US10779970B2
A fenestrated aortic cuff is configured to be delivered endovascularly to a target region, deployed, fastened, and sealed to a vessel wall, e.g., in a neck region of an aortic aneurysm. Example fenestrated cuffs provide a suitable landing zone for a commercially available endograft, which may be, in some cases, positioned below or above the renal arteries in order to complete exclusion of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) or a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), respectively, from systematic circulation. In some cases, fenestrated cuff function is facilitated and improved by employing active fixation and sealing mechanisms, including, e.g., helical fasteners, which may allow deployment of the fenestrated cuff in short neck regions with limited sealing area.
US10779956B2
An expandable interbody device for implantation within an intervertebral space is provided, together with methods and tools for use therewith. The interbody devices of the present invention include upper and lower bearing members configured to expand via an expansion mechanism configured to allow the insertion of osteoconductive materials and other structures into the interior of the interbody device before and after implantation, and before and after expansion of the interbody device. The insertion tool is configured expand the interbody device and to allow insertion of materials into the interbody device through a protected pathway.
US10779953B2
This disclosure provides vertebral implants, fastening devices for vertebral implants, and implant instrumentation, and various combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the implant comprises a peripheral wall extending according to a vertical axis between upper and lower surfaces of the implant, with each such surface configured to be placed in contact with a vertebral structure, respectively, at the top and the bottom of the vertebral segment replaced by the implant. Some embodiments comprise fastening means, deployment of which anchors the implant in the lower and upper vertebral structures. Some fastening means may be deployed by sliding parallel to the vertical axis of the implant, and may comprise a plate with at least one part remaining in contact with the peripheral wall of the implant when deployed and a pointed end projecting from one of the upper and lower surfaces of the implant to enter a vertebral structures on completion of deployment.
US10779947B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for treating neurovascular venous outflow obstructions, with or without implantation of a prosthetic valve. The valve may be carried by a support, such as a stent, which may be self-expandable or balloon expandable. Both transvascular and direct surgical access is contemplated.
US10779944B2
The invention provides a heart valve leaflet capture device (250) comprising a cardiac catheter probe having a proximal end for manipulating the device (250) and a distal end terminating in a transvalve element (256). The transvalve element (256) is configured to pass through a heart valve generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the catheter and includes two or three leaflet gripping elements (252). The leaflet gripping elements (252) are individually movable by operation of an associated actuating mechanism (260) between a radially retracted position, in which they are withdrawn with respect to the transvalve element (256), and a capture position, in which they diverge outwardly at an acute angle from the transvalve element (256). In the capture position, each leaflet gripping element (252) defines a convergent capture zone that is directed towards the edges of a target valve leaflet and in which the target valve leaflet may be captured.
US10779936B2
Devices and methods for the treatment of heart conditions are provided herein. For example, this document provides devices and methods for treating tricuspid valve regurgitation by percutaneously implanting a prosthetic tricuspid valve.
US10779927B2
A vascular filter device (1) has a support frame (2) and filter elements (4). The filter elements (4) extend from the support frame towards filter element ends forming an on-axis apex (5) at which they are interconnected by a holder (6). The filter elements (4) are biased such that if unconnected the filter element ends are located between the support frame and said central axis when the vascular filter device is unconstrained. The filter element unconnected positions are provided by the filter element shapes and the angles at which they extend from the support frame, and in one example this is achieved by laser cutting tubing and heat setting the material.
US10779921B2
An oral cavity washing device includes a body unit including a pump configured to discharge washing liquid, a tube connected to the body unit and configured to allow the discharged washing liquid to flow through the tube, a washing unit connected to the tube and configured to discharge the washing liquid, a joint portion configured to detachably attach the washing unit to the body unit, a disposing portion provided at the body unit and configured to allow the tube to be disposed at the disposing portion in a state where the washing unit is attached to the body unit, and an elastic member provided at the disposing portion.
US10779913B2
A bendable impression tray includes a base portion and a handle portion. In one embodiment, the bendable impression tray includes a U-shaped portion and at least three projections extending outwardly from the U-shaped portion by at least 5 millimeters in bottom view. In one embodiment, the bendable impression tray includes a base portion that is substantially U-shaped in bottom view, and defines at least two peripheral notches, each extending inwardly from an outer periphery of the base portion by at least 5 millimeters in bottom view.
US10779897B2
A surgical instrument for use with and for selective connection to an instrument drive unit includes an end effector, an instrument drive connector including a plurality of drive assemblies, and a plurality of drive members in mechanical cooperation with the instrument drive connector and the end effector. Each drive assembly of the plurality of drive assemblies includes a drive screw including an elongated threaded body and a drive nut threadedly engaged with the elongated threaded body of the drive screw such that rotation of the drive screw results in longitudinal movement of the drive nut. Each drive member of the plurality of drive members includes a proximal end portion secured to a respective drive nut of one of the plurality of drive assemblies such that longitudinal translation of the respective drive nut causes longitudinal translation of the drive member to drive a function of the end effector.
US10779895B2
A remote workstation for the control of percutaneous intervention devices is provided. The remote workstation includes a control system for remotely and independently controlling at least two percutaneous intervention devices. The control system includes at least one input device to control the percutaneous intervention devices. The control system controls movement of at least one of the percutaneous intervention devices along at least two degrees of freedom. The remote workstation also includes a graphical user interface for displaying icons representative of the operational status of each of the percutaneous intervention devices.
US10779885B2
Systems and methods for delivering microwave energy to skin are provided, such that a focal zone of destructive heat is generated in the upper sub-dermis, mid-dermis, and/or lower dermis. This microwave therapy may be used for hair removal, treatment of acne, skin tightening, treatment of toe nail fungus, or sweat reduction. According to one embodiment, a system can include a microwave applicator having a distal treatment portion that includes at least one microwave antenna, a cooling system, and vacuum features. In some embodiments, the interaction between incident waves transmitted from the microwave applicator and reflected waves may be used to generate a standing wave with a peak energy density in selected regions of the dermis.
US10779883B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for a needle for gaining access to the pericardial cavity of a heart. The needle includes an elongate member (e.g. a main shaft) defining a lumen and a side-port in communication with the lumen; a blunt atraumatic tip for delivering energy for puncturing tissue; and a guiding surface (e.g. a ramp) for directing a device (e.g. a guidewire) through the side-port. The method includes using the needle for tenting a pericardium and delivering energy for puncturing the pericardium, and advancing a guidewire or other device through the needle and into the pericardial cavity.
US10779876B2
A medical instrument is disclosed. The medical instrument includes at least one electrical contact element, a battery, a radio frequency (RF) generation circuit coupled to and operated by the battery and operable to generate an RF drive signal and to provide the RF drive signal to the at least one electrical contact, and a battery discharge circuit coupled to the battery. A processor is coupled to the battery discharge circuit and a memory is coupled to the processor. The memory stores machine executable instructions that when executed cause the processor to monitor activation of the RF generation circuit and disable the RF generation circuit when the RF drive signal is fired a predetermined number of times. The medical instrument may include an activation switch and/or a disposal switch supported by the housing.
US10779875B2
Tumors can be treated with an alternating electric field. The size of cells in the tumor is determined prior to the start of treatment by, for example, biopsy or by inverse electric impedance tomography. A treatment frequency is chosen based on the determined cell size. The cell size can be determined during the course of treatment and the treatment frequency is adjusted to reflect changes in the cell size. A suitable apparatus for this purpose includes a device for measuring the tumor impedance, an AC signal generator with a controllable output frequency, a processor for estimating the size of tumor cells and setting the frequency of the AC signal generator based thereon, and at least one pair of electrodes operatively connected to the AC signal generator such that an alternating electric field is applied to the tumor.
US10779873B2
A device is described for treating a nasal airway by modifying a property of a nasal tissue of or near a nasal valve of the airway, without using a surgical incision or an implant, to decrease airflow resistance or perceived airflow resistance in the nasal airway. Various embodiments include an elongate shaft, a bipolar radiofrequency delivery member extending from one end of the shaft, and a handle attached to the elongate shaft at an opposite end from the radiofrequency delivery member. The radiofrequency delivery member is sized to be inserted into a nose and configured to at least temporarily deform the nasal tissue and deliver radiofrequency energy. The radiofrequency delivery member includes two rows of protruding electrodes disposed on a tissue contact surface, and the device is configured to deliver radiofrequency energy from one row of electrodes to the other row of electrodes.
US10779869B2
An implant device is used for maintaining a distraction or compression element and includes a rod linked to implants by support devices having a threaded stud and a head for interaction with a support piece. The support piece has a device for attaching and blocking a distraction or compression element. The threaded piece includes two zones, namely a distal end zone having a conical profile and a screw thread with wide turns, configured for cancellous bone, and a proximal zone having a conical profile with a conicity angle smaller than the conicity angle of the distal portion, with a narrow screw thread, configured for bone cortex, namely including sharp, thin, deep screw threads, whereas the web is flat.
US10779864B2
A pivotal bone anchor assembly configured for independent positional locking with tooling prior to securing an elongate rod to patient bone with a closure. The assembly includes a bone anchor having a capture portion and a body portion for fixation to patient bone. The assembly also includes a receiving member having an upper portion for receiving the elongate rod and a lower portion for receiving the capture portion, with the bone anchor having pivotal movement with respect to the receiving member. The assembly further includes a locking member in non-threaded engagement with the receiving member and configured for vertical displacement by the tooling into a locked configuration, so as to lock an angular position of the bone anchor relative to the receiving member. The locking member is also releasable by the tooling to re-establish the pivotal movement of the bone anchor with respect to the receiving member.
US10779863B2
A coupling device is provided for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element. The coupling device includes a receiving part having a first end, a second end, a central axis extending through the first end and the second end, and a channel for receiving a rod. The receiving part defines an accommodation space for accommodating a head of a bone anchoring element, the accommodation space having an opening for inserting the head. The coupling device further includes a pressure element arranged at least partially in the accommodation space, the pressure element having a flexible portion to clamp an inserted head, and a clamping element extending at least partially around the flexible portion of the pressure element. The clamping element is configured to move from a first position to a second position in which the clamping element exerts a clamping force onto the pressure element, where the movement includes rotating the clamping element around the central axis.
US10779862B2
A coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element, including a receiving part having first and second ends, a recess at the first end for the rod, and an accommodation space for a head of the bone anchoring element, the accommodation space having an opening at the second end to permit insertion of the head into the receiving part, a retainer element configured to be arranged at least partially in the accommodation space and to hold at least part of the head, and a spring element configured to be arranged at least partially in the accommodation space and to be compressed in an axial direction. The retainer element and the spring element are separate parts. When the retainer element and the spring element are in the accommodation space of the receiving part in a first position, the spring element extends into the recess of the receiving part.
US10779861B2
Bone anchor assemblies are disclosed herein that can provide for improved fixation as compared with traditional bone anchor assemblies. An exemplary assembly can include a bracket or wing that extends down from the receiver member and accommodates one or more auxiliary bone anchors that augment the fixation of the assembly's primary bone anchor. Another exemplary assembly can include a plate that is seated between the receiver member and the rod and accommodates one or more auxiliary bone anchors that augment the fixation of the assembly's primary bone anchor. Another exemplary assembly can include a hook that extends out from the receiver member to hook onto an anatomical structure or another implant to augment the fixation of the assembly's primary bone anchor. Surgical methods using the bone anchor assemblies described herein are also disclosed.
US10779856B2
A robotic surgical system includes an access port having a plurality of sensors incorporated therein and a surgical instrument having an end effector for use with, and connection to a robot arm. The sensors measure a loading parameter between tissue and the access port when the shaft is inserted through the access port. The sensors wirelessly transmit signals indicative of the loading parameter to a processing unit. The estimated loads at the tip of the end effector of the surgical instrument are provided in real-time to a haptic feedback interface for communicating haptic feedback to a user. The haptic feedback increases or decreases in intensity in response to a specific event, occurrence, or operational characteristic related to the estimated loads.
US10779842B2
A method of preparing a shoulder to receive a glenoid component in one embodiment includes accessing a glenoid of a shoulder, applying a rotational force to a combination device, forming a first bore in the glenoid with a rotating boring section of the combination device, forming a second bore in the glenoid at a location spaced apart from the first bore using a first drill guide defined by the combination device, and reaming a portion of the glenoid with a rotating reaming section of the combination device, wherein forming a first bore and reaming a portion of the glenoid occur at least partially simultaneously.
US10779834B2
A circular stapler apparatus for stapling tissue includes a staple and pledget assembly and a circular staple head operable to drive staples toward an anvil. A staple of the staple and pledget assembly has a pair of legs disposed substantially perpendicular to a crown of the staple in a first position. The pair of legs is operable to advance against a pocket in the anvil to form a staple with bent legs. The staple and pledget assembly includes the staple and a pledget configured to receive the pair of legs of the staple. The pledget comprises a bioabsorbable material. The pledget is configured to advance distal ends of the pair of legs to a position in which the distal ends are laterally offset from a plane in which the crown of the staple is disposed.
US10779822B2
A surgical cutting and fastening instrument comprises an end effector that has a shaft coupled thereto that is coupled to a robotic system. A tool mounting portion includes an electric, DC motor connected to a drive train in the shaft for powering the drive train. A power pack that comprises at least one charge-accumulating device connected to the DC motor for powering the DC motor is provided.
US10779821B2
Anvils for surgical devices designed to cut and staple tissue. The anvils include tissue stop arrangements for positioning the tissue to be cut and stapled in the device so that the tissue is stapled prior to being cut. The anvils are moved between open and closed positions by a corresponding closure member. The tissue stops and/or closure members are configured to avoid adjacent tissue from being pinched between the closure member and tissue stops when the anvil is in a closed position.
US10779808B2
Apparatus for sealing a vascular wall penetration disposed at the end of the tissue tract comprises a shaft, an optional occlusion element, a hydratable hemostatic implant, and a protective sleeve. The apparatus is deployed through the tissue tract with the occlusion element optionally occluding the vascular wall penetration and inhibiting backbleeding therethrough. The hydratable hemostatic implant, which will typically be a biodegradable polymer such as collagen carrying an anti-proliferative agent or coagulation promoter, will then be deployed from the sealing apparatus by retracting the protective sleeve and left in place to enhance closure of the vascular wall penetration with minimum scarring. The hydratable implant will be protected from premature hydration and swelling by a soluble plug covering the implant's distal end prior to sleeve retraction.
US10779800B2
An ultrasound imaging system (300) includes one or more transducing elements (304). The ultrasound imaging system further includes a system controller (330) configured to control the one or more transducing elements to receive for a predetermined time duration without first transmitting and produce a noise only signal. The system controller is further configured to control the one or more transducing elements to transmit a set of pulses which causes the one or more transducing elements to transmit a pressures wave and receive echo waves generated in response to the transmitted pressures wave and produce an echo plus noise signal indicative thereof. The ultrasound imaging system further includes a noise processor (320) that compensates the echo plus noise signal with the noise only signal, creating a denoised signal, which is displayed.
US10779799B2
A method for imaging an object by ultrasound elastography through continuous vibration of the ultrasound transducer is taught. An actuator directly in contact with the ultrasound transducer continuously vibrates the transducer in an axial direction, inducing shear waves in the tissue and allowing for real-time shear wave imaging. Axial motion of the transducer contaminates the shear wave images of the tissue, and must be suppressed. Therefore, several methods for correcting for shear wave artifact caused by the motion of the transducer are additionally taught.
US10779794B2
Provided are a mammography apparatus, a control device, a mammography apparatus control method, and a mammography apparatus control program that can effectively reduce the subject's pain caused by the compression of the breast by a compression plate.A mammography apparatus includes a compression plate that compresses a breast, a moving unit that moves the compression plate in a compression direction in which the breast is compressed and a decompression direction in which the breast is decompressed, a radiation source that emits radiation, and a control unit that controls the moving unit such that the compression plate is moved to a first position in the compression direction and is moved to a second position in the decompression direction and performs control such that the radiation is emitted from the radiation source to the breast in a state in which the compression plate is located at the second position.
US10779792B2
A medical X-ray CT imaging apparatus includes an X-ray generator that generates a cone beam, an X-ray detector, a support that supports the X-ray generator and the X-ray detector while the X-ray generator and the X-ray detector are opposed to each other, a turning drive unit that turns the X-ray generator and the X-ray detector, which are supported by the support, an imaging information receiving unit, and an X-ray output condition setting unit. The imaging information receiving unit receives an imaging area setting relating to at least one of a size of an imaging area, an imaging purpose, and an imaging region. The X-ray output condition setting unit automatically sets an output condition of the X-ray generator according to at least one of the size of the imaging area, the imaging purpose, and the imaging region, which are received by the imaging information receiving unit.
US10779791B2
A method for X-ray imaging includes determining one or more pre-shot parameters corresponding to a region of interest in a subject based on an optical image of the region of interest obtained from an optical sensor. The method further includes controlling an X-ray device to generate a pre-shot X-ray image using a first X-ray dosage, based on the one or more-pre-shot parameters. The method also includes determining at least one main-shot parameter based on the pre-shot X-ray image. The method includes controlling the X-ray device to generate a main-shot X-ray image using a second X-ray dosage greater than the first X-ray dosage, based on the at least one main-shot parameter.
US10779786B2
A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains image data rendering a blood vessel of patient. The processing circuitry performs a fluid analysis on the obtained image data and calculates an index value related to a blood flow in the blood vessel with respect to each of a plurality of positions in the blood vessel. With respect to the index values to be calculated, the processing circuitry selects a position in which a first value is to be obtained from among the plurality of positions or selects a value serving as the first value from among the index values exhibited in positions. The processing circuitry causes a display to display the first value in a predetermined display region thereof used for displaying the first value.
US10779785B2
A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium are for segmenting different types of structures, including cancerous lesions and regular structures like vessels and skin, in a digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) volume. In an embodiment, the method includes: pre-classification of the DBT volume in dense and fatty tissue and based on the result; localizing a set of structures in the DBT volume by using a multi-stream deep convolutional neural network; and segmenting the localized structures by calculating a probability for belonging to a specific type of structure for each voxel in the DBT volume by using a deep convolutional neural network for providing a three-dimensional probabilistic map.
US10779778B2
The present approach relates to the use of detector elements (i.e., reference detector pixels) positioned under septa of an anti-scatter collimator. Signals detected by the reference detector pixels may be used to correct for charging-sharing events with adjacent pixels and/or to characterize or correct for focal spot misalignment either in real time or as a calibration step.
US10779775B2
Disclosed is the automated rapid advancement of a guide wire through a guide catheter using x-ray markers. The procedure involves providing a guide wire with a marker at or adjacent its tip, providing a guide catheter with a marker at or adjacent its distal terminus, rapidly advancing the guide wire through the guide catheter from its proximal end to its distal end under the control of an automated apparatus, and terminating the automated rapid advancement when the guide wire tip marker becomes adjacent to the guide catheter distal end marker. Fluoroscopic images may be taken of the of the guide wire as it rapidly advances through the guide catheter and image processing software used to determine when to terminate the rapid advancement. This software may use either the position or the velocity of the guide wire to make this determination.
US10779772B2
A movement assessing method and a movement assessing system are provided. The movement assessing method includes the following steps. At least one limb angle is obtained. A limb position accuracy is analyzed according to the limb angle. A center of gravity is obtained. A balance accuracy is analyzed according to the center of gravity. A movement index is calculated via a limb weight and a balance weight according to at least the limb position accuracy and the balance accuracy.
US10779749B2
A disposable adhesive substrate, a medical device and a charging station are provided. In particular the substrate may be adapted to be arranged on the medical device, which correspondingly may be charged in the charging station. The medical device may be used for monitoring and treatment of bruxism.
US10779747B2
A system for assessing brain health of a user includes an electronics module including an active brainwave sensor that collects channels of electroencephalography (EEG) brainwave data, a plurality of biological sensors, and a stimulation device. The biological sensors include a microphone that captures verbal responses of the subject during a battery of tasks, an image sensor that records eye positions, eye saccade and other biometric identification information, an accelerometer, a gyrometer, a thermometer, a pulse oximetry sensor, a dermal skin conductance sensor, and key strokes, mouse clicks or touch events to measure cognitive data of the user. The stimulation device applies a battery of tasks including a visual or photic stimulant, an auditory stimulant, a gastronomic stimulant, an olfactory stimulant, a touch stimulant, and a cognitive challenge stimulant to the user. The plurality of biological sensors simultaneously measure the body's response to stimulants for recordation by the electronics module.
US10779742B2
The present invention provides a medical electrode comprising a conductive metal base comprising a plate element and a boss formed on the plate element and a conductive support cylinder separate from the conductive metal base. The conductive support cylinder is rotatably mounted to the conductive metal base while remaining in electrical communication with said conductive metal base. The present invention also provides a limb clamp for an ECG device. According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent bending of the cable connecting with the medical electrode, thereby avoiding cable failure.
US10779740B1
The invention provides a retraining system that requires EM sensors, programmable computers and mechanical structures that are controlled by the programmable computers so that injured body parts of injury subjects are moved by the mechanical structures. The retraining methodology proposes the use of electromyograph (EMG) signals from a healthy subject having a healthy body part to control the mechanical structures that are coupled to the injured body parts of injury subjects. As part of the retraining system, the EMG signals of the same injured subject are also sensed by an EM sensor coupled to said injured subject in order to move the mechanical structures coupled to the injured subject. The system is calibrated to store in the programmable computers specific motions associated to the EMG signals of the healthy subject and to ensure that the EMG signals of the healthy subject and the EMG signals of the injured subject are significantly matched. Also, the system provides that the EMG signals of a single healthy subject can be used to control the movement of a plurality of mechanical structures coupled to a plurality of injured subjects to offer a group therapy session.
US10779735B2
An image-processing method for marking plaque fluorescent reaction areas is provided, including: obtaining a first RGB image of a mouth region; obtaining a second RGB image of the mouth region; respectively converting the first RGB image and the second RGB image into a first HSV image and a second HSV image; obtaining a first average brightness value of the first HSV image and a second average brightness value of the second HSV image; normalizing the first average brightness value or the second average brightness value according the first average brightness value and the second average brightness value to obtain a normalized image; converting the normalized image into a third RGB image, and obtaining a plurality of pixel points of the dental plaque according to the third RGB image and the first RGB image or the second RGB image; and marking the pixel points in the third RGB image.
US10779729B2
An ophthalmic apparatus includes: an imaging optical system that includes a light projecting optical system for projecting light to an ACA region of a subject's eye, and a light receiving optical system including a light receiving element for receiving reflected light from the ACA region; an alignment driver configured to change a positional relationship between the subject's eye and the imaging optical system; an imaging processor configured to generate an ACA image based on a signal output from the light receiving element; and a controller configured to detect a feature point in an ACA of the subject's eye from the ACA image, and that adjust the positional relationship in accordance with a position of the feature point in the ACA image.
US10779724B2
Systems and methods of dynamically modifying visual content to account for user visual impairments are provided. The systems and methods provide for a plurality of generative adversarial networks, each associated with a corresponding style transfer, wherein the style transfer uniquely transforms the color mapping of a content template based on responses to at least one visual impairment test.
US10779720B2
Implementations described herein include a device having a data collection system, an actuation assembly, and a visible target. The data collection system has an illuminator, a detector, and a beam splitter operably coupled to the detector. The actuation assembly is coupled to the illuminator via a holder and has a motor coupled to a linear actuator and a speed governor. The visible target facilitates alignment of the subject's eye with the data collection system. The illuminator illuminates the target tissue with interrogating radiation and the actuation assembly moves the illuminator from a first position to a second position to scan a focal point of the interrogating radiation through a predefined thickness of the target tissue. The detector detects the at least one value of the at least one characteristic of responding radiation received from or reflected from the target tissue and uses such information to determine the onset and duration of a pathological condition.
US10779714B2
An endoscopic image formed by an image signal including a narrow-band image signal is acquired. The brightness, hue and saturation of each pixel of the endoscopic image are calculated. The hue H of each pixel of the endoscopic image is changed to a hue H+ΔH that is away from the hue of a reference color indicating a normal part and the saturation S of each pixel is changed to a saturation S+ΔS that is away from the saturation of the reference color that is determined according to the brightness of each pixel of the endoscopic image. The endoscopic image in which the brightness of each pixel is the original brightness and which has a color having converted hue and saturation is output.
US10779710B2
An endoscope having an operating handle comprising a handle housing arranged at a proximal end and an insertion tube extending from said handle towards a distal end of the endoscope and terminating in a steerable tip part at the distal end of the endoscope, the endoscope further comprising a control mechanism with a Bowden cable having an outer guide tube having a first length between a proximal end and a distal end of said outer guide tube and an inner pull-wire having a second length between a proximal end and a distal end of said inner pull-wire, said second length being longer than said first length, the proximal end of the outer guide tube is affixed to the operating handle by means of an adhesive.
US10779709B2
The present invention discloses a system to control a movement of a magnetic capsule using an external magnet control system. The external magnet control system includes more than one external magnetic balls, and at least one external magnetic ball can be moved freely in five degrees of the freedom.
US10779702B2
A spraying assembly for a dish washing machine includes: a bottom shell, a spraying seat, a sprayer and an actuator. A water storage chamber is formed in the bottom shell, which is provided with a water inlet in communication with the water storage chamber. The spraying seat is rotatably disposed on the bottom shell and provided with a water input passage in communication with the water storage chamber. The sprayer is provided with at least one spraying arm and rotatably disposed on the spraying seat and a rotation center of the sprayer is eccentrically arranged with respect to a rotation center of the spraying seat. The sprayer is provided with a plurality of spraying orifices, each being in communication with the water input passage. The actuator is connected to the sprayer and the spraying seat respectively to drive the sprayer and the spraying seat to rotate around their respective rotation centers.
US10779696B2
Provided is a cleaner including a dust collecting device for separating dust from air, wherein the dust collecting device includes a dust collecting case having a dust discharging port opened to discharge the collected dust; a discharge cover coupled to one side of the dust collecting case to open and close the dust discharge port; and a sealing member provided to extend from an inner surface of the dust collecting case to a coupling surface of the dust collecting case while being in contact with the dust collecting case and thus to be sealed when the dust discharging port is closed.
US10779694B1
A toilet training device has a pair of hook-shaped handles on opposite sides of the base. The base is recessed in at least two (2) regions which prevents the base from covering the entire surface area of the toilet bowl water. Further, the base has a shape able to contour to the interior shape of the toilet bowl. A plurality of decorative targets is disposed upon the upper surface of the base. The exterior surface of the base is coated with a thermochromic pigment.
US10779691B2
A shower accessory for use in combination with soap and washcloth that produces a lather quickly. The shower accessory includes a member having a first end, a second end, an upper side, and a lower side. A portion of the member includes an irregular surface having a plurality of oblong protrusions that vary in size and disposed in a random pattern across the irregular surface of the member and designed to increase the total amount of lather produced by the soap. A concave portion is disposed on the lower surface of the member designed to allow the lather to quickly increase in volume. In this way, a user can quickly and efficiently clean themselves.
US10779688B1
Method and apparatus for a one-piece tileable shower unit having pre-assembled full length walls and having a floor with a curb surrounding a central drain wherein the inner surface of the shower stall is coated with a thinset for having individual tile unit pieces attached thereto wherein the shower stall unit is made of one-piece. A first embodiment includes a foam base and a second embodiment includes fiberglass to which the individual tile units are attached.
US10779687B2
The present invention discloses an intelligent seasoning box for a kitchen, comprising a shell, a seasoning conveying component, a temperature monitor and a master controller, wherein the seasoning conveying component is a liquid-seasoning conveying component; both the seasoning conveying component and the master controller are arranged in the shell; the temperature monitor is connected by a universal hose and points to the center of a frying pan; the seasoning conveying component and the temperature monitor are electrically connected with the master controller respectively; the shell is provided with a containing cavity for containing liquid-seasoning bottles; the seasoning conveying component comprises conveying pipes, conveying pumps and a spraying nozzle; the conveying pumps are electrically connected with the master controller. The intelligent seasoning box for the kitchen in the present invention has the beneficial effects that the whole process of cooking can be completed under monitoring of internal application programs.
US10779686B2
A device for cracking shells of nuts comprising a first jaw and a second jaw, the jaws spaced apart and arranged to move together to compress a nut N between them, the first jaw arranged to slide on an arm to amend the spacing of the jaws, the second jaw arranged to be driven along the arm towards the first jaw by a driving mechanism; and a lever; the lever arranged to operate the driving mechanism and drive the second jaw along the arm towards the first jaw; the first jaw held by a user when the lever is pulled, characterized in that the first jaw comprises an elongate first jaw member with an intermediate perforation for passage of the arm, whereas the second jaw comprises an L-shaped part with a pinion arm parallel the arm and moving through the mechanism, and an orthogonally arranged jaw arm parallel the first jaw member.
US10779677B2
An apparatus for making espresso coffee has at least one delivery unit, a hydraulic circuit connected to the delivery unit, and a driving device having a lever movable between a first position and a second position. The delivery unit has a first cylinder with a piston slidably mounted therein and at least one braking device having a second cylinder. The second cylinder is connected to a circuit independent of the first cylinder. The movement of the first cylinder charges water and discharges water from the first cylinder.
US10779676B2
A capsule containing a substance for the preparation of a potable beverage. The capsule comprises an aluminum capsule body having a side wall and an outwardly extending flange and a sealing member at the outwardly extending flange for providing a fluid sealing contact with an enclosing member of a beverage preparation device. The beverage preparation device comprises an annular element having a free contact end which may be provided with a plurality of radially extending open grooves. The sealing member is integral with the outwardly extending flange and comprises at least one projection projecting from the outwardly extending flange. The projection comprising a projection top and is configured such that its projection top exerts a radial force on the free contact end of the annular element if the capsule is positioned in the enclosing member of the beverage preparation device and the enclosing member is closed by means of a closing member of the beverage preparation device.
US10779673B1
A food processing apparatus specifically a tamale preparing apparatus to prepare and cook tamales is disclosed. The tamale preparing apparatus comprises two sets of cartridges, a plunging system, a steamer forms, a steamer pot and a pot cover to prepare and cook tamales. The apparatus prepares tamales by inserting pre-cooked masa and fillings into cartridges. A plunging system helps to insert the pre-cooked masa and fillings from the cartridges into steamer forms. The steamer pot comprises a porous steamer tray to allow the steam of water to reach the tamales kept on the tray and helps in cooking of tamales. Parchment paper tubes are used to maintain the shape of the tamales while cooking in steam. The pot can cook numerous tamales at a time, reducing labor cost.
US10779671B1
A storage system for receiving and storing a package is provided, the storage system comprising a bin, a lid, a locking mechanism, an unlocking mechanism. The bin is configured for receiving the package. The lid is hingedly joined to a back of the bin, and configured for closing the bin. The locking mechanism comprises a first device joined to a front wall of the bin and a second device joined to the lid, and is configured for automatically locking the first device to the second device, thereby locking the lid with the front wall of the bin when the lid closes the bin. The unlocking mechanism is accessible to a recipient of the package and configured for unlocking the first device from the second device in response to an action by the recipient, thereby unlocking the lid from the front of the bin.
US10779669B2
A chair mat has a top that is a rug or carpet so that the chair mat has the appearance of an area rug. A woven or knitted rug is attached to a mesh material that can carry the loads that are applied to the rug top to hold the rug top from stretching or bunching when casters of a wheeled chair move over the rug top. The chair mat has a rigid layer to which a woven or knitted rug is attached to provide a hard underlying surface over when the wheeled chair may more easily move. The chair mat may be hinged to permit the chair mat to be folded to a smaller configuration where it is more readily stored or transported.
US10779664B2
CNH Donut is a pressure and pain relieving prosthesis, and sleep aid, to be used with a standard pillow, for persons suffering with Chondrodermatitis nodularis chronic helicis, (CNH) Invention is a novel assemblage, comprised of 2 contiguous foam strips, curved into a “lachrymiform” shape, covered in cylindrical nylon spandex, then affixed with a headstrap, allowing patients to sleep directly on the injured ear, to roll over, and sleep on their preferred side, without pain. Invention is lightweight, yet firm enough to support a head. The smaller size, and unique “contiguous” placement of thick foam bands, as opposed to stuffing or fill, creates CNH Donut's distinctive strength, and “teardrop shaped” inner circle, using the natural arc, and firm properties of the foam to best advantage.
US10779660B2
An infant swing rocking chair includes a frame, two rocking bars and a chair assembly. The two front legs are arc posts protruding forward; the front legs and rear legs are hinged through the leg joint, and the front legs and the rear legs have two working positions of unfolding & supporting and folding; the rocking bar has the working position of rocking and the working position of locating; the bottom of each rocking bar is hinged with the chair assembly through the chair joint to make the chair assembly have the working position for the swing and the working position for the rocking chair; and the infant swing rocking chair has two use modes: a swing and a rocking chair.
US10779659B1
A swivel rocker having a swivel rocker frame that in turn includes a rocker frame portion and a swivel frame portion that can induce the three types of motion of swivel or roll, rock or pitch, and spin or yaw. The swivel frame portion can be quickly engaged to and disengaged from the rocker frame portion. Each of the swivel frame portion and rocker frame portion is foldable to a compact form. Each of the swivel frame portion and rocker frame portion includes a hub portion, which hub portions are rotatable relative to each other and lockable relative to each other.
US10779653B2
A furniture member may include a base frame and a seat assembly mounted on the base frame. The seat assembly may include a seat frame, a seatback, a seat bottom, and a legrest mechanism. The legrest mechanism may be mounted to the seat frame and attached to a legrest platform. The legrest mechanism may include a drive rod coupled to a pantograph linkage that is movable relative to the seat frame between retracted and extended positions.
US10779646B2
A modular furniture system capable of being arranged in different configurations in a settee area of a bowling center, for example, is disclosed. The furniture system includes at least one modular furniture element with a fastening mechanism which includes a first assembly and a second assembly. The first assembly of the fastening mechanism includes an engaging element which extends through at least one component of the first assembly and attaches to a component of the second assembly of an adjacent modular furniture element.
US10779636B2
A twisted wire grill brush is provided, including at least one handle having an extension direction, a first brush provided at an end of the at least one handle, a second brush provided at the end of the at least one handle and arranged substantially parallel with respect to the first brush, and a third brush provided at the end of the at least one handle and arranged substantially perpendicular with respect to the extension direction of the at least one handle.
US10779635B2
Various embodiments are described that relate to energy generation. A housing can retain a spring coupled to a gear set. As the spring experiences linear compression and extension, the spring can cause rotational movement in the gear set. The rotational movement from the gear set can cause rotation of a rotational magnet. The rotational magnet, when rotated about a coil set, can convert an energy. The energy can be used to charge a battery.
US10779633B2
A carrier for multiple folding chairs. The carrier for multiple folding chairs has a body including a back, at least one sidewall extending around the perimeter of the back, and a closure flap, thereby defining an interior volume. The interior volume is large enough to encapsulate at least two folding chairs. The closure flap is secured to the open ends of the sidewalk via an attachment mechanism such as a zipper. The closure flap also incorporates an access flap, allowing an individual to access a portion of the carrier while the remainder remains closed. Handles, casters and at least one strap are located on the exterior surface of the body, allowing an individual to transport the carrier via several methods. Hooks on the exterior of the body, coupled with fasteners incorporated on the straps, removably secure the carrier to a mounting fixture affixed to a vehicle.
US10779632B2
A hair extension storage assembly for storing hair extensions includes a hanger that may be suspended from a support. A member is attached to the hanger and the member is suspended from the support when the hanger is positioned on the support. A plurality of slats is provided and each of the slats is pivotally coupled to the member. Each of the slats is selectively positioned in a deployed position having each of the slats being oriented perpendicular to the member. Each of the slats is positioned in a stored position having each of the slats extending downwardly along the member. A plurality of clips is provided and each of the clips is coupled to an associated one of the slats. Each of the clips releasably engages a hair extension thereby facilitating the hair extension to be stored in a vertical orientation without deforming or crumpling.
US10779625B2
A battery powered collapsible blow-dryer for portable hair drying and styling includes a blow-dryer housing. A pivot hinge is coupled to a ventral side of the blow-dryer housing adjacent an intake end. A handle has a handle cavity disposed between an anterior side, a posterior side, an upper end, and a bottom end. The upper end has a pivot receptacle pivotably coupled to the pivot hinge. The pivot receptacle comprises a locking mechanism to maintain the handle in a folded position and an alternate extended position, and a button to release the handle. A blow-dryer assembly comprises a heating element and a fan coupled within the blow-dryer housing, and a plurality of controls coupled to the handle. A power assembly comprises a solar panel coupled to the blow-dryer housing, a rechargeable battery coupled within the handle cavity, and a charging port coupled within the bottom end of the handle.
US10779618B2
A sheet of loop material having utility as the landing zone in the manufacture of, e.g. disposable diapers and having excellent properties and an exceptionally low basis weight. Methods and apparatus for forming the sheet of loop material are also disclosed.
US10779617B2
Described are articles of wear including with a material with color changing properties. The material includes at least one elastic portion having an unstretched colored appearance and a stretched colored appearance. The material also includes at least one fixed portion having the stretched colored appearance regardless of a magnitude of an external force applied to the at least one fixed portion.
US10779611B2
Provided herein are mid-soles, sole assemblies, footwear inserts and articles of footwear for walking and running. The midsoles include three cushioning members where the height of the midsole provides a zero drop elevation. The midsole architecture provides dynamic variable resistance that improves performance by using different densities and angles of component mid-sole members that will allow the wearer to move through a full range of motion during walking or running with muscle effort remaining constant while shifting the workload from muscles that have limited power in certain positions, to those with more explosive and endurance capabilities in those same positions.
US10779607B1
The extendible shoe is a footwear item. The extendible shoe has an adjustable length. The span of the length of the extendible shoe in the anterior-posterior direction adjusts such that the length of the extendible shoe is adjustable. The extendible show comprises an extendible sole and an extendible upper. The extendible upper attaches to the extendible sole. The extendible sole extends in the anterior-posterior direction. The extendible upper extends in the anterior-posterior direction.
US10779602B2
A helmet configured to protect a human head against mild traumatic brain injury upon impact includes an outer shell and a liner consisting of pairs of fluid fillable flexible fluid chambers fluidly connected to each other by fluid connections between each of the pairs of fluid fillable flexible fluid chambers being spaced on opposite sides of the helmet and configured to fill a space between the head and the outer shell when the helmet is positioned on the head. Impact resistant flexible pads are also inside the liner and are spaced around an inner circumference of the outer shell adjacent to each of the fluid fillable flexible fluid chambers. A flexible inner shell inside the liner is configured to fit closely on the head. The flexible fluid chambers are configured to compress in response to impacting of the helmet on an impact side and to force liquid through the fluid connections to inflate fluid chambers on an opposite side of the helmet thereby cushioning the head against a rebound impact on the opposite side.
US10779599B2
The presented invention is an adjustable protective Bump Cap to be worn under a hat. The Bump Cap has adjustable horizontal and vertical dimensions to enable a secure fit and to remain out of sight when worn under a user's hat.
US10779596B1
Designs and constructions for facemasks which, when properly used, can enable a small child's head hair to be washed by a parent without interference by the child while preventing liquid being applied to the head hair from washing across eyes, nose and mouth. The facemask has handgrips at either side which are grasped by the hands of the child while the child presses a seal against his/her forehead. The facial designs of the masks present artistic renderings of animals' faces, cartoon characters, etc.
US10779590B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include a medical garment that resembles a shirt. The medical garment includes a body that includes a front portion attached to a back portion by one or more non-partable seams. The medical garment includes first and second sleeves on opposite sides of the medical garment. The first and second sleeves are coupled to the front portion and the back portion of the medical garment. The medical garment includes a flap formed on the front portion and configured to open to expose a portion of a person. The flap includes a partable seam that extends along a top of the body and a portion of a side of the body down to but not beyond a bottom part of the first sleeve where the first sleeve attaches to the body. The flap further includes a fastener to hold the partable seam in a closed position.
US10779581B2
A pin assembly attachment member with a versatile method of use for support and/or enhancement of apparel. This is an improvement upon conventional attachment hooks designed to attach to a single interchangeable and/or convertible garment. Such conventional hooks have somewhat limited utility. The pin assembly attachment member comprises a solid body comprising of at least one aperture for receiving a formed adjustment loop of straps or apparel, and/or an attachment hook, and comprises of an attachment pin having a distal end for puncturing the fabric of apparel for removably engaging with apparel or combination of a garment and/or a bra or other lingerie. The attachment members can be removably secured to an interior portion adjacent to an upper edge of garment using either the attachment hook or the attachment pin. The attachment hook would be inserted through a loop affixed to the garment. The attachment pin would be inserted through an interior lining of the garment. The attachment members can be attached to two garments using the combination of the attachment hook and the attachment pin.
US10779579B2
Infant swaddling allows an infant to be comfortably and easily swaddled. The swaddling includes a pouch featuring a lower end that can be opened and closed to allow an infant's soiled diaper to be easily removed and replaced or to take a rectal temperature. The swaddling can include a blanket that comprises a first blanket flap and a second blanket flap and that can be removably attached to the pouch. The swaddle is used by placing one of the blanket flaps over the pouch, and then placing the other blanket flap over the pouch.
US10779571B2
An electrically heated aerosol-generating device is provided, including a heating assembly configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate to generate an inhalable aerosol, the assembly including a heater and a heater mount, the heater being blade-shaped, including an electrically insulating heater substrate, an electrically resistive heating element supported by the heater substrate, and a through-hole through a thickness of the heater, the heater being insertable into the aerosol-forming substrate and having a length of about 10 mm to about 60 mm, a width of about 2 mm to about 10 mm, and a thickness of about 0.2 mm to about 1 mm, the mount including a moldable material molded around a portion of the heater and extending through the through-hole to couple the heater to the mount so the mount provides structural support to the heater and is configured to allow the heater to be disposed within the device.
US10779559B2
A process for processing soybeans, said process comprising separating the soy sauce from a fermented mixture through decanting and splitting the soybeans into discernible pieces.
US10779554B2
A dual valve injector assembly having a base; a passageway in the base for receiving a food product; a first draw valve in communication with the passageway and a first spout, the first spout dispensing the food product at a first draw rate; and a second draw valve in communication with the passageway and a second spout, the second spout dispensing the food product at a second draw rate; wherein the second draw rate is lower than the first draw rate.
US10779545B2
The invention relates to a device for producing a baked good. The device comprises an accommodating unit, which is designed to accommodate a capsule, wherein the capsule comprises ingredients for producing a baked good. Furthermore, the device comprises a baking unit, which is designed to bake a dough, and an output unit for outputting a baked good baked in the baking unit. In addition, the device comprises a control unit, which is designed to cause dough, which comprises the ingredients from a capsule inserted into the accommodating unit, to be baked in the baking unit. The control unit is also designed to cause the baked good baked from the dough to be output by means of the output unit.
US10779542B2
The present invention is generally directed to fusion proteins containing a targeting sequence that targets the fusion protein to the exosporium of a Bacillus cereus family member. The invention also relates to recombinant Bacillus cereus family members expressing such fusion proteins and formulations containing the recombinant Bacillus cereus family members expressing the fusion proteins. Methods for stimulating plant growth, for protecting plants from pathogens, and for enhancing stress resistance in a plant by applying the recombinant Bacillus cereus family members or the formulations to plants or a plant growth medium are also described. The invention also relates to methods for immobilizing spores of a recombinant Bacillus cereus family member expressing a fusion protein on plants.
US10779534B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing disinfected seed, a use of a treatment composition, and an apparatus for disinfecting of seed. The method of the invention comprises contacting seed with a treatment composition comprising at least one disinfecting agent and/or a liquid component, and thereafter or at least partly simultaneously, exposing said seed to a treatment atmosphere for an exposure time of at least 1 second, wherein the treatment atmosphere has a relative humidity of at least 50% and a temperature of at least 40° C.
US10779529B2
Blood and platelet storage and rejuvenating compositions that include triciribine, triciribine metabolites, triciribine analogs, and mixtures of the same are disclosed. Such compositions can be useful in methods for treating (e.g., storing and rejuvenating) red blood cells and platelets.
US10779524B2
The present invention comprises a fishing ice hole flaring apparatus having a triangle-shaped base that that includes a pair of hinged arms each having a cutting blade attached thereto, a central shaft having a first end and a second end, the central shaft extending through the apex region of the triangle-shaped base proximal the first end, a pair of retraction cable attached to a portion of their corresponding hinged arms, a cable housing attached to a portion of the central shaft and running parallel to the central shaft and supporting a portion of each of the retraction cables therein, a cable retraction knob attached to the first ends of the retraction cables, the cable retraction knob operable to move the pivotably move the hinges arms between a retracted position and an in use position, and a z-shaped cranking handle system manually rotatably power the apparatus.
US10779522B2
A rotation transmission mechanism of a spinning reel for fishing transmits a rotation of a handle to a driven gear of a reciprocating mechanism. The rotation transmission mechanism includes an intermediate gear, a shaft member, and a biasing member. The intermediate gear rotates in response to rotation of the handle, meshes with the driven gear, and transmits the rotation of the handle to the driven gear. The shaft member rotatably supports the intermediate gear. The biasing member biases the intermediate gear in an axial direction of the shaft member.
US10779514B2
A method and an apparatus are capable of automatically performing an operation of mounting shellfishes to a pin inserted in a vertical rope. Insertion holes are formed in ears of two shellfishes in parallel. While each pin is cut out one by one from a series of pins formed of a large number of continuous pins, the cut-out pins are inserted through the vertical rope at substantially equal intervals. A pipe-shaped guide is inserted through the insertion hole of each of the two shellfishes, and an end portion of the guide inserted through the insertion hole is put on each end portion of the pin. The pin and the two guides are arranged in a straight line. The shellfishes are transferred and mounted onto the pin by sliding the two shellfishes along the respective guides beyond shellfish locking protrusions of the pin.
US10779495B2
The disclosure provides a new and distinct variety of lettuce, NUN 09127 LTL as well as seeds and plants and heads or leaves thereof.
US10779494B2
The disclosure provides a new and distinct hybrid carrot variety NUN 89853 CAC as well as seeds and plants and roots thereof.
US10779489B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH101574. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH101574, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH101574 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH101574.
US10779485B2
Described are apparatus and methods that automatically generate recommendations to growers. Using various different sets of data relative to a predetermined tract of agricultural land, typically including both imagery as well as electrical usage, they are processed together to make informed decisions regarding the state of the land, particularly with respect to water usage.
US10779482B2
A sod harvester stacking head can include a base that couples to a stacking head supporting mechanism of a sod harvester and a frame that couples to the base via crankshaft assemblies that are configured to allow the frame to rotate through 360 degrees during each stacking operation. Accordingly, a motor that controls the rotation of the crankshaft assemblies can be driven a single time during each stacking operation thereby enhancing the efficiency of the sod harvester. The crankshaft assemblies can also be configured so that the crankshafts are in a vertical orientation while the stacking head travels in a lateral direction such that the load is centered on the rotational axis of the stacking head. A stacking conveyor could similarly be configured with a base and a frame that are coupled via crankshaft assemblies to thereby allow the stacking conveyor to be lifted using 360 degrees of rotation.
US10779476B2
In some embodiments, a method for managing growing crops in a crop growing farm includes operating one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to fly over a plurality of sections of a crop growing farm. The UAVs are fitted with a plurality of cameras equipped to generate images in a plurality of spectrums. The plurality of sections of the crop growing farm grow crops of one or more types or varietals. The method further includes taking a plurality of aerial images of the sections of the vineyard in the plurality of spectrums, using the plurality of cameras, while the UAVs are flying over the plurality of sections of the crop growing farm, and executing an analyzer on a computing system to machine analyze the plurality of aerial images for anomalies associated with growing the crops of the one or more types or varietals. The machine analysis takes into consideration topological information of the crop growing farm, as well as current planting information of the crop growing farm.
US10779463B2
A lock assembly is provided for a row planter unit to maintain the unit in a raised transport position and to relieve stress on the hydraulic system of the planter unit. The lock assembly includes a lock arm pivotally mounted to the bracket assembly of the row planter unit for selective receipt in a notch or detent on the mounting plate or mast of the bracket assembly so as to retain the row unit in the raised transport position. The lock arm can be disengaged from the bracket assembly notch or detent, such that the planter unit can be lowered to the field use position.
US10779462B2
A planter row unit is positioned so a gauge wheel and an opener are in a known position relative to one another. A planting depth actuator that travels along an extent of travel to change a relationship between the gauge wheel and opener is positioned at one end of its extent of travel, out of engagement with a gauge wheel arm and is then moved to an engagement position where it engages the gauge wheel arm. The location of the engagement position is identified as a calibration point.
US10779459B2
A residue management tool mountable to a frame of a seeder for cutting or clearing residue on the ground is provided, comprising a pivotable arm having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the pivotable arm adapted to be directly or indirectly pivotally attached to the frame; a rotatable cutting or clearing device operably mounted to the distal end of the pivotable arm and operative to cut or clear the residue on the ground; a biasing device operative to exert a downward bias force on the pivotable arm to engage the rotatable cutting or clearing device with the ground; and a depth restraint operative to prevent the rotatable cutting or clearing device from over-penetrating the ground.
US10779457B2
An agricultural tractor having an auxiliary control station located outside of the tractor cab. The auxiliary control station is used for the actuation of tractor components, e.g. hydraulic cylinders, when an operator is outside of the cab. The auxiliary control station has a user interface which allows the external controls of the auxiliary control station to be reassigned to operate different actuatable elements of the tractor, thereby providing for increased ease-of-use of the tractor when an operator is outside of the cab.
US10785897B2
A cold plate compatible with the Open Compute Project Rack specification is disclosed. The cold plate is mounted in a compatible rack with removable trays mounted on support and coupling rails affixed to the underside of the cold plate thus supporting the trays during insertion and operation.
US10785896B2
A data center cooling system includes a plurality of server racks aligned within a row in a human-occupiable workspace of a data center, the server racks supporting a plurality of heat-generating computing devices; a warm air aisle positioned adjacent the server racks opposite the human-occupiable workspace and including a warm air inlet adjacent to a back side of the row of server racks and a warm air outlet in fluid communication with a warm air plenum; a plurality of cooling modules each including at least one fan and a cooling coil; and a controller to perform operations including controlling the plurality of fans in the plurality of cooling modules to operate at a specified fan speed, and controlling a plurality of valves fluidly coupled to the plurality of cooling coils in the plurality of cooling modules to modulate to a specified valve position.
US10785883B2
An electronic configuration, which is preferably a gearbox control device, has a control circuit and a sensor dome. The sensor dome has a sensor and dome contacts electrically connected to the sensor. The control circuit has circuit contacts for contacting the dome contacts. The dome contacts and the circuit contacts are configured to achieve a respective plug connection between a respective dome contact and a respective circuit contact.
US10785882B2
An electrical junction box is provided that can suppress a failure occurring due to a connector being exposed to external stress. An electrical junction box includes a substrate on which the connector is mounted, a case in which an opening portion is formed and the substrate is accommodated, and a cover that is attached to the opening portion and in which an insertion hole, into which the connector is to be inserted, is formed in a penetrating manner. The cover includes protruding portions at positions on sides of the connector, the protruding portions protruding forward of a leading end of the connector.
US10785881B2
An apparatus includes a housing, a circuit board, a sealant and a baseplate. The housing may have a shelf and a flange along an open side. The circuit board may be (i) disposed on the shelf of the housing and inside the flange of the housing and (ii) secured to the housing. The sealant may be dispensed (i) through the open side of the housing and (ii) along a gap between the flange and the circuit board. The baseplate may be compressed to the housing thereby causing the sealant to flow between (i) the baseplate and the circuit board and (ii) the baseplate and the flange.
US10785874B2
A technique includes coupling a resistor network to a plurality of card edge connectors. The resistor network has a resistance, and each card edge connector includes electrical contacts to couple a resistor of a circuit card assembly, when inserted into the card edge connector, to the resistor network to alter the resistance of the resistor network. The technique includes determining a state of the plurality of card edge connectors based on a signal that is provided by the resistor network.
US10785861B2
Various embodiments include a circuit arrangement comprising: a heat sink; and a set of layers arranged on a surface of the heat sink. The set of layers includes a first electrically insulating insulation layer and an electrically conductive conductor layer arranged on a side of the insulation layer facing away from the heat sink. The set of layers includes an electrical connecting path between two electrical connection regions. At least one layer of the set of layers is formed by cold gas spraying of a respective material.
US10785858B2
An apparatus includes at least one conductive layer, an electromagnetic (EM) wave source, and an electron source. The conductive layer has a thickness less than 5 nm. The electromagnetic (EM) wave source is in electromagnetic communication with the at least one conductive layer and transmits a first EM wave at a first wavelength in the at least one conductive layer so as to generate a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) field near a surface of the at least one conductive layer. The electron source propagates an electron beam at least partially in the SPP field so as to generate a second EM wave at a second wavelength less than the first wavelength.
US10785854B2
Disclosed is a lighting system that can control lighting using a PLC communications while reducing an increase in cost for equipment. The lighting system includes a controller configured to communicate through a PLC communications, and a lighting apparatus group having a plurality of lighting apparatuses. The plurality of lighting apparatuses includes a master configured to communicate through the PLC communications, and a slave capable of communicating with the master. The master communicates with the slave through a communications that is different from the PLC communications.
US10785853B2
The invention relates to an operating device for operating at least one lighting means comprising a grid input stage and at least one output stage connected to the grid input stage with output connections for connection to the lighting means, a control device for controlling the output stage or operation of the at least one lighting means, and a first digital bidirectional control interface for connection to a first external digital control bus with addressing functionality for receiving external control information, in particular a DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) interface. The operating device according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises a second digital bidirectional control interface for connection to a second external (in relation to operating device) digital control bus with addressing functionality, wherein first and second control interfaces are designed for operation with different data protocols.
US10785852B1
A closet lighting system incorporates a light strip that extends around an inside perimeter of a closet doorway and is configured to automatically turn on when motion is detected in the doorway. Motion may be a closet door opening or a person moving into a closet doorway, either walking into or reaching in. A closet lighting system has one or more activity sensors to detect the motion in the closet doorway. A first activity sensor may be configured proximal to the control system or the connected end of the light strip to the controller. A second activity sensor may be configured on a distal end of the light strip and may send a motion signal through the light strip, such as through a data line or through a power line. A motion signal may a voltage signal passed through the power line below a voltage to activate the lights.
US10785850B2
A controller (102) and a method for indicating a presence of a virtual object (110) via a lighting device (108) are disclosed. The virtual object (110) has a virtual location corresponding to a physical location. The controller (102) comprises a receiver (104) configured to receive location information representative of the physical location of the virtual object (110) relative to the lighting device (108). The controller further comprises a processor (106) configured to determine if the virtual object (110) is located within a first predetermined proximity (112) of the lighting device (108) based on the location information, and to control the lighting device (108) according to a light setting when the virtual object (110) is located within the first predetermined proximity (112) of the lighting device (108).
US10785846B2
An illumination device is provided with: a planar first electrode; a planar second electrode arranged to face the first electrode; a light emitting layer which is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and emits light in accordance with a current flowing between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first sensor that is electrically connected to the first electrode and detects an electrostatic capacitance of the first electrode; and a second sensor that is electrically connected to the second electrode and detects an electrostatic capacitance of the second electrode.
US10785845B1
An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The housing may have a stand that supports the housing on a support surface or may have other shapes. The display may have pixels that display an image. The display may also have a two-dimensional array of light-emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes that supply backlight illumination for the pixels. An array of temperature sensors may be overlapped by the pixels. Control circuitry may maintain historical backlight aging information during operation of the display. The aging information may include information on output brightness levels of the light-emitting diodes and light-emitting diode operating temperatures.
US10785840B2
A color mixing light emitting diode (LED) assembly comprises a carrier and at least three LEDs that are arranged on the carrier and configured to emit light in mutually different colors and together generate an output radiation that corresponds to an additive color mix, wherein each of the LEDs has an individual emission characteristic. The LED assembly furthermore comprises a respective driver input for each of the LEDs to supply the LEDs with electrical energy, wherein the emission characteristics of the LEDs are dependent on the respective energy supply so that the color mix of the output radiation can be set by varying the respective energy supply at the driver inputs. The LED assembly has a calibration information element that includes at least one readable calibration value for each of the LEDs that represents the individual emission characteristic of the respective LED.
US10785837B2
System controller and method for a lighting system according to certain embodiments. For example, the system controller includes a first controller terminal configured to receive a first signal, and a second controller terminal coupled to a first transistor terminal of a transistor. The transistor further includes a second transistor terminal and a third transistor terminal. The second transistor terminal is coupled to a first winding terminal of a winding, and the winding further includes a second winding terminal coupled to a capacitor. Additionally, the system controller includes a third controller terminal coupled to the third transistor terminal of the transistor, and a fourth controller terminal coupled to a resistor and configured to receive a second signal. The second signal represents a magnitude of a current flowing through at least the winding, the third controller terminal, the fourth controller terminal, and the resistor.
US10785836B2
An encapsulated LED switch that incorporates a MOSFET power drivers, high current transistors, or other suitable power drivers in a PCB that attaches to the LED switch such that a low power LED switch controls the output of a high power driver. The selected power driver PCB can be adapted to different load requirements by making simple changes. The PCB's can be interchanged to provide for a predetermined output power required for a particular application. In addition, the wire gauge size of the wires attached to the MOSFET power driver PCB can also be varied to match intended load requirements. For applications in which the LED switch is used in hostile environments, such as marine applications, the LED switch and its associated power driver PCB are encapsulated to protect the circuitry from environmental factors such as high humidity, salt water, etc.
US10785830B2
An infrared emitter is provided. The infrared emitter includes a substrate made of an electrically insulating material. The substrate includes a surface that contacts a printed conductor made of a resistor material that is electrically conducting and generates heat when current flows through it. The electrically insulating material includes an amorphous matrix component into which an additional component is embedded that absorbs in the spectral range of infrared radiation. At least a part of the surface is configured with a cover layer made of porous glass, whereby the printed conductor is embedded, at least in part, in the cover layer.
US10785828B2
Techniques for 60 GHz long term evolution (LTE)—wireless local area network (WLAN) aggregation (LWA) for keeping a 60 GHz channel alive for fifth generation (5G) and beyond are discussed herein. An apparatus of a 5G/long term evolution (LTE) evolved NodeB (eNB) is connected to a 60 GHz access point (AP) via an Xw interface, and has a baseband circuit with one or more baseband processors. The baseband circuit encodes one or more measurement events, wherein upon receipt by a user equipment (UE) sets a trigger to measure a 60 GHz access point.
US10785827B2
A master unit and a remote unit is provided for a multiband transmission system for distributing and combining signals of at least one wireless communication network and at least one digital network. A reference frequency generator is arranged in the master unit, the reference frequency generator being designed to clock a master modem for converting the signals of the at least one digital network. The reference frequency signal emitted by the reference frequency signal is restored via a reference frequency receiver and is used for closing a remote modem that is located there for demodulation.
US10785822B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE sends, in a first transaction, a request to a network for releasing a protocol data unit (PDU) session established between the UE and the network. The UE receives, while waiting for a first command sent from the network for releasing the PDU session in the first transaction, a second command from the network for releasing the PDU session in a second transaction. The UE aborts the first transaction.
US10785818B2
A first Bluetooth audio device paired with a second Bluetooth audio device may coordinate communications between the two BT audio devices. The first Bluetooth audio device may originally communication with the second BT audio device over a first type of Bluetooth connection. When the first Bluetooth audio device determines that the second Bluetooth audio device has left or is close to leaving the range of the first Bluetooth audio device, the first Bluetooth audio device may switch to communicating with the second Bluetooth audio device over a second type of Bluetooth connection or over a wireless mesh network. The first Bluetooth audio device may maintain a Bluetooth connection of the first type with a mobile device regardless of how the first Bluetooth audio device communicates with the second Bluetooth audio device.
US10785812B2
A method and device for communication connection are provided. The method may include: sending by a host device, a broadcast connection request to slave device according to a first timer and a broadcast frequency hopping information of the host device; the broadcast connection request being used to set the currently used frequency hopping information by a target slave device as the communication frequency hopping information; receiving by a the host device, a broadcast acknowledgement response sent from the slave device, sending by the host device, a connection request to the slave device having sent the broadcast acknowledgement response, according to the first timer and the communication frequency hopping information; and establishing by the host device, a communication connection with the slave device having sent the broadcast acknowledgement response. This method can reduce the delay of establishing a communication connection between a host device and a slave device.
US10785806B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit a first signal; listen, after transmitting the first signal and during a listening interval, for a second signal from a user equipment (UE) affected by the first signal, the second signal being indicative of interference at the first UE; receive the second signal during the listening interval; and initiate an interference management procedure based on receipt of the second signal.
US10785802B2
For handling multi UL access procedures, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver for communicating with a mobile communication network using a plurality of radio bearers. The processor initiates a first random-access procedure for a first radio bearer. The processor receives a scheduling request trigger for a second radio bearer while the first random-access procedure remains pending. The processor determines whether simultaneous scheduling request transmission is permitted, wherein the transceiver transmits a first scheduling request message for the second radio bearer in response to simultaneous scheduling request transmission being permitted.
US10785799B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device (e.g., a user equipment and/or base station) may select a beam configuration for a wireless transmission over a channel of a radio frequency spectrum band. The wireless device may perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure on the channel using a LBT detection threshold, wherein the LBT detection threshold is based at least in part on the selected beam configuration. The wireless device may perform the wireless transmission over the channel using the selected beam configuration based at least in part on a success of the LBT procedure.
US10785796B2
A transport block size (TBS) of a first uplink message (RACH Msg3) transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) during a random access procedure in a User Equipment (UE) accessing a radio access network may be determined by receiving a pathloss threshold parameter. A downlink pathloss value indicative of radio link conditions between the UE and a base station (eNB) serving the UE is then determined. A smaller value of TBS is selected from a set of TBS values if the determined pathloss value is greater than an operating power level of the UE minus the pathloss threshold parameter. A larger value of TBS is selected if the pathloss value is less than the operating power level of the UE minus the pathloss threshold parameter and the TBS required to transmit the RACH Msg3 exceeds the smaller TBS value.
US10785795B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a signaling field of a first PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) through the transceiver, and access a channel based on information identifying a Basic Service Set (BSS) indicated by the signaling field.
US10785789B2
Systems and methods relating to transmit patterns that define multiple transmit opportunities for a wireless device in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a cellular communications network comprises receiving an indication of one or more transmit patterns for one or more logical channel groups. Each transmit pattern of the one or more transmit patterns defines a plurality of transmit opportunities. The method further comprises, based on the one or more transmit patterns, determining when to transmit a scheduling request for transmission of data in accordance with the one or more transmit patterns. The method further comprises, upon determining that it is time to transmit a scheduling request, transmitting a scheduling request to a radio access node to thereby request resources for transmission of uplink data in accordance with the one or more transmit patterns.
US10785786B2
Systems, apparatuses and method related to remotely executable instructions are described. A device may be wirelessly coupled to (e.g., physically separated) another device, which may be in a physically separate device. The another device may remotely execute instructions associated with performing various operations, which would have been entirely executed at the device absent the another device. The outputs obtained as a result of the execution may be transmitted, via the transceiver, back to the device via a wireless communication link (e.g., using resources of an ultra high frequency (UHF), super high frequency (SHF), extremely high frequency (EHF), and/or tremendously high frequency (THF) bands). The another device at which the instructions are remotely executable may include memory resources, processing resources, and transceiver resources; they may be configured to use one or several communication protocols over licensed or shared frequency spectrum bands, directly (e.g., device-to-device) or indirectly (e.g., via a base station).
US10785780B2
The present disclosure provides a network system and a network communication method. In some implementations, a cache server or an application server is moved from an IDC equipment room in a metropolitan area network to a local radio access network or an IP transport network between the radio access network and a wireless core network, and an edge node is deployed to steer a TCP packet for a central server to the cache server or the application server, to implement traffic scheduling.
US10785779B2
Disclosed are a method for determining a resource priority, a processing device, a processing system and a UE. The method for determining the resource priority can include: performing, on a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), at least one of the following operations: performing energy detection to obtain a detection result and performing information decoding to obtain a decoding result; and weighting at least one of the detection result and the decoding result to determine a priority of a PSCCH resource, or determining the priority of the PSCCH resource according to at least one of the detection result and the decoding result.
US10785775B2
The disclosure discloses a Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression (NAICS) method, apparatus, system and related device, for NAICS based on existing hardware configuration of a terminal. A first NAICS method includes the following steps. NAICS capability information reported by a User Equipment (UE) is received. NAICS assisted signalling is issued to the UE according to the NAICS capability information and/or interference information of a neighbouring base station. A second NAICS method includes the following steps. Transmission Modes (TM) are divided into N TM subsets, each TM subset including at least one TM, N being a natural number. A neighbouring base station is notified of a TM subset scheduled for an interfering UE, wherein the interfering UE includes a UE located at the edge of a coverage area of the neighbouring base station, and the notified TM subset does not include a high-complexity TM.
US10785764B2
The present application provides an information change transmission method and device related to a single-cell multicast service. According to one aspect, a method executed by user equipment (UE) is provided, comprising: receiving downlink control information (DCI) on a second narrow-band physical downlink control channel (NPDCCH); receiving an information change notification for a single-cell multicast control channel (SC-MCCH) according to the information on the second NPDCCH; and receiving SC-MCCH information according to an indication of DCI on a first NPDCCH. The SC-MCCH information change notification is comprised in the DCI of the second NPDCCH or a message indicated by the DCI of the second NPDCCH. The present application further provides a corresponding method executed by a base station, and corresponding user equipment (UE) and a base station.
US10785760B2
A base station according to one embodiment comprises a controller configured to perform a downlink transmission process using a subframe. The subframe comprises a main PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) region located at a head portion of the subframe, and a data region other than the main PDCCH region. The data region comprises a short TTI region to which a short TTI (Transmission Time Interval) having a shorter time length than the subframe is applied. The short TTI region comprises a sub-PDCCH region. The controller is configured to arrange information indicating the sub-PDCCH region in the main PDCCH region.
US10785759B2
Methods and apparatuses for determining numerology bandwidth in a wireless communication system are disclosed herein. In one method, a user equipment receives information for a numerology. The information comprises a frequency location and a bandwidth. The UE derives a resource allocation for the numerology based on the frequency location and the bandwidth.
US10785757B2
The present disclosure relates to uplink control information sending methods, uplink control information receiving methods, apparatus, and systems. One example method includes receiving, by a terminal device, channel indication information from an access network device on a physical control channel, determining a channel resource set of N channel resource sets that matches a size of uplink control information (UCI) as a first channel resource set, determining a first channel resource from the first channel resource set according to the channel indication information, and sending the UCI to the access network device on the first channel resource.
US10785755B2
There is provided user equipment of a radio communication system provided with a base station and the user equipment, the user equipment including a reporting unit that reports, to the base station, a band combination supported by the user equipment, a MIMO layer number, and a modulation scheme, and a UE category supported by the user equipment; and a receiver that receives, upon detecting that a maximum bit rate that is achievable by carrier aggregation performed with the band combination supported by the user equipment, the MIMO layer number, and the modulation scheme exceeds a maximum bit rate to be supported by the UE category supported by the user equipment, data from the base station with a bit rate that is less than or equal to the maximum bit rate to be supported by the user equipment under the UE category.
US10785753B1
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first device, wherein the first device is configured with a sidelink resource pool comprising a frequency region of sidelink data transmission and multiple frequency regions of sidelink feedback transmission, wherein the multiple frequency regions of sidelink feedback transmission in one TTI (Transmission Time Interval) are separately associated with the one frequency region of sidelink data transmission in multiple TTIs, and wherein the multiple frequency regions of sidelink feedback transmission in the one TTI are non-overlapped with each other in frequency domain and fully overlapped in time domain. In one embodiment, the method includes the first device receiving a sidelink data transmission from a second device within the frequency region of sidelink data transmission in a first TTI. The method further includes the first device generating a feedback information associated with the sidelink data transmission. The method also includes the first device determining or deriving a sidelink feedback resource within one frequency region of sidelink feedback transmission among the multiple frequency regions of sidelink feedback transmission, wherein the one frequency region of sidelink feedback transmission is determined or derived based on association with the first TTI. In addition, the method includes the first device performing a sidelink feedback transmission for delivering the feedback information to the second device on the sidelink feedback resource.
US10785751B2
Techniques are described for wireless communications. One method includes determining a contention window size for a first broadcast transmission or a first multicast transmission on at least one channel of a shared radio frequency spectrum band, where the first broadcast transmission or the first multicast transmission is targeted for a first plurality of UEs, and contending for access to the at least one channel of the shared radio frequency spectrum band for the first broadcast transmission or the first multicast transmission based at least in part on the determined contention window size. In some cases, the first broadcast transmission or the first multicast transmission may be an example of a multipoint transmission, which may include a coordinated multipoint transmission.
US10785749B2
A method, network node and wireless device for regulating paging of a wireless device in a wireless communication system are provided. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving at a current network node current enhanced paging identification, EPI, information. The EPI information includes an identification of the wireless device, an identification of a base station serving the wireless device, and a status of the wireless device as being one of a stationary device and a low mobility device. The method further includes receiving a paging request that identifies the wireless device and transmitting the paging request to only the base station serving the wireless device, as indicated by the current EPI information.
US10785745B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a system for scaling multi-core neurosynaptic networks. The system comprises multiple network circuits. Each network circuit comprises a plurality of neurosynaptic core circuits. Each core circuit comprises multiple electronic neurons interconnected with multiple electronic axons via a plurality of electronic synapse devices. An interconnect fabric couples the network circuits. Each network circuit has at least one network interface. Each network interface for each network circuit enables data exchange between the network circuit and another network circuit by tagging each data packet from the network circuit with corresponding routing information.
US10785744B1
Offloading of location computation from a location server to an access point through the use of projections on base phase vectors may be provided. First, an Access Point (AP) may receive a set of two or more base phase vectors from a location server. Next, the AP may measure a measured phase vector for a first signal from a user device. Then, the AP can determine projection values based on a comparison of the measured phase vector to each base phase vector. From these comparisons, the AP can determine a subset of base phase vectors with the highest projection values. The AP can then send the projection values and the subset of base phase vectors to the location server, wherein the location server determines the device location from these projection values and subset of base phase vectors.
US10785743B2
A positioning method includes sending, by a to-be-positioned node, a first request to a first node, where the first request includes device information of N second nodes, and the N is a positive integer greater than or equal to one, receiving measurement information from the first node, where the measurement information includes location information of the N second nodes and distances between the first node and the N second nodes, and obtaining location information of the to-be-positioned node according to the measurement information and measurement time information obtained through monitoring a process in which the first node performs distance measurement.
US10785738B2
A deviation of time at which downlink signals synchronously transmitted from a macro-cell base station and a small-cell base station respectively reach a communication terminal apparatus can be made within an allowable range, without being affected by transmission delay in transmission cables of base station and propagation delay in radio transmission paths. The small-cell base station is provided with a radio transceiving section connected with antenna, a radio communication control section, a transmission cable connected with the radio transceiving section and the radio communication control section, and a downlink signal receiving section for receiving downlink signals transmitted from the macro-cell base station and the own base station respectively. The small-cell base station measures a reception-timing difference of downlink signals transmitted from the macro-cell base station and the own base station based on a reception result of the downlink signal, adjusts a transmission timing of downlink signal of the own base station based on the reception-timing difference, and transmits a downlink signal at the adjusted transmission timing.
US10785735B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods associated with asynchronous synchronization reference source selection and reselection for wireless communication devices are disclosed herein. In embodiments, one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to establish a sidelink connection with a first synchronization reference (SyncRef) UE, and monitor for physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) synchronization signals from a second SyncRef UE, wherein the UE is to drop one or more subframes of data reception of the sidelink connection with the first SyncRef UE when the UE monitors for the PSBCH synchronization signals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10785731B2
Embodiments provide a transmit power determining method. Under this method, a first wireless communications device determines its distance to a second wireless communications device a working frequency of the second wireless communications device, and a first condition is met. If the first wireless communications device determines that its maximum transmit power is greater than a preset threshold, it adjusts the maximum transmit power, so that the adjusted maximum transmit power is equal to or less than the preset threshold. The preset threshold is used to suppress interference caused by the first wireless communications device to receiving performance of the second wireless communications device under the first condition. The first condition includes the distance to the second wireless communications device being less than or equal to a first threshold, and a working frequency difference between the first and second wireless communications devices being less than or equal to a second threshold.
US10785730B2
A power control method and a base station are provided. The base station obtains a first resource block (RB) set and a second RB set after a power control cycle arrives, wherein the first RB set is an RB set that is allocated by the first base station to first user equipment (UE) in a first cell at each transmission time interval (TTI) in the power control cycle, and the second RB set is an RB set that is allocated by a second base station to second UE in a second cell at each TTI in the power control cycle. Then the base station performs power control on the first UE based on the first RB set and the second RB set.
US10785728B2
A method of an apparatus controlling transmit power of uplink channels in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes configuring, for a UE, a primary serving cell on which a first uplink control channel is transmitted from the UE; configuring, for the UE, a secondary serving cell on which a second uplink control channel is transmitted from the UE; configuring a first TPC command and a second TPC command in a single TPC command group, the first TPC command being associated with transmit power of the uplink control information of the primary serving cell, the second TPC command being associated with transmit power of the uplink control information of the secondary serving cell, scrambling downlink control information (DCI) based on an identifier associated with a TPC, the DCI comprising the single TPC command group; transmitting, to the UE, a downlink control channel comprising the scrambled DCI.
US10785727B2
Certain embodiments relate to a method for use in a wireless device. The method comprises distributing uplink power among parallel transmissions that the wireless device has scheduled during a subframe on two or more uplink physical channels. The parallel transmissions comprise one or more short transmission time interval, sTTI, transmissions, and the UL power is distributed according to at least one prioritization rule. According to one of the prioritization rules, sTTI transmissions comprising control information are prioritized over sTTI transmissions comprising data without any control information. According to another of the prioritization rules, transmissions with shorter transmission time intervals are prioritized over transmissions with longer transmission time intervals.
US10785720B2
A method for managing power during communication with an implantable medical device, including establishing a communications link, utilizing a power corresponding to a session start power, to initiate a current session between an implantable medical device (IMD) and external device. A telemetry break condition of the communications link is monitored during the current session. The power utilized by the IMD is adjusted between low and high power levels, during the current session based on the telemetry break condition. The number of sessions is counted, including the current session and one or more prior sessions, in which the IMD utilized the higher power level, and a level for the session start power to be utilized to initiate a next session following the current session is adaptively learned based on the counting of the number of sessions.
US10785692B2
In a mobile telecommunications system method neighboring cell list information indicating neighboring cells is obtained. Classification information of cells in the neighboring cell list information is obtained. A mobility state of a user equipment is obtained, and selecting at least one candidate cell to be measured is selected based on the neighboring cell list information, the classification information and the mobility state of the user equipment.
US10785687B2
The application relates to the removal of one of the links in multi-flow HSPA but the proposed method is also applicable to normal HSDPA operation during handover. In particular the application aims at minimizing the negative impact of a removed radio link, i.e. drop of packets and/or delays. According to the proposed method, in which the radio link to be removed is via a first Node B NB1 (RL Removal Req), the NB1 ends the pending data transmission and informs the controlling RNC about the data which was not transmitted, in particular in the form of the lowest sequence number in its buffer. Subsequently, the RNC decides, based on this sequence number, which data packets need to be retransmitted on a second radio link via a second node B NB2, and instructs NB2 accordingly (Data Forwarding).
US10785678B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide example congestion control methods, base stations, and user equipment. After determining that congestion control needs to be performed, a base station determines a congestion control policy, and determines, from UE in coverage of the base station, first UE that needs to perform adjustment according to the congestion control policy. The base station can then send the congestion control policy to the first UE, so that the first UE performs adjustment, to alleviate a congestion status of a PC5 interface. In this process, the base station performs centralized control on all UE in the coverage of the base station.
US10785669B2
A method of reporting channel state information by a UE in a wireless communication system is provided. Specifically, A method of transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), power measurement information related to beam reporting in a wireless communication system includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) triggering reporting of the power measurement information; receiving a downlink reference signal for reporting of the power measurement information; and transmitting, to a base station, power measurement information determined based on the received downlink reference signal. A minimum required time for reporting of the power measurement information is (i) calculated as the sum of a first minimum required time from the last timing of the downlink reference signal to a transmission timing of the power measurement information and a second minimum required time between DCI triggering the downlink reference signal and reception of the downlink reference signal or (ii) calculated based on a pre-configured threshold value related to reporting of the power measurement information.
US10785666B2
Monitoring and injection systems and methods for targeted communications over a wireless network include sensing traffic over the wireless network to identify clients thereon and observe activity on the wireless network; analyzing the traffic based on the sensing and an analysis engine to determine an injection of a targeted communication for a client; and injecting the targeted communication as a raw packet over the wireless network to the client. The method can also include sensing a request from the client; determining the injection responsive to the request; and constructing the raw packet in response to the request such that the raw packet is received prior to a response to the request.
US10785664B2
The disclosure provides a method of operating a communication network. The method includes receiving input data related to a state of the communication network and determining an implementation policy for the communication network based on the input data. The implementation policy is a set of features for forming one or more communication links in the communication network over a time interval. The one or more communication links includes at least one communication link between a terrestrial terminal and a high-altitude platform terminal. Determining the implementation policy is based at least in part on utility values of previous policies. The utility values of previous policies are derived using simulation and/or real-world implementation of the previous policies. The communication network is then operated to implement the implementation policy in the time interval.
US10785659B2
A relay node in a mobile communication network for relaying communications between a base station and a mobile terminal. The relay node includes a first communication unit that communicates with the base station via a backhaul link using at least one of a first modulation method and a first multiplexing method, and a second communication unit that communicates with the mobile terminal via an access link using at least one of a second modulation method and a second multiplexing method. The relay node also includes a communication control unit that selects the at least one of the first modulation method and the first multiplexing method, or selects the at least one of the second modulation method and the second multiplexing method based on a characteristic of a link, a type of link or a type of data included in a communication signal.
US10785654B1
A wireless device includes: a plurality of antennas; a first correlation series generator configured to generate a first correlation series based on transmission data; a second correlation series generator configured to generate a second correlation series based on the first correlation series; a first modulator configured to modulate the transmission data to generate a first modulated signal; a second modulator configured to modulate the first correlation series to generate a second modulated signal; a third modulator configured to modulate the second correlation series to generate a third modulated signal; a signal combiner configured to combine the first to third modulated signals to generate first to third transmission signals; and a transmitter configured to output the first to third transmission signals respectively via first to third antennas among the plurality of antennas.
US10785648B2
This document discloses a solution for enabling biometric authentication of a station. According to an aspect, the solution comprises transmitting, from the station, a trigger to include biometric data of a user of the station in authentication; a logic at a network node to handle the trigger and cause execution of an authentication procedure that employs the biometric data when performing said authentication procedure in a wireless access network; and indicating a result of the authentication to the station.
US10785645B2
Disclosed herein are different techniques for enabling a mobile device to dynamically support different authentication algorithms. A first technique involves configuring an eUICC included in the mobile device to implement various authentication algorithms that are utilized by MNOs (e.g., MNOs with which the mobile device can interact). Specifically, this technique involves the eUICC storing executable code for each of the various authentication algorithms. According to this technique, the eUICC is configured to manage at least one eSIM, where the eSIM includes (i) an identifier that corresponds to one of the various authentication algorithms implemented by the eUICC, and (ii) authentication parameters that are compatible with the authentication algorithm. A second technique involves configuring the eUICC to interface with an eSIM to extract (i) executable code for an authentication algorithm used by an MNO that corresponds to the eSIM, and (ii) authentication parameters that are compatible with the authentication algorithm.
US10785639B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a group communication method, a device, and a group communication system, and relate to the communications field, so as to accurately identify a cell range in which group communication data is to be broadcast and to improve utilization of a downlink transmission resource. The group communication method may include obtaining, by a server, a first group identifier, where the first group identifier is determined based on location information of first user equipment. The method may also include obtaining, by the server, group communication data sent by the first user equipment. Furthermore, the method may include sending, by the server, the group communication data in a cell corresponding to the first group identifier based on the first group identifier.
US10785637B2
An access and mobility management function receives a registration request for a wireless device from a radio access network. The access and mobility management function sends a first message to a network repository function in response to receiving the registration request. The first message comprises: at least one single network slice selection assistance information of at least one network slice; and network slice isolation information for the at least one single network slice selection assistance information. The access and mobility management function receives from the network repository function, a second message comprising an Internet protocol address of a session management function. The session management function is selected based on the network slice isolation information for the at least one single network slice selection assistance information. The access and mobility management function sends a session create request for the wireless device to the session management function.
US10785632B2
Provided is a communication measure for registering information about a terminal apparatus in various apparatuses, such as a control apparatus and a terminal apparatus, included in a communication system in which a protocol used for registration management or registration information management for a mobile communication service is shared, based on the states of the various apparatuses. Also provided is a communication control measure for updating the information about the terminal apparatus registered in the various apparatuses. Thus, there are provided, in a communication system in which a protocol used for registration management or registration information management for a mobile communication service is shared, a measure for registration management based on the states of various apparatuses included in the communication system, such as a control apparatus and a terminal apparatus, and a realization measure for determining post-registration behavior.
US10785623B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for priority handling for ProSe Communications. A relay wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may act as a relay between the network and the remote WTRU. The relay WTRU may receive a temporary mobile group identity (TMGI) request message from a remote WTRU. The TMGI request message may include a TMGI, a ProSe per packet priority level associated with the TMGI, etc. The relay WTRU may receive an evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service (eMBMS) data packet from a network. The eMBMS may be associated with the TMGI. The relay WTRU may apply the received ProSe per packet priority level associated with the TMGI to the received eMBMS data packet. The relay WTRU may relay the eMBMS data packet to the remote WTRU based on the ProSe per packet priority level. The relay WTRU may forward the eMBMS data packet to the remote WTRU via a PC5 interface.
US10785615B2
Systems and methods may provide for establishing a data usage budget based on one or more of user input and historical usage data, wherein the data usage budget distinguishes between usage types and distinguishes between connection types. Additionally, a data usage of one or more client devices may be monitored in accordance with the data usage budget. In one example, the usage types are designated as one or more of a high bandwidth usage and a low bandwidth usage, and the connection types are designated as one or more of a capped connection and a non-capped connection.
US10785614B2
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method that enables short message service (SMS) text messaging to be integrated into existing applications is presented. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include receiving a request from a client application to transmit a message to a recipient device. The method may further include adding the message transmission request to an outbound queue based on determining the message transmission request is valid. In response to successfully validating the request, the method causes transmission of the message to the recipient device.
US10785607B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for processing a multi-level transmission sent on a common set of resources using superposition coding, comprising determining a first group radio network temporary identifier (GRNTI), wherein the GRNTI is associated with a broadcast transmission to a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs), determining a second GRNTI, wherein the second GRNTI is associated with a transmission to a subset of the plurality of WTRUs that received the first GRNTI, receiving the multi-level transmission, wherein the multi-level transmission comprises a first level message and a second level message, decoding the first level message from the multi-level transmission using the first GRNTI and preconfigured control information, and decoding the second level message from the multi-level transmission using the second GRNTI.
US10785604B1
Methods, computer-readable media, systems, and/or apparatuses for evaluating movement data to identify a user as a driver or non-driver passenger are provided. In some examples, movement data may be received from a mobile device of a user. The movement data may include sensor data including location data, such as global positioning system (GPS) data, accelerometer and/or gyroscope data, and the like. Additional data may be retrieved from one or more other sources. For instance, additional data such as usage of applications on the mobile device, public transportation schedules and routes, image data, vehicle operation data, and the like, may be received and analyzed with the movement data to determine whether the user of the mobile device was a driver or non-driver passenger of the vehicle. Based on the determination, the data may be deleted in some examples or may be further processed to generate one or more outputs.
US10785593B1
A method of detecting, controlling and managing transmission of a transmitting device within a facility is disclosed. The method involves transmitting information to the transmission device, detecting a response transmission from the transmission device by a least one transmission detection facility, extracting identification information associated with the transmission device in response to the transmitted information; and determining a location of the transmission device based on the response transmission received by the at least one received transmission detection facility, wherein the response transmissions are sorted by the identification information, determining an allowability of the located transmission device with the set area and interacting and manipulating transmission of the detected transmitting device.
US10785587B2
Headphones include one or more microphones that capture ambient sound in an environment of a user. The headphones play music from a smartphone and the ambient sound through speakers. An amplitude of the ambient sound playing through the speakers is adjusted in response to determining an atmospheric pressure in the environment or movement of the smartphone with the user.
US10785585B2
A hearing device includes: a processing unit configured to compensate for hearing loss of a user of the hearing device; a memory unit; and an interface; wherein the memory unit has a hearing device certificate stored therein, the hearing device certificate comprising: a hearing device identifier, a plurality of hearing device keys, at least one hearing device key identifier indicative of one of the hearing device keys.
US10785572B2
A terminal component is applied to a speaker, and includes two terminals, a sleeve seat, and two fixing heads. Each terminal includes a terminal head and a terminal body. The sleeve seat includes two terminal blocks. The two terminal blocks respectively accommodate the two terminal bodies, so that the two terminal heads are exposed outside the sleeve seat. The two fixing heads are respectively combined with the two terminal heads, to respectively fasten two wires to the two terminals.
US10785571B2
A speaker capable of active cooling includes a basin frame, and a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system accommodated in the basin frame. The vibration system includes a diaphragm and a voice coil fixed on the diaphragm through a top end of a winding portion thereof. The magnetic circuit system includes a T-iron, a magnet and a washer, wherein the washer and the magnet are located above the T-iron, a magnetic gap is formed between the washer and the magnet and the T-iron, and the voice coil moves up and down in the magnetic gap. The speaker further comprises an active cooling module fixed to a back of the T-iron, and the active cooling module cools the magnetic circuit system by means of heat conduction.
US10785570B2
Content rules engines for playback devices are disclosed herein. A media playback system receives a first command to form a synchrony group comprising a plurality of playback devices. The system receives a second command for the synchrony group to play back first audio content. In response to the second command, the first audio content is played back via the synchrony group. The system receives (i) second audio content to be played back by one or more of the playback devices of the synchrony group and (ii) content source properties associated with an audio source of the second audio content. The system accesses a rules engine to determine playback restrictions based at least in part on the content source properties. Based at least in part on the playback restrictions, operation of one or more of the playback devices is restricted.
US10785551B2
A loudspeaker includes a first electro-acoustic driver that creates sound waves when operated, and a housing. A first baffle is coupled to the housing and the first electro-acoustic driver. A first speaker grille covers the first electro-acoustic driver. A first gasket is disposed between the first baffle and the first speaker grille. The first gasket comprises a first set of energy directors to reduce buzzing between the first gasket and the first baffle.
US10785548B2
A method for providing information about a mechanical wristwatch, including the following steps, performed by the wristwatch: harvesting an intermittently available external energy, storing the harvested energy, at the end of a predefined period of time, generating an analysis report on an activity of the owner of the wristwatch, based at least on the times and durations of availability of the external energy, when or after the harvested energy quantity reaches a threshold, the threshold being on or above an energy level required to power a transmission unit of the wristwatch, wirelessly transmitting the analysis report to a distant reader with the transmission unit.
US10785528B2
Method, device and system for access control for wireless streaming of audio-visual data to a receiver device, it comprising the steps of: wirelessly connecting the receiver device to a plurality of sender devices positioned in an area, transmitting, by the receiver device, a privilege signal pertaining to a sender device to obtain a privileged status, the privilege signal having spatial coverage within the area, extracting, by at least one of sender devices, privilege credentials from the privilege signal, and transmitting the privilege credentials from the at least one sender device to the receiver device to acquire privileged status, controlling, by a sender device having a privilege status, access of wireless data streaming from any other sender devices to the receiver device. The method, device and system can be advantageous as it differentiates users and permits privileged sender device to control wireless streaming of audio-visual data from other sender devices to the receiver device.
US10785523B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for managing a video streaming queue during a planned trip are provided. Aspects include receiving a list of content items from a user for viewing during the planned trip and receiving information regarding the planned trip. Aspects also include analyzing the content items to identify one or more properties of each of the content items in the list and determining a playback order for the content items in the list based on the one or more properties of each of the content items and the information regarding the planned trip.
US10785521B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top-box (STB) having a controller to join a multicast group having an associated multicast address, wherein the multicast address is associated with a first content type of a plurality of content types, access encoded content associated with the first content type from the multicast address, wherein the encoded content is transmitted by at least one source associated with the multicast group to the multicast address, decode the accessed encoded content, and display the decoded content on a channel mapped to the multicast address. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10785512B2
Techniques related to providing video on a variety of transports are discussed. Such techniques include transmitting and receiving separate first and second video streams such that a first video stream includes a base frame of composed video content and the second video stream includes a user interaction frame of user interaction content and, after receiving the video streams, combining the base frame and the user interaction frame to generate a composite frame for presentment by a display.
US10785509B2
A heat map creation engine receives a series of image frames from amongst a plurality of image frames of a media, where the series of image frames includes a target frame and at least one neighboring frame. The heat map creation engine also extracts spatial-temporal features of the image frames, rescales the spatial-temporal features to obtain heat distribution over the target frame, and creates a heat map for the target frame based on the heat distribution. A semantic segmentation engine segments the image frames into multiple media objects based on pre-defined classes, and selects one or more media objects from amongst the media objects based on pre-defined conditions. A heat ranking engine ranks the selected one or more media objects in the media based on the heat scores and the created heat map.
US10785508B2
An apparatus and method for using a server to generate per-user manifest files for providing unique viewing experiences and proxy modules local to video players receiving the manifest files for measuring video playback events with frame accuracy is disclosed. In one aspect, a server may be used to generate a manifest file for directing a video player to play requested video content in a video stream with advertising or other alternative content which may be desired. A proxy module local to the video player may parse the video stream to inject triggers at frame accurate locations which may be desired for measuring, such as at a precise frame in which the alternative content starts, stops, and/or reaches a midpoint with respect to the requested video content.
US10785507B2
System and method for facilitating advertisements within viewed content. The advertisements may be banner advertisements or other advertisement. The advertisements may be included in such a manner that if a user skips or otherwise fast forwards through the advertisements, the user if force to skip through at least a portion of the viewed content.
US10785504B2
An image processing device including a decoding section configured to decode an image from an encoded stream, a horizontal filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a vertical block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, a vertical filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a horizontal block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, and a control section configured to cause the horizontal filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of vertical block boundaries included in a processing unit containing a plurality of coding units and cause the vertical filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of horizontal block boundaries included in the processing unit.
US10785503B2
Disclosed is a prediction method adopting in-loop filtering. According to the present invention, a prediction method for encoding and decoding video comprises the following steps: generating a residual block of the current block through an inverse quantization and inverse transform; generating a prediction block of the current block through an intra-prediction; performing in-loop filtering on the current block in which the residual block and the prediction block are combined; and storing the current block, on which the in-loop filtering is performed, in a frame buffer for an intra-prediction of the next block to be encoded. As described above, prediction is performed using an in-loop filter during processes for encoding and decoding video, thereby improving the accuracy of prediction and reducing errors in prediction, thus improving the efficiency of video compression and reducing the amount of data to be transmitted.
US10785499B2
The present invention provides a method for encoding a video signal by using an enhanced prediction signal, the method comprising the steps of: generating a prediction signal for a current block, wherein the prediction signal is generated by applying a prediction weight to a reconstructed pixel of the current block and a pixel of a motion-compensated previously decoded block; obtaining an optimal quantized transform coefficient for the current block through rate-distortion optimization, on the basis of the prediction signal; and performing entropy encoding of the optimal quantized transform coefficient.
US10785498B2
System and method of mapping multiple reference frame motion estimation on a multi core digital signal processor is disclosed. The method includes considering at least one motion vector of a plurality of neighbouring macro blocks present in a current frame and a co-located frame to find a best prediction point motion vector set, collecting a best data block among a plurality of data blocks from a plurality of reference frames according to a plurality of sets of motion vectors at a first pipeline stage, transmitting a data searched related to the plurality of sets of motion vectors from the second level of memory to a first level of memory of a second digital signal processor at a second pipeline stage and finding a best motion vector by utilizing a cost based search on the second digital signal processor is performed at third pipeline stage.
US10785497B2
In accordance with a first aspect, the intra prediction direction of a neighboring, intra-predicted block is used in order to predict the extension direction of the wedgelet separation line of a current block, thereby reducing the side information rate necessitated in order to convey the partitioning information. In accordance with a second aspect, the idea is that previously reconstructed samples, i.e. reconstructed values of blocks preceding the current block in accordance with the coding/decoding order allow for at least a prediction of a correct placement of a starting point of the wedgelet separation line, namely by placing the starting point of the wedgelet separation line at a position of a maximum change between consecutive ones of a sequence of reconstructed values of samples of a line of samples extending adjacent to the current block along a circumference thereof. Both aspects may be used individually or in combination.
US10785493B2
A method of compressing image data is described in which a difference value is formed for a respective pixel, said difference value corresponding to a predetermined relation between the pixel value and the estimated pixel value of the respective pixel and being represented by a first binary word that has a first length. The first binary word is encoded by at least one second binary word that has a second predetermined length. the first length is compared with the second length to determine whether the first length is smaller than the second length, with the first binary word otherwise being completely encoded by a single second binary word when the first length is smaller than the second length, and with the first binary word otherwise being completely encoded by a plurality of second binary words. A method of decompressing image data is furthermore described that corresponds to a reversal of the compression method.
US10785489B2
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for rendering a moving object. An object data package related to a moving object appearing in a monitored scene with respect to a first time instance is first received and features characterizing the moving object at the first time instance are extracted from the package, that are estimated at a monitoring rate and include a current position of the object and a current motion vector at the first time instance. Information associated with a previously rendered object at a previously rendered position at a previous time instance is retrieved and a next rendering position of the object is determined based on the current position, the current motion vector, and a rendering rate lower than the monitoring rate. The object is rendered at the next rendering position based on a motion vector and the information associated with the previously rendered object.
US10785485B1
A method and apparatus for enabling compression of a stream of pictures according to a target bit rate are described. A first configuration parameter for a first portion is determined based at least in part on a first relative weight of the first portion with respect to a first set of N portions, where the first set of N portions includes the first portion and N-1 portions which succeed the first portion. A second configuration parameter for a second portion of a second picture is determined based at least in part on a second relative weight of the second portion with respect to a second set of M portions of pictures, where the second set of M portions includes a subset of the N-1 portions from the first set and zero or more additional portions of pictures from the stream of pictures.
US10785472B2
An HMD includes a six-axis sensor, a magnetic sensor, and a head motion detecting section that detect at least one of the position and motion of a head, a reference setting section that sets a reference state based on at least one of the head position and motion detected by the head motion detecting section, and a display controlling section that changes the display state of a content displayed by the display section based on changes in the position and motion of the head with respect to those in the reference state. The content is formed of a plurality of contents, and the display controlling section changes the display state of the contents displayed by an image display section in such a way that the relative display positions of the contents are maintained.
US10785468B2
The present disclosure provides a communication method, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining, by an electronic device, a plurality of 2D images and/or a plurality of depth maps for a current scene, the plurality of 2D images and/or the plurality of depth maps being aligned in time; and transmitting, by the electronic device, the plurality of 2D images and/or the plurality of depth maps to the server by means of wireless communication.
US10785464B2
A method includes capturing, by a camera, two-dimensional imagery. The method also includes determining, by a positioning sensor, a viewing perspective of a viewer of the two-dimensional imagery. The method also includes generating at least a first imagery based at least on the captured two-dimensional imagery and the determined viewing perspective. The method also includes displaying a three-dimensional representation of the two-dimensional imagery to the viewer. The displaying the three-dimensional representation includes displaying dual imagery, and the dual imagery includes the first imagery.
US10785463B2
A method of image processing in a structured light imaging device is provided that includes capturing a plurality of images of a scene into which a structured light pattern is projected by a projector in the structured light imaging device, extracting features in each of the captured images, finding feature matches between a reference image of the plurality of captured images and each of the other images in the plurality of captured images, rectifying each of the other images to align with the reference image, wherein each image of the other images is rectified based on feature matches between the image and the reference image, combining the rectified other images and the reference image using interpolation to generate a high resolution image, and generating a depth image using the high resolution image.
US10785458B2
A method at an image capture apparatus, the method including receiving, at the image capture apparatus, a trigger to begin image capture; based on the trigger, starting image capture for a fixed duration; and providing image capture data to a processing service.
US10785456B1
A method for operating a refrigerator appliance, as provided herein, may include initiating an image capture sequence at a camera module. The image capture sequence may include a first two-dimensional image captured at the camera module and a second two-dimensional image captured at the camera module subsequent to the first two-dimensional image. The method may further include assigning an image score to the first two-dimensional image according to a predetermined grading scale, and assigning an image score to the second two-dimensional image according to the predetermined grading scale. The method may still further include comparing the image scores of the first and second two-dimensional images, and presenting one of the first and second two-dimensional images on a digital display based on comparing the image scores.
US10785455B2
A plant operating state analysis system includes a data collector which is connected to both a control network and a monitoring network and which collects both control network data and monitoring screen video data. The data collector includes a synchronization processing unit and a data display processing unit. The synchronization processing unit synchronizes the control network data and the monitoring screen video data by adding a delay time due to transmission through the monitoring network, which includes an encoding time spent by a video capturer, to the time at which the control network data has been collected. The data display processing unit reproduces and displays, on a screen, the control network data and monitoring screen video data that are synchronized by the synchronization processing unit.
US10785454B2
A display control device is provided, including: a location-information acquiring unit configured to acquire location information indicating an image-capturing target place; a route-information acquiring unit configured to acquire route information indicating a route to a destination of a first vehicle; an image-capturing-direction determining unit configured to determine, based on the location information and the route information, an image-capturing direction in which image capturing of the image-capturing target place is to be performed; a captured-image receiving unit configured to receive, from a second vehicle that captures an image of the image-capturing target place in the image-capturing direction, the captured image of the image-capturing target place; and a display control unit configured to cause the captured image to be displayed.
US10785447B2
[Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of producing the distance to a communication partner by using a three-dimensional expression to connect spaces, and realizing more comfortable communication.[Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive data from a communication destination; a generation unit configured to generate space image information in which an image corresponding to a space of the communication destination is disposed at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional space; and a display control unit configured to perform control such that the generated space image information is displayed on a display unit in a communication source.
US10785439B2
An image sensor comprising one or more processors and/or circuitry which functions as: a plurality of pixels each of which detects photons incident during a predetermined exposure period, counts a number of the photons, and outputs a first count value; a calculator that calculates a second count value per unit time based on the exposure period and the first count value; and a corrector that acquires a correction coefficient based on the second count value and corrects a detection error of the first count value using the correction coefficient, wherein the corrector acquires a larger value as the correction coefficient in a case where the second count value is a first value than in a case where the second count value is a second value which is smaller than the first value.
US10785435B2
An imaging system includes: an imaging device and a processing device mounted in a vehicle. The imaging device includes: a first pixel coupled to a first signal line, a second pixel coupled to a second signal line, the second signal line is different from the first signal line, a first latch that is coupled to the first signal line, and stores a first digital code, a second latch that is coupled to the second signal line, is adjacent to the first latch, and stores a second digital code, a transfer section that transfers digital codes outputted from the first latch and the second latch, and a diagnosis section that performs diagnosis processing on the basis of the digital codes transferred from the first latch and the second latch. The processing device restricts the function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of a result of the diagnosis processing.
US10785434B2
A visible light communication sensor is provided. The visible light communication sensor includes a sensing module, an image data readout circuit, and a visible light communication data readout circuit. The sensing module includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array. When the sensing module performs an image sensing operation, a first portion of the pixel units performs an image sensing operation, and the image data readout circuit is idle. When the sensing module performs a visible light communication operation, a second portion of the plurality of pixel units receives a visible light communication signal, so that the visible light communication data readout circuit outputs the visible light communication data, and the image data readout circuit performs an analog-to-digital conversion on a plurality of image sensing signals outputted by the first portion of the plurality of pixel units performed in the image sensing operation to output image sensing data.
US10785412B2
An image capturing apparatus includes a sensor controller and a distance calculator. The sensor controller acquires a target image and a first reference image. The point spread function (PSF) of the target image is point-asymmetric, and the PSF of the first reference image being point-symmetric. The image sensor receives light having passed through a filter region that changes PSFs for sensor images of at least one kind into point-asymmetric forms, and then generates the target image for which a PSF has been changed into a point-asymmetric form by the filter region, and the first reference image that is not the target image. The distance calculator calculates the distance to an object captured in the target image and the first reference image, in accordance with the correlations each between an image obtained by convoluting a blur kernel to the target images and the first reference image.
US10785406B2
A method of assisting photography includes: receiving input related to an object of interest to be photographed; obtaining a collection of information sets associated with the object of interest, each of the information sets including a respective location at which to take a respective photograph of the object of interest; selecting a particular information set of the collection of information sets, the location in the particular information set being a particular location at which to take a particular photograph of the object of interest; and providing user directional guidance through a user interface of a mobile device to direct a user of the mobile device to the particular location.
US10785391B2
An optical image capturing module is provided, including a circuit assembly and a lens assembly. The circuit assembly may include a circuit substrate, a plurality of image sensor elements, a plurality of signal transmission elements, and a multi-lens frame. The image sensor elements may be connected to the circuit substrate. The signal transmission elements may be electrically connected between the circuit substrate and the image sensor elements. The multi-lens frame may be manufactured integrally and covered on the circuit substrate and the image sensor elements. The signal transmission elements may be embedded in the multi-lens frame. The lens assembly may include a lens base, a fixed-focus lens assembly, an auto-focus lens assembly, and a driving assembly. The lens base may be fixed to a multi-lens frame. The fixed-focus lens assembly and the auto-focus lens assembly may have at least two lenses with refractive power.
US10785390B2
An imaging device includes an image sensor, an optical element arranged in front of the image sensor, an electromechanical converter attached to the optical element, and a controller configured to provide a control signal to the electromechanical converter to control a vibration of the electromechanical converter. An amplitude of the control signal has a first amplitude value when a frequency of the control signal has a first frequency value. The amplitude of the control signal has a second amplitude value smaller than the first amplitude value when the frequency of the control signal has a second frequency value that is closer to a resonant frequency of the optical member than the first frequency value.
US10785385B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to a tangible, non-transitory machine-readable medium that includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive multimedia content that includes a plurality of multimedia content portions of the multimedia content. The instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, also cause the processing circuitry to receive text data corresponding to words spoken in the multimedia content. The text data includes a plurality of text data subdivisions of the text data. Moreover, the instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to align the multimedia content and the text data by determining, for each of the plurality of multimedia content portions, a corresponding subdivision of the plurality of text data subdivisions. Furthermore, the instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to cause display of the multimedia content aligned to the text data.
US10785379B2
A server system may, in a case where identification information for identifying an apparatus is inputted to a first terminal device, receive the identification information from the first terminal device; in a case where the identification information is received from the first terminal device, generate a URL including related information related to the identification information; send a message including the URL to a second terminal device; in a case where a selection instruction of selecting the URL included in the message is inputted to the second terminal device, receive the related information from the second terminal device; and in a case where the related information is received from the second terminal device, send screen information to the second terminal device, the screen information representing a registration screen for registering service information in the server system.
US10785369B1
Call record data for telephone numbers of callers are received. A telephone number of a caller is determined as used to place a telephone call to a recipient telephone number of a call recipient. The call record data are analyzed using graph analytics to generate a reliability score for the telephone number that represents a likelihood that the caller is known to the call recipient. The call record data are analyzed using entropy analysis to generate a behavior score for the telephone number that represents a behavior trustworthiness of the caller. The reliability score, the behavior score, and the telephone number of the caller are sent to a user device of the call recipient for the user device to generate a first indication that represents a value of the reliability score and a second indication that represents a value of the behavior score for display along with the telephone number.
US10785361B2
Provided are a method for call processing and an electronic device. The method includes the following. Voice data collected by at least two target wireless headphones of the multiple target wireless headphones are received respectively. The multiple target wireless headphones are coupled with an electronic device, and the electronic device is in a call mode. The voice data collected by the at least two target wireless headphones is sent to the other party of a call. Audio data is received from the other party and the audio data is sent to the multiple target wireless headphones respectively.
US10785357B2
A phone case designed to secure a phone to a user's hand while permitting the user to readily rotate the phone and case relative to his hand without requiring the user to release the phone from his hand. A case body has at least one slot, a portion of which is arcuate. A strap extends from a strap connector on the inside of the case body, outwardly through one of the slots, across a portion of the outside of the case body, and inwardly through a slot. The size of the strap permits a user to slide one or more fingers between the strap and the outside of the case body. The strap slides within the slot(s) when the phone case is rotated relative to a user's hand.
US10785342B1
Some embodiments provide a method for a hardware forwarding element. Based on a set of characteristics of a packet, the method determines to copy a packet to a particular temporary storage of a set of temporary storages of the hardware forwarding element. Based on a property of the particular temporary storage, the method stores only a particular portion of the packet in the particular temporary storage. A same size portion of each packet copied to the particular temporary storage is stored in the particular temporary storage.
US10785335B2
A method and system for providing private web browsing includes a client module for transmitting a request to begin a browsing session to a web server and displaying video data for the browsing session from the web server. The system also includes a database that stores a browser build in a non-executable directory including at least one executable browser file. The system also includes a web server module configured for creating a temporary executable directory and copying the executable browser file to the temporary executable directory, executing the executable browser file in the temporary executable directory, starting the browsing session, wherein all browsing session files are stored in the temporary executable directory, generating video data from the browsing session and transmitting it to the client module, and, after ending the browsing session, deleting all files in the temporary executable directory.
US10785331B2
A hosted client instance is provided over a network interface for communicatively coupling with a remote client device, the hosted client instance including a first plurality of application components for performing a plurality of actions associated with the hosted client instance. A metric is set to optimize one or more actions associated with the hosted client instance based on input from a user. One or more application components are detected based on the metric from among a second plurality of application components available on a resource server. The detected one or more application components are ranked based on: (i) a maturity score of each of the detected one or more application components; and (ii) dependency data indicating an operational dependency of each of the detected one or more application components. The ranked one or more application components are presented in a ranked order to a user.
US10785329B2
Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate meter to meter matching for media identification. Example apparatus disclosed herein include an unknown signature comparer, a stack counter, and a reference database updater. The unknown signature comparer is to select a candidate unknown signature segment meeting a threshold length from a set of unknown signature segments collected at a first audience measurement location and to compare individual signatures of the candidate unknown signature segment with a collection of unknown signature segments collected at a second audience measurement location. The stack counter is to count a number of times that the candidate unknown signature segment matches unknown signature segments in the collection and to identify the candidate unknown signature segment as a matched signature segment when the number of times meets a counter threshold. The reference database updater is to store the matched signature segment in a signature reference database.
US10785318B2
A session identification system classifies network sessions with a network application as either human-generated or generated by a non-human, such as by a bot. In an embodiment, the session identification system receives a set of unlabeled network sessions, and determines a label for a single class of the unlabeled network sessions. Based on the one-class labeling information, the session identification system determines multiple subsets of the unlabeled network sessions. Multiple classifiers included in the session identification system generate probabilities describing each of the unlabeled network sessions. The session identification system classifies each of the unlabeled network sessions based on a combination of the generated probabilities.
US10785299B2
A method embodiment commences upon identifying an on-premises storage area such as a file or virtual disk that is composed of a set of data blocks. A history of data access patterns over the data blocks is determined by observing accesses to the data blocks over time. When offsite storage is demanded (e.g., such as to a cloud-based storage facility), one or more storage objects are formed such that the blocks in a first one of the one or more storage objects comprise the blocks that have been measured to have the highest access rates (e.g., most recently accessed or most frequently accessed). Metadata that serves as a map is stored with the storage objects. A process or thread can access the storage objects in expectation that the most recently accessed or most frequently accessed blocks will be available in the first ones of the one or more storage objects.
US10785290B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request to initiate a group communication service (GCS) to wirelessly distribute media content to mobile user equipment within a target geographical region using a common radio channel A performance metric is obtained, in response to the request, for each GCS node. The performance metric is evaluated for each of the GCS nodes and one of the GCS nodes is selected based on the evaluation result. Establishment of GCS is facilitated using the selected GCS node, and a first media content item is disseminated, by way of the GCS, to the mobile user equipment within the target geographical region using the common radio channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10785274B2
Methods and systems for managing and distributing content and aggregation of data in a plurality of observation platforms are disclosed. A message is generated with content at a content distribution manager. A delivery of the message is scheduled and a plurality of specified devices are specified for delivery in a plurality of observation platforms at a designated time and/or location(s) via the content distribution manager, wherein the plurality of observation platforms are capable of receiving a signal from a first mobile device with a first characteristic that corresponds to an audible source and a second characteristic that corresponds to information indicative of a geographic position of the first mobile device and relaying the signal to a destination based on the first characteristic and/or the second characteristic. The message is delivered to the plurality of observation platforms which relays the message to the plurality of specified devices at the designated time.
US10785272B2
A streaming application upgrading method and a stream computing system, where the method includes obtaining a updated logical model of a streaming application, determining a to-be-adjusted stream by comparing the updated logical model with an initial logical model, generating an upgrading instruction according to the to-be-adjusted stream, and delivering the generated upgrading instruction to a worker node such that the worker node adjusts, according to an indication of the upgrading instruction, a stream between process elements (PEs) distributed on the worker node. The method provided in the present disclosure can upgrade the streaming application online without interrupting a service.
US10785265B2
Disclosed is a method and device for target sequence identification, wherein an optical binary sequence and an all-zero sequence are subjected to an XNOR operation and a first candidate sequence set is generated by splitting the result sequence; a second candidate sequence set is generated by splitting the optical binary sequence; multiple binary sequences are selected from the first candidate sequence set and the second candidate sequence set according to the target sequence to generate a to-be-delayed sequence set; various delay duration are configured for each binary sequence of the to-be-delayed sequence set; a to-be-matched sequence set is generated after delaying; an AND operation is performed on the sequences of the to-be-matched sequence set to generate a final sequence; and the number and position of the target sequence in the binary sequence can be determined according to the number and position of a pulse in the final sequence.
US10785262B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate end-user defined policy management. An example apparatus includes an edge node interface to detect addition of a networked user device to a service gateway, and to extract publish information from the networked user device. The example apparatus also includes a device context manager to identify tag parameters based on the publish information from the networked user device, and a tag manager to prohibit unauthorized disclosure of the networked user device by setting values of the tag parameters based on a user profile associated with a type of the networked user device.
US10785258B2
Techniques are provided that facilitate responding to cyberattacks using counter intelligence (CI) bot technology. In one embodiment, a first system is disclosed that comprises a processor and a memory. The memory can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a request from a second system requesting assistance in association with a cyberattack on the second system, wherein the request comprises information indicating a type of the cyberattack. The operations further comprise selecting a counter intelligence bot configured to respond to the type of cyberattack, and directing the counter intelligence bot to respond to the cyberattack, wherein the directing comprises enabling the counter intelligence bot to respond to the cyberattack by establishing a gateway with the second system and employing the gateway to intercept and respond to traffic associated with the cyberattack on behalf of the second system.
US10785249B2
Systems and methods for applying a risk-based approach to security inspection of network flows is provided. According to one embodiment, a packet of a flow between a first and second device coupled with a private network is received by a network security device. If an explicit flow policy is defined for the flow, it is applied to the flow; otherwise: (i) a risk level associated with the flow is obtained based on one or more of attributes of the flow, one or more derived attributes of the flow, one or more attributes of the first or second device, analysis of local or remote security logs, environmental parameters, past experience with the first or second device or with a device similar, and behavior of the flow; and (ii) a flow policy selected from multiple flow policies based on the obtained risk level is applied to the flow.
US10785247B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network identifies an set of services of a domain accessed by a plurality of users in the network. The device generates a service usage model for the domain based on the set of services accessed by the plurality of users. The service usage model models usage of the services of the domain by the plurality of users. The device trains a machine learning-based classifier to analyze traffic in the network using a set of training feature vectors. A particular training feature vector includes data indicative of service usage by one of the users for the domain and the modeled usage of the services of the domain by the plurality of users. The device causes classification of traffic in the network associated with a particular user by the trained machine learning-based classifier.
US10785246B2
Black-box security testing for a Web application includes identifying infrastructure supporting the Web application, obtaining vulnerability data for the Web application from an external data source according to the infrastructure, deriving a test payload from the vulnerability data using a processor, and determining a type of vulnerability exploited by the test payload. An existing validation operation of a testing system is selected for validating a response from the Web application to the test payload according to the type of vulnerability.
US10785239B2
Systems and methods for utilizing statistical relational learning techniques in order to predict factors for nodes of a node graph, such as a node graph that represents attacks and incidents to a computing system, are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods identify certain nodes (of a node graph) as representing malicious attributes of an email or other threat artifact received by a computing system or network and utilize relational learning to predict the maliciousness of attributes represented by other nodes (of the node graph).
US10785238B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for organizations to use forensic to generate a risk scores associated with potential compromise based on clustering and/or similarities with other organizations that have or may have been compromised. For example, specific attributes or marks, such as low fidelity indicators of compromise can be used to create a similarity score rank over time that may be used as a similarity and risk measurement to generate a continual/dynamic score, which can change and/or be updated as new data is created or arrives to detect or prevent threats and/or malicious attacks.
US10785226B2
The application relates to controlling access in a software-defined network (SDN). A controller in the SDN receives an access request from an application program. The controller determines whether an operation on a resource as specified in the access request belongs to a permission list corresponding to the application program. The permission list includes a list of permitted operations on the resource by the application program. When the operation as specified in the access request belongs to the permission list, the controller sends a reply message allowing access by the application program. In this way, accesses by the application program are restricted according to the permission list, and malicious attacks from the application program can be prevented to ensure network security.
US10785222B2
Credential and authentication management in scalable data networks is described, including detecting a request from an extension installed on a browser to access a data network, initiating another request from the extension to a server to retrieve authentication data to access the data network, transferring from the server to the extension the authentication data and an instruction to the extension to generate a further request, transmitting the further request to the data network from the browser, the request comprising the authentication data from the server without manual input of the authentication data, presenting an overlay on the browser, the overlay being configured to indicate a login status associated with the data network, and monitoring a cookie and data transferred between the data network and the browser at an application layer or data layer after access to the data network has been provided to the browser in response to the request.
US10785219B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for securely establishing credential data for a computing device are disclosed. According to one example, a method includes assigning, by a credential manager, credential set data to a computing device and mapping the credential set data to a device identifier key associated with the computing device in a credential data store accessible by the credential manager. The method further includes receiving, from a provisioning service client, a credential set request message including the device identifier key by the credential manager in response to an activation of the computing device at a customer location site and sending, by the credential manager to the provisioning service client, the credential set data for authenticating the computing device at the customer location site.
US10785216B2
This application provides a method for accessing a network by an Internet of Things device, an apparatus, and a system, and relates to the field of Internet of Things in order to reduce hardware apparatuses need to be provided for an Internet of Things device, and reduce operation steps of a user when it is ensured that the Internet of Things device securely accesses a network. The method includes sending, by an Internet of Things device, an access request message to an access point, where the access request message includes a universally unique identifier (UUID), a service set identifier (SSID), and a first temporary password (pass_tmp), receiving, by the Internet of Things device, an access response message from the access point, where the access response message includes the SSID and a password, and accessing, by the Internet of Things device, a network using the SSID and the password.
US10785210B2
A user may have real-time control over whether accessing a network service account implements two-factor authentication. When a username and password is provided to log into the network service account, a determination may be made about whether the login attempt is a potential security threat. When the login attempt does not appear to be a threat, the login attempt may be processed based on the username and password. When the login attempt is a potential security threat, the actual user corresponding to the network service account may be notified and asked to confirm whether the login attempt is a security threat. When the user confirms that the login attempt is not a security threat, the user may be logged in based on the username and password. When the user confirms that the login attempt is a security threat, two-factor authentication may be implemented for accessing the network service account.
US10785209B2
A request is received at a server and from a first software client to obtain at least one electronic credential, and the first software client is associated with a first user, and the server stores multiple electronic credentials that are used to extract a service object; at least one electronic credential is transmitted from the server to the first software client based on a predetermined rule; an allocation request is received at the server to extract the service object, and the allocation request includes electronic credentials selected from electronic credentials obtained by the first software client; a number of categories of the selected electronic credentials that included in the allocation request is determined to be is greater than or equal to a predetermined number; and the service object that selected from a service object set is allocated to the first software client based on a predetermined allocation rule.
US10785208B2
A controller and a device generate a shared key by performing mutual authentication using a public key certificate of the controller and a public key certificate of the device. The controller and the device set an expiry for the shared key to one of the expiry of the public key certificate of the controller and the expiry of the public key certificate of the device. The controller and the device perform the mutual authentication using neither the public key certificate of the controller nor the public key certificate of the device, but the shared key, if the expiry set for the shared key has not passed.
US10785200B2
An information processing system is provided that includes a cloud server and an information processing terminal. The cloud server includes a storage device storing a program for using a cloud service and account information of a cloud account registered with the cloud service, and a first processor that manages execution of an authentication process for controlling access to the cloud service. The information processing terminal includes a second processor that executes processes of acquiring the program from the cloud server, sending a sign-up request to the cloud server to sign up for the cloud service using an external account of an external service, sending a setup request to the cloud server to set up a passcode or a character string to be used for signing in to the cloud service, and sending a sign-in request to the cloud server to sign in to the cloud service using the cloud account.
US10785195B2
In various implementations, a method includes receiving a request to establish an end-to-end encrypted session between a device in an enterprise network and an external entity that is outside the enterprise network. In some implementations, the end-to-end encrypted session allows encrypted packets to be transmitted between the device and the external entity. In various implementations, the method includes determining whether the request satisfies an enterprise security criterion for establishing the end-to-end encryption session. In various implementations, the method includes in response to determining that the request satisfies the enterprise security criterion, triggering the establishment of the end-to-end encrypted session between the device in the enterprise network and the external entity that is outside the enterprise entity.
US10785187B2
Implementing auto attach for a shortest path bridging (SPB) network comprises determining, on an access point, that an auto attach device communicating in a SPB network is enabled for auto attach, and an advertisement is transmitted to a mobile station. The access point acts a proxy between the mobile station and the auto-attach device by communicably coupling the auto attach device and the mobile station via the access point. A virtual local area network (VLAN) identification and service instance identifier (I-SID) is received from the mobile station, when is then transmitted to the auto-attach device. A VLAN (independent of any static VLAN associated with the WLAN) is created off of the VLAN identification and an indication that the I-SID and the VLAN have been accepted. Data communications are then provided between the mobile station and the auto attach device via the VLAN and the access point.
US10785171B2
Techniques to enable a chat bot system to use metaphors during an interaction with a user are provided. Identification information for the user can be received and can be used to determine a customer group assigned to the user. An initial state of a sequence for resolving an issue of the user can be determined, with the sequence for resolving the issue of the user including a final state wherein the issue of the user is resolved. A metaphor can be selected to include in a question based on the determined customer group assigned to the customer and the determined initial state of the sequence for resolving the issue of the customer. The question can request information from the user relating to the issue of the user. The question can be generated to include the selected metaphor and then provided to the user with a prompt to provide a response.
US10785169B2
A software-defined network (SDN) system, device and method comprise one or more input ports, a programmable parser, a plurality of programmable lookup and decision engines (LDEs), programmable lookup memories, programmable counters, a programmable rewrite block and one or more output ports. The programmability of the parser, LDEs, lookup memories, counters and rewrite block enable a user to customize each microchip within the system to particular packet environments, data analysis needs, packet processing functions, and other functions as desired. Further, the same microchip is able to be reprogrammed for other purposes and/or optimizations dynamically.
US10785167B2
A method for controlling access to a shared resource for a plurality of collaborative users includes securely providing, on a storage and device entity, the shared resource. The shared resource is created by a resource owner entity. The method further includes specifying access control rules for the shared resource, translating the access control rules into a smart contract, including the smart contract into a blockchain, and if a second user requests access to the shared resource, performing access decisions for the shared resource by evaluating the smart contract with regard to the access control rules.
US10785162B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting information for LTE-WLAN aggregation system, the method comprising: triggering, by a PDCP entity, a status report for indicating flow control information for a WLAN link; setting, by the PDCP entity, a value of a FMS field in the status report to a PDCP SN of a first missing PDCP SDU; setting, by the PDCP entity, a value of a HRW field in the status report to the value of the FMS field if no PDCP SDUs have been received on the WLAN link; and generating and transmitting, by the PDCP entity, the status report including the HRW field.
US10785155B2
Network devices, servers, and modules operating within MCA capable to selectively defer delivery of non-time sensitive content are provided. A network device (315) includes a communication interface (410) configured to enable communication with a client device (310), and to receive a request for a content delivery from the client device (310). The network device also includes a processing unit (420) configured to determine whether to defer the request depending on a network load at a time when the request has been received.
US10785149B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for generating a routing table. In one implementation, BGP route broadcasts are received by a control plane of a network. The BGP route broadcasts are aggregated into a table of address summarized routes based on IP addresses included in the BGP route broadcasts. A table of attribute summarized routes is generated from the table of address summarized routes based on similarities between attributes included in the address summarized routes.
US10785144B2
Techniques for enforcing a common signaling latency between components positioned throughout a data center in order to realize latency equalization even though interconnects between components positioned throughout the data center do not by comparison necessarily exhibit a same total physical length.
US10785122B2
Systems and methods provide for validating a canary release of containers in a containerized production environment. A first container of the containerized production environment can receive network traffic. The first container can transmit the network traffic to a first version of a second container of the containerized production environment and to a traffic analysis engine. First metrics relating to processing by the first version of the second container can be captured. The traffic analysis engine can determine one or more traffic patterns included in the network traffic. The traffic analysis engine can cause simulated network traffic corresponding to the one or more traffic patterns to be transmitted to a second version (e.g., a canary release) of the containerized production environment. Second metrics relating to processing by the second version of the second container can be captured. A comparison between the first metrics and the second metrics can be presented.
US10785118B2
An information handling system may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to determine a topology of connectivity of various components of a system comprising multiple information handling system chassis and apply validation rules to the topology to validate the topology.
US10785107B2
A system comprises a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium to store instructions for execution by the processor. The instructions are configured to discover a topology of a network in an on-premises datacenter, where the topology includes hardware and software components in the on-premises datacenter and in one or more hops from an external network to a gateway of the network. The instructions are configured to determine a plurality of parameters of the components that affect performance of applications and services running on the network. The instructions are configured to determine, based on the discovered topology and the parameters, an optimal topology for the network that optimizes one or more of the parameters to improve the performance of applications and services running on the network.
US10785106B1
Solutions for balancing speed and risk by managing configuration changes include: receiving a second configuration item for displacement, in an exposure group, of a first configuration item; receiving an exposure state, wherein the exposure state indicates an exposure tree comprising a first configuration item branch and a second configuration item branch; determining, based at least on the exposure state: a first portion of the exposure group to continue with the first configuration item, and a second portion of the exposure group to receive the second configuration item; deploying the second configuration item to the second portion of the exposure group, in accordance with the exposure state; receiving, from the central orchestrator, an updated exposure state; and deploying the second configuration item in accordance with the updated exposure state. In some examples, the exposure tree is a hierarchical binary tree. An exemplary configuration item includes a software application version.
US10785099B2
Methods and systems for configuring nodes in a cloud computing network are described. One example method includes receiving, over a network, a configuration request from a particular node in the cloud computing network, the configuration request including node information for the particular node; verifying that the particular node is authorized for configuration based at least in part on the node information; in response to verifying that the particular node is authorized for configuration, identifying configuration actions to perform on the particular node based at least in part on the node information; and sending, over the network, a configuration command corresponding to one or more of the identified configuration actions to the particular node, wherein the particular node executes the configuration command upon receipt to perform the corresponding configuration actions.
US10785092B2
Multiple segmentation servers are synchronized to provide failover capacity in such a way that should a failover occur, the segment numbers/playlists/encryption keys/decryption keys are identical on each of the segmentation servers. Synchronizing the contents of a segmentation server on one or more backup segmentation servers ensures that the delivery of a content stream is immune to the failure of segmentation servers, provided at least one segmentation server remains fault-free. A caching server may further facilitate the fault tolerance by checking the availability of the individual segmentation servers, collect content segments from one of the segmentation servers, and serve the content segment to clients. The caching server automatically checks a primary segmentation server to ensure it is available (e.g., online), and provides automatic failover to a backup segmentation server should the primary server experience a fault (e.g., go offline).
US10785091B2
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method for managing a data center that is temperature controlled using a thermal management system is disclosed. The method includes collecting ambient temperature data in the data center, collecting server temperature data in servers located in the data center, collecting rack temperature data at server racks located in a data center using rack temperature sensors, wherein each rack temperature sensor is associated with one of the server racks, wherein at least one of the server racks includes at least two of the servers. The method further includes analyzing the ambient temperature data, the server temperature data, and the rack temperature data to discover a cause of a fault in the data center, wherein the cause is selected from the thermal management system, the servers, or the rack temperature sensors, and generating a notification regarding the cause of the fault.
US10785090B2
In one embodiment, a network assurance service associates a target key performance indicator (tKPI) measured from a network with a plurality of causation key performance indicators (cKPIs) measured from the network that may indicate a root cause of a tKPI anomaly. The network assurance service applies a machine learning-based anomaly detector to the tKPI over time, to generate tKPI anomaly scores. The network assurance service calculates, for each of cKPIs, a mean and standard deviation of that cKPI using a plurality of different time windows associated with the tKPI anomaly scores. The network assurance service uses the calculated means and standard deviations of the cKPIs in the different time windows to calculate cross-correlation scores between the tKPI anomaly scores and the cKPIs. The network assurance service selects one or more of the cKPIs as the root cause of the tKPI anomaly based on their calculated cross-correlation scores.
US10785088B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a management method and a management apparatus of Internet of things and an Internet of Things system. Disclosed is a method for managing Internet of Things, wherein the Internet of Things comprises a management apparatus, controlling terminals and data acquisition terminals for acquiring data resources, the method comprising switching, by the management apparatus, between a S01 mode in which the management apparatus connects and directly manages the controlling terminals and the data acquisition terminals; and a S02 mode in which the management apparatus connects and directly manages the controlling terminals, and authorizes at least one of the controlling terminals such that the at least one of the controlling terminals connects and directly manages at least one of the data acquisition terminals.
US10785072B2
Methods and systems are described for generating two comparator outputs by comparing a received signal to a first threshold and a second threshold according to a sampling clock, the first and second thresholds determined by an estimated amount of inter-symbol interference on a multi-wire bus, selecting one of the two comparator outputs as a data decision, the selection based on at least one prior data decision, and selecting one of the two comparator outputs as a phase-error decision, the phase error decision selected in response to identification of a predetermined data decision pattern.
US10785070B1
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes: an equalizer circuit; a decision circuit that decides a bit value of a data signal; a sampler unit including sampler circuits, the sampler circuits having different thresholds and electrically connected in parallel between the equalizer circuit and the decision circuit; a determination circuit that determines indexes indicating a degree of confidence of current output values from the sampler circuits based on the bit values of the data signals at different past timings; and an arithmetic circuit that computes scores for bit values that are candidates for a current data signal based on the determined indexes and current output values from the sampler circuits. The decision circuit selects one bit value from the candidate bit values using the scores.
US10785069B2
This disclosure describes techniques for detecting link loss in a physical layer receiver of a communication system. The system includes a slicer coupled to receive, at a slicer input, a signal from a channel equalizer and map the signal to a physical coding sublayer (PCS) level at a slicer output and processor coupled to at least one of the slicer input or the slicer output. The processor is configured to analyze a window of consecutive samples at the at least one of the slicer input or the slicer output over a time window; increment a counter as a function of the window of consecutive samples at the at least one of the slicer input or the slicer output; compare the counter to a threshold; and generate a signal indicating link loss in response to determining that the counter corresponds to the threshold independently of a timer.
US10785063B2
Disclosed is a method for variably changing a communication speed by a first device when a high-speed communication request within a range supported by the first device is input from a second device during low-speed communication of the first device with a third device in the UART communication and performing data communication with the second device at the varied high speed. A method for switching, by a device, a communication speed in an universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART)-based data communication includes: measuring, by an interrupt detection module of the device, a pulse width of a start bit using an interrupt signal; calculating, by a communication speed calculation module of the device, a communication speed using a time duration for which the measured pulse width is maintained; and switching, by a communication speed switching module of the device, a current communication speed of the device to the calculated communication speed.
US10785055B2
Methods and apparatus to achieve internetwork connectivity. Initiation is detected, by a first device on a first network, of an internet protocol (IP) connection with a second device on a second network, wherein the first network includes a plurality of egress devices that are configured to send requests for inter-network connection information. A subset of the egress devices are selected, wherein each of the subset of egress devices are configured to query for connection information relating to the second network. The subset of devices are caused to query the at least one other network for the connection information relating to the second network. The connection information is received relating to the second network. The connection information is caused to be used in establishing the IP connection between the first device and the second device.
US10785050B2
An application gateway including application service programming positioned at a user premises can provide voice controlled and managed services to a user and one or more endpoint devices associated with the application gateway. The application gateway can be controlled remotely by the application service provider through a service management center and configured to execute an application service provided from the application service provider. The application gateway can execute the application service at the user premises upon voice command by a user and independent of application services executing on the application service provider's network. An application service logic manager can communicate with an application service enforcement manager to verify that the request conforms with the policy and usage rules associated with the application service in order to authorize execution of the application service on the application gateway, either directly or through endpoint devices.
US10785034B2
Implementation unit, implementation unit verification method, and computer-readable recording medium
A disclosed implementation unit includes: an implementation unit counter that is synchronized with a verification apparatus counter provided in a verification apparatus; and a processing part configured to transmit an encryption signal to the verification apparatus at two or more different timings while a counter value of the implementation unit counter is a certain value, the encryption signal representing an implementation unit ID encrypted based on the counter value of the implementation unit counter.
US10785030B2
A system for decrypting encrypted data may include a data storage server that may store encrypted data in a server memory, communicate a portion of the encrypted data to a first user device, and generate an access code for decrypting the portion of the encrypted data. The data storage device may also communicate the access code to a second user device. The first user device may display, on a first device display, a visual representation of the portion of the encrypted data. The second user device may acquire the visual representation of the portion of the encrypted data from the first device display, decrypt the portion of the encrypted data based upon the access code and the visual representation, and display the decrypted portion of the encrypted data on a second device display.
US10785026B2
A method and/or NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled mobile device is provided for executing an electronic contract on NFC enabled mobile devices. The (NFC) enabled mobile device applies an electronic signature thereof in an electronic contract provided on the NFC enabled mobile device used by a first contracting party, where the electronic signature is applied through a secure element of the NFC enabled mobile device. The NFC enabled mobile device determines that the NFC enabled mobile device is not within NFC range to an other NFC enabled mobile device used by a second contracting party to the electronic contract. In response to the NFC enabled mobile device determining that it is not within NFC range to the other NFC enabled mobile device, the NFC enabled mobile device sends, to the other NFC enabled mobile device, a multimedia messaging service (MMS) text message that includes the electronic contract.
US10785019B2
A data transmission method and apparatus are disclosed that resolves a technical problem where an existing data encryption algorithm offers poor security during transmission of data. The solution includes obtaining, by a first terminal, a data transmission request sent by a second terminal, the data transmission request at least carrying first encrypted data that is obtained by encrypting first exchange key of the second terminal by using a private key of the second terminal. The solution further includes decrypting, by the first terminal, the first encrypted data by using a public key of the second terminal to obtain the first exchange key, and obtaining a shared key of the first terminal and the second terminal according to the first exchange key. The solution further includes encrypting, by the first terminal, to-be-transmitted data by using the shared key to obtain encrypted to-be-transmitted data, and sending the encrypted to-be-transmitted data to the second terminal.
US10785018B2
Implementations of the present specification provide for management of service keys for consortium blockchain networks within a blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. Implementations include actions of receiving a request for a service key from a participant in a consortium blockchain network provisioned within the BaaS platform, determining that the participant is authorized for the service key based on a service authorization table that records participant privileges within the consortium blockchain network, providing a key package including an encrypted private key of the service key, and a public key of the service key, and sending the key package to the participant, the participant decrypting the private key of the service key using a public key associated with the participant.
US10785009B2
A reference signal transmission method and a related device and system are disclosed. The method includes: determining, by a first base station, at least one target subframe on a target frequency band, where the target frequency band is a frequency band whose uplink and downlink transmission directions are configurable, and uplink-downlink timeslot configurations and/or transmission directions of the first base station and a neighboring second base station in the at least one target subframe are different; and sending, by the first base station, a first reference signal to first user equipment UE in the at least one target subframe, where the first UE is UE served by the first base station. When embodiments of the present invention are implemented, a reference signal can be transmitted on a flexible frequency band, thereby effectively reducing interference between reference signals between neighboring cells in a flexible duplex system.
US10785002B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communications field, and provide a reference signal transmitting/receiving method and system, and an apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a transmitting device, a first resource map of a reference signal supporting Z antenna ports, and transmitting the reference signal after the reference signal supporting Z antenna ports is mapped to a target time-frequency resource based on the first resource map, where the first resource map is repeated in time domain and/or frequency domain in a repetition unit of K resource units, each of the K resource units corresponds to a second resource map of a reference signal supporting P antenna ports, and the P antenna ports corresponding to the second resource map for every two adjacent resource units include G same antenna ports and H different antenna ports.
US10784997B2
A method of wireless communication of a UE is provided. The UE receives downlink control information (DCI) in a downlink control channel (DCCH), the DCI indicating a first uplink (UL) channel. The UE determines a second UL channel that has been scheduled prior to receiving the DCI. The UE determines that the first UL channel overlaps with the second UL channel in a time domain. The UE determines whether an earliest symbol period from the first UL channel and the second UL channel is within a predetermined time period from a last symbol period of the DCCH. The UE determines that an unexpected event has occurred or transmits one of the first UL channel and the second UL channel, when the earliest symbol period is within the predetermined time period.
US10784993B1
A first device may establish, with a second device, a first logical link associated with short-range communications. The first device may detect the transmission of a first packet from a master device to the second device carried on a second logical link. The first device may decode at least part of the first packet comprising data intended for the first device. The first device may transmit, to the second device, a request for a re-transmission of the first packet when the first device fails to decode at least part of the first packet. The first device may receive, from the second device, at least one re-transmission of the first packet. The first device may apply an error correction operation on the at least one re-transmission of the first packet received from the second device and the first packet received from the master device.
US10784990B2
A wireless communications assembly and method for encoding and modulating data for transmission is provided. The method includes receiving primary data to be transmitted to a receiving station; selecting a data rate at which to transmit the primary data; selecting a mode associated with the data rate, the mode defining a modulation scheme and a target code rate; generating encoded data, including modifying an error correcting block format having a predefined code rate to generate the encoded data at the target code rate; and extracting at least a portion of the encoded data for modulation of a carrier signal and transmission to a receiving station.
US10784976B2
Nanosecond accuracy of timestamping by leveraging alignment marker and method for producing the same
A system and apparatus for obtaining clock synchronization of networked devices and related method are provided. Embodiments include a computer-implemented system, including a primary device having a first high accuracy timestamping assist (HATA) unit attached to a first physical layer; a first time stamping unit; a first clock control; a first medium access control layer connected to the first time stamping unit and the first physical layer via a medium independent interface. A secondary device includes a second HATA unit attached to a second physical layer; a second timestamping unit; a second clock control. The first and second HATA units are configured to detect a departure time, an arrival time, or a combination thereof of a first alignment marker over transmitter serializer and receiver deserializer interfaces of a data transmission between the primary device and the secondary device.
US10784963B2
A software-defined network multi-layer controller (SDN-MLC) may communicate with multiple layers of a telecommunication network. The SDN-MLC may have an optimization algorithm that helps in capacity planning of the telecommunications based on the management of multiple layers of the telecommunication network.
US10784961B2
A space-division multiplexed optical fiber includes a relatively high refractive index optical core region surrounded by alternating regions of relatively low and relative high refractive index material, forming concentric high index rings around the core. The optical core region supports propagation of light along at least a first radial mode associated with the optical core region and a high index ring region supports propagation of light along at least a second radial mode associated with the high index ring region. The second radial mode is different from the first radial mode.
US10784956B2
A transmitter can include: at least one primary laser emitter configured to emit primary laser light; at least one primary monitor photodiode optically coupled with the at least one primary laser emitter; and at least one spare laser emitter configured to emit spare laser light. Each spare laser emitter can be adjacent with a corresponding primary laser emitter such that a first primary laser emitter and a first spare laser emitter pair are directed through an optical system and out a common optical fiber.
US10784948B2
The disclosure relates to technology for identifying a user equipment beam index in a base station. The base station indicates one or more resources assigned to the user equipment within a beam failure random access channel (BRACH) resource, and transmits one or more synchronization signal block resources and one or more new beam identification reference signal resources to the user equipment. The base station then receives one of the resources from a group of the one or more resources within the BRACH resource assigned to the user equipment corresponding to the BRACH resource, and identifies a preferred beam index of the user equipment based on information in the BRACH resource and the received one of the resources.
US10784943B2
Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a fifth-generation Evolved Node-B (gNB) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to detect a beam failure event. The second circuitry may be operable to generate a beam failure recovery request for transmission to the gNB, in response to the beam failure event. The third circuitry may be operable to monitor for Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a search space configured by the gNB, subsequent to a transmission of the beam failure recovery request.
US10784941B2
According to some embodiments, a method for use in a network node of transmitting reference signals in a wireless network using a plurality of beams comprises obtaining a node identifier for the network node. The node identifier is unique for neighboring network nodes within a particular coverage area of the wireless network. The method further comprises obtaining a group of reference signal sequences. The group comprises a subset of a pool of possible reference signal sequences for use in the wireless network. Each reference signal sequence is associated with a beam reference identifier. The method further comprises selecting a reference signal sequence from the obtained group: scrambling a reference signal transmission pattern using the obtained node identifier and the selected reference signal sequence with associated beam reference identifier; and transmitting the scrambled reference signal transmission pattern to a user equipment on one of the beams among the plurality of beams.
US10784932B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining a precoding matrix indicator, a user equipment (UE), a base station (e.g., eNB), and a system. The method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by a base station; selecting, based on the reference signal, a precoding matrix from a codebook, where a precoding matrix W included in the codebook is a product of two matrices W1 and W2, where W1 is a block diagonal matrix, where each block matrix is a Kronecker product of a matrix Ai and a matrix Bi; and sending a precoding matrix indicator PMI to the base station, where the PMI corresponds to the selected precoding matrix, so that the base station obtains the precoding matrix according to the PMI.
US10784928B2
Various examples are directed to a rotary coupler and methods of use thereof. The rotary data coupler may comprise a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter may comprise a first band and a second transmitter band. The receiver may comprise a receiver housing positioned to rotate relative to the first transmitter band and the second transmitter band. A first receiver band may be positioned opposite the first transmitter band to form a first capacitor and a second receiver band may be positioned opposite the second transmitter band to form a second capacitor. The receiver may also comprise a resistance electrically coupled between the first receiver band and the second receiver band and a differential amplifier. The differential amplifier may comprise an inverting input and a non-inverting input, with the non-inverting input electrically coupled to the first receiver band and the inverting input electrically coupled to the second receiver band.
US10784924B2
Systems and methods are described for calculating a propagation delay of a transmission line. A transmitter may transmit a signal from a first end of a transmission line to a second end of the transmission line at a first time, t1. A signal reflection device (e.g., a passive resonator) connected to the second end of the transmission line may generate a reflection at a second time, t2. A reflection detector (e.g., a matched, passive resonator) at the first end of the transmission line may receive the reflection from the signal reflection device, at a third time, t3. A propagation delay calculator may calculate the propagation delay of the transmission line as corresponding to one-half of a difference between the first time, t1, and the third time, t3.
US10784917B2
Multiple sensors are coupled to a first pin of a PSI5 transceiver to receive a sensor bus signal. A Manchester decoder is coupled to a second pin and a battery is coupled to a third pin. A comparator receives a first voltage that is proportional to a current on the sensor bus signal and a second voltage that is proportional to a base current on the sensor bus signal and sends a data output signal to the second pin. A sample-and-hold circuit captures a third voltage used to effect the second voltage responsive to a high value on a base current sampling signal. A base-current-renewal circuit detects edge transitions on the data output signal and when the data output signal has no edge transitions for a period of time greater than a gap time defined in a PSI5 standard, sets the base current sampling signal high.
US10784916B2
A mobile device cover for use with a host mobile device includes a front frame, a middle frame, and a back frame. The back frame includes a plate or portion that can be removed and interchanged with a second plate or portion. The second plate or portion can be designed to look different and to provide different functionality. For example, the plate or portion of the back frame can be replaced with the second interchangeable plate or portion to provide a screen that can be used by one or both of the mobile device cover and the host mobile device.
US10784915B2
A compression sleeve carrying system for mobile electronic devices such as cell phones that are between 3.5 inches wide and 6.5 inches long, with or without an additionally attached phone case. The carrying sleeve has a pocket for key, credit card, and money storage. The sleeve employs an elastic system that connects four corner brackets in which each corner of the phone sits in. Elastic weaves through the corner brackets and through the a patch system. The patch system is attached to a stretchable fabric under the brackets and the patch system is sewn into the arm sleeve to prevent sweat from getting to the phone. The phone retention space stretches based off of the size of the phone and the brackets have a 0.5 inch space that fits both cell phones or other cell phone size and devices.
US10784912B2
The invention relates to a wireless communication device 1 having an upper part 10 and a bottom part 11, the upper part 10 comprising one or more transmission antenna device(s) 12a, 12b; 15. The upper part 10 and the bottom part 11 are arranged movably in relation to each other, so that the bottom part 11, in use mode, is closer to the user than the upper part 10. The bottom part 11 comprises one or more reception antenna device(s) 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d.
US10784910B1
Embodiments of the present invention include a system, method and computer program product for mitigating interference in data received by a multiple antenna array. Processor(s) executing program code identify signals from users, including active users, and by identifying these signals, mitigate interference and jamming in the received data, overall.
US10784907B2
An apparatus to detect interference in wireless signals, comprising an antenna for receiving a wireless signal; and wherein the apparatus is operable to identify a dominant waveform in the received signal; subtract the dominant waveform from the received signal to create a modified received signal; and repeat the above steps, recursively substituting the modified received signal for the received signal, until all adjusted reference waveforms have been subtracted.
US10784902B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to a wireless device that intelligently uses different reference crystal oscillators (XOs) for a PhaseLocked Loop(s) (PLL(s)) in a transceiver of the wireless device. Embodiments of a method of operation of a wireless device comprising a first XO that operates at a first reference frequency and a second XO that operates at a second reference frequency that is greater than the first reference frequency are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method of operation of the wireless devices comprises making a decision as to whether to configure a receiver of the wireless device to use the first XO or the second XO and configuring the receiver of the wireless device to use the first XO or the second XO in accordance with the decision.
US10784901B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for puncturing of structured low density parity check (LDPC) codes. A method for wireless communications by wireless node is provided. The method generally includes encoding a set of information bits based on a LDPC code to produce a code word, the LDPC code defined by a matrix having a first number of variable nodes and a second number of check nodes, puncturing the code word to produce a punctured code word, wherein the puncturing is performed according to a first puncturing pattern designed to puncture bits corresponding to one or more of the variable nodes having a certain degree of connectivity to the check nodes, and transmitting the punctured code word.
US10784899B2
Data from a communications channel is decoded by receiving data bits corresponding to encoded data, determining a set of data representations from the data bits, distributing the set of data representations into bins across a dynamic range to generate a distribution of the data representations, assigning a respective intermediate scale factor to each bin, deriving a set of moments from the intermediate scale factors, combining the moments into a scaling factor, scaling the data representations by the scaling factor, and sending the scaled data representations to a decoder. The data representations may be a histogram or cumulative distribution function of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) or values based on channel estimates. In an iterative implementation performed until a stopping condition is met, the data representations may be scaled down on later iterations to avoid saturation. A correction factor may be applied to update the scaling factor for later data bits.
US10784895B2
A method includes accessing information, and at least one of encoding or decoding the information using a parity check matrix based on a coding rate. A portion of a data part in the parity check matrix has been generated based on part or all of another matrix. Apparatus, computer programs, and computer program products are also described. The apparatus may be a wireless mobile device or a wireless network access node. A communication system may include one or more of the wireless mobile devices and one or more of the access nodes, each using a version of the method.
US10784893B2
A low density parity check (LDPC) channel encoding method for use in a wireless communications system includes a communication device encoding an input bit sequence by using a LDPC matrix to obtain an encoded bit sequence for transmission. The LDPC matrix is obtained based on a lifting factor Z and a base matrix. The encoding method can be used in various communications systems including the fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, and can support various encoding requirements for information bit sequences with different code lengths.
US10784888B2
Described herein is a ΣΔ modulator with improved metastability in which the control loop remains stable. In one embodiment, the ΣΔ modulator utilizes differently delayed feedback to successive integrators of the control loop to suppress metastability errors without compromising the stability of the control loop. This is accomplished by including one or more quantizers in the control loop. This technique may be applied to control loops of at least second order, i.e., having two or more integrator stages, where at least one feedback term after the first is non-zero.
US10784887B2
Controllable voltage-signal generation circuitry, including: a plurality of segment nodes connected together in series, each adjacent pair of segment nodes connected together via a corresponding coupling capacitor, an end one of the segment nodes serving as an output node; for each of the segment nodes, at least one segment capacitor having a first terminal connected to that segment node and a second terminal connected to a corresponding switch; and switch control circuitry, wherein: each switch is operable to connect the second terminal to one reference voltage source and then instead to another reference voltage source, to apply a voltage change at the second terminal; the reference voltage sources and switches configured such that for each segment node the same voltage change in magnitude is applied by each switch, and such that the voltage change is different in magnitude from the voltage change applied by each switch of another segment node.
US10784882B2
An analog to digital converter (ADC) device includes ADC circuitries, a calibration circuitry, and a skew adjustment circuitry. The ADC circuitries are configured to convert an input signal according to interleaved clock signals, in order to generate first quantization outputs. The calibration circuitry is configured to perform at least one calibration operation according to the first quantization outputs, in order to generate second quantization outputs. The skew adjustment circuitry is configured to determine maximum value signals, to which the second quantization outputs respectively correspond during a predetermined interval, and to average the maximum value signals to generate a reference signal, and to compare the reference signal with each of the maximum value signals to generate adjustment signals, in order to reduce a clock skew of the ADC circuitries.
US10784879B2
A circuit arrangement includes charge stores logically arranged in an array configuration having logical columns of charge stores including at least first, second, third and fourth columns of charge stores. A control circuit is configured to control a switching network operably coupled to the charge stores, and to affect a first circuit configuration in a first time segment and a second circuit configuration in a second time segment, the circuit configurations being different from one another. In the first circuit configuration, the first and third columns of charge stores receive a first polarity component of a differential signal, and the second and fourth columns of charge stores receive a second polarity component of the differential signal. In the second circuit configuration, the first and second columns of charge stores receive the first polarity component, and the third and fourth columns of charge stores receive the second polarity component.
US10784877B2
Programmable timer circuits are disclosed. One timer circuit may include a reference circuit configured to generate a bias current, a current controlled oscillator configured to receive the bias current c, and a frequency divider network configured to divide an output of the oscillator. The timer circuit may be capable of timing for 24 hour period, while using less than 5nA of quiescent current.
US10784875B2
A circuit includes a first filter, a plurality of binary-weighted capacitors, and a current source device. The circuit also includes a first plurality of switches. Each of the first plurality of switches is connected to a separate capacitor of the plurality of binary-weighted capacitors. The first plurality of switches are connected together, and the first plurality of switches are not connected to the first filter. A second plurality of switches is also included, and each of the second plurality of switches is connected to a separate capacitor of the plurality of binary-weighted capacitors and to the first filter and to a control input of the current source device. The first plurality of switches are not connected to the control input.
US10784872B1
Systems, methods, and devices for fractional realignment are disclosed herein. A feedback divider generates a feedback dividing clock signal based on a controlling oscillator frequency. A delta-sigma modulator is coupled to the feedback divider and generates a dividing ratio to the feedback divider. An accumulating phase adjustor is coupled to the delta-sigma modulator and (i) determines a difference between a frequency tuning word (FCW) and the dividing ratio and (ii) generates a coarse tuning word and a fine tuning word. A digital-to-time converter (DTC) is coupled to the accumulating phase adjustor and generates a first clock frequency based on a reference clock frequency, the coarse tuning word and the fine tuning word. A realignment pulse generator is coupled to the DTC and generates a realignment clock based on the first clock frequency having a period that is the same as a period of the controlling oscillator frequency.
US10784852B2
A pulse generator has a galvanically isolated output, in particular for a consumption meter. A control output of a control unit of the pulse generator is coupled to an input of an opto-isolator of the pulse generator in order to output at the output of the opto-isolator an output current controlled by the control unit. The opto-isolator is connected to a field-effect transistor in such a way that the output current from the opto-isolator charges a capacitor via a rectifying component, which blocks the capacitor from discharging via the opto-isolator. The voltage drop across the capacitor is the gate voltage of the field-effect transistor. The field-effect transistor switches the output of the pulse generator directly or indirectly.
US10784851B2
A power switching device includes a buffer circuit, a filter circuit, a transformer, a restoration circuit, a conditioning circuit and a power switch. The buffer circuit provides a unipolar buffer output voltage dependent on an input voltage and a control voltage. The filter circuit blocks a direct component of the buffer output voltage which is added on the secondary side of the transformer by the restoration circuit. The power switch is controlled by a unipolar conditioning voltage provided by the restoration circuit to the conditioning circuit. The power switching device acts as a plug and play module and can be used and operated in a flexible and easy manner.
US10784841B2
A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller, a processor, and a memory that causes the processor to receive, via a sensor assembly, sensor signals and convert the sensor signals into a plurality of entries of a full measurement vector. The memory devices causes the processor to determine a first state vector using IMU Kalman filter, update a first subset of entries the full state vector, determine a second state vector using a spatial positioning Kalman filter, update a second subset of entries the full state vector based on the second state vector, determine a third state vector using a vehicle Kalman filter, update a third subset of entries of the plurality of entries of the full state vector based on the third state vector, and control movement of the work vehicle based on at least one of the first state vector, the second state vector, the third state vector, and the full state vector.
US10784839B2
A high pass filter includes: a first resonant circuit including an inductor and a capacitor in parallel between first and second terminals; a second resonant circuit including an inductor and a capacitor in series between a first end of the first resonant circuit and a ground; a third resonant circuit including an inductor and a capacitor in series between a second end of the first resonant circuit and the ground; a fourth resonant circuit disposed between the first end of the first resonant circuit and the first terminal, and including a first acoustic resonator; and a fifth resonant circuit disposed between the second end of the first resonant circuit and the second terminal, and including a second acoustic resonator. Attenuation regions respectively formed by the first, second, and third resonant circuits are arranged in lower frequency regions than attenuation regions respectively formed by the fourth and fifth resonant circuits.
US10784838B2
Disclosed is an air gap type film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR). The air gap type FBAR includes a substrate which includes an air gap portion in a top surface thereof, a lower electrode formed on the substrate, a piezoelectric layer formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the piezoelectric layer. Here, the lower electrode includes a first lower electrode formed spaced apart from the air gap portion in the substrate and a second lower electrode formed on the substrate to be separated from the first lower electrode by being stacked to surround only a part of a top of the air gap portion in order to form a non-deposition area of the air gap portion.
US10784837B2
A bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a substrate including a first via and a second via, a lower electrode connection member, a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer, an upper electrode, and an upper electrode connection member spaced apart from the lower electrode connection member. The lower electrode, the piezoelectric layer, and the upper electrode constitute a resonant portion. The lower electrode connection member electrically connects the lower electrode to the first via and supports a first edge portion of the resonant portion. The upper electrode connection member electrically connects the upper electrode to the second via and supports a second edge portion of the resonant portion. Either one or both of the upper electrode connection member and the lower electrode connection member includes a respective extension portion connected to a respective one of the first via and the second via that is disposed below the resonant portion.
US10784833B2
A method for forming a lamb acoustic wave resonator and filter and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming a sacrificial layer over a substrate; forming a first electrode over the sacrificial layer; forming a piezoelectric thin film over the first electrode; forming a second electrode over the piezoelectric thin film; forming a hardmask over the second electrode; etching through the hardmask and the second electrode down to the piezoelectric thin film forming self-aligned vias; forming and patterning a photoresist layer over the self-aligned vias; etching through the photoresist layer forming cavities extending through the vias and to the sacrificial layer; and removing the sacrificial layer forming a cavity gap under the cavities and first metal electrode.
US10784832B2
A film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) and a method of fabricating the FBAR are disclosed. In the method, formation of several mutually overlapped and hence connected sacrificial material layers above and under a resonator sheet facilitates the removal of the sacrificial material layers. Cavities left after the removal overlap at a polygonal area with non-parallel sides. This reduces the likelihood of boundary reflections of transverse parasitic waves causing standing wave resonance in the FBAR, thereby enhancing its performance in parasitic wave crosstalk. Further, according to the invention, the FBAR is enabled to be integrated with CMOS circuitry and hence exhibits higher reliability.
US10784827B2
Embodiments provide a power management system for a battery-powered audio device. The system includes bi-directional power conversion and control circuitry to implement a corresponding control scheme. The system may be switchable between a charge mode, during which the power conversion and control circuitry charges the battery of the audio device and the AC/DC adapter provides an amplifier supply voltage to one or more amplifiers of the audio device, and a discharge mode, in which the power conversion and control circuitry may provide a regulated amplifier supply voltage to the one or more amplifiers that is regulated based on one or more operating conditions of the system. The system may provide reduced cost and reduced power consumption and reduced size compared with prior systems.
US10784824B2
Apparatus are provided for amplifier systems and related circuits are provided. An exemplary circuit includes a main amplifier arrangement, first impedance matching circuitry coupled between the output of the main amplifier arrangement and a first circuit output, a peaking amplifier arrangement, and second impedance matching circuitry coupled between the output of the peaking amplifier arrangement and a second output of the circuit. In one exemplary embodiment, the first impedance matching circuitry and the second impedance matching circuitry have different circuit topologies and different physical topologies.
US10784823B2
A high-voltage power amplification system can include a supply circuit configured to provide a high supply voltage in an average power tracking mode. The power amplification system can further include a power amplifier configured to operate with the high supply voltage and provide an impedance that substantially matches an impedance of a component coupled to an output of the power amplifier. The power amplification system can further include a signal path configured to route an amplified signal from the output of the power amplifier to the component, with the output path being substantially free of an output matching network.
US10784816B2
The invention is an electrical and mechanical roof underlayment which provides electrical and mechanical connection of solar shingles to a roof. The underlayment simplifies the installation of solar shingles allowing the shingles to be installed and connected together in the same step. The underlayment includes a membrane which has embedded electrical conductors and electrical connectors that provides an electrical connecting system extending to an electrical circuit. The membrane further has embedded mechanical members with mechanical connectors that secure the shingles to the membrane. The membrane is structurally attached to a roof surface. The structural attachment may be an adhesive attachment. Solar shingles are connected to the membrane by an integral clasping mechanism that mechanically and electrically connects the shingles to the membrane. No external wiring, connectors or devices are required to make the electrical connection between the shingles and the membrane. Contacts are integral and embedded into each individual shingle.
US10784815B2
A photovoltaic module remote-access module switch and real-time temperature monitoring system is provided. In one embodiment, a remote-access module switch and monitoring circuit capable of communicating with a remote receiver and having a pair of output electrical leads, and a pair of input electrical leads connected to a pair of electrical power leads of a solar photovoltaic module is provided, and which further includes a series switch, a module voltage measurement circuit, a module current measurement circuit, a temperature sensor, and a communication circuit.
US10784813B2
A photovoltaic module includes an encapsulated photovoltaic element and an infrared-transmissive decorative overlay simulating conventional roofing.
US10784797B1
A power conversion system includes a controller that generates switching control signals according to duty cycles for a current switching control cycle, and adjusts the duty cycles by a non-zero offset value according to a modulation index in response to the modulation index exceeding a non-zero threshold. A method includes computing first duty cycles according to a modulation index, generating a plurality of switching control signals according to the first duty cycles in response to the modulation index being less than or equal to a non-zero threshold, computing second duty cycles offset from the first duty cycles and generating the plurality of switching control signals according to the second duty cycles in response to the modulation index exceeding the non-zero threshold.
US10784786B2
A method for controlling a PSFB converter, an apparatus, and a storage medium are disclosed, and relate to the field of power supply technologies. The method includes: controlling, by a control circuit after controlling a first clock and a second clock to operate in a first state for a time period, the first clock and the second clock to switch to a second state, where when the first clock and the second clock operate in the first state, the first bridge arm is a leading bridge arm, and the second bridge arm is a lagging bridge arm, and when the first clock and the second clock operate in the second state, the first bridge arm is a lagging bridge arm, and the second bridge arm is a leading bridge arm.
US10784785B2
A switch-mode power supply includes a power transistor, a transformer, and detection circuitry. The transformer includes a primary winding that is coupled to a drain terminal of the power transistor. The detection circuitry is coupled to a source terminal of the power transistor. The detection circuitry is operable to monitor signal present on the drain terminal via parasitic drain-source capacitance of the power transistor while the power transistor is switched off, and to detect demagnetization of a secondary winding of the transformer via the monitored signal.
US10784783B1
A DC-DC converter selectively operates in at least a first burst mode having at least one first-mode charge cycle with a first-mode charging phase followed by a first-mode discharging phase or a second burst mode having at least one second-mode charge cycle with a second-mode charging phase followed by a second-mode discharging phase. A first-mode charging phase is terminated when an inductor current flowing through the inductance reaches a first-mode peak-current threshold, and a first-mode discharging phase is terminated when the inductor current reaches a first-mode valley-current threshold. A second-mode charging phase is terminated when the inductor current reaches a second-mode peak-current threshold, wherein the second-mode peak-current threshold is different from the first-mode peak-current threshold, and the second-mode discharging phase is terminated when the inductor current reaches a second-mode valley-current threshold, wherein the second-mode valley-current threshold is different from the first-mode valley-current threshold.
US10784771B2
A power converter circuit includes multiple phases and controller circuitry. The multiple phases collectively operate to produce an output voltage to power a load. The controller circuitry monitors an output voltage and produces control information to control the multiple phases. Controller circuitry in each respective phase of the multiple phases processes the control information independently with respect to other phases to determine whether to output a quantum of energy to maintain regulation of the output voltage. In one arrangement, the control information provides general information indicating, such as for each control cycle, how much current is needed to supply to a load to maintain the output voltage. In a specific arrangement, identities of the phases are randomized over each of multiple cycles so that randomly chosen, but an appropriate number of phases is activated to supply current to the load.
US10784760B2
A core-type linear motor includes: a stator extending in an axial direction, with magnets arranged at intervals in the axial direction, wherein each magnet and its spacing from an adjacent magnet constitute a magnet unit; and a rotor opposite the stator and linearly movable in the axial direction, with coil assemblies arranged side by side in the axial direction. Each coil assembly includes a core with an active portion wound with a coil and a supporting portion. Three coil assemblies have substantially the same length in the axial direction as four magnet units. When the length of each magnet unit is defined as 1, the length of each active portion is 0.3 to 0.5, and the height of each supporting portion, 0.28 to 0.38. These size ratios help increase the motor constant, lower the cogging force, and reduce positive attraction between the rotor and the stator.
US10784758B2
Disclosed is a linear vibration motor, comprising a vibrator and a stator, the vibrator comprises a counterweight block and a vibration block, the vibration block includes at least two magnets adjacently arranged and a magnetic conductive yoke disposed between any two adjacent magnets, and polarities of adjacent ends of two adjacent magnets are the same. The magnets are any combination of a permanent magnet and/or an electromagnet. The stator includes a stator coil disposed at one side, or upper and lower sides of the vibrator, and a magnetic conductive core disposed in the stator coil, and the axis direction of the stator coil is perpendicular to the magnetization direction of the magnets. The linear vibration motor adopts free combinations of permanent magnets and electromagnets to constitute the vibration block, and thus expands the implementation manners of the linear vibration motor so as to improve the flexibility in the production process.
US10784754B2
A method for producing a pole housing for an electric motor includes preparing a tube lateral surface from a preferably pre-galvanized sheet metal material and shaping the tube lateral surface to form a cylindrical pole tube from the sheet metal material in such a way that longitudinal edges of the tube lateral surface extended in the tube longitudinal direction face towards one another. The longitudinal edges of the tube lateral surface are joined to one another to form a closed pole tube. A previously-provided cover is form-lockingly and/or force-lockingly fastened as a bearing plate to a front end face of the pole tube and a fluid-impermeable joint is formed between the cover and the pole tube. A pole housing for an electric motor and an electric motor having a pole housing are also provided.
US10784753B2
An electric drive device and an electric power steering device that reduce temperature increase of a magnetic sensor are provided. The electric drive device includes: an electric motor; an electronic control device including a magnet at an anti-load side end of a shaft to control drive of the electric motor, and a circuit board on the anti-load side of the shaft on an extended line in an axial direction of the shaft; first coil wiring connecting the first coil groups of the electric motor to the circuit board; and second coil wiring connecting the second coil groups of the electric motor to the circuit board. Each of the first and second coil wiring includes a first portion projecting in a direction intersecting the axial direction of the shaft to the outside of the housing, and a second portion projecting outside the housing from the first portion toward the circuit board.
US10784748B2
A cooling structure of a rotary electric machine for power generation which includes a rotor and a stator includes a stator core which is formed in an annular shape to surround the rotor and has a plurality of slots arranged in a circumferential direction and extending from one end to the other end in a center axis direction, a conductor which is disposed in the slots and has a protruding portion protruding from the slots in the center axis direction, a cooling unit which cools the protruding portion. Opening portions of the slots are formed in an inner peripheral surface of the stator core, and the opening portions extend toward an upstream side in a rotation direction of the rotor at a time of regeneration from ends on the protruding portion side toward intermediate portions in the center axis direction.
US10784745B2
A stator for an electrical machine (e.g., a motor or generator) is described. The stator includes a stator core consisting of a plurality of axially adjacent generally annular laminations. The stator has axially extending stator teeth between adjacent pairs of which are formed axially extending stator slots for receiving conductors of a stator winding. At least one of the stator teeth includes an axially extending cooling passageway through which a cooling fluid flows in use. The electrical machine can include means for circulating cooling fluid through the cooling passageway(s) to cool the stacked laminations and means for circulating air around the stator along an air cooling circuit where the circulated air is cooled by the stator laminations and there is no need for a separate heat exchanger.
US10784737B2
A rotating electrical machine with a fractional slot structure includes concentrically wound stator coils, and a method of manufacturing the same. In a rotating electrical machine, a plurality of unit coils included in the stator coil are allocated into a first pole coil and a second pole coil in units of slots that oppose a pair of movable element magnetic poles. Further, each pole pair coil forming a plurality of phase coils is provided with two types of the unit coils, namely a full-coil and a half-coil. In addition, in each pole pair coil, the coil pitches between pairs of coil sides of the plurality of unit coils forming said pole pair coil are different from one another, and each pole pair coil is provided with one half-coil.
US10784735B2
A rotor and a generator including the same are capable of reducing a pressure loss of a cooling fluid, of increasing a flow rate of a cooling fluid flowing to a rotor coil, and of having improved cooling performance. The rotor includes a rotor shaft; a rotor coil wound around the rotor shaft; a rotor coil protection ring surrounding the rotor coil at one end of the rotor shaft and being spaced apart from the rotor shaft to form a clearance space between the rotor coil protection ring and the rotor shaft; and a fan coupled to the rotor shaft opposite the rotor coil, interposing the rotor coil protection ring, to blow a cooling fluid toward the rotor coil, at least part of the blown cooling fluid flowing to the rotor coil being guided through the clearance space by surfaces of the rotor coil protection ring.
US10784732B2
A method of punching a core piece having a bridge formed between a radially-outer end of a magnet insertion hole and an outer region of the core piece. The method includes providing a magnetic steel sheet and a punch configured to form the core piece, punching out the magnet insertion hole from the magnetic steel sheet, and forming a through hole that defines a radially-outer contour of the bridge by punching the magnetic steel sheet. The method includes forming the bridge between the radially-outer end of magnet insertion hole and the outer region of the core piece, and blanking the core piece, from the magnetic steel sheet, in an exterior shape with the punch while avoiding an edge of the punch from coinciding with the radially-outer contour of the bridge.
US10784724B2
A wireless power supply device that wirelessly supplies power from a stator side to a plurality of power-receiving antennas disposed on a rotor rotated about an axis (O) at intervals in a circumferential direction includes: an oscillator (90) that oscillates a high-frequency signal; and an annular power transmitter (71) that has a leaky waveguide (80) in which a plurality of radiating portions (83) that radiate the high-frequency signal as a radio wave are arranged in the circumferential direction and extend in a circular arc shape in the circumferential direction.
US10784720B2
A wireless power transmission coil module includes a first coil and a second coil; a third coil on the first coil and the second coil; and a coil frame receiving the first coil, the second coil and the third coil. In addition, a first surface of the coil frame comprises a first receptacle for receiving the first coil and a second receptacle for receiving the second coil, a second surface of the coil frame opposite to the first surface of the coil frame comprises a third receptacle for receiving the third coil, and the first receptacle does not overlap the second receptacle in a first direction perpendicular to the first surface of the coil frame.
US10784718B2
Provided is a monitoring apparatus that obtains, on an as-needed basis, audio data containing a notification sound emitted by an electrical appliance. A monitoring system (1) for monitoring the state of an electrical apparatus (400) which is to be monitored includes a monitoring apparatus (100) configured to (i) measure electric current consumed by the electrical appliance and obtain a notification sound that the electrical appliance emits during a predetermined sound recording period from when a predetermined change in the electric current is detected. The monitoring system (1) is configured to carry out a determination of the state of the electrical appliance from the notification sound and send report information, which is indicative of a result of the determination, to a communication terminal (300).
US10784716B2
A control circuit of a code modulator sets first to third states to a code modulation circuit. In first state, first and fourth switch circuits are on, and second and third switch circuits are off. In second state, first and fourth switch circuits are off, and second and third switch circuits are on. In third state, all first to fourth switch circuits are on during transition from the first to second state, and vice versa. A control circuit of a code demodulator sets fourth to sixth states to a code demodulation circuit. In fourth state, fifth and eighth switch circuits are off, and sixth and seventh switch circuits are on. In fifth state, fifth and eighth switch circuits are on, and sixth and seventh switch circuits are off. In sixth state, all fifth to eighth switch circuits are on during transition from fourth to fifth state, and vice versa.
US10784715B2
Methods, Systems, and Computer program products can use grid telemetry to generate a fingerprint. One of these methods includes generating a first grid telemetry fingerprint based on characteristics of an electrical grid. The method also includes verifying a transaction based on the first grid telemetry fingerprint and a second grid telemetry fingerprint associated with the transaction.
US10784700B2
Electrical power is dynamically managed a power source a load. A control switching system has a plurality of monitor nodes, a control switch having two switching states, and an electrical power storage cell connected to the power source in one of the switching states for storing voltage, and operative for discharging the stored voltage to the electrical load in the other of the switching states. A programmed controller dynamically monitors operating conditions at the monitor nodes during operation of the electrical load and the power source, and switches the control switch between the switching states in response to the monitored operating conditions for supplying a voltage of a desired waveform shape to the load.
US10784693B2
A charging device includes a case, a first connector, a first communication device, a processing device, and a driving device. The first communication device is configured to communicate with a second communication device of an electrical device and send a control signal to the processing device after communicating with the second communication device. The processing device is configured to output a driving signal to the driving device after receiving the control signal. The driving device is configured to provide a pushing force to push the first connector to extend from the case to couple to a second connector of the electrical device after receiving the driving signal. The first connector is further configured to charge the electrical device after couple to the second connector. A charging system is also provided.
US10784691B2
A power supply system includes: a hydrogen generation device that uses electric power to generate hydrogen; a hydrogen storage device that stores hydrogen generated by the hydrogen generation device; a fuel cell system that uses hydrogen stored in the hydrogen storage device to generate electric power; a power storage device; and a control device executing at least one of first control and second control based on an electricity expense, the first control controlling a first ratio between electric power to be supplied from a natural energy power generation device to the hydrogen generation device and electric power to be supplied from the natural energy power generation device to the power storage device, the second control controlling a second ratio between electric power to be supplied from the power storage device to a load and electric power to be supplied from the fuel cell system to the load.
US10784687B2
The present invention relates to a method of controlling a multivalent energy supply system, wherein the multivalent energy supply system comprises at least two energy generators which use at least two different energy carriers to provide energy in the form of heat and/or cold and/or electrical energy. The energy supply system comprises, for each energy generator, a closed-loop controller for controlling controlled variables of the energy generator and a control device for coordinatedly controlling the closed-loop controllers. The control device detects at least one energy supply request for at least one energy form of heat and/or cold and/or electrical energy and determines a classification of the energy generator into groups according to a specific characteristic of the energy generators, each energy generator being assigned to exactly one group for each energy form that it provides. For each energy generator, the control device determines target values for meeting the at least one energy supply request depending on the classification of the energy generators into groups and outputs the target values to the closed-loop controllers.
US10784677B2
A method for detecting a voltage disturbance on an electrical line coupled to a utility that includes calculating a sliding window actual root mean squared (RMS) voltage for each three-phase power signal, calculating a sliding window filtered RMS average voltage for each actual RMS voltage to identify normal changes in the voltage of the power signals from a nominal voltage, and obtaining a difference between the actual RMS voltage and the RMS average voltage for each of the power signals. The method determines whether the difference between the actual RMS voltage and the RMS average voltage for any of the three-phase signals is greater than a first predetermined percentage, or whether the difference between the actual RMS voltage and the RMS average voltage for any of the three-phase signals is less than a second predetermined percentage, and if so, disconnects a load from the utility.
US10784673B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a current protection device with a mutual reactor including a first winding and a second winding. The current protection device is a subcomponent of a previously developed fault current limiter. The current protection device protects the superconductor from potential damage. The current protection device may include a coil electrically connected in series with the first winding or the second winding, an actuator mechanically coupled at an output of the coil, and an electrical interrupter electrically connected to the first and second windings, wherein the actuator is communicatively coupled with the electrical interrupter to actuate a moveable contact of a set of breaker contacts of the electrical interrupter. In some embodiments, the first and second windings are arranged in parallel to one another. In some embodiments, the coil is electrically coupled to an output of the first winding or the second winding.
US10784672B2
A circuit interrupter including a line conductor, a neutral conductor, separable contacts, an operating mechanism structured to trip open the separable contacts, a magnetic trip actuator structured to cause the operating mechanism to trip open the separable contacts in response to a short-circuit between the line and neutral conductors, a protection circuit including a self-test circuit structured to perform a self-test and to output a signal in response to failing the self-test, and an electrical component electrically connected between the line and neutral conductors and having an open state and a closed state. The electrical component is structured to switch from the open state to the closed state and cause a short-circuit between the line and neutral conductors in response to receiving the signal from the self-test circuit.
US10784668B2
A laminated busbar assembly includes positive and negative leads supported by an insulative layer. The insulative layer as well as the positive and negative leads are thin and flexible, thus facilitating connection of the positive and negative leads with the terminals of the electric cells of a battery module. The laminated busbar assembly may include voltage measurement wires and/or temperature sensors for measuring voltage and/or temperature, respectively.
US10784665B2
A theatre raceway comprising an outlet assembly and a back shell. The outlet assembly includes an electrical component mounted to an outlet frame having wire stays for guiding an electrical wire (e.g., a communication wire or a power wire). The wire stays are spaced apart to facilitate access to the wires. The back shell is secured to the outlet assembly and covers the wire stays. In one embodiment, the raceway further comprises an alignment feature that aligns the back shell with the outlet assembly. For example, the alignment feature can comprises a tab on the outlet assembly and a recess on the back shell. The raceway can also include a fastener securing the back shell to the outlet assembly, wherein the fastener includes a head positioned in a recessed portion of the back shell.
US10784661B1
A conductor trimmer may be provided. The conductor trimmer may include a grip and a trimmer. The grip may have a grip handle and a trimmer groove. The trimmer may include a trimmer handle. The trimmer may engage the trimmer groove. With trimmer snuggly attached to both the grip and a conductor, the trimmer may be rotated about conductor by a user holding the grip handle stationary and rotating the trimmer by the trimmer handle. As the trimmer rotates about the conductor, a first roller rail and a second roller rail may ride in the trimmer groove as a blade cuts layers of strands from the conductor.
US10784640B2
A connector assembly (10) is disclosed in which a connector part (12) and a cable manager part (20) are provided. The cable manager part (20) can be provided with a separable lacing fixture (24) that functions to retain the severed portions (6a) of the wires (6) that result from the termination process, rather than allowing the severed wire portions (6a) to fall to the floor in an uncollected state. In one aspect, the cable manager part (20) has a main body (22) to which the separable lacing fixture (24) is attached via a plurality of breakaway portions (34). During installation, the connector part (12) is inserted onto the cable manager part (20) and is placed in a wire termination tool (7) which fully inserts the connector part (12) onto the cable manager part (20). This action causes the connector part (12) to cut the wires (6) and to sever or break the breakaway portions (34) such that the separable lacing fixture (24) is separated from the fully formed connector (10).
US10784636B1
An apparatus is disclosed for an asymmetrical quadrature hybrid coupler. In an example aspect, an apparatus comprises a quadrature hybrid coupler. The quadrature hybrid coupler comprises a shared port, a through port, a coupled port, and an isolated port. The quadrature hybrid coupler also comprises at least one transformer, which comprises a first inductor and a second inductor. The first inductor is connected between the shared port and the coupled port. The second inductor is connected between the isolated port and the through port. The second inductor is directly connected to the isolated port. An inductance of the first inductor is different from an inductance of the second inductor.
US10784635B2
A sensing apparatus, a piercing terminal, a stamping strip and a corresponding method are provided. Flat copper wires at tail ends of parallel wires of a FPC film are pierced, pressed tightly and fixed by first to fourth spikes on a metal strip. The first to fourth spikes are electrically connected to the flat copper wires at positions where the flat copper wires are pierced respectively, achieving an electrical connection between two piercing terminals and the two flat copper wires at the tail ends of the parallel wires of the FPC film, helping ensure the reliability of the electrical connection. Further, the piercing terminals are suitable for parallel wires of FPC films with different specifications.
US10784628B2
An electrical plug connector. The electrical plug connector has: a connector housing for accommodating at least one electrical cable that extends along an axial direction; a shielding plate that completely encloses the connector housing in a circumferential direction around the axial direction. The connector housing has, on an external surface, a play-limiting element for limiting a degree of play in the state plugged together with the mating plug connector. The shielding plate has an opening, the play-limiting element protruding from the connector housing and extending through the opening of the shielding plate and/or the play-limiting element being fashioned as a connector housing opening in the connector housing and being adjacent to the opening.
US10784627B1
A self-locking extension cord for extending electrical power to an associated auxiliary electrical cord includes a power cord having opposed first and second ends, the cord constructed of an elongate adjustable metal material containing a plurality of conductive wires. The extension cord includes male and female electrical receptacles fixedly attached to first and second ends of the cord member. The extension cord includes a male plug receiving member selectively and releasably coupled to the first end of the cord member, the male plug receiving member including first and second pivotally connected receiving portions movable between a closed configuration in which the first and second receiving portions receive one of the male electrical receptacle or the auxiliary male electrical receptacle associated with the auxiliary extension cord. A female plug receiving member is coupled to female electrical receptacle, the male and female receiving members having locking structures for being locked together.
US10784626B2
An electrical connector includes a plug and a sliding lock element. The plug includes an inserting portion, a cover portion, and a first sidewall portion. The cover portion covers one end of the inserting portion. The first sidewall portion is perpendicularly connected to the cover portion. A gap is formed between the first sidewall portion and the inserting portion. The sliding lock element is assembled on the plug. The sliding lock element includes a lid portion, a vertical extension portion, and a fitting portion. The lid portion slidably covers the cover portion of the plug. The vertical extension portion is perpendicularly connected to the lid portion. The fitting portion is connected to the vertical extension portion and extends toward the lid portion.
US10784625B2
A connector includes: a housing having a lock portion; and a fitting assuring component attached to the housing and detecting whether the housing and the counterpart housing being fitted with each other. The fitting assuring component has a hollow portion to house at least part of the lock portion to surround the at least part of the lock portion upon the fitting assuring component being located at the preset attachment position, and the fitting assuring component preventing the lock portion from switching to cancellation of the state of the housing and the counterpart housing being fitted with each other by interfering with an inside wall of the hollow portion.
US10784609B2
The invention relates to a cylindrical connector socket having a contact cage which comprises a plurality of contact springs extending along a plug-in direction S for electrically conductive contacting with a connector which can be plugged into the cylindrical connector socket in the plug-in direction S. The contact cage has a first end margin and a second end margin, wherein a first set of contact springs is formed from the first end margin and a second set of contact springs is formed from the second end margin. The contact springs in the first and the second set each have a fixed end with which they are fastened to one of the margins and each have a free end, which projects in the direction of the other margin.
US10784601B2
An electric motor includes an assembly for connection to a printed circuit having a conductive insert through which connection holes pass, and a coil assembly having electrical connections terminated by connection plugs. The motor further includes connection pieces comprising a rod, the outer cross-section of which matches the cross-section of the connection holes, the connection piece having, at the proximal end thereof, a shoulder with a cross-section greater than the cross-section of the connection holes, the opposite end having a slot extending up to the shoulder, and including an opening on the distal end with a width greater than or equal to the cross-section of the connection plugs and at least one narrowing with a width less than the cross-section of the connection plugs, in order to ensure the expansion of the collar of the connection piece engaged in the hole of the printed circuit insert.
US10784600B1
A split, locknut grounding bushing has a first metal bushing portion with first and second ends, a top, a bottom with teeth, an exterior surface with a boss for receipt of a lug, and an interior surface with threads; a second metal bushing portion similar to the first bushing portion, first and second insulators respectively connected to the top of the first and second metal bushing portions. The first and second metal bushing portions pivot with respect to each other at one end and can be fastened to each other at the second end. The threads of the first and second bushing portions can thread onto the threads of a conduit or connector passing through a hole in an electrical enclosure so as to engage the teeth on the bottom of the first and second bushing portions with an interior surface of the enclosure.
US10784598B2
A coaxial cable connector (510) for connecting a coaxial cable (512), wherein the connector (510) comprises a ferrule (510b) arranged to be configured in electrical contact with at least one metal braid layer of the coaxial cable (512), the ferrule (510b) comprising an elongated body for the electrical contact with said at least one metal braid layer of the coaxial cable, wherein the body is plated with tin or made of zinc or zinc alloy; and a base (510a) plated with nickel or nickel-tin or at least partly covered with a plastic.
US10784594B2
An adapter connector has two ends to be mated with a first mating connector and a second mating connector respectively. The adapter connector includes an insulating body and multiple terminals. The insulating body has a first mating section and a second mating section. The first mating section is concavely provided with multiple terminal slots. The second mating section is concavely provided with an insertion space communicated with the terminal slots. The first mating section is mated with the first mating connector. The insertion space accommodates the second mating connector. Each terminal has an elastic contact portion at one end thereof and a flat plate contact portion at the other end thereof. The elastic contact portion is accommodated in a corresponding terminal slot and electrically connected with the first mating connector. The flat plate contact portion is accommodated in the insertion space to be electrically connected with the second mating connector.
US10784581B2
An antenna device includes a ground part, a patch part disposed parallel to the ground part to oppose the ground part, a short-circuit part electrically connecting the patch part and the ground part, a patch area expansion part and a ground area expansion part. The patch area expansion part is provided on a patch-side opposing surface that is a surface of the patch part opposing the ground part to expand an effective surface area that is an apparent area of the patch-side opposing surface with respect to the ground part. The ground area expansion part is provided in a region opposing the patch area expansion part on a ground-side opposing surface that is a surface of the ground part opposing the patch part to expand an effective surface area of the ground-side opposing surface with respect to the patch part.
US10784576B2
A beam former module includes a package base and an interconnect structure formed within the package base. The beam former module also includes a first true time delay (TTD) module attached to the package base. The first TTD module includes a plurality of switching elements configured to define a signal transmission path between a signal input and a signal output of the first TTD module by selectively activating a plurality of time delay lines. The signal input and the signal output of the first TTD module are electrically coupled to the interconnect structure. In some embodiments, the interconnect structure includes at least one TTD meander line and at least one of the time delay lines of the first TTD module is electrically coupled to the at least one TTD meander line.
US10784572B2
An electronic device may have a speaker mounted in a housing. The housing may have a top face and a longitudinal axis that passes through the top face. A printed circuit may lie parallel to the top face. Input-output circuitry such as a touch sensor and other components may be mounted on the top face overlapping the printed circuit. First and second antennas may be formed on the printed circuit. A speaker may be mounted in the housing facing along the longitudinal axis. A metal layer on a movable portion of the speaker may be patterned to form a slot antenna isolation element or other antenna isolation element. The antenna isolation element may be configured to exhibit a resonance at a frequency of operation of the first and second antennas and may therefore enhance isolation between the first and second antennas.
US10784569B2
A system for transmitting signals includes processing circuitry for receiving at least one input signal for transmission from the processing circuitry to a second location. Electromagnetic knot processing circuitry receives processed signals from the first processing circuitry and applies an electromagnetic knot to the received processed signal before transmission to the second location. A first signal degradation caused by environmental factors of the electromagnetic knot processed signal is improved over a second signal degradation caused by the environmental factors of a non-electromagnetic knot processed signal.
US10784568B1
An antenna system is disclosed. In embodiments, the antenna system may include a communication sub-system disposed within an aircraft. The communication sub-system may include one or more power supply components configured to generate a direct current (DC) power supply, and a first capacitive coupling device configured to capacitively couple an alternating current (AC) transmit signal to the DC power supply to form an antenna input signal. In embodiments, the antenna system may further include an electrical line configured to transmit the antenna input signal from the communication sub-system to an antenna module. In embodiments, the antenna module may include a second capacitive coupling device configured to de-couple the DC power supply and the AC transmit signal, communication circuitry configured to generate one or more transmission signals based on the AC transmit signal.
US10784563B2
Techniques regarding a scalable phased array are provided. For example, various embodiments described herein can comprise a plurality of integrated circuits having respective flip chip pads, and an antenna-in-package substrate having a ball grid array terminal and a plurality of transmission lines. The plurality of transmission lines can be embedded within the antenna-in-package substrate and can operatively couple the respective flip chip pads to the ball grid array terminal. In one or more embodiments, a die can comprise the plurality of integrated circuits. Further, in one or more embodiments a combiner can also be embedded in the antenna-in-package substrate. The combiner can join the plurality of transmission lines.
US10784562B2
A wireless communication chip having an internal antenna includes a substrate having first and second mounting regions; a wireless communication module molded on the first mounting region; and an antenna block mounted on the second mounting region to be electrically connected to the wireless communication module, wherein the antenna block includes a first antenna on the substrate; a connection element connected to the first antenna; an insulating layer on the first antenna and the connection element to cover the first antenna and the connection element; and a second antenna on the insulating layer such that a first surface of the second antenna is in contact with the insulating layer, and a second surface, which is a reverse surface of the first surface, is exposed to the outside of the wireless communication chip, wherein the second antenna is electrically connected to the first antenna through the connection element.
US10784561B2
A system for coupling a satellite antenna to a mounting structure is provided. The system may include a mounting structure and a satellite antenna. The mounting structure may include a plurality of tabs extending upward, and located at a first elevation. The mounting structure may also define a first plurality of apertures located at a second elevation, where the first elevation is higher than the second elevation. The satellite antenna may define a second plurality of apertures configured to accept the plurality of tabs. The satellite antenna may be supported by the mounting structure upon the plurality of tabs being accepted by the second plurality of apertures. The satellite antenna may also define a third plurality of apertures which may be aligned with the first plurality of apertures upon the plurality of tabs being accepted by the second plurality of apertures.
US10784549B2
An ultra-wideband linear-to-circular polarizer is disclosed. In accordance with embodiments of the invention, the polarizer includes a plurality of cascaded waveplates having biaxial permittivity or cascaded anisotropic sheet impedances. Each waveplate/sheet has a principal axis rotated at different angles relative to an adjacent waveplate/sheet about a z-axis of a 3-dimensional x, y, z coordinate system. Each waveplate is composed of a unit cell of an artificial anisotropic dielectric. Each sheet impedance is composed of an anisotropic metallic pattern. The polarizer further includes impedance matching layers disposed adjacent the cascaded waveplates/sheets.
US10784546B2
Disclosed embodiments include thermoelectric-based thermal management systems and methods configured to heat and/or cool an electrical device. Thermal management systems can include at least one electrical conductor in electrical and thermal communication with a temperature-sensitive region of the electrical device and at least one thermoelectric device in thermal communication with the at least one electrical conductor. Electric power can be directed to the thermoelectric device by the same electrical conductor or an external power supply, causing the thermoelectric device to provide controlled heating and/or cooling to the electrical device via the at least one electrical conductor. The thermoelectric management system can be integrated with the management system of the electrical device on a printed circuit substrate.
US10784543B2
A battery block includes a holding unit that holds a plurality of cells. The holding unit is made of a material having a heat conductivity. The holding unit includes openings that are open over the entire length of the side surfaces of the cells in the longitudinal direction. Each opening is formed so that, on the side surface of each cell, the area of a first region exposed to the outside through the opening is smaller than that of a second region other than the first region.
US10784537B2
Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery with reduced battery resistance, this lithium ion secondary battery using a positive electrode active material with a high potential and a phosphate-based solid electrolyte. The lithium ion secondary battery disclosed herein includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The positive electrode has a positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material having an operation upper limit potential of at least 4.6 V relative to metallic lithium and a phosphate-based solid electrolyte. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a boric acid ester including a fluorine atom.
US10784522B2
A fuel cell having an anode-cathode stack includes at least one active surface layer formed by a first channel structure with a first and at least one second channel for conducting a first fluid over the at least one active surface layer of the anode-cathode stack. A first distributor structure for distributing the first fluid into the first and the at least one second channel of the channel structure is provided. The first distributor structure is configured with a first surface region assigned to the first channel and with a second surface region assigned to the second channel. The two surface regions are configured with a flow resistance of differing magnitude for the first fluid distributed in the first distributor structure.
US10784514B2
Provided is conductive carbon that gives an electrical storage device having a high energy density. This conductive carbon includes a hydrophilic part, and the contained amount of the hydrophilic part is 10 mass % or more of the entire conductive carbon. When performing a rolling treatment on an active material layer including an active material particle and this conductive carbon formed on a current collector during manufacture of an electrode of an electric storage device, the pressure resulting from the rolling treatment causes this conductive carbon to spread in a paste-like form and increase in density. The active material particles approach each other, and the conductive carbon is pressed into gaps formed between adjacent active material particles, filling the gaps. As a result, the amount of active material per unit volume in the electrode obtained after the rolling treatment increases, and the electrode density increases.
US10784513B2
The present invention aims to provide a binder for a power storage device electrode which exhibits thermal energy stability over a wide temperature range covering from a high-temperature condition to a low-temperature condition when used as a binder for a power storage device electrode, and which enables production of a high-capacity storage battery with a small irreversible capacity and low resistance to have excellent output characteristics. The present invention also aims to provide a binder for a power storage device electrode which is excellent in dispersibility of an active material and adhesiveness, which improves the flexibility of an electrode to be obtained, and which has high resistance against electrolytes to enable production of a high-capacity storage battery even when the added amount thereof is small. The present invention further aims to provide a composition for a power storage device electrode, a power storage device electrode, and a power storage device each prepared using the binder for a power storage device electrode. The present invention relates to a binder for a power storage device electrode used for an electrode of a power storage device, the binder including a polyvinyl acetal resin, the polyvinyl acetal resin having a meso/racemo ratio of an acetal ring structure of 10 or higher and a hydroxy group content of 30 to 60 mol %.
US10784512B2
Composites of silicon and various porous scaffold materials, such as carbon material comprising micro-, meso- and/or macropores, and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The compositions find utility in various applications, including electrical energy storage electrodes and devices comprising the same.
US10784509B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery, comprising a cathode, an anode, and a porous separator or electrolyte, wherein the anode comprises: (a) an anode active layer containing a layer of lithium or lithium alloy, in a form of a foil, coating, or multiple particles aggregated together, as an anode active material; (b) a first anode-protecting layer having a thickness from 1 nm to 100 μm, a specific surface area greater than 50 m2/g and comprising a thin layer of electron-conducting material selected from graphene sheets, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, carbon or graphite fibers, expanded graphite flakes, metal nanowires, conductive polymer fibers, or a combination thereof, and (c) a second anode-protecting layer having a thickness from 1 nm to 100 μm and comprising an elastomer having a fully recoverable tensile elastic strain from 2% to 1,000% and a lithium ion conductivity from 10−8 S/cm to 5×10−2 S/cm.
US10784507B2
Provided is a method for producing a positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, the method including: a mixing step of obtaining a W-containing mixture of Li-metal composite oxide particles represented by the formula: LizNi1-x-yCoxMyO2 and composed of primary particles and secondary particles formed by aggregation of the primary particles, 2 mass % or more of water with respect to the oxide particles, and a W compound or a W compound and a Li compound, the W-containing mixture having a molar ratio of the total amount of Li contained in the water and the solid W compound, or the W compound and the Li compound of 1.5 or more and less than 3.0 with respect to the amount of W contained therein; and a heat treatment step of heating the W-containing mixture to form lithium tungstate on the surface of the primary particles.
US10784506B1
A cathode for a solid-state battery comprises a composite cathode active material formed of a layered lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) in a solid solution matrix of lithium oxide (Li2O) and a cobalt oxide phase. For example, the composite cathode active material can be layered LCO in a solid solution matrix of one of Li2O—LixCo1-xO—Co3O4, Li2O—LixCo1-xO and Li2O—Co3O4, with 0≤x≤0.5. The LCO is at least 80 wt. % of the composite cathode active material. The cathode is a sintered solid-state cathode wafer that is free-standing, upon which solid-state battery cells are fabricated.
US10784505B2
A lithium sulfide (Li2Sw)-lithium phosphorus sulfide (LixPySz) composite, electrochemical cells comprising the same, and methods for making the same are described herein. By the mechanochemical method described herein, the Li2Sw—LixPySz composite can be formed and used as the active material in a positive electrode for a variety of electrochemical cells. It is shown herein that the composite is an electrochemically active cathode material. Further, it has been shown that the Li2Sw—LixPySz composite shows increased resistance to decomposition and H2S generation than Li2S.
US10784495B2
This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. Exemplary battery packs may include a sense lead assembly having a circuit board that is centrally mounted between first and second wiring members (e.g., flat flexibles cables or flat printed circuits). The circuit board establishes a suitable mounting surface for incorporating sense lead fuses into the sense lead assembly. The centralized sense lead fuses provide for simple and reliable servicing of the battery array in response to battery overcurrent conditions.
US10784492B2
Casings for lithium ion batteries are provided that include a container or assembly that defines a base, side walls and a top or lid, and a vent structure associated with the container or assembly. A flame arrestor may be positioned in proximity to the vent structure. The lithium ion battery may also include a pressure disconnect device associated with the casing. The pressure disconnect device may include a deflectable dome-based activation mechanism, and the deflectable dome-based activation mechanism may be configured and dimensioned to prevent burn through, e.g., by increasing the mass of the dome-based activation mechanism, adding material (e.g., foil) to the dome-based activation mechanism, and combinations thereof. Burn through may also be avoided, at least in part, based on the speed at which the dome-based activation mechanism responds at a target trigger pressure.
US10784491B2
A battery terminal includes a main body in which a battery post is inserted and a fastener having a pair of fastening abutting portions. The main body has a notch portion provided in at least an end in a fastening direction, accommodating and positioning one of the pair of fastening abutting portions. An abutting-portion-side opposite surface on the fastening abutting portion side and a notch-portion-side opposite surface on the notch portion side have respective abutting surfaces. A relief surface is provided on at least one of the abutting-portion-side opposite surface and the notch-portion-side opposite surface such that a relief space is formed with a clearance from the other one of the opposite surfaces.
US10784484B2
A connecting element for at least two energy storage cells, having a metal sheet for the electrical connection of the energy storage cells. The metal sheet has at least two perforations for the uptake in each perforation of at least a part of an energy storage cell. Two lugs provided on the metal sheet project into the perforations.
US10784482B2
A polyolefin microporous membrane is suitable to provide thereon a porous layer having little variation in thickness, which has a fluctuation range of F25 value in the length direction of 1 MPa or less, and which has a length of 1,000 m or more (wherein the F25 value refers to a value obtained by: measuring a load value applied to a test specimen when the test specimen is stretched by 25% using a tensile tester; and dividing the load value by the value of the cross-sectional area of the test specimen).
US10784480B2
An assembled battery that can be easily assembled and that has high reliability is provided. An assembled battery includes secondary batteries with a flat prismatic shape that are stacked in a thickness direction (X-axis direction), spacer members that are stacked alternately with the secondary batteries, and side plates that extend in a stacking direction of the secondary batteries and face side surfaces of the spacer members along the stacking direction. The spacer member includes an engagement part to be engaged with the side plate in a manner that sliding is possible in the stacking direction (X-axis direction).
US10784479B2
A battery lock device for a forklift includes a lock plate capable of moving between a first position and a second position. The lock plate at the first position is configured to keep a battery from being protruded. The lock plate at the second position is configured to enable the battery to be protruded. The battery lock device includes a shaft configured to rotatably support the lock plate with respect to a body, a fixed portion opposed to the lock plate, a lock pin capable of sliding toward the fixed portion in a first direction and away from the fixed portion in a second direction, and a spring configured to press the lock pin in the first direction. First and second holes are provided in the fixed portion. The lock pin is inserted into the first and second holes.
US10784474B2
These present disclosure provides a flexible battery comprising a top layer and a bottom layer coupled at a number of attachment points to form chambers within the battery to retain a shape of the battery under an increase in internal pressure. The flexible battery can include an anode and separator and a cathode, where the separator is a flexible polymer.
US10784473B2
Provided herewith is a method for manufacturing the display screen, which includes sequentially forming a switch array layer and an organic light-emitting display layer on a flexible substrate; forming a first encapsulation layer on the organic light-emitting display layer; defining a first portion of a via hole in the first encapsulation layer; forming a second encapsulation layer in the first portion of the via hole and on the first encapsulation layer; removing a part of the second encapsulation layer corresponding to a position of the preset camera hole; defining a second portion of the via hole in the flexible substrate to obtain the via hole completely. Since the inner wall of the via hole of the camera of the disclosure is provided with the encapsulation layer, the encapsulation effect and the reliability of the encapsulation are improved.
US10784470B2
Techniques for print ink droplet measurement and control to deposit fluids within precise tolerances
An ink printing process employs per-nozzle droplet volume measurement and processing software that plans droplet combinations to reach specific aggregate ink fills per target region, guaranteeing compliance with minimum and maximum ink fills set by specification. In various embodiments, different droplet combinations are produced through different printhead/substrate scan offsets, offsets between printheads, the use of different nozzle drive waveforms, and/or other techniques. These combinations can be based on repeated, rapid droplet measurements that develop understandings for each nozzle of means and spreads for expected droplet volume, velocity and trajectory, with combinations of droplets being planned based on these statistical parameters. Optionally, random fill variation can be introduced so as to mitigate Mura effects in a finished display device. The disclosed techniques have many possible applications.
US10784465B2
There has been a problem that difference in refractive index between an opposite substrate or a moisture barrier layer provided thereover, and air is maintained large, and light extraction efficiency is low. Further, there has been a problem that peeling or cracking due to the moisture barrier layer is easily generated, which leads to deteriorate the reliability and lifetime of a light-emitting element. A light-emitting element includes a pixel electrode, an electroluminescent layer, a transparent electrode, a passivation film, a stress relieving layer, and a low refractive index layer, all of which are stacked sequentially. The stress relieving layer serves to prevent peeling of the passivation film. The low refractive index layer serves to reduce reflectivity of light generated in the electroluminescent layer in emitting to air. Therefore, a light-emitting element with high reliability and long lifetime and a display device using the light-emitting element can be provided.
US10784450B2
The present disclosure discloses a display panel including a flat layer, a mixed layer and a base film layer sequentially disposed; wherein the mixed layer includes an organic film layer and a multi-film structure, the organic film layer and the multi-film structure are alternately distributed on the base film layer in a direction parallel to the base film layer. In the present disclosure, the ability to omni-directionally bend a display panel is improved by replacing the inorganic film layer in a specific area below the flat layer of the display panel with an organic film layer to improve the omnibearing bending ability of the display panel and enhance the user experience.
US10784440B2
A semiconductor device includes a magnetic random access memory (MRAM). The MRAM comprises a plurality of MRAM cells including a first type MRAM cell and a second type MRAM cell. Each of the plurality of MRAM cells includes a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) layer including a pinned magnetic layer, a tunneling barrier layer and a free magnetic layer. A size of the MTJ film stack of the first type MRAM cell is different from a size of the MTJ film stack of the second type MRAM cell. In one or more of the foregoing and following embodiments, a width of the MTJ film stack of the first type MRAM cell is different from a width of the MTJ film stack of the second type MRAM cell.
US10784436B2
A transmitting piezoelectric element and receiving piezoelectric elements and are arranged on a vibrating plate opposed to each opening of openings of a piezoelectric sensor, and, when an external force is applied in a vertical direction with respect to the vibrating plate opposed to the openings, a region which has a maximum principal stress which is a maximum value of the stress of the vibrating plate is a first region, and a region which has a minimum principal stress which is a minimum value of the stress of the vibrating plate is a second region, the receiving piezoelectric elements and are arranged in the first region and the transmitting piezoelectric element is arranged in the second region.
US10784432B2
Techniques for a vertical Josephson junction superconducting device are provided. In one embodiment, a chip surface base device structure is provided that comprises a substrate comprising crystalline silicon that is coupled with a first superconducting layer, wherein the first superconducting layer is coupled with a second substrate comprising crystalline silicon. In one implementation, the chip surface base device structure also comprises a vertical Josephson junction located in an etched region of the substrate, the vertical Josephson junction comprising a first superconducting layer, a tunnel barrier layer, and a top superconducting layer.
US10784429B2
The present invention relates to a light emitting element package with a thin film pad and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, to a light emitting element package with a thin film pad, which mounts and molds a light emitting diode on a thin film pad formed on a substrate and then, separates the light emitting diode from the substrate and configures a light emitting element package to effectively suppress occurrence of defective soldering or the like by securing a sufficient pad area and shape required for soldering by using the thin film pad while implementing a small light emitting element package such as a chip scale package or the like and a manufacturing method thereof.Disclosed is a light emitting element package including: a plurality of light emitting diodes having a first electrode pad and a second electrode pad at a lower portion thereof; a thin film pad having the plurality of light emitting diodes mounted thereon and constituted by one common thin film pad and a plurality of individual thin film pads; and a molding layer molding the plurality of light emitting diodes and the thin film pad, in which a lower surface of the thin film pad has a light emitting element package soldering region for soldering the light emitting element package, and an area of the light emitting element package soldering region is larger than that of each of the first electrode pad and the second electrode pad of the light emitting diode.
US10784428B2
An LED filament and an LED light bulb applying the same are provided. The LED filament includes a conductive section including a conductor; two or more LED sections connected to each other by the conductive section, and each of the LED sections includes two or more LED chips electrically connected to each other through a wire; two electrodes, electrically connected to the LED section; and a light conversion layer with a top layer and a base layer, covering the LED sections, the conductive section and the two electrodes, and a part of each of the two electrodes is exposed respectively. The LED filament is supplied with electric power no more than 8 W, when the LED filament is lit, at least 4 lm of white light is emitted per millimeter of filament length.
US10784422B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device produced thereby. For example and without limitation, various aspects of this disclosure provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, and a semiconductor device produced thereby, that that comprises a transparent, translucent, non-opaque, or otherwise optically-transmissive, external surface.
US10784420B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate made of resin, a first wiring and a second wiring formed on the substrate, a light emitting element disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the first wiring and the second wiring, and a transparent sealing resin configured to seal the light emitting element. The substrate contains an acrylic resin, and the sealing resin contains silicone.
US10784405B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting stack including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer, a plurality of holes through the second conductive semiconductor layer and the active layer, a trench extending along an edge of the light emitting stack, the trench extending through the second conductive semiconductor layer and the active layer, and a reflective metal layer within the plurality of holes and within the trench.
US10784402B2
Methods of forming an integrated InGaN/GaN or AlInGaP/InGaP LED on Si CMOS for RGB colors and the resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include forming trenches having a v-shaped bottom through an oxide layer and a portion of a substrate; forming AlN or GaAs in the v-shaped bottom; forming a n-GaN or n-InGaP pillar on the AlN or GaAs through and above the first oxide layer; forming an InGaN/GaN MQW or AlInGaP/InGaP MQW over the n-GaN or n-InGaP pillar; forming a p-GaN or p-InGaP layer over the n-GaN pillar and InGaN/GaN MQW or the n-InGaP pillar and AlInGaP/InGaP MQW down to the first oxide layer; forming a TCO layer over the first oxide layer and the p-GaN or p-InGaP layer; forming a second oxide layer over the TCO layer; and forming a metal pad on the TCO layer above each n-GaN or n-InGaP pillar.
US10784399B2
A method is provided for fabricating a graphene light emitting transistor. The method includes: forming a gate electrode on a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate and the gate electrode; forming a graphene oxide layer on the gate insulating layer; reducing two ends of the graphene oxide layer to respectively form a source electrode and a drain electrode made of graphene; forming a graphene quantum dot layer on an unreduced part of the graphene oxide layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode; and forming a water and oxygen resistant layer on the graphene quantum dot layer.
US10784388B2
Photovoltaic cells are fabricated in which the compositions of the light-absorbing layer and the electron-accepting layer are selected such that at least one side of the junction between these two layers is substantially depleted of charge carriers, i.e., both free electrons and free holes, in the absence of solar illumination. In further aspects of the invention, the light-absorbing layer is comprised of dual-shell passivated quantum dots, each having a quantum dot core with surface anions, an inner shell containing cations to passivate the core surface anions, and an outer shell to passivate the inner shell anions and anions on the core surface.
US10784386B2
An encapsulated integrated photodetector waveguide structures with alignment tolerance and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a waveguide structure bounded by one or more shallow trench isolation (STI) structure(s). The method further includes forming a photodetector fully landed on the waveguide structure.
US10784374B2
Some embodiments include transistor constructions having a first insulative structure lining a recess within a base. A first conductive structure lines an interior of the first insulative structure, and a ferroelectric structure lines an interior of the first conductive structure. A second conductive structure is within a lower region of the ferroelectric structure, and the second conductive structure has an uppermost surface beneath an uppermost surface of the first conductive structure. A second insulative structure is over the second conductive structure and within the ferroelectric structure. A pair of source/drain regions are adjacent an upper region of the first insulative structure and are on opposing sides of the first insulative structure from one another.
US10784373B1
A semiconductor device includes a region of semiconductor material comprising a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type and having a first major surface. A body region of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type is disposed in the second semiconductor layer extending from the first major surface. The body region comprises a first segment having a first doping concentration, and a second segment laterally adjacent to the first segment and adjacent to the first major surface having a second doping concentration less than the first doping concentration. A source region of the first conductivity type is disposed in the first segment but is not disposed in at least a portion of the second segment. An insulated gate electrode is disposed adjacent to the region of semiconductor material adjoining the first segment, the second segment, and the source region. A conductive layer is electrically connected to the first segment, the second segment, and the first source region. During a linear mode of operation, current flows first in the second segment but not in the first segment to reduce the likelihood of thermal runaway.
US10784370B2
Method and structures for forming vertical transistors with uniform fin thickness. A structure includes: a substrate, a plurality of fins over the substrate, a top and a bottom source/drain region in contact with the plurality of fins, respectively, where the bottom source/drain region has an alternating topography, and a bottom spacer in contact with the bottom source/drain region, where the bottom spacer conforms to the alternating topography of the bottom-source drain region.
US10784369B2
A high-voltage semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, a source region and a drain region disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The drain region has a second conductivity type that is the opposite of the first conductivity type, and the source region includes a part having the first conductivity type and another part having the second conductivity type. The device includes a first and a second isolation structures disposed on two opposite sides of the drain region. The first isolation structure is between the source and the drain region. The device includes a first well region disposed below the second isolation structure. The top surface of the first well region is adjacent to the bottom surface of the second isolation structure. In addition, the device includes a first buried layer disposed in the semiconductor substrate and that overlaps the first well region.
US10784359B2
A method includes forming a fin protruding over a substrate; forming a conformal oxide layer over an upper surface and along sidewalls of the fin; performing an anisotropic oxide deposition or an anisotropic plasma treatment to form a non-conformal oxide layer over the upper surface and along the sidewalls of the fin; and forming a gate electrode over the fin, the conformal oxide layer and the non-conformal oxide layer being between the fin and the gate electrode.
US10784354B2
A light-emitting device may comprise a set of layers comprising a substrate layer, and a set of epitaxial layers deposited on the substrate layer. The set of epitaxial layers may include a strained layer. The strained layer may include a set of active zones to be used to generate optical gain. The light-emitting device may comprise a set of trenches etched into a subset of the set of layers of the light-emitting device. The set of trenches may prevent a set of defects or dislocations in a wafer from which the light-emitting device was formed from propagating into the set of active zones.
US10784351B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device having two dimensional (2D) lateral hetero-structures includes forming alternating regions of a first metal dichalcogenide film and a second metal dichalcogenide film extending along a surface of a first substrate. The first metal dichalcogenide and the second metal dichalcogenide films are different metal dichalcogenides. Each second metal dichalcogenide film region is bordered on opposing lateral sides by a region of the first metal dichalcogenide film, as seen in cross-sectional view.
US10784350B2
A first insulating layer is disposed on a second surface of a semiconductor substrate, and has an opening. A second insulating layer is disposed on the second surface and separated from the first insulating layer. A stack includes, in sequence on the second surface, a side n-type epitaxial layer and first and second p-type epitaxial layers that are made of a gallium-nitride-based material. The stack has an outer side wall having a portion formed of the second p-type epitaxial layer, an inner side wall extending from the second insulating layer, and a top surface. The n-type contact layer is disposed on the top surface. The source electrode portion is in contact with the n-type contact layer on the top surface, and is in contact with the second p-type epitaxial layer on the outer side wall. A gate insulating film is disposed on the inner side wall.
US10784348B2
An integrated circuit (IC) may include an active device layer on a front-side surface of a semiconductor device substrate. The IC may also include a front-side dielectric layer having a first surface opposite a second surface, the first surface contacting the active device layer. The IC may further include a porous semiconductor handle substrate contacting the second surface of the front-side dielectric layer. The porous semiconductor handle substrate may be uniformly doped.
US10784344B2
Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a gate structure on the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a channel on the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a source/drain layer on the channel. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes a spacer on a sidewall of the gate structure. The spacer includes a central portion overlapping the channel in a vertical direction, and a protrusion portion protruding from the central portion. Related methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices are also provided.
US10784343B2
The present invention discloses a Nanowire Field Effect Transistor Detection Device and the Detection Method thereof. The Nanowire Field Effect Transistor Detection Device of the present invention comprises: gate oxide, SiNW chip, surface oxide, and surface molecule layer. The circuit structure of the Nanowire Field Effect Transistor Detection Device comprises a first resistor, a second resistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, a fourth capacitor, an AC voltage source, and an ammeter. In addition, the present invention provides a method for attaching the probe Ni-NTA to the Nanowire Field Effect Transistor Detection Device. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for attaching the isooctyl trimethoxysilane molecule to the Nanowire Field Effect Transistor Detection Device.
US10784340B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate structure, a gate structure, a drift region, a drain region in the substrate structure, two isolation structures at opposite sides of the drift region, wherein the drift region has a first width, the isolation structure has a second width, a ratio of the first width to the second width is in a range from 1 to 4. The semiconductor device further includes a super-junction doped structure in the drift region and including a plurality of first-conductive-type doped sub-regions and a plurality of second-conductive-type doped sub-regions which are alternately disposed. Widths of the plurality of first-conductive-type doped sub-regions decrease from the gate structure to the drain region, and widths of the plurality of second-conductive-type doped sub-regions also decrease from the gate structure to the drain region.
US10784336B2
A gate structure for gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a heterogeneous structure, a doped GaN layer, an insulating layer, an undoped GaN layer, and a gate metal layer. The heterogeneous structure includes a channel layer and a barrier layer on the channel layer. The doped GaN layer is disposed on the barrier layer, the insulating layer is disposed on both sides of the top portion of the doped GaN layer, and the undoped GaN layer is disposed between the doped GaN layer and the insulating layer. The gate metal layer is disposed on the doped GaN layer and covers the insulating layer and the undoped GaN layer. The undoped GaN layer can protect the underlying doped GaN layer, and the insulating layer has the effect of preventing gate leakage.
US10784331B2
A display panel includes a substrate layer and an organic light-emitting display layer located above a side of the substrate layer. The organic light-emitting display layer includes a plurality of sub-pixels. The display panel also includes a light-shielding conductive layer located above a side of the substrate layer adjacent to the organic light-emitting display layer. The light-shielding conductive layer includes a plurality of small imaging apertures, and an orthographic projection of each small imaging aperture on the organic light-emitting display layer is at least partially located between adjacent sub-pixels. The display panel also includes a photosensitive device layer located below a side of the light-shielding conductive layer away from a light-emitting surface of the display panel. The display panel also includes a power signal layer electrically connected to the light-shielding conductive layer.
US10784329B2
A display apparatus includes: a thin-film transistor including a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode; a data line in a layer different from the source electrode, the drain electrode, and the gate electrode, wherein the data line is configured to transmit a data signal; and a shield layer between the data line and a component of the thin-film transistor.
US10784327B2
A display device is disclosed, which includes: a substrate; a light emitting diode disposed above the substrate; a first transistor disposed above the substrate; and a second transistor disposed above the substrate. The first transistor includes: a first semiconductor layer; a first top gate electrode disposed above the first semiconductor layer; a first bottom gate electrode disposed under the first semiconductor layer; a first source electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer; and a first drain electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, wherein the first drain electrode is electrically connected to the light emitting diode. In addition, the second transistor includes: a second semiconductor layer. Herein, one of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer includes a first silicon semiconductor layer, and the other includes a first oxide semiconductor layer.
US10784323B2
A display panel, a method for producing the same, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel has: a base substrate; a thin film transistor array, which is on a surface of the base substrate; a UV light shielding layer, which is on a side of the thin film transistor array away from the base substrate; a pixel definition layer, which is on a side of the UV light shielding layer away from the base substrate; a thin film encapsulation layer, which is on a side of the pixel definition layer away from the base substrate, wherein the pixel definition layer has a light conversion material, which emits UV light by excitation of infrared light, and the thin film encapsulation layer has a UV-cured material.
US10784322B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate, a manufacturing method, and a display device. The array substrate comprises: a pixel define layer located on a base substrate, the pixel define layer having a hollow for defining a sub-pixel light emitting area, and a light emitting functional layer located in the hollow, wherein, the pixel define layer has protrusion structures on one or more sides facing the hollow.
US10784315B2
A display device including a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a display region including a plurality of light emitting elements arranged above the first substrate, a color filter layer arranged on the second substrate in the display region including a plurality of light emitting elements, the color filter layer overlapping each of the plurality of light emitting elements respectively, a coating layer arranged between the color filter layer and the second substrate, a first inorganic insulating layer arranged above the plurality of light emitting elements, a second inorganic insulating layer above the first inorganic insulating layer, a first organic insulating arranged between the first inorganic insulating layer and the second inorganic insulating layer in a periphery region surrounding the display region, and a filler material surrounding the periphery region and filling a space, wherein the coating layer does not overlap the first organic insulating layer.
US10784305B2
The present application discloses a photodiode structure including multiple light trapping elements. Each light trapping element includes an N-type silicon layer with a recessed structure therein, an intrinsic silicon layer disposed overlying the N-type silicon layer including a side region and a bottom region inside the recessed structure, and a P-type silicon layer disposed as an inner layer overlying the intrinsic silicon layer inside the recessed structure. A radial PIN junction is formed around a nominal axis of the recessed structure.
US10784303B2
A CMOS image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of pixel regions in the semiconductor substrate, a deep trench disposed between two adjacent pixel regions and filled with a polysilicon layer doped a first conductivity type, a plurality of well regions having a second conductivity type in each of the pixel regions, a through hole connected to the polysilicon material, and an metal interconnect layer connected to the through hole. The deep trench filled with the doped polysilicon layer completely isolates adjacent pixel regions. A voltage applied to the metal interconnect layer extracts excess photoelectrons generated by intensive incident light to improve the performance of the CMOS image sensor.
US10784302B1
A semiconductor device may include an array of single-photon avalanche diode pixels. The single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixels may be capable of detecting a single photon. To improve dynamic range, a light attenuating layer may be incorporated into the semiconductor device. The light attenuating layer may selectively attenuate the incident light that passes to select SPAD pixels according to a known ratio. Processing circuitry in the system can determine that, for every photon detected by a SPAD pixel receiving attenuated light, more incident photons were actually received in accordance with the ratio. In this way, high photon fluxes may accurately be detected. SPAD pixels covered by a light attenuating element with low attenuation may be sensitive to low incident light levels. SPAD pixels covered by a light attenuating element with high attenuation may be sensitive to high incident light levels.
US10784297B2
A chip scale package structure is provided. The chip scale package structure includes an image sensor chip and a chip. The image sensor chip includes a first redistribution layer including a conductive wire and a conductive pad formed on the conductive wire, wherein the conductive pad is exposed from the surface of the first redistribution layer. The chip includes a second redistribution layer including a conductive wire and a conductive pad formed on the conductive wire, wherein the conductive pad is exposed from the surface of the second redistribution layer. The area of the chip is smaller than that of the image sensor chip. The second redistribution layer of the chip bonds to the first redistribution layer of the image sensor chip.
US10784292B2
A single chip including an optoelectronic device on the semiconductor layer in a first region, the optoelectronic device comprises a bottom cladding layer, an active region, and a top cladding layer, wherein the bottom cladding layer is above and in direct contact with the semiconductor layer, the active region is above and in direct contact with the bottom cladding layer, and the top cladding layer is above and in direct contact with the active region, a silicon device on the substrate extension layer in a second region, a device insulator layer substantially covering both the optoelectronic device in the first region and the silicon device in the second region, and a waveguide embedded within the device insulator layer in direct contact with a sidewall of the active region of the optoelectronic device.
US10784288B2
A display panel has a display region, an external circuit region located at an edge of the display panel, and a first and second wiring regions. The first wiring region is located between the second wiring region and the external circuit region. The display panel includes a pixel array, gate driving circuit groups disposed between the second wiring region and the display region, first signal line groups extended from the external circuit region to the first and second wiring region, and second signal line groups extended from the second wiring region and connected to the corresponding gate driving circuit groups. In the second wiring region, a first portion of the first signal line groups overlapped with the second signal line groups has a first width, and a second portion thereof not overlapped with the second signal line groups has a third width which is larger than the first width.
US10784287B2
A TFT substrate and a manufacturing method thereof provided, including: depositing a metal thin film and a transparent conductive thin film on TFTs sequentially; coating a photoresist on the transparent conductive thin film, exposing and developing the photoresist via a half-tone mask to obtain a first photoresist layer and a second photoresist layer; etching the transparent conductive thin film and the metal thin film not covered by the first photoresist layer and the second photoresist layer; ashing the first photoresist layer and the second photoresist layer to remove the second photoresist layer; etching the transparent conductive thin film to expose the metal thin film not covered by the first photoresist layer; oxidizing the metal thin film to form a metal oxide thin film as a passivation layer; and stripping off the first photoresist layer to expose the metal thin film and the transparent conductive thin film as the pixel electrode.
US10784286B2
A low temperature polysilicon panel has an edge region, the edge region includes a polysilicon film layer and an interval spacer layer located above the polysilicon film layer; a row of dummy pixel units are provided on the interval spacer layer; a first conductive thin film layer is provided above the dummy pixel unit; a passivation layer is insulated between the dummy pixel unit and the first conductive thin film layer. The dummy pixel units includes a thin film transistor and a data line electrically connected thereto for accessing a common signal; a first hole provided on the interval spacer layer, and the polysilicon film layer electrically connected to the data line through the first hole. The low temperature polysilicon panel can lead the charge collected on the polysilicon film layer to avoid the edge wounded of the polysilicon panel and prevent the leakage of the polysilicon panel edge.
US10784272B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises a stack structure including a plurality of layers vertically stacked on a substrate. Each of the plurality of layers includes a first dielectric layer, a semiconductor layer, and a second dielectric layer that are sequentially stacked, and a first conductive line in the second dielectric layer and extending in a first direction. The device also comprises a second conductive line extending vertically through the stack structure, and a capacitor in the stack structure and spaced apart from the second conductive line. The semiconductor layer comprises semiconductor patterns extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction between the first conductive line and the substrate. The second conductive line is between a pair of the semiconductor patterns adjacent to each other in the first direction. An end of each of the semiconductor patterns is electrically connected to a first electrode of the capacitor.
US10784266B2
An integrated circuit device includes: a substrate having a cell array area, which includes a first active region, and a peripheral circuit area, which includes a second active region; a direct contact connected to the first active region in the cell array area; a bit line structure connected to the direct contact in the cell array area; and a peripheral circuit gate structure on the second active region in the peripheral circuit area, wherein the peripheral circuit gate structure includes two doped semiconductor layers each being doped with a charge carrier impurity having different doping concentrations from each other.
US10784263B2
There is provided an apparatus includes a substrate having a main surface, a wordline buried in the substrate and a bitline buried in a shallower area than the wordline in the substrate.
US10784260B2
A semiconductor device includes first, second, and third transistors on a substrate and having different threshold voltages from each other, each of the first, second, and third transistors including: a gate insulating layer, a first work function metal layer, and a second work function metal layer. The first work function metal layer of the first transistor may include a first sub-work function layer, the first work function metal layer of the second transistor may include a second sub-work function layer, the first work function metal layer of the third transistor may include a third sub-work function layer, and the first, second, and third sub-work function layers may have different work functions from each other.
US10784240B2
A light emitting diode pixel for a display includes a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel, each of the first, second, and third subpixels including a first LED sub-unit including a first type of semiconductor layer and a second type of semiconductor layer, a second LED sub-unit disposed on the first LED sub-unit and including a first type of semiconductor layer and a second type of semiconductor layer, and a third LED sub-unit disposed on the second LED sub-unit and including a first type of semiconductor layer and a second type of semiconductor layer, in which the second and third LED sub-units of the first subpixel are electrically floated, the first and third LED sub-units of the second subpixel are electrically floated, and the first and second LED sub-units of the third subpixel are electrically floated.
US10784231B2
The present invention addresses the problem of enlarging a sensing area in an ultrasonic probe so as to achieve a higher definition. This ultrasonic diagnostic equipment is provided with an ultrasonic probe that comprises: a CMUT chip (2a) that has drive electrodes (3e)-(3j), etc., arranged in a grid-like configuration on a rectangular CMUT element section (21); and a CMUT chip (2b) that has drive electrodes (3p)-(3u), etc., arranged in a grid-like configuration on the rectangular CMUT element section (21), that is adjacent to the CMUT chip (2a), and in which the drive electrodes (3e)-(3j) of the adjacent CMUT chip (2a) are electrically connected to the respective drive electrodes (3p)-(3u) via bonding wires (4f)-(4i), etc.
US10784221B2
A method includes vacuum annealing on a substrate having at least one solder bump to reduce voids at an interface of the at least one solder bump. A die is mounted over the substrate.
US10784217B2
A memory device includes a circuit having an element on a substrate, an interconnection layer above the circuit and that includes a pad electrode having a region for metal wiring bonding, a plurality of electrode layers between the circuit and the interconnection layer and that are stacked in a first direction from the circuit to the interconnection layer, a semiconductor pillar that extends in the first direction, and a storage film between the electrode layers and the semiconductor pillar. The pad electrode overlaps the circuit element as viewed in the first direction.
US10784204B2
Integrated circuit (IC) chip die to die channel interconnect configurations (systems and methods for their manufacture) may improve signaling to and through a single ended bus data signal communication channel by including on-die induction structures; on-die interconnect features; on-package first level die bump designs and ground webbing structures; on-package high speed horizontal data signal transmission lines; on-package vertical data signal transmission interconnects; and/or on-package electro-optical (EO) connectors in various die to die interconnect configurations for improved signal connections and transmission through a data signal channel extending through one or more semiconductor device package devices, that may include an electro-optical (EO) connector upon which at least one package device may be mounted, and/or be semiconductor device packages in a package-on-package configuration.
US10784202B2
A package and system for high-density chip-to-chip interconnection is provided. Embodiments of the present invention utilizes a plurality of circuit dies including a laminate substrate adjacent to the plurality of circuit dies. It also includes a conductive spacer disposed between the laminate substrate and one of the plurality of circuit dies, a silicon bridge and a conductive interposer disposed between the laminate substrate and the plurality of dies and adjacent to the conductive spacer. Furthermore the embodiment of this present invention can include a top layer of a printed circuit board (PCB) coupled with a bottom layer of the laminate substrate. The conductive spacer comprises, at least of, a laminate, organic or copper material.
US10784190B2
A leadframe strip for use in making leaded integrated circuit packages includes a plurality of integrally connected leadframes that each have a die attach pad and first and second dam bars located adjacent to opposite first and second sides of the die attach pad, respectively. A plurality of continuous lead structures extend, uninterrupted by other structure, between opposing ones of the dam bars of horizontally adjacent leadframes. The plurality of integrally connected leadframes are arranged in a plurality of vertical columns, wherein die attach pads in one vertical column are vertically offset from die attach pads in adjacent vertical columns.
US10784184B2
A semiconductor device includes first to M-th semiconductor dies stacked in a first direction. Each of the first to M-th semiconductor dies includes a substrate, first to K-th through silicon vias passing through the substrate in the first direction, and a first circuit to receive power through a power supply line electrically connected to the first through silicon via. Each of first to K-th through silicon vias of the N-th semiconductor die is electrically connected to a through silicon via of first to K-th through silicon vias of the (N+1)-th semiconductor die that is spaced apart therefrom in a plan view.
US10784175B2
A method is provided for gate contact formation on a semiconductor workpiece using an integrated sequence of processing steps executed on a common manufacturing platform (CMP) hosting one or more film-forming modules, one or more etching modules, and one or more transfer modules. A workpiece having a contact feature formed therein, and inspected throughout, the contact feature having a semiconductor contact surface exposed, is received into the CMP. A metal layer is deposited within the contact feature after the workpiece is treated to remove contamination. The integrated sequence of processing steps is executed within the CMP without leaving the controlled environment, the transfer modules used to transfer the workpiece between the modules while maintaining the workpiece within the controlled environment.
US10784170B2
CMOS implementation of germanium and III-V nanowires and nanoribbons in gate-all-around architecture
Architectures and techniques for co-integration of heterogeneous materials, such as group III-V semiconductor materials and group IV semiconductors (e.g., Ge) on a same substrate (e.g. silicon). In embodiments, multi-layer heterogeneous semiconductor material stacks having alternating nanowire and sacrificial layers are employed to release nanowires and permit formation of a coaxial gate structure that completely surrounds a channel region of the nanowire transistor. In embodiments, individual PMOS and NMOS channel semiconductor materials are co-integrated with a starting substrate having a blanket layers of alternating Ge/III-V layers. In embodiments, vertical integration of a plurality of stacked nanowires within an individual PMOS and individual NMOS device enable significant drive current for a given layout area.
US10784163B2
A multi-wafer stacking structure and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. A first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer are bonded to each other, a first interconnection layer is electrically connected with a second metal layer and a first metal layer via a first opening; a third dielectric layer and an insulating layer are bonded to each other, and a second interconnection layer is electrically connected with a third metal layer and the first interconnection layer via a second opening. Reservation of a pressure welding lead space among wafers is not needed, a silicon substrate is omitted, multi-wafer stacking thickness is reduced while interconnection of multiple pieces of wafers is realized, and therefore, the overall thickness of the device after multi-wafer stacking and packaging is reduced, packaging density is increased, and the requirement of thinning of the semiconductor products is met.
US10784152B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device is disclosed, including: providing a first wafer and a second wafer that are bonded, a back surface of the first substrate of the first wafer is provided with a passivation layer; performing a photolithography and etching process to form a first opening; forming a hard mask layer, the hard mask layer covers at least a sidewall surface of the first opening; performing an etching process to form a second opening; performing a photolithography and etching process to form a third opening; and forming an interconnection layer. A back surface of a first substrate is provided with a passivation layer, after a first opening is formed, a hard mask layer is formed on a sidewall surface of the first opening, and a maskless etching process is performed to form a second opening, thereby simplifying the process, eliminating one photomask and reducing the production cost.
US10784151B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming an interconnect structure, including forming an Nth metal line principally extending in a first direction, forming a sacrificial bilayer over the Nth metal line, forming a dielectric layer over the sacrificial bilayer, removing a portion of the sacrificial bilayer, forming a conductive post in the sacrificial bilayer, wherein the conductive post having a top pattern coplanar with a top surface of the sacrificial bilayer and a bottom pattern in contact with a top surface of the Nth metal line, and forming an Nth metal via over the sacrificial bilayer.
US10784144B2
A disclosed example to modulate slit stress in a semiconductor substrate includes a first controller to, after obtaining a wafer stress measurement of the semiconductor substrate, control a first process to apply a first material to the semiconductor substrate based on the wafer stress measurement, the semiconductor substrate including a slit between adjacent stacked transistor layers, the first material coating walls of the slit to reduce a first width of the slit between the adjacent stacked transistor layers to a second width; and a second controller to control a second process to apply a second material to the semiconductor substrate, the second material to be deposited in the second width of the slit, the first material and the second material to form a solid structure in the slit between the adjacent stacked transistor layers.
US10784135B2
A substrate container with a substrate retainer mounted to a biased actuation linkage, and a door assembly with latch assist. Various configurations for biasing the substrate retainer in a substrate non-engagement position are disclosed. The biasing helps prevent the substrate retainer from hanging up due to friction that might otherwise counter the gravitational force that is otherwise relied upon for disengagement. The assembly may also include retention clips that positively secure the substrate retainer to the actuation linkage. The latch assist provides springs that deliver stored energy to assist in latching and unlatching the door assembly from the substrate carrier. The latch assist further provides off-center forces that bias the latching mechanism in either an unlatched or a fully latched configuration.
US10784134B2
Methods and apparatus for detecting warpage in a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments, a warpage detector for detecting warpage in substrates includes: one or more light sources to illuminate one or more substrates when present; a camera for capturing images of exposed portions of one or more substrates when present; a motion assembly having a mounting stage for supporting the camera; and a data acquisition interface (DAI) coupled to the camera to process substrate images and detect warpage of substrates based upon the processed substrate images.
US10784129B2
A mounting device in which a loading distance separating adjacent characteristic components are lined up side by side is shorter than separation distance between suction nozzle and mark camera, processing to image characteristic component by mark camera and recognize the position of characteristic component is performed consecutively or in one batch. With the mounting device, because mounting head is moved a loading distance that is shorter than the separation distance between suction nozzle and mark camera and image processing is performed consecutively or in one batch, the movement distance of mounting head is shorter.
US10784122B2
A method of producing an electroconductive substrate including a base material, and an electroconductive pattern disposed on one main surface side of the base material includes: a step of forming a trench including a bottom surface to which a foundation layer is exposed, and a lateral surface which includes a surface of a trench formation layer, according to an imprint method; and a step of forming an electroconductive pattern layer by growing metal plating from the foundation layer which is exposed to the bottom surface of the trench.
US10784118B2
A method for performing atomic layer etching (ALE) on a substrate, including the following method operations: performing a surface modification operation on a surface of the substrate, the surface modification operation configured to convert at least one monolayer of the substrate surface to a modified layer; performing a removal operation on the substrate surface, to remove the modified layer from the substrate surface, wherein removing the modified layer includes exposing the substrate surface to a metal complex, such that a ligand exchange reaction occurs between the metal complex and converted species of the modified layer; performing, following the removal operation, a plasma treatment on the substrate surface, the plasma treatment configured to remove residues formed from the exposure of the substrate surface to the metal complex, wherein the residues are volatilized by the plasma treatment; repeating the foregoing operations until a predefined thickness has been etched from the substrate surface.
US10784107B2
Methods of forming self-aligned patterns are described. A film material is deposited on a patterned film to fill and cover features formed by the patterned film. The film material is recessed to a level below the top of the patterned film. The recessed film is converted to a metal film by exposure to a metal precursor followed by volumetric expansion of the metal film.
US10784105B2
The present disclosure relates to the deposition of dopant films, such as doped silicon oxide films, by atomic layer deposition processes. In some embodiments, a substrate in a reaction space is contacted with pulses of a silicon precursor and a dopant precursor, such that the silicon precursor and dopant precursor adsorb on the substrate surface. Oxygen plasma is used to convert the adsorbed silicon precursor and dopant precursor to doped silicon oxide.
US10784103B2
A method for forming sequencing flow cells can include providing a semiconductor wafer covered with a dielectric layer, and forming a patterned layer on the dielectric layer. The patterned layer has a differential surface that includes alternating first surface regions and second surface regions. The method can also include attaching a cover wafer to the semiconductor wafer to form a composite wafer structure including a plurality of flow cells. The composite wafer structure can then be singulated to form a plurality of dies. Each die forms a sequencing flow cell. The sequencing flow cell can include a flow channel between a portion of the patterned layer and a portion of the cover wafer, an inlet, and an outlet. Further, the method can include functionalizing the sequencing flow cell to create differential surfaces.
US10784097B2
A solution-cathode glow discharge (SCGD) spectrometry apparatus may comprise an SCGD source and a mass or ion mobility spectrometer. A method for ionizing a molecular analyte may comprise contacting the molecular analyte with a plasma discharge to form ions and separating the ions in a mass spectrometer or ion mobility spectrometer. The contacting step may occur under atmospheric pressure and/or ambient conditions. The molecular analyte may be fragmented by the plasma discharge.
US10784086B2
Methods of etching cobalt on substrates are provided. Some methods involve exposing the substrate to a boron-containing halide gas and an additive, and exposing the substrate to an activation gas and a plasma. Additives improve selectively depositing a thicker layer of a boron-containing halide material on a surface of a mask than on a surface of a metal. Additives include H2, CH4, CF4, NF3, and Cl2. Boron-containing halide gases include BCl3, BBr3, BF3, and BI3. Exposures may be performed in two or more cycles, with variations in durations and/or bias power for each exposure in the two or more cycles.
US10784085B2
An external magnetic filter to trap electrons surrounds a reactor chamber and has multiple magnets arranged in a circle, the magnetic orientation of each individual magnet being rotated relative to the orientation of the adjacent individual magnet by a difference angle that is a function of the arc subtended by the individual magnet.
US10784081B2
A charged particle beam lithography apparatus, includes a plurality of multiple-beam sets, each of which including a plurality of irradiation sources each generating an independent charged particle beam, a plurality of objective deflectors, each arranged for a corresponding charged particle beam, and configured to deflect the corresponding charged particle beam to a desired position on a substrate, and a plurality of electrostatic or electromagnetic lens fields each to focus the corresponding charged particle beam on the target object; a plurality of common deflection amplifiers, arranged for each multiple-beam set, and each of the plurality of common deflection amplifiers being configured to commonly control the plurality of objective deflectors arranged in a same multiple-beam set; a plurality of individual ON/OFF mechanisms configured to individually turn ON/OFF a beam irradiated from each irradiation source; and one or more multiple-beam clusters including the plurality of multiple-beam sets.
US10784080B2
A multiple charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a defective pattern data generation circuitry configured to generate defective pattern data of a defective pattern having a shape of the defective region in the writing region; a reverse pattern data generation circuitry configured to generate reverse pattern data by reversing the defective pattern data; a combined-value pixel data generation circuitry configured to generate, for the each pixel, combined-value pixel data by adding a value defined in a reverse pattern pixel data and a value defined in a writing pattern pixel data; and a writing mechanism configured to perform multiple writing, using multiple charged particle beams, on the target object such that the each pixel is irradiated with a beam of a dose corresponding to a value defined in the combined-value pixel data.
US10784079B2
The present disclosure describes an ion implantation system that includes a bushing designed to reduce the accumulation of IMP by-produces on the bushing's inner surfaces. The ion implantation system can include a chamber, an ion source configured to generate an ion beam, and a bushing coupling the ion source and the chamber. The bushing can include (i) a tubular body having an inner surface, a first end, and a second end and (ii) multiple angled trenches disposed within the inner surface of the tubular body, where each of the multiple angled trenches extends towards the second end of the tubular body.
US10784077B2
Systems and methods for implementing charged particle flooding in a charged particle beam apparatus are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, a charged particle beam system includes a charged particle source and a controller which controls the charged particle beam system to emit a charged particle beam in a first mode where the beam is defocused and a second mode where the beam is focused on a surface of a sample.
US10784072B2
A charged particle beam device for inspection of a specimen with an array of primary charged particle beamlets is described. The charged particle beam device includes a charged particle beam source to generate a primary charged particle beam; a multi-aperture plate having at least two openings to generate an array of charged particle beamlets having at least a first beamlet having a first resolution on the specimen and a second beamlet having a second resolution on the specimen; an aberration correction element to correct at least one of spherical aberrations and chromatic aberrations of rotational symmetric charged particle lenses; and an objective lens assembly for focusing each primary charged particle beamlet of the array of primary charged particle beamlets onto a separate location on the specimen.
US10784071B2
Electron emitters and methods of fabricating the electron emitters are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, an electron emitter includes a tip with a planar region having a diameter in a range of approximately (0.05-10) micrometers. The electron emitter tip is configured to release field emission electrons. The electron emitter further includes a work-function-lowering material coated on the tip.
US10784064B2
A pole unit including a vacuum interrupter switch having a fixed contact extending into one end of a vacuum chamber and being electrically coupled to a first terminal, and a moving contact extending into an opposite end of the chamber. A sliding contact is rigidly coupled to the moving contact and slidably coupled to a second terminal. The pole unit also includes an electromagnetic actuator including a coil, a rod coupled to the sliding contact and a spring positioned against the rod. The pole unit further includes a transmitter coil and a receiver coil that are electromagnetically coupled, where the receiver coil is electrically coupled to the actuator and is electrically isolated from the transmitter coil. In this configuration, the interrupter switch, the actuator and the receiver coil are at a line potential and the transmitter coil is at ground potential.
US10784063B1
A circuit breaker apparatus has a housing, electrical power inlet, electrical power outlet, a main circuit breaker, a grounding switch, and a mechanical linkage. The main circuit breaker and the grounding switch each have a pair of contactors therein. The mechanical linkage is movable between a pair of positions in which one of the positions causes the pair of contactors of the main circuit breaker to close and the pair of contactors of the grounding switch to open and another position in which the pair of contactors of the main circuit breaker are open and such that the pair of contactors of the grounding switch are closed. The housing has an interior that is filled with air. The main circuit breaker and the grounding switch are in non-longitudinal alignment.
US10784054B2
Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices/switches and methods for implementing and fabricating the same with conducting contacts are provided. A nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) switch can include a substrate; a source cantilever formed over the substrate and configured to move relative to the substrate; a drain electrode and at least one gate electrode formed over the substrate; wherein the source cantilever, drain and gate electrodes comprises a metal layer affixed to a support layer, at least a portion of the metal layer at the contact area extending past the support layer; and an interlayer sandwiched between the support layer and substrate.
US10784040B2
A transmission line includes three wires formed on a substrate. Each of the transmission lines transmits a three-level signal. A common-mode choke coil is inserted into the transmission line. The common-mode choke coil includes three coils coupled to one another and three pairs of outer electrodes, each of the three pairs being connected to the corresponding two ends of the coils. The outer electrodes of the common-mode choke coil are connected to the transmission line such that the three coils are serially inserted into the respective three wires.
US10784037B2
A reactor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a core body that includes an outer peripheral iron core composed of a plurality of outer peripheral iron core portions, at least three iron cores coupled to the outer peripheral iron core portions, and coils wound on the iron cores. A gap is formed between one of the iron cores and another of the iron cores adjacent to the one of the iron cores, so as to be magnetically connectable through the gap. The reactor includes a terminal base unit for electrically connecting the coils to an external device, and a temperature sensor attached to a surface of the terminal base unit, the surface being opposite the coils.
US10784030B2
Provided herein is a magnetic sheet. The magnetic sheet according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a magnetic layer formed of crushed pieces of a magnetic body to improve flexibility of the magnetic sheet, and a thin film coating layer formed on at least one surface of the magnetic layer to maintain the magnetic layer in a sheet shape and buffer an external force applied to the crushed pieces of the magnetic body. According to the present invention, since the magnetic sheet is improved in mechanical strength properties, such as a tensile property, a bending property, and the like, to have significantly superior flexibility, degradation of physical properties, such as magnetic permeability and the like, caused by physical damage such as unintended cracks in the magnetic body provided in the magnetic sheet can be prevented even in the process of storing, transferring, and attaching the magnetic sheet to a target object and during usage of an electronic device provided with the target object to which the magnetic sheet is attached, and the magnetic sheet can be attached to a target surface of the target object with a superior adhering force even when a stepped portion is present at the surface, and at the same time, the magnetic sheet can block the influence of a magnetic field on parts of a portable terminal device or a human body of a user using the portable terminal device, significantly increase transmission and reception efficiencies and distances of a data and/or wireless power signal, and maintain the above-described performance for a long period of time, such that the magnetic sheet can be widely used in various portable devices such as mobile devices, smart appliances, devices for the Internet of Things, and the like.
US10784026B2
A PPTC device is provided. The PPTC device may include a first electrode and a second electrode, disposed opposite the first electrode. The PPTC device may include a PPTC layer, disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the PPTC layer comprising a polymer matrix formed from a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) material.
US10784018B2
An insulated wire having an electrical wire structure capable of reducing an outer diameter while an insulating property and a flame-retardant property are highly kept is provided. In the insulated wire including: a conductor; and a coating layer arranged on an outer periphery of the conductor, the insulated wire has a flame-retardant property that allows the insulated wire to pass a vertical tray flame test (VTFT) on the basis of EN 50266-2-4, has a direct-current stability that allows the insulated wire to pass a direct-current stability test in conformity to EN 50305.6.7, has a diameter of the conductor that is equal to or smaller than 1.25 mm, and has a thickness of the coating layer that is smaller than 0.6 mm.
US10784000B2
Apparatus, systems, devices, other articles of manufacture and associated methods are disclosed and described herein to process medical data to generate a classification of the medical data using artificial intelligence. An example apparatus includes a processor to execute instructions to implement a history of past illness (HPI) receiver to receive an HPI formatted as a string, the string including one or more words, the words organized in sentences, a natural language processor to tokenize the one or more words into tokens based on a context associated with at least one of the one or more words and a tensor generator to convert the tokens into hashes, each of the hashes forming a dimension of a tensor based on the context. The apparatus further includes a neural network to embed each of the hashes into vectors, process the vectors to classify the HPI as extended or brief based on a similarity to a set of classified HPIs and output a classification for the HPI. The apparatus further includes an electronic medical record modifier to modify an electronic medical record with the HPI and the classification and to trigger an action with respect to the electronic medical record based on the classification.
US10783969B2
A sense amplifier for a flash memory is disclosed which includes a pre-charging circuit, a first capacitor, a first inverter, and a first transmission gate connected in parallel with the first inverter, the pre-charging circuit is connectable to a reference voltage node, and is able to pre-charge a word line, of the flash memory, via the reference voltage node, a potential of the reference voltage node remains unchanged after the pre-charging is completed; a potential of the reference voltage node is adjustable according to a state of the flash memory until an output voltage of the first inverter changes; the first capacitor has a first end connected to the reference voltage node, a second end connected to an input of the first inverter and a first end of the first transmission gate; an output of the first inverter is connected to a second end of the first transmission gate.
US10783964B2
A memory device includes an array of resistive memory cells wherein each pair of resistive memory cells includes a first switching element electrically coupled in series to a first resistive memory element and a second switching element electrically coupled in series to a second resistive memory element. A source of the first switching element and a source of the second switching element receive a common source line signal.
US10783961B2
Memory cells, memory systems and methods are described. In one embodiment, a memory cell includes electrodes and a memory element, and a first electrically conductive structure is formed within dielectric material providing the memory element in a low resistance state as a result of a first voltage of a first polarity being applied across the electrodes. Additionally, the first electrically conductive structure is removed from the dielectric material providing the memory element in a high resistance state as a result of a second voltage of a second polarity, which is opposite to the first polarity, being applied across the electrodes. A permanent and irreversible electrically conductive structure is formed within the dielectric material providing the memory element in the low resistance state as a result of a third voltage of the second polarity and having an increased potential compared with the second voltage being applied across the electrodes.
US10783957B1
In a particular implementation, a method to perform a read operation on a voltage divider bit-cell having first and second transistors and first and second storage elements is disclosed. The method includes: providing a first voltage to a bit-line coupled to the second transistor of the voltage-divider bit-cell; providing a second voltage to a first word-line and providing an electrical grounding to a second word-line; where the first and second word-lines are coupled to the respective first and second resistive memory devices; and determining at least one of first and second data resistances in the respective first and second storage elements based on an output voltage on the bit-line.
US10783953B2
A method for operating a memory device includes initiating an access operation to a corresponding row of an array of bit cells of the memory device. Responsive to an expansion mode signal having a first state, the method further includes dynamically operating each column of a plurality of columns of the array to access each bit cell of a corresponding row within the plurality of columns during the access operation. Alternatively, responsive to the expansion mode state signal having a second state different than the first state, the method includes dynamically operating each column of a first subset of columns of the plurality of columns to access each bit cell of a corresponding row within the first subset of columns during the access operation, and maintaining each column of a second subset of columns of the plurality of columns in a static state during the access operation.
US10783939B1
A printed circuit board (PCB) includes first and second integrated circuits (ICs) connected by way of write and read interfaces. The first IC includes a training circuitry for training the write and read interfaces. The first IC further includes read and write delay elements. The training circuitry trains the read and write interfaces (i.e., configures the read and write delay elements) for correcting signal skews that may be introduced by the read and write interfaces, respectively. The training circuitry configures the write delay element with a first write delay value for which there are no errors while writing data to a buffer memory of the second IC. The training circuitry configures the read delay element with a first read delay value for which there are no errors while reading the data from the buffer memory.
US10783934B2
A power management circuit receives power from a host and a backup power supply in parallel and uses power from at least one of the host and the backup power supply to operate voltage regulators for a memory system. An enable signal is generated based on whether or not the voltage regulators are powered. The enable signal can be used to keep the backup power supply on while the memory system is in operation. In response to absence of power from the host, the circuit generates an interrupt signal causing the memory system to shut down safely without data loss.
US10783917B1
A recording head includes a substrate, a read transducer, a waveguide core, and a near-field transducer at an end of the waveguide core proximate a media-facing surface. The recording head includes a magnetic write pole and coil. A laser diode unit with one or more non-self-supporting layers of crystalline material region is transfer printed between layers of the recording head.
US10783906B2
A nonmagnetic spacer layer in a magnetoresistive effect element includes a nonmagnetic metal layer that is formed of Ag and at least one of a first insertion layer that is disposed on a bottom surface of the nonmagnetic metal layer and a second insertion layer that is disposed on a top surface of the nonmagnetic metal layer. The first insertion layer and the second insertion layer include an Fe alloy that is expressed by FeγX1-γ. Here, X denotes one or more elements selected from a group consisting of O, Al, Si, Ga, Mo, Ag, and Au, and γ satisfies 0<γ<1.
US10783903B2
A sound collection apparatus includes: a sound collection unit including a microphone configured to collect sound; a noise determination unit configured to determine noise in dictation based on voice collected by the sound collection unit; and a presentation unit configured to perform presentation based on a determination result by the noise determination unit. With this configuration, presentation is performed to indicate environmental noise at sound collection for dictation, which leads to improved efficiency of dictation work.
US10783895B2
A method and device are provided for determining an optimized scale factor to be applied to an excitation signal or a filter during a process for frequency band extension of an audio frequency signal. The band extension process includes decoding or extracting, in a first frequency band, an excitation signal and parameters of the first frequency band including coefficients of a linear prediction filter, generating an excitation signal extending over at least one second frequency band, filtering using a linear prediction filter for the second frequency band. The determination method includes determining an additional linear prediction filter, of a lower order than that of the linear prediction filter of the first frequency band, the coefficients of the additional filter being obtained from the parameters decoded or extracted from the first frequency and calculating the optimized scale factor as a function of at least the coefficients of the additional filter.
US10783892B2
An audio encoding apparatus to encode an audio signal using lossless coding or lossy coding and an audio decoding apparatus to decode an encoded audio signal are disclosed. An audio encoding apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment may include an input signal type determination unit to determine a type of an input signal based on characteristics of the input signal, a residual signal generation unit to generate a residual signal based on an output signal from the input signal type determination unit, and a coding unit to perform lossless coding or lossy coding using the residual signal.
US10783879B2
Methods, programming, and system for modifying a slot value are described herein. In a non-limiting embodiment, an intent may be determined based on a first utterance. A first slot-value pair may be obtained for the first utterance based on the intent, the first slot-value pair including a first slot and a first value associated with the first slot. A second value associated with the first slot may be identified, the second value being identified from a second utterance that was previously received. Based on the intent and the first slot, a type of update to be performed with respect to the second value may be determined. The second value may then be updated based on the first value and the type of update.
US10783877B2
A system for categorizing words into clusters includes a receiver to receive a set of sentences formed by a plurality of words. The set of sentences is indicative of interaction of a user with a virtual assistant. A categorizer categorizes the plurality of words into a first set of clusters by using a first clustering technique, and categorizes the plurality of words into a second set of clusters by using a second clustering technique. A detector detects words that appear in similar clusters after categorization by the first clustering technique and the second clustering technique. Similarity of clusters is based on a nature of words forming the clusters. A generator generates a confidence score for each of the plurality of words based on the detection. The confidence score of a word is indicative of accuracy of the categorization of the word.
US10783871B2
A metal acoustic lens comprises a plurality of stacked plates, wherein each plate comprises an acoustically transparent two-dimensional material structure comprising a plurality of adjacent regular hexagonal cells, wherein each hexagonal cell includes a plurality of lobes extending inwardly from the vertices of the hexagonal cell, and wherein the lengths of the lobes vary across each plate in the longitudinal direction such that the speed of sound waves passing therethrough is varied and the resulting sound is focused.
US10783870B1
An audio playback device having a noise-cancelling mechanism is provided that includes an external sound-receiving circuit that receives external noise, a fixed-coefficient filtering circuit, an operation circuit, an audio playback circuit, an internal sound-receiving circuit and an adjusting circuit. The fixed-coefficient filtering circuit generates an inverted signal including a main and an auxiliary inverted components having the same amplitude and phases orthogonal to each other according to the external noise. The operation circuit multiplies the inverted signal by adjusting parameters to generate an adjusted inverted signal. The audio playback circuit receives and playbacks an audio signal and the adjusted inverted signal to generate a playback result. The internal sound-receiving circuit receives the playback result to generate a received sound signal. The adjusting circuit generates the adjusting parameters according to an error signal between the received sound signal and the audio signal and the inverted signal.
US10783854B2
A method optimizes the visible area of a display device during a sporting event having a plurality of activities, where each activity ultimately has an outcome. To that end, the method receives a stream of electronic, machine readable real-time event information relating to the sporting event. When receiving the stream (i.e., at least part of the time when receiving the stream), the method displays, in real time on the display device, an event user interface having selection indicia configured to enable a user to predict the outcome of at least one of the plurality of activities of the event in real time. In response to user input via the event user interface, the method displays message indicia over at least a portion of the interface.
US10783848B2
A display device includes a display panel, a data driver, a multiplexer, and a multiplexer controller. First to fourth color subpixels are disposed on the display panel. The data driver outputs a data voltage to be supplied to the first to fourth color subpixels, through output buffers. The multiplexer distributes each of data voltages output by output buffers to four data lines in a time division manner in response to first to fourth control signals. The multiplexer controller sequentially outputs a first control signal to an nth control signal during a first horizontal period, and sequentially outputs the nth control signal to the first control signal during a second horizontal period. The first and second horizontal periods include first to fourth scan periods which are continuous and uniform, and a subpixel receiving a data voltage output during the first scan period of the first horizontal period and a subpixel receiving a data voltage output during the first scan period of the second horizontal period are subpixels of the same color.
US10783845B2
A liquid crystal control circuit is provided for driving a MIP liquid crystal panel. The MIP liquid crystal panel has a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a memory element and a display element. The memory element holds electric potential depending on an image signal. The display element is applied voltage depending on the electric potential which the memory element holds. The liquid crystal control circuit includes an inversion unit that inverts polarity of AC voltage in a first mode in which an enable signal is output. The AC voltage being is applied to the display element in synchronization with outputting of the enable signal. The enable signal activates the image signal output to the MIP liquid crystal panel.
US10783842B2
A display device includes an image display panel comprising a plurality of pixels that each comprise a plurality of sub-pixels to display different colors and that are arranged in a matrix, a plurality of scan lines coupled to the respective sub-pixels arranged in a row direction, and a plurality of signal lines coupled to the respective sub-pixels arranged in a column direction, and a driver configured to be supplied with a video signal having a predetermined number of gradations and configured to drive the image display panel, and having a first display mode of performing display with the number of gradations of the video signal, and a second display mode of performing the display with a number of gradations smaller than a number of gradations of the video signal and larger than two.
US10783839B2
An image update determining unit compares a previously set temperature with a temperature estimated by a temperature increase estimating unit, and determines whether or not an image update operation is executable, and an image update interval is appropriately set according to the estimated temperature by performing image update on an image to be displayed next when the image update determining unit determines the image update operation to be executable but not performing image update when the image update determining unit determines the image update operation to be non-executable.
US10783838B2
A display device (4) for an identifier (6a,b) of a seat (8a,b) of a vehicle (2) with a variable mounting location (10a,b) contains a display (12) along an extension direction (14), which can be attached to a carrier (16) of the vehicle (2) at the seat (8a,b) in the extension direction (14) along possible mounting locations (10a,b), and a control device (22) for displaying identifiers (6a,b) on the display (12) in different longitudinal positions (Pa,b), which are assigned to mounting locations (10a,b).A vehicle (2) having such a seat (8a,b) and a carrier (16) contains the display device (4), wherein the display (12) is attached to the carrier (16) in the surroundings (20) of the seat (8a,b) and extends in the extension direction (14) along possible mounting locations (10a,b) of the seat (8a,b).
US10783837B2
Disclosed are a driving method and driving device of a display device, and a related device. After the backlight signal value of the backlight area is subjected to peak driving, the backlight signal value of each backlight area subjected to peak driving is subjected to backlight diffusion to obtain the backlight signal value of each pixel, and then the output luminance value of each pixel is determined according to the backlight signal value of each pixel and the relationship between the corresponding grayscale value when the backlight module is always on and the peak driving threshold, so as to perform display control.
US10783835B2
One embodiment provides a method including: capturing, using a camera on a device, at least one image of a user viewing a display of the device; and adjusting, using a processor, a brightness setting of the display from a first setting to a second setting based on the at least one image. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10783834B2
A pixel circuit to be connected to a data line and first and second power supply lines includes a light emitting element connected between the first power supply line and the second power supply line; a driving transistor to control a current flowing from the first power supply line to the second power supply line through the light emitting element according to a voltage of a first node; a first switching element connected between the first node and a second node; a second switching element connected between the second node and a third node; a first capacitor connected between the first power supply line and the first node; and a second capacitor connected between the second node and the data line.
US10783829B2
Provided is a display panel and display device. The display panel includes a first type sub-pixel and a second type sub-pixel. The first type sub-pixel includes a first voltage-regulating module, which is connected between a pixel drive circuit and a light-emitting component in the first type sub-pixel for increasing a voltage of two ends of the light-emitting component; and/or, the second type sub-pixel includes a second voltage-regulating module, which is connected between a pixel drive circuit and a light-emitting component in the second type sub-pixel for reducing a voltage between a first end and a second end of the light-emitting component.
US10783827B2
A display device includes pixels connected to data lines and scan lines, a first compensator which is connected to sensing lines and senses deviation information of the sensing lines while supplying different voltages to adjacent sensing lines, and a sensing unit which is connected to the first compensator and senses characteristic information of each of the pixels.
US10783788B2
An advice target location at which a user had a predetermined emotion, for example, is determined based on location information, user biological information, and user transportation means information, which have been acquired by a terminal device (20) being used by the user. Advice information containing information indicating an advice presentation region set by a server device (50) is generated based on the advice target location. This advice information is supplied from the server device (50) to the terminal device (20), so that the terminal device (20) presents advice. With this, advice as to locations pedestrians find dangerous can be presented to drivers, and advice as to locations drivers find dangerous can be presented to pedestrians. Accordingly, accidents and the like can be prevented.
US10783787B2
A method includes using sensors to collect information about vehicles on a road and determining a plurality of crash probabilities based on the collected information. Each crash probability indicates a probability of a vehicular crash on the road at a respective point in time. The plurality of crash probabilities is averaged to form an average crash probability and the average crash probability is used to determine when to provide a message to a controller of a vehicle.
US10783780B2
A method for handling a control card, wherein the control card is received by another vehicle. This provides an increased degree of safety in situations to be regulated, as it is possible to compare control cards of different vehicles and coordinate them if necessary.
