US10919950B2
The present application relates to fusion proteins, chimeric antigen bearing cells expressing fusion proteins and compositions comprising chimeric antigen bearing cells expressing fusion proteins. The application further relates to methods of using the fusion proteins, cells and compositions for modulating an immune response.
US10919949B2
The present invention relates to novel insulin analogues and derivatives thereof, such as acylated insulin analogues, and their pharmaceutical use, in particular in the treatment or prevention of medical conditions relating to diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases.
US10919945B2
The present invention relates to (isolated) recombinant proteins, also referred to as improved MAT (iMAT) molecules, comprising at least one translocation module, at least one targeting module and at least one antigen module, wherein at least one cysteine residue is substituted with a different amino acid residue. Such iMAT molecules are useful specifically as vaccines, e.g., for therapy and/or prevention of allergies and/or infectious diseases and/or prevention of transmission of infectious diseases in equines. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids encoding such iMAT molecules, corresponding vectors and primary cells or cell lines.
US10919942B2
The present application relates to the use of bacterial minicells as targeted delivery agents in vivo and in vitro. Described herein are genetically engineered eubacterial minicells designed to preferentially target and deliver therapeutically relevant agents using a minicell surface coupling molecule capable of binding and displaying antibodies or other Fc-containing targeting moiety fusions and conjugates.
US10919936B2
The present invention provides stapled polypeptides of the Formulae (I) and (VI): and salts thereof; wherein the groups ; R1a, R1b, R1c, R2a, R3a, R2b, R3b, R4a, R4b, RA, RZ, L1a, L1b, L2, L3, XAA, v, w, p, m, s, n, t, and q are as defined herein. The present invention further provides methods of preparing the inventive stapled polypeptides from unstapled polypeptide precursors. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a stapled polypeptide of Formula (I) or (VI), and methods of using the stapled peptides. The present invention also provides modifications of the staples post ring closing metathesis.
US10919935B2
A novel antimicrobial peptide is derived from myxinidin peptide. The novel antimicrobial peptides (i.e., myxinidin 2 and myxinidin 3) have low cytotoxicity for human cells while exhibiting an excellent antimicrobial activity, and exhibit an anti-inflammatory and a wound healing effect. Thus, they can be advantageously used as an effective ingredient of antibiotics, a cosmetic composition, a food additive, an animal feed additive, biopesticides, and a quasi-drug product or the like.
US10919933B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer, in particular myeloma. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10919931B2
The present invention relates to peptides, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated cytotoxic T cell (CTL) peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses. The present invention relates to 30 peptide sequences and their variants derived from HLA class I and class II molecules of human tumor cells that can be used in vaccine compositions for eliciting anti-tumor immune responses.
US10919928B2
Oligonucleotides may be produced by a process, including (1) condensing a nucleoside, nucleotide or oligonucleotide (b), and a nucleoside, nucleotide or oligonucleotide (a), or a substituted nucleotide or oligonucleotide (α) in a non-polar solvent to give a reaction solution containing a phosphite triester product (c); (3) oxidizing or sulfurizing the phosphite triester product (c) to give a reaction solution containing an oligonucleotide (d) wherein the 5′-hydroxy group is protected; (4) deprotecting the oligonucleotide (d) to give a reaction solution containing an oligonucleotide (e) wherein the 5′-hydroxy group is not protected; and (6) adding a polar solvent to the reaction solution containing the oligonucleotide (e) and purifying the oligonucleotide (e) by solid-liquid separation, wherein said nucleoside, nucleotide or oligonucleotide (a) or said substituted nucleotide or oligonucleotide (α) is a compound represented by formula (a-i): wherein Base, Rp1, R10, m, L, Y, and Z are defined herein.
US10919926B2
Problems of the present invention is to provide a novel compound or a salt thereof capable of activating natural killer T cell, a natural killer T cell activating agent containing such a compound or a salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition. The compound of the present invention is a compound represented by the following formula (1) or a salt thereof. It is preferable that total carbon number of the number of carbon atoms in the monovalent hydrocarbon group in R1 in the formula (1) excluding a sustitutent and the number of carbon atoms in the divalent hydrocarbon group in X1 is 5 to 50. The natural killer T cell activating agent contains the aforementioned compound or a salt thereof. The pharmaceutical composition contains the aforementioned compound or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.
US10919921B2
The present invention relates to chiral compounds with two optically active phosphorus atoms, chiral transition metal catalysts which comprise these compounds as ligands, a process for preparing the P-chiral compounds and processes for asymmetric synthesis using the chiral transition metal catalysts. The present invention specifically relates to a process for preparing an optically active carbonyl compound by asymmetric hydrogenation of a prochiral α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound with hydrogen in the presence of an optically active transition metal catalyst according to the invention. Yet more specifically, the present invention relates to a process for the asymmetric hydrogenation of citral, and also a process for preparing optically active menthol.
US10919901B2
The present invention relates to imidazo[1,2-b][1,2,4]triazines that are inhibitors of c-Met and are useful in the treatment of c-Met associated diseases including cancer.
US10919900B2
The disclosure relates to aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonists, such as substituted imidazopyridines and imidazopyrazines, as well as methods of expanding hematopoietic stem cells by culturing hematopoietic stem or progenitor cells in the presence of these agents. Additionally, the disclosure provides methods of treating various pathologies in a patient by administration of expanded hematopoietic stem cells. The disclosure further provides methods of synthesizing aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonists, such as substituted imidazopyridines and imidazopyrazines, as well as kits containing aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonists that can be used for the expansion of hematopoietic stem cells.
US10919896B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), and salts and solvates thereof, that function as inhibitors of cell division cycle 7 (Cdc7) kinase enzyme activity: wherein X, R1, R2, and n are each as defined herein. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use in the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancer, as well as other diseases or conditions in which Cdc7 kinase activity is implicated.
US10919894B2
Compounds of formula (I): wherein: R1 is butoxy or methylbutoxy; R2 is a group having the structure: where n is an integer having a value of five; Het is a six-membered saturated heterocycle containing five carbon atoms and one nitrogen atom, wherein Het is attached to the —(CH2)n— moiety at the carbon 4 position of the heterocycle; and R3 is hydrogen; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and their use as vaccine adjuvants and in the treatment of various disorders.
US10919888B2
Described herein are compounds and compositions, and methods of making and their use as effective agents against mycobacterial infections.
US10919886B2
A fumarate salt and a maleate salt of compound (I) represented by the following structural formula, as well as their corresponding pharmaceutical compositions, are disclosed. Particular single crystalline forms of 1:1 compound (I) fumarate and 1:1 compound (I) maleate are characterized by a variety of properties and physical measurements. Methods of preparing specific crystalline forms of 1:1 compound (I) fumarate and 1:1 compound (I) maleate are also disclosed. The present invention also provides methods of treating a subject with a cancer.
US10919885B2
The present invention features compounds useful in the treatment of neurological disorders. The compounds of the invention, alone or in combination with other pharmaceutically active agents, can be used for treating or preventing neurological disorders.
US10919869B2
A thiazole derivative serving as a DHODH inhibitor, and applications thereof. The present invention specifically relates to a compound represented by formula I, a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound represented by formula (I), and applications of the compound in the preparation of drugs for treating diseases mediated by the DHODH or drugs for inhibiting the DHODH.
US10919867B2
Benzotriazole phenols with substituents either ortho to the phenol hydroxyl group and/or para to the phenol hydroxyl group can be prepared from the unsubstituted benzotriazole phenol by coupling reactions. The ortho substituent group can be a simple alkoxy or amino group, or the ortho substituent group can be a linking group, linking the benzotriazole phenol to another benzotriazole phenol group.
US10919866B2
The invention relates to novel hydrazide-based templates, methods of making the same, and methods of using the hydrazide-based templates as molecular scaffolds for asymmetric light driven transformations, light driven material synthesis, and biological applications. Furthermore, the present invention relates to photoinitiators, monomers, and polymers derived from biomass, together with methods and methods of using the same.
US10919865B2
Provided herein are Diaminopyrimidine Compounds having the following structures: wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of a Diaminopyrimidine Compound, and methods for treating or preventing liver fibrotic disorders or a condition treatable or preventable by inhibition of a JNK pathway.
US10919864B2
Provided herein are 5-fluoro-4-imino-3-(alkyl/substituted alkyl)-1-(arylsulfonyl)-3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-one and processes for their preparation which may include the use of an alkali carbonate and an alkylating agent
US10919859B2
The present invention relates to compounds of general formula I, wherein the groups R, R1, R2, R3, m and n are defined herein, which have valuable pharmacological properties, in particular bind to the GPR40 receptor and modulate its activity. The compounds are suitable for treatment and prevention of diseases which can be influenced by this receptor, such as metabolic diseases, in particular diabetes type 2.
US10919853B2
Cross-linking agent(s), composition(s) made therefrom and use(s) thereof. For example, crosslinking agent(s) that are used to make composition(s) such as hydrogel material(s). Such materials are useful in the manufacture of biocompatible medical devices, for example, hydrogel materials having desirable physical properties for use as contact lense(s) and/or stimulating device(s).
US10919851B2
2-Pyrrolidine phenylhydrazides antibacterial agents The present invention relates to 2-pyrrolidine phenylhydrazide compounds of formula (I), which are selective antibacterials specifically against Acinetobacter baumannii. The invention also relates to their therapeutic use as antibacterials, to a process for their preparation and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
US10919850B2
Irreversible inhibitors of G12C mutant K-Ras protein are provided. Also disclosed are methods to modulate the activity of G12C mutant K-Ras protein and methods of treatment of disorders mediated by G12C mutant K-Ras protein.
US10919848B2
A process for preparing methionine includes the alkaline hydrolysis of 5-(2-methylmercaptoethyl)-hydantoin (methionine hydantoin) in an aqueous process solution containing alkali metal hydroxide and/or alkali metal carbonate and/or alkali metal hydrogencarbonate. The alkali metal cations in the process solution are potassium and sodium having a K/Na molar ratio range from 99/1 to 20/80.
US10919845B2
The invention relates to a cleaning device for separating an organic isocyanate produced by the reaction of an organic amine with a stoichiometric excess of phosgene in the gas phase from the gaseous raw product obtained in the reaction, said device comprising a first separating body comprising at least one raw product supply line for a gaseous raw product flow containing at least the isocyanate, hydrogen chloride and non-reacted phosgene, a first liquid supply line for a liquid flow containing at least one quench liquid, and a first liquid discharge line for a liquid flow containing at least part of the quench liquid and part of the isocyanate, a first gas line for transporting a gas flow containing at least hydrogen chloride, evaporated quench liquid and phosgene leading away from the first separating body. The invention is characterized in that at least one addition body for directly introducing at least one cooling fluid for an at least partial condensation and/or absorption of the gas flow that can be guided via the first gas line is associated with the first gas line.
US10919835B2
Provided herein are compounds useful for the preparation of compounds that have retinoid-like biological activity. Also provided herein are processes for the preparation of compounds that have retinoid-like biological activity.
US10919834B2
A method for producing (meth)acrylic acid comprising: a step of obtaining a (meth)acrylic acid-containing gas by subjecting a (meth)acrylic acid production raw material to a catalytic gas phase oxidation reaction; a step of obtaining a (meth)acrylic acid-containing liquid by bringing the (meth)acrylic acid-containing gas into contact with a collection solvent and/or condensing the (meth)acrylic acid-containing gas by cooling; a step of obtaining crude (meth)acrylic acid by introducing the (meth)acrylic acid-containing liquid into a low-boiling separation column; a step of obtaining purified (meth)acrylic acid and a refining residue containing a glyoxal compound by purifying the crude (meth)acrylic acid; and a step of returning at least a part of the refining residue to the low-boiling separation column; wherein a returning position of the refining residue to the low-boiling separation column is located closer to a bottom side of the low-boiling separation column than a supply port of the (meth)acrylic acid-containing liquid.
US10919831B1
A method for producing an aqueous equilibrium peroxylactic acid solution by reaction mixing lactic acid, hydrogen peroxide, water, one or more optional acid catalysts and one or more optional sequestering agents in a vessel over a period of time while maintaining the temperature of the solution at a temperature below about 100° C. The aqueous equilibrium peroxylactic acid solution can be used for reducing the bacterial count on a protein food product during processing.
US10919827B2
The present invention relates to a process for recovering 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol from a feed stream F1 comprising 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol, one or more solvents, water, and isobutene, wherein 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol, the one or more solvents and water are separated from isobutene by distillation, the process comprising subjecting the feed stream F1 to distillation conditions in a distillation unit, obtaining a bottoms stream B1 which is enriched in -methylbut-3-en-1-ol, in the one or more solvents and in water compared to the feed stream F1 subject The present invention relates to a process for recovering 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol from a feed stream F1 comprising 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol, one or more solvents, water, and isobutene, wherein 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol, the one or more solvents and water are separated from isobutene by distillation, the process comprising subjecting the feed stream F1 to distillation conditions in a distillation unit, obtaining a bottoms stream B1 which is enriched in -methylbut-3-en-1-ol, in the one or more solvents and in water compared to the feed stream F1 subjected to distillation conditions, and a top stream T1 which is enriched in isobutene, further subjecting the bottoms stream B1 to distillation conditions in a second distillation unit and obtaining a bottoms stream B2 which is enriched in 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol compared to the bottoms stream B1 and a top stream T2 which is enriched in water compared to the bottoms stream B1, further subjecting the bottoms stream B2 to distillation conditions in a third distillation unit and obtaining a top stream T3 which is enriched in 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol compared to the bottoms stream B2 and a bottoms stream B3. ted to distillation conditions, and a top stream T1 which is enriched in isobutene, further subjecting the bottoms stream B1 to distillation conditions in a second distillation unit and obtaining a bottoms stream B2 which is enriched in 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol compared to the bottoms stream B1 and a top stream T2 which is enriched in water compared to the bottoms stream B1, further subjecting the bottoms stream B2 to distillation conditions in a third distillation unit and obtaining a top stream T3 which is enriched in 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol compared to the bottoms stream B2 and a bottoms stream B3.
US10919825B2
A method of separately producing tert-butanol and sec-butanol, comprising the steps of introducing a mixed butenes stream to a tube side of a reaction membrane unit, introducing a TBA reactor water feed to the tube side of the reaction membrane unit, introducing a sweep gas to a shell side of the reaction membrane unit, introducing an SBA reactor water feed to the shell side, allowing the mixed butenes stream to contact the tube side of a such that selective gases in the mixed butenes stream permeate through the membrane to the shell side, allowing the selective gases that permeate through the membrane to react with water to produce sec-butanol, allowing retentate gases that fail to permeate through the membrane to react with water to produce tert-butanol, collecting the tert-butanol in a TBA reactor effluent, and collecting the sec-butanol in a SBA reactor effluent.
US10919823B2
A chlorinolysis process for producing carbon tetrachloride comprising providing a chlorination zone at an operating temperature of from 400 to 600° C. with i) chlorine, ii) a C1 chlorinated compound comprising 1 to 3 chlorine atoms and iii) a carbon/second chlorine source to produce a reaction mixture, and, after a residence time, extracting a product mixture from the chlorination zone, the product mixture comprising carbon tetrachloride and optionally perchloroethylene, wherein the product mixture comprises a higher molar content of carbon tetrachloride than perchloroethylene, if present.
US10919814B2
Disclosed herein are methods of increasing nitrogen fixation in a non-leguminous plant. The methods can comprise exposing the plant to a plurality of bacteria. Each member of the plurality comprises one or more genetic variations introduced into one or more genes or non-coding polynucleotides of the bacteria's nitrogen fixation or assimilation genetic regulatory network, such that the bacteria are capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen in the presence of exogenous nitrogen. The bacteria are not intergeneric microorganisms. Additionally, the bacteria, in planta, produce 1% or more of the fixed nitrogen in the plant.
US10919806B2
The present invention relates to a device comprising a cable and/or a cable accessory, said cable and/or said cable accessory comprising at least one composite layer obtained from a composite composition based on at least one aluminosilicate geopolymer composition and on at least one low-viscosity organic polymer or oligomer, and also to the process for preparing same.
US10919805B2
The disclosure features methods of forming composite materials, and the composite materials formed by such methods. The methods include forming a mixture that includes a binder material and a filler material, and applying a pressure of at least 10 MPa to the mixture to form the composite material, where the composite material thus formed includes less than 9% by weight of the binder material, less than 18% by volume of the binder material, or both, and has a flexural strength of at least 3 MPa.
US10919796B2
In a scribing operation, first through fourth auxiliary scribe lines are formed in a glass original sheet in addition to a main scribe line extending along a preset cutting line. A cutting operation includes a straight line portion cutting operation of cutting the glass original sheet along a first straight line portion of the main scribe line and the first and second auxiliary scribe lines, and cutting the glass original sheet along a second straight line portion of the main scribe line and the third and fourth auxiliary scribe lines, and a connection portion cutting operation of cutting the glass original sheet, which has been subjected to the straight line portion cutting operation, along a first connection portion of the main scribe line, and cutting the glass original sheet along a second connection portion of the main scribe line.
US10919793B2
The present invention relates to a filtering device for a water treatment system comprising a biological treatment device adapted to provide a sludge from wastewater or filtrated wastewater, and/or the biological treatment device being fluidic connectable to or in fluidic connection with the filtering device for receiving filtrated wastewater from the filtering device and for delivering sludge to the filtering device. The filtering device is a cake filtration device comprising a fluid penetrable support structure and the support structure is provided as one or more tubular elements having a filtration cake provided on the inside of the fluid penetrable support structure. The filtering has device an inlet being connectable to receive liquid to be filtered so that the flux of liquid to be filtered is from the inside of the support structure, through the filtration cake and to the outside of the support structure thereby providing a filtrate, an outlet for outletting liquid from the interior of the tubular element, and a filtrate outlet for outletting filtrate from the filtering device. The filtration cake is being provided by deposition of solids from the sludge formed in the biological treatment device.
US10919792B2
A system and method is provided for water and wastewater treatment. The system comprises a fixed film biological process and a ballasted flocculation process.
US10919779B2
Provided is an iron oxide powder for a brake friction material which can be suitably used in a brake friction material that is less likely to cause problems regarding brake squealing and that provides superior braking performance. The iron oxide powder for a brake friction material according to the present invention is characterized by having an average particle size of 40 μm or more and a saturation magnetization of 20 emu/g or less. The iron oxide powder preferably has a pore volume of 10-180 mm3/g. The iron oxide powder also preferably has a BET specific surface area of 0.05-1.20 m2/g.
US10919778B2
A method for making iron-based oxide magnetic particle powders having particular peak intensity and diffraction intensities, comprising neutralizing an aqueous solution containing a trivalent iron ion, alone or with a substituting metal (M), a step of adding hydroxycarboxylic acid to the neutralized solution to create a second solution including the hydroxycarboxylic acid D, another neutralizing step for the second solution, a coating step of silicon oxide coating iron oxyhydroxide with or without the substituted metal element found in the second neutralized solution, and heating the coated iron oxyhydroxide with or without the substituted metal element to form a silicon oxide coated iron oxide with or without the substituted metal element. After the second neutralization step, there is no water washing. As a result, the molar ratio D/(Fe+M) is between 0.125 and 1.0 and the silicon oxide coating can be uniform and the formation reaction of the hydroxide is not retarded.
US10919776B2
A composition of milk of lime comprising particles of slaked lime suspended in an aqueous phase, characterised in that said particles of slaked lime have a particle size described by a particle size distribution profile that is narrow and monomodal and the method of production thereof.
US10919770B2
The present disclosure provides nanostructure compositions and methods of producing nanostructure compositions. The nanostructure compositions comprise at least one population of nanostructures, at least one reactive diluent, at least one anaerobic stabilizer, and optionally at least one organic resin. The present disclosure also provides nanostructure films comprising a nanostructure layer and methods of making nanostructure films.
US10919764B2
The invention provides a skin disinfectant for treating skin with eczema, preventing bacterial proliferation, and removing biofilm. Compositions of the invention include hypochlorous acid, acetic acid, water, and one or more additives or excipients. The formulation process removes metal ions, reduces ionic strength, controls pH, and reduces exposure to air, thus improving stability and lengthening shelf-life.
US10919761B2
The invention relates to a process for producing a converted synthesis gas from a crude synthesis gas comprising the essential synthesis gas constituents of hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO), wherein the crude synthesis gas is initially generated in a synthesis gas generation stage and subsequently converted in a multi-stage CO conversion and thus elevated in terms of its hydrogen content. The crude synthesis gas has steam added to it as a reaction partner for the CO conversion and cooling of the converted synthesis gas affords an aqueous condensate.
US10919755B2
A beverage discharge cock to which beverage is supplied from a beverage supply source, comprising: a valve main body including a hole and a valve seat arranged in an end portion of the hole; a valve rod slidably arranged in the hole, and including a valve body that forms a first valve together with the valve seat of the valve main body, and a first seal; and a movable part slidably arranged in the hole, and including a second seal facing the first seal, the second seal forming a second valve together with the first seal of the valve rod, wherein the valve rod includes a first channel extending through the valve body, and one or a plurality of second channels extending from the first seal to the first channel, and the second channel includes a first portion, and a second portion arranged between the first seal and the first portion, and a diameter of the second portion is smaller than a diameter of the first portion.
US10919748B2
A machine for handling heavy components in a heavy equipment environment. In an example implementation, the machine includes a truck having at least two front wheels and at least one rear wheel. A outrigger portion extends forward from the truck. The front wheels are attached at a forward end of the outrigger portion. A mast extends vertically from a track extending forward from the truck on a base of the outrigger portion. The mast is movably extendable or retractable along the track. A carriage is mounted on the mast and configured to move vertically on the mast. A pair of forks are mounted on the carriage to move vertically when the carriage is controlled to move. A personnel platform is mounted on the carriage independent of the mounting of the forks on the carriage. A remote control panel is configured to override a cab control panel under operator control. The remote control panel includes a plurality of controls for moving the carriage and for extending or retracting the mast.
US10919742B2
This disclosure relates to an endless cable winch including a drive unit having an engine configured to generate a torque. The endless cable winch further including an output unit connected to the drive unit, the output unit including a power transmission assembly coupled to the drive unit, the power transmission assembly configured to apply a driving force to a cable. The endless cable winch further including a lifting force limiting device configured to stop the drive unit as soon a predetermined driving force is exceeded. In doing so, this system is also transferable to winches with multiple engines. The engine and the output unit can be movable relative to one another, and the lifting force limiting device can be configured to stop the drive unit based on the relative movement of the drive unit and the engine.
US10919735B2
A lifting mechanism assembly comprising a lifting section, a compression section, and an attaching section.
US10919720B2
A sheet conveyance unit includes a sheet inlet port, an inlet guide, and a guide switching mechanism. The inlet guide has an upper guide and a lower guide below the upper guide. The guide switching mechanism switches a position of the inlet guide between a conveyance position at which the upper guide and the lower guide face each other with a first distance and a separation position at which the upper guide and the lower guide are spaced from each other by a second distance greater than the first distance. To connect the sheet conveyance unit to the sheet discharge unit, the inlet guide is disposed to the separation position before the discharge guide is inserted between the upper guide and the lower guide, and is disposed to the conveyance position after the discharge guide is inserted between the upper guide and the lower guide.
US10919716B1
A cover slip dispenser apparatus for storing and dispensing microscope cover slides includes a dispenser body having a square top aperture extending through to a dispenser inside. The dispenser inside is configured to store a plurality of cover slips. A bottom frame has a plurality of spring-loaded ball detents to prevent the plurality of cover slips from passing through unless forced. A plunger is coupled within the dispenser inside and is configured to contact a topmost slip of the plurality of cover slips. A spring is coupled within the dispenser inside and is configured to apply pressure on the plunger to arrange the plurality of cover slips against the plurality of ball detents. A lever is coupled to the dispenser body. A lever bottom of the lever is coupled to the spring. The lever is configured to dispense one cover slip of the plurality of cover slips when depressed.
US10919709B2
The present disclosure shows an apparatus for the automated removal of workpieces arranged in a bin, said apparatus having a first object recognition device for detecting the workpieces in the bin; a first picker for picking and removing the workpieces from the bin; a controller for evaluating the data of the first object recognition device, for path planning and for controlling the first picker; and a transport device on which the workpieces removed from the bin are placed. Provision is made that a robot arm that is used for placing the workpieces on the transport device is arranged on a pedestal above the transport device.
US10919706B2
A combined weighing apparatus 1 includes: a dispersion feeder 3 which conveys an article A supplied from the outside; a load cell 3b which detects an amount of the article A loaded on the dispersion feeder 3; and a control unit 14 which sets a force of conveying the article A in the dispersion feeder 3 on the basis of a detection result of the load cell 3b and controls an operation of the dispersion feeder 3 and the control unit 14 sets the conveying force of the dispersion feeder 3 to be smaller than a current conveying force when a state in which a change amount of the loading amount of the article A on the dispersion feeder 3 is smaller than a threshold value is maintained for a predetermined time or more in the detection result of the load cell 3b.
US10919700B2
A mobile storage system including a plurality of movable storage units that can be positioned to selectively form an aisle between adjacent storage units. The mobile storage system includes a master controller in communication with a local control unit and a local control panel on each storage unit. The master controller communicates through a wireless communication path with a user device having a visual display. The visual display presents a current image of the mobile storage system and allows a user to enter commands to create aisles between adjacent storage units. When the user device is in wireless communication with the master controller, the master controller prevents operation of the storage units from the local control panels. The master controller allows a wireless communication path to be created with only a single user device at any time such that only one user device is able to operate the mobile storage system.
US10919697B2
A storage assembly (10) has a plurality of trays (14), each tray (14) being selectively moved from the storage position (FIG. 1) to an access position (FIG. 2). The assembly (10) includes a rack (12) which has a series of rails (13) at each end on which trays (14) are supported. The storage assembly (10) includes a loading device (16) including lifting arms (18). The lifting arms (18) support a cradle (20) that includes rails (22), and the cradle (20) is connected to the lifting arms (18) by rollers (23). The loading device (16) can access different trays (14) by being raised and lowered. Once the lifting device (16) is moved into position adjacent a tray (14), the tray can be moved from the stored position on the rack (12) to the access position on the cradle (20) via a drawing arm (35).
US10919696B2
A material handling system for lifting and dumping material into a container. material handling systems for lifting and dumping material into a container are described herein which, in some embodiments, comprise at least one horizontal rail connected to the container, at least one vertical track slidably mounted to the horizontal rail, the vertical track defining a generally vertically extending lower portion and a curved upper portion transitioning into the generally vertically extending lower portion, a holder, the holder being connected to the vertical track in a manner permitting movement between an uppermost position and a lowermost position, and a motive power device operable to raise and lower the container along the vertical track between the uppermost position and the lowermost position, wherein the holder is rotated greater than about 90 degrees in the uppermost position relative to the lowermost position.
US10919693B2
In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for handling bulk material in a manner that reduces dust, noise, and emissions are provided. The presently disclosed techniques use portable containers to transfer bulk material from a transportation unit to a blender inlet. The containers may be carried to the location on the transportation unit, where a hoisting mechanism is used to remove the container from the transportation unit and place it in a desired location. When bulk material is needed at the blender inlet, the hoisting mechanism may position the container of bulk material onto an elevated support structure. Once on the support structure, the container may be opened to release bulk material to a gravity feed outlet, which routes the bulk material from the container directly into the blender inlet. The disclosed containerized bulk material transfer system and method allows for reduced dust, noise, and emissions on location.
US10919691B2
The disclosure provides a beverage cartridge which includes a filter. The filter, comprising filter material, is arranged to separate the cartridge into first and second compartments. The first compartment stores a first substance and is positioned adjacent the second compartment. A coating is arranged on the filter material and the coating increases the puncture resistance of the filter material.
US10919690B2
A capsule for preparing a nutritional product in a device adapted to supply liquid into the capsule is disclosed. The capsule includes at least one compartment for providing nutritional ingredients for the preparation of the nutritional product in combination with the supplied liquid, and the compartment includes a liquid impermeable membrane forming a release side of the compartment. The capsule further includes at least one relief element. Also disclosed is a membrane for use in the manufacture of said capsule. Also disclosed are methods of producing and using the membrane and capsule.
US10919684B2
An insulated carrying bag comprising: a. a multilayer first panel comprising a top free edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge a second side edge, a strengthened section comprising strengthening material, and a holding aperture positioned in the strengthened section; b. a multilayer second panel comprising a top free edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge and a second side edge, a strengthened section comprising strengthening material, and a holding aperture positioned in the strengthened section; and c. a multilayer bottom panel comprising a front edge and a back edge, the first panel first side edge being connected to the second panel first side edge along the two edges, the first panel second side edge being connected to the second panel second side edge along the two edges, the first panel bottom edge being connected to the front edge of the bottom panel along the edges, and the second panel bottom edge being connected to the back edge along the edges, wherein the connected first panel, second panel and bottom panel form a compartment accessible through the top free edges of the first and second panels, and the layers of the first panel, second panel and bottom panel comprise an insulating thermoplastic layer and a vapor barrier layer, and the first and second panels additionally comprise a layer of the strengthening material.
US10919683B2
An object to be cooled is quickly brought to a suitable temperature. An object to be cooled is quickly brought to a suitable temperature. A thermal energy storage pack 1 according to the present invention is a thermal energy storage pack that performs temperature management of food and/or beverage, and includes a first deep-drawn container filled with a first thermal energy storage material that exhibits phase change at a predetermined temperature, a second deep-drawn container that is overlaid by the first accommodation portion and that is filled with a second thermal energy storage material that maintains a liquid phase state at the phase change temperature of the first thermal energy storage material, and a cover material that closes off the first deep-drawn container. The second deep-drawn container comes into contact with a wine bottle.
US10919680B1
A beverage container can comprise a container housing for housing an internal liquid container. The container can include first and second shields extending from panel sections of the housing that interlock over the container. The shields can be spaced between a hand hold opening through a top portion of the container housing and the internal liquid container. A gap can be provided between the shields and hand hold opening.
US10919678B2
A structure is described for forming a wrapper, e.g., for print media, where the structure includes a line of weakness for facilitating a user's tearing of the wrapper to access the contents. The line of weakness may include a first line of weakness portion that extends along a fold line of an envelope fold forming one of the front or rear or right sides of the wrapped package, as well as a second line of weakness portion that extends substantially perpendicularly to the respective longitudinal fold lines and a connecting line of weakness portion that extends between the first line of weakness portion and the second line of weakness portion and is disposed at a non-zero angle with respect to each. In this way, a tear initiated near the first line of weakness portion and may be propagated along the other portions to create an opening for accessing the product.
US10919667B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a nesting storage container comprising: a plurality of upright walls surrounding an internal cavity; at least one de-nesting feature in the internal cavity, said de-nesting feature comprising an offset height with respect to a bottom surface of the internal cavity; and at least one handle having a concave handle offset oriented along a vertical axis of at least a portion of at least one of the plurality of upright walls.
US10919666B2
A sled includes a deck having a top surface and a cradle section configured to hold a shipping vessel. The cradle section includes a length that extends from a back of the deck towards a front of the deck. First and second wedges extend at least the length of the cradle section and each include at least an outer facing surface and an upper facing surface. The outer facing surface of the first wedge defines a first side of the cradle section and the outer facing surface of the second wedge defines a second side of the cradle section. The upper facing surfaces of each of the first wedge and the second wedge is oriented at an angle relative to the top surface of the deck such that each upper facing surface of each wedge slopes downwardly from an outer edge to an opposing inner edge.
US10919650B2
In some aspects, this disclosure relates to improved Z-grade materials, such as those used for shielding, systems incorporating such materials, and processes for making such Z-grade materials. In some examples, the Z-grade material includes a diffusion zone including mixed metallic alloy material with both a high atomic number material and a lower atomic number material. In certain examples, a process for making Z-grade material includes combining a high atomic number material and a low atomic number material, and bonding the high atomic number material and the low atomic number together using diffusion bonding. The processes may include vacuum pressing material at an elevated temperature, such as a temperature near a softening or melting point of the low atomic number material. In another aspect, systems such as a vault or an electronic enclosure are disclosed, where one or more surfaces of Z-grade material make up part or all of the vault/enclosure.
US10919649B2
A low-power Hall thruster gains significantly improved efficiency by a combination of features, including a single piece, h-shaped magnetic screen which enables a more efficient internal volume utilization as well as optimal magnetic shielding; an internally mounted cathode with varying diameter further decreases the footprint of the thruster; an anode with multiple baffles connected by axially oriented holes generates a highly azimuthally uniform propellant flow.
US10919646B2
An unmanned vehicle includes a body and a gimbal assembly arranged at the body. The gimbal assembly includes a shock-absorbing structure arranged inside the body, a connecting structure arranged outside the body, and a load arranged outside the body and fixedly connected to the shock-absorbing structure via the connecting structure.
US10919641B2
A method for determining airspeed of an aircraft that includes determining a rotor model relating a power coefficient of a propeller of the aircraft to an axial inflow velocity through the propeller as a function of a set of rotor operating parameters; determining the set of rotor operating parameters by sampling an electronic control signal associated with an electric motor actuating the propeller; computing the axial inflow velocity through the propeller based on the set of rotor operating parameters using the rotor model; and determining the airspeed based on the axial inflow velocity.
US10919639B2
An aircraft comprises a fuselage, at least a first electrical generator and a second electrical generator, a set of electrical equipment items distributed in the fuselage and an electrical power distribution network comprising a switching system and a set of buses. The buses comprise at least a first bus and a second bus extending, at least partly, in a longitudinal direction of the fuselage and following segregated paths in the fuselage. In a normal mode of operation, the switching system links the first electrical generator to the first bus and the second electrical generator to the second bus. Each bus comprises connection points at different locations distributed along its length and each of the electrical equipment items is linked to a connection point of a bus via a local electrical power supply link.
US10919635B2
The disclosure relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the fuel cell provides a structural component of the vehicle.
US10919632B2
A section divider assembly is configured to be positioned above one or more seats and indicate a boundary of a section onboard a cabin of a vehicle. The section divider assembly includes an attachment header, and a barrier extending downwardly from the attachment header. A first coupler is secured to the attachment header. The first coupler is configured to be removably secured to a first fitting secured to a strongback of a stowage bin assembly within the cabin. A second coupler is secured to the attachment header and spaced apart from the first coupler. The second coupler is configured to be removably secured to a second fitting secured to a fixed rail within the cabin.
US10919631B2
An aircraft that includes a body that defines a cabin interior, front and back rows of seats positioned in the passenger zone, a forward door that is pivotable between a closed position and an open position, and an aft door that is pivotable between a closed position and an open position. The cabin interior includes a pilot zone, a passenger zone positioned aft of the pilot zone, and a cargo zone positioned aft of the passenger zone. The pilot zone and the front row of seats are accessible and the back row and cargo zone are inaccessible from an exterior of the body when the aft door is in the closed position and the forward door is in the open position. The back row and cargo zone are accessible and the pilot zone and the front row of seats are inaccessible from the exterior of the body when the aft door is in the open position and the forward door is in the closed position.
US10919619B2
A fastening system having differentiable components includes a first bushing with a first mating feature to be inserted within a first receiver. A first fuse pin with a second mating figure and being configured to shear upon the application of a first predetermined load is configured to be inserted into the first receiver and mate with the first mating feature of the first bushing. The first and second mating features correspond and permit the insertion of the first fuse pin into the first bushing within the first receiver to selectively connect components. The first bushing may prevent the complete insertion of a second fuse pin having a third mating feature into the first receiver. A second bushing having a fourth mating feature may permit the complete insertion of the second fuse pin into the second bushing positioned within a second receiver.
US10919616B2
Guidance assembly for guiding a movement of an airfoil leading edge high-lift device carrier track between a retracted position and an extended position, comprising at least one lower guide element contacting a lower surface of said carrier track and/or at least one upper guide element contacting an upper surface of said carrier track, wherein at least one of said lower or upper guide elements includes a sliding surface arranged to be in sliding contact with said high-lift device carrier track during movement of said carrier track.
US10919614B2
An airfoil comprising a main wing and a high-lift body. The high-lift body defines a concave recess. The airfoil further comprises a sealing device having two sealing elements arranged in the concave recess. The sealing elements are plate-shaped and abut sectionally on the high-lift body and have side faces extending perpendicularly to the common rotational axis. When the high-lift body is moved between a retracted position and a deployed position, the sealing elements rotate relative to the main wing and relative to each other, such that an overlap between the sealing elements is smaller when the high-lift body is in the deployed position than when the high-lift body is in the retracted position.
US10919613B2
A vehicle with a fairing and a sliding door that is glidingly mounted to the vehicle, wherein the sliding door is associated with a foldable fairing integrated footstep unit, and wherein the foldable fairing integrated footstep unit comprises: an outer shell that is integrated into the fairing of the vehicle, the outer shell comprising an exterior surface that creates in closed state of the foldable fairing integrated footstep unit an at least approximately continuous aerodynamic surface with the fairing.
US10919608B1
A jet propulsion system for a watercraft includes a duct defining an inlet, a venturi unit, an impeller housing disposed between the inlet and the venturi unit, and an impeller disposed within the impeller housing. The impeller is rotatable in a forward direction and a reverse direction. The venturi unit includes a venturi conduit and at least one door connected thereto. The venturi conduit has a peripheral wall defining at least one aperture. The at least one door is movable between a closed position when the impeller rotates in the forward direction, and an open position when the impeller rotates in the reverse direction. In the closed position, the at least one door closes the at least one aperture. In the open position, the at least one door opens the at least one aperture such that water flows into the venturi conduit via the at least one aperture.
US10919601B2
The present disclosure relates to a control method for regulating the electric motor of an electric bicycle for push assistance for the electric bicycle. The control method comprises identification of activation of the push assistance by the cyclist. When activation is identified, the electric motor generates a torque for driving the electric bicycle as push assistance. Subsequently, an acceleration by the electric bicycle in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the electric bicycle is captured by means of a first sensor, wherein the acceleration results on the basis of a manual pushing or braking force of the cyclist. The captured acceleration is compared with an acceleration threshold value in a further step, wherein, in the event of the acceleration threshold value being exceeded, the electric motor is regulated on the basis of a change in the captured acceleration to adapt the torque.
US10919600B2
A motor driving control apparatus for a motor-assisted vehicle such as a motor-assisted bicycle includes: an inverter configured to drive a motor; and a controller configured to control the inverter to start regeneration after lapse of a first time period since a second predetermined time period elapsed or gradually increase a regeneration amount, when a state that an acceleration of a vehicle on which the motor is embodied is negative and equal to or less than a first predetermined value continues for the second predetermined time period.
US10919597B2
A vehicle height adjustment device includes a rear suspension, an electromagnetic valve control unit, and a weight estimation unit. The rear suspension includes a support member. The electromagnetic valve control unit determines a target movement based on an interrelation between the target movement and a weight applied to a vehicle, under which the target movement is set to an upper limit when the weight is larger than a predetermined weight, so that an actual movement of the support member reaches the target movement. The electromagnetic valve control unit determines the target movement based on a temporary weight. The weight estimation unit increases the temporary weight, even when the actual movement reached the target movement. The electromagnetic valve control unit decreases the target length, even when the temporary weight increased. The weight estimation unit estimates as the weight the temporary weight when the actual length has finally reached the target length.
US10919590B2
A robotic repair system for high mast light poles includes a support ring having a diameter to fit around a high mast light pole, a guide system secured to and above the support ring, and a platform engaging the guide system and coupled to an actuator configured to move the platform in a first direction, and an opposing second direction. The robotic repair system also includes a repair attachment secured to the platform to repair the high mast light pole, a drive wheel and a motor coupled to and configured to drive the drive wheel and configured to move the repair attachment along the guide system, and an outer guide track secured adjacent to the guide system where the drive wheel is within the outer guide track.
US10919587B2
A suspension system supports a chassis relative to a crawler mechanism including a continuous track. A link is rotatable about an axis extending transversely through a first portion. The first portion includes a projections extending radially inwardly, and peripheral openings defined by spaces between the projections. An axle member secured to the crawler mechanism includes peripheral shafts extending radially outward from the axis and positioned in an associated peripheral opening. Each resilient member is positioned within an associated peripheral opening and engages an associated peripheral shaft, damping movement of the peripheral shaft relative to the link. An auxiliary roller assembly includes a yoke and a plurality of auxiliary rollers coupled to the yoke. The yoke is rotatable relative to the crawler frame about a yoke axis. The auxiliary rollers are aligned along a direction of travel of the track and are configured to engage an inner surface of the track.
US10919586B2
A work machine includes a frame including an axle and an arm, a track undercarriage assembly including an undercarriage assembly connected to the arm, a drive assembly operably attached to the axle, and a track belt mounted on the drive assembly. The undercarriage assembly and the drive assembly are each configured for lateral adjustment relative to a longitudinal centerline of the frame from a first position to a second position. The drive assembly includes a drive sprocket that is assembled with the axle in a first configuration to laterally adjust the drive assembly towards the first position and a second configuration to laterally adjust the drive assembly towards the second position. The undercarriage assembly includes an undercarriage frame attached to the arm, wherein the undercarriage frame and the arm are adjustably coupled to allow the undercarriage frame to be movably adjusted between the first and the second positions.
US10919584B2
A first controller of a work vehicle executes a first composition process for composition of a first video imaged by a camera and a second video imaged by a camera and generating composite video data indicating a composite video, and a transmission process for transmitting, to a second controller, the composite video data generated in the first composition process. The second controller of the work vehicle executes a reception process for receiving the composite video data from the first controller, and a display process for displaying the composite video indicated by the composite video data received in the reception process on a display.
US10919582B2
An aerodynamic deflector device for a motor vehicle wheel may include a mounting configured to be mounted on a motor vehicle. A deflecting wall may be mounted on the mounting to be movable between a retracted position. In the mounted state, the deflecting wall is raised relative to the mounting, and an extended position in which, in the mounted state, the deflecting wall is lowered relative to the mounting and capable of being placed upstream from the wheel of the vehicle. An actuator may be configured to move the deflecting wall between the retracted and extended positions. The deflecting wall may have, in cross-section, a central part and two side parts flaring out from the central part to obtain a shape which diverges with respect to the direction of the air flow striking said wall. The aerodynamic deflector device may be arranged upstream from a vehicle wheel.
US10919577B2
An automotive vehicle includes a vehicle body with a longitudinal axis. The vehicle also includes a rocker inner panel with a first channel having interior and exterior sides. The interior side is secured to the vehicle body. The first channel has a first upper horizontal sidewall, a first lower horizontal sidewall, and a first vertical endwall coupling the first upper and first lower horizontal sidewalls at the interior side. A rocker outer panel is secured to the rocker inner panel. The rocker outer panel includes a second channel, a third channel, and a fourth channel. The second channel is secured to the third channel, and the third channel is secured to the fourth channel. An upper cavity is defined between the second and third channels, an intermediate cavity is defined between the third and fourth channels, and a lower cavity is defined between the second and third channels.
US10919576B2
A vehicle includes: a front room disposed at a front portion of the vehicle in the vehicle in a vehicle-longitudinal direction; a fuel cell stack disposed in the front room, the fuel cell stack including multiple cells stacked in the vehicle-longitudinal direction; and a buffer member disposed in front of the fuel cell stack in the vehicle-longitudinal direction.
US10919572B2
Examples of techniques for controlling a vehicle based on trailer sway are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes estimating, by a processing device, an estimated articulation angle between a vehicle and a trailer coupled to the vehicle. The method further includes calculating, by the processing device, an expected articulation angle between the vehicle and the trailer. The method further includes comparing, by the processing device, the estimated articulation angle and the expected articulation angle to determine whether the trailer is experiencing trailer sway. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the trailer is experiencing sway, controlling, by the processing device, the vehicle to reduce the trailer sway.
US10919565B2
A noise reduction structure of an electronic power steering apparatus including a worm shaft rotated by a motor, a worm wheel engaged in the worm shaft and rotating a steering shaft, and a housing surrounding the worm shaft includes a cylindrical damper unit formed as an elastic member in an inner side of the cylindrical damper unit for absorbing a shock transmitted to the worm shaft and rotatably connected to the worm shaft, a rubber holder coupled to a semi-cylindrical damper holder formed on a side surface of the damper unit for making a close contact between the worm shaft and the worm wheel, and a plug unit including a plug holder formed on a lower end of a side surface of the plug unit for coupling to the rubber holder and fixed to the housing on the other side of the plug unit.
US10919560B2
A method may be employed to produce a variable-length steering shaft. The method may involve positioning a shaft core within a mold cavity of an injection molding tool coaxially with respect to a mold surface that delimits a toothing region, injecting molten plastic into the mold cavity between the shaft core and the mold surface of the mold cavity, removing a toothed shaft from the injection molding tool after the molten plastic has solidified, providing a hollow shaft and axially inserting the toothing region into an internal toothing of the hollow shaft. To make it possible to provide an improved sliding coating with the least possible manufacturing outlay, the injection of the molten plastic may be performed from one axial end region of the mold cavity.
US10919557B1
Upper and lower platforms are connected by at least one adjustable telescoping pillar. The lower platform has bottom surface with at least one, e.g., at least three wheels affixed thereto. At least one engagement structure is mounted on a top surface of the upper platform to engage an infant car seat. When an infant car seat is mounted on the upper platform, a child, secured in the infant car seat, can be propelled to or from a motor vehicle by pushing on the infant car seat with the wheels in contact with the ground.
US10919549B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a lantern/multi-functional hand-held LED light for railways. The lantern/multi-functional LED light may provide a rail worker with one light device to be used for many railway applications. The lantern/multi-functional LED light may have a two-sided light capability and the ability to provide warning and lighting on both a front panel and a back panel of the lantern/multi-functional LED. The lantern/multi-functional hand-held LED light may include one or more of the following features: two-sided with extra-bright warning LEDs orientated in rows that allow the lantern/multi-functional LED light to light-up a work area, multi-color with different flash rates, sensor to allow for orientation position indication and automatic ON/OFF on one side, bottom base magnetic mount, two bright top-mounted LED lights and two side-top LEDs that allow the lantern/multi-functional LED light to be used as a flash light.
US10919546B1
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, by an image detection tool, a tank within an image of a railway environment and identifying, by the image detection tool, a railroad track within the image of the railway environment. The method also includes determining, by the image detection tool, a distance between the tank and the railroad track and comparing, by the image detection tool, the distance between the tank and the railroad track to a predetermined threshold distance. The method further includes determining, by the image detection tool, that the tank presents a hazard to the railway environment in response to comparing the distance between the tank and the railroad track to the predetermined threshold distance.
US10919534B2
A slip control method and arrangement for a driveline is described herein. The driveline includes a clutch that is so controlled as to slip when a torque higher than the usable torque attempts to pass through. Accordingly, the clutch prevents the prime mover from stalling.
US10919531B2
A method in a transportation vehicle for an automatic drive which includes detecting additional transportation vehicles in the surroundings of the transportation vehicle by at least one sensor system, detecting and identifying lanes by the at least one sensor system, assigning the detected additional transportation vehicles to the detected lanes by a controller, and identifying and evaluating an intention to pass of another transportation vehicle by a pass assistance device. If an intention to pass has been identified, the method also includes calculating a total use of a possible lane change by a predictive device and adapting a drive behavior of the transportation vehicle by the controller, wherein the possible lane change is carried out if the calculated total use reaches or exceeds a specified total use threshold, and the possible lane change is not carried out if the calculated total use does not exceed the specified total use threshold.
US10919530B2
A method for decelerating a vehicle includes actuating an electric brake motor of an electromechanical braking mechanism in an event of a failure of a hydraulic vehicle brake to produce a braking force in an event of a failure of the hydraulic vehicle brake. The method further includes producing a decelerating torque in the drive train of the vehicle in the event of the failure of the hydraulic vehicle brake. The vehicle includes a brake system. The brake system has the hydraulic vehicle brake and the electromechanical braking mechanism with the electric brake motor.
US10919529B2
A method for operating a vehicle having a vehicle drive train (1) and a vehicle brake (7) downshifting an automatic transmission (3) in a coasting condition, during which at least one friction-locking shift element is to be disengaged and one form-fit shift element is to be engaged. An output torque present at a driven end (4) is at least partially supported at a drive motor (2) at the point in time of a demand for the coasting downshift. The drive motor (2) is actuated before the implementation of the coasting downshift in order to reduce the portion of the output torque which is supportable at the drive motor (2), and a portion of the output torque is supported in the area of the vehicle brake (7) by an appropriate actuation of the vehicle brake (7).
US10919526B2
Some embodiments provide a vehicle that includes a protection system configured to mitigate hazards to vehicle occupants posed by dynamic elements located within proximity of the vehicle. The vehicle can, in response to determining that a dynamic element is moving along a trajectory that intersects a sweep volume of a vehicle portal, can selectively restrict operation of the portal so that an occupant is restricted from opening the portal into a volume through which the dynamic element may pass. The vehicle can restrict portal operation in response to detecting external dynamic elements that are not within an occupant's field of vision. The vehicle can communicate a limited selection of vehicle sensor data, including representations of a detected dynamic element, to a user device supporting an authorized user in response to detecting that the dynamic element is located within a certain proximity of the vehicle.
US10919524B2
A fault-tolerant computer system (FTCS) for generating safe trajectories for a vehicle. The FTCS includes: a sensor part (SENSE), a primary part (PRIM), a secondary part (SEC), a tertiary part (TER), and a decide part (DECIDE). The PRIM and TER are configured to produce trajectories by interpreting information of the real world as perceived by the SENSE. The SEC is configured to produce a safe space estimate (FSE) by interpreting information of the real world as perceived by SENSE. The DECIDE and/or SEC are configured to execute correctness checks that take trajectories and FSE as inputs, and qualify a trajectory (TRJ) as safe when said TRJ is inside the FSE, and qualify a trajectory (UTRJ) as unsafe when said UTRJ is not inside the FSE.
US10919523B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing Internet of Things (“IoT”) functionality. In some embodiments, a computing system or IoT management node might receive sensor data from one or more IoT-capable sensors, analyze the sensor data to determine one or more actions to be taken, and identify one or more devices (e.g., household devices associated with a customer premises; vehicular components associated with a vehicle; devices disposed in, on, or along a roadway; devices disposed throughout a population area; etc.) for performing the determined one or more first actions. The computing system or IoT management node then autonomously controls each of the identified one or more devices to perform tasks based on the determined one or more first actions to be taken, thereby implementing smart environment functionality (e.g., smart home, building, or customer premises functionality, smart vehicle functionality, smart roadway functionality, smart city functionality, and so on).
US10919518B2
Methods and systems are provided for operating a driveline of a hybrid vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine, a rear drive unit electric machine, an integrated starter/generator, and a transmission are described. In one example, inertia torque compensation is provided to counter inertia torque during a power-on upshift.
US10919506B2
An electric brake system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The electric brake system includes a pedal sensor configured to sense a pedal effort, a calculator configured to calculate a target brake pressure based on the sensed pedal effort, a first hydraulic circuit configured to form a brake pressure of at least one rear wheel or form a rear-wheel regenerative braking pressure, a second hydraulic circuit configured to form a brake pressure of at least one front wheel, and a controller configured to perform rear-wheel regenerative braking during deceleration of a vehicle, perform cooperative control of a front-wheel hydraulic pressure when a rear-wheel regenerative braking pressure reaches a maximum regenerative braking pressure, increase the front-wheel hydraulic pressure to a target brake pressure when the rear-wheel regenerative braking is released, and then increase a rear-wheel hydraulic pressure.
US10919503B2
A puncture repair liquid injection method injects puncture repair liquid into a tire by using a puncture repair liquid injection device provided with a container having a liquid containing portion containing a puncture repair liquid, along with an outlet for discharging the puncture repair liquid, and an inlet for introducing compressed air; an injection hose connected between a tire valve of a wheel mounted on a tire and the outlet of the container; and a compressor having a pressure adjuster for selecting an air pressure. The method further comprises connecting the injection hose between the tire valve and the outlet of the container, connecting the compressor to the inlet of the container, selecting a reduced air pressure as a pressurizing force by the compressor by an operation of the pressure adjuster, and injecting the puncture repair liquid into the tire by pressurizing the container interior.
US10919502B2
The invention concerns a rear view system (1) of a motor vehicle comprising:—an optical image capturing sensor (3),—a protective support (5) comprising a transparent and flat protective screen (7), the optical sensor (3) being installed on the protective support (5) in such a way as to point through said protective screen (7), and—a scraper blade (9) for cleaning the protective screen (7) disposed on the face of the protective screen (7) opposite that of the optical sensor (3) side, characterised in that it further comprises an electromagnetic actuation device (11) for actuating said scraper blade (9) in translation on the protective screen (7).
US10919500B2
The invention relates to a cleaning device (100) intended for spraying at least one fluid onto a surface to be cleaned of a motor vehicle, such as an optical sensor of an optical detection system, in which a movable piston (3), sliding inside a hollow body (1) about a stationary rod extending along a longitudinal axis (X) and carrying a cleaning fluid distribution element (8, 9) at one end, allows a fluid to be conveyed towards the distribution element (8, 9) via passage channels (12) arranged between the piston and the rod and having different axial dimensions.
US10919495B2
A system includes a processor configured to generate a new access key, responsive to a vehicle shutdown. The processor is also configured to connect to a previously identified user wireless device. The processor is further configured to deliver the new access key to the user wireless device, responsive to connection to the wireless device and locally store a copy of the new access key in a file designated for reference for a next-access attempt.
US10919493B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for mobile device relay attack detection and power management for vehicles. An example vehicle includes a first module for first protocol communication, a second module for second protocol communication, and a controller. The controller is to determine a first distance to a mobile device utilizing a signal strength of the first protocol communication and determine, upon receiving an entry request, a second distance to the mobile device utilizing a time-of-flight of the second protocol communication. The controller also is to prevent entry when the second distance does not match the first distance.
US10919489B2
A seatbelt retractor configured to ease the tightness of a seatbelt felt by an occupant when the occupant wearing the seatbelt reclines a seatback. An acceleration sensor 70 includes a sensor cover 71 which tilts with a seatback, a sensor housing 72 supported swingably with respect to the sensor cover 71 and having an inertial body support surface 78 and an inertial body 73 which is displaced when the acceleration reaches at least a prescribed value. The sensor housing 72 includes an external teeth part 84 having a plurality of external teeth 81 and 82 and a gap part 83 without external teeth. A lever member 90 is coupled to the shaft 22 of the spindle 20 by a friction coupling, and the lever member turns in a first direction in which an engagement part 92 is engaged with the external teeth part 84 when the spindle 20 rotates in a seatbelt drawing-out direction and turns in a second direction in which the engagement part 92 moves apart from the external teeth part 84 when the spindle 20 rotates in a seatbelt winding-up direction.
US10919485B2
A vehicle seat belt assembly that ensures proper lap belt and shoulder belt restraint even when an occupant substantially reclines his or her seat. A primary shoulder belt that runs from a buckle member across the chest and shoulder of the occupant and engages a routing device and/or retraction/tensioning device coupled to a pillar, such as a B-pillar, of the body of the vehicle is coupled with a substantially coincident secondary shoulder belt that also runs from the buckle member across the chest and (same) shoulder of the occupant and engages a secondary routing device and/or secondary retraction/tensioning device coupled to a top portion of the seat back, adjacent to the heat rest of the seat and head of the occupant, on the same side of the seat as an anchor point associated with the lap belt.
US10919478B2
An apparatus includes a stowage bin defining a compartment and an airbag mounted to the stowage bin. The airbag is deployable to an inflated position. When the airbag is in the inflated position, the airbag at least partially encloses the compartment. When in the inflated position, the airbag retains items, if any, that are stored in the compartment by an occupant of the vehicle.
US10919473B2
A vehicle includes a body of the vehicle and a sensing system coupled to the body. The sensing system includes optical componentry and a glass material, where the glass material at least in part houses the optical componentry and the glass material is at least partially transparent to light at the wavelength of the optical componentry. Further the glass material has mechanical and performance properties that allow the sensing system to be positioned particularly low on the vehicle, at a position that may be of higher risk for damage from debris.
US10919472B2
A load distribution structure for a vehicle includes: a pair of front side members which are spaced apart from each other in a width direction of the vehicle on a front side of the vehicle; a pair of side sills respectively connected to the front side members; a pair of front pillars respectively connected to front ends of the side sills; a pair of connection members each connecting the front side members and the corresponding side sill along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle; and a dash crossmember transversely connected to the pair of connection members. In particular, each front side member is overlapped and joined to the corresponding connection member, and end portions of the dash crossmember are overlapped and joined to the connection members, respectively.
US10919459B2
A vehicle is provided having an interior cabin and a roof at the top of the interior cabin. The vehicle includes a flatbed, an opening in the roof of the interior cabin, a first retractable telescoping structure having a first set of surveillance equipment mounted to the flatbed, and a second retractable telescoping structure having a second set of surveillance equipment mounted so as to extend through the opening of the roof, and to fully retract into the interior cabin. A sealing device mounts to the second retractable telescoping structure below the second set of surveillance equipment and oriented parallel to the roof of the interior cabin. The sealing device includes an elastically deformable gasket that elastically deforms during travel of the sealing device through the roof of the interior cabin when the second set of surveillance equipment extends through the opening in the roof during extension of the second retractable telescoping structure, and when the second set of surveillance equipment retracts into the interior cabin during retraction of the second retractable telescoping structure.
US10919455B2
A storage compartment of a vehicle including a passenger compartment and a passenger compartment door controlling access to the passenger compartment. The storage compartment includes a base and a side wall surrounding a storage volume. The storage compartment is located forward of a footwell of the passenger compartment, the storage compartment is further positioned so that an opening to the storage volume is accessible from a lateral side of the vehicle.
US10919453B2
An articulating step assembly for a vehicle which includes a mount for attachment to a vehicle, a step member and an articulating linkage connecting the mount and the step for stowing and deploying the step. A motor is attached to the linkage to provide raising and lowering of the step. A weather sealed non-contact switch located on the assembly for actuating the motor and linkage in response to movement of the step in a predetermined direction for deploying the step.
US10919443B2
A vehicle includes a front modular assembly having at least one front wheel, a steering assembly, a throttle, and a power source. The vehicle may include a rear modular assembly removably couplable to the front modular assembly and having at least one rear wheel, a brake selectively coupled to the at least one rear wheel, and at least one rear light configured to emit light while receiving a power signal, the at least one rear light and the brake being in electrical communication with the power source via a shared electrical connection while the rear modular assembly is coupled to the front modular assembly. The vehicle may include a controller in electrical communication with the power source, the controller being configured to selectively provide the power signal to the brake and the rear light via the shared electrical connection.
US10919437B2
A headlight system for a banking vehicle is provided. The headlight system includes a plurality of optical assemblies being arranged about an optical horizon and an optical vertical axis. Each of the plurality of optical assemblies includes an illumination source and an optical element. Each of the illumination sources is configured to direct light toward a corresponding one of the optical elements to produce an illumination region. The illumination regions combine to form an illumination pattern that includes at least one illumination region that is radial and is positioned relative an optical origin. The intersection between the optical horizon and the optical vertical axis defines the optical origin.
US10919435B2
A light distribution control system for a headlight includes: headlights arranged in a pair on a left side and a right side of a vehicle; a detector configured to detect information of a front vehicle that is present in a front area of the vehicle; and a light distribution controller configured to set and control each of the headlights based on the information of the front vehicle detected by the detector. The detector is arranged in one of the headlights, the light distribution controller corrects light distribution of the other of the headlights based on a difference in arrangement positions of the detector and the other of the headlights.
US10919432B2
A tank and a method of carrying a load and discharging a load therefrom. The tank includes a tank assembly having a first wall that bounds and defines a first compartment for carrying a load therein and a second wall spaced outwardly from at least a portion of the first wall; wherein a second compartment is defined between the first wall and the second wall. The tank assembly includes an air piping system that is selectively actuated to place the first compartment and the second compartment under substantially similar or substantially equal air pressure. In one example the air piping system pumps air into the first compartment and the second compartment. In another example the air piping system evacuates air from the first and second compartments.
US10919417B2
The invention relates to a vehicle seat for a vehicle, comprising a seat part that has a seat part frame, comprising a backrest part and comprising a first and a second switching console element which each comprise at least one control element for actuating at least one function of an actuator element of the vehicle, the first switching console element being arranged on a first side of the seat part and the second switching console element being arranged on a second side of the seat part so as to extend in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle seat, the seat part and/or the backrest part being designed so as to be adjustable with respect to a degree of inclination, it being possible to change a relative position of a first portion of the first switching console element, with respect to the vehicle seat, it being possible to transfer the change in the relative position of the first portion of the first switching console element into a change in a relative position of a first portion of the second switching console element, with respect to the vehicle seat, by means of a transmission system which is free of electronic components.
US10919414B2
Disclosed is one example of a sliding device allowing for reliable sliding of members that close an opening of a fixed rail. The sliding device includes: a fixed rail including an opening arranged in a longitudinal direction of the fixed rail; a movable rail slidable with respect to the fixed rail in a state where at least part of the movable rail is exposed through the opening; a first closure member slidable with respect to the fixed rail and capable of closing at least part of the opening, the first closure member receiving a force from the movable rail to thereby slide; a first engaging portion provided to the first closure member and disengageably engaging with a first engaged portion provided to the movable rail; and a second engaging portion provided to the first closure member and disengageably engaging with a second engaged portion provided to the fixed rail.
US10919409B2
An apparatus comprising an interface, a memory and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive sensor data samples during operation of a vehicle. The memory may be configured to store the sensor data samples over a number of points in time. The processor may be configured to analyze the sensor data samples stored in the memory to detect a pattern. The processor may be configured to manage an application of brakes of the vehicle in response to the pattern.
US10919406B2
A power charging and selling device includes first and second connection units configured to be connected to an electric vehicle and at least one power supplier server, respectively; a control unit for receiving a unique identifier and battery information of the electric vehicle through the first connection unit and for receiving power-trading charge information provided from each power supplier server through the second connection unit; and a guide unit for advertising the received power-trading charge information and for enabling selection of a corresponding power supplier. Through the first connection unit, the control unit may charge the electric vehicle with the power of a selected power supplier or sell the power stored in the electric vehicle to a selected power supplier. The power charging/selling device receives charge information from power suppliers, and a user selects the charging/selling scheme accordingly, even if the power source of the electric vehicle is turned off.
US10919405B2
A universal charging system is provided. In one example embodiment, the universal charging system includes a charging adapter configured to be mounted on a light electric vehicle (LEV), a charging station, and a processor configured to control charging of the LEV. The charging adapter may have electrical contacts for docking with a charging station and a charging interface for supplying power from the charging station to a battery of the LEV. The charging station may have at least one docking unit for receiving the charging adapter of the LEV. The at least one docking unit may have further electrical contacts for connecting to the charging adapter of the LEV.
US10919398B2
A vehicle includes a high voltage battery that stores electric power; a battery box that stores the high voltage battery; a battery disposition section in which the battery box is provided; a power drive unit that controls acceleration and deceleration of an electric vehicle so that a request of a driver is implemented; and a water sensor that detects water in the battery disposition section. In response to detection of water by the water sensor, the power drive unit performs acceleration and deceleration limit control to limit acceleration and deceleration of the electric vehicle so that the acceleration or deceleration rate of the electric vehicle is maintained lower than or equal to a predetermined limited acceleration or deceleration rate.
US10919392B2
An onboard system includes two control parts. Each of the two control parts has the function of performing a first process for controlling the travel of the transport vehicle. In a period during which a first control part being one control part out of the two control parts is performing the first process, a second control part being other control part out of the two control parts does not perform the first process. In the period during which the first control part is performing the first process, the second control part performs a maintenance process for performing maintenance of the transport vehicle.
US10919390B2
An instrument panel (10) is formed by bonding a base material portion (20) composed of a base material M1 and a different material portion (30) composed of a different material M2. The different material portion (30) is infiltrated into the base material portion (20) and the infiltration portion (33) has a plurality of intermittent recessed portions.
US10919381B2
An actuating device for a fuel cap, movably arranged on a vehicle, for concealing a tank recess of the vehicle, having: a locking mechanism for locking the fuel cap in a locking state and for unlocking the fuel cap in an unlocking state, and a movably arranged actuating element which is movable by means of an opening movement from a retracted position into an extended position such that the locking mechanism can be brought into the unlocking state by this opening movement of the actuating element, wherein the locking mechanism having a first locking element for arresting the fuel cap and a second locking element for arresting the actuating element.
US10919380B2
A fuel shut-off valve includes a housing, a float valve, and a tubular fuel inflow portion. The housing includes a communicating opening that communicates with the outside of the fuel tank, a tubular portion that extends in a vertical direction, and an inlet for liquid fuel located in the tubular portion at a position below the communicating opening. The float valve selectively closes and opens the communicating opening by moving vertically. The fuel inflow portion is provided outside the tubular portion and has a first end having an inflow port for liquid fuel and a second end connected to the inlet. The inflow port is opened at a position that is above the inlet and spaced outward in a radial direction from the tubular portion. The housing includes a discharge port for discharging liquid fuel in the housing.
US10919367B2
A firefighting apparatus has a positive pressure ventilation system for impairing dust, dirt, and other debris from entering a storage compartment of the apparatus. The system can blow dust, dirt and debris out from the storage compartment if the same enters the compartment. The positive pressure ventilation system includes a blower assembly that supplies a positive flow of air to the storage compartment, such that the pressure within the storage compartments is greater than the environment, and air will egress from the storage compartment into the surrounding environment, rather than entering the storage compartment from the surrounding environment.
US10919359B2
A connecting strut of a motor vehicle having a hollow body which is formed from a fiber reinforced plastic. The hollow body has a first bearing body which is positioned at a first end of the hollow body, and a second bearing body which is positioned at a second end of the hollow body. Straps absorb at least tensile forces, which straps are guided on the bearing bodies and extend, starting from a respective bearing body, along the hollow body in the direction of a respective opposite bearing body. An outer shell is formed from a fiber reinforced plastic and surrounds the hollow body, the bearing bodies and the straps on the outside at least in sections.
US10919357B2
A method and a device for determining a trajectory in off-road scenarios having a first sensor system for capturing a 2D image of an environment; a first computing unit for classifying 2D image points into at least three classes, wherein a first class is “intended for being driven on”, wherein a further class is “can be driven on if necessary” and another class is “cannot be driven on”; a second sensor system for determining a height profile of the environment; a second computing unit for projecting the classified image points into the height profile; and a third computing unit having a trajectory planning algorithm, wherein the third computing unit determines a trajectory using the image points of the first class, wherein the image points of the further class are additionally taken into account in response to an incomplete trajectory in the first class.
US10919355B2
A chassis system for commercial vehicles includes a trailing arm and a plunger piston which are connected or can be connected to one another via a connecting region, the connecting region having an adjusting device which includes an engagement element and a guide element, and it being possible for the engagement element to be moved relative to the guide element in such a way that a displacement, in particular a translational movement, of the plunger piston relative to the trailing arm is made possible.
US10919354B2
A tandem suspension system. At least two parallel axles are connected via two eyeleted leaf springs. The eyeleted leaf springs have ends that terminate in eyelets. Each eyelet receives a bushing and adjustable pin. A bracket secures the axles to the eyeleted leaf springs. The eyeleted leaf springs are camelback leaf springs, planar leaf springs or bent leaf springs. Additional leaf springs are also provided.
US10919350B2
The invention is a system for optimizing a trailer path. The system includes an image sensor configured to capture images of a trailer attached to a tow vehicle, accelerometers that sense acceleration of at least one of the tow vehicle and the trailer, a data input device configured to receive input data, and a processing device. The processing device includes a processor and non-volatile memory. The processor is configured to receive image data from the image sensor, receive accelerometer data from the one or more accelerometers and receive the input data from the data input device. Additionally, the processor is configured to determine a trailer path based on the image data, accelerometer data, and the input data. The processor is also configured to communicate the trailer path to a user or vehicle control system, thereby prompting adjustments to the tow vehicle path and or acceleration when the trailer path is not optimum.
US10919337B2
A wheel cover assembly has a mounting ring, an outer wheel cover, and an inner wheel locking structure. The mounting ring attaches to a vehicle wheel hub via latch mechanisms that latch over an axle flange of the wheel hub. The outer wheel cover has axially-inwardly-extending latches that secure the outer wheel cover to the mounting ring. The inner wheel locking structure includes axially-inwardly-extending latches that pass through openings in the outer wheel cover, securing the outer wheel cover to the mounting ring. The inner locking structure includes latches that pass through openings in the outer wheel cover. This inner locking structure includes locking pins that extend into the locking ring to lock the wheel cover latches to the mounting ring. A pair of inner locking faces on the inner locking structure lock the mounting ring latches to the wheel hub.
US10919333B2
A creasing device includes a frame with a substantially horizontal support surface for supporting an article to be creased; a movable tool; and a stationary tool, the latter comprising a stationary member and at least one displaceable member whose height relative to the stationary member can be adjusted. A first actuator moves the movable tool toward the stationary tool and interacts with opposite faces of the article, and a second actuator translates the displaceable member between a first end position in which interacts with the movable tool and a second end position in which it cannot interact with the movable tool. Guide means associated with the stationary tool guides the displaceable member between the first end position and the second end position. The guide means are have a curvilinear path contained in a plane substantially perpendicular to the support surface.
US10919332B2
The present disclosure relates to cleaning a surface in a printing device, wherein a steam guiding member directs a steam flow towards the surface; wherein the steam flow interacts with a substance on said surface to clean a portion of the surface.
US10919329B2
An optical apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is an apparatus that performs one or both of writing and erasing of information with respect to a reversible recording medium. This optical apparatus includes a plurality of laser devices varying in emission wavelength in a near infrared region (700 nm to 2500 nm), an optical system that multiplexes laser beams outputted from the plurality of laser devices, and a scanner unit that scans a multiplexed light beam obtained by multiplexing by the optical system, on the reversible recording medium.
US10919325B2
In a cutting apparatus, a controller is configured to: start energization of an actuator to move a cutter relative to a receiving stage from a wait position toward a cutting position; determine whether a position detector has detected that the cutter has reached the cutting position; when the position detector does not detect that the cutter has reached the cutting position, determine whether a value of a current detected by a current detector has reached a first set value; when the value of the current detected by the current detector has reached the first set value, change a current to be passed through the actuator to a second set value that is less than the first set value; and when the position detector has detected that the cutter has reached the cutting position, finish the energization of the actuator and stops movement of the cutter relative to the receiving stage.
US10919321B2
A dryer includes a heater in a conveyance area in which an object is conveyed, the heater configured to heat the object on which a liquid is applied, a heated portion in an outer area outside the conveyance area, the heated portion connected to the heater, a partition wall partitioning the conveyance area and the outer area, an air supply unit in the conveyance area, the air supply unit configured to feed air to the object conveyed in the conveyance area, and a duct in the outer area, the duct connected to the air supply unit and configured to take in air around the heated portion.
US10919320B2
A light irradiation device includes: an irradiation portion that irradiates a member with light, the member having density varying in accordance with at least one of light or heat; and an adjustment portion that adjusts a light amount of the irradiation portion based on a change of the density in the member irradiated with the light by the irradiation portion.
US10919319B2
The present invention concerns an installation for printing and drying a part having a surface. The installation includes a printing means comprising a printhead, a control unit, a support device suitable and intended for supporting the part, the support device and printhead being movable relative to each other, drying means including a source and an emission output, the emission output and support device being movable relative to each other, and means for adjusting and orienting the beam specifically associated with the source and/or with emission output.
US10919311B2
An ink jet ink composition is provided that can form an image having excellent weather resistance, abrasion resistance, and coloring property. The non-aqueous ink jet ink composition includes at least one solvent represented by R1O—(R2O)m—R3 and having a flash point of 140° C. or lower and C.I. Pigment Orange-43 (PO-43) as a pigment, wherein R1 and R3 each independently represent hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkylene group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, and m represents an integer of 2 to 6.
US10919298B2
An inkjet printer including an inkjet head, a head scanning unit, a wave shape generating mechanism to deform a recording medium into a predetermined wave shape, an obtaining device to obtain information concerning a type of the recording medium to be used in a printing operation, a gap information storing device to store gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface and the recording medium in association with a predetermined type of the recording medium, the gap information being acquired from a predetermined range in the recording medium, and a correcting device to correct the gap information according to the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device when the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device is different from the predetermined type of the recording medium stored in association with the gap information, is provided.
US10919291B2
The printing apparatus comprises: a print head having an ejection opening surface on which an ejection opening configured to eject ink is formed; a holder member that holds the print head; a moving unit configured to move the holder member; a fixing member that fixes the holder member; a detecting unit configured to detect a moving distance of the holder member; and a first determining part configured to determine that the holder member is fixed by the fixing member in a case where the moving distance detected by the detecting unit is less than a predetermined value.
US10919284B2
In order to optimize a method for stiffening a metal component by pressing a fiber-reinforced plastic insert onto the metal component in such a way that the method can be integrated into the serial production of the car body, it is proposed that the fiber-reinforced plastic insert be picked up by means of a robot-controlled application head and pressed onto the metal component.
US10919276B2
The present invention provides an adhesive resin layer, which can prevent generation of air bubbles even when adhered to a substrate having a high level difference, and can maintain transparency, an adhesive resin film, a laminate, and a method of producing a laminate. More specifically, the present invention is a monolayered adhesive resin layer comprising an acrylic-based adhesive resin composition having transparency, wherein the adhesive resin composition contains an acrylic-based polymer, an acrylic-based monomer, and a thermopolymerization initiator, and an adhesive resin layer has pressure sensitive adhesiveness on both surfaces at an ambient temperature, and can be thermally cured by heating at a temperature of 100 to 250° C. and a time of 30 seconds to 10 minutes.
US10919274B2
A colouring structure comprising: a substrate, and a colouring layer disposed on at least a part of the substrate; the substrate and the colouring layer are made from different materials and have different water absorption properties, the colouring structure comprises a plurality of colouring areas and at least one separating area, wherein the colouring area is at least partially defined by the separating area. The colouring structure allows the user to easily grasp the pattern engraved on the colouring structure, which can rapidly absorb the liquid such as ink added to the surface thereof and effectively slow the horizontal diffusion of the liquid added to the colouring layer. For liquids with high water content, the high water absorption of the colouring structure avoids or effectively reduces accidents caused by the use of high-water-content liquids, such as liquid leakage, and liquid spillage and dirtying clothes or body parts over large areas.
US10919267B2
A contact layer used in waterproofing and roofing applications. The contact layer includes a mineral binder component B, thermoplastic polymer component P, and a surfactant component S. Also, a method for producing the contact layer, a method for binding two substrates to each other, a method for waterproofing a substrate, a waterproofed structure, a method for sealing a substrate against water penetration, a sealed construction for sealing a substrate against water penetration and a use of the contact layer as a waterproofing membrane.
US10919264B2
An adhesive sheet comprising a hot-melt adhesive layer. The hot-melt type adhesive layer comprises a modified polymer (A) to which a cross-linkable group is bonded and a polyolefin (B). The adhesive sheet can adhere to various adherends and the adhesive becomes less likely to squeeze out from an adherend in thermal fusion bonding and sealing of the adherend. In a laminate comprising the adhesive sheet the adhesive layer does not squeeze out from the adherend without being affected by the material of the adherend.
US10919260B2
In an example, a composite structure having a variable gage is described. The composite structure includes a first end having a first gage, a second end having a second gage, which is less than the first gage, a plurality of continuous plies, and a plurality of drop-off plies. Each continuous ply extends from the first end to the second end. Each drop-off ply includes a tip having a blunt-end shape. Each drop-off ply extends from the first end to a respective position of the tip of the drop-off ply between the first end and the second end. The plurality of drop-off plies are separated from each other by at least one of the plurality of continuous plies.
US10919255B2
The invention is a trim panel having a moulded structural core. The core has two edges connected to each other along a joint, the joint is convex and radiated. The edges are connected to each other gradually, and the core has a back face and a front face. The front face is coated with a glued front coating, the coating having a peripheral edging folded against the periphery of the back face. The back face is provided, in the vicinity of the joint, with a plurality of substantially straight grooves arranged in a fan, the grooves receiving, glued therein, the folds formed in the edging in the vicinity of the joint.
US10919250B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus, preferably a press, comprising a cavity which is to be filled and at least a first material feed, for a first material, and a second material feed, for a second material, wherein the first and the second material feeds are arranged separately from one another, having a feeding apparatus for feeding the first and the second materials into the cavity which is to be filled, wherein the feeding apparatus has a mouth-opening cross section with at least a first region of the mouth-opening cross section for the first material, and with a second, separate region of the mouth-opening cross section for the second material, for filling the cavity preferably in parallel, and at separate locations. A method and also a blank are proposed in addition.
US10919249B2
Apparatus for pressing and drying a pre-defined amount of waste includes a metal main frame positioned to provide rigid support, and a body mechanically linked to the main frame through a plurality of linkage plates. The apparatus also includes an inlet vertically mounted on the body and a twin screw assembly to press and dehydrate the pre-defined amount of waste. A plurality of mesh screens is rigidly linked to the main frame along the longitudinal axis of the apparatus to remove compressed liquid. The body is also designed to support rotation of the twin screw assembly, and the inlet includes an ingress cross-sectional opening to receive the pre-defined amount of waste.
US10919243B2
A method and apparatus for feeding a plurality of tread bands in a process for building tyres for vehicle wheels. Each tread band initially includes, on a side thereof, a service fabric. The tread bands are initially arranged at different heights. The method includes positioning a first auxiliary conveyor belt of an auxiliary collection device including a plurality of juxtaposed auxiliary conveyor belts at a first height corresponding to the height of a first tread band, then, proceeding with the removal of the service fabric from the first tread band while the first tread band is transferred onto the first auxiliary conveyor belt. The method also includes positioning at least one second auxiliary conveyor belt of the auxiliary collection device at at least one second height corresponding to that of at least one second tread band.
US10919235B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for mechanically opening a heat-bonded connection site between two hollow, flexible, thermoplastic segments of a medical fluid flow path, the heat-bonded connection site having an axis. The connection site is compressed between two facing surfaces, and the facing surfaces are relatively moved to rotate the connection site about the connection site axis and to apply force to the connection site substantially perpendicular to the connection site axis.
US10919231B2
A method for joining two objects by anchoring an insert portion provided on one of the objects in an opening provided on the other one of the objects. The anchorage is achieved by liquefaction of a thermoplastic material and interpenetration of the liquefied material and a penetrable material, the two materials being arranged on opposite surfaces of the insert portion and the wall of the opening. Before such liquefaction and interpenetration, an interference fit is established in which such opposite surfaces are pressed against each other, and, for the anchoring, mechanical vibration energy and possibly a shearing force are applied, wherein the shearing force puts a shear stress on the interference fit.
US10919228B2
There is disclosed additive manufacturing apparatus comprising: a controller (110) to: receive object data relating to an object to be generated; and define print data for additive manufacture of the object by ejection of a print agent on build material in a pattern corresponding to selective fusing of the build material, wherein the print data is defined based on the object data so that the pattern defines a shield feature (56) embedded within the object to inhibit fusing of build material corresponding to the shield feature relative build material corresponding to an adjacent portion of the object; and a print agent distributor (104) to eject a print agent on build material based on the print data.
US10919215B2
An additive manufacturing system has an aerosol generator to aerosolize a powder, a deposition surface, a surface charging element to apply a blanket charge to the deposition surface, a charging print head to selectively remove portions of the blanket charge from the deposition surface, and a transport system to transport the aerosol powder from the aerosol generator to the deposition surface, the transport system having an aerosol charging element to apply charge opposite of the blanket charge to the aerosol powder. An additive manufacturing process includes creating an aerosol from a powder at a spray generator, charging the aerosol to produce a charged aerosol having a first charge, forming a blanket charge on a deposition surface having a second charge of an opposite polarity from the first charge, selectively removing regions of the blanket charge, and transporting the charged aerosol to the charged regions to form structures on the charged regions from the charged aerosol.
US10919214B2
A manufacturing method of a structure includes, in this order: providing a layer constituted by a support member and a modeling layer by bringing a regulating surface of a regulating member into contact with the modeling layer provided on a surface of an intermediate transfer member, pouring a material for the support member which becomes the support member to fill the periphery of the modeling layer while the regulating surface abutting the modeling layer, and solidifying the material for the support member; removing the regulating member from the layer constituted by the support member and the modeling layer.
US10919209B2
The present disclosure includes dental appliances and methods of making and using such appliances. One method for forming a dental appliance includes forming a liquid thermoset polymer material into a semi-solid first shape, thermoforming the semi-solid first shape of thermoset polymer material onto a dentition mold, and curing the thermoset polymer on the dentition mold with a curative trigger to complete a molecular cross-linking reaction.
US10919206B2
A liquid colorant for use in molding or extruding plastic products comprises pigment dispersed in cottonseed oil.
US10919200B2
A melt delivery body is disclosed for an injection molding apparatus. The melt delivery body includes a manifold, housed in a manifold plate, having a melt network with an inlet for receiving melt from a machine nozzle and an outlet substantially axially aligned with the inlet. The melt delivery body further including an in-line valve gated nozzle having a nozzle melt channel, a valve pin in the nozzle melt channel, and a valve pin actuator coupled to the valve pin and positioned substantially axially aligned with the in-line valve gated nozzle and between the manifold and the in-line valve gated nozzle for controlling the movement of the valve pin within the nozzle melt channel. The melt delivery body further including a biasing member for biasing the in-line valve gated nozzle towards the manifold.
US10919198B2
The invention relates to a process for producing complex, mould-foamed rigid foam materials, more particularly of poly(meth)acrylimide (P(M)I) cores, preferably of polymethacrylimide (PMI) cores, which may be employed, for example, in carmaking or aircraft construction. A feature of the process is that through use of a particulate core during foam, it is possible to achieve an additional weight saving relative to foam materials or sandwich materials of the prior art.
US10919192B2
Methods provide for creating a three-dimensional random fiber orientation in a composite component. According to embodiments described herein, narrow flakes are created from a unidirectional composite fiber tape and poured into a reservoir of a mold, creating a three-dimensional random fiber orientation of the narrow flakes within the reservoir. At least a majority of the narrow flakes have an aspect ratio of length to width of at least 6:1. The narrow flakes are heated and compressed to fill the mold and create the composite component. The three-dimensional random fiber orientation of the narrow flakes within the reservoir is maintained as the narrow flakes are pushed through the mold, creating consistent, uniform strength characteristics throughout the resulting composite component.
US10919186B2
A color based heating system is disclosed. A film for repair of aircraft components of fiber reinforced plastic has color changing properties that can include being temperature-dependent. The color changing properties can be reversible. A system for heating a repair site of a component of fiber reinforced plastic includes the film, a camera and a heating plate. The heating plate can have individually controllable heating zones. A controller can use local color signals of the camera for locally controlling local heating zones of the heating plate. The controller can assign local color signals of the camera to temperatures.
US10919183B2
The present invention relates generally to a method that is used to create three-dimensional synthetic vascular networks. Micromachining and molding techniques are used to create a template in a shape that mimics a biological network. Cellular material can be seeded around the template or a space created by the template and grown into an engineered tissue-construct.
US10919181B2
An apparatus for curing concrete includes a multiple layer film and an absorbent layer. The film can include pH modifying components and antiskid components. The absorbent layer can include pH modifying components. The apparatus can be applied to concrete after hydration water is applied. The apparatus can enclose concrete members during transport so as to continue the curing process during transport. The film can be used as a barrier layer between the ground and poured concrete. The apparatus can be manufactured by heating a film to its crystalline softening point, applying adhesive material to an absorbent material, and adhering the film to the absorbent material. A method of curing concrete includes pouring concrete, waiting for the concrete to reach the bleed stage, providing hydration water, adding a pH modifying component to the hydration water, and applying the hydration water with the pH modifying component to the poured concrete.
US10919176B2
A process for manufacturing wall elements from nailable and/or stapleable materials, in which a wall element frame is positioned on a horizontal worktable. Wall panels are placed on the frame and the wall panels are fastened to the frame by nails and/or staples, which are driven by a compressed air setting device. A mobile robot—in particular an autonomous mobile robot—has a compressed air setting device and/or at least one milling unit and is movable on the surface formed by the wall panels. The robot motion is automatically controlled along the surface formed by the wall panels. At predetermined positions, the milling unit and/or the compressed air setting device is actuated to process the wall panels and/or to fasten them to the wall element frame.
US10919170B2
A food product slicing apparatus includes a frame and upper and lower drive assemblies. The upper drive assembly includes a belt configured to engage an upper surface of a food product block to be sliced, a plate pivotally mounted to the frame, front and rear wheels supporting the upper belt, the front wheel rotatably mounted to the plate and a drive member engaged with the plate. When the drive member is engaged, the plate and the front roller pivot relative to the frame and to the rear wheel. The lower drive assembly includes a belt configured to engage a bottom surface of the food product block.
US10919169B2
The machine includes a feeding path for the logs to be cut and a cutting head arranged along the feeding path. The cutting head includes a coupling for a disc-shaped cutting blade and is designed to impart the disc-shaped cutting blade a rotary motion around the axis thereof and a cyclic movement to cut the logs into single rolls, and to allow the logs to move forward along the feeding path. The machine also includes at least a grinding unit, including at least one grinding wheel mounted onto a rotation shaft and co-acting with a side of the disc-shaped cutting blade to grind the cutting edge of the same disc-shaped cutting blade. A controlled approach system is also provided to move the grinding wheel towards the disc-shaped cutting blade.
US10919166B2
A shaving blade cartridge includes a housing extending along a longitudinal axis. The housing has a top side, a bottom side opposite to the top side, and two longitudinal sides extending along the longitudinal axis between the top and bottom sides. The shaving blade cartridge also includes a cutting blade mounted in the housing between the longitudinal sides and having a cutting edge extending along the longitudinal axis, and a retainer including a retainer body disposed above the cutting edge. The retainer body has at least two through holes. One of the through holes is disposed in front of the cutting edge and another of the through holes is disposed rearward of the cutting edge. The housing includes at least two riveting pins. Each of the two riveting pins correspond with and are received in a respective one of the through holes to retain the cutting blade in the housing.
US10919160B2
An electrodynamic apparatus includes a first arm extending in a first direction, a second arm supported by the first arm, a linear actuator that moves the second arm along the first direction with respect to the first arm, a support extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction and supporting the first arm, and a rotating mechanism that rotates the support about an axis of rotation parallel to the second direction. The first arm includes a power transmission antenna. The second arm includes a power reception antenna. The power transmission antenna supplies electric power to the power reception antenna wirelessly. In rotating the support, the linear actuator moves the center of gravity of the second arm to the axis of rotation first, and then the rotating mechanism rotates the support.
US10919157B2
A device for the detection of objects for a robot, provided for equipping said robot, including: at least one sensor, called approach sensor, implementing a first detection technology for detecting a neighbouring object; and at least one sensor, called proximity sensor, implementing a second detection technology for detecting a neighbouring object, different from said the first technology, and having a range less than that of the at least one approach sensor. A robot equipped with such a device is also disclosed.
US10919151B1
Method and apparatus for training a machine learning model for controlling a robotic picking device having a suction device end effector. A robotic control operation and a candidate contact point for holding a first item using a suction device of a robotic picking arm are determined, by processing information describing the first item as an input to a machine learning model. A seal quality metric is estimated for the candidate contact point, based on a predicted deformed n-dimensional shape of the suction device and a n-dimensional shape associated with the first item. One or more weights within the machine learning model are refined based on the estimated seal quality metric.
US10919145B2
A horizontally articulated robot includes a base, a first arm provided at the base, and a control device controlling the first arm, in which at least a part of the control device is located inside the base.
US10919140B2
A handle of a hand tool includes a body made of a first material and a bit is connected to the bottom of the body. A buffering portion made of a second material integrally formed to the outside of the body. The second material has a proper elasticity and is less hard than the first material. A grasp portion made of a third material integrally formed with the buffering portion. The second material is less hard than the third material. The grasp portion has multiple recesses for easily grasp by the user. The buffering portion buffers or absorbs the shifting of the grasp portion to maintain the bit to be perpendicular to the top face of the bolt head so as to effectively drive the bolt.
US10919137B2
A work tool, in which any one of a plurality of operation modes is selectable and which is configured to operate according to the selected operation mode, includes a switch for driving a tool accessory, an operation member, a mode switching member and a movement restricting mechanism. The operation member is configured to be held in an off-position in a non-pressed state and configured to move to an on-position in response to an external pressing operation. The mode switching member is configured to be switched between a plurality of switching positions in response to an external operation, the switching positions respectively corresponding to the operation modes. The movement restricting mechanism is configured to restrict a movement of the operation member from the off-position to the on-position in interlock with a switching operation of the mode switching member.
US10919136B2
A driving tool includes a driver, a first moving mechanism and a second moving mechanism. The driver is held to be linearly movable between an initial position and a driving position along a working axis. The first moving mechanism is configured to move the driver from the initial position to the driving position so as to cause the driver to drive a fastener. The second moving mechanism is configured to return the driver from the driving position to the initial position. The second moving mechanism includes an elastic member configured to generate an elastic force according to torsional moment acting around an axis of the elastic member. The elastic member is configured to return the driver to the initial position by the elastic force generated when the torsional moment acts on the elastic member in interlock with a movement of the driver to the driving position.
US10919131B2
A torque reactor has a first body element adjustably joined to a second body element. A first key extends from the first body element to engage a first socket. A second key extends from the second body element to engage a second socket. At least one of the first key and second key is constrained to rotate over a limited rotation angle.
US10919127B2
A grinding wheel includes an elastomerically deformable supporting layer, at least a first metallic surface fastened to the elastomerically deformable supporting layer, the metalic surface being an elastically deformable metal foil and includes abrasive particles attached to the at least one metalic surface. The particles may include at least one of: cubic boron nitride or diamonds. The metal foil may have a thickness of less than 1 mm. The abrasive particles may be bonded galvanically on the metallic surface. The abrasive particles may be bonded on the metalic surface in a plurality of areas having regions without abrasive particles therebetween. The metal foil may be adhesively bonded onto the elastomerically deformable supporting layer. The elastomerically deformable supporting layer may be plastic foam. The elastomerically deformable supporting layer may be adhesively bonded onto a metallic supporting body.
US10919124B2
A grinding machine including an electric drive with a drive wheel, wherein the electric drive is arranged on a base unit of the grinding machine, a grinding spindle unit constructed as a grinding arm arranged removable on the base unit and which includes a grinding tool and a gear element which transmits the rotational movement of the drive wheel to the grinding tool. To facilitate the change of the grinding arm, the gear element includes: a driver which is supported on the grinding spindle unit and which is directly or indirectly in rotary union with the grinding tool, two guide wheels which are supported on the grinding spindle unit and a belt which is guided around the driver and the guide wheels, wherein in the mounted state of the grinding spindle unit at the base unit the drive wheel contacts the belt between the two guide wheels and hereby drives the same.
US10919122B2
Grinding and/or erosion machine (10) for machining a chip-cutting rotary tool including a tool body (18) and several cutting plates (19) per existing pitch (TR). A control device (25) activates an axis arrangement (11) to move a machine tool (12) and the rotary tool (13) to be machined relative to each other. An interface device (26) triggers a data import function for reading-in the position data of the cutting plates (19). The position data (P) describe at least one angular value (α1, α2), a first length value (z1) and a second length value (z2). The control device (25) imports the position data (P) in chaotic order and allocates the position data (P) of each cutting plate (19) in the imported machine data set (M) to respectively one separate virtual pitch (TV), independent of whether the cutting plates (19) belong to a common pitch of the rotary tool (13).
US10919113B2
A laser lap-welded joint being formed from stacked steel sheets and including a plurality of welded portions each having a substantially C-shaped surface, each of the welded portions being formed of a first linear portion and second linear portions having a surface having a semicircular shape. The radius R of the semicircular shape and the sheet thickness t of one of the steel sheets having a larger sheet thickness satisfy 0
US10919109B2
A method for producing a piston for an internal combustion engine may include arranging a piston upper part and a piston lower part in a friction welding device. The piston upper part may include a piston head with a combustion recess. The piston lower part may include two mutually opposite skirt elements connected to one another via two mutually opposite pin bosses. The method may also include arranging a deflecting device configured to deflect at least one weld bead one of on and in the friction welding device. The method may further include joining the piston upper part and the piston lower part to one another via friction welding.
US10919108B2
A friction stir spot welding device which welds an object to be welded, by softening the object by friction heat and by stirring the object, has a tool with a cylindrical shape, the tool being rotatable around an axis thereof, advanceable along a direction of the axis, and retractable along the direction of the axis, a temperature detector which detects a temperature of the tool when a welding step for the object starts, and a controller configured to compare the temperature of the tool which is detected by the temperature detector to a predetermined reference temperature to set a plunging force applied by the tool to press the object.
US10919092B2
A low-pressure powder injection molding machine, a kit and a method thereof. The machine has a feedstock container adapted to contain mixed feedstock, a mold and an injection device. The mold has an inlet and a cavity in which the feedstock material can set. The injection device has an injection port for supplying the mixed feedstock from the container to the mold by using pressure. The machine also has a moveable platform adapted to provide movement between the injection port of the injection device and the inlet of the mold in order to directly communicate the feedstock between the injection port and the inlet without using an intermediate conduit and thereby preventing any feedstock from setting or dissociating between the injection port and the inlet.
US10919077B2
A pre-saturated wiper for use in a cleanroom environment, or other similarly controlled environment, that includes a woven fabric which incorporates a unique weave pattern with sealed edges that is saturated with only Ultrapure water (UPW).
US10919076B2
An inspection system is configured for use with a conveyer apparatus including carrier bars. Each carrier bar conveys pellet-shaped articles along a predetermined path. The inspection system includes at least one camera unit for sensing a predetermined characteristic of the pellet-shaped articles, a removal unit, and a controller. The removal unit, downstream from the at least one camera unit, removes selected pellet-shaped article(s) from the carrier bar(s) depending on whether the characteristic is sensed by the at least one camera unit. The controller is in communication with the at least one camera unit and the removal unit. The controller provides a signal to the removal unit in accordance with the sensed characteristic. The removal unit includes a rotatable ejection drum having extended vacuum nozzles along its length, equal to the number of articles conveyed in each carrier bar. Each vacuum nozzle selectively removes article(s) from the carrier bar(s) by suction.
US10919072B2
A pneumatic paint brush feeder apparatus for supplying paint on demand to a brush includes a paint container having a top side with a fill aperture extending through to a reservoir. A lid seals and alternatively unseals the fill aperture. A battery powered compressor is coupled to the paint container and an air line extends from a compressor tank into an intake aperture of the paint container to pressurize the reservoir. A hose extends through an outlet aperture of the paint container to deliver the paint to a distal end of the hose. A brush is coupled to the hose and has a delivery tube extending from a bottom end of a handle, through a head and into a plurality of bristles to deliver paint into the bristles. A button is coupled to the brush to prevent, or alternatively allow, the flow of paint to the bristles.
US10919063B2
A squeeze sprayer for dispensing fluid product as a spray or spray mist includes a squeeze bottle and a squeeze sprayer closure attached to the squeeze bottle. The squeeze sprayer includes a cap which defines a chamber for receipt of air and fluid and further defines an outlet. Further included as a part of the squeeze sprayer is a valve which is assembled into the cap and a dip tube which is received by the cap. The dip tube is constructed and arranged to provide air to the chamber and the squeezing of the bottle forces air and fluid into the chamber and from there through the outlet to be dispensed as a spray or spray mist. A second embodiment provides an upright squeeze sprayer with a unique orifice cup. A third embodiment includes a directional adapter.
US10919055B2
The present invention relates to a double bell cup installed on an end portion of a painting robot to centrifugally spray paint to an object to be painted, the double bell cup comprising: an outer body having a tapered structure that becomes gradually wider from the top to the bottom, wherein the outer body has an inlet passage formed on the top side thereof, a stagnation passage formed therein to communicate with the inlet passage, and a spray passage formed on the bottom side thereof to communicate with the stagnation passage, and paint is introduced through the inlet passage and retained in the stagnation passage; and an inner body having a tapered structure that becomes gradually wider from the top to the bottom.
US10919050B2
Accurate measurement of acceleration caused by imbalance in the balance of a rotor is realized even in high-speed rotation with an acceleration sensor which has a processing speed required in low-speed rotation and a control unit. A centrifuge according to the present invention includes a rotor, a drive source for rotating the rotor, a rotating shaft for coupling the rotor and the drive source, an acceleration sensor, and a control unit. The acceleration sensor outputs values indicating acceleration in two different directions which are perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotating shaft. The control unit obtains an acceleration corresponding value, which is a value corresponding to acceleration in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the rotating shaft, based on values indicating acceleration in the two different directions and stops rotation of the rotor in a case where the acceleration corresponding value satisfies a determination criteria.
US10919049B2
Mid-procedure termination of a mononuclear cell collection procedure may prevent collection of an amount of red blood cells that is required to harvest a complete mononuclear cell product. Blood separation systems and methods are provided for minimizing the impact of or recovering from mid-procedure termination of such a mononuclear cell collection procedure. According to one approach, blood or separated red blood cells are conveyed into a red blood cell collection container relatively early in the procedure to minimize the impact of a later termination of the procedure. According to another approach, blood and/or separated red blood cells within a fluid processing assembly are redirected through the fluid processing assembly following mid-procedure termination to allow for at least partial mononuclear cell collection. According to yet another approach, a double-needle fluid processing assembly may be converted into a single-needle configuration to allow for continued processing following mid-procedure termination.
US10919045B2
According to a method for fragmenting of pourable material by high-voltage discharges, a material flow of the material, immersed in a process liquid, is guided past an electrode assembly by a conveying device carrying the material flow. By charging the electrode assembly with high-voltage pulses, high-voltage punctures through the material of the material flow are produced. The electrodes of the electrode assembly are immersed in the process liquid from above, and those of these electrodes between which the high-voltage punctures are produced face each other with an electrode spacing transverse to the material flow direction.
US10919042B2
A chemical and/or biochemical apparatus (10) for receiving a plurality of reaction vessels in which chemical and/or biochemical reactions may take place includes a thermal mount (14) having a plurality of wells (26) for receiving the reaction vessels (12), a thermal module (16) having a first side thermally coupled to the thermal mount (14), a first heat sink (18) thermally coupled to a second side of the thermal module, the heat sink (18) having a body and a plurality of thermally conductive fins (32) extending outwards from the body of the first heat sink (18), and a printed circuit board (54) having electronic components for controlling at least the thermal module (16), an excitation light source (62), and a light sensor (52). A first set of light waveguides (60) is provided for delivering excitation light to a reaction vessel, and a second set of light waveguides (38) is provided for receiving light from a reaction vessel and for delivering the light to the light sensor (52). The first heat sink (18) comprises an interior space (5) and the printed circuit board (54), the excitation light source (62), the light sensor (52) and the light waveguides (38, 60) are arranged within the interior space (5).
US10919038B2
Compositions, devices, and methods are disclosed for the modification of polymer surfaces with coatings having a dispersion of silicone polymer and hydrophobic silica. The surface coatings provide the polymer surface with high hydrophobicity, as well as increased resistance to biofouling with proteinaceous material. The polymer surfaces can be particularly useful in microfluidic devices and methods that involve the contacting of the covalently modified polymer surfaces with emulsions of aqueous droplets containing biological macromolecules within an oil carrier phase.
US10919034B2
This disclosure is directed to an apparatus, system and method for retrieving target material from a suspension. A system includes a processing vessel, a displacement fluid, and a tube. The tube includes a funnel, a cannula, and a cavity. The cannula allows for fluid communication between the funnel and the cavity, such that the processing vessel is inserted into the cavity, and the cannula extends into the processing vessel.
US10919032B2
Compositions that include an ion exchange resin and a polyelectrolyte. The polyelectrolyte may be adsorbed to at least a portion of a surface of the ion exchange resin. Methods of treating a liquid with a composition, and methods of forming a composition that includes an ion exchange resin and a polyelectrolyte.
US10919025B2
A nitrous oxide (N2O) removal catalyst composition for treating an exhaust stream of an internal combustion engine is provided, containing a platinum group metal (PGM) component on a metal oxide-based support, wherein the N2O removal catalyst composition is in a substantially reduced form, such that it has an oxygen deficiency of about 0.05 mmol oxygen atoms/g or greater, and wherein the N2O removal catalyst composition provides effective removal of at least a portion of N2O from the exhaust stream under lean conditions at a temperature of about 350° C. or lower. N2O removal catalytic articles, systems, and methods are also provided for removing at least a portion of N2O from an exhaust stream under lean, low temperature conditions.
US10919022B2
The problem of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purifying agent for automobiles which is capable of improving the automobile fuel mileage as well as purifying the exhaust gas of the automobiles, and further extending the effective duration of the exhaust gas purifying agent for automobiles by a simple method of spraying the exhaust gas purifying agent for automobiles using only natural ingredients on the air filter. The problem of the present invention can be solved by using a liquid containing a) tourmaline fine powder, b) porous material fine powder, c) fucoidan extracted from seaweeds, d) amino peptides and/or alginic acids extracted from seaweeds in water as the exhaust gas purifying agent for automobiles by spraying on the air filter of automobiles.
US10919017B2
Provided are an aqueous dispersion, a method for manufacturing the aqueous dispersion, and an image forming method in which the image is formed of the aqueous dispersion, the aqueous dispersion including a microcapsule that has a shell having a three-dimensional cross-linked structure containing a urethane bond and/or urea bond, and has a core, in which the shell and/or core has a polymerizable group; a dispersant in which a urethane bond and/or urea bond and an anionic group are contained, a weight-average molecular weight is 5000 or more, and an anionic group value, which is the number of millimoles of the anionic group contained in 1 g of the dispersant, is from 0.10 to 2.50 mmol/g; and water.
US10919011B2
Disclosed herein are powder mixing apparatuses and methods that utilize the deagglomerizing and mixing effects of an air flow that impacts a flowing powder. The resulting powder can have smaller particle sizes and/or exhibit a more homogenous mixture than the premixed powder.
US10919010B2
An elevating feed mixing system and method are provided. The system includes a support frame and a raisable platform raisable relative to the support frame. A mixing tub disposed on the raisable platform is configured to receive constituent ingredients of a feed and further configured to raise to release the feed after it is mixed.
US10918999B2
In a cell-capturing filter including a metal porous membrane, degradation over time is determined earlier. A cell-capturing filter includes a metal porous membrane having a plurality of through-holes that penetrate between two principal surfaces facing each other. The metal porous membrane is made of an alloy of nickel and an element selected from the group consisting of gold, platinum, and palladium, or a metal containing nickel as a main component. A metal containing copper as a main component is attached to a part of either one of the principal surfaces of the metal porous membrane. By checking a state change of the metal containing copper as a main component, degradation over time of the metal porous membrane can be determined earlier.
US10918992B2
Provided are system and method thereof for desulfurization and dedusting of flue gas from a coke oven. The system for desulfurization and dedusting of flue gas from a coke oven includes a heat exchanger, a desulfurization reaction unit, a dedusting unit, and a blower; the heat exchanger includes a raw flue gas duct and a clean flue gas duct; the raw flue gas duct, the desulfurization reaction unit, and the dedusting unit are coupled in sequence, a clean flue gas outlet of the dedusting unit communicates with an inlet of the clean flue gas duct, and an outlet of the clean flue gas duct is coupled to the blower. The raw flue gas is heated in the heat exchanger by using temperature difference between clean flue gas and the raw flue gas, and then the raw flue gas is delivered into the desulfurization reaction unit for a desulfurization reaction.
US10918986B2
An upper end cap is attached to an upper end portion of a filter assembly, and the upper end cap includes an inner peripheral wall that is fitted into a central space portion of an inner-filter member, an intermediate wall that surrounds the outer periphery of an outer-core member, and an outer peripheral wall that surrounds the outer periphery of an outer-filter member. The height of the intermediate wall is smaller than the height of the outer peripheral wall and the height of the inner peripheral wall. The inside of the upper end cap is filled with adhesive having a depth that enables the intermediate wall to be embedded in the adhesive, and the upper end portion of the filter assembly is bonded to the upper end cap in a state where the upper end portion is inserted in the adhesive.
US10918984B2
The present invention provides an air purifier. The air purifier according to one preferred embodiment, of the present invention may comprise: a housing; a blowing unit installed in the housing so as to draw in external air; and a filter unit having filtering surfaces, through which the air passes and which are disposed in multiple directions, and an air inflow space, which has at least a part thereof surrounded by the filtering surfaces disposed in the multiple directions and into which the air discharged from, the blowing unit flows.
US10918979B2
A water filter cartridge includes a top end cap, a bottom end cap, a central support core and a pleated filter medium surrounding the central support core. The pleated filter medium includes glue beads formed on one or both of the outer surface and the inner surface of the pleated filter medium. The glue beads on the outer surface may be offset from the glue beads on the inner surface. The beads form ribs between the folds of adjacent pleats, which help maintain a rigid spacing between adjacent pleats of the filter medium and minimize the filter medium collapsing under water pressure when in use in a pool or spa filtering apparatus.
US10918977B2
The present disclosure is directed toward a suction nozzle operable to remove solid contaminants from a fluid without causing a substantial increase in fluid resistance. The suction nozzle has a vertical flow path, a contaminant precipitation recess opened upward under the vertical flow path, and a lateral flow path extending laterally from the vertical flow path at a position above the contaminant precipitation recess. The fluid sucked from a suction opening in the lower surface is led to the vertical flow path through the lateral flow path and flows upward through the vertical flow path to reach a connection port. With fluid flowing through the vertical flow path, solid contaminants contained in the fluid settle down by gravity and precipitate in the contaminant precipitation recess and are separated and removed from the fluid.
US10918976B2
Support and drainage materials, filter including the materials, and methods of use are disclosed.
US10918970B2
A system for extracting liquid is provided. The system includes a vacuum source and a nozzle having a wettable plunger and a vacuum tube connected in flow communication with the vacuum source. When the plunger is partly submerged in the liquid and the vacuum source is actuated to initiate a flow of gas through the vacuum tube, droplets of the liquid separate from at least a portion of the unsubmerged part of the plunger and become suspended in the gas flow. The system also includes a cooling structure positioned adjacent to the vacuum tube to facilitate solidifying the droplets suspended in the gas flowing through the vacuum tube.
US10918962B2
A toy vehicle configured for running on rails, the toy vehicle comprises a chassis comprising a first end and a second end, two side faces extending in the longitudinal direction of the toy vehicle, a top portion, at least two axels each comprising two wheels, wherein the chassis comprises at least two flexible flanges being positioned opposite each other on both sides of the chassis on each side faces. Each flexible flange comprising a snap protrusion at the extremity of the flanges, such that the snap protrusions are adapted to slide past an outer surface of a set of rails.
US10918961B1
Systems and methods for a customized amusement ride experience are disclosed herein. Such a system can include a simulation vehicle that can transit at least one passenger from a starting position to a terminating position of the amusement ride, a memory including a content database and a token database, and a sensor that can receive data identifying at least one token. The system can include a processor that can: receive data from the sensor identifying the at least one token; retrieve ride data from the token database based on the data identifying the at least one token, which ride data identifies an attribute associated with the token; select content for delivery based on the ride data; retrieve the selected content for delivery from the content database; and provide the selected content to the at least one passenger of the simulation vehicle.
US10918958B2
A user analysis method for assisting a current user within the videogame includes: measuring one or more indicators of success for a scenario within the videogame as played by the current user, detecting if the one or more measured indicators of success are below an evaluation threshold, and if so then providing a hint to the current user relating to successful behaviour in the scenario, wherein providing a hint has a measuring step including measuring one or more indicators of behaviour for the scenario within the videogame as played by the current user, an evaluating step including evaluating the one or more measured indicators of behaviour with respect to data derived from a corpus of measured indicators of behaviour previously generated for other users for the scenario, a difference detecting step including detecting a respective difference in the one or more measured indicators of behaviour between the current user and a subset of other users detected to have a predetermined level of success in the scenario, and the providing step including providing a hint to the current user indicating a change in one or more behaviours that reduces a respective difference in the one or more measured indicators of behaviour between the current user and the subset of other users detected to have a predetermined level of success in the scenario.
US10918957B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods relating to a physical object that are associated with a virtual game world are described. Some embodiments of the physical object have an in-game value within the virtual game world. Software operating the virtual game world ascribes purchasing power or attributes having offensive, defensive, opportunity, or set values as their in-game values. Methods associated with the subject matter relate to relocating an asset of the game component from one asset storage area to another asset storage area. When relocated, an asset's authenticity is validated, retrieved from a first storage area, exchanged over a communications interface, or stored in a second asset storage area.
US10918938B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a phased streaming system and process using a dynamic video game client. The dynamic video game client can utilize a state stream game engine in combination with a game application streaming service to provide users with the ability to begin playing games quickly on a huge range of devices.
US10918925B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an adjustable-incline climbing wall. The climbing wall includes one or more climbing panels supported by a frame and a system for adjusting the incline of the frame to provide a climbing wall of a desired incline. The incline of the climbing wall may be adjusted by activating an actuator, which extends the upper portion of the frame a distance from a support wall, tilting the climbing wall to a desired incline. When the climbing wall is substantially vertically oriented, the system for adjusting the incline of the climbing wall may extend only a small distance from the support wall so that the adjustable-incline climbing wall has a relatively small footprint. In some embodiments, the climbing wall may also include one or more fitness accessories that can be brought to an optimal height for a particular user through adjustment of the climbing wall incline.
US10918924B2
The present invention relates to delivery of content that is driven by input from one or more performance sensor units, such as performance sensor units configured to monitor motion-based performances and/or audio-based performances. Embodiments of the invention include software and hardware, and associated methodologies, associated with the generation, distribution, and execution of such content. Particular attention is paid to technologies that enable the delivery of skills training content that provides for expert knowledge variations in training content for various skills.
US10918912B2
Golf balls having covers made of thermoplastic polyurethane compositions are provided. Multi-piece golf balls can be made. In one embodiment, the outer cover layer is formed from a composition comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane and epoxy compound. Mixtures of multi-functional amines and imines, and multi-functional isocyanates, and epoxy curing agents; and solvent, can be applied to the outer cover. The resulting coating may contain polyurethanes, polyureas, and hybrids, copolymers, and blends thereof. The cover composition and surface coatings can further include catalysts, ultraviolet (UV)-light stabilizers, and other additives. The coating methods have many benefits and the finished balls have good physical properties.
US10918908B2
The application presents providing next workout recommendation(s) for a user. The current training load for the next workout recommendation is determined based on a present activity class, a phase of the micro-cycle of successive training days and the sum of the training load values for a number of past trainings. The present activity class of the user corresponds to a present fitness level of the user. A total target training load is determined based on the present activity class and the training goal, which relates to maintaining, increasing or increasing fast the fitness level of the user. The phase of the micro-cycle of successive training days for the next workout recommendation is determined by the realized training load value(s) for daily training session(s) of at least one previous day from training history data, as a percentage of the sum of the training load values for a number of past trainings.
US10918907B2
A wearable device for tracking swim activities of a user is provided. The wearable device may include one or more sensors configured to generate sensor data, and based on the sensor data, the wearable device may determine swim metrics such as swim stroke count, swim stroke type, swim lap count, and swim speed. The determined swim metrics may be filtered based on one or more swim periods during which the user is likely to have been swimming. The wearable device may determine such swim periods based on the sensor data and/or the determined swim metrics.
US10918906B1
A male exercise device uses a band made from a stretch loop material such that a section of hook material is located on the band's upper surface proximate a first end and a cooperating section of loop material is located on the band's lower surface proximate an opposing second end. A pocket depends from the band medially between the first end and the second end. Weighted pellets, such as zinc cooper pellets, are located within the pocket to provide weighting of the device. The weights can be located directly within the pocket and the pocket sealed or held within a satchel, the satchel removably disposed within the pocket.
US10918905B2
A treadmill may include a deck, a first pulley incorporated into the deck, a second pulley incorporated into the deck, a tread belt surrounding the first pulley and the second pulley, a motor in mechanical communication with at least one of the first pulley and the second pulley to move the tread belt in a first direction, and a runaway mitigation mechanism in at least indirect mechanical communication with the motor. The runaway mitigation mechanism at least mitigates a motor runaway condition.
US10918903B2
An exercise machine that enables a user to exercise extensor and flexor muscles. The exercise machine includes a base with a rolling cylinder configured to roll from a front end of the base to a rear end of the base. The exercise machine further includes a slant board resting on the rolling cylinder.
US10918887B2
A radiation therapy system comprises a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system combined with an irradiation system, which can include one or more linear accelerators (linacs) that can emit respective radiation beams suitable for radiation therapy. The MRI system includes a split magnet system, comprising first and second main magnets separated by gap. A gantry is positioned in the gap between the main MRI magnets and supports the linac(s) of the irradiation system. The gantry is rotatable independently of the MRI system and can angularly reposition the linac(s). Shielding can also be provided in the form of magnetic and/or RF shielding. Magnetic shielding can be provided for shielding the linac(s) from the magnetic field generated by the MRI magnets. RF shielding can be provided for shielding the MRI system from RF radiation from the linac.
US10918886B2
A computing system comprising a central processing unit (CPU), and memory coupled to the CPU and having stored therein instructions that, when executed by the computing system, cause the computing system to execute operations to generate a radiation treatment plan. The operations include accessing a minimum prescribed dose to be delivered into and across the target, determining a number of beams and directions of the beams, and determining a beam energy for each of the beams, wherein the number of beams, the directions of the beams, and the beam energy for each of the beams are determined such that the entire target receives the minimum prescribed dose. The operations further include prescribing a dose rate and optimizing dose rate constraints for FLASH therapy, and displaying a dose rate map of the FLASH therapy.
US10918883B2
In accordance with various aspects of the present teachings, systems and methods for applying treatment energy, e.g., electromagnetic radiation such as laser radiation in the visible and near infrared wavelengths, to body areas having bulges and fat deposits, loose skin, pain, acne and/or wounds. In some aspects, the systems and methods can enable relatively lengthy treatments to be performed by having the practitioner set-up and/or start the treatment, thereafter allowing the treatment to proceed safely and effectively without the continued presence of the practitioner.
US10918881B1
Disclosed is an exchangeable laser and an array thereof. The exchangeable laser includes a cartridge receiver having a uniform shape and a uniform electrical interface, and including laser elements inside thereof, and a housing for clamping a cartridge receiver. The power supply and parameter controls of the laser element are realized by cylindrical protrusions with a certain degree of inclination on clip-lock panel and electronic interfaces within cylindrical slots of the cartridge receiver, and the cylindrical protrusions and cylindrical slots with the certain degree of inclination can realize precise positioning of the cartridge receiver and the housing. In the exchangeable laser array of the disclosure, the cartridge receiver inside each housing can be replaced by other cartridge receiver that emits laser with a different wavelength, and the plurality of housings can be connected with a plurality of wavelength switchers in the back to realize selective output of the wavelength.
US10918879B2
In embodiments a WCD system is worn and/or carried by an ambulatory patient. The WCD system analyzes an ECG signal of the patient, to determine whether or not the patient should be given an electric shock to restart their heart. If so, then the WCD system first gives a preliminary alarm to the patient, asking them to prove they are alive if they are. The WCD system further determines whether the ECG signal contains too much High Amplitude (H-A) noise, which can distort the analysis of the ECG signal. If too much H-A noise is detected for a long time, the WCD system may eventually alert the patient about their activity, so that the ECG noise may be abated. The WCD system may even pause the analysis of the ECG signal, so that there will be no preliminary alarms that could be false until the ECG noise is abated.
US10918877B2
An ambulatory medical device is provided. The device includes battery lock circuitry configured to transmit a lock signal at a beginning of a battery lock period of the ambulatory medical device and transmit an unlock signal upon detecting an unlock triggering event indicating an end of the battery lock period of the ambulatory medical device. The device also includes a battery being configured to be securely disposed within a chamber of the ambulatory medical device in a first locked manner and provide power to the ambulatory medical device and a battery lock configured to mechanically engage the battery in a second locked manner upon receiving the lock signal indicating the beginning of the battery lock period of the ambulatory medical device and mechanically disengage the battery from the second locked manner upon receiving the unlock signal signaling the end of the battery lock period.
US10918875B2
An implantable medical device (IMD) with a receiving coil for wireless power transfer. The receiving coil may be disposed about a flux concentrator located in a housing of the IMD. The flux concentrator may concentrate non-radiative near-field energy through the receiving coil. In some cases, the near-field energy may be captured and converted into electrical energy that may be used to recharge a rechargeable power source of the IMD.
US10918872B2
Communications along a neural pathway are provided. The neural pathway is stimulated at a first location, in order to evoke neural responses which propagate along the neural pathway, the neural responses being modulated with data. At a second location spaced apart from the first location along the neural pathway the evoked neural responses are sensed. The sensed neural responses are then demodulated to retrieve the data. The stimulation could comprise peripheral sensory stimulation, and the second location could be at an implanted electrode array.
US10918870B2
A system and method of positioning an atrial pacing lead for delivery of a cardiac pacing therapy that includes sensing electrical activity of tissue of a patient from a plurality of external electrodes and determining a distribution of bi-atrial activation in response to the sensed electrical activity. A target site for delivering the atrial pacing therapy is adjusted based on a change in bi-atrial dyssynchrony that is determined in response to the determined distribution of bi-atrial activation, and placement of the atrial pacing lead for delivery of the atrial pacing therapy is determined in response to the adjusting.
US10918864B2
Described here are devices, systems, and methods for treating meibomian gland disease and/or blepharitis by providing intranasal stimulation. Generally, the devices may deliver electrical stimulation to the nasal mucosa. Intranasal stimulation may unblock obstructed meibomian glands and increase the lipid content of tears, both acutely during stimulation and subsequent to intranasal stimulation. The methods may include an initial round of stimulation to unblock obstructed meibomian glands, and subsequent shorter rounds of stimulation to cause meibum secretion and maintain the open glands.
US10918851B2
A valve connector for infusion medical lines includes an outer tubular body, an inner hollow spike and an intermediate sealing member formed by an elastic hollow element including a head with a pre-slit normally closed. The elastic hollow element has a base part substantially generally barrel-shaped and a wall having a differentiated radial thickness.
US10918850B2
The invention relates to a blocking and/or restricting valve having a valve housing which has a fluid system having a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and a fluid chamber arranged therebetween, wherein the fluid chamber comprises a blocking geometry and is bounded by a barrier membrane with respect to the blocking geometry, wherein the barrier membrane is connected to a tappet on its side remote from the fluid chamber (8) such that it can be pressed toward the blocking geometry by a movement of the tappet and can be lifted thereby, and wherein the tappet is arranged in a freely floating manner in a hollow space of the valve housing.
US10918844B2
A needle-like structure includes projections formed in rows on a substrate and extended in a direction, and needle portions formed on each of the projections such that the needle portions are spaced part from one another.
US10918843B2
A combination therapy pad that includes a first layer and a second layer operatively coupled to the first layer. A fiber-optic array is disposed between the first layer and the second layer. A third layer is operatively coupled to the first layer. The third layer includes a vacuum tube in fluid communication with a vacuum source and a therapeutic fluid tube in fluid communication with a therapeutic fluid source. The third layer provides at least one of vacuum therapy and therapeutic fluid treatment to a wound area.
US10918841B2
A drainage device for holding an incision in an abscess of a subject open to allow drainage of fluid out of the abscess includes an elongate body and an extension member extending laterally from the elongate body. The elongate body is configured for insertion into the abscess. The extension member is configured to retain at least a portion of the elongate body in the abscess. The elongate body facilitates drainage of fluid out of the abscess.
US10918831B2
A connector apparatus for a pressure sensing catheter having a pressure-compliant member is disclosed. A first complementary connector has an aligning portion and a charging portion, with the aligning portion having a cross-sectional area less than a cross-sectional area of the charging portion. A second complementary connector has a proximal coupler with an alignment section and a charging section wherein, the alignment section having a cross-sectional area complementary to the cross-sectional area of the aligning portion to receive the alignment portion therein, the charging section having a cross-sectional area complementary to receive the charging portion and a resilient member therein. The first complementary connector can displace a volume of fluid from the proximal coupler into the pressure compliant member when the alignment section receives the aligning portion, the charging section receives the charging portion, and the resilient member forms the fluid tight seal within the charging section.
US10918828B2
Medical fluid tubing described herein is configured to be advantageously tolerant of kinking and/or crushing. That is, the tubing is configured such that even if the tubing is kinked or fully compressed at least some portion of the lumen defined by the tubing will remain open, and some fluid will continue to flow through the tubing. Such kink and compression tolerant medical tubing can be advantageously used in association with medical fluid pumping systems (e.g., peritoneal dialysis systems and the like). In some examples, the tubing described herein is used in conjunction with, or as a part of, a medical fluid cassette that interfaces with such medical fluid pumping systems.
US10918817B2
There is provided a method of controlling a mechanical ventilator. The method may include the steps of receiving a measurement of transthoracic impedance of a patient obtained during chest compressions, determining a timing for a mechanical ventilator to provide a ventilation based on the measurement of transthoracic impedance, and sending a signal to control the mechanical ventilator based on the determined timing. There is also provided an apparatus for performing the method.
US10918813B2
Handheld carboxy therapy applicators are disclosed. In one implementation, a handheld carboxy therapy applicator includes a heater module, a humidification module, and a hypodermic needle. The heater module is configured to receive a flow of gas and to warm gas within the flow of gas. The humidification module is in fluid communication, such as in a serial connection, with the heater module. The humidification module is configured to receive the flow of gas from the heater module and to humidify the gas within the flow of gas. The hypodermic needle is in serial connection with the humidification module. The hypodermic needle is configured to receive the flow of gas from the humidification module and to inject the flow of gas into a tissue of a patient.
US10918812B2
An essential oils diffuser with a micro air pump providing between 500 and 1500 Pa of pressure with a consumption of between 0.2 and 1 Watts may be used to push air into essential oils or an essential oil solution to diffuse and expel the oils into the air, while keeping the oils away from the air pump, preventing the oils from shortening the life of the diffuser. The diffuser may include a power supply and a controller to regulate the operation of the diffuser.
US10918811B2
The disclosure relates to an audible indicator in combination with a drug delivery device having a resilient force member capable of resting in either of two states. In a biased state, the resilient force member is biased and stores energy and in a relaxed state, the resilient force member is relaxed. The resilient force member releases the stored energy when changing from the biased state into the relaxed state, thereby generating an audible signal, wherein the resilient force member is supported by a retaining element in the biased state in order to prevent transition into the relaxed state.
US10918807B2
A medicament delivery system is disclosed including disposable pen needles (10, 60, 120) each having a stainless steel needle or cannula (12, 62, 122) with a concealed or a very short non-injection end (28, 78, 128) that is not intended to pierce the septum (8) of the drug storage compartment (6) of a medication pen (2), thus reducing the risk of needle stick injuries. Several types of non-metallic interfaces (30, 80, 100) serve as intermediaries between the pen needles (10, 60, 120) and a medication pen (2) and perform the septum-piercing function. These improve the flow of medicament to the needle or cannula (12, 62, 122) due to the larger lumen of the plastic interface (30, 80, 100) that directly feeds medicament to the needle or cannula (12, 62, 122), allowing for even smaller gauge needles for improved patient comfort.
US10918803B2
A syringe carrier includes a housing adapted to receive a syringe having a needle encapsulated by a removable protective needle sheath, and two or more flexible arms protruding inwards in a relaxed state and adapted to couple with the syringe in a mounted position. The flexible arms are adapted to deflect radially outwards in a pre-assembled position of the syringe in the syringe carrier. In the mounted position the flexible arms are allowed to return into the relaxed state due, in part, to an axial force operating on the syringe carrier. The disclosure further relates to an autoinjector and a method of assembling the autoinjector.
US10918801B2
Drug delivery safety devices comprise a safety needle device comprising a needle hub, a needle cannula, and a safety feature; and a cap comprising a cap body having a proximal end attached to the safety needle device and a distal end having an access opening that is in fluid communication with the needle cannula. The safety needle device allow for an integrated device for both filling and injection that do not interfere with passive safety features. The caps may have a fill feature that engages with a safety feature of the safety needle device to keep it in a fill state.
US10918794B2
A medical delivery device is disclosed having a rod element and a dosage member. The rod element has a stem and a first thread arrangement. The dosage member includes a delivery orifice, a chamber body and a second thread arrangement. The stem of the rod element extends within the chamber body and the delivery orifice is arranged adjacent to a proximal end of the stem. The dosage chamber is formed within the chamber body between the stem and the delivery orifice such that the dosage chamber increases when the rod element moves away from the delivery orifice. In a dosing status, the first thread arrangement of the rod element engages the second thread arrangement of the dosage member such that the rod element is moveable along its longitudinal axis relative to the delivery orifice of the dosage member.
US10918790B2
The present invention is directed to multi-liquid loading and delivery kits comprising a first storage vessel for a first active component, a second storage vessel for a second active component, at least two transfer syringes, at least two vial adaptors, at least two cannulas with a through lumen and a multi-liquid delivery device. The delivery device has dual hollow cartridges, each with at least one throughbore at one end and plunger access at the opposing end, a kick stand, a removable dual feed funnel, a spray or drip manifold and at least one spray or drip tip assembly.
US10918789B2
A system for pairing a controller and an infusion pump is disclosed. The system includes an infusion pump, a controller device and a user interface residing on both the infusion pump and the controller. The user interface includes a pairing mode for enabling wireless communication between the infusion pump and the controller device, wherein the user interface requires both the infusion pump and the controller to be in the pairing mode simultaneously. Also, a method of changing a power source in an infusion pump is disclosed. The method includes placing the infusion pump in idle mode wherein the infusion pump stops delivery. Removing the first power source from the infusion pump. Replacing the first power source with a second power source in the infusion pump, and maintaining the insulin on board during the changing of the first power source with the second power source.
US10918788B2
A drive mechanism having integrated status indication includes a drive housing, a status switch interconnect, a drive biasing member, a piston, and a drug container having a cap, a pierceable seal, a barrel, and a plunger seal, wherein the drive biasing member is configured to bear upon an interface surface of the piston. Drive mechanism may include an incremental status stem having a stem interconnect, wherein the stem resides within the drive housing and the piston, and wherein the stem has an interconnect which engages one or more contacts on the piston to provide incremental feedback. A drug delivery pump with integrated status indication includes a housing and an assembly platform, upon which an activation mechanism, an insertion mechanism, a fluid pathway connection, a power and control system, and the drive mechanism having a drug container may be mounted.
US10918786B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a cannula unit with a cannula housing and a cannula, in which a cannula is injection molded onto a molding core pin having an outer diameter d1 to produce a cannula having a distal end with a larger outer diameter than the outer diameter of the remaining cannula, a first distal section adjoining the distal end, a second proximal section adjoining the first distal section, and a proximal end. A cannula housing is injection molded onto the distal end and the first distal section of the cannula and the molding core pin is removed from the cannula. A piercing needle with an outer diameter d4 is threaded into the cannula, wherein the diameter d4 of the piercing needle is chosen such that it is smaller than the diameter d1 of the molding core pin.
US10918781B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for a pressure-based detection of a clot in an extracorporeal blood circuit, wherein the apparatus comprises at least one cyclically operating pump for conveying the fluid located in the extracorporeal circuit and at least one pressure sensor which is arranged to determine the current pressure development over time in the fluid conveyed by the pump in a current conveying cycle of the pump, wherein the apparatus has at least one memory in which at least one reference pressure development is stored which is based on at least one pressure development over time which was determined in a conveying cycle of the pump preceding the current conveying cycle of the pump, and wherein the apparatus comprises at least one evaluation unit which is configured such that it compares the current pressure development with the reference pressure development over a corresponding time.
US10918776B2
An apparatus for extracorporeal treatment of fluid and a process of setting up a medical apparatus for the delivery or collection of fluids are disclosed. According to the apparatus and the process, a control unit (10) is configured calculate set values of two or more of the fluid flow rates based on a fluid flow rate set by the operator and on a prescribed dose value (Dset).
US10918775B2
An apparatus and a method for extracorporeal blood treatment, especially for hemodialysis, wherein blood of a patient is flushed with a dialysate in a dialyzer and wherein a variable correlated with the plasma sodium concentration of the blood is measured. The composition of the dialysate then is adjusted in response to the variable measured so that the plasma sodium concentration of the blood at least at the end of the blood treatment has the same value as at the beginning. For measuring the variable correlated with the plasma sodium concentration of the blood, for example a bypass operation can be implemented in which the dialysate is guided past the dialyzer so that a residual volume on the side of the used dialysate at least partially adopts the concentration of the substances dissolved on the blood side.
US10918774B2
A heart assist device comprising a rotary pump housing having a cylindrical bore, a pumping chamber and a motor stator including an electrically conductive coil located within the housing and surrounding a portion of the cylindrical bore. A rotor has a cylindrical shaft with an impeller and one or of magnets located within the shaft that are responsive to the motor stator to drive actuation of the rotor. The housing bore is closely fitted to the outer surface of the shaft forming a hydrodynamic journal bearing with an annular clearance defining a leakage flow path. One or more of radial or axial thrust bearings may be provided to provide rotation stability to the rotor and flow within the leakage flow path. The relative orientation of positions of the inflow, outflow, and leakage flow paths may be varied within the pump, such as to accommodate different intended methods for implantation and/or use.
US10918770B2
A method of irradiating a wound that includes positioning a wound insertion foam within a wound cavity of a wound and covering the wound insertion foam using a wound sealing layer. The method further includes pumping fluid from the wound cavity using a drain tube sealed within the wound cavity and coupled to a vacuum source, and irradiating the wound using a light diffusing optical fiber that is optically coupled to a therapeutic light source and includes light scattering structures distributed along the light diffusing optical fiber. A portion of the light diffusing optical fiber is positioned within a wound tissue region of the wound, the wound cavity, or both, such that light emitted by the therapeutic light source enters the light diffusing optical fiber, scatters outward from the light diffusing optical fiber, and irradiates the wound tissue region, a wound cavity surface of the wound, or both.
US10918768B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions for wound closure. More specifically, the present invention provides human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides (e.g., antimicrobial polypeptides and keratinocyte growth factor 2) and compositions and methods for making human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides. In addition, the present invention provides methods for treatment of wounds with human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides.
US10918765B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for the decellularization and recellularization of tissue segments. In certain instances the invention comprises coating or sealing decellularized tissue segments with a cross-linked alginate hydrogel. The present invention also provides a decellularization kit, which may be used to generate decellularized tissue segments for high throughput studies. Also included are compositions and methods of tissue sealants comprising methacrylated alginate.
US10918762B2
A magnetic panty liner assembly for reducing menstrual pain includes a first panel, a first panel, a second panel, and a third panel. The second panel, which is absorbent, is coupled to a lower face of the first panel. The third panel is coupled to a bottom surface of the second panel and a perimeter of the first panel to enclose the second panel. The ridge and the third panel are impermeable. A coupler on an exterior face of the third panel is configured to couple the third panel to an undergarment. Menstrual fluid flows through the first panel to be absorbed by the second panel. A ridge on the first panel is positioned in abutment to skin of the user to prevent leakage. Magnets that are positioned between the second panel and the third panel are configured to reduce pain of menstruation.
US10918755B2
This accommodation device is for performing sterilization through irradiation with ultraviolet light. The device is provided with an ultraviolet light lamp for emitting ultraviolet light, electric wires for supplying power to the ultraviolet light lamp, socket parts for supporting the ultraviolet light lamp, and a housing in which the ultraviolet light lamp is disposed, wherein: the socket parts have formed therein first opening portions which are open to the inside of the housing, and second opening portions which are in fluid connection with the first opening portions and through which the electric wires pass; and the housing has formed therein third opening portions which guide the electric wires to the outside and which are in fluid connection with the second opening portions.
US10918748B2
An ultraviolet (UV) light sanitizing system and method are configured to sanitize at least one surface within an enclosed space. The UV light sanitizing system includes a UV light assembly that is selectively moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The UV light assembly is stowed within a stowage chamber connected to the enclosed space in the stowed position. The UV light assembly deploys out of the stowage chamber and into the enclosed space in the deployed position.
US10918707B2
The invention pertains to the use of VirB10 to immunize a host against an infection by a bacterium having T4SS. The invention provides a vaccine comprising VirB10, a fragment of VirB10, a polynucleotide encoding VirB10 or a polynucleotide encoding a fragment of VirB10 and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and/or adjuvant. The invention also provides a method of immunizing a host against an infection caused by a bacterium having T4SS, the method comprising administering to the host a vaccine of the invention. The vaccines and the methods of the invention can be used to immunize against infections caused by bacteria having T4SS in dogs, rabbits, cats, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, deer, horses, rodents and humans.
US10918703B2
The present invention provides plant-made elafin-Fc fusion proteins for treating inflammatory diseases, e.g., inflammatory lung diseases. In certain embodiments, the fusion proteins comprise one or more point mutations, which confer improved properties, such as increased resistance to oxidation, cleavage, and increased half-life. The present invention additionally provides polynucleotides encoding the fusion proteins, recombinant cells and expression vectors, and transgenic plants comprising the fusion protein coding sequences. The present invention further provides methods for the production of the fusion proteins.
US10918697B2
Disclosed herein is a method of promoting sustained survival, sustained regeneration, in a lesioned mature neuron, sustained compensatory outgrowth in a neuron, or combinations thereof. The method comprises contacting the lesioned mature neuron with an effective amount of an inhibitor of PTEN and an effective amount of an inhibitor of SOCS3 to thereby promote survival and/or regeneration and/or compensatory outgrowth of the neuron. Therapeutic methods of treatment of a subject with a neuronal lesion by administration of a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of PTEN and a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of SOCS3, are also disclosed, as are pharmaceutical compositions and devices for use in the methods.
US10918692B2
Disclosed are antimicrobial peptides capable of inhibiting and killing multiple drug-resistant bacteria, including XH-12C, XH-12B and XH-12A. The application further provides uses of the antimicrobial peptides in the preparation of a drug for inhibiting and/or killing fungi, Gram-positive bacteria, Gram-negative bacteria and drug-resistant bacteria and in the manufacture of medical carriers.
US10918677B2
The present invention provides attenuated or inactivated pathogenic bacteria having anti-cancer properties, compositions comprising the bacteria, and use thereof for treating cancers of the urogenital system.
US10918669B2
Provided herein are methods of treating EIPH in a subject in need thereof. The methods comprise administering an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition to the subject. In some embodiments, the pharmaceutical composition comprises a granuloma fluid, or a composition derived from a granuloma fluid. In some embodiments, the pharmaceutical composition comprises a cell. These pharmaceutical compositions may be administered by any suitable route of administration, and may be administered with one or more further therapeutic agents. Also provided are kits comprising pharmaceutical compositions for use with the methods provided herein.
US10918667B2
Compositions and methods for enhancing T cell response which increases the efficacy of CAR T cell therapy for treating cancer are described. Embodiments include a modified cell comprising an isolated nucleic acid comprising a first nucleic acid and a second nucleic acid, the first nucleic acid encoding a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), the second nucleic acid encoding a therapeutic agent comprising at least one of IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-6, IL-7, IL-15, IL-17, and IL-23. The modified cell expresses and secretes the therapeutic agent.
US10918666B2
The present invention provides improved and/or shortened methods for expanding TILs and producing therapeutic populations of TILs, including novel methods for expanding TIL populations in a closed system that lead to improved efficacy, improved phenotype, and increased metabolic health of the TILs in a shorter time period, while allowing for reduced microbial contamination as well as decreased costs. Such TILs find use in therapeutic treatment regimens.
US10918665B2
The presently disclosed subject matter provides for methods and compositions for treating multiple myeloma. It relates to chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that specifically target B cell maturation antigen (BMCA), and immunoresponsive cells comprising such CARs. The presently disclosed BMCA-specific CARs have enhanced immune-activating properties, including anti-tumor activity.
US10918664B2
Risk of visual impairment including Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and cataracts increase with age. This increased risk can be caused by changes in the structure and function of the eye or changes in structures of the central nervous system that support visual perception. The present invention comprises fruit flavored, chewable formulations of supplements for reducing the risk of AMD. Chewable dosage forms of the invention are preferred over other formulations and may increase compliance in an aging population, who are more likely to require an eye health supplement and have an increased risk of experiencing dysphagia.
US10918658B2
A method of altering the targeting and/or cellular uptake efficiency of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) viral vector having a capsid containing an AAV9 cell surface binding domain is described. The method involves modifying a clade F cell surface receptor which comprises a glycan having a terminal sialic acid residue and a penultimate β-galactose residue. The modification may involve retargeting the vector by temporarily functionally ablate AAV9 binding in a subset of cells, thereby redirecting the vector to another subset of cells. Alternatively, the modification may involve increasing cellular update efficiency by treating the cells with a neuraminidase to expose cell surface β-galactose. Also provided are compositions containing the AAV9 vector and a neuraminidase. Also provided is a method for purifying AAV9 using β-galactose linked to solid support. Also provided are mutant vectors which have been modified to alter their targeting specificity, including mutant AAV9 in which the galactose binding domain is mutated and AAV in which an AAV9 galactose binding domain is engineered.
US10918655B2
A method of stimulating platelet formation using a drug that stimulates mitochondrial biogenesis is described. The drug can be used to treat a subject that has been diagnosed with thrombocytopenia or a relatively low platelet count, or it can be used to stimulate platelet generation in vitro or ex vivo. Low-level light (LLL) therapy can be used together with the drug to stimulate mitochondrial biogenesis.
US10918647B2
The invention provides antifungal compounds, antifungal compositions, and intermediates for the preparation of antifungal compounds and antifungal compositions. The invention also provides methods of inhibiting fungi and methods of treating fungal infections, for example, with a compound or composition described herein. The antifungal compositions can include antifungal adjuvants such as essential oils or essential oil extracts, which adjuvants further improve the antifungal activity of the compositions.
US10918646B1
The present disclosure relates to the use of 2-((4S)-6-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-methyl-4H-benzo[c]isoxazolo[4,5-e]azepin-4-yl)acetamide, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for treating myelofibrosis.
US10918645B2
Provided are a substituted tricyclic heterocyclic compound of formula I or a stereoisomer, a tautomer, an N-oxide, a hydrate, a solvate, a metabolite, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester or a prodrug thereof, a pharmaceutical composition including the same and uses thereof. The substituted tricyclic heterocyclic compounds and the pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds disclosed herein can be used for treating a disorder caused by at least one of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Further the compounds and the pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds disclosed herein can be also used for preventing or treating a disorder caused by, associated with or accompanied by any abnormal kinase activity.
US10918634B2
[Problem] The present invention pertains to a safer and more effective respiratory infection treating agent. [Solution] A respiratory infection treating agent containing, as an active ingredient, 7-[(3S,4S)-3-{(cyclopropylamino)methyl}-4-fluoropyrrolidine-1-yl]-6-fluoro-1-(2-fluoroethyl)-8-methoxy-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US10918633B2
In one aspect, a coronavirus is treated by administering a pharmaceutical composition containing a therapeutically effective amount of isomyosmine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In another aspect, oxidative stress is reduced in an individual suffering from a coronavirus by administering a pharmaceutical composition containing a therapeutically effective amount of isomyosmine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In another aspect, mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS) are inhibited in an individual suffering from a coronavirus by administering a pharmaceutical composition containing a therapeutically effective amount of isomyosmine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In one example, the coronavirus is Covid-19.
US10918630B2
The present invention discloses stable delayed release multiparticulate powder for oral suspension of proton pump inhibitor compounds comprising: a) a core with an effective amount of proton pump inhibitor and at least one or more pharmaceutical excipients, b) at least one water-soluble seal coating over core c) at least one enteric coating layer over the seal coat wherein the core is free of a surfactant. The prior art discloses restrictive formulation techniques and suggests higher amounts of various excipients to achieve desired technical attributes. The prepared test formulations exhibited desired pharmaceutical technical attributes like drug release, assay, stability, no polymorphic change, reduced sticking to nasogastric and gastronomy tubes, and packaging material.
US10918628B2
A modulator of PDE1A and/or PDE1C can be used as a medicament, in particular in the prevention or treatment of synucleinopathies, such as multiple system atrophy, dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease, pure autonomic failure, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, inherited synucleinopathies caused by mutations or multiplications of the SNCA gene, or synucleinopathies caused by mutations in other genes including, but not limited to, GBA, LRRK2 and PARK2.
US10918626B2
The object of the present invention is to inhibit oxidative metabolism of a compound of formula I by co-administration with ritonavir, a cytochrome P450 inhibitor.
US10918623B2
The present invention relates to the treatment or prevention of influenza virus infection. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of N-carbamimidoyl-5-(1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-2-naphthamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in the treatment or prevention of influenza virus infection.
US10918602B2
The present disclosure provides improved film based pharmaceutical products containing uniformly distributed drug or active agent particles (e.g., to achieve improved/excellent dissolution control including enhancing dissolution and bioavailability and/or product uniformity). More particularly, the present disclosure provides improved systems/methods for fabricating film based pharmaceutical products by utilizing higher surface modified micronized drug or active agent powders and film forming precursors and drying methods that accomplish improved/efficient drying and provide improved/excellent content uniformity of active pharmaceutical agents in the fabricated film based pharmaceutical products. In exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure provides for an easier means of directly incorporating dry micronized poorly water-soluble drugs or active agent particles (e.g., fenofibrate (“FNB”)) into films. The present disclosure demonstrates some advantages of direct incorporation of surface modified-micronized poorly water-soluble drug or active agent powders in film manufacturing.
US10918598B2
Disclosed is a water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) double emulsion including a first water phase, an oil phase and a second water phase, wherein the W/O/W double emulsion is disposed in an isotonic solution, and related methods of making the W/O/W double emulsion. Also disclosed is a method of making an artificial antigen presenting cell including: providing a W/O/W double emulsion that is stored in an isotonic solution, wherein the W/O/W double emulsion includes a peptide associated with a Major Histocompatibility (pMHC) complex or a glycolipid antigen associated with a CD1d molecule, and a costimulatory molecule; and transferring the W/O/W double emulsion to an electrolyte solution, wherein the double emulsion undergoes a morphological transformation to become the artificial antigen presenting cell. Also disclosed is a method of drug delivery including administering to a subject a unilamellar vesicle containing the drug. Other methods relate to storing a protein including making a water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) double emulsion, wherein the W/O/W double emulsion includes the protein, and wherein the W/O/W double emulsion is configured to be stably stored.
US10918597B2
The present disclosure is directed to floating gastroretentive dosage forms with prolonged gastric residence time. The disclosure also provides rapidly expanding sustained release or combined immediate release and sustained release formulations comprising drugs that require targeted release in the proximal gastrointestinal tract for maximum therapeutic benefit. The rapidly expanding floating gastroretentive dosage forms comprise a permeable elastic membrane providing desired characteristics for drug release and mechanical strength to maintain tablet integrity.
US10918591B2
A method of treating skin in need thereof is disclosed. The method can include topically applying to the skin a composition consisting of kakadu plum extract, glycerin, water, and optionally alcohol.
US10918585B2
Provided is an anti-aging agent for skin which contains, as an active component, an inositol derivative in which a monosaccharide or an oligosaccharide is bonded to inositol, in which a total amount of the monosaccharide or the oligosaccharide bonded to one inositol molecule is 2 or greater in terms of monosaccharide unit.
US10918576B2
A pill packet dosage tracking and gating device is provided. The device includes a container, a gate, and a controller. The container includes a reservoir configured to hold a stream of pill packets and an extraction channel configured to guide the passage of the stream of pill packets from the reservoir out of the container. The gate is disposed in the extraction channel and is configured to vertically transition from a closed position blocking extraction of a pill packet of the stream of pill packets and an open position allowing extraction of a pill packet. The controller is configured to monitor the extraction of pill packets and control the transition of the gate from the closed position to the open position.
US10918550B2
A rotating and articulating bed includes a fixed bed frame with a horizontal support surface and an articulating bed member attached to the horizontal support surface. The articulating bed member includes an articulating head portion and a separate articulating foot portion. A rotating and pivoting frame mounted on the horizontal support surface and connect to the articulating head portion and the articulating foot portion rotates with respect to the horizontal support surface around a vertical axis passing through the horizontal support surface and provides pivoting movement of the articulating bed member with respect to the horizontal support surface to tilt the articulating bed member toward at least one of the articulating head portion and the articulating foot portion.
US10918546B2
A patient support apparatus, such as a hospital bed, includes an alert light assembly or an alert light module having separate zones that are individually illuminated to convey information regarding respective alert conditions. The zones each have indicia related to a particular condition of the patient support apparatus. The illuminated zones are each sufficiently large so as to be seen from afar, such as on the order of ten feet or more. Alternatively or additionally, a GUI of the patient support apparatus displays alert indicia as part of a screen saver. Further alternatively or additionally, the patient support apparatus illuminates an alert light in a manner indicating an optimal time for taking a patient's vital signs.
US10918543B2
A tracked powered chair is described. A side drive assembly comprises a powered sprocket, a forward non-powered two wheel bogey, and a rearward non-powered two wheel bogey. Each bogey has a respective pivot member pivotally fastened at a first pivot member end between the first and second bogey wheels, and a second pivot member end fastened to the frame such that the forward and rearward bogey each pivot independently from one another around its respective pivot member. The geometry of the drive assembly creates a non-isosceles shaped triangular appearance (no two sides are of equal length).
US10918525B2
A tympanostomy tube delivery device comprises a shaft assembly, a pressure equalization tube, and a sensor. The shaft assembly comprises a cannula and a pusher operable to translate relative to the cannula. The pressure equalization tube is positioned within the shaft assembly. The pusher is operable to drive the pressure equalization tube out of the shaft assembly. The sensor is operable to detect a physical parameter associated with engagement between the distal end of the shaft assembly and a tympanic membrane. A controller may activate a feedback device to inform an operator that the distal end of the shaft assembly has achieved suitable apposition with the tympanic membrane, based on information from the sensor.
US10918520B2
The invention relates to ophthalmology, in particular to the surgical treatment technique of macular holes at the early stages without vitrectomy. The method for treating stage 1 macular hole without vitrectomy comprises peeling the posterior hyaloid membrane away from the foveola, wherein an ophthalmological instrument is inserted through the vitreous body until it comes into contact with the posterior hyaloid membrane in the macular area, the posterior hyaloid membrane then being gripped by said instrument and peeled away from the foveola, in accordance with the invention, and after the contact between the instrument and the posterior hyaloid membrane an opening is made therein, whereby the edge of the opening is then used to lift the posterior hyaloid membrane and peel it away from the foveola until the layers are separated; wherein the instrument used is an ophthalmological membrane spatula comprising a handle 1 and a pointed working part 2 with a tip 3 shaped as a hook. The improved grip of the posterior hyaloid membrane, better visual control and maintaining the hold of said membrane continuously through the manipulations until the peeling from the foveola is complete, made it possible to reduce the trauma associated with surgical management of stage 1 macular hole without vitrectomy and to decrease the number of related complications.
US10918515B2
A vaginal ring applicator having a polymeric barrel and at least one friction reducing agent, wherein the barrel is a flattened cylinder having two slightly curved and opposing sides connected by two arcs, wherein the barrel extends between an insertion end and a plunger end; and a plunger extending between distal and proximal ends, wherein the distal end of the plunger engages the plunger end of the barrel and wherein the plunger fits telescopically within the barrel.
US10918512B2
A gird compression garment designed to provide compressive support extending throughout the cervical and thoracic portions of the wearer's spine so as to help relieve pain and to help promote healing from muscular/skeletal ailments and injuries. This gird compression garment is constructed of a resiliently flexible and stretchable material and includes a cervical collar that extends to the base of the skull of a wearer and a fastening device adapted to vary the amount of compressive force exerted by the garment.
US10918511B2
An intragastric balloon device including a deformable material is in an ingestible form for delivery to a stomach of a patient, expands in response to stimuli in the stomach, and degrades within a limited duration (such as 16 hours or some other value between 2 hours and 72 hours) to diminish to passable form in which remains of the intragastric balloon device are passable from the stomach. In an illustrative example, the deformable material is composed of silicone coated with parylene and encloses perfluoropentane fluid that transitions from liquid to gas due to stomach temperature to inflate the balloon in the stomach and occupy space in the stomach until a fuse of methacrylate erodes to unblock a vent conduit to permit escape of the perfluoropentane for deflating the balloon to diminish to passable form.
US10918510B2
A medical device includes a vessel member, a port that couples a compartment interior of the vessel member to a region exterior of the vessel member, and a tubular member that defines a lumen. A distal end of the tubular member is attached to an internal surface of the vessel member within the compartment so that a portion of the internal surface of the vessel member provides a seal at a distal end of the lumen. The tubular member passes through the port, and the proximal end of the tubular member is configured to remain exterior of the compartment. A delivery of a sufficient amount of a filling material into the lumen of the tubular member causes a length of the tubular member to pass through the port and into the vessel compartment.
US10918509B2
A prosthesis implanting system includes a delivery sheath for receiving the prosthesis and delivering it to the treatment site and an alignment device on the sheath visible to a user for indicating a rotational and an axial position of the sheath with respect to the treatment site. The alignment device is part of a delivery assembly slidably disposed in a handle.
US10918507B2
Some embodiments relate in part to endovascular prostheses and delivery catheter systems and methods for deploying same. Embodiments may be directed more specifically to graft bodies having self-expanding members, including inflatable graft bodies, and catheters and methods for deploying same within the body of a patient.
US10918501B2
A polycentric knee joint including an adjustment-free multi-stage prosthesis air cylinder. The air cylinder has an air cylinder body, a piston assembly slidably mounted on the air cylinder body, a first check valve mounted in the piston, and a multi-stage air pressure valve mounted inside a lower air way of the air cylinder body. The multi-stage air pressure valve automatically cushions movements of the piston assembly without being adjusted whenever a user of the prosthesis joint walks slowly or quickly, for improved comfort.
US10918492B2
A glenoid implant for a shoulder prosthesis for implantation in the glenoid of a scapula according to embodiments of the present invention includes a central fixation element; an articular body configured for articulation with a humerus, the articular body comprising a plate, the plate comprising a side configured to be oriented toward the glenoid, the side comprising a central protrusion, wherein the central fixation element comprises a means for mechanically engaging with the central protrusion; a first means for locking rotation of the central fixation element with respect to the glenoid; and a second means for locking rotation of the articular body with respect to the glenoid.
US10918491B2
The invention relates to a femoral component (1) of a knee replacement assembly. The knee replacement assembly is arranged to articulate about an articulation axis (X). The femoral component comprises an outer surface (100), wherein the outer surface is arranged to define a replacement condyle; and an inner surface (200), opposed to the outer surface, wherein the inner surface is adapted for attachment to a prepared distal femur. The inner surface comprises portions (210, 220, 230, 240) provided with mutually-parallel ridges (201) and grooves (202). The ridges and grooves are arranged to provide an increased or reduced stiffness of the femoral component when cantilevered about the articulation axis compared with a stiffness of the femoral component when cantilevered about a transverse axis.
US10918487B2
A prosthetic implant surface cap adapted for securement to an interface region of the prosthetic defined by articulating prosthetic implants. 3D printing or additive manufacturing is employed to form the surface cap adapted for securement to an identified interface region, in which the interface region is defined by engaging contact with adjacent skeletal structures in response to patient movement. The surface cap is disposed on the implant surface to contact the adjacent skeletal structures during articulated movement, and is adhered to the interface region of the prosthetic implant for absorbing and distributing the contact and frictional forces of the articulating skeletal members.
US10918469B2
A toothbrush with fluid directing drive assembly is provided. The toothbrush may include a handle including an end surface, a brush shaft extending from the end surface of the handle, a drive assembly positioned within the handle and causing the brush shaft to oscillate upon actuation of a motor, a brush tip removably coupled to the brush shaft and positioned adjacent to the end surface of the handle, and a fluid passage defined within the drive assembly within the handle. The brush tip may include a fluid conduit therein. Oscillation of the brush shaft may cause the entire brush tip to oscillate correspondingly. Fluid may be transported through the drive assembly and to the fluid conduit of the brush tip by the fluid passage.
US10918462B1
The tool for removing orthodontic O-rings includes a handle, which is adapted for gripping by an orthodontist and has opposed first and second ends, a neck and a hooked head. The neck has opposed first and second ends, and the second end thereof is secured to the first end of the handle. The hooked head has free and fixed ends, and the fixed end is secured to the first end of the neck. The free end of the hooked head defines a sharp tip. An annular flange is located at an interface between the fixed end of the hooked head and the first end of the neck. The annular flange has a diameter greater than a diameter of the fixed end of the hooked head and greater than a diameter of the first end of the neck.
US10918455B2
A light source includes features configured to compensate for discontinuous solid state sources. The light source can produce a wide color gamut in display, and improved color rendering of tissue under observation by phosphor gap filling with colored LEDs. The light source can include provisions to depart from a white light spectrum to heighten differences in anatomical features or functions. The light source can include provisions to introduce narrow-band solid-state sources for producing false-color and pseudo-color images, with variable color rendering to change the power spectral distribution and to compensate for fiber optic length and fiber optic diameter tip sensing.
US10918440B2
Systems and methods for positioning a cut guide using navigation-based techniques are discussed. For example, a system for use in an orthopedic surgery on a target bone can comprise a cut guide adjustably positionable onto the target bone via two or more coupling receptacles created on the target bone. The coupling receptacles can include one or more guide members and a plurality of landing members. The system also includes an input interface that can receive a target bone representation, and a model receiver module that can receive a generic post-coupling bone model. The target bone representation can include a data set representing two or more landing sites of the target bone, and the generic post-coupling bone model can include a data set representing a bone having two or more coupling receptacles each sized, shaped or otherwise configured to receive and secure the respective coupling feature of the landing members. The system can include a navigation-based guide coupling preparation system that can generate a plan for positioning the cut guide onto or conforming to the target bone. The system can further include a display module that provides presentations of the coupling between the target bone and the cut guide.
US10918439B2
The present invention relates to a data processing method performed by a computer, for determining geometric parameters of a phantom leg bone using a cutting guide that defines a cutting plane and that is configured to abut a predetermined surface section of the phantom leg bone. The method comprises acquiring cutting guide position data describing the spatial position of the cutting guide, acquiring relative position data describing the spatial position of a first mechanical axis point relative to the predetermined surface section of the phantom leg bone, and determining, based on the cutting guide position data and the relative position data, first axis point position data describing the spatial position of the first mechanical axis point of the phantom leg bone. The present invention further relates to a corresponding cutting guide and a corresponding computer program and computer.
US10918432B2
A cryoablation device is provided herein which, in an embodiment, includes a catheter shaft; a cryogen return line disposed within the catheter shaft; and a cryogen supply line disposed within the cryogen return line, such that the cryogen supply line, the cryogen return line, and the catheter shaft are all substantially coaxial. A needle tip probe is disposed at a distal end of the cryogen return line. The cryogen supply line extends in a distal direction beyond a distal end of the cryogen return line and into the needle tip probe, and the catheter shaft is axially movable relative to the needle tip probe and the cryogen return line, and the catheter shaft is configured such that the catheter shaft is distally extended over the needle tip probe in an extended position.
US10918425B2
A system for bone transport is provided, the system comprising: an adjustable length implant configured for intramedullary placement and comprising a first end configured to be coupled to bone and a second end configured to be coupled to bone, wherein the first end and the second end are displaceable relative to each other along a longitudinal axis; and a driving element configured to be non-invasively activated to displace the first and second ends relative to one another along the longitudinal axis; and a support member having distal and proximal ends, wherein the support member includes a longitudinally extending slot disposed between the distal and proximal ends of the support member, the slot having opposing ends, wherein the slot is configured to pass an elongate anchor such that the elongate anchor is slidable between the first end and the second end of the slot.
US10918418B2
Provided is a spinal implant which includes a compact housing usable in common regardless of a bone screw diameter and is good at assembling properties. A spinal implant includes a screw head holding member, a housing, and an insert. The screw head holding member includes a cylindrical section which is elastically deformable in the radial direction and which includes a support section that supports a screw head from a lower side. The housing accommodates the screw head holding member holding the screw head. The screw head holding member further includes an elastic deformable section which is elastically deformable in the radial direction of the cylindrical section so that an engagement section can engage with the inner circumferential surface of the housing.
US10918415B2
A method and system provide and use a patellar implant. The patellar implant includes a superior portion, an inferior portion opposite to the superior portion, and an anterior portion. The superior portion being configured to reside below a patellar tendon and to elevate and/or tilt the patellar tendon. The inferior portion is configured to be seated in proximity to a tibia. The anterior portion is between the superior portion and the inferior portion. The anterior portion is placed in proximity to a patella. In one aspect, the method includes inserting the implant beneath the patellar tendon and between the patella and a position at which the patellar tendon is affixed to the tibia. In this aspect, the method also includes affixing the implant.
US10918414B2
A device, an instrument and a belt for tying the cervix are provided. The device includes the belt and the instrument. The belt is used to tie the cervix. The instrument includes a first outer pipe, a second outer pipe and two fork structures. The first outer pipe and the second outer pipe are rotatable to each other. The two fork structures are connected individually to corresponding axial ends of the first outer pipe and the second outer pipe, respectively, and insert into the belt detachably.
US10918407B2
A surgical instrument includes a shaft extending distally from the housing, an end effector assembly disposed at a distal end of the shaft and configured to supply energy to tissue to treat tissue, a knife slidably disposed within the shaft and movable relative to the end effector assembly between a retracted position and an extended position, and a trigger operably coupled to the housing. The trigger is selectively activatable from a neutral position to a laterally pivoted position to supply energy to the end effector assembly and is selectively actuatable from a distal position to a proximally pivoted position to deploy the knife from the retracted position to the extended position. In the laterally pivoted position of the trigger, actuation of the trigger is inhibited. In the proximally pivoted position of the trigger, activation of the trigger is inhibited.
US10918403B2
According to an example of the present disclosure, a retrieval device having a contracted state and an expanded state may include at least three support members each having a lumen, a fixed proximal end, and a movable distal end, and at least two members movable relative to the support members. Each movable member may include a first end and a second end and extending distally through a lumen of a support member and proximally through a lumen of a different support member. The device may include a stop located at the second end of at least one movable member to restrict movement of the second end after moving a distance distally during movement of the retrieval device toward the expanded state.
US10918401B2
A medical device, a medical system, and a treatment method are disclosed, which are capable of effectively crushing an object in a body lumen. The medical device can be used after being inserted into a capturing device capturing thrombi in a blood vessel and removing the thrombi to the outside of a body has at least two elongated shaft portions spaced apart from each other side by side and a cutting unit extending to a distal side from distal portions of at least two shaft portions, the cutting unit has linear portions inclined with respect to the shaft portions and a distal continuous portion extending to the distal side from distal portions of at least two linear portions, and at least the linear portions have sharp cutting blades.
US10918382B2
An intraoral surgical stapling apparatus. The intraoral surgical stapling apparatus includes a handle assembly having a trigger for actuation of a surgical staple. A barrel section extends outward from the handle assembly and includes a staple firing mechanism for loading and advancing the surgical staple in a loading position towards a forward end of the intraoral surgical stapling apparatus. A fixed body forms a channel to receive an advancing unit. The advancing unit is connected to the trigger such that a sliding plate positioned within the channel slides forward and backward by actuating the trigger. A pair of splay arms have a forward end opposite a rearward end. The forward end engages the staple and cycles through a between the loading position, a forward advancing position, and a staple open biasing position. The engaged staple is biased and configured to be applied to a tissue site.
US10918380B2
A surgical instrument system comprising a shaft, an end effector, a firing member, a sensor system, an electric motor, a trigger coupled to the electric motor, and a control system is disclosed. The end effector comprises a first jaw and a second jaw rotatable relative to the first jaw. The firing member comprises a first portion configured to engage the first jaw and a second portion configured to engage the second jaw and control a position of the second jaw relative to the first jaw. The sensor system is configured to detect positions of the firing member. The electric motor is configured to move the firing member through a firing stroke. The control system is in communication with the sensor system, the electric motor, and the trigger. The control system is configured to limit a maximum movement of the trigger based on a signal generated by the sensor system.
US10918368B2
A joint distraction lever for measuring a distraction force is disclosed. The joint distraction lever includes a lever body having a handle portion and a working portion. The lever body has a fulcrum extending from a bottom surface of the working portion of the lever body and a distal tip, wherein the distal tip is raised above a top surface of the working portion of the lever body. The joint distraction lever is configured to measure a distraction force applied at the distal tip during a distraction procedure when a torque is applied by an external force applied on the handle portion of the lever body. The joint distraction lever further includes an indicator configured to provide feedback related to the distraction force applied at the distal tip, as measured by the joint distraction lever.
US10918364B2
An adapter assembly is provided and includes a housing for connection with a surgical device and for operative communication with at least one rotatable drive shaft of the surgical device; an outer tube having a proximal end supported by the housing and a distal end for connection with a selected end effector, wherein the distal end of the outer tube is in operative communication with each of the at least one force receiving drive member of the end effector; at least one drive transmitting/converting assembly for interconnecting a respective one of the at least one rotatable drive shaft of the surgical device and one of the at least one force receiving drive member of the end effector; and a circuit board supported in the housing and storing at least one of operating parameters and life cycle information which are unique to the adapter assembly.
US10918361B2
Systems and methods of transmitting heat out a medical imaging device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a medical imaging device includes a housing having electronics and a heat sink. The heat sink is positioned near a first end of the housing, a groove that is configured to receive at least a portion of an operator's hand is positioned at a second end of the housing. A heat pipe in the housing extends from the electronics toward the first end of the housing and is configured to transfer heat produced by the electronics toward the heat sink and away from the groove.
US10918359B2
An ultrasound imaging assembly is disclosed, comprising an image processing unit (26) for receiving and for evaluating at least one set of ultrasound data resulting from an ultrasound scan of a volume of interest (31) and for providing corresponding image data on the basis of the ultrasound data. The assembly comprises a display unit (18) for displaying an ultrasound image (30) on the basis of the image data, and an evaluation unit (28) adapted to detect whether a shadowed area (32) is present within the volume of interest (31) on the basis of the ultrasound data, wherein the image processing unit is adapted to determine ultrasound image data of a two-dimensional slice of the shadowed area and wherein the display unit is adapted to display a graphical representation of a corresponding sectional view of the shadowed area within the ultrasound image.
US10918358B2
A monitoring system comprises an ultrasonic imaging, an electrocardiograph monitoring module, a data processing module, and an output module. The ultrasonic imaging module is used for obtaining an echocardiogram of heart; the data processing module serves to receive the echocardiogram and obtaining, according to the echocardiogram, mechanical motion identifiers of atriums and ventricles; the data processing module outputs in real-time the mechanical motion identifiers for atriums and ventricles, together with electrocardiogram information, to the output module in a comparative manner.
US10918354B2
A medical device for providing guidance to administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation during cardiac arrest in a subject comprising a measuring probe to measure a hemodynamic property of blood flowing through a blood vessel of the subject, an interface element with reference indicia to guide the measuring probe to major blood vessels of the subject experiencing cardiac arrest, and a blood flow monitoring device comprising a data module to collect measured hemodynamic properties of the subject and a guidance module configured to display resuscitation guidance information for manipulating at least one hemodynamic property of the blood.
US10918345B2
An assembly for a system includes a rotatable drum defining a bore and configured for rotation about an object positioned within the bore, a support structure configured to support the rotatable drum during a rotation of the drum, a first radial air bearing disposed between the rotatable drum and the support structure and positioned proximate to a first distal end of the rotatable drum, and a second radial air bearing disposed between the rotatable drum and the support structure and positioned proximate to a second, opposite distal end of the rotatable drum. The first radial air bearing and the second radial air bearing are located at different longitudinal positions along a longitudinal axis of the rotatable drum and the first radial air bearing and the second radial air bearing are configured to levitate the rotatable drum relative to the support structure.
US10918334B2
A wearable electrode includes: a garment including an outer member and a backing member configured to cover at least a part of an inner surface of the outer member; and an electrode unit configured to come into contact with a living body clothed in the garment to acquire a biological signal emitted by the living body and attached to an opposite side of the backing member from the outer member. The outer member and the backing member are connected to each other in a part other than a part of the backing member, to which the electrode unit is attached.
US10918308B2
A respiratory component measurement system that includes an airway adapter adapted to be placed in fluid communication with an airway of a patient and a sensor element in physical communication with the airway adapter. The sensor element is adapted to detect an orientation related characteristic of the airway adapter, a motion related characteristic of the airway adapter, or both. A respiratory component sensor is also adapted to be disposed on the airway adapter so as to measure a characteristic associated with a flow of gas through the airway adapter.
US10918307B2
A method of operating a positioning system by registering a first coordinate system of a first positioning system in a second coordinate system of a second positioning system includes determining an interpolation function configured to register the first, non-orthonormal coordinate system in the second, orthonormal coordinate system. Fiducial pairs are collected by the respective positioning systems, each of which contain a respective coordinate in the respective coordinate system, both of which refer to the same physical point in three dimensional space. Establishing a working interpolation function involves an analysis of the fiducial pairs using a thin-plate spline algorithm. The method further includes repeatedly obtaining a first coordinate in the first coordinate system and determining a corresponding second coordinate in the second coordinate system in accordance with the interpolation function.
US10918305B2
An imaging method for radiologically guiding an instrument during medical interventions on an object is disclosed. First, a prior volumetric image of the object is provided, followed by periodically providing a current volumetric image on-the-fly during the intervention to an operator by measuring an undersampled set of projections of the object and reconstructing the current image based on changes between the prior volumetric image or an updated prior image and the undersampled set of projections. The method and corresponding system are used for radiologically guiding medical interventions on an object. The system includes a first image provider, an imaging apparatus for measuring undersampled sets of projections, and a processor. The processor communicates with the imaging apparatus for providing updated images on-the-fly during the intervention by reconstructing the updated image based on changes between the first image or an update of the first image and the undersampled sets of projections.
US10918296B1
A system and method for providing a flexible electrocardiogram (ECG) pad structure have been disclosed. In a first aspect, the system is the flexible ECG pad structure and comprises a copper layer and a paste trace layer coupled to the copper layer via a cover. In a second aspect, the method comprises providing a copper layer and coupling a paste trace layer to the copper layer via a cover.
US10918295B2
Methods and systems provide for quick and precise analysis of ECG data, with a simple and understandable visualization and an effective way of communicating the proposed diagnosis suggestion to the medical personnel. Systems and methods detect electrical potentials from at least one lead and process at least one signal. The measurement itself may be executed on the raw signal, to compare measured parameters with a set of criterions related to various diseases, for example to sudden death syndrome.
US10918287B2
A measurement system comprises a pulsed laser diode array that includes one or more Bragg reflectors, and wherein the light generated by the array penetrates tissue comprising skin. At least some of the wavelengths of light are in the near infrared. The detection system is synchronized to the laser diode array and comprises an infrared camera and a first receiver comprising a plurality of detectors. The first receiver comprises one or more detector arrays and performs a time-of-flight measurement. The measurement system generates an image, the detection system non-invasively measures blood in blood vessels within or below a dermis layer within the skin based at least in part on near-infrared diffuse reflection from the skin, and the detection system measures absorption of hemoglobin between 700 and 1300 nanometers wavelength range. A processor compares the absorption of hemoglobin between different tissue spatial locations, and the measurement system processes the time-of-flight measurement.
US10918277B2
The present invention provides an ophthalmic device capable of minimizing the generation of flare at a lower cost and in a shorter time than in the prior arts when photographing in a state where an optical axis of an examination optical system is deviated from a reference position of a subject eye. The ophthalmic device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a photographing unit that images a region to be observed of the subject eye through the examination optical system, a first alignment unit that performs alignment on the examination optical system with respect to the subject eye in the optical axis direction and the direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, an optical system movement unit that moves the examination optical system from a first position aligned by the first alignment unit to a second position which is deviated from the first position at least in the perpendicular direction, and a second alignment unit that determines an alignment position in the optical axis direction of the examination optical system with respect to the subject eye at the second position based on the positional difference between the first position and the second position and moves the examination optical system to the alignment position along the optical axis direction.
US10918276B2
Digital fundus cameras including an objective lens and a digital imager for capturing digital retinal images. The digital fundus cameras include an annular LED illumination arrangement having an annular LED illuminator with a ring of spaced apart individual masked LEDs, an annular folded illumination optical train and a multiple stage stray illumination trap arrangement for capturing stray illumination. The annular LED illumination arrangement can optically include a glare spot masking arrangement.
US10918272B2
An otoscope may project a temporal sequence of phase-shifted fringe patterns onto an eardrum, while a camera in the otoscope captures images. A computer may calculate a global component of these images. Based on this global component, the computer may output an image of the middle ear and eardrum. This image may show middle ear structures, such as the stapes and incus. Thus, the otoscope may “see through” the eardrum to visualize the middle ear. The otoscope may project another temporal sequence of phase-shifted fringe patterns onto the eardrum, while the camera captures additional images. The computer may subtract a fraction of the global component from each of these additional images. Based on the resulting direct-component images, the computer may calculate a 3D map of the eardrum.
US10918269B2
A medical light source apparatus includes: a first light source configured to emit light in a first wavelength range; a second light source configured to emit light in a second wavelength range different from the first wavelength range; and a light source controller configured to control the first light source and the second light source to perform pulse light emission in a state in which the pulse light emission of the second light source is less frequent than the pulse light emission of the first light source.
US10918268B2
An insert tube and an endoscope using the same are provided. The insert tube comprises a catheter. The catheter comprises a distal section, a bending section and a extend section, and the distal section. The bending section and the extend section are integrally formed through a metal material. A plurality of a first line groove and a plurality of second line groove are formed and arranged in staggered relation on two corresponding sides of the bending section along the central axis direction of the catheter, respectively. At least one the second line groove is arranged between the first line grooves. The first line groove and the second line groove have a first arc length and a second arc length, respectively. A length of the first arc length is greater than a length of the second arc length.
US10918255B2
A cleaning robot, which performs cleaning operation while moving, includes a cover, to which external force is applied, a movement frame fastened to the cover, a fixed body provided in the cover, a traveling unit connected to the fixed body, and an elasticity setting part configured to movably support the movement frame to the fixed body, wherein the elasticity setting part includes a sensor configured to sense movement of the movement frame.
US10918252B2
This disclosure describes various methods and apparatus for detecting and characterizing debris pickup during a cleaning operation. A debris detection sensor is described capable of counting the number of particles retrieved by a robotic vacuum during the cleaning operation and associating particles identified with particular areas. The location information can be obtained using various sensors on-board the robotic vacuum. In some embodiments, a cleaning operation can be rerouted when senor readings from the debris detection sensor deviate from historical sensor readings by a predetermined amount.
US10918250B2
A robot vacuum cleaner that may increase cleaning efficiency around obstacles includes a main body having an intake to suck in dust and air while the main body is driven on a floor, a shutter installed in front of the intake to be able to move from the main body toward the floor, and a shutter driver configured to supply power to move the shutter.
US10918244B2
An apparatus for cooking food products, comprising a main body, a containing chamber suitable to contain a cooking liquid, an exit element of the cooking liquid from said containing chamber, and a removal device.
US10918241B2
A drinks preparation machine for preparing a drink can be operated in multiple operational modes and includes a liquid container, a drinks preparation device for preparing the drink using a liquid, at least one fluid line which is connected to the liquid container and drinks preparation device, a receiving device for receiving a liquid filter in a predetermined filter position, a sensor for detecting a liquid filter, and a control device which controls a supply of a liquid from the liquid container into the fluid line. The control device is designed to prompt a liquid to be supplied into the at least one fluid line as a function of the signal of the sensor. In at least one of the operational modes, the liquid supply can be prompted independently of whether a liquid filter is placed in the predetermined filter position, and in at least one other of the operational modes, the liquid supply cannot be prompted when a liquid filter is placed in the predetermined filter position.
US10918240B2
A beverage-making machine having a housing that has a capsule insertion opening through which a portion capsule is inserted and having a brewing module having a first brewing module part and a second brewing module part that is movable relative to the first brewing module part. A brewing chamber can be formed by the first and second brewing module parts, the brewing chamber at least partly surrounding the portion capsule which is in a brewing position during the brewing process in order to brew a brewed beverage and discharge same out of the portion capsule. The beverage-making machine also has an electric drive for moving the second brewing module part relative to the first brewing module part and a controller for controlling the electric drive. The controller determines the current position of the second brewing module part relative to the first brewing module part at all times.
US10918217B2
A pillow support assembly includes panel that has a top side, a bottom side, and a perimeter edge. The perimeter edge includes a first edge and a second edge positioned opposite of each other. The panel includes a first portion including the first edge and a second portion including second edge. The top side of the second portion is formable into a concave shape from the first portion to the second edge and the second portion is pivotable over the first portion when the second portion is in the concave shape. A securing member releasably secures the second portion in an arced condition extending over the first portion. The bottom side of the second portion supports a pillow when the second portion is in the arced condition.
US10918213B2
A ventral support for use in an ergonomic work station chair, the ventral support comprising an adjustable Y axis member and a support unit, the support unit pivotally and extendibly attached to the adjustable Y axis member, wherein the support unit is heart-shaped and includes a rear, a face, and a top therebetween, the face including a right lobe and a left lobe, a clavicles support, which has a right side and a left side, is raised, is proximate the top and is horizontally disposed, and a central ridge, which extends vertically downward from the clavicles support, wherein the right lobe, the right side and the central ridge define a right concavity in the face and the left lobe, the left side and the central ridge define a left concavity in the face.
US10918201B2
A dryer, sanitizer, and disinfecting device for make-up brushes includes an outer housing having an upper surface defining a plurality of openings therein with the plurality of openings arranged in a linear array; an inner housing including a retainer having a plurality of recesses corresponding to the plurality of openings defined in the outer housing; and a sterilizing component supported within at least one of the outer housing or the inner housing, wherein the sterilizing component effects the cleaning chamber, and wherein the sterilizing component includes a UV light bulb.
US10918200B2
A toothbrush including bristles extended from one end of the toothbrush, a handle extended from another end of the toothbrush opposite the one end, and any of an attachment hole, arranged between the bristles and handle and configured to receive a support leg to be attached therein, and a groove are provided, either of which may improve drying and therefore decrease in transmission of pathogens via the bristles by, for example, improving air circulation to the bristles raised away from a surface via action of the end and the surface.
US10918190B2
A device configured to facilitate the application of a liquid solution to the surface of the skin of a user via a series of stone and/or crystal roller balls. The apparatus is equipped with several roller beads which are in contact with the solution. The solution is preferably housed within a container, and the roller beads are incorporated into a head and/or end of the container. The stone rollers ensure that the solution is applied evenly via multiple rolling points to deliver the solution to the skin from underneath the roller beads. Stone/crystal employed in the creation of the rollers is preferably rose quarts or jade, although other minerals may be used.
US10918185B2
A hair styling device for a hairstylist includes a housing configured to be attachable to a styling tool such as a comb, an electronic-based alignment means that determines the angle of orientation of the housing, and a user-actuated operational control for selecting the housing's desired angle of orientation. The electronic-based alignment means provides a human-perceivable indication of the angle of orientation and can be selectively locked to a desired angle. The electronic-based alignment means also selectively provides a human-perceivable indication when the housing is approaching and has arrived at the desired angle.
US10918184B1
A smart nozzle system for a hair dryer includes a proximity detection circuit, a temperature sensing circuit, a speed detection circuit, and a rotating nozzle vane, among other features. The nozzle includes a microcontroller and a wireless communication module to interface with an external computing device via an application. Also included is a camera, a timer, a fluid dispenser, and a therapeutic UV light. The power supply can be a dynamo powered by air flowing through the nozzle. The nozzle can be an add-on to existing hair dryers or can be integral with a hair dryer system.
US10918180B1
The carrying case is an item of luggage. The carrying case is configured for use by water. The carrying case is handheld. The carrying case has a fluid impermeable structure. The carrying case comprises a container, a lid, a watertight seal, an interior lantern, a side access door, and a plurality of locking latches. The container and lid form the containment space of the carrying case. The interior lantern illuminates the containment space of the carrying case. The lid provides access to the containment space of the carrying case. The side access door provides access to the containment space of the carrying case. The plurality of locking latches secures the lid to the container when the lid is in a closed position.
US10918175B2
The invention relates to the field of jewelry, specifically to a diamond with eighty-one facets having a ten hearts and ten arrows inner structure and a cutting method thereof. The diamond comprises a table facet, ten main crown facets and ten main pavilion facets; a crown star facet is disposed at a junction of two adjacent main crown facets with the table facet; a crown small facet is disposed at a junction of two adjacent main crown facets with the crown star facet; a small sector is disposed at a junction of the main crown facet with the crown small facet; and two main pavilion facet auxiliary surfaces are disposed at a junction of two adjacent main pavilion facets. The cutting method comprises a division of a pavilion, a crown and a girdle, the pavilion cutting and the crown cutting. The shaped diamond has very good brilliance, fire and sparkle.
US10918173B2
A one-piece bar is for attaching a bracelet to a watch. The bar extends in a longitudinal direction and includes two pivots and a body connecting the two pivots, each pivot being intended to be introduced into a corresponding housing of a respective horn of a watch case. The body includes a plurality of elements connected to one another, each element having a hollowed portion, in order to give the bar longitudinal elasticity and allow elastic deformation thereof in the longitudinal direction.
US10918172B2
An apparatus and method for operably mounting a slider onto a recloseable plastic zipper closure includes a rotor having at least one slider-engaging shoulder; an insertion wedge adjacent to the rotor and sized to slidably accommodate the slider for mounting onto a zipper closure; and a zipper guide member adjacent to the rotor and adjacent to the insertion wedge for guiding and holding a zipper closure while the slider is mounted thereon. The insertion wedge will have a leading edge and a trailing edge and increase in thickness from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The apparatus can be vertically oriented or horizontally oriented.
US10918158B2
An article of footwear includes a sole structure and an upper that is coupled to the sole structure to at least partially defining an internal volume that is operative to receive a foot of the wearer. The upper includes an enlarged throat opening that is in communication with the internal volume and a forwardly extending flap section that defines a portion of the enlarged throat opening. The flap section is operative to fold laterally across an instep portion of the upper to reduce the size of the throat opening. Additionally, a plurality of perforations extend through a portion of the upper on a first side of the flap section. Folding the flap section laterally in a first direction covers the plurality of perforations to provide selective water resistance. Conversely, folding the flap section laterally in a second direction exposes the plurality of perforations to provide ventilation to the interior volume.
US10918155B2
An article of footwear with a knitted component including an upper and an integral knit ankle cuff is provided. The upper and the ankle cuff are formed as a one-piece knit element. The knit element forms a portion of an exterior surface of the upper and an opposite interior surface of the upper, with the interior surface forming a void for receiving a foot. The ankle cuff is formed of unitary knit construction with the upper as a one-piece knit element and extends above a throat area of the upper. The ankle cuff includes malleolus zones on medial and lateral sides to correspond with the ankle bones of a wearer. The knit component further incorporates features to assist with providing entry for a foot of a wear, providing comfort to a wearer, and to assist with orientation of the upper of the article of footwear when being worn.
US10918152B2
A light-emitting beacon a dome e translucent or transparent carapace and a base. A printed circuit board assembly is arranged within the hollow space adjacent the carapace and above and on either side of a battery, the circuit board assembly comprising a plurality of LEDs arranged to emit light out of the carapace and such that when emitting at least one of the LEDs is visible from either side of the carapace. In a particular embodiment the light-emitting beacon is for mounting on a helmet and comprises an elongate carapace a first translucent or transparent material joined to a base having a concave undersurface and manufactured from a second plastic material, the first material of a greater hardness than the second material. The carapace is dome like and at least one LED arranged to emit light out of the carapace.
US10918150B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for generating a customized garment design. The method, when executed by a processor, comprises first retrieving a user signal about a user, identifying a user style comprising at least a preferred garment category for the user by analyzing the user signal, and retrieving a group of features for the preferred garment category, where each of the features is associated with at least one style variable. The method further comprises identifying at least one preferred style value for each of the style variables based on the user signal, generating one or more candidate garment feature sets by selecting one or more combinations of preferred style values for each style variable, and generating the customized garment design by selecting a garment feature set from the one or more candidate garment feature sets.
US10918139B2
An undergarment clip constraining the undercup support bands and wires of a brassiere or similar undergarment, and in particular a novel clip designed to attach to the edge of a brassiere having an underwire support to limit the protrusion of the underwire through the brassiere material. The device can also be utilized to similarly constrain boning and other support components in brassieres, corsets and other such undergarments.
US10918137B2
An electronic smoking device includes a housing, a receiving unit for the reception of a solid smoking material and a primary heating element. The primary heating element and the receiving unit are arranged adjacent to one another. The electronic smoking device further comprises a positioning element for forcing solid smoking material inserted in the receiving unit towards the primary heating element. Solid smoking material within the receiving unit which is forced towards the primary heating element by the positioning element is liquefied and atomized by the primary heating element. The receiving unit, the primary heating element and the positioning element are arranged within the housing.
US10918127B2
The invention relates to tobacco wax compositions suitable for use in a vaporizer. The tobacco wax may comprise additional excipients including vapor agents, penetration agents, buffer agents, and rheological agents. The composition contains nicotine. The tobacco wax composition leaves a minimum of residue in the vaporizer when used. In another aspect, the invention relates to a portion-sized container (“pod”) of a tobacco wax composition for administration to a mammal or person. The pod is intended for use in a personal (or other) vaporizer.
US10918123B2
A reconstructed bacon product includes meat sourced exclusively from pork bellies. The product includes a cohesive mass of compressed layers of pork belly fat trimmings and pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments. A method of forming a reconstructed bacon product includes obtaining pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments and pork belly fat trimmings, macerating the pork belly lean trimmings, layering the pork belly lean trimmings and pork belly fat trimmings, compressing the layers, heat processing the layers in a mold to form a cohesive mass, and demolding the cohesive mass.
US10918122B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a clear beverage comprising the steps of: (i) providing an oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion comprising an n-alkenyl succinate starch and an essential oil, wherein the n-alkenyl succinate starch is in excess of said essential oil; (ii) producing a turbid beverage by diluting said O/W emulsion to reach a desired beverage concentration; and (iii) storing said turbid beverage at a temperature of above 30° C. for a time sufficient to obtain a clear beverage.
US10918117B2
The present disclosure relates to extruded protein products and methods for producing an extruded protein product. In particular, an extruded piece is disclosed having a high protein content and having a desirable texture and flavor. Methods for making an extruded piece include processing, under extrusion conditions, a combination of a powdered protein ingredient, a protein matrix disruptive ingredient, water, and an oil.
US10918114B2
A composition and method for supplementing food, nutrition, and diet systems with omega-6 to omega-3 balanced oils comprising a synergistic blend of at least two oils. The composition further comprises a synergistic blend of long chain omega-3 oil as a means to further increase the nutritional value. The composition provides an effective increase in therapeutic and pharmacological properties in nutrition and diet systems.
US10918112B2
Dough preparation apparatus and associated methods. The dough preparation apparatus can store and be configured to execute a plurality of dough preparation recipes. In one example, the dough preparation apparatus is configured for thawing or slacking frozen dough and conditioning the dough prior to baking. The dough preparation apparatus facilitates production of baked bread having higher and more consistent quality.
US10918102B2
The present invention relates to organ perfusion systems that can be used at room temperature. The organ perfusion systems do not comprise a temperature controller. In some embodiments, the organ perfusion systems do not comprise a cleaning device for cleaning the perfusion fluid. The perfusion fluid can comprise Williams' medium E. The organ perfusion systems can be portable and can be used to preserving an organ, preventing ischemic damage in an organ, or recovering an ischemically damaged organ.
US10918087B2
An animal containment system can intelligently control an animal with at least an animal device attached to an animal. Activating the animal device allows for detection of the position of the animal. A controller of the animal device can use the animal device to detect if the animal is physically positioned outside of a first predetermined containment area. The controller can then execute a containment strategy with the animal device that activates a speaker of the animal device in response to the detected animal position.
US10918084B2
A chemical applicator for a pet door includes a substantially wedge shaped body defining a chemical reservoir therebetween. The wedge shaped body presents a ramped transition between the surface of the pet door above the chemical applicator and the front of the chemical applicator being devoid of substantial sharp edges of protrusions that may otherwise strike the pet or snag a collar of the pet as the pet brushes past the applicator. The front of the applicator includes a slit having a planar wick therethrough and therealong, the wick extending through the slit so as to define an interior portion for being soaked by a liquid chemical within the reservoir and an exterior chemical application portion. In use, as the pet brushes past the pet door and the chemical application portion rubs across the hide of the pet, applying the liquid chemical thereon.
US10918082B2
An equine grooming device for maintaining a horse mane's braid has at least one pin and a limiter. The pin forms or receives a securing element. The securing element prevents movement of the pin in a direction opposite to a stitching direction. The limiter may include a retainer element. The securing element may be formed by deforming at least part of the pin. A method for use of an equine grooming device for maintaining a horse's braid is also disclosed.
US10918080B2
A liquid dispenser may include a container having an upper opening, a pump provided in the container, a pipe through which liquid discharged from the pump is transferred, a top plate having an upper surface over which liquid flows, a filter assembly provided below the top plate, a base provided below the container, and a thermoelectric element provided in the base to cool the liquid in the container.
US10918079B1
A pet bowl lift apparatus includes a tray for holding at least one pet bowl and a lift mechanism supported on ground level, detachably supporting the tray upon and above the lift mechanism, and being vertically movable between collapsed and extended states. The lift apparatus also includes a lift control mechanism operable to actuate the lift mechanism between the collapsed and extended states to elevate the tray from proximate the ground level to different elevations above the ground level to enable a person without bending to replace and remove the tray on and from the lift mechanism and to accommodate at the different elevations pets of different sizes. The lift apparatus further includes an outer accordion tubular casing enclosing the lift mechanism and vertically moved between recoiled and extended states by actuation of the lift mechanism between the collapsed and extended states.
US10918076B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 17R817B3XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 17R817B3XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 17R817B3XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 17R817B3XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US10918073B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 17R819B3XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 17R819B3XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 17R819B3XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 17R819B3XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US10918065B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072343. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072343. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072343 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072343 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10918062B1
A soybean cultivar designated 88001207 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 88001207, to the plants of soybean cultivar 88001207, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 88001207, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 88001207. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 88001207. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 88001207, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 88001207 with another soybean cultivar.
US10918057B1
A soybean cultivar designated 89370134 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 89370134, to the plants of soybean cultivar 89370134, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 89370134, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 89370134. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 89370134. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 89370134, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 89370134 with another soybean cultivar.
US10918048B2
A novel maize variety designated X85N946 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X85N946 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X85N946 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X85N946, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X85N946 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X85N946 and methods of using maize variety X85N946 are disclosed.
US10918045B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH100308. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH100308, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH100308 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 CH100308.
US10918044B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH565661. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH565661, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH565661 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 CH565661.
US10918024B2
The present invention discloses a method for safe production of rice on soil mildly and moderately polluted by heavy metals. The method includes applying a passivator before transplanting rice seedlings to reduce activity of heavy metals in soil, and then spraying a foliar barrier from the peak tillering stage to the booting stage of rice and at the filling stage of rice; the passivator includes bentonite, gypsum powder, lime, a biochar, an iron-based biochar, a slow-release iron-based biochar, an iron-sulfur-silicon composite biochar, a heavy metal cadmium passivator and a cadmium-arsenic synchronous passivator for activating sulfur reducing bacteria in paddy soil; and the foliar barrier includes an acid silica sol, a selenium-silicon composite sol, a cerium composite silica sol, a ferrous modified selenium sol. The method can also include applying a nitrate nitrogen fertilizer at the seedling stage of rice, and/or applying a phosphorus potassium fertilizer at the tillering stage of rice.
US10918014B2
A fertilization precision control method for water and fertilizer integrated equipment and a control system thereof includes the following steps: step S1, establishing a fertilization precision control model of the water and fertilizer integrated equipment; and step S2, solving an optimal solution of the fertilization precision control model by adopting estimation of distribution algorithms.
US10918010B2
A pressure gradient or differential in a product distribution line for conveying granular particulate material, including at least one of a seed or a fertilizer, in an air flow to an agricultural field consistently decreases as air speed and velocity in the product distribution line decreases until a critical air speed is reached. Below the critical air speed, the particulate material is susceptible to falling out of the air flow to potentially cause a blockage in the system. A control system efficiently determines an optimum operating velocity for an air flow that is above the critical air speed yet below a maximum air speed associated with inefficient operation. The control system retains the air flow setting in a data structure for later retrieval.
US10918005B2
A work machine with a first tire having a first tire pressure sensor configured to identify a first tire pressure, a load sensor coupled to the work machine and configured to measure an actual load weight, and a controller in communication with the first tire pressure sensor and the load sensor. Wherein, the controller identifies a tire pressure value with the first tire pressure sensor and the controller determines a current load weight threshold from a plurality of load weight thresholds with the tire pressure value.
US10925199B2
A component mounter for holding a component and for mounting the component on a surface of a board includes a head, a horizontal moving device, a vertical moving device, a mounting control device, and an imaging device. The imaging device is configured to image an imaging target by receiving incident light from the imaging target on an imaging element via an optical system. The optical system includes a first optical system configured to guide incident light from a direction of a side surface of a nozzle tip to a first region of the imaging element, and a second optical system configured to guide incident light from a direction of the surface of the board to a second region of the imaging element. The imaging device is configured to image an image via the first optical system and the second optical system.
US10925197B2
Methods and systems of suppressing ground faults. One system includes a power center including a transformer and a ground fault relay. The system also includes a first motor electrically connected to the power center. The system also includes a first variable speed drive connected to the first motor. The first variable speed drive is configured to vary the speed of the first motor. The system also includes a first common mode choke connected in a series-type connection between the power center and the first variable speed drive. The first common mode choke is configured to suppress a ground current induced by the first variable speed drive.
US10925193B2
A control device for a gearbox control system of a motor vehicle includes electric components having different high dissipated power, a rigid circuit board which is equipped on both sides with electric components, at least one cooling body on the same side as the circuit board on which the power components are arranged, and a potting compound, which at least partially surrounds the components. The circuit board is secured directly adjacent to the cooling body.
US10925192B1
Machine learning techniques provide predictions of computer system load and cooling requirements, allowing cooling systems to anticipate, prepare for, and ameliorate, those requirements. Techniques provide confirmation or denial that the computer and cooling systems are operating as expected, allowing those systems to determine if any parts are failing. Techniques provide information regarding likely effect due to proposed changes. Techniques provide probabilistic predictions, well in advance, of whether parts will fail or degrade. Techniques provide probabilistic predictions whether parts will fail or degrade, responsive to degrees of redundancy, set points for of cooling, or set points when cooling starts or ends.
US10925187B1
An information handling system includes a server rack, a processing system, and a liquid cooling heat exchanger module. The processing system is configured to be installed into at least one rack unit of the server rack, and includes a component configured to be cooled by a liquid cooling cold plate. The heat exchanger module is affixed to the server rack within a same rack unit as the processing system, and is configured to provide chilled cooling liquid to cool the cold plate, and to no other equipment in the server rack.
US10925171B2
The present invention provides a surface treated copper foil in which a dropping of the roughening particles from a roughening treatment layer on the surface of the copper foil is suppressed and an occurrence of wrinkles or stripes when bonding with an insulating substrate is suppressed. The surface of the roughening treatment layer satisfies one or more of the following: a roughness Ra is 0.08 to 0.20 μm, a roughness Rz is 1.00 to 2.00 μm, a roughness Sq is 0.16 to 0.30 μm, a roughness Ssk is −0.6 to −0.35, a roughness Sa is 0.12 to 0.23 μm, a roughness Sz is 2.20 to 3.50 μm, a roughness Sku is 3.75 to 4.50, and a roughness Spk is 0.13 to 0.27 μm, a glossiness of a TD of the surface of the side of the roughening treatment layer of the surface treated copper foil is 70% or less.
US10925169B2
The present invention relates to: a method for manufacturing a transparent light emitting device, which can minimize the manufacturing time of a large-area high-resolution transparent light emitting device and maximize the productivity thereof by forming an integrated metal mesh circuit pattern through a UV imprinting technology; and a transparent light emitting device manufactured thereby.
US10925166B1
A fixture and method are directed to releasably couple the fixture to a semi-flexible printed circuit board (PCB)/printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) at a flexible PCB/PCBA portion. The fixture includes a body with a first arm and a second arm extending from a base, an interior surface of the first arm facing an interior surface of the second arm. A first ridge extends from the interior surface of the first arm and defines a first gap between the first ridge and the interior surface of the second arm. The first gap is sized to receive and support a flexible PCB/PCBA portion. At least one second ridge extends from the interior surface of the first arm and defines a second gap between the at least one second ridge and the interior surface of the second arm. The second gap is sized to receive and support a rigid PCB/PCBA portion.
US10925164B2
Methods and systems for producing circuitry using stackable passive components are discussed. More specifically, the present disclosure provides designs and fabrication methods for production of stackable devices that may be used as components in circuitry such as filters and impedance matching adaptors. Such components may be used to save space in printed circuit boards. Moreover, stackable passive components may be dual components, which may be improve the electrical performance in certain types of circuits such as matched component filters.
US10925163B2
A printed circuit board includes an insulating layer including a cavity including a groove structure formed on one surface of the insulating layer, a circuit pattern including a first pad formed on a bottom surface of the cavity and a second pad formed inside the insulating layer, a first metal layer embedded in a side surface of the cavity, the first metal layer being in contact with the bottom surface of the cavity and being formed along the boundary of the cavity, and a second metal layer formed on the second pad and having a stepped structure formed with the second pad.
US10925158B2
A flexible substrate includes a plurality of unit wiring structures. Each of the unit wiring structures includes: a central section; and at least four curved strips disposed at an outer side of the central section, each of the curved strips having a first end connected to the central section. The central section includes: an insulation layer; interlayer connection via that passes through the insulation layer; first wiring section connected to the interlayer connection via; and second wiring section electrically connected to the first wiring section by way of the interlayer connection via. The first wiring section, insulation layer and second wiring section are disposed in this order, and two of the at least four curved strips extending in a first direction are connected to the first wiring section, other two of the at least four curved strips extending in a second direction are connected to the second wiring section.
US10925147B2
An example method includes: receiving, from a treatment planning process, information that is based on a dose distribution for an irradiation target; and performing at least one of the following operations: moving structures to trim spots of a particle beam so that the spots of the particle beam approximate pre-trimmed spots for which characteristics are obtained based on the information received; moving structures to produce a trimming curve for a layer of an irradiation target based on a specification of a trimming curve for the layer included in the information received; moving structures to produce a single trimming curve for all radiation fields of an irradiation target based on specifications of the single trimming curve included in the information received; or moving structures based on configuration information for the structures in the information received.
US10925146B1
An ion source chamber with an embedded heater is disclosed. The heater comprises a radiant heater, such as a heat lamp or light emitting diodes, and is disposed within the ion source chamber. The radiant heat from the heater warms the interior surfaces of the ion source chamber. Further, the ion source chamber is designed such that the plasma is generated in a portion of the ion source chamber that does not contain the heater. Additionally, a controller may be in communication with the heater so as to maintain the ion source chamber at a desired temperature when a plasma is not being generated in the ion source chamber.
US10925136B2
The present disclosure relates to a lighting apparatus, a driving circuit and driving method thereof. The lighting apparatus comprises a plurality groups of lighting elements and a driving circuit. Each group of lighting elements comprises at least one lighting element, each lighting element in a same group having a cathode connected to a common cathode node. The driving circuit comprises a plurality of voltage sources, each having a terminal connected to an anode of a respective lighting element in each group of lighting elements; and a plurality of current sources, each having a terminal connected to the common cathode node of a respective group of lighting elements.
US10925133B2
An electroluminescent LED device comprising a hole transport layer, an electron transport layer, an active emissive layer between the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer, and carbon dots forming the active emissive layer.
US10925126B2
A circuit for driving a cooker includes a sensing unit configured to sense a movement of a user of a cooker. The circuit further includes a contact unit configured to switch a power circuit to which power is supplied from the outside, and perform a closing operation on the basis of a sensing result from the sensing unit to allow power to be supplied to the cooker.
US10925125B2
A solid-state heating apparatus may be incorporated into stand-alone appliances or other systems. The heating apparatus may include an impedance matching network coupled between an electrode and a radio-frequency (RF) source. The impedance matching network may be a variable impedance matching network that can be adjusted during the heating operation. The impedance matching network may include planar inductors formed from patterned conductive layers disposed either side of a substrate.
US10925124B2
An induction heating tool has an induction heating coil configured to generate a magnetic field closely matched to the shape of the anchor plate. The induction heating tool includes a base configured to assist an operator in aligning the coil over each anchor plate. In the disclosed embodiments, the base supports a circular induction coil with a structure that clearly shows the position of the induction coil. In the disclosed embodiments, material surrounding the induction coil is removed or made transparent so the operator can see the roof immediately surrounding the induction coil as an additional aid in positioning the tool over anchor plates.
US10925120B2
An adaptable system for defogging a mirror in a steamy bathroom having a tube assembly with a plurality of openings with an impeller and a plurality of heating elements for blowing hot air through the openings onto the fogged mirror. In one example embodiment, the tube assembly has louvers directing the hot air from the openings. The system has a plurality of mounting assemblies configured for all types of mirrors operative for coupling to the tube assembly, such as a portable mounting assembly with a rechargeable battery that selectively attaches on or adjacent to a mirror. The system has an articulated arm mounting assembly in one example embodiment. The system has a mounting assembly fixture in another example embodiment. A kit comprises the tube assembly and at least one mounting assembly.
US10925118B1
An intelligent IIoT system using two-way channel ANN without gateway, the intelligent IIoT system is connected to sensing devices and motion devices. comprising a PLC with I/O module, communication module, perception database, motion database, edge computing module and the first MQTT data module; a Cloud server with MQTT agent, Big Data module, Human-Cloud visual database and Human-Cloud control database; and a remote device with Human-Cloud visual interface program, Human-Cloud control interface program and the second MQTT data module; and the three components are connected via network; it is unnecessary to construct gateways and network communication equipment, low construction cost, short construction period, easy maintenance, low power consumption, faster communication speed, two-way many-many transmission, stably synchronous real-time processing, and very reliable.
US10925117B2
An apparatus for transmitting a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message, wherein the apparatus is applied in a communication system in which a plurality of connections are established between a terminal and an access network device, the apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory configured to store instructions executable by the processor; wherein the processor is configured to: receive RRC diversity configuration information sent by the access network device, wherein the RRC diversity configuration information is configuration information required when the terminal enables or disables RRC diversity; and determine whether to enable the RRC diversity according to the RRC diversity configuration information, wherein the RRC diversity is a way of transmitting identical uplink RRC messages through at least two connections.
US10925107B2
Embodiments herein provide a method for fast activation of multi-connectivity utilizing uplink signals. According to an example embodiment, a method includes: transmitting, by a user equipment, at least one uplink signal to a plurality of network nodes of a wireless network based at least on the user equipment being in a first radio resource control state such that the user equipment maintains connectivity with one of the network nodes; receiving at least one connection message including a command to connect to at least two of the network nodes for communication, wherein the command is based at least on measurements extracted from the at least one uplink signal; in response to the at least one connection message, changing from the first radio resource control state to a second radio resource control state; and transmitting data utilizing multiple communication links via the at least two network nodes.
US10925106B2
An MBS (master base station), UE (user equipment) and method operate using dual connectivity where the UE is connected to an MBS and a SBS (secondary base station). Capability information is transmitted to the MBS by the UE and indicates whether the UE supports a SCG (Secondary Cell Group) bearer and whether the UE supports a split bearer split in a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) layer of the MBS. The UE receives from the MBS a message configuring, but not simultaneously configuring, either the SCG bearer or the split bearer to the UE. Radio protocols of the SCG bearer are only located in the SBS, and radio protocols of the split bearer are located in both the MBS and the SBS. One split path of the split bearer goes via the SBS and another split path of the split bearer goes via the MBS and not via the SBS.
US10925096B2
The disclosure is directed to an extended RA method used by a UE and by a base station and related apparatuses using the same method. In an aspect, the disclosure is directed to an extended RA method used by a UE. The method includes not limited to transmitting a random access preamble (RAP); receiving a random access response (RAR) which responds to the RAP; transmitting an RA request signal which corresponds to the RAR and includes a first small data and a piggyback indicator which indicates whether there is a second small data to be transmitted; and receiving an RA request acknowledgment signal which corresponds to the RA request signal and comprises an uplink grant which indicates a resource for the second small data.
US10925094B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide scheduling request (SR) resources that may be used by a user equipment (UE) to request uplink resources. SR resources may be allocated within random access channel resources, and a UE may use the SR resources to transmit a SR. The random access resources may be allocated in a first duration transmission time interval (TTI) that has a duration that is shorter than a second duration TTI. The SR resources may be a subset of random access preambles associated with the random access resources.
US10925089B2
This invention aims to achieve appropriate communication in a communication system which uses a cell defined to apply listening. This invention provides a user terminal which performs communication using cells including an LAA cell which applies listening before UL transmission, the terminal including a transmission unit which transmits uplink control information and uplink data, and a control unit which controls transmission of the uplink control information and the uplink data, wherein the control unit performs control to transmit the uplink control information using an uplink channel other than an uplink shared channel of the LAA cell.
US10925084B2
Uplink data is transmitted efficiently. A terminal device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a parameter included in an RRC message; a higher layer processing unit configured to store an uplink grant as a configured uplink grant; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a MAC protocol data unit. In a case that the parameter is configured and an initial transmission based on the configured uplink grant is performed and that the MAC protocol data unit includes only a prescribed MAC control element, the MAC protocol data unit is not transmitted. The prescribed MAC control element includes a MAC control element for a padding BSR, and does not include a MAC control element for a regular BSR.
US10925079B2
The present embodiments provide a method for scheduling an uplink signal and a downlink data channel in an NR, wherein one embodiment is a method by which a terminal schedules an uplink signal and a downlink data channel, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, an uplink signal and downlink data channel scheduling information; and scheduling the uplink signal and the downlink data channel on the basis of the scheduling information. Therein: the scheduling information comprises timing relationship setting information between a downlink control channel and a corresponding downlink data channel or uplink data channel, and timing relationship setting information of a downlink data channel and a corresponding uplink control channel; and the numerology of the downlink control channel and the numerology of the corresponding downlink data channel or uplink data channel are different, or, the numerology of the downlink data channel and the numerology of the corresponding uplink control channel are different.
US10925073B2
Embodiments of the present application allow a terminal device to determine a transmission format via a non-scheduling means and implement license-free transmission. Provided are a radio communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device determines a first transmission format used for transmitting data to be transmitted; according to the first transmission format, the terminal device transmits to a network device the data to be transmitted.
US10925067B2
Techniques for congestion management in a communication network are contemplated. For example, a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may include a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer and a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) layer. The RRC layer may receive an indication for a service, for example from the NAS. The indication may be interpreted as a request for the particular service indicated. For example, the indicated service may correspond to at least one of: a mobile originated (MO) voice communication, a circuit switched fallback (CSFB) supplementary service (SS), or a MO short message service (SMS). The RRC layer may receive a signal from a network indicating that one or more services provided by the network are allowed. The RRC layer may send a connection request to the network for the service sought by the NAS if that service is one of the one or more services allowed.
US10925060B2
Provided is a wireless communication method and device. Frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration is flexibly performed on a terminal device in conjunction with a synchronous signal block, and the performance of a communication system can be raised. The method comprises: a network device receiving a first message sent by a terminal device, the first message being used for indicating a first synchronous signal block detected by the terminal device; and according to the first synchronous signal block, the network device performing frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration on the terminal device.
US10925058B2
An optical transmission device includes a bandwidth allocator that periodically reads bandwidth request information indicating a bandwidth required for a termination device to transmit an uplink signal from a storage and allocates a bandwidth to the termination device on the basis of the read bandwidth request information, and a timing adjuster that adjusts a period at intervals of which the bandwidth allocator reads the bandwidth request information from the storage on the basis of the timing at which resource information used to generate the bandwidth request information is received from an upper device.
US10925057B2
A channel selection method and a transmit end are provided. The method includes: ranking multiple channels, and generating a backoff count value; sequentially decrementing, from an initial timeslot, the backoff count value in each timeslot according to a ranking sequence of the channels and busy/idle states of all the channels until the backoff count value is 0; and selecting, from the multiple channels according to a result of the decrement performed on the backoff count value and a busy/idle state of at least one of the multiple channels, a channel that is used by the transmit end for sending data. The method and the transmit end can improve channel utilization.
US10925056B2
A SRLTE/Hybrid CDMA management system is provided to facilitate the prioritization and management of shared RF resources among the different SIMs and RATs in a multimode device. The described techniques address a shared single RF resource usage problem in multi-SIM and multimode 3GPP2/3GPP devices that implement an SRLTE or Hybrid CDMA mode in one or more SIMs. Thus, the techniques enable the RATs within an SRLTE or Hybrid CDMA system, and RATs across multiple SIMs, to access a single set of RF resources using a priority access scheme that prioritizes RATs for both packet service (PS) and circuit service (CS).
US10925052B2
A communications system is described in which user devices are allocated sub-carriers on which to transmit uplink data to a base station. ACK/NACK messages for the data transmitted on the uplink are then transmitted by the base station on sub-carriers that depend on the sub-carriers used to carry the uplink data. A direct mapping function is preferably used to determine the sub-carriers to be used for the ACK/NACK messages from the uplink sub-carriers. In another embodiment, the ACK/NACK messages are transmitted to the user devices on sub-carriers that are previously identified to the user devices, preferably by transmitting one or more index values to the user device in a control channel thereof.
US10925051B2
A channel transmission/reception method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving channels between a base station and a mobile terminal efficiently in a mobile communication supporting massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transmission are provided. The method includes determining a resource to which a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) addressed to a terminal is mapped within a resource block, the DMRS resource being positioned in at least one of a first resource set capable of being allocated for DMRS and a second resource set symmetric with the first resource set on a time axis, and transmitting the DMRS and DMRS allocation information to the terminal.
US10925050B2
In order for a first terminal apparatus to transmit a physical uplink control channel to a base station without retuning regardless of a bandwidth part used by the first terminal apparatus, a base station 100 according to the present disclosure includes a communication processing unit 141 configured to communicate with the first terminal apparatus (terminal apparatus 200A) within a bandwidth part of an uplink system band, the bandwidth part being used by the first terminal apparatus (terminal apparatus 200A), wherein the bandwidth part includes a physical uplink control channel region used by the first terminal apparatus (terminal apparatus 200A).
US10925044B1
The present disclosure provides for identifying, based on downlink control information (DCI), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission associated with a network entity, determining that a dedicated physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource is not configured for uplink transmission to the network entity, determining a default spatial relation reference signal for the PUSCH transmission based on determining that the PUCCH resource is not configured, and performing the PUSCH transmission based on the default spatial relation reference signal.
US10925043B2
An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting Uplink Control Information (UCI) over a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) in a communication system. A method includes acquiring, by the UE, information for configuration of a first PUCCH format and a second PUCCH format; generating, by the UE, UCI to be transmitted; selecting, by the UE, one of the first PUCCH format and the second PUCCH format for transmitting the UCI; encoding, by the UE, the generated UCI; performing, by the UE, an Inverse Fourier Transform (IFT) operation on the encoded UCI; and transmitting, by the UE, the IFT performed UCI using the selected PUCCH format. One of the first PUCCH format and the second PUCCH format is selected by the UE, based on a transmission on multiple carriers from a base station.
US10925037B2
The present disclosure provides a wireless communication method and an eNode B and user equipment therefor. The method comprises a step of transmitting multiple PDCCH or EPDCCH repetitions respectively in multiple successive downlink subframes with a transmission repetition number and a transmission starting subframe. The transmission starting subframe is selected from a first starting subframe set corresponding to the first repetition number or a second starting subframe set corresponding to the second repetition number. The subframe indexes of any two adjacent starting subframes in the first starting subframe set are offset by a same first index interval, the subframe indexes of any two adjacent starting subframes in the second starting subframe set are offset by a same second index interval, and the second index interval is an integral multiple of the first index interval. According to the present disclosure, the resource blocking probability of different repetition numbers, UE's detection complexity can be decreased, and eNB's scheduling complexity.
US10925034B2
A communication operation carried out by a base station is described herein. The operation includes generating first indication information. The first indication information indicates configuration information of a first resource. The operation further includes generating second indication information. The second indication information indicates a relationship between a second resource and the first resource to a terminal. The operation further includes sending the first indication information and the second indication information, so that the terminal determines its own receiving resource or sending resource. When the base station indicates the receiving resource or the sending resource of the terminal resource indication overheads can be reduced.
US10925027B2
Embodiments of this application provide a processing method for tracking a user equipment (UE) in a low power mode, and a device. The method includes: obtaining transmission configuration information between the UE and a network device, where the transmission configuration information indicates that an uplink tracking signal is to be sent according to a discontinuous transmission mode, and the transmission configuration information includes a transmission cycle. When the UE enters a low power mode, sending, an uplink tracking signal to the network device based on the transmission configuration information; and receiving timing advance (TA) adjustment information returned by the network device, where the TA adjustment information is obtained by the network device through detection of the uplink tracking signal.
US10925026B2
An embodiment method includes determining, by first user equipment UE, first synchronization information, where the first synchronization information is used to indicate a priority of the first UE used as a synchronization source; and sending, by the first UE, the first synchronization information, so that second UE selects a synchronization source of the second UE according to the received first synchronization information.
US10925024B2
In one aspect, a network node configured to arrange a synchronization service for a target network access node receives a service request from the target network access node for a synchronization service to be provided to the target network access node and selects the synchronization source node, responsive to the service request. The network node sends a response towards the target network access node regarding the synchronization service to be provided by the synchronization source node.
US10925022B2
A first Synchronization Signal (SS) associated with a first identifier and a second SS associated with a second identifier can be stored. A first SS sequence can be defined by at least an element-wise multiplication of a first sequence with a second sequence. The first sequence can be a first base sequence cyclically shifted with a first cyclic shift value and the second sequence is a second base sequence cyclically shifted with a second cyclic shift value. A second SS sequence can be defined by at least an element-wise multiplication of a third sequence with a fourth sequence. The third sequence can be the first base sequence cyclically shifted with a third cyclic shift value and the fourth sequence is the second base sequence cyclically shifted with a fourth cyclic shift value. The first SS associated with the first identifier and the second SS associated with the second identifier can be output.
US10925019B2
Even when different numerologies from those of legacy LTE systems are used, synchronization signals are appropriately transmitted and/or received. A user terminal includes: a reception section that receives a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal mapped on predetermined resources; and a control section that controls synchronization processing based on the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal, and spacings of the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal at which the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal are mapped on subcarriers are different.
US10925011B2
A method for communication between user equipments, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes establishing, by a first user equipment (UE), a first virtual cell, and sending, by the first UE, a first synchronization signal and a first broadcast message, wherein the first synchronization signal comprises an identity of the first virtual cell, and wherein the first broadcast message comprises configuration information of the first virtual cell, wherein the first synchronization signal and the first broadcast message cause a second UE to access the first virtual cell according to the identity of the first virtual cell and the configuration information of the first virtual cell, and to communicate with the first UE.
US10925009B2
A communication device includes a controller configured to identify a plurality of carriers for carrier aggregation; and an estimation processor configured to determine, for a first device processing resource of the communication device, throughput gain values that estimate an increase in throughput from using the device processing resource with the plurality of carriers. The controller further is configured to determine efficiency metrics for the first device processing resource based on the throughput gain values and power penalty values that estimate a power penalty from using the first device processing resource with the plurality of carriers, and select, based on the efficiency metrics, a first carrier of the plurality of carriers to which to assign the first device processing resource.
US10925005B2
This disclosure proposes to use multiple power control loops in the uplink. Each power control loop may be associated with a respective antenna beam transmitted from an antenna array of the electronic device (e.g. UE) in the uplink. For example, a beam (or uplink signal) may be associated with 1, 2 or even more MIMO layer. Hence, in this latter case, each power control loop may be associated with a respective set of one or more MIMO layers. This concept is application to open-loop, closed-loop power control or both.
US10925003B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first communication circuit, a second communication circuit, a processor configured to be electrically connected with the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, and a memory configured to be electrically connected with the processor. The memory includes instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain location information of the electronic device, transmit a first message for requesting to change a state of the electronic device to a network, receive a first response message to the transmitted first message from the network, transmit a second message for requesting a parameter for an operation cycle of the second communication circuit to the network, receive a second response message to the second message from the network, and change the operation cycle of the second communication circuit to a value corresponding to a current state of the electronic device.
US10924997B2
Techniques described herein use a wakeup signal to indicate to a user equipment (UE) whether an upcoming control channel signal resource includes information relevant to the UE. In this way, the UE can wake up to perform complex control channel signal processing only when the control channel includes signals relevant to the UE, thereby conserving battery power and resources of the UE. Such techniques are particularly suited to MTC UEs, NB-IoT UEs, and/or the like, which may communicate with a network only occasionally, and which may be located in remote locations where changing or recharging a battery is difficult.
US10924995B2
This disclosure is directed to controlling a wake-up radio (WUR) in a wireless station side client device (STA-device). In one example, after the STA-device has received negotiation parameters from a wireless access point (AP) to establish a wireless association as a network connection between the STA-device and the AP. The PCR may be disabled in favor of the WUR. The WUR, which may use less power than the PCR, may then monitor for Beacon Frames (e.g., in the disclosed beacon loop) and Discovery Frames (e.g., in the disclosed discovery loop). Based on a state machine, that may be implemented as computer instructions executed by a hardware processor of the STA-device. Generally, the STA-device may use the WUR and state machine implementation to determine a proper time to re-enable the PCR for communication with the AP.
US10924991B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a station association method and apparatus. The station association method includes: receiving a message sent by at least one access point AP, where the message carries a wake-up radio load information element, and the wake-up radio load information element includes load information of a wake-up radio channel managed by the AP; and selecting, based on the load information, a target AP from the at least one AP, so as to perform association. In the embodiments of the present application, a STA can be notified of load information of a wake-up radio channel managed by an AP, so that the STA selects an appropriate AP to perform association.
US10924987B2
Methods for performing error recovery during a ranging procedure may include negotiation one or more ranging parameters, including a set of secure training sequences and receipt of a first ranging frame that may include a first dialog token and may have an appended first secure training sequence. The first ranging frame may be decoded based on the first dialog token but not correlated based on the first secure training sequence. A first acknowledgment that may include an appended second secure training sequence may be transmitted. The second secure training sequence may be associated with a prior dialog token. A second ranging frame that may include a second dialog token and may have an appended third secure training sequence may be received. The second ranging frame may be decoded based on the third dialog token and correlated based on the third secure training sequence.
US10924984B2
User equipments can achieve quick channel synchronization when establishing a connection to base stations transitioning from a sleep mode to an active mode by using discovery resource signal (DRS) processing results and cell reference signal (CRS) processing results to establish channel synchronization with a CRS antenna port. More specifically, the user equipment may be notified that the CRS antenna port and DRS antenna port are quasi-co-located (QCL), and then use DRS processing results in conjunction with CRS processing results to obtain faster channel synchronization with a CRS antenna port. This may be particularly beneficial when the target BS is transitioned from a sleep mode to an active mode in order to accept a handover of the user equipment.
US10924981B2
A wireless telecommunications system supports a virtual carrier operation mode in which downlink communications are made by a base station while a terminal device can receive at least some communications from the base station within a restricted subset of transmission resources, and supports terminal devices in a radio resource control connected mode and radio resource control idle mode. When there is to be a change in system information the base station transmits to the terminal device an indication that updated system information is to be broadcast by the base station, the indication received by the terminal device while in the connected mode. Before seeking to acquire the updated system information, the terminal device transitions from the connected mode to the idle mode, and then seeks to acquire updated system information. The base station restricts transmission of user-plane data to the terminal device until the terminal device re-enters the connected mode.
US10924976B2
A combination of repeaters and relays is used to improve the data throughput for user equipment (“UE”) near the cell edge in a LTE network. Amplify-and-forward repeaters and decode-and-forward relays enhance the down-link and up-link, respectively. Relay assistance on the up-link occurs when the evolved Node B (“eNB”) requests a retransmission (HARQ) from the UE at which point the UE and relay transmit simultaneously in a cooperative fashion. The quality of the up-link signal received by the eNB is improved due to a favorable channel through the relay. An analysis shows that relay assistance improves the throughput for a cell-edge user when the average delay per data transport block is allowed to increase.
US10924973B2
In some implementations, a method in a user equipment (UE) for dynamically managing band capacity includes communicating with a first radio access network (RAN) on a first Radio Frequency (RF) channel and a second RAN on a second RF channel, where the first RAN and the second RAN are different networks. The UE receives an indication from the first RAN (or makes a determination) to handover to a third RF channel. The UE determines that the third RF channel conflicts with the second RF channel. The UE disables an RF band including the second RF channel with the second RAN and reports updated RF Band Capabilities to one or both RANs.
US10924972B1
A method and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. The WTRU includes a receiver and a transmitter. The WTRU receives, from a primary downlink cell, a first scheduling assignment for a first uplink transmission and transmits first data in the first uplink transmission to at least a primary uplink cell using a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The WTRU receives, from the primary downlink cell, a second scheduling assignment, the second scheduling assignment indicating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identification of the first HARQ process, a modulation and coding set (MCS), and a transmission time opportunity, determines whether to retransmit the first data based on the HARQ process identification, and retransmits the first data in a second uplink transmission using the first HARQ process, the MCS, and the transmission time opportunity.
US10924962B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, a security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a method for a terminal transmitting a data packet in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of: generating a data packet; determining whether to perform duplicate transmission for the data packet; and if it is determined to perform duplicate transmission for the data packet, generating at least two duplicate packets by duplicating the data packet, and transmitting the respective at least two duplicate packets to at least two base stations.
US10924950B2
Techniques and examples of evaluation period for radio link monitoring (RLM) in New Radio (NR) mobile communications are described. An apparatus performs RLM with respect to a radio link with a cell of a wireless network. In performing the RLM, the apparatus determines whether an RLM reference signal (RLM-RS) is overlapped with one or more other reference signals and, responsive to a result of the determining indicating that the RLM-RS is at least partially overlapped with the one or more other reference signals, extends an evaluation period for the RLM.
US10924947B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for intelligent node type selection in a telecommunications network. In one implementation, a customer set is obtained for a communications node in the telecommunications network. The customer set includes an existing customer set and a new customer set. A set of customer events is generated for a node type of the communications node using a simulator. The set of customer events is generated by simulating the customer set over time through a discrete event simulation. An impact of the customer events is modeled for the node type of the communications node. The node type is identified from a plurality of node types for a telecommunications build based on the impact of the customer events for the node type.
US10924944B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An apparatus that monitors a base station in a wireless communication system and a method therefor are provided. The method of operating the apparatus includes detecting an anomaly occurring in the base station, determining at least one measure, based on the detected result, and performing or outputting the determined at least one measure.
US10924927B2
A wireless network association and authentication system includes an access point that is coupled to an authentication server via a first wireless network. The access point receives, from a first user device that associates with the access point, a first request for access to a second wireless network provided by the access point that is coupled to a wide area network through the first wireless network. The first request includes first authentication information. The access point provides the first request that includes the first authentication information to the authentication server via the first wireless network and receives a first authentication response from the authentication server via the first wireless network. In response to the first authentication response indicating that the first user device is authenticated, the access point provides the first user device access to the second wireless network.
US10924916B1
A system, method, node and computer program for allocating a user equipment, UE, (30) roaming in a visited network (10), to a dedicated core network, DCN, (120) out of a plurality of DCN (120) available in the visited network (10), is provided. The method comprises receiving a trigger comprising a DCN-type indicator from a home network (20) of the roaming UE (30), and determining, responsive to the reception of the DCN-type indicator, whether an DCN-type indicated by the received DCN-type indicator is supported by the visited network (10). The method further comprises determining, if the DCN-type is not supported by the visited network (10), an alternative DCN-type supported by the visited network (10) and allocating, by the visited network (10), the roaming UE (30) to a DCN (120) of the alternative DCN-type.
US10924915B2
A connection request is received from a remote terminal of a radio communications system at a serving node of the radio communications system. Mobility information is requested (230) from the remote terminal based on receiving (200) the connection request. The requested mobility information is received (240) from the remote terminal, and the requested connection is established (250) with the remote terminal.
US10924912B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving data through a relay in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting and receiving, by a remote user equipment (UE), data to and from a network through a relay UE in a wireless communication system includes: recognizing that small data to be transmitted to the network is generated; performing a discovery procedure through the relay UE and a PC5 interface; and transmitting a PC5 message including the small data to the relay UE when it is verified that the relay UE has an ability to transmit the small data to the network in the discovery procedure, in which when it is indicated that the relay UE supports a small data transmitting procedure by a PC5 discovery message received from the relay UE in the discovery procedure, it may be determined that the relay UE has the ability to transmit the small data to the network.
US10924911B2
A method for transmitting and receiving data between a first cluster and a second cluster by a first device of the first cluster, the first device, and a second device are provided. The method includes notifying a second device of the second cluster of a presence of the first device through a discovery beacon, transmitting information about a service that the first device provides to the second device, receiving a data path setup request from the second device that updates a channel active period to be equal to a channel active period of the first device based on the discovery beacon, and transmitting a data path setup response to the second device in response to the data path setup request, wherein a data path is established between the first device and the second device and is used to transmit or receive data to/from the second device.
US10924891B1
An alert system, for alerting target subscribers, that automatically selects which of one or more messaging channels the alert system will use to send alert messages to the target subscribers. In some embodiments for cellular communication networks, an alert system of the present disclosure automatically selects between one or more broadcast messaging channels and one or more point-to-point messaging channels. In some embodiments, the automatic selection of the messaging channel attempts to maximize the number of target subscribers alerted in a predetermined alert-dissemination time. In some embodiments, an alert system of the present disclosure includes one or more user interfaces that allow a user to establish messaging parameters, including various categories of target subscribers to include as desired recipients of the alert message(s). Various methods for implementing one or more aspects of any of the alert systems of the present disclosure are also disclosed.
US10924883B2
A method is provided for interacting with audience members in an event, each of the potential attendees having available thereto a unique identifier. The method comprises creating, for an attendee, a unique ID (UID) on a mobile wireless device (MWD) by the steps of inputting to the MWD one of the unique identifiers, combining the obtained unique identifier with a UID time stamp at the time of creation of the UID; receiving with a server on a first wireless channel communications from the MWD; registering the UID at the physical location of the event; generating a visual query; displaying on the MWD response indicators; receiving at the server from the registered attendee a response, to the query over the first wireless channel; and storing in a database on the server the received response in association with the displayed query.
US10924879B2
A sound effect controlling method and a sound outputting device with dynamic gain adjustment are disclosed. The sound effect controlling method includes the following steps. An original left sound signal and an original right sound signal are transformed to a virtual center sound signal, a virtual left sound signal, a virtual left surrounding sound signal, a virtual right surrounding sound signal and a virtual right sound signal according to a center gain, a left gain, a left surrounding gain, a right surrounding gain and a right gain, which are calculated according to a rotation angle and a dual sound relationship. An updated left sound signal and an updated right sound signal are obtained according to the virtual center sound signal, the virtual left sound signal, the virtual left surrounding sound signal, the virtual right surrounding sound signal and the virtual right sound signal.
US10924869B2
A sound processing system measures one or more periauricular muscle signals from one or more periauricular muscles of a user. Additionally, the sound processing system computes, based on the periauricular muscle signals, an estimate of an angle corresponding to a direction of a current auditory attention locus of the user with respect to a reference point or plane. The sound processing system controls, based on the estimate of the angle, an operating characteristic of the sound processing system.
US10924867B2
A microphone includes a housing including a substrate and a cover disposed over the substrate, the housing including a sound port between the interior of the housing and the exterior of the housing. The microphone also includes a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transducer and an integrated circuit (IC) positioned within the housing and mounted on a common surface of the housing, where the MEMS transducer is electrically connected to the IC, and the IC is electrically connected to a conductor on the substrate. The microphone further includes an encapsulating material covering the IC, and an encapsulating material confinement structure disposed between the MEMS transducer and the IC, where the encapsulating material confinement structure at least partially confines the encapsulating material around the IC.
US10924866B2
An apparatus including a first member; a first array of flexible actuators connected to the first member, where each of the flexible actuators includes a piezoelectric member and an extension on the piezoelectric member; and a first flexible membrane connected to the first array of flexible actuators. Each of the piezoelectric members is configured to be activated to move their respective extensions. Each of the extensions, when moved by their respective piezoelectric members, is configured to move the first flexible membrane.
US10924865B2
The present disclosure provides a speaker including a frame having an accommodating space, a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system that are accommodated in the accommodating space. The vibration system includes a first diaphragm configured to vibrate and produce sound, a voice coil located below the first diaphragm and configured to drive the first diaphragm to vibrate and produce sound, a flexible circuit board electrically connected to the voice coil and elastically supporting the voice coil, and a second diaphragm fixed to the flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board includes a first fixing portion connected to the voice coil, a second fixing portion disposed opposite to and separately from the first fixing portion, and an elastic arm connecting the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion. An orthogonal projection of the elastic arm toward the second diaphragm is partially located within a range of the second diaphragm.
US10924863B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of sound production, and provides a diaphragm including a dome and a suspension surrounding the dome. The dome includes a first surface fixedly connected to the suspension, and a second surface disposed opposite to the first surface and facing away from the suspension. The dome is provided with a through hole in communication with the first surface and the second surface, and the through hole is adjacent to edges of the dome but does not reach the edges of the dome. The present disclosure further provides a speaker including the diaphragm. The diaphragm and the speaker according to the present disclosure have the advantages of ensuring the strength of the dome while ensuring the leakage of the glue inside the speaker.
US10924859B2
In accordance with some embodiments, an apparatus for privacy protection is provided. The apparatus includes an audio output device arranged to output sound directed to an audio input device of a second device. The apparatus further includes an audio coupling interface arranged to provide a cavity for the audio output device and the audio input device of the second device. The apparatus also includes a spectral shaper, coupled to the audio output device, operable to apply a spectral envelope to an audio signal in order to produce a shaped audio signal, wherein the shaped audio signal is selectively coupled to the audio output device.
US10924857B2
Disclosed is a portable earphone device. The device comprises: a neckline earphone, comprising a voice module and a first wireless communication module communicationally connected to the voice module; and a neckband, comprising a second wireless communication module, a network connection module, and a processor, both the second wireless communication module and the network connection module being communicationally connected to the processor; the first wireless communication module being communicationally connected to the second wireless communication module; the neckline earphone being detachably accommodated in the neckband to constitute a neckband earphone. The device can be individually used as a neckline earphone and can be used as a neckband earphone in an accommodation state.
US10924856B2
A touch Bluetooth headset includes a housing, a touchpad, a main board, a Bluetooth antenna, a first thimble and a second thimble. The touchpad is a flexible touchpad, the main board and the touchpad are opposite and fixed on the housing, and the touchpad is provided with a plurality of metal contacts. The first thimble and the second thimble have one end fixed to the main board and other end extending toward the touchpad and abutting against the metal contacts. The Bluetooth antenna is laid on the touchpad and connected to the metal contacts. The touch Bluetooth headset may be designed to be more miniaturized; additionally, an additional Bluetooth antenna is added in the touchpad and the Bluetooth antenna is jacked up by the above thimbles, which reduces the electromagnetic shielding, thereby the micro Bluetooth headset has a better signal transmission distance.
US10924851B2
An audio interaction device includes a shell, multiple microphones located in multiple accommodation portions of the shell, at least one processor and a memory device configured to store a computer program capable of running on the processor. The processor is configured to run the computer program to execute the following operations. Audio signals obtained by the multiple microphones are identified, and the audio signals are processed. The multiple microphones are boundary microphones and arranged at positions close to a first surface of the shell of the audio interaction device, and the first surface is attached or close to a placement surface on which the audio interaction device is placed.
US10924831B2
A speaker device includes a first column speaker, a second column speaker and a speaker holder. The first column speaker has a first elongated housing and a plurality of first speaker units arranged in a row inside the first elongated housing. The second column speaker has a second elongated housing and a plurality of second speaker units arranged in a row inside the second elongated housing. The first and second speaker units have same frequency characteristics. The speaker holder connects the first and second column speakers together in parallel.
US10924824B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for monitoring power consumption based on current sensing, a wireless power sensing device, and a cloud device. The wireless power sensing device includes a current-acquisition unit configured to sense current flowing in an electrical wire and to generate a current value; a control unit configured to apply the current value by a supply voltage to the electrical wire to calculate a power value; and a communication unit configured to transmit the power value to a cloud device in a predetermined manner.
US10924823B1
According to one implementation, a cloud-based system for performing cloud-based image rendering for video stream enrichment includes a video forwarding unit and a video enrichment unit. The video forwarding unit is configured to detect one or more non-interactive video player(s) linked to the video forwarding unit over a communication network, forward a video stream to the non-interactive video player(s), and forward the video stream to the video enrichment unit. The video enrichment unit is configured to receive the video stream, detect one or more interactive video player(s) linked to the video enrichment unit over the communication network, identify a video enhancement corresponding to one or more customizable video segment(s) in the video stream, insert a rendered video enhancement into the one or more customizable video segment(s) to produce an enriched video stream, and distribute the enriched video stream to one or more of the interactive video player(s).
US10924821B2
Systems and methods for providing playback features to a device are disclosed. A manifest may be generated, which may comprise data associated with a content asset. A state file may be generated, which may comprise data associated with the manifest. Using one or more of the manifest and the state file, a device may modify segments of the content asset or may playback segments of the content asset.
US10924818B2
In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for presenting recommended media content items are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: receiving a request for supplemental content relating to a program being presented by a media device; causing a content interface to be presented on a mobile device; identifying the program that is being presented on a media device; determining keywords associated with the program, wherein each of the keywords is associated with a particular portion of the program; obtaining and storing supplemental content items corresponding to the program based on the keywords; causing the content interface to present a first supplemental content item; receiving state information associated with the mobile device that indicates a subsequent visit to the content interface; and causing the content interface to present a second supplemental content item based on the state information.
US10924803B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying viewing characteristics of an audience of a content channel. In one implementation, a processing device receives an identification of a channel of interest, the channel of interest having associated videos, receives data for a plurality of watch sessions where multiple videos are watched during the watch sessions, identifies at least two watch sessions of the plurality of watch sessions, each identified watch session having a watched video that is associated with the channel of interest, and identifies a most watched channel in the at least two identified watch sessions, the most watched channel being a channel that is most watched by viewers of the channel of interest but that is not the same as the channel of interest.
US10924799B2
A cable network test instrument for isolating a source of noise in a cable network system is disclosed.
US10924795B2
An image display device includes: a processor; a memory configured to store channel information corresponding to at least one channel; and at least one program which is stored in the memory and executed by the processor. The program may include instructions for controlling a display so as to move a channel indicator in a first or second direction on a channel scroll bar and to display channel information of a channel corresponding to a point at which the channel indicator is located, in response to a first input of pressing a channel-up or channel-down key for a long time, and for switching a current channel to the channel corresponding to the point at which the channel indicator is located and displaying an image corresponding to the switched channel, in response to a second input of releasing the channel-up or channel-down key.
US10924793B2
Methods and systems are described for setting up, in one embodiment, a generic streaming media device as a set-top box for a multichannel content provider that provides a content delivery service. The set up process can be performed automatically and as background operations while a user manually sets up the device, in foreground operations, for use with an online streaming media store or source of content. The set up process can use a device token that was previously associated with the multichannel content provider for use with the device during the set up process. The device token can be stored by the developer of the device and sent by the developer to the multichannel content provider during a set up process of the device; the device token can be opaque to the developer but provides information used by the multichannel content provider to set up the device as a set top box.
US10924789B2
A display control apparatus includes: a playback unit to play back a moving image; a display control unit to display a display region; an first acquisition unit to acquire information relating to an attitude of a display unit; a reception unit to receive an operation to modify the display region of the moving image displayed; and a control unit (1) to stop playback of the moving image and modify the display region, in a case where the reception unit receives a first predetermined operation during playback of the moving image, and (2) to modify the display region in accordance with the attitude without stopping playback of the moving image, in a case where variation in the attitude is detected on the basis of the information acquired by the first acquisition unit during playback of the moving image.
US10924784B2
A receiving side can perform interactive processing based on information of an object. Image data is coded to obtain a video stream having coded image data. The video stream is transmitted in a state of being added with information of an object detected on the basis of image data. For example, information of an object includes coded data obtained by coding one-bit data showing a shape of the object, information of a region that is a rectangular area enclosing the object, display priority information of the region, text information that explains the object, and the like. The receiving side can acquire information of an object without the need of detecting an object by processing image data, and without depending on its own performance, and is allowed to perform interactive processing based on information of an object in an excellent manner.
US10924781B2
A system, method and computer program product for real-time post-processing system that transforms MPEG-DASH on-demand media streams, including a DASH media player device; an intercepting media server device; a MPEG-DASH content origin server device; and a proxy media client device coupled to the DASH media player device and the intercepting media server device and configured to intercept MPEG-DASH HTTP requests from the DASH media player device and forward the intercepted requests to the intercepting media server device instead of the MPEG-DASH content origin server device. The intercepting media server device is configured to act as an HTTP proxy device, and forward the intercepted requests to the MPEG-DASH content origin server, and with each corresponding MPEG-DASH media subsegment acquired perform analysis of the video media content within the subsegment and apply selective transcoding.
US10924772B2
A method and device for live video broadcast is disclosed. The method includes: acquiring first live broadcast configuration information corresponding to a first process, and live broadcasting video streaming corresponding to the first process according to the first live broadcast configuration information; when it is detected that a running state of a second process is an activated state, acquiring second live broadcast configuration information corresponding to the second process, and detecting a relationship between the first process and the second process according to the first live broadcast configuration information and the second live broadcast configuration information; and when it is detected that the relationship between the first process and the second process is an association relationship, switching the live broadcasted video streaming corresponding to the first process for video streaming corresponding to the second process according to the second live broadcast configuration information.
US10924769B2
A method for encoding at least one image, including subdividing the image into a plurality of blocks and subdividing at least one current block into a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a rectangular or square shape and the second portion complements the first portion in the current block. The second portion has a geometric shape with m sides, wherein m>4. Then the first and second portions are encoded.
US10924764B2
An image processing method of performing filtering on image blocks using a plurality of deblocking filters having different filter strengths includes: a first parameter calculating step of calculating a first parameter indicating a boundary strength; a second parameter calculating step of calculating a second parameter indicating a limit value for each of the deblocking filters, based on the first parameter and a quantization parameter; and a selecting step of selecting a deblocking filter to be used in the filtering from among the deblocking filters, using one or more threshold values which are determined based on the second parameter.
US10924758B2
A method for determining a motion vector includes: determining at least one inter-layer reference block by referring to an inter-layer corresponding block of a current processing block; determining the motion vector(s) of the current processing block according to the motion vector(s) of the determined at least one inter-layer reference block as well as the motion vectors of the other adjacent blocks of the current processing block.
US10924756B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus. The encoding apparatus is configured to process a video signal, the video signal comprising a plurality of frames, each frame being dividable into a plurality of video coding blocks, each video coding block comprising a plurality of pixels. The encoding apparatus comprises a partitioner configured to partition a first video coding block of the plurality of video coding blocks of a first frame of the video signal into a first segment and a second segment, wherein the first segment comprises a first set of the plurality of pixels of the first video coding block and the second segment comprises a second set of the plurality of pixels of the first video coding block.
US10924750B2
Systems and methods are provided for improving efficiency of an encoder performance in the HEVC palette mode by limiting the number of colors to be used in the current palette to be no more than the size of coding unit or the prediction unit, and by avoiding duplicate colors in the current palette. The encoder may signal a binary vector indicating previous elements from a palette predictor list to be reused in a current palette, determine a number of the previous elements based on the binary vector, determine a sample size of the current palette, determine a maximum number of new elements to be used in the current palette based on the number of the previous elements and the sample size, determine a set of new elements corresponding to the maximum number of new elements, and signal the set of new elements.
US10924746B2
A method for adaptive MV precision is disclosed. According to one embodiment, whether to use or not to use the adaptive MV precision for a current block is determined according to a prediction mode/partition type of the current block. If the adaptive MV precision is used, a current MV precision is determined for a current MV of the current block, and the current MV is encoded or decoded at the current MV precision. If the adaptive MV precision is not used, the current MV is encoded or decoded at a finer MV precision. In another embodiment, a value of a current adaptive MV precision flag is selected for a current block to indicate whether to use or not to use the adaptive MV precision for a current block according to a prediction mode/partition type of the current block.
US10924739B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for calculating a quantization parameter (QP) for encoding video frames to meet a given bit budget are disclosed. Control logic coupled to an encoder calculates a complexity indicator that represents a level of difficulty in encoding a previous video frame. The complexity indicator is based at least in part on a first parameter associated with the previous video frame and corresponds to one or more of a variance, an intra-prediction factor, and an inter-to-intra ratio. The complexity indicator is then used by the control logic to calculate a preferred QP to use to encode the current video frame to meet a given bit budget. By using the preferred QP generated based on the complexity indicator, the encoder is able to make fewer QP adjustments during the frame. This helps to improve the visual quality of the resulting encoded video bitstream.
US10924734B2
A method for decoding an image in intra prediction, includes generating two-dimensional quantized block by applying an inverse scan pattern to significant coefficients, sign flags and levels respectively; generating a quantization parameter predictor; adding the quantization parameter predictor and a differential quantization parameter to generate quantization parameter; inversely quantizing the quantized block using the quantization parameter; inversely transforming the inversely quantized block to restore a residual block; generating a prediction block; and generating a reconstructed block using the residual block and the prediction block.
US10924730B2
According to the present invention, an image decoding method performed by a decoding device comprises the steps of: generating a first prediction block and a second prediction block of a current block; selecting a prediction block, to which a Wiener filter is to be applied, among the first prediction block and the second prediction block; deriving Wiener filter coefficients of the selected prediction block based on the first prediction block and the second prediction block; filtering the selected prediction block based on the derived Wiener filter coefficients; and generating a reconstructed block of the current block based on the filtered prediction block. According to the present invention, the overall coding efficiency can be improved by minimizing the difference between prediction blocks.
US10924729B2
The present invention provides a method and a device for calibration applied to the field of image processing. The method includes: acquiring a common two-dimensional image and an infrared image of a calibration object, wherein the calibration object carries a first pattern; calculating coordinates of the first pattern in the common two-dimensional image, acquiring coordinates of the first pattern in a global coordinate system, and calculating intrinsic parameters of a first camera device capturing the common two-dimensional image; and calculating coordinates of the first pattern in the infrared image, acquiring the coordinates of the first pattern in the global coordinate system, and calculating intrinsic parameters of a second camera device capturing the infrared image. The method for calibration is capable of enhancing calibration efficiency by a simple calibration method when calibrating a depth camera device.
US10924725B2
A method of reducing an alignment error between a user device and lenticular lenses to view a glass-free stereoscopic image includes: (a) providing an angle adjustable user interface configured to display at least one interference pattern line and a reference line in a display area of the user device where the lenticular lenses attach; (b) receiving a user input to adjust a slant angle of the interference pattern line to the reference line; and (c) displaying the interference pattern line with an changed slant angle in response to the user input and defining a slant angle of the pixel line according to the changed interference pattern line. The pixel line is configured to include multiple lines represented by multiple pixels that constitute the display area of the user device and has a specific slant. The lens line refers to a pattern of multiple lines formed by multiple convex lenses that constitute the lenticular lenses and the interference pattern line is formed by the lens line and the pixel line.
US10924716B2
An image projection device includes: an optical component reflecting an image light beam that has been converted into a substantially parallel light by a lens and scanned by a scanner; a projection mirror irradiating a retina with the reflected image light beam; a light beam blocking unit located on a light path between the scanner and the lens and having an aperture, wherein the projection mirror has a first region and a second region having a larger light condensing power than the first region, and a light condensing power in a third region, reflecting a light beam to be emitted to the first region of the scanned image light beam, of the optical component is greater than that in a fourth region, reflecting a light beam to be emitted to the second region of the scanned image light beam, of the optical component.
US10924712B2
A trauma scene monitoring system includes a medic-worn illumination device, a casualty-worn informatics system, and a remote monitoring station. The illumination device includes a frame with boom-mounted light sources positioned below the wearer's eyes near the zygomatic bones, thus orienting the light sources to project light in the direction of the wearer's view. Also included are audio/video means to capture audio/video information from a scene attended by the medic, and a telemetry unit to transmit that information to the remote monitoring station. The casualty-worn informatics system is integrated within a headband worn by a monitored individual. The informatics system includes sensors to provide the monitored individual's vital statistics and a telemetry unit to transmit data concerning the monitored individual to the remote monitoring station. At the remote monitoring station, receiving and presentation stations provide views of the data concerning the monitored individual and audio/video data from the medic-worn illumination device.
US10924711B1
An underwater camera assembly for remotely viewing underwater video includes a pole that is gripped by a user thereby facilitating the user to extend the pole into a body of water. A disk is pivotally coupled to the pole such that the disk can be submerged in the body of water. A plurality of cameras is each coupled to the disk to capture underwater images. A display unit is coupled to the pole such that the display unit is visible to the user. The display unit is in electrical communication with each of the cameras. Thus, the display unit displays the imagery captured by the cameras to facilitate the user to see the underwater images.
US10924706B2
An audio device is provided which distributes via the Internet a telephone talk between a distributer and a viewer, with a simple structure. An audio interface device can be connected to a PC, and distributes via the Internet a sound signal which is input from a microphone along with a BGM by outputting the sound signal to the PC. When a call is made with a caller, the audio interface device branches the sound signal which is input from the microphone into a first sound signal and a second sound signal, and supplies the second sound signal to the caller. Also, the first sound signal, the sound signal from the caller, and the BGM are synthesized and output to the PC, and the telephone talk is distributed via the Internet.
US10924702B2
The invention discloses a multi-channel image capture system including a secondary image information transmission channel, a secondary FPGA chip and a signal conversion chip. The secondary image information transmission channel has a camera interface unit, a primary FPGA chip and a cache unit. The camera interface unit includes several camera interfaces and is connected to an external camera. The primary FPGA chip receives, decodes, and then writes the image data captured by the camera to the cache unit, and reads the image data from the cache unit according to a read command from the secondary FPGA chip and transmits it to the secondary FPGA chip. The secondary FPGA chip acquires the image data from the cache unit based on the priority and the capturing order and transmits it to the signal conversion chip. The signal conversion chip is connected to the terminal and transmits the image data to the terminal.
