US10011006B2
A method is provided for setting a fastener in a workpiece. The method includes: monitoring a parameter of the power tool during operation of the power tool, where the parameter is indicative of the placement of a fastener being driven by the power tool in relation to the workpiece; detecting, a change in the parameter, where the detected change in the parameter indicates that the power tool became disengaged with the fastener; modifying operation of the power tool in response to the detected change in the parameter; subsequently detecting a second change in the parameter; and interrupting transmission of torque to the output spindle in response the detected second change in the parameter, thereby properly setting the placement of the fastener in relation to the workpiece.
US10011000B1
A method of processing a polycrystalline diamond material includes exposing at least a portion of a polycrystalline diamond material to a processing solution, the polycrystalline diamond material including a metallic material disposed in interstitial spaces defined within the polycrystalline diamond material. The method includes exposing an electrode to the processing solution, applying a positive charge to the polycrystalline diamond material, and applying a negative charge to the electrode. An assembly for processing a polycrystalline diamond body includes a polycrystalline diamond body and an electrode that are in electrical communication with a volume of processing solution, and a power source configured to apply a positive charge to the polycrystalline diamond body and a negative charge to the electrode.
US10010995B2
A valve seat processing machine (1) configured to process a valve seat (118) in a valve device (101) including a valve body portion (110) which forms a flow passage of fluid and a valve drive portion (120) which drives a valve element (124) capable of tightly engaging with the valve seat (118) in the valve body portion (110) includes: a base portion (10) attached to the valve body portion (110); a main body portion (20) movable relative to the base portion (10) in two different axial directions; a support portion (30) movable relative to the main body portion (20) in a drive direction of the valve element (124); a main spindle (40) rotatable relative to the support portion (30) about an axis parallel to the drive direction of the valve element (124); and a tool holder (50) configured to hold a tool (T) for processing the valve seat (118).
US10010990B2
A machine tool with a chip evacuation device according to the present invention is provided with a cleaning mechanism for cleaning a part or the whole of the chip evacuation device and a control unit configured to control respective operations of the chip evacuation device and the cleaning mechanism in association with each other. By using an electric motor, such as a synchronous motor capable of position control, as a power source for the chip evacuation device, the respective operations of the chip evacuation device and the cleaning mechanism can be associated with each other to effectively clean the chip evacuation device.
US10010979B2
A solder paste for soldering micro components which suppress electro-migration is provided. The solder paste comprising: a powdered Pb-free soldering alloy comprising Cu of 0.1˜3.0 wt. % and In of 0.5˜8.0 wt. % simultaneously in addition to Sn; and a pasty or liquid flux; the powdered Pb-free soldering alloy and the pasty or liquid flux being mixed; whereby effectively suppressing electro-migration occurring at a solder bonding portion. It is possible to add Ag, Sb, Ni, Co, Fe, Mn and Cr as a strength improvement element, Bi and Zn as a melting point drop element and P, Ga and Ge as an anti-oxidant element to the powdered Pb-free soldering alloy.
US10010972B2
A machine tool for machining workpieces comprising a support structure, a punching device mounted on the support structure, and a laser machining device mounted on the support structure. The machine tool includes a suspension device provided between the punching device and the laser machining device to reduce the laser machining device from being stimulated to move unintentionally due to the operation of the punching device. The suspension device has a spring rate which can be adjusted by a laser positioning device. The laser positioning device can move the laser machining device relative to the workpiece into a functional position and also into a position remote from the functional position. The spring rate of the suspension device is adjusted such that the functional position of the laser machining device is assigned a higher spring rate than that assigned to the position of the laser machining device remote from the functional position.
US10010966B2
A method of spot welding a workpiece stack-up that includes a steel workpiece and an aluminum alloy workpiece involves passing an electrical current through the workpieces and between welding electrodes that are constructed to affect the current density of the electrical current. The welding electrodes, more specifically, are constructed to render the density of the electrical current greater in the steel workpiece than in the aluminum alloy workpiece. This difference in current densities can be accomplished by passing, at least initially, the electrical current between a weld face of the welding electrode in contact with the steel workpiece and a perimeter region of a weld face of the welding electrode in contact with the aluminum alloy workpiece.
US10010950B2
A cutting insert has an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface connecting the upper and lower surfaces. An intersecting edge between the upper surface and the side surface is provided with a cutting edge. The cutting edge has, in order, a second major cutting edge, a first major cutting edge, a corner cutting edge connected to these major cutting edges, and a flat cutting edge. An obtuse interior first angle (θ) is formed by the second and first major cutting edges. A interior second angle (α) formed by the flat cutting edge and the first major cutting edge is larger than an interior third angle (β) formed by the flat cutting edge and the second major cutting edge. A land is provided adjacent to the first major cutting edge, a width of the land increasing toward the first corner cutting edge.
US10010949B2
A key model identification and feedback system includes a key identification housing, a master key receiving aperture, a master key identifier, a processor in communication with the master key identifier, and a feedback module. The processor is configured to access a database defining a plurality of known key models, compare the physical characteristics of the master key with physical characteristics of the known key models in the database to identify a model of the master key, and communicate the model of the master key to the feedback module coupled to the key identification housing. The feedback module, responsive to the communication from the processor, outputs an indication of the model of the master key and directions to a location remote from the key identification housing where a key blank having the same model of the master key is available for duplicating the master key.
US10010944B2
A first driving force transmission part is disposed between an attachment part turning transmission shaft and a tool attachment part. The first driving force transmission part transmits rotary driving force from a side of the attachment part turning transmission shaft to the side of the first turning driving force transmission shaft, and includes a groove, a tenon shaped protrusion, and protrusions. The groove is formed on a tip of a slide shaft of the attachment part turning transmission shaft. The tenon shaped protrusion is formed in the first turning driving force transmission shaft and detachably engages with the groove. The protrusions once releases an engaging posture by pressing the groove that is biased to the engaging posture in an disengaging state when the tool is in the middle of the movement to a predetermined position.
US10010940B2
An object is to prolong the life of a cubic boron nitride cutting tool used for cutting a heat-resistant alloy. A cubic boron nitride cutting tool includes an edge tip made of a sintered cubic boron nitride compact having a thermal conductivity within the range of 20 to 70 W/m·K and including cubic boron nitride particles having an average particle diameter within the range of 0.5 μm to 2 μm; and a base metal that holds the edge tip at a corner portion of the base metal, wherein a cutting edge formed on the edge tip of the tool has a positive rake angle.
US10010935B2
The present invention provides iron powder for dust cores that has excellent compressibility and low iron loss after formation. In the iron powder for dust cores, Si content is 0.01 mass % or less, apparent density is 3.8 g/cm3 or more, the ratio of iron powder particles with a particle size of 45 μm or less is 10 mass % or less, the ratio of iron powder particles with a particle size of over 180 μm and 250 μm or less is less than 30 mass %, the ratio of iron powder particles with a particle size of over 250 μm is 10 mass % or less, and the Vickers hardness (test force: 0.245 N) of a powder cross-section is 80 Hv or less.
US10010933B2
The disclosure provides a method to produce solid materials displaying structural ordering which can be controlled through a wide range of sizes and shapes. The process involves casting a medium, which solidifies (such as a resin or molten metal) over the surface of a magnet-fluid.
US10010928B2
A device for direct screwing, in particular flow hole screwing, or friction welding includes a guide element extending in an axial direction and being formed in particular as a guide pipe. A driveshaft is movable in the axial direction, disposed within the guide element and driven by a rotary drive. A feed drive is disposed and constructed to generate a feed movement and feed force transmitted to the driveshaft, which is achieved by a feed unit. During the process, depending on a process parameter, a switchover is made from a high feed force to a reduced feed force (flow hole screwing) or to a higher feed force (friction welding). In order to enable the most compact and weight-saving embodiment possible, the feed unit is disposed coaxially to the driveshaft within the guide element and transmits the feed force to the driveshaft in the axial direction and centrally.
US10010925B2
A swage apparatus includes a main body for supporting a coupling such that an axis of the coupling is oriented in a first direction, a stopper which comes into contact with one member of a first member or a second member of the coupling and restricts the one member from moving in the first direction, a pusher which comes into contact with the other member of the first member or the second member and pushes the other member in the first direction, and a cover member for covering the coupling so as to prevent the axis of the coupling from becoming displaced. The axis can thereby be prevented from becoming displaced.
US10010923B1
A material includes a sheet of metal having a first face and an opposed second face, and a metal grain direction. The first face is textured with a first set of texturing features. Each texturing feature of the first set includes, respectively, a groove cut into the first face and extending along a groove axis, and a barb extending from the groove and away from the first face. The texturing features of the first set are arranged in a plurality of rows, and the groove axes of the texturing features in a given row extend generally parallel to the given row. The rows are generally non-perpendicular to the grain direction.
US10010921B2
A method for bending a thin-walled tube to form a small radius bend on the thin-walled tube includes providing a die, lubricating the thin-walled tube, extruding the thin-walled tube, and thrusting elastomer fillers. A die defining a curved cavity enclosed within is provided. The curved cavity is configured to receive the thin walled tube. The thin-walled tube is lubricated using an antifriction coating material applied on an exterior surface of the thin-walled tube for reducing friction between the exterior surface of the thin-walled tube and the curved cavity of the die. The thin-walled tube is extruded into a curved section from an insertion end of the die. The elastomer fillers are thrusted into an inner surface of the thin walled tube via a mandrel. The mandrel is forced against the thin-walled tube to prevent damage of the inner surface of the thin-walled tube to form the small radius bend.
US10010920B2
A method of incrementally forming a workpiece. The method may include incrementally forming a stiffening feature on the workpiece and incrementally forming a part on the workpiece. A gap between forming tools may be decreased to reform the part.
US10010919B2
A method for of aligning a vehicle includes the steps of: supporting a first portion (19A, 19B) of the vehicle, deforming the vehicle by applying a force to a second portion (5) of the vehicle, positioning at least one motion sensing measuring unit (9A, 9B) including at least one accelerometer on the supported first portion (19A, 19B) of the vehicle before the deforming step, and tracking any movements of the supported first portion (19A, 19B) of the vehicle during the deformation by means of the motion sensing measuring unit (9A, 9B). An arrangement for aligning a vehicle is also provided.
US10010908B2
A method for coating a surface of an electrically non-conductive substrate with powder coatings, the method comprising the following steps: providing a substrate to be coated, pre-heating the substrate to be coated to a temperature of 40 to 140° C. in order to decrease the surface resistance of the substrate to less than 1012 ohms, preferably to within the range of 1010 to less than 1012 ohms, electrostatically coating the surface with powder coating in a single layer, which powder coating comprises a reactive system which, in particular, cures into a thermoset, curing the powder coating layer at a temperature of 170° C. or less.
US10010907B2
The present invention provides a method for color register spraying of a hub, which includes machining and turning for glossy finish after spraying a black paint on the surface of a hub, and then spraying a color transparent paint onto the hub. The method provided by the invention achieves a spraying-based color register effect through spraying of the color transparent paint, which greatly improves the production efficiency and is available for batch production.
US10010904B2
An exemplary coating applicator is provided for evenly applying a material having an aggregate to a substrate. The exemplary applicator provides for a generally even distribution of the material and the aggregate the coating material to the surface such as a wall or a floor where it is desirable to have a finished, textured surface and a material having an evenly distributed aggregate.
US10010896B2
Dispenser pump for pumping reservoir fluid to a dispenser head, has a dip tube to insert into the fluid, a cylinder housing connected with the dip tube, a piston pipe guided in longitudinal direction by the cylinder housing for pumping the fluid from the dip tube to the dispenser head, wherein the piston pipe comprises a connecting area for connecting the dispenser head to the piston pipe, a top part connected with the piston pipe, a bottom part connected with the cylinder housing and a spring bellow for pushing the piston pipe in a direction outwards the cylinder housing, wherein a lower axial end of the spring bellow is connected with the bottom part via a lower retainer ring located inside the spring bellow and/or a higher axial end of the spring bellow is connected with the top part via a higher retainer ring located inside the spring bellow.
US10010891B2
A high capacity magnetic filter for separating magnetic and non-magnetic contaminants from contaminated liquid streams includes a housing having (i) an interior region between the inlet and outlet for a process stream, (ii) a plurality of vertically oriented, elongated non-magnetic holder sleeves positioned within the interior region (iii) paramagnetic metal packing material that is randomly distributed in the interior region to form a packed compartment that has a void volume which is above 95 percent, and (iv) a device to generate a magnetic field within the interior region. Generation of a uniform magnetic field within the packed compartment magnetizes the holder sleeves and matrix of packing materials. The holder sleeves and matrix create a large surface area for collecting the contaminants.
US10010890B2
The invention provides a system and method for processing at least one document thereby rendering the document illegible; and recording an information summary associated with the document and the processing of the document.
US10010884B1
A droplet-based microfluidic device having a first confining plate, a second confining plate, and an actuator. Each confining plate includes a respective substrate and hydrophobic layer having a planar major surface. The first confining plate additionally includes a common electrode between its hydrophobic layer and substrate. The second confining plate includes an electrode array between its hydrophobic layer and substrate. The confining plates are disposed opposite one another with their major surfaces separated from one another by a gap. The actuator is to impart oscillatory sliding motion between the confining plates in a direction principally parallel to the major surfaces. The oscillatory sliding motion effectively allows voltages applied between the common electrode and the electrodes of the electrode array to move a microfluidic droplet located in the gap across the major surfaces without sticking.
US10010880B2
A new class of ligands derived from benzo[h]quinoline are described and these ligands are used to prepare several novel transition metal complexes. The complexes are preferably of the group VIII transition metals iron, ruthenium or osmium, with the benzo[h]quinolone ligands acting as tridentate ligands. The complexes described are proved to be very active catalysts for the reduction of ketones and aldehydes to alcohols, via hydrogen transfer and hydrogenation reactions. These compounds hence can be usefully employed as catalysts in said reduction reactions.
US10010877B2
A process has been developed for preparing a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst precursor and a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst made from the precursor. The process includes preparing a catalyst precursor by contacting a boehmite material with a stabilizer containing vanadium-phosphorus. The boehmite material includes two or more different crystalline boehmites having the same average crystallite size to the nearest whole nanometer and having differing properties selected from surface area, pore volume, density and combinations thereof. The boehmite material is subjected to at least one heat treatment at a temperature of at least 500° C., either before or after the contacting step to obtain a stabilized catalyst support having a pore volume of at least 0.3 cc/g. A catalytic metal or a compound containing cobalt is applied to the stabilized catalyst support to form the catalyst precursor. Finally, the catalyst precursor is reduced to activate the catalyst precursor to obtain the Fischer Tropsch catalyst. The catalyst has enhanced hydrothermal stability as measured by losing no more than 6% of its pore volume when exposed to water vapor.
US10010871B2
Provide is a new carrier for exhaust gas purification catalyst which exhibits excellent catalytic activity, particularly catalytic activity at a low temperature. Proposed is a carrier for exhaust gas purification catalyst composed of particles which contain a silicate or phosphate containing one kind or two or more kinds among the elements belonging to Group 1 and Group 2 in the periodic table.
US10010867B2
The invention is directed to a process for producing carbon nanofibers and/or carbon nanotubes, which process comprises pyrolyzing a particulate cellulosic and/or carbohydrate substrate that has been impregnated with a compound of an element or elements, the metal or alloy, respectively, of which is capable of forming carbides, in a substantially oxygen free, volatile silicon compound containing atmosphere, optionally in the presence of a carbon compound.
US10010847B2
A system and process for carrying out one or more chemical reactions are provided and include one or more chemical reactors having particulate solids forming a bed therein, and a gas stripping zone forming a non-mechanical seal between said reactors which includes a conduit connecting the reactors. The conduit includes an inlet for a stripping gas which is adapted to prevent process gas from passing between reactors while permitting particulate solids to pass between reactors.
US10010834B2
A membrane separation device includes a separation membrane immersed in water to be treated and an air diffusion device positioned below the separation membrane, and provides treated water that has permeated through the separation membrane while diffusing air from the air diffusion device towards the separation membrane. A target value setting step sets a target value of an amount of diffusion air diffused from the air diffusion device based on a transmembrane pressure difference, and the air diffusion device is controlled such that the amount of the diffusion air becomes the target value. In the target value setting step, an absolute value of a change or a rate of change in the target value for increasing the amount of the air diffusion is set greater than an absolute value of a change or a rate of change in the target value for decreasing the amount of the air diffusion.
US10010833B2
A spiral wound module in which the membrane sheet is heat and pressure treated to collapse at least some of the pores of the support layer. The treated membrane can then be folded along the heat and pressure treated area to form a crease. Once folded, the membrane sheet can be wound around a perforated inner tube along with a feed channel spacer and a permeate collection sheet. The wound module can then be enclosed into a hard shell with anti-telescoping devices at each end. By collapsing at least some of the pores in the support layer, the membrane becomes less permeable to fluid in the treated area. As such, there will be less or no leakage of unfiltered fluid passing through the fold line of the membrane sheet during operation of the wound module.
US10010825B2
An air cleaner arrangement or assembly is provided. The air cleaner arrangement includes a serviceable filter cartridge. The air cleaner assembly also includes an arrangement for positioning the filter cartridge into a preferred, sealing, orientation and for securing the filter cartridge in that location. Preferred serviceable filter cartridges are provided, as well as methods of assembly and use.
US10010824B2
A dust collection device (1) for removing fine particles from an atmosphere is provided with a filter (3), a blower (11), a dust removal device (7), and a pressure introduction device (9). The filter (3) removes fine particles from an atmosphere drawn into a filter chamber (5A). The blower (11) draws the atmosphere into the filter chamber (5A) and generates an air flow through the filter (3). The dust removal device (7) removes fine particles adhering to the filter (3). The pressure introduction device operates during operation of the dust removal device (7) and introduces an atmospheric pressure higher than the atmospheric pressure inside an air passage to the air passage downstream from the filter (3).
US10010799B2
A tunnel assembly includes a tube that may be placed on a support surface thereby facilitating a user to run through the tube. The tube has an inside diameter of at least one hundred twenty cm. A figure head is coupled to the tube to enhance an ornamental appearance of the tube. A spray unit is coupled to the tube. The spray unit is fluidly coupled to a fluid source thereby facilitating the spray unit to spray a fluid into an interior of the tube.
US10010797B2
Systems and methods are provided for at least partially automating content generation of blog entries chronicling an entity's interaction with a multiuser environment. The same may combine automatic data generation with user-generated and/or user-edited or created narrative. The systems and methods may be employed for automatically generating and publishing descriptions, such as posting blog articles. In one implementation, a system automatically posts blog articles with automatic screenshots and automatically-generated descriptive copy of events that occur within a video game, such as in a massive multiplayer online role-playing game.
US10010794B2
Rendering an image of a game board on a display comprising a plurality of tiles and a tumbler object abutting at least one tile; recording in a memory the position of the tumbler object in a physical world; detecting a user input to insert a new tile; detecting if the new tile creates a match with two adjacent existing tiles and if so rendering a new image of the game board on the display wherein the new and two existing tiles are removed; detecting in the physical world if the tile abutting the tumbler object has been removed and if so rendering an image of the tumbler object falling down the display under a simulated gravity imposed by a physics engine; and monitoring the position of the falling tumbler object and on determination that one of its edges abuts another tile, preventing it from falling further.
US10010790B2
An interactive treasure hunt game is provided. Game participants receive a card, map and/or identification badge configured with an RFID tag, bar-code or a magnetic “swipe” strip or the like. The RFID tag or other identifying device is used to store certain information identifying each play participant and/or describing certain powers or abilities possessed by an imaginary character that the card may represent. Players advance in the game by finding clues and solving various puzzles presented by the game. Players may also gain (or lose) certain attributes, such as magic skills, magic strength, fighting ability, various spell-casting abilities, etc. All of this information is preferably stored on the RFID tag or card so that the character attributes may be easily and conveniently transported to other similarly-equipped play facilities, computer games, video games, home game consoles, hand-held game units, and the like. In this manner, the game can seamlessly transcend from one play environment and/or entertainment medium to the next.
US10010780B2
A modular head engaging assembly for use with a golf swing training device, the assembly including a U-shaped back-of-the-head positioning element including axially aligned inner and outer coupling pieces, the U-shaped back-of-the-head positioning element extending from a position adjacent the forehead of a golfer across the top of the head to a position overlying a portion of the rear of the head, a U-shaped collar element including axially aligned inner and outer coupling pieces, the U-shaped collar element being extending from a position adjacent the forehead of the golfer around each side of the head with a free end positioned above each of the ears, and a front head-positioning element including an inner coupling piece, the front head-positioning element being positioned adjacent the forehead. The three elements being coupled by the coupling pieces.
US10010774B2
A golf club has within the grip a main device, a connector, a wireless module, an antenna, a light emitting element, and an optical fiber. The main device is a device that includes a sensor such as a motion sensor, a circuit such as a CPU, and a battery. The light emitting element is an indicating means that emits light in accordance with the state of a component mounted in the golf club. The light emitted by the light emitting element is guided to the grip end by the optical fiber and emitted to the outside of the grip via the grip end.
US10010769B2
An exemplary golf club head having an increased amount of discretionary mass may be realized by utilizing improved drop angles, an improved average crown height, and/or articulation points. The discretionary mass may be placed low and deep in the club head to improve the location of the center of gravity as well as the inertial properties. A preferred break length may also be utilized to further improve the depth of the center of gravity. In one example, the center of gravity may be positioned to substantially align the sweet spot with the face center of the club head.
US10010765B2
Multi-layered golf balls having a dual-layered core and cover of at least one layer are provided. The dual-core construction includes a non-foamed inner core (center) made of a thermoplastic or thermoset composition such as polybutadiene rubber. An outer core layer comprising a foamed composition, such as polyurethane foam, is disposed about the inner core. In one version, the foamed outer core layer is made of a relatively soft foam composition having low flex modulus and density. The foamed outer core layer may specific gravity gradient within the layer, wherein the outer surface specific gravity is greater than the midpoint specific gravity. A cover may be disposed about the core structure. For example, an inner cover made of ethylene acid copolymer ionomer and outer cover made of polyurethane may be used.
US10010761B2
A golf ball has, on a surface thereof, a rugged pattern composed of a land and a large number of dimples. A method for designing the rugged pattern includes the steps of: (1) assuming a large number of circles on a surface of a phantom sphere; (2) assuming a large number of generating points 16 based on positions of the large number of circles; (3) assuming a large number of Voronoi regions 18 on the surface of the phantom sphere by a Voronoi tessellation based on the large number of generating points 16; and (4) assigning a dimple and a land to the surface of the phantom sphere based on contours of the large number of Voronoi regions 18.
US10010751B2
A variable-color region (106) of a football-playing or baseball/softball-playing structure of an information-presentation structure extends to an exposed surface (102) at a surface zone (112) and normally appears along it as a principal color. An impact-dependent portion (138) of the variable-color region responds to an object (104) impacting the zone at an object-contact area (116) by temporarily appearing along a closely matching print area (118) of the zone as changed color materially different from the principal color. For football, the zone typically adjoins an end or side line (1446 or 1448) to help determine whether the object, typically a person's shoe, impacted the surface “in” or “out”. For baseball/softball, the zone typically adjoins a foul line (1506) to help determine whether the object, a baseball/softball, impacted the surface “fair” or “foul”.
US10010746B1
A seat adjustment structure for an exercise machine includes a T-shaped pipe, a sliding pipe, a locking member, and a connecting rod. The T-shaped pipe includes a transverse rod and an upright rod which are connected with each other. The transverse rod has an axial hole. The transverse rod has an elongated groove which is axially disposed along the transverse rod and extends to one of two ends of the transverse rod to form a notch. The sliding pipe slides from the notch into the transverse rod. The sliding pipe has a plurality of fixing holes. The locking member is disposed on the transverse rod and inserted in the axial hole, and can be engaged in any one of the fixing holes. Through the notch, the sliding pipe can be transversely inserted into the axial hole and accommodated in the transverse rod. The assembly operation is easy and simple.
US10010733B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe apparatus, methods and systems for monitoring the operational status of fire extinguishers through the utilization of optically sensed, color profile determinations of a pressure gauge positioned on the fire extinguisher as well as the utilization of vibrational, and location sensing devices. Advantageously, monitoring apparatus according to the present disclosure are networkable, and a number of their operational characteristics may be configured via the network and associated servers. Furthermore, monitoring apparatus according to the present disclosure may employ vibrational, acceleration, GPS, RFID, and ultrasonic sensors to detect movement, location, and obstructions. In sharp contrast to the prior art, apparatus, methods and systems according to the present disclosure operate with existing fire extinguishers and provide a convenient, cost effective, and highly functional upgrade path for deployed fire extinguishers.
US10010722B2
Medical ultrasound systems. A base unit is included having system electronics, a user interface and ultrasound control electronics. An ultrasound therapy head is in electronic communication with the base unit. The therapy head includes a replaceable, sealed transducer cartridge with a coupling fluid therein. A cooling system is provided for cooling the coupling fluid. A plurality of guide indicators are positioned around the therapy head to align with crossed lines on a patient so as to properly align the therapy head prior to use. The therapy head can provide variable treatments to an area while the therapy head is in contact with a patient.
US10010711B2
A positive-displacement needleless access connector is disclosed that has a housing with a first luer fitting at a proximal end thereof, a base with a second luer fitting at a distal end thereof, and a valve element with a proximal end that creates a seal at the first luer fitting and fastens to the base so that a surface of the valve element is substantially flush with a surface of the base.
US10010705B2
Provided is a device for the dispensing of powders of the type in which a generated gas flow entrains the powder to be dispensed and carries the powder from the device via a barrel. The barrel has a bore including a main portion with a continuous internal surface, and is characterized in that the length of the main portion is at least fifteen times its maximum internal diameter; and/or the internal bore of the main portion is tapered; and/or the barrel has an outwardly flared outlet portion.
US10010702B2
A method of selective catheterism of in a network of conduits of an anatomical structure including inserting a flexible distal end of a guide for catheterism through the network of conduits. An appendage is attached on the distal end of the guide, the appendage includes a channel extending along a longitudinal axis of the guide. A catheter is slid along the catheter until a distal face of the catheter surrounding the guide engages a proximal surface of the appendage. A force oriented in a distal direction is exerted with the catheter on the appendage, which disengages the appendage from the distal end of the guide within the network of conduits. Navigation through the network of conduits is continued with the flexible distal end of the guide once the appendage is removed.
US10010701B2
A drainage catheter includes an elongated tubular member and a locking assembly. The locking assembly includes a first protruding element and a collar. The first protruding element is disposed proximal to a port in the tubular member through which a proximal portion of a tension member may exit. The collar is coaxially disposed about the tubular member and has a second protruding element projecting from an interior surface of the collar. The collar is configured for longitudinal sliding movement relative to the tubular member such that the collar may be moved along the tubular member toward the proximal end of the tubular member thereby interacting with the first protruding element and securing the proximal portion of the tension member between the first protruding element and the collar.
US10010700B2
A plunger-type control handle for controlling the deflection of a distal tip of a catheter. The control handle includes a spool driven by a gear, the spool being connected to the proximal end of at least one pull wire. For bi-directional deflection, a second proximal end of a pull wire is connected to the spool such that when one of the proximal ends is collected by the spool, the other of the proximal ends is released in an equal amount. The gear is operatively coupled to the plunger and engages a gear rack disposed on the control handle housing, such that when there is relative movement between the housing and the plunger, the gear and spool are rotated. In one embodiment, a switching mechanism is provided that reverses the rotation direction of the gear and spool, thereby providing full stroke resolution of the plunger in each of the bi-directional directions.
US10010696B2
Various equipment and methods associated with providing a concentrated product gas are provided. In one embodiment, the equipment includes an input device first and second sieve tanks, a variable restrictor, and a controller. In one embodiment, the method includes: a) selecting a desired output setting for the concentrated product gas from a plurality of output settings, b) separating one or more adsorbable components from a pressurized source gaseous mixture via first and second sieve tanks in alternating and opposing pressurization and purging cycles to form the concentrated product gas, and c) selectively controlling a variable restrictor based at least in part on the desired output setting to selectively provide flow between the first and second sieve tanks such that the flow for at least one output setting is different from the flow for at least one other output setting in relation to corresponding pressurization cycles.
US10010691B2
In a breathing apparatus and a method for the operation thereof, a gas monitor monitors at least one gas and includes a pump that controls a sidestream flow from a patient circuit to the gas monitor via a sampling line having a first end connectable to the gas monitor and a second end connectable to the patient circuit. At least one pressure sensor measures a pressure at the sidestream gas monitor and provides a first pressure signal indicative of the measured pressure. A processor determines if a leakage is occurring in the sampling line based on the pressure signal.
US10010688B2
An intubation system of the present disclosure intubates based on an airway pattern indicating a trachea opening. The airway pattern is determined from analysis of airway data detected by a trachea identifying device disposed on a moveable guide stylet of the intubation system. A navigation element is generated based on the airway pattern. In one embodiment, the airway pattern is a gas exchange pattern indicating a trachea opening. In another embodiment, the trachea opening transition pattern is a topographic pattern indicating a trachea opening. The guide stylet is capable of moving in a plurality of degrees of freedom in the airway following the guidance from the navigation element.
US10010673B2
A system for modulating delivery of a fluid medium to a selected site within a patient's body includes a syringe for injecting the fluid medium, a delivery catheter including a conduit for delivering the fluid medium from outside of the body to the selected site within the body, a medium reservoir configured to receive a portion of the fluid medium, and a flow diverter assembly disposed in a fluid medium flow path between the syringe and the delivery catheter. The syringe includes a chamber for receiving the fluid medium therein. The flow diverter assembly is configured to divert the portion of the fluid medium from the chamber of the syringe away from the delivery of the medium through the delivery catheter conduit during injecting with the syringe, and simultaneously increase medium fluid flow resistance with increasing pressure level of the fluid medium within the flow diverter assembly.
US10010668B2
An embodiment of a fluid infusion device includes a fluid pump mechanism having a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a reference surface and a cam element rising from the reference surface. The stator includes a cam element having a stator cam surface. The cam elements cooperate to axially displace the rotor as a function of rotation. A biasing element provides force to urge the cam elements together. A drive motor is coupled to actuate the rotor to pump medication fluid from a fluid cartridge module to a body, via a subcutaneous conduit. A force sensor is coupled to the rotor to generate output levels in response to force imparted thereto. The force sensor cooperates with a detection circuit that obtains and processes the output levels to detect occlusions in a fluid path downstream of the fluid pump mechanism.
US10010667B2
Techniques are disclosed for reducing the accumulation of gases in an implantable infusion device. In one example, an implantable infusion device (IID) includes a housing, an expandable and contractible reservoir, and a standoff member. The expandable and contractible reservoir is configured to store a therapeutic agent and is arranged within the housing. A first end of the reservoir is configured to collapse toward a second end of the reservoir as the reservoir contracts. The standoff member is interposed between the first end and the second end of the reservoir and is configured to hold at least a portion of the first end offset from the second end when the reservoir is in a contracted state.
US10010664B2
A life support system such as a heart-lung machine may include a plurality of medical devices a control panel and an excellent control position. The control panel may have separate control elements for operating the medical devices. The control panel may be constructed protruding essentially flat over a floor area of the majority of the medical devices. The control panel may be constructed to protrude in such a manner, that a control element, aligned only with a particular device and with the control position, is assigned to each device.
US10010663B2
A flow loop for hemodialysis, hemodiafiltration and hemofiltration for the treatment of pathological conditions such as End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) that has a controlled compliant flow path for preparing fluids required for a hemodialysis therapy session from water. The controlled compliant flow path modifies water into any one of a solution for priming a hemodialysis system, a physiologically compatible solution for contacting blood, a physiologically compatible solution for infusion to a subject, and a solution for blood rinse back to a subject. The controlled compliant flow path has a means for selectively metering in and metering out fluid from the flow path.
US10010661B2
Provided is a slide device which includes a fixed-side slide member having an annular-shaped first slide surface, and a rotary-side slide member having an annular-shaped second slide surface, with the slide device being configured such that the first slide surface and the second slide surface are positioned opposite to each other, and an outer peripheral side of the fixed-side slide member and an outer peripheral side of the rotary-side slide member are brought into contact with a liquid containing a blood component, and a region where the first slide surface and the second slide surface face each other along the rotary-side slide member, the first slide surface and the second slide surface are brought into contact with each other on an outermost periphery of the opposite-facing region of the first and second slide surfaces.
US10010649B2
A method of culturing human or mammalian mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) or osteoblastic cells to form corresponding cell aggregates evenly distributed in the culturing medium having a reduced content of cells with fibroblast morphology comprises contacting MSC or OC with a water-soluble cellulose derivative over a period of from 1 day to one or two weeks. Also disclosed are a corresponding aggregates, a culture medium and a pharmaceutical composition, and uses of the aggregate, the culturing medium and the composition.
US10010647B2
A wound dressing having anti-microbial activity comprises a first fiber capable of bonding with silver (1) cations. The wound dressing comprises a blend of the first fiber to which silver (1) cations are bonded and a second fiber which is substantially free from silver. The wound dressing comprises from 0.01 to 5.0 percent by weight of silver (1) cations, based on the weight of fiber.
US10010643B1
An apparatus for dissolving a fragrance carrier such as a shower tablet, including a fragrance carrier holder and a mount bracket supporting a water-holding reservoir and configured so that water in the reservoir or from the reservoir can contact and dissolve the fragrance carrier on the holder. The reservoir can be provided with a valve to at least partially control flow of water from the reservoir. The valve is preferably a flapper valve, a rotatable flow regulator valve, a poppet valve or a duckbill valve. A method of dissolving the fragrance carrier is also provided.
US10010635B2
Disclosed herein is a detergent pourer sterilizer. In one aspect, a detergent pourer sterilizer is provided to include a housing including a hollow portion having an open side; a detergent pourer configured to be detachably attached to the housing; a cover member configured to open or close the one open side of the hollow portion; and at least one UV LED configured to emit ultraviolet light toward the hollow portion.
US10010629B2
The present disclosure provides lipid-probe compounds, and compositions comprising the compounds. A subject lipid-probe compound is useful for various imaging applications, which are also provided.
US10010626B2
The present disclosure provides various molecular constructs having a targeting element and an effector element. Methods for treating various diseases using such molecular constructs are also disclosed.
US10010623B2
The present invention relates to a linker for forming conjugates of a protein or peptide with a therapeutically active agent and which comprise a thiomaleamic acid moiety that is susceptible to cleavage under the pH conditions prevalent in the lysosome.
US10010619B2
The invention provides bipartite inhibitors of bacterial RNA polymerase having the general structural formula (I): X-α-Y (I) wherein X is an moiety that binds to the rifamycin binding site of a bacterial RNA polymerase, Y is a moiety that binds to the GE23077 binding site of a bacterial RNA polymerase, and α is a linker. The invention also provides compositions comprising such compounds, methods of making such compounds, and methods of using said compounds. The invention has applications in control of bacterial gene expression, control of bacterial growth, antibacterial chemistry, and antibacterial therapy.
US10010613B2
The present invention is directed to compositions comprising a polymer backbone with protective chain and anionic groups, and a cationic therapeutic agent. The present invention is directed to compositions for treating infections, inflammatory diseases, excess growth, and damaged cells and organs.
US10010612B2
The present invention relates to a risperidone sustained release delivery system for treatment of medical conditions relating delusional psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychotic depression, obsessive-compulsion disorder, Tourette syndrome, and autistic spectrum disorders. The sustained release delivery system includes a flowable composition containing risperidone, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof and an implant containing risperidone, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof. The flowable composition may be injected into tissue whereupon it coagulates to become the solid or gel, monolithic implant. The flowable composition includes a biodegradable, thermoplastic polymer, an organic liquid, and risperidone, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof.
US10010600B2
Embodiments of the present invention report compositions and methods for vaccinating a subject against dengue viruses. In some embodiments, vaccine compositions may be administered by intradermal introduction. In certain embodiments, intradermal introduction in a subject of a vaccine against dengue virus may include one or more intradermal boosts after initial vaccination. Other embodiments include intradermal injection of a vaccine composition against dengue virus wherein the composition provides protection against two or more of DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3 and DEN-4.
US10010595B2
Embodiments of the invention comprise an improved vaccine for generating an immune response and preventing or treating mycobacterial diseases such as tuberculosis in humans and animals. Embodiments of the invention also comprise a method for using the vaccine against such mycobacterial diseases.
US10010592B2
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence, comprising or coding for a coding region, encoding at least one peptide or protein comprising a tumor antigen or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof, at least one histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal. Furthermore the present invention provides the use of the nucleic acid for increasing the expression of said encoded peptide or protein. It also discloses its use for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition, especially a vaccine, e.g. for use in the treatment of cancer or tumor diseases. The present invention further describes a method for increasing the expression of a peptide or protein comprising a tumor antigen or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof, using the nucleic acid comprising or coding for a histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal.
US10010584B2
The invention provides for the use of carbonic anhydrase activators; protein kinase C activators and FGF-18 to treat depressive disorders. The invention also relates to improved animal models and methods for screening and identifying compounds to treat depressive disorders.
US10010578B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide for novel therapies, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for insulin independence utilizing a new optimized hamster Reg3 gamma peptide, which is new to the art and has not previously been considered for development in the 30 year history since its discovery. Methods, pharmaceutical compositions and therapies novel to the prior art are utilized in this invention to render patients with recent onset and existing type 1 diabetes insulin independent by an optimized hamster Reg3 gamma peptide and an immune tolerance agent for type 1 patients to become insulin independent and used alone without an immune tolerance agent for type 2 diabetes. While not wishing to be bound by theory, optimized Reg3 gamma peptides increases beta cell generation by its demonstrated properties shown within of transforming ductal pancreatic cells into new islets.
US10010576B2
The present disclosure relates to the control of fungal infection of horn-like envelopes covering dorsal and terminal phalanges in humans and animals and related cerebral protrusions in animals as well as keratin comprising material on surfaces of humans and animals. Agents and natural and synthetic formulations and extracts useful for the control of fungal infection of these envelopes and related protrusions and keratin comprising material are also encompassed by the subject disclosure. In an embodiment, the present disclosure teaches the treatment of fungal infection of nails and in particular onychomycosis in humans.
US10010574B2
A silk peptide having neuroprotective and neurofunctional activities and its preparation method are discussed. One method relates to preparing silk protein preferably having neuroprotective activity with weight average molecular weight of 200-100,000 by hydrolysis of silk fibroin; also discussed are a composition for preventing or treating brain disease comprising silk peptide and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and a composition for improving brain function.
US10010573B2
The present invention relates to a functional engineered rice having alcoholism relief and liver protection functions for those drinking alcohol over an extended period of time or drinking alcohol excessively, and preparation method thereof. The engineered rice comprises six starting materials: coarse rice powder, isolated soy protein, kudzu root extract, corn oligopeptide, purple sweet potato powder, and hawthorn extract, and is prepared by: premixing the starting materials; employing a double screw extruder to conduct texturized processing and forming under high temperature and high pressure; and then drying, dedusting and packaging.
US10010571B2
The present invention includes a method of activating irisin by administering to an individual in need of such treatment a composition comprising irisin-activating ingredients, thus increasing the conversion of white fat to BAT, and consequently, increasing metabolic rate and promoting weight loss. In an embodiment, the composition includes a Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract, a Polygonum cuspidatum root extract, capsaicinoids, and grains of paradise or constituents thereof. The composition may optionally comprise additional ingredients to activate the increased BAT, thus further increasing metabolic rate and furthering weight loss.
US10010565B2
Methods are provided for stimulating ovarian preantral and antral follicles in a mammal.
US10010556B2
The invention relates to substituted bicyclic compounds, which are useful for inhibition of BET protein function by binding to bromodomains, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and use of the compounds and compositions in therapy.
US10010544B2
The present invention relates to modified or polymer conjugated MetAP2 inhibitors. The present invention also relates to methods of preventing, inducing, causing or increasing weight loss, treating obesity and/or treating metabolic syndrome utilizing the modified or polymer conjugated MetAP2 inhibitors. The present invention also relates to methods of improving insulin sensitivity and glycemic control, reducing insulin levels and/or improving leptin sensitivity utilizing the modified or polymer conjugated MetAP2 inhibitors.
US10010543B1
The disclosure generally relates to tamper-resistant transdermal dosage forms. The dosage forms can comprise an active agent and more than one antagonist reservoir.
US10010524B2
The present invention relates to the use of a pharmaceutically effective amount of an short-acting calcium channel blocking compound to treat ischemic heart conditions, cardiac arrhythmias, hypertensive crisis in an emergency room setting, hypertension before, during, or after surgery, no-reflow phenomenon following reperfusion, and diseases associated with decreased skeletal muscle blood flow. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions formulated for use in such methods and to kits for such methods.
US10010523B2
The present invention relates to the use of a pharmaceutically effective amount of an short-acting calcium channel blocking compound to treat ischemic heart conditions, cardiac arrhythmias, hypertensive crisis in an emergency room setting, hypertension before, during, or after surgery, no-reflow phenomenon following reperfusion, and diseases associated with decreased skeletal muscle blood flow. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions formulated for use in such methods and to kits for such methods.
US10010518B2
Prostacyclin compounds and compositions comprising the same are provided herein. Specifically, prostacyclin compounds comprising treprostinil covalently linked to a linear C5-C18 alkyl, branched C5-C18 alkyl, linear C2-C18 alkenyl, branched C3-C18 alkenyl, aryl, aryl-C1-C18 alkyl or an amino acid or a peptide (e.g., dipeptide, tripeptide, tetrapeptide) are described. The linkage, in one embodiment, is via a carbamate, amide or ester bond. Prostacyclin compounds provided herein can also include at least one hydrogen atom substituted with at least one deuterium atom. Methods for treating pulmonary hypertension (e.g., pulmonary arterial hypertension) and portopulmonary hypertension are also provided.
US10010516B2
Here provided is a method for regulating retinal endothelial cell viability in a mammal by administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a quinic acid analog. The method may be applied to prevent, treat or cure pathological conditions of retinal endothelial cells associated with radiation retinopathy, diabetic retinopathy and chemotherapy for retinoblastoma.
US10010499B2
The present invention relates to microneedle vaccine formulations, as well as methods of use thereof to provide animals, including canines, protective immunity against infection and disease caused by rabies viruses. Once placed onto the skin of the animals, the microneedle formulations dissolve quickly into the surrounding skin, where the antigens then elicit in the animals high and protective levels of rabies virus neutralizing antibodies.
US10010498B2
The disclosure provides, in part, follistatin polypeptides that are suitable for use in local administration and methods for use.
US10010494B2
The present invention relates in general to methods of treating sweating disorders and in particular to topical compositions for the treatment of hyperhidrosis. The methods of the present invention relate to the topical application of a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of oxybutynin, tolterodine or a substituted benzamide such as sulpiride.
US10010491B2
An oral care composition is disclosed comprising calcium silicate and high refractive index particles wherein the calcium silicate and high refractive index particles are present in a relative weight ratio of 1110 to 511 and the surfaces of the high refractive index particles are substantially uncoated by calcium.
US10010483B2
A syringe fill system is described, which is useful for filling syringes for dental anesthetic applications. The system incorporates capability for “push-pull”, “pull-push”, “push-push”, and “pull-pull” modes of operation, for loading syringes with compositions comprising multiple fluid components. A syringe fillable by such syringe fill systems is described, providing haptic and audible feedback to a user, to aid in administering precise amounts of therapeutic compositions. Also disclosed are cassette assemblies for use in such syringe fill systems. Such cassette assemblies may be formed of plastic and elastomeric materials of construction, as disposable or single-use components of the syringe fill system.
US10010481B2
A package for infusion or instillation of medicinal or nutritional products into the body of a patient comprises a bag of liquid diluent equipped with at least one drain tube and a mixing tube equipped with a coupling and perforation device for a bottle of a pharmacological or nutritional substance in powder, gel or other material, provided with a perforatable cap. The package comprises a flexible airtight sterile casing, containing said bottle of the substance in powder or other and the coupling and perforation device. The bottle is housed in the casing in a coupling position with the coupling and perforation device and is manually manoeuvrable from the outside of the casing up to a perforating position of the cap of the bottle.
US10010477B2
A modular portable exercise and sauna tent is an apparatus that provides an enclosed phototherapeutic environment for a user. The size and shape of the apparatus is adjustable depending on the position of the user within the apparatus. The apparatus includes a scaffolding, a thermally insulative cover, and at least one heating lamp. The thermally insulative cover further includes a first panel, a second panel, and an overlay panel. The scaffolding defines an area of heat around the user. The thermally insulative cover encloses the defined area. The scaffolding further includes a first base frame, a second base frame, and a plurality of lateral posts, each of which are adjustable in length. The shapes of the first base frame and the second base frame are both adjustable. The apparatus preferably includes a flooring layer that provides comfort and protection for the user against the ground.
US10010475B2
A system for treating amblyopia through the visual stimulation of the brain through a predetermined regime is provided. The system for treating amblyopia comprises a headmountable visual content display device, a controller unit, a visual content source, a data storage device, a graphic processing unit and an audio source. A protocol useful for treating amblyopia by visual stimulation of the brain is also provided. A predetermined regime useful for treating amblyopia by stimulation of the brain is additionally provided.
US10010466B2
An apparatus has conforming arms each respectively attached to a support surface in a pattern for cooperatively receiving an object. Actuators respectively position the plurality of conforming arms between a disengaged state to receive the object and an engaged state to contact the object at a respective contact area to immobilize the object. A control system selectively controls each of the actuators to cause the respective one of the conforming arms to curve inwardly toward the object to cooperatively exert a grasping force upon the object such that only a fraction of total force required to immobilize the object is applied to the object by each individual conforming arm. A selected grasping force of a selected one of the conforming arms corresponds to a relative fragility of the respective contact area.
US10010454B2
Systems, methods, and devices are presented for treating a tissue site and managing hair proximate the tissue site. A composition is provided for inhibiting, removing, or weakening hair proximate the tissue site and for providing an improved fluid seal by a flexible film drape over the tissue site. In some example embodiments, a hair-modification agent is disposed at least proximate a peripheral edge of a treatment manifold between a drape and epidermis proximate a tissue site. The hair-modification agent can be configured to flow over imperfections on the epidermis and to form a fluid seal against the epidermis, and can further be configured to at least substantially weaken hair on the epidermis as the hair encounters the hair-modification agent.
US10010449B2
In corneal crosslinking by applying a photoactivated crosslinking facilitator such as riboflavin to the cornea and irradiating the cornea with light, the cornea is contacted with a liquid (33) containing a source of oxygen during irradiation. The liquid transfers oxygen to the cornea to facilitate crosslinking.
US10010444B2
Apparatus for providing breathing assistance, the apparatus including a body including a recess for receiving teeth of a user to thereby position the body within an oral cavity of the user, a first opening extending beyond lips of a user to allow air from outside the oral cavity to be drawn in through the opening, a second opening provided in the oral cavity to allow air to be directed into a posterior region of the oral cavity and a channel connecting the first and second openings, the channel extending through at least part of a buccal sulcus of the user.
US10010443B2
A coupling for an ostomy bag is provided. The coupling comprises a substantially non-extendable string functioning as locking ring in the coupling. The string is twisted by use of a tab when it is moved from an un-locked position to a locked position. A coupling as described can be made flexible and thereby more comfortable for the user.
US10010442B2
An external nasal dilator comprises resilient and engagement elements. The engagement element functions primarily to affix, adhere, or otherwise engage the dilator to the skin surface of the nose. The resilient element comprises one part that provides out-of-plane resiliency, or spring biasing forces, and another part that provides in-plane elasticity, or stretching or tensioning forces. The dilator includes horizontal regions adapted to engage outer wall tissues of first and second nasal passages of a nose. When in use the dilator stabilizes or expands nasal outer wall tissues and prevents the outer wall tissues from drawing inward during breathing.
US10010434B2
A prosthetic or orthotic device includes a body configured to support at least a portion of a human limb of a user wearing the prosthetic or orthotic device. The device can also include a shock absorption member coupled to the body. The shock absorption member includes one or more magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) springs disposed between a first portion of the body and a second portion of the body. The one or more MRE springs are selectively actuatable to vary a stiffness of the shock absorption member via the application of a magnetic flux, thereby adjusting a stiffness of the body of the prosthetic or orthotic device to a level corresponding to an activity level of the user.
US10010433B2
A prosthetic limb and process to digitally construct a prosthetic limb which includes first, digitally producing a modified mold of a residual limb via 3d scanners and software known to the industry; constructing a test socket from the digitally modified mold and be equipped with an alignable system; for example, a pylon, along with the desired prosthetic foot; accurately scanning the test socket, preferably with a 3D scanner, along with finalized alignment that has been recorded and adjusted by a certified practitioner to provide a 3-D Image of the finalized prosthetic alignment; transferring the finalized digital alignment of the test socket to the finalized digitally modified mold; once the modified model has received the transferred alignment, fabricating the type of hookup in the socket; i.e., plug fit, four hole, support drop lock, or any other type of industry standard connection or accommodation via basic 3D software; and once the desired prosthetic attachment is finalized, the next step is to send the finished file to a 3-D printer to produce the definitive prosthetic device. The 3-D printed socket would then be placed in a vibratory finishing system to smooth out the interior and exterior surfaces of the printed socket; and the walls of the 3-D printed socket would be sealed by applying a mixture of epoxy sealant, for example, TC-1614, to the inside and outside walls of the socket, and placing the socket into an oven for a sufficient amount of time to seal the walls of the socket. Preferably, the prosthesis would be printed out of Nylon 12 material or of a strong plastic, such as ULTEM®, or carbon fiber, or other material of equivalent or greater strength that may be known or developed in the future.
US10010425B2
A prosthesis for primary artrodhesis can be used for artroplasty and a prosthesis for artroplasty comprises members for artrodhesis. The prosthesis (1b) for primary artrodhesis comprises a locking member (33b) with an attachment portion (16b) which is insertable into a hole (8b) in a first attachment member (4b) of the prosthesis for location of the locking member therein, and a lockable member (34b) integral with a second attachment member (5b) of the prosthesis. The lockable member (34b) is configured for adjustable setting thereof relative to the locking member (33b) and for fixation thereof, in set position, to the locking member. Alternatively, the lockable member comprises an attachment portion which is insertable into a hole in the second attachment member for location of the lockable member therein. At the prosthesis for artroplasty, the hole in the first screw-like attachment member is partly configured to define a press fit with an attachment pin of a socket member and partly threaded to permit, after removal of the socket member, during artrodhesis, securing by screwing in the hole of the locking member for cooperation with a lockable member which is configured for adjustable setting thereof relative to the locking member and for fixation thereof, in set position, to the locking member.
US10010398B2
A filter device has a single hub and a plurality of filter struts extending in a first longitudinal direction. A plurality of wire loops extend in a second longitudinal direction opposite the filter struts. The filter struts and wire loops each engage the vessel wall of a body lumen when deployed. The wire loops limit the filter device from becoming tilted and embedded in the vessel wall. A retrieval device includes a sheath and a snaring mechanism. The snaring mechanism engages a hook member of the filter and the sheath envelopes the wire loops and filter struts. The sheath will cause the wire loops to bend and fold over the filter struts during retrieval such that the wire loops and filter struts extend in the same longitudinal direction after being enveloped by the sheath.
US10010394B2
Described are implants, tools, and methods useful for treating pelvic conditions such as prolapse, by placing an implant to support pelvic tissue, the implants, tools, and methods involving one or more of an insertion tool that works in coordination with a sheath, adjusting engagements, specific implants and pieces of implants, placement of implants at locations within the pelvic region, and insertion, adjusting, and grommet management tools.
US10010376B2
This medical manipulator includes a body section, an insertion section, a channel, a movement amount detection section configured to detect an amount of movement of a medical treatment tool inserted through a body-side channel provided in the body section, a distal-end-side contact section provided to be in contact with the medical treatment tool inserted through an insertion-side channel arranged in the insertion section and configured to rotate about its own axis to move the medical treatment tool, a first drive section configured to rotate the distal-end-side contact section. The distal-end-side contact section is rotated so as to move the medical treatment tool with respect to the insertion-side channel by an amount of movement which is the same as the amount of movement detected by the movement amount detection section.
US10010371B2
A sampling system for an individual to self-collect sample form mucous tissue is disclosed here. The collecting device has a flexible shaft having a handle at one end, and a sample collecting element removably connectable with the other end of the shaft and operable to collect a cell sample from mucous tissue of an individual. The collecting element includes an RFID tag for tracking the device and the sample once it is collected onto the collecting element. The system includes a sealable unit to store the sample collecting element having a cell sample thereon.
US10010363B2
The energy treatment instrument includes an end effector performing treatment using treatment energy, and a moving part disposed so as to be movable relative to a housing and moving relative to the housing based on an operation input to move the end effector or an operation input to supply treatment energy to the end effector. The energy treatment instrument includes an energy converter converting kinetic energy due to a movement of the moving part into electric energy and storing the converted electric energy in an electricity storage.
US10010358B2
An internal fixation plate for sternoclavicular join comprises a locating rod junction and the clavicle fixation segment, both with flat cross sections. The locating rod junction and the clavicle fixation segment are not in the same plane, and the transition segment connects in between the locating rod junction and the clavicle fixation segment. The clavicle fixation segment is of a long strip, and screw holes are designed in the clavicle fixation segment. The locating rod junction is movably connected to the cylindrical sternum locating rod, through the connector, and allows the sternum locating rod to rotate and swing relative to the locating rod junction. The internal fixation plate connects the clavicle fixation segment to the sternum locating rod through a movable connection, so as to prevent the sternum locating rod from scratching and enlarging the bone holes in sternum.
US10010347B2
A medical apparatus having a bar, the bar having a slot extending laterally along the bar; and a plurality of hooks, wherein the bar is an arch bar that is configured to be attached to a mandible or a maxilla. Such medical apparatuses may also have a plurality of arch bar fasteners, wherein each arch bar fastener is a bone screw having a threaded shaft and a compound head, the compound head having a threaded bore configured to receive a set screw. The medical apparatus may be used in methods to fixate a maxillary or mandibulary arch, or to aid in reducing a fracture of the mandible or maxilla.
US10010341B2
An ultrasonic surgical shears includes an ultrasonic surgical blade, a clamping arm operable to open and close toward the blade, and a tissue pad attached to the clamping arm. A method for sealing a blood vessel of a patient includes obtaining an ultrasonic surgical shears and positioning the blood vessel between the blade and the tissue pad. The clamping arm is operated to exert an average coaptation pressure between and including 120 psi and 210 psi. The blade is ultrasonically vibrated to transect and seal the blood vessel.
US10010335B2
Mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses (devices, systems, etc.) and methods for positioning them within a vessel and using them to remove a thrombus, e.g., clot, from within a vessel. In particular, described herein are methods of advancing an inverting tractor thrombectomy apparatus having a tractor comprising a flexible tube of material that inverts over itself as it rolls over a distal end opening of an elongate inversion support by extending the tractor region and/or a puller coupled to the tractor distally beyond the end of the catheter. Also described herein are power-driven mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses.
US10010334B2
Provided herein are patient-specific surgical guiding tools for positioning on a socket of a ball-and-socket joint, e.g., an acetabulum. The guiding tools comprise a central contact element fitting within the socket and one or more lateral contact elements fitting on the rim of the socket. The guiding tools allow accurate positioning of surgical tools such as alignment elements, according to a pre-operational planning. Methods for the manufacture and use of said guiding tools are also provided.
US10010326B2
An endoscopic treatment tool includes: a sheath in which a lumen is formed; a treatment part which is inserted into the lumen and is configured to protrude and retract from a distal end of the sheath; a main manipulation part which is connected to the proximal end side of the sheath and allows the treatment part to perform a first motion and a second motion; an auxiliary manipulation part which is disposed to be separate from the main manipulation part and is configured to perform the first motion of the treatment part and configured to put the second motion out of action; and a manipulation transmission member which is made of a flexible member, connects the auxiliary manipulation part to the main manipulation part, and transmits a manipulation input of the auxiliary manipulation part with respect to the main manipulation part.
US10010323B2
A medical device includes (a) a capsule including a lumen extending therethrough, a proximal end of the capsule including at least one window extending therethrough; (b) a bushing including a channel extending therethrough, a distal end including at least one arm extending distally therefrom such that a corresponding one of the arms is releasably engagable with a corresponding one of the windows; and (c) a core member including a locking portion and at least one engaging element. The locking portion is sized and shaped to be received within the channel of the bushing to apply a pressure to the arm such that the arm engages the windows. The engaging element extends laterally outward from a portion of the core member such that the engaging element engages a corresponding one of the arms to deform the arms radially inward and out of engagement with the windows.
US10010321B2
A system and method for the manipulation and insertion of an osteosynthesis clip (100, 200, 300) is provided. The system includes an osteosynthesis clip and an instrument (10). The osteosynthesis clip includes a base (103, 104) having first and second portions, a thickness, and first and second flanges (107, 108) that extend from the base in which the flanges also have a thickness. The instrument of the system includes a distal end (14) and at least a jaw (80), extending from the distal end. The jaw is dimensioned to receive one of the thicknesses of the base and at least one of the flanges. The jaw is movable to a plurality of jaw positions relative to the distal end.
US10010313B2
A mandibular subluxation device (MSD) is provided. The device includes an upper MSD component and a lower MSD component. The upper MSD component includes and upper tooth guide connected to an upper plate having a pair of depending legs. The upper MSD component further includes an upper force receiving plate. The MSD also includes a lower MSD component. The lower MSD component includes a lower tooth guide connected to a lower plate. The lower MSD component further includes a lower force receiving plate. The upper and lower MSD components are connected in a way that allows relative longitudinal movement between the two components between a neutral position and a plurality of extended positions. A ratchet mechanism inhibits movement of the lower plate from any extended position toward the neutral position. The ratchet mechanism may be manually disengaged to allow the lower MSD component to return to the neutral position.
US10010306B2
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus is configured to generate an ultrasound image based on an ultrasound signal obtained by an ultrasound probe having an ultrasound transducer that transmits ultrasound to a subject and receives the ultrasound reflected from the subject. The apparatus includes: an analysis unit that analyzes a frequency of the ultrasound signal to calculate a frequency spectrum of the ultrasound signal for each reception depth; a calculation unit that calculates, in a predetermined order, a distance change rate and a frequency change rate in the frequency spectrum or in a function defined by using the frequency spectrum, to calculate a second-order change rate of the frequency spectrum or of the function; and an estimation unit that estimates an attenuation rate of the ultrasound signal, per unit distance and per unit frequency, in a predetermined region within a scanning region of the ultrasound transducer using the second-order change rate.
US10010302B2
A 2D mammogram image is synthesized from at least one of tomosynthesis projection images and/or the tomosynthesis reconstructed image data. In a simplest form, the mammogram may be synthesized by selecting one of the tomosynthesis projection images for display as a synthesized mammogram. Other methods of synthesizing a mammogram include re-projecting and filtering projection data and/or reconstructed data. The synthesized mammogram is advantageously displayed together with at least a portion of the reconstructed data to aid in review of the reconstructed data. The present invention thus provides a familiar image which may be used to facilitate review of a tomosynthesis data set.
US10010297B2
Apparatus and techniques for blocking radiation in a medical environment are described. In one or more embodiments, a lock-block shield device includes a base that is configured to adhesively couple to an object associated with a patient. In some embodiments, the base includes a lock mechanism for securing a work piece that has a generally tubular shape. A shield that is configured to at least partially block transmission of radiation can be coupled to the base in a releasable manner. For example, a clasp is used to secure the base and shield together. In embodiments, a ball and socket joint couples the shield and base to permit, for example, the shield to pivot and articulate with respect to the base.
US10010296B2
A gantry assembly for use with an imaging system is provided. The gantry assembly includes an x-ray source and a modular detector assembly that includes a plurality of selectively removable detector modules. A first detector module of the plurality of detector modules is mounted at a first distance from the x-ray source and a second detector module of the plurality of detector modules is mounted at a second distance from the x-ray source. The first distance is different from the second distance. The gantry assembly is configured to image objects using both a first field of view and a second field of view that is larger than the first field of view.
US10010294B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating cardiac arrhythmia with electronic monitoring in a timely manner. Also disclosed herein are systems for electronic monitoring of cardiac arrhythmia.
US10010285B2
The invention relates to elements of a method (1) for determining a damage characteristic value of a kidney (2). Images comprising the kidney (2) and the kidney artery (3) are entered into the method (1), from a three-dimensional digital subtraction angiography which is carried out by administering a contrast medium at the proximal end of the kidney artery (3) and comprises a fill run and a mask run, said method (1) comprising the following method steps: S1) determining a parenchymal blood volume into which the subtractions from images of the fill run and the mask run of the three-dimensional digital subtraction angiography are entered, additionally determining an arterial input function and normalizing the parenchymal blood volume with said arterial input function; S2) segmenting the kidney (2), determining an average normalized parenchymal blood volume value, and determining a total value of the parenchymal blood volume into which the normalized parenchymal blood volume values of the segmentation of the kidney (2) are entered; S3) receiving an average normalized parenchymal blood volume normal value and a total normal value for a parenchymal blood volume, and determining at least one damage characteristic value of the kidney (2) into which the average normalized parenchymal blood volume value and the average normalized parenchymal blood volume normal value and/or the total value of the parenchymal blood volume and the total normal value of a parenchymal blood volume are entered; S4) issuing the at least one damage characteristic value of the kidney (2).
US10010283B2
The invention relates to a lancing device (1) for taking blood samples, comprising a housing (2), an axially displaceable lancet holder element (32) for holding a lancet (12), and a display apparatus (40) for displaying the respective operating states (41,42) of the lancing device (1), the display apparatus (40) comprising a release element (13) for initiating a lancing procedure, in which the axially displaceable lancet holder element (32) is accelerated in a lancing direction (18), in which, when the lancing device (1) is in an operating state (41) ready for lancing, the release element (13) is arranged in a disengaged display position (43) projecting further outwards over the outer housing surface (15) than when the lancing device (1) is in a different operating state (42).
US10010279B2
An electrochemical sensor system is adapted to assist in determining an analyte concentration of a fluid. The electrochemical sensor system comprises a substrate, conductive material and a hydrogel or liquid. The substrate having porosity therethrough. The conductive material includes at least one electrode. The at least one electrode is coupled to the substrate. The at least one electrode has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The hydrogel or liquid is adapted to assist in carrying the analyte of the fluid to the first and second surfaces of the at least one electrode.
US10010276B2
A regional oximetry system has a display and at least one processor causing a plurality of views to be displayed on the display, each configured to occupy at least a portion of the display. The views are adapted to present data responsive to at least one physiological signal. A first sensor port is configured to receive at least a first physiological signal representative of a regional tissue oxygenation level, and a second sensor port is configured to receive at least a second physiological signal representative of an arterial oxygen saturation level. One view presents a first trend graph of the first physiological signal and a second trend graph of the second physiological signal. An area between the first trend graph and the second trend graph can include a differential analysis of regional-to-central oxygen saturation.
US10010270B2
This disclosure relates to systems and/or methods for detection of eye blinking using an active contact lens with multiple sensors and detecting orientation of the active contact lens.
US10010268B2
Provided is an endoscope apparatus for measuring a subject. The endoscope apparatus including: an elongated insertion unit; an image capturing unit being provided on a distal end part of the insertion unit, the image capturing unit configured to obtain an image of the subject; an illumination unit comprising a first light source and configured to illuminate an observation viewing field of the image capturing unit; and a fringe projection unit comprising a second light source configured to emit a light, which differs from a light of the first light source, and a fringe pattern generation unit configured to form the fringe pattern, and configured to project the fringe pattern on the subject.
US10010266B2
A medical mouthpiece may include a U-shaped first member having a tubular portion, the first member forming at least one lateral interocclusal passageway extending through the first member, and a second member received within the tubular portion. A medical breathing apparatus may include a U-shaped first member forming left and right lateral interocclusal passageways extending through the first member, a second member attached to the first member, and an adapter receivable within a tubular portion of the first member, wherein the adapter includes a respiratory orifice configured to deliver respiratory gas to the left and right lateral interocclusal passageways. A method for delivering positive pressure and/or a respiratory gas to a patient may include inserting a mouthpiece into a mouth of the patient, and delivering the positive pressure and/or the respiratory gas through the mouthpiece to a space adjacent a posterior oropharynx of the patient.
US10010265B2
A method of producing a temperature sensor which is configured to detect a temperature change of a respiratory gas of a subject, includes: preparing a rod-like heat sensitive element which includes a heat sensitive portion in a tip end portion; placing the heat sensitive portion in a cavity of a mold; injecting a resin material into the cavity to mold a protective portion which covers the heat sensitive element; and releasing the tip end portion in which the protective portion is formed, from the mold.
US10010261B2
Electrode arrays have a plurality of electrodes. These arrays may have any combination of the following improvements. The arrays may have features that enable easier electrical connections and reduced bending stiffness by having a stop region and a torsion relief region, respectively. The arrays may have a shielding feature that may reduce electrical interference. The arrays may come in pairs that are designed to simplify measurements of electric signals of bilateral organs and tissues, such as eyes and ears.
US10010257B1
An electrode connector adapted for attachment to a biomedical patient electrode by either pinch or snap connection includes a pair of pivotally connected members including a connector body and a jaw pivotally connected to said connector body, with the jaw defining a beveled lower surface that functions to urge the jaw open by engagement of the top surface of an ECG stud thereby allowing the connector to be attached by snap engagement. An electrically conducting plate is disposed at the bottom of the connector to maximize electrical contact with the electrode stud. The jaw member further includes a lip functioning to engage a lower portion of the head of the stud and urge the radially enlarged base of the stud into electrical contact with the bottom surface of said electrically conducting member. An ECG electrode connector in accordance with the present invention may further be fabricated of radiolucent materials.
US10010248B1
An instrument for measuring near point of convergence (NPC) and/or near point of accommodation (NPA) is disclosed herein. The instrument includes an instrument housing, at least one visual target viewable by the subject; a distance measuring device configured to emit one or more output signals that are representative of a distance between a measurement reference point of the instrument and a body surface of the subject spaced apart from the measurement reference point of the instrument; and a processing device operatively coupled to the distance measuring device, the processing device configured to receive the one or more output signals that are output by the distance measuring device and to calculate the distance between the measurement reference point of the instrument and the body surface of the subject using the one or more output signals. In one or more embodiments, the instrument further includes a camera and a light source.
US10010246B2
In one embodiment an apparatus for insertion in a body cavity (e.g., an endoscope) may include an elongate assembly, an instrument tip disposed at a distal end of the elongate assembly, and a terminal base disposed at a proximal end of the elongate assembly. The elongate assembly may include a first peripheral tube, a second peripheral tube spaced apart from the first peripheral tube and a plurality of collar members. Each collar member may include a first channel grasping the first peripheral tube, and a second channel grasping the second peripheral tube. The collar members may be spaced apart from one another along a length of the elongate assembly such that adjacent collar members do not contact one another. The terminal base may include a first control fitting attached to the first peripheral tube and a second control fitting attached to the second peripheral tube. The first control fitting may be configured to apply tension to the first peripheral tube. The second control fitting may be configured to apply tension to the second peripheral tube.
US10010243B2
A flexible tube for an endoscope includes a flexible tube base, an outer coating layer including a soft resin layer and a hard resin layer, a ratio changing portion, and a tapered portion. In the ratio changing portion, a percentage of a thickness of the hard resin layer decreases and a percentage of a thickness of the soft resin layer increases toward a distal side from a proximal side of the base. In the tapered portion, a ratio between the thickness of the hard resin layer and the thickness of the soft resin layer is maintained, which ratio is the same as that at a position in the ratio changing portion where the percentage of the thickness of the hard resin layer is a lower limit. In the tapered position, an outer diameter of the outer coating layer decreases toward a distal end of the flexible tube base.
US10010234B2
A dishwasher for treating dishes according to an automatic cycle of operation and including a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber, at least one sprayer configured to emit a corresponding spray of liquid into the treating chamber, at least one liquid circuit supplying liquid to the at least one sprayer, a pump having a pump inlet fluidly coupled to the treating chamber and a pump outlet, and a diverter valve controlling a flow of liquid from the pump to the at least one sprayer.
US10010232B2
A device for washing floors, comprising a handle that can be gripped by a user and is connected to a supporting element for at least one washing cloth that has at least one working portion arranged on a respective plane of arrangement, the device comprising a wringing device that is mounted so that it can slide on the handle and supports at least one friction tooth intended to act on the washing cloth, with the device placed in the wringing and cleaning condition, as a consequence of a relative sliding motion of the wringing device with respect to the handle.
US10010218B2
A cooking apparatus includes a base including a lower heating plate an upper heating unit including an upper heating plate and a cleaning structure configured to move a cleaning blade along at least one of the lower heating plate and the upper heating plate. The apparatus also includes a control circuit configured to control movement of the cleaning blade across the one of the lower heating plate and the upper heating plate.
US10010214B2
A collapsible pan tilt has two or more tilt bases connected to one another by a base hinge. The tilt bases can be relatively long and narrow members that have a flat bottom surface and an angled/tilted top surface. At a proximal end of the tilt bases can be a base hinge connecting the two or more tilt bases together. A single base hinge can connect all of the tilt bases together; alternatively, multiple base hinges can be utilized. A pan stop can be incorporated to stop the pan or other item that is placed on the tilted top surface from sliding down off of the pan tilt. A lid holder can be incorporated in the tilt bases. Additionally, one or more of the hinges can be attached at the distal ends of two or more of the tilt bases in some embodiments.
US10010208B2
A lighted artificial tree, including a first tree portion having a first electrical connector having a first electrical terminal positioned in line with a central vertical axis, and a second electrical terminal. The tree also includes a second tree portion that includes a second electrical connector having a first electrical terminal and a second electrical terminal, the second electrical terminal defining a ring shape that encircles the first electrical terminal. When the first tree portion is coupled to the second tree portion, the first electrical connector is coupled to the second electrical connector, such that the first electrical terminal of the first electrical connector is electrically connected to the first electrical terminal of the second electrical connector, and the second electrical terminal of the first electrical connector is electrically connected to the second electrical terminal of the second electrical connector.
US10010206B1
A hanger organizer has a hanger portion with a rod hook that suspends the hanger organizer from a closest rod. An extension from the rod hook extends to a coupler portion from which a first and second hanger retainer arm extends. The first and second hanger retainer arms extend in opposing direction and have a bend that leads to the arms for retaining the hanger loop ends. A hanger hook retainer which may be a receptacle extends out perpendicularly to the vertical axis of the hanger organizer for hooking a clothes hanger there around. A plurality of ties may be placed in the receptacle and used to synch around a plurality of hangers for return to the dry-cleaners.
US10010191B1
A mattress bag assembly includes a bag that is selectively be positioned around a mattress. A first barrier unit is coupled to the mattress to pose an obstacle for the bed bugs thereby requiring the bed bugs to crawl over the first barrier unit. The first barrier unit includes a first adhesive to adhere to the bed bugs when the bed bugs crawl over the first barrier unit. Thus, the bed bugs are inhibited from accessing a person lying on the mattress. A second barrier unit is coupled to the mattress to pose an obstacle for the bed bugs thereby requiring the bed bugs to crawl over the second barrier unit. The second barrier unit includes a second adhesive to adhere to the bed bugs when the bed bugs crawl over the second barrier unit. Thus, the bed bugs are inhibited from accessing a person lying on the mattress.
US10010180B2
A padded support for workmen, sportsmen, hobbyists and the like who perform activities in a seated and/or kneeling position for a sustained period of time. The support includes a combined seat and knee board mountable to a container, such as a utility bucket. A recessed groove on the bottom of the support is concentric with the container and mounts to an end of the container.
US10010169B2
A monitor mounting device that allows more flexibility and support for large-format, thin, flat, touchscreen monitors. This mount offers the solution to use these monitors as the computer interface, along with a standard keyboard and mouse platform mounted below for more traditional input options. The flexible height and tilt controls combined with the constantly-level keyboard tray provide an improved, comfortable balance between large-format, touch computing and traditional work station configurations. This invention is optimized to improve human comfort and the computing experience.
US10010166B2
An oral care implement having a cover member. In one aspect, the invention is an oral care implement comprising: a body comprising a handle and a head, the head comprising a coupling element; a store of oral care material located within the body; an outlet located on the head and in fluid communication with the store; a cover member comprising a cap portion, a mounting portion, and a coupling element; and wherein the cover member is detachably coupled to the head via cooperation between the coupling element of the cover member and the coupling element of the head, and the mounting portion is configured to mount the oral care implement to a vertical surface.
US10010164B2
An oral care implement having a multi-component handle. The oral care implement may include a head and a handle. The handle may include a transparent component and an opaque component. The transparent component may have a front surface, a rear surface opposite the front surface, a first lateral surface, and a second lateral surface opposite the first lateral surface. The opaque component may at least partially cover the front and rear surfaces of the transparent component while leaving the first and second lateral surfaces of the transparent component exposed. Thus, the transparent component may form a window through the lateral surfaces of the handle.
US10010162B1
A portable beverage service device may include a base, defining a central cavity, and a minor lid movably coupled to the base. An organizing divider may be disposed in the base over the central cavity. A plurality of container receptacles may be positioned on the organizing divider and may extend into the central cavity. A chest, which may define an auxiliary cavity that extends into the central cavity, may be disposed in the organizing divider. A major lid, having a lateral restraint, may be coupled to the base and may be movable between a major lid open position and a major lid closed position. The lateral restraint may be moved to a horizontal position when the major lid is in the major lid closed position, and the lateral restraint may be moved to a vertical position when the major lid is in the major lid open position.
US10010153B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic vessel including a discharge unit discharging cosmetics to an outside, and a discharge plate provided at one side of the discharge unit from which the cosmetics are discharged, including at least one discharge hole, and formed of a metal of SUS 300 series.
US10010149B2
A dryer includes a body portion arranged to hold a motor, a first tubular portion arranged to at least partially cover an outer circumferential portion of the body portion, and a second tubular portion arranged axially behind the first tubular portion, and arranged to at least partially cover the outer circumferential portion of the body portion. An outer circumferential joining portion included in the body portion is held between an axial rear edge portion of the first tubular portion and an axial front edge portion of the second tubular portion.
US10010144B2
In various embodiments, a carry (or carrying) bag is provided that includes an interior, substantially cut-resistant security panel assembly with a matrix of wires secured between or on one or more flexible material layers. Also in various embodiments, the security panel assembly may be positioned intermediate the bag outside wall and a lining of the bag, and in other embodiments, may also take the form of an expansion panel. Second or secondary locking fasteners are also provided to lock first or primary fasteners to or within the carrying bag, to provide security for compartments and pockets. A strap with one or more security cables, and various locking fasteners, may be attached to the carry bag. Methods for forming such security panel assemblies, expansion panels, and carrying straps are also disclosed.
US10010139B2
A method for making a cleated plate member of an article of footwear includes forming a blade cleat assembly having an anchor member associated with a blade member, the blade member having a planar body, the body having a base portion, a head portion opposite the base portion, and a through hole formed in the base portion, a first molding material of the anchor member surrounding the base portion of the blade member and extending through the through hole formed in the base portion of the blade member, and associating the blade cleat assembly with an exposed surface of a plate body to form a cleated plate member. The base portion of the blade member further may include a pair of opposing shoulder flange portions. A blade cleat assembly may be disposed in a cleat assembly receptacle of a mold system configured to form a cleated plate member.
US10010130B2
An article of sports footwear that changes shape in two ways. Firstly, a change of shape occurs when such footwear is used to kick a ball with the toes. This change of shape maximizes the area of contact with a ball that is kicked with the toes. Secondly, a change of shape occurs when the article of sports footwear bends during running. This change of shape shortens the entire length of the article of sports footwear in order to prevent tripping. A flexible toe cap encases the foot and parts of a traditional article of footwear and attaches at or near the tarsometatarsal joint of a wearer.
US10010129B2
An article of footwear can include provisions for improving the operation and use of various systems associated with the article. A control device included in the article can be configured to allow manual control of a system by a user. A lockout feature that can disable manual control may be included. During periods of competitive activity, the manual controls may be disabled to allow a user wearing the article to engage in different activities without inadvertent activation of a system. In some cases, the control device and lockout feature can be used in conjunction with a motorized tensioning system.
US10010125B1
A hair extension for integration with a person's head of hair is described in this disclosure. The hair extension illustratively includes a plurality of supplemental hairs and an attachment band that provides means for removably coupling the plurality of supplemental hairs to natural hairs included in the person's head of hair. The attachment band is illustratively flexible and couples to natural hairs included in the person's head of hair mechanically.
US10010124B2
A glove includes: an inner glove knitted from a fiber yarn; an outer glove that covers an outer side of the inner glove; and a hot-melt adhesive interposed partially between the inner glove and the outer glove which are layered, the outer glove including: a base knitted from a fiber yarn; and a coating layer layered on an outer face of the base and composed of a rubber or resin as a principal component; and the inner glove and the outer glove are bonded together by first heating the hot-melt adhesive applied onto a bonding portion on the inner glove or the outer glove, and then cooling and pressurizing the bonding portion. The inner glove is preferably a knitted product. The inner glove is preferably seamless. The cooling temperature during the cooling and pressurizing is preferably no higher than a softening point of the hot-melt adhesive.
US10010119B2
A nursing cover for covering a mother's body and a nursing infant. The nursing cover includes a substantially cylindrical main body having an upper edge defining a top opening and lower edge defining a bottom opening and a means for adjusting the size of the top opening. The nursing cover further includes a viewing window having an upper edge positioned adjacent to the upper edge of the main body and a lower edge positioned along the main body towards the lower edge of the main body and boning positioned adjacent to the lower edge of the viewing window with the boning configured to maintain the lower edge of the viewing window away from the mother's chest such that the viewing window is disposed to cross the mother's line of sight from her eyes to the nursing infant.
US10010117B1
Aspects herein are directed to a bra with multiple pockets positioned at different locations on the bra to provide a variety of storage options. The bra comprises one or more portions comprised of layers of material where the pocket spaces are formed between the layers of material. The layers of material of the different portions are joined along their perimeter edges except for one or more select areas that form openings in communication with the pocket spaces.
US10010116B2
The present invention relates to a dress shirt adapted with buttonholes and brackets for use with decorative fasteners, such as cufflinks, to keep the collar in place.
US10010104B2
Systems, techniques and methods for estimating the metabolic state or flux, e.g., the body energy state (“BES”) of a patient, are disclosed. The BES provides a deep insight into the nutritional needs of the patient, thus allowing for a sort of exquisite glycemic control with regard to the patient. The invention discloses systems and methods for estimating fractional gluconeogenesis. The invention also discloses systems and methods for estimating and targeting patient blood lactate concentration, both as a target itself and as an intermediate step to estimating and targeting patient fractional gluconeogenesis glucose production. Nutritional support methods and formulations are also disclosed. The invention is suitable for any sort of patient, including those who are injured, such as with traumatic brain injury, ill, or have other conditions that stress the metabolic system.
US10010099B2
Disclosed are steviol glycosides referred to as rebaudioside V and rebaudioside W. Also disclosed are methods for producing rebaudioside M (Reb M), rebausoside G (Reb G), rebaudioside KA (Reb KA), rebaudioside V (Reb V) and rebaudioside (Reb W).
US10010097B2
A protein fraction and an oxidation stable fat fraction are recovered from meat trimmings. The trimmings are comminuted, mixed with a food grade acid at pH 3.6 to 4.4 to form a liquid protein fraction and a solid fat fraction. The liquid fraction is mixed with a food grade alkali to precipitate the protein. A myoglobin rich fraction is recovered from the protein fraction and mixed with the precipitated protein.
US10010096B2
An ice cream sandwich apparatus for making and wrapping ice cream sandwiches. The ice cream sandwich apparatus includes a plurality of stations driven by servo motors.
US10010094B2
The present invention relates to polypeptides having beta-1,3-galactanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US10010091B2
The present invention comprises a freeze-dried, dairy or dairy-substitute composition comprising a dairy or dairy-substitute ingredient and an emulsifier and methods of using same to promote and/or improve child development.
US10010087B1
Methods, packaging, and packets for wet aging meat are described herein. For example, in one or more embodiments of the present disclosure a package for wet aging meat includes a cut of meat having a fat layer portion and an edible meat portion, an adsorptive material to adsorb gases emitted from the cut of meat wherein the adsorptive material is positioned on the fat layer portion, a salt material positioned on the adsorptive material or on the fat layer portion with the adsorptive material, and wherein the cut of meat with the adsorptive material and salt material is sealed in a packaging material to form the package.
US10010077B2
Codling moth, Cydia pomonella, (L.), is a cosmopolitan pest of the apple, potentially causing damage to circa 80% of the fruit. Disclosed here are use of extract of Ginkgo biloba, or its synthetic metabolites for preventing or treating apple feeding and infestation by neonate larvae of codling moth.
US10010065B2
The present document relates to an insect trap using an ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) lamp, and more particularly, to an insect trap using, in place of a conventional UV light source lamp, a UV LED lamp that significantly increases the insect trapping efficiency. One example implementation of the insect trap includes: a UV LED lamp disposed in an air inlet portion of the duct, and including a printed circuit board (PCB) that has a UV LED chip mounted thereon; an installing portion for installing the UV LED lamp on; and a trapping portion provided near the installing portion.
US10010058B2
A transgenic animal is provided. In certain embodiments, the transgenic animal comprises a genome comprising: an immunoglobulin light chain locus comprising: a) a functional immunoglobulin light chain gene comprising a transcribed variable region encoding: i. light chain CDR1, CDR2 and CDR3 regions that are composed of 2 to 5 different amino acids; and ii. a light chain framework; and, operably linked to the functional immunoglobulin light chain gene: b) a plurality of pseudogene light chain variable regions each encoding: i. light chain CDR1, CDR2 and CDR3 regions that are composed of the same 2 to 5 different amino acids as the CDRs of the functional gene; and ii. a light chain framework that is identical in amino acid sequence to the light chain framework of the transcribed variable region.
US10010056B2
A disposable diaper for pets includes: a back-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; a crotch area; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an area not having the absorbent core arranged therein; an attachment section in the stomach-side waist area; an attachment area that receives the attachment section; an expandable/contractible elastic member for legs, arranged, in an extended state, in a prescribed area in the diaper longitudinal direction, between the absorbent core and an end section in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; an expandable/contractible elastic member for the waist, arranged, in an extended state, in the area not having the absorbent core arranged therein, in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; and a contraction force intersecting area in which the contracting force of the expandable/contractible elastic member for legs and the expansion/contraction force of the expandable/contractible elastic member for the waist intersect.
US10010055B2
A disposable diaper for pets, in which part of a crotch area stands up as a result of the contraction of an expanding/contracting elastic member, and a standing-up section is formed, said disposable diaper for pets having: a rear-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; the crotch area; both end sections in the diaper longitudinal direction; both end sections in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an attachment section provided in the stomach-side waist area; an attachment area that receives the attachment section; and the expanding/contracting elastic member arranged the diaper longitudinal direction.
US10010054B1
A method, system, and apparatus are provided for a cutting horse trainer that operates to train a cutting horse without additional input from an operator or trainer. More specifically, in one aspect of the disclosure described herein, positioning systems, such as transmitters, receivers, camera tracking, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and/or GPS tracking allow a cutting horse trainer system to detect the position of the horse with respect to a field of view (azimuth) of a decoy, and automatically adjust the position of the decoy accordingly.
US10010040B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XR50E15X. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XR50E15X. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XR50E15X and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XR50E15X with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10010038B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety BY1312015 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety BY1312015 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using BY1312015 in a breeding program.
US10010028B1
A chopper assembly for a harvester may include a blade reset assembly having an automatic blade reset mechanism configured to apply a force that urges the assembly to pivot about a pivot axis such a blade element supported by the blade reset assembly is biased towards an extended position. In addition, blade reset assembly may be configured to pivot against the force applied by the blade reset mechanism when the blade element is subjected to a sufficient counterfbrce force such that the blade element is moved towards a retracted position.
US10010024B2
A metering system for a row unit for individual dispensing of grains comprises metering devices having a chamber for carrying grains, whereby a defined pressure level in the chamber is higher than ambient pressure. At least two metering elements establish a border to the chamber, whereby the metering elements are arranged within the housing so that they can be turned and the metering elements consist of cut-outs arranged along a curved path for picking up grains. At least one grain dispensing area is intended, which is defined by the chamber and the metering elements. The grain dispensing area includes a seed inlet element for transporting separated grains to a seed metering pipe to dispense the separated grains into a furrow, whereby a pressure application device is arranged at the seed inlet element or the seed metering pipe, to produce an air stream for the acceleration of the grains.
US10010023B2
A seed metering system comprising a housing, a seed pick-up disc with a singulating member and one or more resilient members. The housing defines a space therewith which is partitioned by a rotating seed pick-up disc. The seed pick-up disc is provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart seed holding grooves. The housing accommodates seeds within a portion of the space which are picked up by the seed holding grooves during rotation of the seed pick-up disc. The singulating member cooperates with the seed pick-up disc to eliminate excess seed within each of the seed holding grooves to ensure sowing of single seed at regular intervals.
US10015914B2
An example enclosure includes a top portion, a bottom portion, and at least one heat generating module adjacent the top portion of the enclosure. The heat generating module includes an inlet side, an outlet side, a heat generating component and an internal fan. The enclosure also includes a heat collector positioned adjacent the outlet side of the heat generating module to collect warm air from the outlet side of the heat generating module and divert the warm air to the bottom portion of the enclosure to mix with cooler air. The internal fan of the heat generating module draws the mixed air into the heat generating module to create an airflow loop within the enclosure to cool the heat generating component without a heat sink, a heat exchanger, or a fan external to the heat generating module. Other example enclosures and methods of managing heat inside enclosures are also disclosed.
US10015911B2
A cooling system for the electronic components of a computer rack, including a primary circuit of primary liquid; a primary exchanger intended to transfer heat from first electronic components to the primary liquid; a secondary circuit of refrigerant fluid; a primary-secondary exchanger; a tertiary circuit of tertiary liquid; a secondary-tertiary exchanger; and a tertiary-thermal source exchanger. The cooling system also includes a tertiary-secondary exchanger; and an air-tertiary exchanger intended to transfer, to the tertiary liquid, heat from the air of the computer rack heated by second electronic components, the air-tertiary exchanger being arranged, in the tertiary circuit, downstream of the tertiary-secondary exchanger and upstream of the secondary-tertiary exchanger.
US10015906B1
A geo-thermal inverter cooling system for using the temperature of the ground to cool the fluid in the system. The geo-thermal inverter cooling system may include an inverter assembly including a housing and conversion electronic components for converting electrical energy to electrical power and which heat up during use; and a cooling assembly including a fluid reservoir in communication with the housing, and a pump in communication with the fluid reservoir for pumping fluid to cool the electronic components, wherein the fluid reservoir has a reservoir outlet port and reservoir inlet ports.
US10015886B2
A method for producing a portable data carrier includes a spatial structure printed on a first foil. Electroconductive lines are applied first, and components are subsequently inserted in the structure, wherein the structure corresponds to the dimensions or the shape and size of the inserted components. The components are electroconductively connected to the lines therein. A cover is printed over the components. A second foil can be applied to the cover, wherein a design print can be applied to both foils. A gap can be incorporated in the structure and the foils, in order to insert a chip module.
US10015884B2
Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board (PCB) including an embedded electronic component, including: a core having a cavity; an electronic component inserted into the cavity having a rough surface formed on surfaces of external electrodes provided on both lateral portions thereof, a low rough surface being formed in a portion of the rough surfaces; insulating layers laminated on upper and lower portions of the core and bonded to an outer circumferential surface of the electronic component insertedly positioned in the cavity; and an external circuit pattern provided on the insulating layers.
US10015883B2
Disclosed is a light emitting diode (LED) package for a lamp of a vehicle. The LED package includes a printed circuit board (PCB) which includes a metal layer, an insulating layer formed on the metal layer, and an electric wiring layer formed on the insulating layer; an LED circuit unit which includes an LED chip mounted on the electric wiring layer; and a connector which is mounted on the electric wiring layer to be connected with the LED chip. Area and thickness of the printed circuit board and position of the LED chip on the printed circuit board can be determined based on thermal resistance of the LED chip and thermal resistance of the PCB.
US10015882B1
Embodiments described herein relate generally to a microelectronic packaging and the manufacture thereof. A carrier may have a die attached to a top face thereof. A printed circuit board may be attached to the top face of the carrier. The printed circuit board may have a hole in which the die is disposed. A lid may be attached to the printed circuit board opposite the carrier so that the die is enclosed by the carrier, the printed circuit board, and the lid. The printed circuit board may form a seal ring around the die. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10015877B2
A circuit board comprises a first heat transfer structure including graphite or graphene, wherein at least a portion of the first heat transfer structure is disposed inside an insulating member and a primer layer is disposed on a surface of the first heat transfer structure. The first heat transfer structure may comprise a plurality of monomers, the monomers including a primer layer disposed on at least one surface of at least one layer of graphite or graphene.
US10015876B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a printed circuit board that improves the heat radiating effect as the entire printed circuit board and a manufacturing method for such a printed circuit board. A printed circuit board includes a base member having two main surfaces, at least one heat-radiating conductor layer formed on at least one of the main surfaces of the two main surfaces of the base member and a solder resist layer formed on a surface of the heat-radiating conductor layer, and in this printed circuit board, the heat-radiating conductor layer has two main surfaces and at least one side face, the heat-radiating conductor layer has its one main surface of the two main surfaces made in planar contact with the main surface of the base member, the solder resist layer further has an etching liquid resistance, and is formed on the other main surface of the two main surfaces of the heat-radiating conductor layer, with the side face of the heat-radiating conductor layer being exposed, and the heat-radiating conductor layer and the solder resist layer are allowed to form a laminate 24 having a substantially convex shape with an appropriate height.
US10015858B1
Provided is a deep dimming control method and a driver control circuit for controlling brightness to a plurality of LEDs, that includes a controller which generates a first pulse width modulation signal, and a second pulse width modulation signal is used to switch between closed loop control and open loop control of the light intensity of the LEDs, and at least one comparator configured to receive the first PWM signal or the second PWM signal from the controller. The comparator compares the first PWM signal to a measured output current signal and regulates the output current to the LEDS in the closed loop control until a predetermined output dimming level is reached. Upon reaching the predetermined output dimming level, the controller generates the second PWM signal to another comparator, and the output current is maintained at a preset value determined by calibration during the closed loop control.
US10015857B2
A light emitting apparatus including: a light emitting array having at least one light emitting string of serial connected light emitting elements, wherein a bypass switch is connected in parallel to each light emitting element of said light emitting string; and a driving control unit controlling a shift timing of the bypass switches to reduce a variation of a voltage drop across the light emitting string.
US10015855B2
Various embodiments are described herein that relate to systems and methods for selectively providing current to power LEDs. The techniques introduced here can enable smooth dimming of the LEDs from maximum brightness down to “actual extinction” or “pseudo-extinction.” More specifically, the LEDs can be dimmed to extinction without any significant gaps in the levels of brightness (i.e., a noticeable drop rather than a smooth transition between brightness levels). Various pulse width modulation (PWM) and shunting techniques may be used to control the power provided to each color channel of an LED board. Conventionally, PWM often causes LEDs to produce an undesirable acoustic effect. However, by dithering the PWM signals between multiple predetermined positions once the frequency enters the audible range (e.g., below 25 kHz), the cumulative acoustic effect instead becomes white noise.
US10015843B2
A sliding window assembly for a vehicle is disclosed. The assembly includes panels and heating grids coupled to respective panels for defrosting the panels. The assembly further includes a conductive element in continuous electrical connection to the panels for defrosting the panels.
US10015841B2
A micro heater and a micro sensor is capable of providing a heater having a small thermal capacity by forming an air gap which surrounds the heater wire, and forming the heater wire on a porous substrate.
US10015833B2
A communication device for RNTI allocation comprises a processing means, for executing a program, and a storage unit, coupled to the processing means, for storing the program which instructs the processing means to perform the steps: connecting to a first base station, receiving a first RNTI assigned by the first base station, receiving a RRC message including a second RNTI for communication with a second base station from the first base station, transmitting a RRC message response to the first base station, performing communication with the first base station with the first RNTI and communication with the second base station with the second RNTI, transmitting a random access preamble to the second base station, receiving a random access response from the second base station, transmitting a scheduled transmission containing the second RNTI to the second base station, and receiving a contention resolution message from the second base station.
US10015831B2
A multiple network connection method that includes: receiving, by a first device from a second device, capability information of the second device; transmitting, by the first device to the second device, a registration complete message indicating that the second device is registered to a network; and performing, by the first device, a service control for providing a service for the second device. A first connection path and a second connection path are established using the capability information. The first connection path is established between the network and the second device through the first device, and is used for conveying control information for the service. The second connection path is established between the network and the second device not through the first device, and is used for conveying user data for the service.
US10015830B2
A communication apparatus functioning as a master device denies participation by new communication apparatuses in a network in communication parameter configuration mode based on participation statuses of communication apparatuses functioning as slave devices in the network. The communication apparatus functioning as a master device establishes the network in communication parameter configuration mode between the communication apparatuses participating in the network, and configures communication parameters.
US10015823B2
A terminal device includes a transmitter that transmits a random access preamble, a higher layer processor that configures, based on a higher layer signal, a first identity corresponding to a first component carrier group and a second identity corresponding to a second component carrier group; a counter that, in a case that two or more component carriers are configured for an uplink, counts a number of transmission of the random access preamble; and a medium access control (MAC) layer processor that indicates a random access problem to an upper layer in a case that the number exceeds a maximum number of transmission of the random access preamble on a master component carrier of the first component carrier group or a master component carrier of the second component carrier group.
US10015820B2
A wireless device (120) and method for performing cell configuration. The wireless device and a first network node (111) serving the wireless device are operating in a wireless communications network (100), wherein the first network node manages a first serving cell (111a). When the wireless device is to send a second Random Access (RA) transmission in the first serving cell to the first network node while preparing to perform or performing configuration of a second serving cell managed by a second network node, the wireless device configures the second serving cell using a configuration time delay Tact_PSCell comprising at least a time delay TRA_PCell due to the second RA transmission, otherwise the wireless device configures the second serving cell using the configuration time delay Tact_PSCell excluding the time delay TRA_PCell due to the second RA transmission.
US10015819B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation (CA) is disclosed. A method for transmitting control information to a base station (BS) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving at least one of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from the base station through at least one serving cell configured in the user equipment, and transmitting control information regarding PDCCH reception or PDSCH reception indicated by the PDCCH to the base station. The control information is transmitted through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) of a primary cell, using control information feedback timing of at least one of the primary cell and a first cell of the at least one serving cell, and the at least one serving cell uses different uplink and downlink (UL-DL) configurations.
US10015810B2
A method for communicating in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is described. Using control logic, a first wireless transceiver is caused to transmit a wireless packet to a node in a wireless sensor network. The control logic bases its causing on a transmission coinciding with a break in transmission for a second wireless network, such that the transmission from the first wireless transceiver does not coincide with transmissions made on the second wireless network. Time synchronized channel hopping (TSCH) slot frames for wireless packet transmission in the wireless sensor network are caused to be time offset if the first wireless transceiver is utilizing TSCH. Wake up sequence transmissions for the wireless sensor network are caused to be time offset if the first wireless transceiver is utilizing coordinated sampled listening (CSL).
US10015801B2
A radio transceiver comprises a first baseband processor, a second baseband processor, and a radio transmitter coupled to the first and second baseband processors. The first baseband processor receives a radio channel allocation from a first network comprising a radio frequency reserved for communicating in the first network. The second baseband processor is configured to process baseband data for communicating in a second network. The radio transmitter is configured to employ the radio frequency for communication in the second network while the radio frequency is reserved in the first network.
US10015797B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems of selectively providing Internet Protocol (IP) session continuity. In one example, a mobile device may include a radio to communicate with a wireless network, the radio to transmit a session setup request to setup a communication session, and to receive a session setup response in response to the session setup request, the session setup response including a first Internet Protocol (IP) address and a second IP address assigned to the communication session, and an indication that the first IP address is configured to maintain IP session continuity; and a controller to select to use the first IP address for the communication session, if IP session continuity is to be maintained for the communication session, and to select to use the second IP address for the communication session, if IP session continuity is not to be maintained for the communication session.
US10015794B2
A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein even when a SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the plurality of clusters are then mapped to respective discontinuous frequency bands (when C-SC-FDMA is used), the improvement effect of system throughput can be maintained, while the user throughput can be improved. In the apparatus, a DFT unit (210) subjects a symbol sequence of time domain to a DFT process, thereby generating signals of frequency domain. A setting unit (211) divides the signals input from the DFT unit (210) into a plurality of clusters according to a cluster pattern that is in accordance with an MCS set, an encoding size, or the number of Ranks occurring during MIMO transmissions, which is indicated in those signals input, and then maps the plurality of clusters to the respective ones of a plurality of discontinuous frequency resources, thereby setting a constellation of the plurality of clusters in the frequency domain.
US10015789B2
Techniques for supporting communication in an asynchronous TDD wireless network are described. In an aspect, downlink transmissions and uplink transmissions may be sent on different carriers in an asynchronous TDD wireless network to mitigate interference. In one design, a station (e.g., a base station or a UE) may send a first transmission on a first carrier in a first time period and may receive a second transmission on a second carrier in a second time period. The station may only transmit, or only receive, or neither in each time period. In one design, allocation of carriers for the downlink and uplink may be performed when strong interference is detected, e.g., by a base station or a UE. When strong interference is not detected, the first and second carriers may each be used for both the downlink and uplink.
US10015788B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for signaling in a point-to-multi-point (PtMP) fixed wireless backhaul network, in which each Hub serves a plurality of Remote Backhaul Modules (RBM). A Hub serves one RBM in each subframe per carrier in TDMA fashion, comprising transmitting a 1 ms TDD frame comprising one DL subframe and one UL subframe and gaps necessary to switch the radio direction and accommodate round trip delay. DL and UL frames may be allocated to different RBMs, with a single RBM in each DL or UL subframe per carrier per antenna beam. Each Hub keeps an independent context for each of its served RBMs. A DL ranging frame carries general information. A UL ranging frame carries a ranging opportunity. RBMs not scheduled in the current timeslot continue to receive a PHY control channel from the serving Hub, and update their parameters or links for link adaptation.
US10015785B2
An evolved Node B (eNB) includes a memory and at least one hardware processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to: determine to suspend an established radio resource control (RRC) connection with a user equipment (UE), where suspension causes the established RRC connection to be a suspended RRC connection that disables user plane data communications between the UE and the eNB; in response to a determination to suspend the established RRC connection, store RRC connection data related to the established RRC connection; and transmit, to the UE, an RRC connection suspend command instructing the UE to store the RRC connection data and suspend the established RRC connection.
US10015778B2
According to certain embodiments, a method by a wireless device is provided for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) on a serving cell on the unlicensed spectrum. The method includes formatting the UCI as a shortened control signalling transmission and transmitting the UCI formatted as the shortened control signalling transmission to a network node. The shortened control signalling transmission is transmitted during a transmission opportunity on the serving cell on the unlicensed spectrum without performing channel sensing.
US10015767B2
Techniques disclosed herein help a location server identify inaccuracies in a list of neighboring cells provided by the location server by enabling mobile devices to, during an OTDOA session to opportunistically take Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) measurements of additional cells not on the neighboring cell list. The mobile device can then provide these RSTD measurements back to the server, which can optimize its algorithm for determining neighboring cells based on these measurements.
US10015765B2
A method and apparatus for indicating change of a coverage enhancement (CE) mode in a wireless communication system is provided. A CE mode for coverage enhancement may be defined. A user equipment (UE) determines whether the CE mode changes. If it is determined that the CE mode changes, the UE detaches with a network, and re-attaches with the network based on the changed CE mode.
US10015757B2
A wireless device receives at least one message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells grouped into a plurality of timing advance groups (TAGs). A TAG is configurable to consist of one or more downlink-only cells if the wireless device has a first capability, otherwise each TAG comprises one or more downlink-uplink cells. The wireless device receives at least one timing advance command (TAC) for a first TAG. The wireless device applies the TAC to uplink transmission timing of at least one downlink-uplink cell in the first TAG.
US10015751B2
Descriptions on the method and the apparatus for controlling uplink transmission power are provided. The method for controlling uplink transmission power comprises receiving a signal on a downlink channel, wherein the signal includes information on transmission power which indicates a power control mode, determining whether primary cell (PCell) and secondary cell (SCell) are asynchronous or synchronous, determining maximum transmission power for the SCell, using the information on transmission power, based on whether the PCell and the SCell are asynchronous or synchronous, and transmitting signal to the SCell based on the maximum transmission power for the SCell.
US10015735B1
The techniques described herein provide a solution for selecting either one of a distributed network architecture or a centralized network architecture to provide network access to a user. Historical mobility data and contextual mobility data of the user is collected and analyzed to generate a mobility score. The mobility score will be used as a basis to determine whether a distributed network architecture or a centralized network architecture be used for the user to access an external packet data network.
US10015733B2
A method carried out by a network device comprising a plurality of network adapters for transmitting and/or receiving data through a first group of network adapters. Each network adapter of the first group of network adapters is capable of using a plurality of communication technologies for transmitting and/or receiving data. The each network adapter is configured to use a corresponding communication technology for transmitting and/or receiving data. The each network adapter is configured by a configuration corresponding to each network adapter.
US10015730B2
A method and device for selecting a heterogeneous network serving cell based on inter-cell cooperation, which relate to the field of digital communications. The method disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention comprises: acquiring, by a central node base station in a heterogeneous network, alternative users in each cell in the heterogeneous network; and according to a pre-set alternative user selection criterion, selecting an alternative user in the entire network from the alternative users in all cells in the heterogeneous network; and if the alternative user in the entire network needs to conduct a reselection operation, initiating a cell reselection flow. Also disclosed is a device for selecting a heterogeneous network serving cell based on inter-cell cooperation corresponding to the method.
US10015725B2
A method for transmitting uplink (UL) data requiring low latency in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a first control message for informing a basic Contention-based PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel) Zone (CP zone) allocated to each subframe from an enhanced Node B (eNB), receiving a second control message for informing changes in a CP zone allocated to a specific subframe from the eNB, and transmitting UL data to the eNB through a CPRB (Contention PUSCH Resource Block) of the changed CP zone based on the received second control message. The first control message includes basic CP zone resource information indicating resource information of the basic CP zone, and the second control message includes changed CP zone resource information indicating resource information of the changed CP zone.
US10015719B2
A base station includes a plurality of system-on-a-chip (SOC) boards, which each include a plurality of SOC devices to support wireless communication on a plurality of carriers. One of the SOC devices is a transport SOC (TSOC) device that terminates a backhaul interface for receiving downlink radio bearer packets. Each of the SOC devices configures the TSOC device to route downlink radio bearer packets to a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) module in the SOC device.
US10015708B1
Disclosed is a method and system to help manage handover of a UE based on data buffering. In accordance with the disclosure, when a base station receives data destined for a UE, the base station may record the received data into a data buffer for temporary storage and retrieve the data at some later time to transmit the data to the UE. The base station may then determine, based at least in part on an amount of elapsed time from recording the data to retrieving the data, whether to invoke handover of the UE from being served by the base station to being served by a different, neighboring base station.
US10015704B2
A first base station may perform a method for controlling handover of a terminal. The method may include setting a handover parameter that is determined based on a handover policy and transmitting a message including the handover parameter to the terminal. The handover parameter includes a service parameter. The service parameter is used when determining a handover condition of the terminal in order to induce handover from the first base station to the second base station according to the handover policy.
US10015700B2
A method for scheduling self coexistence windows (SCWs), wherein SCWs are part of frames transmitted in wireless regional area networks sharing a common channel, comprises monitoring the common channel for a duration of at least a maximum SCW cycle length; checking if at least one coexistence beacon protocol packet including at least one of SCWs and quiet periods scheduled by neighbor WRANs is detected on the common channel; and establishing a SCW schedule by setting SCW schedule fields in a modified superframe control header, wherein the newly established SCW schedule does not conflict with any already scheduled SCWs and quiet periods.
US10015674B2
An exemplary mobile device activation system may receive, by way of a mobile device not currently activated on a mobile network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile device on the mobile network, authenticate the mobile device to a user account associated with the mobile network, establish an activation session with the authenticated mobile device, receive, during the activation session and by way of the authenticated mobile device, user input indicating a user-selected activation parameter for the authenticated mobile device, and activate the authenticated mobile device on the mobile network based on the user-selected activation parameter for the authenticated mobile device.
US10015644B2
A method to control cell selection and/or re-selection in a communication system comprising a plurality of cells with which terminal devices may communicate, the method including the steps of: determining that a terminal device is to start a session for a certain service, the service using a reception frequency; based on that determination, changing at least one cell selection and/or re-selection parameter in respect of the terminal device with the effect that a subsequent cell selection and/or re-selection performed by the device would favor cells that use the reception frequency used in the service session over other cells.
US10015634B2
Methods and apparatus for estimating mobile station location include receiving reported signal strengths or other attachment indicator values from a mobile station. The reported signal strengths are compared with characteristic received signal strength values in a coverage area of a mobile network. A mobile switching center determines if a local function is requested and initiates a location estimation process by a mobile location module (MLM). The MLM receives the reported signal strength contours associated with the attachment points. Based on a comparison of the reported attachment indicator values with characteristic values, the MLM provides a mobile location estimate.
US10015629B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and systems for facilitating mobile device connections using geo data items. The method comprises receiving data packets transmitted over a network from a first mobile device corresponding to a first user. The data packets include a request for a dining companion, user information corresponding to the first user, and geo data items identifying a geo-location associated with the first user. A point-of-interest is determined based on the geo data items. One or more other mobile devices, corresponding to system users, within a bounded geographical area of the point-of-interest, are located based on the request and corresponding geo data items. An aggregated score for each system user is calculated based on user attributes and a connection between the first user and a system user is facilitated by the system if the aggregated score corresponding to the system user meets a predetermined threshold.
US10015628B1
Methods and systems for providing location services for a burial site are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving user identifying information from a mobile application installed on a mobile device, matching a user associated with the mobile application to the burial site, receiving location data from the mobile device, determining that the mobile device is within a predetermined geofence associated with a location of the burial site, and providing to the user a guidance to the location of the burial site using the mobile application. The method may also include automatically retrieving and presenting to the user, via the mobile application, a digital legacy of a deceased person associated with the burial site. The method may also include visualizing, via the mobile application, the location of the burial site as an avatar associated with the deceased person using Augmented Reality techniques.
US10015622B2
Techniques are described that can be used for efficient mobility management signaling. In some cases, a network can specify an extended timer used for a machine to machine (M2M) type device to communicate with a network. The extended timer can be transmitted in connection with an attachment acceptance message, Location Updating Accept message, Tracking Area Update Accept, or Routing Area Update Accept message. In some cases, a timer can be adjusted using a multiplier in order to increase a period at which communications with the network occur. The network can transmit an indication to change a timer by multiplying the timer with the multiplier.
US10015616B2
This application describes methods of signal processing and spatial audio synthesis. One such method includes accepting an auditory signal and generating an impression of auditory virtual reality by processing the auditory signal to impute a spatial characteristic on it via convolution with a plurality of head-related impulse responses. The processing is performed in a series of steps, the steps including: performing a first convolution of an auditory signal with a characteristic-independent, mixed-sign filter and performing a second convolution of the result of first convolution with a characteristic-dependent, sparse, non-negative filter. In some described methods, the first convolution can be pre-computed and the second convolution can be performed in real-time, thereby resulting in a reduction of computational complexity in said methods of signal processing and spatial audio synthesis.
US10015610B2
A method and a device for analyzing and processing an abnormal load on a premises broadcasting device are provided. More particularly, a method for analyzing and processing an abnormal load on a loudspeaker including a distribution line connected to an output of an amplifier for the premises broadcasting device is provided. The method includes the steps of: comparing and analyzing a real-time individual load value with an individual load value at the early stage of abnormality analysis for an individual loudspeaker load; and electrically separating only the loudspeaker load, including the distribution line corresponding to a short, from the output of the amplifier for the premises broadcasting device in the comparison and analysis step.
US10015607B2
An electronic device may be configured to identify a load coupled to the device. The device may measure direct current (DC) and/or alternating current (AC) impedances of the load to identify the load. The device may then take action based on the identification of the load. For example, a specific transducer may be identified as coupled to the electronic device and an appropriate equalization curve applied to an audio output of the device. The measurement of load impedance may include controlling a reference generator according to a search algorithm to identify the load, including compensating the measured impedance for temperature changes. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) may operate through the search algorithm to provide feedback to digital circuitry regarding how to proceed through the search algorithm to identify the load.
US10015599B2
Disclosed is a micro speaker, comprising a vibration system, a magnetic circuit system and a support system; the vibration system comprises a vibrating diaphragm; a dodging groove is provided on a dome portion of the vibrating diaphragm opposite to a groove structure of an upper housing; the depth of the dodging groove is not less than that of the groove structure; an orthographic projection area of the dodging groove covers that of the groove structure; a dodging structure is provided on a washer of the magnetic circuit system opposite to the dodging groove; the depth of the dodging structure is not less than that of the dodging groove; and the orthographic projection area of the dodging structure covers that of the dodging groove. This structure ensures the normal operation of a product and acoustic performance of a micro speaker while preventing collision of components.
US10015598B2
The invention relates to an audio device for use proximate a user's ears. The audio device includes first and second audio transmitting/receiving devices that are capable of operating in stereo. The audio device may be used within a system for manipulating audio signals received by the device. The manipulation may include processing received audio signals to enhance their quality. The processing may include applying one or more audio enhancement algorithms such as beamforming, active noise reduction, etc. A corresponding method for manipulating audio signals is also disclosed.
US10015596B1
An audio control system of a vehicle includes a sound control module configured to determine N magnitudes for outputting a predetermined engine sound at N frequencies, respectively, where N is an integer greater than one. A magnitude adjustment module is configured to determine at least one N magnitude adjustment values for the N frequencies, respectively, based on at least one of: an intake air temperature; and an exhaust temperature. The sound control module is further configured to determine N adjusted magnitudes for the predetermined engine sound at the N frequencies based on: the N magnitudes for the N frequencies, respectively; and the N magnitude adjustment values for the N frequencies, respectively. An audio driver module is configured to apply power to at least one speaker of the vehicle and output the predetermined engine sound at the N frequencies and the N adjusted magnitudes for the N frequencies, respectively.
US10015595B2
A method of controlling a sound system installed in a plurality of vehicles is disclosed that includes recognizing a plurality of sound systems respectively installed in a plurality of vehicles, determining relative positions of the plurality of vehicles, and controlling operations of the plurality of sound systems according to the relative positions and specifications of each of the plurality of vehicles.
US10015594B2
A peripheral device for use with a user terminal, the peripheral device comprising: a first housing part and a second housing part flexibly coupled together, the peripheral configured to be operated in an open mode wherein the first housing part and the second housing part lie adjacent to each other such that the peripheral forms a stand for the user terminal and a closed mode wherein the first housing part and the second housing part lie facing each other; at least one sensor in the first housing part configured to determine whether the peripheral device is the open mode or the closed mode; at least one transducer directed in a first orientation suitable for operating in a closed mode; a further transducer directed in a further orientation suitable for operating in an open mode; and control logic for controlling the at least one transducer and the at least one further transducer based on the at least one sensor determining whether the peripheral device is the open mode or the closed mode.
US10015588B1
Techniques, described herein, may enable a computing device (e.g., a set-top-box, a user equipment (UE), etc.) with an array of sensors (e.g., microphones, antennas, etc.) to engage in beamforming in a manner that optimizes the signal strength of the target signal. For example, the computing device may create an optimized beam pattern by applying a pre-selected band width to a steering direction of the target signal. The beam width may include steering vectors at equal, angular distances from the steering direction, enabling steep transition slopes to be applied to the optimized beam pattern. In some implementations, the beam width and transition slopes may be standardized, such that the optimized beam pattern for any signal may be uniform, regardless of variables such as frequency and time.
US10015587B2
A dynamic microphone that enables taking a long propagation path of a sound wave on a back side of a diaphragm, and by which unidirectivity can be obtained even at a low frequency. The dynamic microphone includes: a dynamic microphone unit; and an air chamber provided on a back side of a diaphragm of the dynamic microphone unit, wherein the air chamber is folded back to make a propagation path of a sound wave on the back side of the diaphragm long, a plurality of acoustic resistors is arranged in the air chamber at intervals to each other in a direction of the propagation path of a sound wave, and acoustic resistance values of the plurality of acoustic resistors become higher as the propagation path of a sound wave goes away from the diaphragm.
US10015583B2
An arrayable loudspeaker (11) has at least one high frequency driver (39) mounted to a horn (37) and at least one pair of low frequency drivers (41) configured behind and in a closely spaced relationship to the horn to form low frequency side chambers (71) between the drivers and the horn from which acoustic energy produced by the low frequency drivers can propagate. Low frequency exit channels (77) above and below the horn are coupled to the low frequency side chambers (71). The configuration of the horn and low frequency drivers and the low frequency side chambers and low frequency exit channels is such that acoustical outputs of all drivers radiate coaxially from the loudspeaker with substantially constant wide beamwidth in the non-arraying plane. Signal processing can be added to enhance beamwidth control critical frequency ranges above crossover.
US10015574B1
A portable electronic device is described and includes a device housing, an acoustic housing disposed within the device housing and defining an interior volume, a speaker diaphragm assembly disposed within the interior volume and in fluid communication with a first opening leading out of the housing, and a microphone disposed within the interior volume and in fluid communication with a second opening leading out of the acoustic housing. Placing both the speaker diaphragm assembly and microphone within the same acoustic housing allows both components to share common power and data transfer circuitry. Furthermore, the additional volume of the acoustic housing used to accommodate the microphone can improve the acoustic performance of the speaker diaphragm assembly by increasing the back volume associated with the speaker diaphragm assembly.
US10015558B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and a device for adjusting television notification display durations and a television, the method includes: receiving notification information sent by a server, and determining a first display duration according to a notification type of the notification information; receiving an operation instruction sent by a user regarding the notification information; adjusting the first display duration to a second display duration according to a type of the operation instruction. The method and device for adjusting television notification display durations, and the television provided by the embodiments of the present application can adjust the display durations of notifications according to level of user interest towards the certain type of notifications, thus improving user experience.
US10015552B2
An electronic voting method, system and apparatus is disclosed. A vote message is received at a network node, the vote message comprising a sender identifier, event identifier and a timestamp. The sender identifier, event identifier and timestamp are read, and it is determined from the timestamp that an event window was open and whether the window was a first or subsequent window. In the event that the window is the first window, the vote and sender identifier are stored at a database. In the event that the window is a second or subsequent window, the sender identifier is compared to sender identifiers stored at a previous window and if a match is found the vote is marked as validated and the vote stored at the database.
US10015549B1
In one embodiment, a method receives information describing programs for a channel over multiple time slots. Audience definitions are generated for the programs defining parameters for selecting a respective source stream for delivery to users. A bundle is stored for each audience definition. A request is received for the channel from a user. The method then generates a viewer definition for the user based on a current status of the user, wherein the viewer definition includes user information for the user. In response to receiving the request, a manifest is constructed for the channel using a set of bundles that includes audience definitions that match the viewer definition. Only one bundle per time slot is selected for the manifest. Portions of the manifest are provided to a client device to allow the client device to request content from the channel.
US10015545B2
A user device and method comprises a screen display and a user interface. A display control module defines a first display area with a first boundary therearound and displaying a first category indicator for a first category therein. The display control module defines a second display area with a second boundary and displays a second category indicator for a second category therein. A gesture control module receives a movement signal from the user interface for moving the first display area relative to the second display area using a user interface. The display control module defines a third boundary around a third display area representing the first category and the second category when the first boundary and the second boundary touch or overlap and displays the first category indicator and the second category indicator within the third boundary. When the third display area is selected, a function may be performed.
US10015541B2
In one embodiment, a system comprises a processor to retrieve a first data element including a value X0 and Y0, provide a hash function for use with a hash table having buckets, the hash function having a first and second input that in combination map to one of the buckets wherein the first input is in a range of X-values having X-value sub-ranges, the second input is in a range of Y-values having Y-value sub-ranges, different combinations of the X-value sub-ranges and the Y-value sub-ranges map using the hash function to different buckets, and input the value X0 and Y0 into the hash function yielding an output which is indicative of a first bucket of the hash-table. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US10015537B2
In one embodiment, an image analysis is performed on an image captured using a camera mounted on an autonomous vehicle, the image representing an exterior environment of an autonomous vehicle. Localization information surrounding the autonomous vehicle is obtained at a point in time. A perception of an audience external to the autonomous vehicle is determined based on the image analysis and the localization information. One or more content items are received from one or more content servers over a network in response to the perception of the audience. A first content item selected from the one or more content items is displayed on a display device mounted on an exterior surface of the autonomous vehicle.
US10015525B2
In high-dynamic range (HDR) coding, content mapping translates an HDR signal to a signal of lower dynamic range. Coding and prediction in layered coding of HDR signals is improved if content mapping utilizes signal color ranges beyond those defined by a traditional electro-optical transfer function (EOTF) or its inverse (IEOTF or OETF). Extended EOTF and IEOTF functions are derived based on their mirror points. Examples of extended EOTFs are given for ITU BT. 1886 and SMPTE ST 2084.
US10015520B2
A video decoding apparatus including an extractor which extracts from a bitstream first pattern information indicating whether residual samples of a current coding unit are equal to 0, and when the first pattern information indicates the residual samples are not equal to 0, extracts from the bitstream transformation index information indicating whether a transformation unit of a current level included in the current coding unit is split, a decoder which splits the transformation unit of the current level into transformation units of a lower level when the transformation index information indicates a split of the transformation unit of the current level, wherein the extractor further extracts second pattern information for the transformation unit of the current level when the transformation index information indicates a non-split of the transformation unit of the current level, wherein the second pattern information indicates whether the transformation unit of the current level contains one or more transform coefficients not equal to 0, wherein the transformation unit of the current level is split into four transformation units of the lower level.
US10015514B2
A motion vector predictor candidate generating unit makes a prediction based on a motion vector of one of coded neighboring blocks that are neighboring to a coding target block in space or time and generates a plurality of motion vector predictor candidates. A motion vector predictor redundant candidate removing unit removes the motion vector predictor candidates having identity among the motion vector predictor candidates predicted based on a coded neighboring block that is neighboring in space from a motion vector predictor candidate list with at least one being left. A motion vector predictor selecting unit selects a motion vector predictor from the plurality of motion vector predictor candidates. A first bitstream generating unit codes information representing the selected motion vector predictor.
US10015509B2
A video predictive coding system includes a video predictive encoding device having: an input circuit to receive pictures constituting a video sequence; an encoding circuit which conducts predictive coding of a target picture using, as reference pictures, pictures encoded and reconstructed in the past, to generate compressed picture data; a reconstruction circuit to decode the compressed picture data to reconstruct a reproduced picture; picture storage to store the reproduced picture as a reference picture for encoding of a subsequent picture; and a buffer management circuit which controls the picture storage, (prior to predictive encoding of the target picture), on the basis of buffer description information BD[k] related to reference pictures used in predictive encoding of the target picture, encodes the buffer description information BD[k] with reference to buffer description information BD[m] for a picture different from the target picture, and adds encoded data thereof to the compressed picture data.
US10015508B2
Before completion of merge encoding processing of an immediately preceding PU, a controller determines the order of evaluation of merge candidates with the immediately preceding PU excluded from the merge candidates to be evaluated, and a merge-candidate derivation part evaluates each merge candidate in the order of evaluation. After the completion of the merge encoding processing of the immediately preceding PU, the controller re-determines the order of evaluation of merge candidates with the immediately preceding PU included in the merge candidates to be evaluated, and the merge-candidate derivation part evaluates each merge candidate in the re-determined order of evaluation excluding the merge candidate whose evaluation has already been started.
US10015504B2
In an example of this disclosure, a method may include receiving or generating image segmentation data for a plurality of pixels. The image segmentation data may include one or more image segmentation values for each pixel of the plurality of pixels. The method may include converting the one or more image segmentation values into one or more image component values. The method may include sending the one or more image component values corresponding to the one or more image segmentation values to a video encoder.
US10015502B2
An image processor processes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels include a first and second set of bits that can be separately or simultaneously in first and second regions of a memory using one or more addresses. The first set of bits may correspond to the more significant bits of each pixel and the second set of bits may correspond to the less significant bits. In some examples the number of bits in each of the first and second set of bits may be selected according to the width of a used data bus and/or features of a peripheral device connected to the image processor such as a display.
US10015493B2
An encoding apparatus includes an intra-prediction module, a transform module and a control module. The intra-prediction module performs intra-prediction on an image block in a video frame according to a plurality of sets of reference image data to generate a residual block. The reference image data includes a set of reference image data corresponding to a predetermined side of the image block. The transform module performs preliminary transform on the residual block to generate a preliminary transform coefficient matrix. According to whether at least one of the reference image data corresponding to the predetermined side is generated according to image data of an adjacent pixel of the image block, the control module determines whether secondary transform perpendicular to the predetermined side is to be performed on a low-frequency component sub-matrix in the preliminary transform coefficient matrix.
US10015487B2
A prediction direction difference calculating unit derives a prediction direction difference in intra prediction modes of a plurality of reference blocks used for an intra prediction processing of a block to be coded. A most probable mode determining unit and a coding tree selecting unit determine a most probable mode as an intra prediction mode candidate of the block to be coded based on the intra prediction modes of the reference blocks used for deriving the prediction direction difference and the prediction direction difference, and creates a coding tree assigned with a bitstream having a shorter code length than other prediction modes for the determined most probable mode. A variable length coding unit codes information for specifying an intra prediction mode of the block to be coded according to the coding tree.
US10015486B2
Devices and methods for video decoding with application layer forward error correction in a wireless device are generally described herein. In some methods a partial source symbol block is received that includes at least one encoded source symbol representing an original video frame. In such methods, the at least one encoded source symbol is systematic, the source symbol is decoded to recover a video frame, and the video frame is provided to a video decoder that generates a portion of an original video signal from the recovered video frame.
US10015463B2
Comparing images, including: selecting a target image; selecting one or more search images; comparing the target image to a negative image corresponding to each search image to generate an image comparison score for each search image; and identifying the search image with the best image comparison score. Keywords include logging events and frame matching.
US10015461B2
First extracting means of a processing unit, based on a brightness component and a color information component of a captured image separated by separating means, extract a candidate region using a first morphology processing based on the brightness component, and second extracting means of the processing unit extract a likelihood of a region from a color space composed of the brightness component and the color information component and perform a second morphology processing to generate a region-extracted image, which is displayed on the display device. In this case, the morphology processing including the smoothing filter processing is performed on an extracted candidate region and an extracted likelihood of the region.
US10015454B2
An image sensor for converting incident light into digital signals is disclosed. In one aspect, the image sensor includes a matrix of light-sensitive pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel columns each having a predetermined lateral extent. The image sensor includes an analog-to-digital converter block including a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Each of the plurality of ADCs includes an analog processing portion adapted to receive at least one analog signal from a pixel column of the matrix and to generate at least one digital signal from the received analog signal. Each of the plurality of ADCs includes a digital processing portion adapted to receive said at least one digital signal from said corresponding analog processing portion. The lateral extent of at least one of the digital processing portions is greater than the lateral extent of its corresponding analog processing portion.
US10015452B1
A vehicular control system includes a forward viewing camera that views forward through the vehicle windshield and a control including an image processor that processes image data captured by the camera. Responsive at least in part to processing of captured image data, (i) at least one road characteristic of a road along which the vehicle is traveling is detected, (ii) other vehicles exterior the vehicle are detected, and (iii) road curvature of the road along which the vehicle is traveling is determined. Data derived at least in part from captured image data and at least in part relevant to a current geographic location of the vehicle is wirelessly communicated from the vehicle to a remote data receiver located remote from the vehicle. Based at least in part on image data processed by the image processor, speed of the vehicle is controlled.
US10015447B2
Examples disclosed herein provide the ability for remote participants in a collaborative workspace to hear and view specified participants in a conference room. In on example, a computing device may receive streams of content from devices located in a room, and receive requests from users. As an example, each user request is for accessing a subset of the streams of content. For each user request, the computing device may join the requested subset of the streams of content into a single multimedia stream, and transmit each single multimedia stream to respective users.
US10015446B2
An automatic process for producing professional, directed, production crew quality, video for videoconferencing is described. The process includes a method for positioning a 360 degree panoramic strip view of a room. The method includes receiving motion detection data, accepting presence sensor data, receiving video data from cameras related to a room view, and centering individuals in a room view, based on the received motion detection data, the accepted presence sensor data and received video data. The method also includes zooming onto the centered individuals in the room view, obtaining sound source localization data and active talker information, and determining how to arrange the display of individuals in a logical manner that is visually pleasing and aides understanding. Rule based logic is applied to assist with the automatic processing of video into director quality video production. Various video sources may be used as video stream sources for the automated system.
US10015433B2
The present disclosure discloses a sound adjustment system and a sound adjustment method, relating to the field of sound processing technology, to address the problem that outside noise has an adverse impact on the user's viewing quality. The sound adjustment system comprises: a processor, a noise detection module, a position detection module, and a light detection module; the noise detection module is configured to detect noise that affects normal broadcast of a television, and send noise volume data acquired to the processor; the position detection module is configured to detect the distance between a noise source and the television, and send position data acquired to the processor; the light detection module is configured to detect whether there is a user in front of the television, and send light detection data acquired to the processor; the processor controls broadcasting volume and broadcasting progress of the television according to the noise volume data, the position data and the light detection data.
US10015423B2
In a method of operating an image sensor, a first pixel and a second pixel are commonly connected to a floating diffusion node. A voltage of the floating diffusion node is boosted. A first image signal of the first pixel is read through the floating diffusion node after of the voltage of the floating diffusion node is boosted. A second image signal of the second pixel is read through the floating diffusion node after the first image signal is read. The image sensor has a shared structure in which a plurality of pixels are connected to a single floating diffusion node. Blooming may be reduced in the image sensor by boosting the voltage of the floating diffusion node before reading the image signal to lower the potential barrier formed between the photodiode and the floating diffusion node and drain the saturated photocharges into the floating diffusion node.
US10015417B2
[Object] The present technique relates to an image pickup device, an image pickup method, and a program that enables pixels having 4 types of spectral sensitivities to be controlled while changing exposure times.[Solving Means] The present technique is applicable to an image pickup device including pixels having 4 types of spectral sensitivities, that include pixels having a panchromatic spectral sensitivity and are arranged on an image pickup surface, pixels that realize a first exposure and pixels that realize a second exposure different from the first exposure being arranged on the image pickup surface with respect to the 4 types of spectral sensitivities. Further, a first line in which first pixels having the panchromatic spectral sensitivity are arranged in a two-pixel cycle in a specific direction and a second line in which the first pixels are arranged while deviating by one pixel from the first line in the specific direction are arranged alternately in a direction orthogonal to the specific direction, and pixels having spectral sensitivities different from the spectral sensitivity of the first pixels are arranged in a 2- or 4-pixel cycle in the specific direction for each of the spectral sensitivities and 2-dimensionally constitute a cyclic arrangement of 4×4 pixels in which the first spectral sensitivity pixels are arranged in a checkerboard arrangement.
US10015416B2
An image sensor may have a pixel array, and the pixel array may include a plurality of image pixels that gather image data and a plurality of phase detection pixels that gather phase information. The phase detection pixels may be arranged in phase detection pixel blocks, and each phase detection pixel group may include edge pixels. The edge pixels of each phase detection pixel group may be covered by microlenses that also cover a portion of a center pixel. The pixel array may also include high dynamic range pixel blocks. Each high dynamic range pixel block may include pixels within the phase detection pixel block and other pixels (e.g., corner pixels). A subset of the plurality of image pixels in the pixel array may be arranged in pixel blocks. Each pixel block may include a phase detection pixel block and a high dynamic range pixel block.
US10015411B2
A method of monitoring a driver including obtaining images from the first and second camera unit, checking whether a brightness of the image obtained from the first camera unit is equal to or greater than a reference value or whether the driver is detected from the image obtained from the second camera unit, if the brightness of the image obtained from the first camera unit is not equal to or greater than the reference value or the driver is not detected from the image obtained from the second camera unit, obtaining a first comparative image from the first camera unit by turning off the second illumination unit and a second comparative image from the first camera unit by turning on the second illumination unit, checking whether a difference value between a brightness of the obtained first comparative image and a brightness of the obtained second comparative image is equal to or greater than a reference difference value, and if the difference value between the brightness of the obtained f comparative image and the brightness of the obtained second comparative image is not equal to or greater than the reference difference value, turning off the second illumination unit.
US10015395B2
A communication apparatus includes: a specifying unit configured to specify a region in an image; a determination unit configured to determine a mode used for communication of image data from a plurality of modes including a first mode for communicating image data of a region of interest specified by the specifying unit, and a second mode for communicating, in addition to the image data of the region of interest, image data of a region of no interest which has not been specified by the specifying unit; and a communication unit configured to communicate image data with other communication apparatus in accordance with a mode determined by the determination unit.
US10015385B2
Implementations generally relate to enhancing video conferences. In some implementations, a method includes determining one or more characteristics of a video stream provided by a first camera. The method further includes determining one or more functions of the first camera based on the one or more characteristics. The method further includes enabling a browser to control the one or more functions of the first camera, and wherein the browser is remote relative to the first camera.
US10015377B2
A method of assembling a vehicular camera includes providing a front camera housing and a lens assembly and dispensing an adhesive bead in an uncured state at at least one of (i) an attaching portion of the lens assembly and (ii) the front camera housing. The attaching portion and the front housing member are mated together with the adhesive bead therebetween. With the attaching portion and front housing member mated together, lens optics of the lens assembly are aligned with respect to an imaging array of the front camera housing. After such alignment, the adhesive bead is cured to a first cure level via ultraviolet light exposure to join the lens assembly and the front housing member. The lens assembly and front camera housing so joined are moved to a further curing station, where the adhesive bead is further cured to a second cure level.
US10015376B2
An imaging element includes pixel portions each having a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel and outputs a phase difference detection-type focus detecting signal. An image signal A includes information for the first sub-pixel and an image signal AB includes information for the second sub-pixel. A level determining unit compares the image signal A with a threshold value SHA and compares the image signal AB with a threshold value SHAB. A correlation calculation processing unit performs correlation calculation for a signal excluding the image signal A having a level exceeding the threshold value SHA and the image signal AB having a level exceeding the threshold value SHAB so as to output the result of calculation to a CPU. The CPU calculates a focal shift amount in accordance with the result of calculation and performs a focus adjusting operation by drive-controlling a focus lens.
US10015365B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for printing a spot color proof are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving a request to print a print job, determining one or more spot colors in the print job, translating the one or more spot colors into a respective color value of a color model used by a printer that is selected to print the print job, generating the spot color proof that includes a patch of each one of the one or more spot colors printed in the respective color value and the respective color value, and printing the spot color proof.
US10015363B2
An image reading device includes a placement section, a reader, an authentication control section, and a reading control section. A document and an identification medium are placed on the placement section. The reader reads the document and the identification medium and generates image data. The authentication control section performs authentication of a user based on image data of the identification medium and generates authentication information that indicates a result of authentication of the user. The reading control section controls the reader. The reading control section controls the reader to read the document after generating the image data of the identification medium. The authentication control section starts authentication of the user after the image data of the identification medium is generated.
US10015360B1
Detection and identification a field's boundaries is performed in a workflow based on processing images of the field captured at different times, relative to a defined seed point. Images are clipped to align with the seed point and a bounding box around the seed point, and a mask is built by extracting edges of the field from the images. The workflow floods an area around the seed point that has pixels of a similar color, using the mask as an initial boundary. The flooded area is compared to threshold parameter values, which are tuned to refine the identified boundary. Flooded areas in multiple images are combined, and a boundary is built based on the combined flooded set. Manual, interactive tuning of floodfill areas allows for a separate boundary detection and identification workflow or for refinement of the automatic boundary detection workflow.
US10015353B1
A method, a computer readable medium, and a multi-function peripheral are disclosed, which use IPv6 packet extensions for execution of a job request based on proximity. The method including sending a job to be processed by a multi-function peripheral with an IPv6 Destination Options extension header from a client device to the multi-function peripheral, the IPv6 Destination Options extension header containing a physical location of the client device; receiving the job with the IPv6 Destination Options extension header containing the physical location of the client device on the multi-function peripheral; examining the IPv6 Destination Options extension header containing the physical location of the client device on the multi-function peripheral; and executing the job if the physical location of the client device is within a defined proximity to the multi-function peripheral.
US10015352B2
An exposure device includes a first light emitting element substrate including a plurality of first light emitting elements arranged at an arrangement interval T in a longitudinal direction, and a second light emitting element substrate including a part in the longitudinal direction that overlaps with a part of the first light receiving element substrate so as to form an overlapping region. The first and second light emitting element substrates are shifted from each other in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The second light emitting element substrate includes a plurality of second light emitting elements arranged in the longitudinal direction. The second light emitting elements are arranged at the arrangement interval T at least outside the overlapping region. When an interval between two of the second light emitting elements of the second light emitting element substrate disposed in the overlapping region is expressed as a specified interval TS, the specified interval TS and the arrangement interval T satisfy: T≤TS≤2T.
US10015350B2
A terminal device includes, as functions for transmitting a file with a digital signature via mail, a first communication unit for carrying out communication with a terminal device used by an authorizer when a distance from that terminal device is not greater than a prescribed distance, an obtaining unit for obtaining a value obtained from a file to be transmitted, which has been encrypted through encryption processing performed by making use of information exchanged with that terminal device, and a transmission instruction unit for outputting an instruction for mail transmission of the file and the obtained encrypted value.
US10015349B2
An image forming apparatus includes an application on a framework that is separated into a core logic portion handling basic processing and a user interface frame portion handling rendering processing and operates; and a controller that executes the application and the framework. The core logic portion is implemented with an application programming interface defined by the framework, and the application programming interface includes a before-the-fact notification indicative of that a window of the application is changed to a display state as a result that another window in an upper layer is changed to a non-display state.
US10015348B2
An image forming apparatus which appropriately avoids a resource conflict in the image forming apparatus. A checking unit checks whether a type of an application program execution of which has been ordered is a specific type. A control unit allows execution of a job issued by the application program the type of which has been determined as being the specific type, and restricts execution of a job issued by the application program the type of which has been determined as not being the specific type.
US10015347B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a retention unit that retains a list of paper information and detailed information associated with the paper information; a first acquisition unit that acquires a list of paper information from a storage unit of a printer; an update unit that updates the list of the paper information retained in the retention unit by using the acquired list of paper information; a second acquisition unit that acquires, based on a difference between the list, of the paper information retained in the retention unit and the acquired list of paper information, part of detailed information associated with paper information stored in the storage unit, from the storage unit; and a generation unit that generates, based on the detailed information acquired by the second acquisition unit, data to be transmitted to the printer. The update unit updates, based on the acquired detailed information, the retained detailed information.
US10015341B2
An image forming apparatus is provided with a power supply switch, a control unit configured to transition the image forming apparatus into a suspend state when the power supply switch is turned off by an operation of a user, a device to which a power supply is stopped forcibly when the power supply switch is turned off by the operation of the user, and a notification unit configured to notify the control unit of an error that occurred on the device, and the control unit, in a case where the error is notified of by the notification unit, controls the image forming apparatus to revert from the suspend state and resets the image forming apparatus.
US10015340B2
An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, an image output unit and a control unit. The control unit includes: a function setup controller for setting up the image output conditions of output images; and a control-unit side controller having a function of displaying a function setup screen corresponding to the function setup controller, on a display panel. The function setup controller has an additional input mode having a function of reading documents a multiple number of times to form multiple sheaves of documents. The additional input mode includes: an individual setup function of setting up individual image output conditions for each sheaf of documents and an all-in setup function of setting up identical image output conditions for all sheaves of documents. When the additional input mode is set up, the control unit-side controller offers a display of a setup change suggestion of the image output conditions for the next input on the display screen at the stage where the first image data input has been completed.
US10015333B2
An image reading apparatus includes an image scanning unit that is provided with a holding portion holding a flexible flat cable. The holding portion is protruded toward an upstream side in a sub scanning direction, and provided with a second wall part. The flexible flat cable that is extended from a connector is brought into contact with the second wall part. As for the flexible flat cable, a downward movement is regulated by a lower holding portion and an upward movement is regulated by an upper holding portion. Accordingly, the flexible flat cable does not rise.
US10015331B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a display; a first display controller configured to display a background screen image(s); and a second display controller configured to display, within each background screen image, at least one object image each for receiving a command for executing a corresponding predefined processing. The first display controller executes a display switch processing to switch the background screen image being displayed on the display from a first background screen image to a second background screen image by moving the first and second background screen images in a first direction. The second display controller executes a shaking display processing in which the object image displayed within the second background screen image is repeatedly moved between two positions. The shaking display processing is started upon a start of the display switch processing and finished after an end of the display switch processing.
US10015329B2
An information management apparatus for managing information about information devices connected to the information management apparatus via a network. The information management apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about current setting from the information devices, a diagnosis unit configured to diagnose setting of the each information device based on the acquired information, a generation unit configured to generate a diagnosis result report containing findings about setting based on a diagnosis result associated with a management area where the information devices are arranged, and an output unit configured to output the diagnosis result report generated by the generation unit.
US10015322B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems for processing transactions are described. A provider contract associated with a particular account is identified. In response to determining that the identified provider contract is associated with a periodic activity, a rating request is created that is associated with the particular account. The created rating request associated with the particular account is added to a queue of consumption items for processing, so that the created rating request, when processed, triggers an action corresponding to the determined periodic activity at an external system.
US10015318B2
In one embodiment, a system provides for end-user control over the automatic recognition of communication situations by detection of unique telecommunication event characteristics and the consequential responses to those situations by invocation of related programmatic responses. The system allows an end user to specify various patterns of telecommunication event characteristics that describe various situational aspects of incoming communications, such as the timing and originator of voice calls, the content of, timing of, and author of chat messages, etc., as well as appropriate sets of programmatic response actions to be performed in response to those communications, such as initiating conference calls, sending chat messages, routing calls to other users, etc. The system monitors incoming communications, matches characteristic patterns to recognize the situations, and then invokes the matching response actions, thereby automating many functions of the communication system that previously would have had to be performed manually.
US10015314B2
The present disclosure relates to a call collision processing method for a terminal device, and a terminal device. A state machine records that a current state of the terminal device is an incoming call state, an outgoing call state, or an idle state. When the terminal device is in the idle state, that the terminal device processes an incoming call or an outgoing call is determined according to occupation of the state machine by incoming call information or by outgoing call information, and a state of the state machine after the state machine is occupied by the incoming call or the outgoing call is protected by using a mutex lock.
US10015304B2
An electronic apparatus that connects an audio device to an access point (AP) via a wireless fidelity (WIFI) network, and the audio device are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface including communication circuitry configured to receive a probe request, and a controller configured to provide AP connection information corresponding to the AP to the audio device in response to an indicator that indicates a network setup between the audio device and the AP, wherein the indicator is included in the probe request.
US10015301B1
The lock screen wallpaper of a mobile device is temporarily changed so that when a user activates the display without unlocking the phone, he/she can review information that is rendered as the lock screen wallpaper.
US10015298B2
An electronic device having a user interface for accessing phone features. The user interface accounts for whether the electronic device is connected to a companion cellular phone. The user interface accounts for a headset is available for use to carry on a call. The user interface permits transition between using one or more of cellular phone, headset, and/or the electronic device to be used for carrying on incoming or outgoing calls.
US10015296B1
A lens cover selectively covers and exposes a, camera lens on the back of mobile device, such as a cellular phone. The lens cover can be adhered to the back of the mobile device. The lens cover has a flap that pivots 180 degrees about an axis parallel with the back of the mobile device, and between an open/storage position and a closed position. The flap can be off-set with respect to the axle so that in the open/storage position, the flap is adjacent or abutting to the back of the mobile device, and so that in the closed position, the flap is spaced-apart from the back of the mobile device, creating a gap to receive a protruding camera or camera lens. The flap can also comprise a detent to maintain the flap in a selected position until selectively moved.
US10015294B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first surface, a second surface disposed facing an opposite side of the first surface, and a side surface configured to surround at least a portion of a space between the first surface and the second surface, a first elongated metal member configured to form a first portion of the side surface and including a first end and a second end, at least one communication circuit electrically connected to a first point of the first elongated metal member through a capacitive element, at least one ground member disposed in an interior of the housing, and a first conductive member configured to electrically connect a second point of the first elongated metal member to the ground member. The second point of the first elongated metal member is disposed closer to the second end than to the first point.
US10015292B2
System, methods, entities, and computer program for handling timers in a communication network are described. The communication network comprises a plurality of entities (100-108). The method in a first entity (100) comprises determining (301) whether a supervision condition for supervising a communication procedure is fulfilled. The method further comprises adding (308), based on a result of the step of determining the supervision condition (301), a timer validity information to a signaling message related to the communication procedure, and sending (308) the signaling message to a second entity (102). The method in a second entity (102-108) comprises receiving (400) a signaling message associated with a communication procedure, the signaling message containing a timer validity information. The method further comprises determining (401) whether a further processing condition for performing further steps of the communication procedure is fulfilled, the further processing condition being associated with the timer validity information. The system, entities (100-108) and computer program associated with these methods are also described. Therefore an improved handling of time supervisions in a communication network is achieved in terms of accuracy of supervision timeout, and eliminating a triggering of unwanted remote actions after local timeout.
US10015289B2
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and can include obtaining, within a radio access network, a channel state for a data channel associated with a mobile terminal; including the channel state in a differentiated services (diffserv) marking within an Internet Protocol (IP) header of at least one IP packet associated with the mobile terminal; and transmitting the at least one IP packet including the IP header having the diffserv marking toward a packet data network.
US10015279B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for reconciling application assignments of different types to users and devices, and associating appropriate licenses for the applications to the users from purchase accounts managed by an external application store. An example method includes identifying a change in an assignment configuration for a user, the assignment configuration including a plurality of assignments of an application to the user; determining a winning assignment from the plurality of assignments; in response to determining the winning assignment, determining that the winning assignment requires a change to an external application store; and in response to determining that the winning assignment requires a change to the external application store, instructing the external application store to perform a configuration change corresponding to the winning assignment.
US10015274B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for enhanced storage clients. In some embodiments, an interface for using a storage service may be provided. The interface for each of a plurality of storage services may be implemented within a storage client. A cache may be integrated within the storage client for reducing a number of accesses to a storage service of the plurality of storage services. A compression method may be provided in the storage client to reduce a size of data objects. An encryption method may be provided in the storage client to preserve data privacy. An application may select at least one storage services of the plurality of storage services and using the at least one storage service via the storage client.
US10015272B2
Methods, apparatuses, and storage media associated with compaction of data from one or more computing devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, one or more Internet of Things (IoT) devices may transmit information to a computing system. The computing system may group together raw data received from these one or more IoT devices based on a shared attribute. The computing system may select a compaction scheme to represent the knowledge conveyed by a group of the raw data. The computing system may apply this compaction scheme to the group of raw data to generate data that is representative of the group of raw data. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US10015271B1
A method of managing data objects at a remote computing system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to provide a recipient associated with a recipient computing device with access to a data object, providing an identifier that references the data object, receiving a request for the data object from the recipient, and providing the recipient with access to the data object based on one or more characteristics of the recipient computing device.
US10015269B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for providing contact information, which improves a communication efficiency of a user on the internet. The method is applied in a server, and the method includes: obtaining keyword information input by a first user; determining contact information of at least one second user inputting same or similar keyword information as input by the first user; displaying the contact information of the at least one second user to the first user.
US10015266B1
A massive number of long lived connections is migrated between a source and a destination computer. Connection state information concerning each request being processed on each connection is transferred from the source to the destination computer. The source continues to respond to requests on a given connection while transferring corresponding state information. Once state information for a specific connection has been transferred, the connection is switched from the source to the destination. Connections are kept active during the shifting. While shifting traffic on a specific connection, two versions of the connection can be open simultaneously, one to the source and the other to the destination. Traffic on the connection is routed to the source computer until the shift has been completed, after which the connection on the source computer is closed, and traffic is routed to the destination.
US10015261B2
A method for controlling an internet of things comprises: displaying, by a terminal, an interactive page of a controlled device, wherein the interactive page includes an interface interaction element configured to control the controlled device, and the controlled device is assigned a unique communication number; obtaining, by the terminal, a control command inputted by a user via the interface interaction element for controlling the controlled device, wherein the control command comprises the unique communication number; and sending, by the terminal, the control command to the controlled device in accordance with the unique communication number.
US10015250B2
Cache controller (120) for use in a system (180) comprising an image client (100) and an image server (140), the image client enabling a user to navigate through image data having at least three spatial dimensions by displaying views of the image data that are obtained from the image server in dependence on navigation requests of the user, and the cache controller comprising a processor (122) configured for obtaining content data indicative of a content shown in a current view of the image client (100), the current view representing a first viewpoint in the three spatial dimensions of the image data, the processor being further configured for predicting a view request of the image client in dependence on the content data, the view request corresponding to a view representing a second viewpoint in the three spatial dimensions of the image data, and a communication means (124) for obtaining the view from the image server in dependence on the view request, and for caching the view in a cache (130).
US10015233B2
Format negotiation for media remoting involves at least one media data format. In an example embodiment, a media format negotiation for playing media data is begun between a server and a client. The media data format is transferred from the server to the client. A notification that indicates if an attempt at the client to construct a media topology responsive to the media data format was a success or a failure is transferred from the client to the server. Whether and/or how the media data is to be transferred from the server to the client may be impacted by the notification.
US10015223B2
Example embodiments relate to generation of dynamic content interfaces based on device capabilities and user entitlements. Multiple devices associated with a user account may each request a content interface. Generation of the content interfaces may be based on capability information of the devices and a tier entitlement associated with the user account. A service included in both the content interfaces may be assigned a same virtual channel in each of the content interfaces.
US10015220B2
The present invention proposes a method of transmitting a broadcast signal. The method of transmitting the broadcast signal according to the present invention proposes a system capable of supporting a next-generation broadcast service in an environment that supports next-generation broadcasting using a terrestrial broadcast network and an Internet protocol network. In addition, the present invention proposes an efficient signaling scheme for both the terrestrial broadcasting network and the Internet protocol network in the environment that supports next-generation broadcasting.
US10015205B1
Techniques for reconstructing application-layer traffic flowing between client devices and a cloud computing platform are provided. In an embodiment, the method allows for non-intrusive reconstructing application-layer traffic including requests and responses even in cases including packet drops, re-transmitted packets, and jittered packets. The method includes saving received packets into a zero-copy queue and analyzing the packets saved in the zero-copy memory to identify their respective sessions. Then, each identified session is reconstructed into a session window having a configurable size. In an embodiment, each reconstructed session includes application-layer requests and responses; The method further includes for, each identified session, matching each application-layer request to a corresponding application-layer response based on a matching identifier and time-interval threshold.
US10015204B2
A method, a terminal, and a server for restoring transmission of session content. The method includes, after a refresh message for a page is received, retaining a first ICE address used by a session in the page to be in an activated state, and restoring transmission of session content of the session by using the first ICE address in the activated state, so that a terminal directly establishes a connection according to the first ICE address in the activated state after receiving a refreshed page, and after receiving a refresh message for a page, the terminal does not need to perform ICE address negotiation to determine a suitable ICE address for receiving and sending the session content, which shortens waiting time for interacting the session content with a peer-end user, thereby improving user experience.
US10015196B1
An example method includes receiving an indication of a selection of a first application environment that includes a first virtual environment associated with a first security domain and is configured to isolate execution of software applications within the first application environment, suspending execution of a second application environment that includes a second virtual environment associated with a second security domain different from the first security domain, initiating execution of the first application environment, identifying information associated with the first security domain and provided by the first application environment that is to be sent to an external computing device associated with the first security domain, selecting communication network(s) from one or more communication networks that are each available to the mobile computing device for data communication, encrypting, based on the first security domain and network(s), the information, and sending, to the external computing device via the network(s), the encrypted information.
US10015191B2
Methods and systems for detecting fraudulent activity are described. A user types in a web address in his or her browser to request a webpage from a server, and the server communicates the webpage to the user. The communicated webpage includes a document object model (DOM) inspector and/or a JavaScript (JS) namespace inspector. The DOM inspector and JS namespace inspector detect anomalous DOM elements and anomalous JS namespace elements respectively. The DOM inspector and JS namespace inspector discover objects on the rendered webpage that should not be there.
US10015190B2
A first collection including a first feature vector and a Q&A feature vector is constructed. A second collection is constructed from the first collection by inserting noise in at least one of the vectors. A third collection is constructed by crossing over a feature vectors of the second collection with a corresponding feature vector of a fourth collection. The second and the fourth collections have a property similar to one another. Using a forecasting configuration, a vector of the third collection is aged to generate a changed feature vector, the changed feature vector containing feature values expected at a future time. The changed feature vector is input into a trained neural network to predict a probability of the cyber-attack occurring at the future time.
US10015182B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting computing resources may include (i) computing a degree of commonality between pairs of users within a file sharing system based on which files the users accessed over a period of time, (ii) building a social graph that indicates at least one edge between members of an instance of the pairs of users, (iii) computing an anomaly score for a user within the instance of the pairs of users, (iv) detecting that the anomaly score deviates, according to a statistical measurement, from historical anomaly scores computed for the same user, and (v) performing, in response to detecting that the anomaly score deviates from the historical anomaly scores, a protective action to protect computing resources from anomalous behavior by the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10015173B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for location-aware access to cloud data stores may include (1) obtaining a location policy that governs access to a cloud data store, the location policy specifying one or more location rules to be satisfied in order to access files in the cloud data store, (2) receiving a request, from a client system, to access one or more files in the cloud data store, (3) verifying that the request satisfies the location rule and therefore complies with the location policy, and (4) providing the client system access to the file in the cloud data store. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10015166B2
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums for implementing gesture-based signature authentication. In one embodiment, a method may involve recording a first gesture-based signature and storing the recorded first gesture-based signature. Then the method compares the first gesture-based signature with a second gesture-based signature. Then the method verifies the first gesture-based signature as authentic when the first gesture-based signature is substantially similar to the second gesture-based signature.
US10015163B2
Provided is a process that includes: authenticating a user based on a sequence of transactions that specify a knowledge factor credential where the knowledge-factor credential is lower entropy than the sequence of user-entered transactions, such that possession of the fully entered knowledge-factor credential, without possession of the sequence of user-entered transactions, does not reveal all of the user-entered transactions by which the fully entered knowledge-factor credential was specified by the user.
US10015162B2
A method implemented by a network firewall, comprising obtaining a first authentication token for a network test, receiving a test request message for performing the network test on a network element (NE) connected to the network firewall, authenticating the test request message by determining whether the test request message includes a second authentication token that matches the first authentication token, and granting the network test on the NE when the second authentication token matches the first authentication token.
US10015160B2
A communication apparatus has an auto-complete function using an LDAP protocol. The apparatus inputs character information, and verifies a certificate of an LDAP server. The apparatus obtains, by the LDAP protocol, address information including the character information input by the input unit after verifying the certificate of the LDAP server.
US10015157B2
A multi-domain application requiring SSO and SLO operations in cloud environment is presented. The computing system of the multi-domain application includes a multi-domain service (MDS) to redirect the calls for the multi-domain application to an identity provider to authenticate the user or to invoke the single logout services (SLOs) on the domains of the multi-domain application and to invalidate the user sessions on the domains. A cookie that includes the multi-domain application URL is generated to reach the assertion consumer service (ASC) and the single logout service (SLO) that receive an identity assertion response from the identity provider. Domain specific SLOs are provided. A trust between these domain specific SLOs and the SLO is provided based on service provider keys. The SAML mechanism for a logout scenario is reused for communication between the SLO and the domain specific SLOs, where the SLO plays a role of a local IDP.
US10015156B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for assessing network authentication requirements based on situational instance. In this regard, the invention dynamically determines specific user authentication requirements for accessing a service or executing an activity based on the determining the user's network connections, geographic location, and applications, in real-time. The invention provides a novel method for employing activity data provided by a plurality of users associated with historical activity information to vary the authentication requirements dynamically. Another aspect of the invention is directed to constructing geographic maps with predefined physical areas and overlaying graphical representations of activity data on the maps, in real-time.
US10015151B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that enables service-configurable wireless connections. During operation, a local service endpoint of a service runs on a wireless device. The local service endpoint sends a request to establish a datapath with another service endpoint on another device. Meanwhile, the wireless device's service discovery module discovers a remote endpoint for the service on a remote device. In response to the request, the wireless device's service-configurable security entity configures a Wi-Fi connection's security configuration, thereby enabling the local endpoint to establish a datapath between the local endpoint and the remote endpoint over the Wi-Fi connection.
US10015146B2
A system(s) and method(s) for secure session establishment and secure encrypted exchange of data is disclosed. The system satisfies authentication requirement of general networking/communication systems. It provides an easy integration with systems already using schemes like DTLS-PSK. The system follows a cross layer approach in which session establishment is performed in a lightweight higher layer like the application layer. The system then passes resultant parameters of such session establishment including the session keys to a lower layer. The lower layer like the transport layer is then used by the system to perform channel encryption to allow exchange of encrypted data based on a cross layer approach, over a secure session. As the exchange of data becomes the responsibility of the lower layer like the transport layer, the data is protected from replay attacks since the transport layer record encryption mechanism provides that kind of protection.
US10015141B2
A method begins when at least a consensus threshold number of devices are active in a virtual private network (VPN) group of devices. The method continues by encoding group specific data based on a consensus threshold number of devices in the VPN group of devices and a number of devices in the VPN group of devices to produce one or more sets of encoded data slices. The method continues by sending the one or more sets of encoded data slices to at least one of: the consensus threshold number of devices or a dispersed storage network (DSN) memory for storage therein. When the at least the consensus threshold number of devices are not active in the VPN group of devices, each of the devices in the VPN group of devices are prohibited from creating the group specific data or accessing previously created group specific data.
US10015135B2
An apparatus, a method, and a client for synchronizing a jump context, such as for synchronizing a jump context of a social application platform to a third-party website, are provided. The apparatus includes a session ID generating module configured to acquire a jump context of a user from a social application platform, save the jump context to a session data DB, and return an ID of the jump context to the social application platform. The apparatus also includes a session data acquiring API configured to acquire the ID of the jump context from a third-party website, acquire the corresponding jump context from the session data DB according to the ID, and feed back the jump context to the third-party website. The session data DB is configured to save the jump context and the ID corresponding to the jump context.
US10015129B2
A method and device for providing access to one or more peripheral devices over a social networking platform includes registering a first peripheral device coupled to a first user device as a respective social network contact of a user account associated with the first user device; and providing user access to the first peripheral device via a social networking client application executing at the first user device, wherein the social networking client application recognizes the first peripheral device as the respective social network contact of the user account associated with the first user device.
US10015126B2
A crowd determined message response system may be provided. A message sent from a sender to at least one recipient over a communication network may be received. The message may be presented on a user interface device. A selection of a designated recipient for responding to the message may be received. A priority of the message sent to the designated recipient may be adjusted. The priority of the message sent to an unselected recipient of the message not selected as the designated recipient may be adjusted. The priority may be adjusted differently for the designated recipient and the unselected recipient. Based on the adjusting of the priority of the message sent to the unselected recipient, the order of importance in which the unselected recipient's messages are presented may be rearranged.
US10015125B2
Contacts information is received from user devices that are associated with different users, the contacts information for each user device comprising one or more contact entries. Lookup information is identified for each contact entry of a plurality of contact entries using the contacts information. For each of the plurality of contact entries, a messaging directory associated with the same enterprise as the contact entry is identified using the identified lookup information, and the identified messaging directory is generated using information in the contact entry.
US10015123B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information processing method and device, relating to the technical field of information processing, and enabling a user to perform an interactive operation on information pushed by an information tips module. The method comprises: receiving by a client side information tips data to be displayed in an information tips module and an identifier of a microblog generated based on the information tips data, which are sent by a server side; invoking and displaying by the client side the information tips module, in which the information tips data and an interactive operation link are displayed; determining by the client side the microblog generated based on the information tips data according to the identifier of the microblog generated based on the information tips data, when the interactive operation link is checked; and invoking by the client side an interactive operation interface that the interactive operation link points to, such that a user can perform, on the interactive operation interface, an interactive operation on the microblog generated based on the information tips data.
US10015121B2
In particular embodiments, a client computing device of a user provides for presentation a user interface that includes one or more components. The client computing device may receive an indication of a message to the user. The client computing device may automatically modify the user interface to accommodate presentation of an interactive element associated with the message. The client computing device may modify the user interface at least in part by automatically modifying one or more of the components. The client computing device may automatically provide for presentation the user interface as modified and the interactive element associated with the message.
US10015112B2
Communication apparatus includes multiple interfaces connected to a packet data network. A memory is coupled to the interfaces and configured as a buffer to contain packets received through ingress interfaces while awaiting transmission to the network via respective egress interfaces. Packet processing logic is configured, upon receipt of a multicast packet through an ingress interface, to identify a number of the egress interfaces through which respective copies of the multicast packet are to be transmitted, to allocate a space in the buffer for storage of a single copy of the multicast packet, to replicate and transmit multiple copies of the stored copy of the multicast packet through the egress interfaces, to maintain a count of the replicated copies that have been transmitted, and when the count reaches the identified number, to release the allocated space in the buffer.
US10015106B1
An apparatus comprises a multi-cluster distributed data processing platform. Each of the clusters of the platform is configured to perform processing operations utilizing local data resources accessible within a corresponding data zone. A first application is initiated in one of the clusters, and data resources to be utilized by the application are determined. For one or more of the data resources identified as local data resources for the associated cluster, processing operations are performed utilizing those local data resources in that cluster in accordance with the first application. For one or more of the data resources identified as remote data resources for the associated cluster, one or more additional applications are initiated in one or more additional ones of the clusters. This repeats recursively for each additional application until all processing required by the first application is complete. Processing results from the clusters are aggregated and provided to a client.
US10015102B2
Systems, devices, and methods for reporting information in real time about traffic generated by each application for a device are described. In one aspect, the network can configure a list of applications user equipment (UE) devices need to report traffic information for and then when one of these applications starts a communication, the UE may send traffic descriptor(s) describing the traffic generated by the application. In this way the network can accurately identify the traffic and take actions based on UE report and local policy or subscription.
US10015099B2
Computer connectivity is dependent on network availability. When networks are offline, relocating systems and data to an available network is an inefficient, time consuming, and error prone process. A system and method is disclosed for instant IP sharing and relocation between geographical locations by combining BGP announcement in one or multiple locations and applying stateless NAT to the IP traffic. Thereby, IP traffic is redirected to the desired location and delivered to the final device using the shared/relocated IP address. This system and method allows a single IP address to actively respond to network requests to from numerous locations which can be spread around the globe.
US10015097B2
A system establishes a main tunnel between a tunneling client and a tunneling server using a first socket, the main tunnel including a corresponding tunnel identifier and Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. The system traverses the encapsulated media over the main tunnel during the telecommunication session and then determines that a cloned tunnel is needed for the telecommunication session. The system establishes a cloned tunnel between the tunneling client and the tunneling server using a second socket that has been marked as a cloned tunnel candidate, where the cloned tunnel includes the corresponding tunnel identifier and IP address of the main tunnel. The system then traverses the encapsulated media over the cloned tunnel instead of the main tunnel during the telecommunication session.
US10015089B1
A method of managing a mobile communication radio access network (RAN). The method comprises reading information about network equipment from a network equipment inventory data store by an application executing on a computer system and, based on the information about network equipment read from the network equipment inventory data store, determining a backhaul network topology by the application, wherein a plurality of donor enhanced node B (eNB) devices provide backhaul communication coupling to one or more local exchange carrier (LEC) to a plurality of eNB devices. The method further comprises analyzing a performance history of the network equipment by the application based on the backhaul network topology and adapting a build-out of new equipment being added to extend the network equipment based on the analyzing of the performance history.
US10015088B2
Techniques are provided for enabling tag networking. In one example, a network device (e.g., switch, router, etc.) is configured to receive a packet of a traffic flow and to analyze the traffic flow to determine the packet belongs to a particular type of traffic. The network device can then add and/or change a tag in a data field of the packet. The tag, among other things, serves as an identifier for the particular type of traffic flow. The tag is identifiable by a downstream node that is preconfigured to recognize the tag and to carry out logic in response to recognizing the tag. Advantageously, the tag functionality of the present approach provides a generalized way of adding information to packets; the information and the associated functionalities are customizable during a runtime of the network.
US10015085B2
A network system includes one controller and a plurality of forwarding devices, where the forwarding devices form a plurality of virtual network topologies; the controller is configured to allocate a global label to each of the plurality of virtual network topologies, and send a binding relationship between the global labels and the virtual network topologies to the forwarding devices, where global labels allocated to different virtual network topologies are different; the forwarding devices are configured to receiving the binding relationship, and generate label forwarding entries including a mapping relationship between the global labels and forwarding information bases; and when a packet received by the forwarding device carries a global label, the forwarding device searches according to the global label, a forwarding information base of a virtual network topology corresponding to the global label, and determines that the packet is to be forwarded by using the forwarding information base.
US10015084B2
A path selection module selects at least two fiber channel paths between a fiber channel host and a fiber channel destination. A trace route module performs one or more fiber channel trace route procedures for each of the at least two fiber channel paths. The trace route module provides a set of fiber channel links between the fiber channel host and the fiber channel destination for each of the at least two fiber channel paths. A record registration module registers with one or more event servers to receive link incident records for the fiber channel links in the sets of fiber channel links.
US10015083B2
Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage inter-regional connectivity for direct network peerings. A system may include a connectivity coordinator, a first resource collection in a first geographical zone and a second resource collection in a second geographical zone. The coordinator implements a programmatic interface defining connectivity operations. The coordinator receives a request via the interface to establish a logically isolated network path to the second resource collection on behalf of a client that has a dedicated physical link set up to connect to the first resource collection. In response to the request, the coordinator performs one or more configuration operations to enable traffic to flow from the client's network to the second resource collection over a logically isolated network path using the dedicated physical link.
US10015074B1
In one embodiment, a stack manager of an operating system on a network device configures an egress abstract stack port and an ingress abstract stack port, where the configuring maps one or more physical ports of the network device to a corresponding abstract stack port. The stack manager then transmits platform-independent egress stack discovery messages on the egress abstract port to a remote ingress abstract stack port of an adjacent stack member, and receives platform-independent ingress stack discovery messages on the ingress abstract port from a remote egress abstract stack port of an adjacent stack member. The stack manager may then provide platform-independent stacked network device operation using connectivity between the egress abstract stack port and remote ingress abstract stack port, and connectivity between the remote egress abstract stack port and ingress abstract stack port.
US10015071B2
A method that includes determining, at a mobile device, that a count of encounters by the mobile device with an access point fails to satisfy a threshold. The access point is associated with a first network. The method also includes establishing a connection with a second network in response to determining the count fails to satisfy the threshold. The access point is unassociated with the second network.
US10015067B2
A device may receive a file that includes a log of messages for messages communicated among multiple devices during a communication session. The device may analyze the file to determine information associated with the messages. The device may identify a request message from a first device of the multiple devices to a second device of the multiple devices using the information determined from the file. The device may determine whether the second device transmitted a response message based on receiving the request message from the first device. The device may determine whether the response message corresponds to the request message. The device may determine whether the response message is associated with a pass status or a fail status. The device may perform an action based on whether the response message is associated with the pass status or the fail status.
US10015056B2
System, method, and apparatus for improving the performance of collective operations in High Performance Computing (HPC). Compute nodes in a networked HPC environment form collective groups to perform collective operations. A spanning tree is formed including the compute nodes and switches and links used to interconnect the compute nodes, wherein the spanning tree is configured such that there is only a single route between any pair of nodes in the tree. The compute nodes implement processes for performing the collective operations, which includes exchanging messages between processes executing on other compute nodes, wherein the messages contain indicia identifying collective operations they belong to. Each switch is configured to implement message forwarding operations for its portion of the spanning tree. Each of the nodes in the spanning tree implements a ratcheted cyclical state machine that is used for synchronizing collective operations, along with status messages that are exchanged between nodes. Transaction IDs are also used to detect out-of-order and lost messages.
US10015052B2
Different data communication architectures receive a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, for consumers. The architectures employ channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architectures receive distributed video programming in the form of MPEG2 TS packets, flagged by marker packets. Channel bonding synchronization information may be present in packets defined above the data-link layer or received in fields within data-link layer frames.
US10015047B2
A system and apparatus for noticing and creating relational settings, actions, profiles, and tasks by tying resources to a location based on user behavior.
US10015046B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a network node operatively coupled within a network. The network node is configured to send a first authentication message upon boot up, and receive, in response to the first authentication message, a second authentication message configured to be used to authenticate the network node. The network node is configured to send a first discovery message, and receive, based on the first discovery message, a second discovery message configured to be used by the network node to identify an address of the network node and an address of a core network node within the network. The network node is configured to set up a control-plane tunnel to the core network node based on the address of the network node and the address for the core network node and receive configuration information from the core network node through the control-plane tunnel.
US10015045B2
A communication apparatus, comprises a forming unit configured to form a wireless network with another communication apparatus; and a control unit configured to control a start timing of data communication with the other communication apparatus based on role information of the communication apparatus in the wireless network.
US10015044B1
A system and method for managing an ad hoc network are disclosed. A boundary for an area to be monitored is defined for the ad hoc network. A number of devices connect with each other to form the ad hoc network. Devices can enter and leave the network as they come into proximity with one of the members of the network. Data is transmitted between the members of the network. This data can include a carrier rating and a data rating about each member of the network as well as data about other devices that the transmitting device had previously come into contact with. The data held by one member about other members is stored and can later be retrieved.
US10015037B2
One embodiment covers an apparatus for generating a transmission signal. The apparatus may include a signal generator that generates a first signal with a first frequency spectrum comprising a carrier frequency; a power control unit that provides a power information signal which represents a signal level of the transmission signal residing at the carrier frequency; a first signal shaper for noise-shaping the first signal based on the power information signal to form a second signal which has a noise component in at least one frequency range remote from the carrier frequency, the noise component of the second signal being from one or more signal components associated with the carrier frequency; and a signal output that provides the second signal in the form of a transmission signal.
US10015034B1
An OFDM transmitter spreads original data symbols with a complex-valued spreading matrix derived from a discrete Fourier transform. Spread data symbols are mapped to OFDM subcarriers. Spreading and mapping are configured to produce a transmitted spread-OFDM signal with a low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) and orthogonal code spaces. In MIMO systems, the complex-valued spreading matrix can comprise a MIMO precoding matrix, and the code spaces can comprise MIMO subspaces. In Cooperative-MIMO, a combination of low code-space cross correlation and low PAPR can be achieved.
US10015033B2
A transmitter includes: a frame generator configured to generate a frame including a frame starting symbol, at least one data symbol and a frame closing symbol; a pilot and reserved tone inserter configured to insert pilots and reserved tones in at least one of the frame starting symbol, the data symbol and the frame closing symbol such that positions of the reserved tones do not overlap positions of the pilots in the at least one of the frame starting symbol, the data symbol and the frame closing symbol; and a transmitter configured to transmit the frame in which the pilots and the reserved tones are inserted, wherein the reserved tones are not used to transmit data in the frame.
US10015030B2
Various aspects described herein relate to generating a waveform for transmitting in wireless communications. A plurality of segments of a waveform are generated. An overlap-and-add is performed in at least a phase domain at one or more boundaries between the plurality of segments. The waveform can be transmitted.
US10015028B2
A system and method for reducing peak to average power ratio in a wireless communication system. A wireless communication system includes a radio frequency wireless transmitter that includes signal peak reduction circuitry configured to reduce peak to average power ratio of a signal to be transmitted by reducing amplitude of the signal to be transmitted that is greater than a predetermined amplitude. The signal peak reduction circuitry includes a bit inverter configured to invert a bit of a symbol identified as causing the amplitude of the signal to exceed the predetermined amplitude. The bit inverter is also configured to select the bit to invert such that inversion of the bit reduces the amplitude of the signal, and such that forward error correction in a receiver wirelessly coupled to the transmitter restores the bit to a pre-inversion value.
US10015027B2
Apparatuses and methods for adding offset delays to signal lines of multi-level communication architectures are disclosed herein. An example method may include comparing a current channel state of a channel of a multi-level communication bus with a next channel state of the channel. The example method may further include, based on the comparison, applying an offset delay to a control signal configured to control transition of a signal line of the channel from a value associated with the current channel state to a value associated with the next channel state. The example method may further include after application of the offset delay, driving the signal line to the value associated with the next channel state responsive to the control signal.
US10015026B2
A transmitter according to the disclosure includes: three first driver sections; three first pre-driver sections that are provided corresponding to the respective three first driver sections, and each drive corresponding one of the first driver sections on a basis of corresponding one of three first control signals that are different from one another and each including predetermined number of signals; a second pre-driver section that operates on a basis of a second control signal that includes predetermined number of signals; and a controller that controls transition of the predetermined number of signals included in the second control signal to allow number of signals to be subjected to the transition out of the plurality of signals included in the three first control signals and the plurality of signals included in the second control signal to be same between timings of the transition.
US10015023B2
Embodiments generally relate to remote computer network management. The present technology discloses techniques that can enable a high-bandwidth server management method by applying VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network). It employs an optimized RMCP protocol using a dual-pathway VLAN mechanism for data transmission either internal or external to a server rack. The present technology may enable a network computing device to perform the optimized RMCP protocol.
US10015021B2
Disclosed are a home appliance and a mobile terminal. The home appliance includes a drive unit, an acoustic output module configured to output sound, a microphone configured to receive sound from an external source, a memory configured to store information related to the home appliance when the home appliance is being operated, an acoustic communication unit configured to output sound containing the information related to the home appliance to the acoustic output module or to extract prescribed information from the sound received via the microphone based on an acoustic communication mode, and a controller configured to control the drive unit according to the information extracted by the acoustic communication unit. Transmission of information between the home appliance and the mobile terminal is accomplished via acoustic communication.
US10015018B2
Cryptographic keys can include logging properties that enable those keys to be used only if the properties can be enforced by the cryptographic system requested to perform one or more actions using the keys. The logging property can specify how to log use of a respective key. A key can also include a mutability property for specifying whether the logging property can be changed, and if so under what circumstances or in which way(s). The ability to specify and automatically enforce logging can be important for environments where audit logs are essential. These can include, for example, public certificate authorities that must provide accurate and complete audit trails. In cases where the data is not to be provided outside a determined secure environment, the key can be generated with a property indicating not to log any of the usage.
US10015016B2
An apparatus for removing an individual as an authorized signatory is provided. The apparatus may include a transceiver. The transceiver may be configured to receive a request to remove the individual as the authorized signatory in a centralized repository. The transceiver may be further configured to transmit a request to remove the individual as the authorized signatory. The removal of the individual may include removing the individual as a listed authorized signatory in the centralized repository. The removal may also include transmitting an instruction to reclassify one or more associated signature documents. The associated signature documents may corresponding to authorized signatory documents for the individual. The instruction to reclassify may include an instruction to categorize the individual's authorized signatory documents as non-designated signature documents.
US10015014B2
Technologies for secure presence assurance include a computing device having a presence assertion circuitry that receives an input seed value and generates a cryptographic hash based on the received input seed value. The computing device further verifies the integrity of the presence assertion circuitry based on the generated cryptographic hash.
US10015013B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for facilitating efficient replication of hierarchical structures. In the regard, the number of nodes within a hierarchical structure to replicate is minimized such that the hierarchical structure is more efficiently replicated. Generally, to determine which nodes to replicate, node identifiers, such as hash values, that represent the content of the corresponding nodes can be utilized. In this manner, upon edits being made to content within a hierarchical structure, node identifiers can be updated to reflect the edited content. When a replication operation is initiated, the node identifiers for the current content existing on one computing device can be compared to the node identifiers associated with the previously replicated content on another computing device. The particular nodes to replicate can be based on any discrepancies between the corresponding node identifiers.
US10015005B2
A clock data recovery circuit includes an oscillator that outputs a first clock and a second clock having the same frequency and a different phase, and a feedback circuit that controls the oscillator so as to synchronize input data and the first clock, the feedback circuit including a controller that controls the oscillator in response to a frequency difference signal and a phase difference signal, a first difference detector that generates a first difference signal, a second difference detector that generates a second difference signal, and a frequency detector that outputs the frequency difference signal based on the first difference signal and the second difference signal, the frequency detector including a state detector that detects one of the rising state or the falling state, and a state holder that holds a state detected in the first phase and outputs the frequency difference signal.
US10014998B2
A receiving apparatus includes: a control signal channel estimator to estimate a channel for a control signal using a pilot signal extracted from a received signal, and generate a first channel estimate value; a control signal FED unit to perform frequency domain equalization processing on the control signal by using the first channel estimate value; a control signal demodulator to demodulate the equalized control signal; a control signal encoder to encode a demodulated equalized control signal; an FFT unit to generate, from the encoded equalized control signal, a control signal replica; a data channel estimator to estimate a channel for the data signal by using the control signal replica and the first channel estimate value; and a data FDE unit to perform frequency domain equalization processing on the data signal by using the second channel estimate value.
US10014992B2
A method for generating a physical layer (PHY) data unit includes generating a first signal field to include multiple copies of first signal field content, wherein the first signal field content spans one sub-band of a plurality of sub-bands of the PHY data unit, and wherein the multiple copies collectively span the plurality of sub-bands of the PHY data unit; generating a second signal field to include multiple copies of second signal field content, wherein the second signal field content spans multiple ones of the plurality of sub-bands of the PHY data unit, and wherein the multiple copies of the second signal field collectively span the plurality of sub-bands of the PHY data unit; generating a preamble of the PHY data unit to include at least the first signal field and the second signal field; generating the PHY data unit to include at least the preamble.
US10014985B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving signals to/from a plurality of coordinated multiple-point transmission (CoMP) cells of a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting the usage change of a wireless resource. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of receiving, at a first subframe, uplink scheduling information indicating a second subframe from a plurality of CoMP cells; and if it is determined that the uplink scheduling information is valid, transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) at the second subframe.
US10014982B1
Transmitters and receivers for use in hybrid networks capable of supporting time-reversal division multi-access communication protocols are described. Wireless access points include a wireless receiver for receiving a wireless channel probe signal from a device and a wireless transmitter capable of supporting a time-reversal division multi-access (TRDMA) protocol and at least one other wireless communication protocol. A controller is used to control the operation of the wireless transmitter. Wireless terminal devices include a wireless transmitter for transmitting a wireless channel probe signal and a wireless receiver capable of supporting a TRDMA protocol and at least one other wireless communication protocol. A controller is used to control the operation of the wireless receiver. An example of the at least one other wireless communication protocol that may be supported is OFDMA. Network performance can be improved by using wireless access points and terminal devices that switch between supporting one wireless communication protocol or another or supporting multiple wireless communication protocols simultaneously.
US10014980B2
According to one embodiment, a communication device 1 operating as a publisher calculates parity of a certain size which is capable of being commonly used for each of different data units from data to be sent each time receiving a lost notification from one or more communication device 1 operating as subscribers, the lost notification indicating that one or more data units are lost, and sends the calculated parity to the one or more communication devices 1 operating as the subscribers.
US10014977B2
A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.
US10014966B2
A linear fader includes a slider that is configured to slide along a rail. The slider includes a magnet. The linear fader also includes a plurality of coils spaced along a length of the rail, one or more sensors configured to detect a position of the slider along the rail, and control circuitry operatively coupled to the plurality of coils and the one or more sensors. The control circuitry is configured to receive a signal corresponding to a first location of the slider from at least one of the one or more sensors, receive a desired location of the slider, and cause a first electrical current to pass through the plurality of coils, thereby generating a force on the slider in a direction toward the desired location.
US10014964B2
A method of testing a phased array antenna that includes a plurality of antenna element pairs, each antenna element pair of the plurality of antenna element pairs including a first antenna element and a second antenna element, the method including: for each antenna element pair of the plurality of antenna element pairs, performing a first cross element gain measurement from the first antenna element to the second antenna element of that antenna element pair; and determining whether there is a problem associated with the phased array antenna by examining the first cross element gain measurements for the plurality of antenna element pairs.
US10014962B2
A method and system for measuring a device under test are disclosed. Some embodiments include a distributed channel emulation system implementing a downlink channel, including at a central location, an emulator core configured to introduce an impairment in each of at least one transmit signal to produce at least one impaired signal for each of at least one emulated channel. The system includes, at a remote location, for each of at the least one emulated channel, an up-converter configured to up-convert an impaired signal of the emulated channel to produce a radio frequency, RF, signal.
US10014948B2
A system for enabling signal penetration into a building includes first circuitry, located on an outside of the building, that receives millimeter wave signals and converting the millimeter wave signals into a format that penetrates into an interior of a building for reception by wireless devices within the building. Second circuitry, located on an inside of the building and communicatively linked with the first circuitry, receives the millimeter wave signals in the format that penetrates into an interior of the building and converts the millimeter wave signals in the format to a second format for transmission to the wireless devices within the building.
US10014940B2
There is provided a method of transmitting a visible light signal in visible light communication, including binarizing data to be transmitted into a binary bit representation, encoding the data for transmission by modulating one or more of a plurality of light emitting regions between a first state and a second state based on the binary bit representation of the data, and transmitting the visible light signal in the form of light emitted by one or more of the plurality of modulated light emitting regions, the visible light signal being decodable to obtain the data. There is also provided a method of transmitting a visible light signal in visible light communication which includes modulating one or more second sets of light emitting regions within the capture region between a first state and a second state based on the bit representations of one or more previous data for enabling error detection. Corresponding methods of receiving a visible light signal and systems are also provided.
US10014938B2
Techniques are described for indicating a wavelength at which a network interface device is configured to operate. A first controller circuit may determine a wavelength at which the network interface device is operating. The wavelength at which the network interface device is operating includes at least one of an optical wavelength at which a laser of the network interface device is transmitting optical data or an optical wavelength at which a photodiode of the network interface device is receiving optical data. A second controller circuit may cause the network interface device to output a sensory output that indicates the wavelength at which the network interface device is operating.
US10014937B1
A device may receive, via a first optical supervisory channel, a first timing signal from a first network node. The first timing signal may be generated by a first clock, of the first network node, and may be used to synchronize the first clock, of the first network node, and a second clock of a second network node. The device may determine a parameter value based on the first timing signal, and may determine whether the parameter value satisfies a threshold value. The device may selectively transmit, via a second optical supervisory channel, a second timing signal to the second network node based on determining whether the parameter value satisfies the threshold value. The second timing signal may be used to synchronize the second clock, of the second network node, with the first clock of the first network node.
US10014935B2
An OTDR device and method for characterizing one or more events in an optical fiber link are provided. A plurality of light acquisitions is performed. For each light acquisition, test light pulses are propagated in the optical fiber link and the corresponding return light signals from the optical fiber link are detected. The light acquisitions are performed under different acquisition conditions, for example using different pulsewidths or wavelengths. Parameters characterizing the event are derived using the detected return signal from at least two of the plurality of light acquisitions.
US10014930B2
A system, method, and device to enable communication between a first and second satellite station and a controller of a mobile platform. The controller includes a processor, a first modem facilitating communication with the first satellite station via a first frequency over a first communication link, and a map of the one or more networks of satellite stations including the second satellite station. The controller utilizes the map of the one or more networks of satellite stations to determine the second satellite station for communicating with the controller. A second modem is coupled to the controller and facilitates communication with the second satellite station via a second frequency over a second communication link, wherein the controller is configured to calculate a time to handoff communication with the mobile communicator from the first communication link to the second communication link.
US10014917B2
In a method for communicating in a wireless communication network a trigger frame is generated to trigger simultaneous uplink transmissions by multiple communication devices. The trigger frame includes a padding portion having a length determined based on respective time duration requirements of the multiple communication devices, the respective time duration requirements for preparing uplink transmission by the corresponding second communication devices. The trigger frame is transmitted to the multiple communication devices. The simultaneous uplink transmissions, triggered by the trigger frame, are received from the multiple communication devices.
US10014915B2
A technique for improving wireless communication characteristics involving matching transmitter antenna patterns to receiver antenna patterns. In a specific implementation, the transmitter antenna pattern adapts to changing parameters, such as when a smartphone is initially held in a first orientation and is later held in a second orientation. Because the transmitter antenna pattern matches receiver antenna patterns, signal quality between stations improves. In some implementations, antennas are organized and mounted to maximize spatial diversity to cause peak gains in different directions.
US10014914B1
An interference canceller and a method for canceling interference are disclosed. The interference canceller includes: a subtractor to receive a primary signal including a desired signal and multiple interferers and to generate an output signal including the desired signal; a plurality of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters, wherein each FIR filter receives a reference signal from a plurality of reference signals and outputs a filtered reference signal; and a plurality of loop filters, wherein each loop filter outputs coefficients. In the interference canceller, each of the reference signals includes signals from a subset of the multiple interferers, each loop filter corresponds to one of the FIR filters and receives the corresponding reference signal, each loop filter receives the output signal, the output coefficients of each loop filter are based on the output signal and the corresponding reference signal, the output coefficients adaptively adjust the filtered reference signal of the corresponding FIR filter, and the subtractor subtracts each of the filtered reference signals from the primary signal to generate the output signal.
US10014911B2
Embodiments contemplate methods and systems for determining and communicating channel state information (CSI) for one or more transmission points (or CSI reference signal resources). Embodiments further contemplate determining transmission states may include applying at least one transmission state parameter to channel state information (CSI). Embodiments also contemplate reporting CSI based on the transmission state and/or at least one transmission state parameter applied thereto.
US10014903B2
In a circularly polarized wave antenna apparatus including a non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus having forward and backward propagation constants different from each other, the non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus includes a transmission line part for a microwave, a series branch circuit equivalently including a capacitive element, and a shunt branch circuit branched from the transmission line part and equivalently includes an inductive element. The non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus is formed in a nonlinear shape and magnetized in a magnetization direction different from a propagation direction of the microwave. The non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus includes first and second reflectors provided at both ends of the non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus, respectively, and reflecting a signal; and satisfies that a phase difference between each pair of line parts located at positions opposed to each other across a substantially central part of the non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus is substantially 180 degrees.
US10014893B2
A receiver circuit comprising a beamformer and an MRC-block. The beamformer configured to: apply combination-weighting-values to a first-BF-input-signal and a second-BF-input-signal in order to provide a BF-combination-signal; and apply suppression-weighting-values to the first-BF-input-signal and the second-BF-input-signal in order to provide a BF-suppression-signal. The MRC-block comprising: a first-demodulator configured to demodulate the BF-combination-signal in order to provide a demodulated-combination-signal that comprises bit metrics; a second-demodulator configured to demodulate the BF-suppression-signal in order to provide a demodulated-suppression-signal that comprises bit metrics; and a combiner configured to combine the demodulated-combination-signal with the demodulated-suppression-signal in order to provide an MRC-output-signal.
US10014871B2
An ultrasound device including an asynchronous successive approximation analog-to-digital converter and method are provided. The device includes at least one ultrasonic transducer, a plurality of asynchronous successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADC) coupled to the at least one ultrasonic transducer, at least one asynchronous SAR in the plurality having a sample and hold stage, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a comparator, and control circuitry, wherein a DAC update event following at least one bit conversion is synchronized to a corresponding DAC update event of at least one other ADC in the plurality of ADCs.
US10014870B2
A method that comprises converting a first electrical signal to a second electrical signal using a converter coupled between a micro-mechanical structure and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The method also comprises actuating a switch to selectively interpolate at least one datum between two neighboring converted second electrical signals based on a selected clock signal, wherein the selected clock signal is one of a plurality of clock signals, each clock signals of the plurality of clock signals has a corresponding frequency, and the selected clock signal corresponds to an operating mode of the micro-mechanical structure.
US10014862B2
A clock gating circuit includes a first precharge unit charging a first node based on a clock signal, a second precharge unit charging a second node based on the clock signal, a first discharge unit discharging the first node based on the clock signal, a second discharge unit discharging the second node based on the clock signal, a first cross-coupled maintain unit maintaining the first node at a charge state according to a voltage level of the second node, a second cross-coupled maintain unit maintaining the second node at a charge state according to a voltage level of the first node, and a control unit controlling the first and second discharge units to discharge the first node or the second node on the basis of a clock enable signal.
US10014857B2
A signal output circuit includes a signal conversion element, a signal output transistor, a first resistor element, a second resistor element, a diode, a malfunction-prevention transistor, and a capacitance-compensating capacitor. The signal output transistor establishes electrical conduction between two conductive terminals when an on signal is supplied to a conduction control terminal via the signal conversion element. The diode is connected in parallel to the second resistor element in a direction in which current flows between a signal output terminal of the signal conversion element and the conduction control terminal of the signal output transistor when an on signal is outputted to the signal output terminal. The malfunction-prevention transistor establishes electrical conduction between two conductive terminals when a current flows through the second resistor element in a direction opposite the direction of the diode. The capacitance-compensating capacitor is connected in parallel to the second resistor element.
US10014851B2
An apparatus includes: a first power transistor having a first current conduction path coupled between an input for receiving a supply voltage and a node and a first gate terminal coupled to a first gate control signal; a second power transistor having a second current conduction path coupled between the node and an output terminal for supplying a load current to a load; and a second gate terminal coupled to a second gate control signal; and a current sense transistor having a third gate terminal coupled to the first gate control signal, and outputting a sense current. The apparatus further includes: a differential amplifier having an output signal, and a feedback transistor having a gate terminal coupled to the output signal of the differential amplifier; and a resistor coupled between a monitor node and ground.
US10014847B2
A trigger, includes: a first voltage input terminal; a bias voltage input terminal; a first bias transistor having a scaling of N to a first component of an external device; a comparator transistor having a scaling of N to a second component of the external device; a first switch transistor and a second switch transistor; a shunt transistor having a control terminal connected to the first voltage input terminal, a second terminal connected to the second terminal of the second switch transistor, and a first terminal connected to the first terminal of the comparator transistor. The shunt transistor has an enlarging scale of M to the comparator transistor. A voltage output terminal is respectively connected to the second terminal of the first switch transistor, the control terminal of the second switch transistor, and the second terminal of the comparator transistor.
US10014845B2
A circuit includes an active balun having an RF signal input and having differential signal outputs, the active balun including a first pair of transistors coupled to the RF signal input, the first pair of transistors including a first transistor of a first type and a second transistor of a second type, wherein the first type and second type are complementary; and an intermodulation distortion (IMD) sink circuit having an operational amplifier (op amp) coupled between a first node and a second node, wherein the first transistor and second transistor are coupled in series between the first node and the second node.
US10014844B1
A circuit includes an amplifier having an input that receives an alternating current (AC) waveform and an output that is coupled to a power source via a bias resistor. A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator is coupled in parallel to the bias resistor via the power source and the amplifier output. The BAW resonator and the amplifier output forms a band pass filter to filter the AC waveform received at the amplifier input and to provide a filtered AC waveform at the amplifier output.
US10014842B2
A method and apparatus for detecting the connection of an external audio accessory to an audio device via a two-wire audio jack includes providing a DC bias on the output of the audio circuit connected to the audio jack. The audio jack is such that, when a plug is inserted into the audio jack, the DC bias is removed from an internal routing pin of the audio jack. The change in DC voltage at the internal routing pin indicates connection of the external audio accessory. Furthermore, upon detection, the AC response of the external audio accessory can be determined, and used to select a set of audio settings to be applied to the audio components of the audio device to optimize the performance of the external audio accessory.
US10014825B2
Provided is a receiver including an oscillator (OSC) configured to generate an oscillation signal based on a radio signal, a clocked envelope detector (ED) configured to detect an envelope of the oscillation signal and hold a peak value of the envelope during a time interval, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to convert the peak value of the envelope into a digital signal.
US10014824B2
A radio receiver circuit configurable to operate in a carrier-aggregation (CA) mode and in a non-CA mode is disclosed. It comprises a first receive path arranged to be operatively connected to an antenna and a second receive path arranged to be operatively connected to the same antenna. It further comprises a control unit operatively connected to the first receive path and the second receive path. In the CA mode, the control unit controls the first receive path to receive a first component carrier (CC) and the second receive path to receive a second CC. In the non-CA mode, the control unit selectively controls the first receive path and the second receive path to both receive the same single CC.
US10014817B2
A solar generator comprises a flexible support, an array of solar cells, electrical transfer conductors, blocking diodes, the solar cells being formed along different transverse strings, the solar cells situated in a same string being electrically connected in series, each string comprising two opposite ends, respectively of positive polarity and of negative polarity. The positive polarity end of each string of solar cells is individually connected to a respective blocking diode via an electrical transfer conductor dedicated to the string, the electrical transfer conductors dedicated to the different strings being independent of one another, the blocking diodes being located at the proximal end of the solar generator, outside of the array of solar cells.
US10014815B2
When an abnormality is detected by an abnormality detection unit, a first switching stop device turns OFF all of switching elements connected to one arm of either an upper arm or a lower arm of a power converter, and turns ON all of the switching elements connected to the arm, which are not turned OFF; when the abnormality is continuously detected even after operating the first switching stop device, a second switching stop device turns ON or turns OFF the switching elements connected to the upper arm and the lower arm so that the turn-ON and the turn-OFF are reversed to the operation by the first switching stop device; and when the abnormality is continuously detected even after operating the second switching stop device, a third switching stop device turns OFF all of the switching elements in the upper arm and the lower arm.
US10014807B2
A capacitor is connected between the direct current voltage terminals. Switched terminals of a first switch and a second switch are coupled in series, between the direct current voltage terminals. An electric machine or generator has one or more windings and a first phase output terminal associated with the switched terminals. A first set of blocking diodes are cascaded in series and second set of blocking diodes are cascaded in series. A first voltage supply provides a first output voltage level and a second output level switchable to the first control terminal, where the first output level is distinct from the second output level. A second voltage supply provides the first output voltage level and the second output level switchable to the second control terminal.
US10014804B1
Methods of starting a motor include coupling the motor to an AC power source via a switching circuit of a motor starter, detecting an output voltage produced by the switching circuit and responsively changing the output voltage and detecting an input voltage from the AC power source and responsively controlling a rate of change of the output voltage. Controlling the rate of change of the output voltage may include reducing a rate of increase of a magnitude of the output voltage responsive to detecting that the input voltage meets a first criterion. The methods may further include bypassing the switching circuit to connect the motor to the AC power source responsive to the output voltage meeting a second criterion or an output current provided to the motor meeting a third criterion.
US10014800B2
An electricity generator including a first converter suitable for converting a variation of an energy to be harvested into a corresponding excess of electrical charges. The generator includes a circuit for collecting the excess of electrical charges, the circuit has a first controllable mechanical switch, and a control device for the first switch designed to control the switching of the switch to its closed position when the excess of electrical charges exceeds a first predetermined threshold. The switch is a magnetic switch and the control device comprises a variable magnetic field source which controls the switching of the first switch to its closed position only at the time when the excess of electrical charges exceeds the first predetermined threshold.
US10014793B2
An imbalance of control signals between two power semiconductor elements is reduced. A first power semiconductor module and a second power semiconductor module are arranged in a predetermined direction along a surface of a control signal wiring circuit board, each of longitudinal directions of the first power semiconductor module and the second power semiconductor module along the surface of the control signal wiring circuit board is a predetermined direction, and, in a first control signal wiring, a distance between an external control signal terminal and a second control signal terminal is equal to a distance between the external control signal terminal and a first control signal terminal.
US10014792B2
It is provided a multi-phase electric drive for use with a multi-phase AC load and the power unit thereof. The multi-phase electric drive includes a multi-phase power transformer with at least one primary winding and a plurality of secondary windings. The primary winding may be electrically connected to a source of multi-phase AC power. Power units may have an input connected with a corresponding one of said plurality of secondary windings and may have a single-phase controllable output to such multi-phase AC load. The power units may be serially connected with respective others of said power units in each phase output line and are connectable to said multi-phase AC load.
US10014789B2
A resonant converter includes a first switch on a primary side and a second switch coupled to the first switch, a first synchronous rectification switch on a secondary side conducted according to a switching operation of the first switch, a second synchronous rectification switch on the secondary side conducted according to a switching operation of the second switch, and a switch control circuit configured to detect a waveform of one end voltage of at least one of the first synchronous rectification switch and the second synchronous rectification switch, determine one of a below region and an above region, and differently control conduction duration of the first and second synchronous rectification switches according to a determined result.
US10014786B2
A flyback power converter includes a transformer, a power switch, a power switch control circuit, a synchronous rectification (SR) switch, an SR switch control circuit, and a signal coupler circuit. The signal coupler circuit includes a primary port and a secondary port, wherein the primary port is electrically connected to the power switch control circuit, and the secondary port is electrically connected to the SR switch control circuit. The primary port and the secondary port receive different signals generated by the power switch control circuit and the SR switch control circuit respectively, and the signal coupler circuit senses and converts the different signals to generate corresponding converted signals at the secondary port and the primary port respectively in different and non-overlapping time periods, without direct contact or direct connection between the primary side and the secondary side of the transformer.
US10014774B2
One example includes a switching power supply. The switching power supply includes a power stage, a feedback loop, and a simulated feedback error generator. The power stage provides an output signal in response to a switching signal. The feedback loop monitors the output signal and provides a feedback error signal to adjust the switching signal to regulate the output signal. The simulated feedback error generator temporarily provides a simulated feedback error signal during a transition period from the low power mode to a high power mode of the switching power supply until the feedback loop has enough time to provide the feedback error signal.
US10014763B2
Upon turn-off of IGBT, by suppressing variations in collector-emitter voltage between IGBTs connected in series, risk of breaking IGBT due to overvoltage breakdown can be reduced. In protection circuit provided for each of the plurality of IGBTs 50 connected in series, between collector and emitter of IGBT 50, avalanche elements D1˜D5, resistance R4 and avalanche element D6 are sequentially connected in series. Capacitor C1 and resistance R1 are connected parallel between both ends of the avalanche element D4, and capacitor C2 and resistance R2 are connected parallel between both ends of the avalanche element D5. Between a common connection point of the resistance R4 and the avalanche element D6 and gate of the IGBT 50, resistance R5, a parallel circuit of capacitor C3 and resistance R6, and a series component of Zener diodes ZD1 and ZD2 whose polarities are opposite to each other, are connected in series.
US10014760B2
One example includes a switch circuit. The switch circuit includes a transistor configured to activate in response to an activation voltage at an activation terminal of the transistor. The switch circuit also includes a current source coupled to the activation terminal and being configured to generate an activation current. The switch circuit further includes a driver control circuit interconnecting the activation terminal and a voltage rail. The driver control circuit includes digital counter logic configured to cycle through a predetermined number of count values based on an oscillator signal. The driver control circuit is configured to adjust an amplitude of the activation voltage at each of the predetermined number of count values based on the activation current to provide a soft-start activation of the transistor.
US10014759B2
The earth's magnetic field has not been mined as a source of energy. With average field strength of 0.5×10−4 Tesla around the world it is easy to understand why. A disruptive technology is needed to mine the earth's magnetic field. Such a technology, graphene, is now at an early stage of development with excellent properties in the form of high conductivity, low resistivity sheets that are durable, light weight, and low cost. Multiple sheets of graphene provide a significant multiplier to earth's magnetic field yielding a feasible source of ecologically clean power. Graphene based EcoCharge units can be driven by electric motors putting graphene in motion to mine the earth's magnetic field.
US10014758B2
A method of assembling an integrated drive generator includes the steps of providing a bore in a center housing portion, pressing a bearing liner into the bore, with a portion of the bearing liner extending proud of a surface of the center plate, and machining the surface around and adjacent to the bearing liner to provide a machined surface parallel to the surface.
US10014757B2
A polymer-based layer structure with an oleophobic/hydrophobic surface for coating, sealing, and/or connecting technical components or parts of said components, comprising—a first layer which comprises a polymer, —a second layer that adjoins the first layer and comprises a polymer and particles which comprise a fluoropolymer and which are distributed in the silicone, and —an outer layer that adjoins the second layer and comprises a fluorocarbon compound with at least one reactive group and optionally particles which comprise a fluoropolymer and which are distributed in the fluorocarbon compound. The invention also relates to an electric machine which has the layer structure, said layer structure being provided in particular as a potting compound on a winding and/or on switching rings of the stator and/or as a magnet bonding adhesive of the rotor.
US10014756B2
An overlapping portion of an insulating portion formed in an annular shape is held between a workbench having a linear projection and an ultrasonic horn having a circular projection with at least part of the linear projection and of the circular projection opposed to each other and ultrasonically welded. In the ultrasonic welding, even though the ultrasonic horn under ultrasonic vibration rotates on the overlapping portion of the insulating portion, the area in the overlapping portion held between the linear projection and the circular projection with at least part of the linear projection and of the circular projection opposed to each other is not reduced after ultrasonic vibration is applied to the ultrasonic horn.
US10014754B2
A rotary device having a brush that includes a slide-contact portion, a fixing section, and a conductive bonding material. The conductive bonding material bonds together the slide-contact portion and the fixing section. The conductive bonding material is composed of an intermetallic compound phase that is an alloy containing one of (1) at least two selected from a first group consisting of Sn, Cu and Ni, and (2) at least two selected from a second group consisting of Sn, Cu, and Mn.
US10014750B2
A power generator for which assembly work can be performed under a state in which a separable body is separated from a first frame portion and a first partition plate portion when a stator is assembled inside a frame. Therefore, an end bell to be integrated with a second partition plate portion has a small diameter, and can be arranged close to a rotor. As a result, the end bell made of an insulating resin can be arranged only in a portion in which a flux-loss reduction effect is significant.
US10014747B2
A magnetically loaded composite rotor is formed by providing a mandrel 1 having a longitudinal axis 2. A release agent 3 is coated on the mandrel and a fiber material 4 of woven or non-woven material having fibers extending in the direction of the axis 2 is applied over the release agent. A thermoplastic resin impregnated tow 24 including magnetic particles 28 is wound over the fiber material 4, the fiber material substantially preventing the magnetic particles penetrating through to the mandrel.
US10014743B2
Provided is an electric motor capable of stabilizing a preload applied to a bearing by an annular spring and effectively retarding degradation of the annular spring. The electric motor includes a motor shaft, a rotor, a stator, a housing containing the rotor and the stator in a posture where the motor shaft extends vertically, an upper bearing and a lower bearing supporting the motor shaft, and an annular spring applying a downward preload to the upper bearing. The lower bearing is fixed to the motor shaft and the housing. The housing has a load-receiving surface receiving an upward thrust load overcoming the preload from the upper bearing.
US10014737B2
A rotor for an electric machine is mounted for rotation about an axis and includes a plurality of permanent magnets placed on a radial outer surface of the rotor for forming at least one magnetic pole pair. An anisotropically-soft sintered magnetic material having an easy direction and a hard direction is located in at least one section of the rotor radially further inward than the plurality of permanent magnets.
US10014734B2
An electromagnetic device is provided. It includes a plurality of input magnetic field generating devices, which will induce magnetic fields in output current generating devices. In one construction, the electromagnetic device can be operably coupled to a work input device wherein the electromagnetic device can be used as a generator set in combination with the energy input device. The input and output magnetic devices are arranged in radial arrays about a work input shaft. The output magnetic devices each include a core and a respective coil with the cores each having a longitudinal axis generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the shaft. The input devices and the output devices are mounted in respective carriers with the output device carrier being movable relative to the input device carrier.
US10014733B2
Various techniques for temperature management during inductive energy transfer are disclosed. A transmitter device and/or a receiver device can be turned off during energy transfer based on the temperature of the transmitter device and/or of the receiver device.
US10014727B2
Provided are a power transmitting device, a power receiving device, a power supply system, and a power supply method able to supply electric power by emitting electromagnetic waves. A power transmitting device comprises: a calculating unit for calculating the maximum value for the emitted output of electromagnetic waves meeting exposure standards on the basis of a response delay time measured by the communication link between the power transmitting device and a power receiving device; a power transmitting unit for transmitting power via a power supply link with the power receiving device at an output not exceeding the maximum value; an anomaly detecting unit for detecting an anomaly in the power supply link on the basis of communication with the power receiving device via the communication link; and an output control unit for controlling the output on the basis of the detection of an anomaly in the power supply link.
US10014713B1
An energy storage system (ESS) provides redundant power feed support to a power system which provides secondary power support to a set of electrical loads, independently of a power system which provides primary power support. The power inlet connection of the power system can be switched between a utility power feed and a discharge feed from the ESS based on determinations regarding whether the utility feed is interrupted. The ESS and the power system can each be coupled to the utility power feed via separate breaker-supported power line connections, which themselves can be coupled via a breaker-supported branch circuit downstream of the power line connection breakers. The branch circuit breaker can be closed, to switch the power inlet connection from the utility power feed to the ESS, based at least in part upon a determination of a voltage difference across the branch circuit breaker.
US10014710B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for a foldable fabric-based semiconductor package (FFP) that can assist with charging a secondary cell are described. An FFP includes: a ground plane; a first component over the ground plane; a second component adjacent to the ground plane; a third component adjacent to the second component; a molding compound encapsulating the ground plane, the first component, the second component, and the third component; a first fabric layer on a top side of the molding compound; and a second fabric layer on a bottom side of the molding compound. Each of the first, second, and third components includes one or more semiconductor dies. The third component is electrically coupled to each of the first and second components. The first and second components can wireless charge the secondary cell. The third component can power the first and second components. The ground plane can protect against electromagnetic signals.
US10014709B2
A charging accessory (104) is provided. The charging accessory (104) comprises a mechanical attachment device, such as a clip (110), and a receive coil (112) integrated within the clip, the receive coil for receiving a wireless charging signal (118). A wearable lanyard (126) is coupled to the clip (110) for transferring power and charging signals. The charging accessory (104) can be worn and operated within a charging system (100) to power and charge a wearable electronic device (102).
US10014707B2
A method for managing an electrical power supply system (1) of an aircraft, the power supply system (1) comprising at least one distribution bus arranged so as to power the electrical loads, at least one generator (G1, G2) of a propulsion engine of the aircraft, at least one engine-class main power unit (MPS1, MPS2), a plurality of contactors (C1-C18) which are capable of electrically connecting the distribution buses to the propulsion engine generator (G1, G2) and/or the main power unit (MPS1, MPS2); and a management module which is capable of controlling the contactors (C1-C18), a method wherein, during normal operating conditions of the aircraft, the distribution bus is powered by the engine-class main power unit (MPS1, MPS2) and, during the back-up operating mode of the aircraft, the distribution bus is powered by the propulsion engine generator (G1, G2).
US10014706B2
Disclosed is a method of charging a battery, including determining at a first time interval a current to be applied until a second time interval such that the current charges the battery so that an anode Li-ion surface concentration at the second time interval is kept smaller than or equal to a maximum Li-ion surface concentration of the anode, applying the current to the battery, and determining at the second time interval another current to be applied until a third time interval such that the another current charges the battery so that an anode Li-ion surface concentration at the third time interval is kept smaller than or equal to the maximum Li-ion surface concentration of the anode.
US10014705B2
This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for limiting or throttling an activity of an accessory device communicatively coupled to a computing device. The activity of the accessory device is limited or throttled in order to reduce electromagnetic interference and improve signal quality of a wireless communication in which the computing device is participating. In some embodiments, a decision to throttle can be based on battery charge level of the computing device. For example, in some embodiments, the accessory device is an accessory battery charger configured to provide power to the computing device when a power outlet is not immediately available. If the signal quality of a phone call from the computing device is diminished or the user is in an area of low signal coverage, the accessory battery charger can be limited or throttled in order to prevent interference between the accessory battery charger and computing device.
US10014703B2
USB charger apparatus and chargeable electronic devices are presented in which the device and charger use USB cable data lines to establish a bidirectional communications connection, and the charger provides charger capability information to a master controller of the electronic device via the communications connection. The device controller preferentially selects a fastest charging match between the charger capability information and device charging capability information, and sends configuration information through the communications connection to set the power supply level of the charger. The charger communicates power supply status information to the electronic device, and the device can reconfigure the charger power supply level accordingly.
US10014700B2
The present disclosure includes a battery system that may include a first terminal and a second terminal electrically coupled to an electronic component. The system may also include a current source electrically coupled to the first terminal. The system may also include a control system that may direct an asynchronous current from the current source to the first terminal according to a pattern and receive a current signal status from a current detector. The current signal status is associated with a second current received via the second terminal. The control system may disconnect the electronic component from the first terminal or the second terminal when the current signal status does not correspond to the pattern.
US10014693B2
The disclosure relates to a system including a set of subsystems sharing a voltage rail. The system includes a power controller configured to send messages, such as interrupts, to the subsystems concerning a change of state of a supply voltage on the voltage rail. Such messages may have been sent in response to requests and messages from the subsystems, respectively. In response to the messages, the subsystems may send requests to the power controller for different dynamic clock voltage scaling (DCVS) levels, respectively. In response to such requests, the power controller may set the supply voltage and frequencies of clock signals for the requesting subsystems, respectively.
US10014692B2
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems with cross-coupling noise reduction in circuits. In embodiments, a circuit may include a common inductor and a negatively coupled inductor pair connected or coupled between the first inductor and a first load and a second load. The negatively coupled inductor pair may include a first and a second inductor. The first inductor may be connected or coupled to the first load and the second inductor may be connected or coupled to the second load to reduce cross-coupling noise between the first load and the second load. Examples of passive structures that may be used to implement the circuit are also described. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US10014687B2
The present disclosure relates to a grid-tied photovoltaic power generation system, and particularly, to a grid-tied photovoltaic power generation system including a power maintaining unit configured to maintain power of a controller during an corresponding operation time of a photovoltaic system when power supply is stopped due to a fault generated in a grid, whereby power may be stably supplied to the controller and power of the controller may be maintained, designing of the photovoltaic system and setting of a connection to the grid may be simply and easily performed, a corresponding operation of the photovoltaic system may be controlled regarding the fault generated in the grid, and the fault generated in the grid may be accurately, appropriately, and effectively handled.
US10014682B2
A system includes a voltage surge protection circuit that receives a source voltage from a source. The voltage surge protection circuit includes a reference circuit to generate a reference voltage based on the source voltage when the source voltage exceeds a clamping voltage and a feedback control circuit to receive the reference voltage and clamp an output voltage to the clamping voltage when the voltage from the source exceeds the clamping voltage. A dynamic resistance of the feedback control circuit is substantially zero.
US10014681B2
An approach is provided in which an emergency electrical distribution system detects an environmental alert invoked by an environmental sensor located in a particular location of building structure. The emergency electrical distribution system selects specific electrical source connections in proximity to the environmental sensor and, in turn, terminates electrical power to selected specific electrical source connections.
US10014669B2
A pluggable electrical device for switching an electrical current includes a static frame including a rigid backplate fastened to the frame; connection terminals able to be connected to an electrical installation; and a removable portion including a device for switching an electrical current. The backplate is made of a thermosetting polymer and includes reinforcing beams integrated into the backplate and extending in a vertical direction.
US10014661B2
VCSELs and methods having improved characteristics. In some embodiments, these include a semiconductor substrate; a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) on the substrate; a first electrical contact formed on the VCSEL; a second electrical contact formed on the substrate, wherein the VCSEL includes: a first resonating cavity having first and second mirrors, at least one of which partially transmits light incident on that mirror, wherein the first second mirrors are electrically conductive. A first layer is between the first mirror and the second mirror and has a first aperture that restricts the path of current flow. A second layer is between the first layer and the second mirror and also restricts the electrical current path. A multiple-quantum-well (MQW) structure is between the first mirror and the second mirror, wherein the first and second apertures act together to define a path geometry of the current through the MQW structure.
US10014660B2
The invention relates to a III-V heterostructure laser device (1) arranged in and/or on silicon, comprising: a III-V heterostructure gain medium (3); and an optical rib waveguide (11), arranged facing the gain medium (3) and comprising a slab waveguide (15) equipped with a longitudinal rib (17), the optical rib waveguide (11) being arranged in the silicon. The optical rib waveguide (11) is oriented so that at least one Bragg grating (19, 19a, 19b) is arranged on that side (21) of the slab waveguide (15) which is proximal relative to the gain medium (3) and in that the rib (17) is placed on that side (23) of the slab waveguide (15) that is distal relative to the gain medium (3).
US10014653B2
Frequency standards based on mode-locked fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and fiber-based ultra-broad bandwidth light sources, and applications of the same.
US10014652B2
A novel broadly tunable optical parametric oscillator is described for use in numerous applications including multi-photon microscopy. The optical parametric oscillator includes at least one sub-picosecond laser pump source configured to output a pump signal having a wavelength of about 650 nm or less and at least one type II optical parametric oscillator in optical communication with the pump source and configured to generate a single widely tunable pulsed optical signal. In one application, an optical system is in optical communication with the optical parametric oscillator and configured to direct at least a portion of the optical signal to a specimen, and at least one analyzing device is configured to receive a signal from the specimen in response to the optical signal.
US10014647B2
The invention relates a power fiber laser system including at least one single-mode fiber laser, emitting at a signal wavelength, the fiber including at least one outer cladding and a core, in which the core of the fiber has a radially graded index. The fiber includes, at least over a part of its length, a geometrical section having a graded fiber-core radius that decreases between an input end of the section and an output end of the section, the core radius and the index variation between the cladding and the fiber at the input end being such that the normalized frequency at the signal wavelength is less than the normalized cutoff frequency at which the fiber becomes unimodal.
US10014636B2
A cable includes a flexible jacket extending along a length and first and second lateral axes perpendicular to the length. The jacket also defines flat major surfaces that are parallel to each other and spaced apart on opposite sides of the first lateral axis. First and second inner wire assemblies extend within the jacket. The jacket maintains the first and second inner wire assembles in predetermined positions along the first lateral axis within 0.05 mm of each other and disposed on opposing sides of the second lateral axis. First and second outer wire assemblies also extend within the jacket. The outer wire assemblies include a wire of conductive filaments and an insulating layer of an enamel material surrounding the wire. The jacket maintains the first and second outer wire assemblies in positions along the first lateral axis and spaced apart from the first and second inner wire assemblies.
US10014635B2
The invention relates to a grounding clip for an airbag ignition system adapted to be mounted to an airbag retainer insert. The clip comprises a first grounding contact in form of a spring tongue adapted to contact a grounding contact of a squib connector and a second grounding contact adapted to contact an electroconductive part of an airbag squib. The clip comprises a flat base connecting the first and second grounding contacts with each other, wherein the spring tongue has a straight portion that extends perpendicular from the flat base and wherein the free end of the spring tongue comprises a bent portion that is not perpendicular to the base.
US10014630B1
A card connector including a body, a slider, a lock spring, and an urging member. The body includes a movement path and an abuttable portion. The slider is movable in Y-Y′ direction inside the movement path. The lock spring is provided at the slider 300 and is movable in the same direction. An engaging portion of the lock spring is engageable with an engaging recess of a card. The urging member in the Y direction moves the slider from a first position to a second position and brings the engaging portion into abutment with an inclined face of the abuttable portion. In a state where the slider is located at the second position and the engaging portion abuts the inclined face, a load is exerted from the card to the engaging portion, and the engaging portion is displaced in the X direction along the inclined face.
US10014626B1
A compression connector including a tubular connector body with a through bore, a flange, a leading end and a trailing end for connecting ground conductors to a load center. A nose extends from the flange to the leading end and a trailing body portion extends to the trailing end. A boss on the connector body includes a threaded bore and an opening on each side of the boss. A screw within the threaded bore of the boss holds a clip to the connector body. The clip includes two legs with arcuate ends that bisect the through bore. Insertion of a grounding electrode conductor into the through bore and tightening of the clip enables a secure connection of the conductor grounding electrode to the connector body. A threaded nose and a locknut are provided on the compression connector to facilitate attachment of the leading end of the connector body to a knockout aperture in a load center.
US10014623B2
A high voltage connector is provided. The high voltage connector includes multiple electrical conductors, and at least one autotransformer. The high voltage connector is configured to couple a high voltage cable to an X-ray tube.
US10014620B2
A connector includes an outer housing including an engagement catch, an inner housing and a sliding member. The inner housing includes an engagement latch, and a pair of locking arms each provided with the engagement latch. The inner housing includes a slide channel having the pair of locking arms disposed at both sides. The sliding member includes a pair of latching arms each provided with a latch. When the first housing and the second housing are engaged with each other, the first housing and the second housing allow the sliding member to pass through the slide channel, and when the sliding member slides the slide channel, the pair of latching arms are deflected so as to decrease a gap therebetween by depressions from the respective locking arms.
US10014617B2
An electrical distribution apparatus includes a power connector for coupling to a cable. The power connector includes a first end and a second end each defining an opening arranged to receive the cable. A barrier is removably coupled to a portion of the electrical distribution apparatus and selectively adjustable between a first position and a second position, the barrier arranged to prevent insertion of the cable into the first end opening and to permit insertion of the cable into the second end opening when the barrier is in the first position, the barrier arranged to prevent insertion of the cable into the second end opening and to permit insertion of the cable into the first end opening when the barrier is in the second position.
US10014608B2
An electrical plug connector and an electrical receptacle connector adapted to be mated with the electrical plug connector are provided. The electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing integrally formed as a whole and a plurality of receptacle terminals. Based on a supporting arm of a first side arm of the receptacle terminal, when the plug terminal is abutted against the first side arm, the supporting arm is abutted against an abutting surface of the electrical receptacle connector for supporting the first side arm and improving the structural strength of the first side arm. Therefore, the first side arm can be prevented from being deformed or broken. In addition, based on a supporting segment of a second side arm of the receptacle terminal, the flexibility of second side arm can be improved and the structural strength of the second side arm can be enhanced.
US10014594B1
Disclosed are a terminal block assembly (10) and its wiring wrench (2). The wiring wrench (2) includes a press rod (21) and a handle (22), and the press rod (21) has a pressing protruding arm (211) on a side and a stop portion (212) on the other side, and the handle (22) and the press rod (21) are connected by a pivoting structure (23), and the handle (22) has a clamping protruding arm (221) on a side and an elastic arm (222) on the other side, and the clamping protruding arm (221) and the pressing protruding arm (211) are configured to be opposite to each other, and the elastic arm (222) may selectively abut at the stop portion (212). Therefore, the wiring wrench (2) can be latched securely with the terminal block (1) to provide the effect of latching the terminal block (1) conveniently.
US10014592B2
An antenna includes a high band configuration, a low band configuration, and two signal integration modules. The high band configuration includes two three-dimensional feed-ins and a resonator. The three-dimensional feed-ins respectively receive first band signals perpendicular to each other. The resonator is disposed above the three-dimensional feed-ins and is coupled with the three-dimensional feed-ins. The orthogonal projection of the resonator at least partially overlaps with the three-dimensional feed-ins. The low band configuration includes two dipole feed-ins. The dipole feed-ins is disposed above the high band configuration and respectively receives second band signals perpendicular to each other. The signal integration modules are electrically connected to the high band configuration and the low band configuration and integrate the first band signals and the second band signals into broadband signals. By the aforementioned configuration, the antenna receives signals in two directions perpendicular to each other and with broadband.
US10014578B2
An electromagnetic induction antenna including: a first inductor including windings; a second inductor including windings spaced apart from the first inductor; and an impedance connecting the first and second inductors; wherein the first and second inductor form a capacitor; wherein the capacitor is an electric field antenna, and wherein the inductor is a magnetic field antenna.
US10014572B2
An antenna device of the present disclosure includes: a dielectric layer; first and second conductor layers provided on both surfaces, respectively, of the dielectric layer; first and second antenna elements provided in the first conductor layer; a grounded conductor provided in the second conductor layer; and an EBG structure provided between the first and second antenna elements, wherein the EBG structure includes a first EBG portion provided in the first conductor layer, the first EBG portion including a plurality of first patch conductors electromagnetically coupled to the grounded conductor, and a second EBG portion provided in the second conductor layer, the second EBG portion including a plurality of second patch conductors electromagnetically coupled to the grounded conductor.
US10014571B2
A flexible antenna is associated with an active implantable medical device to facilitate communication between the implantable medical device and an external component in the outside world via, for example, long range or far field telemetry. The flexibility of the antenna allows it to conform to the shape of the location at which it is situated, such as on the cranial bone of a patient for an antenna associated with a cranially implanted medical device. The conformability of the antenna helps to maintain the antenna in the desired shape and to maintain it in the desired location relative to implantable medical device and the patient and improves patient comfort.
US10014570B2
A wireless powering and communication system is provided that includes a base unit, and an external unit that is separate from the base unit, where the base unit includes a single transducer circuit configured for uplink data communication to the external unit, where the transducer circuit is configured for power recovery from the external unit, a multiplexer circuit, a power recovery and conditioning circuit, a controller circuit, and a communication circuit, where the multiplexer circuit is configured to decouple power and data paths to enable operation with the single transducer circuit, the power recovery and conditioning circuit is configured to recover and optionally store power from power received by the single transducer circuit, the power recovery and conditioning circuit is configured to power the controller circuit and the communication circuit, the controller circuit is configured to control the multiplexer circuit, the communication circuit is configured to provide data to the multiplexer circuit.
US10014569B2
According to an embodiment, there is provided a plurality of spiral antenna elements that are generated using algorithms taught herein that can be implemented in hardware or software. Embodiments utilize symmetric combinations of 2 or 3 such spiral elements on a substrate or within computer memory to create an array. Each of the antenna elements is in the form of expanding spiral (non-logarithmically expanding) and contains at least six turns. Among the suitable spirals are Fermat, and/or Cornu (Euler) and/or Archimedes and/or other non-logarithmically expanding spirals in any combination. As an article of manufacture, the antenna array may be incorporated into a chip, such as might be found in a cell phone or other CPU based product, or printed or otherwise mounted on an article of clothing, for example.
US10014567B2
A wireless receiver includes a plurality of RF front end chips that receive phase shift signals or amplitude control signals, and output V-combined and H-combined signals. The wireless receiver also includes groups of antennas surrounding each of the plurality of RF front end chips. Each of the plurality of RF front end chips can be surrounded by a group of four antennas in an H-configuration, a group of six antennas in a rectangular- or a hexagonal-configuration, or a group of eight antennas in a rectangular- or an octagonal-configuration. Each of the group of four, six or eight antennas is coupled to a corresponding RF front end chip through antenna feed lines having substantially equal lengths. In another implementation, a pair of RF front end chips uses differential signals to communicate with at least two antennas of a group of antennas surrounding the pair of RF front end chips.
US10014555B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery comprising a nonaqueous electrolytic solution comprising a phosphate compound represented by the following general formula (1): O═P(O—R1)(O—R2)(O—R3) (1), wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each alkyl group or the like or a group comprising an ether bond represented by —R4—O—R5 (R4 represents alkylene group, and R5 represents alkyl group), and at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is a group comprising an ether bond, and at least one of R1, R2, and R3 contains fluorine, and a positive electrode active material having a charge and discharge region of 4.5 V or more versus lithium.
US10014549B2
A fuel cell system mounted on a vehicle, includes: a fuel cell configured to cause electrochemical reaction between an anode gas and a cathode gas to proceed; and a fuel cell casing that is configured to place the fuel cell therein, wherein the fuel cell casing has a bottom face that is formed in an approximately rectangular shape, the fuel cell casing is positioned such that longitudinal sides of the approximately rectangular shape are parallel to a left-right direction of the vehicle, and the bottom face has a rib that is extended only in a front-back direction of the vehicle is provided on the bottom face.
US10014542B2
A cell of the present disclosure includes a support body having a pillar shape, containing nickel, and including a gas-flow passage passing through an interior of the support body in a longitudinal direction, a first end portion including an outlet of the gas-flow passage, and a second end portion including an inlet of the gas-flow passage, a first electrode layer located upon the support body, a solid electrolyte layer located upon the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer located upon the solid electrolyte layer. The support body has a lower metallic nickel content at the first end portion than at a central portion in the longitudinal direction. As such, the cell is capable of suppressing damage.
US10014525B2
This binder for battery electrodes is characterized by containing a polymer including: (A) a structural unit represented by general formula (1) and derived from a monomer having a hydroxyl group (in the formula, R1 is a hydrogen or a C1-C4 straight-chain or branched alkyl group, R2 and R3 are each a hydrogen or a C1-C4 straight-chained or branched alkyl group, and n is an integer of 2-30); (B) a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a difunctional carboxylic acid group, a nitrile group and a ketone group; and (C) a structural unit derived from a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate monomer having at most five functional groups.
US10014523B2
There is disclosed that a MOx nanostructure manufacturing apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof can not only supply a reaction gas more effectively to the surface of a molten metal with ease by injecting a carrier gas to the surface of the molten metal above a graphite crucible as well as bringing the reaction gas in the lower side of the graphite crucible, but also maximize volatilization rates through an inflow of the reaction gas from the lower portion toward the upper of the graphite crucible.
US10014520B2
Disclosed herein is a composition for use in a negative active material in a valve regulated lead-acid battery, including a carbon material having a BET surface area from 150 m2/g to 2000 m2/g and having a D90-value greater than 5 μm with the amount of carbon material ranging from 0.1 wt % to 1.5 wt % based on the total weight of the composition. Also disclosed herein is a valve regulated lead-acid battery, including a positive plate, a negative plate, a separator, and an electrolyte disposed in a container with a valve, the negative plate including a substrate of lead or a lead alloy and a negative active material of a composition including a carbon material having a BET surface area from 150 m2/g to 2000 m2/g and having a D90-value greater than 5 μm, the amount of carbon material ranging from 0.1 wt % to 1.5 wt % based on the total weight of the composition.
US10014519B2
The invention provides a process for producing a highly oriented humic acid (HA) film-bonded metal foil current collector, comprising (a) preparing a dispersion of HA or chemically functionalized HA (CHA) dispersed in a liquid medium; (b) depositing the HA or CHA dispersion onto a primary surface of a metal foil to form a wet layer under an orientation-inducing stress; (c) removing the liquid medium to form a dried layer having hexagonal carbon planes and an inter-planar spacing d002 of 0.4 nm to 1.3; and (d) heat-treating the dried layer at a temperature higher than 80° C. to produce the current collector wherein the film contains inter-connected, merged or thermally reduced HA or CHA sheets that are substantially parallel to each other and are chemically bonded to the metal foil. The film has a thermal conductivity of at least 250 W/mK and an electrical conductivity no less than 500 S/cm.
US10014512B2
A method of manufacturing an electric power storage device includes a connection step of connecting an exposed portion, which is provided at one end in a direction of width of an electrode and constructed without a composite material layer being provided in a current collector, and a collector terminal provided on an outer side relative to the exposed portion in the direction of width of the electrode to each other. In the connection step, while a metal layer composed of a second metal higher in melting point than a first metal which forms the collector terminal lies between the exposed portion and the collector terminal, at least a portion of contact of the collector terminal with the metal layer is irradiated with energy.
US10014502B2
The present invention relates to an inorganic oxide powder which is suitably used to form an inorganic oxide porous film having excellent heat resistance, insulation properties and film strength, regardless of a small basis weight, and also having porosity capable of imparting sufficient ion permeability on at least one surface of a positive electrode, a negative electrode, or a separator that constitutes a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. Disclosed is an inorganic oxide powder, wherein: 1) an average three-dimensional particle unevenness is 3.6 or more, and 2) an abundance ratio in number of particles having a particle diameter of less than 0.3 μm is 50% or more.
US10014501B2
In some embodiments, a battery separator described herein may comprise a layer having a relatively low apparent density; for example, the density that includes any unoccupied space within the outermost boundaries of the layer may be relatively low. The low apparent density may be attributed to, at least in part, the geometry of the layer. For instance, in some embodiments, the layer may include undulations and/or have at least one non-planar surface (e.g., a corrugated layer; an embossed layer). In some embodiments, a battery comprising a layer having a relatively low apparent density may have desirable properties, including relatively low electrical resistance and/or relatively high capacity. The battery separators described herein may be well suited for a variety of battery types, including lead acid batteries.
US10014490B2
A flexible display panel and a flexible display apparatus are provided. The flexible display panel comprises a flexible substrate, an organic light-emitting layer disposed on a side of the flexible substrate and having a first side facing the flexible substrate and an opposing side, and a thin-film-encapsulation layer disposed on the opposing side of the organic light-emitting layer and including at least one organic encapsulation layer and at least one inorganic encapsulation layer. The flexible display panel includes at least one bending area. The at least one organic encapsulation layer has a first side facing the flexible substrate and an opposing side. In the at least one bending area, at least one groove is formed on the opposing side of the at least one organic encapsulation layer. A bottom width W of the at least one groove is configured to be W ≥ n 180 ° π R .
US10014489B2
An organic EL display device 1 that includes a TFT substrate (substrate) 2 and an organic EL element (electroluminescent element) 4 provided on the TFT substrate 2 includes a sealing film 14 that seals the organic EL element 4. The sealing film 14 has a layered structure composed of an organic layer 14b and inorganic layers 14a, 14c. At least a peripheral portion 14b2 of the organic layer 14b has a lower carbon content than a central portion 14b1 of the organic layer 14b.
US10014481B2
When a decrease in low-grey level region (e.g., 0 to 80 grey) efficiencies of organic light emitting devices is not constant, deviation among display panels may cause color change and stain in the low luminance region. Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward a compound to overcome this problem and an organic light-emitting device including the same. The compound may be represented by Formula 1: Organic light-emitting devices including this compound in the buffer layer were found to have improved efficiencies at low grey levels.
US10014473B2
The present disclosure relates a method for transfer printing of an electronic device comprising: forming a sacrificial layer on a handling substrate; forming a protective layer on the sacrificial layer; forming a polymer substrate on the protective layer; forming a pattern on the polymer substrate, and forming a ciliary adhesive rod on the sides of the polymer substrate; forming a supportive layer on the polymer substrate on which the adhesive rod is formed; and removing the sacrificial layer and the protective layer, and transfer printing the electronic device onto an object to-be-printed, while dissolving the to supportive layer.
US10014457B2
A light emitting device includes light emitting elements. A substrate includes electrically conductive layers each having a first region in which the light emitting elements are arranged and a second region connected to the first region and provided at a position higher than the first region. An electrically conductive wire electrically connects the light emitting elements arranged on the electrically conductive layer and the second region of the adjacent electrically conductive layer. A resin molded portion is formed of a light-transmissive resin that seals the light emitting elements and the electrically conductive wire. The resin molded portion has a shape in which centrally projected cylindrical lens portions is aligned, and in each of the cylindrical lens portions, the light emitting elements is arranged in a line shape. The second region is arranged between the light emitting elements in the light emitting element array.
US10014453B2
A reliable semiconductor light-emitting device can include a mounting board, at least one semiconductor light-emitting chip mounted on the mounting board, a wavelength converting layer having a side surface covering the light-emitting chip, and a seal member having an opening contacting the side surface of the wavelength converting layer and covering chip electrodes. The light-emitting device can also include a transparent layer disposed into the opening of the sealing member so as to be located over the light-emitting chip and within a top surface of the light-emitting chip, and can be configured to emit various mixture lights having a high uniformity by using lights emitted from the light-emitting chip and the wavelength converting layer. Thus, the disclosed subject matter can provide the reliable light-emitting device, which can emit the mixture lights including a substantially white color light from a small light-emitting surface as a light source for a headlight, etc.
US10014452B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a formulation for use in the fabrication of a light-emitting device, the formulation including a population of semiconductor nanoparticles incorporated into a plurality of discrete microbeads comprising an optically transparent medium, the nanoparticle-containing medium being embedded in a host light-emitting diode encapsulation medium. A method of preparing such a formulation is described. There is further provided a light-emitting device including a primary light source in optical communication with such a formulation and a method of fabricating the same.
US10014447B2
The present invention relates to a primary particle comprised of a primary matrix material containing a population of semiconductor nanoparticles, wherein each primary particle further comprises an additive to enhance the physical, chemical and/or photo-stability of the semiconductor nanoparticles. A method of preparing such particles is described. Composite materials and light emitting devices incorporating such primary particles are also described.
US10014440B2
A graphene display device includes a graphene display unit and a display control unit electrically connected with the graphene display unit. The graphene display unit includes a plurality of graphene light emitting structures constituting dynamic sub-pixels of the graphene display unit. The graphene display unit is configured for dividing pixel gamut of multiple base colors of pixels of the graphene display unit. A relationship between the pixel gamut and a pixel gamut coordinate is configured, and the graphene display unit controls the dynamic sub-pixel to display corresponding light in accordance with the pixel gamut coordinate of the inputted pixel. In addition, a display driving method of graphene display devices is disclosed. The graphene display device may accomplish multiple base colors display with fewer pixels such that wider color gamut coverage may be provided, and the aperture rate of the display device is enhanced and the power consumption is reduced.
US10014433B2
A device for heating a substrate according to a predetermined temperature profile for crystallizing a material on the substrate includes: a housing, at least a process chamber situated inside the housing and provided with a first and second opening for passing through a substrate, an inlet for introducing a process gas which includes the material in vapor phase into the chamber, at least two transport rollers attached to the housing for transporting the substrate into the chamber. The device further includes passage spaces for preventing the escape of process gas from the chamber to a space between the chamber and housing, which are situated near respective ends of the transport rollers in the chamber, the respective passage spaces having a first passage opening on an inner wall of the chamber, a second passage opening on an outer wall of the chamber and a first flange fixed around the transport roller.
US10014428B2
A solar cell module is provided with: a plurality of solar cell elements each having a surface; a light diffusion portion provided in an outer peripheral area of the surface; and connection members which connect the plurality of solar cell elements. The outer peripheral area has restricted areas where formation of the light diffusion portion is restricted, in a part thereof, and the restricted areas are provided in positions where the outer peripheral area and the connection members intersect. The solar cell element may have, on the surface, bus bar electrodes which extend along the connection members. The restricted areas may be provided in the vicinity of ends of the bus bar electrodes.
US10014419B2
A method for manufacturing a solar cell can include a tunnel layer forming step of forming a tunnel layer on a first surface of a semiconductor substrate, a first conductive type semiconductor region forming step of forming a first conductive type semiconductor region on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second conductive type semiconductor region forming step of forming a second conductive type semiconductor region by doping impurities of a second conductive type into a second surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first passivation film forming step of forming a first passivation film on the first conductive type semiconductor region and an electrode forming step of forming a first electrode connected to the first conductive type semiconductor region and a second electrode connected to the second conductive type semiconductor region.
US10014418B2
The present invention relates to an inorganic reaction system used in the manufacture of electroconductive pastes. The inorganic reaction system comprises a lead containing matrix forming composition and a tellurium oxide additive. Preferably the lead containing matrix forming composition is between 5-95 wt. % of the inorganic reaction system, and the tellurium oxide additive is between 5-95 wt. % of the inorganic reaction system. The lead containing matrix forming composition may be a glass frit, and may comprise lead oxide. Another aspect of the present invention relates to an electroconductive paste composition that comprises metallic particles, an inorganic reaction system as previously disclosed, and an organic vehicle. Another aspect of the present invention relates to an organic vehicle that comprises one or more of a binder, a surfactant, a solvent, and a thixatropic agent. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a solar cell printed with an electroconductive paste composition as disclosed, as well as an assembled solar cell module. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of producing a solar cell.
US10014417B2
A solid state imaging apparatus includes an insulation structure formed of an insulation substance penetrating through at least a silicon layer at a light receiving surface side, the insulation structure having a forward tapered shape where a top diameter at an upper portion of the light receiving surface side of the silicon layer is greater than a bottom diameter at a bottom portion of the silicon layer. Also, there are provided a method of producing the solid state imaging apparatus and an electronic device including the solid state imaging apparatus.
US10014408B1
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, and a first well region disposed in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the first well region has a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. The semiconductor device also includes a buried layer disposed in the semiconductor substrate and under the first well region, wherein the buried layer has the first conductivity type and is in contact with the first well region. The semiconductor device further includes a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate structure disposed on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the gate structure is located between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US10014402B1
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device structure is provided. The HEMT device structure includes a channel layer formed over a substrate and an active layer formed over the channel layer. The HEMT device structure also includes a gate structure formed over the active layer, and the gate structure includes: a p-doped gallium nitride (p-GaN) layer or a p-doped aluminum gallium nitride (p-GaN) layer formed over the active layer, and a portion of the p-GaN layer or p-AlGaN layer has a stepwise or gradient doping concentration. The HEMT device structure also includes a gate electrode over the p-GaN layer or p-AlGaN layer.
US10014391B2
Techniques relate to a gate stack for a semiconductor device. A vertical fin is formed on a substrate. The vertical fin has an upper portion and a bottom portion. The upper portion of the vertical fin has a recessed portion on sides of the upper portion. A gate stack is formed in the recessed portion of the upper portion of the vertical fin.
US10014380B2
A semiconductor device and method of making the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a memory gate on a charge storage structure formed on a substrate, a select gate on a gate dielectric on the substrate proximal to the memory gate, and a dielectric structure between the memory gate and the select gate, and adjacent to sidewalls of the memory gate and the select gate, wherein the memory gate and the select gate are separated by a thickness of the dielectric structure. Generally, the dielectric structure comprises multiple dielectric layers including a first dielectric layer adjacent the sidewall of the memory gate, and a nitride dielectric layer adjacent to the first dielectric layer and between the memory gate and the select gate. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10014369B2
A super junction semiconductor device is provided. The super-junction semiconductor device includes a substrate, a drift layer disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer, a lightly-doped region, and a main loop-shaped field plate. The drift layer includes a plurality of n- and p-type doped regions alternately arranged in parallel to form a super-junction structure, and defines a cell region and a termination region surrounding the cell region. The lightly-doped region is formed in the drift layer and connected to a surface of the drift layer. The lightly-doped region has a first end portion closer to the cell region and a second end portion farther away from the cell region. The insulating layer disposed on the drift layer covers the termination region. The main loop-shaped field plate is disposed on the insulating layer and covers the second end portion.
US10014365B2
Power devices using refilled trenches with permanent charge at or near their sidewalls. These trenches extend vertically into a drift region.
US10014358B2
Organic light-emitting display is disclosed. The organic light-emitting display includes a first substrate, a semiconductor layer positioned on the first substrate, a first insulating layer positioned on the semiconductor layer, a gate metal layer positioned on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer with a contact hole exposing part of the gate metal layer, a source-drain metal layer positioned on the second insulating layer and electrically connected to the gate metal layer via the contact hole, a third insulating layer positioned on the source-drain metal layer, a fourth insulating layer positioned on the third insulating layer, and a pixel electrode positioned on the fourth insulating layer, wherein the fourth insulating layer fully covers the contact hole, and a stepped portion of the pixel electrode caused by the fourth insulating layer is spaced apart from the contact hole.
US10014353B2
The present application discloses a substrate comprising a via and a lyophobic protrusion layer comprising a plurality of protrusions spaced apart in the via, each of the plurality of protrusions protruding from a bottom surface of the via.
US10014351B2
The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touch display panel. The OLED touch display panel includes a packaging substrate, having a touch sensing region and a touch pin line region on a first surface of the packaging substrate, the touch sensing region including a plurality of touch electrodes, the touch pin line region including a plurality of touch lines forming one-to-one electrical connections with the touch electrodes; and an array substrate, having a display region, a connecting region, and a packaging region on a first surface of the array substrate, the display region having an OLED structure, the connecting region having a plurality of conductive lines connectable to a touch control chip. The first surface of the packaging substrate and the first surface of the array substrate are facing each other, the conductive lines forming one-to-one connection with the touch lines through a plurality of via holes.
US10014349B2
A solid state image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate where photoelectric conversion regions for converting light into charges are arranged per pixel planarly arranged; an organic photoelectric conversion film laminated at a light irradiated side of the semiconductor substrate via an insulation film and formed at the regions where the pixels are formed; a lower electrode formed at and in contact with the organic photoelectric conversion film at a semiconductor substrate side; a first upper electrode laminated at a light irradiated side of the organic photoelectric conversion film and formed such that ends of the first upper electrode are substantially conform with ends of the organic photoelectric conversion film when the solid state image sensor is planarly viewed; and a film stress suppressor for suppressing an effect of a film stress on the organic photoelectric conversion film, the film stress being generated on the first upper electrode.
US10014334B2
An object is to provide an imaging device with high efficiency of transferring charge corresponding to imaging data. The imaging device includes first to fifth conductors, first and second insulators, an oxide semiconductor, a photoelectric conversion element, and a transistor. The first conductor is in contact with a bottom surface and a side surface of the first insulator. The first insulator is in contact with a bottom surface of the oxide semiconductor. The oxide semiconductor is in contact with bottom surfaces of the second and third conductors and the second insulator. Each of the second and third conductors is in contact with the bottom surface and a side surface of the second insulator. The second insulator is in contact with bottom surfaces of the fourth and fifth conductors. The first conductor has regions overlapped by the fourth and fifth conductors. The second conductor has a region overlapped by the fourth conductor. The third conductor has a region overlapped by the fifth conductor. The second conductor is electrically connected to one electrode of the photoelectric conversion element. The third conductor is electrically connected to a gate of the transistor.
US10014319B1
Some embodiments include a memory assembly having memory cells proximate a conductive source. Channel material extends along the memory cells and is electrically coupled with the conductive source. The conductive source is over an insulative material and includes an adhesion material directly against the insulative material. The adhesion material comprises one or more of metal, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, silicon carbide, metal silicide, metal carbide, metal oxide, metal oxynitride and metal nitride. The conductive source includes metal-containing material over and directly against the adhesion material. The metal-containing material consists essentially of metal. The conductive source includes a metal-and-nitrogen-containing material over and directly against the metal-containing material, and includes a conductively-doped semiconductor material over the metal-and-nitrogen-containing material.
US10014317B2
The present invention provides a design of three-dimensional non-volatile NOR flash memory devices consisting of arrays of basic NOR memory group in which individual memory cells (field-effect-transistors) are stacked along a direction (or directions) either out of or parallel to the plane of the substrate and electrically connected in parallel to achieve high storage densities approaching 1 TB with lower manufacturing cost. Offering full random access to every individual memory cells and also capability of parallel programming/erasing in blocks of memory cells, such three-dimensional non-volatile NOR flash memory can be widely used for both executable-code storage and mass data storage applications.
US10014310B1
A method for operating a memory cell structure includes providing a memory cell. An erasing process is performed by applying an erasing voltage to a first gate electrode, a source region and a drain region simultaneously to attract a plurality of electrons from a substrate and to store the plurality of electrons in a first spacer and a second spacer. Afterwards, a programming process is performed by applying a pull-out voltage to the source region or the drain region to remove the plurality of electrons stored in the first spacer or the second spacer, and a read process is performed to determine whether the plurality of electrons is stored in the first spacer and stored in the second spacer.
US10014307B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate, a first conductor, a second conductor, a first dielectric, a second dielectric, and a designated region. The first conductor is positioned between the first dielectric and the substrate. The second conductor is positioned between the second dielectric and the substrate. The first designated region is positioned in the substrate. The method includes providing a conductive material layer, which completely covers the first dielectric and the second dielectric. The method includes partially removing the conductive material layer to form a third conductor and a fourth conductor. The first dielectric is positioned between the third conductor and the first conductor. The fourth conductor directly contacts the designated region. The method includes implementing a memory unit using the first conductor and the third conductor and includes implementing a logic unit using the second conductor and the designated region.
US10014292B2
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first die including a first transistors layer and a first interconnection layer; and a second die overlaying the first die, the second die including a second transistors layer and a second interconnection layer, where the second die thickness is less than 2 microns, and where the first die is substantially larger than the second die.
US10014291B2
A silicon substrate with a GaN-based device and a Si-based device on the silicon substrate is provided. The silicon substrate includes the GaN-based device on a SiC crystalline region. The SiC crystalline region is formed in the silicon substrate. The silicon substrate also includes the Si-based device on a silicon region, and the silicon region is next to the SiC crystalline region on the silicon substrate.
US10014278B2
A semiconductor chip includes a substrate, through-electrodes passing through the substrate, and a dielectric layer formed between the substrate and the through-electrodes and having a dielectric constant decreasing structure.
US10014277B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a system in package (SiP) is described which includes a plurality of device components with different form factors embedded within a molding compound layer. A surface for each of the device components is coplanar with a surface of the molding compound layer, and a single redistribution layer (RDL) formed on the coplanar surfaces of the molding compound layer and the plurality of device components. An active device die is electrically bonded to the single RDL directly vertically adjacent the plurality of device components. In an embodiment, the SiP is electrically connected to a circuit board with the active device die between the single RDL and the circuit board. In an embodiment, the SiP is electrically connected to a circuit board with the active device die over the single RDL and the circuit board.
US10014273B2
A fixture assembly and method of forming a chip assembly is provided. The fixture assembly includes a first plate having an opening sized to accommodate a chip mounted on a laminate. The fixture assembly further includes a second plate mated to the first plate by at least one mechanical fastening mechanism. The fixture assembly further includes a space defined by facing surfaces of the first plate and the second plate and confined by a raised stepped portion of at least one of the first plate and the second plate. The space is coincident with the opening. The space is sized and shaped such that the laminate is confined within the space and directly abuts the stepped portion and the facing surfaces of the first plate and the second plate to be confined in X, Y and Z directions.
US10014264B2
A package, able to encapsulate at least one component, forming a closed cavity of Faraday cage type having side walls resting on a base and that are surmounted by a cover, wherein at least one of the side walls includes exterior electrical connection elements linked electrically to the interior of the cavity, the exterior connection elements able to interconnect with an exterior circuit such that the side wall faces the exterior circuit when the exterior connection elements are interconnected with the circuit.
US10014263B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a package assembly for embedded die and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a package assembly comprising a die attach layer, a die coupled with the die attach layer, the die having an active side including active devices of the die and an inactive side disposed opposite to the active side, a reinforced plate coupled with the die attach layer, the reinforced plate having a first side and a second side disposed opposite to the first side and a cavity disposed in the reinforced plate and one or more build-up layers coupled with the second side of the reinforced plate, the one or more build-up layers including an insulator and conductive features disposed in the insulator, the conductive features being electrically coupled with the die, wherein the inactive side of the die is in direct contact with the die attach layer, the first side of the reinforced plate is in direct contact with the die attach layer and the die is disposed in the cavity. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10014249B2
A circuit board and a smart card module and a smart card employing the circuit board are provided. The circuit board includes a substrate and a pad region provided on the substrate. The pad region is configured for mounting an electronic component. The pad region comprises a plurality of pads spaced from each other and traces connected to their respective pads. At least one of the traces comprises an extension which extends along a perimeter of the pad region. The present invention provides a reliable adhesion between the chip and pad region.
US10014242B2
The invention provides an interposer substrate and a method of fabricating the same. The method includes: etching a carrier to form a recessed groove thereon; filling a dielectric material in the recessed groove to form a first dielectric material layer, or forming a patterned first dielectric material layer on the carrier; forming a first wiring layer, a first conductive block and a second dielectric material layer on the carrier and the first dielectric material layer sequentially, with the first wiring layer and the first conductive block embedded in the second dielectric material layer; and forming a second wiring layer and a second conductive block on the second dielectric material layer. A coreless interposer substrate having fine pitches is thus fabricated.
US10014241B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device has a semiconductor chip, an island having an upper surface to which the semiconductor chip is bonded, a lead disposed around the island, a bonding wire extended between the surface of the semiconductor chip and the upper surface of the lead, and a resin package sealing the semiconductor chip, the island, the lead, and the bonding wire, while the lower surface of the island and the lower surface of the lead are exposed on the rear surface of the resin package, and the lead is provided with a recess concaved from the lower surface side and opened on a side surface thereof.
US10014231B1
A first set of test structures for a gallium nitride (GaN) transistor that includes N field plates is disclosed, where N is an integer and X is an integer between 0 and N inclusive. A test structure TSX of the first set of test structures includes a GaN substrate, a dielectric material overlying the GaN substrate, a respective source contact abutting the GaN substrate and a respective drain contact abutting the GaN substrate. The test structure TSX also includes a respective gate overlying the substrate and lying between the respective source contact and the respective drain contact and X respective field plates corresponding to X of the N field plates of the GaN transistor, the X respective field plates including field plates that are nearest to the GaN substrate.
US10014226B2
A process of forming a first mask on a first region of a metal film formed on a surface of a substrate, a process of modulating a work function of a first exposed region of the metal film, using plasma of a first process gas, a process of removing the first mask, a process of forming a second mask on a second region of the metal film, and a process of modulating the work function of a second exposed region of the metal film, using plasma of a second process gas are executed.
