US10090101B2
The present invention provides an expandable and flexible apparatus that can be installed on a device including but not limited to a bushing current transformer (BCT), a control power transformer or a toroidal power transformer. Such an apparatus provides at least one connection point on the device that it is installed on. The apparatus comprises a terminal, a terminal plate, a terminal plate expansion strip or a combination thereof. The apparatus is novel because it has an expandable connection that allows for many terminals to link and be positioned in desired configurations and distances, a linking system that makes the apparatus flexible and allows it to follow the contours of the device, and an anti-rotational provision that holds the terminal in position while the user is connecting wires to the apparatus.
US10090100B2
The present disclosure provides a switching power supply, an EMI filter, a common mode inductor and a wrapping method for the common mode inductor. The common mode inductor includes a first coil winding and a second coil winding. The wrapping method for a common mode inductor includes steps of: disposing two isolation blocking sheets at different positions of a magnetic core; wrapping the first coil winding around the magnetic core, wherein the first coil winding is divided into two wrapping areas by one of the isolation blocking sheets; wrapping the second coil winding around the magnetic core, wherein the second coil winding is divided into two wrapping areas by the other one of the isolation blocking sheets, wherein the first coil winding and the second coil winding are symmetrically wrapped.
US10090098B2
An arrangement for reducing a magnetic unidirectional flux component in the core of a transformer includes a measurement apparatus which provides a measurement signal corresponding to the magnetic unidirectional flux component, a compensation winding magnetically coupled to the core of the transformer, wherein magnetic flux flowing in the core induces a voltage in the compensation winding, a switch device arranged electrically in series together with the compensation winding in a current path, a control device which controls the switch device via a control parameter, where the switch unit comprises a magnetic core and a winding arrangement which is magnetically coupled to the magnetic core, and the control parameter is supplied to the winding arrangement such that the magnetic saturation state of the core is variable, whereby the conductive state of the switch unit can be produced.
US10090090B2
The invention provides a nanocomposite magnet, which has achieved high coercive force and high residual magnetization. The magnet is a non-ferromagnetic phase that is intercalated between a hard magnetic phase with a rare-earth magnet composition and a soft magnetic phase, wherein the non-ferromagnetic phase reacts with neither the hard nor soft magnetic phase. A hard magnetic phase contains Nd2Fe14B, a soft magnetic phase contains Fe or Fe2Co, and a non-ferromagnetic phase contains Ta. The thickness of the non-ferromagnetic phase containing Ta is 5 nm or less, and the thickness of the soft magnetic phase containing Fe or Fe2Co is 20 nm or less. Nd, or Pr, or an alloy of Nd and any one of Cu, Ag, Al, Ga, and Pr, or an alloy of Pr and any one of Cu, Ag, Al, and Ga is diffused into a grain boundary phase of the hard magnetic phase of Nd2Fe14B.
US10090087B2
The present invention provides a rare earth based magnet in which the demagnetization rate at a high temperature can be inhibited even if the amount of heavy rare earth element(s) such as Dy and Tb is evidently decreased compared to the past or no such heavy rare earth element is used. The rare earth based magnet of the present invention is a sintered magnet which comprises R2T14B crystal grains as the major phases and the crystal boundary phases among the R2T14B crystal grains. The microstructure of the sintered body is controlled by including crystal boundary phases containing at least R, T and M in the crystal boundary phases, wherein the relative atomic ratios of R, T and M are as follows, i.e., 60 to 80% for R, 15 to 35% for T and 1 to 20% for M.
US10090076B2
A method for forming a body comprising a mixture of a matrix and conductive particles, whereby the conductive particles are formed into aligned conductive pathways in an alignment step by applying an electric field between alignment electrodes and thereafter stabilizing the mixture wherein the conductive particles have a low aspect ratio; and a polymeric composition and method for producing such composition which is curable by UV light to an anisotropic electrically conductive polymer layer, comprising i) providing a non-conductive matrix of a flowable polymer composition having inherent photocurability, ii) adding to matrix conductive particles having low aspect ratio in an amount to allow the concentration of the conductive particles to be maintained at a level lower than the percolation threshold, and iii) placing the formed composition in a receptacle where exposure to UV light is prevented, and a method for establishing an anisotropic electrically conductive, optionally thermally conductive.
US10090072B2
One or more metal printing techniques are described for generating a three-dimensional metal structure, such as a one-dimensional or two-dimensional anti-scatter grid. The techniques comprise applying a thin layer of powdered metal onto a printing area and using a binder (which is printed onto the printing area according to a specified pattern) to bind the powdered metal particles together. The acts of applying powdered metal and a binder may be repeated a plurality of times until a three-dimensional metal structure having a specified height is created. Moreover, in one embodiment, once the layering is complete, another binder is applied to the one or more layers to provide strength and/or support. While heat may be used in some embodiments to activate one or more of the applied binders the three-dimensional metal structure is generally not heated to a melting point of the powdered metal.
US10090060B2
According to one embodiment, a data communication system includes: a data transmitting device that transmits a test pattern; and a data receiving device that receives the test pattern. The data receiving device receives the test pattern with every change in a threshold for determining whether received data is High or Low, compares the test pattern to an expected value for the respective changed thresholds, and selects the threshold based on the result of comparison between the test pattern and the expected value.
US10090058B2
A semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may be configured for detecting a defect of a fuse set. The semiconductor device may include a pseudo initial signal generator configured to generate pseudo initial information on the basis of a test mode signal. The semiconductor device may include a fuse-set defect detector configured to compare fuse-set information of a fuse set or the pseudo initial information with a reference value on the basis of a fuse-set address, and detect a defect of the fuse set.
US10090056B2
A semiconductor memory device includes first and second memory cell transistors between first and second select transistors, third and fourth memory cell transistors between third and fourth select transistors, a first word line for first and third memory cell transistors, a second word line for second and fourth memory cell transistors, first to fourth selection gate lines respectively for first through fourth select transistors, a bit line, and a source line. During a read operation, while a voltage applied to the second word line is boosted, voltages applied to the first word line and the third and fourth selection gate line are also boosted, after which the voltage applied to the first word line is lowered, and the third and fourth selection gate lines are discharged. After the time the third and fourth selection gate lines are discharged, voltages applied to the bit line and the source line are boosted.
US10090047B2
A memory cell structure includes a synapse memory cell including plural cell components, each of the plural cell components including a unit cell, plural write lines arranged for writing a synapse state to the synapse memory cell, each of the plural write lines being used for writing one of a first set of a predetermined number of states to a corresponding cell component by writing one of a second set of the predetermined number of states to the unit cell included in the corresponding cell component, the first set depending on the second set and a number of the unit cell included in the corresponding cell component, and a read line arranged for reading the synapse state from the synapse memory cell, the read line being used for reading one of the first set of the predetermined number of states from all of the plural cell components simultaneously.
US10090046B2
Disclosed is a nonvolatile memory device. The nonvolatile memory device includes a cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a page buffer including a plurality of latch sets, and a control logic. The page buffer is connected to the cell array through bit lines. The latch sets respectively are configured to sense data from selected memory cells among the memory cells through the bit lines. The latch sets respectively are configured to perform a plurality of read operations to determine one data state. The latch sets are respectively configured to store results of the read operations. The control logic configured to control the page buffer such that the latch sets sequentially and respectively store the results of the read operations, to compare data stored in the latch sets with each other, and to select one latch set among the latch sets based on the comparison result.
US10090039B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory circuit including a plurality of memory cells and a refresh control circuit. The refresh control circuit is configured to determine a number of times to perform a target row refresh (TRR) in response to a mode register set (MRS) code signal, wherein the MRS code signal is generated in response to a temperature change, and the refresh control circuit is configured to maintain a refresh cycle of at least two of the memory cells for a period of time when the refresh cycle is changed due to the temperature change.
US10090030B1
Examples disclosed herein relate to a circuit having first and second analog processors and an analog-to-digital converter coupled to the first and second analog processors. The first analog processor provides a first analog signal having a voltage representing a function of a first vector and a second vector. The second analog processor provides a second analog signal having a voltage representing a function of a binary inverse of the first vector and the second vector. The analog-to-digital converter receives the first analog signal and the second analog signal, compares a signal selected from a group consisting of the first analog signal and the second analog signal to a reference voltage and based on the comparison to the reference voltage, determines a digital result representing the function of the first vector and the second vector.
US10090016B2
A storage device controller is configured to select one of multiple written track widths for a storage location based on a write attribute of data to be recorded at the storage location. According to one implementation, the storage device controller is further configured to select a power level for a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) device based on the write attribute.
US10090014B1
A magnetic recording medium for heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) including in ascending vertical sequence: (i) a substrate; (ii) a first amorphous layer, a first seed layer, or a combination thereof; (iii) a heat sink layer comprising hexagonal boron-nitride grains; (iv) an optional second amorphous layer; (v) an optional second seed layer; (vi) a magnetic recording layer; (vii) an optional capping layer; and (viii) an optional overcoat layer; wherein: the magnetic recording medium has a substrate plane and a basal plane perpendicular to the substrate plane; the heat sink layer is anisotropic and has an a-axis thermal conductivity in the basal plane and a c-axis thermal conductivity in the substrate plane, wherein the a-axis thermal conductivity is greater than the c-axis thermal conductivity; and the hexagonal boron-nitride grains have an average size of at least about 10 nm in the substrate plane. Also, provided is a method of manufacturing the magnetic recording medium for HAMR.
US10090007B2
An oscillation mechanism comprises a first spin-polarization layer having a first magnetic moment; a second spin-polarization layer having a second magnetic moment, wherein an orientation of the second magnetic moment is configured to oppose an orientation of the first magnetic moment; and a field-generating layer disposed between the first spin-polarization layer and the second spin-polarization layer for generating a magnetic field that oscillates around one or more of the first and second magnetic moment orientations.
US10090002B2
Mechanisms, in a natural language processing (NLP) system are provided. The NLP system receives a plurality of communications associated with a communication system, over a predetermined time period, from a plurality of end user devices. The NLP system identifies, for each communication in the plurality of communications, a user submitting the communication to thereby generate a set of users comprising a plurality of users associated with the plurality of communications. The NLP system retrieves a user model for each user in the set of users, which specifies at least one attribute of a corresponding user. The NLP system generates an aggregate user model that aggregates the at least one attribute of each user in the set of users together to generate an aggregate representation of the attributes of the plurality of users in the set of users. The NLP system performs a cognitive operation based on the aggregate user model.
US10089994B1
A method of acoustic matching of audio recordings by means of acoustic fingerprinting is disclosed. An acoustic fingerprint is extracted from a fragment of an audio recording. The fingerprint represents a highly discriminative compact digital digest (acoustic hash) of the acoustic recording and consists of smaller digital entities called acoustic sub-fingerprints (acoustic hash-words), computed from perceptually essential properties of the acoustic recording. Two acoustic fingerprints corresponding to two audio fragments are matched to determine degree of acoustic similarity of the two audio fragments.
US10089988B2
Techniques and systems to provide speech recognition services over a network using a standard interface are described. In an embodiment, a technique includes accepting a speech recognition request that includes at least audio input, via an application program interface (API). The speech recognition request may also include additional parameters. The technique further includes performing speech recognition on the audio according to the request and any specified parameters; and returning a speech recognition result as a hypertext protocol (HTTP) response. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10089986B2
Systems and methods to process and/or present information relating to voice messages for a user that are received from other persons. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving first data associated with prior communications for the user on a mobile device; receiving a voice message for the user; transcribing the voice message using the first data to provide a transcribed message; and sending the transcribed message to the mobile device for display to the user. In one embodiment, links associated with person profiles are also provided for the user.
US10089983B1
Methods and systems for adding functionality to an account of a language processing system where the functionality is associated with a second account of a first application system is described herein. In a non-limiting embodiment, an individual may log into a first account of a language processing system and log into a second account of a first application system. While logged into both the first account and the second account, a button included within a webpage provided by the first application may be invoked. A request capable of being serviced using the first functionality may be received by the language processing system from a device associated with the first account. The language processing system may send first account data and the second account data to the first application system to facilitate an action associated with the request, thereby enabling the first functionality for the first account.
US10089982B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining that a software application installed on a user device is compatible with a new voice action, wherein the new voice action is specified by an application developer of the software application. One or more trigger terms for triggering the software application to perform the new voice action are identified. An automatic speech recognizer is biased to prefer the identified trigger terms of the new voice action over trigger terms of other voice actions. A transcription of an utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer is obtained. The transcription of the utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer is determined to include a particular trigger term included in the identified trigger terms. Based at least on determining that the transcription of the utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer includes the particular trigger term, execution of the new voice action is triggered.
US10089976B2
A regional monitoring system can include a plurality of voice sensing units each of which incorporates speech recognition circuitry. In response to recognizing a verbal command at a unit, a coded representation, or token, along with location information, can be transmitted to a system control apparatus. Upon receipt of the token, the control apparatus can carry out the requested command or provide requested information.
US10089964B2
Embodiments provide for a graphics processing apparatus comprising a graphics processing unit including bounding volume logic to encode a first bounding volume and a second bounding volume for a bounding volume hierarchy, wherein the first bounding volume is to be encoded at a higher numerical precision relative to the second bounding volume and the first bounding volume encloses the second bounding volume.
US10089957B2
Disclosed are a page display method and apparatus, which relate to the display field. The method includes: rendering a current page to be displayed to obtain a page image; acquiring gray values of pixels in the page image; determining a display mode according to the acquired gray values, the display mode including a white mode and a black mode; judging whether the display mode matches a screen light-emitting type, the screen light-emitting type including backlight light-emitting and self light-emitting; and performing color inversion processing on the page image and displaying the processed page image when the display mode does not match the screen light-emitting type.
US10089954B2
A source image is transformed into a destination image having a target aspect ratio. A reference region in the source image is defined. An extended region of interest of the source image having the target aspect ratio and containing the reference region is defined. A set of candidate image regions of increasing resolutions from the extended region of interest is determined, each having the target aspect ratio and containing the reference region. Candidate image regions are scaled to form a candidate target images. A quality metric is used to select a target image providing the best quality metric value.
US10089949B2
A gate signal line driving circuit includes plural basic circuits, each outputting to a gate signal line a gate signal which is high during a high signal period and low during a low signal period. Each of the basic circuits includes: agate line high voltage application circuit which is turned on in accordance with the high signal period to apply the high voltage to the gate signal line; a gate line low voltage application circuit which is turned on in accordance with the low signal period t apply the low voltage to the gate signal line; and a second gate line low voltage application circuit which is turned on to apply the low voltage to the gate signal line in at least a part of a period between turning off the gate line high voltage application circuit and turning on the gate line low voltage application circuit.
US10089942B2
A display device includes a mapping unit for mapping main color data having information on three main colors to generate mapped main data including red, green, and blue information and mapped white data including white information, a compensation lookup table for storing a plurality of gamma compensation values, a gamma compensator for generating compensated main data obtained by gamma-compensating the mapped main data based on a first gamma compensation value corresponding to first gamma white data from among the plurality of gamma compensation values and a second gamma compensation value corresponding to second gamma white data from among the plurality of gamma compensation values by referring to the compensation lookup table, a renderer for sub-pixel-rendering the mapped white data to generate rendered white data, and a splitter for converting the rendered white data into the first and second gamma white data based on different first and second gamma curves, respectively.
US10089939B2
The disclosure provides an apparatus for controlling liquid crystal display brightness, the apparatus pre-obtaining a zone backlight value corresponding to a zone image data block according to grayscale values; if the zone backlight value is above a first threshold, multiplying the pre-obtained zone backlight value with a backlight value gain coefficient, which is more than 1, to a obtain backlight value to which a gain is applied, of a backlight zone corresponding to the zone image data block, outputting the backlight value to which the gain is applied, to a driver circuit of backlight source in the backlight zone to control brightness of the backlight source in the backlight zone as a result of driving; if the zone backlight value is below a second threshold, compensating for the grayscale values of the pixels in the zone image data block using compensation coefficients, each of which is more than 1.
US10089938B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel; a planar light source including a light guide plate, a first sidelight light source, and a second sidelight light source; and a control unit. The control unit sets first luminance determination blocks in a first display surface of the image display panel and identifies a first luminance determination block to be a target of luminance correction by referring to luminance information on the light sources. The control unit sets second luminance determination blocks in a second display surface of the image display panel and identifies a second luminance determination block to be a target of luminance correction by referring to the luminance information on the light sources. The control unit controls light source lighting amounts of the respective light sources to satisfy luminance of the identified first luminance determination block and the identified second luminance determination block.
US10089937B2
Described is using a combination of which a multi-view display is provided by a combining spatial multiplexing (e.g., using a parallax barrier or lenslet), and temporal multiplexing (e.g., using a directed backlight). A scheduling algorithm generates different views by determining which light sources are illuminated at a particular time. Via the temporal multiplexing, different views may be in the same spatial viewing angle (spatial zone). Two of the views may correspond to two eyes of a person, with different video data sent to each eye to provide an autostereoscopic display for that person. Eye (head) tracking may be used to move the view or views with a person as that person moves.
US10089935B2
A display device including a display panel; a frame at a rear of the display panel; a first substrate at a front surface of the frame, the first substrate elongated in a direction along a first side of the frame; a plurality of first light sources disposed on the first substrate at predetermined intervals in the direction along the first side of the frame; and a first protrusion and a second protrusion between the first substrate and the frame, the first protrusion positioned at an end of the first substrate adjacent to a foremost light source in the first substrate, and the second protrusion positioned at an end of the first substrate adjacent to a rearmost light source in the first substrate, the first protrusion and the second protrusion being inclined. Further, the first protrusion and the second protrusion are inclined so that a height of the first protrusion close to a second side of the frame connected to the first side of the frame is greater than a height of the first protrusion far away from the second side of the frame and a height of the second protrusion close to a third side of the frame connected to the first side opposite the second side of the frame is greater than a height of the second protrusion far away from the third side of the frame.
US10089929B2
A pixel circuit for use in a display comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. The load-balanced current mirror pixel circuit can compensate for device degradation and/or mismatch, and changing environmental factors like temperature and mechanical strain. The pixel circuit comprises a pixel drive circuit comprising, switching circuitry, a current mirror having a reference transistor and a drive transistor, the reference transistor and the drive transistor each having a first and second node and a gate, the gate of the reference transistor being connected to the gate of the drive transistor; and a capacitor connected between the gate of the reference transistor and a ground potential, and a load connected between the current mirror and a ground potential, the load having a first load element and a second load element, the first load element being connected to the first node of the reference transistor and the second load element being connected to the first node of the drive transistor.
US10089920B2
A rollable display device including a rollable display panel including a plurality of pixels each having an organic light emitting element, a panel driving circuit configured to drive the rollable display panel, a power supplying circuit configured to supply a high power voltage and a low power voltage to the rollable display panel, such that the organic light emitting element emits light based on the high power voltage and the low power voltage, and an ohmic drop compensation margin changing circuit configured to sense a degree that the rollable display panel is unrolled and change an ohmic drop compensation margin of the low power voltage to compensate ohmic drops based on the degree that the rollable display panel is unrolled.
US10089910B2
In the image display device, the vignetting pattern generator generates a vignetting pattern image composed of image data having inverted brightness characteristics obtained by inverting brightness characteristics of a panel of the liquid crystal display. The display controller carries out control to cause a pattern image obtained by combining a flat pattern image in gray composed of image data having a uniform grayscale level and the vignetting pattern image to be displayed on the liquid crystal display. And the correction data calculator calculates correction data for correcting brightness unevenness of an input image based on brightness values of image data of captured images obtained by imaging, by the camera, the pattern images displayed on the liquid crystal display.
US10089907B2
Systems, devices, and methods for a digital signage display assembly. The display assembly includes: a bracket configured to be attached to a wall; a display module configured to be releasably attached to the bracket; a bezel configured to secure the display to the bracket; and a connector module comprising a display-side component affixed to the display, a bracket-side component affixed to the bracket, and a bezel-side connector affixed to the bezel; wherein the bracket-side component is configured for releasable electrical and mechanical engagement with the display-side component.
US10089906B2
An apparatus for a signpost includes a vertical bar comprising a first end and a second end. The apparatus includes an upper bar coupled to the vertical bar. The upper bar includes a center portion substantially perpendicular to the vertical bar and two vertical portions coupled to the center portion. Each vertical portion is coupled to the center portion distal to a connection point to the vertical bar. The apparatus includes a ground anchor coupled to the vertical bar between the upper bar and the second end of the vertical bar. The ground anchor includes one or more spikes oriented toward the second end of the vertical bar, and a tab coupled to the ground anchor and oriented extending away from the ground anchor.
US10089903B2
A method for secure transmission and visualization of encrypted information. A first grid of first and second element types is applied to a first medium. The types differently modify a property of light through the medium. A key defined by element distribution is determined. A second grid with different light-modifying element types is applied to a second medium. A second-grid contoured area defines an information item. Second-grid elements are distributed such that a first-grid element of the second type corresponds to a second-grid element of the first type, a first-grid element of the first type corresponds to a second-grid element of the second type outside the area, and a first-grid element of the second type corresponds to a second-grid element of the second type, and a first-grid element of the first type corresponds to a second-grid element of the first type inside the area. Grid superimposition makes the information visible.
US10089895B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with producing an immersive training content module (ITCM) are described. One example system includes a capture logic to acquire information from which the ITCM may be produced. An ITCM may include a set of nodes, a set of measures, a logic to control transitions between nodes during a training session, and a logic to establish values for measures during the training sessions. Therefore, the example system may also include an assessment definition logic to define a set of measures to be included in the ITCM and an interaction logic to define a set of interactions to be included in the ITCM. The ITCM may be written to a computer-readable medium.
US10089893B2
A method for determining a minimum-thrust descent and rejoining profile in respect of a target point by an aircraft comprises a first step of computing an energy differential of the aircraft in the air ΔEa between a first initial state of the aircraft at an initial geodesic point Qi and a second final state of the aircraft at the final arrival target point Qf. The method comprises a second step of adjusting an adjustable modelled profile of altitude hm(t) and of air speed Vam(t) of the aircraft with the aid of parameters so the adjusted modelled profile of altitude h(t) and of air speed Va(t) of the aircraft ensures the consumption of the variation of energy of the aircraft in the air ΔEa in a fixed required timespan Δtrequired and a fixed required altitude variation tf−ti in the required time timespan, the aircraft operating permanently in an engine regime with constant and minimum thrust. The method comprises a third step of determining a lateral geodesic trajectory of the aircraft on the basis of the adjusted altitude profile h(t), of the adjusted air speed profile Va(t) and of the knowledge of the speeds of the winds in the aircraft's scheduled geographical traversal zone.
US10089887B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for locating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A region of airspace may be scanned with two scanning apparatuses. Each scanning apparatus may include one or more directional Radio Frequency (RF) antennae. The two scanning apparatuses may have different locations. Radio frequency signals emitted by a UAV can be received at each of the two scanning apparatuses. The received radio frequency signals can be processed to determine a first location of the UAV.
US10089886B2
A vehicle decision support system and method capable of processing operational constraints, a flight plan, and appropriate environmental data to generate timely and readily comprehensible guidance are provided.
US10089879B2
Systems and methods provide for tracking objects around a vehicle, analyzing the potential threat of the tracked objects, and implementing a threat response based on the analysis in order to keep occupants of the vehicle safe. Embodiments include a boundary detection system comprising a memory configured to store threat identification information, and a sensor unit configured to sense the object outside the vehicle and obtain sensor information based on the sensed object. The boundary detection system further includes a processor in communication with the memory and sensor unit, the controller configured to receive the sensor information, and control a threat response based on the sensor information and the threat identification information.
US10089878B2
Methods and systems are described for providing improved detection of a motor vehicle traveling against a designated direction of travel in a roadway. Multiple signals among various system constituents are checked against each other to ensure the lack of a false wrong way indication otherwise possible by use of a single detector. An alert is provided to the wrong way motor vehicle operator and other vehicle operators in the vicinity of detection. A long-range or cellular communication may be broadcast to further provide an alert of a wrong way event and to dispatch emergency personnel to the vicinity.
US10089875B2
A cross-traffic detection system suitable for use on an automated vehicle includes an object-detector and a controller. The object-detector is used to determine locations of a moving-object relative to a host-vehicle. Each of the locations is indicated by a lateral-distance and a longitudinal-distance of the moving-object from the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the object-detector. The controller is configured to accumulate a plurality of first-longitudinal-distances of a first-vehicle at a plurality of predetermined-lateral-distances, and determine a path-history of the first-vehicle based on linear-interpolation between successive instances of the plurality of first-longitudinal-distances at corresponding instances of the plurality of predetermined-lateral-distances. The controller is also configured to determine that a second-vehicle is following the path-history of the first-vehicle when the second-vehicle passes within an offset-distance to the path-history that is less than an offset-threshold, and estimate a crossing-distance from the host-vehicle based on the path-history and the offset-distance.
US10089871B2
A monitoring system can determine that a vehicle is not being operated by a driver. Based on the vehicle not being operated, the monitoring system can analyze data from one or more sensors of the vehicle to monitor a passenger compartment of the vehicle. Based on the data from the one or more sensors, the monitoring system can detect an anomaly within the passenger compartment of the vehicle. Based, at least in part, on detecting the anomaly, the monitoring system can transmit a signal corresponding to an alert to a computing device of the driver, the alert indicating the anomaly.
US10089867B2
A turning value corrector corrects turning values contained in multiple pieces of travel history information. A reference turning value calculator uses multiple turning values that have been associated with the same calculation point to calculate a reference turning value. An anomalous travel location detector calculates the divergence from the reference turning value for each piece of travel history information subjected to detection of an anomalous travel location. Locations for which the deviation from the reference turning value is large are detected as anomalous travel locations.
US10089866B2
A method includes configuring a plurality of sub-bounding areas within a primary bounding area. An aggregate traffic message includes traffic information aggregated from the sub-bounding areas and is broadcast throughout the primary bounding area. The roads within the primary bounding area are associated with road classifications, and individual traffic messages associated with those roads are generated. Sub-bounding areas within the primary bounding area are associated with particular road classifications. Individual traffic messages (for particular roads) are selected for inclusion in the aggregate traffic message (broadcast over the primary bounding area) if those messages are associated with a road having a road classification that matches a road classification of a sub-bounding area in which the road is located. The aggregate traffic message is generated by combining the selected individual traffic messages and is transmitted to a station importer.
US10089862B2
A pedestrian alert system supported on a mobile device such as a smartphone, tablet computer, or a wearable computing device which is employed by a user to engage in various activities, is configured to provide visual, auditory, or haptic alerts when the system uses location sensing and map data to determine the user's proximity to a pedestrian street crossing. The alert attracts the user's attention by having the user perform an explicit action to dismiss the alert before being able to continue with the activities on the device. Operations are suspended for applications rendering content on the device display (e.g., a touch screen), user inputs are disabled, and the display may be blurred, dimmed, obscured, or otherwise deactivated. The pedestrian alert system can take a snapshot of application state prior to suspension so that the applications can gracefully resume operations without disruption once the alert is manually or automatically dismissed.
US10089857B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for providing audio notification. A system for providing audio notification comprises a communication device configured to communicate with a delivery arrival detection system, a doorbell coupler configured to couple to a stationary doorbell device, and a control circuit coupled to the communication device and the doorbell coupler. The control circuit being configured to receive a delivery notification from the delivery arrival detection system via the communication device and cause the stationary doorbell device to produce an audible sound via the doorbell coupler.
US10089849B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for isolating a base station beacon and gas reading transmission channel(s) based on a single radio wireless gas detection system. A gas detector may communicate on a first channel (e.g. a beacon channel) constantly listening to the base station beacon information. At a pre-defined interval (e.g. every 60 seconds), the gas detector radio may switch to a second channel (e.g. a data channel) to transmit gas reading data as well as the base station information to a central server. Software on the server may complete a triangulation algorithm to determine the location of the gas detector, using information obtained by the detector from the beacons.
US10089848B2
A monitor for gases and a mine includes a housing. The monitor includes a battery disposed in the housing. The monitor includes a gas sensor portion powered by the battery and in electrical communication with the battery which detects a first gas and at least a second gas different from the first gas in the mine. The monitor includes an alarm portion disposed in the housing, powered by the battery and in electrical communication with the battery which emits a visual alert and an audible alert when the gas sensor portion senses that either the first or second gas is above a predetermined threshold. The monitor includes a wireless communication portion disposed in the housing, powered by the battery and in electrical communication with the battery and the sensor portion, which sends a wireless signal from the housing that the gas sensor portion has sensed of either the first or second gas. The monitor includes a processor disposed in the housing, powered by the battery and in electrical communication with the wireless communication portion, alarm portion, sensor portion and battery. Alternatively, the monitor includes a terminal portion that has two states, an output configuration state in which an output signal is sent from the processor to a first device, and an input configuration state in which an input signal is received from a second device. A method for monitoring gases in a mine. A system for monitoring gases underground. A method and a system for communicating in a mine. A miner communicator. A method for communicating with a minor. A system for monitoring gases on an oil or gas rig. A remote station. A miner apparatus. A method for a miner. A method for a miner to move through a mine.
US10089846B2
A wireless monitoring device, comprising: a housing (10) in which is contained a wireless communication circuit for sending and receiving wireless signals; first and second flexible band portions (12, 14) connected at respective first ends to opposing edges of said housing; at least one antenna coupled to said wireless communication circuit; a connection device (16) for connecting second ends of said first and second band portions (12, 14) together to form a flexible band configured to attach the device to a user; at least one magnet (22) positioned in said first band portion (12); and a magnetic field sensor positioned in said second band portion, wherein said magnetic field sensor (20) is arranged to detect said at least one magnet (22) when said band portions (12, 14) are connected together.
US10089836B2
A transaction processing apparatus includes: a communication unit which performs communication relating to a settlement process of transaction content using a card, with a predetermined settlement destination apparatus; a magnetic card reader unit which reads card information, which is used in the settlement of the transaction using the card, from the card; an input unit to which information regarding various matters relating to the settlement process of the transaction content using the card is input; and a printing unit which prints the card information and various matters of the transaction content as an offline settlement slip, according to the settlement process of the transaction content using the card, when the communication relating to the settlement process in the communication unit is not available. The risk of the transaction information regarding a settlement process performed in an offline state being taken is reduced. The possibility of losing the transaction information tanked in a broken transaction processing apparatus is reduced, while also reducing the complicatedness of a settlement procedure.
US10089833B2
The invention provides an electronic gaming machine (1) comprising an electronic game controller (4) and a display (7) that shows a first game array (11) and two or more second game arrays (30). Each second game array (30) is associated with a respective designated predetermined position (33) of a plurality of predetermined positions (13) on the first game array (11). The appearance of one or more special symbols (25) in one or more of the designated predetermined positions (33) causes the electronic game controller (4) to make each second game array (30) associated with the one or more designated predetermined positions (33) available to the player for play simultaneously with the first game array (11).
US10089829B2
A sports betting system for creating and processing a sports betting entertainment for a plurality of sports bettors. The sports bettors select a plurality of sporting contests from the at least one sporting category. The sports bettors select at least one of the plurality of sports teams as a winning team in each of the plurality of sporting contests. The at least one of the plurality of sports bettors is selected as the won bettor when the plurality of sports teams selected by the at least one of the plurality of sports bettors has won in the plurality of sporting contests. The sports betting entertainment created by the sports betting system is derived from combining several sporting events from a specific category or specific categories into a single betting opportunity and requiring the bettor to successfully select the winner in a daily specified required number of contests.
US10089822B2
In at least some aspects, the present concepts include a wearable haptic device including one or more input devices, one or more haptic output devices, one or more processors, and a communication device, wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the one or more haptic output devices to output a haptic output, of a plurality of haptic outputs, responsive to an event in a game, of a plurality of possible game events, in accord with a mapping of haptic outputs to game events.
US10089812B1
Currency processing systems, coin processing machines, and methods of sorting coins with disk-type sorters are presented herein. A currency processing system is disclosed which includes a housing with an input area for receiving coins and receptacles for stowing processed coins. A disk-type coin processing unit is coupled to the coin input area and coin receptacles. The coin processing unit includes a rotatable disk for imparting motion to coins, and a sorting head adjacent the rotatable disk with shaped regions for guiding moving coins to exit channels which sort and discharge coins through exit stations to the coin receptacles. The sorting head includes a plurality of localized inserts that are fabricated from a material or materials which is/are distinct from the material of the sorting head. Each localized insert has a distinct shape and is readily removably attached at a distinct one of various predetermined locations on the sorting head.
US10089795B2
A leader line arrangement position determining apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and an arranging unit. The receiving unit receives designation of a position of a viewpoint to display an object in a three-dimensional CAD space in which the object is arranged. The determining unit, when the three-dimensional CAD space in which the object is arranged is displayed from the designated viewpoint, determines a shape of the object displayed when viewed from the viewpoint. The arranging unit arranges one end of a leader line at a position determined from the determined shape of the object.
US10089792B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for virtual doorbell augmentations for communications between augmented reality and virtual reality environments. According to one aspect, an augmented reality server computer can provide an augmented reality environment to a user device. The augmented reality environment can include a view of a physical, real-world environment and a virtual doorbell augmentation applied to a residence depicted in the view of the physical, real-world environment. The augmented reality server computer can receive a selection of the virtual doorbell augmentation. In response to receiving the selection of the virtual doorbell augmentation, the augmented reality server computer can request access to a virtual reality environment provided by a virtual reality server computer associated with the residence.
US10089783B2
A graphics processing pipeline comprises a tessellation stage that is configured to tessellate a patch into tessellation primitives. When tessellating the patch, the tessellation stage generates tessellation vertex coordinate pairs that define within a parameter space the locations of vertices of the tessellation primitives for the patch. The tessellation vertex coordinate pairs are initially represented using a first binary representation and are then encoded into a more convenient second binary representation, but without any loss of resolution in the data. The step of encoding comprises mapping at least one of the tessellation vertex coordinate pairs to a mapped coordinate pair that can be represented using the second binary representation, wherein the mapped coordinate pair defines a location within an area of the parameter space that would otherwise be unused, invalid and/or unreachable for the vertices of the tessellation primitives for the patch.
US10089781B2
The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional point cloud model reconstruction method and a device. The method comprises: 1) sampling and WLPO-consolidating an input point set to generate an initial surface point set, copying the initial surface point set as an initial position of an interior skeleton point set, to establish a correspondence relation between surface points and skeleton points; 2) moving points in the interior skeleton point set inwards along a direction opposite to a normal vector thereof, to generate interior points; 3) using a self-adaptive anisotropic neighborhood as a regularization term to perform an optimization of the interior points, and generating skeleton points; 4) performing a consolidation and completion of the initial surface point set using the skeleton points, to generate consolidated surface points; 5) reconstructing a three-dimensional point cloud model according to the skeleton points, the surface points and the correspondence relation between the surface points and the skeleton points.
US10089779B2
An apparatus and method are described for conservative rasterization. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: an edge tagging circuit to identify edges of two or more triangles forming a convex polygon as inner edges or non-inner edges; and a rasterizer to responsively perform rasterization of the two or more triangles using a first edge processing circuit for inner edges and a second edge processing circuit for non-inner edges.
US10089763B2
This disclosure relates to systems, media, and methods for quantifying and monitoring exercise parameters and/or motion parameters, including performing data acquisition, analysis, and providing scientifically valid, clinically relevant, and/or actionable diagnostic feedback. Disclosed embodiments may receive real-time sensor data from a motion sensor or sensors mounted on a user and/or equipment while a user performs a test motion. Disclosed embodiments may also calculate a test motion profile based on the real-time sensor data, the test motion profile describing a multi-dimensional representation of the test motion performed by the user or computed motion profiles. Disclosed embodiments may include comparing the test motion profile to a template motion profile to determine a deviation amount for the test motion profile indicating how the test motion deviated from the template motion profile. Still further embodiments may correlate test motion profiles over time with health indicators.
US10089762B2
A method for navigating through a set of images depicting a scene comprises providing a graph representation of correlations of the images and receiving input for navigation that includes an indication of a current image and weight information to control weights to be given to a plurality of measures of similarities of edges in the graph. The indication of the current image is used to determine a current node in the graph representation. At least one best ranked transition image is determined related to the current image by an edge from the current node, said determining comprising using the weight information to weigh the plurality of measures of similarities for forming a combined measure of similarity for edges from the current node, and selecting the at least one best ranked transition image based on a comparison of the combined measure of similarity for the edges from the current node.
US10089755B2
In part, the disclosure relates to methods of guidewire detection in intravascular data sets such as scan lines, frames, images and combinations thereof. Methods of generating one or more indicia of a guidewire in a representation of blood vessel are also features of the disclosure. A carpet view is generated in one embodiment and regions of relatively higher contrast are detected as candidate guidewire regions. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to selective removal of guidewire segments from a set of intravascular data and the display of a representation of a blood vessel via a user interface. Representations of a guidewire can be toggled on and off in one embodiment.
US10089746B2
Provided are a motion detection system and method. The motion detection system includes a pixel-based detector configured to compare a previous frame and a present frame to extract pixel constituting a first foreground region, a region-based detector configured to extract a second foreground region based on peripheral pixels of a pixel to be inspected, and a motion determiner configured to detect, as a final motion region among pixel groups of the first foreground region, a pixel group comprising pixels corresponding to the second foreground region.
US10089737B2
A system and method for corrected imaging including an optical camera that captures at least one optical image of an area of interest, a depth sensor that captures at least one depth map of the area of interest, and circuitry that correlates depth information of the at least one depth map to the at least one optical image to generate a depth image, corrects the at least one optical image by applying a model to address alteration in the respective at least one optical image, the model using information from the depth image, and outputs the corrected at least one optical image for display in 2D and/or as a 3D surface.
US10089732B2
An image processing apparatus for detecting a singular point from image data having a plurality of pixel signals arranged in a two-dimensional manner, having a stochastic resonance processing unit configured to perform parallel steps in each of which a noise is added to and the result is subjected to binarization processing, synthesize the results of the parallel steps and output the result, with regard to each of the plurality of pixel signals; and a unit configured to detect the singular point based on the output signal value from the stochastic resonance processing unit for each of the plurality of pixel signals. The stochastic resonance processing unit performs the binarization processing on a pixel as a processing target among the plurality of pixel signals based on the pixel signal of the pixel as the processing target and a pixel signal of a pixel adjacent to the pixel as the processing target in a predetermined direction.
US10089729B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, process, display processing system and/or computer readable medium with stored program code structure thereon is configured to provide for obtaining a composite image which simultaneously includes information from a magnitude MR image and a phase MR image. The composite image is generated by assigning a first color display channel to the magnitude MR image and a second color display channel to the phase MR image, and generating the composite image by assigning to respective pixels in the composite image color values based upon a combination of corresponding pixels in the assigned first and second color display channels.
US10089728B2
Feature amount calculation unit determines that the diagnosis target is a bone portion of a subject, and calculates a feature amount of a density of the radiation image based on a soft region in a radiation image acquired by irradiating a photographic subject with radiation. An image processing unit performs image processing including gradation processing on the radiation image, such that the feature amount becomes the target density, to acquire a processed radiation image.
US10089722B2
Described herein is an apparatus and method for reducing artifacts in MRI images. The method includes acquiring a first set of data by under-sampling a first portion of a k-space at a first rate, and a second set of data by under-sampling a second portion of the k-space at a second rate. The method generates a first intermediate image and a second intermediate image based on the acquired first set of data and the acquired second set of data, respectively, and constructs a difference image including artifacts based on the generated first intermediate image and second intermediate image. The method includes reconstructing a final image, by selectively combining the first intermediate image with the second intermediate image, wherein the combining is based on identifying, for each artifact included in the difference image, one of the first intermediate image and the second intermediate image as being a source of the artifact.
US10089721B2
Various aspects of an image processing system and method for object boundary smoothening for image segmentation, includes receipt of a user input to enable selection of a foreground object in an input color image. A frequency of occurrence of foreground pixels with respect to background pixels is determined for a plurality of pixels within a local pixel analysis window. The local pixel analysis window is positioned in a first region of the input color image to encompass at least a first pixel to be validated for a correct mask value. A first cost value and a second cost value is selected for the first pixel based on the determined frequency of occurrence of the foreground pixels. An object boundary is generated for a portion of the foreground object based on the selected first cost value and the second cost value for the first pixel.
US10089719B2
A signal observation includes an input unit that receives a first number of rows and a first number of columns; an observation unit that observes a volume of a target signal by using compressed sensing; a filter having a plurality of elements that are arranged in a matrix and that are capable of individually restricting the volume of the target signal to be transmitted to the observation unit; and a control unit that causes the observer to observe the volume of the target signal transmitted via the filter by changing states of the plurality of elements on the basis of a plurality of observation matrices each having a size determined on the basis of the received first number of rows and the received first number of columns.
US10089717B2
An online content system, such as a digital magazine, includes an image scaling engine for increasing the resolution of images. The image scaling engine comprises a convolutional neural network. An input image is preprocessed for use as inputs to a convolutional neural network (CNN). The preprocessed input image pixel values are used as inputs to the CNN. The CNN comprises convolutional layers and dense layers for determining image features and increasing image resolution. The CNN is trained using backpropagation to adjust model weights and biases. Each convolutional layer of a CNN detects features in an image by comparing image subregions to a set of known kernels and determining similarities between subregions and kernels using a convolution operation. The dense layers of the CNN have full connections to all of the outputs of a previous layer to determine the specific target output result such as output image pixel values.
US10089713B2
A method for registering images aligns a fixed image with a corresponding moving image. A target image and a reference image are selected. The reference and target images are relatively low-res representations of the fixed and moving images respectively. A current image distortion map is determined that defines distortions between the target and reference images. A residual image is determined by comparing the reference image and a warped target image derived from the target image based on the current image distortion map. A residual image distortion map is determined based on transform coefficients of cosine functions fitted to the residual image. The coefficients are determined by applying a DCT to a signal formed by the residual image and image gradients of the warped target or reference image. The current image distortion map is combined with the residual image distortion map to align the fixed image and the moving image.
US10089712B2
System and method providing automatic alignment of aerial/satellite imagery to known ground features
Systems, methods, and other embodiments are disclosed for correcting errors in the geo-spatial locations of acquired image data. In one embodiment, acquired aerial or satellite image data is segmented to generate extracted boundary data. The extracted boundary data represents boundaries of features of a portion of the Earth's surface, but at incorrect geo-spatial coordinates. The extracted boundary data is matched to expected boundary data derived from ground truth data. The expected boundary data represents boundaries of the features at correct geo-spatial coordinates. Adjustment parameters are generated that represent a geo-spatial misalignment between the extracted boundary data and the expected boundary data. Metadata in a header of the acquired image data is modified to include the adjustment parameters. The adjustment parameters may be applied to the acquired image data to generate corrected image data at correct geo-spatial coordinates.
US10089711B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for caching during media content rendering. In one aspect, a method performed by data processing apparatus includes receiving a request to load a digital image object for rendering; generating a first object from the digital image object; and managing the first object in a cache memory using a management object that is added to and removed from the cache memory along with the first object. In another aspect, a system includes a display device; a computer storage medium containing a cache memory; and a processor programmed to manage caching of data objects to be rendered using management objects that are cached along with the data objects, where at least one of the management objects includes a reference to a corresponding data object and an interface through which release and restoration of the corresponding data object is effected.
US10089707B2
A server and methods for performing an ultra-high resolution pan-scan on displays connected across multiple client GPUs are provided. In one embodiment, one of the methods includes: 1) rendering a surface that exceeds resolutions of displays connected to multiple client GPUs; 2) receiving viewport coordinates of one of the displays that is connected to one of the multiple client GPUs; 3) encoding only a portion of the surface that corresponds to the viewport coordinates; 4) sending the portion to the one of the multiple client GPUs.
US10089705B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for processing a large scale graph using GPUs, and more particularly, to a system and method capable of processing larger-scale graph data beyond the capacity of device memory of GPUs using a streaming method. A large-scale graph processing system using GPUs according to an aspect of the present invention includes a main memory, device memories of a plurality of GPUs that process graph data transferred from the main memory; a loop controller that processes graph data transfer in a nested loop join scheme in the graph data transfer between the main memory and the device memory of the GPU, and a streaming controller that copies the graph data to the device memory of the GPU in a chunk or streaming manner using a GPU stream according to the nested loop join scheme.
US10089704B2
Disclosed herein is a digital rights management system that includes a storage module that stores a usage right for digital content in a tamper-resistant portion of a memory. The system also includes a flag status module that generates a flag corresponding with a transfer status of the usage right, sets the flag to one of a plurality of transfer statuses, and stores the flag in the tamper-resistant portion of the memory. The transfer statuses include a status indicating a request for the usage right was generated by a device with a usage right recovery mechanism.
US10089702B2
An online booking system allows users to create, search, and book listings of goods or services. When a user searches for listings, the listings are ranked at least in part based on a location relevance score including at least one of a city relevance subscore, a neighborhood subscore, and a distance subscore. Generally, the city relevance subscore quantifies the probability that a searching user may have actually intended to look for listings in a city other than the city specified in a search query. Generally, the neighborhood relevance subscore quantifies the popularity of specific neighborhoods within a city as a replacement or addition to the distance subscore that determines a real world distance between a listing's real world location and a location specified in a search query.
US10089701B2
Systems and methods for take-out order sharing. In an embodiment, a restaurant is identified, and an interactive menu associated with the restaurant is provided to a user through a user interface. An order may be received from the user through the user interface. Information related to the user can be shared with one or more contacts of the user on one or more social networking sites through at least one application interface.
US10089699B1
A system for virtual auditing of a auditee by an auditing servicer having an organizer computer system that communicates through an electronic communications network with a microprocessor device at a remote auditee facility connected to a display and an imaging and sound device, whereby the organizer computer system remote from the auditee facility directs the imaging by the microprocessor device thereat for electronic face-to-face interaction of video, sound and exchange of electronic documents by the auditing servicer with personnel at the auditee facility. A method for virtual auditing of an auditee by an auditing servicer is disclosed.
US10089697B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for extracting information from a transaction description. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that may include one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, performs operations consistent with the disclosed embodiments. In one embodiment, the operations may include receiving a transaction description. The operations may also include identifying known location information corresponding to the transaction description and determining whether information from the transaction description corresponds to the identified known location information. The operations may further include removing location information from the transaction description based on the determination. In another aspect, the operations may also include extracting additional location information from the transaction description that is not associated with the known location information.
US10089687B2
Systems, devices, and methods for linking orders to develop a consolidated audit trail (CAT) are configured to receive event data for one or more orders based on one or more order characteristics; determine linkages between the one or more orders based on parent relationships of the one or more orders; verify the linkages between the one or more orders based on the event data; and determine order lifecycles based on the linkages between the one or more orders.
US10089685B2
Methods and apparatus for managing information in connection with an account-based recycling program
Methods and apparatus for managing information relating to recycling activities are described. One embodiment described herein is directed to a method for accessing aggregated recycling information for use and/or display in connection with an account-based recycling program. The method comprises receiving first and second container information, the first container information concerning a plurality of first containers for a first recycling transaction and the second container information concerning a plurality of second containers for a second recycling transaction. The first and second container information is stored and associated account information concerning at least one consumer account. The method further comprises accessing, in response to receiving a query relating to a plurality of recycling transactions, information relating to at least the first and second containers so as to enable the use and/or display of aggregated recycling information.
US10089659B2
A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are made into huge and high quality digital image or scanned and photographed to be digital, thereby processing real time service as an interactive browsing form. In the present invention, data are directly made, edited, constructed, and uploaded on internet, thereby providing various additional information with image through hyperlink and processing high quality digital image service on network without speed delay for huge image.
US10089657B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing distribution of resources to data elements, comprising receiving a selection of a first objective and a second objective, the first objective and second objective comprising goals associated with distribution of a plurality of data elements; receiving an indication that the first objective has a higher priority than the second objective; receiving a first goal metric associated with the first objective and a second goal metric associated with the second objective; determining a first forecasted metric based on the first goal metric associated with the first objective; determining a second forecasted metric based on the second goal metric associated with the second objective; and allocating resources for the distribution of a plurality of data elements based on the first goal metric, the second goal metric, the first forecasted metric, the second forecasted metric, and the indication that the first objective has a higher priority than the second objective.
US10089655B2
A data-publishing system facilitates broadcasting a data stream so that each client device obtains a personalized data stream. During operation, a publisher can generate an encoded data stream that does not include a reproducible version of the data stream's contents, and generates an encoding sauce to provide to at least one data-brokering system. When a broker receives a request from a client device for access to the data stream, the broker validates the client device's access to the data stream, and uses the encoding sauce to generate a secret sauce for the client device. The client device can process the encoded data stream using instructions in the secret sauce to produce a personalized data stream that includes a reproducible version of the data stream's contents.
US10089654B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for assigning user interface widgets to page slots associated with a page template and detecting expired content generated by the widgets. A user interface widget can generate markup language for placement within a page slot. The markup language can be analyzed to determine whether it contains a URL incorporating a content identifier. An analysis of the content identifier can be performed to determine whether the content identifier corresponds to expired content.
US10089653B2
A method performed by one or more computer systems coupled to a packet-based network to determine the location of a mobile device comprises receiving a set of input signals associated with the mobile device from the packet-based network. The set of input signals include a plurality of location components and context information. The method further comprises determining whether the set of input signals include a pair of latitude/longitude coordinates, and determining whether the pair of latitude/longitude coordinates are valid using a set of criteria. The method further comprises defining at least some of the set of criteria using historical data associated with a plurality of mobile devices communicating with the packet-based network. The method further comprises deriving the location of the mobile device using one or more other location components of the plurality of location components and the context information, in response to the pair of latitude/longitude coordinates being marked as invalid.
US10089641B2
Interconnection meter socket adapters are provided. An interconnection meter socket adapter comprises a housing enclosing a set of electrical connections. The interconnection meter socket adapter may be configured to be coupled to a standard distribution panel and a standard electric meter, thereby establishing connections between a distribution panel and a user such that electrical power may be delivered to the user while an electrical meter measures the power consumption of the user. A power regulation module is disposed between the interconnection meter socket adapter, and configured to selectively connect one or more energy sources or energy sinks.
US10089639B2
A user profile is creates, and personalization is provided, by compiling interaction data. The interaction data is compiled to generate a value index or score from a user model. Parameterized data is used to build tools which help decide an engagement strategy and modes of engagement with a user. Several facets relating to the user, such as user behavior, user interests, products bought, intent, chat language, and so on, are compiled to create a user profile based personalization technique. In another embodiment, a unique ID is provided that can be mapped across multiple channels for use by the user to contact various organizations across multiple channels, and thus upgrade the user's experience.
US10089636B2
Real-time consumer feedback collection includes: receiving a unique product code from a device associated with a consumer of a product, the unique product code, when decoded, revealing an address of an on-line survey site; providing an interface within the on-line survey site for providing feedback about the product; receiving the feedback; storing the feedback; and supplying the feedback to the producer of the product.
US10089629B2
In one embodiment, a system comprises a database configured to store at least one record, at least one network communication device, a storage device comprising instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method. The method may comprise receiving a fraud communication associated with a first primary account number, calculating one or more limitations associated with the first primary account number based on an account associated with the first primary account number, and storing a database record including the first primary account number, a new primary account number, and the limitation(s). The method may further comprise receiving a transaction request including a second primary account number, and comparing the second primary account number to the at least one record. The method may also comprise, based on the comparing, enabling the transaction request to proceed, declining the transaction, or disabling the first primary account number.
US10089627B2
A method for securing data and safeguarding its origin, in which the data are transmitted from a customer device to a center in an encrypted manner using digital keys and certificates. The encryption includes the steps of generating several key pairs at a center and transmitting keys, key-encrypted keys, and encrypted data to a customer device. The customer device is afterwards able to transmit data encrypted by a safe key to the center. The data may be a PIN code.
US10089624B2
A method for authenticating a consumer. The method includes receiving an authorization request message associated with a consumer conducting a transaction with a portable consumer device. A challenge message is sent to the consumer, where the challenge message is dynamic or semi-dynamic. A challenge response message is received from the consumer, and an authorization response message is sent to the consumer. The authorization response message indicates whether or not the transaction is authorized.
US10089622B2
Systems, mechanisms and processes are provided to allow law-enforcement officials, when encountering the potential use of prepaid payment cards in the furtherance of a crime or in relation to criminal activities, to (1) attempt to check the balances on such prepaid payment cards, including the ability to perform aggregate balance checks on a group of such prepaid cards, (2) attempt to freeze the funds on such prepaid payment cards, and/or (3) attempt to seize the funds on such prepaid payment cards.
US10089621B2
The invention creates a data carrier, in particular chip card, in particular smart card, having a device for generating one-time passwords and having a display for displaying generated one-time passwords. Preferably the data carrier is a Eurocheque card or credit card with the integrated function of an electronic purse (cash card function) and the generated one-time password is a transaction number (TAN) for acknowledging a secure electronic payment transaction.
US10089619B1
An example electronic wallet device may include a plurality of card slots to receive transaction cards; a plurality of card readers, each card reader, of the plurality of card readers, being associated with a card slot of the plurality of card slots; a hub comprising: a processor, and a communication interface; and a switching component that connects the plurality of card readers to the hub.
US10089617B2
Embodiments of the disclosure can include systems and methods for facilitating card present transactions. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for conducting card present transactions can be provided. The method can include receiving, by a merchant system comprising one or more computers, a request for a card present electronic commerce transaction on behalf of a consumer; determining, by the merchant system, an identifier of a mobile device of the consumer; obtaining, by the merchant system from the mobile device, validation information associated with a payment application stored on the mobile device; and outputting, by the merchant system for communication to an issuer system, a proposed card present transaction and the validation information.
US10089601B2
A solution for inventory identification and quantification using a portable computing device (“PCD”) comprising a camera subsystem is described. An exemplary embodiment of the solution comprises a method that begins with capturing a video stream of a physical inventory comprised of a plurality of individual inventory items. Using a set of tracking points appearing in sequential frames, and optical flow calculations, coordinates for global centers of the frames may be calculated. From there, coordinates for identified inventory items may be determined relative to the global centers of the frames within which they are captured. Comparing the calculated coordinates for inventory items identified in each frame, as well as fingerprint data, embodiments of the method may identify and filter duplicate image captures of the same inventory item within some statistical certainty. Symbology data, such as QR codes, are decoded and quantified as part of the inventory count.
US10089597B2
Utilities that allow for configuring rack space in a growing operation. In one aspect, a utility for generating a rack sheet report is disclosed that indicates a determined quantity of a plurality of inventory items to be disposed on each shelf of a rack for use in loading a vehicle with the plurality of inventory items in an economically efficient manner. Additionally, the present disclosure includes embodiments that relate to generating a maser pull report that includes total quantities of each identified common instance of the plurality of inventory item objects in a master pull group object for use in harvesting or otherwise collecting the plurality of inventory items from the growing operation and loading the plurality of inventory items into a vehicle in a coordinated manner (e.g., based on a priority value).
US10089581B2
A computer implemented data driven classification and data quality checking system is provided. The system has an interface application enabled to receive data and has an associative memory software. The system has a data driven associative memory model configured to categorize one or more fields of received data and to analyze the received data. The system has a data quality rating metric associated with the received data. The system has a machine learning data quality checker for the received data, and is configured to add the received data to a pool of neighboring data, if the data quality rating metric is greater than or equal to a data quality rating metric threshold. The machine learning data quality checker is configured to generate and communicate an alert of a potential error in the received data, if the data quality rating metric is less than the data quality rating metric threshold.
US10089577B2
In an example, a circuit of a neural network implemented in an integrated circuit (IC) includes a layer of hardware neurons, the layer including a plurality of inputs, a plurality of outputs, a plurality of weights, and a plurality of threshold values, each of the hardware neurons including: a logic circuit having inputs that receive first logic signals from at least a portion of the plurality of inputs and outputs that supply second logic signals corresponding to an exclusive NOR (XNOR) of the first logic signals and at least a portion of the plurality of weights; a counter circuit having inputs that receive the second logic signals and an output that supplies a count signal indicative of the number of the second logic signals having a predefined logic state; and a compare circuit having an input that receives the count signal and an output that supplies a logic signal having a logic state indicative of a comparison between the count signal and a threshold value of the plurality of threshold values; wherein the logic signal output by the compare circuit of each of the hardware neurons is provided as a respective one of the plurality of outputs.
US10089568B2
An integrated circuit (IC) chip card includes a card body and an integrated IC chip module located in a recess provided by the card body on one side thereof. The IC chip module includes a substrate having outward-facing and inward-facing surfaces, and a first plurality of contact pads supportably interconnected to the outward-facing surface of the substrate for contact engagement with at least one appendage of a user. The IC chip module further includes a first IC chip supportably interconnected to the inward-facing surface of the substrate and electrically interconnected to the first plurality of contact pads for processing a biometric signal received therefrom. The IC chip module may also include a second plurality of contact pads supportably interconnected to the outward-facing surface of the substrate for engaging a contact card reader for contact communication signal transmissions and/or a first antenna supportably interconnected to the inward-facing surface of the substrate for contactless communication signal transmissions with a contactless card reader. Communication signal processing may be completed by the first IC chip and/or a second IC chip supportably interconnected to the inward-facing surface of the substrate.
US10089567B2
A radio tag comprising a first radio and a second radio and a method for providing a communications service are disclosed. For example, the method comprises entering, by a processor of the radio tag, an active state of the radio tag and activating the second radio when a wake-up signal is received, where the second radio draws power from a power source, transmitting, by the processor of the radio tag, data to a device or receiving the data from the device when the radio tag is in the active state, and deactivating, by the processor of the radio tag, the second radio and entering an idle state when the wake-up signal is no longer being received, where only the first radio draws power from the power source for listening for the wake-up signal in the idle state.
US10089565B2
A transaction card is described. The transaction card includes a card body that is made from metal. The metal may be a precious metal alloy, such as gold. The transaction card includes a polished area and a contrasting area on the card body. The transaction card additionally includes information. At least a portion of the information is engraved into the polished area.
US10089564B2
A portable terminal comprises an ID acquisition section, a position information acquisition section and a return instruction section. The ID acquisition section acquires ID information that specifies a print job sent from an information processing apparatus to an image forming apparatus. In a case in which the ID information is acquired and a beacon signal is received from a beacon transmitter, the position information acquisition section acquires, according to the received beacon information, position information relating to a position of the portable terminal relative to the image forming apparatus. If the position information meets a specific condition indicating the approach of the portable terminal to the image forming apparatus, the return instruction section instructs the image forming apparatus to return from a power-saving mode to a normal mode.
US10089563B2
A printing apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a printing unit to start printing on sheets after confirming that a number of sheets used for printing does not exceed an upper limit number of sheets bindable by a first binding processing in a case where the first binding processing is specified and control the printing unit to start printing on sheets without confirming that a number of sheets used for printing does not exceed an upper limit number of sheets bindable by a second binding processing in a case where the second binding processing is specified.
US10089545B2
A nontransitory computer readable medium having stored thereon software instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations. The operations can include intercepting a request for manual processing of a mail piece image. The request can be transmitted by an originating MPE having failed to resolve the mail piece image. The request can be ignored and the mail piece scan image can be forwarded to an automated mail recognition system (AMRS). If the AMRS successfully resolved the image, a response, including a plurality of addressing data corresponding to the mail piece scan image, can be received from the AMRS. If the AMRS successfully resolved the image, at least a portion of the plurality of addressing data can be transmitted to the originating MPE. If the AMRS did not successfully resolve the image, the request can be forwarded to a manual mail recognition processing system.
US10089540B2
A vision system for a vehicle includes a camera having an image sensor and a lens, with the lens exposed to the environment exterior the vehicle. An image processor is operable to process multiple frames of image data captured by the camera and processes captured image data to detect a blob in a frame of captured image data. Responsive to processing a first frame of captured image data, and responsive to the image processor determining a first threshold likelihood that a detected blob is indicative of a contaminant, the image processor adjusts processing when processing subsequent frames of captured image data. Responsive to the image processor determining a second threshold likelihood that the detected blob is indicative of a contaminant when processing subsequent frames of captured image data, the image processor determines that the detected blob is representative of a contaminant at the lens of the camera.
US10089539B2
Disclosed is a rear-view camera system for a vehicle. The rear-view camera system for a vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention includes at least one wide-angle lens and at least one standard lens, and may take a rear image of the vehicle using the wide-angle lens or the standard lens. According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to reduce an accident risk, while the vehicle is reversing, by providing an image taken through the wide-angle lens or an image taken through the standard lens according to a distance between the vehicle and an object located at a rear thereof or a user's selection, and also to observe rules of parking etiquette without any difficulty.
US10089534B2
Various embodiments calculate a score for each frame of a video segment based on various subject-related factors associated with a subject (e.g., face or other object) captured in a frame relative to corresponding factors of the subject in other frames of the video segment. A highest-scoring frame from the video segment can then be extracted based on a comparison of the score of each frame of the video segment with the score of each other frame of the video segment, and the extracted frame can be transcoded as an image for display via a display device. The score calculation, extraction, and transcoding actions are performed automatically and without user intervention, which improves previous approaches that use a primarily manual, tedious, and time consuming approach.
US10089532B2
The present application is directed to new methods for automatically determining several characteristics of frames in a video sequence and automatically recommending or preparing image output products based on those frame characteristics. In some embodiments, motion characteristics of particular image frames are calculated, and those motion characteristics are automatically used to prepare or recommend image output products suitable for the motion characteristics of the frames. In other embodiments, facial, audio, and overall image quality are assessed and used to automatically recommend or prepare image output products. In still other embodiments, image frames in a video sequence are analyzed for various user-specified characteristics, which characteristics are then used to automatically recommend or prepare image output products.
US10089531B2
A method of operating a mobile terminal includes obtaining at least one image and determining event information that is to be associated with the obtained at least one image. The method also includes storing, in computer memory, the obtained at least one image and information that associates the obtained at least one image with the event information. The method additionally includes detecting an event on the mobile terminal, and determining that the detected event corresponds to the event information. The method further includes displaying, on a display of the mobile terminal and based on the determination that the detected event corresponds to the event information, a first image among the at least one image that has been stored and associated with the event information.
US10089527B2
An image processing device includes: a reference area setting unit which sets a reference area including an indicated segment; an extraction unit which extracts an interest object feature quantity indicating a first feature from the reference area; an interest area setting unit which sets an area of interest in a third image, based on a relationship between a position of a feature point extracted from a feature area which is an area corresponding to an object of interest and included in a second image and a position of a feature point in the third image corresponding to the extracted feature point; and a tracking unit which determines for each of two or more of plural segments included in the area of interest with use of the interest object feature quantity whether the segment is a segment corresponding to the object of interest.
US10089523B2
Systems of the present disclosure generate accurate training data for optical character recognition (OCR). Systems disclosed herein generates images of a text passage as displayed piecemeal in a user interface (UI) element rendered in a selected font type and size, determine accurate dimensions and locations of bounding boxes for each character pictured in the images, stitch together a training image by concatenating the images, and associate the training image, the bounding box dimensions and locations, and the text passage together in a collection of training data. The collection of training data also includes a computer-readable master copy of the text passage with newline characters inserted therein.
US10089522B2
Embodiments relate to detecting a user's facial expressions in real-time using a head-mounted display unit that includes a 2D camera (e.g., infrared camera) that capture a user's eye region, and a depth camera or another 2D camera that captures the user's lower facial features including lips, chin and cheek. The images captured by the first and second camera are processed to extract parameters associated with facial expressions. The parameters can be sent or processed so that the user's digital representation including the facial expression can be obtained.
US10089515B2
An organic light-emitting diode display panel for fingerprint recognition includes a glass substrate, a pixel layer, and a transparent substrate, which are laminated; the pixel layer includes a plurality of pixel units arranged on the glass substrate in arrays, wherein the plurality of pixel units are configured to emit light of multiple colors which are combined to form a colorful image; the transparent substrate includes a first side and a second side, which are disposed opposite to each other, the first side is fitted on the pixel layer, a plurality of light receiving units are arranged on a surface of the second side, and an orthographic projection of each light receiving unit on the transparent substrate is located in a gap between the adjacent pixel units. An electronic device is also provided.
US10089502B2
An accessory device to be mounted on a main device is provided with a wireless IC device. The main device is provided with a reader/writer that is an interrogator that communicates with the wireless IC device of the accessory device. When the accessory device is mounted on or about to be mounted on the main device, the reader/writer selects two or more frequencies in a frequency band in which an authentic wireless IC device can communicate to perform communication with the wireless IC device. With this configuration, even if the identification code written in an RFID tag is read and the RFID tag is duplicated, the duplicated RFID tag can be accurately and effectively determined as being counterfeit.
US10089501B2
A multi-media reader (MMR) apparatus, secure transaction system and methods thereof are provided. The MMR apparatus includes a slot to receive a card and a near field communication (NFC) antenna to communicate with other NFC enabled devices and cards. The system is provided for securely sharing information over a network to complete one or more transactions using the MMR apparatus and a mobile device. The shared information may be separated and reassembled using on or more servers to increase security.
US10089493B2
New tokenization tables are derived at intervals in order to increase the security of tokenized data that is transferred between two endpoints. Generation of the new tokenization tables is based on previous tokenization tables, which advantageously allows the generation process to be performed locally at the two endpoints independently of an external tokenization table provider. New tokenization tables can periodically be distributed to the endpoints as a new starting point for derivation.
US10089491B2
A computing system includes: a control circuit configured to: determine a privacy baseline for controlling communication for a user, determine an application-specific privacy setting for controlling communication for a first executable program associated with the user, generate a user-specific privacy profile based on the privacy baseline and the application-specific privacy setting, the user-specific privacy profile for controlling an application set including a second executable program; and a storage circuit, coupled to the control circuit, configured to store the user-specific privacy profile.
US10089477B2
A text management system may include a text message transmission server that transmits a message received from a first device to a second device. The text message transmission server may include a device manager that manages device information of the second device, a receiver that receives a message from the first device, a message manager that determines a transmission path of the message to the second device based on the device information of the second device, and a transmitter that transmits, to the second device, the message along the determined transmission path.
US10089471B2
An electronic device, such as a dynamic transaction card having an EMV chip, that acts as a TPM having a memory, an applet, and a cryptographic coprocessor performs secure firmware and/or software updates, and performs firmware and/or software validation for firmware and/or software that is stored on the electronic device. Validation may compare a calculated checksum with a checksum stored in EMV chip memory. If a checksum calculated for firmware and/or a software application matches a checksum stored in EMV chip memory of the transaction card, the transaction card may operate normally. If a checksum calculated for firmware and/or a software application does not match a checksum stored in EMV chip memory of the transaction card, the transaction card may freeze all capabilities, erase the memory of the transaction card, display data indicative of a fraudulent or inactive transaction card, and/or the like.
US10089464B2
A device receives data, identifies a context associated with the data, and identifies a script, within the data, associated with the context. The device parses the script to identify tokens, forms nodes based on the tokens, and assembles a syntax tree using the nodes. The device renames one or more identifiers associated with the nodes and generates a normalized text, associated with the script, based on the syntax tree after renaming the one or more identifiers. The device determines whether the normalized text matches a regular expression signature and processes the data based on determining whether the normalized text matches the regular expression signature. The device processes the data by a first process when the normalized text matches the regular expression signature or by a second process, different from the first process, when the normalized text does not match the regular expression signature.
US10089426B2
A specific information processing function, which assumes circuit implementation, is described in a programming language, and from this description, an RTL description that can be logic synthesized is automatically generated. A logic circuit generation device includes: a control flow graph generation unit that generates a control flow graph; a control flow degenerate conversion unit that generates a control flow degenerate program by removing all condition branch instructions from the control flow graph; a data flow graph generation unit that generates a data flow graph from the control flow degenerate program; and a logic circuit description output unit that generates logic circuit description indicating a sequential circuit in which a rooted branch of the data flow graph corresponds to the wiring of the logic circuit and a node of the data flow graph corresponds to a computing element of the logic circuit.
US10089425B2
A system and method is disclosed in an emulation environment that dynamically remaps user designs. In one embodiment, a request is received to load an integrated circuit design to be emulated in a desired partition within the emulator. The emulator automatically determines the availability of the partition requested. If the partition is not available, the design is dynamically remapped to a different partition that is available. In another embodiment, clocks associated with the integrated circuit design are also dynamically remapped. In yet another embodiment, the user can control the size of the partitions (e.g., the number of printed circuit boards in a partition).
US10089418B2
Segmenting a three dimensional (3D) model of a structure may involve distinguishing vertically oriented surface elements from horizontally oriented surface elements of a three 3D surface representing a geographic area. The geographic area involves at least one structure. Segmenting a 3D model may also involve distinguishing ground surface elements from rooftop surface elements of the horizontally oriented surface elements of the 3D surface. Segmenting a 3D model may then involve associating the vertically oriented surface elements with the rooftop surface elements to form at least one segmented model of the at least one structure.
US10089417B2
Structure boundaries may be determined by receiving a plurality of three dimensional (3D) data points representing a geographic area. The 3D data points may be projected into a two dimensional (2D) grid comprised of area elements. A structure boundary may be determined based on an analysis of the area elements.
US10089416B1
An additive manufacturing process for building a three-dimensional part, which includes applying a layer of one or more powder-based metals onto or over a substrate, selectively melting and/or sintering the powder-based metals to produce a layer of the three-dimensional part, and repeating these steps such that the built three-dimensional part includes one or more self-supporting internal passageways, and which preferably precludes the need for internal support structures for the internal passageways.
US10089414B2
A template corresponds to a general system architecture for providing a desired functionality. A particular system architecture for providing the desired functionality is generated based on the template and based on specifications of requirements for the particular system architecture. The particular system architecture is implementable using hardware and software that are specified and that are available to implement the general system architecture. One or more of a logical diagram of the particular system architecture, a physical diagram of the particular system architecture, and a bill of materials of the hardware and the software selected to implement the particular system architecture are provided.
US10089408B2
A method and apparatus for accessing a graph database having nodes and relationships describing an organization. An interface in a computer system receives a request from a client to access information about the organization. Further, the interface in the computer system retrieves the information from the graph database having nodes and relationships describing the organization. Still further, the interface in the computer system sends a portion of the information to the client based on how much of the information is displayable by the client.
US10089406B2
A system for generating a web page that integrates content from different content sources. The system defines a request configured to be transmitted from a consumer application to a producer application. The request is for the producer application to provide content to the consumer application. The system adds additional custom data to the request via a plurality of integration points. The additional custom data is configured to be interpreted by handlers corresponding to the integration points. The system receives content produced by the producer application. The producer application produces the content based upon the request and the additional custom data. The system displays the received content to appear as an integrated whole with other content on a page.
US10089403B1
Systems, methods and interfaces for the selective management of information collected by a software browser application are provided. The software browser application obtains content from a network resource, such as a Web page. The software browser application presents, among other controls, a graphical icon that is representative of a command to initiate a network-based service, such as network-based storage. The software browser application can also group similar content to provide for collective network service commands.
US10089400B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing content with respect to a website. A request for content is received where the request includes information related to a user. One or more pieces of localized content associated with at least one condition is retrieved when it is determined that the at least one condition is consistent with the information related to the user, where each localized content is localized with respect to the content requested. At least one of the retrieved localized content is identified when the information related to the user meets the associated at least one condition. The identified at least one localized content is sent as a response to the received request for content.
US10089399B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products, and systems to filter content returned by a search tool by associating an indication that content fulfills a first request, with the first request, the content that fulfills a first request for information, and other metadata associated with the indication. Embodiments can then add to a database the respectively associated first request for information, the content, and the other metadata and in response to receiving a second request that is related to the first request, identify the added content and additional content that fulfills the second request and compile a list of the added content and the additional content and manipulate the order of the compiled list based, at least in part, on metadata associated with the added content, the additional content identified from the database, and metadata stored in a customizable user profile.
US10089393B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. An example method includes receiving user input in a control, for example, one associated with a search engine. The user input includes a series of input characters that when completed would form a completed user request. The method further includes, while receiving the user input, evaluating the characters to identify completions for the completed request. The method further includes identifying, by one or more processors, a content item associated with the one or more completions and identifying display data associated with the content item for transmission to the user along with one or more completions in response to receiving the user input.
US10089389B1
Semantic model usage includes receiving, via a graphical user interface, input of unstructured text from a user. While receiving the input, the input is compared to semantic models in a semantic library, and from the semantic model, a semantic model satisfying a threshold is selected. A suggestion is generated from the semantic model, and presented, in the graphical user interface, to the user. An acceptance of the suggestion may be received. The input is augmented with the suggestion and stored.
US10089378B2
Assets or the locations where assets may appear are monitored. If a new asset appears within a monitored location or if an existing asset is copied, modified, or moved, a decision is made as to whether to assign a new unique identifier or to assign a new version number to an existing unique identifier. The unique identifiers and version numbers are carried as metadata within the assets and optionally also stored separately within a data store.
US10089377B2
A system and method is described for database split generation in a massively parallel or distributed database environment including a plurality of databases and a data warehouse layer providing data summarization and querying functionality. A database table accessor of the system obtains, from an associated client application, a query for data in a table of the data warehouse layer, wherein the query includes a user preference. The system obtains table data representative of properties of the table, and determines a splits generator in accordance with one or more of the user preference or the properties of the table. The system generates, by the selected splits generator, table splits dividing the user query into a plurality of query splits, and outputs the plurality of query splits to an associated plurality of mappers for execution by the associated plurality of mappers of each of the plurality of query splits against the table.
US10089374B2
The present invention relates to a method of executing an export process for an automated meta model driven export of entity parts from a source data base (10), wherein the meta model specifies an abstract model of the source data base (10) and comprises a description of an entity part and/or a reference relationship between entity parts being resolvable from a referencing entity part to a referenced entity part. The method comprising the steps identifying (S14) a set of entity parts being identifiable outside the source data base (10) by a public key, an internal key, or a mixture of a public key and an internal key as first level entity parts, supplementing (S16) the set of first level entity parts by a set of second level entity parts being referenced by the first level parts according to at least one reference relationship described in the meta model, and writing (S18) export data for the set of first level parts and the set of second level parts into an export file. The present invention also relates to a method of executing an import process for an automated meta model driven import of entity parts from a source data base (10) to a target data base (12).
US10089366B2
Systems and methods provide for analyzing a group of online articles to identify relevant and popular topics. Text from each online is analyzed to identify topics relevant to each online article and to generate a relevance score for each topic and each online article. The topics are scored as a function of the relevance scores and visitor metrics for the online articles. The visitor metrics may include all visitors or only visitors within a particular visitor segment. The most relevant and popular topics are identified based on the scored topics. In some embodiments, the online articles are further analyzed to identify terms used in the online articles that are important to each topic. Further embodiments analyze the online articles to determine the lifespan of topics and terms, reflecting the popularity of topics and terms over time intervals.
US10089359B2
Memory devices for facilitating pattern matching and having an array of memory cells, a plurality of key registers to store a representation of a key word, and a plurality of multiplexers, each multiplexer of the plurality of multiplexers to select a representation of a bit from a key register of the plurality of key registers to compare to data stored in the array of memory cells.
US10089358B2
Methods and apparatus to partition data are discloses. An example method includes generating, with a processor, an indicator matrix for a set of panelist data based on a set of matrix criteria corresponding to the panelist data. The entries in the indicator matrix are determined based on a conditional probability of a panelist having one or more characteristics. An indicator is placed in a panelist vector of the matrix if the panelist has the one or more characteristics. A set of unique panelist vectors is determined and redundant panelist vectors that are not unique are removed to determine a minimum set of mutually exclusive partitions of the panelist data.
US10089357B2
A system and method is described for database split generation in a massively parallel or distributed database environment including a plurality of databases and a data warehouse layer providing data summarization and querying functionality. A database table accessor of the system obtains, from an associated client application, a query for data in a table of the data warehouse layer, wherein the query includes a user preference. The system obtains table data representative of properties of the table, and determines a splits generator in accordance with one or more of the user preference or the properties of the table. The system generates, by the selected splits generator, table splits dividing the user query into a plurality of query splits, and outputs the plurality of query splits to an associated plurality of mappers for execution by the associated plurality of mappers of each of the plurality of query splits against the table.
US10089352B2
A computer-implemented method includes determining that a database query warrants a first projection operation to project a plurality of input rows to a plurality of projected rows, where each of the plurality of input rows has one or more variable-length columns. A first projection control block is constructed, by a computer processor, to describe the first projection operation. The first projection operation is offloaded to a hardware accelerator. The first projection control block is provided to the hardware accelerator, and the first projection control block enables the hardware accelerator to perform the first projection operation at streaming rate.
US10089349B2
A method and electronic device for updating registered fingerprint datasets of fingerprint recognition are provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining an verifying fingerprint dataset, wherein an inputting type of the verifying fingerprint dataset is a pressing type and comparing the verifying fingerprint dataset with a plurality of registered fingerprint datasets, wherein the plurality of registered fingerprint datasets are stored in a storage device; when the verifying fingerprint dataset matches one of the plurality of registered fingerprint datasets, determining whether the inputting type of the registered fingerprint dataset is the same as the inputting type of the verifying fingerprint dataset; and if the inputting type of the registered fingerprint dataset is different from the inputting type of the verifying fingerprint dataset, replacing the registered fingerprint dataset with the verifying fingerprint dataset, wherein the inputting type of the registered fingerprint dataset is a swiping type.
US10089343B2
A computer-implemented method for building a hierarchy of elements depending on data disclosed in reports includes identifying one or more areas containing one or more elements in each of multiple reports which contain data, where the elements comprise parent elements and child elements. The method includes parsing the data of each of the elements to simulate relationship operations between the parent elements and the child elements until consistent aggregations are found, identifying data with a same unit and adjusting the data to have a same scale or a same precision, recursively searching the aggregated data by applying the found relationship operations to build a tree structure having at least a portion of the elements of each report built in the tree structure arranged in a hierarchy of elements and storing the tree structure, including a level of each of the elements and the relationship operation.
US10089342B2
A compression manager may store, within an index vector, a plurality of value identifiers (IDs), each value ID representing a value within a database. A page generator may designate a number of the value IDs as defining a page within the index vector, so that the index vector includes a plurality of pages, each page including the number of value IDs. The page generator may store the index vector in a secondary memory of a main memory database. An iterator may access a requested value ID, and a page loader may load a corresponding page of the index vector that contains the requested value ID into the main memory database.
US10089338B2
A method and an apparatus for object storage are disclosed. The method includes, in response to an update to metadata of an object in an object storage region to produce updated metadata of the object, recording a metadata object associated with the object in a metadata change storage region separated from the object storage region. The metadata object includes the updated metadata of the object and pointer information. The pointer information points to a first storage location representing a storage location of the object in the object storage region. The method also includes modifying index information associated with the object to produce modified index information. The modified index information indicates the update to the metadata and a second storage location representing a storage location of the metadata object in the metadata change storage region.
US10089326B2
Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on computing interactions of users that pertain to the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first computing interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first computing interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of computing interactions that pertain to the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of addition computing interactions. In some implementations, a textual summary may be generated automatically based on the first and/or second computing interaction measure, and/or based on the determined aspect.
US10089317B2
A system and method can support metadata compression in a distributed data grid. The system can store a plurality of keys in compact data structure (such as a radix tree) in a heap, wherein each said key is associated with an entry in a journal off-heap. Furthermore, the system can look up the tree for a key, wherein the key is associated with a journal ticket that represents a virtual address of an entry in the journal. Then, the system can use the journal ticket to manage the entry in the journal that is associated with said key.
US10089314B2
An information management method allows presenting the usage of each of storage areas in a visually intuitive manner, the method including: obtaining user configuration information in each of the storage areas; receiving a designated user ID and obtaining user information corresponding to the designated user ID; and displaying an image, wherein when displaying an image, a first image is displayed for a storage area that stores user configuration information regarding a user identified by the designated user ID or the user information, a second image is displayed for a storage area that stores user configuration information regarding a user different from the user identified by the designated user ID or the user information, and a third image is displayed for a storage area that stores user configuration information indicating that the storage area is not being used for any user.
US10089310B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for constructing a complementary calendar and/or a shadow calendar. A user may maintain a primary calendar within which the user may schedule user specified tasks and/or meetings, but may inadvertently omit other entries. Accordingly, a complementary calendar may be constructed based upon inferences derived from user signal data (e.g., information used to identify/infer activities of the user, such as social network profile information, messages, temporal information, locational information, documents, etc.). The complementary calendar may be automatically populated with entries corresponding to inferences derived from user signals and/or real-time conditions (e.g., weather, store hours, traffic conditions, etc.). The primary calendar and the complementary calendar may be merged to create a shadow calendar. The complementary calendar and/or the shadow calendar may be displayed to the user and/or may be used to provide dynamic notifications and/or suggestions to the user (e.g. regarding conflicting entries/obligations, etc.).
US10089306B1
Dynamically populatable electronic items are items that can be at least partially populated after creation. Dynamically populatable electronic items may include some static information (e.g., text, images, audio, video, etc.) and one or more dynamic fields, which are configured to be dynamically populated from a source separate from the electronic item. Thus, the content of the dynamic electronic item can change over time as the dynamic fields are populated and/or repopulated.
US10089303B2
A computer-aided translation system includes a processor configured to generate a suggestion pool of possible translations for each sentence in a document. A translation module configured to provide a best suggestion from the suggestion pool to a user for a sentence being translated and to provide an updated best suggestion from the updated suggestion pool to the user after the receipt of a user's translation prefix input. A pool update module configured to update the suggestion pool based on the user's input of a translation prefix.
US10089302B2
Techniques for Chinese name matching are described. A Chinese name is received and is romanized into a Mandarin Pinyin representation. The Mandarin Pinyin representation of the Chinese name is matched against a set of Romanized Chinese names originating from several different Chinese character names. In response to finding a potential match between the Mandarin Pinyin representation and Romanized Chinese name, the original Chinese script for the Romanized Chinese name is retrieved. A native script comparison is applied between the received Chinese name and the original Chinese script for the Romanized Chinese name to obtain a match score. The native script comparison includes character-by-character comparison, character variant look-up, and/or consideration of name component misalignments. The obtained match score is used as a filter to reduce false positives that are generated in the matching of the Mandarin Pinyin representation against the set of Romanized Chinese names.
US10089300B2
An apparatus for amending a language analysis error includes: a main language analyzer, which includes a plurality of language processing modules being sequentially connected to each other, and generates one best main analysis result for each processing module; a subsidiary language analyzer, which includes the plurality of language processing modules, and generates a plurality of subsidiary analysis results for each of the plurality of language processing modules; and an analysis result amender to in response to an error occurring in the main analysis result, acquire a subsidiary analysis result, and transmit the subsidiary analysis result to the main language analyzer.
US10089298B2
At least one computer-mediated communication produced by or received by an author is collected and parsed to identify categories of information within it. The categories of information are processed with at least one analysis to quantify at least one type of information in each category. A first output communication is generated regarding the at least one computer-mediated communication, describing the psychological state, attitudes or characteristics of the author of the communication. A second output communication is generated when a difference between the quantification of at least one type of information for at least one category and a reference for the at least one category is detected involving a psychological state, attitude or characteristic of the author to which a responsive action should be taken.
US10089296B2
Systems and methods for sentiment lexicon expansion receive at least a domain specific corpus comprising a plurality of words, and a generic sentiment lexicon; parse the plurality of words in the domain specific corpus into a plurality of dependency relations; identify, using one or more syntactic dependency rules and at least one of the plurality of dependency relations, a set of one or more sentiment candidates in the domain specific corpus; filter from the set of one or more sentiment candidates any sentiment candidate having an expected performance below a predefined threshold; sample the filtered set of one or more sentiment candidates to be used in a qualitative evaluation; and, for each sentiment candidate that passes the qualitative evaluation, add the sentiment candidate to the generic sentiment lexicon.
US10089291B2
A platform-level container configured to hold natively-supported ink stroke data structures is maintained. The platform-level container is accessible to a plurality of different applications. An ink stroke visual corresponding to each ink stroke data structure held by the platform-level container is rendered via a display. An ink stroke change event corresponding to an ink stroke data structure held by the platform-level container is recognized. The ink stroke data structure is changed to an updated ink stroke data structure in accordance with the ink stroke change event. An ink stroke visual corresponding to the updated ink stroke data structure is rendered via the display without re-rendering ink stroke visuals corresponding to unchanged ink stroke data structures.
US10089288B2
Embodiments are directed to providing a graphical interface for annotating an electronic document, receiving, from a user, an annotation to the electronic document via the interface, associating the annotation to the electronic document with a annotation identifier, the annotation identifier comprising a credential associated with the user, a unique identifier for the electronic document, and metadata associated with the electronic document, and storing the annotation with the annotation identifier.
US10089285B2
A computer-controlled method of converting documents includes receiving, through a user interface on a computing device, a name of a request document representing a request for proposal stored in a memory, using a processor in the computing device to access the memory and locate a cascading style sheet associated with an application used to produce the request document in the memory, importing the cascading style sheet from the memory and processing information in the cascading style sheet as a text mark-up file, and populating the user interface with the information.
US10089283B2
Mechanisms are provided for mobile enablement of webpages (e.g., HTML webpages). In one example, mechanisms are provided for refactoring Java Server Pages “JSP” of a web application into an abstraction layer that partitions the visual presentation elements of HTML pages of the web application into a set of views and a Javascript home page. Further, mechanisms are provided for enabling access to the HTML pages over a mobile device by stacking views one atop another (in one specific example, the views may be rendered only one view at a time as needed; in another specific example any number of views (e.g., all of the views) may be rendered at once). Further, mechanisms are provided for enabling navigation between the views for the HTML pages by providing buttons along with each view.
US10089269B2
A mobile device for determining cable connections between field devices and I/O modules in a process control system, wherein the mobile device includes a cable interface arranged to be connected to a cable, a user interface configured to receive a user selection of a field device identifier identifying a field device in the process control system, and a processor configured to send an I/O module identification query via the cable interface to an I/O module connected to the cable interface by means of a cable, receive, via the cable interface, I/O module identification data from the I/O module in response to the I/O module identification query, and to associate a user-selected field device identifier with the I/O module identification data received by the processor. An engineering tool device, a system and corresponding methods are also disclosed herein.
US10089267B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving by a network element a request from a network device connected to the network element to update a shared resource maintained by the network element; subsequent to the receipt, identifying a Base Address Register Resource Table (“BRT”) element assigned to a Peripheral Component Interconnect (“PCI”) adapter of the network element associated with the network device, wherein the BRT points to the shared resource; changing an attribute of the identified BRT from read-only to read/write to enable the identified BRT to be written by the network device; and notifying the network device that the attribute of the identified BRT has been changed, thereby enabling the network device to update the shared resource via a Base Address Register (“BAR”) comprising the identified BRT.
US10089251B2
A system and method for providing a multi-modal active cable. In certain embodiments, the multi-modal active cable enables transmission of alternative display information from a source system. More specifically, in certain embodiments, the multi-modal active cable comprises a switching component to allow host system integrated I/O signals to be provided as either I/O adapter integrated I/O signals or dedicated display signals via a single multi-modal active cable. In certain embodiments, the integrated I/O signals comprise Thunderbolt I/O signals. In certain embodiments, the dedicated display signals comprise DisplayPort signals. In certain embodiments the switching component comprises at least one radio frequency (RF) microwave high performance analog switches to switch the high speed digital signals (e.g., signal speeds up to 40 Gbps on each of a plurality of lane). By using such switches, the load capacitance on the signal paths is minimized as the impedance is carefully controlled.
US10089249B2
An apparatus, shipping container, and system for in-package storing of data for an electronic device are disclosed. In one example, the apparatus comprises an electronic device that has a housing and is packaged in a shipping container that substantially encloses the electronic device. The housing includes a first communication interface and the shipping container includes a second communication interface. The second communication interface is in electrical communication with the first communication interface such that power and data signals can be communicated via the first and second communication interfaces between the electronic device and another electronic device located outside the shipping container.
US10089246B1
Data security access and management may require a server dedicated to monitoring document access requests and enforcing rules and policies to limit access to those who are not specifically identified as having access to the data. One example of operation may include selecting data to access via a user device, identifying a user profile associated with the user device, retrieving at least one user policy associated with the user profile, determining whether the user policy permits the user device to access the data, matching the user policy to a data policy associated with the data, receiving an encryption key at the user device, applying the encryption key to the data, and unwrapping the data from a wrapped data format to access the data.
US10089245B2
One method for managing encryption includes identifying an available or a secure mode. During restarts a passphrase must be entered in secure mode but not in available mode. Further, a master key is created for encrypting volume keys, where master and volume encryption keys are not stored in non-volatile memory (NVRAM) nor in disk storage. A half-key is created by encrypting the master key with a secure key, the secure key and the encrypted volume encryption keys being stored in disk storage. The half-key is stored in NVRAM only in available mode but not in secure mode. The master key is recreated during a restart when operating in the available mode by decrypting the NVRAM half-key with the secure key from disk storage. Further, the passphrase must be entered by an operator to recreate the half-key and the master key during a restart in the secure mode.
US10089235B1
Systems and methods for handling operation requests in a computing device. The methods comprise: queuing a first I/O operation and first TRIM operation in a first list of operations; analyzing the first TRIM operation for a plurality of block portions of a disk cache to determine a size thereof; estimating a first amount of time to complete the first TRIM operation; comparing the first amount of time to a first threshold value; selectively dividing the first TRIM operation into at least a second TRIM operation for first block portions contained in the plurality of block portions and at least a third TRIM operation for second block portions contained in the plurality of block portions, if the first amount of time is greater than the first threshold value; performing the first I/O operation followed by the second TRIM operation; and queuing the third TRIM operation in a second list of operations.
US10089218B2
Disclosed are methods, circuits, apparatuses, systems and associated computer executable code for generating a unit test. According to some embodiments, there is provided computerized system including test generation software, which software may include code analyzing logic to identify within a code under test or within an associated Code Statement Segment (CSS): (1) one or more dependencies, and (2) one or more fields read by the CUT or Associated CSS. The may also be include a code statement provider to provide: (1) at least one CSS constructed to resolve at least one identified dependency, and (2) at least one CSS constructed to modify at least one identified field.
US10089215B2
A source code processing application may process source code and realize the results of the code in a map configuration. In one example, the map may be displayed with a number of stations and pathways between the stations to illustrate associations with classes of the source code. An example method of operation may include one or more of retrieving source code comprising a class from memory, processing the source code to identify an error associated with the class, creating a map with a station linked to the error, and displaying the map on a device.
US10089211B2
An information processing apparatus comprises: an insertion unit that inserts, into a class file that corresponds to one application, a first bytecode for tallying information about a resource used by an object generated by execution of a bytecode that is included in the class file; and a tallying unit that, if an application generates an object, tallies information about a resource used by the object generated by the application, wherein the one application that has executed the first bytecode is identified by execution of the first bytecode, the one application thus identified and information about a resource used by a generated object are registered to a storage unit in association with each other, and the tallying unit tallies a resource usage amount for each application based on the information registered to the storage unit.
US10089210B2
Described are systems and methods for implementing auto-generation of provider functionality. An approach is discussed regarding exposing a management surface of an application by using a system of informational tagging on existing code in the application. The informational tagging can include a set of classification techniques using attribution.
US10089208B1
A data store system may include a storage array comprising a plurality of storage devices configured to store data. The data store may further include a processor array comprising a plurality of processors. The processor array may be in communication with the storage array. The processor array may receive workloads to be performed on the data. The processor may further process the workloads at a processing resource usage level of processing resources that is less than maximum available processing resources. The processing resource usage level may be associated with completion of at least a predetermined number of received workloads in accordance with the level of performance that is less than a total number of received workloads. The processor may further process the workloads at the processing resource level in response to presence of predetermined operating conditions. A method and computer-readable medium may also be implemented.
US10089202B1
A technique provides data high availability to a set of host computers. The technique involves, while a production array provides the set of host computers with access to a production logical unit of storage (LUN), replicating data from the production LUN to a replicated LUN on a replication array. The technique further involves, after replicating at least some of the data from the production LUN to the replicated LUN, electronically detecting a production array deficiency. The technique further involves, in response to electronically detecting the production array deficiency, automatically performing, by electronic circuitry, a failover operation which (i) terminates providing the set of host computers with access to the production LUN and (ii) provides the set of host computers with access to the replicated LUN on the replication array.
US10089197B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for leveraging an offload programming model for local checkpoints. Compute entities in a computing environment are implemented as one or more sources and a larger number of sinks. A job dispatcher dispatches jobs comprising executable code to the source(s), and the execution of the job code is managed by the source(s). Code sections in the job code designated for offload are offloaded to the sinks by creating offload context information. In conjunction with each offload, an offload object is generated and written to storage. The offloaded code sections are executed by the sinks, which return result data to the source, e.g., via a direct write to a memory buffer specified in the offload context information. The health of the sinks is monitored to detect failures, and upon a failure the source retrieves the offload object corresponding to the code section offloaded to the failed sink, regenerates the offload context information for the code section and sends this to another sink for execution.
US10089187B1
Implementations are provided for scalable cloud backup. A coordinator process can manage worker processes on nodes to package file system data that is targeted for cloud backup into node local upload objects. File data can be arranged into distinct block offsets of the node local upload object. A set of metadata tables can be generated that characterize each file that is backed up as well as file block location information for each data block. The node local upload objects can be uploaded to a cloud service provider. The set of metadata tables generated by the worker process can be coalesced into a global set of metadata tables that describe the data that has been backed up. In one implementation, after an initial cloud backup has occurred, a snapshot service of the file system can be used to incrementally backup blocks of the file that have been changed.
US10089185B2
Systems and methods of utilizing multiple threads to facilitate parallel data copying to reduce an amount of time associated with backing up data. A request to copy application is received that indicates a number of available threads. A first available thread is used to select files from the application for backup. Selecting a file includes adding files to a work queue and creating backup work items associated with the work queue files. The files in the work queue are processed by a multiple threads in parallel such that an amount of time associated with backup up the application is reduced.
US10089180B2
A method begins by a processing module determining, by a first storage unit, that a storage growth rate is unfavorable for the first storage unit over an estimated time frame of reallocating at least a portion of encoded data slices stored in the first storage unit to one or more additional storage units. The method continues with the processing module when the storage growth rate is unfavorable, selecting an unfavorable growth rate abatement approach such that estimated required storage capacity is less than available storage capacity of the first storage unit for the estimated time frame of the reallocation of the at least a portion of encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module facilitating implementation of the unfavorable growth rate abatement approach.
US10089179B2
Techniques described and suggested herein include systems and methods for storing, indexing, and retrieving original data of data archives on data storage systems using redundancy coding techniques. For example, redundancy codes, such as erasure codes, may be applied to archives (such as those received from a customer of a computing resource service provider) so as allow the storage of original data of the individual archives available on a minimum of volumes, such as those of a data storage system, while retaining availability, durability, and other guarantees imparted by the application of the redundancy code. Sparse indexing techniques may be implemented so as to reduce the footprint of indexes used to locate the original data, once stored. The volumes may be apportioned into failure-decorrelated subsets, and archives stored thereto may be apportioned to such subsets.
US10089173B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for error detection in transmissions on a multi-wire interface are disclosed. A method for transmitting data on the multi-wire interface includes transmitting data on a multi-wire interface includes obtaining a plurality of bits to be transmitted over a plurality of connectors, converting the plurality of bits into a sequence of symbols, and transmitting the sequence of symbols on the plurality of connectors. A predetermined number of least significant bits in the plurality of bits may be used for error detection. The predetermined number of least significant bits may have a constant value that is different from each of a plurality of error values. A symbol error affecting one or two symbols in the sequence of symbols may cause a decoded version of the predetermined number of least significant bits to have value that is one of a plurality of error values.
US10089170B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for open block management. In certain embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a circuit configured to determine an error sensitivity of a last-written page of a block of a solid state memory that is in an open state where the block has not been fully filled with data. The error sensitivity may include a value that represents a susceptibility to developing data errors while in the open state. The circuit may perform a first error mitigation procedure when the error sensitivity is lower than a first threshold, include increasing an open block timeout period applied to the last-written page. The circuit may perform a second error mitigation procedure when the error sensitivity is higher than the first threshold, including copying data from the block to a new location when a first open block timeout is reached.
US10089168B2
Self-healing charging devices and techniques for identifying and/or troubleshooting causes of performance degradation in user devices are described. A charging device described herein can receive first data from a user device connected to the charging device and analyze the first data to determine diagnostic data associated with the user device. Based at least in part determining the diagnostic data, the charging device described herein can provide an indication via at least one of the charging device or the user device, the indication signifying available actions that can be taken to improve performance of the user device. The charging devices described herein can enable users to easily identify issues causing and/or leading to performance degradation on their user devices and remedy and/or prevent problems that cause the performance degradation while corresponding user devices are charging via the charging devices.
US10089166B2
Call-home systems are configured and utilized. A log file is presented on a user interface of a computing device. One or more interactions that are associated with one or more instructions to modify the log file are detected on the user interface. One or more modifications to the log file are applied to the log file based on the one or more interactions. The one or more modifications include at least one of a modification that omits information from the log file, a modification that redacts information in the log file, and a modification that obfuscates information in the log file. The modified version of the log file is transferred to a call-home server based on one or more data transfer options.
US10089163B2
A recovery management system and recovery method uses dependency information between clients running in a distributed computer system to automatically determine logical fault domains for the clients. The logical fault domains are then prioritized for a recovery process.
US10089158B2
Example methods and apparatus to detect uninstallation of an on-device meter are disclosed. An example method includes detecting, at a second process on a mobile device, a first notification that an on-device meter process is to be uninstalled, the first notification broadcast within the mobile device in response to a user instruction to uninstall the on-device meter process. The on-device meter process is to monitor usage of the mobile device. The first notification is not communicated external to the mobile device. In response to the identification of the first notification, monitoring information stored by the on-device meter process is transmitted to a remote data collector. The monitoring information not transmitted to the remote data collector by the on-device meter process. An uninstallation notification is transmitted to the remote data collector, and includes an identifier to identify at least one of the mobile device or a user of the mobile device.
US10089157B2
An Autonomous Concurrency Management (ACM) subsystem enables test instruments (operating as servers) to reliably and efficiently handle a variety of seamless multi-device-under-test (multi-DUT) scenarios and with minimal cooperation from the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) client software (e.g. test plans, hardware abstraction layer, etc.). Concurrency capability is built directly into the test instruments. Making the instrument based concurrency autonomous means the OEM software code base need not be specifically implemented for concurrency, potentially saving thousands of lines of OEM software code. To support basic concurrency scenarios where clients asynchronously share the instrument, as well as advanced concurrency scenarios such as a broadcast scenario, the ACM includes software lock, client separator, client rendezvous, and client observer functionality. An instrument ACM subsystem simplifies the problem from the client's perspective by moving the complexity to the lowest software layer, the RF (test) instrument.
US10089154B2
A manager agent access a grain hierarchy that represents a state for a computation that is to performed by a distributed processing system, wherein the grain hierarchy includes manager agent grains including metadata for manager agent processes that manage the performance of the computation by the distributed processing system, and worker agent grains including, for tasks to be performed by the distributed processing system, metadata for worker agents that each correspond to a subset of the plurality of data processors for performing the task. A manager agent performs processes defined by a manager agent grain to manage the computation by worker agents and storing, within the grain, metadata describing the manager agent process performed by the manager agent, and worker agents perform tasks assigned to the worker agents based on an assignment of a respective worker agent grain to the worker agent.
US10089150B2
A method of central processor unit (CPU) resource allocation for a multi-processor device includes the step of obtaining the amounts of demanded CPU resources for the process groups executing on the multi-processor device during a pre-configured time period. The method also includes the step of obtaining the amounts of idle CPU resources for the CPUs of the multi-processor device during the pre-configured time period. The method further includes the step of allocating the CPUs to the process groups based upon the obtained amounts of demanded CPU resources for the process groups and the obtained amounts of idle CPU resources for the CPUs.
US10089136B1
Techniques are disclosed for monitoring the performance of transient virtual volumes created for a virtual machine. Each transient virtual volume is created in response to a first trigger event, used by the virtualization environment solely to perform a single function supporting execution of the virtual machine, and deleted in response to a second trigger event. When creation of a current transient virtual volume is detected, and while the virtualization environment uses the current transient virtual volume to perform a single function supporting execution of the virtual machine, performance data is collected for the current transient virtual volume, and combined with performance data collected for at least one other, previously deleted transient virtual volume that was used solely to perform the same single function supporting execution of the same virtual machine. The combined performance data is represented as performance data for a single monitored virtual volume associated with the virtual machine.
US10089132B2
A method, system, and computer-readable medium for providing a secure computer network for the real time transfer of data are provided. The data is grouped and stored as per user preferences. The data being transmitted is encrypted, decrypted, and validated by the system (assuming user identifications/passwords are verified).
US10089131B2
Load balancing reduces memory consumption in a virtual computing environment. Disk blocks in a cluster of hosts are monitored for redundancy. Execution of virtual machines may be migrated to different hosts within the cluster to balance loading.
US10089130B2
Disclosed is a virtual desktop service method. The virtual desktop service method includes configuring and measuring users and resources according to predetermined criteria, copying operating system files and data files to be provided to the users before use request, receiving request to use a virtual machine from any one of the users and performing user authentication and work approval, and providing an operating system file and a data file of the any one of the users, among the copied operating system files and data files, to the any one of the users according to the use request to transmit a virtual desktop environment. Consequently, the virtual desktop service method performs a service to provide a virtual machine to a user in real time.
US10089129B2
A management system and method that generally allocates a virtual function to a virtual function definition of a virtual server, where the virtual function definition of the virtual server is previously assigned with a unique function identifier, and assigns the unique function identifier to the virtual function in response to the allocating of the virtual function, where the unique function identifier causes a discovery of the virtual function by the virtual server.
US10089128B2
A virtualization platform can discover capabilities of data devices connected in a virtual infrastructure. The virtualization platform allows a user (e.g., system administrator) to specify a policy profile for a virtual machine in terms of performance and data handling parameters. The virtualization platform can provision a virtual machine comprising data devices having a combined capability that matches the policy profile. Enforcement of a policy profile can be made when I/O is performed by a virtual machine.
US10089126B2
Function exits are instrumented in tail-call optimized code in which calls to target functions and return instructions are replaced by jump instructions. A probe engine identifies a tail-call jump and instruments the jumps to raise an exception. In response to an exception raised at the tail-call jump, an exception handler loads various registers and transferring control to a trampoline, which calls the jump target. After the target function returns, an exit probe is fired when the trampoline itself returns.
US10089124B2
Hypervisors and guest operating systems/virtual machines communicate in virtual environments to enable applications and other services. Security measures are a concern in implementing a secure environment. One feature may include at least one of identifying a session initiation request from a guest operation system at a hypervisor component of a server and receiving periodic messages from the guest operating system, and establishing and maintaining a session and connection between the hypervisor and the guest operating system responsive to receiving the periodic messages from the guest operating system.
US10089115B2
One embodiment provides for a graphics processor comprising first logic coupled with a first execution unit, the first logic to receive a first single instruction multiple data (SIMD) message from the first execution unit; second logic coupled with a second execution unit, the second logic to receive a second SIMD message from the second execution unit; and third logic coupled with a bank of shared local memory (SLM), the third logic to receive a first request to access the bank of SLM from the first logic, a second request to access the bank of SLM from the second logic, and in a single access cycle, schedule a read access to a read port for the first request and a write access to a write port for the second request.
US10089113B2
An apparatus and method are described for providing low-latency invocation of accelerators. For example, a system according to one embodiment comprises: a processor includes a plurality of simultaneous multithreading (SMT) cores, at least one shared cache circuit to be shared among two or more of the SMT cores; and at least one of the SMT cores including at least one level 2 (L2) cache circuit to store both instructions and data and communicatively coupled to the instruction cache circuit and the data cache circuit, a communication interconnect circuit including a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) circuit to communicatively couple one or more of the SMT cores to an accelerator device and a memory access circuit to identify an accelerator context save/restore region in a memory responsive to a context save/restore value, the accelerator context save/restore region to share an accelerator context state.
US10089110B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for executing an instruction are described. In some embodiments, the instruction includes at least an opcode, a field for a packed data source operand, and a field for a packed data destination operand. When executed, the instruction causes for each data element position of the source operand, multiply to a value stored in that data element position all values stored in preceding data element positions of the packed data source operand and store a result of the multiplication into a corresponding data element position of the packed data destination operand.
US10089097B2
Methods, systems and computer readable media for dynamic templates for virtualized systems are described. A method for initially deploying a virtualized can include receiving a selection indicating a dynamic template, and installing a base configuration using base configuration information obtained from the dynamic template. The method can also include traversing a hierarchy within the dynamic template and installing one or more sub-level configurations according to the hierarchy. The method can further include stopping the traversing and installing when a termination condition is reached.
US10089095B2
A technique allows a user client to receive a software product from a server. The user client may determine if the software product includes other potentially unwanted programs by reading one or more graphical user interface instances that are created during installation of the software product. The graphical user interface instances are read to identify information related to software identifiers of the software product and of potentially unwanted programs. A signature file may be received from a third-party server. The software identifiers of the software product and potentially unwanted programs can be checked against the signature file during installation of the software product in order to identify the presence of potentially unwanted programs that may be bundled with software product.
US10089093B1
Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward apparatuses, systems and methods of switching operating systems. The present invention includes a multi-OS runtime with virtualization technology, which allows applications developed for different operating systems to execute simultaneously, side-by-side, on the same computing device. The computing device typically includes a host operating system and at least one guest operating system. An application, which is disguised as a host operating system specific application on the host operating system, is configured to be installed and executed within the guest operating system. Host operating system based policies can be set for the application. The application can be launched from the host operating system, the guest operating system or both. The computing device allows for the ability to switch between different operating systems via a soft button, a hard button, or based on a configuration of the computing device, or a combination thereof.
US10089087B2
A graph-based program specification includes components corresponding to tasks and directed links between ports of the components, including: a first type of link configuration between ports of linked components, corresponding to transfer of control or transfer of a single data element, and a second type of link configuration between ports of linked components, corresponding to transfer of multiple data elements. A compiler generates a target program specification including control code representing at least one control graph including graph nodes representing the components, where at least two are connected based on links of the first type. A computing node initiates execution of the target program specification, and manages computing resources for links of the second type, the computing resources including at least one of: (1) a buffer for storing data elements provided by an output port, or (2) a buffer for storing data elements provided to an input port.
US10089084B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for reusing JavaScript code in a service orchestration process in a SOA middleware environment. The system can include a unified runtime environment on an application server, wherein the unified runtime environment includes a process execution engine with an embedded JavaScript engine, and an executable process defined by a process execution language executing on the process execution engine. The system can further include a plurality of JavaScript libraries, each defining JavaScript variables with one of a SOA server scope, a component scope, or a process scope. These scopes and an execution scope of a JavaScript variable can form a JavaScript scope chain. When a JavaScript variable in an executable process is being resolved, the JavaScript engine can start in an execution scope of the JavaScript variable, and searches down the scope chain until the variable is resolved or the scope chain is exhausted.
US10089083B2
Provided are a system and method for generating a service broker code for a service deployed on a cloud platform. In one example, the method includes generating service broker code for the service in which the generated service broker code includes built-in code that supports a plurality of operations of the service broker built and one or more gaps in the code corresponding to one or more operations of the service broker not supported by the built-in code thereby enabling customization of the service broker. The method further includes transmitting the generated service broker code to a user device associated with the service for filling in code for the one or more operations. Because gaps are left in the generated service broker code, the service broker can be customized by a developer of the service while incorporating already built-in code that has been tested and verified.
US10089071B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to controlling volume on an immersive display device. One example provides a near-eye display device comprising a sensor subsystem, a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem storing instructions executable by the logic subsystem to receive image sensor data from the sensor subsystem, present content comprising a visual component and an auditory component, while presenting the content, detect via the image sensor data that speech is likely being directed at a wearer of the near-eye display device, and in response to detecting that speech is likely being directed at the wearer, attenuate an aspect of the auditory component.
US10089068B2
Provided are a display apparatus, a control method thereof, a server, and a control method thereof. The display apparatus includes: a processor which processes a signal; a display which displays an image based on the processed signal; a first command receiver which receives a voice command; a storage which stores a plurality of voice commands said by a user; a second command receiver which receives a user's manipulation command; and a controller which, upon receiving the voice command, displays a list of the stored plurality of voice commands, selects one of the plurality of voice commands of the list according to the received user's manipulation command and controls the processor to process based on the selected voice command.
US10089063B2
In a particular aspect, a multimedia device includes one or more sensors configured to generate first sensor data and second sensor data. The first sensor data is indicative of a first position at a first time and the second sensor data is indicative of a second position at a second time. The multimedia device further includes a processor coupled to the one or more sensors. The processor is configured to generate a first version of a spatialized audio signal, determine a cumulative value based on an offset, the first position, and the second position, and generate a second version of the spatialized audio signal based on the cumulative value.
US10089062B2
A display device and a control method thereof are disclosed. The display device comprises: a body with a display on the front side; at least one speaker provided on at least one side of the body; at least one sensor configured to measure the distance from the body to an adjacent face; and a controller configured to change the quality of sound output through the at least one speaker based on the distance measured by the at least one sensor. Accordingly, sound can be altered and output based on the distance between the display device and the adjacent face.
US10089061B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a memory and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is in communication with the memory. The hardware processor is configured to obtain a sound file including sound data and attached data, determine a type of meeting of the sound file classified based on an utterance state of the sound data, and display the sound file based on at least one of the sound data and the attached data such that the type of meeting is visually recognizable.
US10089057B2
An aspect includes a computer implemented method for display redistribution between a personal display and an external display. The method includes initiating, by a primary device, a wireless connection between a primary device and a secondary device. The primary device includes a primary display and the secondary device includes a secondary display. A confirmation is received at the primary device from the secondary device in response to the initiating. Based on receiving the confirmation, the wireless connection between the primary device and the secondary device is executed. The executing includes utilizing, by the primary device, the secondary display in place of the primary display.
US10089045B2
A communication apparatus including a direct wireless communication function determines whether the direct wireless communication function is automatically stopped based on a device setting and the type of an SSID to be used.
US10089043B2
Apparatuses and methods for a distributed memory system including memory nodes are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a processor and a memory system coupled to the processor. The memory system is configured to receive instructions from the processor to access information stored by the memory system. The memory system includes a plurality of memory nodes, wherein each memory node of the plurality of memory nodes is coupled to at least one other memory node of the plurality of memory nodes, and each memory node of the plurality of memory nodes is configured to generate an internal message including instructions for an operation, the internal message to be provided to another memory node of the plurality of memory nodes to perform the operation.
US10089039B2
A memory control device includes a host interface capable of communicating with a host, a memory interface, and a controller circuit configured to carry out a command fetch operation to retrieve a group of commands from one of a plurality of queues set in the host, through the host interface, arrange an order of groups of commands that have been retrieved from the plurality of queues through a plurality of command fetch operations, and control the memory interface to output data corresponding to the groups of commands in the arranged order. When data corresponding to a first group of commands retrieved from a first queue and data corresponding to a second group of commands that was retrieved from the first queue after the first group of commands are sequential, the controller circuit is configured to arrange the second group of commands to immediately follow the first group of commands.
US10089035B1
There is disclosed a method for managing data storage. In one embodiment, the method comprises operating a storage processor of a first data storage system at a first location. The storage processor comprising a first distributed data manager and an IO stack arranged therein such that distributed data manager can receive a LUN outputted by IO stack. The method also comprises initiating a communication between first distributed data manager and second distributed data manager associated with a second data storage system at a second location. The method further comprises migrating stored data on first data storage system to second data storage system and providing LUN information associated with stored data to second data storage system such that a LUN identify of migrated data stored on second data storage system is similar to a LUN identity of corresponding stored data on first data storage system.
US10089034B2
A system, a method, and a computer program product for scalable processes for write-order preserving data stream consumption. A data partition in a plurality of data partitions of data stream is selected based on a request received from a client processing node. The plurality of data partitions are distributed among a plurality of broker nodes in a distributed messaging system. A broker node in the plurality of broker nodes hosting the selected data partition is identified. The identified broker node provides the selected data partition to the client processing node for performing at least one function.
US10089031B2
Data storage is provided which includes a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory blocks divided into a first region being an over provisioning region and a second region, and a storage controller allocating at least one memory block, corresponding to an unconcerned sector, from among memory blocks of the second region to the first region. It may be possible to adjust the number of reserved memory blocks in the over provisioning region.
US10089030B2
Techniques are disclosed which allow a secondary storage system to provide data to non-production workloads in conjunction with performing data backup and protection tasks. As disclosed, a secondary storage system exposes backup data stored by the secondary storage system to other workloads, such as test and development applications, data analytics, etc. These non-production workloads can run at the same time the secondary storage system provides backup services to a primary storage system. This consolidation eliminates the need for an enterprise to deploy separate storage clusters for analytics, test and development applications, etc. and eliminates unnecessary copies of data.
US10089024B2
An example method of providing memory deduplication protection for one or more memory pages includes inserting an identifier of a first memory page into a list of memory pages for which memory deduplication is avoided. The first memory page is located in a virtual address space allocated to a memory consumer. The method also includes determining whether to deduplicate a second memory page. The method further includes determining whether an identifier of the second memory page is included in the list of memory pages. The method also includes in response to determining that the identifier of the second memory page is included in the list of memory pages, determining that the second memory page should not be deduplicated to provide memory deduplication protection for the second memory page.
US10089013B2
A data storage system has a plurality of hosts that request writes of data to a relatively high-performance storage device (RHPSD) such as NVRAM, which may be one of a plurality of RHPSDs in a plurality of storage nodes. A storage management system receives the write requests and writes received data to the RHPSD. According to an allocation policy, the storage management system indicates to at least one of the hosts that it should limit its use of RHPSD and it then discards data upon indication from that host to do so. Before being discarded from the RHPSD, the data may be written to a persistent storage device.
US10089009B2
A computer-implemented method for layered storage of enterprise data comprises receiving from one or more virtual machines data blocks; time-based grouping the data blocks into data containers; dividing each data container in X fixed length mega-blocks; for each data container applying erasure encoding to the X fixed length mega-blocks to thereby generate Y fixed length mega-blocks with redundant data, Y being larger than X; and distributed storing the Y fixed length mega-blocks across one or multiple backend storage systems.
US10089002B2
An application is installed on a device that includes a user interface comprising multiple elements organized in a hierarchy. The application communicates with an inspector tool that accesses the hierarchy. The inspector tool may be integrated into the application or separate from the application. During execution of the application, the inspector identifies an element in the hierarchy and presents information regarding the element. For example, a display region corresponding to the element may be highlighted or text regarding the element may be displayed. The hierarchy may be navigated by selection of items in the user interface itself, by selection of an item in the displayed information, by directional inputs, or any suitable combination thereof. Information displayed in the inspector may be configured by the application based on the identified element.
US10089001B2
In an approach to managing a display of an application by an operating system, one or more computer processors launch a pointing mechanism by an operating system. The one or more computer processors receive an application area, where the application area is defined by movement of the pointing mechanism on a display device. The one or more computer processors receive a launch of one or more applications. The one or more computer processors display the one or more applications in the application area.
US10088982B2
An information processing apparatus employs an operating system providing a first user interface (UI) environment appropriate for a touch panel and a conventional desktop UI environment, and, according to display of a pop-up dialog associated with secure print function of a printer driver in the desktop UI environment, if a toast prompting a user to change display from the first UI environment to the second UI environment is displayed for a predetermined period of time by the OS in the first UI environment, and, if a user's operation on the dialog is not performed for a predetermined period of time in the desktop UI environment, the printer driver deletes the dialog and displays the dialog again.
US10088978B2
A content server system provides a user of a client device with a playlist of content, such as streamed audio. The provided playlist is customized for the particular country of the user, even if the content server system has only recently begun to provide content to that country. To customize the playlist for a country lacking a sufficient amount of country-specific statistical data, the content server system generates a number of non-country-specific channels, each channel recommending content according to its own criteria. The content server system generates a non-content specific playlist by combining the channels. The content server system also generates, using the statistics for the country of the user, a country-specific channel that is specific to that country. The content server system generates a country-specific playlist by combining the non-country-specific playlist with the country-specific channel, e.g., according to the amount of country-specific statistics that are available.
US10088977B2
An operating method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes selecting an area corresponding to at least one field of a page displayed through a display of the electronic device on the basis of an input; confirming an attribute corresponding to the at least one field among a plurality of attributes including a first attribute and a second attribute; and selectively providing a content corresponding to the attribute among at least one content including a first content and a second content according to the confirmed attribute.
US10088976B2
Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text in multiple different voices. In some aspects, systems and methods described herein can include receiving a user-based selection of a first portion of words in a document where the document has a pre-associated first voice model and overwriting the association of the first voice model, by the one or more computers, with a second voice model for the first portion of words.
US10088969B2
In one implementation, an image-based automation process includes identifying a graphical object of a graphical user interface and performing an action relative to the graphical object at the graphical user interface. The identifying is based on an image including the graphical object.
US10088966B2
A touch screen panel includes a base substrate, a sensing pattern layer on the base substrate, the sensing pattern layer including a plurality of sensing patterns formed on the base substrate, an insulation layer on the sensing pattern layer, and a bridge electrode formed on the insulation layer to electrically connect unit patterns isolated from each other of the sensing pattern layer. The insulation layer and the bridge electrode satisfy parameters according to specific equations so that a visibility of the bridge electrode on the insulation layer is decreased and an image visibility is improved.
US10088959B2
A touch sensing device includes: a touch panel including a plurality of first electrodes arranged substantially in a matrix form and a plurality of second electrodes arranged substantially in a matrix form; and a sensing signal control unit connected to the touch panel, where the sensing signal control unit includes a first switching block, and the first switching block includes a plurality of first switches which are connected between a plurality of first signal lines connected to the first electrodes and a plurality of first track lines crossing the first signal lines.
US10088955B2
A system and method for reducing interference caused by a near field communication antenna that is in close proximity of a touch sensor that the near field communication antenna will cause electromagnetic interference with operation of the touch sensor when the near field communication antenna is transmitting, wherein specific electrodes of the touch sensor are grounded when the near field communication antenna is actively transmitting a signal, thereby enabling the touch sensor to continue operating at the same time as the near field communication antenna.
US10088951B2
Embodiments described herein include an input device, a display device having a capacitive sensing device, a processing system and a method for detecting presence of an input object using a capacitive sensing device. In one embodiment, an input device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes arranged in a planar matrix array. Each sensor electrode is coupled to unique routing trace and has an identical geometric plan form that is symmetrical about a center of area of the sensor electrode. The geometric plan form of each sensor electrode includes core and a plurality of protrusions extending outward from the core. The protrusions are configured to overlap with protrusions extending outward from each adjacent sensor electrode of the matrix array.
US10088947B2
One variation of a method for detecting and characterizing force inputs on a surface includes: during a resistance scan cycle of a sampling period, driving a shield electrode arranged over a resistive touch sensor to a reference potential and reading resistance values across sense electrode and drive electrode pairs in the resistive touch sensor; during a processing cycle of the sampling period, transforming the resistance values into a position and a magnitude of a force applied to a tactile surface over the shield electrode, releasing the shield electrode from the reference potential, reading a capacitance value of the shield electrode, and detecting proximity of an object to the tactile surface based on the capacitance value; and generating a touch image representing the position and the magnitude of the force on the tactile surface based on the proximity of the object to the tactile surface.
US10088945B2
In a mobile terminal, in a case in which biometric information is input together The mobile terminal includes a touch screen configured to output screen information corresponding to a specific function, a sensor configured to sense biometric information of a user in a state in which the screen information is output, and a controller configured to control the touch screen to change the screen information on the basis of a touch applied to the touch screen, wherein when the biometric information is sensed by the sensor while the touch is applied, the controller may control the touch screen to output additional information related to the specific function on the basis of the biometric information, together with changing the screen information.
US10088944B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes common electrodes, detection electrodes, a common-electrode drive circuit including shift registers and switch circuits electrically connected to the shift registers, and a driver which outputs four-phase clock signals and a touch-drive signal, wherein a reset operation of the each shift register is controlled by predetermined two of the four-phase clock signals, each of the switch circuits connects a signal line from the driver to common electrodes based on a shift signal output from an associated shift register, and the each switch circuit causes the touch-drive signal from the driver to be supplied to the common electrodes of the block during a period from time at which the shift signal is output from the associated shift register to time at which a predetermined one of the four-phase clock signals is input.
US10088943B2
A touch control device including a touchpad, a first driving circuit and a system circuit is provided. The first driving circuit is coupled to the touchpad for driving the touchpad to detect a sensed value frame of a touch event on the touchpad. The system circuit is coupled to the first driving circuit for analyzing the sensed value frame provided by the first driving circuit to recognize a first finger position, a second finger position and a third finger position, and defining the first finger position as a left key position of a virtual mouse, the second finger position as a right key position of the virtual mouse according to a position relationship among the first finger position, the second finger position and the third finger position. An operating method of a touch control device is also provided.
US10088923B2
An operation input device provided in a vehicle and operated by a hand or a finger of a driver to carry out an input according to a movement amount of the hand or the finger of the driver is provided. The operation input device includes a time series signal generator that detects the movement amount and generates a time series signal of the movement amount, an input operation accepter that accepts an input operation of the driver based on the time series signal, and a band attenuation filter that is provided between the time series signal generator and the input operation accepter and attenuates, of signal components of the time series signal, a signal component from a predetermined first frequency to a predetermined second frequency larger than the first frequency.
US10088922B2
A resonating pen having multiple resonance frequencies includes a first circuit segment including an inductor for the resonance frequencies, a second circuit segment including transistors, where each of the transistors includes a transistor state, and a third circuit segment includes a controller. The controller is configured to alter the transistor state of the transistors to change the resonating pen to a resonance frequency. The resonating pen further includes a switch configured to control the controller.
US10088917B2
An apparatus includes a light source to transmit non-visible light pulses strobed at a frequency and a duty cycle. A detector a detector receives a pattern of reflected light from a display in response to the non-visible light pulses. The pattern of reflected light had at least two different polarization states, where the detector determines a spatial location of the detector relative to the display based on discriminating between the at least two polarization states.
US10088913B1
User interface devices (UIDs) for sensing position or motion of an actuator assembly in multiple degrees of freedom are disclosed. In one embodiment a UID includes a frame having a top and bottom assembly, an actuator assembly disposed within a volume between the top and bottom of the frame having magnets disposed therein, a sensor array for sensing magnetic fields from the magnets in multiple axes, and a processing element for receiving the sensed magnet fields and generating a UID output signal corresponding to a position, translation, rotation, deformation, or other action of the actuator assembly.
US10088910B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a point cloud generation unit configured to generate a point cloud from a range image representing a range equivalent to a distance from a display screen to an object; and a position determination unit configured to perform a principal component analysis on the generated point cloud, to detect a vector corresponding to an object relating to position specification based on an analysis result obtained by the analysis, and to determine a specified position, the specified position being specified on the display screen.
US10088909B2
A method, including receiving, by a computer, a sequence of three-dimensional maps containing at least a hand of a user of the computer, and identifying, in the maps, a device coupled to the computer. The maps are analyzed to detect a gesture performed by the user toward the device, and the device is actuated responsively to the gesture.
US10088903B2
Haptic information in a series of frames of a media file is identified and time stamps corresponding thereto are determined in accordance with information embedded in a tag either preceding or appending the media file. The haptic effect information is automatically synchronized to the media file based on the information in one or more frames of the tag, whereby an actuator outputs the defined haptic effects in the tag in a manner synchronized with corresponding audio and/or video content of the media file.
US10088902B2
A virtual reality system enables a user to interact with virtual objects. The system includes a fiducial ring, an imaging device and a console. The fiducial ring includes a ring body that includes a plurality of fiducial markers that each correspond to a different location on the ring body. An imaging device is configured to capture one or more images of the fiducial ring. The console receives the images that include an image of one or more fiducial markers. Based on the received images of the fiducial markers, the console determines a location on the fiducial ring that corresponds to the imaged fiducial marker. The console determines a position of the fiducial ring based on the determined location of the fiducial marker on the fiducial ring. The console provides content to a head mounted display (HMD) based on the determined position of the fiducial ring.
US10088894B2
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to electronic devices capable of being implanted beneath the skin of a human user. The electronic devices include input devices for receiving input from a user, and output devices for output signals or information to a user. The electronic devices may optionally include one or more sensors, batteries, memory units, and processors. The electronic devices are protected by a protective packaging to reduce contact with bodily fluids and to mitigate physiological responses to the implanted devices.
US10088883B2
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) includes an input configured to receive input power, a backup power source configured to provide backup power, an output configured to provide output power from at least one of the input power and the backup power, and a controller coupled to the input, the backup power source, and the output. The controller is configured to receive commands from an external entity, detect a configuration setting, identify, based at least in part on the configuration setting, that a first subset of the commands are unrestricted commands and a second subset of the commands are restricted commands, and responsive to identifying the unrestricted commands, execute the unrestricted commands.
US10088880B2
Data reliability and integrity may be compromised when memory resources used to store the data reach elevated temperatures. A sensor in the memory resource may monitor the temperature of the memory resource in real-time. A comparator in the memory resource may indicate a high temperature condition to a memory controller. The memory controller, in response to the high temperature condition, can restrict or halt data flow to the memory resource. When the real-time temperature of the memory resource falls below a defined threshold, the memory controller may resume data flow to the memory resource.
US10088878B2
A heat spreader which is configured using a composite of materials to provide localized heat spreading in certain directions across portions of the heat spreader while providing generalized heat spreading in multiple directions across other portions of the heat spreader. In certain embodiments, the localized heat spreading is across an XY plane and the generalized heat spreading is substantially continuous in XYZ directions.
US10088877B2
A board card module including a case, a main board, and an expansion card is provided. The case has an accommodating space. The main board is fixed to the case and located in the accommodating space. The main board has a connecting port. The expansion card is detachably pivoted to the case and located in the accommodating space. The expansion card has a terminal set and the expansion card is rotatable relative to the case to insert the terminal set into or separate the terminal set from the connecting port.
US10088871B2
The present disclosure provides a display screen assembly and a terminal. The display screen assembly includes a display screen and a frame. The display screen includes a display surface. The display surface is provided with a display region and a non-display region, and the non-display region surrounds the display region. The frame is provided with a frame flange on an inner side, the frame flange at least partly shields the non-display region.
US10088870B2
A variable form factor multi-portion housing of a handheld computer. The housing includes a first housing portion to provide a first interior for mounting a first electronic component, the first housing portion having a common first mating surface for facilitating coupling to a secondary housing portion. The housing includes the secondary housing portion having a version configuration of a first form factor selectable from a family of different version configurations having a plurality of different form factors contributing to a selectable variable form factor nature of the multi-portion housing, such that each of the version configurations from the family of different version configurations has a same second mating surface that is configured to couple to the common first mating surface. The first form factor of the secondary housing portion is configured to facilitate at least one of housing a portion of the first electronic component or housing at least a portion of a second electronic component that is interconnected with the first electronic component. Further, the secondary housing portion extends from an intermediate location (between proximal and distal ends) to the distal end of the first housing portion, such that the intermediate location is positioned on a bottom or top surface of the housing of the mobile terminal. The first and second housings also provide a majority of the internal space of the multi-portion housing.
US10088869B2
A host is arranged for providing a wireless docking environment having peripherals (250) for docking via a wireless link (230) with a dockee (220) for establishing a docking session for enabling the dockee to use the peripheral. The host is arranged for, at a first moment, storing docking configuration data which defines monitoring a peripheral on behalf of the dockee. The host monitors the selected peripheral to acquire monitor data in a period, in which period the dockee is not docked with the host. Later, when establishing a docking session at second moment, the host sets a docking configuration in dependence of the docking configuration data and makes available the monitor data. The dockee (220) is arranged for, when establishing the docking session, using the second docking configuration and accessing the monitor data.
US10088850B2
A pressure reducer valve includes a first chamber having a first spring and a first volume for receiving an output fluid having an actual output pressure that equals the desired output pressure in response to the pressure reducer valve achieving equilibrium and a second chamber having a second spring and a second volume for receiving a return fluid having a return pressure that is less than the desired output pressure and the input pressure of an input fluid. The pressure reducer valve further includes a main shaft exposed to the first spring and the output fluid from the first chamber and the second spring and the return fluid from the second chamber such that the main shaft may move relative to the first chamber and the second chamber based on forces applied by the first spring, the output fluid, the second spring, and the return fluid.
US10088837B1
A process design and management system for batch manufacturing of pharmaceuticals products. The system permits a user to create a chemical process design based on the user's input data and retrieved process library data which includes material data, process data, and equipment data. The system includes software objects defining operations sequences, and processing operation parameters including materials flows and balances, cycle time, constraints, equipment, generic equipment capability requirements, specific equipment capability requirements, and actual capacity analysis. A graphical user interface allowing multiple views of the chemical process design, including one or more of a design view, process flow view, time cycle view, and instructions view.
US10088834B2
A control system calculates a use frequency of a function used by a control program based on the control program (and a use history of the control program), and generates an optimized source code by optimizing a source code of control software based on the calculated use frequency. Based on the generated optimized source code, optimized control software is generated and transferred to the execution environment of the control software.
US10088832B2
A tool path generating device for generating a machining program is provided with a determining unit which determines whether or not the effective cutting length of a tool would be insufficient if machining were performed using a first tool path, and an estimating unit which estimates a section of insufficiency, being the section in which the effective cutting length of the tool is insufficient. The tool path generating device is provided with a post-move travel path generating unit which generates a post-move tool path in which the path corresponding to the section of insufficiency has been moved relative to the first tool path to a path whereby the section of insufficiency can be machined using the section of the tool within the effective cutting length, and an auxiliary path generating unit which generates an auxiliary tool path for machining the uncut section remaining in the workpiece.
US10088830B2
A method and apparatus for detecting the current damaged state of a machine is provided. The disclosed relates to an apparatus for detecting the current damaged state of a machine, wherein the data capture and editing device: comprises a Fast Fourier analysis apparatus, for performing a transformation from pressure signals that are available in the time domain to a frequency domain as discrete-time frequency spectra (2), additionally includes a spatial aggregation unit and a temporal aggregation unit that combines the discrete-time frequency spectra, additionally includes a cepstrum analysis unit, for producing a cepstrum with various actual cepstrum values from the temporally and spatially aggregated discrete frequency spectra (5), additionally includes a computation unit that takes the cepstra produced in this manner and produces, at a previously defined interval of time, a plurality of actual cepstrum intervals including adjacent actual cepstrum values, as a result of which an actual cepstrum value, which can be ascertained from at least three adjacent actual cepstrum intervals, can be produced (6), includes a unit that computes (7) a target/actual comparison with the actual cepstrum value produced in this manner and a previously determined target cepstrum value.
US10088825B2
A tool path curve generation method for generating a curve from a tool path designated by a command point sequence includes: a step of defining a region based on a polygonal line path connecting the command point sequence; a step of determining whether the curve is included in the region on the basis of the geometric shape of the surface of the region; and a step of generating a curve that has been determined to be included in the region in the determination step.
US10088823B2
A servo motor is driven to rotate a feed axis to move a movable part of a machine tool controlled by a numerical controller in a feed axis direction. A sensor that senses force from the outside (worker) applied to the movable part and a direction of the force is provided on the movable part. The numerical controller generates a movement command for moving the movable part in the direction of the force detected by the sensor and drives the servo motor based on the movement command.
US10088813B2
A control apparatus includes: a control computing unit that generates an operation amount based on a control deviation, calculated by performing subtraction of a command value and a control amount, and a control gain; an adjustment-execution-command generating unit that generates an adjustment-execution command value indicating ON or OFF; a binary output unit that generates an adjustment-time addition value based on the control deviation and a hysteresis-width setting value; a standard-deviation estimating unit that calculates a low-frequency-component removed signal obtained by removing low-frequency components of the control amount or the control deviation and calculates a standard-deviation estimated value, which is an estimated value of a standard deviation; and a hysteresis-width computing unit that calculates a hysteresis-width computed value based on the standard-deviation estimated value and changes the hysteresis-width setting value of the binary output unit to the hysteresis-width computed value.
US10088812B2
A functional unit includes: a parameter reception unit that classifies a parameter as a first parameter or as a second parameter; a first-parameter analysis unit that analyzes the classified first parameter; a second-parameter analysis unit that analyzes the classified second parameter; a first-parameter storage unit that stores therein the first parameter analyzed by the first-parameter analysis unit; a second-parameter storage unit that stores therein the second parameter analyzed by the second-parameter analysis unit; a first processing unit that controls the first function in accordance with the first parameter stored in the first-parameter storage unit; and a second processing unit that controls the second function in accordance with the second parameter stored in the second-parameter storage unit, wherein the functional unit is controlled by a plurality of controllers.
US10088801B2
A freeform holographic imaging apparatus includes an imaging table for supporting a substrate, an imaging beam positioned adjacent to the imaging table; and a controller operatively connected to the imaging beam and configured to control a position of the imaging beam with respect to the imaging table. The controller is configured to control the imaging beam to image first and second holographic optical elements on the substrate, wherein each of the first and second holographic optical elements are a single pixel. The first holographic optical element is imaged according to a first parameter set and the second holographic optical element is imaged according to a second parameter set.
US10088798B2
A developing cartridge includes a casing, a developing roller, a shaft, a tubular member, an elastic member, and a gear. The tubular member is rotatable about the shaft and is movable from a first position and a second position. The tubular member at the second position is farther from an outer surface of the casing in an axial direction than at the first position. The gear is rotatable about the shaft from a first rotational position to a second rotational position. In case where the gear is at the first rotational position, the gear engages with the tubular member and the tubular member is rotatable together with the gear at the first position. In a case where the gear is at the second rotational position, the engagement of the gear with the tubular member is released and the tubular member stops rotating at the second position.
US10088788B2
An image forming apparatus supporting a near field communication (NFC) function identifies, if a user device having an NFC function is NFC-tagged, the user device by receiving identification information of the user device, and displays, when the user device is identified, a user interface (UI) corresponding to the identified user device.
US10088781B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer member configured to abut against an image carrier for carrying a toner image to form a transfer nip; and a power supply configured to output a bias voltage for transferring the toner image on the image carrier onto a recording medium nipped in the transfer nip. The bias voltage includes a first voltage for transferring the toner image from the image carrier onto the recording medium in a transfer direction and a second voltage having an opposite polarity of the first voltage, the first and the second voltages being alternately output. A time-averaged value of the bias voltage is set to a polarity in the transfer direction and is set in the transfer direction side with respect to a median between a maximum and a minimum of the bias voltage.
US10088777B2
A rotation detection device includes a light emitting portion, a light-passing control member, and a light receiving portion. The light-passing control member controls passing of the light from the light emitting portion. The light receiving portion outputs a light receiving signal based on the light received by the respective light receiving elements as detection signals representing detection results of the rotation by the rotator. A first virtual extended line that extends the first opening margin and a light-receiving-portion center line along the first direction passing through the respective light receiving elements at the light receiving portion pass through positions shifted from a rotational center of the light-passing control member. The light receiving portion is arranged such that the first virtual extended line corresponds to the light-receiving-portion center line, when the first opening margin passes through an optical path from the light emitting portion to the light receiving portion.
US10088769B2
A corona discharge device including a corona electrode provided with multiple sharpened tip portions in a row includes a cleaning member which cleans the tip portions of the corona electrode while reciprocating along a predetermined movement direction set in advance with the tip portions biting into the cleaning member. A cleaning position at a surface of the cleaning member is different in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the corona electrode between when the cleaning member moves toward one side in the movement direction and when the cleaning member moves toward another side in the movement direction.
US10088752B2
There is disclosed a method for manufacturing an organic processing fluid for patterning of a chemical amplification type resist film, comprising a step of causing a fluid containing an organic solvent to pass through a filtration device having a fluid input portion, a fluid output portion, and a filtration filter film provided in a flow path that connects the fluid input portion and the fluid output portion with each other, wherein an absolute value (|TI−To|) of a difference between a temperature (TI) of the fluid in the fluid input portion and a temperature (To) of the fluid in the fluid output portion is 3° C. or lower, a filtration speed of the fluid in the filtration device is 0.5 L/min/m2 or greater, and a filtration pressure by the fluid in the filtration device is 0.10 MPa or lower.
US10088744B2
A mask blank having a structure in which, on a transparent substrate, a light shielding film and a hard mask film are laminated in the stated order from the transparent substrate side. The hard mask film is formed of a material containing at least one element selected from silicon and tantalum, and the light shielding film is formed of a material containing chromium. The mask blank has a structure of three layers wherein a lower layer, an intermediate layer, and an upper layer are laminated in the stated order from the transparent substrate side. The upper layer has a lowest content of chromium in the light shielding film, the intermediate layer has a highest content of chromium in the light shielding film. It contains at least one metallic element selected from indium, tin, and molybdenum.
US10088743B2
A polarization conversion element includes: a plurality of polarization separation layers and a plurality of reflective layers alternately disposed along a first direction; and a plurality of retardation layers. The plurality of polarization separation layers reflect first polarized light of incident light along the first direction and transmit second polarized light along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The plurality of reflective layers reflect, along the second direction, the first polarized light reflected by a corresponding polarization separation layer. The plurality of retardation layers are provided on an optical path of one polarized light of the first polarized light and the second polarized, and convert the one polarized light to the other polarized light. The direction of a slow axis of one and another retardation layers are line-symmetrical about an axis along a third direction orthogonal to the first and the second directions.
US10088740B1
A projection light source device according to the present disclosure includes a light source, and a collimating lens that substantially collimates light emitted from the light source, an intermediate diffusion plate that diffuses the emitted light of the collimating lens, and an emission surface diffusion plate that has a weaker diffusibility than the intermediate diffusion plate and diffuses the emitted light of the intermediate diffusion plate.
US10088734B2
In a waveguide-type optical element, broaderband operation becomes possible. The waveguide-type optical element includes optical waveguides (110 and 112) formed on a substrate (100) having an electro-optic effect and a control electrode for controlling an optical wave that is transmitted through the optical waveguide, the control electrode comprises a central electrode (104) and ground electrodes (106 and 108), the central electrode being formed along the optical waveguide, and the ground electrodes being formed so as to put the central electrode therebetween in a surface direction of the substrate at a predetermined distance from the central electrode, and the central electrode or the ground electrodes have multiple pairs of facets, each comprising two facets facing each other, along a transmission direction of high-frequency signals that are transmitted through the central electrode and the ground electrodes.
US10088721B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate; a source driver flexible film attached to the second substrate; a source driver circuit attached to the source driver flexible film; a common voltage line connected to the source driver circuit; common voltage compensation circuits connected to the common voltage line; and common voltage supply lines and common voltage feedback lines connecting the common voltage line and the common voltage compensation circuits, respectively, wherein the common voltage compensation circuits include a circuit line extending at a rear of the display panel connecting to a connection terminal on the source driver circuit.
US10088715B2
The in-cell touch display panel includes the following units. Multiple pixel regions are disposed in areas of the display area enclosed by gate lines that are intersected the data lines, in which each pixel region includes a pixel structure, and each pixel structure includes a pixel electrode. A common electrode includes multiple touch electrodes, in which each touch electrode corresponds to more than one pixel electrodes. A sub-common electrode is a portion of the touch electrode. The data lines and the sub-common electrodes are disposed on the same insulation layer. A metal connection structures is electrically connected to two adjacent ones of the sub-common electrodes along the second direction. The metal connection structure and the data lines are formed by different metal layers.
US10088714B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate having pixel regions and a counter substrate opposed thereto. One of the pixel regions is defined by a pair of gate lines extending in a first direction and a pair of data lines extending in a second direction. A first insulating layer is disposed on the substrate corresponding to the pixel region. A first common electrode is continuously disposed on the first insulating layer and overlaps the data lines. A pixel electrode pattern is disposed above the first common electrode. A second insulating layer is interposed between the first common electrode and the pixel electrode pattern. A second common electrode is disposed above one of the data lines and electrically connected to the first common electrode. A projection of the second common electrode on the substrate overlaps a projection of the one of the data lines on the substrate.
US10088706B2
A surface light source device includes a laser beam source, a laser beam guide rod for converting a laser beam into first linear light, an LED light source, an LED light guide rod for converting LED light into second linear light extended in the same direction as the first linear light, a reflecting bar for reflecting the first linear light and the second linear light, and a light reflecting portion formed in a box shape and having an opening portion with an emission side opened and a reflecting surface on an inside of the box shape. The first linear light and the second linear light are reflected by the reflecting bar and the reflecting surface, and are emitted from the opening portion.
US10088702B2
The exemplary embodiments herein provide a figure eight closed loop of circulating gas pathways wrapping around an electronic display. One or more open loop ambient air pathways may pass through the figure eight but do not allow the circulating gas and the ambient air to mix. In some embodiments, the open loop ambient air pathway travels along a rear surface of the electronic display. In some embodiments, the circulating gas pathways contain a front channel placed in front of the electronic display, a rear channel placed behind the electronic display, and a center channel placed between the front and rear channels. Pass-through apertures may be placed within the path of the circulating gas and/or the ambient air to allow the paths of the two gaseous matters to cross without allowing them to mix with one another.
US10088700B2
A double-side display device and a fixing structure of a backlight module of the same. The fixing structure includes: a first fixing part, a second fixing part, and a third fixing part, wherein the first fixing part includes a first main body portion, a first carrying portion and a first connection portion formed integrally; the second fixing part includes a second connection portion and a second carrying portion formed integrally, the second connection portion is detachably connected with the first connection portion; and the third fixing part includes a third main body portion, a third carrying portion and a third connection portion formed integrally, wherein the third connection portion is used for fixing and connecting with the first fixing part. The fixing structure for the backlight module realize the fixing to the backlight module through multiple fixing parts which is simple in structure, and the assembly process is simple.
US10088699B2
Modulation electrodes, bias electrodes, and bias electrodes are disposed in this order in a light wave-travelling direction in an optical modulation region modulating light having a wavelength. On the other hand, in an optical modulation region modulating light having a wavelength, the bias electrodes, the bias electrodes, and the modulation electrodes are disposed in this order in the light wave-travelling direction. That is, an order of the modulation electrodes and the bias electrodes in a longitudinal direction of a substrate is changed for each of the wavelengths.
US10088694B1
An elastomeric tubular casing encompasses an elongate eyeglasses temple. The elastomeric tubular casing has a tube interior; a tube exterior; and tube first and second ends. The tube interior is configured to have higher than standard adhesion, and the tube exterior is configured to have lower than standard adhesion. Bevels may be provided adjacent to the tube first and second ends. The elastomeric tube in a first post-production orientation is rolled into a doughnut geometry, and adapted to unroll about the elongate eyeglasses temple to resume a generally cylindrical tubular geometry, and thereby encase a portion of the eyeglasses temple. The elastomeric tubular casing has an interior diameter approximately equal to an exterior circumference of the eyeglasses temple and the elastomeric tubular casing extends longitudinally co-extensively with the eyeglasses temple.
US10088689B2
An optical light engine includes a pair of lenticular microlenslet arrays (MLAs) located on each side of a polarization converter. Non-polarized light from a source in the engine is focused by the first MLA onto cells of the polarization converter which converts the light to a common state of polarization to increase efficiency and improve contrast in the system. A half wave retarder is included on the polarization converter to change the polarization of any light that is reflected from downstream optical components to match that of the forward propagating light. The second MLA, which includes a relatively large number of microlenslet elements, collects the light from the polarization converter and homogenizes the light to be highly uniform when received at a downstream imaging panel in the light engine such as a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) panel.
US10088685B1
Aspects of the disclosed apparatuses, methods, and systems provide a wearable, augmented or virtual reality display system including two or more sets of backlight illumination arrangements. Each different set of backlight illumination is directed to a corresponding optical imaging system. The corresponding optical imaging system is designed to focus each set of illumination at a different distance. The selection of a particular optical focal distance is controlled by selecting the set of backlight illumination corresponding to the imaging system to provide the desired focal distance. As a result, selection of the backlight illumination determines at which distance an image is perceived by a user. When multiple backlight illumination sets are multiplexed with 2-D images, a single, 3-D image is perceived by the wearer of the display system.
US10088679B2
A head-up display device for a vehicle includes a housing, a temperature detector, and a light source control unit. The head-up display device projects, toward an external projection member, lights indicating display information for displaying an image produced by the reflected lights to a user positioned at a predetermined position. The housing houses the display portion and the light source disposed facing each other via heat transfer space. The temperature detector is disposed in a surrounding area of the display portion and the light source, and detects a temperature of the surrounding area. The light source control unit increases brightness of the emitted lights by increasing driving current of the light source when the detected temperature is lower than a reference low-temperature. The heat generated by the increased driving current is transferred to the display portion via the heat transfer space, and increases a temperature of the display portion.
US10088676B2
Systems and methods for enhancing traffic safety through augmented reality and shared data are disclosed. An example method includes, identifying a second transportation vehicle that at least partially blocks a first view of a first user associated with a first transportation vehicle; and obtaining second view data from the second transportation vehicle. The second view data is descriptive of a second view of a second user associated with the second transportation vehicle, and the second view includes an additional view that was blocked in the first view by the second transportation vehicle. In some implementations, the method includes presenting the second view on a first display associated with the first transportation vehicle. In other implementations, for example where the first transportation vehicle is a driver-less vehicle, the method includes providing an electronic signal identifying the second view to the first transportation vehicle.
US10088670B1
A spatial light modulator is provided that uses light modulation structures at each pixel to employ electromagnetic interference to modulate the intensity and/or phase of the transmitted and/or reflected light from the pixel. The use of the modulation structures enables the independent and dynamic changing of the intensity and/or phase of the reflected and/or transmitted light at each pixel. The modulation structure can incorporate a plate with a semi-reflective surface that is separated from a substrate having either a reflective or semi-reflective surface. The modulation structure can have actuators positioned between the substrate and the plate to control the separation distance between the plate and the substrate. By controlling the separation distance, the amount of light reflected by and/or transmitted through the surfaces of the plate and substrate can be controlled. The separation distance can be related to the resulting interference applied to particular wavelengths of the light.
US10088664B2
The invention relates to a method for observing a sample, in particular an anatomopathological slide formed from a thin thickness of a sampled biological tissue. It includes a step of illuminating the sample with a light source and acquiring, with an image sensor, an image representing the light transmitted by the sample. The image undergoes holographic reconstruction, so as to obtain a representation, in the plane of the sample, of the light wave transmitted by the latter. The method includes applying an impregnating fluid to the sample, such that the sample is impregnated with said impregnating liquid, said impregnating liquid having a refractive index strictly higher than 1.
US10088660B2
A system is described to facilitate the characterization of particles within a fluid contained in a vessel using an illumination system that directs source light through each vessel. One or more optical elements may be implemented to refract the source light and to illuminate the entire volume of the vessel. As the refracted source light passes through the vessel and interacts with particles suspended in the fluid, scattered light is produced and directed to an imager, while the refracted source light is diverted away from the imager to prevent the source light from drowning out the scattered light. The system can therefore advantageously utilize an imager with a large depth of field to accurately image the entire volume of fluid at the same time, facilitating the determination of the number and size of particles suspended in the fluid.
US10088659B2
A sample retaining member insertion-removal mechanism is configured so that a receiver is driven to an advance position by a receiver driving unit to project out through an opening of a stage so that a receiving surface makes a downward slope toward a receiving surface positioning portion. Because of this, the sample retaining member insertion-removal mechanism can position the sample retaining member by the receiving surface positioning portion through the use of the downward slope of the receiving surface by simply placing the sample retaining member on the receiving surface. After the positioning by the receiving surface positioning portion, the receiver is driven to a retraction position by the receiver driving unit, whereby the sample retaining member is transferred from the receiver to the stage.
US10088648B2
Interpupillary distance of binoculars is adjusted by relatively rotating a pair of lens barrels about a predetermined axis. A click position setting mechanism sets a click position at an arbitrary angle of rotation of said pair of lens barrels and includes a rotating member rotatable about the predetermined axis. A lock/unlock member locks and unlocks the rotation of the rotating member.
US10088647B2
A MEMS auto focus miniature camera module includes an image sensor and an optical train including at least one movable lens and one or more fixed lenses or fixed lens groups on either side of the movable lens. The movable lens provides an auto focus feature of the camera module. A MEMS actuator translates the movable lens through an auto focus range to adjust focus.
US10088641B1
An optical amplifier is provided in which radiation levels experienced by an optical fiber are minimized. A sealed enclosure houses an optical fiber. An input optical signal enters on end of the fiber and an amplified output optical signal exits the other end of the optical fiber. Small particles embedded with a gas fill the interior of the enclosure. An optical pump supplies an amplification laser beam coupled to one of the ends of the optical fiber. Due to energy supplied by the amplification laser beam, the input optical signal is amplified upon exiting the optical fiber. At least a portion of the gas embedded in the small particles is released inside the enclosure when the small particles are subjected to heat to provide a gaseous interior in the enclosure that minimizes radiation levels experienced by the optical fiber due to external radiation.
US10088639B2
An opto-mechanical coupler and corresponding method are provided. The coupler may include a first end and a second end configured to receive optical fibers and a top surface and bottomed surface defining a through hole extending between the top and bottom surfaces. The coupler may include a reflective surface that redirects the optical signals between a first direction and a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The coupler may position one or more optical fibers along a second direction such that an optical signal from the plurality of optoelectronic transceivers is directed into one or more optical fibers or an optical signal from the one or more optical fibers is directed into a plurality of the optoelectronic transceivers, with the coupler accommodating different diameters of optical fiber including POF, SMF, and/or MMF fiber.
US10088637B2
A method for making an optical fiber connector includes the following steps: Providing a casting mold having at least one casting cavity, and arranging at least one optical fiber assembly in the at least one casting cavity; Feeding plastic material into the at least one casting cavity; Solidifying the plastic material so as to form a plastic portion which solidifiedly bonds the at least one optical fiber assembly, where an end of the at least one optical fiber assembly emerges from the plastic portion, then removing a lower mold plate of the casting mold; Using a hard grinding disk to grind the end of the at least one optical fiber assembly; and Disposing the casting mold into an atomization facility, and atomizing lens material to the end of the at least one optical fiber assembly, acting with a manner of epicyclic gearing revolving therearound and with their own axes, so as to form a lens on the end of the at least one optical fiber assembly such that the lens is heated and solidified. Thereby, efficacy in producing optical fiber connectors can be improved. Also disclosed is a structure of the optical fiber connector, thus reliability of automated production of optical fiber connectors can be increased.
US10088630B2
The optical device coupleable to a waveguide to receive an optical signal from the waveguide generally has at least two diffraction grating devices optically coupled to one another and having corresponding spectral responses, the spectral response of at least one of said diffraction grating devices being tunable to adjust an amount of overlapping between the spectral responses of the at least two diffraction grating devices.
US10088626B2
Discussed is a liquid crystal display including a light guide plate including a light incidence portion and a light emitting portion, a plurality of optical sheets including a diffuser sheet, a lower prism sheet and an upper prism sheet, a guide panel including a first area for seating the optical sheets and the light emitting portion of the light guide plate thereon, a second area for accommodating the light source, and a third area for accommodating the light incidence portion of the light guide plate, and a light shielding tape attached to an edge of an upper surface of the guide panel and edges of upper surfaces of the optical sheets, wherein the guide panel further includes sheet fixers each upwardly protruding from opposite lateral edges of the third area for horizontally fixing the optical sheets, and the light guide plate has cutout structures at opposite lateral edges thereof.
US10088620B2
A light guide for a virtual image device to guide and emit image light output from an image display element to display a virtual image. The light guide includes a light-guide member and an optical member. The light-guide member includes an incidence portion to receive the image light and an exit portion to emit the image light to an outside, and a reflective portion inclined relative to the incidence portion to guide the image light received by the incidence portion into the light guide. The light-guide member also includes an extraction portion including first planes each inclined relative to the exit portion and second planes each parallel with the exit portion, to guide the image light from each first plane to the exit portion and extract the image light. The optical member includes a parallel plane and an inclined portion.
US10088604B2
A transparent substrate for optical elements which is capable of suppressing cracking is provided, and a transparent substrate for optical elements which is capable of extending the life of optical elements such as organic EL elements used in organic EL illumination devices or polarizer plates used in liquid crystal display devices is provided. This transparent substrate for optical elements is characterized by having an inorganic layer and a hydrophilic layer laminated sequentially on a transparent resin film. For this reason, this transparent substrate for optical elements can have excellent gas barrier properties, inhibits degeneration of optical elements due to water vapor, suppresses cracking, is transparent and flexible, is easy to handle, can be efficiently and economically manufactured, and has excellent design properties.
US10088587B2
A signal processing device includes a propagation speed calculating means for calculating strength and a direction of vibration in an underground structure region using a calculation model including data of a vibration propagation speed; a simulated propagation speed calculating means for inputting seismic source information to a calculation model and calculating the strength and the direction of the vibration in the underground structure region using the calculation model; and an update amount calculating means for calculating an update amount to update the calculation model, on the basis of propagation speed distribution information and simulated propagation speed distribution information. The calculation model is a solid model, the propagation speed calculating means calculates strength and a direction of first vibration using a first measurement signal input to the calculation model and calculates strength and a direction of second vibration using a second measurement signal input to the calculation model.
US10088586B2
Systems and methods are provided for detecting subterranean properties associated with a geological domain. One example method may comprise obtaining waveform information corresponding to a geological domain. The method may further comprise performing a global inversion on the waveform information. Furthermore, the method may comprise performing a deterministic inversion on the waveform information. The method may also comprise determining one or more subterranean properties associated with the geological domain based at least in part on the global inversion and the deterministic inversion.
US10088579B2
A radiation measuring apparatus (20) includes a scatterer detector (10A), an absorber detector (10B) and a processing unit (12). Pixel electrodes (2) of the scatterer detector (10A) and the absorber detector (10B) are arranged such that a distance between centers of two neighbor pixel electrodes (2) is smaller than a mean free path of a recoil electron generated in the Compton scattering of an electromagnetic radiation. The processing unit (12) specifies and incidence direction of the electromagnetic radiation based on a recoiling direction to which the recoil electron recoils. In this way, an electron tracking-type Compton camera is realized which confines the incidence direction of the electromagnetic radiation by using the recoiling direction of the recoil electron in a Compton camera using a semiconductor detector.
US10088577B2
The invention relates to a monitoring device (6) for monitoring the environment, in particular for monitoring the environment for radioactive radiation, comprising at least one receiver for receiving measured values of an environmental variable that potentially poses a health hazard and comprising a computing unit (10) for computing a hazard warning (4.1-4.4) dependent on the measured values. The receiver is designed to receive the measured values from a plurality of spatially distributed electronic terminals (2.1-2.4), in particular from mobile telephones with an image sensor for measuring the radioactive radiation. The invention further relates to a corresponding terminal (2.1-2.4) and to a complete monitoring system with a monitoring device and numerous terminals (2.1-2.4) for measuring the environmental variable.
US10088575B2
Provided is a positioning system including: a storage apparatus configured to store orbit information indicating the position of a positioning satellite; and a positioning apparatus configured to perform a positioning process based on the orbit information, wherein the positioning apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire state-related information related to the state of the positioning apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the storage apparatus, the state-related information acquired by the acquisition unit, and the storage apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive the state-related information transmitted from the transmission unit, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the content of the orbit information to be transmitted to the positioning apparatus, based on the state-related information received by the receiving unit.
US10088574B2
An apparatus and method of delivering an alert from an aircraft to a search and rescue system. An alert from an aircraft is received via a communications satellite. The alert comprises identification information identifying the aircraft and position information identifying the position of the aircraft. In response to receiving the alert, an emulated distress radio beacon signal is generated. The emulated distress radio beacon signal comprises the identification information and the position information in a standard format of a signal generated by a distress radio beacon. The emulated distress radio beacon signal is broadcast from a location other than the aircraft as an emulated distress radio beacon transmission that is configured to be received and processed by the search and rescue system.
US10088572B2
A time-of-flight (TOF) camera system for a robot milking system includes a housing accommodating a light source, imaging optics, an image sensor, and electronics; a front part including a light transparent window disposed in front of the light source and the imaging optics; and fasteners. The housing has a front side and a back side, and the front part has a front side and a backside, the surface of the front side being flat and including a front surface of the light transparent window. The fasteners releasably mechanically fasten the front part to the housing with the back side of the front part and the front side of the housing facing each other. The fasteners are maneuverable from the back side of the housing to fasten the front part to, and release the front part from, the housing, thereby enabling the front part to be replaceable.
US10088569B2
Optical system for tracking and visually examining a target, comprising an image sensor and a lens arrangement having a variable position relative to the image sensor to project an image of the target onto the image sensor, a light source for emitting light in a predetermined wavelength range in the direction of the target and a filter switch for switching an optical filter for selectively allowing the light in the predetermined wavelength range to pass through to the image sensor into and out of the optical path to optionally perform a visual examination and monitoring of the tracking. A tracking device is provided to perform the tracking of the target using the reflected light in the predetermined wavelength range in a sequence of images held by the image sensor when the first optical filter is switched into the optical path.
US10088566B2
An object is measured to record the relative surface coordinates. Then, a portion of the object “the front side” immersed in a fluid is imaged by directing a sonar pulse at the object and recording sonar signals reflected from the object with a sonar imaging array. Then, the recorded relative surface coordinates are iteratively fit to coordinates calculated from the sonar image. Thereafter, the coordinates of the surface of the “backside” of the object that is not observable in the sonar image are known, and a computer generated image of the backside is stitched to sonar image so that the object can be viewed from a plurality of viewpoints separated from the sonar imaging array.
US10088561B2
A detection system to detect an object and a method of performing detection of an object are described. The system includes a radar system to transmit radiation and receive resulting reflections, the object being a distributed radar target reflecting multi-point reflections. The system also includes an auxiliary sensor to estimate one or more parameters of the object, and a processor to estimate a probability density function based on estimates of the one or more parameters of the object and the multi-point reflections and to detect the object based on the probability density function.
US10088559B1
To compensate for motor dynamics in a scanner in a lidar system, a light source transmits light pulses at a variable pulse rate in accordance with a scan speed of the scanner. More specifically, the pulse rate may be directly related to the scan speed so that the light source transmits light pulses uniformly across a field of regard. A controller may determine the scan speed and provide a control signal to the light source adjusting the pulse rate accordingly.
US10088555B2
Method for selecting a sea clutter training area in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar input data. A sea clutter reference distribution for a pixel magnitude value is provided. Based on the input data, one or more parameters of the reference distribution and a global covariance matrix are computed. The pixels are grouped into blocks. A block that minimizes a cost function is pre-selected, the cost function being derived from empirical moments of the block and moments of the reference distribution. A goodness-of-fit is computed for the pre-selected block with respect to the reference distribution. If the goodness-of-fit is sufficient, the block is selected as sea clutter training area. Otherwise, the steps of preselecting and computing a goodness of fit are repeated.
US10088543B2
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) placed in an examination volume of a MR device (1). The method comprises the steps of: —subjecting the object (10) to an imaging sequence comprising phase-modulated multi-slice RF pulses for simultaneously exciting two or more spatially separate image slices, —acquiring MR signals, wherein the MR signals are received in parallel via a set of at least two RF coils (11, 12, 13) having different spatial sensitivity profiles within the examination volume, and —reconstructing a MR image for each image slice from the acquired MR signals, wherein MR signal contributions from the different image slices are separated on the basis of the spatial sensitivity profiles of the at least two RF coils (11, 12, 13) and on the basis of the phase modulation scheme of the RF pulses. In order to optimize the conditioning of the inverse problem of the MR image reconstruction, the phase-modulation scheme of the RF pulses is derived from the spatial sensitivity profiles of the at least two RF coils (11, 12, 13). Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device for carrying out this method as well as to a computer program to be run on a MR device.
US10088539B2
Methods and systems for production of silent, multi-gradient-echo, magnetic resonance images are provided. The methods employ iterative application of small updates to the magnetic field gradient followed by a short, non-selective radiofrequency pulse excitation and for free induction decay data acquisition. The magnetic field gradient updates allow for silent, self-refocusing pulse sequence. Subsequent applications of the magnetic field gradients allow for multiple echo data acquisitions, which may allow fast, silent production of T2*-weighted images.
US10088522B2
An apparatus according to embodiments detects locations of faults in a multilayer semiconductor (MLS). The apparatus comprises a laser source that outputs a laser beam, an optical system that directs the laser beam selectively onto a target region in the MLS to generate an irradiated zone in the MLS, a stage and a scanner that control a relative position between the irradiated zone and the MLS so that the irradiated zone moves along the target region, a controller system that measures electrical signals or electrical signal changes induced by a temperature increase in the MLS, and identifies a location of the target region and locations of faults in the MLS based on the measured electrical signal or the measured electrical signal changes. The target region is made of a material of which thermal conductivity is higher than that of a material around the target region and has a structure penetrating from shallow layers to deep layers of the MLS.
US10088521B2
Test board for semiconductor package, test system, and method of manufacturing semiconductor package
A test board includes: a board substrate; a device under test (DUT) socket connected to the board substrate and configured to accommodate a semiconductor package; a test controller; a wireless signal unit configured to wirelessly exchange signals with a server; and a wireless power unit configured to be wirelessly charged by an external source and configured to supply electric power to the test controller and the DUT socket, wherein the test controller is configured to independently perform a test on the semiconductor package accommodated in the DUT socket in response to a test pattern command being wirelessly received from the server via the wireless signal unit.
US10088518B1
A die with a transmission circuit, a reception circuit, and a comparison circuit can be provided. The transmission circuit can be configured to transmit a first signal through a first channel at a first transmission rate and a first transmission amplitude. The reception circuit can be in communication with the transmission circuit through the first channel. The reception circuit can receive a second signal at a first reception rate and at a first reception amplitude. The comparison circuit can be in communication with the transmission circuit and the reception circuit. The comparison circuit can be configured to: determine a first rate error value, determine a first amplitude error value, compare the first rate error value with a rate threshold to determine a first rate error occurrence, and compare the first amplitude error value with an amplitude threshold to determine a first amplitude error occurrence.
US10088512B2
It is provided a vectorial network analyzer, comprising an input and output measuring device; a beat source for generating an optical beat signal; an optical transmission device which divides the optical beat signal into at least one first and one second partial signal, wherein the transmission device conducts the first partial signal to at least one terahertz transmitter and the second partial signal to at least one terahertz receiver and/or to at least one terahertz reference receiver; and a phase changing unit for varying the phase of the first and/or the second partial signal of the optical beat signal.
US10088510B2
A voltage of a first capacitor is compared with a threshold voltage and a signal corresponding to the comparison result is generated at each of a first timing during a period after the transfer of a positive charge has ended and before the transfer of a negative charge starts and a second timing during a period after the transfer of the negative charge has ended and before the transfer of the positive charge starts. In each of the case where a positive charge is transferred and the case where a negative charge is transferred, operations (digitization of an integrated value and a feedback operation) of a delta sigma modulator are performed.
US10088507B2
A hydrocarbon-producing facility includes a first energy subsystem to receive input energy from an energy source and byproduct energy generated by a second energy subsystem connected to the first energy subsystem, the first energy subsystem to perform work using the input energy and the byproduct energy. A method of analyzing energy performance in the hydrocarbon-producing facility includes identifying the byproduct energy received by the first energy subsystem from the second energy subsystem over a duration, determining energy intensity indices at corresponding time instants during the duration for the first energy subsystem, each energy intensity index based on the input energy, the byproduct energy, and output parameters of the work performed using the input energy and the byproduct energy, comparing the energy intensity indices to each other, and determining an efficiency of the first energy subsystem in response to comparing the energy intensity indices to each other.
US10088502B2
A test assembly adapted to test a semiconductor device is provided. The test assembly includes a main circuit board, a space transformer, an intermediary supporting element, an adhesive element, a plurality of electrical connection elements and a plurality of test probes. The space transformer is disposed on the main circuit board and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first surface faces the main circuit board. The intermediary supporting element is disposed between the main circuit board and the first surface. The adhesive element is disposed between the intermediary supporting element and the first surface. The space transformer is attached to the intermediary supporting element through the adhesive element. The electrical connection elements are disposed between the main circuit board and the first surface. Each of the electrical connection elements passes through the intermediary supporting element and the adhesive element such that the space transformer is electrically connected to the main circuit board through the electrical connection elements. The test probes are disposed on the second surface and electrically connected to the space transformer.
US10088492B2
An irradiation device for photopheresis, comprising an exposure chamber configured to receive an illumination container holding a target cell suspension, an irradiation transmitter configured to irradiate the illumination container and target cell suspension, an irradiation receiver configured to detect absorption of radiation from the irradiation transmitter, and a processing circuit coupled to the irradiation receiver and configured to determine whether a hematocrit of the target cell suspension exceeds a predetermined threshold hematocrit and to treat the target cell suspension with a treatment dosage of radiation if the predetermined threshold is exceeded.
US10088491B2
Provided herein are methods for sequestering an alkyne-presenting molecule in a sample and related sequestration reagents, compositions, methods and systems.
US10088485B2
The current invention discloses compositions of matter, protocols and methods of screening test compounds to identifying agonists and antagonists of the orphan nuclear receptor NR2F6 by measuring the ability of a test compound to occupy the active site of NR2F6, in the presence of a reference compound.
US10088483B2
The present disclosure provides methods, kits, and compositions for detecting subject anti-HCV antibodies in a sample using NS3 capture peptides. In certain embodiments, at least two NS3 helicase (NS3h) capture peptides and at least two conjugate peptides (e.g., NS3h conjugate peptides) are employed together, which allows for a broad dynamic range of subject antibody detection in a one-step type assay. In other embodiments, methods are provided of detecting NS3-specific subject antibodies without the use of a reducing agent. In some embodiments, NS3-specific subject antibodies are detected with a ‘double shot’ of NS3 conjugate peptide (e.g., conjugate peptide added to a sample both before and after washing).
US10088474B2
Methods are described for phototransferring a compound from a first surface to a second surface. Compounds are described with photocleavable linkers. Compounds attached to a first surface through a photocleavable linker are put in proximity (or contact) with a second surface, and then phototransferred to the second surface upon exposure to electromagnetic radiation. Illuminating the compound with radiation photocleaves the compound from the first surface and transfers the compound to the second surface.
US10088473B2
A bio marker detection device and a method for detecting or generating a bio marker from a plurality of strip sensors are provided. The bio marker detection device includes a close-up lens for detecting an image for the plurality of strip sensors, a transparent frame surrounding the close-up lens to evenly pass light from an outside to the plurality of strip sensors, and a strip sensor holder inlet configured for combining the plurality of strip sensors with the bio marker detection device. The method includes detecting a plurality of bio markers from a plurality of sensors, generating user health information based on the detected plurality of detected bio markers, and displaying the generated user health information.
US10088466B2
Methods and systems for measuring and using the oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) of a biological sample are provided. The system generally includes a test strip and a readout device for determining the ORP. The measured ORP is then used to determine characteristics relating to the fertility of the sample or the subject from which the sample was derived. Some characteristics that can be determined include the quality of a sperm sample, an oocyte or a fertilized egg. The measured ORP value can also be used to determine the specific characteristics of a spermatozoa sample, such as the morphology of the spermatozoa, the motility of the spermatozoa, the number of cells in the sample and the concentration of the cells in the sample. Knowledge of such characteristics and fertility potential can be used to identify individuals that might benefit from specific fertility treatments.
US10088463B2
A method is disclosed comprising drawing vapor from a vapor device, exposing the drawn vapor to a sensor, determining a condition of the drawn vapor via the sensor, collecting data related to the condition of the drawn vapor from the sensor, comparing the collected data to standardized vapor device output data, determining a calibration result based on the comparison, determining a configuration adjustment based on the calibration result, and transmitting the configuration adjustment to the vapor device.
US10088459B2
A liquid-mixing device that minimizes solvent leakage and reduces creep of or damage to the component parts of said liquid-mixing device even at ultrahigh pressures of 100 MPa and up. Also, a liquid chromatography device using said liquid-mixing device. Said liquid chromatography device is provided with a supply pump that supplies a plurality of different solutions, a liquid-mixing device that mixes the supplied solutions, a sample injection device that injects a sample into the mixture of solutions, a column that separates the components of the injected sample, and a detector that detects the separated components. The liquid-mixing device has an inlet-side connector through which the plurality of different solutions flow in, a liquid-mixing section in which said solutions are mixed, and an outflow-side connector through which the mixed solutions flow out. The inlet-side connector and the liquid-mixing section are directly bonded to each other via diffusion bonding, as are the liquid-mixing section and the exit-side connector.
US10088458B2
We disclose a device that both extracts and preconcentrates volatile analytes in preparation for separation by gas chromatography. The device includes a conduit that may include two, and sometimes three, separate sections that are connected end-to-end, but which may be separated prior to inserting into a gas chromatograph port. The inner surface of each section is coated with one or more sorbents, each with a different affinity for volatile analytes. The sorbents may be positioned along the sections of the column in order of relative affinity for volatile analytes. The sections may be heated independently of each other to release the volatile analytes from the sorbents more quickly. This device reduces the time and the temperature required to achieve separation by gas chromatography. The device may be used to perform gas chromatography in ubiquitous environments such as the home or a mobile situation.
US10088457B2
A method for the determination of pollutants and leachables in a dialysis solution by stir bar sorptive extraction involves conditioning a sorptive material-coated stir bar, stirring the dialysis solution with the conditioned stir bar, desorbing of pollutants and leachables from the coated stir bar, and analyzing the desorbed pollutants and leachables by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS).
US10088453B2
An aspect of the present disclosure may provide a defect detection apparatus and method for a steel plate, in which a defect in a steel plate may be detected, and particularly, only an inner defect in the steel plate may be detected, even with a relatively low amplification rate.
US10088451B2
A method of analyzing ions by ion mobility separation is disclosed. The method comprises controlling the amount of charge within an ion trap and then pulsing the ions from the ion trap into an ion mobility separator. This enables the charge injected into the ion mobility separator to be controlled and hence prevents space-charge interactions between the ions from distorting the ion mobility peaks detected by the detector.
US10088447B2
Disclosed herein is a biosensor. The biosensor includes: a mount; a bio-sensing chip disposed on the mount and including at least one thin film transistor; a reaction layer disposed on the bio-sensing chip and including at least one of a biological sample and a biochemical reaction reagent; an upper electrode disposed on an upper surface of the reaction layer and supplying electric signal to the reaction layer; and at least one pad disposed on the bio-sensing chip and electrically connected to the bio-sensing chip. The biosensor can measure voltage-current characteristics in a linear region and a saturation region through examination with respect to a target substance using the thin film transistor.
US10088444B2
A disposable electrochemical test sensor designed to facilitate sampling of fluid samples. It has a fluid chamber having a novel extra wide sampling entrance, but no additional air escape vent. The chamber provides a reservoir from which a sample fluid can be drawn into the chamber through capillary action. The extra wide sampling entrance provided by the present invention can draw blood into the chamber through any part of the opening, thus it allows easy targeting the samples with small volume, picking up smeared samples and it is more tolerant to users who jam the tip of the sensor into users' finger.
US10088436B2
A method for applying RF energy to detect a processing state of an object placed in an energy application zone, during processing of the object, may include applying RF energy to the object during processing. The method may also include receiving computed RF feedback, correlated with one or more processing states of the object; and monitoring the computed RF feedback during the processing to detect the one or more processing states of the object.
US10088434B2
An inspection system includes a detection device arranged between a connector that couples a plurality of optical fibers to a port and the port; and a determination device that determines whether there is dart between the connector and the port, based on an output from the detection device, wherein the detection device includes a plurality of diodes that convert light that is output from each of the plurality of optical fibers to an electrical signal indicating intensity and distribution of the light, and the determination device includes a processor configured to determine whether there is dart between the connector and the port, based on the intensity and distribution of the light, which are indicated by the electrical signal.
US10088423B2
A disposable set (100) includes a tube; and a sensing member (104) press-fittingly insertable into the tube, the sensing member including: a first end (106) having a first diameter and including at least one through hole (112) positioned along a perimeter of the first end; a second end (108) having a second diameter and including at least one through hole positioned along a perimeter of the second end, the first diameter and the second diameter being substantially equal to an interior diameter of the tube; and a middle portion (110) located between the first end and the second end having a diameter that is less than the first diameter, the middle portion including at least one SERS sensing element (114), wherein the through holes in the first and second ends enable fluid to pass through the sensing member.
US10088422B2
Apparatus and method for Raman-spectrography-based measurement of the composition of gas mixture in a high-temperature borehole. The method includes any of determining molar densities of individual alkanes of the mixture, introducing refractive index corrections, utilization of reference species internally to the measurement apparatus, correction for the effect of self-absorption and cross-absorption, as well as minimizing fluorescence when a liquid fraction is present in the borehole. The apparatus is configured to detect vibrational bands of CH, OH, CC, HS, NN and CO functional groups as well as collective modes in the fingerprint spectral region.
US10088415B2
A probe includes a transmission line support substrate, a probe tip and a probe tip support substrate. The transmission line support substrate supports a transmission line through which a terahertz wave is transmitted. The probe tip transmits the terahertz wave, and is contact with an object to be measured. The probe tip support substrate supports the probe tip. The probe tip support substrate is detachable from the transmission line support substrate.
US10088410B2
A side illuminated multi point multi parameter optical fiber sensor that requires no sensitive coating is provided. This sensor comprises an optical fiber having at least one removed cladding section as the sensitive region, at least one probing light source that side illuminates the fiber, a power supply, a detector, a signal processor and a display. The sensitive optical fiber is optically affected by the presence of a measurand medium that can fluoresce, phosphoresce, absorb and/or scatter the probing light. This probing light is guided by the fiber core towards a detector which measures the light intensity and this light intensity is correlated with a measurand.
US10088407B2
Methods and systems for efficient contour and gating in flow cytometry are provided. Event data is compressed to reduce the number of points needed to represent polygon contours for the event data. Selection of a level within the contour then causes the generation of a gate. This allows limited resource devices, such as touchscreen wireless devices, to render and gate flow cytometry data in a resource efficient manner.
US10088405B2
A method for determining soot in exhaust gases of burners or internal combustion engines with the aid of a sensor element which includes at least two measuring electrodes exposed to the exhaust gas and one heating element, a voltage being applied to the at least two measuring electrodes during a measuring phase and the current flow or electrical resistance occurring between the measuring electrodes being determined and output as a measure for the particle concentration or the particle mass flow, characterized in that during the measuring phase, the temperature of the sensor element is monitored and the sensor element is heated by the heating element, if the temperature of the sensor element falls below a limiting temperature.
US10088402B2
A thermal analyzer is provided with: a furnace tube; a pair of sample holders; a heating furnace; a measurement chamber; and a measurement unit arranged inside the measurement chamber. The sample holders are arranged inside the furnace tube and are provided with mounting faces on which a pair of sample containers are mounted respectively. The heating furnace has an opening through which a measurement sample is observable, the opening being located at a position above the center of a virtual segment which connects centers of gravity of the mounting faces of the sample holders. The opening is formed to have a size, as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction and the mounting faces, of 7 mm or more in the direction along the virtual segment and of 3 mm or more in the direction perpendicular to the virtual segment.
US10088400B2
A group for allowing free orientation of a sphere with respect to outside force fields includes a support structure, a sphere, two locking elements acting from opposite sides on the sphere and useful to keep the sphere in a right position during a nonoperational phase of the group, at least four drop supports located around the sphere and able to form drops and to keep them at a desired temperature, and an isolation structure useful to isolate the above devices from the surroundings and to prevent dust deposition on the sphere surface and the four realized drops, and cooling device able to keep the sphere at a temperature lower than that of the drops.
US10088379B2
A data transmitting device capable of configuring different operating frequencies for use by a tire pressure monitoring detector includes: a standard oscillator; a phase locked loop including a phase frequency comparator, a filter, and a pressure-controlling oscillator; a microcontrol unit electrically connected to the standard oscillator and the phase frequency comparator and adapted to store a first ratio and a second ratio; and a signal output unit electrically connected to the output end of the pressure-controlling oscillator and the microcontrol unit. The microcontrol unit allows a user to select and send the first or second ratio to the phase frequency comparator. The phase locked loop generates a target frequency signal according to the first or second ratio selected by the user. The microcontrol unit sends a data to the signal output unit, and the signal output unit outputs the data according to the frequency of the target frequency signal.
US10088375B2
A thin film material residual testing structure comprises two groups of structures. The first group of structures comprises an electrostatic driven polysilicon cantilever beam, an asymmetrical cross beam made of thin film material to be tested and having an alignment structure, and a double-end fixed support beam made of the thin film material to be tested. The second group of structures is similar to the structure of the first group with the fixed support beam removed. A residual stress testing method includes separating the loading drive part of force from a residual stress testing structure made of the thin film material to be tested, designing the bending deflection of a control testing structure according to geometrical parameters, extracting the force applied on the residual stress testing structure and utilizing force and deflection to calculate the residual stress of the thin film material to be tested.
US10088370B2
A system and method for rapid thermometry using intrapulse spectroscopy can include a laser for propagating pulses of electromagnetic radiation to a region. Each of the pulses can be chirped. The pulses from the region can be detected. An intrapulse absorbance spectrum can be determined from the pulses. An instantaneous temperature of the region based on the intrapulse absorbance spectrum can be determined.
US10088364B2
The invention relates to a method for two-dimensional, spatially resolved measurement of tristimulus values of light emitted from a plurality of positions on a sample. It is an object of the invention to provide an improved method and system for spatially resolved chromaticity and luminance measurement in a standardized color space for display testing. The method of the invention comprises the steps of: directing a first portion of the light to an RGB camera which produces a two-dimensional map of RGB color values; transforming the RGB color values into first tristimulus values to produce a map of tristimulus values; directing a second portion of the light to a colorimeter which produces second tristimulus values; deriving a tristimulus correction by comparing the second tristimulus values with at least a subset of the first tristimulus values; and applying the tristimulus correction to the first tristimulus values to produce a corrected map of tristimulus values. Moreover, the invention relates to an imaging colorimeter system capable of two-dimensional, spatially resolved measurement of tristimulus values of light emitted from a plurality of positions on a sample.
US10088363B2
A biometric sensor that measures biometric information and a biometric analysis system including the biometric sensor are provided. The biometric sensor may include: a light source configured to emit light toward a region of interest of an object under examination, the light being diffused at the region of interest; a collimator that includes a though-hole and is configured to collimate the diffused light received from the region of interest; and a spectrometer configure to analyze the diffused light transmitted by the collimator.
US10088356B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical sensor module, an optical sensing accessory, and an optical sensing device. An optical sensor module comprises a light source, a photodetector, an electrode and a substrate. The light source is configured to convert electric power into radiant energy and emit light to an object surface. The photodetector is configured to receive the light from an object surface and convert radiant energy into electrical current or voltage. The electrode is configured to detect an external circuit formed by the contact with an object surface. An optical sensing accessory and an optical sensing device comprise the optical sensor module and other electronic modules to have further applications.
US10088347B2
Processing electronics provide flow data acquisition and telemetry for multiphase flow tomographic ultrasonic transceiver arrays. The processing electronics forms pulse drive signals to cause a tomographic pulse sequence to be emitted. Selected ones of an array of the ultrasonic transceivers emit ultrasonic energy in the tomographic pulse sequence for travel through the multiphase flow. The selected transmitting transceiver is isolated while transmitting it, and the remaining the transceivers are enabled to receive measures of the emitted pulse is after travel through the multiphase flow.
US10088345B1
The present disclosure is directed to a method for designing an aperture in a mask for inspecting a wafer. The method includes the steps of scanning a collection plane of the wafer at a plurality of points and collecting data for at least a part of the wafer. The method also includes the step of mapping the data. A further step of the method includes configuring the aperture based on the mapped data.
US10088341B2
The photoelectric encoder 1 includes a scale 2, and a detection head 3 including a light emitting unit 4, an index 5, and a detection unit 6. The index 5 includes a first index portion 50 consisting of diffraction portions and non-diffraction portions alternately juxtaposed at a predetermined pitch along the longitudinal direction of the scale 2, and a second index portion 51 consisting of diffraction portions and non-diffraction portions alternately juxtaposed at twice the pitch of the first index portion 50. The scale 2 is configured to include a first pattern portion 20 consisting of diffraction portions and non-diffraction portions alternately juxtaposed at a predetermined pitch along the longitudinal direction of the scale 2, and a second pattern portion 21 consisting of diffraction portions and non-diffraction portions arranged in a checkered pattern.
US10088340B2
A photoelectric encoder of the present invention includes: a scale which includes a grid scale; a light emitting portion which irradiates light toward the scale; a light receiving portion which detects an image of the grid scale of the scale; and a telecentric optical unit which is provided between the scale and the light receiving portion and forms the image of the grid scale on the light receiving portion, wherein the telecentric optical unit includes a first optical element which is disposed near the scale, a second optical element which is disposed near the light receiving portion in relation to the first optical element and is disposed so that a gap is formed between the second optical element and the first optical element, and an aperture which is provided in at least one of a face near the second optical element in the first optical element and a face near the first optical element in the second optical element.
US10088339B2
An automated system and method for detecting substantial edge defects on an object that can degrade or impede proper object performance. The defects, such as chips, cracks, or bumps, if sufficiently substantial, can interfere with the proper operation of the object. The inspection may be performed with four electronic sensors, two on each side of the object, or with two electronic sensors that each take two sets of measurements spaced apart by a certain time interval. Sensor measurements are periodically obtained and used by a controller to calculate a value based on the four sensor measurements. The calculated value is compared to a threshold to determine whether or not any defects are significant.
US10088337B2
A device for detecting the axial position of a rotor shaft of a rotary machine having a stator and a rotor is provided. The detecting device includes a sensor stator ring, secured to the stator, made from ferromagnetic material, facing the shoulder of one end of the hollow or not hollow rotor shaft and arranged so as to leave an axial airgap with the one end of the rotor shaft. The sensor stator ring having at least one annular slot receiving an annular induction coil. The rotor shaft is made from solid magnetic steel, an outer end of the rotor shaft acts as a target surface whose axial position is to be measured by the sensor stator ring.
US10088328B1
Navigation applications may utilize various input data to determine various navigation routes. One example method of operating may include providing at least one navigation instruction to a navigation device via a navigation application, detecting the at least one instruction via a detection application, obtaining an image of a physical object, performing a holo-acoustic object manipulation of the physical object, and providing a visual display of the holo-acoustic manipulation as an additional navigation instruction.
US10088321B2
A mobile device providing time regulated navigational guidance for travel to a flight gate in an airport terminal, based on the time for boarding the flight, the preferences of the traveler, estimated transit times on various segments of a route to the gate from a starting point of the travel (or the current location of the mobile device) involving different transportation modalities, and wait times at various queues in the airport. Notifications and/or reminders are provided according to the time estimates to guide the travel for timely travel to the gate and optionally recommend points of interests on the way to the gate within the time constraint.
US10088320B1
A method for estimating the position of a mobile device. Initializing an Extended Kalman Filter. Moving mobile device from a first unknown position (xt1, yt1) at a first time t1 to a second unknown position (xt2, yt2) at a second time t2. Measuring distance traveled d and angle traveled θ between the first unknown position and the second unknown position. Calculating a first possible position (x1, y1) at the first time and a second possible position (x2, y2) the second time. Using the Extended Kalman Filter, a predicted first unknown position ({circumflex over (x)}, ŷ) is calculated at the first time. A first final value is calculated according to √{square root over (({circumflex over (x)}−x1)2+(ŷ−y1)2)}. A second final value is calculated according to √{square root over (({circumflex over (x)}−x2)2+(ŷ−y2)2)}. If the first final value is less than or equal to the second final value, the first possible position (x1, y1) is output. Otherwise, the second possible position (x2, y2) is output.
US10088313B2
A method for computing a correction to a compass heading for a portable device worn or carried by a user is described. The method involves determining a heading for the device based on a compass reading, collecting data from one or more sensors, determining if the device is indoors or outdoors based on the collected data, and correcting the heading based on the determination of whether the device is indoors or outdoors.
US10088306B1
A system for leveling and distance-measuring, the system including a housing, a self-leveling-laser fixed to the housing, an electronic-stud-finder also fixed to the housing, a distance-measurer having distance-measuring-circuitry, a display detachably coupled to the housing, and an audio-output including variable-frequency-output and variable-tone-output. The system for leveling and distance-measuring also includes at least one mode-selector-switch, configured to select a mode-of-operation of the system from at least a leveling mode and a distance-measuring mode. The system is structured and arranged to determine level, plumb, measure distances, locate studs embedded within walls, and measure a width of the studs.
US10088296B2
A method for scanning and obtaining three-dimensional (3D) coordinates is provided. The method includes providing a 3D measuring device having a projector, a first camera and a second camera. The method records images of a light pattern emitted by the projector onto an object. A deviation in a measured parameter from an expected parameter is determined. The calibration of the 3D measuring device may be changed when the deviation is outside of a predetermined threshold.
US10088293B2
A light detection device includes a light detector including first detectors and second detectors both disposed along a main surface; a light coupling layer disposed on or above the light detector; and a light shielding film disposed on the light coupling layer. The light coupling layer includes a first low-refractive-index layer, a first high-refractive-index layer that is disposed on the first low-refractive-index layer and includes a first grating, and a second low-refractive-index layer that is disposed on the first high-refractive-index layer. The light shielding film includes a light transmitting region and a light shielding region adjacent to the light transmitting region. The light transmitting region faces two or more first detectors included in the first detectors, and the light shielding region faces two or more second detectors included in the second detectors.
US10088291B2
An instantaneous phase-shift interferometer uses a light source having a coherence length shorter than a difference in optical path length between the light reflected from a reference surface and the light reflected from a measured surface. A beam from the light source is split and, using an adjustable delay optical path, a first beam is delayed to cause a difference in optical path length and is superimposed on the same optical axis as a second beam, after which the reference beam and the measurement beam are generated. The optical path length of the delay optical path is changed during adjustment, a plurality of interference fringe images are individually captured, and at least one of a bias, amplitude, and phase shift amount of the interference fringes obtained in each of the interference fringe images is calculated. A shape of a measured object is measured based on bias calculation results, amplitude calculation results, and phase shift amount calculation results.
US10088285B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to enhancing insensitive munitions performance. Some embodiments of the invention employ an outgassing pad having unique geometrical configurations and positioning. Other embodiments rely on using thermally-releasable components to foster billet expulsion. Additional embodiments combine both aspects into an entire cook-off mitigation system.
US10088283B2
A bullet trap is disclosed which is formed without intervening sidewalls to enable cross-shooting and the like with reduced risk or ricochet or damage to the bullet trap. Furthermore, the bullet trap can be configured in a variety of ways to eliminate the need for facing plates while providing a removable attachment mechanism, to enable repair on the trap, to reduce bullet adhesion to the trap and to provide improved containment of lead and improved access to the trap.
US10088281B2
An apparatus for randomly moving a target in space, comprising: a drive assembly disposed within a housing, an electric motor, a programmable controller, and a moving attachment arm, adapted to move vertically, horizontally, along a curved path, and along a linear path in response to instructions from the controller.
US10088278B1
An apparatus includes charged-particle intercalated graphite. The apparatus additionally includes one or more explosive materials disposed within a region defined by the charged-particle intercalated graphite.
US10088271B2
A firing device for firing cartridge ammunition comprising a case head, which has on its outer circumference at least one peripheral, groove-shaped depression. In order to achieve secure arrestment of the ammunition in the firing device when the firing device is loaded from the muzzle end, a head piece and a tubular ammunition receiving-device is provided, wherein the ammunition receiving-device is arranged such that it can be moved axially in the direction of the head piece against the pressure of a restoring element. In this case, the head piece includes an annular guiding element, which extends axially into the ammunition receiving-device and has multiple guiding openings, which extend through the wall of the guiding element and are in each case of a form that is angled from the outer side of the guiding element in the direction of the opening of the ammunition receiving-device.
US10088270B1
A rail accessory attachment system having one or more winged attachment nuts, wherein each winged attachment nut comprises two wing portions extending from a central portion of the winged attachment nut and a nut aperture formed through the winged attachment nut, wherein each winged attachment nut comprises a nut stop; an accessory portion having one or more accessory apertures, wherein each accessory aperture comprises at least one associated accessory stop; and wherein the nut aperture is aligned with the accessory aperture, such that a threaded portion of an attachment bolt interacts with a threaded portion of the nut aperture to rotatably attach or couple the winged attachment nut to the accessory portion, such that the nut stop is aligned relative to the accessory stop so that the winged attachment nut is rotatable relative to the accessory portion between a locked position and an unlocked position.
US10088266B1
An anti-recoil device is for being inserted in the stock of a firearm is provided. The anti-recoil device may include a cylindrical tube having a hollow core, a reciprocating magnet which can slide back and forth within the hollow core, and an end magnet disposed at each end of the hollow core, with the magnets oriented such that the magnetic poles of the reciprocating magnet face like poles of the end magnets. During operation, the recoil force of the firearm is partially counteracted by the interaction of the repelling magnetic forces. In some embodiments, the anti-recoil device includes a metal coil with windings around the exterior of the cylindrical tube. In other embodiments, the anti-recoil device includes air vents which allow the reciprocating magnet to create air cushions within the cylindrical tube.
US10088265B2
A rear trunnion assembly includes: a modular rear trunnion fitting including a rear connection feature, an upper portion, and a lower portion; a folding hinge fitting including an upper lug, a lower lug, and a forward portion disposed under the modular rear trunnion fitting, the folding hinge fitting disposed on a rear side of the modular rear trunnion fitting, the forward portion including a first mounting hole configured to interface with the upper portion and a second mounting hole configured to interface with the lower portion; and a pivoting latch fitting configured to pivot with respect to the folding hinge fitting about an axis extending from the upper lug to the lower lug. The pivoting latch fitting may be configured to lock in at least one position with respect to the folding hinge fitting.
US10088263B2
Rotational motion generates velocity of a mass wherein the mass' release from the rotating system, becoming a projectile, and subsequent impact can result in cutting, abrasion, mixing of chemicals, coating, and other surface and bulk volume effects including the transfer of momentum. Structures and devices are used to insert a mass into a rotating device. While inside the rotating device the mass gains velocity. Transitioning from the rotational system to a stationary surface is accomplished with a minimum of velocity loss by selecting trajectories, air flows, and surface finishes to reduce energy losses in the mass' transition onto the stationary surface and info a fixed stationary guide tube, and ultimately to an impact point. Single and multiple conduits, stationary and rotating, can be used to accomplish complex chemistry and physics affects.
US10088260B1
A bullet suppressor for lowering the decibel level of a fired bullet from a firearm is disclosed. The effect of the suppressor is the trapping of exhaust gases trailing a bullet, such that the bullet exits the suppressor but the exhaust gases remain within the suppressor. This effect is achieved by the interaction of two levers within the suppressor, which are influenced every time a bullet is fired. As a bullet travels through the barrel of the suppressor, a first lever is forced to rotate in a first direction, causing a second lever to rotate in an opposite direction until it creates a boundary which traps exhaust gases exiting the firearm because they reach the end of the suppressor barrel. Other mechanical elements are also disclosed for more intricate systems within the suppressor. The trapping of the gases significantly reduces the sound of the gunshot.
US10088250B2
A counter-flow heat exchanger comprising a heat exchanger core including an inner wall and an outer wall radially outward and spaced apart from the inner wall. A first flow path is defined within the inner wall and a second flow path is defined between the inner wall and the outer wall. The heat exchanger core includes a primary flow inlet, a primary flow outlet and a middle portion therebetween. The inner and outer walls are concentric at the primary flow inlet of the heat exchanger core. The inner wall defines a first set of channels extending axially from the primary flow inlet to the middle portion of the heat exchanger core diverging away from a radial center of the heat exchanger core. The inner wall and the outer wall define a second set of channels extending axially from the primary flow inlet to the middle portion of the heat exchanger core converging toward the radial center of the heat exchanger core.
US10088249B2
A heat exchange device includes a housing, a heat exchange module, and a piezoelectric module. Isolated inner and outer circulation chambers are formed in the housing. The heat exchange module in the housing includes a stack of separated plates parallel to each other. An inner channel communicated with the inner circulation chamber and an outer channel communicated with the outer circulation chamber are defined respectively by both sides of one of the plates and the other adjacent plates. The piezoelectric module in the housing includes a piezoelectric chip, and first and second heat exchange sides thermally coupled to the piezoelectric chip. The first heat exchange side is located in the inner circulation chamber and the second heat exchange side is located in the outer circulation chamber, so that heat can be transferred between the inner and outer circulation chambers via the piezoelectric chip.
US10088248B2
A fluid circulation conduit 1 for use as a heating device in electrical household appliances, includes an element for creating turbulence in the fluid circulating in its inner volume 2. Application of the device is to electrical household appliances equipped with a heating device.
US10088243B2
This invention provides a thermal energy battery having an insulated tank containing a multitude of densely packed plastic tubes filled with a phase-change material (PCM, such as ice) that changes from solid to liquid and vice-versa. Energy is stored when the PCM transitions from liquid to solid form, and released when the PCM transitions back from solid to liquid form. The tubes are arranged vertically, span the height of a well-insulated tank, and are immersed in heat transfer fluid (HTF) contained within the tank. The HTF is an aqueous solution with a freezing point temperature below the freezing point temperature of the chosen PCM. The HTF remains in liquid form at all times during the operation of the battery. Diffusers located allow the HTF to be extracted uniformly from the tank, pumped and cooled by a liquid chiller situated outside the tank and then and inserted back into the tank.
US10088229B2
A system and method for cryogenic purification of a hydrogen, nitrogen, methane and argon containing feed stream to produce a methane free, hydrogen and nitrogen containing synthesis gas and a methane rich fuel gas, as well as to recover an argon product stream, excess hydrogen, and excess nitrogen is provided. The disclosed system and method are particularly useful as an integrated cryogenic purifier in an ammonia synthesis process in an ammonia plant. The excess nitrogen is a nitrogen stream substantially free of methane and hydrogen that can be used in other parts of the plant, recovered as a gaseous nitrogen product and/or liquefied to produce a liquid nitrogen product.
US10088215B2
A refrigeration device includes a first refrigeration compartment for storing refrigerated goods at a first temperature, the first refrigeration compartment including a first evaporator with a first controllable expansion valve at the refrigerant inlet of the first evaporator, and a second refrigeration compartment for storing refrigerated goods at a second temperature, the second refrigeration compartment including a second evaporator with a second controllable expansion valve at the refrigerant inlet of the second evaporator. A refrigerant outlet of the first evaporator is connected to the second controllable expansion valve at the refrigerant inlet of the second evaporator.
US10088210B2
The refrigeration cycle apparatus includes: liquid-side connection piping that extends from liquid-side refrigerant piping; gas-side connection piping that extends from gas-side refrigerant piping; a refrigerant storage tank that stores refrigerant, an intake side thereof being connected to the liquid-side connection piping, and a discharge side thereof being connected to the gas-side connection piping; an inlet-side electromagnetic valve that is disposed on the liquid-side connection piping, and that is opened when there is no passage of electric current; an inlet-side check valve that is disposed on the liquid-side connection piping, and that allows the refrigerant to flow only toward the refrigerant storage tank; and a valve apparatus that is disposed on the gas-side connection piping, that is opened during passage of electric current to the inlet-side electromagnetic valve, and that is delayed before being shut off after passage of electric current to the inlet-side electromagnetic valve is stopped.
US10088209B2
An air conditioner 1 of the embodiment of the present invention, when all compressors 21a-21c have been stopping for a given time or more, starts an air conditioning operation without performing pressure equalizing control in switch units 6a-6d with starting the operation of the air conditioner 1. Also, when the stopping time of all compressors 21a-21c is less than the given time, the air conditioner 1 performs the pressure equalizing control by controlling switch units 6a-6d with starting the operation of the air conditioner 1. In this case, when the stopping time reaches the given time during execution of the pressure equalizing processing control, the pressure equalizing processing control being executed is stopped and the air conditioning operation is started.
US10088201B2
Solar panel mounting assemblies having an arm support assembly for supporting a clamp assembly above an installation surface through a base and a base stud and configured to allow the clamp assembly to be adjusted in three dimensions while installing a solar panel module.
US10088196B2
A heat exchanger comprising a mixture inflow unit into which a mixture of air and fuel is introduced, a burner for combusting the mixture introduced through the mixture inflow unit, a heat exchange unit that is disposed around the burner, and a combustion gas discharge unit for discharging the combustion gas having passed through the heat exchange unit is provided.
US10088195B2
Apparatus and methods for delivering a heated fluid. The apparatus includes at least a preheat zone, an expansion zone, and an expanded zone comprising a plurality of trim heaters, at least one fluid flow-distribution sheet, and an outlet. The apparatus may be used for delivering the heated fluid onto a moving fluid-permeable substrate.
US10088193B2
Human detection devices 8 that detect the number of people in conditioned spaces supplied with conditioned air from the use side heat exchangers 12 and control means 9 and 50 that controls an amount of refrigerant supplied to the use side heat exchangers 12 by controlling opening degrees of the expansion devices 5 on the basis of detection results of the human detection devices 8.
US10088184B2
A control device is connected to a facility appliance regulating the environment of an area and to an activity measuring instrument for each activity kind measuring the status of an activity of a person in the area. The control device has: an activity kind determination part determining an activity kind corresponding to a work performed in the area; an activity information acquisition part using the activity measuring instrument corresponding to the determined activity kind to acquire the status of the activity of the person in the area; and an environment control part causing the facility appliance to control the environment of the area on the basis of the acquired status of the activity.
US10088180B2
A steam dispersion system for building humidification is disclosed. At least a portion of the steam dispersion system is comprised of a flexible material that is collapsible for changing the outer dimension of the portion comprised of the flexible material from a greater, higher-pressure, size, to a smaller, lower-pressure, size.
US10088179B2
An induction displacement unit comprising an induction plenum comprising a plurality of first nozzles communicating with a first discharge plenum and a plurality of second nozzles communicating with a second discharge plenum, a return air plenum, a heating coil disposed between the return air plenum and the first discharge plenum, a cooling coil disposed between the return air plenum and the second discharge plenum, the induction plenum vertically disposed between the heating coil and the cooling coil, the heating coil disposed in an upper portion of the unit, the first discharge plenum disposed to induce a substantially vertical discharge, and the second discharge plenum disposed to induce a substantially horizontal discharge.
US10088178B2
A method for air conditioning including installing an air conditioning unit at a desired location. The air conditioning unit includes a housing that has air supply inlets and exhaust air outlets. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.
US10088176B2
In an air-conditioning device, back flow is less likely to occur at an outlet port in relation to an inlet resistance, and the air-conditioning device includes: a main body having an inlet port and an outlet port; a cross-flow fan provided inside the main body; and a heat exchanger provided inside the main body, wherein the main body includes at least a front surface, a rear surface, an upper surface and a lower surface, the inlet port is formed in the upper surface, a ratio H/Df between the main body height dimension H and the fan outer diameter Df is 2.2 to 2.7, and an angle of inclination β between a rear part of an front upward inclination section of the heat exchanger and a vertical direction is 30° to 45°.
US10088164B2
A hot gas path component for an engine may generally include a substrate extending between an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface. The outer surface may be configured to be exposed to a hot gas path of the engine. In addition, the substrate may be formed from a non-metallic composite material. The hot gas path component may also include a thermal coating disposed on the inner surface of the substrate. The thermal coating may be applied to the inner surface so as to have a non-uniform distribution along at least a portion of the inner surface, wherein the non-uniform distribution provides for change in a thermal gradient experienced across the hot gas path component between the outer and inner surfaces of the substrate.
US10088163B2
A jet burner has a hot-gas side, which faces toward a combustion chamber during operation, and a cold-gas side, which faces away from a combustion chamber, including a base plate on which there are arranged multiple jet nozzles, wherein the base plate has at least one cooling duct, wherein the at least one cooling duct issues into a burner stage which comprises a pilot burner arranged on the base plate.
US10088151B2
Gaseous particles or gas-entrained particles may be conveyed by electric fields acting on charged species included in the gaseous or gas-entrained particles.
US10088143B2
Lighting device embodiments having a housing enclosing one or more interior volumes, a metal core printed circuit board, a multilayer stack of spacers, and a serviceable port in the housing to allow venting of one or more of the interior volumes are disclosed.
US10088140B2
An eye-safe optoelectronic module includes a light source mounted on a support and operable to generate light along an emission axis. An eye-safe substrate has an eye-safe substrate refractive index and includes at least one diffusive surface. The eye-safe substrate is mounted such that the emission axis is intercepted by the diffusive surface. An optical assembly includes at least one optical element, is composed of an optical material and is mounted on the diffusive surface of the eye-safe substrate such that the optical material fills a diffusive surface of the eye-safe substrate. The optical assembly has an optical assembly refractive index that is substantially the same as the eye-safe substrate refractive index.
US10088135B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a light mounting base to which a light may be selectably coupled. The light mounting base can be selectably engaged with a target mounting surface, thereby allowing the light to be mounted thereto. The light mounting base can comprise one or more target mounting surface engaging components that can be used to selectably engage the base with the target mounting surface. The light mounting base may be configured to selectably mount on a door or panel. Further, the base may be configured to mechanically engage with a target mounting surface, such as a wall, thereby selectably fastening the light mounting base and attached light to the target mounting surface.
US10088131B2
A display assembly having a first backlit display including a first panel with a first color image formed thereon, the first color image including a first transparent portion of a first color and a second transparent portion of a second color, a second panel including a first transparent portion of a first color and an opaque portion so that light from the light source does not pass through a corresponding portion of the first panel, and a light source that emits at least a first color light and a second color light, wherein the first color of the first transparent portion of the first panel is a different color than the first color of the first transparent portion of the second panel, and light from the light source passes through the first transparent portions of both the first panel and the second panel.
US10088113B1
An illumination apparatus includes an outer tube, an inner tube, and a light source. The outer tube has a reflecting inner wall. The inner tube is disposed in the outer tube and coaxial with the outer tube. The inner tube has a reflecting outer wall. A ring-shaped light channel is formed between the outer tube and the inner tube. The ring-shaped light channel has a light entrance and a light exit corresponding to two ends of the outer tube respectively. A segment of the inner tube protrudes from the light exit. The light source is disposed at the light entrance. A light beam emitted from the light source enters the ring-shaped light channel through the light entrance, is reflected multiple times by the reflecting inner wall of the outer tube and the reflecting outer wall of the inner tube, and travels out of the illumination apparatus through the light exit.
US10088108B2
A method for filling a fuel tank with liquefied gas includes liquefied gas being brought into the tank so that gas in introduced to a lower section of the tank below the surface of the liquefied gas in the tank, and during a first phase of the filling procedure while gas is introduced to a lower section of the tank the pressure of the tank is maintained below a predetermined set pressure by spraying of liquefied gas into a gas space in the upper section of the tank above the surface of the liquefied gas in the tank. At a predetermined state of the filling procedure a second phase of the procedure is initiated during which the spraying liquefied gas into a gas space in the upper section of the tank is decreased and the second phase is practiced until a predetermined filling stage of the tank is reached.
US10088106B2
A system for using freezing, storing and thawing biopharmaceutical materials which includes a holder and a container for holding biopharmaceutical materials therein. The holder has a cavity and the container is received in the cavity. The holder includes a first portion and second portion. The container is received between the first portion and the second portion to connect the container to the holder. The holder includes an interior cradle having a bottom and edges extending from the bottom. The cradle bounds the cavity. An outer rim is connected to the cradle and separated from the cavity. The bottom includes an inner surface facing the cavity receiving the container and an outer surface. The outer surface of the bottom is recessed relative to an outer surface of the outer rim.
US10088097B2
The invention relates to a retainer for laterally fastening a guide groove for energy supply chains to a structure. The retainer has a support for a bottom area of the guide groove and a position fixer for the guide groove and extends with a vertical section to the side of an intended accommodating space for the guide groove, in which first fastening elements for fastening the retainer at the height of the vertical section laterally to the structure are provided. The retainer has additional fastening elements, which are arranged at a distance from the support in the vertical direction for support and which are designed to engage on the guide groove in a form- and/or force-closed manner. The invention further relates to a retaining system having the retainer.
US10088092B2
Provided are a heat insulation sheet, a hybrid heat insulation sheet including the heat insulation sheet, and a heat insulation panel having the hybrid heat insulation sheet. The heat insulation sheet includes: an outer shell with a hollow portion therein; and a phase change material (PCM) that is positioned in the hollow portion and that absorbs heat transferred from the outer shell.
US10088091B2
An elongated web or strip (200) comprising a wall portion bounded by edge portions and adapted to form a conduit by spirally winding said web and joining adjacent edge portions. The edge portions (210, 220) are adapted to permit relative movement between adjacent portions of the spiral conduit and thereby provide radial alteration of the conduit. The web includes a compensation portion (300) to alter the dimension of the web (200) upon radial alteration of the conduit and thereby compensate for creep in the spiral conduit. In a particularly preferred embodiment the edge portion comprises a primary lock (214, 224) and a secondary or sacrificial lock (212, 222). The sacrificial lock is disengaged by release of the mechanism 215 to permit relative movement there between and thereby effect radial alteration of the conduit.
US10088089B2
Provided is a rotary joint that allows a case body to be made compact. A rotary joint includes: a cylindrical case body having a plurality of first flow passages formed therein; a shaft body having a plurality of second flow passages formed therein; rolling bearings and provided in an annular space formed between the case body and the shaft body; a plurality of tubular members provided in the annular space and each having a third flow passage formed for connecting the first flow passage and the second flow passage; a first seal configured to prevent leak of a fluid flowing through the first flow passage and the third flow passage; and a second seal configured to prevent leak of a fluid flowing through the third flow passage and the second flow passage.
US10088088B2
A connector including a plug and a socket. The socket includes: a socket body having an insertion hole formed therein; a columnar rotary valve inserted into the insertion hole; and a switching mechanism for switching an open state and a closed state. The rotary valve includes a pair of convex portions respectively in contact with both ends of the insertion hole to seal an outflow of a liquid; and a concave portion provided between the pair of convex portions and forming a cleaning space) in which a cleaning fluid is circulated between the concave portion and an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole. The socket body includes a cleaning fluid inflow passage for guiding the cleaning fluid to the cleaning space and a cleaning fluid outflow passage through which the cleaning fluid flows out of the cleaning space.
US10088087B2
The invention relates to a connection system having a first connection part which defines a first passage and to a second connection part to be connected to the first connection part which defines a second passage which is orientated with the first passage in the connected state of the connection parts, wherein the first connection part has a blunt cone section through which the first passage extends and the second connection part has a reception section having a frustoconical reception space for receiving the blunt cone section into which the second passage opens.
US10088086B2
A system comprising a wrapping device that forms a ring of tensioned material by wrapping a material around an outer circumference of a tube encasement, and a cutting device that cuts through an entire cross-section of the ring of tensioned material, the tube encasement and a tube encased by the tube encasement, wherein the ring of tensioned material applies a first radial force onto the tube encasement and induces a second radial force from the tube encasement onto the tube.
US10088083B2
A multi-lumen surgical utility connector is configured to receive two or more utilities from a surgical utility supplying device. The multi-lumen surgical utility connector may be connected to a utility port of the surgical utility supplying device which supplies two or more utilities. The multi-lumen surgical utility connector may include a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag which identifies the type or model of multi-lumen surgical utility connector. The surgical utility supplying device may determine the type and parameters of utilities to be supplied through the multi-lumen surgical utility connector based on information read from the RFID tag.
US10088081B2
A hydraulic connecting bush for correcting hydraulic lines for hydraulic circuit-breaker drives, having a hollow cylindrical main body with at least two annular grooves, extending circumferentially on the main body outer cylindrical surface and having sealing rings inserted therein, the main body being made of a material having a first elasticity modulus. The bush may be configured for overlapping insertion in hydraulic lines to be connected, in contact with each other at end faces, the hydraulic lines being made of a material having a second elasticity modulus, a gap forming between, the main body and the hydraulic lines, such that if the first elasticity modulus is less than the second elasticity modulus, and an internal pressure is applied, the main body expands more than the hydraulic lines and closes the gap in the region of the sealing rings.
US10088073B1
A limit switch for a rising-stem type valve which has a spring-loaded actuator arm with a bracket on one end which wraps around the valve stem. A follower or roller on the end of the bracket opposite the actuator arm rides on the rising stem of the valve, held in contact with the stem by the spring. When the stem has risen to a preselected position, usually the position in which the valve is fully open, the follower or roller engages a circumferential groove formed around the stem. This causes the spring to bias the actuator arm to move a tab at the opposite end of the actuator arm, and the tab operates a limit switch.
US10088063B2
Device for supplying water with temperature and flow adjustment and related usage methods. Temperature and flow adjustment device of the type comprising a cold-water inlet and a hot-water inlet each provided with solenoid valves that are adjustable by the user using means for selecting the flow rate and temperature of the water mixed to be supplied and a control unit to adjust the flow rates of cold water and hot water supplied by the respective inlets, in which the device also comprises a mixer connected downstream of the solenoid valves and a mixed-water output characterized in that the inlets of the mixer coming from the solenoid valves face one another.
US10088052B2
The method includes providing a generally annular sealing element, the sealing element having an inner circumferential sealing surface configured to engage with a relatively movable member, and an outer casing blank including one of: a generally axially-extending section and a generally radially-extending section extending inwardly from the axially-extending section; and a generally annular disk and a generally cylindrical tube. The method may also include determining a desired diameter for a generally annular outer casing, removing a portion of the provided one of the radially-extending section and the annular disk, such that a diameter of the outer casing blank is about equal to the desired diameter, and coupling the sealing element to the outer casing blank after removing the portion of the provided one of the radially-extending section and the disk.
US10088049B2
A seal assembly that may be for turbine engine includes first and second rings with a convoluted seal resiliently compressed there-between. The seal may define a gap for receipt of a thermally resistant shield that may also reduce wear of the seal. The seal may include a hole for the flow of cooling air and the shield may be porous so as not to obstruct the cooling air flow for cooling of the seal.
US10088036B2
A multi-directional operating device includes an operating member, a support body, movable members, a pair of movable magnetic members, a facing magnetic member, stopper portions, a drive member, and a cam member. One of the drive member and the cam member has a guide surface having a first projection, and another of the drive member and the cam member has a sliding surface having a second projection. When the operating member is inclined in a first direction, one of the movable magnetic members is inclined, and inclination of another movable magnetic member is stopped by one of the stopper portions. When the operating member is inclined in a second direction, the first projection and the second projection are moved beyond projecting portions of each other and slide on each other. This multi-directional operating device is preferably applied to a vehicle shift apparatus.
US10088031B2
A pressed pulley includes an annular connecting portion connected to an end of the outer tubular portion around which a belt is wound and an end of the inner tubular portion. The connecting portion is an annular bent portion having a circular arc-shaped section and formed with an inner circular arc-shaped surface having a constant radius of curvature and connected to the radially inner surface of the outer tubular portion and the radially outer surface of the inner tubular portion through respective tangential lines.
US10088028B2
A differential gearbox is for receiving rotational power from a power unit (a motor and a gear) of a 1000 cc motorcycle via a drive shaft, where both the power unit and the differential gearbox are disposed centrally with respect to a transverse dimension of a Formula 1000 category race car chassis. The differential gearbox comprising a stationary differential gearbox case, an input shaft and a pinion sprocket, a power receiving sprocket that is rotatable by the input shaft and the pinion sprocket, a gearbox differential transmission assembly that is mechanically powered by and rotatable with the power receiving sprocket about a common axis, and two output drive shafts rotatable by the differential transmission assembly in different rotation speeds.
US10088019B2
The belt drive assembly includes a frame having a first plate including an inner surface, an outer surface, a first end, and a second end, a second plate including an inner surface, an outer surface, a first end, and a second end, and a shaft disposed between the first plate and the second plate. The belt drive assembly also includes a first pair of idler pulley wheels positioned coaxially at one end of the first plate, a second pair of idler pulley wheels positioned coaxially at one end of the second plate, a drive pulley wheel rotatably mounted onto the outer surface of the first plate, a driven pulley wheel rotatably mounted onto the outer surface of the second plate, and an endless belt trained on the drive pulley wheel, on each idler pulley wheel, and on the driven pulley wheel.
US10088016B2
A winch-winding assembly for use with a flatbed winch, for example. The winch-winding assembly can be used for winding tie-down straps. The winch-winding assembly can include a gear system, a drive shaft connected to the gear system in order to cause rotation of the gear system and an engagement arm being configured to engage with and rotate part of the flatbed winch. A drill-support mechanism can be further provided to guide or support a body of a hand-held drill during engagement and rotation of the drive shaft. The engagement arm can comprise a stem and a finger mounted to the stem and being displaceable between a retracted position disengaging the flatbed winch, and an extended position engaging the flatbed winch, to rotate the winch drum in response to rotation of the stem.
US10088014B2
Disclosed is an improved tension member or slickline used in wellbore intervention operations. One exemplary tension member includes a first portion comprising a metallic material and having a distal end, a second portion comprising a non-metallic material and having a proximal end, and a joint coupling the proximal end of the second portion to the distal end of the first portion.
US10088008B2
An arrangement for the temporary pre-tensioning of fork tubes (1, 2) of a telescoping fork, displaceable with respect to each other, comprises a base body (3) attached to a first fork tube (1) to secure and guide at least a first locking element (4) and a second locking element (5), whereby the locking elements (4, 5) interact with a receptacle element (6) attached to the second fork tube (2). A common actuation element (7) is provided within the housing of the base body (3) to actuate the locking elements (4,5).
US10088001B2
The invention relates to a drum brake, in particular for commercial vehicles, comprising a first brake shoe and a second brake shoe, wherein the first brake shoe is arranged as a leading brake shoe in the drum brake, wherein the second brake shoe is arranged as a trailing brake shoe in the drum brake, wherein at least one leading lining element can be fixed on the first brake shoe, and at least one trailing lining element can be fixed on the second brake shoe, wherein the number of leading lining elements fixed on the first brake shoe is greater than the number of trailing lining elements fixed on the second brake shoe.
US10087999B2
A tooling pivot is configured to pivot and to hold a tool in a plurality of operating positions. The tooling pivot includes a bracket, a tooling plate, a motor, a brake, and a controller. The tooling plate is connected to the bracket, connectable to the tool, and rotatable. The motor is connected to the bracket and to the tooling plate and is configured to rotate the tooling plate to an operating position. The brake is connected to the bracket and is configured to hold the tooling plate in the operating position. The controller is connected to the motor and to the brake and is configured to control the motion and position of the tooling plate and to control the holding of the tooling plate. The brake is configured to release the tooling plate when the motor rotates the tooling plate to the operating position.
US10087997B2
A clutch transmits rotation drive force of a rotation shaft to a driven shaft and restricts transmission of a rotation force from the driven shaft to the rotation shaft. The clutch includes a grease accommodation portion and a rotation member. Grease is arranged in the grease accommodation portion. The grease accommodation portion opens in an axial direction of the rotation shaft. The rotation member is at least partially inserted into the grease accommodation portion and rotated with the rotation shaft about a center axis of the rotation shaft. The rotation member includes a leakage restriction wall that is located toward a radially outer side of the rotation shaft from the opening of the grease accommodation portion and extended in the axial direction of the rotation shaft. The leakage restriction wall is located toward an outer side of the grease accommodation portion from the opening of the grease accommodation portion.
US10087989B2
A bearing component composed of steel which contains carbon not less than 0.95 mass % and not more than 1.1 mass %, silicon less than 0.3 mass %, manganese less than 0.5 mass %, sulfur less than 0.008 mass %, and chromium not less than 1.4 mass % and less than 1.6 mass % and is composed of remainder iron and an impurity and having a carbonitrided layer formed at a surface portion including a contact surface which is a surface in contact with other components is provided. An average concentration of nitrogen in the surface portion is not lower than 0.3 mass % and not higher than 0.6 mass % and variation in nitrogen concentration in the surface portion is not higher than 0.1 mass %.
US10087982B2
The present invention relates to a ball joint, associable with a first and a second component for their connection in an adjustable position, including a spherical element, at least partially housable in a hollow housing seat of said first component, an insert, connected to such a spherical element and removably associable with such a second component, wherein the spherical element includes a substantially cylindrical central portion, interposed between two substantially spherical cap shaped portions arranged with respect to one another so that each circular base of each substantially spherical cap shaped portion matches a respective base of such a substantially cylindrical portion.
US10087981B2
A joint connector ring includes a connector body formed as a hollow cylinder defining a hollow surrounding a connector opening, and an annular groove formed in a top surface of the cylindrical connector body as a trench running circumferentially around the cylindrical connector body and having an approximately constant depth within the connector body.
US10087980B2
A connecting rod (10) has a big end bearing eye (11) for attachment to a crankshaft and a small end bearing eye (12) for attachment to a piston of a cylinder. An eccentric adjusting device (13) adjusts an effective connecting rod length. The eccentric adjusting device (13) has eccentric rods (15, 16) that engage on an eccentric lever (14) of the eccentric adjusting device (13) so that, in the region of each eccentric rod (15, 16), a connecting pin (36) extends through apertures in the eccentric lever (14) and in the respective eccentric rod (15, 16). The aperture (37) in the respective eccentric rod (15, 16), through which the respective connecting pin (36) extends, and/or a section of the respective connecting pin (36) that extends through the aperture (37) in the respective eccentric rod (15, 16), has/have arched contours, at least in some section or sections.
US10087975B2
A fastener for improved electrical contact with a composite structure and improved distribution of electric current to the composite structure. The fastener includes an elongated shaft having a first end with a head portion, a second end with a threaded portion, and a shaft body therebetween. At least one feed channel extends from an opening at the threaded portion, through the shaft body, and terminates proximal to the head portion. The shaft body radially expands upon pressure injection of a resin filler into the feed channel, when the fastener is installed in a corresponding fastener hole formed in the composite structure. Upon radially expanding, the outer surface of the shaft body makes contact with an inner hole surface of the corresponding fastener hole, resulting in the fastener providing electrical contact with the composite structure and providing distribution of electric current.
US10087966B2
A component joining structure having: a first component provided with a joint portion for joining components together; a second component formed from a resin material in which fibers are oriented in multiple directions; and a joined portion that is integrally formed to the second component using a resin material, that is in close contact with the joint portion and is joined to the joint portion, and in which the fibers are oriented in multiple directions.
US10087959B2
A Hydraulic Manifold Control Assembly for use in connection with surface blowout preventers and diverter control systems. Said Hydraulic Manifold Control Assembly incorporates design elements and methods which reduce overall envelope dimensions, improving maintenance accessibility, thereby reducing overall installation and manufacturing time and ultimately contributing to a more robust, cost effective end-product. Said design elements and methods include: the use of intrinsically safe I/O modules and components; the employment of a removable valve assembly rack installation method; the use of a removable face plate for identification of flow control valves; the implementation of a digital automatic diverter sequence; the use of integrated manifold assemblies; and the integration of a wide-range function count.
US10087949B2
A blower device includes: a motor support component fixed to a lower surface of a casing; and a connector including a connection terminal in which electric current flows disposed below the casing. The blower device further includes: a first cover wall part extending in an up-and-down direction and a circumferential direction and spaced from an external wall part of the motor support component on an outer side; a groove portion connecting the first cover wall part and the motor support component; and a cover component which covers an upper side of the connector. The cover component is integrally formed with the outer side of the first cover wall part. A length of the groove portion in the circumferential direction is longer than the connector. Both ends of the groove portion are located outside of both ends of the connector in the circumferential direction.
US10087946B2
A centrifugal pump for pumping fluid includes a volute having an upstream inlet that receives the fluid and a downstream outlet that discharges the fluid. An impeller is disposed in the volute and comprises a plurality of impeller vanes. The impeller is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation so that the plurality of impeller vanes accelerates the fluid radially outwardly from the upstream inlet to the downstream outlet. The impeller is further configured to discourage air-lock of the centrifugal pump by expelling air away from the upstream inlet as the impeller rotates about the axis of rotation.
US10087944B2
A method for controlling a compressor that includes a compressor element, whereby during a transition from full load or partial load to zero load, a process A is followed that involves: (1) reducing the inlet pressure; and (2) reducing the speed and/or the drive torque. During a transition from zero load to part load or full load, a process B is followed that involves: (3) increasing of the speed or drive; and (4) increasing the inlet pressure.
US10087935B2
A motor-driven compressor includes a three-phase motor including a rotor, a housing, a compression unit, a drive circuit, and a controller. The drive circuit includes u-phase upper and lower arm switching elements, v-phase upper and lower arm switching elements, and w-phase upper and lower arm switching elements. The controller performs a deceleration control in response to the rotor being rotating in a direction opposite to the forward direction. The controller controls the drive circuit in a switching control mode that includes a first mode, in which one or more switching elements of the upper and lower arm switching elements of the three phases are activated while the remaining switching elements are deactivated, and a second mode, which differs from the first mode in a combination of the activated and deactivated switching elements.
US10087934B2
A vane compressor includes a housing having therein a suction chamber, a discharge chamber having a cover, and a rotor chamber, a rotor having therein a plurality of vane slots, and a plurality of vanes. The housing includes a partition that has a first surface forming the other surface of the rotor chamber and a second surface and separates the rotor chamber from the discharge chamber. An intermediate pressure chamber having a pressure that is lower than the discharge chamber and higher than the suction chamber is formed between the partition and the cover. A part of the second surface and a part of a covering surface of the discharge chamber cover are spaced away from each other by the intermediate pressure chamber. The intermediate pressure chamber is disposed so as to overlap at least a part of the other surface of the rotor chamber.
US10087930B2
A vane for a vane cell vacuum pump. The vane can be rotated about an axis of rotation by a rotor in a pump chamber and guided in the longitudinal direction in the rotor, with an upper side and a lower side to abut against the bottom and the ceiling of the pump chamber, with a rear side opposite a front side to limit the pressure chambers, with at least one face to slidably abut against an inside wall of the pump chamber on the casing side. The vane comprises a base body of a first plastic material and a vane end molded of a second plastic material to the base body forming the face. The base body comprises a mounting section around which the vane end is formed. The mounting section comprises at least one recess transverse to the front side and/or the rear side.
US10087925B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a pneumatic distribution system having pneumatic pump that exhausts into a common plenum that is in fluid communication with a plurality of flow controllers. In an illustrative embodiment, a system controller may coordinate the operation of the one or more pneumatic pumps and the plurality of flow controllers to provide air pressure control to a system of pneumatic chambers. In some embodiments, one of the plurality of flow controllers may be configured to provide fluid communication with an ambient atmosphere so as to permit a fluid path from a pneumatic chamber connected to another flow controller to the ambient atmosphere via both flow controllers and the common plenum. In an exemplary embodiment, the system controller may advantageously control the air pressures in a plurality of pneumatic chambers independently of one another using coordinated control of the pump and flow controllers.
US10087923B2
A fluid pump comprising one or two cavities which, in use, contains a fluid to be pumped, the chamber or chambers having a substantially cylindrical shape bounded by first and second end walls and a side wall; an actuator which, in use, causes oscillatory motion of the first end wall(s) in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the first end wall(s); and whereby, in use, these axial oscillations of the end walls drive radial oscillations of the fluid pressure in the main cavity; and wherein an isolator forms at least a portion of the first end wall between the actuator and the side wall and includes conductive tracks, wherein electrical connection is made to the actuator via the conductive tracks included within the isolator.
US10087921B2
A stability mechanism that can reduce deformation of a frame of a compressor. The stability mechanism can have a support member with an x-shaped configuration having a pair of peripheral members and diagonal components disposed therebetween. In use, the support member can work in combination with elongated “tie bars” to prevent deformation of the frame that may result from installation and/or use of the compressor.
US10087914B2
A rotor assembly for a wind turbine is provided. The rotor assembly includes a central hub with a central rotation axis, and a plurality of vanes. Each of the vanes is attached to the central hub, and each of the vanes includes in part a cable system which cooperates with each respective vane and the central hub. The cable system includes a pair of cables. Both of the cables are aligned with the longitudinal axis of the respective vane, viewed along the central rotation axis. And both of the cables are on either side of a plane covered by the longitudinal axis of the respective vane. The plurality of vanes are only structurally interconnected via the central hub, and the cable system of each of the vanes has only one single pair of cables.
US10087911B2
Method of manufacturing an impregnated metal insert for a wind turbine blade root, the insert comprising an outer surface and an open end adapted to receive a fastening element for attachment to a wind turbine rotor hub, wherein the method comprises covering the insert outer surface with one or more resin pre impregnated fiber layers, and heating for curing such that a resin impregnated fiber layer adheres to the outer surface of the insert. The disclosure is further related to the method of manufacturing a portion of a wind turbine blade.
US10087908B2
An underwater installation-type water-flow power generation system including a weight body fixedly installed on a bottom of a sea area with an ocean current, a power generating device including a diagonal plate frontage portion moored by the weight body through a mooring fixture and provided on a front part of a power generating device body, a variable blade type rotary impeller, and a power generator for obtaining a power generation output by using a rotary force of the variable blade type rotary impeller; and a buoyancy body floating in the ocean current area above the power generating device body and applying a tension to the power generating device body through a pulling tool so that the diagonal plate frontage portion of the power generating device body is facing the ocean current at all times.
US10087907B2
Transporter and fish lock including an upper inlet and an upper outlet adapted to be in flow communication with an upper volume of water, and a lower outlet and a lower inlet adapted to be in flow communication with a lower volume of water. The upper inlet and the lower outlet communicate via a downstream passage having a first effective through-flow area, and the lower inlet and the upper outlet communicate via an upstream passage having a second effective through-flow area. The downstream passage includes a first helical rotor having a thread-direction that by a flow directed downstream causes the first rotor to rotate around its axis. The upstream passage includes a second helical rotor, wherein the rotors are mutually connected such that the first rotor drives the second rotor in rotation around its axis, and the second rotor has a thread-direction that upon rotation generates a flow directed upstream.
US10087904B2
A compact battery charger for charging a battery comprising: a microprocessor; a set of terminals operatively coupled to said microprocessor and configured to electrically couple with an automotive battery; and an internal lithium ion battery, wherein the internal lithium ion battery is a lithium ion battery, wherein a single-ended primary-inductor converter may be configured to receive an input voltage of 5 VDC to 20 VDC and output a predetermined DC charge voltage to said internal lithium ion battery.
US10087903B2
A computer that includes at least one processor and memory. The processor of the computer can be programmed to execute instructions stored on the memory that include controlling, based on a temperature, which of a plurality of power sources of a vehicle battery are coupled to a starter circuit during a vehicle ignition event.
US10087899B2
In an intake manifold that has charge-motion-control valves (CMCVs), a gap exists between the flapper valves and the wall of the intake runners. Although the gap is maintained as small as practical, it cannot be eliminated because manufacturing tolerances and temperature variations to which the intake manifold is subjected must be accommodated to prevent binding of the flapper valves. Some flow makes an end run through the gap leading to undesirable fluid mechanics. Disclosed herein is a seal that is positioned to rest gently upon the flapper valve near the gap such that the gap is substantially sealed off while applying a modest force on the CMCV so that the actuation torque is minimally impacted. The seal has a press-in-place portion inserted into a pocket formed in the manifold to hold it in place and a lip portion that extends out from the press-in-place portion to obstruct the gap.
US10087894B2
An engine is provided with a cylinder head having a bridge region surrounded by an exhaust face, an exhaust passage intersecting the exhaust face, and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage fluidly coupled to the exhaust passage and intersecting the exhaust face. The head defines an upper cooling jacket having a cavity or fluid passage extending from the jacket towards a head deck face and to a closed end wall within the bridge region. The cylinder head is cooled by directing coolant from a lower jacket to an upper jacket via a drill passage adjacent to an exhaust face of the head, diverting the coolant exiting the drill passage into the fluid passage or cavity along a rib. Coolant is then directed from the fluid passage into an EGR cooling passage formed by the upper jacket adjacent to the exhaust face and about the EGR passage.
US10087893B2
A water-cooled EGR cooler is to be supplied with exhaust gas from an exhaust line and is to re-circulate the cooled exhaust gas to an intake line. A housing has an exhaust inlet, an exhaust outlet, a coolant inlet, and a coolant outlet. A heat exchange member is disposed in the housing and includes exhaust gas passages from the exhaust inlet to the exhaust outlet at a predetermined interval and also includes a coolant passage through which coolant can flow from the coolant inlet to the coolant outlet between the exhaust gas passages. A pipe member includes a bypass passage formed between an upper surface of the heat exchange member and an inside upper surface of the housing to allow the exhaust gas to bypass the heat exchange member and flow between the upper surface of the heat exchange member and the coolant outlet.
US10087887B2
A system for the recovery and management of atmospheric gas is disclosed, such as for use as a vehicle propellant in a vehicle propulsion system. The system can include a compressor configured to compress atmospheric gas and first and second storage tanks configured to store liquefied atmospheric gas from the compressor. The second storage tank can have a heater operable to heat liquefied atmospheric gas therein to convert it to a high pressure gas. The second storage tank includes an outlet duct fluidly coupled to the first storage tank for supplying high pressure gas to the first storage tank.
US10087884B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a system of an aircraft, comprising: at least one fairing, a liner, and an actuator configured to cause the at least one fairing to be translated relative to the liner in order to obtain a modulation of a metering area between the liner and the at least one fairing.
US10087882B2
A piston has a piston crown portion forming at least one arcuate indent in aligned fashion with a fuel jet discharged into a combustion chamber. Each arcuate event forms lobes, which separate the fuel jet into portions, or is tiered, to accommodate fuel jet portions being discharged into the combustion chamber at different times. Each lobe or tier includes an entry surface, a recirculation surface and a wall to separate it from adjacent lobes or tiers, respectively.
US10087871B2
An add-on fuel injector control system and method for modifying a fuel injector pulse width for an electronically-controlled internal combustion engine is provided, which intercepts a pulse from an engine control unit (ECU) to a fuel injector, determines the optimal operational band, and either sends a modified or unmodified control signal pulse width to the fuel injector, depending on the band determination. The pulse width is increased by a total fuel adder. If the ECU control signal is determined to be in the auto-tune band, the controller modifies the output pulse width based on a comparison of current and previous values correlated to the rate of change of acceleration and whether the previous total fuel adder included an addition or subtraction of an auto-tune adder.
US10087860B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving engine startability during cold-start conditions, when operating with gasoline fuels, alcohol fuels, or blended fuels. In one example, a method of engine cold-start control may include initiating fuel injection for cylinder combustion with manifold pressure lowered via intake throttle adjustments. The manifold pressure is lowered based on an optimization between cylinder charge reduction and improved fuel boiling at the lower pressure.
US10087853B2
An object is to supply fresh air and EGR gas into a cylinder in good balance according to the required load in a naturally aspirated gasoline engine. When the operation state of the engine falls in a low load range, a control apparatus adjusts the degree of opening of the second throttle while keeping the first throttle fully open and controls EGR gas quantity by adjusting the degree of opening of the EGR valve. When the operation state falls in a middle load range, the apparatus controls EGR gas quantity by adjusting the degree of opening of the first throttle while keeping the EGR valve fully open. When the operation state falls in a high load range, the apparatus adjusts the degree of opening of the first throttle while keeping the second throttle fully open and controls EGR gas quantity by adjusting the degree of opening of the EGR valve.
US10087845B2
A manifold pressure damping assembly that includes one or more closed volumes coupled in flow communication with a manifold through one or more flow restrictors is provided.
US10087843B2
An assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first component, a second component, and a first mount. The first mount includes an annular body that is connected to the first component and a plurality of circumferentially spaced tabs extending from the body. The tabs are connected to the second component and are deflectable to allow the second component to move relative to the first component.
US10087841B2
The present disclosure provides an aircraft nacelle including: an outer aerodynamic wall having an upstream air intake lip; an inner aerodynamic wall, the air intake lip connecting the two outer and inner aerodynamic skins; a front wall arranged downstream of the air intake lip and connecting the two outer and inner aerodynamic skins; and a network for the circulation of a first fluid for cooling a second fluid. The network includes two air/oil-type heat exchangers, one air/air type heat exchanger, an air scoop to collect air from the outside of the nacelle, an orifice to collect cold air, and an outlet orifice to discharge air.
US10087836B2
The present application provides a fire prevention shield for an internal combustion engine. The shield includes a shield baffle plate and a mounting means adapted to mount the shield baffle plate at a predetermined position with respect to a muffler of the engine, such that an air passage is located between the muffler and the shield baffle plate, the air passage having an air inlet opening located adjacent to the engine, wherein a cross-sectional area of the air passage is greatest at or near the air inlet opening.
US10087834B2
A device for changing a compression ratio of a cylinder unit of a reciprocating piston combustion engine is provided. An eccentric bushing is rotatably arranged in a receiving bore hole of a bearing eye of a connecting rod (“conrod”). The conrod bearing eye is formed by a conrod upper part and a conrod lower part, and which surrounds a crankpin of a crankshaft. In addition, the eccentric bushing is rotatably guided in the receiving bore hole and can be locked preferably in two positions which are offset from one another by approximately 180° in the circumferential direction of the eccentric bushing. In order to achieve a targeted rotation of the eccentric bushing in the bore hole of the conrod bearing eye between the locking positions, a freewheel is arranged between an outer casing surface of the eccentric bushing and the receiving bore hole of the conrod bearing eye.
US10087832B2
Disclosed is a reciprocating piston engine, comprising a combined structure with an optimized double-crankshaft and variable compression ratio pistons, characterized in that the variable compression ratio piston is a piston serving as a double-acting hydraulic cylinder, a control valve bush of a slide-valve type directional control valve is fixed in a central mounting hole of the inner piston, and a control valve core is mounted in a rotatory sliding or nut-ball screw manner in a central mounting hole in the inner surface of the piston top; and the double-crankshaft engine is formed by two reverse rotating crankshafts which are coupled by gears to be in synchronous reverse rotation motion together, each piston being connected to a connecting rod shaft of two crankshafts, and a piston control valve driving mechanism being mounted between the two crankshafts.
US10087826B2
An exhaust-gas turbocharger with a compressor with a charge pressure control device. An actuator is provided which moves a control rod arrangement. The control rod arrangement is in turn rotatably connected to a lever. The charge pressure control device is actuated by the lever. A pin is arranged on the lever. The control rod arrangement has a bushing which is pushed onto the pin. The connection between pin and bushing constitutes a rotatable connection for enabling the lever to be actuated by the control rod arrangement. This arrangement is very simple to produce and very simple to assemble because the bushing must merely be pushed onto the pin.
US10087820B2
A turbocharger includes a cooling passage. The cooling passage extends along a diffuser surface. Fluid for cooling the diffuser surface flows through the cooling passage. The turbocharger includes a water jacket, which is arranged at a connection portion between a blow-by gas recirculation passage and an intake passage. Coolant for warming blow-by gas flows through the water jacket. The cooling passage communicates with the water jacket. Coolant that has been drawn into the cooling passage flows through the water jacket after flowing through the cooling passage.
US10087817B2
An internal combustion engine includes a piston reciprocally moving in at least one cylinder. An intake valve controls the supply of fresh air into a power chamber defined within the cylinder by the moving piston. An ancillary chamber is fluidly connected with the power chamber via a flow-through valve. An auxiliary piston is reciprocally movable in the ancillary chamber and determines the volume of the ancillary chamber. A fuel supply valve introduces fuel into the ancillary chamber. The flow-through valve, the fuel supply valve and the auxiliary piston are moved such that no fresh air from the power chamber goes into the ancillary chamber and such that fuel is expelled from the ancillary chamber into the power chamber via the flow-through valve for combustion with fresh air compressed in the power chamber.
US10087813B2
A heat exchanger allows efficient heat exchange between a first fluid and a second fluid which flows inside the heat exchanger. A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger main body housed inside a case where a first fluid flows and which houses a second fluid therein. The heat exchanger main body has a plurality of first passages such that the first fluid flows across the inside of the heat exchanger main body. In a side view from one direction, the heat exchanger main body has a shape that is left-right symmetric about the central axis of the case and of which the upstream side protrudes farther in the upstream direction toward the center. The first passages extend parallel to the central axis of the case, and are formed to be longer as they are disposed closer to the center of the heat exchanger main body.
US10087809B2
A system and method for preventing a failure of an exhaust heat recovery device are provided. The method includes operating a sole exhaust heat recovery mode when cooling water has a temperature less than a warm-up reference temperature to introduce all exhaust gas flowing from a DPF into the exhaust heat recovery device where the exhaust gas exchanges heat with the cooling water. Additionally, a passage through which the exhaust gas bypasses the exhaust heat recovery device is opened when the exhaust gas at a rear of the DPF has a temperature greater than the warm-up reference temperature during the sole exhaust heat recovery mode.
US10087803B2
Methods and systems are provided for operating an engine exhaust aftertreatment system to increase the efficiency of an exhaust underbody catalyst and reduce engine emissions. In one example, a bypass passage may be coupled to a main exhaust passage and during conditions which may adversely affect functionality of the underbody catalyst, exhaust may be opportunistically routed via the bypass passage avoiding the underbody catalyst. Exhaust heat may be recovered via a heat exchanger coupled to the bypass passage, and the heat may be used for engine heating, and passenger cabin heating.
US10087798B2
An oil separator is provided with a housing having an inlet for air, an expansion chamber provided inside the housing, and a heating device for heating the lower part of the expansion chamber. The oil separator introduces, into the housing, air containing oil that has passed through the inlet, and separates and recovers the oil from the air that has been introduced. The transverse cross-sectional area of the expansion chamber is larger than the opening area of the inlet.
US10087792B2
An actuator comprises a hollow first piston (11) comprising a first extant with a first outer diameter (D1) and a second extant comprising a second outer diameter (D2), where D1>D2. A second piston (12) is slidable within the first piston. An actuator housing (14) comprising a recess (22), a first tubular port (23) in communication with the first piston, and a second tubular port (24) in communication with the second piston. The first extant has a length (L1) and wherein the second extant has a length (L2). The first tubular port extends for a length (L4), and the recess extends for a length (L3), where L4≥L2, and where L3>L2>L1. The first piston and the second piston are housed in the recess.
US10087787B2
An assembled camshaft and a method for producing an assembled camshaft are disclosed. The assembled camshaft may include a camshaft main body having a longitudinal axis. The camshaft main body may include a first axial section and a second axial section disposed between the first axial section and a third axial section. The second axial section may have an outer profile including a toothing extending in an axial direction. At least one sliding cam may be arranged on the second axial section. A drive wheel may be arranged on a free end of the first axial section, and a receiving element may be arranged on at least one of the first axial section and the third axial section.
US10087782B2
A turbine engine includes a turbine section with a low pressure turbine and a turbine case disposed about an axis. A frame assembly defines an outer cavity and an inner cavity with the outer cavity including at least one opening configured and adapted to communicate cooling air to the turbine case. A transfer tube is disposed within the outer cavity and is configured and adapted to receive cooling air. The transfer tube includes a bend configured to impart circumferential velocity to the cooling air within the outer cavity.
US10087778B2
A wall for a hot gas channel in a gas turbine is described, the wall having a back side and a front side and an impingement sheet having impingement cooling holes, the wall being for exposure to a hot fluid at the front side, and the wall having an array of pins attached to the back side and extending between the back side and the impingement sheet, the wall additionally having a plurality of ribs attached to the back side, each rib extending between two pins to delineate an array of cells on the back side, and/or at least one compartment wall attached to the back side to delineate compartments on the back side. Embodiments include an impingement sheet with impingement cooling holes and cooling exit holes. A gas turbine including the wall is also described.
US10087777B2
A system for cooling lubricant in a turbomachine includes a lubricant circuit for circulating a turbomachine lubricant, an air/oil cooler disposed in thermal communication with the lubricant circuit and configured to cool a turbomachine lubricant in the lubricant circuit by passing air over the air/oil cooler, and a compressor air circuit in fluid communication with the air/oil cooler and configured to supply air from a compressor of the turbomachine to the air/oil cooler. The compressor air circuit can include an expansion section to expand and cool air before effusing air to the air/oil cooler.
US10087769B2
A sealing system includes a bolt and a cover plate for sealing a joint between a rotor disk and a blade root of a rotor blade, the blade root being disposed in a blade root slot in the rotor disk. The sealing arrangement is used in particular in a gas turbine.
US10087766B2
A guide vane includes an airfoil with a first end and a second end. A platform is disposed at a first end of the airfoil, and a K-gusset is disposed on the platform opposite the airfoil. The K-gusset includes four bosses and ribs extending between the bosses in a “K” configuration.
US10087757B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides an intake device including: an annular flow path which is formed in a circular housing; an inlet part which is installed at one side of the housing and guides an inflow of a fluid into the flow path; a outlet part which is installed at the other side of the housing and guides a discharge of the fluid which flows into the inlet part and passes through the flow path; a piston which is disposed in the flow path, and rotates along the flow path so as to compress the fluid introduced through the inlet part; and an opening and closing unit which is installed in the flow path between the inlet part and the outlet part, includes a plurality of opening and closing members, and elastic members which are installed between the plurality of opening and closing members and the flow path so as to support the plurality of opening and closing members, respectively, and opens and closes the flow path by pressing the piston, in which when the pressing of the piston is released, the plurality of opening and closing members closes the flow path by pressing force of the fluid which presses outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of opening and closing members in a direction in which the flow path is closed, and by elastic force of the elastic member.
US10087750B2
A system including, a first component of a mineral extraction system, and a first radio frequency identification (RFID) module coupled to the first component, wherein the first RFID module comprises first component data relating to the first component, and first location data relating to a first location of the first component.
US10087739B2
A milling assembly for use in milling away an object in a wellbore. A milling bottom hole assembly is run in on a Telecoil® running string and includes a rechargeable power section which is recharged via tube-wire in the running string. The milling bottom hole assembly also includes a sensor section which measures tension, compression and torque experienced by the running string during milling.
US10087737B2
A method for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery from a subsurface formation includes drilling and completing a plurality of laterally spaced apart wells through the formation so as to enable interference between adjacent ones of the plurality of wellbores. Fluid comprising surfactant is injected into the formation through at least one of the wellbores after an end of primary recovery from selected ones of the plurality of wellbores to initiate secondary recovery of hydrocarbons from the formation.
US10087730B2
Systems and methods generate steam mixed with desired non-condensable gas concentrations using a direct steam generator. Injecting the steam into a reservoir may facilitate recovering hydrocarbons from the reservoir. Cooling an output of the direct steam generator produces water condensate, which is then separated from the non-condensable gas, such as carbon dioxide. Reducing pressure of the condensate subsequently heated by cross-exchange with effluent of the direct steam generator regenerates the steam with the carbon dioxide removed for the injection.
US10087729B2
Methods of analyzing fluid flow in a formation include defining physical boundaries of a porous geological formation reservoir and parameters related to a process of injection of fluid over a period of time, and configuring a reservoir simulator that characterizes transport of the fluid as solute within the physical boundaries of the reservoir in accordance with the fluid injection process. The reservoir simulator utilizes at least one upscaled equation describing advective transport for the solute. Output of the simulator may be viewed. The parameters related to the injection process including one or more of an injection rate, a location of injection, and a time length of injection can be optimized.
US10087728B2
In combination, an inverted electric submersible pump (ESP) sized to fit within a downhole production path and a coiled tubing string. The coiled tubing string has an internal bore, and one or more supply lines housed within the internal bore and connected between surface and the inverted ESP. The inverted ESP has a pump section and a motor section, the motor section disposed above the pump section, and the pump section having one or more inlet ports and one or more outlet ports. At least one sealing element is positioned between the one or more inlet ports and the one or more outlet ports and is sized to seal against the downhole production path. A coiled tubing connection sealably connects the motor section to the coiled tubing string.
US10087718B2
An example multi-bore junction assembly includes a connector body having an upper end and a lower end, the lower end providing a main bore leg receptacle and a lateral bore leg receptacle. A main bore leg is coupled to the main bore leg receptacle and extending longitudinally therefrom, and a lateral bore leg coupled to the lateral bore leg receptacle and extending longitudinally therefrom, wherein the main and lateral bore legs are round, tubular structures. At least one mechanical stiffener extends longitudinally between the connector body and a D-round connector arranged on one of the main and lateral bore legs.
US10087717B2
A dual use cable includes at least one fiber optic cable encased in a metallic component that is encased in a layer of polymer material. The polymer material is surrounded by a tube or armor wire strength members embedded in one or two additional polymer material layers. A final assembly can include an outer metallic component or an outer layer of polymer material. The at least one fiber optic cable transmits data and the armor wire strength members and/or metallic components transmit at least one of electrical power and data.
US10087714B2
A tubular assembly includes a tubular having at least one opening. A slidable sleeve is slidingly mounted relative to the tubular. The slidable sleeve is shiftable between a first position, and a second position. A biasing member selectively biases the slidable sleeve in one of the first position and the second position. A degradable locking member is mounted relative to one of the tubular and the slidable sleeve. The degradable locking member selectively retains the slidable sleeve in the other of the first position and the second position. The degradable locking member is configured to degrade when exposed to a downhole fluid allowing the biasing member to shift the slidable sleeve back to the one of the first position and the second position.
US10087708B2
An inflating container filled with formation plugging fluid is deployed at the target zone by a rigless apparatus. The inflating container can be in valved fluid communication with an explosive filled container, the explosive being ignited using a firing mechanism that is attached to the explosive filled container. The explosion expands gases in the explosive filled container which pass into the inflation container and displace the formation plugging fluid into the balloon sections and through the weakened portions of the central balloon to penetrate the walls of the target zone. The expanded central balloon is melted by the heat of the chemical reaction and a portion adheres to the formation wall thereby sealing the undesirable target zone; thereafter, the remaining balloon sections are deflated or ruptured to permit the apparatus to be withdrawn through the production tubing.
US10087703B2
A method of operating a well tool can include a swellable material of the well tool swelling in a subterranean well, in response to water in the well entering the swellable material, and a semi-permeable barrier layer permitting the water to pass through the barrier layer and into the swellable material. A system can include a well tool having a swellable material which swells in response to contact with water, and a semi-permeable barrier layer on an exterior surface of the swellable material, the barrier layer being permeable to the water.
US10087699B2
Diverter assemblies having a housing, first and second rams, first and second actuators for moving the rams, and first and second sealing members respectively coupled to the first and second rams. The housing defines openings surrounding a drilling axis and configured to receive a pipe in a drilling position, and the rams are moveable relative to a longitudinal axis of the housing that is substantially perpendicular to the drilling axis. The first and second sealing members engage the pipe, and projections within the housing cooperate with the sealing members to form a seal around the pipe and the openings of the housing. Systems and methods of using the diverter assemblies are also disclosed.
US10087691B1
One or more specific versions disclosed herein includes a power tong for rotating tubulars in wellbore operations, comprising: a gear shaft having a non-threaded portion and a flange; a gear rotatably connected to the gear shaft; and a tong plate having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the flange is removably coupled to the inner surface of the tong plate.
US10087685B1
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to superabrasive compacts having a metallic member disposed between a superabrasive body and a substrate; and drill bits and methods of making the same.
US10087681B2
A window frame assembly has a built-in foldable screen, having a body, the body having at least a first frame part and a second frame part; the first frame part has at least a first end surface and a second end surface; the second end surface is fixedly connected to the second frame part; the first end surface is provided with a protruded guiding convex part; the guiding convex part is provided with a line receiving groove; and two sides of the line receiving groove are respectively provided with a concave part. The above structure has the benefits of enabling the guiding convex part located on the transverse frame in the foldable screen module to be re-assembled on the structure of the window frame assembly, thus reducing the number of foldable screen module components, and also improving the convenience of assembling the foldable screen module in the window.
US10087675B2
A modular fenestration system includes a collection of standardized functional units such as double hung window units, casement window units, picture window units, transom units, and the like. The functional units all share common sightlines, common glass set-back, common interfaces, common design language, and are sized according to a unique modular or incremental sizing grid. The sizing grid specifies individual window units in terms of the rough opening size in which they are designed to be installed. Individual functional units are easily combinable in a vast array of combinations to create a large number of possible composite window units. The above attributes of the functional units ensures that the composite window units are architecturally pleasing and appear as though they were custom crafted. The system also includes a collection of interior and interior trim units in various architectural styles that can be attached to installed standardized functional units via the common interfaces to match the architecture of a particular home or building. A collection of matching architectural grilles and hardware also are provided, and the trim units, grills, and hardware are all historically and period accurate to represent a wide variety of architectures both past and present. Exterior and interior trim can be built up from a limited number of standard components that can be combined in a large number of ways to create a wide variety of trim profiles.
US10087670B2
A damping device for damping the opening movement of a moveable furniture part comprises a base unit and a movement unit that is moveable in relation to the base unit. The base unit comprises a furniture body of a piece of furniture and a first damping mechanism having a first clamping mechanism. The movement unit comprises the furniture part and a second damping mechanism that dampens an end position when the moveable furniture part approaches the open position. The second damping mechanism has a second clamping mechanism. The first and second clamping mechanisms can be detachably and dynamically clamped to one another for damping the movement of the moveable furniture part when the moveable furniture part approaches the open position.
US10087665B2
A door assembly includes a door frame and a door coupled to the door frame and movable between an open and closed position. The door includes a first surface that faces in a first direction and a second surface that faces in a direction that is greater than 90 degrees from the first direction. The door assembly also includes a securing member pivotably mounted to the door frame and pivotable between a first position, in which the securing member prevents the door from moving to the open position, and a second position, in which the securing member releases the door, wherein the securing member is configured to engage both the first surface and the second surface when the securing member is in the first position. The door assembly may also include a latching assembly mounted to the door frame, wherein, in a first state, the latching assembly holds the securing member in the first position, and, in a second state, the latching assembly releases the securing member to allow the securing member to pivot from the first position to the second position.
