US10052891B2
The present invention provides a technique that simplifies operations for making appropriate print settings. Accordingly, a terminal apparatus serving as an information processing apparatus according to the present invention acquires, from a printing apparatus, information indicating the sheet type and size of the sheets set in each paper feed tray. Then, the terminal apparatus determines whether the acquired information includes a sheet type that matches a sheet type suitable for an attribute of information selected by a user as a print target. If it is determined that the information includes a sheet type that matches the suitable sheet type, the terminal apparatus generates print data including information designating a paper feed tray containing sheets of the matching sheet type, and transmits the generated print data to the printing apparatus.
US10052883B2
A mobile printing system including a handheld printing device including at least two navigation sensors, a transmitter, a processor, and a print nozzle, and a distance sensing module including at least two distance sensors, the distance sensing module to be mountable to a print media at a distance from the handheld printing device, the distance sensing module to sense positional data of the handheld printing device, wherein the processor determines current, past, and anticipated positions of the handheld printing device based on positional data information received from the distance sensing module and navigation information received from the at least two navigation sensors and controls the handheld printing device to cause print fluid to be dispensed according to a print request and the anticipated positions of the handheld printing device.
US10052880B2
In an example, a valve for a printing fluid supply system is disclosed. In this example, the valve includes two rigid shells to provide connections to a first printing fluid supply cartridge, a second printing fluid supply cartridge and a printhead. Further, the valve includes a diaphragm with sealing elements disposed between the two rigid shells to selectively couple one of the first printing fluid supply cartridge and the second printing fluid supply cartridge to the printhead and seal other printing fluid supply cartridge using the sealing elements.
US10052879B2
There is provided a tank including: a wall defining a liquid storage chamber, the wall including: an upper wall defining an upper end of the liquid storage chamber, a lower wall defining a lower end of the liquid storage chamber, and an erected wall between the upper wall and the lower wall and through which the liquid inside the liquid storage chamber is visible from outside of the tank; an inlet penetrating through the upper wall or the erected wall; and an outlet, wherein the lower wall includes an upper stage wall making contact with the erected wall; a lower stage wall located at a position separated and away from the erected wall and below the upper stage wall; and a connecting wall connecting the upper and lower stage walls; and the outlet is disposed below the upper stage wall.
US10052873B2
An inkjet apparatus capable of achieving a good withstand voltage in a movable part of a piezoelectric element is provided. An inkjet apparatus is provided, wherein the inkjet apparatus comprises: an actuator substrate, partitioning a cavity for accumulating ink; a vibrating film, supported by the actuator substrate and partitioning the cavity; and a piezoelectric element, on the vibrating film, and comprising an upper electrode, a lower electrode, and a piezoelectric film between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; wherein the piezoelectric film extends along a space covering the whole cavity; and the upper electrode is constrained in an inner space of the cavity.
US10052871B2
An inkjet head includes a substrate, a piezoelectric unit disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of piezoelectric elements arranged along a surface of the substrate, and a plurality of pressure chambers, each of the pressure chambers being formed between two adjacent piezoelectric elements, a plurality of lid members, each of which is disposed on two adjacent piezoelectric elements and has a hole connected to one of the pressure chambers, and a nozzle plate disposed on the plurality of lid members and having a plurality of nozzles through which the liquid is discharged, each of the nozzles being connected to one of the holes of the lid members.
US10052870B2
A first substrate including a plurality of supply ports through which a liquid is supplied to a position of an electrothermal conversion element and a second substrate including a common liquid supply chamber from which the liquid is supplied to the plurality of supply ports are coupled together with an intermediate layer therebetween. The intermediate layer includes a first region and a second region having lower thermal conductivity than the first region.
US10052864B2
A controller of a printing apparatus is configured to determine whether there is a stack-full tray, restrict discharging of the printing sheet to the stack-full tray and reduce the number of copies made in the sort printing process, store the page number of the page currently printed in association with a stack-full tray, obtain image data corresponding to the page associated with the stack-full tray onwards when it is determined that the full stack status of the stack-full trays is released, and the obtained print images with making the tray of which status is changed from the full status to the non-full status.
US10052862B2
Intaglio printing press systems for recto-verso intaglio printing of sheets, in particular for the production of banknotes and the like securities, wherein first and second intaglio printing presses are operatively-coupled to one another by a sheet processing and transporting system comprising an automated guided vehicle system for automatically transporting sheets from a sheet delivery station of the first intaglio printing press where recto printing is performed to a sheet feeding station of the second intaglio printing press where verso printing is performed.
US10052858B2
The present apparatus relates to a standardized assembly unit for building objects by utilizing connection elements that mechanically attach together permanently. By utilizing particular surface features and characteristics, such as compressive tabs and interlocking structures, the interlocking units described herein are able to impart structural stability to various objects without the need to provide overlapping layers of material or fasteners. More specifically, utilizing only mechanical linkages and connectors, a collection of interlocking units are utilized to assemble complex objects having high strength, durability and permanence.
US10052856B2
A method of making patterned structured solid surfaces is disclosed that includes filling a structured template with backfill material to produce a structured transfer film, patternwise curing the backfill material to produce cured areas and uncured areas in the structured transfer film, and laminating the structured transfer film to a receptor substrate. The structured template is capable of being removed to form structured and unstructured backfill layers. The structured and unstructured backfill layers may then be blanket cured. The backfill layer can include at least two different materials, one of which can be an adhesion promotion layer. In some embodiments the backfill layer includes a silsesquioxane such as polyvinyl silsesquioxane. The structured transfer film is a stable intermediate that can be covered temporarily with a release liner for storage and handling.
US10052853B2
A polymeric coating composition for use in overlaying at least a portion of a substrate element composed of a plural component polymeric system composed of a reactive blend of at least one first component and at least one second component, wherein the first component essentially of a polymer and/or blend of polymers present in an amount sufficient to impart a predetermined amount of tensile strength, hardness, flexibility and adhesive strength to the resulting polymeric coating, and the second component is an isocyanate or isocyanate quasi-prepolymer. The substrate element is a blast-resistant polymeric material having low surface energy and/or low reactivity at or near the surface of the substrate. Also disclosed is a blast and/or ballistic-resistant construction element composed of a structure having the aforementioned polymeric material thereover. The polymeric material has a substrate matrix containing at least one of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, aramid materials, and the like.
US10052851B2
The fiber-reinforced plastic member includes a continuous variation layer which includes a synthetic resin constituting a base and a plurality of reinforcement fibers embedded in the synthetic resin, and a reinforcing layer which is attached to the continuous variation layer to constitute the fiber-reinforced plastic member for a vehicle and is composed of a synthetic resin constituting the base and a plurality of reinforcement fibers.In particular, the plurality of reinforcement fibers in the continuous variation layer are arranged so as to be inclined with respect to a longitudinal direction of the fiber-reinforced plastic member for a vehicle and angles of the reinforcement fibers with respect to the longitudinal direction of the fiber-reinforced plastic member progressively varying along the longitudinal direction and the plurality of reinforcement fibers in the reinforcing layer are embedded in the synthetic resin and intersecting each other in a reticular pattern.
US10052845B2
A resin composite in which the flatness ratio of cells in a corner section of a core material is 20% or more is provided.
US10052841B2
Construction element for raised floors and the like and manufacturing method thereof, which relates to a construction element for both indoor and outdoor raised floors and the like, characterized in that it is made up of a rigid component reinforced by a polymeric matrix composed of a resin, in a percentage by weight comprised between 80 and 95% of the total weight, combined with a catalyst, the percentage by weight of which being between 5 and 20% of the total weight, which has a filament fiber mesh completely embedded within, the proportion by weight of the embedded mesh being less than 50% relative to the assembly formed by the polymeric matrix plus mesh, and a method for the manufacture thereof. A method for the manufacture of said element is also described.
US10052833B2
A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire including forming a green case by cylindrically winding a tire component member which includes at least one layer of a carcass ply. The green tire is shaped by expanding the green case into a toroidal shape with the supply of a fluid into the green case so that the green case adheres to a tread ring arranged radially outside the green case. The green tire is subjected to vulcanization molding within a mold die. During the shaping of the green tire, the fluid is supplied in accordance with a pressure profile which changes in a stepwise manner. The pressure profile is set such that a former stage pressure which allows the green case to expand to 35% to 40% of a full expansion amount is set lower than a final stage pressure in a final stage.
US10052832B2
Methods of forming a tire 4 directly on a wheel in which the wheel has a conduit which runs between its hub and rim. A mold is placed over the wheel in order to form a cavity between an inner surface of the mold and the wheel's rim. Liquid materials to form the tire 4 are injected into the cavity via the conduit and the wheel spun to distribute the materials throughout the cavity, which materials solidify to form the tire 4 attached to the wheel. The method includes the step of placing a hub cap 6 over a face of the wheel prior to placing the mold and sealing the hub cap 6 to the wheel during the molding process. The tire 4 may have a substantially hollow interior 50 which may include a flexible web 18 sealed within the rim of the wheel by the hub cap 6.
US10052830B2
A film tension control system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a delamination unit installed on a transfer path of a polarizing plate to delaminate a release film from a polarizing film, the polarizing plate including the polarizing film and the release film attached to one surface of the polarizing film, an inspection unit installed on a transfer path of the polarizing film to inspect if impurities are present in an adhesive layer formed on one surface of the polarizing film, a tension indication unit installed on a movement path of the release film to indicate a degree of tension applied to the release film, a re-lamination unit to re-laminate the release film having passed through the tension indication unit on the adhesive layer of the polarizing film having passed through the inspection unit, and a tension adjustment unit installed on the transfer path of the re-laminated polarizing plate to adjust the tension of the optical film and the release film.
US10052817B2
A sealant is provided for use on an aircraft or other vehicle. The sealant may be used with a gasket. The sealant is a perimeter seal that comprises a polyurea member. The polyurea member is a self-curing, two-component mix. It may cure to a hardness in the range of about 40 to 100 (Shore A). It may maintain an adequate peel strength to withstand multiple thermal and pressure cycling, and may have a working life, wherein it may be shaped, of less than about eleven minutes.
US10052809B2
A blow molding machine includes a support member and a moving mechanism that moves the support member to a projecting position a storing position. The blow molding machine includes a first fixed fulcrum shaft, and the support member includes a base end portion rotatably supported by the first fixed fulcrum shaft and a free end portion provided with a first movable fulcrum shaft. The moving mechanism includes a plurality of links connected rotatably to each other, one of the plurality of links being rotatably supported by the movable fulcrum shaft of the support member, and, when the support member is set at the projecting position, the plurality of links are maintained linearly by a first angle fixing tool, thereby enabling the plurality of links to serve as a leg portion that supports the free end portion of the support member.
US10052808B2
An assembly and process for forming a two stage extruded pipe having a central inner sleeve and a pair of outer attached lobes. The central sleeve shaped (also termed a grout receiving tube) is produced in an initial extrusion operation, following which it enters a cross head operation where a pair of outer lobes are attached to cross sectional exterior surface locations according to a second stage extrusion operation so as to be integrally formed therewith. Other steps include cooling of the dual stage extruded pipe, as well as sectioning and stacking the pipe. Additional steps include forming elongated slots or apertures into the central sleeve portion of the finished extrusion, such in non-interfering fashion with the individual passageway defining and lobes.
US10052805B2
A two-stages hydraulic booster device for mold functional components includes a first hydraulic control one-way valve serially connected between the solenoid directional control valve and the pumping chamber of the supercharger via a first oil passage; a second hydraulic control one-way valve serially connected between the solenoid directional control valve and the pressure accumulating chamber of the supercharger via a second oil passage. The solenoid directional control valve simultaneously supplying oil to the first and second hydraulic control one-way valves via the first and second oil passages, respectively, and the pressure for opening the second hydraulic control one-way valve is larger than that of the first hydraulic control one-way valve, thereby moving the back pressure formed in the first oil passage to open the second hydraulic control one-way valve to drive the piston to transform the low pressure oil into high pressure oil to move the mold functional components.
US10052804B2
A cooling plate assembly for an injection molding machine includes a cooling plate and a cooling fluid conduit system in the cooling plate. The cooling fluid conduit system includes a cooling fluid line extending between a cooling fluid inlet and a cooling fluid outlet. A socket is open to a front face of the cooling plate and intersects the first cooling fluid line. A cooling tube is mounted to the cooling plate, and includes a molded-article-receiving nest for receiving and cooling an injection molded article, a spigot received in the socket and blocking the first cooling fluid line, and a cooling tube conduit adjacent the molded-article-receiving nest. The cooling tube conduit extends between a cooling tube fluid inlet connected to the first cooling fluid line upstream of the socket, and a cooling tube fluid outlet connected to the first cooling fluid line downstream of the socket.
US10052801B2
An apparatus for driving a valve pin in an injection molding system, comprising: an actuator having a piston disposed within a master chamber, the piston being slidable upstream and downstream within the master chamber having a seal that forms a seal surface with a complementary interior surface of the master chamber, the seal surface forming opposing upstream and downstream fluid drive chambers, a bleed port extending through the interior surface of the master chamber at a position on the interior surface of the master chamber where the bleed port is: either disposed immediately downstream of the complementary interior surface of the master chamber that forms a seal with the seal surface of the piston and communicates with a downstream fluid drive chamber when the piston is in a fully upstream position, or is disposed immediately upstream of the complementary interior surface of the master chamber that forms a seal with the circumferential seal surface of the piston and communicates with an upstream fluid drive chamber when the piston is in a fully downstream position.
US10052795B2
There is provided with a system [100] for processing plastic wherein, in use, the system is adapted for the frictional heating of the plastic.
US10052791B2
A method of curing concrete including the steps of providing a concrete curing blanket and covering the concrete with the concrete curing blanket to keep the concrete hydrated during the curing process. The concrete and the concrete curing blanket are soaked with water, to thoroughly hydrate the concrete and the concrete curing blanket. The concrete curing blanket includes an absorbent sheet comprising a wicking layer, super absorbent materials, and a tissue layer, with the super absorbent materials being positioned between the wicking layer and the tissue layer; and a vapor barrier bonded to the tissue layer of the absorbent sheet. The vapor barrier has a plurality of perforations.
US10052774B2
A razor accessory that receives a handle of a razor includes a body with a rounded exterior surface and a rectangular channel interior with flat walls to define a rectangular channel from a first end of the body and terminating at a second end of the body and a slit through the body in an axial direction relative to a central axis of the body from the first end of the body toward the second end of the body. The handle of the razor is received by the body with a sliding motion of an end of the handle into the rectangular opening at the first end of the body.
US10052770B2
In one aspect, a vacuum alignment tool for holding and aligning a first fastener with a second fastener is provided. The vacuum alignment tool includes a main body including an end wall having an aperture disposed therein configured to receive at least a portion of the first fastener. The vacuum alignment tool also includes a vacuum receiving portion coupled to the main body. The vacuum receiving portion including a vacuum bore disposed therein, wherein a vacuum channel extends within the main body and within the vacuum receiving portion between the aperture and the vacuum bore.
US10052764B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for an automated platform system. The automated platform system includes a docking station and a personal device connected to an automated robot platform. The automated robot platform includes one or more arms and an adjustable platform surface. The automated robot platform includes one or more imaging devices configured to receive imaging feedback and one or more transportation components coupled to the base. The one or more transportation components are configured to move in multiple directions. The automated robot platform includes one or more data processors that are configured to obtain imaging feedback. The one or more data processors are configured to operate the one or more transportation components to move in multiple directions to a first location based on the imaging feedback, and adjust the adjustable platform surface to a first height and a first angle.
US10052762B2
A robot control apparatus for controlling a robot for gripping two workpieces includes an upper limit value changing unit for changing at least one of the upper speed limit value and the upper acceleration limit value of the robot depending on the type and number of workpieces gripped, and an operation controlling unit for controlling the operation of the robot such that at least one of the speed and the acceleration of the robot does not exceed the changed upper speed limit value and upper acceleration limit value.
US10052756B2
An industrial robot may include a main body; a hand; and an arm having a top end side and a root end side, the top end side being rotatably connected to the hand and the root end side being rotatably connected to the main body. The arm may include a first part having a top end side and a root end side; and a second arm part having a top end side. The hand may be rotatably connected to the top end side of the first arm part. The root end side of the first arm part may rotatably connected to the top end side of the second arm part. The top end side of the first arm part is a reducing-width part where a width gradually narrows in a direction from the root end side of the first top-end-side arm part to the top end side.
US10052746B2
A device for monitoring the pressure within a gas space, which is filled with a gas, preferably nitrogen, and/or is prestressed, of a pressure accumulator of a hydraulically driven percussive mechanism, in particular of a demolition hammer or of a drilling hammer, having a housing in which a piston is mounted, together with an indicator element which extends through the face surface of the housing, in slidingly movable fashion. The piston divides the housing into two chambers, and a first, pressure accumulator-side chamber and a pressure accumulator-side working surface, which is averted from the indicator element, of the piston are operatively connected at least indirectly to the gas space of the pressure accumulator. A second, hydraulics-side chamber and a hydraulics-side working surface, facing toward the indicator element, of the piston are connected to the hydraulic system of the percussive mechanism.
US10052743B1
A portable vice affixed to a work bench comprising a pair of independently positioned jaws for clamping a horseshoe. A hand-operated lever simultaneously controls the interjaw distance of a pair of independent jaws gripping two differently contoured horseshoe surfaces. Two parallel stanchions are disposed symmetrically of each independent jaw pair, with each jaw pair comprising a movable jaw situated above a stationary jaw. A slidable carriage encloses a spring for each independent jaw pair and is retained laterally between the pair of parallel stanchions and vertically between a top spring retaining plate and a bottom carriage plate.
US10052738B2
An embodiment of an apparatus includes a centrifugal drive unit, an arm assembly, an optional dynamic balancing ring, and a workpiece fixture. The arm assembly is operatively connected to the centrifugal drive unit and configured to revolve about a primary axis perpendicular to the arm. The workpiece fixture is mounted to the arm assembly, and is configured to rotate at least one workpiece about at least one secondary axis outboard of the primary axis.
US10052729B2
A work machine includes: a bed having a table positioned on the upper surface thereof; sidewalls positioned to the left and right of the bed and projecting to the rear of the rear surface of the bed; support members for each supporting the bed in relation to a floor surface by using two points on the sidewalls to the left and right of the bed, and using at least one other point; a vertically moving body for moving along a pair of left and right vertical guides positioned in the vertical direction down to the vicinity of the floor surface on the rear surface of the bed; and a vertical drive means for moving the vertically moving body as one of the abovementioned relative movements, and having a pair of left and right feed screws positioned in parallel with the vertical guides.
US10052724B2
A braze composition, brazing process, and brazed article are disclosed. The braze composition includes a MCrAlY alloy at a concentration, by weight, of between 50% and 70%, where M is selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, iron, alloys thereof, and combinations thereof, and a nickel-based alloy at a concentration, by weight, of between 30% and 50%. The brazing process includes forming a braze paste, brazing the braze paste to a portion of a component, and shaping the braze paste to form a brazed article. The brazed article includes a component and a braze composition brazed to the component, the braze composition including a MCrAlY alloy at a concentration, by weight, of between 50% and 70%, where M is selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, iron, alloys thereof, and combinations thereof, and a nickel-based alloy at a concentration, by weight, of between 30% and 50%.
US10052708B2
An arc welding apparatus includes a conductor tube assembly that has a collar assembly with a collar body that is biased by a spring. A consumable assembly is mechanically secured to the conductor tube and displaces the collar body and the collar body imparts a biasing force against the consumable assembly pretensioning the consumable assembly on the conductor tube assembly.
US10052703B2
Disclosed is a wafer slicing apparatus which cuts a silicon ingot to fabricate a silicon wafer, and more specifically, a silicon wafer slicing apparatus cutting the silicon ingot using wire discharge machining is disclosed. The present invention provides a silicon wafer slicing apparatus using wire discharge machining comprising: a water tank which contains an electrolyte; a cutting wire which has a cutting section dipped into the water tank and is transferred by a wire driving means; an ingot transferring unit which includes an electrode on which a silicon ingot, an object to be cut, is fixed, and moves the silicon ingot up and down within the cutting section of the cutting wire; an electrolyte circulating means which circulates and refines the electrolyte stored in the water tank; and a power supply unit which supplies a source voltage to the electrode of the ingot transferring unit and the cutting wire.
US10052700B2
A rotary cutting tool with a longitudinal axis includes a shank portion and a cutting portion defining a length of cut. The cutting portion includes a plurality of blades separated by flutes extending along the length of cut. A first blade forms a first helix angle with respect to the longitudinal axis at the cutting tip. A second blade adjacent the first blade forms a second, different helix angle with respect to the longitudinal axis at the cutting tip. A third blade adjacent the second blade forms a third, different helix angle with respect to the longitudinal axis at the cutting tip. The first, second and third helix angles deviate by at least 2 degrees. The cutting edges of the first, second and third blades have unequal indexing.
US10052697B2
Two cylinder heads are disposed side by side. Upper side intake valve holes of one of the cylinder heads and upper side exhaust valve holes of the other of the cylinder heads are simultaneously machined by a multi-spindle head integrally including intake side tools and exhaust side tools. After moving the one of the cylinder heads upward by a pitch of the intake valves and moving the other of the cylinder heads upward by a pitch of the exhaust valves, remaining intake valve holes of the one of the cylinder heads and remaining exhaust valve holes of the other of the cylinder heads are simultaneously machined.
US10052696B2
A drill chuck assembly. The drill chuck assembly includes a rapid change mechanism configured to retain a drill bit shank inserted therein. The drill chuck assembly includes a body having a bore with a trilobe cross-section that is configured to receive a triangular and hexagonally shaped drill bit shank, interchangeably. The bore includes a slot positioned in each lobe that slidably contains a detent ball therein. A collar is affixed annularly around the body and defines a channel extending around the body. A sleeve is slidably mounted around the body. The sleeve includes a tapered end that is slidably disposed within the channel and has circular apertures that are in communication with the slots of the bore for reception of the detent balls. The sleeve is spring biased towards the collar, which forces the detent balls against an angular wall within the channel. The angular wall in turn forces the detent balls laterally towards a center of the bore, thereby exerting a force on a drill bit shank inserted into the bore and preventing the withdrawal of the shank from the bore. When the bias force of the sleeve is counteracted by sliding the sleeve about its longitudinal axis, the detent balls move outwardly along the angular wall, thereby relieving the force exerted onto the shank by the wall and allowing the shank to be withdrawn.
US10052695B2
The invention relates to a machine tool, in particular a hand held machine tool, which has a tool receiving device that is movable, in particular in an oscillating manner, around an output shaft (2). The tool receiving device is designed to hold a tool device on the machine tool in such a manner that the output shaft and a tool rotation axis substantially coincide. The tool receiving device has at least one torque transmission region (9) and a holding device (4a, 4b). In order to transmit a driving force to the tool device, the torque transmission region has at least two output area regions (9a) that are arranged at a distance from said output shaft and each have a multiplicity of surface points. Here, the tangent planes to said surface points are inclined in regard to an axial plane which includes said output shaft. Furthermore, the tangent planes are inclined in regard to a radial plane which extends perpendicularly to the output shaft. In this way, the output torque is transmitted reliably to the tool device by the machine tool via the tool receiving device.
US10052690B2
A conductive paste contains at least a conductive powder, glass frit, and an organic vehicle. The conductive powder contains a noble metal powder such as an Ag powder and a base metal powder containing Cu and/or Ni, and the base metal powder has a specific surface area of less than 0.5 m2/g. The content of the base metal powder with respect to the total amount of the conductive powder is, in ratio by weight, 0.1 to 0.3 when the base metal powder contains Cu as its main constituent, 0.1 to 0.2 when the base metal powder contains Ni as its main constituent, and 0.1 to 0.25 when the base metal powder contains a mixed powder of Cu and Ni as its main constituent.
US10052678B2
The workpiece conveying apparatus for a pressing machine includes: a rotary base rotatable about a substantially perpendicular axis; a first arm pivotally supported by the rotary base so as to be rockable within a substantially perpendicular plane; a coupler pivotally supported on a distal end side of the first arm so as to be rockable; a second arm having a proximal end side that is mounted to the coupler so as to be rockable; a cross bar mounted to a distal end side of the second arm so as to be rockable within a plane substantially parallel to a rocking plane of the second arm; and a workpiece holding device mounted to the cross bar.
US10052675B2
A method of manufacturing a two-piece food can having improved corrosion resistance is provided, wherein the two-piece food can using a metal sheet coated with a thermoplastic resin and having annular uneven beads and/or a bottom rim. After forming a bottomed cylindrical can body by drawing and ironing, by heating at a temperature higher than the melting temperature of the thermoplastic resin for a predetermined time before forming uneven beads and/or a bottom rim to the can body and quenching within a predetermined time after heating, the inner resin coating hardly peel off during the following formation of uneven beads and/or the bottom rim. As a result, a two-piece food can having excellent corrosion resistance may be obtained.
US10052662B2
Sorting device comprising several sorting carts, which can be moved along a sorting track in a transport direction and in each case are provided with a load receiving device for controlled receipt and delivery of individually packaged goods, with a quantity of discharge points at which individually packaged goods can be specifically delivered according to a respective sorting destination from the sorting carts, wherein each discharge point has a width, wherein the width of at least some discharge points can be adjusted while the sorting device is operating, and method for sorting individually packaged goods using the device.
US10052651B2
A hot melt adhesive supply system is disclosed. The hot melt adhesive supply system includes an outer container defining an upper cavity and a lower cavity. The upper cavity includes an inner container having a top opening to receive unmelted hot melt adhesive pieces and a bottom aperture. The system also includes a dispensing mechanism between the upper cavity and the lower cavity. The dispensing mechanism regulates the dispensing of the unmelted hot melt adhesive pieces from the upper cavity to the lower cavity. The dispensing mechanism includes a base plate and one or more rotating members that rotate to move the unmelted hot melt adhesive pieces through a gap defined between the base plate and the bottom aperture. The system also includes a transfer conduit that communicates the unmelted hot melt adhesive pieces from the lower cavity to a hot melt adhesive melter.
US10052630B2
A microfluidic device comprising one, two or more microchannel structures (101a-h), each of which comprises a reaction microcavity (104a-h) intended for retaining a solid phase material in the form of a wet porous bed. Each of said one, two or more microchannel structures comprises the solid phase material in a dry state together with a bed-preserving agent comprising one or more compounds having bed-preserving activity.
US10052628B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for manipulating fluids. The apparatus may include a microfluidic structure including inlet channels (1 and 2) and outlet channels (306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, and 314) oriented among bifurcated (5), trifurcated (6) and merging junctions (7 and 8). The apparatus splits and merges fluids flowing in the channels to produce successive dilutions of the fluids within the outlet channels. Multiple apparatus may be combined in serial, parallel, combined serial and parallel and/or stacked configurations. One or more apparatus may be used alone or to provide various devices or chambers with the diluted fluids.
US10052624B2
Systems and methods for recharging zirconium phosphate and zirconium oxide are provided. The systems and methods provide for recharging of the zirconium phosphate and zirconium oxide in reusable sorbent modules. The systems and methods include recharging flow paths for recharging zirconium phosphate independently or concurrently.
US10052623B2
An inorganic material for removing a harmful substance from wastewater is provided. The inorganic material includes a plurality of porous silicate particles having a glass phase structure, wherein the plurality of porous silicate particles include silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, barium oxide, cesium oxide, and boron oxide, and have a zeta potential of a negative value at pH of from 1 to 5, and wherein the average pore diameter of the porous silicate particles is in a range of from 3 to 50 nm. Moreover, a method for preparing an inorganic material for removing a harmful substance from wastewater and a method for wastewater treatment are further provided.
US10052620B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst for oxidation reactions, particularly for oxidation of mercaptan dialkyldisulfides and/or dialklypolysulfides with oxygen to alkanesulfonic acids.
US10052618B2
Embodiments of processes for producing propylene utilize a dual catalyst system comprising a mesoporous silica catalyst impregnated with metal oxide and a mordenite framework inverted (MFI) structured silica catalyst downstream of the mesoporous silica catalyst, where the mesoporous silica catalyst includes a pore size distribution of at least 2.5 nm to 40 nm and a total pore volume of at least 0.600 cm3/g, and the MFI structured silica catalyst has a total acidity of 0.001 mmol/g to 0.1 mmol/g. The propylene is produced from the butene stream via metathesis by contacting the mesoporous silica catalyst and subsequent cracking by contacting the MFI structured silica catalyst.
US10052615B2
The present invention is concerned with oxygen storage materials. In particular an oxygen storage material (OSM) is proposed which comprises a certain mixed oxide as the oxygen storage component. The oxygen storage material can be used in conventional manner in three-way catalysts or NOx-storage catalysts for example.
US10052611B2
Provided is a method of preparing a superabsorbent polymer. In the method of preparing the superabsorbent polymer according to the present disclosure, a polymer resulting from polymerization of ethylene-based unsaturated monomers is subjected to a reassembling process by mixing with a compound of a particular Chemical Formula and water. According to the preparation method of the present disclosure, provided is a method of preparing a superabsorbent polymer having improved water holding capacity and a reduced content of residual monomers, thereby improving quality of final polymer products.
US10052603B2
A radial flow reactor is described. It includes a vertically extending vessel, an outer conduit, and a central conduit. At least a portion of the outer conduit and the central conduit comprises a screen. A particle retaining space is defined by at least one of the vessel, the central conduit, and the outer conduit, and it communicates with the screen of the outer conduit and the central conduit. An inlet distribution ring is positioned on the outer conduit. The inlet distribution ring comprises a ring having at least one opening and at least one vertically extending riser tube. One end of the riser tube is sealed to the ring, and the other end is positioned inside the outer conduit.
US10052602B2
The present invention discloses aromatization reactor vessels with hydrogen membrane tubes, and associated aromatization reactor vessel systems. Also disclosed are processes for conducting aromatization reactions utilizing these reactor vessels and systems.
US10052598B2
A mechanism for generating an orbital motion for mixing a fluidic sample. The mechanism may comprise a first and second cogwheel each having a through hole and a plurality of cogs. A drive shaft having a concentric first section and an eccentric second section is guided through a respective through hole of the first and second cogwheel. A coupling body engages part of the cogs to thereby generate the orbital motion of the second cogwheel and a sample holder to be mounted so as to follow a motion of the second cogwheel upon rotating the first section of the drive shaft.
US10052579B2
A dust collector including a cylindrical cyclone tube, a central outlet channel, a swirl generator, and a swirl reflector is disclosed. The cylindrical cyclone tube can include one or more inlets. The central outlet channel includes a lower inlet end and an upper outlet end, wherein the upper outlet end is located above the one or more inlets. The swirl generator can be configured to generate a swirl between the cylindrical cyclone tube and the central outlet channel, the swirl generator configured to encircle the central outlet channel. The swirl reflector can be located near a bottom of the cylindrical cyclone tube and forming a particle chamber there below. A distance between the swirl reflector and the lower inlet end of the central outlet channel can be between ten to fifty percent of the length of the cylindrical cyclone tube from the one or more inlets to the swirl reflector.
US10052573B2
An apparatus for treating water in a reservoir includes a funnel. A support assembly supports the funnel in a lengthwise upright orientation when the funnel is submerged. A water moving arrangement is arranged to move water through the funnel in a direction from an inlet at an upper end of the funnel towards an outlet at lower end of the funnel.
US10052559B2
A game system causes an enemy character that is caused to battle with a player character to appear by implementing a first lottery, and implements a battle between the enemy character that has been caused to appear and the player character. After the battle has started, when a player has performed an operation input that selects one item among a plurality of types of items for acquiring the enemy character, the game system implements a second lottery based on the win probability that corresponds to the type of the selected item and gives the enemy character with which the player character has battled to the player when the player has won the second lottery.
US10052551B2
A system, apparatus, and method for communicating information between a gaming device and a portable electronic device using a multi-functional peripheral device associated with the gaming device are disclosed. The multi-functional peripheral device may include a sensor to detect sensory input from the user and/or the portable electronic device associated with the user to play a game of chance on the gaming device.
US10052548B2
An attachment means for connecting a goalie pad to a skate. Has a string which has elastic characteristics and which is retained substantially at its mid-point by a pad attachment member and which has its two distal ends capped with a hook means and a loop means. The string is wrapped first under and then over the skate (or vice versa) so that the hook and loop means can mate and thus securely retain the lower part of the pad onto the skate.
US10052545B2
One embodiment provides a foldable throwback device comprising a front frame, a base frame, and telescoping angle members. The front frame is adapted to secure a bounce-back surface and is foldable into at least three sections without removal of the bounce-back surface. The base frame is coupled to the front frame by hinge brackets that allow the base frame to fold substantially flat onto the front frame without significant disassembly. Each telescoping angle member extends from the base frame to the front frame, and is adjustable to allow angling the front frame relative to the base frame. Each telescoping angle member may include a rotation-limiting mechanism and a safety mechanism that prevents unintentional detachment.
US10052540B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure describe a frameless basketball backboard assembly and a method for producing a frameless basketball backboard assembly. A mounting structure is attached to one side of the backboard assembly, and a support assembly mounted to the backboard assembly connects the backboard assembly to a base. A rim may be added to a side of the backboard assembly by attaching to the support assembly.
US10052525B2
A golf ball comprising an inner core layer including a thermoplastic material and having a geometric center hardness less than the surface hardness to define a positive hardness gradient. An outer core layer is formed over the inner core. The outer core includes a thermoset rubber composition and has an inner surface hardness less than an outer surface hardness to define a positive hardness gradient. A cover layer is formed over the outer core layer. The cover layer includes an inner cover layer and an outer cover layer. The thermoplastic material of the core includes an acid copolymer of ethylene and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid, optionally a softening monomer comprising alkyl acrylate or methacrylate; a plasticizer; an organic acid or salt thereof; and a cation source present in an amount sufficient to neutralize from about 70 to about 100% of all acid groups present in the material.
US10052522B2
A brake bar assembly having a U-shaped frame, a sliding friction bar positioned on the U-shaped frame near a closed end of the frame, a fixed friction bar attached to an open end of the U-shaped frame, and a lockable center bar assembly positioned on the U-shaped frame between the sliding friction bar and the fixed friction bar having a spring operated locking mechanism which allows the center bar to be releasably pivoted on the frame.
US10052521B1
A self-advancing knee ascender featuring: a piece of webbing; at least two lengths of tubing encased by the piece of webbing; a second piece of webbing attached to the appropriate middle of the at least two lengths of tubing, wherein the second piece of webbing includes a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is arranged to form a webbing loop; a first linking mechanism removably attached to the webbing loop; a mechanical ascender attached to the second end of the second piece of webbing; a cord having a first end and a second end, wherein the cord is inside the at least two lengths of tubing, wherein the cord exits one tube, forms a cord loop, and enters another tube; and a second linking mechanism attached to the cord loop.
US10052515B2
A cam assembly is disclosed which includes a cam having a first cam pivot, a second cam pivot, and a machine shaft guide; a range plate which is engageable with the cam; a belt connected to the cam; and a machine shaft connected to the range plate. The first cam pivot defines the motion of a first arc and the second cam pivot guide defines the motion of a second arc as the cam is adjusted. A method of using a cam assembly is also disclosed which includes engaging an adjustor on a cam; releasing a connection between the cam and a range plate; rotating the cam; releasing the adjustor; and securing a connection between the cam and the range plate.
US10052510B2
Processes for shutting down a regeneration reactor and for removing spent solid from the regeneration reactor may comprise shutting off a feed comprising an ionic liquid to the regeneration reactor, cooling the regeneration reactor, removing at least a portion of the ionic liquid from the regeneration reactor, purging the regeneration reactor with N2 gas, introducing water into the regeneration reactor to form an acidic liquid in the regeneration reactor, and dumping the acidic liquid and the spent solid from the regeneration reactor. The acidic liquid may be neutralized with a basic liquid to provide a neutralized liquid. The spent solid may be separated from the neutralized liquid. In an embodiment, noble metal(s) may be recovered from the spent solid.
US10052503B2
A first agent for oxidative hair dye of the present disclosure includes: an (A) component, which is at least one selected from the group consisting of resorcin, derivatives thereof, and salts thereof, in a content not exceeding 0.15% by mass; a (B) component, which is a coupler such as m-aminophenol, a (C) component, which is a dye intermediate such as p-phenylenediamine in a content between 0.01% by mass and 0.45% by mass; and a (D) component, which is an alkanolamine.
US10052499B2
The present invention relates to a radiopharmaceutical distribution device. Thus, the present invention provides the radiopharmaceutical distribution device comprising: a vial for storing an object selected from radiopharmaceuticals or radioactive isotopes; an object supply unit which checks radioactivity by extracting the object stored inside the vial as much as a set amount so as to temporarily store or discharge the same, and which measures radioactivity of the residual object of the discharged object; a saline solution supply unit which is selectively communicated with the object supply unit so as to discharge a saline solution that is to be mixed with the extracted object; and an injection part for storing the object having a specific radioactivity and discharged from the object supply unit and the saline solution of a set volume discharged from the saline solution supply unit in a mixed state.
US10052497B2
Stimulation of target cells using light, e.g., in vivo, is implemented using a variety of methods and devices. In one example, embodiments involve methods for stimulating target cells using a photosensitive protein that allows the target cells to be stimulated in response to light. In another specific example embodiment, target cells are stimulated using an implantable arrangement. The arrangement includes an electrical light-generation means for generating light and a biological portion. The biological portion has a photosensitive bio-molecular arrangement that responds to the generated light by stimulating target cells in vivo. Other aspects and embodiments are directed to systems and methods for screening chemicals based screening chemicals to identify their effects on cell membrane ion channels and pumps, and to systems and methods for controlling an action potential of neuron (e.g., in in vivo and in vitro environments).
US10052492B2
Systems and methods for the wireless transfer of power between two hermetically sealed devices are described herein. An example system may include a battery package and a hermetically sealed body-implantable electronic device having an electronics package. The battery package may include one or more alignment structures, configured to removably align the battery package with the electronic device, a battery, and a wireless power transceiver. At least the battery and the wireless power transceiver of the battery package may be contained within a hermetic material separate from the electronic device. Power may be wirelessly transferred between the devices by any means, including inductive coupling or capacitive coupling. In some examples, the hermetically-sealed devices may be implanted in a living body.
US10052491B1
Implantable medical devices (IMDs), and methods for use therewith, reduce how often an IMD accepts false messages. Such a method can include receiving a message and measuring a message interval indicative of a length of time between when the message was received and when a preceding message was received. The method can also include determining, based on the measured message interval, whether the message was received within the message window, and determining whether to reject the message based on results thereof. The method can also include adjusting a temporal position of the message window based on the measured message interval. The method can further include determining a quality measure indicative of a quality of the message and/or a quality of a channel over which the message was received, and determining whether to reject the message based on the quality measure.
US10052468B1
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and compositions for treating skin. In some embodiments, the method uses an exfoliation tool. In some embodiments, the method uses an exfoliation tool together with selected skin care agents or compositions.
US10052456B1
The present invention provides a flexible catheter system and method for providing easier access and delivery of therapeutics and or devices via the human vasculature. The flexible catheter system comprises a luer connector attached to a flexible catheter body by a proximal shaft. The method includes the steps of providing a patient in need of an interventional procedure, obtaining a flexible catheter system, inserting the flexible catheter system into the patient through the right radial artery located in the right arm of the patient, and tracking the flexible catheter body from the right radial artery to the heart of the patient.
US10052451B2
A venturi connector includes a housing having a mixing chamber defined therein and at least one window that is in fluid communication with the mixing chamber and is open to atmosphere to allow air to be entrained into the mixing chamber. The connector includes a nozzle actuator member includes a body having a plurality of discrete nozzles formed therein. The nozzles are defined by different sized venturi orifices through which gas flows, thereby allowing the concentration of the gas delivered to the patient to be varied. The nozzle actuator member is disposed within one window formed in the housing between the gas port and the mixing chamber such that the position of the nozzle actuator member within the housing can be adjusted so as to position one of the discrete nozzles into the gas flow path, thereby controlling the flow rate of the gas into the mixing chamber and ultimately the concentration of gas delivered to the patient.
US10052449B2
An electrically conductive plastic (ECP) material can be used to heat water in a reservoir of a respiratory humidifier to encourage heating and/or humidification of gases passing through the respiratory humidifier. The electrically conductive plastic material can at least in part overmould the base and/or walls of the chamber and/or the reservoir of the respiratory humidifier. The reservoir can also partially or fully be formed from the electrically conductive plastic material. Furthermore, the humidification system can be configured to create substantially equal or differential heating of water in the reservoir.
US10052448B2
A patient interface structure for delivery of respiratory therapy to a patient includes a front plate configured to conform to the shape of the patient's face; a mouth cushion defining a breathing chamber and provided to the front plate and configured to seal around the patient's mouth; and a nasal cushion configured to seal the patient's nasal airways. The nasal cushion is supported by the mouth cushion, does not contact a bridge of the patient's nose in use, and extends at least partially into the breathing chamber. A patient interface system includes a patient interface structure and a patient interface structure positioning system configured to position, stabilize and secure the patient interface structure in sealing engagement with the patient's face.
US10052437B2
A syringe packaging system including a shell for enclosing a pre-filled syringe is disclosed. The shell includes a first portion having a proximal end and a distal end having a disk-shaped bottom portion; and a second portion having a proximal end and a distal end. With the first portion engaged with the second portion to form the shell, the proximal end of the first portion and the proximal end of the second portion together define a syringe flange having a top wall that defines a shell proximal aperture, a bottom wall, and a sidewall.
US10052436B2
A medicament injection device arranged to receive a replaceable container subassembly includes front and rear housings releasably connectable to each other. A reloadable drive mechanism is accommodated in the rear housing for acting on the plunger of a replaceable container subassembly for expelling medicament. A needle hider front is slidably arranged within the front housing. A needle shield remover is arranged to connect with a needle shield of the replaceable container subassembly and to be removably inserted into a proximal end of the front housing through the needle hider front. The needle shield remover is adapted to interact with the reloadable drive mechanism such that a user can reload the drive mechanism.
US10052430B2
A pressure relieve valve for cardio pulmonary bypass responsive to abnormal pressure changes due to kinks in conduits used with the valve. In this situation, a principal flow path through a duckbill valve can be bypassed by positive and negative secondary flow paths for pressure relief. The secondary flow paths exist using umbrella valves of opposite orientation blocking holes in a flange separating inlet and outlet extensions of a tubular central body housing the duckbill valve. Each umbrella valve is throttled with a nipple that moderates flow in each of the secondary flow paths for slowing pressure equalization.
US10052425B2
Extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus with reservoir status lights and methods of monitoring reservoir status using the same are described. The extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus include a plurality of reservoir scales (30), each of which is configured to weigh a reservoir (32) used in connection with the extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus. A plurality of reservoir status lights (40) are provided, with one or more of the reservoir status lights (40) associated with one of the reservoir scales (30). The one or more reservoir status lights (40) associated with one of the reservoir scales (30) emit light from a location that is closer to their associated reservoir scale than to any other reservoir scale of the extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus.
US10052424B2
Blood treatment/dialysis systems are disclosed. The systems include a water treatment unit, preferably of the reverse osmosis type, whose outlet has connected thereto a water supply line provided with a number of branch connections having fluidly coupled thereto blood treatment/dialysis machines in a selective manner, and a drain line through which exhausted blood treatment fluid can be discharged from fluidly coupled blood treatment/dialysis machines. Also disclosed is a machine-external heat exchanger, which is connected to the water supply line upstream of the branch connections on one side and to the drain line on the other side.
US10052419B2
To provide a simple embodiment of a rotor (2) for a fluid pump which is nevertheless very flexible in handling and compressible, in accordance with the invention a conveying blade is provided having at least two struts (12, 13, 14) and a membrane spanned between them in the expanded state, wherein the struts each have at least one joint, in particular more than one joint, which enables an angling in a first direction in a first movement plane and bounds an overelongation beyond an elongation angle of in particular 180° in the opposite second direction. In particular when a plurality of joints (15, 16, 17) are provided at the struts, they, and with them the conveying blades, are particularly flexible for simple compressibility.
US10052418B2
Methods and systems for an improved feedback milk extraction system are described. According to aspects, the system may communicate with various electronic devices and/or server components to exchange data and perform certain functionalities. The functionalities may include providing visual and audio feedback to a user, supporting unique kit identification as well as associated user profiles and preferred configuration settings, detecting and responding to leaks having various sizes during operation of the breastpump, controlling operation of the breastpump in response to detected leaks and the detected type and/or magnitude of the leak, preemptively contacting customers if a fault condition is detected or imminent, enabling effective labeling of collection containers, and determining volume and flow of expressed breastmilk.
US10052412B2
Due to the size and complexity of tissues such as the spinal cord and articular cartilage, specialized constructs incorporating cells as well as smart materials may be a promising strategy for achieving functional recovery. Aspects of the present invention describe the use of an electroactive, or piezoelectric, material that will act as a scaffold for stem cell induced tissue repair. Embodiments of the inventive material can also act alone as an electroactive scaffold for repairing tissues. The piezoelectric material of the present invention acts as a highly sensitive mechanoelectrical transducer that will generate charges in response to minute vibrational forces.
US10052408B2
Ionically cross-linked compositions containing carboxypolysaccharides, polyalkylene oxides, polyhydroxyl organic anions, optionally divalent cations, and aqueous media are provided. Methods for manufacturing ionically cross-linked compositions of carboxypolysaccharides, polyalkylene oxides, polyhydroxyl organic anions, optionally divalent cations, and aqueous media are also provided. Such compositions can be used by placing then in proximity to a tissue in need of lubrication or for prevention of adhesions and adhesion reformation.
US10052407B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a multi-layer collagen scaffold. The method generally comprises the steps of: preparing a first suspension of collagen and freezing or lyophilizing the suspension to provide a first layer; optionally preparing a further suspension of collagen and adding the further suspension onto the layer formed in the previous step to form a further layer, and freezing or lyophilizing the layers, wherein when the layer formed in the previous step is formed by lyophilization the lyophilized layer is re-hydrated prior to addition of the next layer; optionally, repeating the aforementioned step to form one or more further layers; and preparing a final suspension of collagen and pouring the final suspension onto the uppermost layer to form a final layer, and freeze-drying the layers to form the multi-layer collagen composite scaffold.
US10052405B2
This invention relates to a biodegradable implant including magnesium, wherein the magnesium contains, as impurities, (i) manganese (Mn); and (ii) one selected from the group consisting of iron (Fe), nickel (Ni) and mixtures of iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni), wherein the impurities satisfy the following condition: 0<(ii)/(i)≤5, and an amount of the impurities is 1 part by weight or less but exceeding 0 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the magnesium, and to a method of manufacturing the same.
US10052404B2
The invention provides a biocompatible component having a surface intended for contact with living tissue, wherein the surface comprises particles of metal oxide, said particles having an average particle size of less than 100 nm.
US10052403B2
Compositions of, methods of making, and methods of using alkaline earth phosphate bone cements are disclosed.
US10052401B2
To provide an absorbent article that has a high absorption speed, is unlikely to cause a liquid to remain on a skin-contacting surface, has excellent dry feeling, and is unlikely to cause excreted body fluid to return. The present invention provides an absorbent article comprising an absorber composed of at least one absorbent layer, wherein a water-absorbent resin powder meeting the following requirements (a) to (d) is disposed in an uppermost layer of the absorber: (a) a bulk density: 0.45 g/ml to 0.62 g/ml; (b) an absorption speed by a vortex method: 20 seconds to 50 seconds; (c) a liquid-passing speed under load: 10 seconds or less; and (d) a moisture absorption blocking ratio: 5% or less.
US10052397B2
The present invention is generally related to a device and method for sanitizing a medical instrument with ozone, in particular the invention relates to a system, method and a device for sanitizing a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device. The device has an ozone compartment, an ozone operating system and one or more ozone distribution lines that distribute ozone to a continuous positive airway pressure device. The device may further include a heater adapter unit to connect heating systems in CPAP devices while distributing ozone to sanitize the CPAP device in accordance with the present invention.
US10052389B2
The present disclosure relates to a polymeric system for release of an active agent, comprising a first polymeric phase containing the active agent, the first polymeric phase forming discrete regions of a set size range and being dispersed within a second polymeric phase comprising a cross-linked polymer-phenol conjugate for release of the active agent therein. The present disclosure further provides an injectable hydrogel comprising the disclosed polymeric system, a carrier for delivering a biologically active substance or a drug comprising the injectable hydrogel, and a method for producing the disclosed polymeric system.
US10052380B2
The compound N-(4-{[4-amino-2-butyl-1H-imidazo[4,5-c]quinolin-1-yl]oxy}butyl)octadecanamide is a useful drug compound for enhancing immune response and can be used, for example, as a vaccine adjuvant and a cancer treatment.
US10052377B2
The present invention relates to methods of inducing or enhancing an immune response against an immunogen in a subject. The invention further includes isolated nucleic acid vaccines, cellular vaccines, fusion proteins, expression vectors, vaccines, and immunogenic compositions for use therein.
US10052372B2
A method of treating a cancer in a subject is disclosed, comprising: (1) isolating T cells from a subject; generating or expanding a population of T cells specific for a virus by a method comprising: stimulating T cells by culture in the presence of antigen presenting cells (APCs) presenting a peptide of the virus, wherein 10 to 25% of the media in which the cells are cultured is conditioned media obtained from a stimulation culture comprising T cells and APCs presenting a peptide of the virus; and (3) administering the generated or expanded population of T cells to a subject. Also disclosed are methods for generating or expanding a population of T cells specific for a virus.
US10052371B2
Provided herein are compositions comprising substantially non-viable Gram-negative bacterial organisms that have a substantial reduction in endotoxin activity and/or pyrogenicity and methods for treating a cancer using the same. Also provided are methods for treating cancer provided herein, comprising administering to a mammal diagnosed with cancer, substantially non-viable Gram-negative bacteria having a substantial reduction in endotoxin activity and/or pyrogenicity, in an amount sufficient to inhibit growth or metastasis of the cancer. An additional method is provided comprising administering viable or non-viable Gram-negative bacterial organisms that have a genetic defect that results in a substantial loss of lipopolysaccharide within the outer membrane of the bacteria. Further provided are methods for reducing endotoxin activity and/or pyrogenicity in Gram-negative bacteria comprising treatment with polymyxin and glutaraldehyde.
US10052355B2
The invention relates to fungal cells and spores, as well as extracts of either, for use, in particular, in prevention or treatment of Chlamydia, or Helicobacter pylori or other infections, inflammation, inflammatory, lysosomal, acidic, SOD—or IgG or other immunoglobulin—peroxidases or hydrogen peroxide induced or other forms of oxidative damage, atherosclerosis, heart disease, stomach, intestinal and liver inflammatory conditions and their complications, promoting or stimulating regeneration or healing of wounds, burns, ulcers, or other forms of damaged or aged tissues, or in reducing elevated cholesterol and/or triglycerides levels In a preferred instance, the fungal cells or spores are those used in the manufacture of fungal fermented cheeses or other food stuff or beverages, particular fungal blue or white cheeses.
US10052353B2
Species of human-derived bacteria belonging to the Clostridia class have been shown to induce accumulation of regulatory T cells (Treg cells) in the colon and suppress immune functions. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these bacteria can be used to prevent and treat immune-mediated diseases such as autoimmune diseases.
US10052346B2
Methods are presented for treating cancers and hematopoietic stem cell disorders, comprising administering to a subject with a cancer or hematopoietic stem cell disorder who is receiving a treatment regimen, a heparin derivative capable of inhibiting, reducing, abrogating or otherwise interfering with the binding of CXCL12 to CXCR4, wherein the cancer or hematopoietic stem cell disorder is one in which interaction of CXCL12 with CXCR4 privileges the cancer or disordered HSCs against therapeutic intervention. In preferred embodiments, the heparin derivative is a substantially 2-O, 3-O-desulfated heparin derivative.
US10052342B2
Disclosed herein are nucleosides, nucleotide analogs, methods of synthesizing nucleotide analogs and methods of treating diseases and/or conditions such as a Filoviridae virus infection with one or more nucleosides and/or nucleotide analogs.
US10052338B2
Oral dosage forms of osteoclast inhibitors, such as neridronic acid, in an acid form or a salt form can be used to treat or alleviate pain or related conditions, such as allodynia associated with complex regional pain syndrome.
US10052329B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for the prevention of HSV infection in an HSV seronegative individual.
US10052324B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for promoting healthy aging of skin, the treatment of skin disorders, the treatment of cardiovascular disorders, the treatment of renal disorders, the treatment of angiogenesis disorders, such as cancer, treatment of tissue damage, such as non-cardiac tissue damage, the treatment of evolving myocardial infarction, and the treatment of various other disorders, such as complications arising from diabetes with the compounds and compositions of the invention. Other disorders can include, but are not limited to, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic neuropathy, diabetic retinopathy, infections of the skin, peripheral vascular disease, stroke, and the like.
US10052316B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of conditions related to mitochondrial function. In various aspects, the present invention comprises administering one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of epicatechin, an epicatechin derivative, catechin, a catechin derivative, nicorandil, and a nicorandil derivative in an amount effective to ameliorate mitochondrial toxicity caused by administration of a chemical, food, or drug.
US10052314B2
Described herein are methods of treating non-metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer with anti-androgens.
US10052311B2
The invention relates to the use of a pan-PPAR agonist, or of a pharmaceutical composition containing said agonist, for the treatment of a fibrotic condition.
US10052310B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to compositions with compounds that inhibit Separase activity. In additional embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to methods of treating a tumor in a subject by administering one or more compositions of the present disclosure to the subject.
US10052309B2
The present disclosure provides compositions including a bis-cyclic guanidine compound, pharmaceutical compositions including a bis-cyclic guanidine compound, methods of treatment of a condition (e.g., bacterial infection) or disease, methods of treatment using compositions or pharmaceutical compositions, and the like.
US10052306B2
Compounds that selectively negatively modulate NMDA receptors containing an NR1/NR2B subunit, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of treating a disease using the compounds are disclosed.
US10052296B2
Formulations, methods of manufacturing, methods of stabilizing, kits, and uses as medicament are provided, for example for the treatment of pain. The formulations can comprise gabapentin optionally combined with at least one non-opioid pain drug in an aqueous carrier. The pharmaceutical formulation can have a pH of about 2.0 to about 10.0. The at least one non-opioid pain drug can be acetaminophen. The components can be included in any amount suitable for purposes of obtaining properties desirable for an injectable infusion, for example an intravenous infusion.
US10052281B2
A dysphagia improving composition characterized in that a substance having an inhibitory action on an angiotensin converting enzyme, which is a degrading enzyme of substance P, is administered locally in a dosage not influencing blood pressure, and a pharmaceutical for improving dysphagia containing the composition.
US10052278B2
A method of treating a person's skin comprising topically applying to skin a composition that includes an effective amount of a hydrolyzed algae extract that includes an exopolysaccharide from Halymenia durvillei and an effective amount of an exopolysaccharide from Vibrio alginolyticus. Topical application of the composition can decrease skin permeability, increase filaggrin production, increase skin moisture, increase occludin production, and/or decrease TNF-α production.
US10052277B2
Compositions are provided that provide release of fragrance over an extended period of time. The compositions comprise a hydrophilically-modified cross-linked silicone elastomer and an acrylic rheology modifier.
US10052275B2
Disclosed is a self-reversible reverse latex including: a) 25-80% by mass of a cross-linked anionic polyelectrolyte (P), resulting from the polymerization, for 100 mole percent: i)—of a molar proportion ≥30% and ≤95% of monomeric units from at least one monomer including a free, partially- or totally-salified strong acid function; and ii)—of a molar proportion >0% and ≤5% of at least one monomer with diethylenic or polyethylenic cross-linking; b) 0.5-10% by mass of a terpolymer of stearyl methacrylate, pentacosaethoxylated behenyl methacrylate and N,N-dimethylacrylamide, resulting from the polymerization, for 100 mole percent: of 80-95 mole percent of stearyl methacrylate, of 2.5-10 mole percent of N,N-dimethylacrylamide, and of 2.5-10 mole percent of pentacosaethoxylated behenyl methacrylate, c) 5-40% by mass of at least one oil, and d) 0.1-40% by mass of water; method of preparing same and use thereof as a thickener.
US10052274B2
Disclosed is a foam booster that is capable of producing or increasing the amount of foam in any given composition. The foam booster includes a saccharide blend having 30 wt. % to 50 wt. % of an aldohexose or mixture of aldohexoses, 20 wt. % to 55 wt. % of a ketohexose or mixture of ketohexoses; and 10 wt. % to 20 wt. % of a disaccharide or mixture of disaccharides.
US10052263B2
A pacifying cleaning device is comprised, generally, of an elongated and rounded nipple portion attached to a guard portion, a set of bristles protruding from a raised lip displacer located atop the guard portion and located about the base of the nipple portion, and facing generally in the direction of the nipple portion, and a ring attached to the guard portion on the other side. The nipple portion of the pacifying device is inserted by a caregiver into an infant's mouth. The infant sucks on the nipple thereby becoming pacified. As the infant sucks on the nipple, the lip displacer acts to subtly separate an infant's lips so that the bristles attached to the lip displacer can work their way forward into the infant's mouth, between and adjacent to the infant's teeth and/or against the gums. The action of the bristles moving against the teeth and gums serve to clean them, removing contaminants and leaving the infant's teeth much cleaner and free of bacteria than they otherwise would be.
US10052255B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure include a deep tissue massager for single-hand operation. The deep tissue massager may include a support structure, at least one extendable pad pole adjustably and rotatably attached to and extending from the support structure, and a roller pad covering at least a portion the extendable pad pole, wherein the extendable pad pole and the roller pad are configured to be rolled against a user's muscle, releasing tension or knots in the muscle and returning the muscle closer to a relaxed state. The support structure may be, for example, a base platform with a support tower and main tower extending therefrom, a wall mountable rail, a portable rail, or a j-cup.
US10052253B2
A support unit is connected to a shaft of a main wheel and thus is always maintained in parallel to or at a predetermined angle to a road surface, independently of an inclination angle of a main body. Accordingly, an incline estimating unit regards an inclination angle θ3 being a value in an inclination sensor as being equal to an inclination angle θ2 of the road surface (or in a case where the support unit is inclined a predetermined angle to the road surface, an angle from θ3 to the predetermined angle is subtracted from or added to the crossing angle) and outputs the estimated inclination angle θ2 of the road surface to a target inclination angle determining unit.
US10052248B1
An adjustable wheelchair headrest system to provide wheelchair users with the ability to control their headrest without assistance form another individual. Some wheelchair users are unable to adjust their headrests without assistance, and as a result, have no control over their head and neck positioning throughout the day. The system provides wheelchair users with a multi-directional adjustable headrest that may be controlled through a mobile device. The system includes a universal mounting system and manually adjustable starting positions for each linear translation and rotational assembly, which allows the system to easily mount to any existing wheelchair. The system enables users to adjust their headrest to suit any situation (driving, watching a movie, eating, etc.). Wheelchair reliant individuals can now enjoy day-to-day comfort, control their own upper body posture, and perform additional tasks without assistance.
US10052247B2
This invention provides a wheelchair with four wheel independent suspension and modular seating, allowing for customized seat selection and a variable ride. It includes a chair assembly, a chassis assembly and a suspension assembly. The chair assembly includes a seat; a seat mount; a seat angle adjuster; and a pillar. The chassis assembly includes a chassis; and a handle assembly. The suspension assembly includes a forward suspension assembly and a rear suspension assembly. In another embodiment, the wheelchair includes a chair assembly with handles, a main cross beam and a suspension spring assembly.
US10052243B2
One or more fastener tabs using particular spunlace materials are described. The fastener tabs find wide application as closure systems and can be used in products such as in disposable diapers.
US10052241B2
A disposable absorbent article utilized for absorption and containment of urine and other body exudates may incorporate components that may be detached from the article after use to provide disposal options based upon the user's preferences and circumstances, such as flushing down a toilet or septic tank, composting, recycling, or disposing in a landfill. Sanitary grips and sanitary gap may provide sanitary placements to detach the article. Ripping features incorporated along the top liner, back liner, or outer liner enclosure may also be used to detach the article. A removable liner may be detached from the top liner or outer liner enclosure. The absorbent core may be released after the article has been detached. To reduce the risk of clogging the toilet, a membrane may be utilized to create a barrier between the absorbent core and high-absorbency material to obstruct the high-absorbency material from being released and flushed.
US10052233B2
The disclosure provides a protective visor applicable to multiple operation environments for dust prevention, anti-shock glasses, chemical defense and ray radiation protection. The protective visor comprises a headband, a face shield, protective goggles, a light shading screen, a light grid and a housing, which are connected to each other. The light shading screen and the light grid constitute a light refraction and transmission device for refracting and transmitting the light, which includes a light aperture processed to have a curved surface and located at the front and upper end portion of the housing. The light aperture has a serrated lattice shutter structure, and the light shading screen is disposed at the outer side of the light aperture. The protective visor can effectively prevent foreign splash, and absorb radiant heat and certain ultraviolet rays to protect an operator's face.
US10052230B2
A steerable laser probe may include a handle, an actuation structure of the handle, a housing tube, an optic fiber, and an optic fiber sleeve. The housing tube may have a first housing tube portion having a first stiffness and a second housing tube portion having a second stiffness. The second stiffness may be greater that the first stiffness. The optic fiber may be disposed within an inner bore of the handle, the optic fiber sleeve, the actuation structure, and the housing tube. The optic fiber sleeve may enclose at least a portion of the optic fiber and the optic fiber sleeve may be disposed within the actuation structure and the housing tube. A compression of the actuation structure may be configured to curve the housing tube and the optic fiber.
US10052219B2
This invention relates to an elongate medical device, with a distal end to be advanced into the body of a patient and then withdrawn from the body and an elongate shaft connecting the distal end with a proximal end that remains outside the body, the shaft extending in use through a hole in the skin of the body characterized by a slider, captivated on a portion of the length of the shaft, which is capable of lining the said hole, as the shaft is advanced and withdrawn relative to said hole and the slider in the hole, said slider having a maximum outer diameter that is substantially the same as or Jess than a maximum outer diameter of the distal end.
US10052218B2
In an aspect of some embodiments there is provided apparatuses and methods including a sleeve expander capable of covering with an implantable sleeve an exterior of a bodily vessel, along a chosen length thereof, the sleeve expander configured to maintain at least a portion of the implantable sleeve in an expanded size greater than a cross sectional dimension thereof when in apposition to the exterior. In some embodiments of the present invention, the apparatus further includes a cutting mechanism configured to cut down the implantable sleeve and/or external fixating means configured to fixate a covering section of the implantable sleeve to a corresponding covered section of the bodily vessel.
US10052211B2
A prosthetic disc for insertion between adjacent vertebrae includes a core having upper and lower curved surfaces, upper and lower plates, and peripheral restraining structure on at least one of the upper plate, the lower plate and the core. Each plate has an outer surface which engages a vertebra and an inner curved surface which slides over the curved surface of the core. The peripheral restraining structure serves to hold the core against a curved surface of at least one of the plates during sliding movement of the plates over the core.
US10052210B2
Dimensionally adjustable spinal prostheses are adjustable in an axial or superior to inferior dimension such that spinal prostheses may assume variations in height. The height adjustable spinal prostheses are characterized by first and second portions that are configured for adjustable coupling with one another. Spatial adjustment between the first and second portions is provided by an adjustment assembly. The adjustment mechanism preferably, but not necessarily, provides infinite adjustment over a minimum prosthesis height to a maximum prosthesis height. In one form, first and second ends of the height adjustable spinal prostheses are configured to receive an endplate. The endplates aid in attachment and/or anchoring of the spinal prosthesis within the spine. The endplates may be fashioned in various configurations such as circular or anatomical. In one form, the adjustment assembly utilizes rotational motion for varying the axial position of one prosthetic portion relative to the other prosthetic portion. Rotational movement of an adjustment mechanism of the adjustment assembly is translated into axial movement of one prosthetic portion relative to the other prosthetic portion. In another form, the adjustment mechanism is a screw and gearing assembly. In yet another form, the adjustment mechanism is a rack and pinion assembly.
US10052193B2
A method includes forming a conjunctival incision in a patient's eye, attaching a synthetic flap to the patient's eye within the conjunctival incision, forming a scleral tunnel underneath the synthetic flap, the scleral tunnel extending from an exterior of a sclera to an anterior chamber of the patient's eye, and closing the conjunctival incision.
US10052180B1
A system and method for creating a model of a patient's mandible and any teeth supported from the mandible and manipulating the mandible relative to anatomical features of the patient's maxilla. The system uses markers positioned on the mandible and on the maxilla to create a functional mandibular axis that approximates an axis through the condyles of the patient. The functional mandibular axis and geometric and anatomical information about the patient's upper and lower jaw are then used to create prostheses for the patient. The system is also used for making corrections to the prosthesis.
US10052179B2
A multi-unit dental implant system including a dental implant, a straight abutment, an angled abutment, and a plurality of copings or other components configured to universally fit on the cone-section of the straight abutment and the cone-section of the angled abutment.
US10052177B2
A placement jig for locating an orthodontic appliance on a tooth is provided with a cavity formed in a jig body and conforming to the contour of an occlusal portion a tooth crown, which cavity is coated with a releasable adhesive to hold the jig to the tooth as the appliance is bonded to the tooth. Connecting structure is fixed to the jig body. In certain embodiments, at least two jig-locating areas shaped to respectively conform to areas on the occlusal surfaces of two different teeth of a group are machined into the machinable material, and appliance receiving structures are also machined on each jig body, each for holding an orthodontic appliance in a fixed position and orientation relative to the jig body. The jig bodies for placing orthodontic appliances on the teeth of an individual patient are preferably formed of a single piece of machinable material. A method and an apparatus for forming the jig bodies are provided.
US10052165B2
A method of jointed device movement inside a body comprising: measuring movement of at least one input object portion; mapping the measured input object portion movement to a jointed device portion movement; and moving the device portion according to mapped measured movements.
US10052163B2
The present disclosure relates to system(s) and method(s) for assisting a surgeon to operate a surgical device. The system is configured to receive real-time spatial data corresponding to a set of movable arms of a surgical device. In one embodiment, each tag may be enabled to capture the real-time spatial data by a set of sensors deployed on each tag with precise coordinate markings. Further, the system receive reference spatial data corresponding to each of the set of movable arms pertaining to the surgical device. The system is configured to compare the real-time spatial data with the reference spatial data to generate a matching score corresponding to each movable arm. The system is configured to identify one or more movable arms, from the set of movable arms with a matching score greater than a predefined threshold score and generate an alert corresponding to the one or more movable arms.
US10052161B2
The present invention relates to compensating for brain shift in catheter trajectory planning. First brain shift information is determined from an initial brain image dataset, an initial planning dataset, a patient orientation dataset, and first burr hole dataset. The brain image dataset is updated based on the first brain shift information and a trajectory of a first catheter is updated based on the updated brain image dataset. For a subsequent catheter placement, subsequent brain shift information is determined based on the updated brain image dataset, the patient orientation dataset, and a subsequent burr hole dataset. The brain image dataset is updated again based on the subsequent brain shift information. The re-updated brain image dataset is utilized to update trajectories of the subsequent catheter as well as any preceding catheters.
US10052159B2
Systems and methods for wearable injection guides are described, which include: acquiring one or more digital images of a body region of an individual with at least one image capture device; creating a digitally rendered model of a wearable injection guide from the one or more digital images of the body region of the individual; adding one or more digitally rendered fiducials indicative of at least one treatment parameter to the digitally rendered model of the wearable injection guide; and forming the wearable injection guide from the digitally rendered model of the wearable injection guide, the formed wearable injection guide including one or more fiducials corresponding to the one or more digitally rendered fiducials on the digitally rendered model of the wearable injection guide.
US10052153B2
A system for controlling delivery of ablation energy by an ablation catheter to tissue in a body is provided. The system includes an electronic control unit configured to determine, responsive to a measurement signal from the ablation catheter, a value for a characteristic associated with the delivery of ablation energy to the tissue. In one embodiment, the characteristic is the degree of contact between the ablation catheter and the tissue. The unit is further configured to generate a control signal, responsive to the determined value of the characteristic, to control an amount of energy delivered from an ablation delivery element on the ablation catheter to the tissue. The amount of energy varies in response to the determined value of the characteristic when the determined value of the characteristic meets a predetermined condition relative to a threshold value for the characteristic.
US10052148B2
A tissue ablation system comprises an ablation source, such as an RF ablation source, configured for generating a common power signal, and a power multiplexor configured for splitting the power signal into first and second power signals, substantially attenuating the second power signal relative to the first power signal to create nominal and attenuated power signals, and sequentially delivering the nominal power signal to each tissue ablation probe, while delivering the attenuated power signal to the remaining ablation probes to which the nominal power signal is currently not delivered.
US10052142B2
The invention relates to a bone plate assembly for use in orthopedic or trauma surgery. The bone plate assembly includes a plate member having a top side and a bottom side at least one passage extending from the top side to the bottom side; wherein the at least one passage includes a first bore with a first end open towards the top side and a second end, a seat portion configured to receive the head of the bone anchor; and wherein the first bore comprises a first central axis and the seat portion comprises a second central axis, and wherein the first central axis and the second central axis intersect each other within the passage; and a second bore open towards the bottom side.
US10052138B2
A method of implanting a spinal implant device. The method includes removing a portion of a superior spinolaminar junction and an inferior spinolaminar junction. The method includes removing a portion of each facet joint. The method includes providing the spinal implant device including a fusion cage having a superior saddle portion, an inferior saddle portion and opposing cage ends. The method includes positioning the fusion cage between spinous processes with the superior saddle portion receiving the superior spinolaminar junction where the portion of the superior spinolaminar junction having been removed, the inferior saddle portion receiving the inferior spinolaminar junction, and opposing cage ends respectively contacting the opposing facet joints.
US10052135B2
The disclosure discloses methods, devices, systems and kits for repairing, replacing and/or augmenting natural facet joint surfaces and/or facet capsules. An implantable facet joint device of one embodiment comprises a cephalad facet joint element and a caudal facet joint element. The cephalad facet joint element includes a member adapted to engage a first vertebra, and an artificial cephalad bearing member. The caudal facet joint element includes a connector adapted for fixation to a second vertebra at a fixation point and an artificial caudal bearing member adapted to engage the cephalad bearing member. The artificial caudal bearing member is adapted for a location lateral to the fixation point. In another embodiment, an implantable facet joint device comprises a cephalad crossbar adapted to extend mediolaterally relative to a spine of a patient, the crossbar having opposite first and second ends, a connector element adapted to connect the crossbar to a first vertebra, a first artificial cephalad bearing member adapted for connection to the first end of the crossbar and adapted to engage a first caudal facet joint element connected to a second vertebra, and a second artificial cephalad bearing member adapted for connection to the second end of the crossbar and adapted to engage a second caudal facet joint element connected to the second vertebra.
US10052131B2
This invention relates generally to a medical device, and more specifically, to a vaginal surgical apparatus. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an elongated handle portion having a first end and a second end; a vaginal manipulator probe that is at least partly insertable into a vagina, the vaginal manipulator probe extending from the elongated handle portion and including an arcuate end portion that is curved away from a longitudinal axis of the vaginal manipulator probe to a tip, the arcuate end portion including a channel that has a diameter that accommodates a cervix therewithin, the tip defined by distention that increases a cross-sectional height between a bottom surface and a top surface of the vaginal manipulator probe; and a disk that is movable along at least a portion of a length of the vaginal manipulator probe.
US10052128B2
A catheter extraction tool has a head that can be placed in position to significantly surround a diameter of a catheter. The head is shaped to have a low enough profile above the catheter to allow the head to be slid down the catheter and into a subdermal region in which the catheter is subdermal with respect to a patient. The head of the catheter extraction tool is expanded sufficiently to slide the head over a catheter cuff located in the subdermal region. After the head of the catheter extraction tool slides over the catheter cuff, the head is contracted to engage the catheter so that a user can pull the catheter out of the patient using the catheter extraction tool.
US10052124B2
The invention provides a rotational atherectomy device having a flexible, elongated, rotatable drive shaft with a system of eccentric abrading heads attached thereto. The eccentric enlarged abrading heads may have centers of mass spaced radially from the rotational axis of the drive shaft, wherein adjacent eccentric abrading heads, and centers of mass thereof, are rotationally separated from each other on the drive shaft.
US10052123B2
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for removing tissue. In one aspect, a device for removing tissue includes a hollow elongate member having an outer wall and a lumen, a selectively deployable tissue-cutting element extending from the hollow elongate member, and an actuation member extending through the lumen and coupled to the hollow elongate member at a location that is distal to the tissue-cutting element. Movement of the actuation member can cause the tissue-cutting element to move from the insertion configuration where the tissue-cutting element is not deployed to a tissue-cutting configuration where the tissue-cutting element is deployed such that it is radially extended relative to the insertion configuration.
US10052121B2
A cardiac ablation method including the following steps: inserting a treatment catheter into an atrium of a heart, the treatment catheter including an ultrasound emitter; positioning the ultrasound emitter to face heart tissue within the left atrium outside of a pulmonary vein; emitting ultrasound energy from the ultrasound emitter while rotating the ultrasound emitter about a rotation axis; and ablating heart tissue with the ultrasound energy to form a lesion outside of a pulmonary vein.
US10052118B2
A knee joint surgical treatment under an arthroscope includes: contacting a treating portion of an ultrasonic device with an end region to which an ACL or a PCL of a tibia adheres and with a start region to which the ACL or the PCL of a femur adheres, excising the tibia and a remaining ligament of the ACL, or the tibia and a remaining ligament of the PCL, excising the femur and a remaining ligament of the ACL, or the femur and a remaining ligament of the PCL by ultrasonically vibrating the treating portion, thereby exposing footprints of the tibia and the femur; and forming tunnels between the footprint of the tibia and a medial side of a rough surface of the tibia and between the footprint of the femur and an lateral surface of a lateral condyle of the femur.
US10052116B2
Described herein are devices, systems and methods for treating target tissue in a patient's spine. In general, the methods include the steps of advancing a wire into the patient from a first location, through a neural foramen, and out of the patient from a second location; connecting a tissue modification device to the wire; positioning the tissue modification device through the neural foramen using the wire; modifying target tissue in the spine by moving the tissue modification device against the target tissue; and delivering an agent to modified target tissue, wherein the agent is configured to inhibit blood flow from the modified target tissue. In some embodiments, the step of modifying target tissue comprises removing target tissue located ventral to the superior articular process while avoiding non-target tissue located lateral to the superior articular process.
US10052111B2
An apparatus and methods are provided to penetrate a bone and associated bone marrow using a powered driver having a gear assembly and a motor. The powered driver may include an indicator operable to show status of a power supply associated with the powered driver. The power supply may include a battery power pack having a diamond shaped cross section. The powered driver may have a handle with a corresponding cross section.
US10052109B2
The present disclosure relates to a saw, comprising a drive, a first blade configured to oscillate about an axis perpendicular to a plane defined by a surface of the first blade, a second blade configured to oscillate about an axis perpendicular to the plane in a direction opposite to that of the first blade, and wherein gearing is provided between the drive and the first and second blades to reduce the speed transmitted from the drive to the blades. A saw blade, a connection mechanism for connecting a blade to a saw and associated methods are also provided.
US10052107B2
Systems and method for treating aneurysms are provided which utilize formulations that form polymer foams in situ. The formulations generally have a buoyancy greater than or less than blood, and either float to the top of the aneurysm and foam from the top down or sink to the bottom and foam from the bottom up.
US10052098B2
A surgical instrument includes first and second members configured to receive tissue therebetween. The first member is adapted to receive suture, the second member is coupled to the first member, and a grasper coupled to the second member engages the suture received by the first member. A method of passing suture includes loading suture into a first member of a suture passing surgical instrument, stabilizing tissue between the first member and a second member of the surgical instrument, passing suture through tissue via the first member of the surgical instrument, holding the passed suture via suture grasper of the surgical instrument, and removing the first member from the tissue. Advantageously, a novel bendable or deflectable needle may be utilized, e.g., in conjunction with the surgical instrument. The bendable or deflectable needle may have one or more unique configuration with respect to a suture slot defined in a distal portion thereof.
US10052095B2
A method is provided that includes implanting (a) a venous first tissue anchor in a vein selected from the group of veins consisting of: a superior vena cava and an inferior vena cava, (b) an atrial second tissue anchor at an atrial site selected from the group of sites consisting of: an annulus of a tricuspid valve, and a wall of a right atrium of a heart above the annulus of the tricuspid valve, (c) a venous third tissue anchor in a coronary sinus, and (d) one or more tethers, which connect the venous first tissue anchor, the atrial second tissue anchor, and the venous third tissue anchor. A size of a tricuspid orifice is reduced by tensioning the one or more tethers. Other embodiments are also described.
US10052089B2
An insertion tongue of the retractor device may be pushed into the subject through the trocar incision, along one side of the organ. The tip of the insertion tongue pushes the impacted organ and its endoscopic recovery bag slightly away from the cavity wall. A scalpel is passed through the insertion guide with the tip of the scalpel blade in the retention guide on the back of the insertion tongue, and with the sharp side of the scalpel blade facing away from the organ and from the tongue of the retractor device. The scalpel is then passed down through the cavity wall, with its tip in the retention guide, while tension on the retractor device handle away from the organ, and gentle outward traction on the organ (and bag) permits removal of the organ (and bag) as soon as the opening is just large enough to allow it.
US10052087B2
A biopsy system includes a biopsy device, a control module, a control module interface, at least one wireless data communication link, and an encoder. The biopsy device is operable to capture a tissue sample and includes a reusable portion and a disposable portion. The reusable portion includes an MR compatible motor. The disposable portion is adapted to be releasably joined with the reusable portion. The control module interface is configured to provide an interface between the control module and the reusable portion of the biopsy device. The at least one wireless data communication link includes a first data link configured to permit communication of data between the reusable portion of the biopsy device and the control module interface. The encoder is operationally coupled with the MR compatible motor.
US10052083B2
An actuator for an ultrasound probe comprises a housing assembly configured to accommodate an ultrasound probe and to be positioned adjacent to a target region of interest to be examined, and a motor assembly coupled to the housing assembly, the motor assembly configured to move the housing assembly in a manner to allow an ultrasound probe when accommodated by the housing assembly to perform a compound scan of the target region of interest.
US10052082B2
A method and system is provided for using backscattered data and known parameters to characterize vascular tissue. Specifically, methods and devices for identifying information about the imaging element used to gather the backscattered data are provided in order to permit an operation console having a plurality of Virtual Histology classification trees to select the appropriate VH classification tree for analyzing data gathered using that imaging element. In order to select the appropriate VH database for analyzing data from a specific imaging catheter, it is advantageous to know information regarding the function and performance of the catheter, such as the operating frequency of the catheter and whether it is a rotational or phased-array catheter. The present invention provides a device and method for storing this information on the imaging catheter and communicating the information to the operation console. In addition, information related to additional functions of the catheter may also be stored on the catheter and used to further optimize catheter performance and/or select the appropriate Virtual Histology classification tree for analyzing data from the catheter imaging element.
US10052079B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an x-ray image (1) of an object (2) by means of an x-ray device (3). An x-ray source (4) and an x-ray detector (5) are moved about an object (2) during an at least partial circulation (8, 9), and the x-ray beams (10) which are generated by the x-ray source (4) and pass through the object (2) are detected from multiple different directions by means of the x-ray detector (5). In the process, at least one optical camera (13, 14) captures the object (2) during the circulation, wherein an optical image (15, 17) is produced. The optical camera (13, 14) has a rigidly defined position relative to the x-ray source (4) and/or the x-ray detector (5). The optical image (15, 17) is then used to determine a movement trajectory of the object (2) relative to the x-ray source (4) and/or the x-ray detector (5).
US10052078B2
A method includes obtaining projection data from a scan of a moving structure of interest. The method further includes reconstructing the projection data, generating first image data. The method further includes identifying a sub-set of the projection. The method further includes reconstructing the sub-set projection data, generating second image data. The method further includes identifying a region in which the moving structure of interest is located based on the first image data. The method further includes identifying a location of the moving structure of interest in the identified region based on the second image data.
US10052074B2
An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first imaging system, a second imaging system, and processing circuitry. The first imaging system holds a first X-ray tube and a first X-ray detector in a rotatable manner. The second imaging system holds a second X-ray tube and a second X-ray detector in a rotatable manner, and rotating centers, which are capable to set independently, between the first imaging system and the second imaging system. The processing circuitry makes a rotating center of the first imaging system and the rotating center of the second imaging system substantially equivalent to each other when a rotation imaging program using the first imaging system and the second imaging system is selected.
US10052073B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that provide smart alerts to users, e.g., alerts to users about diabetic states that are only provided when it makes sense to do so, e.g., when the system can predict or estimate that the user is not already cognitively aware of their current condition, e.g., particularly where the current condition is a diabetic state warranting attention. In this way, the alert or alarm is personalized and made particularly effective for that user. Such systems and methods still alert the user when action is necessary, e.g., a bolus or temporary basal rate change, or provide a response to a missed bolus or a need for correction, but do not alert when action is unnecessary, e.g., if the user is already estimated or predicted to be cognitively aware of the diabetic state warranting attention, or if corrective action was already taken.
US10052065B2
An earpiece includes an earpiece housing, at least one biometric sensor disposed within the earpiece, a wireless transceiver disposed within the earpiece for voice communications, an intelligent control operatively connected to the at least one biometric sensor and the wireless transceiver, a speaker operatively connected to the intelligent control, and at least one microphone operatively connected to the intelligent control. The earpiece is configured to monitor biometrics of a user using the at least one biometric sensor, communicate biometric data to the user, detect a crisis level event, and communicate occurrence of the crisis level event using the wireless transceiver.
US10052058B2
Described herein are various apparatus and systems useful in sensory discrimination. Through the use of a multi-well sample plate, the high-throughput analysis apparatus and method allow for rapid sensory discrimination of a large number of samples.
US10052049B2
An apparatus comprising a pump, a user interface, and a controller communicatively coupled to the pump and the user interface. The controller is adapted to receive information relating to a blood glucose level of a user, determine whether the blood glucose level differs from a target blood glucose level by a threshold value, and selectively provide or delay provision of an alert notifying the user to check the user's blood glucose level. Other devices, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10052048B2
A respiratory monitor comprises: a first sensor (20, 70) configured to generate a respiration-related motion monitoring signal (72) indicative of respiration related motion; a second sensor (20, 22, 80, 82) configured to generate a sound monitoring signal (84) indicative of respiration-related sound; and a signals synthesizer (90) configured to synthesize a respiratory monitor signal (46) based on the respiration-related motion monitoring signal and the respiration-related sound monitoring signal. A sensor for use in respiratory monitoring comprises an accelerometer (30) and a magnetometer (32) together defining a unitary sensor (20) configured for attachment to a respiring subject (10) so as to move as a unit responsive to respiration related motion of the respiring subject.
US10052046B2
The disclosure provides apparatus and methods of use pertaining to a measurement template for use in allograft preparation and processing. Specifically, the template may be used to measure the trochlea angle of the trochlea groove of the distal human femur. The measurement template may be formed of a flat metal plate having first and second ends, each forming a different angle designed to fit against the trochlea groove and provide an indication of the angle of the groove in relation to the angles formed by the template. The trochlea angle of the allograft may then be documented, allowing for proper matching between allograft tissue and transplant recipient physiology. The measurement template may be adapted for a variety of configurations depending on desired and/or common allograft requirements. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10052044B2
A powered surgical cutting and stapling instrument is disclosed. The instrument includes at least one sensor to measure at least one parameter associated with the instrument, at least one processor, and a memory operatively associated with the processor. The memory includes machine executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to monitor the at least one sensor over a predetermined time period and determine a rate of change of the measured parameter.
US10052031B2
A method for determining functional severity of a stenosis includes: (a) generating a simulated perfusion map from a calculated blood flow; (b) comparing the simulated perfusion map to a measured perfusion map to identify a degree of mismatch therebetween, the measured perfusion map representing perfusion in a patient; (c) modifying a parameter in a model used in calculating the blood flow when the degree of mismatch meets or exceeds a predefined threshold; (d) computing a hemodynamic quantity from the simulated perfusion map when the degree of mismatch is less than the predefined threshold, the hemodynamic quantity being indicative of the functional severity of the stenosis; and (e) displaying the hemodynamic quantity. Systems for determining functional severity of a stenosis are described.
US10052028B2
A photoacoustic imaging method that enables photoacoustic images to be displayed at high speed is provided. The photoacoustic imaging method scans a subject with a light beam, detects acoustic waves generated within the subject due to the scanning of light to obtain acoustic wave detected signals, and generates volume data that represent three dimensional photoacoustic images of the subject based on the acoustic wave detected signals. Photoacoustic projection images projected in the direction of irradiation depth of the light are generated, prior to the volume data being generated and concurrently with the scanning of the light. The photoacoustic projection images are displayed.
US10052016B2
Systems and methods are provided for evaluating an eye of a patient. A first imager interface receives a first image of at least a portion of the eye generated via a first imaging modality, and a second imager interface receives a second image of at least a portion of the eye generated via a second imaging modality. A first feature extractor extracts a first set of numerical features from the first image, with one feature representing a spatial extent of one of a tissue layer, a tissue structure, and a pathological feature. A second feature extractor extracts a second set of numerical features from the second image, with one feature representing one of a number and a location of vascular irregularities within the eye. A pattern recognition component evaluates the first plurality of features and the second plurality of features to assign a clinical parameter to the eye.
US10052015B2
An endoscope system includes a light source unit, an image sensor, an image signal obtaining section, a vessel position signal generator, a vessel width signal generator, and a vessel image signal generator. The light source unit generates illumination light. The image sensor captures an image of an object of interest irradiated with the illumination light. The image signal obtaining section obtains an image signal, which represents the object, from the image sensor. The vessel position signal generator generates a vessel position signal, which represents the position of a blood vessel of the object, from the image signal. The vessel width signal generator generates a vessel width signal, which represents the width of the blood vessel, from the image signal. The vessel image signal generator generates a vessel image signal, which represents the blood vessel, from the vessel position signal and the vessel width signal.
US10052007B2
A sponge roller, a cleaning roller assembly, and a floor cleaner. The sponge roller includes an outer layer and an inner layer. The outer layer is sleeved on the inner layer; the inner layer is made of non-absorbent sponge, and the outer layer is made of absorbent sponge. The sponge roller can be made with a large thickness, thus improving the cleaning capacity of the cleaner. The water is mainly stored in the outer layer, so it can be squeezed out without the exertion of much more external force, and thus the resistance against the rotation of the sponge roller is negligible, thus saving the energy consumption.
US10052001B2
A vacuum appliance comprising a drum and a vacuum head. The drum may include a base and a cylinder sealed to the base. The vacuum head may include a lid and a blower. The lid preferably includes a portion that is detachably mounted to an open upper end of the drum. The blower may be mounted to, atop, or within the lid. In any case, the blower induces a vacuum within the drum and moves through the vacuum. The base or the cylinder may include a drain to drain fluid and debris contained within the drum. The lid may include a lower portion sealed to and defining the open upper end of the drum. The cylinder or the lid may include an air inlet through which the blower draws air and entrained debris.
US10051999B2
An apparatus and method for breaking eggs and separating egg liquids thus obtained. A first supply unit supplies a plurality of first rows of eggs to a second unit having a first endless conveyor and a plurality of corresponding second rows of egg breaker units. Eggs are transferred one by one from the first conveyor to a second conveyor which has a plurality of corresponding third rows of egg liquid containing cups with a part underneath the first conveyor for liquids transferred from the first conveyor to the second conveyor. A row of egg part receptacles are under the cups for collecting liquids. A cleaning section for the cups has a liquid washing head to clean and wash the cups and receptacles with a substantially downward cleaning flow. A liquid receiver gutter between the rows of receptacles and the second conveyor moves between a first position to clean at least the cups wherein the receiving gutter protects the flow of receptacles from leaking cleaning liquid during breaking and separating, and a second position for cleaning at least the cups and at least one of the receptacles wherein the receiver gutter protects the remaining receptacles from leaking and cleaning liquid during breaking and separating.
US10051998B2
A container of a blending system is shown and described. The container may include a carrier formed from a first material, the carrier configured to engage a base of the blending system. The container may also include a liner positioned in the carrier a distance apart from the carrier, wherein the carrier generally circumscribes the liner, where the liner is formed from a second material different from the first material.
US10051996B2
A toaster oven comprising a housing defining a food cavity, an opening defined in the housing, a door movably affixed to the housing, a cooking grid selectively mountable within the housing, one or more heating elements within the housing, a timer controlling activation of the heating elements, and a timer control knob engaged with the timer. The timer control knob is selectively rotatable in a second direction from the off position to a third position to activate at least one of the one or more heating elements until the timer control knob is selectively rotated in the first direction back to the off position. The timer control knob is only selectively rotatable in the second direction from the off position to the third rotational position when a main body of the timer control knob is moved longitudinally from a first longitudinal position to a second longitudinal position.
US10051992B1
A grill apparatus for use with an open fire and tripod suspension. The grill apparatus having a wall, two grill members and a rotation bracket. The wall is used to protect the food from falling off the grill. The grills rotate inside and between the bracket ends. The second grill member used to expose the second side of the food to the fire.
US10051979B2
A stackable can rack assembly provides a plurality of modular racks that facilitate both the loading of cans and the presentation of the cans for removal by a consumer. Multiple modular racks can be configured in a variety of stacked arrangement. A plurality of shelves are disposed at a slope to create a gravity fed arrangement to enable the cans to roll forward for dispensing. A pair of side panels support the shelves. The side panels comprise a top flat bar defined by a convex hump having a flat surface, and a bottom flat bar defined by a concave hump having a flat surface. The humps couple together and the flat surface enhance stability for stacking multiple modular racks. At least one bracket affixes to the bottom flat bar to fasten the top and bottom flat bars together. A back panel provide structural integrity to the modular racks.
US10051976B2
A plastic cutlery dispenser having a base and a cartridge is described. The cartridge may be slideable relative to the base. In some embodiments, the base has a base dispensing mechanism and the cartridge has a cartridge dispensing mechanism configured to mate with the base dispensing mechanism. In some embodiments, when the base and cartridge dispensing mechanisms mate, the cutlery dispenser is configured to dispense cutlery located within the cartridge one piece of cutlery at a time.
US10051963B2
The invention relates to a sliding/pivoting mechanism of a shelf of a piece of furniture or of a domestic appliance for pulling out and raising the shelf from a body of the piece of furniture or of the domestic appliance, which sliding/pivoting mechanism has at least two pivoting arms, which are fastened by means of a first end to at least one of the side walls of the body in such a way that said pivoting arms can be rotated parallel to the plane of the side walls and which are arranged parallel to each other at a distance from each other, wherein at respective second ends of the pivoting arms, a guide rail is fastened in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted parallel to the plane of the side walls and in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted from a lower position inside the body to a raised upper position at least partially outside the body, and at least one running rail, which is linearly displacable in the guide rail and to which the shelf is fastened, wherein a damping unit that damps the traveling motion of the shelf in an end position is arranged on the sliding/pivoting mechanism. The invention further relates to a piece of furniture and to a domestic appliance having a sliding/pivoting mechanism and a domestic appliance having a damping unit, which is arranged on the pull-out guide, for damping the shelf in an end position.
US10051958B2
The present disclosure relates to a fastening part for a storage system. The system comprises a storage device, such as a basket, a set of hooks, a shoe rack, a perforated panel or the like, which can be attached, by means of the fastening part, to a carrier element with a number of slots. The fastening part comprises a base portion, with at least one opening, an inner part, resting on the base portion at the carrier element's side and providing at least one hook to be inserted into the carrier element, and another part resting on the base portion at an outer side, and comprising a connector that engages with the inner part through said at least one opening, such that the base portion is sandwiched between the inner part and the outer part.
US10051953B2
A paint brush is provided and comprises a handle, a ferrule and a bristle stack. The bristle stack comprises a plurality of synthetic, virgin bristle filaments secured at one end in the ferrule. At the opposite end of the bristle stack the ends of the filaments collectively define a first notional plane which is generally curved, and a second notional plane which is generally orthogonal to the first notional plane and is also generally curved.
US10051951B2
A bottle brush cleaning implement that uses a crochet scrubber component and an integrated handle and its method of assembly. The preferred embodiment of the crochet component has four brushes that are constructed out of one piece of crochet material that is attached and is held in place with a pronged holder with resistance barbs. The crochet component is additionally held in place by extra yarn that is attached to the bottom of the crochet scrubber and tied to the handle. The preferred embodiment's handle has a grip area with a series of round protrusions to improve handling. The bottle brush may be produced on a wide variety of shapes, colors, sizes and configurations to meet specific needs or individual preferences.
US10051947B2
A backpack converts into a babychair. The babychair is adapted to attach to a table and to allow a human child to sit in the babychair while facing the table. The babychair converts into a backpack for convenient transport and storage.
US10051944B2
A method and device for use on pressed powders, such as those used in cosmetics. The inventive method uses a pressing device in order to repair broken and cracked pieces of powder. The repair device preferably includes a housing and a pressing mechanism. Preferably, repair device includes a magnet located on either the base of the housing or on a plate intended to receive a container. Preferably, repair device uses a screw and nut assembly for the pressing mechanism. The base includes a receiving plate connected to which rotates while the user is rotating the pressing mechanism. Preferably, pressing mechanism includes a few parts—a shaft or a screw, a handle, and a compressing plate. Preferably, the compressing plate is made to be removable from either the shaft or the screw.
US10051941B2
A deodorant dispenser having a tub including a sidewall and a rim. The sidewall defines an elongated slot. The dispenser also has a platform at least partially circumscribed by the sidewall. The dispenser also preferably includes a projection fixed to and extending outward from the platform through the elongated slot. The projection is moveable within the elongated slot to adjust the position of the platform with respect to the rim.
US10051935B1
A carryall assembly which can be readily and rapidly altered so a user may select from a plurality of optional decorative fashion patterns. A decorative fashion changeable carryall includes multiple components for collective attachment in order to yield an interchangeable carryall. A carryall body that is larger than another carryall body. The smaller carryall is coupled to the larger carryall. While the carryall system is worn only one side, the outward facing side, of the carryall system may be made completely visible. The smaller carryall when coupled together with the larger carryall overlaps a substantial portion of the second larger carryall. The entire outwardly facing surface of the smaller carryall body is visible but only a portion of the outwardly facing surface of the larger carryall is visible. This outwardly visible portion of the larger carryall and the outwardly facing visible surface of the smaller carryall combine into a dual-pattern distinctive display.
US10051933B2
The invention described is for a case for a portable, hand held electronic device, such as a cellphone or smartphone. This case includes a notch, formed when a hinged arm is extended, that allows the user to more easily hold the electronic device while attached to the cover. The notch provides space for the user's hand so that the electronic device rests between the user's thumb and fingers in a natural position with the fingers the device, which is cradled in the hand. A hinged flap closes the notch in a closed position but is hinged to expose the notch when a user supports the hand held electronic device. A main flap panel and a tab extending from opposite sides of a flap hinge to stabilize the hand held electronic device in the user's hand.
US10051932B2
A rigid suitcase includes first and second shells defining a first storage volume, the outer surface of the first shell including a recess, and an auxiliary container defining a second storage volume, physically separate from the first storage volume, and adapted to be moved between an inserted state in which the auxiliary container is at last partially housed in the recess and a removed state, in which the auxiliary container is completely extracted from the recess. The rigid suitcase further includes guide members operable to guide the auxiliary container as it moves from the inserted state to the removed state and vice versa, and removable attachment members operable between the first shell and the auxiliary container and adapted to be actuated between an attached state, in which the auxiliary container cannot be removed from the recess and a released condition in which the auxiliary container can be removed.
US10051931B2
An improved umbrella apparatus is a portable umbrella with a support column having a container for holding a removable water tank with a pump for pumping misting water to misters that are attached to the perimeter edges of the umbrella. Solar panels are attached to the topside of the umbrella for charging rechargeable batteries to power the pump mechanism. The apparatus is useful for shade and cooling at the beach or at a sports game.
US10051927B2
A zip slider has: a slider body having upper and lower elements providing two entry channels through which zip teeth pass and slider un/mating; a pull tab having a cam; a biasing spring having a locking prong and a follower surface bearing against the cam. The cam on the follower surface biases the tab into a closed position in which it lies against the upper element. When the tab is in a lifted position, the cam action on the follower surface raises the prong above the mated teeth, enabling relative motion of the teeth and body; when the tab is in the closed position, the prong bears against the teeth to prevent unwanted relative slider and teeth motion. The slider has a counter bias, acting between the upper element and the tab to apply a biasing force on the tab acting against the action of the cam and follower surface.
US10051922B2
A buckle includes a male member including a base part and a pair of flexible arms extending from the base part, and a female member including an insertion hole formed at one end portion thereof. The pair of flexible arms is inserted in the insertion hole. The base part contacts the one end portion when the male member engages the female member. An outer face portion of each of the pair of flexible arms has a shape curving outwardly at a middle portion thereof relative to an insertion direction of the pair of flexible arms, and the pair of flexible arms is provisionally fastened to the female member when the pair of flexible arm is inserted in the insertion hole.
US10051920B2
A lacing system includes an article, a guiding portion, a lace and a fastening mechanism. The lacing zone is located between the first side and the second side. The guiding portion is positioned at the article and includes a first guide and a second guide. The first guide is positioned on the first side and located in the lacing zone. The second guide is positioned on the second side and located in the lacing zone. The lace is guided by the guiding portion and extended in a zig-zag pattern throughout the lacing zone. The fastening mechanism is positioned at the article to loosen or fasten the lace, which includes a housing and a reel member. The housing includes a connecting hole and a passage. The reel member is coupled to the housing to loosen or fasten the lace and is rotated along a first direction relating to the housing.
US10051911B2
The invention provides a method of assembling a shoe including a printed design for providing flat material having a first designated area and a second designated area, printing a first portion of the design on the first designated area and printing a second portion of the design on the second designated area, separating the designated areas into individual panels and assembling each panel, so that the first portion of the design joins the second portion of the design when each panel is arranged side by side to form an uninterrupted and complete design.
US10051904B2
Disclosed herein is an undergarment that includes a body and a first elongated loop attached to a front side of the body configured to receive an attachment mechanism of a shirt hold-down device. The undergarment further includes a second elongated loop attached to a back side of the body configured to receive an attachment mechanism of a shirt hold-down device.
US10051897B2
Sports garment for shaping female buttocks and hips, including: rear part covering buttocks except their upper terminal portion, front part at least partially covering the abdomen, and waist part covering at least buttocks terminal upper portion. The rear part includes two rear elements; each including: first portions to cover: buttocks lower terminal portion, buttocks lateral portion, and hips portion; and second portions to cover: buttocks central portion and lower central portion at the garment rear fork. The rear part includes an insert increasing elastic modulus and/or tenacity of the rear part first portions relative to second portions. Lateral edges of two rear part rear elements connect along a central rear seam positioned on the buttocks intergluteal cleft; before sewing together, the lateral edges have rectilinear shape in plan view, facilitating seam insertion into the intergluteal cleft and adherence of the two elements to buttocks when wearing pants.
US10051890B2
An aerosol-generating article is provided, including an aerosol-forming substrate and a susceptor configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate. The susceptor includes a first susceptor material and a second susceptor material having a Curie temperature, the first susceptor material being disposed in intimate physical contact with the second susceptor material. The first susceptor material may also have a Curie temperature, the second Curie temperature being lower than 500° C., and lower than the Curie temperature of the first susceptor material, if the first susceptor material has a Curie temperature. The use of such a multi-material susceptor allows heating to be optimised and the temperature of the susceptor to be controlled to approximate the second Curie temperature without need for direct temperature monitoring.
US10051883B2
A tobacco smoking mixture including an ammonia-release compound adapted to be formed into a lit-end cigarette is provided. The ammonia-release compound is incorporated in or on tobacco cut filler in an amount effective to reduce the cytotoxicity, and/or selective smoke constituents of cigarette smoke. Exemplary ammonia-release compounds include ammonium acetate, ammonium hydroxide, hexammine cobalt (III) chloride, hexammine cobalt (III) acetate, and combinations thereof. The ammonia-release compounds can release ammonia at temperatures between about 60° C. and about 400° C. Ammonia-release compounds can be combined with additives, such as glycerine, cobalt acetate, copper (II) acetate, zinc acetate, other metal salts or combinations thereof, to further reduce the cytotoxicity of cigarette smoke.
US10051878B2
The subject invention relates in part to novel steps in canola and other oil seed processing, including milling to achieve a significant particle size reduction, extraction of higher levels of protein from the starting material, the use of presscake as a starting material, and the production of a precipitated protein concentrates containing a nutritionally significant amount of oil. The subject invention also provides optimal pH ranges for extraction and recovery steps in these novel processes. The subject processes can be applied to, and offer similar advantages to, other oilseeds and vegetable matter, such as sunflower seeds and flax seeds. The subject invention also includes novel feed compositions.
US10051877B2
The disclosure relates to a process for producing a confectionery product comprising heat resistant chocolate or a heat resistant compound mass and to the confectionery product, which is produced by this process. The process utilizes spraying water and/or a polyol (such as a sugar alcohol or a sugar) solution onto chocolate or a compound mass thereby inducing the formation of heat resistant chocolate or a heat resistant compound mass.
US10051869B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for preparing compositions that improve plant health and reduce fungal infestations. Also disclosed are methods of using the compositions described herein to improve plant health by applying the compositions directly to plants, and/or applying the compositions to substrates used for plant growth. The compositions include a synergistic ratio of composting bacteria, bio-surfactant producing bacteria, bio-remediating bacteria, bovine feces, and humic acid. The compositions reduce fungal growth and fungal infestation the infected area. Methods of reducing brown patch and/or dollar spot infestations to a plant such as turf grass or crop are also described herein.
US10051867B2
Migratory assisting agents are used to improve antimicrobial efficacy of antimicrobial masterbatches, the polymer compounds these antimicrobial masterbatches are let down into, and the articles made therefrom. The migratory assisting agents function by carrying the antimicrobial agents while the migratory assisting agent transfers or “migrates” to the surface of a polymer compound or article formed from the polymer compound. As a result, antimicrobial agents are brought to the surface where there is exposure to bacterial contamination.
US10051864B2
Compounds of formula I wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US10051860B2
The present invention provides a composition having an excellent controlling activity on plant disease. The composition comprising the compound represented by the formula (1) and one or more antibiotic fungicidal compound selected from the group (A) shows an excellent controlling activity on a plant disease. group (A): a group consisting of kasugamycin, polyoxins, streptomycin, and validamycin
US10051859B2
The sterilizing and deodorizing agents target bacteria, odors, toxic substances, etc. and are made from silver as metal particles and titanium dioxide as ceramic particles by (1) thermal bonding or (2) pressure bonding or (3) thermal/pressure bonding and mixing the resultant with hydroxyapatite as an adsorptive material. The agent can be mixed with ink, bonding agents and paints and applied to a variety of substrates.
US10051853B2
A system for killing pests in an affected area of a structure comprises a heat exchanger unit placed within an affected area, and a thermostatic control. The heat exchanger unit is configured to receive a flow of water from a faucet, and generate heated air by transferring heat from the flow of water received from the faucet to air flowing through the heat exchanger unit. The thermostatic control is configured to monitor a temperature of the flow of water as it is received by the heat exchanger unit, monitor a temperature of the air as it is received at an inlet of the heat exchanger unit, and automatically cease the flow of water to the heat exchanger unit when the temperature of the air received by the heat exchanger unit is greater than the temperature of the flow of water.
US10051851B2
By plates (31, 32) having different colors, an edge is formed in the vertical direction along the boundary between the plates (31, 32). Further, as materials of the plates (31, 32), a material which primarily transmits ultraviolet light having a wavelength of about 370 nm and a material which primarily transmits green light having a wavelength of about 520 nm are used. This constitution makes an attraction device (10) capable of attracting insect pests more efficiently as compared to a case where a light source such as a mercury lamp which emits a large amount of light having a wavelength of 300 to 600 nm or an LED which emits a large amount of light having a relatively short wavelength is used.
US10051840B2
An apparatus for securing the legs of livestock animals includes a frame also which defines an entrance and an exit and which presents sidewalls which extend between the entrance and the exit thereby presenting a chute suitable for the ingress and egress of a livestock animal. Near the floor of the chute and between the entrance and the exit are leg bars which are able to move between a retracted position suitable for allowing the lower legs of a livestock animal to move freely between the leg bars and the sidewalls and an extended position in which the leg bars are closer to the sidewalls so that the lower legs of a livestock animal are held securely between the leg bars and sidewalls. The apparatus can be used to secure the lower legs of a livestock animal and thereby immobilize the animal.
US10051832B2
A system includes a robotic arm, an imaging device coupled to the robotic arm, a tail positioner coupled to the robotic arm, and a processor. The imaging device captures imaging data of a rearview of a dairy livestock through a field of view of the imaging device. The tail positioner is able to move from a down position to an up position. The processor is coupled to both the imaging device and the tail positioner and is configured to identify a tail of the dairy livestock within the imaging data captured by the imaging device and send one or more instructions to raise the tail positioner from the down position to the up position, thereby moving the tail out of the field of view of the imaging device.
US10051821B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH858017. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH858017, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH858017 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 CH858017.
US10051816B1
A novel maize variety designated X75K312 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X75K312 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X75K312 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X75K312, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X75K312. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X75K312.
US10051814B1
A novel maize variety designated X03K075 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X03K075 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X03K075 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X03K075, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X03K075. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X03K075.
US10051810B1
A novel maize variety designated X08K266 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08K266 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08K266 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08K266, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08K266. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08K266.
US10051808B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1361005 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1361005 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1361005 in a breeding program.
US10051807B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01058772. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01058772. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01058772 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01058772 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10051801B1
Zantedeschia variety designated GSCCSTBL is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of Zantedeschia GSCCSTBL, to the plants of Zantedeschia GSCCSTBL, to plant parts of Zantedeschia GSCCSTBL, and to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant produced by crossing Zantedeschia GSCCSTBL 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 GSCCSTBL, to methods for producing other Zantedeschia varieties, hybrids, or plant parts derived from Zantedeschia GSCCSTBL, 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 GSCCSTBL with another Zantedeschia variety.
US10051796B2
The embodied invention is a framework and expanding cover for a crop row that is designed to provide an enhanced crop growing environment. The framework design utilizes a top and bottom cover with affordable materials that are suitable for large scale production. The design also includes an irrigation, fertilizer, and CO2 injection system that provide an enhanced environment for plants to grow. The entire system is reducible to a small package to better facilitate use in a broad variety of environmental and personal situations.
US10051793B2
A strapping system for an agricultural implement includes a strap feeding assembly positioned on a first side of a baling chamber and a needle positioned on a second side of the baling chamber, opposite the first side. The system also includes a first slot disposed within a first material-facing surface of a rear wall of the baling chamber. The strap feeding assembly is configured to propel a strap through at least a portion of the first slot to the second side of the baling chamber, and the needle is configured to grip a portion of the strap and to move the portion of the strap from the second side of the baling chamber to the first side of the baling chamber to surround a material within the baling chamber with the strap.
US10051792B2
An agricultural baler comprising a main bale chamber having a pair of opposed side walls, with each side wall having a plunger slot arrangement defining a plunger slot. Each plunger slot has opposite ends and is open at an inside adjacent to a plunger. A pair of rotating elements are positioned within each plunger slot, with each rotating element being located at a corresponding end of a respective plunger slot. A pair of plunger slot belts are each positioned in association with a respective plunger slot and partially wrap a respective pair of rotating elements associated with each plunger slot.
US10051790B2
A combine harvester processing system comprises a rotor and a rotor cage encircling the rotor. The rotor cage comprises an arcuate section having an interior surface which includes a first vane and a second vane each disposed at an angle relative to a radial axis. The first vane is disposed forwardly of the second vane. The angle of the first vane is less than the angle of the second vane.
US10051789B2
A side-delivery rake comprising a frame provided with at least a supporting arm to which a plurality of stellar wheels are associated. The supporting arm is pivoted to the frame so as to assume, by means of rotation around a pivoting element, at least a first working operating condition in which the stellar wheels carry out a gathering action, and a second transport operating condition, in which the stellar wheels are in a raised condition. Stop means are provided to determine the position of the supporting arms in the first operating condition. The stop means comprise an adjustment device which can be selectively associated with the frame in a finite plurality of predetermined discrete positions in order to define an adjustment of the position assumed by the supporting arm in the first operating condition.
US10051782B2
A row unit for use with a planter includes a furrow creator and an apparatus for controlling the depth of furrow created. The furrow creator can be a blade and shank. A seed meter, for example, a positive pressure meter, can be included that provides precision planting of one or more particulates. The seed meter can be a single meter or can include more than one meter at each row unit, such as to provide for multi-hybrid or multi-particulate planting. The positive pressure can then be used to delivering the seed via a seed to ground device to plant the one or more particulates in the created furrow. The row unit as provided will be a more precise planting for both seed spacing and depth, as well as other planting characteristics.
US10051780B2
A seed tank assembly for an agricultural implement including an exhaust opening configured to exhaust seeds from the seed tank assembly, in which at least one webbing extends across the exhaust opening forming a plurality of apertures, the at least one webbing is integrally molded into the seed tank assembly, and the at least one webbing is configured to provide structural support to the seed tank assembly and to reduce seed head pressure into an inductor box positioned beneath the exhaust opening.
US10051778B2
A soil cutting head for a mount of an agricultural implement includes a head having a leading extremity for cutting into soil ahead of the mount, and a fertilizer tube extending through the head to a discharge end for discharging a stream of fertilizer into the soil from the head.
US10051777B2
The present invention relates to new methods of selecting and breeding organisms, in particular organisms which exhibit symbiotic behavior with symbionts such as fungal endophytes or epiphytes or bacterial microbiome in plants, and to new organisms and symbiota developed thereby. More particularly, the present invention provides artificial seeds comprising symbiota, and methods for preparing and using such artificial seeds, as well as plants, plant seeds and other plant parts derived from artificial seeds or symbiont-containing plants of the present invention.
US10058017B1
A tangible device such as a credit card shaped device that includes at least one waffler carved therein. A bottom stabilizing material in the shape of a film or sheet is placed within the waffler. A nano-scaled metal in powdered form that is ferromagnetic in nanoscale, such as gold, is then added above the bottom stabilizing film. A ferromagnetic powder in nanoscale is added to the nano-scaled metal and a top stabilizing film is placed thereon. Ceramic powder is then used to further stabilize the composition and finally all the components are sealed within the waffler. The nano-scaled metals can be affixed to the stabilizing films using atomic layer deposition. The present invention is used to neutralize the electromagnetic contamination emitted from a plurality of electronic devices by organizing the polarity of the spin of the element particles within their radiation.
US10058015B2
According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of a two-piece metallic board level shield (BLS). In an exemplary embodiment, the BLS is solderable to a printed circuit board (PCB). The BLS includes a lid or cover and a fence or frame. The lid and fence are complementary in shape. The lid may be mounted onto the fence via a locking mechanism in a first position and a compressed second position, where the locking mechanism provides resistance against internal upward forces when the BLS has been compressed into a second position. The BLS may be soldered to the PCB while in the first position, and subsequently compressed into the second position after the solder has hardened.
US10058012B2
A multizone variable damper for air passageways having a plurality of damper zones, a plurality of opposed blades that are rotatable about a horizontal axis, a pair of blades of the plurality of blades being provided in each zone of the plurality of damper zones, and an actuator for each pair of blades, each actuator being configured to independently rotate each of the pairs of blades of the plurality of opposed blades so as to selectively and independently control a degree of openness of each of the pairs of blades of the plurality of opposed blades in each damper zone of the plurality of damper zones.
US10058010B2
A heat-exchanger heat sink (1; 102; 103; 104) includes a plurality of fin plates (2; 202; 203; 203a, 203b; 205), which are lined up spaced apart from one another in a plate-thickness direction; and at least one linking part (3; 3a, 3b; 304), which is disposed such that it intersects and hold the plurality of fin plates (2). The at least one linking part has a base (31), which may be rod or bar shaped, and a plurality of positioning protrusions (32), which protrude from a side surface of the base. Each of the fin plates has at least one latching groove (21, 26), into which the base is inserted such that each fin plate is located between adjacent positioning protrusions of the at least one linking part.
US10058005B1
A computer hardware unit, a data center cabinet having the same, and a method of removing the computer hardware unit from the data center cabinet. The computer hardware unit has a housing for placement within a slot of the data center cabinet. At least one of a compute component, a network component and a memory component is provided within the housing. At least one mounting bracket is attached to the housing and to secure the housing to the cabinet. The at least one mounting bracket has a first leg attached to the housing and a second leg for attachment to the cabinet. The at least one mounting bracket is collapsible to change an internal angle between the first leg and the second leg.
US10057997B2
A device for integrating a monitor in a case comprises a support element made from plastic material and having a recess which corresponds to a predetermined visible area of the monitor. The support element includes a plurality of apertures which are arranged at a predetermined distribution outside the recess for passing through positioning and/or retaining elements and placing the support element at a predetermined position on a sheet-metal case in which the support element can be received, and a frame section which projects from a base area of the support element on a rear side thereof and is arranged in sandwich design for receiving components of the monitor. The components of the monitor received in the frame section are adapted to be fixed to the support element, and the support element is adapted to be fixed to the at least one of positioning or retaining elements on the sheet-metal case.
US10057989B1
Multilayer structure, including a substrate film having a first and second opposite side, said substrate film including electrically insulating material, conductive traces on the first side of the substrate film for establishing a predetermined circuit design, a connector element laid upon the first side of, said substrate film, one side of the connector element facing the structure internals and the other, opposite side facing the environment on the second side of the substrate film including a number of electrically conductive contact members electrically connected to the circuit on the first side of the substrate film and configured to contact one or more electrical contact members of an external element responsive to mating the external element with the connector element, and a plastic layer molded onto the substrate film and the connector element so as to cover said one side of the connector element and the circuit.
US10057983B1
A method may involve: forming a first bio-compatible layer; forming an etch stop over a portion of the first bio-compatible layer; forming a conductive pattern over the etch stop and the first bio-compatible layer, wherein the conductive pattern defines an antenna, sensor electrodes, electrical contacts, and one or more electrical interconnects; mounting an electronic component to the electrical contacts; forming a second bio-compatible layer over the electronic component, the antenna, the sensor electrodes, the electrical contacts, the one or more electrical interconnects, and the etch stop; and etching, using an etchant, a portion of the second bio-compatible layer to form an opening in the second bio-compatible layer and thereby expose the sensor electrodes, wherein the etch stop inhibits etching of the portion of the first bio-compatible layer by the etchant.
US10057982B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a solderless breadboard for prototyping electrical circuits. The breadboard includes a plurality of electrically conductive lines arranged parallel to each other on an electrically non-conductive breadboard structure. An electrically conductive line includes a plurality of electrical insertion positions and at an electrical insertion position a moveable electrically conductive line section which is operable for breaking the electrically conductive line in moving from a closed to an open position. A plurality of pegs are inserted into the breadboard structure at electrical insertion positions to contact the moveable sections. A peg is rotatable after insertion and includes a head portion and a cylindrical shaft extending from the head portion to a terminating foot. The shaft includes a centrally arranged channel extending from an opening in the head portion towards the terminating foot.
US10057980B2
According to one aspect, an apparatus includes a substrate, a conductor, and a contact pad. The substrate has a first edge, and the conductor is formed on the substrate. The contact pad has a first end and a second end, and is formed on the substrate and connected to the conductor at the first end. The contact pad has a non-uniform configuration, the non-uniform configuration including a first width and a second width, the first width and the second width being measured with respect to a common axis, the first width being wider than a second width, the second width being a width of the contact pad at the second end, the second end being coincident with the first edge.
US10057979B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a conductive structure body that comprises a darkening pattern layer having AlOxNy, and a method for manufacturing the same. The conductive structure body according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention may prevent reflection by a conductive pattern layer without affecting conductivity of the conductive pattern layer, and improve a concealing property of the conductive pattern layer by improving absorbance. Accordingly, a display panel having improved visibility may be developed by using the conductive structure body according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
US10057965B2
A driver for a lighting device includes a light emitting diode (LED) driver circuit utilizing interface elements for supporting multiple control connectivity options, the LED driver circuit utilizing a processor having a physical layer interfaces coupled to the interface elements and configured to operatively support a plurality of network protocols, the processor being configured to perform a plurality of functions, including a function of providing a bridge or gateway between network protocols of the plurality of network protocols, the processor being configured to: detect available network protocols of the plurality of network protocols; select, for a physical layer interface, a mode of operation (from modes of operation including, for example: an inactive mode, a monitoring mode, a gateway mode, and a primary mode) appropriate to ensure interoperability and backward compatibility for the available network protocols; and assign one or more of the available network protocols to the physical layer interface(s).
US10057957B2
A headlamp assembly may include a lamp body with a chip support. A color changing diode and a white diode may each be mounted on the chip support of the lamp body. The headlamp may also include a color input and a white input, the color input being in electrical communication with the color changing diode and the white input in electrical communication with the white diode. The headlamp may function such that an electrical input may be provided to the white input to cause illumination of the white diode and an electrical input to the color input may cause a controlled illumination of the color changing diode. The color changing diode may be a RGB diode, which may include the ability to illuminate the colors of red, green and blue in varied intensities of each color.
US10057955B2
An LED lighting system is provided for connection to a variable power source providing input power, the LED lighting system having at least one power analyzing and processing circuitry connecting to the variable power source, and being configured to identify one or more characteristics of the input power, where the characteristics are selected from amplitude, frequency and pulse width of the input power, compare one or more of the characteristics of the input power to preset control criteria either in hardware or software or both to yield a comparison result, and then control the current control circuitry according to the comparison result.
US10057951B2
A method for controlling a portable lighting device. The device has a switched-mode power supply, a light source, a high frequency switch, a controller controlling the operation of the light source and a user interface for inputting commands to the controller. A DC power source has a negative pole that is connected by only one single electric contact with the lighting device tail. The method for controlling a portable lighting device includes connecting a DC power source, an inductor, a light source, a high frequency switch and a resistor in series, measuring a voltage across the resistor, and controlling the high frequency switch dependent on the voltage measured across the resistor.
US10057948B2
An LED driver includes a controller configured to detect toggles of a switch that controls whether electrical power is provided to the LED driver. The controller is further configured to determine whether a toggle sequence of the switch matches an operation mode sequence. The toggle sequence of the switch includes a sequence of one or more toggles of the toggles of the switch that the controller detects. The controller is also configured to change a setting of the LED driver based on whether the toggle sequence of the switch matches the operation mode sequence.
US10057943B2
A carbon fiber plate heating element and a method for producing the same are provided. The carbon fiber plate heating element includes a core wire positioned at a substantial center and an electrode body that includes a plurality of electrode fine lines twisted around the core wire. A stitching portion fixes the electrode body to a main panel at regular intervals. The method includes arranging a core wire at the substantial center; twisting a plurality of electrode fine lines around the core wire to form an electrode body; and fixing the electrode body to a main panel by stitching the electrode body at regular intervals.
US10057942B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for wireless communications between devices. An example method generally includes obtaining, via a non-audible signal, identification information, and using the identification to establish a connection, via a radio access technology (RAT), with a second device for transferring data between the first device and the second device via the RAT.
US10057941B2
A system and method for bridging user devices communicating according to a 3rd Generation (3G) communication protocol to a LTE wireless communication network, thereby enabling user devices that do not have sufficient signal strength for directly coupling to the LTE wireless communication network to nevertheless access such wireless communication systems and methods via a bridging system.
US10057939B2
In some embodiments, a UE is configured to, in response to detecting an absence of received packets associated with a voice call over a first time interval of a pre-determined length, initiate transmission of a first control packet to a base station. In some embodiments, the UE is further configured, based on a response to the first control packet, not to drop the packet-switched voice call at least until expiration of a second time interval of a pre-determined length after transmission of the first control packet. In some embodiments, the absence of received packets is an absence of both voice and silence packets. In some embodiments, based on absence of a response to the first control packet, the UE is configured to drop the packet-switched call.
US10057938B2
A method for device-to-device (D2D) operation performed by a terminal in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method are provided. The method comprises: determining whether a serving cell of the terminal is a suitable cell; determining whether the serving sell provides resource pool information; and, if the serving cell is a suitable cell, and the serving cell provides the resource pool information, transmitting a D2D signal within resources indicated by the resource pool information.
US10057936B2
A method and apparatus for configuring a user equipment (UE) with an in-device coexistence (IDC) indication message in a wireless communication system is provided. A master evolved NodeB (MeNB) in dual connectivity receives a request to configure the IDC indication message from a secondary eNB (SeNB) in dual connectivity, and upon receiving the request, configures the UE with the IDC indication message.
US10057934B2
Certain embodiments include a computer-method includes searching for a receiver having an active first wireless communication protocol. When the receiver is detected, the mobile input device connects to the receiver, and when the receiver is not detected, the method includes searching for a host computer having an active second wireless communication protocol (e.g., Bluetooth®) after the receiver is not detected. The method further includes connecting the mobile input device to the host computer when the receiver is not detected and the active second type of wireless communication protocol is detected. The method then continues to search for the receiver while the mobile input device is connected to the host computer having the second wireless communication protocol, and automatically switches the wireless connection from the host computer having the second wireless communication protocol to the receiver when the first type of receiver is detected.
US10057928B2
Embodiments include an improved tethering system in which a handheld device may be used by a user to reach the same network that the handheld device also provides access to for a tethering machine. Some embodiments include performing the following on a hand held device concurrently with the hand held device providing a user of the handheld device with access to a data network: receiving a packet from a tethering machine, replacing the packet's source address with a new source address, and transmitting the packet into a wireless network. Some embodiments include receiving from the wireless network a response packet, replacing the response packet's destination address with the packet's source address, and transmitting the response packet to the tethering machine.
US10057925B2
A base station transmits a random access response in response to a random access request (random access preamble) of a user equipment. The random access response includes information about a time when the random access request is transmitted and sequence number information of the random access request (random access preamble). The user equipment checks whether the received random access response is the response of the random access request transmitted by the user equipment, using the information about the time when the random access request is transmitted and the sequence number information included in the received random access response.
US10057916B2
An example communication system in a cellular network comprises: a processing system comprising a controller and remote units, with the remote units being configured to communicate with the controller and to communicate with mobile devices within a communication cell of the cellular network. At least part of the processing system is configured to perform operations comprising: estimating signal strength experienced by all or some of the mobile devices; identifying, based at least on the signal strength, one or more of the mobile devices that can be scheduled for communication with one or more of the remote units in the communication cell on a same airlink resource; and scheduling the communication.
US10057914B2
A method and device for wireless data transmission are described. A device receives sets of sensor data associated with respective sensor measurements for a vehicle. The device determines a priority for each of the sets of sensor data based on an amount of data stored for that sensor measurement in a number of data queues, and selectively stores each of the sets of sensor data in one of the data queues based on a threshold data throughput rate of a wireless network and the priority of each set of sensor data. The device transmits, to a second computing device via the wireless network, at least some of the sets of sensor data from the data queues based on a current data throughput rate of the wireless network and a priority level of each of the data queues.
US10057901B2
Provided are a resource allocation method and a resource allocation device, which are used for a frequency division duplexing system. The resource allocation method comprises: setting a shared frequency band; and according to resource demands for an original uplink frequency band and an original downlink frequency band in a network service, allocating the shared frequency band to the original uplink frequency band and/or the original downlink frequency band.
US10057892B2
A method and apparatus for signal processing in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), including generating a plurality of data bits and a plurality of control bits, mapping the data bits and control bits to one or more codewords, multiplexing the data bits and control bits, dividing the bits into layers, allocating control bits to each layer based on a channel quality of each codeword and a channel quality of each layer, and channel interleaving each layer for output to one or more antennas.
US10057880B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for providing notifications in a communication network of a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In an aspect, a supervisor device in the communication network detects a notification directed to a wireless mobile device in the communication network and sends at least one instruction to at least a first IoT device of the plurality of IoT devices to reduce an operating volume or suspend operation of the first IoT device. The first IoT device receives the at least one instruction from the supervisor device and reduces the operating volume of the IoT device or suspends the operation of the IoT device in response to the at least one instruction.
US10057878B2
A device obtains at least one characteristic of at least one radio signal detected at a mobile device that is located at a particular site and a representation of a radio environment for the site and a definition of at least one specified path section for the site. The at least one path section has been specified by a person in a map presented on a display. The device determines a location estimate for the mobile device based on the at least one characteristic of the at least one radio signal and based on the representation of the radio environment for the site and adjusts the determined location estimate based on the definition of at least one specified path section.
US10057871B2
A data transmission method and a base station are provided. The method includes: setting up an RRC connection with a UE, and acquiring an information element for requesting C-SGN registration from a message transmitted by the UE during the setup of the RRC connection; transmitting an initial UE message to a connected C-SGN, wherein the C-SGN registers the UE based on the information element for requesting C-SGN registration contained in the initial UE message; after the UE registers to the C-SGN and data is received from the UE, transmitting the data to the C-SGN which then transmits the data to a destination address. By the method, signaling interaction during data transmission is reduced, which may improve efficiency of data transmission and reduce consumption of radio network resources.
US10057868B2
In certain embodiments, a method in a network node comprises generating a synchronization signal using a set of sequences in a single part of a synchronization channel. The set of sequences is configured to allow one or more wireless devices to determine a cell identity and a slot identity during synchronization with the network node. The method also comprises transmitting the generated synchronization signal to the one or more wireless devices.
US10057864B2
In a method in a common observation receiver of a transceiver, a Transmitter Radio Frequency, TXRF, signal spectrum is received, a Receiver Radio Frequency, RXRF, signal spectrum is further received. Furthermore, a switching scheme is determined based on whether the type of the transmitter and the receiver is Frequency Division Duplex, FDD, or Time Division Duplex, TDD. Based on the switching scheme, the TXRF signal spectrum and the RXRF signal spectrum are switched into a switched baseband signal spectrum. By arranging a common observation receiver in a radio transceiver, and observing radio frequency signal spectrums, the transceiver may acquire knowledge about nonlinearities and other irregularities of applied components.
US10057863B2
An apparatus, computer program, and method are provided for setting a power of a cell node based on cell node gradient information. Cell node gradient information is generated based on a multiple-codeword channel quality indicator (CQI), utilizing a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)-capable cell node in a network configured for communicating with a plurality of MIMO-capable user equipment. Additionally, other cell node gradient information is received that is generated for a plurality of other MIMO-capable cell nodes. The generated cell node gradient information and the other cell node gradient information are processed. Further, a power of the MIMO-capable cell node is set, based on the processing.
US10057861B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to reporting power headroom in wireless communications. A device can establish a first connection served by at least a first cell, and establish a second connection served by at least a second cell in multiple connectivity/carrier aggregation. The device can then determine to report a first power headroom in a first uplink subframe of the first cell in the first cell. The device can also determine a reporting configuration for possibly reporting a second power headroom based on a second subframe of the second cell as a companion report with the first power headroom when a type of the second subframe of the second cell is not an uplink subframe.
US10057859B2
Devices, systems, and techniques for a synchronized network for battery backup are described herein. A network device can establish a synchronized sleep schedule with the network while in a mains-power mode of operation. The network device can transmit data in the mains-power mode without regard for a transmission window of the synchronized sleep schedule. The network device can detect an interruption of mains power to itself and transition to a low-power mode of operation. The network device can then transmit data in the low-power mode, restricting data transmission to the transmission window of the synchronized sleep schedule.
US10057854B2
Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods for waking up Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a high-efficiency wireless local-area network are disclosed. The apparatus of a high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW) device may include processing circuitry and transceiver circuitry configured to generate a packet for one or more stations comprising one or more sub-channels. Each sub-channel may include a common wake up physical synchronization in a physical layer and a station dedicated wake up preamble in a media access control (MAC) layer. The station dedicated wake up preamble may include a wake-up identifier for a corresponding station of the one or more stations. The processing circuitry and transceiver circuitry may be further configured to transmit the packet to the one or more stations in accordance with orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA).
US10057842B2
A device and a method for allocating physical cell identifier (PCI) of a mobile base station. The device includes: an acquiring unit, configured to acquire a location and a movement speed of a mobile base station; a determining unit, configured to determine a valid time interval of a PCI of the mobile base station based on at least one of the location and the movement speed; an information collection unit, configured to collect, in the valid time interval, network configuration related information within a preset range of the location of the mobile base station; and a PCI determining unit, configured to determine a PCI for the mobile base station based on the network configuration related information within the preset range of the location of the mobile base station.
US10057832B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed that may perform ranging operations between a first device and a second device. The second device transmits an FTM request frame indicating a number of supported non-legacy ACK frame formats, and receives a first FTM frame indicating capabilities of the first device to receive each of the non-legacy ACK frame formats supported by the second device. The second device selects one of the non-legacy ACK frame formats or a legacy ACK frame format based, at least in part, on the indicated capabilities of the first device, and then transmits ACK frames using the selected frame format during the ranging operation.
US10057830B2
Method and apparatus to trigger a handover of a mobile device from a serving cell to a neighbor cell based on signal quality are disclosed. The mobile device measures signal strength and signal quality for the serving cell. When the signal strength exceeds a network-defined threshold and the signal quality falls below a mobile device defined threshold, the mobile device measures at least one neighbor cell. When a neighbor cell exceeds the network-defined threshold for signal strength and also meets the mobile device defined signal quality threshold, the mobile device sends a measurement report to the serving cell to trigger the handover. The measurement report includes modified values that indicate the serving cell does not meet network-defined threshold values and that the neighbor cell outperforms the serving cell.
US10057826B2
A method of controlling a communication control entity in a mobile communication network and a corresponding communication control entity are described. The communication control entity is a part of a pool of communication control entities. In accordance of the invention, when acting as a primary communication control entity and receiving a request for adding a new secondary communication control entity to the overall control procedure, the communication control entity of the invention is arranged to determine whether the requested new secondary communication control entity is a part of the pool or not. If it is a part of the pool, then the primary communication control entity established a direct connection to the access part. The requested communication control entity is not added to the control procedure as a relay.
US10057823B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for a link budget limited UE to improve communications performance with a cellular network. The UE may perform signal to interference noise ratio (SINR) measurements and use these measurements to adjust a received signal power value that is provided to the cellular network as a received signal power measurement. The UE may generate the received signal power value based at least in part on the SINR measurement in order to reduce the likelihood of handover when the UE has good SINR but poor received signal power. The UE may also provide preferred configuration information to the base station which enhances the performance of the UE when link budget limited. The configuration information may specify one or more parameter values designed to provide improved performance for a link budget limited device.
US10057818B2
This disclosure relates to reducing or mitigating no-service delays for LTE capable wireless devices which do not have permission to access one or more LTE networks. According to some embodiments, a MME of a first PLMN may receive an LTE NAS request corresponding to a tracking area from a wireless device. The MME may determine to reject the request, and may send a rejection response to the request indicating that access to the first PLMN in the tracking area according to LTE is not available to the wireless device. The rejection response may further include extended cause information relating to whether or not the wireless device is permitted to access the first PLMN in other tracking areas according to LTE.
US10057817B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for communicating by a mobility management entity (MME) in a mobile communication system. A method includes receiving, from a target base station, a first message including a first network identification of a target node, in a connected state of a terminal; determining whether the first network identification differs from a second network identification of a source node, in an idle state of the terminal; and transmitting to the source node a second message requesting disconnection, if the first network identification differs from the second network identification of the source node.
US10057816B2
The teachings relates to method (40) in a target network (node16) of a target core network in a first domain during handover, in the first and in a second domain, of a communication device (20) from a source radio access network to a target radio access network. The source radio access network comprises a source access node (11) and the target radio access network comprises a target access (node12). The method (40) comprises determining (41) whether the communication device (20) has access admission to the target core network; when a hand over fails generating (42) a hand over failure message comprising an information element “Independent domain HandOver”, where in the information element is set to a predefined value indicating whether the hand over failed due to lack of access rights or for other reasons than lack of access rights. The teachings also relates to devices and further to methods in source nodes.
US10057812B2
The present invention provides a method, apparatus and a computer program product for improving TCP performance in mobile networks. The present invention discloses obtaining, at an intermediate network node, a quality measure of a connection between a content server and a user equipment, detecting, at the intermediate network node, whether the quality measure fulfils a predetermined condition, and, if the quality measure does not fulfill the predetermined condition, sending, by the intermediate network node, an acknowledgement message triggering a freeze mode of the connection between the content server and the user equipment.
US10057809B2
A system and method to establish and maintain a connection between devices, which in one example embodiment of a method, may comprise receiving a request to establish a connection between a first communication device and a second communication device. A determination is made as to whether the second communication device is reachable via a data network. Based on the determination that the second communication device is reachable over the data network, a connection between the first communication device and the second communication device is established via the data network. Based on the determination that the second communication device is not reachable over the data network, a connection between the first communication device and the second communication device is established via a telecommunications network. Additional systems and methods are described.
US10057807B2
Wireless transmission is performed by storing, in a local memory, a header in association with reference(s) to memory locations in a separate, shared memory storing a payload for a given transmission. Each header can be associated with a QoS queue. When a selected payload is to be transmitted, a PHY preamble can begin, followed by a header from local memory, while a DMA transaction initiates to retrieve payload from the shared memory. Each retrieved portion of payload can include a link to a next location storing a next part of payload. A subsequent DMA is initiated for that part of the payload. A relatively fixed function circuit can initiate DMA and receive payload data; a programmable element can perform payload selection, for example. Multiple payloads can be aggregated (just before transmitting of a preamble) using header information stored in the fast local memory. Memory can be released after ACK of a corresponding payload.
US10057805B2
In accordance with one example embodiment, there is provided a method that includes determining whether a received overload message includes a traffic load reduction indication element; determining a percentage of network elements to which to relay the received overload message if the received overload message includes the traffic load reduction indication element; and selecting ones of the network elements to which to send the received overload message based on the determined percentage. The method may further include modifying the received message to change a value of the traffic load reduction indication element; and sending the modified message to the selected ones of the network elements. In some embodiments, the received overload message includes a mobility management element (“MME”) START message.
US10057798B2
Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for determining a range between devices based, at least in part, on measurements of wireless tone signals transmitted between devices. In particular, two devices may measure tone signals transmitted between the two devices for determination of a round-trip phase measurement. Obtaining multiple round-trip measurements from tone signals transmitted at different carrier frequencies may enable resolving at least some range ambiguities.
US10057792B2
A wireless communication link can include an uplink and a downlink between a wireless access point and a computer device. The uplink supports communications from the computer device to the wireless access point. The downlink supports communications from the wireless access point to the computer device. The computer device executes a downlink monitor application to monitor events occurring on the downlink. The wireless access point or other suitable resource such as a remote management resource executes an uplink monitor application to monitor events occurring on the uplink. The uplink application and the downlink application log events using the same master clock. The remote management resource can be configured to analyze the uplink status information in view of the downlink status information to perform one or more functions such as troubleshooting, optimizing network settings, etc.
US10057786B2
A data expansion system that provides for wireless communication includes a set of roadway communication devices configured to enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. The system includes a first roadway communication device configured to receive data from a first electronic device in a first vehicle and a second roadway communication device communicatively coupled to the first roadway device. The second roadway communication device is configured to communicate the data to a second electronic device in a second vehicle. Each roadway communication device includes a wireless transceiver to transmit and receive data; a communication interface to establish communication links with other roadway communication devices; and processing circuitry to relay the data between the other roadway communication devices or electronic devices in respective vehicles. Each roadway communication device also includes a housing that contains the processing circuitry, communication interface and the wireless transceiver. The housing is configured to be mounted within a roadway surface.
US10057785B2
Disclosed relates to a method, device, and system for performing downlink transmission. Specifically, the disclosed relates to a method including when the downlink signal includes a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a channel in the specific cell is sensed to be idle for a first predefined interval, wherein the processor performs backoff after the second predefined time in order to perform the downlink transmission, and when the downlink transmission includes a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) and the channel in the specific cell is sensed to be idle for a second predefined interval, performing the downlink transmission immediately after the second predefined interval, and a device and system therefor.
US10057776B2
An analytics containment system store RSSI values of connected stations and corresponding time stamps. If two or more stations have RSSI values within a certain proximity within a certain time period, a first condition for identifying analytics poisoning has been satisfied. Additionally, if RSSI values for the two or more stations changes at similar rate, the stations have satisfied a second optional condition.
US10057773B2
System, methods, and computer program products are provided for interfacing between one of a plurality of service provider (SP) trusted service managers (TSM) and one of a plurality of secure elements (SE). A first request to renew a service is received from an SP system over a communications network. The first request includes a service qualifier associated with the service. A secure element corresponding to the service qualifier is determined. A second request to delete data associated with the service qualifier from the secure element is transmitted to the secure element. A third request to install an application on the secure element is transmitted to the secure element. A fourth request to activate the application on the secure element is transmitted to the secure element.
US10057764B2
A privacy preserving sensor apparatus is described herein. The privacy preserving sensor apparatus includes a microphone that is configured to output a signal that is indicative of audio in an environment. The privacy preserving sensor apparatus further includes feature extraction circuitry integrated in the apparatus with the microphone, the feature extraction circuitry configured to extract features from the signal output by the microphone that are usable to detect occurrence of an event in the environment, wherein the signal output by the microphone is unable to be reconstructed based solely upon the features.
US10057752B2
A method for allocating radio resources for a D2D communication between a first device and a second device is disclosed. The method includes identifying device(s) relevant for the D2D communication between the first and second devices, obtaining location information for the identified device(s), determining a value of a distance parameter for each of the identified devices using the location information obtained for the device and one or both of location information for the first device and location information for the second device, and allocating one or more radio resources for the D2D communication between the first device and the second device based on the determined value of the distance parameter.
US10057748B1
Embodiments of the present invention relate to, in general, for technology application restructuring and deployment for home receiver integration. The system is configured to provide a technology application on a home receiver, such as a functionally tethered smart device, to facilitate performing user activities. Typically, the system is configures the user mobile device as a remote control for allowing the user to perform technology activities using the tethered smart device technology application, via the user mobile device. In some embodiments, the system is configured to initiate presentation of a tethered smart device activity interface on a display device of the tethered smart device. In some embodiments, the system is configured to present an auxiliary mobile interface on a display of the user mobile device, wherein the auxiliary mobile interface comprises the predetermined graphical element of the tethered smart device activity interface, for completion of a technology activity.
US10057743B2
A system is disclosed for the intelligent operation of a small cell. A cell is implemented with multiple cellular transceivers that may be remotely configurable. A local controller monitors the current actual traffic flow from carriers currently be supported by the transceivers and current potential traffic flow from presently unsupported carriers and generates performance data related thereto. The performance data is reported to a remote controller with data analysis capability to develop a profile. Based on profile information, both current and historic, the remote controller can send configuration command data to the local controller. The local controller uses the configuration command data to reconfigure the transceivers in one or more cells to accommodate changing traffic flow patterns.
US10057737B2
The present disclosure discloses a system and a method for automatic call synchronization. When a mobile terminal receives a called signal from a calling mobile terminal and determines that an automatic call synchronization function is enabled by itself, the mobile terminal transmits, to a wireless signal transponder, a call synchronization request which carries identification information and call information of the mobile terminal; a mode recognition unit which is connected to the wireless signal transponder performs an authentication on the mobile terminal according to the identification information of the mobile terminal; and transmits a call access request which carries the identification information and the call information of the mobile terminal to the fixed terminal via the wireless signal transponder, after the authentication on the mobile terminal is passed.
US10057730B2
A method and apparatus for providing a virtual push-to-talk (PTT) button is provided herein. During operation, an augmented reality and object recognition circuitry will detect user's fingers and a free surface near the fingers by analyzing image captured by camera. A virtual PTT button is placed upon an object that is near to user's finger. Gesture recognition will be performed by the circuitry to determine if a user presses the virtual PTT button. When a user presses the virtual PTT button, the circuitry identifies the action and transmits a message to a PTT radio, causing the PTT radio to activate a PTT call.
US10057723B2
A system for managing data related to at least one leaf node device includes a location processing engine located on a server that is remote from the leaf node device, at least one point of interest (POI) device for collecting data via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication signals from the leaf node device on each of a plurality of channels and transmitting the collected data which includes phase angle information, a reader node device for receiving and transmitting the collected data to the location processing engine and a database of the known locations of a plurality of POI devices. The reader device or the location processing engine averages the collected data across the plurality of channels, and the known locations are used along with the averaged data as a basis for determining the location of the leaf node device.
US10057716B1
A method for monitoring an operation status of a disconnected device by a mobile device and an audio analysis system in an infrastructure. The mobile device has connectivity to the infrastructure while the disconnected device has no connectivity to the infrastructure. The mobile device invokes passive listening of the mobile device to a sound generated by the disconnected device, determines whether the sound can be detected by the mobile device, and steams audio with information of a location of the mobile device to the audio analysis system. The audio analysis system determines whether the audio is recorded from the disconnected device, compares the audio with pre-recorded sounds of the disconnected device, determines the operation status of the disconnected device, and sends a notification of the operation status of the disconnected device, in response to determining that the operation status is an event predetermined by a user of the mobile device.
US10057714B2
A system for generating a geofence may include a server that receives location data for an area of interest from a client device. In some embodiments, the system may determine at least two boundary coordinates for the area of interest based on the received location data. The system also may determine an anchor point for a geofence and/or a geofence size based on the at least two boundary coordinates. The at least two boundary coordinates may be opposite corners of the area of interest and the anchor point may be a coordinate between the at least two boundary coordinates. The system also may apply an adjustment factor to determine the size of the geofence. The adjustment factor may be determined based on the distance between the at least two boundary coordinates. Other implementations also are described.
US10057709B2
A user interactive device includes a housing, a user interactive mechanism carried by the housing, a wireless transmitter storing application identifying data identifying an application associated with the user interactive device, and a controller in circuit communication with the wireless transmitter, wherein the controller is configured to communicate device condition data to the wireless transmitter. The wireless transmitter is configured to wirelessly transmit a broadcast data packet including the application identifying data and the device condition data.
US10057708B2
Embodiments are described for an adaptive audio system that processes audio data comprising a number of independent monophonic audio streams. One or more of the streams has associated with it metadata that specifies whether the stream is a channel-based or object-based stream. Channel-based streams have rendering information encoded by means of channel name; and the object-based streams have location information encoded through location expressions encoded in the associated metadata. A codec packages the independent audio streams into a single serial bitstream that contains all of the audio data. This configuration allows for the sound to be rendered according to an allocentric frame of reference, in which the rendering location of a sound is based on the characteristics of the playback environment (e.g., room size, shape, etc.) to correspond to the mixer's intent. The object position metadata contains the appropriate allocentric frame of reference information required to play the sound correctly using the available speaker positions in a room that is set up to play the adaptive audio content.
US10057704B2
An audio providing apparatus and method are provided. The audio providing apparatus includes: an object renderer configured to render an object audio signal based on geometric information regarding the object audio signal; a channel renderer configured to render an audio signal having a first channel number into an audio signal having a second channel number; and a mixer configured to mix the rendered object audio signal with the audio signal having the second channel number.
US10057697B2
A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, having a protection system is disclosed. The device includes an input unit for receiving an acoustic signal from a user's surroundings and providing a corresponding audio signal, and an output unit receiving said audio signal and providing an audible signal to the user, where the hearing device further includes a barrier element for protecting elements of the hearing device. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a hearing device inlet system.
US10057693B2
An intrusive binaural speech intelligibility predictor system receives a target signal comprising speech in left and right essentially noise-free and noisy and/or processed versions at left and right ears of a listener. The system comprises a) first, second, third and fourth input units for providing time-frequency representations of said left and right noise-free and noisy/processed versions of the target signal, respectively; b) first and second Equalization-Cancellation stages adapted to receive and relatively time shift and amplitude adjust the left and right noise-free and noisy/processed versions, respectively, and to provide resulting noise-free and noisy/processed signals, respectively; and c) a monaural speech intelligibility predictor unit for providing final binaural speech intelligibility predictor value SI-Measure based on said resulting noise-free and noisy/processed signals. The Equalization-Cancellation stages are adapted to optimize the SI-Measure to indicate a maximum intelligibility of said noisy/processed versions of the target signal by said listener. The invention may e.g. be used in development systems for hearing aids.
US10057687B2
The present invention provides a speaker structure, comprising a vibrating component, an electromagnetic component, an casing and an integral washer conductive sheet. The electromagnetic component comprises a central magnet and peripheral magnets which are disposed around the central magnet. The integral washer conductive sheet replaces a washer structure and an conductive sheet structure in a traditional speaker structure and is integrally formed by the washer and an conductive sheet which are combined into one part. The integral washer conductive sheet comprises a washer part and an conductive sheet part, wherein the washer part is disposed on the peripheral magnets and the conductive sheet part extends out of the casing. By adopting the integral washer conductive sheet according to the present invention, those skilled in the art can simplify an internal structure of the speaker, save production materials, simplify molding and assembling procedures, and improve production efficiency.
US10057676B2
The present invention relates to an enigma system comprising wearable universal control (WUC), a hearable, and an electronic device associated with a data source. The WUC is activated using hand/finger movements and/or voice commands that signal the electronic device to select an item in the user's environment and perform predefined information searches in the database and transfer such information to said hearable. The WUC is configured to control any number of devices selected by a user without the need for hardware or software changes. The enigma system can monitor the user's environment and automatically provide selectable information about the user's environment allowing a user to better “decoded” his environment as well as provide warnings.
US10057667B2
A method implemented by a middlebox comprising registering a customer premises equipment (CPE) in the middlebox, wherein the CPE is coupled to the middlebox via an electrical line, and facilitating registration of the CPE in a central office (CO) equipment coupled to the middlebox.
US10057664B1
A computer-implemented method for generating an automated response to a catastrophic event, that includes (1) analyzing a sample set of data generated in association with a catastrophic event to determine a threshold pattern; (2) receiving, with customer permission or affirmative consent, home sensor data from a smart home controller via wireless communication or data transmission, the home sensor data including data regarding at least one of (i) structural status; (ii) wind speed; (iii) availability of electricity; (iv) presence of water; (v) temperature; (vi) pressure; and/or (vii) presence of pollutants in the air and/or water; (3) determining, based upon or from computer analysis of the home sensor data, whether the home sensor data indicates a match to the threshold pattern; and (4) automatically generating a response if the home sensor data indicates a match to the threshold pattern. As a result, catastrophic events and responses thereto may be improved through usage of a remote network of home sensors.
US10057660B2
Providing correlated programming information for broadcast media content and streaming media content
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing correlated programming information for broadcast media content and streaming media content. In one implementation, a processing device receives first programming information that includes scheduling information for media content originating at a first source. The processing device correlates the first programming information with second programming information, the second programming information including scheduling information generated based on a current time for a media content item originating at a second source. The processing device provides the second programming information as correlated with the first programming information.
US10057659B2
Systems and methods are described herein for a media guidance application that facilitates presenting, to a user, media assets that match a search expression by generating for display media asset identifiers corresponding to media assets that are scheduled for transmission to a plurality of users during a specific time interval. The media asset identifiers corresponding to media assets that match the search expression are distinguished from media asset identifiers that correspond to media assets that do not match the search expression. Furthermore, media asset identifiers corresponding to media assets that match the search expression are distinguished from each other based on an attribute of each media asset that matches the search expression.
US10057657B2
A method of content replacement with onscreen displays. The method can further include sending an overlay request to provide overlay content and an overlay format. The method can include receiving the overlay content and the overlay format selected in view of overlay parameters. The method can include superimposing the overlay content over the media content using the overlay format. The method can include detecting a presence of an onscreen display. The method can include determining a location of a portion of the onscreen display that extends underneath the overlay content. The method can include defining a window in the overlay content that corresponds to at least the location of the portion of the onscreen display. The method can include setting a transparency level of the overlay content in the window to permit the portion of the onscreen display to be at least partially visible through the overlay content.
US10057652B2
An interactive television program guide for supporting programming blackouts is provided. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may unschedule the reminding and recording of blacked-out programs that have been scheduled by a user for reminding or recording. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may prevent a user from scheduling blacked-out programs for reminding and recording. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may prevent a user from ordering blacked-out pay-per-view programs. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may provide blackout information in information displays. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may provide replacement media for blacked-out programs.
US10057646B2
First media segments for a first media program are recorded. The first media program is scheduled to start at a first start time and end at a first end time, whereas a second media program is scheduled to start at a second start time and end at a second end time, the first end time being after the second start time. It is determined whether the first media program and the second media program are on a same channel. If so, one or more shared media segments, one of which is before all other shared media segments in the shared media segments and begins no later than the first time, are recorded. A first media program object is generated to represent a first recording of the first media program, and includes references to the first media segments and the shared media segments.
US10057645B2
Provided are a set top box upgrade method and apparatus. In the method, a version number of a current batch of set top boxes is acquired. It is judged, according to the version number, whether to upgrade the batch of set top boxes in batch. When it is judged to upgrade the batch of set top boxes in batch, the batch of set top boxes is upgraded in batch according to an upgrade mode for each set top box in the batch of set top boxes. By means of the technical solution, the problem of lack of support for a batch upgrade according to an existing upgrade mode causing significant waste of resources in the related art is solved. Set top boxes can be upgraded in batch and user experience can be improved.
US10057644B1
According to one implementation, a content classification system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a video asset classification software code. The hardware processor executes the video asset classification software code to receive video clips depicting video assets and each including images and annotation metadata, and to preliminarily classify the images with one or more of the video assets to produce image clusters. The hardware processor further executes the video asset classification software code to identify key features data corresponding respectively to each image cluster, to segregate the image clusters into image super-clusters based on the key feature data, and to uniquely identify each of at least some of the image super-clusters with one of the video assets.
US10057642B2
Systems and methods are described herein for provisioning power to a power consumption device in a depowered state (e.g., a device not consuming current such as standby current). Aspects discussed herein relate to controlling a detector, switches, and/or an outlet such as a smart outlet. In some examples, a message may be sent to a powered controller. The controller may be configured to send a signal to activate a detector, which may be sent via a wireless signal and/or via generation of a resonance frequency via a tuned circuit (e.g., via resonant coupling). The signal may include “bootstrap” power that enables the detector to activate a switch to receive power from an additional or alternative power source. The detector may further receive and decode the signal to operate one or more outlets or switches, gates, relays, thyristors, transistors, or so on to provide power to a power-consumption device.
US10057637B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for augmenting video streams, includes processing a video stream prior to presentation to identify objects to be selectively augmented in the video stream. The method includes: receiving and storing a first user selection of a preference for one or more aesthetic attributes to be associated with the first user and to be projected to a second user; receiving, at a second different device not associated with the first user, the preference for the one or more aesthetic attributes; identifying, at the second different device, image data associated with the first user and selectively augmenting the identified image data using the one or more aesthetic attributes; and presenting, on the second different device, the identified image data that is augmented by the one or more aesthetic attributes.
US10057630B1
Systems and methods are provided herein for resuming playback of a media content. Media content is provided to the user device. The media content is paused in response to receiving a pause command. A memorability metric associated with a position where the media content was paused is determined. In response to receiving a resume command, the media content is resumed at a position that is earlier in time than the position where the media content was paused. The position where the media content is resumed is based on the memorability metric.
US10057628B2
An interactive video distribution system and video player are described. A client server arrangement may be used for providing a video player and video content to a client device. The video player may display navigation images enabling navigation to specific portions of the video content by activating a corresponding navigation image. The video player may also enable the sharing of a segment of the video with other video players, enabling the video players to play the streamed segment of the video without having to play the entire video, thereby reducing network bandwidth usage. The video player may be embeddable. The server may associate searchable tags with respective video segments.
US10057624B2
A method for controlling a rendering time of a second video content stream on a second device to be synchronized with a rendering time of a first video content stream on a first device, said second video content stream being organized in chunks, includes receiving by a control device a request of a chunk of the second video content stream from the second device, receiving by the control device, the packets of the requested chunk, and delivering by the control device the requested chunk to the second device at a delivery time at which said requested chunk should be delivered to the second device so that the rendering time of the second video content stream on the second device is synchronized with the rendering time of the first video content stream on the first device.
US10057616B1
A system includes a user receiving device that receives content broadcast from a service provider, presents the received content on a display to be viewed by a user, receives a bookmark request signal generated in response to input from the user, generates a bookmark based on the bookmark request signal, and transmits the bookmark from the user receiving device. A storage device remotely located from the user receiving device receives the bookmark from the user receiving device and stores the bookmark with a plurality of bookmarks associated with the user. The plurality of bookmarks stored in the storage device are accessible by the user using a second screen device.
US10057615B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for facilitating the scheduling and controlling the presentation of media content at one or more Venues (e.g., bars, restaurants). The scheduling and presentation is coordinated by a distributed system including a scheduling management server and a local subsystem at the Venue. The system is also configured to receive information from remote devices including electronic media guides as well as user devices enabling venue managers or the public to interact with the system. The system is configured to maintain a content presentation schedule and coordinate presentation at a Venue based on parameters obtained from remote devices including: the requirements of the Venue, requests from Patrons, programming available for presentation and the availability of resources at the venue (e.g., televisions). Moreover, the exemplary system is configured to implement/execute the schedule in view of the specific technological systems and requirements of the Venue's particular media presentation systems.
US10057614B2
An apparatus and a method for providing an adaptive multimedia service in a mobile communication system are provided. The method of providing a multimedia service includes collecting user-preference-aware information, device-capability-aware information, and network-aware information, generating a packet according to a correlation among the user-preference-aware information, the device-capability-aware information, and the network-aware information, and providing a multimedia service according to the generated packet.
US10057612B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal for providing trick play in a digital broadcasting system. A broadcast signal transmission method, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating a video stream by encoding video data, wherein the video stream comprises PVR assist information for performing trick play of the video data; generating signaling information; multiplexing the video stream and the signaling information into one broadcast stream; generating a broadcast signal comprising the multiplexed broadcast stream; and transmitting the generated broadcast signal.
US10057611B2
A satellite broadcast system is used to transmit streams of variable bit-rate content using fixed bit-rate channels that correspond to respective satellite transponder carriers. High bandwidth content is transmitted over multiple transponder carriers in parallel with a combined bandwidth sufficient for the peak bit-rate of the high bandwidth content, whereas multiple streams of low bandwidth content can be transmitted over a single transponder carrier simultaneously by multiplexing the low bandwidth content. High bandwidth content may be multiplexed with low bandwidth content rather than assigning all high bandwidth content to be transmitted exclusively over dedicated high bandwidth transponders.
US10057609B2
Methods and apparatus for optimizing bandwidth utilization in a cable network. In one embodiment, the method comprises predicting which content will be requested by a set of users based upon the exhibited viewing habits of those users (and/or others). A server process gathers viewership data comprising a listing of programs requested by users at various times of the day. The server process aggregates the viewership data, identifies patterns within the aggregated data, and extrapolates a schedule of programs likely to be requested. In certain embodiments, the server process additionally gathers the capabilities of each cable device in an associated subnetwork. Based upon these capabilities, and based upon the total bandwidth predicted to remain available in the network over a target broadcast period, the server process may also select an optimal compression scheme and video quality level before broadcasting a certain program.
US10057605B2
Systems and methods may be provided for retrieving non-on-demand media data and on-demand media data that is provided by separate data sources. On-demand media data may be cached to reduce system latencies and the burden on the distribution network.
US10057597B2
A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a motion vector of a current block. The method of encoding including: generating information about the motion vector based on a motion vector of a current block and a motion vector predictor of the current block by estimating the motion vector and determining a first motion vector predictor candidate from among a plurality of motion vector predictor candidates as the motion vector predictor based on a result of the estimating; and generating a virtual motion vector by using a second motion vector predictor candidate and the information about the motion vector, generating vector differences between the virtual motion vector and the plurality of motion vector predictor candidates, comparing the vector differences with the information about the motion vector, and selectively excluding the second motion vector predictor candidate according to the comparing.
US10057591B2
A method for processing an image in a video device, comprises reading an image and combining the image with metadata related to the image by embedding the metadata in or with the image. The method further includes combining transforming the image and extracting the metadata from the image, before encoding the image in an encoder and utilizing the metadata as input in further processing.
US10057584B2
According to an embodiment, an encoding device includes an index setting unit and an encoding unit. The index setting unit generates a common index in which reference indices of one or more reference images included in a first index and a second index are sorted in a combination so as not to include a same reference image in accordance with a predetermined scanning order. The first index representing a combination of the one or more reference images referred to by a first reference image. The second index representing a combination of the one or more reference images referred to by a second reference image. The encoding unit encodes the common index.
US10057579B2
A method and a device for encoding/decoding an image are disclosed. The method for decoding an image comprises the steps of: decoding information on a quantization matrix; and restoring the quantization matrix on the basis of the information on the quantization matrix, wherein the information on the quantization matrix includes information indicating a DC value of the quantization matrix and/or information indicating differential values of quantization matrix coefficients.
US10057576B2
A moving image coding apparatus performs efficient moving image compression on video with much noise (with a poor S/N ratio), and enables appropriate bit rate control (code amount control). A first orthogonal transform unit performs orthogonal transform of an input moving image. A complexity obtaining unit obtains a complexity of the input moving image based on frequency component data obtained through orthogonal transform by the first orthogonal transform unit. A noise determination unit determines noise in the input moving image based on the frequency component data obtained through orthogonal transform by the first orthogonal transform unit. A code amount adjustment unit generates a code amount adjustment signal based on the complexity obtained by the complexity obtaining unit and the noise determination result obtained by the noise determination unit. A coding unit subjects the input moving image to a coding process including quantization using a quantization parameter value determined based on the code amount adjustment signal generated by the code amount adjustment unit.
US10057574B2
Examples include a device for coding video data, the device including a memory configured to store video data, and one or more processors configured to obtain adaptive loop filtering (ALF) information for a current coding tree unit (CTU) from one or more of: (i) one or more spatial neighbor CTUs of the current CTU or (ii) one or more temporal neighbor CTUs of the current CTU, to form a candidate list based at least partially on the obtained ALF information for the current CTU, and to perform a filtering operation on the current CTU using ALF information associated with a candidate from the candidate list. Coding video data includes encoding video data, decoding video data, or both encoding and decoding video data.
US10057573B2
A moving image coding device includes: a evaluation unit configured to approximate a parameter of a statistic in accordance with a distance from a reference pixel located along the intra prediction direction to a pixel to be processed; a feature amount calculation unit configured to calculate, for a pixel near the pixel to be processed, a feature amount of a prediction value that is based on the intra prediction direction; and a prediction value calculation unit configured to estimate a prediction error corresponding to the distance using the parameter of the statistic approximated by the evaluation unit, reflect the prediction error in the prediction value that is based on the intra prediction direction using the feature amount calculated by the prediction value feature amount calculation unit, and generate a new prediction value.
US10057572B2
An apparatus is provided for encoding an image in an advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) mode. The apparatus includes an inter prediction unit configured to determine motion information of a current block, and generating a prediction block of the current block using the motion information, a transform unit configured to transform the residual block to generated a transformed block, a quantization unit configured to quantize the transformed block using a quantization parameter and a quantization matrix to generate a quantized block, a scanning unit configured to for scan quantized coefficient components of the quantized block, and an entropy coding unit configured to perform entropy-coding on the scanned coefficient components of the quantized block. The quantization parameter is determined per a quantization unit and is encoded using a quantization parameter predictor. The quantization parameter predictor is generated by averaging two quantization parameters.
US10057568B2
A video decoding apparatus for decoding an encoded video bitstream having a sequence of video pictures, wherein at least one video picture is encoded in a plurality of slices, wherein each slice comprises a sequence of raster scan order blocks which can be decoded independently of another slice. The video decoding apparatus comprises: an array store configured to store an array of values, with an array entry corresponding to each block position in the video picture, such that each block position has its own corresponding array entry; a plurality of parsing units each configured to perform a parsing operation on a selected sequence of raster scan order blocks in a selected slice and to write a value to a selected array entry corresponding to a first block in the selected sequence, the value indicating a location of parsed data generated by the parsing operation and required to render the selected sequence of blocks; and a rendering unit configured to render the video pictures using the parsed data with reference to the values written to the array store, wherein the plurality of parsing units are configured to perform their respective parsing operations on the plurality of slices in parallel with each other.
US10057566B2
A waveform monitor for generating a modified image from an original image includes a measuring system to select luminance frequency values of the original image that are above a first and a second threshold. A modifier changes selected pixels of the original image that fall above the first and second thresholds. In some embodiments these changed pixels are given a false color as color markers to indicate DOF and areas of sharpest focus of the original image. Methods of modifying images in this manner are also described.
US10057547B2
A medical image recording device includes an image pickup device generating an image pickup signal by photoelectrically converting light reflected from a subject with use of an image pickup element, wherein an image pickup control unit displays, on a display unit, image data generated for each of frames constituting a video by processing the image pickup signal. A recording control unit records the image data on a memory card. A movement detection unit sequentially compares the image data between the adjacent frames, and calculates an amount of movement of the image pickup device from a positional shift of a main subject between the adjacent frames. If the amount of movement is within a preset range, a camera shake correction unit corrects a blur. If the amount of movement is greater than an upper limit of the range, the recording control unit stops recording of image data on the memory card.
US10057544B2
A vision system for a vehicle includes an imager for a vehicular camera and a data receiving device operable to receive image data captured by the imager. A data transfer system communicates captured image data from the imager to the data receiving device. The data transfer system includes a single differential data line. The single differential data line may use a bi-directional high speed serial differential signaling protocol and a mixed signal PHY interface at each of a plurality of nodes of the single differential data line.
US10057539B2
A method of transmitting a broadcast signal, according to an embodiment of the present invention, includes: compressing headers of first IP packets including first broadcast data; generating first link layer packets including the header-compressed first IP packets and second link layer packets including second IP packets containing second broadcast data; generating third link layer packets including link layer signaling information providing information necessary to process the first link layer packets and the second link layer packets; and generating one or more broadcast frames including the first link layer packets, the second link layer packets and the third link layer packets.
US10057538B2
Methods and apparatus for the generation of interpolated frames of video data. In one embodiment, the interpolated frames of video data are generated by obtaining two or more frames of video data; performing Lagrangian interpolation on one or more portions of the obtained two or more frames of video data to generate a Lagrangian interpolated image; performing Eulerian interpolation on one or more portions of the obtained two or more frames to generate a Eulerian interpolated image; and when the Lagrangian interpolated image and the Eulerian interpolated image should be combined, computing an average interpolated image using the Lagrangian interpolated image and the Eulerian interpolated image; otherwise, selecting either the Lagrangian interpolated image or the Eulerian interpolated image; and generating an interpolated frame of video data using one or more of the average interpolated image, the Lagrangian interpolated image, or the Eulerian interpolated image.
US10057530B2
An apparatus having a rectangular imaging array characterized by a plurality of pixel sensors and a plurality of readout lines is disclosed. The apparatus has a plurality of column processing circuits, each column processing circuit being connected to a corresponding one of the readout lines and a plurality of signal injectors, one signal injector being connected to each of the readout lines. Each signal injector causes one of a predetermined number of voltages to be coupled to that readout line. An exposure for each of the pixel sensors is determined during image recording periods. The signal injectors inject a plurality of calibration voltages into the readout lines during calibration periods, and determines a gain function of an amplifier in one of the column processing circuits by measuring an output of the amplifier for the plurality of calibration voltages, the calibration period is between the imaging recording periods.
US10057529B2
A device has stacked first and second substrates. The first substrate includes pixel array having pixels arranged along surface, the second substrate includes readout circuit having first AD-conversion circuit for generating first digital signals corresponding to first signals from the pixels, first parallel-serial conversion circuit for outputting first serial signal by performing parallel-serial conversion on the first digital signals, and processing circuit for processing the first serial signal. In orthogonal projection to the surface, part of the pixel array and part of the processing circuit overlap with each other. The first AD-conversion circuit is arranged between edge of the second substrate and the processing circuit. The first parallel-serial conversion circuit is arranged between the first AD-conversion circuit and the processing circuit.
US10057526B2
A pixel circuit including a photodiode, a first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor is provided. The first storage capacitor discharges to a first output voltage in a first exposure time and to a third output voltage in a third exposure time. The second storage capacitor discharges to a second output voltage in a second exposure time and to a fourth output voltage in a fourth exposure time. The first and second exposure times are included in a first frame period. The third and fourth exposure times are included in a second frame period. The second frame period is a next frame period of the first frame period. In the first frame period, the first exposure time is subsequent to the second exposure time. In the second frame period, the third exposure time is prior to the fourth exposure time.
US10057520B2
One embodiment provides an image sensor comprising: a plurality of phase difference detection pixels; and a plurality of image detection pixels disposed in a grid pattern along with the plurality of phase difference detection pixels, wherein the plurality of phase difference detection pixels comprise a first pixel group having a shield area biased toward one side from a line connecting two points facing each other in an oblique direction, and thus focus adjustment accuracy may be increased in a diagonal area in which phase difference detection is difficult.
US10057515B2
The present invention is applied to an image pickup apparatus for which, for example, a CMOS solid-state image pickup element is used. One screen image is divided into a plurality of blocks, and a motion is detected for each of the blocks to control the exposure time of the block.
US10057514B2
An image sensor includes n light receiving elements including first to n-th light receiving elements, each of the light receiving elements generating photoelectric conversion signals, n sequencers including first to n-th sequencers, each of the sequencers having both a sequencer input terminal to which a k-th horizontal control signal is input, and a sequencer output terminal from which a (k+1)-th horizontal control signal is output, and n switches including first to n-th switches, each of the switches having a switch input terminal to which a signal corresponding to the photoelectric conversion signal is input, a switch control terminal to which a k-th pixel control signal is input, and a switch output terminal which is electrically connected to the switch input terminal, wherein n is a natural number of 2 or more, and k is a natural number of 1 to n.
US10057508B2
An illumination device with an integrated thermal imaging sensor and method for using the same are disclosed. The device includes a solid state illumination source, and a thermal imager comprising a multi-pixel heat sensing device. A controller is configured to control the thermal imager, and a power source is configured to supply power to the illumination source, the thermal imager, and the controller.
US10057505B2
A method for operating a full-body image capturing and image processing system, comprising at least the method steps of: capturing digital images of a body to be examined; creating at least one combined image from at least two different images; identifying skin surface of the body to be examined in the images and/or combined images; identifying predefined segments of the identified skin surface in the images and/or combined images; identifying skin regions that show reddening or scabbing in the images and/or combined images; calculating the proportional area of the identified skin region per segment; determining a degree of reddening of the skin surface, the degree of scabbing of the skin surface and a degree of curvature of the skin surface in the identified skin regions per segment; calculating one segment value each; calculating a weighted total value; outputting the total value and/or the segment values.
US10057504B2
A display device and a method of controlling the same. The display device includes a display configured to display an image; and a controller configured to perform image processing on the displayed such that a radius of curvature of the displayed image and a radius of curvature of a visible image are different. The image can be enlarged to a maximum area providing in the display device by applying analogous viewing distance calculation method used in the curved display device with respect to the scaling of the image. Accordingly, the discontinuity of the image can be removed by providing continuous scaling, and the perspective, presence, viewing experience can be enhanced while adaptively correcting the brightness. The display device can display the image having the curvature that the user wants, and thus resemble the curved display device. Further, optical illusion of watching the three-dimensional image can be generated.
US10057502B2
A photosensor includes a photoelectric converter including first and second electrodes and a photoelectric conversion layer therebetween; a transistor having a gate, a source and a drain; a connector electrically connecting the first electrode and the gate together; and one or more wiring layers including a part of the connector. The transistor outputs an electric signal from one of the source and the drain, the electric signal corresponding to a change in dielectric constant between the first electrode and the second electrode, the change being caused by incident light on the photoelectric conversion layer. The one or more wiring layers include a first line coupled to the one of the source and the drain and a second line supplied with a fixed voltage in a period during operation. A distance between the first line and the connector is less than a distance between the second line and the connector.
US10057501B2
An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging element; an imaging element driving unit that directs the imaging element to alternately perform imaging operations at a first frame rate and a second frame rate being different from the first frame rate; and a flicker detection unit that detects whether a first flicker of a light source with a first frequency is present and whether a second flicker of a light source with a second frequency is present, based on a captured image signal obtained by an imaging operation at the first frame rate, a captured image signal obtained by an imaging operation at the second frame rate following the imaging operation at the first frame rate and a captured image signal obtained by an another imaging operation at the first frame rate or the second frame rate, wherein the first frame rate and the second frame rate are as defined herein.
US10057493B2
Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin having a lens barrel, a housing configured to accommodate the bobbin, an upper elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing, a lower elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing, a first coil disposed on the bobbin, a first magnet disposed on the housing, a circuit board disposed below the housing, a second coil disposed on the circuit board, a first sensor to output a first output signal based on a sensed result of a magnetic field strength of the first magnet, a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first sensor.
US10057492B2
In the photographing apparatus and the photographing control method, a processor can set one of a still-image photographing mode, and a specified photographing mode other than the still-image photographing mode. An LPF controller allows the optical low-pass filter effect to be obtained by moving the movable member via a driver when the processor has set a photographing mode to the still-image photographing mode, and prohibits an obtaining of the optical low-pass filter effect, obtained by moving the movable member via the driver, when the processor has set the photographing mode to the specified photographing mode.
US10057487B1
Panoramic imaging systems and devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a disclosed panoramic imaging system includes a housing which has a substantially spherical shape and a set of cameras mounted on and enclosed by the housing. The housing is further composed of a first hemispherical substructure which receives a first subset of cameras and a second hemispherical substructure substantially identical to the first hemispherical substructure to receive a second subset of cameras. Each of the first and second hemispherical substructures has a closed boundary, and the contour of the closed boundary resembles the contour of the seam of a tennis ball. Moreover, each of the first and second hemispherical substructures has a shape which resembles the shape of one half of the tennis ball. In some embodiments, the disclosed panoramic imaging system includes eight normal-lens or wide-angle-lens cameras.
US10057483B2
A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a camera; a touchscreen; a memory; and a controller configured to receive a first user gesture indicating a readiness for capturing an image through the camera, receive a second user gesture after receiving the first user gesture for indicating the camera to capture the image, and capture the image after a predetermined time period from receiving the second user gesture.
US10057482B2
A display unit having an image display area for displaying an image, an operation unit by which a predetermined area in the image display area is designated in a movable manner, and a filter unit performing filter processing on the image corresponding to the predetermined area designated in the movable manner by the operation unit. Accordingly, it is possible to easily perform an operation of overlapping a plurality of filter effects, and a comparison of images based on the presence/absence of a filter effect, or different filter effects, without performing a complicated filter operation.
US10057479B2
An electronic apparatus performs control so as to, when a touch restriction mode is not set, change a setting of the apparatus in accordance with a touch operation having been performed in a case where a first screen is displayed, and execute a specific function in accordance with a touch operation having been performed in a case where a second screen different from the first screen is displayed, and when the touch restriction mode is set, change a setting of the apparatus in accordance with a touch operation having been performed in a case where the first screen is displayed, and to not execute at least the specific function in accordance with a touch operation in a case where the second screen is displayed.
US10057473B2
A circuit board device includes a polyhedral support frame and a circuit board unit. The circuit board unit includes two rigid boards and a flexible board connecting the two rigid boards. The two rigid boards are folded with respect to each other through the flexible board and are disposed on different sides of the support frame, respectively.
US10057470B2
An electronic device and a method for photographing an image in a multi-direction is provided. The electronic device includes a case, including a display, an image sensor, and a processor, and a crown disposed on the case, the crown including a camera window. The crown is rotatable and when the crown is rotated, the camera window is rotated, and light passing through the camera window is transmitted to the image sensor.
US10057469B2
A camera shutter arrangement is provided. The camera shutter arrangement includes a motor. A pinion gear is operatively coupled to the motor. An integral paddle-gear member includes a paddle portion and a gear portion. The gear portion extends from the paddle portion and meshes with the pinion gear to move the paddle portion between a first position and a second position when the motor is energized.
US10057465B2
A mouth held photographic mount that is angularly adjustable and has two different reconfigurable structures. In either structure a cell phone is held in a rigid horizontal orientation so as to allow video footage to be shot while the mount is held in the photographer's mouth. The first structure uses an elastic strap to constrain the phone and the second structure uses a vertically adjustable elastic clam to constrain the phone. The shock and vibration isolation of the phone is provided by the human body's own suspension mechanism.
US10057462B2
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a color management unit including one or more color caches to store input colors and corresponding output colors and a color engine (CE) to receive input colors and perform Force-K transformations to map near black input colors into pure black output colors by dynamically identifying the near black input colors based on chroma values and effective output values.
US10057454B2
The disclosure relates to a method of transmitting fax messages from at least one fax message sending device to at least one fax message receiving device. The method is implemented in a fax communication device driver. The method comprises the steps of receiving, from a fax server software module, fax data associated with a fax message to be transmitted from a fax message sending device to a fax message receiving device; deciding, on the basis of at least one predetermined routing rule, whether to route the fax data to the fax communication device or to the cloud provider; and based on a decision result, selectively transmitting the fax data to the fax communication device or to the cloud provider for transmission to the fax message receiving device.
US10057434B2
A cooperative processing system includes an operation terminal and a cooperative processing device connected to each other, and is connectable to a plurality of electronic devices. The cooperative processing system causes one of electronic devices to function as an input device to cause electronic data to be input therefrom and one of the electronic devices to function as an output device to output the electronic data. The cooperative processing system includes an obtaining unit to obtain input device information to specify the input device and output device information to specify the output device, an input control unit to cause the input device to input electronic data through a first interface according to the input device information, and an output control unit to cause the output device to output the electronic data through a second interface according to the output device information in an format appropriate for the output device.
US10057432B1
In a method of payment for service of a portable communication unit, a customer prepays a dealer for said service, the dealer forwards transaction order information about the pre-payment to a prepaid management center (PMC); and the PMC provides a bank the transaction order information. The bank, upon receipt of the transaction order information from the PMC, determines whether there are sufficient funds in the dealer account to cover the transaction. If there is insufficient cash on hand, the dealer is notified and is provided an opportunity to replenish the account so that the transaction may proceed. If there are adequate funds in the dealer account, the bank automatically transfers the amount of the purchase transaction in the SPS account, less the dealer's fee for the purchase. After funds are transferred from the dealer account, the PMC is notified of the transfer, at which time the PMC generates codes and issues the codes to the dealer. The dealer transfers the codes to the user and the user enters the codes into the unit. On a regular basis the bank electronically transfers funds from the SPS account into accounts held by parties entitled to receive the funds.
US10057421B1
Communications-capable devices and agents can each register with a single address of record (AOR), or other such identifier. Various AORs or virtual AORs (VAORs) can then be mapped together whereby a device can be associated with multiple groupings, such as for households where devices may be shared amongst two or more users. The ability to maintain mappings between the AORs/VAORs enables the devices to be associated with multiple groupings while only registering with a single AOR, and simplifies the call routing logic as call connection requests only need to specify a single AOR/VAOR to reach a particular user or grouping of users via the corresponding registered devices. Depending upon the mapping complexity, at least some of the AORs can be function as VAORs for purposes of group mapping.
US10057416B1
Apparatuses and methods concerning routing of calls in an IPBX server are disclosed. A first processing circuit is communicatively coupled to an IPBX server that routes VoIP calls for a plurality of end-users having respective VoIP-enabled devices and generates call event messages for the routed calls. The first processing circuit generates call summary metrics from the call event messages. A second processing circuit evaluates the call summary metrics to identify a set of incoming calls to the IPBX that were missed and have not been returned by the end-users. The second processing circuit cross-correlates the identified set of incoming calls with a secondary data source to determine a respective priorities for the set of incoming calls. The second processing circuit stores data indicating calls of the identified set have a higher priority.
US10057413B2
The subject disclosure describes monitoring when a headset is in communication with a mobile communication device, detecting the headset, comparing a name of a caller and a telephone number of the caller against a list of names and telephone numbers previously stored in a memory, determining that the name of the caller or the telephone number of the caller matches one of the names and telephone numbers in the list, determining that the one of the names and telephone numbers is associated with a pre-recorded message that the user previously recorded and stored in the memory, retrieving the pre-recorded message, and performing a text-to-speech conversion on the name and telephone number of the caller to generate a synthesized speech signal spoken text message and sending the synthesized speech signal and the pre-recorded message to the headset. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10057412B1
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for client-based control of revising caller identifications (IDs) for communications between a private network and a public network. An apparatus including a telecommunications-providing server and processing circuit that communicates client-specific sets of data over an interface protocol. The telecommunications-providing server revises a caller ID for a VoIP call based on the client-specific sets of data, an identifier that corresponds to a requesting endpoint, and a geographic region determined from the call request. Further, the telecommunications-providing server connects the VoIP call by accessing and passing a provisioned VoIP number. The provisioned VoIP includes the revised caller ID which is a local number identified by the determined geographic region that the endpoint is located.
US10057410B2
A system for bi-directional quality testing of a telephony system or network using an audio generation device configured to automate Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality assessments and connect to a communication endpoint through computer telephony integration (CTI) instruction or system configuration to enable auto-answering of the communication endpoint, listen, record, and process signals and audio data, calculate Mean Opinion Scores (MOS), generate signals and audio for playback, compare files using a full reference algorithm, and store data with MOS results displayed in data naming structure.
US10057403B1
Adjustable device settings is described herein. In one or more implementations, a client device is configured with device settings that are compatible with multiple different geographical locations. The client device attaches to a wireless network via a wireless radio of the client device, and receives location information from the attached wireless network. The client device determines a current geographical location of the client device based at least in part on the location information received from the wireless network, and adjusts the device settings of the client device to conform to location-specific settings of the current geographical location.
US10057399B2
A method for providing information to a head unit of a vehicle by using a template-based user interface. The head unit acquires information on multiple applications belonging to a specific category among built-in internal applications of the head unit and external applications stored in a mobile terminal connected with the head unit. The head unit acquires information on available applications that support detailed functions included in the acquired multiple applications belonging to the specific category by individual detailed functions by referring to the information on the detailed functions included in the applications belonging thereto. The head unit to displays one or more lists of the available applications by the detailed functions through the template.
US10057397B2
Disclosed is a wireless headset including: a main body; sub-bodies detachably attached to both lateral ends of the main body by a retractable cable; earpieces detachably attached to the sub-bodies and configured to output a sound when supportedly installed in the sub-bodies; and a controller configured to output the sound wirelessly through the earpieces when the earpieces are separated from the sub-bodies.
US10057396B2
To provide a called one with information on the caller, a reference to a resource containing real-time or near-real-time information relating to the caller, or information deduced using the real-time or near-real-time information, or the real-time or near-real-time information, or the information deduced using the real-time or near-real-time information, is transmitted with a connection establishment request, and the information in the resource or the received information is displayed to the called one before the requested connection is established so that the called one can make a decision whether or not to answer the call.
US10057391B2
An approach is provided for the application of network acceleration technologies to remote node traffic over GPRS tunneling protocols (GTP) in terrestrial mobile communications networks. A proxy device of a first network node receives a stream of data packets that are encapsulated in accordance with GTP. Each GTP packet is de-encapsulated by stripping GTP header from the packet, identifying the TEID (reflecting a respective GTP flow with which the GTP packet is associated), and maintaining a respective GTP payload (PDU). Acceleration functions are applied to the GTP PDUs, and the resulting acceleration packets are transmitted communications network link(s) to a proxy of a second network node. The second node proxy device receives the transmitted packets, and re-encapsulates each packet, in accordance with the GTP protocol, based at least in part on the respective TEID of the packet.
US10057387B2
Communication traffic processing architectures and methods are disclosed. Processing load on main Central Processing Units (CPUs) can be alleviated by offloading data processing tasks to separate hardware. In one implementation, a processing architecture includes a main processor configured to execute a first portion of a driver software to perform protocol control and management task associated with control or management packets in a packet-based protocol according to which packets are received from a device, an offload processor configured to execute a second portion of the driver software to perform data processing task for data packets received according to the packet-based protocol, an interface to enable communication with the device, and an interconnect coupled to the main processor, to the offload subsystem, and to the interface.
US10057386B1
Message summarization and flood suppression may be provided. A proxy (e.g., an IGMP Proxy) process may be used to reduce the flooding of messages (e.g., IGMP messages) over a network (e.g., an EVPN network). A triggering process may also be provided for provider edge (PE) devices to setup their underlay multicast tunnels. The proxy may comprise two components: i) a proxy for reports (e.g., IGMP reports); and ii) a proxy for queries (e.g., IGMP Queries).
US10057378B2
An API rate limiting system may receive a client request from an API client associated with a tenant, formulate a proxied request with an internal authentication specific to the tenant, and send the proxied request to API endpoints (tenant resources) at a store. The store fulfills the request, accessing and modifying local database(s) as needed, and returns a response to the system. The system returns the response to the API client along with information about the API client's quota for the current time window. The system may calculate the quota based on a resource limit with respect to a number of clients accessing a resource. In some embodiments, the system may implement an exponential distribution function in making a determination on a quota per API client per time window.
US10057371B2
A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).
US10057363B2
An agent presence application for monitoring target agent resources and rendering agent states to subscribing applications is provided. The presence application has at least one first portion for collecting data regarding states of activity of the target agent resources, and at least one second portion for integrating the data and rendering the agent states to the to subscribing applications.
US10057357B2
Described herein are methods and devices to provide support for a hidden SSID in an 802.11ad or directional multi-gigabit (DMG) wireless network. An access point (AP) of the DMG network may be configured to explicitly signal the hidden SSID configuration by sending probe responses that signal the hidden SSID configuration and/or signaling the hidden SSID configuration in DMG beacons transmitted by the AP.
US10057347B2
A manager node provides discovery, translation, and mapping services for supported Ethernet protocol layers. The manager node discovers other nodes within the cloud environment and issues commands to each of the discovered nodes to obtain storage device specific information associated to storage devices communicatively connected to the discovered nodes. The storage device information obtained may include such things as device function (initiator or target), device model number, device capacity, and available storage (free), etc. When the manager node has gathered the storage device specific information it makes available to a management application a list of all feasible storage devices that could be utilized within the cloud environment. The management application determines which of the discovered storage devices will be enabled. Subsequently, the manager node serves as an address translator and a gateway between protocols.
US10057344B2
Techniques related to efficient transport of data encoded using multiple templates are disclosed. A sending computing device sends an internet message including internet message segments toward a receiving computing device. The internet message stores information about a data object that includes property types corresponding to property values. A portion of the data object includes multiple instances of a particular property type, and each instance corresponds to a property value. The internet message segments store the property values according to multiple templates, and each internet message segment corresponds to a template. Among the multiple templates is a particular template for the portion of the data object that includes the multiple instances of the particular property type. The multiple templates include fields that correspond to field identifiers. Based on a property-type-to-field-identifier mapping, a corresponding property type can be determined for each property value that is stored in the internet message segments.
US10057342B2
A first neighbor awareness networking (NAN) device may access data network infrastructure and may advertise a service associated with the data network infrastructure to a second NAN device. For example, the first NAN device may announce the service via a service announcement. The second NAN device may subscribe to the service through the first NAN device, and the second NAN device may proxy the service announcement to another NAN device. The other NAN device may also subscribe to the service in response to receiving the service announcement. For example, the second NAN device may operate as a “relay point” to provide the service to the other NAN device.
US10057313B2
According to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means may receive data streams from remote third-party administrator computer servers. A back-end application computer server may receive a set of requests from a first third-party administrator computer server, each request being associated with a request value. The back-end application server may retrieve a first set of pre-determined rules and automatically apply them to the set of requests, resulting in an adjusted request value and an overall value. The back-end computer server may then automatically transmit a settlement instruction, including the overall value, to an electronic transaction system, and render a transaction activity report display via a remote computer device, associated with the first third-party administrator computer server, including information about the set of requests, the adjusted request value along with an indication of a reason for the adjustment, and the overall value.
US10057310B1
In one embodiment, a method includes a system receiving a first request to publish a live video and a first network address associated with a third-party system. The system may receive a second request for content from a first user device and, in response, transmit display instructions, the first network address associated, a second network address from which the live video is available, and a third network address from which an interface application is available. The display instructions may be configured to cause the first user device to: configure a video player application to display the live video obtained using the second network address; obtain the interface application using the third network address; configure the interface application to be displayed over at least a portion of the live video and to communicate with the third-party computing system using the first network address.
US10057309B2
Examples discussed herein relate to a system including a first data processing system and a second data processing system. The first data processing system can be configured to receive a first partial media stream of a media stream split into at least the first partial media stream and a second partial media stream and send the first partial media stream to a device. The second data processing system can be configured to receive the second partial media stream and send the second partial media stream to the device.
US10057308B2
Customizable reproduction of electronic meetings is described. In one or more embodiments, content, such as slides or audio or chat, is obtained from multiple participants of an electronic meeting, such as a web conference. Obtained content is channelized by associating a unique identifier with content based at least partially on which participant contributed the content. Content events may be associated with a time stamp that is derived from a time index of the electronic meeting. Content may be contributed by a presenter participant or a non-presenter participant. To customize reproduction of an electronic meeting, a host may be empowered to select content by designating specific participants for inclusion or exclusion in the reproduction. A user interface may graphically indicate types or time slots of content contributed by individual participants. A host may designate individual content events for inclusion or exclusion by selection or non-selection of displayed time slots.
US10057305B2
A real-time sharing component operating on a computing device such as a smartphone, tablet, or personal computer (PC) is configured to enable a local sharing party to share content with a remote party during a phone call. The real-time sharing component exposes tools, controls, and functions that enable the shared content to be a curated experience in which content available to the sharing party can be selected and shared with the remote party with voice narration while controlling the pacing of the sharing, maintaining privacy so that only intentionally shared content can be seen by the remote party but not other content, and controlling how and when shared content can be saved by the remote party, and enabling the shared content to be zoomed and panned and be highlighted with graphics and/or annotated with text.
US10057304B2
A system and method that fork incoming calls to a destination device or a device that is associated with the destination device is disclosed. The system receives a request to register multiple device for IMS services, receives an incoming call to a destination mobile device, identifies one or more associated mobile devices, and determines one or more forked devices. The system transmits a first notification to each forked device, the first notification indicating that the forked device may accept or reject the incoming call request, and the system receives an acceptance or rejection from one or more forked devices.
US10057299B2
A gateway device includes a media processor module comprising a gateway application module. The gateway device also includes a router module comprising a gateway abstraction module and an interface handler module. The gateway device also includes a shared interface module in communication with the router module and the media processor module. The shared interface module receives a service request signal from the gateway application module. The gateway abstraction module obtains the service request signal from the shared interface module through an interface handler module. The gateway abstraction module communicates a response signal to the media processor module through the shared interface module. The media processor module performs a function in response to the response signal.
US10057297B2
An information processing apparatus which can prevent reduction of user's usability when securing security by restricting establishing communication by the encryption method having weak encryption strength is provided. The information processing apparatus comprises a communication control unit which establishes communication with a communication relay device in any one encryption method among one or more encryption methods and a display unit. In response to an input for restricting establishing communication by the encryption method which does not satisfy predetermined encryption strength, the information processing apparatus displays a first screen on the display unit in a case where the communication control unit is establishing communication with the communication relay device by the encryption method which does not satisfy the predetermined encryption strength, the first screen indicating that the encryption method used in the communication established between the communication control unit and the communication relay device does not satisfy the predetermined encryption strength.
US10057293B2
Methods, devices, and systems are described to modify the life cycle of a Google Android® application, in its application manifest file and byte code, such that the execution of the application can be controlled via policies and security governed by a workspace application installed on an Android-based device. Dummy wrapper classes are inserted into the byte code for network and I/O system calls that call security code before calling the original classes.
US10057285B2
Described herein is a system and method for auditing governance, risk, and compliance using an event correlation architecture. In particular, the event correlation architecture may include a solution designer for defining a solution pack that enforces one or more specific governance, risk, or compliance controls, and a solution manager for deploying the solution pack within the event correlation architecture to configure the architecture for enforcement of the one or more controls. Thus, a collection of content defined in the solution pack may be used to enrich one or more events received at the event correlation architecture, and a correlation engine may then correlate the events using the content in the solution pack to enforce the one or more governance, risk, or compliance controls.
US10057280B2
A method of detecting correlated operations in a common storage. The method comprises providing at least one input operation, each the input operation being designated to write uniquely identifiable data on a memory unit of an application, monitoring a plurality of output operations of the application, each the output operation includes data read from the memory unit, comparing between the at least one input operation and the plurality of output operations to identify at least one matching group of input and output operations wherein each member of the at least one matching group has correlated written or read data in a common correlated target address in the memory unit, and outputting an indication of the at least one matching group.
US10057277B2
A partial URL signing scheme for controlling access to content provided in adaptive streaming such as DASH is disclosed herein. Partial URL signing and verifying algorithms act as extensions to existing URL/URI signing techniques (e.g., IETF URI Signing). Partially signed URLs are signaled in an MPD and may take the form of a prefix, a suffix, or a substring of a URL. Individual segments of the content are requested by the client using URLs constructed based on a URL segment template with partial URL signing information provided as a query parameter for verification.
US10057275B2
A processor-implemented method is provided. The method may include providing a content registry with at least one application program interface (API) to manage a plurality of entries stored in the content registry. The method may also include providing access to the plurality of entries by a pre-authorized search engine to the content registry in response to a search requested by an authorized requester.
US10057266B2
Methods, systems, and devices for enterprise-wide management of disparate devices, applications, and users are described. A cloud-based central server may maintain an integrated hosted directory, which may allow user authentication, authorization, and management of information technology (IT) resources across device types, operating systems, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-premises applications. IT resources for multiple and separate customers may be managed from a single, central directory, and servers may be brought online to allow access to the directory according to system loading.
US10057264B1
An apparatus comprises a processing platform configured to communicate with a plurality of IoT devices over at least one network. The processing platform implements a security-as-a-service portal accessible to the IoT devices, the portal comprising an analytics engine configured to assign trust scores to respective ones of the IoT devices. The security-as-a-service portal provides authentication leveling functionality for the IoT devices based at least in part on the assigned trust scores. In accordance with the authentication leveling functionality, a first one of the IoT devices accesses the security-as-a-service portal to identify a level of authentication to be applied by the first IoT device in authenticating a second one of the IoT devices. The security-as-a-service portal may determine the authentication level to be applied by the first IoT device in authenticating the second IoT device based at least in part on the trust score assigned to the second IoT device.
US10057260B2
A method of generating an identifier for an electronic device, wherein the electronic device includes a processor and a memory. The memory is communicatively coupled to the processor and includes a plurality of memory locations. The method includes identifying a target memory segment. The target memory segment includes a subset of the plurality of the memory locations. The method further includes accessing, by an access procedure, the target memory segment. One or more execution behavioral properties associated with the execution of the access procedure are monitored. A device identifier is generated based on the one or more execution behavioral properties. A computer-implemented method for authenticating the device identifier of an electronic device is also disclosed. Computer systems and computer program products corresponding to the invention are also disclosed.
US10057256B1
A method and system are disclosed for enabling a real-time visual verification that a video relay service (VRS) call originates from a specific pre-authorized and pre-determined inmate at a corrections facility. The method comprises providing a VRS call recorder, a VRS rules gateway, and a VRS video client being used by the inmate to connect to another VRS client being used by a sign language interpreter (SLI). The display seen by the SLI has a picture-in-picture image showing the inmate (from a database of images of inmates stored in the rules gateway) who should be using the VRS client as well as a real-time video image of the inmate actually using the VRS client. If the picture-in-picture image does not match the live video image, then the audio call to the designated phone number may not be placed by the SLI.
US10057255B2
A computing platform may receive, from a client portal server, a request to authenticate a user to a user account a client portal. Based on identifying an activity the request, the computing platform may select a multi-device authentication method for authenticating the user. The computing platform may generate a first one-time passcode for a first registered device and a second one-time passcode for a second registered device, and may send the one-time passcodes to the registered devices. Thereafter, the computing platform may receive and validate one-time passcode input from the client portal server. Based on validating the one-time passcode input, the computing platform may generate a validation message directing the client portal server to provide the user with access to the user account, and may send the validation message to the client portal server. In some instances, different authentication methods may be selected for different activities.
US10057253B2
Systems and methods of securely storing and retrieving data are disclosed. A database may include a table of data with rows and columns and encrypted at rest. The data may be desired to be accessed by users. However, each user may have different access permissions and each row or column may have different characteristics, such as encryption, data type, and/or the like. As such, access to the data may be controlled in according to the characteristics of the data, the access permissions of the user, and/or the encryption of the data.
US10057252B1
A system and method provides security features for inter-computer communications. After a user has proved an association with one of several firms, a user identifier of the user that cannot be used to log the user in to a data consolidating system is received by a matching system from the data consolidating system. The validity of the user and the firm is checked at the matching system and, in response to the checking, the user identifier is converted to a different user identifier and the different user identifier is provided to a data providing system by the matching system. The data providing system provides the data of the user in response, and the matching system forwards the data to the data consolidating system.
US10057242B2
An invention is provided for authentication in a network environment. The invention includes displaying an authentication image on a display device, and generating a captured image by capturing an image using a client device. The captured image then is analyzed to determine color band values of selected pixels of the captured image. Once analyzed, a comparison result is generated by comparing the color band values the selected pixels of the captured image to color band values of corresponding pixels of the authentication image. If the comparison result is within a predetermined threshold authentication is provided.
US10057233B2
An image processing apparatus transmits, after reception of a login notification of an authenticated user, the login notification to an identified application, and then changes displaying of a screen of a display unit to displaying of an initial screen corresponding to the identified application. After the displaying of the display unit has been changed to the displaying of the initial screen, the image processing apparatus transmits the login notification to, among applications belonging to a first group, an application to which the login notification has not been transmitted, and applications belonging to a second group.
US10057225B1
Disclosed in some examples are devices, systems, and machine readable mediums for establishing peer to peer mobile wallet communications (P2PMW) over short range wireless communication networks. These P2PMW communications allow exchange of information between two wallet clients. Example communications include payments, providing identification, providing loans, and the like. The use of P2PMW communications opens up the prospect of anyone accepting payment from anybody else at any time. All that is needed is a computing device with a mobile wallet. Example short range wireless communications include Wireless LANs (WLAN) such as WIFI (e.g., communicating according to an Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards), BLUETOOTH® or the like.
US10057219B2
A remote access system for processing local data with a computing algorithm stores information on various computing algorithms available via the system. A remote user at a user system selects an algorithm, which is then encrypted and downloaded to the user system. The downloaded algorithm is decrypted and stored in host memory in a controlled manner. Alternatively, the selected algorithm may be offered through cloud processing, in which case the user uploads local data for cloud processing. In this case, the system manages the cloud processing at remote providers and tracks heuristic, caching, and performance. In either case, the local data is processed with input parameters from the user, and visual results are provided to the user along with a cost for storing final results of the processing. Once the user makes the required payment, the final results can be stored locally at the user system.
US10057217B2
A system and method for transmitting data using a data transfer protocol, including receiving, at the first device, a request from the second device, the request containing a transformed identifier, determining an original identifier associated with the transformed identifier, retrieving a response object associated with the original identifier, the response object including one or more identifiers, transforming the response object by transforming each identifier contained in the response object, and sending the transformed response object to the second device.
US10057214B2
A system that converts standardized lightweight database access protocol (LDAP) requests into a series of domain name system (DNS) requests to look up requested information. DNS responses are validated using DNS security extensions (DNSSEC) to ensure their validity, then converted into standardized LDAP responses. The system is either operated as a service for public use on the Internet or private use in an enterprise; or as an application running on end user machines, e.g., laptops, mobile phones, to guarantee end-to-end security by validating responses on the end user machine. The standardized, widespread nature of the LDAP allows existing applications to immediately reap the benefits of global, ubiquitous, cross-organizational, trans-national data distribution via DNS secured by DNSSEC.
US10057206B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for combining updates of a social network feed. In some implementations, a feed of a social networking system can be configured to share feed items associated with an enterprise record. The feed items can include a first update associated with a first user. A first request to share a comment on the first update can be processed. A second request to share a first post in a feed can be processed. The first post can be related to the first update based on a first attribute conforming to a second attribute. A combined update can be generated based on the first post being related to the first update. The combined update can be displayed in a feed.
US10057205B2
Systems and methods for production of a collaborative electronic multimedia composition allow an initiator to select a collaboration template and multiple collaborating users. The collaborating users receive invitations to contribute to the collaborative electronic multimedia composition by customizing one or more fields of the collaboration template with multimedia content, including for example photographs and captions.
US10057202B2
A method for managing personal communication data, wherein the personal communication data including a plurality of chat histories from a plurality of chat applications is provided. The method may include converting a first chat history from a first application and a second chat history from a second application into an integrated unified format, whereby the second application is different from the first application. The method may also include storing the integrated unified format into an indexed storage. The method may further include providing a user interface (UI) to access the integrated unified format via the indexed storage.
US10057200B2
Responsive to each of a plurality recipients of an electronic communication accessing the electronic communication and accessing information that is associated with the electronic communication but not contained in a body of the electronic communication, activity information relating to activities of respective electronic communication recipients accessing information associated with the electronic communication can be received. A request to receive at least one recommendation as to who is able to provide information pertaining to the electronic communication can be received from another electronic communication recipient. Responsive to receiving the request, each of the electronic communication recipients can be rated to generate at least one recommendation as to who is able to provide information pertaining to the electronic communication, the recommendation based, at least in part, on the received activity information and respective weighted attributes. The recommendation can be communicated to other electronic communication recipient.
US10057194B1
A network device determines whether a utilization threshold is reached, the utilization threshold associated with memory resources of the network device, the memory resources including a shared memory and a reserved memory. Available memory in the shared memory is available for any egress interfaces in a plurality of egress interfaces, and the reserved memory includes respective sub-pools for exclusive use by respective egress interfaces among at least some of the plurality of egress interfaces. First packets to be transmitted are stored in the shared memory until a utilization threshold is reached, and in response to determining that the utilization threshold is reached, a second packet to be transmitted is stored in the reserved memory.
US10057192B2
An information processing system includes a switch device including a plurality of ports; and a control device configured to: specify a flow in which a transmission port is to be changed among the plurality of flows, and a transmission port after the change, by referring to load distribution information that associates flow information and port information with each other and statistics information indicating use rates of the ports, and transmit a changing instruction packet including information of the specified flow and the port after the change, for instructing the switch device to change the transmission port to the switch device, wherein the switch device is configured to update information in header information, which each of the series of packets included in the specified flow includes, so as to become information with which the port after the change is selected, when the changing instruction packet is received from the control device.
US10057184B1
Configurations of computing resources established on a web-based computing service can be monitored, managed and controlled. According to an embodiment, a configuration compliance service is implemented. Policy rules governing attributes of configuration states for computing resources in a subscriber's account are defined. The computing resources in the account are monitored for changes to configuration states. In response to detection of a change to a configuration state that violates a rule, a predefined action is taken. The predefined action can include sending a notification to the subscriber's account, reconfiguring the configuration state of the computing resource, and deactivating the computing resource.
US10057169B2
There is provided a frame processing device includes a plurality of output ports; a table in which a destination address is stored in association with an output port; a buffer configured to store a learned frame, an un-learned frame, and a copy frame generated by copying the un-learned frame; a transfer unit configured to read a second frame from the buffer in an order in which the second frame is stored and transfer the second frame to a predetermined output port; a storage configured to store the destination address of the learned frame; and a controller configured to discard the second frame to be transferred by the transfer unit, when the second frame is the un-learned frame and the destination address of the second frame is stored in the storage, wherein the second frame transferred to the plurality of output ports is output as the first frame.
US10057167B2
A protocol such as OpenFlow providing communication between an SDN framework controller on one network and a data plane device for another network can be used to modify or process network packets so that an external application or server can communicate with the controller and obtain information needed to uniquely associate the packets with particular end-stations even after those packets have traversed a NAT router.
US10057164B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus can include a filter module configured to receive multiple Media Access Control (MAC) addresses associated with multiple virtual ports instantiated at a first network device. Each virtual port from the multiple virtual ports can be associated with a MAC address from the multiple MAC addresses. The filter module can be configured to define a filter to be applied to a data frame sent between the first network device and a network switch, the filter being based at least in part on a MAC address prefix included in each MAC address from the plurality of MAC addresses. The MAC address prefix can include an identifier uniquely associated with a second network device at which the filter module operates.
US10057163B2
A method for communicating between a remote device and a control server is described. The method include receiving a reduced packet when a reduced server identifier matches a control server, identifying the control server, constructing a device network packet, sending the device network packet to the control server, accepting a control network packet, building a reduced control packet, and transmitting the reduced control packet to the remote device.
US10057152B2
Embodiments are directed to providing an indication of unseen email messages to a mobile device user, to establishing an unseen email message count and to maintaining a consistent unseen email message count across multiple mobile devices. In one scenario, a computer system receives subscription data that subscribes a user to email push notifications. The subscription data includes a token ID and a timestamp. The computer system determines that a new email message has arrived at the user's inbox and accesses the user's email inbox to determine the number of unseen email messages (which includes the number of email messages that have been received at the user's inbox and have not been seen since the time listed on the timestamp). The computer system also sends a push notification with the number of unseen email messages to each of the user's subscribed mobile devices.
US10057149B2
A delay measuring device of a communication system that includes the delay measuring device sequentially transmitting and receiving frames having a known frame length, and a measurement object device serving as an object for measuring a round trip time by the delay measuring device, includes: an RTT measuring unit to measure a round trip time with respect to the measurement object device a number of times using information for delay measurement in the frame; an RTT change detection unit to detect a change of a value of the round trip time based on the values of the round trip time thus measured; and an RTT determination unit to determine a value of the round trip time to be adopted, from among the values of the round trip time, based on the change of a value of the round trip time.
US10057147B2
Provided is an apparatus for controlling a data flow for multiple paths in a receiving node of a communication system. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive data for a specific sub-flow among a plurality of sub-flows; a controller configured to calculate an optimal transmission rate of the received data, determine a window reference value for generating the optimal transmission rate, and generate an artificial response message if a window size for the specific sub-flow is greater than or equal to the window reference value; and a transmitter configured to transmit the artificial response message to a transmitting node.
US10057146B2
A computer-implemented method of obfuscating communication traffic patterns may include detecting, at a first communications device, data communication sessions with a second communications device via the computer server using a network protocol. At the first device, a first traffic pattern is accessed based on the data communication sessions over a first predefined time period. At the first communications device, a second traffic pattern is accessed based on the data communication sessions over a second predefined time period that occurs after the first predefined time period. At the first communications device, based on a randomization process, a dummy data communication pattern is generated for transmission to the second communication devices, whereby the dummy data communication pattern is appended to the second traffic pattern for obfuscating a traffic pattern change between the first and the second traffic pattern at the computer server used to establish the communication sessions.
US10057134B2
Methods, systems, and products self-identify an electronic device to a remote control. The remote control queries the electronic device, and the electronic device sends a response. A collision avoidance mechanism allows difference devices to respond to the remote control.
US10057133B2
Systems, master node-based apparatus, and methods are described for enhanced monitoring for an event candidate within a wireless node network. Such a system may include a low-level ID node and a mid-level master node. The master node receives a first group of signals, and then detects if the ID node is broadcasting with a cycling broadcast RF power profile setting, receives a second plurality of advertising signals from the ID node also broadcast with this setting. The master node then determines a first average of an observed parameter for the first advertising signals within a first window of time commensurate with the cycling period and a second average of the observed parameter for the second advertising signals within a second window of time commensurate with the cycling period. The master node then identifies and reports the event candidate when a comparison of the first average and the second average indicates a threshold observed change relative to the ID node.
US10057131B1
Embodiments of the presently disclosed invention provide a method and system for dynamically configuring computer networks based on the topology of the network and the devices contained therein. In embodiments of the present invention, the topology-aware configuration generation method and system dynamically configures each of the devices found in the network topology based on each device type and the devices that are connected therewith.
US10057128B2
Methods and systems are provided for adaptive management of local networks (e.g., in-premises networks, which may access or be connected to cable or satellite networks). A network device (e.g., a gateway device) may be configured to function as a network manager in a local network, to manage internal connections and/or communications within the local network. The managing may comprise assessing effects of the internal connections and/or communications on external connections and/or communications with one or more devices and/or networks external the local network; and setting and/or adjusting based on the assessed effects, one or more communication parameters associated with each one of the internal connections and/or communications. The effects of the internal connections and/or communications may result from utilizing one or more physical mediums that are shared with and/or are commonly used by the external connections and/or communications with one or more devices and/or networks external the local network.
US10057107B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing a business services dashboard. In some embodiments, a method might comprise defining relationship(s) between at least one technology service and at least one business service provided by an enterprise, and receiving data associated with real-time technical events corresponding to changed conditions in one or more technology services utilizing at least one technology asset. Each defined relationship might indicate a dependence on the one or more technology services by one or more business services. The method might further comprise identifying, based on the defined relationship(s), one or more business events that impact the one or more business services of the enterprise, as a result of the changed condition. Business user views and technical user views might be generated and sent to user devices associated with respective business and technical group users. Corresponding system and apparatus may be provided.
US10057105B2
An architecture framework to realize Push-to-X services using cloud-based storage services. Push-to-X messages are transmitted between mobile units by messaging servers. The Push-to-X message may include a short text message contained wholly within the Push-to-X message, or the Push-to-X message may include one or more attachments that comprise multimedia contents, files, or location information, which are stored on storage servers, wherein the Push-to-X message identifies a location for retrieving the attachments from the storage servers. The Push-to-X messages may be sent to a single mobile unit identified by a Mobile Directory Number (MDN) or a group of mobile units identified by a list of MDNs or a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
US10057089B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: selecting at least two groups of data from a to-be-processed data stream according to a preset first interval in a staggered manner; performing Fourier transform on each of the at least two groups of data to obtain at least two groups of first data; performing frequency domain filtering on the at least two groups of first data by using a prototype filter, to obtain at least two groups of second data; performing inverse Fourier transform on each of the at least two groups of second data to obtain at least two groups of third data; and adding the at least two groups of third data according to a preset second interval in a staggered manner. In the process, data obtained after transform reserves a feature of a single carrier, and has a low peak-to-average ratio.
US10057084B2
The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for extending VLANs into the cloud using VXLANs. A method for extending an on-premise network to the cloud is described. A cloud bridge connector (CBC) executing on a device in communication with an on-premise network and a cloud network receives a packet from the on-premise network. The CBC identifies, from the packet, a virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier of the packet. The VLAN identifier identifies a VLAN established on the on-premise network. The CBC determines, via a mapping table, a VXLAN identifier of a VXLAN established on the cloud network to transmit the packet on the cloud network. The device modifies the packet to identify the VXLAN identifier and transmits the modified packet on the cloud network.
US10057083B2
The present invention provides a system and method for fusing data collected from detected electromagnetic radiation and mechanical signals. The system is comprised of sensors that may be configured into an array of sensors. A “Full Spectrum” sensor fuses the output data of the sensors with the fused output data synchronized according to time. The fused output data is accessible by a plurality of application platforms that may use the data to provide meaningful feedback from detected events to improve daily life. The system and method is configurable according to a particular application platform to use only relevant data points from the sensors that is subsequently fused by the “Full Spectrum” sensor.
US10057076B2
A method for device-to-device (D2D) communication includes sensing D2D resources from a pool of resources for a predetermined duration to produce measurements of the D2D resources and determining statistics in accordance with the measurements of the D2D resources. The method also includes determining a first subset of the D2D resources in accordance with the statistics and transmitting, by a first user equipment (UE) to a second UE, data over the first subset of the D2D resources.
US10057051B2
A more cost effective wander jitter filter utilizes an excursion detector that receives a timing difference between a first signal and a second signal and supplies a first adjustment amount if a magnitude of the timing difference is above a predetermined threshold and otherwise supplies a second adjustment amount of zero. A summing circuit adjusts a magnitude of the timing difference by the first or second adjustment amount. A loop filter receives the summing circuit output and controls an oscillator. The excursion detector output (first adjustment value or zero according to the magnitude of the timing difference) is low pass filtered and the low pass filtered is reintroduced into the oscillator output or the feedback loop. The excursion detector output is accumulated and used to adjust a phase of the feedback signal from the oscillator.
US10057046B1
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for calibrating transceivers by providing a stored index that was calculated of a race condition count. The race condition is based at least in part to a rat race between a clock signal and an input signal that has been sampled by a random or jitter signal. The stored index corresponds to a relative timing error between the clock signal and the sampled input signal. The stored index is used to scramble subsequent input signals that are thermo-coded signals, thereby eliminating timing errors.
US10057043B2
The present specification relates to a communication method and apparatus. The communication method for a base station (P-ENB) that controls a primary cell (PCell) of user equipment (UE) according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: receiving a packet from a serving gateway through a non-primary (NP)-evolved packet system (EPS) bearer for a serving cell of a non-P-ENB base station (NP-ENB); generating a first radio link control packet data unit (RLC PDU) using the received packet; and transmitting the generated first RLC PDU to the NP-ENB.
US10057032B2
A method for transmitting data for a half-duplex device in a wireless communication system is provided. The half-duplex device receives first downlink control information from a base station in a first subframe. The half-duplex device transmits uplink data to the base station in a second subframe. The first downlink control information includes a resource through which the uplink data is transmitted and information on the second subframe.
US10057027B2
A method for receiving a reference signal including receiving a configuration about a subband from the base station through a higher layer signaling, wherein the RS is allocated to the subband; and receiving a subframe including a reference signal resource allocated by a unit of the subband, and an apparatus are provided.
US10057015B1
When a UE is being served by a base station over a first air interface in a client-server relationship and the UE receives from the base station a HARQ NACK for a transmission over the first air interface, the UE will responsively engage in the HARQ re-transmission to the base station over a second, different air interface, such as through a peer-to-peer communication to the base station. The first air interface may be an OFDMA air interface such as LTE, and the second air interface may be a WLAN air interface such as WiFi. Engaging in re-transmission via the second air interface may enable the base station to complete receipt of the data from the UE and thereby provide the UE, via the first air interface, with a HARQ ACK. This arrangement may help reduce delay in re-transmission, which may be particularly useful for delay-sensitive communications such as VoIP communications.
US10057010B2
A method for receiving data frames which consists of determining a reference frame by firm decisions on the value of each bit received and then verifying the reference frame according to an integrity check code used for the transmission. The method may include the following steps: calculating, for each bit of said reference frame, a plausibility value that represents the probability of a transmission error; and, in the event of incompatibility with said integrity check code, identifying in said reference frame a non-empty finite set of the most plausibly erroneous bits in accordance with said plausibility values; listing candidate frames each corresponding respectively to one of the possible combinations of numbers of reversals of the identified most plausibly erroneous bits; and verifying the compatibility of the listed candidate frames with said integrity check code.
US10057008B2
The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, formatting, by an input formatting block, input streams into plural PLPs (Physical Layer Pipes); encoding, by an encoder, data in the plural PLPs; time interleaving, by a time interleaver, the encoded data in the plural PLPs, wherein the time interleaving includes: cell interleaving, by a cell interleaver, the encoded data by permuting cells in a FEC (Forward Error Correction) block in the plural PLPs; frame mapping, by a framer, the time interleaved data onto at least one signal frame; and waveform modulating, by a waveform block, the mapped data in the at least one signal frame and transmitting, by the waveform block, broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US10057007B2
In a transmission method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, a encoder performs error correction coding on an information bit string to generate a code word. A mapper modulates a first bit string in which the number of bits is the predetermined integral multiple of (X+Y) in the code word using a first scheme, the first scheme being a set of a modulation scheme in which an X-bit bit string is mapped to generate a first complex signal and a modulation scheme in which a Y-bit bit string is mapped to generate a second complex signal, and modulates a second bit string in which the first bit string is removed from the code word using a second scheme different from the first scheme.
US10057002B2
Method and apparatus for removing interference and receiving signal in wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method for a terminal for removing interference and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprises the steps of: receiving configuration information for channel status information; and reporting, to a base station, the channel status information, and an indicator of whether the channel status information has been calculated on the basis of network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression (NAICS).
US10056997B2
A wireless communication system transmits information requested by a wireless communication terminal to the wireless communication terminal moving through a spot wireless area. In a wireless base station, an external information communication control section controls communication with a server. A contents memory stores at least a part of contents received from the server. A wireless communication section communicates with the communication terminal using a predetermined communication method. A control section establishes connection with the communication terminal using a first connection which does not require an authentication procedure, or using a second connection which requires the authentication procedure. An access control (restriction) section permits access from the communication terminal to the contents memory and prohibits access to the server when a type of connection is the first connection, and permits access from the communication terminal to the contents memory and to the server in the case of the second connection.
US10056994B2
A controller controlling radio transmission of a plurality of radio devices in a radio communication system in which each of the plurality of radio devices constituting a cluster transmits data with a same frequency and with transmission weights each of the plurality of radio devices to a terminal device belonging to the cluster, the controller includes, an acquisition unit configured to acquire radio propagation characteristics between the terminal device and the each of plurality of radio devices, a determination unit configured to determine radio a plurality of devices constituting the cluster to which the terminal device belongs, based on the acquired radio propagation characteristics, and a control unit configured to determine transmission weights of each of the plurality of radio devices constituting the cluster, based on the radio propagation characteristics of each of the plurality of radio devices constituting the cluster.
US10056991B2
A remote data concentrator includes an enclosure with an interior divided into first and second compartments, a first transceiver, and a second transceiver. The first transceiver is seated within the first compartment and the second transceiver is seated within the second compartment. The first and second compartments are radio-frequency isolated such that the transceivers can independently communicate with external wireless devices and communicate with one another for testing readiness of the RDC for communication with external wireless devices.
US10056987B1
A system for measuring radio frequency power of an incoming radio frequency signal is described, with at least one radio frequency interface for receiving the radio frequency signal, a signal processing unit for processing the radio frequency signal, a frequency selection unit for separating at least two frequency bands of the incoming radio frequency signal, the frequency selection unit comprising several filters, at least one power detector for measuring the radio frequency power of at least one of the frequency bands processed by the at least one power detector. At least one of the several filters is connected with the at least one power detector. The frequency selection unit is configured to forward the incoming radio frequency signal to at least one of the filters wherein the frequency selection unit has at least a first operation state in which the incoming radio frequency signal is forwarded to more than one filter simultaneously or subsequently.
US10056973B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for storing, in a non-transitory memory device, multi-layer network information comprising at least one of link availability, bandwidth availability, priority levels for paths in a multi-layer network, path status in the multi-layer network, and status for network elements in the multi-layer network; receiving, via at least one input component, a message from a network element in the network comprising information indicative of a failure of a working path in the network; determining, automatically, based at least in part on the multi-layer network information, an alternate path for transmission of the data traffic through the network; and transmitting, via at least one output component, at least one signal comprising configuration instructions to at least one optical line module, the configuration instructions directing the optical line module to switch and select the data traffic using the alternate path.
US10056972B2
A low-level reset message having a reset level provides a mechanism for an optical line terminal (OLT) to remotely reset a dysfunctional optical network unit (ONU). The reset message includes a reset level field which allows the OLT to instruct the ONU to perform a reset of some or all of its hardware and software components.
US10056967B2
Based on electronic communication received from a wireless device or from an access point, it is determined that a wireless signal relay is needed between the wireless device and the access point. In response to the determination, a drone is deployed between the wireless device and the access point to relay wireless signals between the wireless device and the access point. The deployed drone measures a first strength of a first wireless signal received from the wireless device or measures a second strength of a second wireless signal received from the access point. Based on the measurements, it is determined that the wireless device has moved relative to the access point after the drone has been deployed. In response to the determining that the wireless device has moved, the location of the drone is adjusted to maintain the first strength or the second strength above a predetermined level.
US10056966B2
Disclosed herein an interference cancellation repeater and repeating method. The interference cancellation repeater includes a reception unit, an analog-to-digital (AD) converter unit, a digital processing unit, a digital-to-analog (DA) converter unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives an analog signal. The AD converter unit converts the analog signal into a digital signal. The digital processing unit determines whether a feedback signal is present by analyzing the correlation between the digital signal and a previous transmission signal, and performs an operation of cancelling the feedback signal if, as a result of the determination, it is determined that the feedback signal is present. The DA converter unit converts a signal output from the digital processing unit into a transmission analog signal. The transmission unit sends the transmission analog signal.
US10056965B2
A data expansion system that provides for wireless communication includes a set of roadway communication devices configured to enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. The system includes a first roadway communication device configured to receive data from a first electronic device in a first vehicle and a second roadway communication device communicatively coupled to the first roadway device. The second roadway communication device is configured to communicate the data to a second electronic device in a second vehicle. Each roadway communication device includes a wireless transceiver to transmit and receive data; a communication interface to establish communication links with other roadway communication devices; and processing circuitry to relay the data between the other roadway communication devices or electronic devices in respective vehicles. Each roadway communication device also includes a housing that contains the processing circuitry, communication interface and the wireless transceiver. The housing is configured to be mounted within a roadway surface.
US10056964B2
Various implementations disclosed herein enable transforming mutable wireless coverage areas using network coverage vehicles (NVCs) that are orchestrated by a network coverage controller. In various implementations, the method includes receiving coverage area performance characterization values from NCVs configured to provide a plurality of mutable wireless coverage areas. In various implementations, an arrangement of the mutable wireless coverage areas mutably defines the service area, which changes in accordance with changes to the arrangement of the mutable wireless coverage areas. In various implementations, the method also includes determining NCV operation adjustments for some of the NCVs based on the received coverage area performance characterization values in accordance with a service performance metric; and, altering an arrangement of one or more of the plurality of mutable wireless coverage areas within the service area by providing the NCV operation adjustments to some of the NCVs.
US10056959B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a directional direction selection method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: sending L groups of pilots in an omnidirectional direction manner, where the L groups of pilots are received by UE by using L directional directions, and the L groups of pilots are used by the UE to switch to a directional direction with best channel quality in the L directional directions; sending, by a base station, S groups of pilots by using S directional directions respectively; determining, by the base station, an optimal directional direction in the S directional directions according to the channel quality corresponding to the S groups of pilots; and switching, by the base station, to the optimal directional direction in the S directional directions.
US10056956B2
A method for a channel state information (CSI) feedback in an advanced communication system. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information for a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback using a higher layer signaling, wherein the CSI feedback configuration information includes a combination of an oversampling factor (O1, O2) and a dual polarized CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) antenna port layout (N1, N2), and wherein subscripts 1 and 2 stand for a first dimension and a second dimension, respectively, and a number of dual polarized CSI-RS ports P=2N1N2. The method further comprises determining, by a user equipment (UE), the PMI using a Class A codebook and the configured combination of the (O1, O2) and (N1, N2) and transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback over an uplink channel including the determined PMI.
US10056951B2
A non-coherent multi-user MIMO communication method is disclosed. Firstly, a data transmission method includes the acts of a) estimating the signal-to-noise ratio for each receiver; b) selecting a power sharing factor for each receiver; c) encoding information to be sent to each receiver into a symbol for each receiver; and d) transmitting, by a transmitter, a signal that includes the power sharing factors and the symbols for all of the receivers. Furthermore, a reception method includes the acts of: i) receiving the power sharing factor; ii) decoding the signal corresponding to the highest power sharing factor; iii) determining if the signal decoded in step ii) corresponds to the current receiver; iv) if the decoded signal corresponds to the current receiver, finalize the reception; and v) if the decoded signal does not correspond to the current receiver, proceed with the following power sharing factors.
US10056924B2
The present disclosure discloses a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) design which is suitable for providing a high output power high-speed DAC, e.g., in radio frequency applications. The DAC design utilizes a parallel DAC structure, e.g., having 8 parallel DACs and an aggregate current output, to provide a high and programmable current output (in some implementations, up to 512 mA or more). The parallel DAC structure alleviates the design problems which exist in trying to output a high amount of current using a single DAC. The DAC design further utilizes a hybrid structure which integrates the signal chain for a more reliable system. In some embodiments, the hybrid structure uses a CMOS process for the current sources and switches and a GaAs cascode stage for combining the outputs to optimally leverage the advantages of both technologies. The result is a highly efficient DAC (with peak output power programmable up to 29 dBm or more).
US10056921B2
A memory system is disclosed. The memory system includes: a memory; a first ECC circuit used to encode information bits of a first length into a codeword of a first ECC scheme, and to decode a codeword of the first ECC scheme read from the memory into decoded information bits of the first length; a second ECC circuit used to encode information bits of a second length into a codeword of a second ECC scheme, and to decode a codeword of the second ECC scheme read from the memory into decoded information bits of the second length; and a control circuit used to combine a plurality sets of the decoded information bits of the first length into the information bits of the second length, and to separate the decoded information bits of the second length into a plurality sets of the information bits of the first length.
US10056909B1
Once a delay locked loop has been locked to a clock signal, an omitted clock cycle is injected into the input of the delay locked loop without stopping the operation of the delay locked loop. The omitted cycle is later detected at an output of the delay locked loop, and the delay between the input and output is determined based on the time the omitted cycle requires to propagate through the delay locked loop. Once determined, the number of cycles of delay for the delay locked loop can be used in conjunction with an internal clock signal to launch data and/or data strobes from memory devices and memory controllers such that the proper phase alignment and clock cycle alignment is achieved.
US10056906B1
A shift operation circuit includes: shift circuits respectively coupled internal buses whose bit numbers partially overlap, each shift circuit receiving one of sets of divided data obtained by dividing input data and one of shift amount signals and outputting the corresponding divided data to a range shifted based on a shift amount represented by the corresponding shift amount signal from a reference bit position in the corresponding internal bus; a shift control circuit configured to output, during a first mode, shift amount signals whose shift amounts are common to the shift circuits, and configured to convert, during a second mode, a shift amount signal for each shift circuit, into a shift amount signal representing a shift range whose bit numbers do not overlap in the internal buses; and a bit selecting circuit configured to select valid divided data from bits whose bit numbers overlap in the internal buses.
US10056904B2
A receiver includes a first input buffering circuit configured to output a first signal by comparing an input signal and a first offset signal; a second input buffering circuit configured to output a second signal by comparing the input signal and a second offset signal; and a signal mixing circuit configured to output an output signal with a corrected duty ratio by combining the first signal and the second signal.
US10056896B2
A switching element driving device includes: a drive circuit that is connected between an element driving power supply and a circuit ground and outputs a driving signal to a driving switching element; a capacitor that is connected between the circuit ground and a reference ground to which a potential reference side conduction terminal of the driving switching element is connected; and a regulator that charges and discharges so that the capacitor has a predetermined terminal voltage. The regulator discharges the capacitor when the terminal voltage exceeds an upper limit value, and charges the capacitor when the terminal voltage falls below a lower limit value.
US10056886B2
A continuously variable saturable shunt reactor includes a laminated core having two wound limbs for each phase connected by yokes. A network winding branch is disposed on each limb, high-voltage ends of winding branches of a phase are connected to a phase conductor and low-voltage ends of winding branches are connected to a DC voltage source, to reduce power of the DC voltage sources, degree of distortion of the operating current and control error, and to reduce the number of DC voltage sources. The DC voltage source includes two stabilized, single-pole-grounded power converters with opposite polarities and two electronic transistor changeover switches controlled by a control system, for each phase. The control system feeds direct current to the winding branches of a phase in pulses using the switches and the direct current is fed into the winding branches at opposite poles from different power converters.
US10056883B2
An SR latch circuit with single gate delay is provided. The circuit has an enable input and an SR latch. There is first input stage having an input for receiving a set input and having an output for producing a first component of the SR latch circuit output, the first input stage having only one transistor that receives the enable input, the first input stage becoming transparent while enabled, the first input stage having a single gate delay between the input of the first input stage and the output of the first input stage. There is a second input stage having an input for receiving a reset input and having an output for producing a second component of the SR latch circuit output, the second input stage having only one transistor that receives the enable input, the second input stage becoming transparent while enabled, the second input stage having a single gate delay between the input of the second input stage and the output of the second input stage.
US10056882B2
At least some embodiments are directed to a flip-flop that comprises a tri-state inverter and a master latch coupled to the tri-state inverter and comprising a first transistor, a first inverter, and a first logic gate. The master latch receives a clock signal. The flop also comprises a slave latch coupled to the master latch and comprising a second transistor and a second inverter. The slave latch receives the clock signal. The flop further comprises an enablement logic coupled to the master latch and comprising multiple, additional logic gates. The tri-state inverter, the master and slave latches, and the enablement logic are configured so that when a flip-flop input signal D and a flip-flop output signal Q are identical and the clock signal is toggled, a state of the master latch and a state of the slave latch remain static.
US10056874B1
Temperature compensation circuits and methods for adjusting one or more circuit parameters of a power amplifier (PA) to maintain approximately constant Gain versus time during pulsed operation sufficient to substantially offset self-heating of the PA. Some embodiments compensate for PA Gain “droop” due to self-heating using a Sample and Hold (S&H) circuit. The S&H circuit samples and holds an initial temperature of the PA at commencement of a pulse. Thereafter, the S&H circuit generates a continuous measurement that corresponds to the temperature of the PA during the remainder of the pulse. A Gain Control signal is generated that is a function of the difference between the initial temperature and the operating temperature of the PA as the PA self-heats for the duration of the pulse. The Gain Control signal is applied to one or more adjustable or tunable circuits within a PA to offset the Gain droop of the PA.
US10056852B2
Rotation speed control systems for an Electronically Commutated (EC) motor and method for controlling rotation speed of an EC motor are described. An rotation speed control system includes a phase detector for detecting a period, an ON time interval, an OFF time interval, and zero crossing time points of the phase cut AC signal; a voltage regulator for converting the phase cut an AC signal into a DC signal; a controller for generating a compatible waveform to drive the EC motor with a rotation speed instructed by the controller, in accordance with an ON/OFF time ratio determined based on the ON time interval and OFF time interval of the phase cut AC signal; and an EC motor interface, powered by the DC signal, for driving each of a plurality of windings of the EC motor with the compatible waveform.
US10056844B2
A power converter with an isolated topology may include a primary side and a secondary side. The secondary side includes a self-powered synchronous rectifier. The synchronous rectifier includes a synchronous rectifier transistor having at least a drain and a gate, a voltage regulator having at least an input that is coupled to the drain of the synchronous rectifier transistor, and an auxiliary transistor having at least a drain that is coupled to the drain of the synchronous rectifier transistor. The auxiliary transistor is on a same die as the synchronous rectifier transistor. The synchronous rectifier also includes a clamping device having at least an output that is coupled to the gate of the auxiliary transistor, and a gate driver circuit having at least: a power supply input that is coupled to the output of the voltage regulator, and an output that is coupled to a gate of the synchronous rectifier transistor.
US10056843B2
A method and a device for supplying energy to a low-voltage load using an electronic power supply device. The method involves: a) setting the power supply device to be able to provide an output current to the low-voltage load up to a specified peak current value upon demand; b) monitoring the output current (IL) provided to the low-voltage load by the electronic power supply device to detect an increase of IL over a threshold (IN) which is lower than the peak current value, c) if an increase of IL to an increased output current value higher than IN is detected, detecting the increased IL value and ascertaining an output current pulse duration (tPulse) based on the increased current value; d) providing IL at the level of the increased current value for the duration of the ascertained tPulse; and e) providing the IL at the level of IN after tPulse has expired.
US10056841B2
An energy storage arrangement or configuration includes an energy store or storage device which can be connected to an electrical energy supply via a buck converter and a choke device. A boost converter is connected parallel with the energy store and the buck converter. The energy store is configured to be charged to a higher voltage level than the voltage level of the electrical energy supply. An energy storage system having multiple energy storage configurations and a method for operating an energy storage configuration are also provided.
US10056840B1
A regenerative direct current (DC) load includes an input circuit, an output circuit, a low pass filter circuit, and a current regulating circuit. The input circuit is configured to receive electrical power. The output circuit is configured to provide electrical power. The low pass filter circuit is electrically coupled to the output in series. The current regulating circuit is configured to regulate a current of the electrical power. The current regulating circuit is electrically coupled to the input. The current regulating circuit includes a first switch, and a first control circuit. The first switch is electrically coupled between the input circuit and ground. The first control circuit is configured to sense the current and adjust a cycle duration and/or duty cycle of the first switch based upon the sensed current.
US10056838B2
This application relates to a power converter circuit for converting a supply voltage received at an input node and providing, at an output node, a current at the converted supply voltage. The power converter circuit contains a DC-DC converter circuit for generating the current at the output node under control of a control signal, a current sensing circuit for sensing a current indicative of a current at the input node, a voltage adjustment circuit for sensing a voltage indicative of the supply voltage and generating an adjusted voltage on the basis of the sensed voltage and the sensed current, and an error amplifier stage for generating the control signal on the basis of the adjusted voltage and a reference voltage. The application further relates to a method of operating such power converter circuit.
US10056836B2
There is provided a DC power source apparatus that can prevent failures in components included in the DC power source apparatus and a load and that can prevent damage to or deterioration in the components. A control unit of the DC power source apparatus includes a function of limiting a duty value that is the ratio of an on-time to the switching period of a switching device, and makes an upper limit value for limiting the upper limit of the duty value variable during switching operation of the switching device.
US10056826B2
A direct-current power supply device is a direct-current power supply device that converts a three-phase alternating current to a direct current and supplies the direct current to a load, and includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected in series between output terminals to the load, a charge unit that selectively charges one or both of the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and a control unit that controls the charge unit. The control unit controls an output voltage of the direct-current power supply device by a charging period of the charge unit, and also controls a power factor and a harmonic current of the direct-current power supply device by a charge timing with respect to a reference phase of the three-phase alternating current of the charge unit as a reference.
US10056823B2
A protection circuit applied to an alternating current (AC) power source includes a sample-and-hold unit, a detection unit, and a discharge signal generation unit. The sample-and-hold unit samples a peak value of a direct current (DC) voltage during each period of a corresponding AC voltage, wherein the AC power source provides the AC voltage. The detection unit generates a detection signal when the DC voltage crosses a reference voltage corresponding to the peak value. The discharge signal generation unit generates a count signal when the discharge signal generation unit does not receive the detection signal within a predetermined time of a period of the AC voltage, accumulates the count signal, and generates a discharge signal to a discharge unit when a number of accumulated count signals is greater than a predetermined value, wherein the discharge unit discharges an X capacitor according to the discharge signal.
US10056815B2
An apparatus for use in a borehole may include a rotor having at least one set of magnetic elements and a cylindrical stator having a winding flowing current in a direction transverse to a long axis of the stator. The polarity of each magnetic element of the rotor may be arranged to alternate along a long axis of the rotor. The stator may be in sliding engagement with the rotor and have a core formed at least partially of laminations aligned along a plane co-planar with the long axis of the stator. Energizing the winding principally causes relative sliding between the rotor and the stator. A method for performing an operation in a borehole includes forming a well tool having at least one linear motor as described above, conveying the linear motor into the borehole, and operating a well tool by activating the linear motor.
US10056813B2
An electromagnetic unit configured for being employed in a stator of an electric machine. The electromagnetic unit is constituted by a unitary solid body, and comprises a neck portion constituted by two end extensions sufficiently spaced apart for receiving therein a portion of a driven component of the electrical machine. The end extensions define therebetween a symmetry axis. The electromagnetic unit further comprises a frame extending from the end extensions and lying on the same or parallel plane as that of the end extensions. The frame has a first frame portion extending to one side of the symmetry axis to an extent W1, and a second frame portion extending to the other side of the symmetry axis to an extent W2
US10056808B2
A brushless DC motor utilizing a single pole double throw reed switch as a rotor position sensor. In one embodiment, the motor has a four-pole internal stator with bifilar windings providing alternating polarization for each subsequent pole, and a hollow outer rotor with radially magnetized ring-shaped permanent magnet. The rotor magnet has magnetically uninterrupted four-pole torque generating surface and incorporates features to interact with the reed switch. A non-uniform air gap between the stator poles and an inner surface of the rotor magnet allows generating a complementary reluctance torque between the energization pulses. The motor includes means to limit the electric current through the reed switch.
US10056806B2
A power tool includes a brushless DC motor having a stator and a rotor pivotably arranged inside the stator, the stator including a first winding, a second winding, and a third winding. Each winding is arranged at at least two opposite poles connected together. The stator windings may be connected in a delta configuration by electrically coupling adjacent terminals of the first and second windings, second and third windings, and third and first windings at three connection points. A baffle may be provided in parallel and adjacent to the stator, the baffle including at least one conductive routing or stamping to facilitate electrically coupling the first, second, and third windings in at least one of a delta or a wye configuration.
US10056802B2
A vehicle driving device includes a rotation shaft, a motor, a drive case having an end wall, a rotation detecting sensor, and an oil pump. The rotation detecting sensor has a sensor rotor and a sensor stator which is fixed to an inner surface of the end wall by a stator fastener. The oil pump includes a pump rotor, an oil pump cover and a seal member. The oil pump cover is joined to a joining surface formed on the outer surface of the end wall by fastening a cover fastener to a cover screw hole. The cover screw hole is formed into a shape opened only to the outside of the drive case and disposed outside of the seal member and a through hole through which the stator fastener is inserted is disposed on the joining surface inside of the seal member.
US10056800B2
A fluid delivery module includes a housing with a housing interior volume, the housing defining a first brush compartment and a second brush compartment within the housing interior volume; an inlet which introduces fluid into the housing interior volume; an outlet which discharges fluid from the housing interior volume; a fluid pump within the housing interior volume and having a pump section and a motor assembly which receives electric power through a first carbon brush and a second carbon brush such that the first carbon brush is received within a first carbon brush holder of the motor assembly and the second carbon brush is received within a second carbon brush holder of the motor assembly; and a filter within the housing interior volume which circumferentially surrounds the fluid pump. The first brush compartment encloses the first carbon brush holder and the second brush compartment encloses the second carbon brush holder.
US10056798B2
A basic electromagnetic component includes an electromagnetic circuit, which is composed of magnetic core and of coil and of one or more optional parts; of permanent magnet and/or of control unit. In the electromagnetic power unit motors, generators or linear motors implemented with basic electromagnetic components are connectable for different current and voltage values by changing the connections of electromagnetic components. An electronic switching module includes internal electronic or electromechanical switches and/or inverters which is composed of control unit to switch and invert polarities of sections of phase coils of an electric motor or generator during its operation and of at least two phase coil sets connected in series or parallel, or in combinations of these, and switching connections between phase coils or phase coil sets in series or in parallel to adjust power and speed in steps by using electric gears.
US10056797B2
A stator includes an annular stator core having slots arranged in a circumferential direction thereof and a stator coil comprised of phase windings. Each of the phase windings includes in-slot portions, each of which is received in one of the slots of the stator core, and turn portions each of winch is located outside the slots to connect one pair of the in-slot portions. Each of the turn portions includes an apex part that is furthest in the turn portion from an axial end face of the stator core and extends in the circumferential direction of the stator core. There are circumferentially-adjacent pairs of the turn portions over the entire circumferential range of the stator coil. For each of the circumferentially-adjacent pairs of the turn portions, the apex parts of the circumferentially-adjacent pair of the turn portions overlap each other in an axial direction of the stator core.
US10056796B2
A joined component comprises a first heated body, a second heated body, a brazing material, a first heated portion and a second heated portion. The first body comprises an insertion opening and an inserted portion coupled with the insertion opening. The second body comprises an insertion portion inserted into the inserted portion through the insertion opening. The first heated portion is provided at a first position including at least a part of the inserted portion and at least a part of the insertion portion. The second heated portion is provided at a second position separate from the insertion portion where a ratio “L/D” satisfies being 0.4 or more and 0.8 or less, where “L” is a length from the insertion opening to the second portion and “D” is an outer diameter of the second heated body.
US10056793B2
A stator 1 includes a plurality of divided cores 3 constituting a stator core 2, and an annular holder 4 integrally holding the divided cores 3 from the outside. The divided core 3 has an opposite surface 8 opposing an inner circumferential surface of the holder 4. On the opposite surface 8, a recess part 10 extending parallel to a center axis line ax is provided, and on the inner circumferential surface of the holder 4, a projection part 14 entering the recess parts 10 is provided. The projection part 14 comes into contact with an edge of any one of both sidewalls 10a and 10b in the corresponding recess part 10.
US10056792B2
An interior permanent magnet electric machine is described, and includes a stator including a plurality of electrical windings and a rotor disposed in a cylindrically-shaped void formed within the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of steel laminations assembled onto a shaft, wherein the shaft defines a longitudinal axis. Each of the steel laminations includes a plurality of poles and each of the poles includes a plurality of slots disposed near an outer periphery. The slots of the steel laminations are longitudinally aligned. A plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a first subset of the slots, and plurality of packets assembled from anisotropic material are disposed in a second subset of the slots.
US10056790B2
A technology for a wireless transfer station that is operable to wirelessly transfer energy. Energy can be wirelessly transferred with a device or another wireless transfer station using an energy transfer platform having at least one surface. The energy transfer platform can comprise a plurality of wireless transfer coils, wherein the plurality of wireless transfer coils include at least one resonant charging coil and at least one inductive charging coil. Controlling a plurality of wireless transfer coils using a power management module.
US10056788B2
A wireless transmission device includes a coil that generates a magnetic field, and a resonant power storage element module electrically connected with the coil, capable of accumulating electric power, and constitutes a resonance circuit corresponding to a power transmission frequency in cooperation with the coil when transmitting the electric power via the coil. The resonant power storage element module includes a substrate with which a first electric wire and a second electric wire larger in an amount of heat generation than the first electric wire at the time of energization are connected, and a plurality of power storage elements mounted on the substrate. A distance between the power storage elements adjacent to each other on a side of a connection portion connected with the second electric wire in the substrate is larger than that on a side of a connection portion connected with the first electric wire in the substrate.
US10056787B2
The rectifier circuit includes: three terminals A, K, VR; voltage comparator including a positive input terminal, a negative input terminal, and a comparative output terminal; current switching unit including source terminal, drain terminal, and control terminal; first switching unit that conducts or cuts off between source terminal and control terminal of the current switching unit; second switching unit that conducts or cuts off between control terminal of the current switching unit and terminal VR; and reference voltage generator that uses terminal A and terminal VR as input terminals, and includes a voltage output terminal. The voltage output terminal of reference voltage generator is connected to the negative input terminal of the voltage comparator, terminal K is connected to the positive input terminal of voltage comparator, and current flow between first switching unit and second switching unit is exclusively allowed or interrupted by a signal output from the comparative output terminal of voltage comparator).
US10056786B2
In various embodiments, a power transmitting device includes a wireless power generator configured to generate a wireless power signal. A transmit resonator is configured to transmit the wireless power signal via a transmit magnetic field to a power receiving unit. The transmit resonator includes a transmit coil configured to generate that transmit magnetic field in response to the wireless power signal. At least one variable magnetic element is configured to adjust at least one property of the transmit coil by varying a reluctance of the at least one variable magnetic element in response to at least one control signal. A processing device is configured to generate the at least one control signal to select the reluctance corresponding to the at least one property of the transmit coil.
US10056784B2
The invention relates to inductive power transfer (IPT) systems, and has particular relevance to control of IPT systems, and to operation of IPT system primary power supplier. There is provided a method for controlling an IPT system primary power supply having a switched resonant circuit; the method comprising: determining the value of a parameter of the system; determining an energy injection switching pattern having a duration dependent on the parameter value; controlling the resonant circuit according to the determined energy injection switching pattern.
US10056782B1
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for maximum power point transfer (MPPT) in receivers. An example system includes: a plurality of antenna elements configured to receive a wireless signal comprising energy; a plurality of rectifiers corresponding to the antenna elements and configured to rectify the energy; an input boost converter configured to step up the energy, wherein the input boost converter is further configured to determine at least one of a global power maximum and a local power maximum produced in the rectifiers; and a controller configured to determine an available energy at the rectifiers, wherein the controller is further configured to determine a maximum power point value from the rectifiers via the input boost converter, and wherein the controller is further configured to transmit an operational instruction to the input boost converter to further step up the energy rectified by the rectifiers.
US10056781B2
Provided are a power carrier signal coupling circuit and a communication system. The power carrier signal coupling circuit includes a first power carrier signal coupling channel and a second power carrier signal coupling channel. A phase of a three-phase alternating current (AC) power line serves as a common channel, the first power carrier signal coupling channel is arranged between the common channel and one of two phases of the three-phase AC power line other than the phase of the three-phase AC power line serving as the common channel; and the second power carrier signal coupling channel is arranged between the common channel and the other of the two phases of the three-phase AC power line other than the phase of the three-phase AC power line serving as the common channel.
US10056775B2
It is inter alia disclosed to an apparatus (100), comprising an interface (110) configured to be connected to a cable, the interface (110) comprising a first terminal (111) configured to be connected to a first line of the cable, a second terminal (112) configured to be connected to a second line of the cable, and a third terminal (113) configured to be connected to a shield line of the cable, and comprising a charger (120) configured to provide a voltage between the first terminal (111) and the second terminal (112), wherein said voltage is based on a predefined voltage and a compensation voltage, the compensation voltage being dependent on a voltage between the third terminal (113) and the second terminal (112).
US10056771B2
Provided is a control system that can appropriately determine whether or not supply of power to a load is abnormal, and can specify a detailed reason of the abnormality. A control circuit supplies power to a load and shuts off the supply of power in accordance with a power supply/shutoff instruction to supply or shut off power from a battery to the load. The power supply/shutoff instruction is output from a microcomputer to the control circuit. A control unit determines whether or not the supply of power from the battery to the load is abnormal, based on (i) whether the power supply/shutoff instruction output from the output unit is to supply power or shut off the supply of power, (ii) the value of a current flowing from the battery to the load, and (iii) the value of a voltage applied to the load, and specifies a reason of the abnormality.
US10056768B2
A charging cabinet and a control method thereof are disclosed. The charging cabinet includes a controller, a power supply, switches, a charging detector, a status detector, and sockets electrically connected to devices. The switches are selectively tuned on to connect a current path between one of the sockets and the power supply. When a current value of the current path is smaller than a preset current value, the charging detector products a first detection signal. The status detector produces a second detection signal after counting up to more than a preset time period, during which the charging cabinet stays at a suspension status. The controller turns on at least part of the switches after counting up to more than an idle time period, during which the switches in the charging cabinet at the suspension status are tuned off according to the first and second detection signals.
US10056766B2
A system. The system includes a housing, an input port, a plurality of connection ports and circuitry. The input port is surrounded by the housing. The plurality of connection ports are surrounded by the housing. The circuitry is positioned within the housing and is electrically connected to the input port and each of the plurality of connection ports. The circuitry is configured to, for each connection port, supply about 5 volts of electric potential to the connection port, supply optimal amperes of current to an electrical device connected to the connection port, and provide protection from at least one fault condition. The optimal amperes of current is specific to the electrical device.
US10056761B2
Systems and methods include a voltage transformer connected to a power source. The voltage transformer transforms a high voltage of the power source to a first low voltage signal. Regulators are connected to the voltage transformer, and the regulators receive the first low voltage signal from the voltage transformer and convert the first low voltage signal to a second low voltage signal. A remote device is connected to each of the regulators. The remote device is powered by the second low voltage signal from the regulator to which it is connected.
US10056757B2
A control device for controlling the operation of a supply and demand adjustment device that is connected to a power grid includes: detection means for detecting the state of the supply and demand adjustment device; communication means for transmitting the detection result of the detection means to an external device and receiving from the external device operation control information for controlling the operation of the supply and demand adjustment device; comprehension means for receiving and comprehending an adjustment power amount transmitted by bidirectional communication or one-way communication; and control means for, based on the adjustment power amount and the operation control information, controlling the operation of the supply and demand adjustment device.
US10056752B2
A rotary electric machine for a vehicle is provided. The rotary electric machine includes a power system circuit which has a power element and is grounded via a first ground terminal and a first connecting line and a control system circuit which controls the power system circuit and is grounded via a second ground terminal and a second connecting line.
US10056746B1
An electrical slip conduit coupler has a body with an outer periphery and a cylindrical passageway passing through the body for receipt of conduits. The body has a bore extending through the outer periphery to the cylindrical passageway and first and second grooves located along its outer periphery on opposite sides of the bore. The coupler also has a stop clip with a central portion dimensioned to protrude through the bore into the cylindrical passageway, the stop clip has first and second arm portions that are dimensioned to engage the first and second grooves when the stop clip central portion protrudes through the bore, wherein at least one of the arm portions includes an outwardly extending region dimensioned for receipt of a tool to lift the stop clip, and wherein the body includes first and second sight slots to determine if electrical conduits are near the stop clip.
US10056742B1
A system, method, and apparatus lubricating a wire or cable during manufacturing, wherein the wire is aligned with an entry to a spraying enclosure and passes through a first seal of the spraying enclosure. Lubricant is sprayed onto the wire inside of the spraying enclosure while the unapplied, but sprayed, lubricant is collected at the bottom of the spraying enclosure. The wire passes through a second seal of the spraying enclosure, is aligned, and exits from the spraying enclosure.
