US10176795B2
The present invention relates to a method of noise reduction including the steps of filtering reference signals and representing noise by an adaptive filter comprising adaptive filter coefficients to obtain actuator driving signals, outputting the actuator driving signals by loudspeakers to obtain loudspeaker signals. The method further includes detecting the loudspeaker signals by microphones and filtering the reference signals by estimated transfer functions representing the transfer of the loudspeaker signals output by the loudspeakers to the microphones to obtain filtered reference signals. The method further includes updating the filter coefficients of the adaptive filter based on the filtered reference signals and based on the previously updated filter coefficients of the adaptive filter multiplied by leakage factors.
US10176789B2
A percussion instrument holder that allows attachment to a user mounted carrier. The holder allows adjustment for positioning about the user, and pivoting of the holder to allow the holder to pivot or rotate up to allow the holder with instruments to fit a narrower space. The holder further allows for pivotal attachment of individual drums to link or pivot allowing the linked drums to articulate. The holder can also consist of members that allow a connected drum to move in horizontal position, angle, or height of the drum. A plurality of unique drum connecting members is disclosed that allow the connecting members to connect onto drum tension rods or on a drum lug. The plurality of connecting members can be fabricated from multiple pieces that can interconnectably be locked into position.
US10176787B2
According to an illustrative embodiment, an image display method is provided. The method includes detecting a position of a user, detecting a position of a physical object, and defining a non-display area of a display based on the position of the user and the position of the physical object.
US10176785B2
The present invention provides a system and method of adjusting an electronic device display based on eyewear properties. Eyewear properties such as tint level, tint shade, and polarization are obtained from eyewear, a database, or manual entry. The device display is then adjusted based on the eyewear properties to facilitate viewability of the electronic display for the user while wearing the eyewear.
US10176779B2
A display apparatus including scan lines, data lines, k clock signal lines and pixel groups is provided. k is an integer greater than 1. The pixel groups are respectively driven by the k clock signal lines, the data lines and their corresponding scan lines. Each pixel group includes pixel units respectively disposed at intersections of the corresponding scan lines and data lines. Each pixel unit includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. The switches coupled to the common data line are driven by the scan lines in cooperation with the clock signal lines to reduce output signal lines of the driving circuit and a circuit layout area in favor of achieving a narrow-frame display apparatus and reduction in production cost of the display apparatus.
US10176776B2
Provided is a display device, including: a driving circuit including a first output terminal group including at least one gate signal output terminal, and a second output terminal group including at least one source signal output terminal; and a plurality of gate lead-out lines configured to transmit a gate signal to a plurality of gate lines, in which each of the plurality of gate lines is electrically connected to at least one of the gate lead-out lines, and the first output terminal group is arranged between two adjacent second output terminal groups.
US10176774B2
An array substrate includes: a display area; a non-display area outside of the display area; a gate-in-panel (GIP) circuit in the non-display area; a plurality of clock signal lines in the non-display area and configured to transfer signals to the GIP circuit; and connection lines in the non-display area and configured to connect the plurality of clock signal lines to the GIP circuit. Each of the plurality of clock signal lines is a ring shaped line.
US10176772B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display device, and a drive method for the display device. The array substrate comprises gate lines and data lines and a plurality of pixel units defined by intersection of the gate lines and the data lines with one another; wherein the plurality of pixel units is divided into a number of pixel regions each of which includes at least one column of the pixel units and is driven by a data line driving unit; wherein, first and second data lines are disposed side by side between two adjacent pixel units that are respectively located at the margins of any two adjacent pixel regions; and, one of the first and the second data lines is connected with the pixel units adjacent thereto and located in odd rows while the other is connected with the pixel units adjacent thereto and located in even rows.
US10176771B2
A display panel includes a pixel array, a gate driving circuit, and a data driving circuit. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixel blocks, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. The gate driving circuit is electrically coupled to the gate lines for driving sub-pixels of the pixel array. The data driving circuit is electrically coupled to the data lines for providing data signals to the sub-pixels of the pixel array. The sub-pixels of each pixel block include a plurality of first sub-pixels and a plurality of second sub-pixels. For each pixel block, the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels have same quantity. For displaying a specified gray-scale value, a luminance value in each first sub-pixel is greater than a luminance value in each second sub-pixel. The data driving circuit changes a polarity of each sub-pixel of the pixel array by using a polarization sequence.
US10176768B2
The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display, including a data driving chip and a plurality of display regions, which are aligned side by side, and the data driving chip includes a digital to analog converter, and the digital to analog converter includes a plurality of voltage division modules which are individually independent, and the plurality of voltage division modules provide corresponding voltages for the plurality of display regions to achieve an identical brightness of the plurality of display regions. The present invention also discloses a color shift compensation method of a liquid crystal display. The display brightness of the liquid crystal display according to the present invention is identical.
US10176761B2
A host device divides original data into first to Nth stream data for N being an integer of two or more, generates first to Nth compressed stream data by sequentially compressing the first to Nth stream data with a variable length compression, divides the first to Nth compressed stream data into fixed-length blocks, and sequentially transmits the fixed-length blocks to the display driver. The display driver includes a memory storing therein the fixed-length blocks and a decompression circuitry reading out the fixed-length blocks from the memory. The decompression circuitry includes first to Nth processing circuits. The first to Nth processing circuits each perform a predetermined process on the fixed-length blocks received to generate processed data. The host device sorts the fixed-length blocks so that the fixed-length blocks are supplied in the order in which the first to Nth processing circuits require the fixed-length blocks.
US10176737B2
An array substrate, and a display panel and a test method therefor are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of display signal lines disposed in a display area, and a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads disposed in a peripheral area around the display area and electrically connected to the respective plurality of display signal lines. A first test area and a second test area are disposed in a first direction on two sides of a primary area respectively. The first pad includes a first primary part and the second pad includes a second primary part. The first primary parts and the second primary parts are disposed in the primary area and are disposed alternately in a second direction.
US10176732B1
A display card holder including a sleeve for a printed card and a sleeve holder defining a cavity open at one end to receive a sleeve end section having a pair of cutouts. The cavity defines a sleeve-receiving channel having a width providing clearance to the sleeve thickness. A button member movably supported by a sleeve holder body defines an actuator portion exposed to an outside of the sleeve holder. The button member includes wings extending from opposite sides of the actuator button. A spring biases the button member in a first direction with respect to the body of the sleeve holder. Each wing is formed to include: a pin adapted to extend through a corresponding one of the cutouts, and an elongate first edge forming a pivot about which the button member is pivotable with respect to the sleeve holder body.
US10176725B2
Methods and systems for observing/analyzing interactive behavior are presented. In one instance, the method for observing/analyzing interactive behavior includes interacting, using a robot, with a subject and obtaining data from interaction between the subject and the robot, the data from the data acquisition components, the data being used for diagnosis and/or charting progress. In one instance, the robot includes data acquisition components, interaction inducing components (such as, but not limited to, movable eyelids, movable appendages, sound generating components), a control component operatively connected to the interaction inducing components and a processing component operatively connected to the control component and the data acquisition components, the processing component being configured to obtain data from the data acquisition components, the data being used for diagnosis and/or charting progress. In one instance, the robot is integrated with a computer-aided system for diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy.
US10176720B2
An auto driving control system includes: a situation determining unit which recognizes a situation around the vehicle and determines whether automatic traveling is possible; a drive control unit which performs traveling control when the automatic traveling is possible; a state determining unit which determines whether an occupant is able to drive; and an estimation drive control unit configured such that when the automatic traveling is difficult and it is difficult for the occupant to take over the driving, and when it is determined that execution of a function of the automatic traveling is difficult due to a first sensor, the estimation drive control unit executes the function by using information of a second sensor, and performs traveling control of the vehicle, wherein the automatic traveling is continued based on a control instruction of the estimation drive control unit until the occupant becomes able to take over the driving.
US10176712B1
An intersection control system is provided. The system utilizes a computerized controller to dynamically display to intersection drivers whose turn it is to enter the intersection. Sensors at the intersection can determine what cars are at the intersection and when, allowing the computerized controller to automatically determine the correct order to control the intersection. In some embodiments, the computerized controller may make special accommodation to allow additional cars to enter the intersection instead of one at a time in a particular order to ease traffic.
US10176711B2
A device can determine a set of average vehicle entry rates using traffic data associated with an intersection and can determine a set of average vehicle wait time values. The device can generate one or more data structures that include a set of state values that include the set of average vehicle entry rates and a set of transition values. The device can determine a set of customer satisfaction rating values. The device can generate a prediction data structure that associates the set of state values with a set of traffic light cycle time values and one or more customer satisfaction rating values. The device can determine a current state value. The device can identify a state value and a traffic light cycle time value that is associated with a highest customer satisfaction rating. The device can provide the traffic light cycle time value to a traffic controller.
US10176710B1
An example technique of configuring a universal remote control device includes receiving a plurality of transmitted infrared signals during a time period; storing the plurality of infrared signals and a time of each of the plurality of infrared signals; detecting a plurality of appliance events during the time period; storing the plurality of appliance events and a time of each of the plurality of appliance events; correlating the plurality of infrared signals with the plurality of appliance events based on the time of each of the plurality of infrared signals and the time of each of the plurality of appliance events; and defining configuration information for a universal remote control device based on the correlating of the plurality of infrared signals with the plurality of appliance events.
US10176709B2
A system and method are disclosed for remotely operating a shut-off valve of a gas meter. The gas meter includes a meter housing having a shut-off valve disposed within. An optical control system enables the shut-off valve to be operated with optical signals input to the meter.
US10176708B2
A system for installation in a vehicle and for controlling a remote device including a trainable transceiver, a camera, and a control circuit coupled to the trainable transceiver and the camera. The control circuit is configured to use the camera to identify the remote device by comparing information received via the camera to information stored in memory, and the control circuit is configured to automatically transmit an activation signal formatted to control the remote device in response to identifying the remote device.
US10176707B2
The present disclosure relates to a remote control including an electronic circuit comprising means for detecting the position, orientation and movement of the hand and/or forearm such as an accelerometer, means for transmitting at radiofrequency a control signal calculated depending on the measured position, orientation and movement, and a means for fastening to the forearm of an operator, wherein the remote control further comprises a contactor able to be actuated by the interaction of two fingers, the contactor controlling the activation of the electronic circuit and the maintenance of the control signal until the action on the contactor is stopped, and a bearing surface associated with a contactor controlling an emergency stoppage of the controlled equipment.
US10176694B2
An aircraft occupant seat for providing health, safety, and comfort management to aircraft occupants is disclosed. In one embodiment, an aircraft occupant, seated in an aircraft occupant seat in an aircraft, is monitored for health, safety and comfort information using at least one sensor disposed in the aircraft occupant seat. Further, background auditory, electrical noise, temperature and mechanical vibration associated with the aircraft occupant seat is measured using the at least one sensor. The health, safety and comfort information associated with the aircraft occupant is then obtained using the monitored health safety and comfort information and the measured background electrical noise and mechanical vibration. Health, safety and comfort of the aircraft occupant are then managed based on the obtained health, safety and comfort information.
US10176693B2
Security and tracking systems disclosed herein include a server coupled with a database, a computing device coupled with the database and including a display, and a wearable recording device (device) configured to record audio and video, the device having an identifier associated with the user through the database. One or more user interfaces are displayed on the display and include one or more inputs configured to associate the identifier with the user through the database. The wearable recording device may be an earring. Some security and tracking systems include a tracking device (tracker) having at least one sharp end, the tracker configured to be insertable into a hem or fold of a clothing item, the tracker having an identifier associated with the user through the database using inputs on one or more user interfaces displayed on the display, the tracker including a visual display of the identifier.
US10176679B2
A system includes a sensor configured to sense an input at a skin surface, a processor configured to receive an output signal from the sensor and generate a haptic control signal based on the output signal, and a haptic output device configured to generate a haptic effect based on the haptic control signal.
US10176676B2
Aspects of the invention relate to an OLED bank teller carrel with an integrated QST. The bank teller carrel may include a user-facing counter. The bank teller carrel may include an OLED screen embedded in the counter. The OLED screen may include an array of OLEDs. The array of OLEDs may be configured to display information. The OLED screen may include a software chip. The software chip may include a processor and a memory. The OLED screen may include touch screen capabilities. The touch screen capabilities may be configured to receive user input via human touch. The OLED screen may include biometric characteristic receipt film. The biometric characteristic receipt film may be configured to capture at least one biometric characteristic of a customer. The OLED screen may include a communication circuit. The communication circuit may configured to receive information from information hubs and transmit information to information hubs.
US10176675B2
A gaming system, a gaming machine and a method is provided having a Five Card Video Draw poker game with a single hand or multiple hands. The gaming system or gaming machine first determines whether a dream card is going to be used in a particular round of play or a dream card is used on every hand. If the dream card is going to be used, then the last card of the initial hand is chosen so that, when the last card is combined with the other randomly selected cards of the initial hand, the initial starting hand will have the highest possible expected value.
US10176673B2
Disclosed is a dart game apparatus providing a game mode interworked with a mobile game. The dart game apparatus may include: a controller recognizing information on a player and determining providing a reward to the player at least partially based on dart game execution data of the player; and a network connection unit transmitting data associated with the reward to at least one of a dart game server, a mobile game server, and a mobile terminal. The reward may include the reward for a game executed on the mobile terminal.
US10176670B2
An operation input interface includes multiple selection buttons for a player to play a prize money game, and an information output interface includes multiple selection items comprising hidden contents and positions associated with the selection buttons. The hidden contents of the selection items include multiple rewards and at least one ending option. After the prize game starts, the selection items and the selection buttons are respectively provided at the information output interface and the operation input interface to allow the player to select the selection buttons to further display the hidden contents. When any of the at least one ending option is displayed by the information output interface, the prize money game ends immediately. Thus, the player is allowed to play the prize money game intuitively, and provides the player with the pleasure of ending the prize money game unexpectedly by ending the prize money game randomly.
US10176660B2
The invention relates to the fitness check of value documents. For at least two fitness criteria there is respectively determined with the aid of an unfit function an unfit degree of the particular value document. The unfit function clearly assigns an unfit degree to the fitness measurement values and has two threshold values, beyond which the unfit degree with respect to the relevant fitness criterion is 0 or 1. Between the threshold values there is an uncertainty range in which the unfit degree is, with respect to the relevant fitness criterion, between 0 and 1 and the unfit function behaves monotonously dropping or monotonously rising. Subsequently, the unfit degrees of different fitness criteria are combined into an unfit probability of the particular value document and on the basis of the unfit probability a fitness classification of the particular value document is carried out.
US10176659B2
A paper sheet authentication apparatus determines the type of the paper sheet by using a characteristic other than a fluorescent light characteristic, sequentially emits excitation lights of different wavelengths on the paper sheet, measures an intensity of light per wavelength within a predetermined range emitted by a fluorescent material applied to the paper sheet, and acquires fluorescent light characteristic data as the result. The paper sheet authentication apparatus performs the authentication of the paper sheet by using fluorescent light characteristic data of a genuine paper sheet previously stored per type of the paper sheet or a threshold calculated therefrom and the acquired fluorescent light characteristic data.
US10176650B1
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a volatile memory module configured to store vehicle data; a non-volatile memory module coupled to the volatile memory module; and an energy-storage module configured to provide power to the volatile memory module and the non-volatile memory module during a data transfer between the volatile memory module and the non-volatile memory module. The energy is provided to the non-volatile memory module for writing the vehicle data to non-volatile memory. The apparatus further includes a collision-detector module configured to identify a collision event of the vehicle; and a controller coupled to the energy-storage module and the collision-detector module. The controller is configured to initiate a transfer of the vehicle data stored in the volatile memory module to the non-volatile memory module in response to receiving an indication from the collision-detector module that a collision has occurred.
US10176648B2
A method of notifying an authorization to shut down completely an aircraft gas turbine engine, the method being applied after detecting that the engine has passed to an idling speed, and including a) an evaluation step of using a value of a first operating parameter of the engine to evaluate a value for a second parameter T45MG wherein a thermal behavior of a part of the engine that might be subjected to coking; b) a comparison step (E30) of comparing the value of the second parameter T45MG with a predefined threshold value T45thresh corresponding to a value of the second parameter that does not lead to coking of the part; and c) a notification step of notifying authorization to shut down completely the engine if the value of the second parameter T45MG is lower than the value of the predefined threshold T45thresh, else reiterating steps a) to c).
US10176647B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring a sound are described. An audio signal is obtained and the audio signal is analyzed to generate an audio signature. An object type is identified based on the audio signature and an action corresponding to the object type is identified.
US10176646B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for toll service activation using an on-board unit in a third party transport comprises, a third party entity, a toll rental entity, and an on-board unit communicably coupled to the third party entity and to the toll rental entity, wherein the on-board unit, receives a position signal, initiates a toll service request, converts the position signal to a toll usage, and stores the position signal, the toll service request and the toll usage.
US10176645B2
Systems for linking features in medical images to anatomical models and methods of operation thereof
A medical imaging system configured to link acquired images to markers or tags on an anatomical illustration, based, at least in part on spatial and anatomical data associated with the acquired image. The medical imaging system may be further configured to generate a diagnostic report including the anatomical illustration containing the markers. The diagnostic report may allow a user to select a marker to view information associated with an acquired image and/or the acquired image. Multiple images may be associated with a marker, and/or multiple markers may be associated with an image. A set of 2D and/or 3D anatomical illustrations may be generated which contains markers from multiple diagnostic reports and updated automatically for an individual patient's anatomical model by the application to reflect measurements and/quantitative findings related to organ, tissue, and vessel size, location, deformation, and/or obstruction.
US10176636B1
Various approaches discussed herein enable augmenting an image of a person wearing an article of clothing to provide an augmented reality (i.e., virtual) article of clothing to a viewer in order to overlay, replace, and/or augment an actual article of clothing being worn by the user. The augmented reality article of clothing is positioned on the user's real-world piece of clothing according to various markings and/or data that allow the augmented reality article of clothing to appear as if it were being worn by the user, even during movement of the user.
US10176635B2
Saving augmented realities includes collecting, with an augmented reality device, observation information of a physical space including an object, and obtaining, with the augmented reality device, an augmentation associated with the object. An augmented view of the physical space including a visual representation of the augmentation is visually presented with the augmented reality device, and the augmented view is saved for subsequent playback.
US10176628B2
In a method for creating a 3D representation of a recording object it is provided, with respect to recorded individual images (2, 3) from a recording object, to identify feature pixels (6, 7, 8, 9) respectively in a computer-aided manner by a feature detection, to calculate in a computer-implemented manner with respect to this feature pixels (6, 7, 8, 9), on the basis of correspondences in terms of content, respectively 3D points (11, 12) and camera poses (3, 4) of the individual images (2, 3), to fit at least one geometric primitive (14) into the calculated 3D points (11, 12) in a computer-implemented manner and to check in a plausibility check (15) whether a minimum discrepancy between the individual images (2, 3) results for the geometric primitive (14), and to output the geometric primitive (14) for which the discrepancy is minimized.
US10176621B2
A set of graphics primitive information for a virtual object may be processed with compute shader running on a graphics processing unit (GPU) to generate a modified set of primitive information. The modified set of primitive information may be passed to a vertex shader running on the GPU. The vertex shader may perform vertex shading on the modified set of primitive information. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US10176615B2
Problems occurring due to a difference in point of view between cameras in compositing a panoramic image by using multiple images taken by the cameras are solved. An image processing device includes an image data receiving unit 101, a panoramic image generating unit 102, a designation receiving unit 103, and a single photographic image selecting unit 105. The image data receiving unit 101 receives data of a first still image and a second still image. The panoramic image generating unit 102 projects the first still image and the second still image on a projection sphere to generate a composited image. The designation receiving unit 103 receives designation of a specific position in the panoramic image. The single photographic image selecting unit 105 selects one of the first still image and the second still image, which contains the designated position received by the designation receiving unit 103.
US10176612B2
In a method for retrieval of similar findings from a hybrid image dataset, a database of hotspots is prepared, wherein the hotspots are identified by binary strings encoding descriptors, and identify binary strings stored in the database are identified that resemble a new binary string.
US10176609B2
Data is received characterizing a network represented by a directed graph having nodes and edges. The network includes an influence score associated with a node. The network is associated with a search keyword. A portion of the directed graph and influence score is displayed in a graphical user interface display space. The portion of directed graph is dynamically updated in response to receiving updated network data. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10176607B2
The current invention relates to a system for manipulating data sets. More specifically, the current invention relates to an interactive system allowing an expert to seamlessly filter complex databases as a tool to evaluate hypotheses. When longitudinal data are concerned, the system allows the user to sketch a chart illustrating the trend of a variable of interest over time, and the system selects records from a database in which the sketched trend is present.
US10176604B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method for image reconstruction. The method may include the steps of: obtaining raw data corresponding to radiation rays within a volume, determining a radiation ray passing a plurality of voxels, grouping the voxels into a plurality of subsets such that at least some subset of voxels are sequentially loaded into a memory, and performing a calculation relating to the sequentially loaded voxels. The radiation ray may be determined based on the raw data. The calculation may be performed by a plurality of processing threads in a parallel hardware architecture. A processing thread may correspond to a subset of voxels.
US10176603B2
A hybrid CT dataset is obtained from a combination of an integrating detector and a photon-counting detector. The hybrid CT dataset contains sparse spectral energy data and dense energy integration data. The dense panchromatic data sets inherit the resolution properties of the integrating detector while the sparse spectral data sets inherit the spectral information of the photon-counting detector. Subsequently, the sparse spectral energy data sets are pansharpened based upon at least one dense panchromatic data set that lacks spectral information according to a pansharpening algorithm.
US10176600B2
A texture processing unit includes a controller configured to determine a first calculator that performs a calculation on a first mipmap and a second calculator that performs a calculation on a second mipmap, based on a level of detail (LOD) weight indicating influences of the first mipmap and the second mipmap on texture filtering, the influences being based on an LOD value of graphics; and a texture filter configured to perform the texture filtering by using the first calculator and the second calculator, wherein a calculation precision of the first calculator is different from a calculation precision of the second calculator.
US10176595B2
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus having an automatic compensation function for an image obtained from a camera, and a method thereof, and provides an image processing apparatus having an automatic compensation function for an image obtained from a camera, the apparatus comprising: an automatic compensation pattern of which one or more can be provided in an arbitrary place near a camera; an input/output module which receives an image as an input from the camera and transmits the same to the image processing apparatus; and an image processing module which is a processing unit containing an algorithm for compensating for distortion of the image obtained from the camera, wherein the input/output module comprises an image input/output unit for transmitting/receiving data in between the camera and the image processing module, and a storage unit for storing information processed by the image processing module, and the image processing module comprises a distortion compensation unit, an image alignment estimation unit, and an image alignment generation unit, the distortion compensation unit extracting, from the received image, characteristic points of the automatic compensation pattern, estimating the absolute location and installation angle of the camera by using the information based on the extracted characteristic points, and performing lens distortion compensation by using an inner parameter stored in the storage unit, the image alignment estimation unit estimating, in the image, the camera installation location and rotational error as a change parameter by using information on the absolute location and installation angle of the camera estimated in the distortion compensation unit, and the image alignment generation unit compensating for the three-dimensional location and size of the image by using the change parameter estimated in the image alignment estimation unit.
US10176594B2
An in-vehicle camera calibrator is provided. The in-vehicle camera calibrator includes a targeted camera selector for selecting a targeted camera requiring the calibration, an intermediate camera selector for selecting an intermediate camera which is the in-vehicle camera that intervenes between the targeted camera and a criterial camera, a first calibrator for, when the intermediate camera is not selected, calibrating the targeted camera based on a captured image of an overlapping region between the criterial camera and the targeted camera, and a second calibrator for, when the intermediate camera is selected, calibrating the intermediate camera based on a captured image of an overlapping region between the criterial camera and the targeted camera, and then calibrating the targeted camera based on a captured image between the calibrated intermediate camera and the targeted camera.
US10176586B2
An image generation system includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to implement: an object space setting process that performs a process that places a plurality of objects including a moving object in an object space; a moving object calculation process that performs a movement process that moves the moving object in the object space; and a parameter process that performs a process that sets at least one of an attack parameter, a defense parameter, and a movement control parameter of the moving object based on at least one of density information about an assemblage of particles within a line or a range that extends from the moving object in a given direction, and the density information about the assemblage of particles at a position of the moving object; and an image generation process that generates an image viewed from a given viewpoint in the object space.
US10176584B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing latency in transmitting and presenting map user interfaces. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client device, a request for presentation of an interactive map user interface that depicts (i) a region and (ii) data related to an account for sub-regions of the region. One or more servers render a map of the region. The server(s) generate an image file representing an image of the rendered map. A different visual characteristic is assigned to each different sub-region. The server(s) configure a user interface of the client device to present (i) the image with each of the different sub-regions being presented according to the different visual characteristics and (ii) account data related to a sub-region when the client device detects a user interaction with the sub-region.
US10176578B2
The invention relates to an ex vivo method for detecting and/or quantifying brain injuries. The invention also relates to an ex vivo method for monitoring the evolution of a brain injury, and to an ex vivo method for predicting when a patient will come out of a coma. The invention is particularly applicable in the field of medicine and in the field of clinical studies.
US10176577B2
Certain aspects of an apparatus and method for automatic ER/PR scoring of tissue samples may include for determining a cancer diagnosis score comprising identifying a positive stained nucleus in a slide image of the tissue sample, identifying a negative stained nucleus in the slide image, computing a proportion score based on number of the positive stained nucleus identified and number of the negative stained nucleus identified and determining the cancer diagnosis score based on the proportion.
US10176574B2
A structure-preserving composite model for skin lesion segmentation includes partitioning a dermoscopic image into superpixels at a first scale. Each superpixel is a vertex on a graph defined by color coordinates and spatial coordinates, and represents a number of pixels of the dermoscopic image according to the first scale. Further, constructing a plurality of k background templates by k-means clustering selected ones of the superpixels in space and color. Additionally, generating sparse representations of the plurality of superpixels based on the plurality of background templates. Also, calculating a reconstruction error for each superpixel by comparison of its sparse representation to its original color coordinates and spatial coordinates. Furthermore, outputting a confidence map that identifies each pixel of the dermoscopic image as belonging or not belonging to a skin lesion, based on the reconstruction errors of the representative superpixels.
US10176562B2
An optical method of measuring motion employs a phase grating that produces a diffraction pattern responsive to light from an imaged scene. First and second images of the diffraction pattern are captured and compared to produce an image comparison. Apparent motion is then calculated from the image comparison.
US10176560B2
Techniques related to multi-block memory reads for image de-warping are discussed. Such techniques may include copying pixel data corresponding to overlapping regions of memory between adjacent image modification regions from a local buffer and retrieving pixel data corresponding to non-overlapping regions from external memory.
US10176557B2
Described herein is a method for enhancing image data that includes dividing an image into multiple regions. The method includes measuring variations in pixel intensity distribution of the image to determine high pixel intensity variations for identifying an intensity-changing region. The method includes calculating a histogram of intensity distribution of pixel intensity values for the intensity-changing region without calculating a histogram of intensity distribution of pixel intensity values for each region of the multiple regions. The method also includes determining a transformation function based on the intensity distribution for the intensity-changing region. The method includes applying the transformation function to modify an intensity for each pixel in the image to produce an enhanced image in real time. The method also includes detecting in the enhanced image a horizon for providing to an operator of a vehicle an indication of the horizon in the image on a display in the vehicle.
US10176543B2
[Object] To generate a color image with further improved image quality. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit that acquires a far-infrared image, a near-infrared image, and a visible light image in which a common imaged object is captured; and a generation unit that generates a color image by filtering filter taps including pixels of the far-infrared image, the near-infrared image, and the visible light image.
US10176539B2
Power supply systems capable of performing various modes of fee-charging are provided. A fee-charging apparatus memorizes two or more kinds of power-use-side identification information of a use side using the power supplied via the power-supply control apparatus, two or more kinds of power-supply-side identification information of a supply side supplying the power via the power-supply control apparatus, and fee-charge-target information predetermined to each of combination sets between the two or more kinds of power-use-side identification information and the two or more kinds of power-supply-side identification information. The fee-charging apparatus receives at least one of the two or more kinds of power-supply-side identification information, at least one of the two or more types of power-use-side identification information and power-use information relating to power supplied from the power supply source to the power supply target, from the power-supply control apparatus via a wired or wireless communication line. The fee-charging apparatus performs a fee-charging process based on the at least one kind of power-supply-side identification information, the at least one kind of power-use-side identification information and the power-use information.
US10176535B2
A user is allowed to include of social category indicators in a user profile header of an on-line posting. In response to answers to questions presented by a social category application executing on a user terminal device or a system, characteristics of a user's interests or personal traits may be determined. Using the characteristics, social category indicators are generated that include a symbol for presentation with a user profile header in a message board of a webpage. The social category application may interact with the provider website/application to substitute the social category user profile header for a standard user profile header of the webpage, so that the indicators appear on the message board(s) as part of the user's postings. The indicators in the social category user profile header allows user to more effectively identify persons with similar interests and backgrounds without engaging in lengthy text exchanges with other persons.
US10176532B1
A claim-based capitation model is proposed for handling vehicle repair insurance claims. Rather than determining a detailed estimate of the expected actual cost of repair, the estimate may be determined using a simpler model. For example, the insurance company and a repair facility may agree to following a predictive payment model in which the insurance company pays a fixed predicted capitated amount of money for each repair claim, regardless of the amount of repair work that will be needed. Alternatively, the insurance company may pre-pay a fixed capitated amount for a predicted number of future insurance claims.
US10176528B2
A computer system includes a data storage module which receives, stores, and provides access to determinate data, raw indeterminate data, and extracted indeterminate data captured by an indeterminate data capture module. The computer system also includes a computer processor, a model training component, and a screening module. The model training component generates the predictive model based upon historical determinate and indeterminate data, and continuously adapts the predictive model with new historical data. The screening module categorizes current claims according to whether they are suitable for predictive analysis by the predictive model. The predictive model is applied to the current claims suitable for predictive analysis to determine a value for each claim indicative of whether the current claim transaction is questionable. The system also includes an output device which outputs the determined value for each claim, and a routing modules which routes claim workflow based on the outputted values.
US10176525B2
A method, computer system, and/or computer program product dynamically adjusts an insurance policy parameter for a self-driving vehicle (SDV) operating in manual mode. One or more processors receive a copy of manual control signals from an SDV, where the SDV is in manual mode during a particular time period. The processor(s) also receive a copy of computer control signals generated by an SDV on-board computer on the SDV during the particular time period, and compare the manual control signals to the computer control signals. In response to the manual control signals matching the computer control signals within a predetermined range, the processor(s) adjust an insurance policy parameter for the SDV while the SDV is being controlled by the particular human operator.
US10176519B2
A system for navigating products and services presented via a computer interface. The system may include a three-dimensional isometric view of a virtual store that may be displayed on a computer touchscreen. The displayed virtual store may include at least one internal wall of the virtual store, a plurality of virtual rows of shelves, each shelf containing virtual products, and a plurality of icons that, when selected, allow entry into at least one sub-store.
US10176518B2
A virtual salesperson system and method for tablet computers such as Apple's iPad can be used by the customer (as opposed to most applications which are for the dealer, or on a central kiosk) to provide the customer a tour of a showroom and each vehicle, highlighting key features and other content at the discretion of the OEM, such as videos tours conducted by their spokesperson. In at least one embodiment, the customer can also search inventory, potentially at this dealer and other ‘friendly’ dealerships with whom this dealer has a trading relationship. Other sales tools such as build and price, payment estimation, etc are available as well.
US10176512B2
An approach is provided for processing electronic data across network devices. One or more text fields represented in image data that represents an electronic document are compared to data from a first external system. If the one or more text fields represented in the image data do not match the data from the first external system, then the one or more text fields represented in the image data are designated for special processing. If the one or more text fields represented in the image data match the data from the first external system, then the electronic document is designated as verified. The approach also includes the ability for a user to supplement image data with additional data, such as codes used by business organizations, and for automatic correction of errors in text fields using data maintained by the first external system.
US10176510B2
A system receives item data describing one or more items added to an item list by a user. The item list may include one or more items. The system communicates the item list to a group of additional users designated by the user and the system then receives member data from one or more members of the group of additional user, wherein the member data is about the one or more items in the item list. The item list is then updated based on the received member data.
US10176508B2
A system, method and computer product for allowing a processing device to generate search engine results using a cobought model algorithm, filter the search results based on product information and past transaction data, and provide personalized recommendations for online grocery shoppers.
US10176505B2
Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring user information associated with one or more users for use in generating one or more customized food items that are customized specifically for the one or more users, the user information to be acquired including at least one or more user preferences related to integrity of one or more food ingredients to be included in the one or more customized food items; and directing generation of the one or more customized food items for the one or more users, the one or more customized food items having been customized to show one or more visual indicators that provide customized information that has been customized in accordance, at least in part, with the acquired user information. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US10176495B2
A process is described for assessing the suitability of particular keyword phrases for use in serving contextually relevant content for display on pages of network-accessible sites. In one embodiment, the process involves scoring the key phrases based in part on collected user behavioral data, such as view counts of associated social media content items. A process is also disclosed in which selected keyword phrases on a page are transformed into links that can be selected by a user to view bundled content that is related to such keyword phrases.
US10176489B2
A transaction is conducted at a merchant location using redeemed loyalty points maintained in a loyalty point account for a customer. The transactions are conducted using a mobile device at a POS terminal. In response to receiving a customer ID from the mobile device, a loyalty server provides the monetary value of loyalty points. The customer may use the mobile device to redeem those points and have the value transferred into a financial account. A payment processing system connected to the POS terminal completes the transaction using the financial account.
US10176484B2
A system for providing an online advertising platform includes a first non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by one or more data processors to group impression inventory units based at least in part on performance characteristics of the impression inventory units.
US10176478B2
Systems and methods are described that allow for determining a transaction initiation mode used to conduct a transaction and applying a specific set of rules associated with the transaction initiation mode to the transaction. A transaction authorization request message is received at a server computer. The transaction authorization message is for a transaction between a consumer and a merchant and includes a plurality of data elements. The server computer determines a transaction initiation mode, from among at least three different transaction initiation modes, used to conduct the transaction based at least in part on the data elements. The server computer applies a specific set of rules associated with the transaction initiation mode to the transaction.
US10176473B1
A location verification provision is implemented to determine the location of a device associated with a user at the time of an attempted transaction. The attempted transaction includes receiving user identification and/or payment information, which is associated with the device in an entry stored in a database. Location information of the device, as well as a time at each location, may also be stored in the database. To verify that the device is located at the location of the transaction, a comparison operation may be performed. If the device is located where the transaction is being processed, the transaction may be completed. Predetermined criteria may be defined to account for possible inaccuracies in location and time calculations.
US10176460B2
An electronic business card exchange method and apparatus. The method comprises: if a first electronic business card terminal on which a first electronic business card is displayed receives a first touch signal, the first electronic business card terminal turns the first electronic business card upside down to enable the business card to face the other party, and establishes a data connection to a second electronic business card terminal (101); if the first electronic business card terminal on which the first electronic business card that has been turned is displayed receives a second touch signal, the first electronic business card terminal sends the first electronic business card to the second electronic card terminal through the data connection (103); and through the data connection, the first electronic business card terminal receives and displays a second electronic business card sent by the second electronic business card terminal (104). Users can exchange electronic business cards by only sending two touch signals, so that the problems of complex operation of electronic business card exchange and proneness to opposite end confusion in the prior art are solved. In addition, the process is formal and meets business card exchange etiquette, and the problem is solved that electronic business card cannot be popularized on a large scale all the time to replace paper business cards due to the concern of etiquette in electronic business card exchange.
US10176457B2
Embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods configured for automatic learning and/or optimizing an order of items appearing in a sequence. Particular embodiments employ an engine to recognize sequences (e.g., lists of items) repeatedly encountered by a user. Examples of such sequences can include grocery lists, and emails present in an in-box. The engine then references available metadata associated with the sequence and its items, in order to present the user with an optimized sequence tailored to one or more criteria. Examples of available metadata can include sensed location information (of the user and/or other entities), temporal information, contextual influences, historical actions by the user, and/or general population habits (e.g., as may be determined via crowdsourcing). Certain embodiments may further generate a modified sequence based upon suggestions afforded by metadata associated with the sequence. Embodiments may utilize a self-learning scoring algorithm to perform sequence recognition, optimization, and/or modification.
US10176451B2
A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcode indicators, each operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedance of at least one threshold by at least one product quality determining parameter, the at least one threshold being at least one of a time duration threshold and a combined temperature and time threshold, a barcode indicator reader operative to read the barcode indicators and to provide output indications and an indication interpreter operative to receive the output indications and to provide human sensible, product unit specific, product quality status outputs.
US10176446B2
A computer based system and method for inventory management, cost savings delivery and decision making is disclosed. A global data warehouse contains a cost savings delivery mechanism CSD-M that is configured to receive information from a business intelligence module to create cost savings documentation that identifies and quantifies cost savings that are realized by use of an inventory management system and potential cost saving opportunities that may be realized by use of supply chain and operational cost savings programs.
US10176444B2
A new technique to analyze the control-flow, i.e., the workflow graph of a business process model, which is called symbolic execution, is provided. Acyclic workflow graphs that may contain inclusive OR-gateways are considered; a symbolic execution for them is defined, which runs in quadratic time. In particular, this symbolic execution essentially comprises labeling edges of nodes of the graph such that a label assigned to a first edge comprises a set of one or more edge identifiers, each identifying a second edge that is an outgoing edge of an XOR-split or an IOR-split node in the graph, whereby executing the second edge ensures that the first edge will be executed. Such a scheme may permit a decision for any pair of control-flow edges or tasks of the workflow graph whether they are sometimes, never, or always reached concurrently. This has different applications in finding control- and data-flow errors.
US10176429B2
Methods and systems for selecting listing based on a click predictions score are disclosed. The server system includes one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs stored in the memory. The server system receives a search query from a client system. In response to receiving the search query, the server system identities a plurality of item listings relevant to the received search query. For each identified item listing, the server system generates a click prediction score, wherein a click predication score represents the estimated likelihood that a user will click on the listing. The server system ranks the plurality of item listings based on the generated click prediction score and selects a predetermined number of the item listings for transmission to the client system based on their ranking and associated click prediction score. The server system transmits one or more item listings to the client system for display.
US10176426B2
An approach for predictively scoring test case results in real-time. Test case results associated with a test run are received by a software testing environment. Using predictive statistical models, test case results and attribute relationships are matched against model rules and test case history. A statistical correlation and confidence parameter provide the ability to generate test case relationships for predicting the outcome of other test cases in the test run. The test case relationships are transformed into scoring results and output for the further processing.
US10176422B2
The RFID tag comprises an antenna (11) connected to a wireless communication device (18). The antenna comprises a conductive planar surface and a slot (14) extending at least in a part of said conductive planar surface, the slot (14) forming a non-conductive area of the antenna and defining a first part (12) and a second part (13) of the antenna. The wireless communication device comprises two contact pads (16, 17) being electrically connected respectively each to one of the first and second part of the antenna. The slot comprises a closed end formed by a further conductive part connecting said first and second parts the antenna and further comprises at least one conductive bridge (19-19′″, 20, 21-21″) connecting said first and second parts of the antenna, the conductive bridge allowing to tune the resonance frequency of the tag by varying the length of the electrical path between the pads from the wireless communication device in the antenna.
US10176410B2
An electronic card connector, defining an insertion direction, an ejection direction, and a transverse direction perpendicular to the insertion direction, includes an insulative housing and a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing. The terminals include a row of first contacts disposed along the insertion direction. Each first contact has a first affixed portion and a first contacting portion located at a peak therein. Each of the first contacts extends along the transverse direction. The first contacting portions of the neighboring first contacts are located offset along the insertion direction. The first contacting portions and associated first affixed portions of the first contacts are distanced differently in the transverse direction.
US10176402B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media to categorize a pixel (or other element) in an image into one of a number of different categories are described. In general, techniques are disclosed for using properties (e.g., statistics) of the regions being categorized to determine the appropriate size of window around a target pixel (element) and, when necessary, the manner in which the window may be changed if the current size is inappropriate. More particularly, adaptive window size selection techniques are disclosed for use when categorizing an image's pixels into one of two categories (e.g., black or white). Statistics of the selected region may be cascaded to determine whether the current evaluation window is acceptable and, if it is not, an appropriate factor by which to change the currently selected window's size.
US10176398B2
Textile matching using color and pattern recognition and methods of use are provided herein. An example method includes analyzing an image (305) of a first article of clothing to obtain color information and pattern information (205-230), comparing the color information and pattern information of the first article of clothing to color information and pattern information for a plurality of other articles of clothing (using Bayesian probability analysis to determine matched pairs, and providing a user with wardrobe suggestions using the matched pairs (705-740).
US10176397B2
A method of reading degraded symbols is described. A symbol has an initial shape, which is marked on an object. Marks, shapes, symbols, and object ID are managed separately. A symbol library with symbols and associated shapes is initially created. Shapes in the library are updated from shapes of marks as the marks degrade over time. A read mark is compared to all the shapes in the library to determine a most likely shape. A selection set is used to limit symbol selection, based on the comparison, to valid symbols. The symbol library and selection set may be customized to each usage of the method. Comparison methods use probability distributions. Confidence values are used to validate output, generate warnings, and to control updating of the library. Weighted averaging may be used at the level of shapes, comparison distributions, or selections. One application is reading tattooed marks on rodent tails in a vivarium.
US10176387B2
A road shape recognition apparatus is mounted in a vehicle. The road shape recognition apparatus acquires a road image, determines a road shape using the road image, recognizes the road shape based on the road image within a predetermined recognition range, and estimates the road shape outside of the recognition range based on the road shape within the recognition range. The road shape recognition apparatus estimates the road shape outside of the recognition range and within a first distance as a curved line of which a curvature change rate is constant, and the road shape farther than the first distance as a curved line of which a curvature is constant.
US10176386B2
A vehicle speed determination system and method receive image data of a field of view of a camera operably disposed onboard a vehicle. A speed and/or heading of the vehicle are determined as the vehicle is moving based at least in part on one or more differences in the image data. In one aspect, pixel intensities in different images or frames may be examined to identify one or more features of interest in the images or frames. Movement of the one or more features of interest in the images or frames is correlated to movement of the vehicle along the route, and the time difference between when the images or frames are obtained can be used to determine the vehicle speed.
US10176378B1
Systems and methods are provided herein for detecting a marker (e.g., a marker that identifies a delivery location) utilizing an image captured by a camera of an unmanned aerial vehicle. A method may include obtaining marker information associated with a marker, the marker comprising a repetitive visual pattern, the marker being associated with delivery of an item by an unmanned aerial vehicle. Optical pattern information may be obtained that indicates a moiré pattern associated with the marker and the one or more cameras of the unmanned aerial vehicle. Image capture information that is associated with an image comprising the marker may be received. The marker may be detected in the image based at least in part on the image capture information and the moiré pattern associated with the marker.
US10176375B2
Aspects are generally directed to a high speed pupil detection system and method. In one example, the method includes receiving optical radiation reflected from an eye at one or more pixels of an optical sensor, reading-out a value of each of the pixels in a plurality of lines to progressively generate an image frame of a video image stream, the value of each of the pixels being based on a flux of the received optical radiation, identifying a first chord within a first line of the plurality of lines, identifying a second chord within a second line of the plurality of lines, the first chord and second chord being separated by a subset of the plurality of lines, and determining a location of a center of a pupil of the eye based on a two chord crossing of the pupil with the first chord and the second chord.
US10176372B2
Example embodiments presented herein relate to solutions for analyzing and/or classifying microwave scattering data. The analyzing and/or classifying may be utilized for estimating an internal condition in an enclosed volume.
US10176369B2
An apparatus and a method for generating a summary document are disclosed. For example, the apparatus includes a document receiving device to receive an original document, a computer readable memory to store one or more topics that are predefined by a user and a translation dictionary, a document analysis device in communication with the document receiving device to analyze the original document based on the user to identify the one or more topics that are predefined by the user, and a summary document generator to generate the summary document that includes the one or more topics, a location of the one or more topics in the original document and a translation of the one or more topics obtained from the translation dictionary.
US10176364B2
Disclosed herein are a system, method and architecture for media content enrichment. A visual object detector is trained using a training data set and an existing visual object detector. The newly-adapted visual object detector may be used to detect a visual object belonging to a class of visual object. The existing object detector that is used to train the adapted object detector detects a class of visual objects different from the visual object class detected by the adapted object detector. A media content item depicting a visual object detected using the adapted object detector may be associated with metadata, tag or other information about the detected visual object to enrich the media content item.
US10176356B2
A method for manufacturing a fingerprint identification module is provided. In a step (a), a fingerprint sensor comprising a substrate, a sensing chip and a package layer is provided. The sensing chip is disposed on the substrate. The sensing chip is encapsulated by the package layer. In a step (b), an ink material is coated on the package layer, so that a color ink layer is formed on the package layer. In a step (c), a stamping tool is used to stamp the color ink layer, so that a top surface of the color ink layer becomes a first high gloss surface. In a step (d), the color ink layer to be heated through baking or irradiated with UV light, so that the color ink layer is hardened.
US10176355B2
Systems and methods for optical imaging are disclosed. An optical sensor for imaging a biometric input object on a sensing region includes a transparent layer having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; a first set of apertures disposed above the first side of the transparent layer; a reflective layer disposed below the second side of transparent layer configured to receive light transmitted through the first set of apertures and to reflect the received light; and a plurality of detector elements positioned to detect the reflected light.
US10176344B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive untrusted input data at an enclave in an electronic device, isolate the untrusted input data from at least a portion of the enclave, communicate at least a portion of the untrusted data to an integrity verification module using an attestation channel, and receive data integrity verification of the untrusted input data from the integrity verification module. The integrity verification module can perform data integrity attestation functions to verify the untrusted data and the data integrity attestation functions include a data attestation policy and a whitelist.
US10176330B2
The use of one or more device health values to indicate the health status of a computing device may enable operating system developers to directly manage the security configuration of the computing device. For instance, a device health value is generated based on a state of the hardware component and/or a state of a software stack that includes the operating system at boot up. The device health value may be compared to a reference health value to determine whether the computing device is in a secured state. Based on the device health value not matching the reference health value, it is determined that the computing device is operating in an unexpected state. Also, a recovery environment may be implemented on the computing device in order to fix any errors with the computing device.
US10176327B2
Provided are a method and device for preventing the application in an operating system from being uninstalled. The method includes monitoring the operation which creates log contents in a log system of the operating system; determining whether the operation is to uninstall the application based on the log contents; displaying a prompt whether it is agreed to uninstall the application, if the operation is to uninstall the application. Therefore, the method may prevent the malicious software from uninstalling maliciously, enhancing the security of the intelligent terminal.
US10176322B2
Circuits and methods are provided for detecting, identifying and/or removing undesired content. According to one embodiment, a method for performing content scanning of content objects is provided. A content object that is to be scanned is stored by a general purpose processor to a system memory of the general purpose processor. Content scanning parameters associated with the content object are set up by the general purpose processor. Instructions from a signature memory of a co-processor that is coupled to the general purpose processor are read by the co-processor based on the content scanning parameters. The instructions contain op-codes of a first instruction type and op-codes of a second instruction type. Those of the instructions containing op-codes of the first instruction type are assigned by the co-processor to a first instruction pipe of multiple instruction pipes of the co-processor for execution. An instruction of the assigned instructions containing op-codes of the first instruction type is executed by the first instruction pipe including accessing a portion of the content object from the system memory.
US10176319B2
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes receiving, by a processing device in a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system, package metadata including one or more attributes for each of a plurality of packages. Each of the plurality of packages includes one or more components of one or more applications to execute on the PaaS system. The method further includes receiving threat metadata including one or more attributes for each of a plurality of threats. The method further includes storing the package metadata or the threat metadata in one or more data stores. The method further includes comparing, by the processing device, the attributes of the packages to the attributes of the threats to determine that at least one package among the packages includes at least one threat from the threats.
US10176318B1
Techniques for maintaining and updating authentication information for a plurality of accounts may be provided. In an example a first set of authentication information for the plurality of accounts may be maintained. A second set of authentication information that has been marked as potentially compromised may be received. A third set of authentication information may be generated based on the overlap between the first set of authentication information and the second set of authentication information. The first set of authentication information may be updated based at least in part on one or more security authentication protocols and the third set of authentication information.
US10176313B2
A method and an apparatus for invoking a fingerprint identification device are provided. The method includes the following. When a request of a current application to invoke a fingerprint identification device is detected, whether the fingerprint identification device is occupied by a historical application is determined. When the fingerprint identification device is occupied by the historical application, whether the current application meets a preset invoking condition is determined, and then the fingerprint identification device is controlled to process the request of the current application according to the determination result.
US10176309B2
Disclosed are blockchain-based methods and systems for watermarking digital content. In an exemplary aspect, a method for watermarking digital content is provided, by receiving, by a processor, a data stream comprising audio and/or video content; receiving watermark data, by a processor, from a computing node communicatively linked to a blockchain-based distributed ledger; and applying at least one watermark to the data stream based upon the watermark data, wherein the watermark comprises at least one hash based on one or more data blocks stored in the blockchain-based distributed ledger.
US10176308B2
A server node may receive a token creation message including an authorization parameter. The server node may acquire, from a blockchain synchronized across a plurality of network nodes, a token factory in response to receipt of the token creation message. The token factory may include token factory logic configured to generate an authorization token based on the authorization parameter. The server node may generate, based on execution of the token factory logic with the token creation parameter, the authorization token. The authorization token may include authorization logic configured to validate an access event corresponding to an executable component configured on a remote device. The server node may append a datablock to the blockchain. The datablock may include the authorization token. The server node may control access to the executable component configured on the remote device by execution of the authorization token included in the blockchain.
US10176305B2
The present invention relates to data rights management and more particularly to a secured system and methodology and production system and methodology related thereto and to apparatus and methodology for production side systems and are consumer side systems for securely utilizing protected electronic data files of content (protected content), and further relates to controlled distribution, and regulating usage of the respective content on a recipient device (computing system) to be limited strictly to defined permitted uses, in accordance with usage rights (associated with the respective content to control usage of that respective content), on specifically restricted to a specific one particular recipient device (for a plurality of specific particular recipient devices), or usage on some or any authorized recipient device without restriction to any one in specific, to control use of the respective content as an application software program, exporting, modifying, executing as an application program, viewing, and/or printing of electronic data files.
US10176304B2
A method and an apparatus for storing a redeem code and a method and an apparatus for verifying a redeem code. The method for storing a redeem code includes generating a random value and determining an index of the random value according to an order in which the random value is generated, generating a number pair according to the random value and the index of the random value, mapping the number pair to a string and generating a redeem code according to the string, and determining a storage location of the random value according to the index of the random value, and saving the random value at the determined storage location.
US10176300B1
A method includes receiving from a health care practitioner input corresponding to creation of a first health care order which includes one or more parameters associated with a health care goal for the patient, one or more parameters associated with one or more rules for communicating notifications regarding the first health care order to the first health care practitioner via the electronic health records application, and instructions for the patient for complying with the first health care order. The method further includes displaying to the patient a patient portal comprising a goals interface which displays information associated with the first health care order for the patient created by the first health care practitioner, and allowing the patient to input readings for the order. The method further includes communicating one or more notifications back to the electronic health records application based on the readings.
US10176295B2
Contemplated systems and methods employ chimeric reference sequences that include a plurality of viral genome sequences to identify/quantify integration and co-amplification events. Most typically, the viral genome sequences are organized in the chimeric reference sequences as single chromosomes and the chimeric reference sequences are in BAM format.
US10176293B2
A single technique for determining Ct is provided that can be used for standard sigmoidal growth curves and for problematic growth curves, such as parabolic curves. The Ct value can be determined as the intersection of a line tangent to the growth curve at the maximum of the second derivative with a baseline of the growth curve. Such a Ct value is usable for sigmoidal curves and parabolic curves, and can provide linear calibration curves to achieve accuracy in determining initial concentrations of a sample.
US10176287B2
The invention discloses an STI stress effect modeling method and device of an MOS device, and belongs to the technical field of parameter extraction modeling of devices. The method comprises the following steps: introducing the influence of temperature parameters on the STI stress effect of the MOS device, so as to form a function showing that the STI stress effect of the MOS device changes along with the temperature parameters; extracting the model parameter Model1 of the MOS device at normal temperature; on the basis of the Model1, extracting the parameter Model2 that the STI stress affects the properties of the MOS device at normal temperature; and on the basis of the Model2, extracting fitting parameters of the MOS device in the function so as to acquire final model parameters. The device comprises a first module, a second module, a third module and a fourth module. By establishing the function showing that the STI stress effect of the MOS device changes along with the temperature parameters, the influence of the temperature on the STI stress effect of the MOS device can be accurately described, so that the extracted model parameters are more accurate and reliable.
US10176281B2
A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for generating clock signals for a cycle accurate FPGA based hardware accelerator used to simulate operations of a device-under-test (DUT). In one embodiment, the DUT includes multiple device clocks generating multiple device clock signals at multiple frequencies and at a defined frequency ratio; and the FPG hardware accelerator includes multiple accelerator clocks generating multiple accelerator clock signals to operate the FPGA hardware accelerator to simulate the operations of the DUT. In one embodiment, operations of the DUT are mapped to the FPGA hardware accelerator, and the accelerator clock signals are generated at multiple frequencies and at the defined frequency ratio of the frequencies of the multiple device clocks, to maintain cycle accuracy between the DUT and the FPGA hardware accelerator. In an embodiment, the FPGA hardware accelerator may be used to control the frequencies of the multiple device clocks.
US10176269B1
A system can include a schema for cross referencing independent yet related services. The schema can utilize reference properties and resource properties to partition data is separate services and allow for services to be added or removed without affecting the integrity of existing services. Embodiments described herein also avoid the need for complex transaction logic to maintain consistency between services. In some embodiments, the services can also utilize different database management systems.
US10176265B2
Techniques for designing an awareness engine that organizes and serves popularly discussed and viral online content in response to user search queries. In an aspect, quality online content is identified by analyzing posts by users of a social network over specific time periods. For each item of quality online content identified, a virality score is calculated, and a social signature is constructed. The social signature can be constructed from the content itself, as well as from posts referencing the content. Based on this processing, relevant quality online content having the highest virality scores may be retrieved and served in response to user queries. Further techniques are provided for designing a user interface for the awareness engine.
US10176257B2
An interactive video distribution system can distribute video content to customer premises of a service provide. Content servers store video content items received from content providers. A content management server maintains a content index including content metadata describing the video content items. A request for content is received from customer premises equipment of a customer premises via a content distribution network. An iterative matching process is performed to match the request with content metadata in the content index to identify a matching video content item to deliver to the customer premises equipment in response to the request.
US10176254B2
Systems, methods, and media for identifying content are provided. In some implementations, systems for identifying content are provided, the systems comprising: at least one hardware processor that: receives content having audio; generates a representation of the audio of the content; performs a first database search based on the representation; performs a second database search based on text corresponding to words that are sung or spoken in the content; responsive to determining that the first database search yielded a match and the second database search yielded a match, causes a first indication that the content contains a known performance of known content to be output; and responsive to determining that the first database search failed to yield a match and the second database search yielded a match, causes a second indication that the content contains an unknown performance of known content to be output.
US10176245B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for producing a semantic query by example are provided. The method includes receiving examples of potential results from querying a database table with an associated ontology, and extracting features from the database table and the examples based on the associated ontology. The method further includes training a classifier based on the examples and the extracted features, and applying the classifier to the database table to obtain a semantic query result. The method also includes outputting the semantic query result to a user interface, and requesting user feedback of satisfaction with the semantic query result. The method additionally includes updating the classifier and the semantic query result iteratively in response to the user feedback.
US10176237B2
A method for graphically displaying lifecycle information of a governed object in a service registry in combination with the policies associated with the lifecycle states. Properties (e.g., object type, current lifecycle state) are retrieved for a governed object. Additionally, lifecycle definitions for the current lifecycle state and one or more potential future lifecycle states associated with the governed object are retrieved. Furthermore, policy definitions that apply to the object type, the current lifecycle state and one or more potential future lifecycle states are retrieved. A table is then built that correlates the retrieved lifecycle definitions with the retrieved policy definitions. A graphical representation is generated detailing the current lifecycle state, transitions to the one or more potential future lifecycle states and the policy definitions that apply to each transition for the governed object based on the built table.
US10176230B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods for a search-independent ranking and arranging data are described herein. Initially a rank value computation data is received. The rank value computation data is then forwarded to a database engine for computing rank values corresponding to an object type. The computation of rank values is independent of receiving the search query. Finally the data values corresponding to the object type are arranged based on the computed rank values.
US10176229B2
A method for guided keyword-based exploration of data stored in a database includes providing, with a processing device, valid query templates for the data, wherein the provided valid query templates include static parts and dynamic parts; selecting those of the provided valid query templates that match a user-provided keyword; generating valid queries from the selected valid query templates using the data; and querying the data using a user-selected valid query selected from the generated valid queries.
US10176214B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for application program management as well as servers and terminal devices implementing the same. The method may include obtaining an application-file association list and managing applications installed therein according to the application-file association list. The application and file association list is obtained through statistics analysis of a server according to application program information of an application reported by the terminal device and file operation behaviors that the applications invoke a system read and write interface.
US10176201B2
Apparatuses, methods, program products, and systems are disclosed for content organization and categorization. An apparatus includes a tag module that presents a plurality of graphical tags for a content element. The one or more graphical tags include information related to the content element. An apparatus includes an assignment module that associates one or more graphical tags with the content element in response to user input. An apparatus includes a grouping module that indexes one or more content elements based on the one or more graphical tags. Content elements that have the same graphical tag are grouped together.
US10176199B2
In one embodiment, a social networking system automatically tags one or more users to an image file by creating a list of potential matches, and selecting a subset of potential matches based on location, asking a first user to confirm the subset of potential matches, and tagging one or more matched users to the image file.
US10176193B2
Provided are techniques for holding versions of a document. In response to adding a version of an item to a hold container, another version of the item is automatically added to the hold container based on a hold version policy type associated with the hold container.
US10176191B2
A method begins by detecting an inconsistency between a first version of an object at a first storage target within the DSN and a second version of the object at second storage target of the DSN. The method continues by accessing an operation log of the DSN to identify relevant entries regarding the object. The method continues by selecting an inconsistency resolution approach from a list of inconsistency resolution approaches based on a type of inconsistency between the first and second versions of the object and based on the relevant entries. When the selected inconsistency resolution approach is a multiple version storage option, the method continues by sending a first storage request to the first storage target to store the first version of the object and a second storage request to the second storage target to store the second version of the object.
US10176190B2
A memory system for utilizing a deduplication process may include a controller, a storage media, and a non-volatile RAM including a metadata journal and a metadata cache, the metadata cache including an address table and a fingerprinting table, and the metadata journal including a plurality of transactions indicating whether a transaction is successfully written on the storage media.
US10176186B2
Methods systems for detecting of matching content in code files are provided. The method involves generating clusters of code files based on a degree of matching characters contained in each of the code files. A first cluster of code files is identified based on the code files having 100% matching hash codes and at least one second cluster is generated based on a character count generated for the code files that are not part of the first cluster and having a degree of match equal to or greater than a pre-determined percentage match. Such identified first cluster and at least one second cluster of code files are reported to have matching content based on the associated degree of match.
US10176163B2
Embodiments herein include a natural language computing system that provides a diagnosis for a participant in the conversation which indicates the likelihood that the participant exhibited a symptom of autism. To provide the diagnosis, the computing system includes a diagnosis system that performs a training process to generate a machine learning model which is then used to evaluate a textual representation of the conversation. For example, the diagnosis system may receive one or more examples of baseline conversations that exhibit symptoms of autisms and those that do not. The diagnosis system may annotate and the baseline conversations and identify features that are used to identify the symptoms of autism. The system generates a machine learning model that weights the features according to whether the identified features are, or are not, an indicator of autism.
US10176157B2
An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager detects an annotation error while attempting to annotate a document and, as such, segments the document into multiple document segments. The knowledge manager then detects another annotation error while attempting to annotate the multiple document segments, resulting in a set of unannotated document segments. In turn, the knowledge manager generates a notification that identifies the set of unannotated document segments.
US10176156B2
A method for providing linked note-taking includes receiving a notification from an online presentation service presenting a document that a note file relating to the document has been created in a client application, requesting at least a portion of the document and document information from the online presentation service, receiving, from the online presentation service, the at least a portion of the document and document information retrieved from a client application where the document resides, receiving a note within the note file and associating the note with at least a portion of the document and document information without locally opening the document in the client application.
US10176151B2
A Text information displaying method for displaying a message received or generated by a first electronic device on a display of a second electronic device. The text information displaying method includes the steps of: receiving a request of displaying the message; generating a word string according to the request, wherein the word string includes at least one word pattern and at least one graph code correspondingly representing the at least one word pattern; transmitting the word pattern and the graph code from the first electronic device to the second electronic device; and receiving the at least one word pattern and the at least one graph code, and displaying the at least one word pattern corresponding to the message received or generated by the first electronic device on the display according to the graph code.
US10176150B2
A computer-implemented method for remotely providing fonts for an electronic document comprises receiving a request to access an electronic document from a user terminal; locating an original version of the electronic document; selecting a code point encoding scheme from a plurality of code point encoding schemes based on a parameter in the request to access the electronic document; converting the original version of the electronic document to a second version of the electronic document based on the selected code point encoding scheme; and providing the second version of the electronic document to the user terminal.
US10176125B2
A memory system comprises a memory device coupled to a memory controller, the memory controller for receiving one or more memory requests from one or more core devices via an interconnect bus. The memory controller tracks utilization of the interconnect bus by tracking a selection of the one or more memory requests with fetched data from the one or more memory devices and waiting for scheduling to return on the interconnect bus during a time window. The memory controller, responsive to detecting utilization of the interconnect bus during the time window reaches a memory utilization threshold, dynamically selects a reduced read data size for a size of the fetched data to be returned with at least one read request from among the selection of one or more memory requests, the reduced data size selected from among at least two read data size options for the at least one read request of a maximum read data size and the reduced read data size that is less than the maximum read data size.
US10176124B2
A technology is described for determining an idle page close timeout for a row buffer. An example memory controller may comprise a scoreboard buffer and a predictive timeout engine. The scoreboard buffer may be configured to store a number of page hits and a number of page misses for a plurality of candidate timeout values for an idle page close timeout. The predictive timeout engine may be configured to increment the page hits and the page misses in the scoreboard buffer according to estimated page hit results and page miss results for the candidate timeout values, and identify a candidate timeout value from the scoreboard buffer estimated to maximize the number of page hits to the number of page misses.
US10176119B2
Implementations disclosed herein include a method comprising detecting a workload request from a host, estimating a media cache fill-up rate based on the detected workload request, estimating a current media cache usage, predicting, based on the detected workload request, the estimated media cache fill-up rate and the estimated current media cache usage, a workload profile, and determining a preemptive media cache cleaning strategy based on the predicted workload profile.
US10176116B2
Provided are a computer product, method, and system to virtualize target system storage resources as virtual target storage resources. Target storage resources available at a target system are discovered over a network. A configuration is determined of virtual target storage resources mapping to the target storage resources for a host node. The configuration is registered with a virtual target. The configuration maps the virtual target storage resources to the target storage resources at the target system and an access control list of the host node allowed to access the virtual target storage resources. A query is received from the host node for the target storage resources the host node is permitted to access according to the access control list. Host discovery information is returned to the requesting host node indicating the virtual target storage resources the requesting host node is provisioned to access from the virtual target.
US10176112B2
An information processing device, includes: a reconfigurable integrated circuit that, by being loaded with code expressing a configuration of a circuit, functions as the circuit; a memory that stores information indicating that the code is loaded into the reconfigurable integrated circuit, and resource information indicating an unused region in which circuit generation is available inside the reconfigurable integrated circuit; and a processor that searches a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) in which a virtual address associated with the code is associated with a physical address of the memory, determines, when the virtual address hits in the TLB, that the code is loaded, and generates, when the virtual address does not hit in the TLB, the circuit expressed by the code in the unused region indicated by the resource information.
US10176111B2
A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of memory is being used by a guest control program to back an address translation structure. The marking capability includes setting an indicator in one or more locations associated with the block of memory. In a further aspect, the marking capability includes an invalidation facility based on the setting of the indicators.
US10176109B2
When performing non-sequential accesses to large data sets, hot spots may be avoided by permuting the memory locations being accesses to more evenly spread those accesses across the memory and across multiple memory channels. A permutation step may be used when accessing data, such as to improve the distribution of those memory accesses within the system. Instead of accessing one memory address, that address may be permuted so that another memory address is accessed. Non-sequential accesses to an array may be modified such that each index to the array is permuted to another index in the array. Collisions between pre- and post-translation addresses may be prevented and one-to-one mappings may be used. Permutation mechanisms may be implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of both, with or without the knowledge of the process performing the memory accesses.
US10176108B2
Provided are a method, apparatus, and a system in which an initiator node is configured to communicate with a target node that is coupled to a memory. At system initialization time, a memory address map of the initiator node is generated to include addresses corresponding to the memory to which the target node is coupled. The initiator node accesses the memory coupled to the target node, by using the memory address map of the initiator node.
US10176099B2
An apparatus includes a cache controller, the cache controller to receive, from a requestor, a memory access request referencing a memory address of a memory. The cache controller may identify a cache entry associated with the memory address, and responsive to determining that a first data item stored in the cache entry matches a data pattern indicating cache entry invalidity, read a second data item from a memory location identified by the memory address. The cache controller may then return, to the requestor, a response comprising the second data item.
US10176071B1
Methods and apparatus for performing event correlation using codebook processing including determining a most probable set of problems for observed symptoms in a system. In embodiments, a correlation matrix is received which has managed objects. Hypotheses are defined as a subset of problems having observed symptoms based on the correlation matrix and evaluated.
US10176069B2
The present system uses quorum based aggregator failure detection in which a failed aggregator is detected and configured. Rather than repair and roll-up of all metrics for a period of time associated with the failed aggregator, only the specific metrics that were to be processed by the failed aggregator are repaired. Once the failed aggregator is identified, the time range for the downed aggregator and keys processed by the aggregator are identified. Keys for replica aggregators associated with the identified time ranges and key values are then pulled, provided to a batch processor, and processed. At cluster roll-up task completion, a time rollup task for cluster rollup is then started.
US10176065B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and devices are described for redundancy management for a storage system including a plurality of storage devices. Approaches for redundancy management may involve storage device failure prediction techniques and/or a redundancy value associated with a data file. In one example, a copy of the file may be stored on at least two storage devices. Whether or not to store an additional copy of the file on another storage device may be based at least in part on the redundancy value for the file. In another example, a determination may be made whether to store a copy of the file on another storage device when a storage device storing a copy of the file is predicted to fail. Whether to store a copy of the file on another storage device may be based at least in part on a redundancy value associated with the file.
US10176060B2
Provided are a memory apparatus for applying fault repair based on a physical region and a virtual region and a control method thereof. That is, the fault repair is applied based on the physical region and the virtual region which use an information storage table of a virtual basic region using a hash function, thereby improving efficiency of the fault repair.
US10176057B2
Processes are disclosed for decreasing contention in caches in order to increase the efficiency of multi-threaded or multi-processor systems. By using multiple locks in a cache, smaller portions of the cache can be locked during cache updates (e.g., during a data update or a storage block eviction). As only small portions of the cache are locked at any given time, contention between threads, particularly in multi-processor implementations, will likely be reduced. For example, if different threads are trying to update different entries in the cache, the threads can proceed with updating the cache concurrently.
US10176056B2
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for quorum-based data recovery, in which data is recovered provided at least a minimum number of quorum data portions are presented. In exemplary embodiments, a predetermined minimum number of versions of original data is received, and the original data is reconstructed from the received versions, wherein the original data cannot be reconstructed without loss unless a predetermined minimum number of versions is received. In other embodiments, erroneous or corrupted quorum data portions are detected and associated participants presenting said erroneous or corrupted quorum data portions are identified.
US10176054B2
A method begins with a processing module providing a data segment. The method continues with the processing module retrieving a plurality of first slices, corresponding to a previous revision of the data segment, from the distributed storage network. The method continues with the processing module recreating the previous revision of the data segment from the plurality of first slices corresponding to the previous revision of the data segment. The method continues with the processing module determining if the previous revision of the data segment compares unfavorably to the data segment. The method continues with the processing module storing the data segment in the DSN when determined that the previous version of the data segment compares unfavorably to the data segment.
US10176035B2
A system for migrating a virtual machine includes: a first device; and a second device. The first device notifies the second device of failure information indicating that data transported to the second device includes an error originated from the first device, when the error is detected from a storage area in the first device. The second device writes a second identifier, whose value is different from that of a first identifier, into a memory of the second device while associating the second identifier with a second address, the second address being to serve as a copy destination of data indicated by the failure information, wherein the first identifier indicates that data in the second address includes an error originated from the second device, and the second identifier serves as an identifier indicating that data in the second address includes an error originated from the first device.
US10176033B1
A system and method for detecting the occurrence of an event causing multiple hosts to be unresponsive. The system and method including, for a set of hosts providing services to one or more customers of a computing resource service provider, determining one or more subsets of hosts that are unresponsive, determining whether the one or more subsets of hosts that are unresponsive meet a set of criteria for an occurrence of an large-scale event affecting multiple hosts, based at least in part on a determination that the set of criteria is met, initiating a remediation action.
US10176021B1
Actual capacity usage limits for one or more logical partitions or groups of logical partitions are managed based on hardware-specific determinations of actual capacity usage.
US10176016B1
A method of specifying behavior among a group of computing tasks included in a request to be performed in a domain of computing resources is disclosed. Method steps include receiving, at a scheduler operably coupled to the domain, a p/f request, the received p/f request including a first group and a first relationship, the first group comprising at least a first p/f group element and a second p/f group element, the first relationship defining a desired behavior of the first and second p/f group elements with respect to each other during performance of the p/f request; determining whether the domain includes available computing resources capable of satisfying the first relationship; and in response to a determination that the domain includes available computing resources capable of satisfying the first relationship, allocating, with the scheduler, at least one available computing resource to fulfill the p/f request.
US10176007B2
Systems and methods are provided for emulating guest code by a virtual machine function. An example method includes detecting, by a hypervisor, a request by a guest to access a resource. The guest includes a virtual machine function and kernel code, and runs on a virtual machine. The virtual machine and the hypervisor run on a host machine, which includes virtual machine function memory. The method also includes in response to detecting the request to access the resource, transferring, by the hypervisor, control of a virtual central processing unit (CPU) allocated to the guest to the virtual machine function. The method further includes receiving an indication that the virtual machine function has completed the access request on behalf of the guest. The virtual machine function may modify a state of the virtual CPU in virtual machine function memory. The method also includes synchronizing, by the hypervisor, a virtual machine function memory with the virtual CPU state.
US10176006B2
Virtual machine purging of structures associated with address translation is delayed. A host logical processor executing on a physical processor issues a local purge request to purge entries of a structure associated with address translation. The structure associated with address translation includes one or more host entries for the host logical processor and one or more guest entries for a guest virtual processor running on the physical processor. Based on issuing the local purge request, an indicator is set to control purging of the one or more guest entries of the structure associated with address translation. Further, purging of the one or more guest entries of the guest virtual processor is delayed for consideration of purging at dispatch of the guest virtual processor.
US10176003B2
Methods and system are disclosed that assist monitoring activities in an organization in real-time using an integrated application. In one aspect, the integrated application establishes a connection with a central monitoring framework and an in-memory data store. The in-memory data store includes business data and associated key performance indicators (KPIs). In response to a detection of a modification of key performance indicators or an unauthorized access of the business data, an analytical engine associated with the integrated application analyzes the associated KPIs and/or the business data and generates results including modified KPIs and identifiers. Based on the identifiers, the KPIs and the modified KPIs are mapped with control parameters in a corresponding framework to determine a deviation in the values of KPIs and a workflow in the corresponding framework is instantiated. Upon instantiating the workflow, the KPIs are displayed on a user interface that provides monitoring information in real-time.
US10176000B2
A method for providing application assistants on applications is provided. The method may include performing pattern analyses on the applications, wherein application features are collected. The method may include determining application pattern types based on the pattern analyses. The method may include determining whether user customizations associated with the determined application pattern types are received. The method may include in response to the determination that user customizations are not received, associating the determined application pattern types with the applications, and generating application assistants based on the associated determined application pattern types. The method may include in response to the determination that user customizations are received, associating the user customizations with the applications, and generating application assistants based on the associated user customizations. The method may include presenting the generated application assistants in application assistant windows on the applications. The method may include executing actions on the generated application assistants.
US10175995B1
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for limiting a number of hibernations based on a finite lifetime expectancy of nonvolatile memory. As the nonvolatile memory has a finite lifetime expectancy, a device may determine cumulative thresholds and associated session thresholds and may limit a frequency that the device hibernates. For example, the device may determine a cumulative number of hibernations and associate the cumulative number of hibernations with a cumulative threshold. The device may determine a session threshold corresponding to the cumulative threshold and may limit a number of hibernations using the session threshold. For example, the device may enter a hibernation state up to the session threshold and thereafter may enter a suspended state instead.
US10175994B2
A method and apparatus for initiating secure operations in a microprocessor system is described. In one embodiment, one initiating logical processor initiates the process by halting the execution of the other logical processors, and then loading initialization and secure virtual machine monitor software into memory. The initiating processor then loads the initialization software into secure memory for authentication and execution. The initialization software then authenticates and registers the secure virtual machine monitor software prior to secure system operations.
US10175985B2
A processor core includes an instruction-sequencing unit (ISU). The ISU includes a general register file (GRF) composed of multiple hardware general purpose registers (GPRs), an exception register (XER), and a reservation station (RS). The execution unit(s) load an address of data in a data GPR, and load a first portion of the data in a first data GPR and a second portion of the data in a second data GPR in the GRF, where loading the portions of the data generate intermediate data condition codes that are loaded in the XER. The execution unit(s) generate a cumulative data condition code, which is loaded into a history buffer within the ISU. The intermediate data condition codes are loaded into a reservation station (RS) within the ISU. Upon flushing the GRF and the XER, the ISU repopulates the GRF from a history buffer and the XER from the RS.
US10175982B1
A method and system for storing branch information is disclosed. First data may be stored in a first entry of a first table in response to a determination that a fetched instruction is a branch instruction. Second data that is dependent upon at least one previously taken branch may be stored in a second entry in a second table in response to a determination that a branch associated with the instruction is predicted to be taken. The first data may be updated to include an index to the second data in response to the determination that the branch is predicted to be taken.
US10175981B2
The vector data path is divided into smaller vector lanes. The number of active vector lanes is controllable on the fly by the programmer to match the requirements of the executing program, and inactive vector lanes are powered down by the CPU to increase power efficiency of the vector processor.
US10175979B1
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for predicting errors in a software code base. The system generates an element set from a plurality of defect records that identify the developer who originated the defect, the code revisions related to the defect, and a classification of the defect. The system predicts the probability and type of defects in software using a machine learning algorithm configured using elements from the defect records and the code related to the defect records.
US10175975B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide for a self-amending software builder. A method of the disclosure includes performing at least one test on an application having source code that is stored in a source code repository and has incurred a plurality of code changes by a plurality of users; detecting a failure of the application during the test; identifying, using a processing device, an offending code change of the plurality of code changes corresponding to the failure and at least one dependent code change of the plurality of code changes that depends on the offending code change; and updating, using the processing device, a master copy of the application in view of at least one of the offending code change or the dependent code change.
US10175969B2
A method for upgrading medical equipment is disclosed. The method may include: according to a first target upgrading identification in a software upgrading package, determining a first target equipment number corresponding to the first target upgrading identification. The table of upgrading identifications can include association between upgrading identifications and equipment numbers of the medical equipment. The method further includes sending the software upgrading package to a first target medical equipment corresponding to the first target equipment number to allow the first target medical equipment to upgrade itself according to the software upgrading package.
US10175965B2
Multiphased profile guided optimization optimizes executable code based on data collected during multiple training runs of a training executable. In multiphased profile guided optimization, multiple sets of profiling data are collected where each set of profiling data is associated with a program phase and a particular training run. Program phases include but are not limited to different program features, startup, steady state and shutdown. The program features can run concurrently. Priority of the phases can be specified.
US10175961B2
Techniques disclosed herein describe joining processing elements (e.g., of a streams processing environment) using optimization techniques, such as by whole program optimization. An optimization tool evaluates multiple processing elements based on one or more optimization rules. The optimization tool identifies, based on the evaluation, processing elements that can be merged. The optimization tool joins the identified processing elements together.
US10175956B2
A solution providing for the dynamic design, use, and modification of models using a declarative software application meta-model that provides for self-modification of a collection of the models is provided. The solution can enable continuous real-time testing, simulation, deployment, and modification of the collection of the models. A model in the collection of the models can represent an entity or a function and can be included in a set of related models. Additionally, a set of related models can include a plurality of sets of related models. The collection of the models can represent, for example, one or more software applications, processes, and/or the like.
US10175955B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for collaborative management of a plurality of modeling tools is described. The method may include receiving, via a processor, a modeling tool request from a user for a modeling tool configured to operate in a spreadsheet application, determining, via an inventory manager, whether a tool record exists matching the modeling tool request, building, via a tool creation module, a new modeling tool configured to operate in the spreadsheet application responsive to determining that a tool record does not exist, and updating, via the inventory manager, a tool record in an inventory database if a tool record does not exist that matches the modeling tool request.
US10175953B2
A user interface control that has different logic components for processing different role logic depending on a role that is played by the user interface control. The user interface control may also have a general function component that performs general functions that may be common across multiple user interface controls. Also, a protocol for use in communicating between two user interface controls to establish a communications link. A first user interface control requests information from a second user interface control, which then obtains the requested information. The second user interface control then provides the requested information to the first user interface control, and then awaits the validation of the requested information.
US10175950B2
A Montgomery modular multiplication device and an embedded security chip. The Montgomery modular multiplication device includes a first Montgomery modular multiplication module, a power calculation module and a second Montgomery modular multiplication module. The first Montgomery modular multiplication module obtains a first operation result A according to two first preset parameters. The power calculation module obtains a second operation result B according to the first operation result A output by the first Montgomery modular multiplication module, the first preset parameters, the second preset parameter and a power calculation function. The first Montgomery modular multiplication module further obtains a Montgomery modular multiplication conversion coefficient according to the first operation result A and the second operation result B. The second Montgomery modular multiplication module obtains a final modular multiplication result according to a first input parameter NA, a second input parameter NB and the Montgomery modular multiplication conversion coefficient.
US10175949B2
Implementations of data compilers may include: a physical device including a physical parameter, the physical parameter including at least three states. The data compiler may also include a data stream generated from the physical parameter. The data stream may include a plurality of bits. Each bit may be coded with one of a 0, a 1, and an X; the 0, the 1, and the X may correspond with one of the at least three states of the physical parameter, respectively. The data compiler may also include an exclusive OR (XOR) data processor. The XOR processor may be configured to randomize the at least three states of the data stream and output a randomized output data stream.
US10175946B2
An instruction to perform a sign operation of a plurality of sign operations configured for the instruction. The instruction is executed, and the executing includes selecting at least a portion of an input operand as a result to be placed in a select location. The selecting is based on a control of the instruction, in which the control indicates a user-defined size of the input operand to be selected as the result. A sign of the result is determined based on a plurality of criteria, including a value of the result, obtained based on the control of the instruction, having a first particular relationship or a second particular relationship with respect to a selected value. The result and the sign are stored in the select location to provide a signed output to be used in processing within the computing environment.
US10175944B2
The present embodiments relate to integrated circuits with circuitry that efficiently performs mixed-precision floating-point arithmetic operations. Such circuitry may be implemented in specialized processing blocks. The specialized processing blocks may include configurable interconnect circuitry to support a variety of different use modes. For example, the specialized processing blocks may implement fixed-point addition, floating-point addition, fixed-point multiplication, floating-point multiplication, sum of two multiplications in a first floating-point precision, with or without casting to a second floating-point precision and the latter followed by a subsequent addition in the second floating-point precision, if desired, just to name a few. In some embodiments, two or more specialized processing blocks may be arranged in a cascade chain and perform together more complex operations such as a recursive mode dot product of two vectors of floating-point numbers having a first floating-point precision and output the dot product in a second floating-point precision.
US10175942B2
An arithmetic formula is discovered that can be used to reduce logic to arithmetic. The formula enables a logic algorithm to be reduced to an arithmetic algorithm without the use of logical trees, thereby converting a logical operation to an arithmetic operation. The use of the arithmetic formula enables the computation of functions that use Boolean logic. The operation of a computer program relies on logic circuits, which in turn implement Boolean logic. Considering that a computer program requires a minimum of one or more logic circuits to execute, it now becomes possible to replace the functions of these logic circuits by a computer program implementing the arithmetic formula. Therefore, it is possible to develop software that functions similar to a real processor.
US10175939B2
A person can use a portable electronic device to electronically purchase or otherwise request a product, service or other deliverable related to audio programming to which the person is listening at the time they initiate the request. The request is fulfilled by a service that analyzes the audio content to identify the deliverable the person desires.
US10175937B1
A headphone testing system includes a memory storing a headphone test application, headphone characteristics of a headphone connected to the headphone tester system, and headphone characteristics of a plurality of headphone models to test. A processor is programmed to execute the headphone test application to simulate a first of the plurality of headphone models using the headphone characteristics of the connected headphone and the headphone characteristics of the first of the plurality of headphone models, simulate a second of the plurality of headphone models using the headphone characteristics of the connected headphone and the headphone characteristics of the second of the plurality of headphone models, receive user input regarding user preference for the first of the plurality of headphone models and the second of the plurality of headphone models, and present results indicating which of the headphone models is scored highest according to the user input.
US10175929B2
An interface device is configured to be attached to an audio device and at least one switch within a vehicle. The audio device recognizes a predetermined voltage signal as being a desired audio characteristic and then generates an audio signal having the desired audio characteristic. The interface device includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver may receive a wireless data signal from a wireless device corresponding to a desired change to the audio characteristic. The wireless data signal is converted to a first voltage signal. The first voltage signal is transmitted to the CPU. The CPU transforms the first voltage signal to an audio input signal, corresponding to the predetermined voltage signal recognizable by the audio device and corresponding to the desired change to the audio characteristic. The CPU may also receive a second voltage signal, which is converted to the audio input signal.
US10175928B2
An image management system includes an image management unit configured to manage at least a piece of image information among pieces of information transmitted in a session between a plurality of communication terminals, the piece of image information being related to an image output at each of the communication terminals; and a transmission unit configured to send the piece of image information managed by the image management unit to a first communication terminal configured to output an image based on the piece of image information.
US10175925B2
A bi-directional scanning unit, a driving method and a gate driving circuit are provided. The bi-directional scanning unit includes a first stage subunit and a second stage subunit. The bi-directional scanning unit outputs a scanning signal stage by stage in a direction from the first stage subunit to the second stage subunit and outputs a scanning signal stage by stage in a direction from the second stage subunit to the first stage subunit. During the scanning, the first stage subunit and the second stage subunit cooperate with each other, so that one of the stage subunits does not output a scanning signal while the other one outputs a scanning signal. With the technical solutions according to the embodiments, the bi-directional scanning unit can output two-stage scanning signals stage by stage, have a simplified structure, and satisfy diverse demands on the gate driving circuit.
US10175921B2
A system for interaction between cockpit display units, said system comprising: a first display unit configured to display one or more flight data in a predetermined format; a first display processing unit operatively coupled to said first display unit; a second display unit; a second display processing unit operatively coupled to said second display unit; wherein the first display processing unit is operatively connected to the second display processing unit; the second display processing unit is configured to process the command signal received from the first display processing unit; and the second display unit is configured to display data associated with the first display unit based on the processed command signal by the second display processing unit.
US10175907B2
A storage device according to the present application includes a receiving unit and a control unit. The receiving unit receives a write request for writing a file with a specified directory name. The control unit writes the file in association with a directory of the specified directory name into a memory device, within a range up to an upper limit set for the number of files to be written in the memory device in association with each directory, in response to the write request received by the receiving unit.
US10175905B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for improved memory controller power management techniques. An apparatus includes control logic, one or more memory controller(s), and one or more memory devices. If the amount of traffic and/or queue depth for a given memory controller falls below a threshold, the clock frequency supplied to the given memory controller and corresponding memory device(s) is reduced. In one embodiment, the clock frequency is reduced by one half. If the amount of traffic and/or queue depth rises above the threshold, then the clock frequency is increased back to its original frequency. The clock frequency may be adjusted by doubling the divisor used by a clock divider, which enables fast switching between the original rate and the reduced rate. This in turn allows for more frequent switching between the low power and normal power states, resulting in the memory controller and memory device operating more efficiently.
US10175901B2
A storage apparatus includes a first memory, which is nonvolatile, a first controller that controls the first memory, a wireless antenna, a second memory, which is operable based on power supplied from the wireless antenna, and a second controller that is operable based on the power supplied from the wireless antenna, and performs communication using the wireless antenna. When performing communication with an external apparatus using the wireless antenna, the second controller performs authentication of the external apparatus, and stores in the second memory an authentication result indicating whether the authentication succeeded or failed. If the authentication result indicates that the authentication succeeded, the second controller permits reading by the external apparatus of first data from the second memory by communication using the wireless antenna or writing by the external apparatus of second data to the second memory by communication using the wireless antenna.
US10175896B2
A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to identify a plurality of dump units associated with a translation table in a storage device, determine a plurality of snapshot markers associated with the plurality of dump units, calculate a first value of a first snapshot marker from the plurality of snapshot markers in the storage device, identify a second snapshot marker from an additional source, the second snapshot marker having a second value satisfying the first value, retrieve a dump unit associated with the second snapshot marker from the additional source, and reconstruct the translation table using the dump unit.
US10175892B1
An adaptive read algorithm for accessing information stored on a nonvolatile medium. The nonvolatile medium can be organized as a plurality of storage units. A method of servicing a read request to the nonvolatile medium can include recording a history of read-retries for read requests to individual storage units of the nonvolatile medium. The method can include adapting a read algorithm for a read request to a particular storage unit based on the history of the read-retries for the read requests to the individual storage units of the nonvolatile medium.
US10175891B1
A processing device of a storage server receives a write request to write to a first logical address of a virtual storage device that is mapped to a plurality of SSDs. The processing device stores a data block associated with the request in a buffer, stores an entry for the write request in a queue, the entry comprising a reference to the data block in the buffer, sends a write command to an SSD, the write command comprising the data block, and subsequently receives an acknowledgment that the data block has been written to the SSD. The processing device maintains the data block in the buffer until a combined size of a plurality of data blocks in the buffer is equal to or greater than a threshold, the threshold being based on a number of SSDs in the plurality of SSDs and a block size of the plurality of SSDs.
US10175878B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus for receiving an input in accordance with a pressure load which can reduce the possibility to drop an object being dragged. The electronic apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an object, a touch sensor for detecting a touch to the display unit, a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor, and a control unit for controlling to start drag processing of the object based on detection of the touch to the object by the touch sensor and detection by the load detection unit. The control unit controls the load detection unit to stop detection after the drag processing is started.
US10175869B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods predict behavior of sprays based on receiving a selection of one or more variables affecting spray. Relative amounts of the droplets forming the spray are grouped into various droplet size classes, where each droplet size class represents a range of droplet sizes. The relative amounts of the spray in the classes is visually depicted on a computer display according to a distribution of droplets, a volume of spray falling within the droplet size classes, a chart depicting relative amounts of the spray as a function of droplet size, or according to a spray quality based on environmental factors.
US10175864B2
An electronic device: displays a plurality of objects, where two or more of the objects are grouped together in a group of objects and one or more other objects of the plurality of objects are not in the group; detects a first gesture that includes a first press input at a location that corresponds to a respective object in the group. in response to detecting the first gesture, the device selects one or more of the plurality of objects as a set of selected objects. If the first press input had a maximum intensity below a first intensity threshold, the set includes the objects in the group and excludes the other objects that are not in the group. If the first press input had an intensity above the first intensity threshold, the set includes the respective object and excludes one or more objects in the group and the other objects that are not in the group.
US10175856B2
Implementations generally relate to the generation of tile visualization for interactively displaying data on a user device. In some implementations, a method includes retrieving hierarchical data from a data storage system, including one or more first data items and one or more second data items descended from at least one of the first data items. The method further includes generating for display a main window including at least a portion of the hierarchical data. The method further includes enabling a user to select one or more of the first data items or the second data items. The method further includes generating for display a drawer window upon activation of a drawer function. The method further includes causing the selected data items to be displayed in the drawer window.
US10175847B2
A portable device and a method for controlling a display device include receiving first display information of a first arrangement of icons displayed on a screen of the display device, displaying the first arrangement of icons on a display of a portable device based on the first display information, modifying the first arrangement of icons displayed on the display of the portable device to generate a second arrangement of icons, generating second display information based on the second arrangement of icons, and transmitting to the display device a request to display the second arrangement of icons on the display of the display device, the request comprising the second display information.
US10175846B1
The communication device comprising a first weather implementer, a second weather implementer, a first weather dependent shortcut icon modification implementer, a second weather dependent shortcut icon modification implementer, and an audio playback implementer.
US10175837B2
A system and method for injecting a signal on a sense electrode in order to increase the security of the touch sensor if signals are capable of being intercepted by a probe, the injected signals being capable of creating a signal on the sense electrode that replicates the signal of an actual finger, creating a signal on a sense electrode that is equal to but opposite of an actual finger in order to cancel out the signal from the actual finger and therefore hide its presence, and create a pseudo random signal on sense electrodes so that it is difficult to correlate measurable signals on sense electrodes to actual finger position.
US10175827B2
In an example, a processing system for an integrated display and capacitive sensing device includes a sensor module and a determination module. The sensor module includes sensor circuitry configured to be coupled to a plurality of sensor electrodes. The sensor module is configured to receive an active pen signal with at least one sensor electrode of the plurality the sensor electrodes. The determination module is configured to adjust a sensing period of the sensor module for alignment with a transmission period of the active pen signal.
US10175809B2
The vehicle electronic mobile device system includes an executable software program configured to lock down the tactile input of the electronic mobile device when the electronic mobile device is paired and the vehicle is in a vehicle operating condition. The vehicle electronic mobile device system includes a hands-free system. The executable software program is further configured to allow other functions of the electronic mobile device remain operative and incoming texts and phone calls are pushed through the hands-free system. Responses to the incoming texts and phone calls are transmitted from the driver to the electronic mobile device through the hands-free system. Accordingly, the vehicle electronic mobile device system discourages users from handling the electronic mobile device but allows the driver to maintain communications through the electronic mobile device by utilizing the hands-free system.
US10175800B2
An electrode member according to an embodiment includes a first resin layer; and an electrode layer on the first resin layer, wherein the first resin layer has a thickness in the range of 1 μm to 25 μm.
US10175796B2
Disclosed is a display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of first electrode lines, and a plurality of second electrode lines. The first electrodes are provided in a display part and are used as a common electrode and a touch electrode. The second electrodes are used a common electrode and each second electrode is disposed adjacent to at least one of the first electrodes. The first electrode lines extend to a non-display part disposed outside the display part and are each connected to a corresponding one of the first electrodes. The second electrode lines extend to the non-display part and are connected to at least two of the second electrodes and supply a common voltage to the second electrodes connected to the second electrode lines.
US10175791B2
Disclosed is a display device with an integrated touch screen, including a touch screen comprising a plurality of driving electrodes and sensing electrodes built in a panel; a display driver integrated circuit (IC) (i) converting a first driving pulse into a second driving pulse with a gate high voltage Vgh, wherein the second driving pulse is applied to the driving electrodes when the panel operates in a touch driving mode, (ii) receiving a plurality of sensing signals from the sensing electrodes when the panel operates in a touch driving mode, and (iii) applying a common voltage to the driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes when the panel operates in a display driving mode; and a touch IC generating the first driving pulse, wherein the first driving pulse is applied to the display driver IC, and receiving the sensing signals from the display driver IC to detect a touch.
US10175787B2
A transparent electrode according to an example embodiment includes a transparent base layer; a metal nanowire layer disposed on the transparent base layer; and a metal oxide layer disposed on the metal nanowire layer. A hard coating layer is disposed on an upper surface or a lower surface of the transparent base layer.
US10175784B2
A control device includes: a receiver for receiving first information regarding the movement of a casing, and second information regarding whether to reflect the first information on the movement of coordinate values; a storage unit for storing a whole-screen region including a real-screen region, and a virtual-screen region set around the real-screen region; a generator for generating the coordinate values within the whole-screen region based on the first information; a switcher for switching a first state in which the coordinate values are movable, and a second state in which the coordinate values are immovable, based on the second information; a determining unit for determining which of the real-screen region or the virtual-screen region the coordinate values belong to; and a coordinate-value control unit for controlling the coordinate values so as to move the coordinate values within the virtual-screen region to the position of predetermined coordinate values within the real-screen region.
US10175783B2
A touch sensor including a substrate, a plurality of first sensing electrodes arranged on the substrate, a plurality of first split electrodes respectively adjacent to the plurality of first sensing electrodes, a plurality of second sensing electrodes insulated from the plurality of first sensing electrodes, and a plurality of second split electrodes respectively adjacent to the plurality of second sensing electrodes.
US10175781B2
This document describes an interactive object with multiple electronics modules. An interactive object (e.g., a garment) includes a grid or array of conductive thread woven into the interactive object, and an internal electronics module coupled to the grid of conductive thread. The internal electronics module includes a first subset of electronic components, such as sensing circuitry configured to detect touch-input to the grid of conductive thread. An external electronics module that includes a second subset of electronic components (e.g., a microprocessor, power source, or network interface) is removably coupled to the interactive object via a communication interface. The communication interface enables communication between the internal electronics module and the external electronics module when the external electronics module is coupled to the interactive object.
US10175775B2
A keyboard set may be provided on chair armrests.The keyboard set includes a left keyboard, a right keyboard, a first detachable support, a second detachable support, and two multidirectional angle adjusting mechanisms. Each of the left keyboard and the right keyboard includes a plurality of keys. One end of the first detachable support is combined with the left keyboard, and one end of the second detachable support is combined with the right keyboard. The two multidirectional angle adjusting mechanisms are respectively provided between the first detachable support and the left keyboard, and between the second detachable support and the right keyboard.
US10175774B1
A computer-implemented method includes detecting a pressing of a spacebar on a keyboard and in response to detecting the pressing of the spacebar on the keyboard, determining whether to report the pressing as a space key event or a mouse event.
US10175771B2
A keyboard of a data entry device includes a printed circuit board, a spacer having a plurality of key-positioning locations, a plurality of keys, each key being disposed so as to be at least indirectly in contact with a corresponding key imprint on the printed circuit board and a plate of transparent material in which holes corresponding to each key are made. The printed circuit board, the spacer and the plate of transparent material are applied so as to constitute an assembly that is non-dismountable from the exterior of the data entry device.
US10175758B2
X and Y electrodes arranged on a support substrate of the tactile sense presentation device are divided into M groups (here, M≥2, M=4 in FIG. 14). When a presentation content of a tactile sense transits from the N-th frame to the (N+1)-th frame, the device, first, sets electrodes belonging to a group 1 to a floating state for a predetermined time and then, connects each electrode to an AC voltage signal source or the ground so as to present a tactile sense in the (N+1)-th frame. The device sequentially performs this operation for each group, and, when the operation of group M ends, transition between frames ends, and movement of the target area in which a texture sense is presented is completed. There is no case where all the electrodes are in the floating state together, and there is no interruption of the texture sense.
US10175746B2
Provided are a power consumption control system and method that clarify the timing for carrying out each of a plurality of processes and thereby facilitate standby power control and the leveling of power consumption. To this end, PERT analysis is performed on the basis of process information that relates to a production line, process flexibility analysis is performed on the basis of the PERT analysis, process arrangement combinations and the total number of process arrangement combinations are determined on the basis of the process flexibility analysis, distributions of the total number of process arrangement combinations are determined for the process arrangement combinations, the process arrangement combination having the smallest distribution is selected from among the distributions, the processes are rearranged, and the progression of the processes is controlled on the basis of the rearranged processes.
US10175743B2
A power supply control apparatus, where the power supply control apparatus is configured to control power supply to a cabinet in a data center is presented, where the power supply control apparatus includes a communications module configured to receive an instruction of a network management center, and a controllable switch configured to adjust a capacity of the controllable switch according to the instruction to perform power-on/power-off control on the cabinet. In various embodiments, a power supply control apparatus may receive an instruction of a network management center, and can adjust a capacity of a controllable switch according to the instruction, which enhances power distribution flexibility, and therefore, a workload of changing a switch and a power cable can be reduced, and an engineering related risk can be avoided.
US10175726B2
The foldable display device includes a display unit having first and second display regions separated spatially or visually by being folded; a folding sensor unit for outputting a status signal regarding the degree to which the display unit is folded; and a control unit. The control unit executes a first mode in which the entire screen displayed on the display unit in a fully open state is controlled, and a second mode in which, when the state changes from the fully open state to an intermediately folded state, the screen of the display region in which the touch of a user is sensed is controlled from among the first and second display regions.
US10175721B2
A portable electronic apparatus and an operation method of the portable electronic apparatus are provided. The operation method includes: sensing an angle of a cover relative to a base. The operation method often includes sensing a posture of the cover. In the operation method, a virtual operating function of an optical sensor is enabled based on the angle and the posture.
US10175711B1
In some examples, a device includes a curvature-correction circuit including a first current source configured to generate a PTAT electrical current. In some examples, the curvature-correction circuit also includes three or more programmable current sources configured to generate three or more programmable electrical currents. In some examples, the curvature-correction circuit is configured to generate a PWL electrical current based on the PTAT electrical current and the three or more programmable electrical currents. In some examples, the device also includes a reference voltage circuit configured to generate a reference voltage signal based on the PWL electrical current.
US10175707B1
In an example, an apparatus includes: a pass device coupled between a supply voltage node and a load circuit and to provide a regulated voltage to the load circuit in response to a control signal received at a control terminal of the pass device; a first amplifier to compare a reference voltage to the regulated voltage and to output a comparison signal at a comparison node in response to the comparison; a second amplifier having an input device having a control terminal coupled to the comparison node to receive the comparison signal and to output the control signal to the pass device based at least in part in response to the comparison signal; and a feedback circuit to provide a feedback signal to the first amplifier based at least in part on a load current of the load circuit.
US10175703B2
A digitally controlled current to pressure converter (CPC) and method of controlling same is provided. The method of controlling includes the step of periodically imparting symmetrically-opposed movement of a control valve of the CPC to loosen and flush accumulated silt therefrom. More particularly, the method may include the step of periodically introducing a small-amplitude symmetrically-opposed impulse to a controller that actuates a hydraulic control shaft of a three-way rotary valve. Also provided is a method of preventing malfunction due to faulty input or feedback signals received by the CPC, and a method of detecting the health status of multiple CPCs when used in a redundant configuration.
US10175701B2
Method and apparatus for air flow regulation comprise a vertically oriented tube, a sail assembly positioned in the tube and moveable therewithin responsively to air flow through the tube to regulate rate of air flow through the tube and to stop air flow through the tube upon air flow rate through the tube exceeding a preselected value with a detector for sensing when the sail assembly has stopped air flow thought the tube as a result of air flow rate exceeding said pre-selected value.
US10175693B2
The invention describes devices and methods for controlling positioning of a payload on an unmanned aerial vehicle. A carrier as described herein may provide movement of a payload relative to a central body or one or more propulsion units of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The payload may move above and below the central body or the one or more propulsion units. The carrier may comprise one or more guides, a first actuator and a second actuator. The first actuator may permit the payload to translate with respect to the one or more guides and the second actuator may permit the payload to rotate about one or more axes of rotation with respect to the one or more guides. Therefore, the positioning of the payload may be well controlled, and movability and maneuverability of the payload may be increased.
US10175690B2
Various arrangements relating to on-board autonomous device deactivation systems are presented. In some embodiments, a status signal is output to a transceiver and transmitted via a satellite antenna to a satellite. A timer is executed that indicates a time duration that has elapsed since receiving a previous permissible operation message via the transceiver and the satellite antenna. The time duration is compared with a stored deactivation time. Prior to the time duration reaching or exceeding the stored deactivation time, a permissible operation message indicative of the autonomous device being permitted to continue operation is received. In response to the receipt of such a permissible operation message, the time duration of the timer is reset such that operation of the autonomous device is uninterrupted. In some embodiments, if such a permissible operation message is not received, the autonomous device is disabled.
US10175685B2
A diagnostic device and method for monitoring operation of automation system control loops includes an evaluation device and a data memory storing sequences of actual-value data of the control loops. An absolute value maximum of a cross-correlation function, for an excitation resulting from changes in a setpoint setting of one control loop, is determined as a first quantitative measure for positive time lag of the sequence of actual-value data of another control loop, and a numeric parameter evaluating an interaction effect of the one control loop on the other is determined as a function of the first quantitative measure. Strength and direction of the interaction effect are displayed. The calculations are repeated for all pairs of monitored control loops and a matrix of the numeric parameters is displayed.
US10175679B2
A support arrangement determining apparatus includes a reference processor that shifts and rotates a target object model, a candidate generating processor that generates inclination angles that are candidates for the orientation of the target object to be formed, a support calculating processor that calculates a number of supports to be attached and arranged on the target object, and an inclination angle determining processor that determines, among a plurality of inclination angles generated by the candidate generating processor, an inclination angle that enables the supports to support the load of the target object and that reduces or minimizes the number of the supports calculated by the support calculating processor, and with the inclination angle the target object is inclined from the predetermined reference orientation.
US10175677B2
A numerical controller including an automatic display unit of a teach program includes a manual movement axis monitor unit for monitoring whether there is an axis moved by manual feed, a teach target program selection and determination unit for selecting and determining a teach program controlling the axis, and a teach block selection and determination unit for selecting and determining a teach point from a movement direction of the axis, and selecting and determining, as a teach block, a block in the teach program in which the teach point is an end point.
US10175675B2
A machine tool system includes a portable operation terminal capable of operating an industrial machine by wireless communication and including a terminal body including an external connector that is able to receive image information about an image and a communicator that is able to transmit the image information received by the external connector.
US10175672B2
A turbomachine complex includes at least one motor-generator, at least one power source coupled to the at least one motor-generator, and at least one load dissipative device coupled to the at least one motor-generator. The turbomachine complex is configured to energize the at least one motor-generator through the at least one power source. The turbomachine complex is further configured to simultaneously energize the at least one at least one load dissipative device through the at least one motor-generator.
US10175669B2
Systems and methods for measuring and controlling fluid flow comprises an orifice plate defining a variable opening, wherein the orifice plate includes an outer assembly comprising a central opening and an inner assembly extending through the central opening. Another embodiment comprises a plurality of blades disposed parallel to each other, wherein the blades are pivotable along its longitudinal axis and include at least one low-flow blade or partial blade and a plurality of high-flow blades The flow device regulates high and very low volumes of fluid with precision, inexpensively, with superior acoustics, reduced energy, a simpler design, and prevents building infiltration. The high turndown device permits use at lower velocities, thereby reducing noise generation and eliminating need for sound-attenuating liners. The high rangeability device combines several part numbers into fewer parts, thereby streamlining product portfolios. Cost benefits associated with the flow device allow equipment to be scaled back 100:1 rather than legacy 4:1, providing energy savings, fewer product variations, simple and more robust applications. The device meets new and old building fresh air, comfort and energy codes. The flow device can be engineered, selected, and sized without sophisticated software programs.
US10175667B2
A storage device may include a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of memory blocks and a memory controller configured to determine a comparison between an idle current value of the nonvolatile memory and a reference current value and to adjust, based on the comparison, a start temperature at which the storage device begins operating speed control of the storage device.
US10175664B2
Sensor information is regularly acquired from a plurality of sensors and stored. For each of the sensors, other sensors whose information is correlated are selected. When sensor information of a sensor is requested from an application program or the like, while if the requested sensor is available the sensor information is acquired directly from the sensor, if the requested sensor is unavailable the sensor information of sensors relevant to the sensor is acquired and the sensor information of the requested sensor is estimated. As a result, in a system comprising a plurality of sensors, sensor information of an unavailable sensor will be estimated in a short period of time.
US10175629B2
A drive transmission device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a first drive transmitter having a first hollow body, a second drive transmitter having a second hollow body, a link device, and a releasing device. The link device links the first and second drive transmitters and includes a first inserting body with a projection, a second inserting body with a projection, and a link body. The first and second drive transmitters have respective grooves in the first and second hollow body in an axial direction. The second drive transmitter is disposed at an end portion of a shaft of a rotary body detachably attached to a housing of an image forming apparatus. The releasing device relatively moves the link device to the second drive transmitter in the axial direction and releases a link of the driving force between the rotary body and the image forming apparatus.
US10175628B1
A third contact portion contacts a first contact portion when a drum cartridge moves from first to second guide position. A fourth contact portion contacts a second contact portion when the drum cartridge moves from second to third guide position. When the drum cartridge moves from the first guide position to the second guide position, due to contact of the first contact portion with the third contact portion, the first cover located at the first position rotationally moves in a same rotational direction as the particular rotational direction to be located at the second position. When the drum cartridge moves from the second guide position to the third guide position, due to contact of the second contact portion with the fourth contact portion, the drum cartridge moves from the second guide position to the third guide position in a state where the first cover is kept at the second position.
US10175612B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit which includes a belt member having an outer peripheral surface which contacts an image holding member, and a transfer member, and the belt member is wound around both of the image holding member and the transfer member, wherein a toner to be used includes a binder resin containing an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin and has specific physical properties described in the specification, and paraffin wax having a melting temperature of 60° C. to 80° C., and an absolute value of a difference between the melting temperature of the crystalline resin and the melting temperature of the paraffin wax is 10° C. or less.
US10175610B2
A developing device includes a rotatable developer carrying member, first and second chambers configured to accommodate developer supplied to the developer carrying member, and first and second rotatable feeding members provided in the first and second chambers, respectively. A first communication port permits feeding of the developer from the second chamber to the first chamber, and a second communication port permits feeding of the developer from the first chamber to the second chamber. In addition, a toner content detecting portion includes a planar detecting surface including at least a planar coil generating a magnetic field and detects the toner content. The detecting surface is provided in the first communication port above a bottom of the first communication port and is disposed substantially in a central portion of the first communication port.
US10175604B2
A lens unit includes a first lens array including a plurality of first lens elements. The first lens array satisfies D1≤0.25·P1 where P1 is a pitch in a first direction between optical axes of adjacent ones of the first lens elements, and D1 is a displacement amount that is an absolute value of a difference between a first length WE1 from a center position of the first lens array to an end position of the first lens array in the first direction at a first temperature, and a second length WE2 from the center position of the first lens array to the end position of the first lens array at a second temperature higher than the first temperature by 30° C.
US10175602B2
According to one embodiment, a charger charges a surface of an image carrier by discharge in a wide-angle. A charging bias voltage application section applies a charging bias voltage to the charger. An exposing device forms an electrostatic latent image in a charged image carrier. A toner carrier causes toner to adhere to the electrostatic latent image formed in the image carrier. A developing bias voltage application section applies the developing bias voltage to the toner carrier. In addition, the developing bias voltage application section changes the charging bias voltage in one step and changes the developing bias voltage applied to the toner carrier in multiple steps.
US10175591B2
In an electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electric charge generating layer and an electric charge transport layer are laminated on a conductive support body in this order, a layer configuring an outermost surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains composite structure particles in which a core material is inorganic particles, and the inorganic particles are coated with tin oxide doped with aluminum, and an average particle diameter of primary particles of the composite structure particles is 50 nm to 200 nm.
US10175584B2
An optical element is used for an exposure apparatus which is configured to illuminate a mask with an exposure light beam for transferring a pattern on the mask onto a substrate through a projection optical system and to interpose a given liquid in a space between a surface of the substrate and the projection optical system. The optical element includes a first anti-dissolution member provided on a surface of a transmissive optical element on the substrate's side of the projection optical system.
US10175577B2
The invention provides a photosensitive resin composition comprising (A) an alkali-soluble resin having a phenolic hydroxyl group, (B) a compound that generates an acid by light, and (C) an acrylic resin having a group that crosslinks with the component (A), as well as a method for manufacturing a patterned cured film, and an electronic component prepared therewith.
US10175572B2
A method of forming patterns is provided. The method includes forming a resist layer on a substrate, forming a lattice-shaped extrusion barrier region in the resist layer to define pattern transfer regions corresponding to a plurality of separate windows, and positioning a template on the resist layer so that a patterned surface of the template faces the resist layer. The patterned surface provides a plurality of transfer patterns. The template is pressed to perform an imprint step for embedding the transfer patterns of the template into the pattern transfer regions of the resist layer.
US10175571B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for assigning feature colors for a multiple patterning process are provided. The apparatus receives integrated circuit layout information including a set of features and an assigned color of a plurality of colors for each feature of a first subset of features of the set of features. In addition, the apparatus performs color decomposition on a second subset of features to assign colors to features in the second subset of features. The second subset of features includes features in the set of features that are not included in the first subset of features with an assigned color.
US10175562B2
The support and connection unit (1) of a camera (10), comprises: a first part (2) intended to be fixed to an installation surface, for example a wall, comprising a first electronic means (21) for the conveyance of signals and provided with connectors (22, 23, 24) for the transmission of signals outwardly, and a second part (3), intended to be coupled to a camera (10), comprising a second electronic means (31), connectable to the first electronic means (21) and adapted to convey the signals produced by the camera (10). The first and the second part (2, 3) may be removably coupled, defining a closed container (25, 32) which houses the first and the second electronic means (21, 31). The first and the second electronic means (21, 31) are placed in the respective part (2, 3) so as to mutually connect following the coupling of the first and the second part (2, 3).
US10175561B2
A camera mounting assembly includes a base member or plate for holding a camera and a side member or plate. In an exemplary embodiment, lower slots on the base plate or side slots on the side plate are gripped by a vertical support's quick-release mechanism to mount the camera in a landscape or portrait orientation, respectively, the camera being generally centered and evenly balanced over the support in either case. The side member is detachably fastened to the base member, which modular construction permits separately timed purchase of the base member and side member as allowed by the user's budget and further permits breakdown of the assembly for ease of transport. The side member may be generally L-shaped with a lower arm length less than the side arm length, which also facilitates transport. Other components may be detachably added such as a hand grip facilitating freehand shooting with the camera.
US10175559B1
A camera flash system and method for the same. In one example, the system includes a camera including an image sensor, a plurality of lights, and an electronic processor. The camera is configured to capture an image frame. Each of the lights is configured to illuminate a region within the image frame. The electronic processor is configured to capture via the camera, while modulating an output of the plurality of lights, a first image frame and determine, using the image sensor, an object of interest within the first image frame. The electronic processor is further configured to identify a region of interest in which the object of interest is located based on the first image frame, identify, based on the region of interest, a subset of lights from the plurality of lights, and activate the subset of lights.
US10175555B2
A laser assembly generates continuous wave (CW) laser output light in the range of approximately 181 nm to approximately 185 nm by generating fourth harmonic light from first fundamental CW light having a first fundamental wavelength between 1 μm and 1.1 μm, generating fifth harmonic light by mixing the fourth harmonic light with the first fundamental CW light, and then mixing the fifth harmonic light with second fundamental or signal CW light having a second wavelength between 1.26 μm and 1.82 μm. The fifth harmonic light is generated using an external cavity that circulates first fundamental CW light through a first nonlinear crystal, and by directing the fourth harmonic light through the first nonlinear crystal. The laser output light is generated using a second cavity that passes circulated second fundamental or signal CW light through a second nonlinear crystal, and directing the fifth harmonic light through the second nonlinear crystal.
US10175546B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel structures. The pixel structure includes a gate electrode, a gate electrode insulating layer, an active layer, source and drain electrodes, and a passivation layer which are sequentially stacked. The pixel structure further includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is located between the gate electrode insulating layer and the passivation layer, and electrically connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode. The second electrode is located above the passivation layer. A first via passing through the passivation layer is provided, and the second electrode is electrically connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode through the first via.
US10175542B2
A liquid crystal display device (100) includes a liquid crystal display panel (1) and an illumination element (2), and is capable of switching between: a first mode of displaying in which displaying is performed by using a plurality of color rays emitted from the illumination element; and a second mode of displaying in which the background is allowed to be perceived, with no color rays being emitted from the illumination element. Each pixel is, under the first mode of displaying, capable of switchably presenting a black displaying state with a vertical field being generated across the liquid crystal layer (30), a white displaying state with a lateral field being generated across the liquid crystal layer, or a transparent displaying state of allowing the rear face side to be visible in a see-through manner with no voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer, and, under the second mode of displaying, capable of switchably presenting a black displaying state with a vertical field being generated across the liquid crystal layer, a transparent displaying state of allowing the rear face side to be visible in a see-through manner with no voltage being applied to the liquid crystal layer, a white displaying state with essentially only a vertical field being generated across the liquid crystal layer, or an intermediate level displaying state with essentially only a vertical field being generated across the liquid crystal layer.
US10175538B2
The subject is to shown a liquid crystal display device that has characteristics such as a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and a small flicker rate. The disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display device having an electrode group formed on one or both of a pair of substrates that are opposed to each other, and a plurality of active devices connected to the electrode group, and a liquid crystal alignment film formed on the opposing surfaces of the pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal composition sandwiched in between the pair of substrates, wherein the liquid crystal alignment film includes a polymer having a photodegradable group, and the liquid crystal composition includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula (1) as a first component:
US10175535B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display apparatus which has a reduced area of a dark line generated when light is transmitted through a pixel region, and excellent transmittance of light and image quality. The liquid crystal display apparatus has two substrates which respectively have an electrode and a photo alignment film sequentially formed on respective one surfaces, and are disposed so that the one surfaces thereof face to each other, wherein a liquid crystal layer including a vertical alignment type liquid crystal material is interposed between the photo alignment films; a plurality of pixel regions formed on the substrate in a matrix shape in a plane direction of the substrate; and at least two liquid crystal domains which are included in each pixel region, and have standard alignment directions different from each other defined by the photo alignment films. One electrode 2 has oblique slits 21 extending parallel to each standard alignment direction at the region corresponding to each liquid crystal domain. In addition, longitudinal slits 22 and 22 extending in the column direction are provided at the boundary portions of the liquid crystal domains arranged in the row direction, and lateral slits 23 and 23 extending in the row direction at the boundary portions of the liquid crystal domains arranged in the column direction. The longitudinal slits 22 and the lateral slits 23 are independent from the oblique slits 21 without continuing to the oblique slits 21.
US10175531B2
Disclosed are a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device for improving display brightness uniformity. The liquid crystal display panel includes a display substrate, a source driving circuit and a plurality groups of gate driving circuits. Each gate driving circuit includes a gate driving chip and a group of fan-out circuits, and resistances of wirings of different groups of fan-out circuits gradually increase along a direction away from the source driving circuit. The liquid crystal panel can improve brightness uniformity in different positions while displaying.
US10175530B2
A backlight unit includes a bottom cover, a light source, a middle mold, a diffusion plate and an optical sheet. The bottom cover defines a bottom portion and a sidewall portion which is protruded from the bottom portion. The light source is accommodated in the bottom cover. The middle mold is supported by the bottom cover and defines a horizontal supporting portion and a distance maintaining portion extending from a first end of the horizontal supporting portion in a direction perpendicular to the bottom portion. The diffusion plate overlaps the horizontal supporting portion. The optical sheet overlaps the distance maintaining portion and is spaced apart from the diffusion plate.
US10175529B2
The present disclosure discloses a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device, the backlight module includes a light source; a spectrally selective element arranged in the light path between the light source to the light-emitting surface of the backlight module, is used to pass through the red, green and blue spectral and limit or block the remaining spectrum. Through the above, the present disclosure may increase the color gamut of the display device and improve the color saturation of the display device.
US10175526B2
A method of manufacturing a linear grid on a substrate to form a linear grid pattern of a display panel, the method including: laminating a negative photoresist layer having a linear grid pattern on a first area of a substrate, said substrate including a pattern forming layer disposed thereon; laminating a positive photoresist layer having a linear grid pattern on a second area of the substrate and overlapping at least a portion of the negative photoresist layer of the first area; covering the second area with a mask and exposing the first area; and forming a linear grid pattern by removing the mask and etching the pattern forming layer.
US10175513B2
Provided is an optical sensor mounting structure which is used in an image display device and in which the gap between a reflection sheet and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into an optical sensor is eliminated so that the amount of light from a backlight can be measured accurately. A liquid crystal image display device includes an optical sensor that measures light from the back surface of a reflection sheet, a substrate having the optical sensor thereon, and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into the optical sensor. The front surface of the tubular cushion is bonded to the reflection sheet, and the back surface thereof is bonded to the substrate.
US10175512B2
Provided is an optical sensor mounting structure which is used in an image display device and in which the gap between a reflection sheet and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into an optical sensor is eliminated so that the amount of light from a backlight can be measured accurately. A liquid crystal image display device includes an optical sensor that measures light from the back surface of a reflection sheet, a substrate having the optical sensor thereon, and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into the optical sensor. The front surface of the tubular cushion is bonded to the reflection sheet, and the back surface thereof is bonded to the substrate.
US10175506B2
The present disclosure involves the field of optical lenses, and particularly a type of auto-focusing presbyopic lens for people suffering from light to moderate presbyopia. The lens employs a structure wherein the thickness gradually gets smaller from the center to the edge, and the power of the lens gradually increases from 0 D on the edge to +2.00 D in the center. The length of the progressive passage on the lens is 28-36 mm, the central thickness of the lens is 1.2 mm, and the peripheral thickness is 0.5 mm. In some embodiments, the central thickness of the lens may be 2.4 mm and the peripheral thickness may be 1.0 mm. The invention fully considers the facial features of Asians, and employs an appropriate minimum assembly height while the structure, wherein the thickness gradually gets smaller from the center to the edge, conforms to the daily viewing habits of the elderly population.
US10175505B2
An ophthalmic lens for presbyopia correction, having at least one diffractive structure, wherein the diffractive structure has at least one region of variable diffraction efficiency in which the diffraction efficiency of at least one diffraction order of the diffractive structure that contributes to the focal power of the lens varies depending on the visual point on the ophthalmic lens.
US10175504B2
To provide a contact lens with novel structure that is able to achieve both stability of the lens circumferential position in the worn state and improved wearing comfort at a high level. A first thick part and a second thick part are provided on a peripheral zone at both left and right sides such that each center-of-gravity position of both the first thick part and the second thick part is positioned below a horizontal diametrical line. A third thick part is provided on the peripheral zone below an optical zone. An upper thin part and a lower thin part are provided respectively at an upper peripheral zone positioned above the optical zone and a lower peripheral zone positioned below the optical zone and at an outer circumference side of the third thick part.
US10175503B2
A contact lens for application in practice of orthokeratology on an eye, including a curved shell having a concave surface and a convex surface. The concave surface includes a carrier zone and a back shaping zone, the back shaping zone having a first curvature and the carrier zone having at least one second curvature. The curved shell has a geometric center and the back shaping zone has a shaping zone center and the back shaping zone center is offset peripherally from the geometric center. The curved shell can have an overall diameter that approximates a corneal limbal diameter of the eye to which the contact lens is to be applied.
US10175498B2
A lens moving apparatus includes a bobbin adapted to move upward and downward in a first direction, a housing in which the bobbin is accommodated and which is movable upward and downward in the first direction, a cover member accommodating the bobbin and the housing, and a base to which a lower portion of the cover member is coupled, wherein the cover member has an opening formed in an upper face thereof, and is provided at an area thereof surrounding the opening with a first stopper for limiting a distance by which the bobbin moves upward.
US10175497B2
An illumination device includes an irradiation device, a diffusing element, a first lens array, a second lens array and a deflecting element, which are arranged in this order along the light path. Diffused light that has entered a particular region on the diffusing element and has been diffused by the diffusing element, and diffused light that has entered a region, which differs from the particular region, on the diffusing element and has been diffused by the diffusing element, travel to regions which at least partly overlap each other. The diffusion angle of diffused light exiting the diffusing element is not more than the acceptable angle formed between two line segments LS extending from the principal point of a second unit lens of the second lens array to both ends of a first unit lens of the first lens array.
US10175496B2
A wideband diffractive component diffracting an incident beam exhibiting a wavelength in a diffraction spectral band is provided. The diffractive component elementary areas are arranged on a surface, each area belonging to a type indexed by an index i lying between 1 and n, with n greater than 1, corresponding to blaze wavelength λi of index i, the blaze wavelengths lying in the diffraction spectral band. An elementary area of type i includes microstructures sized less than 1.5 times the blaze wavelength of index i, arranged to form an artificial material exhibiting an effective index variation where an elementary area of type i constitutes a blazed diffractive element at the blaze wavelength λi of index i, the different values of the blaze wavelengths and the proportion of surface area occupied by the areas of a given type a function of a global diffraction efficiency desired in the diffraction spectral band.
US10175494B2
Provided is a polarizer whereby screen brightness does not become zero regardless of the direction in which a viewer faces when the polarizer is used in a liquid crystal display device capable of displaying three-dimensional images, in which three-dimensional images are visible through a polarizing filter. The polarizer comprises a polarizing film and protective films disposed on both sides of the polarizing film; at least one of the protective films being an oriented film; and the tilt of the orientation axis or an axis orthogonal to the orientation axis of the oriented film relative to the polarization axis of the polarizing film being 1° or more and less than 45°.
US10175485B2
A wearable device and a method of outputting a virtual image by the wearable device area provided. The wearable device includes a projection type display unit that includes a variable lens and configured to project a light forming an image, a first sensor configured to detect a light reflected from an eye of a user, and a processor configured to control to display the virtual image on the projection type display unit by controlling one of a location of the variable lens and refractive power of the variable lens based on retina image information corresponding to the detected light.
US10175480B2
The present invention provides a head up display device and a vehicle. The head up display device comprises an arc-shaped screen configured to display information which is to be displayed and projected onto the screen, and to reflect displayed information to human eyes. The head up display device further comprises a transparent film provided on the screen, and the transparent film is configured to change a direction of a light ray reflected by the screen, such that ghosting is prevented from occurring in the displayed information which is reflected into the human eyes.
US10175473B2
A micromirror array is provided having a mirror membrane, including a first supporting element, including for each first supporting element, a first coupling element that is located between the mirror membrane and the particular first supporting element and is formed to mechanically couple the particular first supporting element to the mirror membrane; having at least one second supporting element that is mechanically coupled to the at least one first supporting element; and having a second coupling element for each second supporting element that is formed to be mechanically contacted. Also a method for manufacturing a micromirror array according to the present inventions described.
US10175472B2
An inflatable light concentrating mirror (10) comprising a first transparent sheet (1) and a second reflective sheet (2), wherein the first sheet and second sheet are connected or sealed to each other, whereby a void is provided there-between, the void being adapted to receive a gas so as to inflate the light concentrating mirror, characterized in that the mirror further comprises tensioning means (14) adapted to produce a defined longitudinal tension (11) in at least the second sheet (2) such that wrinkles or creases therein are significantly reduced. The tensioning means comprises one or more tensioning devices (14) adapted to be attached to at least one mirror end or one free end of the second sheet, the tensioning device is configured to provide a pulling force (11) on the second sheet so as to provide the longitudinal tension.
US10175470B2
The disclosed examples relate to methods and systems facilitate self-healing of regions of electrowetting devices. Electrowetting devices may be coupled to a switchable AC/DC electrical power supply that provides AC power to the electrowetting device to control electrowetting device operation and DC power to promote self-healing of the electrowetting device. A monitoring circuit outputs a signal in response to electrical power supply operating characteristic changes due to a failure of the electrowetting device's dielectric. The controller, responding to the signal, switches the power supply output from AC power to DC power to the electrowetting device. In response to the DC power, the electrowetting device responds by healing the degraded dielectric. When the failure is determined to be corrected, the power supply output is switched from DC power to AC power to the electrowetting device. The number of times self-healing is applied may be tracked for future analysis.
US10175469B2
An endoscope is provided having a first beam path formed at least in a distal end region, a second beam path formed at the end region, which second beam path is arranged offset with respect to the first beam path for recording a stereoscopic image, and an image recording chip, which is configured for electronically recording images captured via the first beam path and the second beam path. A beam deflection device is provided having at least one deflection element arranged for displacement along a straight line adjustment travel path between a first position and a second position, and the beam deflection device, in the first position, guides an image captured using the first beam path to the image recording chip and, in the second position, guides an image captured using the second beam path to the image recording chip.
US10175460B2
An image capturing lens system, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex thereof; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element; a fourth lens element; a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric and having at least one inflection point thereof; and a sixth lens element with positive refractive power having both an object-side surface and an image-side surface being convex thereof and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric; wherein the image capturing lens system has a total of six lens elements.
US10175457B2
An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The optical imaging lens satisfies: V4+V5+V6+V7≤175.00, wherein V4 is an Abbe number of the fourth lens element, V5 is an Abbe number of the fifth lens element, V6 is an Abbe number of the sixth lens element, and V7 is an Abbe number of the seventh lens element.
US10175450B2
A lens driving device includes: a lens carrier for fixing a lens barrel to the inside thereof; a driving unit for moving the lens carrier along the optical axis direction of the lens barrel; and an upper leaf spring and a lower leaf spring attached to the lens carrier in a manner that a surface of the each upper leaf spring and lower leaf spring is oriented orthogonal to the optical axis direction at an upper part and a lower part of the lens carrier and so that the lens carrier is supported in a manner to move freely in the optical axis direction of the lens barrel; wherein the lens carrier has an opening through which the lens barrel can be inserted from the direction intersecting the optical axis direction of the lens barrel.
US10175449B2
A camera module including a housing; a lens barrel having a lens and reciprocating in the housing; a magnetic member coupled with the lens barrel; an electromagnetic member coupled with the housing and generating a magnetic field so that the lens barrel moves along an optical axis; and a Hall sensor in the housing and detecting a change in magnetic field according to a position of the magnetic member before electric power is outputted to the electromagnetic member. A control unit sets a current position of the magnetic member as a first target position, setting an initial position for driving auto focusing as a second target position, aligning the lens barrel to the first target position by controlling electric power supplied to the electromagnetic member, and then moving the lens barrel to the second target position by supplying electric power to the electromagnetic member.
US10175440B2
A termination field and a guide member are independently pivotally coupled to a base body. The termination field pivots relative to the base body along a path of travel. The guide member is coupled to the base body to provide bend radius protection to cables plugged into the termination field. The guide member defines a channel leading the cables from the termination field towards a first side of the base body at an exterior of the base body. In certain examples, the guide member and termination field pivot relative to the base body about different hinge axes. In other examples, the termination field pivots with the guide member for part of the path of travel and relative to the guide member for another part of the path of travel.
US10175430B2
An assembly comprises an optic cable comprising a plurality of optic fiber subunits each comprising at least one optic fiber encased in a fiber jacket and a plurality of aramid strands is disclosed. The assembly further comprises one or more blocks comprising a passage ways for receiving the optic fiber subunits and maintaining adjacent ones of the optic fiber subunits at a predetermined spacing. A housing is molded over the open end of the cable jacket, the aramid strands and the first end of the at least one block. A method of overmolding a transition between an optic fiber cable and a furcation jacketing is also disclosed wherein a mold comprises ribs arranged at right angles to an axis of the mold and such that aramid strands are prevented during injecting from reaching a surface of the mold.
US10175425B2
An integrated optical collimator device includes an optical fiber extending from a first end to a second end. The first end of the optical fiber is configured to be coupled to a light source or a light receiver. A housing is coupled to the ferrule and extends radially over the ferrule. A collimating lens is positioned in the housing proximate the second end of the optical fiber. A polarizer element is positioned within the housing proximate the collimating lens.
US10175418B2
An imaging directional backlight apparatus including a waveguide, a light source array, for providing large area directed illumination from localized light sources. The waveguide may include a stepped structure, in which the steps may further include extraction features optically hidden to guided light, propagating in a first forward direction. Returning light propagating in a second backward direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide discrete illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the waveguide. Viewing windows are formed through imaging individual light sources and hence defines the relative positions of system elements and ray paths. The uncorrected system creates non-illuminated void portions when viewed off-axis preventing uniform wide angle 2D illumination modes. The system may be corrected to remove this non-uniformity at wide angles through the introduction of additional sources away from the system's object plane, additional imaging surfaces, and/or by altering ray paths.
US10175413B2
A light emitting device disclosed herein includes at least one light source and an array of coupling lightguide strips continuous with a lightguide region of a lightguide formed from a film, light extraction features, a cladding layer in the light emitting region of the film, and a light input surface defined by the stacked bounding edges of the coupling lightguide strips, wherein an area percentage of the light input surface comprising a core region is at least 98 percent. In another embodiment, the light from the at least one light source is not directly coupled into the cladding layer at the light input surface. In a further embodiment, a total thickness of the coupling lightguide strips at the light input surface is less than (n) times a thickness of the lightguide region of the lightguide where (n) is the number of coupling lightguide strips.
US10175412B2
According the embodiments of the present disclosure, the light guide plate includes a light guide plate body having an upper surface as a light-exiting surface. The light guide plate is provided at a side portion at least one notch, and a light-reflection layer is arranged at a surface of each notch. A wedge-shaped structure is arranged on a lower surface of the light guide plate body and adjacent to a bottom of each notch. The wedge-shaped structure has a first surface attached onto the lower surface of the light guide plate body, a second surface serving as a light-entering surface, and a third surface intersecting the first surface and the second surface and forming an acute angle relative to the first surface. A light-reflection layer is arranged on the third surface. A light source is arranged at a position on the lower surface of the light guide plate body adjacent to the second surface of the wedge-shaped structure.
US10175410B2
The invention relates to a light comprising: a primary lightpipe (2); and, a light source (1). The primary lightpipe may have: a lightpipe inlet side (3) constructed and arranged to receive light from the light source and to allow it to enter the primary lightpipe; a back side (6b) being provided with a serrated structure (5) comprising a reflecting surface (10) to reflect light from the light source; and, a front side (6a) constructed and arranged to internally reflect the light received from the light source to the back side of the primary lightpipe and to transmit light received from the reflecting surface.
US10175405B2
Light diffusing optical fibers for use illumination applications and which have a uniform color gradient that is angularly independent are disclosed herein along with methods for making such fibers. The light diffusing fibers are composed of a silica-based glass core that is coated with a number of layers including a scattering layer.
US10175402B2
A phase difference film layered body is obtained by stretching a film before stretching, the film before stretching including: a P1 layer formed of a resin p1 containing polyphenylene ether having a positive intrinsic birefringence value and a polystyrene-based polymer having a negative intrinsic birefringence value and having a syndiotactic structure; and a P2 layer disposed in contact with the P1 layer and formed of a resin p2 containing an acrylic resin or an alicyclic structure-containing polymer. In the resin p1, the weight ratio of (the content of the polyphenylene ether)/(the content of the polystyrene-based polymer) is 35/65 to 45/55. A method for producing the phase difference film layered body and a method for producing a phase difference film using the phase difference film layered body are also provided.
US10175389B2
The invention provides an article of manufacture, and methods of designing and making the article. The article permits or prohibits waves of energy, especially photonic/electromagnetic energy, to propagate through it, depending on the energy band gaps built into it. The structure of the article may be reduced to a pattern of points having a hyperuniform distribution. The point-pattern may exhibit a crystalline symmetry, a quasicrystalline symmetry or may be aperiodic. In some embodiments, the point pattern exhibits no long-range order. Preferably, the point-pattern is isotropic. In all embodiments, the article has a complete, TE- and TM-optimized band-gap. The extraordinary transmission phenomena found in the disordered hyperuniform photonic structures of the invention find use in optical micro-circuitry (all-optical, electronic or thermal switching of the transmission), near-field optical probing, thermophotovoltaics, and energy-efficient incandescent sources.
US10175378B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to make resistivity measurements in a borehole using tool having an array of electrodes operable to provide focused currents, measure corresponding voltages, and measure corresponding voltage differences to determine resistivity. Tools can be configured to operate at a plurality of modes when voltage differences at some frequencies are effectively unreadable. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10175372B2
Systems, methods and software can be used for processing microseismic data from a subterranean region. In some aspects, groupings of data points are identified. The data points are based on microseismic data from a subterranean region. The identification of the groupings is constrained such that each grouping includes at least a minimum number of the data points, and such that the data points in each grouping have at most a maximum extent of variation. In some instances, a histogram of the data points is generated, and each of the identified groupings corresponds to a bin in the histogram.
US10175369B2
To make correct determination of electric charge collection among signals from a semiconductor radiation detector, provided in an embodiment of the present invention is a signal data processing method. The method includes a step of calculating timing data sequences unique to channels (timing data calculation step S02), each of channels corresponding to each of plural electrodes of the radiation detector, from detection signal data sequences. Then, while making a comparison with a first threshold value, a data value for the timing data sequence at timing when a predetermined delay time is elapsed after the timing data sequence reached the first predetermined value is selected as a timing data value for determination for the channel (delay and selection step S04). Finally, by comparing the timing data value for determinations for channels with a second threshold value, a detection signal data sequence greater than or equal to the second threshold value is determined to be a detection signal data sequence for a channel that actually collected the electric charge (determination step S06). In embodiments of the present invention a signal data processing device and radiation detection system are also provided.
US10175366B1
A radiation detector that improves accurately a fluorescence emission-time. A limiter circuit instead of a low-pass filter and a high-pass filter removes a noise component of the amplifier output. The limiter circuit blocks passing through the amplification signal when the amplification signal output from the amplifier a is lower than the limit level. Accordingly, a noise component output not related to the fluorescence detection from the amplifier a is blocked by the limiter circuit L and is unable to reach to the addition circuit. When the amplification signal output from the amplifier a is larger than the limit level, the limiter circuit L passes through such amplification signal; so that the signal, which is related to a fluorescence detection, that the amplifier a outputs can be absolutely input into the fluorescence emission-time calculation element.
US10175363B2
A localization server improves position estimates of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) using probabilistic shadow matching and pseudorange matching is disclosed herein. The localization server may utilize one or more of the following information: the locations of the satellites, the GNSS receiver's location estimate and associated estimated uncertainty, the reported pseudoranges of the satellites, the GNSS estimated clock bias, the SNRs of the satellites, and 3D environment information regarding the location of the receiver. The localization server utilizes a Bayesian framework to calculate an improved location estimate using the GNSS location fixes, pseudorange information, and satellite SNRs thereby improving localization and tracking for a user device.
US10175359B2
An atmospheric turbulence data optical LIDAR system for computation of wind velocity includes a laser (16) to transmit one or more beams to a target, an optical head (10) including a transmitting optics (12) and a collecting lens (14) for receiving one or more corresponding beam returns from the target. A detection system (18) includes a multi-element detector array at near a focal plane of the collecting lens. For each element of the multi-element detector array there is a specific optical path in the atmosphere leading from the laser to the target and back from the target to the element. A processor measures (20) signal fluctuations of an element of the multi-element detector array and computes therefrom crosswind velocity of wind in the atmosphere. The processor calculates turbulence strength changes.
US10175355B2
An object detection apparatus for detecting an object around a moving object carrying the apparatus by transmitting a probe wave and receiving reflections of the probe wave from the object via a plurality of ranging sensors attached to the moving object. In the apparatus, a position determiner determines whether or not a position of the object calculated by a position calculator based on the reflections received by a pair of adjacent ranging sensors, from one of which is the probe wave is transmitted, is out of an overlapping range of ranges of object detection for the respective adjacent ranging sensors. A position invalidator is configured to, based on the determination made by the position determiner, determine that the object position calculated by the position calculator is invalid.
US10175338B2
A terminal device includes a reception unit configured to receive first and second electromagnetic waves and first and second sound waves; and a processor configured to determine first and second frequencies respectively indicating transmission frequencies of the first and second sound waves based on the first and second electromagnetic waves, and determine first and second beacons from which the first and second sound waves are transmitted, based on the determined first and second frequencies, wherein the processor determines a location of the terminal device based on the determined first and second beacons.
US10175331B2
The invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) for acquiring at least one set of k-space blade data from an imaging zone of a subject (118), wherein the magnetic resonance imaging system (100) comprises a memory (138) for storing machine executable instructions and a processor (130) for controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system (100), wherein execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor (130) to perform for each blade of the at least one set of k-space blade data: control the MRI system (100) to acquire at least one k-space blade data using at least one echo time for purposes of performing a Dixon technique, wherein k-space blade data are acquired in accordance with a blade shape; reconstruct at least one blade image data using the at least one k-space blade data; generate water blade image data and fat blade image data using the at least one blade image data; and transform the water and fat blade image data to water and fat k-space blade data respectively and perform PROPELLER reconstruction of the water and fat k-space blade data.
US10175327B2
In an image reconstruction method and device for a magnetic resonance imaging system, a magnetic resonance scan is performed at least one scan position according to at least one scan protocol, to acquire at least a set of one scan protocol simultaneously acquired data. At least one magnetic resonance image is reconstructed based on the set of scan protocol simultaneously acquired data and a shared receiving coil calibration matrix. By sharing the receiving coil calibration matrix in different parallel scan processing operations, the amount of work is significantly reduced while improving working efficiency, and imaging quality can also be significantly improved in the case of scan sequences with echo chain acquisition.
US10175323B2
A method for adapting activation parameters used to generate a pulse sequence when activating a magnetic resonance system is provided. The method includes determining stimulation values for the pulse sequence based on predefined activation parameters. The stimulation values represent a stimulation exposure of a patient. Test regions that exhibit stimulation maxima are identified in the pulse sequence, and the identified test regions are tested with respect to compliance with a predefined stimulation limit value.
US10175322B2
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object positioned in an examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to enable ‘silent’ ZTE imaging with sampling of k-space center. According to the invention, the object (10) is subjected to an imaging sequence of RF pulses (20) and switched magnetic field gradients (G), wherein an initial RF pulse (20) is radiated before setting a readout magnetic field gradient (G). An initial MR signal is acquired with the readout magnetic field gradient (G) ramping up after a delay after the initial RF pulse (20). Thereafter, the magnetic field gradient (G) remains switched on and the readout direction is gradually varied. Further RF pulses (22) are radiated in the presence of the readout magnetic field gradient (G) and further MR signal are acquired like in conventional ZTE imaging. Finally, a MR image is reconstructed from the acquired MR signals. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device and to a computer program for a MR device.
US10175319B2
In vivo methods of non-invasively imaging neuro-electro-magnetic oscillations (NEMO) are carried out by electronically transmitting a pulse sequence to a subject. The pulse sequence has a first excitation pulse, typically applied along an x-axis, followed by a spin-lock pulse applied along a different axis, typically a y-axis, and having a defined frequency, followed by a second RF excitation pulse. Then MR image signal of neuroelectric activity associated with evoked and/or spontaneous neuroelectric oscillations is obtained after the second RF excitation pulse and a neuroactivity (i.e., brain activation) map based on the obtained MR image signal is generated, the neuroactivity map having high temporal and spatial accuracy of the neuroelectric activity.
US10175318B2
An arrangement for carrying out dynamic magnetic field measurements in a MR imaging or MR spectroscopy apparatus comprises at least one magnetic field probe (2) comprising a MR active substance (4), means (8, 10) for pulsed MR excitation of said substance and means (8, 10) for receiving an MR signal generated by said substance. The magnetic field probe further comprises a radio frequency shield (12) against external high-frequency electromagnetic field irradiation substantially surrounding the magnetic field probe. The shield is composed of conductive elements embedded in a dielectric material. The conductive elements are electrically conductive filaments and/or electrically conductive platelets.
US10175316B2
Gradient coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance apparatus has multiple sub-coils formed by coil conductors on a common substrate, and the gradient coil arrangement has at least one damping producer that damps voltage overshoots occurring due to capacitive and/or inductive coupling between two sub-coils as a result of interfering frequencies in the wanted signal for at least one of the sub-coils affected. The damping producer is directly applied to the coil conductor of at least one of the sub-coils involved in the capacitive and/or inductive coupling.
US10175311B2
Method for operating a thermal insulation device (100) comprising a screen (101, 102, 103, 104) for insulating a first member (21) and/or a second member (20; 30; 16; 10; 30) from a thermal radiation, the method comprising: a heat-exchange step in which heat is exchanged between a stream of a fluid, notably a gas, and the screen, notably a step of transferring heat from the heat screen to the stream, and a use step in which the stream is used for guiding the first member (21) and/or for driving the movement of the first member and/or for exchanging heat with the first member, notably for cooling the first member.
US10175285B2
A device for monitoring an operation of an inductive element, includes a current-measuring device is switched in series with the inductive element. The device is configured to ascertain a first time-discrete and value-discrete signal, which characterizes a current flowing through the current-measuring device; to ascertain a second time-discrete and value-discrete signal, which characterizes a current flowing through the current-measuring device and has a predefinable time shift in relation to the first signal; and to infer the presence of a shunt from a comparison of the first signal with the second signal. Also described is a method for monitoring the operation of the inductive element.
US10175284B2
In a circuit board testing apparatus for performing a four-terminal measurement method on a wiring pattern formed of a plurality of wires on a circuit board, a control part connects in series contact probes to be connected to upstream-side voltage detection terminals or downstream-side voltage detection terminals, via connection terminals, allows a power supply part to apply power between the test points with which the contact probes connected in series are in contact, allows a voltage detection part to detect a voltage between the test points, and makes a determination as to conductive contact states of the contact probes with the test points, based on the detected voltage.
US10175283B2
A determining device determining electrical leakage in a specified circuit having a voltage source, includes: an AC-signal-output unit that outputs an AC signal to a signal line connected to the specified circuit; a detecting unit that detects a peak value of the AC signal; and a determining unit determining electrical leakage of the specified circuit based on the peak value. The specified circuit includes switching elements switching the connection between the voltage source and a specified voltage to be conduction or blocking; and a determining device prohibits overlapping of the point of time when the switching elements are switched from conduction to blocking or the point of time when switched from the blocking state to the conducting state, and the period from the point of time when the AC-signal-output unit starts outputting the AC signal until the detecting unit detects the peak value of the AC signal.
US10175258B2
The invention describes methods and kits for detecting and determining current and future synthetic cannabinoids from the JWH and CP families. Unique antibodies derived from novel immunogens enable said methods and kits.
US10175242B2
Disclosed herein is a personalized method for monitoring a condition or disorder associated with antibody production in a subject. The method can involve treating a biological sample comprising immunoglobulin from the subject to enzymatically cleave a target immunoglobulin associated with the PCD into one or more variable domain peptide fragments of the target immunoglobulin, and then measuring the one or more variable domain peptide fragments in the sample by quantitative mass spectrometry to quantify the amount of the target immunoglobulin in the sample.
US10175237B2
The invention includes, in part, methods and compounds for diagnosing diseases and conditions characterized by altered threonyl-tRNA synthetase (TARS) activity, which include, but are not limited to diseases and conditions in which angiogenesis is altered. In some embodiments of the invention, a level of a TARS molecule is determined and compared to a control level of TARS to assess onset, progression, and/or regression of a disease or condition associated with altered TARS activity.
US10175236B2
The present invention discloses an in vitro method for diagnosing a Leptospira infection in a biological sample of a subject, comprising a step of contacting said sample with bacterial cells of a serovar of the Leptospira fainei species, preferably bacterial cells of the Leptospira fainei serovar Hurstbridge, or an antigenic fraction of said bacterial cells. In a preferred embodiment, said Leptospira infection is not due to bacteria belonging to the serovar of the Leptospira fainei species used in the diagnostic method.
US10175223B2
Described are devices and methods for forming one or more nanomembranes including electroactive nanomembranes within a nanowell or nanotube, or combinations thereof, in a support material. Nanopores/nanochannels can be formed by the electroactive nanomembrane within corresponding nanowells. The electroactive nanomembrane is capable of controllably altering a dimensionality, a composition, and/or a variety of properties in response to electrical stimuli. Various embodiments also include devices/systems and methods for using the nanomembrane-containing devices for molecular separation, purification, and sensing.
US10175222B2
A method of manufacturing a nano membrane structure includes preparing a temporary structure having a substrate in which a through-hole is formed in a central portion, and a nano membrane including silicon nitride (SiN), that covers the through-hole on the substrate, and including a central area formed on the through-hole, and a peripheral area formed on the substrate. The method includes preparing an insulating support member including at least one of silicon and a compound containing silicon, and in which a micropore is formed in a central portion, forming a complex structure by performing a hydrophilic surface processing of a surface of the nano membrane and one surface of the insulating support member and by bonding the temporary structure and the insulating support member so that at least a portion of the central area of the nano membrane and the micropore face, and removing the substrate from the complex structure.
US10175220B2
An image processing device (2A) comprises: an input means for inputting a brightfield image representing cell morphology in a tissue section, and a fluorescence image representing, by fluorescent bright spots, the expression of a specific protein in the same range of the tissue section; a first generation means for generating a cell image obtained by extracting a specific site of a cell from the brightfield image; a second generation means for generating an image obtained by extracting bright spot regions from the fluorescence image, creating a brightness profile for each bright spot region, and generating a fluorescent particle image obtained by extracting the fluorescent particles in the bright spot regions on the basis of the fluorescence profile for one fluorescent particle, which serves as a fluorescence bright spot source; and a calculation means for superimposing the cell image and the fluorescent particle image on one another.
US10175218B2
This description relates to a predictive model for estimating the proportions of sand, silt, and clay in a soil sample based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) performed on the soil samples. The soil texture prediction model is trained using benchmark NIRS test data and collected spectra of soil samples for which the benchmark test data has been collected. The estimates produced by the model can be used to determinate a variety of properties of the soil sample, such as hydrological properties and soil quality. Knowledge of these properties are useful for informing decisions that agronomists, producers, or farm managers make throughout the year. For example, agronomists use the determined properties to infer how the soil will perform under any given treatment or application, for example applying seeds, fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide.
US10175208B2
This disclosure provides methods for quantifying individual amino acids in various bodily fluids obtained from a human patient. Also provided are reference ranges for normal amino acid levels in the various bodily fluids (e.g., blood plasma, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, and saliva) and for various age groups (e.g., neonates, infants, children, and adults).
US10175205B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present application, a system is provided for crack monitoring in a structure of interest, comprising means for extracting wave modes existing in a frequency interval of interest, means for finding a source of emission on the structure of interest, means for correcting for dispersion to reconstruct an original ratio of wave modes at the source of emission, and means for correlating the original ratio of wave modes to a crack depth.One advantage of this solution in contrast to prior art techniques is that no a priori knowledge on propagation speed is necessary since actual wave modes can be detected from dispersion relations of wave modes, e.g. Lamb waves at a fixed frequency band in accordance with their calculated speeds. Decentralized acquisition and processing, i.e. monitoring a structure from a localized area, is an important feature of this solution, consequent to which, the data transfer and storage are reduced substantially.
US10175202B2
Provided is a test sensor using a magnetostrictively induced guided wave based on an open magnetic circuit, comprising an excitation coil, a receiving coil and a magnetic device, the magnetic device comprises multiple test modules circumferentially and uniformly disposed thereon so as to be absorbed to the outer side of a to-be-tested slender component, each test module comprises a housing, a permanent magnet and a magnetic plate, two adjacent housings are connected to each other via an adjusting device, the excitation coil and the receiving coil are disposed in the vicinity of the test module, and are coaxially fit on the outer side of the to-be-tested slender component, the excitation coil operates to generate induced voltage in the receiving coil after the sinusoidal alternating current is input, and a computer can determine whether a defect occurs in the to-be-tested slender component after receiving the induced voltage. The sensor of the invention features simple structure, small size, light weight and convenient installation. Moreover, by serially connecting the sensor with multi-layered test coils disposed on both sides of the permanent magnet, it is possible to enhance an amplitude of a test signal, and to improve test sensitivity.
US10175195B2
Provided herein are methods and devices for characterizing a biomolecule parameter by a nanopore-containing membrane, and also methods for making devices that can be used in the methods and devices provided herein. The nanopore membrane is a multilayer stack of conducting layers and dielectric layers, wherein an embedded conducting layer or conducting layer gates provides well-controlled and measurable electric fields in and around the nanopore through which the biomolecule translocates. In an aspect, the conducting layer is graphene.
US10175194B2
A biosensor system including the underfill management system determines the analyte concentration in a sample from the at least one analytic output signal value. The underfill management system includes an underfill recognition system and an underfill compensation system. The underfill recognition system determines whether the test sensor initially is substantially full-filled or underfilled, indicates when the sample volume is underfilled so that additional sample may be added to the test sensor, and starts or stops the sample analysis in response to the sample volume. The underfill recognition system also may determine the initial degree of underfill. After the underfill recognition system determines the initial fill state of the test sensor, the underfill compensation system compensates the analysis based on the initial fill state of the test sensor to improve the measurement performance of the biosensor system for initially underfilled test sensors.
US10175191B2
An electrochemical gas sensor (10) has a housing (20), a working electrode (51), a counterelectrode (52) and a reference electrode (53). The housing (20) has an electrolyte reservoir (30), a gas inlet orifice (21) and at least one gas outlet orifice (22). The electrolyte reservoir (30) is filled with a liquid electrolyte (40). The gas sensor (10) has a counterelectrode carrier (26). The counterelectrode (52) is suspended on the counterelectrode carrier (26) in such a way that the counterelectrode (52) is suspended in the electrolyte reservoir (30) and the electrolyte (40) flows around the counterelectrode (52) on all sides. Preferably, the electrolyte includes (I) a solvent, e.g. water, propylene carbonate, ethylene carbonate or mixtures thereof; (ii) a conductive salt, especially an ionic liquid; and/or (iii) an organic mediator, for example substituted quinones, anthraquinones, etc.
US10175185B2
A doubly bent X-ray spectroscopic device (1) according to the present invention includes: a glass plate (3) which is deformed into a shape having a doubly bent surface by being sandwiched between a doubly curved convex surface (21a) of a convex forming die (21) and a doubly curved concave surface (22a), of a concave forming die (22), that matches the doubly curved convex surface (21a), and being heated to a temperature of 400° C. to 600° C.; and a reflection coating (5) configured to reflect X-rays, which is formed on a concave surface (3a) of the deformed glass plate (3).
US10175176B2
A method of evaluating characteristics of a work piece includes forming a photosensitive layer on the work piece. Then an ion implantation is performed on the work piece. The work piece is radiated, and an optical intensity of the photosensitive material on the work piece is calculated. The ion implantation pattern is evaluated according to the optical intensity. A chemical structure of the photosensitive material is changed upon the ion implantation. The work piece is recovered by reversing the chemical structure of the photosensitive material or removing the ion interrupted photosensitive material by chemicals.
US10175169B2
An optical sensor is provided. The optical sensor has an emitting system including at least one light emitting device which emits light onto an object; and a detecting system detecting the light which has been emitted by the emitting system and which has propagated through the object. The light emitting device is capable of emitting a plurality of light beams with different wavelengths onto substantially the same position of the object.
US10175156B2
A test cell (10) for containing equipment (12) subject to pressure testing comprises a plurality of metal plate wall panels (14) and a mesh roof panel (16) formed from mesh strands (26) of a high strength material. Each wall panel has a lapped connection (18) with an adjacent wall panel. The mesh panel (16) may be formed from a ballistic fabric, and the mesh strands (26) may be wire, rope and braid of steel, metal, plastic, natural or composite fiber, or a combination thereof. In the event of a pressure failure of the equipment (12) under test, the roof panel (16) captures fragments of the equipment while allowing the dissipation of pressure shock waves through the apertures (28) in the mesh. The lapped connections (18) between wall panels (14) result in increased friction between adjacent wall panels (14) and thus an increase in the strength of the connection when subject to pressure shock waves.
US10175149B2
A pipe outer surface inspection apparatus. The apparatus may include a carriage adapted for turning on a pipe to be inspected and includes a pipe inspection head. The apparatus may include at least one of a surface profile gauge, coating thickness gauge, and coating holiday detector. The apparatus may include a pendulum encoder, a cable guard, and/or a magnetic fastener. Associated methods are also disclosed.
US10175145B2
The invention relates to an online wheel run-out detecting device. The online wheel run-out detecting device includes a frame, a chassis, a lifting cylinder, supports, bearing bases, linear bearings, mounting plates, guide shafts, a lifting shaft, a servo motor, a synchronous pulley, a connecting plate, a synchronous belt, a synchronous pulley, a base, a connecting shaft, a servo motor, a shaft sleeve, a lower end cap, a connecting shaft, a shaft sleeve, and an oil cylinder. The online wheel run-out detecting device can meet requirements of online wheel run-out detection, meanwhile it has the characteristics of simple structure, convenience in manufacturing, stable performance and capability of meeting machining requirements on precision, and can meet requirements of automatic production.
US10175143B2
A target reaching rotational speed set during a torque phase is set to a value higher than an actual engine rotational speed, the value being higher as one of a vehicle acceleration and an engine rotational speed gradient is larger. That is, as the acceleration is steeper, the target reaching rotational speed is set to a value closer to an upper limit rotational speed or rotational speeds proximate thereto. Thus, a display rotational speed displayed on a tachometer at the end of the torque phase becomes high rotational speed. Accordingly, there is provided a display control device for a vehicle that enables a driver to feel the use of engine performance to the limit.
US10175131B2
Small profile apparatus for pressure and/or temperature sensing within a wellbore are provided. The apparatus may include optical sensing assemblies designed for inclusion in traditional or coiled production tubing deployments and suitable for use in high pressure, high temperature environments. One example assembly generally includes an outer housing, an inner housing at least partially disposed in the outer housing, a port for fluid communication between an internal volume of the inner housing and a volume external to the outer housing, and a large diameter optical waveguide disposed in the internal volume of the inner housing. The waveguide includes a first portion with a first grating and a second portion with a second grating, wherein the outer diameter of the large diameter optical waveguide is at least 300 μm.
US10175107B2
A spectral sensor 1A includes a Fabry-Perot interference filter 10 which has a light transmission region 11; a light detector 3 which detects light having transmitted the light transmission region 11; spacers 4A and 4B which support the Fabry-Perot interference filter 10 in a surrounding region of the light transmission region 11; and a die bond resin 5 which adheres the Fabry-Perot interference filter 10 and the spacers 4A and 4B to each other. The die bond resin 5 has one opening A2 communicating with an inner side of the surrounding region and an outer side of the surrounding region, when viewed from a light transmission direction in the light transmission region 11.
US10175106B2
A holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) tunable filter exhibits switching times of no more than 20 microseconds. The HPDLC tunable filter can be utilized in a variety of applications. An HPDLC tunable filter stack can be utilized in a hyperspectral imaging system capable of spectrally multiplexing hyperspectral imaging data acquired while the hyperspectral imaging system is airborne. HPDLC tunable filter stacks can be utilized in high speed switchable optical shielding systems, for example as a coating for a visor or an aircraft canopy. These HPDLC tunable filter stacks can be fabricated using a spin coating apparatus and associated fabrication methods.
US10175102B2
A system for forming virtual beacons usable in wavefront sensing includes a first lens configured to receive light from a target and to output an image towards an input plane. The system also includes a selector positioned at the input plane. The selector includes a transparent portion that allows a portion of the image output by the first lens to pass through the selector to form a virtual beacon. The selector also includes a translucent portion to prevent another portion of the image output by the first lens from passing through the selector.
US10175101B2
The present disclosure provides an optical system suitable for detecting muzzle flashes in a scene, the optical system comprising: a first optical module customized for detecting flashes at short range of the optical system by analyzing irradiance received on a first infrared sensor; a second optical module customized for detecting flashes at long range of the optical system by analyzing irradiance received on a second infrared sensor; wherein: the first and second optical modules are configured to share a common field of view and to operate independently of each other.
US10175094B2
The present techniques are directed to systems and methods for monitoring parameter data from sensors, for example, in a subsea environment. In one method, an electrical signal including data from the subsea unit is converted into an acoustic signal. The acoustic signal is directed through the water column towards a fiber optic cable. The acoustic signal is detected by changes in a light signal carried in the fiber optic cable, and the changes in the light signal are decoded to obtain a data stream representing the parameter data.
US10175089B2
A method for monitoring a measuring device of automation technology, wherein the measuring device has a capacitive sensor the sensor has at least one capacitor, and the at least one capacitor is applied for determining or monitoring a process variable. A loss resistance of the at least one capacitor is measured by determining the charge state of the at least one capacitor at a first point in time and at a subsequent, second point in time, and, based on a change of the charge state between the first point in time and the second point in time, information is won concerning disturbance of the ability of the measuring device to function.
US10175085B2
A fuel-level detection system is configured to determine a fuel level in a fuel system. A comparative fuel probe is associated with the fuel system and includes a capacitive probe assembly configured to provide a comparative capacitive reading, and a float assembly configured to provide a comparative float reading. A comparator is configured to receive the comparative capacitive reading and to receive the comparative float reading, and to determine a corrective factor based at least in part on the comparative capacitive reading and the comparative float reading. A set of capacitive probes is associated with the fuel system. The fuel level in the fuel system is determined by comparing each local capacitive reading from each capacitive probe in the set of capacitive probes with the corrective factor.
US10175084B2
The present disclosure relates to a flat apparatus for measuring volume of a substance formulated in any or combination of a solid formulation, a liquid formulation, a semi-solid formulation, a semi-liquid formulation. The apparatus has a surface with defined measurement markings, hinges configured to bend the apparatus according to determined by marking of measurements and create predetermined capacity to hold a substance.
US10175081B2
A system and method for determining a fluid consumption rate from a fluid tank is described. The fluid tank includes a fuel for an internal combustion engine and the internal combustion engine provides power to a powered system. The method includes determining instantaneous fluid consumption; determining an operating condition of the powered system, the powered system providing a load on the internal combustion engine; determining the load on the internal combustion engine and a state of the internal combustion engine; and calculating the fluid consumption rate based on the instantaneous fuel consumption, the load on the internal combustion engine, and the state of the internal combustion engine.
US10175079B2
An encoder device and a fluid meter incorporating the encoder device is disclosed herein, wherein the fluid meter can embody a gas meter that monitors supply of gas to a consumer. The encoder device is configured to generate a signal with information that quantifies the supply of gas, for example, by associating the movement of a moveable element with a volume of fluid that flows through the gas meter The gas meter can include a metrological part with a housing that forms an interior space that wholly encloses the encoder device therein and can also be configured with an input/output member that conducts the signal from inside of the interior space to outside of the housing.
US10175071B2
A system for remote sensing includes a flexible sheet, having printed thereon electronic sensors, logic components arranged in circuits, the circuits electrically connected to the sensors, memory electrically connected to the circuits, energy harvesting components electrically connected to the circuits, and a communications interface. The system includes a remote reader, the reader having at least one energy broadcast component to broadcast energy to the energy harvesting components, and an interface to allow the reader to access data from the sensors. A sensor network includes a flexible sheet, electronic sensors printed on the flexible sheet, logic components arranged in circuits, the circuits electrically connected to the sensors, memory electrically connected to the circuits. energy harvesting components electrically connected to the circuits, and a communications interface.
US10175065B2
A rotor assembly for deployment within a momentum control device that enables near-zero revolutions per minute (RPM) sensing, and method for making same, are provided. The provided rotor assembly utilizes a magnet coupled to the rotor shaft and a stationary sensor element to detect magnetic flux from the magnet and derive reliable near zero RPM therefrom.
US10175049B2
A target system that includes a target that is selected, wherein the target includes a surface with depth variations. The target system additionally includes a laser sensor adapted to scan the target for localization.
US10175048B2
Disclosed are various approaches for determining positions of a navigation unit and correcting for errors. The navigation unit can receive a guided surface wave using a guided surface wave receive structure. The navigation unit can then determine a potential location of the guided surface wave receive structure. Finally, the navigation unit can determine an accuracy of the potential location based at least in part on a secondary data source.
US10175046B1
Methods and apparatus optically measure acceleration, without Sagnac-effect corruption, without requiring slow light and without moving parts. Each optical accelerometer includes at least one measurement cell and at least one reference cell. Two optical signals traverse the cells in opposite directions around a figure-8-configured optical path and then interfere to produce an output signal. The reference cells have different indices of refraction than the measurement cells. Acceleration differentially affects speeds of the optical signals traversing the measurement and reference cells through differentially affecting the indices of refraction of the measurement and reference cells. These differences are evident in changes in the interference in the output signal, thereby enabling measurement of the acceleration. Several embodiments, including optical bench, vertical slab multi-pass, toroidal prism, planar waveguide, cylindrical waveguide, wound waveguide and optical fiber, are described.
US10175032B2
A personal protection apparatus includes a wearable covering, a reservoir supported on the wearable covering and containing a sprayable fluid and includes a valve operable to control the flow of fluid from the reservoir. The apparatus further includes a circuit having a force-sensing resistor for actuating the valve. The force-sensing resistor is disposed on a thumb covering and is activated under pressure when the wearer's thumb is positioned between the index finger and middle finger. Pressure on the force-sensing resistor decreased its resistance in the circuit. With the resistance lowered, current is allowed to flow and a power supply powers a servomotor coupled to a cam that opens a valve to allow fluid to be sprayed.
US10175028B2
A device for use with a target viewing device comprising a collet comprising having a central opening defined by a first part and a second part. The second part is rotatably coupled to the first part such that the second part rotates relative to the first part. An attaching member fixedly couples the first part proximate to the target viewing device such that the central opening does not obstruct an image provided to and from the target viewing device. A mirror is pivotally coupled to a planar body so that the mirror may pivot about a hinge to position the mirror relative to the target viewing device to provide a reflection of an image provided by the target viewing device to the user when the device is positioned behind the target viewing device, and to provide a reflection of an image to the target viewing device when the device is positioned in front of the target viewing device.
US10175027B2
The present invention provides a sporterized firearms stock ensemble configured to be coupled to variety of long firearms having a pistol grip interface. In some embodiments, the firearm stock ensemble includes a stock-to-receiver adapter and a sporterized gunstock assembly. The gunstock assembly includes a grip portion, a butt-plate and a stock support section configured to couple the grip portion to the butt-plate. An adjustable and/or detachable cheek-rest may be attached to the stock support section of the gunstock assembly.
US10175024B2
An archery cable director and method are disclosed herein. The archery cable director, in an embodiment, includes an arm, support, cable engager and cable retainer. The arm is configured to be coupled to an archery bow. The support is adjustably coupled to the arm. The cable retainer is configured to manage or regulate access to or the position of a cable of the archery bow.
US10175016B2
A system for displaying a number of rounds in a magazine of a weapon may include a force sensitive resistor shaped to be placed in the magazine and engage a magazine spring therein such that a resistance of the force sensitive resistor changes in response to a spring force from a number of rounds in the magazine, a microcontroller connected to detect the resistance of the force sensitive resistor resulting from the spring force upon the force sensitive resistor in response to the number of rounds in the magazine and output an electrical signal indicative of the resistance; and a display connected to respond to the electrical signal, the display having an indicator that is actuated in response to the signal to indicate the number of rounds in the magazine.
US10175012B2
A firearm with tilting barrel-receiver assembly includes a frame and a barrel-receiver assembly pivotably mounted to the frame. The barrel-receiver assembly is movable between an open position and a closed position. A latching mechanism includes a latch that selectively engages the barrel-receiver assembly. The latching mechanism may be disposed in the frame in one embodiment. The latching mechanism is movable between a locked position wherein the barrel-receiver assembly is held in the closed position and an unlocked position wherein the barrel-receiver assembly is movable to the tilted open position. The latch may be spring biased into the locked position. The barrel-receiver assembly may be configured for complete removal from the pistol in some embodiments. An interlock mechanism formed by a movable safety may be provided which prevents the barrel-receiver assembly from being unlocked when the firearm is in a ready-to-fire condition.
US10175009B2
A sacrifice positive electrode layer is formed conveniently, efficiently, and accurately on the surface of a refrigerant distributor having a complicated shape. Further, during the formation of the sacrifice positive electrode layer, the strength in the surroundings of joined parts is prevented from being lowered by excessive heating. Included are: an applying step of applying flux to remove an aluminum oxide to a surface of a plurality of outflow sections and a distributing section; an alloy disposing step of disposing a zinc-containing aluminum-silicon alloy on the surface to which the flux is applied; a forming step of forming the sacrifice positive electrode layer on the surface by heating the disposed zinc-containing aluminum-silicon alloy; a brazing material disposing step of inserting a plurality of outflow pipes into the plurality of outflow sections, respectively, and disposing an aluminum-silicon alloy brazing material on the surface of the outflow sections; and a brazing step of brazing the plurality of outflow sections with the plurality of outflow pipes, respectively, by heating the aluminum-silicon alloy brazing material.
US10174994B2
A refrigerator may include a storage compartment, an inner door which comprises an opening having a size corresponding to a size of the storage compartment, a plurality of door guards, and an outer door which open and close the storage compartment, wherein the inner door comprises a control unit may control an internal environment of the storage compartment.
US10174992B2
A variable width shelf assembly includes a shelf panel with first and second support brackets. One or more support slots and one or more relief slots are disposed on an upright portion of the support brackets. One or more coupling tabs are disposed adjacent to one of the one or more support slots and one of the one or more relief slots. The coupling tabs are flexible tabs configured to flex outwardly relative to the upright portion of the support brackets for coupling the first and second brackets to a refrigerator compartment. Mounting plates mounted on a refrigerator include mounting features that are received in the support slots of the support brackets. Abutment guides on the mounting plates are used to guide a bending motion of the coupling tabs in assembly.
US10174987B2
A refrigerator including a housing mounted at a rear surface of a door to define a storage space of food, a basket disposed inside the housing, a duct extending to the housing from one side of an evaporator to supply cold air generated by the evaporator into the storage space of the housing, and a fan assembly coupled to the duct to allow the cold air to be forcibly supplied.
US10174977B2
A system including a setpoint module, a summer, a control module, and an expansion valve module. The setpoint module is configured to indirectly control sub-cooling of a condenser by adjusting a superheat setpoint based on (i) a return air temperature setpoint or a supply air temperature setpoint, and (ii) an outdoor ambient temperature. The summer is configured to determine an error between the superheat setpoint and a superheat level of a compressor. The control module is configured to generate a control signal based on the error. The expansion valve module is configured to electronically control a state of an expansion valve based on the control signal.
US10174965B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for switching an operation state of a target device such as an air purifier. The method includes acquiring a state switching instruction based on an input from a micro-switch of the air moving device, switching a current state of the target device from an in-operation state to an out-of-operation state based on the state switching instruction, maintaining the target device in the out-of-operation state until acquiring a predetermined wakening instruction, acquiring a predetermined wakening instruction, and switching the air moving device from the out-of-operation state to the in-operation state responsive to the acquired predetermined wakening instruction.
US10174960B2
A steam dispersion system includes a header defining a first end and a second end, a plurality of steam dispersion tubes extending upwardly from the header, a condensate drain outlet located at the first end, a hollow pipe positioned within the header, the pipe defining a length extending in a direction generally from the first end to the second end, the pipe defining a main humidification steam inlet located at the first end and a main steam outlet that is within the header. The hollow pipe is configured to receive steam flowing in from the main steam inlet toward the main steam outlet. The pipe may define a plurality of orifices along the length thereof for allowing steam flowing through the pipe to enter the header for distribution through the dispersion tubes. A steam re-direction structure directs steam flow leaving through the main steam outlet back toward the first end of the header.
US10174954B2
A hot air rack oven (1) in an oven housing (2), for the baking of goods on a rack (4), including an oven chamber (6), a door opening (8), a door (10), the oven chamber includes one or more curved portions wall and has an essentially circular cross-section with respect to a substantially vertical axis of the oven. The door is curved with a slightly larger diameter than the outer diameter of the oven chamber, and is able to slide laterally to one side of the opening, at the outside of the oven, and the sliding door is movably arranged at the oven housing via cooperation, at an upper edge of the door, between an elongated curved horizontally arranged wheel arrangement (12) provided with a specified number N of equally sized wheels Wi and an elongated curved horizontally arranged guide bar (14) provided with N equally sized recesses Ri.
US10174952B1
A tailgate food preparation assembly includes an assembly trailer; a main storage bin carried by the assembly trailer; a mobile storage bin carried by the assembly trailer adjacent to the main storage bin, the mobile storage bin having a pair of front frame corners; and a storage bin hinge pivotally connecting the mobile storage bin to the assembly trailer at one of the pair of front frame corners. The mobile storage bin may be positional between a forward, storage and transport position and a rearward, food preparation position.
US10174949B2
A heat shield for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a first edge with a first set of cantilevered members and a second edge with a second set of cantilevered members.
US10174948B2
A combustion staging system for fuel injectors of a multi-stage combustor of a gas turbine engine has pilot and mains fuel manifolds distributing fuel to the injectors. A splitting unit splits a fuel flow and sends portions of the flow to pilot and mains fuel manifolds to perform staging control of the combustor. The splitting unit can deselect the mains manifold so that there is no flow into the combustor from the mains manifold. A cooling flow recirculation line provides a cooling flow of fuel to the mains manifold when that manifold is deselected so that the mains manifold remains primed with relatively cool fuel. A return section collects the cooling flow from the mains manifold. One or more fuel pressure sensors detect pressure of the cooling flow on the recirculation line. A control arrangement closes off the recirculation line when the pressure sensor(s) indicates failure of the cooling flow.
US10174946B2
A nozzle guide is provided for a combustor of a gas turbine engine. The nozzle guide includes an annular structure including a plurality of cooling holes, a guide plate including a plurality of openings on an outer periphery of the guide plate, and a plurality of cooling passages within the annular structure to provide air flow from the plurality of cooling holes to the plurality of openings.
US10174945B2
A burner port block assembly having a refractory block with a central passageway therethrough and a ceramic extension piece disposed at least partially in the central passageway of the refractory block. The extension piece has a distal end, a proximal end, and a sidewall that defines a central passageway extending between the distal end and the proximal end. The central passageway of the refractory block is provided with a first engagement structure and the sidewall of the extension piece is provided with a second engagement structure. Engagement of the first engagement structure with the second engagement structure connects the extension piece to the refractory block. The burner port block assembly may further include at least one ceramic fiber board having a hole therethrough disposed at the distal end of the refractory block and/or a gasket positioned between the refractory block and the extension piece.
US10174942B2
A combustion-type exhaust gas treatment apparatus has a combustion treatment chamber for treating exhaust gas by combusting and decomposing the exhaust gas, a main burner for forming a flame in the combustion treatment chamber by supplying a mixture gas produced by premixing a fuel gas and an oxidizing gas, and a scraper for scraping off solid matters adhering to an inner wall of the combustion treatment chamber. The mixture gas is adjusted within combustion range and supplied to the main burner during treatment for treating the exhaust gas by combusting and decomposing the exhaust gas when the scraper is not in operation, and the mixture gas is adjusted outside combustion range and supplied to the main burner during treatment for treating the exhaust gas by combusting and decomposing the exhaust gas when the scraper is in scraping operation.
US10174941B2
A gas burner system comprising a longitudinal burner body defining a longitudinal central cavity, and a ribbon pack configured to be removably installed into the central cavity, the ribbon pack comprising: (i) at least one ribbon positioned between a first vertical wall and a second vertical wall; (ii) a first transverse arm extending horizontally outward from a first longitudinal side of the ribbon pack; (iii) a second transverse arm extending horizontally outward from a second longitudinal side of the ribbon pack, wherein the first and second transverse arms are configured to attach to the longitudinal burner body.
US10174936B2
A circular fluidizing bed combustion system with uniform airflow distributing device is provided. The system comprises a fluidizing bed and a uniform airflow distributing device. The fluidizing bed is comprised of a fluidizing bed boiler body, an airflow distributing plate and a plurality of air caps, wherein, the airflow distributing plate is provided inside the fluidizing bed boiler body and divides the inner space of the fluidizing bed boiler body into a fluidizing chamber which is located in the upper portion of the boiler body and an air chamber which is located in the lower portion of the boiler body, and the plurality of air caps are arranged on the airflow distributing plate for injecting the fluidizing air into the fluidizing chamber. The inner space of the air chamber is divided into a distributing chamber that is located under the airflow distributing plate and an air inlet chamber that is located on one side of the distributing chamber by means of a perforated plate. The distributing chamber is comprised of a front wall, two side walls, a top wall that extends upwards obliquely from the upside of the front wall, and a bottom wall extends downwards obliquely from the downside of the front wall. A first guide plate, a second guide plate and a third guide plate are installed in the distributing chamber. This system makes the flow of the fluidizing air entered into the fluidizing chamber through each air cap uniform, and enhances the combusting efficiency of the coal powder in the fluidizing chamber.
US10174932B2
An attachable light accessory for a walker illuminates the forward and downward walking direction of an individual when using the walker. The light accessory includes a housing, a power source, and a plurality of light modules attached to the housing, a controller, and a plurality of sensors including a bump sensor, tip sensor, and light sensor. An adaptor mount is removeably attached to the light accessory, which may be attached to horizontal cross-member of the walker to allow the light accessory to be installed and retrofitted on any existing walker. The light accessory also includes a sound activated sensor for remotely activating the light accessory to help identify the location of the walker in dark areas, an audible alarm that is activated when the walker tips over, and other control and sensor features.
US10174928B2
A light source unit includes a heat-dissipation member having positive expansibility that volume is expanded with an increase in temperature, the heat-dissipation member having a through-hole, a heating component having a heating component body and a pin terminal, the heating component body fixed to the heat-dissipation member in one opening side of the through-hole, the pin terminal connected to the heating component body, and inserted through the through hole and protruding from the other opening side of the through-hole of the heat-dissipation member a substrate fixed to the heat-dissipation member in the other opening side of the through-hole and having a wiring connected to the pin terminal, and a buffering member having negative thermal-expansibility that volume is contracted with an increase in temperature.
US10174925B2
A wavelength conversion member includes a light-reflecting member configured to reflect laser light, and a phosphor-containing layer disposed on the light-reflecting member. The phosphor-containing layer includes one or more projecting portions each configured to be irradiated with laser light. An area of each projecting portion is larger than an area of a spot of the laser light in a plan view. A light source device includes the wavelength-converting member and one or more laser elements. The wavelength-converting member is arranged at a position so that laser light emitted from the one or more laser elements are irradiated on a corresponding one of the one or more projecting portions.
US10174920B2
A safety device including a side wall, a receiving area defined by the side wall, at least one magnet disposed within the receiving area, and at least one lighting element disposed on the side wall, wherein, the receiving area receives a portion of a structure when the plurality of magnets magnetically interact with the portion of the structure, is provided. Furthermore, an associated method is also provided.
US10174917B1
A luminaire includes a finishing section. The finishing section has a finishing cone that defines an internal cavity. The finishing section further includes a light source that is disposed within the internal cavity of the finishing cone. Additionally, the luminaire includes one or more retention devices that are coupled to the finishing cone. The one or more retention devices are configured to mount the finishing cone within a recessed can having one or more retention device receivers. The one or more retention devices include wire forms such as, but not limited to, spring wire forms and coiled wire forms. Alternatively, the one or more retention devices include a friction retention device.
US10174911B2
The present invention relates to a filter, a CMY color mixing assembly using the filter and an optical system thereof. Said filter comprises a substrate and a filtering film plated on the substrate, and the filtering film comprises a uniform region and a color mixing region. The thickness of the filtering film in the uniform region is uniform, while the thickness of the filtering film in the color mixing region is not uniform. The thickness of the filtering film in the uniform region is greater than or equal to the thickness of the filtering film in the color mixing region, and the thickness of the filtering film of a central region of the color mixing region is greater than the thickness of the filtering film of side regions of the color mixing region. Said color mixing region is provided at a side where the filter first accesses to a light path.
US10174909B2
An optical member includes: a phosphor layer including a phosphor that converts a wavelength of a portion of light from a light source which is incident on an incidence face; and a microlens array that causes the portion of light wavelength-converted by the phosphor layer and the other portion of light transmitted through the phosphor layer to emerge from an emission face, in which a diffractive lens array for diffracting the portion of light wavelength-converted and the other portion of light transmitted is provided on the emission face of the microlens array, and a pitch of the diffractive lens array is different for each of predetermined sections.
US10174907B2
A lighting device 5 having: a plurality of light sources 7 arranged in a line; each of said light sources 7 having a condenser lens 8 arranged in the optical path 11 of the respective light source 7, wherein said condenser lenses 8 are designed such that light is focused at least in a first plane XZ; at least one cylinder lens 9 in form of a Fresnel lens, arranged in the direction of the optical path behind the condenser lenses 8 wherein said cylinder lens 9 is designed such that light is focused in a second plane YZ, which second plane YZ is arranged traverse to the first plane XZ; and an optical diffuser 10 arranged in the direction of the optical path behind the cylinder lens 9, wherein the optical diffuser 10 is designed such that light is diverged and homogenized in the first plane XZ.
US10174905B2
An optical film production method for suppressing air bubbles in microlenses, comprising rotating a roll die having a plurality of concave-shaped microlens transfer portions on the surface and running a substrate in the rotation direction; supplying an active energy ray-curable composition β onto a coating roll adjacent to the roll die surface, flattening the composition β, coating the flattened composition β on the roll die surface; supplying an active energy ray-curable composition α on the substrate and coating the composition α on a surface of the substrate; associating the compositions α and β between the roll die and the substrate to form a liquid pool; and irradiating a region between the roll die surface and the substrate surface with an active energy ray so the compositions α and β are sandwiched between the roll die surface and the substrate surface to cure the compositions α and β.
US10174901B2
A vehicle lamp includes a light source including a plurality of light emitting elements or light emitting surfaces, a projection lens that projects light emitted from the light source, and a light distribution adjusting element that adjusts light distribution of the light emitted from the light source, wherein the light distribution adjusting element has a plurality of prisms having different angles of inclined surfaces corresponding to a direction in which the plurality of light emitting elements or light emitting surfaces are arranged, and prism surfaces in which at least one or a plurality of flat surfaces are arranged.
US10174889B2
An LED bar lighting with uniform illumination includes at least two LED chips, and a bar lens. Each of at least two LED chips includes an optical axis. The bar lens includes an in-light surface profile line and an out-light surface profile line in a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction of the bar lens. The in-light surface profile line includes a first arc and tow second arcs arranged two sides of the first arc. The first arc is tangent to the second arc and the radius of the first arc is smaller than that of the second arc. The radius of the out-light surface profile line is gradually reduced toward two sides thereof from an intersection of the out-light surface profile line and the optical axis. The radius of the out-light surface profile line at the intersection of the out-light profile line and the optical axis is infinite, and the refraction angle at both end points of the out-light surface profile line is 0 degree.
US10174887B2
A lighting arrangement can include a light emitter portion and a battery backup portion. The light emitter portion can have a plurality of light emitting diodes and circuitry including a rectifier for driving the light emitting diodes. The battery backup portion can be in electronic communication with the rectifier of the light emitter portion and have a battery portion and a converter portion with a DC-AC inverter and a microcontroller unit configured to route AC power to the rectifier from either a primary AC source or the battery portion. The light emitter portion can be configured to be mounted to a junction box and positioned below a ceiling of a dwelling space during use. The battery backup portion can be configured to be selectively positionable between the light emitter portion and the junction box.
US10174884B2
A valve stem for a pressurized valve assembly. The valve stem has an open top portion, a closed bottom portion, at least one primary radial opening, and a valve stem longitudinal passageway between the open top portion and the at least one primary radial opening. A conduit extends from the valve stem at an angle relative to the valve stem longitudinal passageway, proximate to the open top portion. The conduit provides a flowpath between the valve stem longitudinal passageway at a conduit first end and a dispensing opening at a conduit second end.
US10174882B2
A gas filling apparatus for filling a plurality of gas storage vessels with a gas, the apparatus comprising a plurality of gas filling ports, each port configured to introduce gas into one of the gas storage vessels, and a controller configured to supply gas to the gas filling ports for filling the vessels and to control the supply of gas to all of the gas filling ports based on a property of any one of the vessels.
US10174858B2
A piezoelectric element-driven valve includes a body provided with a fluid channel and a valve seat, a valve element which opens and closes the fluid channel by being in contact with and separated from the valve seat of the body, and piezoelectric actuators which drive the valve element to open and close by means of the extension of the piezoelectric element. In the piezoelectric element-driven valve, at least two piezoelectric actuators are arranged on a straight line via a spacer which allows pulling out of wiring.
US10174855B2
A valve includes a valve body forming a channel defining a fluid flow path from inlet to outlet ports of the valve body via a gallery disposed therebetween, an opening disposed in communication with the gallery, a valve assembly at least partially disposed through the opening and in the gallery, and a fusible element. A valve disc of the valve assembly moves between a first position spaced from a valve seat of the valve body and a second position contacting the valve seat. The fusible element is coupled to and at least partly supported by the valve assembly to maintain the valve assembly in the first position. The fluid flow path allows fluid to flow through the valve body in a first direction and a second, opposite direction. The fusible element fails when contacted by fluid traversing the fluid flow path in the second direction, allowing the valve disc to move to the second position.
US10174850B2
A check valve comprises a valve housing defining a valve opening. A pair of mounting posts is arranged on opposite sides of the opening. A pair of flapper elements is pivotably mounted for rotation between an open position and a closed position. The flapper elements are mounted to hinge pins mounted to respective mounting posts. A base portion of the hinge pins is formed with a sleeve having a bore which is slidably mounted on a hinge pin mounting portion of a respective mounting post.
US10174847B2
A control damper for a housing of an air-handling unit includes a rigid main body rotatable about a first rotational axis. A sealing element extends radially outwardly from a first side of the rigid main body. The sealing element is formed of a resilient material. The sealing element further includes a resilient lip extending outwardly from a distal end thereof. The lip has a first series of undulations formed in an outer edge thereof, wherein the undulations form a wave-shaped profile in the outer edge of the lip.
US10174841B2
The present invention refers to a piston ring for internal combustion engine, having an outer surface of a coating of Chromium Nitride (CrN and Cr2N) and Niobium Nitride (NbN and Nb4N3), capable of offering greater resistance to peeling of the coating, also maintaining an excellent level of resistance to wear and tear and scratches to the layer of Chromium Nitride deposited.
US10174834B2
A control apparatus for a vehicular continuously variable transmission is provided. The control apparatus includes a pair of pulley pressure adjusting valves, a pair of electromagnetic valves, a source pressure adjusting valve and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control the source pressure adjusting valve in such a manner as to lower the source pressure at a time of a fail mode below the source pressure at a time of a non-fail mode, at the time of the fail mode, and control command signals to the pair of the electromagnetic valves such that the command signals temporarily decrease below command signals at the time of the non-fail mode, before cancelling the lowering of the source pressure in making a changeover from the fail mode to the non-fail mode.
US10174820B2
Actuating device of the articulated lever or cam type for the precise positioning of a pivotable arm
An actuating device of the articulated lever or cam type having a body coupled to a sliding control piston, the piston coupled to an actuator movable along a piston axis and operatively coupled to a pivotable arm to pivot it about a first rotational axis upon a sliding movement of the actuator. The actuator has two relatively displaceable parts and one or more rotary elements having at least one mechanical coupling that acts on the first part of the actuator to transform a rotary control movement imparted on the at least one mechanical coupling about a second rotational axis transverse to the piston axis, into a relative displacement between the first part and the second part of the actuator along the piston axis to modify the length of the actuator.
US10174818B2
A high speed ratio drive system is formed of planet rollers, each having varying diameter, an outer fixed ring in contact with one diameter of the planet rollers, and an outer drive ring in contact with another diameter of the planet rollers. An inner drive element is provided by a sun drive roller in contact with the planet rollers or by a planet carrier. Preferably the system has an axial reflective symmetry minimizing twisting forces on the planet rollers.
US10174817B2
The invention relates to a device for locking at least one belt (10) at predetermined belt tension, which belt (10) is arranged at a machine arrangement (1) with belt drive. The machine arrangement comprises a stand (3) having legs (2) placed on a base (4). At least one driving pulley (5) and at least one driven pulley (6) are aligned relative to each other. The legs (2) being articulately attached to at least one of the stand (3) or the base (4), and at least two of the legs (2) comprises longitudinally adjustable tension legs (20), which each comprises a first tension leg part (21) having a wedge box (30) arranged to receive a wedge (31) having a grooved surface (32) and a second tension leg part (22) having a grooved surface (23) directed towards said wedge box (30). The first (21) and second (22) tension leg parts are adapted to lock in relation to each other by cooperation between the grooved surface (32) of the wedge (31) and the grooved surface (23) of the second tension leg part (22) when the wedge (31) is adapted to wedge in wedge box (30).
US10174815B1
A planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention including first planetary gear set including first to third rotation elements, second planetary gear set including fourth to sixth rotation elements, third planetary gear set including seventh to ninth rotation elements, fourth planetary gear set including tenth to twelfth rotation elements, fifth planetary gear set including thirteenth to fifteenth rotation elements, first shaft fixed to the first rotation element and the input shaft, second shaft fixed to the fourteenth rotation element and the output shaft, third shaft fixed to the fifth rotation element, fourth shaft fixed to the sixth and rotation elements element, fifth shaft fixed to the eighth, twelfth, and fifteenth rotation elements, sixth shaft fixed to the eleventh rotation element, and shafts formed by combinations of remaining rotation elements among the first to fifteenth rotation elements that are not connected to the first shaft to the sixth shaft.
US10174807B2
A heat-treated cord comprising a low modulus yarn core that is wrapped by a plurality of high modulus wrapping yarns that were heat-treated for a time at a temperature and under a load sufficient to provide a free shrinkage of at least 2½ percent and a shrinkage force of at least 3 pounds.
US10174786B2
A wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member with a body mounting flange and double row outer raceway surfaces, an inner member with double row inner raceway surfaces opposing the double row outer raceway surfaces, and double row rolling elements contained between the inner raceway surfaces and the outer raceway surfaces, respectively, of the inner member and the outer member. A plurality of bolt insertion holes formed in the outer member body mounting flange. An abutment surface, to abut against the body-side member, is formed around each bolt insertion hole as a surface projecting from the inner-side surface of the body mounting flange with a step height. A relative difference between the step heights of the abutment surfaces is limited to a minimum.
US10174785B1
A wire basket assembly comprises a wire basket comprising a plurality of coated wires; a wheel comprising an axle opening; and a bushing. The bushing comprises a cylindrical axle portion and a plurality of protrusions. The axle portion comprises (a) an outer surface about which a wheel may rotate and (b) a central opening defined by an internal surface of the axle portion. The plurality of protrusions (a) extend from the internal surface toward a primary axis of the axle portion and (b) are spaced apart about the circumference of the central opening. The wheel is disposed about the axle portion. A coated wire of the plurality of coated wires is secured within the central opening by the plurality of protrusions such the bushing is secured to the coated wire. The plurality of protrusions grip the coated wire via an interference fit.
US10174784B1
Interlocking hook assemblies for elastic straps include an elastic member 500 including a pair of similar interlocking hook devices 100 connected to each end of elastic member 501. Each interlocking hook device 100, is provided with a connector 300 which is fixedly attached thereon. Each hook device can be connected, preferably in a locking manner, onto the other hook device creating a closed hook assembly thereby disabling the hooks to prevent entanglement of elastic or rigid straps when not in use or during storage and/or transportation. Multiple elastic straps 500 can be connected end-to-end forming an elongated elastic strap of desired length having closed central hooks with open hooks on each end. Interlocking hook assemblies for elastic members include an elastic member with interlocking hook devices 900 including two similar interlocking hook devices 800 with a connector groove 801 and a catch feature 802 and elastic member 811. Each interlocking hook device 800 is provided with a groove 801 and catch feature 802 designed to allow each hook to engage the other within their respective grooves and to releasably lock them together. Each hook device can be engaged and preferably locked onto the other hook device thereby disabling the hooks to prevent entanglement of the elastic member when not in use or during storage and/or transportation. Multiple elastic members 900 can be connected end-to-end forming an elongated elastic strap of desired length having closed central hooks with open hooks on each end.
US10174780B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention operate to structurally interrelate two components using inserts made from metallic glass-based materials. In one embodiment, a method of structurally interrelating two components includes: forming an insert from a metallic glass-based composition; where the formed insert includes a metallic glass-based material; affixing the insert to a first component; and structurally interrelating the second component to the first component using the insert.
US10174772B2
A device is provided for controlling fluid flow over a window of a movable optical instrument housing. The device includes a generally annular body having an inner peripheral edge configured to correspond to a peripheral edge of the window of the housing and an outer peripheral edge, an arcuate outer surface disposed between the inner peripheral edge and the outer peripheral edge, and a reduced width portion between the inner peripheral edge and the outer peripheral edge. The reduced width portion is configured to lower elevation torque. Other embodiments of the device and methods for controlling fluid flow are further disclosed.
US10174771B2
[Object] To provide a compact, rationally designed, dual 4-port electromagnetic valve that is an electromagnetic valve having functions of two 4-port valves.[Solution] A dual 4-port electromagnetic valve includes two spools (8a, 8b) slidable independently of each other in a valve hole (7); two pilot valves (4a, 4b) that drive the two spools, respectively; a main supply port (P) that communicates with the valve hole (7) at a position where the two spools face each other; first and second output ports (A1, A2) that communicate with the valve hole (7) on two respective sides of the main supply port (P), first and second discharge ports (E1, E2) that communicate with the valve hole (7) on two respective outer sides of the output ports (A1, A2), third and fourth output ports (B1, B2) that communicate with the valve hole (7) on two respective outer sides of the discharge ports (E1, E2), and first and second supply ports (P1, P2) that communicate with the valve hole (7) on two respective outer sides of the output ports (B1, B2). The main supply port (P) and each of the first and second supply ports (P1, P2) communicate with each other.
US10174766B2
A diffuser for a forward-swept tangential flow compressor comprises a substantially circular space (24) for receiving a compressor impeller (14), a plurality of micro-volutes (42) adjacent to and surrounding the circular space (24), a plurality of diffuser channels (38), each diffuser channel (38) having an entrance and a discharge, and a collection volute (28), the entrance of each diffuser channel (38) extending from an associated micro-volute (42) tangentially of the circular space (24), and the collection volute (28) transitioning from the discharge of one of the diffuser channels (38), the other diffuser channels discharging into the collection volute (28), and the collection volute (28) incorporating an exit aperture (30).
US10174760B2
A gear pump has first and second meshing gears for pumping a fluid. The gear pump further has a first electrical motor having a first rotor, a first stator and first coil windings. The gear pump further has a second electrical motor having a second rotor, a second stator and second coil windings. The first rotor is operatively connected to the first gear and the second rotor is operatively connected to the second gear such that each gear is rotated by its respective rotor. The first and second coil windings are energized by respective and separate first and second electrical power circuits such that the first and second meshing gears can be driven independently of each other.
US10174759B2
Provided is a dual pump system including: a dual pump provided with a plurality of chambers independent from each other, wherein an input and an output port are provided in each of the chambers; a plurality of output lines connected to the output ports of the plurality of chambers, respectively; and a switching valve that is provided in an output line of one side of the plurality of output lines, enables a fluid to flow to the output line when operating in one direction, and enables the fluid to be drained to an oil pan through a bypass line branched from the output line when operating in the other direction.
US10174749B2
An aerosol-generating device includes a reservoir configured to hold an aerosol-forming substrate, an atomizer configured to atomize the aerosol-forming substrate, and a micropump configured to deliver a fluid. The micropump is between the reservoir and the atomizer, and in fluid connection with the reservoir and the atomizer. The micropump is configured to supply the aerosol-forming substrate from the reservoir to the atomizer. The micropump includes two pump chambers having two separate chamber volumes and two actuators. Each is actuator assigned to one of the two pump chambers for changing a respective chamber volume. The two pump chambers are arranged in parallel and are in fluid connection with a common inlet and a common outlet. The actuators are configured to operate in parallel such that a volume change in each of the two pump chambers occurs simultaneously.
US10174747B2
Semi-commanded valve system applied to an alternative-type compressor with at least a cylinder (1), at least a piston (2), at least a compression chamber (3), and at least one valve (71;81) acting in their respective orifice (7;8). Said at least one valve (71;81) is prestressed in a first operation state and is able to act as a check valve. Furthermore, said at least one valve (71;81) has at least a ferrous portion and can be selectively actuated by a magnetic field generating element (72;82). Method of modulating the capacity of a compressor provided with such a semi-commanded valve system.
US10174746B2
A piston drive assembly, including: a housing enclosing each of: a plurality of cylinders, each cylinder having an axis substantially parallel to the axis of the other cylinders; a plurality of pistons, one piston in each cylinder; a wobble plate connected to each of the plurality of pistons; a swashplate rotatably fixed to a drive shaft such that the drive shaft can rotate the swash plate or the swash plate can rotate the drive shaft, wherein the drive shaft extends through the entire length of the housing.
US10174745B2
One embodiment of an electro-mechanical actuator, comprised of a braid (1) of insulated wires of shape memory material, trained to a contracted length, connected at the ends to primary fixture (2) and secondary fixture (3). These fixtures guide the electrical path through the braid from the electrical power source (4), in a winding path through the braid (5-10), and to electrical ground (11). Other embodiments are described and shown.
US10174744B2
A structure of a floating, semi-submersible wind turbine platform is provided. The floating wind turbine platform includes three elongate stabilizing columns, each having a top end, a keel end, and an outer shell containing an inner shaft. Each stabilizing column further includes a water entrapment plate. The floating wind turbine platform also includes three truss members, each truss member including two chord members and two diagonal members. The truss members connect the stabilizing columns to form a triangular cross-section. An elongate wind turbine tower is disposed over the top end of one of the three stabilizing columns.
US10174733B2
An oil lubricated common rail diesel pump includes a pumping assembly and a drivetrain assembly. The pumping assembly includes a pump housing and a plunger mounted along a pumping axis. The drivetrain assembly includes a driveshaft and a cam mounted within a first chamber of a drivetrain housing. The plunger is arranged for reciprocating linear movement along the pumping axis within a second chamber of the housing upon rotation of the cam. The drivetrain assembly also includes a guide mounted within the housing between the cam and the plunger and being adapted to receive a cam follower. At least the housing is adapted to be substantially filled with oil in use and the guide includes at least one flow passage communicating between the first chamber and the second chamber.
US10174730B2
A fuel injector for use in delivering fuel to an internal combustion engine includes a nozzle having a valve needle which is moveable with respect to a valve needle seating through a range of movement between a fully-closed position and a fully-open position to control fuel delivery through at least one nozzle outlet, whereby movement of the nozzle needle is controlled by fuel pressure within a control chamber. A nozzle control valve controls fuel flow into and out of the control chamber to pressurize and depressurize the control chamber, respectively. The fuel injector also includes a variable flow passage in communication with the control chamber through which fuel flows out of the control chamber at a variable rate throughout the range of movement of the valve needle so that movement of the valve needle is damped to a greater extent as it approaches the fully-open position.
US10174729B2
An injector for a fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine, namely for a common rail fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine which is formed in particular as a large diesel internal combustion engine or ship's diesel internal combustion engine, having an injection nozzle, a control valve and a retaining body. The injection nozzle and the control valve form a clamped composite, and the composite formed of the injection nozzle and control valve can be mounted on the retaining body as a unit and disassembled from the retaining body as a unit.
US10174726B2
An intake manifold is provided with a surge tank and a plurality of branch pipes branching from the surge tank, and is made up of a plurality of separate pieces. Each of the branch pipes is provided with an intake outlet for outflow of intake air to each cylinder of an engine. The intake manifold further includes a single gas inflow port, a plurality of gas outflow ports opening one in each of the branch pipes, and a gas passage extending in a branch form from the gas inflow port to each of the gas outflow ports. Each of the gas outflow ports is located away from the intake outlet of the corresponding branch pipe by a predetermined passage length.
US10174716B2
A turbofan engine includes fan section including a plurality of fan blades, a gear train, a low spool including a low pressure turbine and a low pressure compressor, the low pressure turbine driving the plurality of fan blades through the gear train, and a high spool including a high pressure turbine driving a high pressure compressor. A fan nacelle at least partially surrounds a core nacelle to define a fan bypass flow path. A fan variable area nozzle is in communication with the fan bypass flow path and defines a fan nozzle exit area between the fan nacelle and the core nacelle. The fan variable area nozzle varies the fan nozzle exit area.
US10174710B2
A method for producing a piston may include aligning at least two piston components along corresponding joining surfaces, activating a laser designed for deep-welding, and aligning a laser beam with a starting point. The method may then include increasing a power density of the laser beam over a first defined path along the joining surfaces to produce a weld seam with an increasing weld seam depth, deep welding along the joining surfaces to produce a deep weld seam with a substantially constant weld seam depth up to a defined end point, and reducing the power density over a second defined path to produce a weld seam with a decreasing weld seam depth. The method may further include overwelding at least part of at least one of the first and second defined paths by a laser designed for heat conduction welding to produce at least one heat conduction weld seam.
US10174709B2
Systems are provided for an integrated exhaust manifold that may be used in a variety of engine systems. In one example, an integrated exhaust manifold may include a central axis running from an inlet end to an outlet end of the integrated exhaust manifold and two exhaust outlets arranged at the outlet end and coupled to a common collecting line, the two exhaust outlets symmetrically positioned across the central axis and having a same diameter, where each exhaust outlet of the two exhaust outlets has a passage axis arranged parallel to the central axis. A first exhaust outlet of the two exhaust outlets may be permanently blocked and a second exhaust outlet of the two exhaust outlets may be coupled to an exhaust system of an engine system.
US10174696B2
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. The control apparatus is equipped with an electronic control unit. A CPU with which this electronic control unit is equipped performs dither control for setting a first cylinder as a rich-burn cylinder whose air-fuel ratio is richer than a theoretical air-fuel ratio and setting each of second to fourth cylinders as a lean-burn cylinder whose air-fuel ratio is leaner than the theoretical air-fuel ratio, when a request to raise the temperature of a three-way catalyst is made. Then, the CPU reduces the degree of richness of the rich-burn cylinder and the degree of leanness of each of the lean-burn cylinders while continuing dither control, on the condition that fluctuations at a level equal to or higher than a predetermined value are caused in time-series data on the rotational speed resulting from the combustion in each of the cylinders.
US10174694B2
The present disclosure provides a method of controlling input torque of a powered vehicle. The vehicle includes a transmission having an input shaft, an output shaft, and a countershaft. The method includes providing input torque to the input shaft, determining a rotational acceleration of the countershaft, and measuring vehicle speed. The method also includes determining a threshold based on the measured vehicle speed. The measured countershaft acceleration is compared to the threshold and the input torque is controlled based on the result of the comparison.
US10174690B2
An auxiliary-machine control device equipped with: a command-value acquisition unit for acquiring an operation command value for a device to be controlled and an allowable range for the operation amount of control means for controlling the operating state of the device to be controlled; an operation-amount calculation unit for calculating the operation amount for the control means on the basis of the acquired operation command value; and an operation-amount determination unit for outputting the calculated operation-amount signal to the device to be controlled if the operation amount calculated by the operation-amount calculation unit falls within the allowable range, and outputting an upper-limit value or a lower-limit value for the operation-amount allowable range if the calculated operation amount falls outside of the allowable range.
US10174689B2
A method for operating a drive system including an internal combustion engine, the drive system including an electromotively-assisted exhaust-driven supercharging device or a strictly electrically operated supercharging device, the method including checking on whether a gear change has been initiated and a drive train has been disengaged accordingly; upon detecting an initiated gear change, adjusting the compressor power of the supercharging device by additionally facilitating electric power to the electromotively-assisted exhaust-driven supercharging device or to the strictly electrically operated supercharging device, in such a way that, at least toward the end of the gear change, a charging pressure is made available in a charging pressure section of the drive system which is higher than a charging pressure resulting at a compressor power, which corresponds to the exhaust gas enthalpy of the internal combustion engine provided during the gear change.
US10174685B2
The control device for an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders includes: a misfire detection unit for detecting a misfire state for each of the plurality of cylinders; a plurality of electronic throttles each provided on an intake pipe corresponding to each of the plurality of cylinders, for adjusting an intake air amount taken into each cylinder by way of a throttle opening degree; and a throttle opening degree control unit for controlling the throttle opening degree of each of the plurality of electronic throttles. When the misfire detection unit detects the misfire state in any one of the plurality of cylinders, the throttle opening degree control unit decreases a limited value of the throttle opening degree of the cylinder in the misfire state as time elapses.
US10174684B2
A method of controlling a continuously variable valve timing system, may include determining whether there is an error of a position of a cam, performing a passive control based on a value learned about a position of the cam during previous driving when it is determined that there is an error of the position of the cam, determining whether a motion of the continuously variable valve timing system is stopped while the passive control is performed based on the value learned about the position of the cam during the previous driving, learning the stopping position of the continuously variable valve timing system when it is determined that the motion of the continuously variable valve timing system is stopped, and learning a position for limp-home of the continuously variable valve timing system and then controlling the continuously variable valve timing system to the learned position for the limp-home.
US10174679B2
A method of controlling a startup sequence of a gas turbine. A turbine of the gas turbine may include a rotor that has a rotor velocity and a rotor acceleration during the startup sequence. The method may include the steps of: determining an originally scheduled startup duration for the gas turbine; measuring an intermediate rotor velocity at an intermediate time within the startup sequence; determining a recalculated remaining startup duration that is a duration calculated as necessary to achieve the final rotor velocity given the intermediate rotor velocity; determining a remaining portion of the originally scheduled startup duration based on the intermediate time; calculating a time multiplier based on a comparison of the recalculated remaining startup duration to the remaining portion of the originally scheduled startup duration; and scaling the rotor acceleration per the time multiplier for a duration until the final rotor velocity is achieved by the turbine.
US10174676B2
In a rotary machine, a method of assembling a rotary machine, and a method of performing maintenance of a rotary machine, a combustor casing as an outer casing configured from upper and lower casings defining a half split shape, an intermediate shaft cover as an inner casing configured from upper and lower casings defining a half split shape and supporting a combustor in the combustor casing, and a pressing support mechanism configured to press and support a portion to be fit of the combustor casing and a fitting portion of the intermediate shaft cover in an axial direction of a rotor are included.
US10174668B2
A method and a unit for operating or for the operation of a fuel metering system of an internal combustion engine, in particular in a motor vehicle, and it being provided, in particular, that at least one operating variable of the internal combustion engine is detected, a dynamic operating state of the internal combustion engine is detected based on the at least one detected operating variable, and a dynamic correction to the fuel metering system of the internal combustion engine is carried out for a detected dynamic operating state of the internal combustion engine, taking into account the efficiency of an NOx exhaust gas aftertreatment system.
US10174661B1
Apparatuses and methods are for cooling exhaust gas emitted from an internal combustion engine in a marine drive. An upstream exhaust conduit is configured to convey exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine. A cooling jacket is located on the upstream exhaust conduit. A cooling passage is located radially between the upstream exhaust conduit and the cooling jacket. The cooling passage is configured to convey cooling fluid along an outer periphery of the upstream exhaust conduit to a location where the cooling fluid is mixed with the exhaust gas. A downstream exhaust conduit conveys the exhaust gas from the upstream exhaust conduit. An orifice device is configured to radially outwardly spray the cooling fluid from the cooling passage onto an inner radial surface of the downstream exhaust conduit so that the cooling fluid cools the downstream exhaust conduit and mixes with and cools the exhaust gas.
US10174657B2
A plasma selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an exhaust pipe connected to an engine to communicate exhaust gas; a plasma burner installed in a first bypass line connected to the exhaust pipe, and configured to supply fuel to discharged plasma and form flame; a urea solution injector installed in the first bypass line at a rear side of the plasma burner, and configured to inject a urea solution to exhaust gas heated by the flame and generate ammonia; and an SCR catalyst installed in the exhaust pipe at a rear side of the urea solution injector, and configured to reduce a nitrogen oxide included in the exhaust gas with the ammonia.
US10174647B2
An oil drain structure of a valve timing adjusting device for an internal combustion engine is provided to adjust a valve timing of at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve by a torque of a cam shaft and a pressure of a working fluid. The oil drain structure of the valve timing adjusting device includes a rotation preventing means to suppress a position change between a rotor and a housing by regulating a relative rotation of the rotor with respect to the housing.
US10174643B2
A continuous variable valve duration apparatus may include a camshaft, a cam device on which a cam is formed, of which the camshaft is inserted thereto and of which a relative phase angle with respect to the camshaft is variable, an internal bracket transmitting rotation of the camshaft to the cam device, a wheel housing in which the internal bracket is rotatably inserted and on which a guide groove parallel to the camshaft is formed, a control portion including a control shaft disposed parallel to the camshaft and inserted into the guide groove, and the control portion selectively rotating the control shaft for the relative position of the wheel housing with respect to the camshaft to be changed and a slider housing interposed between the control shaft and the guide groove.
US10174642B2
Methods and systems are described for an engine with a cam torque actuated variable cam timing phaser. Phaser positioning control is improved by reducing inaccuracies resulting from inadvertent spool valve and/or phaser movement when the spool valve is commanded between regions. In addition, improved spool valve mapping is used to render phaser commands more consistent and robust.
US10174637B2
The present invention concerning of a device for mounting or dismantling, replacement and maintenance of a can-combustor of a gas turbine engine including an assembly tool or assembly tool with additional frame having at least one lifting beam, at least one linear driver, wheels, at least one eccentric rolling hook for fixation of the gas turbine housing, optionally spacers for building the interface to the can-combustor, adapters, lifting points for the main crane. The eccentric rolling hook is connected to the gas turbine housing by giving in axial or quasi-axial direction a force for mounting or dismantling the can-combustor from the gas turbine housing.
US10174636B2
A compressor assembly, and more in general relates to a compressor for a gas turbine providing a solution that teaches to locate within a cavity formed by the outer casing of the compressor and the inner vane carrier a separator element, or membrane, such to divide the cavity into two sub-cavities. This advantageously results in a more flexible design with respect to the positioning of the flange blow-off extractor and to the cavity sizing, as the flange position is not necessarily the boundary for the flow anymore as it would be without the separator element.
US10174632B2
A borescope plug assembly includes a borescope plug having a shaft section and a tip section, a bushing engageable with the shaft section and a seal engageable with the tip section.
US10174621B2
A method includes building an article by a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process. While the article is being built, a solid outer wall is formed. An inner structure of the article is integrally formed with the outer wall. The inner structure includes an internal permeable structure.
US10174620B2
An airfoil comprises one or more internal cooling circuits. The cooling circuit can further comprise a near wall cooling mesh, fluidly coupling a supply passage to a mesh plenum. The mesh plenum can be disposed adjacent to the external surface of the airfoil having a plurality of film holes extending between the mesh plenum and the external surface of the airfoil. The mesh plenum can further comprise a cross-sectional area sized to facilitate machining of the film holes without damage to the interior of the airfoil.
US10174618B2
A rotor for a turbine has a plurality of rotor components lined up in the axial direction and connected by a connecting rod, wherein a groove which extends in the circumferential direction and is open in the axial direction is disposed on one of the rotor components, wherein a coupling element running around the connecting rod in order to support the connecting rod is disposed in the groove. The rotor is adapted to enable particularly stable support of the connecting rod in order to prevent vibrations. The coupling element is disposed on a retaining element connected to the connecting rod.
US10174617B2
The present application provides a method of repairing a turbine blade. The method may include the steps of removing an existing tip cap from the turbine blade in whole or in part, machining the turbine blade to form a machined groove, positioning an insert in the machined groove, welding the insert to the turbine blade, and brazing the turbine blade.
US10174612B2
A first water injection into an injection well is carried out followed by a first shut-in of the injection well. A second water injection is carried out, a volume of the injected water exceeds several times a volume of water in the well in an intake interval. Then there is a second shut-in of the injection well, and during the second shut-in transient temperature profiles are registered within the intake interval by temperature sensors. Then a third water injection step is carried out and at an initial stage of the third injection transient temperature profiles in the intake interval are registered using the temperature sensors. The transient temperature profiles registered during the second shut-in period are analyzed and intake zone boundaries are determined. The transient temperature profiles registered at the initial stage of the third water injection are analyzed and a water intake profile is determined.
US10174606B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward a system and method to calibrate calipers of a downhole tool. Specifically, a calibration tool includes a substantially cylindrical calibration ring. The calibration tool also includes a finger coupled to the calibration ring. The finger is configured to engage with the downhole tool such that the calibration ring is mounted to the downhole tool and is coaxial with a tool axis of the downhole tool.
US10174603B2
The present invention relates to a method of visualizing a downhole environment using a downhole visualization system. The downhole visualization system comprises a downhole tool string comprising one or more sensors, a downhole data processing means for processing the sensor signals to provide sensor data, an uphole data processing means for uphole processing and visualization, and a data communication link operable to convey the sensor data from the downhole data processing means to the uphole data processing means, the sensors being capable of generating sensor signals indicative of one or more physical parameters in the downhole environment. The downhole visualization system further comprises a downhole data buffering means capable of receiving the sensor data from the downhole data processing means and temporarily storing the sensor data in the downhole data buffering means.
US10174594B2
A system and method for jet perforating within a well are disclosed. A jet perforating tool configured to be lowered inside a production tubing string comprises a tool body with a passage, an inlet in the upper section, perforating jets in the lower section, and a stepped outer diameter configured to seat on a production tubing string restriction such as a seat nipple. The tool may be lowered into the production tubing string without the need to trip the production tubing string in and out of the wellbore.
US10174582B2
A well system includes an annular barrier separating the tubing-casing annulus into an upper annulus and a lower annulus and a barrier valve coupled with the annular barrier, the barrier valve permitting one-way fluid communication from the upper annulus to the lower annulus.
US10174581B2
In one embodiment, a filler ring for use with a packer element with a packer element radial stiffness and a packer element confined circumferential stiffness is disclosed, including, a filler ring body with a filler ring body radial stiffness greater than the packer element radial stiffness and a filler ring body circumferential stiffness less than the packer element confined circumferential stiffness. In another embodiment, a method to selectively deform a packer element with a packer element radial stiffness and a packer element confined circumferential stiffness is disclosed, including providing a filler ring body with a filler ring body radial stiffness greater than the packer element radial stiffness and a filler ring body circumferential stiffness less than the packer element confined circumferential stiffness, deforming the packer in a radial direction via the filler ring body, deforming the filler ring body in an axial direction in response to deformation of the packer element.
US10174575B2
An apparatus and system for accessing a flow system (such as a subsea tree) in a subsea oil and gas production system, and method of use. The apparatus comprises a body defining a conduit therethrough and a first connector for connecting the body to the flow system. A second connector is configured for connecting the body to an intervention apparatus, such as an injection or sampling equipment. In use, the conduit provides an intervention path from the intervention apparatus to the flow system. Aspects of the invention relate to combined injection and sampling units, and have particular application to well scale squeeze operations.
US10174574B2
A wellhead assembly having an insert that is disposed between a wellhead housing and casing hanger. Axial slots through the insert define a flow path between the wellhead housing and casing hanger. The insert is made from a higher strength material and supports a load exerted between the casing hanger and wellhead housing. The insert is a ring like member, and the slots can more easily be machined in the insert than in the wellhead housing.
US10174573B2
A downhole actuator device comprises a central shaft formed with external threads; a sleeve formed with internal threads and placed substantially concentrically around the shaft; and an electromotor arranged to rotate at least a first one of said shaft and said sleeve so that a second one of said shaft and said sleeve may be moved linearly relative to the first one of said shaft and said sleeve. The actuator further comprises a plurality of roller screws that are rotatingly supported between the shall and sleeve in engagement with said external threads on the shaft and said internal threads on the sleeve.
US10174569B2
An NMR/MRI-based integrated system for analyzing and treating of a drilling mud for drilling mud recycling line; the system comprising drilling mud recycling equipment; an NMR/MRI device configured to provide at least one image of at least a portion of the drilling mud at least one characterized recycling step in the drilling mud recycling line; and a processor for analyzing and controlling the recycling of the drilling mud; wherein the NMR/MRI-based integrated system is operating in a method of analyzing the NMR/MRI image online; operatively communicating results of the analysis to the drilling mud recycling equipment; and online feedback controlling at least one step in the recycling of the drilling mud recycling equipment, thereby controlling automatically at least one step in the recycling of the drilling mud recycling.
US10174564B1
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for cleaning an oil and gas well riser section or assembly on location offshore that includes a larger diameter central pipe and a plurality of smaller diameter pipes that are spaced radially away from the central larger diameter pipe. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to an improved method and apparatus for cleaning oil and gas well riser sections wherein a specially configured cap or pair of caps are fitted to the ends of the riser which enable pressure washing cleaning tools (or a camera) to be inserted into and through a selected one of the pipes including either a smaller diameter of the pipes or the central larger diameter pipe and wherein the cap continuously collects spent cleaning fluid and debris, allowing the cleaning process to be done on location without transporting the riser section back onshore. In one embodiment, a specially configured back out preventer can be used to prevent inadvertent backwards travel of the cleaning tool during cleaning.
US10174562B2
Methods of forming a polycrystalline table may involve disposing a plurality of particles comprising a superabrasive material, a substrate comprising a hard material, and a catalyst material in a mold. The plurality of particles may be partially sintered in the presence of the catalyst material to form a brown polycrystalline table having a first permeability attached to an end of the substrate. The substrate may be removed from the brown polycrystalline table and catalyst material may be removed from the brown polycrystalline table. The brown polycrystalline table may then be fully sintered to form a polycrystalline table having a reduced, second permeability. Intermediate structures formed during a process of attaching a polycrystalline table to a substrate may include a substantially fully leached brown polycrystalline table. The substantially fully leached brown polycrystalline table may include a plurality of interbonded grains of a superabrasive material.
US10174551B2
A weighted rail is provided that skews and/or counterbalances an associated shade member to counteract an asymmetric force applied to the rail by the shade member. The rail may include an independent weight that is at least partially positioned rearwardly of a longitudinal axis of the rail, thereby counterbalancing a force applied to the rail by the shade member that tends to rotate the rail about its longitudinal axis. Additionally, or alternatively, the weight may be movable along a length of the rail to counterbalance a force applied to the rail by the shade member that tends to rotate the rail about an axis that is orthogonal to its longitudinal axis and to the plane of the shade member. The rail is attachable to a variety of shade members including, but not limited to, shade members having multiple panels attached to each other with a plurality of vanes.
US10174549B1
A universal omni adaptor includes a connection board as a main body. The connection board includes a board main body, a first connection section and a second connection section. The board main body is for installing a blind assembly thereunder. The board main body is formed with several breakage slits, whereby the connection board can be broken along one of the breakage slits to shorten the length in adaptation to different sizes of windows, whereby the blind can be installed on different sizes of windows. The first and second connection sections are formed with toothed stripes at different heights, whereby the decorative panel can be selectively assembled in a higher position or a lower position for installation on different sizes of windows to speed the installation of the blind assembly.
US10174544B2
A corner key includes a heel and at least one leg extending along an axis from the heel. The at least one leg includes a retention element and a lifting cam such that upon insertion into a frame member the lifting cam induces a bending stress in the retention element.
US10174526B2
A bicycle lock including a lock body having a locked state and an unlocked state. A movable shackle is operatively coupled to the lock body, wherein the lock body in the locked state prevents movement of the movable shackle, and wherein the lock body in the unlocked state enables movement of the movable shackle. A pawl is mounted to one of the lock body and the movable shackle. A rack is configured to engage the pawl, and wherein the unlocked state of the lock body enables at least one of bidirectional movement of the pawl and rotational movement of the rack away from engagement with the pawl.
US10174519B1
Apparatus to wirelessly monitor a position of a hatch are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a hatch to be coupled to a fluid tank, a latch to secure the hatch in a closed position, and a sensor to detect whether the latch is securing the hatch in a closed position.
US10174516B2
A liquid-submersible vacuum system includes a housing canister enclosing a filtration element and a water pump. Power comes from a power converter that plugs into a standard AC power supply. The vacuum system further includes a diffuser cap and a discharge hose cap, with each providing the vacuum system with a discrete mode of operation.
US10174510B2
An apparatus includes a body assembly configured for installation relative to a wall assembly that extends vertically. The wall assembly is supported by a wall-support structure that extends vertically. The wall assembly has a wall edge. The wall-support structure is positioned proximate to any one of a sub-floor and a finish floor that extends horizontally. The body assembly includes a wall-support contact portion configured to be coupled to the wall-support structure. The wall-support contact portion extends vertically. A finished-edge portion extends horizontally from the wall-support contact portion in such a way that the finished-edge portion is spaced apart from any one of the sub-floor and the finish floor. A horizontal portion extends vertically from the finished-edge portion. A wall-contact portion extends upwardly from the horizontal portion. A visual-reveal feature is formed between the finished-edge portion and the top of any one of the sub-floor and the finish floor.
US10174508B2
A joint tape for drywall includes a substrate layer having an elongate shape in a lengthwise direction and being flexible in the lengthwise direction and in a transverse direction. The tape further includes a covering layer disposed in bonding relation on the substrate layer. The covering layer is rigid in the transverse direction and configured to withstand compressive forces applied generally in the transverse direction and shear stresses applied generally along the transverse direction.
US10174497B2
The present invention relates to a prefabricated construction system and method, for erecting constructions by means of the assembly of prefabricated structural elements obtained by cutting flat materials, forming structural nodes by means of coupling at least a first coupling configuration formed by first slots made in a plurality of parallel boards forming a first structural element with at least a second coupling configuration formed by second slots made in a plurality of parallel boards forming a second structural element, providing a structural core in the form of an array having interstitial openings going through it which allow the coupling of third and fourth coupling configurations of third and fourth structural elements.
US10174487B2
A rationed water outlet device with a variable water flow volume includes a process control module including an outlet valve, a flow meter, a control chip, and an encoder that includes an unlimited outlet gear and a plurality of rationed outlet gears which are switchably connected to the outlet valve to provide respectively, when engaged, an unlimited water flow volume or a selected rationed water flow volume from among a plurality of rationed water flow volumes, and that is electrically connected to the control chip to provide gear selection information; a volume option switch that is rotatably linked to the encoder for engaging the unlimited outlet gear or one rationed outlet gear; and an outlet control switch that is independent of the volume option switch and that is engaged after the volume option switch is engaged.
US10174473B2
A system of actively introducing opposite phase vibrations to reduce or cancel vibrations caused by operating a snow plow. The invention also relates to a method of actively introducing such opposite phase vibrations.
US10174472B2
A method of absorbing energy from a moving object upon impact, where the method includes utilizing at least two types of energy absorbing elements to absorb at least some of the energy of the impact in an energy absorbing apparatus. A first type of energy absorbing element absorbs the majority of the energy absorbed by the apparatus and subsequent types of energy absorbing elements continue to absorb energy after the first type of energy absorbing element has ceased operation and can no longer absorb energy.
US10174469B2
A device for handling traffic cones that may equip a vehicle, including a frame, a mechanism for transferring the cones from a provisioning unit to a handling station, a cone gripping unit, and mechanism for moving the gripping unit between the handling station and release points. The moving mechanism includes a lifting unit ensuring vertical movement for raising and lowering the gripping unit, a translation unit ensuring the transverse horizontal movement of the lifting unit and the gripping unit, the translation unit includes at least one first slider that includes a fixed part rigidly connected to the frame and a part that can move in translation, a second slider that includes a part rigidly connected to the movable part of the first slider and a second part that can move in translation.
US10174462B2
A method for waterproofing of bridges (1) and similar structures aimed at railway traffic is described, the structures comprising an arch or deck structure, on which there is placed a ballast (M) of gravel or crushed stone (2) upon which the tracks (6) extend between the two ends of the bridge (1). The waterproofing is obtained first by the removal of the tracks (6) and a reduced layer (S) of gravel or crushed stone (2), leaving in place the remaining part of gravel or crushed stone (2), and then by laying one or more sheets (10) of cured rubber on the remaining part of gravel or crushed stone (2). The thickness of the rubber is such as to be sufficiently resistant to perforation by the gravel or crushed stone (2), which is subsequently placed thereon to complete the ballast, Finally, the previously removed tracks (6) are set in place again. According to the method, a joint is made between the sheets (10) by means of a connection of mechanical type, with a positive locking shape fit, or a chemical bond using a suitable adhesive.
US10174455B2
A pulp fiber with an enhanced carboxyl content resulting in improved antimicrobial, anti-yellowing and absorptive properties. Methods for making the kraft pulp fiber and products made from it are also described.
US10174443B2
A process for improving weavability of a yarn is described. The process has a step of application of a chitosan-containing reinforcement product and a later chitosan crosslinking step.
US10174441B2
A laminated nonwoven fabric (NF) includes a first NF containing first fibers and a second NF containing second fibers and laminated on the first NF, and has a cut-off edge at an end thereof. An average diameter of the first fibers is larger than that of the second fibers not more than 3 μm. 50% by mass to 70% by mass, inclusive, of the second fibers satisfy x≥y, and 5% by mass to 30% by mass, inclusive, thereof satisfy x
US10174434B2
A plating solution including a soluble salt containing at least a stannous salt; an acid selected from organic acid and inorganic acid or a salt thereof; and an additive containing phosphonium salt with two or more of aromatic rings is provided.
US10174432B2
The invention relates to methods and plating baths for electrodepositing a dark chromium layer on a workpiece. The trivalent chromium electroplating baths comprise sulphur compounds and the methods for electrodepositing a dark chromium layer employ these trivalent chromium electroplating baths. The dark chromium deposits and workpieces carrying dark chromium deposits are suited for application for decorative purposes.
US10174428B2
An etchant for copper includes an acid and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic noncyclic compound, an aliphatic heterocyclic compound and a heteroaromatic compound. The aliphatic noncyclic compound is a saturated aliphatic noncyclic compound (A) including only two or more nitrogen atoms as heteroatoms, and 2 to 10 carbon atoms. The aliphatic heterocyclic compound is a compound (B) including a five-, six-, or seven-membered ring having one or more nitrogen atoms as one or more heteroatoms constituting the ring. The heteroaromatic compound is a compound (C) including a six-membered heteroaromatic ring having one or more nitrogen atoms as one or more heteroatoms constituting the ring.
US10174424B2
Methods for producing coatings on substrates are provided. These methods comprise the steps of introducing the substrate in a photo-initiated chemical vapor deposition reactor, introducing a gas precursor in the reactor, irradiating said gas precursor with UV radiation at a given wavelength, thereby at least partly photodissociating the gas precursor, until the coating is formed. In one method, the gas precursor is a mixture comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen. In another method, the pressure in the react or is between about 0.75 and 1.25 atm and the gas precursor has an absorption cross section of about 5×10−16 cm2/molecule or less at said given wavelength. In another aspect, the substrate is ash.
US10174419B2
The present invention provides a gallium nitride sintered body and a gallium nitride molded article which have high density and low oxygen content without using a special apparatus. According to the first embodiment, a gallium nitride sintered body, which is characterized by having density of 2.5 g/cm3 to less than 5.0 g/cm3 and an intensity ratio of the gallium oxide peak of the (002) plane to the gallium nitride peak of the (002) plane of less than 3%, which is determined by X-ray diffraction analysis, can be obtained. According to the second embodiment, a metal gallium-impregnated gallium nitride molded article, which is characterized by comprising a gallium nitride phase and a metal gallium phase that exist as separate phases and having a molar ratio, Ga/(Ga+N), of 55% to 80%, can be obtained.
US10174418B1
Ag/C crystalline nanocomposite films and a method of forming the films with controllable Ag/C molar ratios using a concurrent excimer laser-induced ablation of a silver target and a hydrocarbon gas under a vacuum atmosphere. Metal/Carbon nanocomposites prepared by concurrent irradiation of a metal target, in the presence of a hydrocarbon gas, during an excimer laser induced process.
US10174406B2
A sheet material of a copper alloy has a chemical composition comprising 1.2 to 5.0 wt % of titanium, and the balance being copper and unavoidable impurities, the material having a mean crystal grain size of 5 to 25 μm and (maximum crystal grain size−minimum crystal grain size)/(mean crystal grain size) being 0.20 or less, assuming that the maximum, minimum and mean values of mean values, each of which is the mean value of crystal grain sizes in a corresponding one of a plurality of regions which are selected from the surface of the sheet material at random and which have the same shape and size, are the maximum, minimum and mean crystal grain sizes, respectively, and the material having a crystal orientation satisfying I{420}/I0{420}>1.0, assuming that the intensities of X-ray diffraction on the {420} crystal plane of the surface of the material and the standard powder of pure copper are I{420} and I0{420}, respectively.
US10174404B2
Nanofiltration can be used to improve a hydrometallurgical process in which valuable metal is extracted from ore or tailings by leaching with a suitable lixiviant. The process requires at least two nanofiltration subsystems in which raffinate from a solvent extraction process is treated in a nanofiltration subsystem, after which permeate therefrom is combined with a pregnant solution stream and is treated in a second nanofiltration subsystem. This arrangement can lead to advantages in the amount of lixiviant recovered, in the raw materials required, in the effluent produced, in the size of plant, and in overall cost.
US10174402B2
There are provided processes for preparing alumina. These processes can comprise leaching an aluminum-containing material with HCl so as to obtain a leachate comprising aluminum ions and a solid, and separating said solid from said leachate; reacting said leachate with HCl so as to obtain a liquid and a precipitate comprising said aluminum ions in the form of AlCl3, and separating said precipitate from said liquid; and heating said precipitate under conditions effective for converting AlCl3 into Al2O3 and optionally recovering gaseous HCl so-produced. These processes can also be used for preparing various other products such as hematite, MgO, silica and oxides of various metals, sulphates and chlorides of various metals, as well as rare earth elements, rare metals and aluminum.
US10174394B2
An object of the present invention is to provide steel for blades with a significantly improved carbide concentration and a method for producing the same. The steel for blades has a metal composition consisting of, by mass, 0.55% to 0.8% C, not more than 1.0% Si, not more than 1.0% Mn, 12.0% to 14.0% Cr, and the balance of Fe with inevitable impurities, wherein the number of carbides in a ferrite structure of the steel for blades is 600 to 1,000 per an area of 100 μm2.
US10174390B2
Iron-based alloys and articles in strips, sheets, workpieces and the like are converted into high strength steel with a minimum of cost, time and effort, including producing dual phase materials. This is achievable by extremely rapid micro-treating of low, medium, and high carbon iron-based alloys and articles by rapid heating and rapid cooling at least a portion of the alloy/article. This heating step involves nearly immediately heating the iron-based alloy to a selected temperature above its austenite conversion temperature. Then, the alloy is immediately quenched, also at an extremely fast rate, on at least a portion of the iron-based alloy in a quenching unit adjacent the heating unit. This procedure forms high strength alloy in a desired area, depending upon where the treatment was performed.
US10174384B2
The present invention relates to the field of cancer. More specifically, the present invention provides methods and compositions for treating cancer and predicting patient survival. In one embodiment, a method comprises (a) obtaining a biological sample from the patient; and (b) detecting hypermethylation of ZMIZ1 using primers that specifically bind to CpG island 139 at the alternative promoter of the ZMIZ1 gene.
US10174374B2
This invention relates to methods for the detection of a bovine that is affected by or carrier of brachyspina. It is based on the identification of a 3.3 Kb deletion in the bovine FANCI gene that is shown to cause the brachyspina syndrome. The present invention provides methods and uses for determining whether a bovine is affected by or carrier of brachyspina by analyzing its genomic DNA or its RNA. The methods can be used to perform marker assisted selection or genomic selection for increased fertility in said bovine.
US10174370B2
The present invention relates to a non-destructive method for analyzing maternal DNA of a seed. In this method the DNA may be dislodged from the seed coat surface and may be used to collect information on the genome of the maternal parent of the seed. Also, the present invention provides a high throughput DNA analysis system for large plant populations.
US10174369B2
The present disclosure provides methods for determining the ploidy status of a chromosome in a gestating fetus from genotypic data measured from a mixed sample of DNA comprising DNA from both the mother of the fetus and from the fetus, and optionally from genotypic data from the mother and father. The ploidy state is determined by using a joint distribution model to create a plurality of expected allele distributions for different possible fetal ploidy states given the parental genotypic data, and comparing the expected allelic distributions to the pattern of measured allelic distributions measured in the mixed sample, and choosing the ploidy state whose expected allelic distribution pattern most closely matches the observed allelic distribution pattern. The mixed sample of DNA may be preferentially enriched at a plurality of polymorphic loci in a way that minimizes the allelic bias, for example using massively multiplexed targeted PCR.
US10174357B2
A method for quantifying cardiolipin in a sample, comprises the steps of: (1) treating the sample with phospholipase D, glycerol kinase, glycerol-3-phosphate oxidase, and peroxidase and (2) measuring the fluorescence intensity, absorbance, or luminescence intensity of a compound generated in step (1) to quantify cardiolipin using a calibration curve obtained beforehand; and a kit for quantifying cardiolipin comprises phospholipase D, glycerol kinase, glycerol-3-phosphate oxidase, and peroxidase.
US10174351B2
The invention relates to a process for the hydrolysis of cellulose containing biomass which comprises a liquefaction step in which a first enzyme or first enzyme composition is added to liquefy at least part of the solids present in the biomass and to keep the viscosity of the cellulose containing biomass below 1000 cP, preferably below 800 cP, more preferably below 600 cP in the liquefaction step; followed by a saccharification step in which a second enzyme composition is added to form oligomeric and/or monomeric sugars; and whereby the first enzyme or first enzyme composition is different from the second enzyme composition; whereby the first enzyme or first enzyme composition comprises an endoglucanase; whereby the second enzyme composition comprises a cellulase; and whereby the first enzyme or first enzyme composition comprises more endogluconase than the second enzyme composition (expressed in protein wt %).
US10174349B2
The invention relates to a cell which has been genetically modified so as to be capable of producing more 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid or more polyhydroxyalkanoates containing 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid monomer units than its wild type, characterized in that 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid or polyhydroxyalkanoates containing 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid monomer units are produced via acetoacetyl-coenzyme A as intermediate and 3-hydroxybutyryl-coenzyme A as precursor.
US10174347B2
Aspects of the invention relate to methods for producing lactic acid from organic waste, comprising contacting organic waste with a microbial community to form a fermentation mixture, and fermenting the fermentation mixture under controlled pH and temperature conditions for a time sufficient to produce lactic acid.
US10174345B2
Polypeptides having ketol-acid reductoisomerase activity are provided. Also disclosed are recombinant host cells comprising isobutanol biosynthetic pathways employing such polypeptides. Methods for producing isobutanol employing host cells comprising the polypeptides having ketol-acid reductoisomerase activity are also disclosed.
US10174337B2
The subject invention provides novel plants that are not only resistant to 2,4-D and other phenoxy auxin herbicides, but also to aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides. Heretofore, there was no expectation or suggestion that a plant with both of these advantageous properties could be produced by the introduction of a single gene. The subject invention also includes plants that produce one or more enzymes of the subject invention alone or “stacked” together with another herbicide resistance gene, preferably a glyphosate resistance gene, so as to provide broader and more robust weed control, increased treatment flexibility, and improved herbicide resistance management options. More specifically, preferred enzymes and genes for use according to the subject invention are referred to herein as AAD (aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenase) genes and proteins. No α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase enzyme has previously been reported to have the ability to degrade herbicides of different chemical classes and modes of action. This highly novel discovery is the basis of significant herbicide tolerant crop trait opportunities as well as development of selectable marker technology. The subject invention also includes related methods of controlling weeds. The subject invention enables novel combinations of herbicides to be used in new ways. Furthermore, the subject invention provides novel methods of preventing the formation of, and controlling, weeds that are resistant (or naturally more tolerant) to one or more herbicides such as glyphosate.
US10174333B2
1) A fused gene including a nucleic acid sequence which affects the biosynthesis or accumulation of neutral lipid and a phosphorus deficiency-responsive expression control sequence which is operably linked to the nucleic acid sequence and controls the expression of the nucleic acid sequence, 2) a transgenic plant which contains the fused gene, 3) a method for manufacturing vegetable fat or oil, including a cultivation step of cultivating the transgenic plant, and 4) a method for manufacturing vegetable fat or oil in which the cultivation step is a step of cultivating the transgenic plant in a phosphorus-deficient state are provided.
US10174327B2
The present disclosure provides an RNA oligonucleotide having a helical bend structure and a use thereof. Specifically, double strands formed by a complementary binding of two sequences have a helical bend structure in the RNA oligonucleotide. The RNA oligonucleotide can increase the expression of interferon-β or ISG56 and thus can be used as an immune system enhancer.
US10174314B2
The invention relates to the diagnostic and therapeutic uses of a miRNA-323, miRNA-342, miRNA-326, miRNA-371, miRNA-3157 and/or miRNA-345 molecule, an equivalent or a source thereof in a disease and condition associated with a squamous cell carcinoma such as head and neck cancer or a preneoplastic mucosal change.
US10174308B2
Provided herein are methods and components for successive capture of nucleic acids using magnetic glass particles.
US10174306B2
Provided are a method for preparing kaolin immobilized GY2B bacteria and use thereof.
US10174300B2
The invention relates to a polypeptide, a corresponding nucleic acid molecule, a construct and/or vector and/or cell comprising such nucleic acid molecule and/or a composition comprising said polypeptide, nucleic acid molecule, construct, vector and/or cell. The invention further relates to such composition for medical use, preferably for use in treating an infectious disease. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of said polypeptide, nucleic acid molecule, construct, vector, cell and/or composition as an antimicrobial, preferably as a food additive or disinfectant, or for detecting bacteria, preferably in a diagnostic application.
US10174295B1
The present disclosure provides compositions including recombinant K1E bacteriophages, methods for making the same, and uses thereof. The recombinant K1E bacteriophages disclosed herein are useful for the identification and/or antibiotic susceptibility profiling of specific bacterial strains/species present in a sample.
US10174294B1
The present disclosure provides compositions including recombinant K2 bacteriophages, methods for making the same, and uses thereof. The recombinant K2 bacteriophages disclosed herein are useful for the identification and/or antibiotic susceptibility profiling of specific bacterial strains/species present in a sample.
US10174293B1
The present disclosure provides compositions including recombinant PB1 bacteriophages, methods for making the same, and uses thereof. The recombinant PB1 bacteriophages disclosed herein are useful for the identification and/or antibiotic susceptibility profiling of specific bacterial strains/species present in a sample.
US10174287B2
The present invention relates to a composition for inducing direct transdifferentiation of a somatic cell into a vascular progenitor cell and a use thereof and, more specifically, to a composition for inducing direct transdifferentiation of a somatic cell into a vascular progenitor cell, a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of ischemic vascular diseases, a cell therapeutic agent for the prevention or treatment of ischemic vascular diseases, a composition for screening a therapeutic drug for ischemic vascular diseases, a 3D printing biological material composition for the production of an artificial tissue for the treatment of ischemic vascular diseases, and a method for direct transdifferentiation of a somatic cell into a vascular progenitor cell. By producing a vascular progenitor cell by direct transdifferentiation of a somatic cell according to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the production period of the vascular progenitor cell and to avoid the formation of teratoma, which is a side effect of an induced pluripotent stem cell, thereby minimizing the side effects of a stem cell therapeutic agent.
US10174286B2
The invention relates to a method of preparing pancreatic islet-like cell structures characterized by a unique combination of morphological and functional features which make them particularly suitable for use in both clinical and drug screening application, as well as to the pancreatic islet-like cell structures obtained therefrom.
US10174282B2
The present invention relates to a method for culturing microalgae, including: (a) immersing a photobioreactor including a culture container through which a culture solution but not microalgae passes into environmental water; and (b) supplying additional environmental water into the culture container. Through the present invention, it is expected that microalgae can be economically and efficiently mass cultured.
US10174280B2
An apparatus, system and method providing a fluid flow suitable to grow and maintain living cells in the fluid flow are disclosed. The apparatus includes a fluid displacement apparatus capable of providing at least one of positive and negative displacement of the fluid and configured to indirectly displace the fluid, an in-line flow sensor configured to directly measure the fluid flow, and a feed-back control in communication with the fluid displacement apparatus and the in-line flow sensor, wherein the feed-back control is configured to continuously control the fluid flow in response to the flow sensor measurements.
US10174277B1
A media tray system may include a tray having a base wall and a perimeter wall extending upwardly from the base wall and having an upper edge. The system may also include a cover having a top wall and a side wall extending downwardly from the top wall to extend about the perimeter wall of the tray when the cover is in a closed condition with respect to the tray, with the side wall having a lower edge. The system may further include a cover support structure located at the first end of the tray and the first end of the first end of the cover. The cover support structure may be configured to support the cover in an access condition permitting access to the tray interior of the tray through a gap formed between an upper edge of the tray and the lower edge of the cover.
US10174274B2
The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine that is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.
US10174265B2
The present invention relates to a process for co-gasification of two or more carbonaceous feedstock, said process comprising combusting a first carbonaceous feedstock having high calorific value with low ash and high hydrogen content, to produce a heated effluent; carrying the heated effluent to second reactor where the heated effluent reacts with a second carbonaceous feedstock, having low calorific value with high ash and low hydrogen content, to produce synthesis gas. The present invention also relates to an apparatus for co-gasification of two or more carbonaceous feedstock, comprising a first reactor (3), having a first feedstock inlet port (1), a oxygen or air inlet port (2), a steam inlet port (9), a ash removal port (7), and a solid recycle port (6); a first cyclone separator (5) connected to the first reactor (3) through a first cyclone separator inlet port (4); a second reactor (16), having a second feedstock inlet port (10), and a ash removal port (15), the second reactor is connected to the first cyclone separator (5) through a gaseous inlet port (8); and a second cyclone separator (12), having a fine particles removal port (13), and an effluent port (14), wherein the second cyclone separator is connected to the second reactor through a second cyclone separator inlet port (11).
US10174263B2
The invention relates to a process for producing C2 and C3 hydrocarbons, comprising a) subjecting a mixed hydrocarbon feedstream to first hydrocracking in the presence of a first hydrocracking catalyst to produce a first hydrocracking product stream; b) separating the first hydrocracking product stream to provide a light hydrocarbon stream comprising C4− hydrocarbons and c) subjecting the light hydrocarbon stream to C4 hydrocracking in the presence of a C4 hydrocracking catalyst to obtain a C4 hydrocracking product stream comprising C2 and C3 hydrocarbons.
US10174259B2
The present invention provides a process for producing liquid hydrocarbon products from a solid biomass feedstock, said process comprising the steps of: a) providing in a first hydropyrolysis reactor vessel a first hydropyrolysis catalyst composition; b) contacting the solid biomass feedstock with said first hydropyrolysis catalyst composition and molecular hydrogen in said first hydropyrolysis reactor vessel to produce a product stream comprising partially deoxygenated hydropyrolysis product, H2O, H2, CO2, CO, C1-C3 gases, char and catalyst fines; c) removing said char and catalyst fines from said product stream; d) hydroconverting said partially deoxygenated hydropyrolysis product in a hydroconversion reactor vessel in the presence of one or more hydroconversion catalyst and of the H2O, CO2, CO, H2, and C1-C3 gas generated in step a), to produce a vapor phase product comprising substantially fully deoxygenated hydrocarbon product, H2O, CO, CO2, and C1-C3 gases.
US10174255B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a thermosetting composition with a photo-alignment property, including a copolymer containing a photo-alignment constitutional unit, and a thermal cross-linking constitutional unit in which a thermal cross-linking group is bonded via a straight-chain alkylene group with a carbon number of 4 to 11, or via a polyethylene glycol group with a cycle number of 2 to 5.
US10174241B2
Methods for forming a fluid seal in a subterranean formation may comprise: providing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous carrier fluid, a sealant composition, and a crosslinked polysaccharide composition. The treatment fluid is introduced into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation and the crosslinked polysaccharide composition is formed into a viscosified gel in the wellbore. The viscosified gel substantially spans the diameter of the wellbore and holds the sealant composition in place. After forming the crosslinked polysaccharide composition into a viscosified gel in the wellbore, forming a fluid seal in the wellbore with the sealant composition.
US10174240B2
A treatment method for a hydrocarbon well includes placing a well treatment fluid containing a viscosifying agent in the well and, using the viscosifying agent, attaining a first viscosity of the fluid in the well. The method includes combining a porphyrin compound with the fluid and, using the porphyrin compound, decreasing viscosity of the fluid in the well to a second viscosity less than the first viscosity. A hydrocarbon well treatment fluid includes an aqueous carrier fluid, a polymer viscosifying agent, and a chlorophyll compound.
US10174237B2
Provided is a thermal conductive silicone composition exhibiting no peeling of a heat dissipation grease and capable of maintaining a low thermal resistance, even under a severe condition. The thermal conductive silicone composition contains: (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups in one molecule and exhibiting a kinetic viscosity of 10 to 100,000 mm2/s at 25° C.; (B) a one-terminal-trifunctional hydrolyzable methylpolysiloxane; (C) an aluminum powder; (D) a zinc oxide powder; (E) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane; (F) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane other than the component (E); and (G) a platinum-based catalyst for hydrosilylation, wherein when a liquid obtained by mixing and dispersing the composition in toluene which is twice the amount of the composition has been sieved, a residue of not more than 5 ppm will be observed if using a 250 mesh sieve, and a residue of not less than 200 ppm will be observed if using a 440 mesh sieve.
US10174234B2
A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including an addition reaction type silicone polymer as a component (A); an ultraviolet absorber as a component (B); and a platinum group metal catalyst as a component (C). The ultraviolet absorber as the component (B) includes a benzophenone-based ultraviolet absorber and its amount is set to a value within the range of 1 part to 4 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the addition reaction type silicone polymer as the component (A). The amount of the platinum group metal catalyst as the component (C) is set to a value within the range of 0.001 parts to 0.05 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the addition reaction type silicone polymer as the component (A).
US10174226B2
An adhesive composition comprising silver particles containing silver atoms and zinc particles containing metallic zinc, wherein the silver atom content is 90 mass % or greater and the zinc atom content is from 0.01 mass % to 0.6 mass %, with respect to the total transition metal atoms in the solid portion of the adhesive composition.
US10174225B2
An adhesive composition, capable of achieving excellent life performance and a wide margin for mounting, includes a cationic polymerizable compound, an aluminum chelate/silanol-based curing catalyst, and a nucleophilic compound containing a sulfur atom having an unshared electron pair. The nucleophilic compound is a thiol compound or an episulfide compound. The aluminum chelate/silanol-based curing catalyst includes an aluminum chelate curing agent, and a silanol compound or a silane coupling agent. The aluminum chelate curing agent constitutes a latent aluminum chelate curing agent carried by a porous resin obtained through interfacial polymerization of a polyfunctional isocyanate compound.
US10174224B2
Provided is a urethane adhesive composition for a touch panel having a glass transition temperature between −20° C. to −50° C., and which, as a cured composition, has an elasticity of 50,000 Pa to 70,000 Pa at 60° C. to 80° C.
US10174223B2
In some variations, the invention provides a curable adhesive formulation comprising a curable liquid precursor capable of frontal polymerization, wherein the liquid precursor comprises a monomer and a polymerization catalyst, and frontal-polymerization-triggering susceptors in contact with, or contained within, the liquid precursor. The susceptors may include conducting and/or magnetic solid particles capable of induction heating in the presence of a remotely applied electromagnetic field. Other variations provide a polymer-curing system comprising a curable liquid precursor, frontal-polymerization-triggering susceptors, and an apparatus configured to remotely produce an alternating electromagnetic field in line-of-sight with the susceptors (but not necessarily in line-of-sight with the liquid precursor), thereby generating induction heating to initiate the frontal polymerization. The susceptors may be about 0.1 wt % to about 50 wt % of the curable formulation. Other variations provide a method of curing an adhesive joint through an opaque barrier.
US10174217B2
Provided is an ink including: a coloring material; an organic solvent; resin particles; an amine compound; and water, wherein the resin particles include urethane resin particles, and urethane-modified acrylic resin particles including a core portion containing an acrylic resin and a shell portion formed on a surface of the core portion and containing at least a urethane resin, and wherein the amine compound has a boiling point of 120 degrees C. or higher but 200 degrees C. or lower and a molecular weight of 100 or less.
US10174215B2
Provided is an ink containing a compound represented by general formula (1) below where R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, n represents an integer of 2 or greater, a plurality of R1 may be the same as or different from each other, X represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, Y represents a tertiary hydroxyl group, or a group having an ester structure, and m represents an integer of 1 or greater.
US10174209B2
This invention provides a masking material that can be used to protect an underling surface (e.g. an automobile surface) during an overcoating (e.g. painting) operation. The masking material in one embodiment includes a thickener and a pH control agent and water. The masking material can be applied to a surface that is to be protected from paint overspray or other coating processes, allowed to dry, and the surface then coated (e.g. with paint). After drying of the paint, or other coating, the masking material can removed by water washing.
