US10198554B2
Example systems, methods and computer program products for cloud-based, anatomy-specific identification, processing and routing of image data in a cloud infrastructure are disclosed. An example method includes evaluating, automatically by a particularly programmed processor in a cloud infrastructure, image data to identify an anatomy in the image data. The example method includes processing, automatically by the processor, the image data based on a processing algorithm determined by the processor based on the anatomy identified in the image data. The example method also includes routing, automatically by the processor, the image data to a data consumer based on a routing strategy determined by the processor based on the anatomy identified in the image data. The example method includes generating, automatically by the processor based on the processing and routing, at least one of a push of the image data and a notification of availability of the image data.
US10198544B2
A method for improving OpenCL hardware execution efficiency described in this invention comprises the following steps: compiling a kernel implemented in OpenCL, generating Verilog code with a high-level synthesis tool; analyzing the interfaces of auto-generated Verilog code, recording signals, timing sequence, and function of the interfaces; manually modifying and optimizing the Verilog code; inserting a file replacement command in the script responsible for flow control, replacing the auto-generated code with the optimized Verilog code; rerunning OpenCL compiler and generating an ultimate FPGA configuration file. The invention makes manual optimization of the auto-generated Verilog code becomes possible, by parsing the compilation flow of OpenCL environment and analyzing the structure and interfaces of the auto-generated Verilog code. It promotes the performance of kernels, by increasing working frequency, achieving more parallelism and taking full advantages of FPGA hardware resources, and improves the execution efficiency of OpenCL on FPGA platform significantly.
US10198542B2
In a compression scan, the number of test steps is reduced without reducing a defection efficiency. A semiconductor apparatus includes one or more scan chains each including one or more MMSFFs being serially connected and combinational circuits and can switch between a scan shift operation and a capture operation. The MMSFF includes an MUX that selects one of an external input test signal which is externally input and a shift test signal which is input via the MMSFF in a preceding stage in the same scan chain, and an FF that outputs one of the external input test signal and the shift test signal which has been selected by the MUX.
US10198536B2
A simulation system in particular for a control system which controls a process running in a technical system is provided. The control system has at least one first process environment embodied as a container and which is also designed to simulate the automatic process to be run in the system and includes corresponding interfaces to the guidance system. The simulation system includes, in addition to the first process environment, a second process environment embodied as a container for simulating the hardware of the periphery of the guidance system and a third process environment embodied as a container for simulating the process to be run in the technical system. In another embodiment, all process environments can also be combined to form one process environment. In both variations, the interfaces of the first process environment and the interfaces of the second process environment are practically identical to the interfaces of the third process environment. A method for carrying out a simulation, a corresponding control system, and computer program product are also provided.
US10198529B2
The present invention is related to an index-based processing apparatus and method for listing triangles in massive graphs. The present invention provides an index join based triangle listing algorithm by presenting the new notions of vertex range index and potential cone vertex index. Also the present invention provides accessing indexed data asynchronously and joining them to list triangles using a multi-threaded parallel processing technique.
US10198527B2
Within a graphical user interface, a window may be spawned at one point in time and then populated with content at a later point in time. By execution of browser-executable code by a user's device and corresponding server-side code by a machine, a pop-under window may be spawned by the user's device. The spawned pop-under window may be initially hidden by the user's browser window and may be initially loaded with no content or default content. The device may monitor the graphical user interface for search criteria submitted by the user and update the spawned pop-under window based on such search criteria. If the user exits the webpage, and if rules allow presentation of a pop-under window, the pop-under window may be updated by the device for presentation to the user. Based on interest or lack of interest in the updated content, the user may revisit the website.
US10198524B1
Techniques for providing dynamic categories are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for providing dynamic categories includes receiving user context data, and dynamically determining a plurality of categories for the user based on the user context data, in which the plurality of categories are for categorizing content on a web site. For example, the user context data can be based on monitored user behavior on a web site, and one or more of the plurality of categories can include a synthesized category on the web site that is dynamically generated based on the monitored user behavior on the web site.
US10198518B2
Techniques include receiving a search query from a user device, receiving an indication of a current application (app) state of a native app executing on the device from the device, and identifying app state records based on the query and the indication. Each app state record includes an app access mechanism (AAM) and app state information (ASI). The AAM references the native app executing on the user device and indicates operations for the app to perform. The ASI describes an app state of the app after performing the operations. Identifying each app state record based on the indication includes determining that the current app state is a parent app state of the app state described by the ASI included in the identified record. The techniques further include selecting the AAMs from the identified app state records and transmitting the selected AAMs to the user device.
US10198513B2
A computer-implemented system and method for navigation on a communication network to robustly locate, retrieve and display information. In response to one or a few user inputs, a hyperlink in a referring document provides efficient and robust access to original resources and also to alternative resources for originally intended content. Intended content may comprise the whole of or only parts of document resources, which may be affected by linkrot or content modification. Links are checked to determine if they cannot be followed or if they can be followed but originally intended content is missing or altered. Then, in response to zero or a few additional user inputs, intended content is accessed from alternative resources including archival resources and non-archival live resources.
US10198511B1
A computerized datacenter contextual search query interpretation method includes receiving a search query from a user; displaying search suggestions based on the search query and obtaining a selected one of the search suggestions. Any time period associated with the search query is identified, instructions based on the selected search suggestion and any time period for searching a data model of a datacenter are generated to obtain search results and display a graphical visualization of the search results.
US10198506B2
A method, computer-readable medium, and a computer system for automatically generating sentiment data are disclosed. One or more portions of at least one document may be determined to be associated with at least one sentiment of one or more other portions of the at least one document. One or more scores associated with the at least one sentiment may be automatically determined based on at least one respective attribute of the one or more portions. The at least one respective attribute may include a positive category, a negative category, a neutral category, a degree associated with a positive sentiment, a degree associated with a negative sentiment, some combination thereof, etc. In this manner, data associated with sentiment of one or more portions of at least one document may be generated.
US10198502B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing data deliver for data constrained user devices. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from a user device, requests for resources. For each of the requests, determining whether the user device is currently subject to a data constraint for receiving data responsive to the request. For each request for which the user device is determined to be subject to the data constraint, provide data that causes the user device to display a prompt to choose whether a resource responsive to the request is to be provided in the unrestricted data form or a restricted data form. A resource can be provided in an unrestricted data form has a first data size and provided in a restricted data form has a second data size that is less than the first data size.
US10198496B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for applying a public tag to information. These mechanisms and methods for applying a public tag to information may enable embodiments to allow a user to apply a public tag to the information once. Further, applying a public tag to information may enable users with access to the information an ability to view the public tag applied to the information by the user.
US10198495B1
A device for partitioning a database includes an interface to a database including one or more tables, and a hardware-based processor configured to determine configuration information for the database, the configuration information defining a partitioning scheme for the one or more tables of the database, form a partition function based on the configuration information and a schema for the database, and apply the partition function to the one or more tables to partition the one or more tables.
US10198491B1
Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for extracting and storing information regarding entities from documents, such as webpages. In one implementation, a system is provided that detects an entity candidate in a document and determines that the detected candidate is a new entity. The system also detects a known entity proximate to the known entity based on the one or more entity models. The system also detects a context proximate to the new and known entities having a lexical relationship to the known entity. The system also determines a second entity class associated with the known entity and a context class associated with the context. The system also generates a first entity class based on the second entity class and the context class. The system also generates an entry in the one or more entity models reflecting an association between the new entity and the first entity class.
US10198489B2
Multiple mobile devices can be enabled to collaboratively search online information databases for results that may be interesting to all of them. Such search results can involve places of interest at which all of the search participants can conveniently meet due to the locations of those results being near to all of the search participants, for example.
US10198488B2
The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method for querying a database that comprises 3D modeled objects that represent mechanical parts. The method comprises the steps of providing a query that includes a thickness criterion and returning, as results of the query, respective 3D modeled objects of the database based on an extent to which the respective 3D modeled object has a thickness that respects the thickness criterion. The thickness of the respective 3D modeled object is proxied by a thickness signature that corresponds to the evaluation of a function of the type ƒ(x)= a ( b + cx 3 2 ) . Such a method improves the querying of a database that comprises 3D modeled objects that represent mechanical parts.
US10198485B2
A visualization of computer-enabled information in association with a computer-enabled map is provided. One or more data items may be imported onto a computer-generated mapping surface. A data visualization application may obtain location information, for example, physical address or latitude/longitude coordinates, for each data item. A map showing a geographical area large enough to contain each data item may be automatically generated and displayed, and each data item may be located on the map and may be identified by an identifying icon or label. Selection of an icon or label for any of the data items may cause display of information about the data item. The map display and visualization of the data items on the map display may be dynamically modified as one or more other data items are imported onto the visualization surface or as one or more existing data items are removed from the visualization surface.
US10198483B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to methods and systems for classifying businesses according to an open-hours classification category, for example, based on resource consumption data. In some implementations, methods of the subject technology include steps for receiving a plurality of operating hours categories, wherein each of the operating hours categories is associated with at least one usage profile, and receiving business information for an unclassified business, wherein the business information comprises resource consumption data for the unclassified business. In some aspects, methods of the subject technology can further include steps for determining if the unclassified business should be associated with one of the operating hours categories based on the resource consumption data for the unclassified business. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US10198474B2
The performance of a server can be improved by causing multiple searches to load segments of an index and search within them together. When multiple search requests are received and executed within a minimal time difference, the first search can be delayed to allow the second search—and possibly additional searches—to catch up so that the searches do not require loading segments multiple times.
US10198472B2
In one embodiment, a method of processing a structured query language (SQL) statement is provided, comprising: determining whether a first query and a second query are equivalent, the first and second queries being respectively the left side and the right side operands of the OUTER JOIN operation; determining whether a SELECT output of the SQL statement does not refer to database columns from the left side of the OUTER JOIN operation which are not also partitioning columns of the OUTER JOIN operation; and responsive to determining that the first query and the second query are equivalent and that the SELECT output of the SQL statement does not refer to database columns from the left side of the OUTER JOIN operation which are not also partitioning columns of the OUTER JOIN operation, transforming the SQL statement into an optimized query SQL statement by removing the OUTER JOIN operation.
US10198470B2
A system for executing an embedded intelligence process comprises an interface and a processor. The interface is for receiving an input object for a process associated with an embedded intelligence applet. The processor is for searching a database for a set of objects. The set of objects is based at least in part on the input object. The processor is for determining display information for the embedded intelligence applet based at least in part on the set of objects.
US10198468B2
A data concurrency module maintains a delta chain for each record that stores the edits made to the flexible record over time. The delta chain stores the edits ordered by a version identifier. When the data concurrency module receives an edit to a record, the data concurrency module compares the version identifier associated with the edit with the most recent version identifier stored in the delta chain for that flexible record. If the version identifiers are different, then the data concurrency module merges the edit with all intervening edits in the delta chain, resolving any conflicts that result from the merging.
US10198466B2
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for a permissions system including relationships of partitioning, grouping, and the application of access control deferred filters.
US10198464B2
Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of personal information platforms accessible with client devices over communication networks in data infrastructures. A system may determine data associated with a user. The system may determine a personal information platform (PIP) based on the data associated with the user, where the PIP is configured to identify a number of data types from the data associated with the user. The system may determine accesses for one or more entities to the number of data types based on one or more services provided by the one or more entities to the user. The system may cause a client device to display an indication of the PIP, where the indication provides the one or more accesses of the one or more entities.
US10198463B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for appending data to large data volumes in a multi-tenant store. These mechanisms and methods for appending data to large data volumes can enable embodiments to provide more reliable and faster maintenance of changing data. In an embodiment and by way of example, a method for appending data to large data volumes is provided. The method embodiment includes receiving new data for a database. The new data is written to a temporary log. The size of the log is compared to a threshold. Then the log is written to a data store, if the size of the log is greater than the threshold.
US10198462B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for cache management. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the server computer can be configured to communicate with a client device configured to execute a cache module to maintain a cache storing data downloaded from and/or uploaded to the server computer by the client device. The server computer can be configured to receive requests for data stored at the server computer. The server computer can be configured to respond to the request with hashes that correspond to the requested data. The client device can search the cache for the hashes, obtain the data from the cache if the hashes are found, and/or download the data from the server computer if the hashes are not found. The client device also can be configured to update the cache upon uploading the data to the server computer.
US10198458B2
Aspects of a multi-level electrical distribution control system associated with an electrical distribution grid are disclosed. Data access and processing across the multi-level control system and the electrical distribution grid can provide improved utilization of energy within the electrical distribution grid. Further, dynamic reconfiguration of the electric distribution grid can be based distributed processing and access to information relating to the electrical distribution control system or electrical distribution grid. An encapsulated DNNC data element is disclosed as an efficient and secure means of accessing data across the multi-level electrical distribution control system or the associated electrical distribution grid.
US10198455B2
A method, including partitioning a dataset into a first number of data units, and selecting, based on a sampling ratio, a second number of the data units. A hash value is calculated for each of the selected data units, and a first histogram is computed indicating a first duplication count for each of the calculated hash values. Based on respective frequencies of the calculated hash values, a second histogram is computed indicating an observed frequency for each of the first duplication counts in the first histogram, and based on the sampling ratio and the second histogram, a target function is derived. A third histogram that minimizes the target function is derived, the third histogram including, for the first number of the storage units, second duplication counts and a respective predicted frequency for each of the second duplication counts. Finally, a deduplication ratio is determined based on the third histogram.
US10198453B2
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for clearing temporary files in a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal, the method comprises: receiving a clearing instruction; establishing a writer thread according to the clearing instruction; and controlling the writer thread to write data into a first preset file directory, such that an operating system of the mobile terminal is triggered to clear temporary files in at least one second preset file directory according to a preset cache release rule.
US10198452B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that track a document within a file system using document identifier (DOCID) that is preserved during safe save operations. The DOCID can be a universally unique identifier (UUID). The DOCID can be generated on a local file system or generated during a synchronization process with a remote synchronization service. Applications can opt in to document tracking. The kernel of the operating system can monitor file system operations on a per-application and per-thread basis and determine when a processing thread is about to perform a safe save. When a sequence of file system operations indicates that a safe save is to be performed, the kernel can generate and store a tombstone record that includes the DOCID and other metadata of the tracked document and pass the DOCID and metadata to the newly saved document.
US10198451B2
Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system.
US10198447B2
An electronic file migration system that analyzes data and migrate qualifying files from a source file system to another or cloud file system. The system can infer access times of the files from create and modify times. The system copies “qualifying” (e.g. aged under a probationary period) files from a source file system to a cloud file system or other storage system, and substitutes them with symbolic links or stubs to the target copies. The system may provide seamlessly-automated and interoperable data archiving, backups, transfers, analytics, and optimizations in an organization. In addition, it may also be desirable to devise a novel electronic file migration system for a third-party service provider to seamlessly process, manage, optimize, and analyze data archiving, backups, and transfers in a client organization.
US10198442B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving, from a user, a request that includes an entity identifier associated with an entity that is referenced by one or more query terms of a search query, determining that the entity is identified in a media consumption database as a media item that has been indicated as consumed by the user or that the entity is associated with a media item that is identified in the media consumption database as a media item that has been indicated as consumed by the user, and based on the determination, providing a response to the request, the response including data indicating that the entity is a media item that has been indicated as consumed by the user or that the entity is associated with a media item that has been indicated as consumed by the user.
US10198429B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating automatic selection of a text language for a message according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes scanning text received in a message, calculating an average character code value for characters in the message and automatically selecting a text language for a response message based on a range of the average character code value.
US10198424B2
In a conventional quantitative plan simulation, it is practically impossible to prepare a spreadsheet-type data input template applicable to all types of plans. Thus, a quantitative plan simulation system is required to handle a plurality of spreadsheets containing variously-formatted data. Therefore, the present invention provides a simulation system, a simulation method and a simulation program which are configured to extract a numerical value, a mathematical formula or other kinds of data necessary for a quantitative plan simulation, based on a relevancy among numerical values and mathematical formulas or other kinds of data in a spreadsheet, and perform the quantitative plan simulation based on the extracted numerical values and mathematical formulas.
US10198417B2
Systems and methods for data entering and submission for an online interface using a remote entering/submitting mechanism, said system comprising: a. at least one data entry field in an online interface; b. a remote entering/submitting mechanism comprising: i. a pointer generating or retrieving system adapted to generate a pointer data to be displayed on the online interface; ii. a central interface system adapted to receive a communication linked to a pointer data from an electronic device; iii. a pre-populated database comprising one or more pointer data which are pre-defined; and iv. a central database adapted to store correlative information in relation to one or more pre-defined pointer data; and c. a submission component capable of submitting data after receiving the communication from the electronic device.
US10198411B2
Additional document information may be stored through change tracking. In some examples, an application, such as a document processing application, may allow collaborative creation and/or editing of a document. As individual collaborators enter new content or make changes to existing content, the new content and/or changes go through two phases. As an individual collaborator is editing, the change is temporary. The collaborator may decide not to integrate it to the document. The temporary content may become permanent or integrated through a save action (manual or automatic). In some examples, the temporary content may be shared with other collaborators through a scheme to indicate its status as temporary giving the collaborators a true collaboration experience.
US10198409B2
Systems and methods are disclosed regarding the positioning related data in a browser on a client device received from a server. The browser on the client device is capable of being resized in a number of potential sizes—e.g., desktop browser viewport, laptop browser viewport, tablet browser viewport and mobile browser viewport. Related data may comprise main data, relevant data and ancillary data. Depending on the browser viewport and the relevancy of the data to be displayed, one embodiment may dynamically position the relevant data to be near the top of the main data. Alternatively, ancillary data may be dynamically positioned to be near the bottom of the main data.
US10198406B2
A document preview system provides previews of a native document to client devices. The previews include comments associated with native objects in the native document. The document preview system identifies bounding areas in the preview associated with the native objects, which may be identified by the rendering markers applied to the native document prior to rendering. Using the bounding areas, the document preview system identifies comments for the native document and determines the location to display the comment using native objects associated with the comment. When a new comment is received from a user for a preview of a native document, the document preview system determines native objects for the new comment that match a user's selection for placing the new comment. The new comment is inserted with the native objects in the native document.
US10198399B1
Embodiments are directed towards classifying data. A machine learning (ML) engine may select an ML model that may employ a cryptographic multi-party computation (MPC) protocol based on model preferences, including a parameter model, provided by a client. A randomness engine may be employed to provide random values and other random values based on the MPC protocol such that the random values may be provided to the client and the other random values may be provided to an answer engine. Input values that correspond to fields in the parameter model may be provided by the client such that the input values may be based on the MPC protocol and the random values. The answer engine may be employed to provide partial results to the question based on the ML model, the input values, and the MPC protocol that may be provided to the client.
US10198395B2
A port multiplier system is provided. The port multiplier system comprises a first port multiplier and a second port multiplier. The first port multiplier is configured to receive a plurality of first frame information structures from a host. Each of the first frame information structure corresponds to a first port multiplier port number. The first port multiplier sends the first frame information structures that correspond to the first port multiplier port numbers, respectively, to a first downstream port of the first port multiplier according to first port multiplier port number. The second port multiplier is configured to send the first frame information structures that are sent to the first downstream port to a plurality of second downstream ports of the second port multiplier, respectively. An operation method is also provided.
US10198394B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a set of registers, and an interface of a computing block. The computing block includes one of a physical layer block or a media access control layer block. The interface includes one or more pins to transmit asynchronous signals, one or more pins to receive asynchronous signals, and a set of pins to communicate particular signals to access the set of registers, where a set of control and status signals of a defined interface are mapped to respective bits of the set of registers.
US10198393B2
A protocol transparent retimer circuit monitors certain link layer control signals, detects far-end receiver parameters of the link partners, and detects attributes of the data signal on the link to determine the link status and operate the retimer in accordance with the determined link status. By combining and reducing host and device system states into a few retimer states, the retimer circuit is largely simplified and yet still serves its purpose. The retimer includes a controller that employs a state machine to interpret the monitored and detected signals to determine the link state and operate the retimer in an operating state corresponding to the determined link state. The approach enables the retimer to restore signal integrity and forward what ever it receives in both downstream and upstream directions of the link without frequency alteration.
US10198387B2
An electronic device and a method for changing modes according to external devices connected through a universal serial bus (USB) and controlling the strength of signals communicated according to changed modes are provided. The method includes detecting a connection with an external device corresponding to booting of the electronic device, determining a mode of the electronic device according to the detected connection with the external device, varying a characteristic setting of an input output (IO) buffer to a certain strength corresponding to the determined mode, and communicating a signal at a strength corresponding to the varied setting.
US10198386B2
This application relates to methods and apparatus for transfer of data between a host device (400) and a peripheral device (300) via a USB Type-C connector (100; 304) of the host device. A data controller is described that has a path controller (309, 310; 706) for establishing signal paths between circuitry of the host device and contacts (101) of said USB Type-C connector. The path controller is operable in at least first and second modes. In the first mode the path controller establishes separate signal paths to each of at least first, second, third and fourth contacts (A6, A7, B6, B7) of the USB Type-C connector and a plurality of the established signal paths are for transfer of analog audio data. In the second mode the path controller establishes a pair of signal paths to only a subset of said first to fourth contacts to provide a differential digital data path.
US10198384B2
This disclosure relates generally to bus interface systems for mobile user devices. In one embodiment, the bus interface system includes a first bus interface subsystem that operates in accordance with a one wire bus protocol, a second bus interface subsystem that operates in accordance with a Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) radio frequency front end (RFFE) bus protocol, and a translation bus controller that translates commands between the first bus interface subsystem and the second bus interface system. The translation bus controller is configured to implement cross over bus operations between a master bus controller that operates in accordance with in the one wire bus protocol and a slave bus controller in the second bus interface system. In this manner, the translation bus allows the master bus controller to be the master of different bus systems that operate in accordance with different bus protocols.
US10198383B2
A device includes a first latch configured to be coupled to a bus and configured to receive a data signal and a clock signal. The device also includes a delay element configured to generate a delayed version of the data signal or a delayed version of the clock signal. A second latch is coupled to the delay element and configured to receive the delayed version of the data signal or the delayed version of the clock signal. The device further includes a comparator coupled to the first latch and the second latch. The comparator is configured to receive a first output from the first latch and a second output from the second latch.
US10198380B1
A method of applying a data format in a direct memory access transfer is provided. The method includes distributing user data throughout a plurality of storage nodes through erasure coding, wherein the plurality of storage nodes are housed within a single chassis that couples the storage nodes as a cluster, each of the plurality of storage nodes having nonvolatile solid-state memory for user data storage. The method includes reading a self-describing data portion from a first memory of the nonvolatile solid-state memory and extracting a destination from the self-describing data portion. The method includes writing data, from the self-describing data portion, to a second memory of the nonvolatile solid-state memory according to the destination.
US10198368B2
The present invention discloses a solid state drive (SSD) control device including: a multi-interface compatible physical layer circuit operable to generate a physical layer output signal according to a serializer/deserializer (SerDes) reception signal; an input/output (I/O) circuit operable to generate at least one terminal output signal according to signal variation of at least one terminal; and a processing circuit operable to make the solid state drive control device adapt to one of several interface types in accordance with the physical layer output signal and/or the at least one terminal output signal.
US10198362B2
Reducing bandwidth consumption when performing free memory list cache maintenance in compressed memory schemes of processor-based systems is disclosed. In this regard, a memory system including a compression circuit is provided. The compression circuit includes a compress circuit that is configured to cache free memory lists using free memory list caches comprising a plurality of buffers. When a number of pointers cached within the free memory list cache falls below a low threshold value, an empty buffer of the plurality of buffers is refilled from a system memory. In some aspects, when a number of pointers of the free memory list cache exceeds a high threshold value, a full buffer of the free memory list cache is emptied to the system memory. In this manner, memory access operations for emptying and refilling the free memory list cache may be minimized.
US10198359B2
Cache memory mapping techniques are presented. A cache may contain an index configuration register. The register may configure the locations of an upper index portion and a lower index portion of a memory address. The portions may be combined to create a combined index. The configurable split-index addressing structure may be used, among other applications, to reduce the rate of cache conflicts occurring between multiple processors decoding the video frame in parallel.
US10198355B2
One or more embodiments of a thumbnail caching system dynamically provide a thumbnail cache of digital content items (e.g., photos, videos, audio) to a user on a client device. In particular, the thumbnail caching system provides a thumbnail cache of a digital content collection to a client device such that the thumbnail cache does not exceed a threshold storage limit for the client device. In addition, the thumbnail caching system intelligently adjusts the thumbnails within the thumbnail cache to keep the size of the thumbnail cache within the threshold storage limit irrespective of the number of digital content items stored or added to the digital content collection. Further, the thumbnail caching system can dynamically adjust the size of the thumbnail cache in response to a user adding or removing external data to the client device.
US10198350B2
A memory module comprises a volatile memory subsystem configured to coupled to a memory channel in computer system and capable of serving as main memory for the computer system, a non-volatile memory subsystem providing storage for the computer system, and a module controller coupled to the volatile memory subsystem, the non-volatile memory subsystem, and the C/A bus. The module controller reads first data from the non-volatile memory subsystem in response to a Flash access request received via the memory channel, and causes at least a portion of the first data to be written into the volatile memory subsystem in response to a dummy write memory command received via the C/A bus. The module control device includes status registers accessible by the computer system via the memory bus.
US10198347B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for testing a software application. An exemplary method includes storing a control file identifying a test case for testing a software application. A first expected result may be extracted from a device storing expected results of the software application, the first expected result being identified by the control file. A first actual result may be extracted from a device storing actual results output by the software application, the first actual result being identified by the control file. The first expected result may be compared with the first actual result to determine whether the first actual result matches the first expected result. A result file indicating whether the test case passed or failed is generated, and the test case has passed when the first actual result matches the first expected result. The result file may be stored in a storage device.
US10198345B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems to increase code coverage. Embodiments of the present invention can receive a copy of source code and data associated with a sample execution of a set of instructions specified by the copy of the source code. Embodiments of the present invention can insert, into the set of instructions specified by the copy of the source code, an instruction that corresponds to a code statement that precedes an untraversed code path within the received copy of the source code. Embodiments of the present invention can execute the set of instructions that include the inserted instruction and provide an option to redirect execution of the set of instructions at the inserted instruction. Embodiments of the present invention can generate a test case that increases code coverage based on the redirected execution of the set of instructions.
US10198338B2
Systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and/or apparatus to manage alarm generation associated with the failure of an expected event or action to occur.
US10198336B2
An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a plurality of pins coupled to a controller to receive a plurality of module statuses corresponding to slot locations of the enclosure at various proximity tiers relative to the module. The controller is to check a first pin of the plurality of pins to identify whether a first proximity tier relative to the module is occupied, regardless of a slot location of the module in the enclosure.
US10198335B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting the root cause in use-after-free (UAF) memory corruption errors. A method includes an operation for tracking access to memory by a program to detect access to memory not allocated by the program. The method further includes operations for tracking allocations and deallocations of memory by the program, and for storing, in response to detecting a deallocation of memory by the program, at least part of a state of a program stack at a time of the deallocation of memory. Further, the method includes an operation for detecting, after the deallocation, access by the program to the memory associated with the deallocation of memory. In response to the detecting, the state of the program stack is saved in permanent storage at the time of the deallocation.
US10198334B2
A method for monitoring the operation of a component includes receiving a stream of data samples, wherein each data sample represents a value of a physical parameter of the component, identifying local extrema of the stream of data samples, storing information relating to each local extremum in a respective position of a fixed size buffer, and upon the presence of a cycle formed between two matching endpoints represented by two local maxima or two local minima: i) deleting at least one of the local extrema corresponding to the endpoints of the cycle from the buffer, and ii) storing information related to the cycle in a memory such that the information stored in the memory represents the operation of the component. When the buffer is full such that each position of the buffer contains information relating to a unique local extrema, the method further includes the steps of: i) deleting the information relating to the oldest local extrema from the buffer, ii) calculating a pseudo cycle formed between two endpoints of which one endpoint is represented by the deleted oldest local extrema, and iii) storing information related to the calculated pseudo cycle in the memory.
US10198329B2
A power supply device including a working power supply module with a plurality of power supply units; a plurality of monitoring units outputting a power failure signal when the corresponding power supply unit is in a power failure; a plurality of latching units respectively corresponding to the plurality of monitoring units one to one, receiving the power failure signal and a disabling signal, and outputting a latching signal when the power failure signal is received but the disabling signal is not received; and a positioning module used for receiving the latching signal and outputting a disabling signal when the positioning module receives a first latching signal output by one latching unit to disable other latching units, so as to enable the positioning module to position the latching unit which firstly outputs the latching signal to position the corresponding power supply unit which is firstly in a power failure.
US10198318B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes: a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of physical blocks; and a memory controller configured to execute an internal process of migrating data between physical blocks. The memory controller is configured to select, based on an update frequency level which is identified with respect to a logical address range from a higher-level apparatus, a physical block to be allocated to the logical address range from among the plurality of physical blocks. The memory controller is configured to determine, in the internal process, whether to set a migration destination level (an update frequency level of a migration destination physical block) to a same level as or a different level from a migration source level (an update frequency level of a migration source physical block) based on whether or not an attribute of the migration source physical block satisfies a prescribed condition.
US10198316B2
Embodiments are related to systems and methods for data storage, and more particularly to systems and methods for storing and accessing data from a flash memory.
US10198315B2
A non-volatile storage system is provided that includes a mechanism to restore data that has been corrupted beyond the limits of traditional error correction. The system creates first level parity information for each subset of data to form multiple sets of programmable data, with each set of programmable data including a subset of data and corresponding first level parity. Separate second level parity is created for each set of programmable data. The system creates combined second level parity information based on a function of separate second level parity information for the multiple sets of programmable data. If a set of programmable data is found to be corrupt, the corrupt subset of data is recovered using the corrupt subset of data read from the non-volatile storage system, the corresponding first level parity read from the non-volatile storage system and the combined second level parity information.
US10198310B1
A method includes, in at least one aspect, designating a first region of a memory device for storing data of a first type and first error correcting code (ECC) data; designating a second region for storing data of a second type and second ECC data; receiving the data of the first type; generating the first ECC data for the data of the first type using a first ECC associated with a first ECC protection level; storing the data of the first type and the first ECC data in adjacent locations of the first region; receiving the data of the second type; generating the second ECC data for the data of the second type using a second ECC associated with a second ECC protection level; and storing the data of the second type and the second ECC data in the second region.
US10198307B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for dynamic diagnosis and/or prediction of trouble events in a storage cluster system and automated selection of solutions thereto. An apparatus includes a retrieval component to, in response to a trouble event with a first component of a storage cluster system at a usage level under a first usage type, retrieve a component model of a second component associated with a second usage type from a model database, wherein the second usage type comprises operations that differ from operations of the first usage type by no more than a predetermined threshold of difference; and a selection component to apply the first usage level to the component model to derive a resulting level of performance and determine whether to recommend installation of the second component in the first storage cluster system to address the trouble event based on the resulting level of performance.
US10198306B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for a memory module to accept a command in multiple parts. A first half of a command is placed on a bus for a memory module in a first clock cycle. A chip select signal is placed on the bus for the memory module for the first half of the command. A second half of the command is placed on the bus in a second clock cycle following the first clock cycle, wherein the memory module accepts the second half of the command a delay interval from accepting the first half of the command.
US10198300B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to managing volatile and non-volatile memory. A set of volatile memory sensor data may be obtained. A set of non-volatile memory sensor data may be obtained. The set of volatile memory sensor data and the set of non-volatile memory sensor data may be analyzed. A memory condition may be determined to exist based on the analysis. In response to determining that the memory condition exists, one or more memory actions may be issued.
US10198298B2
The technology disclosed improves existing streaming processing systems by allowing the ability to both scale up and scale down resources within an infrastructure of a stream processing system. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to a dispatch system for a stream processing system that adapts its behavior according to a computational capacity of the system based on a run-time evaluation. The technical solution includes, during run-time execution of a pipeline, comparing a count of available physical threads against a set number of logically parallel threads. When a count of available physical threads equals or exceeds the number of logically parallel threads, the solution includes concurrently processing the batches at the physical threads. Further, when there are fewer available physical threads than the number of logically parallel threads, the solution includes multiplexing the batches sequentially over the available physical threads.
US10198291B2
One embodiment provides a method for runtime piggybacking of concurrent data-parallel jobs in task-parallel machine learning (ML) programs including intercepting, by a processor, executable jobs including executable map reduce (MR) jobs and looped jobs in a job stream. The processor queues the executable jobs, and applies runtime piggybacking of multiple jobs by processing workers of different types. Runtime piggybacking for a ParFOR (parallel for) ML program is optimized including configuring the runtime piggybacking based on processing worker type, degree of parallelism and minimum time thresholds.
US10198290B2
A method for executing two tasks in timesharing, includes: decomposing offline each task in a repetitive sequence of consecutive frames, and defining a start date and deadline by which an associated atomic operation must respectively start and end; verifying for each frame of a first of the repetitive sequences the corresponding operation can be performed between any two successive operations of a group of frames of the second repetitive sequence, overlapping the first repetitive sequence frame; and if the verification is satisfied, allowing the execution of the two tasks. Scheduling the operations of the two tasks, if two operations can start, executing the operation having the shorter deadline; and if a single operation can start, executing it if its execution need is less than the time remaining until the next frame start date of the other sequence, plus the time margin associated with the next frame of the other sequence.
US10198287B2
An information presentation device includes: a situation estimation unit configured to identify one or more tasks based on input information that has been input and task information indicating one or more tasks indicating a situation; a load estimation unit configured to identify one or more sub-tasks based on each of the identified tasks and sub-task information indicating, for each situation of a task, one or more sub-tasks, which are work elements, having a possibility of being executed by a worker, and to acquire a load demand amount based on the identified sub-tasks and sub-task demand amount information indicating a load demand amount, which is a mental load for each sub-task; a capacity level estimation unit configured to acquire a capacity level based on the acquired load demand amount; and a presentation information selection unit configured to select information to be presented based on the capacity level.
US10198284B2
An operational integrity and performance validation module performs operational integrity operations, performance validation operations, or both. Operational integrity operations may include: accessing an operational integrity schema comprising a task manifest identifying operational tasks and a performance manifest including performance thresholds for the tasks. The OIPV module communicates with different types of infrastructure managers and each schema may be associated with a particular infrastructure manager. The OIPV module may invoke the applicable infrastructure manager to perform the applicable tasks. For each task, the module may poll the infrastructure manager for status information and record completion status and time-to-complete information. Performance validation operations may include accessing a performance validation manifest, configuring an image manifest of a benchmark image in accordance with the performance validation operations, deploying the benchmark image to a node under test and instructing an image agent of the benchmark image to execute performance tests according with the image manifest.
US10198283B2
A request is sent from a new virtual function (VF) to a physical function for requesting the initialization of the new VF. The controlling physical function and the new VF establish a two-way communication channel that to start and end the VF's exclusive accesses to registers in a configuration space. The physical function uses a timing control to monitor that exclusive register access by the new VF is completed within a predetermined time period. The new VF is only granted a predetermined time period of exclusive access to complete its initialization process. If the exclusive access period is timed out, the controlling physical function can terminate the VF to prevent GPU stalls.
US10198276B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has computer-readable data portions stored thereon, the data portions including configuration data items relating to configurable parameters of a frequency converter.
US10198272B2
A firmware-based technique for retrieving and displaying status information from a paired Bluetooth™ device during a boot sequence for a computing platform is discussed. The retrieved status information for the paired device may be displayed in a text or graphical format.
US10198264B2
A processing device includes a sorting module, which adds to each of a plurality of elements a position value of a corresponding position in a register rest resulting in a plurality of transformed elements in corresponding positions. The plurality of elements include a plurality of bits. The sorting module compares each of the plurality of transformed elements to itself and to one another. The sorting module also assigns one of an enabled or disabled indicator to each of the plurality of the transformed elements based on the comparison. The sorting module further counts a number of the enabled indicators assigned to each of the plurality of the transformed elements to generate a sorted sequence of the plurality of elements.
US10198259B2
A method and apparatus for scheduling instructions of a shader program for a graphics processing unit (GPU) with a fixed number of registers. The method and apparatus include computing, via a processing unit (PU), a liveness-based register usage across all basic blocks in the shader program, computing, via the PU, the range of numbers of waves of a plurality of registers for the shader program, assessing the impact of available post-register allocation optimizations, computing, via the PU, the scoring data based on number of waves of the plurality of registers, and computing, via the PU, the number of waves for execution for the plurality of registers.
US10198256B2
A system for determining a toggle value includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is to receive a request for the toggle value associated with a toggle. The processor is to determine an indicated toggle value associated with the toggle; determine the toggle value associated with the toggle based at least in part on the indicated toggle value and a set of dependencies; and provide the toggle value associated with the toggle.
US10198251B2
Examples described herein emulate a processing architecture using multiple translations of the same source binary. A first translation binary includes compiler optimizations not present in a second translation binary. During runtime, a dispatcher directs control flow of a CPU when branch instructions are reached. Specifically, a dispatcher directs a CPU to execute instructions in the first translation binary, and accesses the second translation binary when an instruction is to a target that is not addressable in the first translation binary. The first and second translation binaries enable a target processing architecture to emulate a source processing architecture without just-in-time compilation or other runtime interpretation.
US10198247B2
The disclosure discloses a method, device and system for voice interaction, the method including: determining that an external device adopts Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 standard for transmission and the external device supports a voice function; and conducting voice interaction with the external device by adopting customized MIC lines and SPK lines in a micro USB3.0-B female connector interface.
US10198233B2
A system is described which comprises an input arranged to receive attention tracking data from attention tracking hardware. The attention tracking data, along with parameters associated with each display change request, is then used to select a display change request from a plurality of stored display change requests received from a plurality of different applications and a change defined by the selected display change request is then rendered in a GUI on a display device.
US10198228B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing a print job archive. The system includes a plurality of databases that store print job properties, wherein at least one database is designated to record the print job properties as a function of a predetermined characteristic of the print job. The system also includes an interface that receives multiple print jobs, and a data distribution module coupled with the plurality of databases and the interface. For each of the multiple print jobs, the data distribution module categorizes the print job based on at least one predetermined characteristic, identifies a database among the plurality of databases that is designated for the print jobs as a function of the at least one predetermined characteristic, and stores the print jobs in the identified database as a function of the at least one predetermined characteristic.
US10198217B2
A last written page in an open block in NAND flash is identified where the NAND flash includes a plurality of pages and the last written page has first content. Second content is written to an adjacent page in the open block, wherein the adjacent page is physically adjacent to the last written page in the open block and the second content enhances robustness of the first content.
US10198211B2
A hybrid memory system may include: a volatile memory; a nonvolatile memory; and a memory controller configured to a threshold value for a read-to-write ratio according to a refresh interval of the volatile memory, and to perform migration of a page between the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory based on the threshold value and a read-to-write ratio of the page.
US10198209B2
One embodiment provides a device, including a processor; a plurality of storage units operatively coupled to the processor; and a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to: determine a first storage unit from the plurality of storage units; select at least one second storage unit from among the remaining other storage units that comprises a parameter that satisfies a predetermined condition, the predetermined condition being related to the first storage unit; transfer data from at least one of the first and second storage units to at least one the remaining other first and second storage units; and delete data from said at least one of the first and second storage units from which the data was transferred. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10198207B2
A memory system includes: a memory device including a plurality of pages which include a plurality of memory cells coupled to a plurality of word lines and in which data are stored, and a plurality of memory blocks in which the pages are included; and a controller including a memory, and suitable for storing data segments of user data corresponding to a write command received from a host, in pages included in a first memory block and a second memory block among the memory blocks and generating map data corresponding to storage of the data segments by sorting map segments of the map data according to logical informations of the data segments.
US10198201B2
A semiconductor apparatus may include a fuse cell array, an address generation circuit, a control circuit, and a command generation circuit. The fuse cell array may store a fail address. The address generation circuit may generate a copy address according to test information containing the fail address. The control circuit may control a repair operation including enabling a copy start signal according to the test information and storing the fail address in the fuse cell array according to a copy done signal. The command generation circuit may generate an address and a plurality of commands for a data copy operation according to the copy start signal and enable the copy done signal when the data copy operation is completed.
US10198199B2
Methods and apparatus for efficiently storing and accessing secure data are disclosed. The method of storing includes encrypting data utilizing an encryption key to produce encrypted data, performing deterministic functions on the encrypted data to produce deterministic function values, masking the encryption key utilizing the deterministic function values to produce masked keys and combining the encrypted data and the masked keys to produce a secure package. The method of accessing includes de-combining a secure package to reproduce encrypted data and masked keys, selecting a deterministic function, performing the selected deterministic function on the reproduced encrypted data to reproduce a deterministic function value, de-masking a corresponding masked key utilizing the reproduced deterministic function value to reproduce an encryption key, and decrypting the reproduced encrypted data utilizing the reproduced encryption key to reproduce data.
US10198195B1
In an example, a portion of a memory array may be selected to be wear leveled based on how often the portion is or is to be accessed. The portion may be wear leveled.
US10198187B1
In an example, the present invention provides a memory interface device. The device has a command interface, address interface, and a control interface device coupled, respectively, to a command address bus, an address bus, and a control interface bus of a host memory controller. The device has a status signal interface configured to output a status signal coupled to the data interface bus of the host memory controller. In an example, the status signal is asserted in an absence of data asserted on the data interface bus.
US10198185B2
A computing system includes: a gateway block configured to generate a modified operation for communicating a request operation issued by a host device to access a storage device; and wherein the gateway block includes: a conversion block configured to generate a converted interface for converting an interaction interface included in the request operation to the interaction interface executable by the storage device, and a translation block, coupled to the conversion block, configured to generate a translated representation for translating an object representation included in the request operation to the object representation utilized in the storage device.
US10198184B2
A resistance variable memory apparatus may include a memory circuit configured to include a plurality of blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells. The resistance variable memory apparatus may include a disturbance preventing circuit configured to be driven based on a counting signal corresponding to the number of write access for each of the plurality of blocks, a write command, and an address signal and to allow scrubbing to be performed on a memory cell having a preset scrubbing condition when the counting signal satisfied with the scrubbing condition is output based on the scribing condition according to a physical position of the memory cell in the block.
US10198180B2
A storage management method and a storage management apparatus are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes: detecting, during a preset length of time, a writing amount per time unit of service data of a target network service in a target storage; retrieving a correspondence relationship between the writing amount per time unit and an amount of a redundant storage, wherein the relationship indicates the amount of the redundant storage increases with the increasing of the writing amount per time unit; determining a first amount of the redundant storage corresponding to the first writing amount per time unit according to the correspondence relationship; and configuring the redundant storage for the target network service in accordance with the first amount of the redundant storage.
US10198176B2
A method for displaying information by an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying a first information display area on a touch screen in response to a first user input received through a first part in some areas of the touch screen including the first part and a second part connected or adjacent to the first part, displaying a second information display area on the touch screen in response to a second user input received through the second part, displaying first information received from outside of the electronic device in the first information display area, the first information being associated with first contact information, and displaying second information received from the outside of the electronic device in the second information display area, the second information being associated with second contact information.
US10198169B2
A control object among control objects is assigned to each of a plurality of channel strips each have at least a control and are disposed on a panel according to a predetermined order. A parameter of control object assigned to each channel strip is adjusted in accordance with a manipulation of the control of the channel strip. A display unit is controlled to display parameters of the control objects assigned to a series of channel strips extracted from the channel strips arranged on the panel according to the order, and on accepting a first operation from the user, another series of channel strips are extracted from the channel strips, and the display unit is controlled to display parameters of the control objects assigned to the extracted channel strips.
US10198165B2
A system of mapping a cardiac image of single heart chamber and a method thereof are disclosed. In the system and method thereof, one heart chamber (such as a left atrium, a left ventricular, a right atrium, right ventricular or aortic structure) can be selected in a 3D-based cardiac image (such as a CT or MRI image), and slices of the selected heart chamber are reconstructed and unwrapped by a 2D mapping visual display manner. The visual display and required angle alignment planes for subsequent analysis will be adjusted and achieved by operator manually, with specific global and regional architectural analysis performed by automatic algorithm.
US10198164B1
Systems and methods for displaying imagery of a geographic area are provided. More particularly, a location selector interface element can be displayed in conjunction with the imagery when a continuous zoom event is detected. In response to the continuous zoom event, the location selector interface element can be displayed in conjunction with, for instance, a zoom interface for zooming the imagery. The location selector interface element can include a plurality of geographic labels. Each geographic label can be associated with a different zoom level of the imagery. Each geographic label can provide a description of a geographic area corresponding to the zoom level associated with the geographic label. A user can interact with the location selector interface element to select a desired zoom level for viewing the imagery. In response to the user interaction, the imagery can be zoomed to the zoom level corresponding to the selected geographic label.
US10198158B2
A pattern of geocoded pixels is generated by accessing data point values, where each data point value includes an attribute value and coordinates of a geographic location. Each data point value corresponds to a geocoded pixel that is positioned on the pattern based on the coordinates of the data point value such some geocoded pixels overlap other geocoded pixels. Different levels of the pattern of geocoded pixels correspond to a different degree of overlap between the geocoded pixels. The different levels of the pattern of geocoded pixels are associated with different magnification levels of a geographic map such that changing a magnification level of the geographic map causes a degree of overlap between the geocoded pixels of the pattern to change.
US10198156B2
A system and method is provided that facilitates merging artifact information. The system may comprise a processor configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) through a display device that enables a first sequence of artifact information of at least one first artifact document and a second sequence of artifact information of at least one second artifact document stored in a data store and of a merge bar to be displayable in the GUI; to receive at least one first input through an input de-vice corresponding to a first selection of the at least one first artifact document and of the at least one second artifact document; to cause the first sequence of artifact information of the at least one first artifact document and the second sequence of artifact information of the at least one second artifact document corresponding to the first selection to be displayed in the GUI; to determine at least one first subsequence of the first sequence and at least one second subsequence of the second sequence which are at least related to each other; to cause the at least one first subsequence and the at least one second subsequence to be displayed in the GUI in a highlighted manner; to receive at least one second input through the input device corresponding to a second selection of the at least one first subsequence and the at least one second subsequence which are to be merged; to determine at least one merge action available for merging the at least one first subsequence and the at least one second subsequence corresponding to the second selection; to cause the at least one merge action to be displayed in the merge bar in the GUI; to receive at least one third input through the input device corresponding to a third selection of the at least one merge action; and to create at least one first amended subsequence of artifact information by merging the at least one first subsequence and at least one second subsequence according to the at least one merge action corresponding to the third selection.
US10198154B2
A user interface translation system can provide functionality of translating at least a portion of a user interface of a primary application. The user interface translation system may, for instance, add an overlay interface over a portion of the primary application. The primary application can conduct all the processing tasks. The overlay interface can correspond to user interfaces of well-known applications that users may prefer. In certain embodiments, users can select from a list of overlay interfaces. The user interface translation system can receive user control input from the overlay interface and map the received input to a corresponding command for the primary application. The user interface translation system can also train users to adapt to a change in user interface over a period of time or usage.
US10198152B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing live-streaming online content, including video segments married with related online information in a single online platform. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided that includes generating, using at least one processor, a series of videos having a sequential order to display in a web browser and publishing the videos in the web browser. The method further includes determining online data that relates to each video in the series and displaying the related data in the web browser. Further, the method includes playing the videos in the web browser in a sequential order and updating the data that relates to a video while the video is playing in real-time. The related data may include user comments, social media comments, pictures, videos, webpages, or hyperlinks.
US10198150B2
A method of cross database selection and correlation may include receiving an indication that a first graphical object representing a first dataset has been dragged onto a second graphical object representing a second dataset on a dashboard page of a graphical user interface (GUI). The method may further include sending the first and second dataset to a server and receiving a third dataset, based on a combination of the first and second datasets, and one or more options to define the third dataset.The method may include providing, for display on a second page of the GUI, a third graphical object representing the third dataset and one or more graphical objects representing the options associated with the third dataset. The method may further include receiving an indication that the third graphical object should be finalized, and providing the third graphical object for display on the dashboard page of the GUI.
US10198148B2
Embodiments provide circular or radial menu features that may be used in conjunction with various application and devices/systems. A device of an embodiment includes a radial menu interface configured to display primary menu items in response to a first user interaction and display secondary menu items in response to actuation of an associated primary menu item, wherein the display of secondary menu items includes a simultaneous display of a selected primary menu item. A method of an embodiment operates in part by displaying a plurality of first level menu items in response to a first user interaction and displaying a plurality of second level menu items in response to actuation of a displayed first level menu item, wherein the display of the plurality of second level menu items includes animating the display of the plurality of second level menu items with respect to the displayed first level menu item.
US10198141B2
A system and method for managing location-based information associated with the oil and gas industry. The system, in one embodiment, comprises a computing device connected to a location-based service, wherein the location-based information comprises energy operations data which is associated with a specific geographic location, and wherein the computing device is associated with a graphical map interface. The graphical map interface is configured to display location based information. The graphical map interface can also be configured to display an indication of the frequency of an event. The location based information can be associated with a geofence.
US10198134B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a shadow elimination arrangement, a touch screen and a method for producing the same. The shadow elimination arrangement for a pattern of an ITO layer includes a silicon oxynitride layer, on which the pattern of the ITO layer is provided, being provided on a transparent substrate; and a silicon dioxide layer, provided over the pattern of the ITO layer.
US10198132B2
An electroconductive film and a method for manufacturing the electroconductive film, having an insulating substrate and an electrode including a thin metal wire disposed on the surface of the insulating substrate, wherein the width of the thin metal wire varies, the difference between the maximum wire width and the minimum wire width of the thin metal wire is 20% to less than 75% of the average wire width of the thin metal wire, and the average wire width is 1-7 μm.
US10198126B2
A touchscreen pattern includes detection electrodes, drive electrodes, floating electrodes, and wide detection electrodes. The detection electrodes extend along a first direction and are arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The drive electrodes extend along the second direction and are arranged along the first direction to overlap the detection electrodes in a plan view. The drive electrodes and the detection electrodes form capacitors. The floating electrodes are arranged adjacent to the detection electrodes 38, respectively, in the plan view and to overlap the drive electrodes in the plan view. The floating electrodes and the adjacent detection electrodes form capacitors. The floating electrodes and the overlapping drive electrodes form capacitors. The wide detection electrodes are arranged at the outermost with respect to the second direction. The wide detection electrodes have a width larger than a width of the detection electrodes closer to the middle.
US10198122B2
Devices, systems, and methods of determining or estimating a level of force or pressure, that is applied by a user to a touch surface of an electronic device or an electronic system. A touch-screen or touch-pad or other touch-sensitive surface, measures or senses a size of a touch-spot that is engaged by a fingertip of the user; and further tracks and records the changes over time in the size of such touch-spot. Based on analysis of the changes of the size of the touch-spot over time, the touch surface or an associated driver or module determines or estimates the level of force or pressure that was applied by the user, or assigns a touch-force value or class.
US10198119B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, an in-cell touch panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a display region and a non-display region. Gate lines, data lines, thin-film transistors and pixel electrodes are arranged at the display region, and each thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulation layer, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode. First signal lines and second signal lines are arranged at the non-display region, and the first signal lines are located at a layer different from the second signal lines and intersect with the second signal lines. The first signal lines are arranged at a layer and made of a material identical to the gate lines. The gate insulation layer and at least one thickening layer are provided between the first signal lines and the second signal lines at overlapping regions of the first signal lines and the second signal lines.
US10198113B2
This invention relates to a touch window. The touch window includes a substrate; a plurality of sensing electrodes on the substrate; and an opening part between the sensing electrodes. In addition, the touch window has an opening part formed between the electrode parts, so that the electrode parts may be prevented from being short-circuited with each other.
US10198111B2
An electrically conductive structure comprising: a plurality of first electrically conductive lines; a plurality of second electrically conductive lines, crossed with the first electrically conductive lines, wherein at least one of the second electrically conductive line further comprises a second protruding part protruding from the second electrically conductive lines; and a first peripheral electrically conductive region, overlapped with a part of at least one of the first electrically conductive line, and comprises a first containing region configured to contain the second protruding part. A display apparatus and a capacitance touch control apparatus applying the electrically conductive structure are also disclosed.
US10198110B2
It is disclosed a touch sensor (100,200,300,400,500,700) for sensing a user touch, comprising an electrically conductive structure (101) having an electrically conductive touch area (103) exposed to the environment; a first capacitor (115) having a first electrode (117) electrically connected with the conductive structure (101); a second capacitor (119) having a first electrode (121) connected to a second electrode (123) of the first capacitor (115); and a driver arrangement (125) connected to the first capacitor and the second capacitor and adapted to perform particular operation steps.
US10198106B2
Provided is an input detection device capable of suppressing a change in detection sensitivity depending on a position. The input detection device includes: signal wirings having end portions, and arranged so as to extend in a first direction; drive electrodes each extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and arranged in parallel to the first direction; a plurality of first switches arranged between the end portions of the drive electrodes and the signal wirings; a drive signal circuit supplying a drive signal to the end portions; and a selection circuit controlling the first switches in detecting proximity of an external object. When the proximity of the external object is detected based on a magnetic field from the external object, the number of the first switches electrically connecting the drive electrodes close to the end portions to the signal wirings is smaller than the number of the first switches electrically connecting the drive electrodes away from the end portions to the signal wirings.
US10198096B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus includes an outer frame portion which forms an outer frame of a display portion where an object is displayed; a position detecting portion which detects a position of an operating body coming in touch with or close to the display portion or the outer frame portion; and a display controlling portion which displays on the display portion, auxiliary information about an object situated at a position of the operating body detected by the position detecting portion at a start of the shift when the operating body shifts to the outer frame portion while keeping touch with or close to the display portion.
US10198093B2
A stylus capable of bidirectionally communicating with a sensor controller includes a receiver that receives an uplink signal sent by the sensor controller, a controller that determines whether a signal having a predetermined waveform is to be continuously sent over a second time period or to be continuously sent over a first time period longer than the second time period, on the basis of the uplink signal, and a transmitter that continuously sends the signal having the predetermined waveform over the first time period or the second time period on the basis of the result of determination by the controller. As a result, the sensor controller can detect a burst signal from the stylus over a wide range in a sensor touch surface, to thereby reduce the possibility that the sensor controller may fail to detect the burst signal.
US10198091B2
Disclosed is a writing implement for effecting an electronic transaction via a payment terminal. The writing implement includes a communications device comprising a payment vehicle identifier. The payment vehicle identifier is associated with a payment vehicle from which funds can be drawn for effecting the electronic transaction. The communications device is configured to send the payment vehicle identifier to the payment terminal. The writing implement also includes a writing member for producing an authenticating mark to authenticate use of the payment vehicle.
US10198090B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a case, pen, and antenna. The case includes an input surface and a peripheral edge having an engagement aperture opened in a direction along the input surface. The pen is used for an input operation with respect to the input surface. The pen includes an insertion piece which is made of synthetic resin and is attachably and detachably engaged in the engagement aperture while the pen is arranged against to the peripheral edge. The antenna is disposed inside the peripheral edge to be adjacent to the insertion piece in a distance which is less than the size of the insertion piece in a transverse direction of the input surface.
US10198083B2
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a hand gesture recognition method, device, and system; the hand gesture recognition method disclosed in the present invention comprising: a first hand gesture recognition device determining, according to a recognized hand gesture and the position thereof, as well as said hand gesture and the position thereof as recognized by a second hand gesture recognition device, whether to accept control by said hand gesture. Another hand gesture recognition method disclosed by the present invention comprises: a first hand gesture recognition device publishing information of a hand gesture it has recognized, and receiving information of said hand gesture recognized by a second hand gesture recognition device.
US10198078B2
Systems and methods for mapping message contents to virtual physical properties for vibrotactile messaging are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of displaying a first visual representation of a virtual message object having an associated virtual physical parameter at a first device, generating a haptic effect based on the virtual physical parameter at the first device, and sending a message to a second device, the message being configured to display a second visual representation of the virtual message object at the second device and generate the haptic effect based on the virtual physical parameter at the second device.
US10198070B2
A gaze tracking system, leaving a low power mode in response to an activation signal, captures an initial burst of eye pictures in short time by restricting the image area of a sensor, with the purpose of enabling an increased frame rate. Subsequent eye pictures are captured at normal frame rate. The first gaze point value is computed memorylessly based on the initial burst of eye pictures and no additional imagery, while subsequent values may be computed recursively by taking into account previous gaze point values or information from previous eye pictures. The restriction of the image area may be guided by a preliminary overview picture captured using the same or a different sensor. From the gaze point values, the system may derive a control signal to be supplied to a computer device with a visual display.
US10198065B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of cores to independently execute instructions, a shared cache coupled to the cores and including a plurality of lines to store data, and a power controller including a low power control logic to calculate a flush latency to flush the shared cache based on a state of the plurality of lines. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10198061B2
According to one embodiment, a storage includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The storage is supplied with first power from a power supply unit. The controller is configured to change power supplied from the power supply unit from the first power to second power based on a power control command transmitted from a host. The power control command includes a first parameter identifying the storage and a second parameter indicative of the second power.
US10198059B2
Adaptive doze to hibernate scheme techniques are described for power management of a computing device. Rather than relying upon a fixed timer to control device power states, the adaptive doze to hibernate scheme monitors various hibernate parameters and adapts the hibernation experience in dependence upon the parameters. The hibernate parameters may include but are not limited to a standby budget, minimum standby time, reserve screen on time, and indications of user presence. In operation, a power manager monitors battery drain rate and adaptively determines when to change the device power states of the computing device based on the observed drain rate and the hibernate parameters. The power manager may selectively switch between various states (e.g., high performance, active, wake, standby, hibernate, off, etc.) accordingly.
US10198057B2
An operating method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes determining, by a first processor using at least one sensor, whether a state change occurs, if it is determined that there is the state change, determining, by the first processor, whether to transmit state information to a second processor, and determining, by the second processor, whether to measure a changed position at each of set periods using a position measuring module on the basis of whether the state information is received.
US10198056B2
A busway system enables multiple interchangeable power support redundancies to be provided to electrical loads. The busway system includes multiple busways extending through an aisle space, where some busways carry power from separate primary power sources, and one or more busways carry power from a secondary power source. Busways are coupled to loads to provide power support directly to the loads, indirectly via devices that distribute power to the loads via branch circuits, etc. The power support redundancy provided to a load is established based at least in part upon which busways are coupled to the load, and power support redundancies can be changed by changing the couplings of particular busways with the loads. The busways can extend through the aisle space in a staggered configuration to enable load balancing between busways by restricting loads in certain regions of the aisle space to coupling with certain busways and not others.
US10198054B2
A power supply device includes a first body and a second body. The first body has an opening and an adapter module which is electrically connected to a first electronic device. The opening is divided into a first part and a second part via a first axis, and the shape of the first part is asymmetrical to the shape of the second part. The second body has an energy storage unit. The energy storage unit is electrically connected to the adapter module to supply power to the first electronic device, when the second body is detached from the first body, the energy storage unit is adapted to supply power to a second electronic device.
US10198043B2
A hinge assembly of a computing device may be provided, for example. The hinge assembly may include a first hinge member and a second hinge member. The first hinge member may include a first mounting plate attached to a first gudgeon member via a first tongue portion. The second hinge member may include a second mounting plate attached to a second gudgeon member via a second tongue portion. The first and second mounting plates may be shaped so that they can be stacked in parallel along an axis such that the first and second gudgeons may be aligned perpendicular to the axis to allow a pintle member to be inserted through the first and second gudgeons and such that the first and second tongue portions may be spaced apart along the axis.
US10198038B2
A foldable display device includes a display panel including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and an impact absorption film adjacent to the second surface of the display panel and including first and second impact absorption layers. The second impact absorption layer includes a soft part corresponding to a first region of the second impact absorption layer and a hard part corresponding to a second region of the second impact absorption layer. The first impact absorption layer and the soft part of the second impact absorption layer have an elastic modulus value less than an elastic modulus value of the hard part.
US10198029B2
An externally rigid to semi-rigid wearable computer case for housing various computer components may include two different types of external sides: ventilated-sides and a non-ventilated side. In some embodiments, the wearable computer case may have four to five ventilated-sides. The ventilated-sides and the non-ventilated side together may form an enclosure for housing the various computer components. The ventilated-sides may include ventilation-holes. The ventilation-holes in a given ventilated-side may provide for a ratio of void space to non-void space (in terms of external surface area) that may be substantially from and including 0.6 to 0.4. Some embodiments may also provide for hot swap battery pack(s) that may be external to the wearable computer case and that may provide at least some electrical power to the various computer components housed within the wearable computer case. The wearable computer case and/or the hot swap battery pack(s) may be for VR/AR/MR use.
US10198028B2
A display panel has a displaying side and a back side opposite to the displaying side. The display panel comprises: a rectangular display region for displaying an image, the rectangular display region having four sides and four corners formed by adjacent sides respectively; and an outer region surrounding the rectangular display region, the outer region being in a shape of a rectangular frame, and the outer region having four side portions corresponding to the four sides of the rectangular display region and four corner portions each connecting two adjacent side portions respectively, the outer region being provided therein with a closed frame-shaped enclosing structure extending along the entire outer region. Each corner portion is folded along three folding lines provided at the corner portion.
US10198026B1
In a system having a first clock domain with a first clock and a second clock domain with a second clock, the first and second clocks are monitored to determine whether one or both clocks are active. The first clock is selected to be an output clock if the first clock is active and the second clock is disabled irrespective of the clock selection signal. The second clock is selected to be the output clock if the second clock is active and the first clock is disabled irrespective of the clock selection signal. If both the first clock and the second clock are active, either the first clock or the second clock is selected according to a received clock selection signal.
US10198009B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises obtaining inputs pertaining to one or more conditions of route planned for a vehicle having autonomous operation capability; predicting, via a processor, a future level of engagement for an operator of the vehicle, using the inputs; and providing, for the operator, information pertaining to the future level of engagement.
US10198002B2
A method in an autonomous vehicle comprises determining to perform a left turn maneuver when the vehicle is in a stopping zone, the vehicle is clear of approaching vehicles, and a relevant traffic signal displays a go signal. The method further comprises determining to perform the left turn maneuver when the vehicle has entered a dilemma zone, the vehicle is clear of approaching vehicles, and the relevant traffic signal displays a go signal, a caution signal, or has displayed a stop signal for less than a predetermined amount of time. The method further comprises determining to perform the left turn maneuver when the vehicle has entered a cross-traffic zone, the vehicle is clear of approaching vehicles, and the relevant traffic signal displays a go signal, a caution signal, or a stop signal.
US10197992B2
The present disclosure relates to the monitoring of a cooling device. More specifically, the methods and apparatus for measuring efficiency of a cooling unit. Monitoring may be done through measurement of the electrical use of the cooling unit and additional environmental variables. This measurement may create a profile for the cooling unit that may be compared to historical performance of the unit itself, the expected performance of the same model or similar model, as well as a combination of both. These measurements may be used to create predictive analysis for expected future performance. These measurements may be used for comparison to the performance of a malfunctioning unit. These measurements may be used to determine when the unit is performing outside the expected range and therefore malfunctioning.
US10197988B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a torque variation of a servomotor, which is measured in a numerical control apparatus of an existing numerical control machine tool, is observed, and a backlash is detected by calculating a transfer distance of an output shaft of the servomotor at a torque peak, without adding additional positioning detection equipment, thereby detecting an accurate backlash amount without adding additional equipment.
US10197986B2
A method, according to the present invention, of adjusting control parameters used in a control apparatus of an electric motor includes the steps of: computing a first frequency characteristic (Step 1); computing a present speed-proportional gain range (Step 2); computing a present mechanical-system characteristic constant (Step 3); computing a present proportional gain range (Step 4); computing a secular characteristic (Step 5); computing a secular speed-proportional gain range (Step 6); computing a secular proportional gain range (Step 7); and selecting proportional gain values (Step 8).
US10197985B2
A safety controller module for providing safety control comprises a non-volatile memory configured for storing a safety control program and one or more processing units configured to execute safety control functions associated with the safety control program to provide independent safety control. The safety controller module further comprises a connector configured to communicatively couple the safety controller module with a non-safety controller. The safety controller module is configured to communicate an input and/or an output signal of the safety controller module via the connector to the non-safety controller.
US10197984B2
Energy load forecasts are generated via model(s) for the grid hierarchy elements for different forecast time scale periods as a function of different sets of prioritized contextual influencing factors for respective associated combinations of grid hierarchy elements and forecast time scale periods. Relative priority values of the sets of the contextual influencing factors are iteratively weighted until a revised energy load forecast generated as a function of the weighted values via the model(s) is within a threshold value of a historic energy load data value for the associated combination of the grid hierarchy element and forecast time scale period.
US10197983B2
An apparatus including a home automation system having a plurality of sensors that detect events within a predetermined geographic area, a first wireless sensor of the plurality of sensors that operates within the home automation system under a Z-wave format wherein the first wireless sensor has a number of predetermined system operating attributes that are not related to a system address of the first sensor, a replacement wireless sensor having a processor that communicates under a Z-wave format and a program executing on a processor of the home automation system that operatively removes the first sensor from the home automation system and automatically enrolls the replacement sensor with the home automation system by assigning the predetermined system operating attributes to the replacement sensor.
US10197981B1
Methods and apparatus for controlling the movement of portable receptacles within a materials handling facility are described. The materials handling facility utilizes at least one linear induction motor (LIM) to move the portable receptacles having conductive elements from a first location to a second location within the facility. The LIMs may be configured such that most, if not all, of the movement of the receptacles is controlled by the application of energy from the LIMs to the conductive elements of the receptacles. This energy may cause the receptacles to move from one LIM to another LIM, where each LIM in sequence can apply force to the receptacle to pass it to the next LIM in the sequence. In some implementations, the portable receptacles are configured such that at least a base portion of the receptacle includes a conductive element to interact with the LIMs, while maintaining an overall light-weight configuration.
US10197980B2
A vehicle window system may include a switching mechanism having a plurality of window selector buttons each corresponding to one of a plurality of windows, and a single drive button for receiving input to move one or more of the windows according to statuses of the selector buttons. The window system may also include a controller configured to lock one of the windows in response to an indication that the window selector button corresponding to the one of the windows has been depressed for at least a predefined amount of time.
US10197975B2
A method for operating an installation for the automated control of the conditions in a building, the installation including a central control unit, electrical equipment items with which areas of the building are equipped and a unit for managing sensor(s) suitable for measuring an input physical quantity, includes modelling the building and the building areas, obtaining at least one first value of the input physical quantity measured by the sensor(s), iteratively determining values of at least one output physical quantity, as a function of at least one second value of the input physical quantity, of the model of the building and of the areas of the building, and using the determined values in order to control the electrical equipment items.
US10197969B2
A process cartridge including a drum cartridge, a developing cartridge, and a waste toner container, is provided. The drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum including a photosensitive layer and a rotation axis extending in an axial direction, a drum cleaner arranged to contact the photosensitive drum, a cleaner frame configured to accommodate the drum cleaner therein, and a waste toner conveyer tube connected with the cleaner frame. The developing cartridge is movable to be attached to and detached from the drum cartridge and includes a developer roller. The waste toner container is movable to be attached to and detached from the drum cartridge. When the developing cartridge and the waste toner container are attached to the drum cartridge, the waste toner container is connected with the waste toner conveyer tube and is located on an opposite side of the developing cartridge to the photosensitive drum.
US10197967B2
A cartridge for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein a main assembly includes a rotatable driving coupling member including a driving force transmitting portion for transmitting a driving force and a driving side abutment, wherein the cartridge is demountable in a direction substantially perpendicular to a rotational axis of the driving coupling member, includes a rotatable driven coupling member including a driving force receiving portion for receiving the driving force, and a driven side abutment to be abutted by the driving side abutment, the driven coupling member being slidable in a predetermined direction which is substantially parallel with a rotational axis of the receiving coupling member; wherein at least one of the driving side abutment and the driven side abutment is inclined so that the driven coupling member is retractable away from the driving coupling member in the predetermined direction by a force received by driven side abutment from the driving side abutment, and wherein a distance between the rotational axis of the driven coupling member and the abutment of the receiving abutment is not more than a distance between the rotational axis of the driven coupling member and the driving force receiving portion.
US10197962B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a casing that includes a plurality of peripheries and a plurality of corners connecting mutually adjacent peripheries; and a first antenna and a second antenna that are attached on the casing, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are arranged at a first corner closest to the first antenna and at a second corner closest to the second antenna, respectively, and the mutually adjacent peripheries forming the first corner and the mutually adjacent peripheries forming the second corner are mutually different.
US10197961B2
An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, an image forming portion, a transfer portion, a moving portion, a re-conveyance portion, a detection portion, a detection portion, and a control portion is provided. The moving portion includes a sheet in a width direction, and the re-conveyance portion inverts the sheet bearing a toner image transferred onto a first surface thereof and conveys the sheet to the transfer portion again. The control portion controls the image forming portion to form the toner image for the first surface on a first image position and a toner image for a second surface on a second image position and controls the moving portion to move the sheet to a position corresponding to the first image position or the second image position.
US10197955B2
A temperature detecting member for detecting a temperature of an object of a fixing device in contact with the object includes a film having an insulating property, a temperature-sensitive element provided on the film, and an electroconductive pattern formed on the film. The electroconductive pattern is electrically connected with the temperature-sensitive element.
US10197951B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance section configured to convey a sheet in a direction opposite to a first conveyance direction during image formation, the direction being a second conveyance direction; and a distortion correction section disposed on an upstream side of a transfer nip in the first conveyance direction and configured to correct, when the sheet is conveyed by the conveyance section in the second conveyance direction, distortion of the sheet generated when the sheet passes through a fixing nip.
US10197949B2
Herein is disclosed a method of electrostatic printing and glossing comprising: forming a first toner image on a print substrate by electrostatically printing an electrostatic ink comprising a first resin component comprising an ethylene acrylic acid resin, an ethylene methacrylic acid resin or combinations thereof; forming a second toner image disposed on the first toner image on the print substrate by electrostatically printing a liquid electro photographic (LEP) printing composition comprising a first resin component comprising an ethylene acrylic acid resin, an ethylene methacrylic acid resin or combinations thereof, and a second resin component present in an amount of about 20% to about 80% by weight of total solids content of the LEP printing composition, the second resin component having a melting point of from about 50° C. to about 75° C., which is below the melting point of the first resin component, or from about 140° C. to about 180° C., which is above the melting point of the first resin component; heating the print substrate to at least partially melt the first or second toner image.
US10197941B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus including: an exposure unit scanning a photosensitive member with a light beam radiated by a light source which is driven by a driving unit; a determination unit determining a number of bit data per pixel for a predetermined pixel of image data; a selection unit having conversion conditions for converting the image data into a bit pattern for the driving, and selecting a predetermined conversion condition depending on the determined number of bit data, the conversion conditions set such that numbers of bit data included in the obtained bit pattern for the radiating are different, and that the numbers of bit data are different depending on the image data; and a generation unit generating, based on the selected predetermined conversion condition and a density value of the predetermined pixel, the bit pattern for generating a PWM signal for the driving for the predetermined pixel.
US10197940B2
In a non-image forming state, an image forming apparatus changes the magnitude of a control signal output by a control portion, and when a current supply member supplies a belt with an amount of current generated by adding, to a predetermined target current used for image formation, an amount of current that flows from a contact member to the ground and changes in accordance with the magnitude of the control signal, the image forming apparatus acquires the magnitude of the control signal generated when the current, which is supplied from the current supply member to the belt and flows to a voltage adjusting member from the belt via the contact member, becomes zero.
US10197939B2
An image forming apparatus has a control portion configured to control a charging bias to be applied to a charging member and a first exposure amount with respect to humidity inside an image forming apparatus and a thickness of a photosensitive layer of a photoreceptor, and the control portion controls the charging bias and the first exposure amount so that a potential difference between a non-image forming portion and the charging member increases as the humidity decreases, and decreases as the humidity increases.
US10197931B2
A transparent electrophotographic varnish composition comprises a charge adjuvant and inorganic filler particles. A method of manufacturing an electrophotographic varnish composition comprises heating a thermoplastic resin mixture until the resin has melted; cooling the resin mixture to form resin particles; contacting the resin particles with a charge adjuvant and inorganic filler particles to form composite particles or a mixture of particles; and combining the composite particles or particulate mixture with a carrier fluid to form the electrophotographic varnish composition. A liquid electrophotographic printing system and a print substrate are also provided.
US10197924B2
A first stage system having a first stage and a first drive system that moves the first stage is configured to hold a mask illuminated with illumination light. A second stage system having a second stage and a second drive system that moves the second stage is configured to hold a substrate. A measurement system having a first encoder system and a second encoder system measures positional information of the first and second stages, respectively. The second encoder system measures the positional information of the second stage with a plurality of heads that face a grating section. The first and second drive systems are controlled based on correction information for compensating for a measurement error of the second encoder system that occurs due to the heads and measurement information of the first and the second encoder systems.
US10197910B2
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus which forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, comprising a supply unit including a plurality of orifices and configured to supply the imprint material on the substrate by discharging the imprint material from each orifice, and a control unit configured to control the discharge of the imprint material from each orifice in accordance with arrangement information showing an arrangement of the imprint material on the substrate, wherein the control unit updates the arrangement information to bring a product of an ideal volume of the imprint material discharged from each orifice in one-time discharge and the number of discharges of the imprint material supplied on the substrate from the supply unit closer to a total amount of the imprint material actually supplied on the substrate in accordance with the arrangement information.
US10197909B2
A method for transferring a fractured pattern decomposed into elementary shapes, onto a substrate by direct writing by a particle or photon beam, comprises a step of identifying at least one elementary shape of the fractured pattern, called removable elementary shape, whose removal induces modifications of the transferred pattern within a preset tolerance envelope; a step of removing the removable shape or shapes from the fractured pattern to obtain a modified fractured pattern; and an exposure step, comprising exposing the substrate to a plurality of shots of a shaped particle or photon beam, each shot corresponding to an elementary shape of the modified fractured pattern. A computer program product for carrying out such a method is provided.
US10197908B2
Disclosed are methods of generating a proximity-corrected design layout for photoresist to be used in an etch operation. The methods may include identifying a feature in an initial design layout, and estimating one or more quantities characteristic of an in-feature plasma flux (IFPF) within the feature during the etch operation. The methods may further include estimating a quantity characteristic of an edge placement error (EPE) of the feature by comparing the one or more quantities characteristic of the IFPF to those in a look-up table (LUT, and/or through application of a multivariate model trained on the LUT, e.g., constructed through machine learning methods (MLM)) which associates values of the quantity characteristic of EPE with values of the one or more quantities characteristics of the IFPF. Thereafter, the initial design layout may be modified based on at the determined quantity characteristic of EPE.
US10197904B2
One embodiment relates to a method for creating a fast vanishing light scattering surface/volume to which an image is projected. The method includes: creating two portions of atomized particles of a given particle size that does not allow an incident light having a visible spectrum from being scattered, reflected and/or dissipated; and ejecting these two portions of the atomized particles from two opposite directions towards each other. The atomized particles collide/contact with each other to aggregate, thereby creating the fast vanishing light scattering surface/volume at a specific spatial region in which the aggregated particles allow the incident light to be scattered, reflected and/or dissipated.
US10197903B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a projection display apparatus comprising: a light source for emitting a light beam; a first light path configured to project the light beam emitted from the light source to a first display position; a second light path configured to project the light beam emitted from the light source to a second display position; a light patch switching device configured to switch the light beam emitted from the light source between the first light path and the second light path; and a light modulation device through which both the first light path and the second light path pass, wherein the light modulation device is configured to modulate the light beam passing therethrough to generate a display image.
US10197895B2
A projection display device includes: a light source that emits a first and a second laser lights; a scanning drive mirror that reflects the first and the second laser lights, and uses the first and the second laser lights in scanning; a light diffusion unit that includes a predetermined region that allows the first laser light to be transmitted therethrough, and diffuses the first laser light; a light detection unit that detects the second laser light that passed the predetermined region; and a control unit that executes a process to detect the second laser light, and determines a state of the predetermined region on the basis of a detection value of the light detection unit. In a case where the control unit determines that a defect occurs in the predetermined region as the state, the control unit executes a process to stop displaying the projection.
US10197894B2
An image generation device includes an image generator, a stationary unit, a movable unit, and a dustproof unit. The image generator receives light and generate an image. The stationary unit includes a first stationary plate and a second stationary plate opposed to the first stationary plate. The movable unit includes a movable plate movably supported between the first stationary plate and the second stationary plate, the image generator mounted on the movable plate. The dustproof unit includes a dustproof member between the first stationary plate and the movable plate. The dustproof member surrounds the image generator.
US10197872B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a conductive paste, which connects a connection pad in a TFT array substrate and a transparent conductive film in a color filter substrate, and a ridge which is disposed adjacent to a conductive paste in a surrounding region of the TFT array substrate. A sealing member located between the color filter substrate and the TFT array substrate convexly extends in a direction from a display region to a surrounding region to form the ridge.
US10197870B2
An array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes an insulating layer, and a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer respectively arranged on two sides of the insulating layer, with a first electrode group being formed by the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The first electrode group includes: a first strip pixel electrode and a second strip pixel electrode, where the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are insulated from each other, disposed in the first electrode layer, and applied with different voltages in an operation process; and a first strip common electrode being disposed in the second electrode layer and including a member disposed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode in a direction from the first pixel electrode to the second pixel electrode.
US10197869B2
A display device is disclosed, which comprises: a substrate; a scan line having an extension direction, disposed on the substrate and comprising a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer disposed on the gate electrode; source and drain electrodes disposed on the semiconductor layer; an insulating layer comprising a via hole and disposed on the drain electrode; a first transparent conductive layer disposed on the insulating layer, wherein a part of the first transparent conductive layer electrically connects to the drain electrode through the via hole; and a second transparent conductive layer disposed between the substrate and the first transparent conductive layer and not overlapping the via hole. Herein, the second transparent conductive layer has a first edge, the drain has a second edge, a minimum distance between the first edge and the second edge along a direction substantially perpendicular to the extension direction ranges from 0 μm to 4 μm.
US10197867B2
A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal interposed between a CF substrate that is an ultra-thin glass substrate and a TFT substrate, and a seal pattern having an injection port. Spacer structures are arranged such that the area density thereof is higher in a corner portion farther from the injection port than in a corner portion closer to the injection port.
US10197855B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel which displays an image, an accommodating frame in which the display panel is accommodated, the accommodating frame including a bottom portion, a plurality of light source units arranged in a matrix form on the bottom portion, and a plurality of partitions dividing the plurality of light source units based on a row or column direction, wherein each of the plurality of light source units includes a plurality of light sources having different wavelengths, and the partition is spaced apart from the display panel and the bottom portion.
US10197852B2
A dual-mode liquid crystal display device, a color filter substrate and an array substrate are provided. The display device comprises: a color filter substrate, an array substrate assembled with the color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. The pixel area of the array substrate comprises red, green, blue and white sub-pixels; and the color filter substrate or the array substrate is provided with a fluorescent layer at the position corresponding to the white sub-pixels.
US10197849B2
An illumination apparatus includes a pair of substrates arranged oppositely to each other with a distance, and a light source disposed on a side surface of one of the pair of substrates. The illumination apparatus further includes an electrode that is provided on a surface of each of the pair of substrates and generates an electric field in a direction intersecting perpendicularly to the surface of the substrate. The illumination apparatus further includes a light modulation layer that is disposed at a clearance between the pair of substrates and is configured to exhibit scattering property or transparency to light from the light source, based on magnitude of the electric field generated by the electrode. The electrode includes a plurality of first electrode blocks on a surface of one of the pair of substrates.
US10197841B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method of manufacturing the same are discussed. The LCD device according to an embodiment includes a first substrate and a second substrate bonded to each other, an inner black matrix and an outer black matrix disposed in the bezel area of the second substrate to be spaced apart from each other, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A display area and a bezel area surrounding the display area are defined in the first substrate and the second substrate.
US10197833B2
Discussed are a supporting cover for curved display and a curved display device including the same, which include a fastening part for preventing a screw fastening defect. The supporting cover may include a fastening part including a screw thread which is provided in an edge of a floor having a curved shape and is inclined at an angle of N degrees from a normal line direction with respect to a curved surface of the floor, where N is a real number greater than zero, thereby preventing a screw fastening defect from occurring in assembling the fastening part and a housing.
US10197832B2
A frame assembly and a display device are provided. The frame assembly includes a back plate, a first frame and a fixing assembly. The back plate comprises at least one side edge, and the side edge has an extending direction. The first frame is combined with the back plate. The fixing assembly includes at least one first engaging structure, at least one second engaging structure and a fixing member. The first engaging structure is disposed on the at least one side edge of the back plate. The second engaging structure is disposed on at least one side edge of the first frame. The fixing member is inserted into and combined with the at least one first engaging structure and the at least one second engaging structure along the extending direction.
US10197824B2
A method of obtaining or maintaining optical transference into deaerated liquid in contact with a light transference medium is disclosed. The method comprises applying ultrasonic energy at a wavelength (λ) into deaerated liquid in contact with a light transference medium. The ultrasonic energy at wavelength (λ) originates at a distance (d) from an optical signal transmitted into the light transference medium. The distance (d) may be defined by a formula based on the wavelength (λ) of the ultrasonic energy.
US10197819B2
Techniques for increasing efficiency of thermo-optic phase shifters using multi-pass heaters and thermal bridges are provided. In one aspect, a thermo-optic phase shifter device includes: a plurality of optical waveguides formed in an SOI layer over a buried insulator; at least one heating element adjacent to the optical waveguides; and thermal bridges connecting at least one of the optical waveguides directly to the heating element. A method for forming a thermo-optic phase shifter device is also provided.
US10197812B2
A lens driving module includes a holder, a cover, a carrier, at least one first magnet, a first coil, at least two second magnets, at least one first sensor and at least one second sensor. The holder includes an opening hole. The cover is made of metal material and coupled to the holder. The carrier is movably disposed in the cover and for coupling to a lens. The first magnet is movably disposed in the cover. The first coil is wound around an outer side of the carrier. The second magnets are disposed on one end of the carrier. The first sensor is for detecting a magnetic field of the second magnets. The second sensor is for detecting a magnetic field of the first magnet.
US10197808B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a light field display control method and apparatus and a light field display device. The light field display control method comprises: determining a partial depth distribution sub-region of content according to at least depth distribution information of the content; and tilting a first display unit at least with respect to an original plane of a display array of a light field display device according to a display depth of field (DoF) range of the light field display device and the depth distribution sub-region, wherein the first display unit is a display unit that is in the display array and affects display of a first object, and the first object is a part, which is located in the depth distribution sub-region, of the content. The present application can improve display quality of an object, which is located in a partial depth distribution sub-region, of content to be displayed or content being displayed.
US10197801B2
Head-worn computers may include a rigid optical chassis mechanically configured to provide a stable optical mounting reference plane with an image source reference plane, a first image source mounted on the image source reference plane and configured to project a first image light from the stable optical mounting reference plane to a combiner positioned in front of a user's eye when the head-worn computer is worn by the user, an outer frame configured to hold the optical chassis such that, when worn by the user, the first image light is aligned with the eye of the user, and an arm rotatably mounted on the outer frame and adapted to be positioned on a user's ear, wherein the arm comprises a battery compartment and a wire connected to at least the first image source.
US10197793B2
A light modulator (e.g., for terahertz radiation) may be constructed using a prism in which light undergoes total internal reflection (TIR) at one surface. A tunable conductive layer is disposed on the TIR surface. The tunable conductive layer can have a conductivity that is dynamically controllable, e.g., by applying a voltage across the tunable conductive layer or by optically pumping the tunable conductive layer. The tunable conductive layer can absorb a portion of the reflected light beam, attenuating the beam, with the attenuation being a function of the electrical conductivity of the tunable conductive layer. The phase of the reflected light beam can also be altered as a function of electrical conductivity of the tunable conductive layer.
US10197791B2
The system and method of steering a beam using in-line fluid filled prisms having a first transparent plate, a second transparent plate, and a fluid layer interposed between the first and second plate. One or more actuators are used to manipulate the first and second plates relative to each other to create a prism to steer a beam. A second fluid filled prism may be used in-line, where one prism is used for fine adjustment and the other prism is used for coarse adjustment.
US10197790B2
A method of enhancing transmittance of waves according to the invention comprises the following steps: (a) generating a plurality of waves each of which has random phase; (b) grouping randomly the plurality of waves into a first group and a second group; (c) introducing the waves onto a disordered medium by fixing phase of waves constituting the first group and varying phase of waves constituting the second group; (d) measuring intensity of the waves based on overlapped waves of the first group and the second group which penetrated the disordered medium according to the phase variation of waves constituting the second group; (e) obtaining phase having the maximum intensity according to the phase variation among intensities measured at the step (d); and (f) adjusting phase of the waves constituting the second group based on phase obtained at the step (e).
US10197780B2
A zoom lens includes a positive first unit, a negative second unit, and a rear lens system. The rear lens system includes a positive unit A, a negative unit B, and a positive C. The first unit is not moved for zooming, the unit A is moved for zooming, and intervals between adjacent lens units are changed during zooming. The first unit includes positive and negative lenses, the unit C includes positive and negative lenses, the second unit includes negative lenses, and the unit B includes positive lenses. An Abbe number average value of the positive lenses in the first unit, an Abbe number average value of the negative lenses in the second unit, an Abbe number average value of the positive lenses in the unit B, and an Abbe number average value of the positive lenses in the unit C are appropriately set.
US10197758B2
A sleeved compression micro-duct reclamation coupling which is utilized for interconnecting remnants of micro-duct and is of a sufficient size and shape to allow the interconnected micro-duct to be pulled through larger ducting for underground construction. The sleeved compression micro-duct reclamation coupling is easily installed without the need for tools and provides a strong connection which will not easily disengage while the micro-duct is pulled through larger ducting. The sleeved compression micro-duct reclamation coupling is of simple construction requiring only a male half section, a female half section and two slotted compression sleeves.
US10197754B2
Present thermal solutions to conduct heat from pluggable optical modules into heat sinks use a metal heat sink attached with a spring clip. The interface between the pluggable module and the heat sink is simple metal-on-metal contact, which is inherently a poor thermal interface and limits heat dissipation from the optical module. Heat dissipation from pluggable optical modules is enhanced by the application of thermally conductive fibers, such as an advanced carbon nanotube velvet. The solution improves heat dissipation while preserving the removable nature of the optical modules.
US10197749B2
A BOSA device having an adjustable wavelength in two directions comprises a signal transmitter section and a signal receiver section, wherein the signal transmitter section sequentially includes a laser (1-1), a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) (3-1), a splitter (4-1), a data upload and download port (5-1), and a first TEC temperature control module (9-1) to control temperature of the laser (1-1) so as to adjust its output wavelength, and the signal receiver section sequentially includes a filter (7-1), a photo detector (8-1), and a receiving end driving device to change an angle of the filter (7-1) with respect to the optical path so as to make a passing wavelength of the filter adjustable. The first TEC temperature control module (9-1) controls temperature of the laser (1-1), and the receiving end driving device drives the filter (7-1) to change an angle of the filter with respect to the optical path.
US10197746B2
A fiber optic ferrule and a guide pin clamp allows for changing guide pins in the field. The guide pin clamp has a forward clamp portion, a rearward clamp portion configured to engage the biasing spring and a guide pin retaining plate. The forward clamp portion and the rearward clamp portion move relative to one another to also move guide pin retaining plate from a first position to a second position to allow for the removal or insertion of guide pins.
US10197744B2
An optical fiber connection device comprising a prism, first and second connection elements, inner and outer ferrules and an elastic element. The prism has an inner conduit ending in a first bore configured to receive an input optical fiber, and in a second bore configured to receive the first connection element, which, in turn, is configured to receive the second connection element. This second connection element is also configured to receive an output optical fiber. The conduit comprises two sections forming a ramp to lead the input optical fiber towards the fibers connection. The first connection element has an inner box, and the second connection element has an outer protrusion to provide a unique connecting position. The inner and outer ferrules, and the elastic element are retained in the second connection element.
US10197742B2
Aspects of the disclosure are drawn to methods for producing a fused connector termination. An exemplary method may include setting a specification requirement to be met by the fused connector termination and applying an amount of heat to a proximal region of an unfused connector termination. The proximal region of the unfused connector termination may include an inner optical fiber coaxially positioned within an outer ferrule, and applying the amount of heat may at least partially fuse the optical fiber to the outer ferrule to form an at least partially fused connector termination. The method may also include imaging the proximal region of the at least partially fused connector termination and determining, based on the imaging, whether the proximal region of the at least partially fused connector termination meets the specification.
US10197739B2
Optical connector plug, receptacle for optical connector, and optical connector connection structure
An optical connector plug includes an optical connector having an optical fiber built therein, and a cover member receiving the optical connector therein. The cover member includes a set of protrusions provided to protrude forward relative to a front end surface of the optical connector. A set of cutout portions as space portions are provided between the set of protrusions, and the set of cutout portions are arranged at locations opposing each other around the optical connector.
US10197738B2
A Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) actuator can rotate other, discrete optical elements that may be dimensionally large (especially in terms of thickness), may be of relatively large mass, and may be made of dissimilar materials (i.e., some material other than silicon). The rotating optical element may be reflective or transmissive. The MEMS actuator is used in multiple additional embodiments, allowing the integration of multiple optical functions into a single optical component, for a variety of applications. These optical functions include optical switching, optical attenuation, tunable optical filtering, the adjustment of the phase angle of an optical signal, and the detection or receiving of an optical signal or optical power level.
US10197733B2
An edge coupling device including a substrate, a buried oxide disposed over the substrate, a cladding material disposed over the buried oxide, where the cladding material includes a trench, an inversely tapered silicon waveguide disposed within the cladding material beneath the trench, and a ridge waveguide disposed within the trench, where the ridge waveguide and the inversely tapered silicon waveguide are vertically-aligned with each other.
US10197728B2
The core region of an optical fiber is doped with chlorine in a concentration that allows for the viscosity of the core region to be lowered, approaching the viscosity of the surrounding cladding. An annular interface region is disposed between the core and cladding and contains a concentration of fluorine dopant sufficient to match the viscosity of the core. By including this annular stress accommodation region, the cladding layer can be formed to include the relatively high concentration of fluorine required to provide the desired degree of optical signal confinement (i.e., forming a “low loss” optical fiber). The inclusion of the annular stress accommodation region allows for the formation of a large effective area optical fiber that exhibits low loss (i.e., <0.19 dB/km) in both the C-band and L-band transmission ranges.
US10197720B2
A backlight module includes a glue frame, a light guide plate, a first light source assembly, and a second light source assembly. The light guide plate and the first and second light source assemblies are accommodated in the glue frame. The first light source assembly includes a light source that includes LED light sources mounted on a substrate. The second light source assembly includes a plurality of laser light sources mounted on a substrate and a diffuser. The light guide plate includes first and second incident surfaces. The light source of the first light source assembly and the first incident surface are oppositely positioned. The laser light sources and the second incident surface are oppositely positioned. The diffuser is positioned between the laser light sources and the second incident surface with predetermined distances. Colors of the LED light sources and the laser light sources are complementary colors.
US10197716B2
An optical filter, a sensor device including the optical filter, and a method of fabricating the optical filter are provided. The optical filter includes one or more dielectric layers and one or more metal layers stacked in alternation. The metal layers are intrinsically protected by the dielectric layers. In particular, the metal layers have tapered edges that are protectively covered by one or more of the dielectric layers.
US10197711B2
Thin-film integrated spectrally-selective plasmonic absorber/emitter (ISSAE) that is simultaneously (i) an efficient sunlight absorber; (ii) an efficient heat insulator that enables modest sunlight concentration to produce a high temperature by reducing infrared emission by a hot surface; (iii) a spectrally-selective infrared emitter that supplies infrared photons of the right energy to a targeted photovoltaic cell, thereby matching its bandgap. Additionally, said ISSAE is sufficiently thin to enable its use as a wrapping/cloaking material for use with hot storage pipes containing heat exchange fluid. Said ISSAE is incorporated into a number of solar-conversion apparatus, taking advantage of the unique properties of said ISSAE.
US10197699B2
A disclosed method includes acquiring ahead of bit or around bit data related to a formation from measurements by a tool. The method also includes generating a map view of the formation using the acquired data. Various map views and map view features are disclosed. An operator may select one or more of the map views and/or map view features to make steering decisions for a logging while drilling system.
US10197697B2
Systems, methods, and software for modeling subterranean formation permeability are described. In some aspects, a method of training a subterranean formation permeability model based on NMR data includes accessing relaxation-time distributions generated from NMR measurements associated with a subterranean region. Multiple sets of principal components are generated from the relaxation-time distributions. Each set of principal components represents a respective one of the relaxation-time distributions. Parameters for weighted radial basis functions are computed based on the sets of principal components. A subterranean formation permeability model that includes the weighted radial basis functions and the computed parameters is produced.
US10197694B2
Systems and methods for deploying and using a controlled-frequency downhole seismic source are provided. A downhole seismic source may be placed into a borehole in a geological formation and coupled rigidly to the geological formation via an edge of the borehole. A controlled-frequency seismic signal may be generated sufficient to enable a seismic measurement of the geological formation.
US10197693B2
Methods and systems of barrier evaluation are disclosed. The method includes obtaining vibration measurement data measured in a wellbore having at least one casing. In addition, the method includes determining a boundary definition of the barrier between the casing and a formation, based on the vibration measurement data. Further, the method includes evaluating the barrier based on the one boundary definition. The system includes a vibration sensor located in the wellbore having at least one casing and a vibration source for generating vibrations. The system may also include a data logging system of producing vibration measurement data received with the vibration sensor and a processor for determining at least one boundary definition of barrier between the casing and a formation, based on the vibration measurement data and evaluating the barrier based on the at least one boundary definition.
US10197683B2
An imaging apparatus for an image intensifier (II) X-ray system includes a camera lens assembly (CLA) configured to cooperate with the II to create an X-ray image, the CLA including an image sensor and a lens. The image sensor is configured to convert received light and generate a digital image. The lens is configured to guide the light from the output surface to the image sensor, the lens having a fixed diaphragm. The CLA includes a diaphragm and/or neutral density filter with a fixed attenuation. A controller is configured to control an amount of amplification of the electric signals or the digital image. The sensor, e.g. CMOS sensor, is configured to amplify the analog electric signals before conversion into the digital image according to an analog gain, and the controller is configured to control the amount of amplification by controlling the analog gain applied by the image sensor.
US10197682B2
A timing apparatus and method for a radiation detection, measurement, identification, and imaging system are disclosed. The apparatus comprises high-energy photon detectors, a light pulse signal generator and an optical fiber. Each high-energy photon detector comprises a scintillation crystal and an optical-to-electrical conversion multiplying device. The high-energy photon detectors are all provided with light transmission holes. Light pulse signals are propagated to the scintillation crystals through the light transmission holes, then propagated to the surfaces of the optical-to-electrical conversion multiplying devices through the scintillation crystals, converted and multiplied by the optical-to-electrical conversion multiplying devices, and processed and read by an electronic circuit. The high-energy photon detectors independent from each other acquire absolute time from the light pulse signals generated by the light pulse generator and timing and calibration are performed between the independent high-energy photon detectors.
US10197677B1
A technique for is presented for locating at least one object illuminated by a laser designator. A detector and an optical unit are provided. The one optical unit is configured for receiving a beam of laser light scattered by the at least one object being illuminated by the laser designator, for creating two secondary beams, and for focusing the two secondary beams to respective foci along an optical axis of the at least one optical unit. The detector is located between the two foci, divided into an even number of portions, and is configured for measuring an intensity of impinging light at each portion. The optical unit is configured for causing the received laser light to impinge the detector, such that an upright image and an inverted image of the scattered laser light beam having substantially equal sizes and substantially equal energies are projected on the detector.
US10197675B2
A system and a method for determining a position and an orientation of an object relative to a defined reference frame is disclosed. A plurality of targets are disposed at known locations relative to the defined reference frame. A head assembly is disposed on the object, where the head assembly includes a plurality of cameras. The head assembly determines the position and the orientation of the object from location data associated with the plurality of targets and image data from the plurality of cameras.
US10197669B2
Methods and systems for performing three dimensional LIDAR measurements with different illumination intensity patterns are described herein. Repetitive sequences of measurement pulses each having different illumination intensity patterns are emitted from a LIDAR system. One or more pulses of each repetitive sequence have a different illumination intensity than another pulse within the sequence. The illumination intensity patterns are varied to reduce total energy consumption and heat generated by the LIDAR system. In some examples, the illumination intensity pattern is varied based on the orientation of the LIDAR device. In some examples, the illumination intensity pattern is varied based on the distance between a detected object and the LIDAR device. In some examples, the illumination intensity pattern is varied based on the presence of an object detected by the LIDAR device or another imaging system.
US10197663B2
Disclosed is an interactive spatial orientation method and system. The method includes: sequentially scanning, by a scanning apparatus, a receiving apparatus in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to each other; converting, by the receiving apparatus, received optical signals generated from the first scanning and the second scanning into radio waves carrying results of the first scanning and the second scanning, and transferring the radio waves to a processing apparatus; synthesizing, by the processing apparatus, the results of the first scanning and the second scanning to obtain six degrees of freedom information of the receiving apparatus. The system includes a scanning apparatus; a receiving apparatus; and a processing apparatus.
US10197662B2
A wireless device includes a transceiver and a positioning system. The positioning system a channel model adaptation module having channel model adaptation logic configured to update, for each of a plurality of access points applied to determine a position of a wireless device, a channel model. The channel model adaptation logic having a reference power update module with reference power update logic is configured to update a reference power value corresponding to each access point. A channel model update module with logic is configured to update a path loss exponent value applied to each access point.
US10197659B2
A pattern quality management chart includes a chart substrate which is made of the same material as a substrate patterned by a first region having a predetermined affinity to a functional liquid for pattern formation and a second region having an affinity lower than the predetermined affinity, and at least one unit region group formed on the surface of the chart substrate. The unit region group includes a plurality of unit regions which are constituted of the first region surrounded therearound by the second region, and each of the unit regions is classified into either a compliant type unit region which has a shape and a size such that, when a predetermined amount of functional liquid is supplied to the unit region under predetermined supply conditions, the functional liquid does not overflow into the surrounding second region and the unit region is completely filled with the functional liquid, or a non-compliant type unit region which has a shape and a size such that part of the functional liquid overflows into the surrounding second region and/or a part of the unit region is not filled with the functional liquid. A plurality of unit regions include at least one compliant type unit region and at least one non-compliant type unit region.
US10197652B2
A method and system for determining a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) property are described herein. The method includes applying a static magnetic field to a substance and applying an NMR pulse sequence to the substance. The NMR pulse sequence comprises a first pulse sequence segment applied at a first frequency to a shell and a second pulse sequence segment applied at a second frequency. The first pulse sequence segment generates a resonant signal in the shell and the second pulse sequence segment generates a characteristic within the resonant signal. The resonant signal is detected and an NMR property is determined using the characteristic within the detected resonant signal.
US10197650B2
In a method, device and magnetic resonance apparatus for determining basic shim settings for shim elements of a magnetic resonance scanner of the apparatus, an optimization function is established in a processor, which includes multiple optimization parameters, including a first optimization parameter that designates a homogeneity value of a spatial distribution of the basic magnetic field in the scanner, and a second optimization parameter that designates a value of a force acting on the shim elements. The processor is configured to calculate the spatial distribution of the shim elements by minimizing the optimization function, dependent on the first and second parameters. Shim settings for the scanner are determined using the calculated spatial distribution of the shim elements.
US10197649B2
A gradient magnetic-field coil according to an embodiment includes multiple units of coil members and a connecting member. In each of the coil members, a coil pattern is formed with a first nonmagnetic metal. The connecting member connects the coil members with each other. Moreover, at least a part of the connecting member is formed with a second nonmagnetic metal that is different from the first nonmagnetic metal.
US10197643B2
In some aspects, polarization of a spin ensemble can be increased using cavity-based techniques. A sample contains a first spin ensemble and a second spin ensemble. A drive field couples the first spin ensemble with a cavity, and the coupling increases the polarization of the first spin ensemble. Polarization is transferred from the first spin ensemble to the second spin ensemble. In some examples, the polarization is transferred from a solvent or an abundant species to a solute or a dilute species in the sample.
US10197642B2
In some aspects, polarization of a spin ensemble can be increased using cavity-based techniques. A resonator applies a drive field to a spin ensemble in a sample in a static magnetic field. The drive field couples the spin ensemble with a cavity, and the coupling increases the polarization of the spin ensemble. In some cases, the sample is thermally insulated from the cavity, for example, to maintain the sample at a higher temperature than the cavity. In some implementations, the spin ensemble achieves a polarization that is higher than its thermal equilibrium polarization.
US10197637B2
The present application discloses a system and method for monitoring and reporting the status of a direct current (DC) subsystem including a battery bank and battery charger. The system and method are configured to perform tests on distinct modules within the DC subsystem and store test data. The test data are analyzed to determine the status of each module. An aggregator determines the DC subsystem status based on the module statuses and displays an indication of the determined aggregate status.
US10197629B2
A method of generating at least one recommended replacement time signal for a battery is provided. The method includes measuring a plurality of associated unloaded and loaded battery voltages. A delta voltage for each associated unloaded and loaded battery voltage is then determined. A select number of delta voltages are averaged. A minimum delta voltage is determined from a plurality of the averaged delta voltages. At least one recommended replacement time signal for the battery is generated with the use of the minimum delta voltage when at least one averaged delta voltage is detected that has at least reached a replacement threshold.
US10197621B2
A testing device includes a system circuit board, a first chip component, a supporting structure, a circuit board and an interposer. The system circuit board has a surface where the first chip component is disposed. The first chip component is connected to the system circuit board. The supporting structure is disposed on the surface and surrounds the first chip component; the circuit board is fixed on the supporting structure and keeps distance from the first chip component. The circuit board has a connector for connecting to a chip component that is to be tested. The interposer is located between the circuit board and the first chip component. The circuit board is connected to the first chip component via the interposer. The first chip component need not connect to the chip component to be tested, so is less liable to be damaged by the frequent testing.
US10197612B2
A continuity test system (100), includes a base unit (1) and a mobile unit (9). The base unit (1) is adapted to be connected to a first portion of a test item, and, the mobile unit (9) is both interconnected to said base unit (1), and adapted to be connected to a second portion of said test item. The continuity test system (100) includes a signal generator (2), adapted to generate a dual polarity measurement signal, a measurement unit (14), adapted to measure electrical parameters of said test item (16)as said dual polarity measurement signal is applied thereto, and, a processor (13, 4), to process said measured electrical parameters and provide a resultant continuity test signal output.
US10197611B2
Systems and methods for testing an Arm and Fire Device (AFD). The system includes an AFD arm controller and a first power supply coupled to the AFD controller to provide arming power to the AFD controller. The system further includes a monitoring module coupled to the AFD controller through a plurality of means of isolation and communication. The monitoring module may include one or more monitor circuits for the AFD to test at least one circuit in the AFD, at least one circuit external to the AFD, or combination. The system further includes at least one output for the AFD to provide data from the monitoring module. The system may further include a first switch to control the monitoring module is powered and a second switch to control power to the AFD arm module. The system can include an input for applying data to the AFD.
US10197609B2
A system and method for incorporating occupancy-detecting technology into furniture is provided. More particularly, the invention relates to direct-connect device, system, and method for determining presence with respect to an automated furniture item, such as a recliner mechanism. In some aspects, a sensor is provided based on coupling one or more conductive features to a control component of the capacitance detector control component. A controller may determine the corresponding response based on occupancy detection and/or presence detection. A processor may receive information regarding changes in capacitance and determines when a change in voltage satisfies a threshold. Based on a determination of occupancy and/or presence, a variety of corresponding features of the adjustable recliner may be activated.
US10197603B2
There is provided a system for use with a fiber-optic current transducer. The system includes a processing unit configured to transduce a first light signal into a first electrical signal. The processing unit is further configured to transduce a second light signal into a second electrical signal. The processing unit is configured to remove offsets from the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal by forcing the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal to be on the same per unit basis. Furthermore, the processing unit is configured to combine the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal to produce a composite signal, the composite signal being free of the offsets. And the processing unit is further configured to linearize the composite signal to produce an output current indicative of a current flowing in a conductor disposed proximate the FOCT.
US10197600B2
An oscilloscope includes at least one demonstration signal generator integrated as part of the oscilloscope. The demonstration signal generator generates stimulus signals that consist of digital samples of various different stored waveforms without the need of a separate demonstration board or signal source. The demonstration signal generator may loop through different sections of the stored waveforms to generate respective stimulus signals that include sequences of digital samples from the different waveforms in combination, to provide a broad range of stimulus signals. The stimulus signals may be displayed on the oscilloscope or output from the oscilloscope as demonstration mode stimulus signals to demonstrate the capabilities of the oscilloscope to customers or for training.
US10197599B2
A test pin for a test device for electrically contacting a device under test to be tested, wherein the test pin comprises an electrically conductive base structure for electrically conducting a test signal between the device under test and the test device, and an exchangeable electrically conductive pin tip body configured to directly contact the device under test and to be exchangeably assembled with the base structure.
US10197596B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for automatically controlling and stabilizing aspects of a scanning probe microscope (SPM), such as an atomic force microscope (AFM), using Peak Force Tapping (PFT) Mode. In an embodiment, a controller automatically controls periodic motion of a probe relative to a sample in response to a substantially instantaneous force determined, and automatically controls a gain in a feedback loop. A gain control circuit automatically tunes a gain based on separation distances between a probe and a sample to facilitate stability. Accordingly, instability onset is quickly and accurately determined during scanning, thereby eliminating the need of expert user tuning of gains during operation.
US10197593B2
A portable speedometer calibration stand is disclosed. The stand includes a forward frame and two separate rear frame portions. Rollers rotatably mounted on each of the forward frame and the two separate rear frame portions engage tires of the test vehicle and allow the tires to rotate. Measurements of the speed of rotation of least one of the rollers allow the user to calculate speed of rotation of the tires and, from that calculation, calibrate the speedometer on the test vehicle.
US10197588B2
An air data probe is provided. The air data probe comprises an inner body having an outer surface, an outer body having an inner surface, a thin film heating system having a first surface and a second surface, a first thermally conductive adhesive disposed between the first surface and the outer surface, a second thermally conductive adhesive disposed between the second surface and the inner surface; and wherein the thin film heating system comprises one or more thin film heaters having one or more heating elements disposed in a thermally conductive, electrical insulator.
US10197583B2
Provided is a derivative of 22-hydroxycholesterol, 24S-hydroxycholesterol, 25-hydroxycholesterol, 26-hydroxycholesterol or 27-hydroxycholesterol. Also provided is a protein conjugated to the above derivative. Further provided is an antibody composition comprising antibodies that specifically bind to 22-hydroxycholesterol, 24S-hydroxycholesterol, 25-hydroxycholesterol, 26-hydroxycholesterol or 27-hydroxycholesterol. Additionally, a method of making antibodies that specifically bind to 22-hydroxycholesterol, 24S-hydroxycholesterol, 25-hydroxycholesterol, 26-hydroxycholesterol or 27-hydroxycholesterol is provided. Also, a method of assaying for 22-hydroxycholesterol, 24S-hydroxycholesterol, 25-hydroxycholesterol, 26-hydroxycholesterol or 27-hydroxycholesterol is provided. Additionally provided is a kit for detecting 22-hydroxycholesterol, 24S-hydroxycholesterol, 25-hydroxycholesterol, 26-hydroxycholesterol or 27-hydroxycholesterol. A method of detecting an enzyme or enzymes utilized in phase II drug metabolism is also provided. Also, a method of detecting an enzyme that synthesizes 22-hydroxycholesterol, 24S-hydroxycholesterol, 25-hydroxycholesterol, 26-hydroxycholesterol or 27-hydroxycholesterol is provided. Further provided is a method of evaluating progression of multiple sclerosis in a patient. Also provided is a method of determining whether a treatment for multiple sclerosis in a patient is effective. Further, a method of evaluating progression of Huntington's disease in a patient is provided. Additionally provided is a method of determining whether a treatment for Huntington's disease in a patient is effective.
US10197580B2
The invention relates to biomarkers and methods of diagnosing or monitoring schizophrenia, or a predisposition thereto.
US10197577B2
Disclosed herein are diagnostic methods and compositions for identifying individuals that are protected against Plasmodium falciparum caused malaria. Such methods are particularly useful for determining not only the protective efficacy of Pf whole parasite vaccines for individual subjects, but also within populations of vaccinated subjects. Also disclosed herein are subunit vaccines comprising at least one Pf immunologic determinant for protection against Plasmodium-caused malaria.
US10197566B2
The present invention discloses a biosensor for visual detection of an analyte, based on the light to heat conversion properties of metal nanoparticles: the analyte is visually detected by the color change in the support areas (where the analyte is present), produced as a result of the heat generated by the metal nanoparticles where they are irradiated with an external light source. Use of said biosensor in a method for the detection of analytes is also claimed.
US10197562B2
The present invention provides an immunoassay leading to the rapid and simultaneous detection of antibodies to a wide range of infectious pathogens in biological fluids of infected patients. This immunoassay involves the covalent and oriented coupling of fusion proteins comprising an AGT enzyme and a viral antigen on an identifiable solid support (e.g. fluorescent microspheres). The thus obtained antigen-coupled microspheres show enhanced capture of specific antibodies as compared to antigen-coupled microspheres produced by standard amine coupling procedures.
US10197557B2
The present invention provides small molecules for endothelial cell activation and compositions thereof and methods of making and using the same.
US10197554B2
An apparatus for measuring a concentration of amyloid-beta within a chiral solution includes signal generation circuitry for generating a first signal having an applied first orbital angular momentum signature and applying the first signal to the chiral solution. A detector for receiving the first signal after the first signal passes through the chiral solution and determining the concentration of amyloid-beta within the chiral solution based on a detected second orbital angular momentum signature received from the chiral solution that comprises an amplitude measurement and a phase measurement.
US10197539B2
A method and apparatus for assessing a calibration of a multi-axis ultrasonic scanner, the method comprising: providing a calibration verification tool (100), comprising a plurality of mutually oblique plates (110-140) defining surfaces at predefined angles with respect to one another; providing a digital model of the tool; registering, by the ultrasonic scanner, the tool (100) within the reference frame; controlling the ultrasonic scanner to measure a plate (110-140) to determine a reference signal; measuring each plate (110-140); using the reference signal and the plate measurements, determining an orientation of the ultrasonic scanner when each plate was measured; and, using the determined orientations, verifying whether or not the ultrasonic scanner calibration.
US10197536B2
A method for detecting damage to a hollow shaft is disclosed. A sensor for transmitting and receiving a signal is positioned at an end face of the hollow shaft, a signal is transmitted and an echo of the signal is received, the signal propagation time from the time of transmitting the signal until receiving the echo is determined, and the signal propagation time is compared to a predetermined intended value, and with a warning being emitted in the case of a deviation.
US10197531B2
A gate electrode (10A) used as a shutter gate includes a pair of conductive fixture members (131, 132) made of metal and identical in size attached to the inside of a rectangular opening (12) of a ceramic base (11), along with insulating fixture members (141, 142) made of ceramic attached to the inner sides of the conductive fixture members. Two comb electrodes (151, 152) as one pair have connecting portions (151a, 152a) adhered to the conductive fixture members (131, 132) as well as thin-wire electrodes whose distal ends are adhered to the insulating fixture members (141, 142). By setting length L of the opening (12) and width D of the conductive fixture members (131, 132) to appropriate values according to the coefficient of thermal expansion of each of those members, the elongation of the electrodes which accompanies an increase in temperature can be balanced by the increase in the distance between the adhered positions of the electrodes to prevent the electrodes from being excessively taut or slack. Therefore, the drift region can be heated to a higher temperature than conventional levels to perform a high-accuracy, high-resolution analysis free from the influence of residual water vapor or similar particles.
US10197528B2
ISFET measuring probe with a housing in which an ISFET and a reference electrode are arranged in such a way that the gate electrode of the ISFET, which is coated with an ion-sensitive layer, and the reference electrode reach into a measurement space into which a measurement medium can be introduced, with the distinguishing feature that an auxiliary electrode is arranged additionally inside the housing and is held inside the measurement space.
US10197518B2
Methods, devices and systems for three-dimensional location of the disposition of a sensor coil in a subject including are disclosed. The systems include an array of three or more triplet or quadruplet drive coil sets, at least one moveable sensor coil configured to be disposed in a subject and to provide one or more sensor coil response signals responsive to the respective electromagnetic wave fields, a receiving component configured to control drive signals to the array of drive coil sets and to measure sensor coil response signals from the moveable sensor coil, and a processor is configured to determine a sensor coil disposition in the subject relative to said triplet or quadruplet drive coil sets. The receiving component provides a modified drive signal to maximize or optimize the generated respective electromagnetic wave fields, or the one or more sensor coil response signals.
US10197508B2
Exemplary imaging systems, apparatus, and methods may include a plurality of reconfigurable antenna assemblies. The reconfigurable antenna assemblies may each include one or more antennas. The antennas may be configured in a plurality of states including a passive state in which the antenna may not perturb the electromagnetic field. The antennas may be positioned about a measurement domain such as, e.g., a conductive measurement chamber.
US10197500B2
Devices and methods for controlling the properties of chemical species during time-dependent processes. A device includes a reactor for containing one or more chemical species of a time-dependent process, an extraction pump for automatically and continuously extracting an amount of the one or more chemical species from the reactor, one or more detectors for measuring property changes of the one or more extracted chemical species and generating a continuous stream of data related to the one or more property changes to the one or more chemical species during a time interval, and a process controller configured to fit the continuous stream of data to a mathematical function to predict one or more properties of the one or more chemical species at a future time point and make one or more process decisions based on the prediction of one or more properties at the future time point.
US10197490B2
An apparatus for measuring volumes of two or more immiscible fluids, a lighter fluid and a heavier fluid, in a core sample includes a fluid separator and two volume pressure actuators. The lighter fluid accumulates in an upper portion of the fluid separator and the heavier fluid accumulates in a lower portion of the fluid separator, with a meniscus forming between the lighter fluid and the heavier fluid. The first and second volume pressure actuators have fluid volume encoders that determine a net volumetric flow of the fluids to and from the fluid separator. The first and second volume pressure actuators also collectively maintain constant back pressure on the fluid separator and maintain the meniscus between the two immiscible fluids in the fluid separator at a constant position.
US10197478B2
The invention relates to a sample carrier for a sample (70). Said sample carrier comprises a supporting base (10), a carriage (20) having a receiving region (30) for the sample (70), the carriage (20) being supported on the supporting base (10), a guide (40), the carriage (20) being movably arranged along the guide (40), and a disc (60) that is rotationally movable about an axis of rotation (50), said disc being operatively connected to the carriage (20), wherein a center (65) of the disc (60) is located outside of the axis of rotation (50).
US10197475B2
A tire tester includes a rotary member, a tire support mechanism, and an actuator configured to advance and retreat at least one of the rotary member and the tire support mechanism with respect to the other. The tire support mechanism includes a main frame connected with the actuator, a subframe supporting an axle extending in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the rotary member or the tire support mechanism advances and retreats with the actuator, and movably attached to the main frame such that a distance of the subframe from the main frame decreases and increases in a direction crossing the first direction; and at least one measurement unit provided between the main frame and the subframe.
US10197474B2
A system for use in inspecting a component having flow openings defined therein. The system includes a fluid injector in flow communication with the component, wherein the fluid injector provides fluid to the component such that the fluid is discharged from the flow openings. A sensing sheet is coupled to or positioned proximate to the component such that the fluid discharged from the flow openings is received at the sensing sheet, wherein the sensing sheet is formed from pressure-sensitive material. A light source emits light towards the sensing sheet such that the pressure-sensitive material is excited to an energy level. The system further includes an imaging device that captures images of a change in color of the pressure-sensitive material as a function of a pressure of the fluid received at the sensing sheet, wherein the change in color represents a pressure distribution across the sensing sheet based on a flow profile of the fluid discharged from the flow openings.
US10197472B2
A method for performing maintenance on an engine includes: providing an engine maintenance system including a database system having a database and a database management device: providing a first performance parameter stored in the database and characterizes an engine performance before an engine maintenance procedure; providing a maintenance parameter stored in the database and characterizes a scope of a maintenance measure performed on an engine during an engine maintenance procedure; providing a second performance parameter stored in the database and characterizes the engine performance after the engine maintenance procedure; determining, using the database management device, a functional relationship between the maintenance parameter and the contribution of the maintenance parameter to a difference between the first performance parameter and the second performance parameter; outputting the functional relationship via the engine maintenance system; and performing maintenance on the engine taking the functional relationship into account.
US10197467B2
A calibration rotor for a horizontal balancer, configured to be driven by a driver. The calibration rotor includes a main barrel that has a longitudinal axis and the periphery of which includes points for attaching balance weights that are evenly distributed in an axial and angular manner about the axis. A rotation guide is arranged at each end of the main barrel. The rotor is modular, and the rotation guide includes adapters (40, 42) which are capable of being configured to be attached to the ends of the barrel. The guide is of a first type, suitable for rotatably guiding the barrel on rollers, or of a second type, suitable for rotatably guiding the half-shell barrel. Each type of adapter has the same predetermined moment of inertia and is interchangeable on the barrel.
US10197465B2
Systems and methods for sensing pressure, and protecting a sensor within a sensor assembly. A sensor assembly may comprise a sensor having at least one pressure input port; a first housing configured to encapsulate the sensor; a second housing configured to attach to the first housing to encapsulate the sensor; a first O-ring located between the first housing and the sensor; a second O-ring located between the second housing and the sensor; and a printed circuit board configured to receive detected pressure information from the sensor.
US10197461B2
Provided is a cutting device that prevents a variation of shocks or impacts applied to a substrate during a cutting operation. The cutting device includes a pressing part; a cutting part disposed so as to move with respect to the pressing part so as to contact the substrate on an opposite side of the pressing part to thereby sandwich the substrate between the cutting part and the pressing part to shear the substrate; a first force generation part for generating pressing force to press the pressing part against the substrate; and a first adjustment part for adjusting the pressing force in response to the force applied from the substrate to the pressing part when the pressing part presses the substrate with the first force generation part.
US10197459B2
A deformation sensing apparatus comprises an elastic substrate, a conductive element, and an additional conductive element. The conductive element includes conductive joints that are separated from each other by resolving elements along a length of the conductive element. Different combinations of conductive joints and resolving elements correspond to different segments of the deformation sensing apparatus. Based on a change in capacitance between a conductive joint and the additional conductive element when a strain is applied to the deformation sensing apparatus, the deformation sensing apparatus generates a signal that allows determination of how the strain deforms the deformation sensing apparatus.
US10197452B2
A temperature sensor may include at least one cell. Each one of the at least one cell may include a bi-stable flip-flop having a first branch and a second branch. The first branch may include an asymmetry element. A processor is configured to receive, from each one of the at least one cell, an output signal indicative of an operational state of the bi-stable flip-flop and to determine a temperature based on the received output signals.
US10197450B2
A thermal sensor may include a housing having a thermal contact member, an indicator coupled to the housing, and a thermal sensing element disposed in the housing in thermal communication with the thermal contact member. The thermal sensor may also include an actuator element in communication with the indicator and thermal sensing element. The thermal sensing element may be configured to expand in response to reaching a temperature threshold thereby engaging the actuator element and activating the indicator.
US10197436B2
A fluid pulse device includes a piezo actuated valve, a piezo injector, a delivery system, and a control system. The piezo actuated valve has a valve body, a tube, and a piston assembly. The valve body defines a first opening, a second opening, and a valve cavity that is disposed between the first opening and the second opening. The tube extends from the valve body. The piston assembly includes a piston head and a stem that is connected to the piston head. The piezo injector has an injector tip that extends through the first opening. The delivery system is fluidly connected to the piezo injector. The control system is operatively connected to the piezo injector and is configured to actuate the piezo injector to provide a fluid pulse.
US10197435B2
A balance including a weighing chamber (16); a draft shield (23), which surrounds the weighing chamber; a climate module (34), which is detachably disposed in the weighing chamber; a processor (32), which is programmed to provide an evaporation rate correction value; a data input unit; and a data transmission path, over which data is exchanged between the climate module and the processor. Also disclosed are a climate module configured to electrically yet detachably couple to a balance, wherein the climate module forms a self-contained modular unit and includes various sensors (52, 54, 62) and a path over which data is transmitted to an external processor, and to a method for calibrating a pipette using a balance, wherein an evaporation rate is determined during the calibration process, and the measurement is corrected in accordance with the determined evaporation rate.
US10197430B2
A visual indicator for denoting a fluid level in a throat portion of a waterless urinal cartridge is presented. The visual indicator comprises a fluid level indicator disposed in the throat portion of the cartridge. As material buildup occurs inside the cartridge, a corresponding rise in the fluid level in the throat of the cartridge may be seen relative to the indicator, indicating when the cartridge will need replacement. The visual indicator may comprise markings that indicate the level of fluid within the throat portion, reactive materials, or an electronic reader. The fluid level indicator may also be made visible by ultraviolet radiation.
US10197425B2
The invention relates to a flowmeter for liquid/gas two-phase cryogenic fluids, including: a separator of the liquid/gas phases, preferably made up of a vessel, the cryogenic fluid being admitted into the top portion of said vessel; a liquid flow sensor, located on a liquid pipe in fluid communication with the bottom portion of the vessel, the vessel being placed in the top position in the space relative to the liquid flow sensor; a gas pipe, in fluid communication with the upper portion of the vessel, provided with a flow sensor of the gas phase circulating in said gas pipe; a three-way valve capable of recovering, in two of the channels thereof (A/B), the downstream end of said gas pipe and the downstream end of said liquid pipe; and a device for measuring the level of liquid in the vessel, preferably comprising two level sensors: a bottom level sensor and a top level sensor.
US10197423B2
An ultrasonic flow meter comprising two piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers each comprising a first and a second electrode; an ultrasonic flow meter housing, at least a part of which forms a support substrate for supporting the two piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers on an electrically conductive layer of the support substrate; an adhesive applied between the electrically conductive layer and the first electrode; wherein at least the first electrode of each piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer has a roughened surface, and wherein electrical connection between the electrically conductive layer and the first electrode is formed by said roughening.
US10197421B2
A device for detecting posture change of a operation part in a camera and a method for restoring posture are disclosed. The device may include a photo interrupter and a photoelectric baffle structure including a plurality of baffle pieces fixed on a base. The baffle pieces may include a first baffle piece and remaining second baffle pieces of a length specification different from that of the first baffle piece, and there is a gap between two adjacent baffle pieces. An output signal from the photo interrupter changes according to the aligning relationship between the photo interrupter and the baffle pieces. One of the photoelectric baffle structure and the photo interrupter may follow the motion of an operation part of the camera while the other one remains unmoved, so that a posture change of the operation part may be detected based on the output signal from the photo interrupter.
US10197418B2
Examples include systems and methods for decomposition of error components between angular, forward, and sideways errors in estimated positions of a computing device. One method includes determining an estimation of a current position of the computing device based on a previous position of the computing device, an estimated speed over an elapsed time, and a direction of travel of the computing device, determining a forward, sideways, and orientation change error component of the estimation of the current position of the computing device, determining a weight to apply to the forward, sideways, and orientation change error components based on average observed movement of the computing device, and using the weighted forward, sideways, and orientation change error components as constraints for determination of an updated estimation of the current position of the computing device.
US10197407B2
Method of autonomous path planning for a vehicle, comprising the steps of a) determining an outer boundary (2) and an inner boundary (4) of a working area (1a) for a vehicle to operate on, b) providing a direction parameter indicating a primary working direction (6) along which the working area (1a) is to be worked on; c) providing an angle parameter indicating an angle (α) between a secondary working direction (8) and the primary working direction (6), wherein the secondary working direction (8) indicates a direction along which a plurality of working paths (10) are to be arranged within the inner boundary (4). The method further comprising the steps of d) calculating the plurality of working paths (10) within the inner boundary (4) based on the direction parameter and the angle parameter; and e) further calculating one or more connecting paths (16) between the outer boundary (2) and the inner boundary (4), each connecting path connecting two subsequent working paths (10).
US10197405B2
A route guidance system, a route guidance method, and a computer program are provided that enable a user to understand in advance a section where automated driving control is interrupted. The route guidance system is configured to: when a recommended route from a departure point to a destination including an automated driving section where automated driving control of a vehicle is performed is searched for, acquire candidate routes that are candidates for the recommended route; specify, for each of the candidate routes, an interruption section where the automated driving control is interrupted in the automated driving section included in the candidate route; and provide guidance, for each of the candidate routes, in a manner distinguishing a section that corresponds to the interruption section from a section that does not correspond thereto in the automated driving section included in the candidate route.
US10197404B2
In one embodiment, navigational features of a navigation device are activated or deactivated according to the accuracy of the geographic data. The navigation features may be predictive features related to upcoming portions of a path curve. The path curve is compared to measured data. For example, a first curve is accessed from a map database and a second curve is based on measured position data collected while traversing the path. The first curve and the second curve correspond to the same geographic area. A difference of an attribute between a section of the first curve and a section of the second curve is used to assign a confidence factor to the section of the first polycurve based on the difference. The attribute may be heading, position, curvature, or another aspect of the path curves.
US10197401B1
A method and system of dynamically displaying information to a user is disclosed. A user's location is sensed. Customized information is displayed to the user at a location that is in proximity to the user. The customized information moves as the as the user changes location.
US10197400B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for calibrating an autonomous navigation system. According to a first aspect of the present invention, calibration of the autonomous navigation system may be controlled by a calibration map.
US10197398B1
A method and system for localizing a mobile device includes deriving and using a spatial derivative magnetic signature or fingerprint. The method, executed in a processor of the mobile device, comprises monitoring mobile device magnetic data along a route being traversed, deriving, from the mobile device magnetic data, a mobile device spatial derivative magnetic fingerprint along the route, accessing a repository of spatial derivative magnetic fingerprint data having associated respective positions along the route, and localizing the mobile device based at least partly on matching the mobile device spatial derivative magnetic fingerprint with the spatial derivative magnetic fingerprint data of the repository.
US10197396B2
A method for performing continuous calibration of a magnetometer in a device includes during operation of a device, continually performing magnetometer measurements; continuously determining a state of the device; determining a magnetometer calibration model based on the magnetometer measurements and the state of the device; continually evaluating an accuracy of the magnetometer calibration model based the magnetometer measurements and the state of the device; and updating the magnetometer calibration model based on the evaluation of the accuracy magnetometer calibration model, the magnetometer measurements, and the state of the device.
US10197391B2
The present disclosure describes systems and processes, including processes in which first location data is received. Visual access to a first image corresponding to the first location data is provided, the first image including a roof structure of a building. A first computer input capable of signaling a designation from the user of a building roof structure location within the first image is provided. A designation of the building roof structure location within the first image is received. Responsive to receiving the designation of the building roof structure location, a second computer input capable of signaling user-acceptance of the building roof structure location within the first image is provided. Responsive to receiving the user-acceptance confirming the designation of the building roof structure location, visual access to one or more second images corresponding to geographic location coordinates of the building roof structure location is provided.
US10197381B2
Determination of the rotational position of a sensor by means of a laser beam emitted by a satellite
The invention relates to the determination of the rotational position of a sensor by means of a laser beam emitted by a satellite. For this purpose, the sensor includes a rotational position determination device which has a laser beam detection device for detecting the laser beam emitted by the satellite. Moreover, the rotational position determination device includes a control device which is designed for determining the rotational position of the rotational position determination device based on the detected laser beam.
US10197380B2
Systems and methods are described herein for a self-referencing interferometer. The interferometer can comprise an improved spatial phase shifter that reduces the number of components, size and complexity of the spatial phase shifter and maintains a common path for a combined reference beam and signal beam. The self-referencing interferometer further comprises a single mode fiber shunt for filtering the reference beam and further reducing the size of the interferometer. The angle of the reference beam can be tilted before being recombined with the single beam which further simplifies the spatial phase shifting component of the interferometer.
US10197379B2
A system for providing optical actuation and optical sensing can include an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device that performs optical imaging of a sample based on optical interferometry from an optical sampling beam interacting with an optical sample and an optical reference beam; an OCT light source to provide an OCT imaging beam into the OCT device which splits the OCT imaging beam into the optical sampling beam and the optical reference beam; and a light source that produces an optical actuation beam comprising a plurality of wavelengths that is coupled along with the optical sampling beam to be directed to the sample to actuate particles or structures in the sample so that the optical imaging captures information of the sample under the optical actuation.
US10197378B2
Embodiments herein relate to a time domain depth sensor system and method for determining a depth of a ground engaging device in soil. The sensor system may include a signal transmission element arranged on an outer periphery of a ground engaging device that is adapted to penetrate soil. The signal transmission element can be arranged to receive and transmit an electrical signal that is responsive to impedance discontinuities detected by a pulse detector. The pulse detector is configured to detect a first and a second reflected signal corresponding to a sensed impedance discontinuities at a first and a second soil location. An electronic data processor is communicatively coupled the pulse detector and is configured to determine the depth of the ground engaging device in the soil based on a difference between a first time of propagation of the first reflected signal and a second time of propagation of the second reflected signal.
US10197373B2
A marking device for attaching to a tape measure includes an attachment assembly for movably attaching the marking device to a tape measure and a guide housing movably engageable with the attachment assembly. The guide housing receives a marking member and a marking fluid storage member and directs movement of the marking member from a first position contacting the marking fluid storage member to a second position contacting an object to be marked. A compartment receives the guide housing, which directs movement of the marking member from the second position to the first position. At least one aperture enables contact of the marking member with an object to be marked. An energy storage member moves the guide housing and marking member from the first position to the second position. The guide housing may include a gear mechanism that moves the marking member from the first position to the second position.
US10197370B2
The utility model discloses a single-slot cartridge clip holder comprising a front housing, a rear housing, positioning rack slots, adjustable rack arms and a screw hole, wherein the adjustable rack arms are arranged at two sides of the front housing, the rear housing is mounted at a rear part of the front housing, the positioning rack slots matching the adjustable rack anus are arranged at two sides of the rear housing, a slidably adjustable mounting hole is arranged at a middle part of a connection between the front housing and the bottom of the rear housing, an integrally formed pressure elastic piece is arranged at an inner side of the rear housing, and positioning screw holes are arranged at two sides near a top end of a pressure elastic piece.
US10197368B2
An auxiliary cutting implement for attachment between a broadhead and arrow shaft includes preferably two or more coils each having two cutting edges formed along their opposite elongated side edges. As the coils pass through the animal they unroll and slice through animal flesh in all directions. The coils are biased toward their rolled position which increases the multi-directional movement of the coil and cutting edges through the animal resulting in a large cutting area and fast kill as compared to the broadhead alone.
US10197356B2
Extendable tangs are used to increase the surface area of grips so as to better enable users with larger hands to adequately control smaller items. Tangs are stowed within the body of a grip and deployed through one of a number of mechanisms, including spring-loaded and non-spring loaded mechanisms.
US10197346B2
The invention relates to a method for cleaning a plate heat exchanger, in which method the plate pack (2) of the plate heat exchanger is removed from the outer casing, the plate pack (2) is stretched in its longitudinal direction so that the spaces between the plates of the plate pack increase, and then the plate spaces of the plate pack are cleaned.
US10197345B2
A low pressure system for cooling a ram bushing is provided. The low pressure system includes at least one check valve disposed on a T-coupling downstream of the low pressure pump. The check valve allows for the pressure to be maintained in the cooling system, but also allows pressure to be relieved in the event of an over pressure condition.
US10197341B2
The invention relates to a heat exchanger (1), especially an exchanger for the air-conditioning system of a vehicle, allowing heat exchange between first (F1) and second (F2) fluids, said exchanger (1) comprising a plurality of tubes (3) for the circulation of the first fluid (F1), which are stacked one on top of the other, and at least one collector (5) comprising a collector plate (7), said collector plate (7) comprising openings (13) for inserting the ends (3a) of tubes (3), characterized in that said ends (3a) of said (3) are assembled at least two by two in the insertion openings of the collector plate (7).
US10197331B2
To provide a solid-liquid separation system in which a stable operation can be continuously conducted and the introduction cost and the running cost can be suppressed, in cases where moisture or oil are separated from a substance containing moisture or oil by using changes in phase of a working fluid having a nature of dissolving moisture or oil in a liquid phase. Provided is a solid-liquid separation system in which a working fluid that dissolves moisture or oil in a liquid phase is liquefied and brought into contact with a solid substance to thereby allow the working fluid to contain moisture or oil that has been contained in the solid substance, and then the working fluid is vaporized to precipitate the moisture or oil, characterized in that the solid-liquid separation system is provided with a fluid circuit in which a high-temperature-side heat exchanger that vaporizes the working fluid by a refrigerant, a low-temperature-side heat exchanger that liquefies the working fluid by the refrigerant are connected to circulate the working fluid, and a refrigerating cycle in which a compressor, a condenser that exchanges heat with a heat source other than the working fluid, the high-temperature-side heat exchanger, an expansion mechanism, and the low-temperature-side heat exchanger are sequentially connected to circulate the refrigerant, and that the solid-liquid separation system includes a recovery operation mode in which the working fluid in a filling tank is vaporized, besides the solid-liquid separation. For performing the recovery operation mode, a second expansion mechanism is provided between the condenser and the high-temperature-side heat exchanger. The system is also characterized in that the fluid circuit is provided with a heating unit that does not use the refrigerant as a heat source.
US10197329B2
A method for separating a vapor from a carrier gas is disclosed. A hydrocyclone is provided with one or more nozzles on the wall of the hydrocyclone. A cryogenic liquid is provided to the tangential feed inlet at a velocity that induces a tangential flow and a cyclone vortex in the hydrocyclone. The carrier gas is injected into the hydrocyclone through the one or more nozzles. The vapor dissolves, condenses, desublimates, or a combination thereof, forming a vapor-depleted carrier gas and a vapor-enriched cryogenic liquid. The vapor-depleted gas is drawn through the vortex finder while the vapor-enriched cryogenic liquid is drawn through the apex nozzle outlet. In this manner, the vapor is removed from the carrier gas.
US10197316B2
A system for reducing the refrigerant pressure in an oil sump (10) or in a cavity (352) of a housing. The invention is particularly useful for reducing pressure in a compressor (23) for heat pump applications that has been validated for water chiller operations or in turbine and generator systems in ORC systems generating electricity using refrigerant, the ORC systems essentially being a heat pump application operating in reverse. An auxiliary compressor (509), an auxiliary condenser (709) or an ejector pump (609) may be used to reduce pressure in the oil sump (10), to separate refrigerant from oil. The auxiliary compressor (509), the auxiliary condenser (709) or the ejector pump (609) may also be used to reduce the pressure of refrigerant in the housing of a compressor in heat pump applications at temperatures and pressures at which the compressor was validated for water chiller applications and of the turbine and generator in ORC applications.
US10197292B2
The present invention relates to a burner module for a cooker and a cooker and a method for such a burner module. The burner module according to the invention comprises: a carrier with which the burner module can be placed as a unit on a worktop; an outlet for gas provided on the carrier; an inlet provided on the carrier for supplying gas; and control means provided between an inlet and the outlet for realizing a gas flame.
US10197282B2
A multistaged lean prevaporizing premixing fuel injector apparatus is provided. The fuel injector may be utilized with a turbogenerator. Preheated combustion air from the turbogenerator's recuperator may be utilized by the fuel injector to prevaporize liquid fuel. The injector may provide for premixing of multiple fuel streams and include multiple stages with a flow distributor plate separating adjacent stages. The injector may include multiple stages, with a pilot tube located in a final stage splitting the fuel stream into a premixed pilot stream and a premixed final fuel and air mixture stream.
US10197278B2
A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine is provided. The combustor assembly includes a liner at least partially defining a combustion chamber and extending between an aft end a forward end generally along an axial direction. The combustor assembly also includes an annular dome including an enclosed surface defining a slot for receipt of the forward end of the liner. A cap is positioned at the forward end of the liner and at least partially positioned within the slot defined by the enclosed surface of the annular dome. The cap includes a surface configured to contact at least one of the enclosed surface of the annular dome and the forward end of the liner. Such a configuration may form a substantially airtight seal between the forward end of the liner and the annular dome despite a relative thermal expansion between the components.
US10197277B2
Method, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, article, and improvements thereto, with particular regard to chemically heated hot emitter electric generators, and support thereof. Illustratively, there can be a machine including: a first computer system including a digital computer operably associated with an input device, a memory, and an output device, the computer programmed to carry out operations including: receiving, as information input at said input device, input representing chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions; computing, from said input, output that can be used for, or to facilitate, operation of chemically heated hot emitter generators.
US10197275B2
An acoustic damping device is provided that includes a resonating tube defining a resonating cavity with a predetermined characteristic length and a tube end defining a cavity opening, as well as a case configured to reversibly secure the tube end in fluidic communication with a fluid volume enclosed by a liner. The cavity opening is connected with the resonating cavity. The case includes a vented ferrule adpressed over a perforated region of the liner. The vented ferrule defines a ferrule opening that is aligned with the perforated region of the liner and the cavity opening to form the fluidic communication between the fluid volume and the resonating cavity.
US10197272B2
The description relates to a process for reducing acid plume from stacks from coal-fired combustors operating at varying loads, which have typically been treated by back-end calcium carbonate (limestone) which has not been able to effectively control visible acid plume as power is ramped up from low load. According to the process, as high sulfur and high iron coals are burned in a combustor, magnesium hydroxide slurry is introduced into hot combustion gases in or near the combustion zone. And, during ramp up to high load from a period of operation at low load, additional magnesium hydroxide is introduced into an intermediate-temperature zone.
US10197269B2
The present disclosure is directed to a burner assembly for generating a heat source. The burner assembly may include a combustion plate having a first surface and a second surface. The combustion plate may include a first plurality of holes extending from the first surface to the second surface arranged in a first circle and a second plurality of holes extending from the first surface to the second surface arranged in a second circle. The first circle and second circle may be arranged in concentric circles. The burner assembly may further be configured to have at least one of the holes having a longitudinal axis extending at a first acute angle from a plane of the combustion plate. The burner assembly may further be configured to have at least one of the holes having the longitudinal axis extending at a second acute angle from a tangent line of one of the concentric circles on the plane of the combustion plate.
US10197268B2
A self extinguishing torch mechanism has a stationary tube with an opening at an upper end thereof, and a wick tube concentrically rigidly affixed inside the stationary tube defining a space therebetween. A sliding tube is situated coaxially around wick tube the within the space defined between the wick tube and stationary tube. A biasing member extends the sliding member through the opening at the upper end of the stationary tube when the stationary tube is overturned.
US10197261B1
An LED illumination apparatus includes an LED device; a base having a concavity for receiving the LED device; a heat sink including a plate coupled to the base and a plurality of fins extending from a surface of the plate opposite the base, the fins extending laterally beyond sides of the plate; a cooling fan for forcing air over the fins; and a casing housing the LED substrate, the base, the heat sink, and the cooling fan.
US10197259B2
A system and method for incorporating occupancy-detecting technology into furniture is provided. More particularly, the invention relates to detecting occupancy by a standalone capacitance detection device. The standalone capacitance detection device is configured for integration with any number of furniture items. Further, the detected capacitance may be used to determine commands for controlling a variety of devices associated with the standalone capacitance detection device. Additionally, methods for determining occupancy of a furniture item and a system for monitoring occupancy are described herein.
US10197256B2
An LED assembly is provided that includes a plurality of LEDs placed along a frame. The plurality of LEDs can include red LEDs, green LEDs and blue LEDs. In an embodiment, the frame can include a common ground and a separate power trace for each color so that the output of each color can be controlled separately. A connector can be integrated into the frame. Terminals can be molded into the frame. Traces can be connected to the terminals so as to provide a three-dimensional circuit.
US10197246B2
A zoom lamp includes a lamp body, a light emitting component, a movable ring, a lens, and a rotation ring. The lamp body defines a receiving groove. The movable ring includes a plurality of guiding posts protruding from an outer wall thereof and a plurality of resilient members. The lens is fixed to the movable ring. An external wall of the rotation ring is provided with a latching hook, the rotation ring defines a plurality of inclined grooves. When the rotating ring rotates, the guiding post is guided by the inclined groove to slide, thereby driving the lens to move adjacent to or away from the light emitting component.
US10197233B2
An illumination device emits illumination light and has a light source arranged inside a housing generating illumination light; a diffusing panel attached to the housing; and a projector inside a space formed by the housing and a part of the diffusing panel and projecting an image onto a projection surface. An optical unit is arranged so that an incident direction of a light flux incident from a display element provided in the projector onto a projection optical system of the projector is substantially parallel to a horizontal plane or in a direction closer to a direction parallel to the horizontal plane than a vertical direction, or in so that an optical axis of the projection optical system on which the light flux from the display element is substantially parallel to the horizontal plane or in a direction closer to a direction parallel to the horizontal plane than the vertical direction.
US10197231B2
A lighting arrangement (10) is disclosed that comprises a plurality of solid state lighting elements (22) mounted on a grid of conductive wires (12), said grid comprising a plurality of grid segments (20) each defined by respective portions of adjacent conductive wires, each grid segment comprising a pair of reinforcement members (24, 26) affixed to said portions; and at least one said solid state lighting element mounted on said portions in between the reinforcement members of at least some of the grid segments. An apparatus and method for deforming such a lighting arrangement are also disclosed.
US10197219B1
A secondary light curtain for preventing injury to an operator of a press brake during formation of a second flange on a workpiece and a method for using the same. The secondary light curtain detects intrusion by the operator into a crush zone, i.e. the area, between the ram and the leading edge of a prior formed flange. In order to provide for ready adjustment of the height of the secondary light curtain, a mounting bracket having a longitudinal mounting slot, and a cooperating secondary angle bracket are provided. The mounting bracket of the present invention allows the secondary light curtain light assemblies to be mounted directly on the front or side of the ram.
US10197218B2
A medical apparatus includes an elastic compensation member providing a first link that is rotatable with respect to a first rotational axis so that a display apparatus is movable, with a torque in an opposite direction to a torque acting due to a load of the display apparatus in order to compensate for the torque acting due to the load of the display apparatus, in order to minimize a length variation of the elastic compensation member despite movement of the display apparatus, a first end portion of the elastic compensation member is not fixed to the first link but is supported by an additional rotatable supporting portion so that the first end portion of the elastic compensation member is movable relative the first link while the display apparatus is being moved.
US10197214B2
A securing assembly for an article, said securing assembly including: a footing adapted to be securable to a floor or a similar supporting surface underneath said article; a securing rod dimensioned and arranged to be releasably and rigidly securable between said article and said footing.
US10197209B2
In a method of reinforcing a pipe, a water penetration resistant layer and strengthening layer of fibrous material are impregnated with a curable polymer, positioned in a lining position near the pipe, and cured to form a water penetration resistant liner and a strengthening liner. The two layers can be impregnated and positioned separately or at once, for example, as a composite liner. Together, the liners provide a waterproof barrier and structural reinforcement to the resulting pipe. In a method of waterproofing a reinforced pipe, a water penetration resistant layer is impregnated with curable polymer, positioned over a previously installed reinforcing liner, and cured to form a waterproof barrier inhibiting ground water egress into the pipe. In certain embodiments of the methods, the water penetration resistant layer includes fibers woven in one of a satin weave and a twill weave.
US10197208B2
Pipe with an outer diameter of from 90 to 630 mm and a minimum wall thickness of higher than 3.6 mm, having (a) an extrapolated time-to-failure (ASTM F2023 and ASTM F2769-10, performed on 16 mm SDR 7.4 pipe) of at least 50 years (for classification code CL5), (b) a time to failure (ISO 1167, performed on 32 mm SDR 11 pipe) of at least 10000 hours (110° C. under hoop stress of 2.6 MPa), and (c) a resistance to slow crack growth (ISO 13479 (80° C., 9.2 bar, performed on 110 mm SDR 11 pipe)) of at least 5000 hrs. The pipe contains a copolymer of ethylene and an a-olefin, and has (a) a density (D) in the range 933-948 kg/m3, (b) a melt index (MI2) in the range 0.15-2.0 g/10 min, and (c) a melt elastic modulus G′ (G″=500 Pa) in the range 40 to 150 Pa.
US10197207B2
A conductive elastomeric flexible coupling for a pneumatic duct system is provided. The coupling includes a tube section. An electrically conductive coating is applied to at least an exterior surface of the tube section. The coating acts as an electrically conductive compliant material configured to conduct electrical charges transferred from a substance carried by and flowing through the duct system and accommodate large deflections.
US10197205B2
A pig receiver and method to retrieve pigs in pipeline pigging operations. In one embodiment, a pig receiver includes a pressure equalization system including a gate valve, wherein a first side of the gate valve is coupled to a downstream pressure connection, and wherein a second side of the gate valve is coupled to an upstream pressure connection. The pressure equalization system also includes a pressure equalization valve disposed between the downstream pressure connection and the upstream pressure connection. The pressure equalization system also includes a pig receiver unit, wherein a first side of the pig receiver unit is coupled to the downstream pressure connection downstream of the gate valve, and wherein a second side of the pig receiver unit is coupled to the upstream pressure connection upstream of the gate valve.
US10197201B2
A kit includes a support block for quick cartridge couplings suitable for being mounted on a machine and for being hydraulically connected to a hydraulic circuit on said machine. The block of the kit includes one or more seats and is characterized in that it may house cartridges of different types and sizes in said seats in an interchangeable manner. To this end, the kit includes an adapter configured to be inserted into said one or more seats and to house in turn one of said cartridge couplings therein.
US10197195B2
An anti-slip and self-centering device for an inner tube inside an outer tube of a unit length element for an undersea fluid transport pipe, the device having a ring (4) made of elastomer material sandwiched between two annular metal plates (6, 8) having an inside diameter that corresponds substantially to the diameter of the inner tube and an outside diameter that corresponds substantially to the diameter of the outer tube, the device further having a clamp (10, 12) for clamping the plates together to compress the ring.
US10197192B2
A positioning clip is removably attachable to a fastener of a quick-release fastener assembly on an access panel of an aircraft when the access panel is removed from the aircraft. The positioning clip holds the fastener in its full out position relative to the exterior surface of the access panel removed from the aircraft. The positioning clip attached to the fastener maintains the perpendicular orientation of the fastener relative to the exterior surface of the access panel and relative to the associated receptacle for the fastener on the structure of the aircraft when the access panel is reattached to the structure of the aircraft.
US10197190B1
A cable guard (20) for enclosing and protecting at least one cable (34) extending alongside a tube (28) comprising, a base (22), a ring (24), and a u-bolt (124), the base (22) has hinge receivers (72 and 74) to receive hinge pins (106 and 108) for rotatably and removably connecting base (22) and ring (24), and the ring (24) includes u-bolt receivers (70 and 71) for rotatably and removably connecting u-bolt (124) and ring (22), the ring (22) includes ring rotational stops (200 and 202) to prevent over rotation and uncontrollable detachment of the base (22) and ring (24); the base (22) includes u-bolt slots (116 and 118) and the ring (24) includes u-bolt leg receivers (144 and 146) for cooperating with the u-bolt slots (116 and 118) and receiving the u-bolt legs (140 and 142) in the base (24), whereby the cable guard (20) is assembled, at least one cable (34) is enclosed, the cable guard (20) is mounted, and the u-bolt (124) is tensioned by tightening the nuts (148 and 150) and as tension increases along with respective reactive forces the cable guard (20) is frictionally engaged to tube (28).
US10197189B2
A microfluidic valve includes: a first structural layer and a second structural layer; a microfluidic circuit having a first microfluidic conduit and a second microfluidic conduit, which are defined in a superficial portion of the first structural layer, are adjacent, and are separated by a wall; a membrane set between the first structural layer and the second structural layer and delimiting the microfluidic circuit on one side; and a recess containing a gaseous fluid in the second structural layer. The membrane is movable in response to an actuation stimulus between a closed position, in which the first and second microfluidic conduits are fluidly decoupled, and an open position, in which the membrane is at least in part retracted into the recess and the first and second microfluidic conduits are fluidly coupled by means of a fluidic passage defined between the wall and the membrane.
US10197180B2
The present specification is directed to a valve that has an orifice closing member adjacent to an orifice through which fluid can flow, a displacement member having a first portion and a second portion, where the first portion is adjacent to the orifice closing member when the valve is in an open position, a first magnet and a second magnet where the first and second magnets are sufficiently proximate to the displacement member to exert a magnetic force on the displacement member, and an actuator for generating a magnetic field to move the displacement member toward the first magnet, cause the first portion to press against the orifice closing member, and cause the orifice closing member to close the orifice.
US10197176B2
A fluid supply assembly having a conduit through which a fluid may be supplied. A thermal shut-off may be provided to control the supply of fluid through the conduit in response to an environmental temperature condition.
US10197154B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to a vehicle control system (1) for controlling a vehicle transfer case (3). The transfer case (3) is operable in a high range and a low range. The vehicle control system (1) is configured to determine an operating range for the transfer case (3) based on a selected vehicle operating mode. A range change signal is output to implement a range change to engage the determined operating range. The present invention also relates to a vehicle (5) and a related method of operating a vehicle control system (1).
US10197150B2
A transmission system may include a first bevel gear, a second bevel gear and a baffle. The second bevel gear is meshed with the first bevel gear, and includes a plurality of gear teeth arranged in a circumferential array. The baffle includes a baffle wall and a baffle outlet. The baffle wall is arranged next to and covers a subset of the gear teeth. The baffle outlet forms a lubricant outlet passage that extends through the baffle wall.
US10197145B2
An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers. The first and second external teeth are flexed by a wave generator by the same flexing amount, into an ellipsoidal shape. The average pressure angle of main-tooth-surface sections of tooth profiles of the first external teeth having a low teeth number is less acute than the average pressure angle of main-tooth-surface sections of tooth profiles of the second external teeth having a high teeth number. Accordingly, a dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent meshing states with respective internally toothed gears.
US10197144B2
A differential assembly having a torque coupling unit and an axle disconnect. A first end portion of an intermediate portion of a differential case is integrally connected to a ring gear. Integrally connected to an inner surface of the intermediate portion of the case is a first plurality of clutch plates. Disposed within a hollow portion of the intermediate portion is a first and a second differential side gear that are meshing with one or more pinion gears. Drivingly connected to the first side gear is a first output shaft. A clutch can having a second plurality of clutch plates is drivingly connected to the first output shaft. Within the hollow portion of the intermediate portion of the case is a clutching assembly that selectively engages the second side gear. A first clutch actuator selectively engages the plurality of plates and a second clutch actuator selectively engages the clutching assembly.
US10197134B2
An electro-magnetically actuated pawl clutch is adapted to establish a fixed overdrive ratio in a powersplit type hybrid gearing arrangement. The electro-magnetically actuated clutch includes a first race splined to the transmission input shaft and a second race integrally formed into a first gear that is supported for rotation about the input shaft. Electrical current in a non-rotating coil establishes a magnetic field in the first race. The magnetic field causes a set of pawls to pivot with respect to the first race and to engage a cam surface in the second race. The pawls and cams are designed such that, when engaged, the second race can rotate faster than the inner race but cannot rotate slower. The first gear meshes with a second gear fixed to the transmission output shaft.
US10197132B2
The rope tightening and fastening device of the invention is a flat, elongated device having at one end a forward-opening, V-shaped mouth including opposing surfaces and at the other end a rear-facing back edge with a knob extending rearward therefrom. Rear and cinching apertures are disposed between the mouth and knob, the rear aperture having a forward-facing engagement surface and the cinching aperture having a rear-facing engagement surface, the forward-facing engagement surface configured to engage the beginning of one leg of a rear loop of rope that is passed through the rear aperture and fastened around the knob, the rear-facing engagement surface configured to engage the end of a return leg of a forward loop of rope extending from the rear aperture, and the opposing surfaces of the mouth having gripping members for securing a portion of rope under tension in the mouth.
US10197122B2
An internally ventilated brake disc with a disc coning reducing arrangement is provided in which temperature differences between inboard and outboard sides of the brake disc are minimized in order to reduce coning-causing differential thermal expansion. Between a radially inner region of a brake disc that includes brake disc-to-axle hub mounting features and a radially outer region the mass of the inboard side of the brake disc is distributed in a manner that reduces the amount of differential thermal expansion occurring during brake application between the inboard and outboard sides of the brake disc, thereby minimizing thermally-induced coning effects. The inboard side disc plate portion may having an increasing axial thickness in the direction from the radially outer region to the radially inner region, providing additional material mass to receive and dissipate heat energy received during a braking event.
US10197110B2
The invention relates to the field of home appliance technology, and more particularly to a quick stop mechanism on a food processor and a food processing comprising the quick stop mechanism. The invention comprises a transmission shaft flexibly received in a gear box, the transmission shaft extends from the top of the gear box, a metal sleeve is fixed on one side of the transmission shaft, a bottom surface of a buckle ring disposed on a lower part of the metal sleeve abuts against the top of a spring, and the bottom of the spring abuts against a spring seat, the spring seat defines a through hole, a magnet is disposed on inner side of the gear box, and flexibly cooperates with the metal sleeve, the transmission shaft passes through the through hole and cooperates with a clutch, and the clutch is connected to a motor on the food processor.
US10197109B2
A separator plate for use as a clutch plate for a multiplate wet clutch is formed of a steel plate. The steel plate has a chemical composition containing, on a basis of percent by mass, C from 0.03 to 0.08%, Si from 0 to 1.0%, Mn from 0.2 to 0.8%, P at 0.03% or less, S at 0.01% or less, and Al at 0.05% or less, so as to satisfy a formula, 5*C %−Si %+Mn %−1.5*Al %<1. In addition, the steel plate has the chemical component containing at least one of Nb from 0.03 to 0.4%, V from 0.01 to 0.3%, and Ti from 0.01 to 0.3%, so as to satisfy a formula, 0.04<(Nb %/1.4)+(V %/1.1)+Ti %<0.3. Then, an average diameter of particles of a carbide as a precipitate is controlled to be from 20 to 100 nm. The plate is formed by heating, hot rolling, winding and forming.
US10197105B2
A motor vehicle clutch assembly is provided. The motor vehicle clutch assembly includes a radially extending section including an abutment surface; a clutch pack including a first clutch plate and a separator plate; an axially movable piston for engaging the clutch pack; and elastic connectors connecting the separator plate to the radially extending section. The elastic connectors preload the separator plate away from the abutment surface. The motor vehicle clutch assembly also includes a stop arranged for contacting the separator plate to limit axial movement of the separator plate away from the abutment surface. The stop is an axial distance away from the abutment surface such that the separator plate is forceable by the elastic connectors against the stop to provide clearance such that the first clutch plate is movable away from the abutment surface. A method of forming a motor vehicle clutch assembly is also provided.
US10197103B2
A sealing arrangement for sealing a first chamber against a second chamber, the sealing arrangement being located between a first machine element and a second machine element. A relative movement occurs between the two machine elements. The sealing arrangement comprises a sealing element which is equipped with at least one sealing lip. The sealing lip(s) is/are held by the sealing element and is/are fixed by the sealing element at one of the machine elements. The sealing lip(s) is/are in sliding contact with the other machine element. The sealing arrangement comprises a lip element that is fixed with one of the machine elements and is in sliding contact with the other machine element. The lip element comprises a conductive element for establishing electrical conductivity of the lip element, so that electrical conductivity is established between the two machine elements by the lip element in an effective an economical manner.
US10197100B2
A bearing arrangement is disclosed for a drilling head, through which flushing liquid flows, of a deep drilling device, having multiple radially outer and radially inner bearing rings. Radially outer bearing rings are arranged coaxially over radially inner bearing rings, balls roll in raceways of the bearing rings, and the raceways are delimited axially on both sides by shoulders with mutually opposite shoulder surfaces. In order for a bearing arrangement to be of short axial extent and to simplify the construction, the internal diameter (Di) of the shoulder surfaces of the radially outer bearing rings and the external diameter (Da) of the shoulder surfaces of the radially inner bearing rings are dimensioned such that the shoulder surfaces perform the function of parallel radial plain bearings with a radial clearance (S).
US10197093B2
The present invention relates to a bearing arrangement having a first and a second support structure for supporting a rotating member, a first rolling bearing supporting the first support structure in relation to the second support structure at a first support location, a second rolling bearing supporting the first support structure in relation to the second support structure at a second support location. The first and second rolling bearings are arranged in a coaxial configuration in relation to each other. Furthermore, the first rolling bearing forms a radially outer bearing, and the second rolling bearing is arranged radially inside the first rolling bearing by a bearing radial distance, and the first support location and second support location are axially aligned. The present invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a bearing arrangement.
US10197090B2
A rolling element intermediate shaft assembly includes a solid shaft having first and second ends. Also included is a tubular shaft configured to receive the first end, the tubular shaft having an inner wall with an axially extending groove formed therein, the axially extending groove having an inner surface. Further included is a wear plate having a bottom surface and an elastically deformable body having first and second ends, the body defining an axially extending channel, the body of the wear plate received in the tubular shaft groove. Yet further included is an outer surface of the body of the wear plate defining a gap between the wear plate and the axially extending groove of the tubular shaft, the gap reduced upon flexure of the wear plate. Also included is at least one ball bearing disposed within the wear plate channel between the wear plate and the solid shaft.
US10197089B2
A clip for attaching an attaching member to an attached member through a male connector of the attached member, includes a main body portion; a locking portion for engaging the male connector; a claw portion having elasticity to deform when inserted into a hole of the attaching member, and to return to an original form after passing through the hole; a first flange portion extending radially outwardly from an outer circumferential surface of the main body portion; a second flange portion extending radially outwardly from the outer circumferential surface of the main body portion between the first flange portion and the claw portion, for sandwiching the attaching member between the first and second flange portions; and a tool hooking portion on the another side of the main body portion, for receiving a tool to rotate in respect to the male connector.
US10197087B2
A fastener may include an elongated shank, a head at a distal end of the shank, and a drill point at a terminal end of the shank, which is opposite to the distal end. The fastener may include a primary thread starting at the drill point and extending along the shank towards the head. The fastener may include a secondary thread starting at the drill point, extending along the shank towards the head, and stopping in an axial direction before the primary thread ends. The secondary thread may be radially located 180 degrees from the primary thread. The drill point may include a plurality of radially extending cutting edges and one or more relieved flute portion extending along the surface of the drill point.
US10197082B2
A method for making a plated spline nail includes plating an elongated wire with a corrosion resistant material, passing the wire through a forming machine having rollers configured with protrusions formed thereon and extending outwardly therefrom to form grooves in the wire. cutting the wire to a desired length and forming a head, and a point on the wire to form the nail. The nail may have ring shanks formed therein after the head and point are formed. A lubricant may be applied to the nail and/or the forming machine prior to forming the ring shanks and/or prior to passing the wire through the forming machine to form the grooves in the wire. A nail formed by pre-plating the wire, and a nail formed by the method are also disclosed.
US10197080B2
An apparatus includes two halves of a rail-to-rail coupler, wherein each half carries at least one rail engagement formation comprising at least two teeth separated by at least one notch to enable engagement with a portion of a rail associated with a toy gun that incorporates at least one rail stop; and at least one passage is formed through each half that aligns with the at least one passage formed through the other of the two halves to provide a dart storage position into which a dart may be inserted when the two halves are assembled together to engage a rail associated with a toy gun.
US10197078B2
An insert for use in a panel and method of installation is provided by the present disclosure. The insert includes a plug having an outer flange, a central portion having a wall extending from the outer flange, and a distal end portion having a rollover. A cavity extends through the central portion, and an aperture extends through the outer flange and into the cavity. A sleeve is configured for sliding engagement with the plug, the sleeve having an outer flange, a central portion defining an extension having a plurality of resilient beams, and a cavity extending through the central portion, the cavity adapted for receiving the distal end portion of the plug. A retaining plate is secured to the plug by the rollover, and a threaded insert is disposed within the cavity of the plug and adapted to float therein.
US10197076B2
A pneumatic volume booster to amplify a control pressure output signal can include a pneumatic control outlet for attachment to a pneumatic working chamber of the pneumatic actuator; a pneumatic aeration inlet configured to receive the pneumatic control pressure signal from the position controller, a pneumatic amplification inlet configured to receive a constant pneumatic air amplification signal, a pneumatic de-aeration connection from the control outlet to a pressure sink configured to aerate the control actuator, a deaerator seat-valve separating and/or opening the pneumatic de-aeration connection, a pneumatic aeration connection between the first aeration inlet and the control outlet; an aerator seat-valve separating and/or opening the pneumatic aeration connection, a pneumatic amplification connection between the amplification inlet and the control outlet; an amplification seat-valve separating and/or opening the pneumatic amplification connection; and a mechanical seat-valve-operator for commonly operating the de-aeration seat-valve, the first aerator seat-valve and the amplification seat-valve.
US10197066B2
An article of manufacture having a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in a scalable table, the scalable table selected from the group of tables consisting of TABLE 1, wherein the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a number, and wherein X and Y are coordinates which, when connected by continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z height, the airfoil profile sections at each Z height being joined with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
US10197065B2
An object is to provide a centrifugal compressor in which an axial force applied from a shrink-fit impeller to a sleeve section is ensured even if the sleeve section is separated from a clamp surface in an axial direction of an attachment hole, as well as a turbocharger provided with the centrifugal compressor and a method of producing the centrifugal compressor. An inner peripheral surface of an attachment hole formed on a hub includes a clamp surface and a diameter-widening surface, and an outer peripheral surface of a sleeve section includes a diameter-reducing surface. The diameter-widening surface and the diameter-reducing surface respectively include an impeller-side contacting portion and a sleeve-side contacting portion which contact each other, and a relationship represented by an expression θs
US10197060B2
Gas lock resolution during operation of an electric submersible pump is provided. An example method, module, or computing hardware with software product, detects a gas lock during current operation of an electric submersible pump (ESP) and intervenes to relieve the gas lock without stopping the ESP. After sensing a gas lock condition, an example module calculates a pump speed for attempting gas lock resolution. The example module may decrease the speed of the ESP to flush the gas lock, and then reaccelerate the ESP to check that the gas lock has been eliminated. The example module may apply one or more stored motor speed patterns that iteratively seek a pump speed that succeeds in clearing the gas lock, without stopping the ESP. The example module has built-in protections to protect the ESP from thermal overload and other damage.
US10197057B2
Disclosed is a gear pump including a pumping chamber in which a first shaft and a second shaft are rotated about their respective axes, each of the first and second shafts supporting at least one hydraulic-pumping element that hydraulically pumps a fluid in the pumping chamber, the at least one hydraulic-pumping element of each of the first and second shafts being positioned in the pumping chamber and each having at least one first radial projection. In the pumping chamber, each of the first and second shafts further supports at least one mechanical drive pinion that rotates each of the first and second shafts, each mechanical drive pinion having second radial projections. The at least one mechanical drive pinion is separate from the at least one hydraulic-pumping element, and the number of the at least one first radial projection and of the second radial projections is different.
US10197056B2
A sealing arrangement is disclosed for use in a pump. The sealing arrangement can include a first pump component having a first face surface. The first face surface can have a sealing protrusion thereon. A second pump component can have a second face surface positioned in confronting relation to the first face surface. The second pump component can define a sealing cavity for holding a fluid under pressure. The sealing protrusion is positioned to engage the second face surface when the first face surface is pressed against the second face surface so that the sealing protrusion seals against the second face surface to prevent movement of the fluid from the sealing cavity past the sealing protrusion. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10197051B2
A pump control switch for controlling the operation of a pump, where the pump switch includes a pressure activated switch and a run capacitor located in a single housing. The pressure switch is attached by a pipe fitting to be in fluid communication with the water line that feeds into a storage tank, to sense the water system pressure. The water system pressure sensed by the switch moves the electrical contacts in the switch between their open and closed positions. The pressure switch is disposed to operably electrically interconnect a power source, the run capacitor, and the pump motor.
US10197048B2
A tandem motor linear rod pumping apparatus for imparting reciprocating, substantially-vertical motion to a pump rod for a sucker-rod pump. The tandem motor linear rod pumping apparatus includes first and second linear mechanical actuator systems disposed in a single housing. These linear mechanical actuator systems impart and control vertical motion of the pump rod. Each linear mechanical actuator system includes a rack and pinion gearing arrangement. Each rack is operatively connected with two pinions. Each pinion is operatively connected to a motor. Rotation of the two motors in a first direction results in an upward motion of the rack and connected sucker rod pump. Rotation of the two motors in a second direction, opposite the first direction, results in a downward motion of the rack and sucker rod pump. The tandem motor linear rod pumping apparatus includes at least one electronic controller to control the operation of the two motors.
US10197047B2
A hydraulic proportioning system has a flow divider providing hydraulic fluid to drive two hydraulic pumps. The flow divider provides set amounts of hydraulic oil to each of two pumps, and the pumps each provide one material of the plural component material downstream to a mixing manifold. The two materials are mixed at the mixing manifold before application. The flow divider drives each pump at a set speed depending on the volume of hydraulic oil provided to each pump. The flow divider thus determines the ratio of the first material to the second material provided to the mixing manifold by the pumps.
US10197045B2
A safety device that is useful to release load on a spring found in an actuator. In one embodiment, the actuator can have a housing comprising a pair of housing members and a fastening device coupling the pair of housing members to one another. The embodiment can also have an output shaft extending longitudinally in the housing, the output shaft having an end configured to couple with a process device. The embodiment may also have a spring coupled with the output shaft. The embodiment can further have a safety device coupled to the spring and configured to operate to reduce loading of the spring from a first load to a second load. In one example, the safety device is in position to prevent access to the fastening device at the first load and to allow access to the fastening device at the second load so that the pair of housing members can separate to allow access to the spring in the housing.
US10197040B2
A wave energy converter and method for extracting energy from water waves maximizes the energy extraction per cycle by estimating an excitation force of heave wave motion on the buoy, computing a control force from the estimated excitation force using a dynamic model, and applying the computed control force to the buoy to extract energy from the heave wave motion. Analysis and numerical simulations demonstrate that the optimal control of a heave wave energy converter is, in general, in the form of a bang-singular-bang control; in which the optimal control at a given time can be either in the singular arc mode or in the bang-bang mode. The excitation force and its derivatives at the current time can be obtained through an estimator, for example, using measurements of pressures on the surface of the buoy in addition to measurements of the buoy position. A main advantage of this approximation method is the ease of obtaining accurate measurements for pressure on the buoy surface and for buoy position, compared to wave elevation measurements.
US10197036B2
An operation status value detection unit detects two or more operation status values indicating an operation status of an internal combustion engine. A filtering processing unit applies filtering processing to the detected operation status values, and an operation status value difference calculation unit calculates the difference between the filter-processed operation status value and the corresponding non-filter-processed operation status value so as to calculate two or more operation status value differences. An operation status value difference normalization unit normalizes the two or more operation status value differences, based on predetermined reference values for the two or more operation status values, so as to calculate two or more normalized operation status value differences; and a transient correction unit corrects a control amount for controlling output of the internal combustion engine, based thereon, when the engine is in a transient-operation mode.
US10197035B2
A lawn care device may include an engine to selectively power the lawn care device, a frame supporting the engine of the lawn care device, an ignition system for selectively powering the lawn care device based at least in part on operation of an ignition interface controlled by a processor (310), an optical isolator (320) which detect the operational presence of the processor (310) and a shutdown circuit (300) which is able to ground out the ignition coil (360) as a function of the conductive state of the optical isolator (320); the shutdown circuit being powered by an ignition coil (360) of the ignition system to generate a failsafe condition in response to failure or loss of the processor (310).
US10197033B2
A fuel-injection device has a low-noise and pivotable structure. The fuel-injection device includes at least a fuel injector and a receiving bore in a cylinder head for the fuel-injector, and a decoupling element between a valve housing of the fuel injector and a wall of the receiving bore. The decoupling element is captively situated on the fuel injector prior to its installation in the receiving bore in that a securing ring is mounted below the decoupling element at the outer periphery of the fuel injector and the securing ring is a closed plastic ring. The fuel-injection device is particularly suited for the direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having externally supplied ignition.
US10197027B2
In a dual-fuel fuel injector comprising a first injector unit for a first injector operating mode using a first main fuel and a second injector unit for a second injector operating mode using a second main fuel and an injector-reservoir, the reservoir is connected at one end to a first main fuel supply and at the opposite end to a second main fuel supply with a separating element disposed in the injector reservoir so as to be movable between the opposite ends so that, in each operating mode, the full volume of the reservoir can be used for accommodating the respective main fuel.
US10197026B2
The present invention provides one filter with multiple retention locations integrated into a plastic connector that is attached to the filter for connecting the filter to a pump inlet by means of a retention post. A sock style filter is disclosed that incorporates a channel or a flat tab in the periphery of the plastic outlet port for providing a finite or infinite number of locations for retention of a post on a pump or other connection to allow for multiple alignment positioning of the filter with respect to the mating parts such as the pump body, fuel pump assembly, module can or fuel tank.
US10197016B2
A valve assembly of a fuel supply system includes a first body defining a first bore, an inlet port to receive fuel into the first bore, and an outlet port. The valve assembly further includes a pneumatic chamber disposed in fluid communication with the first bore. The valve assembly further includes a first piston to move between a first position and a second position. The first piston restricts and allows flow of fuel from the inlet port to the outlet port, in the first position and the second position, respectively. The valve assembly further includes a vent passage located upstream of the pneumatic chamber and configured to receive fuel leaked from a flow path defined between the inlet port and the outlet port. The valve assembly also includes a check valve disposed in the vent passage and configured to selectively vent the fuel entering the vent passage.
US10197007B2
A variable core cowl vent nozzle system is described herein, the system including a core casing at least partially surrounding a core engine of a gas turbine engine, and a core cowl extending aftward from the core casing. The core cowl defines a core cowl vent area between the core cowl and a primary nozzle. At least one of the core cowl and the primary nozzle is movable to vary the core cowl vent area. A method for varying the core cowl vent area by moving one or more of the core cowl and the primary nozzle is also described herein.
US10197003B2
A control device (10) for a supercharging system for supplying compressed intake air to an engine (2) includes: an engine controller (10A) including an engine-signal input part (10A1) and an engine control part (10B1) configured to control an operational state of the engine; and a turbo controller (10B) including a turbo-signal input part (10B1) and a turbo-control part (10B2) including a turbo-control-command-value computing part (10B2a) configured to compute a turbo control command value corresponding to a target boost pressure of the supercharger (3). The boost-pressure control unit is controlled so that a boost pressure of the supercharger reaches the target boost pressure through output of the turbo control command value computed by the turbo-control-command-value computing part to the boost-pressure control unit.
US10196998B2
An internal combustion engine control system includes at least one cylinder having a combustion chamber configured to combust an air/fuel mixture stored therein. The air/fuel mixture is configured to combust in response to reaching an autoignition temperature. At least one electronic control module is configured to determine a chamber temperature within the combustion chamber. The electronic control module controls combustion of the air/fuel mixture based on a comparison between the chamber temperature and an autoignition temperature threshold.
US10196996B2
Methods and systems are provided for a diagnostic of a humidity sensor positioned in an intake of an engine and adjusting engine operation responsive to findings of the diagnostic. In one example, the method may include sealing a vehicle exhaust system of an engine, combusting fuel at cylinders of the engine while flowing gases through the engine in a first direction, and then, flowing the combusted exhaust gases through the engine in a reverse, second direction to the humidity sensor positioned in the intake. The method may further include indicating degradation of the humidity sensor based on the output of the humidity sensor while flowing gases in the first and second directions.
US10196993B2
A method includes substantially eliminating surge of a compressor and reducing specific fuel consumption and exhaust emissions of an engine by adjusting exhaust flow through an exhaust gas recirculation system, by adjusting airflow through a compressor recirculation valve, by adjusting fuel injection timing, or by adjusting a combination thereof in response to variance in a plurality of parameters. The parameters include quantity of exhaust emissions, a maximum in-cylinder pressure of the engine, an area ratio of an exhaust gas recirculation mixer of the exhaust gas recirculation system, estimated or sensed compressor surge, engine load, altitude of operation, or combinations of the parameters thereof.
US10196991B2
The disclosure relates to an engine having a cylinder head which is divided into multiple sections which each delimit a combustion chamber of a cylinder of the engine and which each comprise inlet and outlet ducts, inlet and outlet valves, and a spark device which is fastened in a through hole of the cylinder head section, for at least one cylinder head section a throttle flap being provided for completely closing the corresponding inlet duct in the event of a deactivation of the associated cylinder. In the at least one cylinder head section, a first gas flow duct is formed between the through hole and the outlet duct, and the spark device is in the form of a rotary slide valve with integrated spark electrodes and is configured to selectively either keep the first gas flow duct closed or connect said first gas flow duct to the associated combustion chamber.
US10196986B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a bearing compartment sealing system including a bearing for supporting a shaft. A housing encloses the bearing and defines a compartment for holding lubricant therein. At least two seals are located between the shaft and the housing. The at least two seals, the housing, and the shaft collectively enclose the compartment. Only one of the at least two seals is a hydrodynamic seal.
US10196984B2
A method for controlling a gas turbine when the gas turbine is started may include measuring the number of rotations of the gas turbine, determining a target acceleration rate based on the number of rotations of the gas turbine, measuring a current acceleration rate, determining a flow rate of fuel based on a difference between the current acceleration rate and the target acceleration rate, and supplying fuel to the gas turbine at the determined flow rate. The flow rate of the fuel may be determined between a maximum flow rate of the fuel that has been previously stored and a minimum flow rate of the fuel. A temperature of the exhaust gas after controlling the flow rate of the fuel may be monitored.
US10196980B2
A retention housing for the outer race of a bearing of a gas turbine engine includes a spring finger housing connected to and overlying a bearing housing that is connected to the outer race of the bearing. The spring finger housing includes an arrangement of spring fingers that yields a lightweight housing capable of withstanding very high radial loads combined with very high torsional windup and axial thrust load. A plurality of edge recesses are defined in the bearing housing and a plurality of lug tabs extending radially from the engine's interface shell limit are disposed in the edge recess to limit the deflection and self-arrest the distortion of the retention housing. A gas turbine engine includes the retention housing described above.
US10196973B2
The present disclosure provides a variable compression ratio device including a piston, a piston pin, an eccentric cam, a connecting rod, a crank pin, a hydraulic pump, an oil jet injection nozzle, an oil jet control valve, and a control unit. In addition, a groove formed in a rotating direction of the eccentric cam is divided into a first chamber and a second chamber. The piston pin receives a hydraulic pressure through a path formed inside the crank pin and the connecting rod and receives the oil injected from the oil jet injection nozzle to control the hydraulic pressure supplied to the first chamber and the second chamber of the eccentric cam, thereby controlling the rotation position of the eccentric cam.
US10196970B2
Engines and methods execute a high efficiency hybrid cycle, which is implemented in a volume within an engine. The cycle includes isochoric heat addition and over-expansion of the volume within the engine, wherein the volume is reduced in a compression portion of the cycle from a first quantity to a second quantity, the volume is held substantially constant at the second quantity during a heat addition portion of the cycle, and the volume is increased in an expansion portion of the cycle to a third quantity, the third quantity being larger than the first quantity.
US10196968B2
The present disclosure provides a boosting control method of an engine for cylinder de-activation (CDA). The method includes: a CDA operable area confirming step of determining, by a controller based on a driving state of the engine, whether the CDA is in an operable area after the engine starts; an actual boosting deriving step of deriving a total target boosting from the controller and calculating the desired actual boosting; a supercharger operable area confirming step of determining, by the controller, whether the supercharger is in the operable area; a supercharger target rotation speed deriving step of deriving, by the controller, a target rotation speed of the supercharger; and a supercharger passage opening step of closing a bypass valve to open a supercharger passage.
US10196967B2
A supercharging device is provided for an internal combustion engine that has at least one exhaust gas turbocharger (1, 2) and at least one charge air cooler (LLK) arranged in the outflow of the exhaust gas turbocharger (1, 2). An additional electrically driven compressor (e-booster 6, 7) is arranged downstream of the charge air cooler (LLK) in a bypass (5) to the main flow line (3) to the throttle valve (4) of the internal combustion engine. The main flow line (3) can be closed by a check valve (9) that acts in the direction of a return flow.
US10196966B2
A work machine is provided. The work machines may include a power module configured to provide power including a battery and an engine and configured to a folding heat exchange device. The work machine may also include a drive module configured with one or more motors and positioned over a track roller frame. The work machine may also include a hydraulic module including one or more devices in a front region and one or more devices in a rear region to cut or rip encountered material
US10196964B2
A charge air cooler includes a first, second, and third heat exchange sections. In the first heat exchange section, heat is transferred from a first flow of liquid coolant to a refrigerant in order to cool the first flow of liquid coolant from a first temperature to a second temperature. In the second heat exchange section, heat is transferred from a flow of charge air to a second flow of liquid coolant in order to cool the flow of charge air from a third temperature to a fourth temperature. In the third heat exchange section, heat is transferred from the flow of charge air to the first flow of liquid coolant in order to cool the flow of charge air from the fourth temperature to a fifth temperature, the fifth temperature being less than the first temperature.
US10196961B2
A device seating a valve body with the aid of an urging force of a spring by stopping the operation of a pump, changes over an energization state of a coil of at least one of the liquid shutoff valves which is changed over to the closed-valve state where the coil is energized, and then resumes the operation of the pump. Upon detecting the start of operation of the pump, a valve control unit causes a pump control unit to perform opening-closing force-feed control, where an amount of the cooling liquid force-fed by the pump is set to an amount within such a range that the valve body of the liquid shutoff valves whose coil is energized is not displaced in a valve-opening direction while the valve body of the liquid shutoff valves whose coil is not energized is displaced in the valve-opening direction.
US10196944B2
A switchable finger follower, including an inner lever and an outer lever. The outer lever is mounted for pivoting movement to the inner lever. A coupling device is located on one of the inner or outer levers and has a locking pin arranged to move between a locking position, in which the inner and outer levers are connected together for movement in an activation direction, and an unlocked position, in which the inner lever is pivotable relative to the outer lever. A coupling projection is located on the other of the inner or outer lever. The locking pin engages beneath the projection in the locking position, and the locking pin includes a flat at a defined flat height that contacts the coupling surface in the locking position and is selected from a number of locking pins having different flat heights to set a desired mechanical coupling device lash.
US10196943B2
A valve train assembly includes a rocker arm, comprising: a first roller, configured to engage a first rotatable cam surface; and a further roller, configured to engage a further rotatable cam surface, wherein at least part of the rocker arm can be pivoted by at least the first rotatable cam surface to move a valve to cause a first valve event, and wherein at least part of the rocker arm can be pivoted by the further rotatable cam surface to move the valve to cause a second valve event.
US10196936B2
An oil supply system for a gas turbine engine has a lubricant pump delivering lubricant to an outlet line. The outlet line is split into at least a hot line and into a cool line, with the hot line directed primarily to locations associated with an engine that are not intended to receive cooler lubricant, and the cool line directed through one or more heat exchangers at which lubricant is cooled. The cool line then is routed to a fan drive gear system of an associated gas turbine engine. A method and apparatus are disclosed. The heat exchangers include at least an air/oil cooler wherein air is pulled across the air/oil cooler to cool oil. The air/oil cooler is provided with an ejector tapping compressed air from a compressor section to increase airflow across the air/oil cooler.
US10196933B2
A fairing for a turbine engine strut includes: inner and outer bands; a vane extending between the bands; the fairing is split along a generally transverse plane passing through the bands and the vane, defining nose and tail pieces; wherein the vane is defined by spaced-apart sidewalls extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge, each sidewall split into forward and aft portions by the transverse plane; wherein each sidewall portion carries a radially-inwardly extending post, the posts positioned such that pairs of the posts lie adjacent to each other when the nose piece and tail piece are assembled, wherein each pair of adjacent posts includes at least two non-parallel faces; and a pair of slotted buckles, wherein each slotted buckle surrounds and clamps together a pair of the posts, wherein each pair of adjacent posts contacts a slot of the corresponding buckle in a tripod contact configuration.
US10196932B2
A gas turbine engine hybrid outer guide vane heat exchanger includes a circular row of fan outlet guide vanes, at least some of the fan outlet guide vanes being networked guide vane heat exchangers including heat exchangers within fan outlet guide vanes and guide vane heat exchangers fluidly interconnected both in series and in parallel. Group may include three or more of the guide vane heat exchangers fluidly connected both in series and in parallel. Two or more serial sets of the networked guide vane heat exchangers in the hybrid group may each include two or more of guide vane heat exchangers connected in series and two or more serial sets connected in parallel. First and second groups of the networked guide vane heat exchangers may include first and second groups for cooling engine lubrication system and/or integrated drive generator.
US10196930B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a gas turbine engine that includes a fan configured to generate a fanstream and a fanstream duct configured to receive the fanstream flowing therethrough. An engine electronic component is positioned in flow communication with the fanstream. A heating element is positioned in the fanstream upstream from the engine electronic component and is operative to heat at least a portion of the fanstream in flow communication with the engine electronic component. The position of the engine electronic component passively thermally conditions the engine electronic component and the heating element actively thermally conditions the engine electronic component.
US10196927B2
A method for locating probes within a gas turbine engine may generally include positioning a plurality of location transmitters relative to the engine and inserting a probe through an access port of the engine, wherein the probe includes a probe tip and a location signal receiver configured to receive location-related signals transmitted from the location transmitters. The method may also include determining a current location of the probe tip within the engine based at least in part on the location-related signals and identifying a virtual location of the probe tip within a three-dimensional model of the engine corresponding to the current location of the probe tip within the engine. Moreover, the method may include providing for display the three-dimensional model of the engine, wherein the virtual location of the probe tip is displayed as a visual indicator within the three-dimensional model.
US10196917B2
A blade outer air seal for a gas turbine engine includes a wall, a forward hook, and an aft hook. The wall extends between the forward hook and the aft hook, which are adapted to mount the blade outer air seal to a casing of the gas turbine engine. The wall includes a cored passage extending along at least a portion of the wall. The cored passage extends radially and axially through a portion of the aft hook to communicate with one or more apertures along a trailing edge of the aft hook.
US10196916B2
A rotor disk arrangement having a rotor disk which has, distributed around the outer circumference, a plurality of axially extending blade holding grooves and an encircling fastening protrusion and/or a plurality of fastening protrusions arranged in a circumferentially distributed manner, and having a plurality of sealing elements arranged in a circumferentially distributed manner, the sealing elements covering the blade holding grooves at least in portions on the end side and having, on the side facing the rotor axis, at least one fastening portion that bears against the underside of the fastening protrusion, wherein the fastening protrusion is embodied in an undercut manner, wherein the distance thereof from the rotor axis at the free end facing away from the rotor disk is less than in a region within the fastening protrusion.
US10196912B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a sliding seal between two components. The sliding seal includes a first seal section and an uncoupled second seal section which allows the first and second seal sections to move relative to one another during relative movement between the two components. A wave spring and/or a rope seal is disposed between the first and second seal sections biases the first and second seal sections away from one another.
US10196907B2
A turbomachine rotor blade includes an outer part at its distal end. The outer part includes a platform defining an outside surface of a passage for gas passing through a turbomachine and presenting first and second opposite side edges; and upstream and downstream sealing wipers extending outwards from the platform, each wiper extending between two lateral faces situated respectively at the first and second side edges. The two lateral faces of the upstream or the downstream wiper are covered at least in part in an anti-wear material.
US10196906B2
A turbine blade including a pressure sidewall (24) and a suction sidewall (26), and at least one partition rib (34) extends between the pressure and suction sidewalls (24, 26) to define a serpentine cooling path (35) having adjacent cooling channels (36a, 36b, 36c) extending in the spanwise direction (S) within the airfoil (12). A flow turning guide structure (50) extends around an end of the at least one partition rib (34) and includes a first element (52) extending from the pressure sidewall (24) to a lateral location in the cooling path between the pressure and suction sidewalls (24, 26), a second element (54) extending from the suction sidewall (26) to the lateral location in the cooling path between the pressure and suction sidewalls (24, 26). The first and second elements (52, 54) include respective distal edges (52d, 54d) that laterally overlap each other at the lateral location.
US10196900B2
A turbomachine component includes a body defining an interior cooling channel in fluid communication with the exterior of the body for fluid communication with a cooling flow source. At least one flow modifying pedestal is disposed within the interior cooling channel extending in a first direction. The flow modifying pedestal includes at least one flow feature that extends from the pedestal in a second direction.
US10196898B2
A turbine engine airfoil apparatus, including an airfoil defined by a plurality of airfoil sections arrayed along a stacking axis that extends between a root and a tip, wherein at least two of the airfoil sections spaced apart from each other have differing airfoil section thermal expansion properties.
US10196894B2
A technique facilitates analysis of hydraulic fractures. A plurality of explosive pellets is constructed for delivery into fracture or fractures of a subterranean formation. Each explosive pellet comprises an explosive material combined with an initiating member working in cooperation with a friction sensitive pyrotechnic mixture. Crushing or otherwise actuating the initiating member initiates the friction sensitive pyrotechnic mixture which, in turn, ignites the explosive material to produce explosive signals. The explosive signals may be monitored to obtain data related to the fracture or fractures.
US10196891B2
A system including a fluid injection system configured to removably couple to a mineral extraction system, wherein the fluid injection system includes a fluid injection system controller, a flow meter system coupled to the fluid injection system controller, wherein the flow meter system is configured to measure a fluid flow of a fluid through the fluid injection system, an adjustable valve configured to control the fluid flow through the fluid injection system, and a non-return valve configured to block reverse flow of the fluid through the fluid injection system, wherein the fluid injection system controller, the flow meter system, the adjustable valve, and the non-return valve are coupled to a common housing.
US10196880B2
A wellbore isolation system includes a junction positioned at an intersection of a first wellbore and a second wellbore, and a deflector disposed in the junction such that a path into the first leg of the junction is obstructed and engaged with the first leg of the junction to form a fluid and pressure tight seal. The junction includes a first leg extending downhole into the first wellbore, and a second leg extending downhole into the second wellbore.
US10196877B2
A directional control valve includes: a base and a slider longitudinally movable relative to the base. The base includes: a rectangular body having a longitudinal bore, a transverse bore, and a chamber formed at an intersection between the bores; supply and function seal plates, each having a stinger disposed in the transverse bore, one or more receptacles, and a passage extending from each receptacle through the stinger; and a supply, first function, and second function blocks, each fastened to the body and having a stinger disposed in the respective receptacle and a coupling for connection to a flow line. The slider includes: a sliding seal assembly disposed in the chamber; and an operating rod fastened to the seal assembly.
US10196871B2
A control system for a subsea blowout preventer (BOP) positioned in a lower stack, the lower stack releasably engaged with a lower marine riser package (LMRP). The control system includes a surface logic solver positioned at or adjacent the surface of the sea that generates commands for operating the subsea BOP, a first subsea logic solver attached to the LMRP and in communication with the surface logic solver so that the first subsea logic solver receives the commands from the surface logic solver, and a second subsea logic solver attached to a hydraulic control unit in the lower stack. The second subsea logic solver is in hydraulic communication with the subsea BOP, and the first subsea logic solver so that the second subsea logic solver receives the commands from the first subsea logic solver and implements the commands by activating the hydraulic control unit to operate the BOP.
US10196868B2
The disclosure herein relates generally to devices and methods usable during well drilling and surface operations. More particularly, the disclosure herein relates to a rig incorporating a coiled tubing injector that engages downhole tools.
US10196865B2
A fluid containment system for a riser slip joint includes a fluid container sealingly engaged to a fixed part of the slip joint. A movable part of the slip joint is axially movably engaged with the fixed part. An annular seal is disposed between the fixed part and the movable part. A body of fluid disposed in the fluid container has a level selected to submerge the annular seal and at least a portion of the movable part. The system includes means for maintaining a level of the body of fluid substantially constant.
US10196856B2
A method for configuring a motorized drive device for a closure or solar protection unit including: placing of the motorized drive device in a configuration mode; first movement of a screen towards its unwound position, by activation of the motorized drive device; automatic determination of a low end-of-travel position of the screen; movement of the screen towards its wound position, by activation of the motorized drive device; second movement of the screen towards its unwound position, by activation of the motorized drive device; and stopping of the motorized drive device at the low end-of-travel position of the screen determined during the automatic determination step. The step including the automatic determination of the low end-of-travel position of the screen includes a sub-step for measuring the value of the electric current passing through the electric motor, performed by the measurement device, and a sub-step for determining a variation in the measured value.
US10196854B2
The door seal comprises a fixing element (20) for fixing to a door, a seal receiving element (40), a lowering mechanical unit (20) for lifting and lowering the seal receiving element (40) relative to the fixing element (20), and a sealing element (50) fixed to the seal receiving element (40). The sealing element (50) provides a first sealing line (54a) by means of a first sealing element portion (54) which can be lifted or lowered by means of the lowering mechanical unit, and the first sealing element portion (54) is a sealing lip and/or a sealing arc. The sealing element (50) provides a second sealing line (55a) by means of a second sealing element portion (55), said second sealing line running parallel to the first sealing line (54a). The second sealing element portion (55) has a first and a second side (52, 56), said first side (52) can be lifted and lowered by means of the lowering mechanical unit and said second side (56) is fixed in its position relative to the fixing element (20). In the lowered state, the first and the second sealing line (54a, 55a) seal against a surface which can be found outside of the door seal. Said seal allows a sufficient sealing of the gap between frames and doors when the seal is lowered even during a horizontal movement.
US10196850B2
A novel and useful frameless supplemental window for fenestration incorporating infiltration blockers suitable for use with existing windows. The supplemental window, in one embodiment, comprises plastic sheet material with bullnose edging around it. Corner braces add rigidity and strength to corners in several embodiments. An attachment mechanism secured either to the sheet material or the bullnose edge functions to fasten and/or seal the supplemental window to an existing window. Infiltration blockers fastened to the sheet or bullnose prevent or minimize air leakage around various window elements. The bullnose edging and infiltration blockers function to substantially enclose (i.e. trap) a volume of air between the window pane and the plastic sheet material. The supplemental window is configured such that the layer of air enclosed is of an optimum thickness within a preferred range of 0.15 to 0.75 inches to maximize thermal insulation properties of the supplemental window.
US10196848B1
A mechanism or apparatus enables stowing a hinged surface chock at a stowage position near a deployment position. Said stowage and deployment positions separated by a gap between a first hinged surface and a second hinged surface, where said hinged surfaces are attached by at least one hinge. The apparatus enables the transition of said chock through said gap when one of said hinged surfaces is sufficiently open. Said apparatus will enable stowing said chock by holding said chock at the side of the gap where said chock does not obstruct the closing path of either hinged surface and said apparatus will enable deploying said chock by holding said chock where, at least partially, said chock obstructs the closing path of at least one of said hinged surfaces. Said apparatus may further enable arranging said chock at a wider angle at the deployed position.
US10196847B2
A hinge for the controlled rotatable movement of a closing element, such as a door, a door leaf or the like, anchored to a stationary support structure, such as a wall, a floor, a frame or the like. The hinge comprises a hinge body and a pivot defining a first axis reciprocally coupled to allow the closing element to rotate between an open position and a closed position. The hinge further comprises a working chamber defining a second axis substantially perpendicular to said first axis and a plunger element sliding within the working chamber along the second axis between a position proximal to the bottom wall of the working chamber and a position distal therefrom. The pivot includes a pinion member, whereas the plunger element includes a rack member engaged with the pinion member.
US10196840B2
The invention relates to an actuation device for a flap mounted moveably on a component between a closed position and an opened position, in particular for a flap mounted moveably on a housing of an automobile, comprising: a first actuation part and a second actuation part, wherein the first actuation part is to be fastened on the flap and is moved together with the flap when the flap is moved between the closed position and the opened position, and wherein the second actuation part is to be fastened on the component, locking means with a locking reception provided on the first or second actuation part and a locking element provided on the other of first or second actuation part, wherein the locking element engages in the locking reception upon a movement of the first actuation part with the flap from its opened position into its closed position, whereby the locking element holds the first actuation part against a spring pretension in a locking position on the second actuation part, and a remote unlocking device, wherein the remote unlocking device comprises drive means, which can be actuated from a place distant from the actuation parts such that the locking element is retracted from the locking reception, whereby the first actuation part, driven by the spring pretension, disengages from the second actuation part and moves together with the flap at least partially into its opened position.
US10196820B2
An encapsulated splice chuck may include a splice chuck body and a body encapsulation positioned about an exterior surface of the splice chuck body. The encapsulated splice chuck may also include a first forcing cone threadedly coupled to the splice chuck body, the first forcing cone including a tapered inner surface. In addition, the encapsulated splice chuck may include a first forcing cone encapsulation positioned about an exterior surface of the first forcing cone and a first set of wedges positioned within the first forcing cone. The encapsulated splice chuck may include a second forcing cone mechanically coupled to the splice chuck body, the second forcing cone including a tapered inner surface, and a second forcing cone encapsulation positioned about an exterior surface of the second forcing cone. The encapsulated splice chuck may also include a second set of wedges positioned within the second forcing cone.
US10196818B1
An apparatus used in roof construction wherein insulation material is held flush within the channels formed by the apparatus. The flush engagement between the insulation material and the walls defining the channels of the apparatus leads to a greater surface area securing the insulating material in place. The apparatus includes attachment means on its top flanges to mount rebar members to the apparatus holding the rebar grid in place. The vertically disposed flanges of the apparatus include openings that allow concrete to pass through the apparatus preventing fatigue points caused by the interruption of concrete. The apparatus can be employed in a method that allows a roof to be transported to a job site with the rebar grid already secured to an apparatus.
US10196815B2
At least one panel including a trolley is fed to a first drive mechanism of a plurality of drive mechanisms adjacent a main track configured to engage the trolley of the at least one panel. The first drive mechanism is initiated to drive the at least one panel to a second drive mechanism of the plurality of drive mechanisms to move the at least one panel farther along the main track.
US10196812B1
A convective weep screed for draining water that penetrates exterior cladding of an exterior wall of a building away from the building and for removing moisture located in the space between the weather resistant barrier of the wall and the exterior cladding and for providing ventilation to the space between the weather resistant barrier and the exterior cladding. The weep screed provides a pathway to the space between the weather resistant barrier and the exterior cladding to permit water/moisture/moisture vapor that collects there to drain therefrom and to permit air to gain access to said space, thereby providing an uninterrupted pathway for air to ventilate and dry said space.
US10196805B2
A douche toilet is provided having a toilet bowl (2) including a flushing water inlet opening (2a) for supplying flushing water into a flushing chamber (4) for a flushing operation and a waste water opening for flushing waste water out of the toilet bowl (2), a flushing water distributor (10) for distributing the flushing water around the flushing chamber (4), and a douche lance (10a) for washing the user in the anal or genital region. To simplify the structure of the douche toilet, in particular to make cleaning thereof easier, the douche lance (10a) is integrated into the flushing water distributor (10).
US10196800B2
A mineral water supply module may include a water supply pipe configured to supply water in a first direction, a mineral supply pipe configured to supply minerals in a second direction, a discharge pipe configured to discharge water or mineral water in the first direction, a resistance body case configured to connect to the mineral supply pipe and including a resistance body defining a micro channel in which minerals flow in the second direction, and a connector configured to connect the water supply pipe and the discharge pipe such that the resistance body case is provided between the water supply pipe and the discharge pipe and configured to allow the mixing of water from the water supply pipe and minerals from the resistance body case.
US10196799B2
Disclosed are various exemplary embodiments of a ground engaging tool. The tool may have an engagement end. The tool may also have a mounting end opposite the engagement end along a longitudinal axis of the tool. The mounting end may have a first mounting leg. The mounting end may also have a second mounting leg, which may have a mounting surface facing the first mounting leg. The second mounting leg may define a cavity in the tool accessible only through an opening in the mounting surface.
US10196794B2
An adjustable guided rake apparatus and method, which enable an adjustable guided rake user to configure an adjustable rake guide to a specified height in relation to a secondary surface, which will then define the height of the grading edge of the grading rake head in relation to a primary surface. The adjustable guided rake user is able to move the grading rake head along a primary surface, in order to shift material along the surface, while the adjustable rake guide runs along the secondary surface, guiding the grading rake head.
US10196793B2
Systems and methods to provide pressed aggregate-filled cavities for improving ground stiffness and uniformity are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes using a mechanism to press into a ground surface in a substantially downward direction to create a concavity. The method also includes substantially or completely filling the concavity with unstabilized or chemically stabilized aggregate, soil, or sand. Further, the method includes using the mechanism to press the aggregate within the concavity to achieve a desired ground stiffness.
US10196788B2
A snow plow, includes a snow plowing part in the front of a machine body having a wheel and a blade; and an operating handle extending rearward from the machine body. The blade is provided at the machine body to be able to be lifted or lowered between a storage position at which the blade is lifted above lowermost surface of the wheel and a usage position at which the blade is lowered below the lowermost surface of the wheel. Any one of the operating handle and the machine body includes an operating member configured to operate the blade such that the blade is lifted or lowered between the storage position and the usage position.
US10196787B2
A self-driven device to resurface an ice rink. The device includes a rotating brush to sweep the ice anterior to a blade used to the scrape the ice. Collected snow is moved into a hot water tank where it is melted and moved to a warm water tank for redeposit onto the skating surface.
US10196772B2
A condensing type clothes dryer having a heat pump cycle and a method for controlling a condensing type clothes dryer having a heat pump cycle are provided. The condensing type clothes dryer may include a drum in which an object to be dried may be accommodated; a circulation duct that forms a circulation passage such that air may circulate via the drum; a circulation fan configured to circulate the air along the circulation duct; a heat pump cycle having an evaporator and a condenser spaced from each other in the circulation duct, and configured to absorb heat of air discharged from the drum through the evaporator and to transfer the heat to air introduced into the drum through the condenser using an operation fluid which may circulate via the evaporator and the condenser; a bypass flow path formed at the circulation duct such that a portion of air discharged from the drum may bypass the evaporator to be mixed with air having passed through the evaporator at an upstream side of the condenser; and an opening and closing device installed at the bypass flow path and configured to selectively open or close the bypass flow path.
US10196771B2
A reduction clutch for positioning an inner tub has an input shaft connected to an output shaft. An input shaft sleeve is connected to an output shaft sleeve. A clutch shaft sleeve slides axially downward to connect to a driving device and slides upward to connect to a fixed disk at one position in the circumferential direction. The positioning of the input shaft sleeve, the output shaft sleeve and an inner tub in the circumferential direction is achieved by the connecting position. A first water drainage hole is arranged at the bottom of the inner tub. An included angle between a protrusion on the upper portion of the clutch shaft sleeve and the first water drainage hole of the inner tub is equal to an included angle between a recess on the fixed disk fitting with the protrusion and the water drainage control mechanism on the outer tub.
US10196766B2
A wrappable textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The wrappable textile sleeve includes an elongate wall extending along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends with lengthwise extending edges extending parallel or substantially parallel with the longitudinal axis between the opposite ends. The wall is woven from lengthwise extending warp yarns and circumferentially extending weft yarns. The weft yarns form a plurality of discrete annular bands, with adjacent bands having weft yarns of different diameters to provide the wall with discrete enhanced hoop strength regions and with discrete enhanced flexibility regions, where the enhanced hoop strength and enhanced flexibility regions alternate in adjacent relation with one another.
US10196745B2
A non-magnetic lid for sealing a hermetic package. The lid includes a molybdenum substrate having a sputtered adhesion layer and a copper seed layer. The lid also includes a plated palladium solder base layer, and has a gold/tin solder preform attached to a sealing surface of the lid.
US10196742B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate on which a central area and a peripheral area adjacent to the central area are arranged. The central area includes a display area. The display apparatus further includes: at least one insulation pattern that is formed in the peripheral area; a groove from which a material for forming the insulation pattern is removed and that is formed adjacent to the insulation pattern; and at least one insulating layer that is interposed between the insulation pattern and the substrate. The groove is located in the at least one insulating layer.
US10196740B2
A laminate of the present invention includes: a substrate made of a polymer material; an undercoat layer disposed on at least part of an outer surface of the substrate and made up of an inorganic material containing an inorganic substance having a functional group; and an atomic layer deposition film disposed so as to cover an outer surface of the undercoat layer and containing a precursor which is a deposition raw material such that the precursor located on the outer surface of the undercoat layer and the functional group of the inorganic substance are bound to each other.
US10196737B2
On a vapor deposition target surface of a vapor deposition target substrate placed on a substrate tray in a vapor deposition device, display regions on which vapor deposition particles are to be deposited are arranged in alignment to be apart from each other in a direction parallel with a scanning direction, and the substrate tray includes a blocking part configured to block the vapor deposition particles to be deposited onto regions adjacent to the display regions in a direction parallel with the scanning direction. This prevents a degree of freedom in designing of the vapor deposition target substrate from being restricted even in performing scan vapor deposition.
US10196733B2
A sputtering target comprising an oxide sintered body that includes an indium element, a tin element and a zinc element, wherein the oxide sintered body includes one or more selected from a hexagonal layered compound represented by In2O3(ZnO)m, a hexagonal layered compound represented by InXO3(ZnO)n, a rutile structure compound represented by SnO2 and an ilmenite structure compound represented by ZnSnO3, and a spinel structure compound represented by Zn2SnO4, in the formulas, X is a metal element that can form a hexagonal layered compound together with an indium element and a zinc element, m is an integer of 1 or more and n is an integer of 1 or more, and an agglomerate of the spinel structure compound is 5% or less of the entire sintered body.
US10196730B2
The invention relates to a method and device for thermally treating workpieces, the device including a cooling chamber and two or more carburizing or heating chambers in which the workpieces are heated to a temperature of 950 to 1200° C. by means of radiation, such as direct heat radiation from a heating device.
US10196724B2
A method for manufacturing a Ni-based super-heat-resistant alloy includes: a first cold working step for cold working a Ni-based super-heat-resistant alloy ingot, which has a composition in which the γ′ mole ratio is at least 40%, at a working ratio of 5% to less than 30%; and a first heat treatment step for heat-treating the cold worked material, on which the first cold working was performed, at a temperature exceeding the γ′ solid solution temperature. It is preferable that the manufacturing method also includes a second cold working step for performing, after the first heat treatment step, a second cold working on the heat-treated material at a working ratio of at least 20%, and a second heat treatment step for heat-treating the second cold worked material, on which the second cold working has been performed, at less than the γ′ solvus temperature.
US10196721B2
An iron-chromium-aluminum alloy with improved heat resistance, low chromium vaporization rate and good processability, comprising (in % by mass), 2.0 to 4.5% Al, 12 to 25% Cr, 1.0 to 4% W, 0.25 to 2.0% Nb, 0.05 to 1.2% Si, 0.001 to 0.70% Mn, 0.001 to 0.030% C, 0.0001 to 0.05% Mg, 0.0001 to 0.03% Ca, 0.001 to 0.030% P, max. 0.03% N, max. 0.01% S, remainder iron and the usual melting-related impurities.
US10196704B2
There are provided a steel sheet for resistance to composite corrosion from sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, having excellent wear resistance and surface quality, and a method of manufacturing the same. The steel sheet having excellent surface qualities may be provided by improving resistance to erosion occurring due to coal cinders to increase a lifespan thereof and securing excellent resistance to composite corrosion from sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid. Wear resistance may be significantly increased by adding P, and in order to solve a problem in that wear resistance is deteriorated due to the addition of P, a component system and a hot rolling process condition may be controlled, thereby forming a corrosion resistant layer having excellent corrosion resistance.
US10196681B2
Provided herein are methods, processes and apparatuses for determining the fraction of fetal nucleic acid in a test sample derived from a pregnant female with improved accuracy and/or precision. Also, provided herein are methods, processes and apparatuses for determining the presence or absence of a genetic variation in a fetus with improved accuracy and/or precision. Certain methods include using fetal fraction measurements for the determination of a fetal genetic variation.
US10196680B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of identifying target nucleic acids by using coded molecules and its analysis by translocation through a nanopore. Generally, coded molecules are subject to a target polynucleotide dependent modification. The modified coded molecule is detected by isolating the modified coded molecules from the unmodified coded molecules prior to analysis through the nanopore or by detecting a change in the signal pattern of the coded molecule when analyzed through the nanopore.
US10196676B2
Provided herein is technology relating to isolating nucleic acids. In particular, the technology relates to methods and kits for extracting nucleic acids from problematic samples such as stool.
US10196671B2
The present invention discloses an assay method for the detection of viable microbial cells in a sample, the assay method comprising the steps of: i) adding an ATP degrading enzyme to a sample suspected of containing viable microbial cells to substantially degrade any extracellular ATP in the sample; ii) adding a phosphate containing compound to the sample to substantially halt action of the ATP degrading enzyme; and iii) subjecting the sample to a detection assay to establish the level of undegraded ATP in the sample to provide an indication of the level of viable microbial cells in the sample.
US10196666B2
A method for producing from host cells a heterologous polypeptide or protein comprising at least one cysteine residue in a reduced state. The method cultured the host cells in a culture medium comprising a reducing agent; and recovered the heterologous polypeptide or protein comprising at least one cysteine residue in a reduced state from the host cells or from the culture medium, where the host cells comprise a nucleic acid encoding the heterologous protein or polypeptide, and where the reducing agent is capable of permeating the plasma membrane of the host cells.
US10196653B2
The disclosure provides a metabolic pathway for producing a metabolite, the metabolic pathway having a co-factor purge valve system for recycling a cofactor used in the metabolic pathway.
US10196651B2
Methods and compositions comprising a CRISPR/Cas nuclease that cleaves a BCL11A gene for the modification of the BCL11A gene and for modification of globin expression.
US10196644B2
The present invention relates to a method for fine-tuning gene expression levels using a synthetic regulatory sRNA in a prokaryotic cell. The present invention can simultaneously, easily, and quickly apply various target gene combinations to various strains without gene deletion through the synthetic regulatory sRNA for regulating gene expression and is therefore very suitable for measuring the metabolizability of each strain and selecting an optimum strain. In addition, the method has the advantages of easily and quickly selecting a target gene for the inhibition of gene expression and expressing the gene thus selected to a desired degree and thus can be used in producing recombinant strains for the efficient production of various metabolites and establishing a method for the efficient production and is therefore very useful.
US10196637B2
What is described is a pharmaceutical composition for treating a fibrotic disease comprising a drug carrier, which comprises a lipid and a retinoid, and a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, which comprises an antisense sequence to mRNA encoding human hsp47.
US10196630B2
The present invention relates to immobilized proline-specific endoprotease, wherein the proline-specific endoprotease is immobilized on a carrier comprising methacrylate which has been functionalized with amino dimethylene, and wherein the carrier has a particle size range of 100 to 400 μm. The invention also relates to a process for producing beer comprising the steps of preparing a mash, fermenting the beer, and stabilizing the beer, wherein the beer is incubated with the immobilized proline-specific endoprotease.
US10196624B2
The invention relates to aspartic proteases, and particularly to aspartic proteases for plants. Disclosed are modified plant aspartic proteases, and methods for their manufacture, and uses thereof. Particularly contemplated are the uses of aspartic proteases in clotting milk.
US10196622B2
The present invention provides for heterologous expression of polypeptides encoded by wild-type and codon-optimized cbh2 genes from the organisms Cochliobolus heterostrophus, Gibberella zeae, Irpex lacteus, Volvariella volvacea, and Piromyces sp. in host cells, such as the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The expression in such host cells of the corresponding genes, and variants and combinations thereof, result in improved specific activity of the expressed cellobiohydrolases. Thus, such genes and expression systems are useful for efficient and cost-effective consolidated bioprocessing systems.
US10196621B2
The present invention relates to Acanthophysium sp. KMF001 strain having high cellulose activity, and more particularly, to a novel Acanthophysium sp. KMF001 strain having the ability to produce endo-β-1,4-glucanase, β-glucosidase, and cellobiohydrolase and to a culture of the strain. The novel Acanthophysium sp. KMF001 strain according to the present invention can produce highly active cellulases, including endo-β-1,4-glucanase, β-glucosidase, and cellobiohydrolase, and thus can be advantageously used not only for enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass, but also in various industrial fields, including the pulp and paper making industry, the detergent industry, the agricultural product processing industry, the fiber industry, and the livestock industry, in which the degradation of cellulose is required.
US10196614B2
The present limiting provides compositions of CD 180 targeting molecules coupled to heterologous antigens, and their use in treating and/or limiting disease.
US10196613B2
The invention provides stem cell derived beta-pancreatic cells and animal models of T2D in which cells have been grafted. The stem cells bear a mutated form of SLC30A8 conferring protection or susceptibility to T2D. The cells and animal models can be used for drug screening as well as to provide insights into the mechanism of T2D and potentially new therapeutic and diagnostic targets.
US10196611B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for harvesting stem cells from fat tissue. The apparatus may include a first transducer coupled to a first end of an resonant horn to form an ultrasonic resonator. The resonant horn may include an elongated body having a plurality of through-holes configured to accommodate a plurality of specimen containers that are positioned substantially perpendicular to the elongated body. The apparatus may also include a wave generator coupled to the first transducer to generate an ultrasonic wave, wherein the elongated body has a length that is multiples of the half-wavelength of the ultrasonic wave.
US10196609B2
Composition for promoting cardiac differentiation of pluripotent stem cell comprising EGFR inhibitor
The present invention provides a composition for promoting cardiac differentiation of a pluripotent stem cell containing an EGFR inhibitor. The present invention also provides a kit for promoting cardiac differentiation containing an EGFR inhibitor and a method for inducing cardiac differentiation of a pluripotent stem cell comprising culturing the pluripotent stem cell in a medium containing an EGFR inhibitor.
US10196606B2
The present invention provides a method of producing a multipotent stem cell, said method comprising culturing at least one fibroblast cell in the presence of an effective amount of at least one small molecule reprogramming factor(s) that induces the cell to de-differentiate into a multipotent stem cell, wherein the method excludes the use of reprogramming factor(s) that are not small molecules. The small molecule reprogramming factor(s) may include a G9a HMTase inhibitor(s) and/or a MEK inhibitor(s) optionally in combination with other small molecule reprogramming factor(s). The invention also includes methods of differentiating the multipotent stem cells, cells produced by the methods, assays using the cells and kits for use in the methods.
US10196604B2
Disclosed are certain heterocyclic organic compounds that inhibit mitochondrial respiration and also lead to the maintenance of pluripotency of human embryonic stem cells in culture, even in the presence of oxygen. Exemplified are compounds, such as substituted 5-aminotetrazoles, which are reversible mitochondrial inhibitors. The pluripotency of the stem cells after culture is verified by the overexpression of pluripotent stem cell markers, exemplified by at least one of the genes NANOG, OCT4, and SURVIVIN after periods of culture in ambient oxygen.
US10196603B2
A method of manufacturing and/or using a scaffold assembly for stem cell culture and tissue engineering applications is disclosed. The scaffold at least partially mimics a native biological environment by providing biochemical, topographical, mechanical and electrical cues by using an electroactive material. The assembly includes at least one layer of substantially aligned, electrospun polymer fiber having an operative connection for individual voltage application. A method of cell tissue engineering and/or stem cell differentiation that uses the assembly seeded with a sample of cells suspended in cell culture media, incubates and applies voltage to one or more layers, and thus produces cells and/or a tissue construct. In another aspect, the invention provides a method of manufacturing the assembly including the steps of providing a first pre-electroded substrate surface; electrospinning a first substantially aligned polymer fiber layer onto the first surface; providing a second pre-electroded substrate surface; electrospinning a second substantially aligned polymer fiber layer onto the second surface; and, retaining together the layered surfaces with a clamp and/or an adhesive compound.
US10196585B2
A method for producing a blown and stripped biorenewable oil is provided. The method may include the steps of (a) heating a biorenewable oil to at least 90° C.; (b) exposing an oxygen containing stream to the heated oil to produce a blown oil having a viscosity of at least 40 cSt at 40° C.; (c) adding a base metal catalyst to the blown oil; and (d) stripping the blown oil from step (c) until the stripped oil has an acid value of from about 1 mg KOH/g to about 20 mg KOH/g; wherein the stripped oil from step (d) has a flash point of at least 220° C.
US10196578B2
The present invention relates to lubricant compositions for motorcycle engines where the crankcase lubricant is also used to lubricate a wet clutch. The lubricant compositions contain antimony dithiocarbamates in combination with one or more ash-free friction modifiers.
US10196576B2
A water lubrication type bearing material contains 12 wt. % to 25 wt. % of a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer resin (PFA resin), 18 wt. % to 33 wt. % of a carbon fiber, and a remainder including a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin and/or a modified PTFE resin. The bearing material has excellent wear resistance and sliding characteristics for a water lubrication type bearing.
US10196555B2
A preconditioning fluid is provided for producing crude oil from a subterranean formation. The preconditioning fluid produces an interface with crude oil in the formation that is more elastic than the interface between formation brine and the crude oil and has a favorable Amott-Harvey wettability index for oil recovery under the dominant hydrocarbon recovery mechanisms. The more elastic interface and improved Amott-Harvey wettability index is consistent with higher recoveries of crude oil from the formation.
US10196551B2
A fixed abrasive article having a body including abrasive particles contained within a bond material, the abrasive particles including shaped abrasive particles or elongated abrasive particles having an aspect ratio of length:width of at least 1.1:1, each of the shaped abrasive particles or elongated abrasive particles having a predetermined position or a predetermined three-axis orientation.
US10196549B2
Multi-phase polymer composition comprising a comb polymer (A) which forms a continuous acrylate phase and a discontinuous hydrocarbon phase, and at least one hydrocarbon compound (B) which is soluble in the hydrocarbon phase of the comb polymer (A), an adhesive mass comprising the multi-phase polymer composition.
US10196545B2
There is provided a shielding film that simultaneously satisfies excellent high-speed transmission characteristics and excellent flame retardancy. A shielding film according to the present invention includes: a metal layer; and a conductive adhesive layer arranged on one side of the metal layer. The conductive adhesive layer contains a cured product of an epoxy resin and a carboxyl group-containing elastomer, an organic phosphorus-based flame retardant, and a conductive filler; the metal layer has a thickness of from 0.3 μm to 7 μm; and a conductive adhesive forming the conductive adhesive layer contains 10 parts by weight to 50 parts by weight of the organic phosphorus-based flame retardant and 10 parts by weight to 80 parts by weight of the conductive filler with respect to 100 parts by weight of a total of the epoxy resin and the carboxyl group-containing elastomer.
US10196541B2
A floor finish, in various embodiments, includes a water-based pigment dispersion and a topcoat formulation having (i) a drier-free water-based polyurethane dispersion, (ii) co-solvents in an amount chosen to achieve a cure time of the finish within a target range, (iii) a metal drier for adjusting the cure time within the target range, and (iv) a surfactant for creating a smooth and flat coating.
US10196536B2
A thermal spray slurry of the present invention contains ceramic particles in a content of 10% by mass or more and 85% by mass or less, and has a viscosity of 3,000 mPa·s or less. The ceramic particles have an average particle size of, for example, 1 nm or more and 5 μm or less. The thermal spray slurry may further contain a dispersant. The thermal spray slurry may further contain a viscosity modifier. The thermal spray slurry may further contain a flocculant.
US10196527B2
The invention relates to cationic water-dilutable binders comprising a water-soluble bismuth salt or chelate complex B, and a chain-extended epoxy-amine adduct EA which comprises moieties derived from epoxide compounds E2 having at least two epoxide groups per molecule, low molar mass epoxide compounds E3 having two epoxide groups per molecule, amidoamines A41 having at least one amide group and at least one amino group, made from amines A1 having at least two amino groups per molecule and a fatty acid A4, and one or more further amines A1, an amine A2 which has at least one secondary amino group per molecule, an amine A3 having at least one tertiary, and at least one primary amino group per molecule, fatty acids A4, and phenolic compounds A5 having at least two phenolic hydroxyl groups, to a process for their preparation, and to the use thereof as corrosion protection coatings.
US10196513B2
An epoxy resin composition includes: (A) epoxy resin; (B) a curing agent; (C) 0.1 to 10 mass % of silica filler with an average particle size of 10 nm or more and 100 nm or less; (D) 47 to 75 mass % of silica filler with an average particle size of 0.3 μm or more and 2 μm or less; and (E) 0.1 to 8 mass % of elastomer, wherein the component (C) and the component (D) are contained by 50.1 to 77 mass % in total.
US10196512B2
An electrochemical sensor system comprises an electrochemical sensor and a hydrogel composition. The electrochemical sensor has at least a counter electrode and a working electrode. The hydrogel composition contacts the working electrode. The hydrogel composition comprises a first monomer, a second monomer, a cross-linking agent, and a solvent. The first monomer has hydrophilic characteristics. The second monomer has hydrophobic characteristics. The ratio of the first monomer to the second monomer is from about 0.1:99.9 to about 99.9:0.1.
US10196509B2
Dispersions of coal ash in water can be inhibited or prevented from scaling and simultaneously be inhibited or prevented from fouling by introducing thereto an additive blend that includes an anionic water-soluble polymer and a second polymer different from the anionic water-soluble polymer, where the second polymer is selected from the group consisting of copolymers and terpolymers having a plurality of hydrophobic groups.
US10196505B2
A resin composition is provided, which comprises: an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (A); and a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (B) having an ethylene content of not less than 70 mol %, wherein the component (B) is present in a proportion of 1 to 30 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the component (A). Where the resin composition is used in combination with a scrap laminate including a polyolefin resin layer and an EVOH layer for recycling the scrap laminate, die build-up is suppressed, and a product formed from the resulting recycled material is excellent in appearance and substantially free from coloration.
US10196501B2
Provided is a polymerizable composition for an optical material including (A) isocyanates having two or more isocyanato groups, which include at least an isophorone diisocyanate, (B) at least one predetermined thiol having two or more mercapto groups, (C) an acidic phosphoric acid ester represented by General Formula (1), and (D) a tin compound represented by General Formula (2), in which the acidic phosphoric acid ester (C) is contained in an amount of 0.05 parts by weight to 0.9 parts by weight, with respect to a total of 100 parts by weight of the isocyanates (A) and the thiols (B), and the tin compound (D) is contained in such an amount that the content of tin is 0.05 parts by weight to 0.3 parts by weight, with respect to a total of 100 parts by weight of the isocyanates (A) and the thiols (B).
US10196499B2
A cross-linkable nitrile rubber composition has a carboxyl group-containing nitrile rubber (A) with an iodine value of 120 or less, polyamine cross-linking agent (B), and at least one compound (C) selected from an aliphatic alcohol (c1) having 1 to 9 carbon atoms, hydroxyl group-containing aromatic compound (c2), and nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound (c3).
US10196490B2
A thermoplastic starch composition acquired from compounding a mixture comprises starch-containing agricultural waste in 45 to 70% by weight of total composition that the agricultural waste contains starch content less than 50% in dry weight; thermoplastic synthetic polymer in 25 to 50% by weight of total composition; plasticizer in 1 to 10% by weight of total composition; and coupling agent in 1 to 5% by weight of total composition; wherein the compounding is performed at a first temperature which is higher than room temperature.
US10196479B2
A method for producing a modified form of an aromatic amine compound represented by the following structure I: where A is an amine group —NHR, R is independently selected from hydrogen, linear and branched alkyl groups having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, preferably A is NH2; X is a halogen selected from Cl, Br, F, I, and At, or hydrogen (H). The method includes heating the aromatic amine compound, in its initial crystalline form, to a temperature above its melting point in order to obtain a molten material, then cooling the molten material to a temperature below the melting point of the crystalline compound so as to produce an amorphous, glassy form of the aromatic amine compound. The modified aromatic amine compound is suitable as a curing agent in resin compositions that are used for fabricating fiber-reinforced composites.
US10196478B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a lignin polyol, a method for the manufacturing of said composition and use thereof in different application areas, such as in adhesives, binders, castings, foams (such as in rigid polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams for thermal insulation and construction applications, semi-rigid, flexible, moulded, laminated, microcellular and viscoelastic polyurethane foams), fillers, glues, sealants, elastomers and rubbers. The present invention also relates to a method for the manufacturing of a foam and use of this foam.
US10196473B2
Provided is a fluorine-containing diblock copolymer having good water and oil repellency by using, as a raw material, a fluorine-containing (meth)acrylic ester having low bioaccumulation potential. The fluorine-containing diblock copolymer is produced by: process (A) a process for producing a fluorine-containing diblock copolymer by polymerizing a fluorine-containing (meth)acrylic ester represented by the following formula (1) in the presence of a trithiocarbonic ester compound and a radical polymerization initiator and then polymerizing a non-fluorine vinyl-based monomer, or process (B) a process for producing a fluorine-containing diblock copolymer by polymerizing a non-fluorine vinyl-based monomer in the presence of a trithiocarbonic ester compound and a radical polymerization initiator and then polymerizing a fluorine-containing (meth)acrylic ester represented by the following formula (1).
US10196467B2
To provide a curable fluorinated polymer excellent in solubility in an alcohol, a method for its production and a cured product of the fluorinated polymer. A fluorinated polymer comprising units represented by the following formula (1), wherein in at least some of the units represented by the formula (1), Z1 is NR1NR2H or NR3OR4: in the formula (1), X1 and X2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, Q1 is a single bond or an etheric oxygen atom, Rf1 is a fluoroalkylene group, or a fluoroalkylene group with at least 2 carbon atoms, having an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, Z1 is NR1NR2H, NR3OR4 or OR5, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R5 is an alkyl group.
US10196464B1
Pre-ceramic monomer formulations for creating self-propagating polymer waveguides, and a system and method of using the same, is disclosed. The formulation includes a plurality of unsaturated molecules, wherein the unsaturated molecules contain a significant amount of non-carbon atoms, a molecule having structure of R′—X1-H (e.g., X1=O, S, N), and a photoinitiator. R′ can also have non-carbon atoms. The system includes a light source, a reservoir having a monomer formulation and a patterning apparatus configured to guide a light beam from the light source into the pre-ceramic monomer formulation to form at least one self-propagating polymer waveguide and can be directly converted to interconnected three-dimensional ceramics.
US10196459B2
The disclosure relates to molecular protein brushes and devices comprising regions of protein brushes.
US10196451B2
Antibody polypeptides that specifically bind human CD40L are provided. The antibody polypeptides do not activate platelets. The antibody polypeptides are useful in the treatment of diseases involving CD40L activation, such as graft-related diseases and autoimmune diseases. The antibody polypeptides may be domain antibodies (dAbs) comprising a single VH or VK domain. The half-life of the antibody polypeptides may be increased by modifying the antibody polypeptides to be dual specific reagents that can also bind human serum albumin (HSA) or another antigen.
US10196444B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for using cells having chemically-induced fusion protein complexes to spatially and temporally control immune cell signal initiation and downstream responses for treating disease.
US10196443B2
Antibodies that specifically bind TEM8 protein, conjugates thereof, and their use, are disclosed herein. In some examples the conjugates and antibodies are useful for methods of detecting and treating pathogenic angiogenesis. In other examples the conjugates and antibodies are useful for methods of detecting and treating cancer. In additional examples, the conjugates and antibodies are useful for methods of decreasing binding of Anthrax protective antigen to a cell.
US10196442B2
Described herein are antibodies against GPR49 and uses of such antibodies. Various aspects relate to monoclonal, humanized, or fully human antibodies against GPR49, hybridomas or other cell lines expressing such antibodies, nucleic acids and vectors comprising nucleic acids encoding for such antibodies, and methods of treating cancer with such antibodies.
US10196439B2
The present invention relates to a novel class of monoclonal antibody that specifically binds the phosphorylated serine 396 residue on pathological hyperphosphorylated (PHF) tau (pS396), as well as to methods of using these molecules and their tau binding fragments in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and tauopathies.
US10196438B2
The disclosure relates to isolated antibodies and antigen-binding fragments that bind to the G protein of RSV and which are capable of neutralizing RSV A and B subtypes, and the use thereof in the diagnosis, prophylaxis, and/or treatment of RSV infections.
US10196432B2
The present invention relates to immunotherapeutic methods, and molecules and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumour-associated T-helper cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumour-associated peptides, that serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions which stimulate anti-tumour immune responses. In particular, the present invention relates to 49 novel peptide sequences derived from HLA class II molecules of human tumour cell lines which can be used in vaccine compositions for eliciting anti-tumour immune responses.
US10196427B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for the generation of an antibody or immunogenic composition, such as a vaccine, through epitope focusing by variable effective antigen surface concentration. Generally, the composition and methods of the disclosure comprise three steps: a “design process” comprising one or more in silico bioinformatics steps to select and generate a library of potential antigens for use in the immunogenic composition; a “formulation process”, comprising in vitro testing of potential antigens, using various biochemical assays, and further combining two or more antigens to generate one or more immunogenic compositions; and an “administering” step, whereby the immunogenic composition is administered to a host animal, immune cell, subject or patient. Further steps may also be included, such as the isolation and production of antibodies raised by host immune response to the immunogenic composition.
US10196419B2
The invention provides synthetic processes and synthetic intermediates that can be used to prepare compounds having useful anti-HIV properties.
US10196417B2
A baicalin magnesium compound and methods for preparing and extracting the same. The method for preparing the baicalin magnesium compound includes steps of preparation of a baicalin suspension, preparation of a magnesium ion-containing suspension, reaction and drying. The method for extracting the baicalin magnesium compound includes steps of pretreatment of macroporous resin, extraction, adsorption and elution, concentration and drying and purification. The methods restores the baicalin to the original form as found in radix scutellariae, and the baicalin magnesium compound may be used as a substitute for the baicalin in pharmaceutical applications. As compared to the baicalin, the baicalin magnesium has a greatly increased solubility, faster adsorption rate and higher oral bioavailability. The baicalin magnesium compound may also be easily formulated as a water-soluble injection or a powder injection. Pharmacological tests show that the baicalin magnesium compound is more pharmacologically active than the baicalin.
US10196416B2
A process for enabling the production of a particulate composition containing crystalline trehalose dihydrate is provided. Including allowing an α-glycosyltrehalose-forming enzyme to act on liquefied starch derived from a microorganism of the genus Arthrobacter and a trehalose-releasing enzyme derived from a microorganism of the genus Arthrobacter along with a starch debranching enzyme and a cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase; allowing glucoamylase to act on the resulting mixture to obtain a saccharide solution containing α,α-trehalose; precipitating crystalline α,α-trehalose dihydrate from the above saccharide solution; collecting the precipitated crystalline α,α-trehalose dihydrate by a centrifuge; and ageing and drying the collected crystals. Cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase derived from a microorganism of the genus Paenibacillus or a mutant enzyme thereof is used to increase the α,α-trehalose content in the saccharide solution to over 86.0% by weight, on a dry solid basis, without passing through a fractionation step by column chromatography.
US10196413B2
This invention relates to novel phosphorous ligands useful for organic transformations. Methods of making and using the ligands in organic synthesis are described. The invention also relates to processes for preparing the novel ligands.
US10196406B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of aminoaryl- and aminoheteroaryl boronic acids and esters thereof of formula (I) in high yields starting from a dialkyl ketal derivative of formula (V)
US10196405B2
Macrocyclic compounds having the structure of Formula (A), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are provided: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the macrocyclic compound and methods for treating cancer in a patient comprising administering to the patient the macrocyclic compound.
US10196402B2
The present invention relates to novel antagonists for CCR2 (CC chemokine receptor 2) and their use for providing medicaments for treating conditions and diseases, especially pulmonary diseases like asthma and COPD.
US10196401B2
Disclosed are compounds having enhanced potency in the modulation of NMDA receptor activity. Such compounds can be used in the treatment of conditions such as depression and related disorders. Orally available formulations and other pharmaceutically acceptable delivery forms of the compounds, including intravenous formulations, are also disclosed.
US10196400B2
The present invention provides an improved process for preparation of the substantially pure (3aR,7aR)-4′-(benzo[d]isothiazol-3-yl)octahydrospiro[isoindole-2,1′-piperazin]-1′-ium methanesulfonate (referred to as compound-II), which is useful as a key intermediate for the synthesis of lurasidone ((3aR,4S,7R,7aS)-2-{(1R,2R)-2-[4-(1,2-benzisothiazol-3-yl)piperazin-1ylmethyl]cyclohexylmethyl}hexahydro-4,7-methano-2H-isoindole-1,3-dione). The process comprises reaction of the compound-III (as described herein) with the compound-IV (as described herein) in the presence of a solvent mixture selected from an alcohol and water; and a base The improved process for the preparation of compound II provides the product with total amount of unreacted compound-IV as impurity in less than 0.06% and the product with HPLC purity as ≥99.8%. The process further refers purification of Lurasidone hydrochloride, wherein the product contains the residual acetone <5000 ppm.
US10196396B2
The present disclosure provides compounds useful in the amelioration, prevention or treatment of A3 adenosine receptor mediated diseases, such as glaucoma and glaucoma-related ocular disorders, having the structure of Formula I as defined in the detailed description; pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one of the compounds; and methods for ameliorating, preventing or treating A3 adenosine receptor mediated diseases using the compound.
US10196395B2
The present disclosure relates to crystalline Form α of a compound of formula (I) used for preparing a blood-cancer drug and preparation method thereof. The crystalline Form α in the present disclosure has better stability, and its solubility and hygroscopicity meet the requirements of medical use. Form α has simple preparation method and low manufacturing cost, and provides great value to future optimization and development of this drug.
US10196391B2
The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, Q, U, W, Z, X and Y are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds. These compounds are HbsAg inhibitors and are useful as medicaments for the treatment or prophylaxis of HBV infection.
US10196381B2
The present invention relates to a class of benzimidazole-2-piperazine heterocyclic derivatives, a preparation method and medical use thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to a new benzimidazole-2-piperazine heterocyclic derivative of general Formula (I), a preparation method, a pharmaceutical composition containing the same, and use thereof as a therapeutic agent and especially as a poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase (PARP) inhibitor.
US10196369B2
Provided herein are small molecule Epstein-Barr virus-induced G-protein coupled receptor 2 (EBI2) modulator compounds, compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions comprising the compounds. In some embodiments, EBI2 is a therapeutic target for the treatment of diseases or conditions such as, but not limited to, autoimmune diseases or conditions, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
US10196360B2
Provided are crystal forms I, II, and III of bedaquiline fumarate, and preparation methods thereof. The crystal forms have high purity, excellent physicochemical properties, and good stability. The preparation methods can effectively improve the quality of products, and are applicable to preparation and mass production of medicines.
US10196357B2
The invention relates to compounds of formula IB and methods for modulating one or more components of a kinase cascade using these compounds.
US10196350B2
The present application relates to compounds according to (Formula IA) or (Formula IB): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds can be used as inhibitors of RORγ and are useful for the treatment of RORγ mediated diseases.
US10196339B2
This invention relates to a catalyst used in a carbonylation of methanol using carbon monoxide to acetic acid, and more particularly to a heterogeneous catalyst represented by Rh/WxC (where x is an integer of 1 or 2) in which a complex of a rhodium compound and 3-benzoylpyridine is fixed on a support of tungsten carbide.
US10196333B2
A process is described for improving the performance of certain multiphase reaction systems including a solid catalyst, one or more reactants in the gas phase and one or more reactants in the liquid phase, wherein a targeted maximum concentration of a reactant in the liquid phase is identified for providing improved value in terms of byproduct formation, catalyst deactivation and yields of desired products, and this targeted concentration is closely approached and preferably achieved, but not substantially exceeded, downstream in a continuous process or later in time from the initiation of a batch in a semibatch mode of operation of such processes.
US10196331B2
This invention provides a method for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene or 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane, which is a precursor of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, in two or three reaction steps, using at least one chlorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane, 2,3-dichloro-1,1,1-trifluoropropane, and 1,1,2,3-tetrachloropropene as a starting material, the reaction products of at least two of the steps being supplied to the same distillation apparatus to subject the products to a separation operation simultaneously. With this method, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene or 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane, which is a precursor of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, can be efficiently produced with reduced energy and equipment costs in an economically advantageous manner.
US10196326B2
Process for the production of a diene, preferably a conjugated diene, more preferably 1,3-butadiene, comprising the dehydration of at least one alkenol in the presence of at least one catalytic material comprising at least one acid catalyst based on silica (SiO2) and alumina (AI2O3), preferably a silica-alumina (SiO2-AI2O3), said catalyst having a content of alumina (AI2O3) lower than or equal to 12% by weight, preferably ranging from 0.1% by weight to 10% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the catalyst. Preferably, said alkenol can be obtained directly from biosynthesis processes, or through the catalytic dehydration of at least one diol, preferably a butanediol, more preferably 1,3-butanediol, even more preferably bio-1,3-butanediol, deriving from biosynthesis processes. Preferably, said 1,3-butadiene is bio-1,3-butadiene.
US10196322B2
An inhibitor composition contains dicyandiamide as a nitrification inhibitor, alkyl thiophosphoric triamide as a urease inhibitor, or a combination thereof, dissolved in a liquid medium comprising an organic solvent selected from, among others, one or more polar aprotic solvents, including one or more organophosphates, amine solvents, heterocyclic alcohol solvents, and mixtures thereof, is useful in making fertilizer compositions and in a method of fertilizing target plants.
US10196320B2
The present invention describes a plant growth and soil enhancement formulation, and method of using said formulation for enhanced plant growth and soil enrichment, comprising generally an organic substance such as humus and at least one mineral, preferably a bedrock material known as Geza.
US10196314B2
Multi-step milling processes to prepare cBN composite powder forms a first powder mixture by adding a binder and a first cBN component, mills the first powder mixture for a first time period, combines a second cBN component with the milled first powder mixture to form a second powder mixture, and mills the second powder mixture for a second time period (less than the first time period) to form the cBN composite powder. A ratio of the D50 value of the second cBN component to the D50 value of the first cBN component is at least 3.0. Two-step milling with different milling times for the two cBN component fractions controls the amount of mill debris in the cBN composite powder mixture. Further processing of the cBN composite powder under HPHT conditions forms a cBN-based ceramic with an average value of a cBN particle free diameter of less than 2.0 microns.
US10196268B2
Provided are a positive electrode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery excellent in quick charge-discharge characteristics by preventing fusion between particles of powder during firing, and a method of producing the same. A positive electrode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery of the present invention includes inorganic powder that contains at least one kind of transition metal element selected from the group consisting of Cr, Fe, Mn, Co, and Ni, Na, P, and O, and has a BET specific surface area of from 3 m2/g to 50 m2/g.
US10196266B2
Process for producing hydrogen in which tail gas from a separate plant for production of gasoline or diesel is added downstream the steam methane reforming stage and upstream the water gas shift stage of a hydrogen production plant.
US10196262B2
A process for manufacturing an interaction system of a microelectromechanical type for a storage medium, the interaction system provided with a supporting element and an interaction element carried by the supporting element, envisages the steps of: providing a wafer of semiconductor material having a substrate with a first type of conductivity (P) and a top surface; forming a first interaction region having a second type of conductivity (N), opposite to the first type of conductivity (P), in a surface portion of the substrate in the proximity of the top surface; and carrying out an electrochemical etch of the substrate starting from the top surface, the etching being selective with respect to the second type of conductivity (N), so as to remove the surface portion of the substrate and separate the first interaction region from the substrate, thus forming the supporting element.
US10196255B2
A wine dispenser that includes a wine refrigerator unit having at least two independent temperature-controlled compartments, each one of the two compartments having a plurality of supports to support a wine container, and a wine dispenser unit residing atop the wine refrigeration unit, the wine dispenser unit including a plurality of fountain heads, each one of the plurality of fountain heads being connected to a respective fluid-tight wine supply line that extends from the fountain head to an interior of a respective one of the two independent temperature-controlled compartments.
US10196254B2
The present invention is directed to a portable container for a beverage, such as beer, from a Sixth barrel or Cornelius keg. The portable container is specifically designed for storing, cooling, transporting and dispensing a beverage, such as beer. The portable container has a self-contained container of CO2, a regulator, and a tap for the keg.
US10196251B2
A manual bottle opener (1) that provides a means to slowly and steadily remove a stopper made from cork, foam or plastic, from a bottle by utilizing a gearbox (26) to allow a high number of low torque rotations of a handle (9) to be converted into a lower number of high torque rotations of a corkscrew (2). As a result the stopper is removed without any sudden change in pulling force and there is therefore a risk that the user will not realize that the stopper is out and keep turning the handle (9) and as a result damage the stopper. A corkscrew (2) locking method is therefore provided to protect the stopper and an overload clutch (16) is provided to protect the gearbox (26) and provide auditory feedback to the user.
US10196236B2
A monitoring system of an elevator installation having an elevator door and a method of operating the monitoring system are suitable for generating usage data of the elevator door, the monitoring system including a sensor arranged in the elevator installation, wherein at least one physical parameter of the environment of the sensor can be detected by the sensor, and an evaluating unit, which determines an operating state of the elevator door by a course of the physical parameter over time.
US10196235B2
A method and a system for generating destination calls for an elevator system is described, wherein a passenger can give personal destination calls with his/her terminal device as well as on the basis of identification of the person in at least one identification point. A passenger is identified at an identification point, on the basis of which the home floor of the passenger is determined and a destination call to the home floor is generated for the elevator system if the passenger does not have a valid destination call at the time of identification.
US10196230B2
The present invention relates to a winding device (1) and a method for winding a frame (7) to produce a fiber material blank (18). For this, a frame (7) is clamped in a clamping device and put into rotation about a rotational axis (5) by a drive (3). According to the invention it is provided that fixing pins (6) are folded down during the passing of a thread (9) to be wound.
US10196222B2
A document conveying apparatus includes a light source, a disk including a plurality of slits spaced apart with a predetermined interval in a rotation direction of the disk, which rotates in the rotation direction with a rotation speed as a document is conveyed, a light reception element provided at a position facing the light source with the disk interposed therebetween, a first signal generator for generating a first signal in accordance with light received by the light reception element, a second signal generator for generating a second signal obtained by removing, from the first signal, a noise component according to the rotation speed of the disk, and a controller for determining whether a document is conveyed by comparing the second signal with a predetermined threshold value.
US10196214B2
A transport vehicle system includes: a first transport vehicle configured to travel on a lower track in one direction; a second transport vehicle configured to travel on an upper track in one direction; a first transfer section onto which a conveyed object is delivered from the second transport vehicle and from which the conveyed object is received by the first transport vehicle; and a second transfer section onto which the conveyed object is delivered from the first transport vehicle and from which the conveyed object is received by the second transport vehicle.
US10196212B1
Disclosed is a tablet discharge chute including: a channel unit having a main channel into which tablets are inserted and a plurality of discharge channels communicating with the main channel, the discharge channels separating and discharging the tablets; a separation part being coupled to a shaft between the main channel and the discharge channels, the separation part having first and second separation plates that are coupled at a predetermined angle therebetween on the shaft to face the discharge channels; and an actuator being coupled to the shaft and rotating the separation part at a preset angle, wherein when the shaft rotates, the first separation plate lifts the tablets being discharged from the main channel to close a first discharge channel of the discharge channels, and the second separation plate opens a second discharge channel of the discharge channels to guide the lifted tablets to the opened second discharge channel.
US10196203B2
Disclosed is a system for separating liquid and solid waste. The system provides a plurality of ways of moving liquids from initial disposal to a reservoir. The system may comprise an insert and a shell, or may include a funnel, insert and shell. The funnel allows for direct collection of liquids. The insert allows for indirect collection of liquids.
US10196194B2
A self-wrapping nonwoven sleeve for routing and protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a non-woven wall having a thickness extending between inner and outer sides. The wall has opposite edges extending along a length of the sleeve between opposite ends. The opposite edges are biased into a self-wrapped configuration by heat-set material of the nonwoven wall to define a tubular cavity. The non-woven wall includes first and second portions extending between the opposite edges. The first portion and second portion have respective first and second thicknesses extending between the inner and outer sides, wherein the first thickness is greater than the second thickness and wherein the first portion provides flexibility to the wall and the second portion is heat set to bias the wall into its self-wrapped configuration.
US10196192B2
A compartmented bag with at least two pouches that can be separated along a tear line. Each pouch has front and back panels and a standing base formed of a base gusset panel constituted of a separate piece of film that is fastened by welds to the front and back panels.
US10196178B2
A lid for an opening device for a container includes a body having a longitudinal axis and provided with an end wall and with a side wall internally provided with a thread element suitable for cooperating with a further thread element of a spout of the opening device, the lid further includes at least one driving element having a first side arranged to receive the fingers of a user during unscrewing of the lid from the spout and a second side arranged for receiving the fingers of a user during screwing of the lid on the spout, the first side being defined by a wall and the second side being defined by a cavity.
US10196173B2
A container assembly including a number of sidewall assemblies is provided. Each sidewall assembly includes a number of sidewalls. Each sidewall includes a generally planar perimeter and a number of tapered edge segments. The sidewalls are disposed in an enclosing configuration wherein a number of the tapered edge segments overlap. The sidewalls define a generally enclosed space. Further, each overlapping tapered edge segment is coupled to an adjacent overlapping tapered edge segment.
US10196172B2
The present disclosure provides a chemical container and a method for manufacturing the same. The chemical container comprises a head portion having a top wall and a head sidewall extending from an edge of the top wall, as well as a body portion jointed with the head portion and defining a chamber together with the head portion. The top wall has a mouth structure configured for one or more pipelines to pass through and connect with the chamber. The manufacturing method is simple and of low cost, and the resulted chemical container is able to withstand a greater internal pressure and is configured to collect any leaking liquid chemicals.
