composite tubular member; removing the inner expandable mandrel; placing a frame within the composite tubular member; and removing the tubular mandrel so as to obtain the composite tubular member with the frame placed therein.
US10689086B2
Structures and methods for joining composite fuselage sections and other panel assemblies together are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a shell structure configured in accordance with the present invention includes a first panel portion positioned adjacent to a second panel portion. The first panel portion can include a first stiffener attached to a first composite skin, and the second panel portion can include a second stiffener attached to a second composite skin. The shell structure can further include a fitting extending across a first edge region of the first panel portion and a second edge region of the second panel portion. A first end portion of the fitting can be attached to the first stiffener and the first composite skin, and a second end portion of the fitting can be attached to a second stiffener and a second composite skin, to join the first panel portion to the second panel portion.
US10689082B2
A distributed propulsion system is described that includes at least one turbine engine including an engine shaft and at least one mechanically driven propulsor, wherein a propulsor shaft of the at least one mechanically driven propulsor is not co-axial with the engine shaft of the at least one turbine engine and is driven by the engine shaft of the at least one turbine engine. The distributed propulsion system further includes at least one generator driven by rotation of at least one of the engine shaft of the at least one turbine engine or the propulsor shaft of the at least one mechanically driven propulsor. The distributed propulsion system also includes at least one electrically driven propulsor, wherein a propulsor motor of the at least one electrically driven propulsor drives a propulsor fan of the at least one electrically driven propulsor based on electricity produced by the at least one generator.
US10689081B2
Systems and methods for mounting and controlling a motor on a kayak are disclosed. A motor may be mounted to a kayak by a single interface on the kayak and rotated using foot pegs. The control system provides for responsive input and automatic directional stabilization of the motor.
US10689061B2
A trailing link multi-bar suspension assembly for a cycle having improved stability includes a first arm having a first arm fixed pivot and a first arm shock pivot. A shock link has a shock link fixed pivot and a shock link floating pivot. A shock absorber has a first shock mount and a second shock mount. A wheel carrier has a wheel carrier first pivot and a wheel carrier second pivot spaced apart from one another, and a wheel mount that is adapted to be connected to a wheel. A control link has a control link floating pivot and a control link fixed pivot, the control link floating pivot being pivotably connected to the wheel carrier second pivot, and the control link fixed pivot being pivotably connected to the first arm control pivot.
US10689050B2
A bicycle rack system comprises a main frame configured to be mounted over a rear wheel of a bicycle. The main frame comprises a top platform for accommodating one or more first auxiliary devices, the top platform having a first platform section and a second platform section, at least one of the first and second platform sections configured to accommodate the first auxiliary device, and a lower deck for accommodating one or more second auxiliary devices, the lower deck having a first deck section and a second deck section, at least one of the first and second deck sections configured to accommodate the second auxiliary device.
US10689035B2
A side rail includes base members, and plate members that are different in both plate thickness and material from the base members. The base members have a cutout or an opening, and the plate members are fitted into this cutout or opening and joined to the base members by laser welding.
US10689034B2
A subframe for a motor vehicle is provided with at least two structural elements extending in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle, and with at least one structural element extending in the transverse direction of the motor vehicle, a plurality of first bearing elements for connecting the subframe to a chassis of the motor vehicle, and at least two second bearing elements for connecting an assembly to the subframe. At least one of the first bearing elements and at least one of the second bearing elements are arranged at a common bearing console, which is attached to the at least one structural element extending in the transverse direction of the motor vehicle.
US10689029B2
A high clearance sprayer with a four-wheel steering system includes a steering input, a steering control system, a front steering system, and a rear steering system. The front and rear steering systems are mirrored images of one another, which simplifies and improves the accuracy of the four-wheel steering control methodology. In doing so, the control system may calculate a single value that is used for controlling the front steering system, and an inverse of the single value that is used for controlling the rear steering system. Both of the front steering system and the rear steering system include wheels, steering actuator systems, swingarms, and wheel supports, which all of position of the wheels relative to the sprayer to be rotated. The steering control system may allow for various steering maneuvers to occur, including a turn-steering maneuver and a crab-steering maneuver.
US10689022B2
A steering wheel grip detection device includes a positive electrode terminal electrically connected to a positive electrode of a power source and a negative electrode terminal electrically connected to a negative electrode of the power source. The steering wheel grip detection device further includes a thermostat, a heater, and an inductance element that are electrically connected with one another in this order in series wiring from the positive electrode terminal to the negative electrode terminal, as well as a capacitor through which a wiring path from the thermostat to the heater is electrically connected with the negative electrode terminal. The steering wheel grip detection device has an electrostatic sensor circuit that is electrically connected with a wiring path from the inductance element to the heater and that detects a grip on a steering wheel by a capacitance value of the heater.
US10689020B2
A docking station to be fastened in a motor vehicle is provided to receive a stroller, such as for example a baby carriage. A stroller, which is compatible with the docking station, is additionally provided. The docking station includes an electrical connection, and the stroller is able to be connected, via the electrical connection, to an on-board power supply of the motor vehicle. The docking station is configured to provide the motor vehicle with information about a mounting status and/or docking status.
US10689014B2
A locomotive control system includes an operation manager controller electrically coupled to an operator controller of a locomotive and to a local vehicle control system of the locomotive. The operation manager controller receives an operator command from the operator controller and can regulate the operator command to control operation of the locomotive.
US10689008B2
A method is provided for assisting a driver of a single-track motor vehicle during a drive in order to drive through a bend safely. In the method, at least one current driving state variable and driver-specific driving dynamics variables are compared with an approaching driving situation and, if a danger threshold value is reached or exceeded, a warning signal is output. The current speed of the motor vehicle is sensed by a speed sensor and transmitted to a computer—and memory unit as the current driving state variable. Both previously reached inclined positions of the single-track motor vehicle and previously reached brake pressures and/or brake pressure gradients are stored by the computer-and-memory unit as the driver-specific driving dynamics variables. In order to evaluate the approaching driving situation, a bend radius of a curve to be driven through next is determined via a navigation unit and is transmitted to the computer—and memory unit.
US10689004B1
A system detects a parameter and generates a first trip plan to automatically control the vehicle according to a first trip plan. A controller is connected to a sensor and configured to receive the parameter. The controller is configured to generate a new trip plan or modify the first trip plan into a modified trip plan based on at least one of a cumulative damage or an end of life. A new trip plan or the modified trip plan is configured, during operation of the vehicle according to the new trip plan or the modified trip plan, for at least one of an adjustment in velocity or avoiding one or more operating conditions of the vehicle, relative to the first trip plan.
US10688996B2
The disclosure relates to a method and system to operate a motor vehicle with a congestion assistant. The congestion assistant enters sensor data, which serves as input data of the congestion assistant. The sensor data is evaluated, via an evaluation unit, in order to define a value representing a signal roughness of the sensor data. The value is compared, via a comparison unit, with a threshold value. A suppression signal is generated, via a signal detection unit, to prevent automatic activation of the congestion assistant if the value is greater than the threshold value.
US10688984B2
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing temperature sensors of a vehicle. In one example, a method may include, at a duration after an engine-off event, determining that an intake air temperature measured by an intake air temperature sensor of the vehicle is less than an ambient air temperature measured by an ambient air temperature sensor of the vehicle. In response to the determining, the method may include flowing air from a catalyst across the intake air temperature sensor; and indicating the intake air temperature sensor is functional responsive to the intake air temperature converging to the ambient air temperature during the flowing.
US10688975B2
The present application generally relates to a method and apparatus for application of a park hold assist system in a motor vehicle. In particular, the system is operative to receive an activation signal and to determine that the vehicle is in a park hold assist condition, such as inclined road surface, attached trailer or wheel rotation while transmission is in the park position. The system is operative to apply the hydraulic brakes in response to this condition thereby engaging a brake mechanism on all wheels.
US10688973B2
A parking brake emulator assembly for a vehicle is provided. The emulator assembly includes a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket includes a front spring mounting flange with a spring mounting hole. The emulator assembly further includes a brake lever, a spring guiding rod, a spring, and a rear spring holder. The brake lever is rotatable relative to the mounting bracket into a neutral position and a brake application position. The spring guiding rod is coupled to the brake lever via a pinned connection, and extends through the spring and the rear spring holder. Rotation of the brake lever from the neutral position to the brake application position moves the pinned connection to thereby move the spring guiding rod and the rear spring holder towards the front spring mounting flange, thereby compressing the spring.
US10688956B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a hollow weave airbag wherein gas leakage from cut surfaces of a hollow weave airbag formed by lamination can be suppressed and internal pressure retention can be improved. Provided is a hollow weave airbag that is formed in an expandable bag shape by weaving at least two pieces of fabric, wherein: the hollow weave airbag includes an outer peripheral joining part positioned on the outer periphery of an expanding part, and an outer edge part extending to the outside of the outer peripheral joining part; at least part of the outer peripheral joining part and/or the outer edge part is provided with a twill-like structure area formed from a single weave structure; the twill-like structure area is configured such that when a continuous connection line is formed by tying peak crossover points or valley crossover points in any of the up, down, left, and right directions in a minimum unit mapping for weave structure mapping, the connection line can extend diagonally in the weave structure mapping when viewed as a whole; and the outer surface of the hollow weave airbag is formed by lamination.
US10688950B2
When an object detected by a sensor (20L, 20R) is not an unnecessary object and the object's collision probability index satisfies the predetermined condition, a pre-collision control ECU 10 performs a pre-collision control to prepare for a collision between an own vehicle and this object. The pre-collision control ECU determines that the object is the unnecessary object, when an initially detected location which is a location of the object in relation to the own vehicle when the sensor initially detected the object is in an unnecessary object area NA, and a velocity index value which represents a degree of a velocity change of an initial detected object whose the initially detected location is in the unnecessary object area does not fall within a predetermined range.
US10688947B2
A vehicle power distribution module may include a panel having a plurality of input terminals, a first plurality of output terminals, and a second plurality of output terminals. The first plurality of input terminals may be connected to a first power supply having a first voltage and to a second power supply having a second voltage and wherein the first voltage may be different than the second voltage.
US10688937B2
A ladder latching device for a rear deploy, tilting type ladder lack that automatically extends and retracts a latch pin as ladders are loaded onto and removed from the roof of a work vehicle. The latching device has an L-shaped lever with a spring biased first leg supporting a latch pin and a second leg with a roller for cooperating with a rail of the rack's stationary bed. The latch pin is made to extend through apertures in a stop post and over a rung of the ladder to trap it only when the roller remains in contact with the stationary rail. During tilting of the load support member, the latch pin retracts.
US10688936B2
A roof rail (20) is adapted to be attached to the roof (21) of a vehicle, to allow items to be carried on the roof via a crossbar (22) clamped thereto. The roof rail (20) includes a trim attachment portion (23), to which a trim (24) formed of brightware or the like can be attached. The trim attachment portion (23) extends between a top wall and a projecting portion of an outboard sidewall of the rail (20).
US10688933B2
A side step assembly includes a side bar configured to be coupled to a vehicle and a step. The step is configured to interlock with the side bar such that the step can selectively translate along the side bar while remaining coupled thereto.
US10688914B1
Provided is to a vehicle lamp capable of displaying images with various colors or shapes. The vehicle lamp includes an image display for displaying an image formed by a plurality of image forming units, each of the plurality of image forming units including a light source unit and a light guide for emitting light incident from the light source unit; and a controller configured to generate an image at least one of the plurality of image forming units. In particular, the plurality of image forming units comprises a first image forming unit comprising a first light source unit and a first light guide; and a second image forming unit comprising a second light source unit and a second light guide. The light emitted from the first light guide is transmitted through the second light guide and emitted.
US10688913B2
A visibility evaluation unit of a light intensity adjustment apparatus calculates, for a detected object ahead of a moving body detected by a non-visible light sensor such as a laser range sensor, a visibility evaluation value resulting from evaluation of visibility, based on image data obtained by a visible light sensor such as a camera. A light intensity adjustment unit of the light intensity adjustment apparatus adjusts the light intensity of headlights for illuminating an area in which the detected object is present in accordance with the calculated visibility evaluation value.
US10688909B2
A tie-down management system that is used to manipulate a tie-down strap through and around complex cargo. Pockets are sewn onto the strap proximate each end. A hand tool is provided having a handle and a shaft. The shaft terminates with a hook that is shaped and sized to selectively engage the opposing pockets on the flexible strap. When the hook is engaged with a pocket on the flexible strap, the flexible strap and the hand tool become mechanically interconnected. The hand tool can then be used to manipulate the flexible strap around and through complex pathways. The reach of the hand tool can also be extended by connecting the hand tool to an extension pole. By using the tie-down management system, the amount of climbing, bending and stretching required to secure a complex load is reduced.
US10688898B2
Disclosed herein is a position-adjustable cervical vertebrae support apparatus. The cervical vertebrae support apparatus includes: a cervical vertebrae supporting member (50) which supports the cervical vertebrae of a driver; a front-back distance adjusting unit (60) in which a mounting plate (68) is brought into close contact with and fastened to the back of the cervical vertebrae supporting member (50), a left-handed screw rod (61) and a right-handed screw rod (62) are located at a distance from the back of the mounting plate (68), movable nuts (63 and 64) are disposed around the left-handed screw rod (61) and the right-handed screw rod (62), respectively, distance adjustment rods (74) are coupled to the movable nuts (63 and 64), is also coupled to both sides hinges (76) in a crossed manner and is rotatable around a central pin (72); and an up-down distance adjusting unit (80).
US10688893B2
A stowable seat for an aircraft may comprise a housing and a backrest support configured to rotate relative to the housing. A locking mechanism comprising a first latch may be coupled to the backrest support. A releasing member may be in operable communication with the first latch. The releasing member may be configured to rotate the first latch relative to the backrest support. The releasing member may be located behind a cushion coupled to the backrest support.
US10688888B2
A track adjuster includes a pair of tracks, a lockset configured to selectively restrict movement of the pair of tracks, a first lever configured to actuate an actuator of the lockset, a second lever configured to actuate the first lever, and a spring configured to apply a first biasing force to the first lever in a first rotational direction and apply a second biasing force to the first lever in a second rotational direction. The spring may be a torsion spring that may be wrapped at least partially around a cross member connecting the pair of tracks with a second pair of tracks.
US10688885B2
A vehicle includes a controller programmed to identify a seating position in the vehicle corresponding to each of a plurality of nomadic devices in communication with the vehicle. The controller is configured to receive at least one seating profile from each of the nomadic devices and adjust seating parameters for each of the seating positions according to the seating profile received from the corresponding nomadic device.
US10688877B2
A method for operating a brake system for a motor vehicle, wherein the brake system comprises an eddy current brake mechanically coupled to at least one wheel of the motor vehicle for providing a braking force acting on the wheel, wherein an electric machine is mechanically coupled or can be coupled to the wheel and is electrically connected to the eddy current brake. In this case, it is provided that, in an emergency braking mode for braking the wheel, the eddy current brake is supplied in parallel with energy provided by means of the electric machine operating as a generator and with electrical energy taken from an energy accumulator. The disclosure furthermore relates to a brake system for a motor vehicle.
US10688871B2
A regenerative braking control apparatus equipped on an electrically driven vehicle having road wheels and an electric motor for driving the road wheels for running. An operation unit is provided for the driver of the vehicle to select a magnitude of the braking force to be generated by the electric motor during regenerative braking. A determination unit determines, on the basis of conditions of the electrically driven vehicle, whether or not a selected braking force selected through the operation unit is acceptable. A notifier unit is constructed such that, in a case where the selected braking force is determined to be unacceptable by the determination unit, the notifier unit provides a corresponding notification to the driver.
US10688863B2
A portable removable air-cooling accessory device for an air cooled engine, in a piston and/or light aircraft, and a method of using the air-cooling accessory to cool the engine of the light aircraft are described. The portable removable air-cooling accessory device includes at least a fan assembly, a housing having an enclosure forming and airflow channel, a rechargeable battery, and electrical components for controlling and monitoring the portable removable air-cooling accessory device is placed on the opening of the oil access door or the engines air cooling inlets to provide cooling airflow over the engine when a hot start scenario is anticipated.
US10688860B2
The invention relates to a motorised vehicle (10) comprising (i) an electric motor (130) situated in an engine compartment (11), the said electric motor (130) being designed to propel the vehicle (10), (ii) a cabin (12) of the vehicle (10), separated from the engine compartment (11) by a dividing wall (70), (iii) an energy storage device (23) configured to supply electrical power to the electric motor (130), (iv) a power module (110) designed to shape at least one electric power signal configured to power the electric motor (130), the said power module (110) being situated between the electric motor (130) and the cabin (12).
US10688857B2
A vehicle body structure includes a battery pack provided below a floor panel, a floor tunnel provided on the floor panel and protruding upward, and a reinforcement member fixed to a lower surface of the floor panel below an apex section of the floor tunnel and extending in a vehicle width direction, wherein a routing member is provided between the reinforcement member and the floor tunnel.
US10688854B2
A vehicle includes an integrated floor and traction battery support assembly. The assembly includes a floor panel and cross-members each having an upper portion attached to a lower surface of the floor panel and extending laterally across the floor panel. The assembly further includes a battery tray attached to lower portions of the cross-members and cooperating with the lower surface to define a battery-pack enclosure. A battery pack is disposed in the enclosure.
US10688853B2
An enclosure system for open-top vehicles is described. The enclosure system may include a top system coupleable with an open-top vehicle, the top system forming a top surface among a rear gate of the open-top vehicle, a first side of the open-top vehicle, a second side of the open-top vehicle, and a wall system, the top system, the wall system, the first side, the second side, and the rear gate of the open top-vehicle forming an enclosure. In some implementations, the top system may include top frame members, rigid surfaces, and a removable top panel. The wall system may be coupled with the top system and include a rigid wall extending between the top system and a floor of the open-top vehicle, the wall system separating the enclosure from a passenger area of the open-top vehicle.
US10688852B2
A canister comprising: (a) a space configured to receive a tonneau cover so that the tonneau cover is stored within the canister; and (b) one or more track guides that guide the canister relative to a roller track, a bed of a vehicle, a rail extension, a cap, or a combination thereof; and wherein the one or more track guides assist the canister in being inserted into or removed from the bed of the vehicle.
US10688843B2
A torsion beam of a vehicle torsion beam suspension has a closed cross section. A beam center portion has an inverse substantially v-shaped cross section or a substantially v-shaped cross section. Circumference increasing portions having a longer circumferential length toward the beam ends are disposed at opposite sides of the beam center portion. Each circumference increasing portion has a beam width that is a width in the fore and aft direction of a vehicle body, the beam width gradually increasing toward a beam end, and increasing at a higher rate as a position of the beam width is closer to the beam end.
US10688842B2
A leveling valve (101) for discharging and supplying air from and to a plurality of utilization elements (205a,b), in particular pneumatic suspension bellows, includes a valve arrangement (103) for directing air between a source (207) of pressurized air, an exhaust port (3) and the utilization elements (205a,b), and a supply port (1) in fluid communication with the valve arrangement (103) and the source (207) of pressurized air. A check valve (5) is mounted upstream of the valve arrangement (103) and is configured to allow fluid flow from the supply port (1) towards the valve arrangement (103) and to block fluid flow from the valve arrangement (103) through the supply port (1).
US10688841B1
A vehicle having a control system to utilize a movable suspension to increase sensor coverage. The control system can detect an object of interest that is partially, or completely, outside the field of view of one or more sensors on the vehicle. The system can then use the movable suspension to raise one portion of the vehicle and/or lower another portion of the vehicle to bring the object of interest at least partially into the field of view of the sensor, increasing the effective field of view of the sensor. When an object of interest is determined to be significant (e.g., a traffic or street sign), the system can attempt to bring the object of interest into view of the sensor by tilting the vehicle. The system can use different tilt rates and/or tilt angles depending on whether the vehicle is occupied or not.
US10688831B2
Particular embodiments of the invention include a tire tread having a plurality of tread elements including one or more shoulder elements arranged along a first lateral side edge of the tread. The one or more shoulder elements include a recessed terminal side spaced apart from the first lateral side edge, where the recessed terminal side is offset in a direction of the tread width towards the second lateral side edge from a pair of adjacent terminal sides of the one or more shoulder elements. A sipe is arranged in connection with a submerged void within the tread thickness, where the sipe and submerged void extend in a direction of the tread width towards a second lateral side edge from the recessed terminal side such that the sipe and submerged void are recessed from the pair of adjacent terminal sides.
US10688828B2
A reinforcing element includes a single strand of high-modulus textile monofilaments and a single strand of low-modulus textile monofilaments. The strand of high-modulus textile monofilaments and the strand of low-modulus textile monofilaments are wound around each other in a direction D3 with a twist R3. The strand of high-modulus textile monofilaments has a residual twist R1 in a direction D1. The strand of low-modulus textile monofilaments has a residual twist R2 in a direction D2. The residual twists R1 and R2 have a relationship such that: when R2 is substantially non-zero, R1>R2, and when R2 is substantially zero, R1 is substantially non-zero.
US10688822B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining information to be embedded within an identification document. Modifying the information to add depth when viewed through a three-dimensional (3D) viewing device, thereby yielding modified information. Embedding the modified information in a target image to yield a modified target image such that the modified information is not viewable to a naked eye and the modified information is visible with added depth when viewed through a 3D viewing device. Disposing the modified target image on an identification document to yield embedded 3D information. An identification document includes the target image and 3D information embedded within the target image. The 3D information embedded within the target image is not visible to a naked eye, but is visible with added depth when viewed through a 3D viewing device.
US10688817B2
Examples associated with printer configuration are disclosed. One example includes printing, using a printer, a first portion of a test patch in a first print direction. A second portion of the test patch is printed in a second print direction. The second portion is printed at a first offset from the first portion. A first portion of a second test patch is printed in the first print direction, and a second portion of the second test patch is printed in the second print direction at a second offset from the first portion of the second test patch. The printer is configured to print in the second print direction using one of the first offset and the second offset based on a selection between the first test patch and the second test patch.
US10688797B2
The invention relates to an ink cartridge (30) for a CIJ type printer, such a cartridge including at least one volume (14) delimited by a shell, a sealed aperture (16) of the shell, a fluid ink (17) and magnetic means (15) movable with respect to the cartridge shell.
US10688792B2
A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate including an ejection orifice for ejecting liquid, a pressure chamber provided with an energy generating element for generating energy used to eject liquid, a liquid supply path for supplying liquid to the pressure chamber, and a liquid collecting path for collecting liquid from the pressure chamber. The liquid supply path, the pressure chamber, and the liquid collecting path of the recording element substrate constitute a part of a circulation path in which liquid flows in the order mentioned. The flow resistance RIn of a flow path including the liquid supply path at a supply side is greater than the flow resistance ROut of a flow path including the liquid collecting path at a collection side.
