US10047975B2
A system and method for performing at least one thermal response test for a medium. At least one request signal indicative of at least one request to perform the thermal response test is received. On the basis of the at least one request, at least one control signal is generated for causing at least one parameter of a fluid circulating through the medium to be acquired. The at least one measurement is indicative of a thermal property of the medium. The at least one control signal is then output to a hydraulic system.
US10047973B2
A heater includes an outer casing having an air inlet, an air outlet, and a receiving cavity defined between the air inlet and the air outlet, and an integrated air heating and blowing arrangement. The integrated air heating and blowing arrangement includes a fan assembly mounted in the receiving cavity for drawing air from ambient environment to pass through the air inlet and the air outlet, and a heating apparatus arranged to heat up the air drawn by the fan assembly. The heating apparatus is coupled with the fan assembly to form an integrated structure for being detachably mounted in the receiving cavity of the outer casing.
US10047960B2
A combination grill and fire pit heating device. The combination heating device having a grilling mode that is easily converted into a fire pit mode by adjustment of an orientation of the device.
US10047958B2
A combustor wall is provided for a turbine engine and includes a combustor shell and a heat shield. The heat shield is attached to the shell with first and second cavities extending between the shell and the heat shield. The first cavity fluidly couples apertures defined in the shell with the second cavity. The second cavity fluidly couples the first cavity with apertures defined in the heat shield. The shell and the heat shield converge toward one another about the second cavity.
US10047955B2
A thermal post-combustion unit with a combustion chamber having a combustion space to which exhaust air can be supplied, having a burner for heating the combustion space, whereby clean air is produced, having an inlet for exhaust air and having an outlet for clean air. A flow path connects the inlet to the combustion space. Exhaust air can be heated by a heat-exchanger system. The flow path comprises a first, second and third flow section, wherein the first flow section is connected to the inlet and the exhaust air flows from the third flow section to the combustion space, wherein the flow sections connect to one another at diversion ends so that the exhaust air flows through two successive flow sections with different flow directions. Heat-exchanger pipes extend at least inside the first and the second flow section or at least the first and the second flow section extend inside heat-exchanger pipes.
US10047951B2
A gas burner including a gas inlet opening, a gas chamber connected to the gas inlet opening, and a gas input chamber connecting the gas inlet opening and the gas chamber, wherein the gas input chamber leads out from the gas inlet opening into the gas chamber in an at least partially upward angled manner.
US10047946B2
There is provided a light fixture, comprising a heat sink element and an upper housing mounted to the heat sink element, the heat sink element extending farther in a first direction in a first plane than a largest dimension of the upper housing in any plane parallel to the first plane. In addition, a light fixture, comprising a heat sink element, an upper housing mounted to the heat sink element and an additional component (e.g., a power supply module or a junction box) in contact with the heat sink element. Also, a light fixture, comprising a heat sink element, an upper housing thermally coupled to the heat sink element and at least one solid state light emitter thermally coupled to the heat sink element.
US10047938B2
A modular lighting system may include a plurality of magnets that may be provided to self-align a light pod casing with a pod accessory. Self-alignment of the light pod casing and the pod accessory may provide a secure connection of the light pod casing with the pod accessory. At least one detent and at least one locking arm may mate and lock the light pod casing against the pod accessory in a mounted position. The at least one detent and the at least one locking arm may unlock in an insertion position. Self-alignment may occur when a first set of magnets attracts a second set of magnets in which opposite polarities attract and automatically initiate movement of the light pod casing towards the pod accessory.
US10047929B2
A system and method of generating perceived white light by laser. The system comprises a laser, a phosphoric substrate, and optionally a diffraction grating. In one embodiment, a blue laser beam from the laser penetrates the phosphoric substrate to create perceived white light in a Gaussian distribution appropriate for emergency lighting. In another embodiment, the blue laser beam is split into multiple beams by the diffraction grating. The multiple beams penetrate the phosphoric substrate to create perceived white light in a Gaussian distribution appropriate for emergency lighting.
US10047925B2
A headlamp, for a vehicle, that includes an interface unit configured to receive information about an object external to the vehicle, at least one light source configured to generate light, and a transparent display configured to allow at least a portion of the light to pass through the transparent display. The headlamp also includes a processor configured to control the transparent display to darken one area of the transparent display to block transmission of the light through the area of the transparent display, the area of the transparent display being less than an entirety of the transparent display is disclosed.
US10047923B2
An indirect daylighting device for a building with an interior space may include a suspension system configured for securing to a building structure and a pan secured to the suspension system and having an incident surface and a cross-sectional profile forming a plurality of waves, wherein the incident surface is arranged to receive natural light entering a building and reflect the natural light to provide indirect lighting to the interior space of the building.
US10047921B2
A system for managing emergency lighting is generally described. In particular, the present disclosure relates to self-tests and predictive life expectancy operations of emergency lighting systems. Further, the present disclosure relates to an automated system and method for performing self-tests and predicting emergency lighting fixture life expectancy. In the exemplary embodiments, emergency lighting system tests may be automatically scheduled, carried out, and evaluated.
US10047920B2
Disclosed is a flashlight which may include of a first window arranged at a first end of the flashlight, a light source configured to generate light, a first reflector configured to reflect light from the light source to the first window to generate a first beam of light, and a second reflector configured to reflect stray light from the light source through one of a first aperture and a first gap in the first reflector to generate a second beam of light leaving the flashlight through a second window.
US10047919B2
A fluorescent light source device includes a wavelength conversion member formed of a phosphor to be excited by excitation light. The wavelength conversion member includes a fluorescent member containing the phosphor, and a photonic structure part formed on the fluorescent member. An upper surface of the photonic structure part serves as a fluorescent light emitting surface of the wavelength conversion member. The photonic structure part is made from an inorganic compound layer that may be formed of a metal oxide and has a columnar structure extending in a direction away from the fluorescent member.
US10047914B2
A light source includes a plurality of solid state light emitters configured to be powered directly from an AC source, and means for providing an electrically insulating and thermally conductive attachment between the solid state light emitters and a heat sink.
US10047910B2
An apparatus for fastening a pair of gas vessels includes: a plurality of first units formed of a composite material, spaced apart from each other in parallel with each other in a length direction of the gas vessel, and having the pair of gas vessels seated on both sides thereof; a second unit formed of a composite material and extending in the length direction of the gas vessels to integrally connect the plurality of first units; and a plurality of fastening units each of which extending along a circumference of the gas vessels to enclose the gas vessels seated on the first units and having both ends connected to the first units.
US10047902B2
A system directed to the art of mounting systems is provided. A mounting system capable of mounting a television/monitor or other object to a wall or various other structures in a manner that is secure, level, and versatile is disclosed. The mounting system has a pair of hooks and a support member. The support member is configured to be mounted on a wall or other upstanding surface and the hooks are attachable to the back surface of a monitor and configured to receive the support member or other rail-type member.
US10047891B2
A multi-coupling includes a fixed plate and a free plate, and a primary locking mechanism for locking the free plate to the fixed plate aligned to form multiple fluid passages through the multi-coupling. The primary locking mechanism may include a drive screw secured to the fixed plate engaged with a drive nut secured to the free plate, and a clam shell securing mechanism that secures the drive screw to the fixed plate. The clam shell halves are moveable to release the drive screw from the fixed plate independently of releasing drive screw from the drive nut. The multi-coupling further may include satellite locking mechanisms in combination with the primary locking mechanism. The satellite locking mechanisms may include satellite securing mechanisms that are moveable to release the satellite locking mechanism from the fixed plate. The locking mechanisms are removable while retaining the fixed plate fixed to base equipment.
US10047889B2
A tubular coupling comprising a female connector (2) into which a male connector (6) provided with an annular collar (7) is designed to be inserted axially, and a connection element (9) that extends in a transverse direction in the female connector. The connection element is designed to interfere mechanically with the collar while the male connector is being inserted into the female connector, and to move by itself in said transverse direction towards the inside of the female connector. In addition, the connection element and the female connector are also designed so that, after the reaction to the radial resilient deformation of the connection element on the collar of the male connector, they come to bear against each other in the manner of a projection (14) that, by resilient return, exerts pressure on a guide ramp (15), so as to generate a thrust force that extends the movement of the connection element towards the inside of the female connector.
US10047887B2
The disclosure presents exemplary embodiments of a cartridge nut concept for conduit fittings. The cartridge nut concept may include the feature of loosely retaining one or more conduit gripping devices with a fitting component such as a male or female threaded nut. The cartridge nut concept may be realized using one or more geometry or shape features or characteristics of one or more conduit gripping devices. Still further, the cartridge nut concept may be realized in combination with a ferrule cartridge concept.
US10047879B2
A pipe support structure is described comprising a support member defining a support surface, and a plurality of pipe support elements; wherein the support surface defines a plurality of grooves each correspondingly sized and shaped to receive a respective one of the pipe support elements, with the pipe support element being sized to project beyond its groove when so received. The pipe support elements may then be fabricated from a material selected for instance for low friction, corrosion resistance or the like. A pipeline system, a method for supporting a pipe, and a method for deploying a pipeline system are also described embodying the same general principles.
US10047874B2
A magnetic valve includes a valve component and a valve body that engages around a region of the valve component in a hood-like manner and in a sealing manner in at least one sealing region. A flow chamber is formed between the valve body and an end face of the valve component. The valve component has an axially running through-channel with a constant cross-section which passes through the end face and which opens into the flow chamber so as to form an axial duct for a fluid. The valve body has a through-opening that is fluidically connected to the flow chamber and is configured to be closed by a closing element that is movably arranged on a valve body face that faces away from the flow chamber. The end face is configured as a type of lip seal ring.
US10047854B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a vehicle speed control system operable to cause a vehicle to operate in accordance with a target speed value, the system being operable automatically to perform a direction change operation wherein the system causes a transmission of the vehicle to adopt a configuration corresponding to travel in an opposite direction to the instant configuration when the vehicle speed does not exceed a prescribed transmission direction change speed.
US10047853B2
Oil pressure controller for an automatic transmission produces a pre-charge shelf pressure supplied to a starter clutch by rapidly decreasing a command hydraulic pressure to the starter clutch after temporarily rapidly increasing the command hydraulic pressure, also produces a capacity adjustment pressure (Pb1 or Pb2) of the starter clutch by gradually increasing the hydraulic pressure from a decrease point of the pre-charge shelf pressure (Pa), when a selecting operation is made from N-range to D-range. By changing capacity adjustment pressure (Pb1 or Pb2) according to brake-operating/nonoperating state, capacity adjustment pressure (Pb1) in the brake-nonoperating state is set to be higher than capacity adjustment pressure (Pb2) in the brake-operating state by an offset hydraulic pressure amount. With this, when the selecting operation is made from N-range to D-range, in the brake-operating state, selection shock of the starter clutch can be reduced. In the brake-nonoperating state, good vehicle startability can be achieved.
US10047845B2
A torsional vibration damper assembly for a hydrokinetic torque coupling device, comprises a torsional vibration damper and a dynamic absorber operatively connected to the torsional vibration damper. The torsional vibration damper comprises a driven member rotatable about a rotational axis, a first retainer plate rotatable relative to the driven member coaxially with the rotational axis, and a plurality of damper elastic members interposed between the first retainer plate and the driven member. The damper elastic members elastically couple the first retainer plate to the driven member. The dynamic absorber includes an inertial member. The dynamic absorber is mounted to the torsional vibration damper and is rotationally guided and centered relative to the rotational axis by one of the first retainer plate and the driven member of the torsional vibration damper.
US10047844B2
A dynamic damper device occupies a small space in an axial direction and can achieve a reduction in weight. The dynamic damper device is mounted to a turbine shell of a torque converter, and includes a damper plate, an inertia ring and a plurality of torsion springs. The damper plate is fixed to the turbine shell and is configured to be rotated. The inertia ring has spring accommodation parts and slider accommodation parts along a circumferential direction, and is disposed to be rotatable relative to the damper plate. The plurality of torsion springs are disposed in the spring accommodation parts of the inertia ring, and elastically couple the damper plate and the inertia ring in a rotational direction.
US10047843B2
A torque converter core ring is provided. The torque converter core ring includes an inner circumference, an outer circumference, radially outer slots extending radially inward from the outer circumference and radially inner slots extending radially outward from the inner circumference. A method of forming a torque converter torus component is also provided. The method includes fixing a plurality of blades to a shell, each of the blades including radially inner tabs and radially outer tabs; forming a core ring to include an inner circumference, an outer circumference, radially outer slots extending radially inward from the outer circumference and radially inner slots extending radially outward from the inner circumference; and fixing the core ring and the blades together by providing each of the radially inner tabs into one of the radially inner slots and providing each of the radially outer tabs into one of the radially outer slots.
US10047834B2
Nine or more forward speeds and at least one reverse speed is achieved by a planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle including an input shaft, an output shaft, four planetary gear sets respectively having three rotation elements, and six control elements for selectively interconnecting the rotation elements.
US10047825B2
A device for guiding long objects comprises a plurality links. Each link has a pair of link portions that face each other in a first direction. The links are disposed and respectively connected in series along a second direction. Each pair of link portions is connected by a respective pair of arms at the two ends of the respective link in a third direction. In the accommodation space enclosed and formed by each pair of link portions and the respective pair of arms, a long object is accommodated. Two link portions that are adjacent in the second direction are connected by coupling portions. The coupling portions are configured from a second material with a higher wear resistance than the first material that configures the respective link portions. A space is formed between the two link portions on the entire circumference of the coupling portions.
US10047818B2
A damping device has a pin member inserted slidably in a cylindrical case member. The bottom of the case member has: a hole forming section in which an insertion hole is formed; and a slit for allowing the hole forming section to be expanded and deformed. The outer peripheral surface of the pin member and/or the inner peripheral surface of the hole forming section has a tapered section tilted relative to the axial direction. The movement of the pin member of being pressed into the insertion hole from the inside causes the outer peripheral surface of the pin member and the inner peripheral surface of the hole forming section to slide on each other along the tapered section, and as a result, the insertion hole is expanded.
US10047815B2
A resilient expandable pressure vessel configured to function like a spring. The resilient expandable pressure vessel includes a body portion, a cavity defined within the body portion, and at least one port in communication with the cavity defined in the body portion. The at least one port is configured to receive a fluid into the cavity and discharge the fluid from the cavity. The resilient expandable pressure vessel has a predetermined expansibility across a range of operating pressures of the fluid in the cavity. The range is at least 200 psi.
US10047812B2
An actuator for an electric parking brake system includes a motor, an output member, and a speed reduction device. The speed reduction device includes a transmission mechanism and a self-locking mechanism. The self-locking mechanism includes a fixed member, first and second rotating bodies, and a spring. The second rotating body transmits torque to the output member via a planetary gear mechanism. The spring prevents the brake from driving the motor.
US10047811B2
A rail wheel having a wheel-mounted brake disk fastened to the wheel body of the rail wheel by multiple fastening elements distributed across the wheel circumference and seated against the wheel body within this fastening region, where the wheel-mounted brake disk is seated against the wheel body in at least one radial area radially outside the fastening region in the cold state and is spaced apart from the wheel body in the region radially within the fastening region to reduce stress on the fastening elements after braking has been initiated.
US10047805B2
A clutch hydraulic pressure control circuit includes: a shift valve for switching the destination to feed hydraulic pressure to a first hydraulic clutch or a second hydraulic clutch; and first and second shift solenoid valves operating synchronously to actuate the shift valve. The two shift solenoid valves include a holding valve for keeping hydraulic pressure fed to the shift valve even when hydraulic pressure supply through one of the first and second shift solenoid valves happens to be shut off while hydraulic pressure is fed through the first and second shift solenoid valves to paths between the shift valve and the shift solenoid valves, or when hydraulic pressure supply through one of the first and second shift solenoid valves happens to occur while no hydraulic pressure is fed through the shift solenoid valves.
US10047799B2
A compressor includes a shell, a motor assembly, a driveshaft, and a bearing assembly. The bearing assembly is disposed within the shell and supports the driveshaft for rotation. The bearing assembly includes a bracket, a hub, and a bushing. The bracket is coupled to the shell and includes an aperture. The hub is disposed within the aperture and defines a bore having a radially inwardly extending lip. The bushing includes a proximal portion and a distal portion. The distal portion of the bushing includes a plurality of radially extending engagement features. The distal portion of the bushing is disposed within the bore of the hub such that the engagement features engage the lip of the hub.
US10047790B2
A low-friction side load bearing assembly for accommodating severe side loads applied to a spindle is provided. The side load bearing assembly includes a sleeve member having a frustro-conical outer surface that is slidably mounted on the spindle, and a cageless rolling bearing circumscribing the sleeve member. The cageless rolling bearing includes an annular housing that contains an inner ring of ball bearings that engages the sleeve member, and an outer ring of rolling bearings that maintains angular spacing between the ball bearings of the inner ring. A spring-loaded biasing mechanism pushes the sleeve member along the axis of rotation of the spindle such that its frustroconical outer surface wedgingly engages the inner ring of ball bearings thereby obviating the need for a bearing cage and rendering the bearing assembly self-adjusting for wear.
US10047786B2
A nut and support element assembly structure includes: a nut having a screw hole, an end side, and a lateral side; a support element having a bottom resting portion, two end side abutting portions disposed at the end sides of the nut, respectively, and two lateral side clamping portions connected to the end side abutting portions to clamp the nut from the lateral sides. A nut and support element assembly structure includes: a nut having a screw hole, an end side, and a lateral side; a support element having a bottom resting portion, two end side abutting portions disposed at the end sides of the nut, respectively, and two lateral side clamping portions connected to the bottom resting portion to clamp the nut from the lateral sides. A screwing-fixing assembly for use with the nut and support element assembly structure is further provided.
US10047779B2
A fastening device is provided, which includes a locating seat for engaging with a first workpiece; a fastening member including sequentially connected stop unit, shank unit and fastening unit, the fastening unit being configured for fastening to a second workpiece; a reciprocation actuator movably disposed on the locating seat with the shank unit extended through and movably located in the reciprocation actuator and the locating seat, the stop unit abutted on a top of the reciprocation actuator, the fastening unit movable in a reciprocating motion between an inner side and an outer side of the locating seat or outside the locating seat; and an elastic element having an end pressed against the locating seat and another end pressed against the fastening member.
US10047778B2
The invention relates to a connection comprising at least two components having the following features: a first component and a second component, of which at least the second component comprises reinforced plastic, a self-piercing connection element having a head and a shaft, the head thereof being supported on the first component and the shaft thereof running completely through the first and the second component, and a disc-shaped counter bearing to which the shaft is fastened such that the at least two components are fastened between the head and the counter bearing. The invention further relates to a method for the production of said connection.
US10047767B2
A motor pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning appliance is provided, in which the cleaning liquid conveyed by the pump assembly is used for cooling the motor, comprising a motor housing which surrounds the motor, and a cooling channel which surrounds the motor and through which the cleaning liquid can flow for heat dissipation. To provide a motor pump unit having a level of electrical safety which is higher than that of a conventional motor pump unit, the cooling channel surround the motor housing, and the motor pump unit comprise at least one thermally conductive spacer element by way of which the cooling channel is spaced from the motor housing. A high-pressure cleaning appliance is also provided.
US10047748B2
A rotary compressor, a method of manufacturing a rotary compressor, and an apparatus for manufacturing a rotary compressor are provided. The rotary compressor may include a case having an inner space, a stator to which power may be applied, the stator being disposed in the case, and a compression mechanism disposed on or at one side of the stator to generate a compression force of a refrigerant. The compression mechanism may include a rotational shaft, a cylinder that accommodates a roller coupled to the rotational shaft, a main bearing coupled a first side of the cylinder, and a sub bearing coupled to a second side of the cylinder. The main bearing may be press-fitted and fixed to an inner surface of the case.
US10047742B2
A pump includes: a base with a through-hole flanked by an intake-hole and discharge-hole; an external cylinder fixed to the base; an end-fitting element disposed at external cylinder and having a through-hole; an internal cylinder inserted into the through-hole of end-fitting element and thereby partially received in external cylinder to fit coaxially inside external cylinder; a handle fixed to internal cylinder; a delivery pipe fixed to the base's through-hole and received coaxially in internal cylinder; an internal cylinder piston fixed to delivery pipe and received in internal cylinder; an external cylinder piston fixed to internal cylinder, received in external cylinder, and having a through-hole penetrated by delivery pipe; a check-valve disposed in intake-hole to ensure unidirectional gas movement therein; a discharge-valve disposed in discharge-hole; a control element for controlling discharge-valve to open and close; and a guide-channel communicating with the base's through-hole and intake-hole and connected to a nozzle.
US10047738B2
A diaphragm pump and pump system including a pump housing defined along a longitudinal axis and having one or more pumping chambers and one or more driving chambers. At least two check valves communicating with each of the one or more pumping chambers for conducting a production fluid into and out of the pumping chamber. One or more flexible axially elongated diaphragms are mounted in the pump housing and sealingly separate the one or more pumping and driving chambers. At least one cam mechanism is disposed in the pump housing and coaxially therewith the pump housing longitudinal axis. The cam mechanism is configured for rotational movement to provide for radial deflection of the one or more flexible axially elongated diaphragms into the one or more pumping chambers to affect pumping of a production fluid therethrough the diaphragm pump.
US10047732B2
An electrothermal device (1, 100) includes a primary chamber (2) having an anode nozzle (6) provided with an inlet passage (7), a cathode tip (9) at least partially inserted into the inlet passage (7), and a primary air inlet (10) leading into the inlet passage (7), and a voltage generator (11) arranged between the anode nozzle (6) and the cathode tip (9) in such a way as to generate an electric arc (12) on the path of the primary air flow (13) injected into the primary chamber (2). It includes a secondary chamber (3) wherein a secondary air flow (15) circulates in a heat exchange relation with the heated primary air flow (14) from the primary chamber (2), the secondary air flow (15) having a lower temperature than the heated primary air flow (14) leaving the primary chamber (2).
US10047729B2
A concentrating solar power collector plant is provided in which a pressurized solar power receiver with an associated gas turbine and a low-pressure solar power receiver are used together with a common thermal energy storage system. Exhaust from the gas turbine is connected to the thermal energy storage system to deliver residual heat to the thermal energy storage system in addition to that received from the low-pressure solar power receiver. The pressurized solar power receiver may be a separate unit from the low-pressure receiver and at least some heliostats are controlled to redirect reflected solar energy from one solar power receiver to the other. The pressurized solar power receiver may alternatively be combined with the low-pressure receiver in a single unit having a heat receiving part of a high-pressure receiver and a flow passage for heating air between an inlet and an outlet to form the low pressure receiver.
US10047728B2
A renewable energy device includes a wheel rotatably mounted on a base to spin about an axis of rotation and having a plurality of hollow, barbell-shaped fluid subassemblies fixed symmetrically about the axis. The fluid subassemblies each have a longitudinal axis radiating away from the axis of rotation, a hollow outer end defining a circular, ring-shaped, outer travel path when rotated about the axis of rotation, a hollow inner end defining a circular, ring-shaped, travel path disposed within the outer travel path when rotated about the axis of rotation, a hollow conduit fluidically connecting the outer and inner ends to define an interior cavity, and a room-temperature-boiling-point fluid disposed in the interior cavity. Inner and outer thermal variance subassemblies cover approximately half of respective ones of the inner and outer travel paths on at least one side of the wheel.
US10047720B2
Disclosed is a wind turbine blade and a method for retrofitting a wind turbine blade, the wind turbine blade extending in a longitudinal direction along a pitch axis and having a tip end and a root end as well as a blade length, the wind turbine blade further comprising a profiled contour including a pressure side and a suction side, as well as a leading edge and a trailing edge with a chord having a chord length extending there between, the profiled contour, when being impacted by an incident airflow generating a lift, wherein the suction side of the wind turbine blade is provided with a plurality of vortex generators positioned along a mounting line having a proximal end point nearest the root end and a distal end point nearest the tip end, wherein the mounting line is a concave line seen from the trailing edge of the wind turbine blade.
US10047714B2
An injection hole of a fuel injector includes: an inner hole section extending from an inner surface of a bottom wall of an injector tip obliquely away from a first side relative to a normal line of the inner surface to define a first inner side wall surface on the first side forming an obtuse angle with the inner surface and a second inner side wall surface on a second side opposite to the first side forming an acute angle with the inner surface; a middle hole section including a first middle side wall surface extending obliquely from the first inner side wall surface toward the first side; and an outer hole section including a first outer side wall surface extending obliquely from the first middle side wall surface toward the first side. A recess is formed on a radially outer side of an inner end of the inner hole section.
US10047709B2
A fuel injector includes a nozzle body having a spray tip with at least one spray orifice and a needle slideably arranged in the nozzle body in order to control the spray orifice. A control chamber is associated with the needle, which is filled with high-pressure fuel in order to exert a pressure force on the needle in its closing direction; the control chamber being in communication with a high pressure fuel channel through an inlet restrictor and with a low pressure drain through an outlet restrictor via a control valve to selectively allow or hinder the flow of fuel out of the control chamber through the outlet restrictor. The inlet restrictor and outlet restrictor are designed so that the ratio of outlet fuel flow rate over inlet fuel flow rate increases at low fuel temperatures, in order to cause a greater pressure reduction in the control chamber.
US10047703B1
A vehicle EGR cooler may include a housing provided wherein coolant flows therein, a gas tube into which exhaust gas flows through the housing, cooling fins disposed in the gas tube, a variable valve, a portion of which is fixed to one side of the housing, the variable valve having a length varied in a width direction of the cooling fins depending on a temperature of a coolant, and an auxiliary cooling fin provided at one side of the housing to be connected to the variable valve, the auxiliary cooling fin being inserted into the gas tube to be formed between the cooling fins, the auxiliary cooling fin coming into contact with or being away from the cooling fins while moving according to a variation in length of the variable valve, varying a radiation area for the exhaust gas.
US10047692B2
A GDCI engine control system determines if in-cylinder conditions are sufficient to achieve combustion in a given cylinder or if a misfire is likely. Fuel is delivered to that cylinder if combustion is probable, but fuel is disabled to that cylinder if a misfire is probable.
US10047685B2
An engine control device (2) of a motor vehicle includes: a control device (6) with elements for generating a control signal; and at least one output circuit (8) including: an input (14) intended to receive a control signal generated by the control device (6), and an output (16) connected to a component (4) and equipped with switching elements (18). The control device (2) further includes a monitoring device (20), which has: a first input (24) receiving the signal from the input (14) of the output circuit (8) connected to the control device (6), a second input (22) connected to the output (16) of the output circuit (8), and control elements associated with time delay elements for interrupting the connection between the output of the output circuit (8) and the component (4).
US10047684B2
A method for controlling valve timing is provided for an engine including continuous variable duration (CVVD) device disposed on both intake valve and exhaust valve sides respectively. The method may include: classifying control regions into first, second, third, fourth, and fifth control regions based on engine load and speed; applying a maximum duration to an intake valve and controlling a valve overlap in a first control region, applying the maximum duration to the intake valve and exhaust valve in the second control region; controlling a manifold absolute pressure (MAP) of an intake manifold to be maintained consistently in the third control region; controlling a throttle valve to be fully opened, advancing an intake valve closing (IVC) timing, and controlling an exhaust valve closing (EVC) timing to after top dead center in the fourth control region; and controlling a wide open throttle valve (WOT) and retarding the intake valve closing in the fifth control region.
US10047682B2
A device is provided for operating an internal-combustion engine of a motor vehicle having a power actuator and a control unit. The control unit is configured for adjusting the power actuator as a function of a load demand on the basis of a displacement of the driving pedal by the driver, wherein, during an efficiency mode demanded and activated by the driver, independently of the displacement of the driving pedal, a rotational-speed-dependent consumption-optimal first load demand, and as a function of the displacement of the driving pedal, a second load demand, are determined. The control unit is configured for adjusting the power actuator while taking into account the determined first and second load demands.
US10047681B2
A method for detecting and controlling a load weight of a vehicle by means of a tire pressure of the vehicle and a device are provided. The method includes the steps of installation setting, detecting the load weight, and controlling an electric switch. The device includes tire pressure detectors installed on rear wheels of the vehicle and connected with a processor which is input with a preset tire pressure value and able to receive the tire pressure detected by the tire pressure detectors. The processor is connected with an electric switch of the vehicle. The processor compares the tire pressure detected by the tire pressure detectors with the preset tire pressure value, and controls the electric switch to turn on/off a power source of the vehicle. The device is capable of detecting and controlling the load weight of the vehicle by detecting a change of the tire pressure.
US10047678B2
A method of stopping an engine of a rotorcraft in overspeed, the engine comprising a gas generator and a power assembly. When the engine is in operation, the engine is automatically stopped when the following three conditions are satisfied simultaneously: a torque (Tq) measured on the power assembly is below a predetermined torque threshold (Tq1); and a speed of rotation referred to as a “first speed of rotation (N1)” of the gas generator is above a threshold referred to as a “first speed threshold (S1)”; and a speed of rotation referred to as a “second speed of rotation (N2)” of the power assembly is above a threshold referred to as a “second speed threshold (S2)”.
US10047670B2
An internal combustion engine has at least one piston which performs stroke movements in a cylinder crankcase. Via two connecting rods, the piston interacts with two parallel crankshafts which rotate synchronously in opposite directions. The connecting rods have, on a side facing toward a piston crown of the piston, bearing eyelets which, via piston pins, are operatively connected to the first and second bearings provided at opposite first and second sides of the piston, which bearings and piston pins act as a device for compensating an asymmetry of the profile of the crankshafts. To optimize the internal combustion engine, the first and the second bearings have cylindrical bearing disks which, firstly, are rotatably mounted in piston bores and which, secondly, include disk bores for receiving first and second pin sections of the piston pins.
US10047659B2
A vehicle engine is provided that includes an exhaust manifold configured to emit a first emission. A heat shield is positioned proximate the exhaust manifold and has a shield substrate defining an aperture. An indicator is positioned over the aperture with a support substrate and a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is configured to absorb the first emission and emit a second emission.
US10047658B2
An exhaust gas temperature control apparatus adjusts the temperature of exhaust gas in a stage before an exhaust gas purification unit disposed in an exhaust pipe passage of an internal combustion engine. The exhaust gas temperature control apparatus includes a heat reservoir which can store and radiate heat, a heating member which causes the heat reservoir to store heat, and a temperature control section which controls the temperature of the exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust gas temperature control apparatus by causing the heat reservoir to store heat or radiate heat in accordance with operation state of a vehicle on which the internal combustion engine is mounted.
US10047652B2
A method of removing sulfur from a lean NOx trap of a mild hybrid vehicle while the vehicle is stationary is disclosed, the method comprising connecting an electrical system of the vehicle to a large capacity external battery, operating an integrated starter generator driven by an engine of the vehicle as a generator to load the engine thereby allowing the engine to be operated at a higher torque level and rich of stoichiometric and storing the electrical energy produced by the integrated starter generator in the large capacity battery during the time period required for the removal of sulfur from the lean NOx trap.
US10047650B2
A vehicle exhaust system includes an exhaust component having an outer surface and an inner surface that defines an internal exhaust component cavity. At least one hole is formed in the exhaust component to extend through a wall of the exhaust component from the outer surface to the inner surface. A member is formed from a resistive material and is configured to overlap the at least one hole. At least one spacer is configured to space the member away from the inner or outer surface of the exhaust component to create an open cavity between the member and the exhaust component. In one example, an actuator is configured to cover and uncover the member dependent upon an operating characteristic to vary damping.
US10047646B2
A camshaft for a multiple-cylinder internal combustion engine may include a sliding element comprising at least two cam elements, as well as a splined shaft that extends in an axial direction and on which the sliding element is received. The sliding element may comprise an internal spline system that interacts with an external spline system of the splined shaft such that the sliding element is seated fixedly on the splined shaft so as to rotate with the splined shaft. The sliding element may be received on the splined shaft such that the sliding element can, at least initially, be displaced axially. For axially-fixing the sliding element to the splined shaft, the sliding element may include a positively locking connection that is configured in the axial direction and is produced by way of at least one calked connection between the sliding element and the splined shaft. It should be understood that many camshafts include more than one sliding element.
US10047640B2
A roller tappet includes a housing, and the housing includes a first housing element and a second housing element. The first housing element has a receiving region configured to receive a roller of the roller tappet, and the second housing element is separate from the first housing element and is forged. The first housing element may be formed from metal sheet.
US10047634B2
An actuator for an aircraft turbine engine nacelle with a one-piece annular rear part, includes an engine assembly having a nut which is capable of rotating but not of translational movement, and a shaft for turning this nut. The actuator also includes a screw assembly having a screw capable of translational movement without rotating, in mesh with the nut, and a ball joint at one end of this screw intended to be fixed to the annular rear part.
US10047633B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a bearing housing of a turbine, wherein the bearing housing is configured to support a shaft of the turbine, and the bearing housing comprises at least one bearing housing ear configured to transfer a load of the bearing housing to an inlet housing of the turbine through a horizontal center line of the bearing housing.
US10047628B2
A gas turbine engine includes a fan section with twenty (20) or less fan blades and a fan pressure ratio less than about 1.45.
US10047627B2
Various methods and systems are provided for controlling a tip clearance between a shroud and blade of a turbocharger turbine. In one embodiment, a method for an engine including a turbocharger comprises, selectively adjusting a flow of coolant from one or more engine coolant sources through a shroud of a turbine based on a tip clearance between the shroud and a blade of the turbine.
US10047622B2
The present application provides seal assemblies having improved flexibility for reducing leakages between adjacent misaligned components of turbomachinery. The seal assemblies include a first outer shim formed of a flexible permeable material and a second outer shim formed of a substantially impervious material. At least the second outer shim is configured for sealing engagement with seal slots of the adjacent components. The seal assemblies may also include at least one of an inner shim and a filler layer positioned between the first and second outer shims. The seal assemblies may be sufficiently flexible to account for misalignment between the adjacent components, sufficiently stiff to meet assembly requirements, and sufficiently robust to meet operating requirements associated with turbomachinery. A turbomachine including the seal assembly is provided.
US10047620B2
A compressor for a gas turbine engine including one or more endwall treatments for controlling leakage flow and circumferential flow non-uniformities in the compressor. The compressor includes a casing, a hub, a flow path formed between the casing and the hub, a plurality of blades positioned in the flow path, and one or more circumferentially varying end-wall treatments formed in an interior surface of at least one of the casing or the hub. Each of the one or more circumferentially varying endwall treatments circumferentially varying based on their relative position to an immediately adjacent upstream bladerow. Each of the one or more endwall treatments is circumferentially varied in at least one of placement relative to the immediately adjacent upstream bladerow or in geometric parameters defining each of the plurality of circumferentially varying endwall treatments. Additionally disclosed is an engine including the compressor.
US10047618B2
A component system of a turbine engine including a first component segment and a second component segment configurable in a ring segment shape, so that at least one abutment surface of the first component segment and an abutment surface of the second component segment abut against each other; together, the first component segment and the second component segment including at least three overlapping elements for sealing a gap between the abutment surfaces. In the case of mutually abutting abutment surfaces, each overlapping element overlapping radially with the respective other component segment. At least two of the overlapping elements are configured on the first component segment, while at least one of the overlapping elements is configured on the second component segment. In the case of mutually abutting abutment surfaces, the overlapping element of the second component segment is axially configured between the overlapping elements of the first component segment.
US10047615B2
A method for mounting rotor blades on a rotor disk along a predetermined pitch circle diameter in such a way that adjacent rotor blades, when properly mounted on the rotor disk and in the cold state, are clamped against each other with a predetermined preload. A clamping device which performs such a method has a plurality of clamping elements which are arranged in a uniformly distributed manner around a central axis, the number of which corresponds to the number of rotor blades to be mounted on the rotor disk and which in each case are designed for the locating of a rotor blade, wherein the clamping elements are moveable radially, exerting a radially inwardly directed force.
US10047604B2
A system and process for determining system operational characteristics of a drill string or completed well includes one or more detectors positioned along a fluid flow path in a wellbore. The detectors are operable to detect the presence of one or more transmitters circulated within the fluid flow path and to receive and record data based on detecting the transmitters. The system determines an operational characteristic, such as cutting sample identification information, flow rate, pump efficiency, lag, the presence of a washout, losses, or an equipment malfunction based on the data received and recorded by the detectors.
US10047602B2
A system and method for assembling a communication system in a drilling system configured to drill a borehole in an earthen formation. The communication system has a first antenna assembly and a second antenna assembly that are communicatively coupled together. The method includes attaching a first antenna to the first drill string component and attaching a second antenna to a second antenna assembly. The communication system is configured such that the first drill string component and the second drill string component are communicatively coupled together.
US10047598B1
A technique provides for the combined use of a tool and a sensor system to deploy a subsea structural casing. The tool has an engagement region configured to couple with the subsea structural casing. The sensor system is operatively coupled with the tool and comprises a plurality of sensors. The sensors are used to monitor height of the subsea structural casing above a mud line as well as angular deviation of the structural casing during deployment of the subsea structural casing into a seabed.
US10047597B2
A disclosed method includes outputting, by an electrical component residing in a downhole tool, a clocked digital output. The method also includes adjusting, by a variable impedance circuit external to the electrical component, an impedance value in series with the clocked digital output as a function of temperature.
US10047590B2
A tool for influencing electrically conductive paths using ferrofluids in a downhole system. The downhole system can include a tool body, a source of ferrofluid, and a magnet. The magnet can provide a magnetic field that influences an electrically conductive path within an annulus between the tool body and a wellbore formation by arranging the ferrofluid from the source in the annulus.
US10047579B2
A snubbing plug containing a body and a piston is configured to be secured within a component of a mineral extraction system by an internal locking mechanism. A fluid passage extends at least partially through the piston of the snubbing plug. The snubbing plug is configured to selectively open the fluid passage during installation or removal of the snubbing plug.
US10047577B2
A method for separating solids from a drill cuttings and drilling mud mixture feed in a shale shaker includes providing a shale shaker (1) having a basket (4) including a stack of at least two screen decks (8,8a, 8b), wherein the screening surfaces (9,9a, 9b) of the decks are spaced apart and superposed one above the other. A fluid retaining wall (5) and the feed receiving end (12a, 12b) of the screening surface of the lowest screen deck define a pond region (15). In use of the method a drill cuttings and drilling mud mixture feed (18) forms a pond of solids and liquid in the pond region that immerses a portion of the screening surface at the feed receiving end of each of the two screen decks. Apparatus for use in the method is also described.
US10047574B2
A centralizer, a device and a system. An example centralizer includes: a longitudinal axis, and first and second opposing end collars positioned around the axis of the centralizer; and a plurality of spring bows extending from the first end collar via a generally convex curved portion to the second end collar. A radial distance from an outwardly facing portion of the first end collar to the axis is: greater than a radial distance from a first outwardly facing portion of a spring bow of the plurality of spring bows, at a longitudinal axial position where the spring bow extends from the first end collar, to the axis; and less than a radial distance from a second outwardly facing portion of the spring bow, at a longitudinal axial position between the first end collar and the second end collar that is farthest from the axis, to the axis.
US10047570B2
An example downhole tool may include a first component and a second component. A first seal may be positioned between the first component and the second component, and a first energizer may be positioned between the first seal and the first component. The first seal may comprise a polyaryletherketone (PAEK) material. The first energizer may be a compressible material. The PAEK material may be at least one of polyetherketone (PEK), polyether ether ketone (PEEK), polyetherketoneketone (PEKK), polyehtheretherketoneketone (PEEKK), and polyetherketoneether-ketoneketone (PEKEKK).
US10047557B2
A side plate pressing device for a vehicle curtain has a positioning assembly and a buckle. The positioning assembly and the buckle are respectively mounted on a shaft and a side plate. A buckle unit is pivoted on the fixing base, and is positioned on one of a first position and a second position of the fixing base. When a curtain body is curled, the buckle and the buckle unit can be engaged with each other. A user can hold the side plate and press downward to pivot the buckle and the buckle unit downward. Then, the buckle unit can be positioned on the second position, and the side plate is drooping, so as not to obstruct the user from using a rear space of a vehicle.
US10047554B2
Described herein is a vehicle side window system and method for implementing an ice breaking strategy. The ice breaking strategy receives and analyzes sensor information from one or more environmental sensors to determine when to preemptively implement an ice breaking routine. The ice breaking strategy is also capable of monitoring one or more components of the vehicle side window system to determine when to cease the ice breaking routine.
US10047547B2
The present invention discloses a locking link, composed of a cover moveably engaged with a link. The cover at a first engaged position is locked with the link, and at a second engaged position is unlocked from the link.
US10047534B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for accurately modifying a concrete slab on subsided ground by injecting an expandable resin below the concrete slab more than once, which also allows for easy control of the work process. The method of the present invention as a means for resolution includes performing the following steps: on a concrete slab in an area including a region where ground subsidence has occurred, determining points to drill injection holes for injecting an expandable resin at a pitch of 0.5 to 2.0 m in a grid pattern; injecting an expandable resin below a point where the subsidence of the concrete slab is severest and expanding the expandable resin to push up the concrete slab at most 30 mm more than once.
US10047533B2
A wire reel is detachably provided in a housing chamber of a binding machine body which binds a reinforcing bar. The wire reel includes a cylindrical hub portion which winds a wire, and a pair of parallel flanges overhanging outward from both external peripheral ends of the hub portions. A side wall inside the hub portion is formed of light-transmitting portions which allow the light from a transmissive photosensor provided in the binding machine body to be transmitted therethrough.
US10047529B2
A floor panel has a core, a print and a wear resistant layer. The core is assembled at least from a plurality of paper sheets, or other carrier sheets, impregnated with a thermosetting resin.
US10047527B2
A method of assembling resilient floorboards is disclosed that includes the step of bending an edge of a floorboard during the assembling. The bending reduces the force required for connection of the edge to another edge of a juxtaposed floorboard. The floorboards may be provided with a mechanical locking system for vertical and horizontal locking of two adjacent floorboards.
US10047526B2
A self-locking mechanism that is attachable to a panel is provided. The mechanism includes a structure defining a void therein. There is also an opening in the structure coinciding with an end of the void. A pin is positioned within the void and a pin head of the pin is positioned at the opening. The pin moves back and forth within the void. The pin moves between a retracted position from within the void and an extended position. A receptacle is also positioned on the structure and oriented at an angle to the opening. The pin head is able to magnetically connect with a second receptacle from a second self-locking mechanism. The pin head or the receptacle, or both, include a magnet.
US10047524B2
A re-moistenable adhesive-coated drywall corner trim piece having an elongated semi-rigid core piece with a right and left flange, where the semi-rigid core piece has a centerline along which the flanges meet forming a hinge that can be bent and re-bent to any angle any number of times. The piece can also include a step running longitudinally along each of the flanges that can be located between the centerline and the flange edges so that the flanges change from a thicker portion toward the centerline to a thinner portion toward the edges making the piece boxable (capable of being wet mudded simultaneously on both sides without an intermediate drying step). Flanges can be curved slightly inward for perfect bonding.
US10047523B2
An improved rain gutter hinge assembly uses mounting locations under an eave of building's roof to preserve integrity of fascia boards. In one embodiment, a gutter mounted to the gutter hinge assembly can be readily moved between a water collection position, a dumping position, and an under-eave storage position. The gutter can also be easily removed from the building.
US10047522B2
A building cover element is described with at least one, preferably stationary arranged fastening device, which comprises an exterior section aligned to the exterior of a building to be provided with the building cover element, comprising at least one film element, which shows an exterior film layer to be arranged at the exterior of the building and anchored with an edge section at the fastening device, and with at least one thermally insulating element. The thermally insulating element is arranged with a first section at the exterior section of the fastening device and with at least one second section resting on the edge section of the exterior film layer of at least one film element.
US10047520B2
An encased insulating panel includes a vacuum insulation panel in the form of a rectangular sheet including a compression-resistant porous material and a barrier envelope which in gastight manner encases the porous material, and at least one fixing strip having a width (l) and a length, the length being greater than the perimeter of the vacuum insulation panel, each fixing strip forming an envelope around at least part of four successive faces of the vacuum insulation panel and including two free ends which can be joined together to form an attachment flap, the or each fixing strip being assembled securely to the vacuum insulation panel.
US10047510B2
A rimless toilet pan (20) includes a forward end (F), a rearward end (R) and a pan bowl (28). A flushing outlet (32) is in fluid communication with the pan bowl (28). A flushing water inlet (30) is in fluid communication with the pan bowl (28). An inwardly facing first sidewall (34) extends substantially around the top of the pan bowl (28). A substantially horizontal ledge extends (36) substantially around the bottom of the first sidewall (34). An inwardly facing second sidewall (37) extends substantially around the pan bowl (28) under the horizontal ledge (36). A flushing water flow splitter (38) is substantially adjacent a rearward end of the first sidewall (34), the flow splitter (38) is in fluid communication with the flushing water inlet (30) and has a leftwards outlet (38a) and a rightwards outlet (38b). A flushing water flow balancer (40) is on a frontwards part of the first sidewall (34), the flow balancer (40) including an inwardly facing projection (40a, 40b, 40c) extending vertically through at least part of the height of the first sidewall (34) and being positioned substantially symmetrically in relation to a forward to rearward centerline of the toilet pan (20). The flow balancer (40) includes leftward (40a) and rightward (40b) angled surfaces which meet at an innermost edge (40c) that is substantially aligned with the forward to rearward centerline of the toilet pan (20). The leftward (40a) and rightward (40b) angled surfaces are substantially triangular in shape and taper from a relatively wide lower part to a narrowed or pointed upper part.
US10047506B2
A water outlet fitting having a base, a hose device with a hose and a water outlet head as well as a holding device including: a mounting portion for mounting the holding device on the base of the water outlet fitting; a locking portion on the free end of the holding device for producing detachable locking of the hose device; and a guide portion for connecting the locking portion to the mounting portion and provide a contact face for the hose device; wherein in a first handling variant the hose device is locked on the holding device, wherein in a second handling variant the hose device is removed from the holding device and is movable in relation to the holding device, and a corresponding holding device. The water outlet fitting has an operating element which is developed in the manner of a stirrup-shaped handle surrounding the water outlet and/or base.
US10047488B2
A frangible post captures and holds a cable anchor to a guardrail. The post breaks when struck by a vehicle, releasing the cable. The frangible post may include hinge members, which bias the post so that weakened sections are put in tension when the post is struck, thereby ensuring that the post breaks cleanly and the cable is released when the post is struck. A method of releasing a cable anchor includes impacting the post, biasing the weakened sections so that they are in tension, breaking the post, and releasing the cable anchor. The post may be configured with a notch to engage the cable anchor, which is then released from the notch as the post is broken.
US10047487B2
A structural improvement of assembled traffic cone is provided, in which a base and a cone member are separately manufactured then assembled afterward. The center of the base is formed with a combination hole allowing the cone member to be sleeved and assembled, the inner periphery of the combination hole is formed with a convex mounting ring; the foundation portion of the cone member is formed with a combination ring part which is concavely formed with an annular mounting slot allowing the convex mounting ring of the base to be mounted, a decoration mounting ring having a diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the combination hole of the base is formed at the top end of the annular mounting slot, so when the base and the cone member are assembled, the decoration mounting ring is served to cover the edge of the combination hole of the base.
US10047486B2
Technologies are described for a pipe cover and method of covering a pipe. The pipe cover comprises a cover having a first side, top, second side and an open bottom and is configured to receive an end portion of a pipe into the open bottom and between the first and second side. The first side, top, and second side are configured to extend beyond a terminal end of the pipe to be covered. A first clamping mechanism is on the first side and a second clamping mechanism is on the second side, configured and disposed to clamp the cover onto the end portion of the pipe to be covered and cover the terminal end of the pipe.
US10047473B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a body provided with a laundry inlet; and a door configured to open and close the laundry inlet, wherein the door includes a door frame; a door cover mounted at one side of the door frame, and provided with a light transmitting region; a mounting frame mounted at the other side of the door frame; a display mounted on the mounting frame to display visual information through the light transmitting region of the door cover; and a display gasket disposed between the door frame and the mounting frame, and formed to surround the display.
US10047463B2
Printer driver systems and methods for automatic generation of embroidery designs are disclosed. An example method to convert image data to embroidery data, includes converting image data representing an image to first vector data, converting the first vector data into component data structures that specify regions within the image, converting a first one of the component data structures into a fill shape including second vector data, converting a second one of the component data structures into a stroke shape including third vector data, and generating embroidery data structures using the fill shape and the stroke shape.
US10047452B2
Provided are a film formation device and a film formation method for forming a metal film, with which metal films with a desired thickness can be continuously formed on surfaces of a plurality of substrates. A film formation device 1A includes at least a positive electrode 11, a negative electrode 12, a solid electrolyte membrane 13 arranged on a surface of the positive electrode 12, between. the positive electrode and a substrate to serve as the negative electrode, and a power supply unit E adapted to apply a voltage across the positive electrode 11 and the substrate B. A voltage is applied across the positive electrode 11 and the substrate B to deposit metal on a surface of the substrate from metal ions contained in the solid electrolyte membrane 13, whereby a metal film F made of metal is formed, The positive electrode 11 is made of a porous body that allows a solution L containing metal ions to pass therethrough and supplies the metal ions to the solid electrolyte membrane 13.
US10047442B2
The present invention provides a surface alloy coating composite material for a high temperature resistant material, a coating and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the surface alloy coating composite material is made of metal alloy powder having a face-centered cubic structure and enamel powder, and a component percentage thereof is as follows: 10-70 wt % is the metal alloy powder, and remaining is the enamel powder; the metal alloy powder is selected from at least one type of NiCrAIX, NiCrX and NiCoCrAIX, wherein X is at least one type of hafnium, zirconium, a rare earth element and mixed rare earth, and the mixed rare earth can be two types or more than two types of rare earth elements that are used together or a rare earth element and one type or multiple types of Na, K, Ca, Sr and Ba that are used in a combined way.
US10047433B2
Provided is a tungsten sintered compact sputtering target, wherein the purity of the tungsten is 5N (99.999%) or more, and the content of impurity carbon in the tungsten is 5 wtppm or less. An object of the present invention is to decrease the specific resistance of a tungsten film sputter-deposited by using a tungsten sintered compact sputtering target by reducing a carbon content in the tungsten target.
US10047431B2
A method for making a single molecule receptor in a nanopore structure includes depositing a material by a physical vapor deposition (PVD) technique onto a selected interior surface of a nanochannel and functionalizing a surface of the material with a chemical compound having at least two functional groups. The material forms a patch having a diameter of about 3 to about 10,000 nanometers (nm). Also disclosed are embodiments of a nanopore structure including a single molecule receptor.
US10047428B2
Endodontic instruments for use in performing root canal therapy on a tooth are disclosed. In one form, the instruments include an elongate shank having a cutting edge extending from a distal end of the shank along an axial length of the shank. The shank comprises a titanium alloy, and the shank is prepared by heat-treating the shank at a temperature above 25° C. in an atmosphere consisting essentially of a gas unreactive with the shank. In another form, the endodontic instruments have an elongate shank having a cutting edge extending from a distal end of the shank along an axial length of the shank. The shank consists essentially of a titanium alloy selected from alpha-titanium alloys, beta-titanium alloys, and alpha-beta-titanium alloys. The instruments solve the problems encountered when cleaning and enlarging a curved root canal.
US10047425B2
A method of age hardening a 7xxx series aluminum alloy is provided that includes heat treating the alloy at a first temperature for a first exposure time and heat treating the alloy at a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature for a second exposure time. The age hardening process may be used to form an alloy having a yield strength of at least 490 MPa and the total age hardening time may be 8 hours or less. In one example, the first heat treatment is performed at 100° C. to 150° C. for 0.2 to 3 hours and the second heat treatment is be performed at 150° C. to 185° C. for 0.5 to 5 hours.
US10047422B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a strip made of an AlMgSi alloy in which a rolling ingot is cast of an AlMgSi alloy, the rolling ingot is subjected to homogenization, the rolling ingot which has been brought to rolling temperature is hot-rolled, and then is optionally cold-rolled to the final thickness thereof. The problem of providing a method for producing an aluminum strip made of an AlMgSi alloy and an aluminum strip, which has a higher breaking elongation with constant strength and therefore enables higher degrees of deformation in producing structured metal sheets, is solved in that the hot strip has a temperature of no more than 130° C. directly at the exit of the last rolling pass, preferably a temperature of no more than 100° C., and the hot strip is coiled at that or a lower temperature.
US10047419B2
The invention relates to a ferritic stainless steel having enhanced high temperature strength and good resistance to high cycle fatigue, creep and oxidation for use in high temperature service, for components such as automotive exhaust manifolds. The steel contains in weight % less than 0.03% carbon, 0.05-2% silicon, 0.5-2% manganese, 17-20% chromium, 0.5-2% molybdenum, less than 0.2% titanium, 0.3-1% niobium, 1-2% copper, less than 0.03% nitrogen, 0.001-0.005% boron, the rest of the chemical composition being iron and inevitable impurities occurring in stainless steels.
US10047408B2
An arrangement for feeding and dewatering lignocellulosic material in a hydrolysis process between a first reactor unit, where the material is partly hydrolyzed, to a second reactor unit, wherein the first reactor unit operates at a first pressure and the second reactor unit operates at a second pressure being higher than the first pressure. The arrangement includes a first plug screw feeder arranged to receive the partly hydrolyzed material from the first reactor unit and being arranged to compress, dewater and transport the material, wherein the first screw feeder is arranged to operate at a pressure being higher than the first pressure. A dilution vessel is coupled to receive material from the first plug screw feeder and including a liquid inlet for receiving liquid to wash the material, wherein the dilution vessel is arranged to maintain or increase the pressure (PDM). A second plug screw feeder is arranged to receive the diluted material and to compress, dewater and transport the material to the second reactor unit, wherein the second screw feeder is arranged to operate at a pressure being higher than the pressure of the first plug screw feeder. A system including such an arrangement and a first reactor unit and a second reactor unit is also presented.
US10047406B2
Disclosed are nucleic acid oligomers, including amplification oligomers, capture probes, and detection probes, for detection of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) nucleic acid. Also disclosed are methods of specific nucleic acid amplification and detection using the disclosed oligomers, as well as corresponding reaction mixtures and kits.
US10047396B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for diagnosing and predicting the risk and cause of transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
US10047389B2
A novel method for isolating DNA from juices and ciders is described. This method is low cost and yield large quantities of highly purified DNA even though one uses a small quantity of juice or cider. A method for determining if a juice or cider is safe to consume and/or the quality of the juice or cider are also described. For these methods, one can perform qPCR on the DNA which can be obtained using the disclosed method or any other prior art method, and comparing the amount of DNA from microorganisms is present in the juice and/or cider to determine the safety and/or quality of the juice and/or cider. These methods work even if the liquid was pasteurized.
US10047388B2
The present invention concerns methods and compositions for isolating, enriching, and/or labeling miRNA molecules and for preparing and using arrays or other detection techniques for miRNA analysis. Moreover, the present invention concerns methods and compositions for generating miRNA profiles and employing such profiles for therapeutic, diagnostic, and prognostic applications.
US10047385B2
A method for producing an objective substance is provided. An objective substance is produced by culturing a microorganism which has been modified so that the activity of a dicarboxylic acid exporter protein is reduced in a medium, and collecting the objective substance from the medium.
US10047380B2
The present invention provides a microorganism capable of fermenting arabinose to a desired product such as ethanol. In some embodiments, the organism is also capable of fermenting xylose. In some embodiments, the organism is capable of fermenting arabinose and xylose, and expresses one or more cellulases.
US10047374B2
This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of hemipteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in hemipteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of hemipteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.
US10047372B1
This disclosure provides transgenic plants, including crop plants and methods for their production. The transgenic plants comprise recombinant DNA constructs for the expression of polypeptides encoded by the DNA constructs. The polypeptides are capable of conferring improved traits to the transgenic plants when expressed under the control of a tissue-enhanced promoter. This disclosure also pertains to transgenic plants and their progeny plants, wherein the transgenic or progeny plants comprise the recombinant DNA constructs and are selected for having enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and/or nitrogen uptake. Seed of the transgenic plants that can be grown into a plant that comprise the disclosed recombinant DNA constructs and exhibits having enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, and which may be selected for this trait, are also envisioned.
US10047361B2
Described are improved disulfide-containing alkyne linking agents having have branched disulfides. The improved linking agents exhibit improved stability. The linking agents are useful for attachment of oligonucleotides to targeting groups or delivery agents.
US10047357B2
The present disclosure provides methods of integrating therapeutic protein and antibody generation and/or selection, evolution and expression in a eukaryotic host for manufacturing in a single system. Therapeutic proteins, including antibodies, are generated, optimized and manufactured in the same eukaryotic host system. The disclosed system of Comprehensive Integrated Antibody Optimization (CIAO!™) allows for simultaneous evolution of protein performance and expression optimization.
US10047352B2
Methods for producing intein-modified proteases are provided. Expression cassettes and vectors for using to genetically engineer hosts are described. Hosts genetically engineered to express one or more intein-modified proteases using expression cassettes and vectors of the invention are also provided. Methods to produce a protease and regulate its activity are described.
US10047337B2
Some embodiments include a method of culturing one or more microalgae. The method can include: inoculating a bioreactor with the one or more microalgae and a fluidic support medium, the bioreactor having one or more bioreactor walls at least partially enclosing a bioreactor cavity, being configured to be at least one of folded up or rolled up, and being sterile when the bioreactor is inoculated with the one or more microalgae, the one or more bioreactor walls comprising at least one bioreactor wall material, and the at least one bioreactor wall material being flexible and at least partially transparent; and vitally supporting the one or more microalgae. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10047336B2
Provided is an eco-friendly heliostat odor removal system, including: a solar cell which collects sunlight to generate electricity; an effective microorganism activation and cultivation box which purifies inflow contaminated air using an effective microorganism cultivation solution accommodated in a housing; a sunlight tracker which rotates or moves the solar cell to track the sun in accordance with an altitude of the sun; a controller which controls the effective microorganism activation and cultivation box and the sunlight tracker; and a battery storing unit which stores the electricity generated in the solar cell. Therefore, the power is supplied in an eco-friendly manner using solar heat energy and contaminated air is efficiently removed from industrial sites or a region where other odor is continuously generated by the effective microorganism cultivation solution.
US10047328B2
The present invention relates to unit dose detergent compositions comprising a water-soluble container formed from a water-soluble film material enclosing a liquid composition with a relatively high water content. In one embodiment, the unit dose detergent composition comprises a water-soluble container formed from a water-soluble film material enclosing a liquid composition, wherein the liquid composition comprises (a) at least one surfactant, (b) at least one humectant selected from the group consisting of polyols having 3 to 9 carbon atoms, and (c) about 15 wt % to about 35 wt % of water.
US10047323B2
A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing detergent composition in unit-dose form having a weight of from about 8 to about 25 grams, the composition comprising: i) greater than about 5 to about 8 grams of an organic complexing agent; ii) a dispersant polymer; iii) from about 1 to about 3 grams of bleach and wherein the complexing agent and the dispersant polymer are in a weight ratio of from about 5:1 to about 25:1.
US10047322B2
Agent for removing spots or deposits from hard or soft surfaces. The agent includes surfactants, an adhesion promoter, and at least one active substance, wherein the adhesion promoter is selected from the group of the alkylene-styrene copolymers, the olefin homopolymers or olefin copolymers of two or more olefins, wherein the polymers can also be hydrogenated, and the polyalkylene derivatives, the active substance is an acid, an alkali, a bleaching agent, and/or hydrophobic organic solvent not bound in a gel, and the agent includes either at least 10 wt % of at least one acid or at least 10 wt % of at least one alkali and/or at least 5 wt % of a bleaching agent and/or includes at least 10 wt % of hydrophobic organic solvent not bound in a gel.
US10047321B2
A liquid surfactant composition can include a C9-C20 alkylbenzene sulfonate, a first alcohol ether sulfate (AES), and a nonionic surfactant. The first AES surfactant can have a molecular formula of R1—O—(CH2—CH2—O)m—SO3M, wherein R1 represents a C10-C20 alkyl group, m represents a number from 6 to 8, and M represents a monovalent cation. The first AES surfactant can be a modified oxo-alcohol-based surfactant.
US10047312B2
A method of manufacturing a non-molded solid fuel using a combustible waste material includes (a) primarily crushing an inflowing waste material using a bag-tearing and crushing device, (b) separating iron from the primarily crushed waste material using a first magnetic sorter, (c) sorting the waste material, from which the iron is separated, according to the particle size of the waste material using a first oscillating multi-stage particle-size sorter, (d) secondarily crushing the waste material having a large particle size using an impact crusher, (e) separating the iron from the secondarily crushed waste material using a second magnetic sorter, (f) sorting the waste material, from which the iron is separated, according to the weight of the waste material using a wind power sorter, (g) separating the iron from a light material, and (h) pulverizing the waste material, from which the iron is separated.
US10047310B2
The present invention provides a method for separating high purity methane gas from biogas, which comprises the steps of: compressing and cooling biogas (step 1); and separating carbon dioxide by introducing the biogas compressed and cooled in step 1 into a four-stage polymer separation membrane system in which the residue stream of the first polymer separation membrane is connected to the second polymer separation membrane, the residue stream of the second polymer separation membrane is connected to the third polymer separation membrane, and the permeate stream of the second polymer separation membrane is connected to the fourth polymer separation membrane (step 2).
US10047305B2
A method for producing hydrocarbon solvents having a sulfur content of less than 10 ppm, aromatic hydrocarbon content of less than 500 ppm, an initial boiling point higher than or equal to 300° C. and final boiling point lower than or equal to 500° C., for a fraction interval of a maximum of 100° C., and pour point lower than −25° C. according to the standard ASTM D5950, comprising of the following steps of: dewaxing of a hydrocarbon fraction having initial boiling point higher than 300° C. derived from the distillation of a gas oil fraction, hydrodearomatization of all or part of the dewaxed effluent, in the presence of a catalyst comprising nickel on an alumina base, at a pressure ranging from 60 to 200 bar and a temperature ranging from 80° C. to 250° C., recovery of the dewaxed and dearomatized fraction, distillation in fractions of the dewaxed and dearomatized fraction, recovery of at least one 300° C.+ fraction having pour point lower than −25° C., this fraction having a distillation interval lower than 100° C.
US10047294B2
Provided is a polarizing film showing high dichroism comprising a substrate, and a photo alignment film and a light absorption anisotropic film laminated on the substrate in this order. The light absorption anisotropic film is obtained by fixing the alignment of a dichroic dye composition comprising at least one nematic liquid crystalline azo dichroic dye and in X-ray diffraction measurement thereof, diffraction peaks derived from periodic structure along a vertical direction to the alignment axis are present, the period indicated by at least one of the diffraction peaks is 3.0 to 15.0 Å and an intensity of the diffraction peak does not show a maximum value in the range of ±70° of the film normal line direction in a plane vertical to the alignment axis.
US10047293B2
To provide a liquid crystal compound satisfying at least one of high stability to heat, light and so forth, a high clearing point, low minimum temperature of a liquid-crystal phase, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large dielectric anisotropy, a suitable elastic constant and excellent compatibility with other liquid-crystal compounds, a liquid crystal composition containing the compound and a liquid crystal display device including the composition.A compound is represented by formula (1-1). For example, R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons, alkenyl having 3 to 10 carbons and alkoxy having 1 to 9 carbons; ring A1 is 1,4-cyclohexylene; ring A2 and ring A3 are independently 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; Z1 is a single bond or —(CH2)2; l is 0 or 1, m and n are 0, 1 or 2, a sum: l+m+n is 0, 1 or 2; x is 0 or 1.
US10047290B2
Provided is a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature, a low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and high stability to heat, or has a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics; and an AM device including the composition and having a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio or a long service life. The composition contains a specific compound having at least one polymerizable group, and a liquid crystal display device includes the composition. The composition may contain a specific compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, and a specific compound having a high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a second component.
US10047283B2
The present invention relates to carbon-based fluorescent nano-agent tracers for analysis of oil reservoirs. The carbon-based fluorescent nano-agents may be used in the analysis of the porosity of a formation. The nanoagents are suitable for injection into a petroleum reservoir and may be recovered from the reservoir for the determination of hydrocarbon flow rates and retention times.
US10047279B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, this disclosure describes a viscoelastic surfactant fluid for a subterranean formation comprising: brine solution; at least one polyacrylamide viscosity modifier with a weight averaged molecular weight (Mw) from 250,000 g/mol to 40,000,000 g/mol; and a viscoelastic surfactant according to formula (I): where R1 is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group of from 17 to 29 carbon atoms, R2 and R3 are each independently selected from a straight chain or branched alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group of from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R4 is selected from H, hydroxyl, alkyl or hydroxyalkyl groups of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; k is an integer of from 2-20; m is an integer of from 1-20; and n is an integer of from 0-20.
US10047275B2
In one aspect, a method of recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean zone includes flowing carbon dioxide in a first state into the subterranean zone including hydrocarbons, wherein a density of the carbon dioxide in the first state is greater than a density of carbon dioxide in a gaseous state, and recovering at least a portion of the hydrocarbons in the subterranean zone in response to flowing carbon dioxide in the first state into the subterranean zone.
US10047269B2
The present disclosure relates to a well treatment fluid comprising finger millet, a breaker package, and a continuous aqueous phase. The present disclosure also relates to a method for treating at least a portion of a subterranean well comprising forming an aqueous treatment fluid comprising (i) finger millet, (ii) a breaker package comprising at least one breaker, and (iii) a continuous aqueous phase; and introducing the treatment fluid into at least a portion of the subterranean well.
US10047266B1
The invention discloses an energy-saving and environment-friendly anti-freezing solution for a water system engine, which includes calcium chloride anti-freezing solution and alcohol-type anti-freezing solution. N-methyl pyrrolidone and allyl glycidyl ether are added into the calcium chloride anti-freezing solution and the alcohol-type anti-freezing solution. With the energy-saving and environment-friendly anti-freezing solution for the water system engine, when the water system engine gets into the best operating state, rapid cooling down and heat dissipation can be achieved. When the temperature is low, rapid heating-up can be achieved. Thus, the temperature of the engine is kept in constant and stable state, so that the engine can perform the combustion sufficiently to convert the thermal energy into power. The purposes of saving oil, improving power, reducing emission, saving energy, and protecting the environment are actually achieved.
US10047257B2
Provided is an adhesive composition for multilayer semiconductors. The adhesive composition gives, when applied and dried by heating, an adhesive layer that has approximately no adhesiveness at a temperature lower than 50° C., but, when heated at such a temperature as to less cause damage to semiconductor chips, offers adhesiveness and is rapidly cured thereafter. This adhesive composition for multilayer semiconductors includes a polymerizable compound (A), at least one of a cationic-polymerization initiator (B1) and an anionic-polymerization initiator (B2), and a solvent (C). The polymerizable compound (A) contains 80% by weight or more of an epoxide having a softening point or melting point of 50° C. or higher. The cationic-polymerization initiator (B1) gives a composition having a thermal curing time of 3.5 minutes or longer at 130° C., where the composition contains 1 part by weight of the cationic-polymerization initiator (B1) and 100 parts by weight of 3,4-epoxycyclohexylmethyl (3,4-epoxy)cyclohexanecarboxylate. The anionic-polymerization initiator (B2) gives a composition having a thermal curing time of 3.5 minutes or longer at 130° C., where the composition contains 1 part by weight of the anionic-polymerization initiator (B2) and 100 parts by weight of bisphenol-A diglycidyl ether.
US10047255B2
The aqueous adhesive composition comprises a resin based on at least one aromatic aldehyde bearing at least one aldehyde functional group, comprising at least one aromatic ring, and on at least one compound of formula (I): in which each group R1, R2 and R3 represents, independently of one another, an alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, alkylaryl, cycloalkyl or hydrogen group, X represents S, O or N—R4, and R4 represents an alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, alkylaryl or cycloalkyl group.
US10047234B2
There is provided an ink set including at least: a yellow ink; a magenta ink; and a cyan ink, in which the yellow ink includes one or more kinds selected from a group consisting of coloring materials represented by the following Formulae (Y-1) and (Y-2), the magenta ink includes one or more kinds selected from a group consisting of coloring materials represented by the following Formulae (M-1) and (M-2), and the cyan ink includes one or more kinds selected from a group consisting of coloring materials represented by the following Formulae (C-1) and (C-2).
US10047230B2
An article, comprising a substrate and a polymer film attached to the substrate is provided, the polymer film comprising a first layer of a first polymer functionalized by a first functionalization compound covalently bound to said first polymer and bearing at least one catecholic group being present on a surface of the first layer. The polymer film is a layered film, a top layer of which is formed by the first layer, the layered film comprising at least one further layer of at least one further polymer functionalized by a further functionalization compound covalently bound to said further polymer and bearing at least one catecholic group being present on a surface of the at least one further layer, wherein an average ratio of catecholic groups per polymer molecule is equal to or less than 1 in case of the first polymer and greater than 1 in case of the further polymer.
US10047229B2
A powder coating composition comprising a specific organosilicon compound forms a coating which exhibits satisfactory water-loading resistant performance.
US10047225B2
Disclosed are styryl dyes of formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R′1, R′2 and R′3 independently of each other are hydrogen; —NH(CO)—C1-C5alkyl; —N(C1-C5alkyl)(C1-C5alkyl-CN); C1-C6alkoxy; a heterocyclic radical; or R1 and R2 or R′1 and R′2 together form a 5- to 10-membered, monocyclic, carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; wherein at least one of R1, R2, R3, R′1, R′2 and R′3 is different from hydrogen; Q and Q′ independently from each other are the direct bond; *—C(O)—*; *—C(O)O—*; *—OCO—*; *—N(R4)—*; *—C(O)N(R6)—*; or *—(R6)NC(O)—*; and R4, R5 and R6 independently from each other are hydrogen; C1-C14alkyl; C2-C14alkenyl; C6-C12aryl; C6-C12aryl-C1-C10alkyl; or C1-C10alkyl(C5-C12aryl); X and X′ are *—(CH2)m—*; Y1 and Y2 independently from each other are C1-C10alkylene; C5-C10cycloalkylene; C5-C12arylene; or C5-C12arylene-(C1-C10alkylene); An− is an anion; m is a number from 1 to 8; n is 0, or 1; and p is 0, or 1.
US10047223B2
The present invention relates to a polycarbonate-based resin composition and a molded article thereof, and more specifically, to a polycarbonate-based resin composition exhibiting high fluidity and excellent chemical resistance and impact resistance, and a molded article formed therefrom.
US10047220B2
A process for preparing a thermoplastic polymer composition or a thermoplastic polymer blend, comprising: —from 20 to 80% by weight of at least one water-moist elastomer component A containing up to 40%, preferably up to 30% by weight of residual water, —from 20 to 80% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polymer B, —from 0 to 40% by weight of at least one further polymer C, and —from 0 to 60% by weight of additive(s) D, by mixing the elastomer component A with the thermoplastic polymer B and, if present, the further polymer C and, if present, the additive(s) D in an extruder, comprising the steps of precipitating the elastomer component A, and mechanical dewatering of the elastomer component A leads to improved salt-free products.
US10047209B2
Process of decolorizing dyed thermoplastics are provided that includes intermixing a dyed thermoplastic with a decolorization agent solution at a temperature that maintains the crystalline structure of the thermoplastic. The processes for the first time are capable of removing substantial portions of dye from the thermoplastic providing a material that is suitable for recycling processes and use in subsequent recycled articles.
US10047208B2
A method for producing a porous film having a water content percentage of less than 1000 ppm, the method including the steps of: (1) obtaining a porous film (A) having a water content percentage of not less than 1000 ppm; (2) obtaining a package by causing the obtained porous film (A) and a drying agent to be contained in a water vapor barrier packaging container and sealing the water vapor barrier packaging container; and (3) storing the obtained package.
US10047197B2
The present invention relates to the field of polymer chemistry and more particularly to multiblock copolymers and micelles comprising the same. Compositions herein are useful for drug-delivery applications.
US10047179B2
Provided is a styrene resin composition including α-methyl styrene, acrylonitrile and t-butyl methacrylate, and having an improved conversion rate while maintaining excellent mechanical and chemical properties, a styrene resin composition including the same, and a styrene resin molded product manufactured therefrom. Accordingly, the heat-resistant styrene copolymer is effective in improving a conversion rate without deformation and mechanical and chemical property decline of the material itself, and as a result, commercialization may be readily accomplished due to enhanced productivity. In addition, the styrene resin molded product manufactured from the styrene resin composition according to the present invention includes the heat-resistant styrene copolymer as a matrix copolymer, and therefore, has excellent impact strength, tensile strength, tensile elongation and flowability while having high heat resistance.
US10047174B1
A method for producing highly reactive olefin polymers wherein at least 50 mol. % of the polymer chains have terminal double bonds, from an isobutylene or a mixed C4 hydrocarbyl feedstock containing isobutylene. To achieve a viable process, water is added to the catalyst stream or the feedstock in the overall range of 0.05 mM to less than 5 mM per liter of feedstock.
US10047161B2
The present disclosure provides antibodies that bind to interleukin-3 receptor alpha chain and uses thereof.
US10047160B2
The present invention provides antibodies that bind to the class III variant of EGFR (EGFRvIII) and methods of using the same. According to certain embodiments, the antibodies of the invention bind human EGFRvIII with high affinity. The antibodies of the invention may be fully human antibodies. The invention includes anti-EGFRvIII antibodies conjugated to a cytotoxic agent, radionuclide, or other moiety detrimental to cell growth or proliferation. The antibodies of the invention are useful for the treatment of various cancers.
US10047158B2
The invention provides anti-TIGIT (T-cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains) antibodies and methods of using the same.
US10047155B2
The present invention relates to isolated antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof which bind human BMP9 and compositions and methods of use thereof.
US10047151B2
Uses of the protein cereblon as a predictor of clinical sensitivity to cancer, inflammatory diseases, and patient response to drug treatment.
US10047147B2
Monoclonal neutralizing antibodies are disclosed that specifically bind to the HIV-1 gp41 membrane-proximal external region (MPER). Also disclosed are compositions including the disclosed antibodies that specifically bind gp41, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including the nucleic acids, and isolated host cells that express the nucleic acids. The antibodies and compositions disclosed herein can be used for detecting the presence of HIV-1 in a biological sample, or detecting an HIV-1 infection or diagnosing AIDS in a subject. In additional, the broad neutralization breadth of the disclosed antibodies makes them ideal for treating a subject with an HIV infection. Thus, disclosed are methods of treating and/or preventing HIV infection.
US10047145B2
The invention relates to antibodies, and antigen binding fragments thereof, that neutralize infection of both group A and group B RSV. The invention also relates to antigenic sites to which the antibodies and antigen binding fragments bind, as well as to nucleic acids that encode and immortalized B cells and cultured plasma cells that produce such antibodies and antibody fragments. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the antibodies, antibody fragments, and polypeptides recognized by the antibodies of the invention in screening methods as well as in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of RSV infection and group A and group B RSV co-infection.
US10047144B2
The invention provides methods of purifying antibodies using various antibody-specific purification media to rapidly and efficiently separate mixtures of antibodies, antibody fragments and/or antibody components to isolate a desired antibody product from the mixture. The invention relates to the purification of bispecific monoclonal antibodies carrying a different specificity for each binding site of the immunoglobulin molecule, e.g., antibodies composed of a single heavy chain and two different light chains, one containing a Kappa constant domain and the other a Lambda constant domain, including antibodies of different specificities that share a common heavy chain. The invention also provides the methods of efficiently purifying intact antibodies by separating the intact antibody from non-intact antibodies including free light chains.
US10047135B2
The present invention is directed to novel non-invasive diagnostic tools/compounds to image cancers, especially, melanoma, including metastatic melanoma in vivo. The present compounds exhibit enhanced uptake in cancerous cells and tissue and decreased renal uptake in kidney, evidencing favorable pharmacokinetics of compounds of the present invention. The compounds according to the present invention represent an advance in the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma, including metastatic melanoma using non-invasive molecular imaging techniques. The novel probes of the present invention are also useful for initiating therapy for melanoma as well as monitor patients' response to chemotherapy treatments and other interventions or therapies used in the treatment of melanoma/metastatic melanoma. Compounds according to the present invention may be used as diagnostic tools for a number of conditions and diseases states as well as therapeutic agents for treating such conditions and disease states.
US10047133B2
The present invention relates to novel monomeric fusion proteins derived from human GAG binding proteins such as chemokines with increased glycosaminoglycan (GAG) binding affinity and knocked-out or reduced GPCR activity compared to wild type GAG binding proteins, which are highly selectively competitive and are of increased bioavailability, and to their use for prevention or treatment of pathological cell movement as in metastasis.
US10047132B2
The present disclosure provides isolated stabilized EPO-derived peptides and their mimics that protect against tissue damage in subjects having diverse forms of neural and non-neural organ system injury, pharmaceutical compositions containing the isolated stabilized EPO-derived peptides, methods for treating symptoms of a disease, disorder or condition having an inflammatory or an autoimmune component in a subject in need thereof, and methods for downregulating immune mediator activity in a subject in need thereof.
US10047130B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods used for optogenetics, wherein the composition comprises an optogenetic device and a retinoid processing enzyme.
US10047129B2
Provided herein are alpha hemolysin polypeptides comprising modified amino acid sequences that can reduce the rate of translocation of a polymer. Also provided herein are apparatuses and devices comprising modified hemolysin polypeptides. Also provided herein are methods of using modified alpha hemolysin proteins for use in characterizing and/or sequencing a polymer or for use as molecular sensors.
US10047128B2
The present invention is a peptide lock that comprises at least one peptide that is genetically encoded into the Adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid that block biologically active domains on the virus capsid surface. The peptide lock, can be processed by biological enzymes to restore biological behavior of the capsid-displayed domains, thus ‘decoding the lock’ or opening the lock. A method of forming the peptide lock comprises providing at least one peptide, providing an Adeno-associated virus capsid and genetically inserting the at least one peptide into the Adeno-associated virus capsid to block the biologically active domains on the virus capsid surface.
US10047126B2
The present invention relates to antimicrobial compounds and their uses, and in particular to peptide antibiotics which may be used in the treatment of bacterial infections such as Gram-negative bacterial infections, particularly those caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens.
US10047094B1
An improved process for the preparation of Triazole and salts thereof, a key intermediate for the synthesis of Sitagliptine is disclosed.
US10047092B2
The present invention is directed to a compound of Formula (I) and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I). Methods of making and using the compounds of Formula (I) are also within the scope of the invention.
US10047084B2
This application relates to imidazolone compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvents, polymorphs or prodrugs thereof, and further relates to pharmaceutical combinations comprising the foregoing substances and uses for preventing and treating protein kinase related diseases such as cancer, metabolic diseases, and cardiovascular diseases.
US10047083B2
A compound according to Formula Ia: wherein L1, G, and R1 are as described herein. The present invention relates to novel compounds according to Formula I that antagonize GPR84, a G-protein-coupled receptor that is involved in inflammatory conditions, and methods for the production of these novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and methods for the prevention and/or treatment of inflammatory conditions (for example inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis, lung diseases (e.g. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung interstitial diseases (e.g. idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF))), neuroinflammatory conditions, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, endocrine and/or metabolic diseases, and/or diseases involving impairment of immune cell functions by administering a compound of the invention.
US10047076B2
The invention relates inter alia to halogen-substituted compounds of the general formula (I) in which the A1-A4, T, W, Q, R1 and Z1-Z3 radicals are as defined in the description. Also described are processes for preparing the compounds of the formula (I). The compounds according to the invention are especially suitable for controlling insects, arachnids and nematodes in agriculture, and ectoparasites in veterinary medicine.
US10047075B2
The present disclosure provides pyridines and pyrimidines of Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof: wherein A, G, W1, W2, W3, and R5 are defined as set forth in the specification. The present disclosure also provides uses of the compounds of Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof. In certain embodiments, Compounds of the present disclosure are useful for treating pain. In another embodiment, Compounds of the present disclosure are useful for treating a disorder responsive to blockade of sodium channels, or alleviating symptoms of the disorder.
US10047069B2
Described herein are amorphous and crystalline forms of pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the lysine specific demethylase-1 inhibitor 4-[2-(4-aminopiperidin-1-yl)-5-(3-fluoro-4-methoxy-phenyl)-1-methyl-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyrimidin-4-yl]-2-fluorobenzonitrile. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions suitable for administration to a mammal that include the lysine specific demethylase-1 inhibitor, and methods of using the lysine specific demethylase-1 inhibitor for treating diseases or conditions that are associated with lysine specific demethylase-1 activity.
US10047053B2
This invention relates to compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. This invention also provides compositions comprising a compound of this invention and the use of such compositions in methods of treating diseases and conditions that are beneficially treated by administering a CFTR potentiator.
US10047050B2
2-((3-(4-cyanonaphthalen-1-yl)pyridin-4-yl)thio)-2-methylpropanoic acid is useful in the modulation of blood or serum uric acid levels. In some embodiments, 2-((3-(4-cyanonaphthalen-1-yl)pyridin-4-yl)thio)-2-methylpropanoic acid is used in the treatment or prevention of disorders related to aberrant levels of uric acid. In some embodiments, 2-((3-(4-cyanonaphthalen-1-yl)pyridin-4-yl)thio)-2-methylpropanoic acid is used for reducing serum uric acid levels in a human. Also described herein are compositions comprising 2-((3-(4-cyanonaphthalen-1-yl)pyridin-4-yl)thio)-2-methylpropanoic acid, and their use in the modulation of blood or serum uric acid levels.
US10047030B2
The disclosure concerns methods comprising forming a phenol and acetone mixture from decomposition of a cumene hydroperoxide or a phenol, acetone, and AMS from the decomposition of a mixture containing dicumyl peroxide in a system comprising one or more reactors where at least a portion of an inner surface of the one or more reactors has a polymer coating and wherein the coating inhibits build-up of a fouling precipitate on the coated inner surface of the one or more reactors as compared to such build-up in the absence of the coating.
US10047028B2
The present invention relates to novel cycloalkyl-hydroxyl compounds, compositions comprising hydroxyl compounds, and methods useful for treating and preventing a variety of diseases and conditions such as, but not limited to aging, Alzheimer's Disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, a disorder of glucose metabolism, dyslipidemia, dyslipoproteinemia, hypertension, impotence, inflammation, insulin resistance, lipid elimination in bile, obesity, oxysterol elimination in bile, pancreatitis, Parkinson's disease, a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-associated disorder, phospholipid elimination in bile, renal disease, septicemia, Syndrome X, thrombotic disorder. Compounds and methods of the invention can also be used to modulate C reactive protein or enhance bile production in a patient. In certain embodiments, the compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are useful in combination therapy with other therapeutics, such as hypocholesterolemic and hypoglycemic agents.
US10047021B2
A process of tuning a hydrocarbon product composition is described. The process involves selecting paraffins for reaction. The equilibrium constants for reactions of the selected paraffins can be used to select appropriate feed ratios, or an equilibrium composition as function of C/H molar ratio. A selected feed is reacted to obtain the product. Equilibrium product compositions and non-equilibrium product compositions can be obtained using the process.
US10047014B2
Disclosed is an agglomerated TiN powder, the powder comprising spherical aggregates having particle diameters of 40 to 80 μm and formed by the agglomeration of Ti and N having the atomic fractions of 72% and 28% respectively. Also provided is a TiN coating obtained using the powder. The three-strong-peak phase of the coating is a TiN phase, and also has partial TiO, TiO2, and Ti3O oxide phases; the coating has layered distribution of bright and dark phases, and the joint between the interior of the layered structure and the layer structure is provided with a small number of pores; the joint between the coating and a base has no microscopic defects such as cracks and is well jointed. The supersonic plasma-sprayed TiN coating achieves hardness as high as 1210HV0.1, thereby enhancing the wear resistance of the coating. The coating has good fracture toughness, thereby enhancing the fracture mechanical performance inside of the coating and extending the fatigue life of the coating. Also provided are a preparation method for the TiN coating, and a mold coated with said TiN coating.
US10047012B2
An IGZO sintered compact composed of indium (In), gallium (Ga), zinc (Zn), oxygen (O) and unavoidable impurities, wherein an average length of cracks existing in the IGZO sintered compact is 3 μm or more and 15 μm or less. Provided is a sputtering target capable of suppressing the target cracks and reducing the generation of particles during deposition via DC sputtering, and forming favorable thin films.
US10047000B2
A method of making a glass sheet includes treating a refractory block material comprising at least one multivalent component with a vehicle comprising at least one redox altering component or precursor. The method also includes flowing molten glass over the refractory block material, wherein the treatment of the refractory block material with the vehicle comprising at least one redox altering component or precursor reduces the amount of oxygen production resulting from interaction between the at least one multivalent component and the molten glass.
US10046999B2
Industrial and residential water treatment systems and devices are disclosed for use in preventing hard water buildup or in removing such buildup. The systems and devices include fixed and removable components for delivering water treatment composition. In addition, novel water treatment compositions and methods of treating water are disclosed.
US10046993B2
A compact system for treating pharmaceutical waste at a location at which the pharmaceutical waste is disposed includes a waste influent tank configured to hold and discharge a fluid containing pharmaceutical waste, a first container configured to hold and discharge hydrogen peroxide utilized in a chemical reaction to treat the pharmaceutical waste, a second container configured to hold and discharge aqueous iron solution utilized in a chemical reaction to treat the pharmaceutical waste, a neutralizer tank in which the chemical reaction is carried out, and a drain container configured to receive treated fluid. The system excludes a UV light source.
US10046992B2
The present invention concerns a process for treating water and the use of calcium carbonate in such a process. In particular, the present invention is directed to a process for remineralization of water comprising the steps of providing feed water, and injecting gaseous carbon dioxide and a slurry into the feed water, wherein the slurry comprises micronized calcium carbonate.
US10046986B2
The invention relates to composite materials, and more particular to composite adsorptive materials for purification of liquids, in particular, a drinking water, on the basis of components of a granulated material and a fibrous material. The new composite material for filtering purifying a liquid on the basis of a mixture of components of granulated and fibrous materials comprises volume zones with adjustable density, which zones create the structure of the material, which structure is self-strengthened when a liquid flows in the course of filtration, wherein, said volume zones make the material most part, each zone is created in the form of a interlaced fiber site, which sites are bonded among themselves by separate fibers, and the space within and between said interlaced fiber sites is filled with a granulated material.
US10046982B2
An improved gray water reclamation system. A filter-valve is coupled to a gray water conduit between a drain where gray water enters the system and a gray water tank and/or sump. Water which enters the filter-valve contacts a filter screen which separates the incoming water into a portion of screened water and a portion of particulate matter which remains behind in the main portion of the filter-valve. The portion of screened water continues out of the filter-valve and into the gray water tank. The filter-valve is cleaned or maintained by backwashing the collected contaminates and particulate matter through the normal sewer drain system by opening an installed motor operated valve and allowing the collected particulate matter and backwash to pass there through via the waste conduit. The backwash and particulate matter from the filter-valve is then directed into a second waste conduit which is coupled to a pre-existing drainage system.
US10046977B2
A process for purifying red mud including reduction of the red mud to reduced material, and traversing the reduced material with an oxygen-containing gas in the presence of a catalyst suitable for iron oxidation.
US10046975B2
A method is disclosed for synthesizing a molecular sieve having the structure of SSZ-83 in the absence of a source of fluoride ions.
US10046973B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for manufacturing SiO, which may lower a manufacturing cost of SiO by collecting SiO continuously. The apparatus for manufacturing SiO includes a reaction unit configured to receive a SiO-making material and bring the received material into reaction by heating to generate a SiO gas; and a collecting unit configured to maintain an internal temperature lower than an internal temperature of the reaction unit, the collecting unit including a rotating member in an inner space thereof, wherein the collecting unit collects a SiO deposit by introducing the SiO gas generated by the reaction unit through an inlet formed at least at one side thereof and allowing the introduced SiO gas to be deposited to a surface of the rotating member.
US10046968B2
A desulfurization system removes sulfur ingredients included in synthetic gas generated from gasification of coal in a high temperature dry state. The system includes a desulfurization reactor, a desulfurization cyclone, and first and second regeneration reactors branched with the desulfurization cyclone. A first oxidizing agent is injected to a first oxidizing agent inlet of the first regeneration reactor, and a second oxidizing agent is injected to a second oxidizing agent inlet of the second regeneration reactor. A controller operates one of the first and second regeneration reactors in a regeneration mode, controlling the other to operate in a desulfurization mode.
US10046955B2
An extendable folding boom includes a turntable rotatable about a vertical axis, a plurality of boom segments pivotable at folding joints about respectively horizontal folding axes with respect to an adjacent boom segment or the turntable, and a sensor configured to sense a folding angle between two adjacent boom segments or between a boom segment and the turntable. The sensor includes a field-generating element and a field-sensing element spaced apart from each other along a horizontal axis in a contactless arrangement.
US10046947B2
An elevator controller may include a memory configured to store acceleration data therein; and a processor configured to, register a passenger-specific destination call, the passenger-specific destination call including destination information indicating a destination floor of a passenger, receive passenger acceleration data indicating a vertical acceleration of the passenger in one of a plurality of elevator cars, compare elevator acceleration data of the plurality of elevator cars departing a floor with the passenger acceleration data, determine whether a correlation exists between the passenger acceleration data and the elevator acceleration data of a detected one of the plurality of elevator cars, and guide the detected one of the plurality of elevator cars that has left a floor to the destination floor according to the passenger-specific destination call, if the processor determines that the correlation exists.
US10046939B2
A sheet process apparatus images a code printed on a fed sheet, and a control unit acquires image data of the imaged code, reads information of the code from the image data, measures a real position of the code from the image data, retrieves position information corresponding to the read information of the code, calculates an amount of deviation between the measured real position of the code and a reference position, corrects the position information on the basis of the amount of the calculated deviation so as to determine a target position, and outputs the target position. The apparatus and corresponding method do not need the sheet to have a wide space for printing both a cut mark and the code, and do not recognize another mark as the cut mark.
US10046926B2
A method for dispensing pallets, comprising: moving a pallet stack held in a movable frame from a pallet-storage position to a pallet-dispensation position including: raising the pallet stack held in the movable frame, the movable frame being configured to be moved between the pallet-storage position and the pallet-dispensation position once the pallet stack is raised; and dispensing a pallet from the movable frame.
US10046925B2
Disclosed is a blowing device for a rotary air lock, comprising a flushing gas stream that is fed by a gas supply line (12) in order for adhering material to be flushed and blown out of at least one compartment (20-24) of the rotary air lock (20-24) when said compartment is located next to a product outlet of the rotary air lock. A blowing unit (30), which comprises at least one blowing tube (32) and is located in a feeding shoe (10) that is arranged at the product outlet, directs the flushing gas stream to at least one compartment (20-24) of the rotary air lock.
US10046924B2
A core conveying device includes a plurality of holding devices, a support section, a moving device, and a mounting table. The support section has a hole formed at a position corresponding to a positioning pin and is connected so as to slide in a horizontal direction with respect to the moving device. A size of a lower end opening of the hole is larger than a size of an upper end of the positioning pin. The support section is configured such that, when the support section is moved downward so as to grip the core, as the positioning pin abuts against an inner surface of the hole and the support section slides in the horizontal direction with respect to the moving device, a position of the support section in the horizontal direction with respect to the core is determined.
US10046921B2
The invention relates to a handling apparatus (1) for piece goods (2) that comprises at least one divider finger (14, 46, 51), which is introducible to a transport plane (5), largely perpendicular, from below, with the at least one divider finger being connected to a divider bar element (13, 13*, 43, 50). The divider bar element is movably arranged below the transport plane (5) and is guided in a specified movement path. The divider bar element is detachably connected to a profile element (11, 41). During a format change, the divider bar element is toolessly detached and interchanged for another divider bar element, which has divider fingers that are positioned differently and/or spaced apart differently from the divider fingers of the removed divider bar element.
US10046918B2
An online real-time method of measuring the thickness of a moving belt uses infrared thermography technology to continuously and noninvasively measure the thickness of rubber cover regions and detect damage. This technique solves technical problems and realizes potential gains such as increased efficiency in planning maintenance/replacements of conveyor belts; provides rationalizations and advanced planning for stocking spare conveyor belts; provides a lookahead of acute wear at points to avoid premature wear or belt loss; generates a history of generating wear after each belt replacement with life projections and early planning acquisitions and operational stoppages for exchange; and provides early warning system integration.
US10046913B1
In one embodiment, a conveyor system has a conveyor segment and a knock-down device. The conveyor segment has an upstream end, and a downstream end opposite the upstream end. The conveyor segment defines a conveying surface that carries objects along a flow direction that extends from the upstream end to the downstream end. The knock-down device has a knock-down body that is spaced entirely from the conveying surface along a vertical direction by at least a clearance height. The knock-down body has an upstream body end, a downstream body end offset from the upstream body end with respect to the flow direction, and a ramped surface that extends between the upstream body end and the downstream body end. The ramped surface is ramped away from the conveying surface as the ramped surface extends along the flow direction, and knocks down objects that are stacked on top of one another.
US10046912B2
A stack operating vehicle for storage and retrieval storage units. One embodiment of the stack operating vehicle comprises a first bearing device with a first bearing base and a first holding device for handling at least one storage unit; a second bearing device with a second bearing base and a second holding device for handling at least one storage unit. The second holding device is movably supported by a guiding device along a horizontal direction; a vertical guide arrangement at which the first bearing base and the second bearing base are respectively guided on an adjustment path along the vertical direction which are formed such that the first bearing base and the second bearing base overlap one another over their entire adjustment paths in the vertical direction. The disclosure also relates to a method for execution of storage orders with storage units with such a stack operating vehicle.
US10046906B2
A tank type container, comprising a tank (1), two end frames (2) respectively fixed at two ends of the tank (1), and at least one saddle (3) located at the bottom of the outer wall of the tank (2); an upward concave gooseneck hole (27) is formed in the bottom of the saddle (3) for insertion of the gooseneck of a semitrailer front end; and at least one saddle (3) is adjacent to one of the end frames (2), and forms a gap with the end frame (2). The saddle (3) and the end frame (2) are spaced a certain distance, thus greatly shortening the length of the saddle (3), reducing the manufacturing cost of the saddle (3) as the gooseneck hole, reducing the dead weight of the entire vehicle, and improving the competitiveness of the product.
US10046901B1
A thermally insulating packaging to hold an item includes a solid compostable or recyclable shell that is formed primarily of a plant fiber, and a bottom cover. The shell includes a floor, a plurality of inner side walls that are coupled to the floor, a rim coupled to the plurality of inner side walls, and a plurality of outer side walls that are couple to the rim. The floor and the plurality of inner side walls define an interior space of the shell to receive the item and an opening to the interior space. The plurality of inner side walls and plurality of outer side walls have a space therebetween that defines a gap. The gap can be an air-filled cavity, or be filled with a compostable or recyclable core material.
US10046895B2
A packing and/or transport unit comprising several insulation elements for flat roof insulation, wherein each insulation element has four side faces being arranged rectangular to each other, a lower surface and an upper surface, the lower and upper surfaces being connected to the side faces and being arranged spaced apart and non-parallel to each other. The insulation elements are arranged in layers in at least one stack on at least one support means being arranged under the stack, which support means comprises at least two carrying feet arranged for resting on a support surface. The stack comprises an uneven number of layers of insulation elements, and the packing and/or transport unit comprises at least one leveling means ensuring that a top plane of the packing and/or transport unit is arranged substantially parallel to the support surface.
US10046889B2
The present disclosure provides a container and a process for producing the container. In an embodiment, the process includes placing a sleeve bag on valve assembly (SBoV) in a blow mold apparatus. The blow mold apparatus has two opposing and movable molds. The SBoV has a valve seat. The process includes extending a parison of flowable polymeric material around the SBoV and between the opposing molds. The process includes moving the opposing molds to a closed position and pressing an upstream portion of the parison against the valve seat. The process includes blow molding a downstream portion of the parison into a container-shape within the closed mold. The process includes forming a container with the valve seat melt bonded to a neck portion of the container.
US10046886B2
A lid hanging structure of a container is disclosed in the present invention. The container includes a base, side plates and a lid. the hanging structure includes hanging members and hanging slots, wherein the hanging members are engaged or disengaged with the hanging slots respectively so as to hang the lid on the container or remove the lid from the container, and one of the anging members and the hanging slot is provided on the lid and the other is provided on the side plates. According to the lid hanging structure, it is convenient to remove the lid from the container when necessary. That is to say that, the lid can be removed directly when not in use or in the hanging state, and can be removed by simple operation in the hanging state, so as to reduce the amount of labor, and the structure is simple and the cost is low.
US10046869B2
The use of an accelerometer for inertial navigation of a low thrust spacecraft undergoing acceleration wherein the inaccuracy of the accelerometer is less than the uncertainty in the accuracy of a modeled non-gravitational component of the acceleration that the spacecraft is undergoing is disclosed. A method of navigating a spacecraft having a low thrust propulsion system is also disclosed. The method comprises engaging the low thrust propulsion system, measuring the acceleration of the spacecraft using an accelerometer with an inaccuracy less than the uncertainty in the acceleration imparted by the low thrust propulsion system and acquiring a trajectory estimate using the measured acceleration. The trajectory estimate may be updated using an external reference navigation sensor.
US10046868B2
A spaceplane suitable for aeronautical flight comprising a body and a wing defining a lower airfoil surface in addition to attitude control means that comprise one or a plurality of shutters disposed under the lower airfoil surface of same and maneuverable between a stowed position and an inclined extended position for aerodynamic braking during the transition from a phase of space flight to a phase of aeronautical flight of the aircraft.
US10046849B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a fuel tank, main wings, an aircraft fuselage, an aircraft, and a moving body, which enable working hours and costs involved in a manufacturing process to be reduced, and weight increases to be prevented. The fuel tank includes a structural member in which carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is used, the carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) including a reinforcing material that includes carbon fibers and a matrix that includes plastic. The structural member is formed by laminating a conductive sheet between prepregs of the carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). In this case, a cut surface of the structural member formed by cutting the structural member may be exposed on the inside in which fuel is stored.
US10046822B2
A cover fastening structure for a motorcycle, including a cover member around a headlight that can be made smaller in size and, at the same time, with highly accurate fastening. The cover fastening structure for the motorcycle includes: a headlight for lighting the front side of the motorcycle; middle cowls as exterior parts for covering lateral sides of the motorcycle; a headlight under cover disposed under the headlight such as to be continuous with the middle cowls; and a center upper cowl disposed rearwardly of the headlight under cover such as to cover the lower side of the headlight. The headlight under cover includes a rearward extending wall fitted to the center upper cowl, and the rearward extending wall is provided with a cutout. The center upper cowl is provided with a solid cylindrical fitting-receiving section. The cutout of the headlight under cover and the fitting-receiving section of the center upper cowl are fastened together by being fitted to each other.
US10046819B1
A two wheeled throwable robot comprises an elongate chassis with two ends, a motor at each end, drive wheels connected to the motors, and a tail extending from the elongate chassis. The chassis split length wise and comprised of a pair of elongate portions, a rear portion and a forward portion. Adjoining respective surfaces with interfacing portions are sealed with a gasket or sealing material therebetween and provide a robust juncture. The rear portion having a deep recess and sub recess for containing and securing the pair of motors with brackets, and batteries with brackets. The forward part having a shallow recess with a pcb secured therein having control circuitry. The shallow component has a high degree of structural strength with a central region projecting forwardly and further having flattened forward facing end portions on each lateral side of the central region. The robot, even with the small size for throwability, also provides modularity allowing, for example, different motors and different radios to be changed out or allowing customized designs in a common chassis.
US10046816B2
A flexible thrust washer member comprises a body including an annular skirt portion that defines an outer diameter and a central aperture having an inner diameter, wherein the body has a conical configuration that defines a conical axis and a radial direction and the outer diameter of the annular skirt portion is spaced away from the central aperture along the conical axis and along the radial direction, defining an axial dimension and a radial dimension and the body defines at least two slits that separate the annular skirt portion into a plurality of fingers.
US10046815B2
An undercarriage monitoring device has a roller assembly including a fixed roller component and a bushing. An opening is formed within the fixed roller component. A first sensor is disposed within the opening of the fixed roller component over the bushing. The first sensor is configured to sense a first physical characteristic of the bushing. The fixed roller component is a shaft or a housing. The first sensor is a temperature sensor or a Hall effect sensor. A magnet is disposed on the roller assembly. A second sensor is disposed within the opening of the fixed roller component over the bushing. The second sensor is configured to sense a second physical characteristic of the bushing. A data transmitting device is coupled to the first sensor. Data is collected from the sensor. The data collected from the sensor is transmitted to a receiving device.
US10046814B2
In a truck vehicle, a controller controls a mechanism to apportion the sum total of weight borne by a tandem axle between a drive axle and a tag axle.
US10046801B2
In a steering assist control apparatus including a steering assist control unit that controls the steering of an own vehicle by a manipulated variable allowing the own vehicle to run along a lane recognized by a lane recognition unit, and a control stop unit that decrease the manipulated variable with time when an abnormality detection unit detects a recognition abnormality in the lane recognition unit, the control stop unit decreases the manipulated variable at a manipulated variable decrease rate corresponding to a manner of the recognition abnormality. Thereby, at the time of the occurrence of the abnormality, it is possible to more adequately decrease the manipulated variable for the steering assist control, corresponding to the manner of the abnormality.
US10046800B2
A backup assist system for a vehicle and trailer combination includes a steering system, a camera generating an image of the trailer, and a controller. The controller receives the image and identifying a wheel therein, determines a value in a kinematic model of the vehicle and trailer combination using at least one of an aspect ratio or location of the wheel in the image, and uses the value in the kinematic model to control the steering system.
US10046797B2
Systems for controlling the speed and direction of vehicles such as tractors, including vehicles that have low to zero turning radius capability. Systems include steering and speed coordination systems that control the direction and speed of rotation of vehicle drive units.
US10046784B2
Trailer hitch attachable coolers are disclosed. Methods of making trailer hitch attachable coolers, and methods of using trailer hitch attachable coolers are also disclosed.
US10046783B2
A shopping cart deflection measurement system and associated methods are described. The shopping cart deflection measurement system includes a shopping cart, a sensor, and a processing device equipped with a processor. The shopping cart includes a frame, a basket portion pivotably mounted to the frame so as to enable deflection of at least one edge of the basket portion downward in the direction of gravity following a weight being placed in the basket portion, and a lower rack portion mounted to the frame and disposed below the basket portion. The processing device can be configured to execute instructions to measure deflection of the basket portion relative to the lower rack portion of the shopping cart using data acquired by the sensor. The measured deflection can be indicative of a fullness of the basket portion with one or more products.
US10046782B2
A dump cart includes a frame; a pair of wheels rotatably coupled to the frame by at least one axle; a bed frame pivotally coupled to the frame so that the bed frame may be pivoted relative to the frame between a lowered, hauling position and a raised, dumping position; a bed attached to the bed frame for receiving and hauling objects; a removable tow bar having a first end that may be attached to the frame and a second end that may be attached to a towing vehicle so that the towing vehicle may pull the dump cart; and a wheelbarrow attachment accessory that may replace the removable tow bar to convert the dump cart to a wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow attachment accessory includes a draw bar; a mounting bracket attached to a first end of the draw bar that may be removably attached to the frame; a pair of handles attached to a second end of the draw bar that may be gripped by a user to move and maneuver the wheelbarrow; and at least one leg depending from the draw bar for supporting the draw bar and handles above the ground. The dump cart may also include a lift assist mechanism coupled between the frame and the bed frame for biasing the bed frame toward its raised, dumping position so as to assist a user in dumping objects from the wheelbarrow.
US10046773B2
A notification device (1) includes a sweep signal generator (3) that generates a sweep signal by changing the frequency of a predetermined wave at a constant speed in a frequency band which allows exciters (EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4) to generate a vibration, a sweep signal divider (4) that divides the sweep signal into a higher-band sweep signal in a higher-frequency band including an overlap frequency band and a lower-band sweep signal in a lower-frequency band including the overlap frequency band, a signal output determination unit (2) that determines from which exciters the higher-band sweep signal and lower-band sweep signal should be outputted, and an output signal adjuster (9) that makes an adjustment for outputting the higher-band sweep signal and lower-band sweep signal from the exciters determined.
US10046771B2
Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for testing operation and control accuracy of a driving control system in an unmanned vehicle. The method comprises determining an operation and control track length when the unmanned vehicle is operated and controlled by the driving control system in the unmanned vehicle, based on obtained traveling data information; determining a standard operation and control distance when the driving control system operates and controls the unmanned vehicle, based on a preset operation and control accuracy test standard; and comparing the operation and control track length with the standard operation and control distance to determine a test result of the operation and control accuracy of the driving control system.
US10046770B1
Systems and methods for independently estimating a road surface friction coefficient value and a vehicular lateral velocity value are provided. In one example, the system includes: a self-aligning torque coefficient estimating module configured to obtain sensor signals from an electronic power steering (EPS) system and an inertial measurement unit and estimate a first self-aligning torque coefficient value based on the sensor signals using a recursive least square algorithm; a road surface friction coefficient value estimating module configured to obtain the estimated first self-aligning torque coefficient value and estimate a first road surface friction coefficient value based on the estimated first self-aligning torque coefficient value; and a feature control module configured to generate one or more control signals configured to control features of a vehicle based on the estimated first road surface friction coefficient value.
US10046764B2
A vehicle control system includes a limiter device, and a setting device to set an upper speed limit on the limiter device, based on speed limit values extracted from image information. The setting device includes a derivation unit to derive a condition to raise display priority for each speed limit value; an obtainment unit to obtain determination information for determining whether the condition is satisfied; a calculation unit to raise the display priority of the speed limit value that corresponds to the condition determined satisfied with the determination information, among the speed limit values extracted from the image information; a display control unit to display the speed limit values in descending order of the display priority; and a setting unit configured to set the upper speed limit on the limiter device, based on one of the displayed speed limit values, selected by an occupant of the vehicle.
US10046760B2
Exemplary embodiments provide systems and methods for autonomously valet parking a vehicle based on images obtained from a plurality of plenoptic (light field) cameras. An example vehicle includes a plenoptic camera to obtain an image external to the vehicle and a controller. The controller is to autonomously navigate a vehicle toward a parking space identified as unoccupied and generate, based on the image, an occupancy map indicating occupied regions in a plurality of concentric regions. The controller also is to determine whether the parking space is available based on the occupancy map and send, in response to determining the parking space is unavailable, an error message to a driver.
US10046745B2
A trolley for traversing a zip line includes a first load-bearing sheave rotatably mounted to one or more side plates, and a second load-bearing sheave rotatably mounted to the one or more side plates and rearward of the first sheave. The trolley also includes an anchor point on the trolley for attaching a payload. When the trolley decelerates, forces acting on the payload create a downward load on the first sheave and the second sheave.
US10046734B2
A reversible seat belt tensioner including a rotationally operable plastic driven gear (1), and a drive moved with a belt shaft of the belt tensioner. At least one coupling pawl (4) is provided on the drive gear, engaging a gearing of the drive gear upon activation of the reversible belt tensioner, and in a load-transmitting position produces a linkage between the driven gear (1) and the drive gear. A support ring (3) made of a material having a greater strength than the driven gear (1) is provided and is connected to the driven gear (1) for with a projection (21, 22) which into a recess (15, 16) of the driven gear (1). The recess (15, 16) positioned such that the coupling pawl (4) is braced against the driven gear (1) via the projection (21, 22) which engages in the recess (15, 16).
US10046715B2
Systems and methods for detecting objects from a moving platform are provided. The method includes receiving, from a camera coupled to the moving platform, first and second image frames, wherein the second image frame is subsequent in time to the first image frame. Within the first image frame, a first target is defined characterizing the location of an object detected in the first image frame. A first score associated with the first target and a second score associated with the second target are determined, and a first predicted target is determined based on a tracking process applied to the first target. A third score associated with the first predicted target is determined. The method determines a merged target corresponding to the second target when the second score is greater than the third score and a proximity measure between the second target and the first predicted target is above a threshold.
US10046712B1
A vehicle bicycle rack is provided including a telescopic, height-adjustable support, attachable to a vehicle, and an arm assembly carried by the support for holding one or more bicycles. The arm assembly is pivotably mounted to the support and is height-adjustable by adjusting the height of the support. The arm assembly can adopt various rotational positions, including a stowed position in which the arm assembly is pivoted downward, and a deployed position in which the arm assembly is pivoted rearward and one or more bicycles can be carried by the arm assembly.
US10046707B2
A door blocker for a vehicle includes a rotation platform positioned between first and second lateral drive members. The rotation platform is operably coupled to the first and second lateral drive members. An actuator has a first end operably coupled to the rotation platform. A reaction block has a slot that receives a second end of the actuator. The door blocker may be transformable to a power running board.
US10046704B2
A fold rearview mirror assembly for a motor vehicle comprises a base member, a mirror head, and a motor component for rotating, through a drive means comprising a gear wheel assembly, the mirror housing relative to the base member between a mirror operative condition and a mirror folded condition, and vice versa. The gear wheel assembly comprises a first and second gear wheels coupled to each other through first coupling means. The first gear wheel engages a motor component through a second coupling means and the second gear wheel in turn engages the base member through a third coupling means. The first coupling means allow the first and second gear wheels to be rotated together in one direction, and allow the first gear wheel to be rotated relative to the second gear wheel in the reverse direction.
US10046694B2
A communication system for a vehicle comprises a receiver to receive a signal corresponding to a traveling speed of a lead vehicle, a response device that generates an alert to warn of a change in the traveling speed of the lead vehicle, and a control device coupled to the receiver and the response device, wherein the receiver sends a signal to the control device corresponding to the traveling speed of the lead vehicle and the control device operates the response device in a manner dependent on the traveling speed of the lead vehicle. In some embodiments, the signal comprises one or more of infrared, radio frequency, wireless, WiFi, and Bluetooth®. In some embodiments, the communication system further comprises a speed control system coupled to the control device, wherein the control device operates the speed control system in a manner dependent on the traveling speed of the lead vehicle.
US10046692B2
A heated light enclosure having an adaptable heating system is provided with a controlled heating system to deliver enough heat to a lens on a lamp assembly to remove snow, frost, and/or condensation without overheating the lens. By heating the lens using a combination of one or more of PTC heaters, heat sinks and heat pipes, accumulation of snow, ice, or vapor is mitigated or eliminated from a surface of the lens, thereby enabling light to transmit through the lens. Applications include lamps and bulbs on conveyance devices, including vehicles, boats, planes, and trains, as well as sedentary structures, such as lamp posts, street lights, railroad crossing markers and lights, and airport ground and runway lighting systems.
US10046685B1
A screen assembly includes an anchor arm, a cover arm, a spool arm, a spool, and a flexible screen. The anchor arm is connected to a component of the vehicle within the passenger cabin. The spool arm is disposed between the anchor arm and the cover arm. The spool is inserted onto the spool arm and can rotate relative to the spool arm. The flexible screen is attached to the spool and includes first and second portions. The first portion has a first edge attached to the spool arm and a second edge attached to the anchor arm. The second portion includes a first edge attached to the spool arm and a second edge attached to the cover arm. The first and second portions are dispensed in opposite directions when at least one of the cover arm and the anchor arm moves relative to the spool arm.
US10046678B2
A shock attenuating mounting for a seat, comprising an attenuating element composed of resilient material, the element securable on a first side to a seat and securable on a second side to a vehicle, the element configured to attenuate shock experienced by the vehicle along more than one axis.
US10046671B2
A vehicle seat includes a seat bottom and a seat back. The seat back is coupled to the seat bottom and arranged to extend in an upward direction away from the seat bottom. The vehicle seat further includes an electronics system.
US10046665B2
A coolant passage connection structure includes: a first coolant passage attached to a case which houses a cooler and has a second opening, and extending from the cooler; a second coolant passage that communicates with the second opening; a first connection member connected to the first coolant passage, and having a first opening; a first face seal member; and a second connection member connected to the first opening and the second opening via the first face seal member. The second opening is provided in the case so as to be positioned below the first connection member in a vertical direction. The first connection member is positioned above the first face seal member in the vertical direction and includes a tapered portion that includes an inclined surface inclined further away from a surface of the case toward a lower side in the vertical direction.
US10046663B2
An electronic device for controlling the electric charge of a load electrically supplied by a battery pack, comprising: a support; a control module integrated in the support; an electric pre-charging circuit of the load controlled by the control module; an electric active discharge circuit of the load controlled by the control module. The electric pre-charging circuit comprises at least one first solid-state switch and is integrated on the support. The electric active discharge circuit comprises at least one second solid-state switch and is integrated on the support. The first solid-state switch and the second solid-state switch work either as a switch or as a variable resistor.
US10046662B2
Disclosed herein is an invention concerning a method for managing charging of a Li-ion battery based on at least one parameter chosen from a group consisting of a state of deterioration of the Li-ion battery and cell unbalance, the method comprising the following steps: a) determining an end-of-charge voltage value of said Li-ion battery, b) generating a control signal controlling the charging of said Li-ion battery, and c) transmitting the control signal to a charger, the control signal being generated in such a way that the Li-ion battery is charged based on the end-of-charge voltage value determined in step a), said end-of-charge voltage value being increased based on the state of deterioration of said Li-ion battery until a limit value is reached, in order to ensure a constant minimal level of required energy in said Li-ion battery is provided at a predetermined reference temperature.
US10046655B2
The battery charger (C) for electric vehicles comprises a voltage converter (DC/DC CONV), a power factor correction circuit (PFC) connected upstream of the voltage converter (DC/DC CONV), a controller circuit (PFC CNTR) operatively connected to the correction circuit (PFC) and suitable for piloting the correction circuit (PFC) for the correction of the power factor in the battery charger (C), a retroaction line (L) connected to the output of the voltage converter (DC/DC CONV) and to an input of the controller circuit (PFC CNTR), wherein the controller circuit (PFC CNTR) is suitable for varying the output voltage (VPFC) of the correction circuit (PFC) within a predefined voltage interval and according to the output voltage (VDCOUT) of the voltage converter (DC/DC CONV), in order to let the voltage converter (DC/DC CONV) operate as much as possible around the point of maximum efficiency.
US10046653B2
A novel automobile charger comprises a direct current (DC) voltage supply, wherein a positive pole of the DC voltage supply is connected with a first end or a first lead of a DC-to-DC module, a first end of a battery voltage detection module and a first end of a load module simultaneously while a negative pole of the DC voltage supply is connected with a second end of the DC-to-DC module, a first end of a microcontroller, a first end of an automobile start control module and a second end of the battery voltage detection module simultaneously. A third end of the DC-to-DC module is connected with a second end of the microcontroller. Third, fourth, and fifth ends of the microcontroller are connected with a third end of the battery voltage detection module, a second end of the automobile start control module and a first end of a load detection module respectively. A second end of the load detection module is connected with a third end of the automobile start control module and a second end of the load module simultaneously.
US10046652B2
A charge control apparatus includes a battery having a first maximum value, a minimum value, and a second maximum value of an output density, in an output characteristic indicating a relationship between a remaining capacity and the output density of the battery, the minimum value being on a lower remaining capacity side than the first maximum value and the second maximum value being on a lower remaining capacity side than the minimum value; and a charge control unit configured to stop charging the battery when a voltage of the battery reaches a charge termination voltage set in a predetermined setting range. The predetermined setting range is from a voltage corresponding to a remaining capacity associated with the first maximum value to a full charge voltage.
US10046650B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide control means for a vehicle, the control means being operable to control charging of tractive energy storage means of the vehicle, the control means being configured to allow charging of the energy storage means in dependence on a location of the vehicle and a time of day, wherein if the location of the vehicle corresponds to one or more prescribed locations the control means is operable to permit charging only during one or more prescribed periods of the day.
US10046649B2
The present invention includes a battery maintenance device for performing maintenance on battery packs of hybrid and/or electrical vehicles (referred herein generally as electric vehicles). In various embodiments, the device includes one or more loads for connecting to a battery pack for use in discharging the battery pack, and/or charging circuitry for use in charging the battery pack. Input/output circuitry can be provided for communicating with circuitry of in the battery pack and/or circuitry of the vehicle.
US10046647B2
An electronic device including an electronic switch M1, an electrical pre-charge circuit and a measurement, command and diagnosis module. The main electronic switch M1 has a first electrical terminal D1, a second electrical terminal S1, and a main driving terminal G1. The main electronic switch M1 is adapted to take, based on a driving signal DRV, depending on the command signal CMD and on an enabling signal ENB, a closed condition or an open condition, wherein the first electrical terminal D1 is respectively connected to or disconnected from the second electrical terminal S1. The pre-charge electrical circuit is adapted to carry out, based on the command signal CMD, a pre-charge operation, aimed at equalizing the electric potentials (V1, V2) of the first and second terminals of the device, before the main electronic switch M1 takes a closed condition, upon of a transition from the open condition.
US10046646B2
A power conversion system including a DC main power supply for supplying a DC voltage, boosting circuits for performing a retrogression operation of boosting the DC voltage and comprising driving circuits, an inverter circuit for converting the DC voltage into an AC voltage, a motor/generator for receiving the AC voltage, and a control circuit for outputting a control signal to the driving circuits and stopping an operation of a faulty boosting circuit of the boosting circuits when one of the boosting circuits is faulty, for setting power control values depending on a number of remaining non-faulty boosting circuits of the boosting circuits, and for controlling the remaining non-faulty boosting circuits and the inverter circuit based on the power control values, wherein the inverter circuit and the boosting circuits perform a regeneration operation of supplying regeneration power to the DC main power supply, peripheral equipment, and/or a DC auxiliary power supply.
US10046642B2
A control method of a dual clutch transmission for a hybrid electric vehicle includes: determining, by a transmission controller, whether a vehicle has entered a power-off down-shift state; determining, by the transmission controller, whether a transmission including a first input shaft, a second input shaft, and an output shaft has entered a torque phase, when the first determining step determines that the vehicle has entered the power-off down-shift state; calculating a compensatory torque for compensating for a change in a regenerative braking force according to a change of a gear ratio in accordance with a completion percentage of the torque phase, when it is determined that a transmission has entered the torque phase; and compensating for regenerative torque of a motor by applying the compensatory torque.
US10046631B2
A cover for the deck of a utility vehicle may be formed from a single shell of thermoplastics material and reinforced with an extrusion that, by virtue of being formed in aluminum or another suitable material, has a lower co-efficient of expansion relative to the shell. The two parts of the cover, shell and extrusion, may be secured in such a way that there can be some degree of independent movement between them. Effectively, limited thermal expansion of the shell is allowed without overly compromising the connection between it and the aluminum extrusion. A flexible extrusion may connect the cover to the utility vehicle at one end and act as a hinge such that as it is raised, it is not only displaced in a vertical orientation, but also in a horizontal direction.
US10046629B2
The present invention relates to an automatic cover apparatus for a cargo compartment of a truck, the apparatus including a cover for opening and closing the top of the cargo compartment and two supporting rods installed on either side of the cover to transfer the cover (200) from the front to the rear of the cargo compartment. A winding drum is installed between the two supporting rods, for winding and withdrawing the cover, with two winding drum reinforcing portions installed a certain distance apart at the center thereof. A stopper is installed a certain distance apart on both sides at the upper rear of the cargo compartment and has a downward slope of 35° and 80°.
US10046625B2
A vehicle top assembly having a housing and a pair of rails that are perpendicular to and extend away from the housing. A roller is rotatably mounted within the housing. A layer of material is attached to the roller and has one or more locking members attached to a side edge.
US10046623B2
A fitting assembly for receiving and restraining a stud includes a sleeve defining a bore extending along a longitudinal axis of the fitting assembly. The sleeve includes one or more restraining members that selectively restrain the stud within the bore such that an axial position of the stud is limited to a selected one of a plurality of positions within the bore. The one or more restraining members are moveable between a first position and a second position, wherein axial movement of the stud within the bore is inhibited when the one or more restraining members are in the first position, and wherein axial movement of the stud is permitted when the one or more restraining members are in the second position. A clamp attachable to the one or more restraining members prevents movement of the one or more restraining members from the first position to the second position.
US10046622B2
A door curtain assembly configured for adjusting shading amount may include a fixed curtain wound around a fixed curtain take-up roll mounted at a door trim, a variable curtain wound around a variable curtain take-up roll mounted at the door trim, and a shade bar coupled to both a first end of the fixed curtain and a first end of the variable curtain such that the fixed curtain and the variable curtain are unwound and pulled up when the shade bar moves upward, wherein an upward position of the variable curtain can be adjusted.
US10046618B2
A method for vehicle control integrating environmental conditions including receiving a current physiological parameter from a wearable device associated with a vehicle occupant, and upon receiving the current physiological parameter, determining a current position of the vehicle from a position determination device, wherein the current the current physiological parameter correlates with the current position of the vehicle. The method including determining a physiological overload level including querying a geodatabase with the current physiological parameter and the current position of the vehicle and controlling one or more vehicle systems of the vehicle based on the physiological overload level.
US10046609B2
A writer for a tire pressure sensor is disclosed, which is adapted to hold the tire pressure sensor to write a program to the tire pressure sensor. The tire pressure sensor has a first connection port. The writer includes a housing, a positioning member, and an ejection device. A surface of the housing forms a receiving recess, and a second connection port is provided in the receiving recess. When the tire pressure sensor is received in the receiving recess, the first connection port thereof is connected to the second connection port. The positioning member connected to the housing has a block section abutting against the tire pressure sensor to keep the first connection port being connected to the second connection port. The ejection device is adapted to exert a pushing force on the tire pressure sensor to eject it for separating the second connection port from the first connection port.
US10046603B2
Pneumatic radial tire (1) having improved high speed durability and low flatspot feature, and which has polyethylene terephthalate cap ply reinforcement layer (6). The objective is to provide a pneumatic radial tire (1) wherein the pressure on the belt package (5) is increased at high speed and high temperature by increasing the thermal shrinkage force of the cap ply cord.
US10046599B2
An electrical brake mechanism for a caster can reliably brake a caster. A switch is mounted on a target to which a caster is attached and outputting an instruction signal to a brake device, a detector is provided on a rotating shaft of the cam and arranged in correspondence with each of positions of a plurality of cam surfaces, a sensor is provided for detecting abutment between each of the cam surfaces and an operation shaft by the detector, a motor is provided for rotating by an input of the switch and for stopping if the sensor detects the position of the predetermined cam surface, and a gear train is provided for transmitting rotation of the motor to the rotating shaft of the cam.
US10046598B2
In a multi-piece wheel rim assembly for ATV, RTV AND UTV industrial vehicle, the wheel assembly includes a rim base, removable flange and a lock ring. In various embodiments, the rim base and removable flange may be made from aluminum and the lock ring from steel. The lock ring may be made from a one or two piece construction. When the lock ring is made from two pieces, such as two pieces of steel, the lock ring may incorporate removable locking tabs to retain the lock ring within a recess formed in the rim base.
US10046590B2
This disclosure includes a system and method for producing a back-lit color laser image, and an identity document using this method and back lighting system. The body of the identity document may be transparent. In various implementations, the light back-lights the color laser image which may be formed of sub-pixels partly covered by non-reflective surfaces in the protective layer. The light may enter through tiny holes in decorative patterns on the reverse side of the document. Various implementations may find particular applications for identity cards, credit cards, passports, driving licences, secure entry badges, etc.
US10046589B2
A hybrid security device for security documents and the like, with the microstructure for a first optically variable device (OVD) and the microstructure for a second OVD mutually interlace or interspersed. The first microstructure has a height profile that differs from that of the second microstructure by more than 0.5 microns. Suitable fabrication processes for the hybrid security device are also disclosed.
US10046583B2
Roll paper for printing maintains high bending resistance at the perforations without impairing the ease of separation at the perforation. The paper has perforations 15A, 25A formed across the width of the paper at a specific interval lengthwise, and the perforation 15A, 25A have either a sawtooth shape or a wave shape. The roll paper also has a liner 11, and a plurality of labels 12 affixed by adhesive 13 at an even interval along the length of the liner 11. The perforation 15A, 25A are formed in the liner 11 between two adjacent labels 12.
US10046577B2
A printing device can reduce the length of roll paper that is printed, and enables easily knowing how much the printed length of roll paper was reduced. A printer 200 has a print unit 240 that conveys roll paper in the conveyance direction H and executes a printing process of printing images on the roll paper; a reduction processor 222 that controls the print unit 240 in the printing process to reduce the length of roll paper to which images are printed in the conveyance direction; a calculator 223 that calculates how much the printed length of roll paper was reduced in the printing process; and a display unit 252 that displays information indicating the reduction in the printed length of the roll paper calculated by the calculator 223.
US10046575B2
A liquid spray device includes: a liquid spray head including a spray surface provided with a plurality of nozzles that spray liquid to a medium; a conveyance mechanism that includes an opposing surface opposite to the spray surface and conveys the medium in a first direction between the spray surface and the opposing surface; a plurality of protrusions protruding from the spray surface, and arranged in a second direction which is intersecting with the first direction; and a plurality of supports protruding from the opposing surface to support the medium being conveyed, and arranged in the second direction. The protrusions each have at least a part overlapping with a position other than a middle area between the supports adjacent to each other.
US10046566B2
A system in an inkjet printer cleans components in a printhead cleaning system. The system includes a rectangular frame, an actuator configured with a bi-directionally rotating output shaft, a shaft connected to the rotating output shaft, a rinsing member pneumatically connected to a fluid source to enable a fluid from the fluid source to flow to the member and exit through openings in the rinsing member. Cords are connected to the shaft and the member to move the rinsing member from a first position at one end of the frame to a second position at another end of the frame as the output shaft of the actuator rotates in one direction. Fluid is released through the openings in the rinsing member to clean components of a printhead cleaning system as the rinsing member moves. The actuator is reversed to return the rinsing member to the first position.
US10046565B2
A liquid ejection head, including: nozzles; and a supply passage through which a liquid is supplied to the nozzles, wherein the supply passage includes (a) a first flow passage and (b) a second flow passage connected to the first flow passage and including two sections that extend in different directions from a connected position at which the first flow passage is connected to the second flow passage, the liquid being supplied to the second flow passage from the first flow passage, wherein the second flow passage has a liquid flow resistance larger in a first section than in a second section, and wherein a protrusion protruding toward the first flow passage is provided on an inner wall surface of the second flow passage facing the first flow passage, for permitting the liquid to more easily flow from the first flow passage into the first section than the second section.
US10046558B1
A method for recovering missing inkjets in a printhead including determining an inkjet in the printhead is not ejecting ink, purging degassed ink into the printhead, adjusting a pressure in the printhead so that ink drools out of an aperture of each nozzle of the printhead, repeatedly applying a non-firing waveform at a frequency for a predetermined amount of time to the printhead while the ink drools out of the aperture of each nozzle of the printhead, and after the predetermined amount of time, adjusting the pressure in the printhead to a normal printhead pressure.
US10046555B2
A recording method according to an aspect of the invention includes: applying a reactant to an intermediate transfer body, the reactant configured to thicken upon contact with ink; forming an intermediate image by applying ink to the intermediate transfer body carrying the reactant; applying an auxiliary liquid to the intermediate image to form an intermediate image layer, the auxiliary liquid containing a water-soluble polymer; and transferring the intermediate image layer to a recording medium; in this order. At least one selected from the group consisting of the reactant, the ink, and the auxiliary liquid contains a certain compound.
US10046554B1
A feeding system in a printing apparatus is disclosed. For example, the feeding system includes a feed roll, a retard roll, a movable arm, a spring and a temperature dependent flexible material. The movable arm is coupled to the retard roll. The spring is coupled to the movable arm. The temperature dependent flexible material is located below the spring to move the retard roll towards the feed roll via the spring coupled to the end of the arm to maintain a nip force applied by the retard roll against the feed roll as a temperature in a location of the printing apparatus changes.
US10046546B2
Crosslaminates of thermoplastic films have at least one of the films formed as a fluted structure, and two films are laminated to one another in such a manner that pockets are formed which contain gas. The pockets allow passage of gas between at least two adjacent flutes, whereby the product has an improved handle, and bags formed of the laminate have good stacking properties when filled with coarse particulates. The flute pitch is generally no more than 3 mm, while the pocket length is less than 50 mm. The bonding method involves spot bonding between the films, achieved by adhering the films together between crown portions of bosses on one film with molten material on the other film under a low pressure process, for instance achieved by provision of air pressure through adaptation of production apparatus, for instance die portions.
US10046545B2
A film capable of covering an article having a three-dimensional shape by heat expansion provided by one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises an outermost layer disposed on an outermost surface, and a polyurethane thermal adhesive layer, which contains a thermoplastic polyurethane selected from the group consisting of polyester-based polyurethanes and polycarbonate-based polyurethanes and is thermally adhered to the article during the heat expansion, wherein the fracture strength of the polyurethane thermal adhesive layer is not less than 1 MPa at 135° C., and the storage modulus at 150° C. and frequency 1.0 Hz is from 5×103 Pa to 5×105 Pa, and the coefficient of loss tan δ is not less than 0.1.
US10046541B2
A surface with selectable adhesion is achieved by a shape memory alloy that is at least partly coated with a polymer forming a surface structure, thus allowing the adhesion force of the surface to be controlled.
US10046539B2
A composite article includes a laminate structure of at least first and second fiber layers. Each of the layers includes a network of primary reinforcement fibers disposed in a matrix. The layers are bonded to each other along an interface of the matrices. The matrices include a concentration of secondary reinforcement particles locally at the interface to strengthen the interface.
US10046537B2
The present invention is directed to novel, improved, modified or treated microporous membranes for use in textile related applications and which are preferably composed of two or more dissimilar porous membrane or material layers laminated together using heat, compression and/or adhesives. The preferred inventive laminated composite microporous membrane is modified using a technique or treatment such as microcreping to introduce permanent small, regularly spaced, crepes, profiles, compactions, pleats, or wrinkles into the laminated composite microporous membrane for the purpose of improving mechanical strength, elasticity and/or resiliency. In addition, the inventive microcreped microporous laminated membrane more preferably has significantly improved ‘hand’ or softness, has ‘next-to-the-skin’ softness, and/or is quiet without crinkling noises during movement, which may be desired performance properties or characteristics of or in textile garments, materials or applications.
US10046535B2
There is provided a binding processing device including: a first pressing member including a convex portion formed by a curved surface with a curvature and protruding toward a sheet bundle; and a second pressing member including a concave portion formed by a curved surface with a curvature and configured to be combined with the convex portion through the sheet bundle, the second pressing member configured to press the sheet bundle sandwiched between the first and second pressing members, wherein in a state where the convex portion of the first pressing member and the concave portion of the second pressing member are combined with each other, a gap is formed between the convex portion and the concave portion in a cross section of the first and second pressing members along a pressing direction, and the gap has a volume larger than a volume of the sandwiched sheet bundle.
US10046518B2
The present invention concerns an apparatus for ultrasonic processing of materials having an ultrasonic processing system comprising an ultrasound generator, a converter, a sonotrode and a counterpart tool and a feed unit with which the sonotrode and the counterpart tool can be moved towards each other or away from each other, wherein there is provided a force sensor with which the force that the ultrasonic processing system exerts on the materials to be processed can be measured. To provide a corresponding ultrasonic processing apparatus which allows a greater processing speed it is proposed according to the invention that the force sensor is a piezoelectric sensor whose output is converted into an electrical voltage by means of a charge amplifier and that there is provided a control device which either when the ultrasonic processing is not performing material processing short-circuits the piezoelectric sensor or adds a time-varying force compensation unit to the value measured by the piezoelectric sensor.
US10046517B2
A resin member contains a thermoplastic resin and is bonded to another resin member by ultrasonic welding. The resin member includes projections that are projected from a surface of a bonding target section of the resin member and melted by application of contact pressure during the ultrasonic welding. The projections include projections having different projection heights from the surface of the bonding target section.
US10046511B1
An apparatus and method for managing bending and other applied forces that are exerted on a filament of thermoplastic with reinforcing fibers in a 3D printing system during the deposition process that is associated with the manufacturing of an object. The quality of the manufactured object is enhanced through a process that comprises i) applying torque to certain portions of the solid filament in a manner that is commensurate with the expected motions of the deposition head while depositing those portions, but only after ii) heating each portion to a sufficient temperature. A heating device and a twisting device act on the filament while it is moving toward the deposition point and while under the control of a controller that is operating according to a computer model of the object being manufactured.
US10046503B2
A blowing or stretch-blowing machine for preforms made of polymer material. The blowing or stretch-blowing machine (1) has a plurality of molds (1) movable on a transport system, in which each of the molds (1) comprises a first half-mold (2a) and a second half-mold (2b) hinged around a hinge axis (3) and a bottom plate (4) adapted to cooperate with the half-molds (2a, 2b) for closing the bottom of the mold (1), and a mechanism for vertical/translational movement of the bottom plate, to cyclically form a closed cavity adapted to receive a preheated preform and allow expansion, by blowing or stretch-blowing of the preform inside the cavity, to obtain a bottle or container. Each of the molds (1) comprises a system for synchronized opening/closing of the half-molds (2a, 2b) and of the bottom plate (4) actuated by an actuator thereof (30) independent from motorization of the machine.
US10046496B2
An injection molding apparatus comprising a clamp plate, a heated manifold, an actuator, a mold and a cooling device, wherein the cooling device comprises: a heat transmitter comprising a distal arm or member and a proximal base or member, the distal arm or member being mounted by a spring loadable interconnection or engagement to or with the proximal base or member, the clamp plate, the mold, the manifold, the actuator and the heat transmitter being assemblable together in an arrangement wherein the spring loadable interconnection is loaded urging the distal end surface of the distal arm or member into compressed engagement with the clamp plate.
US10046484B2
A method of producing a mold includes obtaining a master mold, the master mold including surface details; exposing a curable material to the surface details; and curing the curable material with the surface details. A mold includes a surface for molding a composite part, the surface including surface details, wherein the mold is made of phenolic material.
US10046479B2
A chisel holder for a ground processing machine includes a base portion including a chisel receiver and a holder receiver. The chisel receiver includes a chisel introduction region for receiving a threaded shaft of a chisel. The holder receiver is configured to receive an internally threaded nut. The holder receiver includes at least one retention face configured to secure the nut against rotation at a peripheral side or the nut.
US10046476B2
A riving knife mounting assembly rigidly and accurately positions the riving knife relative to the cutting blade by way of a simple and intuitive mechanism. Interaction between a clamping plate and a locking plate engage opposite sides of the riving knife to hold the riving knife in place, and provides a sensible indication that the two components are properly mated. A cam lever assembly allows loosening or tightening the clamping plate and locking plate together about the riving knife by simply rotation of the lever. A spring assembly maintains pressure on the riving knife even in the loosened position to maintain proper positioning of the components. The clamping plate is part of a mounting bracket that is mounted to a motor arm movable with the drive assembly, and includes adjustment screws for adjusting the orientation of the riving knife relative to the cutting blade in multiple degrees of freedom.
US10046473B2
An apparatus and method for manufacturing a notched corner board is disclosed. The method includes cutting bent board stock into fixed lengths; forming a slit in or near an end of the corner board; and bending/folding a part of the corner board between the end and the slit to create a notch or flap in the corner board. The apparatus includes one or more cutting tools configured to form a slit in or near a first end of the corner board, a support block configured to support the corner board as the slit is formed, one or more rollers configured to move the corner board towards the cutting tool(s), a frame to which the cutting tool(s), the support block, and the roller(s) are directly or indirectly attached, a motor, and a punch. The motor controls movement of the punch to form the notch in the corner board.
US10046472B2
A rotating log saw clamp for clamping a product roll to be sawn. The rotating log saw clamp includes a first portion disposed for rotation about an axis and a second portion disposed for rotation with the first portion and movable relative to the first portion between an open position and a clamping position. The second portion is rotatable from the clamping position to the open position by relative rotation of the first and second rotating portions.
US10046468B2
A cutting apparatus for trimming an article, the apparatus has a manually grasped power element with a reciprocating arm having a removably engagable rotatable couple including a selectable rotational index position lock. Also included is a cutting head assembly that is removable and rotationally indexable relative to the power element, the cutting head having a pair of cutting blades for trimming the article. Wherein operationally, the reciprocating arm drives the cutting blades that have scissor movement with the cutting head selectably rotatable to the power element, user wrist fatigue is reduced, also with the cutting head being removable from the power element, the cutting head assembly is easier to clean.
US10046461B2
A robotic mechanical manipulator structure includes a first link and a second link rotatably coupled to the first link by a rotatable joint. A first high hardness cable guide is disposed in the first link. A first cable is connected between the first link and the second link to move the first link relative to the second link in a first direction around the joint, the first cable connected to the first link at a first anchor point, and passing through the first high hardness cable guide in the second link.
US10046455B2
A multi-position storage system including a first housing, and a second housing. The second housing is connected to the first housing. The second housing is capable of being moved from a first position with respect to the first housing to a second position with respect to the first housing.
US10046441B2
A method of forming a cutting element may include subjecting a first press containing at least a diamond powder-containing container and a volume of a high melting temperature non-reactive material to a first high pressure high temperature sintering condition to form a sintered polycrystalline diamond wafer including a diamond matrix of diamond grains bonded together and a plurality of interstitial spaces between the bonded together diamond grains; and subjecting a second press containing the sintered polycrystalline diamond wafer and a substrate to a second high temperature high pressure condition, thereby attaching the wafer to the substrate to form a cutting element having a polycrystalline diamond layer on the substrate.
US10046436B2
A polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) is fabricated using a process of delayed diffusion (i.e., post-sintering) of a diffusion species (i.e., a metalloid) introduced from the back side of a carbide further away from the diamond grit or from the flank side of the carbide, as opposed to the side of the carbide adjacent to the diamond grit. The process of fabricating the PDC includes depositing, in a metal container, a synthetic diamond grit, a carbide, and a diffusion species, then applying a high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) to the contents of the metal container wherein (1) the carbide diffuses across the diamond grit, and (2) the diffusion species diffuses across the carbide followed by the diamond grit, thus providing a protective coating to the PDC.
US10046435B2
The present disclosure relates to grinding apparatus for grinding the hard metal inserts of rock drill bits, said grinding apparatus having said grinding machine equipped with a grinding cup driven by a motor to rotate about its longitudinal axis wherein the support system comprises an arm or lever system to control vertical movement of the grinding machine and means to provide grinding pressure, wherein the means to provide grinding pressure may be a linear actuator and load cell assembly pivotally connected to the arm or lever system.
US10046434B2
An eyeglass lens periphery processing apparatus for processing an eyeglass lens includes: a lens shuck shaft holding the eyeglass lens; a data input unit inputting target lens shape data and layout data of an optical center of the lens with respect to the target lens shape; left and right lens selecting unit inputting a selection signal as to whether the lens held by the lens chuck shaft is a right lens or a left lens; a lens shape detecting unit detecting the lens shape; a confirming unit confirming whether the lens held by the lens chuck shaft is the correct one of the right lens and the left lens based on the detecting result of the lens shape detecting unit, the layout data and the selection signal; and a notifying unit notifying the confirming result of the confirming unit.
US10046424B2
Methods are provided for improving performance of a gas turbine engine comprising a component having a rotor mounted in a rotor casing and having rotor blades. A tip sweep is applied to a leading edge of one or more rotor blades each having a pressure sidewall and a circumferentially opposing suction sidewall extending in a radial direction between a root and a tip and in an axial direction between the leading edge and a trailing edge. One or more blade geometric design parameters are adjusted. A rotor casing treatment is applied to the rotor casing over at least one of the one or more rotor blades. The applying and adjusting steps are performed during design of the rotor and cause a measured stall margin to substantially match a required stall margin with an increase in efficiency of the component.
US10046408B2
A device is specified, said device comprising a first component (1), a second component (2), and a connecting component (3) comprising at least a first region (31) and at least a second region (32). The composition of the first region (31) differs from the composition of the second region (32). The connecting component (3) is arranged between the first component (1) and the second component (2). The connecting component (3) comprises different kinds of metals, the first region (31) of the connecting component (3) comprises a first metal (41), and the concentration of the first metal (41) is greater in the first region (31) than the concentration of the first metal (41) in the second region (32).
US10046407B2
In a wire electric discharge machine, a workpiece mounting unit mounts a workpiece tilted at a preset angle to a plane based on two orthogonal axes, X- and Y-axes. An XY-coordinate system is tilted at the preset angle so that it is transformed into an X′Y′-coordinate system. A machining command value commanded by a machining program is corrected based on the X′Y′-coordinate system. Thus, the tilted workpiece is taper-machined with a wire electrode kept substantially perpendicular to the XY-plane (table surface).
US10046405B2
The present invention relates to a wire cutting system and method for subsea cutting of large structures (6). The system includes two feeding towers (2) with feeding tower first ends secured into a seabed floor. A crossbeam (1) is located between the two feeding towers (2). Wire feeding trolleys (8) are connected to the feeding towers (2), whereby the wire feeding trolleys (8) are allowed to move a cutting distance along the feeding towers. A cutting wire (4) traverses between the wire feeding trolleys.
US10046403B2
Apparatus is provided for removing a sacrificial element (16) from a body panel (2) of a motor vehicle during the assembly of the body structure of the motor vehicle. The apparatus comprises a cutter tool having a pair of cutter wheels (4, 5) defining a cutter gap (6) therebetween. Means (R) are provided for positioning the cutter tool (4, 5) so that the cutter gap (6) is aligned with the sacrificial element (16). The positioning means (R) can also move the cutter wheels (4, 5) relative to the sacrificial element (16). The engagement of the cutter wheels (3, 4) with the sacrificial element can cause the cutter wheels to rotate and cut the sacrificial element. A related method and cutter tool are also contemplated.
US10046394B2
A method for manufacturing material voxel-by-voxel using directed-energy deposition is given. Using the method, unsupported structures, via voxel-wise directed-energy deposition, with steep overhangs is described and demonstrated. Methods for forming arbitrarily-complex structures and shaped voxels and surfaces are also given. A method for forming materials with internally-varying properties is also given. The method utilizes a pulsed or modulated, rather than continuous-wave energy source, thus allowing rapid solidification of voxels, rather than contours, hatches or tracks. Tuning of pulsing or modulation, material flow, and deposition-path parameters allows the buildup of unsupported material using standard directed-energy deposition processing heads and 3-axis stages, for example. The methods are demonstrated using a modified-directed-energy-deposition processes and is applicable to powder-bed for the buildup of three-dimensional components, repair and the addition of features to existing components.
US10046390B2
A coupling device is fixed to a ladle shroud for reversibly coupling an inlet orifice of said ladle shroud to a collector nozzle fixed to the outside of a bottom floor of a ladle in a metal casting installation, by means of at least a first and second elongated latch pivotally mounted on a hinge, such that the latch can pivot from a fixing position to an idle position. The idle position of the latches allows the engagement of the ladle shroud into its casting configuration about the collector nozzle, and the fixing position of the latches engages catches provided on said latches into matching fasteners located on the gate frame holding the collector nozzle.
US10046383B2
A method for manufacturing Cu—Sn coexisting steel produces a good quality surface even after hot rolling. The steel is manufactured by continuous casting a molten steel that contains C: 0.04 to 0.20%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.50%, P: no more than 0.05%, S: no more than 0.02%, Cu: 0.20 to 1.50%, Sn: 0.06 to 0.50%, Al: 0.06 to 1.00% and Ni: 0.05 to 1.00% by mass, and Fe and impurities as the remainder. The composition of the molten steel is defined as [Al]/(3[Si]+[Mn])≥0.050, [Ni]/([Cu]+5[Sn])≥0.10 and [Al]/[Ni]≥0.20 if the content of an element X in the molten steel is represented as [X], an internal oxidation layer is formed in a process of cooling a slab, and Al2O3 is contained by the internal oxidation layer.
US10046382B2
A method of casting a low alloy steel using a mold is disclosed. The method includes receiving the mold having a foam pattern disposed within a sand casing. The received foam pattern is coated with a permeable refractory coating and is disposed between compacted sand and the sand casing. The method further includes pouring a molten metal comprising a low alloy steel having a carbon content in a range from about 0.1 to about 0.4 percent into the mold so as to vaporize the foam pattern and remove gasification products through the permeable refractory coating, to form a low alloy steel casting. Further, the method includes removing the low alloy steel casting from the mold.
US10046378B2
A bending robot takes out a workpiece stored on a stacker while contacting its end face with a storage reference flat plane of the stacker, and then supplies it to a bending machine. The bending robot includes a main body movable parallel to the storage reference flat plane, an arm portion supported by the main body and capable of positioning above the stacker, and a distance sensor provided in the arm portion for measuring a distance to the workpiece stored on the stacker in a contactless manner. According to the bending robot, bending can be done with high efficiency.
US10046366B2
A sieving apparatus for fractionating a grain product comprises a top chamber separated from a bottom chamber by a sieve; a top chamber cover defined by a plurality of openings that allow substantially vertical entry of an air stream into the top chamber when the interior of the sieving apparatus is under vacuum via first exit port in a side wall of the bottom chamber for exit of air; an inlet port in a sidewall of the top chamber, the inlet port configured for feeding of dry grain particles into the top chamber and for substantially horizontal entry of air into the top chamber; and a first exit port in a sidewall of the bottom chamber for exit of air and exit of a first grain fraction from the bottom chamber when the interior of the sieving apparatus is under vacuum via the exit port.
US10046358B2
A method for coating a plastic component with a paint, wherein in a flooding step a surface of the plastic component to be coated is provided with paint by applying it to a flooding area and with a paint layer by the paint flowing off through a draining area. In order to make possible the coating of complex three-dimensional components, and before the execution of the flooding step, the draining area is provided with paint in a spraying step or alternatively in a separate preceding flooding step so that a paint coating is formed in the draining area, which consists of sprayed or separately flooded paint and flooded paint, and a paint coating is formed in the flooding area of the surface to be coated, which consists only of the flooded.
US10046348B2
The invention relates to a metering dispenser for putting out pasty or viscous material, comprising a dispenser housing, a cartridge arranged therein, an applicator and a pump unit. The metering dispenser according to the invention is provided with an actuating device which is formed by a push button, wherein the pump unit is activated by pushing the push button into the housing in order to put out the material.
US10046343B2
In one example, an electrostatic spray gun includes a spray tip assembly, an alternator, an electrode, and at least one controller. The alternator includes a stator having an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The alternator further includes a rotor disposed within the inner diameter of the stator and configured to rotate within the stator to cause the alternator to generate alternating electrical current. The electrode, positioned proximate the spray tip assembly, is coupled to receive electrical energy from the alternator. The at least one controller is coupled to the alternator and is configured to output a representation of a rotational speed of the rotor.
US10046340B2
A combination showerhead with rotary button switching includes a fixing holder mounted to a supporting arm and having an inlet passage and at least two diversion passages; a first showerhead mounted to the fixing holder and connected to at least one diversion passage; a second showerhead connected to another diversion passage; and a switching mechanism including a diversion plate configured to rotatably connect to the fixing holder and to cooperate with the inlet passage and the at least two diversion passages to switch waterways; a rotary button configured to rotatably connect to the fixing holder; and a transmission mechanism connected between the diversion plate and the rotary button to control position of the diversion plate, and that includes a first gear connected to the diversion plate and a second gear connected to the rotary button, the first gear and the second gear being engaged with one another.
US10046337B2
A cleaning in place system for a centrifugal separator and a method of cleaning a centrifugal separator are disclosed. The centrifugal separator includes a rotor having a separation space, a separator inlet and a first separator outlet. The first separator outlet includes an outlet pump configured to provide a flow of fluid from the first separator outlet. The cleaning in place system further includes a container for cleaning fluid, a cleaning fluid pump for providing cleaning fluid from the container to the separator inlet, such as an eductor. The cleaning in place system is configured to receive a flow of fluid from the first separator outlet and that the cleaning fluid pump is configured to pump cleaning fluid from the container to the separator inlet by means of the received flow of fluid.
US10046333B2
Provided is a method of restoring arsenic-contaminated soil. In the present invention, arsenic may be easily separated from soil particles by washing the arsenic-contaminated soil by using a basic solution and simultaneously irradiating the soil with ultrasonic waves. Also, since iron oxide and manganese oxide are exposed to the basic solution by dissolving a portion of the surface of a silicate mineral using the basic solution, a residual form of arsenic may be removed.
US10046331B2
A method for fragmenting and/or weakening material by high-voltage pulses is provided. The material and a processing fluid are arranged in a processing zone formed between two electrodes such that the entire processing zone is flooded with processing fluid, and high-voltage pulses are applied to the electrodes such that high-voltage breakdowns occur between the two electrodes and/or such that predischarge channels are formed without breakdowns. An electrode with a metallic conductor is chosen for at least one of the two electrodes, the conductor being provided partially or completely with an insulator or insulating coating at the working end of the electrode that is in contact with the processing fluid, the permittivity of the insulator/insulating coating being at least 75% of the permittivity of the processing fluid.
US10046324B2
A motorized latch assembly includes an electric motor, an eccentric cam attached via gears to a shaft of the motor and a latch plate configured to lock the reagent cartridge to the coupler. The eccentric cam is rotated when the shaft of the motor rotates. When the eccentric cam is rotated so that the eccentric cam presses down upon the latch plate, the latch plate moves a sufficient distance to permit the reagent cartridge to be disconnected from the coupler.
US10046321B2
A diagnostic device, particularly of the lab-on-chip type having a station for inserting a native sample of a fluid to be tested; a chamber for stabilizing the native sample, and a station for separating the native sample. The device further includes an electrophoresis chamber, with a capillary connection to the separation station, a reaction chamber, and at least one pair of electrodes. The electrodes are arranged upstream and downstream of the electrophoresis chamber, whose electrical field propels the sample from the electrophoresis chamber to the reaction chamber, a separative electrophoresis occurring inside the electrophoresis chamber. The insertion station, the stabilization chamber, the separation station, the electrophoresis chamber (5) and the reaction chamber are defined in a single chip and include inert containment surfaces.
US10046317B2
A hydrocracking catalyst is provided comprising: a. from 0.5 to 10 wt % zeolite beta having an OD acidity of 20 to 400 μmol/g and an average domain size from 800 to 1500 nm2; b. from 0 to 5 wt % zeolite USY having an ASDI between 0.05 and 0.12; wherein a wt % of the zeolite beta is greater than the wt % of the zeolite USY; c. a catalyst support; and d. at least one metal selected from the group consisting of elements from Group 6 and Groups 8 through 10 of the Periodic Table. A process for hydrocracking using the hydrocracking catalyst to produce middle distillates is provided. A method for making the hydrocracking catalyst is also provided.
US10046308B2
A production method comprising: adding a hydroxycarboxylic acid to an aqueous solution containing a Ce salt, a Zr salt, an Al salt, and at least one selected from a La salt, an Mg salt, and a Ca salt, to produce a gel, heating the gel to obtain a solid product by decomposition of the salts, firing the solid product to obtain a fired product containing a ceria-zirconia-based regular array phase precursor and an aluminate-based composite oxide precursor, performing a reducing heat treatment of the fired product to obtain a first composite having mutually dispersed therein a pyrochlore phase and an aluminate-based composite oxide, and performing an oxidizing heat treatment of the first composite to obtain a second composite in which at least part of the pyrochlore phase is transformed into a κ phase; and an oxygen storage material having mutually dispersed therein the composite oxide and the regular array phase.
US10046306B2
A treater regeneration system in a polyolefin production system, the treater regeneration system comprising an off-line treater receiving a first portion of a regenerating stream and regenerating a desiccant in the off-line treater to yield a regenerating effluent stream, where the regenerating stream comprises a regenerating medium, and where the regenerating effluent stream comprises the regenerating medium, water and an impurity; a decanter receiving at least a portion of the regenerating effluent stream to yield the regenerating stream and a water stream, wherein the water stream comprises the water; and a stripper receiving a second portion of the regenerating stream to yield an impurity stream and a process recycle stream, wherein the impurity stream comprises at least a portion of the impurity, and wherein the process recycle stream comprises the regenerating medium of the second portion of the regenerating stream.
US10046304B2
The present invention provides (i) a water absorbing agent which is excellent in a water absorbing physical properties, in particular water absorbing speed and has a great bulk specific gravity and (ii) a method for producing the water absorbing agent. The method for producing the water absorbing agent includes a surfactant adding step of adding a surfactant whose HLB is 10 or less. The surfactant adding step is the step of adding a dispersion liquid, which contains the surfactant equivalent to 30 parts by weight to 150 parts by weight, relative to 1000000 parts by weight of a water absorbent resin solid content, and the surfactant adding step is carried out after a drying step. Further, in a case where a water-soluble polyvalent metal salt adding step is carried out after the drying step, the surfactant adding step is carried out after the water-soluble polyvalent metal salt adding step.
US10046296B2
A fluid is processed between processing surfaces capable of approaching to and separating from each other, at least one of which rotates relative to the other. A first fluid is introduced between processing surfaces, by using a micropump effect acting with a depression arranged on the processing surfaces from the center of the rotating processing surfaces. A second fluid, independent of this introduced fluid, is introduced from another fluid path that is provided with an opening leading to the processing surfaces, whereby the processing is done by mixing and stirring between the processing members.
US10046285B2
The present invention provides a polymer functional film obtained by polymerizing and curing a composition including (A) a styrene-based monomer represented by Formula (HSM); (B) a crosslinking agent represented by Formula (CL); and (C) a polymerization initiator represented by Formula (PI-1) or (PI-2), and a method for producing the same: in which R1 represents a halogen atom or —N+(R2)(R3)(R4)(X1−); n1 represents an integer from 1 to 10; here, R2 to R4 each independently represent a particular substituent; X1− represents an organic or inorganic anion; L1 represents an alkylene group or an alkenylene group; Ra, Rb, Rc and Rd each independently represent a particular substituent; n2 and n4 each independently represent an integer from 1 to 10; X2− and X3− each independently represent an organic or inorganic anion; and R5 to R10 each represent a hydrogen atom or a particular substituent.
US10046281B2
A hollow fiber membrane is formed by embedding a braid having a spiral open weave of monofilaments only, to avoid a “whiskering” problem. The open weave is characterized by contiguous, circumferential, rhomboid-shaped areas of polymer film separated by monofilament. When the braid is supported on a plasticized PVA cable having a scalloped periphery, the braid can be infiltrated with membrane polymer which, when coagulated, embeds the braid positioning it around the lumen. The embedded spiral weave, free of any circumferentially constricting monofilament, allows the membrane to be biaxially distensible. The membrane has “give” not only in the axial or longitudinal direction but also in the radial direction. “Give” in the radial direction permits soiled membranes to be backwashed under higher pressure than in a comparable braid which is not radially distensible.
US10046269B2
There are provided an acidic gas absorbing agent that is large in recovery amount of an acidic gas. The acidic gas absorbing agent comprising an amine compound represented by general formula (1), and an acidic gas removing method and an acidic gas removing apparatus using the absorbing agent: wherein R1 represents a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom; R3 and R4 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom; and R5 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.
US10046261B2
Described are multi-stage drum filtration systems including a primary rotary drum filter stage, at least one passive filter stage, and a main fan configured to create a vacuum on an inlet side of the primary rotary drum filter stage. The multi-stage drum filtration system may also include a HEPA filter stage. A controller may be configured to control a speed of the main fan to maintain an inlet vacuum to the primary rotary drum filter stage that corresponds to an inlet vacuum set point input.
US10046254B2
An endcap bypass plug includes a body and a plurality of leg members. The body includes an upper surface, a lower surface, and an outer side surface joining the upper and lower surfaces. The plurality of leg members are connected to and extend away from the upper surface of the body. Adjacent leg members of the plurality of leg members are spaced apart by a distance to form a plurality of radial passages defining a plurality of radial fluid-flow paths. Each leg member includes a head portion having an upper surface. The head portion includes a nose portion extending radially outwardly from the head portion and including a ramp surface and a lower surface. The ramp surface of the nose portion is connected to the upper surface to define an upper edge. The ramp surface is connected to the lower surface of the nose portion to define a lower edge.
US10046250B2
A distilling device having a vapor compression distiller. The vapor compression distiller can include a reservoir for receiving liquid for distillation. Evaporation surfaces can receive the liquid and evaporate the liquid into evaporated vapor for subsequent condensing. Condensing surfaces can receive the vapor and condense the vapor into distillate. A compressor can deliver the vapor to the condensing surfaces. The distilling device can also include an engine that produces heat. A boiler can be heated by the heat from the engine for producing a working vapor. A vapor turbine can be driven by the working vapor. The vapor turbine can be mechanically coupled to the compressor for mechanically driving the compressor, thereby reducing electrical power needs of the vapor compression distiller.
US10046249B2
The system may include a vapor separator, a falling film evaporator, and a mechanical vapor recompression device. The system may also include a spin vane positioned at the inlet to the vapor separator. The falling film evaporator may surround an outer wall of the vapor separator, defining a common vessel.
US10046242B1
Memorization systems and methods are provided. The systems and methods include outputting, at a hardware platform, an image sequence that forms an environment to facilitate memorization and displaying a controllable object in the image sequence as continuously moving along a path, and controlling a position of the controllable object within each image of the image sequence, based on a user input. Moreover, item objects may be displayed in the image sequence as obstacles in the path to block the controllable object. The obstacles may contain information suitable for memorization. In addition, systems and methods may include outputting an image representing a negative indicator in response to the controllable object selecting an incorrect action, or outputting an image representing a positive indicator in response to movement of the controllable object selecting a correct action.
US10046235B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for improving ease in transmitting information between peer devices. Communications devices establish a peer group. Each communications device in the group assigns different sections of its touchscreen to the other devices in the group. To transfer information to another device in the group, the user swipes on the touchscreen towards the assigned section for the target communications device. Upon detecting the swipe, and determining that the swipe was towards the assigned section, the communications device initiates a transfer of the information to the target communications device. This may involve confirmation at the device or a paired device before transfer, or no confirmation. Receipt of the information at the target communications device may trigger notifications to be displayed. It may also trigger a request for acceptance of the transfer at the target communications device after which receipt is confirmed.
US10046232B2
A method includes acquiring media content of a wagering game table at a wagering game establishment with a camera of a mobile device. A location of the mobile device is determined when the media content is acquired. A direction that a lens of the camera is facing when the media content is acquired is determined. The wagering game table is identified based on the location and the direction. Overlay imagery derived from wagering game activity of the wagering game table is downloaded into the mobile device from a server. The overlay imagery is composited onto the media content to create a composited media content. The composited media content is displayed on a display of the mobile device.
US10046228B2
An Internet of Thing (IoT) device includes a camera coupled to a processor; and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor. Blockchain smart contracts can be used with the device to facilitate secure operation.
US10046227B2
A device for training a golf swing addressed to a golfer having a supporting element on which a vertical rigid rod is placed. The rod is connected to a horizontal rigid rod which is connected to a terminal supporting element on which the golfer keeps his forehead continuously in touch. The device has a protruding element connected to the vertical rod on which a chainlet is connected at the end, and a golf ball is hanged and kept jointed to the chainlet. A laser emitting and receiving device is able to emit and receive a laser beam to detect the rotation angle of the player's bust in respect to the front direction. A system of video cameras and image processing software detect the orientation of the golf club at the moment of impact on the ball, and the golfer is then informed by the device if the swing was correct.
US10046225B2
A golf putting aid device comprising an alley formed by at least one arm member that extends from a golf hole to a user; and a cup member being capable of being placed in the golf hole.
US10046215B2
A grip device is disposed on a handle of a piece of equipment. The grip device includes a lower concave surface contacting the handle and a lower concave surface oriented away from the handle. An adhesive tape is wrapped around the handle and grip device in one embodiment. In another embodiment, an adhesive layer is disposed between the handle and grip device. The lower concave surface includes a first taper at an end of the grip device oriented toward a knob of the handle. The upper convex surface includes a second taper at an end of the grip device oriented away from the knob of the handle. The grip device bends to follow a curvature of the handle.
US10046212B2
A golf club head comprises a body having a face, a crown and a sole together defining an interior cavity. The body having a channel located on the sole and extending generally from a heel end of the body to a toe end of the body. A weight member movably positioned within the channel such that a position of the weight member within the channel is able to be adjusted, thereby adjusting a location of a center of gravity of the body. Additionally, adjustment of the weight member provides a maximum x-axis adjustment range of the position of the center of gravity (Max ΔCGx) that is greater than 2 mm and a maximum z-axis adjustment range of the center of gravity (Max ΔCGz) that is less than 2 mm.
US10046208B2
The invention provides a golf ball having a core and a cover of one or more layer encasing the core, wherein, letting HU-A and HU-B be respectively the Martens hardnesses measured at positions 100 μm and 200 μm inward from a surface of an outermost layer of the cover and toward a center of the core, and letting HU-C be the Martens hardness measured at a position 100 μm from an inner side of the outermost cover layer and toward the surface, HU-A or HU-B is harder than HU-C.
US10046206B2
The invention provides a golf ball that is a one-piece golf ball or a golf ball having a core and a cover of one layer or a plurality of layers, wherein the one-piece golf ball or core is formed of a material molded under heat from a rubber composition containing: (A) a base rubber, (B) an organic peroxide, (C) water, (D) a metal methacrylate and (E) zinc oxide. The content of component (D) per 100 parts by weight of component (A) is from 30 to 45 parts by weight. The molar ratio (C)/(D) between components (C) and (D) satisfies the formula 0.9<(C)/(D)<1.1. The core has an initial velocity V0 of at least 72.0 m/s and up to 75.0 m/s.
US10046193B1
In one aspect of the present exercise machine, an assembly is attached to the end of a reformer, where the assembly comprises a seat mechanism and a pedal mechanism. The seat mechanism has a seat, a bracket supporting the seat, and a height adjustment system, where activation of the height adjustment system permits selective adjustment and locking of the height of the seat and the bracket by restricting travel of the seat and bracket to a slanted path that is slanted relative to the vertical. The pedal mechanism has an axle, a first pedal arm with a first pedal, and a second pedal arm with a second pedal. The pedal mechanism is located directly beneath the seat when the seat mechanism is in a lowest position and partially exposed in a higher position.
US10046192B2
A lower extremity mobilizer for use in rehabilitation is provided. A seat is slidably maintained upon a base, with a foot support brace being provided at an end of the base to receive the foot of a leg provided for arthrokinematic treatment. A cord and pulley system is provided between the seat and the end of the base. In use, a patient is seated with a foot received by the foot support brace. The patient provides arthrokinematic motion to his leg by pulling himself and the seat toward the end of the device having the foot support brace. The procedure is undertaken in a closed chain motion, with the foot constantly engaging the foot support brace, and is done so as a rate, timing and extent under the control of the patient.
US10046185B2
A method for fire and smoke prevention, suppression or extinction using a composition having sodium polyacrylate and distilled water, wherein the ratio of sodium polyacrylate to distilled water is about 1 to 200, having the step of placing the composition in the path of the fire or smoke.
US10046184B2
A self-contained breathing device for use in fighting fires comprising a hood for covering a wearer's head, a membrane for sealing the hood to create a breathing chamber inside the hood, and a source of oxygen disposed inside the hood. The source of oxygen is connected to the user by a conduit inside of the hood, and another conduit directs user-exhaled carbon dioxide to the source of oxygen. The breathing device includes a visual indicator inside of the hood that reacts to the presence of a gas within the hood and provides visual feedback to the user based on a quantity of the gas present in the hood.
US10046180B2
The invention provides for a medical apparatus (200, 400, 500) comprising a high intensity focused ultrasound system (206). Machine executable instructions (260, 262, 264, 266, 408, 526) in a memory (250) cause a processor (244) to: receive (100) location data (252) descriptive of multiple sonication points (224, 226, 228, 230); determine (102) a sonication path (254) for each of the multiple sonication points using a geometric transducer element model (262); detect (104) an overlap region (256, 306) using the sonication path in the near field region; determine (106) transducer control commands (258) using the overlap region, wherein the transducer commands are operable to control the multiple transducer elements to reduce the deposition of ultrasonic energy in the overlap region during sonication of the two or more sonication points; and control (108) the high intensity focused ultrasound system using the transducer control commands.
US10046175B2
The present disclosure provides for light delivery assemblies and, more particularly to light delivery assemblies/systems that provide light to and/or illuminate/treat predetermined locations (e.g., surgical sites), and related methods of use. An exemplary light delivery assembly (e.g., a surgical site light) includes a shell/housing (e.g., a plastic shell/housing) with a cross-sectional shape similar to an inward-facing asymmetrical C. The shell/housing is shaped to be placed proximal to a site (e.g., surgical site) and emit light onto the site from a plurality of directions while inhibiting the light from radiating away from the outside of the shell/housing. Exemplary light delivery assemblies of the present disclosure can be utilized for a variety of different applications/treatments/uses (e.g., surgical applications, disinfection/sterilization especially UV in the UVC wavelength range, other UV treatment, infrared heating and treatment, therapy, IR light delivery, use of all/other wavelengths of light, etc.).
US10046163B2
An exemplary system includes 1) a cochlear implant module configured to be implanted within a patient and including cochlear implant circuitry configured to apply electrical stimulation representative of one or more audio signals to the patient, 2) a first connector assembly coupled to the cochlear implant module and configured to be implanted within the patient, the first connector assembly including a first set of induction coils, 3) an implantable module configured to be implanted within the patient, and 4) a second connector assembly coupled to the implantable module and configured to be implanted within the patient, the second connector assembly including a second set of induction coils. The first and second sets of induction coils are configured to form a multi-channel inductive link between the implantable module and the cochlear implant module. Corresponding systems are also disclosed.
US10046162B1
Described is a system for weakening traumatic memories using transcranially-applied electro-stimulation. The system uses a recording of spatiotemporally distributed brain activity of a human subject experiencing a traumatic memory to generate a traumatic pattern. Additionally, the system uses a recording of spatiotemporally distributed brain activity of the human subject experiencing a non-traumatic memory to generate an antidote pattern. A required transcranially-applied electro-stimulation is determined to recreate the antidote pattern to block consolidation and reconsolidation of the traumatic memory in the human subject.
US10046160B1
Disclosed is a method for treating dermis and hypodermis by placing at least a first electrode at the surface of a to-be-treated skin region and contacting a second electrode at another position on the body to be treated then applying between the electrodes a current with pulse component, said current being sufficient to produce electro-osmotic pressure/velocity wavefronts corresponding to the fundamental frequency in blood vessels in the dermis and hypodermis of the skin region.
US10046158B2
An electrode array with a flexible array substrate on which plural spaced apart electrodes are disposed. Integrated circuits are disposed in the array substrate. The integrated circuits are mounted to package substrates. The package substrates are more rigid than the array substrate. Internal to each package substrate is at least one electrical conductor. The electrical conductor extends from a bond pad integral with integrated circuit at least partially through the package substrate. The electrical conductor functions as the conductive member that extends between the integrated circuit an electrode with which the integrated circuit is associated.
US10046156B2
A syringe assembly includes (1) a syringe barrel defining a chamber; (2) a plunger mounted in the chamber and moveable with respect to the barrel; and (3) a cap assembly containing a cap and an absorbent material is removably attached to the plunger. A strip package includes at least two cap assemblies. Each of the cap assemblies includes a cap holder and an antiseptic cap positioned in the cap holder. The antiseptic cap includes a sidewall defining a chamber and an antiseptic substance within the chamber. A strip extends over at least two cap assemblies. The strip includes a first seal engaged to the cap holder and a second seal engaged to the antiseptic cap.
US10046150B2
A blood coagulating device can include an absorbent body; and a hemostatic lysine composition associated with the body. The body can have a cylindrical or conical member having a first end having the hemostatic composition, the first end being configured for insertion into a nasal passageway. A method for coagulating blood can include providing a powdered hemostatic lysine composition; and applying the powdered hemostatic lysine composition to blood so as to cause the blood to coagulate and form a clot. The coagulation can occur in a nasal passageway away from a blood vessel. The method can include providing at least one absorbent member having the powdered hemostatic lysine composition; and applying the at least one absorbent member to the blood so that the powdered hemostatic lysine composition causes the blood to coagulate and clot.
US10046147B2
An improved method and device are provided for forming and/or maintaining a percutaneous access pathway. The device generally comprises at least one of three type of components: access pathway, insertion device, and attachment device. In one embodiment, the device is used to form and/or maintain a percutaneous access pathway into the pleural cavity (i.e. tube thoracostomy). The provided assembly substantially reduces the possibility of iatrogenic infection while accessing and/or re-accessing a body space.
US10046145B2
A balloon catheter includes a one-piece extrusion having inner and outer tubular walls, where the inner tubular wall defines a wire guide lumen, and a clearance extending between the inner and outer tubular walls forms an inflation lumen. A balloon is attached to the outer tubular wall and to the inner tubular wall, such that the inflation lumen is in fluid communication with the balloon and the wire guide lumen extends through the balloon. A method of making the balloon catheter is also disclosed.
US10046143B2
Methods and devices quickly and accurately locate the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) while performing a sphenopalatine ganglion block procedure that introduces a medication to the SPG. The methods and devices also prevent the medication applied to the SPG from flowing down a patient's throat during the procedure.
US10046139B2
A catheter includes a proximal portion designed for residing externally of a patient vasculature and a distal portion having a distal tip designed for placement in a desired position within the patient vasculature. A storage component is embedded in a portion of the catheter, the storage component including a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip. The RFID chip includes non-volatile memory that is programmable by a RFID encoder. The storage component includes data related to the placement of the distal tip of the catheter in the desired position within the patient vasculature.
US10046130B2
An air-way tube holder includes a face plate having a v-shaped tube-receiving surface that aligns with one side of an opening through the face plate, and a holding block, which is disposed near a second side of the opening. The holding block receives a thumb screw and an engagement arm, the latter including a clamping head, which directly opposes the tube-receiving surface. The thumb screw is adapted to move the clamping head toward the tube-receiving surface to immobilize an airway tube therebetween, either by sliding the thumb screw (gross adjustment) or turning the thumb screw (fine adjustment). The thumb screw/clamping head is releasable by actuating a quick-release mechanism.
US10046127B2
A methodology and apparatus for determining ventilator settings including an end expiratory pressure setting, pressure swing, resistive unloading and target ventilation for delivering ventilatory support based upon generalized patient ventilation characteristics and/or disease classifications. An apparatus may be programmed with the instructions to accomplish the methodology interactively by prompting the user/physician during setup and calculating settings based upon measurements or input responses. Pre-assigned values associated with ventilation characteristics or disease classifications may be combined with a base pressure value or measured values to provide patient customized settings or adjustments to determine pressure levels for the delivery of ventilatory support.
US10046124B2
An inhaler, preferably for insertion into a nostril, in particular a horse's nostril, with a pressure generator, which has a tensioning device for the drive, and with a tensioning mechanism for tensioning the tensioning device, whereby the tensioning mechanism has a lever gear for tensioning the tensioning device.
US10046103B2
A dialysis valve includes a tube attached between an artery and a vein which, when elongated, simultaneously narrows in diameter at at least one location. The narrowed portion of the tube decreases the volume and velocity between the arterial and venous side of the patient to prevent damage or intimal hyperplasia on the venous side between dialysis treatments. When the valve is opened for dialysis, an unrestricted blood flow exists between the arterial and venous side, permitting a controlled, open blood flow during dialysis.
US10046100B2
An automated peritoneal dialysis system provides various features including prescription-driven dialysis fluid preparation, an integrated disposable fluid circuit, and sensor capabilities that allow accurate filing and draining control with high safety margins. Features include a peritoneal fluid circuit with a pressure sensor at either end and methods and devices for using the pressure signals. Other features and embodiments are disclosed.
US10046092B2
The present invention is related to scoring or cutting balloon catheters carrying at least on a portion of their surface at least one oxidation-insensitive drug or oxidation-insensitive polymer-free drug preparation and at least one lipophilic antioxidant at a ratio of 3-100% by weight of the at least one lipophilic antioxidant in relation to 100% by weight of the drug, wherein the at least one oxidation-insensitive drug is selected of taxanes, thalidomide, statins, corticoids and lipophilic derivatives of corticoids, and the at least one lipophilic antioxidant is selected of nordihydroguaiaretic acid, resveratrol and propyl gallate.
US10046089B2
The present invention relates to a novel bone graft and methods for producing the graft. The bone graft can be used for surgical, plastic and/or cosmetic bone replacement for a patient in need thereof. The bone graft is made of a scaffold or matrix of sheet material having a 3-dimensional pattern of a continuous network of voids and/or indentations for enhancing new bone growth.
US10046087B2
There are provided collagen based polymeric materials comprising collagen molecules and/or collagen derived molecules which have been functionalized by the addition of one or more ethylenically unsaturated moieties and which have been cross-linked via said moieties. Also provided are collagen based compositions and methods of producing collagen based polymeric materials.
US10046080B2
An absorbent article comprising a topsheet, an outer cover, at least one chassis component, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and outer cover, wherein at least one of the outer cover or chassis component comprises a laminate comprising at least one nonwoven layer and at least one multilayer film, wherein the multilayer film has at least four layers and comprises at least one inner layer comprising one or more elastomeric components, at least one outer layer comprising a plastoelastic component, and at least one additional polymeric layer that is disposed next to an inner layer.
US10046071B2
The invention relates to a continuous sterilizing system comprising a sterilizing body into which a thermal fluid is introduced for sterilizing products, the products to be sterilized being arranged in containers that circulate inside the sterilizing body, said sterilizing body being divided into different sterilization zones by means of dividing walls, and each of said dividing walls having a through-opening that is substantially the same shape as a container, such that the containers close the through-openings of the dividing walls, rendering the sterilization zones thermally isolated from one another.
US10046068B2
This invention relates to compounds comprising a saccharide conjugated to an imaging agent or a reporter group, compositions comprising them and methods of using them. Specifically BLM-disaccharide and BLM-monosaccharide conjugates containing different linker groups and an imaging agent or a reporter group are provided for the targeting and imaging of tumors.
US10046054B2
Described herein are prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) binding conjugates that are useful for delivering therapeutic, diagnostic and imaging agents. Also described herein are pharmaceutical composition containing them and methods of using the conjugates and compositions. Also described are processes for manufacture of the conjugates and the compositions containing them.
US10046048B2
The present invention generally relates to homogeneous suspensions of small molecule immune potentiators (SMIPs) that are capable of stimulating or modulating an immune response in a subject in need thereof. The homogeneous suspensions may be used in combinations with various antigens or adjuvants for vaccine therapies.
US10046047B2
Compositions and methods for co-expressing a secretable vaccine protein (such as gp96-Ig) and T-cell co-stimulatory molecules from a single vector, among others, are provided herein. Materials and methods for using gp96-Ig vaccination and T-cell co-stimulation to treat a clinical condition (e.g., cancer) in a subject also are provided.
US10046044B2
A CyaA-deficient B. pertussis mutant was constructed and used in a vaccine. The pertussis-specific antibody profile and Th17 response induced by vaccination with the mutant was surprisingly comparable to that induced by B. pertussis strains not deficient in CyaA.
US10046039B2
Disclosed are stable conjugate vaccine formulations for protection against Salmonella typhi, and methods of conjugation between Vi-polysaccharide of S. typhi to tetanus toxoid as the carrier protein, responsible for producing improved T-dependent immune response against Typhoid fever caused by Salmonella typhi. The methods disclosed in this invention and the resulting formulations are capable of inducing immunity against typhoid fever including in children below 2 years of age, through only a single injection to comprise a complete vaccination schedule.
US10046030B2
The present invention encompasses compositions and methods useful to treat or prevent Clostridium difficile antibiotic-associated colitis through administration of IL-25 and/or downstream cytokines IL-13, IL-4, and IL-5. It is disclosed herein that IL-25 expression is decreased during antibiotic treatment and during bacterial infection and that treatment with IL-25 protein is protective during infection. It is further disclosed herein the unexpected result that IL-25 treatment protects against C. difficile-associated mortality and morbidity. The present application further describes an unexpected result regarding eosinophils and their role in combating infection and their relationship to the effectiveness of IL-25.
US10046026B2
This invention relates, e.g., to a virus-like particle (VLP) composition assembled from a chimeric polypeptide comprising a papilloma virus (e.g., human papillomavirus, or HPV) L1 major capsid protein, into which is inserted a surface-displayed peptide comprising a neutralizing epitope of a papillomavirus L2 protein. Vaccine compositions comprising the VLP are described, as well as methods for inducing an immune response (e.g., vaccinating) a subject against papilloma virus, using the VLP, and kits comprising the VLP, for carrying out a method of the invention.
US10046014B2
The present invention relates to the cosmetic use of a lysate of a bacterium or bacteria belonging to the Vitreoscilla sp. genus (in particular the species: Vitreoscilla filiformis) in a complete fermentation medium, as an active agent for preventing and/or treating dandruff conditions of the scalp, including dandruff conditions of the scalp associated with a prevalence of pathogenic microorganisms on the scalp and/or an imbalance of the scalp ecoflora.
US10046013B2
Disclosed is an oral delivery system that overcomes major barriers encountered in the gastrointestinal tract, particularly rapid proteolytic degradation and low intestinal permeability. Provided is a method for oral delivery of an engineered microorganism to a mammal where the microorganism produces a macromolecule having a desired bioavailability outcome.
US10046010B2
A method of generating MSCs which secrete neurotrophic factors (NTFs) comprising incubating a population of undifferentiated mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in a differentiating medium comprising basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), platelet derived growth factor (PDGF), heregulin and cAMP.
US10046007B2
The invention generally relates to methods of treating short telomere disorders using known compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising same. More specifically, the disclosed methods comprise, in one aspect, the step of administering to the subject an effective amount of at least one lithium compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, thereby treating the subject for the short telomere disorder. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US10046001B2
Compositions, kits, and methods for reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) in a subject (e.g., human) include at least one naturally occurring or synthesized version or analog thereof of a lipid (e.g., a phosphoserine, a phosphocholine, a psychosine or other glycolipid) that is endogenous to non-glaucomatous aqueous humor in a subject and that lowers IOP in the subject, in a therapeutically effective amount for promoting aqueous outflow through TM in at least one eye of the subject and reducing IOP in the subject. The compositions can be used for, e.g., treating glaucomas, including, for example, primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal tension glaucoma (NTG).
US10045997B2
New compositions for and methods of treating ocular hypertension provide for effective treatment of ocular hypertension often using reduced concentrations of active components. Such compositions include a timolol component and a hypotensive lipid component. The present compositions and methods are relatively straightforward, can be easily produced, for example, using conventional manufacturing techniques, and can be easily and conveniently practiced, for example, using application or administration techniques or methodologies which are substantially similar to those employed with prior compositions used to treat ocular hypertension.
US10045993B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical preparation comprising entecavir as an active ingredient, wherein an antioxidizing agent is added to enhance stability of entecavir, and a method for preparing the same. According to the present invention, the invention has an effect that entecavir can be stably maintained in a pharmaceutical preparation containing a certain amount or more of moisture by adding the antioxidizing agent, thereby a pharmaceutical preparation can be provided as a formulation containing a certain amount or more of moisture, for example, an orally disintegrating film formulation.
US10045987B2
The present invention provides kinase inhibitor analogs with improved properties, such as improved efficacy, pharmacokinetics, safety, and specificity. In some embodiments, the present invention provides nilotinib analogs that provide therapeutic benefits.
US10045972B2
Provided herein are hydroxypyridone derivatives, for example, a compound of Formula I, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods for treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of an inflammatory, neurodegenerative, or immune-mediated disease (e.g., multiple sclerosis).
US10045969B2
A substituted alkenylbenzene compound of formula (4): wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of halogen atom, —SF5, C1-C6halo alkyl, hydroxy C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C6alkoxy C1-C6haloalkyl, C3-C8halocycloalkyl, C1-C6 haloalkoxy, C1-C3haloalkoxy C1-C3haloalkoxy, C1-C6haloalkylthio, C1-C6haloalkylsulfinyl and C1-C6haloalkylsulfonyl; X3 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, cyano, nitro, C1-C6alkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C6alkoxy and C1-C6 alkylthio; X4 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, cyano, C1-C4alkyl, C1-C4alkoxy and C1-C4haloalkoxy; R3 is —C(R3a)(R3b)R3c, where R3a and R3b independently of each other are a halogen atom, or R3a and R3b together form 3- to 6-membered ring together with the carbon atom bonding them by forming a C2-C5haloalkylene chain, and R3c is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, C1-C5alkyl, C1-C5haloalkyl, C1-C4haloalkoxy and C1-C4haloalkylthio, with a proviso that in case where X1 is a fluorine atom, chlorine atom or trifluoromethyl, and both X2 and X3 are a hydrogen atom, in case where both X1 and X2 are fluorine atom and X3 is a hydrogen atom, and in case where both X1 and X2 are trifluoromethyl and X3 is a hydrogen atom, R3c is a hydrogen atom, chlorine atom, bromine atom, iodine atom, C1-C5alkyl, C1-C5haloalkyl, C1-C4haloalkoxy or C1-C4haloalkylthio.
US10045964B2
Polymorph forms of 4-trifluoromethyl-N-(3,3a,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a-octahydro-1,3-dioxo-4,6-ethenocycloprop[f]isoindol-2(1H)-yl)-benzamide are disclosed as well as their methods of synthesis and pharmaceutical compositions.
US10045961B2
Provided herein are methods of treating a subject having hepatitis B viral (HBV) infection. More specifically, disclosed herein are methods of stimulating the innate cytokine response in macrophages, dendritic cells and/or liver non-parenchymal cells with small molecular agonists of STING to suppress HBV replication in hepatocytes. The methods are especially suitable for use in the treatment of chronic HBV infections. Also disclosed herein are methods of identifying compounds useful in the treatment of HBV infection.
US10045959B1
The present disclosure provides methods for evaluating daily ammonia exposure based on a single fasting ammonia blood level measurement, as well as methods that utilize this technique to adjust the dosage of a nitrogen scavenging drug, determine whether to administer a nitrogen scavenging drug, and treat nitrogen retention disorders.
US10045957B2
A GIP-increase inhibitor, which may be utilized for producing a medicine, a food, or the like, is provided. The GIP-increase inhibitor contains triacylglycerol in which α-linolenic acid accounts for 10% by mass or more of the constituent fatty acid, as an effective ingredient.
US10045956B2
It is provided a catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor for use in the prevention and/or treatment of transthyretin-associated amyloidosis. It is also provided a catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor for use in the prevention and/or treatment of transthyretin-associated amyloidosis in combination therapy with another COMT inhibitor, a benzoxazole derivative, iododiflunisal, diflunisal, resveratrol, tauroursodeoxycholic acid, doxocycline, or epigallocatechin-3-gallate.
US10045952B2
A use of polygodial or a structural derivative thereof, or a plant extract containing polygodial or a structural derivative thereof for the manufacture of a medicament for treating or preventing a viral infection, or a condition or disease resulting from a viral infection.
US10045947B2
The invention provides polymer compositions for cell and drug delivery.
US10045935B2
Disclosed are gel compositions suitable for the topical administration of an active compound having poor solubility and skin penetration, for example, of a COX-2 inhibitor compounds, processes of preparation thereof and methods of use thereof for the treatment of indications treatable by the active compound.
US10045929B2
The invention relates to a cosmetic process for treating keratin fibers, comprising a step of applying, to the keratin fibers, a first cosmetic composition comprising an amino polymer comprising a primary amine group, followed by a step of applying a second cosmetic composition comprising an activated ester of formula R—C(O)OA1 in which R denotes a C5-C21 alkyl group, and A1 denotes a particular reactive group and in particular a succinimide group.The invention also relates to a kit comprising a first cosmetic composition comprising said amino polymer and a second cosmetic composition comprising said activated ester, the first and second compositions each been packaged in a separate packaging assembly.The process gives the treated damaged fiber a long-lasting hydrophobic surface state, the hydrophobicity effect being persistent after one or more shampoo washes, while at the same time affording a good cosmetic feel.
US10045923B2
Provided are a novel compound having skin-whitening, anti-oxidizing and PPAR activities and a medical use thereof, and the compound has skin-whitening activities for the suppression of tyrosinase, and accordingly, is useful for use in skin-whitening pharmaceutical composition or cosmetic products; has anti-oxidant activities, and accordingly, is useful for the prevention and treatment of skin-aging; and has PPAR activities, and in particular, PPARα and PPARγ activities, and accordingly, is useful for use in pharmaceutical compositions or health foods which are effective for the prevention and treatment of obesity, metabolic disease, or cardiovascular disease.
US10045915B2
A method for delivering one or more active agents to mammalian hair using a nonwoven web of filaments containing one or more hair care active agents that are releasable from the filaments is provided.
US10045903B2
In one example, we describe a method and system for infant's development, which is a disc system, with various combinations and extensions. The brain is the only organ that constantly reorganizes itself based on experiences or lack thereof. Babies are born with millions of neurons. Through a process called “pruning”, certain ‘circuits’ are fine-tuned through repeated practice and stimulation. This occurs from birth, throughout early childhood. The purpose of the SensiMo Disc is to provide an infant, e.g., typically, up to the 25 lbs. and/or 29 inches long, sensorimotor stimulation, while lying in a prone or supine position, with minimal active movement of the head or extremities. As the child lays supine or proneon, on the SensiMo disc, the child's tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems are stimulated. This helps develop the child's sensorimotor system. Many other variations and combinations, plus advantages, are discussed.
US10045900B2
The exemplary embodiments herein provide a method for controlling access to medications. The method preferably includes the step of electronically unlocking a lid for a single bin out of a plurality of bins within a delivery module at a first location, to accept a medication into the unlocked bin, where the rest of the bins in the same delivery module remain locked. The method should then engage a mechanical lock on the lid once it has been closed, maintain the bin in a locked state during transport to a second location, and engage a mechanical lock on the delivery module once it has been lowered into a drawer at the second location.
US10045891B2
An array of absorbent article packages for multiple baby stages of development displayed via a merchandise display system may comprise multiple packages. Each package may comprise articles having absorbent article configurations appropriate for the stage of development of an infant, newborn, or toddler. Each article or package may also comprise indicia representative of the appropriate stage of development of the infant, newborn, or toddler. And, absorbent article configurations may differ between packages having overlapping size ranges.
US10045890B2
An absorbent structure having a first open cell foam associated with a second open cell foam.
US10045886B2
A wound dressing member is provided for use in a vacuum bandage connected to a vacuum source. The wound dressing member is also provided for use with a wound having a wound surface. The wound dressing member includes a wound facing surface adapted to be in contact with and generally conform to the wound surface and a plurality of discrete holes formed in the wound facing surface. The member further includes a port configured to communicate with the vacuum source and with each hole formed in the wound facing surface. The wound dressing member further includes a stand-off having interconnected portions coupled to the wound facing surface and configured to provide a space between the wound facing surface and the wound surface.
US10045879B2
A portable heating/cooling device for clinical hypo/hyperthermia with cuffs especially designed for arterial cooling/heating for raising or lowering the body temperature of a patient is operable by battery power or a wide range of available external power, and is usable in the field or in medical transport where such external power sources are not available. The small size, weight, and robust nature of the device allows it to be transported with the patient without the need for additional conveying devices.
US10045874B2
Kits, devices, and methods for treating clubfoot are provided. The devices have two platforms that are attached to a bar. The platforms define slots to allow therapeutically preferred orientations of the platforms when attached to the bar. The kits and devices are simple to use and adjust, with a limited amount of possible settings.
US10045872B2
A reinforced support strap and method of application on a joint provides lateral and medial support to a joint and limbs. The support strap comprises, in some embodiments, a resilient body portion having a generally elongated V-shape that encapsulates the joint and is manipulated through rotation or axial movement along the joint and limbs for an enhanced fit. The body portion comprises a base end, an open end, and a pair of termini. The body portion further includes a mount surface that overlays the joint, and an exterior surface. The mount surface adheres to the joint through the use of a fastening mechanism. A reinforcement member, having less resilience than the body portion, may integrates into the body portion through stitching, to provide enhanced stability.
US10045868B2
The present invention comprises articles and methods for atraumatic removal of a chronically implanted medical device, such as a vascular graft. Specifically, the invention comprises a thin, lubricious and durable tubular cover that aids in protecting the indwelling implant during implantation while also acting as an atraumatic removal aid.
US10045866B2
A prosthetic attachment for a prosthetic limb. A base is attached to the prosthetic limb. The base has a magnet that is surrounded by base valleys and base peaks. An attachment piece is attached to the prosthetic attachment. The attachment piece also has a magnet that is surrounded by attachment piece valleys and attachment piece peaks. The magnetic force between the base magnet and the attachment piece magnet attracts the prosthetic attachment to the prosthetic limb so that the base peaks and valleys mates with the attachment piece peaks and valleys for a secure removable attachment. In a preferred embodiment a locking device is used to further secure the prosthetic attachment to the prosthetic limb. In a preferred embodiment the prosthetic attachment is a prosthetic hand and the prosthetic limb is a prosthetic arm.
US10045862B2
A system includes a cutting guide and a cutting template. The cutting guide has a body including a plurality of sides that together define a cavity that is accessible via an opening defined by a first side of the plurality of sides. A second side of the plurality of sides defines at least two elongate slots. The second side is disposed adjacent to the first side and at a distance from an opposed third side. Each of the at least two slots is in communication with the cavity and disposed at a different location along the second side. The cutting template has a body defining at least one elongate slot. The cutting template is configured to be engaged with the cutting guide such that the at least one elongate slot of the cutting template aligns with at least one of the at least two elongate slots of the cutting guide.
US10045854B2
An implant is provided for use in an ankle joint between reconditioned end surfaces established on a distal end of an upper tibia bone and an opposing lower talus bone. The implant comprises a substantially porous rigid component adapted to be anchored against the upper tibia reconditioned end surface and the lower talus reconditioned end surface. The component defining an opening therethrough. An intramedullary nail is configured to pass through the opening in the component when the nail is driven through the talus and into the tibia.
US10045852B2
Methods of selecting and implanting prosthetic devices for use as a replacement meniscus are disclosed. The selection methods include a pre-implantation selection method and a during-implantation selection method. The pre-implantation selection method includes a direct geometrical matching process, a correlation parameters-based matching process, and a finite element-based matching process. The implant identified by the pre-implantation selection method is then confirmed to be a suitable implant in the during-implantation selection method. In some instances, the during-implantation selection method includes monitoring loads and/or pressures applied to the prosthetic device and/or the adjacent anatomy. In some instances, the loads and/or pressures are monitored by a trial prosthetic device comprising one or more sensors. Methods of implanting meniscus prosthetic devices are also disclosed.
US10045851B2
This disclosure is directed to restoring joints by deploying a resilient interpositional arthroplasty implant. Such implants function to pad cartilage defects, cushion, and replace or restore the articular surface, which may preserve joint integrity, reduce pain and improve function. The implant may endure variable joint compressive and shear forces and cyclic loads. The implant may repair, reconstruct, and regenerate joint anatomy, and thereby improve upon joint replacement alternatives. The walls of this invention may capture, distribute and hold living cells until aggregation and hyaline cartilage regrowth occurs. The implant may be deployed into debrided joint spaces, molding and conforming to surrounding structures with sufficient stability so as to enable immediate limb use after outpatient surgery. Appendages of the implant may repair or reconstruct tendons or ligaments, and menisci by interpositional inflatable or compliant polymer arthroplasties that promote anatomic joint motion.
US10045849B2
A prosthetic total knee replacement system comprises a distal femoral implant component, a tibial tray implant component and a fixed bearing tibial tray insert. The fixed bearing tibial tray insert is fixed to the tibial tray and articulates with the distal femoral implant component. The fixed bearing tibial tray insert component has a medial-lateral centerline and a stabilizing post. The stabilizing post has a medial-lateral centerline offset laterally from the medial-lateral centerline of the fixed bearing tibial tray insert.
US10045848B2
Implant apparatus and methods directed toward treating conditions involving the knee joint are disclosed. Full range of motion of the knee joint and tissue integrity are maintained in treatment approaches. In one particular approach, osteoarthritis of the knee joint is addressed by unloading one or more of the lateral and medial compartments.
US10045840B2
The invention relates to a blank for the production of a dental shaped body, wherein the blank has a corpus (2) of tooth restoration material, from which the shaped part to be fabricated is carved by means of a tool (4) by removal of material. The blank has coding means (1) formed on part of the surface (6) of the blank corpus (2), which coding means (1) has at least one structure (8, 9) for identification of the blank. The coding means (1) consists of a plurality of panels (5.1) at the level of the surface (6) of the corpus (2) and a plurality of panels (5.2, 5.3) incorporating a flat structure (8, 9) at a level (h1, h2) which is distinguishable from at least the level of the surface (6) of the corpus (2).The invention further relates to a method for identifying a blank with the aid of coding means (1).
US10045839B2
Methods of fabricating dental prostheses are provided that include the steps of providing a powder of a dental material, and then selectively melting the powder of the dental material to produce a functionally graded layer of the dental material. Additional layers of functionally graded dental material are then built on top of the initial layer of dental material to thereby produce a three-dimensional dental prosthesis having a functionally graded structure and a desired physical geometry. Dental prostheses produced by the foregoing methods are also provided.
US10045830B2
A storage device is provided to store a tool or component in an operating theater and includes a receiving portion and a retaining member. The receiving portion is configured to support the tool or component thereon. The retaining member is transitionable between an initial configuration and a deployed configuration and includes a securing region thereon. In the deployed configuration, the retaining member is spaced away from a plane defined by a surface of the receiving portion. The securing region is configured to facilitate the passage of a tool or component through the retaining member such that the tool or component is secured therein.
US10045814B2
A method for identifying and treating tissue includes providing an electrosurgical treatment device including an electrode assembly. One or more electrical property values of target tissue are measured. The measured electrical property values of the target tissue are compared against electrical property values of known tissue types. A tissue type of the target tissue is identified. An energy delivery configuration of the electrosurgical treatment device is adjusted to the type of target tissue. The electrosurgical treatment device is activated to treat the target tissue.
US10045813B2
A surgical instrument includes a handle, and an elongated shaft extending from the handle. An end effector extending from the elongated shaft is in communication with a source of electrosurgical energy and defines an end effector axis. A roll joint couples the end effector to the elongated shaft and includes a first tubular structure extending distally from the elongated shaft and a second tubular structure rotatably coupled to the first tubular structure. The second tubular structure supports the end effector such that the end effector is rotatable about the end effector axis.
US10045811B2
A surgical instrument includes an active electrode coupled to a source of electrosurgical energy. The active electrode includes a tissue-contacting surface on an exterior surface of the instrument such that the tissue-contacting surface of the active electrode may intimately engage tissue. A replacement electrode includes a tissue-contacting surface, and is located in an interior cavity of the instrument. A seal is formed between the active electrode and the interior cavity of the instrument such that the tissue-contacting-surface of the replacement electrode is isolated from contamination exposed to the exterior of the instrument. The active electrode is removable from the instrument to expose the tissue-contacting surface of the replacement electrode, and the replacement electrode is connectable to the source of electrosurgical energy when the active electrode is removed.
US10045810B2
An HF surgical appliance comprising an HF generator having an output circuit, which contains an output transformer and has an output impedance. Output terminals, to which an HF surgical instrument can be connected, are provided, said instrument supplying a high-frequency current with a specific frequency into tissue to treat the same. An additional output circuit containing an additional transformer, which is connected between the output circuit and the output terminals to reduce the output impedance is also provided. In this way, the HF surgical appliance can be operated with a high power output even on loads having low impedance.
US10045797B1
A fusion plate for use in fusing two bones together can include directional fastener bores that restrict the angle at which the fasteners can be positioned when inserted through the fastener bores. The fusion plate can be used in conjunction with a spacer, which may include a cavity into which the fusion plate can rest. The fusion plate can be coupled to the spacer using a coupling mechanism.
US10045783B2
A ligature device and method of use are provided. More specifically, a ligature device capable of maintaining a ligature band in an elongated position, applying a preformed ligation band to an object to be ligated, manually releasing the ligation band from an elongated position, and securing a ligation band in a tensioned position is provided. The ligation device may be used to apply ligation bands to various body parts of various animals.
US10045775B1
An arterial closure device includes an elongated catheter having a proximal end, an opposing flexible distal end, and a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end. An externalization needle and an internal catheter are disposed within the lumen. The externalization needle is in communication with a first plunger. A first threading needle and a second threading needle are positioned in separate threading channels and in communication with a second plunger. A suture has a first end attached to the second end of the first threading needle and a second end attached to the second end of the second threading needle. A primary aperture extends through a wall of the elongated catheter. A first threading aperture and a second threading aperture extend through the wall of the elongated catheter at opposing sides of the primary aperture.
US10045772B2
A suture anchor including a sleeve with an optional solid tip and a threaded, hollow interior portion. A transverse hole passes through a distal end of the sleeve. An inner screw with a flat distal end and threads disposed on an outer surface and a driver head extension monolithically connected with a proximal end of the inner screw are also provided.
US10045769B2
Circular stapling instruments and anvil assemblies. The anvil assemblies may have collapsible anvil support members that may be inserted through an opening in a patient and then expanded to be attached to an anvil plate assembly that has a staple-forming surface thereon. The anvil support member is attachable to the anvil plate assembly in such a way that when the anvil assembly is coupled to the stapling head of a circular stapler, the staple-forming surface is in substantial registry with the staples supported in the stapling head. A variety of different anvil support members and anvil plate assemblies are disclosed.
US10045762B2
A dilation device including a dilation instrument which includes a distal radially expandable section which is coupled via an elongate shank to a handling section, and an expandable covering with a closed distal end and an open proximal end, for the expansion section of the dilation instrument. The covering has a shank section extending along the shank of the dilation instrument. The open proximal end of the covering is detachably coupled to the distal end of the handling section of the dilation instrument. Furthermore, the covering is disclosed per se, which consists of a mesh material and has a shank section, which is connected to a coupling sleeve at the open proximal end.
US10045756B2
An embryo transfer catheter or other medical device has a shaft extruded with two layers. The outer layer is relatively thick and contains gas bubbles sufficient to increase the visibility of the catheter under ultrasound observation but with a density that allows material within the catheter to be viewed by the eye. The inner layer is relatively thin and is free of bubbles so that it provides a smooth bore to the catheter.
US10045753B2
A structure includes a silicon substrate having a plurality of recessed portions, each recessed portion having a bottom and a side wall, silicide layers, each silicide layer in contact with the bottoms of the plurality of recessed portions, and a metal structure including metal portions, each metal portion disposed in the plurality of recessed portions and in contact with the silicide layers. The silicide layers are electrically connected to each other through the silicon substrate.
US10045752B2
Described here is a method for performing phase contrast imaging using an array of independently controllable x-ray sources. The array of x-ray sources can be controlled to produce a distinct spatial pattern of x-ray radiation and thus can be used to encode phase contrast signals without the need for a coded aperture. The lack of coded aperture increases the flexibility of the imaging method. For instance, because a fixed, coded aperture is not required, the angular resolution of the imaging technique can be increased as compared to coded-aperture imaging. Moreover, the lack of a radioopaque coded aperture increases the photon flux that reaches the subject, thereby increasing the attainable signal-to-noise ratio.
US10045749B2
An X-ray system (2) for acquiring an image of an object has an X-ray detector (8), which is segmented into a plurality of neighboring detector tiles. In particular, the image can be a two-dimensional projection image but also a three-dimensional volume of the object reconstructed from a tomosynthesis acquisition. An X-ray detector moving mechanism (18) is adapted for moving the X-ray detector (8) at least between a first X-ray detector position and a second X-ray detector position during operation of the X-ray system. An X-ray source (4), a collimator (22) and the X-ray detector (8) of the X-ray system (2) are adapted for acquiring a plurality of partial X-ray images through the adjacent detector tiles while irradiating the object with X-ray beams from a plurality of tomographic angles α. The processing unit is adapted for generating a two-dimension image of the object and/or for reconstructing a three-dimensional volume of the object from the acquired partial images.
US10045746B2
In a radiation image processing apparatus, method, and program, performing image processing based on scattered radiation, such as scattered radiation elimination processing, accurately by taking into account the influence of scattered radiation from an area adjacent to a processing target area. For this purpose, performing image processing on a radiation image captured by applying radiation to a subject based on scattered radiation generated by the subject. In this case, a processing target area which is the processing target in the radiation image is added with another area different from the processing target area in the radiation image. Then, the image processing based on scattered radiation is performed on the processing target area using the another area and the processing target area.
US10045740B2
In some embodiments, a method, apparatus, and a system for sensing a force are provided. The apparatus may comprise a plurality of sensors configured to detect an impact force. The plurality of sensors may be arranged into a housing, such as a sports helmet. The apparatus also includes a controller operatively coupled to the plurality of sensors. The controller is adapted to: receive a signal from at least one of the plurality of sensors; determine whether a value of the signal exceeds a threshold; perform a responsive action in response to a determination that the value of signal exceeds the threshold. The responsive action comprises providing a warning, performing a logging function, and/or performing a counteraction.
US10045731B2
An apparatus for detecting cervical cancer comprising, a mechanical structure configured to expose cervical region comprising, a first duck-billed blade forming a hollow cylinder at one end and a second duck-billed blade coupled to the first blade to form part of a speculum, in that the cervical region is exposed through circular area of the hollow cylinder, a pair of “L” shaped rods attached to the hollow cylinder of the first blade such that they are diagonally opposite and symmetric on either side of the exposed cervical region, and a detachable holder with a housing to hold a secondary unit and at least a pair of hooks to mount on the “L” shaped rods, the secondary unit further comprising, a camera for capturing an image of the exposed cervical region, a processor and a visual indicator to determine and indicate presence or absence of the cervix cancer from the image.
US10045729B2
The present invention relates to the estimation of the vertical in humans using an experimental design that incorporates virtual reality. Methods of measuring the perceived vertical in a subject using steady state and transient experiments are disclosed. The inventive methods are useful for diagnosis, as well as for follow up after patient rehabilitation.
US10045719B2
In a special mode, an internal body portion is imaged under a first white light beam to obtain a first frame composed of blue, green, and red signals. Sequentially, the body portion is imaged under a second white light beam to obtain a second frame composed of blue, green, and red signals. An oxygen saturation level is calculated from the signals. A special image is produced based on the oxygen saturation level. A displacement between the first and second frames is calculated from the signals. If the displacement is a first allowable value or more and less than a second allowable value, the special image is displayed with a lower chroma on a monitor, as compared with a case where the displacement is less than the first allowable value. If the displacement is the second allowable value or more, the special image is converted into a gray scale image.
US10045715B2
A patient support apparatus includes detectors and a controller operable to automatically update a tare weight for use in determining a true patient weight. The detectors are configured to produce signals indicating a presence or absence of a corresponding removable component. The controller is configured to determine weights of each and every removable component on the patient support apparatus and store each weight in a memory. The controller is further configured to receive the signals produced by the detectors and detect any addition or removal of removable components of the patient support apparatus, update the tare weight, and determine a weight of a patient being supported on the patient support apparatus.
US10045706B2
A catheter with a film composite structure. The catheter at least includes a polymer film that is shaped such that a first polymer film layer, which is arranged inwardly relative to the catheter, and a second polymer film layer, which is arranged outwardly relative to the catheter, are produced; one or more electrodes arranged at least partially on an outer surface of the film composite structure; and a conductor structure, which includes conductive tracks for the electrical connection of the electrodes and which is arranged at least in part between the first and second polymer film layers. An associated production method for the catheter is also contemplated herein.
US10045701B2
Provided herein are implantable systems that include an implantable photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor, which can be used to obtain an arterial PPG waveform. In an embodiment, a metric of a terminal portion of an arterial PPG waveform is determined, and a metric of an initial portion of the arterial PPG waveform is determined, and a surrogate of mean arterial pressure is determined based on the metric of the terminal portion and the metric of the initial portion. In another embodiment, a surrogate of diastolic pressure is determined based on a metric of a terminal portion of an arterial PPG waveform. In a further embodiment, a surrogate of cardiac afterload is determined based on a metric of a terminal portion of an arterial PPG waveform.
US10045700B2
A blood pressure estimating method includes measuring a biosignal including pulse wave information of a user, determining a calibration method for a blood pressure estimation model, calibrating the blood pressure estimation model using the determined calibration method, and estimating a blood pressure of the user from the biosignal using the calibrated blood pressure estimation model.
US10045699B2
Often the physiological and emotional state of a person can be associated with certain cortical activity that can cause certain thermal patterns on the person's forehead. Thus, thermal measurements of the forehead may be used to differentiate between user states. In one embodiment, a system includes at least one inward-facing head-mounted thermal camera (CAM) that takes thermal measurements of at least first and second regions on the right side of a user's forehead (THR1 and THR2, respectively), and thermal measurements of at least third and fourth regions on the left side of the forehead (THL1 and THL2, respectively). The middles of the first and third regions are at least 1 cm above the middles of the second and fourth regions, respectively. The system also includes a computer that determines, based on THR1, THR2, THL1, and THL2, whether the user is in a normal state or an abnormal state.
US10045698B2
A diagnostic apparatus (20) for detecting a presence of breast cancer in a patient disposed in a testing position. The diagnostic apparatus (20) includes a housing (44) and a camera assembly (58) that is supported by the housing (44) for recording images of the breasts of the patient. A rail (76) is supported by and extends from the housing (44) and terminates at a pair of rail ends (80). A trolley (88) interconnects the camera assembly (58) and the rail (76) and is slideable along said rail (76) for providing movement of the camera assembly (58) along the rail (76) between the rail ends (80) for allowing the camera assembly (58) to consecutively record images at different positions along the rail (76) and to record images of the lymph nodes of the patient when the camera assembly (58) is disposed adjacent to the rail ends (80) in alignment with the sides of the breasts of the patient.
US10045692B2
Systems and methods that use interference signal from a sample tissue (e.g. retina) obtained in a self-referenced manner to obtain one or more characteristics about the sample tissue, such as thickness and intensity information, are discussed in the present disclosure. One example method of analyzing the sample tissue using an interferometry system includes illuminating the sample tissue with a beam of light using a spectrally broadband source. Scattered light signal is collected from the sample tissue at a detector. The signal results from optical interference between light scattered from multiple scatterers located at different depths in the tissue. The light signal is dominated by light scattered from a scatterer located within the bulk of the tissue. One or more characteristics of the sample tissue are determined based on the collected signal.
US10045690B2
A method for determining wave-front aberration data of a to-be-tested optical system comprising the steps of: a) providing a wave-front sensing image of light received from the tested optical system; b) providing a model representative of the optical system with at least an optical parameter representative of said model; and c) optimizing a set of wave-front coefficient data and said at least optical parameter of said model according to a merit function calculating the merit function comprises the steps of generating a wave-front sensing modeled image of light received from said model by the at least optical parameter and the set of wave-front coefficient data, and calculating a criteria based on shape parameter data of the wave-front sensing image and shape parameter data of the wave-front sensing modeled image, so as to obtain wave-front aberration data of the tested optical system.
US10045680B2
Disclosed herein is a dishwasher including a spray unit fixed to one sidewall of a wash tub and a reflecting plate assembly to reflect wash water sprayed from the spray unit onto dishes and to linearly reciprocate in a spray direction of the wash water sprayed from the spray unit. The dishwasher further includes a drive unit to drive the reflecting plate assembly, and a cam unit to transmit driving force of the drive unit to the reflecting plate assembly. The drive unit includes a motor to generate rotational force, and a belt forming a closed loop and caused to make cyclic movement by the motor. The cam unit is engaged with the belt to transmit power of the belt to the reflecting plate assembly. The cam is alternately engaged with first and second portions of the belt to cause the reflecting plate assembly to reciprocate.
US10045678B2
A surface cleaning device, such as a floor mop, has a handle via which a user holds on to the device and maneuvers the device during use, a head to which the handle connects, a base at which the head is secured and is situated, in normal use, below the head. The base is provided with, in normal use, a lower surface for engaging a surface to be cleaned via a removable or disposable substrate material, wherein the base is provided with a plurality of grippers for securing the disposable substrate material, the base and the grippers belong to an integral component.
US10045674B2
The invention relates to a method for optimizing a vacuum cleaning system comprising a cylinder vacuum cleaning device and a filter bag, wherein the cylinder vacuum cleaning device comprises a motor-fan unit having a characteristic motor-fan curve, a filter bag receptacle, a hose, a tube, a connection port for the filter bag, and a cleaning head, and wherein the filter bag comprises filter material made of nonwoven material comprising the step of: adapting the motor-fan characteristic curve and the size, the shape and the material of the filter bag and the size and the shape of the filter bag receptacle and the length and the inner diameter of the tube and the length and the inner diameter of the hose and the inner diameter of the connection port for the filter bag and the cleaning head to each other such that the vacuum cleaning system achieves an efficiency of at least 24%, preferably of at least 28%, particularly preferably of at least 32%, when vacuuming according to the Standard on a Standard carpet type Wilton with an empty filter bag, where vacuuming according to the Standard is performed according to Standard EN 60312 and the Standard carpet type Wilton is provided according to Standard EN 60312. The Invention furthermore relates to a vacuum cleaning system having a cylinder vacuum cleaning device and a filter bag which is developed and/or manufactured using this method.
US10045667B2
A point-of-care hygiene compliance module includes a housing that is adapted to be attached to a dispensing container that dispenses material through a dispensing nozzle when actuated. The housing includes a pivoting actuation arm that is configured so as to be placed in operative contact with the dispensing nozzle. Thus, when the actuation arm is actuated, material is dispensed from the dispensing container, and a switch in operative contact with the actuation arm is actuated. The triggering of the switch updates a count value that is maintained by a controller, which may then be displayed or acquired by a remote computer to assess the amount of usage of the dispensing container.
US10045663B2
The present invention relates to a double-screen grinding mechanism and a double-screen grinding juicer, belonging to the technical field of household appliances. The juicer comprises a motor box, a motor, a middle cover, a grinding mechanism and an upper cover, wherein the grinding mechanism consists of a filter screen and a rotor, the filter screen being of a double-layer filter screen structure and comprising an upper filter screen and a lower filter screen, the rotor comprising an upper rough-grinding portion and a lower fine-grinding portion; the motor is mounted in the motor box; the middle cover is fixed on the motor box; the filter screen is mounted within the middle cover; the rotor is located in the filter screen; the upper cover is covered on the middle cover to shield the filter screen and the rotor; and, the rotor is connected to the motor via a rotor shaft.
US10045660B2
A kit for heat treating foods comprises a first portion including at least one plate, at least one vat, at least one coil-shaped phial, at least one wall, and at least one pin. The at least one plate has a first compartment and a second compartment. The at least one vat is attached to the at least one plate to form an interspace containing CaCl2 scales. The at least one coil-shaped phial is disposed in the interspace and contains deionized water. The at least one wall is arranged transversely to the at least one coil-shaped phial and divides the at least one coil-shaped phial into at least two sectors. The at least one pin extends from a surface of the at least one vat and is arranged adjacently to the at least one coil-shaped phial. The at least one pin is configured to break the at least one coil-shaped phial.
US10045657B2
A method for exchanging heat between a heat exchange fluid and a perishable product fluid. The method includes providing the heat exchange fluid to an enclosure 5 of a heat exchanger and provides the perishable product fluid to a tube 53 including a flexible portion in the enclosure 51. The method includes exchanging heat between the heat exchange fluid in the enclosure and the perishable product fluid in the tube 53 and interrupting providing the perishable product fluid to the tube 53. The method further includes compressing the flexible portion of the tube 53 to decrease a volume of the tube 3 and to press a substantial part of the perishable product fluid out of the tube 53. The method may include changing the heat exchange fluid at a first temperature to a heat exchange fluid at a second temperature different than the first temperature.
US10045655B2
The present invention provides a novel method and apparatus for a liquid-activated, lighted and flavored drink infuser. The invention enhances the beverage and drink experience for any user by providing a liquid-activated, lighted, flavored drink infuser that, when placed in liquid, will light up and/or release into the liquid specific contents inside the infuser, such as flavoring(s) and/or medicine(s).
US10045649B2
Hanging products having an opening for suspending the item from a rod without removing the rod from its mounted supports.
US10045646B2
The ordered food and drink conveying apparatus includes: a main belt conveyor to form a conveying path leading to a customer seat from a kitchen side of a restaurant; an auxiliary belt conveyor to be provided in extension from the main belt conveyor on the kitchen side to elongate the conveying path; and a control unit to operate the auxiliary belt conveyor and the main belt conveyor upon a conveyance start operation being performed and to convey the dish of the food and drink placed on the auxiliary belt conveyor to the customer seat, the control unit setting the auxiliary belt conveyor in a stop state enabling placement of the dish to be conveyed next on the auxiliary belt conveyor before stopping the main belt conveyor upon the dish being transferred onto the main belt conveyor from the auxiliary belt conveyor by performing the conveyance start operation.
US10045645B2
The invention provides a portable cup holder for carrying a cup with, for example, take-out coffee. The portable cup holder is made with a minimum amount of material that may be folded rapidly and easily, and comprises a bottom portion 1 forming a bottom surface through which a cup opening 3 is formed, a fixing portion 4 connected to top and bottom ends of the bottom portion 1 and folded vertically, a rising portion 7 folded and disposed vertically at right and left ends of the bottom portion 1, a top portion 2 connected to the rising portion 7 forming a top surface and including the cup opening 3a, and a handle portion 10 folded vertically upwards at the top portion 2 that forms a handle.
US10045637B2
A product display unit includes a first track and a second track. The first track defines a longitudinal axis and is configured to support products thereon. The first track is configured to guide the products along the longitudinal axis. The second track is configured to support products thereon. A first portion of the second track is configured to guide the products in a first direction that is disposed at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis. A second portion of the second track is configured to guide the products in a second direction that is parallel to the longitudinal axis.
US10045636B2
An apparatus for storing and retrieving electronic components such as, but not limited to: capacitors; resistors; and integrated circuits. Components are stored based on single package single location in lockable racks in a transportable cart. Information for each stored component, such as its part number, location, and quantity is stored in the local electronic board and is shared via Wi-Fi to a network of PCs.
US10045632B2
A traveling wave air mattress apparatus includes an air mattress comprised of an array of laterally disposed, longitudinally spaced air bladder cells that are individually inflatable to quiescent pressure levels which provide comfortable support for a human body, and an air pressure-pulse generator controlled by a wave sequence generator for periodically introducing into sequences of the air bladder cells timed sequences of air pressure pulses which vary pressures in the cells from quiescent pressures, the air pressure variations resulting in leading and lagging soliton-like traveling waves of body support force variation which travel longitudinally over the surfaces of the pulsed air bladder cells, thus inhibiting formation of bedsores. The wave patterns may optionally simulate water waves and/or rocking motions of a boat to produce relaxing effects.
US10045597B2
Disclosed is a medication carrying case having a modular interior and a deployable tray work surface. The case structure is provided in several different sizes and designs, whereby medication and other articles are supported by removably attached organizational leaflets attached along the interior surfaces of the case. Each leaflet comprises a number of different pouches or organizational elements for supporting medication and accessory items. The deployable tray attaches along the exterior of the case and provides a clean work surface for organizing and preparing medication prior to use. For temperature sensitive medication, a cooling chamber is provided within the leaflet and behind a pouch to cool the pouch contents. Furthermore, an internal temperature sensing means and a timer element is provided to monitor the interior environment of the case and provide a means of notification for the user for administration of medication, respectively.
US10045591B2
A retractable heel for a shoe is described herein comprising an upper heel body and a retractable lower heel body. The lower heel body is may be placed in at least two configurations. In a first configuration, with the lower heel body retracted, the upper heel body may contact the ground when the shoe is worn. In a second configuration, with the lower heel body not retracted, the upper heel body may not contact the ground when the shoe is worn, being prevented from doing so by the lower heel body.
US10045583B2
A toe protection insert for an athletic shoe surrounds the big toe and laces up to protect the toe from injury. The laces of the insert are designed to pull through the shoelace holes of the athletic shoe, to enable the user to position the toe as desired and elevate the toe above the shoe sole of an athletic shoe. The insert may include only a toe sleeve which wraps around the hallux toe or may also provide an insert sole upon which the toe sleeve is attached.
US10045577B2
A thermal energy dissipating garment may include a first garment portion having a perimeter defined by at least a first side and a second garment portion having a perimeter defined by at least a vent side. The first garment portion and the second garment portion are discontinuously affixed to each other at defined intervals along a surface of each portion proximate to the first side and the vent side creating a vent seam having a plurality of ducts/scalloped vents for directing air towards a body of a wearer. The plurality of scalloped vents are oriented with an angle of attack that redirects air from the exterior of the garment to the interior of the garment to increase air movement along a wearer's skin.
US10045561B2
An aerosol generating system is provided, including: a storage portion for storing an aerosol-forming substrate, an aerosol generating element for generating an aerosol from the aerosol-forming substrate, control circuitry in communication with the storage portion, and disabling component within the storage portion for rendering the storage portion inoperable in the aerosol generating system in response to a disable signal from the control circuitry. There is also provided a method in an aerosol generating system, including sending a disable signal from the control circuitry to the disabling component following a determination that an amount of the aerosol-substrate in the storage portion is below a threshold level or following a determination of a malfunction in the system.
US10045558B2
The present application is directed to an apparatus for inserting objects into a filter rod. The apparatus can include: a first conduit adapted to convey a plurality of the objects in series; a first escapement having a first inlet and a first outlet connected by a first channel, wherein the first inlet is connected to the first conduit; a first singulation drum having an outer periphery defining a first row of first pockets adapted to hold the objects, wherein the first singulation drum is adapted to rotate about a first axis to successively move the first pockets into registry with the first outlet; and at least one first source of air that conveys the objects from the first inlet to the first outlet, and successively into the first pockets of the first singulation drum. Other details and methods of inserting objects into a filter rod are also discussed.
US10045547B2
Provided herein are whippable topping compositions comprising yogurt. The compositions comprise a blend of yogurt and a whip topping emulsion. The yogurt can be made with regular, low fat or fat free milk. The fat content of the whip topping emulsion can also be varied to provide topping compositions of various fat content having a smooth texture and desirable consistency.
US10045545B2
The invention concerns an apparatus configured and designed for automatic defeathering of slaughtered poultry, comprising a transport means configured and designed for freely hanging transport of poultry suspended from their feet, in the transport direction along a transport path, and two side cheeks spaced apart and arranged on opposite sides of the transport path and forming a channel, which on their insides facing each other and turned towards the transport path each have means for defeathering the poultry transported through the channel, wherein the defeathering means can be brought into contact with the poultry to be defeathered, which is distinguished in that the apparatus has a stationary means for active support of entry of the poultry between the two side cheeks and the defeathering means arranged thereon, which is arranged in the inlet region E of the poultry into the channel.
US10045540B2
An insect control composition and related methods of preparation and use are disclosed. The composition includes a mixture of non-Cannabaceae flour and an amount of Cannabaceae seed flour effective to mitigate a population of Insecta treated with the mixture.
US10045539B2
An antimicrobial ceramic glazing composition contains one or more antimicrobial agents disposed therein. Methods for making and using the glazing composition are disclosed, as well as substrates having a fired antimicrobial glaze thereon. The antimicrobial agents comprise metallic oxides, with a subset of the disclosed combinations exhibiting synergistic effect in fired glazes.
US10045537B2
An antimicrobial ceramic glazing composition contains one or more antimicrobial agents disposed therein. Methods for making and using the glazing composition are disclosed, as well as substrates having a fired antimicrobial glaze thereon. The antimicrobial agents comprise metallic oxides, with a subset of the disclosed combinations exhibiting synergistic effect in fired glazes.
US10045535B2
The invention relates to novel active substance combinations consisting of heterocyclic trifluorobutenylen of formula (1), wherein X is halogen and n is 0, 1 or 2, and of known insecticide substances. Said novel active substance combinations are suitable for fighting harmful pests like insects and nematodes.
US10045531B2
The present invention relates to the use of one or more fatty acid esters, particularly 3-methylbutyl dodecanoate, or a mixture of fatty acid esters as insecticide and/or arachnicide and moreover relates to insecticide and/or arachnicide compositions containing same. The invention also relates to a method for controlling insects and/or arachnids.
US10045527B2
A solid material adapted to kill bacteria in planktonic, spore and biofilm states is lethal toward a wide spectrum of gram positive and gram negative bacteria as well as other microbes. The solid material includes a significant amount of one or more surfactants entrained in a crosslinked polymeric network.
US10045523B2
A system for carrying out pest baiting, comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which is controllable to record image data over a predefined flight path, the image data being captured by an image recording device. A computer processing arrangement is operable to evaluate the recorded image data to determine pest related data associated with an animal species identified as a pest, and to subsequently determine a baiting program for eradication of the animal species based on the determined pest data.
US10045522B2
A fluid sprayer includes a tank containing fluid therein and a nozzle assembly in communication with the tank to receive fluid therefrom and to atomize the fluid. The fluid sprayer also includes a blower assembly positioned upstream of the nozzle assembly for dispersing the atomized fluid from the nozzle assembly into the surroundings of the fluid sprayer and a discharge chute positioned downstream of the blower assembly into which the atomized fluid from the nozzle assembly is sprayed before being discharged upward and into the surroundings of the fluid sprayer.
US10045515B2
A flavored or unflavored pet treat-item using hemp based products and byproducts constructed to be eaten by a pet as a treat in one to two days. The outer shell of the treat-item is patterned after natural tree bark such as Pine, Cypress, Redwood and Oak. The treat-item contains supplements that provide pets the beneficial support from cannabanoids such as CBAs, CBDs and CBNs for which may help treatment of ailments such as arthritis, hip pain, tumors, leukemia, cancers, organ tissue repair and neurological regeneration; as well as, fiber support for teeth and digestive system health. A viscous version of the product in the form of baby food may be produced for tube feeding pets with more advanced debilitations.
US10045512B2
A system is described that includes communications modules, a wearable device, and an application running on a processor of a computing platform. The system includes placing each communications module at a location in a premise, wherein each communications module periodically transmits a unique number, wherein the application detects and stores each unique number. The system includes the application organizing linking information by linking each unique number with a distance and a function and transmitting the linking information to the wearable device. The wearable device may detect a transmission of a communications module, use information of the transmission to identify the communications module's unique number and to estimate a distance from the wearable device to its location. The wearable device may use the linking information to identify the corresponding function and distance and perform the function when the estimated distance meets at least one criterion with respect to the distance.
US10045504B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH281810. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH281810, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH281810 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH281810.
US10045498B1
Zantedeschia variety designated GSCCPEPA is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of Zantedeschia GSCCPEPA, to the plants of Zantedeschia GSCCPEPA, to plant parts of Zantedeschia GSCCPEPA, and to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant produced by crossing Zantedeschia GSCCPEPA with itself or with another Zantedeschia. The invention also relates to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and to the transgenic Zantedeschia plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Zantedeschia varieties, or breeding varieties, and plant parts derived from Zantedeschia GSCCPEPA, to methods for producing other Zantedeschia varieties, hybrids, or plant parts derived from Zantedeschia GSCCPEPA, and to the Zantedeschia plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid Zantedeschia seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing Zantedeschia GSCCPEPA with another Zantedeschia variety.
US10045495B1
Zantedeschia variety designated GSCCBUAL is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of Zantedeschia GSCCBUAL, to the plants of Zantedeschia GSCCBUAL, to plant parts of Zantedeschia GSCCBUAL, and to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant produced by crossing Zantedeschia GSCCBUAL with itself or with another Zantedeschia. The invention also relates to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and to the transgenic Zantedeschia plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Zantedeschia varieties, or breeding varieties, and plant parts derived from Zantedeschia GSCCBUAL, to methods for producing other Zantedeschia varieties, hybrids, or plant parts derived from Zantedeschia GSCCBUAL, and to the Zantedeschia plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid Zantedeschia seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing Zantedeschia GSCCBUAL with another Zantedeschia variety.
US10045489B2
A system for determining knife usage. The system includes an infeed cutter including a cutter rotor, a knife drawer, and a plurality of knives extending through the knife drawer. The cutter rotor is mounted above the knife drawer such that a cutting zone for crop material is defined. The system further includes a measuring device configured to measure a quantity which is representative for the couple exerted by the cutter rotor on crop material going through the cutting zone of the infeed cutter, a controller configured to control the measuring device for measuring values for the quantity at consecutive moments in time, and a knife usage determining module configured to determine knife usage based on the measured values.
US10045474B2
An agricultural implement is provided having a tongue, a central toolbar extending from the tongue, and first and second wings extending generally outwardly from the central toolbar. The implement may include a central hopper system to provide the material to individual row units along the central toolbar and wings, or may include individual hoppers located at each of the row units along the toolbars. A weight distribution system is used with the implement to update and adjust the amount of down force applied at the outer toolbars or wings, and the individual row units. The distribution system includes an intelligent control connected to sensors and cylinders. Therefore, the intelligent control receives information from the sensors and adjusts the cylinders accordingly to provide the appropriate amount of down force and to adjust the down force on a real time basis, and can be a closed loop or open loop system.
US10045473B2
An agricultural vehicle train includes a tractor, a rotary cutter, and a hitch assembly coupling the rotary cutter to the tractor. The hitch assembly includes a first connection interface attaching the hitch assembly to the tractor and a second connection interface attaching the hitch assembly to the rotary cutter. The hitch assembly includes a suspension element coupled between the first and second connection interfaces to mitigate force transfer resulting from relative vertical movement; a mounting plate forming at least a portion of the second connection interface; and a pivot plate with a first end coupled to the first connection interface and a second end coupled to the suspension element. The pivot plate further includes a pivot element such that the pivot plate pivots about the pivot element relative to the mounting plate.
US10051769B2
Provided is an electronic component mounting system that includes an electronic component mounting line that includes multiple electronic component mounters to which identification marks, respectively, are affixed, a management computer, and a portable terminal that has a recognition unit that recognizes the identification mark. In the management computer, a maintenance operation plan is created, a maintenance instruction in which the maintenance operation plan and the identification mark are associated with each other is issued, each of the multiple maintenance instructions and maintenance information that is associated with each of the multiple maintenance instructions are stored, one of the multiple maintenance instructions and maintenance information that is associated with the one maintenance instruction are transmitted to the portable terminal.
US10051764B1
An electronic equipment chassis in one embodiment comprises a housing having a front portion and a rear portion, at least one row of dual in-line memory modules disposed at one of an upper level and a lower level of the front portion, and a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front portion adjacent the at least one row of dual in-line memory modules. At least a subset of the dual in-line memory modules and the storage devices are configured so as to be removable from the chassis through a vertical plane of the front portion of the housing.
US10051763B2
Electronic device package technology is disclosed. In one example, an electronic device includes a substrate having at least one electronic component mounted thereon and a heatsink thermally coupled to the electronic component. A plurality of fasteners attaches the heatsink to the substrate. At least one of the substrate, the heatsink, and the plurality of fasteners include a stress-relieving component to minimize fastener stress on the substrate. The stress-relieving component can comprise a fastener having a compliant device (e.g., a spring) for z-direction stress relief. The stress-relieving component can comprise the substrate and/or the heatsink having an oversized aperture for x-direction and/or y-direction stress relief. A method is disclosed for coupling a substrate to a heatsink. A method is disclosed for minimizing fastener stress locally to fasteners of an electronic device.
US10051758B2
A rack-mountable system is provided that includes fastening mechanisms mounted to the chassis sidewalls. The fastening mechanisms or “ears” of a rack-mountable chassis are each provided as a unitary part or piece rather than as multiple sheet metal or cast/extruded metallic parts that have to be assembled. The ear is attached or mounted to the chassis in a tool-less manner through specific design of the ear and its chassis-locking features and of holes and/or receiving/mating surfaces and/or openings on the chassis sidewalls. The left and right (or first and second) ears are manufactured in a number of ways including 3D printing, casting, and molding in a shock and impact-resistant material, such as a plastic (e.g., a thermoplastic). The chassis with the low-cost, tool-less ears are useful for mounting routers, switches, servers, digital data storage units, and instrumentation in a rack (e.g., a conventional enclosure for computer and telecommunications equipment).
US10051750B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device comprises a display panel; a module cover positioned at a rear of the display panel and fastened to the display panel; a bracket positioned at a rear of the module cover; and a tilting unit positioned between the module cover and the bracket, a portion of the tilting unit is formed at the module cover, and an another portion of the tilting unit is formed at the bracket, wherein the tilting unit includes: a first pin positioned near a right side of the display panel; a second pin positioned near a left side of the display panel; a first tilting hole, positioned near the right side of the display panel, in which the first pin is inserted, and having an elongated shape which is inclined with respect to a horizon; and a second tilting hole, positioned near the left side of the display panel, in which the second pin is inserted, and having an elongated shape which is inclined with respect to the elongated shape of the first tilting hole.
US10051747B2
Methods for the production of a circuit board involving the removal of a subregion in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, the production of a circuit board, made of at least two interconnected layers of material, involving the removal of a subregion including a portion of at least one of the at least two interconnected layers from the circuit board includes providing an adhesion preventing material under the subregion to be removed to a layer in the at least two interconnected layers that is adjacent to the at least one layer including the subregion, separating edge regions of the subregion to be removed from adjoining regions of the circuit board, connecting an external surface of the subregion to be removed to an external element, and displacing the external element to separate the subregion to be removed from the adjacent layer of the circuit board.
US10051746B2
High-speed interconnects for printed circuit boards and methods for forming the high-speed interconnects are described. A high-speed interconnect may comprise a region of a conductive film having a reduced surface roughness and one or more regions that have been treated for improved bonding with an adjacent insulating layer. Regions of reduced roughness may be used to carry high data rate signals within PCBs. Regions treated for bonding may include a roughened surface, adhesion-promoting chemical treatment, and/or material deposited to improve wettability of the surface and/or adhesion to a cured insulator.
US10051738B2
A flexible printed circuit film connects a substrate with a printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit film includes a first area configured to be attached to the substrate; a second area configured to be connected with the printed circuit board; and a third area between the first area and the second area. Each of the first area and the third area has a trapezoid shape with a width that gradually decreases in a direction toward the second area, and the second area has a rectangular shape.
US10051732B2
Connector receptacles that may be space efficient and provide a direct connection to a flexible circuit board. One example may provide an electronic device having a receptacle including a recess formed in a housing of the electronic device. The recess may have a sidewall and a bottom surface portion, and the bottom surface portion may include one or more openings extending through the bottom surface portion from an external surface to an internal surface. One or more contacts formed on a flexible circuit board may be aligned with the one or more openings in the bottom surface portion. In this way, the receptacle may be space efficient and provide a direct connection to a flexible circuit board inside an electronic device. A cosmetic cap may be placed in the recess to obscure the existence of the connector receptacle.
US10051720B1
Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for generating electrons. For example, certain embodiments comprise a charge gating diamond QED based electron source, which can be suspended within the RF cavity of an electron injection system in a superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) electron accelerator. Embodiments of the disclosed technology are capable of producing low temperature (cold) electron beams, where “temperature” refers to the transverse energy in the extracted electron beam (or beam emittance). Embodiments of the disclosed technology can also exhibit enhanced charge replenishment capabilities by virtue of the material selected to suspend the electron source within the RF cavity of the electron injection system.
US10051713B1
A method for command transmission and configuration to sensor implemented by ambient light source is disclosed and adopted by a sensor having a light-sensing unit. The sensor collects ambient light time series data through the light-sensing unit, and extracts valid brightness toggle data therefrom. Next, the sensor determines if the obtained brightness toggle data matches with a triggering condition of a pre-stored command. When the obtained brightness toggle data matches with the triggering condition, the sensor outputs a flashing signal through its display unit and further determines if receiving a confirmed brightness toggle data or not. When receiving the confirmed brightness toggle data within a waiting period after outputting the flashing signal, the sensor automatically performs the pre-stored command corresponding to the matched triggering condition.
US10051709B2
A lighting system includes a group of light emitting diode (LED) illumination devices, each of which includes a device driver. One or more sensors are configured to measure a characteristic of light received from the devices in an area of an environment that is illuminated by the devices. A controller detects when a value of the measured light characteristic received by a sensor deviates from a desired value. When this happens, the controller will cause the device drivers for each of the LED illumination devices to control LEDs in each illumination device so that the desired color temperature of light will be received at the location of the sensor while maintaining a substantially constant illuminance level at the location.
US10051707B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for lighting control based on a combination of inputs. One or more properties of light output of a lighting fixture (120A, 120B, 120C) are controlled based on local input (based on local sensor readings) and group input (provided to the lighting fixture and additional lighting fixtures) and/or one or more sensors (125A, 125B) are auto-calibrated. For example, in some embodiments a lighting controller (130A) of a lighting fixture may receive both the local input and the group input and control a dimming level of a light source (150A) of the lighting fixture based on the local input and the group input. For example, the local input may be based on input from a local sensor that is indicative of a light level near the lighting fixture and the group input may be indicative of a desired group level of dimming.
US10051667B2
A method for device-to-device (D2D) operation performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system and a terminal using the method are provided. The method comprises: receiving system information indicating a first resource used for D2D operation in a serving cell, and a second resource which is used for D2D operation from a neighboring cell; and performing D2D operation based on the system information, wherein the second resource is indicated by an offset value having, as a reference, a specific point in time of the serving cell.
US10051663B2
A method and device for transmitting data between wireless devices includes: generating and transmitting, by a first device, a data cluster signal having a signal identifier, a completion marker, and at least one silence interval provided between the signal identifier and the completion marker; receiving, by a second device, the data cluster signal; identifying, by the second device, a signal type and a transmission completion of the signal received; and decoding, by the second device, the silence interval into the data based on the signal type and a duration of the silence interval.
US10051652B2
Methods and systems establish a traffic policy for a personal electronic device based on one or more physical characteristics of the device. In some aspects, a database of traffic policies is maintained. The traffic policies are for accessing a network via a wireless communications link. A network access unit receives a request from a personal electronic device to access the network. The request is analyzed to determine a physical characteristic of the device. A traffic policy is established from the database for the a personal electronic device based, at least in part, on the determined physical characteristic of the device. Transmission of network traffic for the device is then scheduled based at least in part, on the established traffic policy.
US10051651B2
The objective of the present invention is to analyze a network topology in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a node performing wireless communication comprises the steps of: decoding a packet in order to acquire information on peripheral links, for transmitting the packet, from the packet that does not use the node as a source or a destination; and transmitting, to a control node for performing scheduling, a message including the information on the peripheral links. In addition, the present invention includes the above-mentioned embodiment and the other embodiments.
US10051634B2
Wireless communication devices are adapted to facilitate transmission and reception of non-orthogonal communications. In one example, wireless communication devices can encode an amount of data in accordance with information that at least some of the data will be transmitted as part of a non-orthogonal transmission. The wireless communication device may further transmit the encoded data, and the encoded data can be non-orthogonally combined as part of a non-orthogonal transmission. In another example, wireless communication devices can receive a wireless transmission including a plurality of data streams non-orthogonally combined together. The wireless communication device may decode at least one of the data streams. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US10051627B2
A method and an apparatus for channel access in a WLAN system are disclosed. A method by a station (STA) for channel access in a wireless local area network system, the method may comprise: receiving a frame; and determining if a wireless medium is idle using a time interval specified by an Extended Inter-Frame Space (EIFS) before performing a transmission in the wireless medium, wherein the EIFS is set to a dynamic value based on Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC) status of a SIGNAL-A (SIG-A) field of the received frame.
US10051626B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for operating in a television white space (TVWS) network. One example method generally includes receiving, at an apparatus, a message with a field indicating a current version of an unused frequency spectrum map (e.g., a white space map (WSM)), the unused frequency spectrum map indicating channels usable for wireless communications; determining whether the current version of the unused frequency spectrum map is different than a previous version of the unused frequency spectrum map; and using a channel for wireless communications based on the determination. Another example method generally includes accessing a database of available channels for a current location of an apparatus via a neighboring portable or fixed enabling apparatus and enabling one or more portable dependent apparatuses for the wireless communications via one or more of the available channels.
US10051610B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method for performing device-to-device (D2D) communication by an in-coverage user equipment (UE) in a cellular communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a scheduling grant through a downlink control channel from a base station (evolved Node B (eNB)) and transmitting a scheduling assignment (SA) message in an SA region of a D2D communication frame and data in a data region of the D2D communication frame, based on the scheduling grant, wherein the scheduling grant indicates a resource pattern for transmission (RPT) corresponding to a set of resource units or a subset of a resource unit in a time domain and a frequency domain that is used for transmission of the data.
US10051609B2
A base station apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits first information indicating a first configuration, second information indicating a second configuration, and third information indicating a third configuration, in which the first configuration is used to determine a correspondence between a subframe in which a PDCCH is allocated and a subframe in which a PUSCH corresponding to the PDCCH is allocated, in which the second configuration is an element of a configuration set which is restricted on the basis of the first configuration, and is used to determine a correspondence between a subframe in which a PDSCH is allocated and a subframe in which a HARQ-ACK corresponding to the PDSCH is transmitted, and in which the third configuration is an element of a configuration set which is restricted on the basis of the first configuration and the second configuration, and is used to specify a subframe in which the PDCCH is monitored.
US10051605B2
Provided is a wireless communication device which includes a notification information transmitting unit for transmitting, via a wireless communication network, notification information of the wireless communication device, a notification information receiving unit for receiving notification information transmitted from another device, a frequency switching unit for successively switching, at random cycles, a frequency at which the notification information is transmitted or a frequency at which the notification information is received, and a transmission processing unit for performing a data transmission process after transmitting or receiving an acknowledgement to the notification information to/from such other device.
US10051603B1
Methods and systems disclosed herein can help to dynamically adjust page transmission power, and in particular, the transmission power for quick paging bits, depending upon whether a user equipment (UE) is operating as a single radio LTE (SRLTE) device. An exemplary method involves an access network making a determination that a UE is configured to use a single radio system for (a) data communication under a first air interface protocol, and (b) voice calls under a second air interface protocol; and responsively initiating a process to set a transmission power used to page the first UE for a voice call under the second air interface protocol to a higher power level, as compared to a transmission power level utilized to page a second UE configured to use separate radio systems for data communication under the first air interface protocol and voice calls under the second air interface protocol.
US10051602B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for monitoring UE reachability in a wireless communication system. A method for monitoring UE reachability may include receiving, by a Mobility Management Entity, a monitoring request message for UE reachability including a maximum response time from a Home Subscriber Server, detecting, by the MME, the UE reachability if it is expected that paging is able to be transmitted to UE when extended Discontinuous Reception is applied to the UE, and sending, by the MME, a UE reachability notification to a Service Capability Exposure Function before a next paging occasion of the UE, wherein the maximum response time may indicate a time during which the UE maintains a reachable state so that downlink data is reliably delivered to the UE, and wherein an occasion when the UE reachability notification is transmitted may be determined by taking into consideration the maximum response time.
US10051582B2
An improved method and an apparatus for reporting Power Headroom (PH) of a UE are provided. The Power Headroom Report (PHR) method of the present invention includes determining whether to trigger PHR based on a change of Power Management Maximum Power Reduction (P-MPR) between two time points, generating, if PHR is determined to be triggered, Power Headroom, and reporting the Power Headroom information to a base station.
US10051581B2
A method and apparatus may be used to perform efficient network transitions. One or more of Probe Request frames that an AP may receive or process as valid may be modified by including a transmit power for the Probe Request frame. A Probe Request frame may be transmitted at less than full power. BSS transitions may be enhanced by indicating reasons for the transition, security information, or quality of service (QoS) information. Overhead associated with tracking long-sleeping STAs may be managed through the use of multiple values for a maximum idle period in a BSS.
US10051561B2
A machine device (100), a Machine-to-Machine, M2M, server (102) and methods therein are provided, where the machine device (100) connects to a wireless access gateway (GW1) in order to perform an M2M communication. The machine device (100) detects (1:1) a set of reachable wireless access gateways (GW1-GW4) with which the machine device (100) is able to reach for communication using short range wireless technology, and sends (1:2) identifiers of the reachable wireless access gateways to the M2M server (102). The M2M server (102) then sends (1:4) an indication of at least one prioritized wireless access gateway (GW1, GW2) selected (1:3) from the reachable wireless access gateways. Thereby, the machine device (100) is able to connect (1:5) to one of the prioritized wireless access gateway(s) (GW1) for performing the M2M communication provided that this wireless access gateway is available.
US10051555B1
A device and method to control access to a wide area network such as the Internet is described in which specific users connected to an access point, such as a wireless access point, are given a controllable amount of connection performance, in terms of bandwidth, latency and/or packet loss. The bandwidth, latency and/or packet loss to each user may be controlled individually and as users spend more time connected to the access point they may be given less and less connection performance. Such a system may reward new users in favor of users who have spent a long time connected to the access point, which will discourage users from spending long periods of time occupying physical space and accessing an upstream network that would otherwise be available for new users. Connection performance may also cycle through connected users to manage bandwidth. Additionally, performance parameters can be controlled to encourage certain types of activity over others (e.g. video streaming, voice over IP, web browsing, etc.). Optionally a user may be able to reset their performance allocation with a purchase or other activity, such as viewing an advertisement, completing a survey or participating in some other activity.
US10051545B2
Techniques for call handling between a cellular network and a communication service are described. In at least some embodiments, a call refers to a real-time exchange of communication media between different communication endpoints. According to one or more embodiments, techniques described herein determine whether to route a call over a cellular network or to transfer (e.g., hand over) the call from the cellular network to a communication service. This determination can be made based on various policies that consider different call-related criteria.
US10051539B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide an access network offloading method, a device, and a system. The method includes: sending, by UE, a UE identifier and WiFi information of the UE to a base station, where the WiFi information includes a WiFi MAC ID of the UE; and searching, by the UE, for a wireless local area network WLAN signal, when an accessible WLAN network is found, sending an access request including the WiFi MAC ID of the UE to an access point of the WLAN network: WLAN AP, accessing the WLAN network, and enabling the WLAN AP to send the WiFi MAC ID of the UE to the base station, so that the base station performs matching according to the association relationship between the UE identifier of the UE and the WiFi MAC ID of the UE, and starts offloading the UE.
US10051538B2
A method of managing cell reselection for a User Equipment (UE) in an idle mode connected to a wireless network system is provided. The method includes determining system information of available cells on a given frequency, determining the system information from a plurality of cells and frequencies to determine which of the plurality of cells support a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), determining a MBMS Control CHannel (MCCH) of the plurality of cells that support the MBMS, generating a list of cells by prioritizing the plurality of cells that support the MBMS over other frequencies or cells in a ranking order, and reselecting a cell or a frequency supporting the MBMS before starting a MBMS session from among the generated list to be a cell where the MBMS session is provided.
