US10210277B2
An example method involves accessing web-traffic data associated with a web page hosted by a first computing-device, wherein the web page comprises meta-tag data; using the accessed web-traffic data to determine that the first computing-device received a threshold amount of requests that (i) were for the web page and (ii) originated from a geographical region; responsive to the determining, modifying the meta-tag data based on the geographical region; and transmitting the modified meta-tag data to a second computing-device, wherein the second computing-device is configured for (i) receiving the transmitted modified meta-tag data, (ii) receiving a request for a list of search results based on a set of search terms, (iii) responsive to receiving the request, using the set of search terms and the modified meta-tag data to perform a web search, thereby generating a list of search results, and (iv) transmitting the list of search results to a third computing-device.
US10210273B2
A computer device to generate an image with content and create active regions at locations or coordinates of the image including the content. The computing device associates the active regions with accessible links corresponding to the content.
US10210271B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing a translated message in telecommunications. A request is received for translating a current message in a first language into a current message in a second language destined for a user. Whether the current message in the first language has been previously translated into a corresponding message in the second language is determined. If the corresponding message in the second language exists, the current message in the second language is generated based on the corresponding message in the second language previously translated. The current message is then sent in the second language to the user as a response to the request.
US10210269B1
In an example, a granularity of location similarity is determined, wherein the granularity of location similarity is a level at which social networking data should be filtered to identify locations similar to a target location. Then a weighted graph of locations at the granularity of location similarity is constructed, wherein each node in the weighted graph is a location and a directed edge exists in the weighted graph between a first node and a second node if the social networking data, at the granularity of location similarity, indicates that a transition occurred wherein a member who resided at a location corresponding to the first node transitioned to reside to a location corresponding to the second node. The weighted graph of locations is traversed from a node corresponding to the target location in order to identify locations similar to the target location.
US10210261B2
In one embodiment, a set of user groups of a social-networking system may be accessed. A first subset of the user groups may be determined for a particular user of the social-networking system, based on one or more filtering criteria. A number of recommendation-source processes may be applied to the first subset to determine a number of second subsets of the first set. Each recommendation-source process may represent a particular recommendation source. The second subsets may be combined into a list of user groups. The list of user groups may be ranked, and sent to the particular user.
US10210253B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus of providing comments and statistical information for each section of a video content and the method thereof, the apparatus and the method thereof being capable of writing and displaying replies for each section of the video content which is edited section by section and providing a user interface which plays each section of the video content respectively, so as to allow a user to access the video content section by section in order to easily grasp the characteristics of the corresponding video and to intuitively search fast and play the wanted parts (or sections) of the video.
US10210251B2
Disclosed is a method and system for creating labels for cluster in computing environment. The system comprises receiving module, candidate items selector, combination array generator, coverage value analyzer, candidate pair selector, unique word filter and cluster label selector. Receiving module receives input data and candidate items selector selects candidate items occurring repetitively using n-gram technique to generate list of candidate items with frequency of occurrence. Combination array generator selects candidate items to populate two-dimensional array wherein each array element represents pair of n-gram. Coverage value analyzer determines coverage value for each pair of n-gram from array. Candidate pair selector selects pairs of n-gram from two-dimensional array to process and generate list of candidate pairs. The unique word filter determines number of unique words in each candidate pair. Cluster label selector sorts list of candidate pairs using coverage value and number of unique words to select cluster label.
US10210248B2
A mail server displays a list of mail addresses of the sources of mails matching with an extraction condition for inappropriate mails, the list being classified into levels which are divided according to the transmission status of mails matching with the extraction condition for each mail address. Then, in response to the selection of one of the mail addresses from the displayed list, the mail server displays the transition of the transmission status of the mails which match with the extraction condition and have the selected mail address.
US10210246B2
The present disclosure relates to performing similarity metric analysis and data enrichment using knowledge sources. A data enrichment service can compare an input data set to reference data sets stored in a knowledge source to identify similarly related data. A similarity metric can be calculated corresponding to the semantic similarity of two or more datasets. The similarity metric can be used to identify datasets based on their metadata attributes and data values enabling easier indexing and high performance retrieval of data values. A input data set can labeled with a category based on the data set having the best match with the input data set. The similarity of an input data set with a data set provided by a knowledge source can be used to query a knowledge source to obtain additional information about the data set. The additional information can be used to provide recommendations to the user.
US10210241B2
A method for indexing with redundant information. The method may identify unknown code points for a document in response to an indexing request for the document. The method may further convert the identified unknown code points into a plurality of converted code points. Each set of converted code points of the plurality uses a different codepage. The method may further identify sets of same code points and sets of redundant code points from the plurality of converted code points. The method may build an index based on the sets of same code points and the sets of redundant code points.
US10210239B2
Modeling data as an undirected graph can include a set of entities and a set of attributes. A set of relationships can be defined to represent semantic associations with each association connecting at least two entities. Attributes can be associated with entities rather than with relationships. A hierarchical query language with a set of atomic operations on modeled data can be employed. The modeled data can be displayed on a display unit.
US10210223B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for processing a query on a set of data blocks in analytical databases. The query is on a set of data blocks, having at least one attribute and specifies at least one selection condition on the attribute. The selection condition is associated with at least one selection expression. Attribute value information on each attribute is generated for each data block. Next, a condition is generated on each attribute to negate the selection expression, if the selection expression has a negation operator. Additional conditions are generated for each selection expression that does not contain a negation operation. The attribute value is used to select the positive and negative subsets of data blocks for each condition. Next, a negative subset that does not require processing to evaluate the query is skipped and the positive subsets and the non-skipped negative subsets are processed.
US10210217B2
A provision method provides plurality of pieces of advice pertaining to household appliances of a user on a tablet 103. A priority of each piece of advice is changed by determining whether an advice-specific standard for the user the reference that piece of advice is met by an auto-log or overall user information. The pieces of advice are displayed in accordance with determination results. The format of display according to determination results is a list of advice sorted by priority.
US10210212B2
Embodiments implement a minispace concept to dynamically manage layout of a robotics warehouse system. The warehouse space is divided into a plurality of equally sized minispaces, each corresponding to a standard rack footprint. Each minispace is identified by tagging with a unit location ID and attribute(s) such as coordinates. Minispaces may be referenced in a task planning process flow that initially comprises determining stock and rack, followed by determining a relevant workstation. The task is then assigned to an appropriate robot, and a travel route is planned (e.g., shortest path in minispace layout). Robot actions within the route are then planned and executed by the warehouse management system according to the minispace layout. Minispaces allow a robot to identify each minispace by the tagging, and to plan the next movement accordingly. The use of minispaces may facilitate collision avoidance by grouping actions together and allowing performance of minispace locking/checking procedures.
US10210209B2
A procedural pattern in a received query execution plan can be matched to a stored pattern for which an equivalent declarative operator has been pre-defined. The query execution plan can describe a query for accessing data. A hybrid execution plan can be generated by replacing the procedural pattern with the equivalent declarative operator. A hybrid execution plan processing cost can be assigned to execution of the hybrid execution plan and a query execution plan processing cost can be assigned to execution of the query execution plan. The assigning can include evaluating a cost model for the hybrid execution plan and the query execution plan. The query can be executed using the hybrid execution plan if the hybrid execution plan processing cost is less than the query execution plan processing cost or the query execution plan if the hybrid execution plan processing cost is greater than the query execution plan processing cost. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed.
US10210205B1
Disclosed herein are various systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a system independent Configuration Management Database identification system. In an implementation, a dynamic identification system correlates records of an originating system with records of an Authoritative Configuration Management Database (CMDB) including a set of one or more identifying rules that define a minimum amount of information in order to generate an identifying signature that serves as a common reference between a record of the originating system with a matching Configuration Item (CI) record of the ACMDB, receiving, from the originating system, information to generate an identifying signature, determining that the generated first identifying signature matches a stored identifying signature, and correlating the first record of the originating system corresponding with the generated first identifying signature with the one of the CI records of the ACMDB corresponding with the matching one of the identifying signatures.
US10210186B2
A data processing method and system and a client, where a target storage node is determined in a manner of comparing a second vector of received data and first vectors that are corresponding to all storage nodes and prestored on the client that receives the data, and the target storage node no longer needs to be determined in a manner of extracting some fingerprint values as samples from received data and sending the fingerprint values to all storage nodes in a data processing system for query, and waiting for a feedback from the storage nodes.
US10210183B2
Provided are techniques for image search with historical user activity metadata. Activity of a user is continuously captured to generate historical user activity metadata. In response to an image being taken, a range of historical user activity metadata to associate with the image is selected, wherein the historical user activity metadata for the period of time forms a historical time line that becomes searchable metadata of the image. In response to a request for any images taken during the range, the image is located using the searchable historical user activity metadata.
US10210182B2
Provided are techniques for image search with historical user activity metadata. Activity of a user is continuously captured to generate historical user activity metadata. In response to an image being taken, a range of historical user activity metadata to associate with the image is selected, wherein the historical user activity metadata for the period of time forms a historical time line that becomes searchable metadata of the image. In response to a request for any images taken during the range, the image is located using the searchable historical user activity metadata.
US10210173B2
A method and system for processing file storage is provided. The method includes receiving a file storage request and determining a file size of a file which is requested to be stored. In response to determining that the file is a small file, a request is sent to an HBase to store the file into the HBase. In response to determining that the file is a large file, a request is sent to a HDFS to store the file into the HDFS. Information associated with the file is stored in a record.
US10210172B1
In one example embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer executable program code which, when executed on a computer system, causes the computer system to perform a number of steps. The steps include receiving, at an application server, metadata representing at least one file system stored on a file storage system based on an application executing on the application server, preventing, at the application server, files associated with the file storage system from being downloaded to the application server, monitoring, by the application server, a request to open a file associated with the file storage system, determining the requested file is stored on the file storage system separate from the application server, and triggering, by the application server, a download of the requested file.
US10210165B2
An ediscovery system filters a document corpus to identify a filtered document set. The filtered document set is further analyzed to identify a production document set. Documents of the document corpus are stored in one of online storage and nearline storage, nearline storage providing slower access times. Documents added to the production set and/or filtered document set are moved to online storage if not already present. A countdown is associated with each document in the online storage and the document is moved to nearline storage on expiration of the counter. For each document moved, a placeholder file is retained in online storage that includes searchable text of the document. Documents in the production set may have a countdown that is longer for documents in the filtered document set. Documents in the filtered document set may have a countdown that is longer than remaining documents in the document corpus.
US10210163B2
A method and associated computer program product are disclosed for generating an executable file from an object file comprising a function that references a table of contents (TOC) pointer register. The method comprises identifying, based on at least one first annotation included in the object file, at least one instruction of the function having an eliminable reference to the TOC pointer register, and determining, during a linking of the object file and based on the at least one first annotation, whether to eliminate the eliminable reference.
US10210156B2
A method, system, and computer program product for seed selection in corpora compaction for natural language processing are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of initial clusters is formed from a set of documents in a corpus for natural language processing, wherein a subset of documents belong to an initial cluster in the set of initial cluster. A subset of the initial clusters is merged to form a merged cluster. A set of keywords that is representative of the merged cluster is identified. An epicenter of the merged cluster is formed using the set of keywords, the epicenter forming a seed. A document that is a member of the merged cluster is ranked according to a relationship of a taxonomy of the document and the epicenter.
US10210153B1
A language processing system for text normalization of an input string of a semiotic class. In an aspect, a method includes receiving an input string; accessing, for a semiotic class of non-standard words, a language universal covering grammar for a plurality of languages that generates, for each language of the plurality of languages, one or more sequences of word-level components for each instance of the semiotic class in the language; for each of the plurality of languages, accessing a lexical map specific to the language and that maps each sequence of word-level components for each instance of the semiotic class in the language verbalizations in the language; generating, from the language universal grammar and the lexical maps, a lattice of possible verbalizations of the input string; and selecting one of the possible verbalizations as a selected verbalization for the input string.
US10210150B2
A system for displaying data comprises an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication of a matrix element for expansion. The processor is configured to provide a matrix for display. The matrix includes a plurality of matrix elements. The processor is configured to provide a modified matrix for display, in the event that the matrix element is selected for expansion. The modified matrix for display includes a matrix element expanded and matrix elements compressed based at least in part on the matrix element selected.
US10210149B2
Assembling customized documentation includes storing annotations to an original version of a document and receiving a new version of the document, wherein the new version of the document is different than the original version of the document. The assembling further includes storing an updated version of the document based on differences between the original version and the new version of the document; and associating the annotations with the updated version of the document, wherein the associated annotations and the updated version of the document form a personalized version of the document.
US10210148B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for file processing. The method for file processing includes: obtaining a file; parsing the file to obtain a first character contained in the file; matching the first character with a preconfigured matching character library; obtaining an annotation corresponding to the first character when the first character satisfies a predetermined condition; and displaying the first character and the annotation. With the embodiments of the present invention, automatic annotation can be provided for a particular character in a file, such that the user's reading experience can be improved.
US10210131B2
Embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products for performing synchronous data I/O. Aspects include a processor of computer system sending a store block to request data from a device through a PCIe connection, requested data having a predetermined number of data blocks, and the processor executing a data transaction loop to retrieve requested data. Executing the data transaction loop may include writing to a table prefetch trigger register on host bridge to queue up speculative prefetches in ETU for each data block. The host bridge may perform a first speculative prefetch to install a device table entry in a device table cache. The processor may further perform a second speculative prefetch to install an address translation in an address translation cache. The host bridge processes the data block received through direct memory access over the PCIe connection using the prefetched device table entry and address translation.
US10210129B2
A digital communication interface includes a deserializer module, a gearbox module, and a parallel communication channel connecting the gearbox module to the deserializer module. The deserializer module has a fixed deserialization factor. The gearbox module has a temporal translation factor to change bit-length of words received through the parallel communication channel to bit-length suitable for a downstream data path.
US10210127B2
A method includes monitoring port login requests initiated by elements of a storage system, the storage system comprising interconnection cabling, constructing a connection graph corresponding to the port login requests, wherein each edge of the connection graph corresponds to a specific port login request and each vertex of the connection graph corresponds to a port within the storage system, and using the connection graph to evaluate the interconnection cabling of the storage system. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.
US10210121B2
A system for switching between a high performance mode and dual path mode is disclosed. The system includes a first device, a second device, a third device, and a switch configured to receive control signals, and in response causing the switch to selectively couple one or more first lanes of the first device or one or more second lanes of the second device to third lanes of the third device to yield enabled lanes. The system also include a number of the enabled lanes is less than or equal to a number of the third lanes, and the switch is configured to route the enabled lanes associated with the first device to a first portion of the third lanes in an increasing order and to route the enabled lanes associated with the second device to a second portion of the third lanes in a decreasing order.
US10210114B2
An I/O (input/output) bus arbiter to be used in conjunction with a compatible CPU (processor) to effect burst mode data transfers in all I/O accesses that remove the need for DMA (Direct-Memory-Access) signals, Bus-request/Bus-grant signals, and bridges consequently removing the need for a bus system to connect peripherals such as the PCI (Peripheral-Connect-Interface). The I/O arbiter consists of an interrupt controller with circular buffers, FIFOs (First-In-First-Out) and port engines for directly attaching devices with proper interface buffers, together with a compatible CPU interrupt signals, and synchronous data transfers with only this one arbiter.
US10210106B2
A system for managing one or more queues in a multi-processor environment includes a queue manager disposed in communication with a plurality of processors and a memory shared by the plurality of processors, and a queue configured to be controlled by the queue manager, the queue including independent and discrete queue elements and having a starting location specified by a base address, the queue manager having one or more dynamically configurable parameters, the one or more dynamically configurable parameters including a size of each of the queue elements. The queue manager is configured to perform receiving a message from a processor of the plurality of processors, the message including an operation address specifying a fixed storage location in the memory and a request related to accessing the memory, selecting the queue based on the operation address, and performing a queuing operation on the queue based on the request.
US10210105B2
A system for enabling input/out virtualization for a device is disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a plurality of host CPUs; a multi-root switch connected to each of the plurality of host CPUs via respective buses; and an inline PCI virtualizing device connected to the multi-root switch via a front-side bus and the device via a back-side bus, the inline PCI virtualizing device including a plurality sets of registers, each of the plurality sets of registers accessible by a corresponding host CPU of the plurality of host CPUs and implementing functionalities of the device.
US10210104B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a transceiver that communicates with an external electronic device and at least one processor electrically connected with the transceiver. The processor is configured to obtain context information about an operation being performed at the electronic device, to generate identification information about a recommended operation associated with the operation being performed, based on the context information about the operation being performed and to send the identification information about the recommended operation to the external electronic device by using the transceiver.
US10210094B2
It is provided an information processing system. A first processing unit instructs a second processing unit to update the state management information regarding first data managed by the second processing unit when the first processing unit accesses the first data and detects an error regarding the first data, the second processing unit issues a command for discarding the first data acquired by a processing unit other than the second processing unit to the processing unit other than the second processing unit, when the processing unit which acquires the first data receives the command, the processing unit which acquires the first data discards the first data and transmits a result of the discarding of the first data to the second processing unit, and the second processing unit updates the state management information regarding the first data based on the result received from the processing unit which acquires the first data.
US10210078B2
Embodiments include methods, reconfiguration and verification systems, and computer program products automating manual reconfiguration and verification process. Aspects include manually configuring processing units (Pus) through LPAR partition's reconfiguration panel using a hardware management console, creating by an computer operating system an MSGLOG API to allow a test program (TP) to communicate with an automation system's automation program (AP), TP generating reconfiguration tests (RT) of PUs and transmitting RTs to AP while holding an MSGLOG API lock, and TP going to sleep for a predetermined time using a sleep timer to allow AP to perform tests, determining whether sleep timer is expired. When sleep timer is expired, print a sleep timer expiration error, and exit. Otherwise, TP obtains states of PUs under RTs, and determine whether results of RTs are correct. When results of RTs are not correct, test program prints reconfiguration test failure error messages, and exit.
US10210077B2
A static analysis tool is augmented to provide for enhanced security vulnerability determination from generated code traces. According to this disclosure, a multiple sequence alignment is applied to a set of traces generated by static analysis of application source code. The output of this operation is an alignment result that simplifies the traces, e.g., by representing many common nodes as a single node. In particular, the sequence alignment identifies entries in the alignment result that represent at least one code execution path that multiple traces in the set of traces include. A call graph can then be output that includes the at least one code execution path identified, and that call graph can also be simplified by applying a compression portions of the traces that are used to generate it. Using multiple sequence alignment and simplified call graphs enable a user to identify security vulnerabilities more efficiently.
US10210067B1
A mapping apparatus comprises a mapper that translates from an input key to an output key in one or more storage devices. A pre-mapper for processing update operations comprises a plurality of mapping tablets and an in-memory look-up filter to identify a given mapping table storing a given input key. The mapping tablets comprise at least one dynamic in-memory ingress tablet and a plurality of persisted frozen tablets. For a given update operation, a first entry is added to one dynamic in-memory ingress tablet comprising the input key for the given update operation and a corresponding output key where data for the given update operation is stored; and a second entry is added to the look-up filter comprising the input key of the first entry and an identifier of the dynamic in-memory ingress tablet storing the first entry for the given update operation. The dynamic in-memory ingress tablet is persisted as a persisted frozen tablet. Space accounting accounts for usage of the storage devices by a given write operation of a given data offset as one of a new write operation and an overwrite operation.
US10210062B2
A data storage system comprises a primary storage system comprising an array of drives and a storage controller comprising a stack of storage components. A storage component of the stack operates a data redundancy scheme for the primary storage system. The storage controller stores a set of data on the primary storage system, detects a failure on one or more drives and determines a set of addresses defining data that cannot be completely repaired. Starting with the storage component operating the data redundancy scheme, each storage component queries the storage component directly above with the set of addresses for the data that cannot be completely repaired, obtaining, from one or more storage components, the data that cannot be completely repaired. This obtained data is used to repair the data on the primary storage system with the data from the one or more storage components.
US10210051B2
According to certain aspects, a system may include a first computing device configured to: in response to a request to access at least one first database object of a plurality of database objects represented by a database file generated by a first database application, the database file including a plurality of data blocks, identify a subset of the plurality of data blocks corresponding to the first database object; a secondary storage controller computer(s) configured to: access a stored table providing a mapping between the secondary copies of the plurality of data blocks and corresponding locations of the secondary copies in a secondary storage device(s); retrieve and forward the subset of data blocks from the secondary storage device(s); and a second computing device configured to: receive the requested data blocks retrieved from the secondary storage device(s); and convert the received data blocks to a format usable by a second database application.
US10210050B1
Methods and systems are described for grouping one or more save sets into a consistency group, the save sets being located across one or more client computers in a network, and for performing backup and recovery operations over a consistency group. According to one embodiment, a consistency group operation request is received by a backup system on a main server, the request indicating that a backup or recovery operation is to be performed over the consistency group. In response, the backup system retrieves information regarding the consistency group's save sets, and sends a save set operation request to each client computer instructing the client computer to perform the backup or recovery operation on any save sets within the consistency group.
US10210047B2
Machines, systems and methods for recovering data objects in a distributed data storage system, the method comprising storing one or more replicas of a first data object on one or more clusters in one or more data centers connected over a data communications network; recording health information about said one or more replicas, wherein the health information comprises data about availability of a replica to participate in a restoration process; calculating a query-priority for the first data object; querying, based on the calculated query-priority, the health information for the one or more replicas to determine which of the one or more replicas is available for restoration of the object data; calculating a restoration-priority for the first data object based on the health information for the one or more replicas; and restoring the first data object from the one or more of the available replicas, based on the calculated restoration-priority.
US10210038B2
The technology disclosed relates to building ensemble analytic rules for reusable operators and tuning an operations monitoring system. In particular, it relates to analyzing a metric stream by applying an ensemble analytical rule. After analysis of the metric stream by applying the ensemble analytical rule, quantized results are fed back for expert analysis. Then, one or more type I or type II errors are identified in the quantized results, and one or more of the parameters of the operators are automatically adjusted to correct the identified errors. The metric stream is further analyzed by applying the ensemble analytical rule with the automatically adjusted parameters.
US10210033B2
Operations include addressing a component error. An error management system obtains a vendor-specific error code from a hardware storage expander. The vendor-specific error code corresponds to an error state of a hardware component. Based on a mapping between a vendor-specific error code and a common error code, the system converts the vendor-specific error code to a common error code. Next, the system executes a diagnostic process for determining an operation for handling any errors corresponding to the common error code. Based on the operation determined by the diagnostic process, the system determines a vendor-specific instruction code. The system transmits the vendor-specific instruction code to the hardware storage expander for addressing the error state of the hardware component of the hardware storage expander.
US10210026B2
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing an interface of an enterprise application to support unlimited modal and modeless elements thereof. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention can include an Application Program Interface (API) for invoking and interacting with a set of modal and/or modeless functions and which can be browser independent. Such an API can be implemented, for example, in JavaScript or other language supported by the browser. Generally speaking, this script or application can provide features such as normally associated with the browser's modal support but without relying on that support and without many of the constraints and other limitations normally imposed or encountered with the browser's modal support.
US10210022B2
A method for controlling dispatching work tasks in a multi-tier storage environment. A computer system receives storage demands of work tasks. The computer system determines placement and migration policies for data in storage tiers in a storage system. The computer system prepares the storage tiers for meeting the storage demands of work tasks, based on the placement and migration policies. The computer system determines a state of preparation of the storage tiers for meeting the storage demands of work tasks. The computer system determines a list including work tasks that can proceed and work tasks that cannot proceed, based on the state of the preparation. The computer system modifies a schedule of the work tasks, based on the list.
US10210016B2
A computer system with a hypervisor detects the local physical connection of a portable storage device with an operating system image thereon. The computer system installs an instance of the operating system on the hypervisor, and the hypervisor assigns a set of resources to the instance to generate a virtual machine. As further portable storage devices with operating systems thereon are locally, physically connected to the computer system, additional virtual machines are generated, each with a different operating system instance, which may be the same or different from the other operating system instances. The resources of the computer system are assigned and reassigned among the virtual machines as the portable storage devices are connected and disconnected.
US10210015B2
An aspect of the present disclosure provides for migration of a virtual machine (VM) on a switched-fabric based computing system to another (external) switched-fabric based computing system or non-switched-fabric based (external) computing system. Both of such external computing systems are communicatively coupled to the switched-fabric based computing system by Internet such that the data transfer after the migration is based on IP packets on the Internet. According to another aspect of the present disclosure, an appliance contains multiple nodes for hosting virtual machines. A switched fabric switches packets between the nodes based on point-to-point connections between each pair of ports, wherein each port is coupled directly to a corresponding node. A bridge supports migration of a first VM to a first external system coupled to the first appliance by Internet Protocol (IP) based network.
US10210010B1
Systems for bring-up of virtual machines in disaster recovery scenarios where the network configuration differs between the failed system and the recovery system. A method commences upon identifying a disaster recovery plan for restarting a set of virtual machines on a second system (e.g., a recovery system). A disaster event is detected, which event causes initiation of aspects of the disaster recovery plan, including restarting the set of virtual machines that were running on the first system. Other aspects of the disaster recovery plan include determining a set of network configuration directives pertaining to the second system, and providing access to the network configuration directives by any of the restarted virtual machines. During disaster recovery bring-up, at least some of the virtual machines that are restarted on the second system use the network configuration of the recovery system.
US10210001B2
Embodiments are directed to traversing and mapping a user interface. In one scenario, a computer system performs a method for traversing and mapping a user interface that includes the following: rendering a user interface (UI) based on data received from an information source, constructing an element collection with UI elements, the element collection describing relationships that exist between the UI elements, traversing the element collection to identify various node element types, identifying, within a pre-defined action set, an action associated with at least one of the identified node element types, executing the identified action against the identified node element types, and logging at least one network request resulting from the executed action.
US10209999B2
According to various embodiments, a device may be provided. The device may include a bootloader; a memory configured to store firmware data for controlling the device; a processor configured to operate in a device operation mode or in a bootloader mode: and an interface. The device operation mode may be a mode in which the processor controls the bootloader to load the firmware data stored, in the memory. The bootloader mode may be a mode in which the processor controls the bootloader to send an identifier of the device using the interface, to receive firmware data using the interface and to store the firmware data in the memory.
US10209995B2
A processor core supporting out-of-order execution (OOE) includes load-hit-store (LHS) hazard prediction at the instruction execution phase, reducing load instruction rejections and queue flushes at the dispatch phase. The instruction dispatch unit (IDU) detects likely LHS hazards by generating entries for pending stores in a LHS detection table. The entries in the table contain an address field (generally the immediate field) of the store instruction and the register number of the store. The IDU compares the address field and register number for each load with entries in the table to determine if a likely LHS hazard exists and if an LHS hazard is detected, the load is dispatched to the issue queue of the load-store unit (LSU) with a tag corresponding to the matching store instruction, causing the LSU to dispatch the load only after the corresponding store has been dispatched for execution.
US10209992B2
A method and system for branch prediction are provided herein. The method includes executing a program, wherein the program comprising multiple procedures, and setting bits in a taken branch history register to indicate whether a branch is taken or not taken during execution of instructions in the program. The method further includes the steps of calling a procedure in the program and overwriting, responsive to calling the procedure, the contents of the taken branch history register to a start address for the procedure.
US10209988B2
An apparatus and method are described for performing a bit reversal and permutation on mask values. For example, a processor is described to execute an instruction to perform the operations of: reading a plurality of mask bits stored in a source mask register, the mask bits associated with vector data elements of a vector register; and performing a bit reversal operation to copy each mask bit from a source mask register to a destination mask register, wherein the bit reversal operation causes bits from the source mask register to be reversed within the destination mask register resulting in a symmetric, mirror image of the original bit arrangement.
US10209982B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and computer program product for leveraging and improving distributed computing cluster architecture by installing a first version and a second version of an information server platform on separate pools of nodes within the same physical distributed computing cluster. The system generates unique file directory storage locations within the cluster allowing for the separate binaries associated with each of the versions to be accurately distinguished from one another by a resource manager tool. The two versions are able to coexist within the same physical storage location inside the distributed computing cluster. Concurrent version installations within the same cluster are advantageous for testing and verifying a newer version before ultimately uninstalling the older version in that a seamless transition between versions is achievable with uninterrupted service. Additionally, the storage structure allows for efficient sharing of data between domains within the cluster itself.
US10209977B2
In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a device management system with a restore prevention utility are provided. A request is received, at a control server, for an installation file for a restore prevention application. Based on receiving the request, the control server circumvents communication of the installation file based on transmitting a response code. The response code is an informational code that operates as an indicator to wait for a final response. Transmitting the response code triggers maintaining a pending state for the restore prevention application at the controlled device. The pending state includes the restore prevention application partially installed such that when the restore prevention application is partially installed an operating system cleanup utility operation to restore default device configurations for arranging application icons on the controlled device, is circumvented, to maintain an existing device configuration for arranging application icons on the controlled device.
US10209976B2
An example computer implemented method to automatically download and install a second application can include a first application detecting that a condition has occurred. This first application can be preinstalled by the original equipment manufacturer. The first application can then present an interface for signing in to or signing up for a service. The first application can then download and install the second application. This downloading and installation can occur in the background without requiring user interaction. The second application can be a client application for the service and the first application can pass a token with login credentials to the second application. This can allow the second application to be authenticated with the service without requiring a user to reenter the user's credentials.
US10209962B2
Mechanisms are provided for generating a new compilable program from an instruction trace. The mechanisms receive a trace file for an original program whose execution on computing hardware has been traced and perform analysis of the trace file to identify a hot function, symbol information corresponding to the hot function, and initialization parameters for the hot function. The mechanisms generate a trace control flow graph based on the identified hot function and the symbol information corresponding to the hot function. The mechanisms identify, based on the trace control flow graph, pathways in the original program to the hot function, represented in the trace file. The mechanisms generate a reconstructed program based on the trace control flow graph, the pathways to the hot function, and the initialization parameters, and output the reconstructed program.
US10209961B2
A method of verifying the sensitivity of an electronic circuit executing a modular exponentiation calculation in a first register and a second register, successively including, for each bit of the exponent: a first step of multiplying the content of one of the registers, selected from among the first register and the second register according to the state of the bit of the exponent, by the content of the other one of the first and second registers, placing the result in said one of the registers; a second step of squaring the content of said other one of the registers by placing the result in this other register, wherein the content of that of the first and second registers which contains the multiplier of the operation of the first step is disturbed, for each bit of the exponent, during the execution of the first step.
US10209958B2
A method for generating a random number for use in a stochastic rounding operation is provided. The method includes executing an instruction that causes at least two operands to produce an intermediate result and incrementing a state of a random number generator. The method d further includes causing the random number generator to generate a random number in accordance with the state and producing a final result by utilizing the random number to determine a rounding of the intermediate result.
US10209954B2
Input access may be provided. A user interface may be displayed on a user device. Upon receiving a selection of at least one element of the user interface, a plurality of input receiving modes of the user device may be activated.
US10209951B2
Apparatuses, methods, program products, and systems are disclosed for language-based muting during multiuser communications. A method includes determining, by use of a processor, a language of speech being spoken by a user of a plurality of users communicating over a network, comparing the determined language to one or more languages that each of the plurality of users has in common, and muting the speech in response to the determined language not matching a language of the one or more languages that each of the plurality of users has in common.
US10209949B2
In one example, a method includes determining, by one or more processors of a computing system included in a vehicle, whether one or more events have occurred that are likely to increase a stress level of an operator of the vehicle, and determining, by the one or more processors, whether the operator is the only person in the vehicle. In this example, the method includes, responsive to determining that one or more events have occurred that are likely to increase the stress level of the operator of the vehicle and that the operator is the only person in the vehicle, outputting, by the one or more processors and for playback by one or more output devices included in the vehicle, media data likely to reduce the stress level of the operator.
US10209947B2
An example method includes detecting, via a control interface of a first playback device while at least one second playback device is playing media, an input indicating a command for the first playback device to (i) form a zone with the second playback device and (ii) play back the media in synchrony, and based on the detected input, causing the first playback device to carry out the command. A second example method includes detecting, by a control device while at least one first playback device is playing media, an input indicating a command for a second playback device to (i) form a zone with the first playback device and (ii) play back the media in synchrony, wherein the control device is configured to transmit commands to the second playback device; and based on the detected input, causing the second playback device to carry out the command.
US10209944B2
A first terminal device shares a first interface with a second terminal device. If the first terminal device obtains a notification message to trigger generation of a second interface, the first terminal device first determines whether the second interface belongs to a preset sharing-forbidden interface. If the second interface belongs to the preset sharing-forbidden interface, the first terminal device shares only the first interface with the second terminal device, or suspends interface sharing with the second terminal device.
US10209930B2
A printer includes: an image former configured to form an image on a sheet based on a print job; a processor; and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include: comparing first time information indicating time information set for a region where the printer is allowed to be present and second time information indicating time information in a region where the printer is currently present and determining whether a time difference between the first time information and the second time information is greater than a predetermined time, and upon determining that the time difference is greater than the predetermined time, calling for execution of maintenance of the printer and selectably displaying options of the execution of the maintenance of the printer and execution of limited print processing by the image former.
US10209924B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an access request scheduling method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving a to-be-enqueued access request, and determining a memory that the to-be-enqueued access request requests to access; writing the to-be-enqueued access request to one queue in one access queue group corresponding to the memory; selecting one candidate access queue from each candidate access queue group, as a to-be-scheduled queue; selecting, from the to-be-scheduled queues according to an access timeslot of each memory, alternative queues that can participate in scheduling in a current clock period; selecting, from the alternative queues, a specified queue in scheduling in the current clock period; extracting a to-be-scheduled access request from the specified queue; and granting an access authorization to the to-be-scheduled access request.
US10209921B2
A method for execution by a computing device of a dispersed storage network (DSN). The method begins with identifying an encoded data slice for rebuilding, wherein a data segment of a data object is dispersed storage error encoded to produce a set of encoded data slices that is stored in a set of storage units of the DSN, wherein the set of encoded data slices includes the encoded data slice, wherein in a storage unit of the set of storage units includes a memory device that stores the encoded data slice. The method continues by identifying an issue with the memory device and by identifying sets of encoded data slices. The method continues by generating an additional encoded data slice for each of the sets of encoded data slices to produce a group of encoded data slices and storing the group of encoded data slices in memory of the DSN.
US10209919B2
A storage system is able to perform an operation of remote copy from a first storage apparatus to a second storage apparatus. A first control unit transfers summary information of copy target data stored in the first storage apparatus from the first storage apparatus to the second storage apparatus. A second control unit checks the summary information against information stored in the second storage apparatus. The second control unit transfers the checked result from the second storage apparatus to the first storage apparatus. If the checked result indicates matching discrepancy, the first control unit transfers the copy target data to the second storage apparatus and completes the remote copy operation.
US10209918B2
Migrating memory MMIO from a source I/O adapter of a source computing system to a destination I/O adapter of a destination computing system, includes: collecting, by a source hypervisor of the source computing system, MMIO mapping information, where the source hypervisor supports a logical partition on the source computing system and the logical partition is configured for MMIO operations with the source I/O adapter through an MMU; placing, by a destination hypervisor of the destination computing system, the destination I/O adapter in an error state; migrating the logical partition from the source computing system to the destination computing system; configuring, by the destination hypervisor of the destination computing system, the destination computing system for MMIO with the LPAR utilizing the MMIO mapping information collected by the source hypervisor; and restarting the logical partition on the destination computing system, including recovering, by the logical partition, from the error state.
US10209911B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for determining when a communications port is in a first low power state, determining that a coupled device entered a low power state and enabling a second low power state based on the determination that the device has entered the low power state, the second low power state to use less power than the first low power state.
US10209904B2
A system has a collection of central processing units. Each central processing unit is connected to at least one other central processing unit and has a path into flash memory resources. A central processing unit supports a mapping from a data address space, to a flash memory virtual address space, to a flash memory virtual page number to a flash memory physical address space.
US10209891B2
Techniques for improving flash memory flushing are disclosed. In some embodiments, the techniques may be realized as a method for improving flash memory flushing including receiving a request to write to flash memory, writing data associated with the request to the flash memory, identifying a pointer to a region bitmap corresponding to a write region for the write request, marking a bit of the region bitmap corresponding to the request as dirty, and updating the pointer, using a pointer management component, to the region bitmap to contain a dirty block count.
US10209886B2
Provided is a device for adaptively adjusting a layout of a touch input panel, including: an input information counting component, configured to count error input information of virtual keys in real time; a holding mode judgement component, configured to judge, when the number of error inputs occurring in a region on one side of the input panel is apparently more than the number of error inputs occurring in a region on the other side of the input panel, that the user is holding and operating a mobile terminal with a single hand and the user is currently holding, by the single hand, the side where fewer error inputs occur; and a panel layout adjustment component, configured to adjust an overall layout of the input panel and a current UI, and arrange the virtual keys to places where the single hand holding the mobile terminal is capable of completely controlling them.
US10209885B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for building a virtual keyboard. The method includes the steps: detecting a touch area of finger operation; determining the number of keys to be arranged in a key region of the virtual keyboard according to the detected touch area of finger operation and an area of the key region of the virtual keyboard; and arranging the determined number of keys in the key region of the virtual keyboard according to a preset strategy. The number of keys arranged in a key region of the virtual keyboard is determined in the present disclosure according to the touch area of user's finger operation and the area of the key region of the virtual keyboard so that the area of each key in the virtual keyboard is adaptable to the touch area of fingers.
US10209877B2
A technique for providing more intuitive user interfaces that use direct finger manipulation to interact with an object on a touch screen display. In particular, the technique displays, on the touch screen display, an object and detects a finger contact to interact with the object.
US10209875B2
An electronic apparatus includes a display that displays a content, and a detector that detects contactless proximity of an object to the display and contact of the object to the display. While the content scrolls on the display at gradually decreasing speeds, when the contactless proximity of the object to the display is detected and the contact of the object to the display is not detected, a scrolling speed of the content changes from the gradually decreasing speeds to a constant speed, which is faster than being stopped. After the scrolling speed of the content has changed to the constant speed, while the contactless proximity of the object to the display is detected and the contact of the object to the display is not detected, the content scrolls on the display at the constant speed.
US10209870B2
Various areas of a displayed document (e.g., text, image, etc.) may be selected and clipped as a separate document. In some arrangements, a user may wish to change the area of the clipped area without having to retrieve the displayed document again. Accordingly, the area of the clipped region may be modified by retrieving and storing the displayed document when the region is initially clipped. When the selected region is to be modified at a later time, the stored document may be used instead of having to retrieve the document from a source location.
US10209866B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device presents media items from different media applications in a unified media browsing application. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates browsing of media from different media applications based on category of media (e.g., movies, television shows, etc.). In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates setup of a unified media browsing application that presents media items from different media applications in a unified media browsing user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays multiple episodes of a collection of episodic content (e.g., a television series) in a user interface for the collection of episodic content. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays representations of, and provides access to, live-event media items accessible on the electronic device.
US10209858B2
A method of supporting divided screen areas and a mobile terminal employing the same are disclosed. The method includes: generating input signals for one of sequentially and simultaneously activating a plurality of user functions; activating the user functions according to generated input signals; dividing a screen into divided screen areas that correspond to activated user functions; and outputting functional view areas associated with the activated user functions to the corresponding divided screen areas.
US10209853B2
An in-vehicle infotainment system, smart home information access and device control unit, or mobile system presents summarized information to a user based on a user preference model that is associated with the user. The system modifies the presentation of information to the user based on environmental context data about the vehicle and user context data about the activity of the user. During presentation of the information, the system modifies the content and presentation of the summarized information in response to multi-modal input requests from the user.
US10209852B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to provide location information associated with a first user. The location of the first user is determined, and the location of the first user is communicated to a second user, the location of the first user being displayed on a graphical user interface of a mobile computing device associated with the second user.
US10209849B2
Aspects of a system for automatically managing a pane in a user interface on a small form factor computing device include an adaptive pane module for determining when an event that affects the canvas size occurs, such as changing the display configuration or reorienting the display, which in turn affects pane management, or the opening or closing of a pane. The adaptive pane module manages the pane. After managing the pane, the system resizes the canvas and reflows the content as appropriate for a small form factor computing device.
US10209841B2
A touchscreen 12 includes first touch electrode lines 31, first touch electrode groups 33, first traces 29, second touch electrode lines 32, second touch electrode groups 34, and second traces 30. The first touch electrode lines 31 include first touch electrodes 27 arranged along a first direction. Each first touch electrode group 33 includes multiple first touch electrodes 27. Each first trace 29 is connected to multiple first touch electrodes 27 in each first touch electrode group 33. The second touch electrode lines 32 include second touch electrodes 28 arranged along a second direction. Each second touch electrode group 34 includes multiple second touch electrodes 28. Each second trace 30 is connected to multiple second touch electrodes 28 in each second electrode touch group 34.
US10209839B2
Provided is a method for producing a laminated material, the method including forming a first transparent resin layer on a base material; and forming a second transparent resin layer directly on the first transparent resin layer, in which the forming a first transparent resin layer is applying an organic solvent-based resin composition on the base material, and the forming a second transparent resin layer is applying a water-based resin composition including an ammonium salt of a monomer having an acid group or an ammonium salt of a resin having an acid group. The method for producing a laminated material can provide a laminated material which exhibits satisfactory layer demarcation, and by which a problem caused by moisture absorption of the transparent resin layer formed using a water-based resin composition in a case in which the laminated material is subjected to a high temperature and high humidity environment for a period of time can be suppressed. Also provided are a laminated material, a transparent laminate, a method for producing a transparent laminate, a capacitance-type input device, and an image display device.
US10209838B2
An operating panel for a household appliance is provided with at least one user interface. The operating panel includes a planar support with an outer support surface facing an external region; a planar glass or glass-ceramic substrate with an outer substrate surface facing the external region and an opposite-lying inner substrate surface facing away from the external region and facing the outer support surface; a display element affixed to the support for luminous indication of information, which is preferably disposed on the outer support surface; and a sensor arrangement having at least two sensors, each of which comprises at least one electrode and is disposed on the inner substrate surface, for interaction with a user located in the external region.
US10209836B2
The present disclosure provides a method for driving an array substrate for fingerprint recognition. The method includes sequentially sending a switch-on signal by a processing unit to each gate line row by row along the column direction, the switch-on signal being divided into a first phase and a second phase. In the first phase of each switch-on signal, sending a touch-driving signal to pixel electrodes corresponding to the gate line through a first data line in each data line group, receiving a touch-sensing signal through a second data line in each data line group, and constructing a fingerprint pattern based on touch-sensing signals. In the second phase of each switch-on signal, simultaneously sending display signals to the first data line and the second data line in the data line groups to charge subpixel units corresponding to the gate line for displaying an image.
US10209835B2
A touch panel controller is provided with a calibration circuit that performs offset adjustment with respect to input signals of a plurality of detection circuits corresponding to a plurality of X electrodes of the touch panel, and a storage device that stores first parameter data that specifies an offset adjustment operation of the calibration circuit, and second parameter data for correction for the first parameter data.
US10209828B2
A system and method for multi-touch integrity sensing for a multi-touch capacitive touch screen determines a distinction between wanted touches, such as via a finger or stylus, and unwanted touches such as via foreign matter, errors, and the like. Mutual capacitance and self-capacitance sensing data is collected and processed to identify reference strengths and detection thresholds. If differences between mutual/self-capacitance strength and the corresponding reference strengths exceed the corresponding detection thresholds, then the touch is classified as an unwanted (for example, water) touch.
US10209825B2
A signal to be used to propagate a propagating signal through a propagating medium with a touch input surface is sent. The propagating signal has been allowed to propagate through the propagating medium to a plurality of receivers coupled to the propagating medium. A received signal affected by a touch input object contacting the touch input surface is received. At least a portion of the received signal is compared with one or more reference signals of one or more touch input object types.
US10209814B2
Disclosed are an image processing device and an image processing method. The image processing device comprises: a display means, which is configured to display an operation object, a touch means, which is configured to detect a first action and a second action of a touch operation, and a processing means, which is configured to determine a first position of the first action on the operation object and a second position of the second action on the operation object and to adjust a display parameter at the first position on the operation object and a display parameter at the second position. Employment of the present invention allows for content having a user-personalized operation to be photographed or produced and allows implementation of partial display parameter adjustment.
US10209811B2
Disclosed is a mobile terminal device in which a locking mode is released based on a touch intensity in order to prevent an unlocking operation by an unintended touch, and a driving method thereof, wherein the driving method includes detecting a touch intensity for each touch when a plurality of touches occur in a locking mode, and releasing the locking mode on the basis of the plurality of touch intensities detected, or executing a function corresponding to the plurality of touch intensities detected.
US10209802B2
A Micro-LED display panel and a display device, the Micro-LED display panel includes a plurality of light-emitting elements distributed in matrix; each light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a semi-conductor layer, and a second electrode arranged by stacking, the semi-conductor layer is placed between the first and second electrode; the semi-conductor layer includes a first semi-conductor layer, an active layer and a second semi-conductor layer successively stacked up; each light-emitting element further includes a metal layer arranged at a side of the semi-conductor layer, surrounding the semi-conductor layer and insulated from the first and second electrode, respectively; the light-emitting elements are divided into a plurality of light-emitting element groups, each of which includes multiple of the plurality of light-emitting elements; and the metal layers of the multiple of the plurality of light-emitting elements in each light-emitting element group are connected with each other to form one touch electrode.
US10209801B2
A bendable device is provided. The device comprises: a body comprising a bending region and a flexible display stack comprising at least one active layer and a supporting layer positioned on the bottom of the flexible display stack. The supporting layer of the flexible display stack comprises one or more fastening areas; the body comprises one or more fastening components; and one or more fastening components of the body are configured to be operable in a movable connection with one or more fastening areas of the flexible display stack.
US10209800B2
The present invention provides a touch switch attachable on a wall. The touch switch, attachable on a wall, comprises: a switch box unit which is inserted into an embedded box formed on a wall; a back cover unit which is inserted inside the switch box unit and has a plurality of PCBs stacked and placed; a fixing plate unit which is coupled to the switch box unit and fixes the back cover unit; and an LCD touch pad unit which is fixed on one end of the back cover unit passing through the fixing plate unit, is electrically connected to the plurality of PCBs, and is for inputting switching operation information to the plurality of PCBs by means of capacitive touch.
US10209794B2
The present disclosure provides a device for touch-sensing. The device includes a touch surface configured to receive a touch by an object; a measuring portion configured to measure a blood oxygen level of the object; and a control portion configured to calculate a level of pressing force corresponding to the blood oxygen level.
US10209790B2
A remote control apparatus is disclosed. The remote control apparatus includes: a motion detecting sensor for detecting a motion on the remote control apparatus; a touch sensor for detecting a touch input on the remote control apparatus; and a controller for controlling an external apparatus by selectively using a sensing value of the touch sensor and a sensing value of the motion detecting sensor according to whether the touch input corresponds to a touch input for controlling the external apparatus.
US10209789B2
In some examples, a computing device may authenticate a user. The user may pair a stylus with the computing device. The stylus may include one or more buttons. After the user performs a first sequence of button presses using the buttons of the stylus, the computing device may receive a first instruction that causes the computing device to begin execution of an application. The application may receive input in response to the user manipulating the stylus on a touchscreen of the computing device. After the user performs a second sequence of button presses using the buttons of the stylus, the computing device may receive a second instruction that causes the computing device to save the input. The computing device may provide the user with access to the saved input in accordance with an access level associated with the stylus.
US10209788B2
A touch processor is provided by the present application. The touch processor detects the intensity of a third electrical signal, wherein a touch device induces a second electrical signal due to a first electrical signal, and the third electrical signal of the second electrical signal is transmitted from the touch device to an approached or touched object. Then, according to the intensity of the second electrical signal and the third electrical signal, the touch processor determines if there is a transmitter hovering on the touch device or not.
US10209786B2
An imaging section receives, as detection light, the components within a wavelength band different from the wavelength band contained in projection light (image light) that is light containing a visible wavelength band. As a result, even when the detection light and the projection light are each formed of light containing a visible wavelength band, the imaging section can reliably distinguish the detection light from the projection light and therefore detect only the detection light.
US10209776B2
Embodiments generate haptic effects on a device that is grasped by a user on a first side having a corresponding first haptic output device and on a second side having a corresponding second haptic output device. Embodiments receive a first haptic effect channel and receive a second haptic effect channel. Embodiments determine that the first side is more tightly grasped by the user than the second side. Embodiments then, based on the determining, assign the first haptic effect channel to the first haptic output device and assign the second haptic effect channel to the second haptic output device.
US10209773B2
The present specification describes methods and systems for modifying a media, such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, or Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MxR) media based on a vision profile and a target application. In embodiments of the specification, a Sensory Data Exchange (SDE) is created that enables identification of various vision profiles for users and user groups. The SDE may be utilized to modify one or more media in accordance with each type of user and/or user group.
US10209763B2
A method is described and in one embodiment includes, for each of a plurality of outgoing ports of a first network element: collecting data comprising a number of packets arriving the outgoing port and an amount of power consumed by the outgoing port for a first time interval; calculating a packet per watt (“P/W”) metric for the port for the first time interval, wherein the P/W metric comprises the number of packets coming into the port divided by the amount of power consumed by the port during the first time interval; repeating the collecting and calculating for a number of successive time intervals; calculating a mean P/W metric for a time period comprising the first time interval and the successive time intervals; and calculating a variance for the time period comprising the first time interval and the successive time intervals. The method further includes redirecting traffic received at the network element to the outgoing port having the lowest variance.
US10209756B2
An operating system including a voltage converter, a processing circuit, and a protector is provided. The voltage converter converts an input voltage according to a feedback voltage to generate an output voltage. The processing circuit is coupled to the voltage converter and processes the output voltage according to a control signal to generate the feedback voltage. The protector is coupled to the voltage converter and the processing circuit and activates or deactivates the voltage converter according to the feedback voltage.
US10209754B2
A communication apparatus comprises: a power supply; a communication unit configured to operate by using power from the power supply or a communication partner; an operation unit; a control unit configured to execute software for controlling processing of each unit of the communication apparatus, wherein the control unit starts processing to stop execution of the software if an operation to the operation unit is started while the control unit is executing the software; a power supply control unit configured to control power that is supplied to the control unit, in accordance with a state of as operation with respect to the operation unit; and a disabling unit configured to disable the communication unit, based on the state of the operation with respect to the operation unit and an execution state of the software.
US10209746B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a display panel configured to display an image; a first supporting plate positioned to support the display panel thereon, the first supporting plate being rotatable based on a first rotation axis extending in a first direction; a second supporting plate positioned to support the display panel thereon, the second supporting plate being rotatable based on a second rotation axis extending in the first direction so that the first and second supporting plates then face each other with the display panel folded therebetween; and a first tension application unit disposed at the first supporting plate and configured to apply tension to the display panel in a second direction crossing the first direction.
US10209745B2
An input device is described. The input device may include at least four key caps of a keyset and a keyboard cover surrounding the at least four key caps. Each key cap of the at least four key caps may be separated by at least one gap. The at least one gap may be between 0.075 mm and 0.525 mm. A method of manufacturing an input device is described. The method may include measuring at least four keycaps in a keyset. Each key cap of the at least four key caps may be separated on a side from a keyboard cover by a gap. The method may include cutting a substrate to fit between the at least four keycaps in the keyset such that the gap of each of the at least four keys is between 0.075 mm and 0.525 mm.
US10209744B2
A portable electronic device includes a body, a heat source, an evaporator, a pipe, and at least one structural component. An inner space of the body is divided into a first space and a second space. The heat source is disposed at the first space and in thermal contact with the evaporator. The pipe is connected with the evaporator to form a loop and passes through at least one of the first space and the second space. At least a portion of the pipe surrounds and is in thermal contact with the structural component disposed inside the body. A working fluid is filled and is circulated in the loop. By absorbing heat in the evaporator, the working fluid in liquid state is vaporized to exit the evaporator. While passing through the pipe, the working fluid in vapor state dissipates heat to be condensed into liquid and flow into the evaporator.
US10209743B1
A flexible display device includes a base support of structurally flexible, a flexible display which is supported by and bendable with the base support, and at least one positioning mechanism disposed leftward or rightward of the base support. The positioning mechanism includes two mounts which are mounted to two support plates of the base support, a plurality of hinge bodies which are structurally flexible with a support rib unit of the base support, and a leaf spring unit extending through inside of the hinge bodies to terminate at a first spring end secured in one of the mounts, and a second spring end which is releasably and frictionally engaged inside the other one of the mounts by virtue of a sliding block and a spring-loaded unit.
US10209732B2
A bandgap reference circuit includes a voltage reference circuit configured to generate a reference voltage at a first output and a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current source configured to generate a PTAT current reference at a second output. A divider circuit is coupled to the reference voltage and configured to generate a divided reference voltage at a third output of the bandgap reference circuit. The bandgap reference circuit further includes a tunable current source coupled to the divider circuit and configured to generate a tunable current reference at a fourth output of the bandgap reference circuit based, at least in part, on the divider circuit. A method of generating a tunable current with a bandgap circuit is also provided.
US10209719B2
A pool cleaning robot, a mobile computer, and a method for operating a pool cleaning robot, the method may include receiving, by the pool cleaning robot, demarcation information that defines pool zones and pool cleaning robot operational parameters related to the pool zones; wherein the demarcation information is generated by a mobile computer and under a control of a user; and performing a cleaning operation, by the pool cleaning robot, based on the demarcation information.
US10209713B1
A system may include sensor modules configured to generate sensor signals representative of an environment surrounding a vehicle, and a sensor configured to be coupled to the frame of the vehicle at a location spaced from a first sensor module and configured to generate sensor signals representative of movement of the first sensor module relative to a portion of the frame. The system may also include a sensor processor configured to receive the sensor signals representative of movement of the first sensor module and estimate relative motion of the first sensor module relative to the portion of the frame of the vehicle. The sensor processor may also be configured to calculate, based at least in part on the relative motion estimation, a position, orientation, and/or velocity of the vehicle, and a position of objects in the surrounding environment and/or movement of the objects in the surrounding environment.
US10209711B1
Systems and methods are provided herein for providing contention resolutions for components (e.g., mobile drive units, personnel devices) of an inventory system. For example, a method may comprise determining a task to be performed by a mobile drive unit within a storage facility. The MDU may be provided a set of commands related to the task. Conflict information may be received from the MDU that indicates an obstacle related to the set of commands and the task. An alternate set of commands may be generated for the MDU based at least in part on the conflict information and a computer-generated model. In at least one embodiment, the computer-generated model may be trained based at least in part on historical conflict information and conflict resolution information specific to tasks performed within the storage facility. The alternate set of commands related to the task may be provided to the MDU.
US10209699B2
A key switch on a machine control panel is provided with two contacts such that the machine control panel can include two independent communication circuits. Signals from a double-contact key switch are received by the two communication circuits, and safety-related signals are transmitted from the communication circuits to a numerical controller through a bus. The signals received by the numerical controller are compared with each other so that they can be made to comply with the safety standards by monitoring the integrity of the safety function.
US10209696B2
A control system, includes a master control device configured to control a first controlled object based on time information output from a first clock unit, and a slave control device connected to the master control device via a network and configured to control a second controlled object different from the first controlled object based on control information transmitted from the master control device and time information output from a second clock unit. The time information of the first clock unit and the time information of the second clock unit are time-synchronized.
US10209691B2
Nutritional substance systems and methods are disclosed enabling the tracking and communication of changes in nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values of nutritional substances, and further enabling the adaptive storage and adaptive conditioning of nutritional substances.
US10209686B2
Provided are a flight simulation and control method of a unmanned aerial vehicle with regenerative fuel cells and solar cells for high altitude long endurance, and a control apparatus thereof. The high altitude long endurance simulation method for an unmanned aerial vehicle based on regenerative fuel cells and solar cells includes: a variable inputting step of inputting design variables of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on regenerative fuel cells and solar cells; a modeling step of performing modeling of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on regenerative fuel cells and solar cells using the design variables input in the variable inputting step; and an analyzing step of analyzing a modeling result in the modeling step to perform a high altitude long endurance simulation while controlling any one of the design variables input in the variable inputting step.
US10209683B2
When a transition control section stochastically determines on the basis of a temperature, an energy change, and a random number whether to allow one of a plurality of state transitions according to a relative relationship between the energy change and a thermal excitation energy, the transition control section adds an offset to the energy change and exercises control so as to set the offset at a local minimum, at which an energy is locally minimized, to be larger than an offset at the time of the energy not being minimized.
US10209682B1
Embodiments are directed to an inventory system having one or more drive units that are used, in part, to measure traction of a surface. Traction of the surface may be one of many features that can help with the operation of drive units and may also help avoid collisions between drive units when little room is available between the drive units for navigational errors.
US10209680B2
A controller device for controlling multiple devices, where a controller and device are brought into near field communication distance of one another, the proximity of which is such that the controller and device communicate and initiate processes that establish control mechanisms between at least the controller and the respective device, wherein the controller and device each include: a processor for processing digital data; a digital data memory a portion of the memory including digital data usable by the processor to restrict access of the controller to none, one or more devices.
US10209672B2
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image forming unit, a heating unit, a fan, a guide, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a recording medium. The heating unit is disposed on a downstream side of the image forming unit in a transport direction of the recording medium. The heating unit is driven with at least two temperatures, a first temperature and a second temperature lower than the first temperature. The fan generates wind. The guide guides the wind generated from the fan to the heating unit. The control unit controls the fan and the guide when the control unit controls the heating unit by switching between driving the heating unit at the first temperature and at the second temperature.
US10209671B2
First intake and first exhaust fans provided in a first image forming apparatus and second intake and second exhaust fans provided in a second image forming apparatus having a slower normal image forming speed than the first image forming apparatus are configured with the same specifications, and the numbers of revolutions of the second intake and second exhaust fans are driven and controlled to become less than the numbers of revolutions of the first intake and first exhaust fans.
US10209669B2
A developer carrier includes a transmitting member that is rotatable and transmits a driving force; and a developer carrying member that carries developer and is provided coaxially with the transmitting member, the developer carrying member being rotatable when receiving the driving force from the transmitting member, the developer carrying member being displaceable with respect to the transmitting member in an intersecting direction that intersects an axial direction of the transmitting member.
US10209663B2
An image forming apparatus including: a printer; a puncher configured to punch the sheet printed by the printer; a binder configured to perform a bookbinding process to form a bound product in which a binding member penetrates punch holes of sheets; a first detector configured to detect a first jam of a sheet in the binder; a second detector configured to detect a second jam of a sheet which occurs upstream of the binder; an annunciator configured to notify information; and a controller configured to cause the annunciator to notify first instruction information for instructing removal of a sheet and the binding member, when the first detector has detected the first jam; and cause the annunciator to notify second instruction information for instructing removal of the second jam when the second detector has detected the second jam and the first detector has not detected the first jam.
US10209660B2
Provided is an image formation device for forming a toner image as an image to be printed on a sheet to transfer and fix the unfixed toner image onto the sheet, wherein a density adjustment setting of optionally adjusting a density of a printed image by a user is provided as a printing condition, and a toner increase mode for applying, to the sheet, more toner than that in a case of selecting a maximum density selectable in the density adjustment setting is provided as a printing mode.
US10209650B2
A fixation device includes: an endless belt member; a first roller arranged inside the belt member; a second roller arranged outside the belt member and biased toward the first roller via the belt member; and a pressure member is biased toward the second roller via the belt member. A facing surface of the pressure member that faces the second roller includes a first flat section and a second flat section that intersect at an intersecting portion. A first end portion of the first flat section on the opposite side to the intersecting portion, a second end portion of the second flat section on the opposite side to the intersecting portion, and the intersecting portion are on an imaginary arc in a cross-section. A radius R of the imaginary arc satisfies, with respect a radius Rp of the second roller, an inequality of “(1/2)×Rp≤R≤(19/20)×Rp”.
US10209641B2
A charging device has a charging member, a pair of bearing members, and a frame. The charging member makes contact with an image carrying member to electrostatically charge the surface of the image carrying member. The bearing members rotatably support both end parts of the rotary shaft of the charging member. The frame supports the bearing members movably in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction. The bearing members are arranged selectively at a first position where they are arranged to keep the charging member in contact with the image carrying member or at a second position where they are arranged to keep the charging member apart from the image carrying member. In the bearing members, a restricting portion is formed which, at the second position, makes contact with the inner face of the frame to restrict the movement of the charging member in the axial direction.
US10209633B2
The present invention provides a vibration control apparatus which controls vibration of an object supported via a support having a damping coefficient, the apparatus comprising a driving device configured to drive the object, and a controller configured to perform negative feedback control of the driving device based on information of vibration of the object, wherein the controller is configured to perform positive feedback control of the driving device based on information of a velocity of the object so as to reduce a force which the support causes to act on the object in accordance with the velocity.
US10209632B2
The embodiments of the disclosure relate to a proximity exposure device and an exposure method thereof. The proximity exposure device includes: a loading table; a holder mounted onto the loading table to hold a mask; a vacuum hood arranged above the mask to form a sealed space above the mask; and a pumping mechanism connected to the vacuum hood to pump air from the vacuum hood such that a negative pressure state is formed above the mask.
US10209630B2
A scanning probe nanolithography system comprising a probe to create nanostructures line (60) by line through writing said nanostructures (74) pixel by pixel along lines (61) on a sample. A positioning system is adapted to provide a positioning of the probe at a sequence of predetermined positions to the sample and its surface towards the probe and a control unit (50) is provided to control the positioning system for positioning the probe for a pixel-wise writing of said lines (61) through a writing unit. It further comprises a sensor unit adapted to detect a predetermined property of the written nanostructure (74), the sensor unit being connected to the control unit to adapt the control signals to be provided to the writing unit for writing the following line (61; 62) based on the measured signals (65; 66) of the predetermined property.
US10209624B2
A fluid handling structure for a lithographic apparatus is disclosed, the fluid handling structure successively has, at a boundary from a space configured to contain immersion fluid to a region external to the fluid handling structure: an elongate opening or a plurality of openings arranged in a first line that, in use, are directed towards a substrate and/or a substrate table configured to support the substrate; a gas knife device having an elongate aperture in a second line; and an elongate opening or a plurality of openings adjacent the gas knife device.
US10209622B2
An exposure method sequentially exposes a plurality of shot areas of a substrate. The method includes: (i) holding the substrate on a substrate holder such that a gap is formed along an edge of the substrate; (ii) exposing one of the shot areas, located near a center of the substrate, through a liquid of a liquid immersion area which covers only a portion of a surface of the substrate, while moving the substrate at a first scanning speed; and (iii) exposing an other one of the shot areas through the liquid of the liquid immersion area, while moving the substrate at a second scanning speed lower than the first scanning speed. The other one of the shot areas is located near the edge of the substrate and the gap is included in the liquid immersion area during the exposure of the other one of the shot areas.
US10209616B2
The present invention provides a mask plate, relating to a field of exposure technology, which can solve the problem of an existing mask plate that a resolution is limited by an effect of diffraction. The mask plate of the invention includes: a pattern structure, including a light blocking region and a light transmitting region; and a total reflection structure provided at an light-exiting side of the pattern structure, the total reflection structure including a high refraction layer and a first low refraction layer sequentially provided in a direction away from the pattern structure and contacting each other, wherein a refractive index of the high refraction layer is greater than a refractive index of the first low refraction layer.
US10209615B2
A method and an apparatus for determining near field images for optical lithography include receiving a thin mask image indicative of a photomask feature, in which the thin mask image is determined without considering a mask topography effect associated with the photomask feature, and determining a near field image from the thin mask image by a processor using an artificial neural network (ANN), in which the ANN uses the thin mask image as input. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory configured to store instructions executed by the processor to perform the method.
US10209612B2
A display system for ambient light discrimination comprising: a planar waveguide comprising a plurality of collocated optic fibers wherein, the planar waveguide is adapted to guide incident light within the incidence angle acceptance range and wherein the planar waveguide is adapted to guide light along a bias trajectory, wherein, in use, the display system is adapted for discriminating against incident light outside an incidence angle acceptance range.
US10209610B2
In a laser light source module, a light source disposed on a base with a temperature adjusting element therebetween is covered by an inner cover, and is hermetically sealed by an outer cover. A top plate of the inner cover divides the inside of the outer cover into upper and lower sections and covers the light source from above. Side plates cover the side portions of the light source. Partitioning grid plates are provided in a space between the top plate and the outer cover, the partitioning grid plates dividing the space into multiple spaces.
US10209600B2
An electrically conducting support for an electrochromic device and its manufacture; the electrically conducting support including, in this order: a substrate, an optional underlayer, a first inorganic layer on the optional underlayer or on the substrate, partially or completely structured in thickness with traversing holes or cavities, an electrode, made of metal grid with strands which exhibit, along their length, a rough central region between less rough lateral regions which are flush with the top surface, an electrically conducting coating made of inorganic material.
US10209599B2
A display panel, a display method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes an electrochromic layer (101) and an electrolyte layer (102) arranged in a stacked manner, and at least one kind of colored charged particles (103) being provided in the electrolyte layer (102). While the electrochromic layer (102) is transparent, the display panel displays color of the colored charged particles (103). The display panel may further display the color of the colored charged particles, which increases diversity of the colors displayed by the display panel.
US10209592B2
An active matrix substrate includes an insulating substrate in which light-transmitting areas and a light-shielding area are formed. The active matrix substrate further includes: a light-shielding film formed in the light-shielding area on the insulating substrate, with a transparent base material containing carbon particles, the light shielding film being colored with the carbon particles; an inorganic film formed on the light-shielding film; light-transmitting films formed in the light-transmitting areas on the insulating substrate, with a transparent base material containing transparent oxidized carbon particles; gate lines provided on the inorganic film; a gate insulating film provided on the gate lines; thin film transistors provided in matrix on the gate insulating film; and data lines provided on the light-shielding film to intersect with the gate lines. The data lines are electrically connected with the thin film transistors.
US10209585B2
A display panel includes a first base substrate, a gate line disposed on the first base substrate and extending in a first direction, a gate electrode electrically connected to the gate line, a thin film transistor including an active pattern which includes a source area, a drain area and a channel area overlapping the gate electrode, a common electrode disposed on the first base substrate, where a common voltage is applied to the common electrode, an auxiliary common electrode line electrically connected to the common electrode, and including an opaque metal, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor, and disposed on the common electrode to overlap the common electrode, and a cover electrode connected to the auxiliary common electrode line, and overlapping the channel area.
US10209584B2
A manufacturing method of a metal layer, a functional substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The manufacturing method of a metal layer includes: forming an insulating layer on a base substrate; forming an etching buffer layer on the insulating layer; patterning the etching buffer layer and the insulating layer to form a plurality of recessed microstructures in the insulating layer; stripping the etching buffer layer; and forming a metal layer on the insulating layer, a surface of the metal layer adjacent to the insulating layer is formed with a plurality of protruded portions which are filled into the plurality of recessed microstructures. The manufacturing method of a metal layer may form a metal layer with anti-reflection effect.
US10209572B2
A liquid crystal (LCD) panel is provided. The LCD panel has a plurality of pixels. One of the pixels includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first electrode layer and a first alignment layer covering the first electrode layer. The second substrate includes a second electrode layer and a second alignment layer covering the second electrode layer. The second electrode layer has a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern. The first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern are separated. The first electrode pattern has a convex edge. The second electrode pattern has a concave edge. The shape of the convex edge is complementary to the shape of the concave edge. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US10209568B2
A display panel and a display device, the display panel includes an array substrate; wherein the array substrate includes a common electrode, a first insulation layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes and an alignment layer; the common electrode, first insulation layer, plurality of pixel electrodes and alignment layer are successively arranged; at least one first through hole is defined in the first insulation layer, and the alignment layer contacts with the common electrode via the at least one first through hole. By arranging in such a manner, although a thin-film transistor stays in a turn-on state for an extremely short time, however, since the common electrode is always in a conductive state, so that the electrostatic charge remaining on the alignment layer can be conducted away by the common electrode, thereby reducing the electrostatic charge remaining on the alignment layer, and thus improving display quality of display panel.
US10209563B2
A non-black dead front display assembly includes a display frame, a backlight system supported by the frame, the backlight system configured to generate backlight rays, a light mask disposed on the backlight system, a light mask disposed on the backlight system, the light mask configured to transmit or to block the backlight rays in response to a control signal, and a film positioned over the light mask, the film configured to reflect ambient light rays and to scatter the backlight rays transmitted through the light mask, the scattered backlight rays causing a first portion of the film to glow while a second portion of the film appears non-glowing.
US10209559B2
A device for dismantling a liquid crystal display includes a carrier platform, a dismantling bracket, a dividing piece and a driving component; the carrier platform includes a carrying surface for supporting the liquid crystal display to be dismantled thereon, and the liquid crystal display to be dismantled includes a display panel and a backlight unit bonded to each other; the dividing piece is located above the carrier platform and mounted onto the dismantling bracket; the dividing piece is capable of being driven by the driving component so as to move in a first direction and into a slit between the display panel and the backlight unit; and the first direction intersects with an extending direction of the dividing piece. The dismantling device for liquid crystal display can solve the problem that the display panel and the backlight unit are difficult to be dismantled.
US10209558B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, an active layer, and a first polarization structure. The active layer is disposed on the base substrate; the first polarization structure is disposed on a side of the active layer facing the base substrate, and an orthographic projection of the first polarization structure on the base substrate is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of the active layer on the base substrate.
US10209547B2
There are provided an apparatus and a method of manufacturing the apparatus. The apparatus includes: a plate-shaped base; a cover plate; and a curable resin adhering the plate-shaped base and the cover plate together. At least one of the plate-shaped base and the cover plate includes a light-shielding member covering a peripheral part of the at least one of the plate-shaped base and the cover plate. In an area which is shielded by the light-shielding member, a part of the curable resin at a side of an inner edge of the light shielding member is lower in one of an elastic modulus, a curing degree, and an adhesion strength than another part of the curable resin at a side of an outer edge of the light shielding member.
US10209545B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device, which includes a liquid crystal display panel (2) and a backlight module (1) arranged on an undersurface of the liquid crystal display panel (2). A first flexible circuit board (20) and a second flexible circuit board (15) are electrically connected together and height-constraint components (22) of a liquid crystal display panel drive circuit and a backlight source drive circuit are collectively arranged on the second flexible circuit board (15). A mold frame (11) of the backlight module (2) is provided with accommodation holes (111) formed therein to receive and accommodates the height-constraint components (22) so as to effectively reduce the thickness of the liquid crystal display device and improve product competition power.
US10209538B2
An active, transparency-controlled window comprises at least one layer of a material that is transparent to at least selected wavelengths of light; at least one layer of photochromic material having a transparency, to the at least selected wavelengths of light, that can be controllably altered by an activating light; and a controllable source of light that activates the photochromic material to controllably alter the transparency of the photochromic material to the at least selected wavelengths of light. The material that is transparent to at least selected wavelengths of light may be a material selected from the group consisting of glass and plastic.
US10209534B2
A molded contact lens comprising a stiffer optic zone relative to the peripheral zone of the contact lens provides an optical element for correcting astigmatism without the need for or substantially minimizing the need for the correction of rotational misalignment. The higher elastic modulus optic zone vaults over the cornea thereby allowing a tear lens to form. The tear lens follows or assumes the shape of the back surface of the contact lens. The combination of the tear lens and the optical zone provide an optical element for correction of refractive error.
US10209524B2
Technology is provided for a facial interface assembly for use with a head mounted display. The facial interface assembly includes a contoured spacer frame and an interchangeable face gasket removably attached to the contoured spacer frame. The contoured spacer frame includes a forehead interface portion, a pair of cheek interface portions, a bridge portion extending between the pair of cheek interface portions, and one or more attachment tabs configured to mate with a housing of the head mounted display. The face gasket includes a high-density foam layer, a low-density foam layer, and a fabric layer.
US10209508B1
A display device includes a first support plate and a second support plate. A pixel region between the first support plate and the second support plate includes a plurality of pixel wall portions over the first support plate forming a perimeter of the pixel region. A first liquid and a second liquid that is immiscible with the first liquid are disposed in the pixel region. A light-blocking portion is disposed on an inner surface of the second support plate and over a first pixel wall portion of the plurality of pixel wall portions. A recessed region is aligned with the light-blocking portion. An electrically conductive layer is disposed within the recessed region and disposed on a portion of the light-blocking portion. The electrically conductive layer has a first surface contacting the second liquid.
US10209505B2
The invention relates to an optical device for measuring the position of an object along a first axis, the object being subjected to light radiations emitted by a light source. The optical device comprises: an imaging system comprising an objective for collecting light radiations diffused by the object, the imaging system having an optical axis extending parallel to the first axis; a transmission mask having at least a first aperture and a second aperture, the first aperture and second aperture being spaced from each other along a second axis, perpendicular to the first axis, the transmission mask being arranged so as to let a first part of the radiations and a second part of the radiations which are diffused by the object pass through the first aperture and the second aperture respectively, while blocking a part of the radiations emitted by the light source which is not diffused by the object; and a detector adapted for generating an image including a first spot and a second spot representative of the first part and second part of the radiations impacting the detector plane, wherein variation of the position of the object relative to the object plane of the imaging system along the first axis causes variation of a position of the first spot and of the second spot relative to each other along the second axis.
US10209503B2
Disclosed are a fluorescence microscope light source apparatus and a fluorescence microscope capable of obtaining high-luminance light in a wavelength of 500 to 550 nm and having reduced background noise when a sample is observed. The fluorescence microscope light source apparatus to be installed in a fluorescence microscope including an illumination light bandpass filter includes: a laser diode that emits blue light as excitation light; a phosphor that converts the excitation light from the laser diode into illumination fluorescence with a wavelength region of 500 to 550 nm; an optical system that extracts the illumination fluorescence from the phosphor; a first condenser lens that condenses the excitation light onto the phosphor; a light guide body having one end face on which the illumination fluorescence is incident and the other end face from which the illumination fluorescence exits; and a second condenser lens that condenses the illumination fluorescence onto the one end face of the light guide body. A band-elimination filter that blocks or attenuates light, out of the illumination fluorescence, in a wavelength region including a transmission maximum wavelength and including no transmission minimum wavelength in the illumination light bandpass filter is provided on a light path of the illumination fluorescence.
US10209498B2
A first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a front-side lens group (GX), an intermediate lens group (GM) having positive refractive power, and a rear-side lens group (GR) are arranged in order from an object side. The front-side lens group (GX) is composed of one or more lens groups and has a negative lens group At least part of the intermediate lens group (GM) is a focusing lens group (GF). The rear-side lens group (GR) is composed of one or more lens groups. Upon zooming, the first lens group (G1) is moved with respect to an image surface, a distance between the first lens group (G1) and the front-side lens group (GX) is changed, a distance between the front-side lens group (GX) and the intermediate lens group (GM) is changed, and a distance between the intermediate lens group (GM) and the rear-side lens group (GR) is changed.
US10209493B2
An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a positive first lens, a positive second lens, and a negative third lens. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is formed in a shape so that surfaces thereof on the object and image plane sides have positive curvature radii. The fifth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the object side has a positive curvature radius. The sixth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the object side and a surface thereof on the image plane side are aspheric. The first to third lenses are arranged specifically and have specific Abbe's numbers.
US10209492B1
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of glass material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10209485B2
There is provided an imaging lens which is low-profile, has a small f-value, and obtains wide field of view which aberrations are properly corrected, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface on an object side near an optical axis, a second lens having negative refractive power and a concave surface on the object side near the optical axis, a third lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface on the image side as a double-sided aspheric lens and a fourth lens having negative refractive power and a concave surface on an image side near the optical axis as a double-sided aspheric lens, wherein a conditional expression (1) below is satisfied: 8.5
US10209484B2
A photographing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element having positive refractive power has an image-side surface being concave, and an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface being concave, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric. The photographing lens system further includes an aperture stop, and no lens elements are disposed between the aperture stop and the first lens element. The photographing lens system has a total of four lens elements.
US10209483B2
An objective arrangement includes an outer holder, and optical elements held therein, in an inner holder. A rotor is configured as a cylinder element forming a circumferential groove, having permanent-magnet elements disposed on at least one inner wall surface. A stator consists of a cylindrical coil, which inserted into the groove, locally fixed in the axial direction, for an electromagnetic interaction with the magnet elements, coaxially to the axis of rotation of a curved support. The curved support is arranged separate from the outer holder and the inner holder.
US10209479B2
A lens driving device having a leaf spring; a suspension wire, having one end thereof joined to the leaf spring; a supporting plate to which the other end portion of the suspension wire is joined; a lens retaining portion that is supported by the leaf spring and the suspension wire; and a driving portion for driving the lens retaining portion in a direction that is perpendicular to the optical axial direction of the lens. The leaf spring and/or the supporting plate is joined to the suspending wire through a joining material that is provided on a primary face, where the wettability of the primary face in respect to the joining material is greater than the wettability, in respect to the joining material, of the face on the opposite side from the primary face.
US10209477B1
A micro-optics assembly and a method for assembling the micro-optics assembly are provided. The micro-optics assembly may include an optical bench having an opening, a cylindrical body disposed in the opening and having a solder well, a heating element thermally coupled to the solder well, and an optical element. The optical element may include a frame having a post and a micro-optic mounted in the frame. The post may be secured in a solid solder material disposed within the solder well in the cylindrical body. The solder may be reflowable such that the micro-optics assembly is reconfigurable without the need for optical realignment components permanently mounted to the optical bench.
US10209476B2
A surface-mounted fiber segment includes at least one bare optical fiber glass segment disposed onto a receiving surface, and an adhesive material applied to the at least one bare optical fiber glass segment. The adhesive material substantially encapsulates the at least one bare optical fiber glass segment and adheres the at least one bare optical fiber glass segment onto the receiving surface.
US10209473B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical termination enclosure having an enclosure housing containing a fiber management assembly. The enclosure housing can define sealed cable ports and can include cable anchor mounting locations in alignment with the cable ports. Cable anchoring and grounding units can be attached at the cable anchor mounting locations. The fiber management assembly can include a fiber break-out arrangement including a resilient grommet used to anchor a protective tube that carries optical fibers from the cable anchor mounting location to the fiber management assembly.
US10209472B2
An example exit structure for a cable routing system includes: a fitting configured to be coupled to a lateral trough, the fitting including first and second arms extending perpendicularly with respect to a longitudinal direction; a plate positioned relative to the fitting, wherein the plate is configured to slide relative to the fitting to adjust a distance the plate extends perpendicularly from a base of the lateral trough; and an exit component coupled to the plate, the exit component defining a surface directing a fiber optic cable out of the exit structure.
US10209467B2
An active optical adapter plate comprises a main body, the main body comprises at least a through hole and at least a photoelectric detection area, the through hole is disposed on an end face of the main body and configured to insert an optical fiber to provide an optical path for an emission light of a laser; the photoelectric detection area is disposed on the end face of the main body having the through hole, and comprises a photoelectric detector used for detecting a reflected light of the emission light of the laser and converting the detected reflected light into an electrical signal.
US10209456B2
A cap apparatus is mounted to a fiber optic connector having a ferrule supporting optical fiber(s). A sealing apparatus is cooperatively configured with the cap apparatus for protecting an end face of the ferrule. The cap apparatus includes a body having opposite ends between which a cavity extends. The opposite ends of the body respectively define first and second openings to the cavity. A portion of the fiber optic connector extends through the first opening and into the cavity. The cap apparatus includes a cover mounted to the body and at least partially obstructing the second opening, wherein the end face of the ferrule is positioned within the cavity at a location spaced from the cover. The sealing apparatus is positioned between at least a portion of the cover and the end face of the ferrule.
US10209453B1
A water-cooled package of an optical fiber head comprising a delivery optical fiber (DOF), a front optical end cap (OEC), a rear OEC, a glass ferrule, and a housing operates for delivering the laser light from DOF to free space. The rear OEC is fusion-spiced with a section of DOF with a cladding exposed whereas the section of DOF is enclosed in a bore of the glass ferrule. When the glass ferrule is connected and sealed between the front OEC and the rear OEC, cooling water in the water-cooled package is prevented from immersing the section of DOF to maintain reliability of DOF. It is, therefore, not needed to bond the section of DOF in a bore of the front OEC to be waterproof, minimizing varying stress-induced speckle patterns and ultimately maintaining beam quality of the laser light exiting from DOF to free space.
US10209451B2
A waveguide coupler has a compression region and an expansion region for coupling light between a silicon waveguide and an optical fiber. The compression region receives light from the silicon waveguide and compresses an optical mode of the light. Light is transmitted from the compression region to an expansion region. The expansion region expands the light to have a larger cross section. Light is then transmitted to the optical fiber.
US10209448B2
An integrated non-reciprocal polarization rotator comprises a substrate, a Faraday crystal, a first waveguide, and a second waveguide. The substrate has a recess extending to a predetermined depth. The Faraday crystal is mounted in the recess and optically coupled with the first waveguide and the second waveguide.
US10209444B2
An arrayed waveguide grating includes an input/output waveguide 1, an input/output waveguide 2, a slab waveguide, an arrayed waveguide 1, a reflection zone 1, an arrayed waveguide 2, and a reflection zone 2. The input/output waveguide 1 and the input/output waveguide 2 are located on a same side of the slab waveguide, and are coupled to the slab waveguide. The reflection zone 1 is configured to reflect a light wave in a first band, and to transmit a light wave in a second band. The reflection zone 2 is configured to reflect the light wave in the second band. It is implemented that a single arrayed waveguide grating outputs light waves with different adjacent channel wavelength spacings, and a quantity of devices used in a system in which an uplink adjacent channel wavelength spacing and a downlink adjacent channel wavelength spacing are asymmetrical is further reduced.
US10209441B2
In an FOP 1, a glass body 8 is configured by including antimicrobial glass portions 10 made of antimicrobial glass containing Ag2O. Here, the glass containing silver does not have chemical durability, so that it has properties to easily emit Ag ions due to moisture. Ag ions have an excellent antimicrobial effect. Therefore, by configuring the glass body 8 to include the antimicrobial glass portions 10 containing Ag2O, the glass body 8 can obtain a sterilization effect due to the action of Ag ions. Therefore, the FOP 1 can be provided with antimicrobial activities.
US10209438B2
An endoscope, exoscope or microscope, including an optical fiber bundle for transmitting light from the proximal end to the distal end, the optical fiber bundle showing a contiguous bundle at the proximal end and a plurality of partial bundles or else individual fibers at the distal end. Furthermore, it shows a light source for coupling light into the one proximal end of the optical fiber bundle and including a multiplicity of individually actuatable individual-light sources arranged in an array-like manner, and a control unit for actuating the individual-light sources using an assignment function which represents the assignment of a proximal fiber end to a partial bundle. Here, the proximal ends of the fibers which are assigned to one partial bundle are arranged on a surface in such a way that proximal ends of fibers assigned to a different partial bundle are arranged therebetween.
US10209428B2
A lighting device includes an annular light source including light sources arranged in a circular pattern, a light guide plate having a round shape in a plan view, and a case holding the annular light source and the light guide plate. The light guide plate is disposed inside the annular light source. The light guide plate includes light entering portions, circumferentially aligned portions, and a light emitting portion. The light entering portions are opposed to the light sources. Each circumferentially aligned portion is between the adjacent light entering portions. A dimension of the circumferentially aligned portion in the radial direction is larger than a dimension of the light entering portion in the radial direction. The circumferentially aligned portions are aligned with the light sources in the circumferential direction and configured to contact the light sources when the light guide plate is rotated in the circumferential direction.
US10209420B2
Provided are a polarizing plate having high transmittance characteristics and excellent controllability of reflectance characteristics, a method of manufacturing the polarizing plate, and an optical apparatus including the polarizing plate. A polarizing plate having a wire grid structure includes a transparent substrate and grid-shaped protrusions that are arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a use band and extend in a predetermined direction, the grid-shaped protrusion includes, in order from the transparent substrate side, a reflection layer, a dielectric layer, and an absorption layer, a width of the reflection layer is smaller than a width of the dielectric layer, and a grid tip formed at a tip of the grid-shaped protrusion has a tapered shape where a side face thereof is inclined in such a direction that a width thereof is decreased toward a tip side when viewed from the predetermined direction.
US10209419B2
The disclosure is directed to broadband, glass optical polarizers and to methods for making the glass optical polarizers. The glass optical polarizer includes a substantially bubble free fusion drawn glass having two pristine glass surfaces and a plurality of elongated zero valent metallic particle polarizing layers.
US10209415B2
A dielectric mirror is provided that, on the one hand exhibits a high destruction threshold when being irradiated with ultrashort high-power laser pulses, and on the other hand has a large bandwidth of group delay dispersion. The dielectric mirror includes a layer stack with a sequence of layers having different refractive indices, which act as a reflecting interference filter, wherein the layers are formed of at least three different materials exhibiting different destruction thresholds.
US10209412B2
The display headset for presenting an image to a user includes an electronic display and an optics block. The electronic display emits image light associated with the image toward an exit pupil corresponding to a location of an eye of the user. The optics block directs the image light from the electronic display to the exit pupil. The optics block includes a first diffractive optical element between the exit pupil and the electronic display, a second diffractive optical element between the first diffractive optical element and the exit pupil, a first protective layer on the first diffractive optical element to protect the first diffractive optical element, and a second protective layer on the second diffractive optical element to protect the second diffractive optical element. The first protective layer and the second protective layer compensate for a variation in a diffraction efficiency at different wavelengths and incident angles of the light.
US10209408B2
The invention provides an optical component, an infrared camera including the optical component, and a method for manufacturing the optical component. Antireflection materials 3A are formed on a chalcogenide glass 2 of which a compositional ratio of germanium and selenium is 60 percent or greater. With respect to the antireflection materials 3A, an extinction coefficient to light of 10.5 μm is 0.01 or less, and a refractive index to light having a wavelength of 10.5 μm are greater than 1 and 2.6 or less. The antireflection materials 3A are formed on a surface of a chalcogenide glass 2 at an interval of 0.5 μm to 2.0 μm, so as to form an antireflection film 3. Adhesiveness of the antireflection film 3 is higher than that In a case where the surface of the chalcogenide glass 2 is evenly coated with the antireflection materials 3A.
US10209402B2
A method, apparatus, and program product utilize a generalized grid cell pinchout operation to remove small cells from a reservoir simulation grid, e.g., prior to running a reservoir simulation. The generalized grid cell pinchout operation may utilize a connectivity matrix representing transmissibilities of one or more “pinch” cells to be removed as well as that of “background” cells that neighbor the pinch cells. Removal of the pinch cells includes determining a Schur complement of the connectivity matrix to generate a reduced connectivity matrix from the connectivity matrix.
US10209397B2
A device for detecting objects in a monitoring range is described, comprising a sensor and an emitter, wherein the emitter includes the following components: a housing, a radiation source for emission of electromagnetic rays and a radiation-conducting device, which is designed to conduct the rays on their path from the radiation source to the point of exit from the emitter, wherein the radiation-conducting device has a focusing element for focusing the rays. The radiation-conducting device is designed to deflect the rays on their path from the radiation source to the point of exit from the emitter by two reflections.
US10209395B2
A method for cement evaluation may include generating a gamma ray, from a radioactive source, into cement disposed between a casing and a geological formation. Photons reflected from the geological formation and the cement are detected on a gamma detector having a collimator. A detector-to-source distance, a collimator angle, and/or a collimator diameter are set to provide an energy spectra independent of the geological formation. The quality of the cement may be determined based on the energy spectra of the detected photons.
US10209394B2
A method for determining a material in an annulus between two objects disposed in a borehole includes positioning logging tools in the borehole, each of the logging tools being oriented at a different angle. The method also includes measuring a property of the material in the annulus using the logging tools and determining the material in the annulus based on the measured property.
US10209391B2
A method for estimating one or more properties as a function of depth of an earth formation penetrated by a borehole includes: receiving nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging data having NMR echo trains as a function of depth in the borehole; receiving non-NMR logging data having non-NMR measurement values for one or more types of non-NMR measurements as a function of depth in the borehole; generating an evolution matrix (E) representing a mathematical relationship between the one or more properties in property matrix (P) to be estimated and the NMR logging data and non-NMR logging data matrix (M); generating a matrix equation of the form M=E·P; and inverting the matrix equation to estimate the one or more properties as a function of depth.
US10209390B2
An apparatus includes a helical flow tube in a formation testing tool. A current injector injects an electromagnetic current into the flow tube. A receiver coil is positioned to produce a receiver coil signal in response to the electromagnetic current. A processor is coupled to the receiver coil to calculate a conductivity of a fluid flowing through the flow tube based on the receiver coil signal.
US10209381B2
Systems and methods for wireless data acquisition in seismic monitoring systems are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a signal table for an emitted seismic signal, receiving seismic signal data from a receiver configured to transform seismic signals into seismic signal data, and storing the seismic signal data on a storage system. The method also includes determining a time span for the seismic signal data and generating a reduced data set based on the seismic signal data, the signal table, and the time span.
US10209375B2
An X-ray data processing apparatus for processing X-ray data that is obtained by simultaneously measuring X-rays of multiple wavelengths. The apparatus includes a management unit 210 to receive and manage X-ray data that is detected by a detector, a calculation unit 230 which calculates a detection amount of charge sharing events in lower energy side data caused by higher energy X-ray, based on the higher energy side data obtained using a threshold value on a higher energy side and the lower energy side data obtained using a threshold value on a lower energy side of the received X-ray data, and a correction unit 250 to reconfigure the lower energy side data using the calculated detection amount. The apparatus can remove a residual image of an X-ray on a higher energy side which remains in data on a lower energy side.
US10209372B2
Methods for discriminating among x-ray beams of distinct energy content. A first volume of scintillation medium converts energy of incident penetrating radiation into scintillation light which is extracted from a scintillation light extraction region by a plurality of optical waveguides that convert the scintillation light to light of a longer wavelength. An x-ray beam initially incident upon the first volume of scintillation medium and traversing the first volume is then incident on a second volume of scintillation medium. The first and second scintillation media may be separated by an absorber or one or more further volumes of scintillation medium, and may also have differential spectral sensitivities. Scintillation light from the first and second scintillation volumes is detected in respective detectors and processed to yield a measure of respective low energy and high-energy components of the incident x-ray beam.
US10209366B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication method by a terminal in a wireless communication system includes transmitting, to a base station, a first message including assistance information associated with a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) for the V2X communication, receiving, from the base station, a second message including SPS configuration information for the V2X communication, receiving, from the base station, a third message including downlink control information (DCI) associated with activation of the SPS for the V2X communication, and transmitting, to another terminal, data based on the SPS configuration information and the DCI.
US10209365B2
Biometric monitoring devices, including various technologies that may be implemented in such devices, are discussed herein. Additionally, techniques, systems, and apparatuses are discussed herein for providing power-conserving techniques and systems for efficiently utilizing a GPS receiver are described. The positional fix frequency of the GPS receiver may, according to some implementations, be modified or adjusted between various levels according to data from one or more non-GPS sensors. Such non-GPS sensors may include, for example, ambient light intensity or spectrum sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, heart rate sensors, galvanic skin response sensors, infrared sensors, etc.
US10209356B2
An image of a region of interest (ROI) is generated by a radar system including a set of one or more antennas. The radar system has unknown position perturbations. Pulses are transmitted, as a source signal, to the ROI using the set of antennas at different positions and echoes are received, as a reflected signal, by the set of antennas at the different positions. The reflected signal is deconvolved with the source signal to produce deconvolved data. The deconvolved data are compensated according a coherence between the reflected signal to produce compensated data. Then, a procedure is applied to the compensated data to produce reconstructed data, which are used to reconstruct auto focused images.
US10209347B2
Radar testing systems with radar system rotational systems and methods for using the radar testing systems are disclosed. A radar testing system includes a radar system to be tested, a computer, and a radar simulator. A radar sensor rotation system mechanically coupled to a radar sensor of the radar system is communicatively coupled to the computer and configured to rotate the radar sensor to predefined and desired angles for predetermined amounts of time during testing of the radar system.
US10209329B2
An NMR analysis device, method and probe, including a frame, a sample-holder (12) comprising a rotor (31), suitable for receiving a sample of material (15) to be analyzed, a bearing (13) for rotationally guiding the sample-holder (12) relative to the frame, a turbine (14) kinematically linked with the rotor, the turbine having a geometry such that it allows an isentropic expansion of a third fluid (M3) which passes through it, and a fourth element for channeling (24, 23) a fourth gaseous flow (M4) of fluid downstream of the expansion turbine (14) or for channeling a sixth gaseous flow (M6) of fluid downstream of the rotor (31) and stator (30) of the sample-holder (12).
US10209324B2
A pressurizable holder for a sample to be examined by NMR, comprises a pressure retaining nonmagnetic tube surrounding a radio-frequency coil which in turn surrounds a space for the sample. The pressure retaining tube is formed of (i) nonmetallic electrically insulating material such as a ceramic or (ii) nonmetallic electrically insulating matrix material reinforced with electrically insulating filaments such as glass fiber, or (iii) non-metallic electrically insulating matrix material reinforced with electrically conductive filaments configured so that conductivity is anisotropic. There is good coil filling factor without constraint on wall thickness of the pressure retaining tube. Avoidance of isotropically conductive material inhibits eddy currents when an NMR spectrometer's magnetic field gradient coils are switched on and off. The tube resists hoop stress from internal pressure. Longitudinal stress is resisted by structure connecting end pieces at the ends of the pressure retaining tube.
US10209317B2
A battery monitoring device includes: a current detection unit that detects an electric current flowing through a battery; a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage between both ends of the battery; a temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of the battery; an internal resistance increase rate calculation unit that calculates the internal resistance increase rate of the battery based on the detected electric current, voltage between the both ends, and temperature; and a calculation invalid time setting unit that sets a predetermined calculation invalid time according to the characteristics of the internal resistance increase rate. The calculation results of the internal resistance increase rate is invalidated for an invalid period from the start of charging or discharging of the battery to the lapse of the calculation invalid time.
US10209316B2
A method for dynamically monitoring a capacity of a battery includes estimating a first voltage threshold of the battery that is being discharged, wherein the first voltage threshold corresponds to a low capacity of the battery, and measuring a present voltage and a present current of the discharging battery. The method further includes re-scaling the present current based on the estimated first voltage threshold and the measured present voltage of the discharging battery, and calculating, based on re-scaling the measured present current, the battery's capacity before the present voltage level decreases below the first voltage threshold.
US10209314B2
Systems and computer-implemented methods are used for analyzing battery information. The battery information may be acquired from both passive data acquisition and active data acquisition. Active data may be used for feature extraction and parameter identification responsive to the input data relative to an electrical equivalent circuit model to develop geometric-based parameters and optimization-based parameters. These parameters can be combined with a decision fusion algorithm to develop internal battery parameters. Analysis processes including particle filter analysis, neural network analysis, and auto regressive moving average analysis can be used to analyze the internal battery parameters and develop battery health metrics. Additional decision fusion algorithms can be used to combine the internal battery parameters and the battery health metrics to develop state-of-health estimations, state-of-charge estimations, remaining-useful-life predictions, and end-of-life predictions for the battery.
US10209311B2
A circuit for monitoring a switching state of a mechanical switch is provided that includes a first mechanical switch configured to couple a high-voltage power storage device to a load, a measuring device that measures a voltage characteristic at the first mechanical switch, the measuring device is being connected to the first mechanical switch via a first measuring resistor such that a voltage drop at the first mechanical switch is measurable over a period of time, an insulation-monitoring unit having a first switchable resistor that can be switched in during measuring such that a voltage divider formed by two or more insulation resistors (R_iso+, R_iso−) of the high-voltage power storage device is modified, and an evaluation device that compares the measured voltage characteristic at the first mechanical switch with a predefined threshold value so that the switching state of the first mechanical switch can be determined.
US10209303B2
A signal processing apparatus includes a recording unit, an operation unit, a processing unit and an abnormality detector. The recording unit records configuration data therein. The operation unit performs arithmetic and logical operations on an input signal and outputs an operation signal indicative of the result of the operations. The operation unit has a circuit configuration defined by the configuration data recorded in the recording unit. The processing unit acquires the operation signal outputted from the operation unit, produces an output signal based on the acquired operation signal and outputs the produced output signal. The abnormality detector detects an abnormality of the circuit configuration of the operation unit. Moreover, in the signal processing apparatus, the processing unit is configured to further acquire an abnormality detection result from the abnormality detector after the acquisition of the operation signal and output the output signal depending on the abnormality detection result.
US10209300B2
Methods and systems for manufacturing and analyzing interconnect structures in integrated circuit (IC) devices. The methods include forming an interconnect structure, such as a pillar, in an IC device. The pillar is analyzed using an opto-acoustic sensor to quantify physical characteristics used to determine whether the pillar satisfies predetermined quality criterion. The analysis includes capturing an opto-acoustic signal from the pillar and estimating optical parameters for a number of local maxima of the signal. A mode may then be fitted for each of the identified local maxima based on the optical characteristics. The modes and estimated optical parameters may then be iteratively corrected in an order from strongest to weakest local maximum. The corrected values may then be compared to a predicted physical model to identify the physical characteristics of the pillar. If the physical characteristics fall outside of the quality criterion, manufacturing processes may be altered.
US10209299B2
Disclosed are a test apparatus and a testable asynchronous circuit. The test apparatus includes: a first input end, a second input end, a third input end, a fourth input end, a fifth input end, a first selector, a second selector, a D flip-flop, and a first output end. The first input end is configured to input a data signal or a test result of a previous circuit under test; the second input end is configured to input a test excitation signal or a test result that is output by a previous test apparatus; the third input end is configured to input a clock signal; the fourth input end is configured to input a selection signal; and the fifth input end is configured to input a selection signal.
US10209294B2
A method for producing an arc detection signal on the basis of a plurality of observation signals comprises producing an arc detection part-signal for each of at least two observation signals. Producing each of the part-signals includes correlating the respective observation signal with a correlation signal by influencing the correlation signal with the respective observation, thereby producing a correlation result; producing or modifying a coefficient on the basis of the correlation result; and weighting the respective observation signal with the coefficient. The arc detection part-signals are added to form the arc detection signal.
US10209287B2
A quick-action leakage detection protection circuit with a regular self-checking function is provided. The quick-action leakage detection protection circuit may include a power input end, a power load end, a power user end, twin induction coils for detecting leakage current and low resistance failure, a control chip, a trip coil in which an iron core is disposed, a reset button, a self-checking chip, and a self-checking silicon controlled rectifier. The reset button may be linked with a main circuit switch, an analog path switch, and a normally-open self-checking path switch. The main circuit switch may include a pair of dynamic contact levers extended from the power load end, a first pair of static contact ends extended from the power input end passing through the twin induction coils, and a second pair of static contact ends extended from the power user end. In some embodiments, a first end of the trip coil may be connected to a live line end of the power input end and to the live line of the power load end via the first normally-closed switch. And, a second end of the trip coil may be connected to a neutral line end of the power load end via a second normally-closed switch.
US10209274B2
A pulsed-laser LADA system is provided, which utilizes temporal resolution to enhance spatial resolution. The system is capable of resolving CMOS pairs within the illumination spot using synchronization of laser pulses with the DUT clock. The system can be implemented using laser wavelength having photon energy above the silicon bandgap so as to perform single-photon LADA or wavelength having photon energy below the silicon bandgap so as to generate two-photon LADA. The timing of the laser pulses can be adjusted using two feedback loops tied to the clock signal of an ATE, or by adjusting the ATE's clock signal with reference to a fixed-pulse laser source.
US10209272B2
A testing device is disclosed. The testing device includes: a testing platform; an electromagnetic relay platform arranged opposite to the testing platform; and a plurality of probe assemblies disposed between the electromagnetic relay platform and the testing platform. Each of the probe assemblies includes an electromagnetic base and a probe mounted in a side of the electromagnetic base away from the electromagnetic relay platform. Each of the electromagnetic bases is attracted together with the electromagnetic relay platform under an electromagnetic attraction force when the electromagnetic relay platform is energized. The above testing device may be used for testing a variety of circuit boards, and has a relatively wide application.
US10209264B2
We disclose a method of using taggants to assess how and to what extent a drug in a drug composition that a user has consumed has decayed in response to storage conditions and time. The taggants may decay in response to environmental conditions which cause different drugs to lose their efficacy. These environmental conditions may include light, temperature, oxidation, moisture, and age. The taggants may be detected in biological samples, including urine and feces. By identifying the taggants, the drug composition and other information relating to the drug may be identified. Additionally, quantification of the different taggants may be used to determine whether the drug in the drug composition has been exposed to environmental conditions which may reduce its efficacy.
US10209259B2
Microfluidic devices and methods for analyzing glycan profiles of glycoproteins are provided. Some embodiments of the devices comprise a deglycosylation column for cleaving glycans, an optional cleaning column for removing proteins, a trapping column for enriching glycans, and a separation column for resolving glycans. The devices and methods significantly improve the speed and sensitivity of glycan analysis.
US10209257B2
The present invention relates to a method for detecting and/or quantifying human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) specific antibodies in a sample of a subject comprising the step of determining the presence and/or amount of antibodies binding to a) a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence AIVCTRPNNNTRKSIRIGPGQVFYT (SEQ ID No. 1), or b) a homolog having at least 70% identity with a peptide of a), or c) a fragment of a peptide of a) or b) consisting of 15 to 24 amino acid residues in said sample.
US10209255B2
Method for identifying a bacterial infection The present application concerns a method for identifying the nature of a bacterial infection from a peritoneal sample, in particular, whether it is a Gram-negative or Gram-positive infection, based upon the determination of one or more cellular and/or humoral markers in a sample.
US10209248B2
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.
US10209245B2
The invention relates to the field of flow cytometry and more particularly to a panel of antibody reagents conjugated to fluorescent compounds. Provided are reagent compositions, comprising at least eight distinct fluorochrome-conjugated antibodies comprising a set of at least there identification antibodies for the identification of a leukocyte population of interest and at least four characterization antibodies for further characterization and/or classification of said leukocyte population. Also provided are kits and methods related to the reagent compositions.
US10209240B2
This present invention provides rapid, reproducible, biomarker-based screening methods for the developmental toxicity testing of compounds. The methods are designed to identify the exposure level at which a test compound perturbs metabolism in a manner predictive of developmental toxicity. In particular, the perturbation of two metabolites, ornithine and cystine, is measured, wherein a ratio of the fold change in ornithine to the fold change in cystine of less than or equal to about 0.88 is indicative of the teratogenicity of a test compound.
US10209239B1
Biosensors are disclosed for detecting ligand binding at ectopic Olfactory Receptors. Methods of identifying novel ectopic Olfactory Receptors are also disclosed. Ligands for ectopic Olfactory Receptors are disclosed as well as methods for using these ligands to interact with ectopic Olfactory Receptors, including the use of such ligands in the treatment and/or mitigation of disease conditions.
US10209236B2
A cell analyzer system according to the present technology includes an image acquisition unit, a vibration information extraction unit, and a vibration characteristics calculation unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a cell image by capturing cells at elapsed time. The vibration information extraction unit extracts vibration information attributable to spontaneous membrane potential vibration of cells from the cell image. The vibration characteristics calculation unit calculates vibration characteristics of the vibration information from the vibration information.
US10209235B2
A crop loss level generator receives a crop loss sensor signal from a crop loss sensor and generates a crop loss metric indicative of a sensed crop loss level based on the crop loss sensor signal. A first crop loss display generator generates a first crop loss display element based on the crop loss metric and controls a display device to display the first crop loss display element relative to a target loss range indicator indicative of a target loss range. A historic crop loss display generator generates a historic crop loss display element, based on previously generated crop loss metrics, and controls the display device to display the historic crop loss display element relative to the target loss indicator and relative to the first crop loss display element.
US10209234B2
The present invention involves a multimodal sensor network for analyte detection. A first mode may involve low-power detection and a second mode may involve determining an analyte concentration and transmitting data associated with the analyte concentration. Specifically, the first mode may include establishing an analyte sensor network in a detection region, detecting an analyte in the detection region, and generating an electrical signal in response to the detecting the analyte. In response to the electrical signal exceeding a first threshold, the analyte detection system may operate in the second mode. The second mode may include requesting data associated with the one or more environmental conditions, determining an analyte concentration based on one or more environmental conditions transmitting data associated with the analyte concentration.
US10209232B2
A CO2 detection chamber includes a gas inlet and a gas outlet. A CO2 sensor is housed in the CO2 detection chamber, where the sensor includes a reversible and selective pH-sensitive nanocomposite sensor element for CO2 detection, and a hydrophobic surface. A flowmeter, a thermistor and a humidity sensor operate to read flow and compensate for humidity conditions. A light source is coupled to receive signals from the CO2 sensor and respond to color changes in the sensor by transducing the color change into a light intensity change. A photodiode receives signals from the light source and responds to light intensity changes by transducing the light intensity changes into electronic signals representing varying degrees of light intensity. Data representing CO2 measurements is transmitted for display to a mobile device.
US10209228B2
The invention is applied to an ultrasound inspection apparatus including an array probe such that wetting is substantially limited to an inspection surface of the work. The ultrasound inspection apparatus includes: a work holder that holds a work with an inspection surface thereof facing downward; an array probe that probes the work with an ultrasonic wave; a water tank in which the array probe is immersed in water; an arm that holds the array probe such that the array probe faces an underside of the inspection surface of the work; X-axial direction scanning means that horizontally scans the work, with a liquid surface coming into contact with the inspection surface of the work due to surface tension of a liquid stored in the water tank; and Y-axial direction scanning means that horizontally scans the array probe.
US10209222B2
A method for testing the integrity of a component in a measurement area of the component, using an instrument having a flexible part and a rigid end part following the flexible part and carrying an eddy current probe. The method comprises a selection step in which a template corresponding to the measurement area is selected, a shaping step in which the flexible part is shaped against the template thus selected, a positioning step, in which the instrument thus shaped is positioned so that the eddy current probe is placed in the measurement area, and a measurement step, in which a measurement is made via the eddy current probe which has been thus positioned.
US10209218B2
The disclosure features methods and systems for processing samples that include introducing a sample featuring one or more components in a first electrolyte solution into a separation channel of a fluidic device, applying an electrical potential difference across the sample to cause migration of at least one sample component toward an end of the separation channel, and adjusting at least one of a gas pressure in a reservoir comprising a second electrolyte solution, and a gas pressure external to an aperture positioned at the end of the separation channel, so that the gas pressure in the reservoir is greater than the gas pressure external to the aperture, and directing a flow of the second electrolyte solution in response to the gas pressures through the pumping channel and out of the aperture to discharge the at least one sample component through the aperture.
US10209212B2
According to various embodiments, a sensor arrangement for particle analysis may include: a base electrode configured to generate an electrical field for particle attraction; a support layer disposed over the base electrode; a sensor array disposed over the support layer and including or formed from a plurality of sensor elements, wherein each sensor element of the plurality of sensor elements is configured to generate or modify an electrical signal in response to a particle at least one of adsorbed to and approaching the sensor element; and an electrical contact structure may include or be formed from a plurality of contact lines, wherein each contact line of the plurality of contact lines is electrically connected to a respective sensor element of the plurality of sensor elements, such that each sensor element of the plurality of sensor elements is addressable via the contact structure.
US10209200B2
A high-speed, 3-D method and system for optically inspecting parts are provided. The system includes a part transfer subsystem including a transfer mechanism adapted to support a part at a loading station and transfer the supported part from the loading station to an inspection station at which the part has a predetermined position and orientation for inspection. The system also includes an illumination assembly to simultaneously illuminate an end surface of the part and a peripheral surface of the part. The system further includes a lens and detector assembly to form an optical image of the illuminated end surface and an optical image of the illuminated peripheral surface of the part and to detect the optical images. The system still further includes a processor to process the detected optical images to obtain an end view of the part and a 3-D panoramic view of the peripheral surface of the part.
US10209198B2
A particle sensing device and an air conditioner including a sensor has a sensing path through which air passes, a flow path housing which accommodates the sensor and guides air, and a flow path switching device to all air suctioned from the outside is guided to the sensing path, or some of the air suctioned from the outside and moving flows back in an obliquely upward direction and flows into the sensing path.
US10209186B2
A chemical sensor, methods of forming the same, and methods of performing chemical detection include a carbon nanotube test surface. A detector is configured to receive a signal from the carbon nanotube test surface responsive to illumination on the nanotube test surface. A matching module is configured to determine whether a chemical is present at the carbon nanotube test surface based on a comparison between the signal and a spectral profile of the chemical.
US10209182B2
The image-forming apparatus includes multiple developing units that form images using multiple color developers, an image carrier that, in color displacement detection, carries the developers transferred thereon at mutually different image-carrying positions, an optical sensor that projects a light to the image carrier and receives a reflected light from the image carrier, and an acquirer that acquires, in response to output from the optical sensor, passage times at which the developers on the image carrier respectively pass a detection position. The optical sensor receives a diffusively reflected light from a non-transferred area of the image carrier on which the developers are not transferred. The acquirer acquires the passage times of all the developers, in response to changes in the output from the optical sensor at an output level higher than that corresponding to a diffusively reflected light from the developers on the image carrier.
US10209181B2
A plant matter sensor comprising: one or more emitters configured to emit two or more vertically spaced signals toward a plant; and one or more receivers configured to receive two or more reflected signals from the plant.
US10209178B2
Biophotonic device for the point-of-care, real-time, non-invasive determination of parameters with diagnostic relevance, in particular an optical system for parameter characterization of an element of body fluid or tissue comprising an optical device which comprises: a light source for emitting light onto the element; and a spectrometer for recording the spectrum of light from the element, said light from the element being of transmittance, reflectance or Raman scattering of the emitted light by said element; the optical system further comprising a data processing module configured to: convert the recorded spectrum by a conversion matrix into a standardized spectrum, wherein said conversion matrix has been obtained by calibrating the optical system spectrum response against a spectrum reference; pre-process the converted spectrum; correlate, for parameter quantification, the converted pre-processed spectrum with pre-obtained spectral bands for each parameter; said spectrum being contained within uv-vis-nir wavelengths. Also methods of operating said system.
US10209172B2
The present invention relates to a viscosity measurement device. According to one aspect of the present invention, provided is a viscosity measurement device comprising: a housing which has an inlet port, an outlet port and a measurement space positioned between the inlet port and the outlet port; a magnetic body arranged in the measurement space; an electromagnet for moving the magnetic body; a position measurement part for measuring the position of the magnetic body; a flow rate measurement part for measuring the flow rate of fluid which flows in the measurement space; and a control part for measuring the viscosity of the fluid on the basis of the strength of a magnetic field generated by the electromagnet and the shear strain rate of the fluid which passes through the measurement space.
US10209167B2
The present invention provides a novel method of in vitro sample preparation for the analysis of proteins. In a first aspect, the present invention is a method comprising the separation and individual treatment of blood platelets and platelet-poor plasma obtained from a platelet-rich plasma sample. This allows for optimal treatment of both fractions and overcomes many of the problems associated with current methods. In a second aspect of the present invention the platelet sample preparation method can be implemented before a biochip based immunoassay for the detection of platelet proteins in combination with plasma proteins.
US10209165B2
The quality of staining histological specimens has an impact on the histological assessment of the specimen. One of the causes for variability in the accuracy is the variations in the staining of the specimens to be tested in the working laboratories. The present invention provides a method for assessing the staining quality in a working laboratory and providing a quantitative quality measure for the staining quality. Thereby, it is possible for each working laboratory to evaluate their staining quality and to get feedback of how to improve the quality. The invention further relates to a system and a software program for carrying out the method.
US10209162B2
The detecting means (1) comprise measuring means (2) adapted to measure and provide at least one raw data corresponding to an aircraft parameter, computing means (3) adapted to estimate at least one derivative of said raw data, and detecting means (4) adapted to detect a failure with the aid of said derivative, said computing means (3) being adapted to estimate said derivative by differentiation.
US10209160B2
The application relates to an apparatus (100) for fatigue testing a wind turbine blade, and to a system and method using such an apparatus (100). The apparatus (100) comprises a base (110) for supporting a first end (12) of the wind turbine blade (10), and an edgewise actuator assembly (120). The edgewise actuator assembly (120) includes a ground-supported edgewise actuator (130) and a flexible cable assembly (140) for connecting the edgewise actuator (130) to the blade (10). The edgewise actuator (130) and the flexible cable assembly (140) are adapted to cyclically deflect the blade (10) relative to the base in the edgewise direction by repeatedly pulling the blade (10) in a substantially horizontal direction.
US10209145B2
A failure diagnosis method of a temperature sensor of a switch device is provided. The method includes setting a sampling period using a temperature detected by the temperature sensor of the switch device and a temperature of cooling water for cooling the switch device. A temperature sensing value detected by the temperature sensor is then compared with a temperature reference value stored in a memory in the sampling period to determine whether failure occurs in the temperature sensor.
US10209142B2
The object of the invention is a temperature calibrator for calibrating temperature sensors, wherein the temperature calibrator comprises at least one calibration volume, the temperature of which is to be adjusted and into which the temperature sensors to be calibrated can be inserted, at least one temperature control unit, which is in thermal contact with the calibration volume via one or several thermally conductive bodies, at least one temperature sensor, which is in thermal contact with said calibration volume, and at least one electrical control unit, which is electrically connected with the at least one temperature control unit and the at least one temperature sensor, wherein the temperature calibrator further comprises at least one magnetocaloric material and at least one magnetic field generating device.
US10209133B2
A wavelength estimation device including a light detector to receive light emitted from a light source and an estimation unit. The estimation unit estimates a wavelength of the light based on an amount of light received by the light detector.
US10209126B2
The present application discloses a UV radiation monitoring apparatus, method, and system. The monitoring apparatus includes a case, an authenticator disposed on the case and configured to identify a user, a controller in the case coupled to the authenticator to enable a first mode for an authenticated user, a detector on the case coupled to the controller and configured to measure an intensity of ultraviolet radiation and generate ultraviolet index (UVI) value at the present time, a memory coupled to the controller and configured to store the UVI values over an exposure time added into historical UVI data for the authenticated user, and a display unit to display the UVI value at the present time and the personal health instructions on UV protection for the authenticated user. The monitoring apparatus further is configured to be paired with a mobile terminal for providing updated personal health instructions.
US10209114B2
Disclosed is a water meter including: a reading unit provided in a meter body to display a flow of water supplied through a water pipe; a sensing unit provided in the meter body to detect vibrations transmitted through the water pipe; a conversion unit for converting the vibrations detected by the sensing unit into electric signals; a frequency analysis unit for analyzing frequency components of the electric signals converted by the conversion unit; a comparison-processing unit for comparing each of the frequency components of the analyzed electric signals to a predetermined set-up level, and identifying whether each of the frequency components exceeds the predetermined set-up level; a determination-control unit for calculating a leakage probability on a basis of results from the comparison-processing unit; and an output unit for outputting a determination result of the determination-control unit as at least one of a video signal and an audio signal.
US10209111B2
An agricultural sprayer arrangement includes a chassis; a ground engaging traction member carried by the chassis; a liquid tank carried by the chassis; a boom carried by the chassis; a conduit associated with the boom in fluid communication with the liquid tank that acts as a fluid flow path; a nozzle having an inlet in fluid communication with the conduit; a first flow sensor placed upstream of the inlet in the fluid flow path that provides a first flow signal; a second flow sensor placed downstream of the inlet in the fluid flow path that provides a second flow signal; and an electrical processing circuit coupled to the first flow sensor and the second flow sensor that is configured to compare the first and second flow signals to determine a flow rate decrease and issue an alarm if the flow rate decrease is less than a predetermined threshold level.
US10209109B2
A nuclear flowmeter for measurements in multiphase flows consisting of up to three main phases that is connected in series in the output flow in a production line of an oil well, that includes a “U” shaped arrangement formed by an input branch and an output branch placed at both sides of the “U” shaped arrangement, where the input branch is connected to the production line of the oil well through an input pipe section (1) and the output branch is connected to the line of production of the oil well through an output pipe section (21) placed respectively at both ends of the “U” shaped arrangement; the input branch includes a pipe section with section reduction that forms a Venturi (3) while in the output branch includes a pipe section with possible section reduction (5) where the nuclear measurements are made, is provided.
US10209100B2
A fiber measurement device for measuring a physical quantity by a fiber and a method for shaping a pulse of electromagnetic radiation are disclosed. The fiber measurement device comprises an electromagnetic radiation source and an adjustment unit. The electromagnetic radiation source generates at least one pulse of electromagnetic radiation as primary electromagnetic radiation to be coupled into the fiber, and an adjustment unit. The adjustment unit, prior to, during or after application of the primary electromagnetic radiation to the fiber, adjusts a shape of the at least one pulse for at least partially compensating a deviation between a target shape and an actual shape of the at least one pulse.
US10209096B2
A rotation detecting device includes a plurality of magnetic field generating portions; a magnetic member; a coil wound around the magnetic member; and a magnetic field introducing portion. The magnetic field introducing portion introduces a magnetic flux generated by the magnetic field generating portion to pass through the magnetic member when the magnetic field generating portion passes through a specific location.
US10209078B2
A system, a method and a computer program product are provided for local perturbation immunity in a vector-based sensing device. Measurement data from at least one vector-based sensing device is evaluated at a given time using a heuristic to identify an occurrence of a perturbing event, wherein the at least one vector-based sensing device includes either a magnetometer or an accelerometer, or both the magnetometer and the accelerometer. A time-shifting component is provided to reject the perturbing event for a duration of the perturbing event and use measurement data from a gyroscope to construct vector-based sensing device measurement data unaffected by the perturbing event.
US10209077B2
A method for primarily sensor-based navigation includes: in a first time period, collecting geophysical position data using a GPS receiver of a navigation device; in the first time period, collecting a first set of accelerometer data using an accelerometer of the navigation device; analyzing the first set of accelerometer data to produce a first set of vertical vehicular motion data; generating a mapping association between the first set of vertical vehicular motion data and the geophysical position data; in a second time period after the first time period, collecting a second set of accelerometer data using the accelerometer; analyzing the second set of accelerometer data to produce a second set of vertical vehicular motion data; and calculating an estimated location of the vehicle by analyzing the second set of vertical vehicular motion data in light of the mapping association.
US10209075B2
A mechanism is provided to determine orientation of a device that includes sources of electromagnetic interference. Data generated by one or more gyroscopes in the device, in conjunction with data generated by one or more accelerometers, can be used to generate an estimate of the change of orientation of the device from the time of a last accurate magnetometer reading. In one embodiment, in order to conserve system power, the gyroscope is kept powered down or in a stand-by state until receiving a control signal to power up. The control signal is provided in advance of the source of electromagnetic interference being powered up, thereby providing an accurate starting point from which magnetometer orientation estimates may be calculated during such interference.
US10209072B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for making and using accelerometers. Some such accelerometers include a substrate, a first plurality of electrodes, a second plurality of electrodes, a first anchor attached to the substrate, a frame and a proof mass. The substrate may extend substantially in a first plane. The proof mass may be attached to the frame, may extend substantially in a second plane and may be substantially constrained for motion along first and second axes. The frame may be attached to the first anchor, may extend substantially in a second plane and may be substantially constrained for motion along the second axis. A lateral movement of the proof mass in response to an applied lateral acceleration along the first or second axes may result in a change in capacitance at the first or second plurality of electrodes.
US10209071B2
An integrated MEMS structure includes a driving assembly anchored to a substrate and actuated with a driving movement. A pair of sensing masses suspended above the substrate and coupled to the driving assembly via elastic elements is fixed in the driving movement and performs a movement along a first direction of detection, in response to an external stress. A coupling assembly couples the pair of sensing masses mechanically to couple the vibration modes. The coupling assembly is formed by a rigid element, which connects the sensing masses and has a point of constraint in an intermediate position between the sensing masses, and elastic coupling elements for coupling the rigid element to the sensing masses to present a first stiffness to a movement in phase-opposition and a second stiffness, greater than the first, to a movement in phase, of the sensing masses along the direction of detection.
US10209064B2
An online multiphase measuring method of concentration and diameter distribution of dispersed phase particles in a multiphase reactor is provided in the present invention. The method is based on an online multiphase measuring instrument. The method described herein includes the following steps: (1) the online multiphase measuring instrument is placed in a multiphase system, and an image of the particles in the multiphase system is obtained; (2) valid particles are determined as: the particle that its Grad(Φ) is greater than or equal to Grad(Φl/2) is labeled as a valid one; (3) the particle diameter is calculated by di=10×ni/N10; according to the equation α = V c V = ∑ i n 1 6 π d i 3 S × l , the concentration of the valid particles is calculated. The concentration and diameter of bubbles, droplets or solid particles can be obtained in real time and online measurement. The accuracy of this method is high.
US10209063B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for using sensor-based observations from multiple agents (e.g., mobile robots and/or fixed sensors) in an environment to estimate the pose of an object in the environment at a target time and to estimate an uncertainty measure for that pose. Various implementations generate a multigraph based on a group of observations from multiple agents, where the multigraph includes a reference frame node, object nodes, and a plurality edges connecting the nodes. In some implementations, a composite pose and composite uncertainty measure are generated for each of a plurality of simple paths along the edges of the multigraph that connect the reference frame node to a given object node—and a pose and uncertainty measure for an object identifier associated with the given object node is generated based on the composite poses and the composite uncertainty measures.
US10209058B1
The present subject matter at-least provides an apparatus for characterization of a slab of a material. The apparatus comprises a plurality of frequency-domain optical-coherence tomography (FD-OCT) probes configured for irradiating the slab of material at at-least one location, and detecting radiation reflected from the slab of material or transmitted there-through. Further, a centralized actuation-mechanism is connected to the plurality of OCT probes for simultaneously actuating one or more elements in each of said OCT probes to at-least cause a synchronized detection of the radiation from the slab of material. A spectral-analysis module is provided for analyzing at least an interference-pattern with respect to each of said OCT probes to thereby determine at least one of thickness and topography of the slab of the material.
US10209057B2
Methods, systems and devices for estimating a parameter of interest in a borehole. The method may include generating information from an optical displacement device relating to relative motion between two or more reflective surfaces thereof that is indicative of the parameter of interest; and preventing changes in the information resulting from changes at the optical displacement device in at least one of i) temperature, or ii) pressure, by compensating for the changes. Compensating may include adjusting at least one light source generating an electromagnetic beam at least partly received by the optical displacement device responsive to information relating to a control optical displacement device at the optical displacement device. Compensating may include using an optical displacement device and configuring the optical displacement device such that a difference between a first variable gap and a second variable gap is substantially zero while the apparatus is subject to nominal conditions.
US10209056B2
An interference observation apparatus includes a light source, a splitting beam splitter, a combining beam splitter, a beam splitter, a mirror, a beam splitter, a mirror, a piezo element, a stage, an imaging unit, an image acquisition unit, and a control unit. An interference optical system from the splitting beam splitter to the combining beam splitter forms a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The mirror freely moves in a direction perpendicular to a reflecting surface of the mirror. The total number of times of respective reflections of first split light and second split light in the interference optical system is an even number.
US10209054B2
Methods of measuring thickness of a material using cross-capacitance. The method generally includes applying a time-varying signal to a first pad and monitoring a response of a capacitor formed by the first pad, a spaced apart second pad, and the material. The pads may be permanently affixed to the material, in spaced relation to each other. Based on the response, a capacitance of the capacitor is determined. The material may be homogenous or heterogeneous, and has dielectric properties. Because the material acts as a dielectric, the capacitance of the capacitor changes as the thickness of the material changes. Thus, the thickness of the material may be determined based on the determined capacitance. The method may be advantageously employed to measure the thickness of a vehicle tire or other material. Related apparatuses are also disclosed.
US10209053B2
A tool calibration system includes a tool and a wrench pivotally coupled to the tool. The tool calibration system also includes a tool calibration device coupled to the tool and to the wrench. The tool calibration device includes a baseplate including an arcuate slot defined therein and a pin coupled to the baseplate and slidably moveable along the slot. The pin is configured to engage the wrench such that movement of the pin along the slot causes rotation of the wrench.
US10209044B2
Shot shells with enhanced performance due to inclusion of an absorber between the shot wad and the shot payload. The absorber reduces the pressure within a shot gun's chamber during firing of the shell, such as by absorbing energy generated during the firing process, and may thereafter return some of the energy to the pellets as the absorber and pellets are propelled along the fireman's barrel. Accordingly, the absorber enables a shot shell to generate shot payload velocities that are greater than would be achieved without the absorber, typically at a lower internal chamber pressure. In some embodiments, the absorber has (1) a Young's Modulus of less than 2,000 psi (137.9 bar), (2) a compressive strength of at least 100 psi (6.9 bar) and/or less than 10,000 psi (689.5 bar), and/or (3) a tensile strength of at least 145 psi (10 bar) and/or less than 10,000 psi (689.5 bar).
US10209040B2
A disclosed example embodiment includes a shaped charge for use in a well perforating system. The shaped charge includes a housing having a discharge end and an initiation end. A liner is positioned with the housing. A main explosive is positioned within the housing between the liner and the initiation end of the housing. The liner has a radially outwardly disposed concave section having a progressively decreasing wall thickness in the direction from the initiation end to the discharge end of the housing and a radially inwardly disposed convex section having a progressively increasing wall thickness in the direction from the initiation end to the discharge end of the housing such that the liner is radial momentum balanced and operable to form a coherent jet having a hollow leading edge following detonation of the shaped charge.
US10209031B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a rapid adjust buckle for a rifle sling. The buckle can include a main buckle portion with a pair of side portions and a handle portion extending between the pair of side portions and over the main buckle portion to define a handle aperture. In various embodiments the handle portion and the main buckle portion are a unitary piece composed of a polymer material with the handle portion being flexibly biased towards an uncompressed open shape such that the handle portion is configured to compress against the main buckle portion in response to a compressing force but return to the uncompressed open shape when the compressing force is relieved. In one or more embodiments the handle portion includes a plurality of jointed connection points configured to flatten the profile of the handle portion when the handle portion is exposed to the compressing force.
US10209023B1
A weapon rest for placing a weapon on includes a bar that is oriented horizontally. A plurality of mounts is releasably positioned on the bar in an upright position wherein a weapon is positionable across each of the mounts such that the weapon rest thereon.
US10209015B2
A hybrid plate-fin heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first fluid and a second fluid is disclosed. The hybrid plate-fin heat exchanger comprises a plurality of plates, each of which comprises channels for conveying the first fluid. Fins are brazed onto each plate, wherein the fins define a plurality of flow channels for the second fluid. The plates are joined to one another via friction-stir welding in such a way that the brazed regions are fluidically isolated from the first fluid during operation. As a result, the heat exchanger is suitable for use in applications that use a first fluid, such as seawater or geothermal fluid, which is corrosive for the brazed regions.
US10209009B2
A heat exchanger includes a core defining a first passageway and a second passageway. The core includes a plurality of unit cells coupled together. Each unit cell of the plurality of unit cells includes a first wall and a second wall. The second wall is spaced from the first wall. The first wall at least partially defines a first passageway portion and a second passageway portion. The second wall at least partially defines the second passageway portion. The second wall extends about the first wall such that the first passageway portion is nested within the second passageway portion.
US10209005B2
Ultra violet light-emitting diode (hereafter UV LED) curing units containing one or X array or XY arrays of UV LED modules with integrated optical, mechanical, and heat dissipation systems, and one, or X array, or XY arrays of extrusions with integrated air or liquid cooling systems to receive and house the integrated UV LED. The UV LED modules may be any size or shape depending on the power requirements of a given curing application. The LED chips or the groups of LED chips used for the above UV LED modules may be in other wavelengths for other applications. The UV LED modules have excellent heat dissipation because the LED chips or groups of LED chips are directly mounted on metal extrusion. The LED modules also have a single optical lens system between the LED chips and the surrounding ambient air.
US10208996B2
A tray assembly for a device for freezing a liquid, the assembly includes a frame defining an aperture. A thermally conductive tray is sized to be received within the aperture, the thermally conductive tray having a body and a lip circumferentially disposed about the body, the thermally conductive tray being seated within the aperture and defining a first surface and an opposite second surface, the first surface defining a recess and the second surface defining a plurality of receptacles. A gasket is included and sized to surround the body and to be disposed between the lip and the frame. An insulation chamber is coupled to the frame.
US10208987B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a bypass pipe that has one end connected to the discharge side of a compressor and through which refrigerant exiting the compressor flows, an auxiliary heat exchanger that is connected to the other end of the bypass pipe and the suction part of the compressor, and cools refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe and supplies the cooled refrigerant to the suction part of the compressor, and a flow regulating unit that is provided on the refrigerant outlet side of the auxiliary heat exchanger, and regulates the flow rate of refrigerant routed into the suction part of the compressor from the auxiliary heat exchanger.
US10208984B2
A foldable parabolic solar collector includes a first panel having a semi-parabolic reflective inner surface, a central tube to which the first panel is fixed, and a second panel having a semi-parabolic reflective inner surface. The second panel is pivotably mounted to the central tube with the reflective inner surface of the second panel facing the reflective inner surface of the first panel. A receiver tube carries a heat transfer fluid. A tracking motor rotates the central tube. A torque sensor lies in between the tracking motor and the central tube and is configured to measure torque between the tracking motor and the central tube. A servomotor pivots the second panel about the central tube between an open position and a closed position when it is determined by a controller that the torque between the tracking motor and the central tube exceeds a predetermined torque threshold.
US10208979B2
An apparatus includes a core configured for use in an energy exchanger. The core includes a plurality of stacked and spaced planar plate pairs including a top plate and a bottom plate to support fluid flow of a first fluid flow and a second fluid flow. A plurality of dimples is provided by instances of the plate pairs. The plurality of dimples are arranged to generate substantially counter current flow between the first fluid flow and the second fluid flow.
US10208968B2
An outdoor unit according to the present invention includes: a casing; and a heat exchanger accommodated in the casing. The casing includes a bottom panel on a bottom surface of the casing. The bottom panel includes: a first bottom plate portion formed below the heat exchanger; and a second bottom plate portion formed on the bottom panel at a portion other than the first bottom plate portion. A lower end of the heat exchanger is arranged at a position above any point on an upper surface of the first bottom plate portion and below any point on an upper surface of the second bottom plate portion.
US10208961B2
A one-piece sheet-metal structure includes a first wall, a second wall perpendicularly extending from the first wall, and a third wall perpendicularly extending from the first wall. The second wall is perpendicular to the first wall and the third wall. An end edge of the second wall is adjacent an end edge of the third wall to form a corner. The corner is provided with a clench lock so that the corner is weld-free. The clench lock includes bottom and top tabs. The bottom tab perpendicularly extends from the end edge of the second wall at a bottom tab bend and engages an inner side of the third wall. The top tab perpendicularly extends from an outer edge of the third wall at a top tab bend and bends around the bottom tab and engages an inner side of the bottom tab to clench the bottom tab at the corner.
US10208959B2
A method for manufacturing a stem for a fuel injector of gas turbine engine includes forging a material into a unitary workpiece, which includes forging a top disk having a cylindrical shape, forging a body extending from a base of the top disk, and forging a lower disk connected to the body, distal to the top disk, the lower disk having a cylindrical shape oriented transverse to the top disk. The method further including machining the lower disk to form a gas gallery having a ring shape, and to define a gallery opening through the gas gallery, and machining a first fluid passage through the top disk, the body, and a portion of the gas gallery to the gallery opening, wherein the first fluid passage is in fluid communication with the gallery opening.
US10208956B2
A combustor comprises an annular combustor chamber formed between the inner and outer liners, the annular combustor chamber having a central axis. Fuel nozzles are in fluid communication with the annular combustor chamber to inject fuel in the annular combustor chamber. The fuel nozzles are oriented to inject fuel in a fuel flow direction having an axial component relative to the central axis of the annular combustor chamber. Nozzle air inlets are in fluid communication with the annular combustor chamber to inject nozzle air generally radially in the annular combustor chamber. A plurality of dilution air holes are defined through the inner and outer liner downstream of the nozzle air inlets, the dilution holes configured for high pressure air to be injected from an exterior of the liners through the dilution air holes generally radially into the combustor chamber, a central axis of the dilution air holes having a tangential component relative to the central axis of the annular combustor chamber.
US10208937B2
The invention relates to a light emission system that includes a light source support having a first cooperation member, a printed circuit board fixed to the light source support and a connection system, a connection cable including a connection plug. The connection plug has a second cooperation member. The connection system, the support and the plug are arranged in such a way that when the connection system and the plug are connected to one another, the first and the second cooperation members cooperate together to form a fixed mechanical link.
US10208935B2
LED lighting apparatus defining a longitudinal axis and including a lens, an element holder for holding the lens and having at least one guide pin, a fixture body for receiving the element holder and having at least a first plurality of slots extending transverse the longitudinal axis of the apparatus. The guide pin is received in at least one of the slots corresponding to a first beam angle of the lens, the element holder being configured to be selectively movable to one of the plurality of slots for selecting a projection beam angle of the LED lighting apparatus. A second plurality of slots is provided extending along the longitudinal axis and connecting the horizontal slots, such that the guide pin is repositioned from one of the first slots to another of the first slots by traveling along one of the second plurality of slots.
US10208934B2
A display device includes a base structure, a plurality of modules coupled to the base structure, where each of the modules include a plurality of actuator assemblies. Each of the actuator assemblies is individually controllable to move the actuator assemblies between a retracted state and a plurality of extended states. A controller is coupled to each of the modules and is programmed to control the actuator assemblies to move the actuator assemblies between the retracted state and the plurality of extended states.
US10208930B1
A ceiling light includes a threaded rod, a light source module, a tray, a locking member and an outer lampshade. The threaded rod in turn extends through the tray, the light source module, the locking member and the outer lampshade. The outer lampshade is provided with a screw hole screwed onto the lower end of the threaded rod. A receiving space is defined between the tray and the outer lampshade. The light source module is received in the receiving space. The light source module includes a wire board mounted on the tray and an inner lampshade mounted on the wire board. The locking member is mounted on the threaded rod and rests on the bottom of the light source module.
US10208929B2
A lighting arrangement and a method for manufacturing the lighting arrangement are provided. The lighting arrangement has a holder to carry an optical element above a LED lighting element. The holder has an optical sub-holder and a connecting sub-holder connecting the optical sub-holder with a support member, where the LED lighting element is arranged on. The optical sub-holder has at least one stress release element dividing the optical sub-holder in one or more outer parts connected to the connecting sub-holder and a main part carrying the optical element, where a mechanical connection between the main part and the one or more outer parts is weakened by the stress release element extending through the optical sub-holder to enable the one or more outer parts to deform freely in case of thermal stress while maintaining the main part closer to the desired position compared to the one or more outer parts.
US10208928B1
A seamless back-loaded modular LED assembly is provided for stacking interchangeable lenses and optics that optimizes thermal management of the LED light source. A sleeve seamlessly secures to a back plate that sandwiches the interchangeable lenses and optics in a stacked arrangement within the sleeve, while the back plate provides a nipple for operatively associating with swivel implements so as to enable 270 degrees of rotational pivoting when directing the LED light source.
US10208922B2
A lighting device (1) comprising a plurality of light sources (2) each light source of the plurality of light sources being arranged to, in operation, emit light, and first secondary optics (3) and second secondary optics, the first secondary optics being arranged such that the light emitted by the light sources is injected directly into the first secondary optics, the first secondary optics causing light to be emitted in a direction towards the second secondary optics, the secondary optics being a reflective light collimating element (4) having a circumferential surface (43) arranged such as to extend around the plurality of light sources and the first secondary optics, the first secondary optics and the second secondary optics causing the light being emitted by each light source of the plurality of light sources to be mutually substantially overlapping before extraction from the lighting device and the first secondary optics (3) comprising one or more reflecting surface segments (5) for reflecting light back into said first secondary optics and one or more extraction surface segments (6) for extracting light from said first secondary optics.
US10208920B2
Examples of the present disclosure are related to systems and methods for lighting fixtures. More particularly, embodiments disclose lighting fixtures utilizing metal core PCB (MCPCB) for optical controls.
US10208912B2
A headlamp (1) for a vehicle, comprising at least one light source (2), a primary optical system (3) for generating a lighting image, and an optical imaging system (4), wherein the lighting image can be projected onto the roadway as a light image by means of the optical imaging system (4), and the primary optical system (3) has a plurality of light guiding elements (5) and a support layer (6), wherein the light guiding elements (5) are arranged on a rear face (6r) of the support layer (6), and the lighting image can be generated on a front face (6v) of the support layer (6), the light guiding elements (5) are arranged adjacently to one another or in an overlapping manner in a row in an axis direction (y) and form at least one line (7), wherein each light guiding element (5) has a light inlet surface (5e) for coupling in light from at least one light source (2) and a light outlet surface (5a) for coupling out light, wherein the totality of the light guiding elements (5) of the at least one line (7) have a common border (8) which is constantly curved on at least one face oriented substantially along the axis direction (y) and together with the support layer (6) forms a section curve with a curved curve course (9, 10).
US10208905B2
A recessed light fixture configured to deliver indirect light to an area. The recessed light fixture includes a trim component, a reflector coupled to the trim component, and an annular ring including a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The trim component has an outer wall and an inner wall spaced radially inward of the outer wall, and defines an annular recess between the outer and inner walls. The reflector includes a patterned reflective surface. The annular ring is arranged within the annular recess of the trim component. The LEDs are configured to emit light toward the reflector so that the reflector redirects the light to deliver the indirect light to the area.
US10208903B2
The disclosure concerns a wristband with integrated rotatable light, including: a band; a base coupled to the band; a light housing rotationally coupled to the base; and the housing configured to receive a light nested within a light housing. The wristband with integrated rotatable light is characterized in that upon the application of rotational force, the light housing is configured to rotate about the base thereby providing light in various directions.
US10208901B2
A portable lighting device includes a main front lamp directed in a first direction, an auxiliary lamp directed in a second direction different from the first direction and a controller connected to the auxiliary lamp so as to selectively illuminate the auxiliary lamp.
US10208898B2
A light emitting diode (LED) tube lamp configured to receive an external driving signal includes an LED module for emitting light, the LED module comprising an LED unit comprising an LED; a rectifying circuit for rectifying the external driving signal to produce a rectified signal, the rectifying circuit having a first output terminal and a second output terminal for outputting the rectified signal; a filtering circuit connected to the LED module, and configured to provide a filtered signal for the LED unit; and a protection circuit for providing protection for the LED tube lamp. The protection circuit includes a voltage divider comprising two elements connected in series between the first and second output terminals of the rectifying circuit, for producing a signal at a connection node between the two elements; and a control circuit coupled to the connection node between the two elements, for receiving, and detecting a state of, the signal at the connection node. The control circuit includes or is coupled to a switching circuit coupled to the rectifying circuit, and the switching circuit is configured to be triggered on or off by the detected state, upon the external driving signal being input to the LED tube lamp, to allow discontinuous current to flow through the LED unit.
US10208891B2
Adjustable computer touchscreen display mounting device adds an anti-toppling support system to prevent a computer touchscreen display device from toppling despite multiple operating positions. The touchscreen display may be repositioned in a variety of touch modes, which are primarily horizontal, and/or monitor modes, which are primarily vertical. A display base is held close to a desk surface whenever a toppling force is exerted on the display base. One anti-toppling support system pivotally connects anti-toppling arms, one arm being attached to a desk and another arm attached to the display base. In one touch mode, the touchscreen display is extended away from the display base far enough to shift a center of gravity for the combination of display and base outside of the base footprint.
US10208887B2
A gimbal handheld holder includes two support legs and a control device. A transverse rod is located between the two support legs. A handle is located on the transverse rod. A gimbal connector is located at a junction of the handle with the transverse rod. The gimbal handheld holder is connected with a gimbal through the gimbal connector. The gimbal is located below the transverse rod and between the two support legs. The handle is located on the transverse rod. The control device controls the gimbal to move. The gimbal handheld holder is able to achieve force balance at two ends thereof, and steadily hold the gimbal below the transverse rod. While being connected with the gimbal, the gimbal handheld holder is able to be directly steadily placed on ground.
US10208885B2
A corrosion resistant jacket for insulated pipes and components includes an outer polymeric layer film, an inner polymeric layer and a core layer of a lesser stainless steel material disposed between the outer polymeric layer film and the inner polymeric layer.
US10208876B2
A method for mounting an endpiece for securing a tubular pipe and apparatus for implementing same. The method includes the steps of: a) providing an endpiece and a ring (36′) having an outer rotationally symmetrical cylindrical surface (40′), and a sheath having a sheath end (32) and an outer circular edge (46′); b) inserting the ring (36′) into the sheath end (32); c) leveling off the outer circular edge (46′); and d) covering the leveled edge with the endpiece. In step b) the ring (36, 36′, 36″) is inserted leaving one of the ends (44′) thereof extending out of the sheath end (32), and in step c) the outer circular edge (46′) is leveled off, by engaging the one of the two ring ends (44′).
US10208862B2
A seal ring assembly includes a first seal ring axially disposed from a second seal ring. The first seal ring has an axial face opposing an axial face of the second seal ring. A radial oil channel is defined between the two axial faces. Both seal rings have a tapered surface configured to contact a spring. The spring biases the seal rings away from each other via the tapered surface. Both seal rings are disposed in a radially inwardly directed channel. At least one of the seal rings have a plurality of protrusions that extend beyond the axial face. The protrusions are configured to create a passageway to allow oil to flow through the passageway and to allow at least one of the seal rings to move into a desired position by reducing static friction between the axial faces.
US10208858B2
A parking pawl module includes a first actuator, a gearbox including at least one gear carrier where the at least one gear carrier supports a hub configured to rotate when the first actuator rotates, and a disconnect module. The disconnect module includes: an output coupler having a first surface and a second surface; an actuation feature disposed on the first surface; and a torsion spring having a first end connected to the output coupler and a second end connected to the hub or the at least one gear carrier. The disconnect module also includes an actuation mechanism disposed on the second surface of the output coupler. The actuation mechanism is configured to mesh with the hub. The first actuator controls movement of the at least one hub, the actuation feature, and the actuation mechanism.
US10208850B1
A transmission includes a torque converter, an output shaft, rotatable gearing components, a case, and a pan secured to the case. The case defines a torque converter housing for receiving the torque converter, an output shaft housing for receiving the output shaft, and a central barrel extending between the torque converter housing and the output shaft housing for receiving the rotatable gearing components. The case further defines a first hole and a second hole through a bottom wall of the central barrel and a tapering channel extending longitudinally along the central barrel from the first hole to the second hole. The pan defines a fluid reservoir disposed below the first and second holes to receive gravity-fed fluid from the tapering channel through the first and second holes.
US10208846B2
An axle assembly and a method of assembly. The axle assembly has a drive pinion, a through shaft, and at least one support bearing. The through shaft may extend through a drive pinion passage that may extend through the drive pinion. One or more support bearings may be disposed in the drive pinion passage and may rotatably support the drive pinion.
US10208843B2
A linear motion assembly and recirculation insert therefor is provided. The assembly includes a ball nut having a through bore with an internal helical groove and a screw having an external helical groove. The external helical groove is radially aligned with the internal helical groove to define a plurality of ball raceways. A plurality of inserts is fixed within the bore of the ball nut. The inserts each have a central body fixed within a recessed pocket of the ball nut, with the body having a radially inwardly facing, generally s-shaped groove to route the balls between adjacent turns. A pair of legs extends in opposite directions from the central body, wherein the legs are sized for a clearance fit with the external helical groove. The legs merge with the central body over a smooth transition region that minimizes stress concentrations at the joint between the legs and central body.
US10208842B2
A linkage mechanism includes a pivot assembly, a gear assembly, and a linkage assembly. The pivot assembly pivots around a first rotation axis. The gear assembly is pivoted with the pivot assembly and moves in conjunction with the pivot assembly. The gear assembly includes a cam, and the cam pivots around a second rotation axis. The second rotation axis is not parallel to the first rotation axis. The linkage assembly is disposed at a side of the gear assembly and contacts the cam. When the pivot assembly drives the gear assembly to pivot, the linkage assembly abuts against the cam to produce a relative movement with the cam.
US10208839B2
The disclosure relates to a sliding rail half for a two-piece sliding rail, the sliding rail being set up to reduce vibrations and undulations for a wraparound means of a wraparound gear mechanism, the sliding rail half being distinguished, above all, by the fact that a first pin is arranged in a first mounting, wherein the first pin, in interaction with a hook of a second sliding rail half to be joined, prevents a displacement of the second sliding rail half relative to the first sliding rail half along a longitudinal axis when a first sliding face and a second sliding face are arranged in a sliding plane and a first joining face is in contact at least partially with a corresponding second joining face and the hook is not received in the first mounting.
US10208836B2
A brake of an automatic transmission holds a second ring gear of a second planetary gear stationary, and includes: friction plates and separator plates; and a drum member as a brake hub that is continuously coupled to the second ring gear and is rotatably supported by an inner tubular portion of a center support between the friction plates, for example, and the second planetary gear. The drum member and the second ring gear are coupled together via a spline.
US10208821B2
A disc assembly for a disc brake and energizing ring, or flywheel includes a disc brake disc, a braking band, a bell connecting the brake disc to a vehicle hub; and a connecting portion between the braking band and the bell. An energizing ring includes an energizing ring body having an energizing side, opposite the disc, and coupling side, facing the disc. An energizing ring connecting portion connects cantilevered to the bell to avoid interfering with the braking band and forms an end surface parallel to the radial direction. Projections and/or recesses are provided in the energizing side. A coupling portion cantilevers from the energizing ring body axially and includes a free end portion. The free end portion is received in the energizing ring connecting portion passing through the radial end surface. The energizing ring connecting portion closely surrounds the free end portion, leaving the energizing ring body free.
US10208818B2
An apparatus including a shaft, a wheel cylindrically mounted on the shaft, a cylinder coaxial with the wheel and having an inner wall, and at least two centrifugal braking assemblies mounted on the wheel uniformly distributed in a circumferential direction is provided. Each centrifugal braking assembly includes a brake member pivotally mounted on the wheel and having at least one curved friction surface, a cam pivotally mounted on the wheel and in slidable contact with the brake member, and a spring connected between the cam and a pin mounted on the wheel. The brake member, the cam, and the spring cooperate to rotate the curved friction surface of the brake member and in turn, contact with the inner wall of the cylinder when a rotational speed of the shaft exceeds a first predetermined value.
US10208812B2
A method of disengaging an axle disconnect system including providing an actuator having a coil (214) at least partially surrounded by a housing (220), an armature (216) located within the housing and the coil, where the armature is capable of actuating between a first and second position, and at least one of the housing and the armature is part of a magnetic circuit. Applying a current to the coil and actuating the armature from the first position to the second position. Developing an uninterrupted magnetic flux through the magnetic circuit and stopping application of the current to the coil. Permitting the magnetic flux through the magnetic circuit to continue in its uninterrupted state and maintain the armature in the second position. Applying an alternating current, having decreasing amplitude over time, to the coil to dissipate the magnetic flux through the magnetic circuit.
US10208809B2
A double clutch assembly has a diaphragm spring aligned and maintained to prevent uneven wear of a disc. A diaphragm spring is deformable in an axis direction with respect to a cover casing which receives a driving force from an engine. A center plate is connected to the cover casing and an auxiliary cover casing is coupled to the center plate to form a support point. The pressure plate is selectively connected to a center plate disc when the diaphragm spring contracts. An auxiliary pressure plate is coupled to the center plate. A disc installed between the center plate and the pressure plate provides the driving force transmitted through the pressure plate to the transmission. An auxiliary disc installed between the center plate and the auxiliary pressure plate provides the driving force through the auxiliary pressure plate to the transmission.
US10208804B2
A control device (10′) comprises a control unit (10′) with a control element for controlling a fluid flow and being rotatable about a first axis (13) between an open position and a closed position, and a separate motor-driven actuator unit (24), which is mechanically coupled to said control unit (10′) to rotate said control element about said first axis (13) in a controllable fashion, whereby said actuator unit (24) comprises a driving part (25) with a driving element (31) being rotatable about a second axis (26), to be mechanically coupled to said control element in a coupling position to rotate said control element about said first axis (13), and a control part (28) for driving said driving element (31) in a controllable fashion. Said driving element (31) is removably coupled to said control unit (10′) by means of a spur gearing (Hirth serration) (22, 29).
US10208803B2
The invention relates to a bearing arrangement (1) comprising a bearing cover (3) and a bearing block (2) fitting onto the latter, which bearing block in the area of the bearing cover (3) comprises a recess (9) in which the bearing cover (3) can be arranged and which comprises vertical deformation elements (15) with a longitudinal extension (19), wherein the vertical deformation elements (15) have a greater degree of plastic deformability than the bearing block (2).
US10208801B1
A wheel hub seal has an inner annular member. An outer side of the inner annular member is sleeved with an outer annular member. A passage is formed between the inner annular member and the outer annular member. An opening of the passage is provided with a second barrier. The second barrier has a fixed portion fixed to the outer annular member. The fixed portion extends toward the inner annular member to form a suspended flexible portion. An outer surface of the flexible portion is provided with a raised press portion. Thereby, when the wheel hub seal is mounted in a shaft hole of a hub, the press portion is compressed by the inner wall of the shaft hole to press the flexible portion to resiliently lean against the inner annular member to seal the passage, achieving the effect of blocking external silt.
US10208798B2
Provided is a rolling device in which hydrogen is not easily accumulated within a roller element made of steel, such as an inner race and an outer race, and premature separation due to hydrogen embrittlement is prevented from occurring. A rolling bearing 1 having an inner race 2, an outer race 3, and rolling bodies 4, and at least one selected from the inner race 2, the outer race 3, and the rolling bodies 4 is made of predetermined steel. At least a part of oxide-based inclusions included in the steel is covered by MnS, and a ratio of a number of oxide-based inclusions covered by MnS is over 40% of a total number of oxide-based inclusions having maximum diameter of 3 μm or greater in the steel.
US10208796B2
A segmented cage for a bearing is provided. The segmented cage provides at least two successive segments each being able to receive at least one rolling element. These segments have inner and outer circumferential faces and adjacent end faces abutting circumferentially one on the other. The adjacent end faces are shaped to obtain only one contact line or contact point between them, the contact point or contact line being distant from the inner and outer circumferential faces.
US10208792B2
A bearing for guiding a first guided piece includes a first bearing surface with respect to a second bearing surface fixedly attached to a second guided piece. At least one first intermediate piece is interposed between the first bearing surface and the first guided piece and at least one first automatic release assembly for i) in a first assembly state, fixedly attaching the at least one first intermediate piece and the first guided piece for guidance forces which are lower than a triggering value, and ii) in a release state, permitting a relative displacement of the first guided piece with respect to the at least one first intermediate piece, at least in one displacement orientation, for guidance forces which are greater than the triggering value of the first assembly.
US10208784B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for dressing centering a bearing compartment in a gas turbine engine. A nut may be inserted through an outer case of a gas turbine engine. The nut may be coupled to a strut which centers a bearing compartment. The nut may be rotated to achieve a desired tension on the strut to center the bearing compartment. A retaining plate comprising a collar may be positioned over the nut. A swaging tool comprising a swaging ramp may be positioned over the nut. The swaging tool may be forced against the retaining plate using a draw-in bolt. The swaging ramp may contact the collar and form indentations in the collar to lock the nut in place.
US10208776B2
A clamp and method of use may be configured to detect whether a clamp is properly secured to an object, and whether that proper securement is maintained. One embodiment of a clamp may include a first portion and a second portion. The relative positions of the first and second portions may be selectively adjusted using a positioner. A sensor assembly may be secured between said first and second portions to determine if the first portion engages the work piece with the proper force. Multiple clamps may be used on a single work piece, and those clamps may be in communication with a common controller to alert the user when any clamp experiences a force other than the force the user desires.
US10208773B2
A system may comprise a first sensor; a second sensor; and an electronic control module. The electronic control module may be configured to determine a flow of the fluid based on information regarding the pressure from the first sensor and information regarding the temperature from the second sensor; determine a portion of the flow of the fluid that is directed to a particle counter of the machine; receive, from the particle counter, information identifying a quantity of particles in the portion of the flow of the fluid; determine a quality of the fluid based on the quantity of particles; determine whether the flow of the fluid exceeds a flow threshold or whether the quality of the fluid is less than a quality threshold; and take a remedial action when the flow of the fluid exceeds the flow threshold or the quality of the fluid is less than the quality threshold.
US10208771B2
A two-stage, fully self-retracting, telescopic fluid actuator suitable for high speed ejection applications comprises a detent 38, 64, 26, which locks a cylinder 6 in an extended position for extension of a piston 3 therefrom. The detent is released by retraction of the piston into the cylinder again, e.g. under spring bias, so that the actuator is fully self-retracting. A locking ball 38 of the detent also serves to latch the piston and cylinder to each other for the first stage of the actuator extension. In an alternative embodiment, cam means (80, 117 FIGS. 10, 11 and 13) and plungers (90, FIGS. 10, 12, 13 and 15) perform the detent and latching functions.
US10208765B2
The present invention relates to an axial compressor for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft engine, having at least one rotor blade or guide vane having a blade or vane element, which is arranged in a flow duct, and a leading edge and a trailing edge, which are joined to each other through a pressure side and a suction side, wherein, a new and novel profile section of the blade or vane element is provided.
US10208755B2
An electrical submersible pump assembly has a magnetic coupling between the motor shaft and the pump shaft. The coupling includes motor shaft disks mounted to the motor shaft, each having upward and downward facing disk surfaces joined by an outward facing disk cylindrical surface. Motor shaft magnets are mounted in each of the disk cylindrical surfaces and in the upward and downward facing disk surfaces. A pump shaft rotor mounted to the pump shaft has annular bands axially separated from each other by recesses into which the disks extend. Rotor magnets are mounted in each of the recess cylindrical surfaces and in upward and downward facing band surfaces. The magnets in the recesses interact with the magnets on the disks.
US10208751B2
A second space communicated with a first space through communicating paths is provided on an outer circumferential side of first and second scroll bodies. Scroll end portions of the first and second scroll bodies form an inlet port configured to suck gas refrigerant into a compression chamber from the second space. Open ends of the communicating paths on a side of the second space are located at an angle larger than 0° and less than or equal to 180°, around a central axis of a rotating shaft portion, from the inlet ports in a scroll involute direction of the first scroll body and the second scroll body, respectively. Injection ports in a part of an outer circumference of the second space between the open ends and the inlet ports in a circumferential direction are configured to eject liquid refrigerant in a direction toward the inlet ports, respectively.
US10208748B2
The present invention concerns an installation for pumping hydrocarbons, including a pump submerged in a well and a motor for driving the pump, said motor being linked to a variable frequency drive powered during normal operation by an external network, the drive including a rectifier supplying a DC bus, an inverter supplied by the DC bus and linked to the motor, and a controller, said installation wherein it further includes an electricity storage element linked by a reversible DC-DC converter to the DC bus, the installation being arranged to ensure the variable frequency drive is supplied by the storage element in case of an interruption to the supply via the external network.
US10208746B2
A system for controlling the mixing ratio of a multi-component mixture including a first pump connectable to a source of a first component and a second pump connectable to a source of a second component. The first and second pump being associated with at least one linear sensor for generating an output indicative of actual pump speed or shaft displacement of the pump. The system further includes a control circuit operative to utilize the output of the linear sensor of one of the pumps to generate a control signal for controlling the output of the other pump.
US10208743B2
A piston cylinder arrangement for an air compressor including a cylinder, a connecting rod having a wrist pin receiving end, a wrist pin provided in the wrist pin receiving end of the connecting rod, and a piston provided on the connecting rod via the wrist pin and positioned within the cylinder. At least one passageway may be defined in the wrist pin to permit air to flow into the wrist pin from the cylinder.
US10208742B2
An arrangement for damping vibrations during microscopic examinations of inorganic and organic material specimens in an evacuated measuring at low temperatures that are cooled by an electromechanical cryocooler suppresses transfer of vibrations from the cryocooler onto the specimen, the microscope table and the instrument table. The arrangement includes a cryocooler unit and a microscopy unit combined with a damping unit preferably located on a common longitudinal axis. The damping unit has a series arrangement of inter-coupled evacuable compensation chambers arranged along the longitudinal axis, the series arrangement being combined with damper groups, two of which act at least diametrically. A clamping unit is operationally connected to the damping unit at at least two points on the series arrangement. A tension force of the damping unit is adjustable.
US10208741B2
A method for operating a linear compressor is provided. The method includes estimating an acceleration of the motor of the linear compressor using at least a robust integral of the sign of the error feedback. A position of the motor of the linear compressor when the motor of the linear compressor is at the bottom dead center point is also determined based at least in part on a measured current to the motor of the linear compressor and an estimated acceleration of the motor. The position of the motor of the linear compressor when the motor of the linear compressor is at a top dead center point is calculated based at least in part on the position of the motor of the linear compressor when the motor of the linear compressor is at the bottom dead center point and a stroke length of the motor of the linear compressor.
US10208732B2
The present invention relates to an intelligent wind turbine generator, which comprises a first blade module, a second blade module, a power generating module, and a control module. The second blade module is disposed at the first blade module. The power generating module is connected with the first and second blade modules. The control module is connected with the power generating module, the first blade module, and the second blade module. The first and second blade modules rotate, driving the power generating module to generate power. The control module detects a voltage value generated by the power generating module and judges if the voltage value is greater or lower than a predetermined value. The control module controls whether the first and second blade modules overlap or not. The intelligent wind turbine generator is able to switch automatically the blade number of the wind turbine generator.
US10208729B2
A specialty nut and specialty ratchet driver device used to start an internal combustion engine, each with an integrated one direction clutch, designed to be an attachment for a commercially available battery operated drill/driver gun. The specialty ratchet driver with an integrated one direction clutch is inserted into the driver receptacle of the socket placed over the nut on the crank shaft of the engine. One end of a drive shaft is inserted into the one direction clutch portion of the specialty ratchet driver device and the other end of the drive shaft is inserted into the chuck of a battery operated drill/driver gun. The torque of the drill/driver gun turns the crank shaft of the engine with sufficient force to initiate starting of the engine. The one direction clutch then allows the engine to turn faster than the drill/driver so as not to impede the engine start up.
US10208724B2
A fuel supply device includes: a linear actuator; a reciprocating pump having a boosting piston driven by the linear actuator and configured to reciprocate in an axial direction, the reciprocating pump being configured to suck the fuel when the boosting piston moves in a first direction and configured to boost and eject the fuel when the boosting piston moves in a second direction; and a controller configured to control driving of the linear actuator so as to adjust an amount of the fuel ejected from a boosting cylinder per reciprocating time by adjusting a ratio of a fuel ejection time and a fuel suction time of the reciprocating pump without changing the reciprocating time of the boosting piston in accordance with a load of the internal combustion engine. The adjustment adjusts a stroke length of the boosting piston and a moving speed of the boosting piston in the second direction.
US10208722B2
A first injection hole included by an injection nozzle is formed such that an angle that a first virtual line passing a first inner-wall-side center point away from a center axis by a predetermined first distance, forms with the center axis becomes a first injection angle, and an angle that first injection hole inner walls form becomes a first open angle. A second injection hole included by the injection nozzle is formed such that an angle that a second virtual line passing a second inner-wall-side center point away from the center axis by a predetermined second distance, forms with the center axis becomes a second injection angle that is smaller than the first injection angle, and an angle that second injection hole inner walls form becomes a second open angle that is larger than the first open angle.
US10208719B2
The present invention relates to a device (1) for the thermal management of the intake air of an internal combustion engine (3) equipped with a turbocharger (5), said device comprising: a first heat exchanger (7) placed in the air intake circuit (9), a second heat exchanger (10) placed on the main exhaust line (12) and connected to the first heat exchanger (7) to form a heating loop (A), said thermal management device (1) furthermore comprising a so-called low-pressure exhaust gas recuperation system (14), comprising a first take-off (141) placed downstream of the turbine (5b), an outlet (142) placed upstream of the compressor (5a), and a control valve (140), the second heat exchanger (10) being placed between the turbine (5b) and the first take-off (141), the main exhaust line (12) comprising a take-off branch (26) between a second take-off (201) placed on the main exhaust line (12) upstream of the second heat exchanger (10), a take-off device (200) able to manage the circulation of the exhaust gases, and an outlet (202).
US10208718B2
An air intake system for directing intake air to an internal combustion engine of a machine is disclosed. The air intake system may comprise an air compressor configured to increase a pressure of the intake air, and a membrane unit downstream of the air compressor and having a membrane with selectivity for siloxanes. The membrane may have a first side and a second side, and the first side may be exposed to a higher pressure than the second side when the air compressor is operating. The membrane may be configured to separate the intake air into a permeate that traverses the membrane from the first side to the second side, and a retenate that remains on the first side. The permeate may have a higher siloxane content than the retenate. The retenate may be directed to the internal combustion engine for combustion.
US10208716B2
An internal combustion engine system includes a first EGR valve to control flow in a first flow path, and a second EGR valve to control flow in a second flow path. A temperature sensor is disposed in the exhaust gas feedstream upstream of the exhaust purifying device, and a controller is in communication with the internal combustion engine and the temperature sensor and is operatively connected to the first and second EGR valves. The controller executes a routine to monitor the temperature of the exhaust gas feedstream upstream of the exhaust purifying device and control the first valve to control flow of exhaust gas to the air intake system via the first flow path and control the second valve to control flow of exhaust gas to the air intake system via the second flow path based upon the temperature of the exhaust gas feedstream upstream of the exhaust purifying device.
US10208715B1
A power train system includes an exhaust manifold having an exhaust flow and a control valve for releasing exhaust gas, and layered material defining an integrated engine cylinder head and an exhaust gas recirculator, connected to the exhaust flow and the valve, including a tubular inlet defining a plurality of branches around the cylinder head and having a plurality of nozzles extending into cavities of intake ports of the cylinder head. Each of the branches surrounding an exterior surface of one of the intake ports such that there is no seal between the recirculator and the cylinder head.
US10208701B2
A control apparatus is provided, which controls combustion state such that the Heat Release Rate Barycentric Position (Gc) coincides with the Target Barycentric Position (Gc*), and which can prevent an increase in the combustion noise caused by an increase in an ignition lag which occurs in a case where an EGR apparatus is in execution, and, a rotational speed is low or an engine load is low. The control apparatus (ECU70) prevents the increase in the ignition lag by increasing a supercharging pressure of a supercharger (44) which the engine (10) is equipped with, thus, it prevents the increase in the combustion noise.
US10208687B2
Systems and methods for operating an engine with an oil pump that supplies engine oil to various oil consumers in an engine are presented. In one example, a displacement of a variable displacement engine oil pump is adjusted to provide sufficient oil pressure throughout the engine, but low enough to conserve fuel.
US10208682B2
A method for maximizing a fuel efficiency of an engine includes the steps of providing an engine including a plurality of cylinder bores formed therein, disposing at least one first permanent magnet on a piston and at least one second permanent magnet on the throw, disposing a plurality of electromagnets in the engine block, selectively attracting and repelling the at least one first and second permanent magnets with a magnetic field of the electromagnets to affect a motion of the piston in respect of the engine block and deactivating and reactivating the plurality of cylinder bores in a desired sequence by stopping a flow of fuel thereto and a flow of electrical energy to a spark plug for a deactivated cylinder bore without deactivating an intake valve or an exhaust valve for the deactivated cylinder bore.
US10208681B2
A continuous variable valve timing apparatus may include a camshaft, a cam device on which a cam is formed respectively and of which the camshaft is inserted thereto, wherein a relative phase angle with respect to the camshaft is variable, an inside bracket configured to transmit rotation of the camshaft to the cam device, a lifter in which the inside bracket is rotatably inserted therein and on which a cylinder opening and a shaft opening are formed thereon, a control shaft parallel to the camshaft and to which a control rod, inserted into the shaft opening, is eccentrically formed, a control cylinder on which a control rod opening where the control rod is inserted therein is formed and inserted into the cylinder opening, a guide portion guiding movement of the lifter and a controller selectively rotating the control shaft, wherein the lifter may move.
US10208679B2
Methods and systems are provided for a parallel arrangement of at least two valved aspirators, with a high pressure source such as an intake throttle inlet coupled to a motive inlet of the arrangement and a low pressure sink such as an intake throttle outlet coupled to a mixed flow outlet of the arrangement. Intake throttle position and respective valves arranged in series with each aspirator of the arrangement are controlled based on intake manifold pressure and/or a desired engine air flow rate, for example such that a combined motive flow rate through the arrangement increases as intake manifold pressure increases. An intake throttle with a fully closed default position may be used in conjunction with the arrangement; during a fault condition where the intake throttle is fully closed, the valves of the arrangement may be controlled to achieve a controllable engine air flow rate during the fault condition.
US10208670B2
The present invention relates to a gas-turbine combustion chamber having a combustion chamber wall, to which combustion chamber tiles are fastened by means of bolts, where in the bolt fastening area in the combustion chamber wall at least one impingement cooling hole is provided, the center axis of which is inclined to the center axis of the bolt and intersects a transition area between the bolt and the combustion chamber tile.
US10208666B2
Methods and associated systems for storing compressed air and extracting energy from the compressed air are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises: compressing air; storing the compressed air in a first storage tank at a first pressure; transferring the compressed air from the first storage tank to a second storage tank; storing the compressed air in the second storage tank at a second pressure lower than the first pressure; discharging the compressed air from the second storage tank; and extracting energy from the compressed air discharged from the second storage tank. The method may also comprise adding heat to the compressed air between the first storage tank and the second storage tank.
US10208664B2
Combustion equipment includes annular combustion chamber having an annular upstream wall structure. Annular outer casing surrounds and is spaced from annular combustion chamber and annular inner casing is within and spaced from annular combustion chamber. Ogee shaped annular cowl is positioned upstream of annular upstream wall structure and a stage of compressor outlet guide vanes is positioned upstream of annular cowl. Pre-diffuser extends in downstream direction from stage of compressor outlet guide vanes, pre-diffuser is positioned upstream of cowl. Stage of compressor outlet guide vanes is connected to outer and inner casing. Outer fairing extends radially inwardly from outer casing such that annular outer casing, outer fairing and pre-diffuser define annular outer cavity and outer fairing is spaced from cowl or inner fairing extends radially outwardly from inner casing such that annular inner casing, inner fairing and pre-diffuser define an annular inner cavity and inner fairing is spaced from cowl.
US10208663B2
The invention relates to a cylinder head cover for a motor vehicle, said cylinder head cover being made of plastic material and being provided with an integrated camshaft timing mechanism.
US10208656B2
A supercharger rotor with reduced rotational inertia may result in increased performance of a supercharger. The rotor may include composite material and may be extrusion molded, injection molded, or otherwise molded or laid-up. In certain embodiments, the rotor may include a core with a central portion and one or more radially extending portions. The core may be extruded or formed of stacked sheets. A molded portion of the rotor, including one or more lobes, may be molded over a corresponding one of the radially extending portions. In other embodiments, a main portion of the rotor includes one or more lobes but no central hole nor a corresponding shaft extending between ends of the main portion. Instead, stub shafts are attached to the ends of the main portion. The increased performance may include decreased noise, decreased cost, increased reliability and/or durability, increased thermal efficiency, an increased power-to-weight ratio, etc.
US10208653B2
A pre-chamber body for an engine is disclosed. The pre-chamber body may have a pre-chamber. The pre-chamber body may also have flow transfer channels fluidly connecting the pre-chamber and an exterior of the pre-chamber body. Each flow transfer channel extends along a flow transfer channel axis (B) from an inner opening via a throat section to an outer opening. A cross-section of the flow transfer channels converges from a first cross section (A1) of the inner opening to a second cross-section (A2) of the throat section and diverges from the second cross-section (A2) to a third cross-section (A3) of the outer opening along the flow transfer channel axis (B). At least one of the inner opening and the outer opening has an oval shape with a maximum diameter (a1, a3) and a minimum diameter (b1, b3), the maximum diameter (a1, a3) being greater than the minimum diameter (b1, b3).
US10208651B2
In certain embodiments, a unique method and pre-combustion chamber (PCC) structure may ensure very efficient flame propagation of lean fuel-air mixture in natural gas engines by reducing the amount of fuel admitted to the PCC. A PCC may include an enclosed volume of 1-3% of the main combustion chamber volume, with a spark plug and a fuel passage located opposite one or more PCC discharge nozzles to create a relatively richer fuel-air mixture with relatively lower turbulence in the spark plug region and a relatively leaner fuel-air mixture with relatively high turbulence in the nozzle region, which can be reliably and efficiently ignited, resulting in a high velocity flame jet/torch emerging from the prechamber into the main chamber. The PCC may be threaded with a 22 mm×1.5 or ⅞″-18 thread size, to allow the PCC to be screwed into a cylinder head in place of a spark plug.
US10208639B2
A structure pof muffler may include a housing which has a space therein, and has a first side connected to an inlet pipe into which exhaust gas flows, a first baffle which divides an interior of the housing into a front chamber and an intermediate chamber connected to the inlet pipe, a second baffle which divides the interior of the housing into a rear chamber and the intermediate chamber connected to the inlet pipe, and a discharge pipe which is mounted to penetrate the first baffle and the second baffle, and mounted such that a first end of the discharge pipe is positioned in the rear chamber, and a second end of the discharge pipe extends through the front chamber and penetrates the housing.
US10208635B2
A composite structure includes: a cover plate having a countersunk hole and a plate side fitting hole; a bearing plate having a screw hole and a screw side fitting hole located opposite from the plate side fitting hole through the screw hole; and a plate screw component including a screw part engaged with the screw hole, and a plate side fitting part and a screw side fitting part respectively fitted with the plate side fitting hole and the screw side fitting hole to be in alignment with each other. A difference δϕa in diameter between the plate side fitting hole and the plate side fitting part, a difference δϕb in diameter between the screw side fitting hole and the screw side fitting part, and an effective difference δϕc in diameter between the screw hole and the screw part satisfy a dimensional relation of δϕa<δϕc and δϕb<δϕc.
US10208632B2
An adjustable camshaft may include an outer shaft that is hollow and an inner shaft received in the outer shaft and rotatable in the outer shaft. The inner shaft may include a cavity into which oil can be applied. At least a first radial opening may be configured in the outer shaft and at least a second radial opening may be configured in the inner shaft. Thus oil can flow between the cavity and an outside of the outer shaft during overlap of the first radial opening and the second radial opening. The first radial opening on an inside of the outer shaft may have a greater cross-section than on the outside of the outer shaft.
US10208630B2
A steam power plant and method for operation the steam power plant is provided, that comprises: a main water-steam-cycle with a high pressure (HP) steam turbine, an intermediate pressure (IP) steam turbine and a low pressure (LP) steam turbine, a condenser, and a feed water tank, wherein low pressure heaters are arranged between said condenser and said feed water tank and wherein a plurality of high pressure heaters are arranged downstream of said feed water tank, whereby said low pressure heaters, said feed water tank and said plurality of high pressure heaters are supplied with steam from a plurality of extractions at said steam turbines.
US10208628B2
A turbine engine incorporating a fine particle separation means includes a radial compressor that rotates about a longitudinal axis, a radially-oriented diffuser located downstream and radially outward, with respect to the longitudinal axis, from the radial compressor, and a flow path positioned downstream and radially outward, with respect to the longitudinal axis, from the diffuser, wherein the flow path comprises an outer annular wall and an inner annular wall between which the compressed air flows, and wherein the flow path comprises an arc the redirects the compressed air from flowing in a substantially radial flow direction to a substantially axial flow direction. The turbine engine further includes an extraction slot in the outer annular wall that fluidly connects with a scavenge plenum, the scavenge plenum being positioned adjacent to and radially outward from the outer annular wall at a position downstream axially along the flow path from the arc.
US10208622B2
A gas turbine engine comprises an exhaust section member, a turbine section member, a heat shield and a spacer. The turbine section member is coupled to the exhaust section member. The heat shield is retained between the exhaust section member and the turbine section member. The spacer is positioned between the exhaust section member and the turbine section member to produce a gap for the heat shield. In one embodiment, the exhaust section member comprises a duct and the turbine section member comprises a bearing support.
US10208618B2
An exemplary variable vane actuation system for a gas turbine engine includes a vane arm attachable to a vane stem and configured to rotate the vane stem about a radially extending axis. The vane arm includes a claw feature to be press-fit onto the vane stem.
US10208615B2
A non-contact seal assembly is provided. This assembly includes a plurality of seal shoes, a seal base and a plurality of spring elements. The seal shoes are arranged about a centerline in an annular array. The seal shoes include a first seal shoe extending axially along the centerline between a first shoe end and a second shoe end. An aperture may extend partially axially into the first seal shoe from the first shoe end and laterally within the first seal shoe. The seal base circumscribes the annular array of the seal shoes. Each of the spring elements is radially between and connects a respective one of the seal shoes with the seal base.
US10208614B2
Apparatuses are disclosed including a first article, a second article, a sewing member and a thermal break. The second article includes a second material composition having a second thermal tolerance greater than a first thermal tolerance of a first material composition of the first article. The sealing member is disposed between and contacts the first article and the second article, and includes a third material composition having a third thermal tolerance less than the second thermal tolerance and less than an operating temperature of the second article. The thermal break is defined by the second article, and is proximate to the sealing member and partitioned from the sealing member by a portion of the second article. The thermal break interrupts a thermal conduction path from the second article to the sealing member. The first article and the second article compress the sealing member, forming a thermal gradient-tolerant seal.
US10208610B2
A ring seal assembly is provided. The ring seal assembly may comprise an air side ring seal and an oil side ring seal. The air side ring seal may have one or more axial and radial grooves. The oil side ring seal may also have one or more axial and radial grooves, and may have circumferential slots in fluid communication with one or more of the grooves. The oil side ring seal may have an extended leg protruding towards the air side ring seal. The extended leg and a forward outer surface of the oil side ring seal and an aft outer surface of the air side ring seal may define a spring cavity.
US10208607B2
A cooling circuit according to an embodiment includes: a cooling circuit for a multi-wall blade, the cooling circuit including: a pressure side cavity with a surface adjacent a pressure side of the multi-wall blade; a suction side cavity with a surface adjacent a suction side of the multi-wall blade; a central cavity disposed between the pressure side and suction side cavities, the central cavity including no surfaces adjacent the pressure and suction sides of the multi-wall blade; a first leading edge cavity with surfaces adjacent the pressure and suction sides of the multi-wall blade; and at least one impingement opening for fluidly coupling the leading edge cavity with a second leading edge cavity.
US10208588B2
In an example implementation, communications between a downhole logging tool and surface computing subsystem can be provided through a cable that includes one or more electrical conductors. To allow multiple channels of data to be transmitted along a single multi-conductor cable, data can be divided into two or more different channels, and each channel of data can be transmitted along the conductors. Due to the length of the cable, the electrical conductors of the cable may be subject to strong capacitive and inductive coupling. As a consequence of this coupling, signals sent downhole along any two arbitrary conductors may be subject to distortion, and can produce significant “crosstalk” on the other conductors. The effects of crosstalk can be reduced in a variety of ways, for example using QR decomposition.
US10208579B2
Oil and gas recovery includes selecting a previously used oil or gas containing layer in which cumulative perforation was utilized, closing micro cracks over a thickness of the oil or gas containing layer, carrying out slotting of the oil or gas containing layer to form slots, producing micro cracks over the thickness of the oil or gas containing layer, carrying out hydraulic fracturing of the oil or gas containing layer, and withdrawing oil or gas from the oil or gas containing layer with maintaining of a pressure in the well.
US10208574B2
Techniques for controlling flow of a wellbore fluid include positioning a plurality of inflow control assemblies on a pipe joint in a wellbore, the pipe joint including a proximal end engageable with a first downhole tool and a distal end engageable with a second downhole tool; receiving a flow of a wellbore fluid from a subterranean zone to an inlet of at least one inflow control device (ICD), the at least one ICD mounted in each of the plurality of inflow control assemblies, the flow at a velocity that is less than the transport velocity of fines in the wellbore fluid; and transmitting the flow of the wellbore fluid to the pipe joint from the ICDs to an interior of the pipe joint.
US10208566B2
A tubing string ported sub including a valve covering the port that can be opened by a pressure differential established across the valve. The valve includes an exposed portion that can be engaged to mechanically shift the valve.
US10208562B2
An expansive additive composition for use in Portland cements and a method of using such an additive composition is provided. The additive composition can include a calcium aluminate cement additive and a lithium compound. The additive composition is capable of producing expansion in set cements when the temperature is at or below room temperature and minimizes the amount of calcium aluminate cement additive needed.
US10208549B2
This invention relates to an activating tool (1) for connecting to and displacing a component (40) in a well tube (4), activating tool (1) includes a driving device (8) axially displaced in two axial directions; a sleeve-shaped release element (14) with an annular end portion (52); a gripper holder (20) arranged axially displaceable in release element (14) and displaced by driving device (8); axially longitudinal recesses (24) in gripper holder (20); at least two radially displaceable gripping elements (26) spring-biased in a radial outward direction, positioned in respective recesses (24) and complementarily fitting respective cut-outs (42) in the component (40), and each gripping element (26) has a slanted rear portion (48); gripping elements (26) retracted into release element (14) in passive positions of gripping elements (26), and gripping elements (26), at least partially, displaced out of release element (14) in active positions of gripping elements (26) so end portion (52) hits slanted rear portions (48) of gripping elements (26) when gripper holder (20) is pulled inwards in release element (14), gripping elements (26) optionally switched between active and passive positions. A method for changing gripping element (26) in the activating tool (1) is described.
US10208548B2
The present disclosure concerns a method for detecting gain or loss of drilling fluid in a drilling installation, said drilling installation comprising a drilling pipe, drilling fluid pits and a hydraulic connection between the pits and the drilling pipe. Said method comprises: providing (116, 118), during a first period, a set of measurement values (vai,m; vcj,m) representative of a volume of drilling fluid in each of the pits belonging to a predetermined group (112, 113); then based on volume measurement values, identifying (148) volume variations occurring during the first period for the pits of the predetermined group, each volume variation of a pit being associated with a volume variation period; calculating (162), for each measuring time (tm), a corrected cumulated volume of drilling fluid (V′m) for the pits of the predetermined group, based on the identified volume variation occurring in at least a sub-group (113) of the predetermined group, and estimating (163) a first value (Am) for a gain or loss of drilling fluid at a measuring time (tm) by comparing the corrected cumulated volume (V′m) with an expected value (V0).
US10208538B2
A stepladder includes a pipe/tube holder attached to the rear side for holding pipe and/or a strap bender attached to a rail or a rear rung through which a strap is inserted to be bent, and/or a utility hook attached to the rear side. A method for cutting a pipe. A method for using a tool. A method for bending a strap.
US10208531B2
A strand of sealing compound is expelled from a nozzle into an edge joint of an insulating glass element to form around it a contiguous sealing compound bead. The sealing compound bead is formed discontinuously from several segments. At least one first segment is formed by the relative movement in a first circumferential direction of the insulating glass element, and at least one second segment is formed by the relative movement in a second, opposite circumferential direction. Each connection of segments of the sealing compound bead which is situated on a longitudinal side section of the circumference of the insulating glass element is formed such that the strand of the sealing compound is applied in the region of the end of a sealing compound bead already situated in the edge joint and is formed by the relative movement away from the end.
US10208529B2
A tilt-up door for a building having an opening including a door frame with vertical track members, cam surfaces extending laterally from the vertical tracks at the upper portion of the tracks and a door sized to span the opening. The door can be pivotally coupled with rollers disposed within the vertical tracks and cam followers extending laterally from the upper portion of the door to contact the cam surfaces. When an upwardly directed motive force acts on the door the cam followers come into engagement with the cam surface to lift the door generally vertically and then rotate the door inwardly as the door is raised into an open raised position.
US10208524B2
A machine tool system includes: a machine tool that includes an openable door configured to block an opening of a cover surrounding the machine tool, and a door driving unit configured to open and close the door; and a work exchange device configured to exchange a work disposed in the cover. Further, the machine tool system includes: a first opening width setting unit configured to set a door opening width of the door; a second opening width setting unit configured to set a turnback opening width; and a door control unit configured to control the door driving unit to move the door in an opening direction from a completely closed position of the door to a position of the turnback opening width of the door, then move the door in a closing direction and stop the door at a position of the door opening width.
US10208518B2
An assembly for mounting a door with a vehicle compartment includes an arm coupled with the compartment and with the door and a constant-force spring having a coil coupled with one of the door and the compartment and an end coupled with the other of the door and the compartment such that a contraction of the spring causes the door to move with rotation of the arm.
US10208515B2
The present disclosure shows an anti-rotation device for a lock system in a motor vehicle, comprising a base cover unit having an opening for passage of a lock system; a cover unit; a rotor rotatably attached to a back side of the base cover unit by a latch mechanism, in which the rotor has a radial rib structure; a hollow receiving body accommodating the rotor and having a recess; and an interlock system on a circumferential line of the recess of the receiving body. On rotation of the rotor in the receiving body the position of the rotor in the receiving body is ascertained by the contact of the interlock system with the rib structure.
US10208502B2
A tent system may include a base system adapted to mount to a roof of a vehicle, an inflatable tent frame, and a canopy. The base system may include a rigid platform and an air delivery mechanism integrated into the base system, the air delivery mechanism may have an air port adapted to receive pressurized air. The tent system may include an inflatable tent frame including an inflatable tube coupled with the base system, the inflatable tube having an air inlet coupled with the air delivery mechanism, the air inlet receiving the pressurized air from the air delivery mechanism into the inflatable tube, the inflatable tube adapted to support a tent canopy when the inflatable tube is inflated using the pressurized air. The tent canopy may be attached to the base.
US10208500B2
Disclosed are illumination tent poles, tent frames and tents having one or more illumination tent poles. An illumination tent pole includes a tent pole, an elongated casing, a strip light source and a cover. The elongated casing is coupled to the tent pole or integrally formed with the tent pole. The elongated casing has an opening along a longitudinal direction of the elongated casing and facing away from the tent pole. The strip light source is disposed in the elongated casing along the longitudinal direction of the elongated casing. The strip light source emits a light when electrically connected to an electrical power source. The cover is coupled to the elongated casing and covers the opening of the elongated casing. The cover is made of a material that is at least partially transparent to the light emitted by the strip light source.
US10208486B2
The invention relates to a ventilated wall for buildings comprising a thin coating or first layer (1) comprised of porcelain or ceramic stoneware, of marble, of travertine or of volcanic stone or of cement compounds, suitable for being provided at a distance from said building to realize an interspace for air circulation, said ventilated wall comprising a reinforcement system (10) for said first layer (1) comprising, on the side faced toward said building, a second fiberglass layer (2), coupled with said first layer (1), a third layer (3) comprised of foamed material, and a fourth layer (4), the coupling of said layers (1, 2, 3, 4) being realized by gluing material having flexibility properties.
US10208475B2
A building module has an exterior shape generally of a cuboid having side, end, top and bottom faces, and fabricated from metal, the module being hollow and defining a space of a size suitable for occupation by a person. The module includes fastening elements (21, 69) to allow the module to be fastened to another adjacent module and to allow for engagement by standard load handling equipment for handling freight containers. The module has an overall exterior width greater than 2700 mm and includes a first set of fastening elements (21, 69A, 69B, 69C, 69D) in the region of a first end of the top of the module and a second end of the top of the module. The fastening elements of each set include two fastening elements (e.g. 21 and 69C) spaced apart from one another at a center-to-center spacing (D) of about (2260) mm.
US10208464B1
A portable grooming device is detachably coupled to a shower, sink, or bathtub and includes a shower head style, flow-through hair-comb and flexible hose, through which water will travel, making the act of washing, conditioning, and combing one's hair, easier, more enjoyable, more effective, and more convenient. The portable grooming device includes a flexible hose configured to be detachably coupled to an existing water-supply source, and a comb in fluid communication with the flexible hose wherein the comb is detachably mated to the hose. Advantageously, the comb is configured to discharge fluid outwardly and away therefrom.
US10208463B2
A water well head casing adapter for attachment to a water well head casing providing a two piece body engaged within the head casing of the water well with an inner formed cavity securing a baffle comprising a plurality of flexible wafer inserts defining a linear bore, the linear bore forming a seal around an air pressure hose to introduce pressurized air into the water well casing without water or air escaping between the air hose and the linear bore, the water well head casing adapter used to reduce the time and improve the efficiency required to purge and to blow out unsanitary water in the water well casing and water lines of a newly drilled water well.
US10208461B2
A wing shroud is provided for an earth moving machine bucket adapted to be positioned at least partially on a tooth adapter and/or at least partially on a lateral plate of the bucket for protecting wear sensitive bucket parts. The wing shroud includes at least one self-lock mechanism for a detachable connection to the bucket.
US10208441B2
A pull-behind 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 water reservoir where it is stored and melted for redeposit onto the skating surface.
US10208435B2
The present invention relates to an attachment screed unit for a road paver, comprising a connecting screed, at least one adjusting screed which is adjustably mounted on the connecting screed and which is adjustable between a retracted position (P1) and an extended position (P2), as a result of which the paving width (b4) of the attachment screed unit can be set in a variable manner, and a hydraulic adjusting device, which is arranged in such a manner that it can adjust the at least one adjusting screed between the retracted position (P1) and the extended position (P2), the adjusting device comprising an electro-hydraulic unit which is arranged on the attachment screed unit (10), and the electric hydraulic unit comprising a separate hydraulic circuit with at least one hydraulic pump and an actuator. The present invention further relates to a road paver with such an attachment screed unit.
US10208433B2
A heating device (1) comprising: an energy well (2), a heat pump (3) which is adapted to take up and transfer heat from the energy well (2) by the aid of a line from the energy well to the heat pump (3) for transport of anti-freeze liquid, a heat extraction device (4) connected to a heat pump (3) which selectively can be brought into a connected and a disconnected position, thaw coils (5) for thawing ground surrounding the thaw coils (5), in which the anti-freeze liquid is transportable, which thaw coils (5) selectively can be connected and disconnected to the line from the energy well to the heat pump (3), a heat exchanger (7) connected to the heat extraction device (4) adapted to selectively transfer heat to the thaw coils (5) by the aid of the heat extraction device (4), a control system (6) which is adapted for controlling the heating device (1) whereby low temperature heat from the energy well (2) alternatively high temperature heat from the heat pump (3) and the heat extraction device (4) selectively can be used for pre-heating, thawing, or maintenance heating ground surrounding the thaw coils (5).
US10208430B1
A guardrail system for use along a roadway. The system can include a longitudinal body having one or more longitudinal void spaces formed therein, at least one substantially vertical post connected at one or both ends of the body, and a longitudinal member disposed within any one of the longitudinal void spaces of the body having a crosswise ultimate tensile strength that is at least 20% greater than the crosswise ultimate tensile strength of the longitudinal body.
US10208429B2
An improved adhesive composition having increased insulative properties is provided. The adhesive composition having improved insulative properties includes a starch component; an alkaline component; sodium tetraborate; water; and a plurality of expandable microspheres. Products having improved insulation capabilities and methods of making the products having improved insulation capabilities are also provided. The present adhesive and products including the adhesive is environmentally friendly.
US10208428B2
A coated paper with enhanced properties and/or lower cost can be obtained by using a coating that contains a binder and stanchion-encapsulated titanium dioxide. The stanchion-encapsulated titanium dioxide can provide the same or similar brightness, gloss, and/or opacity while using less titanium dioxide.
US10208424B2
A device for refreshing fabrics by reducing malodors and/or wrinkles without requiring that the fabrics to be put through an entire standard laundry process. The device comprises an extractable drawer which is pulled out of the device to allow for loading of a fabric into a receiving region. The extractable drawer can then be closed transporting the fabric into the interior of the device. A fabric treatment composition is sprayed or otherwise dispensed onto the fabrics when the device is operated. The device comprises an air flow path and a heating element which allows for the fabrics to be treated during use. The extractable drawer of the present invention can be positioned to extract laterally or vertically out of the shell of the device.
US10208418B2
A washing machine of the present invention includes: an inner tub receiving laundry; a pulsator rotatably disposed in the inner tub; and guides disposed on the pulsator and guiding washing water, which is turned circumferentially in the inner tub, to the rotational center axis of the inner tub by hitting against the washing water.
US10208412B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for forming a composite structure comprising rotating a base layer of an apparatus for forming the composite structure about an axis of rotation, transferring carbon short fibers from a first vibratory feed ramp onto the base layer in order to form a plurality of fibrous layers in the composite structure, and vibrating the first vibratory feed ramp during the transferring the carbon short fibers. The base layer may comprise an annular shape.
US10208410B2
A protective textile sleeve and method of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve has a tubular wall of braided yarns extending lengthwise along a central longitudinal axis between opposite ends. At least some of the braided yarns including heat-set yarns, and the wall has a plurality of annular first regions forming generally convex ridges and a plurality of annular second regions forming generally concave valleys. The first regions alternate with the second regions along the central longitudinal axis. The first regions include a plurality of twisted yarns forming a plurality of closed loops, wherein at least some of the braided yarns pass through at least some of the closed loops within the first regions to enhance the radial stiffness and resistance of the wall to kinking.
US10208404B2
Described herein are apparatuses and methods of creating fibers, such as microfibers and nanofibers, that are composed of saccharides. The methods discussed herein employ centrifugal forces to transform saccharide material into fibers. Apparatuses that may be used to create saccharide fibers are also described. Fiber producing devices with features that enhance fiber production and adaptability to different types of fiber are described.
US10208395B2
The embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and apparatus for promoting bubble-free circulation of processing fluids in a recirculation system. Certain disclosed techniques involve passive, mechanical valve designs that promote variable resistance to flow in a drain. Other techniques involve automated flow control schemes that utilize feedback from flow meters, level sensors, etc. to achieve a balanced and bubble-free flow. The disclosed embodiments greatly reduce the incorporation of gas into a processing fluid, in particular as the processing fluid returns from a processing cell to a reservoir.
US10208393B2
There is disclosed an insulated metal substrate, consisting of a dielectric oxide coatings of high crystallinity (>vol 90%) on aluminium, magnesium or titanium and high thermal conductivity (over 6 Wm−1K−1), formed by plasma electrolytic oxidation on a surface comprising aluminium, magnesium or titanium. There is also disclosed a plasma electrolytic oxidation process for generating dielectric oxide coatings of controlled crystallinity on a surface of a metallic workpiece, wherein at least a series of positive pulses of current are applied to the workpiece in an electrolyte so as to generate plasma discharges, wherein discharge currents are restricted to levels no more than 50 mA, discharge durations are restricted to durations of no more than 100 μs and are shorter than the durations of each the positive pulses, and/or by restricting the power of individual plasma discharges to under 15W. There is also disclosed an insulated metal substrate capable of withstanding exposure to high temperatures (over 300° C.) and thermal shock or repeated thermal cycling of over 300° C., as a result of excellent adhesion of the insulating dielectric to the metal substrate, and the mechanically compliant nature of the coating (E˜20-30 GPa). Furthermore, there is disclosed a method of making these insulated metal substrates so thin as to be mechanically flexible or pliable without detriment to their electrical insulation.
US10208388B2
An ion exchange membrane electrolyzer includes an elastic body configured to press on a second electrode so as to bring an ion exchange membrane into close contact with electrodes. The elastic body includes a fixed part fixed to one of a base part and the second electrode, and an elastic part that extends from the fixed part, and is configured to press on the second electrode by elastic deformation. The elastic part is formed so as to be plate-like and formed so as to be corrugated along a direction in which it extends, such that a top part on one side is in contact with the base part and a top part on the other side is in contact with the second electrode.
US10208381B2
Embodiments of a reflective surface and a reflector comprising a reflective surface for use in a thermal decomposition reactor are disclosed. Methods for using the reflective surface, or reflector comprising the reflective surface, to manage a temperature profile in a silicon rod grown in the thermal decomposition reactor are also disclosed. The reflective surface is configured to receive radiant heat energy emitted from an energy emitting region of an elongated polysilicon body grown during chemical vapor deposition onto a silicon filament and reflect at least a portion of the received radiant heat energy to a reflected energy receiving region of the elongated polysilicon body or to a reflected energy receiving region of a second elongated polysilicon body, to thereby add radiant heat energy to the reflected energy receiving region.
US10208380B2
Embodiments described herein relate to apparatus and coating methods to reduce chamber arcing, for example, in HDP-CVD, PECVD, PE-ALD and Etch chambers. The apparatus include a ring shaped gas distributor used for in-situ deposition of coating materials, and a process chamber including the same. The ring shaped gas distributor includes a ring shaped body having at least one gas entrance port disposed on a first side thereof and a plurality of gas distribution ports disposed on a first surface of the ring shaped body. The plurality of gas distribution ports are arranged in a plurality of evenly distributed rows. The plurality of gas distribution ports in a first row of the plurality of evenly distributed rows is adapted to direct gas at an exit angle different from an exit angle of the plurality of gas distribution ports in a second row of the plurality of evenly distributed rows.
US10208370B2
An aluminum alloy contains, in mass percent, Zn: 2.5% or more and less than 5.0%, Mg: 2.2% or more and 3.0% or less, and Ti: 0.001% or more and 0.05% or less, Cu: 0.10% or less, Zr: 0.10% or less, Cr: 0.03% or less, Fe: 0.30% or less, Si: 0.30% or less, and Mn: 0.03% or less, the remainder being composed of Al and unavoidable impurities. In addition, the tensile strength is 380 MPa or more; the electrical conductivity is 38.0% IACS or more; and the metallographic structure is composed of a recrystallized structure.
US10208366B2
A metal matrix composite tool that includes a hard composite portion comprising a reinforcement material infiltrated with a binder material, wherein the reinforcement material comprises a refractory metal component dispersed with reinforcing particles, wherein a surface roughness of the reinforcing particles is at least two times greater than the refractory metal component, wherein the refractory metal component has a failure strain of at least 0.05 and a shear modulus of 200 GPa or less, and wherein the reinforcing particles have a failure strain of 0.01 or less but at least five times less than the failure strain of the refractory metal component, and the reinforcing particles have a shear modulus of greater than 200 GPa and at least two times greater than the shear modulus of the refractory metal component. The reinforcing particles may comprise an intermetallic, a boride, a carbide, a nitride, an oxide, a ceramic, and/or a diamond.
US10208358B2
Virus capsids protect the viral genome and play roles in its delivery and intracellular transport, making them an attractive target for antiviral therapeutics. The difficulty in targeting capsid assembly is to identify molecules that interfere with the weak protein-protein interactions that drive the reaction. We have developed an in vitro assay for capsid assembly that works on a range of viruses at biologically relevant protein concentrations to facilitate screening large libraries of chemicals for lead compounds.
US10208356B1
The disclosure provides for methods, compositions, and kits for multiplex nucleic acid analysis of single cells. The methods, compositions and systems may be used for massively parallel single cell sequencing. The methods, compositions and systems may be used to analyze thousands of cells concurrently. The thousands of cells may comprise a mixed population of cells (e.g., cells of different types or subtypes, different sizes).
US10208347B2
A process of identifying a plurality of biological samples having particular desired attributes by testing pooled samples and selecting, for intended uses such as transfusion, or for subsequent analysis that is thereby enriched for such samples, pooled samples which have, or may have, said desired attributes. The preferred number of samples per pool “d” is determined by selecting an integer value as d which produces the maximum or a value near the maximum of the product of: d times the expected number of unambiguous sample pools, where a sample pool is unambiguous if all of the samples have the desired attributes, and is otherwise ambiguous if at least one sample has the desired attributes. The value selected as d can be greater than the maximum product above, so as to enlarge the total number of samples assayed in determining the desired attributes.
US10208344B2
A method of biomonitoring marine water is provided, as are probes and kits. The method comprises: extracting messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA) from Mytilus species; preparing cDNA from the mRNA; hybridizing a plurality of probes with the cDNA to provide a set of hybridized cDNA, the probes consisting of at least 20 consecutive nucleotides of at least 50 sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1-122; and quantifying an abundance of the set of hybridized cDNA, thereby biomonitoring marine water.
US10208343B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
US10208334B2
Systems, methods and compositions of matter according to the present invention, can be used in capture/enrichment, gene expression profiling and targeted sequencing. Provided are systems, methods and compositions concerning the enhancement of nucleic acid hybridization specificity and controlling the shapes of melting curves revealed by nucleic acid hybrid pairs to optimize nucleic acid analysis. These systems, methods and compositions comprise producing a positively charged surface or surface coating, on the surface of microarray slides or other types of surfaces similarly purposed, which enhances melting curve analysis to the point of allowing detection or differentiation of small changes in sequences between nucleic acid binding partners. The accuracy or resolution of melting curve analysis was to be sufficient to distinguish between the melting of perfect matched dsDNA and dsDNA with the smallest possible change in sequence, a one base pair mismatch.
US10208326B2
The invention relates to recombinant microorganisms and methods for producing manoyl oxide.
US10208324B2
The present invention relates to a recombinant nucleic acid molecule, a recombinant microorganism, to a method for producing alanine and to the use of the recombinant nucleic acid molecule or the recombinant microorganism for the fermentative production of alanine.
US10208317B2
Compositions and methods are provided for modifying a genomic locus of interest in a eukaryotic cell, a mammalian cell, a human cell or a non-human mammalian cell using a large targeting vector (LTVEC) comprising various endogenous or exogenous nucleic acid sequences as described herein. Further methods combine the use of the LTVEC with a CRISPR/Cas system. Compositions and methods for generating a genetically modified non-human animal comprising one or more targeted genetic modifications in their germline are also provided.
US10208312B2
The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules, DNA constructs, plasmids, and methods for post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression using RNA molecules to both repress and activate translation of an open reading frame. Repression of gene expression is achieved through the presence of a regulatory nucleic acid element (the cis-repressive RNA or crRNA) within the 5′ untranslated region (5′ UTR) of an mRNA molecule. The nucleic acid element forms a hairpin (stem/loop) structure through complementary base pairing. The hairpin blocks access to the mRNA transcript by the ribosome, thereby preventing translation. In particular, in embodiments of the invention designed to operate in prokaryotic cells, the stem of the hairpin secondary structure sequesters the ribosome binding site (RBS). In embodiments of the invention designed to operate in eukaryotic cells, the stem of the hairpin is positioned upstream of the start codon, anywhere within the 5′ UTR of an mRNA. A small RNA (trans-activating RNA, or taRNA), expressed in trans, interacts with the crRNA and alters the hairpin structure. This alteration allows the ribosome to gain access to the region of the transcript upstream of the start codon, thereby activating transcription from its previously repressed state.
US10208308B2
The present invention provides matriptase inhibitors and compositions for treating and preventing orthomyxovirus infections such as flue infections. The present invention also provides novel compounds, compositions, methods of use, uses and kits thereof for inhibiting matriptase. Such compounds are useful for treating and prevention orthomyxovirus infections, such as flu infections, and for inhibiting tumor growth, progression and/or metastasis.
US10208306B2
This disclosure relates to methods for promoting bone formation or reducing bone destruction. This disclosure also relates to methods for promoting the recruitment of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) to a local site of injury or surgical intervention in bone to promote healing. In addition, this disclosure relates to methods for reducing or preventing mineral formation or bone growth, or reducing bone mass. The methods disclosed herein are useful for treating conditions such as osteoradionecrosis.
US10208303B2
A solid-core ring-magnet having one or more cavities is provided. The magnet can have an overall cylindrical shape or a rectangular-prism shape. In either case, a portion of cavity walls of the magnet are ring shaped, causing the magnetic field lines to emanate from the magnet in the shape of a ring. The diameter of the ring shaped cavities can be constant throughout, constant through a portion of the cavity, variant throughout, or variant through a portion of the cavity. The cavities open to the end of the magnet, and terminate toward the core of the magnet. Also provided are systems and kits having solid-core ring-magnets. Methods of purifying a macromolecule using the solid-core ring-magnets are also provided.
US10208299B2
Recombinant human alpha glucosidase (rhGAA) composition derived from CHO cells that contains a more optimized glycan composition consisting of a higher amount of rhGAA containing N-glycans carrying mannose-6-phosphate (M6P) or bis-M6P than conventional rhGAAs, along with low amount of non-phosphorylated high mannose glycans, and low amount of terminal galactose on complex oligosaccharides. Compositions containing the rhGAA, and methods of use are described.
US10208295B2
The present invention provides, among other things, methods of treating phenylketonuria (PKU), including administering to a subject in need of treatment a composition comprising an mRNA encoding phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) at an effective dose and an administration interval such that at least one symptom or feature of PKU is reduced in intensity, severity, or frequency or has delayed in onset. In some embodiments, the mRNA is encapsulated in a liposome comprising one or more cationic lipids, one or more non-cationic lipids, one or more cholesterol-based lipids and one or more PEG-modified lipids.
US10208294B2
The disclosure relates to acyl-ACP reductase (AAR) enzyme variants that result in improved fatty aldehyde and fatty alcohol production when expressed in recombinant host cells. The disclosure further relates to methods of making and using such AAR variants for the production of fatty alcohol compositions having particular characteristics.
US10208288B2
The present invention provides methods to promote differentiation of pancreatic endoderm cells to pancreatic endocrine rich clusters and to enhance insulin expression in hormone-expressing cells.
US10208281B2
The invention relates to a method for cultivating cells in adhesion culture, comprising at least the following steps: a) dissolving or suspending a cross-linkable, biocompatible material having adhesion points for cells in a cell culture medium; b) suspending cells in the cell culture medium, which contains the cross-linkable, biocompatible material, or in a medium that contains at least one component that is required for the cross-linking of the cross-linkable, biocompatible material; c) introducing the cell suspension into a medium in drops under conditions that initiate or permit the cross-linking of the biocompatible material, wherein either the cell suspension or the medium into which the cell suspension is introduced in drops contains the cross-linkable biocompatible material; d) forming stable, preferably porous capsules from cross-linked biocompatible material, which capsules contain incorporated adherent cells; e) proliferating the adherent cells in the capsules for a specified time period; f) breaking up the capsule material by means of a physical or chemical stimulus and releasing the cells as a cell suspension. In an especially preferred embodiment of the invention, the method is performed cyclically, in that the cells released in step f) are suspended anew in a cell culture medium that contains a cross-linkable, biocompatible material or in a medium that contains at least one component that is required for the cross-linking of the cross-linkable, biocompatible material and steps c)-f) are repeated at least once.
US10208279B2
The present invention relates to the field of testing and evaluation of biological samples and provides an apparatus for cultured samples including at least one independently accessible module adapted for incubating at least one of a number of samples wherein the at least one module is operatively associated with a light source and a movable optical inspection means adapted for motion about a viewing axis through the module to enable a sweeping of viewing area. The invention also provides a method of assessing cultured samples for viability, including the steps of: disposing biological samples in a substantially elliptical arrangement within a culturing chamber of an independently accessible module and imaging individual samples of the substantially elliptical arrangement with optical inspection means driven within an X-Y plane that is normal to a viewing axis through the module to obtain time lapse measurement of development of individual samples.
US10208277B2
According to the present invention, a problem of closed systems, namely minimizing the number of electromagnetic valves required to control a plurality of flow paths, can be addressed, and thus a low-cost cell culture device can be achieved. In this flow-path control method for X number of flow paths satisfying X≤2N, the X number of flow paths are selected by using N number of valves to simultaneously and selectively control the opening and closing of the plurality of flow paths.
US10208275B2
The present invention relates to aqueous compositions of associative polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs), optionally containing surfactants, biocidal agents and/or oxidants, which can provide a cleaning benefit and surface protection to treated articles including reduced soiling tendency, reduced cleaning effort and improved soil repellency, as well as providing bacteriostatic properties to treated surfaces that thereby gain resistance to water, environmental exposure and microbial challenge. Treatment means and compositions are provided that employ associative polyelectrolyte complexes formed by combining a water soluble cationic first polyelectrolyte with a water soluble second polyelectrolyte bearing groups of opposite charge to the first polyelectrolyte under suitable mixing conditions and at least one oxidant selected from the group: alkaline metal salts and/or alkaline earth metal salts of hypochlorous acid, hypochlorous acid, solubilized chlorine, any source of free chlorine, acidic sodium chlorite, active chlorine generating compound and any combinations or mixtures thereof. Also provided are means to form stable associative polyelectrolyte complexes with at least one oxidant in aqueous solutions having R values from about 0.10 to 20.
US10208273B2
The invention relates to drain cleaning compositions including relatively high concentrations of a hypochlorite oxidizing agent and a hydroxide (e.g., 4 to 12% and 2.5 to 10%, respectively. The composition further includes a surfactant (e.g., a surfactant blend, water, and exhibits a very high pH (e.g., at least 13). The composition is monophasic, even at high oxidizing and hydroxide concentrations. The surfactant may include a blend of an uncharged surfactant (e.g., an amphoteric surfactant or nonionic surfactant) and a charged surfactant (e.g., anionic, cationic, or a surfactant that becomes so under the high pH conditions of the composition). The ratio of charged to uncharged surfactant may be at least 1:10, e.g., from 1:10 to about 1:50.
US10208269B2
According to the present disclosure, there is provided a high-temperature lubricant composition. The composition has an amount of an ester. The ester exhibits a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1 to 4 centistokes and a kinematic viscosity ratio at 150° C./100° C. of 0.6 or higher. The composition is at a temperature of 100° C. to 150° C. There is also another lubricating composition having the ester and a polymeric viscosity modifier. There are also methods for using the lubricating compositions in the crankcase of an engine.
US10208268B2
The disclosure relates to an improved grease composition for use in constant velocity joints, especially ball joints and/or tripod joints used in the drivelines of motor vehicles, with the grease composition comprising at least one base oil, at least one simple or complex soap thickener, at least one zinc sulphonate, at least one molybdenum dithiocarbamate in the solid state, and at least one molybdenum dithiophosphate.
US10208267B2
The present technology includes an extreme pressure additive package formulated with a biodegradable sulfur component, which additive package can achieve suitable extreme pressure performance when formulated into a fully formulated industrial gear oil lubricant.
US10208266B2
A working fluid whose base material is a glycol, characterized in that such working fluid contains a modified silicone oil.
US10208264B1
A formulation and methods for making high energy organic fuels that incorporate suspended metal particles with metal particle sized ranging from 33 nm to 5 micron. The hybrid organic fuels contain superior density and/or energy content to conventional liquid organic fuels. These hybrid organic fuels used in combination with metal particle afford fuels with 5 to 80% more net heat of combustion (based on volume). These fuels should extend the distant range for jets, liquid rocket engines, SCRAM jet engines, and improve energy content in fuel-air explosive applications such as fuel-air explosives and in the Multi-Effects Weapons System (MEWS) where the fuel is used both for propulsion and explosive effects.
US10208253B2
A pyrolysis reactor system includes a reactor and a contactor mounted above the reactor. The reactor has a shell, an inlet and an outlet. A central shaft runs along its axis and supports agitation blades in a counter-helical arrangement, and an auger. Rotation of the auger in one direction feeds feedstock into the vessel, and in the opposite direction removes char at the end of a batch. The contactor includes four elements with a frusto-conical part supported on vertical support arms, and being connected to a disc by legs. The contactor elements allow short chains to pass through apertures while long chains condense on their surfaces or on the vessel wall surface. There is dynamic tuning of carbon number of gases flowing downstream by active temperature and pressure control at the contactor.
US10208248B2
The disclosure shows a liquid-crystal composition having at least one or suitable balance regarding at least two of characteristics such as high maximum temperature of nematic phase, low minimum temperature thereof, small viscosity, suitable optical-anisotropy, large dielectric-anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and heat; and an AM device including the composition and having short response time, large voltage holding ratio, large contrast ratio or long life. The liquid-crystal composition has the nematic phase and contains a specific compound having small optical-anisotropy and large positive dielectric-anisotropy as first component, a specific compound having small viscosity as second component, and may contain a specific compound having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as third component, a specific compound having large positive-dielectric anisotropy as fourth component or a specific compound having negative dielectric-anisotropy as fifth component, and a liquid-crystal display device includes the composition.
US10208246B2
An additive containing an ion as a luminescence center is added to alkali halide powder as a base material. Mechanical energy for applying an impact force, a shearing force, a shear stress, or a friction force is applied so as to grind or mix the alkali halide powder and the additive. The ion as the luminescence center is doped into the alkali halide as the base material so as to obtain alkali halide-based scintillator powder. With this process, the alkali halide-based scintillator powder can be manufactured at a room temperature in the atmospheric air without any complicated condition control or any process at a high temperature under high vacuum and a large-sized scintillator sheet can be produced.
US10208243B2
This present application relates generally to enhancing flow of fluids during fracturing operations. More specifically, the application relates to providing a proppant with a low surface energy, introducing the proppant into a subterranean formation with a surfactant selected to interact with the proppant such that the recovery of hydrocarbons from the subterranean formation is enhanced.
US10208237B2
A method for tuning the thermal conductivity of a nanolayered material is presented. The method includes a step of intercalating the nanolayered material with cations, based on a correlation between cation loading density and thermal conductivity. A bond coat of a thermal barrier system is also disclosed. The bond coat includes a nanolayered material intercalated with cations at a specified loading density based on a correlation between cation loading density and thermal conductivity.
US10208232B2
Disclosed is a crosslinked adhesive composition comprising a low Tg (meth)acrylate copolymer component, a high Tg (meth)acrylate copolymer component, and a hydrogenated hydrocarbon tackifier. This disclosure provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive and pressure-sensitive adhesive articles that are particularly useful in the bonding of low surface energy (LSE) substrates.
US10208230B2
Shelf-stable low temperature cure coating compositions that include a hydroxy-functional resin, a crosslinking agent, and a catalyst that does not catalyze the crosslinking reaction between hydroxy-functional resin and the crosslinking agent contained therein, but instead between a hydroxy-functional resin and a crosslinking agent contained in a different low temperature cure coating composition. In addition, low temperature cure composite coatings that include: a basecoat of a low temperature cure coating composition containing a first hydroxy-functional resin, a first crosslinking agent, and a first catalyst; and a topcoat containing a second hydroxy-functional resin, a second crosslinking agent, and a second catalyst, where the first catalyst migrates into the topcoat from the basecoat and catalyzes the reaction between the second hydroxy-functional resin and crosslinking agent, and the second catalyst migrates into the basecoat from the topcoat and catalyzes the reaction between the first hydroxy-functional resin and crosslinking agent.
US10208218B2
A method of inkjet printing includes ink jetting an aqueous inkjet ink composition to form a white printed image on a substrate. The aqueous inkjet ink composition comprises particles of titanium dioxide that are present in an amount of at least 4 to 15 weight % and the particles have a 95th percentile particle size of less than 200 nm and a 50th percentile particle size of less than 130 nm. The titanium dioxide particles are dispersed within the aqueous inkjet ink composition using a dispersing polymer that is a styrene-(meth)acrylic acid polymer, styrene-maleic anhydride polymer, or styrene-maleic acid polymer and the weight ratio of the titanium dioxide particles to the dispersing polymer is from 19:1 to and including 2:1.
US10208214B2
An overcoat that imparts a superhydrophobic surface to a painted surface of an object is a suspension of hydrophobic particles in a polymeric binder and a plasticizer in a solvent or mixed solvent. The particles are a metal oxide that is surface functionalized with a fluorinated alkyl silane or an alkyl silane. Surfaces coated using this paint display contact angles in excess of 150° and resist abrasion while retaining superhydrophobicity.
US10208198B2
Solventborne binder compositions which include a copolymer obtained by reacting a mixture of monomers in the presence of an organic solvent, wherein the monomer mixture includes an ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a vinyl ester monomer having a formula CH2CH—X—C(═O)—R, where R is a linear or branched alkyl group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, an aromatic group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, or R is bonded to X to form a 5- to 7-member ring, and X is O. Intumescent coatings containing the solventborne binder compositions, and substrates coated with the intumescent coatings are also disclosed.
US10208196B2
The invention relates to a polymer composition with improved DC electrical properties, to the use of the composition for producing a cable layer and to a cable surrounded by at least one layer comprising the polymer composition.
US10208192B2
Copolymers comprising ethylene, vinyl esters, in particular vinyl acetate and esters of (meth)acrylic acid, selected from esters comprising branched alkyl, cyclic alkyl or optionally alkyl substituted aryl moieties and having a weight average molecular weight of 35,000 g/mol to 150,000 g/mol, formulations of such copolymers in organic solvents and their use as pour point depressant, wax inhibitor and flow enhancer for crude oils.
US10208190B2
A coating composition which imparts antifog, antireflective, easy-cleaning, and/or antistatic properties to substrates coated therewith. The coating compositions utilize nanoparticles functionalized with amine groups and/or protected amine groups, and amine-reactive groups.
US10208189B2
This invention relates to a tire with a tread of rubber composition with reinforcing filler containing oxidized rubber reinforcing carbon black together with at least one amide additive. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a truck tire intended for heavy duty performance with a tread rubber composition comprised of natural cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber containing reinforcing filler comprised of oxidized rubber reinforcing carbon black together with at least one amide additive. Such amide additive is comprised of at least one amide of Formula I: wherein R1 is an alkyl radical comprised of from 12 to 36 carbon atoms, an alkenyl radical comprised of from 12 to 36 carbon atoms or alkadienyl radical comprised of from 12 to 36 carbon atoms.
US10208178B2
Syntactic polyurethane elastomers are made using a non-mercury catalyst. The elastomer is made from a reaction mixture containing a polyether polyol, a chain extender, a polyisocyanate and microspheres. The elastomer is characterized morphologically by the presence of small discrete morphological domains 0.1 to 3 μm in diameter, and the substantial absence of discrete morphological domains 5 to 30 μm in diameter. The elastomer adheres well to itself, which makes it very useful as thermal insulation for pipelines and other structures that have a complex geometry.
US10208175B2
A flame-retardant biaxially oriented polyester film is obtained by imparting flame retardancy to a polyester film itself using a phosphorus flame retardant, a flame-retardant polyester film laminate is formed from the same, and a flexible circuit board is provided. The present invention is obtained from a flame-retardant biaxially oriented polyester film which contains, based on the weight of the polyester film, 70 to 99.5% by weight of polyethylene terephthalate or polyethylene naphthalate, and 0.5 to 30% by weight of flame retardant particles having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 3.0 μm and being represented by a specific phosphinate or diphosphinate, wherein the number of coarse particles having a maximum length of 10 μm or more contained in the polyester film is 10/m2 or less.
US10208173B2
Sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers include reinforcing fibers and a sizing agent containing a polyrotaxane, the reinforcing fibers being coated with the sizing agent. Provided are sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers that provide a fiber-reinforced composite material with excellent mechanical properties, a method for producing the sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers, a prepreg including the sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers, and a fiber-reinforced composite material with excellent mechanical properties including the sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers.
US10208167B2
A compound comprising a cyclodextrin and a monoalkoxy polyethylene glycol linked thereto through an ether bond (a “pegylated cyclodextrin”) is disclosed, as are drug delivery vehicles and pharmaceutical formulations including the same, and methods for making the compound and the drug delivery vehicle and for delivering the drug to a patient in need thereof. The method of making includes the steps of creating either a tosylated monoalkoxy polyethylene glycol or a tosylated cyclodextrin, and either reacting the tosylated monoalkoxy polyethylene glycol with a deprotonated cyclodextrin, or reacting the tosylated cyclodextrin with a deprotonated monoalkoxy polyethylene glycol. The present pegylated cyclodextrin readily forms an inclusion compound with certain drugs to protect the drug against adverse interactions with mucin (e.g., in a mucus membrane).
US10208166B2
A polyphosphonate, a lens including the polyphosphonate, a camera module including the polyphosphonate lens, and a method of producing the lens are provided. The polyphosphonate includes a constitutional repeating unit comprising a phosphate ester group and an aromatic ring, and the phosphate ester group is directly bonded to the aromatic ring in the constitutional repeating unit.
US10208164B2
A curable silicone composition comprises: (A) an organopolysiloxane represented by a specific average unit formula; optionally, (B) an organopolysiloxane represented by a specific average unit formula; (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by a specific average composition formula; and (D) a hydrosilylation catalyst. A curable hot-melt silicone is obtained by subjecting the curable silicone composition to a hydrosilylation reaction to a degree that does not form a cured product. The curable hot-melt silicone is non-flowable at 25° C. and has a melt viscosity at 100° C. of 5000 Pa·s or less. The curable silicone composition provides a cured product having excellent heat resistance and light resistance after being cured. The curable hot-melt silicone is non-flowable at room temperature, has low surface stickiness, and is readily melted by heating.
US10208157B2
A vinyl ester resin composition comprising a reaction product of: (a) a polyepoxide resin; (b) an unsaturated carboxylic acid; and (c) a reactive carboxyl group terminated amphiphilic block copolymer, a reactive epoxy group terminated amphiphilic block copolymer, or a mixture thereof; and a cured thermoset composite product produced from the above vinyl ester resin composition.
US10208149B2
A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution, comprising monomers bearing acid groups, in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the monomer solution comprises polyvalent cations and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 μm.
US10208146B2
Provided is a solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization, which comprises Mg, Ti, a halogen and an electron donor. The electron donor is selected from at least one of ring-substituted ether-acid ester compounds of the general formula (I). Also provided are a catalyst containing the solid catalyst component and the application of the catalyst in reactions of olefin polymerization, particularly in the reaction of propylene polymerization.
US10208144B2
A process for the preparation of polyolefins by polymerizing olefins at temperatures of from 20 to 200° C. and pressures of from 0.1 to 20 MPa in the presence of a polymerization catalyst and an antistatically acting composition in a polymerization reactor, wherein the antistatically acting composition is a mixture comprising an oil-soluble surfactant and water and the use of an antistatically acting composition comprising an oil-soluble surfactant and water as antistatic agent for the polymerization of olefins at temperatures of from 20 to 200° C. and pressures of from 0.1 to 20 MPa in the presence of a polymerization catalyst.
US10208137B2
A first tire member manufacturing method includes an operation in which a pre-coagulation rubber latex containing carbon black, for which a ratio of specific surface area as determined by nitrogen adsorption N2SA (in units of m2/g) to an amount of iodine absorption IA (in units of mg/g) is not less than 1.00, is coagulated to obtain a coagulum; an operation in which a compound according to Formula (I), below, is added to the water-containing coagulum; and an operation in which the compound according to Formula (I), below, is dispersed within the coagulum. In Formula (I), R1 and R2 each indicates a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, an alkenyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, or an alkynyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, R1 and R2 may be the same or different, and M+ indicates sodium ion, potassium ion, or lithium ion.
US10208135B2
A catalyst component comprising Ti, Mg, Cl, and an electron donor compound having porosity of at least 0.2 cm3/g and characterized by the fact that it further comprises Cu oxide, with the proviso that when the electron donor compound is selected from esters of phthalic acids, the porosity is of at least 0.45 cm3/g.
US10208130B2
Improved methods of treatment are provided for patients suffering from cancer. The methods identify whether a tumor will be responsive to treatment with a therapeutic regime that includes anti-Her2 therapeutic agents. A specific Her2 fragment peptide is precisely quantitated by SRM-mass spectrometry directly in tumor cells collected from tumor tissue that was obtained from a cancer patient and compared to a reference level in order to determine if the cancer patient will positively respond to treatment with a therapeutic agent that specifically targets the Her2 protein.
US10208129B2
An erbB2 antibody is provided that binds preferentially to disease cells having an erbB2 density greater than a normal erbB2 density. The erbB2 antibody comprises a heavy chain and a light chain. Each chain has a constant region and a variable region. Each variable region comprises framework regions and complementarity determining regions (CDRs), wherein the CDRs have an amino acid sequence set forth below: For the heavy chain: CDR1 GFNIKDTYIH (SEQ ID No. 1) CDR2 RIYPTNGY57TR59 YADSVKG (SEQ ID No. 2) CDR3 WGGDGFYAMDY (SEQ ID No. 3) For the light chain: CDR1 RASQDVN30TAVA (SEQ ID No. 4) CDR2 SASF53LYS (SEQ ID No. 5) CDR3 QQHY92TTPPT (SEQ ID No. 6). At least one of Y57, R59, N30, F53, and Y92 is substituted by an amino acid that confers on said antibody a reduced erbB2 binding affinity (Kd) that is in the range from 0.1 nM to 100 nM. The substitution is other than N30A, F53N, Y92A and Y92F when there is a single substitution in the antibody light chain.
US10208123B2
This invention relates to anti-CD70 antibodies and antibody drug conjugates comprising at least one non-naturally-encoded amino acid. Disclosed herein are αCD70 antibodies with one or more non-naturally encoded amino acids and further disclosed are antibody drug conjugates wherein the αCD70 antibodies of the invention are conjugated to one or more toxins. Further disclosed are methods for using such non-natural amino acid antibody drug conjugates, including therapeutic, diagnostic, and other biotechnology uses.
US10208122B2
Disclosed is an isolated human monoclonal antibody that specifically binds IL-17 Receptor A, or an IL-17 Receptor A binding fragment thereof, and inhibits IL-17A from binding and activating the receptor. The present disclosure also provides compositions and methods for treating diseases mediated by IL-17 Receptor A activation.
US10208106B2
The present invention provides novel methods for reducing the serine protease and/or serine protease zymogen content of a plasma-derived protein composition. Also provided are methods for manufacturing plasma-derived protein compositions having reduced serine protease and\or serine protease zymogen content. Among yet other aspects, the present invention provides aqueous and lyophilized compositions of plasma-derived proteins having reduced serine protease and/or serine protease zymogen content. Yet other aspects include methods for treating, managing, and/or preventing a disease comprising the administration of a plasma-derived protein composition having a reduced serine protease or serine protease zymogen content.
US10208094B2
A multimeric immunoglobulin-binding protein having improved properties as an affinity ligand for affinity chromatography, and an insoluble support immobilizing such a multimer. The immunoglobulin-binding protein is represented by the formula: (R1)n-(R2)m, or (R2)m-(R1)n. R2 is an immunoglobulin-binding domain including an amino acid residue that covalently bonds to an insoluble support upon immobilization reaction with the insoluble support, and R1 is an immunoglobulin-binding domain without containing an amino acid residue the presence of which in the sequence compared to when it is absent in the sequence reduces the immunoglobulin-binding activity of the support yielded by the immobilization reaction. The immunoglobulin-binding protein satisfies: (1) n is an integer of 5 to 9; (2) m is an integer of 1 or 2; (3) the n (R1) domains may or may not have the same sequence; and (4) the total number of domains (n+m) is 6 to 10.
US10208093B2
The present invention provides a plasmid, method and kit for producing heat labile enterotoxin B-subunit based on a Bacillus subtilis expression system. By comparing with the conventional method in the art, the present invention has the advantages of high safety, good yield, and simplified process and is therefore favorable for the commercialization object of heat labile enterotoxin B-subunit in the application of vaccine adjuvant.
US10208088B1
The present invention discloses the applications of a low molecular polypeptide ZY4 in preparing drugs for anti-acnes, anti-infection, anti-cancer and cosmetics. The low molecular polypeptide ZY4 comprises 17 amino acid residues, with a molecular weight of 2374.0 Da, an isoelectric point of 10.74, and an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1. The low molecular polypeptide ZY4 in the invention is artificially synthesized, with the advantages of small molecular weight and convenient artificial synthesis. The experiments have showed that the polypeptide ZY4 has obvious antibacterial effect and has significant therapeutic effect on acnes. The polypeptides can inhibit the growth of tumor cells and kill the tumor cells. The low molecular polypeptide ZY4 can be used in the preparation of medicaments or cosmetics having the effect of anti-infective, anti-tumor or anti-acne.
US10208077B1
A compound having the formula I: is disclosed. A method of preparing the compound of formula I is also disclosed.
US10208072B2
Described herein is an enzyme-mediated approach to bioconjugation at nanoparticle (NP) surfaces. This process is enabled by a new synthetic linker compatible with the covalent attachment of alkyne modified substrates, including dyes, peptides and nucleic acids. The methods described herein specifically allow for the linkage of molecules to a DNA-functionalized nanoparticle surface. Enzymatic ligation of molecules to the terminal hydroxyl group of DNA using T4 DNA ligase is achieved through incorporation of a single monophosphate on the approaching substrate. In contrast to previous strategies, the linkers disclosed herein are compatible with alkyne modified molecules of a variety of sizes and charges indicating that the ligase minimally requires the monophosphate and the incoming hydroxyl for conjugation to be successful.
US10208068B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (Ia): or a stereoisomer, a tautomer, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein all the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are selective factor XIa inhibitors or dual inhibitors of FXIa and plasma kallikrein. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating thromboembolic and/or inflammatory disorders using the same.
US10208066B2
This disclosure provides novel imidazopyridazine compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, a process for preparing them, and their practical effect in inhibiting PI3K and potential use in treating a disease responsive to inhibition of PI3K, for example, an inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease or cancer.
US10208056B2
There is provided compounds of formula I, wherein R1, R2, R3 R4, R5, R6, R7a and R7b have meanings given in the description, and pharmaceutically-acceptable esters, amides, solvates or salts thereof, which compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases in which inhibition of a protein or lipid kinase (e.g. CDK8 and/or Haspin kinase) is desired and/or required, and particularly in the treatment of cancer or a proliferative disease.
US10208049B2
A method of treating an ocular disorder in a subject associated with aberrant all-trans-retinal clearance in the retina, the method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a primary amine compound of formula: wherein R1 is an aliphatic and/or aromatic compound.
US10208038B2
Provided are certain fused tricyclic urea compounds and salts thereof, compositions thereof, and methods of use therefor.
US10208033B2
The present invention relates to β-carboline, dihydro-β-carboline and tetrahydro-β-carboline alkaloid derivatives (I) and a method for preparing same and the use in the aspects of preventing and treating plant viruses, fungicides and insecticides. For the meaning of each group in formula (I) see the description. The β-carboline, dihydro-β-carboline and tetrahydro-β-carboline alkaloid derivatives of the present invention show a particularly ourstanding anti-plant virus activity, and also have fungicidal and insecticidal activities.
US10208032B2
The present disclosure provides benzamide and nicotinamide compounds and pharmaceutical uses of the compounds. The compounds can be used to treat, for example, cancers such hematopoietic cancers (e.g., leukemia). The preferred compounds of the invention contain a phenylethynyl moiety as well as an amine-based heterocyclyl or heteroaryl moiety attached to the benzamide or nicotinamide compound.
US10208031B2
A diamine compound of formula (I) is proposed as well as polymers, copolymers, polyamic acids, polyamic acid esters, or polyimides based on such compound.
US10208028B1
One embodiment is a method of treating cancer. The method includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound to a patient. The compound is represented by Formula I:
US10208024B2
Provided herein are compounds of the general Formula I: and stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, in which X, R1, R2, R3, Ring A and z have the meanings given in the specification, which are inhibitors of FGFR1, FGFR2, FGFR3 and/or FGFR4 and are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases which can be treated with an FGFR inhibitor, including diseases or disorders mediated by FGFR1, FGFR2, FGFR3 and/or FGFR4.
US10208020B2
Disclosed are amino triazole compounds substituted with a piperidinyl ring that is itself substituted with a heterocyclic ring. These compounds are inhibitors of acidic mammalian chitinase and chitotriosidase. Also disclosed are methods of using the compounds to treat asthma reactions caused by allergens, as well as acute and chronic inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, dental diseases, neurologic diseases, metabolic diseases, liver diseases, polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, and cancer.
US10208018B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a method for manufacturing the compounds of the invention, and its therapeutic uses. The present invention further provides a combination of pharmacologically active agents and a pharmaceutical composition.
US10208014B2
The invention relates to valproic acid derivatives or pharmaceutical acceptable salts, as well as polymorphs, solvates, enantiomers, stereoisomers and hydrates thereof. The pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of valproic acid derivatives, and methods for treating or preventing neurological disorders may be formulated for oral, buccal, rectal, topical, transdermal, transmucosal, intravenous, parenteral administration, syrup, or injection. Such compositions may be used to treatment of epilepsy, bipolar disorder, migraine, schizophrenia, depression, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, HIV and familial adenomatous polyposis.
US10208009B2
Hydroxyl pyranone compound, method for producing same, and cosmetics composition comprising compound
The present invention relates to a novel hydroxyl pyranone compound, a method for producing same, and a cosmetic composition having the compound. The hydroxyl pyranone compound according to the present invention exhibits markedly improved effectiveness compared to the conventional adipocyte differentiation-promoting material, and thus is preferably included as an active ingredient in a cosmetic composition for increasing skin volume or elasticity.
US10207999B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods for treating cancer and neoplastic disease. Provided herein are substituted heterocyclic derivative compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for inhibition of lysine specific demethylase-1. Furthermore, the subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer.
US10207975B2
A process for the co-production of acetic acid and dimethyl ether by contacting methyl acetate and methanol in the presence of catalysts comprising crystalline zeolites having a FER framework type which crystallites have a dimension in the c-axis of about 500 nm or less and a ratio of the c-axis:b-axis dimension of 5:1 or greater and a method for preparation of the zeolites utilizing piperazines.
US10207974B1
The present invention discloses processes for producing γ-dicarbonyl compounds by contacting an aldehyde compound, an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound, and a catalyst composition in the presence of an amide diluent. The resultant γ-dicarbonyl compounds then can be used to synthesize pyrrole compounds, such as 2,5-dimethylpyrrole.
US10207963B2
Provided are a catalyst system for olefin oligomerization reaction and a method for olefin oligomerization, and more particularly, a catalyst system for olefin oligomerization reaction and a method for olefin oligomerization, which enable more efficient preparation of alpha-olefin, because a catalytic active ingredient is supported on a support, thereby exhibiting high activity in olefin oligomerization reaction even by using smaller amounts of a catalyst composition and a cocatalyst.
US10207962B2
A process for post synthesis treatment of ZSM-5 catalyst for converting ethylene to liquid fuel products providing substantially improved catalyst life. The treatment comprises either a base treatment, an acid treatment or a two-step treatment where one is with an acid and the other is with a base. The base treatment is provided by a weak sodium hydroxide such as less than 1 Molar concentration. The acid treatment is stronger acid where, for example, a hydrogen chloride solution at greater than 2 Molar concentration is used.
US10207961B2
Provided herein are methods for producing cyclic and acyclic ketones from trimerization and dimerization of alkyl ketones, including for example methyl ketones. Such cyclic and acyclic ketones may be suitable for use as fuel and lubricant precursors, and may be hydrodeoxygenated to form their corresponding cycloalkanes and alkanes. Such cycloalkanes and alkanes may be suitable for use as fuels, including jet fuels, and lubricants.
US10207959B1
A reduced toxicity pyrotechnic strobe composition and method includes creating a mixture of strontium nitrate, magnalium, sulfur, and no more than 10 parts by weight of a nitrocellulose binder. The strontium nitrate may comprise 27 percent of the mixture. The magnalium may comprise a 50:50 blend of magnesium and aluminum. The magnalium may comprise 18 percent of the mixture. The sulfur may comprise 55 percent of the mixture. The mixture may include a pulse rate of approximately one pulse per minute. The method may further include modifying the pulse rate of the mixture. The method may further include using a reduced particle size of the magnalium. The method may further include substituting no more than 12.5% of the strontium nitrate with potassium nitrate.
US10207956B2
A method of forming silicon carbide by spark plasma sintering comprises loading a powder comprising silicon carbide into a die and exposing the powder to a pulsed current to heat the powder at a rate of between about 50° C./min and about 200° C./min to a peak temperature while applying a pressure to the powder. The powder is exposed to the peak temperature for between about 30 seconds and about 5 minutes to form a sintered silicon carbide material and the sintered silicon carbide material is cooled. Related structures and methods are disclosed.
US10207954B2
Synthetic aggregates are fabricated from greater than approximately 70 wt % waste starting materials. Starting materials may be selected from granulated ground blast furnace slag, waste concrete fines, or sewage sludge ash, and mixtures thereof. The starting materials are bound together by a hydraulic cementitious binder either added to the starting materials or formed in situ. The waste starting materials, binder, and water are formed into pellets and subjected to a hydraulic reaction and carbonation in an atmosphere of greater than approximately 50% carbon dioxide at temperatures less than approximately 100° C. The resulting synthetic aggregate has a crush strength after a period of hardening equal to or greater than approximately 0.5 MPa.
US10207945B2
A system for improving sludge water into ecological water system, including a water area separator, a sludge dehydrator and a water filtration device, the water area separator separates the water area to be treated by a water barrier, the sludge dehydrator dehydrates the sludge by a centrifugal sieve; the water filtration device includes a suction pipe, a water pump, an inlet pipe, a filter bag, a steel cage and a drainage pipe. The system for improving sludge water into ecological water system has the mechanism of to separate the water area by the water area separator, then rapidly dehydrate the sludge by the sludge dehydrator, remove sundries from the treated sludge water by the water filtration device, and finally drains the water filtered after adding microbubbles, and thus to realize the improvement of sludge water into ecological water system.
US10207942B2
An object is to provide a pretreatment device of seawater capable of growing and maintaining a biofilm in a good state on each of a plurality of filters connected in series, by supplying nutrients appropriately to the filters. A pretreatment device of seawater is used in removing salt from the seawater to obtain freshwater, and includes: a supply duct (21) through which the seawater is to be supplied; a plurality of filters (16) including a particulate filtering material and a biofilm; connecting tubes (23) which connect the plurality of filters in series; a plurality of bypass tubes (24) each of which connects corresponding one of the plurality of filters to the supply duct; and a plurality of regulating valves (26) each of which is disposed in corresponding one of the plurality of bypass tubes to regulate a flow rate.
US10207940B2
A composite water purification apparatus and method thereof are provided. The composite water purification apparatus includes a container, a sacrificial anode, a photocatalyst anode and a cathode. The container is employed for receiving liquid including water and gas. The photocatalyst anode includes a photocatalyst for conducting a photocatalytic reaction. The cathode is electrolyzed with the sacrificial anode and the photocatalyst anode. The cathode, the sacrificial anode, and the photocatalyst anode are immersed in the container to contact the liquid. The present invention enhances the purity of the water, while prolonging the service life of the sacrificial anode.
US10207937B2
The present invention provides a method for locally delivery of hundreds of liters of water to at least one household, the method including transporting a trailer carrier by a private car or vehicle to the at least one household, the trailer carrier housing a filling apparatus, a water filter apparatus, a delivery apparatus, a water container in fluid connection with the filling apparatus and with the delivery apparatus, a portable electricity generator, an un-interruptible power supply, an inverter, a battery pack and a solar panel, providing continuous current to the inverter for continuous function of the filling apparatus and delivering the hundreds of liters of water from the water container to the at least one household.
US10207931B2
Functionalized reduced graphene oxide (functionalized rGO), and a method of producing the same are provided. The functionalized reduced graphene oxide comprises reduced graphene oxide which is fluorinated and co-doped with at least one co-dopant selected from the group consisting of B, N and S.
US10207928B2
A method of obtaining helium from a process gas. The process gas is at a pressure less than 15 bar to a first membrane separation stage having a first membrane more readily permeable for helium than for at least one other component in the process gas. A first retentate stream is fed to a second membrane separation stage having a second membrane more readily permeable for helium than for at least one other component in the process gas. Helium is separated from a first helium-containing permeate stream using a pressure swing adsorption to obtain a helium-containing product stream. A second helium-containing permeate stream is recycled to the first membrane separation stage. A purge gas from the pressure swing adsorption is also recycled to the first membrane separation stage.
US10207921B2
The invention provides a process for the production of hydrogen, comprising catalytically decomposing a concentrated aqueous solution of potassium formate in a reaction vessel to form bicarbonate slurry and hydrogen, discharging the hydrogen from said reaction vessel, and treating a mixture comprising the bicarbonate slurry and the catalyst with an oxidizer, thereby regenerating the catalyst. Pd/C catalysts useful in the process are also described.
US10207915B2
An equestrian saddle includes a tree made of a substantially rigid material and defining a substantially vertical longitudinal center plane, a seating surface for the user, which is associated to the tree, and a pair of flaps arranged on opposite sides from the vertical plane and connected to the tree in a connection area proximate to the seating surface. Each flap includes at least one edge element having an outer surface with a relatively high friction coefficient for providing a grip on the user's leg. Each of the edge elements at least partially extends toward the connection area and is made of a material having a greater stiffness than the flaps for locally increasing resistance to wear caused by the user's leg rubbing thereon.
US10207911B2
Dispensing assembly (10) for beverage from a container (1), comprising an outlet channel (8) for beverage and a valve body (16) operable to open and close said outlet channel (8), wherein the channel defines a direction of flow of the beverage towards an outlet end (13), and wherein the valve body (16) is provided at or near the outlet end (13) of the outlet channel (8) and has a shape with a base (21) facing in a direction against the direction of flow and a tip (22) with an end facing in the direction of flow, wherein the tip, between the base and the end, has an outwardly curved outer surface (24), such that beverage engaging the base (21) can be guided from the base over the outer surface (24) to the end forming a beverage jet when leaving the surface at or near said end.
US10207910B2
A fluid dispensing assembly, including a valve, a housing, a user interface, and a fitting to couple to a fluid source. The valve may include a first sensor detecting proper placement of the fluid container based on a magnetic material positioned at the bottom of the fluid container, a plunger having a plunger shaft coupled thereto, the plunger selectively placing the valve in fluid communication with the fluid container, and a solenoid coupled to the plunger shaft and moving the plunger shaft to transition the plunger between an open position and a closed position. The user interface may be coupled to the valve to enable selection of at least a fluid container size and a dispensing mode.
US10207908B2
An automatic wax dipping system is an apparatus that dips multiple bottles into wax without the manual input of a user. The apparatus includes a basin, a first receptacle, a second receptacle, a first set of heating elements, a track mechanism, and a motorized belt. The basin upholds components of the apparatus. The first receptacle houses oil and the second receptacle houses wax. The first set of heating elements heat the oil which in turn heats the wax. The track mechanism includes a plurality of rails and an at least one motorized belt. The plurality of rails upholds multiple bottles and directs the path of multiple bottles across the present invention. The at least one motorized belt forces the multiple bottles through the plurality of rails in specific lengthwise sections where the multiple bottles may require additional force.
US10207906B2
A lifting assembly for a lift truck with a lifting mast having at least one mast frame and a load part, as well as a lift drive having at least one lifting chain that lifts the mast frame, is attached to the mast frame at a connecting point and is guided across a deflection point. The lifting assembly includes at least one tensioning component that is arranged on the mast frame between the connecting point and deflection point of the lifting chain.
US10207905B2
A winch controller for a hoisting apparatus for a wireline operation operates as a closed loop controller. The winch controller is adapted to control a winch or, if included, a winch and a capstan in a coordinated manner. The winch controller may utilize process variables including the tension of the cable between the winch and the capstan. The controller is coupled to a power pack adapted to power the winch and capstan. The power pack and controller are configured such that the capstan may be selectively removed from the system when it is not needed.
US10207904B2
The invention relates to a [crane], particularly crawler crane or mobile crane, with at least one monitoring and simulation means, by means of which a state of the crane can be monitored and/or simulated, wherein the monitoring and simulation means comprise at least one input means and at least one output means, and wherein, by means of the monitoring and simulation means, the change in state, particularly the bearing load curve of the crane, and particularly also the movement of the crane and/or of the boom of the crane, can be represented at any time, and/or a possible state and/or a possible change in state of the crane, particularly the bearing load curve of the crane, can be simulated and/or represented.
US10207900B2
In an elevator car door apparatus, a locking member is disposed on a blade-carrying car door, and is displaceable between an unlocked position and a locked position interdependently with movement of a doorstop-side blade. A guiding portion is disposed on the locking member. A guiding cam is disposed outside the blade-carrying car door. When the car is positioned outside an appropriate floor alignment position, the blade-carrying car door moves in an opening direction, the guiding portion moves along the guiding cam, the locking member displaces to the locked position, and the doorstop-side blade also displaces to a locking accommodating position, the locking member catches in a fixed latch, and movement of the blade-carrying car door in the opening direction is prevented.
US10207895B2
A system and method of balancing elevator car emergency power in an elevator system is provided. The method includes switching a first feeder group of elevator cars from building power provided through a first building power feeder to back-up power provided through a back-up power source, switching a second feeder group of elevator cars from the building power provided through a second building power feeder to the back-up power provided through the back-up power source, selecting, using an elevator controller, at least one elevator car from the first feeder group of elevator cars, selecting, using the elevator controller, at least one elevator car from the second feeder group of elevator cars, and powering the selected elevator cars from the first feeder group and the second feeder group using the back-up power from the back-up power source.
US10207892B2
A cable reel for audio-visual device includes an upper base and a lower base attracted to an external device. An audio-visual device hangs on a top of the lower base. The upper base cooperates with the lower base whereby connection cables are spooled and accommodated in an upper circular groove of the upper base and a lower circular groove of the lower base. The present invention places the audio-visual device so that a user can easily spool connection cables of the audio-visual device with one hand. Once the audio-visual device is not needed, the user can rapidly and conveniently manage cables and place the audio-visual device without worrying about the inner breaking of the connection cables resulted from entangling the connection cables.
US10207887B2
Method for applying glue on tubular cores for the production of logs of paper material, comprising the step of supplying in sequence more tubular cores (1) along a predetermined advancing direction (A) and the step of applying on each of said cores (1) a predetermined amount of glue on a first point (P6) and on a second point (P7). The method further comprises a step of orienting the glue (G6) applied on the first point (P6) towards the second point (P7) and along said advancing direction (A), and orienting the glue (G7) applied on the second point (P7) towards the first point (P6) and along a direction opposite relative to said advancing direction (A).
US10207881B2
A telescoping ramp may include first and second ramp sections such that the second ramp section may be received within the first ramp section and translated between an extended position and a retracted position. The telescoping ramp may include a locking mechanism that extends between at least one of pairs of rails of the first and second ramp sections. The locking mechanism may include a pair of locking pins that is selectively engageable with the first and second ramp sections. In one embodiment, the pair of locking pins may include handle portions that may be disposed between the at least one of the pairs of rails. In such embodiment, an axial movement of the handle portions along a common axis of the pair of locking pins may lock the second ramp section relative to the first ramp section.
US10207870B2
An autonomous transport vehicle for transferring case units to and from predefined storage areas in an automated case unit storage system, the automated case unit storage system including an array of multilevel storage racks with picking aisles passing therebetween and at least one multilevel vertical conveyor having movable shelves, the autonomous transport vehicle including a frame configured to traverse the picking aisles and a transfer deck connecting the picking aisles to the at least one multilevel vertical conveyor for transferring case units between the predefined storage areas and the at least one multilevel vertical conveyor, and a controller connected to the frame, the controller being configured to effect movement of the autonomous transport vehicle through the picking aisles for accessing each storage area within a respective level of the array of multilevel storage racks and each shelf of the at least one multilevel vertical conveyor.
US10207860B2
The invention relates to a cartridge for preparing a beverage, such as coffee, that comprises a hollow member for containing a dose of, for example, ground coffee, said hollow member comprising a side wall, an upper face and a lower face including an extraction membrane, said cartridge being characterized in that it further comprises several separate protrusions provided on said side wall and/or said upper wall, each protrusion including at least one perforation area. The invention also relates to a device for using said cartridge.
US10207851B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for a container that comprises multiple interlocking panels. According to various embodiments, a first panel includes a first notch, a second notch, a third notch, and a fourth notch. A second panel includes a first tab that is configured to be inserted into the first notch of the first panel. A third panel includes a second tab that is configured to be inserted into the second notch of the first panel. A fourth panel includes a third tab that is configured to be inserted into the third notch of the first panel. A fifth panel includes a fourth tab that is configured to be inserted into the fourth notch of the first panel.
US10207850B2
A re-closable packaging assembly includes a container formed at least partially by a first film, and the container has a plurality of walls that cooperate to define an interior volume. The container has an opening through at least one of the plurality of walls. A closure assembly is secured to the container adjacent the opening and comprises a second film and a portion of the first film. The closure assembly includes a lid member pivotable about a hinge portion between a first position in which the lid member releasably engages the container surrounding the opening and a second position in which the lid member is pivoted away from the opening. A first engagement feature may be disposed on the container and a second engagement feature may be disposed on the lid member to removably secure the lid member to the container when the lid member is in the first position.
US10207848B2
A carton for containing at least one article. The carton comprises a plurality of panels at least partially forming an interior of the carton. The plurality of panels comprises a top panel. The carton comprises an article protection flap foldably connected to at least one panel of the plurality of panels. The article protection flap is moveable between a first position that is substantially parallel to the top panel and a second position wherein the article protection flap is folded relative to the top panel. The at least one access feature in the top panel is for positioning the article protection flap from the first position to the second position.
US10207847B2
A lockable enclosure includes a housing and an access door. The access door includes a hinge portion connected with a first side wall of the housing and is pivotable about the hinge portion between closed and open positions. When the access door is in the closed position, the hinge portion of the access door is slideable for sliding movement of the access door between a latching position in which a first latch portion of the access door engages a corresponding second latch portion of the housing to secure the access door in the closed position, and a release position in which the first interlock portion disengages from the second interlock portion to permit pivoting movement of the access door from the closed position to the open position. The access door further comprises at least one locking feature configured to secure the closed access door in the latching position.
US10207845B2
A closure with a self-resealing elastomeric septum has a shutter slidable between a closed position over the septum and an open position for exposing the septum. The shutter is spring biased towards the closed position, and may be pushed and held away from the closed position with the tip of an oral syringe to gain access for penetration of the elastomeric septum. The closure may have an upper portion mounted to a lower portion fastened for closing a container. A conduit extends through the upper and lower portions to the interior of the container. A break-away connection is adapted to preferentially break or separate when a sufficient bending or twisting force is applied to the upper portion relative to the lower portion. The conduit may be normally closed by a self-resealing elastomeric septum provided in the lower portion and a slidable shutter may be provided on the upper portion.
US10207829B2
A funnel component is manufactured by the following processes: forming a first intermediate product that is tapered, by rolling the blank material; forming a second intermediate product by folding back and welding a narrow opening side portion of the first intermediate product; forming a third intermediate product having the side wall portion by folding the wide opening side portion of the second intermediate product back outward; forming a cylindrical discharge portion forming the narrow opening side portion, a first tapered portion that connects to the discharge portion and has a tapered shape, and a second tapered portion that has a tapered shape having a taper angle less than the first tapered portion, by performing a drawing process on the third intermediate product.
US10207825B2
A telecommunications satellite stabilized on three axes includes a set of dissipative equipment constituting a payload of the satellite. The satellite includes support data transmission antennas and is substantially parallelepipedal in shape with the panels forming two opposite faces, east and west faces. The panels form two additional opposite faces, north and south faces, and include radiator surfaces on their external faces. The radiator surfaces are configured to cool the electronic equipment of the satellite. The equipment installed on the north and south panels dissipate thermal power corresponding to less than 25% of the total dissipated power.
