US10005051B2
A pug mill having a housing and a cantilevered shaft extending through the housing includes, in seriatim, a vacuum chamber, a wall, a mixing chamber and a reduction cone. A communication port about the shaft is positioned in the wall between the vacuum chamber and the mixing chamber. Vacuum can be maintained within the mixing chamber by air passing through the port. An auger associated with the shaft forces clay toward the reduction cone. This creates a seal for maintaining vacuum within the mixing chamber and extrudes cylindrical blocks of conditioned clay without significant air bubbles. A deflection plate rotating with the shaft and a spiral element about the shaft keep the communication port clear. The shaft is eccentrically mounted. The dividing wall is removable.
US10005045B2
A method for producing a composition having a disperse phase with small particle size dispersed in a continuous phase and having greater than 20% by volume of a disperse phase. The method comprising a permeation step, wherein a mixture of a continuous phase liquid and a disperse phase liquid simultaneously permeate a circumferential surface of a cylinder, which is partially or wholly composed of a porous membrane. The cylinder having outlets for the composition in the cross sections of both ends of the cylinder. The porous membrane having an average pore size of not smaller than 5 μm at a membrane permeation rate of not lower than 50 m3/m2h. The porous membrane cylinder having a longitudinal effective membrane length, L, the internal diameter of the outlets, d, and the membrane permeation rate, F, which satisfy the relationships disclosed herein of L/d and F.
US10005044B2
The invention relates to a virus filter membrane which can be used for the removal of virus particles including parvovirus. The invention further relates to a method for producing the membrane. The membrane comprises polyacrylonitrile and polyvinylpyrrolidone.
US10005040B2
Apparatus and method for semi-permeable membrane cleaning in particular, applying series of pulsed water stroke, made simultaneously with osmosis backward flow causing superposed membrane directional shaking and fouling detachment. Pulsed water stroke provided by water stroke generator as several momentum sharp changes in gauge pressure and induce velocity pulse of residual brine flow. The pulsed water strokes ideally induce resonance in the membrane. Osmosis backward wash may be provided either by injection for predetermined injection time, additional solution selected in such way that net driving pressure becomes opposite to normal osmotic operation thereby providing a backward flow of permeate towards to the side opposite to normal operation mode, so as to lift said foulant, or by throttling permeate exiting from the permeate enclosure, until the net driving pressure value become equal to zero, during application of precise synchronized and opposing brine and permeate pressure strokes thereby providing a plurality of quick RO-FO-RO process changes. These procedures allow a membrane to be kept continuously clean and operate at higher recovery.
US10005037B2
A cross-flow filtration device comprises a retentate plate, a permeate plate, and a membrane sandwiched between the retentate plate and the permeate plate. The retentate plate comprises at least one feed channel extending from a distribution manifold, and at least one drain channel extending from a collection manifold, and a feed channel is fluidly connected to a drain channel via through-holes extending from a first side of the retentate plate, from a feed channel, to an opposing second side of the retentate plate, and through-holes extending from the second side of the retentate plate to the first side of the retentate plate, into a drain channel. One or more of the through-holes extending from the feed channel have a chamfered inlet.
US10005035B2
An ion processing device includes, on the side of an anion exchange layer of a bipolar membrane which is formed by stacking an anion exchange layer and a cation exchange layer, an anion-side channel which is filled with an anion exchanger, and an anion removal channel provided via an anion exchange membrane, and also includes an anode for moving anions from the anion-side channel to the anion removal channel through the anion exchange membrane. Further, a cation-side channel which is filled with a cation exchanger and a cation removal channel provided via a cation exchange membrane are included on the side of the cation exchange layer of the bipolar membrane as well as a cathode for moving cations from the cation-side channel to the cation removal channel through the cation exchange membrane.
US10005033B2
Disclosed is a mass selective fluid bandpass filter. This filter provides for selecting gas molecules of a specific mass from a gas sample containing molecules of two or more mass species. This provides for a low power, low cost apparatus for producing 3He from terrestrial sources of helium gas by selective enrichment. This invention further discloses a portable, field deployable means of 3He/4He ratio determination employing one or more of the effects consisting of: statistical linear regression plots of heat ramps, variable emission currents within a quadruple mass spectrometer, use of a quadrupole mass spectrometer in concert with ultrahigh vacuum maintained by non-evaporable getter pumps, and/or construction of vacuum housing structures from non-steel or non-stainless steel alloys, and or non metallic materials selected from a group consisting of: aluminum, titanium, ceramics, or glass. This provides a compact, sensitive field deployable unit with low power consumption.
US10005031B2
A dual-layer catalyst includes a substrate, a first layer disposed on the substrate, and a second layer disposed on the first layer. The first layer includes a first catalyst for storing NOx when the first catalyst has a temperature below an active temperature of a second catalyst. The first catalyst is to release the stored NOx when the first catalyst is heated to the active temperature of the second catalyst. The second layer includes the second catalyst for ammonia Selective Catalytic Reduction of the released NOx. The dual-layer catalyst is to be included in a catalytic converter and a catalyst system for reducing NOx emissions from a diesel engine, the NOx emissions including NOx emitted during a predetermined cold-start time period.
US10005030B2
The flue gas treatment system (1) comprises a reactor (2), a pre-separator (3) downstream of the reactor (2), a separator (4) such as a fabric filter downstream of the pre-separator (3), a humidifier (5) downstream of the separator (4), a supply (7) of a pure fresh reagent into the flue gas (FG) downstream of the pre-separator (3) and upstream of or at the separator (4).
US10005029B2
Systems and methods for sequestering gas feed constituents and creating gas feed byproducts are disclosed. The systems and methods contemplate use of and processing of fluids using fluid energy transfer modules, scrubber unit(s), a slurry reaction vessel, a surge tank treatment vessel purifier(s) and a concentrator. Chemical solutions, solids etc. are regenerated and reused thereby increasing system and/or process efficiency and savings while also producing products for commercialization.
US10005009B2
A service port for a tank that receives a fluid, the service port including a body having a first end and a second end, the body defining a bore that opens at the first end and second end of the body; a strainer attached to the second end of the body, the strainer including a strainer element that has a first end and a second end, and a pair of sides; wherein the strainer element is closed at the first end and open at the second end defining a strainer volume therebetween; the strainer element being permeable to liquid; wherein the second end of the strainer element is attached about the bore and wherein a wall of the strainer element extending from the second end of the strainer element toward the first end of the strainer element is oriented generally parallel to a flow direction of fluid.
US10004997B2
A vehicle toy that can work with common construction blocks provides connector surfaces covering the top and bottom of the toy housing for full integration into construction projects. Interface and control with the vehicle are provided by mesh wireless connectivity to a cell phone or the like greatly simplifying its construction. Mesh interconnections between vehicles and controllers allow greater interaction of the devices including allowing one device to be nominated as a referee permitting automatically refereed interactive contests.
US10004993B2
Methods, systems, devices, and media for controlling a network game in accordance with an input of at least one game spectator are provided. A network interface receives controller input information from at least one game player and game spectator input information based on the input of the game spectator. The network game is progressed in accordance with the controller input information received by the network interface from the game player, and an aspect of the network game is controlled in accordance with the game spectator input information received by the network interface. The game player executes a game client that establishes a connection with the game system for transmitting the controller input information to the network interface. The game spectator does not execute the game client.
US10004990B2
A hand-held information processing terminal includes a display, a camera arranged in proximity to the display and capable of obtaining an image of a user including infrared components, an estimation module that estimates relative positional relation between the display and the user based on the obtained image, a generation module that generates a plurality of display images in accordance with the relative positional relation, and a control module that provides stereoscopic display to the user in accordance with a position thereof with the use of the plurality of display images.
US10004986B1
Techniques are disclosed for monitoring and evaluating video game activity by scanning for communications between a gaming console and peripherals that wirelessly communicate with the gaming console. An activity tracker receives wireless communications sent between the gaming console and a peripheral. The activity tracker generates one or more usage metrics describing the wireless communications. The activity tracker evaluates the network data based on or more specified rules. Upon determining that the usage metrics trigger a specified rule, the activity tracker generates a notification to describing those usage metrics.
US10004985B2
A system including two handheld electronic devices, each device including a housing, a communicator mounted in the housing continuously receiving images from an internet server, a display mounted in the housing, and a sensor mounted in the housing and connected to the communicator, configured to detect sizes of objects in an adjacent detection zone, and including an analyzer recognizing the other handheld electronic device when the sensor detects that an object in the adjacent detection zone is as long as an edge of the housing, wherein the server receives outputs from the analyzer and partitions each of the images into two half-images, and continuously transmits one of each half-image to the handheld electronic device and the other of each half-image to the other handheld device, such that each full image spans the two device displays.
US10004981B2
A vehicle simulation such as for example a driving game can be provided by displaying an image of a steering wheel on a touch sensitive screen. Touch inputs are used to control the rotational orientation of displayed steering wheel. The rotational orientation of the displayed steering wheel is used to apply course correction effects to a simulated vehicle. Selective application of driver assist and different scaling of touch inputs may be provided.
US10004978B2
A game piece, comprising members that are associated with one another with pivot axes, where a member provides a pivot support that allows independent rotation and or translation motions of a next member in different directions.
US10004974B1
An externally worn protective thigh pad which protects the inner and frontal thigh muscles from baseball or softball impacts. The protective thigh pad is designed specifically for the player who begins play by squatting behind a batter and spreading their legs. This is usually referred to as the catcher, but this could also be the umpire. The protective thigh pad provides a level of ballistic protection equal to the rest of the catchers gear. The protective thigh pad can be easily put on and removed for batting and base running. The protective thigh pad is comfortable enough to wear through nine innings of play. The protective thigh pad protects an area of the thigh from the inner thigh to the outer thigh and from the patella to the pubis. The protective thigh pad is circumferentially attached to the thigh then suspended from the waist keeping the pad in place.
US10004972B2
A stationary strength training equipment includes a frame assembly, a lockable bilateral user interface installed on the frame assembly, a balancing structure connected to the lockable bilateral user interface, a plurality of user selectable weights supported by the frame assembly and connected to the balancing structure, a load detecting strain gauge disposed on the user selectable weights to detect a weight of the user selectable weights being lifted, and an informing device connected to the lockable bilateral user interface to detect and show a warning signal to a user. The lockable bilateral user interface further includes a locking mechanism assembly and a central pivot assembly; the balancing structure is able to rotate along the central pivot assembly, and the locking mechanism assembly selectively restricts a rotation of the balancing structure.
US10004968B2
A helmet training aid for obscuring the vision of a user. The helmet training aid includes a panel having a pair of distal ends securely affixed to a pair of opposing blinders. A fastener is secured at a lower end of each blinder, wherein the fastener removably secures each blinder to an opposing side of a helmet such that an upper end of each blinder covers an open portion of the helmet therebetween a brim and a cage of the helmet. The panel contains one or more fasteners on a first surface that removably secures to the cage of the helmet. In an alternative embodiment, opposing sidewalls of the blinders flare outwardly from the lower end to the upper end, the fastener on each blinder is secured to a protrusion at the lower end, and the panel is made of a mesh material.
US10004964B2
A suspension basketball board has a backboard, a basketball hoop, and at least one hanging device. Each of the at least one hanging device has a hanger, at least one clamping panel, a mounting hole, a first joint, and a second joint. The at least one clamping panel connects to the hanger and is resilient relative to the hanger. The mounting hole is formed through the top panel of the hanger. The first joint is mounted between the connecting panel and the top panel of the hanger. The second joint is mounted between the top panel and the back panel of the hanger. Accordingly, the suspension basketball board can be horizontally and stably mounted on a door of any thickness.
US10004959B1
A golf club head, preferably a putter head, comprising a replaceable face insert is disclosed herein. The golf club head comprises a body with face cavity and a secondary cavity in communication with, and disposed behind, the face cavity, and at least one opening extending through a top or sole portion into the secondary cavity. The replaceable face insert comprises a striking portion and a support structure having an elongated, vertical through bore extending from a rear surface of the striking portion. The support structure is received within the secondary cavity and the striking portion is received within the face cavity, and then a rod or bolt is inserted through the opening and into the elongated, vertical through bore to reversibly secure the face insert to the body. A linear bearing may be disposed within the elongated through bore to receive the rod or bolt.
US10004958B2
The present invention is directed to a golf club head comprising one or more center of gravity and bias adjustment features. In some embodiments, the golf club head comprises an elongated cartridge having one or more sockets or weight ports to receive weight plugs, the arrangement of which can be changed to adjust the mass properties of the golf club head. The orientation of the cartridge itself can also be reversed to adjust the mass properties. In other embodiments, the golf club head comprises at least one semicircular weight ring that extends around the rear portion of the golf club head, and is removable and replaceable to adjust the mass properties of the golf club head. In still other embodiments, these features are combined on one head.
US10004951B2
According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided an adjustable connector including at least two parts, each having a main body with a bore having a longitudinal axis therein, wherein an external surface of the main body of a first part is configured to bear against an internal surface of the bore of a second part when the first part is at least partially inserted into the bore of the second part to form a connection, characterized in that the positioning of the bores with respect to the main bodies is such that when the parts are connected to each other, rotation of one part with respect to the other changes the inclination of the longitudinal axes of the bores with respect to one another.
US10004944B2
A mandatory hooking/locking device for an elevating footboard of a pull-up exercise machine includes a touch-pressing rod disposed at stepping positions with respect to an exerciser's two soles separately and acted by a rotary plate and a torsion spring to achieve a lifting effect to freely penetrate and slightly elevate from an end surface of the elevating footboard, and a hooking portion disposed at the bottom end of the rotary plate being provided for hooking to a corresponsive latch column of an inwardly extending section in the floor affixing front stand, so that the hooking portion of the rotary plate can be separated from the latch column only if the two touch-pressing rods are stepped and pressed down simultaneously, so that the elevating footboard performs the expected ascending and descending motions to ensure the safety of use.
US10004939B1
The wheel attachment for stationary exercise bike is an attachment adapted for use with a stationary exercise bike. The wheel attachment for stationary exercise bike is adapted for use in cross-training. Specifically, the wheel attachment for stationary exercise bike is a rotating handle bar that is mounted on the stationary exercise bike. The wheel attachment for stationary exercise bike is mounted on a pivot that allows the wheel attachment for stationary exercise bike to be rotated in a first plane of rotation that is perpendicular to a second plane of rotation that is defined by the rotation of the pedals of the exercise bike. The wheel attachment for stationary exercise bike comprises a pivot, a handle bar, a strut, and a front tire apparatus.
US10004936B1
The device and its attachments include a harness that is worn over the user's upper body and around the user's waist. The harness provides a plurality of attachment areas for additional items. Some of the items include but are not limited to a log carrier, a large duffle bag, and a small duffle bag. The harness will allow said items to attach with quick release loops and side release buckles. The harness will also provide a pouch attachment ladder system (PALS) or otherwise known as a modular lightweight load-carrying equipment system (MOLLE). Accordingly, the harness may be used to carry or drag said items depending on the exercise being carried out by the user.
US10004927B2
A clutch lock mechanism for a retractable lanyard includes a pivotal pawl with an engagement end and a sperrad or sperrad ring having teeth which face toward the engagement end of the pawl. One of the sperrad and the pawls are circumferentially fixed, and the other moves relative to the former. The pawl is pivotal movable between an engagement position in which the pawl engagement end within an annular ring defined on one side by the tips of the sperrad teeth and on the other side by the roots of the sperrad teeth and a non-engagement position in which the pawl engagement end is not within the engagement zone. The sperrad and the pawl are in contact with each other, such that, as one moves relative to the other, the engagement end of the pawl is positively moved into the engagement zone without the need to rely on centrifugal forces. Additionally, a housing for the retractable is made from, for example, plastic, and is provided with a reinforcement, such that the reinforcement bears the forces in a fall, thereby allowing the housing to be made from lightweight, non-structural materials.
US10004915B2
A compact and economical transcranial magnetic stimulation system is provided which allows patient to carry out transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy routinely and repeatedly in, for example, his or her house or a neighborhood primary-care medical facility. The system (1) has a magnetic field generating means for generating a magnetic field to be used for providing magnetic stimulation to a specific part of the patient's head. The magnetic field generating means has a magnetic coil (2) for generating a variable magnetic field, a holder (10) for holding the magnetic coil (2), cameras (150a) and another for recognizing respective reference markings (24) or specific portions of ears of the patient M (tragi (24)), and laser beam oscillators (160a) and another. According to the system, the coil (2) is set in a proper posture with respect to the specific part of the patient by aligning the optical axes of the cameras (150a) and other and the laser beam oscillators (160a) and other with respective tragi (24).
US10004912B1
Electrically conductive implantable microelectrodes or microconductors are used to lower the transthoracic impedance of an animal. An adapter is provided to enable use of a separate electronic device such as a smartphone or tablet in connection with the implanted microelectrodes or microconductors as an automatic external defibrillator (AED). The adapter includes a connector to connect the adapter to the electronic device, at least one capacitor that may be charged to a predetermined level from the power source of the electronic device, and an electrode through which an electric shock may be delivered from the capacitor through the implanted microelectrodes or microconductors to the heart of the animal.
US10004911B2
Charging circuitry is disclosed for receiving a magnetic charging field and using the received field to charge a battery in an Implantable Medical Device (IMD) without passive trickle charging, and even if the battery voltage (Vbat) is severely depleted. The charging circuitry includes a source capable of producing a constant charging current via a current mirror that receives a reference current for setting the charging current. Two reference current generators are provided: a first enabled when Vbat is severely depleted to produce a small non-adjustable reference current; and a second enabled once Vbat is recovered to produce a reference current that can be controlled to adjust the charging current. Because Vbat may be too low, the first generator is powered by a DC voltage produced from the magnetic charging field. A passively-generated undervoltage control signal is used to transition between use of the first and second generators.
US10004909B2
Medical device application for an external device using data logged at an implantable medical device
A Medical Device Application (MDA) is disclosed for an external device (e.g., a cell phone) that can communicate with an Implantable Medical Device (IMD). The MDA receives data logged in the IMD, processes that data in manners reviewable by an IMD patient, and that can control the IMD based on such processed data. The MDA can use the logged data to adjust IMD therapy based on patient activity or posture, and allows a patient to learn optimal therapy settings for particular activities. The MDA can also use the logged data to allow a patient to review details about IMD battery performance, whether such battery is primary or rechargeable, and to control stimulation parameters based on that performance. The MDA also allows a patient to enter medicine dose information, to review the relationship between medicinal therapy and IMD therapy, and to adjust IMD therapy based on the dosing information.
US10004908B2
In an example, an apparatus can include an implantable medical device comprising a housing, an implantable telemetry circuit carried within the housing, a dielectric compartment mechanically coupled to the housing, the dielectric compartment including first and second substantially parallel face portions and a third face portion extending between the first and second face portions, and an implantable telemetry antenna, located at least partially within the dielectric compartment. The implantable telemetry circuit can be electrically coupled to the implantable telemetry antenna and configured to wirelessly transfer information electromagnetically using the implantable telemetry antenna. In an example the implantable telemetry antenna comprises a spiral conductor portion extending along the first, second, and third face portions. In an example the spiral conductor includes a cross section having a lateral width that can be greater than a sidewall height of the cross section.
US10004899B2
An electric pulse generator for electroporator includes a poring pulse generator, and a transfer pulse generator. The poring generator includes an n-stage Cockroft-Walton circuit, and a first circuit branched from a branching point of wiring on output side of the Cockroft-Walton, the first circuit includes a switching switch that is turned off in high-voltage mode and turned on in low-voltage mode, a voltage value for switching between the modes is in 200 to 1400 V, the first circuit includes a second circuit in which m2 series of m1 series-connected capacitors are connected in parallel, the switch and second circuit are connected in series, and first wiring on output side of the second circuit is merged with second wiring on output side of the Cockroft-Walton on output side of the branching point, and a withstand voltage of the Cockroft-Walton is a value in 1500 to 5000 V in the high-voltage mode.
US10004898B2
A system and method to treat neuromuscular conditions, including spinal cord injury, by what is characterized as dipole (two point) cortico-muscular stimulation. Two-point stimulation, with oppositely charged electrodes, allows pulsed, direct current to pass through the cortico-muscular pathway. The electrodes are placed on nerves, muscles, or a combination of both, that are on opposite sides of the spinal column, forming a current that passes across the spinal column. Further, an active electrode can be placed on the spinal column and a reference electrode can be placed outside the central nervous system. These methods improve functional recovery of the motor pathway.
US10004897B2
A medical lead is configured to be implanted into a patient's body and comprises a lead body, and an electrode coupled to the lead body. The electrode comprises a first section configured to contact the patient's body, and a second section capacitively coupled to the first section and configured to be electrically coupled to the patient's body.
US10004891B2
A catheter assembly including a catheter hub being connectable to a device for the infusion or withdrawal of fluids; a hollow extension tube connected at its distal end to the catheter hub, the extension tube connectable at its proximal end to a device for infusing fluid into the chamber within the catheter hub; a valve assembly disposed within the chamber of the catheter hub having a first valve member and a second valve member preventing the flow of fluid through the chamber to or from the proximal end of the catheter hub. A needle guard assembly is also provided.
US10004889B2
A connector for use with a syringe or extension tubing, such as an enteral feeding syringe or tubing, is provided. The connector has features to effectively secure a syringe or extension tubing with the connector without contamination from a user.
US10004886B2
Embodiments herein may relate to a unit dose system that may include a first applicator and a second applicator. The first applicator may include a crushable ampoule that includes approximately 1 milliliter (mL) of a silver salt solution disposed therein. The first applicator may further include a first syringe tip coupled with the crushable ampoule. The second applicator may include a flexible filled tube that includes approximately 4 mL of a varnish disposed therein and a second syringe tip coupled with the flexible filled tube. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10004873B1
Sleep aid device for vehicle, system including sleep aid device, and method of sleep aid for vehicle
A sleep aid device for a vehicle includes a sleep information setting device for setting sleep information and a target sleep time of a user, a route establishing device for establishing a route to a destination and for calculating a time required to reach the destination, a sleep mode determining device for determining whether a current mode is a sleep mode and for determining a sleep-inducing start time using the sleep information and the time required to reach the destination, a sleep mode controller for controlling an intra-vehicle device in the sleep mode at the sleep-inducing start time, a wake-up mode determining device for determining a sleep state of the user and entering a wake-up mode when the user is in a light sleep state, and a wake-up mode controller for controlling the intra-vehicle device in the wake-up mode when the wake-up mode is entered.
US10004872B1
A PEP module is provided for producing and transmitting oscillations of expiratory air to the lungs and airways of a user to thereby loosen and mobilize mucus obstructions. The PEP module includes an external device housing having a mouthpiece at a first end thereof and a cover at an opposite second end thereof configured for providing resistance to the airflow of the expiratory air. The PEP module further includes a valve assembly contained within the external housing and disposed medially between the mouthpiece and the cover. The valve assembly includes a valve housing and a valve moveably mounted on the valve housing. The valve rapidly and repeatedly oscillates relative to the valve housing as the user exhales to produce oscillations in the expiratory air that are transmitted to the lungs and airways of the user to loosen and mobilize the mucus obstructions.
US10004867B2
A mask apparatus for a respiratory treatment can permit delivery of breathable gas to a user. In one example, the mask may employ a frame and cushion to form a seal for both mouth and nose. The frame may be adapted for coupling with a respiratory treatment apparatus so as to permit communication of a pressurized gas from the respiratory treatment apparatus. The cushion, which may be foam, may have a substantially under the nose configuration. The mask may have a common plenum chamber for both nose and mouth. The cushion may further define a centrally open lip superior region. The cushion may be adapted to couple with the frame directly or to the frame in conjunction with a cushion support clip. Various features of the cushion may further promote sealing and comfort for the under the nose design.
US10004863B2
A closed suction system module is provided. In one embodiment, the closed suction system module includes a coupling member configured to couple to a suction port of a multi-port manifold or endotracheal tube adapter (e.g., dual-port or tri-port adapter). In one embodiment, the closed suction system module includes a suction catheter configured to clean the interior surfaces of body-inserted tubes or artificial airways (alone or in addition to suctioning natural airways or portions of the respiratory tract or other body lumens). The suction catheter may include a cleaning portion at a distal portion of the suction catheter (e.g., near the distal end or tip of the suction catheter). In some embodiments, the cleaning portion includes at least one expandable cleaning member (e.g., balloon, sleeve, wiper).
US10004861B2
An alarming method for a ventilator and a ventilator alarm system are provided. The method includes the following. First, a plurality of ventilation parameters are received and detected. If a peak airway pressure of the ventilation parameters conforms to a first condition, whether a plateau pressure conforms to a second condition is determined, wherein the first condition is Y(k+1), Ppeak>Yk, mean,Ppeak+3*Yk,sd,Ppeak, and the second condition is Y(k+1), Pplateau
US10004850B2
A syringe holder for a motorized injection device, the syringe holder being adapted to receive a receptacle intended to contain a fluid or viscous substance, preferably a disposable refillable receptacle or a syringe, as well as being adapted to be mounted on the motorized injection device such that the motorized injection device enables a part or all of the fluid or viscous substance contained in said receptacle to be expelled. The syringe holder includes a first activator portion to control a predefined function of the motorized injection device. The syringe holder is distinguished in that it comprises a second activator portion to control said predefined function of the motorized injection device independently from the first activator portion.
US10004846B2
An infusion system includes a double action infusion pump. The pump includes a cylinder and a reciprocating piston received within the cylinder, the reciprocating piston separating a first pump chamber from a second pump chamber of the cylinder. A reciprocating motor is coupled with the reciprocating piston, and the first and second pump chambers alternate between filling and evacuating conditions with reciprocation of the reciprocating piston through operation of the reciprocating motor, and the speed of reciprocation is varied to provide a continuous output of fluid between the first and second pump chambers. A fluid source and a catheter are optionally coupled with the double action infusion pump. The catheter includes one or more infusion ports near a catheter distal portion, and the one or more infusion ports receive and expel the continuous output of fluid from the double action infusion pump.
US10004843B2
A marking tool for use in the context of radiological and other medical imaging is disclosed. The product is a marking tool for distributing an imaging material onto a patient's skin to mark that part of the patient's body for imaging. The imaging technician then knows the area of medical interest, such as an internal injury, and can image that area more accurately. The imaging material shows up on a resulting medical image such as an X-Ray, CT Scan, or MRI to direct a radiology professional to the most important area on the image for diagnostic purposes.
US10004842B2
Apparatus for use in dialyzing a patient comprising a hemodialysis catheter comprising an elongated body having a proximal and a distal end, wherein the distal end terminates in a substantially planar distal end surface; first and second lumens extending from the proximal end to the distal end, wherein the lumens terminate on the distal end surface in first and second mouths, arranged in side-by-side configuration, and further wherein the lumens are separated by a septum; and first and second longitudinal slots formed in the distal end of the elongated body and communicating with the interiors of the lumens, the slots opening on the distal end surface; wherein the slots each have a length and a width, relative to the dimensions of the lumens and the rate of blood flow to be passed through the hemodialysis catheter, so as to minimize undesirable recirculation of dialyzed blood. given lumen is to be used for a suction function, the primary blood flow will enter the proximal end of the longitudinal slot associated with that lumen, whereby to minimize undesirable recirculation of dialyzed blood.
US10004835B2
A portable system for subatmospheric pressure therapy in connection with healing a surgical wound includes a wound dressing dimensioned for positioning relative to a wound bed of a subject and a collection canister in fluid communication with the wound dressing. The canister includes a first vacuum chamber for drawing a vacuum and a second fluid chamber for collecting fluids removed from the wound dressing under the vacuum. The vacuum chamber may have a vacuum and a power source. The canister further includes a hydrophobic membrane separating the first and the second fluid vacuum chambers. The hydrophobic membrane is dimensioned to span a major portion of the cross-sectional area of the canister. The hydrophobic membrane may be dimensioned to substantially span an internal dimension of the collection canister. The hydrophobic membrane may include one or more outwardly extending lobes. The outwardly extending lobes may be arranged in staggered relation. The hydrophobic membrane may be releasably mountable to the canister, and, may be supported within a divider separating the first vacuum chamber and the second fluid chamber.
US10004815B2
[Problem] To provide a novel near-infrared quencher.[Solution] A compound represented by general formula (I) or a salt thereof.
US10004813B2
The present invention relates to the field of cancer treatment, particularly to a novel constructs useful for treating tumors expressing H19 and/or IGF-II. More specifically, the invention provides compositions and methods utilizing a nucleic acid construct enabling expression of a cytotoxic gene product directed by more than one tumor specific promoter.
US10004803B2
The present invention relates, in part, to compositions and methods for enhancement of an immune response by partial mTOR inhibition, for example, with low, immune enhancing, doses of an mTOR inhibitor, such as RAD001.
US10004794B2
The invention relates to a novel use of a Bordetella adenylcyclase toxin in the manufacturing of vectors for targeting in vivo a molecule of interest, specifically to CD11b expressing cells. The invention also relates to an immunogenic composition that primes immune responses, to pharmaceutical compositions and to a new vector for molecule delivery to CD11b expressing cells.
US10004783B2
Embodiments of the invention provide swallowable devices, preparations and methods for delivering drugs and other therapeutic agents within the GI tract. Many embodiments provide a swallowable device for delivering the agents. Particular embodiments provide a swallowable device such as a capsule for delivering drugs into the intestinal wall or other GI lumen. Embodiments also provide various drug preparations that are configured to be contained within the capsule, advanced from the capsule into the intestinal wall and degrade to release the drug into the bloodstream to produce a therapeutic effect. The preparation can be operably coupled to delivery means having a first configuration where the preparation is contained in the capsule and a second configuration where the preparation is advanced out of the capsule into the intestinal wall. Embodiments of the invention are particularly useful for the delivery of drugs which are poorly absorbed, tolerated and/or degraded within the GI tract.
US10004782B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising {2-[3-cyclohexyl-3-(trans-4-propoxy-cyclohexyl)-ureido]-thiazol-5-ylsulfanyl}-acetic acid (FRI-1) in combination with an anti-diabetic drug selected from the group consisting of metformin, sitagliptin or exenatide. The present invention also relates to the use of the pharmaceutical compositions in restoring insulin sensitivity and treating type II diabetes, including reducing body weight in subjects undergoing type II diabetes treatment.
US10004779B2
Dermal fibroblasts permanently loose their ability to synthesize elastin, the major component of elastic fibers, shortly after puberty. This progressive loss of elastic fibers cannot be replaced, resulting in the physical signs of aging. The present invention provides methods and compositions containing the polyphenols ellagic acid and/or tannic acid for protection against degradation of cutaneous elastic fibers by the elastolytic enzymes. The use of ellagic acid and/or tannic acid increased the overall deposition of elastic fibers in healthy and damaged skin cells. The protection of both intra-tropoelastin and extra-cellular mature elastic fibers from proteolytic enzymes by ellagic acid and tannic acid caused an increase in the net deposition of elastic fibers. Therefore, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and composition for the treatment of skin and prevention and treatment of degradation of dermal elastic fibers.
US10004772B2
The subject invention provides compositions and methods for treating human dermatological conditions by employing a microbiome-centered treatment approach. Preferred embodiments of the invention provide pharmaceutical and cosmetic compositions, and the methods of using the same, comprising a strain of Lactobacillus fermentum bacterium, or bioactive extracts thereof, derived from human microbiota and capable of growing in biofilm phenotype.
US10004767B2
Methods are provided for producing a population of hepatocyte-like cells (iHeps) from a population of adipocyte-derived stem cells (ASCs). Aspects of the methods include placing a population of ASCs into a three dimensional culture (e.g., hanging drop suspension culture, high density culture, spinner flask culture, microcarrier culture, etc.), and contacting the cells with a first and second culture medium. Also provided are methods of treating an individual, which include producing a population of iHeps from a population of ASCs, and administering an effective number of iHeps into the individual. Kits for practicing the methods are also described herein.
US10004760B2
The present invention relates to a microbubble complex comprising a microbubble having an outer shell comprising a mixture of native and denatured albumin encapsulating a perfluorocarbon gas, a therapeutic agent, a bifunctional linker having one end attached to the therapeutic agent and the other attached to a ligand and wherein the ligand is bound to the other shell of the microbubble through hydrophobic interactions. Also included are methods for delivering the aforementioned microbubble complex to a tissue target.
US10004758B2
Disclosed herein are antimicrobial compounds compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, the use and preparation thereof. Some embodiments relate to cyclic boronic acid ester derivatives and their use as therapeutic agents.
US10004754B2
A therapeutic method for treating and/or preventing diseases and medical conditions typically treated by administering diuretic agents (eg congestive heart failure). The method may comprise, for example, administering to a subject a diuretic agent in combination with vessel dilator (VSDL) or a variant or modified peptide thereof. The administration of the diuretic agent may be a component of a standard of care (SOC) treatment.
US10004750B2
The present invention provides an acid addition salt or a sodium salt of a compound represented by the formula (IA): or their hydrate or a stable crystalline solid thereof. The salt or the crystalline solid is extremely useful as an active ingredient for the production of a pharmaceutical product.
US10004745B2
Disclosed herein are methods for treating a cancer comprising: a. administering a Btk inhibitor to a subject sufficient to result in an increase or appearance in the blood of a subpopulation of lymphocytes defined by immunophenotyping; b. determining the expression profile of one or more biomarkers from one or more subpopulation of lymphocytes; and c. administering a second agent based on the determined expression profile.
US10004738B2
The present invention is directed to the combined use of BACE1 inhibitor of Formula I and a compound useful in active or passive Tau immunotherapy, a compound useful in active or passive Aβ peptide immunotherapy, an NMDA receptor antagonists, an acetylcholine esterase inhibitor, an antiepileptic, an anti-inflammatory drug, a Tau aggregation inhibitor or an SSRI for the treatment of neurodegenerative or cognitive disorders.
US10004734B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for treating or preventing erythema, including rebound erythema associated with the use of topical alpha-adrenergic agonists. In certain embodiments, an effective amount of a capsaicinoid, such as capsaicin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or derivative thereof, is administered to a subject.
US10004727B2
The present invention relates to a novel use of a composition containing, as an active ingredient, an amodiaquine compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and specifically, to a metabolic disease prevention, alleviation or treatment use of a composition containing, as an active ingredient, an amodiaquine compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, the composition activating both peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-γ) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPAR-α).
US10004716B2
A method for prophylactically or therapeutically treating an inflammatory disease and/or degenerative intervertebral disk disease in a subject is disclosed. The method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a coumarin derivative represented by formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof: Each of R1 and R2 is independently (a) phenyl optionally substituted with alkoxy, alkyl, cyano, nitro, hydroxy, trifluoromethyl, amino, carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl, phenyl, or one or two halogen(s), (b) pyridyl, (c) alkyl, or (d) thienyl.
US10004708B2
Disclosed herein are methods for treating cancer comprising administering at least one immune checkpoint inhibitor and at least one Retinoic Acid Receptor or Retinoid X Receptor active agent.
US10004703B2
NSC antagonists are disclosed as useful in the treatment of dementia, in delaying the onset of dementia, and in the prevention of dementia. Dementia so treated may be, for example, Alzheimer's Disease (AD). NSC antagonists for treating dementia such as AD may be administered alone, a) in combination with other drugs used for treating dementia, b) in combination with drugs that stabilize or increase blood plasma glucose levels, or with both a) and b). Pharmaceutical compositions, dosage forms, and methods for using the same are disclosed, which include NSC antagonists, NSC antagonists combined with dementia drugs, NSC antagonists combined with glucose-level stabilizing or enhancing drugs, or combinations of these. Dosage forms may be designed to provide stable plasma levels for extended periods of time. Exemplary pharmaceutical compositions include compositions including glibenclamide and memantine; glibenclamide and donepezil; tolbutamide and memantine; tolbutamide and donepezil; and these compositions further including glucagon and/or glucose.
US10004699B2
Effective methods and compositions to deter abuse of pharmaceutical products (e.g., orally administered pharmaceutical products) including but not limited to immediate release, sustained or extended release and delayed release formulations for drugs subject to abuse.
US10004692B2
A composition for manufacture of hard hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose capsules comprising a film forming material of hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose having a methoxy content of 27.0-30.0% (w/w), and a hydroxypropoxy content of 4.0-7.5% and as a 2% weight solution, a viscosity of 3.5-6.0 cPs at 20° C., dipping compositions, process for manufacture of hard hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose capsules according to a dip coating process and hard capsule shells.
US10004689B2
The present invention relates to nanoparticles for the targeted delivery of antigen to liver cells, in particular, liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSEC) and/or Kupffer cells, and for the in vivo generation of regulatory T cells, notably CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ regulatory T cells (Treg). The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases, allergies or other chronic inflammatory conditions, and for generation of regulatory T cells. The nanoparticles used in the invention comprise a) a micelle comprising an amphiphilic polymer rendering the nanoparticle water-soluble, and b) a peptide comprising at least one T cell epitope associated with the outside of the micelle. The micelle may or may not comprise a solid hydrophobic core.
US10004687B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment of a human patient. The methods and compositions of the present invention include composition for the efficient loading of curcumin, comprising: an amount of a curcuminoid:liposome complex effective to load curcumin into the liposome, wherein the curcuminoids has between 2 to 9 weight percent of the total composition and the curcuminoids are natural or synthetic.
US10004685B2
The present invention is directed to an ophthalmic emulsion. The emulsion has a unique combination of ingredients that promotes the stability of small oil droplets within the emulsion. The emulsion also includes a mucoadhesive polymer that aid in delivering a lipid to the ocular surface.
US10004682B2
The present invention provides methods for impregnating a porous carrier with an active pharmaceutical ingredient (“AP”), the methods comprising steps: a) dissolving at least one API in a solvent to form an API solution; b) contacting a porous carrier with the at least one API of step (a) in a contactor to form an API impregnated porous carrier; and c) drying the at least one API impregnated porous carrier.
US10004677B2
A composition for applying to skin in need of treatment for skin barrier restoration, hydration and moisturization, the composition comprising extracts of Ampelopsis grossedentata and Albizia julibrissin. Also provided are methods for treating skin in need of skin barrier treatment, methods of treating skin to reduce the signs of aging and methods of treating skin to reduce the signs of inflammation with a composition comprising extracts of Ampelopsis grossedentata and Albizia julibrissin.
US10004675B2
Cosmetic agents and methods for temporarily shaping keratin-containing fibers using the cosmetic agents are provided herein. In one embodiment, a cosmetic agent for temporarily shaping keratinic fibers includes a cosmetic preparation. The cosmetic preparation contains at least one copolymer a1) composed of at least the following monomer units: (meth)acrylic acid, (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester, and (meth)acrylic acid hydroxyalkyl ester. The cosmetic preparation further contains at least one copolymer a2) composed of at least the following monomer units: N-tert-octylacrylamide, acrylic acid, and ethyl acrylate. The amount by weight of copolymers a1) and a2) in the total weight of the cosmetic preparation amounts to about 1.0 to about 10 by weight.
US10004672B2
A cosmetic agent for dyeing keratin fibers, in particular human hair, includes a combination of a cross-linked, aminated siloxane polymer, a specific non-ionic surfactant, and at least one oxidation dye intermediate and/or one direct dye, wherein the use of the combination of cross-linked, aminated siloxane polymer and non-ionic surfactant leads to an increase in the color intensity.
US10004657B2
A method of activating the brain of a subject by delivering at least one gas pulse or fluid pulse of a predetermined amplitude and duration to a predetermined area or areas on the subject's body.
US10004651B2
Patient support apparatuses—such as beds, cots, stretchers, or the like—include a plurality of user controls that allow a caregiver to control the steering and/or driving of one or more wheels from multiple different locations around the patient support apparatus (e.g. head end, foot end, and/or the sides). The control is carried out by force sensors that detect both an orientation of the applied forces and a magnitude of the applied forces. Translational and/or rotational movement is effectuated, depending upon the magnitude and direction of the forces, as well as the physical location of the applied force relative to a reference point on the support apparatus, such as the center. One or more object sensors may also be included in the support apparatus to assist in steering and/or navigating.
US10004648B2
An apparatus and method for rotating and transferring a discrete article. The rotation apparatus may include a rib portion defining a longitudinal rib axis. A head assembly may be positioned adjacent to the rib portion. The head assembly may include a transfer member. The transfer member may define a longitudinal transfer axis. A support member extending from the transfer member toward the rib portion may rotate about the longitudinal transfer axis. A first follower and a second follower may be operatively engaged with the support member. The first follower may include a first follower outer surface defining a first longitudinal follower axis and the second follower may include a second follower outer surface defining a second longitudinal follower axis. The first follower and the second follower may be positioned such that the first longitudinal follower axis and the second longitudinal follower axis intersect the longitudinal rib axis.
US10004647B2
An apparatus for transferring, at high speed and in a very effective and accurate manner, particulate material from a feeder into reservoirs of a moving endless surface, e.g. a drum, by use of a pressure means, e.g. a specific three-dimensional plate, for applying pressure onto said particulate material present between said plate and said moving endless surface, and then transferring the particulate material with said moving endless surface with reservoirs to a substrate; the apparatus and method being particularly useful for the production of absorbent structures for absorbent articles.
US10004644B2
A reduced-pressure treatment system includes an isolation device for isolating a tissue site from surrounding tissue for reduced-pressure treatment that is formed from a first material having a first bio-absorption term and at least a second material having a second and different bio-absorption term. The different materials allow the isolation device initially to function well for reduced-pressure treatment and then to experience degradation at a quicker pace which facilitates healing. In addition, a reduced-pressure manifold for treating a tissue site is presented that includes a flexible barrier member formed from a first material, which has a first bio-absorption term and formed with a first plurality of apertures; a second material, which has a second bio-absorption term, disposed within the plurality of apertures; wherein the first bio-absorption term is greater than the second bio-absorption term; and a reduced-pressure delivery member coupled to the barrier member for delivering reduced pressure to the second surface of the barrier member during reduced-pressure treatment.
US10004640B2
A steerable laser probe may include a handle having a handle distal end and a handle proximal end, a plurality of actuation controls of the handle, a housing tube having a housing tube distal end and a housing tube proximal end, and an optic fiber disposed within an inner bore of the handle and the housing tube. An actuation of an actuation control of the plurality of actuation controls may gradually curve the housing tube. A gradual curving of the housing tube may gradually curve the optic fiber. An actuation of an actuation control of the plurality of actuation controls may gradually straighten the housing tube. A gradual straightening of the housing tube may gradually straighten the optic fiber.
US10004638B2
An intraocular shunt deployment device can release an intraocular shunt into an eye using a deployment mechanism that coordinates action between a pusher component, a shaft component, and a housing of the device. The deployment mechanism causes axial movement of the components in response to a rotational input force.
US10004633B2
A dispenser for the delivery of a droplet of a liquid comprises a housing which defines an outlet orifice, a tip seal, biased against the housing to seal the outlet orifice, and a dosing pump for pumping a liquid to the outlet nozzle. The dispenser further comprises an actuation pump configured to provide a hydraulic opening force to the tip seal for opening of the outlet orifice. Preferably the actuation pump is configured to operate at a higher pressure than the dosing pump.
US10004631B2
A bone anchor for a tongue manipulation device which has a tissue anchor for attachment to the tongue, the bone anchor, for example for attachment to the mandible and a tether line which fixes the tissue anchor to the bone anchor. The bone anchor has a spool arrangement with a indexing part and a spool part. In a first configuration the spool part is operable to spool the tether line without operation of the indexing part, and in a second configuration the spool part is operable to spool the tether line with operation of the indexing part. This means the spooling to take up slack in the tether line does not cause wear to the indexing springs, and it also means the user can feel when the slack has been taken up.
US10004628B2
A method and orthotic for treating, substantially preventing, or minimizing the possibility of, human infant occipital plagiocephaly and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), utilizes or provides a garment dimensioned to fit a human infant. The garment (such as a vest or jacket) has an open top portion, a substantially closed front, a substantially closed rear, a first receptacle on the front, and a second receptacle on the rear and functionally cooperating with the first receptacle. Third and fourth receptacles are preferably also provided, the first and second receptacles on the left side of the garment, and the third and fourth on the right side. The garment may be primarily of a stretchable mesh fabric. A cylindrical or prismatic bolster (e. g. of firm foam or rubber) is provided in each of the first and second receptacles. The garment is placed on a human infant; and then the infant is laid on her/his side on a surface so that the bolsters substantially preclude the infant from rolling from her/his side onto her/his face or back on the surface.
US10004627B2
A moldable ankle flexible brace is disclosed. The flexible ankle brace may include a heat-moldable, multi-layer leg support portion, a heat-moldable, multi-layer foot support portion, a pair of hinges connecting the leg support portion to the foot support portion, an opening for receiving a user's ankle, and a closure mechanism. The flexible ankle brace may include a middle layer that is substantially stiff at a temperature below about 130° F. and moldable at temperatures above 130° F. Also disclosed is a method of using a flexible ankle brace to treat an ankle. The method may include, for example, heating the brace to above 130° F. placing the heated brace on a patient's ankle and molding the brace to conform to the shape of the patient's ankle.
US10004624B2
A device to release from an implant bed in the device a self-expanding implant by pulling back proximally, the length of the implant, a rolling membrane with an inner sleeve that extends distally to the distal end of the implant and an outer sleeve that extends proximally, from the distal end of the inner sleeve, the outer sleeve, during said release, pulling the distal end of the inner sleeve back proximally over the abluminal surface of the remainder of the inner sleeve, proximal of its distal end, the device having a slitter, that is caused to move proximally contemporaneously with the outer sleeve, to slit the inner sleeve progressively, starting at a distal point in the inner sleeve, and progressing proximally along the length of the inner sleeve.
US10004621B2
An anchoring guidewire and methods for use, where the anchoring guidewire comprises: (a) an outer core, (b) an anchoring basket, (c) a steerable tip, and (d) an actuator core. The outer core, the anchoring basket and the steerable tip are axially aligned with one another. Further, the actuator core may be movably disposed within both the outer core and the anchoring basket and may be coupled to the steerable tip.
US10004619B2
A method of manufacturing a polymeric stent by forming a pattern on a polymer tube with a laser, where the pattern formed on the polymer tube comprises a plurality of repeating units comprising a plurality of unit cells, each having a V-shaped configuration and polymeric stents formed by the methods. The pattern may be formed on the polymer tube (e.g., polylactic acid tube) using a second harmonic generator laser in which a wavelength ranging from 940 nm to 1552 nm is converted.
US10004612B2
A prosthetic hand system may include a plurality of prosthetic fingers and a prosthetic thumb. The prosthetic hand system may include a thumb drive mechanism that may be used to actuate the prosthetic thumb. In some examples, the thumb drive mechanism may be configured to enable the prosthetic thumb to perform a pinching or grasping motion and a release motion. The prosthetic hand system may also include a backlock that enables the prosthetic thumb to maintain pinching or gripping pressure after a motor has been disengaged. The prosthetic hand system may also include a gear lock that may be configured to lock a finger joint. The prosthetic hand system may also include an adaptive gripping joint that may be located on each prosthetic finger. In some examples, the adaptive gripping joint may be configured to passively adapt the plurality of prosthetic fingers to one or more differently shaped objects.
US10004587B2
Macroporous 3-D tissue engineering scaffold comprising elastomeric cross-linked polymer units and interconnected macropores containing living cells are produced by step of: in a mixture of the cells and elastomeric polymer units comprising activatable crosslinking groups, activating the crosslinking groups to form the scaffold.
US10004581B2
A vibrating toothbrush is provided with vibration-isolating zones that substantially isolate vibrations in the head and reduce vibrations transmitted to the handle without sacrificing structural integrity around the vibration-isolation zones. Such zones may generally comprise neck material that is reduced in cross-section, thinned, replaced by dampening material, or removed altogether to create transmission-inhibiting voids. The vibration-isolating zones may be further supported by the housing of the vibratory element to maintain the structural integrity around the zones and to thereby alleviating weakness conditions that might subject the toothbrush to fatigue and breakage conditions.
US10004579B2
A dental superstructure, and a manufacturing method thereof, comprising a screw-channel (1), through which screw-channel a screw member is to be inserted, and a screw member seat (3), for providing support to the head of said screw member during fixation of said dental superstructure to a spacer element or an implant (5), are provided. Said dental superstructure is provided with a central axis of said screw-channel (1) and a central axis of said second mouth (4) that at least partly do not coincide. A manufacturing method thereof, a screw-member, and a screwdriver are also provided.
US10004577B2
Transfixed multiple dental prosthesis intended to be attached and fixed to a plurality of dental implants by several transfixing screws, each having a shank with a threaded portion intended to be received by screwing in a respective dental implant. Each transfixing screw is held captive in a respective bore formed in the transfixed multiple dental prosthesis and extending along a respective axial direction. Each transfixing screw is movable in rotation about the axial direction of the respective bore and is movable in translation along the axial direction of the respective bore between a retracted position and at least one screwing position. In the retracted position, the threading of the threaded portion of the transfixing screw does not protrude from the bore.
US10004576B2
A dental superstructure attaching system for use with a dental implant is provided. The system comprises a longitudinal member being connectable with an implant or an implant connecting member via an at least partially curved interface area. The longitudinal member comprises a main member forming the lingual part of said longitudinal member, and a lever member forming the buccal or labial part of said longitudinal member. The longitudinal member further comprises means for urging said lever member and said main member away from each other, such that said longitudinal member is secured to said implant or implant connecting member. A dental superstructure connection device in such a system, and methods for attaching a dental superstructure to a dental implant via such a system, are also provided.
US10004568B2
An articulated probe assembly comprises a base, an outer support rod extending through the base, an articulating control portion at a proximal end of the outer support rod, and a steerable portion comprising a plurality of outer links coupled to a distal end of the outer support rod. The steerable portion is manipulated in response to the articulating control portion.
US10004564B1
A radiographic system may be configured to capture a first radiograph containing a first image of an object with the source and the receiver in a first orientation with respect to one another. The system may store the first radiograph and metadata representing vertical and horizontal positions of the first orientation. At least one of the source and the receiver may be moved so that the source and the receiver are in a second orientation with respect to one another. A second radiograph containing a second image of the object may be captured with the source and the receiver in the second orientation. The second radiograph may be stored in memory along with metadata representing vertical and horizontal positions of the second orientation. Based on the captured radiographs, a magnification of the object of interest, as represented by the first image or the second image, may be determined.
US10004562B2
Described herein is a surgical instrument holder for use with a robotic surgical system, for example, during spinal surgery. In certain embodiments, the surgical instrument holder is an interface between the robotic arm and a surgical instrument used during surgery. This interface may hold the surgical instrument precisely, rigidly, and in a stable manner while permitting a surgeon to easily and quickly install or withdraw the instrument in case of emergency.
US10004555B2
Electrosurgical devices, methods, and systems for electrosurgical procedures as enabled by bipolar radiofrequency energy. An electrosurgical tissue dissecting device includes a shaft, a distally directed member that extends in a distal direction from the shaft, a first electrode that either forms part of or is positioned on the distally directed member, and a second electrode that is movable with respect to the first electrode.
US10004552B1
An end effector structure (e.g. jaws structure or similar), configured with an internal antenna for delivery of electromagnetic energy in microwave range to a straight, curved or circular end effector structure in which the portion of end effector structure includes a microwave absorbing material that absorbs microwave energy emitted by the antenna and transfers microwave energy into the heat. Such end-effector also includes surgical fasteners or staples for strengthening tissue, providing a hemostasis, tissue joint and/or welding. The microwave antenna is connected by a coaxial cable with a microwave generator. The heat generated in the microwave absorbing material is applied to the treated material (e.g. tissue) by means of capturing material in the end effector (jaw structure) and heating the tissue to the desired temperature either before, during or after a stapling procedure.
US10004549B2
A method for preparing a bone including percutaneously forming a path to the cancellous bone using a multi-lumen cannula, providing a first passage to the cancellous bone in a central lumen and a second passage in a concentric outer lumen, introducing a rinsing fluid in one of the passages to rinse bone marrow and other soft tissue from the cancellous bone, and removing the rinsed bone marrow from the other passage. Also, a method for percutaneously treating a tissue affected by a lesion, including introducing a rinsing fluid in one of the passages to rinse the lesion and removing the rinsed lesion from the other of the passages. Also, a method of treating tissue with a lesion including introducing a thick flowable material through one lumen of the cannula and applying suction through the other lumen of the cannula.
US10004540B2
A bone screw includes a screw head and a seating sleeve or tulip on the screw head. The bone screw includes two sleeve flanks having a thread. A seat for a rod for surgical connection of adjacent bone screws is formed between the sleeve flanks. On at least one of the sleeve flanks, a guide surface extending in the circumferential direction for a clamping screw to be screwed into the thread is configured on the run-in side, with the guide surface offset in the radial direction vis-à-vis the thread diameter of the female thread.
US10004538B2
A surgical instrument includes a first arm engageable with a first spinal construct disposed with a first vertebral surface. A second arm is connected with the first arm via a pivot and being engageable with a second spinal construct disposed with a second vertebral surface. The first arm is movable to rotate the first spinal construct relative to the pivot and/or the second arm is movable to rotate the second spinal construct relative to the pivot such that the first vertebral surface is moved relative to the second vertebral surface. Systems and methods of use are disclosed.
US10004535B2
An abrasive skin treatment device including a handle portion, a head portion including an exfoliating element, and a unitary pivoting mechanism providing relative movement between the handle portion and the head portion along at least two planes.
US10004533B2
The application discloses a set of surgical instruments that may be used to access a human or animal body cavity for medical purposes without causing damage to internal tissues or organs therein, and methods of using the same. The instruments include a safety needle and flexible sheath that may be coupled together and used to establish a minimally invasive method to access a targeted body cavity while preventing or reducing damage to organs or tissues within the targeted cavity. Additional instruments are included within the invention that may be used to establish an access port in the wall of the targeted cavity. That port may be used to introduce catheters or other instruments into the body cavity. It may also be used as a drainage tube for draining or injecting gases and/or fluids from or into the targeted cavity.
US10004532B2
A puncture assistance system provides information on a collapse state of a blood vessel to be punctured, caused by pressing action of an ultrasonic probe, when ultrasonic images of the blood vessel are acquired. A puncture assistance system 10 includes: vascular diameter detecting means 18 for detecting a vascular diameter during acquisition of the ultrasonic images from an ultrasonic diagnostic device 11; puncture assistance information generating means 12 for generating puncture assistance information for determination of whether or not puncture is allowed to be performed based on a collapse state of a blood vessel B caused by pressing action of an ultrasonic probe 15 against skin S by comparing a current vascular diameter detected by the vascular diameter detecting means 18 with a standard vascular diameter stored in advance; and a monitor 19 that presents the puncture assistance information.
US10004528B2
An apparatus comprises a body, a shaft assembly, and an end effector. The shaft assembly extends distally from the body. The end effector is located at a distal end of the shaft assembly. The end effector comprises an ultrasonic blade, a clamp arm, and a sleeve. The ultrasonic blade is configured to vibrate at an ultrasonic frequency. The clamp arm is configured to move toward the ultrasonic blade. The sleeve extends along at least part of the length of an outer portion of the ultrasonic blade or the clamp arm. The sleeve is configured to prevent tissue from contacting a portion of the ultrasonic blade or clamp arm covered by the sleeve.
US10004527B2
An apparatus comprises a body, a shaft assembly, and an end effector. The shaft assembly extends distally from the body. The end effector is located at a distal end of the shaft assembly. The end effector comprises an ultrasonic blade and a clamp arm. The ultrasonic blade is configured to vibrate at an ultrasonic frequency. The clamp arm comprises a clamp pad. The clamp arm is movable toward the ultrasonic blade to compress tissue between the clamp pad and the ultrasonic blade in two stages. During the first stage, the clamp arm is configured to compress tissue with only a distal portion of the clamp pad. During the second stage, the clamp arm is configured to compress tissue with the distal portion and a proximal portion of the clamp pad. Thus, the tissue compression begins at the distal portion and subsequently progresses toward the proximal portion.
US10004523B2
A shaft for a rigid endoscopic instrument includes an elongate outer shaft and an elongate transmission element that can be arranged movably inside the outer shaft, wherein the outer shaft includes a proximal portion and a distal portion, which can be connected releasably to each other. The invention also relates to a rigid endoscopic instrument having such a shaft.
US10004518B2
Methods and instruments for reconstructing soft tissues of a skeletal joint such as for example of the foot or hand are presented.
US10004515B2
A method and device for reducing the damaging effects of a blast or concussive event includes applying pressure to at least one jugular vein to reduce the egress of blood from the cranial cavity during the incidence of the concussive event. Reducing blood out flow from the cranial cavity increases intracranial pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid to reduce the risk of traumatic brain injury and injuries to the spinal column. Reducing blood out flow further increases the intracranial pressure, and thereby increases the pressure of the cochlear fluid, the vitreous humor and the cerebrospinal fluid to thereby reduce the risk of injury to the inner ear, internal structure of the eye and of the spinal column. In addition, increasing intracranial pressure reduces the likelihood of brain injury and any associated loss of olfactory function.
US10004510B2
The present technology relates to systems and methods for enclosing an anatomical opening, including shock absorbing aneurysm devices. In some embodiments, the systems include a closure structure comprising a distal-facing aspect configured to at least partially occlude the aneurysm and a supplemental stabilizer connected to the closure structure. The supplemental stabilizer can be configured to reside in a parent artery and press outward against a luminal wall thereof. The systems can further include a shock absorbing structure coupled to a proximal end portion of the closure structure and to a distal end portion of the supplemental stabilizer. The shock absorbing structure can inhibit movement or dislodgement of the closure structure or the supplemental stabilizer relative to the aneurysm.
US10004501B2
A surgical instrument that includes jaw members, at least one of which may be moved to closed positions relative to the other jaw member upon actuation of a closure actuator. Actuation of the closure actuator causes an axially moveable closure member to apply closure motions to at least one of the jaw members. In at least one form, the closure actuator includes a first actuator portion that is configured to move through a first range of axial travel upon actuation of the closure actuator. A second actuator portion interfaces with the axially movable closure member such that upon actuation of said closure actuator, the second actuator portion moves the axially movable closure member through a second range of axial travel that is greater than the first range of axial travel.
US10004493B2
A suture construction and method for forming a suture construction is disclosed. The construction utilizes a suture having an enlarged central body portion defining a longitudinal passage. First and second ends of the suture are passed through first and second apertures associated with the longitudinal passage to form a pair of loops. Portions of the suture lay parallel to each other within the suture. Application of tension onto the suture construction causes constriction of the longitudinal passage, thus preventing relative motions of the captured portions of the suture.
US10004490B2
A surgical suturing device comprises an arced needle comprises a length of suture. An elongate shaft comprises a proximal end and a distal end. A needle driver is on the distal end of the elongate shaft operable to engage and rotate the needle in a circular path. The needle driver reciprocates between a drive stroke wherein the needle is rotated and a return stroke. A trigger is on the proximal end of the elongate shaft. A drive rod in the elongate shaft operably connects the trigger and the needle driver. Moving the trigger in a first direction actuates the needle driver through its drive stroke, and moving the trigger in a second direction actuates the needle driver through its return stroke. A spring is operably connected to the drive rod limiting a load transmitted through the drive rod. The spring may limit the load transmitted through the drive rod when the trigger is moved in a first direction.
US10004489B2
A method and apparatus for coupling a soft tissue implant into a locking cavity formed within a bone is disclosed. The apparatus includes a member to pull the soft tissue implant into a femoral tunnel. The member includes a suture having first and second ends which are passed through first and second openings associated with the longitudinal passage to form a pair of loops. Portions of the suture lay parallel to each other within the suture. Application of tension onto the suture construction causes retraction of the soft tissue implant into the femoral tunnel.
US10004484B2
The present invention relates to a catheter, in particular to a balloon bearing three lumen catheter for dispensing diagnostic fluids into a body cavity and retrieving sample of the diagnostic fluid and a catheter apparatus employing same.
US10004483B2
A full-core biopsy device comprises an outer cannula hub with an outer cannula coupled at a proximal end to the hub, the outer cannula with a tissue slicing feature defined at the distal tip configured for cutting tissue. The device further comprises an inner member hub and an inner member coaxially disposed within the outer cannula and coupled at a proximal end to the inner member hub. The inner member includes a tubular body, an inner member tip at an opposite distal end thereof and an elongated scoop portion defined between the tubular body and tip. The distal ends of the outer cannula and the scoop portion of the inner member define cooperating forcing cone features.
US10004482B2
Device for sampling tear fluid that comprises: an extraction element (202) adapted to be applied on the eye to draw tear fluid therefrom, comprising at least one tube (209) and a distal portion (201) with at least one opening (207), a collection vessel (203), connected to said tube (209), suction means (210) adapted to continuously draw tear fluid from the eye to the collection vessel (203), through the extraction element (202) for a period higher than 10 minutes once the extraction element (202) is in place.
US10004479B2
The invention relates to a temperature distribution determining apparatus (21) for determining a temperature distribution within an object, to which energy is applied, by using an energy application element (2). A first temperature distribution is measured in a first region within a first temperature range and a model describing a model temperature distribution in the first region and in a second region depending on modifiable model parameters is provided. A second temperature distribution is estimated in the second region within a second temperature range, while the energy is applied to the object, by modifying the model parameters such that a deviation of the model temperature distribution from the first temperature distribution in the first region is minimized. This allows considering the temperature dependence of the model parameters within the second temperature range, while estimating the second temperature distribution, thereby improving the accuracy of the estimation of the second temperature distribution.
US10004471B2
Methods, apparatus, and other embodiments associated with classifying a region of tissue using textural analysis are described. One example apparatus includes an image acquisition logic that acquires an image of a region of tissue demonstrating cancerous pathology, a delineation logic that distinguishes nodule tissue within the image from the background of the image, a perinodular zone logic that defines a perinodular zone based on the nodule, a feature extraction logic that extracts a set of features from the image, a probability logic that computes a probability that the nodule is benign or that the nodule will respond to a treatment, and a classification logic that classifies the nodule tissue based, at least in part, on the set of features or the probability. A prognosis or treatment plan may be provided based on the classification of the image.
US10004462B2
The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for removing prospective motion correction from medical imaging scans. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for removing motion correction from biomedical imaging scan data comprises tracking, by a computer system, motion of an object being scanned; generating, by the computer system, motion tracking data; adjusting, by the computer system, a biomedical imaging scanner, using the motion tracking data, to compensate in real time for object motion, such that raw image data generated by the scanner can be reconstructed into motion-corrected images; inverting, by the computer system, the motion tracking data; and applying, by the computer system, the inverted motion tracking data to the raw image data to generate de-corrected image data representative of what the scanner would produce had the scanner not compensated for motion, wherein the de-corrected image data can be reconstructed into de-corrected images, wherein the computer system comprises an electronic memory and a computer processor.
US10004460B2
A stand-on physiological sensor (e.g. floormat) measures vital signs and various hemodynamic parameters, including blood pressure and ECG waveforms. The sensor is similar in configuration to a common bathroom scale and includes electrodes that take electrical measurements from a patient's feet to generate bioimpedance waveforms, which are analyzed digitally to extract various other parameters, as well as a cuff-type blood pressure system that takes physical blood pressure measurements at one of the patient's feet. Blood pressure can also be calculated/derived from the bioimpedance waveforms. Measured parameters are transmitted wirelessly to facilitate remote monitoring of the patient for heart failure, chronic heart failure, end-stage renal disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and other degenerative diseases.
US10004458B2
Systems and methods for controlled sympathectomy procedures for neuromodulation are disclosed. A system for controlled micro ablation procedures is disclosed. A guidewire including one or more sensors or electrodes for accessing and recording physiologic information from one or more anatomical sites within the parenchyma of an organ as part of a physiologic monitoring session, a diagnostic test, or a neuromodulation procedure is disclosed. A guidewire including one or more sensors and/or a means for energy delivery, for performing a neuromodulation procedure within a small vessel within a body is disclosed.
US10004449B2
A measurement device suitable to measure a load applied by the muscular-skeletal system is disclosed. The measurement device can be a prosthetic component having an articular surface for measuring parameters of a joint in extension or flexion. A first and second support structure forms an enclosure having load-bearing surfaces. The first support structure includes at least one alignment feature extending from a surface. The second support structure includes a corresponding opening for receiving the alignment feature. The first and second support structures include a peripheral channel and corresponding flange to support sealing of the enclosure. Interior to the enclosure is the measurement system. The alignment feature couples through and aligns a first load plate, a sensor array, and a second load plate to surfaces of the first and second support structures. The sensor array is coupled to electronic circuitry in the enclosure via a unitary circuit board.
US10004445B2
The invention relates to apparatus and methods for stimulating living tissues to determine nerve conduction properties using a pair of stimulator probes and a plurality of detection electrodes. The invention overcomes the problem of reporting potentially inaccurate nerve conduction results by detecting a stimulator probe short or shunt condition during nerve conduction tests. Detection of a short or shunt condition between two stimulator probes is accomplished by monitoring the magnitude of the stimulus artifact waveform acquired from the detection electrodes and the voltage difference between the stimulator probes. A test is flagged when magnitude of the stimulus artifact waveform is below a first threshold and voltage difference between the two stimulator probes is below a second threshold. The first and second threshold values are determined based on the known spatial relationship between the stimulator probes and detection electrodes. Feedback is provided to the tester to alert defective test conditions.
US10004440B2
The invention generally relates to enclosed desorption electrospray ionization probes, systems, and methods. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a source of DESI-active spray, in which a distal portion of the source is enclosed within a transfer member such that the DESI-active spray is produced within the transfer member.
US10004439B2
Ceria nanoparticle compositions for use as electrode materials for in vivo electrochemical analyte sensors (e.g., glucose sensors) are provided, for example to form a cathode or a reference electrode. The ceria nanoparticle compositions may be combined with a conductive material (e.g., mixed with) to form the cathode or the reference electrode, or the ceria nanoparticle compositions may be deposited over conductive material to form the cathode or the reference electrode. Electrochemical in vivo sensors for monitoring the concentration of an analyte having a reference electrode and/or a cathode that includes a ceria nanoparticle composition, and methods for monitoring an analyte concentration using the electrochemical sensors are also described. Methods of making in vivo electrochemical analyte sensors having a reference electrode and/or a cathode that includes a ceria nanoparticle composition are also provided.
US10004436B2
“Zero-click” viewing of sensor data without any user input is provided. A display with sensor data may be “always on,” and may enable discrete viewing of sensor data without significant user hassle. Also, a system may be configured to display only current data, and/or to display the most current data for only a set interval. Also, one device in a continuous analyte monitoring system may be designated as a primary device, or hub, for receiving sensor data, and may control the flow of information and/or alerts to other devices in the system. Sensor data and/or alerts may be sent to a hierarchy of devices and/or persons in a designated order.
US10004429B2
The present disclosure provides a method for measuring a path length using a handheld electronic device comprising: repeatedly tumbling forward the handheld electronic device so as to cover the path to be measured; sensing a rotational change of the handheld electronic device; counting fractional increments of revolution of the handheld electronic device with respect to a starting position; and estimating the path length based on the counted fractional increments of revolution.
US10004424B2
An endorectal coil (1) includes a tube (40), a spreader (44), and one or more electrically conductive elements (64). The tube (40) is configured for insertion into the rectum (42). The spreader (44) is configured to be positioned at a distal end of the tube (40) and mechanically spread to compress surrounding tissue after the tube (40) is inserted. The one or more electrically conductive elements (64) are tuned to receive magnetic resonance data disposed on at least one of the tube (40), the spreader (44), and adjacent the tube and spreader.
US10004417B2
A method for attaching a split ring electrode to a catheter tip section includes providing a tubing with a lumen and an opening in the tubing side wall, passing an electrode lead wire through the opening, and wrapping the lead wire around the tubing. A split ring electrode is mounted on the tubing over the wrapped lead wire and opening, with electrically-conductive thermoplastic elastomeric adhesive applied between the ring electrode and the outer surface of the tubing, and reheated to reflow.
US10004415B2
An extended wear electrocardiography patch is provided. A flexible backing is formed of an elongated strip of stretchable spunlace material. A layer of stretchable adhesive is applied on at least a portion of a contact surface of the flexible backing, which defines a pair of openings on both ends. A non-stretchable circuit is axially affixed to an outward-facing surface of the flexible backing and has a pair of circuit traces. The flexible backing acts as a buffer between the non-stretchable circuit and the stretchable adhesive and prevents disadhesion of the flexible backing during bending. A pair of electrocardiographic electrodes are electrically coupled to each of the circuit traces. Conductive gel is provided in each of the openings and in electrical contact with the pair of electrocardiographic electrodes as the electrodes shift away from the openings in the flexible backing during the bending.
US10004406B2
An activity monitoring device, methods and computer readable media are provided. The activity monitoring device includes a housing configured for attachment to a body part of a user and a display screen attached to the housing. Further included is a first sensor disposed in the housing for capturing motion of the activity monitoring device when attached to the body part of the user and a second sensor disposed in the housing for sampling a heart rate of the user. Memory is disposed in the housing for storing the motion captured by the first sensor and the heart rate sampled by the second sensor. A processor is disposed in the housing and is configured to determine a physical state of the user during a period of time. For motion that is below a threshold the processor identifies the physical state to be a sedentary state and for motion that is at or above the threshold the processor identifies the physical state to be an active state. The processor is configured to reduce a rate at which to sample the heart rate of the user when the physical state of the user is identified to be the sedentary state during the period of time. The processor is configured to increase the rate at which the sampling of the heart rate of the user is processed when the physical state of the user is identified to be the active state during the period of time.
US10004400B2
A probe including a catheter sheath, a shaft inserted inside the catheter sheath, and an attachment portion detachably attached to a rotational drive unit, wherein the attachment portion includes an isolation member isolating the inside of the attachment portion into a first area in which a member for transmitting the drive force generated by the rotational drive unit to the shaft is rotatably held and a second area in which the catheter sheath is fixedly held; the isolation member includes: an insertion hole through which the shaft is inserted between the first area and the second area and an ejection hole provided in a surface to which an end portion on the rotational drive unit side of the catheter sheath is connected and which is approximately perpendicular to the rotation axis of the shaft; and the ejection hole defines a flow path extending to the outside of the isolation member.
US10004397B2
The present invention is directed to a method and system for improved aiming during Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) on young children and those unable to cooperate with OCT imaging by synchronization with retinal birefringence scanning (RBS). OCT is performed without knowing whether or not the subject is looking at the intended target. The present invention combines OCT retinal imaging, such as, but not limited to, time domain OCT, SDOCT, or SSOCT, with RBS technology that provides accurate information on the presence or absence of foveal fixation. Therefore, the present invention only analyzes data during foveal fixation. A system combining OCT with RBS is implemented such that both systems co-operate in a specified alignment, such that when the RBS fixation detection system detects alignment with the fovea of the eye, the OCT system will be aimed at the retinal region of interest, usually but not necessarily including the macular area.
US10004393B2
An arthroscope having an elongated core with a square radial cross section.
US10004389B2
The endoscope system includes an image signal acquisition processing unit and an image generation unit that acquire a first still image and a video or a second still image before and after acquisition of the first still image based on an image signal obtained by imaging an observation target using an image sensor, an association unit that associates the first still image with the video or associates the first still image with the second still image, and a storage unit that stores the first still image and the video associated with each other or stores the first still image and the second still image associated with each other.
US10004388B2
Coronary sinus cannulation apparatus and methods relating to tissue visualization catheters that can locate and/or cannulate a morphological feature within a body lumen, such as the coronary sinus, are described. Such devices can also perform a variety of therapeutic tissue treatments under direct in vivo visualization thereafter. Moreover, such apparatus and methods may also be utilized with guidewires to facilitate delivery into the coronary sinus to eliminate repositioning of the device and/or repeating an entire sequence of operations, consequently improving procedure effectiveness and reducing procedure time.
US10004375B2
A method for operating a water-conducting domestic appliance, such as a dishwasher, includes filling the water-conducting domestic appliance with a minimum amount of filling water that is circulated by a pump, and checking a water flow diverter for malfunctions and determining from an operational parameter of an electromotor that drives the pump whether the pump runs smoothly, thereby indicating whether the quantity of filling water corresponds to at least a nominal quantity of filling water. When the water flow diverter is not malfunctioning, the pump is again checked for smooth running or a refilling step is carried out to increase the minimum amount of filling water. Conversely, when the water flow diverter is malfunctioning, the check for smooth running or the refilling step are omitted.
US10004374B2
Provided herein is a handheld cleaning device, which stores cleaning wipes as well as fluid. In an embodiment, the cleaning device comprises a hollow inner longitudinal portion, a hollow base, and a hollow outer longitudinal portion. All three hollow portions are joined together to form a single hollow fluid reservoir. In use, a cylindrical role of cleaning wipes may be slipped over the hollow inner longitudinal portion such that the hollow inner longitudinal portion is located inside the cylindrical roll of the cleaning wipes. The hollow outer longitudinal portion is located outside the cylindrical roll of the cleaning wipes and secures the cylindrical roll of cleaning wipes to the device. Further, the hollow base is located under the cylindrical roll of the cleaning wipes and further secures the cylindrical roll of cleaning wipes to the device.
US10004371B2
A cleaner that includes a nozzle assembly; a cleaner body that is coupled to the nozzle assembly and that is configured to rotate; and a water cleaning device that is coupled to the nozzle assembly, the water cleaning device including: a water tank that is configured to (i) hold a cloth and (ii) store water to provide to the cloth and that includes an air hole through which air enters the water tank from outside of the water tank, and an adjusting device that is configured to open or close the air hole based on a rotation of the cleaner body is disclosed.
US10004369B1
The toilet lid light is a position sensitive light that is adapted for use with a toilet. The toilet lid light is a device that illuminates the toilet during use in periods of darkness. Specifically, the toilet lid light is illuminated when the toilet seat is put in the up position for the purposes of: 1) providing visual feedback regarding the location of urinary tract discharge relative to the boundaries of the toilet bowl during use; and, 2) providing visual feedback regarding the position of the toilet seat for the purpose of assisting in the proper subsequent use of the toilet. The toilet lid light comprises a lamp, a housing, and a fastener. The lamp is contained within the housing. The fastener attaches the housing to the bottom side of the toilet seat.
US10004359B2
A bench mixer has a combined whisk and scraper attachment. In preferred embodiments, the mixer has a processor configured to access data indicative of a respective power limit to be applied to a motor for each of a plurality of user selectable speed settings and monitors motor speed to compare against a user selected speed setting. The processor increases the power applied to the motor, up to a respective power limit if the current speed is lower than the user selected speed setting.
US10004355B2
A system for preparing milk and milk foam in drink machines, such as coffee machines and similar pieces of equipment, which are provided with a heater unit for heating the milk and/or the milk foam with steam, contains a feed for the milk and/or the milk foam and a separate feed for the steam, which is fed directly, as a heat-transfer medium, into the milk and/or the milk foam in the heater unit, which operates as an injector.
US10004349B2
A cooling and sterilizing spoon that generates a flow of cool air that cools a food contained within. The spoon sterilizes the flow of cool air with ultraviolet radiation prior to the air engaging the food. In this manner, contaminants that reside in the air are inactivated. This has the effect of cooling the food with a sterile source of air. The spoon integrates a fan and an ultraviolet radiation source proximally to the food to effect the cooling and sterilizing process. A concave portion contains the food. The fan and the ultraviolet radiation source are oriented towards the concave portion. A lever cover overlays the fan and the ultraviolet radiation source on the lever, and includes at least one ventilation opening for enabling air to move to and from the fan. A motor actuates the fan. A power source and a power outlet enable powering of the motor.
US10004345B1
The dish is formed by pressing a palm leaf to form a generally concave dish with a floor surrounded by sides extending to an upper edge. A rim extends laterally from this upper edge, formed as a unit with the floor and sides of the dish. A lid is provided which has a top surface with side walls extending down to a perimeter latch. This perimeter latch engages the dish, such as by snapping onto the rim. In one embodiment the perimeter latch extends downwardly from other portions of the lid and has at least one indentation which extends inwardly thereon to provide an upper recess above the indentation which is sized to receive a tip of the rim. A height of the upper recess is oversized relative to a thickness of the tip of the rim to accommodate some variation in dish thickness and some degree of dish warping.
US10004343B1
A mannequin head with a part having an outer surface appearing like an eye/mouth. A guide stub extends from an inner surface and one orifice is in the outer surface and has a first section. There is a second section extending from the shoulder and a holding device comprising a first magnetized element and a second element with a magnetic force. The guide stub extends from the inner surface to a depth at least equal to 4 mm and a cross section of at least 2 cm2. The first section extends from the outer surface to the shoulder to approximately to 4 mm in depth and the second section comprises a threaded portion. The screw is inserted in threaded portion of the second section and one of the elements of the holding device is attached to the guide stub and the other is secured to the screw.
US10004339B2
A chair for use with a head-mountable display device, the chair comprising a seat portion comprising one or more connection means to allow connection to the head-mountable display device, a base portion, and a rotatable connection between the seat portion and the base portion configured so as to allow an electrical connection to pass between the seat portion and base portion, wherein the electrical connection is operable to transmit at least one of power and digital data.
US10004338B2
A chair equipped with shoulder supporter is provided. The chair equipped with shoulder supporter can obtain an effect of attitude remedy by reducing the pressure applied to the spine and by inducing an upright attitude of erecting the waist vertically through a shoulder supporter which is connected to a hip supporter through a base. The shoulder supporter comprises an armpit supporter provided above a vertical supporter. The chair equipped with shoulder supporter can maximize convenience and enable the multi-purpose use by selecting the use and non-use of the arm supporter or the shoulder supporter with the direction change through up-down or forward-rearward direction rotation of the arm supporter or with the folding of the armpit supporter through a rotation shaft.
US10004331B2
A drawer release is described. The drawer release includes a handle portion pivotally or rotatably engaged to a fixed portion, and the fixed portion is attached to or connected to a drawer. The handle portion includes at least one engaging member that engages a lever or actuator of a drawer-slide of the drawer to open or release the drawer. The drawer release provides for the one-handed opening of the drawer.
US10004329B2
A work station includes a cable raceway. The cable raceway includes a basket in an interior of a base assembly, having an open upper end adjacent an access opening, and a bottom end defining openings, the basket configured to receive cables therein. A cover of the cable raceway is movable between a closed position, in which the cover is received in the access opening and covers the open upper end of the basket to inhibit access to the basket through the access opening, and an open position, in which the cover is at least partially outside the access opening to allow access to the basket through the access opening. The work station may have a work platform that is selectively adjustable in height. A portion of a footprint of the work platform may be commensurate with a corresponding portion of a footprint of the base assembly.
US10004324B2
A toothbrush with a handle having a base and a head and defining a cavity positioned between the base and the head. The toothbrush also includes a plurality of bristles attached to the head of the handle, a green light configured to flash for a first period of time, a yellow light configured to flash for a second period of time, and a red light configured to flash for a third period of time. The toothbrush also includes a switch coupled to the handle for activating the green light, and a circuit for automatically activating the yellow light after expiration of the first period of time and for automatically activating the red light after expiration of the second period of time.
US10004321B2
A clip on sandal tote that allows a user to carry sandals on their person instead of having to be carried in the user's hands.
US10004319B2
A makeup application component includes a three-dimensional mask, a transfer layer, and a pigment layer. A surface curve of a first surface of the three-dimensional mask is corresponding to a surface curve of a face of a user. The transfer layer covers the first surface of the three-dimensional mask. The transfer layer is provided with a first surface and a second surface that are opposite each other. The first surface of the transfer layer clings to the first surface of the three-dimensional mask, and the pigment layer is attached to the second surface of the transfer layer.
US10004313B2
Disclosed is a hand held appliance comprising a body, a handle having a first end connected to the body and a second end comprising a fluid inlet, a fluid flow path from the fluid inlet through the handle towards the body, a fan unit for drawing fluid along the fluid flow path and a cable extending from the second end of the handle for supplying power to the fan unit wherein at least one wire from the cable is routed along a wall of the handle. The wall of the handle may comprise at least one recess extending longitudinally along the handle for accommodating the at least one wire from the cable. The cable may comprise two wires and the wall two recesses extending longitudinally along the handle one recess for accommodating each of the wires from the cable. The two recesses may be approximately diametrically opposite in the wall.
US10004304B2
The present invention is a band including a band main body and a band coupling member which is attached to an end portion of the band main body and a band attachment section of an attachment target member corresponding to the end portion of the band main body, in which the band coupling member has a structure where a plurality of component pieces are arranged in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the band main body and fixed to one another.
US10004281B2
The pant of the present invention is specifically inspired and configured for use in the motor vehicle industry. The pant may be scratchless, meaning that the pant does not have any exposed features that are capable of scratching the finish on a motor vehicle. For example, the pant may comprise a concealed waistband closure mechanism. The pant may also comprise a scratchless security pocket, which is predisposed toward a closed position and thus does not require the use of buttons or the like. The pant may also be configured to provide enhanced mobility and comfort, allowing a wearer a range of movements without interference from his or her clothing. For example, the pant may be manufactured from a stretchable material and/or may comprise a waistband that is configured to stretch so as to provide increased mobility and comfort. The pant may also include an articulating, reinforcing knee feature, which provides additional strength to the knee portion of the pant while also providing for a more comfortable bend at the knee. Additionally, the pant may have reinforcement features, such as reinforced pockets or belt loops, which are particularly suitable for use by motor vehicle workers.
US10004276B2
A retainable collar stay for a shirt includes an elongated body, at least one resilient member, and at least one barb. The elongated body includes a first side and a second side. The at least one resilient member is fixedly connected to one of the first side and the second side. The at least one barb is fixedly connected to one of the first side and the second side.
US10004275B2
The present disclosure relates to an atomizer for an electronic cigarette. The atomizer includes a housing, a sealing cover, a mouthpiece, an atomizing device, and an air pipe. The housing has a first end and a second end. The housing defines a liquid chamber configured for containing tobacco liquid. The atomizing device is configured for atomizing the tobacco liquid to form aerosol. The first end defines a liquid filling opening in communication with the liquid chamber. When the sealing cover is connected with the first end, the sealing cover seals the liquid filling opening. The sealing cover defines an air inlet. The air pipe and the liquid chamber cooperatively define an annular air passage in communication with the air inlet, so that external air can enter the air inlet and reach the atomizing device through the air passage, and then together with the aerosol can be expelled via the mouthpiece.
US10004274B2
An atomizer includes a housing assembly, an atomizing core, a lid, a liquid blocking cover, and an elastic element. The housing assembly defines a liquid chamber. The atomizing core is configured for atomizing the tobacco liquid. The lid is configured for sealing the liquid chamber, and is detachable from the housing assembly. The liquid blocking cover is movably arranged in the housing assembly. The elastic element elastically abuts against the liquid blocking cover. When the lid is connected with the liquid blocking cover, the lid is capable of driving the liquid blocking cover to move to a first position where the tobacco liquid in the liquid chamber can flow to the atomizing core. When the lid is detached from the housing assembly, the liquid blocking cover is driven by the elastic element to a second position where the atomizing core is isolated from the liquid chamber.
US10004266B2
An electronic cigarette body is provided with a functional element, a sleeve and a locating member. The sleeve is slidably connected to the electronic cigarette body and configured to cover the functional element. The locating member is fixed on the electronic cigarette body and located between the sleeve and the electronic cigarette body, and is configured to make the sleeve to be slidably connected to the electronic cigarette body. Two ends of the sleeve are provided with non-metallic stopping members respectively. The locating member is located between the non-metallic stopping members and is configured to abut against the non-metallic stopping members to limit a sliding distance of the sleeve and prevent the sleeve from sliding off the electronic cigarette body. The electronic cigarette prevents the functional element from being touched by mistake or hit due to being exposed.
US10004265B2
An e-vaping device having a cartridge including an outer container extending in a longitudinal direction, a conduit within the outer container, a storage portion including pre-vapor formulation ingredients, the storage portion being between the outer container and the conduit and including a plurality of chambers, a plurality of wicks, each of the wicks being in communication with each of the chambers and the conduit and being configured to deliver one or more ingredients in each of the chambers to the conduit, and a coil heater located in the chimney and operatively coupled to each of the wicks. The e-vaping device also includes a power supply source coupled to the cartridge, the power supply source is configured to heat the wicks to vaporize ingredients located in respective chambers and generate a vapor corresponding to each of the vaporized ingredients.
US10004263B2
An electronic cigarette provided with an accumulated e-liquid removal function and a method for removing accumulated e-liquid of an electronic cigarette. The electronic cigarette comprises an atomization assembly for atomizing e-liquid to produce smoke and a battery rod assembly configured for supplying power. The electronic cigarette is provided with a smoke channel for smoke to flow through, a heating assembly provided in the smoke channel and a control assembly for controlling the heating assembly which is configured for re-atomizing non-atomized e-liquid accumulated in the smoke channel. Implementation of the electronic cigarette provided with the accumulated e-liquid removal function and the present method for removing accumulated e-liquid provides the following beneficial effect: the heating assembly provided in the smoke channel is controlled by the control assembly to produce heat to allow e-liquid accumulated in the smoke channel to be re-atomized, thereby achieving the goal of removal of the accumulated e-liquid.
US10004257B2
A cigar holder assembly adapted for use with a golf bag or golf cart. The cigar holder assembly includes a clamp, a cigar tube, and a multi-positional swivel connector configured to permit adjustment of the position of the cigar tube relative to the clamp.
US10004240B2
A fish stunning apparatus comprises a fish feed-in device, a fish receiving space, which is loadable with fish in the head first position, a fish positioning means, which engages on the fish head and, for the purpose of stunning the fish, defines a releasable temporary stop position of the fish, said apparatus also comprises a stunning means for acting on the fish head, a trigger device for determining the stop position and for activating the stunning means, and further comprises a control device for controlling operation.Locations on the fish head which come to rest in the fish receiving space, depending on the size of the head and/or body of the fish, should be positioned optimally for the purpose of stunning. A fish position actuating element can be controlled by means of a fish-size determining device and is connected to a positioning element of the fish positioning means for local adjustment, as a result of which any fish head can be moved automatically, according to the size of the fish, into a consistent position in relation to the stunning means. A trigger unit, which can be installed in the fish stunning apparatus, comprises the fish position actuating element with a trigger abutment element, formed by the positioning element, and also comprises a controllable control actuator for actuating the fish position actuating element.According to a method for activating the stunning means, a fish-size-related control value, which represents the size of any fish, is determined and the positioning element is put automatically, according to the size of the fish, into an associated starting position.
US10004234B2
A pesticide, fungicidal, bactericidal, anti-pathogen or biocidal composition includes at least one biologically inert carrier; and at least one doped component including at least one fixed copper compound doped with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of iron compounds, zinc compounds, magnesium compounds, calcium compounds, and combinations and/or mixtures thereof. In one embodiment, the doped component has a particle size of about 0.5 nm to about 30 microns. A method for the control of pests includes the step of applying to the pests or their growth habitat the aforementioned composition. The method also includes the control of disease in citrus plants caused by vectors such as Psyllid nymphs, by applying the aforementioned composition to their growth habitat in citrus groves.
US10004232B2
The invention relates to heteroarylpiperidine and -piperazine derivatives of formula (I) to agrochemically active salts thereof, to their use and also to methods and compositions for controlling phytopathogenic harmful fungi in and/or on plants or in and/or on seed of plants, to methods for producing such compositions and to treated seed, and also to the use thereof for controlling phytopathogenic harmful plants in agriculture, horticulture and forestry, in animal health, in materials protection and also in the household and hygiene sector. The present invention further relates to a method for producing heteroarylpiperidine and -piperazine derivatives.
US10004227B2
A dispensable hydroalcoholic gel composition is provided. The dispensable hydroalcoholic gel includes a C1-4 alcohol, a polyacrylate thickener, one or more neutralizers, and an additive. The dispensable hydroalcoholic gel exhibits less misdirection during dispensing from a dispensing device than gel compositions that are otherwise identical, but for the presence of the additive.
US10004223B2
The present invention relates to methods for generating polymeric particles which comprise one or more active ingredients. The invention also relates to the use of such polymeric particles as a seed treatment. The present technology provides an improved seed treatment suitable for applying plant propagation materials. The seed treatment of the present technology includes the use of high aspect-ratio particles as a seed treatment. The present technology has been found to have advantageous properties associated with the seed treatment including increased adherence of the formulation to the seed and reduced tendency to dust off.
US10004212B2
This invention relates to transgenic pig models of cystic fibrosis, cells that can be used to make such animals, and methods of making and using these pigs and cells.
US10004205B2
A solid, free-flowing composition adapted to deliver fragrance or malodor counteractant in a consumer product that is subjected to actual or potential malodorous influences, comprising: a delivery system consisting of a core material surrounded by a fragranced material comprising microdroplets of a dispersed fragrance in a fragrance-encapsulating material, optionally surrounded by a protective coating, and, an external absorbent material in which the fragrance delivery vehicle is dispersed. The invention is especially effective with respect to animal litters, especially those for cats.
US10004198B1
A novel maize variety designated PHCBM and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PHCBM with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHCBM through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PHCBM or a locus conversion of PHCBM with another maize variety.
US10004194B1
An inbred corn line, designated SMA12BM, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line SMA12BM, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line SMA12BM with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line SMA12BM with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line SMA12BM, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line SMA12BM and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
US10004193B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 16R026. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 16R026. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 16R026 and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 16R026 with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US10004189B2
Methods and devices for separating fluid-suspended plant propagules and non-plant propagules based on differences in their fluid drag properties are disclosed. Deposition method and device for depositing plant propagules into a receiver comprising growth substrate by means of a fluid jet is disclosed. An automated system for processing plant propagules from a bioreactor to the growth substrate is also disclosed.
US10004174B2
The transplanter is designed to harness power from a walk-behind tractor to help small farmers transplant (among other things) seedling vegetables. As a farmer guides the walk-behind tractor, a movable feeder tube assembly comprising a plurality of feeder tubes moves latterly back and forth. When a feeder tube aligns with a pivotable transfer tube, a seedling in the feeder tube is deposited in the transfer tube so that the seedling descends down the transfer tube into a furrow for planting. The transfer tube then pivots so that a kicker panel on the bottom of the transfer tube pushes the seedling rearwardly and thereby helps to enable the seedling to remain vertical.
US10010014B1
Cooling units are configured to be installed in a datacenter, such as in a row configured to receive server racks. The cooling units include chilling coils configured to cool air passing across the chilling coil. The cooling units when installed supply cooled air. Units can be coupled together to expand cooling capacity, such as by forming a shared volume between adjacent units. Cooling provided through one or more coupled units can be controlled by another of the coupled units.
US10010011B2
The disclosure relates to an inverter having a first housing module, a second housing module, removably connected to the first housing module, and power-electronic components in both housing modules, wherein a cooling air channel, opening in the surroundings of the inverter, is delimited in the circumferential direction partially by the first housing module and partially by the second housing module. The first housing module is configured to mount to an external structure and the second housing module is configured to mount to the first housing module. The cooling air channel extends at a distance to a mounting plane of the inverter defined by the first housing module opposite the external structure.
US10010009B2
A cable management device/arm is applied to a rack-mounted device system. Cables of a device are managed through a variable-length foldable cable management device/arm. In addition, when an electronic device is fully held in a rack, the cable management device/arm is held at a certain angle in the rack, the interference between the cable management device/arm and a power cable can be prevented from being produced and the length of the cable management device/arm can be flexibly adjusted according to specific application scenarios.
US10010006B2
Provided is an electronic control device, in which positioning of a case including a connector housing portion and a pin header portion of a connector mounted on an electronic circuit board may be carried out easily with high accuracy so that ease of assembly and a water-proof property of the connector are improved. The electronic control device includes: an electronic circuit board (1) on which a pin header (30) used for electric connection to an external device is mounted together with an electronic component (11); and a case (2) for receiving the electronic circuit board therein, the case including a connector housing portion (31) provided as an opening portion (310) at a position corresponding to the pin header. A cover (20) of the case including the connector housing portion and the pin header mounted on the electronic circuit board have a first positioning structure using press-fit.
US10009987B2
A power management system for a lighting circuit may include a grid shifting controller that includes a processor and a connection to an external power source. The power management system may also include a communication interface associated with the grid shifting controller. The grid shifting controller may be configured to provide control information to a processor of at least one grid shifting electrical fixture over the communication interface, the control information being configured to direct the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture on the use of power from the external power source and an energy storage device associated with the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture.
US10009986B2
A monitor lighting control device receives a state change event message that includes a payload specifying: (i) a state change event of an occupancy, audio, or daylight sensor, or a switch to turn lighting on/off, dim up/down, set scene or the like; (ii) an identifier of a member lighting control device that detected the state change event; and (iii) a lighting control group identifier of a lighting control group that includes the member lighting control device and the monitor lighting control device. The monitor lighting control device transmits an acknowledgement of receipt of the state change event message to the member lighting control device. The monitor lighting control device generates a state change multicast message that includes the state change event of the payload. Also, the monitor lighting control device transmits the generated state change multicast message to the lighting control group.
US10009983B2
Disclosed are various techniques for lighting control of groups of light fixtures by a remote device. The remote device receives, via a wireless network interface, an identifier from a photocontrol device that manages light output of the light fixture. The remote device transmits a request to establish a point-to-point communication session directly with the photocontrol device using the wireless network interface. Upon establishing the communication session, the remote device receives a list of photocontrols discovered by the photocontrol device via the photocontrol network. In response to input received, via a user interface of the remote device, to adjust a dimming schedule for a group of the photocontrols, the remote device instructs the photocontrol device to transmit, via the photocontrol network, an adjustment to a configuration for the group.
US10009956B1
Digital mobile communications devices and methods for processing fingerprint signal for authenticating a user of a mobile device. Processing a touch screen generated signal into a processed touch screen control signal for controlling mobile devices. Processing in a mobile device a motion detector generated signal into a motion detector generated control signal, for navigation control of mobile device. Modulation and demodulation, transmission and reception of spread spectrum signals, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) signals and conversion of spread spectrum signals into OFDM signals. Received spread spectrum signals from 3G cellular systems are converted into OFDM signals and transmitted in a wireless network, e.g. a Wi-Fi network. Received OFDM signals, received in a first RF frequency band, are demodulated and in a repeater mode are re-transmitted in a cellular system or network in a second OFDM radio frequency band. One or more receivers and demodulators for receiving demodulating and processing received signals into location finder information. A video camera in mobile device generates video signal and transmits video signal with location finder information signal.
US10009954B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose a call termination method, an application processor, and a modem. In this solution, the application processor receives a hang-up instruction and sends a first message to the modem according to the hang-up instruction, where the first message is used to trigger the modem to directly terminate a call. The modem may terminate the call in a timely manner according to the first message. Therefore, a time consumed in call termination is reduced and efficiency is improved.
US10009947B2
A wireless communication terminal includes an identification information obtainment unit that obtains identification information using, for example, a short-range wireless communication with the wireless communication device, a connection determination unit that, when the identification information in the network is wirelessly transmitted to an external access point connected in advance and a response for the transmission of the identification information in the network is received, determines whether or not a wireless communication device corresponding to the identification information in the network is on the network through the external access point based on the received response, a connection selection unit that selects whether to wirelessly connect to the wireless communication device without going through the external access point or wirelessly connect to the wireless communication device through the external access point, in accordance with the determined result, and a communication control unit that performs wireless communication with the wireless communication device.
US10009940B2
A method for Internet Protocol communication from a communications server to a mobile terminal includes receiving data for communication to the mobile terminal, the data received at the communications server, identifying the unavailability of an Internet Protocol connection with the mobile terminal, and initiating the delivery of a message for establishing an Internet Protocol connection with the mobile network to the mobile terminal in response to the determination that an Internet Protocol connection is unavailable.
US10009939B2
A method and apparatus are described for providing non-packet switched service to a target radio access technology (RAT) network. A circuit switched (CS) service notification message is received by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). If the WTRU has been allocated a valid temporary mobile subscriber identity (TMSI), a paging response message including the valid TMSI is transmitted after an inter-system change is performed from a source RAT network to a target RAT network. The CS service notification message is for terminating a CS call request. The source RAT network may be a long term evolution (LTE) network, and the target RAT network may be a third generation partnership project (3GPP) network. Alternatively, if the WTRU has not been allocated a valid TMSI, a paging response message including an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) that identifies the WTRU is transmitted after the inter-system change.
US10009938B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method, network node, and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: enabling communication via a first and a second access network, wherein the first access network is a first type and the second access network is a second type; communicating with a first control application via at least one of the first access network and the second access network according to a signaling protocol that is used for the communication without regard for which of the first access network and the second access network are used for the communication, wherein the communication effects a change to service provided via at least one data bearer across at least one of the first access network and the second access network, and communicating via the at least one data bearer to exchange non-control application data with at least one other network device.
US10009934B2
A data communication method, a communication system, and related devices are configured to establish a transaction identifier (TI) in a user equipment (UE). The data communication method includes the following steps. A mobility management entity (MME) receives a request message and obtains ability information of the UE. If the UE has an ability to access a Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network/GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (UTRAN/GERAN), the MME generates the TI. A communication system and related devices are also provided. Thus, the TI is effectively established in the UE, so as to ensure normal processing of the UE.
US10009931B2
Enhanced random access procedures for link-budget-limited user equipment (UE) devices are disclosed. A user equipment device may transmit a first message containing a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH). The PRACH contains instances of a Zadoff-Chu sequence, and may be transmitted repeatedly as part of a single random attempt, to facilitate correlation data combining at the base station. The available Zadoff-Chu sequences may be partitioned among a plurality of sets, each set being associated with a respective Doppler shift range (or frequency hop pattern or time repetition pattern). A UE device may signal Doppler shift (or other information) to the base station by selection of one of the sets. The first PRACH transmission and the following PRACH transmission may occur in consecutive subframes. A UE device may select from a special set of Zadoff-Chu sequences (different from a conventional set of sequences), to signal its status as a link-budget-limited device.
US10009929B1
Retransmission parameters are determined for a wireless device based on a desired retransmission success rate, that is, a probability that subsequent random access requests transmitted from the wireless device re-initiating a contention-based random access procedure with an access node will reach the access node. The retransmission parameters are determined based on at least a quality of service associated with the wireless device, a distance of the wireless device from the access node, and a cell load of the access node. The retransmission parameters include a retransmission power and a retransmission backoff window size. A product of the power and backoff window is scaled such that it can be equated with a retransmission success rate.
US10009923B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for a user terminal (UT) to transmit data to a network controller via a satellite in a satellite system. The UT may begin transmitting, during a time period, a first portion of the data using contention-based resources of the satellite system prior to receiving a grant of scheduled return link resources of the satellite system. The UT may also transmit, on the contention-based resources, a buffer status report (BSR) during the time period. The UT may terminate data transmissions on the contention-based resources after an expiration of the time period or upon receiving the grant of scheduled return link resources. After receiving the grant, the UT may transmit a second portion of the data on the scheduled return link resources.
US10009912B2
The disclosure relates in some aspects to a scheduling and token bucket scheme for co-existence of different radio access technologies on a communication resource. In some aspects, the scheme may avoid traffic collisions on the resource and promotes access fairness on the resource.
US10009910B2
In one embodiment, a device of a first wireless communication network determines a link budget from a terminal in the first communication network to an unintended receiver for a communication from the terminal to an intended receiver in the first wireless communication network, based on the communication being configured with initial communication parameters. The device also determines whether one or more adjusted communication parameters would result in reducing a received power at the unintended receiver being below a link budget threshold, while still satisfying a receive sensitivity of the intended receiver. If so, the device causes the terminal to transmit the communication using the adjusted communication parameters. In one embodiment, the device is the terminal, and causing comprises transmitting as the terminal. In another embodiment, the device is a server of the first communication network, and causing comprises instructing the terminal to transmit the communication using the adjusted communication parameters.
US10009893B2
A data transmission scheduling method, device and system are disclosed, which relates to the field of wireless communications, and solves the problem of low network utilization rate in the related scheduling modes. The method includes: receiving a measurement report sent by an access point (AP), wherein the measurement report carries a transmission power of the AP sending the measurement report, and signal reception levels and powers of surrounding devices of the AP; according to the measurement report, evaluating interference relationships between the AP and the surrounding devices of the AP, and obtaining an evaluation result; and making a scheduling decision according to the evaluation result. The technical scheme provided in the embodiments of the present document is applicable to a WLAN, which implements parallel communication of a plurality of low-interference terminals.
US10009892B2
There is disclosed a method for operating a radio node for a wireless communication network, the radio node being adapted for transmitting communication data on at least one carrier based on a timing relative to a pre-defined time structure. The method comprises defining at least one freeze interval relative to the pre-defined time structure, performing a Listen-Before-Talk, LBT, procedure to determine whether accessing the at least one carrier for transmission is allowed, and, if accessing the at least one carrier for transmission is determined to be allowed based on performing the LBT procedure, starting transmission of communication data on the at least one carrier outside the at least one freeze interval. There are also disclosed a corresponding node, system, program product and storage medium.
US10009875B2
The present invention is directed to efficiently transmitting feedback control information in a physical uplink control channel in a communication system having a system band formed with a plurality of fundamental frequency blocks. The present invention has a demodulation section that demodulates downlink shared channel signals for each of a plurality of fundamental frequency blocks, a detection section that detects the state of a retransmission acknowledgement signal of each of the plurality of fundamental frequency blocks based on the demodulated downlink shared channel signals, and an uplink control channel processing section that maps the retransmission acknowledgement signals of the plurality of fundamental frequency blocks to an uplink control channel of a specific fundamental frequency block that is selected from the plurality of fundamental frequency blocks, and the uplink control channel processing section selects a plurality of allocated resources from the uplink control channel, and defines the states of the retransmission acknowledgement signals of the plurality of fundamental frequency blocks by bit information by phase shift modulation and channel selection information.
US10009874B2
An industrial wireless communications system includes a PLC that performs at least monitoring within an industrial facility, at least one master wireless device connected to the PLC by a fieldbus, a plurality of slave wireless devices, which are installed corresponding to respective hardware devices, and carry out wireless communications with the master wireless device, a connection processing unit that carries out a connection process wirelessly between the master wireless device and the slave wireless devices, and a transmission/reception processing unit that transmits and receives data wirelessly between the master wireless device and the slave wireless devices.
US10009873B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a transceiver configured to communicate with at least one wearable device and receive, from the at least one wearable device, status information indicating whether the at least one wearable device is currently being worn; and a processor configured to determine whether to send a notification request to the at least one wearable device based on the status information received by the transceiver.
US10009871B2
A first radio device promotes formation of a temporary group. A second radio device responds to the promotion of the formation of the temporary group. The first radio device includes: a first position information calculator that calculates position information of the first radio device; and a position information transmission controller that controls to transmit the position information of the first radio device to the second radio device at a time of promoting the formation of the temporary group. The second radio device includes: a second position information calculator that calculates position information of the second radio device; a distance calculator that calculates a distance between the first and second radio devices; and a temporary group participation controller that controls to participate in the temporary group when the distance between the first and second radio devices is within a predetermined distance.
US10009866B2
A method for determining information for at least one mobile terminal within an area, wherein location of the at least one mobile terminal is determined within the area and measurement information from the area is retrieved from at least one sensor. The method includes a step of comparing measurement information of at least one sensor with at least one default value. In response of a detection of a mismatch of the retrieved measurement information and the default value it is determined information relevant in the location of the at least one sensor. Additionally, at least one mobile terminal residing within a predetermined distance from the location of the at least one sensor is determined and delivery of the determined information relevant in the location of the at least one sensor is initiated. A server implementing the method is also described.
US10009861B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method for wireless communication may include identifying interference at a first node operating in a shared radio frequency spectrum band. The interference may be caused by a second node operating in the shared radio frequency spectrum band. The second node may operate asynchronously to the first node in the shared radio frequency spectrum band. The method may also include adaptively enabling, based at least in part on the identified interference, a synchronization of the first node with at least a third node in the shared radio frequency spectrum band.
US10009854B2
Embodiments of a communication station and method for transmission power control for Time-of-Flight (ToF) measurements in a wireless network are generally described herein. A protocol for fine timing measurements (FTMs) optimizes location performance rather than Wi-Fi coverage area and bit error rate by limiting an allowed maximum power and hence, EVM. A user equipment (UE) comprises a transceiver configured to receive, from an initiating station, a fine timing measurement request (FTMR) message at a maximum transmit power and lowest modulation and coding scheme (MCS), measure a relative received signal strength (RSSI) for the received FTMR message, determine a maximum transmit power, where the maximum transmit power is proportional to the measured RSSI; and transmit, to the initiating station, a fine timing measurement 1 (FTM1) message at the determined maximum transmit power and received lowest MCS.
US10009848B2
A power adjusting module applied in a wearable device and includes a sensor, a central processing unit (CPU). The sensor triggers a detect signal. The CPU determines if the wearable device is in a wearing mode or a free mode according to the detect signal. If the wearable device is determined in a wearing mode, the CPU generates an instruction for increasing a transmission power of an antenna of the wearable device; if the wearable device is determined in a free mode, the CPU generates an instruction for decreasing the transmission power of the antenna. A wearable device employing the power adjusting module is also provided.
US10009840B2
Embodiments of an access point (AP), station (STA) and method for subcarrier scaling are generally described herein. The AP may transmit a high efficiency (HE) physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes a legacy long training field (L-LTF), a legacy signal (L-SIG) field, and an HE signal (HE-SIG) field. The HE-SIG may be based on HE-SIG symbols mapped to a group of HE subcarriers that includes legacy subcarriers and HE extension subcarriers. The L-LTF may be based on L-LTF pilot symbols mapped to the legacy subcarriers. The L-SIG may be based on L-SIG legacy symbols mapped to the legacy subcarriers and L-SIG extension pilot symbols mapped to the HE extension subcarriers. The AP may scale a per-subcarrier power of the L-SIG extension pilot symbols to match a per-subcarrier power of the L-LTF pilot symbols.
US10009838B2
An Access Point (AP) connection method in an electronic device and the electronic device thereof are provided. The method includes transmitting a request message relating to AP information connected for wireless Local Area Network (LAN) connection and inquiring about a rogue AP, to an Internet server, when the AP is not the rogue AP according to a response message received from the Internet server, maintaining connection to the AP, and providing other AP information to the Internet server.
US10009828B2
The present invention is designed so that, when a plurality of inter-terminal discovery signals with varying numbers of information bits are used in a radio communication system in which inter-terminal communication is carried out, user terminals can be discovered based on the inter-terminal discovery signals. According to the inter-terminal communication method of the present invention, a user terminal (#1) determines the signal format of a discovery signal based on the number of information bits of the discovery signal,transmits the discovery signal based on the signal format, and also transmits signal format information to represent this signal format. A user terminal (#2) receives the signal format information from the user terminal (#1), and, based on the signal format represented by the signal format information, detects the discovery signal.
US10009818B2
A method comprising running an application on user equipment; providing a mobility service; using a packet switched connection when said mobility service is unavailable; and using said mobility service when said mobility service becomes available.
US10009816B2
To more appropriately maintain a wireless communication connection, a communication apparatus obtains an identifier of a first network connected, by a first wireless communication scheme, to another communication apparatus; searches for a second network by the first wireless communication scheme, which exists on the periphery, and obtains an identifier of the second network; and transmits, if the identifier of the first network and the identifier of the second network are different, a predetermined notification signal to the other communication apparatus via communication by a second wireless communication scheme with lower transmission power than the first wireless communication scheme.
US10009812B2
Wireless telecommunications network nodes, methods and computer program products are disclosed. A wireless telecommunications network node method, comprises determining a cause of a radio link failure which occurred when a user equipment is in proximity to an uplink-downlink imbalance region; and in response to the cause of the radio link failure, initiating action to optimize control of user equipment uplink-downlink decoupling-recoupling when in proximity to the uplink-downlink imbalance region. In this way, by establishing the cause of the radio link failure, it is possible to take action to alter the user equipment uplink-downlink decoupling-recoupling procedure in order to help prevent such radio link failures occurring in the future.
US10009811B2
Apparatuses and methods for providing layered mobility are provided. Small cell eNBs belong to a cluster of local area base stations. A source eNB has a connection with user equipment having a first identity related to the connection and receives from the user equipment a request to send a scheduling request to another local area eNB of the cluster, the request including a list of target candidate eNBs. The source eNB determines suitable target eNB(s) from the list and resources for sending a scheduling request; and transmits The target eNB receives a scheduling request from user equipment allocates and sends communication resources to the user equipment and associates the first identity to the connection with the user equipment.
US10009809B2
A method for perform pre-processing for handover of a moving cell by a serving base station, the method comprises transmitting a handover pre-processing request message including information on a handover history of the moving cell, to at least one neighboring base station adjacent to the serving base station; receiving a pre-processing response message including at least one of a random access preamble allocated from the neighboring base station, radio resource control (RRC) configuration of the neighboring base station and system information of the neighboring base station, from the neighboring base station; and transmitting the pre-processing response message to the moving cell before handover of the moving cell is initiated.
US10009808B2
A cell selection method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: performing, by a terminal, cell measurement; obtaining, by the terminal, cell selection auxiliary information; and performing, by the terminal, cell selection or cell reselection according to a cell measurement result and the cell selection auxiliary information. By using the method, the terminal can select a more suitable cell.
US10009796B2
A bandwidth adjustment method includes: determining a bandwidth update value of a channel of a first network system and a bandwidth update value of a channel of a second network system and a bandwidth update value of a protective bandwidth according to a request of a user or a channel condition, so that updated bandwidths of the channels of the first network system and the second network system meet the request of the user or are adapted to requirements of channel conditions. By using the technical schemes, a network resource can be adjusted between multiple network systems when the multiple network systems share one network resource, thereby helping improve the application efficiency of a bandwidth resource and ensuring anti-interference capabilities of the network systems.
US10009795B2
A web-based radio survey service is provided to client devices. The client devices individually conduct a radio survey. The radio surveys are sent to a central server for analysis. The central server evaluates the radio surveys and determines a least congested radio channel for common use by all the client devices. The client devices may thus all switch to the least congested radio channel to ensure reliable radio service with an access device.
US10009786B2
A method is provided for calculating a distance to a counterpart user equipment (UE) using device-to-device (D2D) communication, which is calculated by a UE in a wireless communication system. The UE receives a synchronization signal from a cluster head and receives a first discovery signal from the counterpart UE, and calculates a first difference value between a time of receiving the first discovery signal and a time of receiving the synchronization signal. The UE further receives, from the counterpart UE, information on a second difference value and calculates a first sum value of the first difference value and the second difference value. The UE receives, from the cluster head, information on a second sum value. The UE calculates a distance between the UE and the counterpart UE based on a difference between the second sum value and the first sum value.
US10009779B2
Disclosed is a method for improving network performance, comprising: according to the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of high speed physical downlink shared channels (HS-PDSCHs) on two or more than two carriers, which is obtained by way of measurement, respectively acquiring, by a user equipment (UE), a channel quality indicator (CQI) of the HS-PDSCH on each carrier; when it is determined that the difference between the SINR of the HS-PDSCH on one or more than one carrier in all the carriers and the maximum SINR of the HS-PDSCHs on all the carriers is greater than a first threshold value, updating the CQI of the HS-PDSCH on the one or more than one carrier; and reporting the CQIs of the HS-PDSCHs on all the carriers to a network side, the CQIs being used for the network side to schedule the UE. Also disclosed at the same time are a UE and a storage medium.
US10009778B2
A self-organizing network switching matrix is provided. The self-organizing network switching matrix can receive a first set of communications data from a set of base transceiver stations wherein the communications data includes a radio simulcast. It can send the first set of communications data to a subset of remote transceiver units in a set of remote transceiver units. A second set of communications data can be received from the first subset of remote transceiver units. A set of network activity data can be generated based on monitoring the receiving of the second set of communications data from the first subset of remote transceiver units for a defined network activity. The subset of remote transceiver units can be adjusted based on the network activity data. In this regard, the self-organizing network switching matrix facilitates automated capacity management providing just in time network dimensioning.
US10009777B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for improving communications when encountering aggressive communication systems. In one embodiment, a communication system includes a WAP operable to link a UE to a communication network via a communication protocol and a communications processor operable with the WAP to detect another communication system operating within a range of the WAP, and to determine that the other communication system is operating via another communication protocol that differs from the communication protocol of the communication network based on UEs in range of the WAP. The UEs are operable to communicate via both communication protocols. The communications processor queries the UEs in the range of the WAP to determine which of the UEs are communicating via the other communication protocol, and estimates a rate of successful communication with the UE via the WAP based on a number of UEs communicating via the other communication protocol.
US10009773B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices to enable secured data access from a mobile device executing a native mobile application and a headless browser are disclosed. In a particular aspect, a mobile device includes a wireless transceiver, a processor, a display device, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to perform operations. The operations enable read and write access to secured data by the mobile device.
US10009768B2
Systems and methods to request system information are provided. In some aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits a request for on-demand system information. The UE transmits a challenge response for authentication of the request for the on-demand system information. The UE receives the on-demand system information after the request for the on-demand system information is authenticated based on the challenge response.
US10009766B2
An information handling system, comprising a host processing complex that instantiates a hosted processing environment, a managed element, a management controller to manage the managed element out of band from the hosted processing environment, and a wireless management module coupled to the management controller, the wireless management module including a wireless transceiver to wirelessly couple a mobile device to the management controller, wherein the management controller receives a direction from the mobile device to manage the managed element.
US10009754B2
The present invention discloses methods and systems for transferring SIM card information from a first device to a server. A first SIM card is housed in the first device or in a first modem connected to the first device. When the first device boots up, it identifies the first SIM card and retrieves SIM card information from the first SIM card. The first device then sends authentication information to the first server and requests historical SIM card activity information. Historical SIM card activity information received from the first server is stored in a storage medium, and is used for determining whether to use the first SIM card. The first server performs steps of receiving a first request message from the first device, and determining the SIM card identity specified in the first request message if the first request message is authentic. The first server retrieves and sends historical SIM card activity information of the first SIM card to the first device.
US10009752B2
A wireless device (WD) is associated with a preprogrammed user roaming setting and an automated adjustment algorithm stored in operative communication with the device. The algorithm is initiated and run when the device enters a roaming area, thereby automatically activating the roaming setting. A user response query is operatively connected to the automated adjustment algorithm, and operates as a switch for the automated adjustment algorithm, which initiates changing the user settings in accordance with the roaming setting. A user available query is connected to the user response query, to determine if the wireless device is in use, and to generate a notification if the device is idle or a prompt if the device is in use. An output from the switch of the user response query selectively enables the automated adjustment algorithm responsive to at least one of a responsive and a nonresponsive input to the user response query.
US10009749B2
The present invention discloses a device discovery method which relates to the field of communications technologies. The method in the present invention mainly includes: receiving, by a server, a discovery request, where the discovery request is used to request to discover another UE near a user equipment UE, and the discovery request includes a discovery category indication; generating discovery configuration information according to the discovery category indication, and sending the discovery configuration information to a base station or the UE, where the discovery configuration information is used to configure a parameter that is used when the base station or the UE detects another nearby UE; and receiving a discovery result sent by the base station or the UE.
US10009748B2
In the present application, a method of transmitting and receiving a signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a network, information about a subframe which is designated for first use application, and information about a subframe in which use dedicated application is disabled; receiving, from the network, information about a use application change subframe which indicates the subframe which will change the first use application to a second use application; and transmitting and receiving a signal to and from the network or other terminals, according to the information about the use application change subframe, wherein if a specific subframe for transmission and reception of the signal belongs to the subframe in which a use dedicated application is disabled, the terminal transmits and receives a signal to and from the network according to the first use application in the specific resource.
US10009739B2
A method for presenting information contained in messages in a terminal (MS). In the method, the message includes at least one component. The message is transmitted to a terminal (MS) in a system for transmitting multimedia messages. In the method, a presentation model (SMIL) is formed to contain information related to the presentation of each component attached in the message. The aforementioned presentation model (SMIL) is supplemented with a reference about the location of each component in the message, and the aforementioned presentation model (SMIL) is attached to the aforementioned message.
US10009738B2
A computer-implemented system and method for determining an appropriate time for providing a message to a driver are provided. A message is received for a driver of a motor vehicle. Movement of the motor vehicle is monitored, and a familiarity of the movement to the driver is determined. Data sensed by the motor vehicle is obtained, and a cognitive load of the driver is calculated based on the familiarity of the movement and the sensed data. The message is provided to the driver when the calculated cognitive load is low.
US10009732B1
A computer implemented method and system that enables mobile and desktop devices to automatically communicate with websites of brick and mortar businesses, which are relevant to a category of interest and proximate to their current or a prospective geographic location. The system and method further enables generation of well-formed websites, media, and multimedia, and to concurrently and automatically demographically and geographically distribute and push the websites and media to nearby and prospectively interested mobile and desktop devices with relevancy-amplified, geotargeted media and multimedia communications, which media are selected by real-time machine-learned, high-probability consumer interest weighting and relevancy functions that are continuously updated in response to monitored consumer actions. The system further enables geographically regional and inter-regional systems management of these geotargeting capabilities to enable automated, local to worldwide replication and prospective advance market regional and demographic testing of the geotargeted and relevant distributively pushed media communications.
US10009728B2
In one embodiment, a processor may identify information about an entity represented by a first node in a social graph for a social-networking system. The information may comprise a location for the entity and an affinity score for the entity with respect to a user, wherein the user is represented by a second node in the social graph. The processor may then determine a region defined with respect to the location of the entity, wherein the region is defined based in part on the affinity score for the entity, as well as determining that a location of a mobile device associated with the user is within the region. Finally, the processor may cause the mobile device to transition from a sleep state to an active state.
US10009713B2
A method for detecting the proximity of a signal source using wireless systems is contemplated in which a wireless mobile device wirelessly receives packets from a signal source and determines a received signal strength for each packet. The wireless mobile device may store information based upon the received signal strength for each packet, and calculate from the information stored for all the packets, a current path loss value corresponding to a current distance from the wireless mobile device to the signal source. The wireless mobile device may then determine whether the current distance is sufficient to be an enabling condition such as tap, for example, for a data transfer or a transaction between the wireless mobile device and the signal source.
US10009712B2
A method and a device for the short range unicast communication, the method includes: receiving resource allocation request information from a terminal; in response to the resource allocation request information, when the terminal is an eMTC, configuring a reception resource pool for the terminal and informing the terminal about the configuration information of the reception resource pool; determining a destination terminal with which a transmitting terminal will directly communicate, and when the destination terminal is an eMTC terminal, allocating a transmission resource in a reception resource pool of the destination terminal to the transmitting terminal; and transmitting resource grant indication information to the transmitting terminal, where the resource grant indication information indicates the transmission resource and the destination terminal corresponding to the transmission resource. Accordingly, short range unicast communication with an eMTC terminal can be realized.
US10009705B2
Embodiments herein are primarily described in the context of a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for producing a sound with enhanced spatial detectability and a crosstalk simulation. The audio processing system receives a left and right input channel of an audio input signal, and performs an audio processing to generate an output audio signal. The system generates left and right spatially enhanced signals by gain adjusting side subband components and mid subband components of the left and right input channels. The audio processing system generates left and right crosstalk channels such as by applying a filter and time delay to the left and right input channels, and mixes the spatially enhanced channels with the crosstalk channels. In some embodiments, the system includes high/low frequency enhancement channels and passthrough channels derived from the input channels, which can be mixed with the output audio signal.
US10009700B1
An audio system includes an input node for receiving an audio input signal, a signal processor coupled to the input node to receive the audio input signal, and an output node for providing an audio output signal to a speaker. The audio system includes a first fuzzy logic controller configured to receive sampled signals related to the audio input signal and a gain of the signal processor, the first fuzzy logic controller configured to determine a risk level of the audio output signal. The audio system also includes a second fuzzy logic controller configured to receive feedback signals related to the audio output signal and to determine a correction factor. Further, the audio system is configured to determine a control signal based on the risk level and the correction factor, and to adjust the audio output signal based on the control signal.
US10009697B2
A hearing device having an antenna unit is disclosed. The hearing device comprises a transmission line connecting a communication unit and the antenna unit, or at least being part of a connection between them. The transmission line may be configured to transfer a signal from the communication unit to the antenna unit and/or from the antenna unit to the communication unit, so as to minimize parasitic effects on the antenna unit.
US10009694B2
A MEMS microphone assembly has an enclosure enclosing a volume of air. A MEMS microphone chip is provided within the enclosure. First and second acoustic ports are formed in the enclosure, defining first and second fluid paths between the volume of air and air outside the enclosure. The MEMS microphone responds to a pre-determined linear interpolative value between two independent pressure signals supplied via first and second ports according to the potentiometic ratio of the acoustic impedances of the first and second ports.
US10009689B2
A vehicle information presentation device that includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire information about the surroundings of an ego vehicle; a sound pick-up section configured to pick up sound heard by an occupant; a plurality of sound sources configured to emit sound toward the occupant; and a presentation section that, in a case in which another vehicle has been detected from the surroundings information acquired by the acquisition section, presents the occupant with information related to the other vehicle using sound emitted from at least one of the plurality of sound sources by attenuating, from among sound heard by the occupant, sound directed from the other vehicle toward the ego vehicle, based on audio pick-up information on sound picked up by the sound pick-up section.
US10009680B2
The subject technology can be embodied in a retaining structure which is configured to engage with external structures to hold an earpiece in position. The retaining structure includes a first portion forming a loop and having an upper end and a lower end. The upper end of the first portion is coupled to a top surface of a body of the earpiece and the lower end of the first portion is coupled to a bottom surface of the earpiece. The retaining structure also includes a second portion having an upper end and a lower end, wherein the lower end of the second portion is coupled to the loop formed by the first portion, and the upper end of the second portion extends from the earpiece. The top and bottom surfaces are located on substantially opposite sides of the body in a direction along a plane of the retaining structure.
US10009679B1
A Bluetooth earphone combined with a pair of eyeglasses includes an earphone body and an engaging member. The earphone body includes a recess in which two axle holes and ratchets are designed. The engaging member includes a coupling portion, a ratchet wheel provided at the bottom of the engaging member, and two shafts provided on the ratchet wheel. The shafts are engaged in the axle holes, and the ratchet wheel are coupled with the ratchets, such that the engaging member can rotate at a proper angle relative to the earphone body with the shafts as a center of rotation and can be sustained in an adequate angle. As such, the Bluetooth earphone is flexibly combined with a pair of eyeglasses owned by a user in usage.
US10009678B2
A case for a pair of earbuds includes an insert positioned within the case and configured to receive the pair of earbuds. A contact assembly is attached to the insert and includes electrical contacts that extend into the inserts such that they make electrical contact with an earbud connector disposed on each of the pair of earbuds.
US10009677B2
A device includes a balloon inflation module having an involuted balloon housed within a lumen, an integrated reservoir in fluid communication with the involuted balloon where the balloon inflation module is configured to selectively displace a volume of fluid from the integrated reservoir into the involuted balloon and from the involuted balloon into the integrated reservoir. The device also includes a port configured to receive an accessory module. In one embodiment, the accessory module is a communication module having a logic circuit coupled to an ambient microphone configured to pick up ambient audio content, an ear canal microphone configured to pick up audio in the proximity of an ear canal, and an ear canal receiver configured to provide audio content in the proximity of the ear canal. In some embodiments, the integrated reservoir is formed within portions of a push button spring-loaded pump assembly. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10009669B2
An optical transmitter includes an optical modulator configured to modulate an optical signal, a dual-stage space switch configured to receive, as an input, the modulated optical signal from the optical modulator, and output ports configured to control light outputs based on an operation of the dual-stage space switch.
US10009668B2
As photonics evolves closer and closer to the electronic processing elements in order to meet the demands of speed, latency of evolving data communications networks and data centers the inventors, rather than seeking direct monolithically integrated CMOS based processing photonic and electronic elements, have established a different route. Namely replace the computer hubs/electrical bridges interconnecting the multiple core logic chipset elements with a photonic bridge. In this manner high risk chip-to-chip photonic point-to-point links are replaced with photonic SOCs that leverage photonics bandwidth density attribute rather than its bandwidth distance attributes. An SOI based Electronic Embedded Photonic Switching Fabric is presented supporting, for example, N×MGb/s interconnections exploiting N channels of MGb/s wherein each channel of exploits S WDM channels of TGb/s. Embodiments of the invention also support high density optical interconnection via vertical grating couplers and multicore fibers.
US10009664B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for providing extrinsic data relevant to a video content feature. In one embodiment, where a single cast member performs as multiple characters in the video content feature, the extrinsic data may include character images for each character played by the cast member. In another embodiment, where multiple generic images of a cast member are available, a particular generic image is selected to be included in the extrinsic data according to a measure of relevancy of the generic image to the video content feature. In another embodiment, when a generic image of a cast member is unavailable, an image of the cast member in character is included in the extrinsic data.
US10009659B2
Methods and systems for hybrid push-based media streaming of encoded video (or media) content grouped into video segment (or chunk) files to one or more user devices are described, where push notices are provided from a manifest server to subscribing user devices over a persistent low bandwidth connection when the video segment files are ready to be viewed. The video segment files may be downloaded by the user devices from segment servers to the user devices via a separate HTTP high bandwidth streaming connection, or other form of separate connection. In addition, unique, personalized, or additional content may be inserted in the push notices and viewed by the user devices without impacting video playback performance.
US10009653B2
Systems and methods for generating a notification when activity exceeds an authorization level are provided. A determination is made as to whether content currently being presented to a first user exceeds an authorization level associated with the first user. In response to determining that the content exceeds the authorization level, the content being presented is monitored to determine whether the content meets a criterion. An amount of time the content being presented meets the criterion is measured. In response to determining that the amount of time exceeds a threshold, a communication is transmitted to a second user indicating that the content currently being presented to the first user exceeds the authorization level.
US10009647B2
A system transmits human interface data (HID) as ancillary data to a television receiver over white space. Content on a user mobile device may be wirelessly displayed on an external display device. It may be desirable to have user interactions with the mobile device (such as controls for video games) displayed on the external display device in a manner that does not suffer from the latency of standard video being set to the display device. The HID may be captured and processed separately from the video data. The HID may be formed into a transport stream for transmission over white space. The HID may be included as ancillary data in the transport stream. Timestamps may be used to coordinate the transmission of the HID as well as its processing when received by a television receiver.
US10009645B2
A digital television including a display, an interface, a communication unit, a broadcast receiver, and a controller to: display broadcast content, display a screen corresponding to a voice recognition mode, receive a first voice command signal corresponding to a first voice command, which is a single voice command including a first part defining a search source of an Internet based search engine and a second part defining a first search keyword, display a web page corresponding to the search source, which includes a first search result corresponding to first information stored on a remote server, receive a second voice command signal corresponding to a second voice command, in which the second voice command is a single voice command including the first search keyword, and display a second search result corresponding to the first search keyword from the second voice command, which corresponds to second information stored in the digital television.
US10009642B2
Methods and systems are described for generating content identification tiles, such as manifest files, for ensuring content and advertising continuity when changes occur during playback. A user device can request content at a particular bitrate, and a first manifest file comprising references to the content and selected associated content such as advertisements can be created in response to the request. While one of the advertisements is being displayed, the user device can request a change, such as for a different bitrate. A computing device, such as a manifest server can access the first manifest file to determine the content and the associated content, such the advertisements, that were intended for the user. The manifest server can then create a second manifest file in response to the request, where second manifest file can be created with the associated content, for example, the advertisements in the first manifest file.
US10009641B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal for an HEVC stream trick play. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating a video stream by encoding video data, wherein the video stream comprises PVR assist information having the maximum temporal identification information value of the video stream; generating a broadcast signal comprising the generated video stream; and transmitting the generated broadcast signal.
US10009635B2
Methods and apparatus to identify media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example method includes generating a reference signature based on a reference signal corresponding to known media, generating sums based on peaks in a media signal corresponding to media, identifying signal peaks based on the generated sums, generating a second signature based on normalized curve features, wherein the normalized curve features respectively correspond to the identified signal peaks at a corresponding temporal locations of the corresponding signal peak, and determining whether the media signal corresponds to the reference signal based on a comparison of the reference signature and the second signature.
US10009631B2
Disclosed are an intra prediction method of a chrominance block using a luminance sample and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method comprises the steps of: calculating an intra prediction mode of a chrominance block on the basis of an LM mapping table when the chrominance block uses an LM; and generating a prediction block for the chrominance block on the basis of the calculated intra prediction mode of the chrominance block. When intra prediction mode information of chrominance blocks are decoded, mutually different tables are used depending on whether or not an LM is used, so that encoding and decoding can be performed without an unnecessary waste of bits.
US10009627B2
A video processing system 100 is provided with video encoding device 10 and video decoding device 20. The video encoding device 10 implements backward interframe prediction from a temporally subsequent frame and outputs information indicating that an option to eliminate use of a decoded image of the temporally subsequent frame was chosen. The video decoding device 20 eliminates use of the decoded image of the frame on the basis of this information, in conjunction with input of the information for eliminating use of the decoded image of the temporally subsequent frame.
US10009625B2
An apparatus for use in low-latency two-pass video coding may include a memory and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to identify an input frame from an input video stream, determine a reduced frame from the input frame, the reduced frame having a size smaller than a size of the input frame, generate an encoded reduced frame by encoding the reduced frame, wherein encoding the reduced frame includes generating encoding metrics, generate encoding parameters based on the encoding metrics, generate an encoded frame by encoding the input frame using an encoding parameter from the encoding parameters include the encoded frame in an output bitstream, and store or transmit the output bitstream.
US10009620B2
A block of size N×M of a video frame can be either split into smaller blocks in n different ways (e.g. horizontal, vertical, quad, etc.), or alternatively it can be coded using one out of m different coding modes (e.g. intra, inter, bi-prediction, etc.). Since splitting into smaller sub-blocks and coding the N×M block in one of the m possible ways are mutually exclusive, there are n+m distinct possibilities for processing the block further. The n+m possible ways of processing the N×M blocks are assigned a code (e.g., a number) and coded with a codeword derived from a VLC table. This achieves efficient combined coding of split information and other block-level parameters.
US10009617B2
A method of operating an encoder capable of predicting a band position and maximizing a compression ratio using variable length coding and a method of operating a system on chip (SoC) including the encoder are provided. The method includes determining a predicted band position of a first block included in a video frame, determining a first actual band position of the first block, and coding a difference value between the predicted band position and the first actual band position.
US10009616B2
A variable length encoding unit 13 variable-length-encodes an index indicating a classification method of carrying out a class classification on each coding block having a largest size, the classification method being determined by a loop filter unit 11, and also variable-length-encodes a parameter about an offset value for each class determined for each coding block having the largest size on the basis of a binarization process using a truncated unary code.
US10009614B2
Methods are disclosed for performing improved deblocking filtering across edges between macroblocks, with particular application to cases where one macroblock is field coded and its neighbors are frame coded. A method for filtering across horizontal edges comprises determining which macroblocks are considered to be vertically adjacent to each other. The method also determines which macroblocks are considered to be sampled at a same time. Finally, filtering is performed between vertically adjacent macroblocks that are considered to be sampled at a same time. Another method for filtering across vertical edges comprises determining which macroblocks are considered to be horizontally adjacent to each other. The method effectively re-arranges a vertical ordering of horizontal lines of at least a subset of the horizontally adjacent macroblocks. Finally, filtering is performed between the horizontally adjacent macroblocks after the re-arranging.
US10009611B2
A measure of visual quality of processed images relative to unprocessed images is generated in real-time. The measure of visual quality closely correlates with a human's actual perception of the processed image relative to the original image. The measure of visual quality is computed based on a measure of discrepancy (e.g., mean square errors) between the processed and unprocessed images and the variance of each image in the pixel domain or the transform domain may be determined. If the processed image is unavailable, a prediction of the processed image may be used in place of the processed image. The prediction of a processed image may involve predicting the variance values for processed image blocks. The visual quality measure may be used in a feedback loop to improve processing or encoding.
US10009607B2
In a case where a partition mode in which luma signals are partitioned horizontally and vertically is set when an intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of minimal coding blocks set in advance, an intra prediction unit is configured to make an intra prediction of a chroma signal in units of prediction blocks of the intra prediction of chroma signals within the minimal coding block set in accordance with a chroma format. A second bitstream constructing unit constructs a bitstream of information relating to a luma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of luma signals and information relating to a chroma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of chroma signals.
US10009604B2
A method of driving a display device includes displaying an image corresponding to a left eye image signal during a first frame set including one or more frames and displaying an image corresponding to a right eye image signal during a second frame set including one or more successive frames, in which the first frame set and the second frame set include at least one frame displaying a first image according to a first gamma curve and at least one frame displaying a second image according to a second gamma curve, and the first frame set and the second frame set include two successive frames displaying the second image.
US10009600B2
A light-emitting module for displaying or projecting a video signal comprises at least one mirror mounted so as to be able to oscillate and at least one light-emitting element, which is directed onto the mirror and is controllable via an input, and a computation unit that is connected to the light-emitting element and is configured to output at least one sample value of the video signal, which sample value appears at the input of said computation unit at a first time within a period of the mirror, at its output as a sample value at a second time, which is different from the first, within the same period according to a mapping function that is stored in the computation unit, wherein the computation unit has a control input that can be used to scale and/or offset the stored mapping function. The invention further comprises a display or projection apparatus having a multiplicity of such light-emitting modules, and a method for calibrating the light-emitting module and the apparatus.
US10009592B2
A method for processing a 3-dimensional image including an additional object in a system providing a multi-view image according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving video images and depth images from a plurality of views; configuring one additional object of additional objects displayed in the video images from the plurality of views as a reference additional object; calculating disparity between pixels of an area in which the reference additional object is displayed and a video image, which is adjacent to an edge of the reference additional object; applying a disparity value, which is larger the or equal to a value of the calculated disparity, to the reference additional object, so as to combine the reference additional object with a first view video image and a second view video image; and formatting the first view video image and the second view video image, with which the reference additional object has been combined, as 3-dimensional images.
US10009591B2
The present invention provides a digital broadcasting reception method, including the steps of: receiving and demultiplexing digital broadcasting signals including reference period and extension period video streams; determining the right/left information of the reference period and extension period video streams by using a descriptor included in at least one of a Program Map Table (PMT), a Terrestrial Virtual Channel Table (TVCT), a Service Description Table (SDT), and an Event Information Table (EIT); decoding the reference period and extension period video streams; and controlling the decoded reference period and extension period video streams by using the right/left information.
US10009589B2
The invention relates to a small-spacing pre-maintenance LED display screen, the LED display screen comprises a box, a plurality of LED modules and inter-display-screen connecting units provided in the box, the LED display screen comprises connecting ends provided on the lateral sides of the box, and the connecting ends are used to connect any two boxes adjacent to each other.
US10009585B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a MEMS scanned beam projector includes a light source to emit a light beam, a scanning platform to redirect the light beam impinging on the platform, and a display controller to control the light source and the scanning platform to cause the scanning platform to scan the light beam in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction in a scan pattern to project an image onto a projection surface. The display controller is configured to correct for image distortion in the projected image by providing a compensated drive signal to the scanning platform to compensate for the image distortion.
US10009583B2
A projection apparatus among a plurality of projection apparatuses for executing multi-projection includes a holding unit configured to hold setting information about a role of the projection apparatus among the plurality of projection apparatuses for executing the multi-projection, a reception unit configured to receive an instruction for displaying a menu screen for changing a setting of the projection apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine whether to display the menu screen upon reception of the instruction by the reception unit, based on the setting information held by the holding unit, and a projection unit configured to project the menu screen according to a result of determination by the determination unit.
US10009575B1
A distributed storage of sequential video frames is designed without compromising data reliability. Capitalizing on the loss-tolerant nature of video data, user experience is maintained by leveraging higher capacity drives with lower latency, higher throughput and more efficient utilization of provisioned storage. No RAID, replication or erasure computations are necessary. There are a few optimization to this method which improves reliability, such as reliably storing video data in partitioned drives, making data storage configuration map known to each partition, implementing a strategy for avoiding loss of a common moment, preventing potential loss of reference frames, leveraging different sized drives, avoiding pitfalls associated with data getting stored disproportionately to large drives etc. Though video streaming data has been used as an illustrative example of loss-tolerant data, the methods and systems can be applied to any type of loss-tolerant data.
US10009574B2
In one embodiment, a magnetic tape device includes a read control configured to sequentially read records included in data sets from a tape medium into a buffer, and send the records included in the data sets to a host in response to determining that there is no C2 error during reading of the data sets. The read control is also configured to skip a predetermined error recovery process in accordance with a video special mode in response to detecting a C2 error during reading of the data sets.
US10009570B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a video frame. The computer-implemented method further includes dividing the video frame into two or more frame regions, each of the two or more frame regions corresponding to a selectively coolable region of a display. The computer-implemented method further includes identifying one or more frame characteristics for each of the two or more frame regions. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a cooling intensity to be applied to each selectively coolable region for displaying the video frame on the display based on the one or more frame characteristics. The computer-implemented method further includes applying the cooling intensity to each selectively coolable region at an effective time before displaying the video frame on the display. A corresponding computer system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10009561B2
In a period in which a pixel signal of another pixel is read out from the pixel, a transistor connected to a floating diffusion region of a pixel not performing reading out of a pixel signal from the pixel is turned off.
US10009557B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging element, a control method, a program, and an electronic device that can provide an electronic ND function by means of a simpler configuration. The imaging element includes a reference signal generation unit and an A/D conversion unit that includes a comparison unit and a switching unit that switches a capacitance connected to a terminal through which the pixel signal is inputted to the comparison unit and A/D-converts the pixel signal. In the case where the exposure time at the time when the image one frame before was captured is smaller than a prescribed first threshold, the switching unit is controlled so as to increase the capacitance connected to the terminal through which the pixel signal is inputted to the comparison unit. The present technology can be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
US10009546B2
There is provided an optical imaging device including a flexible image sensor and an actuator that expands or contracts the flexible image sensor on a two-dimensional plane. It is possible to minimize distortion aberration and control a viewing angle and magnification.
US10009538B2
Systems and methods for the generating compressed light field representation data using captured light fields in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, an array camera includes a processor and a memory connected configured to store an image processing application, wherein the image processing application configures the processor to obtain image data, wherein the image data includes a set of images including a reference image and at least one alternate view image, generate a depth map based on the image data, determine at least one prediction image based on the reference image and the depth map, compute prediction error data based on the at least one prediction image and the at least one alternate view image, and generate compressed light field representation data based on the reference image, the prediction error data, and the depth map.
US10009537B2
A computerized method for computing the photo quality of a captured image in a device image acquisition system, comprising on-board combining of a plurality of quality indicators computed from said captured image and its previous image frames quality indicators and a confidence level for at least one of said quality indicators, and using a processor to determine, based on said combining, whether photo quality is acceptable and taking differential action depending on whether quality is or is not acceptable.
US10009535B2
An autofocus camera is provided which restrains and corrects any tilt that may occur in the optical axis direction without the need of providing any additional new sensors for that purpose. The autofocus camera includes an image sensor for receiving light from an object and converting the light into corresponding electrical signals, a lens driving device having a lens for focusing the light from the object upon said image sensor, and a control portion for causing said lens driving device to adjust any tilt that may occur in the optical axis in response to the electrical signals received from said image sensor. The control portion is operated to cause the lens driving device to adjust any tilts of the optical axis with respect to the image sensor in the orthogonal directions with each other, so that the resolution signals at the predetermined positions of said image sensor can be maximized.
US10009533B2
An image pickup apparatus for simultaneously realizing a phase difference AF and a contrast AF decides a shift amount of an image signal corresponding to a focus evaluation position every exit pupil area, generates an image corresponding to an image plane position by executing an arithmetic operation processing based on the decided shift amount to the image signal, calculates an evaluation value of a contrast of the generated image, and calculates an evaluation value of a correlation between the images corresponding to the different exit pupil areas in the generated image.
US10009532B2
This invention refers to forest video monitoring. A distributed system for forest video monitoring and a method for fire detection implemented by it have been proposed. The system comprises: multiple video servers, with each video server maintaining at least one video camera; at least one object server; and multiple computer terminals. According to the method, such a video server is used to: receive video data from its video camera; analyze the video data in order to detect signs of fire; when detecting signs of fire, create a potentially hazardous data object related to the possible fire detected, with reference to the video data where signs of fire have been detected; and send the data object created to an object server. By means of any object server: the potentially hazardous data object shall be received; the potentially hazardous data object received shall be compared to potentially hazardous data object previously saved; based on results of comparison, the potentially hazardous data object received shall be saved at least once, at least one potentially hazardous data object previously saved shall be modified, and the potentially hazardous data object received shall be modified; and at least one potentially hazardous data object shall be sent to a computer terminal. By means of a computer terminal: any potentially hazardous data objects shall be received and submitted to the operator. The technical result involves arranging efficient data traffic and ensuring flexible management of computational resources.
US10009524B2
A zoom lens system includes a first lens group having a positive power, a second lens group that has a negative power and includes one lens element, a third lens group that has a positive power and includes at least two lens elements, and a subsequent lens group that has a positive power as a whole and includes at least two lens groups in order from an object side to an image side. In zooming operation, at least the first lens group to the third lens group move along an optical axis, and a condition of −9.0
US10009521B2
A camera, in particular for a vehicle, the camera having: an imager module which has a sensor carrier with a front side and a backside, an image sensor being fastened to the front side of the sensor carrier, an objective holder which is connected to the sensor carrier, and an objective which is accommodated in the objective holder, as well as a camera housing in which the imager module is accommodated. The camera housing has a front housing part including contact areas, at least one fixation means resting against the backside of the sensor carrier, and the imager module is fixated with respect to the contact areas and the fixation means is fastened to the front housing part by fastening means. In addition, a method for producing the camera is provided.
US10009520B2
Audio/video recording and communication doorbells, comprising a housing and an image sensor or camera. The image sensor or camera may be located behind or integrated with an actuating button of the doorbell, and may serve the actuating function of the doorbell so that the doorbell does not require a discrete button separate from the image sensor or camera.
US10009517B1
Methods, devices, and systems automatically generate electronic images of the printed appearance of a multi-color image using first print processing to generate a first sample image, and using second print processing to generate a second sample image. Pixels in the first sample image and the second sample image are compared to a color standard to generate a first error value and a second error value. The first error value is compared to the second error value for each pixel to produce an error value reduction associated with the second print processing for each pixel of the multi-color image. The error value reduction for each pixel of the multi-color image is compared to a threshold to identify benefited pixels. The benefited pixels can be displayed on a contrasting background, and/or the electronic image can be automatically printed using the second print processing if the benefited pixels exceed a minimum value.
US10009516B2
The invention relates to a method of modifying a data set containing color component values, which method allows the component of a color in a color spectrum that is provided to be generally set to zero and thus not to use that color. For this purpose, it is provided to first select an image area of a printed product, i.e. a portion of the data set. Further, it is determined which color from the color spectrum shall not be used. The color value for the selected image area is determined. A tolerance range around the color value is fixed. In a further step, it is determined which combinations of color component values that are formed of the remaining colors of the color spectrum include color values that are within the tolerance range fixed around the color value of the selected area. Thereafter, one of the combinations of the color component values is selected. Finally, the color component values are exchanged for the color component values from the selected combination of color component values in the selected portion of the data set.
US10009513B2
An electronic device includes a wireless-connection-establishment unit and a function execution unit. The wireless-connection-establishment unit establishes a directly communicable wireless connection with another device. The function execution unit executes a function. The function execution unit executes the function requested from the other device via the wireless connection when a radio field intensity of the wireless connection established with the other device by the wireless-connection-establishment unit is equal to or more than a specified radio field intensity, and rejects execution of the function requested from the other device via the wireless connection when the radio field intensity of the wireless connection established with the other device by the wireless-connection-establishment unit is less than the specified radio field intensity.
US10009509B2
An image processing device includes a first image generation unit which generates a first image obtained by applying a first low-pass filter to an input image, a second image generation unit which generates a second image obtained by applying a second low-pass filter to a halftone image, a third image generation unit which generates a third image representing a difference between the first image and the second image, a focused dot setting unit which sets a focused dot, a dot placement pixel determination unit which compares pixel values in the third image and determining a dot placement pixel for improving the uniformity of the gradation distribution in the third image, and a dot displacing unit which displaces the focused dot to the dot placement pixel and updates the halftone image.
US10009508B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image reading portion, a position detection portion, and a print processing portion. The image reading portion is configured to read an image of a document. The position detection portion is configured to detect position information of each of check boxes included in a read image by the image reading portion. The print processing portion is configured to be able to print a position specifying image indicating the position information of each of check boxes detected by the position detection portion.
US10009499B2
An information processing system includes a processor and a memory that stores a plurality of instructions which cause the processors to control executing a first application executed on an operation unit including a display, acquire identification information for identifying the first application in accordance with execution of the first application, register the identification information being acquired in the memory, control executing a second application executed on a main unit controlling the information processing system to perform multiple functions according to an instruction input to the operation unit, output, in response to receiving a request to log out while the second application is executing, rejection information indicating that the request to log out is rejected, and control, in response to outputting the rejection information, the display of the operation unit to display first name information indicating a name of the first application corresponding to the identification information registered in the memory.
US10009489B2
A display and input device includes a display unit, a touch panel, an operation reception unit, a display controller, an instruction generation unit, a communication unit, and a communication controller. The communication controller transmits an instruction to provide setting information including a list of items to be set related to image forming and default set values of the items to be set, to an image forming apparatus identified by the instruction generation unit. The display controller displays a setting screen for inputting a change of the set value from the default value, with respect to the items to be set indicated by the setting information received from the image forming apparatus. The instruction generation unit determines the set value of the item to be set according to a user's operation, and generates an image forming instruction based on the determined set value of the item to be set.
US10009487B2
An output system includes a terminal apparatus, an output apparatus, and an information processing apparatus that are interconnected via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a registration process unit that registers an output request for output data received in one of multiple methods from the terminal apparatus that is operated by a user, a storage destination information storage unit that stores storage destination information for determining a storage destination of the output data, and a unit that provides the output request and the storage destination information when requested by the output apparatus. The output apparatus includes a selection receiving unit that receives a selection of the output request from the user, an output data acquisition unit that determines the storage destination of the output data based on the storage destination information and acquires the output data from the storage destination, and a unit that outputs the output data.
US10009480B2
A system and method for the management of a device, including the establishment and enforcement of policies/rules associated with feature or functions that may be performed with the device. Modern devices are capable of many things, including making and receiving calls, exchanging data, playing games and music, sending and receiving email, accessing web sites, and paying for goods and services. Depending on who is using the device, such as a child, student, or an employee, there may be a need or desire to regulate how that device can be used and to determine who will pay for what goods or services. In addition to providing all of the features associated with a device, service providers need to be able to establish and enforce rules (policies) regulating how and when that device can be used and who will pay for a good or service requested by the user of the device.
US10009479B2
Network devices receive configuration settings for a portable data account with a service provider. The portable data account provides for mobile data over a broadband cellular network. The network devices receive, via a mobile device, user credentials, for a user, to activate a portable data service for the mobile device. The network devices determine that the user credentials correspond to the portable data account, the portable data account being different than a default account associated with the mobile device. The network devices map a temporary mobile directory number (MDN), which is associated with the portable data account, to a unique identifier for the mobile device, and enforce the configuration settings for a portable data session, associated with the temporary MDN, for the portable data account. The network devices log mobile data, used by the mobile device, for the portable data session and create a billing record for the portable data session, the billing record being based on the logging and associated with the portable data account.
US10009453B2
Systems and methods are presented for identifying individuals through facial recognition, voice recognition, or the like, recalling past recorded conversations with the identified individuals, and recording and inventorying conversations with the individuals with mobile devices. In some embodiments, a method is presented. The method may include identifying, at a device, an individual through facial recognition, voice recognition, or a unique RFID. The method may also include recording a conversation with the identified individual, and recalling past relevant recorded conversations based on the identification of the individual, and transmitting the recording of the conversation to a display system configured to display the recording of the event.
US10009448B2
A mobile terminal a gas sensor module disposed close to the case, and configured to sense includes: a terminal body provided with a case having one or more holes; and specific gas as air is introduced into the terminal body through the hole, wherein the gas sensor module includes: a gas sensor configured to sense the specific gas; and an accommodation cap having an accommodation unit where the gas sensor is disposed, having a gas hole communicated with the hole, and having its inner surface facing the gas hole formed as an inclined surface such that the introduced air reaches the gas sensor.
US10009442B2
An NE comprising a plurality of physical interfaces configured to communicate to a plurality of remote NEs in an ICN, a receiver coupled to the plurality of physical interfaces and configured to receive a request for a service from a first of the remote NE via the ICN, wherein the service request comprises a requested service name and a requested service context, a memory comprising a service profile comprising a supported service associating with a supported service name and a supported service context, a processor coupled to the memory and the receiver and configured to generate a service response when the requested service name matches the supported service name and the requested service context matches the supported service context, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and the plurality of physical interfaces and configured to transmit the service response to the first NE via the ICN.
US10009439B1
Preloading a cache is disclosed. A requested web content is received. A priority order associated with one or more resources of the requested web content is determined. The cache of an application is preloaded with one or more resources of the requested web content in a loading order based at least in part on the determined priority order.
US10009438B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for transaction log acceleration. A log module is configured to determine transaction log records indicating a sequence of operations performed on data. A commit module is configured to send transaction log records to one or more volatile memory pages accessible over a network. Volatile memory pages are configured to ensure persistence of transaction log records. A storage module is configured to send transaction log records to a non-volatile storage device in response to an acknowledgment that one or more volatile memory pages store the transaction log records.
US10009435B2
A method for requesting presence information from a presence source by a presence server is provided. The method includes transmitting a message requesting specific presence information to the presence source; and receiving, from the presence source, the specific presence information published by the presence source.
US10009433B2
A method for identifying respective networked devices in a social communications network, which networked devices communicate messages relevant to an article. The messages may include posts, shares, likes, votes, ranks, and other comments. A server of the social communications network maintains a respective identity (e.g., user name or handle) for each connected networked device, respectively, of the social communications network. The server includes an API for requests. The method includes receiving a search item from a data communications network, collecting articles related to the search item from each of the at least one source of articles of the data communications network, storing in a database, for each respective one of the article from the step of collecting, a respective unique identifier representing the article, comparing the search item to each respective unique identifier, respectively, of the database, to determine similarity of the respective unique identifier to the search item, compiling a result set of each respective unique identifier determined similar to the search item in the step of comparing, communicatively detecting the share count of the messages of the social communications network related to the result set, deriving a score based collectively on all of the share counts from the step of communicatively detecting, the score represents topical activity of networked devices of the social communications network for the search item, calling the API of the server intermediating communications among the networked devices of the social communications network, receiving the identities of the networked devices of the social communications network; and storing the identities in a database in a storage.
US10009432B1
An automated lead management solution receives network traffic from a lead provider server over a network. The network traffic is authenticated, validated, and filtered. Specifically, an intelligent filter engine may filter the network traffic at different levels of granularity such as field, campaign, and tier levels and stop the filtering whenever the network traffic fails an authentication, is invalidated or filtered out. When a lead passes through this rigorous filtering process, the filter engine identifies target system(s) that best matched the lead and sends the lead and data identifying the target system(s) to a ping engine. The ping engine pings the target system(s) sequentially or simultaneously. A response from a target system, which may include an instruction and/or a network address to redirect the network traffic, is then communicated to the lead provider server in real time in response to receiving the network traffic from the lead provider server.
US10009406B2
A network device provides, to a user device, an application for managing viewing and sharing of content available via an Internet service provider, and assigns a unique code for a user of the user device. The network device provides a catalog of available content items that includes toll-free data (TFD) content items with a different TFD uniform resource locator (URL) for each TFD content item in the catalog of available content items. The network device receives a user's selection, from the catalog, of a TFD content item to share, and generates a sharing URL based on a TFD URL for the selected TFD content item and the unique sharing code. The network device provides the sharing URL to the user device for sharing with other users.
US10009405B2
An approach is provided for managing a quality of service (QoS) of an application running in a networked computing environment. Based on information received from monitoring devices or tools that monitor a state of a user, a model of a cognitive focus of attention of the user is generated. An actual QoS for a software application is determined. Based on the model, a perceived QoS is determined. A current usage by the user of software application is determined. Based on the model, the actual QoS, and the current usage, an adjustment to the actual QoS is determined, while maintaining unchanged the perceived QoS.
US10009402B2
System and method for optimizing a transcoding session between multiple terminals are disclosed. The method determines properties of the transcoding session, including a number of terminals participating in the transcoding session, media characteristics supported by each terminal, a measure of performance of the transcoding session to be optimized, and optionally a proportion of time involved in the transcoding session for each terminal. Then a cost function characterizing the measure of performance of the transcoding session and depending on the above properties of the transcoding session is built, followed by optimizing the cost function with respect to said measure of performance to determine an optimal measure of performance for the transcoding session and optimal values for the media characteristics for each terminal. In one embodiment, codecs used by multiple terminals and computational complexity of the transcoding session are optimized. A corresponding system for optimizing the transcoding session is also provided.
US10009401B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a stream of RTP data packets over a wireless channel and applies ROHC decompression to decode the packets. Upon a failure of ROHC decompression, the apparatus identifies the RTP sequence number (SN), RTP Timestamp (TS), and PDCP receive time (RT) of a prior successfully decoded packet, and the PDCP SN and PDCP RT of the failed packets. Using the identified information, the apparatus estimates the RTP SN and RTP TS of each of the failed packets. The apparatus decodes the packets using the estimated information.
US10009398B2
The present invention provides a system for providing event-related contents to users attending an event, comprising: a set of cameras (110, 111, 112) for filming the event, a central unit (120) adapted to receive video streams from said cameras, a plurality or user terminals (140) at the event site, a local wireless network (130) for communications between said central unit and said plurality of user terminals, a source (160) of event-related editorial contents (620) accessible by said central unit, means provided in said user terminals (140) for selectively displaying, through a dedicated user interface (800), video streams and event-related editorial contents provided by said central unit (120) via said local wireless network (130), and content control means (400, 410, 430) provided at said central unit (120) for selectively controlling the nature and contents of the event-related contents accessible by the user terminals as a function of parameters contained in a group comprising time, user terminal localization and triggering events. The present invention further provides associated control room equipment, user terminal and method.
US10009395B2
A real-time Internet streaming system and method includes a scheduling server that receives queries from encoders and determines if any scheduled events associated with a particular media encoders is an active scheduled event by comparing the scheduled events with time and date information. When there is an active scheduled event the scheduling server sends a response to the media encoders to stream a media stream to an origin server. When the scheduling server determines that an active scheduled event is no longer active, the scheduling server sends a response to the media encoders to stop streaming. The origin server can send the media stream or a modified version of the media stream to a plurality of viewing devices or archive the media stream for later playback. The real-time Internet streaming system can include a scheduling server, origin servers, and a plurality of encoders.
US10009394B2
An apparatus to broadcast live event data in real-time includes one or more processor circuits; and a subscription component operatively executing on a processor circuit to receive a topic entry from a message queue server, and to push the topic entry to a subscribed client device substantially simultaneously with the message queue server receiving the topic entry from a live data source. The apparatus may also include a communication component operatively coupled to a processor circuit to open a connection with the client device, and receive a request for a topic from the client device.
US10009393B2
Converting an off-line meeting to an on-line meeting. A method includes, at a communal meeting device, receiving user input requesting access to an off-line meeting. The method further includes, as a result, prompting an organizer of the meeting to update the meeting to an on-line meeting.
US10009391B1
A computer-implemented method of providing time series data includes maintaining by a web server user account data for each of a plurality of user accounts. Each account is associated with a user. The method includes maintaining, and repeatedly updating, in normative formats, on a time series server, a set of time series. In some aspects, the method further includes, for each user having a user account, serving by the time series server a distinct time series name for each member of the set of time series in a web page over a wide area network to a client computer of the user for display in a browser thereof in such a manner that, when the given user graphically selects the name of a given one of the time series in the browser for invoking a functionality provided by the time series server, there is provided to the server by the browser a unique location identifier of an underlying location, of the selected time series, wherein data for the time series is stored on the server.
US10009388B2
A method and system for establishing an integrated group Immersive Social Center (ISC) session for a content viewing and a communication by an ISC server to deliver contents associated with a content interest is disclosed. The group ISC session is established for a pre-defined group created with members indicating interest in the group ISC session initiated by an initiator ISC client. The method allows the ISC server to receive the content interest from an initiator ISC client. Further, the members of the pre-defined group can schedule time for the integrated group ISC session. The content interest received from the initiator ISC client is selected by the ISC user of the initiator ISC client from a personalized contents list, based on static preference or on demand preference of the ISC user, sent by the ISC server or an ISC XML Document Server (XDMS).
US10009386B2
A computerized system and method for processing network content in accordance with at least one content processing rule is provided. According to one embodiment, the network content is received at a first interface. A transmission protocol according to which the received network content is formatted is identified and used to intercept at least a portion of the received network content. The intercepted portion of the network content is redirected to a proxy, which buffers the redirected portion of network content. The buffered network content is scanned in accordance with a scanning criterion and processed in accordance with the at least one content processing rule based on the result of the scanning. The processed portion of network content may be forwarded using a second interface.
US10009371B2
A method is provided for managing a network storm associated with a physical port of a physical switch. The method, performed by a management application, includes receiving a notification of the network storm associated with the physical port, identifying a virtual switch supported by a server host that is coupled to the physical port, identifying a virtual machine coupled to the virtual switch that causes the network storm, and isolating the identified virtual machine while the physical port remains enabled.
US10009365B2
Methods and systems for an integrated solution to the rate based denial of service attacks targeting the Session Initiation Protocol are provided. According to one embodiment, header, state, rate and content anomalies are prevented and network policy enforcement is provided for session initiation protocol (SIP). A hardware-based apparatus helps identify SIP rate-thresholds through continuous and adaptive learning. The apparatus can determine SIP header and SIP state anomalies and drop packets containing those anomalies. SIP requests and responses are inspected for known malicious contents using a Content Inspection Engine. The apparatus integrates advantageous solutions to prevent anomalous packets and enables a policy based packet filter for SIP.
US10009359B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, in an on-boarding system for a first network, a request to transfer ownership of a first device to a new owner; receiving, in the on-boarding system, notification information from a spectrum analyzer regarding wireless signal information within the first network; determining if a potential attacker is within a radio range of the first network based on the wireless signal information; responsive to determining that the potential attacker is within the radio range, manipulating a signal strength of the on-boarding system and the first device, to limit an emission range of the on-boarding system and the first device; and performing a native communication protocol to communicate ownership information, and to cause the first device to store the ownership information in a storage of the first device.
US10009350B2
In some embodiments, the present invention provides for a hardware component that includes at least the following: a logic cell; where the logic cell is configured in a static configuration within the hardware component which cannot be changed during run-time; where the hardware component is an intermediary between a processor of an ECU that is located within a vehicle and a communication network of the vehicle; where the logic cell is configured to solely serve a respective communication network; where the logic cell is configured to verify a portion of each communication against at least one of: a pre-defined approved message dictionary, a finite state machine, and an approved communication schema; and performing one of: executing an administrative action with an unauthorized communication or one of: transmitting an approved communication from the hardware component or modifying the approved communication with a pre-defined change.
US10009349B2
In the disclosed method, a current state of a network device indicative of no license key being associated with a network device is stored in a license database. Information indicative of a master state of the network device is received, via an input port, including at least one license key associated with the network device. The current state of the network device is updated to include the at least one license key associated with the network device, and the updated current state is stored in the license database.
US10009347B2
A communication device includes a first communication unit configured to execute radio communication by using a first communication method, the first communication method allowing the radio communication to be executed within a first communication range; a second communication unit configured to execute radio communication by using a second communication method, the second communication method allowing the radio communication to be executed within a second communication range; and a permission processing unit configured to generate communication permission information to permit executing the radio communication by the first communication method, wherein the second communication unit is configured to receive setting information for establishing the radio communication by the first communication method, and wherein the first communication unit is configured to execute the radio communication by using the first communication method with another communication device that receives the setting information and the communication permission information.
US10009345B2
A social networking service encourages users to post content to a communication channel with varying levels of accessibility to other users. Users may select how content will be published and control the accessibility of uploaded content using a privacy setting for each content item that the user posts. The privacy setting defines, or identifies, the set of connections who may view the posted content item. The posted content item is placed in a particular communication channel in the social networking service, such as a newsfeed or stream, where the content item can be viewed by those who are permitted to view it according to its associated privacy setting. Varying granularities of privacy settings provide flexibility for content accessibility on a social networking service.
US10009333B2
In various implementations, local identifiers associated with users may be utilized to enable access one or more functions in a Business Intelligence (BI) Environment. A mapping may be generated to associate local identifiers and users. The mapping may be utilized to enable access in the BI environment by retrieving the local identifier from a mapping and enabling access in the BI environment based on the local identifier. In various implementations, a user may access the system as another user.
US10009327B2
Generally, this disclosure describes technologies for securely storing and using biometric authentication information, such as biometric reference templates. In some embodiments, the technologies include a client device that stores one or more biometric reference templates in a memory thereof. The client device may transfer such templates to an authentication device. The transfer may be conditioned on verification that the authentication device includes a suitable protected environment for the templates and will execute an acceptable temporary storage policy. The technologies may also include an authentication device that is configured to temporarily store biometric reference templates received from a client device in a protected environment thereof. Upon completion of biometric authentication or the occurrence of a termination event, the authentication devices may delete the biometric reference templates from the protected environment.
US10009326B2
In the communications system, a user equipment UE accesses a core network via a first network-side device by using a first air interface and connects to the first network-side device via a second network-side device by using a second air interface to access the core network. The method includes: acquiring, by the network-side device, an input parameter; calculating, by the network-side device, an access stratum root key KeNB* according to the input parameter and an access stratum root key KeNB on the first air interface, or using, by the network-side device, the KeNB as the KeNB*; and generating, by the second network-side device, an access stratum key on the second air interface according to the KeNB*, or sending, by the first network-side device, the KeNB* to the second network-side device.
US10009324B2
A system is configured for detecting a point of sale, receiving a personal identification number (PIN), generating a PIN based key using a message digest of the PIN, decrypting a data encryption key (DEK) using the PIN based key, and generating a DEK based dynamic key using the PIN based key. The system may also decrypt a session key using the DEK based dynamic key, generate a cryptogram from the session key, and send the cryptogram to the point of sale.
US10009323B2
Techniques for detecting and dealing with a lost electronics device are disclosed. In one design, the device may autonomously determine whether it is lost. The device may destroy at least one component to render it inoperable and may perform other actions in response to determining that it is lost. In another design, the device may determine available battery power of the device upon determining that it is lost, select at least one action in a list of possible actions based on the available battery power, and perform the selected action(s). In yet another design, upon determining that it is lost, the device may prevent access to information on the device based on a secondary security key, which is not used for encrypting information during normal operation. In yet another design, the device may notify at least one contact and may perform at least one additional action upon determining that it is lost.
US10009314B2
The present invention provides an IP address distribution system including a network that is formed by a switch and an IP address distribution apparatus that is connected to the network. When receiving a signal including a distribution IP address, which is an IP address to be distributed to an apparatus that requests the IP address by the IP address distribution apparatus, the switch rewrites one part or entire of the distribution IP address included in the received signal to a value corresponding to a port that relays the signal.
US10009313B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing multiple personas within end user applications are disclosed. According to one method, a first profile definition defining a first persona through which a user accesses at least one social networking, OTT, or other hosted service and at least one trigger condition associated with the activation of the first persona is accessed. The method further includes determining a context for the user. The method further includes determining whether the context for the user satisfies the at least one trigger condition. In response to determining that the context satisfies the at least one trigger condition, the first persona is activated.
US10009308B2
Prioritizing online comments on social network web page is disclosed. An activity of a user consuming a content presented on the social network web page is detected. Time spent by the user consuming the content is determined. Responsive to the user entering a comment on the content, a depth of consumption of the content by the user is determined based on the time spent by the user consuming the content. The comment entered by the user is ranked among a plurality of comments entered by one or more of the plurality of users based on the depth of consumption. The comment entered by the user is presented on the social network web page in the order of the ranking.
US10009299B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an input interface configured to receive a user input related to a message, a communication interface configured to transmit the message to an external electronic device, a memory configured to store the message, a display configured to display the message, and a processor functionally connected to the input interface, the communication interface, the memory, and the display. When a first content of the message is input, the processor is configured to seal the message with a first object designated such that at least a portion of a second object corresponding to the first content is not exposed and transmit the sealed message through the communication interface. The at least the portion of the second object is configured to be exposed when an unseal input with respect to the first object occurs.
US10009295B2
Methods and systems for a more efficient transmission of network traffic are provided. According to one embodiment, presence of outbound payload data, distributed across a first and second payload buffer, within a user memory space of a network device that has been generated by a user process is determined by a bus/memory interface or a network interface unit. The payload data is fetched by performing direct virtual memory addressing of the user memory space including mapping virtual addresses of the payload buffers to corresponding physical addresses, including: (i) when the payload buffers are noncontiguous, then retrieving the outbound payload data with reference to multiple buffer descriptors having starting virtual addresses of the payload buffers and (ii) when they are contiguous, then retrieving the outbound payload data with reference to a single buffer descriptor. The outbound payload data is then segmented across one or more TCP packets.
US10009290B2
A method and a broadband device for modem dial-up terminal which relate the communication with an evolved high rate packet data (eHRPD) network by using an existing protocol by receiving, by a broadband device, a first link control protocol (LCP) request message of a wireless network side device; processing an extensible authentication protocol (EAP) authentication field of the first LCP request message into an authentication field supported by a dial-up terminal; sending the processed first LCP request message to the dial-up terminal; receiving a first LCP response message returned by the dial-up terminal; processing an authentication field of the first LCP response message into an authentication field supported by the wireless network side device; sending the processed first LCP response message to the wireless network side device; and acquiring an Internet Protocol (IP) address from the wireless network side device, and sending the IP address to the dial-up terminal.
US10009288B2
Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: receive, from a sub domain registration settings control panel displayed on a client computer, rule or prerequisites required for a sub domain registrant to register a sub domain, and store these rules or prerequisites in a database. The server(s) may then receive: a sub domain registration request, an IP address directing HTTP requests to the sub domain; and an authentication verifying that the prerequisite has been fulfilled. If authenticated, the server(s) may automatically insert the IP address into an A record or NS record in a zone file for the domain.
US10009287B2
Hierarchical Software Defined Network (SDN) architectures can be used to reduce complexity of traffic engineering in large or diverse network environments. In hierarchical SDN architectures, a network is sub-divided into multiple regions, and each region is assigned to a different SDN controller. Network status information is collected and consolidated at a regional level, and fed upstream through the SDN control plane until it reaches a root SDN controller. The root-SDN controller computes cost-based parameters, which are distributed to regional SDN controllers for local provisioning. The cost-based parameters can include Lagrangian variables estimations or other parameters that constrain regional traffic engineering optimization in a manner that advances global traffic engineering objectives.
US10009285B2
An example method for allocating resources in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes collecting proposals from a plurality of modules, the proposals assigning the resources to the plurality of modules and resulting in topology changes in a computer network environment, identifying a set of proposals in the proposals, the set of proposals complying with policies associated with the plurality of modules, instructing the plurality of modules to evaluate the set of proposals, selecting a proposal from the set of proposals, and instructing at least one module associated with the selected proposal to instantiate the selected proposal.
US10009279B2
There is provided a method of data over a radio interface in a radio communication network based on a protocol layers model, the model comprising an IP layer on which IP packets are handled, wherein before the transmission of a determined IP packet, the method comprises: determining whether the IP packet is compressible under a predetermined condition and. if the IP packet is compressible under the predetermined condition, performing a compression of the IP packet. There are also provided a user equipment (UE) and a node adapted to perform the steps of a method according to the invention.
US10009264B2
There are provided measures for handling a signaling message on a data plane in a software-defined architecture. Such measures may exemplarily comprise establishing, in a control plane entity, an instruction for reacting to a specific incoming signaling message on the data plane with a corresponding outgoing message on the data plane, providing the established instruction from the control plane entity to a data plane entity for instructing the data plane entity to react to the specific incoming signaling message with the corresponding outgoing message in accordance with the established instruction, and reacting, in the data plane entity, upon detection of the specific incoming signaling message on the data plane, to the specific incoming signaling message on the data plane in accordance with the provided instruction.
US10009263B1
Introduced here is a technique for using a network switch device, which may include commodity switching fabric, to route packets through an inline tool, without introducing any additional information to the packets. The introduced technique modifies standard capability of packet forwarding and learning port-to-MAC address associations to route data packets through the inline tool. The technique may include applying two override settings to the network device. A first override setting involves a forwarding rule that is based on the arrival port and the content of the packet. A second override setting involves disabling the MAC address learning mechanism for the packet received from the inline tool via the second tool port of the network device.
US10009262B2
A transmission apparatus includes: a switch circuit to hold a first protection path provided for a working path in a first network, a second protection path provided for the working path in a second network, and a bridge path provided between a working apparatus to relay traffic on the working path between the first and second networks and a protection apparatus to relay traffic on the first and second protection paths; and a signal processing unit to, upon reception of a first control signal indicating a failure on the working path from the first network, transmit the first control signal to the working apparatus and control the switch circuit in accordance with a second control signal corresponding to the first control signal received from the working apparatus, wherein the transmission apparatus is the protection apparatus, and is provided on a boundary between the first and second networks.
US10009258B2
A method for routing a redirected request message is disclosed. The method may be implemented in a Diameter signaling router (DSR) including a plurality of message processors. The method includes applying ingress message processing to a Diameter request message received from a peer node and forwarding the Diameter request message to a Diameter redirect agent in accordance to the ingress message processing. The method further includes receiving, from the Diameter redirect agent, a redirection notification message containing redirection information and modifying the Diameter request message to include the redirection information. The method also includes applying the ingress message processing to the modified Diameter request message within the DSR.
US10009233B2
In a synchronization system, the present invention provides an improved user interface through which a user can view and manage settings associated with the user's account in the synchronization system. In the preferred embodiment, a column is displayed for each electronic device associated with the user's account in the synchronization system. In each column is a visual representation of items (e.g., folders) that are (1) backed up, remotely accessible and/or synchronized in the synchronization system and (2) located on the electronic device associated with such column. For each item that is synchronized across multiple devices, all the visual representations of such item in the columns are aligned across a single row in the interface. In the preferred embodiment, there is an arrow, or other visual indicator, between the visual representations of such items to indicate that the items are synchronized.
US10009232B2
A controller of a large-scale information handling system (LIHS) includes a memory containing visual representations of architecture and sub-architecture associated with respective data center (DC) configurations. An interactive component-level visual monitoring and control (ICVMC) system includes a processor in communication with the component level monitors and the memory and includes an ICVMC module executing on the processor to receive identification information from one or more component-level monitors of a DC. The DC includes-functional components operationally configured and interconnected in a core architecture in a first DC configuration and monitored respectively by the one or more component-level monitors. The ICVMC module determines the first DC configuration and associated core architecture based on the received identification information. The ICVMC module generates graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for the DC based on the determined first DC configuration and the visual representation of architecture and sub-architectures associated with the first DC configuration.
US10009225B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting multiple partitions and edit sessions in a multitenant application server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a first administrator or user can obtain a named edit session for use with a partition, make changes, and then activate those changes. Another administrator or user can create a named edit session in parallel. If there are conflicts between a concurrent change and changes being made by another user, the administrator will receive an error when activating the changes. At that point, the administrator can resolve the conflicts and activate the changes. Upon activation, the changes in the edit session will be applied to a global edit configuration.
US10009222B2
A method for managing deployment of input method engines (IMEs) to computing devices in proximate relation to endpoint devices within a data communication network includes receiving software logic data indicating deployment rules for deploying an IME executing on a first computing device in the data communication network to a second computing device in the data communication network. The method further includes receiving a software data structure identifying configuration preferences of a user of an endpoint device. The method further includes monitoring the usage of the IME. Monitoring may include obtaining usage data associated with the user's access to the IME through the second computing device. The method additionally includes determining, based on the monitoring and the software logic data and the software data structure, whether the threshold condition is satisfied and deploying the IME to the second computing device in when that the threshold condition is satisfied.
US10009220B2
An in-vehicle terminal and a mobile terminal receive a request and a first identifier for identifying the request and store the first identifier in a buffer, the mobile terminal sends the request to a server, which stores the first identifier in a buffer when the request includes the first identifier and generates a second identifier when the request does not include the first identifier. When an event occurs, the mobile terminal generates and stores a message and a message code related to the second identifier together with the second identifier, transfers a response including the first identifier, the message and the message code to the mobile terminal when the first identifier exists in the buffer, and transfers a response including the message and the message code to the mobile terminal when the first identifier does not exist in the buffer. The mobile terminal displays the message and the message code.
US10009216B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for repeat execution of RCA logic through run-time discovered topology pattern maps are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes determining one or more topology paths of configuration items from a collection of multiple views of a target system; identifying one or more patterns from the one or more topology paths of configuration items; comparing the one or more identified patterns against a collection of data comprising mappings between (i) multiple root cause analysis logical expressions and (ii) multiple system architecture patterns, thereby identifying one or more of the multiple root cause analysis logical expressions to be executed on the one or more topology paths of configuration items; and generating a user-accessible link via a uniform resource locator for direct invocation of the one or more identified multiple root cause analysis logical expressions executed on the one or more topology paths of configuration items.
US10009213B2
A system and method for addressing the impact of tenant/user customizations on various operations in a multi-tenant computing platform. In one embodiment, the system uses an operating system process (e.g., a parent process) to handle incoming operation requests to the platform from one or more tenants. If an incoming request specifies that a user customization should be executed, then the parent process coordinates execution of a separate operating system process (e.g., a child process) to execute the customization operation and return the result of the child process execution. In this manner, a single parent process may create several child processes to execute different customizations that each may be monitored and managed separately for resource use and consumption.
US10009211B1
A circuit is disclosed which eliminates chirp produced within an electronic flow measurement (EFM) system. In an exemplary embodiment, relays are positioned between the EFM Rxd input and the communications device input. One relay is closed while the operate signal reaches its high state, allowing data to pass between the communications device and the EFM Rxd input. When the operate line switches to a low state, the first relay opens disrupting the data path between the communications device and the EFM Rxd input preventing data from bouncing back between the two points. The second relay may close grounding the data signal from the communications device eliminating noise from the line.
US10009202B1
An apparatus for decoding a data modulated signal includes a signal receiver that receives a data modulated signal that is encoded with phase-shift keying (PSK) and provides an amplified signal corresponding to the data modulated signal, a tunable phase shifter that receives a local reference signal and a selected phase shift, applies the selected phase shift to the local reference signal to produce a phase shifted reference signal, a summing unit that sums the amplified signal and the phase shifted reference signal to produce a summed signal, an amplitude detector that determines an amplitude of the summed signal, and a symbol detector that varies the selected phase shift and determines a current symbol within the data modulated signal based on the amplitude of the summed signal as the selected phase shift is varied. A corresponding method is also disclosed herein.
US10009198B2
Various structures and methods are disclosed related to configurable scrambling circuitry. Embodiments can be configured to support one of a plurality of protocols. Some embodiments relate to a configurable multilane scrambler that can be adapted either to combine scrambling circuits across a plurality of lanes or to provide independent lane-based scramblers. Some embodiments are configurable to select a scrambler type. Some embodiments are configurable to adapt to one of a plurality of protocol-specific scrambling polynomials. Some embodiments relate to selecting between least significant bit (“LSB”) and most significant bit (“MSB”) ordering of data. In some embodiments, scrambler circuits in each lane are adapted to handle data that is more than one bit wide.
US10009197B1
An intersymbol interference (ISI) compensation circuit includes a data input for receiving an input data signal including a plurality of bits. An adjustment circuit is configured to adjust bit periods of the bits to generate a first adjusted signal and a second adjusted signal. A sampling circuit is configured to generate a first sample signal by sampling the first adjusted signal, and generate a second sample signal by sampling the second adjusted signal. A decision generation circuit is configured to provide a first decision for a first bit. The first decision provides a chosen adjusted signal that is one of the first and second adjusted signals. A selection circuit is configured to determine a compensated value of the first bit based on a chosen sample signal that is one of the first and second sample signals. The chosen sample signal is generated by sampling the chosen adjusted signal.
US10009194B2
A serial input/output method and receiver include an receiver portion to receive an analog differential serial input and sample the input to provide data and error signals, an equalization feedback loop responsive to the data and error signals to adjust the receiver portion, a phase feedback mechanism separate from the equalization feedback loop to provide a phase error, and a clock data recovery block coupled to receive the phase error to perform timing recovery for the receiver portion independent of the equalization feedback to adjust the sampling.
US10009174B2
A key protecting device is provided. The key protecting device includes a crypto engine, a ROM and a processor. The ROM stores a chip unique key, and is exclusively accessible to the crypto engine. The processor receives a first salt value and a first encrypted key from a non-volatile memory. The crypto engine receives the chip unique key from the ROM, receives the first salt value and the first encrypted key from the processor, and generates a first key according to the first salt value, the chip unique key and the first encrypted key.
US10009161B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving channel state information of a User Equipment that supports 256-state quadrature amplitude modulation (256QAM). The method may include: receiving a reference signal for measuring channel quality from a base station; measuring the channel quality based on the reference signal, and selecting a CQI index value from a predetermined CQI index table including CQI index values for 256QAM modulation, based on the measurement result of the channel quality; and transmitting channel state information including the selected CQI index value to the base station.
US10009158B2
Provided are resource mapping and receiving methods and devices and signalling notification and acquisition methods and devices. The resource mapping method includes that: an evolved NodeB (eNB) maps a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) onto multiple resource elements in a manner of frequency division multiplexing and/or time division multiplexing and/or code division multiplexing; and/or the eNB maps an Interference Measure Resource (IMR) onto multiple resource elements in a manner of frequency division multiplexing and/or time division multiplexing. By the technical solution, the effects of improving measurement performance of a system, ensuring more accurate adaptive transmission and improving spectral efficiency of the system are further achieved.
US10009149B2
Methods described herein are for wireless communication systems. One aspect of the invention is directed to a method for a HARQ process, in which the HARQ process includes a first transmission of an encoder packet and at least one retransmission. The method involves allocating a transmission resource for each respective transmission. The method involves transmitting control information from a base station to a mobile station for each respective transmission. The control information includes information to uniquely identify the HARQ process and an identification of one of a time resource, a frequency resource and a time and frequency resource that is allocated for the transmission. In some embodiments of the invention, specific control information is signalled from a base station to a mobile station to enable RAS-HARQ operation. In some embodiments of the invention, retransmission signaling in included as part of regular unicast signaling used for both first transmission and retransmissions. In some embodiments of the invention, a 3-state acknowledgement channel and associated error recovery operation enables the base station and mobile station to recover from control signaling error and reduce packet loss.
US10009139B1
The disclosed embodiments relate to electronic devices with optical head-mounted displays (OHMDs). Each electronic device includes an OHMD that provides a heads-up display (HUD) and one or more sensors. The electronic device also includes a pairing apparatus that uses the OHMD to generate a first signal that is detectable by the other electronic device. The pairing apparatus also uses the OHMD to detect a second signal from a second OHMD at the other electronic device. Next, the pairing apparatus generates a shared secret with the second electronic device using data associated with the first and second signals and uses the shared secret to establish a secure connection with the second electronic device.
US10009120B2
Certain aspects involve a wideband remote unit. The wideband remote unit can include one or more antennas and an analog-to-digital converter (“ADC”). The antenna can receive wideband signals. The wideband signals can include an uplink RF signal and a leaked downlink RF signal. The uplink RF signal can have an uplink signal power at or near a noise level. The leaked downlink RF signal can have a downlink signal power greater than the uplink signal power. The ADC can convert the received wideband signals to digital RF signals representing the uplink signal and the downlink signal. The wideband remote unit can transmit the digital RF signals to a unit of a DAS that is in communication with a base station.
US10009114B2
A method of generating a signal being phase-shifted at a predetermined phase-shift division factor relative to a reference signal is disclosed. The method comprises: using the predetermined phase-shift division factor for selecting a modulation amplitude, modulating a control signal at the selected modulation amplitude, and combining the reference signal and the control signal to form the phase-shifted.
US10009099B2
Various embodiments are directed to techniques for employing a camera to receive multiple light transmissions conveying at least identifying data from multiple body-carried devices to enable locations of those devices within a venue to be determined and transmissions to individual ones of those devices to be made. An apparatus to communicate via light transmissions includes an analysis component to analyze a set of consecutively captured frames of a portion of a venue to determine whether a light source present in at least a predetermined number of the consecutively captured frames is a light transmission from a body-carried device located within the portion of the venue, and to demodulate the light transmission to retrieve an identification (ID) data associated with the body-carried device from the light transmission; and a communications component to employ the ID data to wirelessly transmit a command to the body-carried device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10009096B2
A method, apparatus and system for estimating frequency offset that includes: a first calculating unit to calculate a correlation value of each of multiple sequences with different lengths according to a received signal containing the sequences with different lengths, where each of the sequences is repeatedly transmitted many times in the signal; a second calculating unit to calculate a decimal frequency according to the correlation value; a first determining unit to determine an integer frequency offset according to the decimal frequency offset to which each of the sequences corresponds; and a second determining unit to determine a total frequency offset according to the decimal frequency offset and the integer frequency offset.
US10009092B2
A mobile ad-hoc communications network with multi-interface dynamic routing includes multiple mobile nodes with mobile wireless communication and multiple mobile nodes with mobile wireless communication and satellite communication. At least some of the mobile nodes with mobile wireless communication are dynamically-switched between operating as an ordinary node or as a backbone node. At least some of the mobile nodes with mobile wireless communication and satellite communication are dynamically-switched between operating as an ordinary node or as a backbone node. All of the mobile nodes communicate over a dynamically-formed ordinary communication link. Mobile nodes operating as backbone nodes additionally communicate over a dynamically-formed backbone link. Data is routed in the network by an ad-hoc multi-interface dynamic routing which routes data between the mobile nodes by mobile wireless communication and by satellite communication in accordance with respective communication capabilities of the mobile nodes, so as to incorporate satellite communications into the network.
US10009089B2
An antenna unit is used in an antenna array. It comprises a measurement signal receiver for receiving and digitizing a measurement signal from an antenna. A time delay unit delays the digitized measurement signal. A data collection receiver receives a data collection frame, and a data collection transmitter is configured to sum the delayed digitized measurement signal with pre-existing data in the received data collection frame and to transmit the so constructed updated data collection frame further.
US10009084B2
A method of performing a beamforming in a base station of a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention may include determining an effective range of an analog beam based on a gain of an analog beamforming in a hybrid beamforming, determining a precoding matrix for a digital beamforming in the hybrid beamforming based on the effective range of the analog beam, and performing the hybrid beamforming having the digital beamforming and the analog beamforming coupled therein based on the effective range and the precoding matrix.
US10009083B2
A communication method, a base station, and user equipment are provided. The method includes: forming m beams by using a manner of antenna weighting, where m is a positive integer greater than 1; determining an uplink receive power of each beam according to an uplink sounding signal of UE; selecting n beams from the m beams according to the uplink receive power of each beam, where n is a positive integer, and n
US10009080B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for assisting a UE in measuring reference signals in a wireless communication system using beams. A BS may transmit, to a UE, information regarding one or more measurement gaps for measuring one or more reference signals. The BS may transmit, to the UE, additional information regarding at least one of direction information associated with the one or more reference signals or rank indication to be used by the UE to measure the one or more reference signals during the one or more measurement gaps. A UE may perform corresponding operations.
US10009079B2
The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, encoding Data Pipe, DP, data according to a code rate, wherein the encoding further includes Low-Density Parity-Check, LDPC, encoding the DP data, Bit interleaving the LDPC encoded DP data, and mapping the bit interleaved DP data onto constellations; building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded DP data; and modulating data in the built signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US10009077B2
A transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
US10009072B2
A method of providing spatial diversity for critical data delivery in a beamformed mmWave smallcell is proposed. The proposed spatial diversity scheme offers duplicate or incremental data/signal transmission and reception by using multiple different beams for the same source and destination. The proposed spatial diversity scheme can be combined with other diversity schemes in time, frequency, and code, etc. for the same purpose. In addition, the proposed spatial diversity scheme combines the physical-layer resources associated with the beams with other resources of the same or different protocol layers. By spatial signaling repetition to avoid Radio Link Failure (RLF) and Handover Failure (HOF), mobility robustness can be enhanced. Mission-critical and/or time-critical data delivery can also be achieved without relying on retransmission.
US10009071B2
The present disclosure relates to an antenna and a communication apparatus that enables both near field communication using a magnetic field and near field communication using an electric field. The communication apparatus includes a first near field communication unit that performs communication in a non-contact manner using a magnetic field, a second near field communication unit that performs communication in a non-contact manner using an electric field, and an antenna shared by communication of the first near field communication unit and communication of the second near field communication unit. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to near field communication in which communication using a magnetic field is performed in a non-contact manner, a communication apparatus that enables near field communication using an electric field in a non-contact manner, and the like.
US10009070B2
A load-modulation detection component for an inductive coupling reader device. The load-modulation receiver device is arranged to receive an antenna voltage signal representative of a voltage across an antenna of the inductive coupling reader device and output at least one load-modulated signal. The load-modulation detection component comprises a down-converter component arranged to mix the antenna voltage signal with a down-conversion signal to generate a down-converted signal, a series capacitive component coupled in series between an output of the down-converter component and an output of the load-modulation receiver, and a switched capacitor resistor circuit coupled between the output of the load-modulation receiver and a first reference voltage.
US10009061B2
A terminal and method for improving the terminal reception sensitivity; when the terminal works in a time division duplexing mode, the method comprises: in a transmitting time slot, using the frequency of the transmitting voltage control oscillator (VCO) of the terminal as a first frequency; and in a receiving time slot, using the frequency of the transmitting VCO of the terminal as a preset second frequency, the predetermined second frequency differs from the first frequency in the bandwidth of at least one channel. The present invention improves the reception sensitivity of a terminal, reduces the production cost of the terminal, and decreases product size.
US10009054B2
A front-end module (FEM) is disclosed that includes an integrous signal combiner. The integrous signal combiner can process received signals and use a set of resonant circuits to filter signal noise prior to recombination of a plurality of signal bands that form an aggregate carrier signal. These resonant circuits may be placed after a set of low noise amplifiers and can be used to more efficiently reduce noise and parasitic loading within each of a set of signal paths. Each resonant circuit may be configured to filter noise relating to a bandwidth for a signal that is to be combined with the signal of the signal path that includes the resonant circuit. The signals may be combined using a dynamic impedance matching circuit. In some implementations, the integrous signal combiner can be a tunable integrous signal combiner with resonant circuits that may be reconfigurable or dynamically configurable.
US10009048B2
The present disclosure provides a high-frequency circuit including a matching circuit capable of adjusting the input/output impedance of a high-frequency device to an optimal value, even if the high-frequency device includes a circuit element whose input/output impedance varies upon the variation in the operating frequency, and provides a transmission and reception circuit including the high-frequency circuit. The high-frequency circuit includes a first high-frequency device, a second high-frequency device electrically connected to the first high-frequency device, and a matching circuit connected between the first high-frequency device 1 and the second high-frequency device. At least one of the first high-frequency device 1 and the second high-frequency device includes a variable device and has a changeable operating frequency. The matching circuit includes at least one variable device capable of performing impedance matching in accordance with operating frequencies of the first high-frequency device and the second high-frequency device.
US10009042B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling an interleaving depth are provided. The interleaving depth controlling method includes performing a modulo operation on an interleaving depth selected to be less than or equal to a maximum interleaving depth and a total number of codewords to obtain a number of remaining codewords; and comparing the total number of the codewords to the interleaving depth, when the number of the remaining codewords excludes “0”, to control the interleaving depth.
US10009040B2
Method of identification and compensation for inversion of the input bit stream when decoding LDPC codes includes obtaining a code word of the LDPC code from a demodulator output and writing the code word into a buffer memory, decoding the code word, calculating a syndrome for each iteration when decoding, making an analysis of converging the weight of the syndrome, generating an inversion feature for the input bit stream based on this analysis, continuing the decoding, if the inversion feature for the input bit stream does not give evidence of detecting inversion, resetting, if the inversion feature for the input bit stream shows inversion, the LDPC decoder and analysis parameters for the convergence of the weight of the syndrome, reading next code word from the buffer memory, and producing an inversion of this code word, and feeding the word to the decoder input to implement the next decoding operation.
US10009038B2
An analog-to-digital converter may convert an analog signal into digital codes representative of the changing level of the analog signal. An analog high pass filter may receive and continuously differentiate the analog signal. A voltage controlled oscillator may receive the differentiated analog signal and continuously generates an output that is an integral of the differentiated analog signal in the phase domain. A time-to-digital converter may sample the output of the voltage controlled oscillator and convert each sample into a digital code representative of the current phase of the sampled output of the voltage controlled oscillator.
US10009033B2
A method for reducing the jitter introduced into a digital signal by a non-linear processing element involves applying an input word representing the digital signal to a first signal path comprising a first non-linear processing element, and a complementary version of the input word to a second signal path comprising a second non-linear processing element. A common mode dither signal is injected into each signal path upstream of the non-linear processing elements. The outputs of the non-linear processing elements are combined to produce a common output with the common mode dither signal removed.
US10009031B2
A data processing device includes a data processing unit including a plurality of elements and wiring groups that connect the plurality of elements, wherein respective elements in the plurality of elements include: a logic element; an acquisition unit that switches on and off an input side of the logic element for any wire out of the wiring groups on a cycle-by-cycle basis to latch input data; and a post unit that switches on and off an output side of the logic element for any wire out of the wiring groups on a cycle-by-cycle basis, and the data processing unit also includes a timing control unit that controls logic executed by the logic element and functions of the acquisition unit and the post unit on a cycle-by-cycle basis.
US10009015B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an automatic zeroing circuit is provided that includes an automatic zeroing circuit, comprising a first voltage adjustment circuit coupled for receiving an induced voltage and a second voltage adjustment circuit coupled for receiving a common voltage. A comparator having an inverting input terminal coupled to the first voltage adjustment circuit and a noninverting input terminal coupled to the second voltage adjustment circuit. In accordance with another embodiment, a method for automatically zeroing a detection circuit includes receiving a first back electromotive force at a first voltage level and shifting the first back electromotive force from the first voltage level to a second voltage level. A comparator circuit is calibrated and the first back electromotive force is detected.
US10009012B2
A discrete time filter, DTF, is described that comprises a summing node; N parallel branches, each branch having a set of input unit sampling capacitances where each unit sampling capacitance is independently selectively coupleable to the summing node; and an output capacitance connected to the summing node. The output capacitance has a value equal to a sum of the sampling capacitances that are to be selectively connected to the summing node; and the discrete time filter further comprises an inductance connected between the summing node and the output capacitance.
US10009006B2
A resonator device capable of preventing the characteristics of the resonator element from degrading while ensuring the fixation strength of the resonator element is provided. A vibrator as the resonator device includes a heat generation element as a base body, a first support arm and a second support arm as elastic members each constituting a plate spring having one end connected to the heat generation element and extending from the one end toward the other end disposed at a position distant from the heat generation element, and a resonator element connected to a first support section and a second support section respectively disposed on the other end side of the first support arm and the second support arm so as to be distant from the heat generation element.
US10009003B2
An elastic wave device includes an IDT provided on a piezoelectric substrate. The IDT includes edge areas in which an elastic wave propagation velocity is slower than an elastic wave propagation velocity in a center area of an electrode finger intersecting region. The edge areas are provided on both sides of the center area in an intersecting width direction. The IDT includes a first section where the propagation velocity in the center area is relatively fast and a second section where the propagation velocity in the center area is relatively slow in the elastic wave propagation direction. In accordance with the propagation velocities in the center areas of the first and second sections, the widths and propagation velocities in the edge areas of the first and second sections excite a piston mode.
US10009002B1
The present invention relates to methods for suppressing spurious modes in microresonators. In particular embodiments, such spurious modes can be reduced by providing one or more structural components that effectively reduce the acoustic velocity in the transducer domain. Additional methods and microresonators are described herein.
US10009000B2
A device includes a switch having multiple ports, an antenna coupled to each corresponding port, a tunable matching network coupled between each antenna and each port, and a controller to detune ports having antennas that are not transferring power when a selected antenna is transferring power.
US10008999B2
A control device according to the present invention is provided with (A) a variable capacitance device including a variable capacitance element, and (B) a control unit configured to apply a control voltage with a first polarity to the variable capacitance device during a third period including a first period to perform communication using the variable capacitance device and a second period not to perform communication before the first period, and configured to apply a control voltage with a second polarity opposite to the first polarity to the variable capacitance device during a sixth period including a fourth period to perform communication and a fifth period not to perform communication before the fourth period.
US10008998B2
A method, apparatus, and system for measuring and analyzing the effects of dynamics modifying processors on a signal. This new approach utilizes statistical analysis techniques to provide a direct comparison and evaluation between the processed signal and the unprocessed signal's dynamic characteristics. The method identifies and quantifies Effective Dynamic Range, Clip Tolerance, Lower Limit Tolerance, Crest Factor, and Diminuendo Factor, using either peak or r.m.s values. In an alternative embodiment, the invention allows for user adjustment and control of the relative relationship of Crest Factor and Diminuendo Factor, which the user may perceive as loudness.
US10008993B2
The audio amplifier includes a variable gain amplifier receiving the input audio signal and providing the output signal, whereby the output signal corresponds to the input signal amplified by a limiter gain. The audio amplifier further includes a limiter gain calculation unit, thus the input signal is amplified by the limiter gain. A control unit receives a signal representative of the input signal and is configured to estimate, based on a mathematical model, the input current or the total output current of the audio amplifier thus providing an estimated current signal corresponding to (and resulting from) the output signal, whereby the limiter gain calculation unit is configured to calculate, dependent on the estimation, the limiter gain such that the actual input current or the total output current of the audio amplifier does not exceed a threshold current value.
US10008980B2
A novel and useful digitally controlled injection-locked RF oscillator with an auxiliary loop. The oscillator is injection locked to a time delayed version of its own resonating voltage (or its second harmonic) and its frequency is modulated by manipulating the phase and amplitude of injected current. The oscillator achieves a narrow modulation tuning range and fine step size of an LC tank based digitally controlled oscillator (DCO). The DCO first gets tuned to its center frequency by means of a conventional switched capacitor array. Frequency modulation is then achieved via a novel method of digitally controlling the phase and amplitude of injected current into the LC tank generated from its own resonating voltage. A very linear deviation from the center frequency is achieved with a much lower gain resulting in a very fine resolution DCO step size and high linearity without needing to resort to oversampled noise shaped dithering.
US10008976B2
A self-locking mechanism which is mounted in a moving mechanism of a photovoltaic panel cleaning equipment is disclosed. The moving mechanism includes driving wheels driven by driving motors, and the driving wheels being diagonally and detachably mounted. The self-locking mechanism includes self-locking units arranged between the driving motor and the driving wheel of the moving mechanism, and is used for realizing self-locking of the respective driving wheel. By adopting the self-locking mechanism and the photovoltaic panel cleaning equipment having the self-locking mechanism, when the body of the photovoltaic panel cleaning equipment stops on the photovoltaic panel with a gradient, the body can be prevented from falling off due to the effect of gravity.
US10008972B2
An electric motor controller for controlling an electric motor and methods of determining a loss of phase condition for at least one phase of three-phase input power provided to an electric motor controller are provided. The controller is configured to obtain phase sample data representing an input power electrical characteristic for at least one phase of three-phase power received by the controller and receive direct current (DC) bus data representing a measured DC bus electrical characteristic. The controller is also configured to calculate a ratio between the phase sample data and the DC bus data, and determine that a loss of phase condition exists for a phase of the three-phase power when the ratio exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10008968B2
A system includes an electric motor controller configured to be coupled to an electric motor is provided. The controller includes a first power input, a second power input, and a third power input, each of the first, second, and third power inputs are configured to receive power from an alternating current (AC) power source. The controller also includes a microcontroller configured to generate a radio frequency (RF) signal in each of the first, second, and third power inputs. The controller further includes an RF based line sensing device configured to sense which one of said first, second, and third power inputs has received power from the AC power source based on the RF signal.
US10008966B2
At least one example embodiment discloses a method of estimating a position of a rotor in a motor. The method includes determining a first estimated position of the rotor using a first algorithm, determining a second estimated position of the rotor using a second algorithm, the second algorithm being different than the first algorithm, determining a first error based on the first estimated position and the second estimated position, and determining a third estimated position of the rotor based on the first error.
US10008962B1
A compact magnetic-based battery device that offers energy, a large number of cycles, a long storage time, and a short charging time is provided. The rechargeable battery device can include a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, a dielectric layer disposed between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, and a plurality of high anisotropic magnetic nanoparticles embedded into the dielectric layer.
US10008956B2
In a first period having a first period length, first data and second data are alternately given to an inverter control unit. The first data has a first value indicating a length of time from the start point of time of the first period to a matching point of time as a point of time when a converter carrier takes a converter threshold value and an inverter threshold value corresponding to a second period having the first value as its length. The second data has a second value indicating a length of time from the matching point of time to the end point of time of the first period and an inverter threshold value corresponding to a second period having the second value as its length.
US10008954B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes driving at least one electronic switch coupled to at least one inductor in a converter stage of a switched mode power supply based on a clock signal, and modulating a clock frequency of the clock signal over a predefined first frequency range around a center frequency such that a frequency spectrum of the clock signal is asymmetric. The switched mode power supply includes a filter coupled between the converter stage and an input of the switched mode power supply.
US10008952B1
Power conversion systems, discharge circuits and methods are disclosed for discharging a DC bus conditioner capacitor connected between a neutral node and a first reference node in a DC bus circuit of a power conversion system, in which a DC bus voltage of the power conversion system is monitored, and a discharge control DC power supply is activated in response to the DC bus voltage transitioning below a first threshold voltage to activate a switching circuit to connect a discharge resistor between the first reference node and a DC bus terminal of the DC bus circuit to at least partially discharge the conditioner capacitor through the discharge resistor.
US10008947B2
Disclosed examples include flyback converters, control circuits and methods to facilitate secondary side regulation of the output voltage. A primary side control circuit operates a primary side switch to independently initiate power transfer cycles to deliver power to a transformer secondary winding in a first mode. A secondary side control circuit operates a synchronous rectifier or secondary side switch to generate a predetermined cycle start request signal via a transformer auxiliary winding to assume secondary side regulation and to cause the primary side controller to initiate new power transfer cycles.
US10008942B1
A controller for use in a power converter includes a control circuit coupled to generate a low side drive signal to control switching of a low side switch, and generate an ON signal and an OFF signal in response to a feedback signal representative of an output of the power converter. A high side signal interface circuit is coupled to generate a high side drive signal in response to the ON signal and the OFF signal to control switching of a high side switch. The ON signal and the OFF signal are coupled to be pulled up in response to a bypass voltage during an initial state. The high side signal is coupled to turn on the high side switch in response to the control circuit pulling the ON signal low, and turn off the high side switch in response to the control circuit pulling the OFF signal low.
US10008941B1
A combined voltage regulator and snubber circuit generally has a voltage regulator device in parallel with the energy storage element of the snubber circuit operatively connectable in series with a leakage inductance current path; the leakage inductance being part of a magnetic component utilized in a switch-mode power supply having an input voltage source, controllable semiconductor switches, freewheeling semiconductor switches, feedback controller, reactive energy storage components and a load; the voltage regulator generally providing constant or variable voltage to the gate driver of the controllable semiconductor and/or feedback controller.
US10008940B2
A power supply device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: determine a duty ratio of a control signal of a switching element in a power supply circuit so that an output voltage of the power supply circuit approaches a target voltage; compute an acceptable range of a duty ratio based on an output current of the power supply circuit detected by a current detecting circuit; output the duty ratio when the duty ratio is inside the acceptable range; and stop the power supply circuit when the duty ratio is outside the acceptable range.
US10008932B2
A synchronous rectification DC/DC converter includes a first transistor and a second transistor including respective main electrodes connected to a common connection point, the first transistor and the second transistor being NMOS transistors, a control circuit configured to control switching of the first transistor and the second transistor in a complementary manner, a bootstrap circuit that includes a first capacitor charged with a current supplied from a high voltage potential terminal and is configured to raise a voltage potential of a control electrode of the first transistor to turn on the first transistor, and a charging stop circuit configured to stop the first capacitor from being charged from the high voltage potential terminal in a time period in which the first transistor and the second transistor are turned off simultaneously.
US10008923B2
To provide a soft start circuit capable of obtaining a high-accuracy soft start time. The soft start circuit is equipped with a constant current source, an output terminal which outputs a soft start voltage, a ground terminal, a first transistor which is connected between the constant current source and the ground terminal and has a gate and a drain both short-circuited, a second transistor which is connected between the constant current source and the output terminal and receives a clock signal at a gate thereof, and a capacitor connected between the second transistor and the ground terminal.
US10008917B2
A regenerative drive device and a method for configuring the DC link of a regenerative drive device are disclosed. The multilevel regenerative drive device may include an inverter having a plurality of power components and a converter having a plurality of power components. The multilevel regenerative drive device may also include a direct current (DC) link bridging the inverter and the converter, the DC link including a capacitor, an inverter neutral point, and a converter neutral point independent of the inverter neutral point. Alternatively, the inverter neutral point and the converter neutral point may be connected.
US10008914B2
A rail maintenance vehicle includes a frame, a workhead, and a vibrating unit. The frame includes wheels that travel along rails. The vibrating unit is coupled to the workhead and includes a rotor, a stator, a first rotor coil coupled to the rotor and a first stator coil coupled to the stator.
US10008911B2
A brush assembly for a brush motor includes a support member, brush holders, at least four brushes respectively mounted to the brush holders, and first and second motor terminals for connecting with an external power supply. A first filter circuit is connected between the first motor terminal and corresponding first brushes. A second filter circuit is connected between the second motor terminal and corresponding second brushes. The first and second motor terminals and the first and second filter circuits are mounted in a region defined by two corresponding adjacent brushes forming an angle greater than 60 degrees but less than 180 degrees.
US10008906B2
An electrical rotating machine includes a laminated stator core having a first axial duct to convey a cooling air stream generated by a turbomachine through the laminated stator core to a rear stator winding overhang, and a second axial duct to return the cooling air stream from the rear stator winding overhang back through the laminated stator core. An air guide is attached to the laminated stator core on a side of the rear stator winding overhang to redirect the cooling air stream via the rear stator winding overhang. Radial slots between the ducts and an air gap between the laminated stator core and a rotor are spaced from one another at an axial distance which decreases toward a turbomachine-distal side of the laminated stator core so as to compensate a temperature gradient caused by the one-sided cooling.
US10008905B2
A hollow motor module as a combination of a motor and a speed reducer is disclosed. The motor includes an outer stator, a first rotor and a plurality of second rotors. The first rotor is peripherally provided with a first coil and is installed in the outer stator. Each of the plural second rotors is peripherally provided with a second coil and is installed in the first rotor. The second rotor has a coupling portion extending out of the first rotor. The outer stator has first magnets that work with the first coil to magnetically excite the first rotor to rotate. The first rotor has second magnets for the second rotors. The second magnets work with the corresponding second coils to magnetically excite the second rotors to rotate synchronously. The speed reducer is connected to the coupling portions of the second rotors.
US10008904B2
A vehicle drive device that includes a rotary electric machine; a transmission device that is disposed side by side with the rotary electric machine in an axial direction thereof; a differential gear device that has a rotation-axial center substantially parallel to that of the transmission device, and is disposed on an axis other than that of the transmission device; and an inverter device that includes a capacitor that smooths direct-current power and a conversion unit that performs direct current/alternating current conversion, and controls the rotary electric machine.
US10008897B2
A motor is provided for use in a machine. The motor includes a segmented stator comprising magnetically isolated core segments.
US10008894B2
A double resonance vibration motor includes a housing, vibration parts in the housing, a coil fixed in the housing, and elastic connectors to support elastically the vibration part. The vibration parts include a mass block, a first magnet group and a second magnet group installed in the mass block. The coil is opposite to the first magnetic group and the second magnetic group. The driving force generated by the first magnetic group and the coil makes the vibration motor vibrate along the first direction. The driving force of the second magnet group and the coil makes the vibration motor vibrate along the second direction. The first direction and the second direction intersect. Two different directions have respectively one resonance frequency. Two different resonant frequencies can vibrate alone or at the same time, to realize the control in different vibration directions.
US10008892B2
An IPM motor for a vacuum pump suitable for use as a motor for a small vacuum pump is provided. The IPM motor for a vacuum pump includes: a rotor core in which a rotor shaft of the vacuum pump is pressed and which also has magnets embedded therein; and a stator core which surrounds the rotor core and around which stator windings are wound. The magnets per pole embedded in the rotor core are each split into two pieces and inserted in respective magnet slots in the rotor core. A hole for stress concentration relaxation is provided at either end of each pair of magnet slots in which permanent magnets split into two pieces are embedded in each pole. The rotor core has a multilayer structure having a plurality of rotor core laminations stacked vertically in an axial direction of the rotor shaft. The rotor core laminations stacked vertically are positioned with a skew angle determined by using the holes for stress concentration relaxation.
US10008879B2
Self-discharging reserve power units and related methods are described. A self-discharging reserve power unit comprises an electrical energy storage component to provide power to a process control device. The electric energy storage component is coupled to an energy discharge component and a controller, which causes the discharge component to discharge energy from the electrical energy storage component following completion of an operation by the process control device.
US10008878B2
This system can manage efficient operation control among distributed power sources without impairing their versatility. This power control system includes a power generation device (33) that generates power while a current sensor (40) detects forward power flow and another distributed power source (12), and a power control device (20) including an output unit (50) capable of outputting power from the other distributed power source (12) while the power generation device (33) and the other distributed power source (12) are disconnected from the grid. Output from the output unit (50) allows supply of dummy current to the current sensor (40), the dummy current flowing in the same direction as the forward power flow.
US10008877B2
A household appliance (1) includes an electronic command device (3) configured to reduce standby-state energy consumption of the electric household appliance (1). The electronic command device (3) includes an electronic control unit (20) and a switching mode low power supply unit (6) with a switching regulator unit (13) having a first control terminal (11) and at least an output terminal (9) which supplies a main prefixed supply voltage (VB) to the electronic control unit (20). The switching mode low power supply unit (6) is further configured to switch from a standby state to an operating state, when a prefixed voltage variation (ΔV) on the first control terminal (11) is detected. The switching mode low power supply unit (6) includes auxiliary supply means (14) which supply a low supply voltage (V1) different than zero to the first control terminal (11) during at least the standby state.
US10008873B2
Improvements in a high frequency multiphase flyback power supply for battery charging and power supplies used in devices that provide de-sulfation capability to the batteries. The system utilizes a high efficiency, multiphase array flyback battery charger or power supply, with a localized or Internet based bi-directional communication means to monitor and optimize battery charging. The de-sulfating current can be a variable, or harmonic, repeating patterns of ON and OFF pulses which may be applied to the battery at an operator-adjustable peak amperage of about 0-350 amps. The de-sulfation process before, during or after the normal battery charging cycle, or any combination thereof. The temperature of the battery and the specific gravity of the fluid within the battery is measure during the de-sulfating process. The connection to the internet allows the processes to be monitored at a distance from where the charging is taking place.
US10008868B2
An electronic device and a power adapter are provided. The power adapter comprises a power circuit, a main control circuit, a potential adjustment circuit, a current detection circuit, a voltage detection circuit and an output switch circuit. When a conventional charging or a quick charging is performed on the battery in the electronic device, the main control circuit determines whether the output current of the power adapter is greater than a current threshold according to the current detecting signal and determines whether the output voltage of the power adapter is greater than a voltage threshold according to the voltage detecting signal; if the output current of the power adapter is greater than the current threshold and/or the output voltage of the power adapter is greater than the voltage threshold, the main control circuit controls the output switch circuit to turn off the direct current output of the power adapter.
US10008866B2
A storage battery control method includes receiving capacity information indicating chargeable and dischargeable capacities of a plurality of storage batteries; receiving use permission information indicating whether at least some of the plurality of storage batteries are available for the frequency control; determining target storage batteries to be used for the frequency control among storage batteries of the plurality of storage batteries indicated as available by the received use permission information; determining a bid capacity used for the frequency control, the bid capacity being equal to or less than a total value of the chargeable and dischargeable capacities of the target storage batteries; and submitting a bid for the frequency control under a bid condition including the bid capacity.
US10008865B2
An energy storage device and a method for the operation of an energy storage device. In order to state an energy storage arrangement and a method for the operation of the latter, which in their characteristics are adapted to complex requirements and show both high-current and high-energy characteristics, an energy storage arrangement is stated, including: at least one high-current cell and at least one high-energy cell, with the at least one high-energy cell and the at least one high-current cell being connected in parallel, with the cells being charged and/or discharged with a current pulse and in the inter-pulse periods a charge balancing taking place between the cells.
US10008863B2
In a balance correction circuit including a plurality of converter type balance correction units that control a supply of a current to a plurality of power storage cells by complementarily on/off controlling two switching elements and hereby allowing to exchange power between or among power storage cells via an inductor to equalize the voltages of the power storage cells, a common timing signal used to generate a control signal of a switching element is supplied to each of the above balance correction units. For example, the balance correction circuit generates a timing signal to supply to a first balance correction unit based on a variation in a voltage applied to the capacitive element charged by a voltage difference created between a control signal generated by the second balance correction unit and a second power storage cell cathode of the balance correction unit.
US10008856B2
A power system for offshore application includes a plurality of power circuits. Each of the power circuit includes an alternating current (AC) bus which supplies power to an auxiliary load and is connected to a generator. The power circuit further includes a first direct current (DC) bus having a first DC voltage supplying power to a first load and a second DC bus having a second DC voltage supplying power to a second load. The power circuit also includes a first DC to DC converter coupled between the first DC bus and the second DC bus, wherein the first DC to DC converter is configured for bidirectional power flow and an AC to DC converter coupled between the AC bus and the first DC bus. The first DC bus of at least one power circuit is coupled to the second DC bus of at least another power circuit with a second DC to DC converter. The system also includes a controller configured to control the operation of the first DC to DC converter, second DC to DC converter and the AC to DC converter for regulating the first and second DC voltages. The controller is further configured to provide power to the second DC bus from the at least one AC to DC converter during a first operating state and from the first DC to DC converter during a second operating state.
US10008854B2
A method and apparatus for power converter current control. In one embodiment, the method comprises controlling an instantaneous current generated by a power converter such that that power converter appears, from the perspective of an AC line coupled to the power converter, as a virtual AC voltage source in series with a virtual impedance, wherein real and reactive phasor currents for the power converter are indirectly controlled by modifying amplitude and phase of a virtual AC voltage waveform that defines the virtual AC voltage source.
US10008853B2
A microgrid power generation system includes a plurality of generators having a plurality of different rated capacities and a plurality of distribution nodes, at least some of the distribution nodes being powered by the generators. A grid is formed by the distribution nodes, the grid includes a system frequency. A plurality of loads are powered by the grid through the distribution nodes, the loads have a power demand. A processor includes a plurality of efficiency bands, each of the efficiency bands being for a corresponding one of the generators and including a plurality of generator switching points based upon droop of the system frequency and the power demand of the loads. The processor is structured to operate the generators and the loads under transient conditions based upon the efficiency bands.
US10008839B2
A perforation apparatus for use with cable jackets and related systems and methods thereof is provided. The tool includes a pliers assembly having at least a first jaw member positioned opposing a second jaw member, wherein relative movement of the first and second jaw members is controlled with at least a first handle and a second handle. A first knife edge is on the first jaw member and a second knife edge is on the second jaw member. Each of the first and second knife edges are oriented substantially parallel to one another and substantially perpendicular to a length of first and second handles. The first and second knife edges are movable towards one another. A spacing device is connected to the pliers assembly, wherein the spacing device controls a closing distance between the first knife edge and the second knife edge.
US10008835B2
A semiconductor apparatus including a power semiconductor element connected between a first terminal on a high potential side and a second terminal on a low potential side, and controlled to be ON or OFF according to a gate potential thereof; a switch element connected between a control terminal that inputs a control signal for controlling the power semiconductor element and a gate of the power semiconductor element, and controlled to be ON or OFF according to a gate potential thereof; an ON potential supplying section connected between the first terminal and a gate of the switch element, that supplies an ON potential to the gate of the switch element; and an OFF potential supplying section connected between a reference potential and the gate of the switch element, that sets the gate potential of the switch element to an OFF potential in response to a predetermined cutoff condition being satisfied.
US10008834B2
A method for manufacturing a spark plug comprising the steps of: placing an assembly of the center electrode, an insulator, and a metal shell in a pressure resistant vessel and determining whether or not the insulator has a defect by applying a voltage to the center electrode, and bending the ground electrode toward the center electrode after the defect inspection step, the defect inspection step being performed while a pressure in the pressure resistant vessel is changed to a plurality of different pressures.
US10008827B2
Tensile strained semiconductor photon emission and detection devices and integrated photonics system
Tensile strained germanium is provided that can be sufficiently strained to provide a nearly direct band gap material or a direct band gap material. Compressively stressed or tensile stressed stressor materials in contact with germanium regions induce uniaxial or biaxial tensile strain in the germanium regions. Stressor materials may include silicon nitride or silicon germanium. The resulting strained germanium structure can be used to emit or detect photons including, for example, generating photons within a resonant cavity to provide a laser.
US10008824B2
An optical module for preventing laser beam leakage and a control method thereof are disclosed. The optical module including a current control circuit, a first transistor, a laser, and a laser control unit. The laser control unit is configured to: if it is detected that an optical fiber is inserted in the optical fiber interface, perform control to turn on the laser, or if it is detected that no optical fiber is inserted in the optical fiber interface, control the laser to remain in an off state. A laser beam is effectively prevented from causing human bodily injury when an optical fiber is not inserted in an optical fiber interface.
US10008823B2
A flange portion of this semiconductor laser element is press-fitted, with a front face of the semiconductor laser element serving as the leading head, into an externally-contacting hole portion of a through-hole in a vertical wall portion. The externally-contacting hole portion contacts an outer peripheral surface of the flange portion. A collimator lens is mounted to a support body before or after the flange portion is press-fitted into the externally-contacting hole portion. The press-fitting of the flange portion into the externally-contacting hole portion is stopped at a position where an edge portion, of the flange portion, on the front face side of the semiconductor laser element rests within the externally-contacting hole portion. The collimator lens is mounted to the support body in a path of emitted light in front of the semiconductor laser element.
US10008815B2
The invention relates to a plug-in connection (1) for connecting, in particular, electrical lines, comprising at least a female connecting element (2) and a male connecting element (3), wherein the female connecting element (2) interlockingly receives the male connecting element (3) and wherein the two connecting elements (2, 3) can be detachably frictionally connected while in interlocking contact, wherein a region (4) of the male connecting element (3) that enters into connection is coaxially tapered and comprises at least one slidable contact body (5), which is arranged within the male connecting element in a first position and protrudes from the male connecting element (3) in a second position. The invention further relates to a use of such a plug-in connection (1). The invention further relates to a method for connecting, in particular, electrical lines by means of a plug-in connection (1).
US10008808B2
An extension cord system includes an electronic device that may store audio data. A case is provided and the electronic device is removably positioned therein. A pair of headphones is provided. The headphones are selectively electrically coupled to the electronic device. An extension cord is selectively electrically coupled between the electronic device and the pair of headphones. The extension cord engages the case when the extension cord is electrically coupled to the electronic device. Thus, the extension cord is inhibited from being unplugged from the electronic device.
US10008805B2
A connector device comprises a connector and a mating connector which is mateable with the connector. The connector comprises a housing, a power-supply terminal and a detection terminal. The mating connector comprises a mating housing, a mating power-supply terminal and a mating detection terminal. One of the housing and the mating housing is provided with a first release portion. One of the housing and the mating housing is provided with a second release portion. One of the housing and the mating housing is provided with a prevention portion. The connector is able to take on any of three states with respect to the mating connector. When the connector is in a first state, the prevention portion is located between the first release portion and the second release portion in an operating direction and prevents the second release portion from being subsequently operated upon operation of the first release portion.
US10008802B1
A receptacle frame is provided including a frame having tapered sidewalls and ends of the tapered sidewalls having tapered leads thereon, the tapered sidewalls of the frame defining an opening therethrough; at least one mounting slot on the frame to secure the receptacle frame to a back plane of an electrical enclosure; and at least one mounting point on the frame to secure a blind-mate receptacle portion of a blind-mate connector to the receptacle frame. Related systems are also provided.
US10008799B2
A connector module includes an electrical connection structure including: a plurality of electrical wires; and a wiring plate on which the electrical wires are wired. Each of the electrical wires is coated with an insulating coating, and includes: a wiring portion wired on the wiring plate; and an electrical connection portion to be physically and electrically connected to a counterpart electrical connection portion. The wiring plate includes a surrounded recess-shaped portion. The electrical connection portion and the counterpart electrical connection portion are arranged in the recess-shaped portion and are formed such that a physical and electrical connection part thereof is housed in the recess-shaped portion. The connection part is covered with an insulating member.
US10008794B2
An operation member for an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a casing having portions defining an opening and a circuit module having a circuit board. The circuit board includes a controller. The operation member includes a body including an operating end and a coupling end, and a skirt member. The body is configured to partially protrude through the opening of the casing for operating. The skirt member is arranged at the coupling end. The skirt member includes a base plate outwardly extending from the coupling end, a wall upwardly extending from peripheral portions of the base plate, and a groove defined between the wall and the body. The operation member is configured to associate with the electronic device, and the operation member with the body and the skirt is completely separated from the casing.
US10008790B2
Disclosed is a magnet terminal and a jumper wire including the magnet terminal. The magnet terminal comprises a magnet layer, a metallic structure placed on the magnet layer and configured to conduct an electric signal with the magnet layer, and a tube configure to partly cover an outer surface of the metallic structure, then providing a low-cost solderless magnet terminal which is available for a component or electric/electronic circuit attachable to a magnet.
US10008788B2
An intermediate ground is provided in a vehicle. The intermediate ground can be located between one or more antennas and one or more processing systems. The intermediate ground can include a vehicle frame member (e.g., part of an A-pillar) and a ground bracket attached to the vehicle frame member. The ground bracket can include a body made of a conductive material. The body can include a first end region and a second end region opposite to the first end region. The first end region can include a frame engaging portion. At least a portion of the frame engaging portion can directly contact the vehicle frame member. The second end region being configured to support a plurality of electrical connectors thereon. The body can include an anti-rotation tab extending from the frame engaging portion. The anti-rotation tab can engage the vehicle frame member.
US10008781B1
The present invention discloses a low-profile broadband high-gain filtering antenna. The antenna comprises a radiator, an upper-layer dielectric substrate, a lower-layer dielectric substrate, a microstrip feed-line having open stubs, a ground plane having a plurality of spaced slots, and a metallized via. The radiator generates resonances, provides a broadband and high-gain radiation passband, and meanwhile, adjusting the dimensions of the radiator can adjust the roll-off rate at the upper edge of the passband. The open stub generates a radiation null, and suppresses a resonance in upper band of the antenna. The spaced slot suppresses a resonance in lower band of the antenna. The metallized via connects the microstrip feed-line and the ground plane, generates a radiation null, and improves the roll-off rate at the lower edge of the passband.
US10008778B2
An antenna array comprising: four dipole antennas configured to function together as a directional, near vertical incidence skywave (NVIS) antenna with reduced side lobes, wherein each dipole antenna comprises two conductive elements and a feed point disposed between the two conductive elements, wherein the conductive elements of each of the four dipole antennas are disposed in an x-y plane of an x-y-z mutually orthogonal axes coordinate system, and wherein the conductive elements are substantially parallel with the x-axis and the x-y plane is substantially parallel with a ground plane; and wherein the feed points of the four dipole antennas are positioned on the x-y plane at approximately (x, 0), (−x, 0), (0, y), and (0, −y), and wherein the x-y plane is separated from the ground plane by a distance h that is less than or equal to 1/10 the wavelength (λ) of an operating frequency.
US10008772B2
An element of a phased array antenna is provided. The element comprises a phase tracking circuit configured to multiply the in-phase component (In) of a local output signal by the quadrature phase component (Qout) of an external output signal to generate a phase control signal (535) and/or to multiply the quadrature component (Qn) of a local output signal by the in-phase component (Iout) of an external output signal to generate a phase control signal (535).
US10008763B2
A multi-band antenna includes a conductive cap, a ground plane element, a supporting frame, a first radiating conductive element, a second radiating conductive element, a third radiating conductive element, and a plurality of conductive pieces. The multi-band antenna of the disclosure makes the radiating conductive element contact with the conductive cap physically via the conductive piece. Therefore, although a gap similar to a slot is formed, the resonant mode of the multi-band antenna is not excited via the slot.
US10008760B2
An information handling system includes a triangular chassis and a plurality of antennas that provide optimized coverage in all directions around the triangular chassis. An antenna may be operated from each vertex of the triangular shaped base chassis. Alternatively, an antenna may be operated from each of three main side surfaces of the triangular shaped base chassis. One or more of the antennas can be selected for communication based on the ability to communicate with external network components. Disclosed systems provide omnidirectional coverage around the triangular chassis while minimizing the effects of shadowing caused by abase chassis.
US10008752B1
Disclosed is a technique for detecting a hazardous condition by a conductive layer in an energy storage device. An energy storage device assembly includes a conductive layer configured to cause a change in an electrical parameter in the event of a hazardous condition. A melting point of the conductive layer is lower than a boiling point of a liquid coolant. An electrical sensor is electrically connected to the conductive layer and configured to detect a change in the electrical parameter in the conductive layer. Upon detecting a change in the electrical parameter associated with a hazardous condition, an energy management system suspends operation of the energy storage device.
US10008746B2
An electrolytic solution for a secondary battery is provided. The electrolyte solution includes an electrolyte salt; and a solvent including a first solvent and a second solvent; wherein the first solvent includes 4-fluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one; and wherein the second solvent includes at least one of Chemical Formula No. 23, Chemical Formula No. 24, or Chemical Formula No. 25.
US10008744B2
A lithium ion battery electrolyte, comprises lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent and additives. The additives comprise an SEI film forming additive and furil and derivatives thereof, and the SEI film forming additive is at least one of vinylene carbonate, fluoroethylene carbonate and vinyl ethylene carbonate. Compared with the prior art, furil and derivatives thereof are added to the electrolyte as electrolyte additives in the present invention, to enhance the permeability for separator and the wettability for positive/negative electrode materials, facilitate the film forming reaction of the SEI film forming additive, and further improve the cycling performance of the lithium ion battery using the electrolyte. Furthermore, the furil and derivatives thereof have good chemical and electrochemical stability and free from decomposition reaction within the operating voltage range of the lithium ion battery, thereby imparting no negative effect upon battery performances.
US10008742B2
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.
US10008740B2
The present disclosure relates to garnet powder, a manufacturing method thereof, a solid electrolyte sheet using a hot press, and a manufacturing method thereof. In particular, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZ) garnet powder including preparing a mixture by first dry mixing Li2CO3, La2O3, ZrO2, and Al2O3. The mixture is first calcinated for 5 to 7 hours in a temperature range of 800 to 1000° C. The calcinated mixture is ground to a powder with an average particle size of 1 to 4 μm through dry grinding. A cubic-phased LLZ garnet powder is prepared by second calcinating the ground mixture for 10 to 30 hours in a temperature range of 1100 to 1300° C.
US10008739B2
A solid-state lithium battery cell comprises a support, and a plurality of electrodes on the support, the electrodes comprising a cathode and an anode. An electrolyte lying between the cathode and anode comprises an oxygen-rich electrolyte layer. In another version, a multilayer electrolyte comprises an oxygen-rich electrolyte layer and an oxygen-deficient electrolyte layer.
US10008737B2
Provided is a technique for capturing transition metal ions, such as cobalt ions, in a secondary battery that elute from a positive electrode active material and for preventing deposition of transition metal at a negative electrode. A composition for a lithium ion secondary battery porous membrane that contains non-conductive particles and a binding material is provided. The binding material includes a polymer A including an aliphatic conjugated diene monomer unit in a proportion of greater than 85 mass % and a polymer B including a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer unit in a proportion of at least 60 mass %. A mass basis ratio of content of the polymer A relative to content of the polymer B is at least 0.2 and no greater than 9.0.
US10008736B2
The present invention is related to formation and processing of antiperovskite material. In various embodiments, a thin film of aluminum doped antiperovskite is deposited on a substrate, which can be an electrolyte material of a lithium-based electrochemical storage device.
US10008732B2
Disclosed is a solid oxide fuel cell stack. The solid oxide fuel cell stack includes a unit cell, a cell frame configured to support an edge of the unit cell, a interconnecting member disposed under the cell frame, a sealing member disposed between the cell frame and the interconnecting member, and a spacer member configured to uniformly maintain an interval between the cell frame and the interconnecting member. The spacer member is disposed at an area between the cell frame and the interconnecting member, which is not sealed by the sealing member, and formed of a mica or insulating ceramic.
US10008731B2
Disclosed is a ceria electrolyte for a solid oxide fuel cell, which is a ceria (CeO2) electrolyte configured such that either gadolinium (Gd) or samarium (Sm) is co-doped with ytterbium (Yb) and bismuth (Bi), wherein Bi is doped in an amount of 0.5 to 5 mol %, thus exhibiting low-temperature sintering properties.
US10008727B2
A fuel cell comprises a plurality of sub-cells, each sub-cell including a first electrode in fluid communication with a source of oxygen gas, a second electrode in fluid communication with a source of a fuel gas, and a solid electrolyte between the first electrode and the second electrode. The sub-cells are connected with each other with an interconnect. The interconnect includes a first layer in contact with the first electrode of each cell, and a second layer in contact with the second electrode of each cell. The first layer includes a (La,Mn)Sr-titanate based perovskite represented by the empirical formula of LaySr(1-y)Ti(1-x)MnxOb. In one embodiment, the second layer includes a (Nb,Y)Sr-titanate perovskite represented by the empirical formula of Sr(1-1.5z-0.5k±δ)YzNbkTi(1-k)Od. In another embodiment, the interconnect has a thickness of between about 10 μm and about 100 μm, and the second layer of the interconnect includes a (La)Sr-titanate based perovskite represented by the empirical formula of Sr(1-z±δ)LazTiOd.
US10008718B2
The positive electrode active material for use in a lithium ion secondary cell disclosed herein includes: a base portion formed of a lithium transition metal complex oxide capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions; and a coating portion formed on at least part of a surface of the base portion, the coating portion being formed of an electrically conductive oxide with a perovskite structure including, as constituent elements, cobalt and at least one of manganese and nickel.
US10008710B2
A lithium-ion battery module has a housing and a plurality of lithium-ion battery cells disposed in the housing. Each of the plurality of lithium-ion battery cells includes a first terminal with a first polarity, a second terminal with a second polarity opposite to the first polarity, an overcharge protection assembly, and a casing electrically coupled to the first terminal such that the casing has the first polarity, where the casing has an electrically conductive material. The lithium-ion battery module also includes a vent of the overcharge protection assembly electrically coupled to the casing and a conductive component of the overcharge protection assembly electrically coupled to the second terminal, and the vent is configured to contact the conductive component to cause a short circuit and to vent a gas from the casing into the housing when a pressure in the casing reaches a threshold value.
US10008697B2
Provided is an organic light emitting diode display device. The organic light emitting diode display device includes a polarizing plate, a substrate disposed on the polarizing plate, an overcoating layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of micro lenses, and a first electrode, an organic emission layer, and a second electrode of an organic emission element which is disposed on the overcoating layer, in which the micro lens includes a plurality of recesses and a wall surrounding the recesses and a reflective pattern is disposed in an area corresponding to the recess.
US10008694B2
An organic electroluminescent display device includes a display region configured to display pixels; a frame region configured to surround the display region; a substrate; an organic electroluminescent element disposed on the substrate; a sealing member configured to cover the organic electroluminescent element; a lead wire disposed on the substrate and extending from a region covered with the sealing member to an outer side of the sealing member; and one or more organic insulators disposed within the frame region instead of within the display region. The lead wire includes two opposite side portions. The one organic insulator or each organic insulator covers part of at least one of the two side portions. The sealing member covers the one or more organic insulators.
US10008686B2
An optical device (10) includes a joining structure in which a first conductive film (110) and a second conductive film (130) are joined to each other. The first conductive film (110) that constitutes the joining structure is constituted by a conductive material. The second conductive film (130) that constitutes the joining structure is constituted by a metal material. A part of the second conductive film (130) comes into contact with the first conductive film (110). A plurality of concave portions are provided in a contact surface of the second conductive film (130) which comes into contact with the first conductive film (110). The contact surface has a surface roughness greater than a surface roughness of a non-contact surface of the second conductive film (130) which does not come into contact with the first conductive film (110).
US10008685B2
An organic light emitting device includes an anode, the anode including a conductive polymer, a fluorine-containing organic material, and metal nanoparticles, a cathode facing the anode, and an emission layer between the anode and the cathode.
US10008678B2
Imidazo[1,2-f]phenanthridine compounds are provided. The compounds have a twisted aryl moiety further substituted by alkyl having four or more atoms. The compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices, particularly as emissive dopants, providing devices with improved efficiency, stability, and manufacturing. In particular, the compounds provided herein may be used in blue devices having high efficiency.
US10008665B1
Doping a storage element, a selector element, or both, of a memory cell with a dopant including one or more of aluminum (Al), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), and silicon (Si), can minimize volume or density changes in a phase change memory as well as minimize electromigration, in accordance with embodiments. In one embodiment, a memory cell includes a first electrode and a second electrode, and a storage element comprising a layer of doped phase change material between the first and second electrodes, wherein the doped phase change material includes one or more of aluminum, zirconium, hafnium, and silicon. The storage element, a selector element, or both can be doped using techniques such as cosputtering or deposition of alternating layers of a dopant layer and a storage (or selector) material.
US10008662B2
A method of forming a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device including a perpendicular MTJ (magnetic tunnel junction) is provided. The method includes forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) over a bottom electrode layer. A top electrode layer is formed over an upper surface of the MTJ, and a hard mask is formed over an upper surface of the top electrode layer. A first etch is performed through the top electrode layer, through regions of the MTJ unmasked by the hard mask, to form a top electrode and an etched MTJ. Sidewall spacers are formed extending from an upper surface of the hard mask or the top electrode, along sidewalls of the top electrode and the etched MTJ, to a point below or about even with an upper surface of the bottom electrode. A resulting MRAM device structure is also provided.
US10008659B2
A fingerprint sensor includes a substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the piezoelectric layer.
US10008658B2
A vibrator includes: a housing having an interior space; a vibrating member installed within the housing; a piezoelectric element installed on a top surface of the vibrating member; and space forming parts disposed to face side surfaces of the piezoelectric element, respectively, and forming a space in which a filler is provided, together with the side surfaces of the piezoelectric element.
US10008654B2
Aspects relate to an energy harvesting device adapted for use by an athlete while exercising. The device may utilize a mass of phase-change material to store heat energy, the stored heat energy subsequently converted into electrical energy by one or more thermoelectric generator modules. The energy harvesting device may be integrated into an item of clothing, and such that the mass of phase change material may store heat energy as the item of clothing is laundered.
US10008651B2
A first conductive pattern is disposed on a substrate. A first conductive pattern includes a first element mount portion and a first wire connection portion. A second conductive pattern is disposed on the substrate to be spaced apart from the first conductive pattern. The second conductive pattern includes a second element mount portion and a groove. The second element mount portion has a first side, a second side substantially orthogonal to the first side, and a third side substantially orthogonal to the first side and substantially parallel to the second side. The groove extends substantially parallel to the first side. A rectangular first light emitting element is disposed on the first element mount portion. A rectangular second light emitting element is disposed on the second element mount portion adjacent to the first light emitting element. A wire connects the second light emitting element to the first wire connection portion.
US10008648B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting device, including: a body, which has a bottom part with at least one hole formed therein, a side wall, and a cavity defined by the bottom part and the side wall; a semiconductor light emitting chip, which is placed in each hole and includes plural semiconductor layers adapted to generate light by electron-hole recombination and electrodes electrically connected to the plural semiconductor layers; and an encapsulating member provided at least to the cavity to cover the semiconductor light emitting chip, in which the electrodes of the semiconductor light emitting chip are exposed towards the lower face of the bottom part of the body.
US10008635B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting device including: a plurality of semiconductor layers; a non-conductive reflective film which is formed on the plurality of semiconductor layers; and first and second electrodes formed on the non-conductive reflective film, wherein a spacing between the first electrode and the second electrode is 80 μm or greater, and a ratio of a combined area of the first and second electrodes to a planform area of the semiconductor light emitting device as seen on a top view is 0.7:1 or less.
US10008629B2
Light emitting devices having an enhanced degree of polarization, PD, and methods for fabricating such devices are described. A light emitting device may include a light emitting region that is configured to emit light having a central wavelength, λ, and a degree of polarization, PD, where PD>0.006λ−b for 200 nm≤λ≤400 nm, wherein b≤1.5.
US10008625B2
A photovoltaic device and method include a substrate, a conductive layer formed on the substrate and an absorber layer formed on the conductive layer from a Cu—Zn—Sn containing chalcogenide material. An emitter layer is formed on the absorber layer and a buffer layer is formed on the emitter layer including an atomic layer deposition (ALD) layer. A transparent conductor layer is formed on the buffer layer.
US10008623B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a solar cell that includes providing a semiconductor growth substrate; depositing on said growth substrate a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell; applying a metal contact layer over said sequence of layers; affixing the adhesive polyimide surface of a permanent supporting substrate directly over said metal contact layer and permanently bonding it thereto by a thermocompressive technique; and removing the semiconductor growth substrate.
US10008619B2
A tin-based material includes: from 50 to 100 wt. parts of grapheme; from 0 to 50 wt. parts of antimony-doped tin dioxide (ATO); from 0 to 50 wt. parts of indium-doped tin dioxide (ITO). The material includes at least ATO and/or ITO.
US10008616B2
The electronic device having a Schottky diode includes first and second electrodes disposed on a semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from each other. A first semiconductor region is formed within the semiconductor substrate. The first semiconductor region may include a first surface portion in contact with the second electrode, forming a Schottky diode with the second electrode. A second semiconductor region having the same conductivity-type as the first semiconductor region and overlapping the first electrode is formed within the semiconductor substrate. A third semiconductor region having a different conductivity-type from the first semiconductor region, and having a first portion and a second portion spaced apart from each other, is formed within the semiconductor substrate. An isolation region is disposed between the second and the third semiconductor regions. The isolation region includes a first isolation portion and a second isolation portion spaced apart from each other.
US10008605B2
A connecting structure includes: a Si substrate; a nanocarbon material formed above the Si substrate; and an electrode electrically connected to the nanocarbon material, wherein a molecular material having a doping function is inserted between the Si substrate and the nanocarbon material. With this configuration, a highly-reliable connecting structure and a method for manufacturing the same are obtained which realize, even though using the nanocarbon material, a sufficiently low contact resistance between the nanocarbon material and the electrode.
US10008602B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided, wherein an example method may include: forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer sequentially on a substrate; patterning the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer to form a fin; forming an isolation layer on the substrate, wherein the isolation layer exposes a portion of the first semiconductor layer; forming a sacrificial gate stack crossing over the fin on the isolation layer; selectively etching the second semiconductor layer with the sacrificial gate stack as a mask, to expose the first semiconductor layer; selectively etching the first semiconductor layer, to form a void beneath the second semiconductor layer; filling the void with a dielectric material; forming a third semiconductor layer on the substrate, to form source/drain regions; and forming a gate stack to replace the sacrificial gate stack.
US10008600B2
A semiconductor device may include: a semiconductor substrate, a device isolating layer embedded within the semiconductor substrate and defining an active region, a channel region formed in the active region, a gate electrode disposed above the channel region, a gate insulating layer provided between the channel region and the gate electrode, and a silicon germanium epitaxial layer adjacent to the channel region within the active region and including a first epitaxial layer containing a first concentration of germanium, a second epitaxial layer containing a second concentration of germanium, higher than the first concentration, and a third epitaxial layer containing a third concentration of germanium, lower than the second concentration, the first to third epitaxial layers being sequentially stacked on one another in that order.
US10008591B2
A semiconductor device is configured including a p-type back barrier layer provided over a substrate and formed from a p-type nitride semiconductor in which Mg or Zn is doped, a nitride semiconductor stacked structure provided over the p-type back barrier layer, the nitride semiconductor stacked structure including an electron transit layer and an electron supply layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode provided over the nitride semiconductor stacked structure, and a groove extending to the p-type back barrier layer.
US10008589B2
Disclosed are an oxide thin film transistor and a method of fabricating the same. The oxide thin film transistor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a gate electrode formed on a substrate, a gate insulating layer formed on the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer as a semiconductor active layer, and source and drain electrodes formed on the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer is activated by heat of less than 300° C. and a change in the magnetic flux of an applied magnetic field. More specifically, the activation proceeds by activation energy provided by Joule heat generated from eddy current occurring in the oxide semiconductor layer by a change in the magnetic flux, and the heat of less than 300° C.
US10008585B2
A semiconductor structure that has adjacent transistors that share a common source/drain semiconductor structure. At least one of the adjacent transistors comprising: a vertical channel and a source/drain semiconductor structure connected to the vertical channel such that the source/drain semiconductor structure has a vertical side that is substantially planar with a vertical side of the first vertical channel. The source/drain semiconductor structure extends horizontally from its vertical side farther than the first vertical channel extends from its vertical side such that a width of the source/drain is greater than a width of the first vertical channel. The first source/drain semiconductor structure is located on a layer of substrate and the vertical channel is perpendicular relative to the layer of substrate.
US10008583B1
A method of manufacturing a gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet (NS) field effect transistor (FET) includes forming a stack on a substrate. The stack includes an alternating arrangement of conducting channel layers and non-uniform sacrificial regions. Each of the non-uniform sacrificial regions includes upper, middle, and lower sacrificial layers. The upper and lower sacrificial layers are configured to etch at a first etch rate and the middle sacrificial layer is configured to etch at a second etch rate greater than the first etch rate.
US10008575B2
A semiconductor device includes at least a first wire pattern, a gate electrode, a semiconductor pattern, a gate insulating layer, and a first spacer. The first wire pattern is on a substrate and isolated from the substrate. The gate electrode surrounds and intersects the first wire pattern. The semiconductor pattern is on both sides of the first wire pattern, and the semiconductor pattern includes a portion which overlaps the first wire pattern. The gate insulating layer is disposed between the gate electrode and the first wire pattern, and the gate insulating layer surrounds the first wire pattern. The first spacer is between the first wire pattern and the substrate, and the first spacer is between the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor pattern.
US10008562B1
A first parallel pn layer in which first n-type regions and first p-type regions are disposed in a plan view layout of stripes in an element active portion. A second parallel pn layer has a plan view layout of stripes oriented in the same direction as that of the stripes of the first parallel pn layer in a breakdown voltage structure portion. Corner portions of the first parallel pn layer has a plan view shape where stepped regions formed by shortening the length of the first n-type and p-type regions in steps are disposed in a stepwise arrangement. The stepped regions continue with a second parallel pn layer via an intermediate region lower in average impurity concentration than the first parallel pn layer.
US10008561B2
A semiconductor device including a first circuit region in which a first circuit whose power supply potential is a first voltage is formed; a second circuit region in which a second circuit whose power supply potential is a second voltage lower than the first voltage is formed a separation region which separates the first circuit region from the second circuit region; and a transistor which is located in the separation region and couples the second circuit to the first circuit and whose source and drain are of a first conductivity type, the separation region including an element separation film; a first field plate which overlaps with the element separation film in plan view; a plurality of conductive films which are provided over the first field plate.
US10008550B2
A display according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an element substrate, a display section including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of light-emitting elements, and monitoring elements for detecting the temperature of the light-emitting elements. The light-emitting elements each include an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting layer placed between the anode and the cathode. The monitoring elements each include an anode, a cathode, and a light emission-suppressing layer containing the same light-emitting material as the light-emitting layer. When voltages are supplied to the monitoring elements, the light emission-suppressing layers do not emit any visible light or emit visible light with a luminance lower than the case where the same voltages as the above voltages are applied to the light-emitting elements.
US10008536B2
Encapsulation of magnetic tunnel junction structures in organic photopatternable dielectric material
Methods and devices are provided to construct magnetic devices, such as magnetic random access memory devices, having MTJ (magnetic tunnel junction) structures encapsulated in organic photopatternable dielectric material. For example, a method includes forming an MTJ structure on a semiconductor substrate, encapsulating the MTJ structure in a layer of organic photopatternable dielectric material, patterning the layer of organic photopatternable dielectric material to form a contact opening in the layer of organic photopatternable dielectric material to the MTJ structure, and filling the contact opening with metallic material.
US10008535B2
An image sensor includes a substrate including a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts and a pixel isolation trench extending from a surface of the substrate between the photoelectric conversion parts, a first fixed charge film directly on the surface of the substrate, a second fixed charge film directly on the first fixed charge film and an inner wall of the pixel isolation trench, and an insulating layer directly on the second fixed charge film, the insulating layer configured to fill the pixel isolation trench.
US10008533B2
A semiconductor package device includes a first semiconductor package including a first package substrate and a semiconductor chip stacked on the first package substrate, and a second semiconductor package stacked on the first semiconductor package. The second semiconductor package includes a second package substrate, an image sensor chip stacked on the second package substrate, and a transparent substrate disposed on the image sensor chip. The first semiconductor chip may include a semiconductor memory device, a digital signal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and/or an image sensor driver circuit and may transfer, process and/or store signals output from the image sensor chip.
US10008528B2
A solid-state image sensor includes a substrate including a photoelectric conversion portion, an insulating layer having an opening, and a member arranged inside the opening. Letting d be a depth of the opening, the opening has, at an upper end of the opening, a shape having a width in a first direction parallel to the surface of the substrate, and a width in a second direction parallel to the surface of the substrate and orthogonal to the first direction. The widths in the first and second directions are different from each other. The shape is capable of drawing, at each point on a circumference of the opening at the upper end, a circle of 0.6d in diameter which contacts the circumference at the point and does not include a portion outside the opening.
US10008510B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises control gate electrodes and a semiconductor layer. The control gate electrodes are stacked above a substrate. The semiconductor layer has as its longitudinal direction a direction perpendicular to the substrate. The semiconductor memory device further comprises first and second control gate electrodes and third and fourth control gate electrodes stacked sequentially above the substrate and first through fourth via contacts connected to these first through fourth control gate electrodes. The third and fourth control gate electrodes face the first and second control gate electrodes. Positions of the first and second via contacts are far from each other. Positions of the third and fourth via contacts are close to each other.
US10008509B2
Stack structures are arranged in a first direction horizontal to a semiconductor substrate, one of which has a longitudinal direction along a second direction. One stack structure has a plurality of semiconductor layers stacked between interlayer insulating layers. A memory film is formed on side surfaces of the stack structures and include a charge accumulation film of the memory cell. Conductive films are formed on side surfaces of the stack structures via the memory film. One stack structure has a shape increasing in width from above to below in a cross-section including the first and third directions. One conductive film has a shape increasing in width from above to below in a cross-section including the second and third directions. Predetermined portions in the semiconductor layers have different impurity concentrations between upper and lower semiconductor layers.
US10008499B2
An integrated circuit with an MOS transistor abutting field oxide and a gate structure on the field oxide adjacent to the MOS transistor and a gap between an epitaxial source/drain and the field oxide is formed with a silicon dioxide-based gap filler in the gap. Metal silicide is formed on the exposed epitaxial source/drain region. A CESL is formed over the integrated circuit and a PMD layer is formed over the CESL. A contact is formed through the PMD layer and CESL to make an electrical connection to the metal silicide on the epitaxial source/drain region.
US10008497B2
In a method of forming a FinFET, a first sacrificial layer is formed over a source/drain structure of a FinFET structure and an isolation insulating layer. The first sacrificial layer is recessed so that a remaining layer of the first sacrificial layer is formed on the isolation insulating layer and an upper portion of the source/drain structure is exposed. A second sacrificial layer is formed on the remaining layer and the exposed source/drain structure. The second sacrificial layer and the remaining layer are patterned, thereby forming an opening. A dielectric layer is formed in the opening. After the dielectric layer is formed, the patterned first and second sacrificial layers are removed to form a contact opening over the source/drain structure. A conductive layer is formed in the contact opening.
US10008496B1
Aspects of the present disclosure includes a semiconductor structure and a method of forming. A plurality of fins on a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of dummy gates is formed. The plurality of dummy gates are oriented perpendicular to the plurality of fins. An amorphous silicon layer is formed directly on top of said plurality of dummy gates and on top of the plurality of fins. A first portion of the amorphous silicon layer between at least one pair of adjacent dummy gates of the plurality of dummy gates is removed to form an opening. A nitride layer is deposited in the opening to cover the plurality of fins. The rest of the amorphous silicon layer between other adjacent dummy gates is removed to expose the underneath plurality of fins. Source/drain regions are formed surrounding the exposed plurality of fins.
US10008490B2
The disclosed technology relates to electronics, and more particularly, to protection devices that protect circuits from transient electrical events such as electrical overstress/electrostatic discharge. A protection device includes a semiconductor substrate having formed therein at least two wells and a deep well underlying and contacting the at least two wells. The device additionally includes a first PN diode formed in one of the at least two wells and having a first heavily doped region of a first conductivity type and a first heavily doped region of a second conductivity type, and includes a second PN diode formed in one of the at least two wells and having a second heavily doped region of the first conductivity type and a second heavily doped region of the second conductivity type. The device additionally includes a first PN diode and the second PN diode are electrically shorted by an electrical shorting structure to form a first plurality of serially connected diodes having a threshold voltage. The device further includes a PNPN silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) having a trigger voltage and comprising the first heavily doped region of the first conductivity type, the at least two wells, the deep well, and the second heavily doped region of the second conductivity type.
US10008488B2
In one embodiment, the semiconductor module includes a module substrate and a first substrate mounted on and electrically connected to a first surface of the module substrate. The first substrate has one or more first electrical connectors of the semiconductor module, and the first substrate electrically connecting the first electrical connector to the module substrate.
US10008487B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence with an upper face and a lower face opposite the upper face, wherein the semiconductor layer sequence has an active layer that generates electromagnetic radiation, and a plurality of contact elements that electrically contact the semiconductor layer sequence arranged on the upper face, wherein the semiconductor chip is a thin-film semiconductor chip, the lower face is a radiation decoupling surface through which the radiation generated in the semiconductor layer sequence is decoupled, the contact elements can be electrically actuated individually and independently from one another, and the semiconductor layer sequence has a thickness of at most 3 μm.
US10008481B2
In a method of manufacturing an illumination device, a color tone of each of a plurality of light emitting devices having different color tones is detected. In which region among a first region, a second region, a third region, a fourth region, a fifth region, and a sixth region on a chromaticity diagram the color tone of each of the plurality of light emitting devices is determined based on the detected color tone. The chromaticity diagram has a first color tone area and a second color tone area in which the first color tone area is provided. The second color tone area is divided into the first region through the sixth region. The plurality of light emitting devices are classified into the first region through the sixth region based on the determined color tone.
US10008475B2
Some embodiments described herein include apparatuses and methods of forming such apparatuses. In one such embodiment, an apparatus may include a substrate, a first die, and a second die coupled to the first die and the substrate. The substrate may include an opening. At least a portion of the die may occupy at least a portion of the opening in the substrate. Other embodiments including additional apparatuses and methods are described.
