US10026214B2
A ray tracing apparatus includes a traversal (TRV) core configured to traverse an acceleration structure (AS) to detect a first node and a second node, which intersect with a generated ray and have a determined same parent node, and to determine whether the ray intersects with an overlap region where a first bounding box corresponding to the first node overlaps a second bounding box corresponding to the second node; and, an intersection test (IST) determiner configured to calculate a first hit point where the ray intersects with a primitive belonging to the first node, which is a closer node to a view point of the ray among the first node and the second node, and to determine a final hit point of the ray based on a result of the determining of whether the ray intersects with respect to an overlap region, by the TRV core.
US10026204B2
A system that displays geographic data is disclosed. During operation, the system receives a query to be processed, wherein the query is associated with a set of geographic regions. Next, the system uses a late-binding schema generated from the query to retrieve a set of data points from a set of events containing previously gathered data. Then, for each data point in a set of data points, the system identifies zero or more geographic regions in the set of geographic regions that the data point falls into. Finally, the system displays the set of geographic regions, wherein each polygon that defines a geographic region is marked to indicate a number of data points that fall into the polygon.
US10026196B2
A self-position calculating apparatus includes: a light projector projecting a patterned light beam onto a road surface around a vehicle; and a camera capturing an image of the road surface including an area onto which the patterned light beam is projected. The apparatus calculates an orientation angle of the vehicle from a position of the patterned light beam, and calculate an amount of change in orientation based on temporal changes in multiple feature points on the road surface. The apparatus calculates current position and orientation angle by adding the amount of change to initial position and orientation angle. If a condition under which the multiple feature points are detected does not satisfy a first criterion, the apparatus sets the current position at that time and the orientation angle at the initial position and orientation, and starts adding the amount of change to the initial position and orientation angle.
US10026188B2
A dynamic analysis system includes an imaging unit, an attenuation process unit and an analysis unit. The imaging unit images a dynamic state of a subject, thereby generating a plurality of frame images showing the dynamic state of the subject. The attenuation process unit performs an attenuation process to attenuate an image signal component of a product in the frame images. The analysis unit analyzes the dynamic state of the subject based on the frame images after the attenuation process.
US10026184B2
The disclosure describes a grading method and device for digital image quality. The method comprises: obtaining a digital image and extracting n main body region blocks from the image; calculating a first ratio value of the area of a plurality of main body region blocks to the total area of the image, a second ratio value of the area of background region blocks to the total area of the image, and a normalized distance value from a plurality of the pixel points in the plurality of main body region blocks to a center pixel point of the image; calculating to obtain a quality score value of the image through a preset digital image quality score conversion relation based on the first ratio value, the second ratio value, and the normalized distance value; and grading a quality of image according to a quality score value of the image and a preset digital image quality score threshold value.
US10026175B2
A three-dimensional common coordinate system is defined and a first correspondence relationship between each pixel of a first three-dimensional image which has at least a portion of a human body as a subject and coordinates on the common coordinate system is set. A second three-dimensional image which has at least a portion of the human body as a subject that at least partially overlaps the subject in the first three-dimensional image is aligned with the first three-dimensional image to calculate a correspondence relationship between pixels of the first three-dimensional image and the second three-dimensional image. A second correspondence relationship between each pixel of the second three-dimensional image and coordinates on the common coordinate system is calculated on the basis of the calculated correspondence relationship and the set first correspondence relationship. The first correspondence relationship and the second correspondence relationship are stored.
US10026170B2
The diagnostic vector classification support system and method disclosed herein may both reduce the time and effort required to train radiologists to interpret medical images, and provide a decision support system for trained radiologists who, regardless of training, have the potential to miss relevant findings. In an embodiment, a morphological image is used to identify a zone of interest in a co-registered functional image. An operator's grading of a feature at least partially contained within the zone of interest is compared to one or more computer-generated grades for the feature. Where the operator and computer-generated grades differ, diagnostic support can be provided such as displaying additional images, revising the zone of interest, annotating one or more displayed images, displaying a computer-generated feature grade, among other possibilities disclosed herein.
US10026163B2
A technology is described for identifying hydrometeors. A method includes receiving an image of a hydrometeor captured using a camera. The hydrometeor in the image can be identified and analyzed to determine characteristics associated with the hydrometeor. Environmental measurements recorded substantially contemporaneously with the image can be obtained from environmental sensors located in proximity to the camera. A feature vector can be constructed using the hydrometeor characteristics and the environmental measurements. The feature vector can be input to a classification model used to classify the hydrometeor, and the classification model can output a classification for the hydrometeor using the feature vector.
US10026162B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device of inspecting a sealant coating on a substrate. An image of a sample substrate is captured. The sample substrate is selected from a plurality of substrates. A non-coating area is identified from the image of the sample substrate. Abnormal points are identified in the non-coating area. Positions of the abnormal points are recorded. An image of a sealant-coated substrate having a sealant coating on one of the plurality of substrates is captured. Defect positions of the sealant coating are identified from the image of the sealant-coated substrate. Defects located in a non-coating area of the sealant-coated substrate at positions corresponding to the positions of the abnormal points identified based on the sample substrate are considered as normal.
US10026158B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing an imaging device that prevents mismatching in image matching for parallax calculation even if the sharpnesses of an end part and center part of a processing area differ. An imaging device 1 according to the present invention is provided with a means for equalizing the sharpnesses of the processing areas of a reference image and a comparison image.
US10026153B2
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for varying image quality rendering in a sort middle architecture. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to divide a display into a plurality of sections, assign a plurality of image quality parameters to the plurality of sections, and render images in each of the plurality of sections at a quality level determined at least in part by the image quality parameter assigned to each of the plurality of sections, wherein the plurality of image quality parameters assigned to the plurality of sections vary. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10026152B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first-image generation unit that generates a first image by performing a visibility enhancement process on an original image in a first color space that is a color space not prone to having color values falling outside a color gamut as a result of conversion of color values of pixels in the original image in the visibility enhancement process, a representative chromaticity determination unit that determines a representative chromaticity that represents chromaticities of pixels in a first region that is an entirety or a part of one of the original image and the first image, and a second-image generation unit that generates a second image by performing, in a second color space, a process for adjusting color values of pixels in a second region that is the entirety or the part of the first image to make the representative chromaticity close to a target chromaticity.
US10026145B2
Techniques for allowing for concurrent execution of multiple different tasks and preempted prioritized execution of tasks on a shader processor. In an example operation, a driver executed by a central processing unit (CPU) configures GPU resources based on needs of a first “host” shader to allow the first shader to execute “normally” on the GPU. The GPU may observe two sets of tasks, “guest” tasks. Based on, for example, detecting an availability of resources, the GPU may determine a “guest” task may be run while the “host” task is running. A second “guest” shader executes on a GPU by using resources that were configured for the first “host” shader if there are available resources and, in some examples, additional resources are obtained through software-programmable means.
US10026141B2
A visual interface apparatus cooperates with an operation apparatus and has a display surface. The visual interface apparatus comprises a display panel and a control unit. The display panel includes an array substrate and a display medium. The control unit transmits a display data and a transmission data to the display panel. When the operation apparatus is operated on the display surface, a coupling signal containing the transmission data is coupled to the operation apparatus from at least one electrode of the display panel, and the operation apparatus receives the coupling signal to obtain a coupling data. A data transmission system is also disclosed in the invention. Thereby, not only the visual interface apparatus can display images, but also the transmission data such as data or files can be transmitted to another electronic apparatus through the visual interface apparatus. Therefore, it can be applied to multiple near range wireless communication situations, and the application of the display apparatus can be extended.
US10026115B2
Collecting dimension data (e.g., height, chest size, etc.) associated with users and leveraging the dimension data to generate and display size distributions in association with products in an online marketplace is described. The size distributions may summarize data so that users may make sizing decisions based on users with similar user dimensions who acquired a same garment. The size distributions may summarize data so that a user may compare values corresponding to ranges of user dimensions in the context of a size of garment. The values may be determined based on adjusting a baseline value based at least in part on a number of users who acquire a garment, return a previously acquired garment, or provide negative feedback about the size of the garment. Graphical representations, such as pie charts, bar charts, etc., that are representative of the size distributions may be presented to users for providing contextual recommendations and/or information to streamline online shopping transactions.
US10026114B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving, aggregating, and analyzing data to develop caregiver rankings, recommendations, and other information that care seekers may use to connect with caregivers for services, or for caregivers to use to connect with care seekers. Sample data can be obtained from a plurality of data sources, processed to form data clusters, aggregated to form data records, and provided to a care seeker searching for a caregiver or medical facility.
US10026104B2
A computer-implemented method for automatically pausing advertisements based on user attention includes rendering a digital video to a user, in response to the user initiating the digital video through a web multimedia player. The computer-implemented method also includes streaming an advertisement to the user once the user begins to watch the digital video and monitoring the user attention as the user watches the advertisement. The user attention is monitored based on keystrokes and mouse movements. Further, the computer-implemented method includes detecting one or more changes in the user attention. Furthermore, the computer-implemented method includes pausing the advertisement automatically at instance of detecting the one or more changes. Moreover, the computer-implemented method includes detecting the one or more changes that directs the user attention to the paused advertisement and resuming streaming of the advertisement.
US10026103B2
A system to place online advertisements on a first page includes a display output to render a primary advertisement on at least a portion of a first web page and a timer to measure a first predetermined period of time that the first web page is displayed. The system includes an advertisement controller, coupled to the display output and the timer, to switch the primary advertisement to display a secondary advertisement on the portion of the first web page. The advertisement controller is further responsive to a request to recall the primary advertisement after the switching has occurred and to switch the secondary advertisement with the primary advertisement.
US10026094B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the use of loyalty accounts, private label payment accounts, and general payment accounts using an electronic device with an electronic wallet. Various accounts are linked to the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device is NFC-enabled. The electronic device may be used to provide loyalty account information and payment account information to a payment terminal, such as an NFC-enabled payment terminal.
US10026092B2
An automated system processes customer requests and interactions with a customer service representative. During such interactions, the representative's actions at a computer interface are monitored, and the dialog between the customer and representative are recorded. Based on the dialog and the actions, a script is created or updated for a given request, where the script encompasses a dialog tree and actions relating to the customer's account. When a subsequent customer submits the same or a comparable request, an automated agent utilizes the script to handle the request. Using the script, the automated agent performs a dialog with the customer, accesses the customer account, and updates the account in accordance with the request.
US10026085B2
Various embodiments each include at least one of systems, devices, methods, and software for cross-channel security authentication, such as with regard to providing of payment card (e.g., credit and debit card) data for payment within a transaction. One such embodiment, in the form of a method includes receiving, by a payment account app on a mobile device, a payment authorization request and subsequently receiving approval or denial input within the payment account app following receipt of valid payment account authentication input. This method, following receipt of approval input, further includes generating authorized payment output to provide in response to the received payment authorization request.
US10026084B2
A system for initiating and authorizing a transaction including one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to associate a detectable device with at least one financial account. The one or more processors may be further configured to receive a notification indicating that the detectable device is involved in a potential transaction initiated by a sensor device detecting the detectable device in an initiating action. The one or more processors may be further configured to receive transaction information associated with the potential transaction. The one or more processors may be further configured to identify a customer profile associated with the detectable device, and determine whether the potential transaction is authorized by a customer based on the transaction information and at least one profile customization parameter associated with the customer profile.
US10026073B2
Certain aspects of a method and system for communicating location of a mobile device for hands-free payment may include a peer-to-peer ad-hoc network that comprises a plurality of mobile devices, a plurality of access points, and a plurality of point of sale (POS) devices. A first mobile device may determine its location coordinates and communicate them to a selected POS device via the peer to peer ad-hoc network. At least one of the plurality of mobile devices and/or the plurality of access points may be within a defined proximity of the selected POS device. In some instances, the first POS device may receive via one or more intermediate mobile devices in the peer-to-peer ad-hoc network, location coordinates and payment transaction information of a selected mobile device. At least one of the intermediate mobile devices may be within a defined proximity of the first POS device.
US10026068B2
A charging fee payment system is used for a payment process for a payment of a charging fee to charge a target apparatus with a charging apparatus. The target apparatus includes a memory, a controller, and a communication section. When the charging apparatus does not have a function to communicate with an external server that performs the payment process, the memory stores an unique ID code of the charging apparatus and electricity usage data indicative of the amount of electricity used by the charging apparatus to charge the target apparatus. The controller allows the target apparatus to be charged with the charging apparatus on a condition that the ID code remains stored in the memory. When the communication section becomes able to communicate with the external server, the communication section sends the ID code and the electricity usage data stored in the memory to the external server.
US10026062B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems to generate and communicate interactive digital receipts. In one implementation, the method may include receiving an indication of a payment transaction between a merchant and a user. Via a customer identification system, an employment profile of the user; may be determined. The employment profile of the user may be compared with one or more employment vacancies within an employment database, where the employment vacancies relate to employment at one of a location of the merchant and another merchant's location. A particular employment vacancy from among the employment vacancies may be selected. The payment processing system generates one or more interactive receipts including at least a transaction component configured to display details of the payment transaction and an employment application component configured to display the particular employment vacancy.
US10026059B2
An information managing system for managing contact center information is disclosed. The information managing system includes a plurality of receivers for receiving information from at least one data collector. The information managing system further includes a plurality of databases for storing the information received from the at least one data collector. The information managing system further includes a report generator comprising a user interface for receiving a plurality of search queries from a plurality of users. The information managing system further includes a database interface layer for performing one or more lookups on the plurality of databases based on the plurality of search queries received from the plurality of users, wherein results of the one or more lookups are displayed on the user interface of the report generator.
US10026051B2
A system for accessing business metadata within a distributed network is disclosed. The system facilitates metadata driven for using social constructs in combination with metadata management to enhance metadata. The system includes a data storage device configured to store business information and metadata related to the business information, a processor configured to: selectively receive rated user input that provides supplemental information regarding at least one of the business information and the metadata, determine the context of the supplemental information and the at least one of the business information and the metadata; template the supplemental information by type and using pointers in the system provide non-redundancy, store the organized supplemental information in the data storage device, and generate a user interface element, and a display device configured to display the user interface element as the definition of the business information.
US10026045B1
An enterprise hierarchical performance model and performance monitoring, evaluation and decision support system is disclosed to collect enterprise data, calculate and display performance information including performance, progress, and risk of one or more metrics and/or indicators, and execute an action in accordance with enterprise conditions.
US10026025B2
A card reader may include a fixed body having a card moving passage, a pulling-out prevention member supported by the fixed body and structured to turn between a closing position and an open position, and structured to prevent pulling-out of the card at the closing position, a first urging member which urges the pulling-out prevention member toward the closing position, a lock member to prevent turning of the pulling-out prevention member toward the open position, and a lock member drive mechanism. The lock member may be driven by the lock member drive mechanism and swung so as to be switched from one of an unlocking attitude permitting turning of the pulling-out prevention member toward the open position and a locking attitude interfering with the pulling-out prevention member and preventing turning of the pulling-out prevention member toward the open position to the other of the unlocking attitude and the locking attitude.
US10026023B2
By performing Natural Language Processing (NLP) on a comment to a social media post, an entity that is referenced in the comment is extracted. The entity is an object other than a human face that is depicted in an image in the post. The image is analyzed to determine whether the entity is represented in the image. When the entity is represented in the image, a sentiment value of the comment is computed relative to the entity. A value corresponding to the sentiment value is assigned to a characteristic of a graphical artifact. A position is determined relative to an area occupied by the entity in the image. The graphical artifact is caused to be overlaid on the image at the position and with the value of the characteristic.
US10026022B2
A system trains a facial recognition modeling system using an extremely large data set of facial images, by distributing a plurality of facial recognition models across a plurality of nodes within the facial recognition modeling system. The system optimizes a facial matching accuracy of the facial recognition modeling system by increasing a facial image set variance among the plurality of facial recognition models. The system selectively matches each facial image within the extremely large data set of facial images with at least one of the plurality of facial recognition models. The system reduces the time associated with training the facial recognition modeling system by load balancing the extremely large data set of facial images across the plurality of facial recognition models while improving the facial matching accuracy associated with each of the plurality of facial recognition models.
US10026017B2
A method for generating labels for an image of low quality is described. The method includes mapping image data and depth information of said image to a 3D point cloud; segmenting the 3-D point cloud and the image into super voxels and image patches, fusing features obtained from the super voxels and image patches, by using a fusion model, applying classifiers to fused features, wherein the fusion model and the classifiers are generated from a dataset including image data of selected quality and quantity, corresponding point cloud and image labels, and generating scene labels based on applied classifiers.
US10026014B2
A method including receiving, by an image classification engine, a number K of clusters to be created by a clustering algorithm. The method further including receiving, by the image classification engine, a set of elements based on an image, executing, by the image classification engine, the clustering algorithm on the set of elements to create K clusters, each cluster having a respective subset of the set of elements, for each cluster, computing, by the image classification engine, a centroid of the cluster, for each cluster, creating, by the image classification engine, a generator of the cluster based on the respective subset of the set of elements corresponding to each cluster, and for each element of each cluster, computing, by the image classification engine, a cost function corresponding to the element based on the centroid, the respective subset of the set of elements, and the generator corresponding to the cluster.
US10026013B2
A clustering method with a two-stage local binary pattern includes generating a gradient direction value according to a center sub-block and neighbor sub-blocks of a patch of an image; quantizing the gradient direction value, thereby generating a quantized gradient direction value; generating a gradient magnitude value according to the gradient direction value; quantizing the gradient magnitude value, thereby generating a quantized gradient magnitude value; concatenating the quantized gradient direction value and the quantized gradient magnitude value to generate a two-stage local binary pattern (2SLBP) value; and performing clustering of super-resolution imaging by using the 2SLBP value as an index.
US10026005B2
Provided is a color scheme evaluation apparatus including a color range storage unit and a color scheme evaluation unit. The color range storage unit configured to store information about a color range of a color scheme for an evaluation target object constituting an evaluation target screen. The color scheme evaluation unit configured to create an evaluation criterion usable for evaluating a color scheme for the evaluation target object, by interpreting a relationship of a group into which the evaluation target object is classified, on the basis of evaluation target object information including information about the color scheme for the evaluation target object and information about the group, and group relationship information including the relationship about the group, and to evaluate the color scheme for the evaluation target object on the basis of the evaluation criterion by referring to the information about the color range.
US10026004B2
A method, system, and apparatus for license plate relighting comprises collecting an image of a license plate, performing license plate recognition on the image of the license plate; calculating a confidence metric for the license plate recognition; and performing a shadow detection and relighting method if the confidence metric is below a predetermined threshold, comprising identifying a shaded region of said license plate, determining if the shaded region is actually shaded, and relighting the actually shaded region.
US10026003B2
Monitoring technique includes identifying objects in images and associating color characteristics with each identified object. When the color characteristics of an object in one image is above a color resemblance threshold to the color characteristics of an object in another image, the object in both images is considered the same. Otherwise, the respective object in both images are considered to be different. Data about time that each image including an identified object was obtained and location of each object when each image including an identified object was obtained is derived. An information conveyance system is activated to convey the time and location-related data about identified objects relative to defined areas of the site or movement of the identified objects or people into, between or out of the defined areas of the site or a communication resulting from such data satisfying one or more conditions.
US10025998B1
Classification of an object in the field of view of a camera. A processor is configured to capture multiple image frames from the camera. A candidate image is detected in the image frames. Alignment of the candidate image is determined relative to at least one previously known training image by inputting the candidate image into a trained alignment classifier and outputting one or more alignment variables therefrom associated with the candidate image. The candidate image and the alignment variable(s) are input into a trained object classifier. The object is classified responsive to the alignment variable(s).
US10025993B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying and tracking UAVs including a plurality of sensors operatively connected over a network to a configuration of software and/or hardware. Generally, the plurality of sensors monitors a particular environment and transmits the sensor data to the configuration of software and/or hardware. The data from each individual sensor can be directed towards a process configured to best determine if a UAV is present or approaching the monitored environment. The system generally allows for a detected UAV to be tracked, which may allow for the system or a user of the system to predict how the UAV will continue to behave over time. The sensor information as well as the results generated from the systems and methods may be stored in one or more databases in order to improve the continued identifying and tracking of UAVs.
US10025986B1
A method and computing device for detecting and outputting notable moments of a performance. The method may be executable by a processor. The method may include receiving, by a processor, an input video stream of a performance. The method may further include determining, by the processor, a notable moment within the input video stream, the notable moment including an amount of motion greater than a threshold value. The method may also include generating, by the processor, a video clip including the determined notable moment, a portion of the input video stream preceding the determined notable moment, and a portion of the input video stream following the determined notable moment. The method may additionally include outputting, by the processor, the video clip.
US10025982B2
An iris biometric recognition module includes technology for capturing images of an iris of an eye of a person, whether the person is moving or stationary. The iris biometric recognition technology can perform an iris matching procedure for, e.g., identity purposes by querying a database for data related to an identified person, comparing the data with a plurality of content, and, in response to a determination that the data matches at least one piece of the plurality of content, display the plurality of content specific to the person on a display device.
US10025981B2
A method of operating an image detection device includes receiving an image, dividing the image into a plurality of patches, grouping ones of the plurality of patches, generating a set of saccadic paths through the plurality of patches of the image, generating a cluster-direction sequence for each saccadic path, generating a policy function for identifying an object in a new image using a combination of the cluster-direction sequences, and operating the image detection device using the policy function to identify an object in the new image.
US10025977B2
This invention relates to a method for identifying a sign on an image of a document that can be deformed comprising: an acquisition (E1) of said digital image of said document; a determination (E2) in the acquired image of at least one candidate sign region using an image segmentation algorithm, for each candidate sign region, a calculation (E3) of a signature comprising a piece of information concerning the location in the acquired image of said candidate sign region and a region descriptor concerning the local characteristics of the image in said region, an identification (E4) of a sign on the image of the document using the calculated signatures comprising jointly a comparison (E41) of the calculated signatures with reference signatures concerning sign regions of document models, said comparison being carried out according to a geometric deformation model of said document, and an estimation (E42) according to said comparison of said geometric deformation model.
US10025972B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire real-time image data depicting at least a portion of a face of a user of a computing system (or device). The real-time image data can be analyzed to determine a state associated with at least the portion of the face. An emoji can be provided based on the state associated with at least the portion of the face. The emoji can be inputted in a communication to be made by the user.
US10025969B2
A fingerprint identification module includes a substrate, a sensing die, a mold compound layer and a circuit board. The substrate includes plural electrical contacts. The plural electrical contacts are exposed outside the substrate. The sensing die is attached on the substrate and electrically connected with the substrate so as to sense a fingerprint image. The mold compound layer is formed on the substrate to encapsulate the sensing die. The circuit board includes plural connection pads. The circuit board and the substrate are electrically connected with each other through the plural connection pads and the plural electrical contacts. The substrate and the circuit board are not integrally formed with each other.
US10025965B2
A method, device, and inspection line for optically reading portions in relief on a side wall of a container, includes using a light source to light a portion of interest with a peripheral incident light beam comprising non-parallel radial light rays and using specular reflection of the beam on the portion of interest and on the portions in relief through an optical element to form a plane image in the field of view of a two-dimensional photoelectric sensor. The image received by the sensor is processed in order to detect the portions in relief to cause the light source that provides the peripheral incident light beam to move relative to the optical element in translation along the direction of a theoretical central axis to modify the contrast of the image received by the sensor between zones of the image that correspond to the portions in relief and adjacent zones.
US10025960B1
A radio frequency identification (RFID) system for frequency multiplexing includes, in an exemplary embodiment, an RFID interrogator configured for generating an RFID signal, wherein a channel frequency of the RFID signal changes over time within an operating bandwidth; and one or more electromagnetic transmissive elements each extending between a first end thereof and a second end thereof, each of the electromagnetic transmissive elements electrically coupled with the RFID interrogator at the first end thereof, each of the electromagnetic transmissive elements comprising a frequency dependent load at the second end thereof and configured for transmitting the RFID signal from the RFID interrogator to the frequency dependent load, wherein the frequency dependent load presents different electromagnetic characteristics to the RFID signal transmitted to the frequency dependent load depending on the channel frequency of the RFID signal. Other embodiments include a method for frequency multiplexing including similar components.
US10025957B2
A secure provisioning manifest used to authenticate and securely communicate with peripherals attached to a computer is provided with techniques to learn about a new peripheral not authorized to be attached to the computer and possibly gain authorization for the peripheral. A secure I/O module, that is separate from an operating system and transaction software executed by a processor of the computer, uses the secure provisioning manifest to authenticate and establish a secure encrypted session for communicating with each peripheral authorized to be attached to the computer. When an unauthorized peripheral is found, identifying information for the peripheral is transmitted to an enterprise provisioning server with a request to authorize the peripheral.
US10025942B2
A system and method of establishing permissions for multi-tenancy storage using an organization matrices is provided. The method includes a computing application for setting permissions for accessing data entries of a multi-tenant database, the data entries storing data associated with a number of computing devices where the multi-tenant database is accessible by two or more tenants and/or sub-tenants. The method includes displaying via a graphical user interface that displays the one or more tenants in a single workspace where the tenants are displayed in a hierarchical structure. The method includes receiving a permission commands to establish the permissions for a tenant and causing the permissions to be set.
US10025933B2
Systems and computer-readable media are disclosed for utilizing one or more data sources to generate a set of operations. First data may be received from a first data source and second data may be received from a second data source. The first data and second data may be processed by conversion engines to generate a first set of common data and a second set of common data. These sets of common data may be locally stored. A processing engine may analyze these sets of common data to detect one or more predefined events. A set of operations associated with the detected predefined events may be generated. The set of operations may be transmitted to a user device.
US10025921B2
In an approach for changing a password. Aspects of an embodiment of the present invention include an approach for changing a password, wherein the approach includes a processor identifies a resource protected by a password. A processor discovers at least one information source containing information relevant to a process for changing the password of the resource. A processor constructs a set of procedures to change the password using the information relevant to the process for changing the password. A processor alters the password of the resource according to the constructed set of procedures.
US10025919B2
Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of an authentication system. The system may receive a request from a user device to authenticate a user. The system may determine a route traveled by the user. The route can be determined based at least on data retrieved from the user device of the user. The system may determine one or more objects viewable along the route. At least one image of the one or more objects can be selected. The system may communicate the at least one image and at least one other image to the user device to be displayed on the user device. The system may receive a selection of the at least one image by the user through a display of the user device. The authentication of the user can be based, at least in part, on the user selection of the at least one image.
US10025916B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for executing a device according to usage authority, wherein usage authority information for a first device may be received, usage authority for the first device may be identified based on the received usage authority information as well as telephone number information of a user, and the first device may be executed according to the identified usage authority for the first device.
US10025911B2
The invention relates to a method for accessing protected content provided to a client device, wherein the client device decrypts the content using at least one control word provided by a server device. In the method, (i) the client device sends a request message to the server device, the request message including a nonce, and the client device stores the nonce; (ii) upon receipt of the request message, the server device generates a control word message based on the control word and the received nonce; (iii) upon receipt of the control word message, the client device determines the control word from the control word message and validates the control word message using the stored nonce; and (iv) the client device uses the control word to decrypt at least part of the content in response to a successful validation of the control word message. Moreover, the invention relates to a client device and a server device for carrying out the method.
US10025909B2
A configuration management resource keeps track of incremental updates to a locally stored copy of configuration information (such as drug library information) used by a medical device to administer treatment to patients. The medical device retrieves a copy of the configuration information from a configuration management resource. Unbeknownst to a user of the medical device, to ensure that the medical device has most up-to-date configuration information, the medical device communicates a request for updates to the configuration management resource. To service the received request for updated configuration information, the configuration management resource forwards incrementally available configuration update information to the requesting medical device. The medical device uses the received configuration update information from the configuration management resource to update its local version of configuration information stored in the medical device.
US10025904B2
A system for managing a master patient index is described. The master patient index database is constructed using inverted indices. The inverted index formulation enables faster, more complete and more flexible duplicate detection as compared to traditional master patient database management techniques. A master patient index management system including a remote user interface configured to leverage the inverted index formulation is described. The user interface includes features for managing records in an MPI database including identifying, efficiently comparing, updating and merging duplicate records across a heterogeneous healthcare organization.
US10025897B2
A method for analog circuit design includes the steps of (A) evaluating an initial population comprising a plurality of initial designs of an analog circuit using a computer to determine to breed a plurality of new designs that satisfy one or more regions of operation or one or more specification criteria, (B) selecting a plurality of subsets of the initial designs based on a plurality of different techniques to establish a plurality of selected designs, (C) recombining some of the selected designs to generate a plurality of recombined designs, and (D) mutating some of the recombined designs to generate the new designs.
US10025890B2
Method for generating a model of the effect of phase noise during use of a Doppler radar system including calculating, using a processor, an initial signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR) representing a ratio of power received from echoes from a target by the radar system to power resulting from clutter reflection received by the radar system. The initially calculated SCR is modified as a function of a range ambiguity and range resolution. A Doppler frequency of interest is calculated based on velocity of a target, target heading and radar frequency, along with a Doppler filter bandwidth, frequency components and a measure of clutter signal passing through the Doppler filter of interest by summing products of the phase noise for each frequency by the Doppler filter bandwidth. This measure indicates effectiveness of target detection by the Doppler radar system as a function of distance.
US10025883B2
A method for performing configuration of a control unit test system with hardware components connected thereto, wherein control units can be tested with the test system in an environment simulated by the test system by means of a model, and wherein the test system comprises at least one computer, in particular a computer executing the model, as well as hardware components, connected to one another by means of at least one network, in which at least a portion of the hardware components comprises a dedicated server (MIS) that, by means of communication, provides access to the configuration data associated with the hardware component, in particular stored in the hardware component, and the model and/or the hardware component is adapted, in particular configured, as a function of the configuration data that are made accessible.
US10025879B2
A system, computer readable medium, and method are disclosed for performing a tree traversal operation. The method includes the steps of executing, via a processor, a tree traversal operation for a tree data structure, receiving a transformation node that includes transformation data during the tree traversal operation, and transforming spatial data included in a query data structure based on the transformation data. Each node in the tree data structure is classified according to one of a plurality of nodesets, the plurality of nodesets corresponding to a plurality of local coordinate systems. The processor may be a parallel processing unit that includes one or more tree traversal units, which implement the tree traversal operation in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software.
US10025875B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing an enhanced media presentation. In one embodiment, an enhanced media presentation is provided. To provide the enhanced media presentation, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation are identified. Each content item may be associated with at least one uniform resource identifier. Then, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item is created. The content object is an abstract representation of the content item. The content object can be associated with the segment and provided for simultaneous displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.
US10025870B2
The present invention relates to systems for communicating data. In particular, systems for communicating data to and from mobile devices are described. One system involves the use of a server to store the association between a shortcode and the data. A user device can be used to transmit the shortcode to a second user device. The second user device can then access the association at the server to access the data. The shortcode is transmitted via an audibly unique signal between the two devices. Further devices, systems, and methods for redeeming vouchers, transferring money, unlocking content on a device, and authenticating transactions all using audio are also disclosed. A method for managing data communication on a mobile device is further disclosed. In addition, a system for asynchronous transmission of the data is disclosed by use of reserving a shortcode at a server before the shortcode is associated with data.
US10025869B2
Methods of and systems for dynamically rearranging search results into hierarchically organized concept clusters are provided. A method of searching for and presenting content items as an arrangement of conceptual clusters to facilitate further search and navigation on a display-constrained device includes providing a set of content items and receiving incremental input to incrementally identify search terms for content items. Content items are selected and grouped into sets based on how the incremental input matches various metadata associated with the content items. The selected content items are grouped into explicit conceptual clusters and user-implied conceptual clusters based on metadata in common to the selected content items. The clustered content items are presented according to the conceptual clusters into which they are grouped.
US10025860B2
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a ranking of cited objects and citing subjects identified as results of a search, where the relative expertise of subjects or sources of citations to said targets or objects is considered. The relative expertise is a function of the share of the subject's citations matching the query term or search criteria relative to the share of all subjects' citations matching the query term, weighted by the influence of the subjects. This allows the identification of “experts” on “topics” without any pre-defined categorization of topics or pre-computation of expertise. Under this novel approach, expertise can be determined on any query term in real-time.
US10025847B2
Method, system, and programs for determining a keyword from user agent strings are disclosed. In one example, a plurality of user agent strings is received. The plurality of user agent strings is grouped into one or more clusters. The one or more clusters comprise a first cluster that includes two or more user agent strings. The two or more user agent strings in the first cluster are compared. Based on the comparing, a keyword is determined from the first cluster. The keyword represents a type of user agent information.
US10025840B2
A system for making data source anonymous including a plurality of data sources, each data source including a data creation engine which creates normalized data in accordance with a common schema and a transformation engine which de-normalizes the normalized data such that the data source cannot be inferred by other data sources and transmits the de-normalized data to a remote computing resource. A remote computing resource receives and stores the de-normalized data from the plurality of data sources.
US10025834B2
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing entity performance. In one implementation, a method is provided that includes recognizing an identifier associated with an entity and accessing a data structure comprising information associated with a plurality of interactions. The method also comprises identifying one or more interactions of the plurality of interactions based on the recognized identifier. The method further comprises processing the information of the identified interactions to analyze a performance of the entity and providing the processed information to display the performance of the entity on a user interface.
US10025832B2
Content items and other entities may be ranked or organized according to a relevance to a user. Relevance may take into consideration recency, proximity, popularity, air time (e.g., of television shows) and the like. In one example, the popularity and age of a movie may be used to determine a relevance ranking. Popularity (i.e., entity rank) may be determined based on a variety of factors. In the movie example, popularity may be based on gross earnings, awards, nominations, votes and the like. According to one or more embodiments, entities may initially be categorized into relevance groupings based on popularity and/or other factors. Once categorized, the entities may be sorted within each grouping and later combined into a single ranked list.
US10025826B2
A database executes logical queries against in-flight data in a data streaming application. The data streaming application returns results representing in-flight data matching the parameters of the logical queries. Preferably, the streaming application produces data tuples for input to at least one table of the database. A user submitting queries may define the query scope to include in-flight data in the streaming application, causing the database manager to forward the query to the streaming application. A streaming application manager invokes database agents in respective nodes of the streaming application, which query in-flight data in respective buffers of the streaming application. The responses are provided back to the stream manager and the database manager. Profiling data obtained by trace analysis may be used to predict tuples which will be produced for the database.
US10025825B2
Techniques for managing configurable data windows for streams and/or archived relations are provided. In some examples, a query that identifies at least a data stream or an archived relation may be identified. Additionally, a configurable window size may be identified. In some instances, the query may be initialized with at least a portion of the historical data based at least in part on the window size. Further, the query may be evaluated based at least in part on the data stream and the portion of the historical data.
US10025824B2
Embodiments of the preset disclosure include a method, a system, and a computer program product for rearranging a set of filters within a data streams environment. The method includes setting a first filter ordering of two or more filter processing elements. The method includes determining a filtering efficiency of the first filter ordering. The determining of the filtering efficiency includes monitoring a runtime, one or more tuples, and an amount of tuples retained after filtering of the first filter ordering. The method includes creating a second filter ordering of the two or more filter processing elements. The method includes comparing the filtering efficiency of the second filter ordering to the first filter ordering. The method includes selecting the second filter ordering in response to comparing the filtering efficiency of the second filter ordering to the filtering efficiency of the first filter ordering.
US10025822B2
Techniques are described herein for accurately estimating the cost of performing a join against “mirror format” data that is at least partially located in volatile memory. Mirror format data is a copy of on-disk data (a.k.a. persistent format data) stored in a different format in volatile memory. In the preferred embodiment described herein, the mirror format data is stored in a column-major format, while the persistent format data is stored in a row-major format. The cost of performing a join query with a particular join method against mirror format data is different than the cost of performing the same particular join method against persistent format data. Techniques described herein for estimating the cost of multiple join query execution plans, and selecting the most optimized plan.
US10025821B2
A computer-implemented method for determining a query execution plan based on transaction state may include determining that a first set of database values in a database table are in a committed transaction state and that a second set of database values in the database table are in an uncommitted transaction state. In response to the determining, the first set of database values may have a first set of statistics generated and the second set of database values may have a second set of statistics generated. The first and second set of statistics may be for use in determining a query execution plan.
US10025818B2
In an approach for manipulating columns in a projection list in a database result set, a processor receives a database request having a projection operation for a plurality of columns in one or more tables, wherein the projection operation comprises a SELECT statement having a column list that includes having (a) a shorthand that specifies the plurality of columns and (b) a column sequence clause that specifies a column name from the plurality of columns and a resulting column position. A processor retrieves data records having the plurality of columns including the specified column name and the resulting column position. A processor generates a result set comprised of the data records having the plurality of columns, such that for the result set, values within the specified column name are inserted into the result set at the resulting column position.
US10025813B1
A computing system transforms variable values in a dataset using a transformation flow definition applied in parallel. The transformation flow definition indicates flow variables and transformation phases to apply to the flow variables. A computation is defined for each variable and for each transformation phase. A phase internal parameter value is computed for each defined computation from observation vectors read from the dataset. A current variable, a first variable value, a first transformation phase, the phase internal parameter value, and a current transformation phase are selected based on an observation vector read from the dataset. A result value is computed by executing the transformation function with the phase internal parameter value and the first variable value. The computed result value is output to a transformed input dataset. The process is repeated for each variable, transformation phase, and observation vector.
US10025806B2
A file system uses a B-tree data structure to organize file data. The file system may maintain an index node (mode) representing a file and having entries that map to extents of the file. When the file system detects an index node, through updates, has exceeded a threshold number of extents, the file system converts the file to a copy-on-write (COW) B-tree data structure containing the entries representing the extents of the file. To clone the file, the file system uses copies of the index node and the root node of the COW B-tree data structure.
US10025804B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method for aggregating information-asset metadata from multiple disparate data-management systems may include (1) receiving a first instance of metadata of an information asset from a first data-management system that manages information assets of an entity in a first domain, (2) receiving a second instance of metadata of the information asset from a second data-management system that manages the information assets of the entity in a second domain that is separate and distinct from the first domain, (3) storing the first and second instances of metadata in a global metadata repository that is separate and distinct from the first and second data-management systems, and (4) providing access to the first and second instances of metadata stored in the global metadata repository to the first data-management system, the second data-management system, and/or the entity. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10025801B2
In one embodiment, a software system automatically generates a fully functional user interface (UI) based upon any underlying schema within a relational database management system (RDBMS). The UI derives from an automated interrogation of the schema, and comprises all mode displays (e.g., browse, search, edit, add) for all tables, along with integrated mechanisms for representing, navigating and managing relationships across tables. It utilizes a hierarchical “context stack” for suspending the working state of a particular table while “drilling down” to work with related-table information and (potentially) return relevant changes to the base table. The UI presentation resolves cross-table relationships so as to supplant internal key fields from the primary table with corresponding descriptive fields derived from the related tables. Techniques are also provided to enhance and extend the internal representation of table structures, constraints, relationships and special requirements (“business rules”) for improved discovery of the schema structure via automated interrogation.
US10025800B2
The present invention is directed to methods and systems for querying a database of geofences. A method for querying a database of geofences in the present invention includes generating at a device a first request comprising an Internet Protocol address, converting the IP address to a geographic location, identifying one or more geofences associated with the geographic location, and creating a first response to the first request wherein the first response comprises information describing the one or more geofences.
US10025791B2
Systems, methods and computer program products configured to provide and perform metadata-based workflow management are disclosed. The inventive subject matter includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program instructions embodied therewith. The computer readable program instructions are configured to: initiate a workflow configured to process data; associate the data with metadata; and drive at least a portion of the workflow based on at least some of the metadata. The metadata include anchoring metadata; common metadata; and custom metadata. Inventive subject matter also encompasses a method for managing genomic data processing workflows using metadata includes: initiating a workflow; receiving a request to manage the workflow using metadata comprising: anchoring metadata, common metadata, and custom metadata, associating the metadata with the data; and driving at least a portion of the workflow based on the metadata. The workflow involves genomic analyses.
US10025778B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to training and utilizing a general, statistical framework for modeling translation via Markov random fields (MRFs). An MRF-based translation model can be employed in a statistical machine translation (SMT) system. The MRF-based translation model allows for arbitrary features extracted from a phrase pair to be incorporated as evidence. The parameters of the model are estimated using a large-scale discriminative training approach based on stochastic gradient ascent and an N-best list based expected Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) as an objective function.
US10025775B2
Methods and systems monitor communications between users and analyze the communications to simultaneously determine, for a current time period, mental state variables of one of the users. Such mental state variables include the emotion of the user, the mood of the user, and the personality of the user. Additionally, such methods aggregate the emotion, the mood, and the personality using a hierarchical probabilistic graphical model that determines the highest probability path through a directed probabilistic graph to infer the mental state of the user. The directed probabilistic graph maintains a single state for the personality for the time period, and maintains multiple states for the emotion and the mood for the time period. These methods and systems output the mental state of the user.
US10025768B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method to quickly insert new rows or columns in a tabular data structure (such as a spreadsheet, or a table). The user expands a row height (or a column width). The expanded row (or column width) is automatically displayed with proposed divisions (for example, represented with dashed lines). The user indicates acceptance of the proposed divisions. The expanded row (or column) is automatically divided into multiple rows (or columns) as indicated by the proposed divisions.
US10025767B2
A method and apparatus are provided for determining the layout of a form automatically to accommodate text in the form. Under the method and apparatus, a set of parameters define the sizing and alignment of elements of the form. Sizing and positioning instructions that are separate from the sizing and alignment parameters set the sizing and positioning of elements of the form based on the sizing and alignment parameters. The instructions determine the minimum size for the form, based in part on text in the form. The difference between the minimum size for the form and a desired size for the form is then distributed across the form to size and position the elements in the form.
US10025761B2
Various embodiments herein include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures that provide for virtual packaging, or embedding, of electronic files in other files. For example, rather than packaging an electronic file directly in a document file, metadata may be added to the document file including a Universal resource Identifier (URI), such as a Universal Resource Locator (URL), referencing a location where the electronic file may be downloaded from. Other embodiments are described and illustrated herein for creating, viewing, storing, and transmitting such document files with virtually packaged electronic files.
US10025755B2
A method and apparatus for processing data are provided. The processor includes an input buffer, a data extractor, a multiplier, and an adder. The input buffer receives data and stores the data. The data extractor extracts kernel data corresponding to a kernel in the data from the input buffer. The multiplier multiplies the extracted kernel data by a convolution coefficient. The adder calculates a sum of multiplication results from the multiplier.
US10025752B2
Disclosed are a data processing method, a processor, and a data processing device. The method comprises: an arbiter sends data D(a,1) to a first processing circuit; the first processing circuit processes the data D(a,1) to obtain data D(1,2), the first processing circuit being a processing circuit among m processing circuits; the first processing circuit sends the data D(1,2) to a second processing circuit; the second processing circuit to an mth processing circuit separately process the received data; and the arbiter receives data D(m,a) sent by the mth processing circuit. The processor comprises an arbiter and a first processing circuit to an (m+1)th processing circuit. Each processing circuit in the first processing circuit to the (m+1)th processing circuit can receive first data to be processed sent by the arbiter, and process the first data to be processed. The scheme is helpful to improve efficiency of data processing.
US10025751B2
A lane within a processor bus that communicatively connects a transmitter and a receiver is dynamically assigned as a clock lane. The clock lane subsequently transmits a reference clock signal to coordinate data communications from the transmitter to the receiver. The clock lane may be assigned by determining signal margins of various lanes of the processor bus. The signal margins are determined by the transmitter sending a test pattern upon the various lanes and analyzing the received test pattern at the receiver. A dynamically assigned clock lane results increased overall signal integrity of communications between the transmitter and receiver. Further, a dynamically assigned clock lane may result in different lanes being assigned as the clock lane at distinct boot up instances, adding to the complexity of the unauthorized user determining the operational logic of the transmitter.
US10025741B2
A system-on-chip (SoC) to perform a deadlock control on a processor of the SoC, the SoC including the processor including a plurality of central processing unit (CPU) cores, a first bus connected to the processor, a graphic processing unit (GPU) connected to the first bus, a memory controller connected to the first bus, a second bus connected to the processor, an isolation cell including a logic circuit configured to retain a signal value input to the processor according to an isolation signal, and a deadlock controller connected to the first bus and the second bus. The deadlock controller is configured to isolate the processor, which is in a deadlock state, from the first bus by applying the isolation signal on the isolation cell, and to extract, via the second bus, state information of the isolated processor in the deadlock state.
US10025739B2
An information processing system according to the present invention includes: a plurality of processing units; a plurality of input/output units controlled by any one of the processing units; a plurality of first connection units connecting one of the processing units to a first communication channel; a second connection unit connecting the input/output units to a second communication channel; a first mediating unit mediating the second communication channel and a communication network, and transmits identifiers of the input/output units via the communication network; and a plurality of second mediating units mediating a connection between the communication network and the first communication channel, receiving the identifier, and, when an identifier of its own is included in the received identifiers, establishing a connection between the input/output unit with the own identifier and the processing unit and detaches connections between the input/output unit with different identifier and the processing unit.
US10025723B1
An example method includes receiving a request to change a page size managed by a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), wherein the TLB is currently managing a first page size, and the request specifies a second page size different than the first page size; in response to the request: determining a number of lower-order bits for addressing memory location within pages of the second page size; and configuring the TLB to perform lookups within the memory subsystem using a number of higher-order bits for addressing pages of the second page size, wherein the number of higher-order bits is dependent on the number of lower-order bits.
US10025714B2
A computer system includes a dual in-line memory module (DIMM), such as a registered DIMM (RDIMM), and a non-volatile DIMM (NVDIMM). A central processing unit (CPU) of the computer system has internal cache memory locations for caching data for the DIMM and NVDIMM. A memory type range register (MTTR) of the CPU is set for write-back cache strategy for a range of memory locations in the DIMM and NVDIMM. The computer system includes a power supply that, in the event of a power failure, triggers a hardware non-maskable interrupt (NMI) and sustains power to the CPU to allow cached data to be saved to non-volatile memory locations in the NVDIMM before the computer system completely powers down.
US10025703B2
Provided is a collectable display device, including at least one display panel having at least one user accessible opening for housing and displaying at least one collectable object. The display panel is configured to be connected or connectable to at least one auxiliary panel having visual markings relating to at least one collectable. The collectable display device also includes an electronic solid-state flash memory data storage device that is non-detachably secured to the auxiliary panel, and the solid-state flash memory device is having sufficient storage capacity to record and store at least one digital picture image associated with at least one appearance characteristic of at least one collectable object. In operation, the solid-state flash memory device is readable by an electronic device physically and electronically connected to the solid-state flash memory device. In some embodiments, the collectable object is a coin, a stamp, or a sports card, or the like.
US10025699B2
A system and method for reviewing of warning generated during static analysis of a clustered software code by identifying, common point warnings and unique warnings from warnings associated with a software code, and further identifying, a top of must overlapped function for each of the common point warnings. Generating, one or more groups of the common point warnings based on the top of must overlapped function, and assigning, the top of must overlapped function as a constraint for corresponding group of common point warnings. Eliminating, warnings from each of the one or more groups using a review output wherein the review output is identified by reviewing a common point warning from the one or more group under the constraint such that the review of the common point warning under the constraint satisfy for review of all remaining for reviews of all remaining common point warnings of the group.
US10025693B2
A hardware access layer (HAL) is combined with a configurable shadow mechanism, that copies the specified memory or register segments accessed in remote hardware by a program being debugged. The HAL may be involved in all interrupt handling for the remote hardware. By making this shadow mechanism configurable during runtime, and using a standard debugging techniques, a developer can specify watchpoints to break program execution based on changes in the remotely attached hardware as indicated in the specified shadow register segments.
US10025685B2
A memory subsystem manages memory I/O impedance compensation by the memory device monitoring a need for impedance compensation. Instead of a memory controller regularly sending a signal to have the memory device update the impedance compensation when a change is not needed, the memory device can indicate when it is ready to perform an impedance compensation change. The memory controller can send an impedance compensation signal to the memory device in response to a compensation flag set by the memory or in response to determining that a sensor value has changed in excess of a threshold.
US10025682B2
A control system includes a first control device, a second control device, and a transfer storage unit. The first and second control devices execute processes. The first control device includes a first storage unit and a first processor. The first processor reflects state information in the first storage unit and the transfer storage unit. The first processor transmits, to the second control device, a start notification that causes the second control device to start an operation of the second control device. The second control device includes a second storage unit and a second processor. The second processor starts the operation of the second control device in response to reception of the start notification when the second control device is in a suspended state. The second processor reads the state information from the transfer storage unit. The second processor reflects the read state information in the second storage unit.
US10025677B2
A distributed system implementation for cache coherence comprises distinct agent interface units, coherency controllers, and memory interface units. The agents send requests in the form of read and write transactions. The system also includes a memory that includes coherent memory regions. The memory is in communication with the agents. The system includes a coherent interconnect in communication with the memory and the agents. The system includes a second identical coherent interconnect in communication with the memory and the agents. The system also includes a comparator for comparing at least two inputs, the comparator is in communication with the two coherent interconnects.
US10025675B2
Provided is a log management method in which, with a computer system provided with a processor, a memory, and a storage device, the processor executes a prescribed process and stores in the storage device a log which includes a description of the process, said method comprising a first step of the processor generating the log which includes the description of the prescribed process, a second step of the processor writing the log to a log file of the storage device, and a third step of the processor determining the end of the log region which stores the log and writing same to the log file of the storage device.
US10025671B2
Determining a time for on-demand snapshotting of a virtual machine in a node prior to a failure point in a system comprising a plurality of nodes. Failure data is collected from a set of failed nodes of the plurality of nodes in a system. A failure pattern of the node is identified based on the failure data and monitoring the plurality of nodes for the failure pattern to determine that a first node of the plurality of nodes is exhibiting the failure pattern. Responsive to the determination that the first node is exhibiting the failure pattern, capturing a snapshot of a virtual machine corresponding to the first node.
US10025664B2
A data storage device may include a volatile memory device and a controller. The volatile memory device may include a plurality of sections. The controller may be configured to cause data to be stored to a section of the volatile memory device. The controller may also be configured to apply data protection to the data in response to determining that the data comprises a first type of data. The controller may also be configured to refrain from applying data protection to the data in response to determining that the data comprises a second type of data.
US10025662B2
A method used in a flash memory module having a plurality of storage blocks is disclosed. Each storage block can be used as a first block or a second block wherein a cell of the first block is arranged for storing data of 1 bit and a cell of the second block is arranged for storing data of at least 2 bits. The method includes: classifying data to be programmed into a plurality of groups of data; executing error code encoding to generate a corresponding parity check code to store the groups of data and the corresponding parity check code to at least one block of first blocks; and after completing storing the groups of data, performing an internal copy operation upon the groups of data and the corresponding parity check code from the at least one block of the first blocks to at least one second block.
US10025652B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to an improved method and system for error correction in non-volatile memory cells. The method includes writing data to a first location in non-volatile memory from a block of user data stored in DRAM and verifying the written data matches the block of user data. If the written data fails verification, the method further includes writing an error location pointer indicative of one or more error locations in the first location to a second location in non-volatile memory. Writing the one or more error locations to the error location pointer includes verifying the written error location pointer matches an address of the one or more error locations in the first location to ensure integrity of the error location pointer. Use of the error location pointer results in non-volatile memory with increased data rate, decreased read latency and a low probability of data loss.
US10025650B2
An approach for determining a trace of a system dump. The approach receives a system dump request, wherein the system dump request includes performing, by one or more computer processors, a system dump utilizing a dumping tool, wherein the system dump includes a trace wherein the trace comprises one or more trace entries collected in a trace table. The approach determines an initial trace of the system dump. The approach determines a time period to collect trace entries following the system dump. The approach determines an updated trace table. The approach determines an extra trace utilizing an exit program.
US10025646B2
A system for naming a process being monitored that handles a requesting a framework such as a .NET framework. The process may be implemented by a .NET application framework within an IIS web server. The naming system allows for user readable names which are more than just numbers or indexes. The naming system is configured from a single location rather than from multiple locations, making it much easier to configure, change and update.
US10025644B2
A client terminal and a server system having a plurality of processing units processing game applications are connected to each other via a network. In a game system was a cloud computing system, the server system makes the client terminal wait for a start of processing of an application when there is no processing unit assignable to the client terminal. The client terminal processes another application locally in a state of waiting for the start of the processing of the application in the server system.
US10025643B2
A system and method for compiling source code (e.g., with a compiler). The method includes accessing a portion of device source code and determining whether the portion of the device source code comprises a piece of work to be launched on a device from the device. The method further includes determining a plurality of application programming interface (API) calls based on the piece of work to be launched on the device and generating compiled code based on the plurality of API calls. The compiled code comprises a first portion operable to execute on a central processing unit (CPU) and a second portion operable to execute on the device (e.g., GPU).
US10025642B2
Systems and methods for waking up waiting processing streams in a manner that reduces the number of spurious wakeups. An example method may comprise: assigning a first identifier of a sequence of identifiers to a processing stream in a waiting state; receiving a wakeup signal associated with a second identifier of the sequence of identifiers; comparing, by a processing device, the first identifier with the second identifier; and waking the processing stream responsive to determining, in view of comparing, that the processing stream began waiting prior to an initiation of the wakeup signal.
US10025639B2
A technique for defragmenting jobs on processor-based computing resources including: (i) determining a first defragmentation condition, which first defragmentation condition will be determined to exist when it is favorable under a first energy consideration to defragment the allocation of jobs as among a set of processor-based computing resources of a supercomputer (for example, a compute-card-based supercomputer); and (ii) on condition that the first defragmentation condition exists, defragmenting the jobs on the set of processor-based computing resources.
US10025632B2
A system according to certain aspects improves the process of managing jobs and allocating resources to those jobs. The system can include a job manager that processes and generates resource allocation requests for a plurality of jobs and a resource allocator that allocates computing resources for the plurality of jobs based on the resource allocation requests. The process of allocating resources may involve locking one or more resource objects before allocating the computing resources for the plurality of jobs and unlocking the locked resource objects after the computing resources have been allocated for the plurality of jobs.
US10025623B2
Some computing devices have limited resources such as, for example, battery power. When a user ceases to interact with an application, execution of the application can be moved to background and the application can be paused. During the time period in which the application is paused, the application consumes no CPU cycles because executing managed threads of the paused application are stopped, and native threads are prevented from running using asynchronous procedure calls.
US10025622B2
A distributed order orchestration is provided. The system comprises a decomposition layer configured to receive an order and determine one or more orchestration services for fulfilling the order. An orchestration layer is configured to receive the one or more orchestration services for the order and orchestration performing of the one or more orchestration services. A task layer is configured to control performing of one or more tasks for the one or more orchestration services being performed. Also, an external interface layer configured to translate and route the one or more tasks to one or more external systems for processing. The external task layer is configured to receive one or more results for performance of the one or more tasks by the one or more external systems where the one or more results used to orchestrate fulfilling the order.
US10025614B2
A method of setting retransmission time of an application client during virtual machine migration includes predicting migration memory size required by a virtual machine to be migrated based on historical access log of at least one application and memory log of the virtual machine to be migrated; computing available migration bandwidth of a host of the virtual machine to be migrated; computing virtual machine migration time based on the predicted migration memory size required by the virtual machine to be migrated and the available migration bandwidth of the host; and setting retransmission time of the application client based on the virtual machine migration time.
US10025612B2
A system can include a host device that includes a virtual machine execution environment that includes a hypervisor and a virtual machine. The virtual machine can execute a guest management component. The virtual machine can also determine whether at least one of the hypervisor or the host device violates at least one compliance rule. The virtual machine can cause the guest management component to perform an action in response to determining that at least one of the hypervisor or the host device violates the at least one compliance rule.
US10025608B2
Methods and apparatuses for performing a quiesce operation in a multithread environment is provided. A processor receives a first thread quiesce request from a first thread executing on the processor. A processor sends a first processor quiesce request to a system controller to initiate a quiesce operation. A processor performs one or more operations of the first thread based, at least in part, on receiving a response from the system controller.
US10025604B2
An embodiment of a method for obtaining customer support includes transmitting parameters specific to an end user product to a network-based application operable to dynamically generate a web page instructive of a solution to a problem associated with the end user product based on the parameters; receiving an interactive link to the dynamically generated web page; and browsing the dynamically generated web page by selecting the interactive link. The method may further include implementing the solution by performing steps instructed in the web page. An embodiment of a system is operable to perform operations comprising receiving parameters specific to an end user product; dynamically generating a web page instructive of a solution to a problem associated with the end user product based on the parameters; generating an interactive link to the dynamically generated web page.
US10025603B2
Provided is a parallel processing device whereby a plurality of single processes is efficiently and simply parallel processed by a plurality of processors. The parallel processing device includes: a first processor which executes, upon data which is included in data sets, a first program which defines a single process which is executed with the data as an input thereof, and outputs a first result; and includes a second processor which executes, upon the inputted data, a second program which defines a unit process and outputs a second result. A selection unit selects, based on a prescribed index which denotes either performance or function of the first processor and the second processor, a first partial set and a second partial set from the data set. A first processor control unit inputs into the first processor first data which is included in the first partial set. A second processor control unit inputs into the second processor second data which is included in the second partial set. The first and second programs are executed in parallel by the first and second processors.
US10025602B2
This application discloses a computing system configured to perform a pre-linked embedding process during build-time of a root-kernel application. The computing system can pre-link one or more dynamically-linkable executable modules against exported symbols of a root-kernel image, and embed the pre-linked executable modules into the root-kernel image. The computing system can load the root-kernel image having the embedded pre-linked executable modules into a memory of an embedded system, wherein at least one processing device in the embedded system is configured to execute the embedded pre-linked executable modules directly from the memory.
US10025589B2
A Conditional Transaction End (CTEND) instruction is provided that allows a program executing in a nonconstrained transactional execution mode to inspect a storage location that is modified by either another central processing unit or the Input/Output subsystem. Based on the inspected data, transactional execution may be ended or aborted, or the decision to end/abort may be delayed, e.g., until a predefined event occurs. For instance, when the instruction executes, the processor is in a nonconstrained transaction execution mode, and the transaction nesting depth is one at the beginning of the instruction, a second operand of the instruction is inspected, and based on the inspected data, transaction execution may be ended or aborted, or the decision to end/abort may be delayed, e.g., until a predefined event occurs, such as the value of the second operand becomes a prespecified value or a time interval is exceeded.
US10025585B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for applying a plurality of program patch sets on a plurality of computer programs. Virtual machines are prepared to be patchable, in response to a suspended computer program. Synchronized snapshots of the virtual machines are created. A plurality of binary code sections of each of the synchronized snapshots are determined. Symbol data information of each of the synchronized snapshots are analyzed, based on the program patch sets. The determined binary code sections are replaced with a set of patch data, based on the plurality of program patch sets, resulting in patched snapshots for each of the synchronized snapshots. Dependencies of the patch data are adjusted, based on the replaced plurality of binary code sections and the execution of the computer program on each of the virtual machines are resumed using the plurality of patched snapshots.
US10025576B2
A BIOS delivery installation package includes a basic input/output system (BIOS) update payload including a BIOS image. The BIOS delivery installation package also includes a first hash corresponding to a portion of the BIOS image.
US10025573B2
Methods and systems to install a player to process content data are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method includes launching a content access manager on a user device to read metadata containing compatible player data, determine whether a compatible player able to access the content data is installed on the user device, and if not, to install a compatible player. Other embodiments involve receiving content data and data about one or more compatible players able to access the content data, generating the metadata using the data about one or more compatible players, and distributing the content data, the metadata, and the content access manager in a transmittable unit. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10025566B1
Scheduling techniques transform dataflow graphs (DFGs), for example, of digital signal processing (DSP) arrangements of filters, into efficient schedules for concurrent execution on processing resources coupled to a memory. A DSP arrangement may be represented by an executable model having interconnected filters represented by model elements. The techniques may apply scheduling transforms according to a classification of the model elements based on a lifetime of their internal states (e.g., finite or infinite). Exemplary scheduling transforms may include unfolding, coordinated loop scheduling and pipelining to parallelize a DFG and enhance overall performance, i.e., reduce average sample execution time of the DSP arrangement. Notably, the scheduling transforms may aggregate (i.e., merge) multiple finite state model elements for concurrent execution and repeat execution of infinite state model elements to achieve the overall improved performance.
US10025563B2
An approach to selecting statements for inlining in a COBOL program involving creating a PERFORM Graph (PG), determining whether the PG is a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), responsive to determining the PG is not a DAG, identifying a maximum sub-graph DAG corresponding to the PG, computing one or more infeasible paths associated with a Control Flow Graph (CFG), wherein the infeasible paths are induced by PERFORM range calls associated with a plurality of edges corresponding to the PG or the maximum sub-graph DAG, ordering the plurality of edges corresponding to the PG or the maximum sub-graph DAG in a list, selecting one or more edges, based on traversing the list of the plurality of edges and generating an indicator of the one or more selected edges.
US10025554B2
An apparatus and a corresponding method for processing a sequence of received data items are disclosed. The processing is performed by multiple processing elements. A reorder buffer comprising multiple slots is used to maintain the order of the received data items, wherein a processing element reserves a next available slot in the reorder buffer before beginning processing the next data item of the sequence of received data items. On completion of the processing a buffer change indicator value is read by the processing element when seeking to insert the processed data item into the reserved slot. If the buffer change indicator changes during the course of the insertion process, this serves as an indication to the processing element that another processing element is modifying the content of the reorder buffer in parallel. A check may be repeated for at least one subsequent already-processed data item, since this latter data item may have become ready to be retired from the reorder buffer.
US10025548B2
Systems, methods and tools for automatically configuring multiple display devices. The systems tools and methods automatically determine the user of the display device, a user's display device preferences, collect feedback, user context and information of the surrounding environment as the display devices are used by the user and continuously adjust the display device settings based on the user's interactions with the display device to better optimize the user's experience with the display device. User settings and preferences can be remotely accessible via a computer network such as the cloud. The remotely accessible customized display settings can be retrieved from locations around the world and applied automatically to display devices where the user may be present. The systems, methods and tools for automatically configuring multiple display devices are applicable to both instances where a single user is present or multiple users are sharing a display device together.
US10025547B2
In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing frame aggregation with screen sharing including, for example, means for receiving, at a server, a stream of delta frames from a publishing client as part of a screen sharing session with one or more viewing clients; establishing a FIFO buffer for each of the respective one or more viewing clients on 1:1 basis; queuing a copy of the stream of delta frames into each of the FIFO buffers corresponding to the one or more viewing clients, wherein the stream of delta frames are transmitted from the respective FIFO buffers to the corresponding one or more client viewers; monitoring each of the respective FIFO buffers for each of the one or more viewing clients to determine if two or more delta frames are concurrently queued in any single one of the respective FIFO buffers at any given time; aggregating the two or more delta frames into a single aggregated delta frame; re-queuing the aggregated delta frame; and transmitting the aggregated delta frame to the respective viewing client. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US10025538B2
An image forming apparatus is made to be usable by a greater number of portable terminal apparatuses than a limited number of terminals. In an image forming system, a first portable terminal apparatus is registered in the image forming apparatus so as to be able to transmit job requests to the image forming apparatus using a specified peer-to-peer communication method, however a second portable terminal apparatus is not registered. The image forming apparatus, (a) reads by an image reading apparatus a device ID of the first portable terminal apparatus and a device ID of the second terminal apparatus. Then, the image forming apparatus, (b) transmits the device ID of the second portable terminal apparatus to the first portable terminal apparatus using the peer-to-peer communication method. The first portable terminal apparatus, (a) correlates the received device ID of the second portable terminal apparatus with the first portable terminal apparatus, and registers the device ID in the server. Then, the first portable terminal apparatus, (b) receives a job request that is issued by the second portable terminal apparatus, and transmits that job request to the image forming apparatus using the peer-to-peer communication method. The server transmits the job request received from the second portable terminal apparatus to the first portable terminal apparatus that is correlated with the device ID of that second portable terminal apparatus.
US10025532B2
A storage device utilizing read look ahead (RLA) may utilize auxiliary or spare latches as a RLA cache for storing pre-fetch data. The RLA may predict the next commands and do a speculative read to the flash using the latches for RLA storage. The auxiliary/spare latches may be present on a plane or die of non-volatile memory and may be different from the transfer data latch (XDL) that transfers data from the memory and the host. When the XDL is backed up, sense commands may still be performed and the data is stored in the auxiliary latches before being transferred with the XDL.
US10025531B2
A storage device, such as a NAND flash device, includes a controller that assigns host read commands to a high priority queue and all other I/O commands including host write commands to a low priority queue. The controller executes any commands in the high priority queue before executing commands in the low priority queue. Block write commands are broken into page write commands that are added to the low priority queue, thereby enabling any host read commands to be interleaved with execution of the page write commands, rather than waiting for completion of a block write command. Coherency between overlapping commands is performed by a host device coupled to the controller such that no checking of coherency is performed by the SSD controller.
US10025523B1
Described are techniques for processing a data request for a device of a data storage system. A data request directed to a device that is a virtualized device of the data storage system is received. The data storage system has a plurality of devices comprising one or more local devices and one or more virtualized devices. Each of the local devices is a storage device included in the data storage system and each of the virtualized devices is an external storage device with respect to the data storage system and is presented as a local storage device of the data storage system. First processing is performed by a disk adapter in connection with servicing the data request for the device. The first processing includes sending the request to an external storage device corresponding to the virtualized device over a connection in accordance with path information obtained from discovery processing.
US10025513B2
An application execution method for improving the operation speed of the application in executing or in the middle of running the application is provided. The application execution method includes detecting a launch of an application, preloading Input/Outputs (I/Os) requested at the launch based on profile data with I/Os requested at a previous launch of the application, and updating the profile data based on at least one of the I/Os requested at current and previous launches of the application.
US10025511B2
Sorting and storing a dataset, the dataset comprising at least one attribute. The method includes defining a set of data blocks and assigning to each data block a predefined maximum number of entries or a predefined maximum amount of storage, dividing the dataset into a sequence of multiple sub-datasets each having one value or a range of values of the attribute, wherein each pair of successive sub-datasets of the sequence are non-overlapping or overlapping at their respective extremum value of the attribute, for each sub-dataset of the multiple sub-datasets: in case the sub-dataset fully or partially fits into a data block of the defined data blocks storing the sub-dataset into at least the data block, the sub-dataset that partially fits into the data block comprising a number of entries that is smaller than a predefined maximum threshold.
US10025510B1
A technique for use in managing data storage in a data storage system is disclosed. A first and second data storage commands (DSC) are received from a storage driver stack. Determining if the first DSC and the second DSC are both related aspects of a combined storage command and if so, establishing a pairing structure to pair the first DSC and the second DSC together. Fulfilling the combined storage command by fulfilling both the first DSC and the second DSC with reference to the pairing structure.
US10025506B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor chips vertically stacked and electrically coupled to one another through TSVs (Through-Silicon Vias), a plurality of semiconductor elements formed in each of the semiconductor chips, a plurality of nodes suitable for coupling the semiconductor elements to one another, and a node control device suitable for being provided in each of the nodes, deciding whether to couple the node to a communication path based on a temperature of the node, and setting a shortest communication path among the semiconductor elements.
US10025500B2
A method and system are provided for using input events on an electronic device. The method includes detecting a first input event compatible with a first platform and determining a second input event representing the first input event, which is compatible with a second platform. The method may include determining a third input event representing the first input event, which is compatible with the second platform, and calling an input event handler compatible with the second platform to generate the second input event using the third input event.
US10025499B2
In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters.
US10025498B2
A screen unlocking method includes obtaining a sliding path on a screen when a preset operation on the screen is detected. The screen unlocking method also includes determining a similarity between the sliding path and a preset unlocking pattern. The screen unlocking method further includes unlocking the screen and illuminating the screen when the similarity between the sliding path and the preset unlocking pattern is greater than or equal to a preset threshold.
US10025496B2
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal wearable on a wrist and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a main body, a band coupled to the main body and configured to be secured to a wrist of a user, a touch screen disposed on a front side of the main body and configured to sense a touch and a controller configured to cause the touch screen to display: a plurality of time markers; an hour hand and a minute hand moving according to a lapse of time; and a first graphic object associated with an application at a location of at least one time marker of the plurality of time markers in response to an event at the mobile terminal.
US10025495B2
Disclosed is a mobile terminal which is capable of executing applications and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a user input unit that receives setting of at least one mode and at least one application executable n each mode, a display unit that outputs first screen information corresponding to a first application executable in a selected first mode, and a controller that controls the display unit such that the first screen information is converted into second screen information corresponding to a second application executable in the first mode, in response to a control command for an application conversion which is input in the first mode.
US10025491B2
Systems and methods for implementing a social messaging network are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method includes hosting a social messaging network, receiving a contest from a sender client device, generating a set of answer objects having a visibility region and a tap region, sending instructions for generating a graphical user interface to a recipient client device, displaying the set of answer objects on the graphical user interface, and receiving feedback from the recipient client device.
US10025466B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a computer system comprising at least one processor may generate a tabular object containing data about an object. The layout of such tabular object comprises rows and columns, and may have a structure that includes plural sets of dual columns, each set representing pairs of related data (e.g. property value pairs). The size and portion of the tabular object in view at any particular time are determined by the user's sizing and scrolling behavior. The assignment of object data (e.g., property value pairs) to the resulting cells in that tabular object takes place dynamically according to the size and portion of the tabular object being displayed at any particular time in a manner that optimizes the use of available space.
US10025462B1
A user interface may be accessed and used to illustrate various user options. One example method of operation may include initiating an application on a user computing device, receiving a selection to initiate a menu associated with the application which includes a number of selection options on a user display interface of the user computing device, and a result the menu is displayed in a position of the user display interface with reference to coordinates of a recent operation performed on the user display interface.
US10025453B2
A screen sharing system includes information processing apparatuses that display the same content on their respective screens as a shared screen. Each of the information processing apparatuses includes an operation right switching unit configured to acquire an operation right, a transmission data generating unit configured to generate transmission data including operational information of an input operation, and a drawing unit configured to draw a display object on the screen. At a transmitting information processing apparatus with the operation right, the drawing unit draws the display object according to the operational information, and the transmission data generating unit generates the transmission data including the operational information and sends the transmission data to a receiving information processing apparatus without the operation right. At the receiving information processing apparatus, the drawing unit draws the display object according to the operational information in the transmission data received from the transmitting information processing apparatus.
US10025452B2
In embodiments of physics-based cell layout redesign, a computing device displays a cell layout interface that includes cells in a cell grid, and the computing device implements a physics-based algorithm as a computer application that can receive a redesign input to manipulate a cell in the cell layout interface. The physics-based algorithm is implemented to then determine one or more of the cells that are proximate the manipulated cell based on edge relations between an edge of the manipulated cell and respective edges of the one or more cells. The physics-based algorithm can then reconfigure the one or more proximate cells based on the redesign input to the manipulated cell and the edge relations between the edges of the cells.
US10025440B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic device including a first touch circuit to be coupled to a first touch sensing unit, the first touch sensing unit having first drive lines and first sense lines intersecting the first drive lines. A second touch circuit is to be coupled to a second touch sensing unit, the second touch sensing unit having second drive lines and second sense lines intersecting the second drive lines. A touch force circuit is to be coupled to a touch force sensing unit, the touch force sensing unit having third drive lines and third sense lines intersecting the third drive lines. The first touch circuit, second touch circuit, and touch force circuit are configured to drive the first, second, and third drive lines as a function of a synchronization signal, and acquire data from the first, second, and third sense lines as a function of the synchronization signal.
US10025435B2
A touch panel may include a substrate, a touch unit region and a covering layer. The touch unit region includes first electrode and a second electrode isolated from the first electrode. The covering layer covers at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode and has a touch surface. A distance between the touch surface and the first electrode or the second electrode ranges between 0.01 micrometers and 100 micrometers. A mutual capacitance value between the first electrode and the second electrode ranges between 0.1 pF and 10 pF when a touch has not occurred yet.
US10025432B2
Provided is a capacitive touch panel which has enhanced sensitivity and is usable in an image display panel, etc. in this capacitive touch panel, a window, a first transparent film having a first transparent conductive electrode pattern formed on one surface thereof, and a second transparent film having a second transparent conductive electrode pattern which is formed on one surface thereof and disposed with respect to the first transparent film in such a manner as to allow a capacitance to be formed therebetween, are stacked in turn. The capacitive touch panel comprises a first transparent inter-layer resin provided between the window and the first transparent film, and a second transparent inter-layer resin provided between the first transparent film and the second transparent film, wherein the first transparent inter-layer resin has a dielectric constant greater than that of the second transparent inter-layer resin.
US10025430B2
A projection type image display device correctly detects the position of contact of an electronic pen and a finger on a manipulation surface without the provision of a touch sensor. Light containing an image is projected, illuminating light that is different from the light containing the image is projected onto a manipulation surface which at least partially overlaps an image projection surface onto which the light has been projected, and an image of the manipulation surface is captured. A first detection process detects the position at which a first object being manipulated, a distal end of which emits light, touches the manipulation surface, a second detection process detects the position at which a second object being manipulated, which does not emit light, touches the manipulation surface, and at least part of the image being displayed is changed on the basis of the detection result from either detection process.
US10025423B2
In an embodiment, a circuit comprises: an analog driver operable to drive a sensor voltage on a capacitive sensor; a digital driver; a shield drive control coupled to the analog driver and the digital driver, the shield drive control operable to: during a one or more phases of a capacitive measurement of the capacitive sensor, disable the analog driver and enable the digital driver to drive a driven shield; and during one or more other phases of a capacitive measurement of the capacitive sensor, disable the digital driver and enable the analog driver to drive the driven shield with a driven shield voltage that replicates the sensor voltage.
US10025416B2
A display panel and a method for forming the same are provided. A display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate, which are set corresponding to each other; the first substrate includes multiple pixel regions arranged in a matrix form, and a first black matrix is disposed in intervals between the pixel regions; each of the pixel regions includes a first sub pixel region, a second sub pixel region, a third sub pixel region and a fourth sub pixel region; the first sub pixel region includes a first sub pixel unit, the second sub pixel region includes a second sub pixel unit, the third sub pixel region includes a third sub pixel unit; the fourth sub pixel region includes a fourth sub pixel unit and a second black matrix. Accordingly, the display panel may improve display performance.
US10025409B2
This disclosure provides a transparent conductive thin film, a substrate, a touch screen and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The transparent conductive thin film comprises a first metal oxide layer, a metal layer and a second metal oxide layer arranged in a stacking manner.
US10025402B2
An operating device for a vehicle includes a display, a touch operation surface set at a first predetermined position and pushable and returnable to the first predetermined position after being pushed, a coordinate detecting unit to detect a coordinate indicating a touch position of an operating finger on the touch operation surface, a push detecting unit to detect the push of the touch operation surface, and a control unit to display a cursor in a screen displayed on the display based on the coordinate detected by the coordinate detecting unit and to perform operation details of an item in the screen selected by the cursor based on the push of the touch operation surface detected by the push detecting unit. The control unit does not update the position of the cursor within a predetermined amount of time after the push detecting unit detects the push of the touch operation surface.
US10025401B2
A ring electrode to determine the orientation of the stylus relative to the surface. The stylus can include a ring electrode configuration which can improve capacitive coupling between the ring electrode and the touch panel. The ring electrode configuration can include a ring electrode and ground ring, and ground plate. By varying the lengths of ring electrode, ground ring, ground plate, and the distance between these elements, the electric field emanating from the ring electrode can be tuned to optimize the capacitive coupling between the ring electrode and surface. In some examples, the ring electrode can include multiple sub-rings. In some examples, the ring electrode can comprise a crown shape including projections, each having a width that tapers to a minimum width along the length of the ring electrode.
US10025399B2
A watch-type mobile terminal including a display; a bezel forming a rim of the display and including a touch sensor; a crown; and a controller configured to display first content on the display, sense a rotation input on at least one of the crown and the bezel when the first content is displayed on the display, and display second content associated with the first content on the display in response to the rotation input.
US10025393B2
A button operation processing method for a terminal device in a single-hand mode and the terminal device are provided. The method includes: detecting whether a terminal device is switched to the single-hand mode; detecting whether a first preset operation on a proximal physical button is received when the terminal device is switched to the single-hand mode, the proximal physical button being a physical button within a single-hand operation area on the terminal device; and performing an operation function corresponding to a distal physical button when the first preset operation on the proximal physical button is received, the distal physical button being a physical button outside the single-hand operation area on the terminal device.
US10025388B2
A system and method for receiving input from a user is provided. The system includes at least one camera configured to receive an image of a hand of the user and a controller configured to analyze the image and issue a command based on the analysis of the image.
US10025368B2
An apparatus stores, based on results of sample-programs executed at operating frequencies, program-property information that includes innermost-loop-property information and other-loops-property information, and a minimum operating frequency indicating an operating frequency, of the operating frequencies, at which energy consumption upon execution of each of the sample-programs is the minimum; obtains first program-property information that is the program-property information corresponding to a first program before execution of the first program that is a program other than the sample-programs; and specifies second program-property information, of the program-property information stored in a memory, that includes information most similar to information included in the first program-property information obtained and estimating a first operating frequency at which the energy consumption upon execution of the first program is the minimum to be an operating frequency, of the minimum operating frequencies stored in the memory, that corresponds to the second program-property information specified.
US10025364B2
Provided is a method for measuring power of a graphics processing unit. The method includes changing a utilization of the graphics processing unit through an application programming interface (API), measuring and storing the utilization or a driving frequency of the graphics processing unit for each trace time, measuring and storing power consumption of the graphics processing unit for each trace time, and synchronizing the utilization of the graphics processing unit with the power consumption according to a stored trace time and calculating a power coefficient for each driving frequency with reference to synchronized information.
US10025353B2
A mounting apparatus includes a mount and a locking member. The mount can mount a first housing in a predetermined positional relationship with the mounting apparatus. The locking member is capable of locking an electronic device. The locking member is provided so as to be revolvable about a revolving axis center disposed on a position on an axis center approximately identical to a revolving axis center when the first housing is mounted on the mount to lock the electronic device with the second housing.
US10025349B2
The present invention provides an electronic device including a situation detecting unit for detecting the present situation of a user, an acquiring unit for acquiring previously stored information on life log of the user, a situation determining unit for determining whether or not the present situation of the user conforms to a behavior pattern based on the life log information, a device setting unit for setting the function of the electronic device in accordance with the behavior pattern in the case that the situation determining unit determines that the present situation of the user conforms to the behavior pattern based on the life log information, and a life log information detecting unit for detecting life log information in the case that the situation determining unit determines that the present situation of the user does not conform to the behavior pattern based on the life log information.
US10025346B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are included for processing data structures to align timestamps of the data structures. An method includes receiving a first data structure from a first server that includes a first node corresponding to an activity, wherein the first node includes a first identifier, a first timestamp, and a first time duration corresponding to the activity. The method further includes receiving a second data structure from a second server, the second data structure including a second node corresponding to the activity, wherein the second node includes a second identifier and a second time duration corresponding to the activity. The method further includes creating a third data structure that includes at least a portion of the first data structure and at least a portion of the second data structure, the third data structure including an aligned timestamp corresponding to the activity.
US10025345B2
A system on chip is provided. The system on chip includes a delay control circuit configured to generate delayed clock signals having different delays, based on each of a first rising edge and a first falling edge of an input clock signal, and generate delayed data signals having different delays, based on each of a second rising edge and a second falling edge of an input data signal. The system on chip further includes a de-skew control circuit configured to control the delay control circuit to adjust a delay of each of the first rising edge, the first falling edge, the second rising edge, and the second falling edge.
US10025341B2
Provided is a pedal reactive force controller including: a reaction force adding unit for adding reaction force to a pedal operated by a driver; and an information transmission unit for converting a depression amount of the pedal detected by a stroke sensor into visual information, and conveying the depression amount to the driver by displaying the visual information in an operation amount display section.
US10025323B2
An apparatus for detecting an oil level and a method for controlling the same, an apparatus for detecting oil flow and a method for controlling the same, and a method for controlling oil return using the detected oil level and the detected oil flow are disclosed. The level of oil stored in a compressor is measured at two or more positions. The frequency comparison scheme using two electrodes can correctly detect the level of oil stored in the compressor, a refrigerant state, and the level of mixed oils, and can determine an internal state of the compressor and a normal or abnormal state of the oil return system, such that the oil return control can be actively controlled. The flow of oil in the oil return pipe is detected so as to determine whether the oil is normally supplied in real time, such that a malfunction of the compressor is prevented and a valve state can be checked. The level of oil stored in the compressor is adjusted not only using the oil level detection result but also the oil flow detection result, and the oil return operation can be controlled.
US10025321B2
A self-service system with user interface positioning which accommodates drive-through vehicles of different heights and optionally different distances from an order board. The self-service system includes a user interface and a computer for positioning the user interface at a height above ground which substantially coincides with a window height above the ground of a vehicle adjacent the user interface. The height of the user interface is within a predetermined range of possible heights of the user interface corresponding to different window heights of different vehicles.
US10025316B1
A safe-stop-zone identification system suitable for use on an automated-vehicle includes a digital-map, a transceiver, and a controller. The digital-map indicates a travel-path suitable for travel by a host-vehicle, wherein the digital-map also indicates a safe-stop-zone proximate to the travel-path. The transceiver is operable to broadcast information about the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the digital-map and the transceiver. The controller navigates the host-vehicle into the safe-stop-zone when an emergency-situation occurs, and then operates the transceiver to broadcast that the safe-stop-zone is occupied by the host-vehicle.
US10025315B2
Some embodiments are directed to an unmanned vehicle for use with a companion unmanned vehicle. The unmanned vehicle includes a location unit that is configured to determine a current position of the unmanned vehicle. The unmanned vehicle includes a path planning unit that generates a planned path. The unmanned vehicle receives a planned path of the companion unmanned vehicle and a current position of the companion unmanned vehicle. The unmanned vehicle includes a position unit that is configured to determine a relative position between the unmanned vehicle and the companion unmanned vehicle based on at least the planned paths and the current positions of the unmanned vehicle and the companion unmanned vehicle. The unmanned vehicle also includes a control unit that is configured to control a movement of the unmanned vehicle based on at least the relative position between the unmanned vehicle and the companion unmanned vehicle.
US10025311B2
A sensor-control system for operating an automated vehicle includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a controller. The first sensor is used to detect objects proximate to a host-vehicle. The first sensor is characterized by a first-sensing-technology. The second sensor is used to detect objects proximate to the host-vehicle. The second sensor is characterized by a second-sensing-technology different from the first-sensing-technology. The controller is in communication with the first sensor and the second sensor. A location of an object detected by the first-sensor is used to select a field-of-view of the second-sensor.
US10025309B2
A travel control device comprises a detection unit configured to detect a travel state of a subject vehicle, a determination unit configured to determine a travel scene of the subject vehicle, a storage unit configured to store presentation information to be presented to a user in each travel scene, a presentation unit configured to present the presentation information corresponding to the travel scene to the user, an input unit for the user to input response information, and a control unit configured to control travel of the subject vehicle on the basis of the response information. The storage unit stores a priority level when presenting the presentation information. The presentation unit presents the presentation information of which the priority level is highest to the user when an actual travel scene of the subject vehicle falls under travel scenes corresponding to two or more items of the presentation information.
US10025305B2
A cleaning robot includes a navigator to move a main body, a remote controller to output a modulated infrared ray in accordance with a control command of a user and to form a light spot, a light receiver to receive the infrared ray from the remote controller, and a controller to control the navigator such that the main body tracks the light spot when the modulated infrared ray is received in accordance with the control command. Because the cleaning robot tracks a position indicated by the remote controller, a user may conveniently move the cleaning robot.
US10025303B1
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is disclosed. The UAV comprises a battery, a flight mechanism, a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, a processor, a memory, and an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the application discovers an environment where the UAV operates by flying in the environment to determine its boundaries; creates a map of the environment that the UAV flew through; and shares the map with a social robot. The application receives a command from the social robot via the RF transceiver, wherein the social robot receives a verbal request from a user of the social robot, wherein the social robot transforms the user request to a command for the UAV. The application then performs the command from the social robot. The application then lands on a designated charging pad to conserve energy. The application then transmits a report back to the social robot.
US10025300B2
In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer readable medium may include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, may receive a first set of data associated with a user, receive a second set of data associated with one or more lockout procedures performed by the user, receive a request to actuate a locking mechanism of an electronic lock configured to prevent a machine in an industrial automation application from being operational, and send a signal to the electronic lock to actuate the locking mechanism when the second set of data indicates that the lockout procedures have been performed by the user and the data corresponds to an authorized user.
US10025298B2
Technical installation data are visually preprocessed in a targeted manner in a control room or on a tablet with a touchscreen in mobile use by presenting a priority matrix. For this purpose, the interference messages are sorted, for example, horizontally with descending priority from left to right and vertically according to the installation part and are output. This largely relieves an operator of analysis and prioritization of the interference messages. The operator can therefore identify, locate and eliminate the most important interference messages in a shorter time. The number of priorities and installation parts considered is flexible since the matrix can be scaled to a wide variety of installation types, installation sizes and processes. All technical installation data relevant to assessing the situation are combined in one view. A second display area with a logical view is used to provide an overview of the complete industrial installation.
US10025292B2
An offset number setting device that freely and easily sets an offset number for a tool to be mounted on a tool holder of a turret surface. A display linkage unit displays a turret surface selection screen on a display, displays a tool holder selection screen on the display by selecting the turret surface, and displays an offset number setting screen on the display by selecting the tool holder. An offset number is therefore set for the tool along with the selection of the turret surface on which the tool is mounted.
US10025290B2
A thermal displacement correction training unit has a virtual machine tool, a virtual machine tool control unit and a virtual machine tool display unit. The virtual machine tool has a precision decline imitating unit for imitating the process precision decline caused by the heat during operation in the virtual machine tool unit, and a precision decline calculation unit for finding the amount of precision decline that represents the process precision decline in the process machine unit imitated by the process precision imitating unit. The virtual machine tool control unit has a precision correction unit for finding the correction amount by which the processing point is corrected in response to thermal displacement, and a correction amount adjustment unit for adjusting the correction amount found by the precision correction unit. The virtual machine tool display unit displays the amount of precision decline and the correction amount.
US10025274B2
A system configured to allow one or more timing processes to accurately keep track of one or more timers while a processor executing the one or more timing processes is in a low-power operational mode. The system is configured to set a real-time clock alarm expiration time equal to a closest expiration time, from a current time, of the one or more timers. Accordingly, upon expiration of the real-time clock alarm, an interrupt is communicated to the processor, resulting in the processor being brought out of a low-power operational mode, and executing one or more processes associated with the corresponding expired timer.
US10025266B2
A process cartridge including a photosensitive drum; a developing roller; a rotatable roller having a rotation shaft in a position deviated from an axis of the developing roller; an Oldham coupling member at an end portion of the shaft of the rotatable roller; an urging member for urging the drive receiving portion; a supporting portion supporting the drive receiving portion; an abutting portion receiving the supporting portion urged by the urging member, an elastic sheet positioned to contact at least part of the Oldham coupling member, wherein the abutting portion is positioned outside an outer periphery of the drum on a plane perpendicular to the shaft of the rotatable roller.
US10025250B2
An image forming apparatus capable of performing color misregistration correction at image forming speeds while reducing downtime. Image forming units form images of different colors. The formed images are transferred to an intermediate transfer belt. A pattern sensor detects color misregistration amounts of color patterns formed on the intermediate transfer belt. A CPU causes the image forming units to form first color patterns at a first speed and the pattern sensor to detect first color misregistration amounts, and causes the former to form second color patterns at a second speed different from the first speed and the latter to detect second color misregistration amounts. The CPU determines third color misregistration amounts at a third speed based on the first and second color misregistration amounts. The third speed is different from the first and second speeds.
US10025242B2
A fixing device includes an endless belt, a girder disposed inside of a loop of the endless belt and extending in the width direction, a plate disposed between the girder and the endless belt, a pressing member disposed outside of the loop of the endless belt, a heater disposed inside the loop pf the endless belt, a first support disposed between the plate and the girder, and a second support disposed between the plate and the girder while being away from the first support. The first height of the second support is greater than the second height of the second support. A first difference between the first height of the first support and the second height of the first support is less than a second difference between the first height of the second support and the second height of the second support.
US10025237B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit configured to pinch and transport a recording medium at a first transport speed, a fixing unit configured to fix an image formed on the recording medium while pinching and transporting the recording medium, which is transported by the transport unit, at a second transport speed, a driving unit configured to drive the fixing unit, a detector configured to detect a load of the driving unit, and a controller configured to perform a control to adjust a speed difference between the first transport speed and the second transport speed with respect to a subsequently transported recording medium when the load becomes larger than a reference value after a peak value of the load when the recording medium enters the fixing unit is detected by the detector.
US10025235B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image holder that holds a toner image; a transferer that is disposed opposite to the image holder so as to be in contact with the image holder and transfers the toner image from the image holder onto a recording sheet that is going through a contact part where the transferer contacts the image holder, by applying a transfer voltage between the transferer and the image holder; a first power source that applies a voltage of a first polarity to the image holder; and a second power source that applies a voltage of a second polarity, which is reverse to the first polarity, to the transferer.
US10025232B2
An intermediate transfer member for electrophotography comprising a substrate and a surface layer provided on the substrate. The surface layer comprises a binder resin and a perfluoropolyether. An extraction amount of the perfluoropolyether per 10 mm3 of the surface layer, is 0.10 mg to 5.00 mg, the extraction amount of the perfluoropolyether obtained by immersing the intermediate transfer member into a solvent that can dissolve the perfluoropolyether at 25° C. for 24 hours. A surface of the intermediate transfer member that is not subjected to first and second treatments, has a n-hexadecane contact angle of 55° or more. A surface of the intermediate transfer member that has been subjected to the first treatment, has a n-hexadecane contact angle of 40° or less. A surface of the intermediate transfer member that has been subjected to the second treatment, has a n-hexadecane contact angle of 50° or more.
US10025231B2
A transfer belt includes: an elastic layer, wherein the transfer belt is used to transfer a toner image onto a recording medium, the toner image being carried on a first main surface which is one of a pair of main exposed surfaces including the first main surface and a second main surface, when, using a lower block and an upper block, the transfer belt is placed on an upper surface of the lower block, a part of the transfer belt is interposed between a curved convex surface and a curved concave surface, and a pressed region reaches a pressing force of 200 [kPa] and is constantly pressed by the pressing force, if “a” represents a maximum value of displacement of a measurement region, and “b” represents displacement of the measurement region after convergence, E [−] calculated by (a−b)/b satisfies a condition of 0.2≤E≤3.
US10025228B2
A unit includes a part that is detachably attachable relative to an other unit, wherein the other unit includes an opening through which image forming powder is supplied from or received by the other unit, and a shutter that opens and closes the opening, and a collecting member that collects the image forming powder falling from at least one of the opening and the shutter by making contact with the shutter when detaching the unit from the other unit.
US10025225B2
A developing cartridge may include: a casing configured to accommodate developer therein, the casing extending in the first direction; a coupling rotatable about a first axis extending in the first direction, the coupling being positioned at one side of the casing in the first direction; a detection gear rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction, the detection gear being positioned at another side of the casing in the first direction; and a storage medium including an electric contact surface, the electric contact surface being positioned at the one side of the casing in the first direction.
US10025224B2
A powder detection device includes a detection unit, a cleaning unit, and a drive unit. The detection unit includes detection surfaces provided in a storage container and enables detection of powder through the detection surfaces. The cleaning unit removes the powder from the detection surfaces by sliding along the detection surfaces. The drive unit reciprocates the cleaning unit along a path extending through the detection surfaces and differentiates a speed at which the cleaning unit is moved in a first direction along the path from a speed at which the cleaning unit is moved in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US10025219B2
A printing apparatus comprising a light-emitting element, a light-receiving element configured to output a monitor current based on a light-emitting amount from the light-emitting element, a comparison unit connected to the light-receiving element and configured to compare the monitor current with a reference current, a driving unit configured to drive the light-emitting element based on the comparison result, a current generation unit configured to generate a first current, and a conversion unit arranged in a path between the current generation unit and the comparison unit, the conversion unit outputting, upon receiving a control signal, the reference current based on the control signal and the first current.
US10025217B2
A cartridge includes a first maintaining member and a second maintaining member, each disposed on respective end portions of a charging roller in an axial direction of the charging roller and configured to maintain a position of the charging roller at a first position, and a first moving portion and a second moving portion, each disposed on respective end portions of an image bearing member in an axial direction of the image bearing member and configured to respectively abut on and move the first and second maintaining members according to rotation of the image bearing member so as to move the charging roller from the first position to the second position. When the image bearing member is rotated in which the charging roller is in the first position, the first moving portion abuts on the first maintaining member, and then the second moving portion abuts on the second maintaining member.
US10025211B2
An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner core and a shell layer disposed over a surface of the toner core. The shell layer includes a plurality of first domains (R1) and a second domain (R2) that is present at least among the first domains (R1). The first domains (R1) are each substantially formed from a first thermoplastic resin. The second domain (R2) is substantially formed from a second thermoplastic resin. The second thermoplastic resin is more hydrophobic than the first thermoplastic resin. The first thermoplastic resin includes at least one specific repeating unit having at least one group selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, an amino group, and an amide group. A proportion of the at least one repeating unit among all repeating units included in the first thermoplastic resin is at least 0.5 mol % and no greater than 50 mol %.
US10025206B2
A lithographic apparatus is disclosed that has a first substrate table arranged to hold a substrate and a second substrate table arranged to hold a substrate, an imprint template holder arranged to hold an imprint template, and an imprintable medium dispenser, wherein the first substrate table is moveable between a first position located at or adjacent to the imprintable medium dispenser, and a second position located at or adjacent to the imprint template holder, and the second substrate table is moveable between the first and second positions, such that the first and second substrate tables swap positions.
US10025202B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for the loading and unloading of substrates, such as semiconductor wafers, involving microlithography and similar nano-fabrication techniques. The system includes two or more pedestals; a substrate chuck including two or more channels; a turntable having a top surface and a first end positioned opposite a second end, each of the first and second ends including a respective opening, each opening including two or more cutouts and two or more tabs, the turntable rotatable between first and second positions and an actuator system to adjust distances between the turntable and the substrate chuck and between the turntable and the pedestals.
US10025196B2
An immersion lithographic apparatus has adaptations to prevent or reduce bubble formation in one or more gaps in the substrate table by preventing bubbles escaping from the gap into the beam path and/or extracting bubbles that may form in the gap.
US10025193B2
A lithographic apparatus applies a pattern repeatedly to target portions across a substrate. Prior to applying the pattern an alignment sensor measures positions of marks in the plane of the substrate and a level sensor measures height deviations in a direction normal to the plane of the substrate. The apparatus applies the pattern to the substrate while positioning the applied pattern using the positions measured by the alignment sensor and using the height deviations measured by the level sensor. The apparatus is further arranged to calculate and apply corrections in the positioning of the applied pattern, based on derivatives of the measured height deviations. The corrections may be calculated on an intrafield and/or interfield basis. The corrections may be based on changes between the observed height deviations and height deviations measured previously on the same substrate.
US10025192B2
A composition for removing photoresist, including an alkyl ammonium fluoride salt in an amount ranging from about 0.5 weight percent to about 10 weight percent, based on a total weight of the composition; an organic sulfonic acid in an amount ranging from about 1 weight percent to about 20 weight percent, based on the total weight of the composition; and a lactone-based solvent in an amount ranging from about 70 weight percent to about 98.5 weight percent, based on the total weight of the composition.
US10025191B2
There is provided a polymer-containing coating liquid which is applied to a resist pattern and which is used in place of a conventional rinsing liquid. A coating liquid that is applied to a resist pattern comprising a polymer having a structural unit of Formula (1): (wherein R1 is a C1-12 organic group, and X is an organic group of Formula (2): (wherein R2 and R3 are each independently a linear or branched alkylene group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 3, R2 is bonded to an oxygen atom in Formula (1), R4 is a C1-4 alkoxy group, an allyloxy group, or a hydroxy group, and p is 0, 1, or 2)), and a solvent containing water and/or alcohols.
US10025183B2
A photosensitive printing blank having is described. The photosensitive printing blank comprises at least one photocurable layer that is capable of being selectively crosslinked and cured upon exposure to actinic radiation at a desired wavelength region comprising (a) at least one elastomeric binder, (b) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer, (c) a photoinitiator having a favorable absorption profile in the desired wavelength region used for exposing the at least one photocurable layer to actinic radiation, and (d) a dye, wherein the dye exhibits a suitable percent transmission as measured with a UV spectrophotometer at the desired wavelength region used for exposing the at least one photocurable layer to actinic radiation, and optionally an infrared ablatable layer disposed on the at least one photocurable layer. A method of making a relief image printing element from the photosensitive printing blank is also described.
US10025176B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a mask blank substrate and the like that enables critical defects to be reliably detected as a result of reducing the number of detected defects, including pseudo defects, even when using highly sensitive defect inspection apparatuses that use light of various wavelengths. The present invention relates to a mask blank substrate that is used in lithography, wherein the power spectral density at a spatial frequency of 1×10−2 μm−1 to 1 μm−1, obtained by measuring a 0.14 mm×0.1 mm region on a main surface of the mask blank substrate on the side of which a transfer pattern is formed at 640×480 pixels with a white-light interferometer, is not more than 4×106 nm4, and the power spectral density at a spatial frequency of not less than 1 μm−1, obtained by measuring a 1 μm×1 μm region on the main surface with an atomic force microscope, is not more than 10 nm4.
US10025174B1
A multi-theater light source for two or more 3D projectors positioned in differing spaces. The apparatus includes a first light source outputting light to display left eye content, and the apparatus includes a second light source outputting light for use by the projectors to display right eye content. The apparatus includes a switching device that receives the light output from the first and second light sources and switches between first and second operating states to route the left and right eye light. In the first operating state, the switching device directs the light from the first light source toward a first projector and the light output from the second light source toward a second projector. In the second operating state, the switching device directs the light output from the first light source toward the second projector and the light output from the second light source toward the first projectors.
US10025172B2
A light source device includes: a light source including a laser; a dispersing member disposed on a path of a laser beam emitted by the laser, and configured to disperse the laser beam into a plurality of dispersed beams with peak intensities lower than a peak intensity of the laser beam to emit the dispersed beams; and an optical component disposed on paths of the dispersed beams.
US10025171B2
An image displaying apparatus comprises a first light source section and a second light source section each configured to be able to change a percentage of a radiation luminous flux, and a controlling unit configured to control the first light source section and the second light source section such that the percentage of the radiation luminous flux obtained by combining together the radiation luminous flux from the first light source section and the radiation luminous flux from the second light source section continuously changes.
US10025170B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for reducing interference for a near-eye display device. The near-eye display device includes an imager, a spatial light modulator and a waveguide. The imager generates an image based on light from a coherent light source. The spatial light modulator modulates phases of a plurality of coherent light rays representing the image received from the imager. The waveguide receives and guides the light rays having varied phases such that light rays propagating within the waveguide are incoherent with each other.
US10025165B2
A camera mount, assembly, and method for supporting a number of cameras side-by-side along a linear or curvilinear path. The camera mount includes a rigid body having a tab and a coupling flange extending from opposite ends thereof. Tabs and flanges of adjacent mounts are overlapped and coupled via a fastener installed therethrough. A spring washer is installed on the fastener to preload the joint against relative movements, but the mounts are pivotable by hand about an axis formed by the fastener. Angular orientation between adjacent mounts can be defined using a gauge inserted between opposing faces of the mounts. Cameras are disposable on each mount and retained thereon by an elastic band extending over the camera and retained on catches provided on each side of the mount. The assembly of camera mounts is substantially rigid thus requiring few support devices.
US10025164B2
An add-on lens assembly supporting an add-on lens for a camera includes a locking mechanism actuatable by the user in order to increase the attachment force between the lens and the camera. The add-on lens assembly may include a rotatable lock ring having a cam pin that navigates along a surface of a cam such that when the lock ring is rotated, the cam pin causes the cam to translate axially. Axial translation of the cam may compress a spring within the assembly and increase the attachment force between the lens assembly and the camera. The increased force between the add-on lens assembly and the camera may provide additional support for large or heavy assemblies.
US10025162B2
A focus adjustment device obtains a correction value for correcting a result of autofocus, from aberration information regarding at least one of an astigmatism, a chromatic aberration, and a spherical aberration of an imaging optical system, and focus detection information regarding the autofocus. The focus adjustment device then controls a position of a focusing lens that the imaging optical system has, based on a result of the autofocus corrected using the correction value. By correcting the result of the autofocus while considering at least a focus condition of a photographic image, a focus detection error caused by an aberration of the optical system can be accurately corrected.
US10025160B2
Provided are a lighting system, a backlight unit and a 3D image display apparatus including the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes: a lighting system configured to selectively output collimated light and diverging light, a diffraction device, and a light guide plate configured to guide the collimated light and the diverging light from the lighting system to the diffraction device. An exit direction of the collimated light from the diffraction device depends on at least one of an angle of incidence of the collimated light and the wavelength of the collimated light.
US10025159B2
An output monitoring method for an optical modulator includes: branching light into first and second lights; modulating a phase of the first light within a first waveguide; modulating a phase of the second light within a second waveguide; multiplexing the first and second lights to generate interference light, and outputting the interference light from first and second output ports; detecting a difference or ratio between a portion of the interference light from the first output port and a portion of the interference light from the second output port; and setting an operating point of light based on the detected difference or ratio; and controlling phase modulation of follow-on light that propagates through the first and second waveguides so as to keep the operating point constant.
US10025155B2
The present disclosure provides a bottom electrode substrate for a segment-type electrophoretic display. The bottom electrode substrate includes a flexible substrate, a first conductive layer, an insulating layer, a second conductive layer and a segment-type electrode. The first conductive layer is disposed on the flexible substrate. The insulating layer covers the first conductive layer and the flexible substrate, wherein the insulating layer has at least one opening exposing a part of the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is filled in the opening and in contact with the exposed first conductive layer. The segment-type electrode covers the second conductive layer and the insulating layer, and is in contact with the second conductive layer. A method for manufacturing the bottom electrode substrate is also provided herein.
US10025153B2
An array substrate provided by embodiments of the present disclosure includes a base substrate; a gate line pattern and a data line pattern formed on the base substrate; a gate insulating layer pattern formed between the gate line pattern and the data line pattern; and a spare line pattern formed on a same layer as the gate line pattern. The spare line pattern includes multiple spare lines which are substantially in parallel with the gate lines in the gate line pattern. Respective spare lines may be arranged at multiple rows of pixels defined by the gate line pattern and the data line pattern. And the respective spare lines and respective data lines in the data line pattern may have respective vertically overlapped regions.
US10025147B2
A blue phase liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The blue phase liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix, the blue phase liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other, and a blue phase liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each of the pixel units includes: first protrusions located on the first substrate; pixel electrodes covering the first protrusions; second protrusions located on the second substrate; and common electrodes covering the second protrusions.
US10025131B2
A touch-sensing liquid crystal panel and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The touch-sensing liquid crystal panel includes a color filter substrate and a transistor substrate. In the fabrication method, at first, a first glass substrate is provided. Thereafter, a sensing matrix is formed on a first surface of the first glass substrate at a baking temperature. The sensing matrix is formed from indium tin oxide (ITO), and a sheet resistance of the sensing matrix is equal to or less than 30 ohm/square. Then, color filters and a common electrode are disposed on a second surface of the first glass substrate to form a color filter substrate, wherein the second surface is opposite to the first surface. Thereafter, the transistor substrate is provided and combined with the color filter substrate. Thereafter, a slimming process is performed to slim a second glass substrate of the transistor substrate.
US10025130B2
A display of an electric device includes a plurality of separated transparent electrode blocks, which are configured to provide one or more of supplemental features such as touch recognition. Signal paths between the transparent electrode blocks and the driver for the supplemental feature are implemented with a plurality of conductive lines placed under positioned under one or more planarization layers. The conductive lines implementing the signal paths are routed across the display area, directly toward a non-display area where drive-integrated circuits are located.
US10025129B2
The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a touch panel. The array substrate includes a pixel electrode layer, a first touch electrode layer and an insulation layer and a second touch electrode layer arranged on the first touch electrode layer in sequence. The pixel electrode layer is not overlapped with at least one of the first touch electrode layer and the second touch electrode layer, and the insulation layer is not provided within a vertical projection area of the pixel electrode layer. In this way, when the thickness of the insulation layer between the first touch electrode layer and the second touch electrode layer is increased to reduce the parasitic capacitance between the touch electrode layers, the dimension of the liquid crystal capacitor and the storage capacitor is prevented from being affected.
US10025126B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a first display substrate and a second display substrate opposing each other and a sealant which couples the first and second display substrates to each other; a first frame member overlapping an edge portion of the display panel; and a second frame member at the edge portion of the display panel and on a rear surface of the display panel. The first frame member defines a fixing portion thereof overlapping an edge portion of the first display substrate of the display panel, and a side wall portion thereof extended bent downwards from the fixing portion.
US10025121B2
An optical waveguide element module decreases discontinuity of electrical connection between an optical waveguide element and a relay substrate, without wire-bonding using long wires. An edge shape L of the signal electrode side of the ground electrode is surrounded by two shapes (L1, L2). Shape L1 is obtained by connecting an input end of the control electrode to a location where a space between the ground electrodes becomes W2. Shape L2 is such that an impedance change of the control electrode from the input end to the location at which the space between the ground electrodes becomes W2 is constant or continuously changes. A space between grounding wires connecting the ground electrodes of the element and ground lines of the relay substrate is larger than a space between the ground electrodes. In an embodiment, a terminal substrate and an output end of the control electrode are connected.
US10025120B2
Methods and systems for a low-parasitic silicon high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include fabricating an optical phase modulator that comprises a PN junction waveguide formed in a silicon layer, wherein the silicon layer may be on an oxide layer and the oxide layer may be on a silicon substrate. The PN junction waveguide may have p-doped and n-doped regions on opposite sides along a length of the PN junction waveguide, and portions of the p-doped and n-doped regions may be removed. Contacts may be formed on remaining portions of the p-doped and n-doped regions. Portions of the p-doped and n-doped regions may be removed symmetrically about the PN junction waveguide. Portions of the p-doped and n-doped regions may be removed in a staggered fashion along the length of the PN junction waveguide. Etch transition features may be removed along the p-doped and n-doped regions.
US10025113B2
An eyewear system including eyeglasses and a case, the eyeglasses having a first lens, a second lens, and a bendable bridge disposed between the first lens and second lens, the bendable bridge having a spring providing a spring force when the bridge is bent from a rest position, the eyeglasses being adapted to move from a wearable configuration in which the first and second lens do not overlap to a stored configuration in which the first and second lenses at least partially overlap, the bendable bridge being bent from its rest position in the stored configuration, the case having an opening through which the eyeglasses pass during insertion and guides sized and configured with respect to the eyeglasses to engage and fold the eyeglasses against spring force of the bridge to the stored configuration during insertion of the eyeglasses through the opening and into the case.
US10025109B2
Visual display systems are described having means for generating stereoscopic images, a device for visual display of said stereoscopic images having a projector and a semitransparent screen; and a pair of stereoscopic spectacles. The projector according to the invention has an imager and an interference filter, the spectral transmission of which has at least one transmission band of determined width centerd around a wavelength, said wavelength being dependent on the incidence of the light on said interference filter. The projector has means allowing the angular position of the filter to be varied between two determined positions so as to transmit, according to the position, either a first spectral band or a second spectral band. The pair of stereoscopic spectacles has a first lens transmitting the first spectral band and blocking the second spectral band and a second lens providing the opposite function.
US10025108B2
The assembly to homogenize a light beam, especially from an excimer laser, has at least two optical functional surfaces (26) in succession along the light path (z). Two groups of refractive or diffractive imaging elements are at the optical surfaces as cylinder lenses (30, 30′, 32), with at least two imaging elements of different characteristics within at least one of the groups. The light beam is finally carried through a Fourier lens (28) to the working plane (29).
US10025106B2
A lighting device (1) including at least one laser-diode bar with a plurality of emitters arranged adjacently to one another in a first direction and able to emit sub-beams during operation. The sub-beams having a lower beam divergence in a first direction that forms a slow-axis direction than in a second direction that forms a fast-axis direction and is perpendicular to the first direction. At least some of the emitters having a height offset in relation to the other emitters. A fast collimation means positioned behind the at least one laser-diode bar in a beam-propagation direction perpendicular to the slow-axis direction and the fast-axis direction. Beam transformation means positioned behind the fast-axis collimation means in the beam-propagation direction and designed to rotate the sub-beams through 90° as they pass thorough said means. A prism array positioned behind the beam transformation means in the beam-propagation direction and a number of prism means corresponding to the number of emitters and arranged adjacently to one another in the first direction, each of which has an incident light face and a light output face for one of the sub-beams. The incident light faces and/or the light output faces of the prism means, through which the sub-beams with a height offset pass, are designed such that the Poynting effect can be corrected by the parallelization of said sub-beams.
US10025098B2
Electronic glasses having a display that correct for color blindness, and a method for operating the same. A user request for correction of color blindness is received. In response, a specific color is displayed, which is selected for correction of color blindness on the display. The display may be operated in a transparent state or in a display mode in which images are displayed. A color adjustment application may be executed to obtain color measurement result information for the particular user, where the specific color selected for correction of color blindness may be based on the measurement result information.
US10025092B1
A projector including an image beam generator and a projecting lens is disclosed. The image beam generator is adapted to generate an image beam. The projecting lens includes a relay system and a projection system. The relay system is adapted to receive the image beam. The projection system includes a first lens and a second lens. A reflective coating is formed on a surface of the first lens. Whereby, the image beam generated by the image beam generator is transmitted through the second lens to the first lens, and reflected by the reflective coating of the first lens. Then, the image beam reflected by the first lens is transmitted through the second lens again and projected on an image plane.
US10025089B2
A display system produces three-dimensional images. The display system includes a waveguide, and a light source that injects light into the waveguide. A switchable grating allows individual positions in the grating in a two-dimensional array to be turned on and off. A controller configured to spatially modulate the switchable grating so as to control where light exits the waveguide. An eye tracking module tracks eye position of a viewer. The controller uses the eye position to control switching of the grating.
US10025080B2
A laser-scanning microscope having an illumination-beam path and a detection-beam path and a microscope objective. A component for generating a plurality of scanning beams from at least one illumination beam is located in the illumination-beam path. A wedge-shaped, light-transmitting first component part provided in the illumination beam path generates spatially offset partial beams, the scanning beams being generated at the first component part by multiple reflections at an at least partially partially-reflecting surface. The microscope has a one-dimensional scanner for moving the scanning beams over a sample in the illumination beam path. The scanning beams have at least partially relative to one another a non-zero angle upstream of the objective in the illumination direction. The scanning beams can intersect at least partially in the objective pupil of the microscope objective. Additional compensation elements are provided for the scanning beams to compensate for a spectral dispersion and/or the beam direction.
US10025078B2
An edge-curing device may comprise a cylindrical lens, a linear array of light-emitting elements, and an aperture, each aligned symmetrically about a longitudinal plane in a housing, wherein the cylindrical lens is positioned between the linear array of light-emitting elements and the aperture, the aperture spans the length of the cylindrical lens and is positioned directly adjacent to an emitting face of the cylindrical lens, and light emitted from the linear array of light-emitting elements and passing through the cylindrical lens is emitted from the emitting face and focused by the aperture within a beam width centered about the longitudinal plane.
US10025076B2
A zoom lens comprises in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and the third unit having a positive refractive power comprises in order from the object side, a first lens component having a positive refractive power, and a second lens component having a negative refractive power in which, a lens having a positive refractive power and a lens having a negative refractive power are cemented, and the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expressions (1), (2), and (3) 1.4<|f3_2p/f3_2n|<2.6 (1) nd3_2p−nd3_2n≥0 (2) nd3_2n≥1.8 (3).
US10025072B2
An imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element and the fourth lens element have positive refractive power. The second lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being both aspheric. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface thereof has at least one convex shape in an off-axial region thereof, and an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are both aspheric. The imaging lens assembly has a total of six single and non-cemented lens elements.
US10025070B2
An image lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface, wherein both of the surfaces of the fifth lens element are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface thereof has at least one inflection point, and both of the surfaces of the sixth lens element are aspheric. The image lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
US10025068B2
Present embodiments provide for mobile devices and optical imaging lens thereof. Optical imaging lens may comprise an aperture stop and six lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements and designing parameters satisfying at least one inequality, the optical imaging lens may exhibit better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened.
US10025063B2
A lens assembly includes at least a pair of lenses fixed in a lens barrel and an additional lens initially having at least one degree of freedom of movement with respect to the other lenses. The additional lens can be fixed in a desired alignment position with respect to the other lenses.
US10025037B2
A method of splicing an optical fiber of the invention splices a first optical fiber cable and an optical fiber in a splicing box, the first optical fiber cable is a drop cable or an indoor cable, the optical fiber is drawn from a second optical fiber cable, the method splices a terminal of the first optical fiber cable and the optical fiber. The method includes: sliding a unit base holding an extended-optical-fiber-attached splice along a rail in a direction in which the unit base approaches a grasper; thereby inserting an inserted optical fiber grasped by the grasper between halved elements of a mechanical splice; and splicing the inserted optical fiber and an extended optical fiber by butt-jointing an end of the inserted optical fiber to the extended optical fiber.
US10025035B2
An optical interferometer based on multi-mode interference (MMI) devices includes an input port, an output port, a first MMI device connected to the input port at an input face of the first MMI device, a second MMI device connected to the first output port at an output face of the second MMI device. In the optical interferometer, an output face of the first MMI device and an input face of the second MMI device are directly connected, the first MMI device includes a first and a second self-imaging points at an interface between the first MMI device and the second MMI device, and a propagation axis of the second MMI device is tilted with respect to a propagation axis of the first MMI device, causing a path length difference between an upper optical path via the first self-imaging point and a lower optical path via the second self-imaging point.
US10025017B2
A light guide assembly for illuminating two gauges utilizing a single light guide includes of a two pairs of light sources such as LEDs, OLED's, quantum dots or other useful light sources functioning to emit light in opposite directions. A light guide receives the light emitted by the LEDs and leaks light out of its open surfaces. A protrusion from the light guide which leaks light in a specific orientation depending on its geometry illuminates a second gauge. An opaque gauge which covers the main portion of the light guide and is located above the light guide.
US10025012B2
The present invention provides a polarizing plate where, when the polarizing plate is applied to a liquid crystal display device, both thinning of the device and improvement in display performance such as prevention of light leakage, prevention of color variation, and suppression of display unevenness under a moist and hot environment can be achieved. The polarizing plate has, in this order, a first polarizer protective layer, a first polarizer, a first optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound X, and a second optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound Y, in which the thickness of the first optically anisotropic layer is 10 μm or less, the first optically anisotropic layer has predetermined Re(550) and Rth(550), the thickness of the second optically anisotropic layer is 10 μm or less, and has predetermined Re(550) and Rth(550), and the polarizing plate has a thickness of is 100 μm or less.
US10025008B2
In order to manufacture a lens array substrate including a multistage lens array which is formed on a translucent substrate, a first lens layer, a first translucent layer, a second lens layer, and a second translucent layer are stacked in order on a mother substrate. At the same time, a first metal layer is formed between the first lens layer and the first translucent layer, and in the removing of the first metal layer, the first metal layer is removed from a position overlapping with at least the center of a concavity in a plane view, and remains at least at an end portion of the mother substrate as a first buffer layer.
US10025001B2
A downhole logging tool comprises an optical sensor to sense a field related to a formation parameter at a first location along the downhole logging tool. A processor receives information from the optical sensor and provides an evaluation of the formation parameter.
US10024998B2
A gantry system for use with a computed tomography (CT) imaging system is provided. The gantry system includes a gantry assembly configured to rotate about a rotational axis to collect imaging data from an object. The gantry assembly includes a support rail. A radially inner surface of the support rail includes a canted first portion and an oppositely canted second portion. The gantry system also includes a plurality of roller assemblies rotatably supporting the gantry assembly. Each of the plurality of roller assemblies comprises a first roller sleeve configured to engage the first portion and a second roller sleeve configured to engage the second portion.
US10024991B2
A device, computer program and related method for processing a first seismic signal that includes identifying one portion of a second seismic signal and determining a length of a seismic wavelet. It is also possible to train a neural network by using a plurality of sub-portions of said portion a input variables and at least one second piece of information as a target variable. Said sub-portions of the portion have a length dependent on the length of the seismic wavelet determined. Finally, the method includes determining at least one first piece of geological information based on the first seismic signal using said trained neural network.
US10024989B2
Analytically generated shooting schedules for use with patterned and simultaneous source acquisition
According to an embodiment, there is provided a system and method of collecting seismic data using a predetermined pattern of source activations that is intended to control the properties of the resulting seismic signal. One embodiment utilizes a seismic source array (or, more generally, any collection of controllable sources) to create a series of spaced apart in time source activations, with the spacing and number of such activations being used to shape the resulting signal. In one method of building sweeps, the guns are fired at an increasing rate (decreasing time separation) as time goes by. Other patterns may be generated by decreasing the firing rate as time goes by, or some combination of the foregoing. In an embodiment, the rate of the increase or decrease in the firing rate will change from pattern to pattern.
US10024985B1
The invention is a gamma ray detector that locates a source, both horizontally and vertically. The detector comprises a tubular shield surrounded by scintillator panels. Gammas incident from one side can fully strike the scintillator facing the source, but are blocked from reaching the scintillators on the opposite side of the shield. The scintillator counting rates thus indicate the lateral direction of the source. By iteratively rotating toward the highest-counting scintillator, the detector converges to the source. An additional, central detector can be mounted within the tubular shield. When analyzed with the outer scintillators, the central detector determines the overall angular separation between the source and the detector axis, thereby locating the source in two dimensions automatically. The invention enables rapid detection and precise localization of clandestine nuclear and radiological weapons, despite shielding and clutter obfuscation, while quickly passing clean loads.
US10024984B2
A radiation detector according to an embodiment includes a plurality of detector modules, a first and second radiation shield, and first supporter. The first radiation shield is provided in a first detector module and is arranged on a side opposite to a surface of a first detector pack of a first detector module on which radiation is incident. The second radiation shield is arranged to intersect with a path of radiation that passes through between a first detector pack and a second detector pack of a second detector module that is arranged adjacently to the first detector module. The first supporter supports the first radiation shield ouch that at least a part of the first radiation shield overlaps the second radiation shield on the path of radiation.
US10024981B2
A radiation detection system is disclosed comprising of number of detector elements arranged in a regular pattern that allows for directional information to be collected based on the number of radiation interaction events in each detection element. This system is mounted to an unmanned vehicle. In some embodiments, this information is used by the motion control unit of the unmanned vehicle to guide its movement toward a radiation source. A radiation spectrometer, also integrated in the detection system, is able to identify radiation sources.
US10024980B2
A radiation imaging apparatus includes: a radiation detection panel; an electrical component electrically connected to the radiation detection panel; and a housing for housing the radiation detection panel including a top configured to cause the radiation to enter the housing and impinge on the radiation detection panel, and a bottom arranged on a side opposite to the top. An inner surface of the bottom on a side of the radiation detection panel includes a supporting surface configured to support the radiation detection panel. A concave portion defined by a part of an outer surface of the bottom is formed on a side of the bottom opposite to the side of the radiation detection panel i.e. on the outside of the housing. The electrical component is arranged in the concave portion.
US10024975B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for analyzing a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. The method includes receiving electronic diagnostic information from the GNSS receiver, the diagnostic information including observations at different times of signal strength of one or more satellites at each point in a visible sky. The method includes building a flat map of the visible sky including a track of the one or more satellites. The method includes calculating, for each point in the visible sky of the flat map, an aggregated signal strength of the one or more satellites over a predetermined interval. The method includes generating a heat map over the flat map of the visible sky and displaying a visualization of a flat heat map.
US10024964B2
A scanning optical range finder in a mobile robot includes an optical emitter circuit, a non-imaging optical element, an optical detector circuit, and a ranging circuit. The non-imaging optical element is arranged to receive optical signals at an entrance aperture thereof responsive to operation of the optical emitter circuit, and to direct the optical signals to an output aperture thereof. The optical detector circuit is configured to receive the optical signals from the output aperture of the non-imaging optical element, and to generate detection signals based on respective phase differences of the optical signals relative to corresponding outputs of the optical emitter circuit. The ranging circuit is configured to calculate a range of a target from the phase differences indicated by the detection signals. Related devices and methods of operation are also discussed.
US10024957B2
Provided are method, system, and computer program product for imaging an underwater environment. The method may include receiving sonar returns and converting the sound energy of the sonar returns into sonar return data, and generating first beam data associated with a first beam having at least one first main lobe oriented in a first direction. Generating the first beam data may include: forming the sonar return data in the first direction; applying a first predetermined window to the sonar return data to define a first weighted return data; applying a second predetermined window to the sonar return data to define a second weighted return data; comparing a first power of the first weighted return data to a second power of the second weighted return data; and defining, when the first power is less than the second power, the first beam data based upon the first weighted return data.
US10024954B1
Antenna systems and methods employing an axial metallic corrugated choke ring attached to an offset reflector assembly and circumscribing (without contacting) a stationary metallic conical feed horn.
US10024949B2
Systems an methods are provided that disclose providing a positioning service for devices based on light received from one or more light sources. This light based positioning service uses light information transmitted by each light source to determine the position of the device. The positioning information can include three dimension position information in a building that can then be used to deliver services and information to a mobile device. The content delivered to a mobile device can include multimedia, text, audio, and/or pictorial information. The positioning information along with other location or positioning information can be used in providing augmented reality or location aware services. The light sources can be independent beacons that broadcast information in visible light at a rate that is undetectable by the human eye. Content can be retrieved from a server over a communications connection.
US10024947B2
A method of locating an underwater based system, the method including determining the underwater based system's geo-location, encoding the underwater based system's geo-location for RF transmission, encoding the underwater based system's geo-location for acoustic transmission, and transmitting RF and acoustic signals containing the encoded geo-location to a receiving station. A locator for locating an underwater based system including a buoy, a global positioning system having an antenna and a receiver, an RF transmission system including an antenna and a transmitter, an underwater acoustic transducer, and a locator control unit adapted to determine the underwater based system's geo-location, encode the underwater based system's geo-location for RF transmission, encode the underwater based system's geo-location for acoustic transmission, and transmit RF and underwater acoustic signals containing the encoded geo-location.
US10024946B2
Technology for determining a geographical location of a ground receiver is disclosed. A plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals from a plurality of RF signal carriers may be received at the ground receiver. The plurality of RF signal carriers may include satellites operated by a foreign entity or non-global positioning system (non-GPS) satellites. The ground receiver may measure a Doppler shift associated with each of the plurality of RF signals. The geographical location of the ground receiver may be determined in X, Y and Z coordinates based in part on the Doppler shift associated with each of the plurality of RF signals.
US10024939B2
In a method and a magnetic resonance system to determine the T1 time of water and the T1 time of fat in a predetermined volume segment of an examination subject, magnetic field gradients are activated to generate multiple gradient echoes. First echoes are acquired at at least two different echo times based on RF pulses with a first flip angle. A first water magnetization and a first fat magnetization are determined for each voxel of the volume segment from the first echoes, according to the Dixon method. Second echoes are acquired at at least two different echo times based on RF pulses with a second flip angle. A second water magnetization and a second fat magnetization are determined for each voxel of the volume segment depending on the second echoes according to the Dixon method. The T1 time of water and the T1 time of fat for each voxel are determined depending on the first water magnetization of the respective voxel, the first fat magnetization of the respective voxel, the first flip angle, the second water magnetization of the respective voxel, the second fat magnetization of the respective voxel, and the second flip angle.
US10024936B2
A method of manufacturing electromagnet coils for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. The electromagnet coils are located in a non-homogeneous external magnetic field. The method comprises forming a coil representation of a coil surface for the electromagnet coils; setting limits for performance metrics for the electromagnet coils including a magnetic field-shape metric and at least one of an external torque metric and an external force metric, the external torque metric and the external force metric based, respectively, at least in part on a torque and a force exerted on the electromagnet coil by the non-homogeneous external magnetic field; forming a performance functional, based on the coil representation and the performance metrics, for generating a current density pattern over the coil surface; optimizing the performance functional and generating a current density pattern based on the optimized performance functional; and obtaining coil windings.
US10024935B2
The present invention relates to a method for supplying current to a gradient coil (107,207) of a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) by a gradient amplifier (222), the method comprising: supplying, by an electrical power supply (241), a voltage at first level to the gradient amplifier output to generate a gradient current in the gradient coil (107,207) to produce a magnetic gradient field at an slew rate, wherein the slew rate is set to a first value, resetting the slew rate to a second value, comparing the second value to the first value, and adjusting the voltage to a second level if the second value is different from the first value.
US10024933B2
A method for acquiring raw data for generating image data of a target organ via a magnetic resonance system is described. In an embodiment, test raw data is initially acquired from a measurement region including at least the target organ using a plurality of magnetic resonance coils. Test image data is reconstructed from the test raw data. Furthermore, a mask defining the position and the dimensions of the target organ is generated using the reconstructed test image data. The magnetic resonance coils, to be used for the image acquisition, are then selected. This takes place on the basis of intensity values from a region covered by the mask and intensity values of a measurement region lying outside of the mask. Finally, the measurement is performed by acquiring raw data via the selected magnetic resonance coils. Furthermore, a device for acquiring raw data for generating image data is also described.
US10024924B2
Provided is a low-cost battery pack capable of predicting a remaining battery life of a rechargeable battery with more accuracy while being capable of dealing with a variation in battery characteristics. In a remaining battery life prediction device, a constant current source configured to cause a constant current to flow through a battery as a load current is provided, battery voltages before and after the constant current as the load current is caused to flow through the battery are measured at a plurality of time points, and a battery internal resistance is calculated based on a change over time of the battery voltage.
US10024919B2
A system for determining fixation of a relay has an electricity storage device, an electrical apparatus, a relay, a first insulation resistor, a second insulation resistor, a detection circuit, and a controller. When the relay is controlled to OFF, the controller determines, based on the voltage value detected by the detection circuit (the detected voltage value), whether or not the relay is fixed. When the detected voltage value is a voltage value that is obtained by dividing the reference voltage value by a combined resistance value and the reference resistance value, the controller determines that the relay is fixed. When the detected voltage value is a voltage value that is obtained by dividing the reference voltage value by the first resistance value and the reference resistance value, the controller determines that the relay is not fixed.
US10024906B2
A device comprises a coarse timing skew characterization circuit having a buffer chain and a coarse delay cell calibration circuit comprising a first flip-flop, a second flip-flop and a logic gate, wherein the coarse delay cell calibration circuit is configured to measure a delay between an input of the buffer chain and an output of the buffer chain.
US10024902B2
A testing device including a housing having an indicator, a first test probe configured to be inserted into an alternating-current (AC) receptacle, a second test probe configured to be inserted into a universal serial bus (USB) receptacle, a first test circuit located within the housing, and a second test circuit located within the housing. The first test circuit is coupled to the first test probe and is configured to receive an AC voltage from the AC receptacle, perform a first test on the AC voltage, and output a first signal to the indicator based on the first test. The second test circuit is electrically coupled to the second test probe and is configured to receive a USB voltage from the USB receptacle, perform a second test on the USB voltage, and output a second signal to the indicator base on the second test.
US10024897B2
A system may include an electric field sensor, an analog to digital converter, and an estimator. The electric field sensor may measure electric fields of electric power grid. The analog to digital converter may generate digital output based upon measurements from the electric field sensor. The estimator may estimate phasor data of the electric power grid based upon the digital output.
US10024881B2
The present invention relates to A MEMS sensor with movable and fixed components for measuring linear acceleration. The MEMS sensor includes at least two mutually independent differential sensor elements disposed inside a common frame structure providing walls for hermetic sealing of the MEMS sensor. The mutually independent differential sensor elements are pairwise configured to perform double differential detection of linear acceleration. The MEMS sensor includes a common anchoring area to which the at least two differential sensor elements are anchored. The common anchoring area is located at the centroid of the pairwise configured differential sensor elements. A self-test capability of the MEMS sensor is also provided.
US10024876B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable mediums are disclosed for GNSS velocity estimation for pedestrians. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a periodic sensor signal; determining a fundamental motion frequency of the periodic sensor signal; extracting a periodicity feature from the periodic sensor signal based on the fundamental motion frequency; and responsive to the extracting, initiating pedestrian velocity estimation.
US10024865B2
The present invention related to a method of assaying ubiquitination in a sample by combining ubiquitin and two or more of E1, E2, E3 and a substrate protein in a sample under conditions suitable for ubiquitination to take place, exposing the sample with a labelled binding partner which is specific for the ubiquitin and measuring the amount of labelled ubiquitin bound to any one of the components in the sample, wherein one or more of the components in the sample comprises an immobilization tag which facilitates its immobilization onto a solid surface.
US10024864B2
Gold nanoparticles functionalized with thiolated, bidentate Schiff base ligands. The Schiff base ligands form a ligand monolayer surrounding and binding to the surface of a gold nanoparticle core through Au—S linkages. The functionalized gold nanoparticle composites have a spherical shape, an average diameter of 7-15 nm and a narrow particle size distribution. Methods of assessing these functionalized gold nanoparticle composites as fluorescent probes in Fe(III) chemosensing applications, methods of preparing the functionalized gold nanoparticle composites and methods of detecting Fe(III) ions with the same are also provided.
US10024857B2
Biomarkers of pancreatic cancer are described, as well as methods using these compounds for detecting pancreatic cancer. The methods can be used to diagnose a patient's health state, or change in health state, or for diagnosing risk of developing or the presence of pancreatic cancer. The method comprises analyzing a sample from a patient to obtain quantifying data for one or more than one of the metabolite markers; comparing the quantifying data to corresponding data obtained for one or more than one reference sample to identify abnormalities in the level of the metabolite marker(s) in the sample; and making a diagnosis if an abnormality is observed. Standards and kits for carrying out the method are also described.
US10024855B2
The present invention provides self-contained systems for performing an assay for determining a chemical state, the system including a stationary cartridge for performing the assay therein, at least one reagent adapted to react with a sample; and at least one reporter functionality adapted to report a reaction of the at least one reagent with said sample to report a result of the assay, wherein the at least one reagent, the sample and the at least one reporter functionality are contained within the cartridge.
US10024852B2
A reusable coating for a nanopore structure is disclosed herein. A nanopore structure includes a substrate comprising a nanochannel and a monolayer of a chemical compound disposed onto at least a portion of a surface of the nanochannel. The chemical compound forms a reversible bond with at least one analyte binding compound introduced into the nanochannel. Methods for making and using the reusable coating are also disclosed.
US10024850B2
The present invention relates to surface plasmon-coupled bioluminescence, wherein bioluminescent emission from a bioluminescent chemical reaction couples to surface plasmons in metallized particles thereby enhancing the signal. Importantly, these plasmonic emissions emitted from metallic particles generated without an external excitation source but instead from induced electronically excited states caused by the bioluminescent chemical reaction.
US10024835B2
An apparatus for measuring oil in water for larger parts per million (ppm) of light-to-medium weight crude oils shown. The excitation signal and the fluorescent light being detected are provided and received through a single channel within the ultrasonic transducer. The target area for measuring the ppm's of oil in water is located just inside of the measurement window to prevent interference by turbidity or other oil droplets within the fluid stream. The angle between the excitation signal and the fluorescent light as transmitted and received from the single channel is very small.
US10024833B2
A method for the quality control of dairy products is disclosed. The method includes scanning the surface of a dairy product test sample using a chromatic scanner system to generate a spectral pattern of reflected light intensities, which pattern is unique to the test sample. The spectral pattern from the test sample is compared with spectral patterns from one or more reference dairy products to provide an indication of test sample identify, quality and/or nutritional content.
US10024830B2
A detector arrangement to be scaled or adapted in a simple manner depending on the application includes n·m (n≥2, m≥2) thermal conductivity detectors that are each arranged in a mounting on a detector block having a high thermal conductivity, wherein each case m detector block is secured radially symmetrically and spaced apart from one another on a carrier having a central opening, forming a detector module, and n detector modules are located on a common axis by the central openings of the carriers.
US10024826B2
An apparatus for use in a chromatography system includes a microfluidic substrate having a fluidic channel configured as an analytical chromatographic column and a fluidic port on one side of the microfluidic substrate. The fluidic port opens at a head end of the analytical chromatographic column. A dried blood spot (DBS) collection device holds one or more dried biological samples. The DBS collection device is directly coupled to the microfluidic substrate whereby one of the biological samples is placed into fluidic communication with the fluidic channel of the microfluidic substrate and an extraction of that biological sample flows toward the head end of the analytical chromatographic column. A diluent source fluidically coupled to the fluidic port supplies a solvent to the head end of the analytical column to dilute the extracted biological sample before the biological sample flows into the analytical chromatographic column.
US10024823B2
Aspects of the disclosure include systems, methods, and program products for evaluating the condition of a component using an acoustic sensor embedded within a lighting device. A system according to the present disclosure can include a first lighting device configured to illuminate an area of an industrial plant; a first acoustic sensor embedded within the first lighting device and configured to detect an acoustic signature of a component in the industrial plant; a computing device communicatively connected to the first acoustic sensor and configured to evaluate a condition of the component in the industrial plant based on the acoustic signature.
US10024822B2
The invention consists in a method of characterizing a part made of composite material (30), the method comprising a step of determining a characteristic of a longitudinal ultrasound wave (41) traveling along a path within the part (30), and being characterized in that the travel time of a longitudinal ultrasound wave (42) transmitted by the part (30) is measured (E4).
US10024820B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, a microfluidic device for gel electrophoresis is provided. The microfluidic device includes a sample channel configured to receive a sample; a stacking channel comprising a preloaded stacking reagent; and a separation channel comprising a preloaded separation reagent, wherein the preloaded stacking reagent has a physical characteristic different from that of the preloaded separation reagent; and wherein the sample channel, the stacking channel and the separation channel are in fluid communication with one another. According to further embodiments of the present invention, a method of manufacturing a microfluidic device for gel electrophoresis is also provided.
US10024813B2
A gas detection apparatus (1) which includes a gas detection element (3) including a heat generation resistor (34); an energization control section (7) which switches the energization state of the heat generation resistor to alternately assume one of two resistance values corresponding to one of two set temperatures set in advance; and a casing member (90) which accommodates the gas detection element and has a gas inlet opening (92h). The gas detection apparatus further includes a humidity computation section (7) which computes the humidity of the object atmosphere based on a ratio of a high-temperature-time voltage VH to a low-temperature-time voltage VL; and a clogging determination section (7) which determines the degree of clogging of the gas inlet opening based on a change in the humidity computed by the humidity computation section.
US10024812B1
A test apparatus for thermal energy measurement of disk-shaped test specimens has a cold mass assembly locatable within a sealable chamber with a guard vessel having a guard chamber to receive a liquid fluid and a bottom surface to contact a cold side of a test specimen, and a test vessel having a test chamber to receive a liquid fluid and encompassed on one side by a center portion of the bottom surface shared with the guard vessel. A lateral wall assembly of the test vessel is closed by a vessel top, the lateral wall assembly comprising an outer wall and an inner wall having opposing surfaces that define a thermal break including a condensable vapor pocket to inhibit heat transfer through the lateral wall from the guard vessel to the test vessel. A warm boundary temperature surface is in thermal communication with a lower surface of the test specimen.
US10024811B2
Herein disclosed is an x-ray florescence (XRF) test system which comprises an XRF test instrument used for testing a test target's responses to X-rays, the instrument including a test window allowing the X-ray and its responsive energy to pass through, and a window protecting film assembly allowing X-rays to pass through and providing protection to the window, the film assembly being configured to be coupled with the window in a fashion to be removed from or applied or reapplied over the window. The corresponding calibration mode can be manually or automatically applied according to the specific film assembly presently in use. An embodiment of the film assembly comprises a thin film fixed with an adhesive layer to a supporting frame having a closely spaced array of apertures.
US10024809B2
The invention provides, in one instance, a group III nitride wafer sliced from a group III nitride ingot, polished to remove the surface damage layer and tested with x-ray diffraction. The x-ray incident beam is irradiated at an angle less than 15 degree and diffraction peak intensity is evaluated. The group III nitride wafer passing this test has sufficient surface quality for device fabrication. The invention also provides, in one instance, a method of producing group III nitride wafer by slicing a group III nitride ingot, polishing at least one surface of the wafer, and testing the surface quality with x-ray diffraction having an incident beam angle less than 15 degree to the surface. The invention also provides, in an instance, a test method for testing the surface quality of group III nitride wafers using x-ray diffraction having an incident beam angle less than 15 degree to the surface.
US10024808B2
There is described a method and apparatus for collecting Tomographic inspection data of objects using Compton scatter radiation. The apparatus is of size and weight for portable use within industrial facilities and may be used for assessing integrity of infrastructures in terms of material density, missing materials, thickness of materials, and identification of foreign materials.
US10024798B2
A hyperspectral Raman imaging system having the ability to focus on excitation laser beam over a relatively wide field of view due to the use of a lens array, in particular a microlens array. Hyperspectral selection is provided in one embodiment through the use of dual-axis controlled dielectric filtration. Methods for analyzing materials with the system are disclosed. The device or system can be used in generally any application where investigation of materials is required.
US10024794B2
Nickel, iron and palladium thin films thermally evaporated onto glass supports are used to demonstrate surface plasmon coupled fluorescence (SPCF) and surface plasmon couple chemiluminescence (SPCC) over a broad wavelength range (400-800 nm) for potential assays or other detection systems. Nickel, iron and palladium thin films used in SPCF and SPCC convert otherwise isotropic emission into highly directional and polarized emission, an attractive concept for surface assays. The emission angles of detected emissions occur over a 10 degree range for tested emitted wavelengths.
US10024792B2
There is provided a removable chromatic witness assembly, system, and method to monitor thermal events and impact events on a surface of a composite structure. The removable chromatic witness assembly has a plurality of chromatic witness geometric configurations separately coupled in an arrangement to one or more portions of a polymeric film layer. Each chromatic witness geometric configuration has a plurality of chromatic probes of a same type incorporated into an adhesive material. At least two of the geometric configurations have a different type of chromatic probes with a different sensing capability for thermal events and impact events on the composite structure. The polymeric film layer and the geometric configurations form the removable chromatic witness assembly in a form of a removable chromatic witness applique configured to be removably applied directly and continuously to the surface of the composite structure, and configured to monitor the thermal and impact events.
US10024791B2
A cylindrical optical tomography system includes a light emitting array having a plurality of light emitting elements, a cylindrical sample holding element, and a light sensing array including a plurality of light sensing elements, wherein the light sensing array is configured to sense light emitted from the light emitting array which has passed through the sample holding module.
US10024787B2
A method includes receiving a gas mixture at a first pressure including at least a primary gas and a secondary gas and changing a pressure of the received gas mixture from the first pressure to a second pressure. Further, the method includes determining a spectra of the gas mixture at the second pressure, wherein at least the first spectral line of the primary gas is spectrally distinguished from at least the second spectral line of the secondary gas, identifying a peak wavelength associated with the spectrally distinguished first spectral line of the primary gas based on at least two wavelengths of the secondary gas corresponding to at least two peak amplitudes in the spectra of the gas mixture, and determining a concentration of the primary gas based on the identified peak wavelength associated with the spectrally distinguished first spectral line of the primary gas.
US10024777B2
A test method and test apparatus is provided that employs a microfluidic device to characterize properties of a fluid. The microfluidic device has a first inlet port, an outlet port, and a microchannel as part of a fluid path between the first inlet port and the outlet port. While generating a flow of the fluid through the microchannel of the microfluidic device, fluid pressure at the first inlet port of the microfluidic device is measured and recorded in conjunction with varying the controlled temperature of the microchannel of the microfluidic device to characterize the properties of the fluid that flows through the microchannel of the microfluidic device. The properties of the fluid can relate to the clathrate hydrate formation condition of the fluid at the pressure of the flow through the microchannel of the microfluidic device.
US10024769B2
A diffusive sampling device (1) comprises a porous hollow diffusion body (3) removably held on a support body (2), an adsorbent body (4) located inside said diffusion body (3), wherein the hollow diffusion body (3) has a cylindrically shaped wall with an upper section comprising a closed upper end and a distal lower section comprising an open lower end and wherein the diffusion body (3) is held on the support body (2) by means of one or more o-rings (7) fixed to its lower section, wherein the adsorbent body (4) is kept in a predetermined place inside the upper section of the diffusion body (3) by way of an elastic means, such as a spring (6). The use of such devices as well as a method for air sampling and monitoring.
US10024765B2
Systems and methods for analyzing tire tread data to assess tire tread parameters, such as irregular wear characteristics of a tire tread, are provided. More particularly, an automated and robust flattening process c be performed to transform tire tread data, such as a tread surface map, into flattened tire tread data. The flattened tire tread data can provide tread heights defined in a measurement direction that is normal to the surface of the tire tread, as opposed to parallel to a radial axis of the tire. The flattened tread data can be analyzed to assess one or more parameters of the tread of the tire. For instance, local height indicators for the flattened tread data can be determined using a local maximum as a reference. Because the local height indicators are relative heights determined from a local maximum, quantification of tread depth can be more easily obtained.
US10024764B2
A tire holding member for a tire testing machine includes: a bottom rim, which is attached to a bottom spindle that is able to rotate around a central axis in the vertical direction; a top rim, which is disposed above the bottom spindle and which is attached to the bottom end of a top spindle that is able to rotate around the central axis with the bottom spindle; and a convex-sided member. One of the bottom rim or the top rim has a hole with the central axis at the center thereof. The other of the bottom rim or the top rim has an end surface facing the one rim. The bottom rim and the top rim are positioned by each other in a state in which the center of each coincides at the central axis due to the protruding section and the hole engaging with each other.
US10024749B2
A leak rate testing system for pressured containers such as inhalers includes a test chamber holding the pressurized containers and accumulating compounds leaking from the containers. A sample cell receives the compounds from the chamber and a spectroscopy system obtains spectral responses of compounds in the sample cell so that a controller can determine leak rates over time.
US10024736B2
A food thermometer includes a first portion for insertion into food. The first portion includes electronics sensitive to heat, and a third portion of the thermometer includes an antenna for transmitting data. According to one aspect, a completion time is estimated based on an ambient temperature and a rate at which the food temperature changes. According to another aspect, the thermometer includes an outer shell with a metallic portion and a non-metallic portion. An inner shell inside the outer shell extends from the metallic portion into the non-metallic portion such that the inner shell in the non-metallic portion serves as at least part of the antenna. The inner shell with the metallic portion of the outer shell serves as a coaxial transmission waveguide for an antenna signal.
US10024730B2
A polyacrylamide tissue phantom embedded with multi-formulated thermochromic liquid crystals for use in the evaluation of RF ablation therapies is provided. The tissue phantom approximates the properties of biological tissue, and therefore provides a suitable substitute for use in testing the effects of RF and other energy-emitting devices on biological tissue. Also provided is a system for using the tissue phantom in the evaluation of RF therapies.
US10024726B2
A temperature sensor includes a temperature detector having a thermosensitive element, element electrode wires, leads, and intermediate members. The temperature sensor is formed such that ends of the element electrode wires are embedded in the temperature detector, the leads are electrically connected to the respective element electrode wires, and the intermediate members electrically connect the element electrode wires to the respective leads. Each element electrode wire and the corresponding intermediate member are arranged being aligned in the extending direction, and bonded to each other, with opposing surfaces facing each other being abutted each other. The intermediate member and the corresponding lead are juxtaposed in a direction perpendicular to the extending direction, and bonded being overlapped with each other.
US10024724B2
An electrical power distribution system includes an electrical connector, an electrical conductor and a temperature monitoring system. The electrical conductor is secured to the electrical connector to form an electrical connection. The temperature monitoring system includes a temperature monitoring device. The temperature monitoring device includes a temperature sensor coupled to the connector to detect a temperature of the connection.
US10024715B2
A spectrometer includes a first spectroscopic unit and a second spectroscopic unit. A light passing part, a reflection part, a common reflection part, a dispersive part, and a light detection part included in the first spectroscopic unit are arranged along a first reference line when viewed in a Z-axis direction. A light passing part, a reflection part, the common reflection part, a dispersive part, and a light detection part included in the second spectroscopic unit are arranged along a second reference line when viewed in the Z-axis direction. The first reference line and the second reference line intersect with one another.
US10024710B2
A system is disclosed for monitoring payload at a worksite having multiple machines. The system may have a first sensor located onboard a haul machine and configured to generate a first signal indicative of a total amount of material in the haul machine, and a second sensor located onboard a load machine and configured to generate a second signal indicative of an amount of material being dumped into the haul machine by the load machine. The system may also have at least one controller in communication with the first and second sensors. The at least one controller may be configured to selectively perform a sensor calibration process based on a comparison of the first and second signals.
US10024709B2
A method for determining the weight of an entity/item to be weighed on a weighing device (1), the weighing device comprising at least a weight sensor and a control unit (4),the method comprising the following steps: /a/ collecting weight raw samples (WSi) of the total weight sensed at the weight sensor(s), at a sampling frequency (F0), and converting each of the weight raw samples (WSi) into digitalized weight raw samples (DSi), /b/ entering sequentially each of the digitalized weight raw samples (DSi) into a Butterworth filter, the latter issuing filtered weight samples (FSi), /c/ defining a rolling window (RW) containing a parametrized number NS of latest filtered weight samples (FSi), /d1/ determining, in the rolling window, the minimum (MIN) and maximum (MAX) values of filtered weight samples, /d2/ comparing the value of MAX−MIN with regard to a parametrized Threshold (T), /e/ if MAX−MIN is greater than Threshold (T), repeat steps /a/ to /d2/, and as soon as MAX−MIN is less than Threshold (T), output a final weight value (DV), obtained from one or more of the most recent filtered weight samples.
US10024708B2
A yield measurement system for a cold planer having a conveyor is disclosed. The yield measurement system may include a hydraulic motor configured to propel the conveyor, a first sensor configured to generate a first signal indicative of a force acting on the conveyor by material being moved by the conveyor, and a second sensor configured to generate a second signal indicative of a pressure differential across the hydraulic motor. The yield measurement system may also include a controller in communication with the first and second sensors. The controller may be configured to determine when the conveyor is not transferring material based on the second signal, and automatically recalibrate the yield measurement system based on the first signal when the conveyor is not transferring material.
US10024697B2
A method using wavelength division multiplexing for reducing light diffusion and light reflection interference in an interference path, comprising: connecting a wavelength division multiplexer (10) serially at an end of a sensing optical fiber (6); using the wavelength division multiplexer (10) to extract a wavelength component from a working path for measuring an interfering signal caused by light diffusion and light reflection; using the signal as a reference to extract an effective signal component that has been interfered by light diffusion and light reflection, and obtaining a pure effective signal. Because the device connected at the end of the sensing optical fiber (6) is passive and requires no power, the system is easy to implement and is particularly suitable for situations in which power provision is difficult at the end of the sensing optical fiber (6). The method is suitable for long distance pipeline monitoring and a wide-range optical of fiber perimeter security. Also provided is a system using wavelength division multiplexing for reducing light diffusion and light reflection interference in an interference path.
US10024695B2
An optical encoder includes an origin point detection scale having an origin point detection pattern and an inverse origin point detection pattern that is the inverse of the origin point detection pattern; a light source emitting light at the origin point detection scale; a light source grid that is inserted on the light source side of the origin point detection scale, the light source grid having two first light source grid patterns corresponding to the origin point detection pattern and the inverse origin point detection pattern, respectively; a photoreceiver detecting a signal from light that has passed through the origin point detection scale; and a photoreceiver grid inserted on the photoreceiver side of the origin point detection scale, the photoreceiver grid having two first photoreceiver grid patterns that are a pattern either identical to or the inverse of the first light source grid pattern.
US10024687B2
The present disclosure discloses a transmitter and a monitoring system using this transmitter, the transmitter includes: a multi-to-one multiplexing switch configured to receive a plurality of sensor signals of a plurality of channels through a plurality of input terminals, select one sensor signal from the plurality of sensor signals, and output the selected sensor signal through a output terminal; a first variable gain amplifier configured to receive the selected sensor signal, amplify the selected sensor signal with a gain within a first gain range, and output the amplified sensor signal; a control parameter input terminal configured to receive an input control parameter from outside of the transmitter; and an operating and switching selector configured to perform operations according to the input control parameter, so as to control the multi-to-one multiplexing switch to select the one sensor signal and control the gain of the first variable gain amplifier.
US10024685B2
A method and apparatus for providing an advised driving speed to a driver of a vehicle travelling on a road network is disclosed. The method comprises determining an advised driving speed of a vehicle for a portion of the road network currently being traversed, determining a current speed of the vehicle on the portion of the road network, and determining a speed limit and/or an expected driving speed for the portion of the road network. An indication of the advised driving speed is then provided to the driver of the vehicle when: (i) the current speed of the vehicle is greater than a first threshold value based on the advised driving speed; and (ii) the speed limit and/or the expected driving speed is greater than a second threshold value. A method and apparatus is also disclosed for determining a score indicative of the compliance of a driver of a vehicle to an advised driving speed during a journey on a road network.
US10024681B2
Provided is a wearable navigation device, comprising a band portion positioned at a portion of a human body; a location device that receives navigation data regarding a destination location for an item and determines a distance and orientation with respect to a current position of the wearable navigation device to the destination location; and a plurality of tactile feedback emitters that provide tactile feedback to the portion of the human body in a predetermined sequential order to direct a wearer of the band portion to the destination location having a point of intersection of a length, width, and height.
US10024680B2
A device for providing spatial information to a user. The device includes a camera configured to detect image data. The device also includes an accelerometer configured to determine step data. The device also includes a processor connected to the camera and the accelerometer and configured to determine a distance travelled per step of the user based on the image data and the step data. The processor is also configured to determine a distance to a reference point based on the image data. The processor is also configured to determine a number of steps corresponding to the distance to the reference point based on the distance travelled per step of the user. The device also includes an output unit connected to the processor and configured to output the spatial information indicating the number of steps corresponding to the distance to the reference point.
US10024679B2
A wearable neck device includes an IMU coupled to the wearable neck device and adapted to detect inertial measurement data and a GPS coupled to the device and adapted to detect location data. The wearable neck device further includes a camera adapted to detect image data and a memory adapted to store data. The wearable neck device further includes a processor adapted to recognize an object in the surrounding environment by analyzing the data. The processor can determine a desirable action based on the data and a current time or day. The processor can determine a destination based on the determined desirable action. The processor can determine a navigation path based on the determined destination and the data. The processor is further adapted to determine output based on the navigation path. The wearable neck device further includes a speaker adapted to provide audio information to the user.
US10024678B2
A clip includes an IMU coupled to the clip and adapted to detect inertial measurement data and a GPS coupled to the device and adapted to detect location data. The clip further includes a camera adapted to detect image data and a memory adapted to store data. The clip further includes a processor adapted to recognize an object in the surrounding environment by analyzing the data. The processor can determine a desirable action based on the data and a current time or day. The processor can determine a destination based on the determined desirable action. The processor can determine a navigation path based on the determined destination and the data. The processor is further adapted to determine output based on the navigation path. The clip further includes a speaker adapted to provide audio information to the user.
US10024668B2
A position estimation system estimates a position of a mobile unit including a camera that captures an image of an area around the mobile unit. The system includes an ECU configured to store a plurality of pieces of map information, the plurality of pieces of map information respectively including a plurality of pieces of image information and respectively including a plurality of pieces of first positional information. The image information corresponding to a plurality of images respectively captured at a plurality of points within a predetermined range, the first positional information being acquired based on information other than the image information and respectively corresponding to the points, environmental conditions of the map information when the images were captured are different from each other, acquire an image captured by the camera, and estimate the position of the mobile unit based on the image acquired by the ECU and the map information.
US10024664B1
A navigation system includes an image acquisition device for acquiring a range image of a target vehicle, at least one processor, a memory including a target vehicle model and computer readable program code, where the processor and the computer readable program code are configured to cause the navigation system to convert the range image to a point cloud having three dimensions, compute a transform from the target vehicle model to the point cloud, and use the transform to estimate the target vehicle's attitude and position for capturing the target vehicle.
US10024663B2
A micromechanical sensor that can detect shock effects in order to prevent false measurements. The sensor includes a substrate having a measurement axis and a detection axis that are disposed orthogonally to each other, and first and second driving masses disposed in a plane containing the measurement and detection axes. Each of the driving masses is rotatably coupled to the substrate via a central suspension disposed on the detection axis. The sensor includes drive electrodes that generate rotary motions in each of the driving masses about a drive axis thereof. At least one elastic connecting element allows the driving masses to deflect in opposite directions in response to a rate of rotation about the measurement axis but deflect in the same direction in response to a shock condition.
US10024662B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to quickly and accurately determine shelf notch height for a shelving unit. This is particularly advantageous to determine whether shelves in the shelving unit were installed at the correct height and/or for installing shelves at desired heights. In some embodiments, a measurement member is provided with a bottom offset and shelf notch indicator portions. A horizontal position indicator can then be aligned with a desired shelf notch indicator portion and project outwardly therefrom towards a shelving unit to provide a visual indication of the height of a desired shelf notch.
US10024661B2
Generally discussed herein are systems and apparatuses that are configured to and techniques for associating a SIGnal INTelligence (SIGINT) signal with an object or tracklet. According to an example a technique can include estimating Times of Arrival (ToAs) at each of a plurality of collectors of a first signal from each of a plurality of moving transmitters, each first signal transmitted from a transmitter on a tracklet extracted from video data and received at the plurality of collectors, wherein a location of each of the plurality of collectors is known, comparing each estimated ToA to a respective actual ToA of a SIGINT signal received at each of the collectors, or determining a likelihood that the signal corresponds to the SIGINT signal to determine whether the SIGINT signal was transmitted from a transmitter on the corresponding tracklet.
US10024655B2
A sensor for capturing images of skin topology is provided having a platen, and a one or two-dimensional array of light sensing pixel elements for receiving light representative of skin topology when skin, such as finger(s), are present upon the platen. Such sensor being improved by structures, layers, or methods for reducing or blocking ambient light which would hinder the light sensing pixel elements from sensing the light representative of skin topology. The sensors are non-imaging contact sensors as they have platen to contact skin to be imaged, and do not require optics, such as lenses for focusing and/or magnification, to enable proper capture of light representative of skin topology on the sensor's light sensing pixel elements.
US10024649B2
An apparatus for optical coherence tomography (OCT) comprises a light source, a first arm, a second arm, and a processing unit. The first arm has a first dispersive optical assembly that induces a first amount of dispersion into light from the light source and traversing the first arm, where the first arm is one of a sample arm and a reference arm of an interferometer. The second arm has a second dispersive optical assembly that induces a second amount of dispersion into light from the light source and traversing the second arm, where the second arm is the other of the sample arm and reference arm. The second amount of dispersion is larger than the first amount of dispersion. The processing unit processes an interferometry signal to perform OCT, where the interferometry signal represents a superposition of the light from the first arm and the light from the second arm.
US10024642B2
An initiating device including at least one detonator, at least one booster charge and an action charge. The at least one booster charge is arranged such that, at the action charge initiates, the booster charge is free from disturbing edge effects that can have a disturbing effect on the action charge. A booster casing in which the booster charge is disposed is configured with a rear cylindrical part having a diameter D1, a front conical part delimited by a first circular limit face having the diameter D1, and a second circular limit face having a diameter D2, wherein the two limit faces are plane-parallel at a distance H1 from each other, wherein H1/D2 lies within a range 0.5-1.5. Also, a production method for producing the booster charge.
US10024638B1
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations an ammunition cartridge includes a cartridge casing having a longitudinal center axis, a primer pocket positioned adjacent to the cartridge casing, a powder pocket positioned adjacent to the primer pocket, a piston bore positioned adjacent to the powder pocket, a piston in the piston bore, and a payload bay positioned adjacent to the payload bay, wherein the piston is not coupled to the cartridge, wherein the piston is in direct contact with the payload bay wherein a diameter of the powder pocket is less than an inside diameter of the cartridge casing to provide a reduced velocity to the payload.
US10024631B2
Disclosed is a modular advanced technology -marksmanship proficiency (MAT-MP) system. The MAT-MP system provides marksmanship instructors with a robust and reconfigurable set of technological tools to quickly diagnose and remediate deficiencies in marksmanship skill at a live-fire range. The system diagnoses the shooter's performance using an array of sensors and an optic camera, all placed on the shooter's weapon, to continuously monitor and record his/her performance during weapon fire. Data output by the sensors and optic camera is gathered by the MAT-MP system's weapon-mounted control device and sent wirelessly to an instructor station, typically a tablet, laptop computer or the like. The MAT-MP coach software running on the instructor's computer presents a summarized analysis of the shooter's performance as well as provides the instructor the ability to view the raw sensor data graphically. The MAT-MP system can enable the instructor to more quickly identify and confirm the root cause of the shooter's poor performance instead of forcing the instructor to rely upon heuristic methods and interpretation of the fall of shot.
US10024603B2
A condensation exchanger for heating of water and for production of sanitary water, providing a first inner coil with plain surface, and a second outer coil, said second coil being externally spirally wound with respect to said first coil, within said coils circulating a thermal carrier fluid, said first coil exchanging heat with combustion fumes by radiation and convection, and said second coil exchanging heat with the combustion fumes by condensation, wherein said second coil has a plain surface, and in that an insulating septum is provided, said septum dividing said exchanger in a first upper or combustion zone, and a second lower zone, said insulating septum dividing said exchanger in said two areas with a ratio of: 45%≤H1L≤60%.
US10024599B2
A drying device includes a first compartment configured to removably receive a drying chamber. The drying chamber includes a tray capable of receiving one or more racks that are configured to hold a plurality of laboratory consumables. The first compartment includes one or more pistons capable of displacing the tray to agitate the laboratory consumables. A second compartment is attached to the first compartment. The second compartment includes one or more air flow sources for directing a flow of air to the plurality of laboratory consumables and an air filter located proximate to the one or more air flow sources. A method of drying laboratory consumables is also disclosed.
US10024597B2
A centrifugal separator, such as a spin dryer that separates water from wet clothing includes a stationary chamber. A perforated basket is arranged to spin within the stationary chamber. A DC or AC motor is arranged below the bottom floor fastened to a mechanical floor. A driveshaft can be connected to the motor output shaft via a flexible coupling and passes through the bottom floor and is connected to the basket. A brake disc is operatively fixed to the output shaft, and a brake caliper is fixed to the mechanical floor to stop the brake disc. A balance ring, having an annular chamber holding a balance fluid, is mounted to an outside of the basket. The centrifugal separator can include a cycle controller that can ramp up or down the basket speed and reverse spinning direction of the basket.
US10024593B2
An under counter insulated enclosure that is located partially under the corner portion of a standard kitchen counter. A Peltier cooling or heating assembly can cool or heat the enclosure. Sliding panels, that are actuated by motorized rack and pinion assemblies located near the floor of the enclosure allow the food storage racks sitting on top of the panels to slide and swivel so that the contents of both food racks are accessible to the user.
US10024590B2
An electrochemical compressor system, such as an electrochemical refrigeration system includes a sealed vessel that reduces leak issues related to the electrochemical cell. The sealed vessel may be molded or formed from a polymer or a composite polymer having reinforcing materials, such as fibers therein. The sealed vessel may be plated with metal to reduce gas permeation through the wall of the vessel and to accommodate and improve the attachment of conduits, including metal conduits thereto. A metal conduit may be brazed onto a vessel and the brazing material may be selected for polymer to metal joining and for reduced contamination potential of the system. The electrochemical compressor system incorporates a leak sensor configured at least partially within the sealed rigid vessel that measures the pressure within the vessel.
US10024582B2
A condenser and evaporator system includes (i) a condenser system positioned to receive a gaseous refrigerant from a compressor system and configured to condense the gaseous refrigerant into a liquid refrigerant, (ii) a controlled pressure receiver (CPR) positioned to receive and store the liquid refrigerant, (iii) an evaporator system including a conduit, an expansion valve, and a fan, and (iv) a controller. The conduit is positioned to receive the liquid refrigerant from the CPR. The expansion valve is positioned between the CPR and the conduit, and configured to facilitate modulating an amount of the liquid refrigerant that flows into the conduit from the CPR. The fan is positioned to facilitate providing a cooling operation to an area associated with the evaporator system through evaporation of the liquid refrigerant flowing through the conduit. The controller is configured to control a stage of the condenser system and/or the evaporator system.
US10024581B2
A solar power generation system according to the present invention comprises a heat pipe arranged so as to come into close contact with an absorption module, for absorbing heat from the absorption module and directly transferring heat to a heat conversion electricity generator, and thereby has the advantages of rendering the system compact by simplifying a heat transfer structure and more effectively transferring heat by increasing contact surface area with the absorption module. Also, ample heat storage space is secured by forming the heat pipe to have a larger volume (heat capacity) than an absorption heat pipe in the absorption module so that an ample heat source can be provided by the heat conversion electricity generator, even during weather conditions when solar radiation can fluctuate suddenly, thereby allowing more stable and efficient operation of the system.
US10024554B2
An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes an air-sending device unit having an air-sending device unit housing configured to house an air-sending device and provided with an air inlet; and a heat exchanger unit having a heat exchanger unit housing configured to house an indoor heat exchanger, provided with an air outlet, and configured to be coupled to the air-sending device unit housing, wherein the air-sending device includes a rotating fan, an electric motor, and a casing, the casing, the air inflow port, and the air-sending device unit housing, a first rail unit, and a slide member.
US10024545B2
The present disclosure includes a system for power management of a plurality of heating sources for an electric range. The system includes a cooktop element, an oven element, and a switch in electrical connection with the cooktop element. The switch is configured to supply a first voltage or a second voltage to the cooktop element from a voltage source. The system further includes a controller in communication with the oven element and configured to control the at least one switch. The controller is configured to control the switch in a first state and a second state. In the first state, the controller controls the switch to supply the first voltage to the cooktop element in response to an off-state of the oven element. In the second state, the controller controls the switch to supply the second voltage to the cooktop element in response to an on-state of the oven element.
US10024544B2
A connected oven, including a set of in-cavity sensors and a processor configured to automatically identify foodstuff within the cooking cavity, based on the sensor measurements; and automatically operate the heating element based on the foodstuff identity.
US10024532B2
A combustion system includes a combustor having staging blocks and flashback detection units configured to detect flashbacks occurring in the staging blocks, and a combustion control device configured to stop a supply of a fuel for one of the staging blocks in which a flashback occurs based on a detection signal from one of the flashback detection units. The combustion control device includes a staging processing unit configured to instruct to supply the fuel or stop the supply of the fuel for each of the staging blocks based on a staging pattern in which an operating line is specified and a load adjustment unit configured to reduce an amount of load to a level at which the supply of the fuel for the one of the staging blocks is stopped when the detection signal is input from the one of the flashback detection units.
US10024512B2
A vehicle lighting device includes a light guide lens, a light source and a reflector. The long light guide lens extends in a direction obliquely tilted with respect to a front-rear direction. The light source is disposed opposite an end of the light guide lens. The reflector is disposed behind the light guide lens. The light guide lens comprises a front face parallel to the longitudinal direction and a rear face with lens cuts aligned in the longitudinal direction. Each of the lens cuts comprises a rear first prism face that stands backward and a front second prism face parallel to the front face. Light that has exited backward from the light guide lens through the first prism face of a lens cut is reflected forward on the reflector toward the second prism face of a different lens cut.
US10024507B2
A flameless candle may include a side wall including an upper region and a lower region, a base engaged with the lower region of the side wall, and an upper surface extending from the upper region of the side wall to form an upper recess. The candle may also include a projection screen extending upwardly through an aperture in the upper surface. The position of the projection screen is fixed with respect to a position of the upper surface. Two sources of light positioned below the upper surface may project light through the aperture onto the projection screen. Circuitry may electrically connect to the first source of light and the second source of light. The circuitry may independently control each of the sources of light.
US10024506B2
An illumination device having a pole mount, a light support that extends from the pole mount, a lighting unit is connected to the pole mount, and a solar panel assembly is mounted to the lighting unit. In another embodiment an illumination apparatus is provided having a pole mount and a lighting assembly, and the pole mount has a first clamp half and a second clamp half. In another preferred embodiment there is flexible lighting assembly comprising a mount that is connected to a slider bar that supports a slider. A light support arm is supported on the slider and the light support arm connects to a central support member. A flexible member extends from the central support member to a telescopic lighting assembly having a light-generating device. A solar unit is connected to the slider bar and is wired to and powers the light-generating device.
US10024500B2
A method of hydraulic fracturing is provided which uses metal silicides to generate significant pressure inside a wellbore. The method comprises injecting a fracturing fluid and an aqueous or reacting fluid into the wellbore to react with the fracturing fluid. The fracturing fluid comprises metal silicide, which may be uncoated or coated, and hydrocarbon fluid. The reacting fluid comprises water or a solvent. A method of removing buildup in pipelines such as subsea pipelines which uses metal silicides to generate heat and pressure inside the pipeline is also provided. The method comprises injecting an organic slug and an aqueous slug. The organic slug comprises metal silicide and hydrocarbon fluid. The aqueous slug comprises water. Alternatively, there is also provided a method for purifying flowback water produced from a hydraulic fracturing process comprising adding metal silicide to the flowback water produced from a hydraulic fracturing process.
US10024494B2
A lubrication system for providing lubrication to equipment is disclosed herein. Generally, the lubrication system includes a lubrication supply container, a lubrication pump, a conduit for providing the lubricant to the oilfield pump, and a control system for setting the operating parameters of the lubrication system. The lubrication system can also include a sensing device for measuring various operational aspects of the equipment and adjusting the amount of lubrication responsive to data measured by the sensing device.
US10024490B2
A mounting system comprising a surface mount configured to operatively couple to an attachment surface, a movable mount, at least one adjustable arm assembly, at least one device mount, a latch coupled to one of the surface mount and the movable mount, and a catch coupled to the other of the surface mount and the movable mount. Each arm assembly includes at least one arm having a first end operatively coupled to the surface mount and a second end operatively coupled to the movable mount, wherein the second end is movable relative to the first end to move the movable mount relative to the surface mount in a first direction. Each device mount is configured to support a display device and is operatively coupled to the movable mount, such that each device mount is movable in a second direction.
US10024489B2
A joining part with a wing comprises a through bore defining a fastening direction perpendicular to the wing. The wing comprises at least one non-through pocket configured to reduce the stress gradient in a peripheral zone of the through bore and/or at least one relief configured to reduce the stress gradient in a peripheral zone of the through bore, the non-through pocket forming a cavity in the thickness of the wing and comprising a curved side at a distance from the peripheral edge of the through bore. The joining part may be part of a lug, such as, for an aircraft fitting.
US10024484B2
A tensile parallelogram arm that mimics parallelogram counterbalancing structures and which can be folded into a compact form. The assembly includes a gimbal to which a supported payload is attached.
US10024482B2
A bend stiffener assembly for coupling a tubular member includes a nonmetallic flange member having a central bore for receiving a tubular member and an elastomeric member coupled to the flange member and having a central bore for receiving the tubular member, wherein the elastomeric member is configured to provide a bending resistance to a tubular member extending therethrough.
US10024477B2
An anti-ice buildup system for roof vent pipes that is easy to install and that prevents ice buildup in roof vent pipes. The anti-ice buildup system for roof vent pipes generally includes a first segment and a second segment extending downwardly from the first segment. At least a portion of the first segment is adapted to remain outside of a vent pipe and at least a portion of the second segment is adapted to extend downwardly through an upper opening in the vent pipe. The second segment is constructed of a thermal conductive material to conduct heat from the vent air and sunlight.
US10024467B2
Fittings, including elbow fittings and Tee fittings have bodies that surround a central space and define openings to receive pipe elements. Ribs surround the openings, and gaps are positioned between the ribs to permit deformation of the body when ends of the body in facing relation are brought together. The body may be formed of two housings or unitary in construction. The ribs may be grooved to accommodate toothed retainer rings providing mechanical engagement with pipe elements. The ribs have surfaces with radii of curvature that, when the ribs are undeformed, are substantially equal to the radii of curvature of the pipe elements they engage.
US10024465B2
A hose monitoring system and a method of monitoring a hose are disclosed. A system includes a hose assembly including a hose having a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, and a monitoring circuit in electrical communication with the first and second conductive layers. The system also includes an energy harvesting unit in electrical communication with the monitoring circuit, the energy harvesting unit including one or more energy harvesters for providing electrical energy to the monitoring circuit.
US10024462B2
The present disclosure relates to an arrangement for fastening a flexible tube, in particular a corrugated tube, to an article, in particular to a component of a vehicle. The arrangement comprises a flexible tube, which is placed on the article; a covering element, as anti-squeeze protection for the flexible tube, the covering element being supported on the article on both sides of the flexible tube and covering at least a portion of the flexible tube in an arcuate manner; and a band clamp, which is guided around an outer side of the covering element and around a side of the article that faces away from the flexible tube.
US10024458B2
Bypass check valves, suitable for bypassing a Venturi gap, are disclosed and include a housing defining an internal cavity having a first seat and a second seat, and a seal member within the internal cavity translatable between a closed position against the first seat and an open position against the second seat. The second seat defines a support structure having a middle region of a predetermine height and a downstream side having a height that is shorter than the predetermined height of the middle region. The seal member is seatable against the second seat with a downstream portion thereof a further distance from the first seat than an upstream portion thereof.
US10024457B2
A throttle valve 10 continuously increases/decreases the flow rate of air flowing through a communication hole 17 through which a first port 11 and a second port 12 are communicated with each other, by using a throttle valve element 22. A valve seat member 15 having the communication hole 17 is attached to a housing 13. An electric motor 25 is attached to a motor housing hole 24 formed in the housing 13. The throttle valve element 22 is driven in an axial direction by a motor shaft 28 of the electric motor 25. A gap between the motor housing hole 24 and the electric motor 25 is sealed by a fixed sealing member 41 having a large diameter, and the motor shaft 28 is sealed by a rotary sealing member 42 having a small diameter, whereby the throttle valve element can be driven by the electric motor having a small output.
US10024456B2
An adjustment system for a rotary valve having a drive wheel with drive wheel teeth that can turn about a first axis of rotation to drive a driven wheel with driven wheel teeth that can turn about a second axis of rotation that is substantially parallel to the first axis of rotation. The teeth extend in each case around only part of the circumference of the respective wheel. The driven wheel can be adjusted by the turning of the drive wheel from a first rotational position, in which the teeth are mutually engaged, into a locking position, in which the driven wheel is held in place when the drive wheel turns further. A rotary valve with such an adjustment system is also described.
US10024453B2
An dual acting solenoid valve (DASV) is a device for controlling mediums as gases or fluids through two valves simultaneously using a dual position latching solenoid operated with a bi-stable permanent magnet activation system (BSPMAS) to allow the DASV to be electrically energy efficient and power versatile.
US10024446B2
A multi-way valve includes an outer casing provided with an internal cavity, at least one input to the cavity, at least one output from the cavity, the at least one input having sealing means, and an actuator adapted to cause the opening of the sealing means of the inputs. A cross-section of the actuator is smaller than a cross-section of the inner cavity.
US10024435B2
A seal assembly includes first and second generally annular seals disposable about the shaft so as to be spaced apart axially along the shaft central axis. Each seal has an inner circumferential sealing surface and inner and outer axial sides, each inner axial side facing the other seal inner axial side. The first seal has at one or more coupling pockets extending inwardly from the first seal inner axial side and the second seal has one or more retaining pockets extending inwardly from the second seal inner axial side, each retaining pocket being aligned with one coupling pocket. One or more biasing members each have a first end disposed within one coupling pocket and an opposing, second end disposed within one retaining pocket, the biasing member being configured to exert an axial biasing force on each one of the first and second seals.
US10024424B2
A multi-speed automatic vehicle transmission has an electronic control unit which permits multiple downshifts if certain conditions are satisfied. Such downshifts are direct and omit engagement and disengagement of one or more intermediate speed ratios. Multiple downshifting may allow the actual speed ratio to better match the ideal speed ratio, for example under heavy braking.
US10024421B2
A hydraulic pressure control device of a vehicle driving device, the hydraulic pressure control device includes a range switcher having a first signal solenoid valve capable of supplying a first signal pressure and a spool switchable between a first position reached via the first signal pressure and a second position reached via a biasing force of a biasing member.
US10024418B2
A differential housing is configured to support a plurality of bearings. The differential housing includes a first bearing surrounding member provided to surround a first bearing included in the plurality of bearings. The differential housing includes a second bearing surrounding member provided to surround a second bearing included in the plurality of bearings; and a connecting member that connects the first bearing surrounding member and the second bearing surrounding member, at least a part of the connecting member being embedded in a wall that is made of a base material of the differential housing. Each of the first bearing surrounding member, the second bearing surrounding member, and the connecting member is constructed of a material having a smaller linear expansion coefficient than that of the base material of the differential housing.
US10024416B2
A transfer case for use with four-wheel drive vehicles incorporates a pass-through power takeoff shaft to drive remote secondary implements or accessory devices. The power takeoff shaft delivers rotational power from the vehicle transmission to the remote implement or accessory by passing through the housing of the transfer case to improve ground clearance and minimize driveline angles. The housing for the transfer case can mount bearings that rotatably support the power takeoff shaft. Alternatively, a tubular member can be mounted in the transfer case to provide a passageway through which the power takeoff shaft can pass through the transfer case. The points of engagement of the power takeoff shaft and the transfer case housing are sealed to prevent the loss of lubricating fluid from the transfer case. In each embodiment, the power takeoff shaft passes through the transfer case without engagement of or interference with the drive components therein.
US10024409B2
An impeller for a torque converter comprising: an axis of rotation; an impeller shell comprising: a torus portion; a radial wall portion; an elbow portion; an interior portion; and, an axially extending necked portion, extending about the axis of rotation and into the interior portion, having: a first circumferential surface; and, a second circumferential surface.
US10024408B2
A hybrid torque converter that includes a torque converter and an electric motor disposed within a common casing, with no intervening casing, where both the torque converter and the electric motor are completely immersed in a common circulating fluid that cools both the torque converter and the electric motor.
US10024396B2
A dual-clutch transmission has first and second coaxial input shafts, with the second shaft extending through the first shaft. The input shafts can couple respective countershafts via input constants. The first countershaft has two sections rigidly connected by a first shifting element. Four gear stages implement forward gears and one gear stage implements reverse gears. The fourth gear stage is arranged between the first section and an output shaft. The second and third gear stages are arranged between the second section and the output shaft. The first and the reversing gear stages are arranged between the second countershaft and the output shaft. The first input constant has a loose wheel supported on the second countershaft and can be rotationally fixed, by a second shifting element, to the first section of the first countershaft. The second section can be rotationally fixed, via a third shifting element, to the second countershaft.
US10024392B2
A single-stage gear reduction output mechanism for an automotive seat assembly includes a gear housing bracket, gear housing, axle shaft, eccentric, and first and second gears. The axle shaft extends through the eccentric with a slip fit, the first gear rotates with the axle shaft, and the second gear is carried on a first bearing surface of the eccentric and meshingly engages the first gear in a planetary arrangement. The second gear includes an external flange with at least two guide holes. First and second support pins that are rigidly fixed in place relative to the axle shaft extend through the two guide holes in the external flange of the second gear. Forces acting at the interfaces between the first and second support pins and the two guide holes and between the eccentric and the second gear prevent the first gear from back-driving rotation of the second gear.
US10024388B2
Balancing weights for cars have an adhesive tape with at least a first tape layer and a second tape layer, for attaching the balancing weights to a rim. The first tape layer is held in close proximity to a rim by a first adhesive layer. The second tape layer is held in close proximity to the balancing weights by a second adhesive layer. The first tape layer is stiffer and less flexible than the second tape layer, the second tape layer is softer and more flexible than the first tape layer. This allows easy removal of the balancing weights from the rim by pushing a wedge shaped tool between the first tape layer and the rim.
US10024387B2
A wheel balancing weight has a mass body with a groove in a first face. The groove has a groove surface recessed into the first surface and has two groove walls opposite one another across the groove. An attachment clip has a clip portion for attaching the wheel balancing weight to a vehicle wheel and has an attachment portion with first and second side edges opposite one another across the attachment portion. First and second protruding elements are provided on the first and second side edges, respectively. The attachment portion is seated in the groove and has a free bottom edge extending between the first and second side edges. The first protruding element is positioned on the first side edge at a first distance from the bottom edge and the second protruding element is positioned on the second side edge at a second distance different from the first distance. Material of the mass body adjacent the two groove walls is deformed to retain the attachment portion in the groove.
US10024385B2
A damper device has a dynamic damper that includes a mass body and vibration absorption springs that couple the mass body and an intermediate member to each other. The vibration absorption springs are arranged side by side with outer springs in the circumferential direction. The mass body has spring abutment portions that abut against end portions of the vibration absorption springs. The intermediate member has first outer spring abutment portions that abut against end portions of the outer springs and second outer spring abutment portions that abut against end portions of the vibration absorption springs on the radially inner side with respect to the spring abutment portions. The first outer spring abutment portions extend toward the radially outer side with respect to the second outer spring abutment portions.
US10024381B2
Embodiments are directed to tunable damper embodiments and methods of using the same for damping resonant and non-resonant vibrations present within an object that the tunable damper is secured to. In some cases, the tunable damper may be tuned before, during or after being secured to an object.
US10024379B2
A hydraulic shock absorber having an inner housing portion slidably coupled to an outer housing portion to define a variable size chamber for containing shock absorber fluid. The region where the inner and outer housing portions overlap defines an annulus between adjacent surfaces of the inner and outer housing portions which varies in size in accordance with the extension state of the shock absorber. A dynamic seal is coupled to a surface of the shock absorber within the annulus for confining shock absorber fluid to the chamber. The shock absorber fluid is an electro-rheological or magneto-rheological fluid and the shock absorber includes a device for generating a magnetic or electric control field within the chamber at a region adjacent dynamic seal in order to increase the viscosity of the shock absorber fluid adjacent to the dynamic seal to inhibit passage of the shock absorber fluid beyond the dynamic seal.
US10024371B2
A wedge clutch assembly for selectively engaging or disengaging an inner and outer hub including first and second wedge plate segments arranged radially between the inner and outer hubs, the first wedge plate including a first inner circumferential surface having an increasing radius in a first circumferential direction and the second wedge plate segment including a second inner circumferential surface having a decreasing radius in the first circumferential direction, and, third and fourth wedge plate segments arranged radially between the first and second wedge plate segments and the inner hub, the third wedge plate segment including a first outer circumferential surface in contact with the first inner circumferential surface and the fourth wedge plate segment including a second outer circumferential surface in contact with the second inner circumferential surface.
US10024367B2
A drive motor capable of being separated from a rotation member when the rotation member is restrained, the drive motor being configured to be coupled with the rotation member to transmit rotating force to the rotation member, and may include a power transmission control device provided on a junction between the drive motor and the rotation member and configured such that the rotating force can be transmitted from the drive motor to the rotation member, and such that when the rotation member is restrained and rotation thereof is not allowed, the power transmission control device is elastically deformed so that the coupling of the rotation member with the drive motor is released and only the drive motor is allowed to be rotated.
US10024366B2
An asymmetric bearing device automatically decreases, without the need for manual adjustment, an amount of friction exerted against rotation of a drum or other mechanism upon reversal of the direction of rotation of the drum.
US10024365B2
A bearing retaining assembly for a supercharger includes a first sleeve, a second sleeve and a biasing member. The bearing retaining assembly rotatably supports an input shaft that rotates about an input shaft axis. The first sleeve can have a counterbore that receives a bearing. The second sleeve can be fixed to a cover of the supercharger. The biasing member can be disposed between the first and second sleeves. The first sleeve can selectively translate along the input shaft axis relative to the second sleeve against the bias of the biasing member.
US10024358B2
The present invention relates to a crank-drive with a crank-shaft, at least one connecting rod and at least one piston, in particular a crank-drive of an internal combustion engine, whereas the crank-shaft features at least one radial bearing (13) for supporting the crank-shaft in a crank-housing, at least one radial bearing for connecting the connecting rod to the crank-shaft, and the connection of the connecting rod to the piston features at least one radial bearing and whereas the bearings feature a bearing inner surface and/or a bearing outer surface. According to the invention in at least one of the bearing surfaces are arranged micro-ramp structures with an asymmetric form having a first concave section between the bearing surface and a bottom point of the micro-ramp structure and a second concave section between the bottom point and the bearing surface, whereas between the micro-ramp structures are arranged sections of the bearing surface.
US10024354B2
A protection cap assembly for fastener assembly for protecting bolts in various places. The protection cap assembly includes: (i) a clipping ring, (ii) a gripping shaft, and (iii) a cap. The clipping ring is made from plastic. The gripping shaft holds the clipping ring. The gripping shaft includes (i) a pair of set screws (ii) a first channel, (iii) a second channel, (iv) a first set of one or more fins, and (v) a second set of one or more fins. The pair of set screws engages with the nut. The first channel holds the clipping ring. The first set of one or more fins and the second set of one or more fins are arranged inside the gripping shaft. The gripping shaft further includes a big inlet to accommodate a big sized bolt and a small inlet to accommodate a small sized bolt. The cap is adapted to telescope on the gripping shaft. The gripping shaft is made from plastic. The cap encloses the gripping shaft. The cap includes a hole that encloses the gripping shaft. The cap is made from a plastic.
US10024352B2
A fastener is disclosed. The fastener can be used to couple together two or more parts in an electronic device. The fastener may include a head coupled with a platform having a shaft extending from the platform. The head is coupled with the platform in a manner that allows the head to decouple from the platform. For example, the head is secured with the platform by an adhesive that provides an adhesive bonding force. In this regard, a rotational force applied to the head that is greater than the adhesive bonding force causes the head to decouple from the platform. The shaft may include several blades and several protrusions. The blades may be used to engage one of the parts. The protrusions may also engage the same part as the blades, and interlock with the part to provide a retaining force that prevents the fastener from decoupling from the parts.
US10024349B2
An anchor device including an expansion section expandable when an expansion screw is screwed into the anchor device, and a tubular shank into which the expansion screw can be screwed. The anchor device has a joining device with an elongated offset element as well as a joining element. The first end of the offset element is connected to the tubular shank in such a way that the offset element extends essentially perpendicular to the tubular shank and to the expansion section. The second end of the offset element is connected to the first end of the joining element in such a way that the joining element extends essentially perpendicular to the offset element and essentially parallel to the tubular shank and to the expansion section.
US10024346B2
An apparatus configured to structurally replace a cracked weld in a nuclear plant may include: a first body portion that includes a first gripping portion; a second body portion that includes a second gripping portion; a wedge portion between the first and second body portions; and/or an adjustment portion. The first body portion may be configured to slidably engage the second body portion. The wedge portion may be configured to exert force on the slidably engaged first and second body portions. The adjustment portion may be configured to increase or decrease the force exerted by the wedge portion on the slidably engaged first and second body portions. When the adjustment portion increases the force exerted by the wedge portion on the slidably engaged first and second body portions, a distance between the first and second gripping portions may decrease.
US10024335B2
In some embodiments, a plenum of an apparatus for transferring energy between a rotating element and a fluid may include a through hole disposed through the plenum; a plurality of inlet guide vanes disposed proximate a peripheral edge of the through hole, the plurality of inlet guide vanes comprising a first group of inlet guide vanes having a symmetrical profile, a second group of inlet guide vanes, and a third group of inlet guide vanes, wherein each inlet guide vane of the second group and third group have a cambered profile, and wherein each inlet guide vane of the third group has a different cambered profile from each other inlet guide vane of the third group.
US10024333B2
The present disclosure relates to composite airfoils bonded to a metallic root. A composite body (510) may be formed with a metallic co-molded detail (520). The co-molded detail (520) may be transient liquid phase (TLP) bonded to an attachment feature (530). The attachment feature (530) may allow the composite body (510) to be attached to a rotor (200). The airfoil (500) may also have a metallic edge (550) which is TLP bonded to the composite body (510) via a co-molded edge (540).
US10024321B2
A compressor is provided and may include a shell, a compression mechanism, a motor, and a diagnostic system that determines a system condition. The diagnostic system may include a processor and a memory and may predict a severity level of the system condition based on at least one of a sequence of historical-fault events and a combination of the types of the historical-fault events.
US10024311B2
A cryogenic pump for pumping liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a cryogenic tank storing LNG includes a drive assembly and a pump assembly disposed along a pump axis. The drive assembly includes a spool housing having a plurality of spool valves arranged around the pump axis, a tappet housing having a plurality of tappet bores with slidable tappets arranged around the pump axis, and spring housing including a plurality of movably disposed pushrods urged upward by a plurality of associated pushrod springs. Hydraulic fluid received by a hydraulic fluid inlet in the drive assembly is directed by the spool valves to the tappet bores to move the tappets downward against the pushrods. To collect the hydraulic fluid, the lowermost spring housing also includes a collection cavity formed therein that can return the hydraulic fluid to a hydraulic fluid outlet.
US10024310B2
Modular pumps comprising universal gearboxes and crank units and associated methods.
US10024303B2
A method of controlling a floating-body wind turbine power generating apparatus including a wind turbine generator disposed on a floating body includes a pitch-angle increasing step of increasing a pitch angle of a blade of the wind turbine generator when the wind turbine generator is stopped, so that an aerodynamic braking force is applied to a rotor of the wind turbine generator. In the pitch-angle increasing step, a first change rate of the pitch angle of the blade in a first period during which the wind turbine generator is in an inclining motion toward an upwind side from a vertical direction due to sway of the floating body, is smaller than a second change rate of the pitch angle of the blade in a second period during which the wind turbine generator is in an inclining motion toward a downwind side from the vertical direction due to the sway of the floating body.
US10024302B2
A vertical axis wind turbine formed from an arrangement of fixed stator blades to provide fluid flow acceleration into an arrangement of rotatable blades secured to a generator for invoking electrical power generation. The stator blades are maintained in position by use of a stator plate. Rotor blades are coupled to the generator. The amount of stator and rotor blades may be scaled in number and size depending upon the type of generator to be driven and associated mechanical energy to be obtained. The stator blades are designed for air deflection in a direction for optimal rotor blade rotation by accelerating air flow into a pre-swirl before the flow contacts the rotor blades. Each stator blade is oriented at a sufficient stagger angle so that an angle of the relative velocity does not exceed the stall angle of said rotor blade.
US10024299B2
A system for transporting wind turbine blades includes a frame assembly for retaining a set one or more wind turbine blades and a plurality of inflatable devices coupled to the frame assembly.
US10024291B1
A vehicle includes an engine and a brake system. The vehicle includes a controller configured to maintain an ignition state of the engine such that changes in an ignition state between engine start and engine stop are inhibited during a pressurization of the brake system that is prompted by the indication and initiated prior to brake pedal application. The maintained ignition state is responsive to receiving an indication of a degraded road condition from a source in a vicinity of the vehicle.
US10024289B2
According to some aspects, methods and systems are presented to reduce noise, vibration, and harshness during start or restart of an engine. In some embodiments, a torque source such as an electric machine provides a torque to an internal combustion engine during restart to counteract vibrations of the system caused by the output torque of the internal combustion engine. The torque provided by the torque source can be expressed as a sum of a non-linear component and an input shaped component. A perturbation technique can be utilized for separating the scales and isolating the non-linear response of the system. Command shaping can be applied to the remaining, linear response of the system. Parameters used in the modeling of the internal combustion engine and the system may be pre-determined based on vehicle design and operating conditions, or may be iteratively estimated based on previous restarts during vehicle operation.
US10024285B2
A piezo injector includes a piezo actuator arranged in an actuator chamber and a valve plunger arranged in a valve plunger bore and having a first end face facing the piezo actuator. The valve plunger is arranged between a first control chamber defined by a valve plunger bore portion delimited by the first end face and a spring chamber formed by a valve plunger bore portion opposite the first control chamber. A second control chamber is delimited by a second face of a nozzle needle and a sleeve guided by the nozzle needle. A leakage pin is arranged in a leakage pin bore between the piezo actuator and the first end face of the valve plunger. The leakage pin bore is formed in an intermediate plate arranged on a side of a control plate facing the piezo actuator, the valve plunger bore being formed in said control plate.
US10024280B2
A vessel includes a vessel body, an engine contained in the vessel body, an air intake box including an air intake port and that is attached to the engine, an air intake duct drawn around in the vessel body, and a guide duct including an opening that opposes the air intake port. The air intake box supplies air taken in from the air intake port to the engine. The air intake duct includes an outer end connected to a deck of the vessel body. The guide duct guides air taken in from outside the vessel body by the air intake duct to the opening.
US10024272B2
The invention relates to a fuel-metering arrangement for the mixture-forming unit (2) of an internal combustion engine (10) in a portable handheld work apparatus. The mixture-forming unit comprises a fuel store (30), a switchable valve (40) and a fuel channel (20) which opens into an intake region of the engine (10). The valve (40) has an inflow port (41) which is connected to the fuel store (30) and an outflow port (42) which is connected to the fuel channel (20). A fuel column is mechanically moved by the switching of the valve. In order to compensate for this fuel column, the outflow port (42) is connected via a bypass channel (45) to the inflow port (41) and a flow valve (46) is mounted in the bypass channel (45). The flow valve (46) opens in flow direction (49) from the outflow port (42) to the inflow port (41) and blocks in the direction opposite thereto.
US10024267B2
A combustion chamber structure for an internal combustion engine includes, in a piston top part, a concave portion formed eccentrically with respect to a cylinder center axis, and a tapered portion that connects an upper end face of the piston top part and a side face of the concave portion. The tapered portion is formed so that a tapered portion volume (volume of a space formed between the tapered portion and an upper wall surface of the combustion chamber) in a first portion of the piston top part is greater than a tapered portion volume in a second portion that is nearer than the first portion to an eccentric direction of the concave portion from the cylinder center axis.
US10024262B2
An air-fuel ratio control device includes an air-fuel ratio sensor configured such that an output current value thereof varies linearly in accordance with an oxygen concentration, and air-fuel ratio feedback control means capable of executing air-fuel ratio feedback control for feedback-controlling a fuel injection amount on the basis of a detection value from the air-fuel ratio sensor so that exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine reaches a predetermined air-fuel ratio. The air-fuel ratio control device further includes prohibiting means for prohibiting the feedback control when the air-fuel ratio reaches or exceeds a predetermined rich air-fuel ratio. The air-fuel ratio control device permits the feedback control for a predetermined period after the air-fuel ratio reaches or exceeds the predetermined rich air-fuel ratio.
US10024244B2
A method for controlling valve timing of continuous variable valve duration engine may include continuous variable valve duration (CVVD) device and continuous variable valve timing (CVVT) device including determining target intake valve open (IVO) timing, target intake valve close (IVC) timing, target exhaust valve open (EVO) timing and target exhaust valve close (EVC) timing; determining target intake CVVD, target exhaust CVVD, target intake CVVT and target exhaust CVVT to satisfy the target IVO, IVC, EVO, and EVC timings; performing feedback control of the CVVD by learning minimum value of the CVVD and maximum value of the CVVD; performing feedback control of the CVVT based on profile information of the valve; and determining real IVO timing, real IVC timing, real EVO timing, and real EVC timing based on the feedback control of the CVVD and the feedback control of the CVVT.
US10024243B2
An automatic transmission performs a shift-up operation when the accelerator pedal is released from a depression during a vehicle is running. An engine rotation speed immediately after the shift-up operation is predicted on the basis of the engine rotation speed and a gear ratio of the transmission after the shift-up operation. When a fuel recovery is predicted to be performed immediately after the shift-up operation, the fuel recovery is advanced such that it is performed in the inertial phase of the transmission.
US10024241B2
A turbine engine includes a main shaft bearing compartment seal. The seal includes at least an approximately circular seal portion and a seal carrier disposed about the approximately circular seal portion. A plurality of anti-rotation pins maintain the seal carrier in position relative to a housing and are received in an anti-rotation slot of the seal carrier.
US10024231B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed toward a linear combustion engine, comprising: a cylinder having a cylinder wall and a pair of ends, the cylinder including a combustion section disposed in a center portion of the cylinder; a pair of opposed piston assemblies adapted to move linearly within the cylinder, each piston assembly disposed on one side of the combustion section opposite the other piston assembly, each piston assembly including a spring rod and a piston comprising a solid front section adjacent the combustion section and a gas section; and a pair of linear electromagnetic machines adapted to directly convert kinetic energy of the piston assembly into electrical energy, and adapted to directly convert electrical energy into kinetic energy of the piston assembly for providing compression work during the compression stroke.
US10024226B2
Methods and systems are provided for controlling boost pressure in a staged engine system comprising a turbocharger and an upstream electric supercharger. In one example, a method may include coordinating the operation of the electric supercharger and an electric supercharger bypass valve and to open the electric supercharger bypass valve to reduce the extent and duration of electric supercharger overboost.
US10024223B2
A two-stroke internal combustion engine includes a diversion fin and an allowance slot. The diversion fin is a structure that has flanges at two ends and a rectangular longitudinal cross section profile. The diversion fin is clamped by a cylinder head and a cylinder block. The diversion fin extends along the diameter direction of the cylinder head and is positioned between an air inlet channel and an air exhaust channel. The diversion fin separates the air inlet channel from the air exhaust channel. The upper end of the diversion fin is provided with a transverse through groove at a position corresponding to an oil nozzle of an oil injector. The allowance slot is disposed on a piston and is positioned in the center of a combustor. The position of the allowance slot corresponds to the position of the diversion fin.
US10024216B2
A retention system for use with an aftertreatment module is disclosed. The retention system may include a first support mat disposed on at least one surface of the at least one catalyst substrate. The retention system may also include at least one support plate having a corrugated portion disposed on the first support mat. The retention system may further include a second support mat disposed on the corrugated portion.
US10024215B2
An inorganic fiber-formed article, composed of a mat-shaped inorganic fiber assembly, the inorganic fiber-formed article including needle marks that extend in a direction including a thickness direction of the mat-shaped inorganic fiber assembly, where the needle marks include needle marks A and needle marks B having a diameter smaller than that of the needle marks A, dense portions in which a plurality of the needle marks A lie densely are arranged apart, non-dense portions in which a needle mark density of the needle marks A is lower than that in the dense portions are present between the dense portions in both a first direction which is any mat-surface direction extending through the dense portions and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the needle marks B are present at least in the non-dense portions.
US10024214B2
An SCR device for a motor vehicle, comprising a tank for storing reducing liquid, an injection device for injection of the reducing liquid into an exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle, a liquid conduit for delivering reducing liquid from the tank to the injection device, a feed pump for conveying reducing liquid in the conduit, and a valve arrangement in the conduit, the valve arrangement designed to interrupt an injection flow in the conduit when the tank-side pressure is greater, than the injection device-side pressure in the conduit by less than an injection threshold value, and to allow the injection flow to pass when the tank-side pressure is greater by at least the injection threshold, the valve arrangement designed to interrupt a return flow in the conduit from the injection device to the tank when the injection device-side pressure is greater than the tank-side pressure by less than a return threshold value, and to allow the return flow to pass through when the injection device-side pressure is greater than the tank-side pressure in the conduit, by at least the return threshold value, the injection threshold value being greater than the return threshold value.
US10024212B2
The reducing agent tank has a tank main body and a feed pipe. The tank main body stores a reducing agent to be supplied to an exhaust gas treatment device. The feed pipe protrudes from the tank main body. The feed pipe is provided to replenish the tank main body with the reducing agent. A support base supports a vessel for the reducing agent for replenishment of the reducing agent tank. The support base is variable in position between a developed position in which the support base is arranged at a greater distance from the tank main body than from the feed pipe in a direction of protrusion of the feed pipe from the tank main body in a plan view and a stored position in which the support base is stored in an exterior cover.
US10024205B2
The invention relates to a hydraulic valve for phaser. In the hydraulic valve according to the invention a seal element is arranged so that a risk of a transition of oil from an oil cycle or a lubricant cycle of an internal combustion engine or a risk of hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic valve entering a coil of an actuator is avoided.
US10024203B2
A wedge clutch for a camshaft phaser is disclosed. The wedge clutch includes a stator including a pressure plate. The wedge clutch further includes a wedge plate including a notch. The notch includes a pulling surface. The wedge clutch further includes a rotor including a pin inside of a chamber. The pin is configured to rotate the wedge plate in a first circumferential direction relative to the rotor by sliding along the pulling surface as the pin extends out of the chamber to disengage the wedge clutch from the pressure plate.
US10024201B2
The cam follower roller device provides a tappet body extending along an axis, an insert mounted in the tappet body, a pin mounted at least on the insert and a roller mounted on the pin. The device further provides a spacer having a body mounted axially against the insert and with retaining means, cooperating with the insert for fixing the spacer to the insert.
US10024196B2
The invention relates to a method for lubricating an expansion machine (30) in a thermodynamic cycle device, wherein the thermodynamic cycle device comprises the expansion machine, a feed pump (50), a lubricant separator (10) and a working medium containing a lubricant, and wherein the method comprises the following steps: The working medium is subjected to pressure by means of the feed pump. The pressurized working medium is delivered by the feed pump to the lubricant separator. At least part of the lubricant is separated from the working medium by means of the lubricant separator. At least part of the separated lubricant is delivered by the lubricant separator to the expansion machine. The invention further relates to a thermodynamic cycle device comprising a working medium that contains a working fluid and a lubricant, an expansion machine, a feed pump for subjecting the working medium to pressure, and a lubricant separator for separating at least part of the lubricant from the working medium, wherein the cycle device is designed to deliver at least part of the separated lubricant from the lubricant separator to the expansion machine.
US10024188B2
An inner fixed structure for an aircraft nacelle may comprise a nanoreinforced polyimide composite skin. The nanomaterials may increase thermal conductivity and decrease microcracking in the inner fixed structure. The inner fixed structure may comprise an inner polyimide composite skin, an acoustic core, and an outer polyimide composite skin. The inner fixed structure may be blanketless.
US10024170B1
An integrally bladed rotor with an axial bore having either an inward dishing shape or an axial straight shape with an annular inward projection in which radial cooling holes having an elliptical cross sectional shape are formed, where the radial cooling holes have an elliptical cross sectional shape with a major axis perpendicular to the axial bore in order to reduce stress near an inlet opening of the radial holes in order to increase the LCF life of the IBR. The radial cooling holes discharge into a circumferential channel that is connected to cooling holes extending in the rotor blades.
US10024169B2
An engine component for a gas turbine engine includes a film-cooled substrate having a hot surface facing hot combustion gas flow and a cooling surface facing a cooling fluid flow. A film hole extends through the substrate to an outlet on the hot surface. A flow conditioning structure is provided downstream of the outlet.
US10024167B2
A turbine blade has a profile including a blade suction side line, a blade pressure side line, and a blade trailing edge positioned between the rear ends of the blade suction side and pressure sidelines. The blade trailing edge of the profile is formed by connecting a pressure side arc-like curve having a constant radius of curvature and extending from the rear end of the blade pressure side line toward the camber line of the profile, and a suction side line portion which extends from the rear end of the blade suction side line toward the camber line while passing through a region closer to the camber line than a symmetric curve portion which is line-symmetric to the pressure side arc-like curve with respect to the camber line. The suction side line portion is represented by curves constituting ellipses which constitute ellipses, and a straight line.
US10024166B2
A unit for a turbocharger can include a turbine wheel portion that includes a turbine wheel material and a turbine wheel axis; a shaft portion that includes a shaft material and a shaft axis where the shaft material includes a molybdenum content less than 0.5 percent by weight; and a weld that includes a nail shape in cross-section where a head portion of the nail shape includes an axial dimension of approximately 1 mm or less and wherein a shank portion of the nail shape includes an axial dimension of approximately 0.4 mm or less.
US10024163B2
Methods for material build-up on a tip of a blade of a gas turbine engine are provided. The method can include inserting a material supply and an inflatable bladder between the tip and a shroud such that the material supply is exposed to the tip and the inflatable bladder is positioned between the material supply and a shroud, inflating the inflatable bladder to force contact between the material supply and the tip, and causing relative movement between the material supply and the tip. The relative movement, in combination with the radial biased contact between the material supply and the tip, creates heat through friction. As such, the relative movement can frictionally weld new material from the material supply onto the tip of the blade. For example, the heat created can be sufficient to melt the surface of the material supply to transfer material from the material supply to the tip.
US10024153B2
A peak hold circuit configured for use in a downhole sensor includes a long tail pair circuit, a correction circuit, and a current mirror circuit. The current mirror circuit includes two current mirrors connected to a long tail pair formed by a first transistor and a second transistor. The current mirror also includes a first resistor and a second resistor connected to a third transistor. The first transistor is connected to a correction transistor of the correction circuit. The value of the first resistor is selected to be essentially equal to the same value as the second resistor so that when the long tail pair is balanced, the current flowing through a collector of the second transistor is equal to the current flowing through the first transistor, causing the correction transistor to switch off.
US10024148B2
A method for enhancing production from multiple-fractured underground “tight” formations. Spaced upwardly-extending injection fissures are created along a horizontal injection wellbore, and upwardly-extending collection fissures, alternately spaced with the injection fissures, are created along the horizontal injection wellbore or another adjacent production wellbore. The injection wellbore is supplied with fluid under pressure, which flows into such created fissures and drives reservoir fluids within the formation to the remaining (alternately) spaced adjacent fissures along such wellbore or another parallel adjacent (production) wellbore, thereby allowing reservoir fluids to flow downwardly along such alternately spaced production fissures for collection. In a refinement, production is carried out initially from both the production and injection wellbores, and upon the rate of production of hydrocarbons slowing, production from the injection wellbore is stopped and a fluid is injected therein and thus into the formation via the alternate spaced fissures, thereby re-pressurizing the formation.
US10024136B2
A well system can include a well tool with a retarder chemical. The retarder chemical is released from the well tool into an annulus and retards setting of cement therein. A method of retarding setting of cement at a location in an annulus can include releasing a retarder chemical from a well tool connected in a casing string, after the cement is placed in the annulus. A well tool can include a valve that controls fluid communication via a port between an exterior of the tool and a flow passage extending through the tool, an annular recess, and a dispersible annular exterior component received in the recess. Another well tool can include a valve that controls fluid communication between an exterior of the tool and a flow passage extending through the well tool, an internal chamber, and a retarder chemical in the chamber.
US10024129B1
The pipe wiper assembly of the present invention assists with wiping the pipe as the pipe is removed from the hole (“tripped out”). The pipe passes through the two pipe apertures of the pipe wiper assembly during the removal. Two upper containment arms adjust between an open position and a closed position within the housing to form the upper pipe aperture. The lower containment lip forms the lower piper aperture. The upper containment arms and lower containment lip partially enclose the housing to prevent the wiper from exiting the wiper storage. The containment arms slideably adjust to eliminate the need for hinges. The removal of the hinges provides for easier storage and transportation of the pipe wiper assembly. The removal of hinges also reduces manufacturing costs of the pipe wiper assembly.
US10024123B2
When one of at least two independently driven gripper chains (102) of a coiled tubing injector (100) begins to turn faster than another one of the injector's other independently drive gripper chains by an amount that indicates slipping of one of the independently driven gripper chains relative to tubing (109) being held between the driven gripper chains, a hydraulic timing circuit (318), which is coupled with the driven chains through hydraulic timing motors (214, 216), generates a pressure signal that causes the injector's hydraulic traction system to increase the hydraulic pressure applied by hydraulic cylinders (220) to generate a normal force applied by grippers on the chains to the tubing.
US10024117B2
Threaded drill string component having a hollow elongate body with a box end portion, an opposing pin end portion and a cylindrical mid-body portion that extends longitudinally between the respective box and pin end portions and has a variable wall diameter. The mid-body inner wall of the mid-body portion has at least one projecting portion or upset that is spaced from both the box and pin end portions and extends inwardly toward a central longitudinal axis of the hollow body and a plurality of troughs defined in the mid-body inner wall of the mid-body portion.
US10024116B2
An example shunt tube assembly includes at least one shunt tube that defines an inner flow path for a fluid and provides an upper portion and a lower portion. At least one shunt fitting is positioned inline between the upper and lower portions of the at least one shunt tube. The shunt fitting provides an outlet that fluidly communicates with the inner flow path to provide an exit for at least a portion of the fluid to be discharged from the at least one shunt tube.
US10024108B2
A drilling device for a down-the-hole drilling apparatus. The drilling device includes in a guide, a drilling member and a flushing mechanism configured to flush drilling waste. The drilling mechanism includes first and second drilling bit arrangements that are movable with respect to the drilling device and that are arranged to be expanded to drill a hole having a greater cross-sectional surface area than an end of the casing and arranged to be reduced to a size smaller than the end of the casing. Bit pieces of the second drill bit arrangement expand and reduce the second drill bit arrangement. The bit pieces expand the second drill bit arrangement by moving in a radial direction outwards in slide grooves, by rotating the guide in a drilling direction, and move in the radial direction inwards in the slide grooves, by rotating the guide in an opposite direction.
US10024106B2
A system includes an excavation assembly, which in turn includes a supporting body having a perimetric edge defining a closed path. A distribution apparatus protrudes transversally relative to the perimetric edge and is movable in a guided manner on the supporting body. The distribution apparatus transversally distributes a quantity of hardenable or solidifiable material towards the outside of the perimetric edge, so as to be able to lay a plurality of axially superimposed annular layers(s) of the hardenable or solidifiable material defining a tubular structure (T) around the excavation assembly. A motor device moves the distribution apparatus on the supporting body.
US10024104B2
System and methods for performing look-ahead and look-around (LALA) inversion are provided. Measurements of formation properties accumulated by a downhole LALA tool are obtained during different stages of drilling a wellbore through layers of an underground formation. A distribution of formation properties measured for the layers behind a current layer is determined. A formation model for look-ahead inversion is defined based on the determined distribution of formation properties behind the current layer. Measurements of the current layer's formation properties collected by the downhole LALA tool are obtained. A distribution of formation properties for one or more layers ahead of the current layer is estimated based on the formation model and the measurements of formation properties obtained for the current layer. The estimated distribution includes a gradient transition of formation properties between the current layer and the one or more layers ahead of the current layer.
US10024102B2
An oscillating mud motor having a valve section and a piston section positioned within a hollow cylindrical housing wherein the valve section comprises a timing cycle valve and a spool valve which hydraulically controls rotational movement of a piston on a central shaft in the piston section for linear reciprocation within the housing.
US10024100B2
An automatic door seal seals the gap between the lower edge of a door and a threshold. The seal is magnetically actuated so as to move downward into sealing engagement with the threshold when the door is closed and raises out of engagement when the door is opened. A transmission assembly converts horizontal movement from the magnetic force into vertical movement for the seal. Springs provide a reset force when the magnetic force is eliminated so as to retract the seal strip whenever the door is moved from the closed position.
US10024097B1
A one-piece sill pan flashing is provided with one or more accordion sections. At least the accordion sections, and preferably the entire flashings, are formed of a single sheet of thermoplastic material, preferably by thermoforming, and include forwardly and downwardly inclined upper portions and vertical lower portions extending downward from the front of the upper portions. The accordion sections include upper and lower portions, formed of narrow panels, foldably connected along their lateral edges to form V-shaped accordion folds having a series of ridge folds and valley folds. The valley folds of the upper portions are aligned with the ridge folds of the lower portions and vice versa. The construction accommodates substantial extension or compression of the width of the flashing and enables one size of flashing width to be fitted to a wide range of sizes of rough-framed window openings.
US10024088B1
A hinge assembly provided for pivotally connecting a door to a main body of a refrigerator. The hinge assembly is configured such that the door is translationally moved with respect to the main body in response to a pivot motion of the door. The hinge assembly comprises a housing having a first slot, a second slot, and a protrusion. A primary gear is attached to the door and slidably positioned within the first slot of the housing such that a pivot motion of the door rotates the primary gear in a first rotational direction. Additionally, a secondary gear, rotationally engaging the primary gear, is slidably positioned within the second slot of the housing. The secondary gear further comprises a cam profile adjacent to the protrusion.
US10024082B2
A locking pin includes a body having a plurality of apertures defined through a sidewall. A closure is disposed at an end of the body. A plurality of latch bolts is disposed in the body and adjacent to the closure. Each latch bolt is moveable through a corresponding one of the apertures and between a locked position, disposed at least partially outside of the body, and an unlocked position, disposed at least substantially within the body. A keeper is coupled to each of the latch bolts and configured to retain the latch bolt in the latched position and to bias the latch bolt for movement from the locked position to the unlocked position. A mechanism selectably engages each latch bolt to move the latch bolt to the locked position, and selectably disengages from the latch bolt to allow the keeper to move the latch bolt to the unlocked position.
US10024080B2
A safety gate is provided with one or more of a curved path for holding a pressure mount to prevent unlocking, and a color-coded locked/unlocked status indicator for use in openings, such as doorways, to provide a barrier for a small child or for any other suitable use. The changing of the colors, from, for example, red to green indicates to a user that the gate is locked (green) or unlocked (red). The door opening mechanisms may allow the door to be unlocked or locked with one hand.
US10024077B2
A low-profile snake barrier includes a plurality of sections that form a boundary. One section of the plurality of sections includes a screen-type material that is supported by a first support brace at a first end of the one section and a second support brace at a second end of the one section opposite the first end. The support braces support the screen-type material in a collapsed configuration and an erect configuration, where the erect configuration includes an upright portion of the screen-type material extending upward from the ground and an overhang portion of the screen-type material extending from the upright portion. In the collapsed configuration, the upright portion and the overhang portion are parallel to the ground. Each support brace include pivotably coupled members.
US10024076B1
A shelter is made from a plurality of connectable panels. The panels include a first panel which has a side edge, an exterior, and an interior, and a second panel which has a side edge, an exterior, and an interior. A connector is configured to hold the side edge of the first panel in abutting relationship with the side edge of the second panel. The connector includes an exterior segment which is configured to connect the exterior of the first panel to the exterior of the second panel, and an interior segment which is configured to connect the interior of the first panel to the interior of the second panel. The exterior and interior segments each include elastic cords which resiliently hold the two panels together. The edges of adjacent panels include ridges and mating grooves, and the panels include a viewing aperture which can be closed with a plug.
US10024073B2
A swimming pool cleaner includes a chassis that supports a motor and a camera that is associated with the chassis and configured to identify at least one object. A controller is in communication with the camera and is configured to control movement of the pool cleaner based on output from the camera.
US10024072B2
A theater house includes a stage and stalls; the stage and the stalls include respective elongated portions located side by side and alternating to each other; the stage being at a greater height with respect to the stalls; a roofing is movable between a retracted configuration wherein it uncovers the stalls and an extended configuration wherein it covers the stalls thus defining a further walking surface adjacent to the stage.
US10024059B2
Embodiments include structural metal stud framing members with an improved web design. The structural metal stud framing member with the improved web design are referred to as an amplified metal stud member. Embodiments include a bracing structure and a stiffening structure to collectively increase the axial and lateral load capacity of the stud. In other words, embodiments increase the internal strength to weight ratio for both the overall axial and lateral load.
US10024047B2
The present invention broadly comprises a method and apparatus for constructing a concrete structure. In one embodiment, a structure includes a column section and a beam section. One of the column section and the beam section includes an assembly with a threaded rod, and the other of the column section and the beam section includes an assembly having an aperture configured to receive the threaded rod.
US10024041B2
The device for supplying a product inside a toilet bowl, comprising a fastening element for the coupling thereof to a toilet bowl, and a changeable reservoir of said product, which may be placed on the outside of the toilet bowl, and is characterized in that it further comprises an absorbent element connected to said changeable reservoir and impregnated with said product, it being possible to place said absorbent element inside the toilet bowl.The invention enables all of the components thereof, especially those most likely to be handled, to always be as clean as possible, supplying the product in a very cost-effective manner.
US10024029B1
A demolition system for equipping a skid steer to rip concrete and asphalt from the ground includes a bucket that is coupled to a tractor. The bucket has a rear wall and a bottom wall. A pair of blocks is provided and each of the blocks is coupled to the rear wall of the bucket. A pair of gripping units is provided and each of the gripping units is removably positioned in an associated one of the blocks. Moreover, each of the gripping units extends below the bottom wall of the bucket. Thus, each of the gripping units selectively engages an object on the ground thereby facilitating the object to be urged upwardly from the ground.
US10024027B2
A bucket comprises a shell including a curved member that defines a first transverse end, a second transverse end, a top edge and a bottom flat portion, a first flat angled member attached to the first transverse end of the curved member and a second flat angled member attached to a second transverse end of the curved member, a bottom member, and at least one attachment bracket, wherein the bucket assembly defines a bucket center plane and the first and second flat angled members are tapered toward the center plane of the bucket.
US10024015B2
A support device configured to be positioned on a lifting vessel in order to support a topside of an offshore platform, the support device comprising: a main cylindrical casing having an upper opening, the main casing defining a main vertical axis, the main casing further defining an upper support rim, a reservoir located inside the main casing for holding a granular material or a fluid, the reservoir having a discharge opening for emptying the reservoir, a spring support slideably arranged within the main casing, the spring support resting on the granular material or the fluid and being movable from an upper position to a lower position in dependence on a filing degree of the reservoir, a spring device positioned on the spring support, a receptor support positioned on the spring device, the receptor support defining an upper surface, and a receptor device.
US10024002B2
A multi-axial geogrid possesses a series of interconnected strands or ribs that are arranged along at least two different axes within the plane of the structure. The strands or ribs have an aspect ratio, defined as the ratio of the thickness to width, of greater than 1.0, thickness being the direction normal to the plane of the structure. The geogrid can be manufactured by modifying the process parameters in order to create high aspect ratio ribs, using any of the various known methods for producing geogrids. A reinforced civil engineering structure, and method therefor, is formed by embedding in soil one or more horizontal layers of geogrid having high aspect ratio ribs. The reinforced structure shows improved rutting performance when subjected to vehicular traffic.
US10024000B2
Fibrous structures that exhibit improved consumer recognizable properties, especially a VFS of greater than about 11 g/g, and to methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
US10023989B2
A laundry treatment apparatus in which as an outer tub vibrates, a piston and a cylinder are relatively moved. When as the outer tub vibrates, the piston and the cylinder move relative to each other and a frictional member provides a frictional force between itself and the other one to attenuate vertical vibration of the outer tub. In particular, the piston and the cylinder are prevented from being separated from each other in the laundry treatment apparatus.
US10023986B2
A washing machine which enables a user to effectively perform hand washing of washings in a washing and dewatering tank is disclosed. A full-automatic washing machine has: a washing and dewatering tank for performing washing and dewatering of washings; a water supply unit for supplying water into the washing and dewatering tank; a control part for controlling the water supply unit; an auxiliary washing plate which is detachably installed in the washing and dewatering tank and has a shape of concaves and convexes on an upper surface; and a hand washing water supply button which is operated when the auxiliary washing plate installed in the washing and dewatering tank is used for performing hand washing of washings. Here, the control part supplies water to the water supply unit based on a condition already operated on the hand washing water supply button.
US10023981B2
A three-dimensional (3D) woven preform with channels in the through thickness direction developed for applications such as forming light weight preforms with an increased thickness.
US10023979B2
A bundle of carbon fibers has a value A obtained from a nonlinear approximation formula of a stress σ-strain ε curve in a tensile strength test of resin-impregnated strands and an orientation parameter Π (%) of crystallites in a wide-angle x-ray diffraction measurement which satisfy a predetermined relational expression, and has tensile strength with a predetermined value or more, and tensile modulus within a predetermined range and a product E×d/W of a ratio d/W of a single-fiber diameter d to a loop width W just before loop fracture evaluated by a single-fiber loop test and a tensile modulus E of the strands has a predetermined value or more, or apparent single-fiber stress has a predetermined value or more when the number of fiber breaks by a single-fiber fragmentation method for a single-fiber composite is 0.30 breaks/mm and when the number of the fiber breaks by the single-fiber fragmentation method for the single-fiber composite is 0.30 breaks/mm, the number of fiber breaks by a double-fiber fragmentation method for the single-fiber composite is within a predetermined range.
US10023975B2
A method for producing a SiC single crystal by a solution method of bringing a seed crystal into contact with a Si solution of C and pulling up a SiC single crystal, the production method of a SiC single crystal including connecting the seed crystal to a seed crystal holder, disposing a cooling mechanism on the seed crystal holder, and promoting cooling of the seed crystal holder by the cooling mechanism in accordance with an increase in the pulling amount of the SiC single crystal.
US10023968B2
Disclosed is an electric Al—Zr alloy plating bath containing an aluminum halide (A), one or more compounds (B) selected from the group consisting of N-alkylpyridinium halides, N-alkylimidazolium halides, N,N′-alkylimidazolium halides, N-alkylpyrazolium halides and N,N′-alkylpyrazolium halides, and a zirconium halide (C). The molar ratio between the aluminum halide (A) and the compounds (B) is from 1:1 to 3:1. The electric Al—Zr alloy plating bath further contains an aromatic organic solvent (D), an organic polymer (E) and one or more additives (F) selected from brightening agents.
US10023967B2
An electrochemical device comprises an anode and a cathode. An electrocatalyst mixture is placed between said anode and cathode. The electrocatalyst mixture comprises at least one Catalytically Active Element and, separately, at least one Helper Catalyst comprising an organic molecule, an organic ion, or a mixture of organic molecules and organic ions. The electrocatalyst mixture electrochemically converts carbon dioxide to one or more carbonaceous reaction products via the reaction: CO2+2e−+2H+→carbonaceous reaction products, at overpotentials of 0.9 V or less.
US10023966B2
A bipolar electrolytic cell particularly useful for electrochemical processes carried out with periodic reversal of polarity is provided. The cell is equipped with a series of concentric electrode pairs, the innermost pair and the outermost pair being connected to the poles of a DC generator and the intermediate pairs acting as bipolar electrodes. The different pairs of electrodes are arranged and connected in such a way that, at each stage of the process, the overall cathodic area is equal to the anodic area.
US10023964B2
Various break-resistant anode assemblies and method of installing the same in the ground are disclosed. Each anode assembly (20) basically comprises an anode (22), at least one pulling cable (24), and a protective nose cone (26). The nose cone is a hollow member receiving the leading end (22A) of the anode and from which the anode's electrical conductor (28) extends. The nose cone includes a tapered leading surface (32) that facilitates and guides the anode assembly as it is pulled through the ground, while protecting the anode. A break-away mechanism (54) may also be provided to ensure that no more than a maximum pulling force is applied to the anode assembly during its installation to ensure that the anode is not damaged.
US10023960B2
Embodiments related to hardware and methods for processing a semiconductor substrate are disclosed. One example film deposition reactor includes a process gas distributor including a plasma gas-feed inlet located to supply plasma gas to a plasma generation region within the film deposition reactor and a precursor gas-feed inlet located to supply film precursor gas downstream of the plasma generation region; an insulating confinement vessel configured to maintain a plasma generation region at a reduced pressure within the film deposition reactor and an inductively-coupled plasma (ICP) coil arranged around a portion of a sidewall of the insulating confinement vessel and positioned so that the sidewall separates the plasma generation region from the ICP coil; and a susceptor configured to support the semiconductor substrate so that a film deposition surface of the semiconductor substrate is exposed to a reaction region formed downstream of the process gas distributor.
US10023953B2
A method for making a sputtering target including steps of encapsulating and hot isostatically pressing at least one mass of metal powder (e.g., tantalum), having a particle size ranging from about 10 to about 1000 μm, with at least about 10 percent by weight of particles having a particle size greater than about 150 μm (for example, about 29 to about 56 percent (e.g., about 35 to about 47 percent) by weight of the particles in the at least one mass of metal powder having a particle size that is larger than 150 microns, but below about 250 μm), for defining at least a portion of a sputtering target body, having an essentially theoretical random and substantially uniform crystallographic texture.
US10023938B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method according to which a rare earth element can be efficiently recovered from a workpiece containing at least a rare earth element and an iron group element, and also wear and damage to the treatment container can be suppressed, allowing the container to be used repeatedly for a long period of time. The method of the present invention as a means for resolution is characterized in that in the heat treatment of an oxidation-treated workpiece in the presence of carbon, when the oxidation-treated workpiece is placed in a treatment container, a carbon substance is interposed between the oxidation-treated workpiece and the bottom surface of the container, and the heat treatment is performed in an inert gas atmosphere or in vacuum at a temperature of 1300° C. or more.
US10023935B2
A method of improving metal leach kinetics and recovery during atmospheric or substantially atmospheric leaching of a metal sulfide is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method may comprise the steps of: (a) producing a metal sulfide flotation concentrate; (b) processing the metal sulfide concentrate in a reductive activation circuit that operates at a first redox potential, to produce a reductively-activated metal sulfide concentrate; and, (c) subsequently processing the activated metal sulfide concentrate in an oxidative leach circuit to extract metal values. In some disclosed embodiments, reductive activation steps may be employed prior to oxidative leaching steps (including heap leap leaching or bio-leaching steps). In some embodiments, physico-chemical processing steps may be employed during reductive activation and/or oxidative leaching. Systems for practicing the aforementioned methods are also disclosed.
US10023925B2
A hot stamped article has a component composition containing, in terms of % by mass, 0.002% to 0.1% of C, 0.01% to 0.5% of Si, 0.5% to 2.5% of Mn+Cr, 0.1% or less of P, 0.01% or less of S, 0.05% or less of t-Al, 0.005% or less of N, and 0.0005% to 0.004% of B which is optionally contained in a case where the Mn+Cr is 1.0% or more, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The hot stamped article has a microstructure composed of, in terms of an area ratio, 0% or more and less than 90% of martensite, 10% to 100% of bainite, and less than 0.5% of unavoidable inclusion structures, or a microstructure composed of, in terms of an area ratio, 99.5% to 100% of bainitic ferrite, and less than 0.5% of unavoidable inclusion structures.
US10023920B2
DNA amplification methods using novel primers obtained from the novel genes hyvI and hyvII from the Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus genome are useful for detecting Ca. L. species in plants and insect hosts.
US10023914B2
The invention relates to a method for a more appropriate thromboembolic event risk assessment based on the presence of different genetic variant. The invention also relates to a method for determining the risk of suffering a thromboembolism disease by combining the absence or presence of one or more polymorphic markers in a sample from the subject with conventional risk factors for thromboembolism as well as computer-implemented means for carrying out said method.
US10023913B2
The present invention relates to the field of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and uses therefore as a predictor of diseases and conditions. Specifically, the present invention provides methods and kits useful in determining whether a subject is at increased risk for developing a cardiovascular disease by screening for the presence of a SNP in the scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI) gene of a subject.
US10023899B2
The present invention relates to the pharmaceutics, biotechnological and chemical, and particularly to a process for preparing a composition for detecting and measuring the concentration of endotoxins or lipopolysaccharides, peptidoglycans and (1,3)-β-D-glucans, using an extract from the hemocytes of the lobster as a starting material, the changes to the composition to increase the sensitivity, and processes for measuring endotoxins, peptidoglycans and (1,3)-β-D-glucans using said composition.
US10023889B2
5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), a precursor of serotonin, is produced in a microbial host cell. A modified bacterial phenylalanine 4-hydroxylase (P4H) catalyzes the tryptophan 5-hydroxylation reaction. Optionally the host cell includes a cofactor regeneration mechanism, allowing continuous production of 5-HTP without supplementation of exogenous cofactors.
US10023888B2
Provided are a Corynebacterium glutamicum mutant that is resistant to high concentrations of L-glutamine, and a method of producing L-glutamine by using the mutant.
US10023886B2
The present invention relates to a method for the enzymatic synthesis of enantiomerically enriched (R)-amines of general formula [1][c] from the corresponding ketones of the general formula [1][a] by using novel transaminases. These novel transaminases are selected from two different groups: either from a group of some 20 proteins with sequences as specified herein, or from a group of proteins having transaminase activity and isolated from a microorganism selected from the group of organisms consisting of Rahnella aquatilis, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Ochrobactrum tritici, Sinorhizobium morelense, Curtobacterium pusiffium, Paecilomyces lilacinus, Microbacterium ginsengisoli, Microbacterium trichothecenolyticum, Pseudomonas citronellolis, Yersinia kristensenii, Achromobacter spanius, Achromobacter insolitus, Mycobacterium fortuitum, Mycobacterium frederiksbergense, Mycobacterium sacrum, Mycobacterium fluoranthenivorans, Burkhoideria sp., Burkhoideria tropica, Cosmospora episphaeria, and Fusarium oxysporum.
US10023872B2
The present invention relates to mutants of a parent Trichoderma strain, comprising a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide and one or more genes selected from the group consisting of a peptaibol synthetase gene, a paracelsin synthetase gene, a first terpene cyclase gene, a second terpene cyclase gene, and a third terpene cyclase gene, wherein one or more of the genes are modified rendering the mutant strain deficient in the production of one or more of the enzymes selected from the group consisting of a peptaibol synthetase, a paracelsin synthetase, a first terpene cyclase, a second terpene cyclase, and a third terpene cyclase compared to the parent Trichoderma strain when cultivated under identical conditions. The present invention also relates to methods of producing a polypeptide in such mutants and methods for producing such mutants.
US10023871B2
The present invention relates to polyC:poly(G/I) dsRNAs for triggering innate immunity, in particular through toll-like receptor 3 (TLR-3) and, optionally, RIG-I or RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs), as well as compositions and medicaments containing such dsRNAs, methods for their production and their use in medicine, especially immunostimulation and prevention and/or therapy of infections and tumor diseases.
US10023867B2
The present invention regards oligonucleotides for modulating the expression of a gene, in particular for modulating a gene responsible for a pathology of genetic, tumoral or viral origin. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of said oligonucleotides, possibly chemically modified, for the treatment and/or the diagnosis of said diseases.
US10023861B2
Oligonucleotides, chemically-modified oligonucleotides, and oligonucleotide-conjugate complexes for use in research, diagnostics, and/or therapeutics are described herein. In some embodiments, oligonucleotides comprising a stabilized phosphate moiety covalently attached to the 5′-terminal nucleoside are provided.
US10023856B2
Enzyme compositions and their method of use that provide ready-to-use master mixtures. The compositions comprise a modified thermophilic DNA polymerase lacking 5′-3′ and 3′-5′ exonuclease activity premixed with T4 DNA polymerase, Klenow fragment and T4 polynucleotide kinase and all other necessary components, including reaction buffer and nucleoside triphosphates, required to perform DNA blunting, phosphorylation, and single nucleotide extension reactions in one tube and in two steps. Among other benefits, the mixture of different enzymes, buffers and nucleoside triphosphates is stable during prolonged storage.
US10023853B1
The present disclosure provides engineered cross-type-nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids and compositions thereof. Nucleic acid sequences encoding the engineered cross-type-nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids, as well as expression cassettes, vectors and cells comprising such nucleic acid sequences, are described. Also, methods are disclosed for making and using the engineered cross-type-nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids and compositions thereof.
US10023835B2
Method of adjusting the conditions of biological processes and a reactor for carrying out the method
The method of pH controlling during electrolytic fermentation processes of the organic substrates includes placing the biological and chemical reagents in a fermentation tank, placing the electrodes powered by the direct current in the fermentation tank chambers, switching on the constant voltage initiating electrolytic processes with a value from 0.1 to 50 V, generating H+ or OH− ions around the electrodes, reading the data from the glass electrode, changing the power parameters of electrodes, depending on the set pH value of the reaction medium, and starting a pump metering the liquid from the auxiliary chamber into the fermentation tank chamber through a dispensing connector. The object of the invention is also the reactor for carrying out this method.
US10023834B2
A culture apparatus that cultivates a culture, which includes an outer case, an inner case configured with metal plates inside the outer case, a heater outside the inner case, and a door, which opens/closes an opening formed in front faces of the inner cases, includes: shelf rests on which side parts of a bottom plate of a shelf are to be placed, the shelf rests formed by pressing on side plates of the inner case; and a heat transfer sheet attached to an outer surface of at least one of the side plates and configured to transfer heat of the heater to the inner case, the heat transfer sheet including slits, intermittently formed, to bend the sheet to depressions of the outer surface of the side plate at positions corresponding to the shelf rests, after the heat transfer sheet is attached to the outer surface.
US10023833B2
A temperature sensor means comprising a thermally conducting layer arranged to face the surface to be measured, a thermally insulating layer attached to the thermally conducting layer on the opposite side to the surface to be measured, a temperature sensor provided between the thermally conducting layer and the thermally insulating layer and being completely surrounded on all its sides by either the thermally conducting or the thermally insulating layers.
US10023829B1
The present invention is directed to a method of preparing a blue-colored whiskey by mixing methylene blue, pure alcohol and distilled water. This process creates a staining solution and would allow the staining solution be aged in a cask prior to adding the whiskey into the cask. The stained cask colors the whiskey solution. This whiskey making method is designed to generate blue whiskey in which the color of the distillate is not directly altered. Further, this method provides a new way of presenting such beverages to potential customers in a pleasing way that could potentially enhance market share, and provides a new method to change beverages into new and unusual colors which may provide fun and additional marketing/branding opportunities.
US10023821B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus comprising a reactor body to which gas and water are supplied to create a gas hydrate; an upper cover which is engaged to an upper portion of the reactor body, a scraper mounted rotationally within the reactor body, and a motor for providing a driving force to the scraper. It is possible to remove gas hydrate particles attached to at least one of an inner surface of the reactor body and an inner surface of the upper cover, by a rotary driving of the scraper. According to the invention, it is possible to prevent a material hindering a heat transfer by attaching on a wall surface of the reactor, through a process of scraping out gas hydrate particles, when the scraper which is rotationally driven about a center axis of the reactor is close to the inner surface of the reactor.
US10023818B2
A diesel engine fuel composition comprising methanol at a level of at least 20% by weight of the fuel; water at a level at least 20% by weight of the fuel; a ratio of water to methanol of between 20:80 to 80:20; a total amount of water and methanol of at least 60% by weight of the fuel composition, and one or more additives, in a total amount of at least 0.1% by weight of the fuel, wherein the level of sodium chloride, if present as an additive, is between 0 to 0.5% by weight of the fuel, and the level of flavorant, if present as an additive, is between 0 to 1.5% of the composition is provided. Also provided is a process for powering a compression ignition engine using a fuel comprising methanol and water, including inlet air pre-heating, and associated systems and uses of the fuel composition.
US10023811B2
Systems and methods of integrated gas oil separation are disclosed. Systems include a high pressure production trap (HPPT), a low pressure production trap (LPPT), a low pressure degassing tank (LPDT), a first knockout drum (KOD) fluidly coupled to the LPDT and operable to accept an atmospheric pressure off-gas from the LPDT, an atmospheric pressure compressor fluidly coupled to the first KOD and operable to compress the atmospheric pressure off-gas to introduce the atmospheric pressure off-gas from the LPDT into the LPPT inlet feed stream, a second KOD fluidly coupled to the LPPT and operable to accept a low pressure off-gas from the LPPT, and a low pressure compressor fluidly coupled to the second KOD and operable to compress the low pressure off-gas to introduce the low pressure off-gas from the LPPT into the crude oil inlet feed stream.
US10023800B2
The present invention relates to a composition for manufacturing optical elements with negative optical dispersion, and an optically anisotropic body prepared therefrom. According to the present invention, the optically anisotropic body showing stable reverse wavelength dispersion can be prepared more simply by using the composition for optical elements, and it is possible to apply the same to liquid crystal display devices as an optical film such as a thin-layer broadband λ/4 plate.
US10023798B2
Disclosed are novel mesogenic compounds, liquid crystal compositions (liquid-crystalline media) comprising them and suitable for high-frequency technology, and high-frequency devices using them, such as phase shifters, antennas, tunable filters, switching devices, e.g. operated in the microwave region, to a process for preparing the compositions. The liquid crystal compositions have high optical anisotropy, a positive dielectric anisotropy and a wide temperature range of nematic phases.
US10023796B2
An illumination system comprising a radiation source and a monolithic ceramic luminescence converter comprising a composite material of at least one luminescent compound, and at least one non-luminescent compound, wherein the material of the non-luminescent compound comprises silicon and nitrogen, is advantageously used, when the luminescent compound comprises an rare-earth metal-activated host compound also comprising silicon and nitrogen. Shared chemical characteristics of the luminescent compound and the non-luminescent material improve phase assemblage, thermal and optical behavior. The invention relates also to a composite monolithic ceramic luminescence converter.
US10023794B2
A fluoride phosphor including a sheet-like crystal and a manufacturing method and an application therefore are disclosed. The fluoride phosphor has a chemical formula A2[MF6]:Mn4+, with Mn4+ as an activator. The A is Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, NH4 or a combination thereof. The M is Ge, Si, Sn, Ti, Zr or a combination thereof. The sheet-like crystal has a thickness d. A crystal flat surface of the sheet-like crystal has a maximum length a. The maximum length a is defined as a distance between two end points on an edge of the crystal flat surface and farthest from each other. 8≤a/d≤35.
US10023788B2
Methods for acidizing subterranean formations may include introducing into a wellbore penetrating the subterranean formation having a temperature of about 275° F. or greater a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous fluid, a Lewis acid catalyst and a precursor; wherein the precursor is selected from the group consisting of a saccharide, a saccharide derivative, and a combination thereof; and reacting the precursor and the Lewis acid catalyst to yield an organic acid in a portion of the subterranean formation, a portion of the wellbore, or both.
US10023787B2
Methods for selecting a surfactant for treating a subterranean formation based on the performance of the surfactant and the characteristics of the subterranean formation and the treatment fluids that may be used to treat that formation are provided. In one embodiment, the method may comprise providing a treatment fluid, formation materials, hydrocarbon, and a plurality of surfactants, wherein the hydrocarbon is acquired from a subterranean formation; selecting at least two surfactants from the plurality of surfactants by determining whether each of the plurality of surfactants separates a mixture of the treatment fluid and the hydrocarbon; and selecting at least one surfactant from the at least two surfactants by determining whether the hydrocarbon displaces the treatment fluid from the formation materials in the presence of each of the at least two surfactants.
US10023784B2
Methods, fluids, and compositions are provided for treating subterranean formations. The fluids can be servicing or drilling fluids including a base fluid and a particulate agent or biocide precursor particulate agent. The particulate agent can seal flow paths in the subterranean formation and subsequently can be degraded to allow flow to resume. The particulate agent may be a reaction product of a urea containing compound and an aldehyde containing compound. An example of such a reaction product is a methylene urea.
US10023783B2
The present invention relates to methods of cementing, for example, an oil or gas well. The method may involve pumping a suspension of a filler mixture and at least about 5 weight percent of a thermosetting resin based on the total weight of resin and filler mixture. Advantages may include superior properties and reliability as compared to conventional cementing operations often involving Portland cement.
US10023779B2
Compositions containing 1,1-difluoroethane and 3,3,3-trifluoropropene, that can be used in multiple fields of application. The composition may include from 25 to 65 mol % of 1,1-difluoroethane and from 75 to 35 mol % of 3,3,3-trifluoropropene at a temperature of between −25° C. and 25° C. and a pressure of between 1 and 6 bar. The composition may further include hydrogen fluoride. The composition may include from 20 to 55 mol % of HF, 30 to 40 mol % of 1,1-difluoroethane and 30 to 40 mol % of 3,3,3-trifluoropropene.
US10023777B2
An adhesive composition containing cottonseed protein, and one or more of the following components: (i) soy protein, (ii) a polysaccharide, and (iii) at least one modifier selected from a carboxylic acid, a dicarboxylic acid, a phosphorus-containing acid or ester, a cationic amino acid, a quaternary ammonium salt, or mixtures thereof.
US10023775B2
Provided is a film adhesive which is preferably used as a NCF, void-free, has excellent electrical connectivity and its high reliability, does not develop cracks easily, and has high surface flatness. Also provided is a semiconductor device in which the film adhesive according to the present invention is used as an NCF during the manufacture of the semiconductor device. The film adhesive according to the present invention contains (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a bisphenol F type phenoxy resin; (C) a phenol resin-based curing agent; (D) a modified imidazole compound; (E) a silica filler; (F) oxyquinoline; and (G) a butadiene-acrylonitrile-methacrylic acid copolymer. The content of component (A) is 19.3 to 33.8 parts by mass. The content of component (B) is 7.5 to 9.1 parts by mass. The content of component (D) is 1.915 to 5 parts by mass. The content of component (E) is 30 to 60 parts by mass. The content of component (F) is 2.5 to 10 parts by mass. The liquid epoxy resin of component (A) contains a phenol novolac type epoxy resin and a liquid epoxy resin. The ratio of phenol novolac type epoxy resin to the epoxy resin of component (A) is not less than 46%. The equivalent ratio of component (C) relative to component (A) is 0.25 to 0.75.
US10023764B2
Described are coating material compositions comprising an isocyanate group-containing component, a hydroxyl group-containing component, and a zinc (1-methylimidazole)bis(2-ethylhexanoate) complex. Also described is the use of a zinc (1-methylimidazole)bis(2-ethylhexanoate) complex as a catalyst system for the urethane reaction in coating material compositions.
US10023760B2
Provided is a semicarbazide composition comprising: a semicarbazide compound (A) having an amino group and a semicarbazide group; a semicarbazide compound (B-1) having a structure with a semicarbazide group substituted for the amino group of the semicarbazide compound (A); a semicarbazide compound (B-2) as a dimer of the semicarbazide compound (B-1); and a semicarbazide compound (B-3) as a trimer of the semicarbazide compound (B-1); the semicarbazide composition having an analysis area ratio (a) of 0.008% or more and 2% or less.
US10023754B2
A metallic ink composition for inkjet printing for a polyvinyl chloride substrate, can form printed matter having superior mirror gloss and favorable scratch resistance, and is able to prevent nozzle clogging during inkjet printing, and more specifically pertains to a metallic ink composition that is for inkjet printing for a polyvinyl chloride substrate and that is characterized by containing at least a polyester resin (a) having a weight average molecular weight of no greater than 12,000, a metallic pigment dispersion (b) resulting from dispersing a evaporated aluminum pigment only in an organic solvent, and an organic solvent (c) that has solubility with respect to the polyvinyl chloride substrate.
US10023747B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous radiation curable composition comprising: (I) at least one ethylenically unsaturated compound (A), and (II) at least one emulsifier (B) comprising alternating polyalkylene oxide segments, wherein said emulsifier optionally bears one or more groups selected from alkyl groups, aryl groups hydroxyl groups and/or ethylenically unsaturated groups, and wherein said emulsifier (B) has an HLB value of at least 4.5, preferably at least 7. The compositions of the invention are particularly suited for the manufacture of sprayable eco-friendly hardcoats, but they are also suitable for the making of inks, overprint varnishes and adhesives, alone or in combination with e.g. a water-borne polymer dispersion.
US10023746B2
The invention relates to a pigment which reflects IR radiation, comprising an IR-reflecting core, the IR-reflecting core being provided with a substantially enveloping coating which is transparent to IR radiation, and in that the IR-reflecting pigment is substantially white. The invention further relates to a process for producing these pigments and also to their use.
US10023745B2
[Object]The present invention relates to a turmeric pigment composition. More specifically, the present invention provides a turmeric pigment composition in which aggregation and sedimentation of a turmeric pigment over time is effectively prevented even when a concentrated amount of turmeric pigment is incorporated in a solvent; the turmeric pigment composition also ensures a desirable color-developing property, and is capable of stably adding a deep color with a bright tone, which was never accomplished by a hitherto-known colorant.
US10023739B2
A polymeric material includes a semi-crystalline polymer and a secondary material wherein when the secondary material is combined with the semi-crystalline polymer to form a blend having an enthalpy that is between about 2 J/g heat of fusion and about 80% of the heat of fusion of the neat semi-crystalline material, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) when cooling from a melting temperature to a hot crystalline temperature at a rate of 10° C./min.
US10023737B2
Provided is a molding material comprising a composite of 1 to 50 wt % of a continuous reinforcing fiber bundle (A) and 0.1 to 20 wt % of a poly (phenylene ether ether ketone) oligomer (B); and 30 to 98.9 wt % of a thermoplastic resin (C) adhering to the composite, wherein the component (B) has a melting point of not higher than 270° C. Also provided are a method for molding the molding material, a method for producing the molding material, and a method for producing a fiber-reinforced composite material.A molded article having high heat resistance and dynamic properties can be easily produced without impairing the economic efficiency and productivity during the process for producing a molding material. In addition, a fiber-reinforced composite material can be produced with more ease and high productivity.
US10023735B2
This application describes methods of forming an object. The methods described include forming a mixture with i) one or more primary diamines, ii) one or more polymerizable monomers, iii) a formaldehyde-type reagent, and iv) a polymerization initiator; forming a gel by heating the mixture to a temperature of at least 50° C.; and curing the one or more polymerizable monomers by activating the polymerization initiator. The one or more primary diamines may include one or more amine functional oligomers and/or primary aromatic diamine small molecules. The one or more polymerizable monomers may include styrenics, acrylates, methacrylates, vinyl esters, unsaturated polyesters, and derivatives thereof. The gel is a polyhemiaminal (PHA), a polyhexahydrotriazine (PHT), and/or a polyoctatriazacane (POTA) polymer, and curing of the gel forms an interpenetrating network of the PHA/PHT/POTA and the polymer formed from the polymerizable monomers.
US10023733B2
An aqueous dispersion of a fluorine-containing copolymer comprising, as copolymerization units, (A) a (meth)acrylate represented by [CH2═CHRCOO(NH)rR1NR2R3R4]+Y−, (B) a perfluoroalkylalkyl(meth)acrylate represented by CmF2m+1CpH2p(NR′SO2)qOCOCR═CH2 or a polyfluoroalkylalkyl(meth)acrylate thereof, or a polyfluoroalkyl(meth)acrylate represented by CnF2n+1(CH2CF2)a(CF2CF2)b(CH2CH2)cOCOCR═CH2, (C) benzyl(meth)acrylate, (D) a fluorine-free polymerizable monomer other than components (A) and (C), and (E) a crosslinkable group-containing polymerizable monomer. The aqueous dispersion can improve the dispersion stability of an aqueous dispersion of a water- and oil-repellent when used as a water- and oil-repellent comprising the fluorine-containing copolymer as an active component.
US10023727B2
A rubber bushing composition and an automotive bushing manufactured by molding the composition are provided. The rubber bushing composition has advanced vibration isolation and fatigue endurance conflicting with each other.
US10023716B2
A shaped part that is formed from a polymer composition that contains a liquid crystalline polymer and a black pigment is provided. By selectively controlling the type and relative concentration of these components, the polymer composition and shaped parts formed therefrom can have a dark black appearance, and yet still exhibit good thermal and mechanical properties at high temperatures.
US10023707B2
A thermosetting resin composition due to containing a modified PPE resin as a main ingredient is suited for use in making a pregreg or a copper foil substrate, when hardened, featuring a small dielectric constant (Dk), a low dielectric dissipation factor (Df) and a high Tg as well as a high resistance to heat and flame, this outstanding result is because the modified PPE resin is formed with a novel two-dimensional hardenable structure prepared to have side-chain reactive functional groups being provided in addition to those at the terminal ends of the main chain of the PPE resin thereof.
US10023704B2
The use of an aqueous polymer dispersion including at least one amorphous polymer having a Tg varying between 55° C. and 175° C. or a semi-crystalline polymer having a melting point varying between 70° C. and less than 220° C., the weight concentration of the polymer in the dispersion varying between 5 and 50%, with the polymer particles having an average size of less than 10000 nm, as a binder for impregnating strands or strips of natural fibers, in particular flax fibers, with said polymer being incorporated in the core of the fiber bundle forming the strand or strip and thereby binding the fibers together.
US10023702B2
The invention relates to methods and a novel powdered curable monomer which may be used to manufacture bulk polymers, adhesives and coatings composite materials with high percentage weight inclusions of particulate filler materials, more specifically to fibre reinforced polymer composite materials with high percentage weight inclusions of particulate filler materials. The preferred particulate filler materials are carbon nanotubes. The method according to the invention allows greater than 0.5 wt % of carbon nanotubes, typically greater 10% wt of carbon nanotubes or other high aspect ratio fillers to be readily incorporated in the resin matrix, before being applied to the fibre reinforcing plys.
US10023691B2
Polymers comprising polyetheretheretherketone and polyetherdiphenyletherketone and polymers comprising polyetheretheretherketone and polyetheretherethersulphone are described which have advantageous Tn and/or Tg properties.
US10023678B2
A composition and process useful to make flexible polyurethane foams and in particular flexible molded polyurethane foams is disclosed. The usage of dipolar aprotic liquids such as DMSO, DMI, sulfolane, N-methyl-acetoacetamide, N, N-dimethylacetoacetamide as well as glycols containing hydroxyl numbers OH#≤1100 as cell opening aides for 2-cyanoacetamide or other similar molecules containing active methylene or methine groups to make a polyurethane foam is also disclosed. The advantage of using cell opener aids results in a) no foam shrinkage; b) lower use levels of cell opener; c) foam performance reproducibility d) optimum physical properties. In addition, combining the acid blocked amine catalyst together with the cell opener and the cell opener aid results in a less corrosive mixture as well as provides a method that does not require mechanical crushing for cell opening.
US10023676B2
Conjugated diene monovinylarene block copolymers containing an internal conjugated diene block and having superior kink resistance properties are disclosed. These copolymers can be used to produce tubing and other end-use articles, and can be a replacement for flexible PVC.
US10023675B2
A process for the preparation of a polymer nanoparticle by a photoinduced emulsion polymerization includes preparing an emulsion comprising at least one surfactant, a dispersed phase and a continuous phase. The dispersed phase comprises at least one polymerizable monomer and the continuous phase comprises water and at least one photoinitiator. The at least one polymerizable monomer is polymerized by exposing the emulsion to an electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength so as to induce a generation of radicals from the at least one photoinitiator. The at least one photoinitiator is selected from at least one compound of formula (I)
US10023672B2
Provided is a process of making a polyphenylene oxide prepolymer, comprising a step of reacting a reactive cycloolefin and a vinyl-containing polyphenylene oxide in the presence of a ruthenium catalyst. The reactive cycloolefin may be selected from dicyclopentadiene monomer, dicyclopentadiene oligomer, dicyclopentadiene polymer, norbornene monomer, norbornene oligomer, norbornene polymer, and a combination thereof; the vinyl-containing polyphenylene oxide may be selected from divinylbenzyl polyphenylene oxide resin, vinylbenzyl-modified polyphenylene oxide resin, methacrylic polyphenylene oxide resin, and a combination thereof; the ruthenium catalyst may be a Grubbs catalyst. Also provided are a polyphenylene oxide prepolymer made by the process, a resin composition containing the polyphenylene oxide prepolymer, and a product made from the resin composition.
US10023669B2
The present invention relates to an olefin-based polymer exhibiting a single peak when analyzed by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), and having three elution temperatures Te1, Te2 and Te3 when measuring temperature rising elution fractionation (TREF) at a temperature ranging from −20° C. to 120° C. Accordingly, the olefin-based polymer having excellent mechanical strength, and in particular, significantly improved impact strength is provided.
US10023650B2
The present invention provides for recombinant monoclonal antibodies that bind to human colorectal and pancreatic carcinoma-associated antigens, along with nucleic acid sequences encoding the antibody chains, and the amino acid sequences corresponding to the nucleic acids, and uses for these antibodies, nucleic acids and amino acids.
US10023646B2
This invention provides monoclonal antibodies that recognize the Toll-like Receptor 4/MD-2 receptor complex, and monoclonal antibodies that recognize the TLR4/MD2 complex as well as TLR4 when not complexed with MD-2. The invention further provides methods of using the monoclonal antibodies as therapeutics. This invention also provides soluble chimeric proteins, methods of expressing and purifying soluble chimeric proteins, and methods of using soluble chimeric proteins as therapeutics, in screening assays and in the production of antibodies.
US10023644B2
The present invention provides antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that bind to leptin receptor (LEPR), and methods of using the same. According to certain embodiments, the invention includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that bind LEPR and activate LEPR signaling. In other embodiments, the invention includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that bind to LEPR and enhance sensitization of LEPR to an antigen. In certain embodiments, the invention includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that bind LEPR in the presence and absence of leptin. In certain embodiments, the invention includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that induce signaling in cells expressing LEPR mutants that otherwise exhibit defective or impaired signaling in the presence of leptin. The antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of the present invention are useful for the treatment of lipodystrophies and other diseases and disorders associated with or caused by leptin deficiency or leptin resistance.
US10023643B2
The present invention relates to antibodies against human CSF-1R (CSF-1R antibody), methods for their production, pharmaceutical compositions containing said antibodies, and uses thereof.
